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Vol. 70. 



MAY, 1909. 



No. 5. 



CONTENTS. 



FARM MANAGEMENT: 



Editorial — Work for the Month 465 

Notes on the April Issue 468 

Is Muriate of Potash Injurious to Tobacco 

and Potatoes? 470 

The Corn Crop 470 

Alfalfa Growing 472 

An Old Farmer's Experiences 473 

What Is Plant Food? 473 

The Plow Question 474 

Cash Value of Manure 475 

Experiments With Cocke's Prolific Corn.... 475 

Crop Yields 475 

TRUCKING. GARDEN AND ORCHARD: 

Editorial— Work for the Month '. 476 

Fungus Diseases of the Irish or Round Pota- 
to and the Tomato 477 

The Condition of the Truck. Crops in Tide- 
water Virginia 479 

To Virginia Farmers 479 

Damage Done to Fruit and Truck Crops by 

the Frosts 479 

Mixed Peas 482 

A New Clover Crop 482 

LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY: 

Editorial — Dairying in Virginia 483 

Losses of Figs and Calves 483 

Progressive Move in Breeding 484 



An Act to Protect the Live Stock of South 

Carolina 484 

Removal of Foot and Mouth Disease Quar- 
antine 484 

A Great Jersey Sale 485 

Stoppage at the Point of Teat 486 

Cotton Seed Meal and the Eyes of Horses.. 486 

Cooper's Annual Jersey Sale 486 

THE POULTRY YARD: 

Poultry Notes 487 

The Ornamental Fowl 488 

Production. Prices, Prospects. Pointers 489 

Common Diseases of Chickens With Simple 

Remedies — Roup 490 

Hens vs. Incubators 491 

Why Not Own Land in Virginia? 491 



THE HORSE: 

Notes 



492 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Editorial — King Corn 494 

Steam Plowing at Wilton-on-the-James 494 

Improved Highways for the State 495 

Virginia Berkshire Breeders Meet 497 

Farm Operations at Monticello 1796 498 

Enquirers' Column (Detail Index, p. 568)... 540 

Advertisements 499 



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70th Year. 



RICHMOND, VA., MAY, 1909. 



No. 5. 



Farm Management. 



WORK FOR THE MONTH. 

The month of April to this writing (April 20th) has been 
a fine, genial spring month, and following a similar con- 
dition of weather in March has enabled a great deal of 
work to be done in the preparation of the land for the 
crops and done with the land in the best of condition for 
receiving benefit. The result of this is that probably more 
land is now broken and being fitted for planting than ever 
before in the South. Indeed, the reports we receive indi- 
cate that the greatest area ever planted in the South will 
be put in crop this year if weather conditions continue 
normal during May. Whilst there is not an excess of 
moisture in the land, yet the early breaking of the land 
has so conserved that which is present that crops 
will find an abundance to start growth and, with the 
usual May weather, we may expect good stands and a 
fair start for a bountiful crop year. We would urge that 
oare be taken to conserve the moisture by keeping the 
surface finely broken and free from crusting until the 
crops are planted and that cultivation be prompt and 
frequent after planting. In the States South of Virginia 
considerable corn is already planted and even in this State 
some has been put in. We would urge that not too great 
haste be made in this work. Whilst it is very tempting 
to plant corn in such weather as we are .now having, yet 
past experience has convinced us that it is not a safe 
proceeding to plant corn until May. The land, though 
in nice order where advantage has been taken of the 
weaiher we have had for the past two months, is not yet 
warm and corn never starts well in cold land and rarely 
makes a continuous, quick growth, and this continuous, 
quick growth is very essential to the making of the best 
yield. The experience of years has been that we have al- 
most always a cold spell of weather in the beginning of 
May, and corn planted before this is over is usually to 
plant over again. We had last year a fine time in April 
and many of our subscribers got land into good condi 
tion and planted in that month. In almost every case 
they had to replant in May. From the 10th of May to 
the 10th of June is the best time to plant white corn in 
this State. Yellow corn may be planted with a certainty 



of maturing from the 10th of June to the end of the 
month, and we have known Golden Dent to mature in 
the middle section of the State planted as late as the end 
of the first week in July. The condition of the grass and 
pasture land is fine. Crimson clover and alfalfa have 
made wonderful growth during April and crops of these 
are now ready for cutting in many sections. The prom- 
ise for the meadow hay crops is fine on all land in a good 
state of fertility. Pastures already are capable of provid- 
ing fair grazing for stock in the middle and Eastern sec- 
tions. 



The report of the Department of Agriculture on the con- 
dition of the winter wheat crop on the first of April is 
an unsatisfactory one. The condition this year for the 
whole country is placed at 82.2 per cent, as against 91.3 
per cent, a year ago, and as against a ten-year average 
of 86.6 per cent. This, coupled with the reduction in area 
planted — even if this should not be still further reduced 
by the plowing up of crops too much damaged to be worth 
harvesting, and of these there is said to be a considerable 
area in some States, though as yet we have not the offi- 
cial figures — indicate that the crop is going to be a much 
less one than the last. We doubt much whether the yield 
will be in excess of 400,000,OG'0 bushels, even should con- 
ditions of weather be the best up to the time of harvest. 
The present condition is the lowest in any April since 
1904, when it was 76 per cent., and the yield in that year 
was 325.000.0<00 bushels. This report and the report of 
existing stocks in the world showing 19,000,000 bushels 
less than a year ago had the effect of causing a rapid 
rise in price on the market and wheat was sold for as 
high as $1.50 per bushel at one time. The price for cash 
wheat in New York is now $1.40'. Whilst no doubt market 
speculation has had considerable effect in making these 
high prices, yet the actual situation is such that demand 
has overtaken supply and the condition confronts us which 
we predicted more than a year ago. No doubt the effect 
of this will be to stimulate the seeding of as large a crop 
of spring wheat as possiblein the Northwest, and this, 
work has already begun. Unless, however, a much larger 



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area than the average can be gotten in in the limited 
time available, the probabilities are that at the close of 
the harvest this country will find that it has little if any 
more wheat than will be needed to feed the people and 
provide seed for another year. It would seem probable, 
therefore, that we may have a permanently higher price 
for wheat than we have seen for many years. In the 
face of this discouraging report as to condition of the 
wheat crop throughout the country, it is gratifying to know 
that in Virginia our wheat crop is decidedly promising. 
The condition here is 97 per cent, as against 90 per cent. 
a year ago and as against a ten-year average of 85 per 
cent. In Maryland the condition is 96 per cent, as against 
83 per cent, a year ago and a ten-year average of 87 per 
cent. In North Carolina the condition is 93 per cent, as 
against 91 per cent, a year ago and a ten-year average of 
87 per cent. 

Winter oats are still looking well and promise to make 
a fine crop and the condition of the spring oat crop is 
above the average, as it was seeded early and the weather 
has been all that could be desired for it. 



In our last two issues we have written so fully on the 
preparation of the land for the planting of the corn crop 
that we do not know that we can usefully add more, but 
refer our readers to those issues. The great point to be 
aimed at is to have the land brought into as fine a condi- 
tion of tilth as possible to the greatest depth possible 
and, to secure this, it should be disced, harrowed, rolled 
and re-harrowed until no clods or lumps of unbroken soil 
can be turned up. Until the land is in this condition, it 
ought not to be planted even if in order to secure this 
seed bed planting is delayed for a week or ten days. 
Perfect preparation of the seed bed is much more influen- 
tial in securing a good crop than any fertilization of the 
land. Where every bit of the soil is finely broken and 
is in a condition to admit the air and the moisture thor- 
oughly permeating it. the great root system of a corn 
crop can make available all the natural fertility in the 
land, and even though the land be not rich, a fair yield 
can be secured. On rich land such preparation will en- 
sure a heavy yield if the season be normal. When ready 
for planting bear in mind what we said in our last issue 
as to careful selection of seed acclimated to the section 
in which it is to be grown, and have the seed well assort- 
ed, so as to be as nearly as possible of the same average 
size so that the planter may drop the seed regularly and 
thus ensure an even stand and avoid the necessity for 
replanting which rarely amounts to anything, as the re- 
planted corn makes stalks which are not ready to receive 
the pollen at the time when it is being distributed by the 
first id anted corn and therefore fail to make a satisfactory 
yield even if they make ears at all. If a crop makes a 
poor stand or if from any cause the stand is lost to any 
considerable extent it is far better to re-work the land 
and plant over again. Where land is badly infested with 
cut worms, these may be largely gotten rid of by dis- 
tributing poisoned feed for them before the corn is plant- 
ed or before it conies up. Mix Paris green with water 
and dip bunches of clover in this and drop them at in- 
tervals over the field, or cabbage leaves may be used in- 
stead of the clover. Bran mixed with Paris green and 



then moistened with water and made into small balls 
and dropped over the field will also effect the same end. 
Where land has been plowed early enough and frequently 
and thoroughly worked before planting, these troublesome, 
worms will, however, usually have been mostly killed. 
After the crop has been planted, let the work of cultiva- 
tion at once commence. Never allow a crust to form on 
the surface, for this will not only prevent the proper 
growth of the plants, but will result in loss of moisture 
from the land. Use a harrow or weeder for the first two 
cultivations of the crop and thus do the work quickly and 
thoroughly and at the least cost. After the first two cul- 
tivations use a tooth cultivator, taking both sides of the 
rows at once and run this shallow all the time so as 
only to disturb the top two or three inches of soil. When 
the crop has gotten too tall for cultivating both sides 
of the rows at once, then use a tooth cultivator between 
the rows and still keep the soil level. Notwithstanding all 
that we have said and written on this subject of corn 
cultivation in the past twenty years, during the whole 
of which time we have been advocating level shallow cul- 
tivation of the crop, as a rule, and have shown by the 
result of numerous experiments made in nearly all parts 
of the country that this system gives the most profitable 
results, there are yet scores of farmers in the South who 
will persist in using a plow and tearing the roots of their 
corn to pieces at the first working and then lay it by 
with the plow and again cut the roots. Whilst we are not 
so foolish as to say that under no circumstances should a 
plow ever be put into a corn field after the crop is plant- 
ed, because we realize that under certain conditions pe- 
culiar especially to our river low grounds such a use of 
the plow is not only permissable, but necessary, as was 
well shown by the article in the last issue from Mr. Ruf- 
fin; yet even in such cases the largest part of the culti- 
vation should be done with a tooth cultivator and the 
plow be only resorted to to cover up the vines and weeds 
which grow between the plants and cannot be reached by 
the cultivator. In such a use of the plow the shallowest 
furrow possible to supply the earth to cover up these 
weeds should be run and the land be left as little ridged 
as possible. The idea that a furrow should be plowed to 
the corn at the last working in order to hold it up is 
all wrong. The corn will stand up as well without it as 
with it, even better, as the roots will not have been cut 
and these will have hold of a larger area of the land 
than if they had been cut during cultivation. The brace 
roots which are thrown out will get hold of the soil just 
as well without the furrow as with it and moisture will 
be much better conserved by reason of the less area of 
the land exposed to the action of the sun. Continue pul- 
tivation as long as possible to get through the crop with- 
out breaking down the stalks and before the last culti- 
vation sow cowpeas or crimson clover in the crop and 
cover with the cultivator lightly. When planting the 
corn drop a few pumpkin seeds in every third or fourth 
row at long intervals. These will make a supply of pump- 
kins for the hogs and cattle in the fall, and this without 
at all injuring the yield of the crop. The Virginia Mam- 
moth pumpkin is a good variety to plant. 



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large area. Notwithstanding the fact that the price of the 
staple has been on the average below ten cents for all 
except the highest grades and that the cotton planters 
organizations are strongly urging a reduction of the area 
so as not this year to make another 13,000,000 bale crop, 
yet, from what we hear from our correspondents, the area 
now being prepared and plante-1 is apparently as large, 
if not larger, than a year ago. We would like to see this 
area reduced and more of the land put into crops to feed 
man and beast, not so much to reduce the size of the cot- 
ton crop as to make its production more profitable. There 
can be no doubt but that with proper preparation of the 
land filling it with humus and working it well before and 
after the planting of the crop, that a 13,00'0,000 bale crop 
could be easily grown on half the land which it occupied 
last year, and ought to be grown on one-third of the area. 
To do this would mean a great saving in labor and the 
production of the crop for very much less cost and the 
land set at liberty would produce corn and other feed 
crops which would make the planters independent of out- 
side help. We hope to see efforts made in this direction 
this year by the more general seeding of crimson clover 
In the cotton crop at the last working. Humus in the soil 
is the first necessity for better results. In our last issue 
we wrote fully on the preparation and fertilization of the 
land for the cotton crop, and to that issue refer our read- 
ers. We would only add give the land the most complete 
working so as to secure a perfect seed bed before plant- 
ing and then plant carefully. Do not bury the seed too 
deeply and, to ensure this, have the land nicely firmed 
before commencing to run the planter so that it will keep 
the drill at an even depth and drop the seed not over 
one and a half or two inches under the surface level. In 
this way an even stand can be secured, as the plants will 
all come easily through the soil. Use a planter that will 
firm the soil around the seed and thus ensure quick germ- 
ination and rapid growth. After the plants have gotten 
the third leaves the sooner the crop is brought to a 
stand by the chopping out of the surplus plants the better. 
The plants left will in this way secure the full benefit of 
the fertility in the soil and get possession ofthe land. The 
distance apart to leave the plants must be determined 
largely by the fertility of the soil and experience in the 
past. Experiments have fairly demonstrated that on lands 
of average fertility cotton planted in three-foot rows and 
spaced to one plant every two feet has almost invariably 
produced an excess of crop more than sufficient to pay 
for the greater expense of planting and cultivating in com- 
parison with cotton spaced 4x1% feet, or 5 xl% feet, or 
6x1 foot. In the subsequent cultivation of the crop follow 
the lines laid down in this issue for the cultivation of 
the corn crop. 



Tobacco planting should have attention as soon as the 
plants are large enough to set out. We hear that the 
plants have made a good growth in the genial weather 
we have had and that it is probable the planting will 
be somewhat earlier than usual. There seems to be a de- 
termination to make another large crop. We hope this 
is not going to be overdone. We would urge that it would 
be wise to be conservative in the matter of planting. 



Kentucky, which made a very short crop last year, is this 
year going to plant largely. This must affect the price 
even of our different types of tobacco. We would not 
advise the planting of a larger area than that of last year, 
but that an effort be made to make what is grown ot 
the highest quality. Fertilize liberally. In our March is- 
sue we wrote fully on this question of the fertilizer to 
use. The tobacco crop, like the cotton crop, ought to be 
grown on a much smaller area for the quantity produced. 
Our planters should take a lesson from the Northern pro- 
ducers of the cigar types of tobacco, who use two or three 
times as much fertilizer per acre as our planters do and 
that of the highest grade and, as a result, make from 1,200 
to 1,500 pounds of tobacco to the acre, where our planters 
only make from 600 to 800 pounds. Professor Mathewson 
has shown in his experiments that we can do the same 
thing here and do it profitably. In this we refer to the 
dark shipping types of tobacco. The light, bright tobac- 
cos cannot, of course, be grown in this way, as in this 
type quality is of more importance than quantity, but even 
in this type there is room for more liberal fertilization 
with profit. See that the land is well prepared and is in 
fine planting condition before setting out a plant and 
watch the opportunity to plant on a good season so that 
replanting shall not be necessary. After the crop has 
started to grow cultivate frequently and work around the 
plants with the hoe so as to ensure that the fine roots 
may easily permeate the soil and the moisture be con- 
served. 



Peanuts should be planted during this month. In our 
last issue we wrote fully as to the proper fertilizer to use 
on this crop and how to increase the yield so that the 
crop may become a profitable one. We refer readers to 
that issue. The demand for peanuts grows larger every 
year, and seems likely to continue to do so, and as the 
southeastern section of this State seems especially adapted 
to the crops, and already produces more than one-half 
of the whole production of this country, we are anxious 
to see our growers put forth efforts to keep the produc- 
tion largely in their hands in the future. There is money 
in the crop if properly grown, and the area of land spec- 
ially adapted to it in this section of Virginia is large. 
Those who have followed the advice we have given for 
the past few years on this subject have been able to 
greatly increase the yield, and especially is this true of 
several Northern men who have settled here, and have 
made heavy crops. 



The planting of the forage crops, cowpeas, soy beans, 
sorghum, Kaffir corn and millet should have attention 
as soon as the time can be spared from the corn, cotton 
and tobacco crops. Soy beans, especially, should have 
early attention, as' this crop makes a long growing season 
if to be grown for the seed. We hope to see a much larger 
area of this crop planted this year than in the past. 
Every year that it has been grown has more fully demon- 
strated the value of the crop, both as a feed and grain 
crop, and that our lands and climate are especially adapted 
to it. With such a possibility as we have of successfully 
growing this crop our stock owners ought to grow it 



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largely. It is the richest protein crop produced, and the 
man who has plenty of this hay and grain on hand need 
never worry to buy bran or cotton-seed meal for his stock. 
It is as easily grown as corn or cowpeas, and is much 
more certain to make a crop. It suffers less in a drouth 
and less in a wet season than any crop we know. It 
should be planted in rows two feet, six inches, or three 
feet apart, and be dropped in the rows six or eight inches 
apart. Half a bushel or a little less will plant an acre, 
and the planting can be done with a corn planter, or with 
a grain drill, stopping up all the spouts, but the two out- 
side and the center ones. Where the crop has not been 
grown before, it is well to inoculate the land with some 
soil from a field where the crop has been grown. The first 
year of growing, if the land is not inoculated, the crop 
will not likely be a heavy one, but later crops will be a 
success. If the land is not in a state of fair fertility 
apply 250 pounds of acid phosphate per acre broadcast, 
and work in before planting the seed. Do not plant deep, 
two or three inches is deep enough, and the soil should 
be loose and open to admit of the plants coming through 
easily. In experiments made in Tennessee the yield of 
grain for each of the three leading varieties, Mammoth 
Yellow, Medium Yellow and Ito San, was highest where 
the rows were one and a half feet apart. In 190'8 the 
eight-inch drill rows gave the highest yield of hay, which 
was also the finest stemmed, and hence, most desirable 
for feeding. In 1907 the Mammoth Yellow produced twen- 
ty-eight bushels per acre, the Medium Yellow, twenty bush- 
els per acre, and Ito San, twenty bushels per acre. These 
yields were made in Tennessee from early June planting. 
Cowpeas should not be planted until the land is warm, 
as they are very apt to rot In cold land. May is early 
enough to commence to plant, and June is a still bet- 
ter month. The New Bra is an excellent variety for mak- 
ing peas. "The Clay, Whip-poor-will and Red Ripper are 
better for vines. For a grazing crop the Black, or a mix- 
ture of two or three varieties is the best. Drilling in 
rows is preferable to sowing broadcast both for seed, and 
hay, and half the seed can in this way be saved, which it 
is usual to sow, when, put in broadcast. Half a bushel 
drilled will make a better crop than a bushel sowed 
broadcast. We will deal with sorghum and the other 
forage crops in our June issue, as that will be in plenty 
of time for planting then. 



NOTES ON THE APRIL ISSUE. 
Editor Southern Planter; 

In regard to the need of potash in Tidewater, I think 
the editor forgets that I said that along streams coming 
from the Blue Ridge there may be an exception, but that 
the sandy lands in general in the Tidewater section are 
not deficient in potash I think is a mistake. D|r. Stubbs 
ha.s doubtless found plenty in Gloucester, and found plenty 
in the lower Gulf States, but in all the South Atlantic 
coast country there is a real need for potash. The Vir- 
ginia streams having their head in the Blue Ridge do 
bring to their lowlands an abundance of potash, but a 
very different state of affairs will be found along such 
streams as the Chickahominey, and such other Tidewater 



streams as do not come from the mountains where pot- 
ash bearing rocks are abundant. 

Diamond Joe Corn. 
I do not know anything about this variety of which 
Mr. Heiges writes, but, as a rule, I do not think we need 
to look after especial earliness in corn. In fact, I have 
always found that the heaviest crops are to be had from 
late varieties. The only value of an early corn here is 
for replanting a later variety so that the pollination may 
come together. But, as a rule, I have quit replanting 
altogether, for the replanted corn is hardly ever worth 
the trouble, as the pollination is over when it comes in 
and little corn is made. Better use seed enough to insure 
a stand. 

Inoculation. 

So far as my experiments go, I would not use the arti- 
ficial cultures for inoculation, and I have never seen any 
good results from the inoculated seed of legumes sold on 
the market. Soil from a field that is already inoculated 
is the best means for transferring the bacteria. The ex- 
amples Mr. Fred shows indicate that the beans had al- 
ready inoculated the soil. The same has been observed 
in the cowpea. A farmer in Northern Ohio wrote to me 
that he sowed cowpeas there and they made a very poor 
growth, but sowing the same land the next season gave 
him a splendid crop as the plants had gotten inoculated 
from the first season's crop. The same was observed in 
the lower Mississippi valley in Louisiana. The first sea- 
son crimson clover was sown it made an entire failure, 
but the next season the same land made a fine crop. But, 
with most legumes, the inoculation can be secured at once 
with inoculated soil. The artificial cultures, if used fresh 
and the seed at once sown, will doubtless have a good 
effect, but, if kept long or the seed kept some time after 
treatment, there will be but poor results, and I would not 
give a penny more for the inoculated seed sold by seeds- 
men than for the uninoculated seed. 

Building Up a Run-Down Farm in Virginia. 

'Sometimes I am inclined to despair of the Southern 
farmer. Recently I rode down to Florida and back by 
another route, and all the way I saw the whole country 
bedded, as usual, for cotton, and not a green field in 
sight, and, I thought, what is the use of trying to persuade 
the Southern farmer to farm? But now and then I get 
letters from those who have tried and succeeded in re- 
storing a run-down farm, and it is the men like "Sub- 
scriber," on page 354, who put more courage into one, and 
enable us to see that the labor has not been entirely in 
vain. And every one like this subscriber who succeeds 
becomes a nucleus in his neighborhood for better farm- 
ing, and now, on the eve of my three score and ten years, 
I can feel that my work has not been altogether in vain, 
and that I have helped a few at least in dear old Virginia. 

But did you ever notice that the value of The Planter 
is due to the intelligent farmers who help us make it? 
I do not think that any paper in the country has a more 
intelligent class of contributors, men now on the farms, 
than the Southern Planter, which has not abandoned the 
methods of the old, dignified days when the best men 
in Virginia contributed to its pages in the days of Ruffin. 
We have learned many things from scientific investiga- 



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tion, but, so far as successful farming is concerned, do 
we know much more to-day than the educated farmers 
of Virginia did "befo' de Wah?" Farms once cultivated 
are scratched in patches by negro tenants, and the land 
and the negro both depreciating. 

Crimson Clover. 

Said a friend to me sometime ago: "You have made 
this section with cowpeas and crimson clover." Hardly 
a last-year corn field can now be seen that is not green 
with crimson clover sown as Mr. Tyler says. Some used 
a peck of seed, and the whole land is densely covered. 
Others used less seed and the ground is patchy. My 
neighbors in Albemarle used to laugh at me for sowing 
a peck of red clover seed, but when the hay was cut I 
always had enough more than they had to pay for ten 
times as much difference in the seeding. Here in this 
sandy, pine woods section peas and crimson clover and 
the manure bought from the North by the truckers have 
wrought a great change, for now the sandy soil sods over 
with blue grass when left out, and that where it was once 
thought that grass would not grow. My dwelling stands 
on the crest of a hill falling off to the river in the rear. 
That hill I remember as a bare sand hill. But to-day 
there is on it a blue grass sod that Kentucky cannot sur- 
pass. Simply manure and lime. 

Cocke's Prolific Corn. 

Mr. Wood's crop of 156 bushels of corn per acre re- 
minds me of a remark made by the Director of an Insti- 
tute, in which I was lecturing, and in which I spoke of 
the value of Cocke's Prolific Corn. "Yes," said he, "I 
made more corn with that variety than any I had, but 
it makes too many years to shuck." I never before heard ' 
a man object to a corn making too much corn. At an 
Institute the past winter in Maryland I gave my prefer- 
ence for a prolific corn, or one that makes more than 
one ear per plant. The Director called on a corn breeder 
present and asked him if he did not prefer a variety that 
made one big ear to the stalk rather than one that made 
more ears of smaller size. He replied that he did. Of 
course he did, because he was breeding corn for the corn 
shows, where only big ears get any notice. And he has 
as good land as that on which Mr. Wood made 156 bush- 
els, and with the big score card ears he makes about 
seventy bushels per acre. 

Plowing. 

The objection that Mr. Weissinger makes to the disc 
plow is no objection if the land is plowed right. Of 
course, if the field is plowed around from the outside, 
there will be the result he mentions of earth thrown to 
the outside and a ditch in the middle. But if the plowing 
starts as it should from the middle and finishes on the 
outside, there will be no such result. 
Southampton Land. 

I agree with Mr. McCoy that land like the most of that 
in Southampton will not be benefitted by subsoiling, but 
he is also right in using a No. 40 plow and going eight 
inches deep. If he will get Mr. Grizzard to do likewise 
I think we will hear less of the importance of ridging 
corn and cutting off its feeding roots. There is a pro- 
ductive farm in all that section right under where the 
scratch of the little plow went on the poorest land. 



Oregon Apples. 

I keep tasting those superb apples from Hood River. 
They are beautiful specimens of apple culture and pack- 
ing and skillful advertising, but I would rather have half 
a dozen Albemarle pippins from the Ragged Mountains 
than a whole box of the Hood River beauties. They taste 
more like turnips than apples. 

Southern Truck. 

It was odd to see *on a Southern trip that the cold 
snap January 31st was more severe far South than in 
North Carolina or Virginia. They told me at Savannah 
that the mercury fell there to eighteen above zero, while 
at New Berne, N. C, it was twenty-nine, and here in 
Southern Maryland, on the Eastern Shore, it was twenty- 
one, the lowest of the winter. 

In Savannah the big Oleander clumps had all the leaves 
burned off, while at New Berne, N. C, I saw them per- 
fectly green. The cabbages were badly hurt there, and 
at Young's Island, S. C, but not at all at New Berne and 
Norfolk. Some were running to seed, but, as one grower 
said, it would be a good thing at Norfolk if half the corp 
ran to seed, for "Norfolk county always kills Norfolk 
county," he said, "by having too much stuff rushed on 
the market at the same time." 

Hogs. 

For the general farmer, I think that Mr. Cook is right 
in liking the Berkshire hog. But the scrub will not dis- 
appear so long as there is a demand for Smithfield hams, 
for there is no doubt that the woods ranger makes finer 
bacon than the lard hog. But, for the genuine razor-back, go 
to Florida. I saw there many that looked as though they 
should have a weight tied to their tails to balance the snout 
and head. But go to a fancy grocery store in Philadel- 
phia and ask for Virginia hams, and they will ask you 
forty cents a pound, while the packers' hams of Berk- 
shires and Poland Chinas can be had for sixteen or eigh- 
teen cents. And there is more money to the general 
farmer in the lower priced meat made from hogs that 
mature early, and a Berkshire is a far better looking ani- 
mal to have around. But the razor-back is the survival 
of the fittest for the conditions in which he exists. I saw 
them rooting down with their big subsoilers among the 
saw palmettos till you could only see a long tail wiggling 
above. A Berkshire would starve under the same condi- 
tions. But when the Palmetto berries ripen the razor- 
back gets fat and gamy, and makes the finest of bacon. 
The Farmer. 

In the last week's issue of the Outlook, the paper on 
which Mr. Roosevelt is to be an associate editor, there 
was quite a symposium on the farmer. The various writ- 
ers seem to think that farming and the farmers in this 
country are going to the "demnition bow wows." As one 
said, "We are a manufacturing people and the manufactur- 
er will always make more than the farmer.' But all seem 
to overlook the fact that if the farmer fails the whole 
fabric of manufacturing must tumble. Agriculture is the 
foundation of all national prosperity, and without a pros- 
perous farming community there can be no successful 
manufacturing. New England let her farms go to waste 
and devoted herself to manufacturing, but could she have 
done this and lived had it not been for the farms of the 
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the general government agriculture, the foundation stone, 
gets about twelve millions, while the government of the 
little District of Columbia has ten millions. 
Turkey Buzzards. 
I think that instead of protecting buzzards there should 
be a premium offered for their destruction, for there is 
no greater agency in the scattering of hog cholera. What 
have they done with the little breed of buzzards that 
formerly swarmed in Charleston? Two weeks ago I was 
there and did not see a buzzard on the streets. The 
Harleston buzzards seem to be a smaller breed than our 
Virginia rascals. W. F. MASSEY. 



IS MURIATE OF POTASH INJURIOUS TO TOBACCO 
AND POTATOES? 

Editor Southern Planter: 

The Legislature of Virginia did a great service for the 
farmers when, a few years since, it passed the law pro- 
viding for free analysis of fertilizers by the State Chemist. 
I could only wish it had gone a little further and pro- 
vided for a more complete analysis, showing not only how 
much ammonia, phosphoric acid and potash a fertilizer 
contains, but also the sources from which these ingredi- 
ents are derived. Between five and six million dollars are 
spent in fertilizers in Virginia annually, and Dr. Magruder 
in his very excellent address, at the Farmers' Institute 
last year, asked the question, "Do you farmers spend this 
enormous sum of five or six million dollars judiciously?" 
I answer, we do not; we do not know how. There are 
some fifteen hundred brands of fertilizers on the Virginia 
market bearing the same guaranteed analysis. But this 
does not mean that they are the same fertilizers by any 
means (they are the same to the farmer, of course; he 
cannot tell the difference). They are compounded from 
various sources, such as chemicals, minerals, blood and 
bone, fish and decomposed matter of every sort, and, 
although the same guarantee, some are infinitely superior 
on account of the superior sources from which they are 
made; some suited to the growth of some plants, and 
highly injurious to others. How can the farmer know, 
and how can he spend his money in fertilizers judiciously? 
Now this leads to the question, "Is Muriate of Potash In- 
jurious to Tobacco and Potatoes?" Most farmers are of 
the opinion that it is to tobacco, and some think it is in- 
jurious to the potato. Whether these opinions are 
founded on theory or practice I do not know. Mr. Charles 
W. Priddy, President of the Hampton Guano Company, in 
a letter to our Farmers' Club, says, "There is little, if any 
difference in the action of the different forms of potash on 
any crops," and that any up-to-date agricultural chemist 
would bear him out in this statement. Now, I am not 
prepared to controvert this — it may be so — but why this 
almost universal belief amongst farmers to the contrary, 
and why do such eminent agricultural writers as Professor 
Mathewson and Mr. H. Winkelman specify sulphate of 
potash in their tobacco formulae? This is written for the 
purpose of inquiry, and any light on the subject from a 
scientific or practical standpoint would aid the farmer in 
the selection of a fertilizer, and save his being duped by 
unreliable manufacturers. M. L. WATSON. 

Ncttoway Co., Va. 



Up to within the last two or three years it has been 
generally the opinion that potash in any other form than 
the sulphate had a detrimental effect on the quality of 
the Irish potato, tending to make it sad or heavy instead 
of mealy or light when boiled. Numerous experiments 
have been made to test the truth of this and the conclu- 
sions reached are that there is no foundation for this 
opinion. The muriate gives just as good potatoes as the 
sulphate and is much cheaper. The kainit form of potash 
is the least desirable of all, as it is so heavily impreg- 
nated with chlorides. It is, however, useful to use on cot- 
ton, as it tends to prevent rusting. For tobacco growing, 
the sulphate only should be used. All other forms injure 
the burning quality of the tobacco; hence, tobacco ex- 
perts always advise this form. 

It is much to be desired in the interest of farmers 
that fertilizer manufacturers should be required to state 
the source from whence the nitrogen, phosphoric acid and 
potash in their fertilizers is derived, as without this 
knowledge they cannot be used with discrimination and 
profitable results.- — Ed. 



THE CORN CROP. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

The first step in the successful growing of corn is the 
selection of good seed. A very good way to do this is 
to have a box on the hind end of the wagon and as 
good ears from healthy stalks are found while gathering, 
these are thrown in this box instead of into the wagon. 
Only good ears, well filled out on the butt and tips, should 
be selected from good, healthy stalks. It is possible to 
increase the yield of corn five to ten bushels per acre in 
this way. The writer has seen instances where the aver- 
age yield of whole counties has been increased five bush- 
els per acre over counties where careful selection is not 
common. 

One should next consider the care of seed corn. The 
vitality is very likely to be injured if it be exposed to 
the weather where it may freeze and thaw, and more 
especially where it is not dried thoroughly. Therefore, 
if one is not prepared otherwise it is well to dry corn 
in smoke house or garret and leave it there during the 
winter. If corn is carefully selected and dried and kept 
dry there will not be much difficulty about vitality in 
spring. On the other hand, it is well, if seed corn is 
selected from crib, to always test the growing power by 
planting a few grains in a moist box of sand and keep- 
ing in a warm room. If over three-fourths do not sprout 
in a few days it certainly will not sprout in the field 
and measures should be taken accordingly to plant more 
corn to the acre if no better seed can be secured. It is 
not advisable either to purchase seed corn from an en- 
tirely different climate. 

Having selected the seed, the next thing to be consid- 
ered is the preparation of the soil. Corn land should or- 
dinarily be plowed deep — eight to ten inches. Heavy 
loamy lands may be fall plowed and left exposed to win- 
ter's freezing and thawing, if not too rolling. 'There is 
danger of hilly land washing if left exposed. Sandy lands 
should never be plowed in the fall. The corn crop will 
stand heavy manuring and therefore one may, without dan- 
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dressing of manure, if time be allowed for it to rot be- 
fore the crop is planted. Corn differs from wheat in that 
there is little danger of causing an over-production of 
stalk by heavy manuring, but wheat, when heavily ma- 
nured with nitrogen, may lodge badly. Other fertilizer 
may be used for corn, as bone meal and potash, but well 
rotted farm manure is probably the best fertilizer, as 
the biggest growth takes place during a season of most 
rapid nitrification. Sandy lands especially should be heav- 
ily manured. 

On fall plowed land the best implement to use in the 
6pring is the disc harrow, weighted so as to cut deep, and 
this may be followed by the tooth harrow or drag, and a 
roller may be very conveniently used if land is cloddy. 
Spring plowed lands very frequently become hard and 
cloddy, if allowed to become dry after plowing and be- 
fore harrowing, and in many cases it is a very good plan 
to harrow it at once and not allow the soil to become 
dry. This is especially true on some of the very best 
corn soils of Illinois. The spring tooth harrow is often 
very useful on hard clods combined with the roller, as 
the harrow will bring them to the surface where they 
may be crushed by the roller. 

Corn in the corn belt is usually planted in rows or 
checks three and one-half or three and two-thirds feet 
apart, experience having proven this to be the best dis- 
tance, and with a planter planting two rows at once. 
But in many places outside the corn belt, and especi- 
ally where the land is rather poor, it is often drilled 
in rows five feet apart. Here ten bushels per acre is 
a very good yield. Even on fairly good land corn is often 
planted with a one-horse implement a greater distance 
apart than is necessary, thereby decreasing the y eld of 
grain. Outside the recognized corn belt, the need of im- 
proved methods in corn growing is very marked. 

Ordinarily corn is given level cultivation and, under 
ordinary circumstances, this is best, but there are excep- 
tional cases where another method would be more satis- 
factory. It is very often the case in the cotton States 
that the corn land is seen ridged. Frequently the corn 
is planted on ridges. 'This is usually the way cotton is 
planted and, from force of habit, corn is planted this way 
also. In other cases the dirt is thrown around the hill. 
Sometimes this is very satisfactory, the furrows between 
the corn serving to permit the water to pass off and, by 
exposing a much greater surface to evaporation, fifteen 
to twenty per cent, more moisture is given off to the 
atmosphere. But this method of cultivation is frequently 
practiced on lands where it is necessary to make every 
effort to save moisture. In such cases level culture is 
much more satisfactory. I have seen the soil thrown up 
in ridges along the corn so as to expose by actual meas- 
urement nineteen por cent, more space to evaporation 
than it would have were it given level culture. Now, as 
it requires approximately three hundred pounds of water 
to make one pound of corn plant, and nearly twice that 
to make one pound of grain, it is evident that the saving 
of moisture is a matter of considerable importance. Corn 
land should never be ridged unless it is inclined to be 
wet, and is level, but in a wet season on ordinarily well 
drained land it may be advantageous to do so in order 
to get rid of surplus water. Sandy land, unless very level 



and wet, should not be ridged for corn, but cold, heavy 
clays may be with good results. A great deal depends 
upon the soil and it does not necessarily follow that any 
method which is successful over one man's land would 
be the best for some one else's. 

After planting, corn land may be advantageously har- 
rowed with a light harrow or weeder. The proper treat- 
ment for corn just planted depends upon the soil and 
upon the season. If there is ufficient moisture to prop- 
erly siprout the plants, and the land is not weedy, and 
the soil has previously been well prepared, it is not nec- 
essary to do anything until the plants are well above the 
the ground. But if the ground be somewhat dry, and the 
soil is loamy and full of organic matter, and there is a 
good store of moisture in the subsoil, rolling will prove 
advantageous, as this will, by compacting the surface, 
establish capillary connection between soil and subsoil, 
and bring moisture to the plants. As soon as possible 
this should be followed by a light harrow or weeder, to 
prepare a surface mulch. It will do no good to roll a 
very sandy soil, and it should- always be remembered 
that this method of getting the moisture about the seeds 
is always accompanied by a loss in moisture for the 
whole field. When the land is prepared in ridges the 
roller, of course, cannot be used. 

On rolling land it is a good plan to let rows of corn 
run around the hill, and well to ridge them somewhat 
to prevent injury from washing. They should never be 
ridged and run down hill, as this is just the way to 
cause the greatest damage by washing. 

Cultivation proper of corn may commence as soon as 
it is two or three inches high. In the corn belt culti- 
vators are generally used, and care must be taken not to 
cover up corn. Early cultivation may be deep, from four 
to six inches because as yet the roots of corn have not 
spread out between the rows. It is well to make sub- 
sequent cultivation shallow, as the roots of the corn plant 
soon reach between the rows and intermingle so that 
great damage may be done, if the land be stirred deeply. 
Everything considered, the best implement for cultivat- 
ing the corn plant is the spring tooth cultivator with 
four to six shovels on a side. This will stir the ground 
as deeply as is necessary for the first cultivation, and 
will easily run as shallow as is desired for the last one. 
On rather light soils an implement similar to sugar-beet 
cultivators, which merely shave the surface of the ground, 
have been very successfully used. 

Two results are gained by the cultivation of corn. 
First, the destruction of weeds; and, second, the conserv- 
ing of soil moisture. The first is perhaps the more im- 
portant. A large growth of weeds will materially cut 
down the yield of corn, not to mention the trouble it 
may cause in seeding other crops. But the second is 
also very important. Normally, on well drained lands, 
it should be the aim at every stage of operations to 
prevent evaporation from the surface of the soil. The 
only practical way to do this on a large scale, is to 
maintain the surface one and one-half or two inches 
stirred or mulched to prevent capillary connection from 
being established with the subsoil. This will keep moist- 
ure from below from coming to the surface and being 
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always well to harrow ground as soon as possible after 
plowing. The most effective mulch is one and one-half 
or two inches deep (various Experiment Stations sup- 
port this statement). To do the greatest possible good, 
the ground should be stirred once a week at the farthest, 
and after every rain, so as to keep the moisture within 
the ground for the use of plants. But when handling 
large fields this cannot be done, and this is one reason 
why small farmers are often more successful than larger 
ones, as on a smaller acreage one man can attend to 
this work when it is needed. 

When the season is wet, corn should be cultivated as 
often as possible to keep down weeds and to prevent a 
hard crust forming on the surface. Cultivation may be 
continued as long as desired. There is no danger of 
doing too much work on corn provided it is done care- 
fully. Of course, there is a limit to what may be done 
at a profit, this depending upon circumstances. If the 
season is dry, cultivation may well be continued after 
corn is too large to use the cultivator. There are vari- 
ous one-horse implements' on the markets which accom- 
plish this purpose. 

Farmers in the middle west will no doubt be interested 
to know that a one-horse five-hand cultivator is frequently 
used in New York and other Eastern States to culti- 
vate checked corn diagonally; that is to say, the corn 
is cultivated in three directions. These say it can be 
kept much cleaner in this way. 

This careful cultivation may be contrasted with a little 
"nigger" and a mule, and a double shovel or cotton sweep, 
which is seen in other sections. 

CHARLES W. ELY. 

Appomattox Co., Va. 



ALFALFA GROWING. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

In a recent issue of the Southern Planter I noticed an 
article from our esteemed friend, Prof. W. F. Massey, 
on the behavior of certain fields of alfalfa in North 
Carolina. These fields, it may be remembered, were upon 
granite soils which had grown alfalfa luxuriantly for many 
years. No lime had ever been applied to these fields, so 
Professor Massey thinks. When one of the fields failed 
to yield profitably it was plowed and limed and resown 
to alfalfa, but instead of being helped by the liming, a 
complete failure was the result, whereupon Professor Mas- 
sey reads the lesson that liming of alfalfa may often 
be unnecessary, and in some instances positively injurious. 

I cannot call in question the accuracy of our friend's 
statements, or the closeness of his observation, yet it is 
astonishing to find such results so directly contrary to 
what we have observed in a close study of the alfalfa 
plant, running over many years, and carried on in almost 
every State in the Union, besides several foreign coun- 
tries. Frankly, I have no opinion as to the cause of the 
failure that Professor Massey records. It may have been 
due, of course, to the depletion of the soil in phosphorous, 
or potash, or to one of a hundred other causes that some- 
times make alfalfa a failure, but I cannot believe that 
the liming of the soil had any bad result. I would not 
burden the columns of the Flanter with this letter were 
it not for the fact that I fear that many of Professor 



Massey's loyal readers will hail with gladness his sug- 
gestion that it is very doubtful whether lime is a benefit 
in alfalfa culture. Let me here say that this is the only 
instance that has come to our observation where lime 
has not been a direct and almost an immediate benefit 
to alfalfa growing. Our office (we now sell seed and em- 
ploy several lady stenographers), is in constant receipt 
of letters relating experiences in growing alfalfa over 
many States, and several foreign countries, and thous- 
ands of these letters speak of the benefit that has heen 
derived from the use of lime, and it is very notable that 
our larger orders for alfalfa seed are from regions hav- 
ing large percentages of carbonate of lime already in the 
soil. 

Recently my brother Joseph visited a large plantation 
in Louisiana where he is adviser, and where alfalfa is 
growing as luxuriantly as any he ever saw in his life. 
In this particular soil an alluvial deposit from the Mis- 
sissippi river which has more than one per cent, of car- 
bonate of lime, is everywhere present. This would amount 
to more than 100 tons of carbonate of lime per acre in 
the top five feet of soil, and this is probably about the 
depth to which alfalfa roots reach. Although alfalfa is 
thriving so admirably upon this plantation, the manager 
having read of the benefits of lime, and having a carload 
of it on hand, decided to test the use of more lime, and 
thereupon proceeded to spread, I know not how much, but 
probably four or five tons per acre of air-slaked lime 
upon this field. No apparent results have followed this 
application, but Joseph states that where the lime was 
carelessly applied so that it lay two inches deep over 
the field in spots, the alfalfa came through it just as vig- 
orous and beautiful as elsewhere, which shows that even 
large and useless applications do no harm. 

Certainly if the teaching of the lime requirement of 
alfalfa led to neglect in applying potash, phosphorous or 
humus, or inoculation, the teaching would be mislead- 
ing, and perhaps mischievous, but while all these things 
are useful, and even necessary, yet we must be permitted 
to continue to insist that a good proportion of carbonate 
of lime in the soil is the very first and most pressingly 
needed requirement, and, in fact, we have abundant evi- 
dence that where soils are well drained and filled with 
lime they will grow alfalfa almost spontaneously, and keep 
it in perfect health and thrift, even though it may not 
make large yield. If one will add to this lime the other 
elements needed to make complete plant food, he will 
have beautiful alfalfa fields, beyond doubt, anywhere be- 
tween Key West and Quebec. 

In this connection, I wish to emphasize the importance 
of the profit accruing Irom liberal feeding of alfalfa fields. 
I have just returned from a walk over a sixty-acre mea- 
dow, sown last year, and to which we applied a liberal ap- 
plication of phosphorous, and which in years past had 
been well manured, so that the land is quite well stored 
with humus. This spring we again went over the field 
with two fertilizer distributors, one of them sowing a 
strip eight feet wide, and holding l^Ov pounds of fer- 
tilizer. With these machines we distributed about '300 
pounds per acre of high grade acid phosphate. It is 
to-day (April 14th) a beautiful sight to see. There is 
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and the plants so thick and lusty that they crowd each 
other, giving us promise of 250 tons of hay this year, and 
perhaps much more. This field, by the way, was almost 
an abandoned field about eight years ago, when we bought 
it, and its reclamation has been accomplished chiefly 
through the effect of the alfalfa grown upon other parts 
of the farm, fed to sheep and the manure put there. Now, 
the tables are turned, and this field will take up its 
task of sending out fertility to refresh other parts of the 
farm. 

I would not minimize the value of Professor Massey's 
work for the Southern farmer. Probably no other man 
has done so much good, and doubtless he has the most 
devoted following of any man living to-day. This very 
fact makes it the more dangerous when one might per- 
haps misunderstand his words, and draw from them a les- 
son so far from what we feel to be true, as this is on 
lime for alfalfa growing. 

WILLIS O. WING'. 

Mechanicsburg, O. 



AN OLD FARMER'S EXPERIENCES. 
Editor Southern Planter: 

If you will allow, and can make readable sense of a 
scattering load of an old farmer's thoughts and ideas, per- 
mit me a few words on some of the topics now under 
discussion. 

Alter reading your instructive editorial comment and 
advice, and the replies to the various questions put to 
you, your head must be level on farm work. Then your 
scientific professors of agriculture are all good in their 
intent, but many times their advice and methods are 
rather extravagant and high strung for the ordinary farm- 
ers. Horse sense and experience should never be lo"st 
sight of. Hold to these and get all the extras that are 
possible. 

I notice that there are quite a variety of opinions as to 
the best turning plow, much of which is fancy I think, 
and perhaps some from interested motives other than true 
merit. Almost any plow of which I have knowledge will 
do on sandy loose soil, but my experience and observa- 
tion is that the fellow holding the handles has lots to 
do with any plow's good qualities. Give me a live man 
or boy who takes a pride in doing his work well, and 
with this and the No. 40 Oliver chill for all soils and 
conditions, surpasses any plow I have ever tackled yet, 
and I have tried many. 

Grape Vines. 

I would like for "Mr. Newcomer," when he gets his 
grape vines planted to try myt plan of cultivating on a 
few vines. Mulch instead of plow or hoe; keep weeds and 
grass down with a blade. I have a few vines thirty years 
old, bearing every year healthy and well. Two good sized 
vineyards nearby were planted the same year that mine 
was, and continuously cultivated; not a sprig of grass 
arowed to grow, several times planted to peas and other 
crops. Both of these vineyards died out fifteen or twenty 
years ago, and grape growing was given up as no good 
by the owners. My idea is we should study nature and 
ass'st it all we can, and this is why I mulch instead of 
plow or hoe the roots to pieces, and bleed them to death. 
A few tobacco stalks around the base of the vine in win- 



ter, and rotted leaves and rich woods earth is all the 
working mine ever get, except pruning and training, and 
cutting out noxious weeds. 

Broom Straw. 

Our brother in Henrico speaks of broom straw land 
bringing corn after lying in this straw for several years. 
I don't think this (grass) or straw a sure test of poor 
land in Virginia by any means, for it will grow anywhere, 
furnish and sow its own seed, and never fail, wet or dry, 
to make a full crop. All it wants is a little time to whip 
out the best of our meadows. It is a curse to our Vir- 
Virginia freestone lands, and an eye-sore. I never try to 
turn it under after it matures, but put a match to it 
as soon as practical, and burn it off clean. The ashes 
may do some good, but don't think the dry straw turned 
under advisable. 

Corn Fertilizers. 

Hen manure and wood ashes mixed as a corn fertilizer, 
or for anything else alone, are no good, is my experience; 
one kills the other. Try it this way, under a good shelter, 
spread a few inches of rich woods earth, then a layer of 
hen manure; cover this with more earth, then your ashes 
and some salt, say, a peck of salt to every six bushels 
of the other ingredients. Keep this up until you' exhaust 
the hen manure and ashes. Just before wanting to use 
this fertilizer for corn or tobacco, shovel and fork it 
thoroughly together; pound and mash all lumps; if you 
wish, pass it through a coarse seive. It will beat any 
of your $20.00 and $25.00 per ton fertilizer, is my experi- 
ence, and it costs but little time or money. Use a light 
handful to the hill, or you may drill it if preferred. 

C. P. H. 

Bedford Co., Va. 



WHAT IS PLANT FOOD? 

Editor Southern Planter: 

Seeing so much about keeping our lands in a productive 
state, I will through your most valuable journal give 
my ideas. In what consists the productiveness of land, 
how best can we maintain it? In considering these sub- 
jects, there are several things so manifest that we will 
term them axioms. In the first place, whatever is grown 
on a piece of land represents so much of the producing 
power of the land. Another is that, nothing applied on 
our lands is lost, unless the soil itself is removed. I 
remember well that in slavery times when a piece of Vir- 
ginia land was put under cultivation, no plows or drags 
were used. The growth above ground was removed, a large 
percentage of it was burnt on the land, then with strong 
hoes the land was hilled up, in mid-winter, all the fine 
roots, etc., were left in the soil to rot, and in the latter 
part of May and first of June it was in fine fix, when 
it was chopped off and planted to tobacco, without any 
manure, always making the best tobacco. Tobacco suc- 
ceeded tobacco for five or six years, according to the 
original fertility of the soil. I have known seven crops 
grown on the same piece of land, the last one a good 
one. We had no commercial fertilizers then (so-called). 
We had Peruvian guano; which was close around $10'0 per 
ton, but it was strong, and not much used. This contin- 
uous cropping rapidly took away the producing power 
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light gray lands a barren white or sandy waste. But 
wherever a reasonable degree of restoring to the land 
plant forming material was followed, the land was kept 
in a fine producing state, much of it becoming richer 
every year. I know of one old gentleman, whose lots 
under this system became so rich he could not grow 
good tobacco on them, and had to crop them in wheat to 
reduce them some, and by the way, the wheat they grew 
then was fine, had, an oily appearance, and always weighed 
over sixty pounds to the bushel. I have a lot I am look- 
ing at as I write, which has been cropped continuously 
for more than thirty years, which produces over three 
times as much now as it did when I took it up, a piece 
of waste land, on account of its location, and the lay 
of the land. I plant it to tobacco, giving it a good coat 
of stable, or barn-yard manure, and apply 400 or 500 pounds 
of so-called commercial fertilizers (I am now using Ger- 
man clover on the same lot), following with wheat. Last 
year, the tobacco from this lot weighed a pound to three 
plants. It could have been made to weigh a pound to 
each plant, for I have had one plant to weigh eighteen 
ounces in the same field. These are no experiments, but 
just annual efforts to make a living on a Mecklenburg 
farm, by putting something and more back in place of 
what I take from the soil, in the shape of plant forming 
material. 

As to the second axiom some may not so readily agree; 
but when you think about it, it is equally apparent. Some 
years ago I was talking with a learned professor from 
West Virginia, and stated that the soil lost none of its 
fertility by leaching, he at once remarked that that was 
contrary to agricultural teachings. I said I knew it, 
'but asked him if he did not live in the mountainous sec- 
tion. He said he did. I asked him if the soil was the 
same from base to summit. He said it was, hence he 
had to agree to the proposition. I know when soil is 
washed away, the fertility is gone; but ordinarily, water 
leaching through the soil leaves all of its manuring prop- 
erties, and soon comes out sparkling and bright, fit for 
the beverage of a king. If this were not so this world 
would have been uninhabitable thousands of years ago, 
all of its fertility would have been leached out in the 
bottom of the sea, and we would be upon a barren waste, 
instead of this beautiful green earth, which becomes 
greener and richer the more this so-called leaching pro- 
cess goes on. Wherever the precipitation is greatest, 
the earth is the richest. No doubt everyone can recall 
some high point where this leaching has been going on 
for years with no diminishing of fertility. I have a knowl- 
in my low grounds, where fodder used to be stacked more 
than thirty years ago, all around it is poor land, but that 
spot is very rich, on account of decayed vegetable mat- 
ter, which was there for so long a time, with its continual 
reproduction of plant life, and its annual decay. A few 
years ago, if one asked what to put on a piece of land to 
make a certain crop, all agricultural journals would say 
so much phosphoric acid and ammonia and potash, and 
some of them do now; but on account of the overwhelm- 
ing testimony of successful farmers that those things are 
lot to be depended upon, it is agreed that humus must 
be restored to the soil, but the cry is a belated one, for 
our lands are becoming ruined by the reckless use of 



ammonia, phosphorous, potash, etc. There is practically 
no effort to save barnyard manure to replace the plant 
food taken from the land, hence our lands are becoming 
so poor some crops are abandoned. There are six or 
seven farms contiguous to mine, where wheat is not sown, 
upon which a few years ago, fine crops used to grow, 
ranging from sixteen to thirty bushels per acre. Now, 
they .say the land is too poor to bring wheat. One, espec- 
ially, which always made sixteen to eighteen bushels per 
acre, in the old man's time, who is now gone. The 
owner, a tobacco specialist, buys the so-called concen- 
trates, corn, etc. and feeds to his stock, pays very little 
attention to his barnyard, has very few loads of manure 
to haul out, which he drills under his tobacco. The 
same land makes only four or five bushels per acre, and 
so it goes where there is not a return to the land in bulk 
and weight of as much as was taken from it. I remember 
a good experiment noted in The Planter a year or so ago, 
when boxes with different kinds of soil were used and 
treated with phosphoric acid, ammonia and potash, the 
one containing check soil, with an abundance of the so- 
called plant food, made practically no growth, the ex- 
perimenter stating that under certain conditions plants 
would not grow when there was an abundance of well 
balanced plant food. He failed entirely of seeing the re- 
sult of the test. It plainly demonstrated that said in- 
gredients are not plant food at all, for no plant will fail 
to grow under favorable conditions when there is plenty 
of plant food available. Indeed, those three ingredients 
in a very small way, enter into plant fibre. A very promi- 
nent fertilizer manufacturer in your city puts no am- 
monia in some of his goods for tobacco. The farmer from 
Loudoun, I think it was, who used his barnyard manure 
was right. To build up your land you have got to put 
something on it. This is getting too long, so will close. 
[ don't wish it to be understood that I am opposed to 
using commercial fertilizers, for I use them every year, 
but the point is not to depend upon them to build up 
your land, for they only act as a stimulant to enable 
you to get what fertility is already in your land, and 
their use without supplying the actual plant food will 
quickly impoverish the richest land. Twenty years ago 
this was the theory held by guano manufacturers, but 
enthusiasts seeing the magical effects of these goods on 
plant production, soon dubbed them, well balanced plant 
foods, and, of course, the manufacturers quickly took the 
hint. I may at some future time notice Frof. Massey's 
fling at the Eastern Shore truckers and legumes. 

THOMAS A. ORGAIN. 
Mecklenburg Co., Va. 



THE PLOW QUESTION. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

I have read with a great deal of interest the articles 
in your paper on plows and plowing, a subject on which 
every farmer should be well informed, as we all know 
that a well plowed field is the first requisite for a good 
yield of any crop that is put in. The disc plow is a 
late innovation, and a great many farmers were carried 
away with it at the start, but after a short time awoke 
to the fact that it was not a general purpose plow, and 
many laid them in the fence corner. I have had consid- 



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erable experience with disc plows, and most of the farm- 
ers in our section (Middle Tennessee) have had the 
same trouble. Heavy draught and the corrugation of the 
bottom of the furrows are some of the complaints made 
against the disc, and the end or side draught causes 
friction on the bearings which soon wears them out. I 
have never used one of the reversible discs, although I 
think they would make an excellent hillside plow, but 
on level land, I am confident, we would have the same dif- 
ficulty as with the larger and heavier discs. I have no 
doubt the reversible has some excellent features, but 
think they can also be found in the level land plow. 

I believe that a plow on the model of the Vulcan and 
Oliver is the best all-round chilled plow that the farm- 
ers in our section can use. "Plow deep, and turn the 
land completely over," has always been my motto, as 
thereby you increase the depth of your soil, and it takes 
deep soil to stand the drought, and this will also take care 
of the water in the rainy season. Now, while the above 
chilled plows have their good qualities, they have their 
weak ones also. The chilled plow is expensive to a great 
many farmers, owing to its extreme liability to break. 
and it is the time lost that hurts the farmers when they 
break down. What we need is a stronger chilled plow, 
and from what I have seen of the work done by a new 
plow known as the Wm. J. Oliver Improved Chilled Plow, 
and manufactured in Knoxville, Tenn., by the Wm. J. 
Oliver Manufacturing Company, I am lead to believe that 
the manufacturers have supplied a long felt want with 
farmers, by giving them a plow that -will stand up under 
any strain put upon it, and turn everything under when 
it starts down the furrow. 

Now, my advice to all is to get a good strong chilled 
plow and plow deep. Plow a little deeper the next year. 
and subsoil every three or four years; put something 
back on your land, and, take my word for it, our de- 
scendants will have a better opportunity of making a 
living than we had to begin with. And, as we are only 
stewards of the Great Giver of all things, we should 
leave our farms more productive for coming generations, 
who will have more need for them than we did when 
we took up our stewardship. 

J. R. ROSSETTER. 
Clarksville, Tenn. 



Prof. Hopkins of the Illinois Experiment Station, says: 
At ordinary commercial prices, the nitrogen contained 
in the air above each acre is worth more than ten mil- 
lion dollars. By means ofl bacteria which live on their 
roots, clover and other legumes have power to draw on 
this unlimited supply of free nitrogen." 



EXPERIMENTS WITH COCKE'S PROLIFIC CORN. 

Mr. H. E. Wood writes us that in our report on his ex- 
periments with Cocke's Prolific Corn, reported in the last 
issue, several errors occurred, which he desires to have 
corrected. On Plot No. 2, every two rows made a barrel 
of corn, instead of each row making a barrel, as stated 
. Plot No. 3 contained only 56 square yards less "than an 
acre. The yield of 183 and a fraction bushels of corn per 
acre made by Mr. Wood some years ago, was made on 
his Rivanna river farm, in the same county, and not on 
the Bremo farm, as stated. 



CASH VALUE OF MANURE. 
Proffessor Voorhees says: 

'A farmer should realize that a well fed dairy cow 
■will, on the average, produce 12 3-4 tons of manure per 
year, and that this product will contain on the average 
117 pounds of nitrogen, 77 pounds of phosphoric acid, 89 
pounds of potash, enough, if all the constituents in it 
are used, to grow nearly 70 bushels of wheat with the 
accompanying straw. These have come from the farm 
somewhere; if they are not returned the power of the 
soil is lessened. 

"If the farmer wishes to return " these in the form of 
commercial fertilizers, he would have to pay out $30.00 
at present prices — 20 cents per pound for the nitrogen, and 
4 1-2 cents each for the phosphoric acid and potash." 

The real cash value of manure is not given proper con- 
sideration by most farmers. 



CROP YIELDS. 

We are often asked what is the best crop to grow, 
or what is the yield per acre of certain crops? There 
are averages galore. There are high markers and low 
markers in agriculture as in everything else. There 
are men who won't plow until it gets warm, who are 
invariably a little bit too late for the fair and get bot- 
tom prices in consequence. However, as no man has 
yet been able to secure the greatest possible yield of 
any acre of any crop, we give the following items gath- 
ered here and there on Long Island, showing what some 
men did in 1908. 

Asparagus. — 7,20'0 pounds yielded $8D0. This was "Pal- 
metto," which many years of careful test have shown 
runs thirty per cent, over other varieties. One grow- 
er's carefully kept books show a net return for over ten 
years' running above $550 per acre annually. 

Onions. — One man raised 1,108 bushels to the acre; 
another 930; still another Long Island raiser,, 600 bush- 
els to the acre, but on the self same acre, between the 
onions, he raised 1,300 bushels of carrots. 

Potatoes. — In spite of the drought, many men produced 
over 260 bushels to the acre, for which they received 
eighty and ninety cents a bushel. Cost twenty-three 
cents per bushel, net per acre, $161.20. The usual yield 
per acre is between 300' and 350 bushels. Another raiser, 
who chose early potatoes (instead of the usual late crop) 
produced 230 bushels, which were sold at from $3.00 to 
$3.50 per bushel. 

Cauliflower. — Late crops run close to $200 an acre, earl- 
ier crops raised by those who use crude forms of irri- 
gation, over $400 per acre. 

Cabbage.— Twenty tons to the acre, which is a low 
figure for this crop, sold for from $10.0'0 to $20.00 per 
ton, one grower netting over $300 per acre. 

Brussels Sprouts. — Number of plants of one grower 
to the acre, 5,800, cost of growing $30.00 per acre. Care- 
ful returns kept from a plot of 280 plants equalled 388 
quarts. While one quart to the plant is the usual thing 
expected, and disappointment infrequent indeed, we will 
take absolute figures obtained by one grower. 3,200' quarts 
which sold at from eight to thirty cents per quart. Re- 
turns figuring $640 gross, which left a net of $610. 



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Trucking, Garden and Orchard. 



WORK FOR THE MONTH. 

The genial weather of March and 'April caused fruit 
tiees to come forward very early with their bloom and 
the frosts we had on two days in the middle o f April 
have done serious injury in many sections. We have se- 
cured reports from the principa fruit growing sections 
as to the extent of this injury, which will be found in 
this issue. It is gratifying to know, however, from the 
latest reports received that this injury seems to have 
been over-estimated and that at any rate there is still 
every reason to expect a fair crop of apples of the win- 
ter varieties and at least a few peaches from the higher 
lands and of the late varieties The strawberry crop 
will be later than usual, as the earliest blooms were 
largely killed. The indications are for a fair yield from 
the later blooming. 



If our advice given in the last two issues has been fol- 
lowed, the land intended to be planted will be now in 
good condition, and as the danger of frost is past, full 
crops of all vegetables may now be sown or set out and 
this work should have immediate attention. The land 
should be freshened up by running, a cultivator through 
the rows before sowing the seed or setting out plants from 
the cold frame. Plant all the crops in rows wide enough 
apart to allow of horse cultivation. Where this is not 
done the crops are very apt not to receive that atten- 
tion which their need demands. If cultivation depends 
on the hoe, it will often, be neglected in the press of 
other work on the farm whilst there are few farmers who 
will not spare an hour a day once or twice a week to 
run through the crops with a horse cultivator and thus 
keep them growing. We wish we could persuade every 
farmer in the South to give that attention to a garden 
which its value to the comfort and welfare of the house- 
hold entitles it. If we could we should see a marvellous 
change. Quite recently we had a gentleman in the office 
who had been travelling through this and the adjoining 
Southern States and he said that one thing which had 
impressed him greatly was the absence of gardens on the 
farms and the consequent absence from the tables of 
tihe farmers of vegetables of any kind. There is no 
doubt great truth in this and it is a reflection on our 
people who could and should have vegetables on the 
table all the year round of almost every kind. We would 
strongly urge that this should be changed. Sow at once 
English peas, onions, spinach, carrots, beets and Irish 
potatoes and set out cabbages and then follow with corn, 
snaps, beans, lima beans, pole beans, squashes, cucum- 
bers, tomatoes, canteloupes, melons peppers and egg 
plant, and at the end of the month sweet potatoes may 
be set out. Successional crops of all these different vege- 
tables should be set out every week or ten days so as 
to carry on the supply right up to the winter months. 
Irish potatoes planted now will make good summer and 
early winter fall potatoes, but for winter use the sets 
should not be planted before July. 



The fall set cabbages should be kept growing by fre- 
quent cultivation. A top dressing of nitrate of soda ap- 
plied down each side of the rows will push them forward 
to heading and much increase the yield. 



The picking and shipping of the strawberry crop where 
it is grown for market will call for attention this month. 
See that you have boxes and crates ready and arrange- 
ments made with the commission merchant and freight 
agents for handling them. Do not wait until the last 
moment and then be disappointed that your fruit is 
not properly andled. Cool off the berries before crating 
and see that they are put up in a nice, attractive way, 
clean and well assorted. 



Tomato plants should be hardened of and ready for 
setting out by the 10th of the month, and may continue 
to be planted all through the month. A sandy, loamy 
soil is best for this crop. The rows should be set out 
three feet apart and the plants be set three feet apart in 
the raws. Where farm yard manure is available, put a 
good forkful in the row where each plant is to stand 
and supplement this with a fertilizer made up of 800 
pounds of acid phosphate, 300 pounds of muriate of pot- 
ash and TOO poundsof cotton seed meal, using this mix- 
ture at the rate of 4C0 or 500 pounds to the acre and then 
when the plants commence to grow apply a top dressing 
of nitrate of soda at the rate of 150 to 200 pounds to the 
acre applied in two dressings, being careful not to apply 
it on the plants themselves, but only around them. 



In preparing the rows for the canteloupes, melons and 
cucumbers, lay them off six feet apart for the canteloupes; 
eight feet apart for the melons, and four feet apart for 
the cucumbers, and plant the seeds in the rows at the 
same distances apart. Put several seeds in each hill and 
after they have made the second leaves, thin out to one 
or two plants. Put a forkful of manure in each row at 
the place where the seeds are to be set and spread a 
handful of rich fertilizer on this and mix with the ma- 
nure and soil and then plant the seeds. Keep well cul- 
tivated until the vines begin to run. D|ust the young 
plants with tobacco dust or with a little lime in which 
a few drops of carbolic acid or kerosene has been mixed 
to keep off the bugs. Plow the soil to the hills after the 
vines begin to run and thus place them on a bed to 
keep them well drained. Cultivate until the vines are 
in the way, but do not disturb the vines to do this. 



Sweet potatoes should be set out at the end of the 
month or in the beginning of June. A light, sandy loam 
is the best soil for this crop. Do not make It over-rich, 
or they will run too much to vine. A good fertilizer for 
the crop may be made by mixing 300 pounds of cotton 
seed meal, 100 pounds of acid phosphate and 100 pounds 
of muriate of potash and applying this quantity per acre. 



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FUNGUS DISEASES OF THE IRISH, OR ROUND 
POTATO. 

The potato, solanum tuberosum, one of the most Im- 
portant economic vegetables, was introduced into Europe 
from South America about the middle of the seventeenth 
century. Its value as a food and the comparative cheap 
ness of its production have caused it to be widely culti 
vated in America, which country stands fifth in the num 
of bushels raised per year. However, many millions of 
bushels are imported annually from Germany. This is 
partly owing to the fact that our farmers are able to 
raise other and more lucrative crops, and partly to the 
diseases and insect pests which sometimes render potato 
growing a precarious venture. 

The chief fungus enemies which cause such ravages 
among potatoes in this country are: the blight, potato 
rot, scab, bacterial disease, rust and leaf curl. 
Early Blight (Alternaria solanum). 

As its name indicates, the Early, or Leaf blight, is con- 
fined to the stems and leaves of the potato. It is no 
ticed on the vines early, at about the time the tubers 
begin to form, although if, for any reason, growth has 
been retarded, it will appear earlier. 

Its first appearance is on the leaves, on which it forms 
grayish-brown spots, which become brittle and hard. These 
spots increase in size, and in from three weeks to a 
month all the leaves of an infected plant will have 
withered. The stems remain green for a slightly longer 
period, but finally die: From the first appearance of the 
disease the fungus takes all nourishment from the tubers, 
and this causes a complete failure of the crop. 

The best method of combatting this disease is to spray 
with Bordeaux mixture (see formula for mixing at the 
end of this article) from a fine nozzle. The first appli- 
cation should be made very early, and it is best to dilute 
the spray somewhat, in order not to injure the delicate 
young leaves. 

Potato Rot (Phytophthora infestans). 

Phytophthora infestans, late blight, rot, or simply po- 
tato disease, as it is called, is probably the most destruct- 
ive of all potato diseases. It originated in this country, 
it is thought, and is now prevalent throughout the "United 
States and Europe. 

Its spread is fearfully rapid, and its appearance among 
potatoes very sudden, which qualities add greatly to its 
destructive power. It affects the leaves, stems and tub- 
ers, although its first indications are small brown patches 
on the leaves, which curl, decay and emit a character- 
istic disagreeable odor. Examined with a glass, these 
brown spots will be seen to be ramified with delicate 
white strands of mycelium, which emerge through the 
stomata in the form of numerous straight-stemmed ooni- 
diophores. These bear single-celled, ovata, colorless coni 
dia, or summer spores, which are dispersed by wind, rain 
and other means, and spread the disease rapidly from 
plant to plant. The conidia, falling upon a damp surface, 
germinate and produce several zoospores, which have a 
slight motile power. These, in turn, germinate and send 
out a slender stem, which pierces the host and forms a 
new mycelium. The mycelium will pass from the leaf, 
down the stem and into the tuber, thus affecting both. 

The diseased potatoes have depressed, dark colored spots 



on the exterior, and inside brownish rotten streaks will 
be noticed. 

The mycelium lives through the winter in the tuber, 
and for this reason no diseased potato should be left 
in the soil or stored; as in the latter case, the rot read- 
ily passes from one to another. 

Bordeaux mixture can be used to good advantage in 
ohecking the disease in the summer. Diseased tubers 
should never be used for seed, and care taken in not 
storing, but burning affected potatoes will hinder the 
ravages of the Rot to a great extent. Some varieties of 
the potato are almost immune to this disease. 
Potato Scab (Oospora Scabies). 

The next most important potato disease is the scab, 
(Oospora Scabies). This is a very widespread fungus in 
soils used for potato growing, and forms the familiar 
rough, hard patches on the tuber. 

It affects the tuber only, and is very hard both to de- 
tect and to combat, on account of its living beneath the 
ground. When the affected tuber is dug up, a very deli- 
cate white mold is sometimes evident on the rough scab. 
This, however, soon disappears when exposed to the air. 

As the disease is carried by means of affected seed or 
scabby potatoes left in the soil, care should be taken 
to use only perfectly healthy seed, or to thoroughly ster- 
ilize it before planting. 

Corrosive sublimate Is probably the best sterilizing 
agent for this purpose, although its dangerous properties 
give formalin the advantage over it. Formalin is most 
excellent, and seed from tubers which have been immersed 
for two hours in a solution of one .pint formalin to fif- 
teen gallons of water may be planted with impunity. For- 
malin, or formaldehyde, is comparatively inexpensive, and 
may be obtained from any drug store. 

Brown Rot (Bacillus solancearum). 

The so-called Brown Rot, a disease caused by bacteria, 
and which affects also the tomato and the egg plant, is 
very prevalent among potatoes in the South. 

The foliage of an infected plant suddenly withers and 
shrivels, when infected with this disease. The tubers 
become affected through the stem, and their tissues turn 
black and decay rapidly. 

Insects carry the Brown Rot to a considerable ex- 
tent, and should, therefore, he held in check as much as 
possible when a field is seen to be affected. Careful 
burning of all dead plants will greatly retard the spread 
of this disease. As a last resort, crop rotation will gen- 
erally kill out the Brown Rot. 

Potato Leaf Curl (Macrosporium solani). 

The Leaf Curl is about the only other potato disea e 
of much economic importance to farmers. 

It affects the plants, usually close to the ground in the 
first stages, gradually creeping up to the leaves. These 
soon begin to curl, and after a short time the whole plant 
withers and collapses. Shortly after infection, the coni- 
dia, or seed-like bodies of the fungus appear on the leaver 
and stem in blackish, velvety patches. They are large, 
olive colored and many celled. 

The disease producing fungus will persist on fragments 
of leaves or stems, hence, all "tops" should be collected 
and burned. This, together with thorough spraying with 



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Bordeaux, begun early, will prevent the disease from do- 
ing great damage. 

*The applications of Bordeaux mixture, recommended 
In the case of the Late Blight, are also efficacious in the 
case of the Leaf Curl. 

Fungous Diseases of the Tomato. 

The tomato, for centuries looked upon as a deadly poi- 
sonous fruit, was first used as an article of food in the 
nineteenth century, and its succulent and healthful quali- 
ties have brought it to be one of the most highly prized 
articles of food. 

Its cultivation in America is attended by a large num- 
ber of parasitical moulds and rots, from the seedling 
stage up to the storing of the picked fruit. In respect 
to the diseases which prey upon it, the tomato resembles 
the potato, for many diseases affecting the tuber find a 
ready host in the tomato. This is true of the Macrospor- 
ium and Phytophthora, both of which are. veritable 
scourges of the potato as well as the tomato. 

Tomato Leaf Rust (Cladosporium fulvum). 

This is quite an important disease. It is chiefly found 
upon the young leaves and stems, although at times it will 
oause a rust upon the young fruit. It appears as small 
brown spots on the leaves, which increase in size until 
the whole leaf becomes affected. The under surface of 
the affected leaf is covered with rusty brown patches, 
caused by closely packed conidiophores bearing two-celled 
conidia at their tips. The stem of a diseased plant some- 
times shows blackish striped leaves, which are at- 
tacked by the Rust, wither and die. 

When sprayed early with a dilute solution of potas- 
sium sulphide or Bordeaux mixture, the disease can be 
checked. The spraying should be renewed at short in- 
tervals, and diseased plants should be removed to pre- 
vent an epidemic. 

Damping Off (Pythium de baryanum) 

Tho Damping Off fungus, so destructive to all seedlings, 
is particularly active on those of the tomato. The fungus 
attacks the seedling at the point where it comes from 
the ground, and causes the decay of the tissues at this 
point, so that the plant withers and falls over. A delicate 
white mould is observed at this point, which is caused 
by the mycelium of the fungus, and upon this mycelium 
grow numerous one-celled, spherical seed bodies. These 
are conidia and readily germinate under damp conditions. 
A resting spore is also produced, which remains dormant 
in the ground for a period before germination. 

Although the Damping-Off is easily caught and spread, 
it is almost as easily stamped out. Dry, clean, well 
drained beds, with, plenty of sunlight, is a sure cure. 
Wilt, or Sleeping Disease of Tomato (Fusarium 
lycopersici). 

This is sometimes called the Summer Blight of Toma- 
toes. It attacks the vines after they have attained a 
fair growth, causes a gradual blackening of the leaves 
and wilting of the stem at the base,, so that the plant 
finally collapses and dies. 

The roots are affected also, some of the larger laterals 
showing badly decayed ends. In fact, the fungus gains 
an entrance through the roots of the plant. It creeps 
up the stem, clogging the water channels and causing 
the characteristic wilting. 



A whitish mould appears on the stems after the wilt- 
ing has begun. This consists of conidiophores, bearing 
whorled branches of conidia, which fall to the ground 
and spread the disease. Another type of spore is pro- 
duced, having the shape of a spindle, which germinate* 
very quickly, and aids materially in the spread of the 
disease. 

The infected roots produce a third form of spore, which 
is a resting stage of the fungus. 

Fungicides are of no value in combatting this disease, 
but by removing at once the affected plant, mixing quick- 
lime with the soil, and a careful selection of healthy seed, 
the disease can be held in check. Crop rotation will 
prove efficacious also. 

Tomato Black Rot (Macrosporium tomato). 

This is a very prevalent rot of the tomato, and attacks 
the fruit most frequently. It is a wound parasite, the 
spores readily lodging and germinating in the style, the 
point of insertion of the stem or any other crack or wound 
in the plant or fruit. 

When infected, a dark colored mycelium penetrates the 
tissue, forming a rotten spot within the tomato, and in 
consequence of the rotting of the tissues a sunken region 
appears on the surface. Later on, blackish olive colored 
spores are produced on these spots. The spores are many 
celled, and germinate quickly under damp conditions. 

Thorough spraying with potassium sulphide at frequent 
intervals will control the disease. All infected parts 
should be cut off and burned. Fresh stable manure is 
said to be very harmful in that it aids the fungus to 
spread. 

Bacterial Diseases of Tomato (Bacillus solancearum). 

This disease is due to the same bacteria which cause 
the wilting of potato vines. The bacteria enter through 
the leaves, penetrate the stems and fruit, causing decay 
of the woody fibres, and producing the yellowish drops 
which will ooze out from a cut <.n an infected plant. 

The tomatoes become brownish or blackish and rotten. 

Rotation of crops, removal of infected plants and keep- 
ing insects in check seem to be the only method for con- 
trolling this disease. 

The Point Rot. . 

The well known Point Rot, which produces a hard, 
black mass in the interior of the fruit, is due to an un- 
known cause. In some years the loss from this disease 
equals that from all other diseases combined. As yet 
no satisfactory treatment has been discovered, although 
certain varieties seem to be less susceptible than others. 
Fungicides. 

I have made reference to Bordeaux mixture and potas- 
sium sulphide solution. These are very efficient fungi- 
cides, and can be prepared as follows: 
Bordeaux Mixture. 
(5-5-50.) 

Bluestone 5 lbs. 

Quicklime 5 lbs. 

Water 50 gals. 

Dissolve the bluestone and slake the lime in seperate 
barrels. Dilute the bluestone with half or more of the 
water, then strain in the lime mixed with the remainder 
of the water. 



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Potassium Sulphide. 

Water 2 1-2 gal 3. 

Potassium Sulphide 1 oz. 

Dissolve the potassium sulphide in a quart of hot water, 
and make up the remainder of the 2 1-2 gallons with cold 
water. C. T. ADAMS. 

Blacksburg, Va. 



THE CONDITION OF THE TRUCK CROPS IN 
TIDEWATER VIRGINIA. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

The spinach growers are busy harvesting the remnant 
of the crop. Those who had a large acreage of late 
spinach were very fortunate indeed. The weather con- 
ditions during the month of March were very favorable 
to its development. Recent shipments have sold for $1.50 
to $2.50 per barrel. Practically all of it will be shipped 
by the 25th of April. 

Cabbage is making a fairly satisfactory growth. The 
absence of rain during the early part of April checked 
it in some localities. The early planted cabbage con- 
tinues to shoot seed stalks, but what was planted later 
in the season is developing very satisfactorily. Some 
of the early growers will have cut a small amount by 
the 20th of April. The outlook for peas is promising. 
A few cucumbers were planted on the 6th, and some 
sooner. The outlook for strawberries was exceptionally 
good prior to the recent frosts. It is difficult to esti- 
mate the amount of damage caused by the cold weather. 
but it is variously placed at from ten to twenty-five 
per cent. The scarcity of seed beans will tend to re- 
duce the quantity planted. Irish potato growers are suf- 
fering a heavy loss caused by the tubers rotting in the 
ground. This loss is estimated from ten per cent, in 
some instances, to seventy-five per cent, in others. It 
is impossible to arrive at an accurate estimate at this 
writing. The loss is the heaviest in localities where seed 
from the North was used. 

T. C. JOHNSON. 

Vairginia Truck Expt. Statior Norfolk, Va. 

In a later letter, Professor Johnson says, "I really do 
not think the recent frosts did as much damage as some 
of the growers thought." 



TO VIRGINIA FARMERS. 

I take this means of inviting you to become a mem- 
ber of the Virginia State Horticultural Society. 

There is no other State in the Union that has as many 
natural advantages in growing horticultural products as 
Virginia, and the only reason that Virginia is not classed 
as the greatest fruit producing State, and Virginia fruit 
growers known to be the most prosperous of all others 
is wholly the fault of ourselves. 

Within the past few years fruit growers in certain 
sections of some of the fruit growing States have made 
a science of growing and marketing fruit, and so great 
has been their success that other States have followed 
their example. 

For lack of scientific management and co-operation in 
growing and marketing fruit. Virginia does not receive 
the credit that is due her. nor do our fruit growers reap 
the reward that would otherwise be theirs. 



Realizing the necessity for concentrated action, the 
Virginia State Horticultural Society has determined to 
enter upon a vigorous campaign for memberships, and 
then by distributing full and complete instructions to 
members on the subjects of cultivation, fertilizing, prun- 
ing, spraying, packing and marketing, we hope to place 
Virginia in the front rank as a fruit-producing State, 
and enable the fruit growers to receive prices that other 
scientific fruit producers obtain. 

Our instructions on cultivation, fertilization and prun- 
ing are written so they are easily understood by ajl. 

Our Instructions on spraying tell the different mater- 
ials to use, how to mix and when to apply for San Jose 
scale, apple scab, codling moth, bitter rot, and other 
insect pests and fungus diseases. 

Our instructions on packing are very complete and 
practical, and contain specifications for classing as to 
size, color and quality for the several different grades. 
This will secure a uniform grade for Virginia fruit, and 
if followed by growers, will result in incalculable ben- 
efit. 

Our instructions on marketing treat of the advantage 
of co-operation in selling, and give information as how 
to proceed to organize. 

Before the packing season arrives the Society mails 
to all its members a forecast of the probable price of 
apples based on the condition of the apple crop through- 
out the entire country. In the past this forecast has 
been very accurate, and has saved many dollars for our 
members. 

Each member receives a copy of the Annual Report, 
which contains a complete report of the proceedings of 
the annual meeting, including addresses on many sub- 
jects, questions and answers, lists of premiums awarded, 
and a statement of the financial condition of the society. 
So great has been the good accomplished that the State 
Legislature has contributed $2,500.00 to the support of 
the Society, and this sum, together with the amount 
received as annual dues, is expended for the betterment 
of the horticultural interests of Virginia. 

We are striving to secure a large membership, and 
hope to receive sufficient aid from the State to enable 
us to send competent men into neighborhoods to instruct 
growers how to plant, prune, spray and cultivate their 
orchards properly; and if we can accomplish this end, 
fruit growing will become the most profitable industry 
in the State. 

The annual membership dues are one dollar, and each 
member will receive, free of cost, a copy of the annual 
report, all our pamphlets of instructions, our forecast 
of prices, and all other literature issued by the Society. 

On mailing to me one dollar, a certificate of member- 
ship will be mailed you, and your name entered on our 
list of members, and you will be entitled to all the rights, 
privileges and benefits of the Society. 

WALTER WHATELY Secy. 

Crozet, Va. 



DAMAGE DONE TO FRUIT AND TRUCK CROPS 
BY THE FROSTS. 

We addressed a letter to a number of the principal 
fruit growers, and also to the gentlemen in charge of 



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the horticultural interests of the State, askiug their esti- 
mate of the damage done to the crops by the late frosts. 
We have received the following replies up to the time 
of going to press. From these it will be seen that 
whilst serious damage has been done in most sections, 
yet that there is still a probability of a fair yield of win- 
ter apples, and some peaches. The damage done to the 
peach crop in the more Southern States is very serious, 
though we are glad to notice thajt in parts of Georgia 
there is still a prospect for a moderate crop: 



The late winter and spring months have been very 
unfavorable for the prospect of a good fruit crop. The 
warm days we had in February unduly swelled the buds, 
and later cold snaps in March and April found them in 
such an advanced condition as to be very susceptible 
to injury. The two recent freezes in April have caused 
a great amount of damage. So far as I can estimate 
from reports received, the peach crop is practically lost, 
still some favored localities say they still have live fruit 
buds, but I think there is no doubt but that the large 
majority of the crop is lost. 

Cherries may be placed under same condition. Plums 
appear to be all destroyed, with the exception of "Wild 
Goose," and Damson. Pears are mostly, if not entirely 
killed. 

Apples appear from reports to have suffered injury 
-varying in extent in different localities. Here in Albe- 
-marle county the "York Imperial" and "Ben Davis" seem 
■to have suffered most of the Standard Commercial varie- 
ties, reports indicating that they are about all killed. 
Pippins are reported as being damaged with a very 
"wide 1 range as to extent thereof. Some orcbardists here 
= >in Albemarle say they have as fine a prospect for a 
crop as ever in their experience, there being such a full 
bloom that those killed will not be noticed. Other men 
lower down say their pippins are badly damaged, and 
in some of the lower orchards I am told a living bud 
has not been found. 

Winesaps do not appear to be seriously damaged, indi- 
cations are that there will be a good crop of them. 

"Spitzenburg" is reported as not being damaged at all, 
and thus shows itself as being a hardy tree. From all 
experiments with this variety so far it seems as though 
it will be a satisfactory money maker to plant here much 
more largely. "Pilot" also is uninjured. Summer apples 
are badly damaged. 

I have given you reports of conditions as far as they 
can be estimated at the present time. But it must be 
remembered that no fruit, not even stone fruits, have 
"set" yet, and no reliable estimate can be made until 
the crop has advanced to that stage. Next month is 
the earliest date when a reliable estimate can be made. 
I have observed hardly a year passes but that there 
is a spring freeze when first reports are far worse than 
is really the case. And it is quite possible that more 
fruit may appear in May than is now thought. There 
seems to be no doubt but that there will be a crop of 
apples. 

Only the earlier blooming strawberries have been killed 



in the Mountain Fruit Belt, which will merely have the 
effect of retarding the ripening of berries a few days. 
WALTER WHATELY, Secy, and Treas., 

Virginia State Horticultural Society. 



Since writing the foregoing, I have received numerous 
reports from different sections, and they all indicate that 
since bloom came out on the apples that there is not 
much injury apparent — nothing like so much as previous- 
ly reported. Mr. Norman, the Manager of the Miller 
School orchards, who a week ago was very down-hearted 
at the prospect, says: "I find the pippin apples improv- 
ing in prospects right much and the fruit in my Coves- 
ville orchard less injured than I feared. 

W. WHATELY. 



Yours received, and I herewith hand you report on 
fruit injury: 

Peaches. — Salway and Bilyeu peaches on mountain five 
hundred feet above valley level, commercially uninjured. 
Elberta, Mamie Ross, Greensboro, etc., on ridge one hun- 
dred and fifty feet above valley level, commercially de- 
stroyed. 

Pears. — On ridge one hundred and fifty above valley 
pistils killed on Keiffer and LaConte, but, apparently, 
fertilization had taken place, as they continue to grow 
and promise a full crop. 

Cherries. — One hundred and fifty feet above valley, 
Tartarian and Ey La Mamie, commercially killed; some 
other varieties fair crop indicated. Quinces in valley 
commercially destroyed. Plums one hundred and fifty 
feet above valley, killed. Apples varying from serious 
injury to a few early blooming varieties situated in low 
spots to no injury as elevation is gained. The lead- 
ing varieties of Winesap, York Imperial, Albemarle Pip- 
pin and Ben D|avis, even where injured at all, have live 
buds left in practically every cluster, and, if these set, 
no appreciable difference will be made in the final crop. 
GEO. E. MURRELL, Late President, 

Bedford Co., Va. Virginia Horticultural Society. 



I have your favor of the 14th, and, in reply, will state 
that I have not been able to make personal examina- 
tion of the orchard's in many sections of the State since 
the cold weather of April 10th and 11th. I did have 
an opportunity to make personal examination in Loudoun 
and adjoining counties at that time. 

You, no doubt, are familiar with the fact that the 
Blue Ridge is not so high at this point as further South, 
and that the surrounding country shares this lack of 
elevation. However, the matter of elevation is a rela- 
tive one, and even at this point, where the elevation 
varies from four hundred and fifty to about seven hun- 
dred and fifty feet above sea level, the fruit was in- 
jured far more on the lower than on the higher eleva- 
tions. 

Peaches, pears, cherries and plums, except Wild Goose 
and others of that type, were killed on the lower land. 
I also examined apple buds on the lower elevations, where 
from fifty to seventy-five per cent, of the fruit buds were 
killed. 

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many instances, and the apple had not begun to show 
red, but neither appeared to be able to withstand the 
severe cold. 

On the more elevated spots less damage was done. 
In many cases peaches were almost uninjured, while 
apples did not appear to be injured at all — certainly 
very slightly. This was the case especially on the West- 
ern slope of Cotocton Mountain, a ridge of land extend- 
ing in a northerly and southerly direction across 
Loudoun county, which is well suited to fruit growing, 
and also to general farming. 

We have had reports on peaches from sections of 
Warren and Fauquier counties also. Buds cut on the 
15th and sent to this office from trees that were sprayed 
with the lime-sulphur preparation during March, show 
considerable injury from the cold, from twenty-five to 
seventy-five per cent, of the buds being dead. Heath, 
Smock and Stump were injured more than the other 
varieties examined. Not more than twenty-five per cent. 
of the bloom on Elberta, Bilyeu Comet, Carmen and Sal- 
way showed injury. While considerable of the fruit will 
drop, no doubt there will be enough left for at least 
seventy-five per cent, of a crop of the varieties least 
injured. 

The above mentioned buds were taken from orchards 
elevated from one thousand to one thousand eight hun- 
dred feet above sea level, which no doubt accounts for 
the small amount of injury. The bloom came out a few 
days later at these points, hence was not quite so far 
advanced when the freeze occurred, and the freezing was 
not quite so severe. The coating of lime sulphur no 
doubt also helped to retard the opening of the buds. 

Reports from other points in the county not so ele- 
vated indicate that the injury was far more severe. 

Reports from Fairfax county indicate the injury to be 
worse than mentioned above for Loudoun and Warren. 

A correspondent from Greensville county states that 
apples, pears, peaches and plums are killed. 

At Blacksburg a temperature of seventeen degrees be- 
low the freezing point was experienced, and practically 
all stone fruits, except Wild Goose plums and others 
of similar type, were killed. 

Pears were also practically all killed. 

A few varieties of apples are injured, but the main 
commercial varieties I have examined appear to be in 
good condition, little damage having been done by the 
cold. J. L. PHILLIPS, 

State Entomologist. 



I have your letter of the 14th, and, in reply, will state 
that the recent cold snap did a great deal of damage to 
the fruit crop in this section of the State. Practically 
all peaches, plums and cherries were destroyed outright 
by the freeze. I do not think that the pear and apple 
crop are injured at all and, at the present time, we 
have an excellent outlook for a good crop of these and 
other later blooming fruits. H. L. PRICE, 

Experiment Station, Blacksburg, Va. Horticulturist. 



the strawberries in the vicinity of Richmond, and we 
estimate that the crop will be cut short as well as de- 
layed. We have received practically no reports concern- 
ing damages over the State, except from the vicinity 
of Buckingham and adjoining counties. From the re- 
ports received from that section, it is evident that con- 
siderable damage has been done, especially to the peach- 
es, plums and pears. In Albemarle county peaches, 
plums and pears have suffered and some varieties of 
apples. W. T. HOOD & CO. 

Richmond, Va. 



Your letter of the 14th instant addressed to our Mr. 
W. T. Hood duly received and noted. In reply, we beg 
to state that the late freezes have affected very much 



Yours of April 14th received, and in reply you will 
find clipping from one of our county papers that I think 
expresses the situation very well. 

I am convinced that the early blooming apples have 
been damaged a great deal, and some orchards are worse 
than others. Our peaches are all killed. Pears and 
plums have suffered a great deal, but we hope a few are 
left. 

Now, as to the winter variety of apples, and the com- 
mercial orchards in our section, I am inclined to believe 
that there will be some fruit yet of such apples as York 
Imperial, Ben Davis, Winesap and a few other varieties. 
I can tell a little better later and will write you the 
facts. W. A. McCOMB, Secretary, 

Augusta Co. Fruit Growers' Assn. 

From the Augusta county paper referred to: It is 
feared that crops in the valley have been injured to a 
large extent during the past week and fruit growers 
and farmers are much concerned about the situation. 

Other parts of the State are in the same fix and indi- 
cations are that losses to fruit and vegetables from the 
cold weather will be much heavier than was at first 
supposed. It is estimated that in this section of Vir- 
ginia, comprising five or six counties, the loss to fruit 
growers, owing to the freeze of Saturday night and the 
night before, will amount to no less than a million dol- 
lars. 

The loss to Roanoke and Botetourt counties will be at 
least $100,000 each. Information from every section is 
to the effect that pear, peaches and cherries have been 
totally destroyed, and it is believed' that all apples are 
killed. 

Luray, Va., April 12th. — All early fruits are reported 
to have been killed by the severe weather throughout the 
Shenandoah Valley Saturday night. Much of it in the 
lowlands- was out in full blossom, and if any of it es- 
caped the very dry atmosphere was the cause. Orchard- 
ists are of the opinion that the later and hardier varie- 
ties were uninjured. 

Harrisonburg, April 12th. — From Rockingham county, 
the valley as well as other portions of the country come 
most discouraging reports in regard to the destruction 
of the fruit crop by the cold weather of the last few 
days. L. J. Heatwole, the weather observer, telephoned 
the Daily News last night that the thermometer on Sat- 
urday night went down to thirteen above zero, which, in 
other words, is nineteen below freezing point. Great 
damage has been done to the early fruits and the loss 
in Virginia is estimated at half a million dollars. 



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In the valley the peaches, pears, plums and cherries 
are reported to be dead. The apple crop alone seems to 
have escaped. 



Your letter asking me to estimate the damage done 
to fruit in the State by the late freeze has been received. 
I am unable to anything like approximate it. All the 
small fruit is killed, and apples have been very materi- 
ally damaged in this section. The loss will be very 
great. W. W. SPROUL. 

Augusta Co., Va. — 

In reply to your favor of recent date would say on 
investigation in this section we find damage to the small 
fruits as follows: Peaches, pears, plums and cherries 
are practically all killed. The pippin apple crop is dam- 
aged at least one-half; the Winesaps not so bad, but it 
is too early yet to tell whether they will set or not. 

Albemarle Co., Va. M. L. McCUE. 



Your favor requesting report from me as to damage 
to fruit crop by recent frosts is before me. A few days 
ago I reported to News Leader that apples were unhurt 
in this section; pears partially injured, and cherries pret- 
ty much all destroyed. A revision of that report simply 
confirms it, except to say cherries have opened up anew 
and from present indications there will be much more 
than a half crop; plenty of pears, plums and a full crop 
of apples. On the lower levels there will be few peaches, 
but in the high attitudes a full crop may be expected from 
present indications. The magnificent orchard of Hon. Geo. 
E. Murrell, at Fontella, Bedford county, escaped unscathed, 
and the reports from Patrick county indicate a bountiful 
crop. I will visit that county next week and if I find 
it otherwise will report to you. Some calamity howlers 
say much injury is done, but these same pessimists forget 
that it is necessary for five-sixths of the blooms to be de- 
stroyed in some way or the trees would be too full of 
fruit to make the most in bushels or quality. 

April 11th was the coldest morning I ever knew at this 
point, and I couldn't find a sweet cherry alive the next 
day, but since the blooms have all expanded I notice 
plenty of fresh green pistils to make a fair crop. So 
far, Southwest Virginia is all right in the fruit proposition. 

HENRY C. WYSOR. 



to find the same fraud, but rather worse. 1 should say 
at least twenty-five per cent, was Canada field peas, a 
cheaper article than the cowpea and absolutely of no 
value to us here. As a matter of fact, the mixed peas 
sold thus really cost far more per bushel than advertised, 
because the farmer is only buying about three-fourths 
of a bushel of cowpeas and soja beans and paying for a 
bushel. I noticed too that they were no longer quoted 
as mixed cowpeas, but mixed peas. Now, to prevent 
other farmers being caught as I and plenty more have 
been, I write this to draw attention to the trick. 

This year I wanted some cowpeas and asked a seeds- 
man what he had. He told me "mixed." I declined 
them; he hastened to tell me they were all cowpeas 
with no Canada peas in them, and, on inspection, I found 
they were as represented, and have bought them. I hope 
this warning will benefit some of your readers. I do not 
mention the names of the seedsmen who have been sell- 
ing the Canada peas in their, mixtures, but, of course, 
I know who sold me mine, and my neighbors have no- 
ticed the samei thing. I believe it will be a long time 
before any of us buy cowpeas from those oeedsmen again. 
Albemarle Co., Va. WALTER WHATELY. 

We are glad to publish this warning and hope its ef- 
fect may be to put a stop to the fraud thus perpetrated 
on the farmer. Canada peas should not be sown later in 
the South than February. Put in at that time, they make 
an excellent grazing crop for hogs in May, or can be 
cut for hay or green feed. As soon as the hot weather 
sets in they are affected with mildew and die down. 
They can be followed by cowpeas or a .corn crop, but 
to mix them with cowpeas to plant at the time when 
cowpeas should be planted is a fraud on the farmer, as 
they cannot possibly make a crop. Mixed cowpeas will 
almost always make a heavier improving crop than any 
single variety. — Ed. 



"MIXED PEAS." 

Some years ago I tried some of the mixed cowpeas 
advertised in a Virginia seedsman's catalogue and was 
more than pleased with the result. I found that if I 
wanted plenty of vine I certainly got it; I had black 
cowpeas and another variety planted the same year, but 
neither did as well as these mixed ones. 

Subsequently, I ordered some more. I did not exam- 
ine them until I began planting and then found a large 
proportion was nothing else than Canada field peas that 
all of us know are of no value in Virginia. Sure enough 
the Canada pea came up and as soon as the hot dry 
weather struck it it promptly died, leaving only a pooi 
stand of cowpeas. I thought thi mixing might be eithei 
accidental or that only the seedsman this lot came from 
had resorted to this method, and the following year 
bought mixed peas again from another seedsman only 



A NEW CLOVER CROP. 

A new forage crop, the Clover Moellier, is described in 
the "Journal of the Victorian Department of Agriculture." 
ilt grows four or five feet in height, and yields a great 
quantity of succulent foliage, which may be cut off five 
times in a season, or, as the stems are fleshy, the whole 
plants may be chaffed for animals. All kinds of stock 
eat it eagerly, and it is said to be highly nutritious. It 
withstands drouth and frost alike. In a trial of the plant 
carried out by the official dairy supervisor, the weight of 
the first cutting of leaves was estimated at four tons per 
acre. The labor of cutting off the leaves and carrying 
them off the cropped land must be a great objection, ex- 
cept, perhaps, to occupiers of small holdings. — London 
Live Stock Journal. 



The early potato crop promises to be simply immense. 
The area planted in Eastern North Carolina, at Norfolk, 
and on the Eastern Shore is wonderfully large, and any 
speculation as to the profitable sale of the crop is prema- 
ture. Since there are no old potatoes held over to amount 
to anything, it may be that even the enormous planting 
this spring will prove profitable, but, seeing the vast po- 
tato fields at Norfolk and on the Eastern Shore, one can- 
not help wondering what the result will be. 



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Live Stock and Dairy. 



DAIRYING !N VIRGINIA. 

In connection with the awakened interest in dairying 
in the State which we are delighted to notice and have 
done what we could to promote, we are moved to say a 
word of warning to the farmers, especially of the Mid- 
dle, Southside and Eastern sections. The wide awake 
creamery and dairy factory promoters of the West have 
noted what is going on here and, with that eye for busi- 
ness which is so especially distinctive of the men of 
that section, have hastened to make hay whilst the sun 
shines. They have descended upon our State and are 
seeking to locate and secure contracts for the building 
of creamery plants all over it. Already we hear of con- 
tracts being entered into and the stock subscribed for 
several factories, and inquiries are being made in other 
sections. We would most strongly urge upon our farm- 
ers to go slow in this matter, especially so in the sec- 
tions we have mentioned. In the valley in Southwest 
Virginia and in Northern Virginia the conditions for the 
successful running of a creamery or butter factory are 
existant. There are dairy cows and the crops and past- 
ures to feed them on and the sooner the farmers give 
their attention to the co-operative production of the fin- 
ished products of the cows and the creation of business 
organizations for the marketing of these products, the 
better it will be for them, but even in these sections 
we greatly doubt the policy of handing over the erection 
of the- creameries and factories and the creation of the 
necessary organizations to these professional promoters. 
They are not in the business for their health nor the 
good of their souls alone, their pocketbooks are more 
immediately concerned and, after the disclosures made 
as to their methods in other sections where they stocked 
companies and made farmers pay exorbitant prices foi 
their help, we would urge especial care in dealing with 
them. We believe that in all cases local organizations 
promoted by the farmers themselves and the employ- 
ment of local builders to put up the plants would result 
in great saving and be infinitely more profitable. If in 
these sections this be true, it is manifestly more im- 
portant that in Middle, Southside and Eastern Virginia 
much greater caution should be exercised. These sec- 
tions have neither the cows nor the pastures or crops 
provided to meet the requirements of more than a very 
limited number of creameries or factories. Indeed, from 
what we know of the one already established in South- 
side Virginia and which is especially favorably located 
in a section where dairying has reoeived some atten- 
tion for years, the difficulty already felt is the absence 
of the necessary number of cows to enable the plant to 
be kept fully employed. Farmers should realize that to 
run even a small factory profitably at least four hundred 
good cows should be kept within a convenient distance 
from the factory and that such a factory could just as 
easily and much more profitably utilize the milk of seven 
hundred and fifty cows. We hear of these Western men 
having already organized companies and gotten them to 



enter into contracts for the erection of creameries where 
it is absolutely certain that there are not at present 
within the required radius of the factory half sufficient 
dairy cows kept to keep the factory running half its 
time and the worst feature of the case is that the cows 
cannot be had even if the farmers were ready with the 
crops and pastures to feed them and these are at pres- 
ent non-existant to a very large extent. This means that 
the capital to be invested must be largely unremunerative 
and discouragement and a setback to the industry must 
be the result. We regret that this is so, as we are most 
anxious to encourage the dairy business in this State. 
We are at the present time importing into the State 
three-fourths of t he dairy products consumed therein. 
There is therefore an ample home market for a great 
increase in production, but the prime factors for meet- 
ing this are not creameries, butter or cheese factories, 
but more dairy cows and more pastures to feed them on 
and the building of silos and the growing of crops to 
fill them with and the making of forage crops. It is 
beginning at the wrong end to build the factories. One 
of the greatest openings we now know of for farmers in 
Virginia is the breeding of dairy cows. We have in- 
quiries for them every day and each new factory or 
creamery erected means a greater demand. The type 
of cows demanded is not such as are to be found on 
the majority of the farms in Middle, Southside or East- 
ern Virginia. These may form the nucleus on which to 
build up better stock by the use of pure-bred bulls of 
dairy types, and the investment of surplus capital in the 
building up of such better herds is the first step which 
should be taken and, coincidentally with these, the erec- 
tion of silos and the production of crops for feeding this 
jetter stock. This will be the work of a few years. 
Calves will not give milk, they will consume it. It re- 
quires cows of three years and over to keep creameries 
and factories running and these, to make their keeping 
profitable, must be cows producing at least five thousand 
pounds of milk per year. These cows can only be had 
in sufficient quantity and at a profitable price to meet 
the needs of creameries by breeding them, and we urge 
the attention of farmers to this matter at present rather 
than to the seductive stories of the creamery promoters. 



LOSSES OF PIGS AND CALVES. 

Rditor Southern Planter: 

In my work as a country doctor among farmers, I 
have had my attention called to a class of losses in 
both pigs and calves, of which I have seen no mention 
in the agricultural press. 

First, as to pigs. The losses are always in winter 
or early spring, at farrowing time. The pigs come either 
dead or too weak to live or get on their feet. When 
examined, it is found there are no feet to get on, the 
hoofs being absent, with a muscular system so meagre 
and soft that the little fellow just dies for the want of 
strength to live. The mothers are usually in good con- 
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but corn, or, what is more striking, the sow is fat from 
an abundant supply of nothing but acorns gleaned from 
the forest. 

Now, observe the tissue deficiencies (muscle and hoof) 
in the pig are markedly protein structures. Observe 
also that the food (corn and acorns) has been most de- 
ficient in protein content. It is a case of "you can't 
get blood out of a turnip." Nature cannot produce a pig 
with proteid structure when the mother has had none in 
her food. Result: An unfinished and dead pig. 

Second, as to calves. They are born without hoofs; 
without hair or skin for several inches up the leg; 
patches over body and limbs varying from size of a sil- 
ver dollar to that of a good sized handkerchief with- 
out hair or perfect skin, and also with a conspicuously 
meagre muscular development. 

The owner of these calves usually practices a system 
of nursing, washing and anointing, but I have yet to 
see a single cure. The end is either the calf dies or 
is killed. 

These calves, like the pigs, are always dropped in late 
winter or early spring. Not once have I seen such ani 
mals born when the mother had been on grass for some 
months. The feed of the mother cow has always beeL 
corn stover for some months prior to birth of offspring. 
The factors are: A feed deficient in protein, and an 
offspring short in those tissues known to have a high 
protein content — hoofs, hair, hide and muscle. 

Another point is that the mother, having the individual 
power of appropriating the small protein content of her 
food to the upbuilding of her own body, seems to be 
the one most likely to produce the deficient offspring, 
as I have noticed it is the mother that looks pretty 
thirfty on poor feed that is most likely to give births 
such as described. 

The work of the Department of Agriculture on the ef- 
fects of ergot on hoofs and sore legs in cattle led me first 
to suppose that the calf's condition in this respect might 
be due to ergot found on and consumed with the mother's 
food, and this may yet be found partly true. Personally, 
I am more inclined to the protein deficiency view. I 
would be glad to hear from the veterinarians on the sub- 
ject for it seems to me a source of losses sufficiently 
severe to warrant an effort ^o learn the true cause. 

Louisa Co., Va. B. G. B. BROOME, M. D. 

We have repeatedly urged the importance of feeding 
a well-balanced ration to breeding animals and young 
stock. You cannot have bone and muscle without pro- 
viding food rich in protein. Corn is a carbo-hydrate 
feed which makes fat, but not bone or muscle. To get this 
you must feed cotton seed meal, bran, peas or oats, which 
are rich in protein to cows and calves, and peas, oat- 
meal or blood meal to pigs; also, feed some bone meal 
to the young stock two or three times a week. This 
strengthens the boney structure. Pigs fed bone meal 
have bones with a baeaking strain nearly one-third 
stronger than when fed on corn alone. — Ed. 



PROGRESSIVE MOVE IN BREEDING. 
Editor Southern Planter: 
It does seem to me and others to whom I have men- 



tioned the subject that our State Legislature should pass 
a law to prohibit the standing for public service of 
any stallion or bull with any hereditary unsoundness and 
the charging of a double license fee for a grade or un- 
registered bull or stallion. Also, to make it a crime to^ 
stand either a bull or stallion under a false pedigree, 
etc. This bill, if framed properly and passed, would do 
untold good to the farmers and breeders throughout our 
grand old State, which would in a few years be much 
benefitted by such a law. JNO. F. LEWIS. 

Rockingham Co., Va. 



AN ACT TO PROTECT THE LIVE STOCK OF SOUTH 
CAROLINA. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

An act prohibiting the importation of diseased live 
stock into the State of South Carolina has recently been 
passed. Such a law became necessary owing to the pass- 
age of similar laws by other States. 

Briefly summarized, the act is as follows: 'All ship- 
ments of live stock, except those for immediate slaugh- 
ter, must be accompanied by certificate of health show- 
ing that the animals are free from contagious or infec- 
tious diseases. This certificate can be issued by the 
State Veterinarian or Assistant State Veterinarian in the 
employ of the United States Bureau of Animal Industry, 
or by any competent veterinarian authorized by the State 
Veterinarian of South Carolina. All health certificates 
must be in duplicate these certificates will be furnished 
qualified veterinarians and transportation companies (at 
actual cost), the original of which must be forwarded to 
the State Veterinarian of South Carolina, and the dupli- 
cate must be attached to bill of lading for said animals." 

All cattle over six months of age, except those for im- 
mediate slaughter, must be tested with tuberculin and 
must be free of tuberculosis before they are brought in 
this State. Temperature reports of the test or a certi- 
fied copy of same must accompany the health certificate. 
The tuberculin test must be made within thirty days 
preceeding shipment. 

The penalty for violation of this act is a fine of not 
less than $50'0 and not more than $1,000 or imprisonment 
for not more than one year. This act also allows in- 
demnity for tuberculous and glandered animals destroyed 
by the State authorities. Previous to the passage of this 
act no indemnity has been allowed. The act will undoubt- 
edly prove of great value to stock owners in this State 
and to facilitate shipments of live stock into South 
Carolina, the publication of this notice in your paper 
would be highly appreciated. Any further inquiries re- 
garding this law will be promptly answered. 

M. RAY POWERS, 

Clemson College, S. C. State Veterinarian. 



REMOVAL OF FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE 
QUARANTINE. 

The Secretary of Agriculture has issued an order, ef- 
fective April 24th, releasing entirely the quarantine for 
foot and mouth disease, as he is satisfied that the dis- 
ease has been completely eradicated from the United 
States. 



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A GREAT JERSEY SALE. 

The dispersal sale of the Lewisiana Farm Jerseys, at Fredericksburg, Va., on April 9th, was a memorable and 
highly successful event. Notwithstanding the facts that the sale was hurriedly gotten up, and that the farm 
was inaccessible, and that terms were cash, there was a great gathering of Jersey breeders from fifteen or twenty 
States and Canada, who paid an average of $244 for the 139 head of cattle offered. 

The great bull, Stockwell, for which Mr. 
Lewis paid $11,500, was bought by Dr. H. 
D. Rodman, Shelbyville, Ky., for $7,000. 
Fontaine's Gold Medal (Karnak), the fam- 
ous old butter test cow, went to C. J. 
Hudson, East Norwich, N. Y., for $1,500. 

Virginia breeders supported the sale in ex- 
cellent style, paying some long prices for 
a great deal of the stock. Among the heav- 
iest buyers were Captain R. Conroy Vance, 
Mannsfield Hall, Fredericksburg, Va., Mr. 
Ralph Izzard, Fredericksburg, Va;, The 
Acea Stock Farm, Richmond, Va., A. Ran- 
dolph Howard, Fredericksburg, Va., and 
H. T. Pancoast, Purcellville, Va. 

We append hereto a list of the cattle, 
which were sold for $200 or more: 
"Going- at $7,000!" Stockwell Being Knocked Out to Dr. Rodman. Imported Stockwell 75264, bull (6) — H. 

D. Rodman, Shelbyville, Ky., $7,0*00; Fon- 
taine's Gold Medal 203636, cow (10)— C. I. Hudson, East Norwich, L. I., N. Y., $1,500; Eminent's Goldmont Lad 
70268, bull (4)— Thomas Taylor, Jr., Columbia, S. C, $800; Bull calf (2 mos.). Stockwell— Golden Fern's Red Rose, 
Biltmore Farms, Biltmore, N. C, $700; Mon Plaisir's Fanny 203649, cow (9)— B. H. Bull, Brampton, Ont, Can., $700; 
Golden Fern's Red Rose 168525, cow (11)— George W. Sisson, Jr., Potsdam, N. Y., $685; Aristocrat's Fanny 203658, 
cow (6)— T. E. Kenney, Frankfort, Ky., $610; Fern's Success 72247, bull (3)— A. P. Nave, Attica, Ind., $600; Gold- 
en Fern's Niece 20'3634, cow (10)— Penhurst Farm, Narberth, Pa., $525; Raleigh's Eminence 207105, heifer (2) — 
Ralph Izzard, Fredericksburg, Va., $510; Golden Jolly's Twylish 203663, cow (6)— T. E. Kenney, $500; Heifer (1), 
Stockwell-Fontaine's Gold Medal— Ralph Izzard, $500; The Owl's Jessie 168528, cow (11)— Capt. M. B. Rowe, Fred- 
ericksburg, Va., $400; Eminent's Rosy 203647, cow (8)— George W. Sisson, Jr., $400; Golden Fern's Jubilee 1610'63, 
cow (10)— Thomas Taylor, Jr., $350; Heifer (1), Stockwell— Golden Fern's Niece— J. L. Coffman, Urbana, Ohio, 
$335; Lady Blonde of St. Heller 203635, cow (10)— E. H. Hatch, Maplewood, N. J., $330; Tonona 9th of Hood Farm 
172718, cow (8)— Ralph Izzard, $325; Eminent Lucy Belle203639, cow (7)— Thomas Taylor, Jr., $320; Magnate's In- 
terest 203462, cow (8)— Thomas Taylor, Jr., $310'; Stockwell'® Brown Beauty 203697, cow (4)— Ralph Izzard, $300; 
Bull calf (5 mos.), Stockwell — Mon Plais- 
ir's Fanny — C. I. Hudson, $300; Interesting 
Angela, 203454, cow (10)— Dr. H. D. Rod- 
man, Shelbyville, Ky., $300; King Fox's Bar- 
oness 20*2979, cow (4) — Edward Burnett, 
New York, N. Y., $300; Heifer (1), Stock- 
well— Golden Jolly's Twylish— Dr. H. D. 
Rodman, $285; Bull (1) Eminent — Golden 
Fern's Jubilee — Ralph Izzard, $280; Bull i.5 
mos.), Stockwell — The Owl's Jessie — Ralph 
Izzard, $275; Cow (4) Extra — A. J. Warren, 
Richmond, Va., $270; Cow (8) Extrav-A. R. 
Howard, $260; Heifer (1), Stockwell — Aris- 
tocrat's Fanny — T. E. Kenney, $260; Emi- 
nent of Wyldewood 75755, bull (2) — Thos. 
Taylor, Jr., $260; Heifer (1), Stockwell— 
Mon Plaisir's Fanny — Captain R. C. Vance, 
$250; King Fox's Jessie 195409, cow (5) — 
W. Rueger, Richmond, Va., $250; Golden 
Fern's Tulip 183289, cow (11) — Ralph Izzard, 
$235; Cow (8) Extra — Capt. R. C. Vance, $20'5; Heifer (4 mos.), Eminent's Goldmont Lad — Aristocrat's Fanny — R. 
B. Swift, Libertyville, 111., $205; Heifer (1), Blue Belle'sGolden Fern— 'Stockwell Brown Beauty — J. L. Coffman, 




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$20u, Lucy's Sweet Ruby 203709, cow (3)— Ralph Izzard, 
$200; Golden Fern's Blue Princess 205408, cow (3) — Acca 
Farms, Richmond, Va. $200; Cow (4) Extra — Acca Farms, 
$200; Heifer (1), Eminent's Competitor — Interesting An- 
gela — Dr. H. D. Rodman, $200; Golden Maid's Beauty 
203716, cow (2) — Edward Burnett, $200; Eminent's Brook- 
hill 190590, cow (4)— Thos. Taylor Jr., $200; Tuaa Mari- 
gold 136087, cow (11)— Ralph Izzard, $200.; Kathletta ->f 
Wyldewood 210955, cow (2)— H. T.Pancoast, Purcellville, 
Va., $190'. The balance of the stock brought from $190 
down to $90. 

Ringside Notes. 

The veteran importer and breeder, Mr. T. S. Cooper, 
Coopersburg, Pa., was an interested spectator, and de- 
clared the sale a marvelous one. 

Colonel A. M. Bowman, Bowmont Farms, Salem, Va., 
was another interested spectator whose advice was fre- 
quently sought by prospective purchasers. . The Colonel 
could not be tempted to "wade in," however. 

On being congratulated on his purchase of Stockwell, 
Dr. H. D. Rodman remarked that, I did not think it 
fair for Virginia to have the three best Jersey bulls in 
the world, so I came to get one of them for Kentucky." 
The triangular fight for the bull between the Doctor, H. 
V. Prentice and Thomas Taylor, Jr., was spectacular, in- 
deed. 

The Kentucky contingent at the sale was among the 
most liberal purchasers. They were good bidders at all 
times. 

Mrs. J. W. Henning, the Mistress of Allen Dale Farm, 
Shelby ville, Ky., was constantly at the ringside, but did 
not purchase. We understand, however, that she will be 
on hand at Cooper's Memorial-Day sale, as there is some 
stock there in which she is interested. 

Dr. A. S. Wheeler, of Biltmore Farms, went after the 
two-months-old calf, by Stockwell out of Golden Fern's 
Red Rose, in a lively fashion, and finally landed it at 
$700. 

Prof. Herbert W. Mumford, of the University of Illinois, 
came East to see a great Jersey sale. 

George W. Sisson, Jr., was a frequent bidder, and landed 
a particularly choice one in Golden Fern's Red Rose. 

Capt. M. B. Rowe contested hotly with Biltmore Farms 
for the StockwelLRed-Rose bull calf, letting go at $675. 

Mr. Ralph Izzard and Capt. R. Conroy Vance, near 
neighbors, by the way, certainly did themselves proud in 
the quantity and quality of the stock purchased. 

Mr. A. Randolph Howard got a mighty good start in 
establishing his Chatham Dairy herd. 

The Acca Stock Farm got a splendid carload of cattle, 
1 including some choice heifers. 

Mr. A. B. Lewis expressed himself as gratified at prices 
obtained for the stock, and especially for Stockwell. 

Around the Fredericksburg hotels the night before the 
sale, everybody was telling everybody else that he ex- 
pected to "steal something," but the grand total figures 
of the sale indicate that there was very little stealing 
done. Not all of the cattle brought their worth by any 



means, but considering the condition of the stock, and 
all the circumstances connected with the sale, the Jer- 
sey world should be satisfied. We predict that it will be 
many a day before Virginia will top the figures of this 
sale. 

Hats off to W. R. Spann. 

SHEPHERD. 



STOPPAGE AT THE POINT OF TEAT. 
By Dr. David Roberts. 

A very common trouble in the ordinary dairy is to find 
an animal with the point of the teat closed, either due 
to a bruise of the teat itself or to infection of the milk 
duct, which causes a little scab to form over the point 
of the teat and unless this is properly handled with care 
and cleanliness, the infection is apt to cause a loss of 
the entire quarter. 

The proper manner in which to handle and treat such 
cases is to thoroughly wash the teat in an antiseptic 
solution, then dip a teat plug into a healing ointment 
and insert it into the point of the teat, allowing same 
to remain from one milking to another. In this manner 
closure of the point of the teats can be overcome in a 
very, simple and satisfactory way. 

Never use a milking tube if it can be possibly avoid- 
ed, as there is much danger of infecting the entire quar- 
ter by the use of the tube. 



COTTON SEED MEAL AND THE EYES OF HORSES. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

I read your publication with interest, and as it is 
in a measure a clearing house for farmers to exchange 
ideas, I beg to suggest, in reference to feeding cotton 
seed meal to horses and mules, that great care be used. 
Over-feeding will weaken the eyes. I crush my corn, 
grain, cob and shuck, and use a handful of cotton seed 
meal at night to each head scattered over the feed. It 
it fine for stock, but over-feeding with it does affect the 
eye. Use cotton seed meal, but watch the eyes. 

Early Co., Ga. H. G. SMITH. 

We should be glad to hear the opinion of others on 
this subject. We cannot find that any veterinarian has 
pointed out any such effect. — Ed. 



COOPER'S ANNUAL JERSEY SALE. 

Messrs. T. S. Cooper & Sons, of "Linden Grove," Coop- 
ersburg, Pa., will hold their Annual Jersey Sale at Coop- 
ersburg, May 31st this year, as Memorial-Day comes on 
Sunday. 

Mr. Cooper advises us that the offerings this year will 
consist of about 130 head, and will be up to his usual 
high standard. 

Many of our Virginia dairymen are going extensively 
into Jerseys, and we shall expect to hear of them being 
around the Cooper ringside on May 31st. The catalogue 
will be ready about May 10th, as usual. 






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The Poultry Yard 



POULTRY NOTES. 

There is an unfounded prejudice against May hatched 
chicks. Many people think that May hatched chicks 
sleep themselves to death. This sleepy condition is an 
indication of indigestion induced by wrong feeding. 
Chicks hatched in any of the warm months must have 
different care and feed from those hatched during cool 
weather. In warm weather the aim must be to keep 
them warm at night and cool during the heat of the 
day. It will not do to confine the broods in close, 
warm coops at night and compel them to rmain in the 
hot sunshine all day or go into the coops or brooders 
for shade. We must provide shade for them. If we have 
no trees in the yard, provide a shed made with boards, 
muslin or brush for them to get out of the hot sunshine. 
This shed must be open on three sides, North, East and 
West, and should be made to shed rain. Another very 
important matter is fresh water. It will not do to give 
them water once or twice per day. Have fresh drink- 
ing water for them in the shade all the time. Feed is 
the most important part of raising young chicks in hot 
weather. I have experimented many years with all kinds 
of feed and have not found any better feed than a mix- 
ture of millet seed and whole wheat. Chicks will eat 
whole wheat at one week old. Feed very little corn in 
any form to young chicks in warm weather. It is too 
heating and sours quickly. Give them a good run on 
grass and feed them sparingly the first two weeks. Keep 
the coops and brooders clean and well ventilated and do 
not allow them to crowd together. Many people think 
they cannot feed wheat at present prices. I am paying 
$1.40 per bushel for wheat and consider it cheaper than 
any of the mixed chick or scratch feeds at $2.40 per one 
hundred pounds. Much of this scratch feed is made up 
by seed houses and is composed of old, musty grains and 
sc-eds and is not fit to feed at any price. In addition 
it contains from ten to fifteen per cent, by weight of 
crushed stone and oyster shell that can be bought at 
one half cent per pound. Deducting this shell and grit, 
we pay two and a half cents per pound for karflr corn, 
sorghum seed, millet seed, cracked corn, oat hulls and 
dirt. Good, clean wheat at $1.40 per bushel is all feed 
and costs but two and one-third cents per pound. I 
sold broilers a few days ago that were forty-eight days 
old and weighed over one and one-quarter pounds each 
that were fed very largely on wheat. If it pays to raise 
pork at six and seven cents per pound, then it certain- 
ly pays to raise chickens at * thirty-five cents. 

The laying hens also need a different ration now than 
in winter. I feed very little corn. Feed a mash once 
per day composed of one part meat meal, two parts corn 
■meal, and three parts bran. I scald the meat and bran 
and then add the meal to make a crumbly mash. I feed 
soaked oats in the morning, the mash at noon, and whole 
wheat at night. I am getting a ninety per cent, egg 
yield on this ration and am satisfied that it gives me 
more good eggs than any other feed that I could get and 
at less cost. 

I must repeat what I have said in these notes several 



times in regard to adulterated feedstuff. Very much of 
the corn meal offered for sale in Richmond is made from 
unsound corn, and is positively unfit to feed to poultry, 
especially young chicks. The wheat bran is not pure, 
clean bran by any means. I have bought bran that had 
whole peanut hulls, wheat straw, chaff, oat hulls and 
chaff, ground corn cobs and the refuse from corn shell- 
ers in it. I cannot understand how these foreign sub- 
stances can pass through rolls that crush wheat into 
flour without being reduced to pulp, but I have taken a 
quart of peanut hulls from a single bag of bran in addi- 
tion to a full peck of straw, chaff, etc. These substances 
are not harmful or dangerous to health, but one can buy 
■peanuthulls, straw, etc., for much less than $32.00 per 
ton. It does seem that if we have a pure food law and 
inspection that as common a product as bran and meal 
could be inspected and the dealers and producers com- 
pelled to sell pure products or go out of business. If it 
is necessary to inspect whiskey and have it pure, and 
inspect milk and dairy products, why not the grain and 
feeds that enter into the production of these finished pro- 
ducts? The same law that protects the toper should pro- 
tect the man that makes the liquid damnation. The same 
law that compels the dairyman to make a pure, clean 
product should compel the miller to furnish him pure food 
for his cows. Let every man rise up and demand pure 
food for himself, his family, his herds and flocks and, in 
a short time, public sentiment will get so strong that 
inspectors will bestir themselves and give us a clean 
bill of fare. 

I am in receipt of the following letter: 

If Mr. Husselman has failed to make the pesky in- 
cubator hatch every egg, maybe he has had better luck 
in raising the chick. If so, will he tell us how to make 
what few we do hatch live beyond the three weeks peri- 
od? I have been monkeying with incubators and brood- 
ers since 1888, but fail to thoroughly understand them. 

My first machine was a very crude affair indeed. The 
heat was regulated altogether by the lamp flame; to see 
the thermometer I would have to pull out the egg drawer 
and peep in, which I did ir ery often; yet I succeeded in 
hatching as many chicks and raising more of them than 
I do now with the patent up-to-date appliances. I got 
sixty to seventy per cent, hatches then, which is the 
best I can do now. I would be satisfied with a sixty per 
cent, hatch if I could make the little beggars live, or 
a majority of them. They are bright, active little fel- 
lows until four or five days old; then they begin to 
mope; don't seem to want to eat anything, and hug close 
to the warm places in the brooder until they die, which 
they do pretty fast after the fifth day. I have tried all 
sorts of brooders; hot air and hot water; top heat and 
bottom heat; indoor and outdoor; yet they die. Twenty 
years ago my little chicks were not bothered with bowel 
trouble like they are to-day. I am beginning to think 
the brooder does not cut much of a figure with the 
chicks dying. Now and then a brood will come through 
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they are fed. Why this is o I cannot tell. Who can 
put me wise? JAMES VANDEGRIFT. 

Here we have the great problem of poultry raising 
in a nutshell. How to raise the chicks? Why do they 
die? I positively know two reasons. First, the way they 
are hatched; second the way they are fed the first few 
days. The great fault Is in the way the chicks are 
hatched. In the incubator the egg is surrounded with 
dry, hot air and the albumen of the egg is all used 
up by the 15th to 17th day, and the chick then starves 
till the 21st day, and either cannot get out, or, if he 
does get out, he will be a poor weakling that will live 
until the yolk of the egg is absorbed, then he pines away 
and dies. If he gets out of the shell he is kept in a 
close, almost air-tight box for twenty-four to forty-eight 
hours and pants for oxygen. He comes out of the ma- 
chine a puny little fellow that hugs any warm place be- 
cause his blood has not been oxygenized and does not 
keep him warm. The chick that is hatched under a hen 
will have his head out in the open air and gets his 
lungs full of good oxygen and his blood is full of life 
and vigor. He is strong and his digestion is good and 
he will eat almost anything and live. 

The chick that is hatched right will get weak from the 
same cause in the brooder and many times be overfed 
the first few days. This deranges his natural assimila- 
tion and he goes to sleep never to awaken. Hatch them 
right. If you cannot get plenty of fresh warm air into 
the incubator at hatching time take them out as fast 
as hatched and keep them warm for forty-eight hours, 
then feed them very sparingly for three or four days. 
Dlry bread crumbs, pin-head oats, oatmeal flakes, etc., are 
best. Give fresh water. Keep them warm with plenty 
of fresh air around them and keep them hungry until 
they are eight to ten days old. Put them where they 
can get into the sunshine. Give them plenty of chaff to 
scratch in and put very little feed into it. Do not put 
too many in a brooder, fifty is plenty. This is the whole 
secret. Hatch them right, keep them dry, warm, busy 
and hungry and in small flocks. 

Hen Proverbs. 

If the hen house is clean and the nests are clean and 
the food and water are clean, the eggs will be clean. 
A dirty, stale egg is a libel on the hen and an abomina- 
tion to her owner. It corrupteth his morals and causeth 
his purse to be lean. 

This is the time of year when the egg swapper waxeth 
warm under the collar if you refuse to exchange a set- 
ting of your best eggs f»r a setting of scrub eggs. 
Wicked man that will not exchange a gold dollar for 
thirty cents. 

This is the month that produces the "nice fresh coun- 
try eggs," offered for sale next winter. The freshness of 
such eggs is a marvel of nature. Ditto the elastic con- 
sciences of dealers who sell storage eggs and placard 
them as "fresh." 

Poets are born,' not made, sayeth the sage. Likewise, 
the show-bird and the good layer. If you have good set- 
ting hens trust a few hundred eggs to their care. They 
will attend to the heat moisture, ventilation and turn- 
ing and brood the chicks while you sleep. 



If you have a burning desire to warm a dry goods box 
on a street corner in preference to watching, the tempera- 
ture in your incubator, don't cuss the machine if it fails 
to make good. Cuss yourself. 

If your chicks mope around and look sleepy, it is quite 
possible that they have learned the trick from you. This 
"disease" is infectious, contagious and fatal. 

The hen and her chicks begin work with the first 
peep of dawn and are "early to bed." The sluggard that 
sleepeth away the early morning hours loseth the honey 
of the morning dew and by the time he sippeth it ,it has 
changed to vinegar. Too much vinegar causeth rheuma- 
tism and stiffness of muscles and joints. 

The hen that layeth an egg every day hath a right to 
cackle, but very often the hen that layeth occasionally 
maketh the most fuss about it. 

It is not always the hen that hath the finest headgear 
or the fanciest feathers that layeth the most eggs or brood- 
eth her chicks the best. She spendeth her time on her 
toilet. 

It is said that fortune knocketh but once at every 
man's door. She deals a knockout blow to many an ar- 
dent poultryman. Fortune comes and stays by him who 
courteth her daily, constantly, eternally. She taketh 
wings and flyeth away from the fickle, inconstant swain. 

The following couplet is re-dedicated to the three hun- 
dred henman: 

Somebody stole my old white hen; 

They'd better let her be. 
She always laid two eggs a day, 
And Sundays she'd lay three. 

Highland Springs, Va. HUSSELMAN. 



THE ORNAMENTAL FOWL. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

The little or no prominence given the ornamental breeds 
in the agricultural or poultry journals in out country 
emboldens me, with your permission, to say something 
in their behalf. The name "ornamental" conveys the im- 
pression to the uninitiated of something entirely sep- 
arate and apart from utility, and the present-day Ameri- 
can greed will respond, "Will it pay? " To beautify 
our homes with nicely laid out walks and drives, green, 
velvety lawns and choice flowers, though at great cost, 
gives back no return in dollars and cents, but the neat 
and attractive appearance of the surroundings, the sense 
of pleasure and comfort it gives banishes all regret for 
the outlay. There are few of the different ornamental 
breeds that will not more than pay for their "keep," 
and the amusement, interest and unceasing pleasure they 
give is alone ample compensation. 

It is a common saying, that if we would sit down and 
write that which we we have practically learned, upon 
almost .any .subject, ..the .information .imparted .could 
scarcely fail of being useful. Just so far, my ambition 
extends. Nor is the world entirely without need of ad- 
vice on the subject, notwithstanding its antiquity and 
the multitude of counsellors. Of this fact, I have had 
ample proof, having visited and also lived in many sec- 
tions of the country. 

I have seen some good specimens of the ornamental 
birds, that had been purchased at no trifling cost, yet 






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put into the same yard with common fowls. Of course, 
the identity of progeny would be lost. Again, I have 
known pens of nice birds to be purchased at handsome 
figures, placed to themselves, regardless of relationship, 
and with the idea of perpetuating the flock indefinitely, 
with the same stock. 

It is a well known fact that even when fowls are bred 
from the purest strains, all the produce will not evi- 
dence equal purity with their parents as to the charac- 
teristics of that particular variety to which they belong; 
it will, therefore, be easily conceived how infinitely re- 
moved are the probabilities of obtaining such where the 
blood stock are only of tolerable character; and as re- 
gards the purchase of first-rate prize pens only, this ar- 
rangement is open to the very serious objection that by 
so doing, we have no change in blood, and the past ex- 
perience of many a disappointed amateur has proved 
and doubtless the dearly-bought knowledge of others will 
yet confirm that the undeviating and inevitable conse- 
quences of such interbreeding will be imbecility, and de- 
terioration of character, and partial blindness. These 
much-to-be-dreaded consequences are easily obviated by 
obtaining the males from one place and the pullets or 
hens from another; or they may be all obtained from 
a reliable breeder and specialist, who makes a specialty 
of breeding the kind or variety wanted, and upon re- 
quest will match them for breeding purposes. 

The ornamentals are generally the best of table birds, 
and the eggs richer in flavor than are those of com- 
mon fowls. This is because of their nearer approach 
to the original stock. It is a well known fact that a 
large preference for wild birds or animals has long ex- 
isted. Every departure from the original, whether in 
animals, birds or plants, detracts from its quality. The 
rich perfume of the rose garden of fifty years ago is 
now a fragrant memory only. There is little at the pres- 
ent day to recall it. Many instances may he cited in 
cases of both vegetables and animals, where the original 
taste and flavor have almost entirely departed. Potatoes 
especially have gained in size and appearance, while 
the quality has greatly deteriorated; but the 'possum re- 
tains his original flavor and daintiness. The many sup- 
pose that a chicken is a chicken, and an egg an egg, 
and that's an end of it"; not so, however; those gas- 
tronomes, the old Romans. According to Horace, the 
epicures were particular in the variety of their fowls 
cooked, or that produced their eggs, and even went so 
far as to distinguish between eggs that were supposed 
to produce males and females, as will be seen by the 
following lines: 

"Long be your eggs, far better than round; 
Cock eggs they are, more nourishing and sound." 

The breeder of ornamental birds should aim, not for 
large quantities of eggs, especially during the winter, 
but for the finest specimens or types, of birds possible 
to produce. It is impossible to have both. No hen that 
has been made to lay constantly during the winter months 
can, in the spring, with constitution weakened and ex- 
hausted, give health, strength and vigor to a chick. Lack- 
ing these, the chick can never amount to much, tend 
and nourish him as you may. 

I have much more to say, but this paper is already 



too long. In a future article, next month, I propose to 
describe some of the ornamental breeds, and say some- 
thing of my own success in producing some of the most 
perfect and beautiful specimens ever seen in Virginia. 
This fact is attested by numerous visitors to my yards. 
The latch-string to the front, or entrance gate, hangs 
on the outside (during the day), and the show contin- 
ues throughout the year. Admission free. 

B. J. PLEASANTS. 
Ashland, Va. 



PRODUCTION, PRICES, PROSPECTS, POINTERS. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

What is the matter with the American hen? She has 
given her owner more than the usual amount of trouble 
and disappointment within the past year. Last season 
very few choice chicks came on the market. No mat- 
ter how we fed, the average man could not get his 
young stock in normally good condition. Prices ruled 
high, considering the quality of chicks offered. 

Then in the fall the average pullet was slow in laying. 
This was true of all breeds, and under all conditions 
of care and feeding, so far as I could learn. It was 
as true in the experimental flocks on the Bureau of 
Animal Industry Farm, at Bethesda, Md., as elsewhere, 
and those in charge said no ration seemed to give the 
size in cockerels, nor the development in pullets which 
should be obtained in a favorable season. 

The high price of eggs all winter, and the fact that 
normally low prices have not been reached this spring, 
tend to show that production for the past nine rconths, 
at least, has been below the normal. 

The storage people in Washington usually get most 
of their stock at about fifteen cents per dozen. This 
season they tired of waiting, and some began buying at 
seventeen cents, with the result that the price advanced 
at once to eighteen, then to nineteen, and to-day, April 
21st, good, fresh, clean stock, suitable for storage, is 
worth twenty cents per dozen, and nobody expects to 
see any more first class eggs at seventeen cents this 
season. It is freely predicted that this means high 
prices this fall, as the eggs stored at eighteen cents and 
above will hardly be offered at less than thirty cents at 
retail, and possibly not at that. 

Now, if all the pullets lay early and persistently this 
coming fall and winter, the storage men who have saved 
us from very low prices this spring will hardly make 
reasonable profits on their investments. Still the trade 
is looking for a season of high prices, and the farmers 
ought to be ready to profit by it, and the only way to 
have pullets before Christmas is to keep them thriv- 
ing every week from the day they are hatched. 

While even the best managed flocks may sometimes 
fail to yield as they should, it is certain that the neg- 
lected flock is being kept at an even greater loss. The 
high prices of feed are likely to continue at least all 
summer and chicks, if kept in any number cannot be 
pushed along without some outlay. At the Maine Sta- 
tion they are satisfied if the cockerels at three months 
old woll sell for enough to pay for their own feed, and 
that of the pullets up to that time. I believe their fig- 
ures showed that with all purchased feed at New Eng- 



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land prices, it cost about sixty cents to bring a Plymouth 
Rock pullet up to full laying age. This indicates that 
a flock of good fall-laying pullets will cost some money, 
and are worth much more for practical purposes than 
the neighborhood price for a hen as it prevails in many 
places. 

But another setback must be recorded. The informa- 
tion given at the Department, in Washington, is that 
the general fertility of eggs is low this season, that few 
people are getting good hatches, and nobody has found 
out why. My report of 150 eggs shipped to New Eng- 
land, which showed eighty per cent, of live germs 
after ten days in the machine, seemed to be among the 
best received. With fowls on free range, especially with 
those which did not lay heavily during the winter, I 
find little difference in fertility as between this year 
and last. The pullet flocks show as high as ninety per 
cent, fertile in some tests, and as low as eighty in 
others. Old hens' eggs are seldom as fertile with me 
as are the eggs of pullets. Eggs are also more fertile 
after green feed starts than before. 

There is one kind of carelessness or ignorance which 
is responsible for many a poor hatch. This is in the 
selection of the eggs to be set. Our shipments of eggs 
for hatching this spring have run well into the thousands, 
and I think I am safe in saying that I have rejected as 
unsuitable for hatching fully one-third of all the eggs 
laid. An egg irregular in shape, or with a ribbed or wavy 
shell will seldom hatch. It is impossible to scrutinize 
the surface too closely for deformities of this kind. Sud- 
den changes from cool to hot weather, especially if the 
hens are fat, seem to cause the shell material to be de- 
posited unevenly on the egg. On some days fully half 
the eggs laid will show disqualifications for hatching pur- 
poses. I have examined a good many Leghorn eggs, and 
find the proportion of unfit is about the same as with 
my Barred Rocks. These rejected eggs includenearly 
all those of unusual size, and the rejected lots are just 
as saleable on the market as the others. 

My neighbors who have hatched many early chicks 
have had unusually large losses. I expect to hatch many 
more in May than in April, and perhaps still more in 
June. I have little wheat saved from last year, and 
do not care to buy at present prices. The June chicks 
will cost notably less to raise than the April hatches. 
The very best report I have had from any of the Maine 
stock I have sold, was from a setting of eggs hatched 
last October, the pullets from which laid at five months, 
and one week old, and at less than six months they were 
weighing from five to five and one-half pounds. This 
is about the average size with me for good half-Maine 
pullets laying, but not one of my early hatched birds 
laid so young, and but few of my August and Septem- 
ber hatches reached that weight in March. 

„We again invite those who are willing to observe a 
•few simple rules in shipping good chickens to the Wash- 
ington market, to use the Blue Labels of the Southern 
Table Poultry Club, which I will be glad to furnish on 
receipt of request and postage. While we have not a 
large number of shippers, yet we think no shipment 
has failed to sell for the best price of the day in its 



class. This, with honest and prompt returns, was about 
all we could expect for the first season. 

W. A. SHERMAN. 
Vienna, Va. 



COMMON DISEASES OF CHICKENS, WITH SIMPLE 
REMEDIES— ROUP. 

The roup, as it is generally designated, is probably 
the most widely prevalent disease common to our chick- 
ens; certainly the most fatal, both to the life of the 
fowls and to the profits of the flock. While it is not 
deemed necessary to give anything resembling a scien- 
tific analysis of the disease, or to attempt a differentia- 
tion of the forms in which it shows itself, as the ma- 
jority of the cases classified as roup are not roup proper 
any more than a cold in a person is pneumonia or bron- 
chitis, it is yet a sufficiently embracive term to meet 
the requirements which are so to describe the trouble 
as to permit of accurate treatment, and to give a simple, 
efficacious remedy. 

Symptoms. — The disease commences as a cold in the 
head, best detected by visiting the house after the chick- 
ens have roosted, then the labored, wheezy breathing of 
the fowl will locate it. This impeded breathing will con- 
tinue, without affecting the habits of the bird for some 
days, when the head commences to swell and the throat 
to become clogged with mucous. At this stage the di- 
sease is characteristic — the swollen eyes, covered with 
the yellow patches, the fevered condition of the bird, 
its drooping appearance caused by the blindness, are 
symptoms impossible to overlook. Without treatment 
death ensues in at least ninety per cent, of the cases — 
in those recovering, sequelae result that render the bird 
unprofitable. In the case of turkeys it has been my ex- 
perience that it is almost impossible to raise poult j 
hatched from eggs of hens who have had the roup, 
while I have never had a chicken in which the disease 
has been allowed to run its course resume laying. Any 
cold attacking a chicken is most apt to develop into 
the roup with characteristics similar to those noted, and 
no case should be allowed to linger unattended to, so 
simple is the remedy. 

Sources and Causes. — The primary cause is identical 
with that giving rise to colds in people — drafts, damp 
weather, crowded quarters, afid as a cold in a chicken 
is so apt to develop into the roup or distemper, we 
should watch for the initial patient. The disease is 
both contagious and infectious. One diseased bird will 
rapidly impregnate the entire flocck. This is done chiefly 
through the drinking water. The bird is fevered, and 
until blindness ensues, consumes abnormal quantities of 
water. At each visit to the water it scatters the germs 
both in the water and around the vessel. 

As a chicken does not perspire, but throws off the 
major portion of its liquid excreta in the form of vapor, 
its breath during the progress of the disease is thor- 
oughly impregnated with the germs, hence the neces- 
sity from another point of view of isolation. 

Remedy. — Too frequently is it the habit of owners of 
chickens to kill at once all birds deemed suffering from 
roup, as the disease is by many regarded as incurable, 
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truth of the matter is that it is a disease, yielding, in 
any but the most advanced stages, extremely rapidly to a 
simple treatment. If one visits the house twice a week, 
after the birds have roosted, removes any found with 
the impeded breath, or other symptoms of the disease, 
pens them to themselves, and twice a day administers 
a teaspoon of the following mixture, roup will never de- 
velop in a flock. 

Take two tablespoons of lard and melt it; add one 
tablespoon of ordinary coal-oil. Give the fowl one tea- 
spoonful twice a day. Grease head with the mixture, if 
swelling has commenced. Keep the fowl isolated, and 
by watching the flock carefully, removing those attacked, 
the disease will be eradicated. At the same time give 
the flock, preferably in their water, the powder known 
as Venetian Red. I place a teaspoonful in each bucket 
of water. It serves as an admirable tonic, and appar- 
ently aids in preventing contagion through the water 
supply. I have had chickens recover even in the most 
advanced stages of the diseases when treated as above, 
one case, when the bird could not stand. As a rule, if 
swelling has not appeared one dose will suffice; if the 
head is swollen, keep the bird confined until the swell- 
ing disappears. 

HORACE CAMPBELL. 
Shenandoah Co., Va. 



HENS vs. INCUBATOR. 
Editor Southern Planter: 

I enjoyed the article which appeared in your March 
issue from the pen of Mr. Husselman, but having had 
experience with both incubator and sitting hen, I cannot 
resist the temptation of "sassing" back a little. My 
first experience with an incubator was of recent date, 
and since I hatched out one whole chicken, I consider 
Mr. Husselman and his negative hatch entirely out of 
my class. Furthermore, it took only 130 eggs to produce 
my chick. Profiting by my first experience, I expect to 
do even better in my next hatch. 

Regardless of first experiences, and with a knowledge 
of the successes of many friends with incubators, I take 
the stand that the incubator, when somewhat improved, 
should beat even the frazzle Mr. Husselman refers to. 
Who has not had exasperating experiences with sitting 
hens? Frequently they change their minds about sit- 
ting, and batches of eggs "a la frappe" result. I have 
often seen a hen leave her own eggs and, entering the 
nest of a neighbor, fight for a half interest in her set- 
ting, thus producing another batch of cold storage hen 
fruit plus several broken eggs. Eggs often roll from 
under the hen and become chilled before discovered. Oc- 
casionally an egg is mashed, or another hen does not 
turn it, and finally, while the chicks are hatching some 
are killed by the clumsy feet of the mother. Consider 
these facts, together with the assurance that lice are 
always a by-product of chicks hatched under hens, and 
I believe you will agree with me when I assert that in 
chicken hatching there is room for improvement on 
Mother Nature. A. F. HODES. 

District of Columbia. 



WHY NOT OWN LAND IN VIRGINIA? 

Editor Southern Planter: 

One of the best ways to make money is to invest 
in Virginia land. Deep down in the nature of every 
properly constituted man is the desire to own some land. 
But the question is, where is the best land to be had 
at the lowest price? As a matter of fact, it is to be 
found in old Virginia. Hundreds and thousands of set- 
tlers now here, whose homes were formerly in the other 
States, Canada and the other countries abroad, ap- 
pear to be satisfied. Once in a while a complaint is 
heard. But, if you were to put these complainers into 
an Eldorado, they would complain about something. 
There is no reason why this State should not become a 
garden of Eden. The wealth is in the ground and only 
needs the use of brains and willing hands to get it. Here 
is almost everything needed to ensure prosperity — fine 
timber, good clay for brick, good coal, plenty of good, soft 
water, cold and clear from springs everywhere; a good 
and kind soil that will grow almost all kinds of crops 
to perfection; the best climate and most healthy country 
in the world; the best markets at our door, and the most 
hospital and big-hearted people in the world. I have 
lived here among the people of old Virginia for the last 
eight years, and I am pleased to say that I like the old 
State, and can truthfully say that I have made more 
money farming here in Hanover county, Virginia, than I 
ever did in South Dakota. 

Hanover Co., Va. B. SMEEMAN. 



Lack of organization has ever been a handicap to the 
farmer in these days of almost universal organization of 
common interests. In the nature of the case it is impossi- 
ble for farmers to unite as merchants and manufacturers 
are accustomed to do, but one novel and helpful form of 
organization has been hit on that is well worthy of emu- 
lation. The members of the Illinois legislature who are 
interested in agriculture have formed the Legislative Agri- 
cultural Club, and have adopted a constitution and fixed 
upon a regular place of meeting, for the purpose of exam- 
ining carefully and discussing thoroughly all bills which 
are introduced that affect the farmers. This beats the 
committees on agriculture by considerable. We are not 
acquainted with the present committees in the House and 
Senate, but we have seen committes on agriculture in 
legislative bodies which had much to learn in a practical 
and theoretical way about farming. It is safe to say that 
it is worth more to the author of a bill to have it reported 
out favorably from this Legislative Agricultural Club than 
from a legislative committee. With an organization of 
this kind on guard it is not likely that any statutes inimi- 
cal to the interests of the farmer can be worked through 
the legislature. The idea is commended to the farmers in 
other state legislatures. — Breeders' Gazette. 

If the farm horse is to make a long drive, the amount 
of feed should be reduced to one-half the usual amount. 
If more is to be required of the muscles, less can be done 
by the stomach, and it is always better to have the feed 
remain in the bag than to have the horse eat it if he is- 
not able to digest it. 



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The Horse. 



NOTES. 
By W. J. CARTER ("Broad Rock").* 

The sale of trotting-bred and general purpose horses 
and Jersey cattle, owned by A. B. Lewis, at Lewisiana 
Farm, Fredericksburg, Va., took place on April 9th and 
10th, and was well attended. Representative breeders 
and buyers gathered from more than a dozen different 
States. 

The great herd of Jerseys, numbering about 150 head, 
and headed by the famous imported bull, Stockwell, at- 
tracted a notable collection of buyers, among them Dr. 
H. B. Rodman, of Shelbyville, Ky., who paid $7,000 for 
the son of Oxford Lad and Golden Leda. Stockwell was 
purchased by Mr. Lewis at the Cooper sale in May, 1907, 
for $11,500', a world's record auction price. 

Some of the finest cows in the country were also in- 
cluded in the collection, for which prices ranged from 
$1,500 down, while bidding was also very active on the 
young stock, though the latter were not in first-class con- 
dition. A three-months'old bull calf, by Stockwell, brought 
$700, with proportionately high figures for other offer- 
ings. 

A. Randolph Howard of Chatham, and Allandale Farms, 
Fredericksburg, Va., and Griffith and Saunders, of Acca 
Farm, Richmond, Va., obtained some of the best stock 
offered. 

W. R. Spann, widely known as owner, breeder and ex- 
hibitor of Jerseys, who has directed affairs at Lewisiana 
Farm for a couple of years, returned to Texas after 
the sale, where he probably will locate, and establish a 
select herd of show cattle. 



About forty head of draft and general purpose horses 
were sold during the forenoon of the second day, but 
lack of condition told, and prices ruled low. Later in 
the day the trotting bred horses and drivers were offered, 
and much better results obtained. Most of these, how- 
ever, were both well bred and in nice shape for the 
sale ring. "" I £ 

Congressman H. D. Clayton, of Alabama, came down 
from Washington, D. C, and acting for himself and Sen- 
ator J. W. Bailey, owner of the noted sire Prodigal, 2:16, 
bid on several of the best brood mares*. Wyldewood, the 
two-year-old colt, by Admiral Dewey, 2 : 04 3-4, dam La 
Jolla, by Advertiser, 2:15, brought the top price of the 
sale at $460, while A. Randolph Howard got a bargain 
in the elegant chestnut stallion Bow Axworthy, 2:22 1-4, 
at $410, as did Floyd Brothers in the fine Bingen mare, 
Lisa W., for $310. 

List of best sales follows: Bow Axworthy, 2:22 1-4, 
chestnut horse, foaled 1899, by Axworthy, 2:15 1-2, dam 
Mystic, dam of Fred Kohl, 2:07 3-4, by Nutwood, $60'0; 
A. Randolph Howard* Fredericksburg, Va., $410. 

Supremacy, 2:29, brown horse, foaled 1890, by Bell 
Boy, 2:19 1-4, dam Susan, by Alcantara, 2:23; R. C. Bed- 
ford, Fredericksburg, Va. 

Comet Axworthy, black colt, foaled 1906, by Bow Ax- 



worthy, dam Luella, by Electioneer; Captain R. Con- 
way Vance, Fredericksburg, Va., $225. 

Kempton, black colt, foaled 1907, by Bow Axworthy, 
dam Luella, by Electioneer; B. N. Skinkle, Moss Neck, 
Va., $350. 

Kitty Kremlin, chestnut mare, foaled 1898, by Kremlin, 
2:07 3-4, dam Edgewater Belle, dam of Edgemark, 2:16, 
by Edgewater, 12730; C. B. Conway, Corbin, Va., $300'. 

Dora Dal-miaine, chestnut filly, foaled 1906, by Bow Ax- 
worthy, dam Kitty Kremlin, by Kremlin; C. B. Conway, 
$200. 

La Jolla, gray mare, foaled 1894, by Advertiser, 2:15 1-4, 
dam Sally Benton, 2:17 3-4, by General Benton; H. D. 
Clayton, Washington, D. C; $200'. 

Telka, bay mare, foaled 899, by Arion, 2:07 3-4, dam 
La Jolla, by Advertiser, 2:15 1-4; Senator J. W. Bailey, 
Gainesville, Texas; $400. 

Lisa N., bay mare, foaled 1904, by Bingen, 2:061-4, dam 
La Jolla, by Advertiser; Floyd Brothers, Bridgetown, Va.; 
$310. 

Wyldewood, brown colt, foaled 1907, by Admiral Dewey, 
2:04 3-4, dam La Jolla, by Advertiser; B. N. Skinkle, Port 
Royal, Va.; $460'. 

La Jolla's Prince, gray colt, foaled 1908, by Bow Ax- 
worthy, dam La Jolla, by Advertiser; B. N. Skinkle; $100. 

Kremworthy, chestnut oolt, foaled 190'8, by Bow Ax- 
worthy, dam Kitty Kremlin; C. B. Conway, $300. 



A Randolph Howard, the Fredericksburg banker and 
horse show patron, secured one of the handsomest and 
fastest trotting stallions that has yet been owned in Vir- 
ginia, at the Lewisiana Farm sale, in Bow Axworthy, 
2 : 22 1-4, the chestnut horse, by Axworthy, 2 : 15 1-2, out 
of the great brood mare Mystic, dam of Fred Kohl, 2 : 07 3-4, 
and three others in the list, by Nutwood, 2:18 3-4. From 
the loins of Axworthy have come great trotters like Ham- 
burg Belle, 2:04 3-4; General Watts, 3, 2:101-2; Tov 
Axworthy, 2:07; Guy Axworthy, 2:063-4, a Beau Brum- 
mel in appearance ; Alta Axworthy, 3, 2:10 1-2, and a 
long list of others with slower records. Mystic, the dam of 
Bow Axworthy, is one of the best daughters of the 
renowned Nutwood, whose daughters lead all dams of 
brood mares, and her blood has bred on, as she figures as 
the great dam of Bisa, 2:27 3-4, and Binvolo, 3, 2:09 1-4, 
both of which trotted in 2 : 0'8 3-4 in races at three years 
old, and during the past winter were sold for prices right 
around the $10,000 mark. Bisa is an elegant mare, and 
she is looked upon as one of the greatest trotting mares 
in training this season. Bow Axworthy joins the Allen- 
dale Farm stable of Mr. Howard, and his stud companions 
are Royal Swell, a horse of rare form and exquisite qual- 
ity, by Bow Bells, 2:191-4, from Rachel, 2:081-4, the 
great producing daughter of Baron Wilkes, 2:18; Royal 
Seal, a blue ribbon winner, by Royal Swell, out of Nyanza, 
by Quartermaster, and The Prince Royal, a son of Royal 
Regent and Forest Maid, by the dead Jay Hawker, 2:14 3-4, 
one of the potent sons of the famous Jay Bird. While 
owned by Mr. Howard, Royal Regent, son of Bowbells and 



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Redmore, daughter of Red Wilkes, captured the cham- 
pionship for runabout show horses of American, but was 
emasculated after siring only a few foals. Royal Swell 
while owned by Walter Janvier, of New York, was mated 
with some high class mares, from which resulted the 
two four-year-old trotters now in E. D. Biter's stable at 
Readville, Mass, either of which can show miles around 
2:16 last season. 

Shetlands Are Making History Now. 
The recent importation of Shetland ponies to Virginia 
by Dr. Nash P. Snead, of Cartersville, in Cumberland 
county, and other well known breeders of these midgets 
in this State, suggests mentioning some astonishing val- 
ues that have been made in both Island and home-bred pon- 
ies this season. The miniature equines in their shaggy 
coats, with bushy manes and tails, have jumped into prom- 
inence of late, and, as prophesied long ago, leading ex- 
hibitors at the prominent horse shows are taking in- 
tense interest in the breed. Charles E. Bunn, the Illi- 
nois breeder, disposed of two wonderful midgets during 
the Chicago International Show to Alfred G. Vanderbdlt, 
at phenomenally high figures, while at a recent sale at 
Alliance, O., a stallion bred at the Bunn Farm and called 
Irving, brought an even thousand dollars at auction, 
which establishes a record as being higher than anything 
heretofore obtained under the hammer in either Europe 
or America. Irving is the sire of one of Mr. Vander- 
bilt's pair, and grandsire of its mate. As to the value 
put upon choice mares, a two-year-old filly, a winner 
this year and last, has been purchased by a breeder at 
'Glen Cove, L. I., for $500, a price only equalled or ex- 
ceeded but a few times in either America or England. 



The first annual spring meeting of the newly organ- 
ized Virginia Racing and Horse Show! Association is at- 
tracting much attention, and promises to furnish a lot 
of good, healthy sport. The dates, Saturday, May 15th- 
Monday, the 17th, and Tuesday, the 18th, have been 
granted by the National Hunt and Steeplechase Associa- 
tion, and the meeting will be held at the mile track 
of the Virginia State Fair Association. The program 
includes six horse show features, with two steeplechases 
and two flat races each afternoon, while a detachment of 
U. S. Army officers from Washington, D. C-, will also 
take part in special races offered for them, which will 
prove a most pleasing part of the meeting. The officers 
of the Association including James W. Graves, president; 
John Landstreet, vice-president; "W. J. Carter, chairman 
Race Committee; John "W. McComb, secretary, and Mark 
R. Lloyd, racing secretary, are all in high feather over 
the outlook. 



Very satisfactory progress is being made in different 
departments of the forthcoming annual fair and race 
■meeting of the Virginia State Fair Association, and the 
week of October 4-9 promises to be a gala one, here, as 
Richmond will be the Mecca of many thousands of out- 
of-town visitors, gathered in the capital of our grand 
old Commonwealth to take part in festivities in progress 
day and night. Of the many f atures pertaining to Vir- 
ginia's big State Fair, one of the most attractive always 
to many is the speed program, which will include har- 



ness and running races daily, with purses of sufficient 
size to attract some of the best horses in training. There 
will be two or more harness races, one steeplechase, and 
three flat races daily, with the program in charge of 
the Race Committee, made up of J. T. Anderson, Legh 
R. Page and W. J. Carter; while General Manager Mark 
R. Lloyd will look after details in general. 



Jack Cook, 25504, the well known and handsome gray 
stallion, by General Wilkes, 2:213-4, from the great brood 
mare, Irene Fall, dam of John Agan, 2:051-4, and Mag- 
gie Lewis, 2:28|l-4, by Mambrino Abdallah, who was bred 
in Kentucky, and brought to Virginia by Dyer Brothers, 
of Roanoke, where he sired a number of good road and 
driving horses, and some rotters also, is now owned by 
Dr. Donald McPhail, of Randolph, in Charlotte county, 
who recently purchased the horse. Though mated with 
only an occasional mare of any breeding during the year 
she was kept at Roanoke, Jack Cook sired the good 
trotter, Jack Cook, 2: 20' 1-2, and another with no slower 
records. Dr. McPhail is one of the best known fanciers 
of the light harness horse in his section of the State, 
and by him the gray son of General Wilkes will be mated 
with some good mares. 



Michael and Van Lear, of Waynesboro, Va., have pur- 
chased of J. E. Wingfield, Esmont, Albemarle county, the 
bay stallion Presque Isle, 2:29 1-4, Iby Norfolk, son of Nut- 
wood; out of Mambrine, dam of Fanny Cox, 2:20, by Mam- 
brino King. A horse of fine size, being sixteen hands 
high and weighing some 1,200 pounds or more, Presque 
Isle inherited both good looks and speed from both the 
Nutwood and Mambrino King Families, and being double 
gaited himself, a number of his get have made good com- 
bined saddle and harness horses. The paternity of Eph- 
ram Toodles, 2 : 18 1-4, one of the handsomest and fastest 
of Virginia bred trotting stallions, is shared by Pres- 
quillo with Toodles, Jr., as Baby Dean, the dam of Eph- 
ram Toodles, was bred to both horses the same season. 
Presque Isle, though well along in years, is vigorous and 
well preserved, and a very clever horse under the saddle, 
as well as in harness. 




"Jubilee" and "Jolle" — daughters of Golden Lad— splendid 
matrons in the Allen Dale Herd, Shelbyville, Ky. 



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KING CORN. 
Mr. John Stewart Bryan, of the Times-Dispatch, Rich- 
mond, has initiated a movement for the raising of a great 
Prize Fund to be offered in connection with the Virginia 
State Fair for the best yields of corn raised in Virginia 
in 190*9. It is hoped and expected that at least $2,000 
will be raised and be offered in a series of prizes. Up 
to the present time over $1,000 have been promised. The 
Times-Dlispatch has given $100, the Southern Planter $25, 
the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co. $100, and the rest has 
been contributed by other representative people of the 
State. We want to interest our subscribers in this move- 
ment both as contributors to the fund and as contestants 
for the premiums. Corn is the "King Crop" of the State 
of Virginia and yet we do not raise nearly sufficient to 
• meet the requirements of the people of the State. The 
average yield per acre is far below what it ought to be 
and there are too few acres planted. Experiments have 
conclusively shown that our climatic conditions and our 
soil are specially adapted to the production of corn ot 
the highest quality. Virginia grown corn always sells for 
the highest price on the market, and the cost of produc- 
tion per acre is below the average of the country. We 
have made crops of over one hundred and eighty bushels 
per acre and there is no reason why we should not ex- 
ceed even this yield. South Carolina has made two hun- 
dred and fifty bushels per acre. We want to see Virginia 
beat South Carolina. She can do it if our farmers will 
only try. To accomplish this they must get busy at once. 
The offer of such a prize fund as $2,000 should be a great 
stimulus to exertion, and we hope to see great compe 
tition in the contest. Even if one should not secure one 
of the prizes the production of a great crop at the price 
for which corn now sells and is likely to continue to sell 
will be a profitable business. We expect to publish a 
schedule of the prizes as soon as the same has been ar- 
ranged by the State Fair Committee, and meanwhile 
would urge our subscribers to begin the preparation of the 
land and the planting of the crop. At least an acre should 
be planted and we hope to see the schedule so arranged 
as to offer prizes for the best yield on from one to twenty 
acres.Let us show the world that the Old Dominion can 
still stand at the head of the States in the production of 
the greatest staple crop of the country. 



STEAM PLOWING AT WILTON-ON-THE-JAMES. 

Through the courtesy of the Watt Plow Co., Rich- 
mond, Va., we recently had the pleasure of witnessing 
a trial of a steam-plowing outfit, sold by them to George 
P. Finnigan, of Wilton, near Richmond. The outfit con- 
sists of an 18 h. p. Huber steam tractor, made by the 
Huber Manufacturing Co.. Marion O., and a fc-ur-bottom, 
eight-gang steel plow, made by the John Deere Plow 
Co., Moline, 111. J. A. Rose, Harrisburg, Pa., eastern rep- 
resentative of Huber, and Fred. W. Whitman, of the Bal- 
timore office of Deere, were on hand to 'smooth out 
the kinks," which, however, did not materialize. The 
plow was hitched to the engine and a start was made 



in a fifty-acre field. This field had been plowd in the 
same direction from time immemorial, and was badly 
ridged and furrowed. It was decided, therefore, to plow 
across these ridges with a view of getting the field level 
and in better condition. There was quite a little curios- 




HUBER 18 H. P. TRACTION ENGINE. 



ity as to how both engine and plow would behave under 
these conditions. The trial was most satisfactory in 
every respect. The engine rode the "billowy" field with 
perfect ^ase. being at all times in easy control of the 
engineer and never stopped once except at his will. (The 
plow was set to a depth of eight inches, and this was 




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run; 



THE DEERE PLOW AT WORK. 



maintained throughout the day, the spectators applying 
the rule at frequent intervals. The eight gangs cut a 
furrow nine feet, four inches in width, as clean and 
pretty as ever one saw. 



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The outfit plowed about two acres per hour, harrow-' 
Ing it at the same time. A Clark cutaway harrow (40 
discs) was simply hooked on to one of the gangs, thus 
completing the preparation of the land at one operation. 

The field plowed was, in some respects, ideal both for 
engine and plow, as there were few, if any stones and 
no bad gullies, or hills. The fact was easily demonstrated 
that there are many thousand acres of land in the State 
on which the steam plow can be used profitably. 

In construction, the Deere people seem to have about 
expended their ingenuity in getting up a thoroughly sub- 
stantial plow. It is made of steel throughout, and the 
points and mold boards are soft-centered steel, which 
will outlast cast steel or chilled parts four or five times. 
They also appear to have solved the "hitch" problem. 




THE OUTFIT ON THE ROAD. 



They have provided for the widest range at all likely to 
be needed, both vertically and horizontally, the former 
running from two to twelve inches, and the latter about 
four feet — the entire width of the platform. 

The Huber engine is of a pattern especially designe 
for farm work, and is declared by its makers to be < 
most economical one. It is steam controlled, and is 
equipped with all useful and modern appliances. 



"Wilton" above mentioned, is one of the most noted 
places on the James River. The mansion was built in 
1710. all material having been imported from England. 
It was the ancestral home of the Randolphs, who dis- 
pensed hospitality with a lavish hand in Colonial days. 
During the revolution, Cornwallis and his generals made 
it their headquarters. During the Civil War, it was 
equally as famous. Being situated immediately across the 
river from Drewry's Bluff, it was the scene of many a 
severe struggle. At that time, it was owned by the late 
Colonel William C. Knight, editor of the Southern Planter, 
who practically fed the Confederate Army, stationed at 
and around Richmond, from its fertile fields, and for 
which, by the way. he never received a dollar. Origin- 
ally the estate comprised several thousand acres. At 
present there are 1.237 acres, 300 of which are James 
' River low grounds, protected from overflows by a nat- 



ural dyke, twenty to thirty feet high. Mr. Finnigan is 
draining, cleaning and clearing up the whole estate, and 
repairing the mansion, preparatory to establishing him- 
self there as the head of a large breeding establishment 
and dairy. 

In horses, Mr. Finnigan will breed Hackneys, Standard 
Breds and Thoroughbreds. The former stud is headed 
by Imp. Enthorpe Performer, Champion of England and 
America; also Starlight, Champion, under fifteen hands. 
Heading the Standard Bred Stud are Medio's Star and 
Medio. City Bank, a son of the mighty race horse and 
peerless sire, Meddler, heads the Thoroughbreds. 

A large herd of Jerseys will be established later on, 
and milk, cream and breeding stock will be sold. 

Mr. Finnigan has long been a dog fancier and breeder 
and will run large kennels in addition to the above. 
Pointers, Setters and Blood Hounds are his hobby, usu- 
ally keeping as many as 400 dogs. 

We hope to be able to report something more of 'Wil- 
ton" later on. 



IMPROVED HIGHWAYS FOR THE STATE. 

The following article, by Westmoreland Davis, Esq., the 
President of the State Farmers' Institute, contributed to 
The Enterprise (Loudoun county), deals with the sub- 
ject in a manner so pertinent and deserving of attention 
that we make no excuse for publishing the same. It so 
effectively disposes of the excuses made by so many for 
not pushing forward the good work of road building 
throughout the State that we cannot doubt but that its 
perusal and study will greatly help forward the good work 
which the Greater Highways Association is now energeti- 
cally pushing through the campaign now being conducted 
by the Hon. C. T. Lassiter: 

"The article upon roads and revenues, by Hon. F. M. 
Love, published in the last issue of The Enterprise, is 
entitled to consideration, not only because he is a good 
citizen, but because he is a member of the House of Dele- 
gates from this county. Mr. Love arrays himself upon 
the side of good roads, but to my mind his tone is so 
doubtful, and the inferences which are to be drawn from 
what he says are so misleading as to call for comment 
by those who feel deeply upon the subject. 

It is quite possible that our present system of State 
taxation may be improved upon, and that a State board 
for the equalization of taxes, as paid by the several coun- 
ties, would find a rich field for labor. It is also true 
that our present road law can probably be improved upon, 
and in an article prepared for the "Times-Dispatch" at 
the time of the recent holding of the Good Roads Con- 
vention at Richmond, and reproduced in The Enterprise 
of February 26th, I suggested that a commission be ap- 
pointed by the next General Assembly to investigate the 
matter and to report a bill for passage that would the 
more perfectly suit our State and county needs. 

It must be remembered, however, that in legislative en- 
actments perfection from an individual standpoint is most 
difficult of attainment, and that in the ordinary affairs of 
life one must deal with conditions as they exist and not 
as one would have them. 

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more densely populated communities must help the poorer 
and more sparsely settled districts. 

The county of Pittsylvania, which is especially com- 
plained of, has its troubles. The principal product of 
that county, and indeed of Charlotte, Halifax and Henry, 
is tobacco, the price of which is practically dominated 
by a trust, and is also heavily taxed by the Federal Gov- 
ernment. Without the fund derived from this tobacco 
tax the requirements of the Federal Government would 
fall much more heavily than now, through its system of 
indirect taxation, upon us all. So these counties too have 
their problems. It is also quite probable that a system 
of good roads in Fittsylvania will so aid in its develop- 
ment as to enable it to bear its full share of the public 
burdens. 

After all we are Virginians, and in times of peace, as 
in times of war, we must share in all fairmindedness the 
burdens as well as the successes of life. 

All legislation to be effective must be based upon the 
rule of the greatest good for the greatest number, and 
though upon occasion hardship may seemingly ensue, in 
the end satisfactory results are obtained. For instance, 
I enjoy no immediate benefit from the public schools 
save, that derived by my emplyoees, whom I regard as 
my friends, and in whose welfare I hold an abiding inter- 
est, and yet I pay the school tax most cheerfully, satis- 
fied that the public school system is the very sheet an- 
chor of our public polity. 

Man in his primitive state was ignorant, prejudiced 
and without the means and appliances necessary to his 
happiness and comfort. 

Every step that has been taken in his social and in his 
moral development has been at the sacrifice of his pre- 
conceived opinions, and under the leadership of those, 
at first opposed, ofttimes derided, but finally acclaimed 
the benefactors of the race. 

The introduction of Christianity, despite its manifold 
blessings to mankind, met with the bitterest and most 
cruel persecution. Labor-saving machinery, which has 
added untold opportunities and comforts to the world of 
labor, caused, until understood and appreciated, in its 
introduction, riot, and threatened revolution. The public 
school system had in its earlier days its bitter opponents 
among those who foresaw a depleted treasury; and the 
good roads movement will triumph over all opposition, 
not because of individual support, but because of its real 
merit. 

Poverty in the world is omnipresent. Legislation can- 
not eradicate, but wise laws can only tend to its ameli- 
oration. 

Every step in the march of progress tends to better 
the condition of the less favored financially of our citi- 
zens. 

Within the memory of the writer our State has been 
much retarded in the development of her industries and 
resources by a constant cry of poverty, raised by the 
unthinking or the designing, but which effectually 
stemmed the incoming tide of progress. 

This cry of poverty rendered possible the dark days of 
what I may term "Masseyism" in the State; it caused 
the sale, for a song, of the States holdings in the A. M. 
& O. R. R., now the flourishing Norfolk & Western R. R-, 



and it was responsible for that blunder of blunders — the 
abandonment to a corporate interest of the James River 
and Kanawha Canal, which, reaching out from Tidewater, 
had all but penetrated the rich coal fields of West Vir- 
ginia. 

This canal was and would have been in increasing ratio 
an inestimable boon to the farmer of the James River 
valley, and to the Virginian manufacturer. All these- 
were thrown away because of an unthinking cry of 
poverty. 

Virginia is not poor! Loudoun county is not poor! 
Happily for us, both are rich. Last year the State hadi 
a million of dollars of surplus in her treasury. 

Loudoun county is one of the banner counties of the 
State. 

Her bank statements show it. The two banks in Lees- 
burg with a population of some two thousand have to- 
gether individual deposits of about $1,500,000. The banks* 
at Purcellville, Round Hill and Upperville tell a similar 
tale of prosperity. These deposits are not the hoardings 
of the ultra rich, but are the accumulations of our enter- 
prising, energetic farmers. 

If any people in the world are entitled to good high- 
ways, these people of Loudoun are. They demand the- 
best of everything else; why, then, deter them from hav- 
ing something they need, and that every other community 
in the country is settling itself to secure. 

The powers of destruction, though sung by bard and' 
recorded by poet, perish; those of construction remain to< 
brighten the life of man. Had Caesar and Napoleon done- 
naught but build the roads attributed to them, their 
names would have been immortalized by grateful peoples. 

Mr. Love's sympathetic picture of the foreign peasant, 
seeking the byways, whilst haughty nobles, with pomp and 
circumstance, appropriate the highways, might be very 
interesting but for one thing — the condition, so far as my I 
personal observation goes, does not exist. 

The best system of highways in the world is that of 
France. 

With the battle of Sedan and the consequent fall of 
the Second Empire, all class distinctions in France ceased. 
All there, as in America, are equal before the law. Just 
what Mr. Love's opportunities for study of the conditions 
in Europe are, of course, I do not know; but I judge that 
his notions upon the subject are derived from political 
speeches, with which our people are regaled, made by 
those who, seeking to array labor against capital, make 
invidious and erroneous comparisons between conditions 
in Europe and in America. 

It is true that the French laborer receives less for his 
work, but this is compensated for by the greater pur- 
chasing power of his money in that country. 

The fact is that the French peasant and small farmer 
constitute the happiest, thriftiest and most patriotic class 
in the world, and the power of their aggregate wealth 
makes the French the bankers of the world, and the finan- 
cial arbiters of the peace of Europe. 

These people love their pretty homes and their beauti- 
ful country, and nothing adds more to their comfort and 
prosperity than their system of good roads. 

Far more apt would have been Mr. Love's illustration 
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on their way to school, jumping from stone to stone, and 
cutting across muddy, plowed fields that they may avoid 
highways, not indeed selfishly occupied by automobilists, 
and the rich, but so deep in clinging mud that it takes 
six-horse teams to do the work, which should be done 
by pairs of horses when traversing them. 

These highways are in bad weather worse than the 
trails of our forefathers because, cut deep by constant 
traffic, in winter they are not susceptible of improvement. 

After all the question is purely a business one to be 
settled upon business lines. 

Our farmers expend periodically large sums in liming 
and heavily fertilizing their lands in order that succeed- 
ing crops may be bettered, and expensive labor bills for 
tillage may be decreased. The same policy calls for good 
roads. The teams will do more work in hauling heavier 
loads; and the wagons and machinery suffer less wear 
and tear, while life from a social standpoint will be 
greatly benefitted. 

The Virginias are the best people in the world. The 
only trouble is that there are not enough of them to 
assure their prosperity in the vast territory which consti- 
tutes our State. We need good settlers. 

The Commonwealth expends annually vast sums for 
the higher education of our youth, only to have them 
betake themselves to the cities and towns of the country. 
This is a distinct loss to State and county. We owe it 
to our State, to our youth, to ourselves to make life in 
the country more possible and attractive; and when this 
is done many more of our country boys will be content 
with home; life, and saved from that grim monster, the 
city, with its grind of work, its ill health, dissipation and 
ofttimes untimely end. 

No one means will so surely secure these much desired 
ends as will a system of good roads. 

Again, with the advent of railways, towns once pros- 
perous, but off the line, sank into comparative obscurity. 
To them good roads mean a renewal of their former pros- 
perity. This is no dictum of mine. It is in evidence in 
Europe, in New York, New England, New Jersey, indeed, 
wherever good roads obtain; and as the system is extend- 
ed prosperity follows quickly along. 

No doubt, our next legislature, as has each of its pre- 
decessors, will be assailed by special interests seeking spe- 
cial privileges. 

Unfortunately, this will be no new condition. Our in- 
terests, however, can be safeguarded by sending men of 
character and brains to Richmond. Such men will not 
only curb but defeat special or other prenicious legisla- 
tion that may be proposed. 

We in Loudoun are confronted with a "condition, not 
a theory." We have a "road law" recently enacted by 
an intelligent General Assembly, having bi-ennial sessions. 
Let us, with the other counties of the State, set to work 
under it, until a better law, if possible, is offered. 

To wait, hoping that our individual opinions will be 
met, will only mean disappointment in the end, and an 
indefinite postponement of our plans. 

For my part, I am opposed to extravagance of any kind; 
personal, communal or State, but I feel that the moral, 
social and commercial interests of our country require 
our activity in this good roads movement. 



I am but a private in the ranks. There are officers of 
the Good Roads Association of this State among us, who 
will no doubt set to work in the matter. 

The time will assuredly come when Federal, State, city 
and county interests will harmonize upon a great and 
comprehensive scheme. Such plans, however, are formu- 
lated slowly. 

Meanwhile, the State of Virginia needs good roads, and 
the county of Loudoun is suffering for them. We should, 
therefore, be up and doing, lest wealthy and hitherto 
progressive Loudoun serve, for other communities, "to 
point a moral, and adorn a tale" of public apathy upon a 
vital, pressing problem. 

All advocates of good roads will expectantly await the 
promised publication of Mr. Love's plan. If it prove a 
feasible, practical and comprehensive solution of the prob- 
lem, I am sure it will receive the applause and support 
of all good citizens. 

I fear, however, that he has addressed himself to the 
ancient task of "making bricks without straw," a task, 
that confounded even the patient and long suffering Is- 
raelites of old. WESTMORELAND DAVIS. 

Morven Park, Leesburg, Va. 



VIRGINIA BERKSHIRE BREEDERS MEET. 

A meeting of the officers and directors of the Virginia 
Berkshire Association was helt in Richmond on April 
21st, at which meeting many points of interest to the 
Association, and to the breeders of Berkshire hogs ofithe 
State was discussed. 

It was decided that if proper arrangements could be 
made with the State Farmers' Institute, to hold the an- 
nual meeting of the Berkshire Association in conjunction 
with the Farmers' Institute, and also to have an auction 
sale of Berkshire hogs in connection with the meeting. 

An effort to get better express rates for pure bred 
stock to be used for breeding purposes was also deter- 
mined upon. 

The exhibition of hogs at the Fair was discussed, and 
the following offer of the American Berkshire Association 
accepted, and the $15.00 for second and third prize guar- 
anteed. 

The American Berkshire Association, for the purpose of 
encouraging breeders generally to exhibit their herds at 
the State Fairs of 1909, offers a Solid Silver Cup (value 
fifty dollars), to the owner of the best herd of Berkshires, 
consisting of a boar and three sows under one year old, 
at each State Fair that provides a separate classification 
for Berkshires. Animals farrowed after September 1, 1908, 
will be considered eligible to compete for the prize. 

The Trophy of the American Berkshire Association will 
be offered at every State Fair where the State Berkshire 
Association provides a second prize of $10.00 and a third 
prize of $5.00 for the exhibitors' herd referred to above. 
Conditions. 

First. — Upon the acceptance of this offer by the State 
Association, the announcement can be made, but there 
shall be filed with the Secretary of the American Berk- 
shire Association a check for $15.00' to cover second and 
their prizes, at least ten days before the opening of the 
Fair. 

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above prizes must be registered in the Record of this i 
Association at time of entry, and there must be three or 
more competitors. Exhibitors must produce for the ex- 
amination of the Superintendent of the Swine Depart- 
ment of the Fair, a certificate of ownership from the 
American Berkshire Association, showing that each ani- 
mal has been owned by him at least ten days before the 
opening of the Fair at which shown. 

Third. — That the animals competing for the above prem- 
iums must be owned by an exhibitor of the State in which 
the Fair is held, and no animal will be entitled to com- 
pete in more than one State for the American Berkshire 
Association Trophy. 

Fourth. — That the entries for the premiums herein of- 
fered must be made with the Secretary of the American 
Berkshire Association at least ten days prior to the open- 
ing of the Fair. 

Fifth. — The awarding of the above prizes shall be made 
by the regular Judge in the Berkshire classes, or some 
one selected by the Fair Association, and certified to the 
American Berkshire Association by the Secretary of the 
Fair Association. 

Sixth. — Upon receipt of the certificate of award, the 
Trophy will be suitably engraved and shipped to the suc- 
cessful exhibitor, and the checks covering second and 
third prizes will be sent to the other successful con- 
testants. 

Seventh. — Reports of awards must be filed for the above 
prizes with the Secretary of the American Berkshire As- 
sociation, at Springfield, 111., prior to December 31, 1909." 

The attention of all Berkshire ' breeders is especially 
called to these prizes, and they are strongly urged to 
compete for this trophy, as it is well worth having. It 
should also be understood that the hogs competing for this 
prize can compete for the prizes offered by the Fair. 

All Berkshire breeders of the State are cordially in- 
vited to join the Virginia Association, and to send in 
their initiation fee of $1-00 to the Treasurer, Mr. W. R. 
Fensom, Richmond, Virginia. 

The officers of the Association are: President, Dr. E. 
W. Magruder, Richmond; Secretary, Mr. E. L. Ross, Bed- 
ford City; Treasurer, Mr. W. R. Fensom, Richmond. These, 
with Dr. D. M. Trice, Charlottesville; Mr. E. F. Som- 
mers, Somerset, and Mr. W. A. Willeroy, Romancoke, from 
the Board of Directors. 



FARM OPERATIONS AT MONTICELLO IN THE YEAR 

1796. 

Editor Southern Planter: 

The Duke of La Rochefoucauld Laincourt, who was in 
this country from 1795 to 1797, and published a book of 
travels in America, was a careful student of agriculture 
and familiar with the best practice of that time. In the 
summer of 1796 he visited Monticello. The method gen- 
erally followed in that neighborhood (1796) was to clear 
a tract of land and raise tobacco on it four or five years 
in succession and then let it lie indefinitely; or, if to- 
bacco was unprofitable, to raise wheat and then corn, fol- 
lowed by wheat and corn, and then a recuperative fallow 
as with tobacco. The following is the account given 
of Mr. Jefferson's procedure: 



He has devided all his land under culture into four 
farms, and every farm into seven fields of forty acres. 
Each farm consists, therefore, of two hundred and eighty 
acres. His system of rotation embraces seven years, 
and this is the reason why each farm has been divided 
into seven fields. In the first of these seven years wheat 
is cultivated; in the second, Indian corn; In the third, 
peas or potatoes; in the fourth, vetches; in the fifth, 
wheat, and in the sixth and seventh, clover. Thus each 
of his fields yields some produce every year, and his 
rotation of successive culture, while it prepares the soil 
for the following crop, increases its produce. The abund- 
ance of clover, potatoes, peas, etc., will enable him to 
keep sufficient cattle for manuring his land, which at 
present receives hardly any dung at all, independently 
of the great profit which he will in future derive from 
the sale of his cattle. Each farm, under the direction 
of a particular steward or bailiff, is cultivated by four 
negroes, four negresses, four oxen, and four horses. 

Mr. Jefferson rates the average produce of an acre of 
land, in the present state of his farm, at eight bushels 
of wheat, eighteen bushels of Indian corn, and twenty 
hundred-weight of clover. After the land has been duly 
manured, he may expect a produce twice, nay, three 
times more considerable. But his land will never be 
dunged as much as in Europe. Black cattle and pigs, 
which in our country are either constantly kept on the 
farm or at least return thither every evening, and whose 
dung is carefully gathered and preserved either separate 
or mixed, according to circumstances, are here left graz- 
ing in the woods the whole year round. Mr. Jefferson 
keeps no more sheep than are necessary for the con- 
sumption of his own table. He cuts his clover but twice 
each season, and does not suffer his cattle to graze in 
his fields. ■ The quantity of his manure is therefore in 
proportion to the number of cattle which he can keep 
with his own fodder, and which he intends to huy at 
the beginning of winter to sell them again in the spring. 

From an opinion entertained by Mr. Jefferson, that 
the heat of the sun destroys or at least dries up in a 
great measure the nutritious juices of the earth, he 
judges it necessary that it should always be covered. 
In order, therefore, to preserve his fields as well as 
to multiply their produce, they never lie fallow. On 
the same principle he cuts his clover but twice a season, 
does not let the cattle feed on the grass, nor encloses 
his fields, which are merely divided by a single row 
of peach trees. His system is entirely confined to him- 
self; it is censured by some of his neighbors, who are 
also employed in improving their culture with ability 
and skill, but he adheres to it, and thinks it is founded 
on just observations. 

Mr. Jefferson sold his wheat last year for two dollars 
and a half per bushel. He contends that it is in this 
district whiter than in the environs of Richmond, and 
all other low countries, and that the bushel which weighs 
there only from fifty-five to fifty-eight pounds weigs on 
his farm from sixty to sixty-five. 



Prince Edward Co., Va. 



A. J. MORRISON. 



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WITH THE ADVERTISERS. 

The Waterloo Gas Engine Co. re- 
sumes its advertising this month. 

The Century Mfg. Co has a buggy 
announcement on another page which 
will interest our readers. 

The Knight Mfg. Co. is advertising 
its well-known saw-mill machinery this 
month. 

The Aermotor Co. has a striking an- 
nouncement on the second cover page. 

The Aultman & Taylor Machinery 
Co. is advertising its threshers, en- 
gines, and saw-mills this month. W. 
K. Bache, Richmond, Va., is their Vir- 
ginia Sales Agent. 

Allandale Farm, Fredericksburg, 
Va., announces a season for Bow Ax- 
worthy. 

The South Side Mfg. Co. is adver- 
tising fruit and truck baskets and car- 
riers. 

David Wallerstein & Co. announce 
that they are in the market for large 
quantities of wool. 

A splendid sale of Hereford cattle 
is advertised by W. B. Duke, Rider, 
Md. 

Percheron horses are offered by the 
Birdwood Stock Farm. Look up their 
advertisement 

Hackneys are offered by the noted 
Aldie Stud and Stock Farms. 

Basic Slag is advertised by the Coe- 
Mortimer Co. 

Robert R. Smith will have his usu- 
al public sale this month at his farm 
near Rippon, W. Va., close to the Vir- 
ginia line. 

H. C. Lester is advertising a fine 
line of Jacks. 

Attention is invited to the adver- 
tisement of E. W. Adams, in which 
he offers an excellent farm gate. 



=1 PLANT WOOD'S SEEDS d 
For Superior Crops. 

Soja Beans. 

The most nutritious forage and 
feed crop that can be grown, con- 
taining, to a greater extent than 
other crops, protein, or fat-fonn- 
ing qualities. 

They are also one of the largest- 
yielding and suresit of summer 
crops, succeeding and standing 
dry, hot weather to a remarkable 
extent, also succeeding better on 
light sandy land than any similar 
crop. All of our 

Soja Beans and Cow Peas 

are choice, recleaned stocks, superior 
both in cleanliness and quality, and of 
tested germination. 

Write for prices and "Wood's Crop 
Special" giving timely inlormation 
about Seasonable Farm Seeds. 



T. W. WOOD & SONS, 

Seedsmen, - Richmond, Va. 

We are headquarters for 

All Farm Seeds, 

Millets, Sorghums. Ensilage Corn, 

Late Seed Potatoes, Crimson 

Clover, etc. 



RAFFIA 

Red Star and Arrow Brands 

Bale lots of 225 lbs. each. 

We are direct importers — stock 
always on hand. "Write for special 
prices, stating quantity required. 
Sample sent on request. 

McHUTCHISON & COMPANY, 

Raffia Importers, 

17 Murray St., New York. 



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crops successfully, informs you how to ship, 
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[May, 




That's what you get Detore you pay 
one cent on a Waterloo Boy Gaso- 
line Engine. We Bend you the engine 
fora real 30 days free trial. Let It saw 
the wood, grind the feed, do the pump- 
.ing, churning and all the time-taking, 
profit-eating jobs. Then if you think you 
can get along without the 

Waterloo Boy 

ship it right back at our expense. We take every 
bit of the money risk off your shoulders, so why 
shouldn't you accept our Free Trial Offer. 

Write to-day for fine catalog and say : * 'Si 
me your Waterloo Boy for a free trial at 
my work." 

WAT^BXOO GASOLINE ENGINE CO. 
,|): i West 
Third Ave., 
Waterloo, 
Iowa. 




Double The Quantity of Water 

delivered by any other deep well 
cylinder pump, is raised by the 

"American" 
Deep Well Pump 

The reaeon is it delivers the| 
full capacity of the cylinder \ 
both on the DOWN -stroke 
and the UP-Btroke making it act- 
ually double capacity. There's a 
revelation to pump users in our | 
new Doep Well Pump Catalog. 

The American Well Works! 
Gen. Office & Works. Aurora, III." 

1st Nat. Bank Bldg., Chicago. 

Sydnor Pump Oompanv. Birhmond. Virginia. 




Drop us a Postal today for a Pricey 

It you knew our low price on a 

DAVIS SEPARATOR 

you would want to buy one. Why not 
write for it before you buy a machine 
of any kind from anybody? 
Real Factory Prices Save You 20% to 50% 
And the Davis price is not the oniy thing 
you should know about the Davis be- 
fore you buy a separator. While the 
Davis price is low, the quality is high 
and withahiirh quality and alow price 
we can't help but feel we will get your order. It's 
a perfect skimmer, easily cleaned, runs lignt and the 
best for vou. Ask for money saving catalog No. 1 26 | 
today, right now. We pay the freight. 

DAVIS CREAM SEPARATOR CO., 
S6B North Clinton St., Chicago, U. S A. 




TO GROW A GOOD 

GARDEN , 

good cultivation is absolutely neces" « • iAv t. 
sary, but it can't be done with poor 
tools. Here's an I ron A ge Tool es- 
pecially made for garden work. It 
not only does good work, but it is 
easy to operate. The hoys and 
girls can do the gardening 
and produce big crops, 
if you'll equip them 
with Iron Age 
Tools. Send 
to day for 
our Free 
catalog. 




HOW SOUTHERN UPLANDS HAVE 
SUFFERED FROM SOIL EROSION. 

A yearly loss of many million dol- 
lars which need never take place; a 
loss, not of one year, like that occa- 
sioned by a great fire, but one which 
has occurred year after year without 
interruption for decades; which in its 
aggregate, since the Civil War, nearly 
equals the national rJebt — this is the 
toll yearly exacted by erosion from 
the farm soils of the upland South. 

The profits o'f the farmer noiseless- 
ly flow from his sloping fields in mud- 
dy streams. In spite of the large 
amount of loss the tiller almost ig- 
nores it; he is, in fact, frequently ig- 
norant of it. Yet this immense loss 
to the farmer represents only a por- 
tion of the actual damage; other in- 
dustries suffer directly and indirectly 
from the same cause. On account of 
it there are in the dissected upland 
regions of the South more than 5, 0(H),- 
O'OO acres of land at one time culti- 
vated and now idle. Many reasons 
have been assigned; the reduced fer- 
tility of the soils; the lure of the 
newer, more level, and more easily 
tilled lands of the West; economic 
changes which followed the Civil 
War; lack of labor and home markets. 
These have been secondary factors. 
Soil exhaustion and erosion are the 
fundamental causes. The exhausted 
"old fields,' eroded, gullied, raw with 
deep wounds, and red as though 
stained with carnage, need only the 
touch of knowledge to become revivi- 
fied. 

The causes which produced the old 
fields still operate to the ruin of 
much of the farming land. The de- 
crease in the productivity of the farms 
of the Eastern United States has been 
general. Nowhere has it been so evi- 
dent as in the upland region of the 
South, where the loss is certainly not 
less than thirty per cent, of the yield 
when the lands were fresh and new. 
Erosion is the basal problem which 
underlies soil exhaustion in this re- 
gion, and so prevalent and so disas- 
trous is it that it has become not on- 
ly a serious local agricultural prob- 
leb, but an important national prob- 
lem as well, seriously affecting the 
value of many investments which 
have been made in the region. Its 
enormous extent has not been due 
entirely to poor cultural methods. 
The heavy rainfall, the physical char- 
acteristics of the region, the broken 
topography and the close-textured 
soils, and, in some measure, also the 
economic conditions have contributed 
to increase it. Where methods of cul- 
tivation suited to the local condi- 
tions have been used, not only has 
erosion decreased, but the yields have 
responded in a wonderful manner, in- 
dicating that the soils are not only 



DOUBLE VALUE 

from your manure. Cover two acres 

to every one by hand, spreading 

with better results and do it as 

fast as 10 men with forks. 

...MILLER... 

Manure Spreader 

and Pulverizer 

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



SAVE MONEY ON ROOFING 

$<£ ftfk buys full roll (108 sq. ft.) of strictly high 
BJ B\F\J grade roofing-, either rubber or flint coatsur- 
B m| face, with cementand nails complete. 
™ Most liberal offer ever made on first class 

roofing. Better than goods that sell at much higher prices. 
Don't spend a dollar on roofing until you have seen 

UNITO ASPHALT ROOFING 

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

UNITED FACTORIES CO. Depl. AS, Cleveland, O. 




The ■ MONARCH" 

STEEL STUMP PULLER. 




The best and simplest on earth. No 
cost to you, except freight, until it is 
set up and giving satisfaction. Nine 
years experience in this business. 
Write for catalogue and prices. 

JOS.. W. RITCHIE, Agent, 
"»nt» i Grottoen. Va. 



HARVEY BOLSTER SPRINGS 

I Soon save their cost. Make every wagon a spring i 
| wagon, therefore fruit, vegetables, eggs, etc.. If 
I bring more money. Ask for special proposition. I 
I Harvey Spring Co., 733 17lh St., Saoine, Wis. I 



Free Trial To You 



Monarch 




Hydraulic 

Cider Press 



Great strength and ca- 
pacity; all sizes; also 
gasoline engines, 
steam engines, 
sawmills, threst— 
ers. Catalog free. 
Monarch Machinery Co., S10 Cortland! Bids.. New York 



1909.] 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



>01 




Winner Brand Motor 
Buggies and Automobiles 

Direct from the factory to 
user, at factory prices. We 
trust honest people, located 
in all parts of the world. 

WRITE FOR FREE CATALOGUE. 



WINNER MFG. CO. 

Dept. 422 East St. Louis, 111. 





Steam, Gasoline and Water Power 

Plaaera, Shingle Mills and Cora Mills. 

WE PAY THE FREIGHT. 

Send for Catalogue. 

DeLoack Mill Mfg. Co.. Bridgeport, Ala. 

Box 265 



KNIGI 



1 Saw Mills! 
Nine Sizes I 

'If It's ■ Knight, It's right." Modern build and| 
equipment — mills that cut 3,000 to 60,000 ft. a day. 
Edgers, swing saws, dogs, I 
\ self-feed rip saws. etc. 
^Free circular. Address 
The KNIGHT Mfg. Co. 
1934 S. Market St. 
Canton, O. 



HARNESS m b aV 

You can buy custom-made, oak-tan- 
ned 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 HARNESS COMPANY, 
16 Lake St. Owego, Tioga Co., N. Y. 

WHEELS, FREIGHT PAID $8.75 

lor < Borer Woetl», Strel Tire.. With Robber Tires. II5.M. I 
mfg. wheels K to 4 in. tread. Bueey TopiJS ,60. Shafts rj 00 Top 
Sanies UJ: Harness. J5. Uara haw ta k.7 direct. CataiarM Prce. Repair 
wheels, p, 60 wagon Umbrella r.Es. w V BOOB, Cladaeall. 0. 



not inferior to those of other sections, 
but that on account of the ample rain- 
fall and the long growlne season 
they have many distinct advantages 
over those of other humid parts of 
the country. — From "The Waste from 
Soil Erosion in the South," by W. W. 
Ashe, in the American Review of Re- 
views for April. 



A CASE WORTH TRYING. 

Mr. F. Philander Towersby, a most 
excellent citizen, though not noted 
for lavish prodigality, received recent- 
ly a consignment of very rare Tokay- 
er Ausbruch. He sent one bottle of 
the delicious wine to Justice Fordyce 
of the Supreme Court, who happens 
to be one of the most eminent con- 
noisseurs in America, and with the 
bottle sent a note asking his Honor's 
opinion of the vintage. 

Mr. Towersby received next day 
this reply: 

"My dear Sir: — I beg to thank you 
for the confidence you repose in my 
judgment as shown by asking for my 
opinion. 

"But, inasmuch as I am a lawyer, 
many years of training and experi- 
ence make it impossible for me to 
give an opinion on anything but a 
case." — Harper's Weekly. 



DAIRY AND FOOD COMMISSION. 

Rules and Regulations. 
Effective on and After This Date, 
Adopted by the Dairy and Food 
Commissioner and Approved by the 
Commissioner and Board of Agri- 
culture and Immigration, Providing 
for the Sanitation of Bakeries, Con- 
fectioneries, Canneries, Packing 
Houses, Slaughter Houses, Dairies, 
Creameries, Cheese Factories, Res- 
taurants, Hotels, Groceries, Meat 
Markets, or Other Places Used in 
the Manufacture. Packing, Storage, 
Sale or Distribution of Food or Food 
Products, Governing the Sale or 
Distribution of Oleomargarine and 
Substitutes for Pure Butter. 
(1) Every building, room, basement 
or cellar occupied or used as a Bak- 
ery, Confectionery, Cannery, Packing 
House, Slaughter House, Dairy, Cream- 
ery, Cheese Factory, Restaurant, 
Hotel, Grocery, Meat Market or other 
place or apartment used for the 
preparation for sale, manufacture, 
packing, storage, sale or distribution 
of any food or food products, shall 
be properly lighted, drained, plumbed 
and ventilated, and conducted with 
due regard for the purity and whole- 
someness of the food therein produced, 
and with strict regard to the influ- 
ence of such conditions upon the 
health of the operatives, employees, 
clerks or other persons therein em- 
ployed. The term "Food" as herein 
used shall include all articles used 
for food, drink, confectionery or con- 
diment, whether simple, mixed or com- 
pound, and all substances or ingredi- 
ents used in the preparation thereof. 



|— THIS IS IT' 




The wagon you are looking for; tl-e wagon folks 

are all talking about. By every test it is the best — 

no living man can build a better. Of coarse you 

have guessed that it's the 

CI CPTBIf* HANDY 

LLEU I nlu WAGON 

Lew steel wheels; wide tires and durability and 
good service written all over it. Don't be talked 
into buying an inferior. Get thewagon that lasts. 
Or we'll sell you a set of Electric Steel Wheels 
and make your old wagon new 
at slight expense. Spokes united 
with the hub; absolutely im- 
possible to work loose. Sold on 
amoney-back guarantee. Their 
saving in time, labor, horse flesh 
and repair bills will pay forthem 
in a single year. More than a 
= million and a quarter in use. All 
^1 we at,k is a chance to tell you 
more about them. Dropusaline, 
we'll do the rest. Catalog free. 

E LECTRIC WH EEL CO., 
Box 146 Qulncy, III. 




ONE MAN DOES 
WORK OF TWO 

With Iron Age Hiiline t'uili- 

vntors. You can do it easier and 
better, because they are built on 
lines that make this possible. 
Hoes are under perfect control. 
Can regulate depth and 
keep hoes desired < 
tance from growia 
plants. More ad- 
vantages in our 
IRON AGE 
Book.il', 

FREE. 




BgTEMflfj tn. E 0.. Roy 167C GREMLUCH, N. J 



arid Vegetables 
Big Profits 



Don't let your surplus fruits and 
J vegetables go to waste. Can them, 
/the same as a large canning factory. 
/There's always a market for canned 
] goods, and for a 6maU investment 

3 ' " by STAHL 



Canning 



Agents 
Wanted 



and build up a big, 
profitable business. 
All sizes ; fully 
guaranteed. Write 
for catalogue. 
F. S. 8TAHL BFG. CO., 
Box 357 -D, Qolnej, 111. 



A COW PEA THRESHER 

Invented at last! This Is not a "pea 
huller" but a machine 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. 

IvOGKR PEA & BEAN THRESHER CO. 
Morrlstowri, Tenia. 

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



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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[May, 



MODERN SILAGE METHODS 



Send for this new 
224-page book on Silos and 
Silage. 1908 edition — size 5'Ax 
7'^-in.— indexed — over 40 illus. 
Used as a text book in many Agricul- 
tural Colleges. Contents by chapters 
follow: "Advantages of Silo," 25 pages; 
"Silos: How to Build," 76 pp; "Concrete 
or Cement Silos." 10 pp; 'Silage Crops," 
16 pp; "How to Make Silage," 19 pp: 
•'How to Feed Silage," 22 pp; "Feeder's Guide," 
etc., 56pp. Avast amount of knowledge 
boiled down— nothing so complete ever 
published— answers every silage ques- 
tion. Mailed for 10c, coin or stamps, . 
If you mention this paper, 
SILVER MFC. CO., 
Salem, Ohio 



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(0 




ECONOMY SILO 



Mednt and Highest Award at the Jamestown Expedition, 
Saves much of your expense for cattle feed. 
Pays for itself the first Winter. Hundreds of 
farmers have proved this. Staves, white pine or 
cypress — cannotwarpnor crack. Absolutely air- 
tight. Heavy iron hoops, making' strong ladder. 
Doorway a marvel of simplicity and perfection 
— doors opened or closed without hammer or 
wrench. Every silo easy to erect, and fully 
guaranteed. 

Write today for free illustrated catalogue, 
with experience of Users. 

Economy Silo & Mfg. Co. 
Box 3fiG Frederick, Md 




"HOW AND WHY 
TO FILL A SILO 

SEND FOR FREE COPY 

WILDER-STRONG IMPLEMENT CO. 

Box FTTB MONROE MICH. 



SILOS 

that make and keep real ensilage; 
that have the utmost strength, con- 
venience, and durability ; that are 
used by the United States Govern- 
ment. Send for free catalogue. 
HARDER MFG. COMPANY, 
Box M, Cobleskill, N. Y. 




Cattle Instrument Case 

Easy to Use"— no Veterinary 
experience necessary. Con- 
lina $3.00 Milk Fever Outfit 
and eight other "Eaisy to Use" Cat- 
tle Instruments needed by every 
COW owner. Complete in Oak Case 510 .00. regular 
value $15.00, sent prepaid with "Easy to Use" direc- 
tions on receipt of $10.00. Send for Free Booklet ' 2tf 
(.'. P. PILLING & SON CO., Arch St., rhllndelphia, fa. 




Please mention the Southern Planter. 



(2) The floors, sidewalls, ceilings, 
furniture, receptacles, implements and 
machinery of every establishment 
where food is manufactured, pacned, 
stored, sold or distributed, shall at 
all times be kept in a clean, health- 
ful condition. 

(3) Food in the process of manu- 
facture, preparation, packing, storing, 
sale or distribution must be securely 
protected from flies, dust, dirt and 
as far as may be necessary, from all 
other foreign, or injurious contami- 
nation. 

(4) All refuse, dirt and the waste 
products subject to decomposition and 
fermentation incident to the manufac- 
ture, preparation, packing, storing, 
selling and distributing of food, must 
be removed from the premises daily. 

(5) All trucks, trays, boxes, bas- 
kets, buckets and other receptacles, 
chutes, platforms, racks, tables, 
shelves, and all knives, saws, cleavers 
and other utensils and machinery used 
in moving, handling, cutting, chop- 
ping, mixing, canning and all other 
processes must be thoroughly cleaned 
daily. 

(6) The clothing of operatives, em- 
ployees, clerks or other persons must 
be clean. It is suggested that employ- 
ees in bakeries, confectioneries, pack- 
ing houses, slaughter houses, dairies, 
creameries, cheese factories and meat 
markets, be attired, as far as possi- 
ble, in clean, white suits or overalls. 

(7) The side walls and ceilings of 
every bakery, confectionery, creamery, 
cheese factory, hotel and restaurant 
kitchen, shall be well plastered, 
wainscoted or ceiled, preferably with 
metal or lumber, and shall be kept 
oil painted or well lime washed, and 
all interior woodwork in every bakery, 
confectionery, creamery, cheese fac- 
tory, hotel and restaurant kitchen 
shall be kept washed and clean with 
soap and water; and every building, 
room, basement or cellar occupied or 
used for the preparation, manufacture, 
packing, storage, sale or distribution 
of food, shall have an impermeable 
floor made of cement or tile, laid in 
cement, brick, wood or other suitable 
non-absorbent material which can be 
flushed and washed clean with water. 

(8) The doors, windows and other 
openings of every food-producing or 
distributing establishment during the 
fly season, shall be fitted with self- 
closing screen doors and wire window 
screens of not coarser than 14-mesh 
wire gauze. 

(9) The sleeping place or places for 
persons employed in such establish- 
ments shall be separate * and apart 
from the room in which food products 
are manufactured or stored, and no 
person shall sleep in any place where 
flour, meal or the manufactured pro- 
ducts thereof are manufactured or 
stored. 

(10) No domestic animals except 
cats shall be permitted to remain in 



See That Generator? 




Bad. 



Be able to tell your blue dress from 
black. See while you are trying, with- 
out 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 lamp. Costs less than 
Kerosene, and always ready at all 
times. We will send you one ready to 
put up. Write us to-day. 
IDEAL EPWORTH ACETYLENE CO., 
620 Elder St., JOHNSTOWN, PA. 

MONTROSS METAL SHINGLES 



1 






znnmnms: 



are no experiment. Made 
since 1889, and give satis- 
faction to all users. Offer 
you the ideal roofing. 
Won't crack or scale. 
Bire, storm and lightning 
proof. Light, attractive, 
easily laid. Last a life, 
time. Inexpensive. Write 
for Catalogue. 

M0NTR0SS METAL SHINGLE COMPANY, 
113 Erie St., Camden, N J. 

ITIYYOURROfHP 

C P_„ C„,.~-„ —We will guarantee to put any 
JC rCi OtfUaTc* old leaky, worn-out, rusty, tin. 
Iron, steel, paper, felt gravel or shingle roof in perfect 
condition, and keep it in perfect condition for 5c per 
square per year. 

The Perfect Roof Preserwr, makes old, 
worn-out roofs new. Satisfaction guaran- 
teed or money refunded. Our free roofing 
book tells all about it. Write for it today. 

The Anderson Manufacturing Co., Oept. 61 Elyria, Ohio 

BOILERS AND ENGINES. 

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



square per year. 

Roof-Fixi 



Rockford Engine Works. 
TVpf 35. Rockford, 111 

The Engine that will please you 



Before you 
contract or 
buy write for 
our proposi- 
tion 




Nent-lVobby-Haady. 



All Styles 2 to 30 h. p. 



PLANET JR., IMPLEMENTS. 

Do the work of 6 men in the garden 
or on the farm. 1909 catalogue of 45 
kind free. 

S. L. ALLEN «& CO., 

Box 1107X Philadelphia, Pa. 

Always mention The Southern 
Planter when writing advertise!.- 



1909.J 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



503 



THE 
SEAY-DILLARD 
HARDWARE CO. 

— OF— 

Blackstone, 
Virainia. 

ARE SHOWINGTHE 

MOST ATTRAC- 

TIVELINEOF 

BUGGIES 

AND 

HARNESS 

To be found in the State. 

Our values are better and 
prices lower than will be 
found in the cities. We 
have one of the largest re- 
positories in the State, and 
our prices and goods will 
please you. 

SEAY-DILLARD 
HARDWARECO. 

R. F. DILLARD, 

President. 




Make Your Own Fertilizer 

at Small Cost with 
WILSON'S PHOSPHATE MILLS 

Fromlto40H.P. Also Bone 
^^ Cutters, hand and power 
for the poultrymen; erit 
and shell mills, farm feed 
mills, family grist mills, 
scrap cake mills. Send for 
oar catalog. 

Wilson Bros., Sole Mfrs., Easton, Pa. 

WHEAT THRESHER 
and Horse Power 

For sale: One Heebner's Little Giant 
No. 2 Thresher and one 2-horse tread 
power, both mounted and in good run- 
ning order. 

L.OUIS DE LACROIX, Oxford, N. C. 



any room used for the manufacture 
or storage of food products. 

(11) No employer shall knowingly 
permit, require or suffer any person 
to work in a bakery, confectionery, 
cheese factory, dairy, creamery, hotel 
or restaurant kitchen who is afflicted 
with any contagious or infectious dis- 
ease, or with any skin disease. 

(12) Cuspidors shall be provided by 
the owner or operator for each work- 
room of every bakery, confectionery 
or other food-producing establish- 
ments, and no employee or other per- 
son shall expectorate on the floors or 
side walls of any such bakery, confec- 
tionery, creamery or other food j pro- 
ducing establishment. Plain notice 
forbidding such expectoration shall be 
posted in every such place. 

Smoking in workrooms of food- 
producing establishments is inhibited. 

(13) Every bakery and confection- 
ery shall be provided with a conveni- 
ent washroom and toilet of sanitary 
construction, but such toilet shall be 
entirely separate and apart from any 
room used for the manufacture or stor- 
age of food products. 

(14) Delivery wagons used in the 
delivery of products of bakeries and 
confectioneries shall be covered 
wagons, closed at both ends. 

(15) Delivery wagons used to trans- 
port or deliver meats or meat products 
must be provided with tarpaulins of 
sufficient size to cover the entire 
body of wagon when loaded, and the 
tarpaulins shall be carefully spread 
over loads of meats, and meat pro- 
ducts unprotected by boxes or casings 
when in transit through the streets 
of the cities and towns of the State. 



THE EDITOR AND THE MICROBE. 
An editor sits at his desk and 

scrawls, 
Searching the ceiling and surveying 

the walls, 
Had nibbled the holder that his lips 

did engage, 
Extracting blue smoke from its dark 

wooden cage. 
A microbe, ignoring the. roof on its 

way, 
Lit on his desk, and thus did it say: 
"You see I'm a crobe, or rather, you 

don't 
For, not gifted with features, I no 

vision evoke, 
I've just come to tell you I don't care 

a fig 
For all the spray calendars that you 

may rig, 
Your salt and your sulphur, your 

green and your lime 
May hinder me some, but my life is 

feline; 
My spatter, it's true, destruction 

brings in, 
For one age is let out that the next 

may get in. 
Grapes grow not on thorns; wine no 

longer tickles. 
Then why should I spare the outcast 

of vittles 



SHIP HE YOUR 

OLD METALS 

HIDE3 
RUBBER 

SCRAP IRON 

Car Lots a Specialty 

50,000 

Hides Wanted 



Write for Prices. 
Satisfaction Guaranteed. 

No Commissions. 



Checks Sent Same 
Day Freight Bills 
Abb Masked Paid. 



Clarence Cosby, 

published 1890. 

RICHHOND, VA. 



Largest Dealeb in 

Scrap Iron, Metals, Hide*, 
Etc., in the South. 

REFERENCES: 

National Bank of Virgin*, 
Bank of Richmond, 
Bradstreets and Dub. 



504 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[May,. 




Crestline 



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S 
U 
N 

S 
H 
I 

N 
E" 



Fig- 825 with Anto 
Agitator and Two 
Spray Leads 



Sprayer 



This Pump of Qual= 
is used Throughout 
THE SOUTH. 



Seldom do you purchase a sprayer. 
When you do buy see that you pur- 
chase quality and merit as well as ap- 
pearance. We put the material into 
the pump. Heavy Brass and Iron and 
build it so anyone can repair it. 
Spraying is a necessity. So is a good 
pump a necessity. Ask about our 
"Sunshine" Pump. Free circular and 
price to anyone interested. Address 

THE CRESTLINE MFG. CO., 
Pumps— Sinks — Hose. Crestline, O 



LEMHI'S BUSIER ■ 



LEGGETT'S 
CHAMPION 

DDSTER 



Distributes 
Insecticides 
Tn dust form 
NO WATER TO HAUL,. 

The Champion 
and Little Giant 

dust potatoes and 
tobacco as fast as 
you walk. These 
are the well- 
known Tobacco 
Dusting Machines 
THE BEETLE 
Potato Duster 
(Horse Power) 
Dusts Four Rows. 
illustrated Spray Calendar, 
concise information regard- 
ing Dusters and address of nearest 
dealer, mailed on request. 
LEUQfcTT & BisO., 301 Pearl St, N Y. 




DEFENDER SPRAYER 

Easiest Working 

most powerful Brass 
Spray Pump, Auto- 
matic mixer, Brass 
expansion valves and 
double Strainer. 

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

kills Prairie Dogs, Wood- 
chucks, Gophers and 
Grain Insects. "The wheels 
of the Gods grind slow, 
but exceedingly small." So the weevil, 
but you can stop their grind with 

FUMA CARBON HI-SULPHIDE 
as others are doing. It fumigates 
poultry houses and kills hen lice. 
Edward R. Taylor, Penn Yan, IV. Y. 




FUMA 



I dropped on this sphere whilst heav- 
ing a sigh! 
Ozone is my ration; my roost is the 

sky, 
Dubbed as a pest in your Babel vo- 
cabulary, 
Tho' I act as an agent in Nature's 

great laboratory." 
Then, saying "so long," solemn silence 

did follow, 
Till the Editor gasped: "Beats cock 
fighting hollow." W. M. 

. i 

PUTTING HIS HOOFING ON RIGHT. 
Farmer Sow Does the Job Himself. 
If you have any buildings on your 
place that have old or leaky roofs, the 
thing to do is to write at once to 
some reputable manufacturer for his 
estimates, samples and prices on pre- 
pared roofing. The Breese Brothers 
Company, who make the well-known 
"BB" roofing, make a specialty of an- 
swering all such inquiries and furnish 
everything needed in case the writer 
decides to use "BB" roofing. They 
tell just how to lay gutters, flashings, 
pitched roofs, flat roofs, and how to 
measure your buildings so as not to 
waste any roofing material. Each 
roll of "BB" roofing contains cement, 
special nails and all directions for a 
simple, neat job. 




Before you make any deal to roof 
your buildings or sheds, suppose you 
drop a line to the Breese Brothers Co. 
(Roofing Department 64), Cincinnati, 
Ohio, and get the details of their 
proposition. This doesn't cost you 
anything but a penny postal and it 
may save you both money and trouble 
in getting the right kind of a roof. 
Be sure to write for free sampies of 
their roofing to test and for their 
special offer schedule. 

Write to Breese Brothers Co. about 
roofing at once, and we assure you 
your questions will be promptly and 
politely answered. 



THE AUTO-BUGGY IN CITY AND 
COUNTRY. 

I couldn't help stopping to watch 
it as it flew down Michigan avenue. 
Just an auto-buggy such as you can 
buy for seven or eight hundred dol- 
lars — and passing to and fro were big 
cars that cost thousands — but it made 
me think about the wonderful bigness 
of the motor buggy proposition. 

Here on the velvety, unbroken 
boulevard this high wheel, solid tire, 
engine-driven buggy was serving its 
owner as well as the highest priced 
car could possibly serve him. It was 



If you are look- 
ing for the 
Grandest Little 
Tool ever used 
qrever seen for 
Setting Plants 
Here it is AESt* 



The universal testi- 
mony of men who 
haveused this Trans- 
planter for two or 
three seasons is that 
the longer they use 
our Planter the bet 
ter they like it, 

Write to day for 
full particulars. 

to 
MASTERS PLANTER CO. 

178 S. Water St 
CHICIGi, ILL. 




FARM USES 

of CARBOLINEUM are completely ex- 
plained Id BULLETIN 26 
covering Kinds and Habits of Lice — 
The care of Silos, Preservative treat- 
ment of Shingles and Fence posts and 
the care of Fruit and Shade Trees. 
Mailed free upon request. 

Endorsed by U. S. Department of 
Agriculture. 

Cnrboltneum Wood Preserving Co., 
346 West Broadway, New York. 

Early Chicks Make Early Winter 

Layers. 

CHAS. A CYPHERS 

MODEL 

INCUBATORS. BROODERS. FEEDS. SUPPLIES. 

Safest, Easiest and Best. Factory 
prices. Free catalogue. 

W. J. TODD, 426 N. 6th St- 

Richmond, Va. 

Headquarters for Chicken Feeds. 

PATENTS s ori u F?l° 

* ^* * M - tl ^ * *^ RETURNED 

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

EVANS * WILKINS, 
848 F Street. Washington, D. O. 

WANTED 

= Bills to Collect - 

In all portions of the United States. 
No collection, no charge. Agencies 
wanted everywhere; 25 years' expe- 
rience. PALMORE'S COLLECTION 
AGENCY. 911 Main St.. Richmond. Va. 

KILL SAN JOSE SCALE WITH 

GOOD'S ggSEEZi S0*P»0.3 

James Good, 959 N. Front Street, 
Philadelphia. 

Please mention the Southern Planter. 



1909.] 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



i05 



A WELL 
KEPT FARM 

should tilwuvshave 
I Ha Cenoaa In good 

order. The fence que*'' 

tionean be n ittled per- , 
| muuently by erecting a 

SUPERIOR 
WIRE FENCE 

| No more repairs — no more ex- , 
pense. It always stays tight and 
will be perfectly good when you 
are ready to retire and turn the 
farm over to your children. Also 
Steel Gates for every purpose. 

Prices Low Easy Terms 

Let us send our Free catalog ex- 
plaining how we can gi "e such 
extraordinary fence value for so 
little money. 

THE SUPERIOR FENCE CO. 
Dept. J Cleveland, Ohio | 



BALL BEAJtTNC 

AUTOMATIC 

GATE 



r\ IF MOT THE BEST 
'AUTOMATIC GATE 
J ON THE MARKET 
ISEND IT BACK 






MONEYRBVNDED if not satisfactory 
rx-f' IN EVERY WAY 

E.W.ADAMS. 

STATION A. TOPEKA.KAH 



THE NEW CENTURY GATE 



Can be opened or closed from r 

your wagon by small ch-ild. f^TT-lf:"-; -Pvi' i \ 'fs 

No 6prings. no binges, no cast -^ j _ L. 

ings. no cog-wheels, no wood. ( V ; j<:?,!zr -r_ \--\'-~> 
no saging. no draging. So sim- W—i -=— t^S-VC L- 
ple, so easy, no harness and almost no machinery; nothing 
to wear out or break, nothing to be getting out of fix. 
Not affected by drifting or deep snow, sleet or ice. Always 
ready for use and will last a life-time. A model of simpli- 
city, durability and cheapness. If there is no Agent in 
your locality, please write N eY , CenUrj Steel. Wire 4 Iroo Works, 

602 S. RCGISTER ST BALTIMORE. MC 

$100 that the 
20th CENTtRY FARM GATES 

is the most 
simple and 
p r a c 1 1 c a 
farm gate 
ever produc 
ed. Do you 
want to 
make mon- 
ey? 
Lodl, Ohio. 




H. M. MYERS, 

Sole owner Pats. 



TJ. S. and Canada. 



ALWAYS IN ORDER 

MANLOVE 

Automatic Gate 

zrw§ Saves time, adds 
to value, safety, 
beauty and pleas- 
ure of home. 
MANLOVE GATE CO., 272 E. Huron St- 
CHICACO, ILLS. 



1±jl LAWN FENCE 

■ - - Many designs. Cheap as 

wood. 82 page Catalogue 
tree. Speeial Price* te 

Churches and Cemeterlei 
Coiled Spring Fence Co. 
Box Q Winchester tnd 




«:r»M«j r »»; 
ii3llK^K«M>51f|^y^ 



Do You Ship Tomatoes? 

If so — send for our catalogue of 
standard carriers. 

SOUTH SIDE MFG. CO. 
Petersburg, Va. 

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



of good style — a neat, trim, all-black 
buggy body of the best type. An en- 
gine that was running quietly and eas- 
ily. There was only a slight whir 
from the machine — no snorting, puff- 
ing or pounding noise. Comfort, most 
evidently. There couldn't be other 
ill an comfort in such a buggy, with 
its roomy seat and full elliptic springs. 

It was an automobile that the city 
man of moderate means might well 
be proud of. 

But the adaptibility of such a car 
is the big thought, if you will just 
turn it over in your mind for a mo- 
ment. 

The high-wheeler, motor-driven bug- 
gy, such as the International Auto 
Buggy, is not designed with city ser- 
vice especially in view. 

While this trim, comfortable auto- 
buggy was skimming along the boule- 
vard, hundreds of auto-buggies on the 
deep mud roads of Illinois, Indiana, 
Nebraska and Iowa, on the hills of 
Arkansas, Missouri, New York and 
Pennsylvania, along the sand paths of 
Utah and Nevada, and across the rain- 
soaked valleys of Washington — hun- 
dreds of auto-buggies were carrying 
physicians to their patients, lawyers 
to their courts, merchants to their 
stores, farmers to their trading cen- 
ters. 

For let us understand that no mat- 
ter how satisfactory the service which 
the auto-buggy renders the city man, 
it is designed and built for the sort 
of service which is too much to ask 
of the intricately built machines of 
the big high-power, high-speed auto- 
mobiles; too much to ask of low 
wheels and pneumatic tires. The 
auto-buggy is built for dirt roads — 
mud roads when the rain and snow 
come — sand and hills. And on such 
roads the auto-buggy reveals all its 
worth. 

The International Auto-Buggy is a 
roomy powerful, practical motor ve- 
hicle, built with one seat or two seats, 
with or without top. It is a simple, 
powerful, comfortable car of great dur- 
ability. There is no question about its 
positive value, in a business way, on 
the farm, and no question about the 
pleasure it adds to family life on the 
farm. 

If you will address the Interna- 
tional Harvester Co. of America, at 
Chicago, the new 190*9 International 
Auto-Buggy Catalogue will be sent 
you. It is a book full of interesting 
facts about the auto-buggy and inter- 
esting photographs showing its con- 
struction and the car in operation. 



LOOK TO YOUR HARVESTING 
MACHINE. 
The annual advertising of the In- 
ternational Harvester Company of 
America, warning farmers to look to 
their harvesting machines and be fully 
ready for the harvest, should not go 
unheeded by our readers. 
Harvest Time is Fast Approaching. 
You ploughed in season. You fer- 



yiinin 



Sks/tii 



Harness leather becomes 
hard, brittle, unsafe, when 
the pores in the leatherare 
open to wind and moist- 
ure. An application of 

EUREKA 



fills the pores, seals them 
against these hardening, 
rotting agencies and keeps 
the harness a beautiful 
black, soft, elastic, and 
tough. Eureka Harness 
Oil does wonders for a 
harness. Askyourdealer. 

STANDARD OIL COMPANY 
(Incorporated) 

MMB I 1 WW— ' '■ U""m 



BARGAINS IN 

2nd Hand Machinery, 

THE WATT PLOW COMPANY, 
Richmond, Va. 

1 — 8 H. P. Gelser Engine and Boiler 
on wheels in first-class condition. 

1 — 10 H. P. Geiser Engine and Boiler 
on wheels. In fine condition. 

1 — 12 H. P. Ames Engine and Boiler 
on wheels. 

1 — 25 H. P. Detached Engine. 

1 — 8 H. P. Prick Eclipse Engine and 
Boiler on steel wheels in good con- 
dition. 

1 — 20 H. P. Detached Engine and 1 25 
H. P. Boiler In first-class condition. 

1 — 20 H. P. Gelser Engine and Boiler 
on wheels and 1 No. 1 Gelser Saw 
Mill with 50-lnch saw and all belts. 
This outfit has only been In use for 
about 18 months and is In first- 
class condition. 

1 — 4-lnch, 4-sided Molder. 

7 — 20-lnch Planer, Matcher and Mold- 
er complete wit hcountershaft and 
pulleys. 



We Invite your correspondence and 
will gladly give any information de- 
sired. 

THE IV/ITT PLOW CO., 

1426 E. Main St., Richmond, Va. 



Wp Will ftivp A RURAL MAIL B0X > 

WwG fllll UIVC The best and handsomest 
Galvanized Steel Rural Mail Box made, to the first 
person sending address of party canvassing for peti- 
tions for new Rural Route. Write today. 
SENTTCKY ST4JIPI.N0 CO.. DEPT. 8a I.OlIt VIIXE. KY. 



f Al VPS Raise Them Without 
WAI4YC0 Milk. Booklet Free. 
S. T. Beverldge A Co., Richmond, Va. 



506 



THE SOUTHERN" PLANTER. 



[May, 




An Easy 

Turning 

Wheel 

Pays 

Best 



When 

you're 
studying 
ways to in- 
crease business 
— how to make 
more trips per day, or how to carry 
more pounds per trip — remember 

MICA 

AXLE 
GREASE 

It puts good dollars 
into many a pocket by 
saving wagon-wear 
and horse flesh. 

Alittleon each wag- 
on spindle puts "go" 
into a whole week's 
business. 

The best thing for 
wheels is Mica Axle 
Grease. Ask your 
dealer and try it. 

STANDARD OIL CO. 

(Incorporated) 





writ* DR. 



A Great Discovery. 
DROPSY 

CURBSD with vase- 
table remedies; re- 
moves all symptom 
of dropsy In 8 to SO 
days; St to 60 days 
effects permanent 
cure. Trial treat- 
ment furnished free 
to every sufferer; 
nothlny fairer. For 
circulars, testi- 
monials and free 
trial treatment 
GR-DElf'S SONS, 



Atlanta, Ga. 



Do You Ship Peaches? 

If so — don't fall to send for our 
catalogue and prices for 1909. 
SOUTH SIDE MFG. CO., 
Petersburg, Va. 



MTKTILMf* _T stroncesi 

" ^™" ™ ^^ ^™ strong chlck- 
en-tlght Sold to theuser at Wholesale 
Prircp.. We p.j Freight. Catalogue free. 

COILED SPRING FENCE CO., 
Box 63 Winchoetor. Indiana. 



rtMMHH> 



tilized your fields. You made the 
best seed bed possible. You leveled 
and rolled the ground and you drilled 
in the grain, and then you looked con- 
fidently to Mother Nature to do her 
part. 

It has cost you not a little in labor 
and money and you are looking for- 
ward with considerable anxiety to the 
time when you will reap your harvest. 

But you have another duty to per- 
form. Nature is doing her part well. 
She is igrowing the crop rapidly — more 
rapidly, perhaps, than you' think. 
Soon the crops will be grown and 
ripened and then — then you must be 
ready to harvest it quickly. 

There must be no delay. It may be 
n cessary to cut and shock it all in 
a very few days in order that you 
may save it all. It is not a matter of 
willingness to work. It is a matter 
of readiness with proper machines to 
harvest your grain quickly and eco- 
nomically — a matter of saving it all 
so you will reap the whole reward to 
which you are entitled. 

You are not concerned as to what 
name is painted on your harvester 
or mower, but you are greatly con- 
cerned about the efficiency. You want 
your machine to be right working. 
You want it to be sure. You will 
have no time to stop and make re- 
pairs when the harvest is on. You 
will not tolerate waste. 
What Harvesting Machine Shall You 
Buy? 

You should decide that matter with- 
out bias or prejudice. Decide it sim- 
ply and solely in your own interest. 
What binder or mowing machine will 
be sure to serve your own interest 
best? 



USED 15 YEARS— CURES EVERY 
TIME. 
Genoa, Fla., Jan. 3, 1908. 
Dr. B. J. Kendall Co. 

Dear Sirs: — Please send me one of 
your books. I have used Kendall's 
Spavin Cure for the last fifteen years 
and have tried it for several different 
things and find it to cure every time. 
It is the only liniment that I depend 
on. Can't do without it. 
Yours truly, 

W. J. POWELL. 



ABOUT SCARS ON HORSES. 

It is not generally known that it is 
possible to remove an old scar tis- 
sue and heal with hair on and leave 
no blemish. Absorbine will do the 
work, and detailed instructions for ef- 
fecting cure are given in pamphlet, 
"How to Remove Blemishes," which 
is packed with every bottle of Absorb- 
ine, or will be mailed you postpaid up- 
on request. 

Mr. L. C. Anderson, of Maysville, 
Ky., writes under date of January 5, 
1909: "I cured a very badly dew- 
poisoned ankle, restored new hair to 
an old scar by using Absorbine." 

Absorbine is $2.00 per bottle at 



Rippley's 
Fly Remover 




Instantly removes all f 
flies,mosquitoes, lice and 
other Insects from cattle, 
horses and other animals 
sprayed with it. It is 
healing to any sore. Ani- 
mals rest easy and feed 
quietly all day. Cows 
give \i more milk, which 
isabigsaving. 1 gal. will 
protect 600 cows. Money 
refunded if animals are 
not protected. Endorsed 
by the best class of peo- 
ple. Order at once and 

secure agency, you can sell hundreds of gall 
1 gal. 81.10; 2 gal., $2.10; 6gal.,M60: 10 gal.. $9.00. 
Klppley's Special Sprayer for applying same $1 • 
4 vol. Compressed Air Sprayer for applying same 
on large herds, 85.00 
The Rlppley Hardware Co., 

Gentlemen :— Kor three years I have been experimenting with 
different things to keep files off my cows, but not until f tried 
your Fly Remover and Compressed Air Sprayer was I successful 
I used this last year and found that It cost less than one cent per 
week per cow. With your Compressed Air Sprayer it takes but 
a few minutes to put it on, and the result has been that my cows 
were free from flies, and during the year gave 6400 pounds of 
milk each, which made 324 pounds of butter percow. 1 can heart- 
ily recommend it to all stock owners. — JOHN ARMSTRONG 
Prest. State Board of Agriculture, De Smet, S. D., Junel, 1901. 

RIPPLEY HARDWARE CO., Box V, GRAFTON, 1L_! 

Manufacturers of Breeders Supplies. 



r\ A TCV E"I V VII I CD Pl»ced anywhere, at- 
UA13I rLI rvll_.l_I_.rv tractsand kills all flies. 




tractsand kills all flies. 
Neat, clean, ornamen- 
tal, convenient, cheap. 
Lasts all season. 
Made of metal, cannot 
spill or tip over, will not 
soil or injure anything. 
Guaranteed effective. 
Of all dealers or sent 
prepaid for 20 cents. 
HAROLD SOMERS 

150 DeKalb Ave. 

Brooklyn, N. Y. 



Heiskelfs Ointment 

and 

Medicinal Toilet Soap 

Do skin eruptions, pimples and 
blotches spoil your good looks and make 
you unhappy ? 

HEISKELL'S OINTMENT will cure 
such troubles, and when they're cured 
HEISKELL'S MEDICINAL TOILET 
SOAP, used daily, will keep your skin 
like a baby's. 

Both are vegetable compounds- 
one a healer, the other a preserver. 

Send a postal for a new booklet of 
general interest. 

JOHNSTON, HOLLOWAY & CO.,405 Commerce St., Phila.,P_. 



-ANNOUNCEMENT-, 

Owing to the many letters re- 
ceived, relative to crop rotation and 
formulae for the home mixing of 
fertilizer, and the amount of time 
and labor necessary to Intelligently 
indite my replies, I have determined 
to give up seme other work, and de- 
vote some time at regular intervals 
to correspondence of this character, 
making a nominal charge, gradu- 
ated to accord with my earning ca- 
pacity at other lines of work else- 
where. 

I. therefore, Invite my frienda, the 
public to write me freely concern- 
ing Agricultural Matters . A state- 
ment of the value of the time spent 
In framing my replys will accom- 
pany each letter, and the amount 
mentioned be due me only when my 
correspondent Is satisfied of its value 
to himself. PERCIVAL, HICKS, 
North, Mathevva Co., Va. 



five 
'or tl 

SOCT 

Ti 

our l 



1909.] 



THE SOUTHEEN PLANTER. 



507 



AGRICULTURAL 
LIME. 

PLAIN ROCK 

OR 
SHELL LIME 



BAG! OB BULK 



SPECIAL FINE HYDRATED LIME 



FOB DRILLING. 



If in the market for any grade and 
any quantity of 

LAND LIME 

Write for our price Hat and particulars, 

T. C. ANDREWS & CO., Inc. 

NOXrOLK, .... vA. 



Nitrate of Soda 

In Original Bags 

NITRATE AGENCIES COMPANY 

64 Stone Street, New York 

Keyser Building, Baltimore, Md. 

36 Bay Street, East, Savannah, Ga. 

305 Baronne Street, New Orleans, La. 

140 Dearborn Street, Chicago, 111. 
1103 Temple Bldg., Toronto, Canada 

San Jose, Cal. 
321 Stimson Block, Los Angeles, Cal. 
603-4 Oriental Block, Seattle, Wash. 



[ROCK PHOSPHATE 

The great soil builder; very finely 
ground; higher in phosphoric acid than 
bone and at one-third the cost. Un- 
equalled for mixing with barnyard 
manure or direct application. For 
prices write 

FARMERS* UNION PHOSPHATE CO., 
Mills In Tenn. Birmingham, Ala. 

"PRACTICAL FARMING" 

Prof. W. F. Massey's latest and best 
book is now on sale. It retails for 
$1.50, and Is worth It. We shall be 
very pleased to send you a copy at 
above price and will Include a year's 
subscription to The Southern Planter. 
Remember, we deliver the book and 
give you a whole year's subgscriptlon 
for the price of the book, $1.50. 
SOUTHERN PLANTER, Richmond. V«. 

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



dealers, or sent express prepaid upon 
receipt of price. 

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



CAUSTIC BALSAM BRINGS RE- 
SULTS EVERY TIME. 
I can heartily recommend your 
Gombault's Caustic Balsam. I have 
used it and found it O. K. It will 
bring the results every time if instruc- 
tions are followed. — R. L. Grimm, Le- 
tart, W. Va. 



A READY ROOFING THAT NEEDS 
NO PAINTING. 

Farmers all over the country are be- 
ginning to wake up to the fact that 
it is no longer necessary to use ready 
roofings that require constant paint- 
ing to keep them tight. The new 
style of ready roofing with a mineral 
surface, of which Amatite Roofing is 
the best known, are becoming very 
popular and have proven a great suc- 
cess. 

The mineral surface of Amatite 
needs no painting or coating whatever, 
and, after the roofing is laid, there 
is no further excuse for trouble. 

A sample of Amatite can be secured 
by addressing the nearest office of 
the Barrett Mfg. Co., New York, Chi- 
cago, Cleveland, Pittsburg, Boston, 
Philadelphia, Minneapolis, St. Louis, 
Kansas City New Orleans and Cin- 
cinnati. 



A WOMAN'S IDEA OF SUMMER 
COMFORTS. 

To every woman, especially the 
woman who keeps house, the topic of 
summer comfort in the home is one of 
never-failing interest. 

This is particularly true where 
comfort in the kitchen is concerned, 
as it is in this one room that the most 
trying part of the work is done, such 
as cooking, baking, ironing and heat- 
ing water for washday purposes. 
Even in cool weather such work is 
not altogether welcome, but It be- 
comes drudgery on days when the 
mercury is trying to jump through 
the top of the thermometer, aided by 
a hot stove that diffuses its almost 
unbearable heat through the kitchen. 

But such days are past. With the 
New Perfection Wick Blue Flame Oil 
Cook Stove, kitchen drudgery becomes 
kitchen comfort, for this wonderful 
stove is so constructed that it not 
only produces quick results, but does 
it all without perceptibly raising the 
kitchen temperature. 

All this means real comfort to the 
woman who works in the kitchen, 
especially when considered with the 
added advantages in the saving of 
time; in the doing away with all car- 
rying of coal, wood and ashes; in hav- 
ing a stove that can be turned on or 
off, high or low, as required; and in 
not having to keep it lighted when 
not in use. 

Then, there is the saving of fuel 
to be considered, and it is here also 




Paint Talks— No. 4 
Costly Economy 

The practical farmer has long since 
learned the difference between "cheap" 
and "economical." 

"Cheap" seed — "cheap" fertilizers 
— "cheap " implements — " cheap " 
paint — always prove to be most costly. 

It requires just as much to put on "cheap" 
paint as good paint— often more. After it 
is on it soon cracks and scales and you wish 
it was off. The worst thing about it is that 
good paint cannot be put on until the poor 
paint has been removed, and that means 
expensive burning, or scraping. 

Make your paint of Pure White Lead (Dutch 
Boy Painter Trademark) and pure linseed oil 
and you'll have a job that will look right first 
and last — will wear long aid leave a perfect 
surface for repainting. 

The Dutch Boy Painter is your guarantee. 
All onr white lead bears this trademark. If 
your dealer cannot supply you with the genu- 
ine, write us and we will assist you to secure it. 

Houseowner's Painting Outfit 14 consist- 
ing of color schemes, specifications and adult- 
erant detector, free. Write for it to-day. 

NATIONAL LEAD 
COMPANY 

An office in each of the 

following cities : 
New York. Boston, Buf- 
falo, Cincinnati, Chicago. 
Cleveland, St. Louis 
(John T. Lewis & Bros. 
Company, Philadelphia), 
(National Lead & Oil 
Company, Pittsburgh) 




FARMERS 

Insure Your Buildings, Live Stock, 

Produce, Etc., in Virginia Division, 

FARMERS' MUTUAL BENEFIT 

ASSOCIATION. 

Best security. Property Insured 
$500,000. Average cost per $1,006 per 
year, $5.00. Territory limited to coun- 
ties of Chesterfield, Amelia, Powhatan, 
Nottoway, Dinwiddle, Prince George, 
Surry, Charles City, New Kent and 
James City. For plan and membership 
write to 

CHARLES N. FRIEND, General Agent, 

CHESTER, VA. 

Organized January 9, 1899. 



50S 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[May, 



RARE BARGAINS 

IN 

Northern Virginia Farms 



A Few Specimens: 

No. 172. Contains 315 acres — 40' acres 
in oak and hickory timber; 6 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 springs and running 
streams. Improvements are a good 7- 
room house with elegant shade, good 
stable and all out-houses in good re- 
pair. Price $20 per acre. 

No. 194. Contains 175 acres, 25 acres 
in good timber, balance is cleared, 9 
acres in orchard in full bearing, go*d 
six-room house, old barn, good gran- 
ary, hen houses, dwelling in a grand 
oak shaded lawn, spring at house, 
farm watered by streams and springs, 
situated on good pike. One hour*i 
drive from Leesburg, Va. Owner i» 
anxious to sell. Price $3,500. 

No. 208 — 600 acres Loudoun Blue 
Grass land, 8-room brick house, in good 
repair, farm well fenced, elegantly 
watered, excellent bank barn, good or- 
chard, fine timber. Price $25.00 per 
acre. 

No. 201 — 406 acres, Loudoun Blue 
Gjass farm 8-room brickr and frame 
duelling, elegant repairs, excellent 
bsirn 40x100, water in every field, well 
fenced, good orchard. Price $10,500. 

No. 202 — 475 acres, Blue Grass land, 
small 5-room house, land is good, well 
fenced, excellent water, good small or- 
chard, excellent situation, but build- 
ings are only fair condition. Price, 
$9,000. 

No. 209. — 206 acres, beautiful little 
Loudoun County farm, 6-room dwell- 
ing, 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 wat- 
ered, 6-room house and outbuildings 
in fair condition. Price $13.50 per acre. 



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

Win* Eads Miller, 

HERND0N, VA. 



that the New Perfection excels. Al- 
though equipped with three burners 
it has but one oil reservoir, thus re- 
ducing three separate filling opera- 
tions to one. 

Besides all this, the "New Perfec- 
tion" is the only oil stove built with 
a cabinet top. Its commodious top 
shelf is particularly useful for warm- 
ing plates and keeping food hot after 
it is cooked. In addition there are 
two droip shelves on which may be 
set the teapot or coffeepot and small 
cooking utensils. Also has two racks 
for holding towels. 

Altogether, the "New Perfection" is 
a stove of wonderful utility. Its ex- 
tremely handsome appearance sets off 
any kitchen to full advantage. It is 
superior to the hot coal range no mat- 
ter what the point of comparison may 
be — or whether regarded as a summer 
stove only or as a stove for year 
'round use. 

Another household article of unusu- 
al convenience is the Rayo Lamp, a 
scientifically constructed lamp that 
will adorn any room — whether library, 
parlor, dining-room or bedroom. The 
Rayo Lamp gives a mellow, steady 
light that does not tire the eyes. Its 
center draft burner of the latest de- 
sign and its fine porcelain shade make 
it a lamp of combined usefulness and 
beauty. 

The New Perfection Wick Blue 
Flame Oil Cook Stove and the Rayo 
Lamp constitute two household arti- 
cles that will meet any woman's idea 
of home comfort. In the thousands of 
homes in which they are already used 
they are .making things cheerful be- 
cause of their absolutely safety, great 
simplicity, and wonderful convenience. 



ROOFING GUARANTEES. 

When a maker guarantees his roof- 
ing, it merely means that he puts his 
claims for it in writing, and if there 
is any dispute afterwards there are 
thousands of ways in which the maker 
can evade responsibility if he chooses. 

The makers of Congo Roofiing, how- 
ever, have devised an interesting plan 
which gives the buyer absolute pro- 
tection. With each roll of roofing is 
furnished a Surety Bond issued by the 
National Surety Company of New 
York, guaranteeing the faithful per- 
formance of the guarantee by the 
manufacturers. This gives to any pos- 
sible complainant a Court of Appeals 
to which he can go, over the head of 
the manufacturer. In fact, this guar- 
antee bond so pledges that if the man- 
ufacturers of Congo Roofing should go 
brankrupt or close out their business, 
the Surety Company would still con- 
tinue to guarantee the reliability and 
satisfaction of Congo Roofing. The 
guarantee on the three ply is for ten 
years. 

A copy of the Guarantee can be ob- 
tained by addressing the United Roof- 
ing and Mfg. Co., Philadelphia, Chi- 
cago and San Francisco. 




THIS BEAUTIFUL HOME 

CAN BE BUILT FOR LESS THAN $500 
complete when our simplified plans of 
construction are followed. The above 
price covers cost of all material and 
labor for completed house, ready to 
move into. We furnish complete blue- 
prints and bill of materials for $5.00, 
securely packed in mailing tube, post- 
paid. Circular showing floor plans and 
dimensions sent on request. Write to- 
day and save half the cost of a new 
house. 

UNIVERSAL PUBLISHING COMPANY, 
Roanoke, Va. 



FIRST NATIONAL BANK 

Richmond, Va. 

A strong, conservative, well-man- 
aged institution. A safe depository 
for all clas'ses of customers. 



Capital 

Surplus, 

Deposits, 



$1,000,000.00 

800,000.00 
6,000,000.00 



JOHN B. PURCELL, President. 

JNO. M. MILLER, Jr., Vice-Pres. 

and CasUler. 

A Savings Department for the 
Thrifty. 



MARYLAND 

AND 

VIRGINIA 

FARMS NEAR WASHINGTON. 

Unsurpassed as money-makers; beat 
place on earth for farmers, dairymen, 
stockmen or poultrymen; mild climate, 
best market's in country; highest 
prices; no such word as "Fail" for in- 
dustrious man. Big bargains here now. 
3,500 places to select from. Catalogue 
free. 
THE SOULE CO., Washington, D. C. 

Largest Farm Dealers In the South. 



Old Virginia Farms. 

Climate and Productiveness unex- 
celled. Largest sale list in the State. 
For full particulars and Free Cata- 
logue address 

CASSELMAN & COMPANY, 
RICHMOND, VA. 



Virginia Farms 

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

FREE CATAL0OUE. 
R. D. CHAFFIN & CO, Inc. 

Richmond, Va. 

Please mention the Southern Planter. 



1909.] 



the southekn plantee. 



509 



SELECT OFFERINGS IN 

VIRGINIA REAL ESTATE 

$12,000 

Contains 200 acres, GO acres in oak 
and hickory timber, 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 De- 
partment 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 por- 
tion in Blue Grass meadows. Public 
roads on three sides, well fenced, 
woven wire and stone fencing, locust 
posts. 

IMPROVEMENTS. — 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 lawn and 120-ft. avenue 
% mile in length leading to road; 
avenue and lawn delightfully shaded. 
Foreman's house, 6 rooms, four cabins, 
3 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, hogf houses, 
corn crib with capacity for about 1,000 
barrels, nothing could be added to this 
place that would be necessary. All im- 
provements are in perfect condition and 
nave been recently painted. 

Send for my catalogue of Grain and 
Grass Farms. 

GEORGE W. SUMMERS, 
Sterling, Va. 



Convenient To 
RICHMOND AND WASHINGTON. 

VIRGINIA FARMS 



Best railroad service and climate. 

229 A — Fine elevation with run- 
ning water, 1 mile from railroad, 
fine farm land. $3,500. 

165 A. — 1 mile from railroad, 
running water and other advant- 
ages. $2,500. 

900 A. — Stock farm, $15,000. 

Complete list on application. 

FRANK H. COX, 
Ashland, Hanover Co., Va. 



REAL ESTATE! FOR SALE. 
From the Mountains 'to the Ocean 
Catalogue free. Loans made on farm* 
Established 1876. 

GEO. E. CRAWFORD 4k CO., 
1009 E. Main Street., 

RICHMOND, VA. 
Branch, Norfolk, Va. 



NO EXCUSE FOR NOT PAINTING. 

Paint not only gives an appearance 
of prosperity to a house or farm build- 
ings, but is worth many times its cost 
in the preservation of property. 

Fainted buildings will outlast un- 
painted buildings every time. 

We should like to call the attention 
of our readers to the unique offer that 
is being made in the advertisements 
of the United Factories Company, of 
Cleveland, Ohio, which are running 
in this paper. 

By their liberal plan, they make it 
possible to paint every building on 
the place without sending them a cent 
of money, that is, they positively 
guarantee satisfaction and will refund 
your money, if you are not satisfied 
with the results. They could not make 
any such offer as this unless their 
paint was of : the very highest quality. 

Furthermore, by their co-operative 
plan, they make it possible for your 
newly painted buildings to not only 
pay for the paint you use, but bring 
you in a handsome profit besides. 

This offer means exactly what it 
says. It is strictly business. 

Before you pay out money for paint 
it will pay you to write to this well- 
known firm and ask for their new 
paint catalogue. It is free for the 
asking. 



A TONFC HELPS. 

There's no one thing that a feeder 
of live stock can do that will be as 
satisfactory in the long run as to give 
a small dose of digestive tonic to 
each cow or steer in the stable. 

The advantages of such treatment 
are too many and too well known to be 
overlooked by the man who is out for 
best results. A preparation composed 
of such helpful elements as bitter ton- 
ics, iron for the blood and nitrates 
to relieve the animal system of waste 
matter, is bound to pay for itself over 
and over again in each case where it's 
consistently given. 

The reason is plain, once you think 
the matter over. When you remember 
that you, as a feeder, are really a 
manufacturer, that each cow, steer, 
hog or sheep that you possess is but 
one of your machines which you are 
using to produce milk or meat, you 
are in a position to get a proper idea 
of the good of a tonic. For this is 
true — a tonic keeps the animal ma- 
chine going smoothly and profitably, 
just as a little oil smooths and quick- 
ens the motion of a machine of steel 
and iron. 

For the sake, then, of your own 
success, depend on Dr. Hess Stock 
Food. It is a true tonic — it gives the 
animal receiving it a great digestive 
power. The maximum amount of ra- 
tion is assimilated and turned into 
good flesh, or, in the cow, into milk. 
There is no such thing as loss of ap- 
petite, "off-feed" periods, indigestion, 
or any other troublesome disorder 
among cattle, when Dr. Hess Stock 



CRITTENDEN'S 

VIRGINIA REAL 
ESTATE AND 
LOANS OFFICE 

North-Western Virginia Farms for 
Sale. A Land of Sunshine, 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-- 
session. If you are interested in a fine 
stock farm, write for confidential de- 
scription. 

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. $35 
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 
from R. R. station, church, stores and 
school. Easy terms. 

No. A 23. — 156 acres, at $50 per acre. 
Elevation 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, aver- 
age 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 desir- 
able 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. Term's 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 bar- 
rels. Fine spring; good fruit. Com- 
fortable buildings, 200 ft. or more 
above the river — very healthy, 5 miles 
from R. R. This property is a bar- 
gain, 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 Grass of long 
standing. The buildings are beauti- 
fully located overlooking the Potomac 
River for miles, all in good condition; 
modern house containing 11 room's — 
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 fur- 
nished on application. All business 
transacted through this office guaran- 
teed to be as represented, and strictly 
confidential. 

Del.. S. CRITTENDEN, Broker, 

Ashbnrn, Va. 



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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[May, 



BARGAINS 



S41 acres 5 miles from Herndon over 
good roads; one mile from pike; 200 
acres in timber, part of it extra good; 
land rolling and well drained; con- 
venient to schools, churches, stores, 
etc. Three sets of buildings, two houses 
barns, etc. In good condition. This 
place is especially ' adapted to stock 
raising, and is cheap at $23 per acre. 
$6,500 down, balance to suit. 

In the best section of Loudoun Co., 
surrounded by high priced and beauti- 
ful farms, 169 acres, 7 miles from 
rail over a fine pike; two miles from 
school; 40 acres in fine oak timber; 
well fenced; divided into several fields 
with water in every field, in a good 
state of cultivation — especially adapted 
to blue grass; good house of 7 rooms; 
new barn 35 by 40; 4-room tenant 
house; all necessary outbuildings. 
Price $4,500; $2,000 down, balance to 
suit. Half of wheat and corn crop to 
go to purchaser. 

154 acres well located in Loudoun 
Co., 7 miles from rail over macadam 
road; 20 acres in second growth tim- 
ber; large stream through place; good 
blue gTass land, in a good state of 
cultivation; well fenced; 1 1-2 miles 
from school; 1 mile from P. O.; house 
of 5 rooms with new barn 30x40; all 
necessary outbuildings. Price $3,500. 
$2,000 down, balance to suit. 

SEND FOR NEW SPRING LIST. 

A. H. BUELL, 

Real Estate Broker, 

HERNDON, VA. 

;. A SPLENDID DAIRY FARM 7. 

Of 204 acres, one mile from station, 
less than 50 miles from Washington 
City, all equipped for business, to- 
gether with cows, all other stock and 
ifarming implements. Well watered 
and fenced. Nine-room dwelling, 6- 
room tenant house, large barns, etc. 
A bargain to a quick purchaser. 
NICOL & RANSDELL, 
Manassas, Va. 

A RARE INVESTMENT 

458 acre plantation, Southern Mary- 
land, mile frontage on salt water. 360 
in cultivation, fertile soil. Large costly 
dwelling, six tenements, three barns, 
etc. Beautiful view Patuxent river 
and Chesapeake bay. Oysters, fish, 
terrapin, game in abundance. Sacrifice 
$12,000. Easy terms. National Capitol 
Farm Agency, 512 F. St., N. W., Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

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 to- 
bacco and all crops grown in this sec- 
tion. 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 Green Fields of Virginia." 

Homes for all; health for all; happi- 
ness and Independence for all. All 
size* of Farms at corresponding prices 
bnt ALL reasonable. 

MACON, & CO., ORANGE, VA. 



Food is used. This fact is abundant- 
ly proved by the constant and uniform 
success of feeders who use it. 



Distemper and the other similar 
troubles among horses, sheep and 
dogs are aggravated in the spring by 
the chilly nights and exposures to 
storms as well as the sudden change 
in some cases from dry food to the 
green new grass. A regular tonic in 
advance of Craft's Distemper Cure is 
a good preventive of colds and the 
other troubles, and a cure should the 
troubles come. Our readers should 
note the advertisement in our col- 
umns and get it of dealers. If not 
easily found it is sent at fifty cents 
and $1.00 per bottle, prepaid, direct 
from the manufacturers, The Wells 
Medicine Co., Third St., Lafayette, 
Indiana. 



MADE THE BLIND SEE. 

Cyrus Hedges, Gladstone, Illinois, 
writes, under the date of February 
19th, that Visio has completely re- 
stored the sight of a horse thatTias 
been blind a month, and the appear- 
ance of the eye is perfect. Visio for 
sale by druggists, or sent postpaid 
on receipt of the price. 

Visio Remedy Assn., 1933 Wabash 
Ave., Chicago. 



CARE OF THE SKIN. 

A clear, healthy skin is a posses- 
sion highly valued by all and is in 
most cases easily acquired. The one 
important thing is to keep the pores 
open, by bathing frequently using a 
good bland soap. 

In making your selection, be care- 
ful to avoid the cheap, but highly per- 
fumed soaps, as in nearly every case 
they are not only made from cheap 
and impure fats, but contain an ex- 
cess of alkali, which robs the skin of 
its natural oils, leaving it dry and 
shrivelled. 

One of the best, if not the very 
best, complexion soaps on the market 
is Heiskell's Medicinal and Toilet 
Soap. It is made from pure oils in 
combination with gums and herbs of 
well-known medicinal value. It stimu- 
lates the pores to healthy action and 
is cleansing, soothing and healing in 
its effect. The manufactures, Messrs. 
Johnston, Holloway and Co., Philadel- 
phia, will gladly exchange a sample 
for a post card from you. 



CONCRETE OR CEMENT SILOS. 
Of late years a big demand has 
sprung up for more substantial 
structures in building operations. 
This i evidenced by the large num- 
ber of factory and other buildings 
springing up in all parts of the coun- 
try made of concrete and cement 
blocks. The concrete and cement 
block construction is getting to be 
very popular in so far as silos are 
concerned; especially is this true 
where permanancy is desired, such as 
on established stock farms, etc. 



Attention 

HOMESEEKERS AND INVESTORS. 

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

I claim and can prove that thia sec- 
tion shown by my m<ap, has advant- 
ages over any other part of the State. 
It is not only beautiful and healthy 
but is productive and progressive, 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 what- 
ever in any property. My business is 
wholly on commission which is paid 
by the seller. 

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



> jjo5j|iyuii ^ 





IN SUNNY VIRGINIA 

«t CCQ.OO BUYS THIS BEAUTIFUL HOME 

•r IjMWW anc J 40 acres of best fruit and gen- 

eral farming land, including good barn, corncrib, tool 
shed and chicken house, all new. Rich soil, fine cli- 
mate, good markets, abundant water, excellent neigh- 
bors 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. 
"ept. 500 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. HARNESS & CO., 

LAND AND TIMBER AGENTS, 

Amelia Courthouse, Va. 



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, 
Alifarming Implements go with place. 
Price $8,500 — no less. Terms to stilt. 

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

Please mention the Southern Planter. 



1909.] 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



511 



THE IDEAL VIRGINIA FARM 

Located In Fairfax County, Virginia, 
only 16 miles from Washington, 2 
miles of electric cars, 40 minute sched- 
ule. 

This beautiful little farm contains 
96 acres, 80 acres being cleared and 
under very highest state of cultiva- 
tion, the average corn crop being 50 
to 60 bushels shelled corn per acre; 
now nearly all down in good grass 
sod. 

The present owner has for ten years 
carried on this farm, about 25 fine 
butter cows, manuring the land very 
heavily. Farm is well fenced and 
splendidly watered. 

Fronting on good road and In one 
of the very best neighborhoods and 
farming sections in Virginia and is 
the omy farm in this entire section 
that is for sale. 

Splendid apple orchard of 200 trees, 
nearly all In good bearing. Improved 
by a splendid 9-room house, surround- 
ed by a beautiful, well-shaded lawn, 
fine porches, pump at the door, large 
barn and other outbuildings. 

When you buy property near Wash- 
ington, you have the best market in 
the East and secure property which 
will in a few years, double in value. 

We are authorized to sell this beau- - 
tiful home for only $8,250. which is 
really a sacrifice considering the very 
low price of the land, outside of the 
buildings on the farm, which could 
not be duplicated for $5,000.. 

You will do well to investigate this 
property. 

BALLARD & LANHAM., Inc. 

Real Estate, 

621 13th St., N. W., Washington, D. C. 



— FARMS — 



IN 



Southside Virginia 



$10.00 to $30.00 per acre. 

With buildings, fruit, timber, 
good water, best markets. Level 
land, productive soil. 

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

PYLB & COMPANY, Inc. 

Petersburg, Virginia. 



A CHARMING OLD VIRGINIA HOME 
in Albemarle Co., 540 acres, 150 being 
rich Ioyv grounds. Timber and river 
boundary. Colonial style brick dwell- 
ing, some modern equipment and in 
first class condition. All necessary out- 
buildings. Extended and beautifully 
shaded lawn. Magnificent views. Sta- 
tion 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. 

A Beautiful Loudoun County Farm 

Of 227 acres, 3 miles from station, 
excellent improvements. Well watered. 
Good orchard. Land in. good condition 
— part in blue grass. Will sell farm 
only, or with aTT stock, farming Im- 
plements and household goods and 
give immediate possession. For par- 
ticulars, address 

NICOL & RANSDELL, 
Manassas, Va, 



In the past the high first cost of 
this form of construction has been the 
chief factor against its more extensive 
use, but this has been due to our in- 
sufficient knowledge as to the best 
and most economical methods in 
handling material. The price of lum- 
ber has been steadily rising, while 
that of good Portland Cement has 
been decreasing, and good qualities 
can now be obtained at a fair price. 
It seems, therefore, to be generally 
conceded that the concrete or cement 
block silo will be the silo of the 
future. 

Then general concensus of opinion 
among those who have made a study 
of the matter seems to be well voiced 
in Bulletin No. 102 of the Agricultural 
Experiment Station of the University 
of Illinois when it says: "From what 
we know now the round wood silo 
plastered with cement seems to be 
the best construction, but the indi- 
cations are that when we learn to 
handle concrete to the best advantage 
this will be the material for building 
silos." 

Thus opens the third chapter of 
"Modern Silage Methods," a 224 page 
book published by the Silver Mfg. 
Co., Salem, Ohio. Readers of this pa- 
per who are interested should look 
up their ad. on another page and 
secure a copy of their book. 



REVERSIBLE DISC PLOWS. 

Elsewhere in this edition appears 
an advertisement of the Chattanooga 
Reversible Disc Plow, made by the 
Chattanooga Plow Company, Chatta- 
nooga, Tennessee. 

The success of this disc plow in 
all of the principal agricultural coun- 
tries of the world is conclusive evi- 
dence that it meets the requirements 
of the most intelligent farmers. 

The manufacturers do not claim 
that this plow will do all kinds of 
plowing under all conditions, hut they 
do claim that when the ground is in 
plowing condition it will do the same 
amount of work as a moldboard plow, 
with less draft, and do it better. 
This does not apply to land covered 
with sod, as a disc plow is a pulver- 
izer, as well as a breaker, and stiff 
sod land is exceedingly difficult to pul- 
verize. 

The disc plow is of greater value, 
in fact, almost indispensable, in plow- 
ing land that is dry and hard from 
drouth or other causes, and its quali- 
ties as a pulverizer under those con- 
ditions are greatly appreciated by the 
farmer who is sufficiently fortunate to 
own one. Land that contains stumps, 
roots or underbrush, as well as land 
covered with pea vines, can be plowed 
quicker and better with a disc plow 
than with a moldboard plow. 

The reversing feature and the fact 
that this plow is made in two and 
three horse sizes, adapts It to a 
small or large farm regardless of 
whether it be hillside or level land. 
An entire field, large or small, may be 



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, Williamsburg, Va. 

FARMS. 
Mineral and Timber Lands. 

Free list on application. 

W. A. PARSONS A CO., 

1627 East Main St., Richmond, Va. 

Davis Hotnl Bi<i« 

Far in F ° r saic p« 

Mi ing Farms in 14 States. Strout's 

■""■■■■■■■■■■ ,— New Monthly Bulletin of Real 
Bargains, profusely illustrated, mailed free ; we pay 
your R. R. fare. E. A. STROUT CO.. Book 708 
World's Largest Farm Dealers, Land Title uldg., Phfla 

VIRGINIA HVCK BASKETS. 

The only safe package for Huckle- 
berries. Send for catalogues and 
prices. 

SOUTH SIDE MFG. CO., 
Petersburg, Va. 

THE FAMOUS IRON PEA 

Matures pods In 60 days. Will not 
shed foliage which, when cut, makes 
the very best hay. Have planted them 
20 years and never had a complete 
failure. Plant any time. Sure to be a 
stand when it rains If ground is warm. 
Bushel, $2; pound 25c. postpaid. 
J. C. FOWKE, Baldock, S. C. 



COW PEAS 

GERMAN MILLET 

GERMAN CLOVER 

CANE SEED 

KAFFIR CORN 

CLAY PEAS 

BLACK PEAS 

BLACKEYE PEAS 

MIXED PEAS 

SEED CORN 

SEED SWEET POTATOES 

WE HANDLE THE ABOVE AND 
ALL OTHER SEASONABLE 
SEED. WRITE FOR SAMPLES 
AND PRICES. 



N.R.Savage&Son 

RICHMOND. VA. 



Please mention the Southern Planter. 



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Send your orders for 

COW PEAS 



and 



Beans 



to 



Soja 

Diggs&Beadles 

"THE SEED MERCHANTS" 

1709 East Franklin ST. 

RICHMOND, = = VA. 

Branch Store 603 and 605 East 
Marshall Street. 

We are headquarters for su- 
perior Seeds of all kinds. 

GRASS and CLOVER SEEDS. 

Garden and Flower Seeds, Cow 
Peas, Field Beans, Sorghums, 
Millets and all seeds of the 
highest quality and germination. 

Write to-day for our free cat- 
alogue and price list. 

Your Correspondence Solicited. 



Cow Peas. 

Clay, Black, Wonderful, Whippoor- 
will. Mixed and other varieties. 
SOJA OR SOY BEANS, 
Canada Field Peas, 
Millet, Buckwheat, Etc., Etc. 



Write for prices to headquarters. 

WALLERSTEIN PRODUCE CO., 

Richmond, Va. 



COW PEAS 

FOR SALE. 

Mixed $1.30 

Clays 1.40 

Whip-Poor-Will 1.50 

Soja Beans 

Mammoth Yellow '..$1.25 

All f. o. b. here; prices subject 
to market fluctuations. 
Hickory Seed Co., Hickory, N. C. 



NEW WARD BLACKBERRY 

ONE OF THE BEST. 

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

FRED. SHOOSMITH, Cheater, Va. 



plowed without leaving a water fur- 
row (dead furrow) and without the 
team tramping the plowed ground 
when turning. 

In conclusion, the greatest value to 
the farm, to be derived from using a 
reversible disc plow, is the breaking 
of the hard pan that has been caused 
by plowing the land the same depth 
year after year with a moldboard 
plow. The disc plow breaks this hard 
pan and does not carry the subsoil 
all to the top, but mixes it with the 
old soil that has been worked for 
years, thus it increases the value of 
the land and produces better crops. 



WASHINGTON NOTES. 

Rural Carrier's Life Strenuous. 

The life of the rural letter carrier is 
not all a bed of roses, for When in the 
performance of his daily routine du- 
ties his time in serving a standard 
route of twenty-four or more miles is 
fully occupied, even when the condi- 
tion of roads and weather is favorable, 
but there are not infrequent occasions 
when the monotony of his duties is re- 
lieved by incidents and circumstances 
arising which call forth the most 
strenuous activity and require the en- 
durance of hardships that would 
cause men of less courage and 
strength to falter. The rigors of the 
northern winters, the blinding bliz- 
zards and snowdrifts of mountains and 
plains, cloudbursts and swollen 
streams— all have to be encountered 
by rural carriers and there have been 
occasions when carriers have lost 
hands and feet from freezing or nar- 
rowly escaped death by being lost 
in snowdrifts and blizzards or being 
drowned in swollen streams. 

An illustration of the trials of a ru- 
ral carrier is given in a letter recent- 
ly received by Fourth Assistant Post- 
master General, P. V. DeGraw, from 
the Postmaster at Curtis, Oklahoma, 
recounting the experience of Joshua 
A. Trentham, the carrier on route No. 
1 out of Curtis. The route in ques- 
tion is nearly twenty-three miles 
long. A month or two ago, while 
serving the route a violent windstorm 
overthrew the carrier's wagon. He 
set the vehicle right, with the aid of 
nearby patrons, and proceeded, when 
a second time he was blown over and 
the mail and his postal supplies were 
scattered over a large part of the 
State f Oklahoma. Friendly farmers 
aided him in righting his wagon and 
in picking up such mail and supplies 
as were to be seen. As he started on 
again he found that a prairie fire was 
coming down on him driven by the 
fierce gale. He had a life and death 
race with it and finally beat it to a 
big plowed field, which he entered by 
cutting down the wire fence. Here 
he sat in comparative safety while the 
fire drove by. 

In another State at about the same 
time carriers found the roads ob- 
structed with telegraph poles, barbed 
wire, trees and brush, slightly covered 



GERMAN 

OR CRIMSON 

CLOVER 

GERMAN MILLET 

GERMAN CLOVER 

CLAY PEAS 

BLACKEYE PEAS 

MIXED PEAS 

SEED CORN 

KAFFIR CORN 

SEED SWEET POTATOES AND 
OTHER FIELD SEEDS, INCLUD- 
ING ALL THE DIFFERENT VA- 
RIETIES OF GRASS SEEDS. 
WRITE FOR PRICES AND SAM- 
PLES. 

NISavage&Son 

RICHMOND, VA. 



SOJA BEANS 

$1.50 Per Bushel, Delivered. 
PUMPKIN YAM and 

VINELESS SWEET POTATO 

Plants, $1.50. Per 1,000 f. o. b. here. 

E. W. JONES NURSERY COMPANY, 

Woodlnwn, Va. 

SOJA 
BEANS 

For Sale. Write for prices. 

A. D. Reynolds, Bristol, Tenn. 



I 



SWEET 
POTATO 
PLANTS 



Reasonable Rates in Large Lots. 

For prices and variety apply 

J. S. LINTHICUM, 

Welhams, = = Md. 






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513 




Be Sure 

and 

Workthe 

Horse 



HE CAN WORK 
EVERY DAY 



If you use Bickmore'sGall Cure yourteams 
can work Tight along and be cured of Saddle 
and Harness Ualls, Chutes, Rope Burns, Cuts, 
Scratches, Grease Heel, etc. while in har- 
ness. The more work the quicker the cure. 

BICKMORE'S GALL CURE 

Is the standard Remedy for all these and 
similar troubles. Is excellent for Mange and 
Sore Teats in cows. Above trade mark is on 
every bos of Genuine Bickmore's Gall Cure. 
For sale by dealers everywhere. Money re- 
funded If it falls. Sample Free and Horse Book 
If you'll send 60 for packing and postage. 
. Bickmore Gall Cure Co., Box 935 Old Tows, Maine. 



Bone 

Bo matter how old the blemish, 
how lame the horse, or how many doctors 
have tried and failed, use 

Fleming's 

Spavin and Ringbone Paste 

Use it under oar guarantee— your money 
refunded If It doesu't make the horse so 
sound. Moat cases cured by a single 15- 



minute application — occasionally two re- 
quired. Cures Bone Spavin, Ringbone and 
Sidebone, new and old cases alike. Write 



for detailed information and a free copy of 

Fleming's Vest-Pocket 
Veterinary Adviser 

Ninety-six pages, durably bound. Indexed 
and illustrated. Ooters over one hundred 
veterinary subjects. Read this book before 
tod :rea •: any kind of lameness in hones. 

FLEMING BROS- Chemist*. 
880 TJnton Stock Yards, Chicago, lUs. 



"IT NEVER FAILED" 

Mr. Albert KUever, 
Elk River, Minn., 
writes on Feb. 24, 08- 

"Please send me one 
of your books, A Trea- 
tise on the Horse. 
Have been using Ken- 
dall's Spavin Cure for 
about 20 years and It 
never failed.*' 

Kendall's 

Spavin Cure 

Is relied on by horsemen everywhere for curing 
Spavin, Ringbone, Curb. Splint. All Lameness. The 
world's best known and surest horse remedy. 

Alldrugglsts $1 a bottle, 6 for $5. Beware of 
substitute remedies Book, "Treatise on the Horse," 
free from druggist or write to 

Dr. B. J KENDALL CO.. ENOSBUR0 FALLS. VT. 





Distemper 

Cured by the use of ID. CRAFT S DIS- 
TEMPER MO COUGH CURL Endorsed by 
leading breeders, turfmen and farmers. 
Send today for a bottle or get it from 
druggist. 50c and SI. 00. Guaranteed to 
cure. Your money back if it fails. Send 
for free booklet today. 

WELLS MEDICINE CO. 

Lafayette. Indiana 



with snow and ice, and it is told of 
quite a number who, finding the con- 
ditions unsafe for 'the use of horse 
and wagon, threw their mailsacks 
over their shoulders and on foot trav- 
elled quite a distance on the route in 
order that the patrons might receive 
their letters or morning paper. 



Study of Iron Rust. 

Dr. Allerton Cushman, Assistant Di- 
rector of the Office of Public Roads, 
of the Department of Agriculture, will 
sail for England to attend the meeting 
of the British Iron and Steel Institute, 
which will be held May 14th. Dr. 
Cushman has been invited to attend 
the meeting to speak on his investi- 
gations into iron rust. He made a 
special study of this very practical 
subject for about five years. The at- 
tention of the Department of Agricul- 
ture was first drawn to the subject 
through farmers' complaints at the 
rapidity with which wire fencing de- 
teriorated. It appeared that the later 
wire fences put up lasted much less 
time than some of the old fences. It 
was found that this was due largely 
to the method of making wire fence. 
Doctor Cushman turned from this 
study to a more general investigation 
of the subject, which led to important 
discoveries not only in the method 
of oxidation and the resisting qualities 
of various irons, but in the develop- 
ment of rust-resisting paints. 

After attending the meeting of the 
Institute, Dr. Cushman will go to 
France and make a study of rural 
highways. 



To Stop Stock Gambling. 

Considerable attention has been in- 
vited to the bull wheat market result- 
ing in an increase in the price of the 
grain and a prospect of a rise in the 
price of flour and with it more money 
to be paid out for a loaf of bread. 
Representative 'Scott, of Kansas, 
Chairman of the House Agricultural 
Committee, has introduced a bill pro- 
hibiting through the invocation of the 
the interstate commerce section of 
the Constitution the dealing in fu- 
tures of grain, cotton and other farm 
crops. 

Many Southern representatives 
have been fighting for years in an 
effort to put the cotton exchanges out 
of business and to bring about, 
through legislation, the prohibition of 
dealings in cotton futures. It is be- 
lieved in Congressional circles that 
every one of them will support the 
Scott bill. 

If the Scott bill becomes a law, it 
will only place the United States in 
line with a number of foreign coun- 
tries where gambling or dealing in fu- 
tures of foodstuffs or agricultural pro- 
ducts is an offence punishable by 
heavy fine and jail sentence. 

"Events of the past two or three 
weeks," said Mr. Scott, in an inter- 
view, "have brought this proposition 
of dealing in futures of farm products 



—".ranted to Give Satisfaction 

Gombault's 

Caustic Balsam 




Has Imitators But No Competitors 

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

As a Human Remedy for Rheumatism, 
Sprains, Sore Throat, etc., It Is invaluable. 

Every bottle of Caustio Balsam sold Is 
Warranted to give satisfaction. Price $1.60 
per bottle. Sold by druggists, or sent by ex- 
press, charges paid, with full directions for 
Its use. BTSend for descriptive circular*, 
testimonials, etc. Address 

The Lawrence-Williams Co., Cleveland, 0, 






m 



CURE ^ SORE 



Work him while doing so if you have to — but 
a day or two rest is better — yet in either case 

WILSON'S 

GOLDEN SUCCESS 

HEALING POWDER 

Will actually heal quickly and permanently 
any Collar or Saddle Galls, Open Sore, Cuts, 
Burns, Mud Scalds, Scratches, Grease Heel or 
any wound on Horse or Cattle. A purely an- 
tiseptic powder, and with each package goes 
the endorsement of six hundred physicians. 
Send twenty-five cents in stamps to 
GILBERT BROS. &. CO. 

9-11-13 N. HOWARD ST. 

BALTIMORE, MD. 
And receive a package by mail. 
Every horse owner should have it. 
ASK YOUR DEALER FOR IT HE MAY HAVE IT 



TRY 
ONE 
PKG. 



AJJSORBINE 



Removes Bursal Enlargements, 
Thickened, Swollen Tissues. 
Curbs, Filled Tendons, Soreness 
from any Bruise or Strain, 
Cures Spavin Lameness, Allays 
Pain Does not Blister, remove 
the hair or lay the home up. S2.00 a 
bottle, delivered. Book 1 D free. 
ABSORBING, JR., (manklndll.OO 

bottle.) For Synovitis, Strains, Gouty 

or Rheumatic Deposits, Varicose Veins, Varico- 
cele, Hydrocele. Allays pain. Book free. 

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



>F WTON'S HeaTe,Cough,Dls- 
temper and lndigctlon Core. 
A Veterinary Remedy forWiod , 
Throat aud Stomach troubles. 
$1.00 per can.ofdealers.orex- 
preas prepaid. Sendforhooklet. 
The Newton Remedy Co. 
Toledo, Ohio. 





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1 '-Hackett's Gape Cure 



KILLS THE WORM AS 
WELL AS THE GERM 




TC/HaciCett I 

. to ,»T„co HILLSBORO. MD. THE NEW WAY. 



Hackett's Gape Cure 

It is a powder. The chicks inhale 
it. Goes right to the spot. Kills both 
worm and germ. "Whole brood treated 
at once, in five minutes. Full size 
package, postpaid, 35c. 

Dealers prices and a list of 37 job- 
bers, covering 14 states sent upon ap- 
plication. 

Notice — Upon receipt of 35 cents we 
will send 1 full size package of 
Hackett's Gape Cure to every boni 
fide subscriber or advertiser of the 
Southern Planter and if it fails to 
cure your chicks of Gapes when used 
as directed we will return your money. 

Very truly, 
T. C. HACKETT, Hillsboro, Md. 

Mr. B. Morgan Shepherd, Business 
Manager of this paper, has used Hack- 
ett's Gape Cure with success. 

DEATH TO HAWKS 

Life to Chickens and Turkeys. 

Cock of the Walk. "HAWK" 

The Barn Yard 
Robber. 




I take Macnair's 
Chicken Powders 
ahd feed my chil- 
dren on them too. 
Look at me and 
observe the hawk. 
Cock a doodle doo. 



Died after eat- 
ing a chick of 
that old Rooster, 
which had been 
fed on Macnair'a 
Chicken Powders. 
Alas! Alas. 



MACNAIR'S CHICKEN POWDER 

kills Hawks, cures Cholera, Gapes, 
Roup, Indigestion, Leg Weakness, and 
keeps them free from Vermin, thereby 
causing them to produce abundance of 
eggs. 

Sample package 25 cents. 
W. H. MACNAIR, Tarboro, N. C. 




THE OLD RELIABLE 

LAMBERTS 

DEATH TO LICE 



increases Poultry Profits and is practi- 
cally indispensable to those who raise, 
sell or exhibit Poultry. Is the quickest 
and safest Lice Killer on the market 
and guaranteed not to injure eggs or 
chickens. Pocketbook Pointers on 
"Modern Poultry Methods" sent for 2c 
Stamp. Write to-day. 

O. K. STOCK FOOD CO.. 

651 Mooon Bldd.. Chicago. 



Always mention The Southern 
Planter when writing advertisers. 



very sharply before the people. We 
know that a practical wheat corner 
exists, that the price of flour has gone 
up and that an increase in the selling 
price of bread is threatened. 

Now, if that increase be only a 
cent a loaf, the total for a day, a 
week or a month will be something 
enormous, the greater part of which 
must be paid by the poor. I think a 
measure to prohibit the dealing in 
futures of farm products will have 
more backing than ever before. This 
business of boosting up the price of 
wheat after the producer has sold it 
is bad business, and the results of this 
proposition in increasing the cost of 
flour and of bread constitute an out- 
rageous tax upon the people." 



The Only Corner in Wheat. 
"The only successful wheat corner 
I ever heard of was the one pulled off 
by Joseph, who had a coat of many 
colors," remarked Secretary Wilson of 
the Department of Agriculture. In 
these words Mr. Wilson showed that 
he has no admiration for the methods 
and achievements of the recent move- 
ment. It has been intimated in offi- 
cial circles that there is a marked 
discrepancy between Patten's estimate 
of the visible wheat supply and the 
estimates put out by the Department 
of Agriculture, and Secretary Wilson 
believes his figures are correct and 
will finally swamp Patten. "To suc- 
cessfully corner the wheat market," 
he stated, "you have to keep buying 
and buying and buying until finally 
the times comes when you can't buy 
any loilger, and then the crash 
comes." 



No More Adulterated Candy. 

Dr. Wiley, Chief Chemist of the De- 
partment of Agriculture, in a recent 
address, showed the irony of a situa- 
tion with respect to the pure food 
law by a clause in the pure food 
law regarding the use of adul- 
terants, particularly metallic sub- 
stances in candy. This clause was 
written into the law by the candy 
manufacturers themselves, and, under 
a recent court decision, the clause will 
be interpreted literally. 

Under it, according to the interpre- 
tation of the court, Dr. Wiley said, 
nitrate of silver, tin and lead and a 
number of other things that are com- 
monly used for coloring and decora- 
tion would be prohibited. This is go- 
ing further than even the Bureau of 
Chemistry expected, but Dr. Wiley 
holds that the anti-metallic provision 
is a good thing, as it will strengthen 
the hands of the Department In deal- 
ing with adulterations. He said that 
he had come across chocolate drops in 
the course of his investigations that 
had not an atom of chocolate in 
them, being merely a drop of glucose 
paste covered with a thin layer of 
oxide of iron. • 



CAN BE 
CURED 



fit 



Moon Blindness 

VISIO 

Wonderful 
Discovery 

DISEASES of the EYE 
successfully treated with 
this NEW REMEDY. 

AN ABSOLUTE CURE 

for Moon Blindness, (Ophthalmia), Con- 
junctivitis and Cataract, Shying horses 
all suffer from diseased eyes. A trial will 
convince any horse owner that this remedy abso- 
lutely cures defects of the eye, Irrespective of the 
length of time the animal has been afflicted. No 
matter how many doctors have tried and failed , use 
"VISIO," use It under our GUARANTEE; your 
money refunded if under directions it 
does not effect a cure- "YOU PAY FOR 
RESULTS ONLY" S2.00 per bottle, 
postpaid on receipt of price. 

VIslo Remedy Ass'n., 1938 Wabash Ave., Chicago, III. 




wiiaijsirwi 




Quickly and positively cured in less 
than three weeks with one applica- 
tion of 

ADAM'S RAPID LUMP JAW CURE 

Easy to use. Written GUARAN- 
TEE accompanies each bottle. 
• jc Don*t delay but write today for 
'{{•SS? free circular. Dept. 27. 

H.C.Adams Mfg. Co., Algona, la. 



I WHEAT K 

We have a large supply of kiln-dried 
"Burnt Wheat", $1.50 per 100 lbs. 127 
per ton. 

This wheat Is a great egg producer, 
beiRg thoroughly cooked makes it very 
healthy and easily digested. Give us 
a trial order and more will follow. 

W ALTER J. TODD, 

426 North Sixth St., RICHMOND, VA. 

Headquarters for Chicken Feed and 

Supplies. 



SOUTHERN 

POULTRY 

GUIDE 



This is Cal Husselman's great 
Poultry Book, Just off press. It 
is freely illustrated with num- 
erous useful and handy home- 
made accessories to the poultry 
business. It contains his 40 
years' experience as a poultrym&n 
It is the best poultry book ever 
printed and just what you want. 
It contains more plain, every- 
day common sense about the 
chicken business than you ever 
read. 120 pp., cloth bound. Pricef 
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 subscriptien to 
The Southern Planter. 

SOUTHERN PLANTER, 

Richmond Va. 



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YAGERS 

CREAM CHLOROFORM 



LINIMENT 



FOR 

MAN 

OR 



BEAST 





THE UP-TO-DATE REMEDY 



and the Liniment universally used by all well informed 
people, recognized as the most wonderful and most certain 
of results for use in the Home, Stable or Barn. For 
general use it is the best of all. Especially valuable for 
Rheumatism, Sprains, Aches, Pains, etc. Prevents Croup, 
Pneumonia and La Grippe. Sold Everywhere— 25 cents.; 

GIVE IT ONE TRIAL-FOR MAN OR BEAST 

PREPARED OINLY BY 

GILBERT BROS. $ CO., Inc., Proprietors, BALTIMORE, MD., 



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WILLIAMSON FARMS 

MATTOAX.VA. 

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

EGGSSFOR HATCHING 

Pure Single Comb Pure Rose Comb 

White Leghorns Rhode Island Reds 

91.50 PER SITTING. $1.50 PER SITTING. 

Noted Prize-Winners Head each Pen. 



Eggs For Hatching. 

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

S. C. and R. C. R. I. REDS, 
BUFF ORPINGTONS, 
SILVER-LACED WYANDOTTES. 
WHITE WYANDOTTES, 
BILTMORE BARRED ROCKS, 
BILTMORE WHITE 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 ets. 
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 won- 
derfully well this season and their 
output must go. No better layers to be 
found. Send in your orders at once. 
C. H. DICKINSON, 
Edgehlll Poultry Yards, 
LURAY, VIRGINIA. 

Page Valley Poultry Farm 

Has a grand lot ofi 
breeding birds, and will 
fill your orders with 
fertile eggs at the fol- 
lowing 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. 
Reds, White, Buff, S. Lace or Partridge 
Wyandottes, $1.15; 30 eggs, $2. 15 Bar- 
red 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, Va. 



Pekin Ducks 



Toulouse Geese 



EVELYN HEIGHTS FARM. 

Ducks won Championship at Phila- 
'09. winning 2 firsts s seconds and 3 

thirds. 

Special May sale of White Wyan- 
dotte eggs at half -price. 

$1.50 per Setting; $7.00 per 100. 
W. W. THOMAS, Prop., Catlett, Va. 



White Turkeys. 



White Guineas 



Effect of Food on Strength of Bone 
in Pigs. 
Experiments conducted at the Ne- 
braska Experiment Station show very 
marked increase in the strength of 
bone when tankage or ground bone 
is fed to pigs in addition to corn. In 
determining the strength of bones the 
two principal bones in each leg of each 
animal were removed and broken in a 
machine. There were four pigs fed 
in each lot, making the figures given 
the average of the breaking of thirty- 
two bones in each lot. The average 
breaking strength per one hundred 
pounds l.ive weight of hogs after 
twenty-two weeks feeding was as fol- 
lows : 

Lot 1, corn 325 lbs. 

Lot 2, corn and shorts 396 lbs. 

Lot 3, corn and skim-milk 509 lbs. 

Lot 4, corn and tankage 580 lbs. 

Lot 5, corn and ground bone. .681 lbs. 



Experiments of the Bureau of Plant 
Industry. 

The Bureau of Plant Industry, a 
branch of the Department of Agricul- 
ture, has been quite successful during 
the past season in breeding a wilt- 
resistant watermelon. Wilt is a seri- 
ous disease in the melon belt, entire 
fields being destroyed. The Bureau 
has developed a thoroughly resistant 
variety which was grown last season 
on fifteen acres of infected land. 

It has been demonstrated by the 
Bureau that the gumming fungus or 
shot hole disease of the peach can be 
entirely mastered by proper Bordeaux 
spraying. On the Pacific coast this 
is the worst of the peach diseases. 

Some interesting experiments in hy- 
bridizing or crossing of plants is un- 
der way by the Department of Agri- 
culture. A large number of hybrid 
forms of the cowpea have been raised, 
and these are now being tested in va- 
rious parts of the country; several 
new crosses of the Texas and Ken- 
tucky blue grasses have been effected, 
and the California wild oat has been 
successfully crossed with several 
Eastern varieties. Several new hy- 
brid lettuces are still \n process of 
fixation. A collection of native, Chin- 



IF YOU WANT EGOS 

From birds of quality and don't 
mind paying just a little more than 
is asked for the ordinary — send me- 
your ' orders — look up ad. in April 
Planter. 

LET ME GIVE YOU 

Prices on the following Fancy Stock i 
Pens of W. F. Black Spanish, White 
Leghorns, Black Minorcas, Buffi Or- 
pingtons, Silver Spangled Hambnrgg, 
Black Langshan Cockerels. 

CARROLL MENEFEE, 

Fancier, Sperryvllle, Va. 

Member and Va. Sec'y National 
Black Langshan Club, Member Amer- 
ican Blk. Minorca Club, R. I. Red 
Club of America. 

STRICTLY 

Fresh and Fertile Eggs. 

Line-Bred Barred Plymouth Rocks, 
bred for winter laying, eggs $1 for 18; 
$1.50 for 36; White Hollsftid Turkey 
eggs, 20 cents each; 15 cents after 
May 10; Toulouse goose eggs, 20 cents 
each; Indian Rtmner duck eggs, $1 for 
11; $2 for 25. Eggs carefully gathered 
and packed with care. B. B. G. Ban- 
tams, 75 cents for 15 eggs. Satisfac- 
tion guaranteed. The Golden Rule is 
my motto. 

MRS. M. F. GOOCH, 
R. F. D. 1. Somerset, Orange Co., Va. 

EGGS FOR HA1CHIMG. 

Baby Chicks, Mam- 
moth Bronze Turkey 
from fine breeders, 

headed by 45-lb. torn. 
Grand matings in Bar- 
red Rocks, White Wy- 
andottes, White Orping- 
ton. Eggs fresh, fertile 
from world's best birds. 
Prices reasonable. Send 
orders to 

MISS C. L. SMITH, 
Landor Poultry Yards, Croxton, Va. 

ROYAL REDS 
BUFF ORPINGTONS. 

Eggs from choicest matings of R. 
and S. C. R. I. Reds and Buff Orping- 
tons. Best strains extant; wonderful 
layers; winners of many handsome 
prizes; $2 per 15; $7 per 100, also stock. 
Baby chicks $3 per 15. 
G. W. SWEETING, Locust Mt. Poultry 
Farm, Sharon, Harford Co., Maryland. 

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IFIEiEBI&T HILL POT7LTKT 3E\A.K3*d: 



^E^M^L ARISTOCRATS ONLY. 



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

Black Minorcas winning firsts at Jamestown and Richmond, Va., Char- 
lotte and Raleigh, N. C, Diploma and Special from the American Poultry- 
Association for Best Minorca Cockerel in the Show, and State Championship 
of Va., from the American Black Minorca Club for winning the greatest 
number of blue ribbons in the State. Eggs $1.50 and $2.50 per sitting; $7.00 
and $15.00 per 100. Birds shipped on approval. 



Address J. WALLACE SNELLING, R. P. D. 1, MANCHESTER, Va. 

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




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ESTABLISHED 1893. k 



ese and Japanese persimmons has 
been secured from crossing. This 
last should prove popular work dur- 
ing the present administration for 
furnishing the necessary accompani- 

?ient to the new national dish — 
aked 'possum. 

Small Streams are Disappearing. 
It is particularly noticeable to the 
old folks that the small brooks where 
they played in school days long time 
ago, are disappearing while larger 
ones have shrunk to summer threads, 
and rivers that filled their banks all 
the year are hardly more than rivulets 
in summer. Statistics furnished from 
the State of New York show that the 
upper Hudson in August, 1907, had 
no more than two inches of water 
where it used to roll a heavy volume. 
There is substantial agreement that 
this change has been due to the de- 
nudation of our hills and valleys of 
the water-holding trees. It takes a 
century to grow such forests as we 
found covering the continent; it has 
taken half a century to destroy them. 



Moisture tests at the Oregon Sta- 
tion were made in which incubators 
were operated according to the direc- 
tions of makers with the exception 
that moisture was used in different 
amounts. In the no moisture ma- 
chines a tray of dry sand was kept 
under the eggs. The sand in the 
maximum moisture machines was kept 
wet all the time, or as wet as it could 
be kept without water standing on 
the sand. The final results showed 
an increase in number of chicks 
hatched of 32.6 per cent, by using 
moisture in incubators. 

GUY E. MITCHELL. 



Jefferson Co., W. Va., Jan. 12, '09. 

The Southern Planter is growing 
in interest and value. I take a half- 
dozen agricultural papers, but give 
yours the preference. Your editorials 
are instructive and full of information. 
J. S. MELVIN - . 



Two Well Bred Guernsey Bulls For Sale 

One A Yearling, The Other 2 Years Old. 



EGGS FOR HUTCHING. 



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



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

Rhode Island Reds, $1 for 15. 

Pekin Duck, - - - $1 for 12. 

Mallard Duck - - - $2 for 12. 



Scotch Collie and Fox Terrier Pups now ready to ship 



M. B. ROWE & CO., 



Fredericksburg, Va. 



BLACK'S BLACK LANGSHANS 

are typical LANGSHAN fowls. 
«- || •-• »# J» D C" ( Carefully bred for all Standard requirements. 
jj H t» I fK ll t« I Also a distinct strain of great egg producers. 
THEY WILL, — tone up your flock. 

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

Eggs $2 for 15; $3.50 for 30 and $10 for 100. Some choice birds for sale. 
Write for circular and show winnings. 

A. 91. BLACK, TAZEWELL, VIRGINIA. 



Glenview Orpingtons* 

, S. C. BUFFS EXCLUSIVELY. 

I will not sell any eggs for hatch- 
ing next season. If you want some of 
the best stock of Orpingtons in the 
South, BUT NOW. Prices reasonable. 
State your exact wants. 
B. S. HORNE, Keswick Va. 



BLACK 



LANGSHANS 



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



WHITE WYANDOTTES. 

Eggs for hatching, $1.25 for 16, |2 
for 30. 
- R. ELSAESSER, Meherrln, Va. 




Silver Laced Wyandottes 

Eggs for hatching 
from choice matings at 
fl per 16. Now book- 
ing orders. Vigorous 
Cockerels, $1.25 to 
|1.60. Tries, $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, 
Poplar Hill Poultry Farm, R. F. D No. 4, Lexington, Va. 

S. L. WYANDOTTES 
Exclusively. 

Finest pure-bred stock, 
. extra winter layers. 
Eggs $1.25 per 15; $2 per 
130. Safe arrival and sat- 
isfaction. Having 26 
years experience with 
leading varieties of pure- 
bred poultry, I know 
that my WYANDOTTES 
are hard to beat. Circu- 

1 o t* f 1*66 

S. P. YODER, Denbigh, Va, 




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S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 

100% FERTILITY GUARANTEED 

THINK OF IT! 

We are selling our eggs at $6.00 
per 100 and are guaranteeing, not 
80 or 90 per cent, as others are do- 
ing, but every egg fertile. Write 
us and let us tell you what wo will 
do to advertise our great egg pro- 
ducers. Same price for a less num- 
ber. 

Eggs for fancy matings a matter 
of correspondence. 

STOCK FOR SALES.' 

B. H. GRUNDY & SON, 
SOO \V. Franklin St., Richmond, 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. 

FOX HALL POULTRY FARM, 
R. F. D. 2, Norfolk, Va. 



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 16 
of the finest exhibition females. In- 
cluding the special prize, best 
shaped pullet In above show. 

Eggs from this pen, $2.50 per 1$; 
eggs from business pen, $1 per 16. 
Address: 

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



EGGS FOR E1ATCHING. 

from my heavy, laying strains 

$. C White Leghorns 
White Wyandottes 

Blood linea unsurpassed and stand- 
ard qualities are excellent. $2 per 16. 

SCOTCH COLLIES. 

The sensible kind. Correct type. 
Fashionably bred. 

WARREN RICE, Vanclme Sta., Va. 
Frederick Co. 

S. C. W. 

LEGHORNS 

D. W. Young's strain, $3 per 16 eggs. 
Pine Top strain, $2.50 for 15 eggs. Gen- 
eral utility fowls containing my prize- 
winners at $1.50 per sitting of 15 eggs. 
W. R. TODD, 426 N. 6th St. 

RICHMOND, VA. 



HINTS BY MAY MANTON'. 

The breakfast jacket that is slight- 
ly open at the neck is the one which 
a great many women find comfortable. 
The model includes that feature and 
is absolutely simple, the sleeves be- 
ing cut in one with the body portion. 
Just now, when washable goods are 
being offered in such tempting, vari- 
ety and a great many busy folks are 
employing the midwinter time for 
making them up, such a model will 
be found doubly desirable. It would 
be charming made from lawn or 
batiste, or from any one of the inex- 
pensive printed wash fabrics, and it 
is also pretty for cashmere, challis 
and materials of the sort. In the il- 
lustration white albatross is banded 
with pale blue. 




6219 Breakfast Jacket witn Peplum, 
32 to' 42 bust 

The jacket is made with the side 
portions which are cut in one with 
the sleeves, the centre front and the 
centre back. The side portions are 
laid in tucks over the shoulders and 
are joined to the centre portions. The 
jacket is gathered at the lower edge 
and joined to the peplum, the belt 
concealing the seam. The closing is 
made invisibly at the left of the front. 

The quantity of material required 
for the medium size is 3 1-2 yards 24, 
2 5-8 yards 32, or 2 1-4 yards 44 inches 
wide, with 3-4 yard 32 inches wide for 
band. 

The pattern 6219 is cut in sizes for 
a 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42 inches bust 
measure and will be mailed to any 
address by the Fashion Department of 
this paper on receipt of ten cents. 




Eggs for Hatching 



Husselman, the Hen Man 

Best laying strain S. C. Brown Leg- 
horns; best laying strain S. C. White 
Leghorns, eggs $1.00 for 15; $6 per 
100. 

Pure Thompson Strain Barred Ply- 
mouth Rocks. Two pens. None better. 
Pens one and two. Eggs $3 per 15. 

One pen pullets from Maine Ex. 
Station mated to a fine large Thomp- 
son cockerel. Eggs, $2.50 per 15. 

HUSSELMAN, 

Stop 26. Seven Pines Car Line 

Highland Springs, Va. 

Single Comb 

BROWN LEGHORNS 

I have bred them ex- 
clusively for years and 
now offer egg3 from 
well bred stock at 75c. 
per sitting. Correspond- 
ence solicited. 
THOS. WASHINGTON, 
Woodford, Va. 

We Are Now 

BOOKING ORDERS FOR EQGS 

White Holland Turkey, $2 for 9 

Crested Pekin Duck $1 for 11 

S. C. Brown Leghorn $1 for 15 

Buff Plymouth Rock $1 for 15 

LAUREL HILL POULTRY FARM, 

Rnxbnry, Va. 

EGGS FOR HATCHING 

From pure-bred, very high grade 
Barred Rocks, E. B. Thompson and 
Gowell 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 TOO. Address 

CEDAR HILL POULTRY FARM, 
Route 1, Rox 50., James River, Va. 

"MAPLEHURST" 



Th» home of choice birds — B. P. Rocks, 
Buff Orpingtons and S. C. R. I. Redo. 

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

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

SHIRLEY POULTRY YARDS. 

Barred Plymouth Rocks, E. B. Thomp- 
son's celebrated strain, beautiful 
plumage, fine large fowls, cockerels 
$1 to $1.60; eggs, $1 per sitting; 
$1.50 per two. 

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

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

MRS. R E. WII.HOIT. Somerset, Va. 

S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS, 

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS. 

HEAVY LAYERS. 

Eggs 91 Per 15. 

WHITING'S POULTRY YARDS, 

Harmony Village, Middlesex Co., Va. 



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519 



Cut Prices 





Our eggs of the following varieties 
of Pure-Bred Poultry of highest qual- 
ity that are bred to lay and pay, for 
balance of season to readers of the 
Planter: 

Per sitting 

Barred P. Rock 15 $1.10 

White P. Rocks 15 1.10 

Buff P. Rocks 15 1.30 

R C. R I. Red 15 1.10 

S. C. R. I. Red 15 1.10 

S. C. Buff Orpington 15 1.20 

S. L. Wyandotte 15 1.10 

White Wyandotte 15 1.10 

Columbian Wyandotte 15 1.30 

Buff Wyandotte 15 1.10 

C. I. Game 15 1.40 

Golden Wyandotte 15 1.10 

Black Langshans 15 1.10 

R C. Brown Leghorns 15 1.10 

S. C. Brown Leghorns 15 1.10 

S. C. Buff Leghorns 15 1.20 

S. C. White Leghorns 15 1.10 

R. C. White Leghorns 15 1.10 

S. S. Hamburgs 15 1.10 

S. C. White Minorcas 15 1.10 

R. C. Black Minorcas 15 1.10 

Pearl Guineas 15 1.00 

Also other varieties at low prices. 
My big catalog tells all about poultry; 
feeding, care, etc. It is only 10 cents 
or free with an order for eggs from 
this ad. 

JOHN E. HEATWOLE, 
Box L. Harrisonburg, 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 guar- 
anteed. 
-i^lr- CHARLES C. WINE, 
fc Mt. Sidney, Va. 

SPRING BROOK POULTRY FARM 

Cnlpeper, Va., H. H. Scott, Prep. 

Breeder of Northrup strain Black 
Minorcas, Whitman strain of Brown 
Leghorns, and the be3t Silver-Laced 
Wyandottes. Six entries at Richmond 
and Herndon won 2 first, 1 second, 2 
thirds and a club special. Eggs in rea- 
son. Stock for sale. 

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, Marlon, 
Virginia. 

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




There is no suit better adapted to 
the small boy's use than the one in 
blouse style. It can be made from 
such washable material as linen, cham- 
bray, madras and the like and it can 
be made from plain wool materials, 
from shepherd's check or serge or any 
fabric of the sort. It is always com- 
fortable and it suits the small boy's 
needs perfectly well. This model is 
buttoned at the right side well to the 
shoulders in true Russian style, and 
includes the knickerbockers that are 
so comfortable as well as so becom- 




6280 Boy's Suit, 6 to 12 years. 

The suit consists, of the blouse and 
the knickerbockers. The blouse is 
made with fronts and backs and fin- 
ished with a neck band to which the 
collar is attached by means of studs. 
The sleeves are tucked at the wrists 
and the lower edge of the blouse fin- 
ished with hem in which elastic 
is inserted to regulate the size. The 
knickerbockers are simple ones fin- 
ished with waistbands and drawn up 
at the knees by means of elastic in- 
serted in the hems. 

The quantity of material required 
for the medium size (10 years) is 



McCue'a "Ringlet" 



Barred Plymouth Rocks. 



Again winners in strongest competi- 
tion, Richmond, Dec, 1908, 1st cockerel, 
3d and 5th cock, 5th pullet. Washing- 
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, $1, 
$1.50 and $2 each. Eggs from grand 
yards, headed by prize-winners, $1.60, 
$2, $2.60 and $4 per 16. You may get 
a prize-winner out of one sitting. Sat- 
isfaction guaranteed. 

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



BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS 

EXCLUSIVELY. 

Yard headed by some world re- 
nowned prize-winning blood. 

Eggs from strong, healthy, beauti- 
fully Barred, farm-raised birds, unex- 
celled in laying qualities, size, vigor 
and beauty, selling at farmers' prices — 
$1.25 for 15, or $2 for 30. Toulouse 
Geese Eggs $1.25 for 6; $2 for 12. 
JOHN MAHANES, Trevillan, Va. 



THOMPSON'S STRAIN 

Barred Plymouth Rocks 

A few nice cockerels at $1.25 to $2 
each. SELECTED EGGS $2 per 15. 
Choice young Angus Bull at $40. 



C. NEALE STACY, 



Amelia, 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 16 — care- 
fully packed, bend check, postal or 
express mjoney order. 

MRS. WM. P. BURKS, Bedford City, 
Route No. 1. Va. 



Pure-Bred 

Barred Plymouth Rocks 

(Park's Strain) 

S. C. Rhode /stand Reds 

(Piper's Strain) 

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

Fred B. Jones, Gloucester, Va. 



Golden Wyandottes. 

A Specialty 

Pure, t>red, strong, 
vigorous stock, bred 
for winter layers. 

Eggs $1 per 15, $1.75 
per 30, $3 per 50, $5 
per 100. 

Miss Katie Thompson, 

Ronte 3, Manassas, 

Virginia. 



EGGS, EGGS. 

From Taylor's White Wyandottes. I 
am still booking orders for eggs. Prize 
pens, $2 for 15: other pens $1.50 for 16. 
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, 

Always mention The Southern 
Planter when writing advertisers. 




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BERGER'S 
White Wyandottes 



BIG 



Winners 

Layers 

Birds 



Eggs $1 50 per 15 and 

$3. per 15 

Descriptive circu- 
lar on request. 

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

RICHMOND, VA. 






PURE-BRED R. C. 

RHODE ISLAND REDS 



Eg&s, $1 per sitting of 15. 
Special rates for Incu- 
bator Eggs. 

MRS. J. A. TJPSON, 
R. F. D., Wellvllle, Va. 

ROSE COMB 

Rhode Island Red 

Eggs from prize-winning stock. Also 

Fishel Strain White Rock 
Eggs for sale, 15 for $1 or 3 sit- 
tings for $2.50. 

L. E. SMITH, Appomattox, Va. 

PURE=BRED R. C. 

RHODE ISLAND REDS 

Eggs from prize-winning 
stock at astonishing 
prices. 
|- MRS. MATTHEW SMITH, 
Route 1, Wellvllle, Va. 

ROSE COMB 
RHODE ISLAND REDS 

EXCLUSIVELY. 

Eggs for hatching from prize-win- 
ning stock; an exceptionally fine lay- 
ing strain. 

MISS LOUISE V. SPENCER, 
Blackstone, Va. 
Member of R. I. Red Club. 

S. AND R. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS 

Columbian and White 
Wyandottes; B. P. Rocks 
Eggs for hatching, $1 for 
15; $1.76 for 30; $2.76 for 
50; $5 for 100. All stock 
has free range. 
Riverside Poultry Farms, 
J. B. Coffman & Sons, .. 
Prop., Route 19, Dayton, 
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. O. B. Leghorns. 
Ducks sold out. Eggs In season. 
MRS B. J. GRASBERGER, 
Bnmpass, Va. 



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




5 1-4 yards 24, 4 yards 32, or 3 1-4 
yards 44 inches wide. 

The pattern 6280 is cut in sizes for 
boys 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. 



UP-TO-DATE IMPROVEMENTS IN 
CREAM SEPARATORS. 

Cream separators come and go — 
every year some new names and some 
that are heard of no more — but all 
appear to have little effect upon the 
firmly established prestige of the 
"World's Standard" De Laval ma- 
chines, which were first in the begin- 
ning and which their makers have 
spared no effort or expense at any 
time to keep in the van of all at- 
tempted competition. 

A year ago we commented at length 
on the many and novel changes found 
in the new line of Improved Die Laval 
machines then introduced, and now 
the manufacturers say that a year's 
practical experience in the actual sale 
and use of the new machines has but 
served to suggest a little greater re- 
finement of perfection in the 1909 ma- 
chines and to bring out some points 
of advantage not fully appreciated at 
first even by those who had designed 
the new machines. 




The interest in cream separators is 
so great the present year, and this 
wonderful implement is productive of 
so much profit and convenience to 
the dairy farmer, that it is worth 
while to review again some of the 
radical changes made in the new 
1908-1909 De Laval machines. 

The capacities were increased from 
ten to twenty per cent., while there is 
claimed to be a noticeable improve- 
ment in the still more complete separ- 



WALKER'S 
WHITE ROCKS. 

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

C. M. WALKER, 
Herndon, Va. 




White Wyandottes Exclusively. 

Bred for business. Will please farmer 
or fancier. Eggs from carefully se- 
lected stock, $1.25 per 15; $2 per 30. 
Circular free. I guarantee satisfaction. 
J. H. YODER, Denbigh, Va. 

RICHMOND 

COLLIE KENNELS 

Pedigreed Collie Puppies, sable and 
white. Bred right and are right. Blue 
ribbon stock. $10. See them. 

W. J. STRAIN, 
Mechanicsvllle Farm, Richmond, Va. 

WOODLAND DORSETS 

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

/J. E. WING & BROS., 

Mechanlcsburg, O. 






TAMWORTH PIGS. 

From Registered Stock of Fine 
Breeding. 

Knowle of Cook Farm 6067 at 
head of herd. Sire 2nd prize boar 
at Royal Show, Eng., 1907., Dam, 
1st prize gilt at same shew, 1907. 

VOLNEY OSBURN 
Bluemont, Loudoun Co. Va. 



O. I. c. 

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

D. WM. GOOD, Farland, Va. 

EDGEWOOD STOCK FARM. 

DORSETS 

I still have some choice Nov., Jan., 
and Feb. lambs left; better this year 
than ever. Will be pleased to quote 
you prices. Remember my lambs are 
from large strong boned ewes and 
have blood from the best flocks in 
this country and England. I am pre- 
pared to furnish grade ram lambs 
at ten dollars f. o. b. Let me hear 
from you; I can please you. Address 
H. H. Arbuckle, 
Maxweltou, W. Va. 

Virginia's Premier Rival 
117983 

A blue ribbon winner at Va. State 
Fair, 1908. He is one of the Great 
Boars of the Berkshire Breed, Is not 
only a splendid individual but has 
proven himself a wonderful breeder. 
His pigs are large, even size no 
"runts" fine length, full of quality 
with best of Berkshire heads, Anyone 
in search of a top boar pig to head a 
good herd, write me. My pigs are 
out of large prolific sows of best 
breeding. Prices reasonable and stock 
must please you. 

E. F. SOMMERS, Somerset, Va. 






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Eggs for hatching now ready. I 
can supply eggs from choice mat- 
lngs of the following breeds: Bar- 
red, Buff and White Plymouth 
Rocks; White, Brown and Buff 
Leghorns; Single and Rose Comb 
Rhode Island Reds and Black Min- 
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 eggs 
30c. each, as many as you want. 
Address, 

JAMES. M. HOBBS, 
1521 Mt. Royal Avenue, 
BALTIMORE, MD. 




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 ship- 
ment 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 qual- 
ity I have. Address 

JAMES. M. HOBBS, 

1521 Mt. Royal Avenue, 

BALTIMORE, MD. 




Pure-Bred 

HOGS 

I have fine lot of Spring Pigs of 
the following breeds and am book- 
ing orders for April, May and June 
shipment: Chester White, York- 
shire, 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. HOBBS. 
1521 Mt. Royal Avenue. 
BALTIMORE, MD. 



DUROC 
JERSEY 
SWINE 



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

WARREN RICE, Vnucluse Stn., Va. 
Frederick County. 



TAMWORTHS. 

The lean bacon hogs — pigs, bred 
sows, and service boars, all regis- 
tered and of best blood. 
BERKSHIRES. 

Fine pigs and service boars en- 
titled to registration and of blue 
ribbon stock. Am out of Poland- 
China pigs at present. 
J. C. GRAVES, Barbour»ville, Va. 



THOROUGHBRED 

BERKSHIRE BOARS, 
JERSEY BULL CALVES, 
DORSET BUCK LAMBS. 

Sire of calves, FLYING FOX, 65456, 
son of Flying Fox, who sold for $7,500 
at the Cooper sale, 1902. 

All stock in best condition and guar- 
anteed as represented. 

F. T. ENGLISH, Centrevllle, Md. 

MEADOW BROOK FARM 

FOR SALE — Choice 
lot of large 
YORKSHIRE PIGS 

males and females, 
not akin, from 
America and Eng- 
land's best breed- 
ing. 

J. D. Thomas, Prop. 
Round Hill, Va. 




PREMIER BERKSHIRES 

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



ation of the butter-fat from the milk, 
particularly under the more difficult 
but frequently unavoidable circum- 
stances of ordinary farm and dairy 
use. 

The supply can is now low enough 
to meet the objection that has some- 
times been made to the lifting of milk 
into it. It is spun from a single 
sheet of tin-plate so that it is seam- 
less and absolutely sanitary, while it 
is globe shaped and thus avoids any 
splashing over of the milk. 

The bowls retain, the distinctive 
"Alpha-Disc" and "Split-Wing" tubu- 
lar shaft De Laval features, but have 
been scientifically re-designed, from 
engineering cinsiderations, so as to 
involve the least air resistance in be- 
ing driven and in the discharge of 
cream and skim-milk from them. 

The bowl is more sanitary in its 
construction, being free from tubes, 
wings, orifices, or any parts which 
are not easily unassembled and may 
not be quickly and completely cleaned. 

The supporting spindle now sets 
well up under the bowl, at the center 
of weight and balance. It is of the 
combined spindle and worm screw 
type, but still detachable from the 
bowl, the spindle always remaining in 
the frame where no harm can come to 
it. It is thus said to possess all of 
the advantages of both the old double 
and single bowl spindles, with none 
of the previous disadvantages of 
either. 

The top bearing, which provides the 
yielding 'cushion the bowl spindle 
must have, is most ingeniously simple, 
hardy and inexpensive. It is merely 
a circular bowed steel spring sur- 
rounding the bronze bushing, unaffect- 
ed by wear or conditions of use and 
easily removed and replaced. 

A new feature which appeals to 



QUALITY |l 

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 & BRO., 
Miclinux. Powhatan Co., Va. 

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 pease. Tou run abso- 
lutely no risk, every one shipped on 
approval. Satisfaction or your money 
back. Could I be fairer? 



W. M. JONES, 



Crofton, Va, 




Reg. P. Chinas, Berkshires, 
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. F. HAMILTON, 
Coclirnnville., Chester Co. Pa. 



A FEW FINE 

BERKSHIRE PIGS 
And one three year old registered 
boar for sale. All stock entitled to 
registration. You can get the best 
at farmers' prices. 

W. C. SHACKELFORD, JR., 
Route 1, Proffit, Va. 

CHESTER WHITES. 

Best hog on earth. I am now booking 
orders for spring pig3 Please let me 
nave your orders. Satisfaction guaran- 
teed. 
S. M. YVISECARVER, Rnatburg, Va. 



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PUBLIC SALE 

MAY 27, 1909 

Short Horns, Draft Colts 

Poland -Chinas 

At Silver Spring Farm, three miles 
from Rippon (N. & W. R. R.) Jeffer- 
son County, W. Va. 

Parties will be met at train on sale 
day or if notified will be met and en- 
tertained the day before. 

The offering consists of 22 Short- 
horns, grandsons and granddaughters 
of Choice Goods, a great show and 
breeding bull, also grandsons and 
granddaughters of Imported Scots- 
man and British Flag. There are 
some fine bulls and a useful lot of 
heifers most of which are under 15 
months old and are of my own breed- 
ing. Several of the bulls are extra 
good. 

Twenty colts, most of them are one- 
half to three-quarter Percheron; 8 
are two yaars old and 12 are one year 
old. Six of the two year olds are 
heavy and good to work some. The 
year olds are a fine lot and there are 
several that will make large brood 
mares. 

Fifteen Poland-China Hogs. In the 
offering are boars old enough for 
service and three sows all eligible to 
registry. 

Will also sell two fine Shropshire 
Ram Lambs from Wardwell ewes. 

There will be no protection put on 
this stock. You get it at what the 
public thinks it is worth. I know it 
is profitable to breed pure-bred stock 
and naturally hope that the public 
will put a fair valuation on my offer- 
ings. 

Twelve months will be given on ap- 
proved notes with interest from date. 
Catalogues after May 15th. 

ROBERT R. SMITH. 
Charles Town, W. Va., or Wlckllffe, Va. 

Station Rippon, N. & W. R. R. Men- 
tion Southern Planter when writing 

HEFFLEBOWER & WEST, AUCTIONEERS 



REDLANDSFARM 

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. 



TWO 

JERSEY BULLS 

FOR SALE. 

One dropped Feb. 1st, 1908, son of 
■Coquette's John Bull and Deccalora's 
Maiden — a five gallon cow — fat, good 
size, and entitled to registry. 
Price $50 

One sired by Flying Fox's Cash, a 
grandson of Champion Flying Fox, 
and out of Lady Cook, a granddaugh- 
ter of Champion Flying Fox. 
Price $50 

A. R. VENABLE, JR., Farmvllle, Va. 



every housewife is the drip shelf com- 
ing between the frame and the stool 
and catching any oil or overflow of 
milk and water that might otherwise 
run to the floor. 

In the reconstruction of the ma- 
chines every part has been carefully 
designed with reference to its extreme 
simplicity, not only of itself, but in 
its assembling with the other parts 
with which it must fit, and it is said 
that the new machines have been 
completely unassembled down to the 
last part within five minutes of time, 
by persons who bad never touched 
a separator before, and then complete- 
ly reassembled again within ten min- 
utes without the slightest trouble. 

The new machines have been the 
subject of much favorable comment by 
Experiment Station and other authori- 
ties and many experienced users of 
separators have come to appreciate 
some of the difficulties they had to 
contend with before and some of the 
new features which it seems hard to 
be without once it is known that they 
can be had. 

More than 15,000 users of old ma- 
chines — various other makes as well 
as antiquated De Laval — are said to 
have availed during 1908 of the small 
trade" allowances which the De 
Laval Company makes for such old 
machines, and it is confidently expect- 
ed that a still larger number will do 
so this year. 

The accompanying sectional view of 
one of the machines Illustrates some 
of the new features mentioned. 



NEW WORLD'S RECORD BUTTER 
COW. 
The milk of the Holstein cow bear- 
ing the name below given was tested 
for butter by a representative of the 
Cornell University Experiment Sta- 
tion, Ithaca, N. Y., during the latter 
part of March, 1909, and by the Bab- 
cock test showed a yield in seven 
days of 28.44 pounds of butter fat. 
As such records are commonly stated 
by the Herd-Book Association this 
yield of butter fat is equivalent to 
35.55 pounds commercial butter at 80 
per cent. fat. 




World's Champion Cow, 35.55 lbs. Butter in 7 days 
irace Fayne ind's Homestead, Pure Bred Holstein 

This yield exceeds that of any 
other cow tested under the present 
scientific systems in use at Experi- 
ment Stations, which are to-day the 



Fairfield Farm 

NOKESVILLE. VA. 




REGISTERED BERKSMRES, 
S. C.WHITE AND BROWN LEGHORNS 

Indian Runner Ducks 

WRITE US YOUR WANTS. 



Devon Herd Established 1884. Hamp- 
shire Down Flock Established 1880. 

DEVON CATTLE 

BUIiLS AND HEIFERS, 

HAMFSHIREDOWN SHEEP, 

RAMS AND EWES. 

ROBERT J. FARRER, Orange, Va. 

Ingleside Herefords 

Polled and standard bred — 206 head 
In herd. All ages, both sexes. Write 
for catalogue and prices. Inspection 
Invited. Farm near Alderson, W. Va., 
on C. & O. R. R. Address. 
«. XV. Andernon. Bluker mills. W. Va. 

VALLEY FRONT FARM. 

Sassafras, Gloucester Co., Va. 

I have a nice lot of registered Here 
fard Bulls and Heifers, for sale at 
farmers' prices. Also a number of 
grade Heifers and cows. My herd rep- 
resents best strains and choice Indi- 
viduals. 

Wsa. C. Stnbbs. Proa. 



Elkton Stock Farm 

Breeders of pure-bred, registered 
Hereford Cattle and Berkshire Hogs 

Young- stock for sale at all times 
at reasonable prices. All statements 
and representations guaranteed. 
Forest Depot, Virginia. 



JERSEYS 

Combination and Golden Lad. For sale 

46 Cows, 6 Heifers, 25 Bulls. 

S. E. NIVEN, Landenberg, Pa. 



Please mention the Southern Planter. 



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Glenara Stock 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 flOO. 

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 $16 each. 



FOR MAY AND JUNE DELIVERY 
CLYDESDALE 

1 yearling Clydesdale Stallion, by 
imp. "Evander," 1st and champion at 
Aberdeen, Scotland, 1st and Reserve 
champion at Chicago International, out 
of imp. "Lanark Queen," winner of 26 
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 
"Thorncliffe Duchesse" 1st at the Chi- 
cago International. Price, $500. 

DORSET SHEEP 

15 Dorset ram lambs, by imp. "Rom- 
ulus 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=CHlNAS 

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 fami- 
lies. 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 dissatis- 
fied at my expense and their purchase 
money will be refunded. 

Place your orders now. These are 
Farmers' Prices. 

JOHN BUTLER SWANN, 

Marshall, Fauquier Co., Va. 

ROCK SPRING FARM 

;Offers for Sale 1 

REGISTERED GUERNSEYS 

of the best strains; Registered Duroc and Berk- 
shire Swine ; Breeding stock and eggs from 
B. Rocks, Pekln Ducks, White Holland Tur- 
keys and Guineas 

H. T. HARRISON, Prop. • Leesburg, Va. 

Walnut Hills Herd. 

Twenty-five Registered Angus fe- 
males and two bulls for sale. 

J. P. THOMPSON, Orange, Va. 



only true tests, and is a wonderful 
example of the capacity and develop- 
ment of cows of this famous breed of 
dairy cattle. The previous high re- 
cord was held by a Holstein cow 
owned by Wisconsin breeder, and 
New York State now claims the cham- 
pion cow of the world, owned and de- 
veloped in Syracuse, by Mr. H. A. 
Moyer. 

This cow exhibits to a great degree 
the characteristic vigor of the Hol- 
stein. Her last test was begun when 
she was six years, 23 days old, and 
showed about 5.42 per cent. fat. She 
was the champion four year old of 
1907, testing 29.16 pounds in seven 
days and 119.22 pounds in thirty days. 
As a five year old she tested 30.55 
pounds in seven days and 126.68 
pounds in thirty days. 

F. L. HOUGHTON, 
Secy. Holstein-Friesian Association 

of A.m^riofl 

Brattleboro, Vt., April 15, 1909. 



GOOD HOUSEKEEPING. 
Roaches, Flies, Ants and Mosquitoes. 
Since all the world seems alive to 
the necessity of stamping out these 
pestiferous insects, it may not be out 
of place for us to give a few hints 
from our own experience with simple 
remedies, hoping that they will be a 
help to some who are out of the reach 
of the more scientific methods. For 
years our kitchen, cellar and store- 
room were overrun with great black 
bugs, which we called roaches, but 
others called them water bugs. What- 
ever they were, they were the cause 
of great loss as well as the greatest 
discomfort. We tried everything we 
could think of or hear of, but the bugs 
seemed to wax fatter on each experi- 
ment, till one day we saw on a scrap 
of paper that "Borax, if used in suffi- 
cient quantities, would kill roaches." 
We had tried borax in small quanti- 
ties, with no effect, but, being desper- 
ate, we concluded to "try again." We 
bought ten pounds, giving, I think, 
six cents a pound for it. We spread 
it an inch thick on shelves, tables, 
biscuit blocl' window sills and along 
the walls, under wood boxes, wherever 
we knew that the bugs were, and we 
left it there for two days, then we 
cleaned up and we found that we were 
free. Not a bug was to be seen, and 
they never seemed to want to come 
back. We had the same fight in an- 
other house and conquered in the 
same way, so there is no doubt that 
if you use enough of it that Borax will 
exterminate bugs of this kind. With 
ants we had had very little experience 
until we went to spend two winters in 
the far South. There they were into 
everything. It was a continual strug- 
gle to serve anv dish without its large 
per cent, of the miserable little in- 
sects. It was discouraging in the ex- 
treme to take up a handful of sugar 
and have half of it scamper aiway in 
the form of such tiny white thing as 



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 fine robes. 

N. S. HOPKINS 
Gloucester, Va. 



RED POLLS 

Will Virginia and Nerth Carolina 
farmers be convinced that these are 
the cattle for them? Write for pho- 
tos and records. We will Interest 
you. Second prize bull at last Inter- 
national now at head of herd. Two 
prime cows now ready. Most any 
time you can buy a calf. 

H. B. ARBUCKLB, 

Maxwelton, W. Va. 

Please mention the Southern Planter. 

Red Poll Cattle 

I offer for sale Two 
Registered Red Poll 
Cows and One Heifer 
two years old. 

JOSEPH E. WILLARD, 

Address: 

A. C. BLEIQHT, Supt. 

FAIRFAX, VA. 

TWELVE PINE 

JACKS 

From three to six years old for sale 
at reasonable and accommodating 
terms or will exchange for mules. 

H. C. LESTER, Martinsville, 

Henry County, Va. 




JACKS 

AND 

Sad diets 



The Cook Farms have 175 head of 
registered jacks, jennetts and saddle 
horses. One hundred head of these 
must be sold by the 15th of May. If 
you want a bargain in a good jack 
or stallion write quick or visit the 
Cook Farms. 
J. F. COOK & CO., Lexington, Ky. 

OUROC-JERSEY and TAMWORTH 
SWINE. 

Sterling Stock Farm, 
R. W. Watson, Petersburg, Va 



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Horses and Mules 
at a Bargain. 

One bay mare, 9 years old, weight 
1,200 lbs., height 16% hands. A re- 
liable 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. 

One 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 bar- 
gain if bought at once. 

WM. M. WATKINS, 
Saxe, Charlotte Co., Va. 



HACKNEYS 



For Sale: 4 year old Chestnut Stallion, 1st. 
prize as-a 3 year old; three 2 year old Stall- 
ions; some tine fillies, elegantly bred, by 
such hor=es as Matchless Dane and 
Bagihorpe Sultan. 



Aldie Stud and Stock Farms 
ALDIE, VA. 



THE SOUTHERN -PLANTER. 



"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 
of Geo. Wilkes. 

Even common mares bred to a horse 
of this kind find ready sales as drivers 
and roadsters. 

Terms: $15 for season, usual return 
privilege. A sure foal getter. Mares 
sent from distance receive our beat at- 
tention. Write for pedigree. 
BIRCHLAND FARM, News Ferry, Va. 

Send us your orders for Aberdeen- 
Angus calves. Some beauties on hand 
now. 



[May, 



ONE PAIR 



SORREL COLTS 

Four years old, well bred and well 
matched, weight about 1,000 lbs, 16 
hands high, drive nicely, perfect bean- 
ties. Write 



C. E. DICKINSON, 



Chllesburg, Va, 



Always mention The Southern 
Planter when writing advertisers. 



to be almost invisible. Then, there 
were the red ants; the larger, black 
ants, and the very large brown ants. 
All seemed to feel equally at home 
with us and our possessions, until we 
felt that with them in the house life 
was hardly worth living. I made ex- 
periment after experiment, but with 
little result, the more I killed the 
more there seemed to kill. One day 
I was bewailing the fact when an old 
Creole told me that she had a reme- 
dy. If I would soak some good big 
twine in a solution of Corrosive Sub- 
limate and tie it on the legs of every- 
thing that it would do the job. I took 
her advice and not only tied it on the 
chairs and table legs, I tacked it along 
the walls, tied it around the supports 
of the back porch and about the pil- 
lars, and I was happy beyond ex- 
pression to find myself free from 
ants. I have tried this time and 
again with the result of always doing 
away with any trouble from them. 
The trouble is small, there is no dan- 
ger, and the cords need not be re- 
newed more than once a year. 

With flies, the only hope is eternal 
vigilance. The sticky papers are dis- 
gusting; the slow poisons make life 
a burden, yet both are efficacious. 
But the Persian insect powder will 
be found equal to the occasion, if 
rightly applied. At night, when you 
are shutting up the house, carefully 
cover the furniture, etc., in the dining- 
room and kitchen, arm yourself with 
a large palm-leaf fan and a box of 
powder, shut the door, hold your 
breath, sprinkle a part of the powder 
on the fan and fan upward vigorously, 
repeat until the air is thick with the 
powder; then shut the room up as 
closely as possible and leave it till 
morning. As soon as you can sweep 
up the flies, which are not dead but 
choked, and dump them into the fire. 
They come to life in the air. If you 
persist you will have a flyless, which 
means a comfortable summer. 

For mosquitoes, kerosene seems to 
be all that is needed. A few table- 
spoons on the places where there is 
any still water will kill the eggs and 
prevent them entirely. 

There is one other nuisance which 
makes for discomfort in the warm 
weather; that is the moths, which are 
attracted by our lights and open win- 
dows. If the whole family would keep 
an eye open for ©very catterpillar's 
web and burn it before it begins to 
be alive we would have fewer moths 
and more peaceful evenings. The 
children of the family might receive 
some small payment for destroying 
them. 

Potato Yeast. 
Buy an yeast cake; put it in soak 
for several hours; grate eight large 
potatoes; pour four auarts of water 
nn them, and let them boil until 
done; set this aside to get cold; 
When it is cold add one cup of sugar, 
one cup of salt, and the dissolved 
yeast cake; stir it all well and keep 
(Continued on page 528.) 



Dick Wilkes Jr. 

The perfect horse and blue ribbon 
winner at the State Fair. By Dick 
Wilkes, 2:11, by Centinel Wilkes, he 
by George Wilkes, by Hambletonian. 
Dam Morgan Black Hawk Pet, and 
granddam sired by Ethan Allen, Jr., 
by Hill's Black Hawk Fan. 
PII.OSO 102, 

16 hands high; the only imported 
Catalonian Spanish Jack in this sec- 

This Jack's papers show the Ameri- ( 
can Consul's signature and stamp. 
This stallion and Jack mark their get 
wonderfully. 

Terms $5.00 cash at the time of ser- 
vice; balance $10.00 when mare proves 

"visiting mares cared for by the f, 
week, month or year, accidents at, fl 
owner's risk. _, .. 

Tuesdays at W. O. Winston, South 
Wales Farm, Hanover C. H; Wednes- 
days at Horn Quarter, King William 
Co: Saturdays at Doran's, 19th and 
Franklin Streets, other days at our 
farm. 

Owned by 

STRAIN «fc SON, 
Mechanicsville Farm, 

Richmond, Va., R. F. D. No , 1. 
Richmond Collie Kennels, Pedigree 
Stock. 






"Feeds and Feeding^ 

AND 

The Southern Planter 

SUt w.rt on Feeds and Feedlai 
Stock and is the recognized stand*r€ 
everywhere. Every one with kali 
loteThead of stock should hare It, 

Southern Planter, 

Richmond, Va. 



FOR MORGAN COLTS 



and Fillies and High-Bred Fox Hound 
Puppies. Address, 

Dr. JOHN D. MAS SENG ILL. 
Blountvllle. Tens. 



IMPOSSIBLE. 

In a certain town are two brothers 
who are. engaged in the retail coal 
business. A noted evangelist visited 
the town, and the elder brother was 
converted. For weeks after his con- 
version he endeavored to persuade his 
brother to join the church. One day 
he said to him: "Why can't you, 
Richard, join the Church, as I did.' 

"It's all right for you to be a mem- 
ber of the Church," replied Richard, 
"but if I join, who's going to weigh 
the coal?" — Lippincott's. 

MERELY LOCAL. 
Young Thomas, afflicted with a 
green apple pain in his midst, thus 
explained his. condition to his mother: 
"Mother, I've got an awful bad pain 
right in the middle of my stomach, 
but the rest of me feels fine."— Lip 
pincott's. 



1909.] 



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525 



Want Ads. 

Rates 2 cents per word. Ca3h with 
order. Initials and figures count aa 
one word: 25 ents minimum charge. 

POULTRY, ETC. 

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. 

EGGS, STRICTLY FRESH FROM 
farm raised birds, Mammoth Bronze, 
White Holland and half wild Tur- 
keys, $2.25 per 9; after May 20, 20 
cents each: B. P. Rocks, $1 for 15; 
$1.50 for 32; $5 for 100: M. P. Ducks 
$1 for 11; $1.50 for 23: White Af- 
rican Guineas, $1 for 15. Well 
packed. Satisfaction guaranteed. 
Blue Hill Poultry Yards, Somerset, 
Orange Co., Va. 

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS, SILVER 
Laced Wyandottes, Rhode Island 
Reds two months old, 50 cents each 
and eggs $1 for 15. Purina chick 
feed, incubators and brooders. Drury 
B: Baskerville & Bro., Salem, Va. 

FRESH EGGS FOR HATCHING — 
Indian Runner Duck eggs $1 for 11; 
$1.75 for 22; White Holland Turkey 
eggs from 2 year old hens, 20 cents 
apiece, after 15 May 15 cents apiece. 
Line-bred Barred Plymouth Rock 
eggs, $1 for 15; $1.50 for 38 eggs; 
Toulouse goose eggs, 20 cents each. 
White African Guinea eggs, $1 for 
15. Eggs carefully selected and 
packed securely, satisfaction guar- 
anteed. Ingraham Poultry Yards, 
Somerset, Orange Co., 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 exhibi- 
tion birds from egg laying strain, 
fit to show in any company. Satis- 
faction and a fair hatch guaranteed. 
Mountain View Poultry Farm and 
Kennels. Glenvar, Va. 

INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS — MY 
Ducks come from the best duck 
breeders In the United States. My 
birds have free ranere and their eggs 
last season ran high In, fertility and 
hatched vigorous ducklings. Eggs 
alone for sale. 11 for $1: 50 for $4: 
100 for $7. W. W. Henry, Jr., Broad 
Run. Fauquier Co.. Va. 

EGGS— S. C. 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 orders to Evergreen Farms, 
Rice Depot, Va. 

BUFF ORPINGTON AND BROWN 
Leghorns (Single Combl Eggs from 
prize winners at State Fair and Vir- 
ginia Poultry Show, $1.25 per 15. 
Stock for sale in fall. Orders booked 
now. Correspondence solicited. Sum- 
mit Poultry Yards, 2205 Park Avenue 
Richmond, Va. 



WHITE WYANDOTTES. HEN WITH 
15 chicks for $3: incubator chicks 
10c. each. Eggs 16 for $1. Mrs. Geo. 
Ensor, Midland, Va. R. F. D. No. 2. 



STRICTLY FRESH AND FERTILE 
eggs. Mammoth Bronze, and White 
Holland Turkey eggs 25 cents each; 
Lin-bred Barred Plymouth Rocks, $1 
per 15, $1.50 per 30; Large Pekin 
Duck eggs, $1 per 11, $1.50 per 22. 

White African Guineas, $1 per 15. 
Write for reduction prices after May 
20th. E. F. Sommers, Somerset, Va. 

ROSR AND SINGLE COMB RHODE 
Island Reds of the very best blood, 
prize-winnings strains. Twenty fine 
cockerels that must go, $1 each; 
Trios, $2.70; twenty laying pullets 
at $1.50 each; fresh fertile eggs, 15 
$1; 30, $1.75; 50, $2.50; 100, $4.50 and 
safe delivery guaranteed. Thos. S. 
Turner, Dickens, Va. 

ROCKLAND POULTRY FARM— BAR- 
gains in eggs. From high-class, im- 
proved stock. Barred Plymouth 
Rocks. 35 for $1.50; 50 for $2;'$4 per 
100. All eggs carefully selected and 
well packed. Another great bargain. 
Three splendid pure-bred Jersey 
heifers. A profitable investment for 
any one interested in high class but- 
ter. Prices reasonable. Correspond- 
ence solicited. Mrs. Keesee Brooking, 
Somerset, Va. 

STANDARD BRED BUFF ROCKS— 
Bred for size and trap nested for 
eggs. Two acres free range. Cocks 
won first and second at Herndon, 
Va. Eggs $2 and $2.50 sitting. Satis- 
faction guaranteed. F. E, Morris, 
Orange, Va. State Vice-Pres. Buff 
Rock Club. 

IXGLESIDE POULTRY YARDS— PAR- 
tridge Wyandottes exclusively. "Win- 
ners at Virginia State Fair and Vir- 
ginia Poultry Association. Eggs $1.50 
per 15. Toulouse geese. Eggs, $1.50 
per 7. White Pekin Ducks, winners 
at Virginia State Fair, $1.50 per 11. 
O. L. Ligon, Sabot, Va. 

S. C. W. LEGHORNS, 50 ONE AND 
two year old hens and six cocks for 
sale to make room for growing 
stock, also a few early March pul- 
lets that escaped the toe punch. 
Eggs at reduced price. W. H. Dens- 
more, Route 3, Roanoke, Va. 

IF THEY AWARDED PRIZES FOR 
egg laying, I would exhibit my S. 
C. W. Leghorns. They are bred for 
eggs and not feathers. Heavv winter 
layers and farm raised. Eggs, $1 
per 15;$3 per 50; $5 per 100. Refer- 
erence, anyone in Centreville. R. C. 
Thomas, Centreville, Md. 

EGGS— S. C. BUFF ORPINGTONS AND 
White Wvandottes $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. An- 
gara goats. C. C. Russell, R. No. 2, 
Hagan. Va. 



IF YOU DESIRE TO PURCHASE 
thoroughbred eggs for sitting, read 
the ad. of C. H. Dickinson, Luray, 
Va. This offer will surely close af- 
ter thirty days from May 1, 1909. 
Edgehlll Poultry Yards. 



INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS — CHOICE 
ones in lots of four, $5. One lot 
$3.25. All mated, not akin. Eggs $1 
and $1.50 for 15 according to mat- 
ings. Meadow Grove Farm, Ivy De- 
pot, Va. 

YOUELL'S WHITE WYANDOTTES. 
Can sell you eggs from pens scoring 
93% to 94% points. Good layers. 
Square dealing my motto. Write for 
prices. J. C. Flshel world's best 
strain. Mrs. J. A. Youell, Big Stone 
Gap, Va. 

400 PURE-BRED WHITE LEGHORN 
Chicks for sale, 6 to 10 weeks old. 
Eggs cheap. Mrs. J. R. Pace, Oxford, 
N. C. 



IF YOU WISH THOROUGHBRED 
Eggs for sitting, take advantage of 
the cut price offered by the Edgehlll 
Poultry Yards of Luray, Va. It will 
onlv continue during the month of 
May. 



WHITE WYANDOTTES, PRIZE-WIN- 
ners and splendid egg-producing 
strain. 20 eggs $1. Mammoth Bronze 
Turkeys from show winners and best 
strains. 13 eggs, $2. Sunnyside Farm, 
Jonesville, Va. 



MOUNTAIN VIEW POULTRY FARM, 
can furnish eggs from best strain 
of S. C. Black Minorcas, $2.50 for 50, 
$4 for 100. Large Indian Game, $1.25 
for 15; $2.25 for 30. Can furnish 
Cuban Pit Games at all times. S. H. 
Carpenter, Novum, Va. 

MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEY EGGS 
$3 per 15. Buff 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. 

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. Simp- 
son's Pheasant Farm. Corvallis, Ore. 



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. 

THE EDGEHILL POULTRY YARDS 
of Luray, Va., will continue the cut 
price on all thoroughbred eggs for 
sitting for thirty days longer from 
May 1, 1909. 

FOR SALE — PURE BRED SINGLE 
Comb Brown Leghorn Eggs; this 
season. 60 cents for 15: can furnish 
anv number. Mrs. R. Kent Cassell, 
Wytheville, Va. 



COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTE EGGS 
$1.50 per sitting. C. V. Campbell, 
Oliver, 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. 

WHITE HOLLAND TURKEY EGGS 
for deliverv after Mav 10th $1.50 for 
10: $14 for 100. Turkey hens, $, 
Other eggs at April prices. G. W. 
Moss, Guineys, Va. 

EGGS — BUFF WYANDOTTES. S. C. 
White Leghorns, also few White Or- 
pingtons, $1 setting. Fine, healthy 
stock. Satisfaction guaranteed. T. M. 
King, Hagan, Lee Co., Va. 

HIGH CLASS BUFF ROCK STOCK 
and guaranteed eggs for hatching. 
Extra values given in non-related 
pens If taken at once. A. H. Kirk, 
Herndon, Va. 

HIGH CLASS WHITE PLYMOUTH 
Rocks exclusivelv. 1st prize pen at 
Washington. 1909. Stock and eggs 
for sale. Berry Poultry Yards, Hern- 
don, Virginia. , 

PURE-BRED RHODE ISLAND REDS, 
Rose and Single Comb Cockerels for 
sale. Eggs for hatching, $1 per 15; 
SI. 75 per 30. Elkton Poultry Farm, 
Elkton, Va. 



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[May, 



POULTRY, ETC., (Continued). 

PURE-BRED EGGS FOR SALE — ROSE 
and S. C. Rhode Island Reds and Buff 
Orpingtons, $1 per 15; $2 per 50, Fine 
laying strain. Wild Rose Poultry 
Farm, Gold Dale, Va. 

GOLDEN BUFF WYANDOTTES, 

Beauties, no better flock in the 
South. Eggs the balance of the sea- 
son $1.50 per 15, $2.50 per 30. Geo. 
W. Csterhout, Bedford City, Va. 

"REDS" BOTH COMBS FOR SALE 
at a sacrifice now for bargains. 
In stock as good as the best. State 
wants. Egg prices reduced. W. 
Shook, McGaheysville, Va. 

EGGS FOR HATCHING. WHITE 
Rocks exclusively. Fishel's direct. 
Pen No. 1, $2.50 per 15; Pen No. 2, 
$1.50. Brooke B. Gochnauer, Upper- 
ville, Va. 



WHITE LEGHORN EGGS FROM TWO 
of the best pens in the South. Four 
Dollars per hundred, if ordered at 
once. Carroll Menefee, Sperryville, 
Va. 

EGGS FROM AN EXCELLENT LAY- 
ing strain of Barred Plymouth Rocks 
Will quote price on application. Mrs. 
C. M. Bass, Rice Depot, Va. 

OUR REDS ARE RED! FOR LAYING 
200 eggs are bred! One and Two Dol- 
lars per sitting. Both combs. The Val- 
ley Poultry Farms, Maurertown, Va. 

PURE-BRED WHITE WYANDOTTES, 
first class stock in every 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 dol- 
lar. Mrs. Edward Meanley, Toano, 

PHEASANT EGGS — ENGLISH RING- 
neck, finest stock, $2.50 per 15. Pam- 
phlet instructions with order. Blue- 
ridge Pheasantry, Bedford City, Va. 

BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCK AND 
Black Langshan eggs $1.25 per sit- 
ting or $2 for thirty. Robert Allar- 
dice, Hurlock, Md. 

EGGS FROM SPECIAL MATINGS OF 
pure-bred S. C. Brown Leghorns, $1 
for 15. Theo. Schmitz, Route 5, Rich- 
mond, Va. 

BUFF ORPINGTON EGGS FROM NICE 
large, pure-bred fowls, $1 per 15; 
$2 per 50. Miss Annie V. Herndon, 
Gold Dale, Va. 

EGGS FROM PURE-BRED S. C. B. 
Leghorns. Special mating. Will quote 
price on application. Mrs. C. M. Bass 
Rice Depot, Va. 

FAVEROLLES— THE GREAT WINTER 
layers. Eggs 13 for $1.25, 26 for $2. 
L. O. Stickley, Strasburg, Va. 

SILVER LACED WYANDOTTE EGGS 
for sale. $1 per sitting of 15. R. Os- 
borne. Hurlock, Md. , 

EGGS FROM PURE-BRED It. C. 
Rhode Island Reds. $1 for 15. J. J. 
Gilliam. Farmville. Va. 

EGGS FROM PRIZE- WINNING BLACK 
Langshans. Extra fine birds, $1 per 
15. Mrs. S. F. Bladgett, Farmville, Va. 

SILVER SPANGLED HAMBURG EGGS 
from fancy stock, $3.50 per hundred. 
Carroll Menefee, Sperryville, Va. 

EGGS FROM PRIZE-WINNING BLACK 
Langshans. Extra fine birds, $1 per 
15. Mrs. S. F. Badgett, Farmville, Va. 



WHITE WYANDOTTE EGGS FOR ^ 
sale, $1 per sitting of 15. George 
Osborne, Hurlock, Md. 

WHITE WYANDOTTE EGGS FROM 
pure-bred, prize-winning and trap- 
nest stock. Sitting 15, $1. Jno. Stokes 
Prop. Farmville Poultry Yards, 
Farmville, Va. 

LIVE STOCK. 

BERKSHIRE PIONEER POULTRY 
Yards, offer Golden Penciled Ham- 
burgs, White Crested Black Polish, 
13 eggs, $2; Salmon Faverolles, 13 
eggs $3. Silver Spangled Hamburgs, 
Partridge Wyandottes, Golden Sea- 
bright Bantams, Cornish Indian 
Games, Pearl Guineas, White Guin- 
eas, Pekin Ducks, Indian Runner 
Ducks, 13 eggs $1. Circular. A. E. 
Parsons, Berkshire, N. Y. 

BLACKIE, SUNSHINE AND TRILBY 
Tecumseh and grand lot of Poland- 
China Pigs. I have bought these two 
sows. Blackie is three and Trilby 
is two years old, and they have just 
farrowed twenty beautiful pigs. I 
never saw two finer sows than they 
are. Can mate pigs not akin at 
$20.00 a pair at eight weeks old. Ped- 
igree furnished with every pig. 
Thos. S. Turner, Dickens, Va. 



FOR SALE — A REGISTERED RED 
Polled bull, 13 months old, also a 
roan Shorthorn, registered, 12 
months old. Both are fine animals 
and are good enough to show and 
win, and are guaranteed tuberculin 
tested. Price $60 each. Thomas 
Bayes, 200 W. Woodruff Ave., Col- 
umbus, Ohio. 

LARGE WHITE YORKSHIRES — SER- 
vice boars, sows, gilts, pigs of both 
sexes. Our Yorkshires have been 
carefully bred and selected for beau- 
ty as well as quality. They must 
please you or your money will be 
refunded. Meadow Grove Farm, Ivy 
Depot, Va. 

REGISTERED BERKSHIRE PIGS, 
none better. Longfellow, Lord Pre- 
mier and Blenheim blood, Jersey 
Cattle. Prices and treatment right. 
Clarmont Farm, Chas. P. Macgill, 
Proprietor. Address Chas. and W. D. 
Macgill, Mgrs., Pulaski, Va. 

TO AVOID INBREEDING I OFFER 
for sale the grandly bred, pure St. 
Lambert Jersey bull, Idaletta's 
Knight No. 70,066, bred at Bowmont 
Farms. Dam tested 21 lbs. 7oz., but- 
ter in 7 days. F. E. Williams, Ivy, 
Va. 

CRYSTAL SPRINGS FARM FAMOUS 
Holsteln-Frieslan calves for sale. 
Herd headed by the great bull, Cas- 
tle Fin De Kol No. 50189 H. F. H. B. 
at farmers' prices. Also a few high 
grades. R. M. Janney, Mgr., Laurel, 
Md. 

PURE-BRED HOLSTEIN BULL CALF 
richly bred, well marked, $25. Grade 
Holstein Heifer, $15. Pure-bred Bar- 
red Plymouth Rock eggs, 15 for $1. 
100 for $5. Wm. B. Lewis, Blackstone, 
Va., Route 1. 

FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE— ANGUS 
Cattle for first-class trotting bred 
stallion or Percheron mares. Hack- 
ney mares and colts for sale cheap. 
All stock registered. Myer & Son, 
Brldsrevllle. Del. 

FOR SALE — ROYALLY BRED HERE- 
ford Bull, coming 3 years old, form, 
quality, size, disposition, 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 satisfaction. River View 
Farm, Rice Depot, Va. 

FOR SALE. BERKSHIRE PIGS FROM 
large fine sow by Biltmore boar, $5 
each. Boars ready for service. Ever- 
green Farms, Rice Depot, Va. 



BERKSHIRE 
for sale or 
sey sow or 
R. F. D. 4, 


BOAR NINE MONTHS 
exchange for Duroc Jer- 

boar. James R. Werth, 
Box 55, Richmond, Va. 


FOR SALE— REGISTERED GUERN- 
sey bull 5 years old to avoid in- 
breeding. J. H. Whitlow, Forest De- 
pot, Va. Route 2. 



FLEETFORD FARM, BEDFORD CITY,. 
Va., I am offering a few choice 
Berkshires from registered stock at 
reasonable prices. Dr. M. A. Croc- 
kett. 



FOR SALE — TEN DUROC BOARS 
and lot of pigs eligible to register, 
at the right price. Look up my poul- 
try ad on another page. C. L. 
Shenk, Luray, Va. 

ONE RED POLLED BULL CALF" 
well bred at prices right. Also S. 
C. W. Leghorn eggs $1 per sitting 
of 15. T. C. Morton, Rice Depot, Va. 

TWO ANGUS BULL CALVES, EN- 
titled to registry, fine ones, now 
ready. Price very low. C. T. John- 
son, Beaver Dam, Va. 



REGISTERED GUERNSEY CATTLE 
for sale from the best milking 
strains and Advanced Register stock. 
Prices moderate. G. M. Wallace, Fal- 
mouth, Va. 

BERKSHIRES — BEST BREEDING 
Cheap. Satisfaction guaranteed. J. 
W. Adams, Addison, Dinwiddie Co., 
Va. 

FOR SALE — PURE-BRED JERSEY 
Heifers. Prices reasonable. Mrs. Kee- 
see Brooking, Somerset, Va. 



REGISTERED PERCHERON MARES 
in foal or with foal at foot. Birdwood 
Stock farm, Birdwood, Va. 



FOR SALE — REGISTERED PERCH- 
eron yearling stud colts. Birdwood 
Stock Farm, Birdwood, Va. 

LARGE YORKSHIRE PIGS (NO KIN) 
best of breeding. W. E. Stickley, 
Strasburg, Va. 

FCR SALE — TWO JERSEY BULLS. 
Six and fifteen months. Address Box 
4, Bowling Green, Va. 

WILL EXCHANGE TWO WORK 
mules for Brood Sows, pigs and poul- 
try. Garrett, Arcade Building, Nor- 
folk, Va. 



FOR SALE — REGISTERED POLLED 
Herefords. Wilton, Anxiety and 
Howe strains. Prices moderate. Ap- 
ply Samuel T. Earle. Jr., 1431 Lin- 
den 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. 

PONIES — SEVERAL SHETLAND AND 
others for children, well broken. One 
pair matched roan mares. 5 years, 
kind: single and double. J. M. Cun- 
nlneliam. Brandy Station. Va. 

Always mention The Southern 
Planter when writing advertisers. 



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DOGS, PET STOCK, ETC. 

SCOTCH COLLIE PUPS FOR SALE— 
from registered parents, handsomely 
marked, from imported stock. Mother 
winner of three first prizes. Ten 
dollars each. One handsome Fox ter- 
rier dog, ten months old, pure-bred, 
accustomed to children, a splendid 
guard, clean in the house and does 
all kinds of tricks, and has perfect 
manners. Eight dollars. Thomas 
Bayes, 200 W. Woodruff Ave., Col- 
umbus, Ohio. 

SCOTCH COLLIE PUPS FOR SALE, 
only two left, female tan and white, 
female black and white, 4 months 
old, $3 each. Parents imported 1908. 
David Galloway, Culpeper, Va. 

FOX, DEER, COON AND OPOSSUM 
hounds and pups, $3.50 to $15 each. 
For bargains write me. E. F. Wil- 
mouth, Shelbyville, Ky. 

SHEPHERD GYP. THREE MONTHS 
old. From highly trained, working 
parents. First come $5. Jack Word, 
Christiansburg, Va. 



ENGLISH BLOODHOUND FOR SALE— 
Registered English Bloodhound, St. 
Hubert 2nd, ten months old. W. De 
W. Dimock, Dixondale, Va. 

FOR SALE — PURE-BRED RUFUS RED 
Belgian hares, $1 per pair. Jas. H. 
Whitten, Amherst, Va. 



FOR SALE— VERT LOW PRICE, 

broken, pedigreed, English setter. G. 

K. Crockett, Bedford City, Va. 

REAL. ESTATE. 



FOR RENT OR WORK ON SHARES— 
a fine farm especially adapted to 
dairying, stock breeding and truck- 
ing. Near splendid market for all 
dairy and farm products. Station, 
post office, express office, church and 
school on farm. Excellent neigh- 
borhood. A bargain for the right 
man. Apply Oak Hill Stock & Dairy 
Farm, Wenonda. Va. 

FARMS FOR SALE. TWO EXCEL- 
ent Farms in Lunenburg County 2% 
miles south of Victoria on the Vir- 
ginian Railway. One contains 209 
acres, eight room dwelling, neces- 
sary outhouses. The other contains 
333 acres good low grounds with 
two streams running through it. 
For full information applv to John 
Stokes, Farmville, Va. 



OWNER IN BUSINESS ELSEWHERE 
will sell at half value, 196 acre es- 
tate, fertile land, splendid buildings, 
18 miles from Washington, 40 to 
Baltimore, at station Penn. R. R. 
Buildings cost $12,000. Price only 
$6,500.00. National Capitol Farm 
Agency, 512 F. St., N. W., Washing- 
ton, D. C. 

WANTED — FARMS AND BUSINESSES 
everywhere. Don't pay agent's com- 
missions. We find you cash buyer 
direct. Describe property fully nam- 
ing lowest price. Get our free ad- 
vice as to best property to buy. 
American Investment Association, 618 
20th Ave., North. Minneapolis, Minn. 



FINE ESTATE FOR SALE — THREE 
sets of handsome buildings; resi- 
dences contain 10, 9 and 8 rooms; 
five other settlements. Beautiful sit- 
uation, good gTazing and farming 
land, 1,200 acres. Will divide. Price 
$25; close to town. A H. Clement, 
Appomattox, Va. 

WE CAN SELL TOUR PROPERTT— 
Send description and price. North- 
western Business Agency, Minneap- 
olis, Minn. 



THE RICHEST FARMS IN NORTHERN 
Virginia are in Loudoun and Clarke 
counties. They are the only ones I 
handle. Address Sales Dept., J. Pres- 
ton Shannon, Farm Specialist, Pur- 
cellvllle, Va. 

OLD TURBURY HOMESTEAD FOR 
sale, ideal summer home. Will ex- 
change for good farm near Richmond 
or Petersburg. Description and view 
for stamp or call at Planter Office. 
Alfred Coombs, Ame^bury, Mass. 

WANTED TO EXCHANGE CITT LOTS 
in Gulfport, Miss., for Shetland 
ponies, collies, blood hounds, or 
fancy poultry. J. D. Stodghlll, Shel- 
byville, Ky. 

POSITIONS HELP. 

WANTED — A POSITION OF TRUST 
and responsibility on a gentleman's 
estate or farm, where integrity and 
faithfulness are more required than 
experience, by a physician, who 
gives up practice because of poor 
health. Some experience with horses, 
poultry and bees. Best references. 
Dr. A. care Southern Planter. 

WANTED — POSITION AS MANAGER 
of gentleman's estate, practical 
farmer and manager of all kinds of 
stock, highest references as to char- 
acter and ability here and elsewhere. 
A. Longhborough, Leesburg, Va. 

WANTED — A SINGLE LADT PART- 
ner of good character, between 20 
and 35 with some means, who is 
fond of animals and rural life. Ad- 
dress, giving full description. Miss 
C'llie Cromwell, Lexington, Va. 

WANTED — MARRIED WORKING 
foreman on stock farm four miles 
from Richmond; give references 
and salary expected. P. O. Box 555, 
Richmond, Va. 

WANTED — AT ONCE, POULTRTMAN; 
must be a Southern man and single. 
Cue who understands his work and 
willing to work. State terms. J. S. 
Carr, Durham, N. C. 

WANTED FOREMAN ON FARM— 
must understand low grounds. State 
salary expected, rererences, exper- 
ience, age. F. care Southern Planter. 

WANTED — A MAN AND WIFE TO 
farm for bachelor and do housework 
for him. Address Box 31, Sowego, Va. 



SEED, PLANTS, Etc 



NICE BRIGHT SOJA BEANS FOR 
sale. Price $1.10 per bu. Also Cow 
Peas, $1.25. Samuel A. Windley, 
Lake Landing-, N. C. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



WANTED— TO BUT ALL KINDS 
Wild Birds and Animals, particularly 
Tame Deer. Wild Turkeys. White 
Squirrels. Peafowl. Otters, Red Foxes 
Gray Squirrels. Partridges. Pheas- 
ants, Beaver. State price when writ- 
ing. Dr. Cecil French, Naturalist, 
Washington, D. C. 

I HAVE $4,500 STOCK IN THE WIN- 
dowGlass Factory in Clarksburg, W. 
Va., and a $4,000 dwelling house I 
would like to trade for a farm of 
same value near Richmond, if pos- 
sible. Will furnish description on 
application. Jules Mayeur, South 
Charleston, W. Va. 

FOR SALE— ONE PENNSTLVANIA 
riding cultivator, complete. In first 

class condition. Price $15. F. E. Wink- 
ler, Cedon, Va. 



FOR SALE— ONE NO. 5 GEISER 
Threshing Machine with Farmers' 
Friend Wind Stacker. Only used 
three seasons, in first-class condition. 
Will sell cheap to quick buyer. Box 
192, Richmond, Va. 

FOR SALE— JOHNSTON DISC CUL- 
tivator and Harrow combined. Used 
one season. A bargain. E. M. Harns- 
berger, Grange, Va. 

THRESHING MACHINE FOR SALE. 
A new (never used) J. I. Case, 18x 
22in. steel encased wheat thresher, 
separator and cleaner in our hands 
for sale. Price $175. A great bargain. 
Ashton Starke, Richmond, Va. 



RICHMOND 



WOODWARD & SON, RICHMOND, Va. 
Lumber, Laths Shin 
gles, Sash, Blinds, 
Doors, Frames, 
Mouldings, Asphalt 
Roofing. Tards and 



W^D 



VIRGINIA 



building covering ten acres. 



FOR SALE — SQUARE MAHOGANY 
Piano as good as new. Price $40 or 
will exchange for pure-bred S. C. W. 
Leghorn hens. P. J. Boelte, News 
Ferry, Va. 



COSTS THE STATE 1,000 LIVES A 

YEAR— MORTALITY FROM 

TYPHOID FEVER. 

State Health Department to Wage War 

This Year. 

Richmond, Virginia, April 20, 1909, 
(Special).— At least 10,000 cases of 
typhoid fever and 1,000 deaths a year 
in Virginia. These are startling, fig- 
ures given out hy the State Health 
Department in announcing the begin- 
ning of a crusade against fever dur- 
ing the coming summer. 

In explaining these figures, the 
Health Commissioner said, "There 
is really no way of telling just how 
many cases of typhoid fever there are 
every year in Virginia, because there 
is no law that requires physicians to 
report their cases, or even to record 
their deaths, but, upon the lowest pos- 
sible estimate, there must be 10,000 ; . 
The deaths from these cases cannot be 
less than 1,000. Fearful as these fig- 
ures appear, they seem much worse 
when it is remembered that by far 
the greater part of these cases can be 
prevented altogether." 

The State Health Department will 
make every effort during the coming 
summer to enlist the co-operation of 
all local and county Boards of Health 
in stamping out typhoid fever. 
Every epidemic that appears in the 
State will at once be investigated by 
representatives from the State Board, 
and every precaution will be taken to 
prevent the spread of the disease. 
"If the people of the State will really 
take up this question in earnest, we 
can reduce our mortality from typhoid 
fever by at least seventy-five per 
cent.." declared the Commissioner this 
evening. 



Madison Co., Ky., Feb. 13, '09. 
I read a large number of the best 
agricultural papers, but I think nons 
of them are as helpful to the people 
of the middle south as the Southern 
Planter. S. L. CLARK. 



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[May, 




Ft. Lewis Stock Farm 

THE BEST PLACE FOR BLOOD AND REGISTERED 

BERKSHIRES 

White Leghorn, nil breeds of Plymouth Rock, Black 
Minorca and Rhode Island Red Fowls. Eggs from these 
pure-blooded birds for sale. 

DR. YV. L. STOLEN, PROPRIETOR, SALEM. VA. 




in a warm place until it works well, 
then shut it up in glass jars and keep 
as cool as possible. A cup and a 
half of this to a gallon of flour makes 
good bread. Never make your yeast 
with old yeast more than twice; it 
pays better to start with a new yeast 
cake every time. 

For every day rolls, we use a gal- 
lon of flour, a dessertspoon of salt, a 
tablespoon of sugar, one of lard, and 
a cup and a half of yeast. Work a 
long time at the making up; grease 
well and put into a stone jar to rise. 
At three o'clock it is made out into 
rolls, keeping the hands well greased; 
put the rolls in a warm place and 
half an hour before supper run them 
into a hot oven and bake half an hour 
or more. Go over the rolls twice with 
little lard or cream. Use a mop. 
Ground Ham and Eggs. 

If you have some lean scraps of cold 
ham left, you may make a very nice 
dish for tea with it. Grind it and 
season with celery seed, pepper and 
a small quantity of mustard. Boil a 
dozen eggs very hard; mash them 
fine with a fork and mix them in 
with the ham; garnish the dish with 
lettuce leaves or parsley. 

Lettuce Dressing. 

One cup of strong vinegar, one tea- 
spoon of salt, two tablespoons of 
sugar, one teaspoon of mustard, one 
teaspoon of celery seed, a dash of pep- 
per. Mix all these and put on the 
stove; when it boils pour it over two 
eggs which are well beaten; add a 
tablespoon of butter; set it back to 
thicken and then let it get cold. Thin 
it out with a cup of cream. If the 
cream is sour it will make no differ- 
ence; beat it well before putting it 
in. By adding more butter and salt, 
,this is as good a dressing for potato 
salad as you can find. 

CARAVEN. 



THE NEW MARKET BATTALION. 
Mary Washington. 
The month of May brings to our re- 
membrance the famous battle of New 
Market, which occurred on the 15th of 
May, 1864, and the glorious charge of 
the V. M. I. cadets, which was 'so 
largely instrumental in deciding the 
fate of the day. Of all the events of 
the Civil War, none was so fraught 
with interest, pathos and romance as 
this, and each successive year adds in- 
creasing lustre to the memory of 
these boy heroes, till now the charge 
of the cadet battalion at New Market 
has grown almost as famous in the 
pages of history as that of the six 



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 of the BEST BLOOD and QUALITY 

If you want a pair or trio of pigs 
from the best and most prolific strains 
of Berkshires, write me. My sows 
are of the best blood of the breed, 
being daughters and granddaughters 
of Premier Longfellow, Baron Duke 
the 50th, and the noted Huntress. 

Their litters are by my great herd 
boars, Hunter of Biltmore 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 kind that will make you money. 

Let me quote you prices on first-class pigs and ready-for-service boars. 
I ship everything subject to your examination and approval and my prices 
are reasonable. Address, 

D. E. EARHART, Bristow, Va. 




For Sale 

BERKSHIRE GILTS 
JERSEY BULL 

Forest Home Farm, 

Pxircellville, Va. 



Berkshires For Sale. 




One of the best herds in the East. 

Bred Sows, Gilts, Young Boars ami 
lgs for Sale. 

All stock shipped as represented or 
money refunded. 

W. R. FENSOM, 
Richmond, Va. 



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MANNSFIELD HALL FARM 



THE PROPERTY OF R. CONROY VANCE, ESQ. 

JERSEY BULL CALF 
DROPPED DECEMBER 31st. 1908 



FOR SALE 

By Imported STOCKWELL 75264 



out of Terosinia 206500. 

STOCKWELL was sold for $11,500 at public auction two years ago, and this 
last month he was again sold at public sale for $7,010. Price of this calf $75.00. 

LARGE YORKSHIRE SWINE 

Young boars from prize Registered Stock for sale from $7.50 to $15.00. Large 

Registered Boar from Imported Stock used on Farm for 

18 months, for sale at farmer's price. 

■For particulars apply 

THE SECRETARY 

MANNSFIELD HALL FARM Frtfaidstag, Va. 



Birdwood Farm Percherons 



IMPORTED AND HOME BRED MARES AND STALLIONS 



We have the right 
kind; big, heavy= 
boned horses. 

Our stud includes 
mares up to 2,200 
pounds in weight. 

Come and select 
what you want. 
Salesman always 
on the farm. 




YEARLING COLTS, 

MARES OR STALLIONS 

AT 
$2QOtO$300 

PRICES ON MARES 

FROM 

$375 to $1,OOQ 
COLORS 

BLACKS & GREYS 

All Stock Registered 
in Percheron Society of America 



GADLATTE 48947 (71858) 1st prize 2-year-old mare, International 1908. 



BIRDWOOD STOCK FARM. Birdwood. Albemarle County. Va. [SS3 



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[May, 




W00DSIDB BERKSH1RES 

EVERYTHING SHIPPED ON APPROVAL. 

IT WILL PAY YOU TO READ THIS CAREFULLY. 

j We are now offering a grand lot of Pigs 
• for 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 sows weighing from 500 to 600 lbs. each.. 

We can always furnish pigs not akin. In order to show our confidence in what we offer 
and insure satisfastion to our customers, we ship on approval. You need not send check until 
after you recsive the pigs, and if they are mot entirely satisfactory in every respect, you can re- 
tiira them at our expense and it cjsts you absolutely nothing. We leave it to you whether this 
is a fair proposition. Address 

WOODSIDE STOCK FARM, R. S. Farish, Prop., Charlottesville, Va. 



hundred at Balakhava. It was equally 
as brave, though more successful. 
Even amid the strenuous rush and 
excitement of the late inaugural peri- 
od, the V. M. I. cadets, attending that 
ceremony, were presented on the prev- 
ious day with a flag, the gift of V. 
M. I. alumni residing in New York, 
and an exact reproduction of the one 
borne by the New Market battalion, a 
banner of white silk, with a portrait 
of Washington on one side and the 
Virginia coat of arms on the other. 
General Bell was selected to make 
the presentation, which he accompa- 
nied with the most complimentary re- 
marks. The Baltimore Sun, in com- 
menting on this episode, says: "The 
banner carried in the New Market 
fight was carried by as gallant a band 
of boys as ever did honor to any 
country. They acquitted themselves 
like men, and the bravest of the 
brave. It was an occasion unique in 
the history of this country, and an 
exhibition of heroism which should 
be held in remembrance." 

The Federal General Siegel, estab- 
lished himself at Winchester in April, 
1864, with a force of about 8,000 in- 
fantry 2,500 cavalry, and three or 
four field batteries, and was making 
ready for a forward move. General 
Iboden, of t he Confederate Cavalry, 
advanced to meet him with a force 
of 1,492 men and a hundred scouts. 
In a few days, General Breckenridge 
came from southwest Virginia to join 
Imboden, with 2.500 veteran troops. 
These generals, however, were so 
largely outnumbered by Siegel that 
Breckinridge felt himself obliged to 
call out the V. M. I. cadets, though 
he hoped he might only have to use 
them as a reserve, and when he was 
finally compelled to call them into bat 
tie, it is said he exclaimed, "May God 
forgive me!" immediately after giv- 
ing the order. 




j SELWYN FARM 

Pure Bred Berkshires and 'Jerseys 

Headed by the $1 , 1 00.00 Son of Premier Longfellow 68600. 

I 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 
just 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, 
Berryton Duke 72946, (litter mate to Masterpiece 77000); Premier Longfellow's 
Rival 101678; Duke of Oakdale 93955. , 

Sows bred to Lee's Premier 3d 112763 and pigs of both sexes by Duke of 
Oakdale 93955; Berryton Duke 72946 and Premier Longfellow's Rival 101678. 

One Registered Jersey Bull Calf 3 months and one 9 months old for sale. 

Write for descriptive booklet and prices. 

EDGAR B. MOORE, Proprietor, Charlotte, N. C. 



REDUCED PRICES ON 



BRED BERKSHIRE GILTS 






mm. 



for next 30 days only. 

The panic drove hundreds of breed- 
ers out of business. The next twelve 
months will see them tumbling ever 
one another to get back — as the de- 
mand and . prices advance. I staid In 
the boat, kept up my herd and adver- 
tisements, hence am well equipped for 
orders. My Berkshires are as fine as 
the world can produce. Price In easy 
reach of everyone. Score* of pigs ready 
for shipment. 



THOS. S. WHITE, 



Fasslfern Stock Farm. 



LEXINGTON, VA. 



IF YOU WANT THE BEST HOG _ 

Buy from those who giva their sole attention to the production of the greatest Berkshire Typi. 

WE DO. 

On* herd comprises the moat splendid limes of breeding and ladTrltaalo 
that money can bay or experience develop In American and English Bros 
Berkshires. 

"LORD PREMIER OF THE BLUB RIDGE," 103855, the greatest Urtnr 
hoar, heads our herd. If yon are Interested write. 

THB BLUE RIDGE BERKSHIRE FARMS. ASHBVILLH, N. O. 



TELL THE ADVERTISER WHERE YOU SAW HIS ADVERTISEMENT. 



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ATCOOPERSBURG.PA. 



31, 1909 



A PLEASED BUYER IS THE BEST ADVERTISEMENT. 

The imported Jersey Cattle sold at our May, 1 908, auction sale have given universal satisfaction. Our 
most sanguine expectations have been more than realized. How could it be otherwise? Individually, they were 
strictly FIRST CLASS. 

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

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

At the National Dairy Show, Chicago, 1907, the Grand Champion and Junior Champion females were daugh 
ters of Golden Fern's Lad, the Grand Champion Bull was a grandson and the Junior Champion Bull was sired 
by a grandson and out of a granddaughter of Golden Fern's Lad. The. four prizes for bull and get (the most 
important of all prizes) all went to Golden Fern's Lad and his close descendents. 

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

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

T. S. COOPER (SL SONS, 'Tggg&T COOPERSBURG.FA. 

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

(Decoration Day falling on Sunday, the sale will be held on Monday, May 31st) 





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[May, 



The cadets started on their march 
on the 11th of May. How gaily those 
young fellows set out! 

"tin the happy morning of life and 
of May," one of the survivors, in de- 
scribing their start, says, "it was the 
most joyous moment of his life." The 
boys, in their gayety and exuberant 
spirits, shouted and sang and whistled 
as they swung along, all of them join- 
ing now and then in the chorus of 
some favorite air. Arrived at Staun- 
ton, they had yet forty miles to 
make before reaching New Market, 
which was a little yillage of about one 
thousand souls, nestling between the 
mountains and the river in Shenan- 
doah county. The trip was a four 
days' march, some of it through rain 
and mud. The battle day dawned 
bright and beautiful, thought quite a 
severe thunder storm came on while 
the fight was * raging. The cadets 
were assigned a central position so as 
to be as little exposed as possible. 
The handsome and gallant Kentuckian 
in command rode up to the cadet 
corps, just before the engagement, and 
looking tenderly on the youths, said: 
"Young gentlemen, I hope I shall not 
have to call upon you to-day, but, if 
I should be obliged to do so, I know 
that you will do your duty." How 
nobly they fulfilled Breckinridge's con- 
fidence in them is a fact emblazoned 
upon the pages of history. 

The battle was progressing success- 
fully for the Confederates, though 
stubbornly contested by the Union 
forces when a terrible fire met Breck- 
inridge from one of Sigel's batteries 
which was on elevated ground, doing 
much damage to the Confederate in- 
fantry. It was then, about 2 P. M., 
that the cadets were called into ac- 
tion, though they had already suffered 
several casualties from random shells. 
The boys, with agility and enthusi- 
asm of their years, outran the vete- 
rans who were alongside of them, 
crossing a deep and rocky gulley 
about three hundred yards from the 
battery, under the concentrated fire 
of its six guns, plunging through 
thorns and briars and overfallen logs 
and stumps of trees. Then they wait- 
ed several minutes for the Sixty-Sec- 
ond Virginia Regiment, keeping their 
formation with wonderful coolness, 
under the deadly fire of the battery. 
When the order was given to charge, 
the encounter was soon over, though 
the gunners stood gallantly at their 
guns, until overpowered. A cadet 
mounted a caisson and waved from 
it in triumph the Virginia State flag 
the colors of the Institute, thereby 
arousing a yell of triumph from the 
Confederates. Then there was a gen- 
eral advance along the whole line, and 
the battle was won. The cadets, out 
of two hundred and twenty-five, had 
eight killed and forty-six wounded. 
General Shipp, of the V. M. I. was 
struck down at a critical point in the 
charge, and the command then de- 
volved on one of the Assistant Pro- 



GROVE FARM 

PRIZE-WINNING HERD OF 

GUERNSEYS 

Will be Sold at Public Auction 

MAY 14th, 1909 

AT 1 O'CLOCK P. M. 

A number are by the Great Bull, Strong 
Anchor, (adv. Reg. 85.) Including the 
Champion Cow of 1908, Clare of Poplar 
Grove 3rd and Milford Lassie 2nd Anchor, 
whose get won Breeder's young herd at New 
York State Fair and Richmond, Va. 1808. 

Tuberculin tested April 5th. 

Farm located at Brooklandville, Md. on 
Penna. R. R. one half hour from Union 
Station, Baltimore. 

For catalogue address. 

I J. McK. Merryman, 

I R. F. D. Lutherville Md. 

| or John Folan 923 - 60th St., - Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Moore's Brook Berkshire Herd 

We have the best lot of Pigs this 
Spring we have ever had. This breeding 
annot be excelled and they are equal 
to their breeding. Pigs ready to ship 
after May 5th. The Fall boars are 
fine ones. Bred sows for sale after 
May 14th. Some of these will be bred 
to a fine son of Lord Premier 50,001. 

MOORE'S BROOK SANITARIUM CO., Charlottesville, Va. 

TELL THE ADVERTISER WHERE YOU SAW HIS ADVERTISEMENT. 




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Are You 
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Thousands of promising little chicks die, only a few days from the 

shell — why? Outside of accidents, depredations of rats, etc., there is but 

one potent cause of chicken mortality — neglect. If you are losing chicks, there is 

something you are not doing that you should do. Very likely you have failed to keep 

the tiny digestive organs of these little creatures in a healthy, active condition. Begin at 

once then, before you lose another, to give a very little of 

DR. HESS Poultry PAN-A-CE-A 

once a day. 

Dr. Hess Poultry Pan-a-ce-a is the prescription of Dr. Hess (M. D., D. V. S.) and in it are just the elements your 
chickens need to bring about healthy growth. It is "The Dr. Hess Idea" that even though.a fowl be confined, 
you can, by aiding digestion, provide every needed element. Dr. Hess Poultry Pan-a-ce-a contains bitter tonics for 
digestion, iron for the blood and cleansing nitrates. It will make vigorous breeding stock, and it will save the little 
chicks after hatching and hurry them on to the point where they're profitable. 

Nothing fills the egg basket like Poultry Pan-a-ce-a. It also cures gapes, cholera, roup, etc. 

"The Dr. Hess Idea," put in practice, means unfailing success with hens. One penny's worth of Dr. Hees 
Poultry Pan-a-ce-a is sufficient for 30 hens one day. Sold on a written guarantee. 



1 1-2 lbs 25c; mail or express 40c Except in Canada 

5 lbs 60c; 12 lbs $1.25; 25 lb pail $2.50 and Extreme West and South. 

Send 2 cents for Dr. Hess 48- page Poultry Book, free. 



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Ashland, Ohio. 



I>D UITCC CT^^V |"^>[&^ is a tonic, formulated expressly to correct a weakened animal digestion. That it does this 
U — IjLDw wi UVI\ r^/vU is the testimon y of successful feeders everywhere. It is "The Dr. Hess Idea," and 

p contains elements which act upon animal organs, causing: the maximum amount of food 

to be assimilated. It makes a dairy cow give more milk, a fatting steer round out trim and plump in the least time ; makes hogs fat 
better and puts horses in prime condition. The ingredients in Dr. Hess Stock Food are recommended by prominent medical men to 
act upon digestion, build good blood and eliminate all dead, poisonous matter. Sold on a written guarantee. 

100 lbs. $5.00; 25 lb. pail $1.60. Except in Canada and extreme West and South. Smaller quantities at a slight advance. 

Send 2 cents for Dr. Hess Stock Book, Free. 



f/VSTA/WF LOUSE KILLER KILLS LICE 



fessors, Capt Henry A. Wise, nephew 
and namesake of Governor Wise. 

In June, 1903, a most beautiful and 
appropriate monument to the New 
Market Battalion was unveiled at Lex- 
ington, Virginia, the cornerstone hav- 
ing been laid on the 15th of May. The 
sculptor was Sir Moses Ezekiel, of 
Richmond. Virginia, himself one of 
the heroes of New Market. It is a 
colossal bronze figure of a majestic 
looking woman, with her head bent in 
an attitude of grief, and is entitled, 
"Virginia mourning her dead." Ezeki- 
el's execution and donation of this 
monument as a memorial to the dead 
and living of the New Market Bat- 
talion, was the most graceful and ap- 
propriate act of his artistic career. 
In a letter to the Committee in charge 
of the memorial, Ezekiel thus de- 
scribes the statue and indicates what 
it is intended to express: 

"As orderly Sergeant of Company C 
Virginia Military Institute. I feel it 
almost a duty to write and say that 
if you intend putting up a monument 
to my fallen comrades in the battle, 
I hope to be the means of rendering 
my tribute to their memory in the 



BILTMORE 



JERSEY BULL CALVES AND HEIFERS 

We have just made a fresh selection of extra good young thing-3 from our 
herd for sale, and we offer at most 

REASONABLE PRICES 

Heifers of the highest class of all ages from HEIFER CALVES TO BRED 
HEIFERS and a few well bred 

BULL CALVES OUT OF TESTED DAMS. 



POULTRY. 

Our 1909 illustrated poultry list is now ready. Write for It. 
RII.TMORE P»B1MS. R. F. D. No. 2, BILTMORE, N. O. 



AF 



ew 



BERKSHIRES FOR SALE. 



T. O. SANDY, BURKEVIM.E, VA. 



TELL, THE ADVERTISER WHERE YOU SAW HIS ADVERTISEMENT. 



534 



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[May, 



ROSE DALE HERD 
ABERDEEN-ANGUS CATTLE 




We otter t» the farmers and breeders ex the East strictly choice 
Young Registered Bulls from weanlings to serviceable age. Tb»y 
are of the straight, broad-hacked, low-down, compact, block? type. 
Many of them show ring animals. They represent the blood of Mas- 
ter n. of Meadow Brook; (Jay Lord, Jr.; Heather Lad IX, Zaire V., 
Ermine Bearer. Blackbird of Corskle rv.. Black Abbott, Abbottaford, 
Coquette X., Etc. 

They are well grown out. In thrifty condition, but not pampered. 
Come and see them or write us your wants. Prices light. We earn 
please you. Angus Cattle are eur specialty. We raise no other 
stock, but give them our undivided personal attention. 

To avoid Inbreeding we otter an exceptionally good herd ball. 
Write for particulars. Address 

ROSEDALE STOCK FARMS, JEFFERSONTON, VA. 



work of my hands, in my own art. 
My statue of "Virginia mourning her 
dead" I have kept in plaster all these 
years. 

The mail clad female figure is seat- 
ed mourning upon a piece of breast 
work, and her foot rests upon a 
broken cannon, overgrown with ivy, 
and she holds a reverse lance in her 
hand. This statue in bronze, if placed 
on the parade grounds, I would con- 
sider the most appropriate ideal rep- 
resentation of what it is proposed to 
do. The hackneyed shafts and bronze 
soldiers that have so often been erect- 
ed have nothing to do with such an 
object as ours, and mean nothing." 

The statue weighs 1,750 pounds, and 
is seven feet in height. It is a master 
piece of art, each detail being perfect- 
ly executed, and it is not surpassed by 
any work of its kind in this country. 
The casting (which was done near 
Berlin) and the freight fees amounted 
to three thousand dollars. The base 
is oval in shape, four feet five inches 
in height, and three feet thick. It 
is of plain, native granite, solid, with 
four massive bronze tablets on the 
sides. One of these tablets contains 
"the roll of honor," the names of 
those killed and wounded in the bat- 
tle of New Market, and the other tab- 
lets contain a complete roster of the 
Cadet Battalion on that memorable 
day. 

The monument was unveiled on the 
23d of June, 1903. and nearly all the 
survivors of the New iMarket Bat- 
talion were present. How strange it 
seemed to see them old and bent and 
grey haired when we are wont to 
think of that glorious band as being 
in the first flower of youth. To the 
deep regret of his colleagues, Sir 
Moses Ezekiel was unable to be pres- 
ent, but he sent them a cablegram 
that morning from Rome. It was in 
Latin, but, translated, read thus: "I 
am present in spirit and still holding 
the portals of the renowned gateway 



We bave 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. L. FRENCH, 



SUNNY HOME FARM, 



BYBDVILLE, VA. 



Acca Stock Farm 

Trotting Horses and Jersey Cattle of the richest breeding and most fash- 
ionable strains of blood. Our herd of Jerseys has been selected with great 
care and includes choice representatives of families, both noted as producers 
and show ring winners. , 

STALLIONS IN SERVICE. 

Akar, 42021, chestnut horse, 4, by Aquilin, 2:19%, son of Bingen, 2:06%; 
dam Pavetta, by Pistachio, 2.21%. Akar paced a trial in 2:15% with quarters 
better than 30 seconds last season at 3 years old. 

Berro, 41821, trotter, bay horse, 4, by Bingara, son of Bingen, 2:06%, dam 
Keshena, by Kremlin, 2:07%. 

Fee for either horse $25 season, with return privilege. Address 
GRIFFITH & SAUNDERS, Acca Stock Farm, Richmond, Va. 



EXCELLENT 

SHORTHORN HEIFERS AND BULLS. 

By the Scotch topped Bull, Royal Lad (advertised by the old reliable breed- 
ers, 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 ef 
America in 1900. Also a few fresh Shorthorn Cows. 

Pure Yearling SOUTHDOWN RAMS by Senator, a prize winner in Can- 
ada as a lamb and a yearling. He was bred by Hon. George Drummond, the 
foremost Southdown breeder in America. 

It. J. HANCOCK & SON. "Ellornlle." Chnrlottenvllle. V» 




ARTIFICIAL 
MARE IMPREGNAT0RS 



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 Safety Impregnating Outfit, especially adapted for impregnating so-called barren and irregular 
breeding mares. $7.60. Breeders Bag's, Serving Hobbles, Stallion Bridles, Body Rollers, Shields, Supports. 
Emasculators, Ecreseu'S, Service Books, etc. First quality goods only. All prepaid and guaranteed. Write for 
FREE Stallion Goods Catalogue. CRITTENDEN & C0.jDEPT.54 CLEVELAND.OH.O. 



1909.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 535 

MORVEN PARK ESTATE. 

The Property of WESTMORELAND DAVIft. Esq. 



Large Yorkshire Swine. 

These pigB are hardy and prolific. The two boars that took the first prize In their classes at the 
Vlrglmla State Fair had been exposed . without cover or shed for a year in the open. They had, as 
have all our pigs, well developed carcasses, covered with heavy growth of hair that Insures against 
scurf or skin troubles In hot climate. These pigs mature earl> are good mothers, and are very pro- 
lific. 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 desir- 
able 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 in competition, the 
Guernsey led all breeds for the most economical production of higa-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 a&d bom thriftj 
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 



536 



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[May, 



Hygeia 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 f r sale. 



Address: W. F. Carter, Jr., Agent. Crozet, Albemarle County, Virginia. 



\V. Fltzhugh Carter, M. D, Owner. 



The breed holds the milk and butter records of the world — the herd embraces some of its 
best families. 



in fond and faithful remembrance. I 
send greetings. Moses Ezekiel." 

But sculpture was not the only fine 
art dedicated on that day to the he- 
roes of New Market. The Hon. A. C. 
Gordon, of Staunton, delivered a com- 
memorative ode of his own composi- 
tion, which is so beautiful that I will 
transcribe a few verses of it: 

"New Market. A Threnody." 
How shall the eternal fame of them 

be told 
Who dying in the heyday of life's 

morn, 
Thrust from their lips the chalice of 

bright gold, 
Filled to the brim with joy, and went 

forlorn 
Into the abysmal darkness of that 

bourn 
Whence they who thither go may 

nevermore return. 

No blight had touched the garlands 
that they wore, 

Diewy and fresh with innocence and 
truth. 

No dead illusions nor spent glamours 
bore 

With heaviness upon them. Their 
gay youth 

Caught but the bubbles on the beak- 
ers' brim, 

Nor e'er beheld life's lies with eyes 
grown old and dim. 

"Send the cadets in, and may God 

forgive," 
Who spoke the word had welcomed 

thither death. 
Truth dies not, and liberty shall live, 
E'en though youth wither in the can- 
non's breath," 
And at the order, debonair and gay, 
They moved into the front of an im 
mortal day. 

"Battalion, forward!" rang the sharp 
command; 

"Guide, centre!" and the banner was 
unfurled. 

Then, as if on parade, the little band 

Dressed to the flag. A sad and som- 
bre world 

Thrills with the memory of how they 
went 

Into that raging storm of fire and 
carnage bent." 



time they are milked. They are "mortgage lifters." 
scrubs. Send for free circular, "Cow Boarders." 




BIG MILKING, HIGH-GRADE OR REGISTERED 

HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN COWS 

Are what the South needs. We furnish the kind that fill the pail every 

Don't keep unprofitable 

We furnish cows that 
will give from 7 to 10 
gals, per day and 5,000 
to 6,000 qts. a year. 

We recently sold 
Sweet Briar Institute, 
Sweet Briar, Va., a car 
of high-grade Holstein 
Cows. Go and look at 
them. They are fairly 
representative of what 
we offer. 

We are responsible 
and furnish the highest 
Two "Mortgage Lifters" — Milk Records of 12,000 lbs. references. 
Each a Year. 

AH mail orders will receive the same attention as if personally selected. 
Write to-day stating wants. 

THE SYRACUSE BREEDERS' ASSOCIATION, Uttca, N. Y. 

THE HOLLINS HERD 

OF 

HIGH-CLASS HOLSTEIN-FRIESIANS 

A WORKING HERD WORKING EVERY DAY IN THE YEAR. 

The entire herd of 22 head (14 pure-breds and 8 grades) of which 14 are 
heifers with 1st or second calves, produced from October 1st, 1907, to October 
1st, J 90S 

195,941 LBS. OF MILK. 
8,906 LBS. PER HEAD.' 

Ten pure-breds, ncluding two heifers freshening late in the fall with lBt 
calves and in milk only 8% months, produced from October 1st, 1907 to October 
1st, 1908. 

104,255 LBS. OF MILK. 
10,425 LBS. PER HEAD. 
Registered Boll Cnlvem for sale. 
JOs7 A. TURNER. General Manager. HOIXINS. VA. 



JERSEYCATTLEofEXGELLENTBREEDING 

Cows fresh to pail. Bulls ready for service. Young stock both male and 
female. All high-bred animals. Prices reasonable. 

BERKSHIRES. 

Pigs $5 each. Boars ready for service. Address 
EVERGREEN FARMS, W. B. Gates, Prop., RICE DEPOT, VA. 



TELL THE ADVERTISER WHERE YOU SAW HIS ADVERTISEMENT. 



1909.] 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



537 



Chicken Cholera 




is your most dangerous foe, Mr. Poultry Breeder. If prompt action 

is not taken, it may result in the loss of all your poultry. However, 

by promptly using the proper treatment, you can not only prevent 

the spread of the disease through your flock, but you can also save 

many of the chickens already affected. If you will examine a 

chicken that has died of Cholera, you will find the liver enormously 

enlarged and discolored. The intestines also are inflamed and 

disordered. But if, when the cholera first appears, you will give 

your fowls liberal doses of Black-Draught Stock & Poultry Medicine, 

the liver will probably remain normal and the treatment will also cleanse the intestines of the cholera 

germs. You should also disinfect thoroughly the houses, ground, feed and everything within your 

poultry yards. 

When you have successfully combated the disease, you should continue the use of Black-Draught 
Stock & Poultry Medicine in smaller doses, as a tonic to put your fowl in the best condition. 

Many well-known breeders use and recommend this medicine. Try it. 

BLACK-DRAUGHT STOCK & POULTRY MEDICINE 

Sold by All Reliable Druggists and Dealers. 




A worn and weary world in sorrow 
weeps 

For high hopes vanished at life's sun- 
ny morn; 

Yet Truth, with eyes that never falter, 
keeps 

Her gaze on freedom's face that 
smiles in scorn 

Of death for them who wear the laur- 
elled crown, 

The * early dead who die with an 
achieved renown." 

"Creeds fail, faiths perish, empires 

rise and fall, 
And as the shining sun goes on his 

way 
Oblivion covers with a dusty pall 
The life of man, predestined to decay, 
Yet is there one thing that shall 

never die — 
The memory of the Dead for Truth 

and Liberty." 



It is not always that good things 
can be procured for nothing, but we 
have before us a very attractive illus- 
trated booklet that we believe should 
be in the hands of every grower. It 
is concise in statement, with much 
useful information. You can obtain a 
copy by addressing a postal to Leg- 
gett & Brother, 301 Pearl street, New 
York, asking for their Spray Calendar. 



A MODERN SAPPHTRA. 

Chief Clerk: "Here comes the lady 
who wrote those articles on 'How I 
Live Pegally on Six Dollars a Week.' " 

Satan: "Put her over there with 
the other liars." — Lippincott's. 



POLLED HEREFORDS AT AUCTION. 

TUESDAY, MAY 18th, at 11 A. M., two miles from Timonlnm Fair Grounds, 
Baltimore County, Did. 

3 Double Standard Polled Hereford Bull Calves, 4, 6 and 7 month old. 
2 Single Standard Polled Hereford bulls, 2 and 6 years old. 

2 Registered Horned Hereford Cows, 2 and 3 years old, bred to Double 
Standard Polled Bull. 

1 Double Standard Polled Hereford Cow, 3 years old. 

1 Standard Bred Stallion, "Red Sid" by Sidney out of Florence "Wilkes. 

3 Registered Berkshire Sows, bred. 

2 Large English Yorkshire Sows, bred. 

10:30 train from Baltimore will be met at Sherwood Station, N. C. Ry., 
with conveyance. Mail bids will receive attention. 

W. B. DUKE, RIDER, MD. 



PUROC SWlNE SHORTHORN AND POLLED DURHAM CATILE. 

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. 

LESLIE D. KLINES, Vnoeluse, Va. 



BERKSHIRES and JERSEYS. 

A few nice cows and a Registered Bull, of excellent breeding for sol* 
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 7 FARM, 



RICE DEPOT, VA. 



When corresponding with our advertisers always mention Southern Planter. 



538 



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[May, 



1 909 Allandale Farm 1909 



ROYAL, SWELL, 34892, Bay Horse, 15.2% hands high, by Bow Bells, 2:19%, dam Rachel, 2:08%, by Baron 
Wilkes, 2:18. 

A Trotting Stallion that lives up to his breeding in conformation, style and gait — a show horse all over. 
His tabulated pedigree, which follows, shows him to be one of the best bred trotting stallions in the world: 



ROYAL S>WELL, 34892. 

MAHOGANY BAT 
with black points; near 
hind heel white. 
FOALED FEB'Y 5, 190 1. 

Bred by Marcus Daly, 
Bitter Root Farm, Hamil- 
ton, Mont. 

A perfect individual with 
great beauty, perfect dis- 
position, extreme speed, a 
pure gaited trotter and as 
richly and fashionably 
bred as any horse ever 
foaled. 



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 filly; 

Futurity winner.) 

Ringing Bells 2:13% 

Wilkes Belle 2:14% 

■j 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 Abbott 2.03% 

(World's Champion in 

1900.) 
Electric Bell, sire of 

Captor 2:09% 

LSt. Bel, 2:24%, sire of 

Lynne Bel 2:10% 

Rachel 

Record 4 years., 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 



' Electioneer, 125 

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% 

Cavaliero 2:09% 

Crafty 2:09% 

- Beautiful Bells 

Record 2.29%. 

Champion trotting brood 
mare 
Dam of ? 

Belleflower 2:12% 

Belsire 2:18 

Bell Boy, 3 yrs 2:19% 

Palo Alto Belle 2:22% 

Hinda Rose, 3 yrs. 2:19% 

Palo Alto Belle 2:21% 

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% 

Baron Wilkes, 4758 

Record 2:18. Sire of 
/Bumps 2:03% 

Rubinstein 2:05 

Rachel 2:08% 

Oakland Baron ...2:09% 

Seven others in .'2:10 

winner 01 ».,*-»«»; *"»£"■., And the dams of 

Lady Gail Hamilton 2:06% 

Rollins 2:08 

India Silk 2.10% 

Circle 2:11% 

Great Spirit 2:11% 

Willie Wilkes, 2:28 

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 

Auto 2:04% 

Wilkes Heart 2:06% 

Octoo 2:07% 

Thelma 2:09% 

Namo j. 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% 

ROYAL SWELL'S get have fine size, are of show horse type and full of trot. He has «ome grand foals 
In the East that will soon bring him into prominence at a sire, and his daughters should make as good brood 
mares as money will buy. 

FEE — $25 the 3eason, with usual return privilege in case of failure. Mares from a distance can be pro- 
vided for on exceedingly liberal terms for keep. Address, 6 

ALLANDALE FARM, Fredericksburg, Va. | 



I Hambletonian 10 

"The great fountain head 
of trotting speed." Sire of 
Dexter 2:17%, (World's 
Champion). 

[ Green Mountain Maid, 

"The great mother of 

trotters." 

Dam of Elaine 2:20; Pros- 
pero 2:20; Elista 2.20%; 
Dame Trot 2:22; Lance- 
lot 2:23, and 4 other 2:30 
trotters. 

i The Moore, 870; 2.37 

\ Sire of* 

I Sultan 2:24 

And others. 

I Minnehaha 
Dam of 
.Baron Rose 2:20% 

*• Alcazar 2:20% 

Mascot 2:25% 

Pawnee 2:26% 

San Gabriel 2.29 % 

Beautiful Bells 2:29% 

f George Wilkes, 510} 2.22 

I Cham. Stallion, 1868-1871. 

\ Sire of 83 2:30 perform- 
ers, and dams of 183 2:30 
performers. 

I Belle Patchen, 2:30%. 

! Dam of 

^ Baron Wilkes 2:18 

.George Wilkes. 510, 2:22, 
« Sire of 

Harry Wilkes 2:13% 

And 82 others in 2:30 list. 

Sire of dams 183 in 2:30. 

Sire of 102 2.30 sires. 
I Sire of dams 34 in 2:15. 

Sire of dams 12 in 2:10. 

Sire of 70 2:15 sires. 

Sire of 40 2:10 sires. 

Sire of 5 2:05 sires. 



[ Salley Southworth, 

Dam of 
Chatterton (sire of 

6 2:30 trotters) . . .2 

Willie Wilkes 2 

•Dam of 

Rachel, 4 yrs 2 

Great Heart (a 2:10 

sire) 2 

Bowery Boy 2: 

Bowery Belle 2: 

Deluge 2 

Aspirator 2: 

Woodsprite, sire of 

6 in 2 

Crystal, dam of 7 in 



:18 
:28 

.08 

:12 
15 
18 
19 
24 

30 
2: 



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539 



1909 Allandale Farm 1909 



Bow Axworthy 33939, record 2.22%; trotter, chestnut stallion, 15.2 hands, by Axworthy, 2.15%, dam, the 
famous brood mare, Mystic, by Nutwood, 600. A grand individual, bred in the purple and a sire of merit. 



AXWORTHY 24845 

Record, 3, 2:15% 
sire of 
Hamburg Belle. . .2:04% 
Gen. Watts (3)... 2:06% 
Tom Axworthy (4) 2.07 
Guy Axworthy (4) 2:08% 
Alta Axworthy (3) 2:10% 

Nelda Worthy 2:12% 

Sid Axworthy 2:12% 

Jack Axworthy (2)2:15% 
King- Axworthy .. .2:15% 
Flying Axworthy. 2: 15% 
Bucklock, p (3)... 2:16 

Lady Worthy 2:18% 

Young Worthy 2:19% 

Octavia Worthy, p 2:19% 

Al Axworthy 2:19% 

Effle Worthy (3) 2:20 

Miss Lou 2:20% 

Etta Worthy, 4... 2:20% 
More Worthy, p.. 2:20% 

Margaret J 2:21 

Dorothy Axworthy 

(2) 2:21% 

Con Axworthy 2:21% 

Nell Worthy 2:22 

Bow Axworthy ..2.22% 
Voni Axworth y(3) 2:22% 

38 others In 2:30 
and dam of 
Delia Bell 2:27% 



MYSTIC 

dam of 

Fred Kohl 2:07% 

sire of 

Prince Kohl 2:24% 

Mystery 2:17% 

Young Axworthy .2:19% 

Bow Axworthy 2:22% 

Orowood, sire of 

Saint Wood 2:21% 

Nyanza Wood ... 2.27 % 



f AXTELL 5183 

Record, 3, 2:12 

sire of 

Home Circle, p.... 2:07 

Ozanam 2:07 

Elloree 2:08% 

I Angle 2:08% 

Ax, p 2:09% 

Praytell, 4 2:09% 

Mainland 2:09% 

Axdelight 2:11% 

Tessie S 2.12% 

117 others. Dams of 

Mainsheet 2 :05 

Margaret 2:05% 

37 others in 2:30. 



I MARGUERITE 

dam of 

Marguerite A 2:12% 

Axtellion 2:15% 

(sire of 4 in 2:30) 
Axworthy, 3 2:15% 

(sire of 63 in 2:30) 

King Darlington. .2:16 

sire of 

King-mond 2.09 

Dash 2:16% 

Mary A 2:27% 

Col. Axtell 2:30 

and granddam of 

Margaret O 2:05% 

Marie Onward 2:27% 

Alcies 2:27% 

Mighty Marguerite 2:29% 



f WILLIAM L. 4244. 

sire of 

Axtell, 3 

William Bell, p. 



10 others. Dams of 
Miss Willamont, p 2:07% 

Lundeen, p 2:12 

31 othehrs in 2:30 



f GEORGE WILKES 519 

I Record 2:22. Sire of Har- 
ry Wilkes 2:13%, 82 

{ others. Dams of Man- 

2l2 ager, p. 2:06%. 

.2:13% I LADY BUNKER 



.2:12 



LOU 

dam of 

Axtell, 3 

Drextell, sire of 3 
Geronomo, sire of 3 

and sister to 
Young Bird, dam of 4 



f KENTUCKY PRINCE 2470 

j sire of 

Guy 2:09% 

40 others. Dams of 

Tom Keene, p 2:04% 

Swift 2:07 

121 others in 2:30. 



NUTWOOD 600 

Record 2:18%. Sire of 

Manager, p 2:06% 

Lockheart 2.08% 

172 others. Dams of 

Alanwood, p 2:04% 

Custer, p 2:05% 

Eyelet, p 2:06% 

Bellewood A. p...2:07% 

Arion, 4 2:07% 

Fred Kohl 2:07% 

Consuella S 2:07% 

Sunland Belle, p.. 2:08% 
322 other in 2:30. 



I EMMA ARTEBURN 

dam of < 

St. Arnaud 2.29% 

(sire of 7 in 2:30.) 

Thornwood Gem, sire of 

1 and granddam of 

Fred Kohl 2:07% 

6 others in 2:30. 



L YOUNG DAISY 

dam of 
Prince Lavalard.. .2:11% 

Greylight 2:16% 

Duke of Well'gton2:20 
and granddam of 

Axdelight 2:11% 

9 others in 2:30. 
r 

BELMONT 64 

sire of 
Earlmont, p 2:09% 

58 others. Dams of 

Tom Nolan, p 2.08% 

Baron Belle 2:09 

Nancy Turner, p.. 2:11% 

139 others in 2:30 



I MISS RUSSELL 

dam of 

Maud S 2:08% 

Sclavonic, p 2:09% 

Rustique 2:18% 

Pistachio, p. (sire). 2:21% 

3 others in 2:30 
and granddam of 12. 

( MAMBRINO PATCHEN 58 

sire of 

London 2:20% 

24 others. Dams of 

■{ Ralph Wilkes 2.06% 

I Jupe 2:07% 

160 others in 2:30. 



dam of Guy Wilkes 
2.15%, El Mahdl 2:25% 
4 sons are 2:30 sires 
and. granddam of 2, etc 

I MAMBRINO BOY 844 

.; Record 2:26%. Sire of 
Rockeley Boy 2:13%, 
14 others. Dams of 
Alerton 2:09%, etc. 

I BIRD MITCHELL 

dam of Lou, dam as 
noted; Young Bird, 
dam of 4, etc. 

CLARK CHIEF 89 

j sire or dams of Martha 
I Wilkes 2:08. W. H. G., 

■{ p. 2:09%, etc. 

{ KENTUCKY QUEEN 

dam of Kentucky Prince, 
sire as noted 

, STRIDEWAY 294 

Record 2:31. Sire of 
1 Pratt 2:28 and dams of 

I 4 standard performers. 

I OLD DAISY 

granddam of 3 standard 
performers. 

ABDALLAH 15 

f sire of Goldsmith Maid, 
i 2.14, 4 others and 

■{ dams of Favonia 2.15, 

j etc. 

I BELLE, BY MAMB. CHIEF 
11 

dam of of Hambletonian 
2:26%, 4 sons are 2:30 
sires and graddam of 
7, etc. 

PILOT JR. 12 

sire of 8 and dams of Jay 
Eye See, p. 2:06%, 39 
others in 2:30. 

SALLY RUSSELL 

granddam of 7 in 2:30 
etc. 

MAMBRINO CHIEF 11 

sire of Lady Thorne 

2:18%, 5 others and 

dams of 24 in 2:30, etc. 

I RODES MARE 

*- dam of Lady Thorne 
2:18% and granddam 
of Loyalty 2:27, etc. 

SWEET OWEN 

J son of Grey Eagle. 

I LUX. BY WAGNER. 



JENNY JOHNSON 

granddam of 

St. Arnaud 2:29% 

sire of 

Reina 2:12% 

Judge Keeler ..2:14% 
5 otners In 2:30. 

Bow Axworthy comes from the great Axtell family through the very best son of that great progenitor — 
Axwor.thy, 3, 2:15%, sire of Hamburg Belle, 2:04%, the best trotter out last year, General Watts, 3, 2.06%, 
the world's champion three-year-old trotter, and as will be seen by reference to his tabulated pedigree is on 
of the greatest sires of extreme speed and colt trotters living. 

TERMS: $25.00 payable July 1, 1909. Usual return privilege if mare proves not with foal. For further par- 
ticulars address 

ALLANDALE FARM, 

WARNER CARTER, Groom, ... Fredericksburg. Va. 



540 



ENQUIRERS' COLUMN. 

All inquiries must reach us by the 
15th of the month previous to the 
issue, or they cannot be answered un- 
til the month following. 



Renting Farms. 

Will some of your readers kindly 
give through the columns of The 
Planter a general outline of the meth- 
ods of farm renting throughout the 
South in general and Virginia in par- 
ticular? I would like to hear both 
sides of the question discussed. The 
owner who leases, as well as the ten- 
ant, also the farm manager's side. By 
this latter I mean .the man who is 
managing a farm either on salary or 
shares for a non-resident owner as 
well as one who resides near by. 

Have been a reader of The Planter 
for the past five years, and hope at 
some not far distant time to make my 
home in the Old Dominion. 

D. L. DAVIDSON. 

Rood River, Oregon. 

We shall be glad for some of our 
readers to give their experience on 
this subject. The systems of renting 
in force in this State are so various 
that it is difficult to reply to the in- 
quiry with definiteness. Speaking 
generally, we may say that the most 
usual custom is to rent for a share 
of the crop, this share differing in va- 
rious sections of the State and being 
usually coupled with provisions as to 
furnishing the whole or a part of the 
fertilizer to be used and the condition 
in which the land is to be left. We 
badly need a good settled system of 
renting which shall provide for the 
growing of crops in a proper rotation 
and the keeping of stock to consume 
the forage crops and the return of the 
manure to the land, with compensation 
for unexhausted fertility and im- 
provements made, and especially 
which shall provide for the cultivation 
of the land in compact bodies rather 
than the present way of allowing the 
tenant to work small plots of land 
anywhere on the farm. The present 
system or want of system has result- 
ed in the impoverishment of large 
sections of the State, whereas, under 
a proper system, improvement would 
result and thus be profitable to the 
owner and tenant. — Ed. 



Sedeing Millet and Cowpeas Together. 

Kindly tell me, can millet and whip- 
poor-will peas be sown together satis- 
factorily? E. N. MERCER. 

Lancaster Co., Va. 

Whilst we have many subscribers 
who grow cowpeas and millet together 
for a hay crop, we have never regard- 
ed it as a desirable mixture from the 
fact that if seeded at the same time 
the millet will mature long before the 
cowpeas have come to their best. The 
only way to obviate this is to sow 
the cowpeas a couple of weeks or 



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J. ELLIOTT HALL,, General Manager. 

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Every share sold will be represented by two acres of choice land. Land that is increasing in value very rap- 
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Perhaps you are wondering why we are making the Farmers and Stockmen of Virginia this exceptional 
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more bofore the millet and then to sow 
the millet and harrow it in. The har- 
rowing will not hurt the peas if not 
delayed too long. We think cowpeas 
and sorghum a much better mixture, 
as they mature together better and 
make a heavier crop. The objection 
made to this mixture is that the 
sorghum makes too strong stalks to 
be nice hay, but this may be largely 
obviated by seeding the sorghum 
heavier so that the growth is not so 
strong. Half a bushel of cowpeas 
and a peck or a peck and a half of 
millet per acre makes a nice hay. — Ed. 



Harrowing Wheat and Oats. 

I would like to know if this can be 
done with success and what time 
would be best. Wouldn't this in- 
crease the grain and kill some weeds? 
I am not going to seed any grass. 

Gloucester Co., Va. J. H. B. 

Both wheat and winter oats can be 
harrowed with advantage when the 
land is dry in February or March, as 
we have many times advised in this 
Journal. At the time when we re- 
ceived your inquiry it was too late 
to do this. — Ed. 



Velvet Bean — Teosinte. 

Dou you know anything of the Vel- 
vet Bean as a forage crop and soil im- 
prover? Do you know anything about 
teosinte as a green forage for horses 
and cattle? J. G. BAPTIST, M. D. 

Mecklenburg Co., Va. 

The velvet bean is a very strong grow- 
ing legume largely used in the Gulf 
States as an improving crop for the 
land. It grows well as far North as 
the James River, but will not mature 
its seed in this State. It is not well 
fitted for a forage crop, as the growth 
is coarse and woody and it is so diffi- 
cult to harvest from its enormous tan 
gled growth. It should be allowed to 
die down on the land and then be 
plowed under. 

Teosinte is valuable as a forage 
crop especially in the States South of 
Virginia. It will grow in this State 
as far North as the James and make 
a heavy yield of forage, hut no grain. 
—Ed. 



Seeding Cowpeas. 

I have a farm near Gainsville, 
Prince William county, Virginia, that 
is naturally very good soil, but has 
been run down from overwork, and 1 
will sow this year a large quantity of 
peas with the object of improving the 
land, and am writing to ask that yon 
give me your ideas as to when they 
should be sown, how much per acre, 
and if I should sow fertilizer with 
the peas, and if you would advise 
turning them under or cutting the 
crop. I expect to top dress the land 
with lime when I seed it in wheat 
or grass this fall. 

Fauquier Co., Va., 

JAS. D. HALL, JR. 





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You could soon become independent in 
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A Fanning Mill Free. If there are no dealers near 
you selling the famous Racine Line of Farm and Ware- 
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all kinds of grain and seeds as well as cow peas, velvet 
beans, rice, peanuts, chufas, etc., then write today for 
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Sow the peas from May to the end johnson & field mf'G. co., Box 102, Racine, wis. 




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MONEY ISNT SAFE 
IN YOUR HOME! 

When your money, life and property are at stake, 
why take any unnecessary risks? 

Day after day you read of the robbers' work. It proves that the bank, and not 
your home, is the place for your money. 

The Powhatan murder and robbery, followed closely by the Buckingham crime, 
are fearful examples. 

There is but one safe course to persue, and that is to place your money in a 
strong, safe, interest-paying bank and remember that the Planters National Bank has 
the LARGEST SURPLUS AND PROFITS OF ANY NATIONAL BANK South of 
Washington. This gives you greater protection for your money than is offered by 
any similar institution in the South. 



Money Is Safe In This Bank 

In the Saving Dept. of The Planters National Bank, your money will bring you 
3% COMPOUND INTEREST from the day you deposit it and you cannot put it in 
a safer place. 

Banking with us by mail is simple and easy, in fact, it is even more convenient 
and less expensive than if you lived in Richmond and paid car fare to bring your 
deposit in person. 

Write to-day for Booklet— "How to Bank by Mail." 

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[May, 



Of June after the land has become 
warm. When preparing the land for 
the crop, apply 250 or 30'0 pounds of 
acid phosphate and 25 to 50 pounds 
of muriate of potash per acre and 
work into the land. This should 
give you a crop to mow for hay in 
August or September. Leave a good 
stubble when cutting the crop and 
cut this into the land with the disc 
after applying the lime and then seed 
to wheat without replowing. If the 
land is as you say — poor — it would 
be better to sow crimson clover after 
the peas and wait another year be- 
fore seeding wheat, sowing a second 
crop of peas after turning down the 
crimson clover in the spring. You 
might then expect a good wheat 
crop. — Ed. 



Sweet Clover — Melilotus Alba. 

For the past six months it has come 
to my notice that in some of our 
Western States there has been much 
exploitation of "Sweet Clover" as a 
forage crop; the claim being made — 
and seemingly substantiated — that all 
kinds of stock will eat it in prefer- 
ence to anything else, that the bitter 
principle which enters into its con- 
tent is largely tonic, corrective of the 
bloating tendencies of most legumes, 
/that it is rich in protein, and, finally, 
rthat it will make a heavy growth in 
: soil which would starve out dog fen- 
nel or "pusley." 

According to the dictum of its en- 
thusiastic advocates (notably in Wal- 
lace's Farmer), the only condition 
necessary to its complete eonsump- 
:tion by all foraging animals is close 
pasturing or frequent mowings; as 
jit becomes very stalky if allowed to 
igfow without such checks; (but in 
that respect is no worse than alfalfa 
or crimson clover. 

The writer saw last year as many 
as three very heavy cuttings of sweet 
clover along the right of way of sev- 
eral railroads in this State, and on 
one occasion asked a farmer whose 
pasture land came clear down to the 
railroad fence, why it had not spread 
into his fields. He said he had been 
watching that point also, and from 
the way his hogs had been rooting 
up all the land next to he fence he 
concluded they had been doing him 
a special good service in cleaning it 
out root and branch. "Too toad," he 
finally said, "that the pesky stuff is 
not worth something to something 
else besides the bees, for I never saw 
such a swift and rank growing a 
thing in my life." 

Wherefore, let us hear from some 
one else anent the matter, for I am 
sufficiently interested to inquire if 
any one knows where the seed can 
be obtained, believing, from what I 
already know about the down-reach- 
intr and outspreading roots of the 



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want to handle your crop. We buy your wool delivered at your depot, free of 
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to pay you top market prices. We furnish you with sacks to ship in when 
needed. Checks sent promptly day wool is received. Write us as soon as 
you are ready to ship, state quantity you have, and we will advise you 
what we will pay. 

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weed, that with it I may be able to 
establish a sort of a sod on some 
sand dunes upon which I have been 
unable to negotiate as much as a 
meagre crop of sand fleas or even 
jiggers. And I want to use that land. 
C. C. C. FARMER. 
Charles City Co., Va. 

Sweet clover is like all the other 
.legumes valuable as a gatherer of 
nitrogen from the atmosphere and is 
therefore an improver of the soil 
when plowed down. It is not, how- 
ever, grown anywhere in this or the 
adjoining States as a crop, as our 
stock will not eat it either green or 
cured as hay, whilst the other le- 
gumes, like clover, cowpeas and soy- 
beans, are equally as valuable as im- 
provers of the soil and are at the 
same time relished by stock of all 
kinds either green or cured. We 
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[May, 



touch it even when growing luxuri- 
antly on a bare pasture. We have 
seen cattle grazing close around the 
plants, but never saw one eat any 
of it, however hard set to find other 
food. Under these circumstances it 
can only, if grown, be used to turn 
under as an improver. For this pur- 
pose we think it might be grown 
with advantage on soils too poor to 
bring the other legumes as we have 
noticed it growing on very poor soil. 
The seed is offered for sale by some 
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worth trying on the land. The plant 
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Meat Rusting. 

Will you kindly tell me the cause 
and how to prevent meat rusting, 
especially the middling? 

W. H. STEPHENS'. 

Albemarle Co., Va. 

The rusting of the meat is caused 
by exposure to the air. When the 
meat is cured it should be dried thor- 
oughly and, if desired, smoked. It 
should then be covered with a coat- 
ing of flour paste well seasoned with 
black pepper and borax, and when 
this is dry the meat should be wrap- 
ped in paper and the edges pasted 
close and then inclose in bags and 
hang in a dry, airy place. This will 
prevent loss and waste. — Ed. 



Wood Ashes. 

I have on hand a large quantity of 
ashes gotten from burning brush, 
stumps and roots of all kinds. What 
would be the best material to use 
with them on .corn, peanuts and to- 
bacco, and what quantity on poor 
land? And should it lay mixed in 
the barn for sometime, or would it 
be best to mix as used? 

BEGINNER. 
Dinwiddie Co., Va. 

The ashes should be mixed with 
acid phosphate and applied to the 
land as soon as mixed. They have 
a small percentage of potash and a 
good deal of lime in their composi- 
tion and, with the . acid phosphate, 
will make a fair fertilizer for corn 
and peanuts if used liberally. You 
can use as much as a ton or two to 
the acre of the ashes without over- 
doing it. Use 250 or 300 pounds of 
acid phosphate per acre. For tobac- 
co the ashes will be of little use, as 
you want a much higher percentage 
of potash than they will supply and 
you need this in the form of sulphate 
of potash. See the March issue for 
the best form of fertilizer for the to- 
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Soy Beans vs. Clay Peas. 

1. Which is more beneficial to 
trucking land, soja beans or clay 
peas? 

2. Does land receive much benefit 
from peas or beans when the vines 
are cut off for hay? 

C. M. BALDWIN. 
Norfolk Co., Va. 

1. Where the soy beans are plowed 
down before the seed is ripe they 
will supply more nitrogen to the soil 
than cowpeas, but if the plant is left 
to ripen its seed much of the nitro- 
gen gathered from the air is trans- 
ferred to the beans, which are the 
richest nitrogenous feed we grow, and 
the improvement made by the crop in 
the land is much lessened. An experi- 
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showed that even used in this way 
the soy beans had added six per 
cent, of nitrogen to the soil. There 
is prdbably not much difference in 
the vegetable matter which either 
crop will add to the soil. 

2. In the case of cowpeas, a crop 
yielding two tons of hay per acre will 
add 100 pounds of nitrogen to the 
soil. If the vines are taken off for 
hay, the roots and stubble will add 
about one-third as much nitrogen to 
the soil as the whole crop would 
have done. — Ed. 



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burnt it. The next year in August 
I fallowed the field for winter oats 
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What can he mixed with unslacked 
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Also, what can be used with poultry 
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Fairfax Co., Va. GEO. C. SMITH. 

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3. Would it do to let sheep and 
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4. Would Pekin, Indian Runner and 
Muscovy ducks cross If they ran to- 
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5. Would chufa nuts grow in that 
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Notwithstanding this, many of the 
dairymen now operating in this 
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Cream is sold according to quantity 
of butter fat. The average cream is 
worth 80 cents. 

2. Hen manure can be utilized in 
making fertilizer for corn by mixing 
with plaster or dry earth, as made to 
conserve the ammonia, and drilling 
this in the rows, but it requires to be 
supplemented with acid phosphate, as 
that is what the corn crop mostly 
needs in this soil. Hen manure is rich 
in ammonia, but lacks phosphoric acid 
and potash. Duck manure would be 
best mixed with farm yard manure, as 
it is too watery to be handled separate- 
ly. 

3. Sheep and Angora goats can run 
in the same pasture. They will run 
in separate flocks and not meddle with 
each other. 

4. The different breeds of ducks will 
cross breed if run together. A hybrid 
of the Muscovy is sterile, but not so 
with the others. 

5. Chufa nuts will grow anywhere 
in the South in theMiddle and Coast- 
al Plain sections. They are very much 
of a weed and we do not encourage 
their growth except upon waste land 
not likely to be used for any other 
purpose than a hog pasture. They are 
easily started and bad to stop. 

6. A Bermuda grass pasture is an ex- 
cellent summer pasture for cattle and 
hogs and succeeds better than any 
other pasture grass in all the Coastal 
Plain sections of the Southern States. 

7. Our cattle usually graze out from 
April to the end of November. This 
winter there has scarcely been a 
month when they could not have graz- 
ed out during the day where proper 
pastures had been grown for them, 
but our native grasses require to be 
supplemented by pastures of crimson 
clover and winter grains to carry 
over this long season. Most of our 
native grasses other than blue grass 
are annuals only and die off in late 
fall.— Ed. 



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Harvesting Cowpeas. 

Will you be kind enough to tell me 
the best method to harvest a crop of 
cowpeas sown amongst corn; whether 
to harvest them with the mower or 
to rake them with the hay rake? 

To use the former method, will the 
corn stalks interfere with the cutting? 
To use the latter, I am afraid I will 
lose the best part of the nitrogen by 
pulling up the roots. 

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Loudoun Co., Va. 

Cowpeas grown amongst corn are 
not usually harvested for a hay crop, 
but are either cut with the corn when 
it is cut down by a corn harvester and 
then shredded with the stover, or they 
are grazed with hogs or turned under 
or cut into the ground with a disc as 
a preparation for wheat seeding for 
which purpose they are generally 
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corn is cut down by hand and care is 
taken to cut it off close to the ground, 
the cowpeas could be harvested with 
the mower by raising the cutter bar 
so as to clear the stumps of the corn 
stalks. To harvest them with the 
horse rake would no doubt pull up 
some of the roots and to this extent 
rob the land of some of the fertility 
gained by the crop, but we do not 
think this would amount to much, as 
probably most of the pea vines would 
break off at the ground, as the roots 
are deep feeders and not easily pulled 
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Plants Hybridizing. 

Please tell me through enquirers' 
column if the new Valencia white pea- 
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Spanish variety, will hydridize to 
any extent. Also cowpeas and soja 

V)P3,DS 

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different varieties of peanuts will do 
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as if in pain. You will greatly oblige 
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W. C. FIELDS. 
Cumberland Co., N. C. 

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skin, keep in a warm stall and well 
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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[May, 



ready. If you sow only the red, sap- 
ling and alsike late in the fall it will 
be but very short grazing in May. 
Hogs on these grazing crops should 
always have a little corn every day, 
otherwise they will not make good 
growth. The grazing crops are a 
maintenance ration, but not much 
more than this until the peas are com- 
ing to maturity in the cowpea crop. 
After there are plenty of peas, then 
the corn may be cut off or much les- 
sened until peas are scarce, when 
corn should be fed to harden and 
complete the feeding. You should 
succeed in this way and especially 
so if your wood lot will provide addi- 
tional feed from mast and grazing. — 
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Rotation — Red and Crimson Clovers — 

Saving Crimson Clover Hay — Profit 

in Horses. 

Please answer the following in May 
Planter: 

1. How would the following be for 
a three-year rotation on forty-five-acre 
farm: First year, corn; second year, 
crimson clover, same having been 
seeded in corn last working; third, 
wheat or oats? The foregoing are 
about the crops I wish to grow. 
Isn't the above the best order in 
which to place them? 

2. How would it do to sow half red 
clover and half crimson clover, so as 
to have the crimson to cut and the 
red to fallow for wheat? Will they 
grow together? Would it pay to grow 
red clover with the wheat the only 
object being to get a fallow for the 
corn which would follow? 

3. Give best methods of saving 
crimson clover hay. Will it stand be- 
ing housed the day after cutting, pro- 
vided there is no dew or rain on it? 
What is the percentage of risk from 
■spontaneous combustion caused by 
storing hay green? 

4. Is there any profit in raising 
young horses, selling at three-year-old, 
at average nrice of $10u? 

5. Will it pay to grow crimson 
clover hay at $12.00 a ton with com- 
mercial fertilizer? 

6. Which pays better, cutting crim- 
son clover for hay or sowing for seed 
at, say, $4.50 per bushel? 

READER. 
Westmoreland Co. Va. 

1. We would amend the suggested 
rotation by following the crimson 
•clover with cowpeas. The crimson 
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2. Crimson clover and red clover 
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clover comes off in May and then the 
red clover makes a fall crop. We 
would not sow red clover with the 
wheat. It is a very uncertain crop 
and you do not need it if you follow 
the rotation suggested as you get two 



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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[May, 



recuperative crops in each rotation. 

3. Crimson clover should be cured 
as much as possible in the windrow 
and cock to preserve the leaf. As the 
weather at the time when it is ready 
for cutting is not usually over hot it 
takes more time to cure than a sum- 
mer hay crop and it should be thor- 
oughly cured before storing or it will 
spoil or may burn. We believe that 
more barns are burnt down from the 
spontaneous combustion of hay stored 
therein than is confessed, but what is 
the percentage we do not know. We 
know spontaneous combustion will 
happen because we have seen it when 
hay is stored before properly cured. 
We do not advise over-drying hay, but 
want it free from water and dew and 
with only such a percentage of natur- 
al moisture in it as will cause it to 
Iheat reasonably in the ibarh. 

4. If there is profit in raising three 
year old steers and selling them at 
$100 per head and there is under or- 
dinary farm conditions of raising and 
feeding, then there ought to be in rais- 
ing and selling horses at the same 
age and price. A horse costs no more 
to raise than a steer and is not re- 
quired to be made fat in order to com- 
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5. We think so. 

6. We think the hay would pay bet- 
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quantity of seed grown. The crop va- 
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washing. For those farmers using 
acetylene, the by-product used as 
whitewash, for interior disinfecting as 
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white after being applied. But when 
the woodwork is exposed to rain, this 
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I have corresponded with the Car- 
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555 



terior disinfecting, applied with a 
hand spray pump, covering roofs and 
corners, perches and rafters, can be 
done in rainy weather, and this time, 
so often wasted could not be more 
profitably spent. 

Also, another question. Might this 
by-product be substituted for lime in 
making Bordeaux and lime-sulphur 
sprays? If so, how? 

Your reply will greatly oblige every 
rural consumer of acetylene gas, in- 
cluding, E. P. LYLE, JR. 

Prince George Co., Va. 

Try the mixture used in making the 
well-known Government Whitewash, 
using the carbide instead of the lime. 
The following is the formula for Gov- 
ernment Whitewash: Slake half a 
bushel of good fresh lime" in boiling 
water keeping it covered during the 
process. Strain and add a peck of 
salt dissolved in water, three pounds 
ground rice boiled to a thin paste, 
half a pound of Spanish whiting, and 
a pound of clear glue dissolved in 
warm water. Mix well together and 
let the mixture stand for several days. 
Keen in a kettle and put on as hot 
as possible. We would not venture 
an opinion as to using the carbide in 
making Bordeaux mixture. This is a 
question for the Chemists to determ- 
ine, and we shall be glad if some 
member of the staff at the Experiment 
Station, where the Bordeaux mixture 
is being used, would look into the 
matter and advise upon it. The acety- 
lene gas people should be sufficiently 
interested in the subject to investi- 
gate and report upon the utilization of 
the waste carbide. — Ed. 



Nux Vomica for Chickens. 

Please tell me through the Southern 
Planter how much nux vomica to give 
to chickens, and must it be given 
every meal in order to kill the hawk? 
The druggist who sold it does not 
know how much and how often it 
should be used. B. S. GILL. 

See the April issue, where this 
question is answered. — Ed. 



Crop Rotation. 

Last year I sowed crimson clover 
or German clover in my corn when 
it was last plowed. It came up well, 
looks well now — three inches high. I 
wish to plant this land for corn again 
— last year was first time the land had 
been ploughed for several years. I got 
from it about fifty bushels to the acre. 
It will be ploughed the coming week 
regardless of the clover. I will then 
plant corn on it. At the last plough- 
ing of this corn I wish to sow cow- 
peas and soja beans, mixed: then 
when ripe, let my hogs on it. I think 
you then advise to sow clover, rye, 
etc., and next spring plow for corn, 
etc.. 

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THE SOUTHEKN PLANTER. 



[May, 



first how can I expect it to get higher 
by May first if sowed in November or 
December after my hogs have been 
turned on to the peas and beans? I 
wish you would tell me what to do for 
I cannot see my way. My land is 
rich — red chocolate soil — good for hay, 
corn, etc. I wish to improve it; also, 
to get feed for my hogs — Chester 
Whites, thoroughbreds. 

WILLIAM OHIEVES. 
Loudoun Co., Va. 

It would have been better had you 
left the clover till in bloom at least. 
The best corn crop grown here last 
year was after the clover was com- 
pletely dead. There was then plenty 
of time to make a crop here. But 
our season is longer than yours. You 
could, however, get a better crop by 
letting the clover bloom. 

It will be a good plan to sow peas 
among the corn, but it will probably 
be too late to sow crimson clover af- 
ter the hogs have eaten the peas, and 
I think that it would be best then to 
disc the land fine and sow to winter 
grain instead of running it in corn 
again. Then seed to clover and have 
a clover sod to turn the next time 
the field comes in corn. Or, you might 
sow rye and crimson clover after the 
peas are eaten and if the clover fails 
will at least have the rye. You can 
plant corn any time in May and will 
get more benefit from the clover . to 
let it get more mature. — W. F. Mas- 
sey. 



Cowpeas and Sorghum. 

Will cowpeas or cowpeas and sorg- 
hum improve land and make a satis- 
factory and fattening grazing crop 
for cattle? If so, kindly state what 
kinds to use and how to plant them. 
Do they cause bloat, and how many 
cattle will an acre carry through 
August and September when grass 
is short? Will soy beans grow well 
without inoculation? 

Can you give information in regard 
to "Colorado Winter Vetch?" Have 
seen it highly recommended for per- 
manent pasture, especially for hogs. 

Loudoun Co. Va. TRYO. 

Cowpeas and sorghum make an im- 
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and mature its seed. Where the seed 
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BEST OF GRASS. 

BEST OF WATER. 



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BEST OF IMPROVEMENTS. 

BEST OF SCHOOLS. 



The ideal stock country. 

The ideal "home" country. 



Most accessible of good properties. 

Most convenient to the real markets 
of the East — Washington, Baltimore, 
Philadelphia and New York. 



CLAUDE Q. STEPHENSON, 

VIRGINIA PROPERTIES. 
i HERNDON, = - ■ ■ VIRGINIA. 



View of Fields on "B." 



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hour in the middle of the day at first 
until they become used to the feed. 
As to the quantity of cattle a crop 
will maintain, this depends on the 
growth. A heavy crop of peas and 
sorghum will make two to three tons 
of hay per acre and probably the 
green weight would be something like 
six tons. From this you can estimate 
what stock it would carry through 
two months. 

Soy beans on rich land will often 
make a fair crop without inoculation, 
but usually they make a much better 
yield the second year of sowing, when 
the land has become inoculated. In 
the last issue of The Planter, you will 
find an article dealing with this ques- 
tion. 

We do not know the Colorado Win- 
ter Vetch by that name. There are 
three species of vetches grown in this 
country — the Hairy vetch, the Winter 
vetch, and the Spring vetch. These 
are all annuals and, in the South, 
should, as to the first two, be sown in 
the fall and mature their growth in 
June or July; the Spring vetch should 
be sown in early spring and completes 
its growth by June or July. Of these 
different vetches, the Hairy vetch has 
been found to be the most valuable 
in the South. It makes good spring 
grazing for hogs or cattle, or a good 
hay crop to cut in May or early June. 
—Ed. 



Yield of Milk and Butter. 

I have a Holstein heifer two and 
a half years old that has recently 
dropped her first calf, and is now giv- 
ing three gallons of milk and making 
one and a half pounds of butter per 
day. I would like to have your opin- 
ion as to what you would estimate 
the quantity of milk and butter she 
would likely produce on the advent 
of her third calf. This is the first 
calf I have raised, consequently am 
not posted on the subject. 

2. Would also like to hear from 
some of your subscribers as to 
whether a cow makes more butter (in 
proportion to the amount of milk 
given) when just coming in fresh, or 
when the calf is about six months 
old. Your opinion on this query says 
"when fresh." but all I have inter- 
rogated on the question are at vari- 
ance with your opinion, consequently 
am most anxious to hear from the 
"rank and file' of some of your num- 
erous subscribers. 

JOHN K. MYERS. 

Warren Co., N". C. 

It is absolutely impossible for any 
one to say what milk and butter a 
cow is likely to give on coming fresh 
after any particular calving. Usual- 
ly, where a heifer makes a good show- 
ing after the first calving, it may he 
expected that she will continue to 
make an increase with each calving 
until she is six or seven years old. 
but not infrequently there will be one 
or more times between the first calv- 



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Evan's "Model" Disk Corn Planter for Corn and Peas. 

With or Without Fertilizer Attachment. 

It Is made with steel frames, making it strong 
and durable. . Plates are furnished to drill ac- 
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The device for throwing corn and 
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559 



How the Farmers Voted 





We recently offered a beautiful cal- 
endar to every farmer sending us his 
name and address and telling us how 
many cows he had and what make of cream separator he owned. We 
received many thousand replies. Every one of these farmers told us the 
name of his separator. It was just as though the farmers had voted to 
decide which cream separator is best. 

Almost Half Say Tubular 

More than 41 per cent. — almost one-half — of all the separators owned by 
these many thousand farmers are Tubular separators. There are more than 
twice as many Tubulars as the three 
leading ''Bucket bowl" separator conv- 
bined. This absolutely proves that 
farmers like Sharpies Tubulars best. 

This is the farmers' verdict. Farmers 
are so thoroughly convinced that Tubulars 
are way ahead of the very best "bucket 
bowl" machines that they have bought over 
twice as many Tubulars as they have of the 
three leading "bucket bowl" separators 
combined. 

You will make no mistake in buying a 
Tubular: Made in the world's greatest 
separator factory. 1908 sales way ahead of 
1907 — out of sight of most, if not all, com- 
petitors combined. The additional fine 
features of our 1909 Tubular "A" are mak- 
ing 1909 better yet. Write for catalog No . 290 




Tubular supply cans are low, steady, 
and need not be removed to take the 
machine apart. A plumb bob is at- 
tached to the back of our 1909 Tubular 
"A" for quickly leveling the machine. 



The Sharpies Separator Co. 

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Sharpies Tubular Cream Separa- 
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sizes can be turned by one who is 
seated. 



ing and her period of full maturity 
when she will fail to show any in- 
crease over the first test. We have 
had cows to do this at the second 
calving; others to make the failure at 
the third calving, and still others at 
a later period. This is illustrated by 
the record of Jacoba Irene, the cele- 
brated Jersey cow. In her first year 
she made 16.522 pounds of milk and 
324 pounds of butter fat. In her sec- 
ond year she made 11,392 pounds of 
milk and 620 pounds of fat. In her 
third year she made 12388 pounds of 
milk and 674 pounds of fat. In her 
fourth year she made 16,000 pounds 
of milk and 885 pounds of fat. 

2. As to the point of a cow making 
a higher or less percentage of butter 
fat in the earlier or later periods of 
her lactation, it was formerly thought 
and records seemed to justify the po- 
sition that the percentage of fat was 
higher in the earlier period of lac- 
tation than in the later, and this was 
our own experience without the use 
of a separator, but it seems now to 
be fully established that there is lit- 
tle if any change in the percentage 
of fat at any period of the lactation, 
when the fat is completely separated 
by means of the separator. In the 
earlier tests made neither the Bab- 




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[May,. 



Stop, Look and 

Here comes the best one yet made. A com- 
bination of the Horse Hoe, the Plain Tooth and 
Reversible Disc Cultivators, used for all kinds 
of cultivation and will, when using the discs, 
work out the whole middle between two rows 
of any width from 2% to 4 feet wide, 
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cock nor the separator was in use 
and the only way to extract the fat 
was by cooling the milk with water 
and ice. Under that system there 
never was a complete extraction of 
the fat. In the earlier periods of the 
lactation it was easier to get the fat 
separated from the milk whilst in the 
later periods a good deal of it was 
lost through failure to get the fat 
globules to separate. It may be ac- 
cepted as a settled " question that you 
cannot by any system of feeding feed 
fat into the milk nor can you change 
appreciably the average percentage of 
fat which the breeding and tempera- 
ment of the cow seems to fix at the 
outset of her lactation. And yet, with 
all this, we have known considerable 
changes to occur even from day to day 
in the amount of fat in the milk. We 
have known many a cow to vary as 
much as one or even two per cent, 
from day to day, whilst upon the 
same feed and under the same condi- 
tions so far as controlled by the feed- 
er. Jacoba Irene made only 324 
pounds of fat from 16,522 pounds of 
milk in her first year. In her second 
year she made 620' pounds of fat from 
only 11,392 pounds of milk. That is 
to say she made in her second year 
296 pounds more fat from 5,130 
pounds less milk. — Ed. 



Warts on Teat. 

I have a heifer afflicted with 
large, ugly warts one of which sur- 
rounds one teat so that it cannot be 
cut off without injury to the teat. She 
is expected to drop her calf in August 

Will you kindly advise me what to 
do, or tell me where I can get the 
advise? I would write to Dr. Ferney- 
hough if I could get his address. 

C. W. VENABLE. 

Pittsylvania Co., Va. 

The only way to remove the warts 
when they cannot be cut off is to 
burn them off gradually with caustic, 
potash or lunar caustic, being careful 
not to continue the applications long- 
er than just sufficient to remove the 
warty growths. Dr. Ferneyhough's 
address is Burkeville, "Va. 



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The Imperial Double Disc is a aouble machine with double capacity. It Is- 
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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 be- 
cause the second harrowing follows immediately while the ground is mellow 
and because it leaves an even, level surface. 

The rear gang frame is hooked to the main frame, forming a flexible con- 
nection that aids greatly in turning corneers and follows the front gangs ae- 
the rear wheels of a wagon follow the front wheels. The ground Is not 
thrown up in ridges when turning, as is apt to be the case with a rigid frame, 
but is as evenly and smoothly harrowed as in other parts of the field. 

An important feature of this machine is in the quick and easy change that 
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in a moment's time by removing a spring cotter and lifting the end of tho- 
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Sowirt" Grass With Cowpeas. 

Some writer has advised in The 
Planter that grass seed oe sown with 
cowpeas. Now, one of my neighbors 
sowed red clover with peas, clover 
came up nicely, but when the peas 
were cut all the clover had disappear- 
ed. He thinks a heavy growth of peas 
will smother out clover. So *please 
state in May Planter what kind of 
grass was sown, if you know, and 
what you think of the chance for grass 
when sown with peas. 

W. N. TIFFANY. 

Fauquier Co., Va. 



There is always a risx or the clover 
and grass being smothered when 
sown with cowpeas and we have al- 
ways advised that when this course 
is followed a light seeding' of cow- 
peas should be made. We have a 
number of subscribers who sow grass 
of all kinds with peas and generally 
succeed in securing a stand, but they 
are careful not to get the cowpeas. 
too thick on the land. Much depends 
on the weather. If the summer and' 
early fall is a wet one, the peas are 
almost certain to -get down and' 
smother the grass, but if there be not 



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HENRY FAIRFAX, 
President. 



ALFRED R. WILLIAMS, 
1st Vice President. 



M. A. CHAMBERS, 
Secretary. 



»■' VIRGINIA STATE FAIR 




RICHMOND 

OCTOBER 4-5-6-7-8-9. 






fipmIps ap ^Sn™ , e object of the Virginia State Fair Association, the development of the interests of the 
Z.^f^if'Vr* " F X 1 .r 1 IA — attention is again directed in this, the second announcement of the 1909 VIRGINIA 
bTATE FAIR, to the following PARTIAL classification of the viu^ima 

FARM PRODUCTS DEPARTJIENT (Watch for Additions). 



Field Seed, Grain. 



CORN. 

1st. 2d. 3d. 

Ten ears, White Corn $5.00 $2.00 $1.00 

Ten ears, Yellow Corn 5.00 2.00 1.00 

Ear of White Corn 2.50 1.00 .50 

Ear of Yellow Corn 2.50 1.00 .50 

Ten ears Pop Corn 2.50 1.00 .50 

Ten ears Sweet Corn 3.00 1.50 1.00 

Display of Varieties Corn on Stalk 3.00 1.50 1.00 
Largest total yield of Corn from 

10 stalks, to be shown on stalk 5.00 2.50 1.00 

Twenty ears Corn, any variety.... 5.00 2.00 1.00 

WHEAT. 

Quarter bu. Longberry 4.00 

Quarter bu. Fultz 4.00 

Display of Wheat in sheaf 4.00 

OATS. 

Quarter bu. White Oats 3.00 1.50 .50 

Quarter bu. Black Cats 3.00 1.50 .50 

Quarter bu. Mixed Oats 3.00 1.50 .50 

Display of Oats in sheaf ?.00 1.50 .50 

Quarter bu. Barley 3 00 1.50 .50 

Display Barley in sheaf 3 00 150 .. r >0 

Quarter bu. Rye 3.00 1.50 .50 

Display Rye in Sheaf 3.00 1.50 .50 

GRASSES. 

Display Alfalfa Hay, bale or bun- 
dle to weigh at least 20 lbs... $3.50 $2.00 $1.00 



2.00 


1.00 


2.00 


:.oo 


2.00 


1.00 



1st. 

3.50 
S.bO 
3.50 
3.50 
3.50 

•t 50 

3.00 
3.00 



Display Orchard Grass, bale or 
bundle to weigh at least 20 lbs. 

Display Red Clover, bale or bun- 
dle to weigh at least 20 lbs 

Display Crimson Clover, bale or 
bundle to weigh at least 20 lbi. 

Display Alsike Clover, bale or 
bundle to weigh at leist 20 lbs. 

Display of varieties of Clover 
- plants 

Display of collection of Alfalfa 
plants, not less than 6 stools. . 

Display Soy Beans on Vine 

Display Cow Peas 

Display varieties Sorghum on 
stalk Z.50 

Display German Millet in bundle 3.00 

Display Hungarian Millet in bun- 
dle 3 00 

Most complete display of varieties 
of whole plants, including 
Wheat, Corn, Clovers anci 
Grasses 1 5.00 

SWEEPSTAKES. 

Best Vi bu. Wheat, any variety.. 5 00 
Best 10 ears Corn, any variety.. 5.00 
Diplay of Grain, Grasses and For- 
age Crops, in grain and stalk, 
25 samples must be shown. . . .25.00 



2d. 

2.u0 

2.00 

2.00 

2.00 

2.00 

2.00 
1.50 
1.50 

2.00 
1.50 

1.50 



3d. 

1.00 

1.00 

1.00 

1.00 

1.00 

1.00 
.75 
.75 

1.00 
.75 

3.00 



5.00 2.5C 



Rib. 
Rib. 



10.00 Rib. 



glg^ COUNTY EXHIBITS. 

Large and attractive CASH prizes will be offered in the County Exhibits classes, and will prove of in- 
terest to all growers. 

ACRE YIELDS. 

The prizes to be offered in these .classes will be adequate and of value, and will bring handsome returns 
to all competitors. 

TOBACCO. 

In addition to the regular prizes of the Fair for Sun Cured, Olive Stemming, Brown Shipping and Stem- 
ming, and the Bright Crop Wrappers, Cutters, Fillers and Smokers, THE RICHMOND TOBACCO TRADE offers 
cash Sweepstakes amounting to Seventy-Five Dollars for best exhibits any type shown by Grower; and Special 
Prizes, AGGREGATING HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS will be offered by the Tobacconists of the State for exhibits 
of the Virginia Burley Crop, the production of which they deem important. 

THE CORN SPECIALS. 

These Specials, the conditions and classes for which will soon be announced, will approximate, if not ex- 
ceed ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS and will prove of utmost Interest and value to every Farmer of the State. 

WATCH FOR OTHER SPECIALS. 

The Public Spirit of many enterprises and citizens Is aroused, and other SPECIALS, totalling SEVERAL 
HUNDRED DOLLARS will be shortly made public. Read the SOUTHERN PLANTER FOR JUNE for further 
details, and also for full particulars of the VEGETABLE DEPARTMENT. 

THE FAIR is here to stay, "the first week In October;" HELP to make last year's unqualified success 
small in comparison with the 



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1909 



All questions promptly answered; write for folder of FARM PRODUCTS DEPARTMENT. 

Address: MARK R. LLOYD, General Manager, RICHMOND. VA 




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MOWING MACHINES DELIVERED AT YOUR DEPOT 

Just spend one cent in money and one minute of time and 
ask the House of ASHTON STARKE, Richmond, Va., what 
they will deliver the Highest Grade Field Mower at your 
depot for. 



too much rain they will stand up and 
give the grass only sufficient shading 
to ensure its growth. — Ed. 



Liability of County for Death of 
Horse 

A subscriber writes us that he had 
a wagon and team of valuable horses 
to fall through a county bridge, and. 
as a consequence, two of the horses 
were killed an<3 the othqr two in- 
jured He made a claim on the county 
for compensation and this was re- 
fused and he then took the care be- 
fore the Circuit Judge, and he said 
it could not be tried before a jury. 
As a result, he has lost two horses 
and has two injured ones, and can get 
no compensation. He wants to know 
if this is law or justice. It seems to 
us that it is neither law nor justice. 
We are not sufficiently informed on 
the law on this subject to say posi- 
tively that we are right in our view, 
but one thing seems to us clear — 
that the county authorities are invest- 
ed with the care of the roads and 
bridges and have imposed on them 
a duty to keep both in such a condi- 
tion that they can be safely used by 
the citizens and are authorized to 
levy taxes for this purpose. Having 
such a duty and such authority, it 
would seem to follow that if they fail 
in their duty and. by keeping open 
an unsafe bridge, invite travellers to 
pass over it and an accident results, 
they are liable for the consequences 
of their neglect. If they fail to recog- 
nize a claim for this an appeal lies 
to the court for their decision. We 
should like to head what some of our 
legal friends who are farmers as well 
as" lawyers have to say on this case. 
—Ed. 



Salt — Wood Ashes — Hen Manure. 

1. Please let me know the best use 
to which to put salt that has been 
used for salting pork. 

2. What crop is most benefitted by 
wood ashes, and how much should be 
applied to the acre? 

3. Please give me full directions for 
making a first-class fertilizer, using 
hen manure as the base. 

4. I see that nearly all writers in 
the agricultural papers recommend 
shallow cultivation for corn. What is 
the greatest depth that would come 
under that head and what implement 
is best for such cultivation? One of 



SPECIAL SALE OF 
W. K. BACHE & SONS 

Stock of 

FARM IMPLEMENTS, 
WAGONS, BUGGIES, ETC., 



AT REDUCED PRICES 

The entire stock will be sold to 
close out business, and parties de- 
siring to purchase goods in these 
lines can procure them at special 
low prices. 

Act quickly, before the assort- 
ment 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. 



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CAST IRON 



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STEEL 



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Write for catalog and 
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| HERCULES MANUFACTURING CO., 
Dept. 1 1 e Centerville, Iowa, U. S. A. 




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563 



the most successful corn .mowers in 
my neighborhood cultivates his crop 
exclusively with the double shovel 
plow but nearly all others use the 
double cultivator and triple plow or 
side wipe as some call it. What im- 
plement would you advise for best re- 
sults? 

5. I have a field for corn this year 
wich I wish to improve. It is my in- 
tention to sow it down in crimson 
clover at last working. Should the 
clover be sown before or after the cul- 
tivator, and how is the best way to 
sow it? I have never sown 'any. 
And for best results, should anything 
else be sown with the clover? I want 
to sow peas on same field next spring. 
Madison Co., Va. BRIGHTWOOD. 

1. Salt is of no value as a fertil- 
izer to any crop except it may be as 
a light dressing on an asparagus bed 
in the spring. Perhaps the best use 
to make of it would be to apply it on 
roads and walks to kill grass and 
weeds. 

2. Wood ashes are valuable for the 
potash and lime contained in them, 
and may be used with advantage on 
every kind of crop. Possibly the best 
use to make of the small quantity usu- 
ally available is to apply them in the 
garden or orchard. 

.3 You will find advice as to usinsr 
hen manure in a fertilizer in reply to 
other queries in this issue. 

4. Shallow cultivation means not 
more than two or, at the outside, 
three inches deep. The tooth culti- 
vators like the well-known Iron Age 
cultivators are the best. 

5. Sow the crimson clover just he- 
fore the last cultivation and then cul- 
tivator will cover it. Either sow it 
broadcast by hand or with the Cahoon 
sower. Sow it alone. — Ed. 



Apple Growing in Virginia. 

Let me know through your paper 
what are the best counties for apples 
in "Virginia. I want to buy a summer 
home and. if possible, want to com 
bine apples, blue grass and limestone 
soil. PAUL CLARK. 

Coahoma Co., Miss. 

All the counties in the Piedmont 
and Valley sections of the State are 
especially adapted to fruit growing 
and combine limestone and blue grass. 
Albemarle, Nelson, Bedford and Au- 
gusta are all celebrated for apples 
and in Southwest Virginia, Roanoke 
and Patrick are good locations. As 
a residential section. Albemarle is 
especially good, as the location of the 
University of Virginia there and the 
facilities for reaching Washington and 
the North have induced the inflow of 
a large number of most desirable peo 
pie. and its fruit interests are largp. 
—Ed. 



Lame Mare. 
I have a mare twelve years old that 
has been kicked on right knee, which 



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1895 Rockford, 111., F. C. Oltrogge, Tripoli, Iowa Score 98 

1896 Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Thomas Milton, St. Paul, Minn. ..Score 97.82 

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1898 Topeka, Kan., Samuel Haughdahl, New Sweden, Minn. Score 98 ;. 

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1900 Lincoln, Neb., H. T. Sondergaard, Litchfield, Minn. ..Score 98 

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1902 E. L. Duxbury, Green Bay Wis. Score 98.5 

1904 St. Louis Mo., L. S. Taylor, Glenville, Minn Score 98.5 

1906 Chicago, 111., A Carlson, Rush City, Minn Score 97 

1907 Chicago, 111., A. Lindblad, North Branch, Minn Score 97.5 

1908 J. C. Post, Hector, Minn Score 98 

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is a little stiff; also, a small, hard 
knot has formed on inside of knee 
(a little in front). She limps when 
pulling a load or travelling on hard 
rocks. Please tell me what to do for 
her; also, will she ever get over it? 
Hamblen Co., Tenn. E. C. WHITE. 

Try rubbing the leg with Absorbine, 
which you will find advertised in The 
Planter. In a mare as old as yours 
it is doubtful whether she ever gets 
completely over the injury, but it may 
be so improved by the rubbing that 
it will not practically interfere with 
her usefulness. — Ed. 



Fruit Trees to Plant. 

I have bought a farm in Virginia 
and expect to move South by the end 
of the year. I wish to start a young 
orchard when I come of apple, pear, 
cherry and other fruit trees. Will 
trees do that are shipped down from 



Pennsylvania, or would it be better 
to buy Southern trees? 

A NEW SUBSCRIBER. 
Allegheny Co., Pa. 

You had better buy your fruit trees 
from nurserymen in the section of the 
State where you are going to plant 
them. They will then be acclimated 
and likely to do better, and you' will 
be able to get varieties which are 
suited to the soil and climate of the 
locality. — Ed. 



Sowing Cowpeas in Corn. 

I want to ask your advice as to the 
sowing of cowpeas at the laying by 
of corn preparatory to seeding of 
wheat this fall. I have a thirty-acre 
field, most level, but no water stands 
on it. A part of the field is rather 
close clay land, rather inclined ,to 
bake. I think of trying peas. What 



kind of fertilizer should I use, if any? 
Loudoun Co., Va. C. W. GREEAR. 

The seed of cowpeas in corn at 
the last working is a practice much 
to be commended, as it results in 
great improvement of the land. Where 
the peas are sown broadcast, three 
pecks or a bushel to the acre is usu- 
ally sown, but if put in with a drill 
running between the corn rows, two- 
pecks will be sufficient. The best prac- 
tice is to sow a mixture of two or 
three varieties as they make a heav- 
ier crop than a single variety. Mix 
Black, Clay and Whip-poor-will. If the- 
land is well and deeply prepared for 
the corn orop and if not rich, 200 or 
300 pounds of acid phosphate' is ap- 
plied previous to planting the corn, no 
further fertilization is needed for the 
peas, but if this has not been done 
then a better crop will be made if 
200 or 30*0 pounds of acid phosphate 



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IT CAN. 

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are doing — we are curing Cancers, Tu- 
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use of the knife or by X-Ray, and are 
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We Guarantee our Cures. 

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1615 West Main St., Richmond, Va. 

FRED C. KELLAM, 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. . 

Samples, etc., upon request. 
O. H. BERRY & CO., 
Men and Boys' Outfitter*. 
Richmond, Va. 

STONERIDGE AND SHETLAND STOCK FARMS 

Wealth, 29579, record 2.10; brown horse, 
16 hands, by Gambetta Wilkes, 2:19%, 
dam Magnolia, by Norfolk. Fastest 
harness stallion in Virginia. Blue rib- 
bon winner. $25 insurance. 

Emperor Wilkes, a grand type of the 
trotting-bred coach stallion. $15 In- 
surance 

Stoneridgp Jack, blue ribbon winner 
at the Virginia State Fairs, 1906, 1907 
1908. $10 insurance. 

IRVING J. COFFIN, 

R. F. D. No. 5. 
Richmond, Va. 



J W. PARRISM, 45338. 

Bay horse, 16 hands; weight 1,200 
pounds, foaled 1902. Sired by Dum- 
barton. 33,799, dam Maud Elliver, by 
Conductor, 12,256. A trotting-bred stal- 
lion, with speed and good manners. 
Terms — $8 single leap; $15 season; $25 
Insurance. 

JOSEPH BAKER, 
Lloyds, Essex Connty, Va. 



BLUE AND GRAY. 

Chestnut horse, by Hindoo, dam Red 
and Blue, by Alarm, second dam Mag- 
gie B. B., dam of Iroquois, winner of 
the English Derby. An impressive 
thoroughbred sire. 
Fee, $10 season. 

MANN S. VALENTINE, 
Stokes, . .Goochland Co., Va. 



JUDGE PALMER, 2:26 1-4 

(Formerly Dan Patch, Jr.) 

Bay horse, foaled 1904, by Busaro, 
2:29%, dam Rose Wilkes, by Windom, 
9892, son of Red Wilkes. 

Judge Palmer is a trotter by inher- 
itance and a race horse as well. 

Fee, $25 season. 

A. A. SLAGLE, Petersburg, Va. 

1909 PETAUR1ST, 42431. 1909 

Bay horse, by Peter the Great, 
2:07%; dam Telka, by Arion, 2.07%; 
second dam L. Jollo, by Advertiser, 
2:15%. Bred in the purple and a blue 
ripbon winner. 

$25 season with return privilege. 

JOSEPH LASITTER, 

Southern Stock Yards, Richmond, Va. 

Stallion cards, folders and catalogues 
compiled; pedigrees of trotters and 
thoroughbred horses traced. My library 
includes Year Books, Trotting Regis- 
ters, Stud Books, Files of Turf Jour- 
nals and other references. Special at- 
tention 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 

F. H. DEANE & CO. 

HAY, GRAIN, MILL-FEED. 

1105 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 COM- 
PANY, Highland Park, Richmond, Va, 

1009. Warren Park Stud. 1909v 

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. 



JACK COOK, 2504 

Gray horse, trial 2:26%, trotting, by 
General Wilkes, 2:21%, dam Irene Fell, 
dam of Johnny Agan, 2:05%, etc., by 
Mambrino Abdallah, 2201. Jack Cook 
has sired Capt. Cook, 2.20%, and other 
winners. His get have fine size and 
good looks. 

For terms address 
W. C. COLGATE, Saxe, Va. 

or 
DR. DONALD McPHAIL, Randolph, Va. 

RUSSELL REX.^JR. 

Trotter, bay horse, 16% hand, weight 
1250 pounds, foaled 1904, by Russell 
Rex, 16728, dam Penelope Whitley, by 
Carlos, 6750. A grand type of the trot- 
ting bred coach stallion, with beauty 
of form and high finish. 

Terms $10 single leap; $20 season; 
$25 insurance. 
S. A. WHITLEY, Smlthfleld, Va. 



PRESQUE ISLE, 26288, Record 2:29X 

Trotter, bay horse, 16 hands, weight 
1200 pounds, sired by Norfolk, 3670,. 
dam Mambrino, by Mambrino King, 
1279. He has sired many fine saddle- 
and harness horses, with style, action 
and finish. For terms address 

MICHAEL * VAN LEAR, 
Waynesboro, Va. 



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is worked into the land at the last 
working and the peas be then planted 
We do not advise that this pea crop 
be plowed down before seeding the 
wheat, as this makes the land too 
light and puffy for the best success 
of the wheat, but cut the pea crop in- 
to the land with the disc harrow and 
sow the wheat without further plow- 
ing. Land that has been properly pre- 
pared for corn and the crop cultivated 
as it ought to be is in the best condi- 
tion for making a wheat crop without 
replowing when the pea vines are just 
cut into the surface soil with a disc. 
—Ed. 



Replanting Corn. 

Professor Massey says it is time 
lost to replant corn. If we did not re- 
plant our corn in this section of the 
country we would have no stand on 
some land on account of the worms. 
If there is any way to prevent their 
ravages, please let us know it. 

J. W. LOCKHART. 

Fauquier Co., Va. 

The partial replanting of a crop of 
corn is no doubt as Professor Mas- 
sey says — largely lost time as the silk- 
ing of the later replanted corn comes 
too late to be fertilized by the pol- 
len of the earlier planted crop. The 
replanted corn largely makes only 
fodder or partially filled ears from 
this cause. The way to obviate dam- 



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:ige from the worms is to plow early 
Mid work thoroughly before planting. 
In this way the worms are exposed to 
the weather and killed, or eaten by 
the birds. Where land is badly in- 
fested with worms they may be de- 
stroyed by dropping bunches of clover 
-lipped in Paris green mixed in water, 



or cabbage leaves dipped in the same 
way at frequent intervals over the 
field before the corn is planted or be- 
fore it germinates. The worms will 
eat these and be poisoned. Where a 
stand of corn is badly cut down by 
the worms or any other cause, it is 
better to work the land o\»er again and 



566 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[May, 



replant the whole crop rather than to 
partially replant. Much better results 
will be obtained in this way. — Ed. 



Hog Husbandry. 

I am getting fixed up to go into the 
hog business again, and would like 
to ask, will the large Yorkshire hogs 
make about the same pounds of meat 
with the. same amount of feed as the 
Chester Whites or Berkshires will? 
Also, can you tell me if the Govern- 
ment has issued any bulletin on ex- 
periments made with the different 
breeds? GEO. A. GREENE. 

N'ansemond Co... Va. 

The large white Yorkshire hogs are 
bacon hogs even more strictly than 
the Berkshires or Chester Whites. 
They will make as good gains from 
their feed as the other breeds named, 
but the meat will be leaner. The De- 
partment of Agriculture has issued 
bulletins on Hog Husbandry, but we 
do not recall that it has issued any 
bulletin giving particulars of experi- 
ments made comparing the feeding 
qualities of the different breeds. Sev- 
eral of the Experiment Stations have 
made comparison tests of different 
breeds; amongst these are Wisconsin, 
Kansas, Massachusetts and Illinois. 
The Directors of these Stations will 
no doubt send copies of the bulletins 
if they have them, although they are 
not required to do so to parties out- 
side their respective States. The 



new book on "Swine in America," by 
F. D. Coburn, gives the tullest infor- 
mation on this subject. We can sup- 
ply this book; price $2.50.— Ed. 



CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION 
/ Our advertising patrons, the Atlas 
Portland Cement Co., New York 
City, issue a very attractive illustrated 
book of some 125 pages entitled, Con- 
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and on the Farm. This book thor- 
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concrete can be put. It also gives spe- 
cifications for mixing and handling 
cement and also for circular forms, 
sidewalks, curbs, floors, steps, walls, 
chimneys, fence posts, hog pens, box 
stalls, silos, and culverts, with splen- 
did illustrations of each. In addition 
to its everlasting qualities, the beauty 
of handling it is that you do not have 
to employ expert workmen to mix and 
use it. This valuable book may be 
had free for the asking by addressing 
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CATALOGUES. 

Everything for the Lawn. This is 
the title of a beautifully gotten up 
catalogue of Peter Henderson & Co., 
Seedsmen, New York City, giving com- 
plete information about everything for 
the lawn and instructions for lawn 
formations and care. 

Leggett's Spray Calendar. This is 
the title of a very comprehensive' cir- 



cular issued by Leggett & Brother, 
New York City, giving complete 
spraying instructions for dry and li- 
quid sprays and also brief description 
of their Champion Dusters. 

Running Water. The Rife Engine 
Co. gives this title to its neatly got- 
ten up catalogue illustrating and de- 
scribing its well-known Hydraulic 
Ram. It shows how easily and cheap- 
ly you can get water when and where 
you want it. 

Optimism and Frogress, an address 
delivered by Mr. Henry W. Wood, 
First Vice-President of the Chamber 
of Commerce, Richmond, Virginia, and 
circulated in neat pamphlet form by 
the Secretary of the Chamber. 

The Philadelphia Silo. The cata- 
logue of E. F. Schlichter & Co., illus- 
trating and describing the above men- 
tioned opening roof silo, is a very 
neat and attractive affair, and will be 
sent free to all applicants. 



Pittsylvania Co., Va., March 17, '09. 

The Southern Planter is worth more 
to me than all the other papers I take 
and I do not want to miss a single 
number. S. D. WALKER. 



Orange Co., Va., March 10, '09. 

Please renew my subscription to 
your valuable journal. I like the 
Southern Planter best of all the farm 
papers I take. HUGH BROOKING. 



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What the Hunger System Heans 

The "Munger System" means the saving to the ginner of every 
golden moment during the 90 days of the cotton-ginning season. It 
means the greatest turn-out at least cost. It means heavy, durable 
construction, no "freak features" or liability to breakdown sandrepairs. 
That is why through all the South the Munger is known as 

THE PERFECT SYSTEM 

Amorg growers the Munger has earned the reputation of giving better samples 
and more profit; of frequently improving sample sufficiently to cover cost of 
ginning Think how this prestige draws trade ! 

Munger System Gin Outfits give choice of Munger, Pratt, Winship, Smith and 
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REPORTS. 

United States Department of Agricul- 
ture, Washington, D,. C. Office 
of the Secretary. Circular 28. 
Th3 Adulteration and Misbranding 
of the Seeds of Alfalfa, Red 
Clover, Orchard Grass and Ken- 
tucky Blue Grass. 

Office of Experiment Station. Ex- 
periment Station Record, Vol. XX, 
No. 6. 

Office of Experiment Stations. Syl- 
labus of Illustrated Lecture on 
the Production and Marketing of 
Eggs and Fowls. 

Office of Experiment Stations. The 
Farmers' Institutes in the United 
States, 1907. 

Bureau of Entomology. Bull. 78. 
Economic Loss to the People of 
the United States through Insects' 
that Carry Disease. 

Bureau of Piant Industry. Bull. 138. 
The Production of Cigar Wrapper 
Tobacco under Shade in the Con- 
necticut Valley. 

Bureau of Plant Industry. Circular 
24. Alfalfa in Cultivated Rows 
for Seed Production in Semi- 
Arid Regions. 

Farmers' Bull. 352. The Nevada 
Mouse Plague. 1907-1908. 
Illinois Experiment Station, Urbana. 
111. Circular 125. The Sheep In- 



dustry from the Market Stand- 
point. 

Circular 126. Food Requirements of 
growing and Fattening Swine. 

Circular 128. Abstract of Proceed- 
ings of Animal Tuberculosis Con- 
ference. 
Maryland Agricultural Quarterly, Col- 
lege Park, Md. Fertilizer analy- 
ses. 
Massachusetts Experiment Station, 
Amherst, Mass. Bull 125. Shade 
Trees. 

Bull. 127. Inspection of Commerci- 
al Fertilizers. 

Bull. 128. Inspection of Commerci- 
ad Feedstuffs. 
New York Experiment Station, Gene- 
va, N. Y. Bull. 305. Alfalfa Trou- 
bles. 

Bull. 306. Sulphur Sprays for Blis- 
ter-mite. 

Bull 310. Directors' Report for 1908. 

Pennsylvania Experiment Station, 
State College, Pa. Bull. 90. Soil 
Fertility. 

South Carolina Experiment Station, 
Clemson College, S. C. Bull. 141. 
Treatment of Plant Diseases and 
injurious Insects in South Caro- 
lina. 

South Dakota Experiment Station, 
Brookings, South Dakota. Bull. 



110. Progress in Variety Tests of 
Oats. 

Tennessee Experiment Station, Knox- 
ville, Tenn. Bull 81. Tick Eradi- 
cation. 
Virginia Weather Service, Rich- 
mond, Va. Report for February, 
1909. 

Virginia Department of Health, Rich- 
mond, Va. Vol. I, No. 8. School 
Hygiene Number. 

West Virginia State Board of Agri- 
culture, Charleston, W. Va. Re- 
port for Quarter Ending Decem- 
ber, 1908. 

Wyoming Experiment Station, Lar- 
amie, Wyoming, 18th Annual Re- 
port. 



Prince Geo. Co., Md., Feb. 22 '09. 
I value the Southern Planter very 
highly and feel that I could not do 
without it and think if Roosevelt real- 
ly wants to "uplift the farmers" he 
could not do better than send the 
Southern Planter to. each one. 

R. H. COCKERILLE. 



Columbiana Co.. O., March 10, '09. 
The Southern Planter is the best 
agricultural paper that money can buy. 
G. C. HUMES. 



568 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[May, 

Seeding Millet and Cowpeas To- 
gether .- 540 

Harrowing Wheat and Oats 542 

Velvet Bean — Teosinte. . . .s. 542 

Seeding Cowpeas 542 

Sweet Clover — Melilotus Alba.... 544 

Meat Rusting 546 

Wood Ashes 546 

Soy Beans vs. Clay Peas 547 

Killing Honeysuckle 547 

Wood Ashes and Hen Manure .... 548 
Dairying in the South — Hen Ma- 
nure — Sheep and Goats — Ducks 
— Chufa — Bermuda Grass, Etc. 548 

White and Yellow Corn 549 

Harvesting Cowpeas 550 

Plants Hybridizing 550 

Mare Sick 550 

Hog Husbandry 551 

Rotation — Red and Crimson Clov- 
ers — Saving Crimson Clover 

Hay — Profit in Horses 552 

Carbide for Whitewash 554 

Nux Vomica for Chickens 555 

Crop Rotation 555 

Cowpeas and Sorghum 556 

Yield of Milk and Butter 558 

Warts on Teat 560 

Liability of County for Death of 

Horse . 562 

Salt — Wood Ashes — Hen Manure 562 

Apple Growing in Virginia 563 

Lame Mare 563 

Fruit Trees to Plant 564 

Sowing Cowpeas in Corn 564 

Replanting Corn 565 

Hog Husbandry 566 



BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS. 

Trip of a College on Wheels. Vir- 
ginia Polytechnic Institute and Nor- 
folk and Western Railway Better 
Farming Special. This is an inter- 
esting account of the recent trip over 
the Norfolk & Western Railway of 
agricultural specialists from the Agri- 
cultural College and Experiment Sta- 
tion from Southwestern Virginia to 
Tidewater. It is issued by the Nor- 
folk & Western Railway Company's 
Agricultural and Industrial Depart- 
ment, Roanoke. 

Armour's Farmers Almanac, 1909. 
A useful and interesting almanac. 

The State Normal and Industrial 
School, Harrisonburg, Va. Prospectus. 
Send for a copy of this and see the 
advantages which are offered to stu- 
dents by this new school, which was 
provided for by the last session of the 
State Legislature, and will be ready 
for work in the fall of this year. 

The Banking and Currency Prob- 
lem in the United States, by Victor 
Moranebz. Published by the North 
American Review Publishing Co., 
Franklin Square, New York. 

The Life and Times of Anne Royall, 
by Sarah Harvey Porter, published by 
the Torch Press, Cedar Rapid, Iowa. 
This gives an account of almost the 
earliest woman journalist of America. 

The Tariff and the Farmer, by S. 



Payson Perry. How it lessens the ex- 
change value of his products. How it 
subjects him to most unfair trade con- 
ditions. The result. Four decades of 
declining agricultural prosperity. Pub- 
lished by S. F. Blanchard & Co., 
Worcester, Mass. 



THE WILLIAMSON FARMS. 

The Williamson Farms, Mattoax, 
Va., have been among the heaviest of 
our new poultry advertisers this 
spring. The proprietor of the farm ad- 
vised us recently that they are going 
very extensively into Rose Comb 
Rhode Island Reds as they are thor- 
oughly convinced that this breed is 
the best all round utility fowl of 
the numerous breeds offered the pub- 
lic to-day. Their breeding pens are 
all headed by noted prize winners, 
some of which were bought at long 
prices. They have about 2,000 chicks 
hatched out already this spring and 
their offering of stock this fall should 
be a most attractive one. 

By way of thoroughly preparing 
themselves to handle this large num- 
ber of fowls they are building three 
or four new, up-to-date new poultry 
houses and in a short time will be able 
to care for orders of any magnitude. 
Look up their advertisement on an- 
other page. 



(Detailed Index.) 
Renting Farms 540 




The American Peanut Harvester. Notice the plow is 
made separate and can be set to run deep or shal- 
low while in motion. 



NOTE. — If you intend to harvest peanuts with ma- 
chinery, plant them in uniform rows not less than 
2% feet apart. "Work well and lay by on a uniform 
ridge, taking- care not to leave bumps in the middle 
of the row. Plant two or three rows parallel to 
fence or ditch for convenience in turning at the end 
of rows. Write at once. 

American Peanut Harvester Corporation, 



The American Peanut Harvester 

The Machine that Does the Work of Seven Men 



This machine is revolutionizing the method of har- 
vesting peanuts. A boy using it can do the work of 
seven men and do it better. It digs, shakes and piles 
the peanuts with one operation. Recent improve- 
ments make it possible to harvest all varieties re- 
gardless of growth of vines. 

We want live agents, and make special introductory 
price on first machine sold in each locality. We also 
make machines for planting 1 and picking peanuts. 

Write for prices and booklet full of valuable in- 
formation about peanut growing. Sent FREE upon 
request. 



PETERS URG, VA. 




Another view. How the peanuts are piled. 



1909.] 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



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THE PLOW FOR YOU 




IS 




THE Wm. J. OLIVER IMPROVED 

BECAUSE 

It is built with the USUAL troubles left out. 

It has all of the good points, but none of the bad 
found in Chilled Plows of to=day. 

SHEDS PERFECTLY 

AND 

EACH PART IS PATENTED 

For further particulars address the Manufacturers. 

AGENTS WANTED 

The Wm. J. Oliver Mfg. Co. 

yt ~^" KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE. 3t-IIVER 





570 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[May, 



FIGHTING THE PESTS OF ORCH- 
ARD. FIELD AND GARDEN 
CROPS. 

At this time of the year, the fruit 
grower, gardener and trucker are be- 
ginning to worry about possible dam- 
age to their crops by insect pests and 
diseases. These pests have greatly 
increased in recent years, keeping 
pace with the rapid development of 
the fruit and trucking industries. A 
conservative estimate is that Virginia 
fruit growers and truckers lose from 
eight to ten millions of dollars a year 
by the attacks of these enemies. But 
most of these injuries can be either 
completely prevented or greatly les- 
sened by prompt measures; the most 
important of these is spraying. Spray- 
ing is not very difficult, or expensive, 
as many people suppose, and hundreds 
of Virginia fruit growers and truckers 
have demonstrated that it pays when 
properly done. 

The State Agricultural Experiment 
Station, at Blacksburg, has just is- 
sued a timely circular on this sub- 
ject. Descriptions, with many illustra- 
tions, are given of all the most com- 
mon injurious insects and diseases 
of fruit, truck, tobacco, potatoes, field 
crops, house plants, and ornamentals, 
with advice on treatment, and a full 
discussion of spraying. Such com- 
mon trouble as the borers, San Jose 
scale, codling moth, fire blight, striped 
cucumber, beetle, rose spot, army 
worm, Hessian fly, grain smut, pota- 



to blight, tobacco wire worm, plant 
lice, etc., are treated in detail. This 
circular may be secured free upon 
application to the State Agricultural 
Experiment Station. Blacksburg, Va. 



JUST A PENNY FOR A POSTAL. 

That is all it costs you to get a 
book of wonderful buggy and harness 
bargains — published by the Columbus 
Carriage & Harness Co. of Columbus, 
Ohio. This book makes you a good 
judge of buggy values and prices, and 
shows how you can save $25.00' to 
$40.00 cash on the cost of a buggy. 
It tells you how they sell buggies of 
every kind — direct to you at lowest 
rock-bottom factory prices — lower than 
most dealers can buy vehicles of even 
lower quality. 

Most of our readers know the high 
quality of Columbus Vehicles — with 
twenty years' experience back of 
them — but the new low factory prices 
are pleasant surprises. So get your 
name in to the Columbus Carriage 
and Harness Co. and see which style 
you would like to try free for a full 
month. Compare your rig with any- 
body else's, and if you are not satis- 
fied — return it and you are nothing 
out. We know that the above com- 
pany is responsible and guarantees 
perfect satisfaction for two full years. 
Deal direct with them and save mid- 
dleman's big profits. See for your- 
self how much you save — by compar- 
ing prices. But get their book — it 



costs only one cent for a postal card — 
and it's worth anywhere from $25.00 
to $40.00 — the money it saves you. 

Address Columbus Carriage & Har- 
ness Co., Station C-90. Columbus, O. . 



WHAT IS AXLE GREASE WORTH? 

Who stops to think that axle grease 
cuts any figure in business economy, 
or that there is a difference between 
grease and grease — some being better, 
others worse? Yet it's a fact that the 
adhesive quality of an axle lubricant 
or its ability to wear, will raise or 
lower the expense account of a great 
city's commerce by a very consider- 
able sum every year. 

If you doubt it, stand for an hour on 
any busy corner and count the truck 
loads of merchandise moving toward 
railway terminals or steamship pier. 
Estimate, if you can, what it would 
mean to each shipper in time and 
team and truck wear if there was a 
little fraction less of friction required 
to move each load. 

Think what an application of Mica 
Axle Grease to the four wheels of 
every dray and truck, large and small, 
would do toward hustling things. 
Why! It would mean dollars — good 
dollars and many dollars — to every 
merchant and manufacturer; because 
"Mica" is the greatest killer of fric- 
tion on wagon axles ever known. 

Any grease is better than no grease, 
but no grease is better than — or as 
good as — "Mica." Probably, if you 



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THe Unit Road MacKine 

Over 600 In Successful Operation Between trie Potomac and tHe Gulf 



COSTS LESS THAN ONE-FIFTH 
as much as the four-wheel machines. 

ONLY ONE MAN AND ONE TEAM 
required to operate. 

DOES THE WORK OF 25 MEN, 
using picks and shovels. 

WORKS WHERE THE HEAVY 
MACHINES ARE IMPRACTICABLE, 
and does as efficient work. 



HAS BEEN FULLY TESTED. 
IS NO EXPERIMENT. 




EXPENSE OF OPERATING BUT 
A FRACTION of that of other 
graders. 

LARGE MACHINES LAID ASIDE 
In favor of the 



UNIT 



indicate the quality of work it la 
capable of doing. 

PAYS FOR ITSELF VS JTEW 
DAYS' WORK. 

ROAD PLOWS, ROLLERS, 
WHEEL AND DRAG SCRAPERS. 



THE CALL- WATT CO., 13 south Fifteenth street, Richmond, Va. 

To reduce our stock of Disc Cultivators, Walking Cultivators, Double Ron Corn 
Planters, Disc Harrows, Empire Grain Drills, Empire Lime, Plaster and Fertilizer Dis- 
tributors, One- and Two-Horse Farm Wagons, we are offering Special Inducements as to 
Prices and Terms this month. Write at once if interested. 



WILL TOUR HARVEST 
BRING FULL VALUE ? 



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It all depends on you — whether you 
make full value a possibility. 

To prepare your soil: — to plant good seed 
and plant it at the right time — to care for 
your fields while the grain is growing, all 
this is vital to farming success. Yon know 
it is vltnl and you use all your Intelligence, 
all your ingenuity, all your energy to do 
things as they should be done. 

How about the harvest? 

That's when the reward comes. That's 
when you transform your season's thought 
and labor and watchfulness into gold. 

Your harvest will bring you full value If 
you are prepared to harvest at the right 
time — just when the grain is ripe — and 
prepared with a machine that will get all 
the grain, whether standing, down or tan- 
gled, without delays, without breakdowns. 
A dependable machine in dependable con- 
dition is a absolute necessity. 

In all walks of life we are guided best 
if guided by known truths. 

It took years of expense, years of vexa- 
tions and worries, for the farmers of the 
world to learn that they could always de- 
pend on the 



Champion 
Deering 



McCormick 
Milwaukee 



Osborne 
Piano 



HARVESTING MACHINES. 

— depend on them for an easy harvest 

— for a quick harvest 

— for a harvest with least labor 

— least expense 

— a full value harvest. 

Need we suggest that you let this known 
truth guide you? Yon don't want to experi- 
ment. You want a machine you know 
will give you a full-value harvest — this 
year and next year and through years to 
come. 

These six dependable harvesting ma- 
chines are manufactured under conditions 
that insure superior quality in every ma- 
chine. This accounts In a large measure 
for their world-wide popularity. 

Buying a machine is not as simple a 
matter as It may seem — a number of things 
must be taken Into sonsideration. You 
should know something about th?. mater- 
ials entering into the construction — some 
thing about the degree of skill In the 
■workmanship — something about the res- 
ponsibility of the company behind the ma- 
chine. 

The Champion, Deering, McCormick, Mil- 
waukee, Osborne and Piano machines are 
equipped with every known improvement 
and mechanical principle that would in any 
way tend to Insure better work In the field. 
The workmanship and materials are the 
best that can be secured. 

This means that if you buy one of these 
machines you will secure one that is made 
to work successfully. 



In building these machines, inventors and 
designers work together for the develop- 
ment and improvement of every principle 
and detail In construction, and hence it 
is possible for this company to offer you 
machines that represent the highest attain- 
ment in both design and construction. 

In other words, when a Champion, Deer- 
ing, McCormick, Milwauvee, Osborne or 
Piano machine is in operation on your 
farm, you can feel assured that it Is going 
to do the work as it should be done. The 
designers work year after year in the field 
studying conditions, and the improvements 
that are being made from time to time 
place these machines In a class by them- 
selves. 

After working a whole year to grow a 
crop, you cannot afford to place your har- 
vest in jeopardy — you cannot afford to put 
yourself in danger of unnecessary delays In 
the harvest field. In other words, you 
should have a machine that can be repaired 
quickly if anything should go wrong. 

If you have one of these binders, there 
will be no occasion for worry, because 
every dealer handling one of these lines 
carries a full stock of repair parts. Under 
ordinary conditions the machine will not 
break or get out of order — for each ma- 
chine is tested and retested under far 
more trying conditions than will ever be 
encountered in the harvest field. 

In the manufacture of these machines, 
the principle of construction is right — the 
materials are right — the workmanship is 
right — but, of course, all these things 
could not be done without an adequate or- 
ganization — facilities to secure the proper 
raw materials and to employ skilled work- 
men and equip the manufacturing plants 
with the most modern facilities for turn- 
ing out the machines. It is the thorough 
work in the selection of the raw materials 
and designing machines and the careful 
construction that lessens your responsibil- 
ity when you go into the harvest field. 
Therefore, it behooves you not to make a 
mistake when you buy your binder. 

Now, while you have the time, get ready 
for a full-value harvest. Call on the dealer 
Ask him for a catalogue of whichever of 
these six tested and proven dependable 
harvesting machines you want. 

If you do not know a dealer near you, 
write to our Chicago office, or any of our 
branch offices, and a dealer's name and 
address will be sept you promptly. 

Second in importance only to a perfect 
machine is perfect binder twine. No better 



and pure manila brands. These twines — 
and repairs that fit for all machines of the 

International line — sold by dealers every- 
where. 



INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER COMPANY OF AMERICA, CHICAGO, U S. A. 

(Incorporated) 




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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[May, 



found opportunity to interview a few 
busy dray drivers they would tell you 
that they know •'Mica" is all right be- 
cause they use it — and if you ask 
further why it's all right, they would 
say. "Oh, it stays on, it wears better 
than any other grease and it makes a 
truck run easy." 

There you have it! It stays on, and 
it makes wheels run easy. No won- 
der more Mica Axle Grease is sold 
than of all other kinds combined. 



THE SFLIT HICKORY BUGGY 
BOOK. 

Get your name in to the Ohio Car- 
riage Mfg. Co. for their Split Hickory 
Buggy Book. It shows 125 styles of 
buggies, surreys, phaetons, etc., and 
many styles of harness. It's the most 
complete buggy book ever issued by 
anybody and shows just how you can 
save from 30 to 50 per cent, on a bug- 
gy. It tells how you can try any 
Split Hickory Vehicle Free for thirty 
days on all the roads in your neighbor- 
hood. It quotes remarkably low prices 
on all buggies sold direct to you from 
their factory and it tells you why 
these prices are so low. Big purchas- 
es of finest grade raw materials at 
panic time when the raw material 
men needed money most. That is why 
the low prices are lower this year 
than ever before. Send in a postal 
card with your name and address on 
it. You'll be mighty glad you spent 



a penny to get this big book. It's 
worth big money to you because it 
shows you how to save big money. 
And it gives information to buggy buy- 
ers that makes it a valuable guide to 
buggy buying. We suggest that you 
get this book before you buy a buggy 
of any kind. Just address a postal 
to Mr. H. C. Phelps, President, Ohio 
Carriage Mfg. Co., Station 294, Col- 
umbus, Ohio. 



A HOME CANNING OUTFIT. 

Growers of fruits and vegetables 
often find themselves with a surplus 
which they cannot sell. The market 
may be overstocked or the prices 
poor, but, whatever be the cause, the 
extra supply must be either unload- 
ed very quickly or represents a total 
loss. 

With the ever-increasing demand 
for canned foods of every description, 
the solution of the question becomes 
very easy indeed. A home canning 
outfit, for taking care of the farm pro- 
ducts that cannot be sold, will prove 
itself a splendid investment in near- 
ly every case. 

Such equipment need not be costly 
or elaborate, and splendid profits are 
assurred. 

A good home canning outfit now on 
the market is the "iStahl." This ma- 
chine is thoroughly well constructed, 
is easily operated, and is reasonable 
'n price. The manufacturers claim 



that no experience is necessary and 
that the directions given are sufficient 
to operate it successfully, the truth of 
which appears to be sustained by the 
fact that thousands of Stahl Outfits 
are in satisfactory service all over 
the country. 

At any rate, canning seems to be 
the most profitable way to dispose of 
surplus farm and garden produce, and 
the F. S. Stahl Mfg. Co.. makers of 
the Stahl Canning Outfits, whose ad- 
dress is Box 357-C, CJuincy, 111., will 
be pleased to send literature and an- 
swer inquiries upon this subject. 



BOOK REVIEW. 
Swine in America — By F. D. Coburn, 
Secretary, Kansas Department of 
Agriculture. Illustrated, 704 pages, 
6x9 inches. Cloth. Price, net, $2.50, 
postpaid. Published by Orange Judd 
Company. New, York. 
A man who breathes optimism in 
every breath, who loves agriculture 
above personal preferment, who stud- 
ies the problems of the farm day and 
night, is F. D. Coburn, of Kansas. He 
stands, to-day, the foremost authority 
on alfalfa. His great book on that 
subject is a guide to every grower 
and a text-book to every student. 
What he had already done for alfalfa, 
Mr. Coburn now has done for swine. 
This vast industry is treated in his 
new work, "Swine in America," in a 
most exhaustive manner. Every phase 



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HENCH $ DROMGOLD 

CORN DRILLS. 

HOOSIER AND SATTERLEEf 

CORN PLANTERS AND WIRE 
CHECK=ROWERS. 

POSTAL US FOR CATALOGUES OR ANY INFOR- 
MATION DESIRED. 

Fairbanks-Morse Gasoline and Kerosene En- 
gines, Wind-Mills, Towers, Tanks, New Holland 
Corn and Cob Mills, Wood Saws, C'wensbora and 
Buckeye Farm Wagons, Hickory and Peters Bug- 
gies and Carriages, Bissell and Genuine Dixie 
Plows and Repairs, J. I. Case Portable and Trac- 
tion Engines, Separators.' 

NEW IDEA MANURE 
SPREADER. 

Ballt like a wagon — Axles same 
lengrth. Tire* 4 Inches wide — Be s t on 
earth. Write for special offer on first 
machine sold In each county of our ter- 
ritory. 

F. C. HOENNIGER & BRO. INC. 

1432 E. MAIN ST., - RICHMOND, VA. 

F. C. HOENNIGER, Pres. & Treas.j 

T. \V. HOENNIGER, V.-Pres. and Mgr.i 

L,. O. BOONE, Secy. 

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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



573 



of hog-raising is considered from a 
practical standpoint, and the latest 
contribution to the science and art of 
handling and managing hogs weighed 
and discussed in this important work, 
to the hour of publication. 

The work is a companion volume 
to "The Book of Alfalfa" in style, 
make-up and treatment. When one 
considers the immense business in- 
volved in the swine industry, he at 
once recognizes the need of a trained 
level-headed spokesman. This man we 
have in this author. We have his 
wide experience, thorough knowl- 
edge and warm sympathy and enthusi- 
asm, all of which is presented in a 
clear, oonvincing, earnest style, the 
power for so doing being a proverbial 
quality and attribute of Mr. Coburn. 
If you have anything at all to do with 
hogs, get this book. 

This volume is handsomely printed 
on fine paper from large, clear type 
and is profusely illustrated, contain- 
ing a large number of magnificent half- 
tone illustrations and drawings, many 
of them full-page plates, which are 
printed on a special plate paper. An- 
other marked feature is the frontis- 
piece, this being an anatomical and 
physiological model of the hog, which 
appears in a book of this character 
for the first time. 

The work contains 704 pages (6x9 
inches), bound in fine silk cloth, gold 
side and back stamping, making one 



of the handsomest and most attractive 
agricultural books ever placed before 
the public, and no one can claim to 
be up to date in swine matters unless 
he possesses a copy. 

We can supply this book at the pub- 
lishers' price. 



DISPERSAL SALE OF GROVE 
FARM GUERNSEYS. 

Attention is invited to the an- 
nouncement of the sale of the Grove 
Farm Guernseys, owned by J. McK. 
Merryman, of Lutherville. Md. This 
should be a splendid opportunity for 
a number of our dairymen to get some 
good cattle at their own prices. Many 
of our readers have seen this herd 
at the State Fairs at Richmond for 
several years. They have always won 
wherever shown. Look up the ad, 
and send for a catalogue. 



MAGAZINES. 



The May Century has fiction a plen- 
ty — the last chapters of Alice Hegan 
Rice's novel, "Mr. Opp," and stories 
in which humor is the dominant note 
by Mary Heaton Vorse, Adeline Knapp 
and W. Albert Hickman — but leading 
place is given to Thomas Nelson 
Page's story, "The Old Flanters," a 
tale of a quaint old hostelry in Vir- 
ginia, and of the quaint old aristocrat 
who played host, and of the guests 
who came and went. 

A wide range of matters much in 



the public mind is covered in the num- 
ber: William M. Ivins, Chairman of 
the New York charter commission, in 
a paper on "Public Service Commis- 
sions," comments on Frederic W. 
Whitridge's paper on "Public Morality 
and Street Railways," in the March 
Century; Christian Brinton gives criti- 
cal estimate of the two great Spanish 
painters whose work is beink shown 
in this country, Sorolla and Zuloaga; 
"The New Basis of Work for the 
Blind'" is discussed by Samuel H. 
Bishop; Daniel Gregory Mason has re- 
corded a conversation on music with 
Ossip Gabrilowitsch; and Cardinal 
Gibbons and Professor Edward Als- 
worth Ross have much of interest to 
say on America's increasing divorce 
rate and its significance. 

There is a graphic account by Ed- 
ward Beecher Bronson of "Big Game 
in E. Africa," based on facts and in- 
cidents of the writer's experience 
while a guest of Mr. William North- 
rup McMillan, the young American 
who is preparing to entertain ex- 
President Roosevelt, at Juja farm, 
near Nairobi, the center of the big 
game country of British East Africa. 

Not the least interesting and impor- 
tant article of the number is the nar- 
rative of how, in less than six years, 
388,000 American farmers have pulled 
up stakes in "the States" and moved 
to free homesteads in the Canadian 
Northwest. That story is told in "The 



Plan for Summer Comfort 

Don't add the heat of a kitchen fire to the sufficient 
discomfort of hot weather. 

Use a New Perfection Wick Blue Flame Oil Cook- 
Stove and cook in comfort. 

With a "New Perfection" Oil Stove the preparation of 
daily meals, or the big weekly "baking," is done without 
raising the temperature perceptibly above that of any other 
room in the house. Another great advantage of the 

NEW PERFECTION 

Wick Blue Flame 00 Cook-Stove 

is its handsome CABINET TOP, which gives it every convenience of the modern steel 

range. Has an ample top shelf for warming plates and keeping cooked food hot, drop 

shelves for holding small cooking utensils, and is even fitted with racks for towels. Made 

in three sizes, and can be had with or without Cabinet Top. If not at your dealer's, 

address our nearest agency. 





The 




—g «•<» ^\ gives perfect combustion whether high or low — is there- 
\J-TfiJJ fore free from disagreeable odor and cannot smoke. 
Safe, convenient, ornamental — the ideal light. If not at 
your dealer's address our nearest agency. 

STANDARD OIL COMPANY 

(Incorporated) 



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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[May, 



Last Treck to the Last Northwest," 
by Agnes C. Laut, author of "The 
Conquest of the Great Northwest," 
who has travelled through all the ter- 
ritory. 

The May St.N'icholas brings the first 
chapters of an important new serial 
feature, for the older girls and boys, 
in Charles H. Caffin's "The Story of 
Dutch Painting." The author explains 
that the tale of how the Dutchman of 
the seventeenth century developed a 
new school of painting is a part of 
the story of the lives and fortunes of 
the Dutch people, and so the story be- 
gins with a brief description of the 
struggle by which the separate prov- 
inces became united into a single na- 
tion, and of bow during the struggle 
by which the separate provinces be- 
came united and the people also found 
time to advance themselves in the arts 
of peace, including that of painting. 

Day Allen Willey treats of a matter 
of wide and growing interest in his 
account of "Public Playgrounds," all 
about what is being done and planned 
by that splendid organization, the 
Playground Association of America, 
which has for the reason of its exist- 
ence: 

The greatest need of American city 
life to-day is some common meeting 
ground for the people where business 
may be forgotten and friendships 
formed. The playground is alreadyi 
the gathering place for the children! 



and it is coming to be so more and 
more for grown-ups. 

But this May number of St. Nichol- 
as is jolly as well as entertainingly 
instructive, with, seemingly, more than 
its usual quota of short stories, jolly 
rhymes and merry pictures. 



Inauguration is over, the tariff is 
being attended to, business is getting 
better and better, and the weather is 
behaving itself beautifully. There-' 
fore, let Melancholy take to the woods. 
We'll have none of her. Even in our 
reading matter let us demand that 
which is pleasurable and optimistic. 
Both of these adjectives, by the way, 
aptly describe the May Lippincott's. 
which is filled from cover to cover 
with an assortment of stories and spe- 
cial articles, jokes and poetry, as va- 
ried as they are entertaining. 

The complete novel, "The Pome- 
granate Seed," by Katharine Metcalf 
Roof, is one of the most delightful 
love stories which have appeared in a 
decade. It is quite probable that the 
marriage of a popular light opera star 
to a well-known novelist, not long ago, 
gave to the author the idea for her 
plot. Her hero, it happens, is an ar- 
tist, her heroine a dainty young singer 
in comic opera. Miss Roof's charac- 
ters are admirably drawn, even the 
minor ones being clear cut and vivid. 
Griselda, the singer, is wholly charm- 
ing, and one doesn't in the least blame 



Stephen for falling in love with her. 
The plot is ably handled and the the- 
atrical atmosphere distinctly good. 
The tale holds the reader's interest 
till the end, despite the fact that "bat- 
tle, murder and sudden death" are con- 
spicuous for their absence. 

The short stories are of a high or- 
der of excellence. Mary Roberta 
Rinehart, author of "The Man in 
Lower Ten" and "The Circular Stair- 
case," contributes a breezily funny 
story called "Lady Godiva at the 
Spring;" Maarten Maartens, a vividly 
powerful character study entitled 
"Mrs. Marsham;" Elsie Singmaster. a 
characteristic tale of the Pennsylvania 
Germans — " 'Thousand Dollar' Dag- 
gett;" and Minna Thomas Antrim, 
"The Eavesdropper," a clever love 
story. "The Departure," . by Ella 
Wheeler Wilcox, is another charming 
bit of fiction. 

Among the special articles is a 
strong paper on "Shall Women Vote?" 
by the brilliant novelist, Ouida, who 
died not long ago. "The Tricks of 
Memory," by William Trowbridge 
Larned, is amusing and entertaining. 
W. B. Blake, Clifford Howard, and 
Ellis O. Jones are the writers repre- 
sented in Lippincott's unique depart- 
ment, "Ways of the Hour." 

Roscoe Gilmore Stott, Alice E. Al- 
len, J. B. E., Cora Walker Hayes, and 
Charles L. O'Donnell have creditable 
verses in this May number. The "fin- 



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National Pneumatic Water Supply 

FOR COUNTRY AND SUBURBAN HOMES. 

Gives all the advantag-es 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 SYSTEM and plumbing equip- 
ment, we furnish plans and specifications and equipment for the 
construction of septic sewer tanks which will dispose of your 
sewage in a most satisfactory manner. 

Send us rough sketch showing location of well and plumb- 
ing fixtures and give depth of well. ' If you have a spring give 
distance from, house, fall from house to spring and fall obtain- 
able in spring, branch, and flow in gallons per minute. State 
how much water required per day, and we will furnish estimate 
of cost free. 

We furnish system in any capacity from 140 gals, up, and 
for the application of any kind of power for pumping. 

Get oar price* on WINDMILLS, 
GASOLINE ENGINES, HOT AIR 
ENGINES, PUMPS OP ALL KINDS, 
AND HYDRAULIC RAMS. IN- 

QUIRE ABOUT OUR BURNSON 
RANGES. WRITE FOR CATALOG. 






GRAHAM I DAVIDSON & 
COMPANY. 

Richmond, - Virginia. 





HERE IS OUR GUARANTEE: 



You purchase a NATIONAL WATER SUPPLY 
SYSTEM, Install it according to directions fur- 
nished by us, operate It for one year, and if at the 
end of that time you are not satisfied in every par- 
ticular, YOU CAN RETURN THE SYSTEM TO US, 
AND WE WILL PAY THE FREIGHT CHARGES, 
AND REFUND TO YOU IN CASH EVERY DOL- 
LAR YOU HAVE PAID US. 



1909.] 



THE SOUTHEKX PLANTER. 



575 



ishing touch" is supplied by '"Walnuts 
and Wine," a sixteen-page humorous 
section. 



Caroline Co., Va., March 9, '09. 
The Southern Plaster is O. K. and 
I always speak a good word for it at 
tevery opportunity. Farmers in gen- 
eral should read its columns careful- 
ly and thereby reap the benefits re- 
sulting from the excellent advice if 
heeded. T. E. JONES. 



! GOVERNMENT ENCOURAGING 
WILLOW CULTURE. 

r Distributes 100,000 Cuttings from 
Washington. 

Washington, March, 19C9.— The 
government is right in the midst of 
the harvest of a most unique crop at 
its experimental farm near Arlington, 
ljust across the Fotomac from this 
city, where a corps of laborers in 
charge of trained foresters are prepar- 
ing for the annual free distribution of 
100,000 basket willow cuttings. 

Uncle Sam is encouraging the grow- 
ing of high-grade willow rods in this 
country, and in the five years since 
the establishment of the holts at Ar- 
lington approximately a half million | 



select cuttings have been distributed 
among Farmers, with directions for 
planting and preparing for market. 
Particular attention is given to select- 
ing the varieties and strains best suit- 
ed to the soil where the plantings 
will be made. 

Willow-craft is an industry which 
is constantly growing in importance 
in this country, yet the culture of 
basket willow in the United States 
made very little progress until five 
or six years ago. Even now, practi- 
cally all of the best grades of basket 
willow are imported from Europe, 
chiefly from France. European manu- 
facturers compete keenly for the best 
products in their countries, and until 
recently only the inferior rods were 
sent to America, where they have 
been bought at three times the prices 
quoted for simiar stock a few years 
ago. Experiments have shown that 
the best grades of willow can be 
grown in this country at a good profit, 
and farmers are turning their at- 
tention to its culture more and more 
each year. 

This year's harvest began early in 
March. Four approved varieties are 
being sent out and only the best and 
most thrifty rods are selected for dis- 



tribution. The management of the 
holts and work of free distribution of 
cuttings is charged to the United 
States Forest Service. Cuttings for 
experimental planting and information 
on management of the willow holts 
are furnished those who make the re- 
quest of the Forester at Washington. 
The government recognizes the im- 
portance of good cuttings, a point 
more commonly overlooked than the 
matter of cultivation. Only the best 
and most thrifty rods are selected for 
each season's distribution. To pro- 
duce a desirable grade of rods, it is 
very important to select planting 
stock not only from thoroughly tested 
varieties, but the cuttings should be 
taken from the tallest, perfectly 
straight, cylindrical, branchless and 
fully mature rods. High-grade basket 
willows can be raised only by being 
sure that the cuttings planted are 
from parent stock above the average. 
The policy of the Forest Service is 
to increase the number of important 
basket willows and determine their 
value under different soil and clim- 
atic conditions, and as the final tests 
of new varieties are completed, those 
proved to be valuable will be added 
to the distribution list. 



LEADING 1909 UP-TO-DATE LABOR SAVING TWENTIETH CENTURY MACHINERY. 




ONE AND TWO-HORSE PLANTER 

PLAIN OR WITH FERTILIZER 

ATTACHMENT. 




The "GENUINE BROWN RIDING 
AND WALKING CULTIVATORS. Write 
for special catalogue and prices. 





PLYMOUTH TWINE. 

Even, Smooth, Strong-, Full Length, 

Every Ball Warranted. 




The CASE Edge and Round Hole 
Drop Corn Planter, superior in points 
of merits to any other sold here. Call 
and see the sample and we will prove 
it. Furnished with Fertilizer attach- 
ment if wanted, also check rower. 
Write for special planter circulars. 



Kemp's Twentieth Century Improved 
Manure Spreader. Made In three sizes 
Write for prices and catalogue. 

Studebaker Buggies, all styles; Stu- 
debaker Carriages; Studebaker Carts; 
Studebaker Runabouts. Special Prices J 
given on Studebaker and Brown Wag- 
ons, Buggies and Carts. 



MILWAUKEE HAY TOOLS AND 
FORKS — All styles. Write for circu- 
lars and prices. 
Champion Binders, Mowers, Rakes, and 
Tedders, all sizes. 
Keystone Hay Loaders and Rakes. 

ANTI-DIRT MILK PAIL. 
First, it prevents dirt, hair and 
other substances from dropping into 
the milk while milking. 

Second, It strains the milk twice 
through two fine strainers while milk- 
ing. 



HENING ® NUCKOLS, 1436-38 E. Main St., Richmond, Va. 



576 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[May, 



Spotless Paint at only 98 cents Per Gallon. 



THIS LARGE TWO 
STORY HOUSE 
PAINTED FOR 

$12.21 



A Large, Two-Story, Ten or 
Twelve Room House like 
this painted with Spotless 
Ready Mixed House Paint, 
two coats, for $12.21. 

This large house, meas- 
uring 23 feet wide by 40 
feet long and 24 feet in 
height will require 
11 gallons for body 
10 gallons at 93 
cents per gallon...? 9 3o 

1 gallon at 97 cents 

per gallon 91 

2 gallons for trim- 
ming at 97 cents 

per gallon 1 94 



$12 21 



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DO YOUR OWN PAINTING 

and buy your paint from us and thereby saving: 910.00 to $20.00 on every building painted. Make your 
house and buildings proof against time. Increase their value and have the handsomest house In your 
section. 

A Large Modern Barn Like This Painted 
with our SPOTLESS WEATHERPROOF 
PAINT, two coats, for $8.45. 

This large barn, measuring 30 feet wide by 
50 feet long and 22 feet in height, will re- 
quire — 
12 gallons for body, 10 gallons at 69 

cents per gallon $'• 90 

2 gallons at 64 cents per gallon 1 28 

2 gallons for trimming, at 64 cents per 

gallon 1 28 

$8 46 
of our Spotless Weatherproof Mineral Barm, 
Roof and Fence Paint, the most durable 
mineral paint made. Guaranteed to wear five 
years. 

We sell $1.50 Paint at 97 cents per gallon, 
or as low as 84 cents per gallon in larger 
quantities. It Is as good paint as the kind 
you pay your dealer $1.50 per gallon for. 

OUR FREE TRIAL PLAN. We make every 
shipment under our binding guarantee that 
you may open and use any three gallons of 
paint you wish, putting it to the hardest test, 
and If you find that we have not shipped 
you a paint of at, high quality as you can 

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 nor 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 you will write us the dimensions of the building you want to paint we will tell you the amount of 

paint necessary to cover It properly. m ^ 

SEND FOR OUR FREE CATALOGUE AND COLOR CARD TO-DAY. 



;£5$h>^^ 






LABOR SAVING IMPLEMENTS AND MACHINERY. 

FOR SAI.H BY 

THE WATT PLOW CO., Richmond, Va. 








The John Deere 
S Riding Plows 
Excel all others, 
in light draft 
and good work. 



Deere 
Hawk 2 
Planter 
Tilting 
pers. Have 
parts and 
working 
than any 
Seed plauss 
be remove-] with- 
out taking corn 
out of box. Fur- 
nished with or 
without fertilizer 
attachments. 





We have the cel- 
ebrated Deere 
and Johnston's 
Disc Harrows 
which are made 
to do the work. 




The Deere Uni- 
versal spike tooth 
harrow is strong, 
flexible and Awt- 
able. Has a Ice 
which is prov ded 
with a spring trip 
which preserves 
the teeth when 
using harrow in 
stony or rooty 
ground. 





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«J«M> 



tio. 24 Deere 
Riding Disc 

Cultivator. 

Another suc- 
cessful tool of 
Jur own manu- 
facture. Built 
on such princi- 
ples as to over- 
come all opposi- 
tion to tools of 
this class. Its 
wide range of 
adjustments, pe- 
culiar to the 
Deere Disc Cul- 
tivator alone, 
adapts it to all 
classes of farm 
cultivation. 



Agents for I he 
Deere and Black 

Hawk Planters. 
The only success- 
ful edge drop 
planters on the 
market. Furnlsn- 
^d with or wrh- 
r>ut fercillzer at- 
tachment. Write 

us for special 

booklet called 
More Corn." Ev- 
ery farmer who 
plants corn 
should have It. 

It Is free. 




K. A. Pivot Axle 
Cultivator. 

A general pur- 
pose cultivator, 
adapted for a 
very wide range 
of work, such as 
corn, potatoes, 
tobacco, cotton, 
beans, cabbage, 
peanuts and 

general truck 

farming. 

Equipped with 
jpivot wheels for 
f work on hill- 
sides and In Ir- 
regular 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 

can 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 East Main St. 1438 East Franklin St. 



ANOTHER ItKC'UHD BREAKING YEAR FOR THE 

NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. 

GROWTH OF COMPANY. 

New Business Paid For. (Not Including Additions.) 

1904 Largest Year in Previous History of the Company * 73,870,037 00 

1905 Largest Year in Previous History of the Companv 90,334,O3S 0« 

1906 Largest Year in Previous History of the Company »3.HM5,273 00 

1907 Largest Year in Previous History of the Companv 102,242,280 oo 

1908 Largest Year in Previous History of the Company 100,773,709 00 

Sl'RPli:s ACCOUNT DECEMBER 31, 1908. ' 

Dividends apportioned for payment in 1909. * 11,109,411 5« 

Deferred Dividends on policies maturing after 1909 10,847,000 00 

Total Future (assigned) Dividends $ 28,040,411 50 

Unasslgned Surplus 4,405,046 40 

Total Surplus Funds (on basis of values furnished by New York and Massachusetts Ins. Depts.).,$ 32,512,057 90 

. 7. ARCHIBALD GARY, • 

General Ageiit for Virginia and North Carolina, 001 Mntnal Assurance Society Building, RICHMOND, VA. 

— __————__»_——__ ________ ______ _______ ___________ _______________________ _____—— —— 

- - Corrugated V- Crimp Roofing - - 

painted and galvanized 
"Bestoid" Rujbber Roofing 




BALDWIN & BROWN. 



Carey's Magnesia Cement Roofing 

Z 

Tarred Paper, Tin Plate, Lime, Ce- 
ment, Hardware, Terra Cotta Pipe, 
Wirfe Fence, Drain Tile, etc. 

SEND FOR CATALOGUE ~**, 

1557 E. MAIN ST., RICHMOND, VA. 



THE LITTLE SAMSON PEANUT PICI1ER 

AND GRAIN THRSHER COMBINED 




The above machine can be bought as a Peanut Picker and at a small additional cost the Grain Threshing 
Attachments can be secured, wkii-h will enable the same machine to thresh Grain; or we can furnish a straight 
grain machine for grain only. 

Simplest, lightest and most durable machine on the market, and sold at reasonable prices. Furnished 
either mounted or unmounted. Write for prices. Also see our advertisement on another page of our Little 
Samson Vertical Engine with Pickering Governor. 



STRATTON ®. BRAGG CO., 



Petersburg, Virginia.