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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-07-21
RED CROSS SURVEYS !
PELLAGRA IN SOUTH

WASHINGTON, July ia sur
vey of the pellagra stricken districts
of the south were undertaken by the
national headquarters of the Red
Cross today.
Letters have gone out to all local
chapters in the south to ascertain
what is being done to relieve the
sweep of the disease which the pub
lie health service was warned may
claim 10000 lives this year alone.
Meanwhile, southern senators, in
combination with some from the
west, today renewed their battle for
relief of agricultural sections. De-
pressed conditions in the cotton belt,
according to Senator Helm, Ala
bama, and others, have not been eX-
aggerated by the health service. Sen
ator Helm advocated passage of the
Norris bill for 100000, 900 farm eX-
port corporation, which was before
the senate today as one means of re-
lief.
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LACK OF FERTILIZERS
RETARDS COTTON CROP
BY z. n. JETER

With AN average use this year of
about Sc per cent of the fertilizers
used in the cotton belt during the
past four years and with much of
this material of a low grade, indica-
tions are that this lack Of plant
food under cotton is going to mate
rally reduce the crop this year.
Specialties of the Southern Soil I'm
provement committee have spent
much time over the states of the
southeast during the last two months
and they have found that the cotton
crop generally is in poor condition.
Other factors such as late, cold
weather this spring, excessive rain
fall at planting time, and, now, the
boil Weevil, are playing a part in the
poor outlook but greater than all
else, stands out the fact that lack
of fertilization is beginning to show
up strongly in the growing plants.
From all points come the reports
of irregular stands, small under
sized plants, and dry weather. Many
farmers have made voluntary state
ments that their cotton would have
been in much better condition and
that they would have expected bet
ter results this year had they been
able to use fertilizer at planting and
later as side applications. Many of
These Same men state that they Will
not make such mistake again. They
state that the lack of plant food is
telling heavily, not only with cot
ton but with other crops. General
ly dry June would be favorable to
the crop as it permits of thorough
cultivation, deeper roofing and
heavy fruiting, but this year the
other conditions are too adverse for
the dry June to have been of greai
benefit.
On the whole. the observations of
the staff of the southern Soil I'm
provement committee lead it to be-
l1eVe that the crop will be ma
terially affected this year by the
lack of fertilizer.
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CALCIUM ARSENATE
AIDS WEE:V|L FIGHT
BY C. A. wHrTTLE


ATLANTA, Ga.-Specialists of the
Southern Soil Improvement commit
tee who have visited many sections
of the south recently report vigor-
Gus fight being made by the farm
ers to hold in check the unusually
large number of weevils.
A new method which had it's in
ception in Georgia and gained great
favor this year is the molasses-
calcium arsenate treatment. 1t at
tracted so much attention in mid
die Georgia and resulted in SO much
inquiry of the governments boil
weevil laboratory at TallUlah, La,
that Prof Coad, the director in
charge, has carried out extensive eX-
periments, thoroughly testing out
the molasses- calcium arsenate, and
contrary to preliminary studies
several years ago, he finds that the
material can be successfully used
most effective during dry weather
and while the cotton is still small.
The practice of the Georgia farm
ers as to treatment of early cot
ton has therefore been justified.
The mixture is inexpensive, which
is an important recommendation this
year. A mixture found to be effec-
tive consists OF one pound OF CAL
cium arsenate, one gallon of cheap
grade molasses and one and a half
gallons of water. 1t can be applied
in small quantities to each cotton
plant by the use of a brush.
Some farmers are buying high
grade syrup. This is unnecessary, &C
cording to the experts. The cheap
est grade of old molasses will do.
1t is reported that more than
the usual number Of cotton plant
agitaters attached to plows are be-
ing used this season to knock the
weevils off of the stalk into pans
of kerosene attached to the plow.
Farmers are warned by the experts
against violently agitating the cot
ton stalk after it has attained more
than a foot in height. More harm
than good will result from this.
Farmers are also picking up and
burning fallen squares that contain
undeveloped weevils. Since labor is
cheap this year, this practice is
considered more profitable than
usual.
In the lower cotton belt where
the crop is more advanced, more
bolls have been set than was eX-
pected in view of the prevalence
of the weevils. If the weevils can
find squares enough they will not
turn on the bolls, in which case
the Yield of cotton will not be bad
in that region, according to the OBJ
servations of the experts referred
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WANT INFORMATION
FOR PEACH RA|SERS
BY n. p. sTUCKEY
Director, Georgia Experiment Sta
fiNnN


Peach growers in several Sec
siderable number Of their peach
trees-especiaEy the young trees
during the past five years. The
trouble is indicated by slightly
shrunken bark on parts of the
trunk o fthe tree, sometimes near
trunk of the tree. sometimes well up
towards the crotch, and one or
more limbs dying. Occasionally the
entire tree dies at once, but usual
Iy they go out a few limbs at the
time. This trouble is thought to be
caused by warm sunshine on the
trunk of the tree while the cambiUm
is in frozen or semi-frozen condi-
ton. Such injuries are almost al
ways found on the south or east
side of the tree trunk; thus CIV
ing, evidence that the trouble is sun
Injury" When the cells of the cam
blum are injured by such unfavor-
able weather conditions, decaying
organisms are likely to enter anu
the trees NAV die the following
spT rim Or %ae even scar year or two later
society meets in Macon August IT
to 20, and we wish a general dis
cussion of this subject. 1t is there
fore desired that peach growers in
general attend this meeting and
present their observations and
methods of handling this type of
peach tree trouble. In the mean
time we wish each peach grower
would write US to what extent this
trouble has been found in his orchard
and if any remedial measures have
been found. We would like to
know also if some varieties are
more susceptible than others, and
if the soil type and elevation are
factors of consideration.
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APPLYING NITRATE OF SODA TO
CORN


J. r. A, Mineral Bluff, Ga,
writes: Ny corn is about shout
der high and has not begun to
tassel. I wish to apply nitrate of
soda. Should it be mixed with
the soil or placed on top, and
how close to the corn should it
be placed? How much should be
used per acre?
If you expect to use nitrate of soda
on corn which shows the degree of
maturity Indicated in your letter you
should apply it at once. We would
use this material at the rate of so to
100 pounds per acre. If the corn is
in a vigorous condition and bright
green color is in evidence, so pounds
may be enough to use. AS a rule
there is not enough nitrogen in our
land to meet the requirements of
corn and the heavier applica ton will
often prove profitable.
Nitrate Of soda should he put on
corn earlier in the season than most
people think is desirab BILE. We pre-
fer to apply it when the corn is
about knee high. We believe, how
ever, you will obtain a good deal of
benefit from its use if you put it on
Immediately. Corn needs to be lib
orally fed and stimulated during the
period of silking and tasseling. We
would scatter the nitrate of soda
down between the drill rows. It is
best to keep 1t away from contact
with the stalks. 1t should not be
covered into the soil at all. 1t is i'm
mediately soluble in water, and the
moisture rising as a result Of capil-
larry action will cause it to be alb
sorbed into the soil almost immedi-
ately. 1t is better to put nitrate of
soda on before, rather than after a
shower.
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TDalyIDQredib54&ic2@
PIoDely Gin5AtKome)

tie for her, and keep this steadily
before you. You will win out,
I'm sure.
Your advice to boys and girls is
very interesting. l am coming to
you for my first time. ! am twenty
one years Of age, loving two girls,
seventeen and eighteen. The on~
seventeen lives in the country near
home. We have known each other
since babies. l have always loved
her and have kept company with her
interveningly for four years. She is
attractive and well respected. While
off at school 1 met the one eighteen.
She lives in town. l have kept
company with her for two years,
calling every time I could leave the
campus. I am treated we'll by the
members of her family and enjoy
being in her home. She is very
jealous of me and I am Of her. She
says l am the only boy she has eveS
loved or intends to love. 1t is verT
difficult for me to make my choice.
Trusting to see this in print at your
earliest convenience and assuring you
your advice will be appreciated.
Yours very truly,
w. r. B.
1t seems that you have al
ready made up your choice, if
you are JedlOuS Ol lI6 SIS AIcSH-
year-old girl. Therefore, she is
the one you care the most for.
The best way to lind out the
state of your heart, drop the girl
you have known since childhood,
devote your entire time to the
other girl. If there are no ere
grets" for the seventeen-year-
old girl, you don't love her. If
you feel that you want to see
hoY. ho with hnr ftSbaD ic the
one you truly love. Of course
she may have a great deal of
pride and perhaps will not let,
you call on her any more, but
you will have to figure the con-
sequences for yourself.
Will you please tell me where
there is a doll hospital. I will ap<
preciate it very much. Your friend,
ROSE.
Yes, Mrs. Kate j. Glass, has a
"Dodd Infirmary," 227 Arcade,
second floor. Atlanta, Ga. You
can get your dolls mended and
all sorts of clothes for dolls, such
as shoes, stockings S1d hats,
besides clothing. Also wigs to
fit any doll. color you desire.
Also you can purchase the
parts with which to Tepair
dolls. at this place.
T, as lots of others, am coming to
you for advice. I have an extra
large fur scarf which I have worn
only a little that I wish to dispose
of and I wish to know if you can
give me the address of dealer of
lnisfit garments to whom I can send
it, Off the name Of some person
who will sell it for me-? The scarf
is in very good condition, has good
silk lining. I will sell scarf for half
price. Please print in The Journal
as soon as possible. Thanking you
in advance, ! am
FARMER GIRL"
IF you want quick results, and
a quick purchaser, the best way
to sell your fur scar, place an
"ad" in The Atlanta Sunday
= Journal 1t will cost very little
so much per line, one column.
Four lines would be sufficient.
Send "ad'' in by Friday of next
week, so it will be sure and
get in the paper in time. Write
to advertising Manager Of
Daily Journal" for particulars.
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in the square infestation and the
record of live weevils collected shows
almost three times as many found
on the plats treated with molasses
as s1o on those treated with busted
Arsenate Dust Preferable
Considering these records as a
whole it is seen that the molasses
mixture does exercise a certain de-
gree Of control over the boil weevil,
but that this is generally less thar
that secured with plain busted cal
cum arsenate. Under certain condi-
tions it was found that a much bet
ter degree Of control was secured
from the molasses mixture than with
the calcium arsenate, but this result
was noted only in the case Of very
small cotton plants averaging only a
few inches in height, and also only
during exceedingly dry weather. The
latter fact was particularly notica BILE
and is probably the keynote of the
variation in results. II seems quite
probable that during exceedingly dry
z@eather the weeVil svisit the drop
let's of molasses-Ta mixture for
the purpose Of securing moisture,
but do not follov this practice to as
marked a degree during normal
weather. In other words, the re-
suits so far indicate that busted CAL
cium arsenate is superior to the mo-
lasses mixture except during ex-
ceedingly dry weather and on very
small plants. At the present time
the growth of the cotton plants has
apparently reached the point where
the molasses mixture does not give
any marked degree Of control. Our
fairly large scale applications on an
acreage basis showed that it takes
at least one hour and half to treat
one acre of small cotton with the mo-
lasses mixture and this would make
the labor cost of the application
somewhat greater than that involved
in applying the plain dust. In view
of such results there seems to be
little reason for using the molasses
mixture in preference to plain cal
cium arsenate at any time and it GER
tainly should not be used on the cot
ton plants after they reach the
squaring stage. .-....--..
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taken it with good results and adj
vised me to try it. Twas then in bed
part of the time and my doctor said
I would have to be operated on, but
we decided to try the Vegetable
Compound and [ also used Lydia E.
Pinkham's Sanative Wash, I am a
dressmaker and am now able to go
about my work and do my housework
besides. You are welcome to use
this letter as testimonial as am
always glad to speak a word for your
medicine, Mrs, w M STEPHENS,
l103 N. Commerce St., Vernon, Tex.
Dressmakers when overworked are
prone to such ailments and should
profit by Mrs. Stephens experience
and try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound, 1t contains no mar
:otics or harmful drugs.
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|~E @ Q VS
~ ~ e. EDOCATIoN:
[Hzy1= AND SUCCESSFUL FARMING
EN=A= d. ANDREWM SoLHE
b. AKpREWM. SOOZE

ground and falls over. The
plant even when fruited will take
the disease and die. Can you give
us the name of the disease and a
remedy for the same?
There are a number of diseases
is produced by a moldlike fungus
that lives in the soil and gets into
the plants through the medium of
the root. 1t causes the leaves to
wilt and turn yellow and the plants
die slowly as a result of the at
tack. There is only one thing you
can do IN this case, and that is to
plant either free or wilt-resistant
varieties of tomatoes.
Sclerotium blight is caused by a
fungus. This attacks the plants fire.
quently at or near the surface Of
the ground. 1t causes rotting Of
the root. 1t may also attack branches
or parts of the plant that touch tie
ground. A white mold covered with
small white to reddish-brown bodies
about the size of ordinary mustard
seed, is an evidence of the presence
of this disease. About all you can
do is to prune and stake the plants
so as to aerate and dry the surface of
the land and keep the branches Oft
the ground.
Another form of blight is known as
the southern tomato blight. 1t is
quite similar to the wilt. 1t kills
plants much more quickly, however,
and this pest may destroy whole
crop within a few days. It's presence
is evidenced by the darkening of the
stems just under the bark. 1t is
caused by a bacterium which is pre-
sumed to be spread by insects. In
fected plants should be pulled up
and burned Immediately, and the 9TH
ers should be sprayed with Bordeaux
mixture containing one-half per cent
of lead arSenate
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GIRLS! LEMONS
BLEACH FRECKLES
AND WHITEN SKIN

into bottle containing three ounces
of Orchard White, which any drug
store will supply for few cents,
shake well, and you have a quarter
pint of the best freckle and tan
bleach, and complexion whitener.
Massage this sweetly fragrant
lemon lotion into the face, neck, arms
and hands each day and see how
freckles and blemishes bleach out
and how clear, soft and rosy-whita
the skin becomes.-(AdVt.) -
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Their Ancestors

A congressman said at a dinner:
81 detest the war profiteer. One
of these brutes bought last year a
fine colonial estate in Virginia. He
was showing a friend of mine over
the grounds one day. and pointed to a
quaint old private cemetery.
"'Those' he said, are the graves
Of the former owners ancestors.
"Our ancestors, his wife broke
in, proudly, are all living "-Wash-
ington Star.
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Hat Necklace

PARIS.-Strings of jet beads are
attached to new hat seen here The
model is of black straw with upturn-
ed ear flaps and a high stiff crown
shaped like a Russian diadem, with
a jet ornament of conspicuous shape
set above the brow. The necklaces
of jet beads are passed round the
hat and fall from the ear-piece on
to the wearer's bosom. They are
Of varying length. the longest reach
ing well below the waist.
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Premature

The reluctance of some of our res
taurant proprietors to cut down their
prices brings to mind the story of a
certain English profteer. He had
erected gray, medieval pile on a
mountain peak and as he was ap-
preaching it with friend he said;
Il don't know what to call my place.
What name would you adviser"
His friend stood still and surveyed
the structure. cit looks like one of
those Scotch castles in the High
lands" he remarked. "Why not call
it Dunrobin?"
q good NAME" said the protiteer;
only, you sec, I have no intention of
retiring Net."-Boston TRANSCRIPT.
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PoAAio III NY o1uSSs
I found only tenn
porary relief in
doctors medicine
or anything else
| took until my
husband saw an
advertisement of
Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable
Compound, linen
toned it to a
neighbor and she
told mo che hoo
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i am Senulng you sample OF
blower and wish to know whether
It is red or Buffalo clover. and
+ it is valuable for hay-makinG.
fhe sample of clover which you
kt to us is what we take to be red
|ver. We do not think there can
any mistake about this, but when
fried up specimen is received it is
hetimes difficult to identify it
In the same positiveness with
|ich fresh sample can be recog-
led.
BED clover, as you doubtless know,
p standard crop in the states ly-
north of US. 1t is cultivated eN-
6sissippi valley and in the east
states as we'll. 1t seems to be
|tec adapted to the soil and eli
tic conditions pertaining there
In to the south. On low bottom
Is which have been well drained
! well lined we could grow this
b to considerable advantage. We
Idly think it is likely to succeed
prove profitable on other locations,
Eever, and we believe there are
!er crops which could be grown to
ter advantage in Georgia. We are
tain that when alfalfa is properly
Rblished 1t will last much longer
! prove lnuch more satisfactory
a producer of hay or grazing than
clover.
kstroying Plant Lice in Sorghum
NV. c. c., Dalton, Ga, writes:
have an acre of sorghum that
) planted for syrup. The lice
]re eating it up and it is turn
Eg yellow and seems as II It
kere going to die. Please tell
be what to do as 1 am worried
7ver the matter.
liant lice attack many garden and
d crops. They are especially de-
but the only thing which can be
e is to spray them with kerosene
hlsion, soap or tobacco concoc-
Is. These would have to be used
zerously and your sorghum would
[e to be Thoroughly covered in or
/ to effectively protect the plants.
kerosene emulsion may be made
Follows: Take l quart of kero-
=, 1-2 pound of hard soap and 1
on of soft water. If the water
lard add boraX to make it soft.
! We the soap and dissolve it in
4 er. Then add the quart Of kero-
p anc churn back ana fortn TOT
east 20 minutes. A true emul-
should then have been formed.
bther words, the kerosene should
separate or accumulate on top.
1t add IL gallons of water IS
above mixture. This makes
Rr cent kerosene emulsion. 1t is
ng enough for use on all gen.
garden crops.
ne pound of hard soap may be
ol.c'ed in 6 to 8 gallons of water
kused also against plant Ice and
Ibodied sucking insects.
ne tobacco concoction is made by
Ing tobacco stems or cheap to-
30 in a gallon of water for one
+. using 1 pound of the tobacco.
in through a cheesecloth and di-
with cold water until the solu-
is of the same color as weak
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kGHTING DISEASES oE THE
TOMATO

D. S., Springfield, Ga, writes:
e are having considerable trou-
; in this county with disease
tomatoes. The stalk becomes
tt just above the level of the
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Got Two Orders

Boss Ito Slesman) -Well, did you
get any orders from Mr.. Tighrwad-
dies yesterday?
Salesman-Yes; two.
Boss-What were they?
Salesman-Get out of here, and
don't show yourself here again.
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GEO BE Continued)
The Zehra'S Strines

Little Freddy-Oh, papa, what do
you think I saw at the park to-
day?
Papa-WeIl, what was it?
Little Freddy-A funny little
horse that had its bathing suit on.
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Big Gift to Science

PARIS.-Baron Edmond de Roth
schild has given $1,000,00O to the
French Academy Of Science to de-
Velon researches
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DRESSMAKER
MADE WELL.
Followed a Neighbours Advice
and Took Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound

Vernon, Tex" For three years 7
suffered untold agonyeach month with
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A Poor Excuse

Her F'ather-Why were you not at
he lecture this evening?
She--I have an excuse.
Her Father-Oh, yes. I saw it,
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The Preface TO a Touch

Mr.. Goodsole-Cadge tells a pitt
full hard-luck story.
Mr.. Pstunge-Yes, it's quite a
touching tale .-.-- -..---.-a...