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Vol. 70. 



DECEMBER, 1909. 



No. 12. 



CONTENTS. 



OUR SUBSCRIPTION SEASON 1125 

FARM MANAGEMENT:— 

Editorial— Work for the Month 1126 

Notes on November Planter 1129 

Alfalfa in Tazewell 1130 

Cotton Seed Meal in Europe 1130 

Comparison of Cost of Producing Com in 

Virginia and Missouri 1132 

Large Yield of Wheat 1132 

Share Farming in Virginia 1133 

How Nature Builds Up Land 1133 

Poultry House Building 1133 

TRUCKING, GARDEN AND ORCHARD:— 

New Markets for Virginia Fruits 1134 

The Great Appalachian Apple Country. .... .1134 

Remarkable Spraying Results 1135 

Lime Sulphur 1135 

Fall Plowing for the Garden 1136 

Mixed Feeds 1137 

LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY:— 

Editorial — Worms and Parasites in Sheep . . . 1138 

Hog Husbandry in the South 1138 

Dairy Institute 1138 

Feeding the Dairy Cow 1139 

Intelligent Feeding 1139 

The Eh-adication of Bovine Tuberculosis. .. .1140 

Profit in Sheep Raising 1142 

Dual-Purpose Cows 1142 

How Much to Feed 1143 

Dairy Shorthorns in England 1143 



Annual Convention State Dairymen's Asso- 
ciation 1144 

Powhatan County Fair 1144 

THE POULTRY YARD:— 

Editorial— The Poultry Outlook 1145 

"Stop Thief" 1145 

Poultry Shows 1146 

Winter Eggs 1146 

THE HORSE:— 

Suffolks at Piedmont Farms 1147 

Notes 1148 

The Percheron Teams at the New York 

Show 1149 

Illinois Stallion Law 1150 

Percherons vs. the Other Draft Breeds 1150 

What Some Kansas Hens Are Doing 1151 

MISCELLANEOUS: — 

Corn Day Announcement 1152 

Agricultural Education 1153 

Tri-County Exhibit at Petersburg, Va 1154 

The Promoted Creamery 1155 

State Fair Prize Winners 1155 

Virginia Good Roads Convention 1156 

Land Tenancy System on the McKinney 

Estate, Maryland 1156 

The Labor and Tenancy System In Virginia 1157 

State Farmers' Institute 1158 

The Newcomer In Virginia 1158 

How About Virginia? 1216 

Enquirers' Column (Detailed Index, p. 1224) 1204 
Advertisements 1159 



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RICHMOND, VA., DECEMBER, 1909. 



No. 12. 



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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[December, 



Farm Management. 



WORK FOR THE MONTH. 



Anoher year has rolled around, and brought with it its 
joys and its sorrows, its successes and its failures, and once 
again demonstrated the truth of the promise that "seed 
time and harvest shall not fail." For the Southern farmer 
it may be said that on the whole its successes have out- 
numbered its failures, and though the crops have not on 
the whole been quite so large as those of last year, they 
are substantially in excess of the average for the past 
five years and the much higher average prices for all the 
products of the farm will make the financial results con- 
siderably in excess of the average. Had it not been for 
the most exceptional drouth which has more or less affect- 
ed the yield all over the State and especially in the Valley, 
Piedmont and northern sections during the later summer 
and fall months, the yield would have been largely in ex- 
cess of the greatest yields we have ever recorded for this 
State. Such a drouth as we have had for the past four 
months has not been known in the State for more than 
twenty-five years, and yet it has not been to compare 
with the drouths that more frequently strike the middle 
and western States. Accustomed as we are on this East- 
ern Coastal plain to seasonable rains all through the grow- 
ing season, farmers do not take those precautions to avoid 
injury from a dry season that are common practices where 
drouths are frequent. The absence of deep fall and winter 
plowing is one of these precautions which our farmers 
do not sufficiently practice. Whilst there has been much 
improvement in this respect during the la&t few years and 
this improvement still progresses yet there are still far 
too many little Dixie plows and single mule teams used to 
allow of good deep plowing being done. With three mule 
teams and the Disc or Oliver and Syracuse plows used in 
the place of the little Dixie the l«nd can be so deeply 
broken in the fall and winter that only an exceptionally 
long drouth will seriously curtail the yield of crops as our 
winter and spring rains can then be all absorbed into the 
soil and be held there in reserve for the needs of the crops 
in the dry summer and early fall months. We have, had 
reports from numbers of our subscribers who have fol- 
lowed our advice as to deep plowing for several years who 
say that they have suffered very little injury from the 
drouth this year. Deep plowing in the fall and winter 
months with lev^l, shallow, frequent cultivation during the 
growth of the crops so as to keep the surface covered with 
a soil mulch will in this Eastern section almost always 
protect it from injury from such drouths as we may have 
even though like the one we still have with us they may 
be exceptionally long and severe. Take a lesson from this 
season and as soon as you can get the plow into the land 
go down deep into it and wherever the subsoil is hardpan 
or stiff retentive clay follow the plow with a subsoilev or 
a narrow plow with the mouldboard taken off or with a 
bull nosed coulter and break the bottom of each furrow as 
deeply as you can with a good team. The vnnter and 
spring rains will then get into it and washing will be 
stopped and a reserve of moisture be secured which ■will 
carry the crops a long way through the next summer. If 
the winter and spring rains should be exceptionally heavv 



the overplus of water will sink deep into the land and not 
ciiuse any injury. 



The total yields of most of the staple crops of the coun- 
try are now ascertained as nearly as may be. Of these 
wheat makes a showing of 724,768,000 bushels, of which 
Virginia produced 8,758,000 bushels, an average of a little 
over 1] bushels per acre. North Carolina produced 5,444,- 
000, an average of a little over 9 bushels per acre. South 
Carolina produced 3,810,000 bushels, an average of 10 bush- ^ 
els per acre and Maryland produced 11,034,000 bushels, an 
average of a little over 14 bushels per acre. These yields 
aie much below what we should produce per acre and can 
produce as we have reports of crops going as high as 40 
bushels per acre and many of our best farmers make regu- 
larly from 25 to 30 bushels per acre and nearly all could 
do as well if they would do their duty to the land in pre- 
paring for the crop. To grow only 10 or 11 bushels per 
acre is simply to waste time and money. There can be 
no profit in such farming and the sooner it is quit and the 
kss the loss. Where only 10 or 11 bushels can be grown 
wheat should be left out of the rotation and oats be sub- 
stituted. Oats will make a better yield on poor badly pre- 
1 ai-ed land than wheat and in all the Southern Coastal 
country are a more certain crop than wheat when got in 
early in the fall as they are less subject to rust than 
wheat. The total yield of the corn crop is put at 2,767, 
316,000 bushels. Of this total Virginia produced 47,328,- 
000 bushels as against a yield last year of r.0.050,000 bush- 
els. The average yield per acre is a little over 23 bushels 
as against an average yield for ten years of 22 bushels. 
North Carolina producd 48,686,000 bush, as against 50,616,- 
000 bushels last year. The average yield per acre is a little 
over 16 bushels as against a ten year average of a little 
over 14 bushels. South Carolina produced 37,041,000 bush- 
els as against 29,229,000 bushels last year. The average 
yield per acre is a little over 16 bushels as against a ten 
year average of a little over ten bushels per acre. Mary- 
land produced 21,603,000 bushels as against 24,705.000 
bushels last year. The average yield per acre is a little 
over 31 bushels per acre as against a ten year average of 
a little over 32 bushels. The average yield of the corn 
crop throughout the country is a little over 25 bushels 
per acre so that we in Virginia come close up to the aver- 
age. It is however a reflection upon Southern farmers 
to compare the average yield in this much more genial 
climate for the corn crop with that made in the New Eng- 
land states where the seasons are short and the land not 
to compare in natural fertility with ours. In these States 
the average runs from 41 bushels to the acre in Connecti- 
cut to 35 bushels to the acre, the lowest, in New Hamp- 
shire. There is evidently better farming done in these 
States than in the South. They even beat the yields of 
the great corn States of Indiana, Illinois and Iowa. This 
illustrates once more the truth of the old adage that "a 
little farm well tilled" is the one for profit. 



The tobacco crop of the country is estimated at 895.185.- 
000 pounds as against 718,060,000 pounds last year and a 



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five year average of 698,000,000 pounds. Of this crop Vir- 
ginia produced 108,500,000 pounds as against 114,100,000 
pounds last year with an average yield per acre of 775 
pounds as against 815 pounds last year. North Carolina 
produces 126,600,000 pounds as against 134,000,000 pounds 
last year with an average yield per acre of 600 pounds as 
against 670 pounds last year. Kentucky this year again 
comes into the market with something like an average crop 
This crop is estimated at 350,700,000 pounds as against 
only 195,600,000 pounds last year, with an average yield 
per acre of 835 pounds as against 815 pounds last year. 
Tobacco is now coming freely on to our markets and with 
a few rainy days we expect to see the floors of the ware- 
houses more than filled. Prices are good and if only grow- 
ers would market with caution and not crowd the hand- 
lers so that they cannot handle the crop we believe these 
prices will hold and possibly advance. There have been 
several sales of Virginia grown Burley which have result- 
ed in fairly good prices, but the crop shows what we 
anticipated would be the case when we warned against 
growing it except experimentally, that except upon lime- 
stone lands it is not adapted to our section and cannot com- 
pete against Kentucky and Western Burley. These crops 
are much more porous than leaf grown here and are there- 
fore better adapted to meet the needs of manufacturers 
as they absorb the sweetening much better. Our planters 
had better keep to growing the types adapted to our soils 
Of these we can grow the best in the world and the mar- 
ket wants the goods. On limestone soils Burley can be 
grown but even then we do not think it will compete suc- 
cessfully with Kentucky grown tobacco. 



The cotton crop continues to depreciate In condition and 
« yield and now stands at a very low figure. The indications 
are for a crop not in excess of 11,000,000 bales and as the 
consumptive demand calls for a crop of 13,000,000 bales 
prices are being rushed up and now stand over 14 cents. 
Prices like this are going to affect consumption and we 
should not be surprised to see this considerably curtailed. 
English mills are working short time and those in this 
country are acting cautiously and keeping production well 
within the consumptive demand. We do not expect to see 
cotton continue to advance much further. The price is now 
excessive and must affect the consumptive demand. 

Amongst miscellaneous crops hay is considerably less 
than last year. It is estimated at 64,166,000 tons as against 
70,798,000 tons last year. As much more hay is now being 
grown in the South than formerly, the effect of this short- 
age should result in advantage to our farmers. For good 
hay there is always a good local demand and we expect to 
see prices advance. Irish potatoes are now much more 
largely grown in this State than was formerly the case 
and the results seem to justify this increase. Formerly 
only the early spring crop for the Northern markets was 
grown but now a considerable acreage of winter potatoes 
is grown and several growers have reported to us very good 
yields of fine potatoes. There is a good demand for this 
crop in the State and South of it and in these markets 
the Northern grown crop does not compete seriously with 
us. Last year a large part of the supply on our winter 
t markets came from England and Scotland. This ought not 
to be. We can grow as good winter potatoes as can be 



grown in the North if they are only planted at the proper 
time; not too early so that they will make their growth in 
the cool fall months. We see that Virginia this year has 
grown over 5,000,000 bushels, and there is room for a large 
increase in this crop. Make a note of this for next year. 



It is too late now to sow any crop except may be Can- 
ada peas and oats in the Tidewater sections of this State 
and North and South Carolina. This crop makes an ex- 
cellent early grazing crop for hogs and ewes and lambs 
or to cut for green feed for cows and hay can be made 
of what may become too ripe for feeding green with ad- 
vantage. It is a very hardy crop and in this Tidewater 
section may be seeded this month. The land should be put 
into good order and then the peas be drilled in deeply or 
be sown broadcast and plowed down and the oats be then 
sown broadcast and be harrowed in or be drilled in not 
quite so deeply as the peas. In other parts of the South 
the crop should be sown in February or March but not 
later as it must mature before the hot weather sets in or 
it will be a failure. Sow one and a half bushels of peas 
per acre and a bushel of oats. 



Whilst it is too late to sow any crop it is not too early 
to begin breaking the land for the next years crops. Whilst 
the fine open weather continues keep the plows at work 
wherever the land is in condition for plowing and plow 
deep and where needed subsoil and turn under all the veg- 
etable matter possible except it may be a heavy growth 
of broom sedge which we would rather burn off when the 
bottom growth is wet or covered with snow. . This long, 
dry straw has very little value as humus making matter 
and rots very slowly if the weather continues dry. It is 
better out of the way but should not be burnt when the 
bottow growth is dry, as this is rich as humus making 
matter and should be turned down. If you have any 
heaps of old straw lying around not wanted for bedding or 
long manure in the yards or sheds clean all this out and 
spread it on the land and plow down. Humus is what all 
our lands most need to render them productive and 
retentive of moisture and warmth. After the lands are 
plowed if you can apply a ton of lime to the acre — broad- 
cast — it will greatly help to put the land into good pro- 
ductive order. Harrow it in lightly after spreading. We are 
in hopes that the Legislature will act upon the suggestion 
we made some time ago and set some of our prisoners 
to work grinding limestone for the farmers as they are 
doing with wonderful good results in Illinois. We should 
have two or three mills located on the -ailroads in the 
Western sections of the State to grind the limestone rock 
there to be had in unlimited quanities and one or two 
mills located in the Tidewater section to grind oyster shells 
there to be had in great quantities. We hope that our 
readers will at once get after their representatives in the 
Legislature and see that they are made alive to this neces- 
sity. We have to compete with the Illinois farmers in the 
markets and ought to be as well looked after by our Leg- 
islators as they are. They can get lime at less than one- 
sixth the price our farmers have to pay for lime. Make all 
the prisoners whether in county jails or in the peniten- 
tiary earn their living. It will be good for them both 
morally and physically. 



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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[December, 



The drainage of all land needing this work should now 
be taken in hand and be continued through the winter 
months whenever the weather is fine. Very much of our 
land needs and would pay well for draining but it is hard 
to convince Southern farmers of this. If they do not see 
the crop on the land drowned out they see no necessity 
for this expenditure of time and money, and yet much land 
which produces some crop would readily produce three or 
four times as much if the superabundant underlying water 
was carried off. It is this underlying water which causes 
poor crops and not the water which falls on the surface. 
If the underlying water was drained off the water which 
falls on the surface would soon find its way down into the 
drains and do no injury. Without these drains it lays on 
the surface slowly evaporating or percolating into the 
sub-soil until it reaches the underlying water level and 
then stagnates and sours the land. There is a natural 
water level or stratum underlying all land which main- 
tains this level nearly all the time. If this be not at least 
three feet below the surface then crops cannot make their 
best production on that land. To bring it below this three 
feet is the object of draining and thus to give three feet 
of dry land into which the air can penetrate for the pres- 
ence of air in the soil is as essential to plant life as air 
upon and above the surface. Where the land is water sog- 
ged air cannot penetrate and the life of the plant is en- 
dangered. Make test holes in your fields and find at what 
level this natural water table stands. The height at which 
water stands in the holes will show this. If this is not 
three feet below the surface then draining would improve 
the crop producing power of that land. Wherever possi- 
ble to get tiles use these in draining land. We regret to 
say that tiles are not easy to get in many parts of the 
South. They are not made here except at one or two 
places hence cost more than they ought to do, but even 
at the price at which they can be bought they can be used 
very profitably. Farmers in a county ought to get to- 
gether and put up a small tile factory and make tiles for 
themselves and their neighbors. The cost would not be 
large and the saving would be great. Before starting to 
drain a piece of land have the levels taken properly so as 
to be certain of the fall and of a clear open discharge for 
the main drain. Then cut the ditches to a perfect level in 
the bottom and with a regular fall all through the whole 
length of the ditch and put in the tiles and cover first with 
the clay which came out of the bottom of the ditch packed 
tightly on the tiles and then fill up with top soil. The more 
tightly the clay or soil is packed down on the tiles the bet- 
ter the ditch will draw and the wider the area it will dry. 
In many of our rolling fields if only two or three drains 
were put in the lowest parts the whole field would be 
drained. Where land is level more drains are needed. We 
have put them in in such land all over large fields fifteen or 
eighteen feet apart and three feet deep with the greatest 
advantage. If you cannot get tiles put in pole ditches. If 
the drains are dug deep enough so that the poles are kept 
constantly in the water these will last many years and 
be effective though there is always more risk of their be- 
ing stopped up than with tiles. 



fences. They waste land and waste time in cultivation ot 
the land. Lay out all the fences in as near ?traight lines 
as possible and do not put in more lines of fencing than 
are required to make the necessary number of fields to 
insure a proper rotation of crops, each crop in a field to 
itself and for the fencing in of the stock. Every unneces- 
sary fence means constant e;cpense. Have gates fixed in 
the fences so that stock can be kept where put and do 
not rely upon a few poles to close the opening into a 
field. In rough, wet, winter days a few gates can be easily 
made under the shed and, when properly hung, they will 
always be in position to be opened or closed as required. 



The work of cleaning up land to be cropped next year 
should be taken in hand. Make a complete job of such 
work as you go along. Do not leave a stump here or 
a big rock there to interfere with the plowing and culti- 
vation of the whole field. A few sticks of dynamite will 
do more work in cleaning up a piece of new land than 
many hands, and will do it effectually in a short time. 
Haul off all stumps and rocks as they are blown or 
grubbed up, and leave the field ready for the teams. The 
rocks should be hauled on to the main farm roads and 
there be used to make good, dry roads, bemg broken small 
for that purpose and filled into the ruts and covered with 
gravel or dirt, and then, the sides being plowed out and 
ditches made, a good permanent road will be left. 



Clean out the ice pond and ice house and be ready to 
harvest the crop when it forms thick enough. It is never 
safe in the South to let the first chance of getting ice 
pass by, as very often the second chance does not come. 



Haul up plenty of wood to the shed so that when winter 
sets in you can be kept comfortably warm and not have 
to go through the snow seeking wood and hear constant 
complaints that it wont burn. 



The long winter evenings can be very profitably em- 
ployed in reading and studying good agricultural litera- 
ture, of which we offer the choice of a large variety of 
the best in clubs with The Planter. In this issue you will 
find these offers on a special page in the advertising sec- 
tion. Don't forget to. bring these offers to the attention 
of your friends and neighbors and by clubbing together 
you can all get plenty of good reading for very little 
money. 



Building and repairing fences should have attention dur- 
ing the wint-^r. As far as possible, get rid of all crooked 



If you can spare an hour or two now and then, take 
your copy of the Southern Planter and show it to those 
who do not take it and ask them to let you send in their 
names and suscriptions (three subscribers one year each 
for $1.00, or, one subscriber three years for $1.00). The 
Planter is an old standby, having now gone out regularly 
from the office in this city for" three score years and ten," 
the allotted span of life. It is yet as young and up to the 
requirements of the day as the latest issue of the newest 
journal. Help it to round out the century in its good work 
of helping the farmers of the South. 



A merry Christmas and a happy New Year to all! 



1909.] 



THE SOUTHEKiN PLANTER. 



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NOTES ON NOVEMBER PLANTER. 
] Alitor Southern Flunttr: 

The Dog Tax. 
Whether it is better to have a dog law that makes the 
animals property or no law, and let them be treated as 
wild animals trespassing on one's land, is a question. 
Years ago I declared war against dogs when in Albe- 
marle county, and killed trespassing curs; and, as a rule, 
I believe this is better than a tax with all the trouble 
of getting pay for killed sheep. But if the law is strictly 
enforced it will do good. The main difficulty is getting 
it enforced, and if this is not done it is better for every 
sheep raiser to be a law to himself on his land, and kill 
all worthless curs without mercy. 
Crop Rotation. 
J. F. E. says that the old Pennsylvania rotation has 
been severely criticized in The Planter. So far as I am 
concerned, the only criticism I have made is that in some 
sections of Pennsylvania they run the land in grass too 
long, cutting hay for market. The rotation of corn, oats, 
wheat and clover and grass is a good one, but to run 
the land then in grass for sale as hay till it does not 
make enough hay to pay for cutting, is bad. With only 
a couple of years in grass the land would get clover 
often enough to greatly improve the production of hay. 
Then the letting the corn stubble lie bare all winter is 
not well. The land should have a winter cover crop, 
and I was glad to see, when lecturing at the Pennsyl- 
vania Institutes that in the lower part of York county 
every corn field was green with crimson clover. With 
excellent land naturally, most farmers in southeastern 
Pennsylvania are good and thrifty farmers, but there is 
no section, no matter how well farmed, but could make 
improvement in many ways. Further south the farmers 
would have the advantage in a longer season, and could 
get in a crop of cow peas between the oats and the wheat, 
and thus get valuable forage while helping the wheat 
crop. In Lancaster county, the banner county agricul- 
turally, I noticed that they were putting in wheat after 
tobacco. I believe that any of the farmers in Southern 
Pennsylvania could do better to put wheat after their 
summer hoed crops of corn, and make a shorter rota- 
tion by leaving the oats out. Farmers in Maryland get 
40 to 45 bushels of wheat per acre after corn. Then, as 
to hay, why poor old North Carolina has averaged 1.51 
tons per acre for ten years against Pennsylvania's 1.28 
tons per acre, though she grows far fewer acres. The 
long season and heavier rainfall counts on the acres the 
State does not grow. The lower average in Pennsylvania, 
I am sure, comes from running the land in grass too 
long. A shorter rotation and more clover would greatly 
help even the prosperous farmers where J. F. E. lives. 
I have seen these Pennsylvania farmers, with splendid 
land and fine barns, doing a great deal of needless work. 
I have seen them on farm after farm, hauling out their 
manure and forking it off in little heaps to be handled 
for the third time, when they could have driven over the 
field with a manure spreader, and had the job better 
done with one-third the labor. The best of us will make 
mistakes, and the best farmers can learn more about 
their business. Else why Farmers' Institutes? When, 
years ago, I urged the Bucks county farmers to grow 
more clover and make a shorter rotation, they told me 



that they could not grow clover any more, and they gave 
it up at that, instead of trying to find out why clover 
no longer succeeds there. It is mainly because they 
have run the land down selling hay, and getting it into 
an acid condition. Prosperous by robbing their splendid 
soil! 

Big Horses. 
E. A. W. hits the matter exactly right. I have tried 
the big horses on an experiment farm in North Caro- 
lina. When I took charge of the large farm of the Mil- 
ler School, in Albemarle county, Va., I found there a lot 
of big clumsy horses. I had a horse sale, and went to 
Southwest Virginia, and bought ten young mules, and 
had great satisfaction with them. It pays in some sec- 
tions to raise the big horses for sale in the cities, but 
for farm work I want a good blocky mule. 
Seeding Wheat and Rye. 
The editor is perfectly right as to the best time for 
sowing wheat, and Mr. Armistead doubtless had good 
luck in escaping the fly in Halifax when sowing so early. 
But Mr. Armistead is right, I believe, in saying that oats 
will pay better in Southern Virginia than wheat. Since 
the great advance in the price of wheat I have had a 
great many letters from farmers in Southeast Virginia 
and the costal plain in North Carolina asking about sow- 
ing wheat. In all the humid coast country of the South 
Atlantic wheat must always be a very uncertain crop, 
since the growth of the rust fungus is favored so much 
by the climate. But in all that section a farmer with a 
good rotation of crops can get his land up to the pro- 
duction of 75 bushels of oats per acre, and I have seen 
more grown, and at the price oats command in the South, 
there is far more profit in winter oats than in wheat, pro- 
vided the oats are sown not later than September. If 
Mr. Armistead would try oats in September he would 
find that fall sowing is a great deal better than Febru- 
ary sowing, if the land Is put in the best order and 
packed well as for wheat. On loose, roughly prepared 
land there is more winter killing, but from central Vir- 
ginia South oats sown on well prepared land in Sep- 
tember will seldom be hurt. 

"King Corn at the Fair." 
The picture on page 1059 shows some beautiful ears, 
but it would be interesting to know how much corn per 
acre these pretty samples would make. Down in North 
Carolina this year Mr. Batts, near Raleigh, made 226 2-3 
bushels per acre, and Mr. Robblns made 157 bush- 
els per acre. I saw some stalks of Mr. Batts' corn at 
the State Fair with eight ears — not nubbins — on a stalk, 
and it was stated that his corn averaged four ears per 
plant. Now, I feel sure that he had not an ear that 
would pass the score card at one of the big-ear shows, 
where size and type carry the prizes. Out West a year 
or so ago, a man got a premium for the finest ear shown, 
and he shrewdly bought the ear back for $250, and got 
thousands of dollars worth of free advertising in all the 
farm papers. But. as I remember. It was stated that the 
field from which that ear came made 68 bushels of corn 
per acre. Is it not time to pay some attention to the 
yield per acre, instead of simply having a show of big 
ears, every one of which was the only one the plant 
carried? Is it not time for breeders to breed for prolifi- 
cacy rather than only for show ears? By actual shell- 



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[December, 



ing test I found that a plant with four medium sized 
ears had twice as much corn as a big ear that was the 
only one on the stalk. Whenever there is a prize offered 
for yield per acre it is always carried off by the South- 
ern prolific corns. The big ears that pass the score card 
requirements are pretty, but is not 226 2-3 bushels per 
acre better than 68 bushels with a $250 ear thrown in? 
This yield of 226 2-3 bushels was certified to by a com- 
mittee composed of the State Commissioner of Agricul- 
ture, the Director of Farmers' Institutes and the Chair- 
man of the Raleigh Chamber of Commerce, who saw the 
land and corn measured, so that there is no doubt that 
the corn was made. Corn ear shows teach us nothing 
but that one man has a better shaped ear than another. 
Let us have shows of the whole plant, showing its 
growth and yield per plant, the method and cost of cul- 
tivation, and the yield per acre. Then the show will 
teach something of value. W. F. MASSBY. 



ALFALFA IN TAZEWELL. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

To the worshippers of the sacred bluegrass that fur- 
nishes the flavor for the most delicious steak in the 
world — the famous grass-beef of Tazewell county, it 
would seem almost sacrilegious to innoculate the deep 
dark soil for alfalfa; but such sacrilege the editor of 
the Clinch Valley News has recently perpetrated. 

Below is given a summary of the facts as given by the 
editor himself, and the fact that a statement is made by 
an editor is sufficient external evidence of its truthful- 
ness, although for internal evidence of the credibility or 
reasonableness of the statements given it may be well 
for those who have had large experience in growing al- 
falfa to look closely at the claims of the enthusiastic farm- 
er-editor. 

In the spring of 1908 a plot of ground 100 feet square 
was prepared for corn by turning under as deeply as pos- 
sible a poor crop of clover. The plot was then limed 
(about 200 bushels an acre being used) and planted in 
corn. During the summer the corn was plowed four times 
(pretty good for an editor) with a 14-toothed weeder. 
This surface culture seemed all that was necessary after 
the thorough deep preparation for corn. On July 17, 1908. 
a bag'of commercial fertilizer (the editor not being able 
on the spur of the moment to say just what elements or 
ratios were used, we cannot be accurate as to the artifi- 
cial plant food used) was harrowed in with the same 14- 
toothed cultivator at the last working of the corn, and 
the alfalfa sown . For lack of information we cannot; be 
accurate as to the amount of seed sown on the 100-foot 
plot. The alfalfa responded quickly to the tender nur- 
ture of the enthusiast and grew splendidly the same fall 
after being sown. During a rather considerate winter 
a top-dressing of stable manure was applied rather as a 
precaution than as a necessary protection, and this dress- 
ing was harrowed in early in the spring when the grounr' 
was twice harrowed (presumably with a 14-toothed cul- 
tivator) . 

The first crop was cut when in bloom, June 7, 1909: 
the second, also when in bloom, July 9, 1909; the third, 
also in bloom, August 19. 1909; the fourth crop, at this 
writing, September 5, 1909, is now eight inches tall, and 
promises to be better than any of the others. 



The yield is estimated by the editor and others at 500 
pounds at each cutting, which seems to figure up some- 
thing more than a ton to the acre at each cutting, or 
four tons an acre for the season. 

Perhaps this would not be called a wonder crop of al- 
falfa, but if it does not fracture any records, it does 
establish the fact that alfalfa can be successfully grown 
in high, cool Tazewell, and that even an editor can prove 
things by actual experience. The editor of the Clinch 
Valley News said it could be done, and he did it. 

A. S. G. 

Burke's Garden, Va. 

There must be some mistake in stating the quantity of 
lime applied. 200 bushels would equal eight tons to the 
acre. A very excessive application. We have applied 
four tons to the acre. This was excessive, though it did 
not seem to injure the land or the yield of the crop, still 
quite as good results were obtained with half the quan- 
tity. Two tons to the acre is quite as much as ought to 
be applied, in our opinion, and after a long experience in 
using lime. Mr. Wing thinks it practically almost im- 
possible to apply too much lime for growing alfalfa, and 
possibly the grower of this crop decided to act on his 
idea, and did really apply 200 bushels to the acre. If 
this was so, we should like to know it positively. — Ed. 



COTTON-SEED MEAL IN EUROPE. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

Why the German and DanisJi Farmers Buy Our 
Cotton-Seed Meal. 

Professor Soule, of the Georgia State College of Agri- 
culture, called attention in the September issue to the 
large . quantities of cotton-seed meal exported from our 
country and used by the German and Danish farmers. 
The reasons for the strong demand for our cotton-seed 
meal may be of interest to the readers of the Southern 
Planter. 

The German and Danish soils, with the exception of 
a few favored sections with very rich soils, have lost 
through hundreds of years of cropping their virgin fer- 
tility, and the high productivity of their soils at the pres- 
ent time, yielding twice as much as ours, is purely artifi- 
cial, the result of very careful tilling, manuring, fertil- 
izing, crop rotating, and by growing most of the crops 
not too often on the same soil. Red clover, for instance, 
can only be grown successfully every six years, sugar 
beets twice in six years; wheat on clay soils, every third 
year, on loam soils, once in seven or eight field rota- 
tions; potatoes every other year, and rye every year. 
This refers to the growing of maximum crops, which 
those farmers have to grow, in order to make their farms 
pay. 

The reason that only the highest yield the soil can 
produce will pay, and then only if the greatest economy 
prevails, if the most is made of everything and nothing 
is allowed to go to waste, is due to the high prices of 
the farms, caused by the expensive farm buildings, due 
to the manner of living of those farmers, in villages. The 
buildings have quite necessarily to be built close together, 
and to prevent the spread of a fire as much as possible, 
have to be made of fire-proof material. As the farms 
are all heavily stocked, and the farm animals have to 
be housed for seven months in the year, the outlay for 



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buildings is considerable. Besides the farm buildings 
we find on most of the larger farms some industrial es- 
tablishment, either a dairy, potato distillery, starch fac- 
tory, beet sugar factory, etc., which add considerably to 
the cost of the buildings. 

One of the most drastic examples showing how the 
price of farms is increased by the buildings, has come to 
light in a recent investigation of forty-three of the best 
managed farms, with a total area of round 100,000 
acres in the potato belt, a sandy plateau of North Ger- 
many. The average appraised value of the soil of these 
farms is $30 per acre ($29.43) ; the value of the farm 
buildings, $90 per acre, bringing the total price of an 
acre up to $120. If a farmer who buys such a farm has 
to clear four per cent, on the purchase price, or $5.00 
per acre on a soil which has only an agricultural value 
of $30.00 per acre, he is up against something. The 
price of farms is at present so high in Germany and 
Denmark, and the proper management requires such a 
large working capital, from $5.00 per acre for the most 
extensively managed grain farm, to $64 per acre for the 
most extensively managed sugar beet farm, that the buyer 
of such a farm must have two-thirds in cash of the pur- 
chase price, in order to put the management on a sound 
basis. 

The greatest difficulty the farmers have in the man- 
agement of these farms is the maintaining of the best 
physical conditions of their soils, without which maxi- 
mum crops cannot be grown. Unfortunately the climatic 
conditions, which cause the late ripening of the crops, 
with the exception of those on sandy soils, which mature 
a little earlier, do not favor the growing of catch crops, 
and the soil is almost too valuable to let a green crop 
occupy the soil a whole season. Different ways have been 
suggested and are practiced, to make better use of green 
manuring, but except on sandy soils, these are fhore or 
less unsatisfactory. The German and Danish farmers 
liave, therefore, chiefly to depend on farm manure, which 
makes the keeping of large numbers of live stock neces- 
sary. 

Years ago, we can say fifty or even forty years ago, the 
growing of leguminous crops played a very important 
Tole in the management of those farms. The growing 
of sugar beets and potatoes was practiced on a limited 
Bcale only, and the leguminous crops with their exten- 
■sive root system, leaving the soil at the time of harvest- 
ing in a fine physical condition for cereal crops, were 
mostly depended upon to supplement the physical effect 
of the manure, the growing of these crops was the more 
important, as the seed was used to balance the rations 
for the farm animals, and the fodder was fed with great 
profit to the large flocks of Merinos which were kept at 
that time on almost all farms. All this has been chang'^d. 

Of the factors which brought about the change, the 
extended use of the potash salts and the development of 
the sheep industry in Australia, are probably the m'^'- 
important. Before the extended use of the potash salts 
sugar beets, at that time of a low sugar content, could 
only profitably be grown on the very best soils. With 
the constantly increasing use of these salts, thousands 
and thousands of acres of lia^ht loamy soils, which pro- 
duced only small yields of inferior beets, produce now 
the finest beets. It must, however, be mentioned here. 



that the increased yield and the present high sugar con- 
tent of the beets, is not due alone to the effect of the 
potash salts and the teaching of the Agricultural Chem- 
ist how to apply these salts most advantageously, the 
plant breeder should come in for a large share of the ob- 
tained success. The following statistical report shows 
what has been accomplished through the combined ef- 
forts of the farmer, the agricultural chemist and the plant 
breeder. 



1871-8U 
1881-90 
1891-00 
1901-06 



Tons of beets 
per acre 



11 
14 
13 
13 



Lbs. of sugar 
per acre 



1960 
2971 
3416 
3874 



Lbs. of sugar 

from 100 lbs 

of beets 



8% 
U 
18 



For 100 lbs of 

sugar were 

necessary lbs 

of beets 



1160 
910 
780 
690 



The number of tons per acre has but little increased, 
but the quantity of sugar per acre has almost been dou- 
bled. Only 690 pounds of beets are now necessary for 
obtaining 100 pounds of sugar, against 1,160 pounds thirty 
years ago. 

The great progress which has been made in the grow- 
ing of sugar beets and potatoes has not been without in- 
fluence on the growing of the legumes. The farmers soon 
noticed that the very careful preparation of a soil for 
beets or potatoes resulted in a considerably larger in- 
crease jn the yield of a following cereal crop than from 
a preceding leguminous crop. The statistical report 
shows an increase of 30 per cent, of the cereal crops if 
preceded by root crops. Investigations have also shown 
that the gathering of nitrogen from the air by the le- 
gumes is almost universally proportionate to the nitro- 
gen content of the soil; or, in other words, the richer 
a soil is in nitrogen, the less nitrogen will the plants 
take up from the air, so that one of the main purposes 
for which the legumes are grown becomes almost object- 
less. It was also noticed that with the increasing fer- 
tility of the soil, especially of the nitrogen content, the 
seed production of the legumes became uncertain, and 
they showed less resistance against plant diseases. Had 
it not been, however, for the rapid development of the 
sheep industry in Australia, which made the growing of 
the medium qualities of merino wool unprofiatble, or ac- 
count of the difference in the price of the soil of the 
two countries, it is questionable if the growing of legumi- 
nous crops would have been so quickly abandoned. The 
thin-blooded Merinos require for the preservation of their 
health dry, aromatic fodder, with a touch of astringent 
properties, as we find it in the seeds and the fodder of 
the leguminous crops. By changing 'from wool to mut- 
ton the necessity of growing large quantities of those 
crops became obsolete. The mutton breeds require a 
more succulent feed, so that large quantities of the root 
crops and the by-products of these crops in the manu- 
facture of alcohol, starch, sugar, etc., can be profitably 
fed to these sheep. The changes show why the Danish, 
and more so, the German farmers buy our cotton-seed 
meal. The cereal crops occupy at the present time about 
."^0 per cent, of the tilled area; the root crops, 25 per 
cent; the fodder crops 5-6 per cent., and the leguminous 
crops 1-2 per cent. The balance is used for various 



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[December, 



other crops. Almost all the crops, especially the straw 
of the cereals, of which large quantities have to be fed, 
are poor in nitrogen and fat, and these two important 
feed constituents have to be obtained from other sources. 
They can be obtained in oilcakes cheaper than in any 
other form of concentrated feed. 

Well, I suppose we can help those farmers out. We 
have in our corn, which is rich in fat, and can be grown 
in almost unlimited qnantities, a concentrated feed 
which, though if lacks protein, is in every respect a 
much more desirable feed than oilcake. Though corn is 
in itself not an ideal feed, it forms the most ideal base 
for all kinds of mixtures of concentrated feeds. Let us 
help those farmers out. We can spare the quantities of 
exported cotton seed cotton-seed cake without any 

detrimental effect to our agriculture. The oil in the seeds 
and cakes does not deprive our soils of their fertility, 
and the nitrigen they contain can easily be replaced. 
Our leguminous crops row better every year, and there 
are oceans of nitrogen for these plants to draw upon. 

H. WINKELMAN. 

District of Columbia. 



Seed corn 

Planting 

Harrowing after planting 

Cultivating three times 

Thinning and weeding 

Husking at 2 1-2 cents per bushel 

Shelling and hauling at 2 1-2 cents per bushel.., 



6 75 
12 50 
10 50 
78 00 
10 50 
62 25 
62 25 



COMPARISON OF COST OF PRODUCING CORN IN 

VIRGINIA AND IN MISSOURI. 
Editor Southern Planter: 

The excellent article by Mr. Sandy in the November 
issue, showing what profit can be made on ten acres, af- 
fords also an opportunity for a comparison of the cost 
of producing a bushel of corn. In the September issue 
you told of the cost of raising a bushel of corn in the 
West. It is interesting to have the figures in parallel 
columns. 

Mr. Sandy's report on cost of producing corn on ten 
acres of land in Virginia: 

Corn and crimson clover crop, 1907-1908. 
Plowing 10 acres for corn 8 inches deep with 

chilled plow, March, 1907 $ 15 GO 

Subsoiling, 8 inches deep 15 00 

Harrowing 4 times with Cutaway harrow 22 00 

Planting, May 12, 1907 2 50 

Fertilizer, 2 1-2 tons bone-meal 67 50 

Cross-harrowing after corn was up with fine tooth 

harrow, 2 days 5 00 

Cultivating 4 times, 5 days with 2-horse cultivator 12 50 
Cutting and shocking with harvester, September 

5, 1907 10 00 

Husking and storing away corn 20 00 



Total cost $333 25 

Taxes 20 00 

Insurance and repairs 10 00 



Total cost $169 50 

The yield of the crop was 700 bushels of corn, or 70 
bushels per acre. 

The cost per bushel, 24 cents. 

One of the most successful farmers in Missouri, Mr. 
David Rankin, of Tarkio, estimates the cost of raising 
corn at 14.6 cents per bushel as follows: 

(Computed on 60-Acre Tract.) 

Fall plowing, 45 acres $ 45 00 

Spring plowing, 15 acres 15 00 

Breaking stalks on 15 acres 3 00 

Disking on fall plowing, 45 acres 18 00 

Harrowing 10 50 



Grand total $363 25 

Cost per bushel (41.5 bushels per acre) 146 

Fertility in the form of bone-meal is expensive. After 
land has been brought to a high state of productivity 
the cost for fertilizer should certainly be reduced by sow- 
ing crimson clover at the last cultivation of the corn. 

It is not safe to rely on getting such large yields as 
Mr. Sandy obtained. Even with the best of care, par- 
tial or total crop failures must be anticipated ,aud this 
possibility, this risk, is likely to discourage the average 
farmer from following Mr. Sandy's example. 

We have here now, perhaps, the two extremes: The 
lowest cost per bushel, and the highest cost per acre. 
I hope many farmers will give their actual experience. 
As a rule, I think, the cost of raising and marketing a 
bushel of corn could be lowered considerably in Vir- 
ginia. We are now wasting too much labor. A man 
with four big horses can do more plowing than the man 
with one small horse. F. H. N. 



LARGE YIELD OF WHEAT. 

A. J. Bill reports for the Illinois Farmers' Institute 
the following: 

J. H. Chamberlin, living three miles northeast of .Jack- 
sonville, raised twenty acres of wheat that averaged fifty- 
five bushels per acre, and the grain brought him $82.50 
per acre. There were good reasons for such well worth 
looking into. The fundamental reason is that Mr. Cham- 
berlain studies his business, has an ambition for high 
results, and does very thorough work. When this field 
was bought nine years ago it had grown corn thirty years, 
reducing the yield to 20 to 30 bushels per acre. 

Here is the history with yields per acre since: In 
1901, oats, 40 bushels; 1902, wheat, 30 bushels, the wheat 
seeded to clover and timothy; 1903, hay, 2% tons; 1904, 
hay, 2 tons; 1905, pastured, fall plowed; 1906, corn, G5 
bushels, stalks plowed under late in the fall; 1907, top 
dressing of eight loads of manure per acre, corn, 100 
bushels, stalks plowed under late in the fall; 1908, oats, 
40 bushels (bad year for oats, none of the neighbors 
getting over 15 bushels, and most yields 6 to 10 bushels). 

The oat stubble was plowed six or seven inches deep 
early last fall, when the ground was so hard it was 
necessary to sharpen the plowshare every other day. 
Each day's plowing was harrowed and rolled with a cor- 
rugated roller that day. Then the field was harrowed 
six times and rolled twice more— ten workings in all. A 
fine beardless Russian wheat was drilled in, one and one- 
half bushels per acre, about September 1.5t,h. 

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says Mr. Chamberlin. It grew four and one-half feet high, 
with very long heads, and weighed out more than fifty- 
five bushels per acre. 

The south half of the field received six loads of manure 
and 900 pounds of ground rock phosphate per acre. This 
half was threshed separately and yielded four bushels 
more per acre than the other half. All this wheat was 
sold at $1.50 per bushel for seed, returning $82.50 per 
acre. These facts were secured from Mr. Chamberlin by 
his old neighbor, Mr. B. P. Harber, of Bloomington. 

(Notice the effect of the use of ground rock phosphate. 
We have a report of a crop ofwheat grown in England 
this year of sixty-six bushels to the acre over an eight- 
acre field.— Ed.) 



SHARE FARMING IN VIRGINIA. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

I beg to report the results from my farm at Oranda, 
Va., for the past year. This farm contains 131 acres and 
is rented for one-half the proceeds. My share of the 
proceeds of crops and stock sold was $1302. The crops 
grown were corn, wheat, buckwheat and Irish potatoes. 
The live stock, sheep and a few chickens. The apple crop 
was short this year, my share only amounting to $18. 

Shenandoah Co. S .A SAUM. 



HOW NATURE BUILDS UP LAND. 

When at Rothamsted, England, this last summer we took 
great interest in a piece of land with which we have 
been more or less familiar for twenty years, composed of 
short pieces off the ends of half acre tracts in one of the 
fields. This piece had been cut off the ends of some thirty 
or more half acres for the purpose of ascertaining how 
nature undertakes to restore worn-out soil. 

We have known for a long time that nature had a way 
of doing things, slow in its operation, but sure. When 
with the army before Richmond we noticed the growth 
of forest on what had once been corn lands. In some 
places the trees were ten years old, in some twenty, in 
others thirty or forty; but by carefully watching we could 
see by the ridges that it had once been cultivated in 
corn. Nature was building up this land, a matter perhaps 
of fifty or a hundred years, when it could be cleared again 
and robbed of its stored fertility by growing cotton or corn. 

These pieces of land on the Rothamsted field had been 
under careful scientific observation. It has been dis- 
covered that they were increasing in humus, because 
nothing was allowed to be cut of it. The brush was 
sometimes cut down and let die, but never removed. It 
was Increasing also in nitrogen. 

The increase in humus could be very easily explained, 
for humus material comes through the leaves from the 
air. But there being few or no legumes in the field, how 
had it increased in nitrogen? Where does this come from? 
More or less nitrogen comes from snow, which is only con- 
gealed rain, and more or less goes into the soil from elec- 
tric action. None of these, which are all measurable, ac- 
count for the rapid increase in nitrogen on these aban- 
doned pieces of land. 

!iIicroscopic investigation discovers a bacteria, called azo- 
tabactor, for want of a better name, which is found in 



these lands, but Is not found in the cultivated land di- 
rectly alongside of them . In a few years this experiment, 
which simply consists in abandoning the land and just 
watching it, will have very valuable lessons for farmers 
everywhere. 

It suggests to us the methods by which nature in the 
slow processes of the ages, sixty centuries or more, has 
developed the wonderful fertiliy that is found in the lands 
of the corn belt States. For the most part, these were 
prairies destitute of timber except along the streams, cov- 
ered every fall with dead grass, and in the timber strewn 
with the falling leaves. The azotabactor has evidently 
been at work, obtaining nitrogen from the atmosphere 
in some way no man has yet found out. Wild legumes 
have been at work also. The rain, the snow, the light- 
ning's flash, have all brought a little of this essential 
element of fertility. Thus, gradually, through this long 
process of the ages these corn belt States have been stored 
with marvelous fertility. 

When man puts in the plow and grows corn and other 
grains in constant successions, the azotabactor disappears, 
nitrogen decreases; and then, unless the farmer has some- 
thing of the spirit of the new agriculture, these lands 
go back, declining in fertility until they scarcely pay 
more than the cost of the labor. They are then known 
as worn out or abandoned farms. 

If the farmer could hog in everything as he does nitro- 
gen, these lands would soon become a waste. Fortun- 
ately, he cannot. When the land is not kept well sup- 
plied with vegetable matter, the potash and phosphorus 
are practically locked up. They might as well disappear, 
so far as he is concerned. There is a point in soil rob- 
bery beyond which he cannot go; but when that point 
has been reached no profit is possible. One-half acre in 
this same field at Rothamsted, which had this summer 
its sixty-fifth crop of wheat without rotation or manure, 
yields on an average eight bushels, and has not declined 
in this average yield for many years; but there is no 
profit in growing eight bushels of wheat to the half acre 
in that part of the world or any other. Before it can be 
made profitable either the methods of the new agricul- 
ture must be adopted, or nature must take it in hand and 
restore it to its original fertility. — Mr. Wallace, in Wal- 
lace's Farmer. 



POULTRY HOUSE BUILDING. 

We are almost daily in receipt of letters from subscrib- 
ers asking us to give advice as to the building of bouses 
for poultry, and asking for this by letter at orce as the 
chickens must be housed before the cold weather sets in. 
It is impossible for us to reply individually to -ill these en- 
quiries. We have published a book "The Southern Poul- 
try Guide," by Husselman which gives the fullest instruc- 
tions with illustrations, on all poultry matters and espec- 
ially on the subject of building houses for poultry, and 
brooder and incubator houses. This book can be had with 
the Planter for one year for 75c. and it will save every 
poultry keeper many times its cost in the building of 
houses and in the management of the flock. Let us send 
you this book with The Planter for a year and you will 
not need to write us foradvice on poultry management. 



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[Deoember, 



Trucking, Garden and Orchard. 



NEW MARKETS FOR VIRGINIA FRUITS. 
Editor Southern Planter: 

At the State Fair held in Richmond in October the 
Horticultural Society had a large and valuable exhibit 
of apples on display. This exhibit was the subject of 
unstinted praise by some of the highest authorities in 
pomology in the country, who went so far in their praise 
as to write and sign certificates to that effect, though 
for some unaccountable reason the Richmond daily press 
took no notice of this splendid exhibit, which attracted 
so much attention. The exhibit was packed up and sent 
on to the Western Pennsylvania Exposition, then being 
held in Pittsburg, and it was placed under the charge 
of Dr. E. A. Schubert, of the Norfolk and Western Rail- 
way, which company was making an exhibit there at the 
same time . He was assisted by Mr. H. A. Fisher, the 
writer of the letter given below, at whose hands the fruit 
was liberally advertised. The letter, in part, is as fol- 
lows: 

Pittsburg, Fa., Nov. 5, 1909. 
Mr. Walter Whately, Sec'y Virginia State Horticultural 
Society, Crozet, Va. 

My dear Sir: — I was assisting Dr. Schubert during the 
exposition here in the care of the exhibit of the Norfolk 
and Western Railway, and during his absence had entire 
charge of it myself. There was nothing in the exhibit 
that attracted half the attention that the exhibit of ap- 
ples did, and there was nothing that was .such a surprise 
to the people. Hundreds of people told me that they were 
simply astonished, for they did not have any idea that 
Virginia produced such fruit. Many people took your 
name, or the names of some of the growers (the Virginia 
State Horticultural Society showed all fruit under grow- 
er's name) with the idea of writing for apples, or for 
more particulars than we could give them; though, as 
a matter of fact, both the Doctor and myself took all the 
pains we could to give full information both to people 
who wanted to order some fruit for their own use, and 
to dealers, and especially to those who thought of going 
into the business of growing apples. 

Several people have already gone down to look the coun- 
try over, and many more will go down this winter or in 
the spring. I have a list of over fifty who told me that 
they would go and see, and if it was as represented they 
would buy. * * * 

Yours truly 

H. A. FISHER. 

This letter shows the wisdom of advertising Virginia's 
excellent fruit, and proves that new markets will soon 
be opened for the disposal of our apples. To use the 
words of the editor of the Southern Planter, "This splen- 
did exhibit should be worth many thousands of dollars 
to the State." Virginia has been slow in showing to the 
world just what kind of fruit she is raising, but the 
State Horticultural Society is alive to the situation, and 
is doing all in its power to open new markets for Vir- 
ginia fruit, and to advertise the State's orchard products. 

At the annual meeting of the Society in Winchester on 
January 5-6 next, a new lot of fruit will be assembled for 



exhibit, for which a most liberal premium list is offered. 
This exhibit will be sent to Atlanta, Ga., for exhibit at 
the close of the Winchester meeting, with the view of 
putting Virginia apples on the Southern markets. 

All fruit growers in the Stalje should be identified with 
the State Horticultural Society, as this organization is 
putting Virginia fruit in the forefront as it has never 
been before, and is advertising its merits to the whole 
country. As the fruit is exhibited under the names of 
the growers, members who co-operate get such advertis- 
ing free of charge, as they could not get by their indi- 
vidual efforts, even if they expended large sums of mon- 
ey. Any grower of fruit in the State who is not a mem- 
ber of this Society can become a member by writing to 
the Secretary, Walter Whately, Crozet, Va., for particu- 
lars. 

WALTER WHATELY, 
Sec'y State Horticultural Society. 



THE GREAT APPALACHIAN APPLE COUNTRY. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

Every one has known for many years that the Pied- 
mont section of Virginia grew the finest apple in the 
country in the Albemarle Pippin but it has not been real- 
ized that the whole Southern Appalachian region will 
grow any apple to perfection better than elsewhere. From 
Western Maryland to Georgia is really the finest apple 
region in this country. The Maryland apples recently 
carried off twenty-eight prizes out of thirty-three in com- 
petition with the whole country, including the famous 
apple region of the Pacific coast. 

Virginia had a brave show of fruit at her State Fair, 
I have understood, though I did not see it. But I did see 
the wonderful display of mountain apples at the North 
Carolina State Fair, a show of fruit that m excellence and 
variety could not be surpassed by any part of the United 
States. 

Then I went to the mountain country of North Caro- 
lina and talked apples to a large audience in Haywood 
county, where they are already growing apples more i 
largely than in any of the other western counties. I i 
saw there specimens of Gillyflower apples that could hardly 
be recognized except by their peculiar shape, as they were 
twice or more as large as any of these that we get from 
the North. Ben Davis was of such a size and beauty that 
they really looked good enough to eat, but I did not try 
them. But all the same they were getting $2.25 per bar- 
rel for the Ben Davis at the station at Canton, while 
other apples were still higher, and the growers claim 
that notwithstanding the increasing unpopularity of the 
Ben Davis, they are making more money from them than 
from better apples because of their certainty to make la 
crop. And Albemarle can no longer claim the owner- 
ship of her Pippin, for it has been found that the Albe- 
marle Pippin can be grown in any part of the mountain 
country where the proper conditions are found. These 
are a black humus soil, good drainage and plentiful mois- 
ture in a mountain cove, one opening to the North being 
better than one opening to the South. 



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And all over the fertile mountain sides of the Old 
North State other varieties of apples, that are not so 
fastidious as the Pippin, can be grown to great perfec- 
tion. In fact, the whole Appalachian region and the foot- 
hills on either side of the great ranges will be in the 
future the great apple region of the East, including West- 
ern Maryland, West Virginia, Eastern Kentucky and Ten- 
nessee, Western North Carolina and Northwest Georgia. 
The apples of the Pacific coast may look finer, but when 
tested for quality they fall far behind the same varieties 
grown in the eastern mountains. The bright sun and 
rainless summer on the Pacific coast impart beauty to 
the fruit, but rob It of the juiciness and flavor it gets 
in the humid eastern climate. 

The success of the orchards in the Shenandoah Valley 
in its northern section can easily be repeated southward, 
and the great elevation of the mountain plateau in North- 
west North Carolina gives them the best of climate con- 
ditions, similar to those of lower altitudes a long way 
further north, while a fertile soil and greater rainfall 
give the section a great advantage. It seems to me that 
there is a wonderful future for the apple industry in all 
this mountain country. The late George Boggs, of Hay- 
wood county, N. C. carried off the first prize for apples two 
years in succession at Madison Square Garden in competition 
with the whole country. The mountain country of North 
Carolina is peculiarly rich in native seedling apples, but 
few of which have been catalogued. One of the favor 
ites among the mountain people is the Buff apple, which 
I have never seen anywhere else. This is a beautiful 
red striped apple of immense size, looking like an over- 
grown Ben Davis, and while not of the highest qualit.7 
is really much better than Ben. Wolf River apple, which 
is well known in the catologues, is a remarkably largf 
and showy apple, but unfortunately, is of poor quality; 
and another monster favored by the mountain growers is 
the yellow Gloria Mundi, also of inferior quality. Nick- 
ajack, one of the Cherokee seedling apples, is getting a 
place in the catologues, and is an apple of beauty and 
fair quality and a fine keeper. I saw Jonathans from the 
mountains of North Carolina that were not only of the 
usual beauty of coloring, but were of remarkable size, 
so that at first, I hardly recognized the apple. 

But I could not begin to catalogue the wonderful num- 
ber of varieties of the North Carolina mountains shown 
at Raleigh, many of which are still merely local, but 
well worthy of introduction into commerce. One man in 
Haywood county told me that from his young orchard of 
9,000 trees, only part of which is in bearing, he had sold 
this off-year 2,000 barrels at an average of $2.25 per bar- 
rel on the trees. With increasing means for transporta- 
tion southward the future of apple growing in the South- 
ern mountain country is very promising. 

What is needed in North Carolina is a State organiza- 
tion like the one that has promoted apple culture so effi- 
ciently in Virginia. 

W. P. MASSEY. 



REMARKABLE SPRAYING RESULTS. 

Franklin County Man Realizes $5,000 from Orchard He 
Intended to Abandon. 
An article having recently appeared in a Harrisburg 



newspaper in regard to the remarkable apple crop which 
Mr. Gelwicks, of Franklin county, realized from an orch- 
ard which three years ago he had decided to abandon, on 

account of its unpromising condition, due to the rav- 
ages of San Jose scale. Professor H. A. Surface, State 
Zoologist, whose name was used in the article, has been 
the recipient of a number of letters inquiring as to the 
truth of the statements made. To each letter an affirma- 
tive answer was given. As the article is worthy of the 
widest publicity, it is given here in full: 

"What is considered the most remarkable 1909 apple crop 
in Pennsylvania has just^een sold at the orchard of C. C. 
Gelwicks, St. Thomas, York Township, Franklin county. 
Gelwicks raised 4,500 bushels of apples on a thirty-acre 
plot, and sold them at the orchard for $5,000. 

"Three years ago Mr. Gelwicks was unable to get even 
ten cents a bushel for his apples, and decided to chop 
down all of his trees and raise wheat and corn. 

"The entire orchard in 1906 was affected with San Jose 
scale. The trees were withered looking, and the apples 
very small and wormy. Economic Zoologist Surface heard 
of the decision of Gelwicks, visited the orchard and found 
it filled with trees about eleven years old. He advised the 
spraying of the trees with a boiled lime and sulphur solu- 
tion. 

"The trees were sprayed in 1907 and that year off six 
acres he got 600 bushels of the finest kind of apples. Last 
year the crop was fine again, but this year, when all the 
the neighboring orchards were bearing only a third to 
one-half a crop the trees were loaded down with apples, 
some of the limbs being pressed to the ground by the 
weight of the fruit. 

"After spraying the trees none of them died, and now 
all are in a most flourishing condition. The spraying has 
had a beneficial effect upon all of the orchards in the 
neighborhood, for all of the farmers, who formerly be- 
lieved only peach trees could be helped by spraying, now 
know that the San Jose scale can be driven off apple 
trees for good. 

"It is necessary in spraying that the proper solutions 
be used. S. B. Rinehard, of Mercersburg, recently sprayed 
22,000 trees in his orchards with an oil solution and prac- 
tically every tree has been killed." 



LIME SULPHUR. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

I have no controversy with those who wish to use other 
materials than lime sulphur in treating trees infested 
with San Jose scale, provided their trees are effectively 
treated so as to prevent the spread of San Jose scale. It 
has, however, been our policy to find out the remedy that 
is the cheapest, most effective, and least liable to cause 
injury to the trees, and to state the facts to our fruit 
growers very frankly, regardless of any one who is manu- 
facturing other materials for sale. 

After eight years' experience with lime sulphur and 
other preparations for treating San Jose scale under almost 
every conceivable condition, we have come to the con- 
clusion that the lime sulphur preparation fills the above 
requirements. If the fruit grower will buy the powdered 
commercial sulphur, which should be laid down to him 
certainly as cheap as $2.10 per 100 pounds, and the best 



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stone lime, which he should get at about 50 cents per 
100, he should be able to make the lime sulphur prepara- 
tion at a cost of 65 cents per 100 gallons, counting the 
cost of the materials used in preparing it only. 

We have used nothing but the lime sulphur prepara- 
tion on our orchards for the San Jose scale, and have 
found it eminently satisfactory. The foreman sends a 
man up to the field before breakfast to build the fire and 
cook the first batches of lime sulphur. He comes up 
with the teams and the rest of the men after breakfast 
and finds the material already^ prepared to last until the 
noon hour. Other lots are put en to cook through the 
noon hour, and this will be ready so as to use it with- 
out loss of time immediately afterwards. My foreman 
claims that the cost of preparing the wash need not be 
counted, as preparing it in the above manner the time 
consumed amounts to almost nothing, and as we have 
plenty of wood to furnish the heat, the wood is not a 
factor. 

Let each fruit grower calculate out this matter for him- 
self, and see what the cost will be under his conditions, 
and weigh the other advantages and disadvantages in the 
use of these materials before deciding which to use. We 
are personally not in the orchard business for reasons 
of health, and should welcome any scheme by which the 
cost of spraying might be lessened without impairing its 
efficiency. 

EiVery one who has looked into the matter concedes 
that the coating left by lime sulphur prevents the set- 
tling down of the young, provided their mothers have es- 
caped the action of the preparation. Our tests prove that 
San Jose scale, treated with lime sulphur do not succeed 
in reproducing their kind. Hence, the few that are not 
killed by the wash will simply live about thirty days and 
die, leaving no offspring. 

Our results in the orchards where tests have been made 
(see our circular No. 1, New Series) show in three cases 
not a single insect alive in 900, 1,112, and 3,620 counted 
for the respective cases. In two other cases one was 
found alive to the 1,000 in 3,760 and 4,762 counted. In 
three other cases two were found alive to the 1,000 in 
2,294, 2,486 and 4,334 counted; in still others, four to six 
alive to the 1,000 in 2,000 to 7,000 counted. 

It is not fair to lime sulphur for the fruit growers to 
use this material in treating their orchards, and later on 
try the oils on the same orchards, for the coating left 
by the lime sulphur preparation would help to make the 
oils more effective in the first two years, and in this way 
may cause the fruit grower to think the effect due to 
the oils where it is really due to the lime sulphur. It is 
very easy for the average fruit grower to be mistaken 
in regard to comparative results obtained by the use 
of these materials. 



son; thus making it much more valuable, in other ways, 
as well as against San Jose scale. 

The above effect, in almost every case less than half 
of one per cent, left alive after treatment, considering 
the other facts as to the cumulative effect of the lime 
sulphur against the scale, and also the fact that it is an 
excellent general tonic for the trees, make this material 
second to none for the treatment of orchards. 

We are very glad to note from the article in question, 
that "It is a significant fact that those who have been 
spraying with the lime sulphur wash for the past five 
years or ten years are still spraying, and in most cases, 
spraying as vigoi'ously as at any previous time." How- 
ever, the writer has rather overstepped the limits here, 
certainly for the Eastern States, for the lime sulphur 
preparation did not come into general use here until the 
winter of 1903 and 1904. 

It pleases us to know that growers are learning that 
they must spray, and spray annually for San Jose scale. 
This is true, no matter what material is used, and will 
continue to be true as long as any of the materials used 
at this time are relied upon to control this insect. 

Another point which should be brought out very strongly 
is the fact that if one does not wish to prepare the spray 
material one's self, there is a good opportunity in the 
larger fruit centers for some one of the growers to take 
up the manufacture of concentrated lime sulphur or solu- 
ble oil and supply them to the whole neighborhood. This. 
I understand, has been done very successfully at Win- 
chester, Va. 
Blacksburg, Va. J. L. PHILLIPS. 



FALL PLOWING 

Editor Southern Planter: 



FOR THE GARDEN. 



If one's trees are so slightly infested with San Jose 
scale that it is safe to postpone the use of the lime sul- 
phur until late in the spring at the time to spray for 
scab, etc., this one treatment will answer in the place 
of one of the regular sprayings of the orchard, and in 
this way save the entire cost of the other application be- 
sides being just as effective. It will also help to con- 
trol the leaf aphis, especially when used late in the sea- 



While there is no question about the advisability of 
fall plowing as a general proposition in the South, this 
work is especially necessary on a truck farm, and, in 
fact, every small garden should be deeply plowed or 
forked over at the time. 

There are a number of reasons for this, the first being 
that land can be more deeply plowed without injury at 
this season than any other. The subsoil is comparatively 
dry, and when turned to the surface in the fall, the 
action of the frost will pulverize it and help to make 
available the plant food it contains. 

We must not forget that the principal object in plow- 
ing is to break and pulverize the soil, and the better this 
is done, the more effective will be your work. As a gen- 
eral thing, we do not have time to do this as it should 
be done in the spring. We are in a hurry at that time 
to get our seed into the ground, and the subsoil is too 
wet to plow deeply without injury. . About four to six 
inches is as deep as we can go, and even then it is dif- 
ficult to catch the land just right. On the other hand, 
where the land has been broken thoroughly the fall be- 
fore, all that is necessary is to work up the surface 
thoroughly with disc or cutaway harrow, apply your fer- 
tilizer and plant your seed. Another advantage of 
fall plowing is that it puts your land into condition where 
it will absorb the winter rains instead of letting them 
run away, and when you plant in the spring you have a 
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your crop may draw from, and there is much less danger 
of its suffering from drouth. 

You will find that this water supply and the fact that 
your land is broken deeply under your crops, will more 
than compensate for any leaching that may have taken 
place during the winter. In fact, the only element of 
plant food that will leach out of your soil in any case 
is available nitrogen, and much more plant food is lost 
from washing than from leaching, and deep plowing in 
the fall makes washing almost impossible. 

When breaking your land in the fall if you will throw 
it into ridges with a middle-burster, instead of leaving 
it flat, you will prevent leaching to a great extent. These 
ridges are an added advantage, also, in that it is much 
easier for the frost to penetrate and pulverize the soil. 
Furthermore, where land is thrown into ridges it will 
dry out quicker on the surface so that you will be able 
to work it sooner, and get your vegetables planted earlier. 
Here all that is necessary is to put a piece of scantling 
under your smoothing harrow, and drag the ridges down 
flat, then work up the surface and plant your vegetables. 
This often means two weeks start of your neighbor, who 
waited until spring before breaking his land. It means 
larger crops, too, and better crops. 

This is especially true where one uses large quantities 
of , commercial fertilizer, and you must use fertilizer lib- 
erally on vegetables if you expect to make anything, for 
chemical fertilizer is more dependent on soil conditions 
even than manure. In order to make available the nitro- 
gen, phosphoric acid and potash in a fertilizer, we must 
have a fine, deep, moist soil, and then see that the fer- 
tilizer is thoroughly incorporated in the soil before plant- 
ing; then things will grow. It is all a matter of condi- 
tions, and to succeed we must make these conditions 
right . 

When you wait until spring before you plow, even 
though you may be able to catch your land right so you 
can plow deeply, it will be impossible, if you have clay 
soil, to pulverize it as finely as the frost will do it for 
you, to say nothing of the enormous amount of added 
work of harrowing necessary to fit the land properly. And 
while you are plowing your neighbor will be plantina;. 
and likely as not before you get ready to plant it will 
rain and put you out of business for a week while your 
neighbor's seeds are coming up. 

There is also another advantage in fall plowing for 
the gardener: It helps to keep down insects, and where 
land is well broken in the fall or early winter, you will 
never be troubled with cutworms to any extent. This is 
often a serious matter on cabbage, tomato, and many 
other crops. Be advised, therefore, and plow deeply this 
fall while the weather is cool and you have the time. 

Atlanta. Ga. F. J. MERRIAM. 



MIXED FEEDS. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

Only within the last decade has the mixing of materials 
for feeding stock assumed such large proportions. When 
one looks around and observes that large corporations 
have been built up by the manufacture and sale of mixed 
feeds it makes him stop and think. The Feed Control 
Laws in different States have shown that some of these 
feeds are sold at prices far beyond their actual values 
when the constituents entering into their composition are 



taken into consideration. In some States, as a protection 
to the users of stock feeds, the mixed feed people are 
required to brand on their packages or bags the materials 
entering into the composition of their feeds; this has 
resulted in the disuse of some practically valueless materi- 
als as the manufacturers were unwilling to admit the use 
of these materials in their feeds. In other States it is 
made obligatory that the mixed feed manufacturers do 
not put out feed of a less percentage of protein than a 
fixed amount. In other States they are not allowed to 
exceed a certain stated amount of fibre; this is a protec- 
tion to the feeder, as the fibre content is largely increased 
by the addition of materials of low feeding value — such 
as corn cobs, oat hulls and cotton seed hulls. It is hoped 
that these materials will finally be eliminated from mixed 
feeds entirely, as their feeding value is very small. 

To illustrate how the feeder is taken advantage of, a 
case which came to the attention of the writer a short 
time ago will be cited: A cotton seed meal and a mixture 
of cotton seed meal and finely ground cotton seed hulls 
was offered for sale by the same dealer. The price of 
the cotton seed was $33.00 a ton, a very cheap source of 
protein, containing almost if not fully three times the feed- 
ing value of wheat bran. The price of the mixed feed was 
$30.00. The per cent, of protein guaranteed in the case 
of the mixed feed was 25 per cent.; in the cotton seed 
meal, 40 per cent. In a ton of the mixed feed there was 
approximately 600 pounds of cotton seed hulls and 1,200 
pounds of cotton seed meal. The cotton seed meal at 
$33.00 a ton being worth about $20.00, $10.00 then being 
paid for the 800 pounds of cotton seed hulls in a ton of 
the feed. At this rate the feeder would pay $25.00 for a 
ton of the hulls, when they have a market price of less 
than half that much. A comparison of the digestible nutri- 
ents in 100 pounds of cotton seed hulls, with the amount 
of digestible nutrients in 100 pounds of corn cobs, is as 
follows: 

Digestible nutrients in 100 pounds cotton seed hulls: 
Protein, 1.; fat, 1.8; carbohydrates, 26.2. 

Corn cobs: Protein, 1.6; fat, .3; carbohydrates, 43.9. 

This shows that there is more available protein in 100 
pounds of corn cobs than in the same amount of cotton 
seed hulls, also, that ther(> is more available carbohydrate 
in 100 pounds of corn cci s than in the same weight of 
cotton seed hulla, the reverse being true £s to the fat. 
The total value of com cobs, however, as a feed being 
somewhat greater than cotton seed hulls. We in Virginia 
are throwing out our corn cobs, regarding them as of lit- 
tle value as a feed. The man who buys the mixed feed 
— cotton seed hullw and cotton seed meal — I have noted 
above, is buying a material at a cost of $25.00 a ton which 
is really of less value than corn cobs. Why not buy the 
corn cobs here in Virginia and have them ground and 
mixed with cotton seed ui^-ai which can be bought at 
$33.00 a ton. Our people would be greaLly pleased to sell 
ground corn cobs at $2.5.00 a ton and doubtless would 
supply this material at a less price. Whit is more deplor- 
able is that the writer was informed by the dealer that 
he could sell the mixed feed better than the cotton seed 
meal; in fact, he had to provide the mixed feed to meet 
the competition from other dealers who were selling the 
mixed cotton seed meal and hulls. 

WILLIAM D. SAUNDERS, 
Dairy and Food Commissioner. 



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Live Stock and Dairy. 



WORMS AND PARASITES IN SHEEP. 

The greatest hindrance to successful sheep husbandry 
in this country is the worms and parasites that in'^est the 
sheep and lambs. Could these be eradicated or prevented 
sheep husbandry would, over a large part of the country 
be the most profitable form of Iwe stock industry for our 
farmers, profitable both to the farmer and to his land. 
Experiments widely conducted in sections of the country 
where worms are most prevalent and where the great 
loss from these and other parasites has been most serious 
have demonstrated that tobacco fed to the sheep and lambs 
is both a cure and preventative. In sections outside the 
immediate tobacco belts the diflBculty has been to get the 
tobacco at a price at which it could be afforded to be fed 
freely to the sheep. Leaf dealers could not under the law 
sell except to manufacturers, and so farmers could not ob- 
tain the tobacco in the form wanted except at the manu- 
facturers' price which in the quantity required to be fed 
made the remedy too costly and difficua to obtain. Re- 
cently we took this subject up with the Commissioner of 
Internal Revenue with the view of securing such a modi- 
fication of the regulations as would permit leaf dealers to 
sell to farmers. The authorities have now consented to 
amend the regulations controlling the sale of tobacco by 
leaf dealers so as to permit the sale of the product as a 
sheep medicine on condition that the dealers comply with 
certain revenue regulations and the tobacco be so 
treated as to render it unfit for smoking or chewing pur- 
poses. It has been found practicable to meet this require- 
ment by treating the leaf with certain medicaments which 
in themselves are valuable as health preservatives for 
sheep and have been in use for that purpose, and thus 
render the tobacco whilst unfit for smoking or chewing, 
still more valuable as a protector of the health of the sheep 
and as a certain remedy for sheep worms and parasites. 
We have induced one of the largest leaf dealers in this 
city to go into the business of preparing the tobacco under 
this formula and to offer the same to farmers at a price 
at which we are satisfied it will pay them to feed it freely 
to their sheep. Sheep and lambs fed this medicated to- 
bacco will soon be restored to health or be kept healthy 
so far as worms and parasites are concerned. We have 
abundant evidence of this and therefore can with confi- 
dence recommend the remedy. In our advertising columns 
this tobacco remedy will be found offered. 



HOG HUSBANDRY IN THE SOUTH. 

The following facts should be pondered by Southern 
farmers and they will then realize what money is lost 
to them by neglecting the making of hog keeping on graz- 
ing crops a leading feature of their work. 

Fattening Value of Certain Foods Gathered by the Pigs. 

Pounds of Pork 

An acre of peanuts (good stand) 1,252 

An acre of chufas 592 

Where pigs were fed half rations of corn one acre of 

green crops carried ten pigs the following number of days: 



Days. 

Peanuts (very poor stand) 53 

Soybeans 34.4 

Chufas 32.2 

Sorghum (cut and fed in dry lot) 152 

Sorghum (pastured) 46 . 6 

Cost Of Making a Pound of Pork, Live Weight, as Demon- 
strated at the Alabama Experiment Station. 

Ration. Cents per Pound. 

Corn only, valued at 70 cents per bushel 7.63 

Corn two-thirds, cotton-seed meal one-third 5.75 

Corn one-half, cowpeas one-half 5.11 

Corn and peanut pasture 2.28 

Corn and peanut pasture 1.85 

Corn meal two-thirds, cotton-seed meal one-third, 

(peanut pasture) 1 . 97 

Corn and sorghum pasture 5.36 

Corn and chuf a pasture 3.81 

Corn and soy bean pasture 1.96 

Corn meal two-thirds, cotton-seed meal one-third 
(sorghum cut and fed) 3 . 39 

Results Obtained from Hog Feeding at Arkansas Experi- 
ment Station. 
March 3, sow dropped five pigs. 
January 3, pigs slaughtered, ten months old, average 

weight 243 pounds each. 



Grain. 


Cost. 


Green crop. 


Acres. 


Wheat bran, 31. '2 pounds .. . 
Corn, shelled (before 6 
months old), 5 bushels.. 


$0.20 

1.50 
5.70 


Clover 


3 


Sorghum 


Peanuts 


Corn, shelled, 19 bushels. . . 


Total 


S 






7.40 


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Total 









Cost of pork per pound, one and a half cents. It will be 
noted that corn is valued at only thirty cents per bushel 
in this experipment. 

Experiments at the Mississippi Agricultural Experiment 
Station. 

One hundred and twenty-iwo pigs were fed on corn and 
shorts and grazed on rape, red clover, wheat, hairy vetch, 
sorghum, and peanuts. Thirty-two pigs averaged at ten 
months old 175 1-2 pounds each; 85 pigs averaged at ten 
months 135 3-8 pounds each; 5 pigs averaged at ten months 
196 pounds each. Cost of the pork, live weight, 3.2 cents 
per pound. 

In this experiment the corn is estimated at 65 and 70 
cents a bushel. If it had been valued at thirty cents as in 
the Arkansas experiment, the cost of the pork would have 
been 2 1-2 cents a pound. 

If the com in the Alabama experiments had been valued 
at thirty cents the cost of pork production in some cases 
would have been less han 1 1-2 cents per pound. 

And yet with such opportunities the South still very 
largely keeps her meat house in Chicago. 



DAIRY INSTITUTE. 

We are glad to know that the dairymen of the Farmville 
section are endeavoring to arrange for the holding of a 



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Dairy Institute in Farmville at an early date, the Institute 
to extend over something like a week and to have three 
sessions each day to be addressed by dairy experts. They 
have asked the Dairy Commissioner to take this in charge 
and he is now making the necessary arrangements. It 
would be well if dairymen in other sections would follow 
this example and pflt themselves in communication with 
Prof. Saunders, the State Dairy Commissioner and ask him 
to hold Dairy Institutes in their sections. 



FEEDING THE DAIRY COW. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

In feeding a dairy cow we have two propositions to con- 
sider: the one the supplying the digestible protein, carbo- 
hydrate and fat for the maintenance or to provide against 
the natural waste of the animal; the other the supplying 
economically the digesible protein, carbohydrates and fat 
for the milk produced. In dealing with the first proposi- 
tion we find that an animal weighing 800 pounds should 
have about .56 lbs. available protein; 5.6 lbs. available car- 
bohydrates; .08 lbs. available fat for a maintainence ra- 
tion. We find upon further examination that if a cow can 
be supplied 30 pounds or more of corn stover that suffi- 
cient nutriments will be supplied for maintainence. About 
30 pounds of corn silage fed with about 15 pounds of cut 
or shredded :;orn stover also supplies about the necessary 
amount of digestible nutrients for a maintenance ration 
for the average cow. If stover and silage are used in the 
above proportions the cow should be fed such an amount 
as she will eat up clean. 

Having disposed of the maintenance ration we must 
now consider what must be fed for each pound of milk 
a cow is capable of producing. Upon examination of the 
tables we find that ten pounds of corn and cob meal and 
three pounds of cotton seed meal contains as follows: 
1.566 pounds digestible protein. 
6.507 pounds digestible carbohydrates. 
.656 pounds digestible fats. 

We find also upon reference to the table that 30 pounds 
of milk requires digestible nutrients as follows: Protein, 
1.5 pounds; carbohydrates, 6.6 pounds; fats, .51 pounds, 
corresponding about to the amount of digestible nutrients 
contained in the ten pounds of corn and cob meal and three 
pounds of cotton seed meal. 

Now after the maintenance ration has been supplied 
which can be furnished by allowing cows to feed freely 
on cut or shredded stover there should be fed each cow 
about half a pound of corn and cob meal mixed with cot- 
ton seed meal, the mixture to be made in the following 
proportions: ten pounds of corn and cob meal and three 
pounds of cotton seed meal for each pound of milk pro- 
duced. This is somewhat in excess of the requirements 
but no more than should be given to provide for an increase 
in milk if the cow may be able to produce in excess of 
what she may be giving. The limit of a cow's production 
can only be reached when she has a sufficient amount of 
available nutrients from which to produce milk up to the 
limit of her production. It should be observed that if what 
has been suggested be followed the feeding of cows will 
cost in proportion to the amount of milk produced. For 
dry cows the feed needed may be largely corn stover or 
silage alone. For a cow producing as much as forty pounds 



of milk per day she should be fed about twenty pounds 
of the mixed feed (cotton seed meal and corn and cob 
meal) per day. This mixed feed will cost about ?23.00 a 
ton and the cost per day of the twenty pounds to be fed 
will be about twenty-three cents or an additional cost of 
about $7.00 a month over and above what the cow is cost- 
ing that is not producing milk. The milk produced at a 
cost of about $7.00 for the grain ration should be worth 
about $25.00 if sold at 17 cents a gallon. 

It is earnestly hoped that such suggestions as will be 
given out from this office from time to time will interest 
the dairy men in the State and that they will feel that 
the Dairy Commissioner stands ready at all times to give 
them such advice as may be in his power and that they will 
not hesitate to avail themselves of his assistance. 

Richmond. Va. WM. D. SAUNDERS, 

Dairy Commissioner. 

N. B. — It is desired by the wiiter that this article be 
commented upon or criticized by anyone interested. — Ed. 



INTELLIGENT FEEDING. 
Editor Southern Planter: 

To be well prepared to do intelligent feeding of live 
stock during the winter requires in the writer's judgment 
more than a disposition so to do, and a pocket full of 
money with which to purchase feeds. Intelligent feeding 
.as we expect to use the term means the most profitable 
feeding and if readers will pardon me I want to say that 
no man in the South can do the most profitable feeding by 
the use of purchased feeds, for by careful business farm- 
ing feeds may be produced on the farms of our section 
at from one-third to one-half their market value and the 
feeder to do the most profitablf- feeding must use these 
home grown feeds and thus secure both the profit aris- 
ing from the turning of a raw product into a finished pro- 
duct and at the same time secire the profit coming from 
the production of the raw product. He will by glowing his 
stock foods secure yet another profit in the nitrogen se- 
cured free from the air and left in the roots of the le- 
guminous plants. Then when the farmer has produced on 
his own farm feeds of the right character sufficient in 
amount to finish the number of animals he expects to 
handle, he must, if he expects to do intelligent feeding 
take into consideration the class of animals to which this 
feed is to be given. The writer is well aware th.it some 
writers and those who should know b^^tter, have said that 
the type of an'mal has little to do with the number of 
pounds of gain a certain amount of fc 3d will produce. But 
I wish to say that they cannot prove it an;i my own exper- 
ience of more than twenty years of feodin^ is proof con- 
clusive to my own mind tLat the type of animal to which 
food is given has a great deal to do with the profit aris- 
ing from the feeding operations not only in the greater 
value per pound of finished carcass secu:ed but also in the 
greater number of pounds of this better carcass that may 
be secured by the feeding of a certain amount of feed. 

It is not unreasonable to think that animals that have 
been bred by the most intelligent class of farmers we 
have, for a dozen or more generations with the end always 
in view of securing the largest growth and the most valu- 
able carcass for the amount of feed used are in better shape 
to do this than animals that have had nothing but their 



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rustling and fighting qualities developed for an equal num- 
ber of generations. It doesn't take a feeder of great in- 
telligence, if he be a careful observer, to find that I am 
right in this matter. An old negro man who had been buy- 
ing his pigs for feeding of the writer for a number of years 
was unable to secure what he wanted one fall and bought 
three scrub pigs instead. He told me he would not use 
scrub pigs again if he could secure them for nothing as it 
took fully twice the amount of feed to make 300 pound 
hogs of them as was required to make the same weight 
on well bred Poland-Chinas or Berkshires, and he is a care- 
ful man who measures his feed. We believe the day of 
profitable fe?ding of animals by the use of an excessive grain 
ration or the unbalanced ration is past, probably never to 
return, so the feeder of to-day must give more thought to 
the character of the feeds he offers his animals. We have 
found nothing better than corn on which to finish hogs but 
have found it a very profitable practice to feed this corn 
where there are plenty of well podded cow peas or soja 
beans. We have found corn a good grain ration for fat- 
tening cattle but have found that to make the most profi- 
table gains the corn should be supplemented with a feed 
of good legume hay and some succulent food, either corn 
ensilage or pasture. Our rule is to have in the barn or 
stack each fall one ton of pea vine hay and a half ton of 
clover hay for each grown animal we expect to winter. 
This with our corn fodder and ensilage or winter pasture 
brings our stock through the winter in good condition and 
with profit because we have not been obliged to purchase 
any outside food grown by some other man at a big profit. 
Rockingham Co., N. C. A. L. FRENCH. 



THE ERADICATION OF BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS. 

(Address made before the Third Annual Convention of the 
Virginia Dairymen's Association at Leesburg, Va.) 

This morning we have witnessed a postmortem demon- 
stration upon five cows, which had reacted to a tuberculin 
test applied to four of them in April of the present year. 
None of these animals showed any visible evidence of tu- 
berculosis, and its presence, during life, could not have 
been detected by even n expert veterinarian or animal 
husbandman, without the use of the tuberculin test. The 
reaction to tuberculin in all five instances, was substan- 
tiated by the postmortem lesions of tuberculosis which 
were sufficient to warrant the condemnation of the car- 
casses which were afterward buried. 

Several stages of the disease were illustrated, one car- 
case in particular showing great masses of tuberculous ma- 
terial affecting the glands between the lungs, studded 
throughout the lung tissue, and spread upon the pleura 
as well as scattered throughout the abdominal viscera. Al- 
though this animal had an advanced generalized case of 
tuberculosis, yet its effect had not been sufficient to cause 
any external symptoms which would warrant a diagnosis 
from a physical examination. Therefore, it is evident that 
the value of tuberculin as a diagnostic agent has again 
been demonstrated, and the nature of the disease has 
been made more plain to all who were present. 

As we gather in the courthouse o'f historic Leesburg. in 
attendance at this Third Annual Convention of the Virginia 
State Dairymen's Association, it shows the spirit of pro- 
gress, and an awakening which is passing over the stock 



owners of this old State. They are awakening to a reali- 
zation that the dairy industry in the State of Virginia has 
not, in the past years, received the amount of attention 
which the capabilities of its development should demand. 
Your Virginia is rich in all the natural elements that 
would lead to success in dairy farming^ 

You have considered in this meeting, the subjects of the 
possibilities of dairying, the feeding of cattle, and the pro- 
duction of crops, but I now wish to direct your attention 
to a continuation of the subject of this morning's postmor- 
tem demonstration, and discuss with you the methods for 
the control and final eradication of the great plague Tu- 
berculosis. 

No matter what branch of the dairy industry you have 
decided to follow, and no difference what progress has 
been made in the science of that branch, there is one fact 
that stands alone and cannot be contradicted, the founda- 
tion rock of production and success is the healthy dairy 
cow. Upon this rock let us build up the structures of 
every branch of the dairy industry, whether it be the 
breeding of pure bred animals, the production of market 
milk or cream, or the manufacture of butter and cheese. 

I will not enter into a discussion of the value of the true 
dairy type, no matter what breed we may select, but will 
refer directly to the healthfulness of the dairy cow. Un- 
fortunately, in maintaining the health of our herds we are 
.brought face to face with a consideration of the inroads 
of tuberculosis, which is spreading among our cattle, and 
yearly claiming a greater number of victims. At the pres- 
ent time we must confront, with the problem of our dairy 
industry, an enemy which has been allowed to intrench 
itself in our midst. If this enemy is to be repelled, we, 
as dairymen throughout the State, must rally together, 
and with the strength of united effort strike a mighty 
blow for the eradication of the terrible plague. Progress- 
ive dairymen, such as are represented in a meeting of this 
character, are more or less familiar with the damage done, 
to the individual animal, to the herd, and to the breed, 
by the inroads of tuberculosis. 

You realize the loss of total milk production, the death 
from tuberculosis, the loss of stamina and vigor in the 
young stock by the inheritance of weakened constitutions, 
with a predisposition making them particularly suscep- 
tible to infection with tubercle bacilli. The sale of tuber- 
culous animals from a lierd, decreases the financial valua- 
tion of the cattle in that herd, and gives to the herd and 
its owner an unenviable reputation. When this sale of 
tuberculous animals is recognized to spread throughout 
the herds of any state, the buyers in other states will shun 
the herds of breeders of cattle which they have reason to 
believe are diseased. Thus, the valuation of the entire 
cattle breeding industry receives a blow. The public 
is rapidly awakening to the fact that their health should 
be protected against the consumption of milk or its pro- 
ducts, derived from tuberculous animals, therefore, the 
presence of tuberculosis among our herds, is the founda- 
tion for a lessened financial income. 

With these points in view, and the further knowledge 
which you possess, I am sure that you, as representative 
dairymen of the State of Virginia, realize that the time has 
come when an effort should be put forth for the suppres- 
sion of tuberculosis among our cattle, so that we may ap- 



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pear before the cattle breeders of other states, and before 
the public who consume the products of our herds, as 
breeders and producers of that which is guaranteed to be 
healthful. 

Let us now consider some of the steps which have been 
taken by other states, in the war against tuberculosis. In 
order that legislation may show common sense, it is essen- 
tial that those who draft such legislation shall realize that 
a case of tuberculosis cannot exist without the presence 
of the causative factor, the germ known as the tubercle 
bacillus, and that the disease is transmissible from one 
animal to another of the same species, as from one cow to 
another cow, and to animals of different species, as from 
cattle to swine, and I may add here, from cattle to man, 
by any medium which will carry the germs of the disease. 
Therefore, in a fight against bovine tuberculosis, we must 
recognize the tuberculous dairy cow as the principal source 
of the contagion. She must be removed. It is she who 
spreads, by various means, by infected manure, Dy in- 
fected milk, the germs of tuberculosis, so that they may 
be taken up by other animals, to start the disease in mo- 
tion. It is the tuberculous dairy cow which is mainly re- 
sponsible for the introduction of tuberculosis into herds 
■where the disease had never before existed. 

Recognizing this tubercyilous cow in the character in 
-which she directly stands, it is evident that one of the 
first steps, in order to accomplish results, is to know 
■which cows are diseased, and which are healthful. As 
shown by the postmortem demonstration this morning, we 
cannot, even the most skilled among us, detect the tu- 
berculous cow, by the ordinary methods of examination. 
If we had to depend upon waiting for a cow to exhibit 
evidence of tuberculosis, which we could recognize, we 
■would be fighting a losing battle. Let us be thankful that 
science has come to our rescue, and given us a method 
by which we can accurately diagnose a case of tuberculo- 
sis, from an incipient to an advanced stage. I refer to the 
use of tuberculin as a test agent. Next to the discovery of 
the tubercle bacillus as the ever present and essential 
cause of tuberculosis, the discovery of tuberculin, by Prof. 
Koch, in 1880, marks the most important step in our knowl- 
edge, which enables us to intelligently and systematically 
■v\-age war against this plagpe. 

The tuberculin test is not infallible, for, let me ask you, 
■what in this world is infallible? But it is accurate; it is 
recognized as the most accurate method known to medical 
science, for the detection of any disease. When the tu- 
berculin test is applied by specially trained veterinarians, 
its results are accurate to at least 98 per cent. This, it 
■would seem, would far out\veigh any of the losses which 
might occur from a little error of 2 per cent, or less. 

The injection of this tuberculin is absolutely without dan- 
■ger to the cow, for it is a sterilt product, containing no 
life of any form whatever. Briefly speaking, tuberculin 
is an extract of the products of the germs of tuberculosis. 
I -will not enter here into the methods of applying the tu- 
berculin test, but will merely mention that in the healthv 
animal the injection beneath the skin of freshly boiled 
■water would cause just as much effect as the injection of 
tuberculin into that animal, but in the animal in which 
tuberculosis exists the injection of this test fluid causes r 
reaction to appear, which is recognized by the presence. of 
a temporary fever, detected by thermometer readings. 



The value of this method for the detection of tubercu- 
lous cattle has long received official recognition. The 
United States Bureau of Animal Industry, a few years after 
the discovery of tuberculin, started to produce the mater- 
ial in its laboratories, and to dispose of it free of charge, 
for the use of its officials, and those of states and cities. 
To-day the demand for tuberculin is so great that the 
yearly output of doses is approaching the two hundred 
thousand mark. When we consider this vast number, we 
must not forget that some states have laboratories, 
which manufacture tuberculin for use within those states, 
and that the material is also produced by a number of 
commercial firms. 

The United States Government has given another token 
of the estimation in which it holds this test as a means 
for protecting the cattle industry in our United States. 
Prior to 1901, importations of pure bred cattle were made 
without regard to the tuberculin test as an agent for de- 
termining the presence or absence of tuberculous infection, 
but at that time regulations became effective, which re- 
quired that all cattle imported from Canada or Europe 
must be proven free from tuberculosis, by means of the 
test. It was then a surprising fact was disclosed. Ameri- 
cans had gone abroad for the purpose of buying pure bred 
stock from the old country, and to improve our breeds, 
but in buying this stock they had bought disease. They 
had paid high prices for tuberculous animals, which they 
had been bringing into this country, and introducing by 
that means an increased amount of tuberculosis. Twenty 
per cent, of the animals which were offered for importa- 
tion into the United States were rejected on account of 
being infected with tuberculosis. This is a valuable step 
in the protection of our live stock interests, including the 
interests of Virginia, and every other state. Another step 
by the United States Government, in combatting bovine 
tuberculosis, was the classification of that disease among 
those designated in an Act of Congress, in 1884, which 
prohibits the interstate movement of any animals known 
to be affected with tuberculosis. A number of states 
have taken action to protect the cattle industry within 
themselves, and have followed the action of the Federal 
government, in requiring a satisfactory tuberculin test of 
cattle as a qualification for their admittance from other 
states. 

By the nature of the disease you can recognize that this 
is the first important step which can he taken by any state, 
and I am glad to be able to say that upon May 15, 1909, a 
p-oclamation was issued by which your old state of Vir- 
ginia was placed in the battle ranks, by requiring that all 
dairy or breeding cattle entering Virginia from other 
states must have passed a satisfactory tuberculin test 
within four months immediately preceding, and that a cer- 
tificate to this effect shall be forwarded to your State 
Veterinarian. Up to the present time. 31 states have 
passed legislation of this character, and to show the rapid 
strides which are now being made, I will state that 19 
of the 31 states indicated, enacted this legislation during 
the present year. 

The next step in the successful eradication of bovine 
tuberculosis, the state having already surrounded itself 
■^%'ith a legislative fence to prevent the entrance of new- 
cases, is for the state to make some provision for co-op- 
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lege of a free tuberculin test, applied by specially trained 
official veterinarians, when such cattle owners signify 
their willingness to properly dispose of tuberculous cat- 
tle, to disinfect their premises, and take the other nec- 
essary precautionary measures. This step is conservative, 
and I present it to you for your favorable consideration. 

All tuberculous animals should be promptly slaughtered, 
subject to postmortem inspection, or under certain con- 
ditions, as in the case of specially valuable animals for 
breeding purposes among pure breeds, they might be 
maintained in quarantine for a longer or shorter period. 
Without one or the other of these methods for the dispo- 
sition of tuberculous animals, it is useless for us to attempt 
to control the spread of the disease. 

There are, I am sorry to say, some men, who, by the 
secret use of the tuberculin test, determine which animals 
in their herds are affected, and sell these animals to their 
unsuspecting neighbors, and other purchasers, spreading 
the disease wherever the animals are placed. 

A number of states, to lessen the losses sustained by 
dairymen from the slaughtering of tuberculous animals, 
provide a certain amount of reimbursement, but as far as 
I know, Virginia has not, as yet, made any such provision. 
I believe that you, dairymen of Virginia, will be justified 
in applying to your representatives in the State govern- 
ment for assistance. 

At the present time the majority of people in this State 
are not ready for any radical tuberculosis legislation, but 
provisions should be made, and would I believe, meet with 
the support of every intelligent dairyman, for the free ap- 
plication of the tuberculin test under official supervision, 
and for some reimbursement for animals w'aich may be 
slaughtered. Other states have gone mucn further than 
this, and I will mention some of the efforts which they 
have made, so that, if you deem it advisable, you may 
select from them those which you believe would be of 
value in the State of Virginia. 

The first succeeding step might well be, to require the 
tuberculin testing of all pure bred cattle sold within the 
State. This plan has been carried on in the State of 
Maine with excellent results for the past four years. 

The tuberculin testing of all dairy and breeding cattle 
sold in public stock yards, or public sales, would be of 
great value in preventing the spread of the disease. Some 
states have gone so far as to require the tuberculin test- 
ing of all dairy and breeding cattle maintained within and 
throughout the State. Kentucky appears upon this list, 
and a decision has just been handed down by the Apped- 1 
late Court of the State sustaining the legality of the 
proclamation which required such testing. Utah and >i3W 
Mexico are also included in this list. 

Another valuable method is by the passage and enforce- 
ment, in co-operation with State Live Stock Sanitary of- 
ficials, of a city or town ordinance, requiring the tuber- 
culin testing of all cattle and herds from which the milk 
supply of the town is derived. Such ordinances are being 
passed by an increasing number of cities, and are being 
carried out successfully. Although opposition has been 
met with in a number of cases, it seems useless to state. 
In this meeting, that the enlightened and progressive 
dairymen have given active support to such ordinances. 
Important deceisions in reference to the legality of such 



city ordinances have recently been given by courts in 
Milwaukee, Wis., and Minneapolis, Minn., sustaining the 
ordinances against the charges of so-called Dairymen's 
Protective Associations. 

In the tuberculosis control work, by the various states, 
the United States Bureau of Animal Industry has been fre- 
quently called upon for assistance, and whenever possible, 
the State having proper legislation, the Federal Bureau 
has gladly given its assistance. 

The eradication of tuberculosis from your individual 
herds, if it exists therein, will I am sure, be carefully con- 
sidered, in the discussion which will follow th's paper, 
therefore, in closing, my advice to you is, that in order to -^ 
obtain the best results in eradicating tuberculosis from 
the cattle in the State of Virginia, and in placing your 
products both as live stock, and as milk and meat food, 
upon a high plane, beyond reproach, you as representa- 
tive dairymen, work individually, and with the power of 
this Association, to present before the next meeting of 
your legislative body an appeal for such conservative leg- 
islation as will make a valuable step in the war against 
tuberculosis, which must be fought, and must be won, for 
the sake of our industry, and the public at large. 

With united effort upon your part, there cannot be such 
a thing as failure, and Virginia will take its place in the 
front ranks among the dairy states. 

B. T. WOODWARD, V. M. D. 
Quarantine Div. U. S. Bureau Animal Industry. 

In connection with this subject of tuberculosis in cattle 
we learn that there is now an effort being made by the 
dairymen of the State looking to the enactment by the 
next Legislature of a law providing for the testing of cows 
in this State for tuberculosis and for the payment under 
certain conditions of compensation for animals found to 
he diseased and condemned to be killed Without such a 
liTO-"1sion is made it is not reasonable to expect dairymen 
and cattle owners to submit theiv herds to t^ e test and 
without this it will be impossible to eliminac^ the di3c;vso 
f'om our herds. — Ed. 



PROFIT IN SHEEP RAISING. 

Mr. S. A. Saum, of Shenandoah county, Va., gives us 
the following particulars of the returns from his flock 
of sheep this year: He had 1 buck and 37 ewes. 31 
ewes had lambs. Six of the ewes were only twelve 
months old, and did not lamb. He raised 38 lambs and 
lost 6. For the wool and lambs sold he received $197.00. 
The ewes are not large ones and, therefore, do not shear 
a very heavy fleece or make very large lambs. He says 
the sheep are the most profltable stock kept on the farm. 



DUAL PURPOSE COWS. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

We have hesitated to prolong a discussion which, though 
it has extended over considerable time, seems to have 
arrived at nothing beyond the statements with which it 
was begun. We refer to the controversy over the dual 
purpose cow. 

Many farmers who make cattle a specialty naturally 
and sensibly prefer a type of cattle bred to a single pur- 
pose. The dairyman, with easy access to the city mar- 
kets, breeds for milk production. Others not so fortun- 



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ately located, strive to increase the yield of butter, and 
while the former adheres to types like the Holstein-Frie- 
sans and Ayrshires, the latter adopt and advocate the 
Jerseys and Guernseys. The ranchman and stock farmer 
■who chooses to leave the fat on the animal and sell it 
so, rather than to take it away in milk, finds his pur- 
pose best served by the beefy types, such as the Here- 
fords, Angus, beef strains of the Shorthorns, Red Foils, 
etc. 

All the above are widely known and commonly ac- 
cepted facts, over which controversies are a waste of 
time, and we would not enter or prolong such discussion; 
but there is another feature of the case that deserves 
careful, intelligent consideration. 

There are many farmers who, by reason of circum- 
stances, natural and otherwise, do not consider either 
the dairy cow or the purely beef type the most profitable 
for them, and the writers of this are included among 
these. They do general farming, because they and their 
farms are by nature better fitted to make that line of 
farming successful than to specialize. On their farms 
are places for cattle, sheep, hogs, horses and poultry, and 
these of as near the general purpose type as possible. 

That there is a strain of Shorthorn cattle known as 
dual purpose cattle is well known by those familiar with 
the average farmer in Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota and North- 
ern Missouri .Throughout these States coo-perative and 
private creameries have become a very large and impor- 
tant part of agriculture; and wherever you find these 
creameries you will find the dual purpose Shorthorn and 
her satisfied owners in abundance, and you will also find 
highly improved farms and prosperous communities, made 
possible principally by this same dual purpose cow. 

Why do they keep the dual purpose cow, and what ad- 
vantages do they claim to find in them? is a question which 
properly may be asked and answered here. 

These farmers raise an abundance of grass and grain, 
and, to maintain and increase the fertility of their farms 
they find it profitable to feed all the. products on the 
farm. Experience has taught them that diversified farm- 
ing is the safest and surest for the average farmer, and 
so the horse, the cow, the sheep, the hog. and poultry 
become important parts of the system. These farmers 
sell the butter-fat from their milk, and feed the skim 
milk to calves, pigs and chickens. There is nothing equal 
to milk to make calves and pigs thrive, and give them 
the rapid growth and vigor essential to a profitable mar- 
ket animal. 

Right here the dual purpose cow proves her value. 
She gives milk in abundance — not quite so large a yield 
as the Holstein, nor so rich in butter-fat as the Jersey, 
yet very good indeed in both. The average milking Short- 
horn gives enough to raise a calf in splendid condition, 
and enough besides to assist greatly in raising a litter 
of pigs. Moreover, her milk makes from four to five 
pounds of butter per hundred pounds of milk, and let 
it be remembered that this milk, with only the fats re- 
moved, is a most superior food for the calf and the pig. 
The writers know of one farm where the milking strain 
of the Shorthorn is a feature, and the poorest milker 
in the herd will average three gallons of milk per day 
for forty weeks in the year. 

Professor Massey will doubtless think this is another 



instance of a beef breed perverted to the dairy type, but 
we can assure him that the steer calves from these ani- 
mals make prime beef. They do not top the market, per- 
haps, but they come quite comfortably near it, and the 
value of the milk for feed and of the butter-fat sold far 
more than offsets the small difference in price obtained 
for the best beef animals. Moreover, the old cows can 
be fattened quite easily, and bring fair prices. 

All the above statements are facts being constantly dem- 
onstrated by thousands of farmers in the States above 
mentioned. 

The dual purpose cow is not a theory nor an imaninary 
ideal. She is a demonstrated fact, a very profitable ani- 
mal, and one that should find a place on nearly every 
Southern farm. The man who has but moderate quanti- 
ties of feed, and who desires to make the most of it can 
do no better than to feed a generous portion of it to 
the dual purpose cow, and her milk and the remainder 
of the feed to the pigs and calves. Especially is this 
true where good butter can be made and marketed. So 
let us mave more encouragement for the "arf and arf" 
cow. Though not the pet of the specialist, nor famed 
for single performances, she is a reliable standby for 
the average farmer, and withal, a very protfiable and 
satisfactory animal. 

TAYLOR BROTHERS. 
Chesterfield county, Va. 



HOW MUCH TO FEED. 

Professor Eckles, of the Dairy Department of the Mis- 
souri Agricultural College, in the course of a discussion 
on feeding dairy cows, laid down the following general 
rules: 

"1. Feed all the roughness they will eat up clean at 
all times. 

"2. Feed one pound of grain per day for each pound 
of butter-fat produced per week, or one pound of grain dailX 
for each three pounds of milk. 

"3. Feed all the cows will take without gaining in 
weight. 

"The rule regarding the amount of grain to feed per day 
for each cow applies best when based upon the amount 
of butter-fat produced per week, as this makes it appli- 
cable to any breed. The second part of the rule, in re- 
gard to feeding one pound of grain for three pounds of 
milk, would not work out in all cases, since in a heavy- 
milking Holstein cow this gives a little too large a quan- 
tity of grain, and with a Jersey giving very rich milk 
it is a little low. It applies best to cows producing milk 
of about average composition." 

In the foregoing, Professor Eckles refers entirely to 
the quantity to be med, and not at all to the character 
to be fed. 



DAIRY SHORT-HORNS IN ENGLAND. 

Short-horns made good records in the two-day's test 
of the London Dairy Show. The rating was made by 
points, allowing 1 point for each ten days over forty days 
from calving, 1 point for each pound of milk per day, 20 
points for each pound of butter-fat, and 4 points for each 
pound of solids not fat. Ten points were deducted each 



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[December, 



time the fat fell below 3 per cent, or the solids below 
S.5 per cent. 

On this basis the championship was won by the seven- 
year-old Lincoln Red Shorthorn cow, Burton Fancy, V. 
Her daily milk yield was G2.4 pounds and of fat 3.01 
pounds. The second highest rating was secured by the 
seven-year-old unregistered Short-horn cow Daisie, with 
G3.7 pounds of milk and 2.41 pounds of fat. Another un- 
registered six-year-old Short-horn gave 63.3 pounds of milk 
with 2.67 pounds of fat. The best registered Short-horn 
was the seven-year-old Lady Heggle, with a yield of 53.9 
pounds of milk and 2.82 pounds of fat. One two-year-old 
Short-horn gave 42.6 pounds of milk with 1.46 pounds of 
fat. 

The best Jersey, Marigold, eight years old, gave 48.6 
pounds of milk and 2.97 pounds of fat. She had 192.2 



points, while the champion had 144.4, and altogether three 
Short-horns had over 140 points. The best Red Polled 
:ow, the Earl of Radnor's seven-year-old Mona, gave 54 
pounds of milk with 1.75 pounds of fat, and had a total 
of 108.8 points. During a one-day test for butter alone 
the Jersey, Marigold, beat Burton Fancy V by 1 1-2 
ounces of butter, and so won the gold medal in this test, 
although for the two days of the milk test Burton Fancy 
yielded the larger amount of butter-fat. 

These records furnish a substantial basis for the optim- 
ism expressed on every hand by breeders who have been 
attempting to preserve the milking traits of their Short- 
horns. The expanding demand for milking Short-horns 
on both sides of the Atlantic comes as a timely reward 
for their foresight and a stimulus to persistence in cul- 
tivating the dual-purpose propensity. — Breeders' Gazette. 




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THE DAIRYMEN AT THE POST-MORTEM EXAMINATION OF TUBEKCULOITS CATTLE. 



ANNUAL CONVENTION STATE DAIRYMEN'S 
ASSOCIATION. 

The Third Annual Convention of the Virginia State Dairy 
men's Association was held in Leesburg, Virginia, on Octo- 
ber first and second. 

This was by far the most interesting and largely attend- 
ed session the Association has held. Starting at the 
Jamestown Exposition with a handful of earnest and enthu- 
siastic men, its membership now includes practically a ma- 
jority of the men in this great and growing business In 
this State. While steadily growing in numbers, its influ- 
ence has, of course, been greatly enlarged, and has been 
felt not only in the benefit given its members, but also in 
th legislative halls of the State. 

While President Joseph A. Turner and Secretary Wil- 
liam D. Saunders, State Dairy Commissioner, arranged a 
splendid and varied program, the keynote of the whole 
session seemed to be health and sanitation. Dr. W. C. 
Woodward, Chief Health Officer of the District of Colum- 
bia read an excellent paper entitled, Sanitary Milk Pro- 
duction. Dr. B. T. Woodward, Quarantine Division 
Bureau of Animal Husbandry, laid such stress upon his 
subject — Most Effective Methods of Eradicating Tubercu- 
losis — that we are producing it elsewhere in this issue. 

In connection with this address, four tuberculous cattle 
were slaughtered and post-mortem examinations held, and 
all were found to be so bad as to be wholly unfit for human 
food, and the carcasses were buried where killed. An 
interesting fact in connection with selecting these cattle 
is that not one of them showed any outward signs of the 
ravages of the disease, but the tuberculin test was relied 
on solely. 



Among the resolutions adopted was one thanking Gov- 
ernor Swanson and Dr. J. G. Ferneyhough and other mem- 
bers of the Live Stock Sanitary Board for the proclama- 
tion forbidding any but tuberculin tested cattle to enter 
the State. 

Hon. Westmoreland Davis tendered the Convention a de- 
lightful luncheon at Morven Park, his splendid estate, after 
which the members enjoyed an inspection of his dairy. 

The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: 
Hon. D. S. Jones, Newport News, President; W. S. Crum- 
packer, Roanoke, Vice-President; W. D. Saunders, Rich- 
mond, Secretary and Treasurer. 

All dairymen are cordially invited to become members 
of this Association, and we heartily recommend that they 
do so. ~ SHEPHERD. 



POWHATAN COUNTY FAirt. 

Powhatan county has joined the ranks of some of her 
more pretentious sisters and held a little county fair this 
year. 

While the exhibit lasted only one day, we feel sure that 
the large crowds in attendance and excellence of exhibits 
is sufficient inspiration for the gentlemen in charge to plan 
for larger and better things another year. 

Tobacco, hay, grain, fruits, etc., were exhibited by the 
farmers, while their wives made an excellent showing of 
fancy work and other things dear to the feminine heart 
and masculine palate. 

We congratulate Powhatan on the modest start she has 
made and hope to learn that she has arranged for a per- 
manent fair in the future. SHEPHERD. 



1909.] 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTEli. 



114i 



The Poultry Yard. 



THE POULTRY OUTLOOK. 

One of the marvellous features of the past tew years has 
been the enormous increase in the selling price of chick- 
ens and eggs on the markets of the country and the great 
and constant increase in the demand for pure bred iowls 
by the farmers who supply these markets. The demand 
for chickens and eggs seems to be practically unlimited 
and this notwithstanding the great incryase in price of the 
articles. We can well remember the tima when we could 
buy all the eggs we desired for 10 to 15 cents per dozen 
and chickens at from 10 to 12 cents a pound. During the 
last year eggs have sold in this market as high as 35 cents 
per dozen for weeks together and even during the suoimer 
have scarcely ever fallen below 25 cents per dozen. Chick- 
ens have sold almost continuously through the summer 
at from 20 to 22 cents per pound and even old hens which 
we could formerly buy at from 20 to 25 cents apiece have 
sold regularly at from 40 to 50 cents apiece. No doubt 
much of this great increase has come about from ^,he 
great increase of a population in full work but still more 
has this come about from the much better quality of the 
birds and eggs put on the market. The old time "scrawny 
scrubs" laying only 75 to 100 eggs per year and these of 
the smallest size and the chickens weighing from half a 
pound to a pound apiece, all bones and featuers, have 
given place on the farms to fine pure bred hens laying half 
as many more eggs in the year at the least and from these 
have been bred fat plump chickens which would tempt 
even an epicure. Once the people tried these and the de- 
mand became practically unlimited and price was second- 
ary consideration. The farmers have hastened to meet 
the demand and breeders of pure bred fowls have been 
able to sell to them all the eggs and birds they could 
raise. This condition of the markets still obtains and 
seems to us likely to continue and we believe that both 
breeders of fancy strains of chickens and ths farmers 
who supply the markets have before them in the coming 
season a prospect as good if not better than ever before. 
Commission merchants throughout the country are clam- 
oring for chickens and eggs and report the demand unsatis- 
fiable. This seems one business whch cannot be overdone. 
The high prices for which beef, mutton lamb and pork 
are selling no doubt helps the poultry market and w« see 
no prospect of any drop in the price of these staple arti- 
cles of food for at least some years to come, hence the 
poultry business is one to which attention can be given 
with profit. If you have not got a good strain of layers 
and market chicken producers give this matter your in; 
mediate attention. It will pay you. 



"STOP THIEF." 

Editor f^oiithrrn PItnitrr: 

Brother Husselman wants successful prescription? for 
chicken thieves, and many another brother wants the 
same thing! Now so far as I know I have never had a 
chicken stolen by human hands in all my life, so I do not 
know whether I am just the right person to speak up in 
meeting, or whether lack of experience should seal ray 
lips and dry my pen, but as most people like to hear from 



others whose lot they envy 1 will venture a few sugges- 
tions and tell of a few precautions which I take. 

As your readers know our fowls are all pure Barred 
Plymouth Rocks, just the kind to bring the highest price 
in Washington, where our "midnight merchants" usu- 
ally dispose of their goods by or before noon of the day 
following. These fowls have a high market value but it 
is widely known that they have a still higher value to us, 
and I think the impression is abroad that much more than 
the price of the fowls would be spent to catch the thief. 
Certain it is that for 33 years these fowls have been in an 
unlocked house so located as to be out of sight or gun- 
range from the bedroom windows on my father's farm 
and have never been raided. 

I think this is largely explained by the fact that we al- 
ways had one colored hand hired by the month lor th-j 
year, and the periods of continuous services have usually 
ranged from five to fifteen years, as we usually had one 
who was buying a home and sticking to business. Color- 
ed people are prone to talk freely among themselves and 
there is very little which happens in a colored settlement 
which any man in it cannot learn about if he is u good 
listener. They are afraid of a comrade who acknowl- 
edges more indebtedness to a white man than to any of his 
own race, and I would rather have one such colored man 
in my employ than to depend upon all the sheriffs, judges, 
juries, prisons and penitentiaries in the State for protec- 
tion to my poultry. My father has usually had such help, 
and my present "hand"has been with me about fiva years 
after spending twelve or thirteen years with us at the old 
place. He lives in the nearest settlement, bfilongs to 
lodge and church, always has money to pay his dues and 
a dollar to lend a worthy and reliable brother. Yet I am 
persuaded that there is not a member of that settlem"nt 
church or lodge who would expect my man to Ij^eep his 
secret if he trespassed in any way upon my property. My 
man set his price when he came to me and I have twice 
raised his wages without being asked. 

My general prescription for the farmer therefore, is to 
maintain such relations with his help that he can obtain 
and hold the services of the most reliable to be had, and 
then make this man know that you are his best friend. 

But there are some ways in which I help this man to 
hold the would-be thieves in check. For those who would 
do a wholesale business there is the report afloat that any 
conductor on our electric line who had a passengsr with a 
big basket aboard a midnight car would report the case. 
It is also known that I am in touch with the city rolice de- 
partment and could get every market place under scru- 
tiny within thirty minutes after reaching a phone. Then 
too. we are supposed to keep our houses locked — the locks 
costing 10 or 15 cents each — just enough to make the of- 
fense "housebreaking" if they are entered. White thieves 
can usually find hens enough in trees and open sheds and 
prefer not to dignify the crime by breaking the weakest 
lock, and some of the blacks are equally prudent. 

Last year a raid occurred which alarmed me. A neigh 
bor lost sixty big chickens in one night, and the ihiet was 
not caught. Most of mine were toe marked but I knew Vou 



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[December, 



feet could be cut off. I decided to try a tattoo or injection 
of India ink under the skin on the wing or .shank where 
it would be visible on the dressed poultry. I made quite a 
talk about it, in the kitchen, and showed -my man the ink 
and little brush and how it was to be picked in with a 
needle, and the hired girl took it all in. |It was a great 
source of wonderment. I don't know how far ihe fame of 
my scheme was spread abroad, but the outiit cost only 
a few cents and is still in my closet — unused! But I really 
believe that this would be a practical and effective means 
of identification and I intend to try it, probably after I have 
finally been raided! 

But the most miraculous and far-reaching results were 
obtained in all innocence this summer when we began 
feeding nux vomica to some chickens to kill hawks. 
Every morning the children made a separate mixture of 
"poison feed" for certain broods. The chicks found it a 
good tonic, but I don't think it hurt any hawks, though 
we used four times the prescribed dose. But I doubt if 
you could have given away a half dozen of our chickens 
for immediate consumption among all the colored popula- 
tion within a mile. But best of all, the dog nuisance 
which was nearly intolerable, ceased as if by magic. I 
never saw so many dogs securely tied in our neighboring 
settlement in all my life. I never suspected that so ir.any 
people suspected thier dogs of having appetite for chick- 
en. I am almost persuaded to try to raise a few yheep, 
relying on discovering some rare virtue in an external 
application of strvchnine! 

I got my first pullet's egg this fall before the pullet was 
seven months old. I never saw such a demand for fcaily 
pullets. 

Vienna, Va. W. A SHERMAN. 



POULTRY SHOWS. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

In the October issue Mr. Husselman criticizes the poul- 
try shows and poultry judges in general and says the shows 
are all fakes and humbugs. I cannot agree with him. No 
doubt mere are some fakes and some humbugs in the poul- 
try business as well as In all other business, but that does 
not prove that all poultry shows are "fakes "' and all the 
judges humbugs. I think a good poultry show Is a very 
good place to go to learn something about chickens and 
the poultry business. I have some Anconas on my yard 
that were raised from a pen of the finest imported show 
birds in the United States. These birds are healthy and 
develop more rapidly than any birds I have ever handled. 
Bred from high scoring show birds does not seem to have 
hurt the utility points of the fowls at all. I find they 
lay as many eggs as any Leghorn I ever owned and the 
eggs are much larger. I havfe no doubt but what is true 
of the Ancona is equally true of any other breed. Nor 
can I see where it is dishonest to prepare on-)s birds for 
the show room. Who would wish to attend a show 
where the birds were picked up off the yard in any condi- 
tion and placed on exhibition and what lessons could be 
learnt from such a show? 

Middlesex Co., Va. WHITINGS POULTRY YARD. 

Whilst we published the views of Mr. Husselman on 
poultry shows and exhibition birds as we publish the 
views of our correspondents on other subjects, it must 
not be assumed that we endorse everything our corres- 
pondents say in their communications on this or other 



matters. We permit the freest discussion and expressions 
of opinions in our columns as we believe that the general 
good is in this way most advanced. In this matter of 
poultry shows and the breeding of fancy fowls we are of 
opinion that such shows have done much to popularize the 
keeping of fowls all over the country and that this has 
greatly helped to make a demand for the best in the dif- 
ferent breeds. This enures to the profit of those who do 
not exhibit as well as to the exhibitor. Thousands of peo- 
ple now keep fowls who would never have done so had 
their enthusiasm not been aroused by seeing ueautiful 
birds at a show. We have been exhibitors ourselves and 
therefore know both the advantages and drawbacks to 
shows but in our opinion the advantages overw 3igli che 
drawbacks. Scrub fowls formerly to be found on every 
farm are now rapidly disappearing. Fancy breeders and 
shows are largely to be thanked for this. — Ed. 



WINTER EGGS. 

I get a great many letters about how to feed to get hens 
to lay in winter. As most of these come from subscribers 
to The Planter (and all of them should be for I find it most 
helpful to me) I am going to put down in a few words 
my five rules and ask you to publish them — stock, water, 
vermin, house, food. 

First — Stock. Be sure you have a strain of good layers. 

Second — Keep plenty of fresh clean water, in either 
wood or porcelain vessels, putting in a little bluestone 
when occasion arises. 

Third — Paint roosts with kerosene oil at least once a 
month, seeing it gets into every crack and crevice. Pro- 
vide dust baths, smoke hen house with sulphur. 

Fourth. — ^Warm, dry, well ventilated houses with no 
drafts scratching shed attached, for bad weather, nice 
clean nests. 

Fifth — Feed with regularity and judgment three times a 
day — mash one meal; grain, one meal, mostly wheat and 
oats. Give for hours between morning and evening meals 
plenty of green food, anything they will eat, only plenty 
of it. Grit of course and cracked oyster shells, charcoal, 
meat occasionally, or some substitute, cracked bone. All 
simple enough. 

Of course everybody who writes to me or reads anything 
I write knows the breed I think best. True there is a lit- 
tle variety in the color. But who thinks of finding fault 
with the gorgeous beauty of a maple tree in October, be- 
cause every leaf is not the same shade? Shape is dis- 
tinctive and type true. In poultry raising it is important 
to select some breed for which you have a special fancy. 
You will then love your work apart from your expected 
remuneration. You will learn to know individual birds, 
and be able to give the special attention needed. You 
can then understand my enthusiastic love for my R. C. R. 
I. Reds. I love them, delight in them, and so care for 
them the best I know how. They return in kind, are happy 
and do the best they can. 

Then whatever fowls you decide on think them pretty — 
very few thoroughbreds are not — admire their distinctive 
traits, attend regularly to the other four points and achiev- 
ment is yours. The year is nearly out and my books up 
to date show steady increase over last year and the out- 
look for 1910 is very fine. Better stock to raise from, bet- 
ter stock to sell. LOUISE V. SPENCER. 

Blackstone, Va. 



1909.] 



TflE SOUTHERN^ PLANTER. 



1147 



The Horse. 



SUFFOLKS AT PIEDMONT FARMS. 

Fauquier county, far-famed from time immemorial for 
the patriotism and chivalry of its men, the beauty and re- 
finement of its women, the splendid hospitality of both, its 
beautiful and fertile hills, valleys and plains, is destined 
to additional prominence along other lines. It promises 
to become America's "Suffolk County," at least as far as 
the Suffolk Punch horse is concerned. We are moved to 
make this prediction on account of a recent importation 
of these splendid horses made by Mr. Fred W. Okie, Pied- 
mont Farm, Marshall, Virginia, and briefly referred 
to in our last issue. Being impressed with the great 
value of this breed as a strictly agricultural horse, 
Mr. Okie launched out in a modest fashion a year 
ago to breeding them. 
His experience with 
them not only corrobor- 
ated, but rather exceed- 
ed the opinion he had 
formed of them. In 
order, therefore, to en- 
large his breeding es- 
tablishment, he went 
to England in Septem- 
ber and returned in 
October with seven 
head which, by the 
way, is the largest 
number ever landed on 
any one American 
farm.. He already had 
six head, so his total 
was increased to thir- 
teen. When the mares 
foal next spring the 
number will be in- 
creased to twenty-odd, 
which at once gives 
him the largest Suf- 
folk stable in the coun- 
try. We mention the 
number simply to show that Mr. Okie is in earnest in his 
efforts to firmly establish this breed, already too long over- 
looked, in this country. 

The top-notcher in this importation is a magnificent 
brood mare, "Sudbourne Ruby," five years old, by "Golden 
Grain," and out of "Duchess." She was the champion mare 
at Suffolk this year. Her sire was a winner of numerous 
firsts, including the Royal Show of England. The mare is 
bred to "Sudbourne Sunshine," a sire of note. There may 
be some better draft mares than this one, but I do not 
recall having seen very many.: Her conformation is prac- 
tically perfect and she has the action of a Hackney not- 
withstanding her weight of nearly 2,400 pounds. 

Another fine horse is the two-year old stallion, "Choldef- 
ton Hermit," weight 1,700 pounds, also by "Golden Grain," 
but out of "Cholderton Beauty." This horse has never 
been shown, but Mr. Okie is expecting great things of him. 
His breeding is right and he is a well developed horse and 
gives great promise. 

"Ashmore Luther" is a superb yearling stallion, weighing 




YEARLING SUFFOLK STALLION, "ASHMORE LUTHER.' 



1,510 pounds on his arrival, and was an outstanding win- 
ner wherever shown, finishing his show career abroad by 
landing the blue at Suffolk this year. He is well devel- 
oped and well bred. His pedigree extends back to 1760 
to "Crisp's Horse." His sire, "Smith's Saturn," won forty- 
seven prizes, including twenty-five championships, and 
specials. 

The four horse team, averaging about 1,700 pounds, com- 
pletes the importation and is made up of splendid brood 
mares, two of which were prize winners, the other two 
having never been shown. All are well bred and the two 
that made their mark in the show ring are "Great Scott," 
who was first as a three year old at Suffolk in 1907, and 
"Decima," who was first filly in Suffolk in 1906 and cham- 
pion foal at Framling- 
ham and winner of 
the Stephens cup open 
to all comers. 

As to the ability of 
this team to do hard 
and faithful work, I 
might say that three 
wrecked farm wagons 
strewn along the road 
between Piedmont 
Farm and Marshall, 
bear mute testimony 
to the teamsters' ef- 
forts to work off some 
of its surplus energy 
by greatly overloading. 
The fact is that 
these horses simply 
walk along with 5,500 
to 6,000 pounds of lime 
over a pretty stiff 
road with no apparent 
effort. 

When asked for a 
comparison between 
the Suffolks and his 
grade teams, Mr. Okie stated that the former simply out- 
classed the latter in every respect. While absent from 
home during the past summer, his men made up mixed 
teams and the Suffolks just about wore out the grades. 
So plain was this fact that he finds it absolutely impossi- 
ble and impracticable to work the two side, by side. The 
Suffolk shows far greater endurance and activity and fin- 
ishes a day's hard plowing or harrowing comparatively 
fresh, while its team mates are invariably sluggish and 
fagged. 

Every day's experience convinces Mr. Okie that this 
breed possesses every qualification claimed for it; viz.: 
courage, stamina, docility and activity, all of which go to 
make the best strictly agricultural horse in existence 
to-day. 

Taken all the way through, Mr. Okie has made a good 
start. He has a splendid lot of mares and three stallions 
that can be used on them. He should, therefore, be able 
to produce, in a reasonable time and in considerable num- 
bers, a lot of good farm horses that will stand up under 



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[Deccnibev, 



the hard work required of them. We have no doubt bai 
that his surplus stock will be promptly absorbed by farm- 
ers of this section who have long been looking for exactly 
what he will have to offer. 

We shall watch the venture with interest and entire con- 
fidence as to results. SHEPHERD. 



NOTES. 

By W. J. Carter. (Broad Rock.) 
One of the handsomest estates in Bedford county is 
Blue Gap Farm, with its hundreds of acres of fertile val- 
leys hillsides and lowland pastures. The place is owned 
by Mrs. Katherine Clemmons Gould, who makes her home 
in Virginia at Blue Gap and directs affairs herself on the 
large estate. The farm is some eight miles out from 
Lynchburg and easily reached over one of the smoothest 
and best kept country roads to be found in any section of 
Virginia. Several farms, formerly bearing different names, 
were obtained from 
those holding the 
titles and embodied in 
Blue Gap, lying be- 
tween ridges of the 
Blue Ridge mountains. 
The nomenclature in 
this instance is a spe- 
cimen of Mrs. Gould's 
taste and the effort 
will live in history, be- 
cause It is ner amoi- 
tion to make Blue Gap 
Farm an ideal counuy 
home and money is 
being expended with- 
out stint in the way of 
many improvements on 
the broad acres. From 
the stately, old-fash- 
ioned farm mansion, 
built on a knoll and 
overlooking miles of 
surrounding country, 
views of the Blue Ridge mountains loom up in the dis- 
tance and charm the eye, while the air is of the invigor- 
ating sort. 

Advice of the architect and landscape gardener has been 
sought by Mrs. Gould, and improvements of the nea; 
future will very likely include a track and driveways for 
exercising harness horses, while the lay of land also affords 
the site for a charming steeplechase course over which 
to school hunters and jumpers. The stables at Blue Gap 
shelter good saddle horses and hunters, too, with some 
well-bred trotters, but Mrs. Gould frequently takes her 
airings about the estate on foot, with a pair of mastiffs 
of splendid size and majestic appearance as companions. 
Formerly the bay mares Katherine Gould and Carmania, 
full sisters, by Delmarch, 2:111/4, out of Corvette, by Cor- 
intian, were driven to pole, but later the blood-like, highly- 
finished bay mares were retired to the stud. Both were 
mated last spring with Wealth, 2:10, son of Gambetta 
Wilkes, though hopes of a foal from Katherine Clemmons, 
the older mare; were blighted by her undmely dea+h a few 
months since, due to unknown causes, her lifeless body be- 



ing found in the paddock. The daughter of Delmarch is, 
however, survived by her foal of 1908, the black colt Clem- 
mons, 51256, by Wiltomont, 2:141,4, son of the beautiful 
Wilton, 2:19%. Clemmons was a blue ribbon winner in 
his class at the Virginia State Fair this fall. The black 
son of Wiltomont is a trotter endowed with speed and 
exquisite quality, inherited through sire and dam. 




SUFFOLK MARE, "SUDBOURNE RUBY." 



Buckland Farm, with its five thousand acres or more 
and representing an investment of more than half a mil- 
lion dollars, including recent improvements, live stock and 
fixtures in the way of machinery and otherwise, is the 
show place of Charles City county, also the country home 
of E. A. Saunders, Jr., whose holdings in business and real 
estate in Richmond aggregate a fortune, too. Buckland 
includes Weyanoke, Centre Fields, Colesville, Indian Fields 
and a dozen other farms around whicn historic traditions 
have clustered for generations past. Thoroughbreds, trot- 
ting, draft and general 
purpose horses are 
bred on the farnis, as 
are Shetland ponies, 
cattle, sheep and hogs 
of the choicest strains 
of blood to be had. 

Edmund Ruffin, of 
the Virginia family 
bearing his name, and 
skilled in the art of 
tilling the soil by long 
years of practical ex- 
perience, directs affairs 
at Weyanoke and sev- 
eral places, while Ed- 
mund A. Saunders, III, 
resides at Bucklands 
proper and takes a ' 
lively interest in the 
breeding of live stock 
in general. Most of 
the trotting bred 
mares were mated this 



season with Petaurist, 2:29%, one of the richest bred 
sons of that wonderfully potent sire Peter the Great, 
2:07%. Mr. Saunders is himself a skilled amateur reins- 
man, and he has owned and driven on the road Eliza 
Ingram, 2:21i4, by John R. Gentry, 2:00%; Foxie Lambert, 
2:22%, a blue ribbon winner at the Richmond Horse Show; 
Marie, by Jolly Friar, son of William L.; Billy Jackson, 
2:18%, and dozens of other fast trotters and pacers, both 
with and without records. 



La Jolla, the California-bred daughter of Advertiser, 
2:15%, and Sally Benton, 2:17%, by General Benton, re- 
cently sold by Hon. J. W. Bailey to the Messrs. Whitely, 
of White River Stock Farm, Muncie, Indiana, was former- 
ly owned by A. B. Lewis, at Lewisiana Farm, Fredericks- 
iMirg, Virginia, from whom she passed to Mr. Bailey, for 
whom she dropped a foal by late spring and was bred to 
the Texas Senator's premier sire, Prodigal, 2,16. La Jol- 
la's foal of 1909 was sired by Bow Axworthy, 2:22%, and 
is described as one of the handsomest youngsters seen for 
many a day. Bow Axworthy, the sire of La Jolla's foal. 



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THE SOITIIEKX PJ.AXTKIL 



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is owned by A. Randolph Howard, of Freuericksburg, Vlr 
ginia. who obtained the elegantly finished chestnut stallion 
at the WyldwoDd Farm sale of trotters last spring. La 
Jolla is the dam of Binjolla, 2:17%; trial, 2: 10 14, and of 
several others with plenty of speed by such sires as 
Bingen, 2:10i4; Peter the Great. 2:07%, and Arion. 2:07%, 
with whom the gray daughter of Advertiser was mated 
when owned at the Forbes Farm, near Boston. 



John W. Quarles, of the Ellerson Poultry Yards, has 
purchased of C. Klocke, Crewe, Virginia, the brown horse. 
Red Guy, by Guymoor, out of Edna Wilkes, 2:23%, by Red 
Wilkes, second dam the great brood mare Molly, by St. 





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FRONT AND REAR VIEW OF "SUDBOURNE RUBY." 
PIEDMONT FARMS. 

Elmo, son of Abdallah, 15. This horse has speed at the 
trot, along with good manners, and will be driven on the 
road by his new owner. Red Guy was bred in Kentucky, 
but brought to Virginia as a yearling and previous to be- 
ing gelded sired a number of foals in the counties of 
Prince Edward and Nottoway. Mr. Quarles, who, in addi- 
tion to running the big poultry yards at Ellerson's, is a 
breeder of fancy live stock and also connected with the 
big seed house of T. W. Wood & Sons, of Richmond. 



Friends and acquaintances in different sections will 
learn with regret of the untimely death, due to apoplexy, 
and of recent occurrence, of Colonel W. L. Laughlin, at 
Fredericksburg, Virginia, where he had conducted the Ex- 
change Hotel, as lessee, since 1893, though for many years 
previous in the hotel business at Woodstock, Virginia. 
During his residence in Virginia Colonel Laughlin en- 
deared himself with its people and made himself popu- 
lar with horse fanciers, as he owned and bred both trot- 
ters and pacers, while a study of pedigrees and blood lines 
furnished him diversion in keeping with his fondness for 
road driving and handling young horses. Formerly his 
private stable usually sheltered a well-bred stallion and 
some choice brood mares, along with some promising 
youngsters, but during recent years his holdings had been 
gradually lessened, one of his latest sales being that of 



the brown colt, Alto Dewey, full brother to High Admiral, 
2:16',i, by Admiral Dewey, 2:04%, out of Avena, by Palo 
Alto, to E. F. Hall, of Washington, D. C. 



Petaurist, the bay horse, five,, by Peter the Great, 2.07%, 
dam Telka, by Arion, 2:07%, that trotted to a record of 
2:29% against time at the Virginia State Fair meeting 
here last month, is dQing nicely in the stable of his owner, 
Joseph Lassiter, of this city. The bay stallion is not a 
large horse, but well formed and handsome, as shown by 
his having been returned a blue ribbon winner when 
placed on exhibition at the fairs. The son of Peter the 
Great is quite a bit faster than his record indicates, but 
was marked in standard time as matter of precaution. 
Petaurist was bred by the late J. Malcolm Forbes, of Bos- 
ton, but foaled the property of William A. Walker, of this 
city, who purchased Telka, the dam, at one of the New 
York auctions, and later the colt passed to his present 
owner. Telka, daughter of Arion, from La Jolla. by Ad- 
vertiser, 2:15%. next dam, the former four year old cham- 
pion trotter, Sally Benton, 2:17%, now famous as a brood 
mare, is owned by Senator J. W. Bailey, of Texas, w-ho- 
mated her this season with the great sire, Prodigal, 2:16. 



Hall & Crovo, of Washington, D. C, have exchanged 
the fast pacing gelding, Charley Hal, 2:06%, for the big 
and handsome bay stallion, Kushan, by Kremlin, 2:07%, 
dam Rusalka, by Mazatlan, 2:26%, son of Electioneer. 
This well-bred son of Kremlin, the great race horse and 
Transylvania winner, will be wintered at the Hall Farm, 
near Bealeton, Virginia, and prepared for a campaign 
down the line next season. 



THE PERCHERON TEAMS AT THE NEW YORK SHOW 

Editor Southern Planter: 

It may be of interest to your able contributor, John F. 
Lewis, to know that at the National Horse Show held in 
New York City November 8th to 13th, 1909, the Clydes- 




SUFFOLK TEAM HAI'LING LIME. 
PIFDMONT FARMS. 



dale six horse team won first, the Shire 
Armour's Percheron third. Good judges 



team second, and 
of draft horses 



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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[December, 



at the ringside remarked that it was fortunate for the 
Percheron enthusiasts that there were only three entries 
in the class. * F. W. OKIE. 

Fauquier Co.. Va. 



ILLINOIS STALLION LAW. 

The last Illinois Legislature enacted a law to regulate 
the public service of stallions in that State. This law will 
become effective January 1, 1910. It requires every owner 
of a stallion used for public service to register the stallion 
with the Registration Board created by the act. This 
Board consists of the Secretary of the Illinois State 
Board of Agriculture, who is also Secretary of the Stal- 
lion Registration Board; the State Veterinarian; the 




suckling; yearling and 2-year-old suffolks. 

PIliDMONT FARMS. 



President and the Secretary of the Illinois Horse Breeders* 
Association, and the President of the Illinois Farmers' 
Institute. The law requires an examination of each stal- 
lion by a competent veterinarian and the payment of the 
registration fee. Copies of the law can be obtained by 
any one interested who will address a request for them 
to the Secretary of the Illinois State Board of Agriculture, 
Springfield, Illinois. Illinois stallion owners should prompt- 
ly secure copies of this act and take the necessary steps 
to register their horses. 

We invite the attention of farmers to this subject with 
the view of having the Legislature enact such a law for 
this State. It is time that we got rid of the unsound, 
unfit stallions which have so long been a menace and 
hindrance to the breeding of sound, healthy horses of all 
types. This can only be done by a law which compels 
registration after examination by a board and a veterinari- 
an of standing. When farmers know where they can breed 
to a sound horse they will cease to patronize any other 
Icind and will take more care to keep sound, good mares 
to breed from. — Ed. 



PERCHERONS vs. THE OTHER DRAFT BREEDS. 

Editor Southern Planter; 

With all due respect to yours, Mr. "M.'s," Mr. Groome's 
Dr. Quick's and Mr. Okie's opinions, I still stay in the 
ring, although it seems solitary and alone. 

Now, I did not epect to have to meet five Suffolk Punch 
advocates, but if I had anticipated such foes I would 
at least have expected half of them to have shown by 
facts and figures why the Suffolk was the best horse 
for the farmer to raise, but not one has done so. You have 



said no further back than the October issue of The Planter 
that "the Suffolk horse has made good on the farms in 
England for over a hundred years, and we believe that 
they will do so here and be just the horse our farmers 
want to handle modern farm machinery, and yet not 
so heavy and clumsy as to make the earth tremble when 
they walk over it. City pavements may carry the heavy 
Percherons, but farmers don't want a horse moving over 
their fields with the weight of a steam roller," etc. What 
does Mr. "M." say, and also Mr. Okie? They both claim 
that "the Punch is equal in weight to any horse in the 
world," but Mr. Colthirst, of Albemarle county, Virginia, 
a native born citizen of Suffolk, England, tells me that he 
never saw a 2,000 pound mare of the Suffolk Punch breed. 
Stonehenge, an English authority, in his book entitled 
"The Horse in the Stable and the Field," says, in speak- 
ing of the Suffolk Punch: "Mr. Culley says that 'Their 
merit probably consists more in constitutional hardiness 
than fine shape, being in general a very plain horse. 
Their color is mostly yellowish, or sorrel,' the head large, 
ears wide, muzzle coarse, forehead low, back long, but 
very straight, sides flat, shoulders too far forward, hind 
quarters middling, but rather slight about the hips, legs 
sound and short in pastern." Mr. Cully is also an English 
authority. 

Mr. Okie's offer to wager $100, and let the Southern 
Planter select the judge or judges, is indeed a novel one 
— to let the Southern Planter (that is trying to "belittle" 
the Percheron and make a market for the Punch) select 
the judge. Now, if Mr. Okie really wants to wager $100 
or $200 on his mare's standing as a drafter let him 
post his money and get a draft horse judge, such as tie 
the ribbons on drafters at the greatest of all shows — the 
International — ^and I will cover the amount, but no such 
judges for me as are seen at our Eastern and Southern 
fairs tying ribbons on draft animals — Hackney breeders 
and their kind, for I have seen in Virginia men judging 
draft horses that would not dare to look a draft horse 
judge in the eye and dispute a point. This unfortunately 
Is a yearly occurrence and it will eventually drive ex- 
hibitors and breeders from the show rings. 

I will not be much surprised if in the not distant future ' 
the record of Dan Patch will be a "dead letter," and Mr. 
Savage will write on the old horse's tombstone "beaten 
by a Suffolk Punch." 

If, as Mr. Okie says, the Suffolk horse is too high 
priced for the importer to purchase and he goes away 
back to 1875 to quote that five mares sold at an average 
of $670, and two year old colts at an average of $1,400 
each, it will not be necessary for any one to refer to 
ancient history to show that Percherons and Shires bring 
more money. Three years since S. S. Spangles paid at 
Mungers sale in Iowa $2, .500 for a Percheron mare; a 
Shire mare sold at Bushnel's sale in Illinois a couple of 
years back for over $2,000. No further back than October 
21st Sauer sold thirty Percherons at an average of $561, 
and in this list are thirteen yearlings past, almost half, 
one yearling fetching $1,000 and another $1,475. The day 
before (October 20th) at the sale of Ben Wilson, Illinois, 
two two year olds sold for $2,010, or $1,005 each. On Octo- 
ber 21st, at J. L. Smith's sale, also in Illinois, fourteen 
Percheron mares brought $559, on an average, including 



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three two year olds, two yearlings and one weanling. 
Even I, the obscure, back woodsman, have sold a few 
Percherons that paid for their feed, one weanling for 
$450, two yearlings for $500 each, one two year old for 
$950, and another two year old for $1,400. So we don't 
have to cross the Atlantic to beat the prices named by 
Mr. Okie. "Put up or shut up," polite but straight ad- 
vice, which will go unheeded until compelled by facts to 
do BO. If the Suffolk is such a high priced animal in 
England, wtiy isn't he bred more extensively or in larger 
numbers? Why are they confined to a territory not 
much larger than Fauquier county? I hear it stated, too, 
that the Percheron cannot stand the heat in Eastern 
Virginia, or on the James River. What a pity! But the 
.Suffolk can, so Dr. Quick tells us. Now, people, stop 
and think, how much hotter is it in Suffolk, England, 
than in the Perche District of France? Again, if the his- 
tory of the breeds be true the Percheron was descended 
from the Arabian. How much warmer is England than 
Arabia? 

I used to believe in ghost stories, fairy stories, and such, 
but I have long since given up the idea of seeing either 
a ghosts or a fairy, but I still hear these ancient tales. 
When S. W. Ficklen imported the first Percheron to Vir- 
ginia the report got out that you could buy such horses 
in France for $200, and that the average life of a Perche- 
ron was only six years. I may be a fool about believing 
the Percheron horse the best draft horse in American to- 
day, but I picked Nelson Morris' team of six Clydesdales 
to win six years ago in Chicago, and they did. 

Less than three months since I saw a Belgian that I 
think as good a draft pattern as I ever saw, and it fre- 
quently happens that we see an extra good one of almost 
any breed of draft horses, but speaking generally, the ex- 
perience of our people has long since taught them that 
there is no draft animal that compares favorably with 
the Percheron. As for the statement that the Suffolk has 
made good in England for over a hundred years this is no 
proof that he is the best; the ox has made good since 
the time of David, and so with the Mexican Burro, and 
they are still in use in some parts of the world. In other 
words, no nation has taken steps to exterminate them. 
It is hard to wean the Indian from his pony, the Philip- 
pinos from their oxen, and the Eastern and Southern Vir- 
ginian from the mule, and one had better remember the 
following from Scripture. "Ephraim is joined to his idols, 
let him alone." 

No county in Virginia stands to-day with Rockingham 
as a draft horse centre, and no county sells as many high- 
priced horses. Our people breed draft horses and to-day 
we have in Rockingham nine banks, all doing a good busi- 
ness, and no town of over five hundred inhabitants, ex- 
cept Harrisonburg, which has about five thousand or less, 
and yet our county includes three mountain ranges, which, 
of course, curtails the average value of land. 

No, my reader, it is not necessary for a man to cross the 
Blue Ridge mountains from the Valley to be taught the 
good points in a draft animal; as well go to the Equator 
to find the North Pole. Now, I take great pleasure in 
quoting English horsemen as authorities on the English 
breeds in reply to Mr. Okie. 

J. G. Truman, of Bushnell, Illinois, under date of Novem- 



ber 10th, says. "Replying to yours of sixth instant, it 
is pretty hard to tell which of the two breeds (Suffolks or 
Shires) is the best for your country, but, in our opinion, 
the Shire is the best draft horse living." 

Robert Burgess, of Wenona, Illinois, another English- 
man and importer, writes, under date of November 9th: 
"You ask which of the two draft breeds is the best, etc." 
(of the Suffolk and Shire). "The Shire is the heaviest 
boned horse of any of the breeds, while the Suffolk has 
rather a light bone and is usually a horse much lighter 
in weight; the Shire nicks with our ordinary mares bet- 
ter and produces a much better market horse. * * * In 
the Western country the great preference is the Perche- 
ron; more of the Percherons are in use than all other 
draft breeds combined." 

How is this for Englishmen, and both importers, who 
study the needs, etc., of the American buyer? 

I could quote numbers of Scotchmen, Englishmen and 
American importers who would think that those who 
claimed the Suffolk a better draft horse than the Perche- 
ron drafter a novice, but I only quote English authority. 
I have heretofore quoted the horse commission men in 
New York and Chicago and Boston on the best horse for 
the markets in the United States, but they were, I sup- 
pose, not posted and have much to learn. 

In conclusion, I will say that if I misquoted Mr. 
Groome is was not intentional, and no one would attempt 
such a thing and publish in an agricultural paper that 
is quoted and read by Mr. Groome, unless through error. 

JOHN F. LEWS. 

P. S. — Just read an account of the Robinson sale where 
sixty-two head brought an average of $650 November 9th, 
and a two year old stud colt fetched $1,750, and a mare 
$1,650. In this sale there were a number of yearlings 
and two year olds. J. F. L. 

Rockingham Co., Va. 



WHAT SOME KANSAS HENS ARE DOING. 

Kansas hens are rolling mortgages awav from farms. 
To-day the poultry business has reached •■uon a stage 
that the vaunted record of Kansas as a wheat 'jroUucer 
promises to be eclipsed by the egg record. 

Recently a statement was given out concerning egg pro- 
duction of white Plymouth Rock pullet No. 129. This fowl 
laid 48 eggs in succession without missing a day. She i>ro- 
duced 174 eggs between Feb. 1 and Oct. 1 and Is still lay- 
ing. No. 129 has a companion. No. 136, which laid 181 
eggs in the same length of time, and keeps it up. 

In this same pen are nine other hens that in the last 
eight months have put into the egg basket an averaga of 
more than 136 eggs each. 

The total cost of feeding has been figured. With i^ruin at 
the prevailing high prices it was $8.81, or -loproximately 
10 cents a month for each fowl. The eggs brought $26.66, 
leaving a net profit over the cost of the feel of $17.75, or 
$1.61 a hen for the eight months. 

In a pen of nineteen white Leghorns there is not found 
as high an individual record, 172 eggs being the highest, 
but the average is greater — 152 eggs each. The total value 
of the eggs was $34.45, the cost of feeding was $14.75, or 
a little more than 9 cents a fowl a month. The total profit 
over the feed was $35.69. 



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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[December, 



Miscellaneous. 




PART OF EXHIBIT OF CORN AT FIRST ANNUAL SHOW^ HELD AT BLACKSBURO, JANUARY, 1909, AT WHICH 

TIME THE ASSOCIATION "WAS ORGANIZED. 



CORN-DAY ANNOUNCEMENT. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

Many inquiries are coming to hand in regard to the 
Corn Show that is to be held in Richmond the first week 
in February. As previously announced, this show, or 
"Corn-Day," as it should be called, will be conducted by 
the Virginia Corn Growers' Association, in co-operation 
with the State Farmers' Institute. It is the intention of 
the Corn Growers' Association to make their annual meet- 
ing a place where all of the prize-winning corn from the 
various fairs and local corn shows may be brought to- 
gether for final settlement as to which is the best. Com- 
ing, as it does, in mid-winter, it will give many farmers 
an opportunity to exhibit corn that was not sufficiently 
mature or properly cured to show at the contests earlier 
in the seasons. We ask the hearty support of every per- 
son in the State who wants to see better corn crops, to 
the end that this Corn Show may be a gala day in honor 
of "King Coi-n," the only king in Virginia. 

It is impossible at this time to give a complete list 
of the prizes, as we have not heard from a number of 
firms who have signified their desire to contribute to the 
show fund. There will, however, be the following classes, 
and others, if they can be arranged: 

Class I. — Largest yield of corn grown on one acre. A 
prize of $50.00 is offered in this class by T. W. "Wood & 
Sons, Richmond, Va. The rules governing it are as fol- 
lows: 

Rule A. — Each person entering corn in competition for 
this prize must be a member of the Virginia Corn Grow- 
ers' Association. 

Rule B. — The corn entered for a premium must have 
been grown in Virginia on land owned, rented, or directly 
managed by the person making the entry. 

Rule C. — The premium in this class will be given for 



the largest number of bushels of com grown on a single 
area of land of one acre in extent. Seventy pounds of 
corn in the ear or fifty-six pounds of shelled corn will 
be considered a bushel. The person making the entry 
must submit to the Secretary-Treasurer of the Associa- 
tion a statement sworn to before a notary by himself and 
two disinterested persons, giving the dimensions and lo- 
cation of the piece of land, the weight of corn grown 
thereon, and the dates when such weights were made. 
The corn must be weighed not earlier than November 
15th, and not later than December 15th, 1909 . All weights 
and measurements must be made under the direct super- 
vision of the two disinterested persons making affidavit 
thereto. In addition to this sworn statement the person 
making the entry must send to the Corn Show one bushel 
of the corn, unshelled, which will become the property 
of the Corn Growers' Association, and will be sold to the 
highest bidder the day of the show. 

Class II. — Highest yield of Thompson's Prolific Corn 
on one acre. A prize of $10.00 worth of garden seeds is 
offered in this class by Diggs & Beadles, Richmond, Vir- 
ginia, to be selected from their catalogue. 

Rules. Same as B and C under Class I. 

Class III. — Best ten ears of white corn. 

Class IV. — Best ten ears of yellow corn. 

Class v.— Best ten ears of Prolific corn, open to Cocke's. 
Blount's. Thompson's and other Prolific strains, but not to 
one-ear-to-the-stalk varieties. 

Class VI.— Largest amount of grain on ten stalks to be 
exhibited on the stalk. 

Class VII. — Sweepstakes. Best ten ears of corn in the 
Show. Open to the winners in Classes III, IV, V and VI. 
Class VIII. — Best single ear of corn. Open to all corn at 
the show. 

We expect to have three prizes, 1st, 2nd and 3rd, in each 



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of Classes III, IV, V and VI, and others if enough con- 
ributors respond to make it possible. 

Rules governing classes III, IV, V, VI, and VII: 

1. The corn must be accompanied by a statement that 
it was grown in Virginia by the exhibitor or his tenant. 

2. The corn should be marked with the name of the 
variety, and name and address of exhibitor. As soon as 
it reaches Richmond the corn will be catalogued and all 
evidence as to ownership will be removed. 

3. The judging will be done by some disinterested party. 

4. The corn placed on exhibition will remain the prop- 
erty of the Virginia Corn Growers' Association. 

5. Only one prize will be given any one man in each 
class, although an exhibitor may show as many sets of 
ten ears as he chooses. 

The following prizes have been offered, but not classified: 

1. Two tons of fertilizer given by the Virginia-Carolina 
Chemical Company, Richmond, Virginia. Two prizes, one 
ton to be used on two acres of corn and the other to be 
used on four acres of the same crop and a report as to 
yield made to the company giving the prize. 

2. One ton of Lee's Agricultural Lime, freight prepaid, 
given by the A. S. Lee & Sons Co., Richmond, Virginia. 

3. One year's subscription to either the News Leader or 
Times Dispatch, given by the Editor, John Stewart Bryan. 

4. Five dollars in gold, given by the Southern Planter 
Publishing Company. 

5. One hand corn thinner, value $1.25, given by the 
Graves-Humphrey Hardware Company, Roanoke, Virginia. 

6. Five dollars cash. Name of giver not announced. 

7. A silver cup, given by T. W. Woods & Sons, Rich- 
mond, Virginia. Same style of cup as was given by this 
firm last year. (See photograph of cup.) 

8. Seay-Dillard Hardware Company, Blackstone, Virginia, 
a No. 2 Davis swing churn. 

9. The Watt Plow Company, Richmond, Virginia, a new 
Deere No. 9 double row corn planter. 

Three firms or institutions have promised to contribute 
but have not as yet stated the amount or what the prizes 
would be. They are Hoenniger-Sizemore Company, Rich- 
mond, Virginia; Gans-Rady Company, Richmond, Virginia, 
and Shenandoah Collegiate Institute and School of Music, 
Dayton, Virginia. 

Directions for Sending Exhibits. 

Each ear of corn should be well wrapped in paper and 
all be tightly packed in a box to avoid shelling. 

The corn, when not brought to the show by the exhibitor, 
should be shipped, charges prepaid, to Lyman Carrier, 
Richmond, Virginia. All exhibits must be at the show 
by February 1, 1910. 

Last, but by no means least, there will be a program of 
addresses relating to corn growing by men who have met 
with success in raising corn or have made a special 
study of the subject, given the day of the show. 

VIRGINIA CORN GROWERS' ASSN., 

Blacksburg, Va. Lyman Carrier. Secy.-Treas. 



AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

If it be true — as Herbert Spencer pointed out — that the 
function of education is to fit us for complete living, it 
follows that the office of schools is to train persons to 



live. Hence the aim of educators should be to impart to 
their pupils the knowledge that will be of most worth to 
them, as men and women, in the environment in which 
their life work will fall. Under this conception of educa- 
tion it will require but little reflection to conclude that the 
public school system of this State— and of the United 
States generally — is an absolute travesty in so far as the 
children of farmers is concerned. 

Our school system is based upon educational ideas 
handed down to us from the time when education was 
confined to the rich, who were able to employ private 
tutors and send their boys to colleges where the course of 
education was intended to prepare them for professions, 
literary work and social advancement. The classics, lan- 
guages, higher mathematics and drawing-room deportment 
were the essentials. Vocational instruction was unthought 
of. So it continued until the keen insight of Spencer de- 
tected and proclaimed the fallacy. Since then many prac- 
tical educators have adopted his idea, particularly in 
Europe, but we, in America are slow to see or admit its 
truth and importance. Certainly tardy in practicing it. 

Not only are the majority of those attending the public 
schools the children of farmers but farmers pay a very 
large part of the tax collected for maintaining the schools. 
Surely then they have a right to ask and expect that the 
instruction given their children should be so directed as 
to be of service to them in their life work. But it does 
not. On the contrary, it better fits them for the occupa- 
tions of the cities and towns. This fact added to the al- 
lurements of city life, while nothing is done to uplift rural 
life or relieve its drudgery under the defective system 
of farming now generally in vogue, is responsible for the 
unfortunate drift from country to town by the young of the 
present generation. This is not to be wondered at nor 
are they to blame for it. If boys constantly have it 
dinged into them that farming is a hard life and does not 
pay, and they see that it is so, they naturally look else- 
where in the hone of bettering their condition. Bad 
farming is a hard life and does not pay, but bad farming 
is the result of not understanding our business and no 
business will prosper unlfess it is understood. It is the 
aim of agricultural education to change this unfortunate 
condition. A gratifying change it is true, has occurred in 
the past decade and much of the apathy despondency and 
despair that enthralled the farmers of Virginia is being 
replaced by hopefulness and better effort. This cheering 
change has been brought about by the work of men scat- 
tered through the State who have thrown aside the meth- 
ods of the past and adopted new methods. Undoubtedly 
in time, their influence will extend by natural processes. 
Oases started by them will enlarge and finally embrace 
the State. But evolution is slow and it seems eminently 
proper that the State should quicken results by fostering 
and promoting an industry upon which so much depends, 
and one whose benefits extend to all classes and condi- 
tions of men. The way to accomplish this is by unfold- 
ing to the young the scientific truths upon which the 
farming industry rests, and to this end elementary agri- 
cultural instruction should be given in the graded schools, 
and in the agricultural high schools more advanced, tech- 
nical instruction should be provided in addition to the 
usual high school course. The agricultural high schools 
will then not only be in touch with the graded schools 



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but will articulate with the higher schools and colleges 
above. 

But technical training is not enough. Class room in- 
struction should be supplemented by plat demonstration, 
just as laboratory work is a necessary adjunct to lec- 
ture room teaching in chemistry. Therefore in connection 
with each high school sufficient ground should be provided 
for demonstration! work — the work to be done by the boys 
themselves under the supervision of competent teachers. 

It is contemplated, at the next session of the Legisla- 
ture, to renew the effort that so nearly succeeded at the 
last session, to provide for this and the co-operation of 
farmers is hoped for. 

Caroline Co., Va. C. U. GRAY ATT. 

We earnestly commend this subject to the attention of 
our subscribers and ask that they will urge their repre- 
sentatives in the Legislature to support Senator Gravatt 
in his effort to have such legislation enacted as will ensure 
the boys being so educated in the public schools that when 
they are of working age they may be prepared to earn 
their living on the farm or at some mechanical trade. The 
country boys should be taught the elements of agriculture 
and live stock husbandry and by means of demonstration 
plots and the care of stock their interests in the possibili- 
ties of country life be awakened and fostered and we shall 
then soon cease to hear of them leaving the farm for city 
life.— Ed. 



TRI-COUNTY EXHIBIT AT PETERatJURG, VA. 

That was a very happy thought of F. S. Farrar, who is 
assisting T. O. Sandy in his demonstration work when he 
undertook to arrange for a small exhibit of farm products 
showing the results of his labors in the counties of Ches- 
terfield, Dinwiddle and Prince George. He communicated 
his ambition to E. L. Quarles, Secretary of the Petersburg 
Chamber of Commerce, and between the two there resulted 
a most creditable exhibit, running through two days at 
the Virginia Warehouse, Petersburg, Virginia, on November 
5th and 6th. 

Notwithstanding the fact that the exhibit was arranged 
in very short order, great crowds thronged the warehouse 
each day and night to witness the display, which was pro- 
nounced by all to be a most excellent one. 

Farmers from the three counties showed corn, tobacco, 
hay, potatoes, peanuts and fall vegetables in great abund- 
ance. The Sysonby Gardens and Thomas Y. Sydnor, 
Petersburg, and J. Wallace Snelling, Manchester, were 
among those having splendid poultry exhibits. J. W. 
Adams, Addison, Virginia, showed Berkshires, while sev- 
eral farmers brought in their stallions and jacks. Peters- 
burg merchants did themselves the credit of making attrac- 
tive exhibits of dry goods, groceries, and other household 
articles. The Petersburg Seed House and Charles F. 
Grossman, seedsmen, had very attractive displays, and the' 
implement men, with their throbbing engines and whirl- 
ing machinery, were represented by Horace L. Smith, 
Stockdell-Myers Hardware Co., Petersburg Hardware Co., 
American Peanut Harvester Corporation, Peterson & Jef- 
ferson, and others. 

One of the features of the show was xbe Boys' Corn 
Exhibit. The youngsters made the hottest sort of com- 
petition for "dear old Dad." In practically every instance 



the youngsters won. Master Ralph Bellwood captured the 
Chesterfield prize with a splendid record of 122 2-5 bushels 
per acre, and on upland, too ,while Master Wirtley Gates 
landed the Dinwiddle ribbon with 115 bushel yield. 

A part of the afternoon of the last day was given over 
to addresses of prominent speakers. Governor-elect, 
William Hodges Mann, created the greatest enthusiasm by 
pledging the best efforts of his administration to a general 
uplift of the agricultural classes generally, to further the 
good roads movement and to have more and better agri- 
cultural schools. 

Hon. Rosewell Page, of Hanover, gave an inspiring talk 
on farm life and urged the young men and women to stick 
to the farms and begged the elder ones not to sell the 
old homes in order to seek a livelihood in the city, which 
would be precarious at best. 

T. O. Sandy, whose presence at such a gathering is al- 
ways an inspiration, made a short address on the selection 
of seed corn, which proved highly interesting. 

We do not recall having seen greater interest than that 
shown by the farmers in this little exhibition. It simply 
demonstrates that they are hungry and eager for a county 
fair. We pass this tip on to Secretary Quarles of the 
Chamber of Commerce with the hope that his Association 
will get busy and make the show a permanent one. 

We append a list of prize awards: 

For the best results from an acre or part of an acre in 
corn : 

Dinwiddie County.— First prize, N. J. Ford and Bros., 98 
bushels to the acre; second, W. B. Prosise, 81 bushels to 
the acre. 

Chesterfield County.— First prize, James Bellwood, 
127 11-17 bushels per acre; second, G. W. Foster, 114 bush- 
els per acre; third, E. Thomas Hatcher, 97 6-10 bushels per 
acre. 

Prince George County. — No competition, owing to ab- 
sence of proper certificates. 

For the best ten ears of corn — Farmers' class. — Dinwid- 
die county, W. B. Prosise; Chesterfield, James Bellwood; 
Prince George, L. D. Harrison. 

Best sample of corn, competition prize, three counties.— 
W. B. Prosise, Dinwiddie county. 

Best sample of tobacco, competition prize, three coun- 
ties. — W. A. Lewis, Dinwiddie county. 

Best sample of Spanish peanuts, competitive prize, three 
counties— E. W. Edwards, Price George county. 

Boys' class in Chesterfield. — Best results from one acre 
or part of an acre of corn. — First prize, Ralph Bellwood, 
122 2-5 bushels per acre; second, Leslie E. Hatcher, 92 3-4 
bushels; third, J. Carter Bass, 85 bushels. 

Boys class in Dinwiddie.— Best results from one acre or 
part of an acre in corn.— First prizt, Wirtley W. Gates, 115 
bushels per acre; second. Garland Chandler, 109 bushels; 
third, Maurice Olgers, 105 bushels. 

Boys' class— best ten ears of corn.— Dinwiddie, Wirtley 
W. Gates; Chesterfield, Leslie Hatcher. 

Best loaf of bread, Girls' class.— Dinwiddie, first prize. 
Miss Donnan, Petersburg; second, Miss Carrie B. Watkins; 
third. Miss Nellie F. Slate. 

Best loaf of bread. Girls' class.— Chesterfield, first prize. 
Miss Temple Snelling; second, Miss Mabel G. Allwood; 
third. Miss Maude Watkins. 



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Cook aprons, Girls' class. — First prize, Hattie F. Lewis; 
second, Jessie Rives; third, Lavinia Watkins, all of Din- 
widdie. 

SHEPHERD. 



THE PROMOTED CREAMERY. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

Some of our people may not undeVstand what a pro- 
moted creamery is. The following is for their enlighten- 
ment: 

A party or parties appear in a neighborhood representing 
some company and, armed with a paper, canvass the com- 
munity for signatures. The paper is a contract which pro- 
vides that for a certain sum of money the company agrees 
to build, equip and deliver within a certain specied time, 
a creamery, stating the character of the building and the 
equipment. Each person is asked to agree to pay $100 
towards the amount required for the creamery. A vigor- 
ous canvass of the community is made and usually those 
who sign first assist in getting the list filled. Sometimes 
these contracts are binding jointly and severally on those 
who may sign same, it being possible in such a case to 
collect from any individual the total amount of money pro- 
vided for in the contract. It frequently happens that the 
persons signing, for the most part, believe that they are 
subscribing to something that has only to be put into 
operation to succeed. They have no knowledge of the fact 
that this is an old practice and that creamery promoters 
have built creameries in this and other States from time 
to time and that in many cases they have been a total 
loss to those who may have put up the money to start 
them. 

As a matter of fact, there have been cases in this State 
where individuals have, in their zeal to successfully launch 
creameries, not only lost all the stock subscribed, but 
quite a sum in addition in their endeavor to see the plant 
put on a paying basis. 

Now, what is the matter with these promoted creameries? 
The trouble is simply this: The creamery, as a means of 
handling a certain product and preparing it for market, 
is all right, but it must be borne in mind that the suc- 
cessful operation of a creamery depends upon a certain 
amount of milk which must be provided if the creamery 
is going to succeed. Has this part of the business been 
given the proper consideration? Have the persons who 
may have supplied the money for the creamery had the 
assurance that the cows would be provided if the creamery 
was built, or has it not been true in almost every case 
that the farmers have been, as a matter of course, ex- 
pected to have or get the cows and produce a sufficient 
amount of milk to make the creamery a success? Is such 
a method as this practiced in the erection of any other 
kind of manufacturing plant? Is it not true that first of 
all those who may be willing to put up the necessary 
money find out to their satisfaction the prospects for get- 
ting the raw material necessarv for the successful opera 
tion of the plant in question? What must be done, then, 
when a certain number of people find themselves with a 
creamery on their hands and no adequate provision made 
for its successful operation? It should be noted that in 
the case of these promoted creameries too often there is 
no organization effected until the creamery is finished and 
taken over by the parties who may ha»e subscribed to 



the contract presented to them by the representatives of 
the creamery promoters, and that being so, no organized 
work in the way of trying to induce farmers to keep cows 
has, up to the time that the creamery is turned over to 
the subscribers, been undertaken, and frequently the men 
who may have subscribed and who may expect to form 
themselves into a company are as ignorant of what a 
creamery should be as a new-born babe. 
• Is it surprising that a creamery brought into existence 
under such conditions is frequently a failure from the be- 
ginning? Isn't it rather remarkable that any such cream- 
eries succeed? I don't, however, admit that these cream- 
eries must necessarily fail. There are usually about fifty 
to sixty subscribers, and these men, for the most part, 
are in earnest. Now, they ought to realize that they have 
brought into existence a plant that, to succeed, must have 
the product of certainly 500 cows, and the aiore the better. 

Realizing this, they should go to work to see that the 
cows are forthcoming. They should, before bringing the 
creamery into existence, canvass the neighborhood and find 
out who will keep cows and how many they will keep. 
They should provide means for persons who may not be 
able to make such provision themselves for getting cows 
when such persons may be able to give the assurance 
that they can milk and feed the cows. In such cases the 
cows should be ample security for the money which may 
be provided for their purchase. If the original stock- 
holders will put forth the necessary effort to accomplish 
this then the creamery will succeed; if not, then it is evi- 
dent to any one of ordinary experience in such matters 
that it is and will be a failure. Competent advice in such 
matters will be supplied by the State through the office 
of the Dairy and Food Commissioner, and also through its 
officers at the Agricultural College at Blacksburg, free 
of cost, and those who may be interested in such enter- 
prises should by all means call in some one from one or 
the other of these sources of information to advise them 
before undertaking to invest in a creamery plant. 

WILLIAM D. SAUND'^T'^ 

Richmond, Va. Dairy and Food Commissioner. 



STATE FAIR PRIZE WINNERS. 

In preparing the list of the prize awards, which was pub- 
lished in our last issue, the State Fair (Officers made a 
few omissions and errors, which we have pleasure in cor- 
recting this month. They are as follows. 

Poultry, Etc. 

Pekin Ducks. — Ellerson Poultry Farm, third drake. 

Wild Mallards. — J. F. Dunston, first, second and third 
drake; first, second and third duck. 

S. C. White Leghorns. — Grundy & Son, fourth cockerel. 

S. C. Black Leghorns. — B. D. Hobson. third cockerel, 
instead of third hen. 

White Orpingtons. — Mrs. Mabelle C . Truran, second 
pullet. 

Barred Plymouth Rocks. — George H. Morris. Ashland, 
Va., first, second, fourth and fifth cockerel, first, second 
and third pullet; .7. W. Snelling, fourth pullet. 

Rep Pyle Games. — B. J. Pleasants, first, second and third 
pullet, first pen young. 

Buff Orpingtons. — Second cockerel, Walter C. Schaaf. 



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Corn, 

Prize winners Class 6, 20 ears yellow corn (Association 
prizes) : 

First, W. C. Parkinson, Taylorsville, Va. ; second, J. B. 
Clayton; third, J. F. Connor, Mt. Laurel, Va.; fourth, Fred. 
Harvey, Drewry's Bluff, Va. 

King Corn prize, best ten ears white: Second, C. W. 
Tompkins & Sons, Guineys, Va. 



VIRGINIA GOOD ROADS CONVENTION. 

The Annual Convention of the Virginia Good Roads Asso- 
ciation will be held in the city of Richmond, December 
9th and 10th, 1909, at which time members from nearly 
every county and city in the State will meet to compare 
notes and discuss plans for the further extension of good 
roads. 

During the past year more permanent road improvements 
have been made in Virginia than previously in a decade, 
and this has been the result largely of the persistent 
efforts of members of this Association. 

In each county there is a vice-president and committee- 
men, who constitute the rallying force for the friends of 
good roads in that neighborhood, and local associations 




HON. CHARLES T. LA8SITER 

Vice-President Virginia Good Roads Association, who has toured. the 
State in behalf of good roads 



have been formed in many districts, the members of which 
are untiring in their efforts to improve roads and abolish 
the "mud tax." Nearly every county has a Good Roads 
Club and the membership includes many representative 
citizens who unselfishly give their time and means for 
the advancement of the cause. 

These local societies and the State Association working 
in conjunction with the Highways Department are steadily 
extending the maze of solid roads throughout the State, 
and if the work continues unabated as it has in the recent 
past, the goods roads mileage will be doubled within the 



next two years. One of the beneficial results of this work 
is seen in the constantly increasing demand for farms. 

There are over eleven hundred active members of the 
Virginia Good Roads Association, a majority of whom will 
attend the Convention, besides there will be many dele- 
gates elected by local associations and business men's 
clubs. The sessions of the Convention will be held in the 
Jefferson Auditoriifm and there will be formal addresses 
by experts on Road Building, Materials, Location of Roads, 
Cost of Road Work, Bond Issues for Road Improvement, 
and other topics. There will also be open discussions and 
short talks by members of the Association. 

It is expected that such changes in the State Road Law 
as have been found desirable will be formulated in a bill 
which wall be introduced in the Legislature on its assem- 
bling in January. 

Headquarters of the Association are located at 301 E 
Main St., Richmond, Virginia, and for the past month t 
Secretary and Treasurer, H. L. Harwood, and Assistant 
Secretary, George W, Rogers, have been busy correspond- 
ing with committeemen, members and prospective speak- 
ers. On November 12th the formal notice of the Conven- 
tion was mailed to every member, since when the daily 
mails bring many letters from members in all sections of 
the State who will attend the Convention. 



LAND TENANCY SYSTEM ON THE McKINNEY 
ESTATE, MD. 

Mr. W. T. Chambers, the representative of the adminis- 
trators of the W. McKinney estate, Maryland, whose sys- 
tem of renting the farms on that estate has been several 
times referred to in the coure of the discussion on the 
tenancy question, writes us that he is being overwhelmed 
with letters asking for information as to the management 
of the estate and terms of tenancy. He says that he has 
replied to many, but cannot undertake to continue to do 
so, and desires that we publish the following information 
and requests that no further letters be addressed to him 
on the subject. We trust that our readers will respect 
this request of Mr. Chambers and rest bausfled with the 
information which he now gives. Mr. Chambers says: 

I will state briefly: We have really but two crops — 

wheat and corn. The system is mainly what we call the 

five field system — two in wheat, two in grass and one in 

corn.. •? 

Terms of Rental. 

Tenant pays one-half of all produce raised on the farm 
outside the garden; agrees to farm in a farmer-like man- 
ner; to keep up the fences, and keep fence rows clean; 
to whitewash all buildings and board fences; to find one- 
half the seed wheat and one-half of the fertilizer, which 
must be applied at not less than 300 pounds to the acre, 
said fertilizer to be made by the formula of the Administra- 
tors; all crops to be reported when planted and when har- 
vested and housed; all land sowed in wheat to be seeded 
fn clover at not less than four quarts to the acre, and all 
grass seeds to be furnished and paid for by the tenant. 

The land owners pay all taxes insurance on buildings 
and for their share of the seed grain; put up all buildings 
needed, the tenant hauling the materials free; landlord fur- 
nishes all materials necessary — lime, brushes, paint, nails, 
hardware, etc. 



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THE LABOR AND TENANCY SYSTEM IN VIRGINIA. 

Major R. V. Gaines, of Charlotte county, Virginia, who 
has taken much interest for several years in a movement 
looking to a radical change in the present ruinous system 
both for the land owner and the land of renting farms in 
a large section of this State, attended the recent meeting 
of the Farmers' National Congress in Raleigh, North Caro- 
lina, and introduced the following preamble and resolu- 
tions, which, after being referred to the proper committee 
and there forming the subject of an exhaustive discus- 
sion, were unanimously adopted by the Congress: 
The Labor and Tenant System of the South. 

Whereas, The labor system which supervened in t he 
South after the emancipation of slavery has disintegrated; 

Whereas, The one year tenant system, which succeeded 
it, has spoliated and impoverished the land and is utterly 
destructive to the interests and rights of the landlord; 

Whereas, The organization of these laborers and tenants 
with landlords into unions by the Farmers' National Union 
affords a means of instructing them in all things affecting 
their rights and interests; 

Whereas, The establishment of "Demonstration Farms" 
by Dr. Knapp, of the United States Department of Agricul- 
ture, in the midst of these Unions, offers a ready and most 
efficient means of educating these Farmers' Unions in the 
true principles of scientific farming; therefore, 

Resolved, by the Farmers' National Congress, 

1. That we commend these two beneficent and timely 
organizations to the landholders of the South, and urge 
them to unite and co-operate with them in devising and 
Inaugurating an improved system of tenant farming, based 
upon long leases, in which shall be incorporated, as far 
as applicable, the principles of the "English Holding Act," 
which shall be formulated and sustained by such legisla- 
tion in the respective States as shall be conducive to the 
best interest of all concerned, landholder, tenant and 
laborer. 

2. That the laborer, especially the negro, must be taught 
the true nature and obligation of a contract, and that the 
elevation of his race and the amelioration of his condition 
depends primarily upon his steadfastness of purpose and 
fidelity in the discharge of all his duties and obligation 

3. That the tenant farmer must be taught that the true 
science of agriculture does not consist in the "extensive 
system," by which the land is robbed of its fertility and 
the landlord impoverished, but in thorough cultivation and 
fertilization, restoring the elements abstracted by the 
crops, thereby obeying the divine injunction given to our 
first parents at the gates of Eden; namely, to "multiply, 
replenish and subdue the earth." 

4. That this preamble and resolution be referred to a 
special committee appointed by the Chair for the purpose 
of considering and reporting to the Confess and that a 
day and hour be fixed for the consideration of said report. 

RICHARD V. GAINES. 

The following Bill is suggested as one likely to meet 
the requirements of the case: 

An act defining the rights and obligations of landlords 
and tenants. 

An act to improve agricultural conditions in the States 
of the South by substituting seven year leases for the one 



year tenant system, and further to define the rights and 
interests of the landlord and tenant, and to provide for the 
appointment of agricultural arbitrators and prescribe their 
duties and aualifications. 

1. In all cases where lands are owned by one party and 
rented or cultivated by another, before entering into a con- 
tract of lease for a term of years, a careful record shall 
be prepared of the number of acres in the holding, stat- 
ing separately the estimated amount of arable and past- 
ure land, high and low grounds, wood and waste lands, 
also, undrained and swamp lands. The number and condi- 
tion of all buildings, fences and other improvements, and 
whether any portion of said land has recently been limed,, 
boned or otherwise improved by the landlord or out-going 
tenant. 

2. For all lands or holdings leased for a term of years 
the contract shall set forth the crops to be cultivated, the 
rotation to be adoped, and, if a dairy or stock farm, the 
amount and kind of stock to be kept; the annual rental, 
if paid in money; the amount per acre, if in kind; the pro- 
portion due the landlord and tenant, respectively; also, the 
amount and kind of fertilizers which are to be used on 
different crops, and whether they shall be furnished and 
paid for by the landlord or tenant, in whole or in part. 
It being the object and intent of the contract to establish 
an intensive and upbuilding system in contra-distinction 
to the destructive and extensive system now in vogue. 

3. At the termination of a tenancy, fair and reasonable 
compensation shall be made by the landlord to the ten- 
ant for all improvements made and paid for by him to 
the holding during his occupancy, which shall include in- 
creased fertility of the land by ditching, draining, liming, 
etc., provided such improvements are made with the ap- 
probation and by the consent of the landlord or his agent. 

Provided further, that the landlord may furnish the 
means, or he may cause the improvemenis to be made by 
the tenant, or otherwise, in consideration of which four 
per centum of the cost of same shall be added to the 
annual rental during the remainder of the lease. 

4. The county court, upon the recommendation of the 
Board of Supervisors, shall appoint one or more agricul- 
tural arbitrators, who shall be just, impartial and practi- 
cal men and acquainted with the conditions of the locality, 
who shall settle all differences between landlords and ten- 
ants who shall be bonded for the faithful performance of 
their duties, and shall receive a reasonable per diem for 
their services. 

5. A tenant who renews his lease for another term shall 
not be entitled to compensation for improvements made 
during his occupancy, but the annual rental may be in- 
creased or diminished, according to the rise or fall in the 
price of products and the cost of production. 

6. Tenants shall have the right, at the expiration of 
their lease, to remove any machinery, fencing or fixtures 
made during their occupancy, for which compensation is 
not made by the landlord. 

7. Improvements for which tenants may claim compen- 
sation may include increased fertility, cleanness due to 
continuous good farming, drainage or reclaiming of waste 
lands, irrigation, or anything whereby the rental or value 
of the holding is increased. 



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The provisions of this Bill are copied substantially from 
the English Agricultural Holdings Act of 1897, which was 
based upon a report of a Royal Commission, H. A. Chan- 
ning, M. P.. Chairman. 

RICHARD V. GAINES. 

Mossingford, Va., Nov. 3, 1909. 

We submit these resolutions and suggested Bill for the 
consideration of Southern land owners and tenants, and 
shall be glad to hear what our people have to say on 
the same. We may say that the English Holdings Act is 
practically a reduction to a statutory form of a custom 
which obtained for years in the county of York, England, 
our native county, and which in that county had had given 
to it the force of law and which had resulted in securing 
both the interests of the land owners and tenants and a 
wonderful improvement in the agricultural condition of 
the county. Where no specific contract in writing was 
made to the contrary, both land owner and tenant were 
held to be bound by the custom of the county and tenants 
were valued on and valued off all farms. Where there was 
an in-coming tenant he paid the valuation to the out- 
going tenant, and where there was no in-coming tenant 
the land owner paid the valuation to the out-going tenant. 
Usually two valuers were appointed, one by the owner and 
the other by the tenant, and these arrived at the proper 
valuation to be paid after hearing both sides and inspect- 



States. There is no "Virginia for Virginians" feeling ex- 
cept as to political oflices. Virginians sell the soil of their 
State with very little regret, and exhibit little exclusive- 
ness in business or industry. 

In politics, distrust of the ability of Northern men to 
handle the race question, added to State pride, will for- 
ever keep newcomers out of the offices. But those who 
want to go into politics had better stay where they are 
natives, or go to large cities and new States where few 
are natives to the locality. 

Many come to a region of cheap land to mend their 
futunes after failure elsewhere. Many others come South 
to farm, never having been farmers. Many who fail here 
would fail anywhere. Cheap land is a snare to many. 

They cheat themselves into the notion that they get the 
land for less than it is really worth and proceed to act 
accordingly. They fail to realize that the Southern peo- 
ple are as good bargainers as Yankees, and that land that 
is really profitable is worth at least $50 per acre, and that 
if they bought for $5 they have $45 yet to pay in part 
payments in the shape of improvements; and that, while 
such improvements are being made, living on the land 
will be hard and uncertain, as in all cases of buying a 
farm on deferred payments. It requires far more judg- 
ment and knowledge to make a living while improving 
poor land than to pay back payments on, good land. 

The great commandment for newcomers is: "When in 
ing the farm. In case of dispute an arbitrator, appointed^ Rome, do as the Romans do;" and another is like unto it: 



by the valuers, settled the points in dispute. — Ed. 



STATE FARMERS' INSTITUTE. 

The arrangements for the holding of the winter session 
of the State Farmers' Institute in this city are progress- 
ing and it is hoped to have the programme out early in 
January. The date of the holding of the session is not 
yet definitely fixed on account of not being able to secure 
the hall, it is expected that the first week in February 
will be the time. The Virginia Corn Growers' Association 
publishes in this issue a tentative programme of its meet- 
ing to be held on the last day of the Institute session. 
We refer our readers to this notice for information as to 
exhibits. The Chamber of Commerce of this city is co- 
operating with us to make the meeting a pleasant and 
enjoyable one for the members. 

Richmond, Va. B. MORGAN SHEPHERD, 

Secretary. 

N. B. — The proceedings of the last session are now on 
the press and will be out during the month. B. M. S. 



THE NEWCOMER IN VIR&iiMIA, 

Editor Southern Planter: 

The problem of the newcomer in Virginia and the South 
is very generally misconceived, and by none more so 
than by your correspondent, Husselman. 

In the first place, most of the "holier than thou" feel- 
ing is brought in by the newcomer and excites antagonism. 
It is a common and foolish notion in the North that the 
Southern people are wanting in enterprise and the intelli- 
gence that goes toward making a living, and even verj 
commonplace newcomers are frequently quite supercilious 
in their treatment of their new neighbors. 

There is some State pride and provincialism in the South, 
but little more than in Maine and other New England 



"Mind your own business." Failure to observe these two 
will make newcomers generally unsuccessful and socially 
impossible. 

It is well for strangers here to begin by making the 
money crops — tobacco and cotton — just as made by their 
new neighbors. Every man that I have known coming 
here who did not make tobacco the first year made a 
mistake and generally came to a knowledge of his mis- 
take. A general conforming to the farming customs of 
the country is necessary to the newcomer, though he may 
later make some improvements on this practice, as indeed, 
he will find his more progressive neighbors are already 
doing. 

The newcomer must learn the social code that governs 
the intercourse of the two races at once and conform 
strictly thereto. There are plenty of reasons behind this 
code which is never long questioned by the newcomer, 
and is not resisted by the members of the colored race 
who despise too gi'eat familiarity on the part of the white 
people. 

This is a church-going community, and the newcomer, 
of whatever sect, or no sect, should attend the nearest 
church regularly in his best attire, and make regular de- 
;,„'jsits in the contribution basket of white, green or yel- 
low money. Red money has no odor of sanctity or social 
standing. Peopl6 live widely apart and the church is 
the most convenient place of meeting one's neighbors. 
It is the farmers' club and the ladies' society. It is a 
foolish boorishness that keeps so many of the newcomers 
away from our churches. Many of them are supersensi- 
tive about being recognized by the congregation. If 
they keep going and giving they will be recognized soon 
enough. 

Many new people of obviously no social qualities stand 
(Continued on page 1162.) 



1909.] 



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The Virginia Angora Goat Co. has 
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The old estalished firm, the Land- 
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Ayshire heifers out of splendid per- 
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Morrill & Morley start the season's 
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White Holland turkeys, the actual 
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J. B. Waddill is advertising some 
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Sheep keepers will be interested 
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The Bateman Mfg. Co., makers of 
the celebrated Iron Age tools, have 
several advertisements in this issue, 
to which attention Is invited. 

"Bill" Galloway takes a full page 
this month to tell our readers about 
his well-known manure spreader. 

Another new advertiser this month 
is the Goulds Mfg. Co., with a strong 
card describing its well-known spray 
pumps. 

Among the liberal users of space 
this month is the American Harrow 
Co., advertising its well-known line 
of implements. 

Deere & Co. use the best part of a 
column with an attractive announce- 
ment this month. 

The Bostram-Brady Mfg. Co. olTer 
its farm level to our readers. 

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known line of farm implements. 



DON'T FORGET THIS FACT ABOUT 
THE CARE OF HENS. 

"There are a few simple rules about 
the care of fowls which are necessary 
for the poultry keeper to know, as 
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Don't resort to condiments, stimu- 
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Dr. Hess' Poultry Pan-a-cea is not 
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It is compounded of helpful elements 
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back and complain that they are not 
sought out for social recognition. 
Newcomers should use a little sense 
in this matter, as in many others in 
which they are querelous and fault- 
finding without reason. Here as else- 
where, social advantages have their 
corresponding duties, and one must 
be Quick to learn and practice the du- 
ties expected before he can expect the 
advantages. 

Newcomers should be diligent in 
their own business to show their quali- 
ty, and should avoid the too common 
practice of continually complaining of 
the roads, the schools, the soil and all 
the other things that were to be ex 
pected where land was bought so 
cheaply. If the newcomer will cheer- 
luUy attend to his own business and 
''•raduallv learn to do what he can to 
better the conditions here, he will 
soon find that all his neighbors are 
co-operating. This is a mighty poor 
place for any one to interfere too 
much with his neighbors' business, 
whether public or private, and the 
man who makes a practice of doing 
so soon gets disliked and finds trou- 
ble. 

The main application of this sec- 
ond commandment is in relation to 
the memories of the historical events 
which occurred forty-five to fifty years 
ago. Instead of being forgotten, they 
have been made the basis of a kind 
of political, social and historical re- 
ligion throughout the South. Little 
and big politicians find it an easy 
and always ready means of firing the 
popular heart and riding into political 
employment, and the cult is growing 
rather than subsiding with the thin- 
ning of the ranks of the veterans of 
the great war. But the Confederate 
cult has now reached such a develop- 
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fered to outsiders, and your neigh- 
bors do not insist on talking it to 
newcomers. They let you alone on 
the subject, and why should you be 
troubled or trouble others? 

The two minor commandments for 
newcomers in the South are: (1) 
Don't kill your neighbor's dog; and, 
(2) Don't interfere with his hunting 
on your place. 

Hunting is a ruling passion in the 
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not too nervous he can get used to 
the .ioyous riders, runners and walk- 
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is very little, for the country hunter 
respects crops and the minor tres- 
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than damaging. If one puts up fenc- 
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high, as fast as his improvements 
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neighbors by offensively interfering 
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We would like to have you test a 
Corn Belt Mill on your farm 
for 20 days. If it doesn't 
do its work better than any 
mill you ever used, send it 
backatourexpense. Learn 
more about this mill. Write 
for booklet to-day. 
Spartan Manufacturing Co. 
Dept. 50 Pontiac, III 



Why Not Grind? 




A few buBhels of corn will buy you 
the easy running 

DITTO 



TRIPLE-GEARED 

BALL-BEARING 

DOUBLE-CUT 

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Selling Plan: Sent on approval. Return at my ex- 
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C. M. DITTO, Box 48 ^ Jo!iet, Illinois 




Don't Pay Two Prices for Stoves & Ranges 

I Buy at Factory Prices, Save $18.00 

HOOSIER STOVES 

Are Wonderful "Fuel Savera and Easy- 
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make them the finest stoves and. 
► ranges in the world. "Why not buy 
the best when you can buy them at 
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^ 'j8®"Hoofiier8 are delivered for yott 
T;o use 30 days free In your own homo 
before you buy, A written guarantee 
'with each Btove, backed by a Million. 
_ ►Dollars. Our new 1910 Improvements on. 

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JI9*Send Postal Today f^r Free Catalogue. 
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SAW MILLS 

Sa'w Mills mounted on wheels, as easily- 
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Log Seivir Mills mounted on wheels for saw- 
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with Rachet Steel Head Blocks. All sizes, 
Single and Double. Hege Log Beam Saw 
Mills with all modern conveniences and im- 
provements. ALL equal to the best and su- 
perior to the rest. A Mill lor every class of 
buyers. Write for circulars, stating what you 
want. Manufactured by 
SAL£M IRON WORKS. Winston - Salem. N. & 




DEAN EAR CORN CUTTER. 

In 1, 2 and 4 hole size: Slices corn 
from % to 2 in.; does it rapidly; just 
the machine to prepare corn for 
calves, stock or fat cattle; no waste, 
they eat it all. Cutter returned at 
our expense if not satisfactory. 
Circulars free; write today. 

Enterprise Wind Mill Co., 

Dept. 10 Sandwich, 111. 



HARVEY BOLSTER SPRINGS 

k Soon save their cost. Make every wagon a spring ^ 
Iwagoni therefore fruit, vegetables. ee:ga. etc., 
I bring more money. Ask for special proposition, i 
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1909.] 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



1163 



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you while you sl«ep. Le^sa work per 
month than one lamip. Costi leas than 
Kerosene, and alwaya ready at all 
times. We will send you one ready to 
put up. Write us to-day. 
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^ _ IMI - 1. Than Isdellv.red byan" 

OfP ■WalBr other style of pump am 
UIC WWaiCI 2Bto3iv3%morewate 
than is raised by any other pump of the 
same type is produced by the 

"American" Centrifugal Pump 

It's because the impeller is accar- 
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ia no sudden change of direction of 
the water ia pass- 
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and the entire me- 
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contributes direct- 
ly to the raising of 
water. "Ameri- 
can" Centrifugals 
are guaranteed^4 
rigidly. Ask for " 
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First Nat. Bank Bldg., Chicago. 
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BOIliBUlS AND BNGINBS. 

IS-horse Traction, $300; 12-horae, 
1260; lO-herse, $200; bollera and en- 
glnea from 2 to 100 borae, all atylea 
and alxea, new and second hand; 4- 
horae gaaollne engine. $7B; 8-horaa 
91S0; 12-hor8e, $200: Saw-Mill, flSS; 
bollera, tanks and smoke-stacka. 
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Springfield, Ohio. 

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Planter when writing advertlBers. 



good natured barrier to dogs, and is 
worth its cost in closing up byways 
and keeping prowlers in the public 
roads, and in promoting good neigh- 
borhoods generally. 

The writer believes that a candid 
recognition of the conditions and 
rules above outlined will make the 
newcomer welcome and contented in 
the most exclusive and unreconstruct- 
ed county in the South. 

W. ALDRICH. 

Powhatan Co., Va. 



ABSORBINE DOES GREAT WORK. 

Barney Ogan, Somerset, Indiana, 
under date of June 23, 1909, reports 
to Mr. Young as follows: "I have 
this to say of your Absorbine — that it 
has done great work for me in a short 
time. I began using it on a Friday 
morning and Saturday my horse 
could put his foot to the ground for 
the first time in three months. It 
was a bad case, but I was surprised 
to find what the Absorbine had done 
so soon. I thought that she would 
have to be killed almost any time, 
but it looks as if she is going to get 
along now." 

Absorbine for all kinds of lame- 
ness, bruises, soft swellings, bog 
spavin, big knee, poll evil, etc. $2.00 
at druggists, or sent, express prepaid, 
upon receipt of price. 

W. F. Young, P. D. F., 109 Temple 
Street, Springfield, Mass. 



NEW WINDMILL CATALOGUE. 

Fairbanks, Morse & Co. have just 
issued a new catalogue of wood and 
steel windmills. The theory and de- 
tails of construction are analyzed 
and published completely for the first 
time in this book. 

Pumping systems and the new 
"Femco Underground Force Pump" 
are described in detail. The techni- 
cal information and practical sug- 
gestions contained in this book ought 
to be read by all of those interested 
in windmill pumping. 

Send to Fairbanks, Morse & Co., 
Chicago, 111., for a copy of this cata- 
logue, mentioning this publication. 



A new high record of sales in coun- 
try real estate was made during the 
month of October when the E. A. 
Strout Co., of New York, Philadelphia, 
Pittsburg and Boston, sold 100 farms 
throughout the Eastern States. The 
largest number of sales ever made be- 
fore in a single month by a company 
dealing exclusively in country real es- 
tate was eighty-eight. This record, 
which also was made by the E. A. 
Strout Co., was made in August of 
this year. 



A NEAT WATCH FOB. 
We have to thank the Wm. J. Oliv- 
er Mfg. Co., Knoxville, Tenn., for a 
very neat and attractive watch fob 
gotten up in exact duplicate of the 
mold board of their well-known 
plow. 



YOU 



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Can Increase Your Comtortal 
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and tho 

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^v llore than a million and a quarter of them ar* 
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They'll save you more money, more work, give bet- 
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Don't buy wheels nor wagon until you read our 
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1%-in., 4%c. ft.; 1%-in., 5%c. ft.; 
2-in., 7%c. ft. 

CLARENCE COSBY 
Richmond. Va. 



The ' IHONARCH" 

STEEL STUMP PULLER. 




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cost to you, except freight, until It la 
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years experience In this buslaaaa. 
Write for catalogue and prices. 

JOS. W. RITCHIB, Aseat. 
Ronte 1, Grottoes, Va. 



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of our patented bush 
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AGENTS WANTED 

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200 Tth St. S.uthwiii 

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that make and keep 
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11(34 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[December, 



Send for Sample of 
PAGE WOVEN WIRE FENCE 

Vi'e offer to kcikI, free ui' c-harKt'. an iic- 
tuiil sample o£ Pasio Woven W'iro Fence, 
jut*t as it comca from the bic looms. Kiieh 
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its Quarter Centennial Year, is duo to the 
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measure of honest value. It is the old re- 
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promptly. Address 

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il«e that the 
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Is the moBt 
simple and 
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want to 
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ey? 



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Sole owner Pats. U. S. and Canada. 




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CataloLTue free. Write 
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Box&lT, Decatur, Ind. 






LAWN FENCE 

Plany deslg^is. Cheap as 
wood. 32 peifi:e Catalogue 
free. Special Prices to 
Churches and Cemeteries. 
Coiled Spring Fence Co. 
Box Q Winchester Ind. 



OSGOOD 

SCALE 




WHte 

for 

Oataloffoe 



IndispeDsable od every farm; 
ves the time and money you 
would-spendon apiiblio scale, and 
urex jierfect accuracy al- 
ways. Pried within 
7-^'^yoiir reach; good fora life- 
time. Oitcrood Soule Co., 
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WE PAY$80 A MONTH SALARY 

and furnish rig and all exp«nse« 1o Introduce poultry 
and stock powders; new plan; steady work. Address 
BlOLER COMPANY, X378, SPRINGFIELO, ILLINOIS. 



A PLAIN TALK BY A PRACTU / 

MAN. 

Taking the practical side of the 
I)oultry business, the biggest profit 
comes to those who raise their chick- 
ens in the country — in the villages, 
suburban towns and on the farms. 

It has not been so very many years 
since eggs were selling in the spring 
throughout all the West Central 
States for ten cents a dozen, and in 
the extreme eastern and western sec- 
tions of the United States they were 
down to twenty and twenty-five cents. 
Quite a change, though, in late years, 
especially so the last two years. I don't 
know of the market price of eggs at 
Lincoln being below twenty cents 
during this time. Chickens have been 
so scarce and the price so high that 
I could not have enjoyed many chick- 
en dinners had I not made broilers 
out of some of my chicks hatched for 
exhibits and in my experiments. 

These good prices have come to 
stay. In every part of the entire 
country,, poultry raising — for eggs and 
market — can be carried on success- 
fully. It is not much work to raise 
a profitable bunch of chickens if you 
have good incubators and brooders. 
The work, drudgery and disappoint- 
ment comes from raising in the old 
way with hens or with cheap unreli- 
able machines. It Is true, some care 
and patience is needed. There is 
only one way you can get money with- 
out having to do something for it, 
and that Is to have it left to you 
by a rich relative. People who are 
in the poultry business find the work 
of hatching and raising chicks, and 
in gathering the eggs, sending them 
to market, etc., very pleasant. Lots 
of people who, on account of their 
health, can't do hard work, find that 
the outdoor life that poultry raising 
affords improves their health, fur- 
nishes a great amount of pleasure, 
and yields a nice profit besides. 

The only way to raise chickens in 
large numbers in a short space of 
time, and have them at the right time 
to get the biggest prices for them, is 
to use incubators and brooders. By 
use of the hen for hatching and brood- 
ing, enough chickens cannot be raised 
in a season to make it pay. Many 
of my customers tell me that thev 
would rather take care of 100 chicks' 
in a brooder than to care for one old 
hen and her brood. You can set as 
many eggs in a medium sized incu- 
bator as you can put under ten sit- 
ting hens. With the machines, you 
have absolute control at all times. 
No lice to fight. No danger of eggs 
being broken or chilled during incu- 
bation. Eggs and chicks perfectly 
safe at all times. No work at all com- 
pared with the work than ten fussy 
old hens would cause you. 

Reader, if you want to raise chick- 
ens — show chickens or market chick- 
ens — either for pleasure or profit, you 
will be better satisfied if you use in- 
cubators and brooders. During a 
year's time I get letters from thou- 




22 RIFLE 



Sola Breech HammerUss 

like all Remingtons. Adapted 
to all small game shooting be- 
cause it shoots equally wel 
without adjustment .22 short, 
long and long rifle cartridges. 
Takes apart easily by turn- 
ing thumbscrew on side. You 
can look through the barrel 
and clean it from the breech, 
thus insuring lifetime wear. 
The barrel of an ordinary .22 
rifle which cannot be cleaned 
from the breech soon rusts out. 
It is the only Solid Breech 
Hammerless .22 Repeater 
made which has the convenient 
tube magazine. The difference 
between the modern Remington 
and other .22 riBes is amazing. 

Paf on the market Qct. 1, 1909 

If your dealer hasn't one, 

write us for literature. 

THE REMINGTON 

ARMS COMPANY 

Ilion, N. Y. 

Agency, 315 Broadway, 

New York City 



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STANCHIONS & STALLS 

STABLE AND BARN. 

Up-to-Date Sanitary Fixtures. 

COLUMNS. PIPE, TANKS AND 
TROUGHS. 

CLARENCE COSBY, 
Richmond, Va. 



Wp Will RivP A RURAL MAIL BOX, 

fWC f»lll WIVC The best and hand.somest 
Galvanized Steel Rural Mail Box made, tothefirst 
person sending address of party canvassing for 
petitions for new Rural Route. Write today. 
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eteries^ublic Grounds. Also Wrought Irou Fence. Catalogue 
free. •Write for Special Offer. 

THE WARD FENCE CO., Box 650, Decalur, Ind. 



1909.] 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



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OLD METALS 

HIPE5 
RUBBER ! 



SCRAP IRCg 



Gar Lots a Special 



50,000 

Hides Wanted 



Write fbr Prices. 

e»tiBfaotion Guaranteed. 

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Ohkcks Sbnt Sams 
Day Fbeight Bills 
Abb Makkbd Paid. 



Clarence Cosby, 

BsUklish«« 1S90. 

RICHHOND, VA. 



LAxaBST Dbalbh III 

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

RSFERENCE8: 

National Bank of TiiKlaa, 
Bank of Richmond, 
Biaditreeti and Don. 



stands of poultry raisers, who tell me 
how they raise their chickens and the 
methods they have found the best. 
If I didn't know from my own experi- 
ence that artificial hatching and 
brooding gives the best satisfaction, 
the letters I get would soon make me 
know it. 

P. M. WICKSTRUM, 
The Queen Incubator Man, Lincoln 
Nebraska. 




Mr. J. B. Loomis, whose advertise- 
ment is running in our columns, call- 
upon us a few days ago and reported 
that he had just brought down a car 
load of Holsteins for the State Farm 
in Goochlafld Co., which he had sei-ct- 
ed for their good dairy form and per- 
formance and that Mr. T. J. Davis, 
the Superintendent, was highly pleas- 
ed with them. The demand for dairy 
ows in tliis State is growing larger 
ery day '-^nd farmers in the State 
^M give? heed and turn their atten- 
^^h procejicing this class of stock. 



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I/. ^ A John Deere 




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T'- FAIR AT HOUSTON, VA, 
wor' NOV 22, 1909. 
&d Total of 234 Magnificent Exhi- 
*. bits Displayed, 

g^^p' indeed gratifying to know that 
PQj.,lifax can come to the front on 
J, days notice and display half 
^jjgih corn as was displayed at the 
.pg^j^ichmond State Fair with one 
.-: o notice and hundreds of dollars 
awarded in prizes while no cash 
prizes were offered in the county corn 
test. 

A great deal of interest was taken 
in the affair and general satisfaction 
was expressed in the manner the 
judging was conduct d. Of course 
the prizes went to the best corn. The 
judge, Mr. T. O. Sandy, Burkeville, 
Va., said a great many times it was 
a pity that more of this corn was not 
at the State Fair. He said it was the 
best county exhibit of corn he had 
ever seen and the selection of the best 
corn was a difficult matter, even to 
one so experienced as he is. 

Following is the complete list of 
the prize winners in the order as 
judged. 

Best single ear white corn, W. S. 
Vaughan, News Ferry, Va. Pair high- 
laced boots donated by A. P. Crad- 
dock, Lvnchburg. 

Second, single ear white corn, R. 
T. Edwards, Crystal Hill, Va. 25 lbs. 
Hess Stock Food, Hess & Clark, Ash- 
land, Ohio. 

Third, single ear white com, A. L. 
Vaughan. News Ferry, Va., One years 
subscription to Progressive Farmer, 
Raleigh, N. C. 

Fourth, single ear white corn, J. H. 
Edwards, Crystal Hill, Va., One years 
subscription News, Lynchburg. 

Best ten ears white corn, R. D. Bos- 
well, Mount Laurel, Va., One regis- 
tered Berkshire pig, given by A. P. 
Craddock, Lynchburg, Va. 

Second, ten ears white corn, T. S. 
Canada, Lenning, Va., One years sub- 
scription Progressive Farmer. 



Alfalfa 
Dairying 
Seed Wheat 
Corn Crops 
Stock Feeding 
Art of Plowing 
Boll Weevil 
Controlling Weeds 



Making Hay 
Fighting Frost 
Silos 

Cultivation 
Cotton Crops 
Soil Fertility 
Gasolene Engines 
Adjusting Plows 



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Hired Help 
Costs Big Money 



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Your land is high priced and hired help expensive. 
There is only one way to make big money — use im- 
plements that cut down the cost of your crops. Isn't 
it true that when you break something on a plow it 
is nearly always a cast part? Wherever strain comes 
on a John Deere Plow there you will find steel— tool 
steel. Take any plow that has had hard work for 
five years, put it along side of a John Deere which 
has been in service that long— and see the difference. 
Then there is no paint to cover up poor material. 
You can see the wear and the defects. The John 
Deere will be solid, staunch and ready for the hard- 
est job. Then you begin to know that quality counts. 

You can take pride in owning a John Deere — 

the standard plow of the world for 

two generations. 




ZJI We will send you the 80-page, illus- 
trated book free if you write and ask for 

Package No. 1 

Mention the package number sure, then 
you will get exactly the right stuff. 

DEERE & COMPANY JOLINE, III 



AOFNTS 200% PROFIT 

*»VJJ.^l ^ A t>J Handy, Automatic 

HAME FASTENER 

Do away with old hame strap. 
Horse owners and teamsters 
wild about them. Fasten 
instantly with gloves on. Outwear the harness. Money back if 
not satisfactory. Write today for confidential terms to agents. 
F. Thomas Mfsr- Co., 869 Wayne St., I>ayton. Ohio 



;54 PAGE CATALOG FREE 

.£lling how to saw lumber. shingles 
wood; grind corn and wheat; also describ- 
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1166 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[December, 



Trinidad Lake Asphalt 

gives Genasco the life that 
makes it resist the weath- 
er and last for years. 

Genasco 

Ready Roofing 

doesn't crack, rot, rust or 
break. How long do you 
suppose roofing lasts that's 
made of — who can tell ? 

Get Genasco— the roofing you know about. 
Guaranteed in writing by a thirty-two-million- 
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samples and the Good Roof Guide Book. 

THE BARBER. ASPHALT 
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Largest producers of asphalt and largest 
manufacturers of ready roofing in the world. 



PHILADELPHIA 
New York San Francisco 



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Resist wear. Best roof- 
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Satisfied users all overthe 
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Catalogne gives full infor- 
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MONTROSS METAL' SHINGLE CO., 
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Monarch 




Hydraulic 

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Great strength and ca- 
pacity; all sizes; also 
gasoline engines, 
steam engines 
sawmills, thresK 
ers. Catalog tree, 
HonarchHactainery Co., StO CortlandtBIdg.. NewYorii 

Safety With Hornless Cattle 

Tlie milk is greater 
and the beef better with 
a hornless herd — no 
fretting the others nor 
excitement when dehorn- 
ed with 

KEYSTONE DEHORNER. 
Send for free booklet 
to-day and know why. 
M. T. PHILI.Il»S, 
lift Mnln St., Pomeroy, Pn. 




^ 



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Third, ten ears white corn, J. H. 
Edwards, Crystal Hill, six months 
subscription Progressive Farmer. 

Fourth, ten ears wnite corn, A. L. 
Vaughan, News Ferry, Va., six mos. 
subscription Progressive Farmer. 

Fifth, ten ears white corn, R. T. 
Edwards, Crystal Hill, six months 
subscription Progressive Farmer. 

Sixth, ten ears white corn, Chas. 
Oakes, Lenning, Va., six months sub- 
scription Progressive Farmer. 

Best twenty ears white corn, H. S. 
Vaughan, News Ferry, Va., Chatta- 
nooga plow, Barbour Hardware Co., 
South Boston. 

Second, twenty ears white corn, H. 
A. Manicke, News Ferry, Va., Oliver, 
subsoil plow by R. A. Penick & Son, 
South Boston. 

Third, twenty ears white orn, J. H. 
Walton, Clover, Va., yearly subscrip- 
tion Southern Planter. -, 

Fourth twenty ears white cojripo 
Chas. Oakes, Lenning, Va., Tjlitire 
scription Southern Plantef. s and 

Fifth, twenty ears white cornjccess- 
Edwards, Crystal Hill, yearly raise 
scription Southern Planted. ' you 

Best single ear yellow com, C.^irs. 
Sutherlin, Sutherlin, Va. yearly jjnt- 
scription Times-Dispatch, Ricljie old 
Va. • mreli- 

Second, single ear yellow coj care 
W. Bitterton, South Boston, je is 
subscription News-Leader, Riclj-'with- 

Va. f^-r jt 

Best ten ears yellow com,. J. W. 
Bitterton, South Boston, Va., One 
double shovel plow by Dr. W. C. 
Cousins, Nathalie, Va. 

Best twenty ears yellow corn, C. P. 
Sutherlin, Sutherlin, one case' Wil- 
bur's Stock Food, Milwaukee, Wis. 

Second, ten ears yellow corn, E. D. 
Henderson, Houston. Va Two years' 
subscription News, South Boston, Va. 

It was suggested on the grounds 
Monday that an effort should be made 
to organize some sort of corn grow- 
ers' association and a meeting will 
likely be called for some future date 
this winter to take up this matter. 
Also to arrange for a com show next 
year and a committee appointed to 
get up a list of prizes for that show. 

The school boys throughout the 
county are being organized into Boys' 
Com Clubs under the direction of the 
County School Superintendent and it 
might be well to join with them and 
have a large corn exhibit that would 
be an eye-opener to the hole State. 

W. H. DORIN. 

P. S. — Mr. W. R. Dorin desires to 
say that owing to his connection 
with effort to have this corn fair that 
he did not think it proper for him to 
exhibit any of his com or any of that 
of his that won at the State Fair, at 
Richmond. 



Buy fence at wholesale — 15 cents a 
rod up. Write Kitselman Bros., Mun- 
cie, Indiana, to-day for free catalogue. 
See their ad. in this issue. 



QET^THEiBEST. 

A Goo'J. Spray Pump earns big- profits 
and lasts for years. 

THE ECLIPSE ^i 

a good pump. 
As practical fruit 
growers we were 
>using the common 
sprayers in our 
own orchards — found 
their defects and then 
invented The Eclipse. 
Its success practically 
forced us into manu- 
facturing on a large 
scale. You take no 
chances. We have 
done all the experi- 
menting." 

Large fully illustrated Catalogue and 
Treatise sqn Spraying — Free. 
,'%mt MORRILIi & MORLEY, 
Benton Harbor, Mich. 





PAYS TO 
SPRAY 

an Age 4-row Sprayer 
.tect satisraetion. Puts solu- 
'jSt where needed and in fog- 
ist. Pump delivtrs spray under^ 
pressure, thus reaching every 
o? vine, effectually kill- 
bii T^ and preventing 
btr Has Orchard 
attach- 
rite for 
le Catalog 
UBtrating 






Iron Age 
Four Row Sprayer 

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DEFENDER SPRAYER 

Easiest working 

most powerful Brass 
Spray Pump, auto- 
matic mixer, brass 
expansion valves and 
double strainer. 

Write for illus- . 
trated circulars. 
Agents wanted. 
J. F. GAYLORD, Box 
82, Catskill, N. Y. 

SECOND HAND EGG CASES 

CAR LOTS A SPECIALTY. 

Large stock pn hanl at all times. Can 
fill orders promptly. Let us quote you 
prices. 

NEW YORK EGG CASE CO., 

408 W. 42d. St., New York, N. Y. 

Waited 

- Bills to Collect - 

In all portions of the United Statei. 
No collection, no chargre. AsrenclM 
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LEARN VETERINARY DENTISTRY ^°,t 

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Always mention The Southern 
Planter when writing advertisers. 



1909.] 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



1167 



Crestline "Sunshine" 

Double Acting Barrel 

Spraying Pump 

For Spraytngr Trees, Shrubs, Etc., and 
for all Disinfecting Purposes. 




Can you afford to raise poor fruit? 
Can you raise good fruit without 
spraying? How much money have you 
lost by not spraying as you should? 

Whether you have one tree or one 
thousand trees spraying will pay. 

The above pump is high grade and 
will outwear and outspray most any 
pump made, regardless of price. Out- 
fit as shown complete, mounted on 
barrel, costs $18 net. Shipped at once 
from our large stock. Do not wait too 
long, order now and be ready for both 
fall and spring spraying. 

Paces. Va., Oct. 7, 1909. 
The Crestline Mfg. Co., Crestline, O.: 

Gentlemen — You remember I bought 
one of your Sunshine Sprayer Outfits 
late last spring, too late to spray but 
one time. We have four or five times 
as many apples as we have ever gath- 
ered In one season before, and you 
know this Is an off apple year. What 
do you suppose would have happened 
had I sprayed three times, as you rec- 
ommended. Your sprayer Is a grand 
success anvl will multiply any man's 
apple crop several times the first 
season it is used. 

There is not over 30 per cent, of an 
apple crop in this section this year. 
Yours truly. 

(Signed) H. B. STEBBINS. 

Complete descriptive circular of our 
"Sunshine" Sprayer is free for the ask- 
ing or Is sent with each pump ordered. 
Ask us. , 

CRESTLINE MANTTFACTtrRIlVG CO., 
Pnmps— Sinks— <Hose, 
CRBSTIilNE, OHIO, V. S. A. 



FROM THE ANNUAL REPORT OF 
THE SECRETARY OF AGRI- 
CULTURE. 1909. 
Agricultural Production in 1909. 
Most prosperous of all years is the 
place to which 1909 is entitled in ag- 
riculture, declares the Secretary of 
Agriculture in his Thirteenth Annual 
Report, made public to-day. The 
value of farm products is so incom- 
pi-ehensibly large that it has become 
merely a row of figures. For this 
year it is $8,760,000,000, a gain of 
$869,000,000 over 1908. The value of 
the products has nearly doubled in 
ten years. The report says: "Eleven 
years of agriculture, beginning with 
a production of $4,417,000,000 and 
ending with $8,760,000,000! A sum of 
$70,000,000,000 for the period! It has 
paid off mortgages, it has established 
banks, it has made better homes, it 
has helped to make the farmer a citi- 
zen of the world, and it has provided 
him with means for improving his soil 
and making it more productive." 
Farm Production of 1909. 
The most striking fact in the 
world's agriculture is the value of the 
corn crop for 1909, which is about 
$1,720,000,000. It nearly equals the 
value of the clothing and personal 
adornments of 76,000,000 people, ac- 
cording to the census of 1900. The 
gold and silver coin and bullion of 
the United States are not of greater 
value. It has grown up from the soil 
and out of the air in 120 days — $15,- 
000,000 a day for one crop, nearly 
enough for two Dreadnaughts daily 
for peace or war. This crop exceeds 
in value the average of the crops of 
the five preceding years by 36 per 
cent. 

Cotton is now the second crop in 
value, and this year's cotton crop is 
easily the most valuable one to the 
farmer that has been produced. With 
cotton lint selling at 13.7 cents on the 
farm November 1 and with cotton 
seed selling for about $25 per ton, 
the lint and seed of this crop are 
worth about $850,000,000 to the farm- 
er. No cotton crop since 1873 has 
been sold by farmers for as high a 
price per pound as this one. 

Third in value is wheat, worth 
about $725,000,000 at the farm, and 
this largely exceeds all previous val- 
ues. The November farm price was 
almost an even dollar a bushel, a 
price which has not been equaled 
since 1881. This is the third wheat 
crop in point of size, with 725,000,000 
bushels. 

The hay crop is valued at $665,000 - 
000; oats at $400,000,000; potatoes at 
$212,000,000; and tobacco at nearly 
$100,000,000. Beet and cane sugar 
and molasses and sirup, from farm 
and factory, will reach the total of 
about $95,000,000. The barley crop is 
worth $88,000,000, flaxseed $36,000.00'^ 
and 1,000,000,000 pounds of rice $25,- 
000,000. 

Comparisons with Former Years. 
The production of all cereals com- 
bined is 4,711,000,000 bushels, an 




THE Experienced Frait Grower 
is the man who realizes the im- 
portance of using- only high-class 
Sprayers. He knows that spraying is 
what you make it — a hard job or an 
easy proposition, depending on the 
outfit. Most Growers have learned 
that it doesn't pay to bother with 
cheap ones. Goulds' Sprayers have 
a reputation to maintain. They com- 
prise a line of 

Over 25 Styles 

for both Hand and Power— all simple 
— all working parts brass to withstand 
wear and the chemical action of the 
solutions. Don't be caught experi- 
menting with a cheap sprayer — see 
that the name Goulds is cast on the 
pump. Its presence is the assurance 
you are buying the very best Sprayer 
made. It guarantees satisfaction and 
reliability. Write for our book — 

"HOW TO SPRAY- 
WHEN TO SPRAY— 
WHAT SPRAYER TO USE" 

It is full of interesting 
information and contains 
many valuable formulas 
for spray mixtures. Copy 
sent free on request. 

The GOULDS 

Manufacturing Co. 

99 W. Fall Street 

Seneca Falls, N. Y. 

We build Pumps 

for Every Service 




RIPPLEYS COOKERS 

Recommended and used by 
Wis., Iowa, Georgia aod 
New Mexico State Experi- I 
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Last for years. Rud dairy I 
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Heat water io tADke orcook 
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No flues toruBt or leak or 
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1168 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[December, 



Paint Without Oil 

Remarkable Discovery That Cnti 

Down the Cost of Faint Seventy- 

Five Per Cent. 



A Free Trial Package is Mailed to Every- 
one Who Writes. 

A. L. Rice, a prominent manufacturer of 
▲dams, I^. Y., has discovered a process of 
making a new kind of paint without the use 
of oil. He calls It Powdrpalnt. It comes In the 
form of a dry powder and all that Is required Is 
cold water to make a paint weather proof, fire 
proof and as durable as oil paint. It adheres to 
any surface, wood, stone or brick, spreads and 
looks like oil paint and costs about one-fourtb as 
much. 

Write to Mr. A. L. Elce, Manuf'r., 2 North 
St., Adams, N. Y., and he will send you a free 
trial package, also color card and full Informa- 
tion showing you bow you nan save a good man? 
<^olla^s. Write to-day. 

FARMERS! 

Would You Paint 

Your buildings? If so, we can save 
you 75 per cent, on your bills. Before 
you paint, write us and be your own 
painter. Will show you how. 
AVIRT, THE PAINTER, 
Route 3, Pine Grove, Pa* 




and Droo'l- rs are r-on-mo'sture; 
laiinp.'ieit-vcTili atiiij. Write for 
Catalog. Aiidrtss Nearest Citj 

Cyjihers locufiator 

Bufiulo. N.Y.; New York 
IlostoD,MaBa.;KungasCity. 



Co., DeiiurtmenC 5- J . il-l^ 

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..ity. Mo.; Oaldaiid. UaU p;^ Pracfetln urabJo i^ 



BaRGainis in 
2nd Hand MacMnery, 

For Sale by 

The Watt Plow Co., 

Richmond, Va. 

One 8 H. P. Peerless Geiser Gngine 
and Boiler, ou steel n'heels, used two 
months, and as eood as new. 

One 8 H. P. Frick Eclipse Boiler and 
Engine, on Tvheels, in first-class or- 
der; jnst overhauled. 

One 12 H. P. Ames Elng-ine and 
Boiler, on wheels, just overhauled in 
our shop, and in first-class shape. 

One 25 H. P. detached Brie E^ngtne, 
without boiler. 

One American Combined Lath-Mill 
and Bolter. 

One 20-inch S'weepstalces Planer, 
Matcher and Molder complete, w^ith 
countershaft and pulleys. 

One 12 H. P. Second-Hand Lightning 
Balance Gasoline Engine, mounted, 
manufactured by the Kansas City Hay 
Press Company. 

One 20 H. P. Dayton Engine and 25 
H. P. Boiler detached. Used 18 months 
and in excellent order. 

One 25 H. P. Peerless Engine and 
Boiler on w^heels, with No. 1 Lane Saw 
Mill, No. 50 Hoe Saw and all neces- 
sary belts. A first-class outfit. Lo- 
cated near railroad 40 miles from 
Richmond. 

One 20 H. P. Huber Traction Eng;ine. 
Used nine months and practically as 
good as new. 

THE WATT PLOW CO., 

T426 f. Main SU, Richmond, Va. 



amount considerably greater than 
that for any other year except 1906. 
It exceeds the average of the preced- 
ing five years by 6.5 per cent. The 
value of all cereals in 1909 has never 
been equaled in a previous year. It 
is almost exactly $3,000,000,000, or 34 
per cent above the five-year average. 

Compared with the average of the 
previous five years, all principal crops 
are greater in quantity this year ex- 
cept cotton, flaxseed, hops, and cane 
sugar; but without exception every 
crop is worth more to the farmer than 
the five-year average. 

This is the year of highest produc- 
tion for potatoes, tobacco, beet sugar, 
all sugar, and rice; next to the high- 
est production for corn, oats, and all 
cereals. Compared with 1908, gains 
in value are found all along the line, 
the exceptions being barley, buck- 
wheat, rye and millet. The increase 
for cotton, lint and seed is $208,000,- 
000; wheat, $107,000,000; corn, $105,- 
000,000; hay, $29,000,000; oats, $22,- 
000,000; tobacco, $18,000,000; pota- 
toes, $15,000 000. 

The increase in the value of farm 
products this year over 1908, $869,- 
000,000, is enough to buy a new equip- 
ment of farm machinery for over 6,- 
000,000 farms. The value of the cer- 
eal crops to the farmer would pay for 
all of the machinery, tools, and im- 
plements of the entire manufacturing 
industry. The value of all crops, $5,- 
700,000,000, would make a half pay- 
ment on the value of all steam rail- 
roads, according to the valuation of 
1904. 

Secretary Wilson concludes his re- 
view of the production of 1909 as fol- 
lows: "The agricultural production of 
1909 adds much to the prosperity of 
the farmers The record is unexampled 
in wealth production and tells of 
abundance in quantity. Year by year 
the farmer is better and better pre- 
pared to provide the capital and mak<- 
the expenditures needed to improve 
his agriculture and to educate his 
children for farm life and work. 



MEAT PRICES. 

Retail Meat Prices. 

Secretary Wilson has just finished 
a unique investigation made for the 
purpose of this report relating to the 
increase of wholesale prices of beef 
when sold at retail. Through em- 
ployees of the Bureau of Animal In- 
dustry, inquiries were made in 50 cit- 
ies — large, medium and small — in all 
parts of the country. A schedule was 
prepared to record the actual exper- 
iences of retailers in buying and sell- 
ing a carcass or half carcass of beef, 
and among the facts ascertained were 
the weight and wholesale cost of a 
certain piece of beef, usually half a 
carcass. Then followed the weight 
and retail price of every cut for which 
a uniform price was charged by the 
retail dealer. Thus it became possi- 
ble not only to compare high- 
priced and the low-priced cuts, but 



So-Easy-to-Fix 
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which can be 
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matter how 
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Dicharges at 
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We also fur- 
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pump, well fix- 
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THE ONLY CHURN WORTH WHILE. 




From this house go out all the 
genuine Swing Churns for the South. 
If you have never seen it work, try 
it lust once. 

Write for our general circular. 

ASHTON STARKE 

RICHMOND, VA. 



1909.] 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



1169 



AGRICULTURAL 



LIME. 



Head-quarters for 

Prepared Peanut Lime 
Crude Shell Lime 

ALL GRADES OF RELIABLE LAND 
LIME 

KILNS AND FACTORY, 

NORFOLK, VA. 

Weights, qualityand prices guaranteed 
Write for price-list and booklet 



T. G. ANDREWS & CO., Inc. 



MOSrOLK, 



VA. 



N ATURAL Fine-Ground 
==== Phosphate 

The Reliable Land Builder 

Twenty cents worth of Natural Fine 
Ground Phosphate applied to a ton of 
animal manure will add 60 to 100 per 
cent, to the productive capacity of that 
ton of manure. Leading Agricultural 
Experiment Stations thoroug-hly con- 
firm this statement. This being true, 
can you afford uot to buy it? Can 
you make a better investment? Use 
ONLY the NATURAL product. "Write 
for our free booklet telling all about 
it. Agents wanted. Address 

Farmers Ground Rock Phosphate Co.. 

Bit. Pleasant, Tenn. 

Rock Phosphate 

All grades Ground Phosphate Rock 
and Ground Limestone. Prompt ship- 
ments and guaranteed analysis. 

Agents wanted. 
•OUTHERN lilME) & PHOSPHATE CO., 
Blrmlnsham, Alabama. 



AGRICULTURAL 
AND BUILDER'S 



LIME 



FELLSWORTH LIME WORKS, 
Box 445 Staunton, Virginia. 

KHS. lAH JOSE SOAIiH WITH 

oooD's Si^fJ^^LVJiL soapmo.3 

Jamea Good, W» IV. Praat Street, 
PkUadelpkla. 

Always mention The Southern 
Planter when writing advertisers. 



also to compute accurately the total 
retail price per pound and consumers' 
cost of the beef piece for which the 
wholesale price per pound and cost 
of the entire piece had been reported. 
Consumer Pays 38 Per Cent. Above 
Wholesale. 
For the 50 cities the total retail 
cost charged to customers above the 
wholesale cost paid by the retailers 
is 38 per cent. In 5 cities the rate of 
increase is 20 per cent, or under; in 
10 cities, 21 to 30 per cent; in 12 cities 
31 to 40 per cent.; in 12 cities, 41 to 
50 per cent.; and in 11 cities over 50 
per cent. 

The average retail price exceeds 
the average wholesale price by 31.4 
per cent, in the North Atlar ic States 
by 38 per cent, in the South Atlantic; 
by 38 per cent, in the North Central; 
39.4 per cent, in the Western; and the 
highest increase was found in ; he 
South Central States, 54 per cent. 

A gross profit of 20 per cent, was 
found in New York City and in Phila- 
delphia, 28 per cent, in Buffalo, N. Y. 
36 per cent, in Boston, Mass., 1/ per 
cent, in Baltimore, Md., 42 per cent, 
in Washington. D. C, 46 per cent, in 
Chicago, 111., 25 per cent, in Cincin- 
nati, Ohio, 23 per cent, in Omaha, 
Nebr., 28 per cent, in Kansas City, 
Mo., 27 and 35 per cent, in Minneapo- 
lis and St. Paul, Minn., 40 per cent, 
in Milwaukee, Wis., and Detroit, 
Mich.. 39 per cent, in St. Louis. Mo., 
64 per cent, in Mobile, Ala., 39 per 
cent, in San Francisco, 24 per cent 
in "Seattle, and 37 per cent, in Denver, 
Colo. 

The lower the grade of beef the 
greater the percentage of gross profit. 
In Boston, for illustration, the rate 
of gross profit is nearly twice as 
great for beef costing 8 cents at 
wholesale as for beef costing 11 and 
11 1-2 cents. Low-priced beef is 
marked up nearly twice as much rel- 
atively as high-priced beef. In other 
words, perhaps it is a safe inference 
that the poor people pay nearly twice 
as much profit as the well-to-do peo- 
ple pay. 

Features of Retail Business. 

The retailer's delivery service is 
costly, however, and the retail busi- 
ness is overdone. The multiplication 
of small shops is a burden to consum- 
ers and no source of riches to the 
small shopkeepers. When twenty or 
more small shops divide the retail 
business within the area that could 
be se"ved by one large shop, the ex- 
penses of the many shops for labor, 
horses, rent, and other things, that 
are in excess of what would be suffi- 
cient for the one shop, must go into 
the retail prices of the meat sold. 

Furthermore, customers choose the 
higher priced cuts of meats. Steaks 
and roasts are the preference, and 
these must have names that are re- 
garded as respectable. Consequently, 
one-fifth of the carcass is bought at 
the highest price — porterhouse steaks 
at prices as high as 25 and 30 cents 




FUR SHIPPERS TrS^F^rffi 



rOR YOU to ship your Minks, Skunk. Rac- 
coon, Muskrats, Otter, Opossum, Fox and all 
oiher raw furs to ua— We are an t Id (estab- 
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the Biggest aud BEST MARKET on this con- 
tiuent. Our prices ere the talgbtst— Qukk Re- 
mlttauce. No lot too large or small— money 
lalJts, we will sh^w you. 

We Do Not Charge \ay Cummission. 

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KCRi al.so list of Traps and 1 rappers' 
.supplies, tags, etc.; also learn how you 
n '-r<-t. ahsohite'v FT{EK. any one of our 
ve handsomely bound TTapper"*" Guides. 



MSUMMERFIE^DatCO. 

ST.tOUIS, Mo. 



ANNOUNCEMENT 

Having completed the greater por- 
tion of the work on hand at the time 
of the withdrawal of my last notice, 
I wish to announce that I am again 
ready to take up my advisory work 
along agricultural lines, either by cor- 
respondence or personal visits, and I 
invite all those experienced farmers 
who are unprofltably employed, and 
the Inexperienced, who are In doubt 
as to the best mode of procedure, to 
write for terms. My charges, even 
Including traveling expenses, are in 
the reach of every man who desires to 
profitably cultivate 100 acres of land. 
Crop rotation, balanced rations and 
fertilizer formulae are my specialties. 

PERCIVAL, HICKS, 
North, Mathews County, Va. 






E. M. COULTER, 



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tells all about onr 
new building; superb 
equipment; elegant 
auditorium; able fac- 
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PATENTS 



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Send sketch for free report as to 
patentability. Guide Book and What 
to Invent, with valuable list of Inven- 
tions wanted, sent free. One million 
dollars offered for one Invention; 
$16,000 for others. Patents secured by 
us advertised free In World's Progress. 
Sample free. 

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Washington. D. C. 

"PRACTICAL FARMING" 

Prof. W. F. Massey'B latest and beat 
book is now on sals. It retails for 
tl.SO, and la worth It Tfe aball be 
rery pleased to send you a copy at 
above price and will Inolnde a xa^r'' 
aubacrlptlon to The Southern Plantar. 
Remember, we deliver the book aaA 
give you a whole year's aubracrlptlOB 
for the price of the boek, fl.SO. 
SOUTHBRN PLANTBIR, RlekMaad, Ta. 



1170 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[December, 



Northern Virginia Farms 



Some Splendid Bargains 

No. 200. Contains 648 acres. Natural 
blue-grass land; not steep, but rolling. 
About ono-third of this property is 
cleared, balance in timber. Wood and 
timber will pay for the land. Situated 
one-fourth mile from station, 40 miles 
from Washington. Land is smooth, 
easily cultivated and fine for grain or 
grass. The dwelling is an 8-room, not 
expensive, but comfortable house; one 
tenant house, barn, stable, grainary, 
double corn crib. Place is watered by 
streams and springs. If it interests 
you come at once and look it over. 
it is too good a proposition to stay 
on the market long at this price. Price 
$18 per acre. 

No. 280. Contains 500 V4 acres, 425 
acres cleared, balance in fine white 
oak and hickory timber, original 
growth. Land is all a fine quality of 
chocolate clay, adapted to blue-grass 
and all kinds of grain; a little rolling; 
watered by streams and springs; 
fenced for stock of all kinds. Situated 
on an excellent road, 30 miles from 
Wa'shington, 6 miles from the station. 
Two sets of buildings on the place. 
One 10-room dwelling and one ]-room. 
dwelling with necessary outbuildings 
-with each; deep bored well at each 
House; half mile to school, churches, 
stores and shops. Price $12,500. One- 
half cash. 

No 215. Contains 180 acres; good 
strong blue-grass land; 8 miles from 
Leesburg on a good road. Located in 
one of the best grazing sections ot 
Loudoun county. Land is smootn and 
level enough for easy cultivation. 
Dwelling Is a small cottage with a 
stone and frame bank barn and other 
outbuildings. Price $12 per acre. 

No 216. Contains 104 acres. Five 
acres in timber, balance of land is a 
good chocolate clay soil, adapted to 
all kinds of grass and gram; situated 
in a good neighborhood; close to 
school; 5 miles from station. Dwelling 
is a good 5-room house; one tenant 
house: barn, corn crib and grainary. 
All in good condition. Good orchard. 
Excellent water. Price $2,500. 

No 224. Contains 35 acres of ex- 
cellent land. Situated in short dis- 
tance of a village with school, mill, 
store and rural mail at the gate; 5- 
room house; good orchard. About 9 
acres in woods. Land is all smooth 
and all new land. Price $800. 

No. 246%- Contains 140 acres of the 
finest class of soil we have in North- 
ern Virginia; 40 acres in timber, the 
balance is cleared and in the highest 
fitate of cultivation. Situated in a 
beautiful section; elegant neighbor- 
hood; adjoining' village with high 
school, stores, shops, mill and rural 
mall; two miles from town and station 
on a level macadam pike. Dwelling is 
a 14-room house in good condition; 
five 2-room cottages and one beautiful 
5-room cottage, all situated on a 
beautiful shaded blue-grass lawn. This 
property has been operated as a re- 
sort for summer guests from Wash- 
ington for a number of years and is 
always filled to its capacity. The farm 
has been successfully operated as a 
dairy farm for a number of years 
and is rich. An accident to the owner 
renders him unable to operate it longer 
and it is offered for a quick sale at 
the low price of $11,000 on easy terms. 

Ask for our Real Elstate Bulletin. 

WM. EADS MILLER COMPANY, 

Herndon, Va. 
, Branch Office: Leesburg, Va. 



a pound, sirloin at 20 to 25 cents, and 
lib roasts at 20 cents. 

Prices and Supply of Meats. 
The ascending prices of meat sug- 
gest inquiry as to whether the prices 
of the farmers' beef cattle and hogs 
have increased at the farm in the 
same degree that meat has to the con- 
sumer. For the purpose of mailing 
comparisons, the mtan price level of 
1896-1900, a period of comparatively 
low prices, is adopted as a base line, 
represented by 100, and for each ani- 
mal and commodity this price level 
is computed. 

No Gain in Unfed Beef Cattle. 
The farmer has failed to receive a 
share of higher beef prices with re- 
gard to the raw animal. The price 
level of two-year-old steers at the 
farm being regarded as 100 for 1896- 
1900, the price of such steers rose to 
135.9 in 1900, declined to 85.5 in 1905, 
and rose to 100.8 in 1909, all for the 
date of January 1 and for prices at 
the farm, substantially before corn 
feedino had begun. 

Beef Prices Due to Corn Prices. 
The price of corn in 1909 at the 
farm is represented by 218.6 compar- 
ed with 100 for the price level of 1896- 
1900, and the price of the best native 
steers at the Chicago Stock Yards in 
the same year is 139.9, which is much 
above the "index-number" for the 
price of the animal at the farm and 
much below the price of corn at the 
farm. The inference is that the farm- 
er gets some return for the high- 
priced corn that he feeds to his steers 
but not a return equal to 60 cents 
a bushel fo.- his corn, which is the 
price for the last two years. As for 
the unfed steer, it does not partici- 
pate in the upward movement of 
prices in its farm value. 

The wholesale prices of fresh beef 
carcasses ha,ve increased in about the 
same degree that the prices of steers 
have at the stock yards, and the re- 
tail prices of fresh beef have kept 
pace with the wholesale prices. 

The increasing prices of fresh beef 
therefore, are due to increasing 
prices of animals at the stock yards, 
and this is explained by the abnormal 
circumstances to which the raising of 
beef animal has been subject in re- 
cent years. 

Abnormal Beef Sv.pplies. 
There has been a breaking up of 
range herds consequent upon 'the en- 
forcement of the "'no-feiice" law by 
the National Governmei ; and by en- 
croachments of the settlers upon the 
ranges, made possible by the practice 
of "dry farming." Not all of the cattle 
have gone directly from the ranges to 
the slaughter houses; a great portion 
of them have gone to the farms for 
maturing and finishing, largely upon 
corn. This extra demand on the corn 
crop is reflected in corn prices, which 
are now higher than they have been 
since the records of the Department 
of Agriculture began, in 1866, except 
for 1881. 
Half a dozen years of this abnor- 



200 ACRE FARM 

FOR SALE 

Situated one mile west of Saxe Sta- 
tion on Southern Railway, Improve- 
ments consist of a good 4-room log 
house, with ether necessary buildings. 
Land strictly first-class. Farm has 
bean regularly occupied by the same 
tenant for fifteen years. Wood enough 
can be sold off the place to pay for 
It. The wood can be handled at an 
easy profit of from $1.75 to $2.25 par 
cord. This 200 acre tract Is part of the 
well known Cottage Valley Stock Farm 
Price, $2,500; half cash, balance In two 
years. 

WM. M. AV ATKINS, 
Saxe, Charlotte Co., Va. 



—FARMS — 



Dl 



Southside Virginia 



«10.eo to 9S0.0e per «erc. 

Tfltb buildings, fruit, timber, 
Kood water, best marketB. Lieyel 
land, productive soil. 

Write fer our Real Estate Herald 
with map and full information. 

PTLB A COHFAXT, Ibc 

PeterabiiTK, VlrslBlo< 



FOR RENT OR LEASE 

Farm of 235 acres, 6 miles west of 
Jetersville In Amelia County, Va.; good 
improvements, splendid water, nlc« 
orchard, large yard with fine oaks; two 
dwellings, one in fair condition; good 
fences, stable and cow barn; rural de- 
livery; store and schosl house each 
about three-quarters mile 'distant; 
three churches accessible. Sixty acre* 
open land, 40 more easily cleared. Soil 
suitable for corn, wheat, tobacco «t 
grass. 

Rent, first year, $150, or less than 4 
per cent, on investment. 
Address T. P. SHELTON, BurkeviUe, 
Virginia. 

VIRGINIft FARM AGENCY 

Opposite C. & O. Depot, Richmond Va. 

Timber Lands 
and Fa r m s 

at low prices Address, Deparment A 

VmaiNM FARMS 

Poultry, fruit, dairy, grain, stoclE, 
truck farms, and colonial estates. Low 
prices, delightful climate, abundant 
pure water, large eastern markets, 
timber lands a specialty. Write for 
free illustrated catalogue. 

W^ILBS LAND COMPANY, (Inc.) 
Richmond, Va. 

"In the Green Fields of Virginia/' 

Homes for all; health for all; happi- 
ness and Independence for all. All 
sizes of Farms at corresponding prices 
but ALL reasonable. 

MACON & CO., ORANGB, VA. 



1909.] 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTEH. 



1171 



I CAN SELL YOUR PROPERTY 




Whether Farm, Timber, Mineral or Industrial 

I am Advertising VIRGINIA FARMS and INDUSTRIES very extensively, and am 
daily receiving inquiries for all kinds of Property. 

I WANT YOUR PROPERTY TO SELL. 

Send me Full Descbiption in first letter 



So, Jefferson Street, E. W* CHURCH, ROANOKE, VA 






Farms $10 Per Acre and Up 



Virginia's Ion? prowing seasons afford, 
bountiful harvests, and her Bccessibla 
markets mean good prices for her farm 
products. 

Her Corn is Unsurpassed 

As a grazing and dairy State she 
ranks first. Her p"altry and trucking 
farms are very profitable. 

Virginia offers the thrifty farmer an 
nnusujtl opportuixity for futoro indo- 
pendeuco. 

Send to-day for onr beau- 
tiful booklet and other in- 
teresting information. 

Address F. H. LaBAUME. A?r. and 
Indus. Airt. Norf>'lk and Western Rail- 
way. Deit. A 9 . Rnancke. Va. 



Virginia Farms 

MOST SELECT LIST, and in all sec- 
tions of the State. 

FREE CATALOGUE. 
R. D. CHArriH & CO, Inc. 

RicHmond. Va. 



Old Virginia Farms. 

Climate and Productlven«B« unex- 
celled. lArsMt Bale liat In the State. 
Fer full particulars and Free Cata- 
losus address 

GASSBIiMAIV * OOMPAirr, 
RICHMOND. TA. 



ECZEMA 

CAX BE CI'RED. My mild, soothing, ^aranteed cure 
does it'n.l FKEE SAMPI.K prnves it STOPS THE ITCHINO 
»nd cures to stiv. WHITE NOW^TOP.W 

DR. CANNADAY, 354 PARK SQUARE. SEDALIA. MO. 

Farmers Sons Wanted :toP^!:: 

stock and fair education to work in an office: 860 a month 
with advancement, steady employment, must be honest and re- 
liable. Branch offices of the association are being established 
In each state. Apply at once, g:iving full particulars. The Vet- 
•rinary Selene* Aesoelatlon, Depl. 1 2, Londen, Canada. 



mal movement of beef cattle from 
ranges to the great markets began to 
tell upon the supply in 1908, when the 
deliveries fell off in a marked degree, 
and the decrease continued in 1909. 
Hog Situation More Fair to Farmers. 
The farmer's situation with regard 
to hogs is moi'e fair to the farmer 
than the cattle situation is, but still 
it is apparent that during the last 
three years the price of corn has been 
too high for the price of hogs. The 
relative price of hogs on the farm 
January 1, 1909, was 147.3 as com- 
pared with 100 for the mean price 
of 1896-1900 and the average cost 
of all hogs slaughtered at principal 
markets in the year before was 148.1, 
or about the same as the farm price. 
The price of dressed hogs of 160 lbs. 
in New York in 1908 stands at 14.5.7, 
and the carcasses of market pigs at 
Chicago at 148.4, which is approxi- 
mately the number representing the 
relative retail price of fresh pork. 

In the case of hogs, therefore, the 
farmer has fully participated in the 
rising prices, whereas In the case of 
the farmer's cattle the unfed animals 
are barely as valuable as they were 
9 to 14 years ago, and had not the 
price of com ascended o a high fig- 
ure, perhaps he would not have shar- 
ed in the higher beef p'-ices. 
High Cured Meat Prices Not Found in 

Cost of Animals. 

The foregoing conclusions are for 
fresh meat. The prices of cured and 
prepared meats have increased in 
much greater degree than the prices 
of other meat have increased, both 
for beef and pork. These cured meats 
include bacon, pickled beef, pickled 
pork, and lard. 
Farmer's Share in Increasing Prices. 

Farm products have increased most 
in price. There has been a tendency 
of the animals and crops of the farm 
to increase in value per unit at the 



FARMBRS 

Insure Your Buildings, Live Stock, 

Produce, Etc, In Virginia Division, 

FARMERS' MUTUAL BENEFIT 

ASSOCIATION. 

Best security. Preperty insured 
fSeO.OOO. Aver&ffe coat per $1,009 per 
year, IS.OO. Territory limited to coun- 
ties of Cheraterfleld, Amelia, Powhatan, 
Nottoway, Dinwiddle, Prince Oeorge, 
Surry, Charles City, New Kent and 
James City. For plan and membership 
write to 

OHARLBS N. FRIBWO, Oeaeral Asemt, 

CHSSTER, TA. 

Organized January 0, 1899. 



FIRST NATIONAL BANK 

Richmond, Va. 

A streng, conserratlye, well-man- 
agred Institution. A safe depository 
for all classes of customers. 



Capital 

Sarplna, 

Depoaltii, 



91,00«.000.0« 
800,000.00 

cooo.ooo.oo 



JOHX B. PURCBLL, Prealdeat. 

JHO. M. MILiLlER, Jr., Tlee-PvM. 

and CaaUer. 

A Sayings Departm«nt for tho 
Thrifty. 



SOUTHERN 

POULTRY 

GUIDE 

125 pp., cloth bound, illustrated. It 
contains the meat of the Editor's 
40 years' experience in the Poultry 
Business. Send $1 and we will en- 
ter your subscription to the South- 
ern Planter and forward the book 
promptly. 

SOUTHERN PLANTER, 
Richmond, Va. 



1172 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[Decemljer, 



100 ACRE FARM 

In Nansemond County for sale; 
three miles south of Suffolk, on 
public road one mile of permanent 
road leading to Suffolk, one and a 
half miles of Kilby Station, one 
mile from modern graded public 
school, convenient to eliurches of 
all denominations, 20 miles west of 
Norfolk, rural route at door, plenty 
of erood. sociable and intellisrent 
neighbors, about thirty acres are 
In liiprh state of cultivation, balance 
thickly set In most all kinds of 
young timber from •which about 
400 cords of wood could be cut and 
marketed conveniently at $4 to $5 
per cord; land level, natural 'drain- 
age, no ditching, abundant supply 
oif never failing spring water, fine 
well, healthy location for man and 
beast; new two-story dwelling, 
good barns and stables, good young 
orchard of peaclnes, apples, pears, 
grapes: soil gray loam with clay 
subsoil; most all crops do well es- 
pecially potatoes. I have been liv- 
ing on the place for five years and 
have kept it in goo'd condition. 
Price $2,500 cash. 

Conveyance will be furnished ap- 
plicants from any of the six sta- 
tions in Suffolk. 

C. L. BYRD, 
Route 3, Suffolk, Va. 



Timber For Sale 

A splendid piece of standing Oak 
and Pine Timber for sale, half mile 
from loading point on railroad, stand- 
ing on about 100 acres of land; esti- 
mated about 500,000 feet of good lum- 
ber. Will e sold cheap for cash. Well 
located and easy to handle. Price, 
$1,500. 

W. M. WATKINS, SAXE, VA. 



VIRGINIA COUNTRY HOMES 

A beautifully illustrated periodical 
For free copy and list of 200 seleci 
properties In best parts of State ap- 
ply to 

H. W. HILLBARY & CO, 
Charlottesville, Va. 
Branch Offices— Richmond, Va., FreQ- 
erlcksburg, Va., Warrenton, Va., Cu)- 
peper, Va. 



VIRGINm FARimS 

180 acres with good buildings, 
convenient to Richmond, $5,800. 

62 acres, dwelling, outbuildings, 
store, good farm land, $1,500. 

615 acres, colonial Virginia home. 
stock and dairy farm, close to elec- 
tric and steam railroads, between 
two cities, 5 minutes walk to car 
line. Particulars on appli^at 

575-acre timber tract, 1% miles 
to railroad g-ood dwelling, fine farir 
Innd Price. $8,000. 



BLANTON & PURCELL, Agts. 

1110 E. Main St., Richmond, Va. "^ 



*l/ AloBKCta*MPMk« A OhURaUway , 
r/ as law •• $10.00 pw Acra. Rich Soil, ^ 
gf Mild VViatdi, O—i Mtikclt. Fm hMdiea* 
Booklet tai Low ■itafllaa Ralci, ■d4reii< 

G. B.WALL, Rcil IlUU A|»l, C. It O. Ktilwir, 

Box A i. R.ichw)B<, Vi. 



farm at a faster rate than all the 
commodities have increased at whole- 
■sale. 

Within the wholesale trade, also, 
farm products exceed all other classes 
of commodities in relative increase of 
prices since 1896. and food is exceed- 
ed only by farm products and by lum- 
ber and building materials. The only 
large exception to the leading place 
taken by farm products in rise of 
prices is unfed beef cattle, the farm 
price of which has barely begun to 
rise above the price level of 1896-1900 
for beef cattle. — From Secretary Wil- 
son's Annual Report 1909. 



A HANDSOME CALENDAR FOR 1910 
One of the most pleasing calendars 
for 1910 that we have seen is the one 
sent out by our friends, the Vermont 
Farm Machine Company. 

It is in several colors and shows a 
pretty dairy maid in full regalia in the 
foreground, with a setting of trees, a 
running brook and a herd of dairy 
cows. And in the corner, modestly 
symbolizing the support that it is to 
all dairy maids who use one. Is a 
United States Cream Separator. 




CRITTENDEN'S 

Real Estate 

AND 

Loans Office 

I solicit your correspondence 
an'd patronage. Valuable infor- 
mation to home seekers. 
DeL,. S CRITTENDEN, Ashburn, 
lioudoun County, V». 



FARMS 

For Sale. 



If jrou want a farm to rala* srraas, 
Kraln, stock, fruit or tobacco, buy 
from us. Chocolate soil with r*d 
subsoil. Address 

'W. W. BARNBS * CO., 

LASTD AND TIMBER AGENTS. 

Amelia Conrthonae, Va. 



TIDE WATER, VIRGINIA 

Plantations fronting on the James 
River from 300 acres up, price from 
$5,000 up. Here are two good bargains: 
572 acres, 200 good timber (stock, 
machinery and crops worth $10,000), 
all included for $30,000; also 380 acred, 
200 timber, for $15,000. Both have 
fine old Colonial Houses in good order 
and are fenced and cross-fenced. For 
price send stamp. 
Persse Deverell & Co., Claremont, Va. 



We produce the calendar in the ac-l 
companying illustration. Of course, 
the beautiful effect of the many colors 
is lost and the reduction detracts from 
its beauty, but it affords at least an 
idea of this striking picture. 

The Vermont Farm Machine Co., 
Bellows Falls, Vt., inform us they will 
mail to those readers of the Southern 
Planter interested in Improved dairy- 
ing methods, this beautiful ten-colored 
lithographed calendar who mention 
our paper. Better write at once be- 
fore the calendars are all gone, as we 
understand their quantity is limited. 

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



COME TO VIRGINIA 

400 tracts of land in Va. farms — 
timber, mineral, fruit, oyster propo- 
sitions. My new catalogues con- 
tain properties in 26 counties, many 
of the best bargains in Va. I pay 
your railroad fare up to one thous- 
and miles. T«u have no expense for 
livery hire. Write for catalog'ue. 
Great bareains on new R. R. 

J. R. ELAM, Box 287, 

Charlottesville, Va. 



lULAX ESTATE FOR 8AI.B1. 

From the Mountains to the Ocean. 
Catalorue free. Loans made on farm*- 
BstablTahed 1876. 

GEO. B. CRAWFORD A CO„ 
lOM B. Ualn Street, 

RICHUOND, VA. 
Brancb, Norfolk, Va. 

VIRGINIA FARMS 

Near Washington City, convenient to 
the great Northern markets, suited for 
stock, dairy, poultry, fruit, trucking 
and general farming purposes: Wash- 
ington City Improved, unimproved and 
suburban properties; timber lands. 
Write for catalogue. 

NICOL, & RANSDEl-li, 
Box S. P., Hanassaa, Va. 



1909.] 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



1173 



$1,000 CASH GIVEN AWAY. 

One thousand dollars divided into 
127 cash prizes from the first prize 
of $500 down to one hundred prizes 
of $1 each, will be given free by the 
Wilbur Stock Food Company in a 
most novel and entertaining contest. 

Pull particulars of this prize con- 
test will be sent to every stock raiser 
who writes the Wilbur Stock Food 
Company or sends in coupon, which 
will be found in their advertisement 
On the second cover page. 

The Wilbur Company guarantee 
that it won'* cost one cent to enter 
this prize contest, and it won't take 
ten minutes time to fulfill all the 
conditions. You don't have to sell 
anything, or solicit any business. It 
Is simply a straight forv/avd free? 
prize contest, open to any sto sk raiser 
in the world. 




FREE 
PAIL 



In addition to this chance to win 
part of the thousand dollars, the Wil- 
bur Company also agree to send out 
a $3.5C. 25-pound pail of their famous 
stock tonic free, where they have no 
agent., to everyone who cuts off and 
mails to them the coupon from their 
advertisement. 

This free pail is given to prove 
what a wonderful feed saver, condi- 
tioner, and disease preventative their 
stock tonic is, and wuy it is now fed 
by over 300,000 people. The Wilbur 
Company also agrees to send you a 
beautiful souvenir if you answer their 
advertisement-, whether or not you 
win a part of the $1,000. 

This exceedingly liberal offer 
should be taken immediate advantage 
of by every reader of this paper. Ad- 
dress Wilbur Stock Food Compan", 
727 Huron St., Milwaukee, Wis. 



FARMERS' SHORT COURSE AT 
BLACKSBURG. 
We invite atention to the advertise- 
ment of the Virginia Polytechnic In- 
stitute which appears in this issue 
announcing the holding of a short 
course for farmers at the College and 
Experiment Station. Last year 60 
farmers and two ladies took advan- 
tage of the short course and we are 
hoping this year to learn that many 
more than this number will attend. 
Many of those who attended have told 
us of th° great advantages they de- 
rived and the help that the course 
has been to them in their daily work 
on the farm. At many of the West- 
ern and Northwestern Agricultural 
Colleges hundreds of the farmers take 
advantage of these short course ses- 
sions and it is a reproach to our 
farmers that we do not have a sim- 
ilar attendance. The cost is reduced 
to the minimum and amounts to only 



THE 0LDL:ST KSTABMSHED AGKNCY in NOKTHEIIN VIRGINIA. 

STOCK FARMS 

Near WASHINGTON, D. C. 

FAIRFAX AND LOUDOUN COUNTY STOCK FARMS A SPECIALTY. 



A.H.BUELL, Real Estate Broker 

HERNDON, VIRGINIA 

Write or telegraph me rrhen to expect you. 



HdMESEBKERS 



m 



-<W>R4:^^.rrrr 



FLORIDA WANTS HOMESEEKERS AND HAS GREAT 
INDUCEMENTS TO OFFER. 

In the Land of Mcinatee (west coast) you can grow bigger 
crops at less expense than elsewhere. Fruits and vegetables grow 
like magic in the rich soil. A ten acre farm can be bought very 
reasonably, and will net more than a hundred acres in any 
Northern State. Fruit Crops net $500 to $2,500 per acre. 
Vegetables $1,000. 

Write for our booklet, written by a western man, containing 
full information and homeseeker's rates. 

J. W. WHITE, Gen'l Industrial Agent, 

Seaboard Air Line, NORFOLK, VA. 




JOHN F. JERMAN 

HEADQUARTERS FOR 

VIRGINIA PROPERTY 

Main once, Fairfax, Va.| Branch Office, Vienna and 1318 I St., N. 'Vi^ VTaah, D. O. 

If you want to buy a grain, dairy, fruit, truck, poultry or blue grass farm, 
city or village property, it will pay you to send for 80-page catalog. It is full 
of bargains. It contains all kinds of business propositions. It will pay you to 
buy a farm near the capltol, where you have good markets, and the benefit 
of steam and electric R. R. service. 

My catalog Is free to you. 

I am always ready to show property, and try to help my cllenta make a 
good investment. 

My Hotto la "Honesty and Fair Dealings." 



AUOHOLISN CURED 

No Experiment. 




Alcoholism. Morphine 
and other drug addic 
tions cured in from four 
to six weeks. 28 years 
successful experience. 

Write for our booklet. 

"What do You Drink* 
The Keeley Institute. 

GREE NSBORO. N . C. 



TELL THE ADVERTISER WHERE YOU SAW HIS ADVERTISEMENT. 



1174 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[December, 



TOBACCO 

FOR 

SHEEP PARASITES 

Worms and other parasites cause 
more loss to dheep-keepers than all 
other vjiseases combined. 

Get rid of them entirely by the 
use of Tobacco, prepared especially 
for the purpose, under the advice 
of experienced sheepmen. 

Put up in 50 and 100 pound com- 
pressed bales, convenient to handle 
and feed. 

For price and further particu- 
lars, address 
E. K. VIETOR, RICHMOND, VA, 



FELKER'S NICOTINE 

stomach- Worm Remedy 

(A Capsule). 

The Great Internal 

PARASITICIDE. 

The only known De- 
dtroyer of Stomach 
Worms. Guaranteed. 

Price $3.00 per box of 
60 doses, prepaid. 

We want a sheepman 
in every locality to act 
as our agent. Write 
for terms. 
"W. A. Felker Mfg. Co.. aulncy. 111. 




LANE HORSES 



quickly and positively cured of Sprains, 
Ringbone, Curbs, Shoe Boils, Capped 
Hocks, abnormal growths and all lame- 

Sold on money-back guarantee. 
Leaves horses sound and un- 
geared. Lump Jaw la cured in 
I less tlia,n three weeks with 
Adams Rapid Lnmp-Jaw Core 
Easy to use. Guaranteed. Write 
for FREE TREATISE OH cur- 
\ ing thes 3 diseases. 

H. C. ADAMS MFC. CO. Ji^' 
Dcpl. 27„ Algona. loitfa X^^" 



m. 



MINOR'S FLUID 

SHEBP AND HOG DIP. 

Its use permitted In offlelal dicing: 
Low prices on Dipping Tanks. 

Testirasnlals and circulars for the 
asking. 

W. B. MINOR & CO., 
811 liOns Ave., Cleveland, Ohio. 

USE GRAFT'SDISTEMPERandCOUGH CURE 

A safe and sure pre- 
ventive and positive cure 
for all forms of Distem- 
per, Influenza, Pinkeye, 
Coughs and Colds in 
Horses, Sheep and Dogs, 
50c and SI. 00 at Druggists 
or prepaid. Write for free 
booklet "Dr. Craft'sAdvlce." 

WELLS MEDICINE CO., I.AFAYETTE. IND. 

MAKE TOUR OWN 

STOCK AND POULTRY 
FOOD — 

at a cost of 3 cents per pound. Guar- 
anteed to be as good as that you pay 
12 to 15 cents for. 
ROYAL. REMEDY, CO., Durham, N. C. 

"Bon Air." 

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




a few dollars beyond the cost of 
board and this can be had at a very 
cheap rate. Make your arrangements 
to attend. Work on the farm does not 
press in January and you can easily 
spare the time and acquire informa- 
tion which will repay you many 
times over for the effort. The coun- 
try ministers of the gospel are invit- 
ed to attend and thus fit themselves 
for helping their people in their 
work. 



GOOD HOUSEKEEPING. 
Calf's Head Soup. 

Buy the head of a young calf — not 
a veal — from your butcher. See that 
it is well cleaned, then wash in weak 
salt water to take out all the blood, 
then put it into a kettle with a close 
cover and add what bones and scraps 
you have on hand and two large 
chopped onions; fill the kettle with 
cold water, set it on the back of the 
stove ,and let it boil slowly for three 
hours. Then add three cups of 
ground cabbage, two of turnips, one 
of dry lima beans, wnich have been 
soaking in water all morning, and 
one can of tomatoes. Always cook 
the tomatoes separately until they will 
fall to pieces, then add them to the 
soup; salt and let it boil slowly until 
dinner time, when take out the bones, 
chop the meat and return it to the 
kettle, thicken with flour, season with 
pepper and thyme and serve hot with 
toasted bread. 

Epicure's Hash. 

Cut your cold beef or mutton in 
strips or small slices. Put one heap- 
ing spoon of drippings in a pan to 
melt, when very hot chop into it one 
medium sized onion, and fry until it 
is a light brown; mix two tablespoons 
of flour with one teaspoon of curry 
powder; shake this over the meat, sea' 
son with salt and pepper, then lay 
the slices of meat in the hot drip- 
pings and let them cook about five 
minutes, stirring well to prevent its 
sticking; then pour over it a pint of 
soup stock or water, add a few grains 
of sugar, and stir until it boils, then 
cover and simmer an hour. Toast 
slices of very thinly cut bread; lay 
them on the dish, butter and arrange 
the meat on them, then strain the 
gravy over the dish. Heat some small 
cucumbers or gherkins and cut in 
slices and arrange on the border of 
the dish. 

Creamed Carrots. 

It seems strange that such a deli- 
cious vegetable as the carrot should 
meet with such scant encouragement. 
It may be a cultivated tase, but it 
is a very strong one when it is cul- 
tivated, and one you never recover 
from. 

Boil the carrots until tender, then 
skin them and cut them into thin 
slices. Put one cup of rich milk and 
one tablespoon of butter creamed 
with one teaspoon of flour into a 
saucepan; let them heat and then add 
the carrots with salt and a little pep- 
per, simmer a few minutes and serve. 



FOR THE SAKE OF 



25 Cents 



Do you think it wise or proper 
that you should impair the health, 
the comfort or hd,ppiness of your- 
self or any member of your fam- 
ily? Or for the same trifling coin 
do you think it profitable or proper 
to decrease the value of your live 
stock? If you but think for a mo- 
ment, vour answer must be No! 

THEN — if you are a sufferer or 
any member of your family suffers 
the severe pain of Rheumatism, 
the pain or discomforts of a 
Sprain, Wrench, Strain of Muscles, 
or Pain in the Back; or If your 
horse is in any way afflicted, why 
not go at once — to-day, to your 
nearest store or druggist and for 
twenty-flve cents get a bottle of 
YAGER'S Cream Chloroform LINI- 
MENT? It is undoubtedly the best 
and most effective Liniment for 
both Man or Beast, family or stable 
use that has ever been introduced. 
It will kill the Pain in every in- 
stance. Get one bottle and try it — 
you could not spend a quarter to 
better advantage than for a bottle 
of Yager's Liniment. 

THEN AGAIN— If you have a 
horse that is Galled or has a Col- 
lar Boil, Scratches, cut. Pricked by 
Barb Wire, or has a sore of any 
kind; not only a horse, but a cow, 
or any domestic animal; or a mem- 
ber of your family has a sore of any 
kind, take twenty-flve cents to the 
store or druggist and get a bottle 
of WILSON'S GOLDEN SUCCESS 
HEALING POWDER; it will posi- 
tively heal any sore and do it quick- 
ly. These two remedies will actu- 
ally do what is claimed for them. 



They are prepared by 

GILBERT BROTHERS & CO. 

9=1 M3 N. HOWARD ST. 

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND 

Who will send them on receipt 
of price if your dealer does not 
have them. 



1909.] 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



1175 




Save the difJer- 
ence between the 
cost of a ETOod 
horse and fl.OO— the 
cost of a bottle of 
Kendall's Spavin Cure. 
You can cure a Spavin, Splint, 
Ringbone, Bony Growths or Lameness 
with it, like thousands have done. Read 
this letter — it will prove that Kendall's is 

The One Safe, 
Reliable Cure. 

Sllvrr Creek. N. Y.. April, 1. 1909. 
"Enclosed llml stamp, for Khkli send me 
copy of your -Treatise on the Horse.' I 
liave used Kendalls Spavin Cure fi)r the last 
1.1 years, and It never has (ailed to do all 
that Is claimed for It, Wouldn't be with. 
out It." Yours truly, U. A. Dablmau. 

Xo need to worry about your horse if 
you have a bottle of Kendall's Spavin 
Cure on hand for emergency. Get a bot- 
tle from your drugrgist at once. Don't 
take a substitute. The great book, "Trea- 
tise on the Horse," free, of druggists, or 
write to 

Or. B. J. Kendall Co.. Enosbnrg Falls. Vt 



WIL.1- SAVE 



YOU R AN IMAL 



D55YLVESTER^ 

COiCANbBOTS 

REMEDY 

FOR HORSES, 
MULES AND COWS 

ALL DRUGGISTS 
AAARONS/NEWORLEANS 



'SAVETHEHoRSElSMWirilOlRE. 



BECO'RADE MttR^ 




Wyncote, Pa., Sept. 22. 1909. I enclose $•) for another bottle 
of " Save-thc-Uorsc. " My horse Ted had a bone spaiin. and 
" Save-the-Horse " completely cured it. I h.->d two first-class 
doctors treal this horse and each one enre him up as a hopeless 
case. He is now perfectly sound. I cannc^t roconimend your 
medicine too hifhly. Respectfully. PATRICK DORAX. 

Fort Wo 
Cm Horse. 

front leg and was ft.. ,-...v.....w j ^ - - ,^. ,^ . 

Oesh formed on ber foot btlnoen the •nkl» and tho b"of, »hicb bcoime 

hard. I tried ev.rj remedj on the mnri-t to cure her. but fai!ed. I the 

■ whlrh took all the lameness awaj. The lump iBCoir. 

:nJlt. Vcrj truly, J. E. FE-NELO.-J. 



case. He is now perfectly sound, i cannc^c roconimena iour 
medicine too hifhly. Respectfully. PATRICK DORAX. 

Fort Worth. Tel., Oct. 11, 1909. Ust February I b.™sht a bottle of "S«Te 
«« Horse." BIy bro.<i m»re. Queen BeHe. had asetercbarbiTire cuton right 
front legand»a»soUmeel>6couldbanllyput her f«.l to the ground. Proud 



night "BaTe-the. Hot 
9t. Icanbuneetty 1 



>^^.UU for copy. lK«kU't and lettei 
I I trainers on every kind of cf^se - 

■/ Thorou{?hpln, Ringbone (except lowi. vun,, op""., v«hk.- 
ick, Windpull, Shoe Boll, Injured Tendons and all Lameness. No 
irorlossofh.iir. Horse "orlis as usual. DeaUys or hxfr. Paid. 
;0I CHEJItCAL CO., 87 Commsretal Atb., Blnghamton, N.Y- 



5.UU for copy. b<«kU-t and letters from l.usiuoss men and 
trainers on everv kind of cnse Permanently cures Spa»ln, 
Thorouehpln, Ringbone (exception!. Curb. Splint, Capped 



Hock 

sea 

TROI 



Carrots and Beets. 

Boil the carrots and beets separate- 
ly, then cut into small dice; take one 
cup of carrot dice and two of beet 
dice, put them into a pan with two 
tablespoons each of vinegar and but- 
ter and a teaspoon of sugar; let them 
simmer a few minutes before serving 
Bean Roll. 

I have not tried this, but it sounds 
good, and I am told that it is good. 
Soak the beans in cold water, then 
put them on and cook them tender 
Mash through a cullender, or seive 
and add a tablespoon of butter and a 
half cup of fine bread crumbs to each 
pint; salt and pepper; make in a 
pone, cover with greased paper and 
bake twenty minutes, serve hot, plain 
or with a tomato sauce made with 
one tablespoon of butter melted half 
a small onion fried in it, then add a 
can of tomatoes, a teaspoon of sugar 
salt, pepper and a teaspoon of flour- 
cook until it is smooth, ' 
Raised White Fruit Cake 

One coffee cup of milk, one pount 
of flour, enough yeast to raise it salt 
and one sliced banana; when light 
beat into it one-half pound of sugar' 
one-half pound of butter, the whites 
of five eggs, two cups of seedless 
raisins, five chopped figs, one cup of 
currants, one tablespoon of lemon 
juice, one teaspoon of pineapple flavor 
flour the fruit well; put the mixture 
in your loaf cake pan, cover and let 
It rise. Bake slowly, and frost. 
Soft Ginger Bread. 

Stir to cream a cup of butter and 
half a cup of brown sugar, two cups 
of cooking molasses, one cup of but- 
termilk, one tablespoon of ginger one 
teaspoon of cinnamon; beat all these 
together, then add three eggs beaten 
separately, and four cups of flour, with 
a heaping teaspoon of cream of tartar 
sifted in it; lastly, one teaspoon o 
soda dissolved in a tablespoon of hot 
water; beat, smooth and bake in 
sheets; cut in squares; frost. 
Moonshine. 

Beat the whites of six eggs until 
perfectly dry, add six tablespoons of 
granulated sugar, beat until it is dis- 
solved; then add one tablespoon of 
fruit jelly ,strawberry is best, and 
beat until it Is smooth; serve with 
very rich cream and have thin sponge 
cake to eat with it. This is a dainty 
dessert for luncheon. 

Cocoa Filling, 

Take fur cups of sugar, one cup 
of water and boil until it will make 
a ball in cold water; it takes at least 
twenty minutes; mix in the sugar be- 
fore adding the water five tablespoons 
of cocoa; when it is very nearly done, 
pour it boiling over the whites of four 
eggs beaten light, continue to beat un- 
til it hardens on the edge of the bowl; 
then spread over the layers of the 
cake. 

Walnut Cake. 

One cup of lard and butter mixed 
Creamed light. Three cups of brown 
sugar; the yolks of six eggs, beaten 
very light; two cups of buttermilk. 



Wapi-antad to Gtvo Satlmtmctlonm 

Gombauli's 

Caustic Balsam 




Has Imitators But No Competitors. 

A Safe, Speedy and Positive Cure for 
Curb, Splint, Sweeny, Capped Hock, 
Strained Tendons, Founder, Wind 
Puffs, and all lameness from Spatrin, 
Ringbone and other bony tumors. 
Cures all skin diseases or Parasites, 
Thrush, Diphtheria. Removes all 
Bunches from Horses or Cattle. 

As a Human Remedy for Rheumatism, 
Sprains, Sore Throat, etc.. It 13 invaluable, 
^very bottle ot Caustic Balsam sold is 
Warranted to give satisfaction. Price $1 50 
per bottle. Sold by druggists, or sent by ex- 
press, charpres paid, with full tlirections for 
its nse. C^Send for descriptive circulars, 
testimonials, etc. Address 

The Lawrence-Williams Co., Cleveland, 0. 






and 



Any person, however Inexperienced, 
can readily cure either disease 

Fleming's 
Fistaia and Poll Evil Cure 

— even bad old CBsea f hnt aklUed doctors 1 
have abnndoned. Eiis.v and simple: no 
cutting; just a little attenti'-n every fifth 
day— and your money refunded If It ever 
falls. Curesmost cases within thirty dflys, 
leaving the horse sound and smooth. All 
particulars given in 

Fleming's Vcst-Pocbet 
Veterinary Adviser. 
Best veterinary book for farmer*. Oon- 
tains 192 pages and 69 illustrations. Dur- 
ably bound in leatherette. Write as for 
a free copy. 

FLEMDie BBOS., Ohemtgts, 

880 Calon Stock Tarda, OhlcasOtUL 



Seldom See 

a big knee like thlsi bat yonr horsa 
may have a bnnch or bruise on his 
Ankle, Hook, Stifle, Knee or Throat. 



ABSORBINE 



will clean them off without laying tho 

horse up. No blister, uo hair^oiie. 

$2,00 per bottle.dellv'd. Book 8 D free. 

A i:suitliINI<:, JK., for mankind, $t. 
Removes Painful Swellings, Enlarecd Glands, 
Goitre, Wens, Bmlses, Varicose Veins, Vurlcoa> 
Hies, Old Sores, Allays Pain. Book free. 

W. F. YOUNG, P. D. F., 109 Temple St,, Springfield, Mass. 

DEATH TO HKAVES 

lloiHfnn'c He».s, Coairh * 
llCWIUII Distrmp«rCar« 
Ouarnnd-cd or Hnnoj Back. 

"S-S*^ »l.o«P»r fan, at dealers, or 
^ Eiprm P«id, IS Vr.' Sale. 
THE MEWTON KEHEUT CO. 
Tolcda, Ohio. 




Send for Booklet 
sJlora« Troobl 




1176 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[December, 



A. HORN. The Berry Man 

Soddv, Tennessee 

R. F. D. No. 3 

The Largest Berry Grower Id the 
South. 

BOO acres In Strawberries. 50,000,000 
plants for sale. A new plant held 
of 100 acres. 
Place Yoor Order Now (or Plants. 

I w^ant every grower to Investi- 
gate my new "Tennessee Favorite." 
The very best berry grown for mar- 
ket — size, color, flavor and shipping 
qualities considered. Even in size 
throughout season. I picked and 
sold from one acre 4,456 quarts at 
a net profit of 11 cents a quart, 
making a total profit of $491.16, In 
ths Spring of 1908. For the season 
of 1909 I shipped 194 crates per acre 
which net $2.52 per crate. To vouch 
for the truth of this statement I 
refer anyone to M. Fugazzl & Co., 
Cincinnati, Ohio, who handled these 
shipments. 

In my thirty years' experience I 
have found nothing quite its equal. 
Does its best In low, strong land. 
To introduce and to reach all grow- 
ers, only $4.00 per thousand. Try 
them. Other varieties: Aromas, 
Klondyke, Lady Thompson. 

Special Prices to Nnrscrynieii. 
References: The Citizen's National 
Bank, Chatanooga; Sam. A- Conner, 
Sheriff of Hamilton County, M. Fu- 
gazzl & Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. 



SOJA BEANS 

CLAY, MIXED AND COWPEAS 
for sale. Write for delivery prices, 
as we can ship promptly. 

E. W. JONES NURSERY CO., 
Woodlawn, Va. 

HICKORY SEED CO. 

OFFERS NEW CROP OF 
Clay, Black, Whip and Neve Era Peas; 
Mammoth Yellovr Soy Beans, Appier 
and Burt Oats. 

Write for priced. 
HICKORY SEED CO., Hickory, N. C. 

SOJA BEANS 

AND 

FIELD PEAS 

FOR SALE. 
Buy from first hands and save money. 
Jonathan Havens, Washingrton, N. C. 

DO YOU WANT EGOS 

S. p. S. Multum Ovum will flU your 
egg basket. Liberal terms to agents. 

Stone's Red Powder will cure roup; 
25c. postpaid. Agents wanted. 
SOUTHERN POULTRY SUPPLY CO.. 
824 Ninth St., Washington, D. C. 

Prince Edward Co., Va., Sept. 13, '09. 
We find the Southern Planter not 
only of great interest but of great 
practical value and would hardly know 
how to get on without it. 

R. A. PALMORE. 



two teaspoons of soda, six cups of 
flour, one teaspoon each, cinnamon, 
cloves and nutmeg; one pound seeded 
raisins, one cup walnuts, chopped not 
very fine. Bake slowly in loaves, and 
ice 

White Cake. 
The whites of three eggs, three 
whole eggs, two cups of sugar, one 
cup of butter, four cups of flour, one 
and a half cups of cold water. Lem- 
on extract. Filling. Two cups of su- 
gar, one cup of new milk. Boil till 
it will make a ball in cold water, and 
beat. When it begins to harden; 
spread over the cake, and sprinkle 
any kind of nuts on it. 



"CONCRETE IN HIGHWAY 
CONSTRUCTION." 
The Atlas Portland Cement Co., of 
New York City, have recently pub- 
lished a new and very interesting 
book under the above title. This 
work is especially valuable to every- 
body interested in road construction 
or the good roads movement in gen- 
eral. The publishers will be glad to 
send this book out free of charge if 
request is made on the letterhead of 
the writer. Address your inquiry to 
Dept. 116, as above. The book will 
cost $1.00 unless these simple terms 
are complied with. 



BRIEF CORRESPONDENCE. 
"Tuleyries," White Post, Va. 
Editor Southern Planter: 

It should be a source of encourage- 
ment to Southern breeders of cattle 
to hear I have just received word to- 
day from the American Consul at 
Montevideo, Uruguay, that the son of 
a Hereford cow I sold to a man there 
last year won every prize against all 
comers in South America of any 
breed. GRAHAM F. BLANDY. 

October 27, 1909. 



"Ellerslie," Charlottesville, Va. 
Editor Southern Planter: 

We have recently sold ten Short- 
horn females to Mr. Samuel H. 
Marshall, Charlottesville, Va., and, 
with him, have purchased the young 
roan bull, Morven Marshall, by White- 
hall Marsha" (twice champion of 
America), out of the famous show 
cow. Lady Duster. 

R. J. HANCOCK & SON. 

November 9, 1909. 



THE WATERLOO BOY. JR. 
The Waterloo Gas Engine Co., Wa- 
terloo, Iowa, announces they have re- 
cently placed on the market a new 
engine in the shape of the Waterloo 
Boy, Jr., a one and a half horse pow- 
er engine, which is particularly adapt- 
ed for light farm work. They have 
an advertisement on another page, to 
which attention is invited and you are 
also requested to ask for further 
particulars of this little engine. 



Always mention The Southern 
Planter when writing adYertlaera. 



POULTRY FOODS 



FEED NOW FOR 

CHRISTMAS EGGS 

FOR 

Glolje Poultry Food, Grain Foods, 
Charcoal, Oyster Shells, Grit, 
Bone, Rava Meat Meal and all 
kinds of supplies, Incubators and 
Brooders. 

Price list mailed on applica- 
tion. 



Diggs and Beadles 

SEEDSMAN 

Richmond, Va. 

1709 E. Franklin Street. 
603 E. Marshall Street. 



We BaveAlmost25oo Acres 




$1.00 

3 THE_BIG_THREE 3 
THE SOUTHERN PLANTER 

Richmond, Va., 60c. a year. 

Southern Fruiti Grower 

Chattanooga, Tenn., 50c. a year. 

THE INDUSTRIOUS HEN 

KnoxvlUe, Tenn., 50c. a year. 
These three monthly publications 
will be sent for one year for only 
il.OO. Address, 

SOUTHERN PLANTBR. 
Richmond. Va. 



1909.J 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



1177 



♦.Special Offer for December.. 

For $10 we will ship a Trio of Barred, Buff or White Plymouth 
Rocks from our prize pens and guarantee satisfaction. We have 
2,000 birds to choose from, built up from the finest strains in the 
country — the A. C. Hawkins, U. R. Fishel, Gardner & Dunnings 
antl E. B. Thompson strains. Heavy layers and beautiful bird.s 
that will give pleasure as well as profit. We commence shipping 
day-old Chicks December 1st, guaranteeing safe arrival. 

Eggs and stock for sale from our Rhode Island Reds, White 
Leghorn, Barred, Buff and White Rocks. 

At the exliibition of the Virginia Poultry Association in 1908 
we showed four pens, winning first, two seconds and fourth 
pens. Write us your wants. Correspondence promptly answered. 

$y$onby Garaens, Tnc. 




PETERSBURG 



VIRGINIA 



i-H:>«HH<HH>KH<t4H:t4<H<H<H-<>4»{>4HH^:t^.O^H^^ <HH>K^4<t^<H-<H'<H»0^HHH:H<Hs>H>KH<H<^^ 



Barred Plymouth Rochs. 

Successive winners In strongest com- 
Detitlon at Richmond and Washington, 
D. C. When lookin^r around for your 
birds for the shows ur for utility pur- 
poses, you should pause and look 
well at my beautiful young stock, the 
finest that I have ever raised. My 
"Ringlets" are unexcelled in size, vig- 
or, beauty and egg production. Write 
me. I will have birds that will please 
you, both in quality and price. Satis- 
faction guaranteed. 

In writing for prices, state for what 
purpose birds are wanted. 
liBSLFE H. McCUE}, Box 4, 

GREENAVOOD, VA. 

State V.-Pres. Am. Plymouth Rock Club 

For High Grade, Pnre Bred 

Valley Farm 

Barred Rocks, 
S. C. B. Leghorn.'*. 

Young stock for sale. 
Guarantee satisfaction. 

CHAS. C. WINE, 
Mt. Sidney, Va. 

SPRING BROOK POULTRY FARM 

Colpeper, Va., H. H. Scott, Prop. 

Breeder of Northrup strain Black 
Mlnorcas, Whitman strain of Brown 
Leghorns, and the best SUver-Laced 
Wyandottes. Six entries at Richmond 
and Herndon won 2 first, 1 second, 2 
thirds and a club special. Eg'gs In sea- 
son. Stock for sale. 

WHITE POULTRY VaRDS 

Breeds prize-winning White Wyan- 
dottes, White Guineas, White Chinese 
Geese; Mammoth Pekin, Wild Mallard 
and White Muscovy Ducks; White 
Holland and Narragansett Turkeys. 
Out of thirty entries at Virginia State 
Fair we won 16 first, 8 second, 3 third 
and 3 fourth premiums. 
J. F. DUNSTON, Prop., Lorraine, Va. 

—WANTED— 
LIVE WILD TURKEYS 

and native Pheasants for braedlng pur- 
poses. 
R. li. BLANTON, Richmond, Va. 




THE BOSTON FRUIT SHOW. 

New England gave a very com- 
plete demonstration of her capabili- 
ties as a fruit-growing section by the 
New England Fruit Show, lately held 
in Horticultural Hall, Boston, Mass. 

During the exhibition, which lasted 
several days, talks were made by 
prominent men upon fruit and its cul- 
ture. One of the most interesting was 
made by Mr. George T. Powell, of 
Ghent, N. Y., who is the proprietor of 
one of the finest orchards in New 
York Stale, embracing several hun 
dred acres of choice varieties. 

Mr. Powell spoke at length upon the 
methods to be followed in making and 
caring for an orchard, and spoke par- 
ticularly of the difficulties that con- 
fronted New England's fruit growers 
in resisting the attacks of San Jose 
scale and other fungi, as well as of 
insects. It was necessary, he said, 
to find a substitute for the Bordeaux 
mixture. To quote him, as reported 
in the Boston Transcript: 

"A very important essential In New 
England apple culture is that of 
spraying. The San Jose scale is 
sp' eading over every section of the 
country. For five years I have used 
one of the miserable oils, "Scalecide," 
with much success. A new fungicide, 
called "Sulfocide," has been brought 
out the past season that gives prom- 
ise of very valuable results. Borde- 
aux mixture has, of late, been most 
injurious to many kinds of apples in 
discoloring them, and we must look 
to something better as a fungicide." 

This new fungicide called "Sulfo- 
cide," is made by the B. G. Pratt Com- 
pany, of New York City, and was on 
exhibition at the show. A special di- 
ploma was awarded them. 



s. c. 
WHITE LEGHORNS 

i,,^'^MP''°1^-°^ h^*^ pudding is chew- 
^w.v '*"? string." If you wish any 
Cockerels, Cocks, Pullets or Hens write 
and tell me what you want and what 
you wish to pay. I will ship you your 
order express prepaid. If you think 
you have gotten your money's worth 
keep the birds and send me the money- 
it not, ship^the chickens back by ex- 
press colleeT. Let me send you my 
show record. 

B. H. GRUNDY, JR., 
.-^,, Room 822 Mutual Building. 
Chantilly Farm." Richmond, Va. 



GROWING 

Realizing the increasing demand 
for pure-bred fowls, we have en- 
larged our plant to 1,000-hen ca- 
pacity. In connectcion with our 
well-known White Rocks we have 
White and Silver Wyandottes, S. C 
W^hite and Brown Leghorns. 

Special attention will be given 
these fowls and orders for stock 
or eggs will be handled carefully. 
C. M. WALKER, HERNDON, VA. 



Vance Co., N. C, Oct. 19. '09. 
The Southern Planter is the best 
farm paper published. 

W. M. TAYLOR. 



PURE-BRED POULTRY 

I am offering some extra fine White 
Holland Toms and Hens; line-bred 
Barred Plymouth Rock Cockeres, In- 
dian Runner Drakes, Toulouse Ganders, 
White African Guineas. Orders 
promptly filled and satisfaction guar- 
anteed. 

E. F. SOMMERS, Somerset, Va. 

Glenview Orpingtons, 

S. C. BUFF EXCLUSIVELY. 

I am selling some extra fine layers 
and .breeders, 1 and 2 years old, at $2 
and $3 each. Get In before they are 
all gone. 

B. S. HCTRNE, KESWICK, VA. 

Black Langshans 

WRITE TO 
A. M. BLACK, Tamewell, Va. 



1178 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[Deceml>er, 




PURB BRED 

CHICKENS 

and 

DUCKS 



I have choice pure-bred breeding 
birds of the following breeds: 
Barred, White and Bufe Plymouth 
Rocks; Black Buff and White Or- 
pingtons; Buff, White, Silver Golden 
and Columbian Wyandottes; White, 
Brown and Buff Leghorns; Rose and 
Single Comb Rliode Island Reds; 
Black Minorcas, Silver Hamburgs, 
Black Polisli. Black Langshans, 
White-Faced Black Spanish, Mottled 
Anconas, Sherwoods, Light Bramas, 
Indian Games, Partridge Cochins, 
Blue Andaluslans and Partridge 
Cochin Bantams; Pekin, Rouen and 
Indian Runner Ducks; Geese, Pea- 
fowls and Homer Pigeons. Eggs 
for hatching. Send your orders 
and be assured of courteous treat- 
ment and good values. 

PURE BRED 

TURKEYS 

Mammoh Bronze, White Holland 

and Narragansett Turkeys. 
1909 hatched Toms, $5 to $6 each. 
1908 hatched Toms, $7.50 to ?8 each. 

1908 hatched Hens, $5 each. 

1909 hatched Hens, $3.50 to $4 each, 
according to ages and fights. Do 
not delay, but order to^ay. Tur- 
keys were never so high, and choice 
breeding birds will be very scarce 
and high. ORDER TO-DAT. 

PURE BRED 

SHEEP 

Fine Yearling Hampshire Ram, 
$25; Grand Registered Hampshire 
Ewes, bred to Registered Rams, at 
$25 each; Registered Shropshire 
Ewes, bred to Imported Registered 
Rams, very fine, at $25 each. Few 
Choice Registered Shropshire Ewe 
Lambs at $17.50 each, extra well 
wooled. 

ORDER QUICK ERE THEY ARE 
SOLD. 




Pure-Bred Berkshire, Poland- 
China, Chester White, Yorkshire, 
Tamworth, Duroc-Jersey and Essex 
Hogs for sale at right prices, qual- 
ity considered. Pigs 2, 3 and 4 
monhs old mated in pairs and trios. 
Service Boars and Sows, bred and 
open, from 150 pounds each up to 
300 pounds each, according to age. 
Send your order to-day and get 
them in their winter quarters ere 
the cold weather sets in. 
address 

JAMES M. HOBBS, 

No. 1521 iMI. Royal Avenue, 
BaMmofef Md, 



HINTS BY MAY MANTON. 

To Be Made Over a Fitted Lining. 

The pretty dressy blouse that Is 
closed at the front makes one of the 
novelties of the season. This one al- 
so shows new fancy sleeves that are 
in every way attractive, and the shal- 
low yoke or chemisette that marks 
the latest designs. Messaline Is the 
material illustrated, and the color is 
the leaf green that is so fashionable 
with trimming of black satin and 
yoke of cream colored lace over white 
chiffon. The tucks at the front give 
becoming fullness over the bust, while 
those at the back tend to a slender 
effect, and the puffed sleeves are as 
pretty as they are distinctive. Alto- 
gether, the blouse is a charming one 
for which every seasonable material 
that can be tucked and puffed is ap- 
propriate. 




6473 Fancy Blouse with Chemisette^ 
32 to 42 bust. 

The blouse consists of a fitted lin- 
ing fronts and back with the chemis- 
ette. The lining is closed at the cen- 
tre front, the chemisette is hooked 
into place, and the blouse is closed 
beneath the tabs or battlements. The 
sleeves are made over smoothly fitted 
linings, which serve to keep the puffs 
perfectly in place. They are cut in 
battlements to match the front and 
their shaped ^dges overlap the puffs. 

The quantity of material required 
for the medium size is 3% yards 21 
or 24, 3% yards 32, or 1% yards 44 



STANDARD BRED 
POULTRY FARMS 

We are offering the highest class 
stock this season and at the lowest 
prices we have offered. 

Splendid Bunches of 
Youngsters in 

Rocks, Barred and White, Wyan- 
dottes, Partridge and White, Leg- 
horns, White and Brown; Reds, S. 
and R. Comb. Turkeys, M. B. and 
White. Ducks, Pekin and Muscovy. 
RAISED ON SEPARATE FARMS. — 

FREE RANGE. 
$1.50 and up for stock. 
$1.50 for eggs. 
Special Qunlity Cockerels and Toma. 

STANDARD-BRED POULTRY 

FARMS. 

Burke's Garden, Va. 



White Wyandottes 

I won at State Fair, 1909, the fol- 
lowing prizes: 

White Wyandottes — First and seconvl 
cock, fourth cockerel, fourth pullet, 
fourth pen old, third pen young. 

White Holland Turkeys — first cock, 
first hen. 

White Muscovy Ducks — Second 
drake, second duck, third young drake, 
third young duck. 

I won at Danville, Va. — young birds 
exhibited only — first pen, first cockerel, 
first and second pullet. 

For stock and eggs address. 

R. RANDOLPH TAYLOR, 
Hickory Bottom Poultry Farm, 

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

WE OFFER 

TO QUICK BUYERS 

the choice of several hundred 

MAMMOTH PEKIN DUCKS 

AND 

S C. BROWN LEGHORN 

Cockerels at the cut price of $1.25. 
These birds are pure bred and the 
finest of their kind. 

WEYANOKE STOCK FARM, 
Weyanoke, Va. 

Hens====Cockerels 

Fine large birds, prize-winners 
wherever exhibited. Barred Rock and 
White Wyandotte, Mammoth Bronze 
Turkeys. White Orpington Cockerels. 
Prices reasonable. 

Miss Clara Smith, Landor Poultry 
Yard, Croxton, Va. 



WHITE WYANDOHES 

Free range, blocky type, 
heavy laying strain; 25 
choice Cockerels at a 
bargain to quick buyers. 
DUNNLORA FARM, 
Carson, Va. 



A Neat Binder for your back num- 
bers can be had for 30 cents. Addreii 
our Business Department. 




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inches wide, with % yard 18 inches 
•wide for the chemisette, % yard of 
satin for banding. 

The pattern 6473 is cut in sizes for 
a 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42 inch bust 
measure. 



The box plaited dress that is worn 
with a shield in sailor style is much 
in vogue now, and this one is excep- 
tionally attractive. It includes the 
becoming sailor collar, it is simple 
and childish in effect and is unques- 
tionably smart. The one illustrated 
is made of Bordeaux red serge and 
trimmed with black braid. The shield 
is of tucked messaline, and the com- 
bination is an effective one, but there 
are a great many appropriate materi- 
als. Cashmere is a favorite of the 
moment, some of the new silk finished 
wools are exceedingly attractive, and 
plaid and checked materials are fash- 
ionable. For the trimming, any pre- 
ferred banding may be used, and if 
a simpler dress is wanted the skirt 
can be left plain. 




6481 Girl's Box Plaited Dress, 
6 to 12 vears. 

The dress is made with the blouse 
and skirt. Both blouse and skirt are 
laid in box plaits with gathers be- 
tween. They are joined by means of 
the belt, and the closing is made in- 




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The Best Aii-Purpose Fowls Known 



EGGS FOR HATCHING 

Pens No. 1 — Fancy Orpingtons 
that win. 

15 for % 4.00 

45 for 9.60 

90 for 14.40 

Pens No. 2 — High-Class Breeders 

15 for % 2.00 

45 for 4.80 

90 for 7.20 

Pens No. 3 — Thoroughbred UtUlty 
Stock. 

15 for $ 1.00 

45 for 2.40 

90 for 3.60 

Single-Comb BufC Orpington 
stock for sale at all times. Write 
' for prices. 

HENRY J. and CHAS. Q. SANGER. 

Proprietors of The Ethermore 
Fruit and S. C. Buff Orping- 
ton Farm. 
R. P. D. NO. 2, DAYTON, VA. 



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[December, 




F t. Lewis Stock Fa rm 

THE BEST PLACE FOR BLCOD AND RBQISTHRKD 

BERKSHmES 

White Leghorn, t»ll breeds of Plymouth Rock, Black 
Minorca and Rhode Island Red Fewls. Eggs from these 
pure-blooded birds for sale. 

DR. W, li. NOIiBN, PROPRIBTOR, SAXEM. VA. 




Tro''«(IWWItJ"lrJ'~n"''^ '^-^ 



SINGLE COMB RHODE 

ISLAND REDS. 

For years I have been breeding Reds 
from the finest strains in America, till 
now I have a strain of fowls unsur- 
passed in beauty, size, laying qualities 
and hardiness. I have only the most 
select fowls left for sale, so order 
promptly if you want tliem. I have 
some early hatched Pullets and Cocke- 
rels of extra quality and can mate you 
especcially fine pairs, trios and pens. 
I have some 2 and 3-year-old Hens 
also, w^hich have proven to be splendid 
breeders, which I will mate up with 
early hatched Cockerels. Orders book- 
ed now for eggs in season at $2 per IB 
from my finest pens. Eggs carefully 
packed. 

ROBERT G. HUNDLEY, 
Box 118, Farmville, Va. 

SHIRLEY POULTRY YARDS 

Mammoth Bronze Turkeys, National 
strain; won 2 blues at Richmond Fair. 

E. B. Thompson's celebrated Ringlet 
Barred Plymouth Rocks cannot be ex- 
celled in size, vigor, beauty or egg 
production. 

Mammoth Fekin Ducks. 

All birds furnished not akin. Write 
for prices. 
Mrs. R. E. WILHOIT, Somerset, Va. 

A BARGAIN IN 

WHITE LEGHORNS 

COCKS AND COCKERELS. 

Several extra fine, yellow^-legged, 

erect carriage, vigorous birds, of both 

Fogg strain, Kentucky, and Mt. 

Pleasant strain, Maryland, from our 

utility pens with high egg records. 

PALMYRA POULTRY RANGE, 

Palmyra, Va. 

BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS 

150 Pullets and Cockerels for sale. Our 
stock has won first and second prizes 
at Washington, Richmond, Baltimore. 
Good layers. We satisfy or return 
your money. 

W. L. ELSEA, Berryville, Va. 

EXHIBITION GAMES. 

Red Pyle and Black-Breasted Red. 
"The Most Beautiful of all Birds." 

Flrst-Class Stock for Sale. 
For Ornament and Utility as Well 

For prices, etc., address 
B. J. PLEASANTS, ASHLAND, VA. 

MISS LOUISE V. SPENCER, 
BlackBtone, Va. 

PURE BRED R. C. RHODE ISLAND 

RED 

STOCK FOR SALE. 

Member of R. I. R. Club of America. 

BROOKDALE FARM, 

Pocahontas County, West Virginia, 

Red Polled Cattle. 

of best breeding. The cattle that suit 

the Virginia farmer best. Write fer 

photographs and records. 

DORSET SHEEP. 
A Prime Yearling Ram and a Few 

Choice Ewes. 
J. D. ARBVCKLE. H. D.. CanB. fV. Va. 



visibly beneath the box plait at the 
left of the front. The shield is separ- 
ate and attached under the collar. 
The sleeves are cut in one piece each, 
are gathered and finished with pretty 
flaring cuffs. 

The quantity of material required 
for the medium size (10 years) is 
6 yards 24 or 27, 4% yards 32, or 3% 
yards 44 inches wide, with % yard 
18 inches for shield, and 14 yards of 
banding. 

The pattern 6481 is cut in sizes for 
girls 6, 8, 10, and 12 years of age. 

These patterns are 10 cents from 
the Southern Planter, Richmond. Va. 



ANNOUNCEMENT. 

The Virginia State Horticultural So- 
ciety will meet in the Auditorium, 
Winchester, Va., on Wednesday and 
Thursday, January 5th and 6th, 1910. 
The sessions will be called to order 
promptly at 10 A. M., and 2:30 P. M. 
each day. 

The fruit exxhibit will be open to 
the general public after the judge has 
made the awards. The services of 
Prof. S. B. Heiges have been secured 
to act as judge of exhibits. 

Admission to the meeting is free 
to all, and the public are cordially in- 
vited to attend, but only members 
of the Society are entitled to pari- 
citpate in discussions, unless by per- 
mission of the presiding officer. 

Only members of the Society are 
entitled to be present in executive 
sessions. 

A very Interesting and instructive 
programme has been arranged, and is 
herewith presented. The premium list 
and schedule of classes for the fruit 
exhibit have already been distributed, 
and will be found reprinted at the 
end of this programme. 

A cordial invitation to join the 
membership of the Society is extend- 
ed to all who are interested in horti- 
culture, or who, from a public spirit, 
desire to advance the fruit growing 
industry of Virginia. 

OUTLINE PROGRAMME. 

Wednesday, January 5th — Morning 
Session, 10 A, M. — Opening Exercises 
— Prayer by Rev. J. Horace Lacy. 

Address of Welcome — Hon. R. T. 
Barton. 

Response — Dr. S. W. Fletcher, 
Blacksburg, Va. 

President's Annual Address — Hon. 
W. W. Sproul, Middlebrook, Va. 
Appointment of Committees. 

On Resolutions — Auditing Treasur- 
ers, Accounts; Membership; Nomina- 
tion of Officers for ensuing year. 



OLD ENGLISH 

Sheep Dogs 

Prices and Pedigrees 
on Application. 

Address 

ALLEN DALE FARMS 
Shelbyville, Ky. 



SETTER PUPS 

Have a litter of Gladstone Setter 
Pups for sale at reasonable price. 
Four males, one female. Color, white 
and black spots. Their mother Ig a 
fine hunter, registered and eligible to 
field trials. Write for photo a nd 
prices. 

J. B. WaddlU, Tate Springs, Tenn. 

Reference: City National Bank, 
Morrlstown, Tenn. 




A choice litter of Scotch Collies 
now ready for shipment. Correct 
type and the Intelligent kind. Sire 
a New York winner. An excellent 
Christmas present for any member 
of the family. Cheap, If taken this 
month. 

WARREN RICE, 
Vaucluse Station, Va. 



DORSET SHEEP 

My lambs are coming now, and are 
dandles. I am ready to book orders 
for June and July delivery. My Dor- 
sets are of the very best breeding. 
Give me a trial; I know I can please 
you. My prices are right. 

Address H. H. ARBUCKLE. 

Edgewood Stock Farm, 

Maxwelton, W. Va. 

WOODLAND FARM 

DORSET SHEEP 

No Ewes for sale, and only a few 
Rams left. We have three or feur 
flock-headers among these, which we 
offer at reasonable prices. Better or- 
der before they are all gone. 
CHAS. B. W^ING, 
Successor to J. E. Wing & Bros., 
Mechanlcsbors:, Ohio. 

Always mention The Southern 
Planter when writing advertisers. 




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Detached- 
Lid Raised. 



Stand 
On the Record 



I point with pride to the "QUEEN" Incubator. 

Its magnificent record has amply justified my 
claim that in *'hatchability" and durability it stands 
supreme and alone. 

The "QUEEN" is the only incubator that 
always hatches healthy chicks, turkeys, ducks or 
geese — that always automatically holds its proper 
temperature — that always ventilates automatic- 
ally — without chilling eggs — that always saves fuel 
and annoyance at every hatching — that lasts so long 
that it may always be sold on a legal 5 year guarantee. 

I am willing to go about the limit in making 
poultry friends and getting folks to try my 
"QUEEN." 

1. I'll give you 90 days to try it. Or I'll give 

you more time if you say three months 
aren't enough. 

2. If you decide to keep the "QUEEN," 

I'll warrant it for five (5) years. Drav/ 
up the guarantee to suit you if you 
don't Uke mine. I'll sign it and 
back it up. I am giving the incu- 
bator fellows that talk "guarantees" 
something to think about. I make 
the best incubator in the world and 
never have been a bit squeamish 
about protecting my customers. 

3. rilpaythe freight on any"QUEEN" 

and give you a bargain — direct from 
my factory — based on the one small 
profit that will be made on 20,000 
"QUEEN" Incubators this season. 

Getting an incubator should be like 
getting any other machine. You're get- 
ting it to use — to hatch chickens that 
will grow into money for you — and you 
don't want to overlook QUALITY. 
But you may say that a cheaper machine 
will do the work just as well. Perhaps 
it will to-day — but how about a year 
from now ? Why not let the thousands 
of "QUEENS " in the homes all over 
this country prove which is the best 
machine for you? You can't get 
"QUEEN" results with anything but 
a "QUEEN." Please remember this. 




NOTICE! 

I want it 
emphatically 
understood 
by the n:any 
good readers of 
this paper 
that I 
personally 
stand back of 
the 58,341 
"QUEEN" 
Incubators 
which 

my company 
has sold since 
five years ago 
to-day ; 
that I will 
stake every 
dollar I have, 
and my 
home place, if 
it is necessary^ 
to make good 
every offer 
and statement 
I make here 
or elsewhere. 



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are really interested, you won't mind spending a cent to get my 
1910 Incubator and Brooder Book. I am sure it costs me many 
times as .iiuch to furnish the book and pay postage on it. I wrote 
this book myself and 1 took plenty of time and space to do it and make 
it interesting. You are mighty welcome to it whether you want an 
incubntor now or next month or next year. Let me urge you to see 
this Free Book before you buy. I think we can "trade" to mutual 
advantage. If we can't, you are not out anything. 

If you have no postal handy, fill out this coupon and mail it 
some time to-day. I'll be sure to rush the "QUEEN" Book to you, 
and you will spend many oleasant hours reading what I say and what 
many of th se who are u.ing "QUEENS" say. Plenty of illustra- 
tions and chici^en talk to liven it up ! My handy Poultry Record 
Book can be hail, too, for the asking, and Coupon brings both. 

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[December, 



STOCK FOR SALE 

I ofCer a couple of nice 

PERCHERON STALLIONS 

at prices that will r.ialie a good in- 
vestment for some one. 

ALSO 

Registered Saddle Stallion 

Coming 3 years old^^-^a good one 



ALSO 

Registered BerKshire Ho^s 

Including several Sows and Pigs of 
either sex. 

You will be welcomed on the farm 
to inspect my offerings. 

JOHN P. LEAVIS, Proprietor, 

Lynn-wood Stock Farm, 

Lynnwood, Va. 

(Lewis Station on Farm.) 



HOME=RAISED 

HORSES FOR SALE 

CHEAP 

Black Mare; 7 years old; 15% hands; 
1,050 pounds. Drives nicely. Works 
virell everywhere. 

Black Mare; 5 years old; 15% hands; 
1,025 pounds. Very handsome and 
stylish. Good traveler. Very com- 
pact. Works everywhere. 

Black Mare; 7 years old; 15% hands; 
1,050 pounds. Gentle and stylish. 
Fast in harness. 

Pair 2% -Year-Old Well-Matche-d Black 
Horse Mules; 14 hands; 800 pounds 
each Have been driven some. 

Bay Mare Mule; 3% years old; 15% 
hands; 900 pounds. Thoroughly 
broken to all farm machinery. 
' W. M. WATKINS, 

Saxe, Charlotte Connty, Va. 



SHETLAND PONIES 

Choice Pony Mares and Stallions 
for breeding purposes, and broken 
ponies for children. 

Can be seen at H. C. Seattle's 
farm, Richmond, Va., or at my farm. 

C. H. NOLTING, 
Trevilian, Va. 



FINE 

Thoroughbred Stallion 

JOHN DYE, FOR SALE. 

Bay horse, 16.2 hands high; weight 
1,200 pounds; foaled 1899. Bred by 
A. B. Speckles, Napa Studs. San Fran- 
cisco. To be seen at "Hanfield," Orange 
county. Va. 

For particulars address MISSES 
CRENSHAW, Rapidan, Va. 

FOR mORGAN COLTS 

and Fillies and Hlgh-Bred Fox Houn'd 
Puppies. Address 

Dr. JOHN D. MASSENGILL, 
BlonntTllle, Tenn. 



Report of Secretary-Treasurer — 
Walter Whately. Crozet, Va. 

Address — "The Natural Advantages 
of Virginia for Fruit Growing, and the 
Value of Co-operation in Orchard Op- 
erations,"Col. G. B. Brackett, U. S. 
Pomologist, Washington, D. C. 

Report of Committee on the Rate 
Question — Hon. J .B. Watkins, Chair- 
man. 

Discussion on Above — Led by Hon. 
Hy. C. Stuart and S. B. Woods. 

(Members having complaints on 
this subject are requested to take 
part in this discussion.) 

Wednesday Afternoon Session, 

2:30 P. M. 

"Spraying the Apple Orchard to 

Save the Crop."— W. M. Scott, U. S. 

Dept. of Agriculture, Washington, D. 

C. 

"Some Problems in Marketing Ap- 
ples" — (With special reference to 
Winchester District) — Hon. S. L. 
Lupton, Winchester, Va. 
Question Box. 

Wednesday, Night Session, 
7:30 P. M. 
"Profits to be Made by Raising 
Vegetables for Local Markets, and 
Best Methods of Producing Good 
Crops" — Prof. T. C. Johnson, Superin- 
tendent Virginia Truck Experiment 
Station, Norfolk, Va. 

Reports of Standing Committees. 

Thursday, January 6th, 

Morning Session — 10 A. M. 

Report of Judge of Fruit Exhibit. 

List of Awards — Prof. S. B. Heiges, 

(Judge). 

Report of Society's Exhibits at State 
Fair and Pittsburg. — H. C. Wysor, 
Dublin. 

"How Can Fruit Growers Co-oper- 
ate?" — H. W. Collingwood, Editor of 
Rural New Yorker. 

"The Bearing Orchard" — S. B. 
Woods, Charlottesville, Va. 

' Comparison of the Box and Bar- 
rel Apple Package for Use in Virgin- 
ia" — Dr. S. W. Fletcher, Director, 
Blacksburg, Va. 

"On Advertising the State—" — Dr. 
J. B. Emerson, New York and Albe- 
marle. 

On adjournment after Morning Ses- 
sion, members are invited to inspect 
the orchards of Hon. S. L. Lupton, 
where lunch will be provided by his 
hospitality. 
Afternoon Session — On Return from 

Orchard— 3:00 P. M. 
Executive Session — To transact So- 
ciety's business. 

Report of Committee on Legisla- 
tion — Election of Officers. 

Place and date of next meeting. 
Plan scope of work for ensuing year, 
etc. (None but members in good 
standing are admitted to Executive 
Session.) 
Unfinished business. 

Night Session— 7:30 P. M. 
Reports of Committees. 
Unfinished Business. 
Stereopticon Lecture — Pruning the 
Orchard— Prof. H. L. Price. 



RED POLLS 



The great breed for milk, butter 
and beef and the best for the South. 
I still have some handsome young- 
sters, well grown and sired by a 
son of the first prize and champion 
cow at the St. Louis Exposition. 
No better breeding. Prices reason- 
able. 

ARROWHEAD STOCK FARM, 
Samuel B. Woods, Proprietor, 
Charlottesville, Va. 



REGISTERED 

Ayrshire Heifers 

TWO YEARS OLD. 

Sire'd by Clarence's Star, 8261. 

The Heifers offered are half sisters 

to Queen Esther, 22563, now on test 

with a record of 9,500 pounds of milk 

in ten months. 

H. C. GROOME, Alrlie Farm, 

Warrenton, Va. 

ESSEX HOGS, SOUTH DOWN 
SHEEP, ANGUS CATTLE 

On account of very short corn crop 
I am offering some pure-bred Essex 
Boars, 4-5 months old, and a number 
of Sows; one extra fine 3-*-year Boar 
one pure-bred 3-year-old Bull one 
registered Cow; a number of South- 
down Sheep, Lambs and two 4-year- 
old Ewes and Bam. 

L. G. JONES, 

R. F. D. No. 1, Tobaccoville. N. C. 

^ACKS AND 
STALLIONS 

and Saddle Stallions. A.s us'aal. we 
won more premiums on our Jack .siock 
This year than any other breeder in the 
bluegrass. Write for catalogue or visit 
the Cook Farms. 

J. F. COOK & CO.. 

Lexington. Ky. 




Jack for Sale 

Three years old, over 14 hands, good 
condition and a sure foal getter. 
Will sell cheap. 

R. D. MABON, BLACKSTONE, VA. 



J. A. STROXJGH, 

Breeder of pure bred 

BELGIAN HORSES 

stallions, Mares and Colts for sale; 
Imported and native bred. 

CRIMORA. VA. 

CHESTER WHITES 

Best hog on earth. Fall pigs now 
coming. Please let us have your or- 
ders. Satisfaction guaranteed. 
S. M. WISECARVER, Rnstbnrgr, Va. 



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118S 




Poultry Facts 




You can't shut a laying hen in a closed 
coop; limit your responsibility to a few 
handfuls of grain a day, and continue (for long) to 
collect eggs. You can't leave growing chicks to dew, 
and wet and sour feed and count them all next winter. 
But you can — by practicing "The Dr. Hess Idea" 
of poultry feeding — keep the henlaying and the chick grow- 
ing, even under most discouraging conditions. A little of 

DR. HESS PouHry PAN-1-CE-A 

fed once a day in soft feed to hens and chickens, works wonders for both. Pouhry Pan-a-ce-a is a /o«»<- ; 
it aids digestion and assimilation, so that the hen gets the greatest benefit from her feed. It goes far toward 
restoring natural conditions to the shut-up fowl and thus— feeling natural and being well nourished— 
she lays abundance of eggs. In the same way, by aiding digestion, it helps the chick and all other 
fowls receiving it. It also cures Gapes, Cholera, Roup, etc. Poultry Pan-a-ce-a gives vitality 
to resist disease and, where consistently given, adds immensely to the profits in the poultry 
business. A penny's worth feeds 30 fowls one day. Sold on a written guarantee. 
1% lbs. 2^c ; maU op express 40c ; 5 lbs. 60c ; 12 lbs. $1.25 ; 25 lb. paU $2.50 
Except in Canada and extreme West and South- 

DR. HESS & CLARK, Ashland, Ohio. 

Send 2 cents for Dr. Hess W-page Poultry Book, free. ^^^^^^^^fc^^^^lf^^^J 

DD UirOQ CTrt^lT KR^^n ^^°^^ raisers often face a serious problem. Cows shrink in milk and 
— fitOM.O I WIV I^'VU "feeders" are slow about fatting. Usually the trouble is over-taxed 
digestive organs. When cow or steer seems to be "off feed' ' and doing poorly, give a small portion, twice a day, of 
Dr. Hess Stock Food. That will restore appetite and give tone to every organ. Then if the same simple practice 
is followed out consistently, the profits at both pail and scale will be more satisfactory. Sold on a written guarantee. 
100 lbs. $5.00. 25 lb. pall $1.60. Except in Canada and extreme West and South. 
Smaller quantities at a slight advance. 
Send 2e for Dr. Hess Stock B ook, Free. 

INSTANT LOUSE KILLER KILLS LICE 




BERKSHIRE PIGS 

T*or Sale hy tHe 

TEST FARM 

of the Department of Agriculture and 
Immigration. 

Excellent Berkshire Pigs by a son 
of the champion. Premier Longfellow, 
and out of excellent sows of the best 
of breeding. 

Also a fine mature registered RED 
POUL, BULL. 

Address E. W. MAGRUDER, 

Department of Agriculture, 

Richmond, Va. 

HIGH-CLASS BERKSHIRES 

State Fair Winners 

Virginia's Premier Rival, 117,983, the 
undefeated boar, at the head of my 
herd. Gilts bred and ready for ser- 
vice; 3-monthi-old Boar Pigs. Place 
your order with me and get stock ac- 
cording to representation. 

E. F. SOMBIERS, Somerset, Vn. 

Always mentJon The Southern 
Planter when writing advertisers. 



The Right Hon. James Bryce, the 
British Ambassador, is the happy pos- 
sessor of many gifts, and besides be- 
ing a statesman, a man of letters, and 
a scholar, he is a lover of nature. 
He thinks there are many features 
of American scenery which are not 
commonly recognized, and he de- 
scribes them in a novel and pictur- 
esque article, which will soon appear 
in The Youth's Companion. 



Many people will be surprised to 
hear that John Tyler, the tenth Presi- 
dent of the United States, has a sur- 
viving son in the president of the an- 
cient College of William and Mary in 
Virginia — Dr. Lyon G. Tyler. The 
Tyler estate was on the James River, 
and the farmer President fancifully 
called it Sherwood Forest and himself 
Robin Hood. In an article soon to 
appear in The Youth's Companion Dr. 
Tyler gives sqme charming reminis- 
cences of him, and pictures the bright 
days of Virginia before the war. 



Princess Anne Co., Va., Oct. 12, '09. 
I think the Southern Planter is the 
best paper or journal of its kind that 
I ever read. O. C. ACKISS. 



THOROUGHBRED 

BERKSHIRE BOARS, 
JERSEY BULL CALVES, 
DORSET BUCK LAMBS. 

sire of calces, VTjTISQ rOX, <S4S«» 
■on of Flying Fox, who sold for |7,S0O 
at the Cooper sale, 1902. 

All ateck in best condition and aruar- 
anteed as represented. 

F. T. BNGLiISH, CentreirUIe, Ml. 

PURE-BRED 

POLAND-CHINA 

Pigs eight weeks old, $6 each. Sired 
by prize boars and will give satisfac- 
tion or we will refund your money. 
Let us have your order. 

E. W. JOIVES NURSERY CO., 
AVoodlan'n, Va. 

REGISTERED 

POL/XND-CHINA 

Hogs for sale. Finely bred stock at 
reasonable prices. Also 

DORKING-MUSCOVY DUCKS. 

HENRY CAJMDEN. Timber Ridge, Va. 
Please mention the Southern Planter. 



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[December, 



BERKSHIRES 




I am offering some excellent hogs, 
both English and American strains, 
at very reasonable prices. 

Young Brood Sows, Boars ready 
for service, and Weanling Pigs, 8 to 
10 weeks old. 

S. C. Brown Leghorns an'J Mam- 
moth Bronze Turkeys. 

Inquiries promptly answered. 
T^^ A. "^^LLEROT, 
Brett. King William County, Va. 



LARGE YORKSHIRES 

Herd'HeaderH and Dams of Herd Im- 
ported. 

Boar and Sow Pigs by massive im- 
ported boar out of big sows that raise 
10 to 12 pigs to a litter. These are 
fashionable Yorkshires, but not as 
high priced as fashionable Berkshires. 
We kept four fashionable Berkshires 
■for a year, but they were too w^ell bred 
to raise a pig. We got 48 pigs from 
four Yorkshire sows, same time, same 
care. We gave up Berkshires. Our 
Yorkshires come so fast and thick we 
are almost giving them away. Write 
for figures. 

OVERBROOK FARM. 
8 W. ConTvay Street, Baltimore, Md. 



TAM^VORTH PIGS. 

From Registered Stock ^of Fine 
Breeding. 

Knowle of Cook Farm 5087 at 
head of herd. Sire 2nd prize boar 
at Royal Show, Eng., 1907., Dam 
1st prize gilt at same show, 1907. 

VOLNEY OSBUBN, 
Bluemont, Loudoun Co., Va. 



MONTROSE FARM, 

Louisa Couny, Va. 

BREEDER OF REGISTERED 

DUROC JERSEY HOGS 

FINEST STRAIN. 
Beautiful pigs for sale, both sexes, 
at farmers' prices. 

Express Office: Trevilian, Va. 

JOHN F. T. ANDERSON, 

Poin'jexter, Va. 

M. J. Langenderfer sold $1350.00 worth of 
thoronghbred pigs from five of our 0. 1. C. 1-2 
ton Sows last year. 

Positively only perfect ^^^^ ^^ 

stock shipped by us. ^^^^ /""^ T f "* 
See our guarantee ^^. J^— ' ••■- r!*— ^* 
againit Cholera. Write ^*^ -^TOTl HOOS 



Write 
t0(la> for illustrated circu- 
lar and price list showing 
some of our famous herd. 

TheH. S. Nelson Co., 907 CaxtonBldg., Cleveland, 0. 

Berkeley Co., W. Va.. June 19, 1909. 
I appreciate the Southern Planter 
more and more as I read each issue. 
CHAS. P. LIGHT. 



TUBERCULOSIS (CONSUMPTION). 
Editor Southern Planter: — For 
some time 1 have been giving the 
subject of the cure and prevention 
of tuberculosis some thought and it 
occurs to me that the people need ed- 
ucating on this subject in order to 
understand and realize the import- 
ance of precautions and treatment 
before the disease has advanced to 
the incurable stage. It is amazing 
wha/t ignorance there is on this sub- 
ject in all classes. The disease ad- 
vances so gradually, with only weak- 
ness and occasional colds, that the 
loved ones around do not realize that 
it is even present, xnis is where l 
take the family physician to task 
Too often he recognizes the trouble, 
but fails to notify the family, treating 
the patient for cold, rheumatism or 
whatever the complication happens 
to be. Often he carelessly fails to 
diagnose the case; this is really very 
difficult and can often only be detect- 
ed by the expert, but if there are 
any symptoms why doesn't he send 
the patient to an expert? Of course 
such physicians are scarce but all of 
them are beginning to open their 
eyes now that the states have taken 
this matter up, but I cannot help be- 
lieving that to this carelessness is 
due in a great measure the terrible 
spread of the dread destroyer. I 
know of some instances in which the 
physician failed to advise any pre- 
cautions save the destruction of food 
left by the patient and others using 
the same food vessels. In this case 
little children slept in the room and 
even in the bed with a bed ridden 
patient. We need hospitals scattered 
over the country, absolutely in the 
country both for the curable patients 
and the incurable. In the latter the 
danger of contagion is much greater 
and among the poor the spread is 
rapid, their ignorance, bad sanitary 
conditions and poor food must make 
it so. For these we need a hospital 
at once and old Virginia should rouse 
herself to raise a fund and make for 
its dvin; poor a home which will give 
comfort to these poor sick ones and 
save the country at large from the 
terrible spread of the disease, which 
these poor sufferers cause. Why can- 
not we have an organization and at- 
tend to this vital matter at once. 
A SUBSCRIBER. 

"V^.'e understand that the State Sani- 
tarium for Tuberculous patients re- 
cently established in Piedmont, Vir- 
ginia, is now open and receiving pa- 
tients. Parties interested should 
write to Dr. Enion G. Williams, of the 
Virginia Department of Health, Rich- 
mond, Va., for information as to this 
institution. Ed. — 



Rare Opportunity 

To secure pure-bred stock. Chester 
White, Poland-China and Berkshire 
Pigs; Jersey Bulls and Heifers; Lin- 
coln, Hampshire and Shropshire Down 
Sheep; Scotch Collie Dogs. Variety of 
poultry. Send 2-cent stamp for circu- 
lar. 
BDWARD WALTER, Went Chester, Pa. 

Devon Herd Bstabliahed 1884. 
shire Down Flock Batabllah*d 188 

DEVON CATTLE 

BUIiliS AND HBIFBRS, 

HAHPSHIRBDOTimr SHBHP, 

RAMS AND B'WBS. 

ROBESRT J. FARRKR, Ommse, Ya. 

PURE-BRED 

BERKSHKRES 

POLIKND-CHINAS 

TAMWORTHS 

Pigs from Registered Stock for sale. 
Several Berkshire and Tamworth 
Boars ready for service. 

J. C. GRAVES, BarboarsvlUe, Va. 

PREMIER BERKSHIRES 

The larg-e, lengthy, rrowthy kind. A 
line lot of pigrs, bred from flrst-olaM 
BOWS, ready for April delivery; prlea* 
right. B. P. Rock eggs $1 for IS. 
J. T. OI/ITBR, AlleB'a lierel. Ta. 



, Reg. P. Chinas, BerkshlrML 
IC. Whites. Large strains. All 
ages, mated, not akin. Bred 
Sows, Service Bears, auemMT 
Calv«s, Collie and Bearle Pupa 
[and poultry. Write for prloev 
and circular. 

P. F. HAMIIiTON, 
CochranvlUe, Chester Ge. Pa. 




Elizabeth City Co. Va., Sept. 11, '09. 

The Southern Planter is a very fine 
paper and I do not see how I could 
get along without it. 

ALLEN WASHINGTON. 



Walnut mik Herd. 



Twenty-flv« Registered Angus fe- 
males and two bulls for sale. 

J. P. THOMPSON, Oraase. Va. 

Aberdeen-Angus Cattle 

Some fine registered Bull and Heifer 

Calves at farmers' price? 

•WM. M. WATKINS, 

Saxe. Charlotte Co., Va. 

PURE BRED 

Hereford Bull 

Calves, weighing about 600 pounds for 
sale. Price $60 each. 

J. L,. PITTS. ScottsTllIe. Va. 

SOME 

Good Short Horn 

Bull Calves and Heifers, sired by 

Royal, 302905, for sale. Come or write. 

J. F. CAMPER, Sprlngwood, Va. 



Combination and Golden Lad. For sale 

16 Cows, 13 heifers, 12 Bulls. 

S. E. NIVEN, Lnndenbersr. Pa. 

Tell the advertiser where you sail 
his advertisement. 



1909.] 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



1185 



Want Ads. 



Rates 2 cents per word. Cash with 
order. Initials and flRuros count a.s 
one word: 25 cents minimiiin cliarse. 



POUIiTRT, ETC. 



SINGLE COMB RHODE ISLAND 
Reds — A few last year's breeding 
Hens, some Pullets and some mag- 
nlHcent Cockerels left. If vou want 
some of the "best in the South" you 
had better order quick. Trios. $5 to 
$8; Cockerels. $2 to $5. This well- 
known strain Is not only pre- 
eminent In the show room, but g-ives 
wonderful layers. I own a hen, 
beautiful and shapely as a p'uUet, 
that has laid over 900 eggs. I shali 
carry but 30 layers this season — all 
wonderful show- specimens, and am 
booking egg orders now. You can- 
not afford to miss this. Big, pink, 
fertile eggs, $2 per 13: $6 per 50. 
Dr. J. H. C. Winston, Hampden- 
Sidney, Va. 

E. B. THOMPSON'S FAMOQS RING- 
lets soar the highest at America's 
Imperial Show, Madison Square 
Garden. New York. I have about 
one hundred of this celebrated stoi-' 
for sale. Their qualities cannot be 
excelled for layers, plumage, healtli 
anvJ general appearance. Have •' 
especially fine Yearling Roosters. 
Satisfaction guaranteed. Terms on 
application. S. G. Roadcap. Look 
Box 77, "Waynesboro. Augusta Coun- 
ty. Va. 



GEESE— TOULOUSE AND BROWN 
China: Ducks, Aylesburv, Blue 
Swedish, White Muscovv. Colored 
Muscovy and Mallard; Black, White, 
Silver and Columbian Wvandottes; 
R. I. Reds, Houdans. Black Lang- 
shans; Black, White and Brown Lear- 
horns, Pit Games, White and Duck- 
wing Bantams. Prices. $1 and up. 
Winners at State and three other 
fairs this fall. Dennis Bros. & Co.. 
Charles City. Va. 

BARRED PLTMOTTTH ROCKS Ex- 
clusively. .=!plpnvlid winter lavers. 
Can furnish strictly fresh eggs for 
hatching in incubator lots " if de- 
sired. $5 per hundred. Larare. beauti- 
fully marked cockerels $1.25 each. 
Excellent values for the money. One 
pair large, young Muscow du^k^. 
J2. Mrs. Keesee Brooking. Somerset. 
Va. 



MAMMOTH BRONZE. WHITE HOT,- 
land Turkeys. White Wyandotte. 
White Leghorn. R. T. Red Pnultrv. 
Choice stock bred from winnprs. 
Prices right, satisfaction srnaranteed. 
Circular free. Falrview Farm. 
Shrewsbury, Pa. 



ROSE COMB BROWN LEGHORNS 

Won first pen. first cock, first cocke- 
rel Virginia State Fair. 130S. \ fow- 
beautiful Cockerels for snip. Penin- 
sula Poultry Yards. "Willinmshurg 
Va. 

COCKERELS FOR SALE 90 CENTS 
each — ^Buff Omingtons. Brown T,e<r- 
hoTns. Black Minorcas, Lnkenvelders. 
Pekin Ducks and Indian Runner 
Drakes. ?1. IVTrs. F^nnk .Tohnson. 
Route No. 1. Louisa. Va. 

FOR SALE — STNGLE-Cn:vrB T^'HTTE 
Leghorn and Barred Plvmoutli Rock 
Cockerels at SI each If more th.in 
two are ordered. 75 cents pqcV) 
Samuel P. Powell.. Plentiful Creek 
Farm. Plentiful. Va. 

O. O. HARRISON. MT. TtT,T,A '^^ ^' 
Breeder of Good "Wiitte Wyandottp<' 



SPECIAL DECEMBER SALE — MOUN- 
tain View Poultry Farm, the place 
for healthy, puru-breU stock. Im- 
proved Yorksliire Pigs, seven weeks 
old, 13.50 each, $6 pair, from regis- 
tered stock. Pure-bred Single Comb 
Black Minorcas and Cornisli Indian 
Game Cliickcns — tlie kind lliat pays — 
$1 each, $10 per dozen. Write your 
wants. S. H. Carpenter, Novum. Va. 



FOR SALE — S. C. RHODE ISLAND 
Red Chickens of tlie clioicest breed- 
ing. Can furnish trios and pens free 
of smut and red to tlie skin. Also 
S. C. Brown Leghorns from tlie 
choicest prize winning families of 
the best egg i)roducing strains. My 
birds are of the best breeding that 
can lie obtained. Order early and get 
something good. Address Evergreen 
Farms, Rice Depot. Va. 

EARLY HATCHED WHITE HOLLAND 
Turkeys, Wliite African Guineas. 
White Wyandotte and Barred Ply- 
mouth liock Cockerels, Toulouse 
Geese, Indian Runner Drakes. All 
of best breeding and fine stock. Well 
worth money's value. Satisfaction 
guaranteed. Blue Hill Poultry Yards, 
Somerset. Va. 

FOR SALE FROM PURE-BRED 
stock, April hatched. White Holland 
Turkeys: very fine Toulouse Geese, 
$2 a piece; Indian Runner Ducks: 
few Barred Rock Hens, $1 a piece. 
Mrs. M. F. Gooch. Somerset, Orange 
county, Va. 

HAVE A FEW MORE COCKERELS, 
Yearling Hens and Pullets of the 
following strains: R. and S. C. R. I. 
Reds. R. and S. C. Black Minorcas, 
Barred and Buff Rocks. S. C. Brown, 
Buff and White Leghorns. Eggs for 
hatching in season. Albert Nichols, 
Prop., Belmont Poultry Farm. Luray. 
Va. 



COCKERELS AND DRAKES FOR 
sale — March and .Tune hatched S. C. 
Brow-n Leghorn Cockerels: April 
hatched Indian Runner Drakes. 
Meadow Grove Farm. Ivy Depot. Va. 

LARGE SINGLE COMB RHODE 
Island Red Cockerels, spring hatch- 
ed, $1 each. These arp farm raised 
and beautifully marked birds. Mrs. 
E. Vi^. Brooking. Somerset, Va. 

STANDARD-BRED BUFF ROCKS. 
Bred for size and eggs. Three 'Pul- 
lets and Cockerel, $3.50. Satisfac- 
tion guaranteed. John E. Morris, 
Orange. Va. 

"REDS" FOR SALE. OLD AN^^^ a-^t'^t^ 
Some "gilt-edge" stuff; all reason- 
able priced. Also large size "Be.<t 
Make" Bone Cutter, verv cheap. TV 
Shook. McGaheysville. Va. 

.TERSET BULLS. ONE AND TWO 
years old. pure VvVed from great 
producing cows. $25 and $30: Hol- 
steln. two years old. $35. Dennis 
Bros. & Co.. Binns Hall. Va. 
— — ■ 

ROSE-COMB RHODE ISLAND RED 
Cockerels. Verv fine; from prize 
winners; $2 to $5 each, according to 
oualitv. Dr. E. L. Marshall. Big 
Island. Va. 

BLACK LANG SHAN AND SINGLE 
Comb Rhode Island Red RoostPrs. 
Finp birds at low oricps. Also other 
breeds. Write m"^. R'g c^talof'ue. 
10 ppnts. Tohn E Hpatwolp, HTr- 
risonburg. Va. 

BABY CHICKS — R CENTS EACH — 
Shipppd snfplv qnvwhere. Culver 
■Poultrv Farm. 94S Burnham. Benson. 
Neb. 

PURE-BRED BRONZE TURKEYS 
and S. C. Brown Leghorns for sale. 
Mrs. R. K. Cassell. Wytheville. Va. 



SINGLE COMB REDS OF WIL.MONT. 
Red to skin. Beauties. Only Cocke- 
rels now, $1-$1.50 each. Satisfaction 
guaranteed. Mrs. F. E. Williams. 
Charlottesville. Va. 

S. C. W. LEGHORNS — FOUR FIRST 
premiums at Roanoke Fair. Pullets 
from $1 up; Cockerels from $2 up. 
W. H. Densmore, R F. D. No. 3, 
Roanoke, Va. 

INDIAN RUNNER DRAKES, FAWN 
and white, from the very best strains 
of prolific layers, $1.50 each. Satis- 
faction assured. J. E. Rhodemyre, 
Virginia City, Va. 

PURE-BRED GAME STAGS FOR 
sale from Virginia State Fair win- 
ners. Write for a few rare bargains 
this month. Peninsula Poultry 
Yards, Williamsburg, Va. 

FOR SALE — CHOICE S. C. WHITE 
Leghorn Cockerels. Price reason- 
able. Address T. C. Morton, Rice 
Depot, Va. 

ORDER YOUR MUSCOVY DUCK>=5 
now. The ducks with habits of wild 
ducks and equally as hardy; $3 per 
pair. W. B. Coleman, Mannboro. Va. 

PURE-BRED S. C. BROWN LEGHORN 
stock for sale. Eggs for hatching 
In season. Corespondence solicited. 
G. William Smith, Orange, Va. 

^ 

PURE-BRED PEKIN DT^CKS AT A 
sacrifice between now and .Tanuary 
1st. Mrs. J. "W. Fitzgerald, R. F. D., 
.Tava. Va. 

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCK HENS 

and Cocks. $1 each; Male White 

Guineas, 50 cents each. George 
Moss. Gviiney. Va. 

FOR SALE — BARRED PLYMOUTH 
Rocks, show birds, at reasonable 
prices. Charlie Brown. Route 1, 
Cartersville. Va. 

FOR SALE — RIBBON WINNING 
White Holland Turkeys, \\'hite Ply- 
mouth Rock Cock. M. C. Bell, Shir- 
ley. Va. 

FOR SALE — PURE-BRED WHITE 
Holland Turkeys. Hens, $2; Toms, 
$3: Trio, $G. Miss A. Ellebrecht, 
Route 2. Beaver Dam, Va. 

FOR SALE — WHITE TURKEYS AND 
Guineas. Turkeys, $7 trio; Guineas, 
$1.50 pair. W. L. Elliott. Formosa, 
Va. ^^^ 

S. C. B. LEGHORN PULLETS FOR 
sale. April and May hatched, of 
Bracy's strain. B. G. Bass. Rice, Va. 

FOR SALE — PURE BLOOD PEKIN 
Ducks, spring hatch, for $1.50 a pair. 
Mrs. A. M. Mayo. North Garden, Va. 

MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEYS FROM 
prize-winning stocx. $7.50 per trio. 
T. W. Wood. Beaver Dam. Va. 

FOR SALE— WHITE HOLLAND TUR- 
keys; $6 per pair; $7 a trio. Mrs. 
John Lanford. Lahore, Va. 



ROSE-COMB SILVER-LACED WYAN- 
dottes for sale. Mrs. Fannie Carter, 
Rice, Va. 

BOURBON RED TURKEYS FOR SALE. 
Mrs. E. J. Honaker. Draper. Va. 

WANTED TO SELL TSIY ENTIRE 
stock of Rhode Island Reds at low- 
prices, to go out of business. See 
advertisement, page 1180. Robert G. 
Hundley, P. O. Box 118, Farmville, 
Va. 



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[December, 



lilTK STOCK. 



THE VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC IN- . 
stitute has for sale pure-bred young 
males of the following breeds: Cat- 
tle — Holstelns, Jerseys, Shorthorns, 
Aberdeen- Angus and Herefords. 
Swine — Young animals of both sexed 
of the following breeds: Berk sli ires. 
Duroc-Jerseys and large Yorkshire. 
Sheep — Dorset Rams and one Shrop- 
shire Ram Lamb. Also a few Black 
Minorca and Brown Leghorn Cocke- 
rels. These animals are excellent 
Individuals in thrifty condition anU 
will be sold at very reasonable prices 
to Virginia farmers. For dairy 
breeds address Prof. Brainerd: for 
all other breeds. Dr. Mayo, Virginia 
Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, 
Va. 

FOR SALE — TEN ANGUS COWS, 
8 Heifers, choice breeding, mostly 
Prince Ito blood; 5 Hackney brood 
mares, 2 Yearling Fillies, 5 trotting- 
bred Mares, 1 Yearling 1 2-year and 
2 3-year Fillies, all high class racing 
blood and should go fast: 2 Geld 
Ings, 1 and 2 years; 1 Clydesdale 
Stallion, 2 years; 1 trotting bred 
Sallion, Don Piza, 27060. one of the 
best sons of the great Gambetta 
Wilkes. Myer & Son, Brl-dgeville, Del. 

FOR SALE — THE STANDARD BRED 
Pacing Stallion, Linkwood J., 45264. 
This horse is 7 years old. has a 
record of 2:14. but has not been 
marked. Is a rich bay with black 
points and weighs about 1,050. Cost 
his present owners $1,500. Must be 
sold to settle partnership. Will ex- 
change for Percheron stallion, mares 
or mare colts, or for Galloway cows 
or heifers. Walter E. Hathaway, 
White Stone, Va. 



FOR SALE — IMPORTED GERMAN 
Coach Stallion, 4 years old, 16 hands 
high, weighs 1,350 lbs., good flat 
bone, fljie style and action, plenty 
of speed, a perfect eye and a nobis 
disposition. Have both German and 
American certificates of registration. 
A bargain for some on 5 interested in 
breeding good serviceable horses. Ad- 
dress, T. E. Roberts, Chase City, Va. 



FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE FOR 
mules or heavy farm horses, 2 to 4 
years old, 2 bull calves, 1 herd bull. 
Prince Barbara, 10 cows, 8 heifers. 
Myer & Son, Bridgeville, Del. 



FOR SALE — NICE REGISTERED 
Angus Bull, 3 years old. Took first 
prize and won blue ribbon at Dan- 
ville Fair, 1909. Kind and gentle. 
Price $50 cash, f. o. b. Danville, Va. 
F. W. Brown, Yanceyvllle, N. C. 

WANTED — GOOD HOLSTEIN YOUNG 
Cows and Heifers to come fresh 30 
to 90 days. Also pair of young large 
mules not over five years; must be 
at farmers' prices. C. F. Hodgman, 
Diamon'd Springs, Va. 



A FINE LOT OF PURE-BRED BERK- 
shire Pigs, eligible to registration, 
for sale. Satisfaction guaranteed or 
money refunded; $5 each. F. E. 
Williams, M. D., Ivy Depot, Va. 

: I 

HOLSTEINS FOR SALE. CHOICELY 
bred, high grade Holstein cows, 
heifers and registered bull calves. 
Herd tuberculin tested. C. A. Gun- 
ther, BurkeviUe, Va. 

I 

POLAND-CHINA PIGS FOR JANUARY 
delivery at bargain prices. All or- 
ders received before January gets 
Christmas bargain. Write for prices. 
W. B. Payne, Crofton, Va. 

FOR SALE — HEREFORD CATTLE, 
Duroc Hogs, Lincoln Sheep, Mam- 
moth Bronze Turkeys, R. C. R. I. 
Reds, Toulouse Geese. H. B. Howe, 
Dublin, Va. 



WANTED— TO BUY ALL KINDS 
Wild Birds and Animals, particularly 
Tame Deer, Wild Turkeys, White 
Squirrels, Peafowl, Otters, Red Foxes, 
Gray Squirrels, Partridges, Pheas- 
ants, Beaver. State price when writ- 
ing'. Dr. Cecil French, Naturalist, 
Washington, D. C. 

SCOTCH COLLIE PUPS AND GROWN 
Females for sale. Prize-winning im- 
ported stock. Shady Brook Farm, 
R. F. D. 2, Roanoke. Va. 

FOX, DEER, COON AND OPOSSUM 
Hounds and Pups, $3.50 to $15 each. 
For bargains write me. E. F. Wil- 
mouth, Shelbyville, Ky. 

RBAIi ESTATE. 



PURE-BRED JERSEYS AND POLLED 
Durhams (or Hornless Shorthorns). 
I have two fine 2 to 3-months-old 
Jersey Bull Calves by a famous 
Kentucky bred bull. Price $35 each 
or $60 for both. Polled Durham Bull 
and Heifer Calves, yearlings and 
older stock. Write for prices to 
James M. Hobbs, 1521 Mount Royal 
Avenue. Baltimore, Md. Note — See 
my one-third page ad of Sheep, Hogs 
and Poultry elsewhere in this issue. 

FOR SALE— STONEBRIDGE JACK. 
Contemplating a change in location, 
I am offering my prize winning Jack 
at a bargain price to a quick buyer. 
Three years old, sound, handsome 
an'd right in every way. A blue rib- 
bon winner in 1906. 1907 and 1908 
at the Virginia State Fair at Rich- 
mond.- Address Irving J. Coffin, 
R. F. D. No. 5. Richmond, Va. 

REMEMBER MY YORKSHIRE HOGS 
and Red Polled Cattle are of the 
best breeding, and young stock al- 
ways for sale at attractive prices. 
W. E. Stickley, Strasburg, Va. 
. I 

BERKSHIRE PIGS— B I L T M O R E 
strain, good individuals, of either 
sex. Ten fine Jersey Heifers and 
Plymouth Rock Cockerels. Every- 
thing guaranteed as represented or 
money refunded. R. S. Young, Only, 
Va. 

ONE DUROC-JERSEY MALE PIG, 3 
months old for sale: price $7. Robt. 
Boyd. R. F. D., Randolph, Va. 

BEST BREEDING OF LARGE YORK- 
shires at bargain prices. W. E. Stick- 
ley, Strasburg, Va. 



PONIES — SEVERAL SHETLAND AND 
others for children; well broken. One 
pair matche'd roan mares, 5 years, 
kind: single and double. J. M. Cun- 
ningham, Brandy Station, Va. 



FOR SALE — DUROC-JERSEYS OF 
high quality. Bred Sows, Septem- 
ber Pigs an'd Boars ready for service. 
R. W. Watson, Petersburg, Va. 

FOR SALE— FRENCH COACH STAL- 
lion. '"Dreux," 4237; dark brown; 
weight, 1,200 pounds; six years; per- 
fect and cheap. Thomas L. Hill, 
Millen, Ga. 

FOR SALE — ONE PURE-BRED HOL- 

stein Bull, 20 months old. Price 

reasonable. Especially well bred. 
R. E. Cook, Salem, Va. 

REGISTERED DUROC-JERSEY 
Swine and Rhode Island Red Cock- 
erels for sale cheap. W. P. Harsh- 
man, Thurmont, Md. 

DOGS, PET STOCK, BITO. 



FOR SALE — GERMAN BEAGLE 
Hound. A No. 1 rabbit dog: well 
trained Pointer. A No. 1 bird dog: 
one Dark Bay Gelding, 3 years old 
past, good rider and driver; also 
works "anywhere. J. L. Gray, Nor- 
wood, Va. 



BY PAYING FREIGHT CHARGE AND 
$2 pound tax, we will ship you a 
good house, watch or hunting dog. 
State kind of dog you want. Animal 
Relief Society, 2115 14th St., N. W.. 
Washington, D. C. 



FOR SAT>E— NICE POINTER DOG 
Splpnrlidlv bred; age 14 months: 
partiallv broken and being hunte'J 
rfgularlv. First check for $25 gets 
him. T. O. Wilson, News Ferry. Va 

DACHSHTTND PUPS — PURE-BRBP 

stock, imported from Germany in 
1906, for sale. Capt. P. J. von 
Schwerdtner, Annapolis. Md. 

WANTED— LIVE WILD TURKEYS 
and Pheasants for breeding purposes 
R. L. Blanton, Richmond, Va. 



WISH TO GET IN CORRESPON- 
dence with owner of farm of 100 to 
150 acres, within 20 to 30 miles of 
Washington, D. C, 1 to 1% miles 
railroad on good turnpike; 'dwelling 
8 to 10 rooms in good repair; good 
outbuildings; plenty of fruit; plenty 
of good water; wood for domestic 
purposes; land naturally good in fair 
condition; close to churches and 
schools. Wish to lease for term of 
years with privilege of buying. Will 
pay semi-annual cash rental. Keep 
up buildings as to paint and repairs 
at my own expense, except that 
essential to age. Will Improve farni 
an'd keep It in good agricultural 
shape. If farm meets my require- 
ments am willing to pay what would 
be considered a good price for rent 
Wish lease for 5 or 10 years- WiU 
pay taxes and Insurance. Will deal 
only with owner direct. "Cash, care 
Southern Pl anter. 

524 ACRES, STOCK AND MACHINERY, 
$7^00, part cash; 12 cattle, 12 swine, 
2 horses, binder, drill, harro-w. Plows, 
wagons, cultivators, etc^ included 
free with this big farm. ^O.^^er sold 
$2,700 worth of produce last year. 
Near neighbors, schools, mail de- 
livered; 3-story, 6-ropm house, 
piazza, shaded by magnificent oaks 
Everything goes for $7,200, balf 
S."^ Pag% 117 "Strout's Farm Buy- 
er"?' Guide, No. 26." Copy iree. 
E A. Strout Co.. Desk 2703. Land 
Title Buil ding, Philadelphia. Pa. 

BEAUTIFUL HOME IN CUBA: GOOO 
8-room tile roofed house 25 acre 
good land, quantity of fruit tTees 
never failing well with wind mllV 
?ne and one?half miles from city of 
?wenty thousand; fine location high, 
dry and healthy: good for tohacco. 
oranges or vegetables. ^^1^^%^,^-^.^ 
Address S. T. Holmes. Plnar del Rio. 

Cuba. ^ 

'-CTNF ESTATE FOR SALE — THREE 
^s^?s of handsome buildings; resl- 
dlnces contain 10. 9 and S./oo^s, 
five other .settlements. Beautiful sit- 
ulfion; good grazing a"d farming 
land, 1,200 acres. Will divide. Price 
$25? close to town. A. H. Clement, 
Appomattox, Va^ ^ ^ 

A FARM OF 96 ACRES, SIX MILES 
^ffom Washington; fine pike; 8-room 
house, barn and f able: some fruit 
well watered and fenced. Liberal 
terms. Southern Poultry Supply 
Co., 824 Ninth St., N. W., Washing- 
ton, D. C. _j 

WANTED— FARMS AND BUSINESSES 
Don't pay commissions. We find you 
direct buyer. Write, describing 
propertv. naming lowest price. \ve 
help buyers locate 'desirable proper- 
ties free. American Investment As- 
sociati^- "'Ttnneapolis. Minn. 

CLENDENING AND THOMAS. REAL 
Estate Agents. Round Hill. Loudoun 
county. Va. Large list of farms and 
town property In the famous Val- 
lev. ranging in price from $10 per 
acre and upwards. 



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RGAIi ESTATB (Contlnaed). 

FOR SALE— COUNTRY STORE AND 
Dwelling, four acres attached; also 
mill property with 55 acres in Bur- 
rowsville, Va.; cheap to settle estate. 
For farms, all sizes, adJress Persse 
Deverell, 623 Citizens Bank, Norfolk, 
Va. 

FARMS AND TIMBER LANDS AT 
lowest prices on easy terms; great, 
est bargains In Virginia. Write for 
catalogue. Address J. R. Elam, Char- 
lottesville, Va. 

WANTED— TO EXCHANGE CITY LOTS 
In Gulfport, Miss., for Shetland 
Ponies, Collies, Blood Hounds, or 
Fancy Poultry. J. D. StodghiU, 
Shelbyville, Ky. 

WOULD LIKE BRIEF DESCRIPTION 
of any good farm for sale in this 
locality. Give price and brief de- 
scription. P. J. Boelte, News Ferry, 
Va. 

WE CAN SELL YOUR PROPERTY. 
Send description and price. North- 
western Business Agency, Minneapo- 
lis, Minn. 

posmoirs hbii.f. 



LOCAL REPRESENTATIVE WANTED. 
Splendid income assured right man 
to act as our representative after 
learning our business thoroughly by 
mall. Former experience unneces- 
sary. All we require is honesty, 
ability, ambition and willingness to 
learn a lucrative business. No 
soliciting or traveling'. This is an 
exceptional opportunity for a man 
in your section to get into a big 
paying business without capital and 
become independent for life. TVrite 
at once for full particulars. Address 
E. R. Marden. Pres., The Nat'l Co- 
Op. Real Estate Co., Suite 437, Mar- 
den Building, Washington, D. C. 

WANTED— AN INTELLIGENT, 
healthy, reliable middle-aged woman 
to make her home in a small family 
and help do the housework. Mrs. 
O. D. Hill, Oakwood Heights, Char- 
leston. W. Va. 

FARM MANAGER— GERMAN, 36, 

married; experienced with stock, 
poultry, grain, gras.s, truck, cotton, 
tobacco, peanuts, etc., wants posi- 
tion. Address Manager. 2503 North 
Colorado Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 



WANTED— A STRONG, SOBER, IN- 
dustrious while married man, Ger- 
man preferred, for general farm 
work; state what you can do, size 
family, wages expected and give 
references. If you prefer, I could 
furnish house and land for share of 
crop. Address F. C. Johnson, Wind- 
sor Stock Farm, Elko, Va. 

WANTED — POSITION AS FARM MAN- 
ager by young man of good habits 
with business education and have 
attended agricultural college. Thor- 
oughly familiar with farm machin- 
ery, gasoline engine, etc. Can fur- 
nish best of references and not 
afraid of work. Address E. L. Dean, 
Box D, Gatesville, N. C. 

WANTED — TWO GOOD F A li M 
hands, and men who are good hand- 
lers of stock, especially horses. 
Prefer married men. Address Stock 
Farm, care Southern Planter, for 
particulars. 



WANTED — A COMPETENT, INDUS- 
trious, tidy and educated man to 
take care of poultry, cows and swine 
for my private use. I want a syste- 
matic man. None need apply unless 
can furnish first-class credentials as 
to character and habits as well as 
to ability. Address Langhorne Put- 
ney, care Stephen Putney Shoe Co., 
Richmond, Va. 

FARM MANAGER WANTS SITUA- 
tion — Single man, age 36, handy with 
tools and machinery of all kind. 
Apply to H. Roulson, Barhamsville, 
Va. 



IMPLEMENTS, MACHINERV, ETC. 



ANY ONE HAVING A GOOD SECOND- 
Hand French Buhr Mill for sale, the 
Sprout-Waldron & Co., preferred, ad- 
dress, stating price, Charles M. Getz, 
Moores Store. Va. 



MISCBIiliAIfBOXJS. 



WANTED— A PARTNER WITH THOU- 
sand to fifteen hundred dollars to 
go into general farming, dairying 
and stock raising. Have good graz- 
ing farm of 600 acres, well watered 
and fenced with woven wire. Farm 
buildings and new 5-room dwelling; 
mile and half from 'depot, 42 miles 
from Richmond. Teams, implements, 
feed, 40 sheep and some cattle now 
on the place. Will rent on shares, 
or for money rent payable in ad- 
vance. Apply to R. P. Burwell, To- 
baccoville, Va. 



FARMERS AND POULTRYMEN— SEE 
display advertisement of the Hern- 
don (Va) Poultry Association Show 
in this issue. Loving cup for pret- 
tiest baby; $5 in gold for best look- 
ing lady. Prizes on corn, wheat, 
apples and potatoes. Write for 
premium list and see entertainment 
provided for each day. A. H. Kirx, 
Secretary, Box 44, Herndon, Va. 

WANTED— A PARTNER IN GENUINE 
and flourishing dairy business; Eng- 
lish and single man preferred; must 
be worker; $3,000 required for half 
share. References exchanged. Ex- 
cellent opportunity for young man. 
Profits from $200 to $300 a month 
expected. B. C. R., care Southern 
Planter. 

DISCOVERED— A NEW SYSTEM OF 
concrete block making. Build your 
own homes. Use the new system 
made on the Oregon Concrete Block 
Machine. A dry Inside wall guar- 
anteed. Complete outfits from $50 
up. Send for catalogue. Oregon 
Concrete Block Machine Co., 3235 
and 3237 N. Broadway, St. Louis, Mo. 

TERRACING FARM. DUBLS ITS 
value; $10 Wright Farm Level also 
best for diching, grading, irrigating, 
bilding. Make muney running- line 
for others. Write now for special 
agency offer. Frank Wright, Mfr., 
Cave Spring. Ga. 



FREE TO HOUSEKEEPERS! SEND 
25 cents in stamps or silver for a 
package of our ink and rust re- 
mover, also our illustrated catalogue 
of 300 household goods. W. A. Rowe 
& Co., Blackwell, Va^ ^ 

FOR SALE — PAN-A-RAMA CAMERA, 
two Winchester Repeating Rifles, 
Yellow Potato Onions and Sets. 
Would exchange for early hatched 
pullets. David E. Peters, Princess 
Anne. Md. 



WANTED— NUMBER OF PARTNERS 
In a new fish factory; must be citi- 
zens of Virginia. Apply to W. A. R., 
Blackwell, Va. 




Lumber. Laths, Shingles, 


RICHMOND 


WffD 


Sash, Blinds and Doors, 
Woodward & Son, Ninth 


VIR6INI A 


& Arch Sts, Richmond, Va 






FIFTY PER CENT. SAVED ON FEED 
bills. Send 25 cents for instructions. 
N. L. Beal, Windsor. Va. 



FOR SALE— CHESTNUT AND OAK 
Fence Posts. Address Radio Farm, 
Route 3, Petersburg, Va. 



j FERN HILL POULTRY FARM 



i 



I Breeders of ARISTOCRATS ONLY 1 

Barred Plymouth Rocks, Black Minorcas, 
S.C. Brown Leghorns, S.C. White Leghorns 

"Winning firsts at Jamestown and Richmond, Va.; Harrisburg, Pa.; Char- 
lotte and Raleigh, N. C; State championship of American Black Minorca 
Club: highest scoring male and female; ten highest scoring fowls in show. 
All are healthy, vigorous, dependable egg producers. Some choice exhibition 
Cockerels for sale. Shipped on approval. Eggs, $1.50 per sitting. 

J. Wallace Swelling, R. F. D. No. 1, 




state Vice-President of American Black Minorca Club. 



Manchester, Va, i 

ESTABLISHED 1893. f 

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Mygeia Herd 

Pure-Bred Holstein-Friesians 

It is no more expensive to maintain a good bull at the head of your herd than a poor one, 
and the former is certainly worth many times his cost. Therefore, write for pedigree and price on 
one of the richly bred bulls which this herd now offers for sale. 

Addresat W. F. Carter, Jr., AfMt, Oro>ct, Albemarle ConatT', Tlrslala. W. Fltahasli Carter, M. D., Owaer.. 

The breed holds the milk and butter records of the world; the herd embraces some 

of its best families. 



A JOURNAL OF EASTERN TRAVEL. 
In the Provinces. 

After leaving Tokyo our next ex- 
perience was very different from 
any previous ones, and M^as the most 
interesting as well as difficult one we 
encountered. Up to this time we had 
been traveling with friends, along 
beaten paths, in places thoroughly ac- 
customed to European ways, but now 
we spent several weeks, traveling 
alone in the provinces, in places not 
commonly visited by tourists. We 
filled the gap between Tokyo and Ky- 
oto with a series of excursions into 
the couutry districts and in this way 
saw something of the old life, for we 
soon realized that we had come too 
late to see this in the cities, The 
trip was very much of an experiment 
to us, but as all travel is easy in 
Japan, we had the courage to under- 
take it. 

Our first stop was at Kamakura, 
the once populous capital of Eastern 
Japan, now shrunk lo a tiny fishing 
village, but still famous for its Dai- 
Butsu, or colossal image of Buddha. 
It was only a short rail trip from Yo- 
kohama through some prosperous 
towns and open pretty country. When 
we descended from the car at the sta- 
tion, we became at once the prey of 
numerous rickshaw boys who spent 
some minutes fighting amongst them- 
selves for our patronage. When the 
prize had been drawn by the two 
strongest and we started off, five or 
six followed insisting on being "ato 
shi," though the country was per- 
fectly level, and we did riot need any 
pushing. No one in the place spok« 
English and we had to get along with 
signs and pointing. 

An avenue of pine trees ran from 
the station to the temple of Hachiman, 
god of war, an apotheosis of the Em- 
peror Ojin. This is a gorgeous 
building, painted bright red, against 
a back ground of green trees. It is 
set on a high hill, and reached by a 
broad stair, by way of several shrines 
and torii. There is good carving in- 
side, some relics and a great flock of 
doves in the court. 

On the other side of the village is 
the Dai-Butsu or great Buddha, a 
temple of Japanese art. It stands in 
the open, ir a prett> park, and is 49 
feet high and 97 in circumference, 
and the proportions are so perfect 



THE HOLLINS HERD 

— OF — 

H OLSTEIN-FRIESI ANS 

A Workinis Herd, Working Every Day In the Year. 

A Pure Bred Holstein Friesian Bull 

Will Increase the Production of Batter Fat and Milk in the Herd. 

RECORD OF HOLLINS HERD FOR SIX TEARS. 
From Pound of Milk. 

October 1, 1903, to October 1, 1904 4,000 

October 1, 1904, to October 1, 1905 5,020 

October 1, 1905, to October 1, 1906 6,867 

October 1, 1906, to October 1, 1907 6,536 

October 1, 1907, to October 1, 1908 8,906 

October 1, 1908, to October 1, 1909 ■ • 8,913 

The milk of every cow and every heifer of milking age, except heifers fresB- 
eniner with first calf WITHIN THE FISCAL YEAR is Included in the record. 
REGISTERED BULL CALVES OUT OF HEAVY PRODUCING COWS FOR SALH. 
JOS. A. TURNER, General Manager, Hollins Institute, Va. 



MEADOW FARM DAIRY 

Ered Holstein-Friesians. 



A WORKING HERD OF SEVENTY-FIVE 
REGISTERED COV^S==ALL FIRST=CLASS 



Young Males and Females for Sale. 



Address J. P. TAYLOR, 
il range, Virginia. 



EVERGREEN FARMS 

I AM OFFERING AT REASONABLE PRICES 

JERSEY CATTLE 

A FEW CHOICE BULLS, COWS AND HEIFERS. 

BERIiSHIKE HOGS 

ALL AGES AND FROM REGISTERED PARENTS. 

FOWLS 

S. C. Brown Leghorn, "Brace's" strain, of New York; S. C. R. I. Reds. "Bryant's' 

strain, of Massachusetts. 
Address W. B. GATI3S, PROP., RICE DEPOT, VA. 



Berkshires For Sale. 

Nice lot of Sows Bred, also Pigs four weeks and four months old. 
S. C. Brown Leghorns and Barred Plymouth Rocks for sale. 
RIVER VIEW FARM. C. M. BASS. PROPRIETOR. RICE DEPOT, VA. 



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MORVEN PARK 

PROPERTY OF WESTMORELAND DAVIS 



Registered Percherons- 



Five years ago, we sent our ripresentative to France with instructions to secure 
the best stallion and mares that could be selected. We then imported the French 
government approved and premium stallion "VIBRAYE" a prize winner himself, and 
a son of the celebrated "BESIQUE" for six years the winner over all France. The 
animals selected besides being prize winners are rich in "Brilliant" blood. Our Import- 
ed mares work every day, thus demonstrating their suitability for the needs of our 
farmers. 

We have now two-year stallions and colts for sale. 

Registered Guernseys 

Throughout the North and the West, the Guernsey is the cow, and as our farm- 
ers require to increase the butter fat content of their milk, they will find the use of 
a Guernsey bull upon their herds most satisfactory. Our herd consists largely of ani- 
mals selected by us upon the Island of Guernsey and is headed by the great bull 
"France's Jewel VIIl" son of "La France VIII" who made 13,000 pounds of milk on 
grass on the Island of Guernsey. The herd is rich in France, Masher, May Rose and 
other iashionable strains of Guernsey blood. Our h?rd is regularly tubercuHn tested 
by the Agricultural Department of the United States. We are still increasing our herd 
and have only bulls for sale at reasonable prices. 

Grade Guernsey Heifers. 

On one of cor farms we are breeding Gbadx Guernseys and can oflFer you a few 
heifer calves at prices that will make the purchaser money. This is a good opportunity 
to obtain, at small cost, these high grade cattle, which will increase the butter fat con- 
tent of the milk and give high color to it also. 

Large Imported Wliite Yorkshires 

These pigs are the bacon pigs of the West and of England. They are hardy 
and prolific. If your sows are of the lard type and give but a few pigs, a Yorkshire 
boar will increase the size of the litters and improve the quality of the meat. Our pigs 
have heavy coats of hair and do not sun scald. After eighteen months of exposure 
without shade a'- d practically no shelter, we exhibited at the Virginia State Fair a 
boar which took the Championship of his breed. His skin was in a fine condition. 
We highly recommend the use of these boars to our farmers. 



WE ARE ALSO BREEDERS OF DORSET HORN SHEEP. 

For further particulars apply to 

LIVE STOCK DEPARTMENT 

MORVEN PARK, NEAR LEESBURQ, LOUDOUN COUNTY, VIRGINIA 



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Will Pay Best in Virginia 



HORNED 
DORSET 
SHEEP 

The Fillmore Farms are the breeders that show Stock of their own raising, and took ALL FIRSTS AND 
CHAMPIONSHIPS at Richmond, Lynchburg, also champions at Detroit, Columbus, and other State Fairs 
1909, and the stock shown is the class of stock sold. 

Prices are low and if quality is considered they are the lowest. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION WRITE 

FILLMORE FARMS, Bennington, Vermont, 

C. C. JONES, SUPERINTENDENT. 



that the great size does not overcome 
one. There is a serene majesty with 
expression of the face which truly 
symbolizes the Buddha Nirvana, the 
state of perfect peace where all the 
passions are subdued. It produces a 
feeling of rest and tranquility in the 
beholder. Inside the huge head is a 
shrine where the following inscrip- 
tion is hung. 

"Stranger, whosoever thou art, and 
whatsoever be thy creed. When thou 
enterest this sanctuary, remember 
thou treadest upon ground, hallowed 
by the worship of ages. This is the 
temple of Buddha, and the gate of the 
ij^ternal and should, therefore, be en- 
tered with reverence." 

On the surrounding hills are minor 
shrines, with historical objects. One 
contains a very sacred lacquer image 
of Kwannon, 30 feet high. 

Following the sea wall, we made a 
four mile trip by rickshaw down the 
beach to the island of Enoshima, 
where we had lunch in a tea house, 
overlooking the water. This island is 
•sacred to Benten, the goddess of luck 
who killed the dragon of the cave 
which destroyed the children of the 
place. It is a great holiday resort 
and has numerous shops full of coral. 
and other sea treasures. We took 
some pretty walks around it and 
while sitting on a bench made the a^ 
quaintance of a Japanese family, con- 
sisting of a young man with his wife 
and mother. The former was a grad- 
uate of Columbia University and ac- 
costed us in good English, asking if 
they could be of any service to us. ¥i<^ 
had recently returned home to marrv 
a .Japanese girl and both he and his 
wife showed much solicitude about 
his mother who seemed rather feeble. 
ble. 

The sun was growing low by this 
time and we became uneasy lest we 
should be loft on the island for the 
night, so we hastened to the main- 
land by a bridge connecting the two 



VIRGINIA ANQORA QOAT CO. 

Heading our flock we have the following excellent bucks: 

1. Imp. South African "Hobson," winner of numerous prizes at National 
Angora Goat exhibits. 

2. King of Sierra, one of the best native bred Snow Bucks this country 
has ever produced, winner at the Royal Angora Goat Show held at Kansas 
City in '06. 

3. Prince of Sierra, one year old, winner of the championship class, '09, 
at the State Fair at Richmond. 

Have you a tract of land covered witli brush and briars and would 
you like it converted into fine pasturage? Try the goats and witness the 
transformation. We can show you the land converted in this way, and no help 
from any other source. "Would be pleased to show you if you will come 
and see us. While the change is taking place, you can make a profit on 
your goats, and the better the quality of your goats the more your profit 
will be at the end of two or three years, in the increased value of your 
land which they have run on. 

We can furnish you any kind of goats you may 'desire. We have as 
good as there is in the country; also grades. 

Our goats were exhibited at the Roanoke and Lynchburg Fairs, also 
the State Fair at Richmond. At these (the only places exhibited) they not 
only secured more premiums than any other exhibtor, biut they were 
awarded more than 50 per cent, of all premiums; and at the State Fair 
Prince of Sierra, one year old, was awarded the championship prize for best 
Buck any age. 

- We can furnish Does bred to either of the above Bucks after December 
15th, or in trios, two Does and one Buck, by Hobson or King of Sierra, or 
we can furnish car-load lots. Prices on application; or better, come and 
see the goats and what they have done, and will do for you. 

Finely bred Collie Pups for sale. 

Address George H. Smith, Mannger, 
VIRGINIA ANGORA GOAT CO., VVythevllle, Va. 



Earhart's Model Premier 116131 

The great bdar described on page 982 
of The Southern Planter (October 
issue) stands at the head of my herd 
and is ably assisted by the grand old 
Hunter of Biltmore III. and Earhart's 
Combination. These boars are of the 
best prize-winning blood of the world, 
and their great size, combined with 
extra finish and quality, fit them to 
stand at the head of the best herd in 
the East. 

My sows are daughters and grand- 
daughters of Premier Longfellow, Baron Duke the BOth, and the noted Huntress 
and bred to the above great boars are producing a type of hog unequaled in 
■^ize, easy feeding and show yard qualities. I have over 100 high-class pigs, 
besides a number of five-months-old gilts and boars that are ready for Imme- 
diate shipment, and they are so good that I will agree to sen'd them subject to 
your examination and approval. 

Let me quote you my prices, which are reasonable. 

Address 

D. E. EARHART, BRISTOW, VA. 




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ailanbale 
IRcQistereb Serseips 

FOE SALE 



A few select cows, rich in the blood of Golden Fern's Lad, Golden Jolly, Cham- 
pion Flying Fox, King Koffee, Stoke Pogis of Prospect, Tormentor and other noted 
sires; and with calf to Imported Stockwell, the sensational $i 1,500.00'bull; Emi- 
nent's Goldmont Lad, winner of 14 Blues and Championships and never beaten in 
the show ring; Imported Marett's Flying Fox; and our great Golden Fern's Lad 
bull, Mona's Handsome Fern. 

Choice bred heilers and promising young bulls for sale. 

We have the goods and we propose to make prices to get the business, 

WRITE FOR PRICE-LIST 

Hllan^ale Jarm, 3fre6erick8burg,lt)a, 






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ROSE DALE HERD 
ABERDEEN-ANGUS CATTLE 




We offer to the farmers and breeders of the East strictly choice 
Young Reg-lstered Bulls from weanlings to serviceable age. They 
are ef the straight, broad-backed, low-down, compact, blocky type. 
Many of them show ring animals. They represent the blood of Mas- 
ter II., of Meadow Brook; Gay Lad, Jr.; Heather Lad II., Zaire V., 
Ermine Bearer, Blackbird of Corskle IV., Black Abbott, Abbottsford. 
Coquette X., Etc. 

They are well grown out, In thrifty cendltion, but not pampered. 
Osme 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. 

ROSEDALE STOCK FARMS, JEFFERSONTON, VA. 



and caught a train for Tuji-Sawa. 
Here we made our connection for 
Kozu whence we made excursions 
into the Hakone district. We went by 
train an hour over a portion of the 
Tohardo to Yumoto where we got in 
rickshaws and went up into the moun- 
tains. 

Miyanoshito. 

On our way to the above named 
place, our road wound around the 
mountains and gave us lovely vistas 
through the trees. The short autumn 
afternoon closed in, and the moon 
came up full before we reached our 
destination, the Fuji-Ya hotel, built 
with all the picturesqueness of a Jap- 
anese inn. and surrounded by a gar- 
den full of dwarf plants, bent pines 
and jagged rocks. Little maids greet- 
ed us at the door and carried us to 
our room where an open fire was 
blazing and every thing was pretty 
and dainty. An elaborate Japanese 
costume was laid out on each bed, 
with sandals and obi to match and we 
soon exchanged our heavy travelling 
clothes for these comfortable draper- 
ies. The bath attendant soon ap- 
peared and told us our bath was 
ready and was much grieved at our 
refusal to take it. Bathing is the na- 
tional passion of the Japanese and 
both high and low indulge in a hot 
bath, not only once but several 
times a day. A Japanese bf^v who re- 
ceives a few extra ^jeunles does not 
betake himself to the candy shop but 
to the bath house where he can get 
a bath for two sen. 

Miyanoshita is, I believe, the sweet- 
est spot in Janan. It is just a little 
village up in the mountains, but there 
are so many pretty walks about it, 
over the hills and by the mountain 
streams and cascades that people 
from all over .Japan dVop in here for 
a day or two, to get a whiff of the 
bracing mountain air or a view of Fu- 
ji, which soars in the distance The 
hotel is modern and almost the only 
first class one in Japan. It is the 
only one where they have good but- 
ter and cream. Most of the butter ir 



Someone la going to get a first-class Angus herd header at 

SUIMISiV HOME F/iRM 

this coming fall. Sire a Jilt, son ef the great Erica bull Imported Equestor. 

Dam sired by the world-famous Gay Blackbird (the sire of the $3,060 
Gay Lad that was champion of America during 1896-96). Second dam, a Nose- 
gay daughter of the great Beau Bill, champion during 1894 and sire of the 
dam of Vala, probably the most popular Angus female ever in the American 
Show Ring. 

Imported Equestor's sire was Equestrian, one of the greatest bulla ever 
at •'Ballendalloch." 

Don't wait for the other fellow to get this first class bull, the product 
of the greatest champions of two continents, but write and have him booked 
for you at once. Write 



A. L. FRENCH, Owner, 



Byrdville, Va. 



CEDAR GROVE STOCK FARM. 

HEADQUARTERS FOR 

RED POLLED CATTLE 

YOUNG BULLS AND HEIFERS. 
Also the home of the "North Carolina" Herd of 

DVROC-JERSEY HOGS 

Cherry Red Herd headed by N. C. Commodore, 24463; N. C. Colonel, 26087. 
and Orion T., 23711. 

More than twenty sows in service, each one of which is from noted prize 
winners. 

Price for Pigs under 10 weeks old, $9 to $10 each; pedigrees furnished with 
each pig. Write for prices on mature sows or brevJ gilts. 

W. A. THIGPEN, PROPRIETOR, CONETOB, EDGECOMBE CO.. N. C. 



Jersey Calves 

Male and female, now ready to ship. Golden La'd and St. Lambert strains. 
SEVERAL GUERNSEY BULL CALVES ALSO. 
Brown Chinese and Toulouse Geese in pairs or trios. 
B. P. Rocks, R. I. Reds and Brown Leghorns. 

All of above ready to go now. 



M. B. Rowe & Co., Fredericksburg, Va. 



TELL THE ADVERTISER WHERE YOU SAW HIS ADVERTISEMENT. 



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REGISTERED = PERCHERONS 

No (arm In America or France can show such a lot of high class mares. Among the most notable are: ROSETTE— Three ilmes champion 
France, unbeaten at every State Fair In America. ZAZA — Urand Champion St. Louis Exposition and Champion Kansas and Missouri State 

fairs. FaUVETTE — Junior 
Champion St. Louis Exposi- 
tion. QAMMELLE — First 
Prize Maro. Nogent. France. 
Every iiiare Imported Inside 
of the Ribbons at the largest 
show.s of France Last year 
they were shown In 3ti classes, 
winning 30 first and one sec- 
on(l;10gold medals and aSlOO 
silver cup. No group of horses 
In the world ever came so 
near making a clean sweep. 
These mares are being bred 
to 

ETUDIANT 
Cbampion SUIIion of France 

First at Nogent; first at Paris; 
approved by the French Gov- 
ernment and paid the largest 
subsidy ever paid astalllon in 
France Used as a model by 
the Paris artist for the bronze 
statue at show grounds of 
ETUDIANT (S9291)4327S-Champlon of France Nogent, France. ROSETTE («0S4) 42127— Champion Mare ol France 

Why pay Importers large profits -when you can buy, at reasonable prices, stallions and mares by France's Champion Stallion out of 
France's and Americas Champion Mares? AGENTS WANTED. 

Farmers can save half their money by combining and bringing their notes approved by their local bank which will be accepted as cash. 

SELMA STOCK FARM. - E. B. WHITE, Prop r,- LEESBURG, VA. 





the East is brought from Canada and 
Australia and is not fresh when it 
comes to the table. Fuji-Ya boasts 
of a dairy of its own, with real cream 
and yellow butter. It also has pure 
water of its own instead of the min- 
eral water the tourist has to drink 
elsewhere. 

Fuji-Ya is chiefly famous for its lit- 
tle maids, so pretty and mischievous. 
They were almost the only female at- 
tendants we had during our whole 
trip and we enjoyed it for a change 
although we got very good service 
from the boys. 

During our stay we made many ex- 
cursions. One morning we went to 
Ojigokee, a sulphurous gorge, some- 
thing like the formations in Yellow- 
stone Park. The mountains here are 
too rough for ricksuaws and we 
used sedan chairs, carried by four 
coolies each, though truth to tell, we 
walked most of the way. We could 
not resist the temptation to peep into 
t e cottages by the way and see what 
the home life of the peasants was 
like. Even the poorest hut was clean. 
The women were sometimes prepar- 
ing meals, cooking over a brazier, 
sometimes they were sewing or work- 
ing at the loom. Often they were 
washing the clothes which are ripped 
up each time and spread out on the 
ground to dry. The kimonos are so 
loosely sewed there is no difficulty 
in ripping them un and putting them 
together again. The women do not 
appear to have much housework to do 
indeed their tiny houses do not ad- 
mit of much, but they work in the 
gardens and in fhe fields. It is won- 
derful to see how the peasants make 
the most of this barren land. High 
up on the mountain side they reclaim 
little patches from the rock and plant 



Mound City Stock Farm 

Shires, Percherons, Belgians, 
Coach and Hackney Stallions 



I will sell at my barn cheaper 
than any other firm In America. 
The reason I can sell cheaper Is 
because my father lives In Eng- 
land and he can buy them for me 
and save all middlemen's profits. 
There Is no place In America that 
you can make a better selection 
than at my place, for I handle five 
different breeds. My draft stal- 
lions weigh from 1,700 to 2,200 
pounds; my high-stepping Hack- 
neys and Coachers weigh from 
1,200 to 1,400 poun-ds. If you are 
In need of a good stallion in your 
community, write and tell me your 
wants and I will try and place 
one there. I will give you plenty 
of time to pay for .the horse 
Every horse is backed up with an 
iron-clad guarantee, and all of 
them are good enough to win in 
any company. Correspondence 
solicited and visitors welcome. If 
a good stallion Is wanted In your 
community please write me. 

W. B. BULLOCK, Proprietor, 

MonndHvlIIe, W. Va. 

Branch Barnt Ne^v Church, Acco- 

mac County, Va. 

(Address me here.) 




HACKNEY HORSES FOR SALE 

One Registered Mare, "Empress." with foal by "General." 
One Registered Stallion, coming three years old. 



HOLSTEIN-FRIESIANS. 



Two Bull Calves, four months old, for sale. 



T. O. SANDY, 



BurkeviUe, Va. 



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[December, 




WOODSIDE BERKSHIRES 

EVERYTHING SHIPPED ON APPROVAL 

IT WILL PAY YOU TO READ THIS CAREFULLY 
We are now offering a grand lot of Pigs 

Sired by our two great boars Charmpr's Premier 
94553, three years old, weight 800 lbs., and Charlo tesville Premier 123595, and out of royally bred 
sows weighing from 500 to 600 pounds each. 

We can always furnish pigs not akin. In oi*der to show our confidence in what we offer and insure 
satisfaction to our customers, we ship on approval. You need not send check until after you receive 
the pigs, and if they are not entirely satisfactory in every respect, you can return them at our expense 
and it costs you absolutely nothing. We leave it to you whether this is a fair proposition Address 
WOODSIDE STOCK FARM, R. S. Parish, Prop., Charlottesville, Va. 



seed, literally in the thorns by thp 
wayside. The struggle for existence 
there is a very hard one, and would 
be hopeless but for the diligence and 
thrift of the people. 



THE GALLO\VAY MANURE 
SPREADER. 

The William Galloway Co., makers 
of the manure spreader bearing their 
name, solicited us to write to a few 
of our subscribers who were recent 
purchasers, as to their opinion of 
this machine. Out of a list of some 
twenty names submitted, we selected 
ten at random, and are publishing 
herewith th result of our correspond- 
ence. Here is a copy of our letter: 

"The William Galloway Co. advises 
us that you recently purchased one 
of their manure spreaders, and they 
are anxious for us to know what you 
think of it. Will you not, therefore, 
kindly endorse on the back of th'- 
letter as briefly as possible your opin- 
ion of the spreader, and mail it to us 
at once in the enclosed envelope?" 

Here are the replies: 

"I take this opportunity of recom- 
mending the Galloway Manure Spread- 
er. I believe that it is the best spread- 
er on the market to-day, and that it 
accomplishes all that they claim for 
It. I have tried it with corn stalks. 
and find that it spreads them as well 
as fine manure. It is certainly the 
finest thing that can be found for top 
dressing wheat. 

R. S. BELPIELD. 

Ethel, Va. 

In regard to the William Gallowav 
Manure Spreader, will say I like it 
all right, and it does good work. 
J. DYER CALFEE. 

Areola, Va. 

In reply to your letter asking me 
my opinion of the Manure Spreader 
bought of the William Galloway Co., 



GLENBURN BERKSHIRES 

Great sons and daughters of 

LORD PREMIER, 

PREMIER LONGFELLOW, 

MASTERPIECE, 

in herd. 

We are overstoi ked. and will sell sows and gilts bred or open at just a 
little above pork prices Pigs also at c»t prices. 

We have some nice Jersey (Jows and Heifers at bargain prices. 



DR. J. D. KIRK, 



Roanoke, Va. 



Demand for B9|'|(3|]j|'Q3Greatenhanju£gl^ 



If not ready to buy, let me book 
your orders at once to make sure of 
getting them. The record breaking 
price of ordinary stock hogs Is bound 
to advance price of fancy Berkshires, 
so don't be caught napping. 

My herd, one of the oldest in the 
United States, represents the most 
famous bloo'd worthy ancestors of 
England or America. Ask this paper 
of my reliability. 




THOS. S. WHITE, 



Fnsslfern Stock Farm, 



liextngton, Va. 



ENTIRE BERKSHIRE HERD 

FOR SAXiB. 
On account of change in business, I will sell the choice of several SOWS,, 
one good 2-year-old BOAR, and fine lot of TOUNG GILTS of up-to-date breed- 
ing at bargain prices. Also two or three choice young 6-months-old Boars. 



PHIL. H. GOLD, 



Wiikchester, Va. 



TELL THE ADVERTISER WHERE YOU SAW HIS ADVERTISEMENT. 



1909.J 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



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Barred Plymonth Rock Hen 

Winner of Ist Prize at the Great Poultry 

Show at Nashville. Tenn. 

January. 1907. 



Healthy Poultry 



are usually productive, and therefore profitable. To put your chickens 
in good condition, and keep them healthy, we recommend Black-Draught 
Stock & Poultry Medicine. Its regular use will ward off diseases common 
to poultry, at a very small cost. 

Read this letter from Mr. Baker, manager of the Clover Bloom 
Poultry Yards, and successful breeder of high class, line bred. Barred 
Plymouth Eocks. He writes: Owensboro, Ky., Feb. 11, 1907. 

"For the past ten (10) years, we have been using Black-Draught 
Stock & Poultry Medicine. We have used it along with the most ex- 
tensively advertised poultry foods and powders and M'e have gotten better 
results from Black-Draught Stock & Poultry Medicine than from any 
other preparation. 
"We have been quite successful in treating birds affected with liver trouble. We have about come 
to the conclusion that most of the diseases that affect poultry are caused largely by liver trouble, and 
think Black-Draught Stock & Poultry Medicine cannot be excelled for that." 

BENJ. H. BAKER, Manager. 

BLACK-DRAUGHT STOCK & POULTRY MEDICINE 



Sold bjr All Reliable Druggists and Dealers, 



P2 




will state that it is all they repre- 
sented It to be, and I am well pleased 
with it. 

JESSIE WHITLEY. 
Windsor, Va. 

Last spring I got one of William 
Galloway's Manure Spreaders, and 
have hauled two hundred loads of ma- 
nure and one hundred and fifty of 
deposit from river, which is much 
harder on a spreader than manure, 
and I think that it is worth the mon- 
ey they charge for it. 

J. H. ENGLAND. 

Covington, Va. 

I have used the Galloway Manure 
Spreader for, say, twelve months. I 
find that it is much lighter draft than 
others we have here. It has been put 
to the severest tests that we could 
think of; it did its work perfectly un- 
■der these, and without seeming ef- 
fort. I worked it in slush, or mud, in 
stable manure, full of corn stalks. In 
this last I thought we would see fail- 
ure, but this was as easily and per- 
fectly handled as anv of the others. 
J. H. BAKER. 

Chilhowie, Va. 

I have tried the Galloway Manure 
Spreader, and find that it does every- 
thing that they recommend. I have 
tried three different makes, and find 
this one runs easier than any of the 
others. 



HtLLCREST FURWI BERKSHIRES 



Herd's Boars— Master's Compensa- 
tion No. 94346< Sallle Lee's Last of 
Blltmore No. 111.687. 

We have some extra eood pl^s, fr«m 
two to six months old, and the boar 
pigrs are grood enougrh to head any 
herd. 

The above pig's are out of daughter 
and BTanddauKhter of Premier Lone- 
fellow, Masterpiece and Lord Premi- 
er and such other noted Berkshlres. 

All stock as represented, or money 
refunded. 

W. R. PENSOM. Richmond. Va 




—A FEW GOOD— 

YOUNG THOROUGHBRED MARES 

A pair of Thoroughbred Yearling Geldings, one good Driving Horse, 7 
years old. 

SHORT HORN Bull Calves by Royal Lad, son of the International winner. 
Frantic Lad, and grandson of the champion of America, The Lad For Me. 

SOUTHDOWN Rams. Our last four Rams have been bred by Hon. George 
Dunmore, who bred champion lamb wethers over all breeds at the International 
in 1905-6-7. 

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



Hampton, Va. 



E. C. PHILLIPS. 



The Galloway Manure Spreader is 
all that the company claims for it. 



For Sale 
YOUNG BERKSHIRE BOARS 

TWO 

Grade Jersey Heifers 

ONE YEAR OLD 
FOREST HOME FARM. Purcellville. Va. 



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[December, 



doing first-class work, and with much 
less draft than any other spreader I 
have used. 

M. B. BLANTON. 
Ballsville, Va. 

It gives me great pleasure to reply 
to your inquiry regarding the Wil- 
liam Galloway Manure Spreader. It 
is O. K. in every particular. 

W. S. WRIGHT. 

Ezell, Va. 

The William Galloway Manure 
Spreader is all they claim it to be. 
I have used it one season, and would 
not be without it for a greater amount 
than it cost. 

W. M. BATEMAN. 

Plymouth, N. C. 



1910 VIRGINIA STATE FAIR ACRE 
CORN CLASS. 

The officers of the Virginia State 
Fair Association are now at work up- 
on the 1910 Fair, which will be held 
October 3-8 next, and among the many 
classes for which premiums will be 
offered is the Acre Yield Corn Spe- 
cial, noted below, of $500 in gold of 
the Southern Stock Yards Corpora- 
tion, Richmond, Virginia. This should 
prove a great stimulus to the farmers 
of Virginia. It is the intention of the 
management to offer many large ana 
attractive prizes in the Farm Pro- 
ducts Department, announcement of 
which will be made ouortly. 
Southern Stock Yards Corporation — 

Acre Yield Corn Special. 

Richmond, Va., Nov. 26, 1909. 
Mr. Henry Fairfax, President, 
Va. State Fair Association. 
Dear Sir: — Becoming very much in- 
terested in corn breeding, and being 
close observers of corn raising for the 
past thirty years, we are fully con- 
vinced that there is no country in 
the United States that grows as good 
quality corn as Virginia, and in order 
to encourage the corn raisers of Vir- 
ginia, we have decided to offer a prize 
of $500 in gold, under the conditions 
specified in enclosed memorandum. 
You will note that this corn is not 
to be gathered until the middle of 
November. 

Yours very truly, 
SOUTHERN STOCK YARDS 

CORPORATION, 
By A. I. McClellan, Pres. 

Southern Stock Yards Corporation 
offers $500 in gold for the best acre 
of corn grown in Virginia, quality 
and quantity considered. 

The farmer competing for this 
prize will have to have an acre of 
his land surveyed by a competent sur- 
veyor. He shall draw from said acre 
of corn to the amount of one bushel, 
or 100 ears, which shall be sent to 
thB Fair Grounds at Richmond to be 
judged by the corn judges of the Vir- 



MOORE'S BROOK BERKSHIRES 




v'^t'-oigyi^mflr 



still to the front with 24 new rlbbona 
to their credit, making 57 rlbbona and 
silver cups In three years. For breed- 
ing, we have Masterpiece, Lord 
Premier, Premier Longfellow an'J Lord 
Premier Rival on the top crosses. The 
individuals do justice to this breeding. 
Best lot of fall pigs we have ever 
bred — children and grandchildren of 
Masterpiece and Lord Premier. Herd 
Boars and Gilts ready now. Bre'J Sows 
after November 12th. 



BRONZE GOBBLERS. MUSCOVY DRAKES. R. I. RED COCKERELS. 
MOORE'S BROOK SANITARIUM CO., CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. 



DUROCS SHORTHORNS SHROPSHIRES 

Send for printed list of Durocs and DUROC FACTS. "We have boar plgi 
and shotes, three fine bred sows and two great herd boars, COMMODORE 
KING and BEAT'S TOP NOTCHER, for sale, at farmer's prices. 

The great Waverly herd of Shorthorns, dual-purpose cows. In calf, helferi 
and young bulls. 

Fifty fine Shropshlres, rams, ewes and lambs, from imported prize win- 
ners, from $15 to $25 each, registered. 

LESLIE D. KLINE, Vaucluse, Va. 



Poland-Chinas 

A superior lot of Pigs by Gray's 
Perfection. 73339; "Top Chief," Gray's 
Ideal, 65805, and other noted boars. 
Can furnish pairs not akin to taose 
previously purchased. Come to head- 
quarters anvi get the best at one-half 
Western prices. Oldest herd in the 
State. 

J. B. GRAY, FrederlcksbnrSi Va 




"Herndon Poultry Show— 

HERNDON, VIRGINIA. 
JANUARY 12, 13, 14, 1910. 

Six handsome cups. Nearly $200 in gold and merchandise. 
Liberal cash premiums. 
Handsome gold stamped ribbons. 

W. Theo. Wittman and J. F. Defandorf, Judges. 
WRITE FOR PREMIUM LIST. 
C. M. Walker. President. A. H. Kirk, Secretary, 

Box 44, Herndon, Va. 



The Virginia Poultry Association 

WILL HOLD ITS 

ANNUAL SHOW 

JANUARY 13-19, 1910, RICHMOND, VA. 

A fine string of silver cups and various other special prizes will 
be given and are fully described In our premium list, ready about De- 
cember 1st. Send in your name for one. 

J. H. Drevenstedt, assisted by Prof. C. K. Graham and F. H.. S. 
Morrison, will jutJge on first day of show. No delay; comparison sys- 
tem only. For other information write to 

W. R. TODD, Secretary, 426 North Sixth Street, Richmond, Va. 



DON'T BUYGASOUHEEMGINES 



UNTIL YOU INVESTIQATE 
"THE MASTER WORKMAN," 

a twocyllnder gasoline, keroseoe or 



1909.1 



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1197 



gima State Fair Association as to 
quality, quality counting 40 per cent. 
Said judges of tlie Virginia State 
Fair Association shall select the three 
best samples, numbering them 1, 2, 
and 3, from which the premium lot 
will be selected. The farmer shall 
leave this corn standing on this acre 
of ground until thoroughly matured, 
when, between the dates of November 
1st and 20th, one Judge from the De- 
partment of Agriculture of the United 
States, one from the Department of 
Agriculture of Virginia, and one se- 
lected by the Virginia State Fair As- 
sociation shall visit these three farms, 
see this corn shucked, measured and 
weighed. 

Then, on the delivery of the corn 
that they select to the Southern Stock 
Yards Corporation, Richmond, Vir- 
ginia, to be the property of said South- 
ern Stock Yards Corporation, the suc- 
cessful competitor shall receive the 
sum of $500 in gold. 



FOR THE SEASON OP LONG 
EVENINGS. 

There are no lonely winter even- 
ings in the homes where The Youth's 
Companion is a weekly visitor, and 
there need be no idle hours. The va- 
riety of the paper's contents appeals 
to every member of the household, 
and before one issue is exhausted 
the next is waiting at the post ofQce. 
During the winter season The Com- 
panion prints nearly a hundred com- 
plete stories of considerable length, 
besides the absorbing serials, some 
twenty-five articles by men and wo- 
men o^' renown, and about twice as 
many short character and humorous 
sketches as there are winter nights. 
Such an article as "Winter Gardening" 
suggests an interesting occupation 
which can be carried on in Alaska 
with snow twenty feet deep, and 
without the cost of a dollar. It is 
well "worth while" to read a paper 
so carefully and ably edited. 

Send your subscription ($1.75) at 
once so as to receive free all the is- 
sues of The Companion for the re- 
maining weeks of 1909, as well as 
The Companion's "Venetian" Calendar 
for 1910, lithographed in thirteen col- 
ors and gold. 

THE YOUTH'S COMPANION. 

Companion Bldg. Boston, Mass. 

New subscriptions received at this 
office. 




If you want to save money on your 
purchase of fence write Kitselman 
Brothers, of Muncie, Indiana, for 
their free catalogue. They are sell- 
ing fence direct to the farmer on 30 
days' trial for 15 cents a rod up. See 
their ad. in this issue. 



AGRICULTURAL LIME. 
We invite attention to the adver- 
tisement of T. C. Andrews & Co., of 
Norfolk, Va., in which all grades of 
agricultural lime are offered. The 
splendid shipping facilities enable it 
to deliver lime practically all over 
the South at reasonable rates. 



This is our 

NEW 




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Just Published 

FREE To Every Farmer 

We want every farmer and cement worker to send for 
this new edition of our Cement Book, 
''Concrete Construction about the Home and on the Farm/' 

It is larger and better than any previous edition, and it de- 
scribes and illustrates many new^ ways of u-ing concrete. 
There are 160 pages and over 150 illustrations. The directions 
for making cement structures are given in plain language that 
everyone can understand, with tables showing the _ exact 

amount of material required for the work 

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Send for this book now stnd get the benefit .^^^^^tfttSSStS^^^^^r 
of many new ideas for this year's work. 

When you build, do not forget 
that ATLAS Portland Cement makes 
the best concrete and that the U. S. 
Government bought ATLAS for the 
Panama Canal. 



Ask your dealer for ATLAS. If 
he cannot supply you, write to 

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Write now and get our free catalogue, giving full information, and prepare 
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rWUL, THE ADVERTISER WHERE YOU SAW HIS ADVBRTISBJMENT. 



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[December, 



BLACK HAWK CORN SHELLBR. 
Attention is invited to the adver- 
tisement of A. H. Patch in which he 
offers his very handy little "Black 
Hawk" corn sheller and grist mill. 
Most farmers have frequent use for 
these little machines and should look 
into their merits at once. 



U. S. SEPARATORS WIN GRAND 
PRIZE AT SEATTLE EXPOSITION. 

It will not surprise any one who 
has used a United States Cream Sep- 
arator to learn that this Separator 
was awarded the Grand Prize, the 
highest possible award, at the Alas- 
ka-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, at Seat- 
tle, Washington. The award was 
made by expert judges, and confirms 
the testimony of dairymen and farm- 
ers throughout the country, who have 
put this sterling separator to the test 
day after day. 

It is interesting to note that the 
United States Separators exhibited at 
the Seattle Exposition were ordinary 
stock separators. No extra finish was 
put on them. They were all ready 
to go to work separating milk, and, 
in fact, they will be sold and at work 
before this article is read. The Ver- 
mont Farm Machine Co. has claimed 
for its United States separators that 
they are exceptionally easy running, 
easy cleaning and long lived, and pos- 
sess the highest degree of skim- 
ming perfection. The award of Grand 
Prize bears out this assertion. 

The United States Separator is 
quite in the habit of taking Grand 
Prizes and Gold Medals at Worlds' 
Fairs. At no place where it has been 
exhibited has it failed to meet the 
stamp of official approval, and the 
world record for close skimming, 
which the United States Separator 
holds, was made in competition with 
other leading separators. 



VALUE OF SIMPLICITY IN 
GASOLINE ENGINES. 

To the farmer who has set out on 
a frosty October morning for the wood 
lot for a day's work with the power- 
saw, or to the dairyman who stands 
In the milk house with overflowing 
buckets waiting for the separator, no- 
thing, perhaps, is so exasperating as 
to be unable to start his gasoline en- 
gine. He begins to search for trou- 
ble, and if his engine is like so many 
now on the market, with 189 to 219 
delicate and complicated parts, it is 
easy to see that the farther he goes, 
the more trouble he finds. At last 
his head is so muddled trying to fig- 
ure out "gears," "eccentrics," "ratch- 
et wheels, "tumbling rods," "trig- 
gers," etc., that he gives it up in dis- 
gust. He either does the work bv 
hand, if possible, or sends a hurry-up 
call for a high-salaried expert to come 
ont and locate the trouble. After 
this has happened a few times he 
loses faith in gas engines entirely. 

This is a mistake, for there are gap 
engines that give excellent service, 
and are great time and labor savers 
to us all. Among these is the 
McVicker Automatic Gasoline Engine, 



San Jose 

SCALE 



liAST YSAR we sold three large fruit growers a barrel each (800 gallons 
of solution) for test in comparison witli other remedies on the market. 

THIS YEAR we sold those three fruit growers our spray equal to 30,000 
gallons of solution. 

RESULTS tell the story. 

OUR SALES this year are ten times larger than last year. 

WRITE NOW FOR OUR FREE BOOK 

It gives reports from users. Fruit growers who have been spraying 
for scale for ten years advise that our spray is the only one with which they 
have been able to completely destroy the scale and at one-half the cost 
of other remedies. 

F. O. STREET & CO., 27 Railroad Street, Rochester, N. Y . 



u you nave not gotten complete control o( the diead 
WE KNOW THAT PRATT'S 



IT IS UP TO YOU 

WE KNOW 

"SCALECIDE" 

•will do it more effectively than Lime-Sulphur, for less money and less labor— five years of proofs. 
PRICES:— In barrels and hail ljarrels,50o. per gallon ; 10 gallon cans, $6.00 ; 5 gallon cans, $3.35; Igallon cans, $1.00. 

Send for Booklet, " Orchard Insurance." 
If you want cheap oils, our " CARBOLKINE " at 30c. per gallon is the equal of anything else. 
B. G. PRATT CO., WIFG. CHEMISTS, 50 CHURCH ST., NEW YORK CITY, 




A natural lime with strong fertilizing properties. Highly beneficial to 
all soils. Increases all crops. Sow broadcast before or after seeding wheat, 
oats, alfalfa, clover, cotton or peanuts and you will be amply repaid. One 
ton $6, 10 tons $55, 20 tons $100, 100 tons $450. Net cash, in bags, f. o. b. 
New Bern, N. C. 

PORTER-BROWN CHEMICAL CO., sole manufacturers, NEW BERN, N.C. 



When correBpondlng with our advertlsere always mention Southern PUtntor. 



1909.'[ 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



1199 



made by the Alma Manufacturing Co., 
Alma, Mich. This engine shows even 
in its picture, its extreme simplicity 
and freedom from complicated parts. 
This is borne out in truth when we 
learn that all together there are but 
one-third as many parts to a McVick- 
er as in almost any other engine 
made. Take the moving parts, for 
instance, the McVicker has but four, 
where other engines must have at 
least twelve in order to run at all. 
It is easy to see where such a sim- 
ple engine has the advantage of heav- 
ily cumbered engines, clogged with 
intricate and easily broken parts. By 
reason of its simplicity this engine 
runs with minimum of friction, which, 
of coureSj means less gasoline and 
less oil. It will also stand fifty per 
cent, more overload, and unlike most 
four-cycle engines (the best type) will 
pick up power on any outward stroke 
after the first four. Four cycle en- 
gines fire on multiples of four, as 4-8- 
12, etc., but the McVicker, if it misses 
on the fourth cycle, can pick up on 
the sixth. 

The great desirability of a simple 
engine lies in the fact that it does 
not require a man of extraordinary 
training or ability to run it. Ex- 
actly what is claimed for the McVick- 
er. 

The Alma Manufacturing Co., we 
are sure, will be glad to explain at 
greater length than is possible here, 
the many other advantages simplicity 
affords, and will also send their new 
catalogue and Power House Plans 
Free. You can reach them by address- 
ing, the Alma Mfg. Co., Station L., 
Alma, Mich. 



HOW TO REDUCE LIVING 

EXPENSES. 

Statistics prove that the cost of 
living has steadily increased, and will 
continue to increase. A t the same 
time the wage scale has not grown 
proportionately large enough to offset 
this. There is but one thing to do 
when confronted by a situation like 
this, and that is to reduce the cost 
of living. Economy must be practiced 
to make ends meet. Many of the lit- 
tle luxuries that have been enjoyed, 
of course, can be stopped with slight 
inconvenience. 

The real pinch comes when an at- 
tempt is made to tamper with the 
table. The proper amount of food 
must be eaten. This is the largest 
household expense, and the one turn- 
ed to, naturally, when the question of 
economy is raised. 

Now. the easiest way to make a sav- 
ing is to use the remains of the roast 
beef, the chicken or turkey, the shoul- 
der of mutton, or many other things 
that heretofore were thrown away. It 
is just here that the woman who has 
an "Enterprise" Meat and Food Chop- 
per in her kitchen is able to run her 
household economically. It makes pos- 
sible hundreds of new ways to pre- 

! pare food. Economizing by skimping 

tc 

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FROST PROOF CABBAGE PLANTS 

GUARANTEED TO SATISFY PURCHASERS, ,^ 

FROM THE ORIGINAL CABBAGE PLANT GROWERS. 




L EARtY J KRSEY WAKEFIELD. CHARLESTON URGE TYPE, 8UCCK.SMII! 
The Earlipst WAKi;riF,LD, Tii^- Earli.; 

Ciilib«80 Grown, 2d L.rliejt fUt llvnil Vui 



AUUl.STATKUCKEK, SHUKT HTKM MI.U ' 

A lillln Imcr FLAT UUTCH 

than SuL'cesaion. LarlfCHt srd LRU-it CabbaRQ, 




TRADE MARK COPYRIGHTED 



Paid in Capital Stock 830,000.00. Established 41 Years. 

We sn-ew tbfi first FROST PROOF PLANTS !n 1868. Now lliivo over twenty thousand 
satisfied custonici-s. We have grown and sold more eabbace plants than all other persons in the 
Southern states combined. WHY? Because our plants must please or wo send your money back. 
Ordernow;tt is time to setthese plants in your section to get extraearly cabbage, and they are 
the ones that sell ior the most money. 

We sow three tons of Cabbage Seed per season ^l^ntsf ?™i't""e""^d'orl'Im"nS 

Write for free catalog of frost-proof plants of the best varieties, containing valuable informa- 
tion about fruit and vegetable prowlne. Prices on Cabbage Plants:— In lots of 600 at $1.00; 1,000 to 
5,000 SI. 60 per thousand; 6,000 to 9,000 Sl.2.5 per thousand; 10.000 and over $1.00 per thousand, f. o. b. 
Yoxmgs Island. Our special express rate on plants is very low. 

Wm. C. Geraty Co., Box 6 Youngs Island, S. C. 



ESTABLISHED 1850 



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TREES! 



1,200 ACRES. 



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We are wholesale growers of first class nursery stock of all kln'Js, Frnit, 
Shade, Ornamental Tr^s, Shrabbery, Hedees, Small Fruits, eac. Asparagus, 
StraTirberries, and California Privet In large quantities. 

The BEST is the CHEAPEST. Ours Is the CHEAPEST because It Is tbe 
BEST. Handling Dealer's orders a specialty. Catal ogue free. 

FRANKLIN DAVIS NURSERY COMPANY. 

Baltimore, Maryland. 



0^0mi^^^^fmi^^^t0>m^^0m 



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^M ESTABLISHED 42 YEARS 









W.T.HOOD&.CO. 

OLD DOMINION NURSERIES 

RirHMQND, Wfl — 



GROWERS OF HIGH GRADE: NUR- 
SE3RY STOCK, FRUIT AND ORNA- 
ME3NTAL TREES, SHRUBS, EVER- 
GREENS. ROSES AND SMALL FRUITS 



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WRITE :for our complete catalogue and prices 



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TELL THE ADVERTISER WHERE YOU SAW HIS ADVERTISEMENT. 



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the table is not necessary, as the 
chopper reduces waste to a minimum. 

The "Enterprise" Meat and Food 
Chopper cuts — not crushes — meats, 
fish, vegetables, fruit or any food that 
will go through it. Many dishes that 
housewives have seldom made, be- 
cause of the trouble attached are 
easily prepared. New ones that they 
have hesitated to try are now within 
their reach. A turn or two of the 
handle, and the article is cut — and 
the advantage over the old time-con- 
suming methods clearly shows it to 
be a household necessity. 

"The Enterprising Housekeeper" is 
a valuable little book containing over 
200 recipes, of which every housekeep- 
er should have a copy. The publish- 
ers will be glad to mail a copy to any 
address upon receipt of four cents to 
pay postage. Address, The Enterprise 
Manufacturing Company of Pa., Dept. 
27, Philadelphia, Pa. 



SOME INSIDE INFORMATION 

ABOUT "A KALAMAZOO DIRECT 

TO YOU." 

An interesting picture is presented 
on entering the Kalamazoo warehouse 
— where your "Kalamazoo direct to 
you" is shipped from. 

Your first impression is the immen- 
sity of the building. Following close 
upon that comes the thought of the 
bigness of the enterprise. You look 
at the Ranges, Heaters, Gas Stoves, 
Wood Stoves, stoves of every kind, 
and for every purpose, piled tier up- 
on tier, and the effect is stupendous. 
You never knew there were so many 
stoves in the world before, and to find 
this enormous quantity all under one 
roof, all made by one concern, all 
sold one at a time, from that one 
warehouse produces an impression 
never to be forgotten. 

The Kalamazoo warehouse has stor- 
age room for 30,000 stoves. And ev- 
ery foot of space, and every one of 
the 30,000 stoves is needed, too, many 
a time. 

Stop and think how large a part 
of the country's demand for stoves 
and ranges is supplied by the Kala- 
mazoo Stove Company. There is at 
least one Kalamazoo stove in each of 
more than 21,000 towns — over one- 
third of the entire number of post of- 
fices in the country. And the list 
keeps growing year after year, until 
sooner or later it is to be expected 
that the Kalamazoo Stove Company 
will have on record one customer or 
more in every town in the United 
States. 

Every Kalamazoo stove sold goes 
direct from the factory to the custo- 
mer — no dealers and no jobbers. In 
this way the company is enabled to 
make their famous low prices, which 
have been proven beyond question a 
very great saving to stove buyers. 

The big Kalamazoo factories cover 
five acres of ground. They have fa- 
cilities for turning out one stove ev- 
ery two minutes of the day — 1,200 to 



Oldest Seed House in America 



FOUNDED 126 YEARS, 



LANDRETHS' PEDIGREE SEEDS 

If not sold by your merchant In sufficient variety write 
to us for LanJreth's Catalogue. 
This advertisement with an order for over $1.00 Is worth 20 cents. 
Say is a Private Gardener or a Market Gardener. 

D. LANDKETH SEED CO., Bristol, Penn'a 



MENTION THIS PAPEK 



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ELMWOOD NURSERIES 



WE ARE GROWERS AND OFFER A FINE ASSORTMENT OF 



APPLES, 

CHERRIES, 

NECTARINES, 

GOOSEBERRIES, 

RASPBERRIES, 

ORNAMENTAIiS, 



PEACHES, 
PLUMS, 

GRAPE VINES, 
STRAWBERRIES, 
ASPARAGUS, 
SHADK TREES, 

WKITE FOR CATALOGUE. 



PEARS, 

APRICOTS, 

CURRANTS, 

DEWBERRIES, 

HORSERADISH, 

HEDGE PLANTS. 



J.B. WATKINS & BRO, Midlothian, Va. 



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GARDENERS AND TRUCKERS 

We invite you to send at once for our 1910 Catalogue, and Special 
Price List for Market Gardeners. It's FREE. Yours for the 
asking. Write a postal today. Listed are all the latest novelties, 
also the favorites and standards. 



tim SEEDS -NONE BETTER THAN NOLL5 



We aim to carry only the very highest grades in every line. Our 
many years' experience enables us to select only the best. Don't 
hesitate to send us your orders. We cater to critical Market 
Gardeners and Truckers. Address, 

J. F. NOLL & CO., ^°^ Mulberry Street. NEWARK. N. J. 




at ONE-HALF- 

City Seedsmen Prices ! 



^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^" Let us send you our catalog: of seeds=-It's 
different. It tells you facts, and why we can save you money, and give you a guaranteed 
SQUARE DEAL. Just drop a postal today and see the difference in buying your seeds In 
country or city. FORREST SEED CO., Box 42 Cortland, N. Y. 



Strawberry Plants 



Send 92.50 for 1,000 assorted 
Plants. Excelsior, Klondykc, 
Lady Thompson and Aroma. 
JOHN LIGHTFOOT, Dept. 7, 
Chattanoogra, Tenn., R. F. D. 



AGRICULTURAL LIME 

— FROM— 

MANUFACTURER TO FARMER CHEAP 

No Agents. 

Lime Screenings an'd Run of Kiln. 

TAZEWELIi WHITE LIME WORKS, No. Tazewell, Va. 



1909.1 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



1201 




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F YOU have never used Peruvian Guano, you have 
never realized the greatest possible yield from your 
soil. No known Fertilizer is the producer of such 



bumper crops. 

^ Peruvian Guano is the natural excre- 
mentofthe tnillionsupon millions offish- 
eating birds that inhabit the rainless 
cliiTs on the coast of Peru, and adja- 
cent islands, and is a natural lood for 
plants just as bread is man's natural 
food. 



W Peruvian Guano is different from com- 
mercial fertilizer, for Peruvian Guano is the 
product of nature, and in nature's factory are 
no strong acids nor high proof chemicals. 



PHOSPHATE 

*r In all commercial fertilizers the phosphate is treated 
with sulphuric acid. In Peruvian Guano nature has used 
none. 

AMMONIA 
W Peruvian Guano contains ammonia in inimitable forms, 
wonderfully blended by nature to become available as 
needed by the plant, furnishing nourishment from start to 
maturity. 

POTASH 
•JI'The Potash in Peruvian Guano is available, but is un- 
like the soluble mineral Potash in man-made fertilizer; nor 
is there any chlorine present. 




LIME 

^ Peruvian Guano contains 20% ofl me, 
which bind-; together light, s-.mdy soih, 
making them retain plant food, and, 
which opens up heavy clays. 

*[[ Chemists have never been able to 

put elements into commercial fertilizer 

in the forms in which they exist in this 

natural produc, for Peruvian Guano 

is digested fish — the richest of all fertilizers. 

^The demand has always been greater than 
the supply. Fanners who try Peruvian become en- 
thusiastic about it 

^ We are digging it out and shipping it to America in in- 
creased quantities. It is your opportunity to secure some 
of this famous old guano from far Peru. 



Fill out the attached coupon, Paste on a postal and mail to-day. 



Gbntlbmbn: — Please send me book of letters and pictures 
of those who have used Peruvian. 



Naub ... 

Addrrss 



Peruvian Guano Corporation 

CHARLESTON, South Carolina 



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[December, 



1,400 stoves and ranges every week. 
All up to the same unquestioned stan- 
dard of high grade material and work- 
manship. 

"A Kalamazoo direct to you" means 
no aggravating delays, no worrisome 
uncertainty. Your order is received, 
entered and filled like clock work. 
Shipped to you just as fast as the first 
frieght can carry it. 

Private switches from the various 
roads run into the Kalamazoo Stove 
Company's yards, and carload after 
carload is started on its way, each 
stove going to an individual purchas- 
er. 

The Kalamazoo stove business is 
built upon the reliability of the com 
pany and the sterling qualities of their 
product. 

The personal word of the Vice-Pres- 
ident, William Thompson — several 
times Mayor of Kalamazoo — is back 
of every statement they make, as well 
as a $20,000 bank bond. An enter- 
prise built upon a foundation so solid 
as that must succeed, and the Kala- 
mazoo Stove Company is proof. 



EVERY FARM NEEDS THIS MILL. 
Experienced stock raisers are prac- 
tically unanimous in stating that cat- 
tle and horses should be fed ground 
foed. The bulletins of the Experiment 
Stations prove that grinding the feed 
will produce more milk, more beef, 
more pork, more mutton — and more 
work from the horse. So it is no 
longer a question whether you should 
have a mill or not, but which mill will 
best do the work. 







The "Corn Belt" Feed Mill is a 
strongly built machine. All parts are 
interchangeable. A system of knife 
rings in the cutting head of this mill 
chops up the corn or grain before it 
goes to the grinding rings, making 
much less power necessary to run the 
mill that is require d for any other 
mill of its capacity. On account of 
the slow speed the feed is not warm- 
ed. The mill handles new, soft or 
spongy corn better and faster than 
any other mill, the knife and shear 
reducing, giving a fine ever grade of 
work on the corn and cob, with ex- 
ceeding light draft. 

The "Corn Belt" has lathe-centered 
burrs, insuring fine, even grinding. 
The burrs may be changed in three 



Lee's Prepared Aqricultural Lime 

The great crop grower and land Improver. Never falls when prop- 
erly used to give perfect satisfaction. It prevents rust and scab on wheat 
and oats, and Insures a good stand and growth of clover or other grasaes. 

Lee's Special Wheat Fertilizer 

Grown In favor and sales every season. We hear of no rust or scab, 
but all say the crop Is Increased eight to ten bushels of wheat, of fine 
quality, and they have fine stands of clover or ather grass. 

Imported Thomas Basio Slaa 

This valuable fertilizer Is used almost exclusively In Europe on fall 
crops, such as grasses and turnips as well as grain. It has several ad- 
vantages over our phosphate. It Is Insoluble In water, and being much 
heavier than the soils, la not washed away by hoavy rains, but remains 
where distributed until dissolved by the humlc acid of the roots of plants. 
It also contains forty to fifty per cent, of free lime. Its lasting results 
make It a cheap as well as good fertilizer. 

Lee's High Grade Bone and Potash 



For potatoes, cabbage and other crops. 
Plaster, Agricultural Lime, carload or less. 

^Mannfactiired By — 



Constantly on hand Land 



A. S. LEE & SON'S COMPANY, Richmond, Va. 

SEND FOR CIRCULARS, DEPARTMENT "A." 



I Ji LoM^ Price Lime Spreader 




Watch the results from the use of lime properly distributed — 
(you waste half of it when shoveling it out). Our machine evenly and 
accurately distributes lime, plaster, fertilizers and fine compost 

in any quantity from 100 lbs. to 3,0001bs. to the acre. 



MAY WE SHIP YOU 

A Ton of Lime ^ 
and a Spreader • 



We desire to quickly introduce our 
LOW-PRICED SPKBADBR — 

simple, yet perfect — and would convince 
a neighborhood by shipping into it a 
sample machine and a ton of lime 
under our freight paid trial plan, 

which we will fully explain to you. 

Address KIHG WEEIER CO., Richmond Ya. 



Takes lumpy lime, damp, cloddy fertilizers and distribates all evenly. Absolute Force Feed. 

A boy and a mule can handle it, and cover 8 to 10 acres a day. „^. 



Ground Phosphate Rock 

Superior to Bone or Acid Phosphate for Alfalfa and Clover, and at 
one-fourth the cost. See editorial, June Issue this paper, "Alfalfa In East- 
ern Virginia." 

FARMERS' UNION PHOSPHATE CO., BIRMINGHAM, ALA. 



CLARK'S SAMPSON TOBACCO PRESS AND JACKS. 

Every tobacco grower should have one or more of 
these presses. Save money by using this press; make 
money pressing for others. The platform of this 
press Is 3% feet wl'de and 4 feet long. The height 
In the clear Is 4 feet. The press or jack stand Is on 
top of the beam overhead. This Is a very powerful 
press. 

Many Hundreds of Them Are Notv In Use In the To- 
bacco Sections. 

We sometimes make them much 
larger for special work. It is used 
for pressing In barrels, hogsheads 
and cases, fruit, tobacco, dry goods, 
also for tank scrap, etc. It weighs , 
about 560 pounds. The wood work 
is made of the best hard maple, 
ash or oak. The Iron work Is con- 
structed of the best malleable Iron 
and steel, strongly bolted together. 
Write to-day for FREE BOOKLET 
and Special Prices. 
CUTAWAY HARROW CO., 861 Main St., HIGGANUM, CONN. 

When corresponding with our advertisers always mention Southern Planter. 




DOUBLE ACTION 
CUTAWAYrf, HARROW 



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1203 



minutes, permitting your using the 
dull burrs for tine grinding, and sav- 
ing your sharp burrs for corn and cob. 
This is impossible on the average mill, 
on which it takes from one-half houi 
to two hours to change the burrs. 
This feature, users say, is worth the 
price of the grinder. 

The Spartan Manufacturing Co., of 
Pontiac, 111., makers of the '•Corn 
Belt" Mill, have such faith in their 
product that they are willing to place 
a mill in the hands of a prospective 
customer for twenty days' free trial, 
and let him be the sole judge of its 
merits. 



VIRGINIA STATE FAI R— A 
CORRECTION. 
In the November issue the state- 
ment regarding award Class 53, Acre 
Yield Corn, should have read "Low 
ground, first, John A. Archer, Rich- 
mond, Va., 144 bushels; second, D. L. 
Turpin, Fine Creek Mills, Va., 112 
bushels, and C. R. Kennon, Boscobel, 
Va.. 96 bushels. 



FOREST WORK AT BILTMORE, 
NORTH CAROLINA. 

In point of variety and scope, the 
forest work done on the Biltmore es- 
tate, in North Carolina, is remark- 
able. The forests, which cover 130,- 
000 acres, are made profitable by the 
production of various forms of ma- 
terial. 

Four million feet of lumber, 5,000 
cords of tannic-acid wood and fuel, a 
thousand cords of tan bark, and sev- 
eral hundred cords of pulp wood are 
cut every year. At the same time 
the forest, through wise management, 
is bettered and is steadily increasing 
in value. Workmen employed along 
the boundaries of the forest do duty 
as fire guards. Thus fire protection 
Is secured at least throughout all the 
accessible parts of the tract. 

In connection with all lumbering 
operations permanent logging roads 
are built. These minimize the pres- 
ent cost of transportation, and will 
greatly reduce the cost of marketing 
future crops. Thus the extension of 
the roads is steadily adding to the 
investment value of the forest. More- 
over, they serve also as a network 
of fire lines. Forest planting is prac- 
ticed where fire will not threaten its 
success. 

The experimental work in silvicul- 
ture which is done at Biltmore is 
certain to make important additions 
to the science and practice of for- 
estry. 



COLD COMFORT. 
In a country store a young boy 
was under discussion by the cracker 
barrel committee. Jones had just re- 
marked, "That boy's a regular fool. 
He don't know nothing; he don't 
know enough to come in when it 
rains." Then he discovered the boy's 
father, who had overheard the re- 
mark, and, wishing to appease him. 
he said, "Wall, Sam, 'tain't your fault. 
You learned him all you knew." 

— Llppincott's. 



NATIONAL DAIRY SHOW 

DE LAVAL 

BUTTER AWARD TRIUMPH 
AS USUAL 



The great NATIONAL DAIRY SHOW was held at Milwaukee, Wis., 
Octoher 15-24, and In keeping with the invariable result since 
"ALPHA-DISC" DE LAVAL CREAM SEPARATORS went into use all 
the HIGHEST BUTTER and CREAM awards went to DE LAVAL 
users, in this latest representative contest, which included the exhibits 
of nearly one thousand of the best butter and cream producers through- 
out the country. 

The three highest awards in the CREAMERY BUTTER class — all 
to DE LAVAL users — ^were as follows; 

A. J. ANDERSON, Otisco, Minn Score 07 

THOR. MOE, Winthrop, Minn Score 9« V^ 

A. L. OESTRICH, Watertown, Wis Score 00 

The highest award on DAIRY BUTTER was to P. Dalngaard, 
Camp Point, 111. — Score 94 y2 — a DE LAVAL user. 

The highest award in the CERTIFIED CREAM contest was to 
G. Van B. Roberts, Highland, N. Y. — Score 99 — a DE LAVAL user. 

The highest award in the CREAMERY PATRONS contest for han'd 
separator cream was to G. B. Fisher, Viroqua, Wis. — Score 93% — a 
DE LAVAL user. 

Full details of all the entries and scores have not yet been made 
public, but there is no doubt that the vast majority of all exhibits 
scoring. 90 and above will prove to have been DE LAVAL made, as 
heretofore. 

Incomplete reports have been received of highest butter awards 
at the various STATE FAIRS this year, but practically all of them 
have been to DE LAVAL users, including particularly New York In- 
diana, Michigan, Missouri, North Dakota and South Dakota. 

As has been said before, the separator 'does not of Itself insure 
the making of the best butter, but the superior mechanical and 
sanitary bowl construction and low speed of the DE LAVAL separator 
Indisputably enable the production of better cream and better butter 
under the same conditions than can possibly be made in any other way. 

This is something that even the most enterprising and resourceful 
of those who seek profit through tlie manufacture and sale of would-be 
competing separators never attempt to explain or deny — that practi- 
cally all the best butter, as evidenced by the highest awards in all 
representative butter contests, is and has for more than twenty years 
been made by users of DE LAVAL cream separators 

Hence the great advantage to every DE LAVAL user in having 
the separator that not only makes the MOST but the BEST cream 
and butter, is the simplest and easles machine to use and lasts an 
average of twenty years against from two to five years in the case 
of all others. 

A DE LAVAL catalogue helps to make plain the reasons for 
DE LAVAL superiority in good buttermaking and other respects, and 
Is to be had for the asking. 



The DE LAVAL SEPARATOR Co. 



42 E. MndiHon St., 
CHICAGO. 
1213 & 1215 Filbert St., 

PHILADELPHIA. 

Dnunm & Snc'm'to St> 

SAN FRANCISCO. 



General Offices, 

165 Broadway 

NEW YORK 



173- 



Willlain Street, 
MO.NTREAL. 
14 & 1(1 Prlnceaii St., 

WINNIPEG. 
1010 Western Ave., 
SEATTLE. 



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[December, 



ENQUIRERS' COLUMN. 

All inquiries must reach us by the 
15th of the month previous to the is- 
sue, or they cannot be answered until 
the month following. 



Grinding Corn. 

Your best advice and information 
will be appreciated on the following 
question: Will a small grist mill 
driven by a four horse power engine 
give satisfaction; that is, make two to 
eight bushels good quality table corn 
meal per hour? As I have seen them 
advertised, for instance, the "French 
Buhr mill," would have to grind only 
a day or so per week. 

I have the four horse power engine 
already. You see, I don't want to thus 
invest unless practic,»». 

Does it add to the feeding value of 
corn to crush it with cob for horses? 
Is there any strength in the cob? 
E. M. HILL. 

Southampton Co., Va. 

You can get a mill from the parties 
advertising in The Planter which will 
do the work you want it to do to your 
entire satisfaction. We have many 
subscribers who use them and never 
have had any complaint. Ask the dif- 
ferent advertisers to send you their 
catalogues, telling tfcem what you 
want, and select from these the one 
which most fully meets your require- 
ments. When feeding corn to cattle 
we would always grind the cob with 
it, as it keeps the meal more open and 
adds to the bulk, which the large stom- 
achs of cattle must have in order that 
they may make the best use of their 
■ feed. Horses, however, have only 
small stomachs and bulk is not desir- 
able, therefore^ for horse feeding we 
would prefer not to have the cob 
ground with the grain. There is only 
little food value in the cob. It is 
mainly fibre. — Ed. 



Difficulty in Churning. 

I have a cow from whose milk 1 
have been making very nice butter up 
to about two weeks ago, since which 
time no amount of churning will make 
any butter. I have tried every meth- 
od within my power to make butter 
from this cow's milk without success. 
Can you or some reader of the South- 
ern Planter suggest some cause and 
remedy for this? There has been no 
change in the cow's food or habits, 
except that she is kept in a stall most 
of the time. 

C. R. DICKINSON. 

Caroline Co., Va. 

We presume that the cow is at a 
late period of her lactation. When a 
cow has milked for a very long period 
and especially if she is again in calf, 
this difficulty in churning often oc- 
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that need. Sometimes the fat is in 
the milk to some extent, but will not 
separate. Raising the temperature at 
which the cream is churned will some- 
times correct this trouble. In other 
cases a lowering of the temperature 
will cause it to separate. — Ed. 



Sweet Potatoes for Stock. 

Can you give me any information In 
regard to sweet potatoes as stock 
food? What is feeding value in com- 
parison to corn? If fed to cows, what 
effect would it have on the milk, if 
any? Would they be apt to make the 
cream hard to churn? 

C. G. RIND. 

Prince George CO., Va. 

The Florida Experiment Station has 
made an experiment in feeding sweet 
potatoes to cows. The following re- 
sults were obtained: "It was found 
that 100 pounds of sweet potatoes fed 
in connection with cotton seed meal 
and wheat bran produced 64.8 pounds 
of milk, as compared with 58.1 pounds 
of milk when sorghum silage to the 
amount of 143 pounds was substituted 
for the 100 pounds of sweet potatoes." 

We do not think that the sweet po- 
tatoes would have any detrimental ef- 
fiect on the milk whatever. Corn has 
10.3 per cent, of protein, 70.4 per cent, 
of carbohydrates and 5.0 per cent, of 
fat. Sweet potatoes 1.5 per cent, of 
protein, 24.7 per cent, of carbohy- 
drates and 0.4 per cent, of fat. Pro- 
tein is the muscle and flesh forming 
substance, carbohydrates and fat the 
heat and fat forming substances. — Ed. 



Cowpeas — Applying Fertilizer With. 

I put 200 pounds of bone meal 
(steamed bone) and one ton of lime to 
the acre on my corn land last spring. 
Sowed crimson clover at the rate of 
20 pounds per acre at last working of 
corn, got a good stand except in thin 
spots on the field. I want to plow 
this under next spring and sow to 
cowpeas. This lime and bone meal 
being in the land, can I get a good 
crop of peas without using fertilizer 
at time of sowing the peas?. If I use 
fertilizer with the peas, must I dis- 
tribute the fertilizer with grain drill 
before I sow peas, or distribute both 
together and let the fertilizer touch 
the peas? I have been told that fer- 
tilizer should be worked in the soil 
before peas are sowed. Why is this? 

How many peas should I sow to 
acre with grain drill? My drill is a 
"Buckeye" drill, and I cannot adjust 
It to sow less than one and three- 
quarter bushels to acre. Is this too 
much? I want to cut them for feed 
and disc the stubble down for wheat 
■next fall. 

My way of crop rotation is, first 
year corn and crimson clover, second 
year cowpeas followed with wheat, 
■wheat followed with clover and grass. 
Just began this rotation this year. 
A SUBSCRIBER. 

Montgomery Co., Va. 

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[December, 



on this land without the use of further 
fertilizer, as the phosphoric acid sup- 
plied by the bone meal is not exhaust- 
ed by the growing of one crop, and 
the lime will have made available 
sufiBcient potash in your land to meet 
the needs of the crops. Probably you 
might secure a still heavier crop if 
you applied 200 pounds per acre of 
acid phosphate, which supplies phos- 
phoric acid in an available form, and 
cowpeas are large consumers of this 
If you do apply this acid phosphate, 
put in on broadcast before you plant 
the peas. The reason why acid phos- 
phate and potash should not be -drilled 
in along with the seed is because they 
are caustic and when brought into 
immediate contact with seed this caus- 
ticity injures and may destroy the 
germ from which the plant starts. A 
seeding of half a bushel of cowpeas 
put in with a drill will give as good a 
stand of peas as a bushel sown broad- 
cast, and we would not drill more 
than half a bushel, or, at most, three 
pecks to the acre. You can get over 
the difficulty with your drill by block- 
ing up every other or every third 
spout and thus limit the auantity of 
seed which it can distribute. 

Your rotation is a good one and un- 
der it your land will improve in yield 
every year. — Ed. 



Lime and Phosphate — Rock Phosphate 

1. Which will be best to use on 
land for corn with crimson clover 
plowed down, lime and acid phosphate, 
or ground rock phosphate? The dif- 
ference in price considered. 

2. In using the ground rock phos- 
phate, would the lime be needed to 
sweeten the soil? W. A. BAKER. 

Prince Edward Co., Va. 

For an immediate result on the corn 
crop, lime applied as soon as the crim- 
son clover is plowed down and fol- 
lowed by 200 or 300 pounds of acid 
phosphate applied after the lime has 
been harrowed in and laid for a week 
or ten days would probably be best. 
The rock phosphate is slower in ac- 
tion than the acid ^phosphate and 
would more permanently improve the 
land. Whilst the rock phosphate has 
a large amount of lime in it, it is in 
the form of phosphate of lime, which 
has not the effect of carbonate of lime 
(the ordinary rock and shell lime) in 
correcting the acidity of the soil, 
therefore, whether you use acid phos- 
phate or rock phosphate, apply the 
lime. — Ed. 



Please inform me whether soy beans 
can with safety be carried over an- 
other year for seed and if they re- 
(iulre any extra protection through 
the cold weather. I have on hand a 
lot purchased to sow last summer, 
but, owing to the protracted drought 
In this section, could never get the 
land in order for seeding. 

GEORGE S. SMITH. 

Fauquier Co., Va. 

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qualities tor from two to four years 
if carefully stored, but it is luucii 
more advisable not to sow seed over 
oue year old. If it is decided to keep 
the beans for sowing next year tUe\ 
should be treated with carbon bisul- 
phide two or three times during ui 
winter to kill out all weevils and in- 
sect life. The beans should be pui 
into a tight bin or barrel and the car- 
bou bisulphide be poured into a 
saucer aud placed on the top of the 
beans and the bin or barrel be closed 
tight for twelve hours and then be 
thrown open to the air. Have no 
lights about when using carbon bisul- 
phide, as it is very explosive. — Ed. 



Saving Herrings from Spoiling by 
Skippers and Worms. 
In reading over your valuable pa- 
per last evening, I saw where Mrs. 
W. E. Cox wished to know what to 
do for her salt herrings. I have been 
a fisherman for years and packed 
many thousand. I can tell her what 
to do. All fish are packed in coarse 
salt. Now, if she will make enough 
strong brine that will bare up an egg 
and put about a pint of common mo- 
lasses to a bucket of brine, mix it 
well, and cover her fish, the fish will 
keep bright and good for years, just 
as long as they are under brine. The 
molasses will kill all skippers and 
worms and prevent them. Use a 
piece of saltpetre the size of a small 
walnut to redden them, and keep solid. 
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Hog Feeding. 

Will you kindly tell me the best 
plan for fattening hogs? If the 
hogs have had a fine range all sum- 
mer, is it best to put them in a pen 
at fattening time, or should they be 
allowed the same range they had dur- 
ing the growing period? 

Henrico Co., Va. A READER. 

Whilst many hogs are fattened on 
free range by feeding corn along with 
the grazing crops on which they are 
running, yet usually it is found bet- 
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or pen during the closing feeding 
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more active grade hogs, which, when 
given full liberty, take a much longer 
time to feed than when confined to a 
small area. Pure-bred hogs of thp 
best feeding types will not even, if 
given full liberty, range far, as they 
naturally become lazy, and when they 
have eaten their fill lay down to sleep 
and lay on fat. — ^Ed. 



Tanning Hides With Hair On or Off. 

You will oblige me If you will tell 
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on and off. J. R. BEST. 

Currituck Co., Va. 

To tan a hide or skin with the hair 
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[December, 



in water and rub this well into the 
hide and leave to dry. When dry re- 
peat the rubbing, and do this for a 
week or ten days every day. By this 
time the skin should be cured and may 
then be removed from the board ana 
should then be worked and rubbed 
with the hands until it becomes soft 
and pliable Skins with the hair re 
moved are preserved by being tanned 
with oak and chestnut bark and also 
with the use of chemical tanning prep- 
arations. They are immersed in pits 
full of the tanning liquor and remain 
there for varying times, according to 
the strength of the liquid used. Form- 
erly the best oak bark tanned leather 
was kept in the pits for several years. 
—Ed. 



Shorthorn Cattle. 

Will you kindly give a full desrip- 
tion of Shorthorn cattle? There is 
some discussion in regard to the 
color of the breed. Some claim that 
none are genuine except the red, oth- 
ers claim they are of two or three 
colors — red, blue and white. And 
how about the size of the horns? 
What is about the weight of a full 
grown Shorthorn bull? 

MILTON MOUNTJOY. 

Stafford Co., Va. 

It would take much more space 
than we can spare in this column to 
give a full description of the Short- 
horn breed of cattle. They are a dual 
purpose breed of cattle of English 
production, making the heaviest beef, 
milkers and butter producers of all 
breeds. In the Live Stock Depart- 
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they did at the last Dairy Show in 
England. They are the most popular 
of all the breeds in England and prob- 
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fully grown and matured and the 
steers make from 1,500 to 1,800 pounds 
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red to pure white, but probably the 
most prevailing color is the roan — a 
mixture of the red and white mingled 
togther all over the body and with no 
distinct patches of either color pre- 
dominating. The horns are fine, short 
and gently incurving. — Ed. 



Seeding to Grass and Clover. 

I contemplate sowing on my wheat 
and oats early in the spring (end of 
January or beginning of February) 
the following grass and clover mix- 
ture per acre for hay: June clover, 
six pounds; orchard grass, five 
pounds; tall meadow oats, four and 
a half pounds; meadow fescue, three 
pounds; red top. two pounds. 

Please let me know if you approve 
of said mixture or if you would leave 
grass out entirely, ijand Is level 
upland, part was in tobacco, rest in 
cowpeas. JNO. GALLUS. 

Robertson Co., Tenn. 

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mailed to me from Raleigh, N. C, 
where I have not lived for more than 
four years, it would have been better 
to have sown the grass with the 



wheat and to have sown only the 
clover in the spring. But as you have 
not done this, I would say that I have 
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1209 



ture, except that for upland I would 
leave out the meadow fescue and dou- 
ble the amount of the tall meadow 
oats grass, which does well on both 
low and high ground. The red top 
will come quickly, but will soon dis- 
appear on high land, and if you are 
sowing for hay only, I would leave 
out the red top and increase the or- 
chard grass two pounds, as the red 
top would be very light when the 
other earlier grasses should be cut. If 
your object is mainly to improve the 
land, I would leave out grass and sow 
fifteen pounds of red clover per acre. 
— W. F. Massey. 



Goats. 

Please give me some information 
on the goat question. Is the Angora 
of any more service to the farmer 
for cleaning brush land than any other 
kind? Is there a market for the hair? 
Please advise me what kind of goat 
is the best for the farmer. How about 
the Cashmere, and where could this 
kind be purchased? 

J. L. HARCUM. 

Southampton Co., Va. 

All goats are naturally browsing 
animali and prefer to eat young 
trees and brushwood to grass. The 
Angoras are only better for this pur- 
pose in that they produce a long 
fleece which is of value, whilst the 
common goat has only short hair and 
for which there is no market. An- 
gora fleeces, when off fine bred goats, 
sell for a high price, and there is a 
good demand for them by the manu- 
facturers of Angora fabrics. There is 
not a local market for these fleeces 
in the South. They have to be 
shipped North to Boston or other cen- 
ters of the wool trade. Unless a farm 
er has a good range of scrub wood 
and bushes we would not advise keep- 
ing goats of any kind. On such a 
range they will pay to keep and will 
soon bring it into cultivable condition. 
The Angoras are the best for this 
purpose for the reasons before stated. 
We are not advised as to the Cash- 
mere goats, as they are not, to our 
knowledge, kept anywhere in this 
country as a commercial proposition. 
They are merely kept as ornamental 
^nimals. — Ed. 



Johnson Grass. 

Will you please give me a kind of 
history of Johnson grass? Will it 
exterminate broom sedge. How does 
it stand frost? Is it early or late for 
mowing or grazing? I have fine ridge 
land. Will it do well on such land 
fifteen or sixteen miles south of Roa- 
noke city, across the Blue Ridge — free 
stone land. Broom sedge conquers 
all other crops of grass in this sec- 
tion. Is there anything better, and 
where could I get the seed? 

JNO. E. BOWMAN. 

Franklin Co.. Va. 

Johnson grass has been described 
as one or the greatest blessings and 
one of the greatest curses a farmer 



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[December, 



can have on his place. In a section 
where grain and grass of any kind 
is difficult to grow it is a blessing, 
where other and better grasses and 
grains will grow it is a curse. It is 
naturally a product of the further 
south down on the Gulf, and is there 
such a pernicious nuisance that in 
same States its growth is prohibited. 
It is more like a sorghum or cane 
than a grass and was originally 
classed with the sorghums. It seeds 
like sorghum or cane and wherever 
the seed is scatterea there takes root 
and grows and the roots are like wire 
grass roots, only much stronger and 
more aggresive and it soon takes 
entire possession of a piece of land, 
spreading in all directions. In the 
further South, where the winters are 
mild, it is almost impossible to kill 
it out. Here in Virginia it can be 
beaten by being plowed up and ex- 
posed to a hard frost, the roots be- 
ing well shaken out of the land for 
this purpose. WhUst it makes a 
fairly good hay when cut before the 
seed forms, and good pasturage if 
kept closely grazed, it has so many 
bad qualities that we always hesitate 
to advise any one to sow it. If you 
have a piece of low lying land which 
you want to get into a pasture or 
meadow and never to seed in any 
other crop, you may sow Johnson 
grass and find it useful if you will 
take care to cut it before the seed 
forms so that it cannot be scattered 
elsewhere on the farm and will keep 
the roots from spreading onto ad- 
joining land. Otherwise, we would 
advise you to let it alone. You can 
get the seed from the Richmond 
seedsmen advertising in The Planter. 
You can, in our opinion, do much 
better by sowing orchard grass, tall 
meadow oat grass, and herds grass. 
—Ed. 



Renovating an Old Sod. 

I have a sod field — been standing 
over fifty years — beginning to have 
a good deal of broom straw with the 
blue grass. Would you think lime 
would do it good? If so, would it be 
best to coulter sod first, and best 
time to apply lime, and how much 
per acre, or, would bone be better? 
L. W. GRAVES. 

Albemarle Co., Va. 

W would take a sharp toothed spike 
harrow, weight it well, and tear the 
sod well to pieces with this, and then 
rake off the loose trash and haul it 
into the pens. Then apply from one 
to two tons of rock or shell lime to 
the acre, slacking and spreading it 
broadcast as soon as possible. Lei 
lay until February or March and 
then sow about a bushel of mixed 
grass seeds and five pounds each of 
red clover and alsike clover and 250 
pounds of bone meal per acre and 
brush in with a light harrow or brush 
and then roll. This should give you 
a fine new sod, which should last 
for many years. — Ed. 



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[December, 



sue your method of weaning a calf 
after it is a week old. 

W. H. SCHROM. 
Prince George Co., Md. 

A calf is mucli more easily taught 
to drink that has never sucked its 
mother, and the cow herself will give 
her milk much more freely and be 
much less trouble if the calf has 
never been allowed to suck. For 
these reasons we always took the 
calf away from the cow as soon as 
calved and put it into a warm, dry 
pen at some distance from the cow 
so that she should not be able to hear 
its call and thus be made fretful. It 
is an eas> matter, then, to get it to 
drink. Feed it once or twice with a 
spoon with about a pint at each feed 
of milk freshly drawn from the cow. 
Feed three times a day. At the sec- 
ond or third feeding put the milk 
into a shallow bucket and put the 
calf's nose into it and put one of 
your fingers into the calf's mouth 
and it will suck the milk up the side 
of the finger and after two or three 
times feeding in this way will gen- 
erally drink without the finger. You 
will have to get it drinking in this 
way after you have iet it suck, and 
will find the task requires more pa- 
tience than if it had never sucked. 
Usually, however, a day or two will 
get over the trouble. Be careful never 
to overfeed a calf. More calves are 
killed by being overfed with milk 
when under a month old than are 
killed by any other cause. Begin 
with a pint and gradually increase 
a little at each feeding until giving 
two quarts three times a day. This 
quantity should not be reached until 
the calf is ten days old. After it is 
three weeks old the quantity may be 
increased to three quarts at a feeo 
and upon this quantity it should 
thrive and get fat. Always feed the 
milk at the natural temperature as 
soon as drawn from the cow. If it is 
colder than this warm by putting the 
tin bucket into a pail of hot water 
until he milk is the right heat. Be 
careful to keep calf buckets sweet 
and clean. — Ed. 



Grass for Name — Hay for Feed. 

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name for the sprig of grass which 
you will find enclosed, one sprig go- 
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as yet, for both are the same grass. 
It is growing around my pump and 
trough, where it is always damp, 
and it seems to be green all the time. 

As I have about one and a half 
acres of bottom lowland, where water 
sometimes stands during heavy fall, 
although there is a large ditch run- 
ning through it. Can you tell me 
whether this is the proper grass or 
what kind of grasses can I seed this 
plot to so as to make a good pasture 
for winter and summer for cows and 
occasionally hogs? Plowed it flat in 
September, 1909. 

Can you advise me the proper way 



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A SUBSCRIBER. 
Norfolk Co., Va. 

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[December, 



rarely does for long. It is not, how- 
ever, a grass to sow on wet land or 
liable to flooding. This would soon 
hill it out. The best grass for you 
to seed on the land you describe 
would be red tup (herds grass). This 
will stand more water than almost 
any other grass, and yet keep a 
healthy sod, and is excellent both 
for mowing and grazing. 

Feed the grass hay you have along 
with the corn fodder and you will find 
the stock will do well on It. There 
is very little difference in the nutri- 
tive value of the three kinds. — Ed. 



Comparative Value of Bone Meal and 
Raw Phosphate Rock. 

Please tell me the relative values 
of bone meal and the raw ground 
phosphate rock offered by the Tennes- 
see people. I have about twenty 
acres in sod, to be broken up for corn 
next season. Would you apply the raw 
rock, or the bone meal? Any infor- 
mation as to this matter will be 
gladly received. 

GEO. H. RAY, Jr. 

Amherst C, Va. 

Bone meal contains, usually, from 
23 to 25 per cent, of phosphoric acid, 
raw rock (Tennessee) runs from 23 
to 28 per cent, phosphoric acid, so 
that there is little difference between 
them, in so far as the constituent for 
which they are mainly used is con- 
cerned. The phosphoric acid in either 
of them is not immediately available, 
hut requires time to become s o. 
Probably there is little difference in 
the time within which this occurs, 
especially when applied to land with 
considerable vegetable matter in it 
Bone meal, however, in addition to 
the phosphoric acid, contains from 4 
to 5 per cent, of nitrogen, which is 
useful in giving a crop a start. The 
raw rock has no nitrogen. If the sod 
on the field is a good one; that is to 
say, if there is plenty of available 
vegetable matter to act on the raw 
rock, we are of the opinion that it 
would give you as good results to 
apply the rock as to use the bone 
meal for the corn crop, and the cost 
would be less. If there is little vege- 
table matter in the soil, then the 
bone meal will give the best results. 
—Ed. 



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January 13-19, 1910. 
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16 Disc, 4 ft. cut 
20 Disc, 5 It. cut 
24 Disc. 6 ft. cut 
28 Disc, 7 ft. cut 



Imperial 

Flexible double disc 

Harrow 

(Patented): 

the soil in the best condition for 
seed and for holding the moisture. 
Let us prove to you that the Im- 
perial is a money-maker on any 
farm. Any dealer who handles the 
Imperial double disc Harrow will 
let you test it on your farm, free. 
Write us to-day for the proof. 
THE BUCHER & GIBB PLOW CO., 814 East Seventh St.. Canton. Ohio 



Don't Go to thsLSpring or Well 

Have the Water come to You 



For over twenty years we have been installing successfully, complete 
water supply systems, and they are performing their good work to-day. 

With our force of experienced workmen, we are better prepared to sup- 
ply your needs In this direction than any concern south of New York. 

We make a specialty of supplying Coantry Homes with pure, fresh water, 
and at a moderate cost. 

We are not tied down to any system, but are prepared to Install the 
outfit which Is best adapted to your particular needs. We are largest house 
In the South, dealing in water supply outfits, Pmnpa, Windmills, Gasoline 
Engines, Rama, Pressnre Tanks, Cyitress Tanks and Tovrers. 

Catalogue and prices on any of the above will be sent on request. 

Sydnor Pump & Well Co., Inc. 

Department "B," Richmond, Virginia. 



CUTTING AND SHREDDING 



All with one machine. "Ohio" En- 
silage Cutters also make efficient 
shredders. Simply remove the knives 
and put shredder blades in their places. 
A few minutes' time, no additional 
speed and but slight additional power 
required. Double value at trifling 
extra cost. 

"Ohio" Shredder Blades have pro- 
jecting' steel teeth — no two in succes- 
sion travel in the same path. They 
split and tear corn stalks into a nicely 
shredded condition. Power, 2 to 15 
h. p., according to size. .Blower or car- 
rier elevators handle material perfect- 
ly. Our 104-page catalog sent free on 
request. "Modern Silage Methods," 224 
pages, 10c. Please mention this paper. 

SILVER MFG. CO. Salem, Ohio. 




TELL THE ADVERTISER WHERE YOU SAW HIS ADVERTISEMENT. 



1909.] 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



1215 



will keep their eyes open, their knowl- 
edge of adaptation of the rules of the 
standard to the specimens awarded 
will be clearer, and their ideas for 
breeding raised to a higher level. 
They also know that the show hall 
presents the best specimens that the 
exhibitor has in stock; possibly pick- 
ed from 100 to 200 on their breeding 
yard; that the white plumaged fowls 
have been washed with soap and wa^ 
ter; and every attention has been giv- 
en the birds on exhibition. If all the 
visitors at the coming show realized 
these facts their interest in the ex- 
hibit would certainly be increased, to 
say the least. Our exhibitors do not 
confine themselves to the Richmond 
show, but their birds secure some of 
the coveted prizes in the leading na- 
tional shows of the East, and a win- 
ning in Richmond is published with 
as much pride, and with the assurance 
of the owner that the competition af- 
forded by the Richmond Show is a 
position in the poultry world to be 
proud possessor of. Our show this 
year will undoubtedly be the finest 
and largest exhibition within our his- 
tory. Enquiries for premium lists are 
far in advance of previous years, and 
our 100 members insures a creditable 
entry in all classes of high class poul- 
try and water fowl. Our entry fee 
Is small in comparison with the 
Northern shows of equal prestige and 
standing, .and our line of silver cups 
and special prizes, along with prem- 
iums offered, makes an attraction that 
is far above kindred exhibitions. Our 
cooping facilities are ample, and our 
superintendent and his associates are 
experienced men who love their work ; 
which is ample assurance to exhibit- 
ors that all fowls entrusted to our 
care will have the best of attention. 

We found out last year that one 
Judge was overworked in handling our 

show, over 1,500 specimens, so we 
very properly have added to our num- 
ber for this year, and have appointed 
the well known J. H. Drevenstedt in 
command, and Prof. Graham and F. 
H. S. Morrison as his associates. This 
company of experts will give us the 
prompt and accurate placing of 
awards, which is much desired, and 
will guarantee no hurried decisions on 
account of rushing through or over- 
work. Our premium list will be ready 
for delivery not later than ♦he 10th 
of December, and our show takes 
place January 13-19. 1910. Our show 
dates this year begin on Thursday, 
and end on Thursday. This is very 
desirable, as It eliminates the possi- 
bility of expressed birds remain- 
ing in the denot over Sunday. En- 
tries will positively close January 3. 
1910. at 12 P. M.. and exhibits must 
be in the hall by 10 P. M.. .Tanuary 
12, 1910. Everything will be in read- 
iness, and if you want to see somo 
high class poultry and plenty of it. 
Join us. For premium list and fur- 
ther information, address, 

W. R. TODD, Secretary, 
Va. Poultry Association, Inc., 

426 N. 6th St., Richmond. Va. 



ARE YOU SATISFIED 
WITHA20ACRECR0P 
FROM A10ACRE FARM? 



You know it costs as much in time, labor, seed and implements 
to raise a poor crop as it does to raise a good one. You know 
also that unless your land is kept constantly supplied with lime, 
nitrogen and phosphates and the ingredients of barnyard manure it 
becomes worn out and loses its fertility. 

You know further that it costs more, and trebles your labor, to 
spread manure by hand than it does to use a well-made manure spreader. 
Maybe you don't know that one load of manure evenly spread by 
a mechanical spreader is worth four loads scattered by hand — 

And that your crop, whether rotation or continuous, will be 
increased from 20 to 40 per cent if you use an 

I. H. C Manure Spreader 

Made in three styles as follows: 

The Corn King, Return-Apron Spreader. 

The Kemp 20th Century, Return-Apron Spreader. 

The Cloverleaf, Endless-Apron Spreader. 

I. H. C. spreaders are made of the best material — wood and steel. 
They have powerful steel frames and steel-bound boxes, which damp 
manure cannot rot. 

I. H. C. spreaders are easily drawn. They can be adjusted to 
spread a thin or heavy coat with equal evenness. 

I. H. C. spreaders are so simple in operation that a boy can do the 
work which used to require a strong man. 

An I. H. C. spreader will save in time and labor more than 
enough to pay for itself in one season. 

Your increased income from better crops will be clear profit. 

Scientific experiment has proved that this profit will vary from 
$4.00 to $20.00 per acre. 

You cannot afford to be a half-crop farmer and there is no reason 
why you should be one. 

An I. H. C. spreader will give you the full return from your land, 
whatever the size of your farm. 

Call on our agent in your town and talk the spreader over with him , 
or address us directly for catalogue and other information. 

INTERNATIOHALTHARVKTER^^COMPANY OP AMERICA 

CHICAGO. U. S. A. 



IH C IINE 



LOOK FOR THE I. H. C. IR«0[ MtRK. IT IS » SEAL Of EXCEUENCE »N0 » GUmNTEE D( ODIUIT 



There appears no record of a time 
when alfalfa was not in some portions 
of the world esteemed one of Nature's 
most generus benefactions to husband- 
ry and an important feature of a 
profitable agriculture. Its beginning 
seems to have been contemporary 



with that of man, and, as with man, 
its first habitat was central Asia, 
where the progenitors of our race 
knew its capabilities in sustaining all 
herbivorous animal life. — From Co- 
burn's "The Book of Alfalfa." 



1216 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[December, 



HOW ABOUT VIRGINIA? 
Editor Southern Planter: 

Is the Old Dominion accomplishing 
all that she should in the promotion 
of her resources, and in the better- 
ment of conditions that go to make 
life more worth living for all her cit- 
izens? 

Eulogy, peroration and self-congrat- 
ulation make sweet music to the ear, 
but do not, as a rule, arouse the re- 
cipient thereof to greater accomplish- 
ment in any line. It seems to me that 
what we need in Virginia is a wider 
and more intelligent investigation of 
our shortcomings and delinquencies, 
and a free and frank avowal of same 
with the idea in view of finding a 
remedy, and thus availing ourselves 
of greater accomplishment and more 
widespread development than has 
heretofore been commanded. 

After returning from a recent trip 
throughout the Northwestern States 
to the Pacific Coast, I cannot help but 
be impressed with the wide diverg- 
ence along certain lines between that 
section of the country and our own 
iSouthland; and I trust I will be par- 
doned if, in comparing the two sec- 
tions from a development standpoint, 
I do not at all times give the palm 
to Virginia and the South. As a mat- 
ter of fact, we are fifty years behind 
the times in certain lines of agricul- 
tural and industrial development, as 
well as being sorely handicapped by 
the blocking of the channels that 
make for a better and more intimate 
social relationship among our people. 

The really loyal friend is the one 
who points out the defects, then in 
all sincerity suggests methods by 
which we can hope to remedy them; 
and it seems to me that what we need 
in Virginia is more friends of this 
type, instead of those who have noth- 
ing but flattery and hollow praise to 
offer. 

The Shame of Our Idle and Deserted 
Farms. 

I note that the latest returns show 
that out of twenty-six million acres 
of land available for cultivation in 
the State of Virginia, less than ten 
million acres are under the plow, and 
probably half of this is not cultivated 
as cultivation is understood in the 
granger States of this country. Ri^ht 
here is something radically wrong; 
and I am going to cite a few of the 
reasons why those conditions exist, 
and furthermore, why every loyal citi- 
zen in this State should lend his as- 
sistance to the early solution of thi=! 
undesirable situation. Vrginia is nri- 
marlly an agricultural State. Her 
towns and her cities must depend on 
the agricultural back country with 
which they are surrounded, and they 
cannot hope to continue to prosper 
and insure themselves a healthy, con- 
tinued growth unless this farming ter- 
ritory around them is cultivated to 
the best advantage to insure largest 
returns. I venture the assertion that 
not one-fourth of our lands to-day are 
being decently farmed; and. further- 
more, the agencies that are working 



H Grinnell Detachable Spreader 



Saves Trucks, 
Box and All 

Only combined spreader 
and farm wagon made. 

Saves you $25 on 
any other wagon box 
spreader,— $70 to $90 
on the big "horse-kill- 
ing" kind. 



Sold on 30 Days* Free Trial 
FIVE YEaR GUaRaiVTEE 




Here's Just The Spreader ForSouthern Farmers^m 

Read What Mr. J. S. McCollough Says: 



m Here is the spreader you have been looking 
for. Farmers have for years been saying, "the 
old style spreader costs too much" — "they are 
too hard on the horses." ''Why don't some 
manufacturer make a combined spreader and 
farm wagon?" 

We've done iti 

The Grinnell is a complete manure spread- 
er. A machine that will spread any kind of fer- 
tilizer. We guarantee it. Fifty bushels capa- 
city. Light draft, two horses can haul it easily. 
You can spread more in a day 
with it than with any old style 
horse-killing machine made. 
AND 

It is also a complete farm 
wagon, — built stronger than the 
ordinary farm wagon; box stand- 
ard size, fits any standard trucks. 
We Can supply any style trucks, 
scoop board, top box and all at a 
small extra cost for making a complete wagon. 
AND THEN 

It saves you 7W. There is no 
use tying up money in a 
wagon box and 
trucks that are 
idle 11 months in 
the year. Not by 
any means when 
you can buy a 
iGrinnell and save 
$25 to $90 on your 
investment. 



"1 take great pleasure in testifying to the merits 
of your detachable manure spreader. Works to per- 
fection in all kinds of manure. Did not have any 
trouble with it at all. BUT YOUR DETACHABLE 
FEATURE IS THE BEST THING OF ALL. It saves 
me the price of a new ^vagon at corn husking time. 
1 just remove the beater and apron in about ten min- 
utes, put on iny side boards and shoveling board and 
have my wagon complete. Used it all through the 
corn husking season as a wagon. Put the beater back 
on as easily and had my manure spreader ready for 



^vork.' 



R. F. D. No. 1, Colfax, Iowa. 



Write Today 
For Catalog, 

HlyLot^PHce and 
Special Offer. 




Gearing cage detaches 
in ten minutes' time. 



The Grinnell drives from 
both sides — one lever; — spreads 
5 to 20 loads to the acre, full fifty 
bushels capacity— one- fourth 
more than any other wagon box 
spreader made. You can't beat 
it at any point. 

We want to prove the merit 
of our spreaders to every farmer 
in this country-. Just try a Grinnell 30 days 
entirely at our risk. 

Our triple guarantee insures satisfaction, 
materials and low price. Greatest ever made. 
Get our catalog now telling all about it 
and liberal offer we are now making to the 
first man who buys in any section. Just write 
me a personal letter or postal. Address 

CHAS. F. CHASE, Pres., 

Chase Manufacturing Co, 

199 Broad St., GRINNELL, lOWOi 



«/kYB COSTLY COTTON SEED 

V**— Plant It In HiLLS.NOT DRILLS ~^*^v 




Cotton seed costs over $20.00 a ton this year— more than ever before— and 
economy in planting will cut a big figure in yournext season's profits; so. when 
you can get a better crop from only one peck of cotton seed per acre than you 
ever have from six pecks planted with the old-style drill, why not do it? Here- 
after "plant your cotton seed in hills" with a 

HARRIMAN SEED DROPPER. 

The only Cotton Planter made that drops the seed at regular 
intervals— just enough in each hill to insure a good stand. The 
seed don't have to be rolled or delinted and 1 bushel will 
plant 4 acres. The gauge wheel regulates depth, and 
permits shallow planting, insuring quick germination. 
The Harriman Seed Dropper will save enough the first 
year — in labor, money and increased yield — to pay for 
Itself three times over. Write TODAY for full details— 
CONVINCING PROOF— of the work of this wonderful, 
money-saving, crop-increasing Cotton Planter, and find 
out where to buy it 

The Harriman Manufacturing Co. 

River Avenue 63 Harriman, Tenn. 



together to bring a larger farming 
population into the State are being 
handicapped at every turn by their in- 
ability to secure these idle lands for 
the new coming population at prices 
that are within reason, or at a nomi- 



nal valuation, based on their wild 
condition; and the capital necessary 
to be expended for their improvement. 
Probably one-third of the counties of 
Eastern and Southside Virginia are af- 
flicted with a little coterie of selfish 



1909.] 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



1217 



I'll Make Yoa a 
Price of onl} 



If you want It 

F. 0. B. 

Waterloo 

without JHud- 

Lugs or Force 

Feed 




Galloway's 

NEW CLINCHER 
PROPOSITION !i1910 



—But, remem- 
ber, you need 
both, and no- 
body else can 
supply yon 
with my End- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 

VVrceFeed"" ]^^^^^^^f Manufe Spreader Prices now based on 

ai^e i'n K ^^^^^M 30,000 a Year Capacity 

I BAFFLE all competition combined to equal my 1910 propo- 
sition. Get it to day. I will crack the whip to the full extent 
of the law on infringers and imitators. They haven't got the 
Spreader nor the patents and they know it. I have eleven patents 
on the Galloway and will protect them. Nobody can get around 
them, J . , 

Get $5 Cash off the Price at once, Freight 
? PrepaidK EasfofjRockies ) to you anywhere direct from factory on 90 days' Free Triall 

BR Money back at 6 per cent, interest after 360 days, 
If my Spreader does not prove a Paying Proposition 
to you. Quick, Prompt Delivery now. 



■ WM. OALLOWAY-THE FARMERS' MANUFACTURER 



That l8 my selling plan. Nobody can beat It. Nobody can touch 
it. It has them all on the run. Galloway Is a whole race-track 
ahead of all competition in spreader proposition and price. 
Remember I pay freight. When I added to my factories the 
Kemp Manure Spreader Factory, conceded to be the larest In 
the world, formerly owned by the Internatloual Harvester Com- 
pany now owned and equipped by me with the very latest auto- 
matic machinery throughout. I did this: I called In my factory 
superintendent and I said to him: 'How many Galloway Mann e 
Spreaders can we make a day now?" He said: "We can make 
100 a day— 30,000 a year " I said: "All right; get out your pencil. 
The first thiu'i you do, figure out how much we can save farmers 
on price, based on 30,000 capacity." He figured it out mighty 
quick. He says to me: "If you can sell them, we can make 
them." We can save 86 apiece In cash to the farmers If you can 
i^ell 30.000." 1 said, "That Is the idea. That's the stuff. We will 
do it They will buy them. Thev know me and they know my 
spreader." 

I'll Save The Parmers $150,000 This Vetr In Cash Money 
Are you one of them? Try me. Get my new Clincher 1910 Proposi- 
tion and my Catalog to-day. 



Cut or Tear This Coupon Out and Mall to Me 

Spend 1 cent and Make 50 Dollars Here is $5.00 

to Start on. 

William Qalloway, 219 Qalloway Sta , Waterloo, Iowa. 

Rush your special 30-day, prepaid freight propoltlon to me 
with your big Galloway free spreader catalog. This coupon Is 
good for 85.00 on any one of your spreaders for 80 days, at 
catalog price. 

Name 

Address 

City or To wn 

County State 

FREE BOOK and My Special Proposition Coupon. 



GALLOWAY SPREADERS 



FIVE SIZES— 50 to 70 BUSHELS 



Which One May I Send to Your Farm— for a Month's 
Free Trial--Freight Prepaid? 

Fits Your Own Truck or Wagor 




FrelgM 

Eami 

Rockleam 



1218 



THE SOUTHEEN PLANTER. 



[December^ 



and self-centered politicians and coun- 
ty officers who, little by little, have 
been acquiring these lands for them- 
selves at tax sales, foreclosures, and 
the numerous and devious way which 
they have of acquiring them at prices 
which do not represent one-fiftieth of 
their real valuation. To illustrate, I 
call to mind a certain county in mid- 
dle Virginia, wherein one individual 
in said county has been acquiring land 
for the past fifteen years, until at 
the present time, he controls nearly 
10,000 acres of land, which have cer- 
tainly not cost him an average of 
more than $1.50 to $2.00 per acre, and 
I know, personally, that a large por- 
tion of it was secured at 50 cents or 
less per acre; yet this same party 
has recently refused an offer of $7.50 
per acre for this land in large tracts, 
to be cut up and put on the market 
for the benefit of the Western home- 
seeker and settler, that the railroads 
are bringing in; and this condition is 
perhaps duplicated to a greater or 
less degree at almost every courthouse 
in half or more of the counties of the 
State. 

Give the Newcoming Settler a Sin- 
cere Welcome. 

The railroads are making strenu- 
ous efforts to get farmers with some 
capital to locate down here, and help 
us bring back these idle lands into a 
state of cultivation, that will give us 
increasing traffic, and at the same 
time help the community at large. 
The native owner of these lands is 
coming to believe that the whole 
North must come to Virginia in order 
to secure farms, and that they can 
charge two or three times their value, 
and still find sale for them. In other 
words, one of the strongest handicaps 
to Southern development is that ten- 
dency on the part of our people to 
almost never a close a business deal 
promptly with a newcomer upon the 
basis first agreed upon. A farmer will 
list his farm with a reputable agency 
An Ohio or Iowa man will come 
down, look it over, and decide to take 
it, and offers a cash payment to bind 
the bargain until the deed can be 
prepared. Just about nine times out 
of ten the native owner will begin to 
hedge, to hem and haw. and to offer 
some excuse, usually that he must see 
his wife and children before he can 
close the deal; and then to comeback 
with the price anywhere from ten to 
fifty per cent, in advance of what he 
originally asked for the land. T am 
not exaggerating when I state that ful- 
ly thirty per cent, of the people whom 
we bring Into this territory go back 
In disgust as a result of these un- 
businesslike tactics, which seem to 
prevail almost universally In the sell- 
ing of farms. 
Offer Your Surplus Land For Sale. 

Another condition that is a serious 
drawback to a more material devel- 
opment of certain territory is the fact 
that it is almost impossible to securp 
large tracts that can be divided up 



-J 



Planet Jr Cotton Hoe 



// 



Get a bigger 
cotton crop Ifi^^ 

f> J) with less work The Planet Jr. Com 
bined Horse Hoe and Gotten Cultivator 
does as much as six men working the 
' old way. It does more kinds of work and 
lasts longer than any other similar imple- 
ment made. Adju|^able for hoeing, plow- 
ing, cultivating, furrowing, listing, dirting 
scraping and laying by. Wonderfully use- 
ful for cultivating cotton, corn, potatoes, 
and similar crops. 

^Nl^itB to-day Jor out 1 909 56 page catalog » which fully 
deseribss aad illustrates 55 kinds of Planet Jr., implements, including 
two-horse cotton and corn cultivators and combination garden tools. 
FREE. 

S. L. Allen & Co., Box 1107 X, Philadelphia, Pa. 



tENTfte BOARD 




St1INGL[S? 

Yes, I Make 'em 
andEdge'emtoo 



I will cut square, 
round or split blocks, 
and make wide or 
narrow shiuRles. I 
can cut Box Boards 
and Heading, too and 
and with a bigger saw I can bolt the stock and do many other useful 
stunts. I have Power Feed, a 24-inch shingle saw, a handy edger, with 8- 
inch saw and feed belts, and will work for you for $75 

Z^tT's'ttl MIGHTY GOOD SAW MILLS, TOO! 

^ife°^l°a Woodworking IVIachinery 

Tbey have a nice book that ttUs a whole lot more about me and the other machines, and If 
you'll just write to the folks they'll send you one. The address ia 

AMERICAN SAW MILL MACHINERY CO. 



137 HOPE STREET 



HACKETTSTOWN, N. J. 



-;'PALE FACE SHELL HEAP CORN 



That's what the big chiL'f would say could lie watch how DlMitlr ll«uik 
fast kernels rattle oir in the Black Hawk Corn DIaUIV naWIV 

Shelter. Easy to run, stroni;. durable, shells 8 to U Pfian Vhallar 
bushels per hour. Easily clamped on box, barrel or UUlH Oncllci 
tub. Bearin(?s cliilled-iron. I give repairs free. Parts liable to break 
iiialleable iron. If hardwai-e or implement dealer hasn't it, ask for 



price delivered. 



Made only by A, H. Patch, Glarksville, Tenn. 



I Com Shellers and TTand Mills only. Booklet Free. .\^ents Wanted. . 



without buying them outright, and 
thus entail a large investment on the 
part of outside promoters, who have 
got to assume all the risk and show a 
confidence in the country that the 
native himself does not demonstrate 



by reasonable terms and time in the 
sale of land. 

Furthermore, perhaps the greatest 
handicap of all is the refusal of fully 
seventy-five per cent, of all the banks 
in the cheap land belt in the Middle. 



1909.1 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



1219 




50 Freight Prepaid for tliis 

Complete Spreader — Guar- 
anteed to Beat Them All 



Write for the only REAL. CUT 
prices of the season — a 30-day 
trial that IS free. Get our cash- 
or-credit offer and unlimited- 
time guarantee. 




H 



ERE is the. manure spreader that 

has been the pattern for all 

others; the spreader that all have 

tried to imitate as closely as they dare 

for 17 years. And this season it jumps 

years ahead of the imitators once more. 

Nineteen improved features — all found 

on no other spreader made. 

But even this isn't the only 

scoop we have made on the 

spreader business this year. 

slashed prices at the same time, meeting — and in most cases more than meeting — the 

spreaders that are mere makeshifts compared to — 

The Latest 



Complete 
Means — 

Tracks. Pole and 

Hilch.Traction Band 

and Everything, all for 

$S3.50 Delivered 



Delivered To You 

In Michigan $83.50 

In Indiana and Ohio 85.00 

In Illinois 86.50 

In Wisconsin. Iowa, Minnesota and 
Missouri 90.00 

Write for delivered prices for other 
states 



Wagon -Box Spreaders 

$4 050 — Freight 
* ^ ■"■ Prepaid 

If it is a Box Spreader you want, this is 
the place to get it. We ofiEer the utmost 
in value, by many dollars. Our box 
machine spreads better than many other 
complete spreaders. Only $42.50delivered 
in Michigan — a trifle more in other 
states. Write for price to you. 



^^^iT^ Detroit-American 



Made in all sizes, from 40 to 100 bushels capacity— and capacities we quote are 
guaranteed. More steel used than in any other spreader. All-steel cylinder, entirely 
new and wonderfully effective. New all-steel rake, serving as end grate, also. Simple, 
improved feed device, six changes— driver changes feed— runs whole load out and 
bottom back all ready for reloading by shifting lever without leaving seat. Roller 
bottom equipped with positive force feed. The only direct chain-drive; no gears to 
increase draft. Double front bolster, setting well back under body. Machine turns in 
its own length. Steel fifth wheel. These and other improved features make the 
Detroit-American the lightest running, most thorough working, easiest handled and 
most durable spreader ever built. And we let you prove it at our expense. 

Try one free— No money down; no deposit; no note. Pay cash or take credit. 
These open-handed terms are enough to prove that we really have what we are talk- 
ing about. Send your name now for the — 

Best Books On Manure Values 
and Methods of Spreading— 



To get your advantage out of this boost in values and drop in prices, send 
coupon or postal today. We'll send, postpaid, our text book — "The Value, 
Care and Application of Manure," by Robert Gibbons, a man of highest 
authority. Also our large, new catalog, illustrating, describing and ^^^ ^' 
pricing not only the country's greatestline of ManureSpreaders, but ^^ c,V'' a°Xs>'^ 
also the one genuine Tongueless Disc— the Detroit-American, _^^ -jsj" ^ a!^ 



and the complete line of Detroit-American Cultivators. All at 
factory prices, shaved close to cost of production. Get our ^ 
propositions before you buy. \o\i will find them miglity 



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Eastern and Southside Virginia to 
lend in excess of ten or fifteen per 
cent, on farm land security of any 
kind, and a large percentage of them 
will not make any loans whatever on 
this security. It is a result of shift- 
less and indifferent farming methods 
in the past, and while conditions are 
very much improved, nevertheless for 
a newcomer to secure a loan, to tide 
him over, of from twenty-five to fifty 
per cent, on the valuation of his prop- 
erty, would mean a great many more 
permanent and successful farmers in 
the State. 




Something New from Kalamazoo 



Prove for yourself In your own home, that the Kalamazoo Is the most 
perfect— most e<K)nomi<'al— most satlpfactory stove or range for you to use 
—Your money back If It's not. Send for Catalog N<xiOO,wlth special terms 
and compare Kalamazoo prices with others. 

Cash or Time Payments 

We want every housewife to know the comfort and convenience of a 

Kalamazoo In ber home. You can buy on oasy time payments or pay cash. 

Either way— you save 85 to 840 on any stove In the catalog. We make It 

easy for responsible people to own the best stove or range In the world. 

HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS ARE NOW IN USE 




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Kalamazooy Mich. 



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Freight 
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[December, 



What the West Is Doing. 
Now, let me contrast a few of the 
conditions described, with the situa- 
tion in some of the newer Western 
States that are doubling their popula- 
tion almost yearly. Up in Montana, 
in the northern section of the State, 
I found people coming in by trainloads 
and a surprising number of them were 
young men and young women — school 
teachers, stenographers, clerks — 
young people in all walks of life. They 
were taking up half sections of land 
at all points along the Great North- 
ern and Northern Pacific Railroads, 
and at every town I visited I found 
the natives with their commercial 
organizations, each of which main- 
tained an attractive exhibit of agri- 
cultural products, reception commit- 
tees of one or two, which met all 
trains, taking the homeseeker in hand 
and assisting him in finding a loca- 
tion that would suit him or her, and 
thus Insure their becoming contented 
and prosperous citizens in the com- 
munity. This territory, for three or 
four hundred miles, embracing over 
a hundred million acres, is largely in 
what is known as the dry farm belt. 
That is, the annual rainfall is less 
than ten inches. These people are 
growing crops of wheat, rye, barley 
and oats that cannot be equalled by 
any other State in the Union. T^ > 
principle is a simple one. They di- 
vide their farm into two parts, keep- 
ing one part well fallowed and cul- 



tivated to a dust mulch on the sur- 
face, while the other half is in crop. 
Th's conserves the moisture for two 
years on ai one year's crop, and the 
crop is alternated from one-half the 
farm to the other half, year by year. 
The Government gives 320 acres to 
each settler for this purpose, instead 
of 160 acres, thus allowing them to 
cultivate a quarter section each year, 
while another quarter section lies fal- 
low. 

Mutual Confidence and Co-opera- 
tion Indispensable. 

Now, what is required in the way 
of capital to develop one of these 
properties? Remember, in the first 
place, the land does not cost them 
one cent. The only real expense en- 
tailed is for tools to cultivate the land 
and suflficient feed to tide them over 
the first year until the crop is har- 
vested. The tools embrace a large 
traction engine that will pull fifteen 
gang plows and plow twenty feet at 
a round, or cultivate forty-five or fif- 
ty feet at a round. This device costs 
in the neighborhood of $3,000. Half 
a dozen farmers, frequently including 
girls and boys just out of their teens, 
will club together and purchase an 
outfit which they secure on a basis 
of fifteen or twenty per cent, cash, 
balance in two, three and five years. 
One outfit will plow, seed and culti- 
vate half dozen farms nicely, and fre- 
quently the first year's crop will pay 
for the entire outfit, and leave a sat- 



isfactory profit for each of the own- 
ers. Please understand that they get 
from twenty-five to forty bushels of 
wheat to the acre, the average is 
thirty bushels throughout the State, 
and from sixty to one hundred bush- 
els of oats, the average being about 
sixty-eight; and furthermore, they 
have the hearty co-operation of all 
the people, and that wonderful boom 



VIRGINIA FARMS 

Convenient to 
Richmond and Washington 

Size of farms from one acre into 
the hundreds. 

Price far below lands actual value. 

For Catalogue and information 
write. 

FRANK H. COX, 
Ashland, Va. 



BUY 



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THE FARMER 

Solid Made and 

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The Wear 



Every Essential Feature of High Class Shoe 
Making is Embodied in BATTLEjAXE SHOES 




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Comfortable Fit 
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Ask your Dealer for this Celebrated, Widely= 
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Richmond, Va. 



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[December, 



spirit that seems to permeate the at- 
mosphere, has been responsible here 
for the most marvelous development 
in the history of the world. The peo- 
ple realize that they cannot command 
the largest fruition without popula- 
tion, and they are acquiring it at the 
rate of over half a million settlers a 
year. 

Why the South is Losing Its Young 
Men. 

We know that the South is con- 
servative, but we do not, most of us, 
realize how seriously and how effect- 
ively we are prevented from decent 
accomplishment along these lines by 
a lot of old moss-back obstruction- 
ists, who are against anything what- 
ever that requires the expenditure of 
a little money, or that makes for he 
betterment of conditions in their lo- 
cality, — useless old fossils who have 
become accepted .«s arbiters in the 
community, and who are just natur- 
ally "agin" anything whatever tha' 
does not put more money into their 
own pockets. Every community is 
handicapped and restricted by one or 
more of these individuals, and the 
only hope of salvation is the knowl- 
edge that they cannot live forever, 
and the realization that the younger 
generation will be more liberal than 
they have been. 

I have addressed meetings in towns 
of 500 inhabitants or more, that could 
not boast a decent sidewalk in the 
town. Have begged and pleaded with 



the audience to get together and in- 
stall a little permanent sidewalk, plant 
a few flowers and clean up the dirt 
and rubbish, and there and then, af- 
ter a two or three hours hours' heart 
to-heart talk, had a fossilized old spe- 
cimen of the type mentioned come 
down the aisle and put his name down 
at the foot of the list for $3.50, a 
man whose assessed property in the 
town exceeded $50,000, and whose sub- 
ordinates previously signed for five 
times as much on the same paper. 

Is it any wonder that we are losing 
our young men, and that they are 
flocking into the west by hundreds 
and thousands. I met Virginians at 
almost every point I stopped, and the 
pity of it all was that the majority 
of them were under twenty-five years 
of age. They are doing wonderfully 
well in the West, all the way from 
the Gulf Coast in Texas clear throug>i 
to the Canadian border; and almost 
everyone of them in reply to my ques- 
tion acknowledged that they could 
do it fully as well in the South if 
the young man was given the same 
chance down here that awaits him ir 
the new country. 

Don't Discourage the Newcomer. 

I have accompanied parties of West 
ern and Northern homeseekers time 
and again in this State into Southern 
towns, and then been kept busy af 
ter arrival in preventing the native 
busy-body from getting to my men 
and telling them such tales of woe 



about the country and its people as 
to discourage them completely before 
we had an opportunity to show them 
the farming section and what itcoul- 
do. We need more cohesion and 
heartier co-operation and a more loy- 
al and sincere working together for 
the development of the country in 
which we live. We need to get out 
occasionally ourselves and see what 
our sister States and cities are ac- 
complishing. We are altogether too 
prone to consider ourselves the salt 
of the universe, to put ourselves on a 
pinnacle, and to assume that we have 
all the blessings that the Creator can 
bestow, and that if the outsider does 
not come and avail himself of them 
he is the loser and not we. Virginia 
offers to-day as fine possibilities to 
the settler of medium capital as al- 
most any other State in the Union, 
On the other hand, we ourselves have 
not recognized these possibilities, and 
we have not given the newcomer the 
support and encouragement and fair 
treatment that will continue to in- 
sure satisfactory immigration into our 
territory. The newcomer must be 
treated as a friend, and not as an 
enemy; and while it is not pleasant 
to be compelled to state these truths, 
nevertheless being facts, the sooner 
we recognize them the better; or, if 
we don't propose to do so, then let= 
be honest and admit it, and at least 
not be guilty of securing settlers un- 
der false pretension. I repeat, that 



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Farmers' Winter Course 



AT THE 



VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE 



BEQINNING- 



Wednesday, Jan. 5, 1910 

AND CONTINUING FOUR WEEKS 

With experience gained from two years of this work and with improved 
equipment, such as a new dairy barn, new creamery, new horse barn and other 
improvements we can now give 

Practical Courses for Practical Farmers 

IN 

General Agriculture and Horticulture, Dairy Husbandry, Animal Husbandry, Etc, 

ADDRESS 

VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, Blacksburg, Va. 



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llNIONJ 

Strength' 



Capital, 

$200,000 

Surplus, 

$400,000 

Deposits, 

$1,M)0,000 



MIQNBAK 

Strength i^ Conservatism Our Foremost Features 

No other bank in the entire South can better satisfy you as to its absolute 
solidity than the UNION. Its affairs are managed by broad minded business 
men and its polisy is approved of by its growing list of patrons. 

The Union is the OLDE-(T. STRONGEST and SAFEST SAVINGS BANK 
in the entire South, and its facilities meet every modern requirement. 

On all Savings Accounts we ofifer 3 per cent, compounded semi-annually. 
LET THIS BE YOUR BANK IN FUTURE. 

UNION BANK OF RICHMOND 1107 E. Main St.. Richmond. Va. 

Our method of 'Banking by Mail" is highly interesting- write, let us explain it to you. 



BERRY'S ii'iS Combination Suit 

00 All sizes, Mm) Palttrns 

Here 's a picture of the suit 
and a postal request will bring; you 
samples of the five different pat- 
terns—all strictly all'^'wool. 
C Everybody who's heard of 
B£.]^]^Y'S knows our repu- 
tation for the best styles 
land tailoring, so you can 
satisfy yourself before or- 
dering about the genuine- 
ness and attractiveness of 
our offer. 

C We are doing every 
boy and parent a service 
whom we can Induce to 
buy one of these suits. 
C Write us to-day. and 
if interested ask (or sam - 
pies, catalog, etc.. of our com- 
plete line of Men and Boys' 
Suits and Overcoats. 
,C We sell everything Men 
and Boys wear, and Trunks. 
Bags and Cases in which to 
carry them. C. Stylish Reefers for Oirls and 
Misses, $3.50 to SIO. Samples upon request. 

O. H. BERRY & CO. 

The South'! Largest CJothlery, Richmond, Va. 




H. G. CARTER. W. J. CARTER. 

H. Q. CARTER & COMPANY 

Successors to 

F. H. DEANE & CO., 

HAY, GRAIN, MILL-FEED, 

1105 East Gary Street, 



RICHMOND. VA. 




'Steinvorod — Head of the Herd' 



MONTROSE 

Shetland Pony Farm 

Registered Shetlands, highest 
type and quality, both im- 
ported and native bred. 
Choice brood mares, with foal 
and young stallions. Well 
mannered, perfectly broken 
ponies and youngsters for 
sale at attractive prices. 
Beautiful and intelligent lit- 
tle pets for children. Infor- 
mation cheerfully furnished. 
Address 

Dr. NASH P. SNEiAD, 

CARTERSVILLE, 
Cumberland County, Virginia. 



ACCA STOCK FARM 

Trotting Horses and Jersey Cattle 

Of the richest breeding and most fash- 
ionable strains of blood. Our herd of 
Jerseys has been selected with great 
care, and includes choice representa- 
tives of families, both noted as pro- 
ducers and show ring winners. 

STALLIONS IN SERVICE. 

Afear, 42021, chestnut horse, 4, by 
Aquilln. 2:19%, son of Bingen, 2:06%; 
dam Pavetta, by Pistachio, 2:21%. 
Akar paced in 2:15V4 with quarter.^ 
better than 30 seconds at 3 years old. 

Bcrro, 41821, trotter, bay horse, 4, 
by Bingara, son of Bingen, 2:06Vi. dam 
Keshena, by Kremlin, 2:07%. Berro 
won gold medal at Virginia State Fair 
in 1908 and 1909. 

Fee for either horse $26 season, with 
return privilege. Address, 

GRIFFITH A SAUNDERS, 

Acca Stock Farm, 

Richmond, Va. 



Can Cancer be Cured? 

IT CAN. 

We want every man and woman In 
the United States to know what we 
are doing — we are curing Cancers, Tu- 
mors and Chronic Sores without the 
use of the knife or by X-Ray, and are 
endorsed by the Senate and Legisla- 
ture of Virginia. 

We guarantee our cures. 

KELLAM HOSPITAL, 

1615 West Main St., Richmond, Va. 

FRED C. KELLAM, Preatdent. 

JOSEPH A. TR.4INUM. 
Practical Horseshoer. 

Horses balanced and lameness treat- 
ed. Satisfaction guaranteed. 

18th and Cnry Sts-, Richmond, Va. 

S. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS, "BLUE 
Ribbon" strain; extra fine cockerels 
for sale. Eggs for sitting at all 
times. SUNCREST POULTRY COM 
PANT, Highland Park, Richmond, Va. 



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[December, 



Virginia can never come into lier 
own until active and effective means 
are adopted to get an industrious, in- 
telligent and hard working population 
into our farming sections, and on these 
idle farm lands that comprise over 
two-thirds of the agricultural area of 
the State, and the first requirement 
necessary to this end is the suppres- 
sion of a cerain element in many of 
the counties that, to a large extent, 
are living and waxing rich at the ex- 
pense of all the citizens. They are 
gradually piling up property for them- 
selves, and the funds with which they 
are securing these properties come 
from the tax payers. 

Real Estate Held For Too Large 
Prices. 

The lamentable feature of the situ- 
ation is the fact that when this land 
is thus acquired, it is not possible to 
secure it for development purposes at 
anything like a rational, normal ba- 
sis; and, therefore, it deprives us of 
a large territory on which desirable 
settlers could be located to good ad- 
vantage. 

Emigration A Serious Drain On the 
South. 

The work of the railroads has been 
very kindly commented upon by the 
newspapers and numerous ct 
sources. They are bringing into the 
State hundreds of actual settlers each 
year, but it is a positive fact that even 
to-day thousands are leaving the State 
for the newer sections of the West, 



where hundreds are coming in to set- 
tle within our borders. I refer now 
to the agricultural population princi- 
pally, and that is the population that 
is desirable beyond all others. The 
northwestern railroads are taking our 
Virginia farmers and our young men 
out in carloads, whei'e we are glad 
to bring them in in handfuls, and my 
only desire is to call attention to these 
conditions in a way that cannot be 
mistaken, and that will arouse some 
active measures for the remedying of 
the conditions which now exist. Give 
the railroad industrial agents an op- 
portunity to offer farm lands and 
farms in all sizes from twenty acres 
up at a satisfactory price that will 
be adhered to. Give the homeseeker 
and settler a hearty and cordial re- 
ception when he arrives. Tell him 
Virginia is the best spot on earth, that 
we need him, and he needs us. Ap- 
point a thoroughly practical agricul- 
turist under the jurisdiction of the 
State Agricultural College to visit 
these settlers, after they have arrived 
and confer with them, advising them 
as to the crop planting and cultiva- 
tion. In other words, keep in close 
touch with them, and encourage them 
in all their endeavors. Treat the new- 
comer equally as well as you treat 
your neighbor. Don't immediately 
boost valuations on him and then tax 
him two or three times as much as 
the former owner was taxed for V 
same property. Rely on the integrity, 



the honesty and the inherent decen- 
cy of the man to secure him a wel- 
come in your community. Lineage is 
not the only requirement on earth, and 
what is a pedigree worth if its pos- 
sessor can't trot. 

F. H. LABAUME. 

(Concluded in Next Issue.) 



Detailed Index. 

Grinding Corn 1204 

Difficulty in Churning 1204 

Sweet Potatoes for Stock 1205 

C o w p e a s — Applying Fertilizer 

With 1205 

Lime and Phosphate — Rock Phos- 
phate 1206 

Saving Herrings from Spoiling 

by Skippers and Worms 1207 

Hog Feeding 1207 

Tanning Hides With Hair On or 

Off 1207 

Shorthorn Cattle 1208 

Seeding to Grass and Clover 1208 

Goats 1209 

Johnson Grass 1209 

Renovating An Old Sod 1210 

Weaning a Calf 1210 

Grass for Name — Hay for Feed.. 1212 
Comparative Value of Bone Meal 
and Raw Phosphate Rock. .. ..1214 



National Pneumatic Water Supply 

FOR COTJNTRT AND SUBURBAN HOMBS. 

Gives all the advantares of a city water works and furnishes 
Are protection, which reduces insurance rates. The accompanylner 
sketch shows a complete water system ,bath and kitchen plumbing. 

In connection with our WATER SYSTEM and plumbing equip- 
ment, we furnish plans and specifications and equipment for the 
construction of septic sewer tanks which will dispose of your 
sewage in a moat satisfactory manner. 

Send us rough sketch showing location of well and plumb- 
ing fixtures and give depth of well. If you have a spring give 
distance from hou^e, fall from house to spring and fall obtain- 
able In spring, branch, and flow In gallons per minute. State 
how much water required per day, and we will furnish estimate 

#f cost f 1*66 

We furnish system In any capacity from 140 gals, up, and 
for the application of any kind of power for pumping. 



Get ou prlcea on WINDHILIiS, 
GASOIilNB BNGINBS, HOT AIR 
BNGINBS, PUMPS OF AL.Ii laNDS, 
AND HYDRAULIC RAMS. TK- 

auiRB ABOUT OUR BURNSOH 
RANGBS. WRITB FOR CATAXOO. 

GRAHAM DAVIDSON & 
COMPANY, 

Richmond, • Virginia. 





HERE IS OUR GUARANTEE: 



You purchase a KATIONAIi WATBR SUPPIjT 

SYSTBM, install It accerdlng to dlrectlone fiw- 
nlshed by us, operate It for one year, and If at tnc 
end of that time you are not satisfied In every par- 
ticular, YOU CAN RETURN THB SYSTBM TO VB, 
AND WB W^ILL, PAY THB FREIGHT CHABGH8, 
AND REFUND TO YOU IN CASH BTBRY DOIr 
liAR YOU HAVE PAID US. 



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THE IMPLEMENT COMPANY 

1302 East Main St., Richmond. Va. 

Headquarters for the best in fARM IMPLEMENTS. 

Implements that work easy and wear well are th3 kind we sell. 

Our Descriptive Catalogue is one of the best and most complete of Implement catalogues. Every Farmer 
ahculd have a copy. Mailed free on request. 

Bickford & Uatt- 
man Famier'a 

Favorite Grain 

Drills are built to 
wear, to sow ac- 
curately and to 
satisfy every us- 
er. The Fertilizer 
distributor han- 
dles accurately 
any quantity of 
fertilizer from 55 
to 960 lbs. to the 
acre. Each drill 
Is furnished with 
special gear 

wheels for plant- 
ing corn and 
beans In rows any 
desired distance. 




AiUERICAN POLE SA"WS. 

P»r cord wood or long poles. Furnished with bal- 
ance wheal beneath frame If so wanted. 




Amel»ican Fence 




OHIO FEED AND 
ENSILAGE CUT- 
TERS. 



Combine the Fence 
and the Hog- and g'et 

the Dollars AmericaiiDoIlarsf 



For hand or 
power. Furnished 
with or without 
Carrier or Blow- 
er. Special cata- 
logue telling all 
about them, sent 
free to any ad- 
dress. 





Buckeye Feed Mills and Powers, for grinding ear corn or small grain. 
The best mill for dairymen. 

It leads all others in fast grinding, in lightnass of draft. In strength, 
in durability and especially In being the best 2-Horse Power for oper- 
ating Feed Cutters, Corn Shallers, Wood Saws, or any other light run- 
ning machinery. 

GALVANIZED HEAVY GAUGE V-CRI3IP ROOFIXG. 

Makes the most economical and durable roofing known. Never requires 
painting or any attention after laid and requires no tools except a ham- 
mer to put it on. 

Heavy gauge_ painted V-Crimp and also best grades of rubber roofing 
in stock at lowest prices. 



THE IMPLEMENT CO., 

1302 East Main Street, 
RICHMOND, VA. 



Peerless GasoHna Engines, Farq uhar Engines, Saw Mills, Ellwood Poultry, Rabbit and Garden Fencing, Mandy 
Xiee Incubators and Brooders, Iron Age Farm and Garden Tools, Farm Wagons, Buggies, Harness, -Barb Wlra, etc. 



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[December, 




nc. 1903 




Quaker City Grinding Mills 

Now Sold Direct From Factory — Prices Lower Than Ever 



F 4, Nos.l and 2 — Grind small grains,coffce,nuts,drugs,etc. 

F 4, No. 3 — Grintis oinunents, etc. 

5, No. 1— Grinds small grain, table meal, cracks corn. 

O 5, No. 2 — Grinds bread and cracker crumbs. 

No. 6— Grinds small grain for feed ; also makes table meal, 

G6?>, Nos 1, 3and7— Grind all kinds of small grain, crack 

corn, make table meal. 
G 6*2, Nos. 2, 4 and 8— Grind drugs, spices, etc. 
G 6%, Nos. Sand 6— Grind nuts; also small grain, and can 

^G rigged for either dry or wet grinding. 



K 7, C 8, No. 1 and H 12~Grind small grain and ear corn 

together or separately, damp or wet ; make table meal. 
C 8. No. 2 — For bread-crumb and cracker grinding. 
A 10 and B H, No. 1— Grind small grain or cob corn, 

separately or mixed. 
B 13, No. 2 -Grinds wet and oily products. 
B 13, No. 3— Grinds drugs, spices, etc. ; can be rigged for 

wet or dry grinding. 
D 10 and 11, and E 13 anri 14— Grind extra fine feed or 

table meal. Rigged w iih two pairs ot plates. 



Write for catalogue, stating what you wish to grind and whether by Hand or Power 

The Straub Company, 3737 Filbert St., W. Philadelphia, Pa. 




_Ge'-zN°7 bT^^^noz IO&I 



a f s^N°i 




Wagons, Handy Trucks, Wire Fencing 



Handy Trucks with wood or steel wheels 
or all steel as desired. four-Inch grooved tire. 
Greatest labor saver on the farm. Postal us 
for catalog or any Information desired, or ask 
your nearest dealer for our goods. 




Write us for prtces and agency contracts 
to handle the Adrian Wire Fence. Address 
Dept. A. 



g 



Boston and Virginia Farm Wagons, Barbour 
Virginia, Peters, King, Tatlor Canady and An- 
derson Buggies and Carriages, Fairbanks-Morse 
Gasoline Engines, Tanks, and Steel Towers. 

yers, Empire and Fairbanks-Morse Pumps. 
Water Works designed and installed anywhere, 
J. I. Case and Aultman-Taylor .Steam Engines, 
Concrete Block Machines and Mixtures, Magne- 
tos and Batteries. Kan.sas City Hay Presses, 
and Gasoline Tractinn Engines. New Idea 
Manure Spreaders. Repairs and machinery of 
all kinds a'ld for all purposes. 

Hoenniger-Sizemore Co., Inc., 

Manufacturers Agents and Jobbers Retail Store 

1433 E. Main St., - - Richmond, Va. 



MANUFACTURED AT ADRIAN , MICHIGAN . 

Made of the best hard sleel wire,thorouahly gralvanized.The locks will not slip, 
ihey are noi driven down on the wire,}ience noi a wire is injured . 16 cross bars 
10 the rod, The heaviest woven wire standard farm fence on the market. 



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Industrious Hen 



50c. 



The Industrious Hen is a lively 
up-to-date Southern poultry month- 
ly and sells for 50 cents per year 
and you get it for practically noth- 
ing by ordering it with The South- 
ern Planter. 



No. 10. 
Southern Planter. 
Southern Fruit Grower 



50c. 



These two monthlies sell for $1 
per year and If you are at all In- 
testeJ in fruit we would unhesi- 
tatingly say that 24 issues of these 
two papers are well worth your 50 
cents. 



No. 11. 
Southern Planter. 
Your County Paper 



$1.10 



With one or two exceptions we 
can furnish any $1 county weekly 
In Virginia, Maryland and North 
Carolina for the above price. 

No. 12. 
Southern IManter f^-g ^ p 

One Dollar Magazine «pl..^d 

Under this offer we can furnish 
any of the popular magazines sell- 
ing for $1 per year for the above 
price. 

No. 13. 
Southern Planter ^^ f\f\ 

Weekly Times-Dispatch «pl,UU 

We can also furnish any other 
edition of The Times-Dispatch with 
The Southern Planter for the price 
of the former. 

No. 14. 

Southern Planter A% -t .^ _, 

Farm Journal (2 Yrs.) T* I 1 S 
Garden Magrazine •!/ * • 1 •-^ 

This Is a very attractive combi- 
nation. Garden Magazine-Farming- 
Is the most beautiful publication of 
lt<3 kind In the world. It sells for 
$1 per year. The Farm Journal is 
unlike any other paper and num- 
bers its readers by the tnillion. The 
above offer retails for $2.50. 



ORDER BY NUMBER TO AVOID ERRORS 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER, 



Richmond, Va. 



122S 



THE SOTTTHETJTsT PL.\TsrTE'R. 



[De'ember, 



Wagons Shipped on Approval. 

It does not make any difference wh^re you live, we will ship you one of our Spotless Farm Wagons and let 
you examine it and try it before paying a cent on it. If not satisfactory return it at our expense. All we ask 
you to do is to deposit with your bank the cost of the wagon and have them write us that you have done so. 
If the wagon is satisfactory, they are to pay us the money. If not, they are to give it back to you. Is this 
fair enough? 

These wagons have bee'i on the market for twenty years and have an established reputation. Previously 
*hey have been sold under a difCernt name. Each wagon carries a guarantee for one year as shown below. 

Now LooK at 
tKe Prices! 




THIMBLE 

SKEIN 

TWO-HORSE 

SPOTLESS 

WAGON 



PRICES BELOW DO NOT INCLUDE BRAKE. 





Size of 
Skein 

(Or Axle) 


Size ot 
Tire 


Height of Wheels. 


Dimensions of Beds 


ft 
03 
O 


Prices 




Front 


Hind 


Lower 


Top 


Length 


Complete 
Wagon 

with body 
and seat 


Running 
Gear 
only 


2B1790 

2Bi792 


2>gx6^ 
2^x73^ 


V/i X 6-16 


3 ft. 2 in. 
3 ft. 2 in. 


3i< X 8 in. 
3^ X 8 in. 


9Xln. 
9Kln. 


4«in. 
4% in 


7 ft. 6 in. 
7 ft. 6 In. 


1500 
1800 


$27.75 
28.75 


$23.40 
24.38 



THIMBLE SKEIN TWO HORSE WAQON COMPLETE 



2B1793 
2BI794 
281796 



23^ X 8 


13^ X 3^ 


3 ft. 4 in. 


4 ft. 


n% In. 


6 In. 


9 fD 6 In. 


2000 


2% X %y^ 


l>|x7-16 


3 ft. 4 in. 


4 ft. 


Xl% in. 


7>iln. 
m in. 


9 ft. 6 in. 


2500 


3 X 9 


l>^x % 


3 ft. 4 in. 


4 ft. 


ny^ in. 


Oft. 6 In. 


2700 



$44.40 
45 60 
46.80 



$37 80 
39.00 
40.20 



2Bi798 
2BI800 



ONE HORSE STEEL AXLE WAQON 

With Double Box, Spring Seat and Shafts. 



1^ X 7 
ik X 7 



154 X !4 
15?x5- 



5-16 



35< X 2 in. I 3J4 X 8 in. I 
%% X 2 in. 13 ft. X 8 In. I 



9% in. 
9?^ In. 



4«in. 
4?jin. 



I 7 ft. 
7 ft. 



6 in. 
6 in. 



l.-iOO 
1800 



$27 75 
28 80 



$23.40 
$24 60 







STEEL AXLE TWO HORSE WAGONS 


COMPLETE. 






2B1802 

2BI804 

2B1806 


1?^ x8 
\}i X 8J^ 

1^x9 


l>^x% 
Xy, X 7-16 


3 ft. 4 in. 
3 ft. 4 in. 
3 ft. 4 in. 


4 ft. 
4 ft. 
4 ft. 


ny. In. 
n% in. 
11>^ in. 


6 In. 
7^1n. 
8>^in. 


fl ft. 6 in. 
9 ft. 6 in. 
9 ft. 6 in. 


2000 
2600 
2700 


$46 80 
48 00 
49.20 


$40 20 
41.40 
42.60 



WAQON EXTRAS 



Shaft*, for one horse wagon, complete 

Body Brakesj for one horse wagon, complete. 
Gear Brakea, for one horse wagon, complete. 

Gear Brakea, two horse wagon, complete 

Lock Chains, two horse wagons, complete... 



S.40 each 

2.76 each 

S.M each 

4.B0 each 

.47 each 



Our Guarantee 



Will make good any and all breaks due to defective workman- 
ship and material which appears in the first year after purchase. 



SPOTLESS CO., INC.. 



122 SHOCHOe 
SQUARE 



RICHMOND, VA. 



Labor Saving Implements and Machinery, For Sale by 

The Watt Plow Co. 



RICHMOND, VIRGINIA 




The John 
Deere Riding 
Plows excel 
all others in 
Light Draft 
and Good 
Work. 




The Smith's 
Stump Puller 
is the most 
s uccess f ul 
Stump Puller 
ill the world. 
Write for spe- 
cial Catalog 
with prices. 



The Deere 
Model B Disc 
Harrow is the 
strongest and 
best designed 
disc on the 
market to- 
day. Get our 
free booklet. 




Before you buy 
a Gasoline En- 
gine let us send 
you a catalog of 
the Alamo, and 
tell you of the 
satisfied cus- 
tomers who have them 
Horse-Power. 





The Buckeye No. 5 Mill 

and Power for grinding 

ear corn or small grain. 

The best 

of its 

kind. 

Every 

Farmer 

should 

have one 




All sizes, from 2 to 50 



The Smalley 
Electric Pole 
SawMachine. 
Designed for 
rapidwork. It 
is the strong- 
est and most 
convenient on 
the market. 



TheSUCCESS 
Spreader Ferti- 
lizes the Earth. 
A Soil Builder 

for Hungry 
crops. Be sure 
and get the Genuine Success with Roller Bear- 
ngs which insures light draft. 




Fish and 
Moline 
Wagons for thep 
Farmer, Mer- 
chant and Sawi 
Mill Man, all 
sizes, low wheels and high wheels. 




We Give Mail Orders Our Special Attention and Invite Your Correspondence. 

Sale by THE WATT PLOW COMPANY, 



RICHMOND. VA. 



6 East Main Street. 



1438 East Franklin Street. 



Keep Families Above Want 

Every thinking man wants to provide so that his wife and little ones, those dependent 
upon him, will be kept above want when he is no longer here to provide for them. The 
great question now-a-days is the best means to this end. 

THE NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY 

has a plan whereby the helpless, dependent ones are protected as long as they live, and 
kept from want. Write T. A. GARY, Mutual Building, Richmond, Virginia for "Docu- 
ment 843," giving full particulars and showing how easy it is for you to protect your 
family forever. 



- - Corrugated V-Crimp Rooftn|( - - 

pamted and galvanised 
**Bestoid" Rubber Roofing 

Carey's Magnesia Cement Roofing 

Tarred Paper, Tin Plate, Lime, Ce- 
ment, Hardware, Terra Cotta Pipe^ 
Wire Fence, Drain Tile, etc. 

BBND FOR CATALOOUB 

1557 E. MAIN ST., RICHMOND, VA. 




BALDWIN & BROWN. 



TripIetree«for 



or 



THE EVERLASTING TUBULAR STEEL PLOW DOUBLETREES. 

PAT. W. &S. 1 ^ „^^. 

i iilOMl 1 X-Hook 

Walking and f^Omm « « I H i Ringin Center 

Sulky Plows I t^^ II HI Jl y ' I ^^ desired. 



a 



Guaranteed not to Break or Bend. 



Send for Our Number 8 Catalogue 



'We numnCactore a 
complete line of Ooa- 
bletreea, Stnarlettreea, 
and Meek Yoke* of 
everx deseriptloa. 




Ask yonr dealer tor 
theu' and take no 
Other. 

ThU patters. No. 
lOS-A made la threo 
■laea> 



BU RS GUID. 

The followlnir a^re some •( the housea handling the BverlaatlBK Tubular Steel Doubletrees, earrylns a 
■tock of aame and can supply cnatomers promptly: 



Norfolk Farm and Supply Co Norfolk, Va. 

Henlng ft Nuckola ...^ Richmond, Va, 

Watt Piow Company Richmond, Va. 

T. R. N. Speck Staunton, Va. 

BrlBtow & Weraham Co Richmond, Va. 

Stokes, WUUama tt Co Blackatone, Va 

Seay-Dlllard Hdwe. Co.. 1 Blackatone, Va 



B. E:. Olll Rehoboth Church. Vi 

Duvall. Son ft Co FarraylUe. 

i'dteraon ft JefFerson'. Peteraburir. 

Walker, Carroll, Adams Hdw. Co. CharlotteaylUe. Va. 

Baker-Jennlnsa Hdwe Co LynchburSi Va. 

Anslle-Martln Co Lynchburg, Va. 

Cravef'F . aphrlea Hdwe. Co.. ..Roanoke, V 



Pittshnw Tiihiiiar Stfifil Whiff letree Companv, Sole Man\ 'ac*'irers, Pittsburg, Pennj .valrla 






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