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The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-30
The Peach. E. c. Crampton. Ridgeland, Miss, in

Southen Farm Gazette.
 It has been truly said that fruit raising has been reduced to a science. This. In my opinion. is more applicable to the growing and marketing of the peach than of any other fruit.
 The climatic conditions of Mississip- pi together with the soil, I believe to be among the best that I have ever seen. It is true that any person can. grow peaches; but there are different ways of growing them, and the most successful way is by doing it in the best possible manner and to obtain the best possible results. It requires eter- nal vigilance and entails plenty of work.
 Of all fruits grown consider the peach the most profitable, either for the small or large grower, as no fruit tree responds more readily to good cultivation and good treatment than does the peach. The young peach orchard in this State begins bearing at very early age; and if properly taken care of will bear from fifteen to eighteen years.
 This article is not intended for the practical peach grower; but for the large number of people who have been thinking of setting an orchard for years past but are afraid that it will not prove profitable.
 The first and essential point is to have your ground in good condition. All grubs and stumps should be taken out of the plot you intend setting It should then be we'll plowed with a two-horse blow, and sowed either in buckwheat or COW peas. Then late in the fall or winter blow again and subsoiI. Also use the disc and harrow Then mark out in rows twenty feet apart each way.
 Now comes what I consider the most important part of growing a young orchard. In digging the holes for the trees. do not make them too small; ; but give plenty of room. so that the roots will not have to be crowded into a small space, but let them be spread out. Dig the hole deep; put in a large forkfull of well routed manure; throw in some soil and mix thoroughly; then set your tree and see to It that you get your rows straight each way. as nothing detracts more from the appear ance of an orchard than to have crook- ed rows.
 Pack well the first earth you put no the roots. by tramping. so as to exclud< all air: but as you get nearer the sur face let the soil be loose. as the rains will make 1t plenty firm before you begin to cultivate,
 nave nad the pest results Dy pldHI~ ing corn in my young orchard the first ear,plantlng 1t as early as pos sible In the spring and following the corn with cow peas. after hauling off my corn. Plant your corn so that it can be cultivated both ways. After harvesting the cow peas I blow again and SOW in rye to be plowed under the following spring for fertilizer.
 use bone meal as a fertilizer for my corn. sowing lt broadcast and need no other fertilizer until the second year. Immediately after setting your trees prune all side limbs and cut back the main stock to eighteen inches of the ground. Keep all low limbs cut off near the ground and begin to shape your tree the first year.
 I also use tobacco dust, as l consid- CT it one of the best insecticides known. using about pound to each tree; and while l do not say that this is
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-30
Harvesting and storing.

Sweet potatoes are preferably dug on the morning of a bright day and allowed to dry in the sun till evening.
 Methods of storing are numerous. The usual method is to put pile of say, twelve to fifteen bushels in a pile on top of a thick moundation of pine leaves or straw, then covering over deeply with straw. and before weather gets too cold. covering the straw with earth sufficient to keep frost out. Some do not. A better way, where possible, is to build frost-proof houses, where quantities can be stored. These hous- es may need artificial heat in the cold est weather, but, ordinarily do not By having thermometer and watch Ing closely, danger can be avoided.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-30
Electric Machine for Locating Hidden
 Springs.

Adolf schmid. Swiss engineer of standing, has just patented in. several countries a device which takes the place of the divining rod of supersu- tious tradition. It consists or mag netic needle and coil arranged Tn the magnetic meridian. This instrument is carried about the field in which IL IS desired to locate water and whenever IL passes over a hidden spring the mag lively oscillations. Many tests or the apparatus have been made ana Tn no case has a failure been recorded.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-30
sclnDUIs or rnArsa THE WESTERN RY. OF ALA. AND IM 4 &M. P. R. R. GO. (fhe wesi polni Houta:l

HIN. TRoM MoNTooMERY-Train ss Dining Car on this train. No. ss carries through sleeper to New York and day vice on this train spartanb: rE to wssh- angton. Trains 70 and s4 east are local and sAvANNAH-Trains 3s and 70 con iumbus. No. ss from Montgomery. if oa time. connects for coiumbus, and if nos Macon and Savannah. /Through sleeper frCm opslika to savannah.
 CONNECTIONS for MERIDIAN and JACK eQM---Tratn g from Montgomery conneete yisn Sou Rg, at Selma for nsfidisn ana H.. AMERINE. s.F q PA.
 reisphoss si. ssi
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-30

 CT method coming out ahead Probably ridges are better for wet weather and level planting for dry.
 Trsnsplanting. Transplantine Is usually done after noon. or even after S o'clock ?. m.. IT possible. 50 that slips may not dry out too much at first, but if the acreage Is large, the whole day must be utilized and plants watered carefully. Rows are usually three to four feet apart. and plants about eighteen inches apart In the row, or even two feet. Trans planting Is ordinarily done by hand. but there are machines which can be used for the purpose. Cultivation.
 Ground should be qept very clean by shallow cultivation with hoe and cultf- vator until vines begin to run, after which cultivation is impossible, unless vines are turned" or vine-lifting at tachment used on cultivator. Lifting vines after cultivation has ceased. to prevent them taking root in the mid dles, does not ordinarily pay. Fertilizers. Sweet potatoes need a complete fer- tilizer, with more potash than is ordi- narily used for other crops. On the poor, sandy soils of the Experiment Farm at Southern Pines, North Caro-
 
 (Red Nose,) was as follows. Plots Fertilizers Bushels
 per acre per acre. No. 1.--400 lb acid phosphate.
 250 lbs nitrate of soda
 lime
 Yield .:.... ...... HIS No 2.-250 lbs nitrate of soda
 160 lbs muriate of potash,
 lime.
 Yield '111 No. s.--4oo lbs acid phosphate,
 1s0 lbs muriate of potash
 lime.
 No. 4--400 lbs acid phosphate,
 250 lbs nitrate of soda,
 16o lbs rnuriate of potash.
 lime.
 tieiu.. ol" No. 5.--Same as No but with
 out lime.
 Yield .... .... .... .. .... 305 No. 7.--No fertilizer
 Iieiu ..'..' .... ...... ...... za There were twenty plots in all, but while the results in the others are in- teresting. they are not essential for this article.
 These fertilizers were broadcasted
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-30

There is no use trying to reform by taking smaller drinks, because you will take more of them: and there Is no use taking fewer, because you will make them bigger.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-30
Boil weeviI Damage in Texas.

"The Boil weevil and the Cotton Crop of Texas" is a bulletin recently pub lished by the Texas State Commissioner of Agriculture, and written by former State Entomologist F. Dwight Samp- son. The report contains elaborate ta- bles and carefully prepared maps show ing the extent of damage done to va rious sections by years. It says. Foot ing up the bill which the boil weevH has cost the State of Texas, we find total of 1,725,000 bales loss during the past six years. Since its arrival in Texas 2,000,000 bales, worth nearly 3100, 100000 have undoubtedly been lost, due to it's devastations. In discuss ing the future outlook the report says: This loss is increasing and with sea- son such as 1903 the area now infested by the weevil might show a loss of from 900.000 to 100000 bales. In extreme Southern Texas the weevil rarely seriously injuries the crop if stubble is not allowed to remain over winter in mild winters There seems probability that the weevil may not be so injurious in the western cotton counties. In a favorable or average season a fair crop may be grown by the use of better methods, such as early planting, fertilization, more productive and earlier varieties, more thorough frequent and continued cultivation. It is high time that the State regulated the matter of the destruction of stumpage cotton in South Texas, and it should at least make experiments on sufficiently large scale to demon strate beyond any manner of doubt that the fall destruction of the stalks throughout the State is or Is not the best means of controlling the pest as advocated by all who have given it careful study.-Farm and Ranch.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-30

Ma1aria Makes Pale sickly Chif0fen. The old Standard Groves Tasteless Cnlii Tonic drives out malaria and builds up the system. Sold by all dealers for 2I years Price 50 cents. ~mon
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-30

When d young woman acts as if she didn't know what beau Is it is a sign she has several
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-30

USE CHENEY's EXPECTORANT prOmPtly foF coughs aud colds, and prevent pneumOnias 25c bottle af all drug stores.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-30
ncvS and UicWS
 For Farmers
CoNDoofED SA INsTfTUTE

Running peanuts. cnufas, articnohes and dwarf essex rape. the latter plant ed in September or October and highly fertilized.
 As am very much interested in do- ing what we can te build up the produce tion of pork in South Alabama, should be glad to hear from you at greater length as to your plans, soils location etc. I would especially ask you to write me tho results of your observa- tion on cassava, which have led you to eliminate 1t entirely. Is it because or the expense of the seed or because Of the difficulty of obtaining a stand or for other reasons? You know that cas- sava would balance the ration with peanuts and soy beans. but l would not minimize the difficulties in growing 1t and keeping the seed canes.
 D.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-30
Corn After penn.


 I notice inquiries about increasing the size of crops and an invitation from the editor for farmers to give their experience. and give milne: I plnated two acres Of thin. clay soil in English peas, applying 500 pounds of cotton seed meal and acid phosphate mixed half and half. I gathered 100 bushels of peas per acre, which netted me S32.50 per acre; and later got thirty bushels of corn per acre from the same land. though the corn got but one working
 Had it not been for the wet weather l think I would have got 100 bushels of corn per acre. As 1t was I got TOO bundles of good fodder from the two acres of corn.
 My method of producing the corn crop was as follows: After the peas were picked the vines were turned un- der with a double buster The land laid that way for two weeks. I then ran two furrows with a single turning blow and broke out the niddles with double buster; then ran a section harrow over the beds; and planted the corn twenty-eight inches apart in the rows the rows being three and a half feet apart.-John A. Morton, k. F. D. ?. Bonneville, Miss, in Southern Farm Gazette.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-16
London Market Closed.

The London and European stock mar
kets remained closed over the Easter Mon
day holiday, but late in the afternoon buy
Ing orders were executed by foreign
houses, presumably on the expectation
that they could be hquidated prof1tably on
arbitrage tomorrow
Such little news there was over Sum
day was quite overshadowed In point of
interest by Secretary Shaw's announce
ment and the Presidents address. The
stock market at no time exhibited any So
called runaway tendencies, such advances
as took place being of an orderly and not
extravagant character.
There was as a matter of fact very little
gossip in connection with the movements In
the more active stocks.
The animation in Amalgamated was nat
urally attributed to Thursdays meeting of
the directors, at which IT Is expected that
increased distribution OF profits in one
form or another will be made
The quarterly report of the United States
Steel Corporation will be published tomor-
row week. and the buying of those securities
was based on the belief that a new record
of prosperity for that period of the year
viii be shown. The United States Steel
sinking fund ) per cent bonds advanced to
par for the first time in their history Ex-
ceptionally weak features OF the market
were Consolidated Gas and Corn Products,
while the stock of the Butterick Company
broke IN a sensational fashion. 1t being
expected that the company's annual report
would make a very weak showing on ac-
count of the protracted strike of the print
ers. None OF the movements In question
attracted. however. anything more than
passing notice.
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THE GRAIN MARKETS.

CHICAGO. April 16.--The wheat market
was weak today, on general selling by pit
traders. which was caused by worlds ship
ments greater in amount than had been
expected and large receipts In the north
west Prediction was made on Saturday
that the worlds shipments would be
100000 bushels, but instead they were over
aOo0Oeo May wheat opened SaK to Aa%
lower. at 19ssaT9A, advanced to T9Js and
then declined to 791aa79H.
May corn, on good shipping demand. sold
up to 46%
General selling by commission houses sent
May oats off to 3f5sa32.
The wheat market became weaker as the
session advanced because of proft-taklng
induced by reports of favorable weather
Tor seeding In the northwest The low
point for May was 30. The close was fairly
steady. with May off 1sa% at 19A.
Corn prices were strong all day. May
advanced to 463sa17 and closed strong at
46ss. which was p above the close of Sat
urday.
Close: Wheat-May 79ss; July. 7sz.
Corn-May. 467s July, 46ls Oats-May,
3lAa313s; July. 3Oas3Oa4.
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SHAW'S COURSE PLEASED
Comment Generally Favorable Over
His Action.
FURTHER GOLD ENGAGEMENTS
Prices Opened Exceedingly Strong and
Active-London Markets Closed
u S. Steel.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, April 16.-The establish
ment of records and precedents Is always
interesting in any field of activity. hence
1t was natural that little else was discussed
I'm financial circles today than Saturdays
announcement by the Secretary of the
Treasury with regard to his attitude
toward the foreign exchanges and money
market. II was likewise only natural that
comment and criticism should take vari-
Gus and varying forms, but 1t seemed to
he the large majority of opinion that Mr..
Shaw's bold and original course was to be
highly commended.
This government officer has, on previous
occasions exhibited great originality and
independence of action, and has shown
clearly that he did not consider that his
hands were tied tight and fast by mere red
tape and obsolete regulations.
1t Is difficult fully to appreciate at this
period just what the full Significance OF
the treasury's intervention in the fnterna-
tional money market may turn out to be.
That immediate and pronounced good has
been accomplished there can be no question,
and apparently from this time forward this
countrys general financial status viii oc-
cupy a different and more favorable posi-
tion in the worlds money markets than
has ever previously been the case. There
was much foolish criticism on Saturday
and yesterday to the effect that the Score
tarys policy conferred undue and special
privileges upon the national banks In con-
trast with the opportunities of private
bankers.
As a matter of fact, the latter can.
through their banks of deposit obtain the
full advantages of the secretarys ruling.
always provided they are in the possession
Os securities of the necessary quantity and
quality. At all events, In quarters Whero
this were not the case, much unfavorabls
criticism might have been expected, moth
ing but words of commentator were ex-
pressed. Immediate results of Saturdays
important intelligence were found In
prompt relaxation In the rates for money
for all periods and smart rise in sterling
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-16
ALI Wrong.

From the New York Tribune.
Captain William Ellinger, the noted oyster
grower of Chesapeake bay. said recently:
Once dined with an English farmer. We
had ham for dinner, very delicious ham,
baked. The farmers son soon finished his
portion and passed his plate again
more am, father he said.
THE farmer frowned.
Don't say am, my son. he said, say
am
~ did say am the lad protested, in an
injured tone.
You said am cried the father fiercely.
AIMS what 1t should be. Am, not am
I'm the midst of the squabble the far
mer's wife turned to me with little depre-
catory laugh, and said:
They both think they're saying am q"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-16
Washington Stock Exchange.

:saies.-Regular call. IL O'Clock noon-U. s. regis
tered 2s 81 600 at 103Ss-
Washington Rwy. and Flee. As. 81 900 at S1H
81 900 at S7A. $500 at 87A.
Capital Traction, l at 1855.
Washington Rwy- and Elec. pfd, 30 at 90A'
100 at 90k.
Washington Rwy. and Elec. com. 80 at AZ. SO
at 42h so at APIS so at 42A, 80 at AIS, 80 at
41L so at 41%.
Metropolitan Fire Insurance. % at a.
Potomac Insurance, 10 at 80.
Arlington Insurance 25 at 31h, 25 at 31a.
Columbia Insurance, so at 10ta, so at 101a, 80
washington GAS. at .s1,s, at s6iM. at
s61is 20 at 6lA 100 at 61h 25 at 61A, % al
61A % at 6iA. % at GA, 100 at 61s, 100 at
6lI % at 81A, l at '61k.
Mergen haler Linotype, at 1913, at 1893. 5 al
1893. S at 1893, 10 at 1873 10 at 1881. 10 at 1888
10 at 1884, at 1885. 10 at 1884,
Lanston Monotype, 100 at '14&, 100 at 14a;
Greene Copper, I at 31as 100 at BIZ, 100 al
3lhs (buyer TO- 100 at BIZ 100 at BIZ 100 at
314s buyer 49, 100 at 3113.
After call-Union Trust. l at l55-
Washington Gas, 25 at 61h.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-16
Receiver for Terminal Company.

CHICAGO. April 16.-John n. Faithorn,
president of the Chicago Terminal Transfer
Company. which operates a belt line around
Chicago, was today appointed receiver of
the company In bonds OF 100000 by Judge
Kohlsaat of the United States circuit court
The appointment of the receiver was not
contested, and comes as an Indirect result
OF suit brought some time since against
the corporation by holders of some OF its
bonds. IL has become necessary for the
company to elevate its tracks and to erect
some new buildings. and it was believed
that this work could more readily be done
under a receivership.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-16
The World Of
Finance and Trade

being no change In the balance of the clio
Ing figures as given above:
Amalgamated Copper. ia.
American Locomotive. G9St
American Smelling. ISL.
American Smelling. pfd. 12i.
American Sugar, 142.
Anaconda. 2S3.
Baltimore and Ohio, 111%.
Brooklyn Rapid Transit, SIA
Chesapeake and Ohio. 80.
Chicago Great Western PIX.
Chicago. Milwaukee and St. Paul. 17.S.
Colorado Fuel and Iron. 625s.
Erie. 1st preferred. 1Sh
Great Northern. preferred 325.
Missouri Pacific, 96ls.
National Load. S4is
New York Central IA.
New York, Ontario and West. sig.
Northern Pacific, ROY.
Pennsylvania railroad, E2r
Peoples Gas of Chicago 81
Reading. 1871.
Republic Steel and Iron. pfd, i03
Rock Island. common, 2Sn
Sioss Sheffield. So
Texas Pacific. "a.
Union Pacific, 46
United States Steel, 43g.
Wabash, 2214
BONDS
American Tobacco As, 79h
United States Steel IS, 100
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-16
Taking Fertilizers From the Air.
From Farming.

The problem of extracting nitrogen from
the atmosphere and converting 1t into some
available form to be used as a fertilizer
has always been q fascinating one for sci
entists The company which attempted this
on a commercial scale at Niagara Falls a
few years ago was not pre-eminently sue
cessful, but recently some work that has
been accomplished in Norway promises bet
ter results. Up to the present time. how
ever.the field or capturing atmospheric nj
trogen belongs exclusively to the beneiicent
bacteria that forms nodules on the roots of
the leeyumeS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-16
Grain and Provisions Summary.
THE BALTIMORE MARKETS
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star
BALTIMORE. Nd, April 16.-wHEAT-DuII and
lower; spot, contract, S7Aass; April, S7A ass:
May 81 sly asked; July, 81 asked; steamer No. z
red. so14aSO& receipts, $40 bushels: southern by
sample 72a7s; southern on grade, s1ass
,CoKN.Easer; spot, 53a53k; April 53a5aA
steamer mixed, 51n51A receipts 40. 227 bushels
exports. s5714 bushels southern white corn, 52s
o.; southern yellow corn, 52a54 49,
OAIS-Duii; No. white. 3S1aa39: No 8 white
37i3a3s; No mixed. BIN; receipts 50 $50 bush
els; exports, 80, lab bushels ~
RfE-Firm; No western 6lISse6 exnort 71s
u domestic; receipts. 244 bushels
HAf-Firm; No timothy, 1850 bid; No.
clover mixed ID GOA % so. "
GRAIN FREiGHTS-Very quiet: steam TO Liver
pool, per bushel ID. April; Cork for orders per
quarter. %. Cd. May -
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BULLS AND BEARS
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK. April 1a-Expressiens Of
opinion among certain well-informed Wall
street interests today were found to be uni-
formly optimistic In tone The money sit
virtually the only repressfve factor In the
market for the last two weeks. Is now re-
earded as in a comfortable position. The
action OF Secretary Shaw In making imme-
dfately available any gold imports which
may be engaged, is regarded as a move OF
prime Importance. 1t is further pointed
out that last week and the week before he
would have had very heavy imports OF gold
from Europe except for the fact the money
rates were 80 high here that most Of the
bankers could not find it profitable to tie
up their money from the time the imports
were arraIgned until they arrived. and now
that gold engagements can be Immediately
counted In the surplus reserves of the local
banks. 1t Is believed that he will have no
dif1culty In securing any amount which Is
needed
TO believe that In view of the rather sharp
recovery IN prices the latter part of last
week We may have slight reaction today
or tomorrow. 1t is not believed. however.
that this will In any way weaken the spec
uiative structure. but on the other hand.
VIII invite fresh purchases.
The strong position of the copper trade
continues to excite much comment and has
been the means OF securing rather enthu-
siastic following in Amalgamated Copper
The enormous demand for railway equip
ment shows no let up, and the companies
engaged In the manufacture of cars and
other railway appliances are reaping large
profits.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-16
Additional Gold engagements.

Notwithstanding the latter. indefinite re-
ports of additional engagements of gold FOR
import were current.
The mornings report of the transactions
between the subtreasury and the banks
since Friday showed loss to the first
named Institution Of $15 10000, OF which
the banks gained 100000 from other
sources than the subtreasury. Coupled
with the discussion of the benefcent re-
suits of Secretary Shaws new policy, there
ran along much other discussion of the con-
tents of the Presidents speech delivered
al Washington on Saturday. The impress
sions derived therefrom could, however,
hardly he cited as an actual influence in
the days stock market irrespective of the
views which were expressed with regard to
the Presidents utterances.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-16
A Revolt Against Doctors.

stdlIsFef-
Human nature Is beginning to revolt at
what 1t calls that modern tyrant." the
doctor for It Is fact. and rather sad
one that doctors have got the upper hand
of us In these days: that when we are Ill
we go through medicinal tortures, and
when we are well we endure preventive
system hardly less wearisome and painful
The truth of II Is. we are all become fad
ones