FARMERS’ EXCHANGE.
White Rock Eggs and Cockerels for sale. Mrs.
G. H. Banks, Forest, Miss.
Cowpeas wanted—200 bu., state kind and price.
Coon Bros., Tallulah, La.
Barred Rocks Eggs, $2.00 per 15. J. A. Savage,
Ackerman, Miss.
I have some special bargains in Delta Lands
Write me. W. T. Pitts, Indianola, Miss.
Poland China Pigs, 2 mo. old, $10 each. Subject
to registration. Arthur Weeks, Sallis, Miss
Fine Single Comb Brown Leghorn Hens. $12.
perdoz. A F. Tuggle. Bush Cieek. Tenn.
Cooks Cotton Seed, from private gin. $1 00 per
bushel. W. H. Lovelace, Agent Marion, Alabama.
Indian Runner Ducks and Toulouse Geese Eggs
for sale. Fred R. Ziller. 2305 6th street. Meridian.
Miss.
Two fine Jacks near 14 1-2 and 16 hands, ages 8
and 3, at a bargain. Address, J. D. Childers, Falk
ner. Miss.
Wanted—An experienced poultryman to manage
the business in desirable location. Box 80, Semi
nary, Miss.
Wanted—A first-class Jersey Milch Cow with
young calf. No other need answer. W. T. Pitts,
Indianola, Miss.
Pure bred S C R. I. Red Eggs, $1 00 for 16. Also
choice Dahlia Bulbs, 10c each. Miss Ada Cox,
Starkville, Miss.
Plymouth Rock and Rhode Island Red Eggs,
11.00, $2.00 and $3.00 for setting. J. W. Beeson.
Mendian, Miss.
Buff Orpington Eggs from Carefully selected
stock, 16 Eggs for $1.60. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Mrs. J. O. Lanfair, Durant, Miss.
Eggs from fine Buff Rocks. Langshan. Brown
Leghorn, at $1.00 and $2.00 setting. Write Mrs.
Rosa Collins, Crews Depot, Ala.
Barred Rock, White Wyandotte, and Buff Leg
horn Eggs. $1.00 per 16; $5.00 per 100. Finest
strains Stock for sale. Mrs. R. M. May. Ham
burg, Miss.
Wanted-One Percheron Mare weighing r.ot less
than 1,200 lbs, not over 7 years old. must be sound
and work anywhere. H. N. McGaughey, Nettle
ton, Miss.
Highland seed rice at #2. Nancy Hall, the
Boest, and Triumph, the most prolific, sweet
potatoc* *t $1 per bushel. Thos. H. Hewes.
Oscar, La.
Dixie White Plymouth Rories th» _
of the Rock family, heavy layers, quick growers,
and vigorous Eggs *3.00 per 15. *6.00per30. C.
A. St&ncill, Berclair. Miss.
100 bushels genuine Mexican June Com Seed
from Mexico last year. Guaranteed pure; and fine
Price, *2.00 per bushel. Also 4 White Hol
'•nd Toms, year old, and fine. Price, *3.50 each.
F. O. B. Shuqualak. C. S. Field, Calyx, Mias.
A-l Delta Farm. 120 acres-60 in cultivation and
deadening, balance woodland. Half mile railroad
station. Three tenant houses. Price, *2.600.00
Terms: *500.00 cash, balance *600.00 per annum,
6. P^.cer,t int*re*t- Writ* W. T.
Pitts, Indianola. Miss.
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HOW MUCH FERTILIZER SHOULD WE USE?
One of the Questions That Can Only He Answered From an Inti
mate Acquaintance With the Soil—Fertilizers Give largest Pro
fits on Good Land.
LHE QUANTITY of commercial
fertilizer which it will be most
profitable to use on any par
ticular soil or crop, cannot be defi
nitely stated. Soil, moisture and crop
conditions all combine to make it a
complicated question and tbe fact
that some of these cannot be known
at the time of applying the fertilizers
adds to the difficulty of the problem.
In the first place, no soil or fer
tilizer is stronger than the weakest
plant food present as related to the
needs of the plant In other words,
no matter how much of all the other
plant foods there may be present, if
one essential is deficient, a maximum
crop will not be produced. Moreover,
no matter how much Diant food may
be applied, if the soil cannot hold
sufficient water to dissolve it and
supply the needs of the plant for
moisture in periods of dry weather,
the plant will suffer. As a rule, the
greater the quantity of organic mat
ter, humus, in the soil, the larger
amount of commercial fertiliser that
may be profitably used, up to a cer
tain point. Any practical farmer
knows that he Is more likely to ob
tain good returns from 600 pounds
of commercial fertilizers on good
land than from 200 or 300 pounds on
poor land deficient in humus. These
results are largely the result of dif
ferences in the physical and moisture
conditions of the soil. On the other
hand some crops respond better to
commercial fertilizers than do others.
Corn, for instance, is a humus and
nitrogen-loving plant, and responds
feebly to commercial fertilizers on a
poor, dry soil. In fact, some go so
far as to state that it does not pay
to put commercial fertilizers under
corn. This is perhaps true with ref
erence to more than 200 pounds on
dry uplands, deficient in humus; but
does rot apply to applications of
phosphoric acid, and on many soils
to potash, on lands well filled with
humus and organic forms of nitro
gen. Cotton, on the other hand, re
sponds well to coraemrcial fertilizers
on practically all lands, probably be
cause it Is a longer growing and bet
ter dry weather plant than corn. But
even with cotton, largo applications
of commercial fertilizers yield the
' best profit on soils well filled with
humus.
remaps, on average land*, rrom
200 pounds to 400 pound* of com
mercial fertilisers under corn, and
from 400 to 600 pounds under cot
ton is the safest for the general farm
er, but some And it profitable to u»e
even more. For special crop*, yield
ing large gross money return* per
acre, larger quantities are generally
profitable, in some instances as large
as from 1,000 pounds to 3.000
pounds per acre; but these large
quantities should only be used when
experience or tests show that they
Pay.
THE BEST FERTILIZER IN THE WORLD.
It is That Made bj Uye Stock Property Fed and Cared For_
How to Make and Save It, and Why It U Heat.
By A. L. French.
*|=0 HE GENTLEMEN down at the
%l<j office have hinted that they
•“=—1 would be pleased to have me
write something about “the best fer
tilizer.” I can't do the subject jus
tice, and will not be guilty of butch
ering It. For do you know what I
I believe is the best fertilizer that was
ever spread over a piece of land? It
is a broad-gauged man with an active
brain, having an understanding
large enough and a heart big enough
to take in the full meaning of this
gift of soil, handed down from the
Creator; a man possessing "bull dog”
grit, who doesn’t know the meaning
of the expression "give up;” one to
whom to know how, is to do, and
with all having business ability and
judgment sufficient to enable him to
know the difference between "that
which scattereth yet increasetb," and
that which simply scattereth.
Spread a fertilizer of this sort over
- r9 "v.Mi vivixv* v i ui| auu ill a
few years It will take on beauty, will
"blossom like the rose,” and be a
lesson to all who see as to how a
wise, good, man handles God’s soil.
So let us leave this best fertilizer
for others to handle and turn dur at
tention for a time to the subject of
stable manure, which all my read
ers will pardon me, if I name the
second best fertilizer. We will place
this fertilizer ahead of all commer
cial sorts because of the fact that
no country of which we have read—
except some small ones that have
been enriched by washings from adja
cent soils - has ever been able to get
along and keep up the fertility of
its soils without the use of this pro
duct of the stock farm, while we
know of vast areas that have been
farmed for hundreds of years and
that are apparently as rich as when
handed to man from the hand of the
Creator that have never heard of
commercial fertilizer*. Uut you will
say at once: "Hasn't our system of
farming in the South u*ed up the
phosphorus and potash originally in
the soils?" Do you really belli v<
this when you come to look at it
candidly. Do you believe for a min
ute that God ever made a soil that
could be robbed completely of lt>
mineral elements In 75 years by «
man with a one-horse plow? I don’t
This fellow has been running
around doing what damage he could
and when he had gone about so far
Nature locked up her supply of min
eral fertilizer, put the key |n het
pocket and will hand it back only tc
the wise farmer who will deal fair!)
with the soil by the use of the big
plow, stable manure and other hu
mus makers. Possibly I am wrong
in this, but I have been studying
these problems pretty closely for bet
«.«rr man years and have nevei
seen an unproductive, so-called worn
out piece of land, that when filled
with humus, would not produce pay
Ing crops, and I give it hh my earn
did opinion that I may continue tc
handle our farm as it is being hand
led—growing a large acreage of leg
umes each year, selling practical!;
nothing except such products ai
walk away—for twenty years yet
Then my son may handle it In the
same manner for forty years with
out the use of commercial fertlllzeri
and his children will find It a fai
more productive farm than It is to
day.
Hut this will not be the case If thli
rich stable manure—made from leg
ume hay and grain—be allowed tc
lay about a big muddy barn-lot, the
cattle tramping it into the mud. then
the rains washing It Into the creeks.
Neither must it be thrown out In
large, loose piles, because there Is no
other work for the hands to do on
rainy days, to flre-fang and throw
off the greater part of Its content of
ammonia. Neither must the cattle
be allowed to stand In the sheds
without sufficient dry bedding to ab
sorb the liquid fertilisers.
When the land la dry we love to
feed the cattle right out on the sod
fields, selecting feeding places on the
poorer spot*. Then we know the fer
tiliser is not being wanted but la go
ing right direct to the spot where
needed at no expense for hauling.
Our cattle are never allowed to stand
around In a barn-lot. They are either
in the sheds or out in the sod flelda
Hogs are never fed in a dirty mud
hole but out in the flelda And I
don't recall a better way to enrich
a field than to sow it in clover and
fatten a large bunch of hogs on It
Tl>« m « « I «t\ ti 9 I k n I mv tv r n . a • •*
the minimum of expense.
The writer expect* to continue to
Improve land a* long as he lives and
expect* to do It largely through the
use of legume*, live stocks, and good
cultivation in all It* branches.
Napoleon's maxim, that Providence
was always on the side of the heav
lest artillery In war. could be chang
ed In farming matters, to be on the
sld# of the moot manure.—-D P.
McKachem.
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