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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-10

oline and the runabout. the sedan ana the touring car golf would still remain in the polo class-a game for the exclu- sive to enjoy.
 Golf is so dependent upon the motor car that without it there would be al most no golf clubs. It is estimated that in the United States there are already more than 2,o0o golf clubs. with more being formed almost every day. Donald Ross the famous golf architect, is kept busy travelling from one end of the uni- ted states to the other designing and experimenting the construction of new courses, and there are many others en- gagged similarly The smaller cities have caught the love for the game, and meadow and farm lands everywhere arc being changed into country clubs. The red and white flags are taking the places of cows and sheep and the barn dance IS giving way to the outdoor dance at the golf club. This has been made posslpie by the motor car The barrier of dls- tance has been removed. One may now travel fifteen miles comfortably anu quickly and what once was place ou- in the country is within easy reacn. ihe motor car permits golf nut to pelohS to a distant club and still have time in an afternoon to go to it, play his game and return home for dinner. It couio never be done in the horse and buggy days. It would not be done today so frequently if train or trolley cars We're the only means of transportation.
 But the advantage is not all ope-sided' While the popularity of golf has depen1- ed in a measure on gasoline and the n'o- tor the popularity of the motor also ha7 been Increased by golf There are thousands of men who got along very nicely without an automobile until they joined a golf club. They were content at first to beg their rides, but as tune went on they longed for independence They became too proud to beg. They began to long for personal freedom. They wanted to be able to go and come when thev chose. It irritated them to be oD- uiged to await the time and conYen- iance of another. They began to resent haing dropped off at their own street, tbree hlocks or more from home. and it annoyed them to have to hang around the club house door waiting for some one to come out who might be going thcN way. So they became more and more willing to listen to the peadings of thclr wives that they fought to have a car. The woman no doubt, fancied that they themselves had brought about the change of heart when the car was finally puF- chased. but we who were eye-witnesses and intimates of the struggles knew vel why the motor was bought. Golf hai done it. The man had discovered thf-t if he was to play as much golf as ne wished he had to have something besides a golf ball to drive. A car had become vital to his happiness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-10
What's the Oil Gauge For?

From Motor Llfe.
 There are quite number of motorists who would refuse to buy a car that did not have all the fiXings on the das'i- including an oil gauge of some sor5 Once they are sure the thing is on the instrument board, however, they forget all about 1t and never pay any attention to it. Watch the little gauge just as carefully as you do any of the other m strame1fts. for it is guardian of the lubrl- cation system to inform you of any i'm proper functioning of that very impof- tant feature of the engine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-10

baptism in Cyprus is curious cere- mony. The infant is rubbed in oil by his godfather blown upon in the lace py the priest and waved in the ar then dinned several times in the font, and again anointed with oil on various parts of the body
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-10

In 1915. when there were 10S,H6 per sons employed in the textile industry in Pennsylvania, the wages paid them to- tailed s41,971 800 and in 1919, when there were s4554 employed, the wages amounted to s79 S6S 1Go
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-10
GOLF HAS BEEN MADE POSSIBLE BY MOTOR CARS Game Still Would Be for Select Few Were It Not for
 Gasoline

From Motor Life.
 Golf has been made possible by the motor car. Golf and gasoline are in- separable companions, writes Edgar A. Guest in the current issue of Motor Lite magazine John D Rockefeller wouid still have his daily millions pouring into his purse without golf, but without gas
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-10
''cure Your
 Rupture Like
 Cured Mine"
Old Sea Captain Cured His Own Rupture After Doctors Said
 Operate or Death"
His Remedy and Book Sent Free.

Captain Ceilings sailed the seas for many years; then he sustained bad double rupture that soon forced him to not only remain ashore, but kept him after doctor and truss after truss. No results! Finally he was assured that he must either submit to a dangerous and abhorrent operation or die. He did aeitheri He cured himself instead.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-10
LOCOMOBILE AND MERCER
 REDUCE THEIR PRlCES1

Realization that reduction in prices all along the line are inevitable, although not warranted by present manufacturing costs. was the cause for the startling announcement by Hare's Motors of big drop in the prices of locomobiles and the Mercer cars.
 The reduction of prices was a substan- tiaI one as to ten1poriZe by halfway measures would defeat the very pur- pose for which the announcement was made Not only was it the first decrease in the price of any of the quality cars but it is the largest to date of any reduction in the industry. In the case of the locomobile, it amounts 10 S,So oa all standard models. while it Is an even st eco throughout the Mercer line, This is what the drop actually means:
 LOCOMOBILE
 Seven passenger touring from $500 to s7.55o.
 Four passenger touring from 500 to s7 .650.
 Seven passenger limousine from s1o,Soc to s9.15O.
 Seven-passe landsulet from sfo,5N to Sq 15o
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-10

Captain Ceilings made a study of him self. of his condition--and at last he was rewarded by the finding of the method that so quickly made him & we'll, strong, vigorous and happy man.
 Anyone can use the same method; It's simple, easy, safe and inexpensive. Every ruptured person in the world should have the Captain Ceilings book. telling all about how he cured himself. and how anyone may follow the same treatment in their own home without any trouble. The book and medicine are FREE. They will be sent prepaid to any rupture sufferer who will fill out the below coupon. But send it right away now before you put down this paper.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-10
MERCER

Raceabout from s4.e75 to S3,675. Touring from S.a5o to SS,95o, Sport model from s4.950 to s.aeo. Runabout from A.a50 to $. 95o. Coupe from S.. .150 to B, ,150 Touring limousine from s6.e50 to s5, $50.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-10
PRICES

P. o. B. Faoto<y Wire Wheels and spare tires extra
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-30
What Are Vitan1ines?
Necessary Food Elem emf
Puzzles All Scientists

der to obtain very fine white flour,
large part of the vitamines may
be removed. Vitamines are also lost
when rice is polished in order to
remove the outer layers which con-
tain most Of the vitamines. It is
for this reason that a diet consist
ing. mainly of polished rice may
cause beri-beri, while unpublished rice
does not cause this disease.
Fat-So1uble vitamines
The second type is known as fat
soluble vitamines, and these are
found in butter, eggs, milk, and in
certain animal organs such as the
heart, kidneys, and liver, and to
some extent in other fats as we'll
as in green vegetables. They also
seeds. When fat-soluble vitamines
are absent from the diet anin1als
and men are subject to a disease of
the eyes, which appears to be re-
lated to xerophthalmia and which, if
prolonged, may produce blindness.
The third type is known as anti
scorbutic vitamines-that is, those
which prevent scurvy, which mani
tests itself by disease of the bones
as well as in other ways. These
vitamines are found in oranges,
grapefruit, lemons and other citrus
fruits, and in green vegetables such
as tomatoes, spinach and lettuce,
and in eggs and raw milk. The dry
stroys the activity of the antiscor-
butte vitamines. The best source of
vitamines is in the 1eafy parts of
vegetables, and this is one of the
reasons why scinach, lettuce and
cabbage are valuable foods.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-30
BY K. r. LEIGH
Editor the Memphis Press

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-ArkanSaS
papers are playing up" news of the
holding of wheat by northern farm
ers. The day reached Little Rock
all the papers prominently display
ed stories of the strike" called by
the National Wheat Growers associa-
ton, which seeks to keep wheat from
the terminal markets until the price
reaches SO a bushel.
If northern farmers are holding
their wheat for better prices, then
why shouldn't southern farmers hold
their cotton? This is the cotton rails
ers' question.
And they are holding, though ap-
parently not as tightly as they have
been urged. Reports ins Little Rock
showed the little fellowS-small ten
ant farmers who raise two to five
bales-were crowding the roads with
their little mule carts, carrying their
cotton to town to be sold. Much of
such cotton is called distress cot
ton," which means what the name
actually impliesvthat it's owner is
broke, in debt, needs food and clothes
and is selling to fill pressing wants.
But the Big Growers Are Holding
But in the case of big growers,
who hired and fed laborers, present
prices are below the cost level-and
these big growers are holding. s. Y.
West, president of the Little Rock
exchange; H. NJ. Bennett, manager of
Arkansas biggest firm of cotton buy
ers; E. J. Bodman, banker and agri-
culturalist, and many others told me
Arkansas aims to market 10 per cent
of her crop monthly, thus distribut-
ing sales and improving prices.
Arkansas cotton men are also in
sisting the cotton be picked, ginned
and stored, and are consequently OPP
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-30

500 bushels per acre. This fall it
appears as the American coffee bean.
and the seed is offered at s25 a.
Dush2l. The extravaganza of this
price is offset by the promise that
each acre of the bean will yield in
four months time a crop worth $500.
The jack bean is at most cron
OF very small value. 1t will WELD =
1alrly large crop Of green heritage.
put THIS is so extremely bitter that
IL is very difficult to get animals to
eat II, either green or as hay. Pos
s1bly 1t may be better as silage. The
Seeo' crop varies from 20 to IS BUSH
els per acre. The beans are not rel
lshed by animals, and cattle do NOT
make much gain when forced to eat
it, as determined by the work of the
Mississippi Agricultural Experiment
station. The bean is to a slight ex-
tent used as food by Mexicans and
others, >bot the flavor is very strong
and in some cases serious digestive
disturbances have been reported. The
seeds contain. much uraase, a sub.
stance used in medicine, but a few
tons of jack beans supply the worlds
annual demand for this substance.
All the evidence available indi-
Gates that the jack bean is not likely
to become of much value to Ameri-
can agriculture. Full information
concerning it Is contained in the
United States department of agricuI-
ture circular, No. go, which can be
secured free on request Of the de-
Dartmenr at Washington, D. c.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-30
Yields Total
Agriculture Department
Warns Farmers Against
American Coffee Bean

At frequent intervals in recent
years promoters have resorted to ex-
travagant advertising of the merits
Of the Jack bean, according to the
United States department of agricul-
ture, the latest efforts in this direc-
ton that has come to the notice Of
the department is unusually extreme
in it's praise of this crop: "Mr.
Farmer, So Invested in America Cof-
fee Beans and Planted on One Acre
Will Bring You in Four Months
$40O."
The American coffee bean is our
old friend the jack bean, says the
department. Ever so often it is ex-
plotted as a wonderful new crop.
Long ago it was advertised as pear
son" and wonder beam" In
1913 one advertiser called it Wataka.
or Giant Pod stock bean, claiming 1t
would yield 400 bushels per acre,
Last spring it came out as the South
American coffee bean, with the in.
formation that it would yield 200 70
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-30
NelU u. s. Method for
Making Acid Phosphate
May Mean Large Savings

WASHINGTON. D. c.. Nov. %
What may prove to be a revolution
airy development in the fertilizer in
dustry of the world has been reached
by the bureau of soils. United States
department. of agriculture. which has
just solved the problem of extract
ing phosphoric acid from phosphate
rock by heating mixtures of this
mineral. sand and coke to a smelt-
ing temperature in a fuel-fed furn-
ace. The new process has been work.
ed out on an approximately COM
mercial basis at the department.
experimental plant at Arlington. va
The phosphate used for fertilizer
in the United States comes largely
from the deposits in Florida. There
are also large deposits in Tennes-
see and number of beds in South
exploited for this purpose The
established method for producing
soluble phosphate has consisted in
treating the rock with suIphuric
acid. In practice, a quantity of sui
phuric acid equal to the quantity
of rock is used. and the resulting
product which is known as acid phos-
phate contains only one-half the per-
centage of phosphoric acid contained
In the rock from which it was de-
rived; Commercial acid phosphate,
for instance, made from a 81 per
OF phosphoric acid. The elaborate
washing and screening process now
used in preparing phosphate rock for
treatment with sulphuric acid often
results in the loss of two-thirds of
the rock. and it was with a view
to saving this immense waste of
phosphate that the new process was
evolved.
Experimenting with Heat
The United States department of
n 0Y~
for some time along the lines of
freeing the phosphoric acid by means
of high degree of heat. 1t was
first to adapt the Cottrell precipita-
tor to the collection of phosphor1c
acid. the apparatus having been pre-
viously revised by. DR.. Cottrell to
abate the smoke nuisance and to re-
cover sulphuric acid from smelling
operations. The first work was done
in an electric furnace which was
thought to be required to generate
the Ssr high nd degree of heat necessary.
gress F: At this temperature mix
lures Of phosphate rock. sand, ana
coke were reduced to a molten Stag
Which was tapped off at intervals,
the phosphoric acid escaping in the
form Of fumes which were after
wards collected in a liquid or solid
form.
It soon became evident that this
process would be prohibitively ex-
pensive with an electric furnace. ex-
cept in localities where electric
power could be obtained at a very
low cost, about $25 per horsepower
a year, and the department therefore
turned its attention to the possibil1-
ties Of using crude oil. the cheapest
fuel obtainable in the vicinity of
the large phosphate rock deposits of
Florida. The efforts have recently
met with success. and figures kept
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-30
Farm ers of Arkansas
Are Making Progress ,
In DiUersifying Crops

posing the plan of Governor John M.
Parker, Of Louisiana, who sought to
have the governors Of all cotton
states ask the gins to close for one
month. These cotton men say failure
to gin will mean deterioration and
loss.
None of Arkansas 1900 gins is
closed; a dozen have burned, appar-
emily from natural causes, that and
a sudden scare which thrilled the
state, when a negro gin guard was
murdered at England, Ark, disap-
peared when two negroes confessed
they killed him to steal his week.
pay.
II. M. Cottrell, of the Arkars. S
Profitable Farming bureau, is bat
Ting for diversified farming and bet
ter agricultural methods. This year
Arkansas raised 100000 more acres
of corn than of cotton, and peanuts,
sweet potatoes, hogs, rice and soy
beans are more and more claiming the
farmers attention. When Arkansas
feeds herself, cotton can be held or
sold, at the owners will, is Cot
trells doctrine-and it's winning
thousands of converts.
Urges Cooperative Marketing
Bodies
The Arkansas division of the Amer
lean Cotton association emphasizes
the necessity of the farmers organic
ing a cooperative body for the mar
keting Of their crops and financing
the expectation of their cotton.
1t is. also promoting an export cor
poration in the hope of selling $10,-
100000 of stock to finance the expor-
tation of the more than 100000
bales of low grade cotton now backed
up on American markets.
This is one of a number Of cooper
ative plans now making Roadway in
the south.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-30

on the experimental runs at Airing
ton indicate that phosphoric acid can
be extracted more cheaply in an oil
burning furnace than by the old SUI
phuric acid process.
One problem which department
of keeping the fuel in direct con-
tact with the rock material until
the reaction is well started. For
this purpose, and for convenience
in handling, the material is bri9uet-
ed with coke and sand BriqueMng
and retains it until the reaction is
we'll started. Sand or silica is nee
essary to bring about the chemical
reactions and this sand is largely
present; as an impurity in the Flor
with a clayey ingredient which acts
as an excellent binder in making
the briquettes" Thus the very i'm
purities which make rock objec-
tionable under the old process are
turned into an asset.
Economics Effected
The practical value of the new
development is indicated by the fact
that, in the experimental runs at
Arlington the department chemists
were able to recover 81 per cent
phosphoric acid (47 per cent PgO5)
ordinarily obtained by the sulphuric
acid process. By passing ammonia
gas into this phosphoric acid, solid
ammonium phosphate, a very con-
centrated material containing two
suits. This material can stand heavy
transportation and handling charges.
1t is also practicable to mix the
phosphoric acid with phosphate rock
in such proportions as to give q
ppGdGet acid oy pei This Gen prod
uct is similar in it's properties to
ordinary 16 per cent acid phosphate,
is convenient to handle, and may
be used by an intelligent farmer
who has the technical knowledge to
reduce the quantity placed upon nth. the
contact with seed. 1t also will per-
NIT a material saving in freight to
central plants where the product
may be diluted or mixed with other
difference between a SO per cent
product and a 16 per cent product
means-an immense saving in the
freight charges, and the release of
large quantities of rolling stock
and vessel tonnage now engaged in
the transportation of phosphate ana
phosphate rock.
While the actual cost of. the new
process in a large industrial plant
is difficult to estimate with accur-
acy, in the work thus far done,
even on a small scale, it was found
that the fuel consumption was only
about Is per cent of the value of
the product, while with the sulphur
ic acid process the cost of the acid
used seldom runs below % per cent.
This factor, together with the re-
duction of freight charges, justifes
the assumption that the new process
will be of the utmost Importance to
the fertilizer industry and to the
farmers who are compelled to use
a constantly increasing amount of
commercial fertilizer.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-30
"What are vitamines?"

WI nat are VltamlneS!
This is a question asked repeat
eddy since the Importance of these
compounds in foods has come into
prominence, but no definite answer
has yet been given. Investigations
by scientists at universities, agricul-
tural experiment stations, and in
stitutions for medical research have
revealed much information regard
ing the function of vitamines in
body maintenance and building, and
the parts of the various foods in
which they are to be found.
That vitamines are compounds alb
solutely essential in the food, in Or
der to maintain the weight of the
body and produce growth, has been
definitely proved. The lack of vita
mines causes deficiency diseases, so
of something in the diet. Vitamines
are present and are needed in such
small quantities in the food that
chemists have not yet been able to
isolate them from the many other
compounds which are in foods. For
the actual character of vitamines.
Three Types of Vitarnines
According to a statement Of DR..
Carl o. Johns, in charge of nutri-
tion work in the bureau of chem
tstry, United States department of
agriculture, vitamines have been
classified into three different types
depending upon the functions which
they have in promoting well-being
and growth.
The first type is known as water
soluble vitamines, and these are nee
essary in order to obtain growth
from food. Lack of these causes
beri-beri, which manifests itself by
disease of the nervous system and
by other symptoms. These vita
mines are 70 md in seeds, in green
plants, in certain bulbs and f1eshy
roots and fruits, and in milk and
eggs, as we'll as in certain organs
in the animal body. The seeds re-
ferred to include beans, nuts and
the various cereal grains. When ce-
reals are very highly milled in or
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-30
Results of Experiments
With rs Cotton Varieties
Announced by Station

The Georgia experiment station
conducted tests of twenty-five varie-
ties of cotton on the station farm in
1920. A fertilizer of 8-3-3 formula
was used on the variety test plots,
mixing acid phosphate, blood, sui
phate of ammonia, and Nebraska
potash, and was applied April % at
the rate of 500 pounds per acre. The
cotton seed were planted one week
later, under the direction off, Mr..
Buie, former agronomist.
Following the finding Of boil wee
wills early in July the cotton was
busted frequently and fallen squares
picked up. This IS the second year
of weevil infestation in the locality
and they appeared in considerable
number in August. Picking was fin
ished by November LIST and the yield
for the season is given, together
with the amount picked by October
1. The results are stated as pounds
seed cotton per acre.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-30
Restoring Morgan
Strain of Horses

Efforts of the United States depart
ment of agriculture to restore the
Morgan strain of horses, which had
become nearly extinct, showed their
effect in the recent 300-mile test for
army horses. Out of 81 entries, only
10 finished, and of these, the sixth
and seventh were Morgan horses, one
Of them raised on the departments
stock farm in Massachusetts,. The
horses were required to travel 60
miles a day for five days, carrying
the regulation cavalry load Of 245
pounds.