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son clover are to be sowed in the corn crop, as ought to be done wherever the rotation of crops proposed to be followed permits of this course, then acid phosphate may be profitably used, as it will not only somewhat increase the yield of the corn, but will ensure a good growth of the peas and clover usually. The fertile land which we have specified as essential to the profitable production of a corn crop is land well filled with humus, and this is best sechred by the plowing down of a clover sod to which all the coarse manure of the farm has been applied during the winter, either on the sod Itself or after it has been plowed. Where such a sod is not available then the most fertile land available should be selected and its deficiencies be sought to be made good by the best preparation possible of the land before it is planted. By deep breaking of the land and the reduction of the whole depth of the soil so broken to the finest state of tilth possible, the yield of the crop can be most largely increased as the power of the corn crop to forage for food in the soil is very great if only the soil is in that fine state of tilth that the enormous root system of this crop can penetrate. To secure this condition of the soil it should be worked and reworked with the disc and tooth harrow and the roller as often as possible before being planted so that after the crop is growing all that will be needed in the way of cultivation is such shallow working as shall suflSce to keep a dust mulch.on the surface and prevent the growth of any weeds or grass until the shade of the crop is sufficient to effect this end. The much too common practice of merely plowing the land shallow and giving it one of two harrowings can never result in anything but a disappointment in the yield. Whilst corn roots are great foragers for plant food, they cannot get it out of clods and hard, unbroken soil. Every great crop produced of which we have any record was grown on deeply plowed, finely broken land and had almost constant cultivation from the time it was planted until it was impossible to get through it any longer without breaking down the stalks.

The second requisite we have insisted on—"carefully selected seed"—is a matter which, until within the past two or three years, has received little attention and, as yet, has not half the attention which its importance deserves. .. In experiments made both in this a nd other States it has been demonstrated that a careful selection of well-bred seed adapted to the locality may cause a difference in the yield of the crop of from one-third to one-half more bushels to the acre. Surely such a difference is well worth striving for. The old custom of just taking the seed com at haphazard from the corn crib should be abandoned at once and the seed be either bought for a start on new lines from a careful and scientific com breeder or, what is better still, for the full crop to be planted a careful selection of ears gathered in the field in the fall from stalks of the type desired to he perpetuated and these only be planted from. Every farmer ought to have a seed patch in which he should grow only from selected ears and these be each year further culled down and re-selected. In this way all barren stalks can be soon eliminated from the crop and this alone will make a great difference in the yield. Ck)rn is a crop which is

largely affected by local environment and therefore it is never wise to send far away for the seed to plant a whole crop. To plant an experimental patch, this may and should be done in order to breed up a type suitable to the section if the type you are growing is not a satisfactory one. There are now on the market types of corn of the highest yielding capacity which have been acclimated to our section and these may, with great advantage, be planted. Among these are Boone County White and Cocke's Prolific for fertile, low and medium low lands, and Hickory King for the uplands. These are white varieties. Amongst the yellow varieties the best is Golden Dent. Whilst naming these, we do not wish it to be understood that they are the only good varieties on the market. In our advertising columns will be found other varieties offered which are worth investigating. In planting be careful to use a planter which will regularly drop the seed at the required distance apart and, to secure this, it is essential that the seed be graded so as to be uniform in size or nearly so, or the best planter will fail to do its work well. Do not plant too deep. From two to three inches is the best, but be careful in setting the planter and running it to keep the depth of planting uniform so that all the plants will come up at the same time or thereabouts, and be careful to run the planter straight so that cultivation may be easy. As soon as planting is completed, run a light harrow over the field to level all hills and depressions and do this a second time just as the plants are breaking through the soil so as to break any crust which may have formed. After this the harrow or weeder may be used with advantage for the first two or three cultivations and thus much economize in the time required. Later cultivations should be done with the Iron Age or disc cultivator. Large crops should be cultivated wtih the tooth or disc riding cultivator, taking both sides of the row at the same time at first and afterwards, when the corn gets too tall for this, going once in each middle with this implement. In this issue will be found an interesting article from Mr. Julian M. Ruffin on this subject of cultivation, to which we invite attention. Mr. Ruffin is one of the best farmers in the State, and a most successful corn grower and stockmen.

Where tohacco is to be planted the land for this crop should be replowed and constantly worked whenever the land is dr yenough, to ensure a fine, deeply broken bed in which to set the plants, and when this is secured, the rows may be laid off and the fertilizer be applied and be well mixed in the soil of the rows and then be bedded up ready for the planting next month. In our last issue we wrote fully on the fertilizer to be used and to that issue refer our readers.

As opportunity offers land should be gottten ready for the planting of forage crops of various kinds, the seeding of which should be done in May and June. We are anxious to see more soy beans grown than has been the rule In the past. This crop is the richest in protein of any crop grown and stock owners especially should make

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it one of their leading crops, as by its use great saving can be effected In the purchase of cotton seed meal, flax seed meal and bran. The crop makes an excellent hay crop, and also a good grain crop, producing from twenty or thirty bushels of grain per acre on igood land. The hay is easier cured than cowpea hay and not nearly so liable to be spoiled as cowpea hay in wet weather. The grain crop is also easier saved, as when ripe the shocks do not hold water like cowpeas and do not spoil easily. The grain, when threshed out, should not, however, be stored in large bulk, as it heats readily and spoils. The best way to store it is in loosely woven sacks holding two bushels and these be set up in small piles with room for the air to circulate around them. The crop for grain should be planted in rows like corn, but these may be not more than two feet six inches apart, just to permit of cultivation. The seed should be dropped with a planter or drill two or three inches apart in the rows. For hay from 2 to 3 pecks of seed may be planted per acre with a wheat drill, stopping every other spout, or they may be sown broadcast. Acid phosphate at the rate of 250 to 300 pounds to the acre is the proper fertilizer to apply. This crop should be seeded in May, as most of the varieties have a long period of growth. The Ito San variety is the quickest to mature, taking from eighty to ninety days. The Mammoth Yellow requires the longest time—from 120 to 150 days. The crop makes an excellent hog pasture, and for this purpose may be planted as late as July. It is an improving crop like all the legumes, but, to get the best results in this way, should not be allowed to mature the seed. Where the seed is matured it is so rich in protein (nitrogen) that it takes out of the soil much of the nitrogen gathered from the atmosphere. Experiments made at Blacksburg Experiment Station, however, showed that even if the seed matured there was still a gain of six per cent, in the nitrogen content of the soil.

In the Peanut sections of this and the adjoining- States where nearly three-fourth of the peanuts grown in this country are raised, the land for this crop should be gotten ready for planting. The peanut succeeds best in a light, friable loam well filled with vegetable matter. There has been much complaint by peanut growers that they cannot raise bushels enough to the acre to make it a profitable crop. This is largely their own fault. They will persist in growing it year after year on the same land using only 200 or 300' pounds of 2-8-2 fertilizer per acre, and get as a result twenty or thirty bushels of nuts. If they would grow it in a three or four year rx)tation with corn and oats and with crimson clover and cow-peas sowed in the corn, and following the oats, and would use a fertilizer made up of 300 pounds of cotton seed meal, 80 pounds of acid phosphate and 240 pounds of kalnlt, or 65 pounds of muriate of potash per acre with a ton of lime to the acre, spread broadcast after plowing down a cowpea or crimson clover fallow, the yield of nuts would run up easily to seventy-five or eighty bushels to the acre and more than 100 bushels have been grown after following this rotation system. The demand for peanuts Is constantly growing, and we believe that

the production of the crop can be made a profitable busi-!j8ss in the sections especially adapted to it. May is soon enough to plant. The seed should be planted in rows three feet apart and be dropped twelve inches apart in tlie rows. Cultivation should be level.

Sow a field of cat-tail millet (sometimes advertised as Pencillaria) for cutting for green feed for stock in June and July.

We will say more about other forage crops in our May issue.

NOTES ON THE MARCH PLANTER. Nitrogen.

Editor Southern Planter:

Mr. Winkelman says: "When it pays to stock a soil with phosphoric acid and to apply potash beyond the quantities found in the crops, we are perfectly at sea in regard to nitrogen." Farmers who have abandoned the purchase of nitrogen in a fertilizer for Ihe last twenty years have seen their crops greatly increase over the product formerly when they worried about nitrogen. The Minnesota Station found, after ten years of a rotation with legumes apd the manure made from them, that the soil had three hundred pounds per acre more nitrogen than at the start, and none had been bought. Farmers who practice a good, short rotation and grow and feed plenty of legume hay are not "at sea in regard to nitrogen," for they Icrow that the great ocean of air above every acre is rich in nitrogen waiting to be combined in the soil for their crops. The time is not far distant when the grain and stock farmer who buys nitrogenous fertilizers will be considered behind the times.

Mr. Winkelman adds, "Nitrogen is of the greatest importance for the development of the growing plant, for the formation of protoplasm, the building material of plants," True; but protoplasm is not the building material of plants. It is the builder, the only thing in the plant that carries that mysterious thing we call life. The carbohydrates are ti-ie building material the protoplasm uses for the construction of the cell walls, while the protoplasm does the work, it being the nitrogenous part of the plant. Hence, nitrogen promotes the vital activity, but it needs the carbon assimilated by the leaves, combined with oxygen and hydrogen, and this combination is only effected when there is a due amount of potash present. Then starch, the first visible carbohydrate, is formed, and the phosphoric acid is the controlling factor, because its office is to convey the starch to points where building of tissues is going on and where it is being stored for the future use of the plant. Hence, neither phosphoric acid nor potash will do the work alone, since they work together more and more than any other plant foods. If potash is abundant in a soil in an available form and phosphorus is deficient, an application of potash will be ineffectual, and where potash is deficient, phosphoric acid will not have its best effect. On moat SDils a proper combination of the two for the promotion of the growth of legume crops is the best use that can bo made of commercial fertilizers. T knew one successful

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farmer in this State, who, for twenty years previous to his death at eighty-five years, had made an average of forty bushels of wheat per acre, and had never bought any fertilizer during that time but plain acid phosphate.

Worrying about nitrogen will do for planters, but not for farmers.

Alfalfa and Lime.

Down in North Carolina there is a neighborhood around the old town of Hillsboro, where they have a red clay soil of granite formation. There they have been growing alfalfa for over fifty years with perfect ease, and not a man has bought an ounce of lime in his life, till a year ago, when on one of the finest farms there, on a field where alfalfa has grown luxuriantly, an attempt was made to get alfalfa and lime was applied heavily, and there was a complete failure on the greater part of the field. I think that the failure was due more to the exhaustion of phosphorous than to the need of lime, for the old alfalfa sod had been turned, and a crop of corn grown, and then a crop of wheat, and these had drawn heavily on the phosphorous in the soil. Lime doubtless has a very good effect on alfalfa in some soils, but that lime is the great specific for alfalfa under all conditions I do not believe. The soil around Hillsboro is not a limestone soil, and yet alfalfa grows there almost spontaneously, and the worst failure was after liming. I believe that there, where almost every field is inoculated, that good applications of phosphoric acid and potash will make alfalfa grow, and that if the phosphoric acid is applied in the form of Thomas slag all the lime needed by the plant will be had. The liming fad has been boomed to such an extent that many think that all they have to do to get alfalfa is to lime heavily on a soil that is hungry for phosphorous and potassium. Plowing.

We have had a good deal of talk about plows and plowing, jointers and coulters. For myself I do not want either. A jointer works very well on a clean smooth sod that has been pastured close, but if it is of any use anywhere else I have not discovered it. Humus.

It is gratifying to find that intelligent farmers are realizing that soil im^jrovement means restoring the wasted humus. Mr. Benton and Mr. Mitchell are on the right track. Mr. Benton' paper sounds -like he had been in my lecture room. Mr. Mitchell understands that a well bred com may be still better well bred, and that to keep up a corn to a high standard of prolificacy demands annual nttention to selection. The farmer who always has a crimson clover sod to turn for corn or cotton is on the road to more corn and more cotton by reason of the increased humus in his soil. "Ergo" certainly found this true in his corn growing.

Level Culture. I would like to say to Mr. Hicks that level culture on fiat low land means good drainage. If the drainage is not good, then bed the land by all means, but still work shallow. I have grown big crops of corn behind a dyke that kept the salt water off. and worked it flat and level. But the drainage was good. But the experiment Mr. Hicks made showed that flat culture was at least as good as rid.2nn?. and certainly where a man uses a twohorse rid-

ing cultivator he can work the corn better and faster than with a plow. There is enough Irish in me to hit a head when I see one, and as Mr. Hicks says, I am apt to hit when some one talks about getting the best beef and the most milk at the same time from the same animal. T never believed in combination machines of any sort.

Virginia Apples.

I am glad to read of the effort made to show the Virginia apples in New York. I believe that if put up in the same select way the Oregon folks do, that people will find out their superior quality. Last night I ate one of these beautiful Oregon apples, and have tried them often recently. They are beautiful to look at, but the one I ate last night cut smooth and slightly tough like a strap-leaf turnip, and tasted about as well. In fact, I have never tasted one of these Pacific coast apples that was at all comparable in quality with the apples of Albemarle. I have eaten Albemarle pippins grown in California, and they were no better than Ben Davis, though in looks they compared very favorably with the genuine Albemarle product.

Fertilizer.

That New York gardener who uses fifteen per cent-potash in his fertilizer must have Iron-clad seed, for l.OO'O pounds of such a mixture would, in my opinion, kill most seeds planted. His mixture with only 100 pounds of nitrate of soda to furnish all the nitrogen in a ton for truck crops is a very poor sort of a mixture, not near enough nitrogen, twice as much phosphoric acid and twice as much potash as needed. Then 16 per cent, potash for potatoes! I believe in plenty of potash and phosphoric acid for potatoes, but ten per cent, potash is heavy enough for this crop on any soil, and twice as much as is needed for corn or cotton. But I can hardly agree with the editor that nearly all Virginia soils have plenty of potash. The red clay Piedmont soils have a great store, but that the sandy soils of the Tidewater have, I do not believe, except in the case of lowlands bordering streams that come down from the Blue Ridge.

W. F. MASSEY.

We have reports from a number of Tidewater farmers who have experimented with potash on their lands for corn and other cereal crops, and they all report no benefit-Dr. Stubbs has also carefully experimented with potash on his Gloucester plantation, and he reported that he found no benefit from its use, and he. therefore, purchases none for use in the fertilizer which he mixes and uses. He is even growing tobacco without it. He says tliat he realizes that in time he must use it for the production of the potash-loving crops, and repeats his experiments every few years to see whether that time has come. So far it has not yet arrived. Dr. Stubbs is a skilled and experienced experimenter and we are content to go on record with him on this subject.—Ed.

CULTIVATION OF CORN IN EASTERN VIRGINIA.

Editor Southern Planter:

By the time this article reaches your readers most of the

fallowing will have been done, and the cultivation of the

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corn crop will begin to enlist our thouglits. We assume that our farmers will prepare their lands with disc and harrow, as far as they can follow the recommendations of Mr. Beadell and Mr. Sandy, for it is better to put too much than too little work in preparation. The planting having been done carefully we must next cultivate Now, all of our agricultural writers and all our Institute lecturers have for years been saying "that a turning plow has no place in a cornfield, that land should be cultivated level in order to conserve moisture." So I think it is a subject worth investigating why it is that so many successful farmers in Eastern Virginia still use the single plow In cultivating corn, or find it necessary to have somewhat of a ridge in the cultivation of this crop. The best manner of cultivating for the section, I consider that mode which gives the greatest yield of grain extending through a series of years, and the most important thing is to destroy or retard the growth of grass, weeds and vines. In doing this the surface of the land will be necessarily left open and loose, conserving moisture.

As the planting here should begin after the middle of April, early in May the cultivators should be at work. If the farming is at all extensive two-horse riding cultivators, working a row each way, are best. Keep them going every day that it is possible. It is very usual in this section to have a long wet season in May, which may keep one out of the cornfields for a week or two, and then there will be millions of little sprouts of grass, weeds and vines. If May is passed with the corn in good shape, June, the busiest month of the year is coming. The corn must have its most important work, hay and grain harvested, land plowed and peas seeded. All this requires a reliable and full force of labor. But in this section it is time for many of our laborers who have wintered here to move off north.

Some holidays will come on which "The Society' turns out, generally requiring two days, one for frolic and one to rest up. Some good and faithful old "mamruy" or "uncle" may die, and it will require one or two days to perform the obsequies of that occasion; this younger generation, by training are incapable of filling the places of those whom it gives them so much pleasure to lay away. If fortunate enough to control labor Providence may have blessed you with such bountiful crops of grain and grass that a week for each will be required. By this time grass may be appearing in the cornfield. If the farmer has escaped these calamities, (a few of which have been mentioned) and still has his corn in good condition, worked thoroughly with every known implement which leaves it level, (if it has not been dropped and worked checked), there will be a little narrow streak of land, about three or four inches wide, between each hill of corn, where the grass, weeds and vines have escaped. There Is no implement yet made which will destroy or retard this grass, except a single plow, disc cultivator, shovel plow, or cultivator with wing attachments. To use any of them necessitates more or less ridge. This grass, weeds and vines must be retarded until the corn gets possession of the land. If not, there will be weeds as tall as the corn, vines which will entwine the corn to the top; igrass that will abs.orb taoisture, as a sponge. If these

are left there will be sad need of conservation of moisture. If there is wire-grass (Bermuda) it is useless to mention it to those not intimately acquainted with it and those who are, well know that wire-grass just enjoys being scratched and tickled by modern cultivators, while a corn plow does retard it a little, until it can crawl .along and shoot up in another direction.

There is only one way to get between the hills of com, and that is by covering with loose earth, "throwing dirt." To do this the turnng plow is most effectual, the riding two-horse disc next, and shovel plow and cultivator last

The single team plow does this work best, but the riding disc (on all farms of any size) are being most used as two horses and one 'man, do the work of four horses and four men with single plows.

There is necessarily a ridge to every row, and most of us care very iittle about this, if grass, weeds and vines are not in evidence. My observation accords exactly with that of Mr Grizzard, of Southampton, (see November Planter), when he says that so many new settlers fail to cultivate their corn properly. They cannot bning themselves to our unscientific mode of covering up grass, weeds and vines and forming ridges through our corn fields. That little four-inch streak between each Mil of corn is too small and unimportant a matter to attend to in this old fogy manner, and when too late to remedy, there is a crop of corn and a crop of grass growing at the same time, and while it is seldom that we do not have moisture enough "conserved" for one crop, there is never enough for two on the same field.

Some of our new settlers (like Mr. Hicks) who are practical enough not to think so large a number of people "fools all the time," adopt our methods and stay here, but quite a number are forced to leave, the cultivation of corn in Eastern Virginia being their greatest stumbling block. I read in the Breeders' Gazette, of Chicago, an article written from Virginia, describing exactly our mode of cultivating corn, "with one little mule, a little plow, leaving the corn on a little ridge, etc.." which must have appeared absurd and ridiculous in the extreme to a Western prairie farmer. I was almost ashamed of myself and neighbors from this picture. I took, the trouble to find the writer; he was a new settler from the West. He became unsettled in a few years and left. He was not practical enough to see different conditions here, and adapt himself thereto.

Now, Mr. Editor, it may be said in argument that those people are so prejudiced as not to see this thing properly. Messrs. Grizzard, Ruffin and others have so imbibed the ways of their forefathers, who migrated and settled on these rivers of Eastern Virginia, that they are incapable of learning the scientific mode. May be we have the errors of our fathers visited on us beyond the third and fourth generation.

But how can you answer this point? I have known large land owners who cultivated their Valley and Piedmont farms with shovel plows and cultivators nearly level, and their Tidewater farms with turn plows. Even more than this. I know farmers here in our midst, who cultivate their uplands nearly level, and yet are so ignor-and as to use turn plows on their rich bottoms.

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May be our writers and lecturers should advise a level cultivation of corn where the conditions allow It-

And now, while we encounter some diflSculties in keeping down the grass in our com, there are no lands better adapted to producing this crop than the river and alluvial soils .along the numerous rivers and streams of this Tidewater section of our favored State, and if our farmers—old and new, will bring good common horse-sense to the application of scientific principles, they will produce a fair portion of this King of Crops.

JULIAN M. RUFFIN.

Hanover Co., Va.

TILE DRAINAGE.

Editor Southern Planter:

Mr. Weston, in the March Planter, has stated well some of the reasons for tile draining land, and owners of land in the South will do well to read carefully his letter. Lowering the water table, and so providing against damage to crops from excessive water on the one hand, and extreme drouth on the other, is probably the prime reason for such drainage. But there are other reasons of almost as great importance. The farmers of the South lose thousands of dollars worth of vegetable matter every year by the use of open ditches that could nearly all be saved were the lower places in the fields tiled so that the excessive rainfall would pass off under (rather than over) the surface of the fields. The matter of humus is of the very greatest importance to us of the South, where we have such heavy rainfall and long hot summers; conditions that tend to destroy the humus of the soil very rapidly. There is no one thing Piedmont soils need to-day more than humus, and yet with every heavy rain during the year we are allowing millions of tons of this life-giving matter to escape us through surface drainage that could nearly all be saved by a system of tile drainage of the lower portion of our fields. Then the surface ditches met with all over the South add at least one-fourth to the cost of cultivating our soils, because of breaking up our fields and causing us to work them in patches, making constant turning a necessity, and making the use of the large labor-saving tools unprofitable. It would be interesting to know just what tax the farmers of the South are paying to the open ditch from this one cause alone each year. Then, were the low places tile drained, the farmers could use profitably the thousands of hollows .and sags in the fields that are to-day producing little but brush and briars. In many instances these hollows were they well drained, would produce more corn without fertilizer than do the balance of the fields by liberal applications of chemical fertilizers. The writer of this has tiled all the low places In about thirty-five acres of corn land during the past winter with only about a mile of drains, using three-inch tile, and some rock at a cost of about $60.00 for tile and the work of hauling the rock off the land. The work was all done when the land was too wet to plow or make manure hauling possible. Myself and one cheap hand did the work, and at practically no cost for labor, for as noted above, the work was done when the regular farm work was at a standstill. By this work we have not only drained in a thorough manner all the low wet portions of

ths field, but have at the same time done away with every ditch in the piece, save one, and made possible the working of the land in rows 125 rods long, where were open ditches used, rows fifteen to forty rods in length would have been the rule. "We figure that the time we save by doing away with these open ditches will in two years at least pay the entire cost of the tiling, and now, we can cover the soil with our valuable stable manure, and know that it will remain with us, and that a fair crop Is assured on all the land in the field, be the season wet or dry. I believe the main reason why the farmers have not purchased the tile made in the South is because the price has been too high. The Southern plants, as near as I can learn, have not been equipped with the latest labor-saving machinery, and consequently the manufacturers have been obliged to ask ab ut double for their prod-duct that Northern and Western farmers have had to pay for tile of the same size. There is a demand in North Carolina for drain tile, as I have received more than a hundred letters during the past winter asking where tile could be purchased at a reasonable price. And if our manufacturers will equip themselves with first-class machinery then advertise their product thoroughly in the best farm journals, such as the Southern Planter and Progressive Farmer, they will be enabled to build up a fine trade within a very short time, as there is no doubt about our farmers being awake to the advantages of tile drainage. Our farmers are coming to know that in order to make their farms profitable, every acre must be made to produce a fair average crop, and on fully one-half our farms some tile drainage is necessary to bring about this condition. Rockingham Co., N. C. A. L. FRENCH.

DIAMOND JOE CORN.

Editor Southern Planter:

Noticing the advertisement of Diamond Joe corn in your February issue, I desire to report my success with this variety:

As United States Pomologist, I had carefully investigated the variableness of maturity of varieties of apples noted for their late keeping qualities, such as Baldwin, Spy, Spitzenberg, Fameuse, King, York Imperial, etc. These varieties when planted in the Southern States become fall or early winter varieties. The same is true of peaches, cherries, pears, plums, etc. They all mature from one to-two months earlier than in the Northern States.

I, therefore, on every occasion that presented itself, urged the fruit-growers to be on the lookout for varieties originatiing farther South, that were late winter keepers, and by planting them farther North climatic influences would retard their maturing and make them their best late keepers.

The same varieties of oats, wheat, etc., mature here at least one month earlier than north of Mason and Dixon's line To test the results of climatic influence on the corn plant, I ordered a bushel of Diamond Joe seed from Shenandoah, Iowa. With the experience of fifty years in sm^l fruit culture, and thirty-seven years in orchard culture, carefully noting the behavior of all these species of fruits, my line of reasoning with corn was as follows: If a variety of corn oiiiginating in the North will thoroughly mature with

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their shorter season and earlier fall frosts, it should certainly mature in the more genial climate of Virginia, the best com climate in the world. Now, as to results: Diamond Joe was planted after I had finished planting White Majestic and Boone County Special, and was ready for cutting and shocking at least two weeks before either of the above-named varieties. Some of the corn was husked and taken to the Genito Mills October 10th, and ground into meal, the whitest and sweetest we have ever used. My faith In this variety is so well grounded that I propose to plant thirty acres of it this season.

While it is true, that as a rule, seed should be secured, grown not only on or about the same latitude, but also in the same neighborhaad, yet a selection, based on sound physiological principles may be made of varieties grown elsewhere to our advantage and profit.

S. B. HEIGES.

Powhatan Co., Va.

COWPEAS AND WHEAT.

Editor Southern Planter:

Mr. Robin Taylor, in the March Planter, tells of the difficulty he had in turning under a heavy growth of peas for wheat. Now, I very much fear that Mr. Taylor will not get the results in the wheat he hopes for.

His land was certainly plowed for the peas, and plowing so late again was bad for the wheat crop. It was also bad to turn utider such a mass of growth for wheat, since it was not practicable at that late season to get the soil and that mass of peas properly settled in the way a wheat crop needs. I tried this same plan many years ago on a piece of strong limestone soil. The result was that 1 got a tremendous growth of straw that all went down flat when it began to head and the May rains came. I believe that Mr. Taylor not only made a mistake in plowing under the peas, but in plowing at all for the wheat at that date in the season. I believe that he would make more wheat had he saved the peas for hay, and then merely disced the surface soil fine for sowing the wheat. The summer plowing was all that the wheat needed, and the soil was well settled from that, and the replowing broke up this settled condition which was just what the wheat needed. Then he lost the feeding value of the pea vines which, at a low estimate, were worth ten dollars a cured ton, and by far the greater part of the manurial value could have been saved in the manure. In other words, he must have plowed under fully twenty dollars worth of feed, when he could have saved eighteen dollars worth of manure after getting the feeding value.

Hence I am opposed to all this talk about turning under a heavy growth of peas, the dragging of them down with chains, etc., for I do not believe that it is good farm economy to bury good feed for manure. Of course, we want to increase the humus in our soils, but we want to do it in an economical manner, and we can get it there In the manure if it is saved and applied as fast as made as it should be.

The only crop I would turn under is the crimson clover crop in spring and for a hoed crop, for this crop is such a difficult one to cure in a proper manner at that season of the year that I believe its most economical use is for

making a com cotton or tobacco crop. But I would never run the risk of souning my land by turning under a heavy green growth in the late fall for wheat, sacrificing In this way a food crop that could be cured in the best manner and make the most valuable hay known. I would not only sacrifice the feed, but would have conditions less favorable to the wheat crop than if I had saved the hay. Even following a com or tobacco crop, I would never replow for wheat, for the cultivation of these crops has made the best fallow preparation attainable, and all that lis needed Is to put the surface in fine order for drilling.

Get humus Into your soil by all means, but get It in a business-like way, and do not waste feed that you could make money with by simply using It for manure, but let the cattle turn it Into manure more readily available and just as good for humus. All roughage on a farm should be fed on it, even if the feeding returns only the value of the feed, and then give the soil the best preparation that the crop needs, and do not damage the wheat crop while wasting feed. W. F. MASSEY.

SOIL INOCULATION.

Editor Southern Planter:

It is a fact too well known to be repeated that in order to maintain soil fertility the farmer must return to the soil as much plant food as he removes in his crops. While most soils contain rich stores of plant food, it is of little value until converted into a more avaiilable form through chemical and bacterial activities. This supply Is by no means Inexhaustible, and as it is removed from the soil by successive croppings, methods must be adopted to compensate for this loss. Phosphorous, potash and nitrogen may be applied to the soil in the form of commerical fertilizers or as barn yard manure; but nitrogen, the rarest and most valuable of all fertilizing constituents, may also be secured from the vast supply In the atmosphere by the nitrifying bacteria working alone or In symbiosis with the legume bacteria. The members of this latter group have the power of penetrating the roots of seedlings of leguminous plants in some way not yet fully understood, to take nitrogen from the air and store it up in the plants. Such plants, If properly inoculated, can be grown and cut for hay without decreasing the nitrogen content of the soil; in fact, If the roots are left, the soil will be enriched. Evidences of these activities can be seen in the small nodules or tubercules which form on the roots of these plants. The members of this family are quite numerous, but the ones that are most commonly cultivated by man are: The clovers, alfalfa, sweet white clover, lupine, vetches, beans, soy beans, cowpeas, lentils, locust, sweet pea and garden pea. Many other members of this family grow wild In the woods and meadows.

The enrichment of the soil by legumes is by no means a new thing. The phenomenon has been known for centuries, some of the earliest writers dilated upon the manurial value of legumes. Only in recent years have we attained knowledge of the bacterial association with the legumes, and of their importance in the process of assimilation of atmospheric nitrogen. Although the bacteria can, under certain conditions, accumulate the nitrogen of the air without a legume, the legume cannot, as far as we

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. know, assimilate the free nitrogen of the atmosphere without the presence of bacteria on its roots.

Two methods have been discovered whereby the bacteria infecting the common legutaes may be distributed to the farmers: First, by artificial inoculation of the seed; second, by applying soil from an old field on which the specific legume has been growing.

This artificial inoculating material has been prepared at this Station for several years and the results of its use over the State have been, on the whole, very satisfactory. The average number of crops benefitted by inoculation was, in 1905, seventy per cent. More recently the Department of Agriculture has begun the distribution of cultures and also several commerical firms have engaged in the manufacture and sale of such cultures.

These two methods have their advantages and disadvantages, and before leaving this point it might be well to mention some of these. Artificial cultures are easy to apply, and as the seed are inoculated the bacteria necessarily remain in intimate association with each seed and the chance of early inoculation is enhanced. But, on the other hand, if these cultures are not properly prepared they are absolutely worthless. If there is any doubt in regard to the care exercised in preparing nitro-cultures, soil should be used as an inoculating medium. This is best done by scattering a small quantity of soil from a field on which the legume has been growing just before seeding.

The great objection to soil is the time and energy required, especially lif it has to be hauled from a very distant field. Besides this, many injurious plant diseases as well as noxious weed seeds may be scattered along with the inoculated soil.

Artificial cultures are applied by moistening the seed with a concentrated culture of the legume bacteria.

The methods of preparing these cultures are numerous and have been improved very much in the last few years. At first the legume bacteria were separated from the nodules of the various plants and then grown in the laboratory in liquid cultures. In order to distribute to the farmer a small portion of this liquid culture was poured on absorbent cotton, this allowed to dry and then wrapped 'in tinfoil. Two packages of salts were sent along with the cotton culture with directions to dissolve in a certain amount of water, add culture, and allow to grow for twenty-four hours. The great objection to this was that the cotton soon became contaminated with fungi and the legume organisms were easily killed. In all cultures that require to be put aside to multiply for so many hours there Is great danger of getting the culture badly contaminated.

The new method adopted at this Station for sending out cultures consists in sending a concentrated culture in a sterile bottle with directions to dilute with a certain amount of water and inoculate seed at once. In order to find out if a crop needs inoculating pull up some of the plants, being careful not to break any of the rootlets, and examine for small nodules or tubercles on the roots. In some cases the use of pure cultures proves beneficial to the crop even If the preceding crop was well inoculated.

Inoculation, It will be understood, will In no way com-

pensate for carelessness in selection of seed, In preparation of soil, care of crop or bad season.

The following table gives the results from inoculation with artificial cultures on the plats of the Virginia Experiment Station in the season of 1904.

A Comparison of the Results of Inoculated and Unln-oculated Soy Beans. (1907.)

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1. Ito San Yellow Inoculated 2.50 17. S

11. Ito San Yellow Uninoculated 2.47 14.15

Increase for inoculated soy beans

After soy beans 03 3.34

After Spring Oats.

111. Ito San Yellow Inoculated. 2.85 20.00

IV. Ito San Yellow Uninoculated 1.85 . 13.33

Increase for Inoculated soy beans

After spring oats 1.00 6.67

Remarks.—All beans showed nodules except those after spring oats not inoculated.

Inoculated.

Uninoculated.

Inoculated soy beans gave an increased y'ield of one ton of hay and ten bushels of seed per acre more than a like plat of uninoculated soy beans. The inoculation was very beneficial even on the plat that was inoculated the year before. We now have under way some experiments with legume inoculation and a study of the different methods of preparing cultures, the results of which will be ready to publish in a later bulletin.

Just what effect these legume bacteria will have In a soil without the presence of a legume has never teen thoi^ oughly determined, but quite a marked increase In nitrogen content was obtained here last winter by inoculating sterilized sand with the different strains of legume bacteria without the presence of any plant.

While the conditions in this case were different from those of the field, it gives us a reasonable basis for the assumption that the inoculation of soils with bacteria

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from legume nodules will Increase the content of nitrogen in soils even if no legume is present. This theory is being investigated in some plot experiments with wheat and oats. EDWIN B. FRED,

Assistant Bacteriologist. Experiment Station, Blacksburg, Va.

E^CPERIENCE WITH A RUN-DOWN VIRGINIA FARM. Editor Southern Planter:

Thinking my experience on a run-down farm in Virginia might be of interest to some of your readers, I have decided to briefly relate it.

About nine years ago I purchased 165 acres of land for $1,800. A few months later I bought twenty-seven acres adjoining it for $270. All of this land was in a deplorable condition, had been rented for years and had become so worn out it could not be rented for cultivation and was only grazed by cattle. It was washed into gullies in which a team, wagon and all, could have been buried, and grown up in broomsedge and pines with only an old rail and brush fence enclosing a part of it. There was an old log house through which the cattle ran, and a fairly good but very old barn, but no shelter for stock.

I was laughed at for buying this farm and I was told that I was throwing my money away. I rented the farm for grazing cattle for $35 per year for three years, during which time I continued to be employed elsewhere until I had paid for my land and had saved enough to buy three good horses and a few farming implements. I came home in the fall, repaired the old log house and moved into it. I remained on the farm that winter, and in the spring hired a good man by the year, and went ^ack to my former employment. I directed the farm work by letter, and subscribed for the Southern Planter and Practical Farmer, and had them mailed to my farm hand. I paid the farm a visit twice each year. At the expiration of two and a half years I returned to my farm, which was three years ago since which time I have had sawed and sold, at a net profit, $1,450 worth of timber from this land, and sold 148 acres of it for $4,500, and have left forty-four acres of the best of it, which is worth $40 per acre.

Three years ago I bought 115 acres adjoining my first purchase, where I now reside. You can see from my statement that the run-down farm was a good investment. I will say further that I put no new buildings on the land, only a closed shed the full length of the old barn, where I wintered from twenty to twenty-four cattle each year. How did I bring the land up in so short a time from $2,270' in value to $7,710? I was a subscriber to the Southern Planter and Practical Farmer for several years before I owned any land. Professor Massey was then a writer for the Practical Farmer and later its Editor. (Since he left it I am not a subscriber.) All these years in which I owned no land I was studying how this might be done and I give the credit to the Southern Planter and Professor Massey. I raised peas, cut them for hay, fed the hay to cattle, disced the pea stubble, and sowed rye, turned the rye under in early summer, and planted corn, sowed crimson clover at last working of corn, and turned clover down in spring, put land in tomatoes, disced land in fall.

sowed in wheat, timothy and herds grass; in spring sowed red clover with wheat. Limed some when I found land would not grow red clover. Saved all manure and kept it dry until hauled out and scattered on sod to be put in corn. The reclamation of this worn-out farm was a wonder to all who saw it before and afterwards, and it was done by studying the writings of men who knew how and had done the same thing themselves with a little energy behind it.

I now make a specialty of raising tomatoes and canning them; keeping cattle enough to eat all the grain, hay, fodder and straw I can raise. SUBSCRIBER.

Botetourt Co., Va.

CRIMSON CLOVER IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA.

Editor Southern Planter:

I noticed an article in the Southern Planter from Mr. C. tj. Hanks, of Carroll county, on the use of crimson clover in Southwestern Virginia. I have tried it with good results for the last three years on a ten acre piece of bottom land and expect to put it in corn this spring, which will make the fourth year in succession. I generally check the corn land off with rows about four feet each way, and at the last working of the corn I sow about a peck of crimson clover seed to the acre. The clover is in full bloom by the tenth of May, at which time it is turned under with a big plow, and I use a log chain to help. I generally follow this fallow with about two hundred pounds per acre of sixteen per cent, acid phosphate put in with a wheat drill, and the land, after being well harrowed, is ready for corn. This corn if planted by the twentieth or twenty-fifth of May, will mature in time. GEORGE W. TYLER.

Smyth Co., Va.

EXPERIMENTS WITH COCKE'S PROLIFIC CORN.

Last year, Mr. H. E. Wood, of Bremo Bluff, Fluvanna county, Va., at the request of Dr. E. W. Magruder, the Chemist of the Department of Agriculture and- Manager of the State Test Farm at Saxe, Va., had three acres of Cocke's Prolific corn planted on three plots of land on the Bremo estate on the James River in Fluvanna county, Va., in order to compare the same with the results obtained on the Test Farm at Saxe, Charlotte county, Va. We are indebted to Dr. Magruder for the information as to the test. Mr. Wood has been long interested in growing Cocke's Prolific corn, a variety which originated in his immediate section more than sixty years ago and which he improved by the introduction of a heavier corn some years ago. A few years ago he made in one year on the Bremo estate 183 bushels per acre on one acre, 160 bushels on another acre, and an average of 104 bushels per acre on 20 acres planted in this variety. The corn is a heavy one. Mr. Wood has weighed bushels at various times which have weighed from 72 to 76 pounds to the bushel. There is no doubt but that the corn is one especially adapted to the sectioji of the James River valley, in which it was originally produced, hut at the same time it is a variety which ^d9,pts itself in a _ few years to other sections, and we have had reports of excel-

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lent yields made after u lew years" growth even on hish land.

The following is Mr. Wood's report on the thiee acres tested last year:

Plot No. I.

This test was nuuie on the Spring Garden Farm by Mr. Joseph I. Talley, on a clover sod. The land was plowed in March, shallow plowin,?. with a three horse plow, planted thirteenth of May, rows checked three and a half b.v three and a half feet, worked the 27th of May with the Ironage cultivator, running twice in the row each way. It was worked the second and last time with the Ironage

corn. These ten acres were plowed and planted out of season and roughly prepared and cultivated with a one hcrse plow with a furrow of earth thrown to the corn, n most ruinous and disastrous prei)aration. I am sure had the acre of land tested been planted in rows checked three 1-y three feet the yield would have been greater. No fer-rilizer or compost was used on this tested acre. Plot No. 2. This test was made by Mr. Russell C. Taylor, on the Recess estate, a divided portion of the Bremo estate. The land was plowed with a two horse plow the fifth,of May and planted the ninth of May; rows three and one-half

Cocke's Prolific Corn—Yield 156 Bushels per Acre—1908.

cultivator the tenth of June, running once to the row. leaving the surface level. The work done was inadequate for best results. It should have been worked thoroughly three times with the Ironage cultivator. No implement was used in this test except the Ironage. The stand of corn was unsatisfactory, the bore worm destroying much of it. This acre yielded twenty barrels, or one hundred bushels. The corn averaged in weight, per bushel, sixty-two pounds. On ten acres of land adjoining this acre, as fertile as can be found in the James River valley, and which had not been cultivated for many years, and having growing upon it a heavy growth of volunteer clover plowed and planted in June, made a yield of six barrels, or thirty bushels per acre, planted in Cocke's Prolific

feet apart, and the corn dropped in the drill eighteen inches apart. The first working was done with the one horse plow, the earth thrown to the center of the rows. The second working was done with the double shovel or Malta plow. The last working was done with the one horse plow, the dirt thrown to the corn. This plot yielded thirty-one barrels and a fraction, or one hundred and fifty-six and a fraction bushels. This acre is a portion of the Bremo estate containing five himdred acres of fertile lowlands, and has been, to the best of my belief and recollection, in corn annually for more than forty years, with one exception (last year), when it grew an unusual large growth of tobacco. Within the forty years of time referred to, it has been twice manured. Last year and

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ihis season a liberal application of farm pea and stable compost was used. Had this plot of land (one acre) been carefully planted in the check three by three feet, two stalks to the hill left standing, and cultivated with the Ironage cultivator, and the surface left level, I am sure the yield would have been greater. There should have been 70 rows (carefully laid off on this acre) when there were only fifty-nine. As one row yielded a barrel of corn this caused a loss to the acre of about five barrels, or twenty-five bushels. The corn grown upon this acre averaged about sixty-eight pounds per bushel. The seed plsint-ed was Cocke's Prolific. There are five hundred acres of this lowland and I feel sure in saying they will yield the same results as the tested acre under like conditions if well drained and thoroughly plowed and cultivated. Plot No. 3. This test was made on the Lower Bremo estate by Mr. P. W. Staples on an alfalfa sod, plowed twenty-fifth of May with a two horse plow, carefully prepared by harrowing, and was planted in the check three and a half by three and a half feet the first of June. This planting was lost as the corn was destroyed by the blackbirds and crows. The crop was planted the second time on thp eighth of June, rows three and one half feet apart, and the corn dropped in the hill eighteen inches apart. The first working was done with the one horse plow, the earth being thrown from the corn. It was worked twice after this with the double shovel or Malta plow and the surface left level. This corn was not fully matured, being injured by an early frost. To attain best results, Cocke's Prolific corn should be planted early, say, by the tenth or fifteenth of April. The corn rows were run east and west; had they been run north and south, admitting more warmth Jrom the sunligfht the stalks of corn would have been sturdier in their growth. This plot yielded twenty-three barrels, or one hundred and fifteen bushels. I am sure the yield would have been more satisfactory had the land been plowed in the fall, much deeper than it was plowed, planted in the check three by three feet, two stalks to the hill, worked with an Ironage cultivator, and the surface left level. No manure or fertilizer was used on this plot. This plot contained fifty-six hundred square yards of corn; much more can be grown when planted in the check than in the drill. When planted in the check whenever the sun shines the rows between the corn get the benefit of its warm and invigorating rays.

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THE PLOW QUESTION AGAIN.

Editor Southern Planter:

In March issue of your paper Mr. Robin Taylor asks information in regard to plows turning under crimson clover and pea vines. I think that question has been answered once or twice this winter in your paper.

Some writer, probably in December or January, suggested that a Chattanooga disc plow would do the work, but I suppose Mr. Taylor did not read the article, or else has not tested it. If he will get one of the large single disc plows with a twenty-four-inch disc, it will plow under most any crop. I saw a crop of sorghum and weeds plowed under in August with one of these plows and hardly any visible trace of the crop was left.

It requires from three to four mules to pull it. The

plow weighs fully three hundred pounds, I would suppose, and to this must be added the weight of the operator, as it has a seat. This causes it to take most any land and it will astonish the natives by its effectual turning qualities.

One serious objection to this plow is where you break broadcast with it there is too much dirt turned out at the outer sides of the lands or fence rows and In the center, the water or last furrows are a veritable ditch which must be filled up. This trouble has to be contended with, however, to a greater or less extent in broadcasting land with any plow where the land is turned from the center, but an intelligent white man can even up this in rebreaking.

There is another plow called the double mould board. Middle breaker, or Yazoo lister which does nice work of this class where it is desirable to bed up the land. These plows may not be In common use, however, in Virginia. They are much used in the Mississippi delta counties in Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas; also, in river bottoms in East Texas.

To operate them successfully in peavines, a chain of heavy weight should be attached to the tongue a few feet in front of the large rolling coulter, and extend back behind the center and be attached to the frame of the plow to drag the vines down somewhat, so none of them can clog above the rolling coulter.

The weight of this plow and the rider is sufficient to cut most pea vines, and the wheels running in the middle of the rows presses the vines down, so most of them can be wrapped up.

The plow could not be used to advantage except when land is in ordinary rows. I am quite sure that no turning plow made can do as good work of this class as either of the above plows, and especially the single disc plow, as a turning plow has not enough weight to force the coulter through heavy vines, and, of course, will clog unless this is done.

As both the plows I have described are riding plows and weigh from 250 to SCO pounds each, besides the rider, they cut through most any vines or clover readily. The single disc plow will plow harder land than any turning plow, and, in fact, is practically invaluable.

Tate Co. M5ss. R. M. WETSSINGER.

AN OHIO FARMER ON THE MANAGEMENT OF

VIRGINIA LANDS. Editor Southern Planter:

I have been very much interested in the articles from our brother farmers published in your most valuable journal, and to read them is to become so enthused as to want to talk with the writers through the same medium. I am only recently from another State, Ohio, and, as wife, little baby Vernon, and I "immensely" enjoy the beautiful sunlit winters and the breezy, pleasant summers, we wonder how we could ever aga/in enjoy the cloudy and cold climate of our former home.

The climate is not alone In its influence over me, for the soil here is so far superior to that of Ohio that I could not think of tilling Northern soil again. Now, I

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do not mean that this s6il is more fertile, but that it is mechanically superior. And, from the fact that it so much more readily responds to fair treatment than our Northern soils, it is evident that it can be made to produce greater yields, I ask the privilege of venturing some opinions on the improvement of these soils, as founded upon observatien.

I am breaking with a No. 40 Oliver and turning up fiome of the "cemented" furrow bottom that has been formed by four-inch breaking for a century, and though I may have thrown up too much of it for the best interests of the next crop, I .believe it is possible that the remainder of the "cenu-nt" (or case-hardened subsoil) will let the moisture up and down and allow partial aeration to such an extent that the crops will be even better than if the breaking had been done only four inches. The depth to which I broke the corn ground is six to eight inches, including the "ridges" and the "valleys," which, fortunately, (or unfortunately), crossed the furrow at right ans^les, and this took up enough of the hard furrow bottom to so weaken it that the lead-horse often broke through into the subsoil. This result is evidence to me that this particular piece of land does not, or will not, when broken beneath the old bottom, need subsoiling, for not only in this case, but in that of digging post holes, I find the subsoil beneath a depth of five to eight inches very porous. Another thing, I have learned that a few of the farmers here have been plowing down clover, peas, manure, etc., for a number of years without having gotten the soil filled with humus deeper than about two to four inches, and the fields, after a season or so, seem to show few evidences of having ever received such a blessing as peas or manure, excepting by an early or prematurely '•ank growth of plants, or by the same kind of growth of weeds and grass or anything else of the shallow rooted class. The effects seem to be soon lost. Allow me to give my reasons for such conditions, and I would be glad to hear from others on the same matter:

First, the breaking plow has been of the short mould-board type, the result being that the clover was not turned under out of sight, even though the breaking may have been done to a depth of eight inches (but usually I believe only six inches bj' actual measure is the greatest depth reached). Second, no chain or rod is used to hold the clover, rye, weeds or other plants- into the furrow until the turning soil falls upon it, burying it out of sight. Third, before the decay of this vegetable matter has fairly begun along comes the turning plow again, or the cotton plow, lifting it t-o the top to dry out, the dirt, which is heavier, settling to the bottom at every passage of the cotton plow, which lifts and "sifts" the soil deep as broken. All summer this "sifting" process is continued as deep as broken until all the lighter portion of the soil and with it all vegetable matter lies on top, the same process as that of screening coil out of sawdust, the sawdust because the lighter, being forced to the top by a few shakes of the screen. I dare to say that I do not believe in this custom. This method, of all others, Is the one that has so nearly ruined the Virginia soils. A plow of larger capacity than is generally used will turn under the clover, peas, etc., without choking, and

from my experience of only one year here, I conclude that the No. 50 Oliver chilled plow, iron beam, is the right plow, but the beam-wheel and the furrow-chain are essential to good work. The iron beam having a higher throat than the wood beam, being preferable because of such difference.

I am personally acquainted with Mr. Grizzard, who has written regarding corn-root pruning. He lives In my neighborhood, and I have learned to respect his views, for he is one of the foremost farmers of this section, and is a good neighbor. I have talked much with him on corn culture, and I am convinced that what I have said herein regarding deep breaking and keeping humus deep in the soil will solve the problem In his case. As shallow as the soil is broken here, even if at the depth of six inches, it is no wonder that there is a time-honored custom of throwing up a ridge of soil for the roots to feed from. And the ridge system explains why many have come to believe it necessary to destroy the roots in the middles, at a certain period of the corn's growth. It is impossible to get a ridge without going about as deep between the rows as the soil was broken, and, therefore, the corn roots there are cut off. I would suggest that all who believe root-pruning necessary should break the soil at least eight inches deep, if it can be broken before freezing weather is over, then level down in March and harrow fine; plant in May or late April, and cultivate level and mot deeper than three inches after roots get out into the middles,— all this for a trial. Leave the trash "under" the soil: it will get "into" it all right. If the field be broken early and harrowed every two weeks until, say, three or four harrowings have been given, the weeds and grass will not get the start that they will if such weeds as get started before planting time are allowed to grow unmolested. Of course, I expect to be judged as having jumped at a conclusion, but I am willing to have such judgment pronounced, if the editor is willing to give me space to discuss the subject, for I am desirous of learning all I can while I am young, and I have turned a leaf in this respect by subscribing for the Southern Planter.

I. A. McCOY.

Southampton Co., Va.

In every instance the man who has just finished has a ', great advantage over the one who is just going to do it. Procrastination is the greatest enemy of agriculture, and, for that matter, of every other culture.

Take work easy during the first few days or weeks of spring.

Make a bundle of last year's mistakes and plow them under deep. I If your neighbor has a good man who is satisfied with his place, don't try to entice him away. There's where the Golden Rule fits in.

Because hard work made them so, don't be ashamed of bent shoulders. It is better to be bent In the back than broke In the pocket

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Trucking, Qarden and Orchard.

WORK FOR THE MONTH.

The genial, spring-like weather we have had in March has no doubt induced many truckers and gardeners to begin the sowing of seeds and setting out of plants for the season's vegetable crops. We would warn our friends not to be in too great a hurry to begin this work. At the most do not sow or set out more than a very small part of the full crop to be planted. We shall yet have frost and cold weather- and these early planted crops will likely suffer more or less severely. Whilst it is all right to take chances on a small area, for if the weather should continue mild these early sown and planted crops will come in as money makers on the early market, yet it is unwise to risk too much in this way. We have always found the last half of April and the first half of May plenty soon enough to sow or plant the full crop. Put in at this time, the crops will come on at the right time to meet market demands after the crops from the further South have gotten out of the way. To plant them earlier is to come into competition with these crops and thus to spoil the market. For home consumption it is well to have the various crops put in at intervals from the very earliest possible time to the latest, so that the supply for the table can be extended as long as possible. We have, however, never found it safe to put out anything but Irish potatoes and English peas before the last of April anywhere West of Tidewater Virginia and Eastern North Carolina. In Tidewater Virginia and Eastern North Carolina Irish potatoes and English peas are already about all planted. In middle and southwest Virginia these two crops should, so far as needed for early summer consumption and markets, be gotten into the ground during this month, but for the fall crop if Irish potatoes June is soon enough to plant in this section, and May for the Piedmont and Western sections of the State. We believe that this early fall Irish potato crop can with profit be much more largely grown in the middle sections of this State and of North Carolina than has been the case in the past. There is a market for the crop in the Western sections of these States amongst the miners, which should be catered to. They grow nothing themselves and are greedy for all garden products as soon as they can be gotten to them, and our crop would come in to supply this demand before produce grown further North could reach them. There is also a market in the far South for this crop at that time, as they have used up their own production and the Northern-grown crops have not begun to come South then. For varieties to plant, consult the seedsmen's catalogues. Irish Cobbler, whilst not of the highest quality, is proving a great yielding potato in the South and Is being large planted. Beauty of Hebron, Early Ohio, and Early Sunlight are also good varieties for the early crop. For the fall crop. Green Mountain and Burbank are good varieties.

ly to encourage this. If they do not seem to respond to cultivation quick enough give a top dressing of lO'O to 200 pounds of nitrate of soda applied down each side of the rows. Nitrate of soda has a wonderful effect in causing the crop to grow freely and head up well if there is an abundance of the mineral fertilizers—phosphoric acid and potash—in the soil available. In a crop experimented on in North Carolina one acre to which no nitrate of soda was applied made only 910 prime heads per acre. Where 300 pounds of nitrate was applied in two top dressings 3,260 heads were made. Where the same quantity was applied in three dressings the yield of prime heads was 5,300 per acre. Where 400 pounds of nitrate was applied per acre in three equal dressings 7,580 prime heads were cut. From a report as to the condition of the cabbage crop in the South, which appears in this issue, it will be seen that there is a probability of a great shortage in the crop and it should therefore pay our growers to use every effort to increase and hasten the yield of their crops.

Tomato, pepper and egg plants raised in hot beds should now be making good growth and they should be pricked off into cold frames as soon as large enough to handle and be encouraged to make a stout, stocky growth ready for hardening off for planting out next month.

Sweet potatoes should be bedded in the hot bed to make sprouts. They should be bedded in clean sand to avoid fungus growths and black rot.

Strawberries should be cultivated to encourage growth and blooming. Give a top dressing of acid phosphate, 2S00 pounds; muriate of potash, 200 pounds, and nitrate of soda 100 pounds to the acre, and work in if the plants seem weakly and do not start well.

Cabbages planted in the fall and early winter should now be starting growing and should be cultivated frequent-

"BE SURE TO KEEP UP INSURANCE."

Editor Southern Planter:

"Keep up insurance."—I am not referring to your fire or life policy; the careful man may safely be left to attend to these, but I refer to insurance for good, sound fruit, now, before it is too late, by spraying. To these whose orchards are infected with San Jose ccale it Is still not too late to spray with lime-sulphur, f'>r though there are many preparations claimed by their proprietors to be just as good, (they generally claim better), yet for good all-round results and general benefit to the trees, nothing is as good as this. Then if not so infected, a good spraying with 98 per cent, lye will make the trees look better and "slicker" than anything else. Use about seven or eight cans of a reliable potas'i lye (such as Red Seal) to fifty gallons of water (the formula is three degrees on the Beaume Spindle). Immediately after the bloom falls, and while the calyx is still open, spray for the codling moth, using arsenlte and Bordeaux, up-to-date formulas can be obtained by

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a card to our Blacksburg Station. The foregoing will about fill the bill during April.

Now, for good reasons for reminding your readers of their insurance policy being now due. On February 13th an editorial in the "Rural New Yorker" called attention to the fact that "the Virginia State Horticultural Society is branching out," and says many complimentary things, all true, too, I am glad to say, about the way we are establishing packing associations and guaranteeing grade marks, etc. It adds: "No one ever expected Virginia to take the lead of Vermont, but she is doing so." This refers to the magnificent display of apples recently shown by the members of this Society in New York, as advertising Virginia, and plainly shows how our eorts have attracted that attention to the Old Dominion's fine fruits, we have so long and ardently desired. But having done this much, we must be ready to "deliver the goods," and in order to do so, must have the perfect fruit. Two weeks ago from the time I am writing this, I was in Covent Garden Market, London, Bng.. and saw apples of beautiful appearance, and equally beautiful packing sold there. I observed also a few barrels of Virginia Albemarle Pippins. In conversation with some dealers I asked them how this apple compared with others from other places. I was told they were second to none, "but we don't handle so many of them because they are generally so wormy." I assured them that while this might have been the case in the past, they would not find it so in the future, and of the steps now taken by the Virginia Horticultural Society to ensure better packing and cleaner fruit. They said they were glad to hear it, and they hoped their future experience would show them I was correct. Observe, they would not take my word; they wanted to be convinced. Now, though as many of you are aware, I am of English birth, yet my twenty-seven years' residence in Virginia has made me feel the same pride and love for the Old Dominion as though of native birth. In fact, it is an old saying that a convert is more enthusiastic than most born there. And I can't say how I simply hated to hear the above quoted criticism. Therefore, I feel impelled to write these lines and remind those who have not done so to lose no time in taking out their usual insurance policy for good sound fruit. I fear I am over-reaching too much on your space, so hold my pen from running on further on the topics suggested by the foregoing. However, you have all heard by this time of how the Virginia Horticultural Society is

doing all in its power to educate to better methods, and

we feel the seed we have been sowing and continue to

sow, is at last producing better results.

WALTER WHATELY. Secy.-Treas., Va. State Horticultural Society. Crozet, Albemarle Co., Va.

AMONG THE TRUCKERS. Editor Southern Planter:

Last week I made a trip down the two Eastern Shore counties of Virginia and around the trucking sections of Norfolk. I found the sweet potato growers of Accomac and Northampton, as usual, hauling and spreading the

rakings of the pine forest over the land, and plowing it in under for the sweet potato crop.

Here and there I saw patches of crimson clover, and if all the land intended for sweet potatoes had had this winter cover, there would be a far better humus-making growth to turn under for the sweets than the Takings of the pine woods, so laboriously gotten together. Almost everywhere the fields were bare and brown, left for the winter rains to wash out the fertility.

Doubtless the leaves and trash from the woods makes some humus, but how much better would be the crop of crimson clover that would add more organic matter and at the same time furnish all the nitrogen the crop needs, and all for the trouble of scattering the seed after a fall crop of vegetables had been gathered.

Both on the Eastern Shore and about Norfolk an immense area has been planted in early Irish potatoes, hoping that the small crop North last summer will leave the market bare of old potatoes, unless the imported potatoes take the place.

At Norfolk I met one of the largest growers, a Mr. Trotman, who works eight farms on the West Branch, and has planted 2,000 barrels of Irish potatoes. I was told that Mr. Trotman buys annually 100,000 empty barrels for shipping his produce, for which he pays $180.00 per thousand. It takes a lot of stuff to pay his package bill.

Among the smaller growers about Lambert's Point, 1 found one man who is ahead of his neighbors in that he uses glass more than they. He has S.TCO sashes on frames and hot-beds, and his cucumbers and egg plants were growing in the hot-beds in veneer boxes packed closely together. From his frames he was gathering a fine crop of radishes and beets. When these are out he runs a deep furrow through the frames and fills it with manure and beds on this, and then sets one of the boxes of cucumbers in each sash, and two egg plants in other sashes, and when the weather is settled, strips off the sashes and lets the vines run over frames and alleys, and in this way gets a very early crop. But the Lambert Point truckers are in straits with their lettuce, spinach and beans, their main crops. Several years ago they were making money fast, but now a mysterious affection takes their fall-planted lettuce and spinach, and the plants dwindle and die. Here and there were apparently healthy plants on the beds surrounded by dying ones, and they said that the healthy ones would gradually go the same way. I could not find any evidence of disease on the plants, and came to the conclusion that it is the acidity of the soil, and the constant exposure to sun all summer, with no 'winter cover. The soil is very acid, as was shown by the litmus paper test, and is deficient in humus, as was shown by the hard baking character of the soil. They did not seem to think that they could afford to grow legumes on land worth $1,500 an acre, but I am sure that they cannot afford not to do so. I advised them to sow cow peas after the lettuce, and let them mature and plow them under, and apply lime to the soil and turn the peas for the spinach crop, or for a spring crop to sow crimson clover on the peas as the leaves fall. This, with a greater use of phos-

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phoric acid and potash, I believe, will cure the trouble. They have been using city manure and nitrate of soda till the soil lacks phosphoric acid and potash. One man promised to try this on part of his land, and I hope his example will spread. My time was too short to see as much of the West Branch as I wished, and I have promised to come again, as I am about to start on a trip through the truckine: sections from Savannah northward with the season.

W. F. MASSEY.

A COMPARISON BETWEEN HOOD RIVER, OREGON,

AND VIRGINIA, IN APPLES. Editor Southern Planter:

The most famous apple region in this country to-day is the Hood River Valley of Oregon. We can say this without any disparagement of the great apple regions ot Virginia and other States. Hood River apples are more widely known to-day than the apples of any other district, or State, and Hood River prices—over $3.00 per bushel box last season—while attained by a few of the best growers elsewhere, are rarely reached by all the growers of an entire region. This enviable notoriety and these flattering prices, are due more to first class

know. "Can Virginia grow as good apples as Hood River?" "Are there any cultural methods practiced in Hood River that can be introduced here to advantage?" Let us take a glance at the Hood River country and see:

The Hood River Valley makes such a stir in the fruit growing world that the visitor is surprised to find it so small. He goes there prepared to view a stretch of country certainly as big as the State of Connecticut; but finds only a little narrow valley about twenty-five miles long and two or three miles wide—the merest dot on the map of Oregon. It is just east of the Cascade's, on the Columbia River, and about six hundred feet above sea level. The Valley has a rainfall of tWrty-five inches, or about the same as that of the Valley of Virginia; but it all comes in the winter, there being practically no rain in the summer months. It is these cloudless summer days that give the brilliant coloring to Hood River fruit, and keep away scab, cloud, bitter rot, and other diseases that blemish our fruit. The soil is a reddish "buckshot" loam, very rich and easy to work. The climate is quite comparable to that of the Shenandoah Valley, but siomewhat milder. Mt. Hood and Mt. Adams, looming majestic and snow-laden on the horizon, and the mighty Columbia at the mouth of the Valley, make an

Good form of packing-table for apples and pears, used by the Yakima County Horticultural Union.

advertising, and to organization, than to any superior natural advantage of soil and climate. However that may be, the fact remains that the Hood River growers are shipping apples three thousand miles across the continent and selling them in Virginia cities at a nickel a piece, when the same markets ought to be supplied with Virginia-grown fruit exclusively.

The Virginia apple grower is not always going to stand b^Ing crowded out of his own markets. He wants to

inspiring setting to a beautiful spot.

The principle business of the Hood River Valley is fruit growing. There are about 1,000 acres of apple orchards over eight years old, and 2,50'0 acres under that age. New planting is going forward all the time, especially higher up the Valley. There are about 1,500 acres of strawberries grown chiefly In young orchards, for quick returns. Ninety per cent, of the apples are New-towns and Spitzenbergs, which are "quality" sorts. Our

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Winesaps are the equal of the Spitzenburgs, and our Pippins are superior to their Newtowns.

The capital invested in land is large—from $50.00 to $150.00' being paid for raw land. The orchards are small. Ten to twenty acres is an average holding. This re suits in intensive culture, which results in high profits. The net profits frequently run over $400.00 per acre, from twelve-year old trees. We have orchards in Virginia that returned over $500'.00 per acre net, last year. but from older trees. Some of the best Hood River orchards pay twenty per cent, interest on a valuation of $2,000.00 per acre.

The trees begin to bear two or three years earlier than

it costs Hood River growers considerably more to protect their fruit from pests than it does the Virginia growers. They get fine fruit, but they have to fight for it.

The fruit is thinned on the trees, to one fruit to a spur, at a cost of fifteen to eighty-five cents per tree. This is a new proposition to Virginia growers. We thin peaches, sometimes, but apples rarely or never. But we shall have to thin apples some years. Thinning not only makes larger and more perfect fruit, but it also husbands the strength of the tree so it can make a crop every year, as trees do in Hood River. The time is com-I ing In Virginia when it will be a disgrace for a grower

Bear Creek Orchard, 265 acres. Picking Yellow Newton Pippin Apples for the London market.

the same varieties do here, chiefly owing, no doubt, to the dry summers. A Newtown (same as our Albemarde Pippin), when eleven years old bears ten to fifteen boxes. This Is a great advantage, and one we cannot duplicate in this climate.

The trees are given frequent and thorough tillage each season and all the season. They are not irrigated. In not all sections of Virginia is it possible or practicable to cultivate apples as carefully as In Hood River, but there is no doubt that cultivation is best wherever practicable.

Spraying is incessant. The dry summers make it unnecessary to use Bordeaux for diseases, as much as we do here; but they have a bigger fight than we with the coddling moth. There are several broods and the broods overlap, so It Is a constant fight from bloom to harvest. The growers spray from six to eight times. Arsenate of lead Is used chiefly. Last year the Association bought two earloads of the poison for the growers. .Altogether

to have an "off" year unless frost, hall or some other untoward circumstance caused it.

Several pickings are made to a ti ;e—another desirable practice. The fruit Is picked Int' 'bushel boxes, and is packed and shipped Immediately. No sweating is allowed. Late sprayed fruit Is wlp( , to remove stains. Of course the fruit has to be ha.adled "like eggs," In order to get to market the way i „■' does.

The fruit is packed entirely in bushel boxes; never in barrels. There are two sizes, to accommodate different shaped apples: the "Standard," which is 10%xll%, and the "Special," 10x11x20, both Inside measurement. The ends are three-quarters of an inch, the sides three-eighths of an inch, the top and bottom one-half an Inch. Spruce is better than fir or pine .being whiter and less likely to split in nailing. Boxes are bought knocked down for seven to fourteen cents. The box Is bound to come into general use in Virginia for shipping fancy fruit. Good

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to ordinary fruit, and fruit intended for export, had better be shipped in barrels.

The fruit is graded to absolute uniformity in packing— another point for Virginia growers to note more carefully. It is the perfect grading of the fruit, not the fact that it is in a box, that makes a bushel of Hood River fruit often outsell a barrel of Virginia fruit.

There are several styles of packs, according to the size and shape of the apples—"oifset,' "diagonal," and "straight"; and 3, 3%, 4, 4% and 5 tier. It does not pay to ship apples larger than three tier or smaller than five tier. The box is lined with white paper, and paper placed between each layer of apples. Sometimes each apple is wrapped in SxlO-inch paper. A "bulge" is secured by placing the end rows of apples of the bottom layers on their sides, and the middle rows on end. This bulge should not exceed three-fourths of an inch, and is for the purpose of taking up slack. Packing is done by the box. It costs five cents per box for all packs up to five tier, and six cents for five tier. Each box has a handsome lithograph, advertising the contents. Bach box is stamped with the variety, name of grower, packer, number of inspector. Packing is done by crews of four men, sent to the orchard by the manager of the Association. Each crew consists of a foreman and three packers.

The fruit is shipped in carloads of 500 to 800 boxes, and is chilled before loading. The boxes are laid upon their sides, and are cleated and braced to prevent shifting. It costs fifty cents to raise a box of Hood River apples, and it costs fifty cents to lay It down in New York City. The shipments are now almost entirely F. O. B. The organization guarantees every box. Nothing but fancy fruit is shipped. The reputation of the Hood River

ick is such that buyers come to Hood River from all

•ts of the country, and from other countries, and com-e for the crop. This is the ideal to work towards in

ery fruit region.

The .reputation that Hood River has achieved is due sdmost. entirely to the organization of growers, effected in 1903. Before 1903, the prices they received were not always satisfactory. The advance due to the organization of a c< -operative shipping association is exhibited in the following average prices per box since 1902:

1902, 85c.; I'^OS, $2.00; 190'4, $2.10; 1905, $2.12; 1906, $2.60; 1907, $2..'I,; 1908, $3.27. This looks pretty good, but I know Virgi .ia fruit growers who got $10.00 per baT-rel, F. O. B., thi season for their Pippins.

The membership of the organization is now about 100', and it controls over ninety per cent, of the apple output of the Valley. Shai--js are $10.00 each. The entire expense of the organization and shipping is met by a charge of five cents on each box of fruit handled. The successful Manager, Mr. E. H. Shepard, is paid a good salary. Such a man should be, preferably, an outsider, and a business man, not a grower. The organization not only sells the fruit, but also buys box material by the carload, spraying machinery, etc., and advertises Hood River fruit the world over, as no individual could do. The reputation of Hood River apples is worth at least fifty cents per box to the growers.

There are no end of profitable comparisons that might

be drawn between Hood River and Virginia apple growing, but I shall give only the most important:

They have no advantage over us in soil and climate. The exhibit of Hood River apples, and of the best Virginia apples, side by side, at the meeting of the Horticultural Society, proves beyond a doubt that we can raise as strictly firstclass fruit, just as high in color, perfect in size, and still better in quality, as our Hood River competitors. We can raise as fine fruit, but very few of our growers do it yet. The first object of the recent meeting of the Society was for the purpose of bringing to pass this: result.

Hood River trees bear earlier than ours,—a decided advantage. They are not troubled with disease, but are woefully smitten with worms, so we about split even there. They have the advantage of a compact fruit area, which makes packing and shipping easier than in our scattered orchards. But we are 2,500 miles nearer the best markets than they, which ought to be worth sonie-thing. Land is very much cheaper here than there. All things considered, I believe that Piedmont, Valley and Southwest Virginia can produce and market a bushel of fancy apples, equal to the Hood River product in every | respect, , for twenty-five cents less per bushel.

Where the Hood River people win out is not on better natural advantages, but in more intensive culture, in packing, and in organized shipping. We should grow fewer acres of apples,—fifty acres is more than one man can handle so as to secure maximum profits. We should grade better, giving absolute uniformity, so that we can guarantee every apple. We should look into the advantages of co-operation in shipping. Our fruit area is so scattered that it will be difficult to secure as satisfactory results here as in Hood River, but I see no reason why 'shipping associations should not be successful at certain of our largest fruit centers, as at Crozet, Waynes-

The famous Hood River pack.

boro, Staunton, Winchester, Stuart, and Covesville. Make it a local affair, and don't try to cover the whole Valley, or the whole Piedmont with one organization.

These three points we can learn from our Hood River competitors—more intensive culture, better packing, and co-operation. With these to aid us, it is my opinion that Piedmont, Valley and Southwest Virginia can compete successfully in any market against the apples of any State, Hood River apples not excepted.

■ S. W. FLETCHER, Director.

Experiment Station, Blacksburg, Va.

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CONDITION OF TRUCK CROPS IN TIDEWATER

Editor Southern Planter:

i'rospects for the cabbage crop are exceptionally bright. The acreage planted is practically the same as that ast year. From present indications the earliest cab-tage will go on the market late in April. While it is

00 early to even approximate the damage from cabbage nsects, the indications are that it will be much less han it was last season. A few of the growers are al-eady treating their plants to prevent the spread of the Qsects, and others will do so later.

Kale has practically all been marketed. The extremely Dw price received for it has discouraged growers some-T^hat. Those who held their crop to the last of the sea-on did not fare much better than those who shipped arly. Spinach is going to the market in good condition, nd bringing fair prices. The prospects for the late rop is brighter than was realized from that marketed

1 the fall.

The acreage devoted to potatoes is in excess of that lanted last year. The close of the present week will ave practically all the seed planted. Northern grown jed is.being used almost exclusively this season. Plants 1 hot-beds and cold-frames are fully up to standard, )mato plants being in exceptionally good condition, ith eggplants and peppers a close second. The indica-ons are for a slight increase in all of these crops over ist season's planting. The cucumber plants for oold-ame forcing are in good condition. Some of the grow-rs having transplanted into frames where the plants ill fruit.

The acreage devoted to strawberries is somewhat less lan the average. As a result of the dry weather last ill the plants are not as vigorous as could be desired, ome of the varieties are showing blooms at the present, lit these early ventures are sure to be nipped by the .te frosts.

T. C. JOHNSON. Truck Experiment Station, Norfolk, Va.

THE CABBAGE CROP !N THE FAR SOUTH.

ditor Southern Planter:

On account of our extensive cahbage plant business jndreds of persons, both growers and receivers of cab-ige, are writing us to let them know the general con-ition of the crop in this and other cabbage growing sec-ons of the Southern States. We cannot answer all of lese inquiries with a personal letter, and as the informa-on is of general interest, will request that you print lis letter.

On account of the low prices at which cabbage sold in le spring of 1908, the crop proved a loss to all growing ctions. This loss caused a general reduction in the ;reage planted in the Southern States this winter. In '.e regular cabbage growing sections the reduction was om twenty-five to forty per cent., while in other sec-ons where cabbage were planted for the first time in •0'8, they did not plant at all this winter. Taking the e entire South from Texas to the Atlantic coast the 'erage planted to Early Cabbage is at least forty per mt. less than it was in 1908. The freeze of January

31st to February 3d caused a temperature of fifteen to twenty degrees above in all sections where crop was set out and growing. Immediately after the blizzard we wrote all of the growing points, asking extent of damage done; the replies received stated, that about twenty-five per cent, of the plants were killed, and damage was estimated at twenty-five to fifty per cent. These letters were written immediately after the freeze, since that time the same parties have written that damage is much more severe than at first thought; plants which at first appeared to only be slightly injured have since died, and are continuing to die off and rot. The plants which are living, instead of responding to the rain and giood growing weather that we have had since the blizzard, are starting to head up instead of growing, and are going to make a crop of small cabbage, not more than one-half the size that they should be. The yield of cabbage in the South will not be more than forty to fifty per cent, of a crop, and as the acreage planted is only about sixty per cent, of what it was in 1908, the yield of Early Cabbage in the Southern Half of the Gulf States, Florida and the Carolinas, will not be more than thirty to thirty-five per cent., as compared with the yield of 1908.

It is now too late for this Southern section to replant their cabbage crop, so they are increasing the acreage that will be planted in potatoes, beans, cucumbers and tomatoes. These four crops will be much heavier than last season, almost double the acreage. Early Cabbage will be scarcer than they have been for twenty years, and we believe that if the farmers in the Northern Half of the Gulf States, and other States south of the Ohio River, would get hardy cabbage plants now, and set out in cabbage the lands which they now have prepared for potatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers and beans, they would have the markets to supply, with practically no competition from the growing sections south of them. Whereas, if they plant the other crops, they will have to compete in the markets with the largest acreage ever planted in the South. WM. C. GERATY CO.,

Young's Island, S. C. The Cabbage Plant Men.

A later report from San Antonio, Texas, February 27th, says:

Your letter of the 24th ult., received, and we thank you very much for the complete information given us in reference to the cabbage crop at your point. We are having exactly the same experience in this section. At first we did not think that the cold had done very much damage, but later it developed that a great many plants, which were apparently uninjured, are affected with stem rot, some are dying off, and the other plants do not seem to be growing as they should. We think that we are safe in saying, that our crop in Southern Texas will be reduced sixty to seventy per cent, and this is a very conservative estimate.

Sometimes when a woman throws a brick at an old hen in the garden, it is harder on the scenery than it is on the hen.

The best way to cultivate an appetite is to cultivate a field, and then you will have both an appetite and the wherewithal to appease it.

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Live Stock and Dairy.

IMPROVE THE COWS.

Almost daily we are in receipt of enquiries for heifers or cows to add to dairy herds. The dairy business is growing fast in the South, and there is great need of this, for at the present time, according to the statistics, we need at least 350,000 good cows in this State alone to supply the dairy products which we are now importing into this State from the North and West. There is a great opening for the breeding of good dairy cows, and whilst it is desirable that these should, as far as possible, be pure bred animals of the type and breed specially needed to meet the particular requirements of the dairymen as to milk, butter or cheese, yet it an obvious fact that many of those seeking these cows cannot afford to buy pure bred cows in the quantity needed to meet the requirements all at once. What they need now is good grade cows of the true dairy type. These, under the influence of good management, and fed properly balanced rations can be made to give returns which will more than double the average yield of the cows of the State, and will pave the way for pure bred herds as soon as they can be afforded. To secure this type of animals it is essential that stock owners should at once buy pure bred bulls of the dairy type, and not hesitate to give good prices for these animals to reliable breeders. It is the very falsest economy to buy a grade bull of any breed. From the use of such a bull no improvement In the type can be assured. The bull is half the herd, and, therefore, a eocd pj'ice can be well afforded for an animal of the purest breeding. He wilj pay for himself in the first crop of calves, even in a small herd. Get a pure bred bull, and you will have no difficulty in selling your heifer calves at good prices.

CHEESE IN THE SOUTH.

Less than two per cent, of the cheese consumed in the South is produced locally. In fifty cities in thirteen Southern States the quantity handled annually amounts to approximately 42,000,000 pounds. The per capita consumption is large, especially among the laboring classes, who largely depend for their noonday meal on crackers and cheese; yet, practically no whole-milk cheese of the Cheddar type is manufactured in the South. A few small factories in South Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia constitute the source of local output. It would seem, In view of this condition, that the South presents an attractive field for the manufacture of cheese. Before a cheese factory could be operated successfully, however, an adequate supply of milk would have to be assured.

KEEPING A FLOCK OF SHEEP ON A SMALL FARM.

Hflifor Soiitlirni Planter:

More encouragement should be given to sheep husbandry in the Southern States. There are large tracts of land which may be successfully utilized for the maintenance of sheep. Some of this land is broken and hilly,

while other sections are of a rather level character, and but a few hundred feet above sea level. It has been thought by many that this kind of land would not be suitable for sheep, but the experience of many farmers seems to disprove the supposition. Sheep are first-class scavengers, not only for the cultivated fields, but for the rough land, which is available on nearly every farm, and cannot be used advantageously for cultivated crops. Since a flock of from thirty to fifty may be kept on a small farm with comparatively little care and outlay for food, it is a form of stock husbandry which is worthy of encouragement for a flock of sheep well managed and handled in the Southeastern States should make a profit of at least $5.00 per head to the owner, exclusive of the sale price of the fleece, which will be ample to pay for the cost of maintaining the ewe and lamb. Because some who have engaged in sheep husbandry have found it unprofitable, does not mean that the business cannot be followed with success, for there are hundreds of farmers who are now producing hot-house lambs, and have made even a larger profit than that suggested above, since under good management a flock of one hundred native ewes well fed and handled will produce from 120 to 150 lambs.

The best foundation stock to use in establishing a flock are the native ewes of the immediate section, though those obtained from the mountains in any part of the Appalachian region prove excellent mothers when brought to the lowlands, and are serviceable for a period of at least two years. These ewes are hardy and accustomed to gathering their own food, and are, therefore, excellent rustlers, and they do not need to be especially pampered on that account, which is a material advantage to j the uninitiated stockrnan who frequently fails to make ' a success of handling animals at the outset because of inexperience. Therefore, the native ewe is particularly valuable to one commencing sheep rearing for the first time.

In order that the lambs niay mature rapidly and have vigor and quality of fleece and carcass, both essential to selling them advantageously, a pure-bred ram should be used with the flock. Since the ewes can be purchased al a reasonable price, and the sire constitutes more than half the flock, it will be profitable to purchase a first-class animal, even though he may cost as much as $25.00. Sufficiently good sires can be obtained, however, from $15.0'0 up. The sire may be selected from one of several breeds. The t)orsets are noted for their prolificacy and their early maturing qualities, and have given good satisfaction in many sections of the South. A ram of any of the Down breeds is likely to prove satisfactory, however, as the Shropshire, Southdown and Oxford have all been used with more or less success. Moreover, these breeds seem to take very well to the South, and the cross of a Down ram on native ewes has in nearly all instances proved to be most satisfactory. Having laid the foundation of the flock, which may be

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done at a comparatively small outlay, since native ewes may be purchased at from $2.00 to $3.00, abundant and succulent pastures should be provided for early in the season in order to stimulate the vitality of the ewes to the highest degree, and thus insure their getting with lamb earlier in the season as the profit to be made from the flock will depend to a very considerable extent on having the lambs dropped in late December or early January. In a mild climate there is no objection to having the lambs dropped at this season of the year, since they are quite hardy to commence with, and the comparatively small amount of protection needed may be cheaply provided in some outbuilding. It is especially important to keep young lambs dry and warm at first. After that they should be allowed to run at large with their mothers, for sheep do much better when given as large a degree of liberty as possible, even in the coldest climates, than where confined in warm, ill-ventilated stables. Their coat is so heavy that it protects them sufficiently well from cold weather, but in wet weather it is liable to become thoroughly soaked and give the sheep a cold, hence the Importance of protecting them from cold winter rains.

Attempts should not be made to maintain a large flock on the average farm. Twenty-five to fifty will, as a rule. be found more profitable. Many persons make the mistake of doubling and trebling the size of their flocks as soon as they find out that sheep rearing is a profitable industry when conducted on business-like principles, but it does not follow that a flock of ninety sheep will make the proportionate profit obtained from thirty. Therefore, the novice ghould not make the mistake of attempting to keep too many animals at first.

As to suitable foods for the summer season, there is nothing better than pasture. This pasture may not be of the best character, however, when judged from the standpoint of its utility for beef or dairy cattle. Bermuda grass will answer very well for sheep, or the rough land available on the majority of our farms which is thrown out and is being reclaimed from an eroded condition, and is covered with wild grass and legumes and other small growth. This character of pasture, however, is not likely to prove sufficiently abundant or stimulating to insure securing as early a crop of lambs as is desirable. It will be advisable, therefore, to have some soiling crops available to turn the sheep' on, especially in late July or early August. A great variety of crops may be used for this purpose. In some sections rape will be found an ideal food; in others, cowpeas or soy beans will prove the most desirable. Where alfalfa or clover is available it can be used with success. It will take comparatively little effort on the part of the farmer to seed a few acres down to one of these crops to be used as a pasture for the sheep at the time suggested. The cull lambs left over from the June shipment may be successfully finished on cowpeas or soy beans in the late fall. These crops should be allowed to practically mature their seed and will furnish a large enough amount of grain to supply not only the needed concentrates, but a rich enough form of roughness to put the lambs in first class condition for slaughter. The few that are left over on

the average farm when properly finished, can generally be sold at a fair price to locr.l butchers. While liberal feeding in August and September is necessary for the ewes, the system should be continued throughout the fall and early winter.

To secure an abundance of desirable succulent food such crops as oats and vetch, rye aad vetch, or vetch alone should be seeded not later than September. These crops, if the season is at all favorable, and the land well prepared, will develop with sufficient rapidity to furnish grazing through the latt fall and winter, and during the next spring until the Bv„rmuda grass or other tame pastures become available. By following such a system the land is kept covered in the winter, the sheep gather the larger part of their nutrition without cost o'' effort to the owner, and enrich the land by their droppings. The land is in better condition to produce a crop the next year, and has been made to sustain a flock which will net a nice profit in the spring. Surely, this is an infinitely better system of practice than we follow since we so frequently permit the land to lie idle and wash seriously through the winter season. By the system of practice suggested, the farmer raises his crop of lambs at a very small cost for concentrates since the ewes and lambs will need comparatively little grain. By having the character of pasture suggested, the ewes are kept in better condition and the lambs will be stronger and thriftier when they are dropped, which is a very important matter. The lambs will also quickly learn-, to eat, and this will lessen the drain on the ewes. ..,..

As to what should be fed in the way of grain, a small ' amount of cotton-seed meal with corn will make an excellent ration; or corn and bran may be used together. Not • over one-quarter pound of cotton seed meal should be fed per head per day with one-half pound of corn. These feeds may be mixed together and fed in narrow flat troughs placed in the pastures. Salt should also be kept in these troughs. It is not necessary, of course, to grind the corn for sheep unless convenient to do so, as they masticate it very thoroughly. For the lambs a little bran at first will prove more satisfactory than the cotton-seed meal, but after they have learned how to eat and obtained a good start, a little cotton-seed meal and, corn will stimulate growth, which is the end desired-

In order to push the lambs forward as rapidly as possible, it is very often desirable to construct a creep adjacent to the pasture. This is a fence so arranged as to permit the lambs to readily pass through or under it while the old sheep are held in check. Tbe use of the creep is important because it enables one to teach the lambs to eat concentrates more quickly, and they gro\\ and mature more rapidly on that account. Good spring lambs, the progeny of mothers fed and cared for as suggested, should be ready to go on the market in a climate like that in most sections of the South in May or early June. They consume but a minimum amount of grain and readily bring from five to seven cents a pound. Since they should weigh under good management from seventy to ninety pounds, it is easy to see that they yield a nice profit to the farmer for a comparatively small outlay. They are docile and interesting animals to handle.

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and require as little care as any class of stock kept on the farm. This does not mean that they will grow without effort on the part of the farmer, and all that is necessary to make money is to purchase a flock of ewes and turn them lose; not by any means. Skill in management, and judicious feeding and mating are essentials to success, but in proportion to the attention and care required, they will yield as handsome a profit as can be obtained from any form of animal industry. Since there Is enough waste feed and land on the majority of our farms to maintain a flock successfully by a little forethought, it is strange that more attention is not given to this profitable business since ideal conditions are found for its pursuit throughout the entire South.

There is an ever-increasing market for the early spring or hot-house lamb, and the lamb which can be grown in the South under the conditions outlined is equal in size and quality to the best hot-house lambs raised under the most expensive conditions prevailing in the North. There is no danger of over-stocking the market for some time to come, for since lamb is such a highly nutritious food, and comparatively easy of digestion, there should be an ample market for all that can be produced right at home, and will be, as soon as the virtues of this class of stock are more fully appreciated. Fresh spring lamb would add a pleasing and delightful variety to the daily diet, and why should not the farmer have the best for himself and family if he can do so with ease and economy. When the lambs are sold, the round outlined above should be pursued with the ewes during the next spring and summer. Experience will suggest many improvements over the method previously followed. It will be inadvisable to keep the ewes longer than two years. By selling them at this time there is less danger of their contracting diseases to which sheep are subject. Moreover, they are sold in sufficient vigor to command a fair price, and a new set of breeding animals will generally prove more profitable to the owner.

There is another reason why sheep breeding should be encouraged in the Eastern States. Up to this time diseases to which this animal is subject have not obtainea a firm foothold in this section, and by using the native ewes which are comparatively hardy and free from disease, there is not so much danger of introducing the various parasites which attack sheep, and have proven so disastrous to the industry in some sections. By changing pastures frequently the chances of permanent infection are also lessened since it is thought by some that the parasites find their way into the stomach of the sheep from the grass, and the closer the pastures are eaten off, the more liable the flock becomes to permanent infection. Of course, sheep and dogs cannot be raised well together, and it is on account of the trifling and worthless curs which predominate so largely in many sections that sheep husbandry has been held in check all these years. Since the sheep will make a handsome profit for Its owner, while utilizing and improving the waste areas of the farm, it is surprising that the dog should still be able to dominate the situation so completely. Dogs are all right in their place, but when they come to be a menace to the development of an important

industry, it certainly seems time to limit their sphere of action. This can, of course, always be done by taxing them according to the practice followed in a number of States, and thus providing a source of revenue for reimbursing the owners of sheep which have been destroyed, and also lessening the number of cur dogs which run at large and constitute the chief enemy of the small farmer's flock.

ANDREW M. SOULB. Georgia State College of Agriculture.

TEXAS, OR TICK FEVER QUARANTINE.

Ofllce of State Veterinarian,

Burkevile, Va., March. 1909.

Virginia Cattle Quarantine against territory infested with cattle ticks in this State. Notice to cattle owners, transportation companies and others handling cattle in Virginia: Prom the fifteenth day of March, 1909, continuously, unless this order is revoked, until the fifteenth day of December, 1909, inclusive, no cattle shall be moved from the following counties to that portion of the State not herein mentioned, except for immediate slaughter, and then only according to the rules and regulations for moving quarantined cattle.

List of counties in Virginia quarantined for the year 1909, owing to the present cattle ticks therein, is as follows: Brunswick, Chesterfield, Fluvanna, Greenville, Isle of Wight, Nansemond, Mecklenburg, Southampton, Surry, Sussex, York, and that part of Warwick county not included in the Newport News Magisterial District.

During the continuance of this order the County of Lunenburg is provisionally quarantined; that- is, cattle from the non-infested portion of this county may be moved if said cattle are inspected and passed jointly by the State and Federal inspectors, and their written permission Is obtained and exhibited at time of movement.

"From the other counties and parts of counties in that portion of the State of Virginia, which is quarantined for Splenetic, Southern or Texas fever, cattle shall only be moved or allowed to move interstate to points outside of the quarantined area in accordance with the regulations for immediate slaughter."

By order of State Live Stock Sanitary Board.

J. G. FERNEYHOUGH, State Veterinarian.

THE HOLSTEIN ADVANCED REGISTRY SYSTEM.

Editor Southern Planter:

It will, no doubt, be interesting to the readers of your paper to learn under what rules of the Holstein-Friesian Association the "ofilcial tests" of Holstein cow? are made. The system employed by the Association Is termed the "advanced registry" system.

The stringent regulations laid down by the Association for conducting these tests practically preclude the possibility of the slightest error, whether wilful or unintentional, in the reported production of the cow, and the system enables the breeder, desirous of improving his herd, to ascertain the true dairy ability of his cows, not only to his own satisfaction, but to that of his customers also; while by its records, it enables him—as, also,

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the owner of grade cows—to select a bull with an heredity, such as, when mated with the cows of his herd, is most likely to increase its productive capacity. Many owners of mixed, and even grade herds, in this State are. using nothing but a bull from a cow of advanced registry standing.

The herd-book of the Association conserves the purity of the breed, being based upon purity of blood, any animal being eligible to registry if its sire and dam have been recorded. The Advanced Register is more or less of a herd-hook in a herd-book, based upon individual merit of both sexes, and designed as an aid to improvement within the breed. The system of advanced registry is particularly adapted to the dairy breeds, the Holstein-Friesian Association being the first dairy organization to establish such a system, in 1885. Since that time over 8,000 Hol^tein cows and 600 Holsteiu bulls have been admitted to the Advanced Register.

While the Association does not ignore the value of conformity, as indicated by its score-card, rather encouraging breeding with a view to propagating "the true type of Holstein" than simply for an increased per cent. of fat, or a larger production of milk, yet the worth of an animal is based more largely on its individual excellence, as measured, on the part of the cow, by her ability in dairy production, and, on the part of the bull, by his potency to beget daughters of merit. Any purebred cow can be admitted to the Advanced Register, being classified as Advanced Registry Official (A. R. O.), should she make 7.2 pounds of butter fat, or over, in seven consecutive days, if she calves on or before she is two years old, and for every day of age over two years this requirement is increased by the decimal .004.39 of a pound of fat. This aggregates twelve pounds of butter fat at the age of five years, or the "full age form," which is the requirement at that age. Any purebred bull is eligible to be admitted to the Advanced Register as soon as four, or more, of his daughters have made A. R. O. records, and the bull is classified as Advanced Registered Standard (A. R. S.). As can be seen the requirements for Advanced Registry records are very moderate, and owners are not usually content to have their animals merely qualify, but strive to see how much they can exceed the minimum.

Such A. R. O. records are for a period of seven consecutive days, or for fourteen, or twenty-one, or thirty or more, if so stated, and are made under the direct supervision of a representative from the State Experiment Station, who has to take oath before a notary public as to the correctness of the record. The integrity of the "supervisor," as he is called, has to, in turn, be vouched for by the director, or other officer of the station, in charge of the dairy tests. The supervisor must be present at the last regular milking, before the commencement of the test, which is started four or more days after the cow calves, and must see that the cow is milked dry at the time. If there is but one supervisor conducting the test, not more than one "test" cow can be milked at a time, as he is required to be in such a position that he can observe the milker during each and every milking, and that the pail contains nothing but the cow's milk. After each milking is completed, he takes charge of the pail and contents, weighs the latter.

enters the weight on his record, and takes two samples, one for his fat test, which is made in duplicate, to avoid error, and one for the "composite test" sample, containing a part of all the milkings of the test, and which is sent to the Agricultural College to be re-tested for the average fat, as a check on his work. He is required to keep the composite test sample, his own samples, and all his records under lock during the time of the test, and in filling out the final blanks, has to compare the "color markings" on the animal's certificate of registry with the black and white outlines on the animal, thereby absolutely identifying the name with the animal.

Before the blank, on which is enumerated the production at every milking, with its fat per cent., is forwarded to the Association's Superintendent of Advanced Registry, its correctness in every detail, is sworn to by the owner of the cow, her feeder and her milker. Finally, if for any reason, the Association's superintendent should decide to retest the animal, especially where a very large production is concerned, in order to satisfy himself as to the correctness of the reported production, he orders a re-test," and sends one of his own representatives to make another test of the animal, as a check on the first, which, if not perfectly satisfactory, annuls the first.

The Association not only enters the completed butter fat and milk records in its registers free of charge, but also gives a total of 173 regular prizes annually, ranging from $40.00 to $50.00, to owners of cows, who have done meritorious work in the different classes, regulated by the ages of the animals, that have been reported and accepted throughout the year. No one owner can win more than a total of nine prizes, however.

At its annual meeting in Syracuse, N. Y., last June, the Holstein-Friesian Association voted as being greatly in favor of co-operating with tho United States Department of Agriculture and other Associations of breeders of dairy cattle in the support of a National Register of Merit, in which it was proposed to enter the yearly records, in both milk and butter fat, of cows of every breed.

No private record is ever entertained by the Holstein-Friesian Association, but the semi-official yearly test, which is the same as the Jersey official yearly test, and is much more strict than the Guernsey yearly official test, consists in making the results obtained from a regular official test of not less than two days in every month of lactation, the basis of computation for the average per cent, of fat in the milk of the cow for that month, and also using the results of the regular official test as a check upon the milk production of the cow as reported by the owner. Such tests, while not as absolutely accurate as the official tests, are of great value in determining approximately what a cow can do for her whole period of lactation.

The rules of the Association under which these semiofficial yearly records are made are such as will admit not only of the record being entered in its proper class by the Association, but also in the National Dairy Register of Merit should such a register be established as proposed by the government.

Albemarle Co., Va. W. F. CARTER JR.

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COTTON-SEED MEAL FOR HORSES.

Editor Southern Planter:

Many inquiries come to us requesting information as to the value and advisability of feeding cotton-seed meal to horses and mules. We always recommend it in limited amounts, of course; and believe there is no better source for protein in a horse's ration than cotton-seed meal. All farmers are Interested in securing more efiQ-cient labor from their teams, and, if possible, without additional expense. The writer proposed a horse feeding experiment to test the advantages of cotton seed meal a year ago, and has again proposed it with some prospect of doing this valuable work for the benefit of the farmers, all of whom are interested in teams and their best feeding for returns in labor or breeding. We shall endeavor to begin the work in a short time.

Some have thought that feeding cotton-seed meal would not be advisable for brood mares. Good horse sense would indicate to us that if not deleterious to cows, the most easily excited to abortion of any of our domestic animals, it would not be to mares. We know cows are often fed as much as three or four pounds per day. The writer fed cottounseed meal to horses and mules in Indiana, and to three mares in the winter and spring, all of which had spring colts, and there were never any bad effects observable at any time. Horses thrive on cotton-seed meal, and while they do not take to it very kindly at first, yet the fact that they do so well when it forms a part of their ration, is sufficient to justify the use of this great Southern feed, both for them' and mules. Judge Hammond, of Augusta, Ga., says there is not the remotest danger of abortion from feeding cotton-seed meal to brood mares in reasonable quantities, say, not to exceed two pounds per day. It must be remembered that they do not take to it kindly if on full feed of good grain, and a very small amount must be fed in the beginning, coaxing them to the new taste, as it were, which is better than forcing them to it by a semi-starvation process. But it is not inadvisable to keep horses a little hungry until they take to eating a little of the meal, when they will then soon eat a full ration with such an amount of the new feed as you desire to incorporate therein. It certainly keeps work stock in good condition, both body and coat. As much as three pounds may be fed to hard-worked horses.

WALTER J. QUICK. Experiment Station, Blacksburg, Va.

UNIFORMITY IN AYRSHIRE DAIRY YIELDS SHOWN IN TEST.

I ran across an Interesting account in the Holstein Register of the butter test at the Oregon State Fair this fall. In the test were three Holsteins, three Jerseys and three Ayrshlres. The best of the three Holsteins won first, and the best of the Jerseys won second, but taking the three Jerseys and the three Ayrshires in comparison, singly and collectively. It brings out the chief characteristic of the Ayrshire cow in a high general average.

While there are phenomenal cows among the Holsteins and Jerseys taken singly, the average production shows the Ayrshire to be a great producer as a breed.

This test illustrates this fact as follows: The three Holsteins gave 269.13 pounds of milk and 10.083 of butter-fat. The three Ayrshires gave 260'.4 pounds of milk and 9.835 pounds of butter-fat. The three Jerseys gave 229.111-4 pounds of milk and 9.709 pounds of butter-fat

In all public tests, as far as I have known, there has been less difference in yield between the best and poorest, in the Ayrshire, than in any of the other dairy breeds.

C. M. WINSLOW.

We would like to see some of our Southern dairy farmers take up the Ayrshire breed and give it a trial. We are convinced from our personal knowledge of these cows that they would be found well suited for our short-grass sections. They are easy keepers, good foragers, and make good milk cows, and for cheese making are not excelled by any breed.—Ed.

THE SCRUB HOG IS GOING.

Editor Southern Planter.:

It is an evident fact that in our county the scrub hog is rapidly being eliminated, and pure breds of various types are taking his place. Some years ago I |found by making feeding tests that I was able to make from fifty to eighty pounds more of pork from pure bred Berk-shires when slaughtered at ten to twelve months old. than I could with a good type of the scrub hog, killed at the same age. A friend, whose farm lies adjoining mine, made a feeding test this year, and got ninety-two pounds more pork from a Berkshire than he did from a good grade scrub pig, both being the same age, and having precisely the same care and attention. Had his entire herd of sixteen hogs been pure bred, he would have gotten 1,472 pounds more pork than he did get, and still not been out any more time and feed than he was. At seven cents a pound, the price of pork now, he would have gotten $103.04 more money, thus losing enough in one year to stock his farm with pure breds. When I kept the scrub hogs I could,only get $1.50 to $2.50 each for the pigs at weaning age; with pure breds I now sell pigs at $5.00 to $7.50 at that age, and can't meet the demand. When I kept the scrub sow she hardly paid her board; with pure breds my sows net me from $20.00* to $30.00 each yearly.

Since eliminating the scrub hog I have tried several different breeds of pure breds, but find the Berkshires to be the best hog I can raise. I find them to make splendid mothers, the pigs grow off rapidly, and make larger hogs at eight to ten months than any I have ever tried. Brother farmer. If you are still holding onto the scrub hog, make one feeding test, also one breeding test, and see if you don't let him go. It Is true, It costs more to stock a farm with purebreds, yet money spent for this will certainly pay a large per cent.; at least, it did for me.

Henderson Co., Tenn.

W. C. CROOK.

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The Poultry Yard

POULTRY NOTES.

Low prices for eggs this month and next will discour age many people, especially those who are compelled to buy all their feed. Many will sell their hens and neglect their chicks, and next December and January these same people will buy hens at $1.00 each, or pay forty cents per dozen for eggs. There is only one way to succeed with poultry and make money by keeping a flock. One must have good stock, young stock, good feed, good houses, good range and good care, then keep steadily on, no matter what the prices are. It is the average price for the year that one must figure on, and not April and May prices. Another thing: one must have early hatched pullets, and get them to the laying age before December, then give them good care and feed, and keep them laying all winter. The small breeds, Spanish, Ham-burgs, Andalusians, Games, Leghorns and their crosses may be depended on to lay in five months from the shell. The medium breeds. Rocks, Wyandotts, Minorcas, Orpingtons, Reds, etc., will lay at from six to eight months old, and the large breeds, Brahmas, Cochins and Lang-shans require eight to ten months to mature. Some particular strains of all the various breeds will lay sooner than the average, and the feed and care also have a marked effect. All young stock should be kept growing as rapidly as possible.

One very essential part of raising young chicks is to have them on clean ground. I mean by this, ground that has not been contaminated by having a large flock of fowls and chicks running in the same yard from year to year, without having the land plowed and seeded to some growing crop. Cholera, gapes, roup and diarrhea are infectious, and the disease germs will live in the soil for months unless it is plowed and seeded to some growing crop. Yards and runs that are used for poultry constantly should be arranged so the land can be plowed and limed at least once each year, and two or three times would be better. This is true also of poultry houses. The floors are a source of contamination, and must be kept clean. If we have earth floors the soil should be taken out to a depth of four inches every year, and fresh, gravely soil filled iti. Where board floors are used, they should be kept dusted with air-slaked lime, and sprinkled freely at least once per month, with some good disinfectant like carbolic acid or zenoleum. I prefer crude carbolic acid and kerosene oil. Make an emulsion with one pound of soap to one gallon of oil and two gallons of water. Dissolve the soap in the water by boiling, then add the oil and churn until you have an emulsion; then add one quart of crude carbolic acid, and mix thoroughly. Take one quart of this emulsion to four or six quarts of water, and sprinkle floors, roosts and nests thoroughly, and add in the same proportion to lime wash, and spray the inside of the houses with it.

Friend Arbuckle is on the right track with his incubation experiments, and by the time he has spent two

years, of the duration of my two years, he will be able to build a machine that will admit enough pure, warm air at hatching time for several hundred chicks, and thus do away with the spring-bottom toboggan-slide arrangement. I have been hatching chicks In incubators since 1890. Almost two decades. During this period I have used every kind and character of miachine, from fifty-egg size bantams, to 400-egg size Cyphers. Hot water, hot air, open bottom and airtight; diffusion and radiation, non-moisture and moisture, in the North and in Dixie, and I have never been wise enough or stupid enough to hatch "every egg" in any of them.

Hen Proverbs.

A feather pulling hen is a nuisance. Some men claim they can cure the habit. It can be cured by using the hatchet. This has never been known to fail.

Lean, lousy hens are not profitable. Feed liberally and provide a good dust bath of dry loam and a handful of Persian insect powder.

Be careful to remove all broody hens from the nest every evening, unless they are wanted for hatching. Put them in a small, clean run, and feed wheat and soaked oats, and they will lay in a very few days. If allowed to sit several days, they will not lay in less than twenty days.

If you want to raise pure bred poultry either keep but one breed, or keep them yarded closely all the time. Some breeders make a practice of allowing several breeds to run together from July to January. Do not allow this, as they will not breed pure.

Cleanliness and regularity in caring for the flock is the foundation of success.

Hens will lay fresh eggs without ice water to drink. Take the chill off during frosty mornings.

Dry sifted loam is the very best material to use under the roosts on the dropping boards. It absorbs odors, keeps the boards dry, preserves the manure. The cost is nothing.

The small breeds produce eggs cheaper than the medium and large breeds and very much cheaper than mon^ grel stock. Old men for council, young men for action. We don't need council in the hen-yard.

Four eggs contain as much nourishment as a pound of beef. Eight medium sized eggs weigh a pound.

Crows, hawks, cats and rats steal more chicks than the entire African population. Give the chicks a few grains of strychnine in their feed once per weeK, and it will stop the loss.

Keep the nests clean and free from mites. Change the nesting material at least-once every four weeks, and dust the bottom and corners thoroughly with Persian insect powder. Hens do not take kindly to dirty.damp, vermin-infected nests.

Give the hens as great a variety of feed as possible. Season it occasionally with salt and pepper. A teaspoon full of each to every twenty hens. Red pepper is the best.

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Do not expe'ct clean eggs if your houses and runs are filthy.

Do not leave eggs in the nests over night. If you have clean, darkened nests it is not necessary to have nest eggs. ;

If you want good, strong, fertile egigs for hatching, yard twenty of your best hens in a roomy yard, and have two males. Allow them to run with the flock on alternate days. Have a good roomy coop out of sight of the flock, and keep one male in this coop, with plenty of oats, wheat and corn in a self-feeding hopper. Change the males every night.

If your yards have no grass or clover in them for the hens, feed tbem sprouted oats. Put one peck of oats in a four-gallon jar and pour warm water over it. Cover it with a burlap, and leave it until short sprouts appear. Then spread it out in a shallow box about two inches deep, and keep It moist by sprinkling it twice every day until it is a mass of igreen. Cut it in pieces, six or eight inches square, and give it to the hens, and see the fun. This peck of oats will make a bushel of feed and nearly a peck of eggs.

If you are looking for an occupation that will pay you big money without work, do not engage in the poultry business. Be a congressman or United States senator.

If your hens lay undersized eggs, it means that they need meat or igreen cut bone. Feed them meat in some form at least three times per week during winter.

HUSSELMAN.

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EGG CONSUMPTION.

The City of New York alone consumes 9,000,000 eggs per day, and up to this time the supply this year has not been in excess of the daily consumption. Usually in April and May the supply exceeds the consumption by about 1,000,0'00 eggs per day, and these go into cold storage to meet the demands in the fall and winter months, when the supply is far below the daily consumption. To add to this enormous demand for only one city there are the demands of all the other great cities of the country. There is, therefore, still plenty of work for the hens to do, and room for a constant increase in the number kept in the country. Our advertising columns in March show that our people are making good efforts to get a fair share of the money which the hen brings to the farm, and we hear from many of our advertisers that they are doing a good business. One advertiser told us that he had sold $185 worth of eggs up to the middle of the month, and was 600 eggs behind in his orders. The average price of eggs advances year by year, and there-is no fear of the market being overstocked with either eggs or poultry. Hens are the consumers of the unconsidered trifles of food produced on the farm, but the returns made are no inconsiderable item in the farm profits.

CARE OF DUCKLINGS.

Editor Southern Planter:

The inquiries I have recently received from readers of the Southern Planter in regard to care of young ducks are so numerous that I thought it might be in season to

contribute a short article on the subject. To make a success of duck culture, pure bred stock should be the foundation on which to build. While the outlay in the beginning may be a trifle greater if good stock Is pur-, chased, the results are a source of profit and pleasure. Now, since we know what to start with, let us come to the process of hatching and caring for the ducklings; Eggs may be hatched either in incubators or under hens. I think the latter will appeal to the majority of those who only care to raise on a small scale, but if an extensive industry is anticipated, incubators and brooders should be used. To prepare the nest for hatching, put fresh earth in the bottom of a box, shape into a shallow hole, and form a nest of straw on top. It is then Teady for use. I do not find it necessary to moisten the eggs when hatched under hens, but if the weather is dry, they may be sprinkled a few days previous to the hatch. Ducklings should be taken from the nest when dried off, and kept comfortal^le until the hatch is over, then if the weather is warm, should be put with the mother in a comfortable hovel and kept confined for a few days. Provide straw or hay for the hen to hover her brood on. Care should be taken not to let the little ducks get chilled, as it will weaken their vitality, if it does not kill them, and for this reason they should not be allowed to run out in the rain or swim in cold water. It is best for ducklings to have waiter for drinking purposes only of which they should be provided plenty in a shallow vessel, yet have it deep enough to immerse their heads in, p.p by this means they keep their nostrils from clogging. Ducklings should be given water, but not fed until about fifteen or twenty hours old. They will eat and thrive on almost any kind of food Bread soaked in milk and squeezed dry, or raw egg mixed with corn-meal are both good rations, and may be used; yet, anything else that chickens eat will answer. Table scraps are excellent for ducks, and if there are only a small flock, should be suflS-cient for their consumption.| While young ducklings should be fed often, about five or six times a day. As they grow older and able to forage for themselves, it is unnecessary to feed over two or three times a day. Indian Runners grow rapidly, make broilers in a shorter time, and on less food than chickens do. There is no loss with them, unless by accidents, as they are not subject to disease; are not troubled by hawks, and are not eaten up by lice. It is important that ducklings should have sand and gravel around their drinking water. Like chickens, they need grit, and the sand absorbs the water they spill. Mix a little sand with their food also, and never have the food sloppy, but In a light crumbly condition. 1 hope I have made the simplicity and ease of duck culture plain, and wish success to all who are engaged in, or anticipate this industry. It may be of interest to add that Washington quotations, under date of March 13th, igive hen eggs, 171-2 cents per dozen; duck eggs, 28 cents. Note the difference in price, while it costs as much to produce a dozen hen eggs as a dozen duck eggs, if Indian Runners are the ducks kept.

MRS. B. J. GRASBERGBR.

Louisa Co., Va.

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TURKEY RAISING. Editor Southern Planter:

As I probably sell more turkey eggs than any one in Virginia, I am always interested in having purchasers of eggs successful in raising the young, and I therefore presume to answer the inquiry of "Margaret" in your March issue.

I will say in the beginning that it is not an easy matter to raise young turkeys hatched under the common hen and that close confinement is fatal to both old and young turkeys. As plenty of range seems necessary for the health and growth of the poults, the common hen is a drawback in this line. However, this is the most economical way of starting, and we must put forth our best efforts in overcoming the obstacles. Unfortunately, the domesticated turkey begins its breeding season so early that insects are scarce, and the poults under such circumstances become weakened and stunted in the very beginning. The wild hen is more considerate, both as to time of laying and number of eggs laid, never having more young than she can cover well.

To obviate these difficulties, we must find a substitute for insects, which seem so essential as a food for the poults. The best one that I have so far found is curd made from buttermilk or clabber by placing the same over the fire until the curd separates from the water, then pour into a bag made of cheesecloth hanging the same until all the water has drained out of it. Young turkeys do not need to be fed when they can get an abundance of insects, but otherwise they must be fed often, but a very little at one time. Cornbread baked with plenty of lard and egg may be fed when nothing better can be found. The poults should have black pepper given them at times in their food. Onions, lettuce, etc., may be fed to them. After they are a month old there is no better food than clean wheat, and, as soon as old enough, they should be made to roost above ground.

Young turkeys are subject to gapes when allowed to roost long in the same place and on old premises. When reared with the common hen, the hovel should have a plank bottom, and be so arranged that it may be raised and sunned every day, sprinkling the floor occasionally with slacked lime, not enough to injure the feet of the little ones. For a dry roosting place? there is nothing better than a shed enclosed with poultry netting. They never make as strong and healthy birds after once becoming wet and chilled.

Our greatest enemy to turkey raising is the dog. Our county has possibly twenty-five wild turkeys with three hundred dogs to hunt them and kill all the domesticated turkeys. One gentleman who will not allow his wife to raise turkeys on account of his turkey dog has ended the season with one half-grown wild turkey.

Caroline Co.. Va. G. W. MOSS.

trans-Atlantic cousins, particularly women, take in fancy poultry. They have a "Ladies' Poultry Club," managed in best up-to-date style, with a number of challenge cups, badges, medals, etc. An Honorable Poultry Instructress has just concluded a three weeks' course of lectures and practical instruction. A good many advertisements by "ladies," who breed and exhibit largely "exporting to all parts of the world," one stating a "vacancy" for pupils. "Training given in all branches, including carpentry, scientific breeding and experimental work on the formation of breeds." I have never seen the like in an American journal. Can it be that we are behind the times?

I am glad to find that among the American chickens quoted and advertised Rose Comb Rhode Island Reds, my favorite breed, is well known and appreciated.

The food given pen birds on a large poultry plant is practically the same proportion that I give, except "horse flesh" is said to be cheaper and more efficacious than granulated meats. I never use the granulated meats, as I can get beef heads for fifteen cents each and, having found my feeding of them a fine egg producer as well as reasonably cheap, I have never seen reason for changing. Still, if "horse flesh" is cheaper and more efficacious, I would like to get some.

This promises to be an exceptionally fine year for poultry. The mild winter, with plenty of green stuff growing, has kept all birds in healthy, vigorous condition.

I am more firmly convinced than ever that Rose Comb Rhode Island Reds are the finest general-purpose fowl known. MISS LOUISE V. SPENCER.

Nottoway Co., Va.

POULTRY KEEPING IN ENGLAND. Editor Southern Planter:

One of my Christmas presents was a poultry paper published in England. It shows the lively interest our

INBREEDING—SELECTION OF STOCK.

Editor Southern Planter:

A correspondent last month raised again the question of inbreeding, and mentioned the fact that I sent to Maine for new blood. While I do not advocate nor practice very close inbreeding as a general rule, yet his statement of my case gives a wrong impression of my object.

For many years our flock of Barred Rocks had averaged above standard weights, and the hens showed a marked tendency to take on winter fat. We bought new blood as good opportunity offered, and usually went right to work to breed it out again. That is to say, we selected the males which conformed most closely to our old type, thus in a few years' ridding ourselves of any undesirable peculiarity introduced by the new blood.

We bought stock from Maine because we were anxious to test a strain of wonderful layers under free farm range conditions, and I am free to say that the results are yet in doubt. The past winter has been a hard one on the average poultryman, for very few flocks have done normally well. We had one small flock, bred from males and females carrying much more than fifty per cent, of identical blood, and these pullets laid a little earlier and grew larger than from the Maine outcross.

The half-Maine pullets show great activity and vigor, but less size than our own strain under identical conditions, and the egg yield is not noticeably superior thus

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far. They have ravenous appetites for meat, which looks like inheritance of an acquired character, and no amount of crimson clover range will take its place. In short, it seems to me that I see many effects of the ten or more generations of close confinement of their ancestors. They are the greatest rangers I ever owned, the pendulum is swinging the other way with them. We have culled them down till those which remain are a very good looking lot, and they are now laying fine sized eggs of good fertility. Eggs shipped to Connecticut March. 1st showed 90 per cent.

As to the inbreeding feature, I think that with four or five separate flocks and a little toe-marking, or the use of leg-bands to identify the chicks, we can go a long time without needing to buy new blood. Vigor, size, strength, and symmetry of form should govern the selection of breeding stock for the farm. For show-room purposes nearly all breeders use close matings.

It will soon be time for spring chickens on the Wash-■ ington market, and we have plenty of Blue Labels for those who have something good to sell. Vienna, Va. W. A. SHERMAN.

EXPERIENCE WITH THE REVERSIBLE CUTAWAY DISC PLOW AND CUTAWAY HARROW.

Editor Southern Planter:

In March Planter Mr. Robin Taylor asks about the Clarke cutaway disc plow. In the fall of 1907 I tried the Reversible cutaway disc; the Double Action cutaway harrow, and the Smoothing harrow of the Clarke Co. My soil is stiff red clay, with stones of all sizes in it. The large stones have mostly been removed from my fields, but the small' ones—no larger than one's fist—are there, ;md probably will be until we iget down to one and two-acre farms.

I tried the plow right along with a 10-80 Syracuse— three horses to each. My horses are grade Percherons, weighing 1,200 to 1,400' pounds. The result of the test was that the Syracuse, cutting ten inches deep, did not pull my team as hard as the Disc cutting down but seven inches. In fact, I could not get the latter to cut deeper than seven inches. The small stones under the surface were continually riding the plow up or stopping the team. I found also that cornstalks would gather—several of them—in the notches of the disk and "ride it up." Hence, unless the pea vines are green and tender, I believe they would do as the cornstalks did. I still own this plow, amd if any one can tell me how to make it do good work in my land, I will appreciate it, and will tell your readers of the results. In light soils—sand or loam—I would expect this plow to do finely. The D. A. harrow and the Smoothing harrow are fine. I knew the resistance of my soil, and hence ordered with both Disc plow and D. A. harrow the three-horse rigging.

I have never tried the D. A. harrow on pea vines or such, but Mr. C. F. Ball tells me he used his in a patch of smart-weed which was as thick as it could grow, and nearly as high as his horses, and his harrow chopped them up like a cutting-box.

Will some one tell me at what stage of the proceedings

is the proper time to apply nitrate of soda to a potato crop? J. BRAD. BEVERLEY.

Fauquier Co., Va.

Part of the nitrate of soda should be used at planting in the furrow, and later a top dressing on each side of the row after the plants have well started growth, will greatly help them.—Ed.

SOUTH AFRICAN APPLES.

Apples from South Africa are being sold by the Italian fruit sellers on the streets of Richmond. The apple is a large one, almost in appearance like a Johnson's Fine Winter, but a deeper color. The apples are bought in boxes of ninety-six apples, which cost the retailers $3.25, and they are retailed at five cents each. The apple is a fine flavored, sweet, juicy one, with flesh much of the character of the Winesap in firmness. It is packed well and attractively, is uniform in size, and sells readily. This beats Oregon competition with our fruit.

STANDARD APPLE PACKAGES.

A bill is now before Congress providing for standard packages, grades and marks for apples which go into interstate commerce or to foreign countries. It is H. B. No. 28,338, and was formulated, by a joint committee of apple growers, sellers, shippers and exporters. The size of standard bushel boxes and baskets and of barrels is clearly stated, though the shape of the box and the basket are not specified. A bushel box or basket must contain not less than 2,342 cubic inches. All closed packages of apples which contain less than the standard quantity must be marked "short" in letters an inch high. Provision is also being made for grading apples that go into interstate or foreign trade in closed packages, sizes A, B and C being defined. "U. iS. Standard" packages must contain the full legal quantity of apples of one variety, must be marked with grade, the name of the packer, the place where grown and the name of the variety. There are good and sufficient reasons for all these requirements, but without going into details we may say that the best reason of all is that they will help the producer of good fruit to secure a better market for his product both at home and abroad. American apples are discriminated against to the tune of a dollar a barrel now, as compared with Canadian apples whose quantity nnd quality are guaranteed by similar methods. All apple growers should get behind this bill and help push it forward to enactment. There can be no radical objection to it except from those who do not want to put on the market an honest product properly packed.

PERCHERON HORSES. In the article in last month's issue in which Mr. John F. Lewis spoke of the Percheron horses in regular use on his farm, the types made him to say that his favorite four-horse team averaged 1,975 pounds each. Mr. Lewis wrote 1,775. Whilst Mr. Lewis has no objection to 1,975 pound horses, and does not think them any too heavy at that weight for doing good work, yet he does not desire to have it appear that he is now working horses of that weight when such is not the case.

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The Horse.

NOTES. By W. J. Carter. ("Broad Rock.') Affairs pertaining to the Virginia State Fair, to be held at Richmond during the week of October 4th to 9th, are progressing in a very satisfactory manner, and the outlook Is most favorable for the greatest exhibition of live Btock, agricultural and mechanical products yet witnessed within the confines of our grand old Commonwealth, as mightbe looked for with such men at the head as Henry Fairfax, President; Alfred B. Williams, First Vice-President; Samuel Cohen. Second Vice-President; M. A. Chambers, Secretary; Oliver J. Sands, Treasurer; Mark R. Lloyd, Assistant Secretary and General Manager. The following committees have been appointed by President Fairfax:

Executive.—J. T. Anderson, Chairman; M. C- Patterson, Sfinniel Cohen. I^. O. Miller and Legh R. Page.

Racing.—J. T. Anderson, Chairman; Legh R. Page and V\'. .T. Carter.

A;lvertising.—L. O. Miller, Chairman; J. G. Corley and W. J. Carter.

Live Stock-—H. C. Stuart, Chairman; M. C. Patterson and Henry Fairfax.

Grounds and Buildings.—Samuel Cohen, Chairman; R. W. Spilman and M. C. Patterson.

Farm Products.—H. C. Stuart, Chairman; M. A. Chambers and Henry Fairfax.

Merchants' Exhibit.—J. G. Corley, Chairman; L. O. Miller and C. H. Ratcliffe.

Finance.—John M. Miller, ,Tr.. Chairman; Oliver J-Sands and M. Allen Chambers.

She was bred in 1908 to Plrateer and is with foal by that son of the imported stallion. Pirate of Penzance. A very clever looking three-year-old is the brown filly, by Tournament, from Dixie Paradise, the daughter of Jim Gore. Virginia Fairfax is a bay filly, two years old, full sister to Tilly Warren.

A charter has been granted the Virginia Racing and Horse Show Association, of Richmond, by the State Corporation Commission, with a capitalization of $5,00'0 and shares at a par value of $50 each. A greater portion ot the stock has already been taken and the subscription list includes some of the leading citizens of Richmond and other places in the State. The first annual spring race meeting and horse show will be held in May and the dates allotted by the Jockey Club of New York are for Saturday (he 15th, Monday the 17th, and Tuesday the 18th. The program will Include siome half dozen horse show features each afternoon, with one or more steeplechases and three flat races daily. The ofiBcers are: James W. Graves, President; John Landstreet, Vice-President; John W. McComb, Secretary and Treasurer; Mark R. Lloyd, Assistant Secretary. The Horse Committee is made up of E. B. Sydnor, Chairman; John W. McComb, and James W. Graves. Race Committee W. J. Carter, Chairman; B. D. Harris and [James W. Graves. Advertising Committee, John Landstreet, Chairman; Hathan Simon and W. J. Carter. Transportation Committee, Mark R. Lloyd, Chairman; B. H. Ellington and \V. O. Young.

'n the stud at Warren Park, near Clifton Station, Va.. J Gibson Kemper has Monterey, the big and handsome thoroughbred son of Montana and Martenette, by imported Martenhurst, with some well bred brood mares. Edwin "H. was selected as the stud companion of Monterey, but that son of Sain and Free Pass has been sold to parties North and the bay stallion has again been placed in training. Monterey won some good races during his turf career and was second in others, among them the $10,000 Crescent City Derby at New Orleans.

Warren Park is a fine old homestead of over three hun-dif d acres in Fairfax county, less than thirty miles south of Washington, on the line of the Southern Railway. The place was formerly the home of the Otis family, relatives ©f the late Gen. U. S. Grant, whose Arabian stallion. Linden, a present from the Sultan of Tudkey, was Vent on the farm at one time. Mr. Kemper is a student of pedigrees and he has fgith In the future of Monterey as a sire of winners both on the flat and over the jumps, .though with his fine size and muscular development the California bred son of Montana should get hunters of rer^l class when mated with good .general purpose mares. Among the brood mares in use at Warren Park are Pixie,' Paradise, a good looking chestnut daughter of Jim Gore and Sunny Land, by Fonso. She is ei.ght years old and was bred in 1908 to Monterey; Molly Morris is also a chestnut in color and ten years old by Magian. from Trin"-nh. 1>v iiMi-vt.. i Pi-rim. ^-^ '-' '^ '"'■'• i~- ^'-— -t.

Affong other trotters owned by A. Slagle, at Emporia, Virginia, is the five-year-old bay stallion. Judge Palmer, 2.261/4, by Bursaro, 2:29%, son of Busar, 2:17%; dam Rose Wilkes, by Windom, second dam, by Walker Morrill, sire of Lamp Girl, 2:09, the fastest of Virginia trotters. As a three-year-old this son of Bursaro, then known as Dan Patch, Jr., 2:27%, his name having since been changed "or registration purposes, trotted a dozen or more good, -ame races and proved himself to be the stoutest hearted of Virginia-bred colt trotters. Last summer Judge Palmer took part in one race and won it, and during the Emporia '^air, which followed Richmona, he started three times in contests of broken heats taking second money twice and •vinning the other. Judge Palmer will be campaigned this season and, if he keeps right, the nice looking bay stal-ion should be a good horse ia l::s class

Recent foals at the Ellerslie stud of R. J. Hancock & Son, Charlottesville, Virginia, include a black filly, by l^atherless, dam Mermaid (dam of Merry Day, Eonic, Runic, Minolaur, Eonite. etc.), by St. Blaise. A black filly, by Fatherless, dam Tillie (half-sister of Russell) by Eon. Both mares were bred back to Fatherless.

The yearlinss at Ellerslie number sixteen and are by fatherless. They include full brothers to Red River, Workman, Workmaid, T. S. Martin. The Clown. Aiken, 'liles and half-brothers to Lucy Marie; a brother in blood ") Mistiss, Marster, Orphan Lad and Alice; sister to Pater, Rillie Hibbs, Nellie Burn. Balla, and half-sisters of Merry ""nv. Enni?. >rinotnnr. Keator. .Mfonso and .Andrew Mnck.

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THE SUFFOLK PUNCH. Editor Southern Planter:

The writer has had more than a passing interest in the Percheron-Suffollt-Punch discussion going on through the columns of your valuable Journal. From earliest boyhood, when they were known as Normans, until after finishing my agricultural course at Purdue University (Indiana), I was made very well acquainted with Perche-rons on my father's farm, as he bred them and owned some of the best stallions, which, by the way, we worked. I am particularly fond of Percherons and believe them to be great farm horses. Possibly they are at times and under certain conditions too great and likely somewhat inactive, but it must In fairness be borne in mind that they were "many years ago the wonder of the world for their specialty of rapid draft—their ability tO' move a heavy load at a rapid gait." However, with many breeders draft development has been and is carried to an extreme in Percherons in an attempt to cater to the city demand mentioned by friend Lewis, and because of the competition with the' heaviest draft breeds. Quality has been sacrificed to size and the effort is made to cover defects with flesh, thus securing still more size. The farmer wants an easy keeping, compact, strong, active horse and should remember that a multitude of defects are covered by fat, should he be buying, also that disappointment may follow insufficient judgment and care in his selections. The large and coarse, beefy condition is not usually accompanied with endurance and ability to withstand hot weather while doing hard work.

Notwithstanding my early training and love for the Percheron and later devotion, too, for that matter, for no longer than two years ago I was financially interested in breeding and using them on the farm, I was taken by storm a few years ago by what proved to be a second love. At one of the greatest shows of England I saw the first Suffolk Punch horses—very much like Percherons except, in color and possibly that they were not quite so large, but all horse—close, compactly built animals, with very round bodies, short legs, possibly lighter, but excellent bone, "like steel," as some writer has described the bone of the Suffolk Punch. I was so interested in this very active type of heavy agricultural horse that I resolved to know more of the breed and two years later on visiting Europe again, saw them in their native counties—Suffolk and Norfolk. I saw plenty of them, nearly always quite uniform and always chestnut (sometimes varying in shade) in color and almost invariably with silver tail and mane. The color is a very attractive feature and it is a fact that they show very great prepotency in transmitting it in- cross breeding and grading, so I am informed. These animals were at various kinds of farm work, and stallions were in the furrow, at the wagon, or any place that horse power was needed, working in the most docile, quiet manner with mares.

In America I have seen and examined most carefully about twenty-five head and have yet to see one with bad feet or legs. It has occurred to me that the Suffolk Punch cross on Percheron grade would be quite advantageous. From the standpoint of the formation of the Suffolk Punch and the foundation of the Percheron, there

is every reason why the former should be somewhat lighter in weight, being a little further removed from the Hiack Horse of Flanders breed.

Because of the Percheron blood in the origin of the Suffolk, crossing or top grading on Percheron grades would be a far removed sort of line breeding that I predict would be advantageous, particularly in view of the further fact that Percherons are most frequently inbred to no small extent. On the ordinary farm mares of Virginia the cross would unquestionably be satisfactory and produce good, short-legged, clean-boned horses of ample size for all farm work.

There seems to me to be room for all worthy breeds and if there is perchance one better than the Percheron for the farmer, let us by all means have it. Candidly,

I must acknowledge to being much pleased with the Suffolk Punch and should try the breed had I the opportunity. As I have had the pleasure of seeing the fine pair of mares, Blondy and Silver, I am glad to supply the Southern Planter with a good cut of them. Though somewhat dim, they can be studied quite well from it.

The breed has not had the opportunity to be tried out in America, since specimens could not be secured for importation at figures that promised much profit to importers. In Canada and Australia, where they have been used for sixty years, they are very popular. The claims for them are very strong as a farmer's horse^ They look the part to me. WALTER J. QUICK,

Blacksburg, Va. Prof. Animal Husbandry, V. P. I.

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THE FARM HORSE OF LOUISA COUNTY, VIRGINIA.

Editor Southern Planter: <

The farm horse of Louisa county, what it is, and whatj it should be. It is a scrub, generally speaking. It should be a much heavier horse. The horses of Louisa have been crossed with running and trotting blood until we have a horse that is entirely too small and unfit for the work of the farm. A horse of this type on the farm is a genuine scrub, so far as work is concerned, they having too much fire and being too small and light. I do not agree with Mr. Hunter in his article in the March

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issue of The' Planter. He thinks the proper breeding for a farm horse is to cross the ordinary farm horse with a thoroughbred something after the type of Doswell's Orion. Such a cross might do in the light sandy soils of Tidewater, but I have my doubts there. I know they are too light for the heavier soils of this locality. I have owned two horses of the Orion strain; they were tough as rawhide and hard as nails. One of them was the most powerful horse for his inches I ever saw and could move more pounds to his weight than any horse I ever knew. I have driven him from Richmond to Bumpass, a distance of over forty miles, in four and a half hours, with two men in a road cart, without apparent fatigue. I have a mare of that cross now that I work on the farm that can show a three minute gait and she has never been used as a road, horse. But, notwithstanding, they are too light and too restless and can't be trusted. I have tried the Denmark breed also. They are fine saddlers and have more weight than the Orion type, but not enough for the improved farm machinery of to-day. I think the Suffolk Punch offers what the farmer wants. They have better feet and legs than any of the large breeds and are as nimble as cats. As, however, we have none of this breed in this locality, I think we could not do better than raise from the Percherons, which are much more active than they appear. Almost every farmer likes a good saddle and driving horse and can afford to keep one, and for those desiring such a horse they will find the Denmark strain all right. Those desiring a strictly farm horse should breed their mares to a Suffolk Punch or Percheron or some of the large breeds. One objection I have to the majority of Percherons is their color, it being usually grey. But if parties have colts or horses to sell in the large cities this color is a recommendation as marking them as Percheron grades. It will not pay the farmers of Louisa county to waste time and money trying to raise trotting and running stock in the hope of raising a blue ribbon winner, for they haven't the time, money or opportunity to develop such colts. Those only should raise these types of horses who have the money and time for such work. Colts of the light breeds are much more liable to accident than the larger breeds, owing to their disposition. I think farmers will find mules the team they want In this section, but they want suitable mares to raise them from; that is to say, mares of size and substance and weight. To get these we should breed to some stallion of the large type, keeping our mare colts for the farm, and then the day is not far distant when the farmers of Louisa county can have as good teams as those to be found in other counties.. We have one or more Percheron stallions in the county, and therefore there will be no difficulty in making this cross. Louisa Co., Va. DAVID SWIFT.

A DOG FOR PROTECTING CHILDREN.

Editor Snuthern Planter:

Excuse me for taking strong exception to your advice to "Subcriber." page 207, of a Collie as the best dog for protecting children on the way to school, but as I have bred and kept dogs for fifty years for protectors, I think T know something about that matter.

The Collie is apt to be both too nervous and too fidgety for a protector, a bobtail sheep-dog being a much steadier dog and would be much better, and his terrific fighting ability is another merit. In fact, the single-coated bobtail is the best farm dog I know, but, unfortunately, fashion has made the long, woolly coated type "the thing," and Ifound single-coated ones unobtainable.

But for a wise, safe, determined, protector dog always get a short-headed, wide-skulled one. Be he the most unmitigated mongrel ever whelped, if he has that head the chance is that he is a good protector, yet not given to attack unless attack is required.

I really think that the horrid looking bulldog, withal his crooked legs and shockingly undershot muzzle is the best guard dog, his very looks intimidating rough characters, and no dog is more affectionate and amiable. The mastiff is not so forbidding in appearance, but his great size is a valuable item for a guard. Of mastiffs I have owned so many that I am positive that the protecting disposition is more engrained in them than in any other dog. • I distrust the St. Bernard as a breed for protectors, although I have known of a few that were perfect. The Great Dane, as he shows himself at dog -shows, is not at all a trustworthy guard, yet the most perfect Chevalier Bayard in dogs I ever knew, was my Dane, old Dan, thirty-four inches high at the shoulder, weighing 200 pounds. The Bull-terrier, even the "Fox-terrier," is often a good protector, and the Irish, Bedllngton, Airedale and lioston terrier are the same.

Helen Keller's experience with mastiffs is a case in point for protecting children. Her first was killed under a stupid ordinance of Sheffield, Ala. It was rather undersized, but the negroes used to get across the road when they saw that one coming; the second was larger, and when she met the darkies' eyes they would get over the fence on the other side of the road; this one contracted rabies in defending Helen's sister from a rabid dog. The third was a very big fellow of about one hundred and seventy-five pounds, and the "American citizens of African descent" used to get to the next fence across the field when tthey saw Eumer coming.

Remembering this, I fancy that the best dog for your "Subscriber's" purpose will be a mastiff. Although I regret to say that I have been out of dogs for so long that I have no idea of where one can be had.

I would advise against buying a puppy, for dogs are but dogs after all, and while certain general traits are more common in a certain breed than in others, no trait is constant in any breed. The craziest "fool dog" I ever saw was a bobtail. I have known savage mastiffs, collies no more good with stock than a pug, hounds that would not trail, and terriers to whom a rat was the most inoffensive creature. WM. WADE.

Whilst we do not pretend to be any sort of authority on dogs, as we never cared for them sufficiently to keep them except so far as we needed them for handling sheep and cattle, and for this purpose always kept Collies, yet our experience with these Collies warranted us in giving the advice we gave. A well trained Collie we always found to be a most reliable protector and the most intelligent of all animals. We have had Collies that could do almost anything but talk and seemed thoroughly to understand whatever was said to them.—Ed.

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Miscellaneous.

WARNER'S GOLD STANDARD YELLOW DENT CORN.

Editor Southern Planter:

I have pleasure In sending you a photograph of my Go Id Standard Yellow Dient Seed Corn. The twelve ears shown were selected for the Champion Breeding Plot, which yielded 128 hushels of shelled corn per acre.

I have been breeding this variety since 1893. Sixteen years of scientific selecting and breeding has developed this high yielding strain of seed corn. The first great law of reproduction is that like begets like. This is particularly true with this corn, where the inherent tendencies have been developed for generation after generation.

As you are doubtless aware, I have advertised this corn with you for several years, and it is giving igreat satisfaction to a large number of your readers. If there are any who desire to know my method of corn breeding and selecting, I will very cheerfully mail them a circular containing them.

H. W. Warner. Corn Specialist, Easton, Md.

AGRICULTyRAL EXPERIMENT STATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES.

Editor Southern Planter:

The work of the agricultural experiment stations of the United States is second to none carried on by our government in importance, but because results, in the very nature of things, are often forthcoming slowly, there is much misapprehension as to the work done.

When we remember that the census of 1900 shows that lO.OCO.OOO of the citizens of the United States are engaged in agricultural pursuits, the $7,000,00'0 expenditure of the Government on agricultural experiment stations during the decade just preceding the taking of the census, does not seem large. Especially varied and costly are these experiments, owing to the fact that the area of the United States embraces within its borders all climates from the arctic to the semi-tropic, and so produces almost every agricultural product of importance 1-nown.

The early history of agriculture in this country is a subject of great interest, extending, as it does, from the! foundation of agricultural societies in the latter part of the eighteenth century to • the passage of the act organizing the State Experiment Stations. As early as 1796, our first President recognized the need of a nationa} board of agriculture, as is shown in his message to Congress of that date. Interesting as it is to trace the gradual development of this germ thought to its full growth and fruition as we realize it now, we must pass on to the passage of the popularly designated Hatch Act, by which $15,000 a year was given to each State and Territory for the establishment of an agricultural experiment station. These stations were by law made departments of the land grant colleges, established by act of Congress July 2, 1862, except when the State in question had operated an agricultural experiment station prior to the passage of this act. In such cases the State Legislature was left free to decide on the location.

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There are now sixty-vOiie stations in the United States doing work as varied as the conditions by which they are surrounded, but trying to establish principles by means of patient, minute and laborious experiments, the results of which it will take years to show in their fullness, but which, when accomplished, will add to the permanent assets of the realm of knowledge. The fact that those who come after, will reap the benefit in great pan of these endeavors, gives a savor of altruism to the work of experimentation of this character that should be a powerful stimulus to effort.

But it is not in the establishment of absolute principles alone that the agricultural experiment station justifies its being, but also as an ever ready bureau of information to the farmer, who is free to call the resources of its trained staff of workers to his aid, at any moment by means of the mails or a personal visit.

The progress of experiments is recorded in published bulletins and reports issued at frequent intervals, and one Important branch of the work of the station is the distribution of these publications through the mails to farmers and all who are interested, entirely free of charge. The mailing list of the stations aggregates one-half million names, but when we recall that ten million people in our country are agriculturists, we wonder why the nine and one-half million are not sufficiently interested to have their names put on the mailing lists.

This consideration brings us to the subject of agricultural education, which is hardly within our subject, but is so closely allied, that we cannot resist some consid eration of it. Both from the standpoint of economics and education, this subject is each year receiving more attention, but it will be some time yet before a realization of its vital importance is brought home to the American people. Much is being done through our universities and colleges to promote education in agriculture, but still the fact just cited, that nine and one-half million out of the ten million agriculturists in the country are not even on the mailing lists of the stations, would seem to show that until more attention is paid to the subject in the common schools, a vast virgin field remains unaffected by these efforts. Too often the son of the farmer of small means gets all his little education from the country public school, and unless something is done through the medium of these schools to reach every child the principles evolved at so much cost at the Experiment Station at the land grant college will advance but slowly. One might as well try to heat a room by building a fire on a shelf near the ceiling.

But to return to the work of the stations: Their investigations comprise "studies in physics; chemistry;

botany; zoology, and especially entomology; geology; meterology; agronomy; horticulture; forestry; physiologj' (of man and domestic animals); zootechny (animal industry); veterinary science; agrotechmy (agricultural technology), Including especially dairying and rural engineering. There have been results of great value achieved along all these lines, but the most important probably has been that accomplished in regard to dairying. The Wisconsin Station has led along the line of improved apparatus for determining the fat content of milk, and

now it is the universal practice at creameries to pay for milk by determining, while the farmer waits, the amount of butter-fat in the milk he brings. This is, of course, a much fairer method of valuing milk, and has contributed enormously to the improvement of dairy herds by the elimination, as far as possible, of those types of stock yielding milk poor in fat.

The successful introduction of new crops has been accomplished through the instrumentality of the experiment stations of the West, and great improvement has been obtained also in the quality of the staple crops of the country, such as wheat, cotton, tobacco, etc.; notably in Nebraska, where winter instead of spring wheat is now grown, having proved a much more remunerative crop in that region.

Experiments of great value on economical means of producing pork have been carried on in Arkansas and other Southern States, and the storage of forage crops in silos has been brought to a great degree of perfection, materially reducing the cost of maintenance of a dairy lierd.

The subject of fertilizers has received much attention, and the conservation of moisture in the soil, new methods of tilling, in States west of the Mississippi, as well as the actual reclamation of alkali lands in California and elsewhere have made arable, lands that were thought unfit for cultivation.

Another important phase of the work of the stations has been the aid they have given the farmers in their fight against crop pests of all kinds, and also in the treatment of diseases of plants and animals.

Still another thing to be placed to the credit of the stations is the great improvement in the agricultural press of the country. Editors have no longer to depend upon reports of work done at foreign experiment stations, but can draw from sources purely American, by means of the wide and free distribution of the publications of the stations. The farmer is no longer satisfied with one-man theories, but demands the results of theories put to the actual test by trained experimenters. Not many decades ago, the pioneers in agricultural science had to bear the stigma of being "book farmers"—a term of scorn and derision. But since the book farmer has increased the value of land in one State alone, in thirty years, from $20.00 to $150,001 an acre, and in the same State increased the actual production of corn in one year thirty-seven millions of bushels, representing $12.-000,000, the scoffers have abdicated the seat of the scornful, and are eager to learn how such results are produced.

These sound like big figures, and they are, but ours is a country of colossal size, and the very extent of its broad acres tends to keep us from realizing the necessity of husbanding our resources. But economists tell us that the problem of an adequate food supply for our rapidly increasing millions will be the most serious question confronting us before this century has half run its course.

We have much to learn yet about improved methods, and intensive farming. When we read that Japan supports 45,000,000 people on 10.000 cultivated square miles,

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[April,

and we compare these figures with our own, we have food for thought.

The best means of disseminating information about improved methods of agriculture among the unreached millions of our rural population is one of the immediate problems of the present, and falls directly within the scope of the work of the experiment stations and agricultural colleges. Much is being done, but much more needs to be done, to make the masses of our population realize that "the soil is the foundation of all wealth and prosperity." As our population increases our material wealth must be added to from the bowels of the earth and from its soil. There is much that is false in the way manufacture and trade are regarded, and this wrong point of view accounts in large measure for the overcrowding of our urban centers and the exodus from the farm.

Therefore, the land grant college and the experiment station have a mission of vast importance to discharge to our country,—a mission of vast economic importance, which the next twenty years will show, and upon the success of which depends much that is vital to the American people.

MARY G'. LACY.

Experiment Station, Blacksburg, Va.

THE TURKEY BUZZARD.

Editor Southern Planter:

It is my opinion that one of the greatest means of spreading disease amongst domestic animals has been overlooked. I wish to call attention to the turkey buzzard—the legally protected scavenger of the country. Unless the buzzard is possessed of som e disinfecting quality, or by nature his body is a nonconductor of disease germs, it is the greatest of all disease disseminators. We are well aware of the fact that the buzzard covers a great territory, possibly hundreds of miles. It may feed on hogs that die from cholera, getting the disease igerms all over itself, and the next time it touches the ground, may be a great distancfe away in a pasture field, where a herd of swine is being pastured, and wherever it lights the disease or any disease with which it has come in contact will be left to infect other stock. I think the buzzard should be killed. I am sure it Is the greatest spreader of disease that can be thought of. Let us not depend upon buzzards to clean up dead carcasses, but let us get laws enacted requiring all dead diseased animals to be buried deeply or destroyed by fire. I would like to have the opinion of others who may possibly be better posted than I am.

Nelson Co., Va. R. K. ANDERSON.

We are entirely with you in your desire to see the Turkey buzzard exterminated. Several years ago we tried to induce the Legislature of this State to deprive the Turkey buzzard of that protection which it now en-Joys, but failed utterly to convince the members of the necessity for this course. We cited facts within our own knowledge where" hog cholera had undoubtedly been

brought to healthy herds of hogs by these birds, and it is no doubt within the knowledge of scores of our subscribers where only in this way could the disease have been brought into their herds. It is a reflection upon our civilization to rely upon these birds to destroy disease breeding carcasses in a country where live stock breeding is carried on and large herds and flocks are kept. In a country in a state of nature, where settlements are sparce and domestic animals are few, the Turkey buzzard fills a recognized and felt want, and is one of those wise provisions of the Almighty to keep sanitary conditions wholesome for the few dwellers there. In a country in a high state of civilization, with great flocks and herds, the healthy condition of which is essential to the welfare and prosperity of the people, the law should require that every dead animal should at once be either burnt or buried deeply, and burning is infinitely safer, as it has been proven that the disease germs from buried anifnals can be and are brought to the surface by the worms and infection of stock started again. The law does in some cases require burning or burying, but it ought to be made a penal offense In every case to allow dead carcasses to remain for the buzzards to eat and spread disease broadcast over the land. Instead of protection there should be a premium offered for the destruction of the Turkey buzzard and then they would soon become so scarce that man for his own protection would destroy or bury the dead animals at once. We hope our subscribers will take up this question and press it on the attention of the members of the Legislature.—Ed.

PROMOTION OF DR. CHRISMAN.

Dr. W. G. Chrisman, of Albemarle county, Virginia, formerly a student of the V. P. I., and at present a member of the staff of the Virginia State Agricultural Department, inspecting dairies, etc., for Professor W. IX Sauttiiers, has just been appointed State Veterinarian of North Carolina, succeeding Dr. Tait Butler, who resigned on the first of last January.

As a private practitioner, Dr. Chrisman had a fine practice in Charlottesville, Virginia, at the time he was appointed on the Virginia Agricultural staff, and in this last position. Professor Saunders says his work has been most satisfactory, and that while he hates to give him up, yet he is delighted to see such a promising young Virginian appointed to this responsible position in North Carolina.

Dr. Chrisman was elected Secretary of the Virginia State Medical Veterinary Association in January, 1908, and was re-elected to that office in January, 1909. While the many friends Dr. Chrisman has made in his native State regret to see him leave, yet they are none the less delighted to see him making such rapid progress in his chosen profession.

Dr. Chrisman will enter upon his new field of labor April 1st, and will reside at the State capital, Raleigh.

J. G. FERNEYHOUGH.

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HENCH'S

20th Century Steel Ball Coupling Cultivator

With Double Row Corn Planter and Fertilizer Attachment Complete

on One Machine. Parallel beam movement, pivoted axle,with lateral beam niove-mentin connection with the movable spindles, or either independent of each other. Centre

lever Jor spreadtnir * - -el

and closlne shovel

Order

. . In>™f*'»'«'y •"* - gangs. The raoslcomplete Introduce them for next .eason. °„,tfvator on the market, having every possible movement of the shovel gangi.

The HENCH & DROUGOLO CO. Mfrs., York, Pa.

POTATO DIGGER

The Hoover

Does perfect work. Fully guaranteed. Write for illustrated catalogue of Diggers, Pickers and Sorters.

THE HOOTER MKO. CO., Box No. 69 , Avery, Ohio

Tr&nsfer points—Boffalo, N. Y.; Detroit, Micij.; Milwaukee, Wis.; St. Paul, llinn.; Harslialltown, Iowa; Idaho Falls, Idaho; Portland, Oregon; Spokane, Wash.; Winnipeg, Man,; Unniilton, Ont.

Make Your Own Fertilizer

at Small Cost with WILSON'S PHOSPHATE MILLS

Prom 1 to 40 H. p. Also Bon* Cutters, hand and power lor the poultrymen; erlt and shell mills, farm feed mills, family Rrist mills, scrap cake mills. Send for our catalog.

Wilson Bros., Sole Mfrs., Easton, 1^

A.K.ROBINS &C0.

CANNING MACHINERY

CANS CASES LABELS. 726 E.PRATT ST.BALTO.MD.

)S2

THE SOUTHEEN PLANTEK.

[April,

DOUBLE VALUE

from your manure. Cover two acres

to every one by hand, spreadingr

with better results and do it as

fast as 10 men with forks.

Manure Spreader

an^ Palverlzep

is the only low down spreader, easy to load. Handles all manure, pulverizes thoroughly, spreads evenly, thick or thin, as wanted. Ri;^ht width to straddle corn rows. Solid bottom box, scraped clean every load. Automatic drag return, safety end-?ate, double drive Send for catalog L and know every reason why you should owa a Miller modern spreader. LVewark BlxicUine Co., Newark, O

BUoney ilaker

for every TOBACCO, CABBAGE, TOMATO AND SWEET POTATO GROWER

PBant Setter

takes away all the tedious work of setting out a field of plants. Tliis Setter is a ^reat labor saver, a crop producer and a drought breaker. Is worth TEN TIMES its cost to every farmer and g^rower in the 17. S.

Send us your name and address and we will tell you all about It and what It will do, price, etc.

COUNTY AGENTS WANTED

MASTERS PLANTER CO

1 < So. Water St . Chicago, III

3K to 200 H. P.

f/v?mtm

8t«KBi, GaHoIlne and 'Water Power

PlMera, Shingle mila and Com MUIa.

WB PAT THB3 FRBIGHT.

Send for Catalogue.

DeliOacli Mill Mfg. Co.. Bridgeport, Ala.

Box 265

Artistic Home Capering at 1-3 Cost.

We'll show you how to paper a room yourself— we'll send you plain, practical directions. We'll show you how to buy bright, attractive papers at manufacturers' prices. You'll save at least two-thirds of your usual papering bills. Three rooms will cost you only what one did formerly. Samples and Instructions free. Write for them today. Pern Wall ^'8per Mills,

Dept. S. Phlla.

LEARN VETERINARY DENTISTRY

end tt2AAA " y"'' ^^'^ tearh you at borne !□ make ^^%M^W\M three months of your spare time by illustrated lectures aud grant diplomft with degree.

Porticuiars Free. Detroit Veterinary Dental College. Detroit, Mich.

Fortunately, the great scientific laboratories of Parke, Davis & Co., of iJetroit, Michigan, are not dependent upon political preferment. They are maintained by public-spirited men who are willing to make liberal expenditures in the interest of scientific research rendering immeasurable service to physicians and veterinarians in their study of the cause and treatment of disease. Pharmacists, chemists, pathologists, veterinarians and bacteriologists, with every means and apparatus at hand that money can command or ingenuity devise, here co-operate to clarify and advance the science of medicine.

An immense "Experiment Station," comprising 365 acres, with many building and hundreds of domesticated animals for the experimental study of disease and the testing of vaccines, antitoxins, etc., is operated by Parke, Davis & Co. in connection with their scientific laboratories.

Anthraxoids, by means of which cattle and other animals exposed to infection with anthrax can be safely vaccinated against it, as was possible when the attenuated (heat-dried) germs were used for the purpose, were developed in the laboratories of Parke, Davis & Co. Here are aiso produced many other products to aid the veterinarian in the treatment of animal diseases—such, for example, as blacklegoids for the prevention of blackleg; antitoxins for the prevention of tetanus, influenza, etc., and agents for diagnosing tuberculosis, glanders and other diseases.

In these laboratories during the past ten or twelve years many thousands of dollars have been expended in the study of hog cholera, and a serum for its prevention was produced, but it has not as yet reached the high standard acknowledged by the firm as due to the veterinary profession. Parke, Davis & Co. will not, under any circumstances put upon the market any laboratory preparation until it has been subjected to the most careful and painstaking tests years of scientific experimentation in the field sometimes being required before a product is offered oommercially. The house is in constant communication with hundreds of prominent physicians and veterinarians in all parts of the country who act in the capacity of experimental co-workers, assisting in the erection of the great edifice of scientific medicine. The results of this work are not monopolized, but freely published for the benefit of others, and the latch-string of the laboratory door is always out for those who have a legitimate interest in the work tnat is being carried on therein. We may well say that Parke, Davis & Co. have done much to prevent the invasion and ravages of diseases that caused consternation among our ancestors.

OASDEN AND SUCTION HOSE

CRESTLINE BRAND

GUARANTEED

Not a Defective Section Ever Returned.

mctMmzss

"Congress" is one of our many good brands of guaranteed Garden Hose.

Price, 5-ply %-inch, per 50 feet, $6.50; per 100 feet, $12.50.

5-ply, %-inch, per 50 feet, $7.50; per 100 feet, $13.50.

This Hose will last for years—^A record breaker during 1908.

"Lilac" Red Cover Hose—Guaranteed.

Price, %-inch, per 50 ft., 5-ply, $5.00; 6-ply, $5.50; 7-ply, $6.00.

%-lnch, per 50 ft., 5-ply, $6.00; 6-ply, $6.50; 7-ply, $7.00.

All above prices include couplings.

We have cheaper brands of Guaranteed Hose also.

SUCTION HOSE—^WIRE LINED. "Crestline Emerald" Brand.

SMOOTH BORE.

Green Woven Canvas Cover, 15, 20

or 25 ft. lengths, best made, 2-lnch,

per ft., 40c.; 1-inch, per ft. 22c.

COMMON SUCTION HOSE.

15, 20, 25-ft. lengths.

2-inch, per ft 24c.

1-inch, " " 17c.

%-inch " " 14c.

We do not sell cheap material that will not prove satisfactory.

TANK PUMPS FOR THRESHER-MEN.

We make and furnish them complete with or without hose. Crestline goods are always right.

PUMP LEATHERS. VVc Tvlll send to any address (post-

pnid), two 5-lnch Cup Leathers to

fit any make of tank pump for

45c. in stamps. Immediate Shipment—Express or Freight.

LfOok us up and ask us about any thing in Pumps or Hose. Address,

THE CRESTLINE MFG. CO.,

PUMPS-SPRAYERS-HOSE-TOOLS CRESTLINE, OHIO.

THE SOUTHERN PLANTER.

383

See That Generator?

Bad,

Be able to tell your blue dress from t)Iack. See while you are trying, without straining the eyes. No smoke, no globes to break or lamps to clean, or fall or explode; no danger of killing you while you sleep. Less work per month than one lam.^). Costs less than Kerosene, and always ready at all time's. We will send you one ready to put up. Write us to-day. IDEAT. EPAVORTH ACETYLENE CO., «?0 Eliler St., JOHNSTOWN, PA.

F&rquhar Threshers

Especially ad.ipted for (he .''onthpm trade. Thresh ami clraii all kinds of grain—wheat, oats, etc.—perfectly. Can lie rnn with small steam entiines or other lifrht power. Simple hut substantial and light rnnning. Writfabout our new pea thresher and shredder. Also tlireshes oafs and rice.

Hamlsomeos-pace Catalog of engines, boilers, saw mills and threshers mailed free.

A. B. KARQllT.Ut CO., Ltd., Fox 902, Tork, Pa.

A COW PEA THRESHER

Invented at last! This Is not a "pea huUer" but a .-nachine that will thresh Any variety of cowpeas from the mown vines not breaking over 1 or 2 per ■cent of the grain. Write for catalog.

KOGER PEA & BEAN THRESHER CO. MorristOTi'ii, Tenn.

CATTLE INSTRUMEN 1;

are "Easy to Use,' no veterinary experience necessary. Atewdti-rs invested in our goods will save i hundreds of dollars. Pilling Milk Fever >iOuifil (or Air treatment recommended by U. S. Agricultural Dept.. price $3.00. Silver Milk [ Tubes Snc!; Tent Slicier $1 50; Garget Outfit $4.00: Capon Tunis. Horse and Cattle Syringes, all sent pr<--paid with full dirTtinns. Write for free Booklet. 2X >; 0. P. Pir.l.lvn SiKOW iK, Arch -^t.. riiilndrlpMn. I A

BY MAIL

HARNESS

You can buy custom-made, oak-tanned harness direct from our factory, at wholesale prices. Save the dealers' profits. All our harness guaranteed. Money back if not satisfactory. Write for illustrated Catalogue O. and price list. Every farmer should have this booklet.

THE KING H.VRNESS COMPANY, 16 liOke St. Owesoi Tioga Co., N. Y.

DRINKING WATER USED ON

TRAINS IS SAFE—SO SAYS

HEALTH DEPARTMENT.

Report of Investigation Made at Request of Governor Swanson.

Richmond, Va., March 22, 1909. (Special.) That the drinking water used on most of the railroad lines in the State is safe and sanitary is the substance of a statement given out here to-day by Governor Claude A. Swanson. Some weeks ago, the Governor requested the State Health Department to make an investigation of this matter, with a view to remedying any trouble that might be discovered, and he to-day received the report of the health authorities.

The investigation made at the instance of the Governor was thorough and comprehensive, covering every railroad and steamboat line doing passenger business in the State. In most instances the companies have been supplying their passengers with water from the regular city supplies at their respective terminals, and this water was known to be safe. In a few cases reported to the Governor water is supplied to passengers from sources not known to the health authorities, but these have been investigated and the results are satisfactory in most cases.

The only source of possible complaint was found to be in the method of handling ice for the water on some of the- railroad trains. Most of the roads had regulations on the subject, but it was manifest that these rules were not altogether observed. These roads will shortly receive certain recommendations regarding the handling of ice, which will insure safety to the passengers.

The Governor is much pleased witli the facts as shown in the report from the Health Department, and with the conduct of the railroad companies in giving the desired information.

SCRUB PINE FURNISHES WOOD PULP MATERIAL.

The long neglected and despised scrub or Jersey pine, growing on the •abandoned farms and cut-over lands of the East seems destined at last to have reached its rightful place as a material of value, according to the results obtained through recent pulp and paper making tests at the United States Forest Service laboratories in Washington.

While there is a considerable amount of this wood standing as timber, it has heretofore been used only in a very desultory fashion, and then mostly as fuel. About SO'O.OOO acres, or twenty per cent, of the wooded area of Maryland, and about 130,000 acres, or ten per cent, of that of Virginia, is covered with fairly dense stands, while the broad range of the tree extends along the Atlantic seaboard from Southern New York to South Carolina, and back over the

FinePlowing

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IF Interested in farming, get our farm paper. You can have it one year absolutely FREE. This paper will give you some new ideas. No other paper like it. We will also send you three mighty nice booklets which show all kinds of plows at work in the field. There are plows from many foreign lands, also pictures of modern walking plows, sulkies, gangs and immense steam plows that turn forty acres a day. Get posted. '-^

W' Hired Help Costs Big Money^J

Your land is high priced and hired help expensive. There is only one way to make big money—use implements 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 hardest job. Then you begin to know that quality counts.

There is comfort and profit in having good plows. You can take pride in owning a John Deere — the standard plow of

the world for two generations. ^g^

si

v\\] send you the farm paper and^^^fc '^the three booklets free. All you have to^ is to write us a postal card and ask for

Package No. 5

Mention the number of the package then you vvill get exactly the rignt stuff.

DEERE & COMPANY, MGLINE,Ill

FIX voiiS ROOF

50 Por Vkftiiaro ~^® "■'" guarantee to put any ^ K CI >3l|UArc. old leaky, worn-out, rusty, tin Iron, steel, paper, felt, gravel orshinprle roof In perfect condition, and keep It in perfect condition for 5o per Bquare per year.

The Perfect Roof Preserrer, makes old, worn-out roofs new. Satisfaction ^uarao-tee<l or money refunded. Our free roofing ' book tells all about it. Write for it today.

The Aodenoo Manufacturing Co., Dept. 61 Eljrria, Ohio

square per year.

Roof-Fixi

Please mention the Southern Planter.

THE SOUTIIEEN PLANTER.

[April,

;WEIOFFER

Special ^ inducements ] for the [next sixty days i on

DISC ^i

HARROWS

CORN PLANTERS

RIDING CULTIVATORS

LAND ROLLERS

AND

SPIKE HARROWS

Your failure to get our prices will be a losing deal to you.

Seay-Dillard Hdwe. Co.

BLACKSTONE, VA.

SAVE MOHEY ON ROOFING

buys full roll (108 sq. ft.) of strictly high 1 grade rooting, either rubber or fliot coat surface, witli cement and nails complete.

Most liberal offer ever made on first class roofing. Better than goods that sell at much hi gher prices. Don't spend a dollar on roofing until you have seen

$|.00!

UNITO ASPHALT ROOFING

You send no monay when you order Unito Roofing. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Write today for free samples lor test and comparison and our unparalleled selling plan.

UNITIb FACTORIES CO. Depl. Ae.Clevoland, O.

Tell the advertiser where you saw his advertisement.

Appalachians to Central Indiana where its largest specimens are found. While a number of mills have used scrub pine for the manufacture of soda pulp and ground wood, no plants have ever operated the sulphate process. Scrub pine might have been used to good advantage long ago, but for the fact that it did not seem to the practical paper-maker even worthy of trial. By only slight changes of the regular cooking treatment, which is ordinarily accorded pulp wood in the sulphate process, however, it is now yielding a pulp product which has been favorably commented upon by numerous members of the paper trade as a substitute for spruce sulphite in the manufacture of newspaper.

When a forest of scrub pine is matured, a fully stocked stand will yield thirty to forty cords per acre, when economically harvested according to the practical forestry methods. At the present time there is practically no general use for the timber, outside of fuel, although a coarse lumber Is made of it aiid it is sometimes used for fencing. An evidence of the low esteem in which this pine is held is the price which the Maryland wood brings when delivered— $5.75 per cord. The wood itself is of a light yellow color, with a white sap wood. It is light in weight, is brittle and coarse-grained. While it is fairly durable in contract with the weather, its weak structural properties offset any advantage this might give.

One advantage for paper making which scrub pine is said to have is the fact that there is considerably less loss in barking it than with ordinary spruce. The logs are, in general, regular and not difficult to handle. The wood yields quite easily to a sulphite treatment when using an acid cooking liquor slightly stronger than the ordinary mill strength. In treatment the wood requires from eight to eleven hours, while the maximum steam pressure has not been over sixty pounds (temperature 150 degrees centigrade), and, in some cases, it was but fifty-four pounds. The unbleached pulp in these experiments is of a light grayish or brownish color, not unlike that from spruce, of course depending upon the cooking conditions, which can be controlled to suit the manufacturer.

The fiber is strong and durable and is about the same size as that of spruce, being possibly a trifle broader. The yields obtained by the Forest Service are about the same as are obtained from the woods now in general paper making use. The amount of screenings is very low. Scrub pine presents no serious disadvantages in regard to bleaching. A good white color is readily brought about. While some of the cooks require more bleach than is ordinarily practical or econom- I

BaRGAiniS f/V

2nd Hand Machinery,

THE WATT PLOAV COMPAIVY, Rirhniond, \a>

I—8 H. P. Geiser Engine and Boiler on wheels in flrst-clnsfs condition.

t—^10 H. P. Geiser Engine and Boller on Tvheels. In fine condition.

1—13 H. P. Anieit Engine and Boiler on Tvhcels.

1—25 H. P. Dctnchod Engine.

1—8 H. P. Fricli: Eclipse Engine and Boiler on steel nheels in good condition.

I—20 H. P. Detached Engine and 1 2R H. P. Boiler in first-class condition.

I—20 H. P. Geiser Engine and Boiler on wheels and 1 No. 1 Geiser Saw Mill with 50-inch saw and all belts. This outfit has ojkXy been in use for about 18 months and is in first-class condition.

-inch, 4-sidPd IMolder.

r—20-Inch Planer, Matcher and Mold-er complete wit hconntershaft and pulleys.

"U'e invite your correspondence and will gladly give any Information desired.

THE WATT PLOW CO.,

1426 f. main St., Richmond, Va.

MONIROSS METAL SHINGLES.

Will last a lifetime. Unaffected by (rost or fire. Stormproof. Light. Durable. Handsome. Inexpensive. Won't

crack or scale. Quickly laid with hammer and nails; no soldering. Write to-day for

our illustrated free catalogue which

explains them fully.

MONTROSE METAI> SHINGLE CO., 113 Erie St., CAMOEN, N. J.

EASTLAKESMINQLE

Rocliford Engine Work*.

Dept. 35, Rockford, 111. 37ie Engine that will please you '

Before you contract or buy write lor our propoil. tlon Neat-nobbT-Handy.

All Styles 3 to 80 h. p.

BOILERS AND ENGINES.

16-horse Traction, $300; 12-horse, $250; 10-horse, $200; boilers and engines from 2 to 100 horse, all styles and sizes, new and second hand; 4-horse gasoline eiigine, $75; 8-horse $150; 12-horse, $200: Saw-Mill, $135; boilers, tanks and smoke-stacks. CASEY BOILER WORKS, SprlngfleM. O

cauvassing for us to

■■Al/I' ■■/Mll'lf cauvassmg lor us lo

MAKE MONEY ii^^^VyTuo^x

or start iD business. P. B. R. MOiS, Chase City. Va.

THE SOUTHERA^ PLANTER.

385

5MIP riE YOUR

OLD METALS

H1DE5 RUBBER

SCRAP IRON

Car Lots a Specialty

50,000

Hides Wanted

Write for Frioes.

BfttiB&otion Guaranteed.

No CommiBBimiB.

Ohbckb Sbnt Samb Day Fkbight Bills Abb Mabebd Paid.

Clarence Cosby,

B«Ubllsh«d 1890.

RICHHOND, VA.

LaBGBBT DbALBB IV

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

REFERBNCES:

National Bank of Virgina, Bank of Richmond, Bradstreeta and Dan,

ical, yet by cooking properly the umount of bleach required has been brought down to o60 pounds or thirty-five per cent, bleach per ton of pulp. By slightly changing the conditions of treatment, it is believed that still lower percentages may be employed while the color produced remains the best white.

Practical paper-makers who have seen this product are almost unanimous in claiming it to be a strong, long-fibered and hard-wearing pulp, which seems especially desirable for making bag, news and wrapping papers. Several even went so far as to say that it would make fine bank or ledger papers when properly handled, and that this wood gave one of the best fibers which has been prepared from pine wood.

THAT SEPARATOR YOU'RE GOING TO BUY.

There are so many separators made and advertised nowadays that it's pretty hard to decide on the one you want.

You've heard of the Davis separator and the Davis family. It's hard to tell which Mr. B. J. Davis is the most proud of, his nine big sons or the separator—they are all objects to be proud of.

We print herewith a cut of the family. The names from left to right are B. J. Davis (father, age ninety-eight), Daniel, Joseph, Alfred, John, William, Thomas, Stephen, Albert, and George.

These boys were all raised on one farm and now they are all interested and most of them actually engaged in manufacturing and selling the Davis separator. For twenty years these boys have been making their separators and they have always kept It right up to date in every way.

Their separator is reliable in every detail and, because they are all working together and turning out an enormous number of machines, they are able to sell the Davis separator at an honest price.

It pays to buy honest goods, made by honest people, at an honest price.

If you are going to buy a separator send for the catalogue of the Davis separator and ask for a half-tone print of the father and his nine big sons.

Address B. J. Davis at 56B North Clinton St., Chicago. He may be up on the farm where he spends most of his time, but, in that case, one of the hoys will take care of you.

Easy as Roller Bearings

There's

an Axle

lubricant

so full of

slip, and go,

and smoothness,

that it takes the

place of roller

bearings for all

kinds of horse-drawn

Vehicles. It's

MICA

AXLE GREASE

And a trial of it means constant use ever after. Mica Axle Grease luon't make an empty wagon push a horse up hill; but it <voill make a big load draw no end of per cent easier.

It's a friction killer and a horse saver; and 't wears so well that it's hard to remember tlie date of last greasing.

Ask your dealer for M.ca Axle Grease and try it.

STANDARD OIL COMPANY

(Incorporateitt

A Great Dlacovery. DROPSY

CURED with vegetable remedies; removes all symptom of dropsy In 8 to 80 days; SO to 60 days effects permanent cure. Trial treat-(ment furnished free to every sufCerer; nothing fairer. For circulars, testis menials and free trial treatment write DR. H. H. GRDBX'S SONS, Atlanta, Ga.

FARM USES

of CARBOLINEUM are completely explained In BULLETIN 20 covering Kinds and Habits of Lice^ The care of Silos, Preservative treatment of Shingles and Fence posts and the care of Fruit and Shade Trees. Mailed free upon request.

Endorsed by U. S. Department of Agriculture.

Cnrbolinenm AVood Preserving Co., 346 'West Droadway, New York<

Please mention the Southern Planter.

THE SOUTHERN PLANTER.

[April,

PAGE FENCE

Quarter-Centennial or "Jubilee Year/* Write for Jubilee Catalog— FREE

The oldest Woven Wire Fence on the niiirket is now celcl>rfit-ing itrt 'Mubilee Ytiir.*' A hiind-( Fome "Jubilee EUition" Fence ) Book hnfl been, issued for wide-. spread distribution. ' Gives tiie wonderful history of Page Fence—tel la how it la mado of genuine High-Cnrbon, Batic 0;>en - Hearth Steel, in Page Mills and Factories. Explains the remarkable elasticity and resiliency of the wires. Shows how i';i^e Fence is woven on Pa;,'e Looms into the most enduriug wire fence the world has ever known. Fully illustrated. Handsomely printed and bound. A book every reader of th's paper should own. Don't buy fence at any price until you read the *'Jubilee Edition" Page Catalog. Send now 1

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This is unquestionably the ^WS^^^VRM I most eubstautial fence made ^^V^^^^^^

owing to the high carbon coiled ^■S^M^^H I springsteel wire and the Superior ^^^Hl^^MI ^ Heavy »VelghtLockusedinlt3Con^gW^IJ M ^^^ stniction. ^^IHMB

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Mfli^ Low Prices Easy Terms ^H ^^ ^ttk Write tor Free catalog. ^

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Z3ALL BEARING

AUTOMATIC

GATB

WNOT THE BEST '-■AUTOMATIC OATE ON TBE MARKET SEND IT BACK

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$100 that the 20th CE3NTURY FARM GATE

^^

H. M. MYERS,

Sole owner Pats.

U. S.

Is th« most simple and practical farm gate ever produc ed. Do you want to make money? LodI, Ohio. and Canada.

TBE NEW CENTURY GATE

CAN be opened or closed from — r i i,/

your wagon by small child.c|j^Sfif!ft^^ K^ a No springs, no hinges, no cast'^^j; '^ .---i<c.-F— -^^ ings, no cog-wheels, no wood. 'VVi?.irir r^'.-_\.V', ,' no saging. no draging. So sim- X'.Y^1~^- i-HAV ii-'' pie. 60 easy, no harness and almost no machinery; nothing to wear out or break, nothing to be getting out of fii. Not alTected by drifting or deep snow, sleet or ice. Always ready for us.^ iind will last a life-time. A model of simplicity, durability and cheapness. If there is no Agent in yo.ur locality, please write New CeoUiry Steel, Wire i Inio Works,

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A JOURNAL OF EASTERN TRAVEL. Article No. 5. Nikko.

Our first railway trip was to Nikko, in the mountains, a hundred miles distant, and a six-hour trip. Though slow the service was admirable, although railways are comparatively new in Japan. Our trunks were checked through from the hotel, as in this country. Porters in red caps took our bags at the station and found us our places. The trains are small and the coaches have seats facing each other lengthwise. There are first .second and third class compartments, the latter always crowded to its utmost capacity with working people who seem to move about a great deal. The ordinary Japanese ride second class, leaving the first class for high caste people and foreigners. We had a - first class compartment to ourselves with a boy to wait on us. A trim little conductor, very oflBcial and important, collected our tickets and locked us in. The whistle blew, and we soon found ourselves beyond the city, in a rich, highly-cultivated country and had an opportunity to make many observations from the slow moving train.

Japan depends largely on agriculture, though only three-sixteenths of her soil is arable. The land descends from father to son and is divided into such tiny patches that the process of tilling the soil is more like gardening than farming. Men, women arid children work in the fields, largely with their hands. The implements are clumsy and antiquated. An ancient ox sometimes helps with the plow. Rice is the universal crop, but it is a luxury to the common people, who use millet and the coarser grains for food. Rice is raised laboriously, sown in a bed, transplanted by hand, and kept under water until harvest time, so the peasants work it in mud up to their knees. It was strange to see it in every stage of development in the same field, some being planted whilst the other was being harvested and beaten. The rice straw is used for thatching roofs. In olden days a nobleman's wealth was estimated by koku of rice. Other grains abound, also garden products, especially sweet potatoes and the daikon, a coarse radish, the staple article of diet of the people. Mulberry is grown largely in the silk producing districts and tea in the hills. The patient labor of the peasants makes the country like a landscape garden. Not a weed or rock is to be seen. Even the forests are swept and raked by the faggot gatherers. The poverty in the overcrowded country districts is distressing, but never squalid. They are too self-respecting to let go. Beggars are rarely seen.

The stops at the station were long and afforded an excellent opportunity for studying the crowds of natives who stood placidly on the platform.

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We usually got out and walked while the boy wiped up the floor and dusted the already spotless compartment. Boys ran up and down with dainty little boxes of rice and eggs, which they noisily announced as "Bento, bento" (food). Others had papers, beer and tobacco for sale, and we nearly got left at one station whilst buying a cake of sweet chocolate. Our boy hurried us to our seats just as the train was starting. To amuse us, he got out a pile of illustrated papers, printed both in Japanese and English. The pictures were excellent and the English text highly diverting. When we got hungry, the boy arranged the tea table and drew us fresh tea, though we could buy a pot of tea, cup and all, out of the window for three sen. He then fixed the lunch which we had brought with us. We could not buy foreign food en route and we were not yet equal to rice and chopsticks. We had a great deal of food left and pressed it on the poor children at the stations, but they shrank from us in alarm, so finally we had to throw away the food.

As we approached Nikko, the country grew wild and grand. Mountain range piled on range and for miles the train followed an avenue of giant cryptomerias, a kind of gray pine, common in Japan. We were expected in Nikko, and were escorted by numerous porters to the pretty little Kan-aya hotel, situated on a high hill above the village. Every thing here was clean, cozy and bright. From the terraced garden at the back there were exquisite views of the surrounding country. The Colonel and Sara came by a later train, and when I say, "we" in Nikko I mean four of us and pretty Nellie Bly. The Japanese say, "Don't say magnificent until you have seen Nikko,"; our guide called it "a triumph of art and nature." Despite this extravagant praise, we were not disappointed. The temples, tombs and shrines are the glory of Japan, built in the time of her best art, with a richness and gorgeousness that has not a touch of the vulgar. Their situation around fine groves and parks, enhances their beauty. The whole surrounding country was beautiful with wooded slopes, closing in the valleys, between towering mountain peaks. Bold streams dashed down the mountain side in water falls and cascades and flowed down the valleys. The aututnn foliage was in perfection, the maples dazzling red and gold and the whole country a blaze of color. Japanese poets sing of maple leaves as "Nature's brocade," and Yama-shima, the nymph of the mountains, is said to weave this brilliant color for her abode. The foliage is so surpassingly beautiful at Nikko that travelers from all over the world flock thither to see it in the autumn. To do so we made an excursion into the

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We started in rickshaws with two atashi each for the steep mountain climbing. It was a glorious October day, and our spirits rose as we flew along the valley and began to ascend the mountains. On the road we met with many maple pilgrims who had climbed over the hills in quest of the most brilliant leaves. Bands of school boys, with their teachers, and hundreds of sailors from the fleet passed us with armfuls of boughs. "Chaya" (good morning), they cried out, throwing us branches of maple or decorating the rickshaws with It. Every one was in a good humor that day.

We found rest houses at frequeni intervals along the road, where we would descend from the kurmuras and walk on, leaving the boys to overtake us. Half way up a shower caught us in one of these, in view oi a pretty cascade, and during the rain we spent our time watching it and listening to the chatter o f the attendants. We were constantly trying to puzzle out the people. They are built on such a diflEerent plan from us, both mentally and physically, that we gave up trying to understand them, but it was none the less a joy to be with such good tempered and polite people. They are perfectly unemotional and quite free from nerves. Every one seems happy in that atmosphere. As we went on, Nantaizan, the mountain sacred to the Wind god, rose ten thousand feet above us. Thousands of country people make a pilgrimage to it annually to appease the god and protect the crops from his ravages. Higher up in the mountains, we turned aside to see Kegan-no-Toke, a waterfall, two hundred and eighty feet high. Swollen by the fall rains, a great torrent of water dashed in spray into a wild gorge below. We had now reached a level stretch of road, and passed through a grove of trees covered with hanging moss and lichens. A few minutes' more and we were on the borders of Lake Chuzengi, a pretty sheet of water, full of lights and shades, with reflections of the mountains and trees. Sail boats ply on it, and it is surrounded by the houses of numerous foreign residents from the East. People flock here from China and even from India to escape the torrid heat. The hotel Is half native and half foreign. It has the most beautiful painted doors and screens, and is enclosed in glass galleries, which add to their comfort In winter. All houses are built facing the sun.

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venison from the mountains. As we were lunching some friends from home walked in and took the table next to us, to our great surprise, as we thought they were in America. After tiflBn we all decided to return to Nik-ko together by a trail down the mountain and with our coolies, we made quite a procession and a very amusing one, as we filed down the narrow path. Our rickshaws were carrier each by one coolie on his strong little back. We employed our two extra coolies, one to pull, and the other to push us down the mountain, like the Bedouins at the Pyramids of Cairo. The boys thought it a great joke but we found it a great assistance. Along the way we got some exquisite views into deep, mossy glens, and came into the valley just as the sun sank behind the mountains, leaving a trail of gold.

The deep, sweet tolling of the temple bells drew us thither, and we set out to visit them with a guide who had grown up under their shadow, and who knew them well. In them a complete epitome of Japanese art, history and religion is revealed, and they are quite incomprehensible with-

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Shogunate, and Hideyoshi, the Napoleon of Japan. The old Samurai spirit still lives among them, and their religion teaches them to place no value on their life, so they die willingly for their country when the occasion arises.

With the opening of the country to the world by Commodore Perry's treaty, the discontent with their condition increased until it culminated in the overthrow of the Shogunate, and the firm establishment of the Mikado's power. Old Japan, which owed its civilization and its institutions largely to China, passed away, carrying with it the old manners and customs, and even the national dress. New Japan, possessed by a craze for things of the Western world, adopted most of its institutions with her wonderful initiative power and infused into them her own national genius. To-day she has, in many particulars, outgrown her teachers, and stands strong and self-reliant amongst the first powers. She holds a unique posi tion between the white and dark races, an Oriental people, imbued with ! the Occidental spirit.

"TRAVELER."

SEND FOR THIS BOOK. All of our readers who are thinking of buying anything in the buggy or harness line should write the Elkhart Carriage & Harness Mfg. Co., at Elkhart, Indiana, and ask for one of their 1909 catalogues. It is an interesting book and will certainly be the means of saving you some money on your purchases, because they sell direct to the user at factory prices—which means the actual cost of the material and making plus their small profit. For thirty-six years this Company has sold on the direct-to-the-user plan. Their success has been wonderful, but it only goes to show that honest goods and honest prices are always appreciated. They also have a large line of pony vehicles and harness and one of the best motor buggies on the market. Send for one of their books before you buy elsewhere anyway.

Lynch's, Va. Editor Southern Planter:

Seeing so much about the good qualities of chickens among your writers, I would like to say a word about S. C. Rhode Island Reds. I have some pullets hatched July 1, 1908. They commenced laying in December, and have continued up to the present time, March 17th. Among the eggs of these pullets, one weighed more than four ounces and had three yolks. Can any one beat that? I never had such before and I have been enquiring among my neighbors and haven't found any one who had seen such. F. H. BOARD & CO.

Sometimes a broken heart means a mended conscience.—Lippincott's.

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A Thankful Woman

Helenwood, Tenn.,

Jan. 4. 1908. Dr. B. J. Kendall Co., Enosburg Falls, Vt., Gentlemen:—I have found your Kendall's Spavin Cure the best medicine in the world for Sprains, Enlcu-gements of Joint* and Deep Seated Soreness. I must say I am thankful for what your medicine has done for me. Yours respectfully, Mrs. A. ]. Daniel. Horsemen everywhere know the power of

The Great Horse Remedy It has never had an equal as a cure for Curb, Splint, Spavin, Ringbone, Sprains, Swelling* and all form* of Lameness.

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Lump Jaw

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POE AND CHOPIN. Mary Washington.

As this is Edgar Poe's centennial year, the attention of the literary world all over the globe, has been strongly drawn towards him of late, and innumerable essays, estimates and reminiscences have been called forth in reference to him. Following the trend of popular thought at the present hour, I will lay before my readers a parallel which I fancy I can clearly trace between Edgar Poe and a famous musician. It seem to me there is as much similarity beteween the genius of Poe ad Chopin as can exist between two distnct branches of art, viz.: Music and poetry.

In Chopin's delicate, arabesque woven compositions, with their rich and peculiar ornamentation, exquisite finish and undercurrent ^of deep sadness, I find a striking parallel to Edgar Poe's poetry. Some writer says that the wail of an extinguished nationality runs through Chopin's music (he was a Pole), and it seems to me that the wail of extinguished hope and joy underlies Poe's poems. A vein of deep, almost morbid sadness pervades the works of both these great artists, a brooding regretfulness whose refrain is "nevermore."

Bach of them worked within a limited range, but showed an exquisite finish of detail within that range. Chopin never composed an opera, nor an oratoria. The only work of magnitude he ever attempted were two concertos, which were far inferior to his shorter works, and which met with no success. Edgar Poe never wrote an epic nor any long work except a crude drama called "Politian," and a poem called "Al Araaf," written in his early youth. Indeed, he was opposed on principle to long poems. He asserts In his essay on "The Poetic Principle" that no such thing as a long poem exists, and that the Iliad itself was iclearly intneded to be taken as a series of lyrics.

The closest scrutiny of Poe's poems will not reveal to us a careless or inharmonious word or phrase, neither can we find a defective chord, nor unskilful combination of notes throughout Chopin's music. Every word and phrase with Poe and every note and chord with Chopin have a beautiful finish and rich ornamentation, and in the works of each you will find a total absence of the commonplace. A musical critic speaks of "Chopin's admirable harmonic progressions, which lend importance to many a slender subject and redeem his slightest effort from triviaity." The same is essentially true of Poe, whose admirable euphony and beautiful choice of language lend a charm to the most unimportant of his writings. The demonstrations called forth recently from all quarters of the globe where literary culture is known prove conclusively how firmly estab-

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PETERSBURG, VA.

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Please mention the Southern Planter.

lished is Edgar Poe's reputation as a genius of the first order, and show that he belongs to the world's real "Hall of Fame."

I will not claim to be original in drawing a parallel between a poet and a musician. The idea was suggested to my mind by a comparison drawn between Milton and Handel, in a rare old book, "Butler's Reminiscences." The author says that "Dr. Johnson's tribute to the poet Milton might be applied with equal accuracy to the musician, Handel. He sometimes descends to the elegant, but his element is the great. He can occasionally invest himself with grace, but his natural port is gigantic loftiness."

For Shakespeare there is no peer in the musical world, unless it be Beethoven, not that there is any parallel between their respective styles and methods, but they have this much in common—that they stand on the summit of supreme genius. Taine says there are three men of such transcendant gifts that they are seg-gregated from all the rest of the human race, and these three are Shake- j speare, Michael Angelo and Beethoven, i

HOW TO BANK BY MAIL.

Attention is invited to the full pa^...' advertisement of the Planters' Natici.-al Bank, Richmond, Virginia, elsewhere in this issue. This bank is one of the oldest and most conservative in the South and has the largest capital and surplus of any National bank south of Washington. Mr. A. S. Cherry is Manager of the Savings Department and will take great pleasure In mailing a very handsome booTilet describing the workings of the bank and giving instructions how to bank by mail. Send at once for this booklet.

DdSPERSAL SALE AT LEWTSIANA FARM.

On Friday and Saturday, April 9th and 10th, there will be offered the greatest opportunity that ever came to Virginia buyers in the shape of a dispersal sale at Lewisiana Farm, at Fredericksburg, Va. In the offering will be included about 150 head of some of the best Jersey cattle in America, including the great $11,500 bull, "Stockwlel." There are also rattling fine young bulls, also noted cows and heifers, which are not only great performers at the pail, but winners in the show ring also.

In the horses are included the great stallion Bow Axworthy 2.22^/4 and some daughters of Robert McGregor, Bingen. Kremelin. Arion, Advertiser, etc., all of which are bred sires ot note.

In adition to these there will be offered about forty head of driving, general purpose and work horses.

In the sale will be Included an ex-

SEED CORN

FOR. profitadle: crops

Boone County Special $1.80 bu..

White Majestic 1.80 bu.

Diamond Joe, 2.00 bu..

Prices include best new bags.

S. B. HEIGES, Dorset, Va.

SEED CORN

I offer a choice lot of carefully bred and selected Seed Corn, yielding as much as ninety bushels per acre. Alsa a choice lot of Cocke's Prolific Bnsilagr*' Seed Corn.

Write for prices, stating quantity. J. B. ANDREWS,

Drawer 762, Roanoke, Va,

NEW WARD BLACKBERRY

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Fine stock of plants for spring delivery Send for descriptive circular of the-Ward. For other nursery products, send for general price list.

FRED. SHOOSMITH, Chester, Va.

: SOJA BEANS :

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E. W. JONKS IVURSEilY CO., AVoodlawu, Vu.

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THE SALZER SEED CO., LaCroxe, Wis.

JAMES RIVER FARM

Of 222% acres, for sale, 80 acres low grounds, well fenced and cross fenced with woven wire, land In fine state of cultivation, all buildings in first rate-shape, old colonial house of 10 rooms^ 4 porches, slate roof, rock foundation,-Air farming implements go with place. Price $8,500—no less. Terms to suit.

Address C. H. GARROD, West View,. Goochland, Co,, Va.

TO RENT

A 300 ACRE

Farm in southern Albemarle on favorable terms to a working farmer. Land- in good condition and spring plowing done. Or would hire g'ood farmer. Address with credentials. Opportunity, care Southern Planter.

FOR SALE 20 ACRES, 91,400.

ONLY one mile to railroad station, near neighbors and school; wood for home use; 40 barrels apples in season, 2-story stone house, corn crib, chicken house, stable; old age forces sale and price is cut to $1,400; part cash and easy terms. See page 14 March Bulletin of Farm Bargains. Copy free. Dept. 2703. E, A, Strout Co,, Land Title Bldg.,-Philadelphia, Pa,

Please mention the Southern Planter.

THE SOUTHERN PLANTER.

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CRITTENDEN'S

VIRGINIA REAL ESTATE AND LOANS OFFICE

North-WeHtern Vlrgrtnla Farms for Sale. A Land of Sanshine, Short Winters and Healthy Climate,

No. 166 B. Must be sold within the next 90 days, at any reasonable sacrifice. It contains 600 acres of choice and productive land, 300 acres in Blue Grass sod. Improved by substantial buildings, 2 orchards, finely watered, 3 miles from railroad. Immediate po--sesslon. If you are Interested in a fine stock farm, write for confidential description.

No. 167 B. Nice little farm, 100 acres. of good productive land, 2 dwellings and other necessary buildings, fine water, 1% miles from church, school, and store; 8 miles from railroad. $25 per acre.

No. A. 21—230 acres, some timber, (23 per acre; buildings out condition; farm has been generally neglected but very good value at the price. 2 miles fron^ R. R. station, church, stores and Bchool. Easy terms.

No. A 23.—156 acres, at $50 per acre. Klevation 450 feet. It would make one of the show places in Loudoun—fine home for hunt club, 2 miles from R. R. station, good water, comfortable buildings.

No. A 24.—346 acres. Fine stock farm, finely watered, good land, average buildings, plenty of timber, church and school near, 6 miles from R. R. Price, on easy terms, $10,000. Good value.

No. 103.—One of the most attractive agricultural homes in Loudoun County. Beautifully located in a highly desirable neighborhood. Fine buildings, all modern improvements; two tenant houses, plenty of fruit; well watered and fenced. This farm embraces 486 acres of highly productive land that may be utilized along any agricultural lines with profit. % mile from R. R. Price $34,000. Terma to suit.

No. 111.—Fine stocK farm of 290 acres, borders on the Potomac river, 150 acres river bottom that will make 20 barrels of corn per acre, the up -land will produce not less than 10 barrels. Fine spring; good fruit. Comfortable buildings, 200 ft. or more above the river—very healthy, 5 miles from R. R. This property is a bargain, at $60 per acre on very easy terms.

No. 161.—This attractive proposition of 428 acres, borders on the Potomac River, 200 acres of river bottom, 100 acres well set Blue Gras's of long standing. The buildings are beautifully located overlooking the Potomac River for miles, all in good condition; modern house containing 11 rooms— standing well back from the river on a prominent elevation. Large and ample outbuildings. The soil mostly good strong clay, producing well. 8 miles from R. R.. with good stone road for most part of way. Price $25,000, half cash.

Farther and special descriptions furnished on application. All business transacted through this office guaranteed to be as represented, and strictly confidential.

Del.. S. CRITTENDEN, Broker, Ashbnrn, Va.

cellent lot of farm implements, dairy appliances, such as will be found on an up-to-date farm. Look up the advertisement and write to the Trustee for further particulars.

GOOD NEWS ABOUT ROOFING.

There is one Important consideration in choosing a roofing that is too often overlooked. That is the consideration of comfort. Will this or that roof hold in the heat, in winter, and keep out the heat in summer? That is an important point to consider. We know how hot the garret is in summer. If a different roof had been used it would not be so hot. This question becomes of even more importance in the case of live stock and poultry quarters because the stable or poultry shed temperature has a direct bearing on milk yield or beef production or horse health or egg production and the temperature of these quarters Is not so easily regulated as in our homes.

On these grounds especially the roofings and sidings made of asbestos seem to be in a class by themselves. No other material can compete with asbestos as a nonconductor of heat and cold. We have been sent a few interesting reports from users of J-M Asbestos Roofing and Siding that ought to be of interest. For instance, about 200',000 square feet of these materials were used to cover the buildings on the great poultry farm at Angola. New York, which is owned by W. J. Conners. Mr. William Hurley, Treasurer of Conners' Poultry Plant, stated that since applying Asbestos Roofing and Siding they have had their first experience of their poultry increasing their laying in cold weather instead of decreasing. Also, for the first time, there was no frost on the utensils in the hennery, though there was no heat save that from the fowls.

Another report comes from the Atlantic Sauab Co., of Da Costa, New Jersey, the largest squab plant in the world. They wrote: "'In our judgment, the nonconducting qualities of J-M Asbestos Roofing and Siding, peculiar to its white asbestos top. make it preferable to metal or any of the black surface roofings for the covering of squab or poultry buiMings."

The H. W. Johns-Mnaville Co., 100 William St., New York, are the makers of Asbestos Roofing and Siding and they have a very interest"ing book which they will mail free to all who request it. They also send samples of the crude asbestos mineral free, •when asked for and these samples are very interesting to those who have never seen this mysterious product. Ask for Book No. 62 and samples, mentioning this paper, and your request will be promptly granted.

HOW ONE MAN SOLD HIS FARM

A Minnesota Farmer successfully tries new long-distance plan of selling.

FOURTEEN MEN IN SIX DIFFER-ENT STATES WANT HIS PLACE.

Makes sale without aid of real estate agent and doesn't pay a cent commission.

Cass Co., Minnesota, (Special Correspondence)—The farmers in this section are intensely interested in a recent experience of one of their neighbors. Mr. H: St. John, who owned a farm in Cass County, has succeeded in selling it at his own price, without the help of a real estate agent and without paying a cent in commission. Ho could have sold the farm fourteen times over as he had that number of men after it. In the course of a conversation with your correspondent, Mr. St. John said:

" Yes, I sold my farm -without any trouble and for the benefit of others who desire to sell, I don't mind telling you just how it happened. I had tried all the usual methods of sellmg, that is by advertising in the local papers and through local real estate men, and had about given up hope of being able to sell, when I happened to come across the advertisement of a concern known as Leonard Darbyshire, Incorporated, of Rochester, N. Y., who make a business of finding buyers for anything one wants to sell. I wrote to these people for their plan and I received a letter from Mr. Darbyshire, the President of the Corporation, together with a copy of their booklet, fully describing a new and up-to-date method of bringing buyer and seller together. Their plan looked good to me and I sent them a description of my farm which they must have sent to prospective buyers all over the country because I received no less than fourteen letters from men who wanted my place and these letters came from Iowa, Illinois, Mississippi, Wisconsin and Nebraska, and otherStates outside of Minnesota. You can imagine that with such a demand I had no trouble in making a sale and I sold my farm to a man in Iowa at my own price, and what's more to the point, I didn't have to pay a cent commission to anyone. I cannot say too much in favor of the Rochester concern and I am delighted with the treatment they gave me. They did everything for me that they agreed to do and I never would have been able to sell so quickly without their assistance because it is hard to sell through an agent, and even if an agent does find a buyer, you have to pay a large amoimt in commission. The system of bringing buyer and seller together origmated by Mr. Leonard Darbyshire, is the best I ever heard of, and he seems to be able to find buyers for all kinds of properties, no matter where they are located."

Mr. St. John's success'in selling his farm'was due to reading a booklet issued by Leonard Darbyshire, Inc., of Rochester, N. Y. This booklet tells of a new and successful method of finding buyers for farms and real estate, business properties, automobiles, patents and in fact almost anything salable. The Corporation issuing this book are not real estate agents and do not accept a penny in commission on sales made by their assistance. Their plan of cutting out the real estate agents has met with remarkable success, and owners throughout the country are quickly availing themselves of this opportunity to sell quickly places which for a long time remained in the hands of real estate agents, who failed to sell, for the reason that the commission which the agent placed upon the property killed the sale.

It is said that Mr. Leonard Darbyshire, the president of this concern, is doing more to assist property ovraiers to sell than all the real estate agents m America combined, and anyone wishing to dispose of anything anywhere at any pnce, would do well to write to Leonard Darbyshire, President, Dept..443A Rochester, N. Y., giving a brief description Of the proi)erty for sale, and asking him to send a free copy of his booklet explaining his new method of selllnsf.

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

THE SOUTHERN PLANTER.

[April,

SELECT OPFERiNQS IN

VIRGINIA REAL ESTATE

$12,000

Contains 200 acres, 60 acres in oak and liickory limber, balance in grass, small portion under cultivation, lies well up and is gently rolling soil, clay loam with clay subsoil—watered with live streams which are fed by springs —driven well and windmill at dwelling place is well fenced. Is situated right on macadamized road, % of a mile from railway station and runs up to corporation limits of a town of about 2,000 inhabitants and about 30 miles from Washington City.

IMPROVEMENTS.—New dwelling, 10 rooms, one bath room, cellar, two large porches, hardwood floors, up and down stairs, hot and cold water to top of house. Is well elevated, affords a splendid view of mountains, large lawn, delightful shade. New barn— main building is 40x70 feet, two wings 30x48 feet each and is two stories throughout, hay fork, covered barn yard 40x50 feet, hydrant in barn, crib, smoke and corn houses are among the outbuildings. Barn was designed to meet requirements of D. C. Health Department for dairy business.

Owner is anxious to sell.

$45 00 Per Acre.

Contains 825 acres, 3% miles from railway station, right on metal road, 300 acres in virgin oak, right at foot of Bull Run Mountains, balance in grass and under cultivation. Large portion in Blue Grass meadows. Public roads on three sides, well fenced, woven wire and stone fencing, locust posts.

IMPP^OVKMENTS. — Thirteen-room mansion, two bath rooms, out kitchen, pantry, two servants' rooms, cellar un der entire house, handsome cabinet mantels in all rooms, open grates, two porches, large lav/n and 120-ft. avenue V4 mile in length leading to road; avenue and lawn delightfully shaded. Foreman's house, 6 rooms, four cabins, :! rooms each; large bank barn, 60x90 feet, large horse barn, 6 box stalls about 30x40 feet. Carriage house with five stalls for horses attached, harness rooms, two chicken houses, hog- houses, corn crib with capacity for auouL i.OUj barrels, nothing could be added to this place that would be necessary. All Improvements are in perfect condition and have been recently painted.

Send for my catalogue of Grain and Grass Farms.

GEORGK W. SUMMERS, Sterling, Va.

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$10.00 to $30.00 per acre.

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Write for our Real Estate Herald with map and full Information.

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In buying a canning outfit the instructions tliat go with it have as much to do with its value as the construction of the canner. The one is entirely dependent on the other, and in order to do the finest work both must be of the highest order. The "Raney Canners" advertised in this paper are the result of many years' diligent research and experiment, with the sole purpose of bringing out the best, both in canners and instructions, so as to enable the puchaser to do the finest possible work from the first can put up.

The great reputation of these canners is built upon actual merit, and the fact that the goods put up with them, even by persons of no previous experience, are the finest to be had, is conclusive evidence in their favor.

It will pay any one who has canning to do, no matter how much or how little, to write the firm and get their catalogue. Be sure to mention this paper.

SPRAYING.

Many a fruit grower has had his profits increased four and five fold by spraying, but there are still a large number who do not seem to realize its value.

Systematic spraying is the only way to get sure results In fruit growing. A good pump and practical preparations are a necessity to successful work.

The Deming Company, of Salem, Ohio, manufacture twenty-four styles of spray pumps and issue a book. "Spraying for Profit," yhich they will send anywhere for four cents in postage stamps. This book gives practl-

i cal instructions and was written by a prominent entomologist.

The Dieming Company will be glad to send their catalogue, wBTch con-

] tains a twelve-page spraying chart,

i free of charge, if desired.

PROTECTION FOR STRICKEN

MESSINA.

What the U. S. Government Sent to

the Ruined City to Shelter Those

Who Were Spared from the

Terrible Earthquake.

Of course, everybody was homeless in the chief city of that beautiful Sicilian Isle, after the most appalling calamity of modern times.

Those who were not killed outright, or carried by vessels as refugees to other ports as soon as tffey could be extricated from the chaotic mass of debris, must have shelter as well as food and clothing.

The Instantaneous and magnani mous aid despatched by our Government to the scene of the disaster, through the American fleet then just entering the Mediterranean on tbe home stretch of Its world-wide tour, was the cause of universal rejoicing because of the quickness and eflSclen-ov of relief afforded to the suffering

RARE BARGAINS

IN

Northern Virginia Farms

A Few Specimens:

No. 172. Contains 315 acres — 40 acre» in oak and hickory timber; 5 mile* from station, situated near the village; considered one of the best wheat and grain farms in Fairfax county. The land Is a little rolling; machinery can be run all over it. The land is all In good state of cultivation; well fenced and watered by spring's and running streams. Improvements are a good 7-room house with elegant shade, good stable and all out-houses in good repair. Price $20 per acre.

No. 194. Contains 175 acres, 25 acre» in good timber, balance is cleared, » acres in orchard in full bearing, good six-room house, old barn, good granary, hen houses, dwelling In a grand oak shaded lawn, spring at house, farm watered by streams and springs, situated on good pike. One hour** drive from Leesburg, Va. Owner Is anxious to sell. Price |3,500.

>jo 208—600 acres Loudoun Blue-Grass land, 8-room brick house, in good repair, farm well fenced, elegantly watered, excellent bank barn, good orchard, fine timber. Price |25.80 per acre.

No. 201—406 acres, Loudoun Blue Grass farm 8-room brick and frame dwelling, elegant repairs, excellent barn 40x100, water in every field, well fenced, .good orchard. Price $10,600.

No. 202—475 acres. Blue Grass land, small 5-room_house^and_is good, well feTTced, excellenT*waterl good small orchard, excellent situation, but buildings are only fair condition. Price $9,000.

j<fo 209.—206 acres, beautiful little Loudoun County farm, 6-room dwelling, beautiful shaded lawn, water In all fields, good fences, land is smooth and level, good barn and outbuildings. Price $6,500.

NO} 210.—273 acres, Loudoun blue grass land, well located in grazing section, excellent orchard, well watered, 6-room liouse and outbuilding* in fair condition. Price $13.50 per acre.

Write for complete description of these properties and Catalogue of other places.

Wm. Eads Miller,

HERNDON, VA.

lOOS).

THE SOUTHERN PJvANTEK..

397

Attention

HOMISSBBKBRS AND INVESTORS

Send for my Map and new Catalogue showing and describing this section of Northern Virglna, and a complete list of all property now on the market, consisting of Grain, Grass, Dairj'. Fruit, Stock, Truck, Poultry, and Blue-grass Farms, Town and Business Places.

I claim and can prove that this section shown by my m^ap, has advantages over any other part of the State. It is not only beautiful and healthy but is productive and progres'slve, and very accessible to Washington and Alexandria cities, by rail and pike which gives all producers a fine home market.

I am not a broker or speculator, I bring the buyer and seller face to face, I have no speculative interest whatever in any property. My business Is wholly on commission which is paid by the seller.

References furnished in my Catalogue. If you can't come, write. W. H. TAYLOR, Herndon, Va.

Conveulent to Richmond nnd Wnsh-Ington.

200 Acres near Ashland and the Electric Car Line— $2,750. Many other bargains in Farm Property.

FRANK H. COX,

Resident Agent, Ashland, Va.

MARYLANL> VIRGINIA

FARMS NEAR WASHINGTON.

Unsurpassed as money-makers; best place on earth for farmers, dairymen, stockmen or poultrymen; mild climate, best markets in country; highest prices; no such word as "Fail" for industrious man. Big bargains here now. 3,500 places to select from. Catalogue free. the: SOUt,B CO., Wastalngtouj D. C.

lArgrest Farm Dealers In the South.

Old Virginia Farms.

Climate and Productiveness unexcelled. Largest sale list In the State. For full particulars and Free Catalogue address

CASSELMAN * COMPANY, RICHMOND, VA,

iVirginia Farms

MOST SELECT LIST, and in all sections of the State.

PREB CATALOaue. K. B. CHAFFIN & CO. Inc.

RicHmond, Va.

Please mention the Southern Planter.

and needy. And it was a cause for pride on the part of every true Ameri-ran tliat our country showed not only its generosity and sympathy for a brother nation in need, but demonstrated the swiftness with which such an errand of mercy could be performed by a progressive people, while Italy's near neighbors looked on with wide-open wonder.

Close upon the quick emergency action to relieve actual suffering our Gov ernment turned its attention to providing comfort and shelter for those bereft of home and habitation. Accordingly an order was immediately placed with the Barber Asphalt Paving Company. Philadelphia, by the U. S. Government for over two hundred thousand square feet of Genasco Ready Roofing for direct shipment to Messina by Government "vessels from the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

The order was promptly filled by this, the largest company in the world manufacturing ready roofing, and the roofing was dispatched to complete homes for the homeless and provide shelter for the shelterless.

A SURE WATER SUPPLY. Every farmer and many villagers are interested in an increase in the quantity and quality of the water supply. This calls for deep wells penetrating below the solid rock to obtain never failing, pure water. Irrigation calls for handling water on a large scale. An opportunity to do profitable work in drilling, pumping and other kindred lines of labor is offered any lof our readers by the advertising of the American Well Works, who have general offices at Aurora, Illinois, and several branch offices throughout the country. Correspondence should be addressed to the home office at Aurora, Illinois, where catalogues and other Information will be furnished on request.

A STARTLING QUESTION.

An eight-year-old youngster recently came to her father after church service one Sunday and astonished him by asking: ' "Daddy, have I any children?"

The old man dropped his newspaper and regarded her In amazement.

"What?" he demanded.

"Have T any children?" doggedly repeated the child.

"Well. I should hope not," replied the father. "May I ask the reason of this startling question?"

"Why, in church this morning." explained the youngster, "the minister preached about children's children and T wondered If I had any."—T^ippin-cott's.

DEDUCTIONS. One never solved the secret of the rose's perfume by picking the petals apart.

IN SUNNY VIRGINIA

1.00 BUYS THIS BEAUTIFUL HOME

(i»1 cct\.\

'K'^j"*'" and 40 acres of best fruit andgen-

erai farming land, including good barn, corncrib, tool slied and chicken liouse, all new. Rich soil, fine climate, good markets, abundant water, excellent neighbors and best schools.

OTHER LANDS $10. PER ACRE & UP.

Cheap Excursions Twice a Month.

Sit right down and write for beautiful illustrated booklet, list of farms, etc., to

F. H. LaBAUME, Agrl. andlndl. Agt. *^pt. 600 Norfolk & Western Ry., Roanoke, Va.

FARMS

For Sale.

If you want a farm to raise grass, grain, stock, fruit or tobacco, buy from us. Chocolate soil with red subsoil. Address

W. W. BARNES & CO.,

LAND AND TIMBER AGENTS,

Amelia Conrthouse, Va.

A charming olil VIRGINIA home In Albemarle County, 540 acres, 150 being rich low grounds. Timber and river boundary. Colonial style brick dwelling, some modern equipment and In first class coiiditlon. All necessary outbuildings. Extended and beautifully shaded lawn. Magnificent views. Station one mile. Great hunting territory close by. Price $25,000.

Illustrated Register free. Also

handle timber and mineral lands. H. W. HILLEARY & CO., Charlottesville, Va.

SEVERAL

FARMS FOR RENT

We have several choice farms for rent—-some large and some small. See u.« about them.

CASSELMAN * COMPANY,

1t08 E. Maiu St. Richmond, Va.

THE PENINSULA SECTION

Our farmers made $100 per acre clear

from early potato crop season of 1908.

This is the coming section. Write us.

PIEDMONT AND TIDEWATER LAND

COMPANY <Inc.),

Box P. AVilliamsburg, Va.

RBALi BSTATB POR SAL.B.

From the Mountains to tb« Ocean. Catalogrue free. Loana made on (anna. Established 1876.

GEO. B. CRAWFORD A CO., 1009 B. Main Street.,

RICHMOlfD, VA. Branch, Norfolk, Ta.

THE SOUTHERN PLANTER.

[April,

SOUTHERN

POULTRY

GUIDE

This Is Cal Husselman'a great Poultry Book, just off press. It Is freely Illustrated with numerous useful and handy homemade accessories to the poultry business. It contains his 40 years' experience as a poultryman It Is the best poultry book ev«r printed and just what you want. It contains more plain, everyday common sense about the chicken business than you ever read. 120 pp., cloth bound. Price? We will almost give it to you. Just send $1 and we will enter your order for the book and throw In a year's subscription to The Southern Planter.

SOUTHERN PLANTER, Richmond Va.

180 Acre

FARM FOR SALE.

At a bargain, 3% miles from Saxe Station, in Charlotte Co. Well located convenient to schools, churches, mills, and stores, well watered by springs and branches, land well adapted to tobacco and all crops grown in this section. Only one new log cabin on the land; timber enough on the place to do necessary building. Price $600 cash. W. M. WATKINS, Saxe, Charlotte Co. Va.

"In the Greea Fields of Virginia/'

Homes for nil; health for all; happl-neNs and independence for all. All

sizes of Farms at corresponding prices bnt AIjIi reasonable.

MACON, & CO., ORANGE, VA.

MENEFEE

WILL SELL EGGS

from now on at the following prices: White Leghorn, $1 per 15? $5 per 100. W. F. niacg Spanish, $1.25 per 15, $6

per 100. Bnff Orpinjsrton, $1 per 15; $5 per 100. Red Pyle Game, $1 per 15; $5 per 100. R. I. RKD, !itl.25 per 1.5, $« per 100. Black Minorca, $1 per 15; $5 per 100. Black Langshan, $1.50 per 15; $7.50 per

100. BInck Sumatra, $1..'>0 per 1.5. Limited.

If interested in better poultry these prices should appeal to you as the eggs are from some of the Finest Pens In the South.

CARROLL MENEFEE, Fancier, Spcrryville, Virginia.

Member and Va. Secy National Black Langshan Club, Member R. I. Red Club of America, American Black Minorca Club.

WORLD'S

CHAMPION GROWER.

CORN

Now that every farmer who is up-to-date in his method, pays strict attention to his seed corn, we think it will be of interest to our readers to see a likeness of the man who grew the grand champion prize ear, in competition with 75,000 ears of corn exhibited at the National Corn Show, held in Omaha, Nebraska, during the past winter.

The breeding of seed corn has now reached such a high plane of perfection that it requires a man of unusual experience, judgment and ability to produce prize winners.

Mr. Overstreet not only won the first prize for the single ear, but also the first in best exhibit of twenty ears, and first in best of sixty ears of corn. In addition to these three prizes he won several others in different classes. The above three being of the nature of sweepstakes, open to any exhibitor.

While there are many elements entering into the growing of corn of this class, Mr. Overstreet believes that special attention should be paid to the manner of planting, particularly as to the accuracy of drop.

Mr. Joe R. Overstreet. Franklin, Indiana.

He says: "An accurate drop is most important, next to good seed and good seed bed, and with a Deere No. 9 edge-drop planter, dropping two grains in one hill and three in the next, which this planter does to perfection, you will get a stand of two and one-half stalks to the hill, three feet six inches apart. With favorable weather conditions, T can grow

Eggs For Hatching.

For the next thirty days only, I will sell eggs for hatching from the high-scoring birds:

S. C. and U. C. R. I. REDS, BUFF ORPINGTONS, SILVER-LACED AVYANDOTTES. WHITE WYANDOTTES, BILTMOUE BARRED ROCKS, BILTMORE AVHITE ROCKS, BILTMORE BUFF ROCKS, CORNISH INDIAN GAMES, BLACK MINORCAS. Any of the above at 80 cents for 15; or $4 for 100.

S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS, S. C. BUFF LEGHORNS, S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS. Any of the Leghorn strain at 60 eta. for 15; or $3 for 100.

My reason for selling at this mar-velously low price for the next thirty days only is, my birds are laying wonderfully well this season and their output must g-o. No better layers to be found. Send in your orders at once. C. H. DICKINSON, Edsehill Poultry Yards, LURAY, VIRGINIA.

EGGS! EGGS!! EGGS!!!

Strictly fresh ones of Mammoth Bronze, White Holland and Half-Wild Turkeys at f2.25 per 9; Barred Plymouth Rocks at Jl per 15, $1.50 per 30, $5 per 100; Mammoth Pekin Ducks, $1 per 11 or $1.50 per 22; White African Guineas, $1 per 15.

Stock For Sale.

All eggs carefully selected, well packed and satisfaction guaranteed. A strong statement but a plain fact—you get the worth of your money when your orders are filled from

BLUB HILL POULTRY YARDS, Ronte 1. Somerset, Va.

PEKIN DUPKS WHITE GUINEAS

WHrE WYANDOTTES

TOULOUSE GEESE

Bred from winners at Madison Square, Jamestown Exp., Phlla., and State Fair.

I am now booking orders for egga for spring delivery.

EVELYN HEIGHTS FARM, W, "W. Thomas, Prop. . Catlett, V«.

EGGS FOR HATCHING.

- from my heavy laying strain-s

S» C White Leghorns White Wyandottes

Blood lines unsurpassed and standard qualities are excellent. $2 per 16.

SCOTCH COLLI' s

The sensible kind. Correct type. Fashionably bred.

W^ARREN RICE, Vaucluse Sta., Va. Frederick Co.

We Are No^v

BOOKING ORDERS FOR EGGS

White Holland Turkey, $2 for 9 Crested Pekin Duck $1 for 11

S. C. Brown Leghorn $1 for 15

Buff Plymouth Rork $1 for 15

LAUREL HILL POULTRY FARM, Roxbury, Va.

THE SOUTHERN PLANTER^

399

SYSONBY GARDENS, Petersburg, va.

WIN AGAIX WITH THBIR

Barred, Buff and White Plymouth Rocks

(A O. HAWKINS' ROYAIi BLTJE STRAIN.)

Entering 28 birds, 23 of which took ribbons at Virginia Poultry Association Show, as follows: First Pen In Buffs; second Pen in Barred; second Pen In Whites; Fourth Pen in S. C. Rhode Island Reds; third cockerel and pullet in Buffs, fourth pullet In Whites.

For eggs for hatching, Prize p»ns, $3 per sitting; $8 per 100; Utility pens, $2 per sitting; |5 per 100. You may get a prize cockerel out of one sitting.

Twenty-five Buff Plymouth Rock and Twenty-five White Plymouth Rock Cockerels for sale at $2 each. A fine lot of utility birds. Baby chicks shipped anywhere and safe arrival guaranteed. Stock for sale at all times. Correspondence cheerfully answered. S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS—STOCK AND EGGS. *

SAM McEwen. Mgr.,

PETERSBURG,VA

MOST RECENT TESTIMONIAL.

Ernest N. TiUett, Analytical Chemist, Durham, N. C. Sysonby Gardens, Inc., Petersburg, Va.

Gentlemen: The Buff Rock pullets that I purcha.sed of you last fall have proven to me conclusively that you all have the "Bred to Lay" kind of Buff Rocks, because those dozen pullets have averaged seven eggs a day ever since the fifteenth of November, besides having to break some of them from an effort to set in order to keep them laying. Besides, these pullets are all nice birds and score well for exhibition.

The "Day Old Chicks" purchased of you several weeks ago are as nice a lot of youngsters as I have ever seen and fulfil all expectations. They too have good breeding back of them for they show no signs of weakness inherited from inferior parents. I count on maturing 95 per cent, of them and believe I will be successful.

Again thanking you for your kindness, I am, very sincerely yours,

March 4th, 1909. ERNEST N. TILLETT,

Instructor iif Chemistry Trinity College, Durham, N. C.

Mt. PLEASANT FARM

Single Comb

White Leghorns

Are the best for the Farmier, the Trucker, the Amateur. They lay more eggs at less cost for feed. The eggs hatch better, and the chicks grow faster icost les-s to raise). We guarantee our eggs 90 per cent, fertile. Stock • sold with the distinct understanding that it may be returned if not entirel.v satisfactory, and price will be refunded without question.

MT. FLEASANT FARM, Box 2203. Ha%Te De Grace, Md.

250 Acres of Fertile Land Devoted to S. C. W. Leghorns of Quality.

WHITES'

Eggs from White Holland Turkeya,

$2 per dozen; $15 per 100.

The sire of my breeding toms this season weighed 35 pounds when 18 months old.

White Plymouth Rocks and S. C. AVhlte Leghorns, 75c per 15; $3.50 per 100. Better place order early for turkey eggs. G. W. MOSS, Gnlneya, Va.

EGGS! EGGS!! EGGSt!!

Of pure-bred Barred Plymouth Rocks exclusively, of the best bred-to-lay strains. Large, healthy, beautifully marked birds on free range, $1 for 16, $5 per 100.

WM. B. LEAVIS, Blackstone, Va.

Route No. 1.

one hundred bushels to the acre easy, and find prize winners easy picking.

The Deere No. 9 planter is the only-planter I ever owned that I can plant my corn and get exactly any kind of stand I want."

It is manufactured by Deere & Man-sur Co., Moline, Illinois.

AMATITE—A HEAVY-WEIGHT ROOFING.

The resisting ability of a roofing depends largely upon the amount of material there is in it—not upon the thickness nor upon the number of layers, but upon the actual density of the roof—that is upon its weight. A light-weight ready-roofing may be as thick sa Amatite, but of it is not as heavy, rool for roll, it can't have as much .good stuff in ft. Amatite weighs as much as roofings that cost three times its price.

Free sample and booklet on .application to the nearest office of the Barrett Manufacturing Company, New York, Chicago, Cleveland, Allegheny, Kansas City, St. Louis, Minneaporis, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Cincinnati, Boston.

s.c

WHITE LEGHORNS, BROWN LEGHORNS, BLACK MINORCAS. Tumbler PIgreons, Belgrlan Hares.

At the great Richmond Show, Dec. 7-12, 1908, I won 10 firsts, one second. 3rd, 4th and 5th.

Strong, vigorous, farm-raised birds excellent layers.

Eggs from my best pens, $1 per 15 or $& per 100; little chicks 15c each, shipped anywhere in U. S.; Tumbler Pigeons, $2 pair; Belgian Hares, $2.50 pair. Satisfaction guaranteed. J. A. ELLETT, Beaver Dam, Va.

A FOLLOWER OF NERO.

Nero had just ordered the burning of Rome.

"I got my idea from the janitor," he explained. "He always gives us plenty of steam the first warm days."

Thus did he humbly follow in the footsteps of the great tyrjint.—Lippin-cott's.

SINGLE COMB

WHITE LEGHORNS

EXCLUSIVELY

of finest exhibition strain.

Prince Satin, first prize cockerel and winner of special prize for whitest cockerel, Bristol Dec. 1908, heads my pen. He is mated to IS of the finest exhibition females. Including the special prize, best shaped pullet in above show.

Eggs from this pen, $2.50 per IB; eggs from business pen, $1 per IS. Address:

W. S. MATHEWS, Big Stone Gap, Va.

BUF'F PLl-MOUTH ROCKS.

Farm Raised. Fine quality. Egg'a^ $1 per 15; $5 per 100.

MRS. P. C. NITSSEV. Mastsaponax, Spotsylvania Co.. Va.

Tell the advertiser where you saw-his advertisement.

THE SOUTHEKN PLANTER.

[April,

S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS

100% FERTILITY GUARANTEED

THINK OF IT I

We are selling our eggs at 16.00 per 100 and are guaranteeing, not 80 or 90 per cent, as others are doing, but every egg fertile. Write us and let us tell you what we will do to advertise our great egg producers. Same price for a less number.

Eggs for fancy matings a matter of correspondence.

STOCK FOR SALES.

B. H. GRUNDY & SON, SOO W. Franklin St., Ricbmo^, Va.

Single Comb

White Leghorns

To reduce stock, we offer for sale

1,000 Pure S. C. White Leghorns of the very best stock in lots to suit purchasers at prices ranging from $1 to $1.50 each for pullets and laying hens and $3 to $3.50 for cocks and cockerels

Now is your chance to secure fine birds at a low price.

POX HALL POULTRY FARM,

R. F. D. 2, Norfolfc, Va.

S. C. W.

LEGHORNS

D. W. Young's strain, $3 per 15 eggs. Pine Top strain, $2.50 for 15 eggs. General utility fowls containing my prizewinners at $1.50 per sitting of 15 eggs. W. R. TODD, 426 N. 6th St.

RICHIUOND, VA.

Greider's

Book On Poultry

1

Concise, practical, to make money with try; information " buildings, treatment oi diseases, etc. Fifteen attractive chromos ; sixty prominent varieties. 10c postpaid. Fine, pure-bred stock and eggs at low prices. GKEIDEK'S GERMIClDE-a snre preventive anil an excellent disln fectant. B. H. CREIDER, Rhooins, Pe. . ■ ■.i» i. i u »i iwi iB—»w»»i n ii j i mmu

STMCTLY

FRESH

EGGS!

White Holland Turkey eggs, $2.25 for 10; Indian Runner Duck eggs, $1 for 11; $2 for 25; $4 for 50; Toulouse Goose eggs from matured stock, 30 cents each; Barred Plymouth Rocks, fine winter layers, line-bred cockerels and pullets for sale, $1 to $1.25 Eggs $1 for 15; $1.50 for 30; $5 for 100.

Eggs carefully gathered and packed with care. Satisfaction guaranteed.

MRS. M. F. GOOCH, Route No. 1,

Somerset, Orange Co., Va.

WHITE W^YANDOTTES.

Eggs for hatching, $1.26 for 15, $2 for 30.

R. ELSAESSER, Meherrln, Va.

HINTS BY MAY MANTON.

To Be Made With Regulation or Plain Sleeves.

The plain shirt waist is one which every woman needs. This one can be made as illustrated with regulation sleeves or with plain ones that extend in points over the hands and can be utilized for the simple, mannish, tailored waist, or as a foundation for daintier ones that are either tucked to suit the fancy or cut from already tucked material. In this case butcher's linen is simply stitched, and the waist is one of the plain useful sort. If it were cut from tucked material and made with the plain sleeves shown in the back view, it would take on an entirely different aspect, yet the same model is correct for both. For the plain waist regulation sleeves are held slightly the smarter and there are a great many women who prefer the plain ones and there is a choice, allowed.

6230 Plain Shirt Waist. 33 to 48 bust.

The waist is made with fronts and back. It is finished with a regulation box plait and with a neck-band and can be worn with the turned-over collar illustrated, or with a separate stock as liked. Both the regulation and the plain sleeves are cut in one piece each, but the regulation sleeves are finished with openings and overlaps at the lower edges and gathered into straight bands.

The quantity of material required for the medium size is 3 5-8 yards

McCne's "Ringlet"

Barred Plymouth Rochs.

Again winners in strongest competition, Richmond, Dec, 1908, 1st cockerel, 3d and 5th cock, 5th pullet. Wa'shlng-. ton, Jan., 1909, 2d cockerel, 3d pullet. Most excellent layers—large, vigorous and beautiful. Good breeding cockerels $2.25 to $5 each.

Splendid Bargains In pulleta, fl, $1.50 and $2 each. Eggs from grand yards, headed by prize-winners, $1.50, $2, $2.50 and $4 per 15. You may get a prize-winner out of one sitting. Satisfaction guaranteed.

LESLIE H. McCUE, Box 4, Afton, Va.

VALLEY FARM

Barred Plymouth Rocks.

(E. B. Thompson Strain.)

S. C. Brown Leghorns.

Eggs from prize-winners for sale. Write me your wants. No more stock for sale. Satisfaction guaranteed.

CHARLES C. WINE, Mt. Sidney, Va.

MEADOW^ BRIDGE POULTRY YARDS

Breeders of

Barred Plymouth Rocks.

Heavy Laying Strain.

Choice cockerels from prize-winning matings, $2, and $2.50 each; few pullets, $2 each. Eggs for sitting from yards of choice matings, $1.50 sitting. I offer better values than can be bought North for twice the money. Write me now.

R. S. GRAY, Prcp.j Fonrqnrean's Lane, Richmond, Va.

BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

Eggs for hatching from Bradley and Hawkins Strain. Prize-winning cocks and careful mating—no other fowls on farm. 75c per sitting of 15—carefully packed. bend check, postal or express mioney order.

MRS. W^M. P. BURKS, Bedford City, Route No. 1. Va.

BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS. (Hawkins Strain.) S. C. White Leghorns (Wyckoff strain), S. C. Brown Leghorn's (Blltmore strain) Mammoth Bronze Turkeys, Mammoth Pekln Ducks. Stock and eggs for sale. Satisfaction guaranteed. MARION POULTRY YARDS, Marion, Virginia.

Pure-Bred

BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS,

and

POLLED ANGUS CATTLE.

Choice Breeding Stock, and Eggs from trap nested hens; some choice bulls for sale. Write me your wants.

C. NEALE STACY,

Amelia, Va.

Always mention The Southern Planter when writing advertisers.

THE SOUTHERN PLANTER.

401

Page Valley Poultry iFarm

Has a grand lot of breeding birds, and will fill your orders with fertile eggs at th« following prices;

15 S. C. W. or Brown Leghorn Eggs, 90c.; 30 eggs, $1.50; 15 R. C. Brown or S. C. Buff Leghorn eggs, $1; 30 eggs, $1.75; 15 R. or S. C. Black Minorca or Anconas, $1.25; 30 eggs, $2; 15 Buff Orpingtons, R. I. R«d-3, "White, Buff, S. Lace or Partridge Wyandottes, $1.15; 30 eggs, $2. 15 Barred P. Rock $1; 30 eggs, $1.80; or $5 per 100. 25 Barred Rock cockerels at a bargain. Order from this ad. and get my handsome catalogue of 25 varieties free.

C. L,. SHENK,

Luray, Vo.

BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS

EXCLUSIVELY.

Yard headed by some world renowned prize-winning blood.

Eggs from strong, healthy, beautifully Barred, farm-raised bird's, unexcelled in laying qualities, size, vigor and beauty, selling at farmers' prices— $1.25 for 15. or $2 for 30. Toulouse Geese Eggs $125 for 6; $2 for 12. JOHN MAHANES, Tre-vIIian, Va.

Pure-Bred

Barred Plymouth Rocks

(Park's Strain)

S. C Rhode Island Reds

(Piper's Strain)

These are the best bred-to-lay strains In the country. Eggs $5 per 100; $1 per 15.

Fred B. Jonea, Gloncester, Va.

Poultry of Highest Quality

My big new book illustrates and deecribefl over 40 varieties chickens, ducks, turkeys and pigeons. TeUi> which pay and which do not ; how to feed, euro diseases, etc.; gives low price on stock and ep?s ; how yoQ can earn egg's taking orders. This book will help put dollars in your pocket if yo'i will just write me. It's only 10c. Mention thib paper. JOHN E. HEATWOLE, Harrisonburg. Ta.

"MAPLEHURST"

The home of choice blrda— B. P. Rocks, Bafl Orpingtons and S. C. R. I. Reda.

Eggs for sale at $1 for 15, $1.75 for 30, $2.50 for 50. Write to

T. J. THOMPSON, R P. D. No. 7, Stannton, Va-

SHIRLEY POULTRY YARDS.

Barred Plymonth Rocks, E. B. Thompson's celebrated strain, beautiful plumage, fine large fowls, cockerels $1 to $1.50; eggs, $1 per sitting; $1.50 per two.

Mammoth Bronze Turkeys, the finest I ever raised, bred from 40 to 45 lb. toms, strong and healthy; eggs per dozen, $3.

Imperial Pekin Docks. Eggs $1 per 13, $1.50 per 26.

MRS. R. E. WILHOIT, Somerset, Va.

S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS,

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

HEAVY LAYERS.

Eggs 91 Per 15.

WHITING'S POTJL.TRY YARDS,

Harmony Village, Middlesex Co., Va.

21 or 24, 2 3-8 yards 32 or 1 3-4 yards 44 Inches wide.

The pattern 6230 is cut in sizes for a 32, 34, 36, 38 40, 42, 44 and 46-inch bust measure, and will be mailed to any address by the Fashion Department of this paper on receipt of ten cents.

Simple little frocks that are cut with the waist positions and skirts in one are always pretty for the younger girls and always in demand. This one with the scalloped edge is

Please mention the Southern Planter.

«250 Girl's Dress with Shield, 6 to 12 y«ars.

especially attractive and is adapted to almost every childish material. In the illustration Jt is made of serge, with collar and cuffs of silk, arid with shield of tucking, but it will be found an excellent model for the linen, pop-inette and the simple, inexpensive printed wash fabric, that mothers are making up this season. The shield is separate and consequently can be of the same or contrasting material as liked and the collar can be in contrast or of the same material trimmed. Indeed, there are various possibilities included in the little dress, simple as it is. Pink poplinette, with large pearl buttons and coiiar

^^ [STRICTLY FRESH and FERTILE

EGGS.

Plumage, size and egg production are what you want. My birds conform to these qualifications.

Mammoth Bronze and White Holland Turkey eggs, 25c. each; line-bred Barred Plymouth Rock eggs, $1 per 15; $1.50 per 30; large Pekin Duck eggs, $1 per 11, $1.50 per 22; beautiful White African Guinea eggs, $1 per 15.

Circular ready. Send your orders early.

Berkshli-e pigs from 1st prize stock.

E. P.' SOMMERS, Somerset, Va.

EGGS!

Quality

Price.

Shipping and booking orders now from my prize-takers. Better mated than ever before. .^, ,, _.

Silver Laced, Partridge, White wyandottes, W. Pekin Ducks, S. C. R. I. Reds, S. C. Black Minorcas, $1.50 per sitting; S. C. White and S. C. Brown Leghorns, $1 for 13.

39 prizes out of 43 entries Richmond, 1908; 11 prizes out of 10 entries Charlotte, 1909.

Stock at Bargain Price Always.

BLLERSON POULTRY YARDS,

J. W. Quarles, Prop.,

Ellerson, Va.

EGGS FOR HATCHING.

Hawkins Barred, White and Bull Rocks, White, Buff, Silver and Partridge Wyandottes, White and Brown Leghorns, Black Minorcas, Black Lang-shans, Lt. Brahmas. Price $1 for 15, $2 for 30, $3 for 50, $6 per 100. A hatch of two-thirds gnjaranteed or order duplicated at half price. Will exchange eggs for field peas. All pens headed by high scoring birds second to none. Collie Pups.

OAKLAND POULTRY FARM. Rnffln, N. C.

EGGS FOR HATCHING.

From pure-bred, very high grade Barred Rocks, E. B. Thompson and (lOwell strains, $1, $1.50 and $2 per 15, according to quality.

Also eggs from high-grade S. C. White Leghorns, $1 per 15. Incubator eggs, $5 per lOO. Address

CEDAR HILL POULTRY FARM, Route 1, Box ."iO., .Jnmen River, Va.

WOODLAWN POULTRY YARDS

R. C. Brown Leghorns, (Blltmore Strain).

Barred P. Rocks. (Bradley Bros.) S. C. Black Minorca. Eggs $1 per 15; $fi per too. Toulouse Geese, eggs $1 per 6; Pekin Ducks, eggs $1 per 12. Let us have your orders please. E. W. JONES NURSERY CO., WoodlaTfn, Va.

ROYAL REDS BUFF ORPINGTONS.

Eggs from choicest matlngs of R. and S. C. R. I. Reds and Buff Orpingtons. Best strains extant; wonderful layers; winners of many handsome prizes; $2 per 15; $7 per 100, algo stock. Baby chicks $3 per 15.

G. W. SWEETING, Locust Mt. Ponltry Farm, Sharon, Harford Co., Maryland.

THE SOUTHEKN PLANTER

[April,

WILLIAMSON FARMS

MATTOAX,VA.

The Williamson Strain Is the best that money and breeding can produce.

EGGS FOR HATCHING

Pure single Comb Pure Rose Comb

White Leghorns Rhode Island Reds

$1.50 PER SITTING. $1.50 PER SITTING.

Noted Prize-Winners Head eacK Pen.

GOOD EGGS

FROM

GOOD STOCK

I have made a. specialty of good laying strains of' S. C. Brown and | S. C. White Leghorns for many | years and have as good as the best. I

I fill orders promptly. I guarantee ' full count and safe delivery. Eggs are proving 90 per cent, fertile. I ship from Richmond; yards, Stop 26, Seven Pines Car Line. $1 for 15; $6 per 100. Stock all sold.

CAIi HUSSELMAN, Highland Springs, Va.

Single Comb

BROWN LEGHORNS

I have bred them exclusively for years and now offer egg-3 from well bred stock at 75c. per sitting. Correspondence solicited. THOS. WASHINGTON, AVoodford, Vn.

EGGS, EGGS.

From Taylor's White Wyandottes. I am still booking orders for eggs. Prize pens, $2 for 15; other pens $1.50 for 15. Almost booked up, so send orders at once.

R. RANDOLPH TAYLOR,

Hickory Bottom Poultry Farm,

NEGROFOOT, VA.

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

PURE-BRED

Toulouse Geese

For sale at $2 each; eggs at $1.50 for 7.

J. A. HICKS, Route 1, Highland Springs, Va.

Glenview Orpingtons,

S. C. BUFFS EXCLUSIVELY.

I will not sell any eggs for hatching next season. If you want some of the best stock of Orpingtons In the South, BUY NOW. Prices reasonable State your exact wants. B. S. HORNE, Kesvplcfe Va

Please mention the Southern Planter.

and cuffs simply scalloped with white and worn with a shield of tucked muslin, would be just as dainty and just as charming a warm weather frock as could be devised, while the shie^'^' illustrated is in every way adapted to present usage.

The dress is made with fronts and back. The tucks are stitched to the waist line, but pressed to position only below. The sleeves are made in one piece, and are gathered into bands beneath the cuffs. The pretty collar finishes the neck and the shield is attached under it by meanis of buttons and buttonholes.

The quantity of material required for the medium size (10 yearsj is 51-2 yards 24, 3 7-8 yards 32 or 3 yards 44 inches wide with 1-2 yard 21 inches wide for the collar and cuffs, 5-8 yards 18 inches wide for the shield.

The pattern 6250' is cut in sizes for girls of 6, 8, 10 and 12 years of age, and will be mailed to any address by the Fashion Department of this paper on receipt of ten cents.

If you have a case of lame, blemished or sick horse, write me to-day. I am always glad to assist my customers by giving free veterinary advice. Absorbine has been successful in curing many cases of Thorough-pin, Bog Spavin, Strained Tendons, Cockled Ankle, Lymphangitis, Ringbone, Lameness etc. $2.0'0 a bottle at druggists, or sent postpaid to any address upon receipt of price. W. P. Young, P. D. F., 109 Monmouth St., Springfield, Mass.

GREATEST MEDICINE ON EARTH FOR WHAT IT SPECIFIES. Ratcliff, Texas, June 16. 1908. Dr. B. J. Kendall Co., Enosburg Falls, Vt. Gentlemen:—Enclosed find a stamp for which kindly send me a copy of your Treatise on the Horse and His Diseases. Have used Kendall's Spiavln Cure for three years, land! have found it the greatest medicine on earth for what it specifies.

Yours truly, W. F. EDGAR.

^'^c% PHEASANTS

As easily raised as chickens; weigh from 2V2 to 4 lbs.

Eggs for hatching, $2 per 13, April 10th to August 1st.

Free circular, telling how to set the eggs and feed young pheasants, with each sitting. Circular alone, 10c. Send stamped envelope for all other information.

F. C. HARRIS,

Beaver Dam, Va*

SPRING BROOK POULTRY FARM

Culpeper, Va., H. H. Scott, Prop.

Breeder of Northrup strain Black Minorcas, Whitman strain of Brown Leghorns, and the best Silver-Laced Wyandottes. Six entries at Richmond and Herndon won 2 first, 1 second, 2 thirds and a club special. Eggs in season. Stock for sale.

EGGS FOR HATCHING.

Mammoth Bronze Turkey, from magnificent breeders, headed by 45-Ib. tom; Barred Rock, (Bradley strain) White Wyandotte (Duston) White Orpington (Cook) Grand hens. Few Wy-. andote cockerels.

MISS C. L,. SMITH,

Landor Poultry Yards,

CROXTON, VA.

BLACK

LANQSHANS

Some nice stock for sale; JOHN C. ADAMS, Bristol, Va.-Tenn.

PIT GAMES.

Grim Reds, Red Horses, and my famous crosses. I have shipped these cocks to all parts of America and-England and they have won a majority of their battles wherever fought. Eggs in season at ?2 per sitting of 15. THOS. W. JARMAN, Yancey Mills, Vo.

Please mention the Southern Planter.

THE SOUTHERN PLANTER.

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THEY FEED THE CROP NITRATES

In the South, of all sections, there should be close attention paidt to every step of progress toward the successful and economical inoculation of soil with nitrogen gathering bacteria.

Let our farmers become able to establish heavy, hardy, luxurious crops of clover and alfalfa, for instance, at a reasonable cost for fertilization, and farming in the South will be revolutionized.

And it seems as if the opportunity ■were definitely and practically presented for reapins: the vast benefits. Immediate and future, of inoculated legumes. At last a simple, sure and economical means of getting enough of the right bacteria into the soil is at hand. A pure culture of these bac teria is on the market, in a form that any one can use without the least difficulty, and in a condition that insures thorough and successful inoculation.

This culture, called Farmogerm, is put up in specially sealed bottles of different sizes, the garden size selling for fifty cents, the other sizes at the rate of $2.00 an acre. Enough nitrates in the soil to produce several crops at a cost of $2.00 an acre, and without the ordinary nitrate fertilizer—all this we have come to through the introduction d Faro-germ. There is no doubt that this will mean a great increase of the acreage planted in the Southern part of the country especially, for the results obtained so far from the use of Farmogerm are increasing the demand for it rapidly.

It is prepared for Red, White and Crimson Clover, Alfalfa, all varieties of garden and field peas and beans, alsike, Berseem, vetch, lupins, lentils, sweet peas, and other legumes. A mixed culture in fifty cent size Is put up which is good for garden peas, beans and sweet peas. The White Clover is also put up in fifty cent size for starting lawns. If our readers will address the Earp-Thom-as Farmogerm Co., Bloomfield, N. J., and request a copy of their Free Book No. 13, they will find it to contain a wealth of information on this subject, which all must realize to be of vast importance. Farmogerm is Is made only by this company, and they are glad to furnish any information desired, and to submit many reports from satisfied users and experts.

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CURED SORE SHOULDER OF LONG STANDING.

My horse had a sore shoulder of long standing. I tried several kinds of treatment, but with no effect. Three applications of Gombault's Caustic Balsam effected an entire cure.—W. M. Morris, Selbyville, Del.

EGGS FOR

Bronze Turkey, - - $3 for 12. Brown Chinese Geese, $2.50 for 12. Toulouse Geese, - |2.50 for 12. Barred Plymouth Rock, $1 for 15.

HATCHING.

S. C. Brown Leghorn, $1 for 15.

Rhode Island Reds, $1 for 15.

Pekin Duck, - - - |1 for 12.

Mallard Duck - - - $2 for 12.

Scotch CoUie and Fox Terrier Pgtps now ready to ship

M. n. RO^VE & CO., Fredericksburg, Va.

POULTRY ANNOUNCEMENT.

In presenting to you this ad. for your consideration, I am trying to make you realize that the birds behind my name are far in advance of anything in the South and I hope to in the near future to be able to prove conclusively my ability to give you a square deal'. My whole work shall be to give to each customer one full dollar's worth invested with me and often one bird Is hatched from one sitting of eggs ttat is worth several times the price paid for the eggs.

I am ready to sell you eggs from farm raised stock of the highest quality. No cockerel but what s fit to win in the hottest company is used In any of my yards. Eggs from the following breeds: BARRED and WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS and COLUMBIAN WVANDOTTES at $1.50 to $5 per 15. PEKIN DUCKS, $1.25 per 15; AVHITE HOLLAND TURKEYS, $5 per 15. Send for mating list. It is free.

GEO. H. MOSS,

BURKE'S GARDEN, VA.

Box A.

BURKE'S GARDEN—EGGS FOR HATCHING.

WHITE WYANDOTTES WHITE LEGHORNS

BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS

BROWN LEGHORNS

Foundation stock from best strains in America.

Breeders reared on separate farms, on free grass range, and kept on grass range during breeding season. All breeders scoring from 93 to 95. We won on the above breeds this year Forty Blues and Dozens of reds and yellows, and specials.

Eggs from high-class Leghorn stock, $1.50.

Eggs from Barred Rocks, $1.50 to $2.50.

Eggs from White Wyandottes, $1.50 to $5.

STANDARD-BRED POULTRY FARMS,

Burke's Garden, Va.

BLACK'S BLACK LANGSHANSl

are typical LANGSHAN fowls. ^" 11 1^ W A PJ p ( Carefully bred for all Standard reqnlrements. J 11 L T AA 1^ ^L 1 Also a distinct strain of great egg producers. THEY WILL—tone up your flock.

Blood from this famous strain of Langshans will Improve the general vigor of your flock and greatly increase the egg-laying qualities of your hens. Get a start this month.

Eggs $2 for 15: $3..^0 for 30 and $10 for 100. Some choice birds for sale. Write for circular and show winnings.

A. M. BLACK, TAZEAVELL, VIRGINIA.

JERSEY STRAIN'-PEKIN DUCKS. MADISON SQUARE CHAMPIONS

For 1009—Eggs, $t and $2 the Sitting.

U/UITC DIVMniITU Dnni^C PhUada. -Wlnuers Last Three Vears. •TnilL rLIITIUUin nUUrVO Eggs $1.50 and $3.00 the Setting.

SOUABBING PIGEONS •*••*"'' *** other Breeders In Same W^ay. Get Price List, Also see our adv. In March no. S. Planter, Page 281—Circulars free. PAUL G. SPRINGER, R. F. D. 4-s. BRIDGETON, NEW JERSEY.

TELL THE ADVERTISER WHERE YOU SAW HIS ADVERTISEMENT.

THE SOUTHERN PLANTER.

[April,

SINGLE COMB

Rhode Island Reds

My strain la built on two $25 quartets which I purchased In 1907, and I believe I have as good a fancy and utility strain as any one.

I have two pena, every bird having fine color, shape, and will produce the stock that will lay and win In the show room. Large, fertile eggs, |2 per 15.

A few extra fine cockerels cheap. Now is your chance.

ROBBRT G. HUNDLEY, P. O. BoxllS, FarmvlUe, Va.

PURB-BRED R. C.

RHODE ISLAND REDS

Eggs, $1 per sitting of 15. Special rates for Incubator Eggs.

»IRS. J. A. UPSON, R. F. D., AVellvllle, Va.

ROSE COMB

RHODE ISLAND REDS

EXCLUSIVELY.

Eggs for hatching from prize-winning stock; an exceptionally flne laying strain.

MISS I-OUISE V. SPENCER, Blneksfone. Vn.

Member of R. I. Red Club.

S. AND K. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS

Columbian and White Wyandottes; B. P. Rocks Eggs for hatching, $1 for 15; $1.75 for 30; $2.75 for 50; $5 for 100. All stock has free range. Riverside Poultry Farms, J. B. Coffman & Sons, Prop., Route 19, Dayton Va.

SINGLE COMB

RHODE ISLAND REDS

SINGLE COMB

Egg-a for hatching (Tompkins & De-Orafl strain) $1.25 per 15.

MISS BELLE BROOKE, 201 Thompson St., Staunton, Va.

ROSE COMB

Rhode Island Red

Eggs from prize-winning stock. Also

Flshel Strain Wliite Rock Eggs for sale, 15 for $1 or 3 sittings for $2.50.

L. E. SMITH, Appomattox, Va.

Single Comb

Rhode Island Red

Baby chicks for sale by April 15th at 25 and 50 cents each in lots of not less than 25 chicks. A. R. VENABLE, Jr. Parmville, Va

Please mention the Southern Planter.

SOMETHING TO HELP THE

HEN MAN. Poultry keeping Is much like any other business—the success one has in It is largely determined by the knowledge one has of it. There's this in favor of poultry keepin.g, however, aside from the generous profit it pays; it doesn't take long for any man or woman or boy to learn all there Is about it. Knowledge of p few simple rules about feeding, shelter, cleanliness, etc., are, of course, necessary but the one essential fact that the would-be poultry keeper must get hold of and hang to is the necessity of keeping his fowls healthy and prolific by giving a small dose of Dr. Hess Poultry Pan-a-ce-a every day in soft feed.

This is not advising you to give stimulants or anything that will force a sudden and phenomenal period of laying, likely to be followed by a longer neriod of inactivity.

Dr. Hess Poultry Panacea is not a stimulant, and liaes not excite the egg-producing organs. It is a tonic— a scientific nreiaration formulated bv Dr. Hess (M. D.. D. V. S."), and its use has become known everywhere amons: poultry men as "The Dr. Hess Idea."

This is because Poultry Pan-a-ce-a aids the digestion of the hen. It Is compounded of helpful elements— things which the medical profession recognize as such; and a mere trifle of it igiven regularly will cause a hen to assimilate so large a proportion nf her food that she can't heln laying more and better eggs. And more than that—she will continue to lay -s long as her digestive organs get the help of Poultry Pan-a-ce-a.

And further—she will be healthy, nctive and free from the common complaints that so often turn a thrifty paying flock of hens into a dis-"npointing aggregation of lazy, rlroony non-producers.

"The Dr. Hess Idea" has worked wonders In the poultry business. Not '^nlv does It make the laying hen a iietter layer, but It is equally beneficial to all fowls.

Try It on the old hens whose use-^■iilness as eeg producers is over and cpe how fast they fat and how profitable they become as market birds. aWe it to the tender growlne chicTts and astonish yourself by tlieir rapid -rowth and development Dr. Hess ■Poultry Pan-a-ce-a will make winter In vers out of mid-summer chicks and nqv you that way over and over for !t« trifling first cost.

SINOIiS) COMB

INTERENCBS.

•She: "You don't act as if I v«^as the first girl you ever kissed."

He: "If I am the first man who ever kissed you, how do you know 1 don't?"—Tvipnincott's.

RHODE ISLAND REDS

EXCLUSIVELY.

Eggs for hatching, $2.50 for 15 from 4 pens containing 1st pen State Fair 1908, 2nd pen Va. Poultry Show, pen headed by 1st cockerel State Fair, 1907, and pen of flne, large uniform birds.

From general run of th* yard of 75 hens, 11.50 per 15, good utility stock.

V. R. VENABLE Jr., Parmville, Va. SYDNOR'S

Rhode Island Reds

(Rose Contb.)

Won 40 Ribbons and Silver Cup at Richmond in 1908.

Eggs $1.50 per 15. A few choice cockerels for sale, also several Cyphers double indoor brooders. W. D. SYDNOR, Barton Heights, Va.

PURE-BRED R. C.

RHODE ISLAND REDS

Eggs from prize-winning

stock at astonishing

prices.

MBS. MATTHEW SMITH,

Koiite 1. Wj^llville. Vn.

RHODE ISLAND RED

Eggs for sale at $1.50 per sitting.

M. H. CHALKLEY, Richmond, Va.

MRS. J. D. S. BROWN, STAUNTON, VA., - Route T.

Breeder of Pure-Bred

R. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS.

EgfTS for sale—$1 for 15. A few .•ockerels for sale.

WALKER'S WHITE ROCKS.

Took 2nd cock; 1st and 2nd cockerels; 1st and 2nd pullets; 1st pen at Herndon, Va., show Jan., 1909. Strong competition. Am booking orders for eggs. $1.00 and $2.00 for 15.

C. M. WALKER, Herndon, Va.

JOHN'S RIVER FARM. BerksMtes and Wyandoiies.

Will book orders for a limited number of Berkshire pigs for early spring fleliv-erv.

Send me your orders for Silver-Laced Wyandotte Eggs for sitting at $1 per" 15. For further Infromatlon Address,

.lOHN M. HARSHAW. Proprietor. Collettuvillo. N C.

"EAST VIEW-"

Silver-Laced Wyandott«s exclusively Stock from J. W. Miller Co., Ill; free range; eggs $1 for 15, $2.50 for 50; $5.75 for 100. Mrs. W. S. Chichester, Aqnasco, Md.

Always mention The Southern Planter when writing advertisers.

THE SOUTHERN PLANTER.

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BREEDERS OF ARISTOCRATS ONLY.

Barred Plymouth Rocks, Black Minorcas, S. C. Brown Leghorns, S. C.jWhite Leghorns

For sixteen years I have bred these birds on my farm with free range. They have constitutions; are essentially aristocrat egrg-shellers; have, and can, hold their own against the arrogant boast of any blue-ribbon winners. Have won prizes running from first to fourth, wherever shown. Highest scoring male, female and ten highest scoring fowls in the show. At Charlotte, N. C, 1909, my birds won first cock, hen, cockerel, pullet and pen, one special, also one diploma from American Poultry As-sociatlon and five club ribbons. Eggs for hatching from these grand show blrd'3, $1.50 per sitting. Birds shipped on approval.

AddresB J. WALLACE: SNEL.I.IX6, R. F. D. 1, MANGHE3STKR, VA.

(Yards, Stop 9, Richmond-Petersburg Trolley.) '■"'«.»^^^-i■*^£.^w3^

ESTABLISHED 1893.

BERGER'S White Wyandottes

BIG

LayrrM BIrdM

Eggs.S I 50 per 13 and

$3 per 16.

descriptive circular on request.

R. O. BERGKK, State Secy. Natl. White Wyandotte Club. Office 16 No. 20th St.,

RICHMOND, VA.

WHITE WYANDOTTES.

Rose and S. C. Rhode Island Reds. Eggs for hatching, %\ per 15; $1.75 per 30; $2.75 per 50; $5 per 100. Utility strain, Satisfaction Guaranteed. Valley View Poultry Yards. J. D. Gllcfc. Prop. Route 1, nox 41. Dayton, Va.

Sliver Laced Wyandottea

Bggs for hatching from choice matlngs at $1 per 15. Now booking orders. Vigorous Cockerels, $1.25 to $1.60. Trios, |4. Choice lot of birds to select from. Can furnish In any quantities wanted.

All stock strictly first class and healthy.

DR. H. H. LEE,

Papiar Hill Poultry rarm, R. F. D. No.4, Lexington, Va

S. L. W^YANDOTTES Exclusively.

Finest pure-bred stock, extra winter layers. Eggs $1.25 per 15; $2 per 30. Safe arrival and satisfaction. Having 25 years experience with leading varieties of purebred poultry, I know that my WYANDOTTES are hard to beat. Circular free. Holly Grove Poultry Farm, S. P. YODER, Denbigh, Va.

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Tell the advertiser where you saw is advertisement.

A GREY MULE OF A DIFFERENT

COLOR.

Mary Washington.

We have all heard of the proverbial "grey horse of a different color," but only recently have I heard of a mule of this kind. The narrative I subjoin of this animal was told me by a wholesale shoe dealer in Lynchburg, who had the facts at first hand, and they are really so delightfully comic, so much more so than any one could Invent that I will relate them for the benefit of my readers.

Amongst the customers of this shoe merchant (whom, for convenience, we will call Mr. X) was a country store keeper, who came to town once in a while in a large, old-fashioned wagon, with a canvas top, to replenish his stock. On one occasion when he drove up to the shoe establishment for this purpose, Mr. X, going out to the door, noticed that one of the mules of the team was lacking in one ear. He made some comment on this, to which the countryman replied: "Yes, sir, he Is lacking one ear, and there is a tale connected with that." As Mr. X expressed a curiosity to hear this tale, the countryman proved as accomodating as Scheherezade in "The Arabian Nights" and related his adventures with the nnle as follows:

"Some years ago," said he. "I was needing a mule and thought I would 2:0 to the court house to look for one, ^s many people go there on Court Day fo sell or buy horses or mules, I soon came across a man with a fine looking grey mule. He asked me if I wanted to buy, and I told him yes, I was looking; for a mule, and asked if his would work all right In the plow, or in harness and In shafts. He said, yes, the mule would work all right any way T could fix him, and so I bought him and carried him home and put him in my stable.

The next morning T told my hired man to go and hitch him up. but

Sans-Tasche-Slngle-Comb-Rhode-Island-Reds.

That's the way to spell

C-H-l-C-K-E-N.

Two Pens—First and third prize-winning cocks at the Bristol Show with fine pullets. Eggs $2 and $i per sitting. $5.50 and $3 for 50. Bred for size and color, thoroughbred. You will not be disappointed in ordering from

SANS TASCHE CS) YARDS

SEVEN MILE FORD, VA.

Golden Wyandottes.

Birds finer this year than ever before. Splendid winter layers. Eggs $1 per IB; $1.75 per 30; $3 per 50; $5 per 100. MISS KATIE TOMPSON Route 3, Manassas, Va

MAMMOTH

BRONZE TURREYS

67 beautiful, pure-bred tomi and hens for Bal«.

ENGLISH SETTER PUPS.

Good ones. Blue Belton strain. Also Berkshire Pigs entitled to registration. Write your wants. MRS. GEO. M. W^EST, Vlnlta, Va.

Indian Runner Ducks.

Greatest layers on eartn; easy to raise, no lice. Prize winners Virginia State Fair and Poultry Show. Also R. C. Reds and S. C. B. Leghorns. Ducks sold out. Eggs In season. MRS B. J. GRASDERGER, BampasB, Va.

Wliite W^yandottes Exclustveiy.

Bred for business. Will please farmer or fancier. Eggs from carefully selected stock, $1.25 per 15; $2 per 3«. Circular free. I guarantee satisfaction. .1. H. YODER, Denbigh, Va.

THE SOUTHERN PLANTEE.

[Api^il,

FAIRFIELD

Nokesville, Va.

Indian Runner Ducks

S. C. White and Brown Leghorns

Registered Berkshire Swine

Write us your wants.

Edgewood Stock Farm

DORSET SHEEP

Our lambs are coming again, so we are ready to book your orders. Don't delay writing-. Our lambs are out of large, strong-boned ewes and sired bj rams descended from the best blood Id England. Give us a trial. We can please you. Address, H. H. ARBtJCKI-K. MaxvreHon. W. Vp

WOODLAND DORSETS

We have some splendid yearling rams on hand and can make the best of selection; also a few very fine yearling ewes.

J. E. WING & BROS., Mechaiiicsburg, O.

after about half an hour he returned bruised and bleeding, and said he couldn't do anything with that varmint. 'That's because you don't understand how to manage him,' said I, and off I went to the stable myself, but I fared as badly as the negro, and at last we just had to turn him loose in the pasture. The next Court Day we managed to get a bridle over him and I carried him to court and had the good luck to sell him. I waited six months and then I went to the court house of the adjoining county to look for a mule again. On the court green I met with a man who had a fine looking black mule to which he gave a first class certificate of character, so after considerable chaffering between us, I bought the animal and carried him home.. Next morning we tried to put him to work with the same result we had experienced with the mule I first bought. I was so angry and disgusted I could hardly find words to express my feelings. There was nothing to do but to turn him out in pasture. That night a heavy, soaking rain came up and next morning when I went to the pasture 1 found the rain had washed off a coating of black paint from the mule, and there he stood, the same old grey mule I had bought at first. In a transport of rage I jerked out my knife, rushed at him, exclaiming 'You shall never fool me again,' and cut off one of his ears. I was sorry for it when I cooled down, buf I think 1 had sufficient provocation and, besides, I knew if I marked him in this way no sharper could ever impose him on me again.

And now, another strange thing happened. I got desperate about this mule, thinking it was a dead incubus on my hands which I could neither use my self nor sell to any one else, and so I drove him up into a very narrow stall where he had no room to kick and plunge and here we managed to put on his harness, though by the hardest struggle, but after it was done he made ao resistance and gave no trouble in anything else, so I found out that that was the whole root of the trouble. That was two years ago, and I have never taken offTiis harness since. Parts of it have worn out in that time, buf I have mended it on him, and he and I have gotten to be good friends, and I find he does his work as well as any other mule.

POTENTIAL.

The country parson was condoling with the bereft widow.

"Alas!" he continued earnestly, "I cannot tell you how pained I was to learn that your husband had gone to heaven. We were bosom friends, but we shall never meet again."—^Lippin-cott's.

O. I. c.

Pigs not akin; also boars for sale. All eligible to registry.

D. -WM. GOOD, Farland, Va.

G. T. SCHOOLEY, Hamilton, Va.

Breeder of pure-bred

O. I. C. HOGS

Pigs for sale at reasonable prices.

DURCC JERSEY SWINE

Best Blood. Nothing but the best individuals offered for breeders.

WARREN RICE. Vancluse Sta., Va. Frederick Couuty.

TAMVVORTHS.

The lean bacon hogs—pigs, bred BOWS, and service boars, all registered and of best blood. BERKSHIRES.

Fine pigs and service boars entitled to registration and of blue ribbon stock. Am out of Poland-China pigs at present. J. C. GRAVES, BarboarsTllle, Va.

^: OAK GROi/E FARM

OfEere some first class Essex PlgS/ May and June delivery.

SoutlidoTrn Lambs for June and July. Also an extra strain of firm, sound, white field Seed Corn in ears and shelled. Runs in weight from 58 to 60 lbs. per shelled bushel.

li. G. JONES, Tobaccovllle, N. C.

TAMW^ORTH PIGS.

From Registered Stock of Fine Breeding.

Knowle of Cook Farm 5067 at head of herd. Sire 2nd prize boar at Royal Show, Eng., 1907., Dam, Ist prize gilt at same shew, 1907.

VOL.NEY OSBTTRir Blnemont, Londona Co. Va.

RICHMOND

COLLIE KENNELS

Pedigreed Collie Puppies, sable and white. Bred right and are right. Blue ribbon stock. $10. See them. W^. J. STRAIN, Mechauiesville Farm, Riclimond, Va.

AT STUD

Southern Sentinel

(A. K. C. 123303.)

The above superb Collie dog, of very finest blood lines, is offered for use to a limited number of approved good bitches. Fee and pedigree on application.

Choice yonng Stock of both sexes tot sale at moderate prices. SHERBROOKE COLLIE KENNELS, Culpepcr, Va.

Please mention the Southern Planter.

THE SOUTHERN PLANTER.

407

Pure-Bred POULTRY

_

Eggs for hatching now ready. I can supply eggs from choice mat-Ings of the following breeds: Barred, Buffi and White Plymouth Rocks; White, Brown and Buff Leghorns; Single and Rose Comb Rhode Island Reds and Black Mln-orcas; White, Buff Silver, Golden and Columbian Wyandottes; Silver Spangled Hamburg; White-faced Black Spanish, White-crested Black Polish, Cornish Indian Game, Buff, White and Black Orpingtons, all strictly pure-bred. Pekin Duck eggs, $1.50 pe rdoen, $5 per 50 and $8 per 100. Rouen and Muscovy Duck eggs same prices. White Holland and Mammoth Bronze Turkey eggrs 30c. each, as many as you wa:ii. Address,

JAMES. M. HOBDS, 1521 Mt. Royal Arenue, BALTIMORE], MD.

HOW TO CURE HEAVES

One of .the worst troubles with which horses are commonly afflicted Is the disease known as heaves—a malady which, if properly taken in hand, need not prove serious, but which must be thoroughly understood to be treated effectively.

Briefly, heaves is caused by indigestion—overfeedine, followed by violent exercise, causing an enlarged stomach and diaphragm, preventing the proper action of the lungs, this condition bringing on the peculiar cough from which.the disease takes its name.

With the knowledge of the causes of this affliction at hand, however, it Is not even necessary to call in a veterinary surgeon. The popular Newton's Heave. Coush and Distem per Cure is not only a sure remedy for Heaves, but is invaluable for colds, indigestion, epizootics, lung and throat trouble, and many of the ilsorders from which horses suffer. This remedy is old and time-tried, liaving been used by horsemen everywhere for more than twenty-five rears. This valuable preparation is sold by all dealers.

A book issued by the proprietors. The Newton Remedy Company, or roledo, Ohio, contains a great deal 5f valuable information, and will interest all owners of horses. A copy will be mailed free to any address npon request.

APPROPRIATE BINDING.

Hokes: ".Tones is a stupendous egotist; he's completely wrapped up in Limself."

Jokes: "Huh! Bound in calf."— Llppincott's.

PURE-BRED SHEEP.

Farmers, now is the time to se lect and engage your rams and ewes for next season. I have choice pure-bred Shropshire, Hampshire, Southdown, Dorset and Delaine Ram and Ewe Lambs, yearling and two to five year old Rams and Ewes I am booking orders now for shipment when wanted and the early buyer gets pick of flock and better values than the late buyers. Write to-day, and state your exact wants and I will be pleased to name you prices that are right for the quality I have. Address

JAMES. M. Honns,

1521 Mt. Royal Avemie, BALTIMORE, MD.

Pure-Bred

HOGS

I have fine lot of Spring Pigs of the following breeds and am booking orders for April, May and June shipment: Chester White, Yorkshire, Poland-China, Berkshire, Du-roc-Jersey, and Tamworth, all of which are eligible to registry. I can mate pigs two, three and four months old in pairs and trios not akin. I have some grand sows 150 to 250 lbs. bred to farrow in May and June and some fine Service Boars from 150 to 300 lbs. and will make right prices considering the quality of the animals. Address

JAMES. M. HOB8I?.

1521 Mt. Royal Avenne.

BALTIMORE, MD.

; SINGLE COMB RHODE ISLAND REDS.

The supremacy of the Reds, not only from a stand-point of beauty, but as a money-maker on the farm and in the back-yard, is questioned only by the Ignorant. .

One hen of the $50 trio, on which my strain is built up, has laid In 6 years over 800 eggs and is still active and busy. I have reduced my flock to forty layers in four pens, and every fowl is beautiful, healthy, prize-worthy. I be'ieve this is the best utility-fancy strain In the country. To avoid disappointment, I advise booking orders for eggs ahead.

BIG, PINK. FERTILE EGGS, $2 for 13. A few magniflcent cockerels to spare, $3 to $S.

DR. J H. C. WINSTON, Hampden-Sldney, V«.

MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEY EGGS

Byrd's M. B. Turkeys are conceded to be the largest and purest strains In existence. Fresh selected eggs from choice matings at $3 per 12; $5.50 per 24.

S. C. Brown Leghorns, White P. Rocks, eggs $1.25 and $1.50 per setting, the grade that will lay, weigh, win and pay.

BVRD BROTHERS,

Route 3,

SALISBURY, N. C.

Registered

POLAND-CHINAS

Some choice pigs and bred sows for sale. Bred from prize-winning stock. They have good finish, heavy bone, good backs, nice head and ears, smooth coats. Sure to p e:.se. You run absolutely no risk, every one shipped on approval. Satisfaction or your money back. Could I be fairer?

Reg. P. Chinas, Berkshlres, C. Whites. Large strains. All ages, mated, not akin. Bred Sows, Service Boars, Guernsey Calves, Collie and Beagle Pups ■and poultry. Write for prices and circular. ,„,,,„_ P. P. HAMILTON,

liiifCocliranville, Chester Co. Pa.

W\ M. JOXE.*;,

Crofton, Va.

QUALITY

Poland - Chinas.

Lest you forget we have the best breeding and individuals in P. C. blood in Virginia at farmers' prices. Young pigs and bred sows "the best'ever."

A son of the "King of Them All" at head of our herd. Write us your wants.

H. B. BUSH A BRO., .MIchaax, PoTirhatan Co., Va.

PEDLANDSF/SRM

RED POLLED CATTLE

One splendid registered yearling; three fine bull calves, eligible to registry.

Three specially fine pure-bred

SHROPSHIRE BUCKS

2-year-olds; eight yearling bucks; one registered buck, very fine.

Address:

AARON SEAY, Manager,

Carter's Bridge,

Albemarle Co., Va.

THE SOUTHERN PLANTER.

[April,

DVROC-JBRSEY and TAMWORTH SWINE.

Sterling Stock Farm, n. W. Watson, Petcrabnrs, Va

CHESTER WHITES.

Best hog on earth. I am now booking orders for spring pigs Please let me have your orders. Satisfaction guaranteed. S. M. WISECARVER, Rastbnrg. Va.

PREMIER BERKSHIRES

The large, lengthy, g-rowthy kind. A fine lot of pigs, bred from flrst-class sows, ready for April delivery; prices right. B. P. Rock eggs $1 for 15. J. T. OLIVER, Allen's Level, Vn.

Berkshire Hogs

Entitled to Registration.

One boar and four sows about eight months old. Pigs of both sexes two and one-half months old.

MEADOWBROOK FARM, DroTvry's Bluff, Va.

Devon Herd Established 1884. Hampshire Down Flock Established 1880.

DEVON CATTLE

BULLS AND HEIFERS,

HASIPSHIREDOWN SHEEP,

RAMS AND EW^ES.

ROBERT J, FARRER, Orange, Va.

Ke^istcred

JERSEY BULL CALVES

And One Young

DUTCH BELTED BULL

For Sale. OCCONEECHEE FARM, Durham, N. C.

Ingleside Herefords

Polled and standard bred—200 head In h«rd. All ages, both sexes. Write for catalognie and prices. Inspection Invited. Farm near Alderson, W. Va., on C. & O. R. R. Address. S. W. Anderson, Blaker Mills. W. Vi.

VALLEY FRONT FARM.

Sassafraa, GlonceBter Oe., Va.

I have a nice lot of raglstered Here f*rd Bulla and Heifera, for aale at farmers' prices. Also a number ol gTtLd» Heifers and cow*. My hard represents best strains and choice Indl-Tidoals.

Wmt, C. Stnbba, Prop.

THOROUGHBRED

BERKSHIRE BOARS, JERSEY BULL CALVES, DORSET BUCK LAMBS.

Sire of calves, FLYING FOX, 654B6, son of Flying Fox, who sold for |7,500 at the Cooper sale, 1902.

All 'Stock in best condition and guaranteed as represented.

F. T. ENGLISH, Centreville, Md.

Always mention The Southern Planter when writing advertisers.

A FARM LEAK STOPPED.

Ever notice a farm stead where steaming piles of stable litter lay outside stable doors and chocolate-colored streams of rich fertility ran to waste down the stable yard?

Probably you have, and probably you have noticed, too, the general air of shabby unthrift which hangs eternally over such a place. One condemns at sight the utter lack of Business sense and practice which has made possible such discouraging farm conditions.

Safe to say, there's no up-to-date-aess in aims and methods on such a place—no business economy, no conserving of valuable resources.

Thrifty farmers know manure should be drawn to the field when fresh and distributed load by loaa, evenly and finely by means of a modern manure spreader. That's the way to handle stable litter. Don't let It lie outside to "firefang" and "leach." Just as well scatter dollar bills on the highway, as to let this rich source of agricultural wealth run to waste.

A manure spreader is a business necessity to every farmer who keeps stock.

It can be used with profit every day in the year, and the amount of money a "Fearless" spreader will save is sur-i prisingly large when the worth of fertilizer is considered.

Contrasted with other spreaders, the "Fearless" is peculiar. Others, to get a width of spread suflBlcient to cover any considerable strip of ground must be built wide and heavy.

The "Fearless" Is built light and narrow. It will track with the ordinary farm wagon and easily pass the ordinary farm gate. Therefore, it is far handier to load and drive afield than the wider, heavier kind.

But the great feature of the "Fearless" spreader is its circular beater —a radical departure from previous methods of construction. The "Fearless" is built with a box but three feet wide, yets its beater, circular in form, actually spreads outside the wheels and covers, with ease, a strip 6 1-2 feet wide.

It's easy to see the great advantages of this form of beater. Not only is the machine itself easier to handle, but there is no driving over manure already spread.

Another strong point in the "Fearless" is an endless apron—no running back of the floor of the box after the load is discharged. Probably the one weak point in most spreaders is the return mechanism, and this is the "Fearless" spreader entirely does away with.

Every farmer who aims to save and make should Investigate the "Fearless" manure spreader. A card to the Harder Mfg. Co., CobT)leskiIl, N. Y.. will bring interesting reading matter.

RED POLL CATTLE

The great breed for the South and the greatest of all breeds for milk, i-utter and beef. We have the right i)reedlng and good Individuals at prices to suit.

DORSET SHEEP

Are reliable for early lambs. Early lambs are what the Southern farmer, through natural advantages, can beat 'he world on.

POLAND CHINA HOGS. PURE-BRED POriiTRY, VLBEMARLE PROLIFIC SEED CORN, ALBEMARLE PIPPINS

and FANCY RED APPLES.

Arrowhead StocK Farm,

SAMUEL B. WOODS,iProp.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA.

GALLOWAYS

Registered stock of both sexes for sale.

No orders taken for bulls except calves for future delivery.

Cows and heifers, all ages.

Sold on approval. I take all risks. Prices moderate.

Built like hogs, fatten like hogs, and make flne robes.

N. S. HOPKINS Gloucester, Va.

RED POLLS

Will Virginia and North Carolina farmers be convinced that these are the cattle for them? Write for photos and records. We will interest you. Second prize bull at last International now at head of herd. Two prime cows now ready. Most any time you can buy a calf.

H. B. ARBUCKLB,

MaxTvelton, W. Va. Please mention the Southern Planter.

ROCK SPRING FARM

lOffers for Sale"'

REGISTERED GUERNSEYS 7

of the best strains; Registered Dutoc anerk-dB shire Swine; Breeding stock and eggs from B. Rocks, Pekin Uucks, White Holland Turkeys and Guineas

H. T. HARRISON. Prop. Leesburg;. Va.

Walnut Hills Herd.

Twenty-flve Registered Angus females and two bulls for sale.

J. P. THOMPSON, Orange, Va.

FOR HIORCani COLTS

and Fillies and High-Bred Fox Hound Puppies. Address,

Dr. JOHN D. MASSKNOILL, BIonntTlIle, Tcbb.

'I

1909;]'

THE SOUTHERN PLANTER.

409

Horses and Mules at a Bargain.

One bay mare, 9 years old, weight 1,200 lbs., height 16% hands. A reliable worker everywhere and a good driving animal.

One light bay mare, 5 years old, weight about 1,050 lbs., height 15% hands. Gentle enough for a family horse. Handsome and stylish enough to please the most fastidious.

Ctie mahogany bay mare, 6 years old, weight about 1,000 lbs., height 15% hands. A reliable worker anywhere. A handsome and stylish driver. These animals are all fine brood mares and will be bred free of charge to superb Hackney stallion. They are all home raised with good blood In them and will be sold under a full written guarantee.

One pair of well matched bay mare mules, 3 years old, well broken and reliable workers everywhere.

One pair of well matched black horse mules, 2 years old, blocky and well shaped. This pair of fine two year olds will be sold at a special bargain if bought at once.

WM. M. WATKINS,

Saxe, Charlotte Co., Va.

"Breed Only to the Best"

RED COURT 38712

A standard-bred Kentucky Stallion. A Futurity Race Winner. 2 year old trial 2:26, splendidly bred, grandson •f Geo. Wilkes.

Even common mares bred to a horse of this kind And ready sale'3 as drivers and roadsters.

Terms: $15 for seasoq, usual return privilege. A sure foal getter. Mares sent from distance receive our be'st attention. Write for pedigree. BIRCHIiAND FARM, Newa Ferry, Va.

Send us your orders for Aberdeen-Angus calves. Some beauties on hand ■ow.

one: black

PERCHERON S TALLION

Coming 4 years old. A nice smooth horse with good breeding, large bone and good substance. Also one dark gray Percheron mare, coming 4 years •Id; one handsome standard-bred mare, coming 4 years old; would make a handsome driver—only halter broke now; three Angora goats; also about SO head of brood sows and shoats. Stock on farm at Turner's siding, or

LAURENCE CASSELMAN, 1108 E. Main St., Richmond, Va.

—TH E= KENTUCKY JACK FARM

^^ is the wholesale home

^P^^^^ _ for Jacks, as we breed

^^^^^^^^^ and raise the big mam-^^^^■^■i moth Kentucky Jacks, ^^^^^V and sell you a flrst-■ wL class Jack 26 to 50 per

^^^^^^^^fI cent cheaper than a ^^^^^^fcftJ dealer or speculator •an. Write to-day for prlcea on Jacks, Jennets, and mulea. A large lot to select from.

JOB. B. WRIGHT, Jaaetton Clt7, Ky.

OF HOUSEHOLD IMPORTANCE.

Of course, the Kalamazoo Stove Company, of Kalamazoo, Mich., is not the only satisfactory stove company in the country, but it would be hard to find a more progressive one which has its business more thoroughly in band, or is more keenly alive to the Interests of the user of stoves.

The selling plan of the Kalamazoo Stove Company, from factory to user, Is world famous, and their slogan "A Kalamazoo Direct to You" has become a household word. It is an interesting fact to note that the Kalamazoo records show that they are represented—have had at least one sale—in every country on the globe.

The enormous progress made by this company in the past few years is sufficient endorsement of their methods, and it is said on good authority that more than lOO.O'OO Kalamazoo stoves and ranges are now In use throughout the country.

One of the Kalamazoo Stove Co.'s characteristics Is a cheerful iconfir dence in the integrity of human nature. They believe that—other things being equal—a man will generally keep his word—do what lie promises to do. During the past few years letters have come to this office from time to time asking if Kalamazoo stoves were sold on credit. Heretofore they have been obliged to return the same negative reply to all these inquiries; to their regret and the disappointment of the inquirer. It has nevertheless always remained a possibility for the future, and their plans for putting this policy Into operation are finally completed.

Beginning with this season the Kalamazoo Stove Company announce that they are ready to handle these inquiries for credit more satisfactorily. From now on, charge accounts will be opened on their books with all responsible persons who want to buy a Kalamazoo. The convenience to thousands of this new feature of the Kalamazoo selling plan is instantly recognizable, and will tend toward a mammoth increase in the sale of Kalamazoo stoves and ranges.

Merit alone has sold these stoves in the past. Now, they possess this added advantage of being purchase-able on a charge account, which places them virtually within the reach of every one with a home, and the field seems limitless.

The company has been /working for some time to bring about this chnns-e of policy in their business, and thpy seem justified in being optimistic as to results, both for the firm and their customers.

Catalogues and full explanations of terms—cash or credit—will" he sent free upon request to the Kalamazoo Stove Company, Kalamazoo, MicB.

GlenaraS took Farm

OFFERS FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY

SHORT HORNS

8 dual-purpose Short-Horn Cows, Imported from Canada, all bred or with calves at foot, to Bessie's Lad, No. 273945. Prices from $60 to |100.

1 aged dual purpose bull, price $75.

3 Short-Horn yearling bulls, price $50 each.

4 Short-Horn yearling heifers, price, $50 each.

DORSET SHEEP

2 aged Dorset rams, price, $35 each. 2 yearling Dorset rams, price $30

'ach.

POLAND-CHINAS

15 Poland-China boar pigs, winter farrow. Price $15 each.

15 Poland-China gilts, price $15 each.

FOR MAY AND JUNE DELIVERY CLYDESDALE

1 yearling Clydesdale Stallion, by imp. "Evander," 1st and champion at Aberdeen, Scotland, Ist and Reserve champion at Chicago International, out of Imp. "Lanark Queen," winner of 25 firsts and championships in Scotland and 1st and champion at the Chicago International. Price $600.

1 yearling Clydesdale Stallion, by imp. "Evander," (see above) out of "Thorncllffe Duchesse" 1st at the Chicago International. Price, $500.

DORSET SHEEP

15 Dorset ram lambs, by imp. "Romulus 2nd," 1st in England, and 1st at the Chicago International, out of ewes imported from Canada and England, many of them prize-winners. Prices, $15 to $25.

POLAND=CHINAS

Poland-China Boar Pigs and gilts of spring farrow, sired by the first and champion boar at the Virginia State Fair 1908, out of sows imported from the most fashionable western families. Price at weaning time, $10 each.

Registration papers furnished with all stock. All shipments will be sent collect on receipt of check or money order, but all buyers may return any purchase with which they are dissatisfied at my expense and their purchase money will be refunded.

Place yonr orders no^. These ar* Farmers' Prices.

JOHN BUTLER SWANN.

Marshall, Fau((uief Co., Va,

COOK FARMS.

JACKS, SADDLE HORsES, TROT-TING AND PACING STALLIONS.

ffr-.'^-.-'T, -^^ are the 'argest Breeders and Importer! of Jacks in America. Write us your wants, J P. COOK A CO., T.,exlnKton, Ky. Branch Barn,

Wichita, Kansas.

THE SOUTHERN PLANTER.

[Aprils

Want ads.

Rates 2 cents per word. Ca'3h with order. Initials and figures count avs one word; 25 ents mlninvum charge.

POULTRY, ETC.

EGGa_ FRESH AND FERTILE—IN-dlan Runner Duck eggs, $1—11; $1.75 —22. Pens headed by noted layers. White Holland Turkey eggs from 2-year old hens, 20 cents each. White African Guinea, $1—15 eggs, Toulouse Goose eggs, 20 cents each. Line bred Barred Plymouth Rocks, few cockerels and pullets for sale, $1 to $1.25 apiece; eggs $1—15; $1.50—30; $5 a hundred. All eggs carefully selected. Give me an order and I will give you the worth of your money. Satisfaction guaranteed. Ingraham Poultry Yards, Somerset, Orange Co., Va.

ROCKLAND POULTRY FARM. BAR-red Plymouth Rocks, barred to the skin, only one breed on yard. Strictly fresh eggs $1 for 15, $1.50 for 30; $5 for 100. Beautifully marked cockerels $1.50 and $2 each. Eggs for hatching from Pearl Guineas and R. C. B. B. Game Bantams, $1 for 18. A trial order will convince you of the excellency In quality of my birds. Mrs. Keesee Brooking, Somerset, Ya.

RINGLETS SINCE 1895. WE CAN SELL you strictly high-class eggs from exhibition Ringlet Barred Rocks, the kind yoa can't equal for less than double, either cockerel or pullet matlngs, 15 for $3; 30 for $5; from grand utility birds $1 for 15; 50 for $3. We positively guarantee fair hatches and strictly high quality. Monroe Grove Poultry Farm, Aldie, Va.

BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS (CY-phers and Thompson strains) eggs from pens containing birds with egg records of 120 to 175 per year. $1.50 and $2 per sitting of 13. Cocks heading $2.00 pens are exhibition birds from egg laying strain, fit to show In any company. Satisfaction and a fair hatch guaranteed. Mountain View Poultry Farm and Kennels, Glenvar, Va.

INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS — MY Ducks come from the best duck 6ro«ders In the United States. My 4irds have free range and their eggs last season ran high In fertility and fiatched vigorous ducklings. Eggs ajone for sal«. 11 for $1; 60 for $4; 100 for $7. W. W. Henry, Jr., Broad Run, Fauquier Co., Va.

NOTICE! ! ! R. C. B. LEGHORNS Exclusively. If you want hens to sit, do not buy my eggs. Non-sitters. Great layers. Hardy, vigorous, farm-raised birds. Guarantee 85 per cent, fertile eggs. A few hens for sale at $1 each. Eggs $1 per 15, $5 per 100; $2.75 per 50. Gardner Poultry Farm, Ashburn, Va.

EGGS—R. n. BROWN LEGHORNS, "Brace's strain" of New York. S. C. R. I. Red, Bryant'.s strain of Mass., $1 per 15, $4 per 100. Great layers and best all around birds on earth. Address order.s to Evergreen Farms, Rice Depot, Va.

WYCKOFF STRAIN S. C. W. LEG-horns. Bred to lay. Eggs $1.50 for 15; $5 per 100. Satisfaction guaranteed. W. H. Densmore. Route 3, Roanoke. Va. Formerly Va. Poultry & Berry Farm, .Sutherlln, Va.

WELL, AS WE TCXiD YOU IN THE March Issue of the Planter, we have reduced the price of our best eggs from April 1st. Now if you want eggs from as good S. C. White Leghorns as there are in this country, we've got 'em. Good in shape, leg and comb. Perpetual layers. Eggs $1 per 15; $1.50 per 30; $4.50 per 100. Sterling Poultry Yards, P. O. Box 626, Staunton, Va.

MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEY EGGS ^ ,^^^ k^- ^^^ Orpington $1 per 15; Pekin Ducks $1 per 12. We handle nothing but pure-bred stock of the very best strains. Place your orders ahead. B. O. Poultry Yards, Route 1, Rapidan, Va.

WHITE WYANDOTTES, BEAUTIFUL and useful; fine In color, comb and shape. Hardy farm raised which lay. Bargain in eggs at $1 per 15; $5 per 100. C. R. Moore, Route 5, Staunton, Va.

YOUELL'S WHITE WYANDOTTES. Can sell you eggs from pens scoring 931^ to 94% points. Good layers. Square dealing my motto. Write for prices. J. C. Fishel world's best strain. Mrs. J. A. Youell, Big Stone Gap, Va.

SPECIAL BARGAINS FOR 2 WEEKS. Matlngs from our prize winners at last State Fair, "Blue Ringlet" Barred Rock eggs 13 for $1; 100 for $5. Choice cockerels $2 and $2.50. Star Poultry Yards, Manchester, Va.

WILMONT EGGS—SINGLE COMB Rhode Island Reds and Barred Plymouth Rocks, $1 for 15; $3 for 50. A brass canary cage cheap. Jersey cows for sale. Satisfaction guaranteed. Mrs. F. E. Williams, Charlottesville, Va.

PHEASANT EGGS—ENGLISH RING-necks, $2.00; Golden $5,00 per dozen.

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCK EGGS from fine laying strain of large white birds, $1 per 15. Harry W. Coddlng-ton, Roanoke, Va.

EGGS FROM PRIZE-WINNING WHITE Holland Turkeys $2.50 per dozen. White Wyandotte and White Guineas $1 per 15; Mammoth PekIn Ducks, $1 per 10. White Poultry Yards, Lorraine, Va.

CHINA AND ENGLISH PHEASANT Eggs, expressage prepaid, $3 dozen: 50 eggs, $9. Goldens $4.50 doz. Easier raised and more profitable than chickens. Write for circular. Simpson's Pheasant Farm. Corvallis, Ore.

RICH, GOLDEN BUFF WYANDOTTES. The Ideal fowl. Great winter layers. Fine for the table. Good mothers and rustlers. Eggs from select matlngs, $2 for 15. Some fine cockerels yet. Geo. W. G'sterhout, Bedford City, Va.

von SALE—WHITE ROCK, WHITE R. C. Leghorn and Black B. Red Game eggs, 20 for $1. Also Game Roosters for sale. Mrs. A. T. Smith. Bumpas3, Va.

TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE MAR-velously low prices on eggs for hatching that are being offered for thirty days only, by the Edgehill Poultry Yards, Luray, Va.

WHITE WYANDOTTES, PRIZE-WIN-ners and splendid egg-producing strain. 15 eggs $1. Mammoth Bronze Turkeys from show winners and best strains. 12 eggs $2.50. Sunnyslde Farm, Jonesvllle, Va.

WHITE WYANDOTTE EGGS FOR sale. $1 per sitting of 15. George Osborne, Hurlock, Md.

BERKSHIRE PIONEER POULTRY Yards offer Golden Penciled Ham-burgs, White Crested Black Polish, 13 eggs $2; Salmion FaveroUes 13 eggs $3; Silver Spangled Hambures, Partridge Wyandottes, Golden Sea-bright Bantams, Cornish Indian Games, Pearl Guineas, White Guineas, Pekin Ducks, Indian Runner Ducks, 13 eggs $1. Circular, A. B. Parsons, Berkshire, N. Y.

IF THEY AWARDED PRIZES FOR egg laying, I would exhibit my S. C. W. Leghorns. They are bred for eggs and not feathers. Heavy winter layers and farm raised. Eggs, $1 per 15;$3 per 50; $5 per 100. Refer-erence, anyone in Centrevllle. R. C. Thomas, Centrevllle, Md.

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS, RHODE Island Reds, Pekin Ducks—eggs and stock. Model Incubators, Conkey's remedies, Purina feeds. Send for catalogue. Drury B. BaskervUle & Bro., Salem, Va.

EGGS—S. C. BUFF ORPINGTONS AND White Wyandottes $1 per 13. M. B. Turkeys $2.50 per 11. All from good birds. I took two blue and one red on these birds at county fair. Angora goats. C. C. Russell, R. No. 2, Hagan, Va.

MOUTAIN VIEW POULTRY FARM— Eggs from best laying strain of large S. C. MInorcas, $1 per 15, $1.50 per 30. Heavy weight, Cornish Indian Game eggs $1.25 per 15, $2.25 per 30. S. H. Carpenter, Novum, Va.

BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCKS—EGGS for hatching, $1 per 15; $5 per 100. Nice color, good layers, large size* Guarantee fertile eggs. A. H. Kirk, Secy. Herndon Poultry Show Hern-don, Va.

BARRED AND WHITE P. ROCKS, Silver Laced and Buft Wyandottes, White and Brown Leghorns. Egg3 from best laying strains $1.20 for 15, $6 for 100. John E. Heatwole, Harrisonburg, Va.

SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS Wyckoft strain exclusively for six years. Positively no inbreeding; new blood from headquarters this year. Eggs $1 for 15. Cotton Valley Farm, Tarboro, N. C.

EGGS 85c. FOR 15. BUFF ORPING-ton. White Wyandotte, Black Minorca, Rose and Single Comb Brown Leghorn's, Indian Runner and Pekin Duck eggs, 90c. for 12. Mrs. Frank Johnson, Route 1, Louisa, Va.

EGGS BOTH COMBS AND LOT SIN-gle comb pullets for sale. We have the best In Reds, Blue Ribbon, shape and color, winners. Circular will Interest you. W. Shook, McGaheys-vllle, Va.

FOR SALE—PURE BRED SINGLE Comb Brown Leghorn Eggs; this season. 60 cents for 15; can furnish any number. Mrs. R. Kent Cassell, Wythevllle, Va.

HAVE MATED MY YARDS AND NOW bo,oking orders for Silver Wyandotte eggs, $1 for 15. Bred from New York and Chicago winners. J. B. Beamer, Pickaway, W. Va.

FOR SALE—WHITE PLYMOUTH Rocks exclusively, Fl'shels direct. Cockerels $1. Eggs $1.50 for 15. Satisfaction guaranteed. Brooke B. Gochnauer, Upperville, Va.

BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCK EGGS— from exhibition stock. Orders filled promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Charlie Brown, Route 1, CartersviUe, Va.

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POULTRY, ETC. (Contlnaed).

PURE-BRED EGGS FOR SALE—ROSE and S. C. Rhode Island Reds and Buff Orpingtons, fl per 15; $2 per 50, Fine laying strain. Wild Rose Poultry Farm, Gold Dale, Va.

HIGH CLASS WHITE PLYMOUTH Rocks exclusively. 1st prize pen at Washington, 1909. Stock and eggs for sale. Berry Poultry Yards, Hern-don, Virginia. ,

SINGLE COMB RHODE ISLAND RED eggs $1; Rose Comb $1.50 per 15; none better. Special rate for Incu-hator. E. G. Clark, Route 6, Box 131, Richmond, Va.

EGGS FOR SALE—GOLDEN WYAN-dotte's, S. C. Brown Leghorn's $1 per 15. Duroc-Jersey Pigs, $7.50. Satisfaction guaranteed. C. P. Garth, Prof-flt, Va.

PURE-BRED RHODE ISLAND REDS, Rose and Single Comb Cockerels for sale. Eggs for hatching, $1 per 15; $1.75 per 30. Elkton Poultry Farm, Elk ton, Va.

EGGS—BUFF WYANDOTTES. S. C. White Leghorns, also few White Orpingtons, $1 setting. Fine healthy stock. Satisfaction guaranteed. T. M. King, Hagan, Lee Co., Va.

EGGS FROM PURE-BRED S. C. W. Leghorns and White Plymouth Rocks, $1 for 15; $1.50 for 30. Choice Leghorn cockerels $1. T. C. Morton, Kice Depot, Va.

DON'T FAIL TO READ THE ADVER-tlsement In this Issue made by the Edgehill Poultry Yards, Luray, Va.

FOR SALE—WHITE WYANDOTTE eggs, pure-bred. 75 cents for 15 or $4 per 100. Address Mrs. James Burton, Elsom, Va.

BOURBON RED TURKEY EGGS $4 per 11. Rose Comb Brown Leghorn chickens. Eggs $1 per 15, $4 per 100. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Price, Belmont, Ohio.

FOR SALE: BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCKS Single and Rose Comb Buff Leghorns. Choice stock. Saticfactjon guaranteed. Send for my circalar. J. W. Silcott, Bluemont, Va.

BUFF ORPINGTONS EXCLUSIVELY— Cockerels $1; eggs 75c. per 15; $2 for 50; Indian Runner Duck eggs $1 for 11. Mrs. E. P. Wood, Beaverdam, Va.

FOUR R. C. SILVER LACED WYAN-dotte cockerels $1 and $1.25 each. Eggs 75c. and $1 per 15. Mrs. Fannie Carter, Rice Depot, Va.

EGGS $1.25 PER 15 FROM PRIZE-wlnnlng stock Silver Laced and Penciled Wyandottes. Otho M. Cockes, Elberon, Va.

EGGS FROM AN EXCELLENT LAY-ing strain of Barred Plymouth Rocks Will quote price on application. Mrs C. M. Bass, Rice Depot, Va.

600 PURE-BRED WHITE LEGHOPN chicks for .sale at 6 weeks old. i'pgf? cheap per 100. Mrs. J. R. Pai-p, Oxford, N. C.

OUR REDS ARE RED! FOR LAYING 200 eggs are bred! One and Two Dollars per sitting. Both combs. The Valley Poultry Farms, Maurertown, Va.

ALL MY EGGS FCR HATCHING FROJI any of the S. C. Leghorn strain at 60 cents for 15, or $3 for 100. Edge-hUl Poultry Yards, Luray, Va.

EGGS FOR SALE FROM PURE-BRED Silver-laced Wyandotte fowls. Prize winners 1907 and 1908 at Rd., Va., $1 for 15 eggs; $5 per 100. Miss Phaup, Pilkinton, Va.

WANTED—FOUR BLACK MINORCA cockerels. Quote price f. o. b. No-folk, Peercival Hicks, North, Mathews County, Va.

PURE-BRED WHITE WYANDOTTES, first class stock in eTery respect. Eggs in season $1.50 per sitting. O. O. Harrison, Mt. Ulla, N. C.

S. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS, CUSH-man and Tompkins strain. Eggs, choice pen $1.50 per 15; yard, one dollar. Mrs. Edward Meanley, Toano,

PHEASANT EGGS—ENGLISH RING-neck, finest stock, $2.50 per IB. Pamphlet instructions with order. Blue-ridge Pheasantry, Bedford City, Va.

TWENTT-FIVB WHITE HOIAJIND Turkeys for sal«. Toma |4 each. Hens |3, Trio %9. E. VL Hams-berger. Orange, Va.

BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCK AND Black Langshan eggs $1.26 per sitting or $2 for thirty. Robert AUar-dice, Hurlock, Md.

BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCK AND Buff Orpington eggs, 75c. per sitting of 15. Bred from prize-winning stock. Mrs. W. M. Jones, Crofton, Va.

R. C. RHODE ISLAND RED AND White Wyandotte eggs at $1 per sitting (15); $5 per 100. John Campbell, Route 2, Beaver Dam, Va.

EGGS FROM SPECIAL MATINGS OF pure-bred S. C. Brown Leghorns, $1 for 15. Theo. Schmltz, Route 5, Richmond, Va.

BUFF ORPINGTON EGGS FROM NICE large, pure-bred fowls, $1 per 15; $2 per 50. Miss Annie V. Herndon, Gold Dale, Va.

EGGS FOR SALE: BARRED PLY-

mouth Rocks, A. C. Hawkins strain,

16 for $1., 100 for $4. E. C. Spain, Church Road, Va.

EGGS FROM PRIZE-WINNING BUFF Rock, White, Black and Silver Duck-wing Leghorns, $1 per 15. Melrose Poultry Yards, Manchester, Va.

SINGLE COMB BLACK MINORCAS— Must sell at once my entire stock. Extra layers. Will Dwlght, Clover, Va.

EGGS FROM PURE-BRED S. C. B. Leghorns. Special mating. Will quote , price on application. Mrs. C. M. Bass Rice Depot, Va.

EGGS—FROM PURE-BRED PLY-mouth Rock and White Leghorns. Heavy laying strain. $1 for 15 eggs. Mrs. J T. Clark, Green Bay, Va.

BE SURE AND READ THE ADVER-tlsement from the Edgehil) Poultry Yard.s.

FOR SALE—EGGS FROM PURE-bred Brown Leghorns, 85c. for IB eggs. J. W. Smith, Clover, S. C.

FAVEROLLES—THE GREAT WINTER layers. Eggs 13 for $1.25, 26 for $2. L. O. Stickley, Strasburg, Va.

EGGS, EGGS, EGGS. S. C. B. LEG-horn eggs at 75c. per 13. Stock guaranteed. B. G. Bass, Rice, Va.

SILVER LACED WYANDOTTE EGGS for sale. $1 per sitting of 15. R. Osborne, Hurlock, Md. ,

EGGS FROM BRED TO LAY WHITE Wyandottes. 15, $1.50; 30, $2.50. Elbert White, Whitesburg, Tenn.

EGGS FROM PURE-BRED R. C. Rhode Island Reds. $1 for 15. J. J. Gilliam, Farmville, Va.

R. C. RHODE ISLAND RED EGGS from choice matlngs, $1 per 15. W. A. Yeary, Route 2, JonesvUle, Va.

EGGS FROM PRIZE-WINNING BLACK Langshans. Extra fine birds, $1 per 15. Hrs. S. F. Bladgett, Farmville, Va.

EGGS FROM BUFF P. ROCKS, CHOICE matlngs, $1 per 15 or $1.50 per 30. J. D. Thomas, Round Hill, Va.

COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTE COCKEB-els and eggs per sitting; each $1.60. C. V. Campbell, Oliver, Va.

EGGS—WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS $1 per 15. Miss Addie Cowherd, Gor-donsvllle, Va.

S. C. BUFF LEGHORNS AND BARRED Bock eggs $1 per 15. Ansel Vernon, Madison, Va.

PURE BRED PLYMOUTH ROCK P.GQ3 for sale. Elam Poultry Yard, W. B. Rice, Prop., Prospect, Va.

20 WHITE HOLLAND TURKEY HENS May 1st, $2 each. Geo. Moss, Guln-eys, Va.

L.IVB STOCK,

CRYSTAL SPRINGS FARM FAMOUS Holstein-Frleslan calves for sale. Herd headed by the great bull. Castle Fin De Kol No. 50189 H. F. H. B. at farmers' prices. Also a few hlgrh grades. R. M. Janney, Mgr., Laurel, Md.

FOR SALE—SHORTHORN BULL EL-igible to registry. From Col. SL Walton's herd of Pall Mills, Tazewell Co. 7 years old, dehorned, ring in nose, easily handled. Price $75. Sold to avoid inbreeding. W. G. Merrick, Glendower, Va.

FOR SALE—ONE BLACK SPANISH Jack 4 years old and 3 young Jennets Prices low. Am overstocked. For further particulars apply to Geo. W. Wooding, Leesville, Va. On Virgin-Ian Railway.

FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE—ANGUS Cattle for first-class trotting bred stallion or Percheron mares. Hackney mares and colts for sale cheap. All stock registered. Myer & Son, Brldgeville, Del.

FOR SALE—ROYALLY BRED HERE-ford Bull, coming 3 years old, form, quality, size, disposTtion, the very best, bargain to prompt buyer. Box 1, Somerset, Va.

BERKSHIRES, BERKSHIRE PIGS one and four months old, bred sows for sale at reasonable prices. Will guarantee satisfaci ion. River View Farm, Rice Depot. Va

A FEW FINE BERKSHIRE PIGS AND one three vear old registered boar for sale. All stock entitled to registration. You can get the best at farmer.?' prices. W. C. Shackelford, Jr., Route 1, Proffit, Va.

FOR SALE. BERKSHIRE PIGS FROM large fine sow by Blltmore boar, $6 each. Boars ready for service. Evergreen Farms, Rice Depot, Va.

FOR SALE—SEVEN HEAD YOUNG broken mules, 3 years old. Answer to M., Southern Planter. '

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LIVE STOCK (Continued).

FOR SALE—REGISTERED POLLED Herefords. Wilton, Anxiety and Howe strains. Prices moderate. Apply Samuel T. Earle. Jr., 1431 Lin-€len Ave., Baltimore, Md.

FOR SALE—THE GREAT RACE Stallion Cordova 2.17^. A big horse, a fast horse and a handsome horse. Percival Hicks, North, Mathews Co., Va.

WANTED—TEN GILTS DUE TO FAR-row in April or May. Must be good Berkshire, Yorkshire or Tamworth stock. Give prices. S. C. Woicott, Dlxondale, "Va.

PONIES—SEVERAL SHETLAND AND others for children, well broken. Ctie pair matched roan mares, 6 years, kind; single and double. J. M. Cunningham, Brandy Station, Va.

FOR SALE—ONE ANGUS BULL, REG-Istered, 3 years old, fine size, kind and gentle. F. W. Brown, Yancey-ville. N. C.

LARGE YORKSHIRE HOGS. WRITE your wants. Satisfaction guaranteed. W. E. Stlckley, Strasburg, Va.

FOUR PERCHERON MARES IN FOAL or with foal at foot. Blrdwood Stock Farm, Birdwood, Va.

FOR SALE—BERKSHIRE PIGS, BEST blood. J. W. Adams, Addison, Dinwiddle Co., Va.

THREE SERVICE • BERKSHIRE

Boars; Biltmore strain, for sale cheap. N. A. Pollard, Sheppards, Va.

DOGS, PET STOCK, ETC.

COLLIE PUPS SIRED BY IMPORTED Craigmore Curate, also grown Collies, Rhode Island Red eggs. Prize stock, $1 per 20; $4 per 100. Shady Brook Farm, Route 2, Roanoke, Va.

FOX, DEER, COON AND OPOSSUM hounds and pups, $3.SO to $15 each. For bargains .write me. E. F. Wil-mouth, Shelbyville, Ky.

SCOTCH COLLIE PUPPIES; ANOTHER choice litter. Best breeding'. Finest markings. Charlie Brown, Route 1, Cartersville, Va.

FOR SALE—4 COON, POSSUM AND Pox Haunds. Best in two states. R. J. Dillard, Kendalla, W. Va.

FOR SALE—PURE-BRED RUFUS RED Belgian hares, $1 per pair. Jas. H. Whitten, Amherst, Va.

RHAL. BSTATB.

FOR RENT OR WORK ON SHARES— a fine farm especially adapted to dairying, stock breeding and trucking. Near splendid market for all dairy and farm products. Station, post office, express office, church and •chool on farm. Excellent neighborhood. A bargain for the right man. Apply Oak Hill Stock & Dairy Farm, Wenonda, Va.

WANTED—FARMS AND BUSINESSES everywhere. Don't pay agent's com-Missions. We find you cash buyer direct. Describe property fully naming lowest price. Get our free ad-vlca as to beat property t» buy. American Investment Association, 518 f9th Ave., North. Minneapolis. Minn.

WE CAN SELL YOUR PROPERTY— Send description and price. Northwestern Business Agency, Minneapolis, Minn. '

VmK ESTATE FG'R SALE—THREE sets of handsome buildings; residences contain 10, 9 and 8 rooms; five other settlements. Beautiful situation, good grazing and farming land, 1,2G0 acres. Will divide. Price $25; close to town. A. H. Clement, Appomattox, Va.

THE RICHEST FARMS IN NORTHERN Virginia are in Loudoun and Clarke counties. They are the only ones I handle. Address Sales Dept., J. Preston Shannon, Farm Specialist, Pur-cellville, Va.

OLD TURBURY HOMESTEAD FOR sale. Ideal summer home. Will exchange for good farm near Richmond or Petersburg; Description and view for stamp or call at Planter Office. Alfred Coombs, Amesbury, Mass.

WANTED TO EXCHANGE CITY LOTS in Gulfport, Miss., for Shetland ponies, collies, blood hounds, or fancy poultry. J. D. Stodghlll, Shelbyville, Ky.

POSITIOWS—HBLP.

WE SUPPLY PROMPTLY EXPER-ienced white farm help (married couples and single men) from the North and from the old countries. Apply to the Women's Domestic and Farmer's Guild, 102 N. 6th St., Richmond, Va. (The only institution of its kind in the whole South.)

WANTED—POSITION AS MANAGER of gentleman's estate, practical farmer and manager of all kinds of stock, highest references as to character and ability here and elsewhere. A. Longhborough, Leesburg, Va.

WANTED—."SOMEONE TO STANI> A thoroughbred stallion on shares for the season of 1909. I have a good horse in the wrongr locality. Percival HIcka. North, Mathews Co., Va.

WANTED—POSITION AS MANAGER on farm, dairy preferred, six years experience. References furnished. H. L. S., care Southern Planter.

HISCBIiLAlVEOUS.

WANTED—TO BUY ALL KIND? W^ild Birds and Animal^, particularly Tame Deer. Wild Turkeys, White Squirrels, Peafowl. Otters. Red Foxef iGray Squirrels. Partridges. Pheasants, Beaver. State price when wrlt-Iner. Dr. Cecil French, Naturalist. Washington. D. C.

RICHMOND

W^D

Vie»<BINIA

wr>orfTO-*-Rn & gON. RICHMOND. VA. T.nmber. Laths. Rhin-E-les. Sash. Blinds. Doors, Frames Mouldings, A.sphalt Roofing. Yards and

buildings covering ten arces.

I HAVE $4,500 STOCK IN THE WIN-dow Glass Factorv i-n Clarksburg, W. Va., and a $4,000 dwelling house T would like to trade for a. farm of same value rear Richmond, if possible. Will furnish description on aripTJoation. .Tules Mayeur, South Charleston, W. Va.

FOLDING SAWING MACHINE MADE bv Folding Sawing Machine Co., Chicago. Will exchange for one rooster and three hens full blood Orpingtons. Make other offers. Chas. Manning, Sunbury, N. C.

FOR SALE C'R EXCHANGE—SOME good farm machinery and Jersey Reg. Bull Calf and year old heifer for .Tersey Bull or brood sows. Address M. care Southern Planter.

$65 BREECH LOADING GUN—WISH to trade for an Underwood Typewriter—good perfect order. N. B. Powell, Rockfish, Va.

WILL SELL FOR HALF PRICE ONB 110 egg Chatham Incubator in good condition. Also Indoor brooder. W.

B. Gates, Ettrick, Va.

A CLARK'S DOUBLE ACTION CUTA-way Harrow; good as new, for sale, price $20. Theo. Schmitz, Route 5, Richmond, Va.

ITALIAN BEES WANTED. NICE BEL-gian hares for sale. Tillman E. Jeter, Paces, Va. »

SEEDS, PLANTS, Etc.

42 EARS OF CROOK'S WHITE GIANT seed corn shelled one bushel; this corn cannot be beaten for size of ear and yield per acre. I will send one pound for 30c, peck 75c., % bushel $1.40. Reference Citizen's Bank. Lexington, Tenn. Address W.

C. Crook, Huron, Tenn.

I HAVE FOR SALE ABOUT IB* bushels of Black Peas, $1.50 per bushel. Good stock. J. H. Parker, Jr., Burgess, N. C.

BLACK PEAS AND SOJA BEANS FOR

sale; price $1.50 per bushel f. o. b.

Roper, N. C. W. M. Bateman, Plymouth, N. C.

FOR SALE—SEED CORN, BOONE County White and Hickory King. Per bushel, $1.40. Dr. Walter Stuart, Farmville, Va.

240 BUSHELS TRUCKERS FAVORITE early corn at $1.50 per bushel. W. H. Wilson, St. Brides. Va.

HICKORY KING AND YELLOW DENT seed corn, $1.30 bushel. W. B. Payne, Crofton, Va.

FAMOUS POULTRY MACHINES.

Poultry raisers everywhere ought to be interested In the line of Ideal Incubators and Brooders, manufactured by the J. W. Miller Co., Free-nort. Illinois. Mr. Miller's No. 3 Hot Water Incubator, 240-egg capacity, !« one of the best Incubators anybody can buy, no matter whether he Is a be.^inner or a large commercial poultry breeder..

The Ideal No. 3 Brooder is a fit companion to the No. 3 Ideal Incubator. It has the reputation of being; a famous chicken raiser. All parts are well warmed. There Is no crowding around the lamp and no smotherins: of weak chicks. It Is warmed by hot air because It Is the Miller Idea that all brooders should be warmed that way. Its ventilating svstem is of the best giving a fl»w of warm fresh air to the chicks at all times.

If you are not using or are not fully conversant with Ideal Incubators and Brooders it will pay you to get the Miller ISO-page catalo.gue, full of illustrations and poultry wisdom' Write for a copy direct to the J. W. Miller Co.. Freeport, HI.

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Save the Pigs

Profit is what you are interested in and on this line we want you to consider the responsibility that falls upon the digestion of market-fed animals or cows fed for milk. The difference between success and failure is all measured by the digestive differences in your stock. Imperfect digestion not only retards growth and milk productipn but it is the cause of nine-tenths of the diseases among domestic animals. Disease means loss, even though no deaths result, because every day an animal stands in the stable without gaining in weight—that much feed is all wasted. The feeding of tonics to correct these difficulties has become known as "Tlic Dr. Hess Idea."

DB HESS STOCK F

is the prescription of Dr. Hess (M.D., D.V.S.) and contains ingredients recommended by every medical writer for

improving digestion, regulating the bowels, liver, kidneys and invigorating and strengthening the system generally.

Feeding without a reliable tonic is a lottery. You can't always tell in a bunch of fattening steers or hogs which are the

paying ones and which are eating your grain and not gaining a pound. Neither can you make the price of your stock

in accordance with the amount of feed consumed as a manufacturer of machinery does. You are at the mercy of

the market. You can appreciate, therefore, that j-our animals need every aid you can give them. Dr. Hess

Stock Food is sold on a written guarantee. Test it to your satisfaction and if it fails you get your money back.

Dr. Hess Stock Food is fed in a small dose but twice a day.

100 lbs. $5.00 Kxcept in Canada and extreme West and South. DR. HESS & CLARK,

25lb. pail$1.60 Smaller quantities at a slight advance Ashland, OhIO.

Also Manufacturers of Dr. Hess Poultry Tan-a-cea and Instant Louse Killer. Free from the ist to the lolh of each month—Dr. Hess (M.D., D.V.S.) will prescribe for your ailing animals. You can have his 96 page Veterinary Book any time for the asking. Send 2C stamp and mention this paper.

no Ui7QC& D^^lll TDV DAIMmAb^PmA ^o one breed ofhens lays all the eggs. E&ch breed has good *"»• ni-wO r\^Wbini rf^lV #» \^^ ** qualities, but each breed and every breed does tho best when given regfularly, every day, a little of Dr. Hess Poultry Pan-a<e-a in soft feed.

All that's necessary to make a hen lay is to cause the greater proportion of her food to digest, because then she gets all the elements aeededto make eggs. Not increased food but increased digestion is **The Dr. Hes9 Idea," and for this purpose he combined in right proportions natural bitter tonics, iron for the blood and cleansing nitrates. Hence Dr. Hess Poultry Pau-a-ce-a is a guaranteed egg producer. It also helps to fat a fowl for market and cures roup, cholera, gapes, etc. It is endorsed by poultry associations in this country and in Canada and is sold on a written guarantee. A penny's worth is enough for 30 hens one day.

VA lbs. 25c. mail or express 40c; 5 lbs 60c; 12 lbs. $1.25; 25 lb. pail $2.50. Except in Canada and extreme West and Sotfth. Send 2 cents for Dr. Hess 48-page Poultry Book, free.

INSTANT LOUSE KILLER KILLS UCE

VIRGINIA POULTRY ASSOCIATION.

J. W. Quarles, Pres.; W. R. Todd, Sec.

Richmond, Virginia.

At a regular meeting of the Virginia Poultry Association, held February 6, 1909, the advantages 0' the Parcel Post Delivery were discussed »nd seriously considered. A motion was made and carried that a committee he appointed to communicato with cur Representatives in Congress, and which reads as follows:

"Be it resolved, That the Virginia Pcultry Association do most earnest iy desire that there he established in this country a Parcel Post Delivery. We believe that it will be a gre»t Impetus to the Poultry Industry, f.i: Pishing quick and reliable service, 'uhlcb is greatly needed. We, therefore, request that our Representatives in the United States Congrcs? use their best endeavors to havo such a bill enacted."

BILTMORE

JERSEY BULL CALVES AND HEIFERS

We have just made a fresh selection of extra good young thlngra from our herd fer sale, and vre offer at most

REASONABLE PRICES

Heifers of the highest class of all ages from HEIFER CALVES TO BRBD HEIFERS and a few well bred

BULL CALVES OUT OF TESTED DAMS.

POULTRY.

Our 1909 illustrated poultry list Is now ready. Write for It. biltiiore: farms, R. F. D. No. 2, dilthorb, k. o.

When corresponding with our advertisers always mention Souttaerm Plantar.

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Hyg'eia 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.

Address: W. F. Carter, Jr.) Asent.

Crozet, Albemarle County, VIreliila.

W. Fltzhnsh Carter, M. D., Ovrmer.

The breed holds the milk and butter records of the world—the herd embraces some of its best families.

The passage of the Parcel Post Delivery Bill will enable the farmers "Who order eggs from the poultry breeders to receive them in better condition, far quicker, and at a more reasonable rate than the present method of delivery.

The poultry industry has grown to be one of the largest industries in this country, and we believe the passage of such a law will be the means of placing it at the very best among our agricultural industries, and it should be encouraged as far as pos-eible by our Government.

W. D. SYDNOR, R. O. BERGER, H. M. GAINES, Committee.

The above is a copy of a resolution adopted by our Association and sent to the Senators and Representatives in the United States Congress from this State. We hope that every Association of the United States will adopt a similar resolution and have It brought to the attention of the United States Congress. It is only by constant hammering that we will be able to accomplish anything. Wont you do your part? Yours truly, VA. POULTRY ASSN., Inc.

PEANUT MACHINERY. Attention is invited to the advertisement of the American Peanut Harvester Corporation, Petersburg, Va. This firm has perfected a peanut harvester, a peanut picker and a peanut planter. Thpse machines should prove a wonderful help to growers and reduce the cost of production very materially. The Planter is arranged to drop the nuts two and a half feet apart in the row, as it has been found that this distance gives uniformly the best results. Write for full descriptions and information.

A COMPARISON. Adam and Eve were not, I'm sure.

Like Pittsburg snow at all; Yet they, like it, were very pure And white—before the fall.

Llppincott's.

THE HOLLINS HERD

OP

HIGH-CLASS HOLSTEIN-FRIESIANS

A WORKING HE3RD WORKING EVSRY DAY IN THK YKAR.

The entire herd of 22 head (14 pure-bred'3 and 8 grades) of which 14 are heifers with 1st or second calves, produced from October 1st, 1907, to October 1st, 19n»

195,941 liBS. OF MILK. 8,906 liBS. PKR HBAD. Ten pure-breds, ncludlng two heifers freshening late in the fall with Ist calves and in milk only 8% months, produced from October 1st, 1907 to Cctober 1st, 1908.

104,255 L.BS. OF MILK. 10,425 LBS. PER HEAD. Registered Bull Calves for sale. JOS. A. TURNER, General Manaieer.

HOLLINS, VA.

DAIRY COWS.

Do you own cows that will give yeu from twenty-five to thirty quarts of milk dally when fresh and 6,000 quarts in a year? These are the kind we keep and offer for sale, and they are the only kind you can afford to feed. Do not keep "cew boarders" any longer, but write us to-day stating what class of dairy cows you want.

We sell Registered or high grade Holsteln, GnernBeyB, Jersey*, and Ayrsblres. Address,

„ , ^ ^ SYRACUSE BREEDERS ASSOCIATION

One of our grade cows that gave „ „^. ^,. „ . _, „,j„ TT*t«» w v 11,000 pound.s of milk In a year. 98 Utica City Nat. Bk. Bldg., TJtIca, N. Y

SELWYN FARM

PURE BRED BERKSHIRES AND JERSEYS

Headed by the $1,100.00 Son of Premier Longfellow 68600. __«

LEE'S PREMIER 3rd, 112763.

THE SHORTEST NOSED AND THE BEST HEADED BOAR IN AMERICA.

We are now booking orders for his pigs of both sexes, which are marked iu'st like him; or will sell you magnificently bred sows safe with pig to him.

Our herd contains sons and daughters of the peerless Longfellow 68600, Ber-ryton Duke 72946 (litter mate to Masterpiece 77000); Premier Longfellow's Rival 101678; Duke of Oakdale 93955; Woodside Premier 80008; Baron Duke 62d 77452; Baron Premier 24*.h 92810; Baron Premier 55227; Lord Lee 61138; Riley's Premier 71428; Kenilworth Masterpiece 102979 and Kenilworth Longfellow 104156.

Sow.s bred to Lee's Premier 32d, 112763 and spring pigs of both sexes by Kenilworth Longfellow 104156; Duke of Oakdale 93955; Berryton Duke 72946 and Premier Longfellow's Rival 101678.

Registered Jerseys for Sale at All Times.

Write for descriptive booklet and prices.

EDGAR B. MOORE, Proprietor, Cliarlotte, N. C.

THE SOUTHERN PLANTER.

415

A $5000. DAN PATCH STALLION FREE ^

An alMoIutely Free Hair Counting Contest Without Money or Purchaainc Consideration and Open to any Fanner, Stockman or Poultry Breeder

Can you count the number of hairs drawn in a pirture of "Forest Patch," sired by Dan Patch, dam by Monaco by Belmont. Write me for one of the Dan Patch Pictures and I will alio mail you a photo engraving of "Forest Patch," the Fine Registered Stallion to be eiven away and ALSO Drawing Sbowimr Hairs To Be Counted and also staung easy conditiong. Every stock owner will want to count the hairs on this Splendid S5.000 Dan Patch Stallion because it means a small fortune tree tor some one. I paid S60.000 tor Dan Patch and have been offered £180,000. I would have lost money if I had sold Dan for One Million Dollars.

Yon may secure this $5,000 Dan Patch Stallion Absolutely Free. "Forest Patch" might malce yon a fortone of $25,000 to $50,000 as a great stock horse for any commonity becaoH he will make a 1200-11>« italUoa with great style and beaotifnl conformation,

M. W. SAVAGE, Hiiueapoli*, HioB.

THIS NEW PICTURE OF

DAN PATCH 1:55^^

IN 6 BRILLIANT COLORS

MAILED FREE

TMs new picture of Dan Patch 1 :SS, Is the Finest I have ever uottea

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^^ Sarage ^ Owaer of ^ Dan Patch uJ ^^ Inleroational Stock ^J^ Food Co*

colors and is free of advertising. It eives his age and a list oi all the ^^^ Mimieanolis Minn. fast miles paced by Dan. Bein2madelroma"SpeedPhotOKraph," C^ .. aMuin^mt/Mu^, uuMum

it shows Dan as lilelike as if you stood on the track and saw CV Fleasemailme.postagepaid,

him give a marvelous and thrilling speed exhibition. .ir. one of the Beautflul Six-Color

You ought to have a fine picture of the King of all <jV^ Pictures of Dan Patch 1:55, herein

Harness Horse Creation and the Fastest Harness Horse <\* described andalsofullpaiticularsol

the world has ever seen. 1 will mail you one of these J^^^^^^^ vXaa of giving away a $5,000.00

Large, Beautiful,ColoredPic1uresotDanPatchI:5S .,^5^ "^

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EVERY CONTESTANT ALSO RECEIVES BEAUTIFUL DAN PATCH SOUVENIR

tree with Postage Prepaid and fullparticularsconcerning my plan of Giving Away a $5,000 Daa Patch Stallion If you will simply write me. *ij Give me the Live Stock Information I>y V

mailing Free Coupon or by writing me a ^ Iowa •,••• Hones<

Letter or Postal Card today. ^

▼ - Sheep

D.nn P.itch Stallion I have filled outths coupon with number of live stock I oinb

•Caltto

Address M. W. SAVAGE, Owner, ^

Minneapolis, Minnesota ^ Name.

Alio sole owner of International Stock Food Co.; International Stock Food Farm. ^^ Mail Me Free Counen or Write Letter or Postal To-Day .A

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THE PROBLEM OF SUMMER COOKING,

The weather man says it's going to be a hot summer. This is setting good housewives thinking about the kitchen work—wondering if last summer's toil and worry over a hot stove in a hot kitchen must be all gone through again—wondering if there isn't some way of roasting, toasting, broiling, frying, ironing and washing without having the kitchen like a boiler room.

There is. No longer need the approach of summer be viewed with dread by the woman who keeps house, for science has made it possible for her not only to do all her stove work quicker and better than ever before, but to do it without the kitchen temperature being Intensified to any noticeable degree provided she uses a New Perfection Wick Blue Flame Oil Cook Stove.

The "why" of it is to be found in the wonderful burners of the "New Perfection," which produce intensely hot blue flames, and yet so concentrate the heat that it is not thrown off into the room to cause discomfort. In this way the housewife is enabled to do her kitchen work in comfort—to say nothing of the time saved in lighting—of having no hot

SPLENDID BERKSHIRES.

Virginia has her Berkshlres a-s well as Presidents. They were not hogs, but ours are all hog's, and with as illustrious ancestors.

Our Herd Boars are all prize-winners as are all our original sows but one which was never shown. These sows are all In pig to our great young boars. Gem's Kennett, Baron Premier I, and Masonic Rival.

Have just added to our herd Lee's Artful Belle 51st, by Lord Premier, out of Lee's Artful Bell 5th; a daughter of hers, by Premier Longfellow, and a daughter of young Baron Duke, out of Lady Combination 5th.

These sows are safe in pig to Baron Duke, SOth's Masterpiece.

No breeding could be better and the individuals do credit to their breedlngf.

Seven sows to farrow in March and April. Orders booked for pigs now.

MOORE'S BROOK SANITARIU3I COMPANY,

- CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA.

REDTJCED PRICES ON

BRED BERKSHIRE GILTS

for next 30 days only.

The panic drove hundreds of breeders out of business. The next twelve months will see them tumbling sver one another to get back—as the demand and prices advance. I staid in the boat, kept up my herd and advertisements, hence am well equipped for orders. My Berkshires are as fine ai the world can produce. Price In easy reach of everyone. Scores of pigs ready for shipment.

THOS. S. WHITE,

FBaaifem Stock Farm.

LEXINGTON, VA.

THE SOUTHERN" PLANTER.

[April,

Ft. Lewis Stock Farm

THE BEST PLJVCB FOR BLCOD AND REGISTERED

BERKSHIRES

White Leghorn, all breeds of Plymouth Rock, Black Minorca and Rhode Island Red Fowls. Eggs from these pure-blooded birds for sale.

on. VV. L. NOLEN, PUOPUIETOR, SALEiM. VA.

fire when the stove is not needed— of being able to get a flame of any required size at will, from one for simmering to one for quick boiling or any other purpose. In fact, while one flame is working away at full blast, the other two can be at medium and low heat—something that cannot be done with a coal or wood stove.

The "New Perfection" burns ordinary kerosene and effects no small saving in fuel expense in the courso of a single season.

Another member of the "New Perfection" family is the Rayo Lamp— an all around "^ouse lamp in which illumination by -Means of kerosene approaches more <5arly perfection than in many expep-ive and complicated systems of lighting. Its latest type of central draft burner and its beautiful porcelain shade unite in producing a light of great brilliancy—yet so mellow as not to tire the eyes.

Whether used in library, parlor, bedroom or dining room, the Rayo Lamp is never out of place, as it harmonizes with the furnishings of any well-kept room.

Bellevue, Texas, October 3, '07.

I have run a Walter A. Wood mower two seasons andl it (has given perfect satisfaction. Have not been out a cent for repairs. It is the most durable and Mghtest-running machine I have ever "^n.

G-. E. BLACKMON. G- nen, N. Y., Oct. 7, '07.

We tak% pleasure in commending the merits of your Tubular Steel Mower. Our experience with the same has been most satisfactory. We believe that for light draft and durability it stands at the head of the list to-day. MAKlSTEN BROS.

Goshen, N. Y., Oct. 8. '07.

I have used Walter A. Wood machines 'or the last twenty years. This pnring I bought a new lot of the s?-ne make, and think they are superl 'T to anything on the market. College Park, Ga., Oct. 8. '07.

I have one of your mowing machines, and T think it the best on the market. EDGAR HAUN.

.Tames City. Co.. Va., .Tan. 29, '09.

I have been a reader of the Southern Planter for the past twenty vearK and have learned lots from its pages and woufd not miss a single number as long as I am farming.

GUSTAV HELM

GLENBURN BERKSHIRES.

Herd headed by Lord Premier 3d, 96773, Predominant 94342 and Eminent Premier 118253. Lord Premier 3d is a great son of Lord Premier 50001 and a brother in blood to Lord Premier's Rival. Predominant is a very handsome son of the grand champion Premier Longfellow 68600 and Eminent Premier Is a grandson of both Lord Premier and Masterpiece. Our sows are bred along the same lines and are superb individuals.

Also Forfarshire-Golden Lad Jerseys. Write for catalogue.

DR. J. D, KIRK,

ROANOKE,

VIRGINIA.

CHOICE BERKSHIRE PIGS and READY=FOR=SERVICE BOARS

My crop of fall pigs, from 15 large sows, have all been sold and I am now l)ooking orders for choice pigs for April delivery. My sows are farrowing big litters of large vigorous pigs and I can furnish you some extra fine ones this spring. My sows are of the best blood of the breed—being daughters and granddaughters of Premier Longfellow, Baron Duke 50th and the noted Huntress. Their litters are by my great herd boar.^. Hunter of Bilt-more 3d and Earhart's Model Premier. These boars are a big, fancy type, are of the best prize-winning blood of the world and their pigs are the large, vigorous and quick-growing kind. Let me book you for a pair or trio of choice ones for April delivery, or a choice young boar for immediate shipment. My prices are rea'sonable. Address

1*1 l»la 'i : D. E. EARHART, Brlstow, Va.

For Sale

BERKSHIR E GILTS JERSEY BU LL

Forest Home Farm,

Purcellville, Va.

BerksMres For Sale*

One of the best herds In the East.

Bred Sows, GUta, Yohbs Boars and-Igs for Sale. All stock shipped as represented vr money refunded.

W. R. FENSOU, Rlcbiuond, T«.

MORVEN PARK ESTATE

The Property of WESTMORELAND DAVIS. lUc

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Large Yorkshire Swine.

These pigs are hardy and prolific. The two boars that took the first prize In their classes at the Virginia State Fair had been exposed without cover or shed for a year In the open. They had, aa have all our pigs, well developed carcasses, covered with heavy growth of hair that insures against Bcurf or skin troubles In hot climate. These pigs mature early, are good mothers, and are very prolific. They are the bacon pig of England and of the West.

WE HAVE THE FINEST STRAIN OF IMPORTED BLOOD FOR SALE.

Registered Guernsey Cattle.

Dairymen shipping to the city markets will find a Guernsey bull most valuable to cross on their herds, thus Increasing the content of butter fat In their milk or cream. Especially is this cross desirable when shipping to cities where dealers pay upon the basis of butter fat.

At the Pan-American Exposition, the only time the Guernsey met other breeds 1b comi>etltlon, the Guernsey led all breeds for the most economical production of high-class butter.

We Have Brilliantly Bred Bulls For Sale.

Dorset Horn Sheep.

We have the largest flock of Imported Dorsets In America. They are of one type and botn thrifty and prolific.

WE ARE BOOKING ORDERS FOR EARLY DELIVERY OF LAMBS.

For further particulars, address.

LIVE STOCK DEPARTMENT, MORVEN PARK ESTATE,

LEESBURG, LOUDOUN CO., VA

THE SOUTHERi;r PLANTEE.

[April,

ROSE DALE HERD ABERDEEN-ANGUS CATTLE

Tf* offer t« the farmers and breeders et the Bast strictly ohele* TouDff Reerlatered Bulls from weanlings to serviceable age. TlViy are of the straight, broad-backed, low-down, compact, blookr trp** ICany of them show ring animals. They represent the blood of Blaster n. of Meadow Breok; Oay Lord. Jr.; Heather Lad OL, Zaire V., Xrmlne Bearer, Blackbird of Corskle IV., Black Abbott. Abbottaford, CoQuette X., Xta

They are well grown out, in thrifty condition, but not pampered. Come and see them or write us your wants. Prices right, ffe oaa please you. Angus Cattle are eur specialty. We raise ne other stock, but give them our undivided personal attention.

To avoid inbreeding we offer an exceptionally good herd bvlU Write for particulars. Address

ROSEDALE STOCK FARMS, JEFFERSQNTON, VA.

SOME HORSE NOTES.

(Broad Rock.)

"Some Big Prices for Pacers."

Some big money has been paid for fast pacers, and this is the way the story reads:

"The sale of Minor Heir, 1:5^^2, by Heir-at-Law, for $46,00'0, has set the turf writers digging up former big prices paid for pacers. M. W. Savage, who bought Minor Heir, paid $60,000 for the stallion Dan Patch, a total of $105,000 for two horses. Little Brown Jug, 2:11%, was sold for $25,00'0 to Commodore Kittson, with the trotter Silverton thrown in. Kittson also paid $20,000 for Johnston, 2:06%; John R. Gentry, 2:001/2, was purchased when five years old hy L. •Banks Holt, of Graham, N. C, for $10,00'0, campaigned two seasons and credited with winning $20,00© and then sold for nearly his purchase price to William Simpson who campaigned the elegant bay stallion one season and sold him for $19,000 at auction to Lewis G. Towksbury; Blacklock, 2:04y2, passed to W. B. Chisholm and E. S. Burke for $17,-SCO; W. . White paid $15,000 for Star Pointer, 1:59%; C. W. Marks mvest-ed $15,000 in Joe Patchen, 2:01%; J. C. McKinney, of Titusville, Pa., paid $17,500 for Beauseant, a green I pacer that had shown a trial in 2:07%; C. J. Hamlin bought Direct Hal, 2:04%, for $10,00'0; The Broncho brought $10,000; Jerry B., $12,-000, and George Gano, 2.12%, $12.50'0."

"Remarkable Coincident in Breeding.

A remarkable coincidence in the breeding, racing and death of two harness horses has been reported from the West.

It Is not only a most extraordinary incident in breeding records, but also offers an ample field for discussion by men posted in the secrets of animal life and scientific and practical breeding.

The case should also attract much

We have demonstrated the fact that

ABEERDEEN ANGUS CATTLE

will sell in the South, if the cattle are first class in breeding and individual quality and the price within reach of the farmer's pocket-book. We have tried to handle only the best cattle, and are again sold entirely out. Will have nothing to spare until the spring crop of calves are ready next fall.

A. li. FRENCH,

SUNNY HOME FARM,

BYRDVILLE, VA.

SILVER SPRING HERD OF

SHORT HORNS

ROBERT R. SMITH, Prop. Charlestown, Jefferson Co., W. Va., or Wlckliffe, Clarke Co., Va.

May 27, I will sell 22 Short Horn Cattle, ranging in age from 5 to 18 months old, 10 heifers and 12 bulls, nearly all of them my own breeding. They are all good, useful cattle and some are extra good. 14 colts, 6, 2-year olds and 7 one-year-olds, nearly all are i^ to % Percheron and are good ones, 15 Poland-China hogs, 4 to 9 months old, some fine boars in the lot, 2 registered Shropshire ram lambs.

Come to the sale. There will be some good stock sold at your own price. There will be no protection put on anything in the sale.

EXCELLBJNT

SHORTHORN HEIFERS AND BULLS.

By the- Scotch topped Bull, Royal Lad (advertised by thB old reliable breeders, P. S. Lewis & Son, as the best bull ever bred on their farm) by the International winner, Frantic Lad, son of The Lad for Me, champion •< America In 1900. Also a few fresh Shorthorn Cows.

Pure Yearling SOtJTHDO^VN RAMS by Senator, a prize winner In Canada as a lamb and a yearling. He was bred by Hon. Qeore* Drummond, tb« foremost Southdown breeder In America.

IC J. HANCOCK & SON, "Elleralle," Charlottesville, Va.

AETIFICIAL MARE IMPREGNATORS

Stallion Goods

Impregnators for getting in foal from 1 to 6 mares from one service of a stallion or jack, $3.60 to $6.00, The popular Safet; Inipreti^atinitOatfit, especially adapted for impregnating so-called barren and irregular breeding mares. $7.6U. Breeders Bags, Serving Hobbles, Stallion Bridles, Body Rollers, Shields, Supports. Emasculators. Ecreseurs, Service Books, etc. First quality goods only. All prepaid and ({aaranteed. Write for FREE Stallion Goods Catalogue. CRITTENDEN & C0.,DEPT.e4 CLEVELAND.OHIO.

THE SOUTHEEN PLANTER.

419

Incorporated 1007. "STANDARD OV EXCELLENCE:." Capital Stock, 9100,000.

THE VIRGINIIK STOCK FARM CO.

Incorporated* Bellevue, Bedford County, Virginia,

J. ELLIOTT HALL, General Sfanager.

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Copyright, 1908. By The Virginia Stock Farm Co., Inc.

PERCHERON STALLION Standard Type of The Horse of Gold.

Drawing by Geo. Ford Morris.

. ^°^ ^'"® '"t'erested In pure-bred stock—Percberon, Hackney or Standard-Bred Honteo, Short Horn Cattle, Poland-China Hok«, Dorset Horn Sheep—then you must certainly want a copy of our handsome, illustrated catalogue entitled "Inaugural Announcement." This hook cost us many hundred dollars to publish and we want you to have a copy absolutely free. There Is no other breeders 'catalogue Just like It.

Write us a post card stating (1) Your Name. (2) Tour Address, Street and Number, P. O. Box or Rural Route and Number. (3) Your Post Office. (4) The Countv In which your Post Office is located. (5) Your State. (6) Please say you saw this advertisement In The Southern Planter. Please write plainly! Address the cempany as above, or write direct to the General Manager, as below.

J. ELLIOTT HALL, BeUevne, Vlrslnla. Write To-day. Do It Now.

FOR SALE.—ROADSTER OH. M. 15.2 HANDS; 1100 POUNDS. 10 YEARS; SOUND AND CITY BROKE. LADY CAN DRIVE HER ANYWHERE. A BLUE RIBBON WINNER. BROKE SINGLE AND DOUBLE AND TO RIDB. CAN ROAD TEN MILES AN HOUR. BRING "YOUR WATCH, WE CAN SHOW YOU! A BARGAIN. PRICE $350.

THE SOUTHERN PLANTER

[April,

WOODSIDE BERKSHIRES

EVEUYTHING SHIPPED ON APPROVAIi.

IT WILL PAY YOU TO READ THIS CAREFULLY.

We are now olfering a grand lot of Pigs for April and May delivery.

These pigs are sired by our three great boars, Charmer's Premier 94553, 2 years old, weight 720 lbs., Master Lee 79379, weighing over 700 lbs and Lustre's Carlisle 72057, and out of royally bred eows weighing from 50U to 600 lbs. each.

We can always furnish pigs not akin. In order to show our confidence in what we offer and insure satisfaction to our customers, we ship en appicval You need not send check until after you receive the pigs, and if they are^notj entiiely satisfsciory in every respect, you can return them at our expense and it costsjyou absolutely nothing. We leave it to you whether this is a fair proposition. Address

WOODSIDE STOCK FARM, R. S. Parish, Prop., Charlottesville, Va.

attention from men who have so long advocated and practiced the system of artificial impregnation of mares, be they trotters, thoroughbreds or common ranch horses.

Two horses, both pacers, named A. Nut and Napton Boy, died recently on the same day. Both the dam of the first named, Princess Maud, by President Red, and that of the second, Lady Napton, by Allandorf, were got in foal artificially on the same d-y, the sire being Walnut Boy.

They were foaled on the same day, and each took a record of 2:11% on the same afternoon and over the same track, and, to cap the climax, both died on the same day.

As the report comes from apparently reluiable sources, and is vouched for by men who know of the case, It is unique In the annals of horse breeding.

Cherry wood Goes to Central America.

Barry C. Beattle, of Woodlawn Farm, Illchmond, Va., has sold for export to Central America the brown stallian, Cherrywood, by Eolus, dam Cerise, by imported Moccasin, second dam the great race mare, Lizzie Lucas, by Imported Australian, and she out of Eagless, by imported Glencoe. Cherrywood was foaled in 1894 and bred by Charles Hardy, Norfolk, Va., at the Ellerslle Stud, Charlottesville, Va. His full brother, the noted Morello, was a great race horse and, after retirement to the stud, though he died early, proved himself a sire of more than ordinary merit in California. The late Major Thomas W. Doswell. of Bull-field Farm, bred Bolus and owned and raced Lizzie Lucas, the grand dam of Cherrywood, while his son, T. Bernard Doswell, owned Cerise

■BARGAINS IN BERKSHIRES^

I am in excellent shape at present to take care of your Berkshire wants with stock of unexcelled breeding and Individuality at prices that will make money for you. My offerings Include sows, gilts, bred and open, young boars, ready for service and pigs of both sexes. Let me quote you.

Single Comb Browu Leghorns.

Eggs for sitting.

VVILLEROY,

Brett,

King WUUam Co., Va.

IF YOU WANT THE BEST HOG

Buf from those who gIve their sole aitention to the production of the greatest Berkshire Type.

WB DO.

Our herd comprinea the moat aplendid linea uf breedlns and IndlTlAaala that money caai buy or experience develop In American and BngUah Brc4 Berkahlrea.

«L,ORD PRBMIBR OF THE! BLUB RIDGB." 103580, the Breateat Uvtea boar, heada oar herd. If jroo are Interested vnrite.

THB RT.ITTC RTDnB HKRKsniHIi; P-^RM* * <iHBVTLI.H. W. T.

-^^ REGISTERED JERSEY BULL ^=.^^

Will sell my herd bull "RInoras' Rioter" of St. L. 69478, a son of the great bull. Rioter of St. L. Jr., of "Bomont Farms," and out of "King's Rinora" of St. L., that gave 17% lbs. butter in 7 days with First Calf. Grand dam on both sides gave 23% ibs. butter in 7 days. This is a fine individual, seldom find such animals offered for sale. Few of his sons and daughters for sale—Cows and Heifers due to calve in Spring.

EVERGREEN FARMS, W. B. GATES, Prop., RICE DEPOT, VA.

BERKSHIRES and JERSEYS.

A few nice cows and a Registered Bull, of excellent breeding for sal'e. Berkshire Pigs, 3 months old, and a few sows bred, all in nice condition. Barred Rock and S. C. B. Leghorn Eggs for sale. I will please you.

RIVER VIEW FARM,

Rice Depot, Va.

THE SOUTHERN PLANTER.

421

1909 Allandale Farm 1909

ROYAL. SWELL., 34802, Bay Horse, 15.2% hands high, by Bow Bells, 2:19V4, dam Rachel, 2:08%, by Baron Wilkes, 2:18.

A Trotting Stallion that lives up to his breeding in conformation, styl« and sjalt—a show hcrso all over. His tabulated pedigree, which follows, shows him to be one of the best bred troltius stallion.'j in the world:

I Hanibletonlan 10

J "The great fountain head [Electioneer, 125 i of trotting speed." Sire of

ROYAL SWELL, 34892.

MAHOGANY BAT with black points; near hind heel white. FOALED FEB'Y 5, 1901.

Bred by Marcus Daly, Bitter Root Farm, Hamilton, Mont.

A perfect individual with great beauty, perfect disposition, extreme speed, a pure gaited trotter and as richly and fashionably bred as any horse ever foaled.

I Bow Bells, 13073

Record 2:19%. Sire of

Beausant 2:06%

Matin Bells 2.06%

Billy Andrews 2:06%

Bellewood A 2:07%

Prince Selma 2:10%

Bel Esprit 2:12%

Janie T. (2 yrs.). . . .2:14 (Champion 2-yr. Ally; Futurity winner.)

Ringing Bells 2:13%

Wilkes Belle 2:14%

Including

Boreal, 3 yrs 2:15%

Sire of

Boralma, 5 yrs 2:07

(Futurity winner 1899; Transylvania winner in 1900.)

Pan Michael 2.03

Own brother to

Chimes 2:30%

Sire of

The Abbot 2:03i4

(World's Champion in 1900.) Electric Bell, sire of

Captor 2:09%

St. Bel, 2:24%, sire of

Lynne Bel 2:10%

Ilache]

Record 4 yrs., 2:08%. • Winner of 9 races. Twice 2d; once 3d; twice 4th, and never unplaced.

Great Spirit 2:11%

Dam of The Envoy (Peace Commissioner) ... .2:25% Sire of

Bedelia B. . 2:27%

Town Founder 2.18

Sire of Prodigal Queen 2:30

i Dexter 2:17%, I Chamoion).

(World's

[ Green Mountain Maid,

"The great mother of

trotters."

Dam of Elaine 2:20; Pros-pero 2:20; Elista 2:20%; Dame Trot 2:22; Lancelot 2:23, and 4 other 2:30 trotters.

The Moore, 870$ 2t37

Sire of

Sultan ... .j^

And otnei^i

2:24

Minnehaha

L Dam of

Baron Bose 2:20%

Alcaa^' 2:20%

Mas«jr 2:25%

Pawnee 2:26%

San Gabriel 2:29%

Beautiful Bells 2:29%

George WUkes, 519; 2:22.

Cham. Stallion, 1868-71.

Sire of 83 2:30 performers, and dam-s of 183 2:30 performers.

Belle Patchen, 2:30%,

Dam of Baron Wilkes 2:18

Sire of

Arion 2:07%

Sunol 2:08%

Palo Alto 2:08%

And 163 others In 2:30

Sires of the dams of

■ Klatawah 2:05%

Dolly Dillon 2:06%

Lisonjero 2:08%

Wild Bell 2:08%

Cavallero 2.09%

Crafty 2:09%

^ Beautifnl Bella

Record 2:29%. Champion trotting brood mare,

Dam of

Belleflower 2:12%

Belsire 2:18

Bell Boy, 3 yrs 2:19%

Bow Bells 2:19%

Hinda Rose, 3 yrs...2:19%

Palo Alto Belle 2:22%

Adbell, 1 yr 2:23

Monbells, 4 yrs 2:23%

St. Bel, 4 yrs 2:24%

Bell Bird, 1 yr 2:26%

Adbell 2:29%

f Baron WUkes, 4758

Record 2:18. Sire of

Bumps 2:03%

Rubinstein 2:05

Rachel 2:08%

Oakland Baron .....2:09%

Seven others In 2.10

I And the dams of Lady Gail Hamilton.2:06%

I Rollins 2:08

I India Silk 2:10%

Circle 2:11%

Great Spirit 2:11%

WlUle Wilkes, 2i28

L Dam of

Rachel, 4 yrs 2:08%

Great Heart 2:21%

Bowery Boy 2:15'.

Bowery Bell 2.18%

Deluge 2:19%

Aspirator 2:24%

Dam of Great Heart, 2:21%, sire of Le_ii^_ e„„4i.„.„._*i.

Auto n . . 2:04% *"ij*^ Southworth,

Wilkes Heart 2:06% ^^"^ °^

Octoo 2:07%

Thelma 2:09%

Namo 2:09%

Xava 2:10%

And 23 others. ■ , Woodsprite, sire of

Hal Frey 2:09%.

Miss Liter 2:18%

And 4 others. Crystal, dam of

Cut Glass 2:10%

King Crystal 2:14%

Spanish Boy 2:16%

Crystalline, 2 yrs.

(1 in 2:30) 2:19%

Spun Glass 2:24%

Crystal's Last 2:27%

Crystalloid 2:28%

ROTAS SWELL'S get have fine slae, are of show horse type and full of trot. He has vome stand foala In the East that will soon bring him into prominence as a sire, and his daughters should make as good brood mares as money will buy.

FEE—$26 the season, wjth usual return privilege In case of failure. Mares from a distance can be provided for on exceedingly liberal terms for keep. Address,

ALLANDALE FARM, Fredericksburg, Va.

George WUkea, 519 s 2t22,

Sire of Harry Wilkes 2:13%

And 82 Sire of Sire of Sire of Sire of Sire Sire Sire

of of of

others in 2:30 list, dams 183 in 2:30. 102 2:30 sires, dams 34 in 2:16. dam'3 12 in 2: 78 2:15 sires. 40 2:10 sires. 5 2:05 sires.

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Chatterton (sire of

6 2:30 trotters) .,..2:18 Willie Wilkes 2:28

Dam of

Rachel, 4 yrs 2:08%

Great Heart (a 2:10

sire) 2:12%'

Bowery Boy 2: i r

Boweiy Belie 2:18%

Deluge 2:19%

Aspirator 2.24

Wood-sprite, sire of

6 in

Crystal, dam of 7 in

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and brought out her great son Mo-rello. Bernard Doswell sold Morello at two years old for $5,000, and that same season the son of Morelo won tJie Futurity, carrying the colors of Frank Van Ness. Cherrywood was purchased by the United Fruit Co., a very wealthy corporation in Central America, and the stallion was shipped from Richmond, via the Southern Railway to New Orleans, and thence by steamer to Costa Rica. In addition to Cherrywood, the United Fruit Company has recently purchased other stallions and a large band of brood mares from J. B. Hag gin and other Kentucky breeders.

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CLOVER AS A SILAGE CROP.

Clover is second only to Indian corn in importance as a silage crop. We are but beginning to appreciate tlie value of clover in modern agfri-cjilture. The legumes the family to whick clover belongs,, are' the only C9mmon forage plant able to convert th,e free nitrogen of the air into compounds that may be utilized for the nutrition of animals. Clover and other legumes, therefore, draw largely on the air for the most expensive and valuable fertilizing ingredient, nitrogen, and for this reason, as well as on account of their deep roots, which Wng fertilizing elements up near the surface, they enrich tlfe land upon whidi they grow. Being a more nitrogenous feed than corn or the grasses, clover supplies a good deal of the protein compounds required by farm animals for the maintenance oj their bodies, and for the production of milk, wool, or meat. By feed-fhg clover, a smaller purchase of high-priced concentrated feed stuffs, like flour-mill or oil-mill refuse products, is therefore rendered necessary than when corn is fed; on ac-Qount of its high fertilizing value it furthermore enables the farmer feeding it to maintain the fertility of his land.

When properly made, clover silage lis an ideal feed for nearly all kinds of stock. Aside from its higher protein content it has an advantage over com silage in point of lower cost of production.

Clover silage is superior to clover hay on account of its succulence and greater palatability, as well as its blgfaer feeding value.

The foregoing article appears on pages 119 and 120 of "Modem Silage Methods," a 24-page book, published by the Silver Mfg. Co., Salem, Ohio. Every reader of this paper should read their ad on another page.

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DUROC SWINE-SHORTHO'JN AND POLLED DURHAM CAT! LE.

The Duroc is the most prolific hog on earth. The large fairs of the West prove that they are the most popular hog of that section. The ' demand for them In the South shows conclusively that they are the coming hog of the South. We have the largest herd In the East and one of the most fashionably bred herd In America. Sows In pig, herd boars and shotes of both sexes, not related, for sale. Send for catalog and "Duroc Facts."

Shorthorn and Polled Durham cows, heifers and bulls for sale. See ad. elsewhere In this issue.

LKSLIE D. KLINES, Vauclnse, Va.

DVNNLORA FARM.

Reg. Poland-China

Swine of the most up-to-date strains. Our motto: "The beat none too good." Service boars and choice pigs of either sex for sale. Guarantee stock as represented. N. P. PBBBLES A BRC, Canon, Va.

DICK WILKES, JR.:

• The Perfect Horse and Blue Ribboa Winner at the State Fair..

By Dick Wilkes 211 by Oentinel Wilkes he by George Wilkes, by Hamble-tonian. Dam Morgan Black Hawk, Pet, Grand Dam sired by Ethan Alleo, Jr., by Hill's Black Hawk Fan. Season, $12; Insurance, $15.

PILOSO 102, the only invported Catalonlan Spanish Jack la this section. Season, $12; Insurance, $16.

This Stock Will Bear Inspection and the Colts Speak (or ThemselTca.

Owned by STRAIN & SON, Hechanlcsvllle Farm, Richmond, Va.. R. F. O. N*. X.

RAISB GOOD HORSBS AND MVLBS AND MAKE] HONBY.

A Few

BERKSHIRES FOR SALE

T. O. SANDY, BirRKBVILLE:, VA.

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J^ to be found in America, headed by the famous bull, Stockwell, who was purchased at Ti

J^ the Cooper sale in May, 1907, for |11,500, world's record price at an auction sale; also JJ

2^ several other choice bulls, and about 100 cows, both Island and home bred, Including ^J

^^ tested producers and winners in the show ring, fit to join any herd in America. This £^

£^ herd numbers about 150 head, and includes animals of all ages. ^^

£^ On Saturday, the following day, April 10th, the £^

O HORSES WILL BE OFFERED O

%y The collection includes the elegantly bred stallion, Bow Axworthy, 2:22%, son of %y

%J Axworthy, 2:15%, and Mystic, dam of Fred Kohl, 2:07%, etc., by Butwood, 2:18%, and W

^y some of the best mares to be found on any farm, among them being daughters of Robert ^^

jj McGregor, 2:17%; Bingen, 2:06%; Kremlin, 2:07%; Arion, 2:07%; Advertiser, 2:15%; v

5^ all bred in 1908 to sires of note. The lot includes Miss McGregor, 2:13, heavy jj

^ with foal, by Bingen, 2:06%; La Jolla, dam of Binjolla, 2:17%, by Advertiser, dam J^

J^ Sally Benton, dam of 4, by General Benton; Telka, by Arion, dam La Jolla; Lisa N., J^

£^ by Bing'en, dam La Jolla, and a daughter of Kremlin, 2:07%, from the dam of the unbeaten 5^

^k Edgemark, 2:16. The young things include a promising two-year-old colt, by Admiral ' ^^

^^ Dewey, 2.04%, out of La Jolla, and others richly bred. In addition to some thirty or ^^

^ more trotters, about forty head of driving, general purpose and work horses will also ^

^^ be sold, also farm implements and many other articles of value on any dairy or stock farm. ^^

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8 W. D. CARTER, Trustee, 8

O FREDERICKSBURG, VIRGINIA. O

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FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES March 3, 1909.

The influence of the Sportsman's Show and the universal interest in Presidant Roosevelt's coming expedition to Africa have brought the hunters of big game out in force with their trophies of the forest and hunting field.

So far the advantage seems to lie with Bill Hillis, who has filed claims for the bear hunter's championship of the great Northwest. To support his contention he sends in two splendid mounted bear skins of remarkable proportions. One is the skin of a giant grizzly, shot when its heavy fur was in its prime. Its claws offer extraordinary proof of the grizzly's vicious fighting equipment. The second skin is that of a polar bear bagged by Hillis in Northern Alaska, and is of such size that it fills the large Broadway window of the M. Hartley Company, where these trophies are displayed. Both these huge brutes were brought town by a .35 Remington auto-loading rifle, one of the powerful arms which have an important place in President Roosevelt's African hunting kit.

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Mayor Fred. A. Busse, of Chicago, visited Kentucky, and bought the premium jack, Dr. Hartman," of J. F. Cook & Co. "Dr, Hartman" was one cf the most noted jacks in the Cook herd. He is six years old, and was TTinner of first premium in the yearling class, and reserve champion-shfp al the Louisiana Purchase Ex-j)osition, 194. While the price paid for "Dr. Hartman" was not made public, it is known that he sold for more money than any jack has brought in Kentucky for the last fifteen years.

Mr. Busse has a farm at Fox Lake, ni., and is embarking into breeding of Jack stock and mules on an extensive scale. "Dr. Hartman" was bought for the express purpose of heading his herd.

Another prize-winning jack sold by J. F. Cook & Co., during the past week, was Cook's Sampson, a two-year old, to Mr. J. E. Isenhour, of Indianapolis, Ind., who is a noted breeder of the Hoosier State, winning many prizes at the county and State fairs.

A NEW CHILLED PLOW.

Realizing the necessity for, and perhap:, being also influenced by a natural predilection for the manufacture of chilled plows, Wm. J. Oliver Is now introducing a new plow known as the Wm. J. Oliver Improved Chilled Plow. This plow is being manufactured at Mr. Oliver's extensive plant in Knoxville, The Wm. J. Oliver Manufacturing Company.

Mr. Oliver frankly admits that he does not for a moment attempt to Imitate the plow made In South Bend,

THE P. & A. MOUTH SPECULUM

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Capable of sustaining Immense pressure—two sets of dental plates— Interchangeable—Introduced like ordinary bit—Can not possibly close of Its own acord, or by jerking of the animal's head—Easily taken apart— weighs about four pounds. Price, Net, f9.0».

Write for catalogue of Veterinary Instruments, also catalogues of "Easy to Use" Instruments for cattle, for the horse, etc.

POWERS ® ANDERSON, Inc.. 30 N. 9th St., RICHMOND, Va.

VETERINARY INSTRUMENTS, STJRGICALi SUPPLIES, ETC.

SHETLAND PONIES.

Have you bought the boys and girls a pony? The best possible luTestment to promote their health and happiness.

Breeders, the demand is always far ahead of the supply. Tou will find the breeding of Shetlands a profitable branch of animal husbandry.

STEINVORROD No. 8,340, Just arrived from the Shetlands, Is at head of the herd. IHONTROSE SHETLAND PONY FARM,

Steinvorrod 8340, in Native Winter Coat

Cartersville, Va.

FOR SALEt

BAY THOROUGHBRED STALLION

AlTOCITC Foaled 1897, by Eolus, dam Sample by Imp. RotherhUl,, 2d dam AUKl:*J3 Satilla by Imp. Buckden. He is half brother to the dam of the Stake Winners, Pater (sold for $4,500) and Billie Hibbs (sold for $3,000); 16:1 hands, weighs 1,275 lbs., is sound, a sure foal getter, has splendid disposition and is a good horse under saddle.

R, J. HnncoclE & Son, ««ELL.ERSL.IB,»» CharlotteBTllle, Va.

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Gets twice the results with same labor and fluid. Send postal today for free interesting booklet, explaining how the "Kant-Klog" gives

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TELL, THE ADVERTISER WHERE YOU SAW HIS ADVERTISEMENT.

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MANNSHELD HALL FARM}

PROPERTY OF R. CONROY VANCE, ESQ.

OFFERS FOR SALE;

JERSEY BULL CALF

dropped December Slst by Imp. Stock'well 75264. out ^of Terosinia 206500.— very highly bred dam ; Price $75.

LARGE YORKSHIRE SWINE

Young Pigs from Registered Slock, 8 to 9 -weeks old, Price. $5. Each. Specimen;rit Boar Pig, Eegittfied, 32 weeks old, Piice, $10. Large Begitlfrcd Boar, Mor-ven's Emperor "D" farro-wed -April 1907 used as the farm Boar for 18 months, and has proved one of^the most successful.

DORSET RAM-REGISTERED

from Imported Stock, for sale—a splendid Lamb getter, $25.

[Further Particulars]jWrite, The Secretary!

MANNSFIELD HALLjFARM Fredericksburg, Va.

THE SOUTHERN PLANTER.

Ind., nor that of any concern; as a matter of fact, he claims that his plow is an improvement over all other makes, and that, inasmuch as he is not responsible for his cognomen, the public should not be so ready to pronounce his invention an imitation, it is a much better plow in eery respect; in fact, the W. J. Oliver Improved has so many features of which other chilled plows of to-day cannot boast as to make it at once distinctive, individual and desirable from every standpoint. For instance, in order to preserve the "suck" and "gather", of the plow, Mr. Oliver has invented, and has patented, a device which interlocks the landslide to the saddle by means of a lug cast into the recess of the saddle set apart to take care of the landside, and to which the landside is fastened by means of a slot-hole which receives the lug. The gunneU of the point fits into the recess at the front oi the saddle in such a snug fashion as to give it a bearing both above and below in the recess. The landside and point do not come in contact with each other at all and, by the above means, the connections with the saddle are so secure that it is immaterial whether or not the bolts of either the point or landside become loose, as by these devices these parts are held in place.

All parts of this new plow are independent of each other; therefore, it is not necessary for one part to bear the burden of another, all strains are transferred direct to the saddle from the several parts. (Any part of the plow can be removed without interfering with any other.)

The manufacturers claim, and certainly their contention is sound enough, that tlie architecture of this plow insures easier running, Ighter draught and greater durability than found in any other plow.

Another feature about the plow is that the several parts are interchang-able, as between wood and( steel beam plows, it being possible to change from a wood to a steel beam and vice versa in five minutes or less.

In another part of this issue will be found an ad. of The Wm. J. Oliver Mfg. Ca, which we earnestly commend Vff our readers, who are interested '.A chilled plow improvements, or any other improvements calculated to prove beneficial to t!ie farmer who desires to employ up-to-date methods in conducting hfs farm on a scientific basis.

[April,

J. F. Cook & Co., of Lexington, Ky., and Wichita, Kan., report more sales of jacks and saddle horses than ever before. In the past two weeks Illinois, Indiana, Kansas and Missouri have been tbefr steady buyers on big jacks, while they report selling stock to most every State in the Union since the first of the year. But they still have a big lot on hand to

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Spring is the time when most of the painting is done. Nature is brightening all around and the impulse is to make houses and barns and fences bright and in harmony with the new leaves and blossoms. This is good economy. You not only make things spick and span, but you save your property and make it more valuable.

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Ohio State Fair, 1899. Exhibited by W. B. Smith (^ Son> Columbus, O.

$ $ $ $

W. B. SMITH a SON Ohio's Famous Herd of Holstein-Friesians

Columbus, Ohio, May 21, 1907. We have lately tested Black-Draught Stock Medicine with two cows, that were as near equal as we could get them. Both had calves together; one cleaned and the other did not. They were standing side by side. We gave Black-Draught Stock Medicine to the cow that did not clean, and in about three weeks she had not only improved in health and flesh, but had increased from 331/2 to 53 lbs. milk per day, while the cow that got no medicine had gone down from 52 to 50% lbs. milk per day. The medicine has merit, as we never had a cow do that well before, especially one that failed to clean. We recommend Black-Draught Stock Medicine. W. B. SMITH & SON. P. S. Since writing you last, we have sold 129 of our cows for $28,805.00,

You can't make profits on your stock, unless you keep them n the best of health. Use Black-Draught Stock & Poultry Medicine. It's a "money maker."

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select from, and say that they can please any one who wants a Kentucky Mammoth Jack or Jennett, or Saddle Horse for their own use, "as they have 175 head on all of their different farms, all registered or subject to registry.

ADVICE ABOUT SPRAYERS.

The spraying season is now at hand and you will probably have use for a tour or five gallon automatic sprayer all during the spring, summer and

winter months if you expect to raise fruit, vegetables or whitewash your barn and hen houses and kill lice on your stock.

We are showing herewith two photos of an automatic si rayer which will cover the above mentioned uses. It has been on the market for about ten years and its makers claim that it is one of the best and most substan-

Don^t Forget that Steam is the Most Reliahle Power

Farmers and planters who instaU Leffel Steam Engines have no power troubles. There is no failure to start or to run—no tinkering, no coaxing, no vexatious delays. We have built thousands of

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No planter ever thinks of exchanging bis dependable LeffeKorany other kind of power. He can understand his Leffel Engine. Quick, easy steamers. No other style o£ power so economical. The numerous styles and sizes of I.effel8 Insure your gettlnga power tnat exactly flts your needs. Don't buy any engine till you write for our free book.

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We Will Quote Interesting Prices

We have been making roofing for farm and city buildings for $0 years. Our longer experience and better facilitie-^ insure you better quality than you can get elsewhere. And as we do the largest business, we can quote you the best prices. _ _ _

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ASBESTOSIDE is without an equal. It has the same durability and fire-resistance features as our asbestos roofing and keeps a building comfortable in all weathers—particularly adapting it to stock and poultry buildings. Put tip in sheets and can be api>lied by anyone.

Write today for Free Book No. 82, Samples and Prices.

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tial machines on the market. It Is used and recommended by numerous fruit growers, farmers and nursery firms In the United States and Canada.

This sprayer has an all' brass pump fitted to the outside so that the solution cannot get at the valves. It has a special Vermorel spray noz-alG and one minute of pumping discharges the solution in a fog mist.

This sprayer comes in two sizes and kinds: 5-<gallon size, heavy all

or, heavy galvanized, $5.50; 4-igallon size, all brass, $7, or, heavy galvanized, $5; No. 020 4-gallon size, weight 7 pounds, all brass, $5; No. 20 4-gallon, light galvanized, $3.50. These sprayers will spray trees or whitewash buildings at 25 feet by using extension rods to elevate spray. These rods come in various lengths and are sold at reasonable prices.

These sprayers are made by the Rlppley Hardware Mfg. Co., Box V, Grafton, 111. This firm is one of the largest maker of sprayers and mixtures in the Central and Southern States. Their catalogue will be mailed free on application.

NBTW STYLE TURNOUTS OF THE OHIO CARRIAGE MFG. CO.

The New Buggy Style Book of the Ohio Carriage Mfg. Co., is fresh from the hands of the printers. It illustrates the many new and unusually stylish rigs, which President H. C. Phelps is offering this year to his "factory-to-home" patrons.

Among the 125 styles of Split Hickory Vehicles there are many new and effective ideas, as well as the best development of standard styles in Top Buggies, Automobile Seats, Two-in-One Buggies, Handsome Runabouts with Fancy Seats, Regular Seats and Automobile Seats, Carriages, Surreys, Spring Wagons, and Harness.

The striking picture at the head of this conveys a good idea of the

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29. In the best section of Loudoun County, surrounded by high-priced ana

beautiful farms, three hundred and twenty-three acres, 7 miles from railroad, one mile from fine pike, one mile from postotlice and two miles from school; 60 acres In timber; well fenced, and divided into nine fields, with water in every field—large stream through place, two good houses, one of seven rooms, and the other of five rooms; fine tenant house of four rooms, two new barns, one 35x45 the other 30x40; all necessary outbuildings in good conditlOH. Price only $7,000. This is a fine blue grass stock farm, and the biggest bargain we have.

&00 acres convenient to Washington; one and a half miles from rail; close to churches, schools, mill, etc., land all fenced; 400 acres in timber; 400 acres of good grass land, especially suited to stock, or dairying; smooth and free from rocks; borders on stream; 9 fields well watered; small orchard. Sxcellent residence beautifully situated in 8 acres of lawn; two stories with hall In middle; hot and cold water in kitchen; bath room with all modern improvements. Uood servants' house nearby. Fair barn 52x30 with all necessary outbuildings; Bored well and also wind mill, with 2 large storage tanks, and also cistern, 7-room tenant house, with barn, well and outbuildings. This desirable farm has just been put in my hands for sale. Price only $25 per acre for whole. Or will sell a part at price according to location, improvements, etc. One-third dewn and balance on easy terms.

606 acres in the best section of Loudoun three and a half miles from railroad; convenient to school, church, store, etc.; in a high state of cultivation; rolling and well drained; fine blue grass—will graze and feed 100 head of cattle, besides other stock; well fenced; lasting water in every field, 2 orchards. Large colonial house in fair condition, good barn, and all necessary outbuildings. Price 147.50 per acre. This place is offered at this low figure to settle an estate. Land adjoining is held as high as $80 per acre. This is the best bargain we have.

135 acre dairy farm on rail, close to station, in Loudoun Co. Has been 1l dairy farm for 20 years. The owner, on account of old age, offers to sell everything, Including 10 good cows, 5 horses, all farm implements, and crops fer about $8,500. There are stanchions for 20 cows in new barn, recently built according to health regulations. The land is under a high state of cultivation, fine fruit; lasting stream through place, seven-room house and all necessary outbuildings. The farm and crops, if sold' at once, $7,000.

220 acres in Loudoun Co., one and a half miles from rail; one mile from school and church, two and a half miles to tbwn; 25 acres in timber; 125 acres under cultivation; fenced into seven fields, with running water; 175 fruit trees. Borders on run, furnishing good fishing and hunting. More land adjoining could be had if desired. Good 8-room house with hall in middle, 2 porches; good bam, 40x70, with cow annex 14x16. Corn house, dairy, etc. Price $5,250. $2,009 down. balance to suit.

NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY. Loudoan and Fairfax County Stock Farms a Specialty.

A. H. DUELL. Real Estate Broker.

HIIRNDON, Fairfax Co.. VA.

OPTOiriMIY

The opportunity of a lifetime awaits the home-seeker in the " Land of the M an-atee," where the climate is delightful, where there are no droughts, where the finest fruits and vegetables grow, maturing months earlier than other, sections, and hence bringing the highest prices.

You could soon' beconie independent in this land of plenty. One grove of Grapefruit netted $2,500 an. acre: this year. Vegetable crops often^net$1,000an acre. This book tells of splendid lands in this section that can be procured very reasonably. Sent FREE while edition lasts.

Address J. W. WHITE, Gen'l Industrial rts't,

Seaboard Air-LineDept. P.Portsmouth, Va,

Farms in Northern Virqinia

DAIRY, GRAIN, STOCK, POULTRY, FRUIT.

Near Washington and Baltimore, and in easy reach of Philadelphia mad New York.

Unlimited markets and unsurpassed shipping facilities. Reasonable in price. Near good live towns, schools and churebes. Writs h*. CL.AVDB 6. STEPHENSON, (Successor to Stephenson & Rainey, Herndon, Va.)

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The next time you go to the city will you stop at a store where Edison goods are sold and hear an Edison Phonograph ?

If you do you will be entertained — better entertained than you have any idea of.

Better entertained than you have been at many theatres or concert halls, for the reason that here you may choose your entertainment rather than accept what has been arranged.

If you like opera selections, a star whose name is ftimiliar to you will sing. If you prefer band or orchestra music, you can choose not only the band or orchestra from a number of celebrated aggregations, but also the music you wish to hear played.

If you like the popular music of the day — the song hits from the latest musical comedtes—the singers who made those hits are there to do their best for you. Or, if you are in the mood for a good story the country's cleverest comedians will liven up the program with their fun.

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Third, that you can, for a small amount of money, transfer this all-star company to your hoftie and witness performance after performance, each one differing from the others and all of the highest order.

Farm life should not be all work; neither should rest time become monotonous. You, perhaps, come to the city frequently, but the wife and the children do not have that advantage. They miss much in the way of diversion that you enjoy.

Wouldn't they welcome the Edison Phonograph with its new songs, good stories and bright music I

The farm with an Edison Phonograph is not isolated, because it is in touch with the one great thing that keeps a farm from becoming so, and that is clean, wholesome, fascinating entertainment.

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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER.

[April,

style and quality of these new turnouts.

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When desiring to throw dirt up toward the crop or row, all that is necessary is to adjust the gangs to the desired angle, which Is a very simple operation. It can also easily be shifted 8« as to throw tlie dirt away from the row.

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As a matter of fact, more different kinds of work can be done with this Double Action Cultivator than with any other make. It is the only

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disk cultivator on the market embodying the Double Action principle. It ■win do the work of several disk machines that would cost the farmer several times as much, and do it more thoroughly because it has four gangs instead of only two. This machine Is always sent with Extension Head and Jointed Pole, and with two large discs for listing, when so ordered.

Full particulars can be had by writing to the Cutaway Harrow Co., of Hlgganum, Conn., mentioning this paper.

REPORTS RECEIVED JAN. 1909.

U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. Bureau of Animal Industry. Twenty-Fourth Annual Report for the Year 1907. Office of Experiment Stations. Experiment Station Record, Vol. XX. Nos. 3 and 4. Bureau of Chemistry. Circular 42. General Results of the Investigations Showing the Effects of Formaldehyde upon Digestion and Health. Farmers' Bull. 342. Experiment Station Work, XLIX. Conservation of Soil Resources. Potato Breeding, Disc Harrowing, Alfalfa, etc.-Farmers' Bull. 344. The Boll Weevil Problem, with Special Reference to Means of Reducing Damage. Farmers' Bull. 346. The computation of Rations for Farm Animals by the Use of Energy Values. Farmers' Bull. 348. Bacteria in Milk.

Alabama Experiment Station, Auburn, Ala. Bull. 143. Feeds Supplementary to Corn for Southern Pork Production.

Colorado Experiment Station, Fort Collins, Col. Bull. 133. A Few Orchard Plant Lice. Bull. 135 The Australian Saltbush.

Idaho Experiment Station, Moscow, Idaho. Bull. 65. Alaska Wheat Investigation.

Kansas Experiment Station, Manhattan, Kan. Bull. 156. The Yellow Berry Problem In Kansas Hard Winter Wheats. Bull. 157. Studies in Hog Cholera and Preventive Treatment.

Louisiana Experiment Station, Baton Rouge, La. Bull. 114. Analysis of Commercial Feeding Stuffs.

Maryland Experiment Station, College Park, Md. Bull. 131. Treatment for San Jose Scale.

Maryland Agricultural College, College Park, Md. College Quarterly, (November, 1908. Feedstuff Analyses.

New Mexico Experiment Station, Agricultural College, N. M. Bull. 69. Experiments on the Digestibility of Prickly Pear by Cattle.

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Improved Machinery

As we all know conditions are such that we can no longer afford to attempt to farm without Improved machinery and the most progressive farmers are those who use the most Improved machinery. We believe the best way to get out the most successful kind of farm tools is for the farmers to study out the Improvements themselves just as was 'done in getting out the one shown In this cut; which is a combination of the Horse Hoe, the Plain Tooth and Reversible Disc Cultivators. It was invented by a Practical Farmer of North Carolina, has been thoroughly tried and tested and is said to be the very best of cultivators and one ol the greatest labor saving farm ma-

Makes Progressive Farmers.

chines e ver invented. It will clean out the whole middle between two rows of any width from 2V4 to 4 feet wide every trip and from 4 to 5% feet at every two trips, either working the dirt to or from the plants and can be used to cultivate any kind of crop planted in rows, and also used as a harrow. It is said to be a very light draft machine and one small horse carries it easily. It can be seen or purchased at 1422 B. Main Street, Richmond, Va.

For Information or Prices Write,

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RICHMOND, VA.

North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey, Chapel Hill, N. C. Bull.21. Cultivation of the Oyster. Bull. 22. How to Increase the Durability of Farm Timber. Bull. 23. Suggested Legislation Relating to Drainage of Swamp and Overflowed Lands.

Pennsylvania Experiment Station, State College, Pa. Bull. 88. Steer Feeding Experiments.

Purdue Experiment Station, Lafayette, Ind. Bull. 129. Steer Feeding. Bull. 130. Steer Feeding. Bull. 131. Concentrated Commercial Feeding Stuffs.

Rhode Island Experiment Station, Kingston. R. I. Bull. 132. Analyses of Commercial Fertilizer.

Virginia Department of Health, Richmond Va. Health Bulletin. Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria and Disinfection.

Philippine Agrictdtural Review. Sept., 1908.

REPORTS RECEIVED FEB., 1909.

U. S. Department of Agriculture., Washington, D. C. Forest Service. .. Circular 155. Production and Consumption of Basket Willows In the United States for 1906 and 1907.

Forest Service. Circular 156. Preliminary Report on Grazing Experiments In a Coyote-Proof Pasture.

Forest Service. Circular 159. The Future Use of Land in the United States.

Bureau of Plant Industry. Bull. 140. The Spineless Prickly Pear.

Farmers' Bull. 343. The Cultivation of Tobacco in Kentucky and Tennessee.

Farmers' Bull. 347. The Repair of Farm Equipment.

Farmers' Bull. 349. The Dairy Industry in the South.

Farmers' Bull. 350. The Dehorning of Cattle. Arizona Experiment Station, Tuczon. Ariz. Bull. 58. Citrus Culture in the Arid Southwest.

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Sugar Loaf King's Improved Cotton Seed; 3 1-3 bu. |3; 10 bu., $8.60; SO bu. $37.50.

Sugar Loaf Prolific Seed Corn. 1^ bu. $1.50; 2 bu. $6; 10 bu. $20.

Will send free one dollar's worth of Rocky Ford Cantaloupe and Stone Tomato Seed with an order of $10. Catalogue Free.

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Canebrake Experiment Station, Union town, Ala. Bull. 26. Fertilizer Tests With Cotton—Cover Crops-Alfalfa Yields.

Illinois Experiment Station, Urbana, 111, Bull. 129. Market Classes and Grades of Sheep. Circular 123. The Status of Soil

Fertility Investigations. Circular 124. Chemical Principles of Soil Fertility.

Minnesota Experiment Station, St. Anthony Park, Minn. Bull.' 112. Two Years' Work With the Apple Leaf Hopper and With the Cabbage Maggot. Other Injurious Insects of 1907 and 1908.

N'orth Carolina Experiment Station,

W. Raleigh. Bull. 198. Handling

and Marketing of Milk and Cream.

Bull. 199. Feeding Experiments

With Cows and Calves.

Pennsylvania Experiment Station, State College, Pa. Bull. 89 Shelter Tent Experiments WitF Sumatra-Type Tobacco.

Purdue Experiment Station, Lafayette, Ind. Twenty-First Annual Report.

Virginia Experiment Station. Bull.

180. The Blue Grass of Southwest

Virginia.

Circular 2. How the Experiment

Station Can Serve the Farmers.

Circular 5. Sugar Beets in 1908.

Virginia Department of Health, Richmond, Va. Annual Report of Commissioner E. G. Williams.

West Virginia Experiment Station. Morgantown, W. Va. Commercial Fertilizers. Report for 1908.

Wisconsin Experiment Station, Madison, Wis. Bull. 164. The King System of Ventilation. Bull. 165. Vaccination A.gainst Tuberculosis in Cattle With Bovo-vaccine. Bull. 168. Spraying Potatoes Against Blight and the Potato Beetle.

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INQUIRER'S COLUMN. All Inquiries must reach us by the 15th of the month previous to the Issue, or they cannot be answered until the month following.

Improving an Old Virginia Plantation.

I have before me an artlce In the Southern Planter, written by Prof. W. F. Massey, headed, "Improving a Farm," in which he gives extracts from a letter of a young man asking his advice as to improving a large farm in Piedmont section. I read the above with interest and think 1 was much benefitted.

I am taking the liberty of addressing this to you to ask if you would please give me some advise as to solving the problem I find confronting me.

I am a young man, practically manager and joint heir of an old colonial estate of six or seven hundred acres here in Southern Virginia. For the past twenty or thirty years it was worked almost exclusively by old family negro tenants resulting in worn out fields and red gullies and with almost no fences, etc.

The land that Is not worn out or washed is real 'ertile and is especially adapted to grain, dark tobacco, and cattle grazing.

Seeing that the old way of leasing to negroes was not profitable, I began trying a new way of working the land. I started by fencing in a few acres of gullied land each year and putting a few calves on same . to graze and in that way to receive some little in return for land that was formerly unfit for cultivation and consequently wasn't even paying taxes. At this writing, about two years after starting with a few calves we have about four or five hundred acres fenced and thirty-flve to forty-five head of cattle after selling some cattle at a nice profit from time to time.

Now, we graze these cattle exclusively, have not fed them a bit this winter, but have them turned on river bottom lands, where they can get the fodder, etc., from the corn and all of the hay they want in mild weather and, when snow is on the ground, they subsist on the fodder from the reed brakes which surround bottom lands. We have at this time some steers fat enough for nice beef, which we will soon sell, returns of which will be net as far as feeding is concerned.

Now, some points I wish to know are: Will the land be injured or improved by grazing cattle? Which is best for improvement, to cultivate or let vegetation grow on land and graze? I am cultivating corn on a

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The Imperial Double Disc is a flouble machine with double capacity. It Is dandled by one man with three or four horses, doing the work of two men ana SIX horses when using ordinary Disc Harrows. The soil Is harrowed twcie In one passage over the field, being cut and worked outward by the forward discs and then cut and thrown back by the rear discs. The surface of the ground is left smooth and level. This double harrowing is exactly equal to two workings of the' field with a single machine. The saving in time is just one-half and in expense nearly as much. The quality of the work is better because th'6 second harrowing follows immediately while the ground Is mellow and because it leaves an even, level surface.

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two-year shift on bottom land that yields from five to eighteen barrels of corn per acre without the aid of commercial fertilizer by fallowing under the vegetation and grazing same land in winter, I wish to know what effect on the land the grazing has and if, in your opinion, the manure and urine left on land will counteract the loss of vegetable matter taken off.

I have noticed since grazing that in the summer there are spots all about in the fields where the weeds are eight to twelve inches higher than elsewhere. The rich looking spots were not there before the land was grazed. Would you advise me to have a portable fence and pen the cattle in the field at night, changing spots from time to time? I wish to add that by our new plan of wording the plantation that we have reduced the negro tenants from about twelve families to only one family (that we keep to assist us), and in so doing we have saved any amount of wood and timber and at last put the place on a paying basis.

I will be very grateful for advice In the future management of this place. SAMUEL TARRY.

Mecklenburg Co., Va.

Grazing cattle, especially young animals which have their bony system to form, will quite rapidly use up the phosphorus in the soil, but by annual dressings of bone meal the pasturage can be improved while grazed. I know a section in Northern Maryland of hill lands, originally thin and poor, which have made splendid grazing lands by an annual application of bone meal at the rate of about 300 pounds per acre. You notice rank spots in the fields caused by the droppings of the cattle. They will not eat these rank spots and the droppings should be scattered with a harrow, and the weeds mown off. There is no objection to grazing hill lands so long as the grass

$5,445,869 More a Year for Tobacco Farmers

The total value of the tobacco yiefd for the eight Tobacco States is over $59,554,131 annually. With the same acreage the tobacco growers in these States could, by improved methods of cultivation and fertilization, undoubtedly increase the total value of the crop to $65,000,000.

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can be kept good. But I have seen many old pastures in Albemarle which the owners were afraid to break because of the gullies, and the gullies continually became worse and new ones formed on the cattle tracks. With a thick sod on the land, the gullies can be prevented from forming and you can gradually fill the old gullies by making dams at intervals in them to catch the wash. If you have plenty of loose rocks you can use these for damming the gullies, and if you plow all the land not in gullies deeply, and run a sub-Boiler so as to loosen the soil fifteen inches deep, you can seed down to orchard grass, red top and blue grass and leaving a hard rim next the gul lies, can prevent the water getting Into them from the higher land. I have in this way gotten old gullies in grass. This will be hastened if you get some of the running stems of Bermuda grass and put them in the gullies. There is nothing equal to Bermuda for stopping the gullies. But I would certainly try to get the land into good grass, and keep it good by annual top dressing of bone. This can be done by degrees, seeding one field this year and another the next, and so on, grazing the other fields while the grass is getting a good start. A mixture of ten pounds orchard grass, five pounds red top, and five pounds of Canada blue grass per acre will be a good mixture. The Canada blue grass, poa compressa, runs like Bermuda and binds the soil well. Then I would not run the cattle on the bottoms in winter, but would cut the com and cure in shocks, and if I had not shelter enough, would fence off a lot handy and feed the com there to make manure for the hills. Then, on the bottoms, I would plant com and, at last working, would sow sixteen pounds of crimson clover seed per acre all among It. Then, In the spring, you will have the finest sort of pasture, and can turn It last of May for corn again. The bottoms will stand this and will give you Increasing crops of com, and, by feeding this and applying the manure tr the hills, you can make hay on part of the land and thug get more and more feed. But determine at once that the guinea shall be stopped and made to stop themselves. I would not hesitate to break, and break deeply and subsoil, the hill lands If the grass Is not good, and at once sow grain and ■eed down again after manuring or fertilizing liberally. On land devoted to tobacco T would make a three-year rotation of tobacco, wheat and red clover, turning the whole growth of clover In the fall the third year, and sowing rye as a winter cover and turn It In spring for tobacco, thus bringing the decaying clover where It will hp valuable to the tobacco. Then with 8lmpy an application of 400 pounds of acid phosphate and 100 pounds of

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Pepper plants should be raised in a hot bed and the seed, if not already Bown, should be put in at once. Sow in boxes filled with light, rich soil. When the plants are big enough to handle, they should be pricked off about three inches apart into other boxes or into the soil in a frame and be pushed along and gradually hardened so as to be ready to set out in the field as soon as the land is warm. There are several varieties grown for the market, but probably the most popular is the Ruby King, which Is generally sold green. The long red Cayenne Is also largely sold. They should be set out in the field In rows wide enough apart to allow of cultivation and twelve or fifteen inches apart in the rows, and should be frequently cultivated. The soil should be rich and, If not so, fertilizer should be used liberally. A proper fertilizer for this crop should analyze five per cent nitrogen, six per cent, phosphoric acid, and seven per cent, potash. Such a fertilizer can be made by mixing 200 pounds nitrate of soda, 700 pounds cotton seed meal, 840 pounds acid phosphate and 200' pounds muriate of potash to make a ton. Use at the rate of from 5O0 to 600 pounds to the acre. The land should be well prepared before setting out the plants so as to have It fine and free from clods.—^Ed.

Cowpeas.

I expect to sow twenty-five or thirty bushels cowpeas this spring on some poor land. Would it be best to plow under the vines this fall and sow to crimson clover and plow under the clover next spring for com and tobacco? What variety of cowpeas would you advise? How many to the acre, and how should they be put in? Also, what fertilizer to use; how much to the acre, and how applied? I wish to be right before going ahead. If you will kindly assist me in the matter I will greatly appreciate it. Part of the land is sandy loam and part clay.

Pince Geo. Co., Md. D. B. MARK.

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In the droppings. But if your object is to accumulate humus making material for a corn and tobacco crop, let the peas grow till fully mature and the leaves start to drop. Then sow crimson clover seed among them at rate of sixteen pounds per acre, and let the vines remain to shade the young clover.—W. F. MASSEY.

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Will you advise me what to do for a colt that has worms? Her coat is rough and she backs up close to a fence or building and rubs her tail against it and seems to be very uncomfortable most of the time. She Is also thin and in bad condition generally. LINDiSAY McMINN.

New Kent Co., Va.

The worms most commonly troublesome are lumbricoid worms, which infest the smaller intestines, and the pin worms, which infest the large bowels. The remedy for the first form is to give a drench of turpentine, one ounce, and linseed oil, two or three ounces, to be followed on the fourth day by a physic of Barbadoes aloes, one ounce. Give the drench after the horse has fasted for twenty-four hours. The remedy for the pin worms Is to Inject Iilto the bowels through rectum an Infusion of tobacco or quassia chips, one-half pound to a gallon of water once or twice dally for a few days. After the worms are disposed of give a tonic made up of one-half ounce of Peruvian bark, gentian and ginger every day in the feed or as a drench. This will tone up the system and appetite and prevent recurrence of the trouble usually.—Ed.

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1. Will you kindly tell me what will stop hens from eating eggs, and the cause for their doing so? I have a flock of Barred Plymouth Rock young hens that are fed a moderate ration of corn once a day; they have a largo range and can get all the green wheat and crimson clover they want. Besides, they can go to the woods for worm, bugs, etc. I put lime where they can get it. Still they eat the eggs nearly every day.

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et. Dark nests are somewhat of a preventative. Trap nests will also save most of the eggs, but these are more expensive and troublesome.

2. The dried stallvs, leaves and hulls ef soy beans are good feed for stock •f any kind. Soy bean hay is one of the most nutritious feeds grown.—Ed.

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I enclose two shoots cut from the same "climbing rose" bush. They are evidently Infected with "scale" of some kind. I am quite ignorant in such matters. Write to you for Information; also, the remedy. Would it be better to destroy all bushes found so infected? If you will be kind enough to reply through the "Enquirers' Column" of your valued paper, I shall be greatly obliged.

CHAS. M. HARRIS.

Fauquier Co., Va.

The trouble Is not scale, but the eggs of the common Katydid, This is not an injurious insect and therefore calls for no treatment.—^Ed.

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1. I have a piece of wheat, twenty-three acres, the land lies well for machinery work, and my hope is to put it all down in grass, but it has been neglected to such an extent that I prefer working it a few years before seeding down. My one small experiment seeding clover with grain was Bot a brilliant success. One of Richmond's seed dealers strongly advocated sowing the clover and grass on top of the wheat during the winter. The wheat looks well, but there has not been a day this winter on which I could have ventured to put a team and harrow on the field, and BOW there is so much other work that even when it dries enough to work over safely I'll have to leave it. Can I cut up this land after harvest with a disc harrow and seed it to crimson clover without re-plowing?

2. Would there be any show for crimson clover if sown with sorghum and cowpeas? My object being to keep the land covered and also fur-Bish early grazing because the land has been so overgrown and weedy that I can't let anything lie over without something on it. Please help me •ut on this. Your paper has already been of great help to me. L. G'.

Campbell Co., Va.

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a mixture of crimson clover, 12 pounds to the acre, and wheat, oats and rye mixed in equal parts at the rate of three pecks to the acre. This gives a more certain cover for the land during the winter than the crimson clover alone, especially where crimson clover has not been grown before and thus makes a better fallow to turn under in the spring.

2. The crimson clover should not be sown with the sorghum and peas, as it will be then too early. It may be sown on the sorghum and peas in August and these will. shade it sufficiently to enable it to root and make a stand. If very dry in August, we would not sow it until later, after a rain. Never let the land lie bare during any part of the year.—Ed.

Nux Vomica to Kill Hawks.

What amount and how often should nux vomica be fed to chicks and grown fowls to kill hawks? We are losing a great number of chicks by hawks.

NOLA CHUCKY PLTY. FARM.

Hamblen Co., Tenn.

See Mr. Husselman's article In this issue. The most economical way to destroy the hawks is to make up all the chickens except one brood and to feed this brood with soft food in which you have mixed the nux vomica. Use half a teaspoonful of the dry nux vomica to a quart of meal or four or five drops of the liquid tincture for each chick.—Ed.

Tomato Fertilizer.

Will you please advise a good analysis of fertilizer for a tomato crop on clay land, and grey soil with clay subsoil. E. L. BLANKENSHIP.

Franklin Co.. Va.

The most successful tomato growers invariably use a good dressing of farm yard manure, say eight or ten tons to the acre, applied in the winter, and worked into the land and then supplement this with a fertilizer having an analysis of about three per cent, ammonia, seven per cent, phosphoric acid, and eight per cent, potash, applied in the rows just before planting and well mixed with the soil, using 300 to 600 pouTtids to the acre. A fertilizer having this analysis can be made by mixing 100 pounds nitrate of soda, 400 pounds fish scrap, 1,180 pounds acid phosphate, and 320' pounds muriate of potash. You cannot expect to succeed in making a heavy crop of tomatoes without ammonia. On some land heavy applications of nitrate of soda seem to be more effectual in securing a good yield than any other fertilizer. Your clay soil, we

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Sale of Spring Lambs.

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Lunenburg Co., Va.

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Please say whether a mild winter Is bet+er or worse on cattle than a severe one. A SUBSCRIBER.

Halifax Co.. Va.

Under the ordinary conditions in which cattle are kept in t^iis country, a mild winter is undoubtedly much more conducive to the well doing of the animals than a severe one. The first use which the animal makes of the feed it eats is to keep up the normal heat of the body and sustain life. If the weather is severely cold more of the food of maintenance is required to maintain this normal heat and, therefore, unless heavier rations and more heat producing food is fed less of that eaten will be applied to the building up of the fabric of the body and the storing of fat and the condition of the animal will be less satisfactory. A mild winter is economical of food in that better results will be secured from a smaller consumption than would be the case in hard, severe weather, the natural heat of the body requiring less fuel to keep it up more of that fuel will be applied to the improvement of the condition of the animal.—Ed.

Improving Land in Tidewater Virginia.

I fail to get much benefit from acid phosphate and peas. I put it on pea hay, also on planted peas, and cannot see any result. I would be glad it you will give me all the information you can that will help me to improve the poor land of Tidewater.

W. J. G.

Y(BU do not say what you do with the peas after you have grown them. If you simply put on a little acid phosphate just suflBcient to make a small growth of peas and then cut them off and do not feed them to stock and apply the manure made to the land, it will gradually get poorer In the mineral plant food and especially in potash, which you do not supply, and the little acid phosphate applied each year will fail to make a better crop. The acid phosphate will only supply one element of plant food itself and help to get another from the atmosphere (nitrogen), but to make a successful crop you must have all

How a Reliable Engine Economizes Labor

OF course, you, like other farmers, want to economize your time.

Think in how many places a power would be a help to you— would save time and work—if you had it in a handy form ready for use in a minute.

Think how much hard work it would save you in cutting feed— in sawing wood, posts or poles^ in running the cream separator or churn—in operating shop or other machinery.

The I. H. C. gasoline engine is a power that is always ready at your hand. It is not necessarily stationary, like the windmill, and on that account adapted to doing only one kind of work.

The engine is built in many styles—there are portable engines on trucks and skidded engines which can be moved wherever the work is to be done. Then there are stationary engines, both vertical and horizontal, in sizes from 1 to 25-horse-power, air cooled and water cooled, and also gasoline traction engines 12, 15 and 20-horse-power. Besides, there are special sawing, spraying and pumping outfits from which you can select

The engines are simple in design so that they can be easily understood.

They are strong and durable— constructed with a large factor of safety, inasmuch as they have greater strength than would ordinarily be required. Yet they are not clumsy or too heavy.

All parts are accessible and easily removed and reassembled. Every engine will develop a large per cent of power in excess of its rating—you get more power than you pay for.

Tliey are absolutely reliable— you cannot find one inefficient detail. They are unusually economical in fuel consumption— less than a pint of gasoline per ^ horse-power per hour. This means that a 2-horse powei engine will produce full 2-horse power for five hours on only one gallon of gasoline.

Would it not be a wise plan for you to investigate and learn how an I, H. C. engine will save time and lighten the labor on your farm?

International local agents will supply you with catalogs. Call on them for particulars, or write the home office.

INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER COMPANY OF AMERICA

(Incorporated) Chicago. U. S. A.

Here Is Something New From Kalameizoo

Prove for yourself in your own home, th.it the Kalamazoo is the most perfect—most economical—most satisfactory range for you to use—Your nionev back if it's not. ,

Send for Catalog No. 400 with special terms and compare Kalamazoo prices with oliiers

Cash Or Time Payments

We want every housewife to know the comfort and convenience of a Kalamazoo in her liome. You can buy on easy time payments or pay cash if you like. Eitlier way—you save $10 to $20 on any stove in the catalog. We nialce i t easy for responsible people to own the best stove or range in the world.

We Pay the i Freight

Kalamazoo Stove Co. Kalamazoo, Mich.

Direct tio You"

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ATLAS

ONE JUST AS GOOD

AU Built of Concrete

For almost every construction purpose—from hitching-posts to dwelling houses — concrete takes the place of lumber or brick.

ATLAS,

Makes The Best Concrete

FEMENT

Cement is the heart of concrete, and the quality of the

concrete construction depends on the quality of the

cement used. The United States Government—has

ordered 4,500,000 barrels of ATLAS Portland Cement

for use in construction work on the Panama Canal. That

shows what expert judges think of ATLAS. When you

buy a bag or a barrel of ATLAS Portland Cement you get the

same quality that the United States Government has purchased.

Concrete Buildings Need No Repairs

When you put up a concrete building-, or a concrete fence or watering trough, it is there to stay as long as the land stays. It cannot bum or wear out—and it is the most economical building material for the farmer.

L4'|j'p''p' "ROOT? ^^ '''™ written an instructive book called "Concrete Constnic-•*■ ■*'^' '' ^ ••-''-''^•'*-tion About the Home and on the Farm.' It will showvou how to use this handy material in a hundred different ways. We will send you this book free.

If your local dealer does not carry ATLAS, write us.

THE ATLAS PORTLAND CEMENT COMPANY,

Department 116 30 Broad Street, New York,

Daily Productive Capacity Over 40,000 Barrels, the Largest in the World,

three elements—phosphorus, potash and nitrogen. You can make the potash in the soil available by applying lime at the rate of one ton to the acre, or you can apply potash in the form of muriate of potash at the rate of twenty-five pounds to the acre, with the acid phosphate. Try applying 250 pounds of acid phosphate and twenty-five pounds of muriate of potash to the acre and see if you do not get better results. Also feed the pea hay to your stock and apply the manure to the land to supply humus.— Ed.

Horse Not Doing Well.

I have a bay mare five years old and about fourteen hands high. She has plenty of life and a good appetite, but will not get fat. Her hair is rough and she looks worn out. She will not weigh more than 900 or 950 pounds. For her size, I think that to look well and do good service, she should weigh at least 150 poundi

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The Simplest and Finest Process Ever Invented. Mad« In All Sizes, and Prices from $5.00 Up, and Well Suited to Both Home and Market CannInK—25.000 of Oar Outflta Nuvr In TTne. The finest Canned Goods in the World put up by farmers and their families. Write now, and get our free catalogue, giving full Information, and prepare for the next crop.

THB RAA'BY CAXNER CO., Chapel HIU, N. O. W«8tem Addreas: Texarkana, Ark.-Tex

THE SOUTHEEN PLANTER.

[April,

Let Me Pay the Postage on>

My Big Free Buggy Book to You

Though these books cost me 8c each for postage alone, yet I'll gladly send you one free because I want you to know about Split Hickory Vehicles—made-to-order—sold direct from factory to you at home on 30 Days' Free Road Test—guaranteed 2 years.

Book Tells How I Save You $26.50 on Split Hickory Buggies

—tells why I can save it to you and just where the savine comet in—also tells how I save you at the same ratio on over 100 styles of Split Hickory , Vehicles—more vehicles than you could see in 10 big store rooms. Better send for this book, sit down of an evening and look it over. It's full of actual photographs of Vehicles and Harness of every description. It's my latest and best book—for 1909—and it's truly a Buggy Buyers' G uide^ It not only gives descriptions and prices in detail, but also tells how good vehicles are made—why they are better made my way—all running parts made of second growth Shellbark Hickory, split with the grain, not sawed across it, thus giving extra strength and long wearing qualities. It tells about one of my latest features— Sheldon Genuine French joint automobile springs,, makingr the easiest riding buggy on the market— even riding over rough roads is a pleasure with a 'Split Hickory."

Buying direct from the factory brings yon In touch with the people who make yonr vehicle. My two years' guarantee is to you direct—my 30 Days' Free Road Test is to you direct—my price to yon direct—no roundabout transaction as when buying through a dealer—keep the dealer's profit to buy other things with—all meaning a big saving and more satisfaction to you.

Will you let me mail rou the book? Will you write for it today. Address me personally H. C. Phelps, President. T HE O mO CA RRIAGE MFG. CO^ STATION 294. COLUMBUS.

H. C. Phelps

more. Will you please tell me what to do to make her fatten?

Smyth Co., Va. SUBSCRIBER.

Give her a physic of one ounce of Barbadoes aloes, and when this has worlved ofE give her a tonic of one-half ounce of Peruvian bark, gentian and ginger twice a day in her feed for a week or two. This should tone up her system and appetite and get her into thriving condition.—Ed.

Moles.

Will you kindly give in your valuable paper some method or means of killing out or destroying moles in the garden? If nothing will destroy perhaps you may know some means of keeping out this great nuisance. M. NORRIS.

We have no sympathy with killing moles anywhere except in a garden where they are troublesome in uprooting crops whilst in pursuit of their natural diet—worms, grubs and insects. A mole in twenty-four hours will eat its own weight of worms and grubs and is constantly at work seeking these and therefore is one of the greatest friends the farmer has. Close investigation has established the fact that they eat very little of any kind of food but these troublesome and Injurious pests. It is not a fact that they run through the rows of newly planted corn, peas, beans and other vegetables to eat the grain planted. They run there and cause damage by uprooting the crops because there the grubs and worms which destroy the seeds planted are more numerous than elsewhere. We would not have a mole destroyed in a field If we could prsvent it, but in a garden they cause

Evan's "Model" Disk Corn Planter far Corn and Peas.

with or Wlthont Fertilizer Attachment.

It is made with steel frames, making it strong and durable. . Plates are furnished to drill accurately from 8 to 48 inches apart, dropping the corn perfectly, covering It and crushing the clods. Also one plate for peas and beans. The gearing is chilled so that it will not wear out. It has a positive force feed Fertilizer. Furnished with or without Fertilizer. The device for throwing corn and fertilizer in and out of gear Is close to the operator and convenient to handle without stopping the team, which prevents waste at the ends _ ^^^^ of rows. As straight a

Our 1>09 Cata-I \ I ^^k^ ^Bi^^^^^^^^^ ^°^ ^^'^ ^^ made with _i..i-_ ^> I \ W lS^\ ^^B I ' ^JiMll It ^'■s with a single

logue giving de-1 ^J^KSJ^^SHLr Wil shovel plow.

scriptions and prices of improved Farm Machinery m a 11 e d free to any address.

The Implememt Company,

No. 1302 K. Street.

Rlchmoad, Va.

MADE IN OUR OWN MACHINE SHOPS LITTLE SAMSON ENGINES

FOR FARM USE.

Built in 5 H. P. and 7 H. P. 5 H. P. weighs 2,100 lbs. 7 H. P. weighs 2,700 lbs. Equipped with Pickering Ball Governor, .fust the engine for Threshing Wheat, Picking Peanuts, Sawing Wood, etc..

Sold at Reasonable Prices.

Write at once for particulars.

STRATTON & BRAGG COMPANY,

Machinery Manufacturers, PETERSBURG, VA,

TELL THB ADVERTISSR WHSRB YOU SAW HIS ADVERTISEMENT.

THE SOUTHERN PLANTER.

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THE Wnti. J.

THE Wm. J.

ANEW

PLOW

PLOW^'

Just what YOU have been looking for—a so strong in its foundation that we can and do guarantee the Saddle never to break through the point hole. (No other plows will give you this guarantee.)

Our point and landside are connected with the Saddle in a way that absolutely preserves the "Suck'' and "Gather" of the plow, insuring a light draught.

All parts are independent of each other, insuring durability and less liability to breakage which also has the ten dency to cause light draught.

All parts are interchangeable as between wood and steei beam plows—we can change from a wood to a steel beam plow (or vice versa) in ten minutes—In other words, one set of parts is all that you would have to carry. (No other plows has this feature)

The Wm. J. Oliver

IMPROVED CHILLED PLOW

is the coming Plow. We have a chilled Shin or "cutter" on our plow that will stop for nothing-cuts right through like a knife and lasts two to four years before a new one is needed. It is a plow distinct and original in every way and is

THE PLOW YOU WANT

Write for further particulars—want Agents everywhere.

The Wm. J. Oliver Mfg. Co.

KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE. P. S.—We allow a liberal trade discount.

THE Wm. J

THE Wm. J.

PLOW

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THE SOUTHEEK PLAITTER

[April,

so much damage by uprooting the newly planted crops that they are a nuisance to be abated. As they eat so little beyond grubs and worms, it Is difficult to poison them. You may poison grain and put in the rows and they will rarely eat it. They can be best destroyed by tracing their runs to where they come Into the garden. They usually enter by one main run and this generally leads to water. A spring trap placed In this main run will usually soon catch the marauder. Traps placed in their subsidiary runs are of very little use .as they do not use these except when opening them to seek the grubs and worms. They may be caught when making these subsidiary runs by watching for them with a spade in hand which should be thrust into the ground Immediately he-hind where they are working and thus throw them out and strike them with the back of the spade. We have often killed tbem in this way. It is said that kerosene or camphor poured on cotton and put in the runs will cause them to abandon them, but we cannot vouch for this.—^Ed.

Cowpeas—P o o r L a n d—Composting Manure.

1. What Is the trouble with my land that it wont make peas?

2. I have a piece of land, soil is dark, of a light, puffy nature, which will not produce anything but noxious weeds, such as dog fennel and bitter grass. What is the trouble with it?

3. Would you advise composting barn yard manure with acid phosphate, and what quantity to use?

Bladen Co., N. C. .D J. ALLEN.

1. The land lacks phosphoric acid and potash. All the legume crops are great consumers of the mineral fertilizers and without their presence In available form in the land will not succeed. Apply 250 pounds of acid phosphate and twenty-five pounds of muriate of potash per acre and you will get peas.

2. The land no doubt wants draining. Until the underlying water is drained off you cannot make it productive. Then apply one ton or more of lime per acre after plowing It and harrow In and let lay for a week or two and then apply 250 pounds of acid phosphate and twenty-five pounds of muriate of potash per acre and sow in peas and let this crop die down on the land and in August or September sow fifteen pounds of crimson clover among the vines and you will get a lover crop for the land and a fallow to plow down in the spring, and it will make you a crop.

3. Use fifty pounds of acid phos-

WALTER A. WOOD STEEL TEDDER

MAKE HAY

WHILE THE SUN SHINES

You can make every moment coimt by using these

WALTER A. WOOD

"Hurry-up" Machines

They do the work quicker and better than you can do it by hand. The Walter A. Wood Tedder is an ideal combination of strength and simplicity. All steel construction. Vibration absorbed by springs which also Gave the machine from strain. Easily adjusted. It adds to the value of your hay by preventing sun bleach. When you see it you will say it is "the best constructed tedder on the market." Our rake_ is of all steel construction. Its sure acting dumping device is put_ in operation by a touch on the foot lever. Wheels have renewable 3-piece hubs. Oil-tempered, crucible steel, coil spring teeth. Rakes

clean and hay does not get tangled in wheels. Examine these machines at our dealer's. If you don't know his address write us. Read our illustrated catalog.

Walter A. Wood Mowing and Reaping Machine Co.

BOX 812 HOOSICK FALLS. N. Y. THE LEADING INDEPENDENT CONCERN

Branch Office: 1422 East Main Street, Richmond, Va.

LISTEN! MR. FARMER!

Have yon heard of the NBV^'GST and MOST ITP-TO-DATE: GASOLINB3 KN-GINB on the MARKET?. If not, write oa abont It at once. It'a called the "TiEW-WAY» air cooled and made In 2%, SVz and 7 H. P.—Price* rnaranteed to be cheapest of any high cla"a en-cine. It can be used for every FARM inrpoae Imaginable, and la ao almple chat anyone can rnn It.

STOCKDEIL-MYERS H'D'W. CO.

Petersburg, Va.

Durham Co., N. C, Jan. 21, '09.

I have been taking the Southern Plnater for a long time and do not see how I could do without it. The whole family reads it.

N. H. FLEMING.

Spottsylvania Co., Va., Dec. 29, '08.

I have been taking the Southern Planter for the past five years and could not get along without it. I find it is one of the highest class farm papers that I take. C. N. YOUNG.

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Are you keeping the most possible? Would it not be possFoJa for you to keep more cows on your present land if you adopted improved methods of dairying? If you will investigate the

I. H. C. CREAM HARVESTER

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you ■will r'.'inoft. certainly iiiid ttiz^ ■ ^"> can increase your '^■•'•li. ii<::c, makir.g greater profits witn c/en Isss labor and less expense aian you require under present conditions. I. H. C «'. ieam Harvesters are enabling hundreds of dairymen ti tmarge their operations. They get a. the butter fat, skimming closer than you can by hand. 1 y ave work, worry, time and trouble.

They give you the warm skim milk, fresh and eet, as a nourishing food for your calves, pigs ar.d cliicke ■■. It requires or.iy the addition of a little oil meal to take the place of the butter fat extracted to make it an excellent feed.

I. H. C. Cream Harvesters are made in two styles: Dairymaid and Bluebell. Either machine will be a great help to you—wili enable you to keep the maximum number of cows.

Dairymaid

T.*;:'. machine is chain driven and is made in four sizt^^ 550, 450, 650 and 850 pounds capacity per hour. 1 ^i

chain transmits power fiom the crank through the gears to the bowl with minimum friction. This makes the Dairymaid exceptionally light-running, also very simple and durable. The crank and the supply can are at the most convenient height from the floor, and the spouts are high enough to permit the separated product to be discharged in'o ten-gallon milk cans. The frame is constructed to keep milk and dust ov.t of the gears. In every feature the Dairymaid is s. winner.

Bluebell

The B!u;bell is a '•"■> ■ .-'-'ve machine and made in four sizes: 350, 459, 650 and 850 poui.^ capacity per hour. The gears are accurately cut from the finest material procurable. A-1 oiling facilities are provided, making the machine lor.g-li"ed. The frame is constructed so that it is absolutc:y •n^jiSJole jr milk or dust to gain access to the gears— this e'imii <ttes about 90 per cent of ordinary separator ;-ro\;'"''es. Yet the gears are easily accessible. The supply 'j^ji ia-A cziZiiH uiUi'.', --^^ ii\ J'C most convenient iocationi

Call on the International local agent and ex mine the machine he handles, rf vou pretez, \/i7V<) direct to the home office for a beautiful i: iistrstied catalog ^'ully detcribing inese sachiaes.

International Harvester Company of America, Chicago, Uo S. A.

via omurated)

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phate with each ton of manure, sprinkling it on the manure as you load it Into the wagon.—Ed.

Lime fop Corn Land.

Please write in next copy how to use lime on land that you would plant In corn this year and how much to the acre to keep from hurting the corn, and how to prepare the lime for use. W. T. DESHAZO.

Rockingham Co., N. C.

Plow the land and then apply one ton of lime to the acre. The lime should be bought as It comes from the kiln and not slaked; when you buy it slaked you simply buy so much water as Is needed to slake it, and you have plenty of this at home. A bushel of unslaked lime, as It comes from the kiln, will make from two

Planet Jr.

A practical farmer wanted bigger crops with less labor-and he invented the Plan-Jr. It did better work and saved two thirds his time. Now he makes Planet „ ,^ Jr. Seeders, Wheel-Hoes and Cultiva- -^^ '^^^v No. 25.

"0. s ^-v^^ tors for two million farmers and garden-^ ers. Planet Jrs. do the work of three to six men. Strong and substantia built. Made to last and fully guaranteed.

io. 25 HUl and Drill Seeder, Double-Wheel

Hoe, Cultivator and Plow combines almost every use-

1 hand-garden tool in one strong, light, easy-running, simply

adjusted implement—^pens the furrow, sows the seed in drills

or hills 4 to 24 inches apart, covers, rolls down and marks out

the next row. Does thorough work as a double or sins

wheel hoe. cultivator and plow.

No. 8 Planet Jr. Horse Hoe and Cultivator will

do more things In more ways than any other horse hoe niacin

Plows to or from the row. A splendid furrower, covercr. hill

r and horse hoe. Unequalled as a cultivator. Write

to-day for ourSe-pagre freel909 catalogue.

whichtelUaUabout45klndso'-*^' •'- implements.

, S. L. AUen & Co.. Box! 107XPhila.. Pa.

THE bOUTHEKN PLANTER.

[April,

and a half to three bushels when slaked. Set it on the field in lumps of about half a bushel each and then pour half a bucket of water on each lump and it will slake in an hour or two and then spread it and harrow it In. Or, if the water is not convenient, throw a few shovels of ^amp soil on the lime and it wil slake in a few days, and then can be spread. —Ed.

Fertilizer Formulas. A subscriber sends us a circular letter which he has received from a firm in the "West offering to sell him the famous Bi-Chemic process by which, it is claimed that a man can make his own fertilizer at a cost of not more than $5.00i per ton—a saving of from $20 to $25 on every ton—and asks us to advise him as to the value of it. We thought these frauds had been too often exposed and that as a consequence the offers of them had ceased to be made, but this appears not to be so. We presume that they still find that "suckers are ^orn every hour," and that they are able to land sufficient of them to make the business pay. If you want any formulas for mixing fertilizers write to the Experiment Station of your State and they will send them to you without charge, or we shall be glad to do so. These fellows who profess to be able to supply you with formulas by which you can produce fertilizers of value for production of crops at little or no cost for materials are simply fooling you. The greatest scientific authorities in the world on this subject have long since determined what is needed to make crops grow and the materials of which these are composed cannot be gotten for next to nothing and, therefore, any formulas professing to be able to show how this can be done are simply frauds.—Ed.

CATALOGUES.

We are in receipt of the following catalogues, many of them most beautiful works of art and all of them containing information of great value to those desiring the articles catalogued. Each of the makers or producers will gladly send copies to any of our readers who will ask for them, and in doing so mention that they saw the catalogue noticed in the Southern Planter.

The Crestline Mfg. Co. Crestline Pump Works., Crestline, Ohio.

Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, New York.

Modern Canner Co., Chattanooga Tennessee.

American Steel & Wire Co., New York., Manufacturers of Sulphate ol Iron for the eradication of weeds from crops. Ask for the catalogue describ-

SMDARD

FARM

WAGONS

/^F all the farm equipment the wagon is most In use. It must ^^ carry all kinds of loads over all kinds of roads and be out in all kinds of weather.

You cannot afford breakdowns and repairs.

Be wise in time. Buy one of the standard International wagons which you know will give you long, satisfactory service.

THE WEBER WAGON

The Weber—king of all farm wagons—is an oldtime favorite. For more than two generations it has been manufactured and has always stood in the first rank. Weber quality never deteriorates. It is a well known fact that every Weber wagon built has the same excellent materials and the same high class workmanship as a made-to-order wagon. The man who buys a Weber buys certain quality.

THE COLUMBUS WAGON

The Columbus wagon is a synonym for high quality in wagon service. The gears are made of selected, properly seasoned wood— the thorough ironing and superior workmanship are ample reasons why every owner sta-nds up for his Columbus wagon. In painting and finish the Columbus wagon is second to none.

THE NEW BETTENDORF WAGON

This is the stardard all-steel gear wagon of the country. It is a wagon for all purposes and all climates. The steel gears with one-piece tubular axles give greatly increased strength and capacity with no increase in weight or draft. A removable malleable iron sleeve takes all the wear off the axle. There can be no such thing as poorly seasoned or defective materials in a New Bettendorf wagon. It is the standard wagon of its class.

It will pay you to call on the International agent in your town and arrange to buy one of these wagons. He will show you th« wagon he handles, and supply you with illustrated wagon booklet and lithographed hanger. Or, if you prefer, write direct for full information.

International Harvester Company of America, Chicago, U. S. A.

(Incorporated)

1909 ACCA STOCK FARM 1909

• l/A n Chesnut horse, by AqulUn, 2:195i, son of Blngen,2:06i^,dam Pavetta. by Pistachio, 2:21%. DKIlK Akar paced atrial In 2:1!S^ with quarters better than 30 seconds last season atSyeais

HIIHII old. FEB $25 SEASON, WITH RETURN PRIVILEGB.

nI"nnn Trotter, bay horge (4) by Blngara, son of Blngen, 2:06^, dam £eshena,by Eiemlln, K^KkM 2:0754. FEB $26 SEASON, WITH RETURN PRIVILEGE.

Address GRIFFITH & SAUNDERS, Acca Stock r«rm, Richmond, Va.

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Means Genuine iiconomy

The first cost of a vehicle or a set of harness is one thing— , the yearly cost is another. You want the farm wagon or buggy or carriage that will last the longest, run the easiest, require fewest repairs and, while costing no more in the beginning, will cost a great deal less in the end. That's the only genuine economy. The Studebaker Bros. Mfg. Co. have built up the largest vehicle and harness business in the world^so/e/y by saving money for its customers. If you are looking for area/bargain—one that will give you years of satisfaction—

why the Studebaker lasts so long, nd costs so " " If you don't know a

k^CC Ulv; k^LtAlAC^LTC^IVCA M^^^MXHK gives such good service, runs so easily and costs so little fn

the end. You can't afford to run risks—investigate the Studebaker line and see for yourself. Studebaker Dealer, we 'II be glad to send you his name,

Studebaker Bros. Mfg. Co.

South Bend, Indiana

lug the use of this preparation for getting rid of weeds.

The Atlas Portland Cement Co., 30 Broad St., New York. Concrete construction about the home and on tiie farm. This is a very useful handbook on this subject.

DeKalb Fence Co., DeKalb, Illinois. Wire fencing.

Union Fence Co., DeKalb, Illinois. Wire fencing.

Page Woven Fire Fence Co., Adrian, Michigan. Jubilee catalogue of this well-known fence. This is a beautiful catalogue and the fence is too well known to need describing.

F. E. Myers & Bro., Ashland, Ohio. Pumps, sprays and hay tools.

Peter Henderson & Co., Cortlandt Street, New York. Farmers manual.

Bateman Mfg. Co., Grenlocb, N. J. Iron Age farm and garden implements.

Chicago Flexible Shaft Co., Chicago, Illinois. Stewart's horse clipping and sheep shearing machines.

The Goulds Mfg. Co., Seneca Falls, N. Y. Hand and power sprayers.

J. F. Cass Mfg. Co., Detroit, Mich. The U-N-It sprayer—a device for at tachment to a garden hose to distribute fertilizer with the water.

Peter Henderson & Co., Cortlandt Street, N. Y. Implement catalogue.

Sydnor Pump & Well Co., Richmond, Va. Spray pumps, nozzles and appliances, and Stover gasolene engines.

Fairbanks, Morse & Co., Chicago ni. Spraying outfits.

A. B. Farquhar Co., York, Pa. Farm Implements.

Adams & Adams, Station A, Topeka Kansas. Automatic and fa^ gates.

SPECIAL SALE OF W. K. BACHE & SONS

Stock of

FARM IM PLEMENTS, WAGONS, BUGGIES, ETC.,

AT REDUCED PRICES

The entire stock will be sold to close out business, and parties desiring to purchase goods in these lines can procure them at special low prices.

Act quickly, before the assortment is broken. Printed lists with prices mailed to out-of-town buyers on request.

H, W. ELLETT. SALES AGENT.

STORE 1406 E. MAIN STREET,

RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.

When corresponding, with our advertisers always mention Southern Planter.

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THE SOUTIiEKN PLANTER.

[April,

Patent Vulcanite Roofing Co., Chicago, Illinois.

The United Factories Co., Cleveland, Ohio. Farm implements, roofing, incubators, gasolene engines, etc.

Edwin R. Taylor, Penn Yan, N. Y. Carbon bi-sulphate for killing weevil, etc.

W. R. Gray, Oakton, Va. Roses, etc.

D. M. Ferry & Co., Detroit, Mich. Seed annual.

Lewis Roesch & Son, Fredonia, N. Y. Grape vines and nursery stock.

The Conrad & Jones Co., West Grove, Pa. Floral guide. Fine roses.

Sugar Loaf Cotton Farm, I. W. Mitchell, Prop., Youngsville, N. C.

Cecil French, Washington, D. C Vermicide capsules for dogs.

Quality Poultry Farm, Clay, Va. White Wyandottes.

Rose Dale Stock Farms, JefEerson ton, Va. Aberdeen-Angus cattle.

Ellerson Poultry Farm, EUerson, Va Blue ribbon winners.

Page Valley Poultry Yards, Luray Va., C. L. Shenk, Prop. Pure-bred poultry and Duroc Jersey swine.

John W. Hall, Marion Station, Md. Fruit seed and plant farms. Strawberry plants a specialty.

John Lightfoot, East Chattanooga Tenn. Small fruit plants.

Charles E. Fendall & Son, Towson Md. The Fendall Strawberry.

Virginia Farms Co., Toledo, Ohio.

Norfolk & Western Railroad Co Homeseeker and Investors' guide. F. H. Labaume, Roanoke, Va.

DETAILED INDEX.

Improving an Old Virginia Planta-

tion 434

Pepper 437

Cowpeas 438

Worms in Horses 439

Hens Eating Eggs—Soy Bean

Fodder 439

Insects on Rose Bush 440

Seeding Crimson Clover 440

Nux Vomica to Kill Hawks 441

Tomato Fertilizer 441

Sale of Spring Lambs 442

Improving Land in Tidewater Virginia 442

Horse Not Doing Well 443

Moles 444

Cowpeas—Poor Land—Composting Manure • • 446

Fertilizer Formulas 448

THE WAY THE BOY TOOK IT.

A 'joy, having been sent by his mother for some rock and rye, entered the nearest drugstore and astonished the clerk by saying:

"My mother wants ten cents' worth of your rotten rye."—Lippincott's.

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

THIS IS THE

GRAIN BINDER

THAT GIVES NO TROUBLE TO ITS USERS

THE NEW CENTURY

We made the Hrst successful grain binder. We have kept ahead of all others ever since. The New Century is our latest. Grain growers in all parts of the world say it is " the best yet." New Century users say it does the work easier with two horses than do other makes with three, in fact it runs one horse lighter. Crops of hundreds of acres have been cut and bound without missing one bundle. Easily adjusted to every condition of the harvest field and strongly constructed, the New Century removes all cause for worry and does away with the usual harvest time troubles. Get acquainted with the New Century at our dealer's. If you don't know his address, write us for same, also for catalog.

AS SEEN BY ITS USERS

LowndesboTO, Ala., Sept. 7, 1908 Used your binder this season. Cut one hundred and fifty to two hundred acres of oats. No repairs.

L. H. McCURDY

Bombay, N. Y., Aug. 26, 1908 I used one of your New Century Binders this year. I cut one hundred and twenty acres and never skipped a bundle, and I can safely say it is the best binder built to-day.

DAN CONELY

WALTER A. WOOD MOWING AND REAPING MACHINE CO.

BOX 912 HOOSICK FALLS, N. Y. OLDEST AND LARGEST INDEPENDENT MANUFACTURER OF HARVESTING MACHINES

Branch Office: 1422 East Main Street Richmond, Va.

DOUBLE ACTION HARROW & CULTIVATOR FOR 100 Vo CROPS HI ft

With this tool more different kinds of work can be done, with Jess effort, than with any other. CliARK'S is the only Disk Cultivator that completely embodies the double action principle. It will do the work of several disk machines that would cost you several times as much, and do it more thoroughly, because it has 4 gangs instead ot only 2. The draft is always from centre— suitable for 2 light horses. Equipped with Extension Head and Jointed Pole, and when so ordered two large disks for Listing are supplied. Send today for our free Book, "Large Hay Crops."

CUTAWAY HARROW COMPANY, **«' Main St., HIGGANUNI, CONN.

THE ORIGINAL . "COTAWAV.'

Agents. Ashton Starke, Richmond, Va.

Jno. H. Bowman & Co., Staunton, Va.

7^he YORK Improved Weeder

Write and let us tell yon more about

Weeders.

Strength of frame and flexibility of teeth are combined in the

York Improved Weeder. The teeth are made of square spring

steel witli round points. Being- narrow they do not injure the

plants. No clogging. Ask your dealer to show you The York

Improved Weeder, examine it carefully, and you will see that it has

theadvantages of efficiency and economy over all other weeders.

"""^""^ If yourdealer doesn't sell this weeder, we will sell it to

you direct. Spangler Corn Planters and Fertilizer

Distributers always give satisfaction—durable, perfect

in operation. Write for our free catalogue.

SPANGLER MFG. CO., 604 N. Queen St York, Pa.

Anne Arundel Co., Md., Feb. 15, '09.

I find the Southern Planter very useful and interesting.

JOHK PITCHER.

Cecil Co., Md., Feb. 15, '09.

The Southern Planter is getting better with every issue.

HON. H. M. MoCULLOUGH.

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Vou might not - accept one neighbor's verdict as to the worth of a harvesting macliine. You might feel some doubt as to the correctness of the opinion of three or four farmers.

If half a dozen farmers—neighbors ■wliom you know—said this or that ma-cliine was the best machine—that it did tlie work right—that it saved money and labor and gave them all their crop—you would be likely to believe them.

There car be no reason to question the verdict of millions of farmers—practical men like yourself—millions of farmers all over America—all over the world, wherever grain or grass are grown— who have given the real test to harvesting and haying machines, and have declared one line the best.

THE INTKRNATIONAIi LINE.

Champion McCormlck Osborne

Deerlng Milwaukee Piano.

The importance of this verdict is apparent when we stop to consider that over 200 kinds of harvesters—200 different makes—with different names—have been placed on the market during the last half century—that of these 200 not more than ten remain in any favor—and that of these few, the tix tried and true makes are far and away, almost immeasurably in the lead in the number of machines being used.

Could there be greater proof?

Could it be possible that through half a century of testing, of actual work In the fields everywhere and under all kinds of conditions—millions of farmers could be wrong in their verdict?

These millions of men had no prejudice. They had only one purpose. They had crops to be harvested—they demanded machines that would harvest all the crop—with least loss of time—least delay through accidents—least strain on their own strength and their horses— machines that would last and do the very best work season after season, year In and year out.

It was through no favor—no prejudice —that theme millions of men came to know that there were six machines which fulfilled their demands: Champion, McCormlck, Deerlng, Osborne, Milwaukee and Piano.

Now, since this is the verdict of the ■vast majority of farmery, is there any reason why you should experiment? Any reason why you should sacrifice part of your crop,, part of your time, part of your strength—all of which is money-trying to find another machine as good as these.

It is the time NOW to get ready for this year's harvest. If it seems too early just call to your mind all the work that is to be done before harvest. Very soon that work will be keeping you too busy to allow time for other things.

So get ready for the harvest now. Don't wait until the last minute—selec*. your new machines now. Have them on the farm ready for work when the grain and grass are ripe—select machines you can depend on—machines the farmers of the world have found to be right—right in design—right in material—right in workmanship.

You can't afford to experiment—^You can't afford to take any unnecessary risk—You can't afford to assume any unnecessary responsibility. Why not profit by the experience of others who reap all their harvests and all the profits with one of the six leading lines of machines?

When you go into your harvest field you want to cut your grain without any interruption or unnecessary delays, for when your wheat Is ripe, any time that is lost means the loss of money—frequently the loss of a large portion of the crop.

If you have one of the six leading machines, you will have no occasion to worry. Even if the horses should become frightened and run away with the machine and break it you could still save your crop, because the extra parts that would be needed to repair the machine j can be secured from a nearby dealer, who always carries a full stock of repair parts.

Then, too, when you buy one of these machines you buy one in which the materials are right; the workmanship Is right; the principle of construction Is

right; and each machine before being shipped out Is tested and retested under far more trying conditions than will ever be encountered In the harvest field.

In view of the foregoing, we suggest that you make the right start by purchasing the right machine.

Then you will be ready for a quick harvest, an easy harvest, a full-value harvest.

Write for a catalogue of whichever of our six dependable, durable machines you want. And remember—this Is Important—that if accidents should by chance occur, you can always get the needed repairs near at hand, without delay—repairs that fit.

International agents sell Champion, Deerlng, McCormick, Milwaukee, Osborne, Piano and International binder twine, made from high-grade pure sisal and

manila fibres—the best raw materials .

made for best service. '

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

(Incorporated.)

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The Bateman Mfg. Co., of Gren-k)ch, N. J., the makers of the long celebrated Iron Aige farm and garden implements, send us a beautiful catalogue showing all their recent improve ments on these tools. The Iron Age cultivators and garden implements have thoroughly established their fit ness to do the work for which they are designed and are widely popular throughout the South. We have used them and can endorse them. Write lor the catalogue and in doing so men tion this journal and refer to the ad herein, addressing the Company a1 Box 167, Grenloch, N. J.

MAGAZINES.

How many persons are aware that it was Edwin Booth, the brother ol the assassin of Lincoln, who saved the life of Lincoln's eldest son? The details of this extraordinary occurence are given authoritatively in the April Century. The number contains four Lincoln articles of unique interest. Mrs. M. Helen Palmes Moss tells the story of how, within an hour, on the day of the shooting, she shook hands with both Jno. Wilkes Booth and the President; and Leonard Grover, manager of Grover's Theatre, Washington, during Lincoln's presidency, has written ©ntertainingly of "Lincoln's Interest in the Theatre." There is first publication, also, of two remarkable letters—Edwin Booth's on the President's assassination, written immediately after the event, and that of Miss Julia A. Shepard, now living in Og-densburg, N. Y., written to hier father two days after the tragedy.

It is an earthquake number, too— for Robert Hichens, author of "The Garden of Allah," has written a vivid and picturesque account of many hitherto unrelated incidents of the Messina tragedy; and another narrative is contributed by Frank A. Per-ret, the noted volcanologist, who has predicted seismiic disaster in that region for two years, and who hurried back to Italy, anticipating disturbances.

The leading article of the number Is an intimate picture of "The New Ruler of China," Prince Chun, the Regent, with glimpses of the court at Peking, by Isaac Taylor Headland, Professor of Science in Peking University. Professor Headland's official position and long residence in the Chinese capital, his knowledge of the language, and his attainments and sympathies have brought Mm into intimate relations with the highest officials and social life. The article comes, therefore, with authority.

The first feature of the April St. Nicholas Is the story of "What Dliffl-denoe Did," by Augusta Huiell Sea-mann. Diffidence was a dear little

,OUCANTRAVEtOVE»^«,OUC„ANDH.UVRo«^

INTERNATIONAL AUTO BUGGY

Farmers, stockmen, salesmen, doctors and others ride through the country safely, rapidly and in comfort in this Auto Buggy. It will go anywhere that a team of roadsters can go—up steep hills, over rough roads and through mud.

The International Auto Buggy is a vehicle of wonderful serviceability. It is alike adapted to the requirements of business and pleasure. It saves your time and avoids the necessity of keeping a road team or of taking a team away from the farm work when you want to go to town or on a business or pleasure trip.

This Auto Buggy is made so simple and strong that there is little chance for it to get out of order or cause trouble. It has a high clearance with its 40 and 44-inch wheels. The wheels run on roller bearings, and, being standard gauge, they track with the farm wagons and other vehicles.

There are no tire troubles because the tires are solid rubber. Both rear wheels are chain driven by a thoroughly reliable 14-horse-power air cooled gasoline engine. The rate of speed is from 2 to 20 miles an hour.

Control is one of the most important features in every horseless vehicle. The control in the International Auto Buggy has been worked out to a great nicety. One convenient lever controls the two speeds forward and the reverse. The steering wheel operates easily and effectively. Children and ladies operate the Auto Buggy easily.

« In addition to the rapid and pleasant means of travel afforded by the International Auto Buggy, it is also most economical. The gasoline tank holds seven gallons, which is sufficient for a run of 75 to 100 miles under ordinary conditions. This horseless vehicle has been subjected to the severest kinds of road tests. It has proven to its owners from Maine to California, operating under all conditions, that it is the car that meets country road requirements.

These auto buggies are made to accommodate one or two seats and with single or full top.

The Auto Buggy has great possibilities for you. Investigate it fully. Call on the International local agent for catalog and particulars, or write to the home office.

INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER COMPANY OF AMERICA

/IN COfbDOa./k'TK.D)

CHICAGO, U. S. A.

Dl Ai^M£ MOTOR

DL.#%OI\ SURREY

Removable Rear Seat

Don't pay two prices—Buy direct and get one of these most popular Black Motor Surreys—Illustrated and fully described In our "Black Motor Buggy" Book. FREE showing all single and double-seat ears with or without tops—This Surrey Is most dependable—handsome llnlsh—durable— Guarateed fully and

Takes All The Family Safely and Quickly There and Back Again

Costs only $i)75—Air cooled—2 cylinders o£ 4'<-lnch bore-Fiill 20-H-P.—Speed 4 to 23 miles per honr

on high gear and 2 to 6 miles on low gear. Carries 7 gal. gasoline—Runs 2i; miles on 1 g-l.—Great ia

sand, mud or on hills and splendid for country roads. No tire troubles. Easy riding.

Pii^lv |||k A99I CDCC ^rlte for book today—Investigate before you buy any car of any make.

DUUK l1UlACi£l rilEib Oetasgoodas the best and save money on tlrst cost and lowest up-keep.

BLACK MFG. CO., 124 E. Ohio St., CHICAGO, ILL.

, Economical, Reliable Running Wafer Service

I A constant supply wherever yon want it. Antomatic in action— no expense (or powtc I or repairs. It's easy with a

, RIFE HYDRAULIC RAM

Large and small rams for Conntry Places, I rrigation. Supply Tanks. Towa Plants, etc For every foot water drops to ram it is raised 30 feet. 7,000 la OM. WRITE FOR f REE PLANS AND ESTIMATES

RIFE ENGINE CO., 2I13TR1NITY_BLDG.,_I!EW_T0R1

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Why Not Use the Best 1

The Oaks Fertilizer Distributor and Cultivator

This Is the most up-to-date implement of Us kind on the market. It Is the tool so many farmers have Jonged to see. It is fitted with one wheel with broad and concaved tire which makes it easily guided. The machine is small, light and durable and can be as easily handled as an ordinary one-horse cultivator. The fertilizer can be put out behind or at one side of the machine. The two front cultivator teeth break the soil, then the fertilizer is distributed and the three rear plows work It up nicely. This machine has to be seen to be fully appreciated. Price 916.00.

The Oaks Side Dresser, Lister and Cultivator

There Is no other macliine on the market like this one or none that can take Its place. The yield of a crop will be increased 20 to 25 per cent. If fertilizer Is applied with this machine and cultivating done at the same time. It can be used for cultivating very young plants without the slightest Injury. By using the listing discs, rows can be bedded with fertilizer for cotton, corn, tobacco, potatoes or any other crop, making it a very desirable machine for any farmer. By removing the fertilizer box the machine is converted into the lightest and simplest two-horse riding cultivator on the market. It Is a tool no practical farmer can afford to be without on account of the variety of work It does.

PRICE, $53.00

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The Oaks Pony Cultivator

This is the lightest, shortest and easiest drawn of all two-horse riding cultivators. It weighs only 350 pounds, the cultivating attachments are hung under the frame instead of behind like ordinary cultivators and this Is where we claim our advantages over all others. The shortness of the machine makes It very easily handled, and the fact that the working parts are hung under the frame and opposite the wheels makes it do more satisfactory work as they all have the same motion on both rough and level lands. By using the disc attachments this cultivator can be used for bedding rows for any crop. At a glance one can see the many advantages of this implement but It has to be seen in reality to be fully appreciated.

PRICE, $36.00 THE OAKS MANUFACTURING CO., New Bern, N. C.

Onr Gnarantee Behind Bvery Machine.

lass of Continental times, who had some wonderful experiences with .great folk, and the story is really about a lovely pearl locket as well as •about Diffidence.

There are helpful hints for othei bright boys in Walter Dunham's "Boyg With a Business" in the April St Nicholas—giving illustrations from ex T>erience of the truth that "the same mle that makes a successful business man makes a'successful business boy; -that is, to find something which people need, and then let them know that 70T1 can supply it."

Two specially interesting and helpful serials for the older readers of St. Nicholas are the illustrated account of "Modem Magicians" and their tricks by Henry Hatton and Adrian Plate, and further account of "From the Drum of the Savage to the Great Orchestra," by Jessie Katherine Mac-donald.

That delightful St. Nicholas department, Nature and Science, grows better every month; and the new Arcadia at Stamford, now building, promises equipment for even finer things. The Editor, Edward F. Bigelow, In-

vitesoontrlbutions—photographs, drawings, sketches and suggestions. Accepted material will be paid for.

Spring has officially arrived, and all the earth is a-throb with new life and renewed vigor. Even in reading matter the demand is now for something stirring, lively, with plenty of action in it. These requirements are admirably fulfilled by the April Lippincott's. Its most important feature Is perhaps the complete novel, "The Clue," by Carolyn Wells. This is a detective story, and no better one has appeared in a long time. The plot is based on

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the murder of a young heiress on the eve of her wedding day, and the sub sequent efforts to apprehend the guilty party. Various persons are suspected in turn, but not until the services of the detective, Fleming Stone, are en listed is the mystery solved. Fleming Stone, by the way, figured prominently in a previous detective story by this author—"A Chain of Evidence", also published dn Lippinoott's Magazine. It is not too much to say that Miss Wells has never written anything better than "The Clue." The plot is markedly ingenious, the denouement unexpected, the characters ably drawn, and the whole tale brimful of action, keeping the reader's interest keyed up to the highest pitch. Yet while it is strongly dramatic throughout, the tale is not characterized by unrelieved gloom, a charming love story and many touches of humor serving to enliven It.

Among the short stories, Augusta Kortrecht's "The Little Fat Skeleton, stands out prominently, being both novel and humorous. "Woman Disposes," by George Allan England, is another remarkable tale. Others worthy of special mention are "The Captain's Charm,' 'by Anne Warner; 'The Freight That Went South," by Caroline Lockhart; "Miss Cluny of Cartmel," by WMI Levlngton Comfort; and "The Apparition," by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

Harvey B. Bashore contributes a serious but interesting paper entitled "In the Day of the Cave Men."

The American Review of Reviews.

13 Astor Place, New York.

Hon. Sereno E. Payne, Frontispiece The Progress of the World. Records of Current Events, with portraits and other illustrations. Cartoons of the Month. The late Carroll D. Wight, portrait. Europe's Tariff Laws and Policies, by Frederic Austin Ogg Plotting the tipper Air, by Paul P. Foster, with illustrations. "The Waste from Soil Erosion in the South, by W. W. Ashe, with illustrations. Saving America's Plant Food, by Guy Elliott Mitchell, with illustrations. The Truth About Dry Farming, by Charles Mo-reau Harger, with illustrations. The Situation at Panama, by Forbes Lindsay, with map and other illustrations. A Phase of the Russian Spy System, by Herman Rosenthal. The Rules of the House of Representatives: A Criticism, by Claude A. Swanson. The Rules of the House of Representatives: A Defense, by Frederick C. Stevens. Leading Articles of the Month, with portraits and other illustrations. Leading Financial Articles. The New Books, with portraits and other illustrations.

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BELT FEED MILLS in all sizes.

fc^^ 1^®^?* Carriages can be furnished with any of our mills No. 1. Warranted to cut 2,000 feet per day with 6 H P eneine «?^ven and r^t'o^'^^w; T^^'° f '^^^'•"a Trimmers, ShingllMachinesfLlth Mills R^p fre^ "^ ' ^""^^ ^^^^' Cordwood Saws and Feed Mills. Catalogue sS5

sendlr^an^o^^er ^fr^^^ot^tV Yu'L^tHL^ri ^ru^^itUKH H^^ ^^3%"!*.

Toura truly, BRADLEY C. NEWELL."

AMERICAN SAW MILL MACHINERY CO., 137 Hope St., Hackettatown W J

OUR AGENTS.—Watt Plow Company, Richmond, V^^RP^o'hnJon Wytheville, Va.; Hyman Supply Company, New Berne and Wilm'ineton N C •' Gibbes Machinery Company, Columbia, S. C. wnmington, «. c.

When corresponding with our advertisers always mention Southern Planter.

HOT AND COLD WATER

All Through The House Can be Had at a Cost of From

$75.00 Up.

GASOLINE ENGINES

WIND MILLS

TANKS

RAMS

Estimates Free

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Dept. B Richmond, Va.

BOTH DOING THEIR PART.

A passer-by at Broad and Lombard streets in Philadelphia once heard the following dialogue between a laborer who was digging in a sewer and a stout, beaming lady with a capacious market basket on her arm.

"Ah, good marnin' to you, Pat," said she, leaning over and looking into the pit. "And what are you doing?"

"Good marnin', Bridget," he replied. looking up. "I'm a-earnin' alimony for yees. And what are you doin'?"

"Sure, I'm a-spendin' it," replied Bridget, airily, as she trotted off.— Lippincott's

Fauquier Co., Va., Feb. 1.3, '09. I not only greatly enjoy reading the-Southern Planter, but I get many profitable hints from it. J. T. RAMEY-

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A. SPLETSI'DID RECORD OF LOYAL SERVICE.

The group shown here is a most unusual one. In the center of the front row, easily distinguished by his flowing beard, sits Hon. J. M. Stude-baker, President of the Studebaker Bros. Mfg. Ck)., and only surviving aaember of the famous five Studebaker brothers, and about him are groupea eighty-three employees who have been continuously in the Studebaker (employ for twenty-five years or more.

Mr. Studebaker recently celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday, and, in

honor of the occasion, id\ employes of twenty-five years' standing were his guests at a reception given in his beautiful South Bend home. Of these eighty-three employes, thirty-three have been with the Company for thirty years or more, and the aggregate employment of all is,2,429 years, or an average of almost thirty years for each of the eighty-three. Although several have passed the fortieth year mark and the nestor of the force boasts of a record of forty-five years, to Mr. Studebaker himself belongs the honor of the longest continuous connection with the Studebaker Company, dating back to 1859, when he

became associated with his brother, the late Hon. Clem Studebaker.

In those forty-nine years, Mr. Stude baker has seen a little shop grow to be the largest vehicle factory in the world, employing nearly five thousand men. He has seen the sons and sons in-law and grandchildren of the Stude baker brothers step into the Stude baker harness and apply their inherit ed knowledge of vehicle building to the achievement of even greatei things. He has also seen the em ployes, who entered the service In the early days of the business, remain loyal to their first employer all these years, and he has seen their sons fol low in their fathers' footsteps for "once a Studebaker man always a Studebaker man" is a rule that seems to apply to the employes as well as members of the Studebaker family.

Many of the men seated about Mr. Studebaker are foremen and superintendents who started in as apprentices and learned their trade from the Studebaker brothers, and they in turn have imparted their knowledge to their shop mates and to their sons, who are follovsring in their fathers' footsteps. . As Mr. Studebaker says, "These men are the educators in our plant, and while we have young men under their training coming along in every department we still depend up on this advanced class to keep our product up to the highest possible standard."

BALES IN A STEADY STREAM

The bales "keep a comin' " with a Munger System Gin.

So do the ginner's profits. No stop between bales; no

^gg breakdowns or delays by reason of fault of material or ma-

"""N^p chine. The wonderful Munger System means a steady,

^ even run that swells the profits at the end of the season.

There are many features that can be had only in the

MUNGER

THE PERFECT SYSTEM

The Munger System invites the patronage of the grower by close ginning and by saving and raising the class of wet and dirty cotton that other systems cannot handle.

:.-Choice of Munger, Pratt, Winship, 8mith and Ea^le Gins. Full line of Engines, Boilers and cotton-working mauhinery.

Plans and estimates free.

Catalogue on application.

CONTINENTAL GIN COMPANY,

Atlanta, Qa. Dallas, Texas

Memphis, Tenn Charlotte, N. C.

(Addresssales office nearest you.)

Blrmlnsham. Ala. Brldgrewater, JVlass. (For export.)

THE SOUTHEKiX PLA.NTER.

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WASHINGTON NOTES.

Care for the Farm Water Supply.

One subject which the Farm Commission, appointed by President Roosevelt investigated very thoroughly was the question of the water supply for farms. That the question of a sanitary water supply both for drinking and for purposes of cleanliness is important there is no doubt, and the improvement in the health of communities which has followed the introduction of abundant supplies of pure water bears testimony to the importance of every precaution in this direction.

The water supplies of farms come from wells, springs and cisterns. A recent inspection of the water supplies of some three hundred dairy farms in Maryland and Virginia showed that wells are used much oftener on these farms than either of the other two, the proportions being about five wells to three springs and one cistern.

In selecting a water supply every precaution should be taken to prevent the contents of a cesspool from soaking into the soil, for even if the cesspool is at a distance from the well or springs the ground between may eventually become saturated and fail to act as a filter. The crude methods of sewage disposal still quite commonly in vogue in the country are a continual menace to the water supply.

In a good many cases the water supply from springs is too lightly guarded. While every precaution should be taken of well water, greater care must be taken with springs, fior, in addition to the danger of pollution from surface drainage and from seepage, if the spring is open it is liable ^o pollution by the introduction of impurities in dipping the water out. This source of contamination may be guarded against by inclosing the spring in a concrete casing on all sides and providing a tight cover and a pipe cemeftted in on one side to allow the water to run out. Some springs, although excellently protected by a coping on three sides and In other ways, are made liable to pollution by having steps leading down to the water's edge. Under such conditions the danger of introducing impurities from the soles of dirty shoes Is. of course, apparent.

In the inspection made by the Bureau of Animal Industry, above referred to, but few springs were found which were properly protected. Some . of them had cement or tight stone coping on three sides with steps leading down on the fourth side; some had a tight coping on all sides, but the coping was level with the ground and the water thus exposed to pollution. But in most cases the water ran out of fissures in the rock into a natural or artificial basin, or bub-

OTHER CREAM SEPARATORS

Merely Discarded or Abandoned

DE LAVAL INVENTIONS

It Is interesting and instructive to know that nearly, If not quite, every cream separator that has ever been made, and certainly all that are being made at this time, are merely copies or imitations of some type of construction originally invented or developed by the De Laval Company, and either not used by it because of something more practical or else discarded and abandoned in the course of De Laval progress and utilization of later Improvements.

As earlier patents have expired some of their features have one after another been taken up by different imj^tators, so that at all times, as is the case today, every separator made in the United States or elsewhere In the world, utilizes some type of construction originally owned and developed by the De Laval Company, though some of them have never been commercially used by the De Laval Company because of their inferiority to other types of construction used by It.

All cream separator inventions by others have been of immaterial details or variations, upon which patents have been taken, if at all, more for the sake of the name than by reason of any real value or usefulness attaching to them.

But the De Laval Company has always been forging ahead, with Its many years of experience and the best of experts and mechanics the whole world affords in its employ, so that before any expiring patent might permit the use of any feature of construction by imitators the De Laval Company had already gone so much beyond that type of construction that it was then old and out-of-date in the modern De Laval machines.

The first practical continuous flow centrifugal Cream Separator was the invention of Dr. Gustaf de Laval in 1878, the American patent application being filed July 31, 1879, and issuing as Letters Patent No. 247,804 October 4, 1881.

This was the original Cream .Separator—of the "Hollow" or empty bowl type—and it has been followed from year to year by the various steps of cream separator improvement and development, all. De Laval made or owned inventions, the American patent applications being filed and letters patent Issued as follows:

The original hand Cream Separator of the "Bevel Gear" type; application filed October 2, 1886, Issuing as Letters Patent No. 356,990 February 1, 1887.

The original hand Cream Separator of the "Spur Gear" type; application filed .lanuary 17, 1887, issuing as Letters Patent No. 368,328 August 16, 1887.

The original Steam Turbine-driven Cream Separator; application filed December 8, 1886, issuing as Letters'Patent No. 379,690, March 20, 1888.

The original "Tubular" shaped "hollow" bowl Cream Separator; application filed April 19, 1886, issuing as Letters Patent No. 372,788 November 8, 1887.

The original "Disc" bowl Cream Separator; application filed May 12, 1890, Is.suing as Letters Patent No. 432,719 July 22, 1890.

The original vertical "Blade" Cream Separator bowl, covered likewise by the application filed May 12, 1890, Iss Ingr as Letters Patent No. 432,719, July 22, 1890.

The original "Bottom Feed" Cream Separator bowl; application filed July 24, 1889, issuing as Letters Patent No. 445,066 January 20, 1891.

The original series of "Star" or "Pineapple Cone" shaped cylinders Cream Separator bowl; application filed August 24, 1893, Issuing as Letters Patent No. 521,722 .June 19, 1894.

The original "Curved" or "Converging Disc" type of Cream Separator bowl; application filed January 18, 1905, Issuing as Letters Patent No. 892,999 July 14, 1908.

The original "Split-Wing" Tubular Shaft Cream Separator bowl; application filed April 29, 1898, issuing as Letters Patent No. 640,358 January 2, 1900 —which invention, with a number of later improvements, is the type of bowl construction used in the De Laval machines of to-day, still covered by protecting patents w^hich prevent its appropriation by would-be competitors.

The patents thus enumerated are but a few of the more Important of the more than BOO original Cream Separator patents owned, controlled and developed by the De Laval Company during Its thirty years of creation and development of the Cream Separator industry throughout the world. They are recited because they show in the most illustrative and conclusive manner possible De Laval originality and leadership from 1878 to the present day.

In addition to these patent-protected features, the De Laval machines have within two years been mechanically re-designed and re-constructed In every part, from top to bottom, so that the new 1908-1909 line of De Laval machines are to-day, even more than at any past period, fully ten years in advance of any other cream separator made.

These are the Rock-of-Glbralter-like facts against which the mere "word claims" of would-be competitors fade away like the mists of night before the rays of the morning sun.

THE DE LAVAL SEPARATOR CO.

42 E. Madlnon St.

CHICAGO.

1213 * 121S Filbert St.,

PHIIiADELPHIA.

Dramin and Sacramento

Streets,

SAN FRANCSICO

General Offices:

165 BROADWAY,

NEW YORK.

173-177 William Street, MONTREAIi

14 & 16 PHnoeHH Street, WINNIPEG.

107 First Street, PORTLAND, ORBG.

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bled up from the bottom of such a basin. In such cases no special care was exercised to guard against pollution.

Comparatively few farmers seem to realize the importance of convenience in the matter of water supplies, even from a purely economic point of view. Less than one-fifth of the dairy farms recently inspected have windmills, rams, or other means of bringing the water into the house or dairy. Year after year on many farms water is pumped by ha,nd or brought up the hill from the spring in buckets at the expenditure of a great amount of labor in the agregate. Where it is at all feasible the water should be pumped into a tank and conducted at least into th dairy and the kitchen by pipe. Even where the water has to be pumped by hand, it is desirable to have a tank, for this insures abundance for purposes of cleanliness. But, of course, if feasible, resort should be had to some mechanical device—a windmill, engine or ram—for forcing water up to a tank to furnish a convenient supply for the house, barn and dairy, in each of which there should be at least one spigot.

Pinchot Favors Free Pulp Wood. Gifford Pinchot, Chief of the "United States Forest Service, has written a

letter to Chairman Payne, of the House Committee on Ways and Means, in which he makes the statement that the removal of the tariff on lumber would neither reduce the price to the consumer nor preserve our forests. He holds that the fundamental question at issue in the lumber tariff is forest conservation. He says that he would favor a removal of the tariff if he were of the opinion, which he thinks is the cause of the demand for free lumber, that it would offer a way to protect our forests. "But I am unable to see," he says, "how free lumber will promote forestry.

"There is only one way to save our forests," he adds, "that is to see that they are kept at work growing new crops of timber as the old are cut away."

The chief forester thinks it "highly important to the country that we should have free pulp wood in the future as in the past, and that Canada should impose no export duty upon pulp wood. In this respect the pulp and paper making industry is in a different position from the other great wood-using industries of the United States. The latter can be supplied wholly from our own forests, while the former must have free access to the Canadian spruce forests so. long as spruce is the chief pulp wood."

He declares that ground wood should be admitted free, "provided that it comes from a country which does not in any way restrict the exportation of wood pulp or ground wood, and that there should be a reduction of duty upon wood pulp paper providing that it comes from a country which does not in any way restrict the exportation of pulp wood, wood pulp or printing paper."

Doctor Wiley on Soft Drinks.

At a dinner this week given to Doctor Harvey W. Wiley, Chief Chemist of the Department of Agriculture, by students of Holy Cross Academy, the food crusader said that young girls who become addicted to certain liquids dispensed at soda fountains are swallowing more harmful drugs than they have any idea of.

"If you only knew what I know about what these soft drinks contain you would abstain from them," he said. "It will suprise you to "know that most of them contain more caffeine than coffee, and a drug which Is more deadly. So beware of the soft drink. It Is more harmful than oof-fee, and I advise all young people against the use of this stimulant. Perhaps you would be interested to know I have collected more than one hundred samples of soft drinks sold at

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soda fountains and each contains caf feine and many of them a deadly drug."

Doctor Wiley asserted that he was fully cognizant of the army of enemies he had made in trying to protect the public against harmful foods and he added that he would probably make many more in an endeavor to rid the country of deception and fraud in food products. He declared that the man who deceives the public by putting out impure goods is as bad as the man who loots the bank vault. Doctor Wiley said that despite the experts who sometimes differ with him, he intends to continue his strict enforcement of the pure food and drug law until the public is free from the deception which many unscrupulous manufacturers would inflict upon them

Created Forest Additions. Among the last oflBcial acts of President Roosevelt was the signing of proclamations creating additions to national forests in Nevada, South Dakota, California, New Mexico and Ari-7X)na. aggregating 4,980,736 acres. TMs new forest land brings the total oationual forest area up to 195,013,980 acres.

Last year was a banner year for sugar beets, but the estimate is made by officials of the Department of Agriculture, that the present year will eclipse all past records, as it is expected that over half a million short tons of beet sugar will be made.

GUY E. MITCHELL.

Every day those illustrious experts in economics, the Honorables Sereno E. Payne and Champ Clark, will continue their farcical debates, and unselfish patriots now engaged in infantile industrial pursuits will join in the beseeching prayer of twenty-flve ministers in the Missouri mining region for a tariff on zinc ore, neatly phrased by a local poet in this wise:

O Lord, we humbly ask Thine aid

To tariff raise on Zinc,

Because our infant trade now stands

Close on to ruin's brink.

We do not ask Thee "mountains

move And cast into the sea," That deaf may hear, and dumb may

speak. Or that the blind may see. For things like these we havs no use We need substantial "chink." We must have help, and have it now. Good Lord, remember Zinc. We know 'twill raise the price of

paint. Of mat, and tub, and sink, But other people pay the bill; Good Lord, protect our Zinc.

—Harper's Weekly.

No Discarded or Abandoned Inventions of Its Beaten Competitors are used in

UNITED STATES SEPARATORS

THE IMPROVED UNITED STATES SEPARATORS ARE IN A CLASS BY THEMSELVES

The United States Separators use Inventions of their own exclusively.

The United States Separators do not utilize any type of Separators ever developed by their •'Wonld-be-Competltors." _

These ♦'Would-be-Competitors" claim the earth but "word claims' do not give them the title.

These «\%ould-be-Competltors'> claim that Dr. De Laval was the inventor of "the first practical continuous flow centrifugal Cream Separator," his application being filed "July 31, 1879, Patent issued, No. 248,-804, Oct. 4, 1881."

This statement is not true as shown by the records in the Patent Office,. Messrs. Houston & Thomson (who afterward became famous in the electrical line,) were the first to be awarded a patent on such an apparatus. Application filed Oct. 29, 1877. Patent Issued April 5 1881, No. 239,659.

This Houston & Thomson Separator was also of the "Bevel Gear" type and was for either hand or power, therefore the claim of our "Wonld-be-Competltors" on this point is not correct..

These "Would-be-Competltops" in their advertisement state, after enumerating ten patents that "the patents thus enumerated are but a few of the more important of the more than 500 original Cream Separator patents owned, controlled and developed by the De Laval Company."

What Bosh: What a ridiculous statement. They enumerate only 10 patents and then have the assurance to claim 500 patents, or 50 times as many as they enumerate.

The United States Commissioner of Patents states under date of March 22nd that "there have been issued in Subclass 20, Centrifugal Machines, Liquid Separators, under Class 127, Sugar and Salt, approximately 443 patents." In these several classes of Centrifugal Separators, which include all the patents of Centrifugal machines for separating cream, separating sugar, salt, ect., there have been Issued only 443 patents to all the combined inventors and yet our "Wonld-be-Competltors" claim they have 500, or 57 more than were ever issued to all the other numerous inventors combined. How does their statement appeal to every intelligent reader?

These are more of the "Rock-of-Gibraltar" facts against which the mere "word claims" of "Wonld-be-Compctltors" fade away like the mists of night before the rays of the morning sun."

These facts go to prove that our <n;VouId-be-Competltors" have got into a very bad habit they have made so many extravagant statements that perhaps they begin to believe them themselves.

All intelligent readers we are sure take all their statements with a good big grain of salt, and divide their claims by 60 as In the case of their patent claims.

These "Woul«l-be-Compctltors" were beaten by the United States Separator in the greatest contest of Cream Separators ever held, lasting over one month, and on the milk of ten different herds of cows.

These "AVoold-be-Competltors" also claim 99% per cent, of all expert creamery men, butter manufacturers, and real separator authorities living today use their Separators exclusively. Now divide this claim by 50 and then read the following letter:

Poughkcepsle, N. Y., May 27, 1908.

In 1899 we introdnced farm separators in our cream gathering system. Althongh we are within six miles of the DeLaval Separator's main works where all of their Separators are made our patrons, after thorough iuvestlgation, preferred and purchased the U. S. Separators. There are about three TJ. S. Separators to every one of the DeLaval Separators used. Since we have started we have steadily Increased our output. W^e get good prices for ourbu tter and feel proud of the record.

La GRANGE CREAMERY,

H. R. HOYT, President.

.Just think of it. Three United States Separators to every one of the DeLaval right under the shadow of their factory. W^hy? Because the United States is superior to all others in every feature of superior practicability. It is made tronger, rMn.s easier, wears longer, skims closer. Send for Catalogue No. 168 and mention Southern Planter.

VERMONT FARM MACHINE CO.

BEM,OWS FALLS, VT.

AVarehouse in e^ery dairy section of the United Stales and Canada.

THE SOUTHERN PLANTER.

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THE HARVESTER AT WORK.

The American Peanut Harvester

Revolutionizes the method of harvesting Peanuts. It digs, shakes and piles the Peanuts at one operation, thereby saving the labor of five to seven men. Recent improvements make it possible to harvest all varieties, regardless of growth of vines, etc. ,

Live agents wanted. Special Introductory price on first machine sold in each locality. We also make a single row (or double row on order) Peanut Planter, also a machine for picking Virginia peanuts. In fact, we are

Headquarters for All Kinds of Peanut Machinery and

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WRITE VS FOR CATALOGUE, INFORMATION ANU PRICES. SEE NEXT MONTH'S AD.

AMERICAN PEANUT HARVESTER CORPORATION, Petersburg, Virginia.

U

National Pneumatic Water Supply^

FOR COUNTRY AND SUBURBAN HOBIES.

Gives all the advantages of a city water works and furnishes fire protection, which reduces insurance rates. The accompanying sketch shows a complete water system. ,bath and kitchen plumbing.

In connection with our WATER STSTEM and plumbing equipment, we furni'sh plans and specifications and equipment for the construction of septic sewer tanks which will dispose of your sewage in a mo'st satisfactory manner.

Send us rough sketch showing location of well and plumbing fixtures and give depth of well. If you have a spring give distance from house, fall from house to spring and fall obtainable in spring, branch, and flow in gallons per minute. State how much water required per day, and we will furnish estimate

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We furnish 'system in any capacity from 140 gals, up, and for the application of any kind of power for pumping.

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F. C. HOENNIGER & BRO. INC.

1432 E. MAIN ST., RICHMOND, VA.

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The following are some of the houses handling stock of same and can supply customers promptly:

Norfolk Farm & Supply Co Norfolk, Va.

Henlng & Nuckols Richmond, Va.

Watt Plow Co Richmond, Va.

T. R. N. Speck Staunton, Va.

Brlstow & Worsham Co Richmond, Va.

Stokes, Williams & Co. Blackstone, Va.

Seay-Dillard Hdwe. Co Blackstone, Va.

the Everlasting Tubular Steel Doubletrees, carrying a

B. K. Gill Rehoboth Church, Va.

Duvall, Son & Co .* Farmville, Va.

Peterson & .Teffer.<!on Petersburg, Va.

Walker, Carroll, Adams Hdwe. Co.,. .Charlottesville, Va.

Baker-Jennings Hdwe. Co JL,ynchburg, Va.

Ainslle-Martin Co Lynchburg, Va.

Graves-Humphries Hdwe. Co Roanoke, Va.

Pittsburg Tubular Steel Whiffietree CompanyJSole Manufacturers, Pittsburg. Pennsylvania.

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IT CAN.

We want evefy man and woman in -the United States to know what we ire doing—we are curing Cancers, Tu-aaors and Chronic Sores without the ase of the knife or by X-Ray, and are .3ndors6d by the Senate and Leglsla-ilur of Virginia.

We Guarantee our Cures.

KKLLAM HOSPITAL,

1615 West »Ialn St.^ Richmond, Va.

FRED C. KEIiliAM, President.

This is the South's Leading Clothiery.

If you can't call there for your clothes you can get them just as well by mail or express. S&mple.3, etc., upon request. O. H. BERRY & CO.. Blen and Boys' Outfittern. Richmond. Va.

STONERIDGE AND SHETLAND STOCK FARMS

Wealth, 29579, record 2.10; brown horse, 16 hands, by Gambetta Wilkes, 2:19i4, dam Magnolia, by Norfolk. Fastest harness stallion in Virginia. Blue ribbon winner. |2;) insurance.

Emperor Wilkes, a grand type of the trotting-bred coach stallion. $15 Insurance.

Stoneridge Jack, blue ribbon winner at the Virginia State Fairs, 1906, 1907 1908. $10 insurance. Address IRVING J. COFFIN,

Phone 4464L. R. P. D. No. 5.

Richmond, Va.

J. W. PARRISH, 45338.

Bay horse, 16 hands; weight 1,200 pounds, foaled 1902. Sired by Dumbarton, 33,799, dam Maud Blliver, by Conductor, 12,256. A trotting-bred stallion, with speed and good manners. Terms—$8 single leap; $15 season; $25 Insurance. Address,

JOSEPH BAKER, liloyds, Essex County, Va.

BLUE AND GRAY.

Chestnut horse, by Hindoo, dam Red and Blue, by Alarm, second dam Maggie B. B., dam of Iroquois, winner of the English Derby. An Impressive thoroughbred sire. Fee, $10 season.

MANN S. VALENTINE, stokes, . .Goochland Co., Va.

1909 JUDGE PALMER, 2:26 1-4 1909

(Formerly Dan Patch, Jr.)

Bay horse, foaled 1904, by Busaro, 2:29%, dam Rose Wilkes, by Windom, 9892.

.Judge Palmer is a trotter by inheritance and a race horse.

Fee, $25 season. A. A. SI-AGI,E, Petersbarg, Va.

1909 PETAUKIST, 42431. 1909

Trial 2:27^4, trotting, bay horse, foaled 1904, by Peter the Great, 2:07%; dam Telka, by Arion, 2:07%; second ■1am Lia .Tolla, by Advertiser, 2:1Si4; Bred in the purple and a blue ribbon winner in the show ring.

Fee, $25 season, with return privilege. Address.

JOSEPH liASITTER, Sonthern Stock Yards, Richmond, Va.

Stallion cards, folders and catalogues compiled; pedigrees of trotters and thoroughbred horses traced. My library includes Year Books, Trotting Registers, Stud Books, Files of Turf Journals and other references. Special attention to registration of horses.

Address W. J. CARTER, 1105 E. Cary Street, Richmond, Va,, or, 1102 Hull St., Manchester, Va.

Representing the Times-Dispatch and Southern Planter, Richmond, Va.; The Trotter and Pacer, New York; The Horseman, Chicago, 111.; The American Horse Breeder, Boston, Mass.

H. G. CARTER. W. J. CARTER.

H Q. CARTER & COMPANY

Successors to

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HAY, GRAIN, MIL,t,-FEED.

110.5 East Cary Streeet,

RICHMOND, VA.

S. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS, "BLUE Ribbon" strain; extra fine cockerels for sale. Eggs for sitting at all times. SUNCREST POULTRY COMPANY, Highland Park, Richmond, Va.

1009. Warren Park Stud. 1909.

MONTEREY.

Bay horse, 16% hands, 1,250 pounds, foaled 1903, by Montana, dam Mar-tenette, by Silver Bow. Monterey has grand size and was a good race horsa. He was second in the $10,000 Crescent City Derby.

J. GIBSON KEMPER, Clifton Station, Va.

THE SOUTHERN PLANTKK.

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LEADING 1909 UP-TO-DATE LABOR SAVING TWENTIETH CENTURY MACHINERY.

ONE AND TWO-HORSE PliANTBR,

PLAIN OR WITH FERTILIZER

ATTACHMENT.

Kemp'a Twentieth Century Imp rot ed Manure Spreader. Made In three sixes. Write for special catalogue and prlcas.

Furrower and Marker.

Marks two rows and furrows them at the same time; the discs can be set at any desired angle and depth.

Write for full descriptive catalogue. Every farmer should have one or two Darnell's Furrowers and Markers.

The Celebrated Avery "PLUTO"

Disc plows, all styles and sizes. Write for circulars and prices.

"The" Improved All Steel and Iron ACME Harrow. It crushes, cuts, tears, smooths and levels, all In one operation. The cheapest riding harrow made. Write for circulars and price.

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ECONOMY SILO

Themosi novel, pmocical and perfect doorway oi ibe and t'entury- Con-tiuuous ouopo witb buop support. Perfectly air llcm BuUt on scien tifio and ojecbaiiical prlnclplee Fully Bairaiiied W rite for Ulustra ted caLHJoifue aad information

Write for our General Catalogue, mailed free to everyone. We sell only "A" grade goods, fully warranted and our prices are right.

HENING ® NUCKOLS, 1436-38 £. Main St., Richmond, Va.

TKe Unit Road MacKine

Over 600 In Successful Operation Between tHe Potomac and tHe Gulf

COSTS LESS THAN ONE-FIFTH as much an the (our-Tcheel machines,

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IT

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LARGE MACHINES LAID ASIDE in favor of the

UNIT

Indicate the quality of work It Is capable of doing.

PAYS FOR ITSELF IN PEW^ DAYS' WORK.

ROAD PLOWS, ROLLERS, WHEEL AND DRAG SCRAPERS.

THE CALL-WATT CO., lasourFitotr'street, Richmond, Va,

To reduce our stock of Disc Cultivators, Walking Cultivators, Double Row Corn Planters, Disc Harrows, Empiro Grain Drills, Empire Lime. Plaster and Fertilizer Distributors, One- and Two-Horse Farm Wagons, we are offering Special Inducements as to

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Spotless Paint at only 98 cents Per Gallon.

THIS LARGE TWO STORY HOUSE PAINTED FOR

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1 gallon at 97 cents

per gallon 97

2 gallons for trimming at 97 cents

per gallon 1 94

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$8 46 of our Spotless "n^eatberproof Mineral Bam, Roof and Fence Paint, the most durable mineral paint made. Guaranteed to wear five years.

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. , .. buy anywhere, regardless of price, Just ship

back the unopened paint and we will not charge youfor the three gallons used, but will refund all your

money and freight charges. You mut admit that this is a fair proposition.

OUR FIVE-YEAR GUARANTEE is that it Will not blister, peel, chalk, crack ner rub off. Send us your

name and address to-day for color cards and complete catalogue, sent free, or order from this ad. If

In a hurry. It means a saving of more than one-third on your paint bills.

SPOTLESS CO., INC.,

122 SHOCKOE SQUARE

RICHMOND, VA

If yeu will write us the dimensions of the build Ing you want to paint tre will tell you the amount of paint necessary to cover It properly.

SEND FOR OUR FREE GATALO GUB AND COLOR CARD TO-DAY.

LABOR SAVING IMPLEMENTS AND MACHINERY.

FOR SALia BT

THE WATT PLOW CO., Richmond, Va,

The John Deere Rldlner P 1 o w a Excel all others. iB ligrht draft and g'ood work.

Deere and Black Hawk 2 Row Planters with Tilting Hoppers. Have fewer parts an*! less working joints than any other. Seed pla'.os can be remove-J without taklngr corn out of box. ITur-nished with or without fertilizer attachmenis.

The Deere Universal spike tooth harrow is strong, flexible and dur able. Has a le''e; which is provided with a spring; trip which preserves the teeth when using harrow in Btony or rooty ground.

«iJ$^J^j4(

No. 24 Deere Ridins Disc CnltlTotor.

Another successful tool of Jur own manufacture. Built on such principles as to overcome all opposition to tools of this class. Its wide range of idjustments, pe-i-uliar to the Deere Disc Cultivator alone, idapts It to all classes of farm cultivation.

Agents for iha Deere and Black

Hawk Planters. The only successful edge drop •planters on the market, rurnis.i-cd with or without fercilizer yt-♦achment. Write

us for special

booklet called 'More Corn." I^v-pry farmer who plants corn should have It.

It is free.

We have the celebrated Deere and Johnston's Disc Harrows which are made to do the work.

K. A. Pivot Axle CultlTator.

A general purpose cultivator, adapted for a very wide range of work, such as corn, potatoes, tobacco, cotton, beans, cabbage, peanuts and

general truck

farming. Equipped with itPivot wheels for 'work on hillsides and in Ir-.-egular rows or for work in listed corn. The wheels, guided by the feet, may be Instantly

turned to the right or left as desired. They

lan be made rigid for level work by a hook rod.

We give mail orders our special attention and invite your correspondence.

THE WATT PLOW COMPANY.

RICHMOND, VA.

1426 Ecst Main St.

1438 East Franklin St.