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working. These crops will soon shade the land and keep down weeds, conserve moisture and make feed for the fall and winter months or a fallow to plough under for the benefit of the next crop. Some farmers contend that these crops have the effect of robbing the corn crop of some of the plant food necessary to its best doing, but experiments have clearly demonstrated that this is not true. These leguminous crops are feeders of the soil with nitrogen taken from the atmosphere, and this nitrogen is made available by the corn crop for its own well doing. In dealing with the planting of the crop we omitted to say that on good rich land it is a good practice to sow some pumpkin seed along with the corn,»say dropping a pumpkin seed every six or eight feet in every third or fourth row. These will make a a crop of pumpkins which will be found useful for the hogs and cattle in the fall and winter and will in no wise reduce the yield of the corn crop. The Virginia Mammoth is a good variety to plant.

In the cotton section the planting of the crop has already made considerable progress, and this work should now be completed as soon as possible. Efforts are being made in many sections to reduce the area to be planted in this crop this year as the demand for the staple has decreased and prices are falling. We should not be sorry to see the area planted reduced very considerably, for much of the crop is not grown profitably, even when the price is at or over 10 cents on account of the small yield made. We would like to see land better prepared for the crop by the growing of leguminous crops, like cow peas and crimson clover, and if the effort to reduce the area planted succeeds we hope that planters will see that the land not planted is not allowed to go out of cultivation, but that cow peas and crimson clover are put in so that the land may be improved and it will then be in condition to grow either cotton or corn profitably in the years to come. Late planted cotton should be helped by giving a dressing of 50 to 75 pounds of nitrate of soda spread on each side of the rows after the seed has germinated. It need not be worked in, the dews will dissolve it and the plants will make a much quicker growth and be ready to bring to a stand quite as soon as cotton planted a week or two earlier. The bringing of the crop to a stand should have attention as soon as the plants show the third leaf and are in a healthy, thrifty condition. The hoe should be then used to chop out the surplus plants, leaving two or three plants at the desired distance apart. These should then be thinned out with the hand to single plants as soon as possible so that the plant to be left to make the crop can have possession of the soil and fertilizer. The distance at which the plants should be left varies very much according to the fertility of the soil. Cotton planted in 3-foot rows and spaced to one plant every two feet, has almost invariably produced an excess of crop more than sufficient to pay for the greater expense of planting and cultivating in comparison with cotton spaced 4x1% feet or 5x1% feet or GxL foot. The subsequent cultivation of the crop should follow the lines laid down for the cultivation of the corn crop in this article.

Cultivate frequently and keep the soil level. Sow crimson clover at the last working.

The setting of the tobacco crop should have attention as soon as the plants are large enough. The genial spring weather we have had has made the plants grow freely and they should soon be large enough to set out. In our last issue we wrote fully on the preparation of the land for this crop and as to the fertilizer to be used, and to that article refer our readers. The demand for tobacco has been good all through the selling season and the market still keeps firm, with indications that good tobacco is still wanted. We believe that a larger crop than has been made for several years can be safely made this year, but let it be good tobacco. Don't try to grow the crop with a handful of 2-8-2 goods per acre. The experiments which we quoted in our last issue show conclusively that liberal fertilization with a properly mixed high grade fertilizer is the only way to grow tobacco profitably and to put the land into condition to grow other crops profitably after the tobacco. After the crop has started to grow cultivate frequently and keep the land level and work around the plants with the hoe to keep the soil loose and easily permeable by the roots and to conserve the moisture.

The peanut crop should be planted about from the middle to the end of the month. In our last issue we gave advice as to the preparation of the land and the fertilizer proper to be used to make the crop successfully. Mix the fertilizer well with the soil before planting the nuts. The seed may be planted in either rows or hills, but the most usual way is to plant in rows three feet apart and the plants 12 or 15 inches apart in the rows. Cultivation should be frequent to keep all weeds down and a loose soil mulch on the ground. Keep the land level. Experiments have shown that level cultivation gives the best crops.

The preparation of the land for, and the planting of, forage crops should have attention as soon as time can be spared from the necessary work required to be done on the corn, cotton and tobacco crops. The production of these forage crops has now become an essential part of the work of the Southern farmer if he is to make the greatest success. Whilst we are making great progress in the production of hay crops, yet we shall not for many years be in a position to keep even the cities supplied with the hay they require much less meet the requirements of the stock on the farms. Hay is and will for many years be a sale crop mainly in the South. For the feeding of the stock on the farm the forage crops, which we can so successfully grow, should be the main reliance. These crops are not as yet a readily marketable product, but on the farm they can more than supply the place of hay made from the grasses, seising tsat most of them are better adapted for feeding stock profitably than hay. The production of the cow peas and soy beans is also advantageous in that whilst making the best of feed, both in hay and grain, they at the same time rapidly improve the land upon which they are produced. The production of these

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crops has also this further advantage that they can he seeded in one or other of their forms nearly all the year round and they come to maturity from the earliest spring to the latest fall, thus always giving something to replenish the feed in the barn. The fall-sown crops, crimson clover and alfalfa, are now being cut all over the South and giving the first green feed to the stock and hay to replenish the depleted barns. Rape seeded in March will be ready for grazing in a few days, and now the seeding of cow peas, soy beans, corn for the silo, sorghum and Kaffir corn for hay and long feed and millet as a supplement to the summer hay crop, is in order. As soon as the land becomes warm cow peas and soy beans may be planted. The soy beans should be first planted as if wanted to make a grain crop—they take a long time to mature. If wanted to be cut for hay they may be planted any time from May to the end of June, or even into July. Cow peas planted in May will be ready to cut for hay in July and August and will make a ripe grain crop in the latter month. For grazing for hogs both of these crops planted in May will be ready to turn on to in July and successional crops can be planted each month up to the middle of August, either for hay or grazing. Formerly it was the practice always to sow cow peas broadcast and harrow in. In consequence, however, of the great increase in the area planted in this crop and the great advance in the price of seed (from 50 cents to $3 per bushel) caused by a failure of the seed crop two years ago, we have for the last two years strongly advised planting in drills, using either the grain drill with all the spouts but two or three blocked up or a corn planter or other seed drill, so set as to drop the peas about 6 or 8 inches apart in rows 2 feet 6 inches or 3 feet apart, in this way making half a bushel, or even less seed than this, plant an acre and doing it much better and resulting in a much more satisfactory crop, either for hay or seed.

At several of the Experiment Stations experiments have been made to compare the advantages of drilling cow peas over seeding broadcast. In an experiment made at the McNeil Branch of the Mississippi Station peas drilled at the rate of 80' pounds per acre yielded 3,520 pounds of hay, at the rate of 40 pounds 4,000 pounds of hay, at the rate of 20 pounds 3.200 pounds of hay, and peas in hills 18 inches apart, requiring 16 pounds of seed per acre, at the rate of 4,000 pounds of hay. At the Indiana Station the highest average yield of hay, 7,600 pounds per acre, was secured from the Clay pea followed by Iron, with a yield of 7,400 pounds per acre. At the Virginia Station Whippoorwill, Iron, New Era and Black peas have given the best results for hay, the average for two years being 2.50, 2.43, 2.40 and 2.23 tons per acre, respectively. We have reports from a number of subscribers who adopted our suggestion of drilling the peas instead of sowing broadcast and who secured excellent crops in this way at a great saving of seed. A number of these parties speak in high praise of the New Era pea as being an excellent yielder, both of grain and fodder. Others strongly commend the Clay and Whippoorwill for these purposes. For a grazing crop the Black or a mixture of two or three varieties is commended as being most productive. If the crop is to be grown for the seed it

should always be planted with the drill in rows 2 feet 6 inches or 3 feet apart and always when so planted should be cultivated two or three times. The New Era has produced as high as 20 bushels of seed per acre. The other varieties have given yields varying from 12 to 15 bushels per acre.

Soy beans should always be planted in rows with the drill to secure the best yield of either forage or beans. Make* the rows 2 feet 6 inches or 3 feet apart and drop the beans every 6 or 8 inches. At the Virginia Station Japanese, Extra Early Black, Medium Green and I to San Yellow were grown and ripened, respectively, September 1st, 1st, 15th and 30th, and yielded 14.16 bushels 16.66 bushels, 20.53 bushels and 22.50 bushels per acre, respectively. At other places the largest average yield has been made by the Medium Yellow, 22 bushels per acre. The later varieties, like the Large Yellow, usually make heavier yields of grain than the early ones, but in elevated locations these varieties do not mature well and should, therefore, only be grown for a hay crop. For this purpose all the varieties are well adapted and make a hay much easier to cure than cow peas and of high nutritive value. They are also excellent as a grazing crop, and whilst there is some difference of opinion between growers as to whether cow peas or soy beans are the best for improving the land, with, probably the weight of opinion in favor of the cow peas, yet they are both excellent for this purpose. If the soy bean is allowed to mature grain it will not improve the land so much as the cow pea, as it is a heavy seed producer and this grain has the highest protein content of any grain grown, the nitrogen, therefore, is more largely in the grain. These two crops have frequently been grown together for grazing and hay making purposes and make excellent feed in this way; but the longer period required to mature the soy bean over the cow pea does not allow of the best results being obtained from both. We prefer to use sorghum to mix with cow peas as a grazing or hay crop, and especially as a hay crop. This mixture makes a heavy yield of excellent feed and is easier to cure than cow peas grown alone. Plant at the rate of half a bushel of cow peas and half a bushel of sorghum seed per acre. Early Amber Sorghum (commonly called "cane") is the best variety to sow for this mixed crop. For the production of the best yields of cow peas, soy beans and the mixed pea and sorghum crop the land should be well prepared and if not in good fertility should have 250 or 300 pounds of acid phosphate per acre applied broadcast before the seed is planted and this be well worked into the land.

The planting of sorghum, Kaffir corn, corn for the silo and millet can well be deferred until next month, unless there is likely to be a shortage of feed for stock in July or early August. If this be so then put in a crop of sorghum at once, sowing it broadcast or drilling at the rate of a bushel to the acre, so as to result in the production of stalks not too thick. This, if put on good land, will give a crop to feed off green when the pastures are failing. We will say more next month on the growing of the other forage crops. We observe that we have not mentioned Teocinte as amongst one of the valuable forage crops which can be grown in the South. This crop is

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not adapted for the country north of the James River, though we have known a pretty good crop to he grown in one or two of the counties on the north bank of that river. South of the James, and the further south the better, Teocinte makes a heavy yield of fodder which is greedily eaten by stock. It should be planted like corn and will stool out, making often 10 or 12 stalks to the hill, which will start off again when cut and make a later crop. It will not mature the seed in this state.

COW PEAS STILL SPREADING—A WORD TO THE

COTTON MEN. Editor Southern Planter:

This morning's mail brought me a letter from Senhor Mario Estrada, Corrientes 741 Buenos Aires, Argentina, S. A., saying: "I read your book, 'Crop Growing and Crop Feeding,' with much interest and pleasure, and it gave me a keen desire to read your other books concerning crops. You will be exceedingly kind to let me know where I can get them, and what their titles are. I am in this country a pioneer of cow peas, and I have been preaching the doctrines on humus and soil-building crops which you so cleverly treat in your book. The cow pea is unknown in this country. I made an experiment this past summer (our winter is summer down there—W. P. M.) with a little bag of seed I got as a present from a Scotch gentleman, and I obtained a perfect success. I think the cow pea is going to bring great benefits to Argentine agriculture, and I intend distributing a good quantity of seed next spring to the farmers. Will you do me the service of telling me who are the largest growers of cow peas in the United States, and if it is not asking too much, will you have the kindness of writing to them to send samples and prices to the above address?"

And so the cow pea gains friends all over the world. A correspondent in Australia wrote me that the peas are being largely planted there, and another in New Zealand writes in like manner. In fact, they seem to be just getting acquainted with it in its home, for doubtless the cow pea is a native of India or China. I wrote to Mr. Estrada the title and publishers of my latest book and told him that I am at work on a book on Market Gardening in the South, and the cow pea is as important to the Southern market gardener as to the general farmer. What a wide range it has, and what good the pea can do in all countries for the farmers who realize its value! And to no people on earth is it of more value than to the cotton farmers of the United States. Farmers write to me almost daily asking for fertilizer formulas for cotton to go on land that was in cotton last year, in order to galvanize the old dead skeleton of a soil into some sort of life so that they can, at a great expense, get a little more cotton to sell to pay for the fertilizer, the mules, the labor, the meat and feed and everything else, and leave them no profit, when by growing cow peas and feeding them they could make manure and build up the land into real life through the added humus. And year after year the great majority of our cotton growers—not farmers—go on in the old hopeless way. Some time ago I visited the farm of a Maryland renter. He farms 250 acres and pays $1,500 a year rent. I counted nineteen

horses and colts and "nary a mule." Of course, these were not all work animals, for he raises colts for sale, and sells them, too, for good prices.

His crops are wheat and corn and hay for home use. He is on a farm that will be his at the death of his mother, to whom he now pays rent. The farm has been in the family since the early settlement of the country, over two hundred years ago, and it makes better crops to-day than it ever did, because it is farmed, and not planted. He makes 70 to 75 bushels of corn per acre and 35 to 40 bushels of wheat; sows cow peas, crimson clover and red clover; feeds cattle and raises horses; has a fine house with running water through it, bath and all the conveniences of a city house, and lives like a country gentleman. His crops are not near so profitable as cotton would be with the same methods in farming, for there is little land in Central and Eastern North Carolina that would not make two bales of cotton per acre if farmed in the way that man farms a wheat and corn farm. His main money crop is wheat, but he does not consider everything else "supplies," but aims to make money out of everything he grows. He makes manure enough to broadcast his corn field every year, the manure being spread on a clover sod, and he is working towards 100 bushels of corn per acre, not by buying fertilizers to make it, but by the building up of the humus in the soil. He is a young man and has not bought an ounce of nitrogen in a fertilizer in all his life, but uses a mixture of 10 per cent, phosphoric acid and 5 per cent, potash on his wheat, and the wheat is the only crop he buys fertilizer for, for he knows very well that the corn field is the place for the home-made manure and that fertilizers cannot be used with profit on the corn. This young man manages eight other fine farms belonging to the same estate, and makes his overseers farm in like manner. And he is not the only one in the same section farming in a similar way, and none of them are wasting money buying nitrogen or 8-2-2 fertilizers. One sees there fine farm homes, fine outbuildings, and all gleaming with paint and whitewash, and there are no patch-work fields, with bunches of bushes here and there and patches of broomsedge, but clean fields, fences for pasturing stock, but none to keep other people's stock out, for none run on the roads. The bottom fact behind all the rapidly-developing farms there is the growing of forage and feeding of stock and the making and using of manure and the red loamy soil there is naturally not better than thousands of similar acres of land in the South, the only difference being that the farmers farm. At a Farmers' Institute there, attended by hundreds, not a man asked for a fertilizer formula, while in my correspondence with the Southern farmers in the cotton country the main burden of their letters is "give me a formula for a fertilizer" for this, that and the other crop, seeming to imagine that for every crop planted one must needs have a special fertilizer. Now, I know that all this applies more to the farmers of the cotton belt than to the greater part of the farmers of Virginia, and I am glad that it is so. We have tradiitons of fine farming in Virginia, and have never entirely lost sight of what the old class of gentlemen farmers did. But there are sections, even in Virginia, where farmers plant rather

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than farm, and depend on fertilizer for crops merely, instead of using fertilizer for improving their land through the promotion of the growth of the legume crops. But The Southern Planter circulates among the cotton growers, and it is to them and the tobacco growers that I would write in this way. "We all know that in Virginia there are sections where the kind of farming I have mentioned in Maryland is being done, and to these I bid godspeed and hope their race will increase in the Old Dominion. W. F. MASSEY.

FARM DEMONSTRATION WORK—OUR POSITION IN REGARD TO COMMERCIAL FERTILIZERS.

Editor Southern Planter:

It has given me great pleasure to read, from time to time, the valuable suggestions made in The Southern Planter, nearly all of which I can commend without reservation.

It did occur to me in the criticism on Mr. Sandy's work that possibly there was a little more severity than was necessary, but it all arose, I am sure, from a misapprehension of his position. Inasmuch as my name has been coupled with that of Mr. Sandy's, I think it but proper to explain the position we hold.

We are very careful not to specially commend any commercial fertilizer for all cases, because soils and plants differ so widely that it is difficult to make any general statement on this point that will not, at some time, be justly subject to criticism. As far as we go we try to impress the following line of fertilization for soils:

1. Keep more domestic animals and carefully husband the manure, believing that the excreta of animals is one of the most economic sources of plant food to be found and leaves the soil in the best mechanical condition.

On most farms, if all the straw and leaf mould and other products are carefully husbanded and put in a compost heap with acid phosphate, there will be enough to fertilize the tillable land on that farm, and this is the second most available source of fertilizer.

3. We recommend, as far as possible, the use of legumes for green manuring so as to transfer the nitrogen from the air to the soil in the most economic way and increase the supply of humus, which is the great deficiency in Southern soils.

If these three methods of fertility are employed, there will not be much discussion about the purchase of commercial fertilizers, excepting acid phosphate and potash. But these methods require time and care and where sour, worn lands must be made immediately available for crop purposes, we recommend the use of as much stable manure and compost as possible; but there is rarely enough at hand for the purpose and therefore it is necessary to resort to commercial fertilizers.

If in any given case a single fertilizer is named, it is never our intention to convey the idea that that is the only economic fertilizer, because we claim that it is the right and duty of every farmer to secure the given result in the most economic way possible. Our instructions are given to apply to a large scope of country, and in some places we recommend one kind and in another another. In many places in Texas we have recommended the use

of raw cotton seed, and we might be criticized for that if any one did not know all the facts. The conditions under which we recommended the use of uncrushed cotton seed were where the seed had been damaged so it was not saleable and could be bought at a very low price. We have purchased it as low as $4 or $5 per ton. Again we have recommended the use of acid phosphate in cases where the cost of transportation was an important factor. In other cases we have recommended crushed rock, especially where the lands were close to the phosphate beds. In all cases the farmer should pursue the line of greatest economy.

I have discussed this matter fully at different times with Mr. Sandy and I did not understand him to hold to the position that it is always the most economic to use dissolved bone, but in giving instructions it is necessary to make very definite statements, and consequently he outlined a plan that was eminently successful on his own farm, not intending to affirm that some other plan, so far as commercial fertilizer was concerned, might not be just as good, and possibly more economic, under certain conditions.

We are engaged in a certain work, and it is against our policy to spend any time in controversy or to take any position that, fairly understood, will occasion adverse discussion. If you will note all our printed instructions are along lines upon which men of science and experience are well agreed. It must not be understood that we object in the least to kindly criticism, and in cases where there is a misunderstanding or error it will give us the greatest pleasure to correct it and place ourselves right before the public. S. A. KNAPP,

Washington, D. C. Special Agent in Charge.

ALFALFA GROWING IN POWHATAN COUNTY, VA.

Editor Southern Planter:

I notice William F. Holmead's alfalfa experience in April Planter and Mr. Wing's answer to his question,, and that induces me to say something of my own experience with it and to ask a question or so.

On September 2, 1905, I sowed three acres and got a good stand on all but four or five square rods. Three to four square rods of this was on a depressed spot where the water could not get away properly and balance on a little gall. In the spring of 1906 I scattered a little lime on these places (not as much as I would if I should have had more, but all I had) and worked it into the ground and sowed more seed on these spots. The stand on these spots is as good, or better, now than on land right beside them. I ploughed this ground in April, 1905, and again in June, subsoiling it at second ploughing, and on June 5, 1905, sowed to cow peas with a wheat drill at the rate of about one bushel per acre with 200 pounds acid phosphate per acre. Took peas off in September and sowed 200 pounds more acid phosphate, 16 per cent, and 20& pounds Basic slag per acre and disked and harrowed both ways thoroughly, and on September 12th sowed 25 pounds inoculated seed per acre, getting the bacteria from Dr. Ferguson, of V. P. I.

My little experience convinces me that alfalfa needs soil well limed and under drained, as Mr. Wing says.

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With that done on good rich soil well prepared I believe there need be no failures in alfalfa in Maryland or Virginia. But don't sow it on poor land. If you do it will buck and the first thing you know you will be out of the saddle and the alfalfa gone, and it will stay away until you treat it fair. I have plants of alfalfa in the above three acres that were eighteen and a half inches high from where plant joins crown to the bud, on April 12th, actual measure, this spring's growth. About half the field is like that and the other half is not quite half as good, the difference being due to the difference of fertility in soil. Cultivation and preparation were exactly the same. This brings me to the question I want to ask: If I can sow lime on the poor parts after the first cutting this spring and disk in well with more seed and improve the stand; and if I can sow bone meal at same time advantageously; or if not this way, how can it be done? Be glad to have reply in May Planter.

I believe that land that will produce alfalfa like half of my lot does is worth all we have the nerve to ask for it—up to $50 to $75 per acre. If not, why?

Powhatan County, Va. . W. A. RAUDABAUGH.

Yes. You can spread lime broadcast after cutting the alfalfa and cut it in with the disc, runnings the discs nearly straight, and after letting this stand a few days then spread bone meal and more seed and brush in. It would probably, however, be more effective to apply only the lime and seed after the first cutting and then after the second cutting apply the bone meal i;nd a little more seed and cut in with the disc. The late Mr. Clark used to fertilize and reseed after each cutting and cut in with the disc, and he got excellent results.—Ed.

MIXING COMMERCIAL FERTILIZERS.

(Continued from the April Issue.) Editor Southern Planter:

Having in a former paper briefly considered the percentages of nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash as found in low grade fertilizers, and roughly approximated a point, to go below which necessitates the use of filler, it now becomes of interest to ascend the scale to the other extremity and see just how rich a complete fertilizer we can buy, and eliminate the low grade material by requesting a combined percentage so high as to compel the use of only the best chemicals.

A glance through the brands registered in the fertilizer bulletin will show that the best the dealers offer us contains 7 per cent, of nitrogen, 7 per cent, of phosphoric acid and 7 per cent, of potash, and it at once becomes of interest to find out what must be used to produce this combination. Seven per cent, of nitrogen or 140 pounds to the ton, if derived from nitrate of soda yielding 16 per cent., would require 875 pounds; 7 per cent, phosphoric acid or 140 pounds per ton, derived from acid phosphate yielding 16 per cent, would require 875 pounds; 7 per •cent, of potash derived from sulphate of potash yielding 52 per cent, would require again 140 pounds of potash, or 269 pounds, making a total of 2,019 pounds.

Here we find a combination so rich that it at once becomes apparent that nitrate of soda, acid phosphate and sulphate of potash, even when the highest grade of each

material is used, falls short in the percentage, as It requires nineteen extra pounds over and above a ton to produce the percentages and in order to get it we must substitute sulphate of ammonia, yielding 20 per cent, of nitrogen, for the nitrate of soda, in which case we would have 700 pounds of ammonium sulphate, 875 pounds of acid phosphate, 280 pounds of 50 per cent, muriate or sulphate of potash and 145 pounds of filler to make up the 2,000 pounds,or we may use basic slag in place of acid phosphate, in which case we would have 875 pounds of nitrate of soda, 778 pounds of basic slag, 280 pounds of muriate of potash and 67 pounds of filler, making again 2,000 pounds or one ton.

But this is a combination that makes a poor mixture, and is probably never used by the manufacturer, for the reason that sodium nitrate if mixed with basic slag would result in a loss of nitrogen, as the lime in the slag tends to set free the nitrogen in nitrate of soda.

What the manufacturer generally does is to state his percentage of nitrogen as ammonia, and as 7 per cent, of ammonia is approximately 5% per cent, of nitrogen, he needs only 115 pounds of nitrogen, which he can get from 719 pounds of nitrate of soda combined with 875 pounds of acid phosphate, 280 pounds of muriate of potash and 126 pounds of filler—2,000 pounds of mixed fertilizer. Indeed, this combination can be made as readily from 14 per cent, acid phosphate as from the 16 per cent., as the table below will clearly demonstrate:

719 pounds of nitrate of soda. 1,000 pounds of 14 per cent, acid phosphate.

280 pounds ofmuriate of potash. 1 pound of filler.

2,000

Here we have a nearly balanced table and at once arrive at the reason for our "three sevens," as by substituting ammonia for nitrogen in our guarantee we have a combination that almost exactly figures out without any filler whatever.

This is evidently a very good percentage to purchase for ordinary truck crops and, were sulphate of potash substituted for the muriate, would be equally good for tobacco or potatoes. Another lesson to be learnt here is that this 7-7-7 goods, as it calls for practically 2,000 pounds of chemicals to make it must be cheaper to buy, although higher in price, than the 6-7-7, the 6-7-6, the 6-6-7 or the 7-6-7, or in fact any combination of percentages containing 7 per cent, of ammonia, wherein the 6 per cent, of phosphoric acid is not compensated by 8 per cent, of potash, or vice versa.

The above combination, while an ideal one for truck crops where great availability is a disideratum, would not be as well adapted to slow-growing crops as a fertilizer wherein some of the constituents required decomposition to render them available.

As a basis of such a material let us consider bone tankage containing 9 per cent, of nitrogen and 15 per cent, of phosphoric acid:

1,000 pounds of bone tankage, yielding 9 per cent, of nitrogen and 15 per cent, phosphoric acid would give us 4% per cent, nitrogen and 7Vz per cent, phosphoric acid.

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312 pounds of nitrate of soda, yielding 16 per cent., would give 2% per cent, nitrogen.

280 pounds of muriate of potash, yielding 50 per cent., would give 7 per cent, potash.

1,592 pounds of material yielding 7% per cent, phosphoric acid, 7 per cent, potash, 7 per cent, nitrogen.

Here we have only 1,592 pounds required to make a goods showing 7-7%-7, and it at once becomes apparent that where bone tankage is used as a base we must expect to use a much higher percentage (if we desire to eliminate filler) than is the case where nitrate of soda and acid phosphate form the sources from whence are derived nitrogen and phosphoric acid. As an illustration take the following combination:

1,200 pounds bone tankage, yielding 5.4 per cent, nitrogen and 9 per cent, phosphoric acid; 375 pounds of nitrate of soda, yielding 3 per cent, nitrogen; 425 pounds of muriate of potash, yielding 10 per cent, potash—2,000 pounds of 8.4 nitrogen, 9 phosphoric acid, 10 potash.

Raw bone meal and steamed bone would combine in the same way making, with nitrate of soda and the potash salts, an exceedingly rich combination, part of which is at once available and the balance slowly so.

1,000 pounds raw bone meal gives 4 per cent, nitrogen and 11 per cent, phosphoric acid, C25 pounds nitrate of soda gives 5 per cent, nitrogen, ; 375 pounds muriate of potash gives 9 per cent, potash—2,000 pounds of 9-11-9. And with the steamed bone as a base we get—1,000 pounds of steamed bone gives 1 per cent, nitrogen and 12Yz per cent, of phosphoric acid, 625 pounds nitrate of soda gives

5 per cent, nitrogen, 375 pounds muriate potash gives 9 per cent, potash—2,000 pounds of 6-12y 2 -9.

With these three tables I purpose to conclude the slaughter-house products, or substances which contain both nitrogen and phosphoric acid, leaving to the reader the task of farther investigation should he feel interested in the subject, and take up the two forms of Peruvian guano now on the market, the one analyzing 6 per cent nitrogen, 9 per cent, phosphoric acid, and 2 per cent, potash, and the other 3 per cent, nitrogen, 18 per cent, phosphoric acid and 3.5 per cent, potash. The first, coming from a country which has a very slight rainfall, would be preferable where a high nitrogen content was desirable, and by combining with nitrate of soda and the potash salts and acid phosphate give the following percentages: 1,000 pounds of guano contains 3 per cent, nitrogen, 4% per cent, phosphoric acid, 2 per cent, potash, 500 pounds nitrate of soda contains 4 per cent, nitrogen, 375 pounds acid phosphate contains 3 per cent, phosphoric acid, 125 pounds muriate of potash contains 3 per cent, potash—2,000 pounds of fertilizer containing 7 per cent, nitrogen, 7% per cent, phosphoric acid, 5 per cent, potash.

The second grade, which comes from a semi-rainless country, where some of the nitrogen has been washed out of the guano, will combine as follows, giving us a slightly different grade of percentages: 1,000 pounds guano contains 1% per cent, nitrogen, 9 per cent, phosphoric acid, 1% per cent, potash, 750 pounds nitrate of soda contains

6 per cent, nitrogen, 250 pounds muriate of potash contains 6 per cent, potash—2,000 pounds of fertilizer con-

taining iy-2 per cent, nitrogen, 9 per cent, phosphoric acid, 7% per cent, potash.

It will be observed that this last table contains no . acid phosphate, as 9 per cent, of phosphoric acid will generally be considered a fairly high percentage of this ingredient in a complete fertilizer.

It also appears that these substances make a combination that, without the use of filler, will generally runj a little higher than the brands of fertilizer found upon our markets, and as a natural consequence costs rather more per ton to buy, although the nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash in them may cost no more per pound than when derived from other sources.

The point I want to emphasize is that it does not pay to purchase low grade complete fertilizer, and I would say that, generally speaking, nothing of an analysis below 7-7-7 should be purchased where the nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash are costing the same price per pound in that combination as in one of lower grade.

The question as to the cheapest source from whence to derive our fertilizing constituents is too large a one to take up in the present paper. In fact it does not concern i the farmer who buys ready-mixed goods. All the buyer wants is the price per ton and the percentages and hei should try to secure the fertilizer of the highest analysis! where the relative prices of the constituents are equal, as by so doing he not only saves freight, but gets greater results from the same labor in hauling and distribution. If farmers will use high grade goods and carefully figure the percentages, allowing 15 cents as the price per pound of nitrogen, 4Y2 cents per pound for phosphoric acid andj 5 cents per pound for potash, the manufacturer will discover and use the cheapest source of the ingredients, for by so doing he can either clear a greater margin of profit for his work or undersell his competitor.

Mathews County, Va. PETRCIVAL HICKS.

Coquette's John Bull. G39S0. Head of Milnwood Dairy Herd, Farmville, Vaa. See article elsewhere in this issue.

One of the most desirable soils for Muskmelons is a sandy loam which has not been tilled for a year or two, or a clover soil. Better still is a field where Compeas have been grown and turned under.

New Jersey. C. A. UMOSBL.LE.

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ALFALFA GROWING IN PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY, VA.

Editor Southern Planter: •

Above is a picture of an alfalfa field on my place, taken on April 11, 1908, when the alfalfa was about twenty Inches high.

Operating a winter dairy for the State Female Normal School and not getting the price for milk which my city friends do, I have long felt the necessity of something to take the place of the high-price concentrates. Have been experimenting with alfalfa for five years with more failures than success. This field was heavily manured for tobacco in 1905—produced a crop of 1,500 pounds to the acre. It was followed by a crop of wheat in 1906, making about thirty bushels to the acre. As soon as the wheat was off I ploughed the land about eight inches deep, harrowed it down fine during the summer, put on 1,000 pounds of oyster shell lime to the acre. During September sowed it to alfalfa; it came up but never had a vigorous growth. In the spring of 1907 I cut it twice, the first time more to get rid of cress than anything else. It still did not suit me, so in July I ploughed it up, put on a ton of stone lime to acre, just before sowing put on 500 pounds of bone meal to the acre, and on the 15th day of August, 1907, sowed 30 pounds of seed to the acre and harrowed in. It came up nicely, and by October was a perfect stand—dark green, twelve inches high.

My cows got a taste of it and then no fence would keep them out until I moved them out of sight of it. But I was fully repaid, for the twenty-five cows produced me $110 worth of milk while eating it for two weeks. It did not grow much in the fall after the cows were taken off, as they had eaten it down to the ground. This spring it began to grow as soon as it was warm enough, not a sickly looking plant in the field—no rust, but just a vigorous growth, very dark green.

On the 11th day of April I had the photograph taken;

on the 13th day of April I cut some of it for soiling. My cows, hogs and horses eat it greedily, and although I cut out the larger part of my ^rain ration my cows increased in milk production 20 per cent. To-day, one week after cutting, the second crop is three inches high on the part cut over.

I have no suggestions to offer as to my success, but was informed by a gentleman who had lived in Colorado that he had never seen any as good on the irrigated lands of Colorado. Will add, in closing, that the land is a gray land underlaid with red clay, with the red showing through in a good deal of it.

WILLIAM W. JACKSON. Bizarre Dairy Farm, Farmville, Va.

SOME THINGS SUGGESTED BY THE APRIL ISSUE. Seed Corn Patch.

Editor Southern Planter:

Mr. Christie's suggestions in regard to testing seed corn are more important this year than ever, for there is more damaged corn from Maryland northward than I ever noticed, and if farmers fail to test their seed there will be poor stands all over the Middle States. Then replanting is poor policy, for the replanted plants shoot their ears after the general pollen distribution, and generally fail to make corn of much value. In fact, I quit replanting years ago as a waste of time. Alfalfa.

Alfalfa is so valuable that it will pay for extra preparation of the land, directed especially to the killing of weeds. Land for alfalfa needs to be rich and mellow, and also to be clean. I once sowed a piece of land with wheat and hairy vetch in the fall, cut a good hay crop in spring and at once broke the land and sowed peas. Cut these, too, for hay and then fined the land well by going over repeatedly with a cutaway harrow and sowed alfalfa.

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The land sloped from a piece of hard red clay up to a' higher and much lighter soil of a gray color. I assumed that the lighter soil would give me the best stand. But to my surprise the only stand I got was on the stiff red clay, while the higher and lighter soil made a complete failure. But what I want especially to note is the fact that the growing of two smothering crops previously and the repeated working of the ground had made it much cleaner. I believe that it would pay to break the land in spring for alfalfa and grow no crop on it all summer but keep it stirred with an Acme harrow that would keep turning over the soil shallowly and thus bring the seeds of grass and weeds where they will germinate and can be at once destroyed by going over again with the harrow and turning more up to germinate. In this way I believe that by time to seed the alfalfa, in late August, the land would be far cleaner and success far more certain. Such a summer fallow I believe would be well, though I have not tried it. Underdrainage might help the field mentioned, as Mr. Wing says, but if a man has land that does not need the underdrainage he had better use that. Low Grade Fertilizers.

As Mr. Hicks says, it is necessary to use a filler to get a low grade fertilizer mixture. But why should the farmer, mixing his own fertilizer, use a filler for this purpose? Would it not be better to make a high grade without filler and use a smaller amount? Then a fertilizer containing only 2 per cent, of nitrogen, and that all from nitrate of soda, would have very little influence on the crop, used in the amount farmers are generally using it, as it would soon be dissipated and the crop left to its own resources through the greater part of the growing season. Three hundred pounds per acre of such a mixture would give but six pounds of nitrogen per acre, or just about what the natural rainfall brings to the soil annually. It would cost about $1.20 per acre and would hardly increase the corn crop that much. If one is to put fertilizer on the corn crop at all, he would need some organic nitrogen to keep up the feeding of the plants after the nitrate is exhausted. This leads me to note what you say to Mr. Hurt. If Mr. Hurt has read what I have written, and what the editor has written, in regard to fertilizers on the corn crop he will find that we both have uniformly opposed the buying of fertilizers for corn, and especially such a low grade as 2-8-2. If a farmer always has a clover sod to turn for corn, on which he has applied the homemade manure, which he should have, and will have if he grows legume forage in abundance, broadcast, he will never need to spend money for nitrate of soda or any other form of nitrogen. The wheat growers of Eastern Maryland use a mixture of 10 per cent, phosphoric acid and 5 per cent, potash on their wheat, and this is the only fertilizer used in the whole rotation. The man who buys fertilizer for his corn crop is usually paying a round price for all the increased crop he gets. Corn in Virginia.

Mr. Hurt is all right in using a sod and manure for his corn and in ploughing deep, and I agree with him entirely as to the method of cultivation. His experience should be a complete answer to Nottoway, who doubts that Virginia soil will make sixty bushels of corn per

acre without fertilizers. I know land that will do it, and not on James River, either, for I have cultivated the land myself and know that there are plenty of acres in Albemarle that will make the sixty bushels per acre, and more., with a good rotation and clover. Then, as to what Nottoway says about acid phosphate being exhausted by one crop: In experiments made at the Indiana Station three plots that had acid phosphate and floats added three years before and nothing since, were planted in corn. The plot where floats had been applied three years before, and nothing applied since, the corn crop was 33 bushels per acre. On the plot where no fertilizer had been applied the crop was 18 bushels per acre and on the plot where floats had been aplied three years before, and nothing since, the crop was 38 bushels per acre. This shows that phosphoric acid will not wash out of the soil, but that what is left will be there for future crops. In such a case it might pay to use acid phosphate on the corn, as the Indiana experiments showed that in four years the application of acid phosphate made a profit of $13.50 per acre. But the Indiana Bulletin further says: "As a matter of fact, it is very doubtful if it would pay to feed nitrogen in the form of commercial fertilizers to grain crops, particularly corn. A 75-bushel crop of corn and stalks removes about 140 pounds of nitrogen from the soil. As this is worth in the form of commercial fertilizer at present prices about 20 cents per pound, it will be seen that there is about $28 worth of nitrogen in a 75-bushel crop of corn, and as it is impossible to recover all the nitrogen supplied in the form of fertilizer, it would take considerably more than this amount to produce 75 bushels of corn. As a matter of fact, it can be seen that it will be necessary to resort to the use of legumes or some cheaper source of nitrogen if corn production is to be profitably maintained on our soils." The same results have been had in Ohio and in almost every other Station where the test has been made, and it has been abundantly proven that it never pays to buy a complete fertilizer, or one containing a due percentage of nitrogen Tor the corn crop. And I would go further and say that when the farmer uses a short rotation and uses legumes for nitrogen he need never buy an ounce of nitrogen for any of the ordinary crops of a grain farm. There is no doubt that the efficiency of the home-made manures will be greatly increased by adding 50 pounds of the 10-5 mixture to each ton of manure, anr! this would pay well in the start in the improvement of the land, while later on the application of the phosphate and potash to the wheat would be all sufficient.

'I would say to "Nottoway" that the land in his section did nor become suddenly poor, and it is not going to get suddenly rich by the mere piling on of costly bone I meal. Any lasting improvement in the soil must come I through the gradual accumulation of the humus of which carel' ?f culture in the past has deprived it. A demonstration to be of value must be something more than a demonstration that a lot of costly fertilizer will produce crops. It must be a demonstration to the poorest farmer that by proper treatment of the soil and a good crop rotation he can make the land pay its way to improvement. Mr. Sandy has not made his farm productive all at once,

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but by persevering year after year in the production of crops that feed the land arid feed the cattle and make manure, and that is the only rational way to improve the soil. The legumes, aided by liberal applications of acid phosphate and potash, will do the rest, and do it more cheaply and permanently than the extravagant purchase of fertilizer for the sale crops.

Farm Horses. 1 would say to "N." that I have never advised race horses for the farm, but I know that an infusion of thoroughbred blood is a great help and gives better wind than the big Percherons have. I like a good blocky horse, but I do not want an animal on the farm with a foot as big as a dish pan. Over twenty years ago I took charge of the improvement of the large farm at the Miller School of Albemarle. There were in the stable a number of big, clumsy horses. I had an auction sale and went down in the Southwest counties and bought mules, for when I work negroes I generally think mules are essential. Among the mules I bought was one said to have come from a Percheron mare. He was a very heavily built animal and made a splendid wheel mule for a wagon team. But if ever a mule was possessed of the devil that was the mule. Stout as he was he could buck like a broncho, and it was the delight of the hands to get a green hand ride that mule home from the field at noon, for the moment he reached the water trough there was no longer a place on his back for that darky to stay. For high kicking the Parisian demimonde could not show his equal.

W. F. MASSEY.

FARM DEMONSTRATION WORK.

Editor Southern Planter:

Will you permit a new comer to participate in the discussion on Mr. Sandy's Demonstration work? I am particularly interested, because I am the only Demonstrator who reported a loss by reason of following Mr. Sandy's instructions.

As to my crop will say that I picked out one acre of typical soil for this section, not as good as the average, I think, but suitable to experiment on. I wanted to compare his methods with some ideas of my own, so planted a field of three acres, of which the one-acre Demonstration plot was a part. It was all planted and tended alike, except that the one acre was ploughed eight inches deep and fertilized with $14.50 worth of lime and fertilizer, while the balance of the field was not ploughed quite so deep and received $1.75 worth of 16 per cent, acid phosphate per acre. The land was ploughed twice, harrowed twice, limed with 700 pounds of Lee's Agricultural Lime (could not get ordinary lime), double disked, 425 pounds raw bone meal applied with wheat drill, dragged with plank drag, worked and planted with planter with sixty pounds acid phosphate per acre in drill. It was then harrowed as corn was coming up and thoroughly worked four times with riding spring toothed cultivator and twice later with 5-tooth cultivator with cotton sweeps on same shallow. Just before the second cultivation 170 pounds of dissolved animal bone and 70 pounds muriate potash mixed together was broadcasted on the one acre and on two

small spots of the balance of the field. (This last application) did not make a particle of showing.) August 13th twelve pounds of crimson clover was sown on the whole field and cultivated in. This made a stand in spots only. The whole field was cut and shocked twelve hills square. The corn on the one acre measured and part of stover weighed, balance estimated, also six shocks on each side of dividing line in same row where land was similar was measured to compare results. These six shocks of each lot showed a difference of about one-half bushel shelled corn per acre in favor of the heavy fertilized corn. I think we can often learn more from our failures than successes and would attribute my poor success to the following causes:

1. The land should have been ploughed several months earlier than it was (March 28th).

2. It was ploughed too deep. This farm has been scratched in spots only for years with a one-horse plow, and to go down eight inches bringing up so much raw clay in the spring was a mistake. Although the preparation and cultivation was as good as Editor Jackson or Mr. Sandy could wish, yet this acre dried out worse than any other corn I had.

3. The season here was exceedingly dry during July and August, Mr. Sandy saying on one of his visits that it seemed to rain more everywhere else than here. No amount of fertilizer will grow a crop without sufficient moisture, and this land in present condition dries out too quickly.

Now, I do not wish to criticize Mr. Sandy's methods, but I am just like hundreds and thousands of others in Virginia who cannot afford to spend so much money per acre and wait for results. Just look at the comparison! One side of the line an expense for fertilizer of $12.75 per acre greater and 65 cents extra for putting it on, total difference $13.40 per acre; crop practically the same. If the one acre paid expenses, which it just about did, the balance made a fair profit, even in a bad year.

Another field was fertilized with about 125 pounds per acre of 10-2 goods and part with Thomas slag, applied with corn drill. The 10-2 fertilizer gave decidedly better results than the Thomas slag. This field had less than half the expense as to preparation and only four cultivations, while corn was as good as the other.

Now, I am going to criticize the editor, too. He always advises disking and much harrowing before planting corn. My own experience and observation has been that too much working of such land as is found in much of Middle Virginia, where there is no sod, is a mistake, i think one or two harrowings with a plank dragging to facilitate working is enough. Corn and potatoes are two crops that require loose soil to start growth in, and so much working packs poor soil too hard.

Your Nottoway correspondent says acid phosphate is | not a good fertilizer for corn, and the editor says few experiments show profits from fertilizing corn, but acid phosphate comes nearest being profitable

I have before me Bulletin No. 141, by Dr. C. E. Thorne, Director of the Experiment Station of Ohio. Dr. Thorne has been conducting some of the most careful and most instructive experiments ever conducted in the United

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States and on poor, worn land, too. The Wooster farm was an old run-down rented farm for years. On Plot No. 2 acid phosphate and nothing else was used for years. It was corn one year, 80 pounds acid phosphate per acre, followed by oats, 80 pounds acid phosphate per acre, followed hy wheat, 160 pounds acid phosphate per acre, clover and timothy sowed in wheat and cut for hay two years, no fertilizer; then repeat same rotation. At time this bulletin was issued there had been two crops of corn, oats and wheat and seven of hay harvested, so that the average result is very instructive. It shows that this small application of the much-abused acid phosphate gave an annual increase over adjoining unfertilized plots of 6.59 bushels corn per acre, 114 pounds stover, 7.46 bushels oats, 204 pounds straw, 6.96 bushels wheat, 692 pounds straw, 375 pounds hay first year and 115 pounds second year, or a total increase of 2,618 pounds for each rotation from a total application of 320 pounds of acid phosphate.

Dr. Thome, giving farm crops a very low estimate, shows that this series of plots gave a net profit of $9 per acre for each rotation, even showing a profit of 300 per cent, on the corn. I have figured his results with farm prices here and find that with acid phosphate, at even the highest price asked by agents, that Dr. Thome's gains would show a profit of nearly $4.50 per acre on corn, about the same on oats, $5.50 on the wheat and about $5 on the hay, or $19.50 per acre for each rotation, this being net profit for an expense of not over $2.75, present prices, or over 200 per cent, profit. It is instructive to note that no other plot in this whole series showed so much net profit as this one, the two others coming nearest-, being Nos. 6 and 8, No. 6 being supplemented by nitrate of soda on corn, oats and wheat also a little dried blood on wheat; No. 8 had the same amount of acid phosphate supplemented with muriate of potash on corn, oats and wheat and no nitrogen. So far as the corn crop was concerned the nitrogen was used at a loss.

I did some experimenting last year and shall continue this year to test the value of acid phosphate on various crops and shall have more to say on this subject at some future time if this does not go into the waste basket. No one appreciates Mr. Sandy's efforts to benefit the farmers more than I do, but I think he and Dr. Knapp ought to have a separate class for us poor fellows who have lean land and lean pocket-books both.

Charlotte County, Va. P. M. RAND.

FARM DEMONSTRATION METHODS. Editor Southern Planter:

I beg to call the attention of your correspondent, "Nottoway," to the fact that his comparison between crimson clover hay and pea-millet hay is out of place. (I consider the latter best, however.) If he will kindly compare Mr. Sandy's method with mine he will see that the contention was between no hay at all and a lot of working to keep down weeds and conserve moisture as against a crop of pea-millet hay to feed the stock while the meadow was growing, to smother out weeds while the farmer was busy with other work, and to keep the sun from burning out the humus and nitrogen in the soil during the most heated period.

Now, if any one can give a reasonable excuse for working land in a place like Virginia for a whole summer, or even a part of it, without getting any returns for a whole season, after having spent $15, or even $3 or $5, for fertilizer, I would like to hear it.

I have in times past done that very thing myself upon the advice of agricultural writers who advocated such methods, but have promised, or decided, that it shall never happen again unless absolutely unavoidable.

After as much as even $4 per acre has been spent for fertilizer I would rather let some one raise cow-pea hay on my land, rent free, than to let it lie unprotected through the hottest part of the summer.

If it was feared that the seed-bed was not in proper condition after a crop of pea-millet hay a harrow and roller would be the proper remedy.

The question of acid phosphate and peas has been completely answered by Professor Massey, so I need not go into details on that subject.

Chesterfield County, Va.

K. A. BERGMANN.

HOW TO TREAT NEW SETTLERS.

Editor Southern Planter:

While the South is making efforts to induce immigrants to locate in its territory it should at the same time give them the natural advantages that are possible to be utilized in the South and not hamper them with unnecessary obstacles, the main one being the unreasonable prices at which real estate is quoted in many cases. The real estate agents are the ones to blame in such cases. Many of them quote and receive unheard of prices to and from those ignorant of real estate prices in the South, and harm is done whether the prices are accepted or refused. They either get all the money the immigrant has or else discourage him as to locating in the South.

Good lands from one to ten miles distant from railroads can be purchased all over Virginia and North Carolina for from three to fifteen or twenty dollars per acre in-eluding buildings. Of course this does not include village and town lots, but what are known as country lands.

I know of several cases where the real estate agents have received from twenty-five to seventy-five dollars per acre for unimproved plantations. There is one instance where a man was induced to pay ninety dollars per acre for a plantation which if put up and sold to the highest bidder would not bring more than twenty. Such practices are not just and should not be encouraged.

I was glad to see Mr. Hick's article in the April Planter as to home mixing of fertilizers,—farmers have been thinking on and discussing this proposition for the last year or two, and demonstrations on paper such as Mr. Hick's are timely and will be duly considered.

May and June are the months to prepare land to be planted in cow-peas followed by oats this fall, and corn, cotton, or other crops next spring.

H. C. COLEMAN.

Warren County, N. C.

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Trucking, Garden and Orchard.

WORK FOR THE MONTH.

The warm weather of March and April has caused the fruit trees to bloom early especially in Middle and Eastern Virginia and the frosts we had about the 15th to 21st of April have, we hear, done much injury to the fruit in this section. We have had a number of fruit growers in, who say that cherries, plums and pears are almost all killed. Peaches also have suffered. Apples have been somewhat injured but there is yet promise of sufficient standing to make a crop if they don't drop later. In Northern Virginia and the Northern part of the Valley, much damage has been done and peaches are likely to be almost a failure. In Piedmont, Virginia, up to the 21st of April, the promise was fine for a heavy crop of all kinds of fruit but since that date they have had frosts and we expect to hear of injury to this prospect, especially to peaches, plums and pears. The apples may not have suffered much as the trees were not fully in blossom. We shall be able to speak more definitely on this next month.

Have boxes and crates ready for shipping strawberries and arrangements concluded with Commission Merchants for handling the crops and with the express and railroad companies for forwarding. See to the labor required for picking being available at short notice.

Tomato plants should be hardened off and be ready for setting out by the 10th of the month. A well drained loamy soil is best for this crop and it should be well prepared and in fine order before setting out begins. Nothing is better than plenty of good rotted farm-yard manure for growing this crop, but as this is rarely to be had in sufficient quantity except for a small patch it may be supplemented by a fertilizer made by mixing 800 lbs. of acid phosphate, 300 lbs. of muriate of potash and 700 lbs. of cotton seed meal, using 500 or 600 lbs. to acre at planting and then later, this should be supplemented by two top dressings of nitrate of soda applied at intervals of ten days at the rate of 150 to 200 lbs. to the acre. This should be spread around the plants but not touch them.

When the work advised to be done in our two last issues has been carried out, the soil is now in good condition for the planting of the full crops of all vegetables and this work should have immediate attention. Where the rows were laid off and the fertilizer applied as we advised, these rows should be freshened up by running a cultivator through them and the seed be sown and plants raised in cold frames should be set out. English peas, onions, spinach, carrots, beets and irish potatoes should be first planted then follow with snap beans, lima beans, pole beans, sqush-es, cucumbers, cantaloupes, melons, tomatoes, peppers and egg plants and towards the end of the month sweet potatoes may be set out. Before planting the pole beans, lima and butter beans, have the poles set firmly and deeply in the ground, so that they may be able to withstand a good blow of wind when covered with the vines.

Onions sets and onion plants raisied in cold frames should be set out, and onion seed be sown. Set the plants and sets about four inches apart in the rows and when the bulbs begin to form, the soil should be drawn away from them so that the onions may mature on the top of the soil. Sow onion seed pretty thickly and then when the plants are about as thick as a quill, thin out to stand three or four inches apart. The thinned out plants may be set out in another bed. Irish potatoes planted now will make good tubers for early fall use but they will not keep over the winter. July is early enough to plant for winter-keeping tubers.

Cucumbers, melons and cantaloupes should be planted as soon as the ground is warm. Prepare the land well and then mark off in rows and plow out these rows deeply throwing the soil out both ways. For cucumbers, the hills should be made 4 feet apart each way, for cantaloupes, 5 or 6 feet and for melons, 8 feet. At the places where the seed is to be planted drop a forkful or two of manure and on this spread a handful of high grade fertilizer and mix with the manure and soil, and cover with three or four inches of good soil and make firm. Plant in this 6 or 8 seeds and then when these have germinated and got into rough leaf, thin out to two good plants and keep well cultivated until the vines begin to run. Dust with tobacco dust or with a little air slacked limie in which a little carbolic acid has been mixed to keep off the bugs and beetles. If these are very plentiful the only safe and sure way to save the plants Is to cover them with plant bed muslin, stretched over little frames or over small boxes with the bottom knocked out. After the vines have got well started, the soil should be plowed to the hills from both sides so as to put the plants on a bed and thus provide them with plenty of soil to spread their roots in and yet keep them well drained. Cultivate frequently but don't disturb the vines to do this work. When the vines have run so as to be in the way of cultivation it is time to quit.

The cabbage crop should be kept growing by frequent cultivation and a top dressing of nitrate of soda at the rate of 100 or 150 lbs. to the acre sown down such side of the rows will push them forward with heading and much Increase the yield of the crops. In our last issue we published a report of an experiment made with this fertilizer on this crop showing remarkable results.

Sweet potato plants should be pushed on and hardened off so as to be ready to set out by the end of the month or in the first week in June. A light sandy loam is best for this crop. It should.be fertile but not overrich, or they will run too much to vine. A good fertilizer may be made for this crop by mixing 150 lbs. of nitrate of soda or 300 lbs. of cotton seed meal, or better by using half of each of these quantities; 100 lbs. of acid phosphate and 100 lbs. of muriate of potash. Apply this quantity to one acre. It should be thoroughly mixed with the soil before setting out the slips.

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THE VIRGINIA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.

We are glad to be able to state that the Legislature at the recent Session made an appropriation of $1,000 per year out of the funds of the State Department of Agriculture in aid of the work of this Society. Whilst the Executive Committee of the Society has not yet had the opportunity of meeting and settling the method of utilizing this fund for the best interests of the State in Horticultural matters yet it is well understood that the main idea in view when the appropriation was asked for was that if granted it should be used in advertising our fruit and horticultural products, and the States possibilities for the production of these, throughout the world. We congratulate the Society upon having secured this much help in doing a much-needed work. It ought to have been much larger.

VALUABLE POINTERS FOR FRUIT GROWERS.

Editor Southern Planter:

A few words urging the necessity of raising better fruit, may, I hope seem of sufficient importance for space in your -valuable paper. This is the time for taking steps to insure the production of good sound fruit, by spraying as soon as the bloom falls from the apple trees, with Bordeaux Mixture as a fungicide, and some form of Arsenic with it to kill the Codling Moth worms and caterpillars. Formula for mixing the various sprays were published in your March issue. This spray should be applied within ten days of the fall of the bloom to obtain most effective results. Omitting ithis application will result in a considerable percentage of wormy apples, the packing of which with other imperfect fruit have given us an undesirable reputation with the buyers. By reference to the valuable and instructive paper by Dr. J. B. Emerson, contributed to the Annual Report of the Virginia State Horticultural Society, and just arriving from the printer now; 4wMch Report everyone interested in the Fruit Industry »can -obtain free by becoming a member of the Society) it -will be seen that Virginia ranks first among all the States sin number of apple trees, and fourth in number of bushels '.raised. Twenty-first in number of peach trees, and seventh 'in quantity of bushels raised. Tenth in all orchard fruits, fbut only seventeenth in value for all fruit raised. In another place he says "The better class of buyers are wiil-\!mg to pay high prices for first-class fruit, but it must be all first-class, and must be presented to them in an attractive manner." The fact that Virginia ranks fourth among the States for number of bushels of apples raised, and seventh in quantity of peaches, tenth in quantity of all orchard fruits, but only seventeenth in value received •for same, conclusively shows the loss occasioned by packing and offering for sale imperfect fruits. There is no reason whatever if wie are tenth in rank for quantity produced, that we should not also be at least tenth in value of the crop. I maintain that our fruit is as well flavored, and as fine and attractive in appearance as can be produced any where, if proper care is taken to help the trees to produce it; and imperfect fruit thrown out, and not put into the market packages. Our Society, organized for the express purpose of fostering and encouraging the horticultural interests of the State, has labored faithfully for •upwards of twelve years on these lines, it has been an up-

hill job, handicapped by lack of sufficient money, we have not been able to accomplish as much as we wished, but we have advertised our fruit by exhibiting it wherever practicable, and the result has been most satisfactory. I have received letters, and also been told by buyers and authorities in other States, that we have exhibited magnificent fruit. The highest awards have been gained at exhibitions, and there is no reason in the world why we cannot get the highest prices, if this fine grade only is packed, and the inferior specimens rejected. It can be readily understood that a man who has not cared for his trees by preventing the ravages caused by insects and fungous diseases, will have a large proportion of imperfect and inferior fruit, and under these circumstances is tempted to pack up a quantity of what should never be there. This can be avoided by not producing this imperfect stuff, and can only be done by taking the trouble to feed and treat the orchard.

There are many other papers of the greatest value to Horticulturists in our Annual Report, and the Society stands ready to do all in its power to help its members and the fruit industry generally. Every horticulturist should be a member.

The Virginia Growers and Packers Association formed among our members for the purpose of securing a reputation for good packing, etc., has now been organized, and great interest is being shown in this step, which is along the lines that have secured the fine reputation and high prices now obtained by fruit from the Pacific Coast.

WALTER WHATELY,

Secretary-Treasurer, Virginia Srtate Horticultural Society, Crozet, Va.

Mels Helen, 19378 6, Registered Jersey. Gave 15 quarts of more than 5 per cent, milk at 2 years old. See article on Milnwood Dairy Farm.

Experiments at the New Hampshire Station indicate that there is very little, if any, gain derived from pinching Cantaloupe vines.

We commence spraying our Cantaloupe vines with Bordeaux about June 25th and continue every eight days until fruit is nearly grown. L. B. PIERCE, Ohio.

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Live Stock and Dairy.

FEEDING COTTON SEED MEAL TO HOGS.

Editor Southern Planter:

It has been clearly demonstrated that corn alone is an unsatisfactory food for hogs. For instance, in certain well authenticated tests it was shown that young pigs receiving corn alone only made 8.2 pounds of gain per bushel of corn consumed, and that it required 6.8 pounds of corn meal to make one pound of gain. Where some protein or muscle and nerve-building food was fed in association with the corn meal like wheat, middlings, skim milk, linseed meal or meat meal, the pounds of grain produced from a bushel of corn was doubled, trebled, and even quadrupled in some instances. Naturally, the cost of producing a pound of gain was materially reduced by combining a muscle-building food with a heat and fat producing food like corn. In fact, the cost of a pound of gain varied in the experiments cited from 3.15 to 13.44 cents. In other words, 100 pounds of pork cost, in one instance, $3.15; in the other instance, $13.44, or a difference of $10.29 per 100 pounds.

Since corn constitutes the exclusive ration for hogs on many of our farms, it is not surprising that pork raising, and especially where pen feeding is practiced, should not be looked upon with favor. Moreover, it is important ithat young pigs should be fed a ration that contains a considerable amount of ash matter, or bone-building material. Corn is very deficient in this respect, and hence the necessity of finding some suitable companion food to feed along with it. In sections of the country where wheat and flax are grown, this is not a difficult thing to do, but in those localities where cotton is the staple crop, byproducts of wheat and flax are so costly as to practically preclude their use. Corn is also higher in price in proportion owing to the small area devoted to it and the low yields obtained, and therefore constitutes a costly ration to commence with. Some cheap protein amendment which is locally grown, therefore, is a desideratum ito all farmers who handle hogs. For a great part of the year grazing crops can of course be utilized, and will constitute the cheapest and most effective means of maintaining and developing a high-class type of bacon hog at a minimum of cost. But for several moniths of the year these grazing crops may not be available, or if they are, are of such character as to require the feeding of considerable amounts of grain in order to insure rapid and uniform growth which, of course, is associated with the greatest economy of production.

There is produced in the cotton States a concentrate of unsurpassed excellence in cotton seed meal, but for many .years it has been regarded as impossible to feed this material to hogs with any degree of safety or satisfaction and the experiments conducted have tended Ito confirm this belief. In recent years, however, a series of trials seems to reveal the fact that cotton seed meal may be fed in limited quantities Ito hogs with a comparative degree of safety, and when it is combined in a ration with corn larger, and hence less costly gains will be secured. Just how and when to feed cotton seed meal to the best advantage and the length of time which it may be safely

fed are points to be determined by future investigations, but the data accumulated will be of some service to those engaged in swine husbandry, and is therefore presented for the information of all who are interested in this subject.

It now seems evident that cotton seed or cotton seed meal can not be fed in a fresh condition to hogs with any degree of safety. However, it appears that in the first experiments undertaken an excessive amount of meal was fed, all things considered. Few of us realize what a wonderfully concentrated product cotton seed meal is. For instance, it contains more than four times as much digestible protein and almost four times as much digestible fat as corn. It is very much lower in carbohydrates, and is therefore a strictly muscle-building food. These figures show its concentration to be so great that a hog would have to consume four pounds of corn in order to obtain as much protein and fat as is ordinarily obtained in a pound of cotton seed meal. As already stated, recent investigations indicate that the addition of a small amount of cotton seed meal has a very desirable effect on the rate of gain and does not seem to injure the health of the hogs, provided the meal is not fed for too long periods of time. In the course of time we may come ito realize more fully the very highly concentrated nature of cotton se<~d meal and utilize it with that judicious discretion which seems necessary in order to utilize it profitably in pork production.

In the first experiments undertaken in Texas Cotton" seed meal was fed at the rate of one pound to two and a half pounds of corn. The first hog died on the forty-ninth day, and the whole lot succumbed a few days later. In Oklahoma hogs weighing 79 pounds were successfully maintained for 47 days on a ration in which the animals consumed one pound of cotton seed meal per day. The meal was fed in conjunction with Kafir corn, and during the greater part of the time the hogs were on a wheat pasture. These experiments demonstrated that by alternating the feeding of cotton seed meal with cooling foods, such as any of the cereals sown for pasture would provide, cotton seed meal could be fed with safety for a considerable length of time, and would have a beneficial effecr on both the rate and economy of gains obtained.

Experiments undertaken in Arkansas indicate that hogs weighing about fifty pounds may be fed on cottonseed meal at the rate of about 1-4 of a pound per day; hogs weighing between 50 and 75 pounds at the rate off 1-3 of a pound per day; hogs weighing between 75 and! 100 pounds at the rate of 2-5 of a pound per day; and hogs weighing between 100 and 150 pounds at the rate of 1-2 pound per day. In these experiments ithe hogs were fed as much as .8 of a pound of cotton seed meal per head per day for periods of 156 to 186 days. This is probably a higher rate of feeding than can ordinarily be practiced for such a length of time with safety.

In recent years great claims have been made as t© the utility of cotton seed meal in fattening hogs when it is allowed to ferment before feeding. This prixctice is

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quite common among Texas hog breeders. The method pursued is about as follows: The meal is first thoroughly fermented. It is then fed as a thin slop and in some instances, it is claimed as much as half of the ration has consisted of cotton seed meal. The meal is in nearly all instancies fed in conjunction with corn meal which is mixed with it and fermented at the same time. It has not been shown, however, thait a ration of cotton seed meal anything like as heavy as suggested has been fed for long periods of time, or for finishing animals for market, and we do not think it advisable in the present status of our knowledge for any one to attempt to so feed it. Experiments conducted at the Texas station, however, seem to indicate quite clearly that a ration of corn and cotton seed meal can be fed under certain conditions with safety to hogs for periods of time varying in length from 40 to 60 days, and the feeding may be done with safety even in the hottest weather when the hogs are confined to bare lots and deprived of what would ordinarily be considered proper exercise, the most desirable sanitary conditions and the privilege of grazing on green crops which have Deen shown conclusively to be a most desirable and important companion food when cotton seed meal constitutes a portion of the ration regardless of season.

To those wishing to feed cotton seed meal to hogs, therefore, it would seem that for animals which are being fattened not more than 1-5 of the ration should c insist of cotton seed meal, and that it is probably not advisable to feed at this rate for more than fifty days in the present status of our knowledge, though it is possible to feed some cotton seed meal for much longer periods with comparative safety. After the fiftieth day, however, it will be advisable to reduce the amount to one-eighth of the daily ration. It is very important that corn, which constitutes the best companion food to feed with cotton seed, meal, should be mixed with the meal in a dry condition, and that the whole mass should be thoroughly soured by allowing it to ferment for at least 24 to 36 hours in summer, and for 48 to 72 hours in winter, depending largely on the temperature; and that it is certainly advisable to provide grazing crops for hogs being fed on cotton seed meal. Any green food which can be provided will be acceptable, though of course the legumes and the cereals will be the easiest to grow and the most desirable.

Where cotton seed meal is fed the animals should be watched very closely and the amount reduced when any evidences of ill health are observed. Tliis is a very important matter. Small quantities of fermented cotton seed meal have been fed in connection with corn to breeding animals by some farmers for considerable periods of time without any apparent injurious results. It is questionable, however, whether this is a safe practice to pursue with valuable animals as there is certainly an element of danger present when the feeding has been carried beyond a certain point. We would advise breeders, therefore, to go slowly and exercise great care in feeding cotton seed meal to their animals until thoroughly satisfied that it can be done with impunity.

It is noteworthy that the small amounts of meal which it is regarded safe to feed for from 40 to 60 days have had an appreciable effect on the character of the carcass pro-

duced. The combination of one pound of cotton seed meal with five of corn furnishes the nutrients desirable for fattening hogs in about the right proportion. It should also be borne in mind that feeders who exercise care and discretion and watch their animals closely may be able to feed larger amounts of cotton seed meal than have been suggested and for longer periods of time. Since the proportions which can be fed most successfully are best adapted for fattening animals it would seem that cotton seed meal is destined to become of considerable economic importance to hog growers in the souch, and no doubt ways and means will be devised in the near future by which its utility in the feeding and nutrition of swine may be greatly* extended.

To combine corn and cotton seed meal in about the right proportions for young and growing stock, it would be necessary to feed one pound of cotton seed meal to two of corn. This in the light of investigation made up to the present time is entirely too concentrated a ration to be fed with safety. For young animals, therefore, it is quite likely that other protein amendments will have to be fed at least in part, but for fattening animals the combination of corn and cotton seed meal proposed can be used advantageously, and it is believed that where proper care is exercised in handling the animals that they can be finished on this ration, since from 60 to 100 days affords ample time Jn which to prepare animals for market.

Since packers are troubled much with what are termed soft or oily carcasses and an excessive covering of fat on the body where corn is the exclusive ration, it is interesting to observe that slaughter tests indicate that the carcass of hogs fed on meal in the ratio suggested above contain less fat and a greater proportion of lean meat than those fed on corn alone. The carcasses of hogs receiving cotton seed meal are as a rule firm and of excellent quality. This is a matter worth emphasizing since it renders possible the finishing of hogs in the south which much more nearly approach the bacon type, and insures the farmer receiving a better price for his animals since first-class bacon is now more or less of a luxury and in great demand.

While as much has not been accomplished in determining the exact value of cotton seed meal in a ration for hogs as is desirable, satisfactory progress is being made along this line, and much information of substantial importance has been brought to light. The feeding of fermented cotton seed meal in moderate amounts and for comparatively short periods of time seems to have been demonstrated as a safe plan to follow, and the results obtained from its use are such as to justify and encourage further experimentation, not only on the part of practical farmers, but on the part of the investigator as well in order that the full potential value of cotton seed meal as an adjunct in feeding hogs may be ascertained.

ANDREW M. SOULE. Georgia State College of Agriculture.

THE EFFECT OF DAIRY BREEDING.

Cornell University has the following record to show the effect of breeding to a pure bred sire. They commenced with a cow that would produce 225 lbs. of butter a year; that was her limit. She was bred to a pure bred

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dairy sire. The daughter of this combination produced 275 lbs. of butter a year. In the fourth generation, ali the product of pure bred sires, there were two cows that made 450 lbs. of butter a year. If they could be collected, there are a host of such examples scattered over the country, all proving the great value of a prepotent dairy sire in imparting dairy capacity to his descendants, particularly on the female side.

PERCHERONS AT BLACKSBURG. Fine Stock in the Shenandoah Valley, Va.

Editor Southern Planter:

For economic reasons, and also for the purpose of carrying out the plans of an experiment in horse breeding and feeding, to cover several years, the Virginia Polytechnic Institute this spring made sale of all tho geldings and mules on the college farm, and secured good heavy Per-

old, by name Carroll 15,431, by Ayres 15,668, traces to the well-known Polly family, his dam being Polly 3d 23,289 by Monsieur 6,458. The best heifer of the herd is a show

cheron mares, with which to do the farm work. Among these are some very excellent specimens of the Percheron breed of drafters. None of them is less than half Percheron, several three-fourths and seven-eighths, and one pair of mares is registered.

In visiting different parts of the State, it was the particular pleasure of the writer to make a trip through the Shenandoah Valley at a most delightful timie of the year, namely, the latter part of March and the first half of April. A splendid opportunity was afforded for inspecting the quality of live stock in the Valley. I was more than pleased with the advance being made in the improvement not only of horses, but cattle, sheep and hogs, many of the improved breeds of which are represented at least by sires and grades of three or four crosses.

Alexander & Co., Crimora, Virginia, are breeding a fine lot of Percherons. This firm have a splendid lot of mares bolth imported and home-bred, also, four magnificent imported stallions.

Mr. John F. Lewis, Lynnwood, Virfinia, has a fine stud of Percherons, many imported, including several very excellent stallions, and numerous splendid celts. His exhibits at the Virginia State Fair last fall were very fine and will be remembered by all lovers of a good draft horse.

At the home of M. M. Jarman, Elkton, a splendid herd of twenty head of Red Polled cattle was seen and carefully inspected. A fine young bull, just about two years

/ animal, without question. She is Ruby Rose 22,040, and represents in her make-up the Flower Lass and Fashion families. We take pleasure in handing you herewith snap shots of these two animals, as they are quite representative of the breed. Mr. Jarman also has a number of good Percheron mares, a pair of which we secured for the V. P. I. farms.

Mr. C. J. Barger, Crimora, has some fine Percherons and a splendid herd of Hereford cattle, also some fine feeders, both steers and spayed heifers. These animals had been brought to a very high finish with silage and the small addition of half a gallon of corn meal at a feed, with hay as they desired it. Mr. Barger is certainly making a success with Her-ford cattle, as well as with Percheron horses. I am delighted to call attention to the flattering prospect he has with an alfalfa crop of several acres, sown last August; also to a stand of alfalfa three years old, which is cut five times each season, giving, Mr. Barger says, larger returns than any other crop that he knows. There are quite a number of similar illustrations over the State which show quite conclusively that alfalfa may be grown successfully in Virginia.

WALTER J. QUICK, Dean and Professor of Animal Husbandry,

Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

SPECIAL ORDERS GOVERNING THE STATE CATTLE QUARANTINE.

Commonwealth of Virginia, Office of State Veterinarian. The following counties in Virginia are below the quarantine line, (or under quarantine restrictions) from the fifteenth day of March, 190'8, until the fifteenth day ol Dcember, 1908.

Quarantind Counties in Virginia. Chesterfield, York, Pittsylvania, Mecklenburg, Lunenburg, Brunswick, Greenville, Sussex, Surry, Southampton, Isle of Wight, and Nansemond.

No cattle from the above named counties must be moved to the non-quarantined territory of this State, except by rail or boat, and then according to quarantine regulations as prescribed by the U. S. Department of Agricul-

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ture, at Washington, D. C, for so moving quarantined cattle for immediate slaughter.

Since the counties of Mecklenburg, Pittsylvania, Brunswick and Chesterfield, have a well organized local inspecting force at work in the said counties under control of the Supervisors, and supervision of the State Veterinarian, if the said Local Inspectors are constantly employed this season, then by special request of the cattle owners of the said counties on whose farms were found no ticks last year, the State Veterinarian will, if the said method is approved by the Federal Department, permit cattle from the said non-quarantined farms to be moved upon inspection, if all cattle on the said farms are free from ticks and the inspection is made jointly by the State and Federal Inspectors and by each department approved.

Under no conditions must any State Inspector permit cattle to be moved from any farm which was quarantined last year, or from any one of the counties which is now under quarantine, until he has first received special permission from the State Veterinarian to do so, and until the owner of the said cattle has been by the State Local Inspector furnished a written permission to move the said cattle, which permit must be signed by a Federal Inspector also before the cattle must be so moved.

No transportation company doing business in this State must receive cattle from the quarantined territory above mentioned, unless the said cattle are accompanied by a written certificate permitting the cattle ; o be so moved, which certificate must be signed by both, State and Federal Inspectors.

Individual premises now under quarantine in Counties above ths line are subject to all quarantine restrictions mentioned in this order.

Ail Local Inspectors are expected to quarantine any premises on which are found cattle infested with cattle ticks. In every case the owner must be furnished with a written quarantine order, and a copy of the same must at once be sent to the State Veterinarian.

A quarantine notice must be kept posted on the gate of every farm so quarantined.

By order of State Live Stock Sanitary Board.

J. G. FERNEYHOUGH,

State Veterinarian.

Burkeville, Va.

TOBACCO FOR LAMB PARASITES.

During the past several years many farmers of Ohio, who make the raising and feeding of lambs of the mutton breeds a part of their farm operations, have suffered heavy losses from the inroads of the stomach worm, Strongylus contortus. Numerous remedies have been tried and many experiments made to combat this pest. Four years ago Dr. H. P. Miller, of Delaware county conceived the idea that tobacco might prove effective. It had demonstrated its merit in destroying garden parasites and had won a place in formulas for ridding colts of worms; this led Dr. Miller to think it might prove just as potent in killing internal parasites in lambs. He tested the remedy, and after what seemed to him convincing evidence of its worth, published his idea. Many of the best sheepmen of Ohio began trying

the remedy, and now all who have given it a fair trial are pleased with the result and are ready to recommend it.

All are agreed that the easiest and best,method of giving this treatment is to mix the tobacco with salt, using at least twice as much tobacco as salt, the relative proportions depending on the kind of tobacco used. This mixture is then placed where the lambs have constant, or at least daily, access to it. At first they are a little wary, due to the smell of the tobacco, but if no salt is given them other than that mixed with tobacco, soon they will become so salt-hungry as to readily eat both tobacco and salt.

The grade of tobacco used is the lowest, as this possesses as high poisonous qualities as the better grades. Dr. Miller uses what is commonly known as "trash," or the lower refuse leaves. These he cuts into small pieces. John M. Jamison, of Ross county finds that tobacco stalks, cut into lengths of half an inch to an inch and a half, serve his purpose well; he sprinkles salt over these and finds bis flock of 104 native feeding lambs will eat three or four quarts of tobacco in 24 hours. The writer uses-"tobacco dust," purchased at a nearby cigar factory. This-dust retails at two cents per pound in small quantities; stalks sell for 75 cents per 100 pounds.

As was stated above, the tobacco is mixed with salt, or better, salt is sprinkled over the tobacco, and no salt is fed in any other way. An old kettle makes a good receptacle in which to feed this. If one desires to give the lambs constant access to the tobacco it should be so placed that it will be sheltered from the rain.

This remedy is cheap, easily given, and so far has proved effective. The writer began using it the first week in September in a flock of lambs from which three had already died of the disease, and no lambs have died since. He has kept tobacco in his sheep barn where his breeding ewes can have ready approach to it all winter, and thus hopes to be able to turn his flock out on grass this spring clean of parasites. By keeping tobacco before all sheep the year round it is believed that this particular pest can be completely exterminated from the flock and the farm of the one using it.

JNO. E. WILLIAMS. Delaware County, O. (Country Gentleman.)

GREEN FORAGE FOR HOGS.

An especially timely bulletin bas just been issued from-the Missouri Experiment Station by Dean H. J. Waters giving the results of some experiments to determine the value of different forage crops for hogs.

Thirty-six pigs weighing about 50 lbs. each were fed in lots on different forage crops in connection with corn until they were ready for market, accurate account being kept of the cost of gains made.

In cheapness of gains the feeds used ranked as follows; Corn and skim milk, cheapest; corn and alfalfa, second; corn and red clover, third; corn and bluegrass, fourth; corn and rape, fifth; corn and ship stuff, sixth.

A saving of about 75 cents a hundred in the cost gain was effected by using green clover instead of fresh bluegrass. A saving of $1.00 a hundred was effected by using alfalfa instead of bluegrass.

Wben it is realized that alfalfa comes on early and

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when properly clipped stays green all summer and until the very hard freezes of early winter, its importance as a hog pasture is apparent. Clover yields more forage per acre than bluegrass, and as shown by these experiments has a much higher feeding value. It is of the utmost importance therefore to provide this sort of pasture for hogs rather than to require them to run on a bluegrass pasture, or even worse than bluegrass, a timothy pasture, or even far worse than this, to confine them in a dry lot in the summer-time.

This bulletin recommends a succession of crops for profitable hog pasture. The bulletin is for free distribution, and may be had by addressing the Experiment Station at Columbia.

with the Commissioners tag, etc., and forbidding the sale of same without Commissioners license. The act is now In force and the Governor has appointed W. D. Saunders, the Professor of Dairying, at the Agricultural College, Blacks-burg, the commissioner to execute the law. This appointment is a most excellent one and we expect to see great progress made in dairying in this State under his direction. Every Dairyman and Stock-keeper should have a copy of the Act.

DAIRY AND FOOD COMMISSIONER FOR THE STATE OF VIRGINIA.

The General Assembly of this State at the sitting recently held, enacted a law, under which the Governor is required to appoint a Dairy and Food Commissioner for the State, whose office shall be a part of the Department of Agriculture of the State and who jointly with the Commissioner of Agriculture and with the approval of the State Board of Agriculture shall appoint a Deputy Dairy and Food Commissioner and other necessary assistants. The commissioner shall hold his office for four years and subsequent appointments shall be made by the Governor and the General Assembly. The Commissioner is given full authority to inspect and have analysed all dairy and food products for man or beast offered for sale in the State and power to seize and condemn same if not up to standard of purity and quality. In addition to these duties he is spe--cifically required " to foster and encourage the dairy industry of the State and for that purpose to investigate the general conditions of the creameries, cheese factories, condensed milk factories, skimming stations, milk stations and farm dairies in the State with full power to enter upon any premises for such investigation with the object in view of improving the quality and creating and maintaining uniformity of the dairy products of the State." He has authority given to warn and notify any person selling un clean or unwholesome milk or other dairy products, not to sell same after such unclean or unwholesome condition has been determined by the Commissioner and any person failing to obey such notice and warning and continuing to sell shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine not less than $10 nor more than $50 or imprisonment in the county jail, not to exceed 90 days. He may require persons to make the necessary alterations in premises to correct unsanitary conditions and failure to obey such requirement subjects the owner of the premises to a fine or imprisonment. All manufacturers or sellers of concentrated commercial feeding stuffs, for feeding live stock, are required to affix to every package, a plainly printed statement certifying the weight of the package with the name or trade mark, the name of the manufacturer or shipper, and a guarantee stating the minimum percentage it contains of crude protein and fat and the maximum percentage of crude fibre. There are other stringent provisions affecting the sale of these concentrated feeding stuffs, such as requiring each package to be tagged

TOBACCO FOR THE SHEEP.

Editor Southern Planter:

Let's try this year to have the best and happiest lambs ever seen in Dorsetdom. It is time. The demand for Dorset stock far exceeds the supply. Dorsets are now acknow-leged to be the most profitable sheep grown in America, especially for the Eastern and Middle States. Now let's begin to keep them absolutely healthy and happy. It is easy to do.

The only enemy of the Dorset lamb is the worm, the internal parasite. We must keep him out. It does not pay well to "cure" sick lambs. Keep them always in health.

By soiling, that is, keeping the lambs in the barn and feeding them green crops and oats, lambs may be grown with great ease and safety. Last year's crop of lambs on Woodland Farm was so treated and this Spring the yearlings are wonderfully good, their skins pink as cherries.

The new thing is tobacco for ewes and lambs. It won't hurt for the old ram to have his chew also. Every ewe and lamb and ram on Woodland Farm has all the tobacco it wants every day. Cheap, damaged tobacco is bought and fed sprinkled well with salt. The lambs learn soon to love it. Experience of Dr. Miller last year showed that this would keep lambs healthy, more, it will clean out the worms that may already be in them.

Tobacco will even eradicate the nodular disease! That is much like a miracle, is it not? I beg you to begin this tobacco feeding at once to every ewe and lamb.

Of cigar manufacturers you can get tobacco stems cheaply. Chop them up and sprinkle with salt. Or get damaged whole crop tobacco. We paid 4 cents a pound for ours. It is often bought from factories for half that or less. Begin now, and keep it up steadily. It will pay a thousand fold.

JOSEPH E. WING.

ATTENTION BERKSHIRE BREEDERS.

Dr. D. M. Trice, of Charlottesville, and a few other Berkshire breeders have discussed the propriety of forming a Berkshire breeders Association for this State. The object of the Society would be to further the interests of breeders by co-operating together for the holding of sales at the Fairs and elsewhere and to watch over all matters affecting the Berkshire hog industry. It is not at all contemplated to interfere with existing registration Associations or to undertake work of this nature. All Berkshire breeders feeling interested in the furtherance of this movement will confer a favor by putting themselves in communication with Dr. Trice.

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MISS BLANDY.

DECCALORA'S MAIDEN.

MILLIE SIGNAL.

MiLNWOOD DAIRY FARM.

Within just about a fifteen minutes drive from the hustling little town of Farmville, Va., is situated The Miln-wood Dairy Farm, of which Major A. R. Venable, Jr., is proprietor. The farm contains some six or seven hundred acres and lays well for the purpose for which it is being used, viz.; dairying. The usual forage crops, cow-peas, corn, alfalfa and the grasses, all have 'their places in the crop rotation and furnish an abundance of feed, silage and roughage for something like fifty head of Dairy cattle and working stock.

The cow barn is on the order of those found on an up-to-date dairy farm. It is clean and spacious and in rear of the stalls, is a drain which carries all liquid manure to an outside shed where is housed the manure-spreader ever ready* for a trip to the fields after the daily cleaning of the stable.

The Silo is handy as is also the milk room and dairy. The cows are milked in sanitary pails which, when full, are emptied into air-tight cans and taken to the Separator room which is a model of cleanliness. As the separators are run by power, quick work is made of the milk from which the cream is wanted and the rest is bottled and hermetically sealed. Until recently, this farm shipped cream extensively, but it has now gone into the retail milk trade, running its wagons several times daily to Farmville, a most excellent market. This method of handling milk has had the effect of causing the demand to exceed the supply.

The milking herd at present, numbers 30 pure-bred, registered Jerseys and is under the personal management of Mr. Woodson Venable, a son of the owner, and a most expert dairyman. Major Venable is a veteran Jersey breeder, having bred and owned this breed for 30 years. The animals in the herd attest his ability to select and breed stock of merit, judged by performance at the pail and churn and ability to reproduce. There are in this herd, descendents of just such animals which were developed by the Major years ago and it would take a long price, indeed, to tempt their owner to part with them.

The herd is headed by Coquette's John Bull 62,980, a son of Canada's John Bull 5th and out of Coquette of Glen Rouge 2nd 64,931 and was imported in dam. He is a most impressive sire and his calves are about as uniformly beautiful and marked as one would wash to see.

Assisting this bull, is the promising Flying Fox bull, Flying Fox's Cash 72,280, sired by the great Marett's Flying Fox 64.761, formerly owned by Congressman Garter Glass; his dam is Exile's Creddy 2nd 131,274. It will be seen that his breeding is A-l and Major Venable is expecting great things of him.

Among the cows are Deccalora's Maiden 214,451 the grand old daughter of Gentle Ladd and Deccalora, who is still a most persistent milker, giving as much as 40 ibs. of 5 per cent. milk. She is thought to be in calf to the chief herd bull and if all goes well and she produces a heifer calf, she will make her owner one of the happiest of men.

Clara's Pet 193,155, by Tenor 59,277 and out of John Brier's Pet 84,842, is another grand cow who not only performs well herself but transmits the same ability to her offspring. She can givie from 3 to 4 gallons of 5 to 6 per

FLYING FOX'S CASH, 72280.

cent, milk, while her daughter, Eloise H. 214,628 by Coquette's John Bull, at 2 years old milks about 20' lbs. testing 5.8.

Millie Signal 150,390, by Muezzin 2d Signal 31,075 and out of Birdie Settles 108,513 has always been a remarkable cow and is still so as evidenced by the fact that although 13 years old, she gave 52 lbs of over 5 per cent, milk with her last calf.

Mel's Helen 193,786, sired by Coquette's John Bull and

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out of Mel's Charm 108,023, is a magnificent cow. At 2 years old, she gave 14 quarts of over 5 per cent, milk daily.

Miss Blandy 214,629, (now rather thin) by the same bull and out of Lady Mapp, will not bie 2 years old until June 5th but she is probably the most distinguished member of the herd. A recent test of her milk showed the marvellous amount of 8.2 of butter fat. The younger Venable, who made the test recognizes this as abnormally high and will test her regularly hereafter. One additional test has been made (April 15th) and showed only 5.2. This, however, was not under the most favorable conditions. But she will be tested under all conditions and if she can come anywhere near her record high test, it is apparent that her value is incalculable.

There are plenty of other cows and promising heifers in the herd which lack of space prevents mentioning individually, but the foregoing are sufficient to emphasize the fact that all the good Jersey cattle are not owned in other States. With such breeding to be had right here at home it is the veriest folly to go out of the State and pay higher prices for unacclimated stock not a whit better in any particular. "What ought I to charge for heifers like those?" asked the Major, pointing to a bunch of Coquette's get. "One hundred dollars at least," said we. "But I price them at less than half that figure," says he.

We congratulate Major Venable and son on the all around excellence of their cattle and are delighted to know that they are handling them on a profitable basis.

The photos shown were taken just after the milking hour and, of course, do not do credit to the splendid udders of a number of them. SHEPHERD.

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VIRGINIA, AFTER ALL, MS BEST.

Editor Southern Planter:

Since my last communication to the Planter I been gaining a "right smart lot" of experience. I carefully looked into the Agricultural conditions prevail ing in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Alabama.

I spent something over 90 days, and several hundred dollars on my tour of investigation. My object was to find, if possible, a better location for a home, for a farm home, than was offered in Eastern Virginia. After "swinging around the circle, as above indicated, I decided to locate near Washington.

After putting in 30 years of very active work—muscular work a portion of the time, and mental work all the time—I found that I really needed a change of occupation and of climate also. The result is the purchase of a small farm here in Fairfax county, near the Capital City, with the view of engaging in the work of poultry raising on a moderate scale.

The elevation here is such as to insure the purest of air; and the "lay" of the land is such as to insure the finest water that ever gushed forth from the eternal hills The little brook that ripples and eddies, twists and turns on its way through our pasture, heads not more than a mile away, and in that mile fully 500 springs \ to its flow or volume of water.

The prevailing rock, so far as appears on the surface

is a species of flint. There is a belt of limestone in Loudon county, adjoining Fairfax county on the West. The surface of the county is quite rolling in places, and gently undulating in other sections. The streams are all rapid, and one may drive through a half dozen or more small streams in going as many miles.

Up to within a very recent date, the county was well timbered; but during the past few years the mills have been slaughtering the forests at a great rate. The timber has been sold and cut from many of the large old estates. This does not add to the appearance nor the wealth of the county, nor to its' desirability as a place for a home.

Still we have to tolerate the lumberman as a sort of necessary evil, and trust to Old Mother Nature to rehabilitate the hills and valleys with forests unless they be needed for agricultural purposes. Many of these old estates have been subdivided and settled upon by thrifty farmers, who are developing the section and demonstrating what can be done on small areas of land.

Our little home of about 20 acres, formerly belonged to a prominent Virginia family, and helped to make up an estate of 2,400 acres. There are at present about 20 families upon that old estate; and there are several hundred acres of it as yet undivided.

Extremes meet here. One mile away is an estate of several thousand acres—between 5,000 and 10,000 acres, still in the hands of the original owners and in a pretty fair state of preservation. Just across the public road is another landed proprietor—a Swiss gentleman, who owns and cultivates less than 10 acres. When we say "cultivates" we mean just what we say. He is a florist and trucker combined. He makes a good living, and is even getting ahead, and expects next year to ride in his own carriage—his only vehicle now being his market wagon with which he makes weekly and semi-weekly trips to the Capitol City.

The greatest lack and greatest need of Fairfax county at present is better roads. When in the State of Georgia I had ample opportunity to see the good effects of making the convicts of the State earn their board and clothing by working on the roads.

In a few years the State of Georgia will have the best roads of any State in the Union. If Fairfax county, which lies close under the eaves of the Capitol City could but utilize the District of Columbia jail birds in improving the roads of the county, this alone would actually enhance the value of every acre of real estate to double its present selling price.

A. JEFFERS. Fairfax County, Va.

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The Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station is attempting to develop a rust resistant Cantaloupe from the regular Netted Gem variety. For developing this quality in the Cantaloupes, the experimenters have grown resist-ent plants on the same plat for several consecutive years in order to develop the trait in as adverse condition as possible and the results are said to be really wonderful. The rust resistant vines were green and almost free from rust, and produced melons of first quality when the adjacent vines were dead and dried up.

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[May,

The Poultry Yard.

POULTRY NOTES.

Will it pay to hatch chicks this month? What breed would you advise me to select as I am thinking of getting some pure breed and sell all my mongrel stock? These questions are asked by many readers of the Planter and I will give my experience for their benefit. Mr. Sherman gives some very good advice in April Planter in regard to early chicks. I have hatched them in every month in the year and believe that for egg production with the egg breeds this month and the first half of June will give us the best and most profitable layers. Last year all of my February hatched pullets moulted very late in November and continued during December. Leghorn chicks that have good range and feed will lay at five months old. This will bring May hatched pullets to laying in November and February hatched in August. The May hatch will continue to lay all winter if properly housed and fed but the earlier hatch will moult and no amount of care and feed will get eggs from them when moulting this late in the season. I intend to keep my incubators at work until June 20th any way. The early hatched will pay much better if one wants them for broilers and I think I will try a few hatches next winter for this purpose and sell every chick as soon as large enough. I will begin about December 20th. This will get them out by January 10th and put them into market the last week in March. This will get the best market. I shall hatch Leghorns for this purpose because they will grow to weigh twenty-four ounces and be plump and fully feathered in ten weeks and I have never been able to make any of the large breeds do this. I believe too that Leghorns will lay more hatchable eggs in November and December than any other breed. Much is said in farm and poultry papers about the larger breeds. Many people prefer them to the smaller breeds. It looks like folly to me for any-one to say that any particular breed is best for everybody. Those who want only a limited number of fowls, a few eggs and a roast occassionally find the larger breeds very satisfactory and for Capons and soft roasters we must have them, and the person who is in the business for eggs in a commercial sense will eventually turn to the small breeds or go out of the business. I have bred many of the large breeds during the various eras of their popularity and still have a liking for them (when well roasted) and annually get that longing to try one of the much advertised breeds any way. Many people figure about this way. "If I' raise 100 Orpington or Plymouth Rock or Brahma pullets they will lay well until June then I will sell them at 14 cents per pound and my 100 hens will weigh 800 pounds. This will bring me $112.00 and if I raise 100 Leghorn piullets and sell them in June they will weigh only 500 pounds and bring but $70.00. This gives the large ones the preference by $50.00. This looks favorable to the big fellow on paper. Let me tell you how it works out. I have hatched and raised and weighed the feed and kept accurate account of cost of growing to laying age the three best large breeds, viz., Light Brahmas, Barred Rocks and White Wyandottes and the two varieties

of Leghorns, viz., S. C. B. and S. C. W. Average age when pullets of the large breeds commenced to lay 7 months. Average age of Leghorn pullets, 5 months. Net actual cost per pullet at 7 months, (no account taken of cost of eggs for hatching or incubating) of large breeds 63 cents each. Net actual cost per pullet at 5 months (no account taken of cost of eggs and incubating) of small breeds 41 cents. These pullets were all hatched in April. September 1st I selected 10 of the best pullets of each of the 4 breeds. I took 5 brown leghorn and 5 white to make the leghorn test. They were yarded in large roomy yards. No males allowed in either pen. The winter was a very severe one in N. E. Indiana. The ground was covered with snow and ice 86 days between December 1st and April 1st. They were all allowed the same kind of feed and given all they would eat.

Total number of eggs laid by each pen, September 1st to June 1st or 273 days as follows: Light Brahmas 840, feed cost $12.56, leggs value $11.20; Barred Rocks, 1,027, feed cost $12.56, eggs value -13.69; White Wyandottes, 1,115, feed cost $12.10, eggs value $14.87; Leghorns, 1,638, feed cost, $11.20, eggs value $21.S4. The eggs were all sold in the market at from 10 cents to 20 cents per doz. Average 16 cents. The hens were all weighed June 1st and market price allowed for them which was 9 cents per pound.

Ten Light Brahmas weighed 84 1-2 pounds, $7.60.; 10 Barred Rocks weighed 76 3-4 pounds, $6.91; 10 White Wyandottes. weighed 74 1-4 pounds, $6.68; 10 Leghorns weighed 47 3-4 pounds, $4.30. Actual net cost for feed for 14 months. Light Brahmas, $14.58; value of eggs and hens, $18.80; gain, $4.82. Barred Rocks, $13.19; value of eggs and hens, $20.60; gain, $7.14. White Wyandottes, $12.73; value of eggs and hens, $21.55; gain, $8.82? Leghorns, $11.61; value of eggs and hens, $26.14; gain, $14.53.

This record of actual cost and receipts shows that the profit in keeping fowls is not in the net gain in weight but in actual egg production. The smaller breeds will not only begin to lay from 2 to 3 months earlier but will lay more eggs during the same time. The large breeds lose time every time they get broody and much of the food they eat is stored in the carcass as flesh and fat. I give this actual feeding test in answer to the many letters of inquiry I am receiving relative to the actual utility of the various breeds. The readers of the Planter want facts, not advertising bosh. I realize that there is much difference in various ways in fowls of the same breed but the fact remains that very nearly all the large commercial poultry plants breed leghorns. Men claim great things but any flock of 100 hens that make an average of 175 eggs per year each are good ones. The laying contest now in progress under the managment of The Inland Poultry Journal will show that the very best selection and care will do little if any better than this. The pen of 3 Wyandottes laid 82 eggs in 91 days and the 3 Buckeyes laid 51. This is less than 10 eggs per hen per month for the Wyandottes and only 5 2-3 eggs per hen per month for the Buckeyes.

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When it comes to the actual count, many of the 200 egg hens would be found in the 150 class. Our little four-year-old daughter recently made a remark to a man who tells 200 egg stories, and I want to record it for the consideration of others. He was telling something that sounded rather "high." She listened very attentively until he had

finished his narrative then she said "Mr. don't you

know that it pays to tell the truth." Talk about this being an age of commercialism. Every thing must pay. I hope every boy and girl that reads these notes will learn the lesson that little Ruth taught that man. "It pays to tell the truth."

Our flock of hens have made an increase of 12 per cent, in egg yield over the first quarter of last year. I believe I could make them reach an average of 175 eggs each for the year if I could keep them till November 1st, but I will be compelled to sell the most of them in June and July to make room for the young stock. With 4 incubators hatching all the time till June 15th, we will be so crowded that standing room will be at a premium.

I get many inquiries about running incubators. How to manage them, etc. Good friends I cannot tell you. Hatching chicks is almost wholly a matter of good eggs, uniform heat and fresh air. Some incubators are at fault, manufacturers are to blame for very many failures. They say in their catalogues that their machines are self-regulating, self-ventilating, automatic hatchers. This is not true. Every incubator must have the right kind of attention at the right time. The lamp must be cleaned every day, the eggs must be turned twice every day, the lamp flame must be adjusted occasionally, the temperature must be kept at 102 to 104 during the hatch if you want to succeed. If it runs from 90 to 110 you had better quit right now. I can turn the eggs and trim the lamps in our 4 machines in 15 minutes in the morning and fill and trim the lamps, cool and turn the eggs in 30 minutes in the evening. I look at the thermometers and adjust the lamp flame for the night at 9 P. M., and pay no more attention to them till 5 A. M. We look at them 3 or 4 times during the day. We do not "hatch every egg." Neither does the hen. If we get 75 good strong chicks from every 100 eggs we are satisfied. If we get but 50, we fill up again and go on. We have at this time 730 good eggs in the 4 machines out of a total of 880 at the start. If we get G50 good chicks we will beat any lot of hens. Try it. Set 60 hens and count your chicks. Think of feeding and caring for 60 setting hens. I don't want the job.

CAL HUSSELMAN.

POULTRY AND INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS.

Editor Southern Planter:

After three years experience in attempting to make the poultry on my farm pay, with what personal attention I could give, considering the many other duties of a stock farmer in Northern Virginia, I have demonstrated, to my own satisfaction, that no department of the farm pays so well, provided one has access to a good market. Naturally, being a novice, I made costly mistakes. I have lost in one season 100 birds by cholera and in the same season lost 100 little chicks by gapes and other troubles, all of which might have been prevented by preventative treat-

ment. Still my poultry have paid, and paid me well. 1 attempt, so far as I can, the methods of the best authorities and use incubators and brooders and also the hen to raise my chicks. I find the incubator and brooder the most satisfactory. My most costly mistake has been due to my want of acquaintance with proper parties from whom to get the eggs of the best laying strain of whatever breed I might select, and I cannot too strongly urge all beginners to get the best of eggs to start with and ta investigate thoroughly their source of supply and to always give preference to eggs from fowls on free range. My selection of breeds has been the S. C. White Leghorn. One hundred of these fowls averaged me 35 eggs in January, 50 eggs in February and 75 eggs in March. In addition to hens I have tried the Indian Runner ducks and of these I cannot speak too highly. I bought eleven last summer, lost two by accident, which left me nine (besides I have two drakes). They commenced to lay the middle of October and by November were giving me from seven to nine eggs a day. They did not quit until the middle of February, laying nearly all the time. Having laid so late in winter they did not start again until the 22nd of March. At present writing (April 14th) they lay from seven to nine eggs a day. They are as different from other breeds of ducks as the Leghorn hen is from the Plymouth Rock and are called the "Leghorns" of the duck world. They are extremely active and great rangers and in open weather only return home about sunset. Mine now get one quart of corn a day, given at night, and one-half quart of oyster shell, which they eat ravenously, and I am sure they are too fat and will give less corn and more bran and meal. Like the Leghorn, they mature quickly and their flesh is superior to the Pekin for the table. I would be loth to part with my White Leghorns, but if my Runners pay me better I think the Leghorns will, to say the least, be reduced in numbers. The problem of egg supply for the table the year round is easily solved with a few good Leghorns and a few of these ducks. In conclusion, I wish to make acknowledgment of the value to me of Mr. Husselman's articles in The Planter.

Fauquier County, Va. W. W. HENRY, Je.

CO-OPERATIVE SELLING.

Editor Southern Planter:

In your April issue I outlined a plan for obtaining money from our poultry by forming a club of shippers who-should agree to use a label bearing the club's name on all shipments of birds of first class quality.

Of course, each shipper would have his own name on his shipment and would receive his own returns. The advantages would increase with years, as the club withdrew its tags from the use of careless or dishonest shippers, and as the best buyers learned to recognize the name of the Southern Table-Poultry Club as standing for really good and well-fed stock.

I cannot see what possible objection any one can have to joining in such a movement, as no one will be asked to obligate himself to ship with the club if he thinks he can do better otherwise, or is dissatisfied with his first returns.

One object of the club would be to make the best com-

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mission houses anxious to secure its trade. I do not think it wise for the organization to try to deal directly with the buyers, for that would necessitate the expense of a place of business and at least one man on wages or salary to look after it. This would simply be a reproduction of the Grange commission houses, which are loaded with the obligation of selling any poor stuff which the owner cannot dispose of.

I wish to say to those of your readers who have so promptly applied for membership, that I have not replied to them individually, as none of them are quite ready to begin shipment of live fowls, and I am anxious to secure the largest possible number of names before offering the business of the club to the firm with which I think it safest to deal. If we can show them a reasonable prospect of sufficient business I hope to secure from the selling house all the necessary printing and the keeping of an account of the amount of business done for members of the club.

I have been surprised and gratified at the number of birds some of your readers propose to ship. One man proposes to buy chickens and crate feed them if the scheme results in better prices. This should be a good business in many localities. Much stock comes to market in wretched condition.

Now what we want is a long list of names of persons who will have only a few coops to sell, but who will put them in good condition and will ship them to the firm which sells for the Southern Table-Poultry Club, and who will put the tag of the club on each shipment, thus becoming a member and sharer of whatever benefit may accrue from our cooperation.

I am anxious to avoid a membership fee, and to render what service I can without cost to the shippers. I pledge my word to your readers that I have not a dollar of interest, either direct or indirect, in any selling house in Washington. If this plan is as successful as I hope, it will stimulate the interest in good market poultry, and some members of the club will want some of my large strain of Barred Plymouth Rocks, than which there is no fowl more popular in this market. This shall be my reward.

The Development of the Flock.

I promised to inform your readers from time to time of our progress in developing a small flock of Plymouth Rocks to the limit of profit, or to the limit of the labor available within the family.

Well, we have had the largest demand for eggs for hatching that we have ever had, and sold practically the entire product from January 15th to April 1st, for incubation, somewhat over 1,200 eggs, in large and small orders.

On March 28th we set our first hens, a pair of pullets which will be a year old latie in May. One was put in the coops to-day with 15 strong chicles—every egg hatched. The other was given 13, one was tested out infertile, one dead germ, and 11 chicks taken off, though one is a weakling. After setting five of our pullets we decided to buy sitters and keep ouTs laving, so with the inevitable accidents in the way of broken eggs and hens which desert the nest before the appointed time, we will not have so

good a showing hereafter. However, where a large number are set atone time it is possible to reduce loss by testing out infertile eggs and dead germs, thus preventing the breaK-ing of spoiled eggs in the nest and enabling us to double up the eggs if one hen proves a trouble-maker.

We now have fourteen sitters regularly at work and have given eggs to twelve purchased sitters to-night (April 20th) and expect to have the carpenters provide space for another half dozen this week. We have had two colony houses built on runners. One house is about 8 feet square and the other 7x10. Also three wire front roosting coops for from two to three dozien weaned chicks each, We are keeping a record of the number of eggs used in sitting and expect to know how many chicks we take off. We expect to hatch through May, June, July and perhaps August if we do not exceed our accommodations. I cannot get good coops built for nothing. A good carpenter, getting $2.50 per day, can make five individual coops for sitters or mother hens. These have movable covers and bottoms fitting up inside the coop so drip water cannot soak in. As these coops are from scrap lumber left from house building the material costs nothing.

The same man can make two continuous coops with three compartments in each, and a lath frame four feet long and with three runs, each 16 to 18 inches wide, for each coop in a day, thus providing separate nests and runs for six hens, good for at least four years, and longer if put under cover in winter, for $2.50 in labor.

W. A. SHERMAN.

Vienna, Fairfax County, Va.

SELLING DAY-OLD CHICKS. W. R. Sperry, Cortland, N. Y.

After another year's experience in connection with the sale of day-old chicks, we are more firmly convinced than ever that this comparatively new branch of the poultry industry has come to stay.

After summing up the past season's operations, we have come to several conclusions, one of which is, that it is to the interest of the vender to offer the public something which they want, rather than to undertake the task of persuading them to purchase sometsing which they do not want.

Purchasers should not expect to get more than they pay for as regards quality when they buy day-old chicks. If they want chicks which are hatched from stock of superior quality they must expect to pay more for them than they would for chicles from common stock, just the same as they would if they were buking first-class stock or eggs for hatching.

In England, where the sale of baby chicks has become an important branch of the poultry industry, the value of a chick is usually figured as two and one-half times that of the egg from which it was hatched. Taking this as a standard of value in the United States at the prevailing price at which young chicks have sold in the past and it would make a young chick look like the tenth part of a dollar, and, in some instances, even less.—Reliable Poultry Journal.

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The Horse.

NOTES.

"Broad Rock." W. J. Carter. The programme of early closing purses of the Virginia-Carolina Circuit of fairs and race meetings has been issued and is attracting the attention of horsemen in general. The circuit begins at Galax, Va., during the week of September 2-5, to be fallowed in regular succession by Radford, Tazewell, Roanoke, Lynchburg, Richmond, after which comes Raleigh and Charlotte, N. C. Following right along after Charlotte will be the meetings at Columbia and Spartans-burg, S. C. and Augusta, Ga. This, as will be-seen, forms quite an attractive fall campaign of eleven weeks, with convenient shipments while the conditions are very liberal. These early closing purses are for 2: 27 trotters, three-year-old and under trotters, and for pacers eligible to the 2: 20 and 2: 27 classes. With the exception of Galax and Tazewell, where the purses are $400 each, these events are of the uniform value of $500. The open classes to be announced later will range about the same all along the circuit. Samuel Walton, owner of the Walton Stock Farm of Falls Mills, Va., who has wide experience as an owner, breeder and campaigner of harness horses, is president of the circuit, with Conrad Gilsen, of Roanoke, secretary. The meetings at Richmond, Va., Raleigh, N. C. and Columbia, S. C, are under the auspices of the State Fair Associations of those States, which adds to the importance of the Circuit and renders it all the more attractive.

Patrick Henry, the handsom hackney stallion, owned by A. Pollard & Sons, at Dunraven Farm, R. F. D. 5, Richmond, Va., is a wonderfully attractive horse in appearance, especially in harness, and a bold, free going high actor, with a disposition and temper that render him one of the easiest horses to handle. Patrick Henry, was sired by Squire Rickel, a son of the famous Cadet; dam Marjory, a gold medal winner, by Roseberry. This chestnut son of Squire Rickel is a typical specimen of his tribe, and right here it may be said that the hackney is somewhat of an anomaly, combining as he does the desirable qualities of the trotter and thoroughbred, while he can usually be depended upon for better manners and more uniform docility perhaps than either. It is simple justice to say that he does not conflict with either type when considered aright, but rather the link which connects them, or rather forms a continuation of usefulness. He is one of the oldest types of horses in existence, which accounts for his ability to reproduce himself with more certainty than most other breeds. The get of Patrick Henry, though yet quite young, are showing up in good shape, which applies to those from trotting bred and general purpose mares especially, and the chestnut stallion stands at a very moderate fee, which places his services easily within reach of intending breeders.

Nellie Racine, the four-year-old chestnut filly, by Racine, out of Bona Vera, won last week at Oakland, Cal.,

doing six furlongs in 1:14 1-5, and finishing ahead of a field of nine others. This filly and quite a good many other winners are credited to Racine, the California-bred son of Bishop and Fairy Rose, that now heads the stud of W. W. Osborne, at Gordonsville, Va., Racine was himself a racehorse of real class, and at his new home in Virginia he is attracting attention. The baby stallion has fine size and is not lacking in substance, so that Mr. Osborne will try him as a sire of hunters, jumpers and steeple-chasers, with the belief that he will get cross-country performers of some note.

J. Walter Lovatt, president of the Fair Association, at Bethlehem, Penn., owns a very handsome and promising two-year-old trotter in the bay filly Virginia L., by Royal Swell, dam Kate McCracken, 2:11 3-4, by Red Cedar, son of Red Wilkes. Virginia L. was bred by Mr. Lovatt, who has her in the stable of Samuel Earing, near Richmond, Earing raced McCracken- for several years and thought a lot of her, which may partially account for his partiality to Virginia L., in a measure at least. Earing now has Kate McCracken and is breeding her. Last year her foal, Dreamer, 2:14 3-4, had to be taken, which came near resulting in the death of the old mare, but the daughter of Red Cedar is rounding to after a seige of ill health and will be bred again.

A. Randolph Howard, Fredericksburg, Va., who now owns Royal Swell, the elegant son of Bow Bells, 2:19 1-4, and Rachel, 2:08 1-4, that sired Virginia L., looks upon the latter as one of the finest specimens of a two-year-old trotter to be seen in all the South.

W. R. McComb, formerly of this city, but now residing at his fine farm, near Staunton, where he breeds through-bred and trotting horses, reports the arrival on the 9th instant of a very handsome bay colt, by Aloha, dam Virgie, by King Bolt. As this youngster is a full brother to Robert Bradley, more or less interest is attached to his future. This colt was bred by Mr. Bradley, at whose dispersal sale last July Virgie, then with foal by Aloha, was purchased by Mr. McComb- Virgie was a good race mare herself and carrying the Bradley colors she won many races on the half-mile tracks of other days in New Jersey. Sired by King Bolt, dam Ecliptic, by imp. Eclipse, and she of the famous Nina, by Boston, Virgie is bred in lines that would be expected to produce winners. This season she will probably be sent to the court of Racine, the son of Bishop and Fairy Rose, at Springfield Farm, Gordonsville, Va.

The Oak Ridge Hunt Club, of Lynchburg, Va., whose semi-weekly meets furnish exhilarating sports to residents of the "Hill City," has selected a new home and will build a handsome club-house, with kennels and stables on the grounds, at an early date.

Captain R. Conroy Vance, the wealthy Englishman who owns the handsome landed estate known as Mannsfield

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Hall, near Fredericksburg, Virginia, has added to his already extensive breeding operations by the recent purchase from Mr. Charles E. Clapp, Rosemont Farm, Berry-ville, Virginia, of three handsome and well-bred imported hackney brood mares and one grandly-bred horse colt, with which latter he expects to head his stud.

The mares are Canny Maid, E. H. S. B. 6460, chestnut mare, by Canny Man, E. H. S- B. 2881 (son of the great Matchless of Londesbora E. H. S. B. 1517), dam Mayflower, E. H. S. B. 765, by Lord Dierby II., E. H. S'. 417, who is best known to fame as being the sire of Mr. Cassatt's immortal stallion Cadet. Canny Maid has won six ribbons at the National Horse Show, two of which are Reserve Championships.

Lady Danegelt, E. H. S. B. 8036, chestnut mare, by Danegelt, E. H. S. B. 174, dam Quality, E. H. S. B. 4902, by Fireaway, E. H. S. B. 249 Her winnings are two ribbons at the National Horse Show and two at Chicago, including a Reserve Championship at each place

Gadabout, chestnut mare, by Imported Cadet, A. H. S. B. 107, dam by Highflyer, combines size with quality, speed and action and is a typical brood mare, for which purpose she has always been used.

Captain Vance is an ardent believer in the popular hackney-trotter cross, from which have resulted many of our most prominent show horses, among whom our readers are probably most familiar with Dr. Reid, who figured so prominently throughout our Virginia shows, and with that purpose in view will mate some three or four of his best hackney mares to Royal Swell, 34,892, the elegant and exquisitely handsome son of Bow Bells 2:19 1-4 and Rachel 2:08 1-4, who is now in the stud at Fredericksburg.

THE SOUTHERN FARM HORSE.

fiditor Southern Planter:

Your favor of March 31st came duly to hand. I think that you are right to encourage the breeding of heavier horses for the farm than the average Southern farmer is doing. We are crossing half-bred mares on Percheron stallions and getting the best class of farm horses that I have seen anywhere with not more thau one-half Percheron nor less than one-fourth thoroughbred. They weigh from 1,250 to 1,400 pounds and stand mowers, binders and hot weather work as well as on muddy roads, better than any of the pure-bred large breeds that I have seen. They have less "give up" than the others. I advise lots of men every year here to breed to pure-bred Percheron stallions and to get more size into their, farm teams where they apply for service to our stallions. At the same time there is constant need also for good driving and riding horses, for express and fire engine horses and some thoroughbred blood of the right sort is needed in them. I thought Mr. Rommel's article most instructive, and think that there is room on the farms for both kinds leaving with the farmer to judge of which he needs the most and for which he has the best market. I was in the stock yard stable in Richmond about three weeks ago with a neighbor to buy some heavy mares for him. There were none there; mules in abundance and several hundred 800 to 1,000 pound horses of a most inferior type, regular scrubs—of the type that you see in cattle in the tick coun-

ties. Messrs. Smyth Brothers said that there was very little demand for 1,400 to 1,600-pound horses; that they had been keeping them; that they were slow on the market and that they had stopped shippers from sending them. It seems to me that the small farmer should raise his own general utility horse and some draft horses. Albemarle County, Va. A. B. HANCOCK.

THE FARM HORSE FOR VIRGINIA. Editor Southern Planter:

Noticing an article on this subject in the April number of the Southern Planter, which article has been copied in another paper also—"The Tidewater Democrat"—I wish to relate some results of actual experience in horse breeding, an industry which has occupied my attention for a good many years. I have seen the Percheron, the Clydesdale, the Trotter, the Compound Scrub, the Coach horse, and the Thoroughbred, all tried, for what is called a "general purpose horse," and I have bred many kinds myself. None of these varieties succeed for such a purpose, except by strict selection of individuality, and with competent breakers and trainers."

My preference is decidedly for the Thoroughbred of all of them, but then, if a work horse is needed for farm use, a specimen of good size and power must be selected, and the horse must be handled and managed for this specific object from his birth. Usually, a Thoroughbred is regarded as only useful as a race horse. If he is wanted for a farm horse, his education must be exactly opposite to that of a race horse. Gentle, kind disposition and sensible behavior, under all the ordinary circumstances of life must be cultivated, instead of the fiery excitability and nervous tension for competition with other horses, which is wanted in the racer.

The cause of the Thoroughbred's superiority is the fact that it is the result of years of breeding for the greatest endurance and stamina, and this fact makes it a necessary factor in the creation of nearly all the breeds of horses for quick service in the world. My best farm horses for binders, mowers, drills and harrows, have always been those with a strong infusion of Toroughbred blood, but they were selected for individual conformation and disposition, and were very steady and not xcitable animals, with good bone and muscle. The fact is, that much of the prejudice existing against the use of Thoroughbreds for the farm, is that not one farmer in fifty has ever handled one, and few have ever seen them in farm use, and the few which have been seen in Virginia, are much more of the race horse than the farm horse type. But when we come to the consideration of the real difficulty in training good farm horses in Virginia, we will find it much more in the ignorance and incompetence of the trainer than in the variety itself. Numbers of the best horse breeders in my vicinity, have announced their determination to abandon horse breeding of any kind, because they cannot have colts broken and trained for any purpose. I believe the horse breeders of Virginia would find much more profit in their enterprise if they could have co-operative breaking and training stables established in the close vicinity of farms where the colts are raised.

Essex County, Va. P. S. HUNTER.

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Miscellaneous.

VIRGINIA AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. What the Station is Trying to do to Help The Farmers.

Experiments With Field Crops.

Editor Southern Planter:

The Division of Agronomy is working for the improvement of the most important field crops of Virginia—aside from tobacco—corn, wheat, oats and potatoes. It is making a statistical study of the acclimatization of seed corn brought in from other States as compared with the same varieties grown in Virginia. It is basing all its work upon the proposition that the quickest and surest way of improving Virginia corn and other crops is not to introduce the improved varieties of the West or North which when grown in Virginia will vary widely for many years, but to start with the best local types of corn that have been grown in Virginia long enough to -have become per fectly acclimatized.

To this end, the corn fields of all parts of the State are being searched for the most valuable types. These are being grown at the Tobacco Experiment Stations in Pittsylvania, Appomattox, Louisa and Carolina counties, and at the College at Blacksburg, over 35 acres are devoted to this purpose in 1908. At present, the breeding is entirely for high yields, and especially for improved strains of the common varieties which are best adapted for culture in Virginia. It is conducted entirely by selection. Each year the most desirable plants in the plats are selected for seed, being protected from crossing with other varieties or inferior plants. By 1910, it is expected that limited quantities of the selected corn will be ready for distribution to the farmers of the State. At present, the work is entirely with corn; later it will be extended to include wheat, oats and potatoes.

Other lines of work under way in this Division are: breeding to increase the sugar content of sweet corn, and hence improve its value for canning; the agricultural value of the cultivated grasses most commonly grown in Virginia; the effect of seeding cereals at different dates; testing different rates of seeding winter vetch and oats sown together for forage.

Experiments in Animal Husbandry.

Two experiments have recently been concluded and the results will soon be published. The object of the first was to determine the relative value of hard corn, vs., soft corn for feeding to hogs, and of blood meal vs. skimmed milk as a source of protein, when fed in connection with the above forms of corn. The object of the second experiment was to determine the most economical use of silage in feeding steers. An experiment is now under way to determine the cheapest and most satisfactory grain ration for calves, the materials being (a) shelled corn, bran and cotton seed meal; (b) shelled oats, hominy feed and blood meal; (c) Blatchford's Calf meal.

The extensive sheep industry of the State is receiving special attention from this Division. One experiment in

progress aims to ascertain the advantages of the most rapid development of lambs, whether for market or for breeding, and to determine the best means of securing this rapid growth. Both pure bred and scrub lambs are used. An effort is also being made to produce fall lambs economically. Various experiments are used to put the ewes, which have not produced lambs this year, under conditions of breeding as nearly like those in the field as possible. A third line of work is a comprehensive investigation of the condition of the sheep industry of the State. Particular attention is being directed to ascertaining the reasons for the very heavy loss of lambs during the winter of 1907-08— amounting to 50 per cent, on many farms—and the preventatives therefor. Representatives of the Station have made personal visits to all parts of the most important sheep-raising districts, and are prepared to report accurate statistics on the per cent, of lambs lost, how the flock was handled, fed and sheltered, when the lambing season occurred, the kind of rams used, and other data, all of which will be useful for a report on the sheep industry of Virginia and a guide to the future investigations in sheep husbandry at the College.

An experiment of interest to Dairymen seeks to determine the number of bacteria in milk when it is handled in different ways, particularly as regards the care of animals, the method of milking, the care of utensils, straining, etc., and to determine the length of time samples can be held, under commercial conditions, without souring.

The other experiments under way include one to ascertain the most profitable use of corn for hog feeding. The Division is trying to work out the most satisfactory succession of green crops suitable for hog feeding, throughout the year, with the conviction that Virginia farmers cannot afford to fatten hogs chiefly on corn, as Western farmers do, but must utilize to the fullest extent our unexcelled advantages for the culture of green crops. A similar line of work is being conducted for the dairymen, certain milch-cows being put upon a succession of soiling crops alone, others upon alfalfa pasture alone, and still others upon blue grass pasture alone—all having the same grain ration.

In co-operation with the U. S. Department of Agriculture, two experiments are in progress. One relates to the most practical method of pasturing land, and of treating pasture sod. This investigation involves the use of eight pasture areas of five acres each. The other is a study of the principles of heredity in farm animals, particuarly the application of Mendel's law in stock breeding.

Experiments in Bacteriology and Mycology.

One -of the most important developments of modern agricultural science is the study of the bacteria of the soil and their relation to crop products. It is now known that the soil is not mere dirt—inert, lifeless,—but is the scene of contant activity, by countless bacteria, ferments and other low forms of life. Some of these are beneficial, some are harmful, some are neutral. To classify these, and to-

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discover practical means of utilizing them in the production of crops, is the problem of the soil bacteriologist.

One of the most important experiments going forward here relates to the means by which the soil—not the plant —is able to secure or "fix" nitrogen and so make it available for plant growth. Certain soil bacteria perform this useful function. The work in hand seeks to ascertain the amount of nitrogen fixed—or secured—by different soils, aside from the influence of leguminous plants; and the effect of tillage, aeration, temperature, fertilizing, etc., on the amount of nitrogen gathered. There are also certain soil bacteria that perform exactly the opposite function— they are "Nitrogen wasters," rather than "Nitrogen gatherers." These are being studied in the same way.

Most Virginia farmers are familiar with the methods of inoculating soils with the bacteria that live upon the roots of certain leguminous plants, especially alfalfa, the clovers, cow-pea, and soy bean, thereby securing a better crop and enriching the soil with nitrogen drawn from the air by these bacteria. Experiments are under way for improving the methods of preparing "cultures" with which to inoculate soils.

There is now ready for publication the results of experiments with selected yeasts in making cider. The cider maker can inoculate his apple juice with one of these yeasts and always secure cider of a certain definite flavor; regardless of the kind of apples used. This will obviate any uncertainty as to the quality of the cider.

Experiments in Entomology.

The major work at present is a study of the life history of the codling moth in all parts of the State. This is by far the most injurious pest in Virginia fruit-growing. At present spraying for it is more or less ineffective because there is no definite data about its life history in each of the well-marked geographical districts of the State. Field observations on the life history of the pest are being made in each district, and this work is supplemented by orchard spraying, to determine the best time and method of applying the spray. About 2,000 apple trees are used in this experiment.

Other experiments in progress include a test of homemade "soluble oil" sprays for use against the San Jose Scale, and "work to determine how late wheat can be sown in each of the several agricultural districts of Virginia, so as to escape the Hessian Fly, and still make sufficient fall growth to pass the winter uninjured.

Experiments in Horticulture.

Perhaps the most general and the most serious loss in Virginia fruit growing is due to the spring frosts, which cut off the blossoms. Methods of retarding the blossoming period so as to escape injury are rerely successful or practicable. Permanent improvement can only be had by breeding a race of varieties blossoming so late that there is little danger of frost injury. This the Horticultural Department is attempting to do in the case of apples. The latest blossoming varieties that we now have—as Mother, Spy, Jeniton and Melon—have been crossed and many thousands of seedlings raised. The seedlings are grafted upon dwarf stocks and are brought into bloom in three or four years from the seed. The seedlings blossoming latest are then selected for further breeding and the other

discarded. It will take at least ten years to achieve any conclusive results but the work promises to be of great practical value ultimately.

A second project relates to the development of fruit buds. Dwarf fruit trees are grown in pots in the greenhouse where the conditions of soil, moisture and temperature can be controlled abscolutely. The aim is to determine the influence of the chemical composition and the moisture content of the soil upon fruit bud formation. The chemical composition of the soil and the amount of moisture in each pot will be known, and their influence upon the vigor and fruitfulness of the trees noted. From the results of these studies it may be possible to deduce principles for the rational fertilizing and pruning of orchards.

A third experiment, complementary to the preceeding, relates to the effect of various fertilizer treatments upon the yield and quality of market apples. Nearly one thousand trees are used in this experiment. Among other important lines of work in progress are an investigation of the commercial value of dwarf apples, over five hundred trees being under observation; a statistical study of the laws of inheritance in the crossing of garden vegetables; the effect of temperature upon the blossoming of fruits; and a very complete record of the cultural value of over eight hundred varieties of orchard fruits grown at the Station and in different sections of the State. We hope to publish an illustrated hand book of varieties of fruits for planting in Virginia within two years.

Experiments in Chesimtry.

The fertility of the soil is a subject of such fundamental importance to Virginia agriculture that the chemical division is devoting most of its time to this problem. At present the four most typical soils of the State are being studied—a sandy soil, from Norfolk; a shale "Pippin" soil, from Albemarle; a red clay soil, from Appomattox; a lime-stone soil, from the Southwest. In addition to laboratory tests, various crops are grown upon each of the soils in pots placed in the greenhouse, where all conditions can be controlled. The results of these tests will be supplemented by field experiments on each type of soil. Especial attention is being directed to the phosphoric acid content of these soils and the best form of supplying this plant food in commercial fertilizers. The comparative agricultural value of raw phosphate rock and acid phosphate is being studied.

The chemical department is also making a special study of the chemical composition and feeding value of all the many kinds of native and introduced grasses and forage plants, of Virginia, that are raised for pasturage or cut for hay.

Experiments in Veterinary Science.

The main line of work in progress is a study of the use of anti-toxins for the immunity and cure of pyaemic arthritis and cerebro-spinal meningitis, two extremely serious diseases of young animals. The investigation has developed a satisfactory treatment for these diseases. Tobacco Experiments.

This work is in co-operation with the United States Department of Agriculture. The original intent of the experiments was to demonstrate the profit in a heavy fertil-

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izing of tobacco, and this point has been proven; but the scope of the work has been broadened to include a study of the rotation of crops grown in connection with tobacco, chiefly corn, wheat, cow-peas, grass and clover. This work is infinitely more important and valuable than mere fertilizer experiments, for it strikes at the foundation of good farming in the tobacco districts,—a judicious rotation of crops. In addition to cultural experiments, work has been begun on the breeding, by selection, of improved strains of tobacco, especially adapted for culture in Virginia.

The tobacco experiments are supported jointly by the State of Virginia, which appropriates five thousand dollars a year for this purpose, and the United States Depart of Agriculture, which contributes an equal or greater amount. It is the initial move in the right direction—financial support by the State of projects for the support of which the Federal funds of the Experiment Station cannot well be used, but exceedingly important to the upbuilding of Virginia agriculture. At present there are four tobacco experiment stations, one at Chatham, in the "Bright" tobacco district; one at Appomattox, in the "Dark" tobacco district; and one each at Louisa and Bowling Green, in the "Sun-cured" district.

Experiments with Trucking Crops. The Virginia Truck Experiment Station was established at Norfolk, in 1907. It is supported by an appropriation of $5,000.00 yearly from the State Board of Agriculture and $5,000.00 yearly from the State Legislature. It is not connected with the Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station, except that the President of the V. P. I., and the President of the Board of Control of the V. P. I., are members of its Board of Control. However, the Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station seeks to co-operate with the Truck Experiment Station in every way possible, and is undertaking certain lines of research work with it, jointly. The Truck Experiment Station has over forty acres of land for experimental purposes. The necessary offices and laboratory facilities are being provided.

The main lines of work to be undertaken are a study of the fertilizer requirements of various truck crops, the rotation of truck crops, so as to secure maximum returns and maintain fertility, methods of combating injurious insects and diseases, and breeding improved strains of truck crops, especially adapted for culture in the trucking area of Virginia. The bulletins will be published by the Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station. The Southern Produce Association, a large body of the influential truckers of the Norfolk district, purchased and gave the land to the Station, and are actively interested in its welfare. Professor T. C. Johnson is in charge.

Practical Use of Experiment Station. A glance at the above outline of experiments in progress shows that the Station is seeking first of all to be of service to its constituency—the farmers of Virginia. It is necessary and desirable that the Station shall undertake a certain amount of technical research in agriculture, but even these investigations are ultimately of practical value to the farmers; while the main body of research now going forward is upon problems of immediate interest to Virginia Agriculture. We welcome suggestions from Virginia farmers concerning our work.

The results of Station work are published in bulletins, which are sent free to anybody in Virginia who requests them. Many back bulletins are available; a list of these is sent upon application. The Experiment Station also welcomes correspondence about farm problems, and is especially pleased to receive visitors at Blacksburg. Address correspondence to

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DEMONSTRATION FARM WORK IN VIRGINIA.

An Appreciation of Mr. Sandy's Efforts. Editor Southern Planter:

I have been very much interested in the work of the Educational Association to improve the methods of cultivation through the efforts of Mr. Sandy, and I regret to see the criticism on Mr. Sandy's work in the March number by Mr. Bergman, particularly in his comments upon the use of bone as recomended by Mr. Sandy. It is well-known that some fertilizer is necessary to enable the farmer to produce a paying crop on the ordinary lands of Virginia, and surely, bone meal is the best application that can be made, and the inference that Mr. Sandy was recomending any particular manufacturer's product is unworthy of consideration.

Mr. Sandy is doing a good work. He does not pose as a scientist, or as an orator, but he is a man of good plain practical hard sense, and has gone on a poor farm, and by his plan of intensive cultivation, has produced wonderful crops. Not because he has discovered any great principle of farming, but because he has had the nerve to put into practice Mr. T. B. Terry's great saying that "Cultivation is Fertilization," by practicing intensive farming.

The great benefit of Mr. Sandy's work, is in his per-sonal contact with those he undertakes to instruct,—going to a farmer's home, he shows him his plan of work and by explaining to him how he has succeeded he induces him to make the experiment. And while many fail to be very much benefitted because they do not follow his instructions carefully and fully, yet a great number are helped and become better and more prosperous farmers. Those farmers who read Agricultural Journals which are full of valuable and instructive articles as the Southern Planter, are not as apt to attempt to follow these instructions as they will be when they receive the teaching in the Normal and personal method, which Mr. Sandy gives them in his instructions. It is well-known that all great principles of life are more apt to be received and acted upon as the result of a personal interview than from reading even possibly better instructions.

I trust that Mr. Sandy will be encouraged by such improvement in the experiments he is enabled to have made that the whole of the State may be improved by an army of instructors just like Mr.' Sandy and so induce and compel our careless cultivators to adopt a more sensible and intensive practice in their farm methods, which will enable them to largely increase their production at less expense, by cultivating a small area thoroughly.

A. R. VENABLE. JR.

Prince Edward County, Va.

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CULTIVATION AS A FACTOR IN CORN PRODUCTION.

Editor Southern Planter:

I am a sojourner here from the old Blue Grass section of Kentucky. Being domiciled for the time heing in the home of one of your subscribers I have had the pleasure of reading the April issue of your interesting paper and among the various communications, note especially one from Mr. Hunt, of Bedford county, headed, "How to grow corn." To one used to seeing corn grow year in and year out in the rich bottom lands of the Missouri, Illinois, and Ohio river valleys and in the virgin soil of central Kentucky, under favorable weather conditions, his article would be of little interest, in as much as the returns he mentions as a result of his methods, are very common there without any thing more than ordinary distance of four feet checks, and good tillage. Mr. Farmer there, then would say, "you don't have to instruct me how to raise corn."

But soil conditions in the "Old Dominion" are evidently quite different, and therefore intensive methods of cultivation are requisite. Especially is this the case where the land has become impoverished from long continued tillage without regard to rotation of crops and timely cultivation.

There is much exhausted soil in Kentucky, also, (all the result of carelessness and ignorance) that needs renovation at the hands of up-to-date, energetic men.

Now to the point: Mr. Hurt has given his methods and experience covering a period of 40 years, and given results.

In contrast to this, I wish to give my experience for just one crop, and that, too, last season—on just such land as aforementioned—It had been cultivated some four or five years previously in other crops and got some liberal applications of farm-yard manure in that time, which the crops, grown thereon, were supposed to take up in an available form. It was one half-acre by actual measure. I determined to prepare the ground, plant and do all cultivation myself.

The ground was broken deeply, thoroughly harrowed and dragged, time and again; rows laid off with a marker, exactly 3 1-2 feet apart and the corn planted 2 1-2 feet apart in the rows. Began cultivation at once, first and second, one week apart, with a five tooth cultivator. Ever after that I used a 12 tooth, Planet, Jr. cultivator, and never allowed the teeth to go more than three inches deep. These cultivatirns were given about every 8 days thrice in a row and especially as soon after every rain as the ground could be safely turned. I did'nt let it get waist-high and then "turn it over to Providence," but kept up the tillage until the shoots began to show. Then I tackled what weeds I could'nt reach with the cultivator and chopped them out with a sharp hoe, so that, at the end of the season, I could safely offer a reward of a nickle for every weed or sprig of grass found in that half-acre corn-field— weeds are as bad as bank robbers. One week after planting the corn I planted for every hill of corn, a hill of whip-poor-will cow-peas. Corn thinned to two stalks. It is claimed this method of growing cow-peas with corn, serves to maintain the fertility of the soil sufficiently to keep up continuous planting of corn from year to year, and I believe it, yet I would prefer to change now and then. At cutting time I had 12 large shocks and shucked

out 10 bbls. of corn. Now I do not believe in so much heavy application of manure as I do in intensive shallow cultivation, frequently given and a consequent conservation of moisture, for without this in the necessary amount, when mostly needed, the plant food in the fertilizer applied can not be assimilated to a full or perfect development of the plant and maturity of its fruit. If I had 40 more years in which to grow corn I would never allow a double shovel to be used in a field after the young corn attained a height of one foot or 15 inches, for after that time I do not think a more villianous tool was ever employed, for the simple reason it tears up, at a critical time, a multitude of young, tender, fibrous roots, naturally performing the function assigned them, of gathering up the plant food necessary to a vigorous, healthy growth. The later half of my cultivations were two inches deep by adjusting leavers.

Mr. Hurt is correct about his practical methods with barn-yard manure, because it contains all the necessary fertilizing elements as well as supplying litter for humus, so essential in any soil. Commercial fertilizer of standard grade is all right if a sufficiency of humus can be had by natural or artificial means. It is not always that barnyard manure can be obtained in sufficient quantities, hence a resort to the commercial; but any man would be green indeed, who could expect that a continuous use of it from year to year without a supply of humus would result otherwise than in failure. Legunimous crops turned under green, rapidly supply humus. Turning under stubble, crab grass, and all sorts of litter or vegetable matter helps to that end.

Good grades of commercial fertilizer cannot impoverish land nor its owner, but the continual use of it without humus would simply reduce the land or earth to such a hard, unfriable condition, as to make it incapable of giving up the plant food, that is cut off, as it were, for the want of a natural agency in the form of abundant humus. I think Mr. Hurt is a little too hasty in his comments on commercial fertilizers, and it's barely possible he himself has "ignored" a well-known truth regarding the use, value and necessity of humus along with commercial fertilizers. If all other farmers took a like view, the commercial fertilizer manufacturers would get "hurt" and would soon be a thing of the past. I cannot conceive how any intelligent farmer can "ignore" barn-yard manure in its application to his land for profit.

A common mistake, and a very great one, is to throw the manure in heaps outside exposed to heavy, washing rains—leaching more than 50 per cent, of its valuable properties away, and another mistake is when they do shelter it, they allow it to burn and "fire" as it is called, thus allowing the ammonia to escape in the rising steam. To avoid all this it should be hauled and evenly spread as soon as 1 made. When weather conditions are such that this can not be done then the remedy is to fork over at intervals and moisten with water to prevent heating. A man is reckless or indifferent to his interests who fails to thus treat his stable manure accumulations.

E. :>:. woodson.

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CHARLES G. PEARCE. Easton, Md., February 17, 1906. I have used the Masters Plant Setter for two years and am well pleased With it. W ould not take $50 for mine and do without it. Can recommend them for use in the dryest kind of land, etc. G. T. ADAMS.

Pilot Mountain, N. C, October 3, 1906. I bought one of your Planters last spring and set out 40,000 tobacco plants and find that it fills the bill exactly. Would not take many times its cost If I could not get another, etc. D. J. DENNY, J. P. Pinnacle, N. C, October 7, 1906. The Planter I bought of you this spring acted like a charm, and is just the thing that every man should have who plants anything in the ground. I would not be without it for its weight in gold. I have used it setting out tobacco, tomato, cabbage and sweet potato plants with perfect success, etc. A. W. SMITH. South Hill, Va., June 20, 1906. The Planter I bought of your agent. Charles G.' Pearce, last spring, has given me perfect satisfaction. My son can set out twice as many plants with it In a day as he could with anything else he ever used, and the beauty of it all is that they all take root and grow. GEORGE BUCKLEY. Easton, Md., February 7, 1906. For full particulars, wholesale and retail prices, address

MASTERS PLANTER COMPANY,

178 So. 'Water St., CHICAGO, ILL.

GOOD ROADS AND FARM VALUES.

The direct connection between good roads and the value of farm lands is shown in a striking manner in bulletin No. 38 of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. This bulletin gives the result of an investigation by the Office of Public Roads of that Department relating to public road mileage, revenues, improved roads, and expenditures in the United States in the year 1904, and the information contained therein is of great importance in connection with the movement on behalf of the systematic improvement of the public highways.

The returns from various States show that in nearly every case the States having the highest percentage of improved roads have the largest population per mile of road, thus showing that better oads are a powerful factor in encouraging the settlement of unused lands, especially in sparsely populated section of the country. Good roads are also an important influence in retaining in the farming districts the desirable elements who might otherwise drift into the towns and cities. As the price of farm lands depends on their productivity, acessi-bility to markets, and population engaged, or desiring to engage, in agricultural pursuits, it follows that road" improvement, by attracting additional settlers, and giving them better facilities for reaching their markets, di-recty tends to increase the value of all farm lands within the radius of the roads improved.

A comparison of the percentage of improved roads of the various States shows that the average percentage of the improved roads in all States where farm land is worth less than $20.00 per acre is only 1.9 per cent., whereas in the States where the acreage value is more than $20.00, improved roads constitute an average of 9 per cent, of the total mileage.

While there may be minor causes of variations in the value of farm lands it is an undoubted fact that as a general rule the higher values of certain States are largely due to their superior roads. Records on file in the Office of Public Roads show that farm lands have been known to advance in value from 50 to 500 per cent, on account of the Improvement of the roads connecting them with market towns.

When the facts secured by the Department of Agriculture become known to the farmers of the country, and they realize that the establishment of a complete system of properly constructed public roads will have the direct effect of greatly increasing the value of their farms, they will be the foremost advocates of a broad, comprehensive policy of public road improvement by the Nation, States, Counties and Townships.

SHIP flE YOUR

OLD METALS

HIDES RUBBER

SCRAP IRON

Car Lots a Specialty

Hides Wanted

Write for Prices. Satisfaction Guaranteed.

No Commissions.

Checks Sent Same Day* Freight Bills Abe Marked Paid.

Clarence Cosby,

established 1890.

RICHHOND, VA.

Largest Dealer in

Scrap Iron, Metals, Hides, Etc., in the South.

REFERENCES:

National Bank of Virginia, Bank of Richmond, Bradatreets and Don.

THE SOUTHERN PLANTER.

+51

200 Styles

of Vehicles 65 Styles

of Harnes

Sold Direct

from our

Factory

to

User

No. 669J:;. Fancy Car Plush Trimmed Bupsy with auto seat, fancy padded wing dash, bike gear and rubber tire. Price complete, S73.0O. As good as sells for

Sio more.

Buy Direct From Our

Saving all expenses and profits of the dealer.

Elkhart Buggies and Harness have been sold direct

■ from our factory to the user for 35 years. We are

The Largest Manufacturers In the WorBd |

selling-to the consumer exclusively. We ship for examination and approval, guaranteeing safe delivery. No cost to you if not satisfied as to style, quality and price. Send for new free catalog.

Elkhart Carriage & Harness Mfg. Co. Elkhart, ind.

No. 313

Surrey with Canopy top and fine auto seats .Price complete, $73.00.

Robertson's ha^V Stanchion

t T.

£v

IB used and endorsed by thous a n d s ; wlllallowihe animal perfect freedom to He with its head in or out of the manager. Sold subject to a 30 aays free trial in your own stable. Writ for booklet.

O. H. ROBERTSON, Ife. IS Camp Street, ForestvUle, Conn.

CRUMB'S

WARRINffi^H^STANCHION

Hon. Carter Glass, Montview Farms, Lynchburg, Va. ( writes:

"I desire to state that the 60 Stanchions bought of you have given us perfect satisfaction in every particular."

The purchaser takes no risk, as the Stanchions are shipped subject to 30 days trial. Send for booklet.

W. B. CRUMB, South Street, ForestvUle, Conn.

WITH THE ADVERTISERS.

Parke, Davis & Co., the well-known chemists, have a half page advertisement in this issu.e to which we invite attention.

Automobiles especially adapted for farmer's use are offered this month by the Black Mfg. Co.

Farmers and Dairymen will doubtless be interested in the advertisement of Harold Sommers in which he offers fly killer.

The Ann Arbor Machine Co. is advertising, its well-known line of Hay Presses this month.

Amatite Roofing is attractively advertised on another page by the Barrett Mfg. Co.

Phosphate Rock or Floats is advertised in this issue by Alexander & Co. Look up tbeir ad.

Attention is invited to the advertisement of the well-known commission house, Potter & Williams, Buffalo, N. Y.

The Johnson & Field Mfg. Co. have a.n announcement in another column to which attention is invited.

Some finely-bred Berkshires are offered by the Moore's Brook Sanitarium Co. See its ad.

The South Side Mfg. Co .is offering all kinds of fruit and truck baskets this month.

The Lynnwood Stock Farm has a prominent announcement on another page. Percherons, Saddle horses, Shorthorns and Berkshires are included in the offering.

Victoria Roofing is prominently advertised this month by the Victoria Metal Co., Richmond, Va.

Cotton seed Hulls are offered by the South Atlantic Land Co. Attention is invited to the advertisement.

Myer & Son are offering at bargain prices their entire herd of Aberdeen Angus cattle.

R. R. Smith is advertising a public sale of some splendid stock. Look up his ad.

CUTAWAY TbJLS F03 LARGE HAY CROPS,

Three of Clark's Intense Cultivators produced this year on 14% acres, 102 tons of well dried alfalfa, timothy and rodtop hay. If you want to know bow, enclose a 2-cent stamp to OBORGX M. CLARK, Hlgganum, Conn.

OUT OF THE MOUTH OF BABIES.

Though an aristocrat from head to foot, 5-year-old Bernice came to kindergarten with her small hands chapped terribly, an evidence of lack of grooming that astonished Miss Violet.

"Bernice," she suggested, "ask your mamma to put some cold cream on your hands, so they won't hurt and he rough." But the hands grew no better. After several days Miss Violet asked:

"Did you tell your mamma about the cold cream, Bernice?"

The child looked up, solemn-eyed.

"My hands can't be chapped. Mamma says it's only mortal mind, and I must get over it." Then Miss Violet remembered that "mamma" was a Christian Scientist.—Lippin-cott's.

WHAT 00 YOU SAY?

Several hundred thousand farmers say that

the best investment they ever made was

when they bought an

E!

Wagon

tow wheels, wide tires; easy work, light draft We'll sell you a set ot the best steel wheel« made foryonr old wagon. Spoke united with fcub, guaranteed not to break nor work loooe. Send for our catalogue and save money. ELECTRIC WHEEL CO.. Box 146 .9ulncy.fi;-

BUGGIES, CARTS, HARNESS WAGONS.

We are headquarters for high grade goods only. Onr spring stock Is i*>w ready for inspection.

Write as your wants.

RICHMOND BUGGY AND WAGON

COMPANY,

1433 Main Street, Richmond, Va.

Wheels, Freight Paid $8 75

for 4 ll.igsv rtlirel., Sirfl Tiro on. With Kuubrr Tir.-.., *li>.20. I mfg. whee'a % lo4 in. tivad.. Rulibor Tin- T..|> I{iiic?1<-». $41; Harmon. $5. Write for catling. Learn flow to buy direct, nvpnir Wheela, $5.50. Wagon VJuibre.Ur'KKK. vV. V,BOOb,<i«<lnnal",<»-

The FARQUHAR Rake SEPARATOR

Threshes and cleans all kinds of grain, wheat, oats, etc., perfectly. Built for steam or horse power. Light running and simple. Made in three sizes.

Write for new 1004 catalog of engines, boilers, saw-mills and threshing machinery. See our exhibit at St. Louis in the Palace of Agriculture. A. B. FAltQlIlUlt & CO.. Ltd.. Yorb. Pn.

MYERS LOCK STITCH SEWING

AWL

^

is the most practical little device ever invented, for mending harness, shoes, canvas, carpets, etc. Sews like sewing machine. Every family needs one. Sample ready to use fl postpaid. Book B. 0. A. Myers Co.. 6537 Woodlawn Ave.. Chicago

Tell the advertiser where you saw his advertisement.

THE SOUTHERN PLANTER.

[May,

Stagplows look like thoroughbreds stripped for a race—strong and trim. They have that smooth, light running quality you cannot describe, but which you feel. When you want a strictly high-grade plow at a medium price, get a frameless

For 70 years the "leaping deer" trade mark has been the sign of all that is best in plows. There is hardly a man so old or a boy so young that he has not used John Deere makes.

Scakiet Beautiful and Quaint

describes plows, ancient and modern. Illustrated by photos of actual plowing scenes from all over the world.

Ask for booklet 40 Mention

this paper.

DEERE S COMPANY, Molina. H!. s U. S. A.

WHAT WON HIM OVER.

FOR THIS

NEW LOW D0WN« AMERICAN 7c CREAM 5 SEPARATOR

Guaranteed to skim closer than any separator in the world. Bold direct from the factory. We are the oldest exclusive manufacturers of hand separators In America. You save all agents', dealers* and even mail order house profits. We have the most liberal 30 DAYS' TRIAL, freight prepaid offer. Write for it today. Our new low down, waist hiKh separator is the finest, hiehest quality machine on the market; no other separator compares with it „ in close skimming, ease of ^ ! nnli<!«T cleaning, easy running,

^ Jl 11 : Jill 1 11 simplicity, strength or quality. Our own (the manufacturer's) guarantee protects vou on every AMERICAN machine. We can ship immediately. Write for our great offer and handsome free catalogue on our new waist high model. Mdrau,

AMERICAN SEPARATOR GO. bainIr x id<&n.y.

Please mention The Southern Planter.

The Story of a Rooftrouble That Decided Sam Brown.

"Hello, Jones! What you doing up ther on top of your old barn? I thought you were ready for spring sowin'."

"Oh, I'm doing my semi-annual roof-patching. I tell you what, Brown-shingles ain't what they're cracked up to be any more. I declare, you can't get a shingle nowadays for love or money that lasts any time, and I'm getting mighty tired doing this kind of thing when I ought to be out in the field making my living."

"That's just about the frame o' mind I was in last month when our tin roof sprung a leak and spoiled the new paper I had just finished putting on our spare bed-room. I got mad, I can tell you. I hitched right up and arove clown to the Centre and bust into Bill Barlow's when the store was full of women, and yelled at the top o' my voice, 'Bill tel me sunthin' that's better than a durned old tin roof such as they make nowadays—and do it mighty quick!"

"I s'pose they all thought I was crazy, but I didn't care. I was hoppin' mad.

"Bill, he surveyed me kind o' calmlike, and says he:

' 'What's the matter with you, Sam? You ?,in't burned out are you—nor a cyclone struck you?

"So T up and told him my whole blamed trouble, and he says, 'So you've come to my way o' thinkin' at last! Don't you remember I told you two years ago you'd be sorry you didn't take my advice and put on that new kind o' roofing instead of tin? I told you all about that roofing then —made of asphalt that comes from down off South America, Trinidad, they call it—a big lake full of that stuff they put on the streets up to town to make 'em hard and smooth and lastin".

"Well, Bill says, says he: 'Them people, the Barber Asphalt Paving Company, there in Philadelphia, put that. ?ame stuff in a roofing that they call Genasco Ready roofing, and it lasts to beat the band. Why, Jim Perkins says he knows a man that's had it on his house for ten years and it's never leaked—don't even get soft or run or crack or anything. It just hangs on like "grim death." He put it on himself. It's easy enough. They send all the nails and stickum and stuff to put it on with.'

" 'Well, Bill,' says I, 'I'm ready to take your word for it, and I want you to order me enough to-day for my house—and barn, too. If it's good for one, it's good for t'other, ain't it?

"Good for any buildin' you got, says he,—even your chicken-coop.'

"So now, Jones, I've got everything on the farm covered with Genasco Ready Roofing, and the January thaw

You make yourself unnecessary expense for repairs every time you use a poor wagon grease or allow an axle to go dry.

An occasional application of

rease

removes two thirds of the trouble and cost of keeping a wagon. Try "Mica" next time you go for a load—you'll see the difference and the horse will feel it.

Mica Axle Grease is almost as good as roller bearings. Ask the dealer for it.

STANDARD OIL COMPANY

(Incorporated)

«S1

MONEY SAVED

IS MONEY EARNED

Order direct. We make Engines from S to 16 H. P. Stationary and Portable Send for Catalog.

BATTROTH BROS., KTJsher St., Springfield, Ohio.

ENGINES FOR SALE.

Ten horse traction, $250; 10 horse pliable. $150; 12 horse portable, $200; 5 horse boiler and engine, $90; 1 horse gasoline engine, $40; 3 horse, $60; 6 lone, $125; 10 horse, $175. Boilers and Engines from 1 to 100 horse carried In •itoek for immediate shipment. Casey Boiler Works, Springfield, Ohio*

STRONGEST

MADE, null-

stronj? chicken-tight Sold to the user at » holetialo Prices. Wo Pnr Knirtt. Catalogue free.

COILED SPRING FENCE CO., Bos 6* Winchester, Indiana.

THE SOUTHERN PLANTER.

453

DISC HARROWS AND DISC riLOWS Clark's Doable-Action Cutaway Harrow—the {greatest labor saver. IB-comparable work.

Does In one trip what ordinary disc harrows cannot do in three and tow trips.

A WONDERFUL INVENTION.

Clark's Double Action Combined Cultivator and Harrow. Can be used to cultivate rowed crops, as a listing harrow,

also when closed together is a harrow cutting 4% feet wide.

These are the tools of to-day. CUTAWAY HARROW CO., 45 Mam

St., Htgrganum, Conn.

ASHTON STARKJE, Southern Sal«

Agent, Richmond, Vn.

BARGAINS IN

2nd Hand Machinery.

THE WATT PLOW COMPANY,

Richmond, Va.

1—25 H. P. Geiser Engine and Boiler

on skids. In first-class order. 1—15 H. P. (8x10 cylinder) Pitts Engine and Boiler. Mounted on steel

wheels. 1—25 H. P. Geiser Engine. Mounted

on 30 H. P. Boiler on skids. Almost

new. 1—12 H. P. Kelly Engine and Boiler

on wheels. In first-class order.

1—15 H. P. Frick Engine and Boiler on wheels.

1—No. 1 Lane Saw Mill with Richmond Iron Works Feed, 40-inch Inserted Tooth Saw and all necessary belts. In first-class order.

1—No. 3 Farquhnr Cable Feed Suw Mill with three Head Blocks and 50-inch Inserted Tooth Saw. As good as new.

1—No. 1 Lane Mill with 50-inch Inserted Tooth Saw. As good as new.

1—6 H. P. Peerless Engine and Boiler on wheels.

1—7-lneh 4-Sided Molder. 1—4-inch 4-Sided Molder.

—ALSO— 1—48-inch Inserted Tooth Simondn

Saw. 1—54-inch Inserted Tooth Simond*

Saw. *

We invite your correspondence and will gladly give any information desired.

THE WATT PLOW CO.,

'7426 E. Main St., Richmond, Va,

fifN^PNTi Pl»nte and 8e«4s far V*' ■Uiii^Jua^VI ^(j spring delivery ■» •ad MOT. Popalar prices. For farthw U. tarmatioa address C. F. OABTSR, 9«w MTLB FORD. VA.

Always mention The Southert Planter when writing advertiser*

lirln't phase me. I'm done with this patchin' business now.

"Take my advice and get this roofing, too. Come over and look at mine. If you don't get a chance soon, write to these people and they'll send you samples and their Good Roof Guide Book. So long!"

SOUTHERN HUMORISTS.

MABY WASHINCT0N.

David Hunter Strother, more generally known under his pseudonym of "Porte Crayon," was born at Mar-tinsburg, Va. (now West Virginia), September 26, 1816. He was the fortunate possessor of two talents, which went harmoniously hand in hand—I mean a talent for drawing and one for humorous writing. The author who can illustrate his own works has a peculiar advantage, for, of course, no other artist could so fully enter into his thoughts nor so thoroughly grasp his conceptions. Thackeray enjoyed this advantage, and so did Hogarth and a few others, and "Porte Crayon" also possessed the duality of gifts that enabled him to illustrate his own writings admirably. He studied drawing first in Philadelphia and afterwards in New York under Samuel B. Morse, the renowned inventor (or shall I say discoverer?) of telegraphy, for Morse started life as an artist and only turned to his other and greater career after meeting with non-recognition and disappointment in the career of art, a fact which, proved of inestimable benefit to the whole world.

After finishing his studies under Morse "Porte Crayon" went travelling in the Western States, and in 1840, he went to Europe, where he remained five years. On his return in 1845, he studied in New York the art of drawing on wood for engravers and illustrated several books. From 1852 to 1861 he contributed to Harper s Magazine a charmingly humorous series of illustrated articles, chiefly on Virginia and the South, some of which have since appeared in book form under the title of "Black Water and Virginia Illustrated." The reader scarcely knows which to admire most, the spirited and charming illustrations or the sprightly and humorous sketches accompanying them. I remember being especially impressed in my childhood by one of Strother s illustrated sketches in Harper's Magazine. It described a packet boat trip on the Jamas River and Kanawha Canal, which, being a familiar experience to me, gave the sketch great interest in my eyes, especially as it contained a picture of old Aunt Hannah, the stewardess, and various other functionaries on the packet boat.

On the outbreak of the Civil War Strother volunteered in the United States service, and was appointed captain and assistant adjutant general,

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You know what the name "Deere"" on a farm implement means—in highest quality of workmanship, materials, and latest Improvements.

And you know that you, like every experienced man, ought to keep posted on what the really best Improvements are in money-savinc:, time-saving, up-to-date farm machinery. "Deere""makesare standard of the World and it will pay you to keep posted about them. Write us now so we can send you our book about our

Lightest Es-ntft—Two-Oyllnder

Greatest time saver In haying time that you could own—most durable in construction and materials—has the latest and most practical exclusive principles applied to loading hay. Thoroughly tested out and proven entirely satisfactory by the best farmers and hay growers.

The only loader that Rueeessfully handles the lightest swath or heaviest windrow.

Handles Hay Gently

Rakes Cleanly

Gathers N& Trash

Don't think of buying an old type "Scratch Bar" hay loader. They are much heavierdraft and fj\ jam and crush and Injure good bay. '' The Deere handles alfalfa or ripe clover for seed, perfectly. Write and read all about how to make hay most profitably in our New Deere Hay Loader Book No. 11.

DEERE A MANSUR G®. Molino,

Him

Ft*e© Book *yj

feji®

THE CLIFPEK.

will cut tall grass, short grass and weeds, and do all the trimming

along the fence, walks and drives. If your dealers do not keep them, let us know, and we will send circulars and prices.

Clipper Lawn Mower Co., Dixon, III.

FIX YOUR ROOF

3c Per Square.-^ ^ T e lT %£.*£

rusty, tin. Iron, steel, paper, felt or shingle roof in. perfect condition, and keep it in perfect condition for 6c per square per year.

The Perfect Roof Preserver, tntkts old,

worn-out roofs new. Satisfaction guaranteed

money refunded. Our free roofing book.

lis all shout it. Write for it today.

%e Anderson Manufacturing Co.. Otpt. 61 . Syria, Obit.

lui oo per square p

Roof-Fix 1^

Tell the advertiser where you saw his advertisement.

THE SOUTHE EN PLANTER.

[May,

Dig Your Potatoes With a

DOWDEN

The greatest labor saving machine on the market. Gets all the potatoes in any soil—deep or shallow, hilly or level, light or heavy vines. Potatoes come clean and sound. The machine that works right, lasts and needs no repairs.

Write for catalogue for detailed information.

JOHN DEERE PLOW CO., General Agents for Maryland, East and West Virginia, North and South Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.

Dowden Mfg. Co., Box 870, Prairie City, Iowa, V. S. A.

The HOOVER l^IS

Light running, well %_/&. built.lowiu price— ^gL^ the most satisfactory machine to =c»

Mr*

DIGGER

Made in two sizes. Send for catalogue and ask about trial offer. THE HOOVER RSFC CO., Box C3s Avery, Ohio.

Th e He ssler Moil Box fa

is absolutely weather-proof. 31 ade of steel, 18 in. long, 6} in diameter. Cover self-closing and self-latching. Signal attached. Hrasslock

U forcircular. 11 V„ IIE88L.EK CO.,

510 F.°nl!n!lSt,.Hyraonse,N.Y. ,g

find ke

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thout a cent deposit, preDay the freight and allow 10 DAYS FREE TRIAL.

IT ONLY COSTS one cent to learn our unheard-of prices and marvelous offers on highest grade 1908 model bicycles.

FACTORY PRICES &?£.'£

a pair of tires from anyone at any price until you write for our large Art Catalog and learn our -wonderfulproposition on first sample bicycle going to your town.

RIDER AGENTS ZXSfSS

money exhibiting and selling our bicycles.

WVe Sell cheaper than any other factory. Tires, Coaster-Srakes, single wheels, parts, repairs and sundries at half usual prices. Do Not Wait; write today for our special offer. MEAD CYCLE CO., Dept.j^223 CHICAGO

on BopryBoxes and Baskets

Fruit and Vcgotubla

Pflfkncc-3 and Grow-

1 Supplies of all

t kinds. Write for tree mou-jy-«avliigoat-

Yftloe»ndprloellatr. New Albany Box

^& HusketCo., New Albany, '"•'-

^Larjgcat Factory of Its Kind

In the Country*

P 1 /Ml

i. I, > 1. r « Co.

1 I Implements save * *^ you money. Frx 1107 X, I'hiladelph a

rising to the rank of colonel in the Third West Virginia Cavalry. In 1S64 he resigned and in 1865 he was brevetted brigadier general for meritorious services. After the war he re turned to his home at Berkeley Springs, where for several years he continued to supply sketches to magazines. In 1879 he was appointed Consul General to Mexico and held that position till 1885. He died at Charleston, W. Va., March 8, 1888.

"Bill Arp," whose real name was Charles H. Smith, was a native of Georgia, in which State he practiced law in his earlier days, being one of the firm of Underwood & Smith, in Rome, Ga.. He led a varied career, being by turn lawyer, member of the State Senate and Mayor of the city in which he lived. His comic letters began to appear in 1861, and he soon came to be considered the humorous mouthpiece of fte South, very much as Petroleum V. Nasby was of the North. His letters were widely read and were greatly sought after and enjoyed by our soldiers in the field, as they helped to throw a gleam of sunshine over the horrors of war. He tells us how he came to adopt the pseudonym of "Bill Arp."

"Some time in the spring of 1861, when our Southern boys were hunting for a fight and felt like they could lick all creation, Mr. Lincoln issued a proclamation ordering us all to dispersed and retire within thirty days and to quit cavorting around in a hostile and belligerent manner.

"I remember writing an answer to it, as though I was a good Union man and a law-abiding citizen and was willing to disperse if I could, but it was almost impossible, for the boys were mighty hot, and the way we made up our military companies was to send a man down the lines with a bucket of water and sprinkle the boys as he came to them, and if a fellow sizzed like hot iron in a slack trough, we took him, and if he didn't sizz we didn't take him. * * * I thought the letter was right smart and decently sarcastic and so I read it to Dr. Miller and Judge Underwood, and they seemed to think it was right smart, too. About that time I looked around and saw Bill Arp standing at the door, with his mouth open and a merry glisten in his eye. Says he to me:

" 'Squire, are you gwine to print that?"

"I reckon I will," said I.

"What name are you gwine to put to it?" says he.

"I don't know yet," said I. "1 haven't thought about a name."

Then he brightened up and said: "Well, 'Squire, I wish you would put mine, for them's my sentiments," and I promised him I would."

A newspaper correspondent thus describes him at middle age: "Tall,

HIGH GRADE

DROP-HEAD

LIGHT RUNNING

SEWING

MACHINE

Positively the greatest Sewing»Maehine value ever offered. By our direct selling plan, we save you all dealers' and agents' profits. This Machine is equal to any usually sokl by agents for $30.00. Is substantialiy made of best material, and is equipped with the latest improvements. Elegant oak drop-leaf cabinet, 4 drawers and full set of attachments. We give our binding 10-year gruarantee with each machine. Older one today, try it 30 days and if not found in everyway satisfactory, we will refund your money. 'WearetUelarsrestsewin^machiDe distributers in the South, and make prompt shipment. Send for complete catalogue mailed free on application.

5V1ALSBY, SHIPP & CO,

Department 14, Atlanta, Ga.

HERCULES

Stump Puller

tears an acre of heavy timber land -ach day. Clears all stumps In a irele of 150 feet without moving or hanging machine. Strongest, most *rild working and best made. HERCULES MFG. CO., 41S 17th St., Centrevllle, Iowa.

TNI IMPROVES

SCREWS DAPPULLE1

Write Itr Prises.

Chamberlln M'f'g Co., Olean. N. Y.

BBS*. A

Great Discovery DROPSY

CURED with vegetable remedies; removes all symptoms of dropsy In 8 to 2* days; 30 to 60 days effects permanent cure. Trial treatment furnished free to every sufferer; nothing fairer. For circulars, testimonials and free trial treatment write Dr. H. H. GREEN'S SONS, Atlanta, Ga.

THE SOUTHEKN PLANTEE.

455

THE NEW CENTUM AUTOMATIC GATE.

Can be opened or closed from your wagon or horse by a small child; don't have to get out in the mud and soil your clothes; saves time, saves trouble, prevents runaways; a model of simplicity, durability and cheapness; no springs, no castings, no hinges, no cog wheels, no wood, all steel, no sagging, no dragging; so simple, so easy; no harness and almost no machinery; nothing to wear out, nothing to break, nothing to be getting out of fix, as other automatic gates are noted for. Is not affected by drifting or deep snow, ice, sleet or wind. Always ready for use and will last a life time. Was awarded gold medal at three world's fairs. Has no equal. If there is no agent in your community or your hardware man is not handling our gate, write the NEW CENTURY STEEL, WIRE AND

IRON WORKS,

Baltimore, Mil.

SPRING INGE

Made of high carbon Stv I Wire Horse-high, Bull-strong Chlck-en-tlght. Sold direc to the Farmer at lowest i inufae-turers prices on SO Days Free Trial, freight prepaid. lOOpa^e Catalogue and price-list free. KITSELMAN BROS.,

Box 14 MUNCIE, IND.

MAJTLOVB AUTOMATIC GATES

Saves time adds to value safety, beauty and pleasure of home. Manlovb Gate Co., 272 Huron St. Chicago, 111.

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Bureau of Animal Industry. 23d Annual Report, 1906.

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Bureau of Biological Survey. Bull. 32. Food Habits of the Grosbeaks.

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Forest Service. Circular 137. Consumption of Poles in 1906.

Forest Service. Circular 142. Tests of Vehicle and Implement Works.

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No. 132. Contains 50 acres of smooth. s;ently-roiling, fertile land divided into four fields; pure running stream running through the farm. The land la all in good state of cultivation; chocolate clay with stiff subsoil. The house is a comfortable 6-room dwelling, excellent well at the porch; stable, corn house, granary, all in good condition Farm is situated in Loudoun Count? on a good level road, 2% miles from the station. Price, $2,000.

No. 190. Consists of 210 acres, 186 acres cleared, 24 acres in timber; all good chocolate clay soil; fine for grass and grain of all kinds; situated in Loudoun County, 24 miles from Washington, three-quarters mile from macadam road leading into city. Land is a little rolling, but would be considered level; fenced into ten fields; water in all the fields, and the whole place is under good fence; six miles to railroad station, close to village with post-office, stores, shops, church, school and mill. Orchard consists of about 100 trees of different ages and kinds of fruit. The dwelling is an 8-room new frame house with a good tenant house; barn 16x24, stall for six horses, good granary, corn house, machine house and other small outhouses. Price, $5,000.

No. 191. Consists of 475 acres, 300 acres cleared, the balance in wood land, part of it original growth oak and hickory. This land is all a heavy grass and grain soil, rolling enough to drain well; chocolate clay soil, fine for wheat and corn and permanent grazing. It has two small never-failing streams through it; fairly well fenced. The buildings are a little out of repair, but comfortable enough to live in. The farm has one 5-room house and one 6-room house, frame filled in with English brick; stable for six horses, and other small outbuildings. This Is a property where, if a man is willing to dwell in a modest house, he can purchase at a bargain, make a most elegant and profitable estate; in an excellent section of Fairfax County, 20 miles from Washington, six miles from Herndon station. The land is in good condition and is making fine crops. The owner Is old and wants to sell, and if it interests you, and you are ready to buy, do not delay. It can be bought on very easy terms. Price, $8,000.

Farm No. 76. Contain* 243 acres, IS acres In good timber, balance la cleared and well fenced with wood and wire fences. This farm la one of the finest little farms in Loudoun County. Every field has been limed, and the land la in a high state of cultivation. It is natural bluegrass and clerer land. Two-thirds of the land is now well set in clover and will yield enormous crops next year. The farm is situated on an elevated point, on rolling ground, with a fine view of the mountains on one side, and the other side Is a beautiful stretch of cultivated lands. This farm is all smooth, free from stones and stumps, rolling enough to drain well, but would be considered comparatively level. The house Is an 8-room house, perhaps SO years old, but well preserved. Fine water. There are all the necessary outbuildings, In good condition. Horse barn with stalls for 16 herses and cattle barn with stalls for a« head. Excellent orchard of all kind* of fruit. This farm Is one mile from railroad station. Price, $37.(0 per acre

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One of the most interesting places we visited whilst in India was Benares, the Holy City of the Hindus, situated on the banks of the sacred river Ganges^, which at this point is broad and majestic.

Though Buddhism and Mahomedan-ism once flourished here, they have given place to the worship of Siva, and one can see here all the horrors of Hindu fanaticism, for Benares is ■the resort of thousands of pilgrims who come here to bathe in the sacred waters of the Ganges. At Mogul Sirai, the junction for Benares, five hundred pilgrims got on the train, crowded in like cattle, all eagerness to reach the Ganges. To seie them immerse themselves in this sacred stream, we arosie next morn at daybreak, and went to the ghats, flights of steps, leading down to the water.

In the early dawn pilgrims were already making their way to the river to dip themselves at sunrise in its waters. Each carried a small brass water jug, in which to bring back some of the holy water to sprinkle the home, or to give as a priceless offering to friends not able to come themselves to the fountain source. We engaged a boat, and were rowed up and down the stream to watch the ever increasing throng of bathers. Along the river side, the native Hindu princes have built great palaces, where they come annually with a retinue of servants and a train of camels and elephants to purify themselves in the Ganges, to worship it and make offerings to it. On the very banks there ane living ascetics with scarcely a covering over their heads who spend their lives in prayer and incantations. Charity is extended to all such who need have no concern about their material needs whilst seeking their spiritual welfare, as they consider it. The pilgrims also are fed. ,

Before the sun was fairly above the horizon, hundreds of the devout were bathing themselves, saying long prayers, and casting gifts on the waters. Parents submerged their little children and, indeed, it has only been of recent years that the custom of sacrificing the eldest born to the water has been abolished. The pilgrims, in their brilliant dresses, swaying their arms and chanting aloud, are a very curious sight.

From the river, we went to the Golden Temple, where we were utterly disgusted by the idolatry on all sides. We could scarcely thread our way to it through the loathsome alleys, where the elephant and monkey god, painted red, stared at us from every niche. Outside the temple women were selling yellow marigolds

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as offerings to the gods. In the court, the sacred bull wandered among the rich offerings of the princes. A priest, for a consideration, gave us a glimpse of the shrine, which was dirty and greasy. In front of Ana Puena, supplier of foods, there was a crowd of beggars waiting for a dole of grain. There was no gleam of light in all this darkness. The worshippers had excited, evil faces, and we fled away as soon as we could to get a breath of pure air. The monkey temple, so-called by foreigners on account of the number of monkeys who inhabit the trees niear by, is, at least, clean. It is sacred to Durga, the terrific form of Siva's wife who is supposed to delight in destruction, consequently, bloody sacrifices of goats are made to hier here. In fact the Hindu religion has but little to recommend it, although it teaches one supreme spiritual being who pervades all things —Brahma, who is worshipped in the trinity of Brahma, the Creator; Vishnu, the Preserver, and Siva, the Destroyer. These, with their wives and attendant deities, are worshipped in hideous superstition and ignorance.

Brahma is represented with four heads and four arms, in which he holds a portion of the Veda, a spoon for lustral observations, a rosary, and a vessel of lustral water.

Sara-Swati, his wife, rides a peacock and carries a musical instrument. She is the goddess of music, speech, the arts, and literature. The sin of lying may be expiated by offerings made to her.

Vishnu holds a quoit in one hand, a conch shell in another, a mace in a third, and the lotus flower in the fourth. He has nine incarnations, including Buddha and Kreshna. The latter is the god of the lower classes, having been brought up amongst the peasants. He is painted blue and stands on a snake, with his left hand holding its body, and a lotus in his right. Sometimes he is playing a flute. The adoption of Buddha as one incarnation is a compromise with Buddhism. Devotion to Vishnu is the most popular form of the Hindu religion in India. He is said to have descended to earth to deliver man from the threefold miseries of life: First, lust, anger and avarice. Second, Beasts snakes and evil men. Third, Demons. Vishnu's wife, Lak-hshmi, the goddess of wealth and beauty, sprang from the foam of the ocean, a second Aphrodite.

Siva, the great god, holds in his four hands a trident, an antelope, a noose for binding his enemies, and a kind of drum. He wears a tiger skin around Ms loins, and is worshipped in the form of a bull. As the Destroyer, he haunts cemeteries and burying grounds. His wife, Kali the Terrible, has to be propitiated by sacrifices.

The Hindu philosophy is metaphy-

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sical. The theory of the transmigration of souls arises from the belief that evil proceeds from the antecedent evil and the penalty must be paid in succeeding existences. The Hindu's object is to get rid of these perpetual transmigrations, and to live in heaven with one personal God. To this end, he invokes offerings to the gods, refrains from killing animals, gives to the priests and does penance, even to bodily torture. His religion consists of little more than the fear of demons, and of loss of caste. Great care is taken to preserve caste. Bath ing in holy water is supposed to have great efficacy in doing this, and in cleansing the soul from impurities.

We did not devote our whole time to religion whilst in Benares, but vis-isted the bazaars and other conventional sights of the city. Benares is famous for its beaten brass, done in deep repousee, with figures of idols and animals on it. While we were looking at this brass work, I was taken with a hemorrhage from the nose, brought on by excessive heat, and a boy brought me water in such an exquisite ablution bowl with elephants and palm trees beaten on it that we bought a tea table from him in gratitude.

As we drove past the Government House, we saw the Maharaja of Mysore, proudest, richest and showiest of a race that would sacrifice their life for a lavish outward display. He was in an open landau, drawn by four Arabian horses, and his household troops, in brilliant uniforms, accompanying him.

We did not tarry long in Benares, but took the first train away. When our bill came, there was a charge of twenty-one rupees (about $7 of our money) for livery. We sent for the clerk to ask what he meant by bringing such a charge against us when wie had not been at the hotel a full day. After some hesitation, he said he supposed there must be some mistake—that our guide had told him we were rich and did not care what we paid for anything. We assured him this was a great mistake, and compromised the matter by paying him fourteen rupees-

WHY HE MARRIED AGAIN.

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BREADED EGGS.

Break ten ieggs and beat the whites and yolks separately. Soak a cup of finely crumbled stale bread in a cup of milk for an hour, mix it in with the yolks, then mix in the whites; stir lightly and pour into a hot granite pan, tin is too thin, in which you have a heaping tablespoon of butter sizzling hoit. Let the eggs cook a few minutes and then stir until they are dona Just before taking off, add pepper and salt. Serve with curled parsley as a garnish.

BEEF SOUP.

Boil a ten-cent shin in a gallon .of water slowly for two hours. Put into a pan a piece of butter and fry in it a sliced onion, ithen add a can of tomatoes cook until the tomatoes are soft; add them to the soup with four chopped Irish potatoes and a handful of butterbeans. Half hour before dinner, turn into it a can of corn; season with pepper, salt and thyme; thicken with flour.

MOLASSES PIE.

If you can get the oane syrup for these pies they are much better. | Measure three cups of molasses; beat into it the yolks of four eggs, one cup of sugar, one tablespoon of flour, half cup of butter; season with lemon and bake In rich pastry. When they are cold, beat the whites of the eggs with a cup of sugar and spread them over the top—brown slowly. Serve cold.

WHITE CAKE.

Take whites of eight eggs beaten dry; three cups of sugar, four cups of flour, a cup and a half of milk, one cup of butter, one teaspoon of soda, and two of cream tartar; cream the butter and sugar together, add the milk; sift the flour three times with the soda and cream tartar in it then stir it in with the eggs alternately, -beat hard for a moment and bake in a loaf; frost with two cups of sugar, boiled until it balls in cold water. Pour it slowly over the white of one egg beaten well for a few minutes and spread over the cake.

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syrup until they can be pierced with a straw. When nearly cold, put into a platio lined with rich pastry. Grate lemon rind over and put a tablespoon of butter in each plate; sift a little flour over it and put on a top crust. Bake brown and serve cold.

GOOSEBERRY PIE.

Top and tail the berries; weigh them and allow one pound of sugar for each pound of fruit. Cook until they begin to jelly and spread on crusts already baked. Serve with whipped cream. If you add a pinch of soda to each pound it will take off the keenness of the acid and take somewhat less sugar.

STRAWBERRY SHORT-CAKE.

Make a rich biscuit dough. Roll it about a quarter of an inch thick and cut into pieces about eigh|t to ten inches. Pile two or three of these on each other and bake until thoroughly done. While they are hot, lift them apart and butter generously. Crush the berries and sweeten theni. Put a thick layer between the crusts and pile whipped cream over it. Serve at once. If you will use sliced bananas instead of the strawberries the effect is almost as good.

TYLEB PUDDING.

These are old-fashioned, but they are the beslt of all the puddings. One cup of butter, one cup of cream or rich milk, four eggs beaten separately, three cups of sugar; season with nutmeg and lemon extract (if you can find any lemon extract fit to use; I have been unable to get any for a year). Beat it altogether, adding the whites last, and bake in rich, pastry. CARAVEN.

CENTRAL ACADEMY COMMENCEMENT.

The present scholastic year will close on the 12th of May with the following program:

Saturday evening, May 9th, a reception will be given by the students at the Academy building. Annual Sermon will be preached >'n the auditorium of the M. E. Church by Rev. R. C. Craven, of Henderson, N. C.

On Mondav morning, May 11th Dr. W. I. Cranford, Professor of Philoso-phv at Trinity College, will deliver the annual address in the college auditorium.

Monday evening, m 8 o'clock, there will be a declamation contest in the town hall for a gold medal to be given to the most successful speaker.

On Tuesday May 12th there will be held in the open air on the Central Academy campus, an all day Farmers' institute.

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The leading sheep dip for 65 years. Used on over 250 million sheep every year. Kills ticks, lice, nits and eggs in one dipping. Does not stain the wool, but increases the yield and improves the quality.

Price—25 gal. pkt. 50c; 100 gal. pkt. S2.00.

for all animals. A highly concentrate^, non-poisonous fluid dip of marvelous strength. Mixes readily with cold water, whether hard, brackish, or salty. The only pure liquid dip—no sediment. Goes farther than Coal Tar dips and therefore cheaper. Positive remedy for scab, mange, ticks, lice, ringworm, eczema, sores, bites, stings, etc. One gallon makes 200 gallons for general dipping, or 300 gallons for disinfecting. Price—Qt. can 60c; H gal. can $1.00: 1 gal. can $1.75; 6 gal. can S8.50.

hbhbheb

A sure remedy for intestinal worms in Horses, Sheep, Cattle and Hogs. These tablets offer the great advantage of correct doses and certain results. Dose—one tablet for lamb orshoat; two for sheep or hogs; three for horses and cattle. Price

—lOtablets 20c postpaid; box of 100 tablets SI.50 postpaid.

cooper's irnxm--

The most effective skin dressing for Horses. Cattle and Dogs. Cures wor?t case of Mange and Ringworm at one dressing. Searches the skin and attacks the disease at its root. Improves the coat and renders hair soft and glossy. Is used by many of the best breeders in preparing animals forshow.

Price—Quart can SI.00: gnl. can S3.00.

COOPER'S TREE SPRAY

Fluids VI Winter and V2 Summer have caused a revolution in tree spraying-. These new and scientifically prepared spray fluids stand alone for the absolute destruction of all livinjr insects, eggs, fungi, etc. One gallon makes 100 gallons of wash. Price—Gallon can, S3.00.

WHERE THERE IS NO DEALER

If you live where there is no dealer who can supply you with the Cooper preparations, order from Win. Cooper & Nephews. 177 Illinois St..Chicago, and deduct 10% from any of above prices (Worm Tablets excepted) forfreightaccount.

G. A. KELLY CO., Pittsburs, Pa., PUKCELL, LADD & CO., Richmond, Va., or

Wm. Cooper & Nephews, 177 Illinois Street, Chicago

KILL THE LICI

^4 fci J^~ -j and mites ,

CHICKENS wit

LICE POWDER

Sure Death to Lice and Vermin I

I Tiiey can't live where it is. Easy to apply. Dust it to I

"Killed every loose in my flock of

250 hens."—D.Perry, Monroe.Wis.

Price 25 and 50c a Pkg. By mail. 40 and 70c _

"~|P»M8BI«M BStUEDV COw ST. PAUW MINN.

HAA$=OLEUM

COAL TAR DISINFECTANT AND

Sheep, Hog and Cattle Dip

None Better. Gallons, $1.25. 5 gal. Cans, $5.00. Special prices in barrel lots. Use HAAS' HOG REMEDY, standard of America for 30 years. 25 lb. Cans, $6.75. 12% lb. Cans, $3.75. Send for free "HOGOLOGY," expert treatise on swine-raising. Free goods to cover transportation charges.

DR. JOS. HAAS REMEDY CO., lia&o. P enna st. ^ INDIA N^PJf^J[?'jg;

A Neat Binder lor your back Humbert can be had for 30 cents. Address our Business Department.

Always mention The Southern Planter when writing advertisers.

THE SOUTHE KN PLANTER.

465

5-10-'06. Epworth, N. C. Dear Sir—Hawks visited my chickens every day. After using your Chicken Powder they came no more.

Yours truly, J. B. PITTMAN.

7-30-'06. Massaponax, Va. Dear Sir—I have tested your sample of Macnair's Chicken Powder and found it a safe and reliable tonic, as well as a sure cure for cholera. Very respectfully,

FRED NUSSET. Cock of the Walk. "Hawk" The

Burn-yard Robber.

MAGAZINE NOTES.

I take Macnair's DI«d after eat-

Chicken Powders ing- a chick of that and feed my chil- old rooster, which dren on them, too. had been fed on Look at me and Macnair's Chicken observe the hawk. Powders. Alas! Cock a doodle doo. Alas!

MACNAIR'S CHICKEN POWDER Kills Hawks, Cure? Cholera, Gapes, Roup, Indigestion, Leg Weakness and keens them free from Vermin, thereby causing them to produce abundance of eggs. Sample package, including postage, 25 cents.

W. H. MACNAIR, TARBORO, N. C.

Be Sure

and

Workthe

Horse

HE CAN WORK EVERY DAY

If you use Bickmore'sGall Cure your teams can work right along and be cured of Saddle and Harness Galls.Cnaf es, Rope Burns, Cuts, Scratches, Grease Heel, etc. while in harness. The more work the quicker the cure.

BICKMORE'S GALL CURE

is the standard Remedy for all these and similar troubles. Is excellent for Mange and Sore Teats in cows. Above trade mark is on every box of Genuine Bickmore's Gall Cure. For sale by dealers everywhere. Money refunded if it fails. Sample and Horse Book every farmer should read 10c. BickmoreGall Curs Co., Box935, Old Town, Maine.

HEAVES CURED! &«*£*SSS

I troubles. Cures Heaves, Coughs, Distemper and Indigestion. Veterinari.

I acs use and recommend

PRUSSIAN HEAVE POWDERS

Druggists will get them I Price 50c at dealer, 60c bj I mail. Send for Free boob

PRUSSIAN REMEDY CO.. ST. PAUL, MINT*

Shiawassee Co., Mich., Nov. 25, '07.

I enjoy the Southern Planter very

much and although I live in a foreign

State, I get lots of help from it, and

should miss it very much.

WILLIAM COX.

Coursing blood and the call of the outdoor world! Only the very brightest of fiction can now hold the interest—such a story, for instance, as the complete novel in the May Lippin-cott's: "The Pirate of Alastair.'' Rupert Sargent Holland, the author, will be pleasantly remembered as the writer of that clever book, "The Count at Harvard." He has invested his new tale with a healthful outdoor atmosphere. You will feel that you too would like to be on that remote corner of the Maine coast, taking part in such stirring adventures as befell Felix Selden.

Lippincott's always excels in the matter of short stories, and this month is no exception to the rule. Dorothea Deakin, creator of "Georgie," contributes a blithesome tale called "The Serpent's Tooth,'' which contains a lesson for a certain class of mothers who would do well to take it to heart. Thomas L. Masson's story, "A Man's Game," shows the humorous touch and the keen knowledge of human nature which have earned this author his reputation as one of our foremost humorists. "Helen's First Sunday," i>y George Herbert Clarke, is a dainty little tale apropos of Decoration Day. "Patience Fessenden's Scandalous Story," by Janet Garth, and "The Bed of Procrustes," by Jane Belfield, are also worthy of special mention.

An article of decided importance to the literary world is "The Tragic End of Guy de Maupassant," by Albert Schinz. There has always been considerable mystery anent the last days of this famous French writer, and now for the first time for many it is cleared up. The third of Joseph M. Rogers's remarkable series of articles on "Educating Our Boys" deals with "Athletics and Sentiment." It is perhaps the most important of all—as you may agree when you read it. Other notable papers in the number are "Going to the Dogs," by Clifford Howard; "The Benefaction of Tuberculosis," by John Stone; "Co-operation," by Ellis O. Jones; "The Passing of the Home," by Minna Thomas Antrim; and "The Summons of Spring," by Edwin L. Sabin.

In addition to the foregoing, there are a number of charming poems and the sixteen-page humorous section, "Walnuts and Wine," devoted to original jokes, jingles, and anecdotes. The May Lippincott's should be a "winner."

Big boys and little—their sisters, their cousins, their mothers and their aunts, too—who are reading "Three Years Behind the Guns" will find in their May St. Nicholas a thrilling and vivid picture of the battle of Manila Bay. That big boys are reading these "true chronicles of a 'diddy-box'" is interestingly shown by the following letter, from a young St. Nicholas read-

"RARVA"

MEAT MEAL

(85 Per Cent. Protein, 7 Per Cent.

Fat) Is a Poultry Food that is Economic, Clean, Pure. A sure egg producer and meat builder.

The Food to Feed to Force the

Early Broiler.

Sample on Request.

SACK 100 POUNDS $3.00.

RICHMOND ABATTOIR

Box 267, Department M, Richmond,

Virginia.

Offices: Sixth and Cary Streets.

Send for the "Ilarva" Booklet.

ALL VARIETIES

SOYOR.SOJA BEANS, BUCKWHEAT, MILLET, CANE SE ED, BLACKEYE PEAS, WH1PPOR-WILL PEAS

Send us your orders and get lowest prices. In ordering from Richmond yon get low rates of freight.

Highest market price paid for Wool and only deduct freight charges.

WALLERSTEIN PRODUCE CO., Richmond, Va.

COW PEAS

AMD

SOJA BEANS

W* are headquarters. Nothing setter for hay and fertilizing; purpose*. Write for prices on any quantity. Free Bulletin on the "Cow Pea" and o&talogrue "1" on request.

HICKORY SEED CO., Hickory, N. C.

Wood's & Seeds.

Cow Peas.

We are headquarters for all Farm Seeds-. Cow Peas, Soja Beans, Millets. Sorghums. Ensilage Corn. Crimson Clover, etc. prices quoted on request.

Write for prices and Wood's Crop Special.

giving interesting information about Farm Seeds. Mailed free on request.

T. W. WOOD & SONS

SEEDSMEN,

5 RICHMOND, VA.

SEER IRISH POTATOES

Moss' Red Prolines, the only strictly Southern potato in existence, with long stems feeding far and deep; it withstands droughts, yielding immense crops on moderately rich land with fertilizer or manure. Never rots unless allowed to freeze. Save your own seed, it having reproduced itself for 27 years in Virginia. Planting season from June 1st to July 1st. One dollar per bushel. Special rates on quantities. I am never -without potatoes, why should you be?

G. W. MOSS, GUINEYS, VA.

THE SOUTHERN PLANTER.

[May,

SEND YOUR ORDER FOB

TO

DIGGS & BEADLES

THE SEED MERCHANTS

1709 Bast Franklin Street,

RICHMOND, VA.

We are headquarters for superior seeds of all kinds—Garden and Flower Seeds, Grass and Grain Seeds, Cow Peas, Field Beans, Millets, Sorghums, Fertilizers, Poultry Foods, etc. Your correspondence solicited. "Write tor our Free Catalogue.

H. G. Carter.

W. J. Carter.

H. Q. CARTER & CO.,

Successors to

F. H. DEANE & CO.

Dealers in

HAY, GRAIN, MILL-FEED AND FLOUR.

1105 East Cary Street, RICHMOND, VA.

SWEET POTATO PLANTS

Rnssonablc Rates in Large Lots.

For prices and variety apply

J. S. LINTHICUM,

Welhams,

Md.

HOLLY GROVEPOULTRY FARM

Headquarters fer Standard Bred

Silver L. Wyandotte*. Eggs now at "panic prices"—$1 for 13; $2 for SO. I have shipped eggs for hatching every season since 1882.

Business Motto: The Golden Rule. Circulars Mailed Free. S. P. YODER, Denbigh, Va.

Always mention The Southern Planter when writing advertisers.

er—one Of many similar ones—received recently in the office of St. Nicholas:

I have a brother who is in the navy. He is going to San Francisco with the fleet and is on the Flagship Connecticut. Lots of times I hear my father cough and say, "I think it is about time for another number of St. Nicholas to come. I want to read another chapter of "Three Years Behind the Guns," for it makes me understand how our boy is living." He is very fond of reading, especially in bed at night, which he says is bad for boys, but good for men if they can't sleep. The night that St. Nicholas arrives his light burns longer than ever, and in the morning we find a copy of St. Nicholas on the chair near his bed. At breakfast he tells us about interesting things. Once it was about balloons, and last time it was about "Dogs on the Battlefield." When we read St. Nicholas we find the very things he told us. I forgot to say that he is a clergyman, and once when he was preaching I heard him tell about something I know he read in St. Nicholas. We all think the best stories come when St. Nicholas arrives.

The May St. Nicholas is decidedly a spring issue, with the spirit of spring dominating all its pages, and for frontispiece the charming picture, "A Little Queen o' May."

SADDEST OF THE SAD. 'T is sad, when you must borrow cash,

To find your friend won't lend it; To be in jail for taking graft,

And can't get out to spend it. 'T is sad to walk where peaches grow,

And be too short to reach them; To world-awakening sermons write,

And not be asked to preach them. 'T is sad to learn a scandal, through

A key-hole, so can't tell it. To read the joke you called your own,

Before you'd time to sell it. But this is far the saddest fate

The sun will ever shine on: To be a vine and want to twine,

And have no oak to twine on. — M&rch Lippincott's

A TOKEN OF APPRECIATION.

In order to favor many out of work or short of cash by reason of late money panic, and as a token of appreciation for the liberal patronage which brought eighty-five thousand nine hundred four dollars eighty-five cents ($85,904.85) net profits to Draughon's 30 Business Colleges during the past four years, Draughon's College, Washington and Nashville, are now offering, for a limited time, $50 scholarship for $25. See further particulars elsewhere in this paper.

Hanover Co., Va., Nov. 30, '07. We read and appreciate the Southern Planter very much. It is great help to us in our farm work.

G. H. GRUNWELL.

..•34*-

PLANT

THE NEW "WARD" BLACKBERRY.

I offer for spring of 1>08, strong, No. 1 Plants at $2 per 100 No. 2 at S1.60 per 100. Send for descriptive circular of the Ward.

Full line of Fruits Trees and •mall Fruit at planters' prices. Send fer price list.

FRED SHOOSMITH, HOYT, pi.

"RINGLET"

BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS

EXCLUSIVELY. E. B. Thompson's celebrated strain. Bred for high quality, not quantity. My winning at Virginia Poultry Association Show, Richmond, prove it. First and third prize Cock, first and third prize Hen, and first prize Pen and Association's special for best display in Barred Rocks. My birds cannot be excelled in egg production, size, vigor and beauty. Grand yards mated for 1908 egg season. They will produce results that will please you. Eggs from all yards, $2 per 16. Satisfaction guaranteed.

Address LESLIE H. McCUE, Box 4, Alton, Va.

EGGS! EGGS!

For May and June delivery from Barred Plymouth Rocks, $1 for IB, $1.50 for 30; B. B. Game Bantams, $1 for 18; White African Guineas, $1 for 18; White Holland and M. B. Turkeys, $2.25 for 9. Turkey Eggs 15 cents apiece after 25th of May. Strictly fresh. These are the ones that Insure a good hatch. Satisfaction guaranteed by BLUE HILL POULTRY YARDS, R. F. D. No. 1, Somerset, Orange County, Va.

VALLEY FARM

BARRED ROCKS

AND

S. C. B. LEGHORNS

Fertility unusually

strong this year. Circular free.

CHARLES C. WINE, Mt. Sidney, Va.

BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

Fine large fowls, correct in plumage, crossed with prize-winners of Thompson and Bradley strains. Yearling Hens, $1.50; 10-Months Pullets, $1.25; Eggs, $1 per sitting, $1.50 per two.

Imperial Pekin Ducks—Eggs, $1 per sitting; $1.50 for two.

Mammoth Bronze Turkeys, National strain, unusuaMy fine this year, beautiful plumage. Eggs, $3 per dozen. Orders filled promptly.

Mrs. R. E. WILHOIT, Somerset, Va.

DeWITT'S FINE POULTRY CATALOG. Sixty varieties of Pure-Bred Poultry. Illustrated. Prices of stock and eggs upon request. Catalogue 10 cents, redeemable on first order.

DeWITT POULTRY FARM, Highland Park, Richmond, Va-

Please mention The Southern Planter.

THE SOUTHERN PLANTER.

467

Eggs For Hatching

From winners at Virginia State Fair and Virginia Poultry Association. Only raise the

WHITE WYANDOTTE

and guarantee good hatches and fertility—$1.25 for 15, $2 for 30, $5 for 100.

WHITE MUSCOVY DUCK Eggs, from WinneTB at Jamestown and Richmond shows, 20 cents eaeh. R. RANDOLPH TAYLOR, Hickory Bottom Poultry Farm, •

Negrofoot, Va. R. F. D. No. 2, Beaver Dam, Va.

Golden Wyandottes.

A Specialty. Pure bred, strong, vigorous stock, bred for winter layers.

Eggs $1 per 16, $1.7$ per 30, $3 per 60, $6 per 100.

Miss Katie Thompson,

Route 3, Manassas,

Virginia.

HINTS BY MAY MANTOM.

One piece garments are greatly in demand just now and are both so pretty and so simple that their popularity is well deserved. This nightgown is tucked over the shoulders to make becoming and comfortable fulness and is exceedingly graceful and attractive as well as eminently simple. It can be made from batiste, lawn, cambric or any similar material and is peculiarly well adapted to the wide lingerie fabrics that can be cut with few joinings. The neck edge is finished with beading, which is drawn up by means of ribbon to regulate the size, and the sleeves can be left straight at their lower edges or curved as preferred.

The gown is eut tn one piece and the 1 pnly seams are those at the under arm afid sleeve edges. The tucks are laid on indicated lines and beading finishes the meek. Whether the sleeves are left straight or curved their edges can be finished with frills of either lace or embroidery.

SINGLE COMB BROWN LEGHORNS

First Cockerel, Richmond, 1908.

WHITE YAIMT

IDOTTES

(SfiitsJnslveiy.—Bred for Butlne

As wall as standard qualities. Will .please the farmer as well as the fancier. Eggs from choice pens, 16. $1.25; SO, $2. Satisfaction guaranteed Circular free.

J. H. YODER, DENBIGH, VA.

Carolina Poultry Farm

C. H. PETTIGREW, Proprietor, Route 5, Reidsville, N. C. Eggs for hatching, $1 per 15, Si per 199. White and Barred Plymouth Rocks, Rose and Single Comb R. 1. Reds, Single Comb White, Brown and Buff Leghorns, Partridge Wyandotte*. Buff Orpingtons and Single Comb Black Minorca*.

SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.

ESTABLISHED 1882.

S. and R. C. R. I. Reds, White Wyandottes, S. C. B. Leghorns and B. P. Rocks. Eggs for hatching $1 for 16; $1.76 for 30; $2.76 for 60; $6 for 10».

RIVERSIDE POULTRY FARMS,

J. B. Coffman & Bona, Props., Dayton, Va.

EGGS FOR HATCHING.

Barred, Buff and White Plymouth Rocks; White, Buff, Partridge and Sliver Penciled Wyandottes, Blaeh Langshans, R. I. Reds, Black Mlnorcas. Light Brahmas, Partridge Cochins, White and Brown Leghorns. AU Pens headed by High-Scoring Birds second to none

Price—$1 for 16, $6 per 100. Tw«-tnirds hatch guaranteed or order duplicated at half price. SOME NICE COCKERELS OF THE DIFFERENT BREEDS FOR SALE

Will exchange Eggs for Cow Peas, two sittings per bushel.

OAKLAND POULTRY FARM, XI. J. Wartner, Manager, Renin, N. C.

690i One-Piece Night-Gown,

Small. Medium, Large.

The quantity of material required for the medium size is 5 1-4 yards 36 or 3 1-4 yards 44 inches wide with 2 3-4 yards of beading, 2 yards of narrow, 2 yards of wide lace.

The pattern 5902 is cut in three sizes, small, medium and large.

Strawberry Hill Poultry Yards,

Box 287, Richmond, Va. i. Davenport Williams, Prop, and Sunt.

Mem. Am. Leghorn Club, Mem. Am. S. C. B. Leghorn Club, Mem. Va. Poultry Aaso. At Richmond, January $-16 (Judge/ Wittman), 1st Cockerel, 1st, 2nd, Jrd and 4th Pullet; 8 specials, including 2 silver cups for best d«*play in class offered by Am. S. C. B- Leghorn Club and Virginia breeders. At Jamestown, 4th pen, 6th Cockerel on immature birds. Also highest awards Va. State Fair and Richmond, 1M)6. EGGS from exhibition matings, both pullet and cockerel line, $3 per 16, $6 for 16, $7 for 60, $10 for 76, $12 for 100. From uttlly matings, $1 per 16, $6 for 109. Two-thirds hatch guaranteed or number of eggs duplicated at half price. Stock for sale at all times.

BLACK'S

BLACK LANGSHANS

Are the leading Langshans In the South.

Improve your flock this season with blood from this noted strain.

Bred for all standard requirements, combined with superior egg production. Choice B>rds for Sale.

Eggs $2 per 16, $3.60 per 30, $10 per 100. Send ■0 for descriptive circular and show record.

A. M. BLACK, Tazewell, Va. Poplar Mill Poultry Farm

Dr. H. H. LEH.

Prop., R. F. D. 4,

Lexington, Va.

Breeder and shipper of Silver Laced . "Wyandottes. Fresh ^ ?gs for hatching J*». m high scoring £ rft *, bred to lay, b ' r « r 16. No more $! P*> for sale at stock \ present.

Please mentk

on the Southern Planter.

THE SOUTHERN' PLANTER

[May,

ROSE AND SINGLE) COMB

RHODE ISLAND REDS

AND

BUFF ORPINGTONS.

A special bargain in young high-class breeding Hens. Having hatched all the chicks I need for my own use, I will now sell half of my Hens and Pullets—utility type—of these breeds. These are of the best prize-winning and egg-laying strain and just the kind from which to breed. Send your order now, as these are much in demand. Hens, $1.50 each or $16 per dozen.

GEORGE W. SWEETING,

Locust Mount Poultry Farm,

SHARON, HARFORD COUNTY, MD.

Royal Reds—Orping'tons.

Bred to lay from quality that wins. Rose (Tuttle strain) and Single Comb (Hansen strain) R. I. Reds and Buff Orpingtons (Willow Brook strain), the very best strains extant. Winners at York, Washington, Jamestown. Eggs $2 and $4 per 15, $8 per 100. Baby Chicks, $3 per 15.

Locust Mount Ponltry Farm, George

W. Sweeting, Sharon, Harford

County, Maryland.

ROSE-COMB

Rhode Island Reds

EXCLUSIVELY.

If you want to raise fine chickens; if you want a fine laying strain of the best general purpose fowl in the world get some eggs for hatching from Miss Louise V. Spencer, Blackstone, Va. xi Member of Rhode Island Red Club of America.

RHODE ISLAND REDS

BOTH COMBS.

Eggs from pure-bred, high cla» ■tock at $1.60 per 15, $2.58 per It and $4.50 per 60.

Also a nice home and store for «•> or rent. Main building has 14 room* All necessary outbuildings. The whol< nearly new. Write

CLINTON HENSLEY, Prop. Elkto> Poultry Farm, Elkton, Va.

ROSE COMB

RHODE ISLAND RED

Eggs for sale at $1 per sitting of It No other chickens raised on the tarn lbs. JOSEPH M. HITR T, Blaefcstoae, Vs.

EGGS [FOR HATCHING

FROM PRIZE-WINNING R. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS

at $1 per sitting of 15 or three sittings for $2.60. MRS. L. E. SMITH, Appomattox, Va.

PURE-BRED R. O.

II0DE ISLAND DEO

Eggs for hatching. Prices to please.

Correspondence invited. Miss Mamie H. Herbert, Route 2, Blackstone, Va.

TO BE MADE WITH INVERTED PLAITS OR HABIT BACK, IN ROUND OR WALKING LENGTH.

The plain gored skirt is an unquestionable favorite of the season and has many qualities to commend it. It is very generally becoming, it is most satisfactory to the wearer and it is adapted to almost all fashionable materials. This one is novel, being closed by means of buttons and buttonholes at the front, and is admirably well adapted to linen pique and the like as well as to wool and to silk. The buttons besides serving a practical purpose, make an exceedingly effective trimming. In this instance the lower edge is finished only with a hem stitched with belding silk, but while this plain simple style is much used, one wide band above the hem also is in vogue and again there are a great many skirts made with applied bands, or hems, at the lower edge that are of contrasting material or color.

5955 Eight Gored Skirt, 22 to 32 waist.

The skirt is cut in eight gores and can be made with inverted plaits or habit back, also it allows a choice of round or walking length.

The quantity of material required for the medium size is 10 5-8 yards, 24, 8 5-8 yards 32 or 5 1-4 yards 44 inches wide if material has figure or nap; 8 5-8 yards 24, 5 5-8 yards 32 or 3 3-4 yards 44 inches wide if it has not.

The pattern 5955 is cut in sizes for a 22, 24, 26, 28, 30 and 32 inch waist measure and will be mailed to any address by the Fashion Department of this paper on receipt of ten cents.

SINGLE-COMB

Rhode Island Reds.

Five years ago I purchased a $5C Prize-Winning Trio from a noted egg-strain, with the intention of breeding the best Reds in the South. This strain has been so improved that my birds are now vastly superior to the trio. Buff Leghorns averaging over 200 eggs were discarded because the-Reds were more profitable egg-producers. I believe I have the best fancy-utility strain on earth. It will pay you to investigate.

After May 1st I will sell big, pink, fertile Eggs $1.50 for 13; also first-class Hens, worth $3, for $2 each; will 1 also dispose of three fine Cocks. E>H. J. H. C. WINSTON, Humpden-Sidney, Virginia.

Rose and Single Comb RHODE ISLAND Rf;DS

White Wyandottes, B„-

P. Rocks and S. C. B.

Leghorns. Eggs at $1.

per 15, $1.75 per 30 t _

$2.75 per 50, $5 per 100;.

R. C. R. I. Reds a

Specialty.

VALLEY VIEW

POULTRY FARM,

J. D. Glick, Prop.,

Route 1, Box 41, Day—

ton, Va.

SINGLE COMB

Rhode Island Red

Eggs from my pen of 10 hens, headed by the cockerel that took premium at State Fair, $2.50 per 15.

Eggs from three pens of beautiful-utility fowls, headed by cockerel just as good as the premium bird, but henr not so even colored, $1.50 per 16. NO BETTER BIRDS OR LAYERS US'

THE STATE. A. R. VENABLE, Jr., Farmville, Va_

PURB-BRED R. C

RHODE ISLAND' REDS

Eggs at farmers' »rie*»

Special rates tor Inci»

bator Egg*.

Mis. LIZZIE G. SMTTaV R. F. D., WeUvill*, Tft

ROSE COMB REDS

My birds won: State Fair, 1907, 1st and 2nd Cockerel, 3rd Pullet; Richmond, 1908, 1st Pen, 2nd Cockerel, 1st, 3rd and 4th Pullet. All specials.

Eggs from these winner $1.50 per 15.

W. D. SYDNOR,

Barton Heights, Va.

White Leghorn Eggs $1 per 15.

S. G. Rhode Island Red

Eggs, $1.25 per sitting; two or more $1

each.

JOHN W. MORRIS, Waldrop, Va.

"BAST VIEW"

SILVER LACED WYANDOTTES.

Exclusively. Rob Biddy for weodes hen. Eggs $1 for li, $S for 50, $S iev 100, $7 for 150. Mrs. W. S. Chichester, Aqaaace, MA

Please mention the Southern Planter.,

THE SOUTHERN PLANTER.

469

--FERN HILL POULTRY

BREEDERS OF ARISTOCRATSrONLY.

barred; plymouthtsrqcks? black minorcas. s. c, brown leghorns s. o. white leghorns?

For fifteen years I have bred these birds on my farm with free range. They have constitutions; are essentially aristocrat egg-shellers; have, and can, hold their own against the arrogant boast of any blue-ribbon winners. Havejjf|f won prizes running from first to fourth, wherever shown. Highest scoring ^3§| male, female and ten highest scoring fowls in the show. Never had better ; quality nor more vigorous utility. A few cockerels of each variety at $2.60 each, all strictly first-class birds. Shipped on approval.

Eggs $1.50 Per Sitting, 86 Per 100; Minorca Eggs $7 Per 100. Address J. WALLACE SNELLING, R. P. D. 1, MANCHESTER, VA.

(Yards, Stop 9, Richmond-Petersburg Trolley.)

ESTABLISHED

1893.

Poultry Yards

S. C. Brown nnd Wklto Leghorns Exclusively.

I can fill orders promptly with strictly fresh eggs at the following prices: fl.St per 15, $2.50 for SO. |S.»« for 60 eggs or $( per 100. For further Information address Mrs. Jon. Rasseil Early, Borneo, Vs.

ICggs For Hatching

—FROM—

Prize-Winning Stoch

Black Langshans. Mottled Ancona, S. C. Buflt and White Leghorns. Woi

silver cup at Harrisonburg, Va. Eggi 111 to $1.50 per 15. Satisfaction guar anteed. Send for free booklet. Wrlti to-day.

J. 8. WENGER, DAYTON, VA

Gienview Orpingtons,

S. C. BUFFS EXCLUSIVELY.

My breeding pens this year Include all my Richmond winners. Eggs will be shipped from nothing but the best. $4.50 per sitting of 15.

B. S. HORNB, KESWICK, VA

Eggs For Hatching*

FROM NOTED WINNING STRAINS.

Barred Plymouth Rocks, $1 per 15; Mammoth Pekin Ducks, $1.50 per 15. Lower rates made on larger numbers.

A few choice M. B. Turkeys, Ducks and Cockerels for sale.

Leslie D. Kline, Vaaclase, Ya.

Black Langshans

Eggs for Sale from Prize-Winning

Stock.

A Fevr Good Cockerels Left.

JOHN C. ADAMS, Bristol, Virginia-Tennessee.

THE ANNUAL MEETING OP THE

AMERICAN GUERNSEY

CATTLE CLUB.

The Annual Meeting of this Club will be held at 10:30 A. M., on Wednesday, May 13th, 1908, at Hotel Imperial, Broadway and 31 street, New York City.

At this time reports or the year's business will be made, plans for the work of the coming year considered, and officers elected.

The special business of the meeting will be:

First. The discussion of changes in the Scale of Points for Guernseys, to make it a more workable one.

Second. The consideration of an amendment to Section 5 of the By-Laws to provide for the early reporting of all births of Guernsey calves to the Club officers. This to do away with the increased fee after six months of age provided the birth of calf had been reported to the Secretary before one month old.

Third. The consideration of a new Department of The Advanced Register to be known as Dept. B. Individual Excellence of Type. The Advance Register as now conducted to be known as Dept. A.—Dairy Production. The new department to be established with a view of studying the relationship of productive capacity to individual merit and to gather data relating to a standard type for the breed. It will also aid breeders in determining the desirability of animals for breeding purposes.

It is hoped every member will be present and lend encouragement by his presence and counsel to the affairs of the Club. Immediately after the business session, or about 1 o'clock lunch will be served.

WM. H. CALDWELLL,

Good Eggs for Hatching

Single Comb Brown Leghorn Eggs, $1 for 15, $6 per 100, $50 per 1,000.

Single Comb White Leghorn Eggs, $1.50 for 15, $8 per 100.

Single Comb Buff Orpington Eggs, $2 for 15.

White Holland Turkey Eggs, $2.50 for 10, $10 for 50.

Send orders for Orpington and Turkey Eggs to Mrs. Cal Husselman.

We guarantee fresh, fertile eggs, full count, safe delivery and pure stock from eggs from each breed. We cannot guarantee the hatch. We ship from Richmond. Do not send private check. Do not waste time in writing for discounts. We can All orders promptly.

CAL HUSSELMAN, R. F. D. 1, Highland Springs, Va.

A Neat Binder for your back numbers can be had for 30 cents. Address our Business Department.

From blue ribbon winners at Virginia State Fair and Virginia Poultry Association. Strictly first-class stock and matings of the following varieties: Silver Laced, White and Partridge Wyandotte* ( * S. C. Rhode Island Reds,

$1.50 per 15.

$8 per 100.

ELLERS0N POULTRY YARDS,

J. TV. Qnnrle*. Prop., Ellerson, Va.

S ft!\B SHOOK POULTRY FUR Cnipeper, Va., H. H. Scott, Prop.

Breeder of Northup strain Black Minorcas, Whitman strain of Browic Leghorns, and the best Silver-Lac«<l Wyandottes. Have been breeding Biaci Minorcas six years, always with the best type in view. Stock and Eggs in season at very moderate prices, considering the quality. Write me few prices and full particulars.

BUFF ORPINGTON

EGGS 75 CENTS PER SITTING OF 15.

MISS REBECCA THOMAS,

Aqua sco, Md.

THE SOUTHERN PLANTER.

[May,

N&W FARM

White Plymouth Rocks

Best stock FISGHEL strain Eggs $r.oo per setting; No birds for sale.

A few HAMPSHIRE PIGS also The black hog with white belt. Prices reasonable, S. M. GEYER, Manager,

Norfok & Western Ry. Farm. Ivor, Va.

fi>"^^^ •'^Jimtnfo £i»o ff>t\to %V>*.

White PlymovitH Rochs! !

At Herndon Show—"Clean Sweep."

Have mated first Cockerel with first Hen, first pen and second Pullet, from this show. Can spare few eggs from this pen—$2 for 15—guaranteeing fertility. My stock is excellent.

C. M. WALKER, HERN DON, VA.

Secretary of Herndon Poultry Association.

White RocKs §

Fishel strain. Ten years experience

back of the breeding. Fine Cocekrel»

at right prices. Eggs $2 per sitting

J. C. JOHNSON, Box S, Academy,

West Virginia.

BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS

EXCLUSIVELY.

Yard headed by some world renowned prize-winning blood.

Eggs from strong, healthy, beautifully Barred, farm-raised birds, unexcelled in laying qualities, size, vigor and beauty, selling at farmers' prices— $1.26 for 15 or %2 for 30. Toulouse Geese Eggs, $1.25 for 7, $2 for 14.

JOHN MAHANES, Trevllinn, Va.

BARRED ROCKS

Hans and Pullets mated with first an« second prize Cockerels at Virginia State Fair, 1907. No better or fine: matings. Size, markings and laylnt Qualities the best. Eggs, 75 cents to? 15, $4 per 100. Send check, postal o' express money order.

MRS. WILLIAM P. BURKS, Route »• 1, Bedford City, Va.

8. C. BROWN LEGHORNS, WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKt.

HEAVY LAYERS.

Eke* $i Per 15.

WHITING'S POULTRY YARDS,

Harmony Village, Middlesex Co., Va

«

45 BREEDS BEST POULTRY

Fine book Illustrates and tells all about poultry, feeding-, care, diseases, our big premium offer. Low price for stock and eggs. Best way to rid poultry of lice, make money, etc., only 10c JOHH E. UKATvTOLK. Harrlionburg, V..

A Neat Binder for your back numbers can be bad for 30 cents. Address our Business Department.

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A RAM.

(Continued from page 263 Marcb issue.)

In my new home I found much kindness and the most thoughtful care. My young shepherd thought I was not as fat as I should be, so he began feeding me daily on fine oats and bran. If there was anything I did love it was to eat, and the way I could shovel oats out of a trough was a caution. I soon noticed that my shepherd always stood by to watch me eat, or sometimes would climb up on the old rail fence and study the performance. I one day overheard himsay to himself: "I would rather watch that lamb eat than eat myself. He is the best feeder I ever saw." After some weeks I noticed that my shepherd eyed me anxiously. He said he thought I improved very slowly for such a fine feeder. One day he caught mie, opened my mouth and remarked that my lips were as white as snow. Then he opened the wool back of my shoulder and was astounded to see how white my skin was. He felt my wool, and I knew that it must have felt harsh to his kindly touch. He turned away with a worried look and said, "You are in a bad shape, my boy. You have a bad case of paper skin." I afterwards heard him speak of stomach worms, which must have been a discovery to him, for he brought men around to look at me and said this is certainly a true case of stomach worms. I wondered at his words, but there was a gnawing sensation about my stomach that suggested the meanest things. I felt that I was losing strength fast and I was hungry all the time and very thirsty, and after a while a big, loose swelling formed on my jaw and I was getting too weak to go about. My shepherd was worried and began to to dose me with medicine. He first gave me turpentine, but it did not do half the good so mean a dose should have done. I got no better. One day, when I was getting near the end of my rope, my shepherd came into the shed where I was resting and I saw he was all excited. He said he had something for me at last. A minute later he was astride of my neck and was pouring something like liquid fire down my throat. I certainly knew he spoke the trutn when he said: "I have something for you." I struggled in vain to get away, but he held me firm and after each breath came some more of that awful stuff. When I was released my head began to swim, my heart beat a tattoo on my ribs, and as I walked off I reeled, fell and turn right on my back. My shepherd was by me at once and helped me up, but I reeled off panting and almost wild with fear. In a few hours I was all right again and fielt that something had happened inside. The next day I had to undergo the same performance. This came near being the end

FRESH EGGS A SPECIALTY.

Indian Runner Duck Eggs, $1 for 12; Line-Bred Barred Plymouth Rocks, fine winter layers, $1 for 15, $1.50 for 30, $5 a hundred; Beautiful large White Holland Turkeys and Mammoth Bronze, both fine turkeys, $2.25 for 9. My birds are of best breeding, large In size, good layers and correct In plumage. Give me an order and you will be convinced as to their laying qualities. Eggs carefully selected; well packed. Satisfaction guaranteed. Only fresh eggs shipped.

Mrs. M. F. GOOCH, Somerset, Orange County, Vn.

SINGLE COMB

S!K5&r LEGHORNS

Strong, healthy, farm-raised stock, bred for layers as well as the showroom. My birds won at Virginia State Fair, Richmond, 1906-7, and Virginia Poultry Association, Richmond, 1908.

Eggs from my best pens of both breeds, $1 per 15 or $7 per 100. Choice Cockerels from $1.50 to $5 each; Yearling Hens and Pullets, $1 each. Prompt attention to all orders. J. A. ELLETT, BEAVER DAM, VA.

Orders now Being Booked.

—FOR—

S. C. B. Leghorn Eggs $1 for 15

Buff Rock Eggs $1 for 15

Mammoth Pekin Duck Eggs..$l for 15

W. H. Turkey Eggs $2 for 9

Write for prices by the hundred.

Stock of Above Breeds for Sale.

LAUREL HILL POULTRY FARM,

Roxbury, Va.

STICTLY FRESH EGGS

Mammoth Bronze and White Holland Turkey Eggs, $2 for 9; Barred Plymouth Rocks, $1 per 15, $1.50 for 30; White African Guineas, $1 for 18 Eggs. After May 20th will sell all Turkey Eggs for 15 cents each. Send for 1908 circular. Gives full description of my poultry and Berkshires.

E. F. SOMMERS, Somerset, Vn.

"MapleHurst"

The home of choice birds—B. P. Rocks. UnlT Orpingtons and S. C. R. I. Reds. Eggs for sale at $1 for 15, $1.76 for 30, $2.5.0 for 50. Write to

T. J. THOMPSON, R. F. D. No. 7, Staunton, Va.

THE WHITE HOLLAND TURKEY

MAN.

G. W. MOSS, GUINEY, VA. After May 10th Eggs as follows: White Holland Turkey, $1.50 per 10, $14.50 per 100; White Plymouth Rock and S. C. White Leghorn, 75 cents per 15, $3.50 per 100. Will sell two old Toms and 15 old Hens of my White Hollands after June 1st.

G. W. MOSS, GUINEYS, VA.

Mammoth Bronze Turkeys

Fifteen eggs $3. No finer birds in the State. Book your orders ahead.

S. C. BufT Orpington and S. C. Brown Leghorns of the very best strains; 15 eggs $1, 30 for $1.75, 100 for $4. B. O. POULTRY YARDS, R. F. D. Box 27, Rapldan, Va.

Please mention the Southern Planter.

THE SOUTHERN PLANTER.

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Rapid Growth

Pigs grow faster than other farm animals because of great digestive capacity. Yet herein lies a danger as well as an advantage. It is easy because a pig consumes much food to spoil digestion by overfeeding. When you fatten pigs it is well to give Dr. Hess Stock Food in the ration twico a day. Better yet, it is well to begin the use of

m HESS STOCK

as soon as pigs are weaned and continue to the time of marketing. In this way hogs are kept healthy and make rapid growth. Dr. Hess Stock Food corrects digestive troubles, gives appetite for roughage, makes cows give more milk and keeps farm teams in condition.

Formulated by Dr. Hess (M.D..D.V.S.) and endorsed by stockmen and medical wiiters. Sold on a written guarantee. Costs but a penny a day for horse, cow or 6teer.

100 lbs. $5.00 }"*•«* i?tr C emf *

35 lb. pail $1.60j West and South.

Smaller quantities at a slight advance.

Where Dr. Hess Stock Food differs in particular is in the dose- it's small and fed bu t twice a day, which proves it lias the most digestive strength to the pound. Our government lecog-nizes Dr. Hess Stock Food as a medicinal compound and this paper is back of the guarantee.

If your dealer cannot supply you, we will.

DR. HESS & CLARK, Ashland, 0.

AIbo Manufacturers of Dr. Hobs Poultry Pan-a-oe-a and Instant Louie Killed.

SUNNYSIDE BERKSHIRES.

Boars In service. "Premier Duke," •on of Premier Longfellow; "Peerlea* Premier, w sired by Lord Premier III., and Imported "Hlghtlde Commons." Also a number of sows rich in Premier blood. Prices reasonable.

W. H, WALKER, UNION, S. O.

THE GOLDENROD BERKSHIRES'

Daisy Girl, No. 90478, sired by Imp. Sir John Bull, II., No. 76416, farrowed ten pigs April 15, 1908. More choice sows to farrow. Order now. Some nice August Gilts, open or bred. Prices reasonable. Only first-class individuals sold.

Dr. J. B. TUTTLE, Craigsville, Va.

CHE8TER WHITES.

"Th« best hog on earth." Shall be pleased to fill your orders for spring Pigs. My stock Is A-No. 1. Satisfaction guaranteed.

S. M. WUecarrer, Rastborg, Va.

of me, but I tried to think my shepherd knew best. He was showing some one else how he dosed me. He poured a tablespoonful of gasoline in a bottle and then added a cupful of milk. He now shook the bottle vigorously and got the dose down my throat by inserting into my mouth a rubber tube that fitted into the mouth of the bottle. He never forced the dose, but let me take my time. I found it was best to swallow it quickly and I did it. I was turned out on a fine meadow pasture, where the grass was so clean and there was no smell of sheep about the grass or under the shade trees. I was fed more carefully now, and in less than a week I heard my shepherd say: "By Jove, it worked good, I can see the skin getting pink fast." I began to feel better and was sure I was gaining. I just knew I had escaped the fate that generally befell lambs that got stomach worms. I used to see hundreds of pale, weak lambs passing along the road that led by my pasture that fall. I guess their shepherds did not know about gasoline. I heard my shepherd say that he never believed I would outgrow the effect of stomach worms, and I guess I didnt, though I got to be a right vigorous chap. I wont tell much about this first winter at my mew home. I got good care and came through in fair shape. One warm day the next May I was brought up to the shed where they were shearing the other sheep. It looked so funny to see some of the sheep I had learned to know so well in their fleeces scampering about without any clothes on. I hardly knew my best friend that day. I was saved for the last and my shepherd called to one of the best shearers to try his hand on "that young yearling ram." I was caught, thrown on a table and tied head and foot. I got scared and jumped, but it did not do any good. Then the click of those shears that looked like death staring me in the face. A few clicks and then a pinch that drew the blood and I was in for coming off that bench. Such a tussle as we had I bet that man will never forget and, to make it worse, the man got mad (it seems to me that men too often get mad at poor, helpless sheep). He hit me over the head with the heavy steel shears and knocked the blood out of my nose. I got one fore foot in his shirt and tore it from Dan to Beersheba, and then the man got mad again and spit tobacco juice in my eye, and then I rose in my wrath, broke the ropes that held me, and soon was on the ground. But what was the use? Two or three men nabbed me and dragged me back to my tormentor and soon, from sheer exhaustion, I lay back on the bench to let the man kill me if he would. Between pants he was calling me all sorts of names that I must not repeat to children, and then he began to comment on me. He said he had never

TURKEY, DUCK AND CHICKEN EGGS

I can supply promptly White Holland and Mammoth Bronze Turkey Eggs at 30 cents each. Pekln and Rouen Duck Eggs at 12 cents each. Special prices in lots of 100 and oyer. Barred, White and Buff Plymouth Rock Eggs; White, Buff and Brown Leghorn Eggs from the finest matings; White and Silver Wyandotte Eggs; White, Buff and Black Orpington Eggs; Rose and Single Comb Rhode Island Red Eggs, Single and Rose Comb Black Minorca Eggs, Silver Spangled Hamburg and Cornish Indian Game Eggs, all from pure bred birds, at $1.50 to $2.50 per 15 and $4 to }6 per 50, and special prices on incubator eggs in 100 lots or more. A few extra good Barred and White Plymouth Rock Cockerels and Hens, also White and Buff Orpington Hens and Cockerels. Few extra good Single Comb Black Minorcas. I have 20 nice White Leghorn Hens and Pullets at $1 each in lots of five or more, single bird $1.50 each, but these prices apply to White Leghorns only.

Farmers, now is the time to order your Rams for service this fall. You get them cheaper and get better selections now than if you wait till you need them. I have some fine Ram and Ewe Lambs, yearling and 2 to 4 year old Rams of the Shropshire, Southdown, Dorset and Hampshire breeds. I have a 2 year old imported Shropshire Buttar Ram, as good as money can buy, and would cost $150 to import, but if ordered during May will make price $80. I have a 4 year old Shropshire Ram that cannot be beaten and is extra well wooled and good size. My price, if ordered at once, $65. My yearling and 2 year old rams are good and well wooled and all eligible to registry. Prices range from $27.50 up, according to quality. I have some nice Ewes that are registered and finely wooled that I will sell after lambs are weaned for $25 each, and they are 2 and 3 years old.

I have some exceptional bargains in Berkshires, Poland-Chinas, Chester Whites, Yorkshires and Tam-worths. Choice Service Boars, Bred Sows, Gilts ready to breed and Shoats 3, 4 and 5 months old. Spring Pigs now ready for shipment of all the breeds named above. Pairs and trios mated not akin for breeding. Write to-day and engage what you want. A small deposit secures them and you can have them shipped when wanted. I shipped a Berkshire Boar this week, less than 11 months old, that weighed 280 pounds—not forced nor fat. Have others as good. Better order to-day and be convinced. Address

JAMES M. HOBBS, No. 1521 Mt, Royal Avenue, Baltimore, ftld.

THE SOUTHERN PLANTER.

[May,

BerKshire Pigs For Sale

Any one wishing to purchase the best strains of Berkshires at reasonable prices should write and get prices and description of my stock. Pedigree furnished with each pig. My hogs have a range of over 400 acres, are always healthy and develop strength and muscle. All injuries cheerfully and promptly answered.

W. A. WILLEROT, Brett, King William County, Va.

. . BerKshires . .

My Biltmore Sows have a fine lot of Pigs ready for shipment at the small sum of $5 each. Pedigrees furnished if desired.

B. E. WATSON, Stuart's Draft, Va.

BERKSHIRES

, An exceptionally fine lot of

Pure Bred Pigs; also nice

young Boar and Bred Sows

for sale at grade prices.

GLENNMOORE FARM,

D. D. HUNT,

Charlottesville, Va.

BerKshires for Sale.

A line lot of spring Pigs, sired by Duke of Bedford, 82931, he the grandson of Lord Premier, 50001, ready for shipment about June 1st. Let me have an order and you will be pleased. Stock for sale at all times. Write your wants and I'll tell you What I

ll£tV6

E LODGE ROSS, Glen Hilton Farm, Bedford City, Va.

Reg. P. *Chlnaa Berkshires, C. White* Large strains. Al) ages, mated, not akin Bred Sows. Servlc* Boars. Guernsej Calves, Collie and Beagle Pups and Poultry. Write for prices and free clr-

P. F. Hamilton, Cochranvllle, Cheste? County, Pa;

EDWARD WALTER

Breeder and Shipper

of Registered Chester White, Poland-China and Berkshire Pigs; Scotch Col-(le Dogs and a variety of Poultry. Send 2-cent stamp for circular and prices. Come, see my stock and select for yourself. Eureka Stock Farm, Weit Cheater, Pa.

NOT A SICK HOG

In the seven years I have raised them. Can't be better.

»■*»»»' Is the n0 g to ral8e _ F. S. MICHIE, Charlottesville, Va.

O. I. C. BOARS

READY FOR SERVICE. ALSO PIGS FOR SALE. ALL REGISTERED. D. WILLIAM GOOD, FARLAND, VA.

seen as strong a yearling in his life, and he had sheared a thousand. Then he began to notice the wool that turned away from the fast moving shears like a blanket of snow before the snow plow. He called some of the others over and said he had never seen such beautiful wool and lifted it up on his hands and showed the crimp that looked as if a machine had worked it over. When the fleece was weighed,I heard some one call out twelve pounds, and declare that fine for such clean and dry wool.

That day I was turned in with the ewes that had been selected for me and I thought I was boss of the farm. I had a very pleasant summer, until the flies got to working about my horns, and soon a mass of squirming things wiere in my head. It was too awful to mention. My shepherd knew just what to do. He poured some strong smelling stuff, which I knew they had used to dip the lambs for ticks, into the sores about my horns and it was in a jiffy that these things wiggled out of my head.

I grew in pride and strength and never thought I could have a superior.

One day I was standing out in the pasture with my ewes when I saw a wagon drive into the farm yard, and soon a box came out, from which a very large ram, much like myself, was released. He was a magnificent fellow, carrying horns that made mine look mean, and he was wide about the ohest, and his voice sounded like thunder. Somehow, when I saw him my blood boiled in my veins. I imagined he was coming to trample on my rights. I at once marched over to the fenoe and he came in a mild manner as if to greet me, but before I knew what I wat. doing I was running pell mell at the fence. When I struck, one of the oak boards flew into splinters. In another minute I would have been with my enemy, but my shepherd was there at once and the new ram was taken across to another pasture. I chewed hard on my cud and nursed my wrath and planned trouble. I knew just how I could get around to the intruder, so I started. I knocked the latch off the gate at the barn and marched around to a cow-gap that led into the field and hopped over as light as a cricket and was making for the ram, when my shepherd spied me. He caught me and drove me to the sheep barn and shut me up. I was too mad to stay in such close quarters, so I began to punch the walls and soon I knocked a board off, and out I came and proceeded to battle. I saw the ram in the distance just as he saw me and I rejoiced to see that he made no show to meet me. I knew by this he was a coward and I gloried in the way I would knock the life out of him. I ■warched steadily on with glaring 6yes and frothing mouth. I walked right up to the ram and was a little surprised to find he wanted to be friend-

Test Farm

Of the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Immigration.

For Sale—Berkshire Boar, Tuleyrles Duke 10th, 101333, winner of second prize in Virginia class at State Fair, 1907.

ALSO SOME EXCELLENT BERKSHIRE PIGS, DORSET HORN RAMS, RED POLL BULL CALF.

Address E. W. MAGRTJDER,, Dept. of

Agriculture, Richmond, Va.

Tamworth Pigs

From Registered Stock of Fine BREEDING.

TOLNBT OSBUBJC, Bluemont, Loodoon Co., Va,

. - . FOR SALE . - .

Jersey Boar Pigs, from registered stock, $5 each.

Black Cochin, Light Brahma and Barred Plymouth Rock Eggs.

WALTER M. CARROLL, Box 106, Lynchburg, Va.

STERLING HERD

REG. DUR0C-JERSEYS AND TAMWORTH SWINE

Duroc Boars ready for service. R. W. WATSON, Petersburg, Va.

MEADOW BROOK FARM

Large Improved YorKshire* from best imported stock at reasonable prices. J. D. Thomas, Prop,,

Round HU1, Va.

■wltt

LARGE YORKSHIRE IMPORTED BRED SOWS, BRED GILTS AND PIGS.

Flatt breeding; from the Armitage and Lord Roseberry Herds. The best. OVERBROOK FARM, 8 W. Conway Street, Baltimore, Sid.

PURE BRED

BERKSHIRE PIGS

AND

SHROPSHIRE LAMBS

OF BOTH SEXES FOR SALE AT

FARMERS' PRICES. DILLEMTJTH BROS., Blackstone, Va.

Tell the advertiser where you saw his advertisement.

U(MWK) yjmJL riAi w ATCOOPERSBURG.PA.

A PLEASED BUYER IS THE BEST ADVERTISEMENT.

The imported Jersey Cattle sold at our May, 19 07, auction sale have given universal satisfaction. Our most sanguine expectations have been more than reali zed. How could it be otherwise? Individually, they were strictly FIRST CLASS.

Best of all, they were bred on both dam and sir es' side from animals that have made the Island Cattle so famous—the blood that wins at the churn and in the show ring.

For a number of years the blood of Golden Fer ns Lad has dominated the show and sales rings. The climax was reached last year, when every winning of any consequence, at all of the principal fairs in America, England and the Island was made by a son or a daug hter or a near descendant of Golden Ferns Lad. The record price at auction ($11,500) was made for a grandson of Golden Ferns Lad, and an eight months old Bull Calf by him brought $10,200.

At the National Dairy Show, Chicago, the Grand Champion and Junior Champion females were daughters of Golden Ferns Lad, the Grand Champion Bull w as a grandson and the Junior Champion Bull was sired by a grandson and out of a granddaughter of Golden F erns Lad. The four prizes for bull and get (the most important of all prizes) all went to Golden Ferns Lad and his close descendants.

If you intend to begin breeding Jerseys, or if you are now breeding, don't you think the above record is worthy of your attention? and "look before you leap." They are winners at the churn and in the show ring— you are always certain to be called up front by the judge for the blue ribbon.

Catalogues ready for distribution May 10th. When applying, mention Southern Planter, as, owing to the great cost of publishing same, they will only be sent on application. Address

T. S. COOPER (& SONS, "g^oveICOOPEKSBUFG, FA.

i» y . . M SB

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. & Sons.

Lynnwood Stock Farm

CARRIES A LINE OF

Percheron Horses

Shorthorn Cattle

Berkshire Hogs

INDIVIDUALLY GOOD AND WHOSE BREEDING IS UNEXCELLED.

SADDLE HORSES £S

Stock eligible to registry always on hand at References : Any County Official or Bank

conservative figures. in Rockingham County.

John F. Lewis, = = Lynnwood, Virginia.

THE SOUTHERN PLANTER.

[May,

HYGEIA HERD

Holstein=Friesians.

SONS OF

Pontiac Calypso'sSon,

FOR SALE;

Dam—Pontiac Calypso, A. R. O., 28.43 pounds. i

Sire's dam—Beryl Wayne, A. R. O., 27.87 pounds.

From following A. R. O. cows: FRONTIER JESSIE VEEMAN,

A. R. O., 20.70 pounds; SHADELAND DULCIBEL IV.,

A. R. O., 20.92 pounds;

MANOR GRACE PIETERJE,

A. R. O., 20.92 pounds;

NEXHERLAND FANCY ROSETTA,

A. R. O., 20.53 pounds.

FHB BULL IS HALF THE HERD—Qet the Best

Prices and pedigrees sent on appli-caion.

Come at once and make your own selection or write us your wants. Address: Crozet,

J. B. Loomis, Supt., Albemarle Co.,

Dr. W. F. Carter, Prop. Virginia.

"Glenara Stock Farm"

Spring Offering

Reg. Shorthorn (dual purpose) Ball Calves.

Reg. Dorset Ram Lambs and a few Yearling Rams.

Reg. Poland-China Boar Pigs.

Dams and sires of all breeding stock offered Imported to Virginia from England, Canada or Western United States. Farmers price*.

Address JOHN BUTLER SWANN, Marshall, Va.

THOROUGHBRED

BERKSHIRE BOARS, JERSEY BULL CALVES, DORSET BUCK LAMBS.

Sire of Calves, FLYING FOX, C54IC, on of Flying Fox who sold for f7,5»f ,t the Cooper sale, 1902.

All stock In best condition ana

WALNUT HILLS HERD

Reg. Angus Cattle

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ly, but I despised his advances and I hunched him one in the ribs. This stirred him a little and as he was waking up to the fact that I meant business, I was backing for my first charge. I rushed forward, as the big ram turned his head to meet me. I landed and I hope I may die in torment if I didn't think I had hit a stone wall, but I have the one consolation of knowing I hit it hard. I recovered my balance and was well back for another charge, when I saw the big ram square himself for a charge. When we met strange sounds filled my ears and a dimness swept over my vision and a weakness passed into my knees and I knew my end was near, but I had too little sense to quit, so I gathered myself up for another blow into which I was to put the last that I had. I moved back for the charge and noted that my opponent had a determined look that meant death to me. He was moving farther and farther back and I began to wonder what he would be like in motion. I had little time to reflect, for he had started and so had I, I recklessly plunged to certain death without a fear, but—I am here to say that the blow was never delivered. As I rushed forward a strong hand had deftly seized my horn and dragged me from the path of that on-coming avalanche. My shepherd had rushed to the rescue and he had saved me for the second time. As I stood by my protector, the blood trickled from my nose and my eyes shed salty tears and my trembling limbs were failing beneath me. I had met my superior, though I vowed I would some day make him know my power to conquer.

The summer passed without notable incident and into winter quarters we went. We rams were fed separately and I think we had the very finest feed we could get. There was occasionally corn, but more frequently oats and sweet alfalfa hay and once a day we had a nice lot of turnips or apples. I noticed my shepherd fed the ewes mangels and they smelt so good, but he said it would not do to give rams these, as it would often prove fatal.

The next spring at shearing the old shears were not used, but a machine which ran so" smoothly and rarely ever pinched me. It looked so easy to me and I know they got more wool, for it seemed to me they got all except my skin. I was so pleased to hear my shepherd say that I was doing wonders for his flock. He said he believed my lambs had the finest fleeces he ever saw and he counted on a lot of ewes that would shear ten pounds of wool. I was so glad to please my shepherd who had been so kind to me. I spent this summer in a distant field, where I was so glad to welcome my shepherd when he came twice a week to salt us, but it was often that he came over day by day to see how we

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BrooklandvlUe, Maryland.

P. O. Luthervllle, R. F. D.; Telephone

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The property of

Jamea McK. and I. B. Merrymaa.

GUERNSEYS

The kind that win. Not beaten in 1»07. Shown Maryland State Fair, Allentown, Pa., Mt. Holly, N. J., Trenton, N. J., Richmond, Va., and Hagerstown, Md. When you bay get the best. A few pure-bred Heifers and Bull Calf dropped April Is 1807, out of Imp Lady Simon, by Mil-ford Lassie II. Anchor the Boil that wins.

Our Berkshire* were unbeaten wherever shown. Write for prices.

Fine ANGUS Calves

AT FARMERS' PRICES.

Several 15-16 Grade Angus Bull Calves ready for service. Will make superb bulls for grading up herds.

Several Registered Angus Bull and Heifer Calves. Fine individuals, whose development has been pushed since the day they were droped.

All these calves will be sold at farmers' prices. Write at once if you want one of them.

A splendid piece of standing Pine and Oak Timber, half mile from railroad, for sale cheap to a quick buyer.

W. M. WATKINS & SON, Saxe, Charlotte County, Va.

Hereford Cattle

Several young, Pure-Bred Registered *ulls for sale at farmers' prices. Excal-«nt strain and fine Individuals. Alee *rade Hereford Cows and Helfera. WILLIAM C. STTJBBS, Valley Front

ffarm, Sassafras, Gloucester Co., Va

Devon Herd Established 1884. Hampshire Down Flock Established 11*0.

DEVON CATTLE

BULLS AND HEIFERS,

HAMPSHIRBDOWN SHEEP,

RAMS AND EWES.

ROBERT J. FARHER, Orange, Va.

ANGUS CATTLE.

SOUTHDOWN SHEEP.

ESSEX PIGS.

One choice Angus Cow, 5 years old: two choice Pure Bred Bulls, one and two years old. A number of Southdown Lambs, May, June and July delivery, and a few Essex Pigs for July and August delivery. L. G. JONES, TOBACCOVILLE, N. C.

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THOROUGHBRED

HORSES FOR SALE

Mabel Lyon, Brown Filly, by Imported Fatherless, foaled May 15, 1904, No. 40106; first dam, Sarmaline by Imported Order.

Kathleen Gray, Black Mare, by Jim Gray, foaled April 16, 1895. No. 6447; first dam, Katie C, by imported Charaxs.

Aprnes Gray, Black or Brown Mare, by Jim Gray, foaled May 23, 1901, No. 29554; first dam, St. Olga, by imported St. Blaise.

Chestnut Colt, No. 40105, foaled April 7, 1904, by imported Potentate; first dam, Grayon, by Jim Gray.

Chestnut Colt, 2 years old, by Imported Fatherless; first dam, Grayon, by Jim Gray.

Correspondence solicited.

S. H. WILSON, Byrdville, Va.

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DICK WILKES, Jr., the perfect horse and blue ribbon winner at State Fair; sired by Dick Wilkes, 2:11; dam Blackhawk Morgan Pet. Grand dam, sired by Ethan Allen, Jr., by Hill's Blackhawk Fan.

PILOSO, 102, the only Imported Cata-lonian Spanish Jack in this section.

This stock will bear inspection, and their colts speak for themselves. Owned by

W. J. STRAIN & SON,

It. F. ». No. 1, Richmond, Va.

Mechanlcsvllle Farm.

Bargains in Horses.

A splendid pair of Mare Mule Colts, coming- 2 years old. Extra fine; large as ordinary 3 year old; drives nicely to a buggy or light wagon. Will be sold at a bargain.

One splendid 2-year-old Sorrel Gelding; drives nicely, single and double; very compactly built. Will make a splendid family or work horse.

This horse is perfectly sound and will be sold at a bargain to the quick purchaser.

W. M. WATKINS & SON, Saxe, Charlotte County, Va.

ELLERSLIE FARM.

THOROUGHBRED HORSES

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SHORTHORN CATTLE,

Pure Southdown Sheep and Berkshire Pigs for Sale.

R. J. HANCOCK & SON,

Charlottesville, Va.

FOR MORGAN COLTS

und Fillies and High-Bred Fox Hound Puppies, address

Or. JOHN D. MASSENGILL. Blount-vllle, Tenn.

Chowan Co., N. C, Nov. 6, '07. I have read the Southern Planter and am well pleased with it. I find it very instructive and interesting and just what I want.

FRANK O. RYDER.

were doing and he seemed so much pleased with this flock. Being far away from the other flock I almost forgot the big ram that had once jarred me so, but I was growing so large and strong that I was losing fear of all creatures. I would not hesitate to challenge a horse or cow, and a dog was too small for me to notice. Toward fall ray shepherd used to bring us every afternoon to a rape patch before we went out to pasture for the evening. One evening I was in the rape when I heard the bleat of the big ram and there came back to me an insane desire to meet him in mortal combat, so I left my ewes and started for the sound. I knew every gate and low place in the fences and soon I was in the field with the big ram who had been such a kind companion during the past winter, but somehow my feelings would never permit me again to live in favor with this rival. My ambition was unbounded. He saw me coming and knew well my mission. As I approached he circled and came down on me like a cyclone. I was there with the goods and I felt it was different now. If not so heavy, I was as hard a hitter and I was very quick. I backed to my position and before the big ram got in motion I was rushing for the attack. When we clashed, it was enough to make softer heads ache, but it only served to stir our blood. Back again we went and together we rushed and the clash of our horns sounded hollow like the call of the tomb and we knew some one would die. Back again we went and once again we met and each was painted red with the enemy's gore. I felt that it would take strategy to conquer, so at the next charge I deliberately avoided the meet and as he rushed past I whirled and with awful force was rushing for his side. He was but half turned, when we met and the force of my blow was on one horn. I saw him stagger and knew I had hurt him badly, but the time was now for action. I rushed past him to the rear and whirled for the most vicious charge of all. He was just turning when I landed. It was too late then, for I had reached with powerful momentum the side of his massive head and I heard something snap and as he stumbled and fell to his knees I knew I had broken his neck. I stood proudly by the fallen chief, blew the clottesd blood from my nostrils and then started to my ewes, but not many steps had I taken before I realized that I was hurt somewhere within. I was feeble and sick and I knew my victory was dearly bought. I was never strong after this and it is with difficulty that I have told you this much of my story and now that I am growing weary and fearing that you, my kind readers have been so all the time, I close with the last chapter to be told.

H. B. ARBUCKLE.

JACK FOR SALE

One Kentucky Jack, black with white points, 14% hands high, small head, fine coat of hair, long body, 9 years old, prompt, vigorous, gentle and easy to handle. Price $250 f. o. b. Oxford, N. C. Address LOUIS DE LACROIX, Oxford, N. O.

KENTUCKY JACK FARM.

Is the wholesale house for Jacks, ma we breed and raise, the Big, Mammoth Kentucky Jacks, and can sell you a flrst-class Jack 26 to it per cent, cheaper than a dealer er speculator can. Writ* to-day for prices en

Jacks, Jennets and Mules. A large let

to select from.

JOB E. WRIGHT, Junction City, Ky.

J/% r* MS C Imported Catalonia Hi t> ffl 9 Malyorca and Kentucky Mammoth Jacks and Jennet* Saddle Horses, Trotting; and Pnetsy Stallions, Poland-China and Tamwert* Hoars. Our Importation of Spanish Jacks, which arrived Aug. 12, Is the largest and finest ever brought to the United States. Our herd of Tamworths Is headed by the first and second prise boars at the Royal show in England. Our catalog is the finest ever issued by any Jack breeders. Write us youx wants or visit our farms. J. F. COOK * CO., LEXINGTON, KT Branch Barn, Greenville, Texas.

SCOTCH COLLIE PUPS

FOR SALE. I am now offering you at reasonable prices some very choice Scotch Collie Pups. They are beauties. Sables with very fancy markings. Parents trained drivers and registered. These Pups trace to such Ch. dogs as Ormskirk Emerald, Finsbury Pilot, Christopher, Kirkdale Patrick and Wishaw Clinker. Write me at once. I can please you. Address H. H. ARBTTCKLE, Edgewood Stock Farm, Maxwelton, W. Va.

DORSETS.

We offer a number of flock headers in yearling, two and three-year-old Rams; also, few choice Imported Ewes. Write us soon before this lot is culled over.

J. E. WING & BRO., Mechanlcsburg, O.

■DGEWOOD STOCK FARM

DORSETS.

Our fall Iambs are now ready fee ton. Let us hear from you promptly (his year.

J. D. Alt BUCKLE A SONS,

MainelloD. Greenbrier County, West Virginia.

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POULTRY, ETC.

INDIAN RUNNER DUCK EGGS, 11 for $1.60. My ducks came from "Exmoor Farms," winners of first honors at New Tork Poultry Show on "Indian Runners," whilst one of my drakes comes from a breeder who won first at Chicago. If you try these ducks you will find they cost little to keep and will far surpass the best breeds of hens for eggs. I think they will largely displace hens when their merits are known. W. W. Henry, Jr., Broad Run, Va.

■ALMON FAVEROLLES, THE LEAD-lng utility fowl, 12 eggs $6; Silver Spangled Hamburgs, Partridge Wyandottes, Silver Laced Wyan-dottes, Golden Sebright Bantams, White Rocks, White Pekln Ducks, Indian Runner Ducks, White Guineas, Pearl Guineas, 13 eggs $1; Buff Bronze Turkeys, 11 eggs $2. Guineas and Hamburgs for sale; Guineas, pair, $1.50 to $3. Hamburgs, $2; male or female trio, $5. Write for circular. A. E. Parsons, Berkshire, New York.

FOR SALE—TWO PEKIN DRAKES, Mammoth strain, $1.25 each or $2 for the two. Now booking orders for June and July delivery of Pullets and Cockerels, 8 weeks old, of the following pure bred strains: Brown Leghorns, White P. Rocks, Rhode Island Reds and Pekin Ducks at 50 cents each. Eggs from above breeds at $1 sitting. Correspondence invited. Drury B. Baskerville, 823 Seventh Avenue S. E., Roanoke, Va.

ROSE-COMB BUFF LEGHORNS FOR sale. My entire stock. Including six Washington, D. C, prize winners; Single-Comb Buffs, including second Cock and Cockerel, same show. Also Buff Plymouth Rocks. Will sell single, In trios or pens. Write for particulars and prices. Fifteen years a breeder of Buffs. J. W. Sllcott, Bluemont, Va.

FIFTEEN EGGS STANDARD BRED Buff Rocks for $1; hens on free range. Fifty-five hens, average weight 7%, trap nested to 110 eggs; eight cocks, good color, weigh an average of 9%. Fertility guaranteed at 75 per cent. John E. Morris, Jr., Orange, Va.

KINGLET BARRED ROCK EGGS from handsome, clear barred birds, winners of two first, two specials for best shaped and best barred Cockerel and Pullet, Herndon, Va., show, 1908; 15 eggs, $1.50; Mammoth Pekin Duck, 12 for $1. J. A. McCarty, Monroe Grove Poultry Farm, Aldie, Va.

EGGS FOR SALE FROM S. C. BROWN Leghorns, Brace's strain; S. C. R. I. Reds, Bryant's strain. Choice eggs from choice birds. Also a few Hens, Cocks and Baby Chicks. Write for prices. Satisfaction guaranteed.

Evergreen Farms, Rice Depot, Va.

EGGS FOR HATCHING FROM THE celebrated Wyckoff strain of Single Comb White Leghorns. Prices reasonable. Write us your needs. Virginia Poultry and Berry Farm, W. H. Densmore, manager, Sutherlin, Va.

RHODE ISLAND RED EGGS, FROM prize winning, heavy-laying strain, $1 per 20, $4.50 per 100; Collie Pups and Brood Females from champion imported stock cheap this month; March Rhode Island Red Chicks 35 to 50 cents each. Shady Brook Farm, Route No. 2, Roanoke, Va.

PURE-BRED S. C. BUFF ORPINGTON Eggs for hatching, $1 for 15, $1.75 for 30 (best winter layers). Will also spare a few sittings of S. C. R. I. Reds. Address C. W. Schools, Doswell, Va., care Meadow Farm. (Mention this paper.)

WYCKOFF SINGLE COMB WHITE Leghorns exclusively; breeders tested by Hogan's system; 15 eggs 75 cents, 100 $3.50; Day-Old Chicks 10 cents, $8 per 100. Grandscope Poultry Ranges, Branch A, Apple Grove, Va.

FOR SALE—A FEW FINE PEKIN Drakes and White Wyandotte Cockerels from prize winners at Jamestown, Madison Square, Philadelphia, State Fair, etc. Evelyn Heights Farm, formerly Thomas A Coates, Catlett, Va.

EGGS FOR HATCHING—THIRTY White or Brown Leghorn, $1.50, 100 $3.75; Buff Leghorn, 30 eggs $1.75, 100 $5; White Wyandotte, White Rock, White Indian Game, Rhode Island Reds, Orpington and Anconas, 30 eggs $2, $3 per 50. Clarence Shenk, Luray, Va.

IMPERIAL PEKIN DUCK EGGS FOR hatching, "Rankin" strain. We have the best. Eggs, 15 for $1.50, $6 per 100; eggs from my selected S. C. White Leghorns, $1.60 per 16, $7 per 100. Willow Poultry Yards, South Mills, N. C.

WANTED—FOR AUGUST OR SEP-tember delivery, fifty each Partridge Cochins, Buff Cochins and Buff Orpingtons, all pullets. Give lowest price to P. O. Box 1, Lynchburg, Va.

EGGS FOR SALE FROM PURE-BRED Silver Laced Wyandotte stock, prize winners at Virginia State Fair, 1907. Eggs, 15 for $1. Miss Phaup, Pilklnton, Va.

SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY PRICES now on Eggs from both combs "Reds," beautiful and brilliant; phenomenal layers. Convincing circular. W. Shook, McGaheysville, Va.

S. C. BUFF ORPINGTONS EXCLU-sively. A fine utility strain on free range; every bird carefully selected. Eggs 75 cents per 15. Rev. E. W. Moyer, Church Road, Va.

WHITE GUINEA EGGS FOR SALE, $1 for 15 eggs. The White Guinea is unsurpassed as a table fowl, meat white, fine flavor. J. H. Garst, Salem, Va.

FOR SALE—LOT OF FINE HOMER Pigeons. A bargain to quick purchaser. Large healthy squab breeders. H. M. McManaway, Bowling Green, Va.

BEAUTY AND UTILITY, PRIZE winners, heavy layers, Buff and Brown Leghorns, White Rocks. Eggs $1 per 15. Circulars free. J. N. Coffman, Edlnburg, Va.

BUFF ORPINGTON, B. P. ROCKS AND Silver Laced Wyandotte Eggs, $1 for 15. Mrs. W. M. Jones, Crofton, Va.

EGGS FROM SELECT PEN OF S. C. B. Leghorn, 75 cents per 15. Stock guaranteed. Brace's strain. B. G. Bass, Rice Depot, Va.

ROCKS FOR SALE—AM NOW DE-voting my entire time and attention to breeding more and better Buff Rocks. Farmers' as well fanciers' fowl. Eggs for hatching, Cockerels for sale and Hens after July 1st. Write for circular and prices. A. H. Kirk, Herndon, Va., State Vice-President Buff Rock Club.

S. C. R. I. RED EGGS FOR SALE—$1 per 15, $4 per 100. Fowls have free range; only one breed on farm. Miss Cornelia C. Cammack, Gold-dale, Va.

WHITE WYANDOTTES, RHODE

Island Reds and Barred Plymouth Rocks. Eggs $1.50 per 15, $5 per 100. Stock for sale. John A. Goodwin, Highland Park, Richmond, Va.

MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEY EGGS, 15 for $3. B. O. Poultry Yards, Rapidan, Va. (Through error, we printed the price at $1 in our April issue.—S. P.)

PURE BRED ROSE COMB RHODE Island Reds—Stock birds and Eggs for sitting. The Mcllwaine Poultry Yards, Box 13, R. F. D. 1, Sutherland, Va. ^_

EG GS_LEGHORN AND INDIAN RUN-ner Duck, $1 per sitting; Berkshire Swine; Early Hollybrook Soja Beans; Fauquier and Goodwin Corn. Fairfield Farm, Nokesvll le, Va.

EGGS FOR HATCHING—BUFF ORP-lngtons, $1 per sitting; White Lang-shans, $2 per sitting. Rose Lawn. Box 56, R. F. D., No. 2, Richmond, Va.

ONE PEN EACH BEST BIRDS UN-sold; will sell eggs from same balance of season, or until sold, 15 for $1. J. W. Silcott, Bluemont, Va.

FAVEROLLES—THE GREAT WINTER layers, mature early as broilers, 15 eggs $1.25, 30 eggs $2.25. L. O. Stickley, Strasburg, Va.

SINGLE COMB RHODE ISLAND REDS for sale. Excellent stock. Wrl . te vour wants. Eggs, 15 for $1.50; 30 $2.50. Thomas N. Berry, R. F. D. 1. Sweetwater. Tenn.

BUFF ORPINGTONS, LARGE SIZE Solid Buff, strong and healthy. Eggs $1 and $2 per 13. W. A Tanner. Bristol, Va.-Tenn.

MAMMOTH PEKIN DUCK EGGS, $1 per sitting of 11. Rankin's best. William Huff. Strasburg Junction, Shenandoah County, Va.

EGGS FOR SALE FROM PURE BRED S C. Brown and White Leghorns and B. P. Rocks, $1 per 15. Laurel Glenn Poultry Yards, Ceres, Va.

BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS Exclusively. Eggs. 6 cents each, $4 per 100. Noah Moses, Chatham, Va.

BLACK MINORCA EGGS FOR SALE. M. Catterton, Stack, Va.

_.IV_ STOCK.

TWO BERKSHIRE BOAR PIGS. TWO months old. splendidly bred and eligible to register, $5 each, $9 for the two in one shipment. If you want them speak quickly. Satisfaction guaranteed. J. S. Ball, Lewins-ville, Va.

VERY FINE YORKSHIRES AT ONE-half usual prices to quick buyers. Pigs, each, $5, two $9, three $12.50. four $16. Also Service Boars, Bred

Gilts and Sows at sacrifice prices.

H. D. Coleman, Ivy Depot, Va.

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Live Stock (Continued).

REGISTERED GUERNSEYS FOR sale—Two choice Bull Calves, 10 months old, from best milking strains, and a handsome 4-year-old Bull from an Advanced Register dam. Prices moderate. G. M. Wallace, Falmouth, Va.

FOR SALE—JERSEY CALVES AND Large Yorkshire Swine. We are overstocked with pigs and will sell them at reduced prices. Riverside Park, Morganton, N. C.

TO SELL, AFTER JUNE 1, 1908, 30 good breeding Ewes and one Shropshire Buck. J. A. Spears, Nellwood, Va.

SIX ANGORA GOATS AND ONE KID for sale, and expect more kids soon. Price, $35. Address H. J. Woodward. Fine Creek Mills, Va., Route No. 1.

PEDIGREED DUROC-JERSEY PIGS; some of the best blood that money can buy. Your money back if not satisfied. L. G. Blankenship, Box 202, Roanoke, Va.

FOR SALE—SOME VERf FINE Standard Bred Horses for saddle and harness in pairs or single. C. T. Smith, Croxton, Va.

FOR SALE—SEVERAL PONIES, 42 to 48 inches; gentle for children. John M. Cunningham, Brandy Station, Va.

FOR SALE—A CHOICE PURE BRED Hampshire Boar Pig, well belted; foundation herd from most prominent Kentucky breeders. A. Brooke Lawson, Upperville, Va.

REGISTERED DUROC-JERSEY Swine. The best of all hogs.. Prices low and pedigree sent with each pig or hog. Oscar G. Hutcherson, Union Hall, Va.

VALUABLE LARGE TENNESSEE Jack, 5 years old, for sale at sacrifice on account of death of owner. I. L. Piatt, Pomona, Fla.

LARGE YORKSHIRE PIGS, BRED Gilts and Serviceable Boars at special prices. W. E. Stickley, Stras-burg, Va.

BEFORE BUYING YOUR BERK-shlre Pigs write me for my prices and breeding. It will pay you. Dr Charles G. Cannaday, Roanoke, V»

BLACK AND WHITE SHETLAND Stallion for sale, handsome, well broken. Dr. William C. Johnson, Frederick, Md.

*. FEW CHOICE BERKSHIRE PIGS one richly-bred Short Horn Bull Calf for sale. Address M. B. Qulsenberry, Mineral, Va.

BARGAIN IN DUROC-JERSEY PIGS and Gilts, also 100 S. C. White Leghorn Yearling Hens. C. L. Shenk, Luray, Va.

RIAL ESTATE.

WANTED—TO RENT OR WORK ON Shares—Fine Farm on Dan river, close to fine market for milk, butter, etc., and all farm products. Good buildings, etc. Station on farm only a few hundred yards from dairy barn. A bargain for the right man For particulars address Oak HID Stock Farm, Wenonda, Va.

A GOOD FARM. GOOD 10-ROOM modern house, two large barns, silo; land is good, will grow 60 bushe's oats to the acre; three miles from

Owego, near river; will keep BO cows; well watered, and must be sold to settle estate. Price, $3,900, $1,500 cash, balance five years at 5 per cent. Timber enough to pay for it on it. Hall's Farm Agency, Owego, N. Y.

FARM, 186 ACRES, FOR SALE; 8 miles from Richmond and Midlothian pike; telephone; half cultivated, balance timber; near school and church; good 10-room dwelling, outbuildings. Stock and all fixtures go in $6,000. Must be sold. J. L. Howard, Manchester, Va., Route No. 2.

WANTED—A LARGE TRACT HIGH-class grazing lands or large finely improved gentleman's country seat. Northern Virginia, or possibly an upper James River plantation, in exchange for property in Washington, D. C, with gross rental over $10,000 per year. Address, giving full particulars and price, "Property," care Southern Planter.

FOR SALE—COUNTRY STORE IN Fairfax county, Virginia; 25 miles from Washington, 3 from station; fine dairy and poultry neighborhood; good business; 14 years established. Address "Excellent Opening," care Southern Planter.

120-ACRE FARM, WITH TEAM, tools, cows, hogs, chickens, wagons, crop, etc., all for $2,750. Also 135 acres, team, tools, cows, crops, etc. Bargains. Address A. D. Hale, Mc-Minnville, Tenn.

FOR SALE—IMPROVED FARM, 100 acres, near town, mostly in crop and meadow, 15 acres timber. Price, $2,000. Address owner, Robert Mc-Farland, McMinnville, Tenn.

CHEAP LAND WHERE INVALIDS get well without medicine and raise $200 in fruit per acre. Eden Fruit Colony Company, Dewberry, Harnett County, N. C.

ONE ACRE AT VIRGINIA BEACH for sale, with dwelling, store attached and necessary outbuildings, $1,500, third cash. P. H. Stone, Lamberts Point, Va.

FARM AND TIMBER LANDS; GREAT bargains. Write W. B. Payne, Crof-ton, Va.

POSITIONS—HELP.

YOUNG LADY WANTED—WE WANT young ladies In the country to sell pretty souvenir post cards for nice premiums or cash. We send you the cards on credit. Write at once and get the cards. LeRoy Bargain Co., Box 202, Roanoke, Va.

WANTED—MAN TO WORK ON FARM and care for stock and orchards; must be capable of carrying out instructions during my absence and of taking entire charge if I want him to do so. State experience had, wages wanted, size of family, etc. H. D. Coleman, Ivy Depot, Va.

WANTED—POSITION AS GENERAL manager of fruit farm by young man of good education and habits; ten years experience; knows the business from planting to marketing diseases and insect pests and treatment. Also good knowledge of poultry. E. Vandermeersch, 3238 P Street, N. W., Washington, D. C.

WANTED—A POSITION AS FARM manager or overseer by a practical farmer who understands hay and grain farming. Address J. W. Enroughty, Oyster, Va.

MISCELLANEOUS.

THE LOCKPORT PUBLISHING COM-pany Is offering a book of analyses which Is a money saver to the faraner. It contains the formulae of most of the veterinary remedies used in this ceuntry. It enables the farmer to make his own stock food, poultry powder, liniments, etc., at one-tenth the present cost. The book costs $1 and will save several times that amount annually. Write the L. P. Co., Lockport, N. Y.

WANTED—TO BUY ALL KINDS Wild Birds and Animals, particularly Tame Deer, Wild Turkeys, White Squirrels, Peafowl, Otters, Red Foxes, Grey Squirrels, Partridges, Pheasants. Beaver. State price when writing. Dr. Cecil French, Naturalist, Washington, D. C.

FOX HOUND PUPS AT REASONABLE prices. The best blood that can be had anywhere. Parents well-trained fox, 'possum, coon and rabbit hounds with long ears and long, coarse musical voices. Capt. D. D. Parks, Mount Airy, N. C.

WANTED—ONE HUNDRED GRAY Foxes, either young or old ones. Will take any part of this number at any time. Write, stating how many you can furnish, and at what price. Address J. C. Goode, Boyd-ton, Va.

FOR SALE—BEAUTIFUL SCOTCH Collie Pups from registered stocR; color, sable with fine white markings. Circular, containing pictures, free. Brightside Collie Kennels, Bowling Green, Va.

WANTED—HIGHEST CASH PRICES paid for Old China, English Cut-Glass, Sheffield Plate and Copper Lustre Pitchers. Address, stating what you have, with prices, George Wells, Oak Ridge, Va.

SPECIAL OFFER ON FIRST ORDER for our new style automatic gate in any county. Address, with stamp, Manlove Gate Company, 272 Huron Street, Chicago, 111.

LIME—WE MANUFACTURE HTGH-Grade Building and Agricultural Lime. Write for prices. Alleghany Lime Company, Inc., Chrlstiansburg, Va.

SLIGHTLY-USED 5-H. P. MIAMI GAS-oline Engine, mounted, guaranteed first-class condition. Stockdell-

Myers Hardware Company, Petersburg, Va.

FOP. SALE CHEAP—COW OR FIELD Peas. I have several hundred bushels each Whippoorwill and Blue Goose and other varieties. Wire or write me for prices and samples. J. T. Walker, Memphis, Tenn.

FOR SALE—220-EGG CYPHERS "Model" Incubator; been used only three hatches. In first-class condition. Will sell for $20 to first buyer. F. Hutchinson, Ozeana, Va.

SCARE CROWS—NO MORE CROWS pulling corn. Worth $10 to any farmer; 50 cents, post paid. A. W. Maxwell, Brokenburg, Va.

Franklin Co., N. C, Dec. 14, '07.

The Southern Planter Is a blessing to the farmer. If they will put Into practice your advice, they are bound to succeed. JAS. C. PEACE.

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ROSE DALE HERD ABERDEEN-ANGUS CATTLE

We offer to the farmers and breeders of the East strictly choice Young Registered Bulls from weanlings to serviceable age. They are of the straight, broad-backed, lown-down, compact, blocky type. Many of them show ring animals. They represent the blocd of Master II. of Meadow Brook; Gay Lord, Jr.; Heather Lad II., Zaire V., Ermine Bearer, Blackbird of Corskie IV., Black Abbott, Abbottsford, Coquette X., Etc.

They are well grown out, in thrifty condition, but not pampered. Come and see them or write us your wants. Prices right. We can please you. Angus Cattle are our specialty. We raise no other stock, but give them our undivided personal attention.

To avoid inbreeding we offer an exceptionally good herd bull. Write for particulars. Address

ROSE DALE SLOCK FARMS, JfiFFERSONTON, VA.^

HOW TO BE HEALTHY. Editor Southern Planter:

I have read with much interest In your April issue the remarks of Mr. Weems, of Nottoway county, on "Common Sense and Good Health," and I fully agree with all he has said.

Too many people, dwellers in cities as well as in the country, expose themselves carelessly in all sorts of weather and therefore suffer. It stands to reason that people could often avoid this suffering and save the expense of a physician and medicines, if they would live carefully. But many are ignorant of hygiene and have never taken the trouble to look into the matter of how to preserve their health, not appearing to realize that without health life Is hardly worth living. This will account for much sickness and death.

Not only is sickness due to exposure, as has been mentioned by Mr. Weems, but many people are very rash in their care or rather lack of care for the inner man which, after all, is the real man.

More people are made sick and die 'from eating more than their systems need than from any other cause. Nearly everyone ought to learn to live in a way to preserve life instead of destroying it and nature will greatly help about this if allowed a chance.

It is not generally known but is nevertheless a fact that very many people do not die naturally; they kill themselves! They allow their bodies to become full of undigested, fermented food and in this way destroy them. Not to mention the financial waste of excessive eating and drinking, these habits damage and ruin the body and thus cause ill health and a short life; but very few people will believe this. Instead, they would rather continue to indulge their desires and hope that what is constantly shown to them and also told, is not really true. If cautioned that excessive eating and drinking will make trouble for them, most people doubt it; or, say to themselves that trouble to themselves from this

THIS STOCKJVIUST

- dispersal SALE

ABERDEEN-ANGUS CATTLE

Owing to the destruction by fire of all of our buildings, we are compelled to sell our entire herd Jf ABERDEEN-ANGUS CATTLE. This includes our Herd Bulls, Prince Barbara and Pride General II. The former is a son of the great $9,100 Prince Ito and the latter is by Heather Blackbird, a noted show bull and sire. The cows are a likely lot, either in calf or with calf at foot. There are lots of young things, male and female, and a splendid opportunity is offered here for parties to start herds, as no reasonable offer will be refused. Send at once for circular or write your wants and we will quote you prices.

MYER & SON

Bridgeville, Del

. SUNNY HOME FARM ABERDEEN ANGUS CATTLE

Are the sort that "breed on," because of the superior breeding: of the animals comprising the herd.

The herd bulls are "Baron Roaebay" by the famous Gay Blackbird, anal "Jester" by Imp. Equester (the best bred Eric Bull ever Imported).

Females are by Gay Blackbird, Beau Bill (champion over all breeds la America In 1J94), Ermoor by the great Royal Eric; Eulalle's Eric, a Colum blan winner, and by the noted Heather Lad II., and some of the beat in the In the herd are by our own Baron Roseboy. We have enly young calves for sale, but want to book you for one of these finely-bred ones bofare they are all sold. Write

A. 1- FRENCH, PROPRIETOR.

Station) Draper, N. C. ByrdvUle, Va.

REGISTERED BERKSHIRE BOARS.

Ready for service, for sale. Also a few Jersey Cows, fresh and to come fresh; Mel's Charm, 108023, a wonderful dairy cow, bred by A, M. Bowman, Salem, Va.

RIVER VIEW FARM, C. M. BASS, Prop., Rice Depot, Va.

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When corresponding with our advertisers always mention Southern Planter.

THE SOUTHEKN PLANTER

[May,

cause is away off yonder and that they will never get to it.

All whiskey drinkers are going to stop some day. Tobacco users don't want to stop although they know that tobacco-heart is killing many people now and coffee drinkers say they can't stop, yet most victims of these habits would rather keep on as they are doing, damaging their health and shortening their lives than to exercise a little self-control. People are too self-indulgent. They see the harm to others of bad habits like their own but they have a lingering hope that this harm will never come to them and are willing to take chances. Some escape, but not many. Most kill themselves.

Look around and the truth of what I say will be seen. Men who have lived quiet and temperate lives ordinarily live a long time and do more or less good to their fellows while those who are self-indulgent and burn the candle at both ends leave this world before their time, after having done little or no good to themselves or others. Of course there may be some exceptions to these facts, but not many.

There are a few simple rules which if followed with reasonable attention will largely prevent sickness and put off death. Below you will see a few of them. I believe that many people would profit by following these rules and in fact, I can hardly conceive of anyone who would not be benefited by observing them.

The real basis of good health is pure blood. All may have this, not by the use of medicines alone as is generally believed, but by the exercise of common sense, prudence and a little self-denial.

1. Live regularly. This applies to eating, sleeping, working and intestinal improvements.

2. Eat and drink in moderation. Avoid all intoxicants.

3. Get plenty of sleep and rise early.

4. Never allow the system to come clogged with waste matter.

5. Take plenty of exercise, plenty of work but don't overwork.

6. Bathe often. Take each morning a cool sponge bath all over and once a week take a warm bath but follow it immediately by a cool one.

If young people will begin early in life to follow these rules, barring accidents, they will live long and healthy lives. Even older people who have for years been excessive in their habits will find much relief in following my suggestions. Thus the pains and ills which render many lives uncomfortable will be relieved in a great measure and life will seem better worth living.

The Southern Planter is a farmers' paper and the farmers are the people on whose health and strength, not only the prosperity but the real life of the

be-

Do

BILTMORE FARMS.

WILTMORE N. G.

Jerseys

A FEW CAREFULLY SELECTED YOUNG

Bulls and Heifers

At reasonabe prices, representing rare combinations—Utility and Beauty-Milk and Butter on both sides as far back as they go—and the type that breeders are all after.

Berkshires

Representing combinations of Imported King Hunter on Western type of sows, and Premier boars on imported sows. Breeders need this kind of blood. Prices right.

Standard Poultry

Wyandottes, Leghorns and Rocks. For price lists, etc., address BILTMORE FARMS, R. F. D. NO. 2, BILTMORE, N. O.

JERSEY CATTLE

""The tort herd In the world. Headed by two bulls that cost over fl©,«4» ejtehT BULLS AND HEIFERS for sale.

Alic WHITS! ORPINGTON FOWLS, the beat general purpose bre»A|

CORNISH INDIAN GAMES, the beat table fowlj WHITE LEGHORNS, tko worlds greatest layers.

For particulars, addreaa BOWMONT FARMS, Salem, Virginia,

EVERGREEN FARMS!

1 am offering FOUR REGISTERED JERSEY BULLS, out of grand cows, and sired by my pure St. Lambert's Jersey Bull, "Rinoras Rioter of St. L., of Bowmont Farms.

. REGISTERED BERKSHIRES. ,_ m

Boars and Sows ready for service. Nice lot of Pigs 8 weeks old. My prices are reasonable for this high class of stock. Address W. B. GATES, PROP., RICE DEPOT, VA. Prince Edward County, NorColk and Western Railroad.

Scotch and Scotch Topped Shorthorn Bulls

Good ones, yearling and 2 year olds, by Imported Best of Archers, Imported Golden Emperor and Royal Canada. They are from heavy milking dams and will be sold low in the next thirty days.

TWO HUNDRED DUROCS

For sale—Pigs, Boars and some of our greatest Gilts and Sows. We have-as good as can be found in America, both in blood lines «ind individuality, ond the DUROC is the most popular hog in the country to-day. Write for Catalogue and Duroc Facts. Prices reduced for thirty days.

Leslie D.Kline, = Vaucluse, Va.

VALLEY COTTAGE FARM

BERKSHRIES.

Choice February and March Pigs. Herd headed by Dudley 83672, pure imported blood, and Longfellow 93437, pure Biltmore strain. Males ?5, females $6. Pigs mated no akin. C. S. TOWNLEY, The Hogman, Red Hill, Va.

MORVEN IIPARK

The Property of WESTMORELAND DAVIS. Esq.

Registered Dorset Horn Sheep.

Dorset Horns are one of the oldest and most valuable English breeds. Unrivalled for fecundity, early maturing and the production of early lambs. They are adapted to all climates and possess hardiness of constitution so essential to the improvement of the grade flocks of this country. In their pure state they are the producers of the early lamb—the most profitable phase of sheep raising. For crossing purposes they have no equal, and even on grade ewes the result is marked in the strong, vigorous and easily fattened lamb and the earlier season the lambs will wean. Dorsets are the best feeders, heaviest milkers, carry a heavy fleece of compact wool and produce mutton of the highest quality.

The MORVEN PARK FLOCK of Ewes was founded on selected Ewes from the choicest of the English flocks. They are remarkable for their even and family likeness, their great size and substance, their hardiness and robust constitutions. They are very prolific—each season dropping a high percentage of twins and triplets are not uncommon. Their milking qualities are unsurpassed.

The Service Rams are chiefly imported English Royal Winners, and some have been shown in America—in each case taking all the firsts.

At the Virginia State Fair, 1907, the flock won two championships, two reserve championships, eight firsts and seven seconds.

We are now booking orders for fall born Ram Lambs for June delivery. They are a grand lot— full of quality and true type with grand substance and bone. They are not forced, but kept growing to be fit for service this season and will weigh from 110 to 130 pounds, averaging 120 pounds at six months.

ALSO BREEDERS OF

Improved Large White Yorkshire Swine

AND

Registered Guernsey Cattle.

Address

LIVE STOCK DEPARTMENT, MORVEN PARK,

LEESBURG, LOUDOUN CO., VA.

THE SOUTHERN PLANTER

[May,

city as well as the country depends and their health should be cared for particularly. Therefore farmers should give particular attention to what is written here.

If everyone who reads what I have said will begin now to live their lives along the lines here laid down, they will find their condition improved in many ways. The intellect will become brighter and they will in this way be much more able to perceive opportunities that they never could have seen before. Their strength and endurance will be greatly increased so they will be able to do more than ever before, their health will be so much improved that they will be a pleasure and benefit to others as well as to themselves and last, but important, they will have the satisfaction of knowing that they have done their best in life.

At best life is short. Why not make the most of it in a reasonable way? Nothing is more conducive to comfort and happiness than good health and we may all have this with very little trouble or inconvenience. All of us want money and most of us have to work for it. Good health will increase our strength of mind as well as body and so enable us to make more money either to save or spend.

For a while have a try at living a cleaner healthier life and it will then be seen that to live in any" other way is not really sensible or reasonable. JUIIEN A. HALL.

Pittsylvania County, Va.

DIPPING SEASON AT HAND. The need of dipping or spraying live stock, and the thorough disinfecting of their quarters, is growing more apparent each season, as the fact is now almost universally recognized that disease germs are cut short early in their career, or entirely prevented from making their appearance, by the liberal use of an effective coal tar dip. The word "effective" is used advisedly, as a dip containing, but a small percentage of creosote has the same odor as one containing a large percentage, but is vastly, different in its parasite and germ killing properties. A good dip is Haasoleum sold only by Dr. Jos. Hass Remedy Co., and their authorized agents. A milky white solution is obtained by mixing Haasoleum with water to the strength desired for the various purposes intended, in sheep, cattle and hoa; dipping and spraying. The manufacturers of this article for 31 years have made the well known Dr. Jos. Hass Hog Remedy, at Indianopolis, Ind., now having a wider sale than ever. Their advertisement appears in this issue

WILL POWER.

"I wish they wouldn't 'leave reading wills until after the funeral."

"How so?"

"One would know so much better what flowers to send."—Lippincott's.

HEREFORD CATTLE

FOR SALE

Three-Yenr-Old Balls, ready for active service, Cows and Heifers with calf at foot or in calf.

These cattle are as well bred as any in America, and some of them are rarely beautiful in conformation and quality.

PRICES LOW ENOUGH TO MEET PRESENT CONDITIONS.

I have sold twelve head in the past two weeks, all in Virginia.

Keswick is on the C. and O. Railway, near Charlottesville. Visitors met at station. Intending buyers are respectfully urged to come to see these good cattle and to take advantage of the opportunity to buy low.

MURRAY BOOCOCK, Owner,

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KESWICK, VA.

id© Herefords

OWNED BY 8. W. ANDERSON, BLAKER MILL*,

GREENBRIER COUNTY, W. VA. A choice lot of Bulls, Cows and Heifers for sale; abw, a few Polled Hereford Bulls, recorded La the Nmtlfwml Polled Hereford Record.

Write for Catalogue and Prices.

FARM NEAR ALDERSON, W. VA.

Telephone and Telegraph, Alderson.

THE HOLLiNS HERD

—OF—

HIGH-CLASS HOLSTEIN-FRIESMNS.

Cows with Official Records of over 21 pounds of butter in seven days*

Cows with Official Records of over 86 pounds (10 gallons) of milk 1m one day.

Heifers that have milked over six gallons of milk in one day (with first calf).

A son of the great Hengerreld DeKol, sire of 77 A. R. O. daughters, In the herd.

Five handsome, well-developed Bull Calves, from 6 weeks to < month* old, for sale.

BUFF ORPINGTONS FOR SALE.

JOS. A. TURNER, General Mamas;**, Hellins Institute, Holllna, Va.

Duroc-Jerseys Shorthorns Shropshires.

m

Durocs are the most prolific hogs on earth. Our herd averaged 11 6-10 pigs to the litter last year. They are the most popular hog, and the great and increasing demand for them Is due solely to their merits. Wa have forty bred sows and gilts for sale, three herd boars, ten young boars ready for serrlce, and pigs of both sexes, five to seven months old—the blood of Ohio Chief, Beat Him If You Can, Orion, Commodore and the Colonels. The prices are right.

Short Horn Bull Calves by Imp. Best of Archers. Pure Scotch and Scotch Topped Bulls.

Shropshire Rams of the best imported blood cheap to close them out.

LESLIE D. KLINE, VAUCLUSE. VA.

Every Farmer Should Have His Own Thresher

'Little Giant" Thresher runs with light power and will clewu all kinds of grain—

Wheat, rye, oats, rice, flax, barley, kafllr corn and crass seeds. Attachments for

threshing cow peas and for "pulling" peanuts. Made in three sizes—for 3, 6 and o

H. P. Gasoline Eugine. Any power can bo used. We also make Level-Tread Powers

Feed and Ensilage Cutters, Saw Machines, etc. Send for FREE catalogs

JIKKilN r.K A SONS, 25 Broad St.. Lanedale, I'

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J«WMeH8HGHCKHKK>»lttH»a0<H^

Wyldewood Farm Jerseys.

Herd numbers 300, including some of the finest the island has produced, headed by the great sire Stockwell, whose abbreviated pedigree is given below, ........

7T3

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Imported Stockwell, 75264.

(Goldan Fern's Lad, P. 2166 H. C

Sir* 1 Sultan's Rssetts, 149740.

Oxford Lad, P. 3123 H. C. '

r Count Welleoley, P. S2S H. C.

Oxford Lass, P. 3682, H. C.

8toekwoll. .

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Oxford Prlmrooe, P. 2252 C.

Dam L Golden Leda, P. 8080 H. C.

( Boyle, P. 1559, H. C. f Golden Fern's Lad, P. 2168 H. C. J

i Golden Fern, P. 4711 H. C,

Leda, P.

H. C.

f Golden Pearl, P. 1976 H. ©. 1 Eminence, F. 7124 H. C

j For*Part1culars of Offerings, General Information, etc., Address

j| Wyldewood Farms, Fredericksburg, Va.

THE SOUTHERN PLANTER.

[May,

LEAVING THE BUNCH BEHIND.

Along with marbles and baseball, renewed interest in wheeling manifests itself as a sure indication of Spring and the joys of out door exercise.

■ Nothing ever invented serves as admirably the triple purposes of utility, exercise and pleasure as does the bicycle. The best grade of wheels are now selling for less than one-third the prices of ten years ago, and at that the rider gets a better mount than was possible then. The Coaster Brake and Two Speed Gear features alone miark a big step forward in bicycle construction since the boom diays.

Inquiry amng jobbers and dealers discloses a demand for bicycles, not only from the small boy (who has always ridden) but also from his older brother and his father also. The lady cyclist is also venturing timidly forth from the mysterious retreat wherein she has hibernated for a decade and she's not in bloomers either; thank the Lord for that.

"Leaving The Bunch Behind" is the picture adorning the /gold efm-bossed, 1908 catalogue cover of the "oldest exclusive bicycle house in America," a copy of which has just reached us. The catalogue is a work of art and is brimful of valuable and interesting matter for riders or those thinking of buying wheels. It is well worth getting and may be had by writing the Mead Cycle Co., Dept. RX— 223, Chicago. They also send a wheel for 10 days' free trial and will engage live agents.

FIX YOUR ROOFS.

Have you written for the little book on mending the old roof, published by The Anderson Manufacturing Co., Elyria, Ohio.

It's a good money saving little book to read. Write for it. Just say: "Send me that free book on fixing roofs advertised in Southern Planter.'

MAKING IT CLEAR.

A college professor, in company with his son, was enjoying a walk in the country, when he met an old farmer. It had been a very wet season, and the professor, thinking to start the conversation in a way that would prove interesting to the farmer, remarked :

"There has been a rather abnormal precipitation of late."

The farmer seemed somewhat em-barassed, and the professor's son, who used a different vernacular, though he was a student in the college to which his father was attached, attempted to straighten out the matter. Drawing the farmer to one side, he said In a superior way:

"The governor means that we've been having a hell of a lot of rain." —Harper's Weekly.

Get Our Book and We'll Make Right Pri Jo Interest You To Trade

cesa^f?

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BUGGIES AND SURREYS

BLACK MOTOR

Buggy Is 10 horse power—Sarreyy.18 borse power. Both "get there" and "back again" every trip, and save time, worry and expense. Investigate and we will make you right prices. Write (oil Catalog No. A-221.

BLACK MFG. CO., 124 E. Ohio Street, Chicago, Illinois

IF YOU WANT THE BEST HOG

Buy from those who givo their sole attention to the production of the greatest Berkshire Type.

WE DO

Our herd comprises the most splendid lines of breeding and Individual* that money can bay or experience develop In American and English' Bred. Berkshires.

"LORD PREMIER OF THE BLUE RIDGE," 103555, the greatest- living boar, heads our herd. If you are interested write.

THE BLUE RIDGE BERKSHIRE FARMS, ASHEVILLE, X. G.

Glenburn Berkshires.

Lord Premier and Premier Longfellow are dead, but we have their beat sons. Our LORD PREMIER III. is not only a son ef Lord Premier, but la a Utter mate to Lord Premier II. and a brother in blood to Lord Premier's Rival Our PREDOMINANT and DOMINANT are probably the best sons of Premier Longfellow. IMP. LOYAL HUNTER Is a great individual. We have Ler4 Premier, Premier Longfellow, Masterpiece, Charmer's Duke XXIII., and ln« imported sows.

FORFARSHIRE GOLDEN LAD JERSEYS.

Write for Catalogue.

Dr. J. D. KIRK, Roanoke, Va.

MOORE'S BROOK BERKSHIRES.

If you want some of the very best and most fashionable Berkshire blood, at prices that you can afford to pay, and at the same time get some stock of outstanding individual merit, we can supply your wants. We offer 10-weeks-old Pigs by British Lord, King O' the Brook and Rival's Premier, out of superbly bred sows, at $10 to $25. Simply tells us your needs and we will promptly quote.

Will also sell two of o\ir herd boars—

British Lord and King O' the Brook—as we will shortly be unable to us

them further. A rare opportunity here.

MOORE'S BROOK SANITARIUM COMPANY, CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA.

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YOUR INTERESTS and ours are identical '

You Want Practical

WELL DRILLING MACHINERY

to develops that

Mineral, Oil or Water

proposition; -we have it. Guarantee It to woil satisfactorily.

Tell us floout the formations, depth, diametl

'joles; will send printed matter and

can save you money.

TtfE AMERICAN WELL WORK!

Aurora, III., U. S. A. Chicago, III. Dallas, Te»

IN THE STUD

ROYAL SWELL 34892

A perfect individual with great beauty, perfect disposition, extreme speed, a pure gaited trotter and as richly and fashionably bred as any horse ever foaled.

Mahogany Bay Horse, 15:2% hands high, foaled February 5, 1901. Bred by Marcus Daly, Bitter Root Farm, Hamilton, Montana, sired by Bow Bells, 13073, record 2:19*4, sire of Beausant, 2:06%; Matin Bells, 2:06%; Billy Andrews, 2:06%; Bellewood A., 2:07%; Prince Selma, 2:10% Bel Esprit, 2:12%; Janie T. (2 years), 2:14, etc. First dam Rachel, record (4) 2:08%, winner of nine races, dam of Great Spirit, 2:11%; the Envoy, 2:25%, etc., by Baron Wilkes, 4758, record 2:18, sire of Bumps (world's wagon record, 1899), 2:03%; Rubinstein, 2:05; Rachel (4 year's), 2:08%; Duice Cor, 2:08%; Baron Bell, 2:09; Centrific, 2:09; Oakland Baron (Futurity winner), 2:09%; Nydia "Wilkes, 2:09%; Baron Rogers, 2:09%, etc. Second dam Willie Wilkes, 2:28, dam of (1) Rachel (4) dam of 2, 2:08%; (2) Great Heart, 2:12%; (3) Bowery Boy, 2:15% (4) Bowery Belle, 2:18%; (5) Deluge, 2:19%; (6) Aspirator, 2:24%, dam of (1) Great Heart, sire of Wilkes Heart, 2:06%; Namo, 2:09%; Xava, 2:10%, by George Wilkes, 519. Third dam Sally Southworth, dam of (1) Chatterton (sire of six 2:30 trotters), 2:18; (2) Willie Wilkes, 2:28, dam of (1) Rachel (4) 2:08%; (2) Great Heart (a 2:10 sire), 2:12%; (3) Bowery Boy, 2:15% (4) Bowery Belle, 2:18%; (5) Deluge, 2:19%, etc., by Mambrino Patchen 58.

ROYAL SWELL'S get have fine size, are of show horse type and full of trot. He has some grand foals In the East that will soon bring him into prominence as a sire, and his daughters should make as good brood mares as money will buy. ,'

FEE—$25 the season, with usual return privilege in case of failure. Mares from a distance can be provided for on exceedingly liberal terms for keep. Address

ALLANDALE FARM, Fredericksburg, Va.

M a » M " I " M"M " M " M"I " M^ M " M I I' M ' *

[ The General II.

IMPORTED

HACKNEY STALLION

Now in the Stud at Butkeville, Va. (Sandy's Farm.)

This magnificent Chestnut Stallion stands 16 hands high and weighs 1,250 pounds. In conformation,

he is superb, his action grand, his manners perfect. As a sire he stood first in Massachusetts on the farm i.

v of H. K. Bloodgood, Esq., who imported him. We have a number of his get here and they are his best ••

spokesman. Come and see them.

WE RECOMMEND THIS HORSE AS THE BEST LOOKING STALLION EVER IN SOUTHSIDE VIRGINIA, NOW £

HIS PERMANENT HOME. 5 , ,. :s _._ ... .,a,. e , .-*=.■-.«»».«, j-a^-."-.. I

Terms—$15 the season, payable July 1st, or $10 the leap, payable at time of service.

For further information address any one of the owners— 1 r .\ ?H8iM

T. O. Sandy, Dr. John Young or Dr. J. G. Ferneyhough,

B URKEVILLE, VIRGINIA.

For Sale at Reasonable Prices :

Two Young HACKNEY STALLIONS, one two years old, one a yearling. Both registered and splendid individuals. msmmm^ ^^.J! y«*fl>..v. . _

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[May,

Ft. Lewis Stock Farm

THE BEST PLACE FOR BLOOD AND REGISTERED

BEKKSHIRES

White Leghorn, all breeds of Plymouth Rock, Black Minorca and Rhode Island Red Fowls. Eggs from these pure-blooded birds for sale.

DR. W. L. NOLEN, PROPRIETOR, SALEM, VA.

EXPERIENCE OF A RURAL CARRIER. Letart, W. Va-, April 21, 1908. The Lawrenuce Williams Co., Cleveland, Ohio. Gentlemen:—I have used your Gom-bault's Caustic Balsam for the past three years. I have also used a great many other liniments in the treatment of horses, but for an all-round dependable liniment, your Caustic Balsam heads the list. For all kinds of cuts, soreness and inflamation of all kinds, it has no equal, and if a blister is needed, the Balsam brings the answer. One bottle of it wil go farther than any other kind of liniment that I have ever used. Every rural carrier should keep it handy in time of need.

R. L. GRIMM, Rural Carrier, No. 2.

GROWTH OF A FENCE CONCERN.

Although comparatively a new concern in the business, the Ward Fence Co., of Decatur, Ind., is to-day, perhaps the largest niannfiaeturer of Ornamental Wire, Wrought Iron and Steel Picket, and Don't Rust Farm and Poultry Fencing in the country.

To properly describe their various kinds of fences the company has issued several catalogues. Two catalogues illustrate ornamental fences, the prices of which range from eight cents a foot up. Ornamental Wire Fencing is shown in Catalogue "C" and Ornamental Iron Fencing in No. 20A. "Don't Rust" Diamond Mesh Farm and Poultry Fence, a splendid fence for general use, is told of in Catalogue 57, while thel "Don't Rust" Square Mesh Farm Fence is described in No. 140.

The makers will cheerfully send you prices and catalogue's of the lines you are interested in, on request. Their advertisement in this paper is worth noting.

A Great Opportunity

Is offered the readers of The Planter to secure Pigs sired by tw« of th« greatest of all Berkshire boars. I have a very choice lot of Pigs now ready for shipment, sired by the great Hunter of Biltmore III., 86468, and Valaria, 88706. These Pigs are out of large sows of the very best blood and quality, and (like their illustrious sires), have great length, depth and finish. So sure am I that they will please you, that I will agree to ship them subject to your inspection and if they are not what you want in every particular, you can return them at my expense and they will not cost you a penny. i '■:.■■-J!*^B

BE SURE TO GET MT PRICES AND DESCRIPTION BEFORE PLACING

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MTJSKMELONS OR CANTALOUPES —CELERY GROWING—STRAWBERRIES.

My musk melons have been attacked by a little bug whicb eats into them about when they are grown. Perhaps Professor Massey can tell how to ward them off.

This seems to be a common evil in old gardens here, and I am told very early planting will help to prevent their attacks. Will it do any good to spray?

I want to grow celery for next winter's use, but have had no experience in that line. Our seasons are about two weeks earlier and two weeks later than Southeastern Virginia. I notice a great many brown spots or blotches on the leaves of mv strawberry vines. Are they rust? JOSHUA FRANKLIN.

Clay County, Ala.

I cannot, from the description, tell what insect it is that eats the melons. Muskmelons are attacked by various insects. The little striped beetle attacks them when just coming through the ground, and these can be driven off by dusting with fine bone meal in which a few drops of carbolic acid have been well mixed to give an offensive odor, or they can be killed by spraying with Bordeaux mixture to which 5 ounces of Paris green have been added to 50' gallons of the mixture. Then the melon louse attacks them, and these can he kept off by dusting the plants well with tobacco dust and repeat it when washed off. Some entomolo-

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gists advise spraying with kerosene emulsion for the lice, but I have found that all plant lice can be kept off by the regular use of tobacco in some form. Better keep them off than try to destroy them when they get there. As the insect, Mr. Franklin mentions is an eating one, it would be better to spray with Bordeaux mixture as above stated. But spray the vines before the fruit is so advanced that they will attack it, so that they may be killed before attacking- the fruit- Then if they come later, repeat the spraying. The Paris green will do no harm to the fruit as the outside is not eaten anyway. Better spray the strawberries with Bordeaux mixture to prevent the rust.

The only celery you can grow well in your section is the winter crop. They can grow celery of the aelf-blanching sorts north, and very tough and ipoor stuff it is. The best celery is made from the varieties like the Boston Market, Sandringham, and Giant Pascal that are iblanched >by earthing. For private gardens and small market gardens the method of growing celery in common use around Baltimore is the best.

Sow the seed on the shade of the north side of a hoard fence or building, but not under trees. Or if you have a cold frame use that. Make the soil fine, and merely mark lines for the rows on the surface about eight inches apart. Sow the seed thinly on these marks and then press them into the soil with the back of a spade but do not cover. Then spread gunny sacks over the bed to retain the surface moisture. As the seeds germinate lift the sacks and prop them up on sticks till the plants show green and then remove them. As soon as the plants are a couple of inches high prepare another bed and take them up and nip the tap root. If they run up tall shear the tops off once or twice- Transplant to their final quarters in early August. This should be a piece of ground that has been very heavily manured for an early crop of some sort, and on the celery use a high grade mixture of commercial fertilizer at rate of 1,000 pounds per acre.

When ready to plant, make a planting board 3 2 inches wide and six fe*et long, 'with ithe ;emds perfectly square. On each side of this plank cut notches, beginning six inches from the end and stopping six inches from the other end, thus making eleven notches exactly opposite each other. Now stretch a line taught and set the planting board exactly perpendicular to the line and set at each notch on each side. Then move the board and set another row and so on till the bed is set. Have the piants in a tub of water and set them dripping. Then, if more than one bed is wanted, leave a space eight feet wide between the beds for earthing. Keep the beds cultivated and clean, but never nan

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die the celery when wet, as that will promote .the rust. When the weather gets cool and not before, the first earth should be put in. This is called the "Handling" of the crop. The leaves have grown long and the outer •ones are inclined to fall over. To keep them erect, while handling, have two cords much longer than the length of the bed with a peg in each end. Stick a peg opposite the first row and take a turn of the cord around each plant in the row and stick the peg at the other end in the ground. With the second cord treat the next row in the same way. Now ■shovel earth in between these rows, and pack it close to each plant by hand. Remove the cords to two other rows, and thus go over the entire bed. The plants are now held ■erect and more earth can be shovelled in between the rows and left in a ridge to be handled down when the growth will admit more earthing. Keep the hearts of the plants just above the soil and carry up the earth six inches outside the ends of the rows ■Continue this process till December, and when there is danger of hard freezing, cover the entire bed with earth and then place a thick cover of pine leaves or straw over the whole, and place corn stalks or other heavier material on to prevent the leaves from blowing off. The celery can then be dug at any time during the winter, and will be immensely better and more

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crisp than the self blanching sorts. Boston Market is the best variety for this method.

You can get, in a favorable season, some fairly good fall celery by setting the plants in July, eight or ten inches apart and placing a four-inch drain tile around each plant after they get a foot tall. Earth will have to be shovelled in between the tiles to prevent their falling over. Or you can set plants in a row six inches apart and" when about a foot tall set boards on each side 12 inches wide-For this fall crop the Golden Self blanching is best. But to get fine celery the earth blanching is best. Plant the beds in a soil naturally moist, and if where they can be irrigated in dry weather, so much the better. w. P. MASSEY.

WATERMELON GROWING—VARIETY OF CORN TO PLANT—PRESERVATION FOR FENCE POSTS.

1. What would be the best fertilizer (at leastcost) to use on watermelons on river bottom land in the place of manure, Also do you think it a good plan to use fertilizer in connection with manure? and what quantity to the hill in either case?

2. I also have a rich piece of bottom land that has been in grass for eight or ten years that I wish to put in corn this year and would like to know the best white corn to plant on same for big yield. Would like a good two eared variety ond one that does not mature late. Do you think a one eared corn the best for this land? Is the Improved Golden Dent—^about equal to the Hickory King for this up land? and can I get seed corn from the Experiment Station, Blacksburg, Va-?

Do you know of -a preservative for fence posts that would make them last longer, that one could use on the parts that go in the ground at least, that is not too expensive? How about creosote is it expensive and where could one get it?

A SUBSCRIBER.

Fluvanna County, Va.,

1- Most water melon growers always say that they can get the best results from the use of both manure and fertilizer used together and our own experience bears them out. We would use ia few forkfuls of good manure in each hill and to this add two or three handfuls of a fertilizer analyzing 6 per cent, ammonia, 5 per cent, phosphoric acid and 7 per cent, potash and mix the same well with the manure. If you have not got the manure then use the same of fertilizer in more liberal quantity. A proper fertilizer can be made by mixing 300 lbs. nitrate of soda, 750 lbs. cotton seed meal, 700 lbs. acid phosphate and 250 lbs. of muriate of potash to make a ton.

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for planting on low ground which, can not be beaten for yield—viz.: Cocke's Prolific. It is natural to your location and has made 180 bushels to the acre on your lowgrounds. It is a corn requiring a long time to mature but you have always plenty of time to mature it if planted in May. If you don't care ito use this variety—try Boone County White or Eureka. Both have done well on the low grounds of this State. We don't think any corn will equal Hickory King for thin upland. Golden Dent can be planted later and mature well and will also usually make a fair yield on such land. We don't think you can get any seed corn from Blacksburg. The Carbolineum Co. is advertising a fine preservative for fence posts in The Planter at this time. The Norfolk Cresosoting Co also advertised such a preservative a few months ago, and will likely do so again. Write these parties for particulars. You might also write the Forest Department, Department of Agriculture, Washington, D,. C, and they will send full information on the subject.—Ed.

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Please tell me which has the most feeding value, corse bran or fine bran we get from Western mills is coarse and the bran our country mills make is fine. The bran and shorts are altogether.

I sowed 10 acres in grass this spring and sowed 7 quarts of timothy seed, 4 quarts of clover and 5 pounds of red top, and one bushel of orchard grass to the acre. I sowed Timothy in the fall; the land is seeded in wheat, please tell me if that is enough. It is very hard to get a stand in this section of the country.

G. W. CUMMINGS.

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2. You should get a stand of grass and clover from this seeding. It is a fairly liberal one. We are great advocates for heavy grass seeding as a sod, to be a good and permanent one, should be a thick one from the start. We always seeded heavily, never

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COW WITH FITS—FERTILIZER FOR

CORN—FARM DEMONSTRATION

WORK.

1. I have a cow of much value that has Ms. She will calve soon and has been having them ever since she was bred this time (once per month). She is harmless and just lies down and trembles and slobers-

2. Will it ho safe to use the milk to drink or make butter?

3. Is it necessary to use commercial fertilizers on land that I have been using for four years in a rotation of clover, wheat, corn and cowpeas and clover? I wish to plant in corn and have a quantity of barn yard manure to use. The land I would call rich. Would the fertilizer make a profitable return-

4. I sea Mr. T. O. Sandy, of Burk-ville, has been carrying on some good work in the different counties. To whom could I apply for assistance along this line. I would like to have some such assistance. A. R. W.

Suissex Co., Va-

1 and 2. The fits are probably the result of the pregnant condition of the cow, and will continue until after the calf is dropped. The cause of such fits is obscure, and little can be done to prevent their recurrence. She should be fed a laxative ration, given more bran than corn, and if her bowels still are constipated when near calving, she should have a quart of linseed oil given once or twice. It is not probable that the milk will be affected or be in any way unwholesome.

3. In the April issue we wrote fully on the question of the use of commercial fertilizer for the production of the corn crop, and in this issue you will also find matter on the same subject. With such a rotation of farm crops as you have followed, and the use of barn yard manure, we do not think you can use fertilizer with profit. You might increase the yield by the use of some acid phosphate, say, 50 pounds to the ton of manure, but we doubt whether this could be done profitably.

4. Write Mr- T. O. Sandy, Burke-ville, Va., and see whether he cannot put you on his list of demonstrators. He has charge of this work in this State.—Ed.

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I have a farm and also run the butcher business, consequently have a great many bones. How can T utilize them to profit on the farm?

I have been in correspondence with Wilson Brothers, of Easton. Pa, who manufacture home mills. Thev advise me that I can grind the bones and dissolve them with sulphuric adiid and mix and make my own fertilizer. I am also advised from Blacksburg. Va., that I had better grind and apply the

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There stands your neighbor's separator, down and out; broken; only used a few weeks; money Wasted. Perhaps he could repair it if he knew where to get repairs, but he doesn't know. The fact is, there is no place to get them; his separator was one of a job lot sold "cheap" by a manufacturer who knew it was no good, and who unloaded his stock on a catalog house for what he could get. Now he's out of business.

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After using a mail order cream separator for six months I decided to discard that machine and purchase a No. i Tubular Separator. The mail order separator would separate only 275 pounds of milk per hour, and did not give a thorough separation. I can skim two buckets of milk in i minutes. The mail order separator required ten minutes. I am more than pleased with the purchase I made from your people. WM. F. BUCKS

We know how to build separators that will wear, and we are always where you can reach us when you want us. That's something you can tell your neighbor about TUBULARS. Maybe he would like to get right. Maybe he would like a little help. Probably he would like to have a TUBULAR if he could get a little something for his "cheap" separator. Maybe we can help him. Won't you suggest that he write for our new catalog No. 290? It tells all about it.

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[May,

bone in its natural state. The mill referred to above, I am informed, does not grind very fine, but about like granulated sugar. Will that be fine enough to apply in its natural state?

Any information and advice on the subject -will be greatly appreciated. SAML. J. ROBINSON'.

Albemarle Co., Va.

The best way to utilize bones on the farm where 1 you have power sufficient to run a mill is to grind them and apply in that state. It is not necessary that they should be ground into a fine powder in order to get benefit from them. We have often applied one-eighth inch bones where we did not seek immediate results, but only permanent improvement of the land. The finer they are ground the quicker will they produce resuts. It should always, however, be borne in mind that grinding bones is a work requiring plenty of power, especially when they are big strong bones. If short of power to grind them the best way is to dig a trench and put them in layers with wood ashes or lime and well covered with soil and keep them moist and they will gradually dissolve or disintegrate so that they can be mixed with soil and be applied to the land. Don't attempt to dissolve them with sulphuric acid unless properly equipped to handle the acid. It is dangerous stuff to handle without a proper equipment as the acid burns fearfully if splashed on to any part of the body or clothing Editor.

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WHITEWASH. Kindly give me receipt for whitewash, for out of doors use.

G. R. BERRYMAN Surry County, Va.

Slake half a bushel of good, fresh lime in boiling water, keeping it covered during the process. Strain and add a peck of salt dissolve in water; three pounds of ground rice boiled to a thin paste; half a pound of Spanish whiting and a pound of clear glue dissolved in warm water.

Mix these well together and let the mixture stand for several days. Keep the wash prepared in a kettle and put on as hot as possible.—Editor.

CARE OF MARE AND FOAL. Will you kindly give me advice as to what condition a mare should be in before she drops her foal, and as to the care, after foaling and what is best to feed her on and attention to give her to make a nice colt.

A SUBSCRIBER.

In the September, 1907 issue of the Planter you will find an article on the subject about which you enquire from one of the largest and most successful breeders in the State. You should look up this issue and read the article

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carefully. Briefly we advise that mares be kept in good, firm condition but not fat, by judicious feeding with corn, oats, hay and fodder and be moderately worked up to within a few days of foaling. For a week or ten days before foaling they should have bran and oats only as a grain ration— pure bran and not mill feed. The mare should have a roomy box stall and be kept well bedded down. As soon as the foal is dropped its navel should be washed with a solution of creolin about one part to 15 of water, to prevent any infection through that organ. Nearly all the foals which die soon after birth are killed by infection through the broken navel string. When the foal is 6 or 8 hours old give a warm soap and water injection to open the bowels. Impaction of the faeces is often so great that the foal cannot possibly part with it without the assistance of the injection and unless it is parted with quickly the foal must die. After foaling, the dam should be generously fed with oats and bran two-thirds oats and one-third bran by measure and be given plenty of good clover and meadow hay or cow pea and aoy bean hay. Let the mare and colt run out in a nice pasture on all warm days but take up at night until the ground gets warm. Also keep in in wet and stormy weather. After the weather gets hot and flies troubleome take up in the middle of the day and turn out at night. "When pastures become short have some corn to feed to them green. Begin feeding this sparingly and gradually increase it. When the foal begins to eat freely then have a separate fee'ding place for the foal and tie the mare so that she cannot get to the foal's manger and keep in this manger some nice feed for the foal, some oats and bran and hay feed and keep this constantly renewed with sweet, fresh feed so that the foal can help itself when it desires. Keep on a good pasture and wean whilst grass is good in the fall. After weaning feed generously with good oats and hay. Boil the oats for one feed each day and mix two quarts of bran with these boiled oats. The other feed may be of oats unboiled. Keep the sucking flesh on the colt all the time. If a colt once loses its sucking fat it will be a hard task to make a fine horse out of it. Nine-tenths of the young horses are ruined from neglect of this rule. They are stunted in growth and never make the horses they would do if properly cared for after weaning.— Editor.

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food. You can burn it in buildings to fumigate them and destroy vermin of all kinds, or can use it to mix with lime to make an insecticide for scale insects.—Editor.

[May,

POISONING HAWKS.

I notice in March number of "Southern Planter" that you advise giving nux-vomica to little chickens to destroy hawks (which are very destructive here) you gave the proportion to administer but failed to say how often it could be given without injury to the chicken. Please answer in your next issue.

A. M. ORGAIN.

Dinwiddie County, Va.

The nux-vomica will never hurt the chickens however often fed. They are immune against this poison.—Editor.

HOG CHOLERA—SHEEP DYING.

If you have any specific or sovereign remedy for hog cholera, please send to me. I have also lost 8 head of sheep out of a flock of 38 head. The sheep lost were fat and young and 4 of them had twin lambs in them. They would loose their appetite and afterwards would lose the use of themselves. I never cculd doctor a sheep for the more I doctor, the quicker they seem to die.

If you know of any remedy for the two foregoing diseases, will confer a favor by having it inserted in the next issue of the Southern Planter

F. DABNEY EASTHAM. ( Rappahannock County, Va. i

There is no such thing as a certain cure for Hog Cholera yet discovered. The best that can be done is to try to prevent it by keeping the hogs in a good sanitary condition and letting them have plenty of pure spring water, preferably from a well, to drink. Many running streams are contaminated with hog cholera germs from coming through farms having the infection on them, or from buzzards washing in them after eating dead hogs. The buz-y.ards ought all to be killed off and all dead animals be burnt. The following mixture should be kept on hand and be given to the hogs when they appear ailing: Wood charcoal, 1 pound; sulphur, 1 pound; sodium chloride, 2 pounds; sodium bicarbonate, 2 pounds; sodium hyposulphite, 2 pounds; sodium sulphate, 1 pound; antimony sulphide, 1 pound. Pulverize and mix thoroughly. Dose, a large tablespoon ful once a day for each 200 lbs. of live weight.

See our last issue, page 398, as to the disease affecting the sheep. We believe you have the same trouble as there discussed.—Editor.

BERMUDA GRASS SEED.

1. Where can Bermuda Grass seed

be obtained and what will it cost;

when should it be sown also could it

be sown with cow peas or Buckwheat,

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Water does not affect it in any way. An unbroken lining of pitch furnishes complete and permanent protection, which can only leak b ^_b ^l n j[ actua lly punctured, and such alining she et is just wh at Amatite provides."""

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THE SOUTHERN" PLANTER.

[May,

also what kinds of land is it mostly adapted to.

2. When should hairy vetch he sown, also where can the seed he obtained, and what is the cost of it per bushel.

M. H. C.

Shenandoah County, Va.

1. Bermuda Grass seed can be obtained from the seedmen advertising in the Planter. The seed is quoted at 45 cents per pound in one catalogue. The seed should be sown in May. It will not grow if sown in cold soil. If you want to get a Bermuda pasture, the best way is to plant the roots. These can be gotten almost anywhere in the Eastern and Middle sections of the Southern States, for the asking, and are certain to grow, whilst the seed is very uncertain as it is all imported. The roots should be run through a cutter and be cut into inch lengths and a few be dropped in each furrow as it is turned, every foot or so. Bermuda is best adapted for light sandy land and should be seeded or planted alone.

2. Hairy Veltch should be seeded in the fall. The seed can be had from the seedsmen advertising in The Planter, who will quote prices which vary each season.—Editor.

PHOSPHATE. Can I create phosphate in my soil by any process known to science? J. M. CUFF.

I No. Phosphoric acid in greater or less quantities is found in all land but it is largely unavailable as plant food. The great problem engaging the attention of agricultural scientists is how to make this available.—Editor.

BROOMSEDGE.

Broom Sedge and other pest grasses have taken full possession of my meadows and pastures and a desire to avoid plowing and cropping them in riddance of the noxious growths?

Is such a course possible? Are there vigorous grasses that with harrow and fertilizers, will eventually root out the pests?

Even my lawn, of several acres area, though mowed several times in the summer, has lost all tame gresses.

R. S. LACEY.

Alexandria County, Va.

The only plant we have ever known to root out Broom Sedge is Japan clover and this whilst valuable as summer grazing for cows and sheep is not a hay crop so far north as Virginia, and gives only a short grazing season. We have known Broom Sedge to be got rid of by burning off the growth and then liming the land and harrowing in and then in the Spring and Fall following, covering with farm yard manure heavily, and sowing a mixture of grass seeds and harrowing again.

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By persistently feeding this new seeding with manure and fertilizer the Broom Sedge will be smothered out.

We apologize for not having replied to this earlier. The enquiry was mislaid.—Editor.

IRISH POTATO FERTILIZER. Will you kindly work out the per cent, of plant food in the formula given for irish potatoes in the February issue of Planter.

Unless I have made a mistake a ton of the ingredients recommended would cost more and analyze a less per cent, than Mapes Economical Potato Manure. I am a constant reader of The Planter and aim to follow its teaching but I can't afford to make any mistakes.

J. E. HAWKINS.

Henrico County, Va.

The formula given works out 5.8 ammonia, 6.4 phosphoric acid and 8.6 potash, and would cost at the seaboard $25 per ton.

We don't know what Mape's Manure works out, nor the cost.—Editor.

WELL AND WATER WORKS.

Will you please tell me what kind of well and water works are best and cheapest? Can I have a well bored with Iwans' Post Hole and Well Auger, use pipes instead ow a wall, and use a pump in it? Is the Leader Hydro-pneumatic Water Work System good for country houses, simple in construction? Is concrete cement less expensive than brick and an good or better for building houses? Will you tell me which is the best corn planter and where to get it?

MISS M. ALICE WILSON.

Henry County, Va.

Write the Sydnor Pump and Well Co., Richmond, whose advertisement you will find in this issue as to water system. They have had large exper-ence in this kind of work and can advise you much more satisfactorily than we can. Cement is now largely taking the place of brick and wood in the construction of buildings and is much more satisfactory and lasting. Write the Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C, and ask them to send you the Bulletins they have issued on cement construction. Also write The Atlas Portland Cement Co., 30 Broad street, New York, and ask them to send you their pamphlet on "Cement Construction about the home and on the farm." Mention our name when writing these parties.

It is difficult for us to say which is the best corn planter. Some farmers prefer one make and some another-Send to the Implement dealers advertising in this issue for their catalogues and compare the merits of the different machines. You can get a good reliable corn planter from any of the Richmond dealers. None of them can

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[May,

afford to send out a planter that will not do good work.—Editor.

GROWING FORAGE ON' MILL POND LAND AND RED LAND. I have a nice body of flat land, which was very productive before it was turned into a pond (Shocco Mills) 50 years ago. My dam broke three years ago and left me a beautiful plot of level ground, part of it now too wet for ploughing and in "bull-rush," but there are several nicely dried spots of an acre or two each, that I think would produce finely. I want to make forage.

1. "Would you sow in Kaffir corn, broadcast? Hungarian Millet? Or in Sorghum, broadcast? Would you apply acid phosphate or a complete fertilizer, or any manure? It (the pond) brings weeds high as my head, in dry places.)

2. I have a red clay subsoil lot that is a natural wheat and grass land, but having been cropped to death by tenants, is poor and inclined to bake. I had a fair crop of German millet on it last year, with 300 pounds acid phosphate broadcast per acre. Followed this with Crimson clover and have a fine stand, but for lack of plant food, I fear the crop will be poor. I want to follow this clover with a forage crop that will tend to build up, rather than deplete the soil, and then follow it (the forage crop) with Crimson clover. What shall I grow on this lot for forage? I am satisfied that all of our land would be benefited by liming and subsoiling. I am terracing as a first requisite to building up the fertility. This was in antebellum days a magnificent country, of large and wealthy landowners. I am located on a part of my grandfathers tract (Jones White Sulphur Springs,—it was here that General Lee's daughter died during the war and is buried in our family cemetery within two hundred yards of my door) and he and my father were large wheat growers. I have seen wheat as high as my shoulders on the lot I am writing about, but in these days no wheat is raised.

Your opinion on the most satisfactory pea to plant in drill and cultivate for market will be much appreciated. What of the "New Era?"

HOWARD F. JONES.

1. We don't think you will find any crops to do well on this land until it has been limed and thoroughly aerated by being well and deeply plowed and frequently cultivated. It is sure to be acid from long saturation with water and exclusion from the air. Either sorghum or Kaffir corn will probably grow. Drill and not sow broadcast so that you can work it frequently. If the season should be a dry one the Kaffir com would stand best. Acid phosphate would probably give the best results as a fertilizer.

TASH

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1908 - - Virginia State Fair - - 1908

RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.

OCTOBER 5-6-7-8-9-10.

In keeping with the primary object of the Virginia State Fair Association—the development of the interests of the Agriculturists of Virginia—attention Is directed in this, the first, announcement of the 1908 Virginia State Pair, to the FARM PRODUCTS DEPARTMENT, a classification of Grains, Grasses, Vetgetables, etc., etc., of which is set out below. Special attention is called to COUNTY EXHIBITS.

FARil PE0DUCT3 DEPARTMENT. Prlmfum. vSSSSL

CORN One peck Parsnips, hollow crown....

First Second six bunches Moss Curled Parsley

Premium. Premium. One peck peas, in pods 1 00

Best &e ears White Corn.. $3 50

Best 10 ears Yellow Corn 3 50

BBest 10 ears Mixed Corn 3 50

Best ear of White Corn 1 00

Best ear of Yellow Corn 1 00

Best samples of 10 ears Pop Corn.... 3 00 Best samples of 10 ears Sweet Corn.... 3 50 Best display varieties of Corn on Stalk 3 50 GRASSES, WHEAT, OATS, ETC. Best quarter bushel Longberry Wheat..$3 50

3 50 3 00 3 00 3 00

2 00

3 00

2 00

3 00 2 00

2 50 2 50

2 50 2 50

Best quarter bushel Fultz Wheat

Besi display of Wheat in Sheaf

Best quarter bushel White Oats

Best quarter bushel Mixed Oats

Best display varieties of Oats in Sheaf Best quarter bushel White Barley....

;Best display of Barley in Sheaf

Best quarter bushel White Rye

jBest display of Rye in Sheaf

Best display of Alfalfa Hay, bale or

bundle, to weigh at least 20 pounds..

Best display Orchard Grass, bale or

bundle, to weigh at least 20 pounds..

Best display of Red Clover, bale or

bundle, to weigh at least 20 pounds..

Best display of Crimson Clover, bale or

bundle, to weigh at least 20 pounds..

Best display of Alsike Clover, bale or

bundle, to weigh at least 20 pounds..

Best display of varieties of clover plants

Best collection of Alfa plants, not less

than 6 stools

Best display of Soy Beans on vine

Best display of Cow Peas on vine

Best and largest display of varieties

of Sorghum on Stalk

Best display of German Millet in bundle Best display of Hungarian Millet in

bundle

Most complete display of varieties of whole plants, including Wheat, Corn, Clovers and Grasses, made by an

Individual or Arm

Sweepstakes. For best quarter bushel of Wheat, any variety, to be grown by exhibitor.. For best 20 ears Corn, any variety,

to be grown by exhibitor

Display of Grain, Grasses and Forage Crops, in grain and stalk; 25 samples must be shown; exhibitor must be a farmer, but not necessarily the

grower of all the items 20 00

VEGETABLES, ETC.

Wax Beans, one peck

Stringless Beans, one peck

Pole Lima Beans, shelled, one peck.... Bush Lima Beans, shelled, one peck.... Bassano Beet, for table use, six bunches Any variety Beets, including Stock

Beets, half bushel

Flat Head Cabbage, any variety, six

heads

Heaviest head of Cabbage

One peck Carrots, topped, any variety.

Half peck Cucumbers, for slicing

Half peck Cucumbers, for pickling.... Best three Egg Plants, any variety.... One peck Red or Yellow Dry Onions..

One peck White Dry Onions

One peck Yellow Danvers, Onion Sets..

One peck White Onion Sets

One peck Okra, any variety

2 50

7 50

5 00 5 00

$1 50 1 50 1 50 50 50 1 00 1 00 1 00

$1 50 1 50 1 00 1 00 1 00 1 00 1 00 1 00 1 00 1 00

1 00

1 00

1 00

1 00

1 00

2 50

10 00

One peck Bull Nose Peppers.

One peck any other variety Peppers...

Best six plants of ornamental and

useful Peppers to be shown in pods.

One peck Early Irish Potatoes

One peck Late Irish Potatoes

One peck White Sweet Potatoes

One peck Red Sweet Potatoes

One peck Jersey Yellow Sweet Potatoes

One peck Red Yams

One peck White Yams

Radishes, White, 6 bunches

Radishes, Yellow, G bunches

Sandwich Island Salsify, 6 bunches.... Half bushel Spinach, any variety....

Crook Neck Squash, 3 specimens

White Bush Squash, 3 specimens

Cashaw Squash, 3 specimens

Heaviest Squash

One peck Turnips, purple top

One peck Turnips, white top

Three Yellow Field Pumpkins

Three Sweet or Pie Pumpkins

Heaviest Pumpkin

One peck Purple Tomatoes

One peck Red Tomatoes

Best display of two varieties of Watermelons

Best specimen of Cantaloupes, green

flesh, any variety.

Best specimen of Cantaloupes, yellow

flesh, any variety

For best collection of Vegetables....

COUNTY EXHIBIT—Collector's Class. The products shown may be collected by one, or more than one, individual, but must have been produced in the county for which they are shown. The exhibits will be classed in three groups: First, all the territory west of the Blue Ridge; second, the Piedmont section; third, the Tidewater and Middle sections of Virginia. Fruit products will not be graded in this competition. For a collection of the Farm Products

enumerated above, one first and one

second prize to be awarded to each of

the three divisions above noted.

(Total of all premiums in this

group, $225.00) $50 00 $25 00

County exhibits of farm products should consist of a complete and attractively arranged display of the field and garden crops of commercial value in the county. Samples of corn should be shown in the ear and on the stalk, small grains threshed and in the straw, hay and forage crops in commercial samples and in stalk specimens. Grains samples should contain not less than one gallon of each variety, and no sample may be older than the growth of 1907. The awards will be made on the basis of 25 per cent, for number of different samples, 50 per cent, for quality and 25 per cent, for artistic display. PEANUTS.

2 50

2 00

2 00 10 00

1 00

1 00

1 00 5 00

$3 00 3 00

Third

Exhibit of Peanuts, unpolished $5 00

Exhibit of Spanish Peanuts, unshelled.. 5 00 TOBACCO—GROWERS' CLASS.

First Second

Premium. Premium. Premium.

Sun Cured, crop of 1908 $30 00 $15 00 $5 00

Olive Stemming, crop of 1908.. 30 00 15 00

Brown Shipping, crop of 1908. 30 00 15 00

Brown Stemming, crop of 1908 30 00 15 00

BRIGHT CROP, 1908—"FLUE CURED."

Wrappers $10 00

Cutters 10 00

Fillers 10 00

Smokers 10 00

Watch this page for additional announcements In the Farm Products Department, also for information as to premiums on Horses, Sheep, Cattle, Hogs, Poultry, Domestic Art, etc., etc.

The unqualified success of the Fairs held by this Association in 1906 and 1907 has proved the Importance and tiecessity to the farmer of such exhibition—and the help of all is solicited.

Information with regard to any matter connected with the Fair will be cheerfully furnished. Address MARK R. LLOYD, General Manager Virginia State Fair Association, Richmond, Va.

THE SOUTHERN PLANTER.

[May,

2. On the other land sow cow peas and fertilize with acid phosphate. What the land needs is lime and humus—until these are supplied its fertility will not he increased. When they are it will probahly grow wheat as well as it ever did. In this issue in the Article on work for the month, you will find advice as to cow peas. We have not the issues for which you enquire.—Editor.

GINSENG. Can you tell something about the the culture of ginseng, what kind of soil it requires, what climatic conditions; how long does it take to mature . Your answer will be much appreciated.

C. P. VAUGHAN. Louisa County, Va.

There is a little book published on Ginseng, its cultivation, harvesting, etc., price 50 cents, which we can supply, which gives full instructions for growing the crop. We do not advise its growth as we have never known any one to make money producing it except from raising plants and seed for the other fellow to waste his time and money on.—Editor.

PIGS NOT THRIVING—INOCULATION OP COW PEAS—SLIMING

LAND. I have some pigs that came about the 1st of the year, and I took them away from sows when two months old, and fed on corn meal mixed with slops, they don't seem to grow, but very little and have a dry cough. Would you please advise me, the best thing to do for the cough and to start them growing nicely again?

2. Do you think it pays to inoculate "cow peas" to make better growth?

3. When is the best time to lime land, and what kind is best and cheap-

C. H. HAVERTY. Isle of Wight County. Va.

1. The feeding of pigs with corn or corn meal is wrong. Corn is a fat forming food (a carbo-hydrate) and not a muscle bone and flesh forming food, which is what young animals of all kinds need. Milk and mill feed or as it is called in many places "ship stuff" is a much more suitable feed, and if to this can be added some cow pea or soy bean meal or some oat meal they will do still better. All these feeds are bone and muscle builders. The pigs should also have a little bone meal fed every day and have access to a clover or grass pasture at all times when the weather is fine. Roots and peanuts are good for them and should be fed with the grain ration mentioned above and only a little corn be fed. The cough very likely proceeds from dusty beds or from worms troubling them. Keep their beds free from dust and their houses

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[May,,

clean and dry and give a tablespoon-ful of turpentine in their food once or twice a week. Now that the weather is warm, let them spend most of their time in the pasture.

2. No, it is not necessary to inoculate for cow peas in the South. The "bacteria peculiar to the peas is found in nearly all land here and the seed itself carries the bacteria.

3. The fall and winter is the best time but it may be applied with advantage right up to the time of planting crops. The best lime to use is that fresh from the kiln. Either burnt stone or burnt shells whichever can toe most cheaply bought.—Editor.

HOLSTEIN FRIESIAN REGISTRY. Please give name and address of the Secretary of the Holsteln Friesian Association, and if there is more than one in the United States.

A SUBSCRIBER.

Mr. Frederick L. Houghton, of Brat-tleboro, Vermont, is the Secretary of the Association. There is only one association.—Editor.

SHEEP SCAB.

Kindly give me through your columns, a cure for sheep scab.

W. B. D.

Baltimore, Md.

Cooper's Sheep Dip advertised in this issue is an old and worldwide used remedy. Purcell, Ladd & Co., of this city are local agents for it. The Zenoleum Dip is also a good one.—Editor.

DISEASED APPLE TREES.

Enclosed find some .twigs of apple tree. What is the disease and what the remery? J. W. H.

Warwick Co., Va.

The apple twigs which you send show infestation with the scurfy scale (Chikmaspis furfurus). This is a native insect and does, as a rule, comparatively little damage. While it may weaken the trees a little, and undoubtedly does them some harm, I never knew of an apple tree in bearing being killed by it. The same remedies which are applied for the San Jose scale will operate against this insect also. I refer particularly to the winter washes described in Circular 42. Yours truly,

L. O. HOWARD, Chief of Bureau.

GROUND LIMESTONE. In your April number I see where Mr. Willis O. Wing, of Mechanicsburg, Ohio, says that several tons of un-burnt, ground limestone should be used to the acre for alfalfa, which shouldn't cost over $1.00 per acre. Now, I am interested in the clovers, and would be glad to be informed

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yhere I can purchase the lime for that nomey. B. T. HALL.

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There are several lime burners in Dhio and Pennsylvania now grinding he limestone and putting it up in >ags, and it is to this lime, no doubt, Mr. Wing refers. We do not know hat any of the Virginia makers have |r©t begun this business, but they night to do so, as lime in this form is found to be very beneficial when Ised with green fallows, or where here is plenty of humus in the soil.— 3d.

BLOAT IN CATTLE.

Can you tell me the proabble cause >£ and a remedy for flatulent colic, >r bloat, in cattle? R. H.L.

Elizabeth City Co., Va.

Bloat is a form of indigestion and nay be caused by any kind of food. IToung ckXver and other wet green :ood causes it. Corn meal sometimes souses- Food eaten too hastily caus-;s it. Whenever the digestive action >f the stomach is imperfectly performed, the food in the stomach fer-nents and gas results, which causes he bloating. The only remedy when he animal is suffering from a severe Ittack and the left flank is blown up ;o or above the level of the backbone,

and, when struck with the tips of the fingers, makes a drum-like sound, is the trochar which is a sharp pointed instrument encased in a sheath which leaves the sharp-point of the trocar free. This instrument is pushed through the skin at a point equally distant from the last rib, the hip bone, and the transverse processes of the lumbar vertebrae and the sharp-point of the trochar is directed downward and slightly forward into the paunch. The trochar is then withdrawn leaving /the sheath in the opening as long as the gas issues from it. After the gas ceases to blow off, remove the sheath or canula and the place soon heals. Where the case is not so urgent as to be likely to cause immediate death if not relieved at once, the remedy is to give two ounces of aromatic spirits of ammonia every half-hour in a quart of cold water. This should be followed by a purgative of one pound of Epsom salts. Gentle walking exercise will often relieve mild cases.—Ed.

PLANT FOR NAME.

I enclose a sprig of a plant that comes up in my garden early every spring. It has a purple bloom, then a dark pod filled with very small peas they, too, arte very dark. My cow seems to like it very much, eats It

readily. Will you please tell me what it is, and if it is of any value?

(Miss) M. S. MARTIN.. Pittsylvania Co., Va.

The plant is the Wild Vetch, It is a legume and valuable both as a forage plant and as an improver of the land-—Ed.

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1. I notice in the March issue of. The Planter your reply to Subscriber', relative to dry cow manure. Now, you tell him that the ammonia content was lost in drying process. Nfow. will you please tell me if this is true of all nitrogenous litter made on farm and, df so, best method of preserving this costly element in hen house litter particularly and all farm manure. I am using high-grade acid phosphate in my stable and sometimes floats. Notice from recent experiments the phosphate is pronounced the better of the two.

2. With $4.20 per ton as price on caustic lime delivered at my freight' office, and say $14.50 as price on 16, to 18 per cent- phosphate as figures to establish a ratio, at what price does Thomas Slag phosphate become ari economical fertilizer.

3. In liming my land, which I have.

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[May,

been doing now for several years, my practice is to (haul lime onto land previously marked off in checks and distribute it in checks in desired quantities in these checks. Allow to remain for several days until pulverized by the air and then scatter. I notice your advice in recent issue is to slake by pouring water over lime. Please state the loss consequent upon air slaking. As it is quite an expense to carry the water to the field, I suppose the adhesive property of lime is destroyed by the air slaking and this is very much desired in most of my land, which is inclined to wash. Can this property in lime be retained without making it really wet, in which state it could not be scattered.

4. In my system I seed my corn land at last working of corn to wheat or oats, and sapling clover and alsike clover. I run these fields then two years. This sieason I wish to add herds grass to the other seed in order to get a better sod on land. Now, will you tell me if tall meadow oat grass would be a good addition to this? "Will it stand hard grazing, and will it set in the corn?

Louisa Co., Va. JAMES H. Q.

1. The best way to conserve the nitrogen in manure is to apply it at once as made to the land. There the soil absorbs it. It is not, however, always convenient to do this and then the best way is to pack the manure tightly lin a pit or covered yard and keep it moist with water or liquid manure, spreading on it also at frequent intervals some acid phosphate which will have the effect of arresting rapid decomposition and at the same time will increase the value of the manure as plant food by supplementing the phosphoric acid content in which element farm yard manure is most lacking. Where the manure can be kept in the stall or boxes and be kept trodden solid by the animals, there will be little loss of nitrogen, but this practice cannot be adopted in a dairy stable, as it is unsanitary, the odor of the manure affecting the milk very quickly. In horse stables, the use of plaster as a deodorizer is frequently advised. It is true that to some extent the plaster will arrest the loss of ammonia, fixing it as sulphate of ammonia, but experiments have demonstrated that it is not so effective for this purpose as acid phosphate. The difficulty in using acid phosphate in the stables is that it is caustic and affects the feet of animals with tender feet. Hen manure can best be preserved by mixing it with dry dust and plaster and keep-

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^vcryiiog-raiser e

Made of 1-8 inch Thick HEAVY BOILER STEEL

"So Strong no Beast or Man Can Break or Injure.'

Here Is the best and most durable trough ever made. Guaranteed to please you or money refunded. Will last lifetime. No expense for repairs. lS-lnch wide x 7-inch deep x 5-ft. long, weigh 40 lbs., each M.45 or 8fo-»7.S5 am*toe pay the freight. 6 ft. 83.15; 7 ft. «3.85; eft. 84.40; 10 ft. $4.90. Don'tmiss this great bargain, nould write for free circular describing these troughs to F. K. BOWKS CO., 692.606 lake SU, Chicago.

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alcohol engine, superior to any one-cylinder engine; revolutionizing power. Its weight and bulk are half that of single cylinder eL.^...

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engine. Send yon Catalogue. TU£ T£UFL£ FlJIIir CO., Mfri., Meagher and 15th 8U., Chlcaxo. THIS IS OUR FIFTY-FIFTH TEAR.

UNTIL YOU INVESTIGATE "THE MASTER WORKMAN," a two-cylinder gasoline, kerosene or Its weight and bulk are half that of single cylinder engines, with greater durability. Costi

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ing it barrelled up in a dry shed. Your practice of using acid phosphate and floats is correct, and you will find advantage to your crops from it-

2. The easiest way to arrive at what is the fair price at which Thomas slag is ajn economical manure to use is to comjpare it with ground South Carolina or Tennessee rock (floats). It is a fertilizer having much the same characteristics as these natural fertilizers. The South Carolina and Tennessee rooks were formed hy heat in the ages past. Thomas slag is made by the application of heat in the furnace in smelting iron or steel ores. South Carolina rock has an average analysis of 0.27 soluble phosphoric acid, 0.07 reverted phosphoric acid, and 28.03 total phosphoric acid. Thomas slag has an average analysis 0.00 soluble phosphoric acid, 3.06 reverted phosphoric acid, and 23-49 total phosphoric acid. The lime content of South Carolina rock is 41.87 per cent. The lime content of .Thomas slag is 48.66 per cent. You will see, therefore, that they are practically on a par as suppliers of plant food, and should, therefore, sell at about the same price. When both are reduced by grinding to an impalpable powder the availability of the plant food is about the same. The difficulty in getting them at the samie price is caused by the fact that the rock is a home product whilst the slag is imported

and, in addition to freight charges, has added to it a protective duty as an imported product of iron or steel. This is one of the absurdities of the tariff. The slag in no way competes with iron or steel in the market, as it is solely used as a fertilizer and the farmer who gets no benefit from the tariff in any way, but is robbed by it on everything hie buys, is made to pay dearer for a fertilizer in order that his robbers may be able thus to plunder him in two ways. When will the farmers make their power felt and compel the abolition of this iniquitous trust maker—the tariff!

3. When lime is allowed slowly to air slake, it reverts back again to the chemical condition it was in before burning, which is a less available one for the amelioration of the physical and mechanical condition of the soil than when reduced quickly to a powder hot and caustic by the application of just sufficient water to make it fall- It should not be so wet as to become a pasty plaster, but only have sufficient water sprinkled on to cause it to fall into a powder. You will find that very little water is needed to secure this end and it will then spread as easily as aiir slaked lime.

4. Tall meadow oat grass makes an excellent addition to the seeding of a meadow or pasture. It is a most nutritious grass and makes a heavy yield on average upland. It is not

suited for wet, low grounds. If you would also add some meadow fescue seed you will still more improve the sod, as this grass makes a thicker bottom grass than either herds grass or oat grass.—Ed.

The American Review of Reviews. Herbert Henry Asquith, Frontispiece. The Progress of the World. Record of Current Events, with portraits. Some of the Recent Cartoons. Laszlo and His Portrait of the President, with portraits. Dr. Wiley, Government Chemist, by Snell Smith, with portrait. What Medicine Owes to Robert Koch, with portrait. The New Nation to the North, By Agnes C. Laut, with map. The Arts and Crafts in America, by Ernest Knaufft, with illustrations. Education in South America, by William R. Shepherd, with portraits and other illustrations. International Socialism as a Folitical Force, by George Allan England. Hearst: A Political Problem, by a Democratic politician. Checking the Waste of Our National Resources, by Guy Elliott Mitchell, with illustrations-A National Inventory, by Richard H. Edmonds. The New American Farmer, by Herbert N. Casson. Leading Articles of the Month, with portraits and other illustrations. Leading Financial Articles. The New Books, with portraits.

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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER.

[May;

A FARM ECONOMY.

The use of a "food tonic" as a preventive of indigestion and consequent check on growth and development, is becoming a settled practice among owners and feeders of live stock.

It is a well-established principle that hitter tonics strengthen digestion, that iron builds rich blood in abundance and that nitrates remove from the system the clogging poisons that are not less deadly ebcause their action is slow. It sometimes happens in feeding cattle or hogs that the gain of months is almost complete lost by -a mlistaken idea of economy which prevented a slight outlay for the "food tonic."

This is a sample of the same old ■policy which "saves at the spigot to waste at the bung." _ Continuous and rapid growth or fatting is impossible without daily doses of this beneficial tonic preparation.

Keep that in mind and remember that back of the idea is the indorsement of such men as Professors Wins-low, Quitman and Pinley Dun, noted the country oyer as experts in ail that relates to veterinary medical practice.

It has been found that all farm animals are equally benefited by the use of the "food tonic." Horses are in better condition for work or driving and, where the object is to sell, they invariably show to better advantage.

To hasten a bunch of hogs when high prices are in proslpeot, there is nothing better, and the actual profit derived from its use may be well illustrated by a simple computation.

Suppose a bunch of four 125-pound hogs be taken as an experiment and that a maximum dose of two table-spoonfuls he given twice a day. Now, the actual weight of tonic eaten by the four hogs would be 1-6 of a pound and would cost 5-6 of one cent, or a fraction over 6 cents per month per hog. Then, if the fact he taken into consideration that a thrifty hog may increase a hundredweight in a few weeks, we see at once that the "food tonic" would soon pay for itself and a large margin of profit be realized-

This is the theory and practice of the "tonic idea," and there is abundant evidence to sustain it. Men who aTe using .the "food tonic" regularly find lhat it pays for itself over and over again and that there is no small investment made that gives so handsome a return.

The larger business of cattle raising and feeding is also equally broadened and extended by this commonly practiced principle of giving a digestive tonic. By its use a bunch of steers is carried safely through the months when heavy feiading is the rule, and brought to a satisfactory market condition without a moment's check in the process of development.

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Sheep and lambs benefit as mucl from a consistent use of "food tonic' as other stock, tests by a State Expert ment Station proving in one instanc< a profit of 235 per cent, over the cost from which it would seem that n< farm economy is more practical o; profitable than the "food tonic" idea.

CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE.

"You say you met the defendant oi a street-car, and that he had beer drinking and gambling," said the at torney for the defense during the cross examination.

"Yes," replied the witness.

"Did you see him take a drink?"

"No."

"Did you see him gambling?"

"No."

"Then, how do you know," demand ed the attorney, "that the defendan' had been drinking and gambling?"

"Well," explained the witness, "h< gave the conductor a blue chip for hii car-fare, and told him to keep tin change." —Lippincott's.

Washington Co., Va., Dec. 18, '07. I wish to say that if a few more oi our farmers would take the Southerr Planter and read it faithfully, thej would learn about farming and "truck ing. I think it is the most valuable oi all papers. I could not do without It W. M. RATLIFF.

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F. C. HOENNIGER & BRO., INC.

1 432 East Main Street, Richmond, Va.

(F. C. Hoennlger, Pres. & Tres.; T. W. Hoennlger, V.-Pres. & Mgr.; L. O. Boone, Secy.)

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ENGINES

Our

Hopper Jacket Engine

This company has been making: engine*—and nothing; else—for thirty years. We are engine specialists.

It stands to reason that a big*, successful concern like this, that makes one thing", must make that one thing well.

Our new factory Is the most complete and up-to-date engine factory In the United States. Because of its complete equipment we can build engines of the highest efficiency at the very lowest cost.

That Is why we can aire you a durable, simple, strong*, highest-grade, perfect-working, long-lived engine at a low price.

This liberal proposition is the crowning reason, on top of a lot of good common sense ones, why you should buy an Olds Engine and none other.

We Have Mny Kind of an Engine You Want

Our new catalogue tells about them In detail. I especially want to call your attention to our Hopper Jacket Engine on skids or wheels, S to 12 H. P., which is ready to run when yeu get It. Fill It with gasoline, throw en the switch, turn the wheel—that's all. No piping to connect, nothing to set up, always ready, can be mered anywhere.

I want you to get the most Ufcesml hmm Iuw ever made on a Gasoline Engine. It will ntn yea money. When a company like thl*, the oldest aad biggest exclusive gasoline engine manufactwrerc if the country, make aneh a proposition, at an sans something. I hare placed ay proposition la the hand* of our representatives. Write to them ©r to me, and you will receive It by return mail.

JAB. B. SEAGER. Oejn, Mgr. Olds Gaa Power Co. The Olds Engine la the beat and cheapest Engine you can buy. It la the simplest In nemntniiUon, u*««,, economical to run, will do your work at the tmtn*<i expense, and doea not get out of erfeu-, ^_

Skids.

All Olds Engines run properly, are easy to start, winter and summer. The U. S. Government uses them.

Don't fall to write for our new catalogue nnd the liberal propositions nt once. Address the home office or any representative.

Do not buy any other engine until you have got my liberal proposition. It is something ■manual. You certainly want to know about It

OLDS GAS POWER CO.

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CASE CRANK SHIFT CULTIVATOR

This Cultivator is a combination of two popular types—the "Crank Shift" and "Pendulum Swing"—the best features of both being combined in it.

The Shift. —The shifting or dodging of the gangs is done by a straight forward and back movement of the feet. The leverage is so powerful that it is done with practically no effort, and the gang responds so quickly that crooked corn can be perfectly culti vated.

The Levers.—When at work the levers are down. Raising them a few inches brings the coil lift springs into play, and the gangs are lifted high without effort on the part of the operator. Mounted on the main levers are racks and short levers used in regulating the depth of cultivation with either gang, each independent of the other. To cultivate deep with either gang, it is only necessary to set the short lever backward or forward to cultivate shallow. By this ingenious arrangement of levers, one gang can be lowered to follow a dead furrow, and the other raised to cultivate a ridge, or both lowered in crossing a furrow or low spot. Setting the gangs with the short lever has no effect on their being lifted full height out of the ground with the main levers.

The Telescope Axle.—Like all other features, this one is perfect, and permits a range of adjustment between wheels from 44 inches out to 52 inches.

The Wheels.—The wheels are made with removable and capped hub— the kind that can be greased right without removing anything hut the cap. Better than dustproof, for every greasing forces out all the old grease and any dirt that may have gotten into the bearing.

CASE WALKING CULTIVATORS

Has adjustable coil-lifting springs which are attached to a sleeve with a coupling on the forward end of the gangs instead of the gangs themselves.

When in action the adjusting springs come immediately over the axle, but as the gangs are raised from the ground the springs are carried out from the center and increase in pressure as the handles are raised.

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THE SOUTHE EN PLANTER.

[May,

ENQUIRERS' COLUMN. (Detail Index.) Muskmelons or Cantaloupes—

Celery Growing—Strawberries. 487 Watermelon Growing—Variety of Corn to Plant—Preservation

for Fence Posts 490

Coarse and Fine Bran—Grass

Seeding 491

Cow With Fits—Fertilizer for Corn—F arm Demonstration

Work 492

Utilizing Bones 492

Whitewash 494

Care of Mare and Foal 494

Sulphur 495

Poisoning Hawks 496

Hog Cholera—Sheep Dying 496

Bermuda Grass Seed 496

Phosphate 498

Broomsedge 498

Irish Potato Fertilizer 499

Well and Water Works 499

Growing Forage on Mill-Pond

Land and Red Land 500

Ginseng 502

Pigs Not Thriving—Inoculation of Cow Peas—Liming Land... 502

Holstein-Fresian Registry 504

Sheep Scab 50'4

Diseased Apple Trees 504

Ground Limestone 504

Bloat in Cattle 505

Plant for Name 505

How to Conserve Ammonia in Manure—Thomas Slag—Applying Lime—Seeding Grass 505

BOOKS.

The Winter Lamb, by H. H. Miller, H. P. Miller and J. E. Wing. Published by J. E. Wing, Mechanicsburg, Ohio. Every breeder of early lambs ought to have this book. In it the authors give the fullest information as to how to successfully and profitably produce the early lamb which our climatic conditions in the South so wiell fit us to put on the market when the price is the highest. We will send a copy to any subscriber to The Planter for 25 cents. The price of the book without The Planter is 50 cents.

Modern Sheep; Breeds and Management, By Snepherd Boy. Published by the American Sheep Breeder, Chicago, 111. Price, $1.50. This is one of the best books published on this subject and every sheep keeper should have it.

Jefferson Davis, by Dr. William E. Dodd, of Randolph-Macon College. This is one of the American Crisis Biographies, published by George W. Jacobs & Co., of Philadelphia, Pa. The price of the book is $1.25. Dr. Dodd has written a most readable life of the only President of the Southern Confederacy and it cannot fail to be of interest to Southern people especially.

CATALOGUES. Peter Henderson & Co., 35 and 37 Cortlandt Street, New York. Every-

Richmond, farm and

thing for the lawn and lawn formation and care.

The Spotless Co, Inc., Va. Everything for the home.

B. H. Greider, Rheems, Pa. Purebred poultry.

Lawrence Williams Co., Cleveland, Ohio. Gombaults Caustic Balsam.

Wallace B. Crugab, Forestville, Conn. Chain hanging cattle stanchion.

Bateman Mfg. Co., Gnenloch, N. J. The Iron Age farm and garden Implements.

C. L. Shenk, Page Valley Poultry Yards, Luray, Va. Thoroughbred poultry.

Chicago House Wrecking Co., Chicago, 111. Everything for the farm and home.

American Jersey Cattle Club, 8 W. 17th St., New York. Dairy quality of dairy cattle.

The Raney Canner Co., Chapel Hill, N. C. Improved Raney Canner.

E. F. Schlichter Co., 10 S. 18th St, Philadelphia. Silos.

Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co., Richmond, Va. Money in Tobacco-

Leggett & Bro., New York. Leg-gett's spray calendar.

A Neat Binder for your back numbers can be had for 30 cents. Addres* our Business Departmeat.

Established by Geo. Watt, 1840.

THE CALL-WATT CO.,

13 South 15 th St., Richmond, Va.

IMPLEMENTS, MACHINERY, WAGONS.

MANFRED CULL,

Manager.

THE EMPIRE CORN AND FERTILIZER PLANTER.

ThJj. DISC CULTIVATOR. SPRING TOOTH CULTIVATOR AND .. DISC HARROW COMBINED.

THE UNIT MM MACHINE

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in Two Days' Use. THE PRICE BRINGS IT WITHIN THE REACH OF ALL. BALING PRESSES FOR HAND, HORSE AND STEAM POWER. FERTILIZER, LIME AND PLASTER SOWERS. EIGHT STYLES AND SIZES. SAWS. PEA HULLERS, GRINDING MILLS, HORSE POWERS, POLE AND WOOD ROAD ROLLERS, ROAD PLOWS, WHEEL AND DRAG SCRAPERS.

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WO SOLICIT CORRESPONDENCE AND ARE PREPARED TO MAKE LOW

TWO-ROW CORN PLANTER. With Shoes or Discs and with or without Fertilizer Attachment and Check Rower.

ACCURATE, SIMPLE. STRONG.

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A SUGGESTION WORTH HEEDING. There has been much in the press of late concerning substitution and buyers have been repeatedly warned to stick to the brands of goods having an 'established reputation and which have demonstrated their worth. One of the surest methods of protecting one's self against inferior imitations is to become familiar with the trade marks of standard articles.

Our readers will recognize in the illustration here shown a .trade mark of this character. Wherever the dapple gray horse above illustrated appears on a box of gall cure, the purchaser may be certain that the contents were manufactured by the Bick-more Gall Cure Company, Old Town, Maine, and that it: can be relied upon to accomplish the results claimed for it by its makers.

This firm has for many years manufactured and sold this very useful preparation, which is of great value

lor curing saddle and harness galls, sore shoulder, scratches, grease heel, wire cuts, and other sores and abrasions on horses land other animals. One of the decided advantages about this preparation is the fact that the afflicted animal may be kept ait work while the cure is in process and oftentimes the cure is more rapid when the animal is working than it would be if he were left idle in the stall.

The frequency with which a working horse is liable to be affected with some of the complaints above ment-ionled makes it desirable to have on hand at all times a remedy of this sort; not only for the reason that it enables the owner to keep his animals in working condition but from a humane standpoint as well- Nothing is more distressing to a person of tender sensibilities than to see a horse under the harness being tormented by a sore which is being constantly irritated and is a continual source of torment to the animal, and no man, unless he is exceedingly heartless, will allow such a condition of affairs longer than it can be helped.

By having a supply of Bickmore's Gall Cure on hand such unpleasant circumstances can be avoided and the animal saved much unnecessary suffering. The Bickmore Gall Cure Co. issue an attractive booklet which they call their Horse Book, and which they send, together with a free sample of

! their gall cure, .to any one on receipt I of ten cents to cover postage and

packing. To secure the same, address j the Bickmore Gall Cure Co., Old

Town, Maine, kindly mentioning this

paper.

THE PHILADELPHIA SILO. The E. F. Schlichter Co., of Philadelphia is advertising its well-known silo in this issue. There are several new and exclusive features set forth in a brief circular, which will be mailed on application. Write to-day for it.

THE GENERAL II. IMPORTED HACKNEY STALLION NOW AT

BURKEVILLE, VA. We call attention of our readers to the advertisement of Mr. T. O. Sandy, Drs. J. G. Ferneyhough, and John Young, owners of this splendid horse-These gentlemen have long been interested in good horse flesh, and recently had the opportunity to purchase the General II., formerly owned by H. K. Bloodgood, Esq., of Massachusetts. 1'hey have placed him in the stud at Mr. Sandy's farm and horse owners are offered his services at reasonable rates. We venture the prediction of his immediate popularity, as he is a fine animal and the sire of some splendid horses. Look up the ad., or, better still, run down and see him and some of his get.

COLONEL PATRICK.

47729.

Record, 2:10%; Trial, 2:05%. The fastest trotting stallion owned in North Carolina. Richly bred and a race horse. Sired by The Conqueror, 2:12%; dam Godelia, 2:16%, by Aberdeen 27.

FEE—$50 TO INSUURE. Address M. H. WHITE, Hertford, N. C.

GRANDEE.

Registered French Coach Stallion, chestnut horse, 16.1 hands, weight 1,300 pounds. Blue ribbon winner Virginia State Fair at Richmond, 1906 and 1907.

FEE—$50 TO INSURE. Address CARL, H. NOLTING, Trevilian, Louisa County, Va. N. B.—Rich bluegrass pasturage for visiting mares.

RED DILLON, 38696.

Bay horse, foaled 1902, height 15.3 hands, weight 1,200 pounds. Sired by Baron Dillon, 2:12; dam, Zinda Lake, by Red Lake, 2:15%, sire of Lake Queen, 2:06%. For terms address JOHN B. VAUGHAN, Owner, Ashland, Va.

C. E. Worsham.

R. A. Carter.

B. C. Brlstow.

The Bristow-Worsham Co.

■v [Incorporated!

Manufacturers and Dealers in BUGGIES, RUNABOUTS, WAGONS TRUCKS, DRAYS AND EVERYTHING IN VEHICLES. Office and Salesroom, 1417 E. Main St., Factory, 1600 East Franklin St.,

RICHMOND, VA.

Agents for Milburn and White Hickory

Farm Wagons.

HACKNEY STALLION. PATRICK HENRY.

Chestnut horse by "Squire Rickel," son of the famous Cadet; dam, "Mar-jorie," a gold medal winner by "Rose-berry."

A POLLARD & SONS,

Dunraven Stock Farm, R. F. D. No. 5, Richmond, Va. N. B.—Horses handled and conditioned; also boarded and pastured.

1908. IN THE STUD. 1908.

THE THOROUGHBRED STALLION, LARRY K.

Brown horse, 16 hands high, weight 1,200 pounds. Sired by Favor, dam Blue Bells, by Narragansett. FEE—$10 SEASON, $15 INSURANCE.

Address

E. B, LEWIS OR JOHN W. MATHEWS,

Meredithville, Va.

FRED HERR, 45239.

Bay horse, foaled 1902, height 16 hands, weight 1,100 pounds, by Charley Herr, 2:07; dam, Jessie P., dam of Annie Lee, 2:07%, etc., by Neapolitan, 9966. FEE—$10 SEASON, $15 INSURANCE.

Address A. T. BROADDUS, R. F. D. No. 1, Highland Springs, Va.

DIRECTOR, JR., 32294.

Mahogany Bay Stallion, height 15%

hands, weight 1,100 pounds; dam

Mamie Wilkes, dam of Mary B., 2:19%,

etc., by Red Wilkes, 1749.

FEE—$10 CASH FOR SINGLE LEAP

OR $25 INSURANCE.

J. M. VAUGHAN, Owner,

South Hill, Va.

DISPERSAL SALE.

Trotters, Hackneys and Thoroughbred Horses, owned by the estate of William N. Wilmer, deceased, will be sold at auction WEDNESDAY, MAY 6 AT 1 P. M., at Plain Dealing Stock Farm, Scottsville, Albemarle County, Va The offerings include Stallions, Brood Mares, Colts and Fillies, by noted sires, from richly-bred dams. Among the famous sires represented are Allerton, 2:09%; Axworthy, 2:15%-; Norval, 2:14%; Kentucky Prince, 2470, and others. The Stallions include Virginia Chief, 27267, one of the best known sires of good and useful horses in Albemarle County; Abineer, 309^J; Plain Dealing, 30921, and Surprise W., Hackney. Among the Brood Mares are daughters of Allerton, Norval, Onward and other sires, with foal by, and others bred to, Bon Axworthy, the son of Axworthy and world famous Sunol, 2 08%. The younger horses range from sucklngs and yearlings upward. Send for catalogue.

JOSEPH WILMER, ADMINISTRATOR, Scottsville, Va.

N. B. Five or six head of good big

Mules will also be sold.

Stallion cards, folders and catalogues compiled; pedigrees of trotters, pacers and thoroughbreds traced. My library includes Year Books, Trotting Registers, Stud Books, Files of turf journals and other references. Special attention to registration matters. Address W. J. CARTER, 1105 E. Cary Street, Richmond, Va.

THE SOUTHERN" PLANTER.

[May r

A FLEXIBLE ROOFING.

After a man has done some work ■with ready roofings he begins to long for flexibility in his material more than anything else. So many roofings are stiff as boards and hard to handle. Eending them properly over the eaves, cutting them to fit the roof or folding the thick sheets in the corners is often difficult to do correctly. A roofing like Congo is rather more satisfactory to the man who does the work. Congo is 'extremely pliable under all climatic conditions. It can easily be folded double and will ie snug and close so that making a tight waterproof roof is a simple matter. The manufacturers will supply samples and booklets on request.

Address United Roofing and Manufacturing Company, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco.

BLACK'S BLACK LANGS HANS.

Attention is called to the advertisements of A- M. Black, Tazewell, Va., the well-known Langshan specialist. Mr. Black has succeeded in developing a distinct strain of typical Langshans of great egg-laying capacity. He has won numerous prizes wherever he has shown, and is now offering stock and eggs from his winners. Send for his latest circular.

DE WITT POUJLTRY FARM. At Highland Park, a suburb

of

Richmond, Va., is located .this splendidly equipped poultry farm. Sixty varieties of fowls are raised and eggs and breeding stock can be furnished at all times- At the Virginia State Fair, this farm won numerous premiums on a variety of fowls. During the spring they have had the services of Judge Wittman to assist in mating their pens, and all poultrymen will appreciate what this means. Recently, Mr. J. E. Guvernator, the Proprietor, purchased the Virginia Poultry Supply Co., and is now in a position to furnish all kinds of poultry sundries, including incubators and brooders. See advertisements elsewhere.

WHAT MAKES POULTRY RAISING PAY. Close attention to all little details, proper location, good, healthy stock and a love and aptness for the business. One of the greatest difficulties which besets the poultryman is the louse problem, which recurs every summer. It is not only the cause of much trouble and annoyance, but very often is one of the main causes of lack of success in raising rpoultry. The various kinds of lice which swarm in the poultry house and pester the fowls day and night cause them to lose flesh, reduce the egg production materially and also impair the vitality of the fowls. It follows, therefore, that if he can secure freedom from these pests,

the poultryman has solved one of the main questions which involve the success or failure of his business-

The preparation advertised in these columns known as "Avenarius Carboli-num," is beyond doubt the most radical and permanent remedy to be used for this purpose. It is a heavy, oily liquid, will not evaporate or wear off r but sinks deeply into the wood and remains (permanently. It is applied to the linside walls, roosts, etc., of the hen house or brooders with a brush like paint or by spraying. While entirely non-poisonous and harmless to fowls, it is strongly caustic and antiseptic, which causes sure death to vermin of all kinds. As one application is sufficient to keep the premises free from all further trouble and thus makes the remedy the cheapest and best that could possibly be obtained for this purpose. One trial will be sufficent to convince any one of its excelence.

The material has been in use for nearly forty years as a wood preservative, and its use is recommended especially for preserving fence posts and other posts, shingles, stable floors, joists, sills, etc., and for the painting of all exposed woodwork on farm buildings and outhouses. Its attractive, rich nutbrown color is very durable and will not fade or wear off under the influence of sun and rain, and the i woodwork, when treated, is absolutely

W. K. BACHE.

S. S. MULFORD.

HARDIN K. BACHE.

CYRUS McC. BACHE.

W. K. BACHE, SONS & MULFORD.

1406 East Main Street, Richmond, Va*

44 Everything:used on the Farm."

Farming Hachinery, Vehicles, Harness.

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Tonguelcss Disc Hanow with Fore, truck.

Easy on team.

Easy to Operate.

"Keystone" Single Row Corn Planter. "Bradley" Double Row Corn Planter. "Little Jap" Disc Riding Cultivator. ".Tin a sville" Disc Riding Cultivator. These Cultivators ran be converted into Riding Disc Harrows or into Hoe Cultivator. De Lavai Cream Separators. Thirnhill aud Tennessee Farm Wagons. "Anderson" Buggies, Surreys &c.

"Deering" and "Johnston"Binders, Mowers and Hay Rakes. Twine, Oil and Repairs.

Write for Circular and Prices on Anything Needed.

THE SOUTHERN PLANTER.

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protected against premature rot and decay. It will at least double the natural life of the wood, and, in many eases will even treble same-

For further information, see Bulletin 30, sent upon application by the Oarbolineum Wood Preserving Co., 346 W- Broadway, New York, N. Y.

A NEW TRIUMPH IN DIP MAKING.

The old established firm of William Cooper & Nephews for over 65 years the leading dip makers of the world, have recently put upon the market a fluid dip, the advantages of which over all crude dips will be appreciated by 'thoughtful sheep owners. It is a highly concentrated, non-poisonous dip of marvelous strength.

For scab curing, 1 gallon makes 120 gallons wash.

For ticks, lice, etc., 1 gallon makes 200 gallons wash.

It costs less than others because strength is greater.

It mixes readily with cold water, whether hard or brackish, alkali or salty, and is instantly ready for use.

It contains no tar oils and does not stain the fleece.

It costs much less for freight.

It is a complete, ready-made dip— requiring no addition whatever for official dippings other than water.

It is distinctly beneficial to skin and wool.

It contains no crude element of any

kind, every atom of it being real, genuine unadulterated dip.

It stands at the head of all liquid dips, as perfect in manufacture as in curative effect, and incomparably cheaper and better than coal tar dips, tobacco or lime and sulphur.

It contains no sediment and no stirring is required. Once mixed, the bath is uniform and unchangeable throughout.

Another great preparation of these wiell-known chemists is Cooper's "Lavene"—the most effective skin dressing for Horses, Cattle and Dogs. Cures worst case of mange and ringworm at one dressing. Sieairches the skin and attacks the disease at its root. Improves the coat and renders hair soft and glossy. Is used by many of the best breeders in preparing animals for show.

Stockmen and Farmers will do well to write to Wm- Cooper & Nephews at their Chicago, Illinois, branch office and ask for a free catalogue describing all of their valuable remedies.

writing to you and using the Absorb-ine as you advised me, there is no more bunch. I think as much again of the colt."

Now is the time to get your stock in proper condition for the season's work or the sale. A lame, blemished horse can be made sound and smooth with Absorbine without laying up the horse. No blister, no hair gone. Absorbine is mild, but prompt in its action; stops lameness, kills pain, removes bunches. $2.00 per bottle at all druggists or express prepaid upon receipt of price. Manufactured only by W. F. Young, P. D- F., 10*9 Monmouth St., Springfield, Mass.

ABSORBINE FOR BLEMISHED STOCK. Mr. M. M. Bell, Jamesville, Va., writes under date of December 14, 1907: "Absorbine is the finest thing that I have ever used. I had a two-year-old colt trained the past season-She came home with a bunch on her ankle that I hated to look at. After

SHE DID HER DUTY BY HIM.

One Monday morning the colored "wash lady" did not arrive at the usual hour to do the weekly washing of a family residing in a Pennsylvania town.

When she appeared some time later the mistress of the house descended to the kitchen and was greatly edified by the woman's explanation.

"No'm"—carefully removing a hat ornamented by a voluminous black veil, "I wa'n't sick. I had to stay home to receive my diseased brother's remainders that was sent from Pittsburg day before yisterday."

— March UppincoWs.

Please mention the Southern Planter.

LEADING 1908 UP-TO-DATE LABOR SAVING 20TH CENTURY MACHINERY.

The "Genuine" Reed Spring Tooth Cultivator. Thousands used every year, giving perfect satisfaction. The Reed Spring Tooth Cultivator can be converted into a spring tooth harrow by buying the center gang at a small cost, making it a Spring Tooth Harrow on wheels. Write for the Reed Special Cultivator Circular and Catalogue.

ECONOMY

The most novel, practical and perfect doorway oi the 20th Century. Continuous hoops with hoop support. Perfectly air tight. Built oirf scien tiflc and mechanical principles Fully warranted. Write for Ulustra ted <--ataingue and Information

The "GENUINE BROWN RIDING AND WALKING CULTIVATORS. Write for special catalogue and prices.

BROWN Steel Lever Harrows, Wood Harrows, Case-Ring Bearing Disc Harrows, Spring Tooth Harrows. All sizes, plain or with levers. Acme Harrows of all styles kept in stock at lowest net prices.

We mail our General Catalogue promptly on request.

Kemp's Twentieth Century Improved Manure Spreader. Made in three sizes. Write for prices and catalogue.

Case and Tiger Double-Row Corn Planter. Plants two and a half to five feet. Plain or with Check-Row Attachment. Also furnished with Fertilizer Attachment if wanted.

HENING & NUGKOLS, 1436-38 E. Main St., Richmond, Va.

THE SOUTHERN PLANTER,

[May,

Get a Spotless Farm Wagon.

It doesn't matter where your farm is or how serviceable a wagon you need, one of our One or Two-Horse Spotless Wagons will fill the bill, and do it to your own satisfaction.

Prices on freight, collect from our factory in Southern Virginia. Add $1 to price if you wish them shipped from Richmond, Va.

$1 O Brings a Spotless Wagon to You.

To show you how great our faith in Spotless "Wagons is just send us $10, as a sign of good faith on your part, and we will ship you any Spotless Wagon you de sire to your freight office. Examine it, look it over, compare it to other wagons and if you are not convinced it is a great bargain ship back to us and we will send you your $10 and pay freight both ways. Now, isn't that talking business? If you are satisfied, pay the freight agent balance due and freight and take wagon. Furthermore, after you have tried the wagon you may return if not as represented.

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Two Horse Wagon Complete Without Brake $44.40.

THIMBLE SKEIN ONE HORSE SPOTLESS WAGON.

With Double Box, Spring Seat and Shafts.

THIMBLE SKEIN TWO HORSE WAQON

2B1793 2B1794 2B1796

2% x 8 2%x 8% 3 X 9

1%* ¥s 1%X7-16 l%x %

3 ft. 4 in. 3 ft. 4 in.

3 ft. 4 in.

4 ft. 4 ft.

4 ft.

11% in. 11% in. 11% in.

6 in. 7% in. 8% in.

9 fc 6 in. 9 ft. 6 in

9 ft. 6 in.

2000 2500 2700

$44.40 45.60 46.80

$37 80 39.00 40.20

2B1798 2B180O

ONE HORSE STEEL AXLE WAQON

With Double Box, Spring Seat and Shafts.

1% > V-A x

7 M x 7

1% x % 1% x 5-16

3<4 x 2 in. I 3^4 3J^x2 in. |3 ft.

8 in. 8 in.

9% in. 9% in-

iU in. 4% in.

7 ft. 7 ft.

6 in. 6 in.

1500 1800

$27 75 28 80

$23.40 $24 60

2B1802. 2BI804 2B1806 .

STEfiL AXLE TWO HORSE WAGONS.

I%x8 IX x 8%

l%x% 1% x 7-16 1% x^

3 ft. 4 in. 3 ft. 4 in. 3 ft. 4 in.

4 ft. 4 ft. 4 ft.

11% in. 11% in. 11% in.

6 in. 7% in. 8% in.

9 ft. 6 in. 9 ft. 6 in. 9 ft. 6 in.

2000 2500 2700

$46.80 48.00 49.20

$40 20 41.40 42 60

WAGON EXTRAS

Spring Seat, complete for either one or two horse wagon $1.50 each

Shafts, for one horse wagon, complete .« 3.40 each

Body Brakes, for one horse wagon, complete 2.75 each

Gear Brakes, for one horse wagon, complete 3.40 each

Gear Brakes, two horse wagon, complete 4.5* each

Look Chains, two horse wagons, complete 47 each

Our Guarantee.

Will make good any and all breaks due to defective workmanship and material which appears in the first year after purchase.

SPOTLESS CO., INC., t22 s»*"

RICHMOND, VA.

LABOR SAVING IMPLEMENTS

THE WATT PLOW CO., Richmond, Va.

McCormick & Dee ring Mowers, Hay Rakes and Binders.

John Deere, Buckeye, & Avery Walk ing and Riding C ul ti-vators.

Fish, Moline, Ebbert, Weber, Champion and Hickory Farm Wagons.

John Deere Sulky and Gang Plows

BlaaEEREtta*^

John Deere and Black Hawk Double row corn Planters.

John Deere

and Continental ^^ Disc Culti vators.Extra | Discs can be furnished to convert into Harrow.

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John Deere, Black Hawk Spang ler, Root, and Eureka Single Row cornplanters

John Deere and Roderick Lean Spike Tooth Harrows.

The Watt Plow Co., ;

1426 BAST MAIN STRBBT «a 438 BAST FRANKLIN STREET

Richmond, Va.