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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE \f l) MLKK Kdilor und Publisher ' VulAlthi 'l 'every Friday at *o. UW Broad Street and entered at the Camden, South Carolina po?t office M #?cor.d class nail matter I rice P?' rinun $2.00, payable ^ _ Camden. S < Friday Jan lb. I \ \ (is lit SSRS \\ ^ *'f 'hM *.,. ii.mi ?. r. a; pcared Ik , ,t v* a > - a'd mean- corn ril . .* ! .. : ?> a" h'K that a tax , j ., > ' ' ' ' * ?*-i * ' . . r -v-'em In tnia, we . ? t * ?* / t. , , ^ f. a Vi' t fit* ht* ii I t y ?*fi * , . f a i f liw fi'l* '1 . i. * 1 ! \ i * b U > ' df * .t*f ?. I ... a tax, hot a tux -houll , .. ,.*. al! f . a . > freight tru. ks j . , , load* I </mja't.tl <n I" the . , w ft -urn* m </ n ' ' . i a <. f 'U'l pio pe r y -.r.g a ' / ' ,M' hrui the f low .r.g ' Ma*, 'f. Star of r I * . . . f So j- h ( a. .S.na A - : a '.I a!- v. .! !. MM* a* : i ' ' K ' 1 ' ' * ' * ' t' i , ti ' . A ' . ? ? * t & . f ' * a. 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As the matter stands we tax the railroads heav-i ily, while using th.-ir own property, w h c 'a< . -en -e, at a \er s reasonable ft* . hr .r i":r.pef.tors to use oar ( property and it is not far tN mi Id \ mend I iIh-1 I a ? New - ;-.i pe! .'!.* ;. t hi"Ui;.' ' n?"* -t.lt . - h .ul.i a . nr. ' . '? I o .. - r>Ii. HeVrny I i r.* i t : . : dc legal.on. M II. .i 'h*' law a tin r. ; : * o ,r. new - pa ;> i i in fi-re a .> natte.. \ .. >u 11 . . t . i r . . t . ' ; i .:..U V :i. 1; * A ! 1 a \ r. \ r i' < li i t? I ft- *r " g '.al art. .. . Too m . -'*.. .i- n t r. i. w r; ai'.ar.d t :a.1' - r.p f v.-w - paper - n t hi - s' a' n as. 1 ; - and publn alike wou. i l.ke t . e tn. fii have rn-oe freedom r. car t.g t: c new f 11.? day tr.it n fu..> teld. I !. Kar.-a- City nies a yarn abciut ,i w.fe w h*> -aing f.?r ?ii v *.rce ' f. :i i-f her hU".h?and left her gua-ded I . | 1 , L ' ; i \ ' i . ^ .'.; i w ^ ?u?? -1 k i c l nt". i - - fv n - 1 .? I w! .I* her lord and rr.c. t> . a a w a> S. .rcely had the . nt-'d .' a I-h al pa per ... . . . - in.i '.ega" to re.'e'.v.* . . .. ?i u -! .a'.*l- - ' g if M \ , 1 it... :.:? m *' .re' ' N i- ' pi >. * N g I a:p? . , ' r a'. - .' : ' o b g It h. .; :! C * g - 1 ' : . . J . a. . , 11 W - t ? ! i > 1 ' 1 *.' '. All- J.P 1 t a .t rt a truck The . hv.r h r.a? t .jt'O merit < : - and a large one. .\ -.a i .*".ai h - huh i;ng within the M r. . f t:.. finer-, wh.nh would need *.i furr.;>'r..ng- taken, and there is nj , .ae t< t i bhers. l.o\e* Mull, prominent tn Cleveland ur.tj ar.d formerly an office executive ,r. the llouble Shoals textile mill, ra -e<i up in beti \V??<lnesxlay morning pa* p -*< . t - head and pulled trie '. r gg? * H ? mi-seti his tempi? and the r>a..et went through the upper jaw lie then ran out of the *.. u-? a: it w a - found an hour late-i y r g in .-. *.? the highway nearly frv> .ot. *.a\ ; g fallen into a branch auc - ftfted hi* clothes. Hospital surg -a \ may live. He hat! har.et"'. ou* diseases for a year o- tw i He ami hi* wife intendeti to move t Hickory the day he shot himseif. Cheraw Police Chief Shooth and Kills Man Cheraw, Jiin. 13.? A vurr>* unfor| tunafe occurrence took place on the street# of ( heraw at 1U.3U this mornng when the chief of police, C. W. Sims, wan forced, it is ?ui<J. to #hoot W J Miles in self defense. The . ncjuest, held immediately after it -ievelojH'd that Miles was k?oki g f..- > in-, tarrying '* lung stick with fi:e? i'i f< ur nulls driven in t.'.e hea.> i n<: nails sticking out the I -<le ir . i ,, i.-eclions and sharpen I'd in u j. ' A bout a half hour bef.,u "> ' Miles asKed Officer J It <,:.i'.ifn where Si run was, as r.i .) r. to see hi tit . : g I i I Mcl'heisof;, a tow n . ?.ou?e i.o.an. no? ear, Miles got in ftjj: .1- a' >u f id s?- ve i a I blocks with | him a: . oinplamed to Mcl'herson, it is said, about the >ftu er's tukir.g ad. unlade ; n.m and wanted trie town ; < ouricil to meet, hear his complaint (arid tin Mm> H.s grievance seemed to be at" w r.. - k > Miles, it i- -aid, j -1 . had the -tick. ' I h: <1 A Munch, another i ,.nj. . 11 ct i he made a .similar request a short t.rne before the shooting, it is -a.d, to haw- a meeting of the counc nr..; file S.m- Hunch asked Milei ? r.al he wa- lo.rg with that stick, to w.. f. the iat'i gave an evasive ?n- | -w,r. fta;.r.g i.i was going to stir j - metr.lf.g up < In-raw. 1 wo nnnutes before the shooting, said, Mile.- asked C. L. Martin at}> it Sims ar.fi said, "I am going to -i t:.i with him this morning." Marad\ised Miles to go home. J. M. Bur.dy tc*.stifled that he saw > iii- ami a Negro cross the street a". ' m intersection of -Market and Secmi streets ami that when Sims got to trie town hall, Bile,-;.met them and .mmediateiy hit Sims with the stick. Sims put up his left arm to ward off the blow, it is said, and Biles stepped back to strike again when Sims drew his pistol and shot, killing Miles instantly. The jury returned a verdict to the that Sims was justified in shoot.ng Miles. Miles was a young man, about 35, ur.d single. He carried on a retail grocery business here a number of year- but lately had been farming in Marlboro county. He leaves a father a <i several sisters and a brother. Reports Jail Break, Georgia Negro Free V ultrie. C,a.. Jan. 10.?-Charlie I c'te. Mouit-ic negro, tonight w.i- v liberty with c.t^h in his poc' a fwanl {<< frustrating ar 1 'tI'd . i i break here yesterday. > it'.d a week. lie''- a- :!i jail o?t a rr.:-de- ' - at.d > <-- ' < da> . a ell wi - tuts attacked Sncr.fT 1 w an ,.i i.., w hen ? * > ? I d'i..| f.i-d them. * - . -: d t ' r. i wet f! ioi ' t ; .: * i obta: } a shot gun w i'. ri w . f,,v, i .1 : trio bin k into tr.e , t ...- and '.<> . ked them in. ret !e t he:. : mk : h? unconscious "!!! Jo the lower :!-> - where he I a a- . ed. : The gro was g:\en hi- reward ' ' ?<1ji>. f dom and a goodl\ sum of ' a-h. A ' w nights ago Charlie pre- : < nted nlanm-d e- ipe of a ne- ' g: i, James t'rurr.ady, by dropping a ' ' -te to the -rieriff informing him that ' 'he ether negro with a crude key ' fa-homed from a spoon had unlocked 1 his >.efl door and was digging his way to freedom. .Mrs. 'Babe' Ruth Burned To Death W at. i ' - a Ja: 13.-- Helen 'A ri Kuf -strangi -.i wife of 1 o "vr H< ni.i ;: 11n. the home run i i- f-, en; inhaling . vis rich :. ed the iK'd . was -.tepir.u when! et l?r. ho.wa-.l H. k.nde'", -t ami ' mil" friend f the ba 1 star, i aught fire f: n de: : .ve wiring :n .i living rot :... \.though the ti e occurred Friday : ght, Mrs. Ruth's identity was not established unt.l today, when :he body was identified by two of the dead woman's sisters, the Misses 1 atherine and Nora Woodford, summoned here from their home In Soutn Boston. Mrs. Ruth, known to or neighbors a* Mrs. Kinder, was ? one in the the house when the r. . -tarted. Dr. Kinder being at thi Boston garden attending a prize gr.t at the time. All efforts to '.< him since the i tragedy have be> fruitless, so his ex'i planation of *.. circumstances are unknown Mi l.jamir. F Mcla*od, broth?-r of ex (lovernor Tho- H Mclveoi' and prominent in the ;xilitics of Charleston ar. 1 the aff.nrs of the South ( a-olina Cot- ! 1 ton ti'ower- ( o-operative Assinia-! tion, died in Charleston Kndas nigh: at the ng- ,?f <ixty-ftve. I Flu Epidemic Claims 26,000 Ijives Report j Washington, Jan, 12.?-Public health official iii a statement today ?s) lima led approKiinately 26,000 persons die : from influenza and pm;u moma in ' he United State during the seven wti-ko preceding January 5. The estimate was determined after analysis <>f reports reaching the census bureau from cities in var;ou.i partb of the country. "During the seven weeks from November 1h to Januiiry 5," the state rner.t said, "the cumulated annual death rate from influenza and pneumonia if. excess of the average f >r the co.> ->ponding period of the last four yea - was 1, 129 per 100,UUU popula'. r. in 7h large cities rep-rting to 'lie United States bureau of ce n s u s. "Tr. - is equal to an actual rate for tseven weeks of 21.7 per 100,000 Applying this rate to the popula' '. of the United States, app;..x.mutely 120,000,000, yields an est>'i '< of 26,000 excess deaths for the si weeks, at the end of which the m ality had entered a definite de? only in the western States. It ?s believed that this estimate ghly conservative,'' I r.e heaviest mortality thus far, statement noted, was in mountain '.i"es. There was a posslbi'ity, it :, that the peak of mortality may a have been reached in south At. -,c and some of the central Stale.-,. I '.e Chevrolet Motor company will month open its ninth assembly ; when a new plant with a ca y of 350 cars per day is oi>ened Kansas City, Mo. < Melius Brooks, a grocer, was k.at Spartanburg when his skuli urt> fiactured by a bandit while ne w'a- collecting near the Piedmont and Northern railroad tracks. The robber got -<!<> in money and two checks. $20 which he threw away. Mr: Brooks Inu red two days and died Wednesday The First Baptist church and Sunday School Building of Fort Worth, Texas, Dr. J. Frank Norris, pa-tor, were destroyed l>y fire early Saturday morning, believed to have been of incendiary origin, at a loss of from $200,000 to $100,000. Dr. N ris* church was burned in 1912, and he was accused of arson and per.ury in connection with the fire, but .vaaoqyitted. He was also tried about 'wo years ago for killing a lumberman. D. E. Ch op-, but pleau self lefense. and was acquitted. John ('. Au-ti: halted his t _d fori murder at Co;. .,<j. N. C.. aft< throe j juror.- had * -elected, by : , iding guilty in trie - ond degree a wa-' at I'tp e -elite! ed to 25 year- He I C':o! hi- - r. ".-law last V ruber,' ' i ' a- r. for the tragi ly i-f -'ill un-N* .w n as Austin has re -r ex: iained :'. The North Carolina orthoped hospital a' (in.stoma, during the la-t two year-, has treated 5-11 crippleti children, with 117 of them greatly bene tited or cured, and during it.- life of seven years about 3,0(HJ children have been treated there. It now has 135 beds and a colored ward donated by the late Benjamin N. Duke who died this week. It is owned by the state and its property is valued at $405,000. Odd Accidents When Wendell Jones announced to shipmates that he would soon be ma\ied Leon Fiesta congratulated him and slapjied him on the back. I' '.esta lost his balance, grabbed Jones and both fell into the ocean. Fiesta w as saved but .Tone's body never came up. Since cnildhood F.ii Amstutz, of J 1'oi't Wayne, Ind., was blinded .u one t-\e by scrofula. A bug flew into his eye. piercing the thin scum, permi*;r.g the in- w hich had beer. im- \ movable to move. Amstutz could see! j A. Lacontbe, of San Francisco, i while golfmg. drove a ball about 100, feet in..the air and accidentally hit' a seagull which was killed. Myron Fi k, aged two, of Alaban'y, N. \is t>s thing. After chewing several times at the ears of a Pekingese pet, Myron tried the dog's left eye. The poor dog will pr >babl^ lose its sight in that eye. An ostrich aboard ship en route to New York poked its head through the cage slats and a nail cut an artery in its neck. While several stewa.he ostrich the ship's surge( r, sewed up the wound. | W hen ar. airplane coursed low over | the field of Frank Miller, an A - aland, j ^ farmer, it is claimed hw cow 1 bt ,tnie frightened and died after le.-M ng over a barbed wire fence. A pet parrot bit Robert \ ..nderwa'er, of Newark, N J., on the linger. Bio ><i poisoning developed .? i resu.ted in V andem ater's death Governor Hardman of Georgia, hai asked Chair::.an John N. Holder of the state hig way board, t" resign. Mr. Holder ha- refused to do >??, and -ays he -\ ill vld the j??b until his succes.-ot Is ay-minted and confirmed :iy the - ate ate. Card of Thanks We \\ :i in thi- manner to express our sin* tharm- and appreciation for the 11 my kindnesses and acts of curtesy > : friend.- and relatives during the illr.i-ss and after the death of T. L. Wilson. The Family. NOTICE We desire to announce to the public that we have formed a partnership i for the practice of law in Camden, : S. C. LAURENS T. MILLS, J. LAURENS MILLS. January 1, 1929. Wants?For Sale FOR RENT?Five room house on 1 Mill Street. Apply to J. D. Zemp, DeKalb Pharmacy, Camden, S. C. 43 pd. TAKEN CP?About four weeks ago, one bay mare mule. Owner tan have same by proving property ! and paying for keep. Apply to! F>siek Reed. Cantey Hill, route 6. ? ! FOR RENT?Unfurnished apartment,! provale bath. Call telephone 545-J. i or apply 1218 Fair street, Camden,! S. C. " 43-45 pd. FOR RENT?A ten, two or three horse farm, new two-story house, new barn and pump. Known as the Mcbley Place, near Camden, S. C. Miss Annie Mobley, Camden, S. C. 43-45 pd. LOST?One ten dollar bill on streets of Camden between Court House and lower Broad street. Reward if returned to The Chronicle office. 43 pd. FOR SALE?At the Club market in Camden on Saturday morning the follo-wing shrubbery: Named Altheas, double white; Pink rose; Pearl bush; Juniperus Depressa; ' Golden Ligustrum and other shrub- j bery. Borden's Nursery, Borden,' S. C. 43 sb. FOR SALE?lx>vely English boxwood. two large boxwood trees. | Address Mrs. Luta Bewley Kluttz, 140 Center Street, Chester, S. C. 43-sb. 43 pd AN ANTED?Reliable automobile man to sell automobiles in and around ( amden. A good proposition to the right party. Please apply in writing giving referenced. Address Sumter Motor Company, Sumter, S. C. 43-44 sb. NOTICE#?'Scissors, butcher knives and pocket knives sharpened. A14 work guaranteed. Apply George! Tidwell, Camden. S. C. 42-44 so. TAKEN LP?Medium sized hog. Owner may have same by proving possession and paying costs and damages. Apply to (ius Hirsch, 1211 Broad Street. Camden. S. C. FOR SALE?Knglish Bull Dog. one year old. Habits good. N. B. Workman, Route 1, Westville, S. C. 1 41-43 pd. I FOR SALE?One old-fashioned ma-1 hogany table piano. Apply to Miss 1 Nannie Bradley, Route, Camden, S. C. 42-44 pd. STRAYED OR STOLEN?From farm Black mare mule. Weight 800 pounds. Notify, N. B. Workman, Route 1, Westville, S. C. 41-43 pd. TO F R ISTS ATTENTION?We" have a few nerw Atwater Kent all electric, lamp socket radio sets that we will rent for the winter season at reasonable prices. W. O. Hay, local Atwater Kent Dealer. 42-45 sb. ATWATFIR KENT'S Newc'st"product. The wonderful balanced dynamic radio set. We have had" a number! of our tourist friends to tell us', that this set has by far the best I tone quality of any and they have' heard them all. Let us demon- j strate and prove this claim with-1 out obligation. W. O. Hay, Ivocal; lh*aler. Telephone 138 and 337. j 42 sb. j WANTED?Thirty squares or any part of second hand steel roofing Address Camden Floral Company, Camden, S. C. 42-43 sb. RADIO liARGAInIc'We have'"just traded in another seven tube single dial Atwater Kent radio set (only used about six moiUhs) that we are offering at less than half price. Battery operated. W. 0. Hay, Atwater Kent Dealer. FOR RENT?-.For the coming year, three or five horse farm, in fine condition. Eight -oom dwelling with three good tenant houses. Splendid orchard, excellent school and church facilities. Address "Farm", care of The Camden Chronicle, Camden. S. C. 41*b KARL Bl'ERLB, chief engineer of the great German Graf Zeppelin, chooses the Majestic Radio.?Cam^ Furniture Company. 36 sb. FOR SALE?Near Camden, player piano, with bench and rolls. Used about one year. Will sell for unpaid balance on easy terms. For particulars address Edward H. Hart. 1615 Taylor Street, Columbia, ? c- 36-46 sb WANTED?No. 1 pine logs. HigheJH cash prices paid; year round dfl mand. Sumter Planing Mills tfl Lumber Co., Attention E. o. Boot! Sumter, S. C. 1-tf-B FOR SALE.?Dry pine wootlTTfcT'ilB 24-inch lengths, del.vered; also iM oak wood, 24 :ind .'10 inches. nI orders to \Y. A. Edwards. WeB ville. S. C., R 1. C ARP E Nlliiri cThTi s'.'Upl phone 268, 812 Church StreeB Camden, S. C., will give satiB factory service to all for all kiafl of carpenter work. Buildi* general repairs, screening, cabitifl making and repairing furnit*B My workmanship is my refereHH I solicit your patronage. ThaajB ing you in advance. 60 tB FOR RENT?HuXs^n^coachT^for J season. Looks like new, runs lifl new. Condition guaranteed f*B feet. Apply to W. O. Hay, at I A. Campbell it Company GarafB Camden, S. C. 41 ij MONEY TO LOAN?At six and'olj half cent interest on imprwB city real estate. Apply HdB Savage, Jr., Camden, S. C. M| THAT Super jjynamic Speaker B built in every New Majestic thfe Radio everybody likes to befl ?Camden Furniture Company. B (x7frXrNS~l^ J wishing curtains ^stretched pl<J apply at 904 Oampbett Stf* Prices reasonable. *B FOR RENT?Four room cottawB Broad Street. Apply to L. A. ^"B kowsky, Camden, S. C. ^B WANTED?-500 bushels field P market price. Apply Welsh Company, Camden, S. C. F O R ^KEnT^TwIK c SI County. Apply to L. A. WB kowsky, Camden, S. C. 40 i f'9 For colds,, grip! and flu take I (aLteLsl Relieves the congeitkM prevents complicatRftl and HnNrti nuwff. . 1 VOI- 111, NO. 1 VirginU-(4roliu (Ihriuicii! (^>r|Hiiuti?u Copyright Not a Wu?le Product "lit its inception the fi-rt.later in ! dustr) wwi i\ vt uatc prodm l indus try I' has become a chemical indu*tr\ r-quiring chemist* ami other ti riumai experts." S?id 1'- I. Itohin* president of tin* Notional I i-rt.liicr Assn . at the as* iriation's fall hum ting in \t!atita i*rt indent }< UK sugg< atcd that tin- word "fertilizer" be dropped frotn the associations name ami lit' rat 11r?-. ami that tin* words "plant food he substituted everywhere. V-C ? Far more than t/nrty years V-C I'lant h tux I j hate \teet i * made uiuier thexr aut i name They are nuw urrmng f'trjr third ycnrratian. < >s tii i. thai it i k? of western Texas h> t v\ ren ,'J5 and 1<) In Mil s >f labor i\ it h | ir a him ry will j ?1 i? ?- | 40 to It.JO i pounds of lint eott n from an aere | *r>f iand. sa\s the I S i> partrnent I ..f \Kriculture. In th.- blink la-It of I ?-\as it takes fit i to ?J0 hours I Itaek in the southeast, the old not t?n hilt, they put in t ? I >\? *n I DO and I Jo hours but th"\ fi rtiiize lieavn r and (!K<>\\ M< )KK <)N THAT AC."RK. J "i:\ci.IT V : THESE TWO" "In agriculture, most of our inei-jiatiua! devices thus far have tin r l\ had the clTect of enabling one man to eulti vate mor aeri-s. I |-1 11itiR nun hue s have done a little ito increase yield per ai re) hut the prineipal in- I creases have been the result of new and hoa-vv-yielding crops ANDOI'CUKMICAL i FEHTIUZKRS. Fxeept for these two factors, very little litis been done in the past 2,(XX) years to im-reuse the producing capacity of a given area."?Tin.s Economic ^\\Vnrld . hy Carver and I.ester. r v -c ? "I iiavk handled V-C Fertilizers fur 15 yiars, and 1 have never yet had to make an apology for their mechanical condition or productive qualities"?iS'. L. Warren, Mt. Olive. V C. v i k (. i x <;<><>!) DOCTKINK " \\e must increase our acre yield in cotton mo mm to turn un-rc wrm lo< ?e for other for our families and Mtork. Tl.? price f'?r cotton ih too uncertain to risk a low yield No tiutn .run make ttvit try rami ng rot I'm at a i/uortir af a bale to tla acre, even at 20 cent* a |njuiid " ? M. 1''. St wKit, Texas prixewir.ner with V-C, ^ 11IOH ANALYSIS KKUT1LIZLKS ure coining hut they'll he slow and sure about it l arincra arc ranging today among fertilizer grad< s of between 1ft'"J and 25available plant food But manufacturers arc ! already producing ami sidling? . f? rt.I./.era containing up to 40' . i Progressive fanners are leading the w ay, ami some have already arrived. There arc more ttrail a thousand varieties of cotton. __ . f% i PIO.NKFKS Cotton farmers of the old South j have pioneered \Mtli an idea They have 1'KOVKl) that earlier eott ?n, J more cotton, better cotton, can be i grown on fewer acres with less j work?if tlie plant is fed vigorously on a complete and reliable fertilizer j like V-C. Thus was pointed the way on which the rest of the world ) is starting with ALL crops. V-C ? It's not the bolls that .start but the bolls that Jttiish?the ones that hang on and mature ?these are the bolls that pjlo up your c<*ton profits. V-C does Us job clear to the end. V-C "Farmers are learning how to make fertilizer expenditure an investment and not an expense."? II. D. Wilson, Louisiana Commissioner of Agriculture. IA.CAROLINA CHEMICAL COKPOR But V-C Beats Him A Ixill weevil that enjoys Weather too hot and dry for a fiehl hand Iiiuj been quarantined by the govern. I inent in Arizona. They hope to hold him?but he ran sew himself up for the winter in tough little hulls I that look like cottonseed and ran pass right through a gin The government figures his ancestors g?>t I stranded in the desert lands uiul had to change their ways to keep going. They call him the ThurU-na weevil because he has learned to live on a wild plant of that name which I is kin to cotton and grows in the 9 Arizona mountains. Hut give him a chance and he takes to real cotton I like a dog to the bushes. Cotton farmers of the far southwest we# riding high with dry-laud crop I when he had to come along. Thur- ^9 bcria may be h;s right name, hut what those farmers call him couldn't I be published in a family paper Ilk* KI LL ROWS. Kvkky iiai.k ok cotton takes from the soil as much plant fixxi us is contained in K50 pounds of high* I grade fertilizer. v-c Something'sDeing Wasted I (Cottonseed hulls are still hung I burr.ed as useh us. But it seems like ti at's ji?st because these merry chemist boys haven't found the time I yet to work on them. Some day they'll get around to finding good 9 use for the "furfural, acetic acjd. alcohol, tar, and other hydrocarbons as well as compounds of carbon und sodium" that the U. 8. Department of Agriculture says the hulls contain. They'll be making these ex- i|gj tracts into all sorts of things. Then I watch the hull market rise! ? V-c |i Why Is the boll weevil always called "he**? It's the hen that does the damage. "Commercial fertiliser is a plant FOOD?not a stimulant. It should ( 9 supply such elements as have beeo found deficient in the soil. A com I jtlete fertilizer is necessary. -A balanced ration for plants is as m-c.-s- hy sary for the best results as proper nutrition is for a dairy cov pr s 9 hen."?C. T. Amen, Mississippi. I ATIO ,N