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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-11-26

Never cut downward with a knife,
for by so, doing the bark of the tree
is apt to peel and cause a bad
wound. All pruning tools should be
sharp to make clean-cut wounds that
will heal over nicely. A limb an
inch or more in diameter should al
ways be sawed. When removing a
large limb with a saw, the first cut
should be made on the underside, so
that when the limb is sawed on the
upper side it will fall away from the
tree without tearing a piece of the
bark with it.
All wounds an inch and a half in
diameter should be painted. White
lead paint is probably the best ma
terial to use for this. In q prop
erly cared for orchard, pruning
should be done every year. When
this is done, the tree suffers no Sc
rious setback by having too much
wood removed. If this is not done,
the tops become so thick that they
hinder the entrance of sunshine.
Never under any consideration leave
stump or stub.
Always cut limb parallel to the
remaining limb and as close to it
as possible. This is one of the most
important rules of pruning, but is
the one most frequently broken. A
large wound close to the body Of the
tree will heal more rapidly, and with
less likelihood Of infection, than a
small one several inches from a main
limb.
Avoid the formation of crotches
in plants, because when heavily load
ed with fruit or during serious
wind storm, crotches are apt to
split. When renovating an old
orchard, the general practice of
pruning well-cared for trees should
be followed. All of the dead, dis,
eased or otherwise injured limbs
should be removed and every effort
should be made to open up the head
Of the old tree.
1t often takes as many as three
years pruning to get an old orchard
into shape. If all the work is done
at once the old tree is apt to be sew
verely damaged. Where orchards
have been neglected for several years
approximately one-third Of the neces-
sary pruning should be done the
first year, one-third the second and
the third year the tree can be
brought to the desired shape.
Pruning may be done at any sea-
son of the year. Where plants are
growing too rapidly, it is often de-
sirable to prune them in the sum-
mer. 1t only retards growth, but
sometimes has a tendency to throw
the plant into bearing. This summer
pruning should be done just as the
tree is beginning to check it's vege-
tative growth and to divert it's en-
efgy to the formation of buds for the
next year. Removing some Of the
wood growth at this time will make
it possible for the root system to sup
ply the remaining top with a more
liberal quantity of crude food.
The tendency will be for the tree
to use this extra food in the de-
velopment of stronger fruit buds for
the following year instead Of using
it in the production of wood as is
the tendency with dormant pruning.
Weak or declining trees should be
severely pruned. Pruning is usually
done in the fall and winter when
more time is available. Pruned plants
require less material and labor in
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-11-26

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always 1t would have been proper
for you to have said t" the young
man, "Dicx, or Mr.. Brown--I hope
you will find time while you are III
Arkansas co Grlp your old frien1 4
line, just tell me what the state
looks like, and the interesting
things you ere doing while there. !
would enjOv hearing from y'u go
much" In order to expect .eturEs~
you must create interest, by show
irc real interest IN the person you
like and want to cultivate to further
ACQUAINTANCE. Don't gush, flattery is
one Of the best leads one can follow.
Find out the personal traits OF chsA'
acter in man or woman, fIatter wv
the right word at the right time, bnt
hesitate to juggle too freely with
soft soap"-smal doses, often Is q
stimulant and it will keep them alive
to "your personality" Be sincere
you can. For each person is ell
bowed with some virtue or redeem
ing trait that you can truthfully
brag about. A man likes to be no
ticed, he likes to be told he has good
taste in the selection of his ties, or
clothes. He likes to be told he has
such reliable qualities-when you
know he is quite Embellishments
him believe in himself. He will call
you Princess and lay his jewels at
your feet. Praise him, carefully and
with judgment-let him run. as
liking" in his own mind and unto
himself-even if you laugh in your
sleeve at him-he will let you tram.
pie on his heart tur ever if you APP
peal to his vanity. ....
The Auto Knitter Hosiery com.
pany, of Buffalo, N. Y, is very rs."
liable firm. Selling hosiery is avery
profitable business after once you
get started, get number Of people
on your regular customer" list frs.
and keep them supplied. Selling
magazines is another way to make
extra money. Making butchers
aprons is another, making cooks
aprons is another. If you have
chickens find a market for the eggs.
Pigeons is another good business.
Specialize in some certain kind of
business is the best way to make
money. Don't sit down and sigh and
wish you had so and SO. In the
town village or county where you
live, there are people who will buy
what you can produce if you can
produce it up to standard. To make
money you must pick out what you
can do, want to do and do it and do
it well, and don't become easily dis.
couraged. Write me again soon.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-11-26

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owI7 work. recommend your medl'
cine to anyone who is alling. You may
publish ny testimonial if you think
it will help others. Mrs. CARRIE
WILLIAMS, Overpeck, Ohio.
For more than forty years Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has
oeen restoring women to health VINO
suffered from irregularities, displace-
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ng-down pains, nervousness or 1.-THE
olues. To-day there is hardly a town or
hamlet in the United States wherein
some woman does not reside who has
oeen made we'll by it. That is why
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
oound is now recognized as the stand
ard remedy for such ailments.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-11-26
SIMPLE HOME MIXTURE
FOR CURING MEAT
Kansas City Chemist Gives Simple
Recipe for Curing Meat-Easily
Prepared at Home

Anyone, by using this easy meth
cd, may now have the finest home
cured meat for their own use or for
sale.
1t, is simply necessary to mix 81
pounds of salt with a bottle of
Wright's Ham Pickle-a scientifical-
ly prepared product containing all
necessary ingredients except salt. A
bottle cures a barrel of meat and cuts
out all fuss, bother and uncertainty.
The meat may then be easily and
quickly smoked by simply painting
it with Wright's Condensed Smoke,
which gives a wonderfully delicious
flavor and prevents loss from shrink
age and insects. You can get these
products from your dealer.
Simply send your name to E. H.
Wright Co., S56-A Broadway, Kansas
City, No. for valuable illustrated
book on expert methods of curing
meat. Also learn how you can get
a complete, best-grade butchering
set at lowest factory cost.
ADVERTISEMENT
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-11-26
The Production of Celery in
GaOrCia

G. r. c., Boston, Ca, writes:
Will you please tell me when
and how to plant and grow eel
cry and what kind of soil to
plant in? How long is to before
the celery is ready to use?
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-11-26
Caring for an Apple Orchard

1t has been said that there is
more in the land than in the man.
It is certainly true that there is as
much in the handling and care OF
the orchard as in the orchard itself.
It is a sad sight to travel about
the country and see thousands OF
fruit trees decaying and falling
again into the ground from which
they sprang so vigorously at one
time. Their appearance represents
the acme of Indifference and neg
lect. What an inglorious end for
beautiful tree to meet! why are
such things permitted to happen?
Some of it is chargeable to indiffer-
ence, some of it to incapacity, and
some of it to downright ignorance.
The Scotchman is noted for the won
derful cattle and sheep he produces,
but he is simply receiving back in
the perfection of his product meas
ure of the care, skill and affection
he has bestowed on them.
Trees respond to good treatment.
They resent Indifferent treatment.
Remember, therefore, that the care
of the orchard is essential to its
profitable production. There is moth
ing of more Importance in this con-
nection than in seeing that the trees
are properly pruned and so put in
condition to produce an acceptable
amount of desirable fruit. The pro-
cedure to follow along this line is
indicated in this article.
The purpose of pruning is primar-
n Facilitate tho nr061Ptj0n of
good fruit, and it should be re-
membered that the period Of useful
ness of an apple tree, provided the
plant is properly cared for, will eX-
tend for more than human life
time Proper care should begin as
soon as the young tree is planted.
When the nursery stock is re-
moved from the row, estimates show
that about two-thirds Of the root
system remains in the ground; there
fore, the young tree starts its or
chard life seriously handicapped.
Not only have a great many of the
roots been left in the nursery row,
but others should be pruned off
when the tree is set. Consequent
ly, it is essential to make the trans
piration surface more nearly balance
the depleted root system.
When one-year trees are planted,
the first pruning consists in cutting
back the plant to a stem about eight
cen inches to two feet tall. Cutting
the young tree back at that height
forces it to branch near the ground.
Such lowheaded trees, as they are
called, are much more easily and
economically sprayed and pruned and
he fruit is much more easily and
cheaply harvested. When the trees
are branched near the ground there
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home last night there
awaiting received in the afternoon mail
beautiful table Fern
design Do of know it? most beautifully
tufng of grandmothe and
1t by
Paul Williams and have written to her
the Womans Exchange
of of her fine work
lovely gift had
let all know that that happiness had come
to Lovingly, AUNT JULIA
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-11-26

IllO OOOAA
and after my baby
was born. | SUI
fered with back
ache, headache,
was generally run
down and weak. 1
saw Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable
Compound adver-
tised in the news
papers and de-
cided to try it,
Now I feel fine.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-11-26

spraying, of course, than unpruned
| trees.
All prunings should be removed
from the orchard and burned, and
| the ashes returned to the soil. At
pruning time, make a very careful
| inspection of the larger limbs and
bodies of the trees so that blight
! cankers and diseased portions can
| be found and removed. The wounds
/ made in removing these should be
painted with white lead and lin
seed oil paint as recommended for
pruning.
Disinfecting material put in the
paint tends to prevent the re-infec-
ton Of the wounds. Where an old
orchard is being handled, it some
times becomes necessary to scrape
the bark off the trees or to wash it
with soap to prevent or cure bark
| binding. If old trees have become
seriously bark bound, it may be nee
essary to split the bark with sharp
knife to facilitate growth of the next
season. Properly cared for trees
should not get into this condition.
The Production of Celery in
Georgia
G. r. c., Boston, Ca, writes:
Will you please tell me when
and how to plant and grow eel
cry and what kind of soil to
plant in? How long is to before
the celery is ready to use?
In this state celery should, as
rule, be planted from April to June.
| The seed should be soWn in cold
| frames or in boxes which can be
protected from extreme sunlight. A
very light covering of rich earth
| is all that is needed, as the seeds
are small. Keep the boxes well wa
| tered, and after the plants have at
| tanned a height of 3 or inches,
transplant them either into cold
| frame or into other boxes. Protec-
| ton from extreme heat is desirable.
Along in the early summer set
| the plants out in trenches which
are about feet apart. The bot
| toms of these trenches should be
made rich with well-rotted yard
manure or leaf mold. The young
plants should be spaced about 6 to
| 10 inches apart, depending on the
richness of the land. They should
be set down into the soil one-half
to one inch. AS they grow work
the earth to them and continue this
| throughout IIlS SSdSOII' II lllcllly I1lC
earth will be mounded up to a
height of several inches on either
side. This is essential in order to
secure the proper development of
the plants. 1t takes this crop from
| 100 to 100 days to mature from the
time it is set out.
Celery should be sown in moist,
rich soils. Irrigation may be neces
sary during our dry spells, or during
extremely warm weather. Excel
! lent varieties to plant are the White
Plume, the elf-Bleaching, and the
Giant Paschal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-04
 NATIONS SWEET TOOTH COSTS LESS TO FILL
By Associated Press

Washington, September 3.-It cost the nation s54.O0oOO0 less to fill it's sweet tooth during the past fiscal year than in the previous year, ac- cordng to preliminary annual statis- tics of the internal revenue bureau s40S,729,5 being spent for candy in the country as compared with $4o2,- S40,660 in 1920.
 It cost more, however, to keep the country's paws in motion, the chew ing gum bill for 1921 amounting to s44,4o5,90 as against s37,49S,100 in the previous year. Facial decoration was less costly during the past year. the amount spent on paints cosmet- ics and perfumes amounting to Sl45,- 019,1o0 compared With $l60,693,02o during 1920.
 The country's spending also fell off considerably in other lines, the total outlay on automobiles being s1,675.763,S0o as against s2.00S, ,665,oso in 1920 and on jewelry S4S6,07S.100 as against s517,272.14o in 1920.
 In the field of art the curtailment was heavy. the amount spent for pianos and musical instruments drop ping from s273,5s2,420 in 1920 to S231,S5S 620 in 1921, and the national bill for sculpture, paintings ana statuary falling from s15,431,3So in 1920 to s11163,S79 in 1921.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-04
THE BIRMINGHAM AGE-HERALD SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER A. 1921

great that if that was the one and only price to purchase your souls salvation he would ransom your soul out of hell at the price of his own"
 Just a Stall
 Some of these letters had been turned over to the post office de- rartment by the recipients, it de- veloped. and postal inspectors ques- toned the Oklahoma congressman about them He said he had written the letters to get evidence in behalf of his bill; he wanted to show that the girls were ready to fall for any thing. The publicity he gained in the press inspired the representative to issue a statement which read in part thus:
 Let the slur writers rave; the fact remains and can't be gotten away from: First, that Herrick has been in Washington since February 25, and in all that time he has done no running after women in the sense that the term is commonly under stood to mean; second, he employs no women clerks in his office. but on the contrary has full force of men clerks; third he has about a peck of replies from the silly and giddy girls which they sent in answer to his decoy letters that he sent out to gather evidence in behalf of his bill He defies the social hyenas. moral reprobates and moral lepers to prove by any evidence worthy of moments consideration in any court of record anywhere in the world that he has ever geen guilty of an act of moral turptitude in his whole life, so he is willing for the morally un- clean to howl as long and as loud as they like 1t disturps him not
 Avoids a Trip
 Herrick also asserted that two pretty Washington young women, one of whom is married, had come to his office and signed statements apologizing for having turned over his letters to the postal inspectors, and that he had given them 25 cents to buy ice cream and turned them out of the office. The sequel came on August 13. when the husband of the girl and the father of the other made an attack in force upon his off, flee and Herrick saved himself from beating by seeking the interven- tion of one of his colleagues. It developed that women detectives of the Washington police force had vis- ited his office impersonating the girls and taken his quarter for ice cream Herrick then retained detec- tives of his own.
 Herrick has unbounded confidence in his own responsibilities and that some of the letters he has sent to Washington girls express the view that within seven years he is going to be President of the United States. But the Oklahoma delegation is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-04

boys read the papers save for the sporting page. Almost never did my wife or daughter read anything in them but the ads"
 How do you figure that out?" I demanded.
 Easy enough" said the eldest boy
 Six hundred thousand saved" said the second.
 T learned long division at col lege." said my daughter
 With non-taxpayers it will fig ure at least SIP each,' said their mother. T spent mine.'
 "Yours?"
 "Of course, I mean ours, dear. But I was sure you wouldn't know about it and there was something I needed dreadfully so I bought it out of what we saved
 What did you buy" I asked with dire misgivings.
 Golf balls" she said.
 How exciting" said my daughter. "so did I''
 Here, too," said the eldest son
 Same here" chuckled the sec- ond
 So you see I am out $4s and the twelve l am going to save won't be saved till some time next spring 7 Yesterday I was reading another dispatch from Washington which said that probably the tax would be so prorated that the people in my business wouldn't save anything. But anyway we have 48 golf balls in the house, and with careful play ing on the part of the family, and good luck for me in getting caddes who are not blind like kittens at their birth, they ought to last for a couple of weeks, anyway. Copyright, 1921, by the Bell Syndi-
 cate Incl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-04

inivar Herrick, who has been dis erect in giving his life" for the pub lie printer. About all one learns from it is that he was born in 1876, lives in that part of Oklahoma known as the Cherokee strip, raises Her ricks, giant yellow corn, and copper faced Hereford cattle (both duly capitalized and represents the Eighth Oklahoma district.
 Herrick obtained the republican nomination in this district through q somewhat unusual combination of circumstances the most important of which was the death of his principal competitor al time when Herrick' s chances were most enhanced thereoy. As the republican nominee, he was duly elected and eventually arrived in Washington to take up his duties. His personality impressed itself with his colleagues to such an extent, he informed the homefolks in a letter from Washington that they wanted 10 make him speaker but he thought GiIlett was doing pretty good jub, and that 1t would be right hard on him to throw him out practi- ccally without notice. However 1t was his idea that since he was relatively inexperienced, he would probably be dDlS 10 HI luS Cudlr DeIttf SOUHe Iltne hence.
 Gives s1nside Dope''
 This letter--couched in a style highly reminiscent of a noted bush leaguer" of e-incidentally berated Washington as a city of mo modern connivance." and paid Her rick's respects to his col1eag by a comment to the effect that he would stand out among them like tall oak among lot of mushrooms, or something of that sort. He went into some rather intimate details as to the cost of room and board in Wash ington, and he told that eastern women didn't come up at all to those of his home state.
 When the speakership episode had become history, Manuel Herrick lapsed for little while into rela- tive obscurity, but an epidemic of beauty contests in Washington, spon- sored by newspaper and social cr- ganizat tions, brought him again to view. He fathered bill to make beauty contests Illegal, alleging that girls were already vain enough and that such contests lured them to the stage and to the clutches of imm oral multimllionaires and other enemies of the sanctity of the home.
 Within 24 hours after his bill had achieved publicity. it developed that he had been running a beauty con- test of his home. He wrote 49 let ters to attractive Washington girls, entries in one of the contests which had just been concluded, informing them that he was "the lonesomest man in town" and offering them "the love of a man whose love will be so
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-04
HERR|CK STARTED
 SOMETHING ID BE
 SURE AT CAPITAL
Starts Crusade Against News paper Beauty Contests, While Running One of
 His Own
By LEE LEWIS
Special Corresp Jndent of The Age Herald. |
 Copyright, 1921, by The -Herald.) l

{Copyright, 1921, by The Age EeraId.)
 Washington, September 3.-When Manuel Herrick, the best known young Lochinivar in Congress, came out of the west few months ago, it was with the intention of start ing something. Manuel Herrick can now look back on his brief career as legislator with proud satisfac- tion, for he has started something oh, yes, indeed.
 For one thing, he has the unprece- dented distinction of having been the first and only member of either House, to date. to start a beauty contest in the nations capital, with himself as the prize. His starting of a crusade against newspaper beauty contests, while incidentally running one of his own, and his nu- merous escapades, involving inter views with feminine detectives, mar row escapes from running afoul of irate fathers and husbands, and diff ficulties with his former landlady have enlivened the drab days of the recess season in Washington.
 Often times the pages of this prosaic publication, the Congress sional Dictionary. give some very good inside stuff on the hopes, fears and ambitions of budding statesmen. Some years ago, there appeared in the biographical section of that book a most fulsome account of the career of a man who, evidently. shone by no reflected light, but with a rare effulgence of his own.
 "Life' Kept Secret
 The screed covered approximately two full pages and accounted at great length the distinguished mans struggles and triumphs until he had attained that pinnacle of fame. seat in Congress. The Dictionary, however, sheds little light on Loch-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-04
-------------------s6r - PRESIDENT INVITED

Anniston. September s.-(Special) President Harding was invited to stop over in Anniston for short visit on his way to Birmingham to attend
 the centennial celebration in the Magic City, the recently organized Ciyitan club of the city extending the invitation at it's regular weekly lun- cheon meeting Friday. Other civic booster clubs of the city have been requested by the Civilians to join with them in urging the chief exc cutive to make the stopover visit in this city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-04
rREIGHT DEPOT CLOSED

On account of 1t being Labor Day. the freight depots of the city wifi remain closed Monday. This au~ nouncement is made by c. J Thomp- son, president of the Birmingham Freight Agents association.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-04

not so keen about his prospects and President Harding is said to have conferred with some Oklahomans ss to what should be done about the errant congressman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-04

Ter states that the docket Is heavS one, and that the court term Will probably last the entire two weeks and might possible be extended.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-04

COURT TO CONVENE Ar QgITMAN
 Meridian. Miss, September 3.- Special )--The two weeks circuit court term of Clarke county will De convened at Quitman Monday by J. D. Fatheree. District Attorney Mil