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with his culture. No claim that we
would get such an increase was made,
and we were led to believe that an
increase of 35 to SO per cent. would
be what we should expect.
I'VE accordingly bought 1876 acres
OF Farmogerm for cow peas and as
a result grew the best crop of cow
peas ever seen at 1.-The Oaks
vigorous plants, so dark green they
were almost black. We cut them
off and planted oats on a part of the
land after the inoculated cow peas.
and oats on section where cow peas
without inoculatiOn were grown. In
all respects the preparation and fer
tlllzatlon OF the two were the same.
During the prolonged drought this
spring the oats after the inoculated
cow peas continued to grow and ma
ture properly. The oats after the cow
peas Nv ithOut iinoculation ceased to
grow and did not head out satisfac-
torily. You could tell to the row
where the soil had been inoculated
so much more vigorous were the oats.
The result? We harvested three times
as many oats from the land that had
\becn inOculated for. COW peas as we
did where the cow peas were grown
without inOculatiOn. The effect was
marvellous. The cost was trilf1ing.
ABOUT 81 per acre, and for this small
expenditure we got a bigger and bet
ter crop of cow peas than we had
ever grown before, and a 200 per cent.
increase in our oats.
eve have demonstrated that our
soils need organic matter and nitro
gen and fully appreciate the benefit
OF the inoculation of cow peas with
FARMOGERM, as Well as vetch, on
poor soils. You should have seen
the unpromising character of the soil
where we used the FARMOGERM to
understand fully the difference in the
two crops. This field we are planning
to lime and thus realize the fullest
benefit from the incubation. That
field Is now we'll inoculated, but we
will plant it to cow peas again to get
the full bneefit of last years inocula-
ton. In actual return, figured either
as an fnVestmant Or an expense, no
money has ever been expended by us
that gave such a large profit as the
money spent for the 1875 acres Of
FarnlOgerm.
There is no guess work in this
statement. We know it, because we
Keep books on every crop grown on
our farms.
I'VE have now had the best proof
that i pays to inoculate COW peas,
and We shall use inoculation wher-
ever We can plant COW peas this year
to increase permanently the fertility
of our lands. When we have the
whole place inoculated we are sure
our bill for fertilizers will be cut to
a fr' ction of the present expense,
and that We will get full benefit from
all fertilizer used-something that is
impossible unless there is plenty of
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Why Every Acre Of Cow Peas
Should Be InOCulated
What the cmans Say About Cow Pea t That
Wonderful Results With
turns Money Value of Cow Peas and

After years of intelligent toll, when
r. j. A. Berckmans Of Augusta, Ga,
was gathered to his fathers, he left
behind him an enviable reputation as
most useful citizen, as noted horti-
culturlst, great nursery business,
ana three sons to carry on the
work he had inaugurated-a business
Wnlch mad Its customers in every civil
lied land, for the Berckmans nursery
products were above all reliable and
just what the firm declared them to
De. There was no guess work about
anythinr they sold. They knew the
possibilities and the limitations of
every tree. shrub or plant that went
forth from their esta ablishment.
The business started by the re-
Vered +. j. A. Berckmans has far out
grown the business left by him. In
addition, the activities of the sons
nave caused them to branch out in
several other directions, and among
their ventures is a fifteen hundred
acre farm at Mayfield, half of which
is given over to peach orchards and
the other half to general farming.
This farm, 'The Oaks" located
at Mayfeld in Hancock county, Ga,
is being brought up to high produc-
tlVeness through the application of
the underlying principles of the main
tenance of soil fertility, and a record
oat crop grown this year on sandy
land under drought conditions has
pointed so conclusively to the money
value of the inOculation of legumes
that this year the Berckmans Broth
ers are using more than 800 acres of
inoculating material on cow peas
alone.
In discussing the remarkable Weld
of oats, Mr.. P. j. A. Berckmans, Jr.,
said:
For years we have grown cow peas
With what we believed to be success,
as means of increasing the fertility
OF the land as well as for the excellent
forage the crop provides. Some years
ago we began testing out commercial
bacterial cultures for the inoculation
Of hairy vetch, planted along with
oats, and some Of them proved de-
cidedly successful, while the hay was
easily the best ever fed on our place.
This test was made on the orchard
section Of The Oaks, and it was OBJ
served by all that the mules on that
part Of the plantation were in finer
condition than on the farm section,
where mixed grain and forage were
fed. Crops grew better after the in
oculated Vetch. showing the increase
In nitrates and the general improve
ment Of the soil.
In the summer of 1914, the repre-
sentative of the Earp-ThOmas Farm =
ogerm Company called on us and
satisfied us that the incubation of
cow peas would be profitable. The
representative told us of people we
knew who had got as much as 100
per cent increase in their oats and
other crops after cow peas inOculated
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/ organic matter in the soil. We are
told that lining lime-def1cent soil in
creases the value of artificial inocu-
lation, but we did not use lime where
we planted the inoculated peas.
we are also using inoculation i'm
our peach orchards with a steady in
crease in the amount and the quality
of the peaches.
Il have heard of other farmers
whose experience with inoculation of
cow peas parallels ours. Used prop
perly, according to the simple direc-
tiops, we see no reason why any farm
er can not get as profitable result as
we did. Just think, for a dollar an
acre, we got better and bigger pea
crop and three times as many oats as
the land would have produced without
the Farmogerm!
Learn from the experience of
Berckmans Brothers. Inoculate
your COW peas with FARMOGERM,
and plant them on every acre of land
this summer you possibly can
FarmOgerm Pays on All I.egumes.
Cow peas inoculated with Farmo-
germ root deeper, gather more nj
trogen from the air and make the
locked up plant food in the sub-soil
available for any crop that follows.
Berckmans Brothers have proven that
IFARMOGERM insures the continued
growth and maturity of crops under
drought conditions nat made crop
failures on soils not treated with
FARMOGERM, but which had grown
cow peas and were treated and fer
tilized alike. Where else can crop
insurance be bought for 81 per acre?
Prices, 1 acre bottles, 81 each;
five-acre bottles, Sc each; SO acre
units (ten five-acre bottles), $55, and
100 acre units GO five-acre bottles),
Sl0O. Carrying charges paid. Name
the crop on which it is to be used.
N. b. The Earp-Thomas Farmo-
germ Company are the contractors
for the breeding, manufacture and
supply of NITRO-CULTURE to the
Department of Agriculture, Commerce
and Industries of the State of South
Carolina, and to the Department Of
Agriculture and immigration Of the
Commonwealth of Virginia. Price
forty (4O cents per acre in South
Carolina, on orders to E. j. Watson.
Commissioner Of Agriculture, colum-
bia, S. G. Price in Virginia, fifty cents
per acre in acre bottles, and 50 each
for five acre bottles on orders to G.,
w. Koiner, Commissioner of Agricul-
ture and immigration, Richmond, Va
Carrying charges prepaid in both
cases. .a....
The Earp-Thomas Farmogerm.
Company absolutely guarantees that
NITRO-CULTURE is in breeding and
virulence and purity the equal of any
inoculating material, regardless of
price. with the sole exception Of
FARMOGERM, the Worlds Standard
inoculatiOn. If you don't use FARM
lOGERM, use NITRO-CULTURE.
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PRESIDENT AND HOUSE CONFER.
President Wilson Obtains First Hand
Information from Col. II. Nj. House

Roslyn, l.. l.. June 24.-President
Wilson today after n conference with
Col. E. M. House. securing first hand
information from the European con-
fiict. golfed at the Piping Rock links.
He leaves Mt o'clock this evening for
Cornish. New Hampshire, where he
expects to remain until after the
Fourth OF July. Nothing was given
out officially respecting the conference
with Col. House.
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VILLA ARMY DEFEATED.
ObregOn Wins Decisive Victory and
Captures Anguas Calientes.

Ell Paso, June 24.-Gen. Villas
army has been completely defeated
by Gen. Obregon's Carranza forces.
Aguas Calientes was captured and the
Villaistas are fleeing northward.
Carranza expects to make Aguas
Calientes his permanent headquar-
ters and the provisional capital. 1t
is believed Villa will make a stand at
Torreon.
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team and got the dates confused. 1t
is hoped that these two teams will
meet next week.
Z. NJ. McBEE RESIGNS.

Greenville, June IL. M. Nc
Bee resignC today as president of the
Vardy Yarn mills of this place, and
Wade Gray, president of the Gray
mills of Woodruff, was elected in his
stead. Mr.. McBee being elected vice
president. The change viii be effective
Immediately. w. J. Thackston was
added to the board Of directors.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-06-26
Weekly Weather Forecast.

Issued by the u. s. Weather Bureau.
Washington. ID. c.. for the week be-
ginning Wednesday. June 20.
For South Atlantic and East Gulf
States; Fair weather. with continued
high temperature. Is probable through
out the week.
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URGED TO MAKE MORE HAY.


Washington. juno 20.-The practi-
pility OF increasing materially the
duction OF hay In the South is
on Southern farmers In n bu-
issued today. the agricultural
ment
bulletin points out that 1.305,-
OF hay. valued at s17,2.-
brought, each year into the
uthern States despite the
IL Is practicable for the
he South TO produce all
hey needontheir own I
hey need on their own
rasses and legumes
ent says make good
lhe South are Les
Mississippi Valley.
post Of the cotton
rass on the rich
Arlington mix
-oat grass and
Plands.
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LET CONTRACT FOR CHANGES

Atlanta Company to Convert Heating
System at Washington SchOOl-Oth-
er Contract to Be Awarded Shortly
N. G. Walker and j. III. johnson
Architects for New Building.
ington school building has been let by
the board Of education to the Eich-
burg Heating Company of Atlanta.
The contract embraces a conversion
of the old gravity system of heating
and ventilation to a mechanical sys-
tenn and the installation Of a modern
system of sanitary closets. The pres
ent system Of heating, ventilation and
closets has been in the builling for
twenty-five years.
The contract will be let in a few
days for the conversion of the incin-
Grating sanitary closets in the IIamp-
tom and Calhoun schools into mod
ern flush closets. When these two
buildings were erected and the closets
were installed. the city had no swer-
age system. Similar work will be
done at the Lincoln school.
Mr.. N. G. Walker Of Rock Hill and
MIR. J.s III. Johnson Of Sumter have
been selected as the architects for the
new school building. The board had
the ODDOrtupitv oP cooIot;on sro.>,
over twenty very fine architects. Mr.
walker has a most excellent reputa-
ton in every respect and the board
feels fortunate in being able to Sc
cure his services. Mr.. Johnson is q
we'll known local architect and will
collaborate with Mr.. Walker in the
formulation Of designs and plans for
the building.
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Washington, June 23.-Nineteen
were reported killed when q band Of
Zapataistas attacked a southbound
train from Vera Cruz on Monday. 1t
Is reported that the Yaqui Indians
are burning ranches and homes OF
foreigners.
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ogerm Company called on us and
satisfied us that the incubation of
cow peas would be profitable. The
representative told us of people we
knew who had got as much as 100
per cent increase in their oats and
other crops after cow peas inOculated
Meade County news., 1915-09-23
WINDOW CLEANER.

A reader of the Christian Science
Monitor says she has found that a
bag filled with powdered pumice
stone is an excellent window cleaner.
She makes the bag of unbleached cot
ton cloth of soft quality, not too
firm. When finished, the bag is six
inches wide and twelve inches long.
Into this she puts about one-eighth
of pound of the pumice stone. To
prevent soiling this bag, it is slipped
into cheesecloth case that can be
removed and washed. No water is
used on the window, but it is rubbed
first with a piece of tissue paper,
then polished with the bag.
Meade County news., 1915-09-23
WHEN SEEKING A NEW HOME
Advisable Always to Ascertain the
Health History" of Ones Pro-
spective Abode.

This being moving time with a
good many families, the following
good advice is taken from the better
babies department Of the Woman's
Home Companion:
'Guard your family from conta-
giOns disease germs in the new house.
1t has been proved that thousands
of tuberculosis and scarlet fever
cases annually are the result of NOV
ing into houses which have not been
disinfected.
Secure the health history of the
house you expect to buy or rent. 1t
will be supplied by your board Of
health, your health officer or any
physician who practices in your town.
If it has housed tuberculosis pa
tient, don't take that house; find an
other.
"No matter. what the Health his
tory of the house, have the plumbing
examined, the drains flushed and the
entire house disinfected.
"If the walls are to be repapered,
have the old paper removed.
"Do not move into any house where
the cellar has been flooded and is
moldy.
"In towns where there is neither
city water nor sewerage system make
sure that the well and the cesspool
are widely separated"
Meade County news., 1915-09-23
LEFT IT TO THE PIGEONS
Wise Yonkers Justice Let Birds De-
eide the Disputed Question Of
Their Ownership.

City Judge Beall of Yonkers,
N. Y. who recently devised Solo
monlike spaghetti test to determine
the ownership of dog with fond
ness for that elongated variety of
food, showed extra-judicial wisdom
in settling bird case in his court.
This time it was pigeons-ten of
them. John Voszko told the judge
that someone broke into his coop of
prize homing birds, and that boys
told him they recognized ten of them
in flock kept by William Warholly,
at the other end of the city. Voszko
had Warholly arrested.
Judge Beall cerebrated almost au-
dibly few moments, then he direct
ed Sergeant Google and Detective
Duffy to take the 22 homing pigeons
in Warholly's flock to a neutral spot
and turn them loose. Ten of the
pigeons at once flew to Voszko's coop,
while the remaining dozen returned
to the defendant.
Warholly insisted all were his, but
Judge Beall said the pigeons had de-
cided the case for themselves.
Meade County news., 1915-09-23
DRIVEN OUT BY The "TAxI"
Few of the old-Tlme "Cabbies" in Chi.
caso Have Been Able to Main
tain Their Position.

One by one they go, the cabbies Of
the cities. In Chicago, for instance,
only a handful remains of the old
timers. As a vanishing race we sa-
lutte them.
When the taxi came to take away
their livelihood they scorned the new
vehicle with a fine fervor and re-
fused to acknowledge its advantages
or expediency "No good can come
av thin buzzin', blazin', crazy con-
traptions p they swore. OF course
their income dwindled, but they sat
tight, grimly maintaining their
stand against the evils of fallen for
tunes and speed mania.
At the reports of auto brigandage
and taxi thieves they shook their
gray heads solemnly and spat saga
ciously.
"What did l tell YEP" one asked
triumphantly. "No good can come
av thin murder machines
From this reflection they take per-
petual comfort. .
Meanwhile the cabby dozes on his
seat in the sunlight.
Meade County news., 1915-09-23
PUBLICATION SUMMONS.

IH9l ubiiCdlicu oeIIeHlO ger ~, lSlS.
The State OF Kansas, TO David b. Chiles, and
Gertrude Chiles his wife, Defendants, Greeting:-
You and each Of you are hereby notified that
you have been sued in the District Court Of
Meade County, Kansas, by The Meade State
Bank Of Meade, Kansas, plaintiff, which plain
till filed it's petition in said Court Cause No.
24O9 on September 18th 1915, and unless you
answer said pettisn on OF before October 29th
1918, the same will be taken as true and judg
ment rendered against You for S56070 with in
terest thereCn'at 10 per cent per annum from
September l1th, 1914, and decree forecosng the
mortgage given by you to said Bank on the West
hall and Southeast Quarter of the Southwest
Quarter, and the Southwest Quarter Of the South
east Quarter Of Section "a in township 80 south,
Of range % west Of 9th p NJ. in Meade County,
Kansas, and forever barring you and each Of you
and all Of the defendants in this action Of and
from any right title, estate, interest or lien in to
or upon said mortgaged premises or any part
thereof and directing the sale of said premises to
satisfy the judgment rendered herein and inter-
est, taxes and costs
AS Witness my hand and the seal Of said Court
on this 18th day ofSeptember, 1918.
Seal. John Elliott,
Clerk Of said District Court.
II. Llewelyn Jones,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
Meade County news., 1915-09-23
ARKANSAS VERSION OF WAR.

"Well, no. drawled Mr.. Jack Gap,
a prominent citizen of tie Arkansas
neighborhood of Rumpus Ridge. '1
hain't takin' no paper now, but a
feller gimme a sample copy luther
day, and l sorter sketched over the
headlines. Well, as nigh as l could
make out, in the fghtin' over thar
in Europe they've plum quit warrin'
in the streets and taken to shootin'
up the allies. kansas City Star.
Meade County news., 1915-09-23
PUBLICATION NOTICE
First Published Sept, 9, 1915

Ibot uOi'ohNN ~ Pt' " i('O
The State OF Kansas to +. Z.
Adams, Mary Lou Adams, John c.
Calderwood, Arvilla Dumars, Ell
enor E. Minnis, Becca M. MINIS,
Morris T. Roberts, Amanda Roberts
if living or the unknown heirs, exc"
cutors, administrators, devisees,
trustees, or assigns of said persons
if they or any of them be dead, and
The Citizens State Bank, of Meade
Kansas, and the West Plains Town
site Company If said corporations
exist or the unknown successors, Of
fcers, trustees or assigns of said
corporations If they have ceased to
exist or have been legally dissolved,
Defendants, Greeting:
You and each of you are hereby
notified that you have been sued in
the District Court of Meade County
Kansas, by A. S. Prather, plaintiff,
who on September 9th, 1915 filed his
petition in said Court lease No 2466]
and unless you answer said petition
on or before October 25th, 1915, the
same will be taken as true and a
judgment and decree rendered
against you and each and all of you
quieting the title of the plaintiff to
the following described real estate
situate in said Meade County, Kan
sas, to-wit: All of Blocks 90 and 90
and Lots number S, 6, I, 8, also
lots I3 to "a inclusive in Block
I22, and Lots 2I and "a In Block
I76, all in First Addition to the city
of West Plains commonly called
Plains according to the recorded
plat thereof, except the right OF way
of the C. r. l. & p; Railway Com.
pany, and forever epjoiniDg you And
each of you and all persons claiming
under you or any of you from Sett
ting up or asscrtaag any claim, inter.
est, estate in or to said real estate or
any part thereof adverse to the taid
plaintiff, and fer costs, and such
other and further relief as may be
just and equitable. As Witness my
hand and the seal of said Court On
this 9th day of September 1915.
SEAL John Elliott,
Clerk of said District Court.
II. Llewelyn Jones,
Attorney for PlGintlf.
Meade County news., 1915-09-23
PUBLICATION NOTICE.

FHst IuCnSbcd Septe Der 1t, IDS.
THE STATE OF KANSAS, TO The Interior
erts, Jr., Maggie Roberts. and the unknown
ters and devisees, and the unknown admins
traitors, executors and trustees OF B. F. Roberts,
Jr, and Maggie Roberts:
You and each Of you will take notice that you
have been sued by George Ferguson in the Dis
trict Court Of Meade County, Kansas, and that
unless you answer the petition filed by the said
plaintiff in the said action or before the 9th
day OF October, 1918, said petition will be taken
as true and a Judgment rendered against YOU
and each of you accordingly, Of the following ma
ture, town; adjudging that the said plaintiff
10 the absolute owner in fee simple, and is in the
quiet peaceable, open, notorious. undisturbed,
exclusive and adverse possession Of all of the fol-
lowing described real estate, situated in Meade
County, Kansas, to-wit:
Inc southeast quarter Of Section thirty 1907 i,
Township thirty t3Ol, Range twenty.nine t29),
Apa tnat neither you nor any or either Of you
nave any right title, estate. interest," claim, lien
or tncnMbrance, in, to or upon the said real es-
tate or any part thereof; that all title or claim
which yen or any or either Of you may have had
or claim to have in or to said real estate or any
part thereof be forever barred, foreclosed and ex-
.tingHished; and that you and each and every one
oi you be forever barred; estopped and foreclosed
from ever setting up assertipR any right, title
thereof. - ~
Judgment will also be rendered in said action
IN the alternative although each, and every one
OF said defendants were alive al the Commence
ment Of the saih action; and against the unknown
aaministrators, executors, and trustees Of each
Of them, as though each and every one Of said de-
iendants were deceased At the commencement Of
the said action, and for costs Of this action.
witness my hand and official seal this 18th day
Of September, 1918.
John Elliott,
Seal. Clerk Of the District Court.
F. 8. Sullivan, Reed 4 Reed,
Attorneys for Plaintiff.
Meade County news., 1915-09-23
A FLoURIsHING BUSINESS.

"This must be a prosperous COM
munity. Every farmer hereabouts
seems to own an automobile"
eyes. There are some wealthy
farmers in this part of the country,
but our richest man is not a farmer" :"
"No? what does he do?"
'He owns garage and automo-
bile repair shop"
Meade County news., 1915-09-23
COULDN'T SEE HIS FACE.

Mother-And what sort of face
did the man have, Ethel?
Ethel don't know, mamma.
"Why, you saw him, didn't you,
dear?''
'Yes, mamma; but l didn't see
his face; it was all covered with
whiskers !'
Meade County news., 1915-09-23
Notice for Publication.

Notice for Publication.
First Published August Goth, l9l5.l
Department Of the Interior,
U. ). Land Office at Dodge City, Kansas,
August 10, 1915.
Notice is hereby given that William d. Barra-
gree, OF Meade, Kansas, who, on April 9th, 1912,
made Homestead Application Serial No. Oll2lS,
f,T M NE4, Sec. 7, ny NwIl, Section 8, Town.
ship 35s, Range 2Sw, 9th p. Meridian. has fled
notice Of intention to make Final Three Year
Proof, to establish claim to the land above de-
scrihed, before The Clerk Of the District Court on
Meade County, Kansas. at Meade, Kansas, on
the 2Sth day Of September, 1915.
NJ Claimant names as witnesses: -
~ Asa L. Ford, Of =
~ l9nits Lowery, Of Uneda.
~ Virgil o. Keitner, Of Meade, =. .e,V'
3, r. WILSON,
Not Coal Land. Register.