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The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-17
VULCAN FUND NOW
 OVER S4OOO MARK
LESS THAN 5000 TO BE RAISED. COMMITTEE MAKES AN APPEAL TO THE PUBLIC-SUBSCRI TONS ARE LIBERAL.

Yesterday the fund for the Vulcan statue increased from $2720 to s4062. leav- ing not quite 5000 yet necessary for the Commercial club to secure before next Wednesday at noon. The special com mittee appointed by President T. H. Mol ton of the club, held a meeting yesterday morning and it was decided to make a canvass of the business section for sub scriptions to the fund with the above result.
 This committee has issued the follow ing appeal to the Birmingham public
 "There is an overwhelming sentiment in this community in favor of retaining Vulcan as the property of the community and erecting him as a public monument This sentiment Is based upon a proper appreciation of the good derived from the exhibition of the statue at St. Louis and from the desire to add an impressive ornament to the city. If this public sentiment is to be met 1t will he neces- sary for the public to respond in prac- tleal way The subscriptions pledged now approximate $4000 Unless the re- maining s1000 is subscribed by noon' De- cember 20, the statue will become in ef- feet the property of an individual citi- zen. Birmingham ought not and will not fail, in our opinion, to meet this ex- igeney, as 1t has met all that have arisen in her career.
 Send in your subscriptions to any of the daily newspapers or to Joseph B. Babb, secretary of the Commercial club. Be prompt. Be patriotic. "RUFUS N. RHODES. ROBERT JEMISON.
 "J A. VAN LOOSE. IF M. JACKSON. IF. W. DIXON. "J. W. MCQUEEN. U. B. GIBSON. e D. EBERSOLE. JOHN w. STAGG. "G. H. MALLORY. JOSEPH B. BABE"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-17
Reasons Are Given.

nCd5OnS HfC oiNcHs
 In speaking of the matter yesterday Newell Sanders, one of the largest con cumers of iron in this city, talked inter- estingly of the proposed third furnace and gave few reasons why it will come here in the near future
 Chattanooga foundries are now consum- ing more iron than ever before in the history of the city and the Citlco fur mace is supplying about one-third of the amount consumed. When the Chattanooga furnace Is blown in early in the spring about two-thirds of the iron used in Chat tanooga will be manufactured by local furnaces. The remaining third will then be imported into this district from the Birmingham district and local foundrles will have to pay more for the iron brought from Birmingham than they would for the local product This Is caused by freight rates, for as a matter of fact Chatta- nooga No. foundry, can be purchased cheaper here than the same grade in Bir- mingham.
 All furnaces make different grades of iron It is often the case that a furnace will have poor run of iron and in such cases the product is invariably sent to rolling mills or other places where the demand is not so great for the better quality of material. The product or the local furnace Is said to compare favora- bly, with that of other districts and Chat tanooga foundrymen have no cause to lob- ject to the uuality of the product. The local product Is not near enough to supply the demand, however, and Chattanooga consumers are forced to pay higher rates when 1t is shipped here from distance
 It Is said that all the Citco iron Is sold here several months previous to the time that 1t Is delivered, except the poor CT grades which are shipped away. The remainder of the local supply comes rom the furnaces at Rising Pawn, Battelle, Gadsden and other places in the Birming- ham district.
 The local price of Iron is now sl5 per ton for the No foundry. The same grade of iron is quoted on the Birming- ham markets at s14.50 although the fur naces there are getting a slightly better price than that for their product. It Is said that the price of this grade Of iron is always about 30 cents higher in Chat tanooga than 1t is in Birmingham. This Is caused by the fact that there are forty or fifty furnaces In the Birmingham dis trict which are controlled by five or six different companies and the competition Is therefore much greater thai IL oNef has been or ever will be for some time Tn the Chattanooga district.
 MT. Sanders ventures the statement that the difference in the price of iron in ~nat- tanooga and Birmingham would more than pay the interest on the money used in building an up-to-date furnace An in crease of 50 cents on each ton would make large difference in the amount derived from the furnaces output and at the same time the iron would cost local con sumers a great deal less than when they buy 1t in Birmingham and pay freight charges for the same to this city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-17

And see how much better you can do with our clothing. We stand back of everything we sell. Varley & Bauman. 1924 First Ave.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-17

Whitman's fine can d ies are the best. --Patton-Pope Drug O., N, West oer. 2Oth St. and 3rd Ave.
The Florida agriculturist., 1905-11-08
THE FLORIDA AGRICULTURIST.

that they are the owners, for the inn
pOrtance of proprietOrship does much
for the child even while quite young.
You are to be only the teacher and
guide, and only as you shall come to
a good understanding of the lesson
yourself, shall you be ''apt to teach"
That father or mother who shall
thus cooperate in the development of
son or daughter, will find less time to
spend themselves i'm questionable COM
pany and places, and thus become a
better father mother, citizen; and find
in the end not alone that you have
reared a worthy representative of the
human race. but that while educating
your children you have gained much
of useful information for yourself, for
no man or woman can fit themselves
to rightly teach without themselves
being very thoroughly taught.
Do | hear some one say that they
have no room for chickens? There is
scarcely the smallest city yard where
at least few of the diminutive little
Cochin BantamS may not be kept
profitably and well, for they require
but little space, do not fret or worry
over cOnfinment where kept strictly
clean; they are wonderfully tame and
interesting little pets where carefully
bred and find ready sale at very
profitable prices, and at the same
time yield a lot of very good eggs
which are large indeed in proportion
to the little hens which produce them.
If i'm the production of this article
I shall induce so much as one house
hold to adopt the suggestions herein
laid down. / am sure that my writing
shall not be alone seasonable but prof
liable as well; yea. the very highest
of all profit, that which shall minister
to the uplift of another
The Florida agriculturist., 1905-11-08
Poultry Notes.

Damp floors are productive of dis
ease.
\ sole diet of corn produces too
much fat.
Warm sweet milk is one of the best
tOnicS for sick fowls.
The nests must be renewed Occa-
siOnally and kept clean.
Fowls having a free run find their
own feather making food.
\ good way to feed lime is in the
form of IL raw crushed bones.
Fresh eggs are more transparent at
the center. old ones at the top.
Treatment of diseases of fowls must
begin with the first symptoms.
Provide dusting boxes and keep
them well filled with loose dirt
The Florida agriculturist., 1905-11-08
"Perhaps," Maybe.

Do you lose your chicks from no
reason that you can see? If so you
have plenty of company. A prominent
poultryman writes to the Poultry
Standard as follows:
In the July number of The Poultry
Standard / read an article by c.. III.
Ward relative to losses of little chicks.
Bro. Wards expression as to the
cause that ''they just died, that's alI''
hits the case exactly and while he and
all others afflicted have my most
earnest sympathy | feel much cheered
that | have companions in misery,
that there are still Others This sea-
son my records show that l hatched
945 chicks and after four or five
months of the most painstaking care
and labor | find that 40 per cent are
mon est gone where the wOOdbine
twlneh not simply memories"
''they just died that's all'' some say
perhaps its this, others maybe so and
SO and L think its because, but who
knows? One old lady of my acquaint-
ance says, why don't somebody
know? search me. Authorities (sup-
posed to be) claim its the weather.
perhaps, but not a positive word or
statement even then. Perhaps and
maybe. Words easy spoken and they
mean a great deal. Yea, perhaps.
One wag claims that the Beef Trust
has purchased the Sun for a cold
storage plant, which accounts for
these strange atmospheric disturb
anceS so out of season. Maybe so.
perhaps. But then there are causes
eXplainable and no perhaps about it,
with preventatives ready at hand.
Only today 1 had an experience with
a most apparent cause and an almost
immediate preventive applied A
big five pound Buff Rock cockerel,
lone | was getting ready for Danbury
Fair to beat Wilson and Menzies with)
got into my pig pen and his funeral
wasn't tomorrow, it was right then
and there. That pig pen now is cover
ed q was going to say air tight with
chicken wire from stem to stern. Now
L know not perhaps, what killed that
chicken But those just died kind,
I'm positive, dead sure, so was the
chicken, lucky thing for Wilson,.
again L say, search me. 1 dissected
many that died and was not much
enlightened as to cause, simply this,
that condition of organs showed in
action, intestines stopped or clogged
and lining of gizzard dried and dead
looking. l changed feeds and worked
The Florida agriculturist., 1905-11-08

We shall be much obliged to the
writer of the question about sOrehead
in the paper of October 25, will send
her address again. We sent the
original letter to the printing Office
and did not keep copy of the address
and now would like to have it.
The Florida agriculturist., 1905-11-08
Chickens and Children.

combination? 1t is a pity that it is
not more common. 1t would go
long ways toward solving the old
problem how to keep the boys on the
farm. There is no anchor that will
hold so well as the ownership of some
livestock Begin with chickens and
add to the list as the boy gets older,
but do not make the very common but
unfortunate mistake of selling any of
the boys stock and putting the cash
in your own pocket. That will drive
him away sooner than almost any
thing else. The following is from the
Successful Poultry Journal:
| am asked to write something sea-
sOnable for Successful Poultry Jour
nal, and wonder if there be a more
seasonable topic which l might dis
cuss at this growing season of the
year, when every animate thing seems
to be permeated with the idea of
growth and development; than to
write i'm some way for the develop
ment not alone of the poultry hobby
at the same time for the development
of the more important members of
your household, your children
l am well aware that in very many
homes the children are not accorded
any such high place in the family, but
if you are to do your full duty as
parents by these whom God has given
you the privilege to train and educate,
then the succeeding generation is to be
at least a little more noble than the
present, and if that is to be true, then
for the good of the following genera
ton which they are to train in turn,
the very highest place is none too
high, and the more perfectly we shall
be able to round out every side of the
child life, the more perfectly we shall
fit them to take their place and meet
the sterner duties which shall come to
them a little later on, just a little in
advance of the point where we shall
leave them off.
The writer has spent much time in
the study of child development and
we are very sure you will in no other
way so surely and so fully minister
to the best development of the very
best side of your children. be they
either boys or girls, than by placing
them in charge of the ownership and
the consequent responsibility and care
of some animal creature, and of all
living things there are none more
interesting or profitable than fowls.
Give your boy or girl pair or trio
of well bred fowls, and please don't
make the mistake of giving them Just
common scrubs, rather buy the very
best you can afford, yea strain a point
on that side. Teach them the superior
value of these over the cOmmOner sort,
get them a copy of the Standard of
Perfection, study it yourself, teach the
children the intelligent use of it, teach
them the science of breeding for the
development of certain desirable quail
ties, help them as far as it be practi-
cable to be independent and to make
their own cOOps, houses and utensils.
help them to understand the art and
necessity of advertising in order that
they may realize the best return from
the sale of stock and eggs Empha-
size especially the necessity of good
order and cleanliness, and in their
dealing with others the prime neces-
sity of the use of the golden rule and
be sure in it all that you remember
The Florida agriculturist., 1905-11-08

of water and weather, hence my con-
cluSiOn although not positive except
i'm the case of the ducklingS. 1 ex-
amined the inteStineS of the ducklingS
and found them much inf1amed with
giZZard lining dried up and peeling off
like dead bark. similar to the con-
ditiOn of the little chicks, which could
be caused by inactiOn or indigestion
brought on by sudden chill. Natur-
ally my investigations thus far have
been quite limited and very imperfect,
but it's a point to think of and to
investigate.
Changing feeds brought no results,
changing lOca tons of brOOders and
coops had no apparent effect, observ-
ing all known methods of disinfectiOn
and cleanliness did not prevent the
of doubt and perplexity that hangs
over these chicks lust died that's
ALL
It's now too late to prove or dis
feel that there is a rift in this cloud
trouble; | have arrived at the water
problem and we shall see, what we
shall see. The ducklings are surely
waxing strong on the warm water
trea tment (by warm water, l mean
with just the chill taken Off and L
prove our suspicious for this season
as weather and water are again near
ing the same temperature, but | deem
il wise for 1--WE uns'' to jOt this notion
down i'm our experience book for
next seasons perusal and investiga-
tiOnS
Then maybe, perhaps, these per-
hap's and maybe's may be facts.
Yours. for further investigation,
that's ALL
w. HI. Card
In a later number of the Poultry
Standard Mr.. Ward answers the
above as follows:
Or Maybe Perhaps"
In August issue, Bro. Card refer to
my article in July issue regarding
little chicks ''just dying" and offers
an interesting solution of the trouble
in his warm water treatment. There
maybe" considerable reason in this.
The water direct from a spring well
is cold and chicks are thirsty in the
early morning and drink quite hearth
ly. In cold weather of early spring
warm the water, but later on
thought nothing of it
Possibly c'perhaps'O herein lies my
difficulty. | shall certainly make a
point of warming the water of all
chicks another season and note re-
suits.
| feel a brOtherly feeling toward
Friend Card, as our names, as the
Irishman says ere the same only
different. Do you solve the rebus-C.
II. Ward VS.. w. II. Card? l might
claim distant relationship, as Adam
was our mutual ancestor. At any
rate, we have both been breeding
chickens long enough to know more
about the cause of bowel trouble, pip,
gapes and ''just dying" than we do.
| suppose Bro. Cards reason for not
knowing more is the same as mine,
hot having enough of such trouble in
the past to warrant a closer study of
the matter.
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1905-02-16
FLORIDA CATTLE.

There is no denying the fact that
Florida is as welllfitted to produce beef
battle as any section Of the United
States The climate is favorable to
the growth Of cattle out Of doors the
year round, while in the colder por-
lions the stock has to be housed in the
mid-winter season.
The growing Of forage crops in this
State is not attended with as much L..
Dor as in the countries where much
OF the beef cattle are now produced
The fodder problem is not difficult
one, and the study Of this part Of pro-
ducing cattle hes shown that the beg.
gar weed and the velvet bean are equal
to the best forage the Northern stock
men have.
One other point Of great importance
is che infusion OF the best breeds Of
beef cattle. The sooner this il done
the sooner we can produce the best
quality Of meats
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1905-02-16
FLORIDA PRESS.

The annual meeting of the Florida
State Press Association will be held at
Lake City, March %, % and "a, 1905,
and program of much interest has
been prepared, The meeting will as
semble at 1880 p. m. OF March p,
prayer being offered by Rev. J. B Ley
Of The Christian Advocate, Live Oak.
The address of welcome will be de-
livered by Hon. Guy Gillen, State Sem
ator from the Fourteenth district, and
the response by G. L. Bittinger of The
Ocala Star.
President Tom MeBeath of this city
will deliver the annual address.
The other portions of the program
that will be of more than ordinary in
terest to the public will be as follows
What should constitute newspa-
per libel9"
The Importance Of the State Fair
to the agricultural interests of the
State"
where and why the public school
system has proven failure"
Free advertising that should be
paid for"
The duty Of the newspaper to the
home"
The primary law and political
graft"
Secretary Appleysrd will have every
thing in order for big time.
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1905-02-16
THE FIRST YEAR.

The first year Of the war between
Russia and Japan has ended and al
most from start to finish OF that year
the record of Russian arms has been
one OF disaster. Driven out step by
step from the disputed territory, with
the land ii sought to hold in the pos
session OF the, enemy beFeft OF power
on the sea, and with prospects any
thing but bright on land, the position
Of Russia furnishes an impressive COM
mentsry on the unpreparedness OF the
nation, just as it does on the efficiency
OF the Japanese, whose every move has
been marked with determination and
clearness OF purpose which betokened
success. The unfaltering courage Of
the armies and their commanders has
furnished the only bright spot in the
Russian campaign, but has emphasized
the utter lack Of a concerted plan Of
action.
What the future may have in store
time alone will reveal but, viewed
from the most hopeful standpoint,
there is little in the situation encouF-
aging for Russia, as there are those
ready to grasp for control as soon as
the present Emperor gives way.
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1905-02-16

In the United States Court for the
Southern District of Florida, in session
at Tampa, several Savannah, Ga, cigar
dealers are in trouble. They bought
cigars that the wiley Cubans made
them believe we're smuggled, and be-
cause the boxes bore no United States
revenue stamps the COOLERS" thought
they were getting the real thing, and
now have to answer so the charge Of
smuggling. Il lie an old game, prac-
ticed in Key West, Tampa and else
where.
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1905-02-16

At the New York State Assembly OF
Mothers. a prominent New York doctor
fold the 800 women present thathealthy
American women were so rare as to be
almost extinct.
This seems to be a sweeping state
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some trouble arising from a derange-
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For thirty years it has been curing
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Such testimony as the following
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Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1905-02-16
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Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1905-02-16
THE slsLE CONFERENCE.

The interest IN the Bible Conference
"a this city continues with as much en-
thusiasm as could be expected, and 10
exceeds that Of year ago. Ga Satur-
day night, when a large attendance
would hardly be expected, the large
Tabernacle was well filled with an at
tentive audiences,
On Sunday evening the Tabernacle
was again dllcd and the services were
marked wish expressions Of approval
Of The earnest words Of the Rev Dr.
John Tjgcrt. Dr StrOusc expressed
his saiisiacti on, both for the able dis
courses SO Tar presented and effort
made by ths people Of Gainesville 20
be prcsent. az we'll as those who are
hers from abroad 10 attend che meet
mss
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1905-02-16

Tire parade by J G. Lewis 81 Plank.
ard troupe vas made 90 thc rain aud
through muddy streets Monday
evening. SET our friend Lewis seemed
bsppy aud VAS fmil.pg au thc time.
Hr had bic old clothes on--his working
cloltes Blt Nheu be gets through
Eafk he drsnei iutle latesiaui wears
diamonds Anyone eiu wear dia.
monls 10 ibel VIII oniy see duun and
work al the pfgper iime
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1905-02-16

The Marion County Democratic Tx
ecutive Committee has declared SEN
ator Browns seat in the State Senate
TO be vacant. But that does not make
il so. The matter will have to be de-
cided by other authority than the
committee from Marion and Sumter
counties-until Senator Brown lays
claim TO a residence in some other
county than Marion.