. The Southern planter. Potash is a most important factor incorn culture. Our practical books forfarmers are yours for the asking—nocost or obligation of any sort, and a vastfund of invaluable information in them. GERMAN KALI WORKS New York—95 Nassau Street, or Atlanta., Ga.—22;i So. Broad Street The Everlasting Tubular Steel Plow Doubletree. Guaranteed Dot tobreak or bend, hnr-DlHhed with rings orbookB for trace attach-ment. Hample ordersffent to rfsponslbleparties on trial Send lor our No. 8Catalogue lor 1906. Contain! eTtrythtnfo( Interest to DealeroruserofWhlffletraei. PATTERN N*. )0B EQUI
. The Southern planter. Potash is a most important factor incorn culture. Our practical books forfarmers are yours for the asking—nocost or obligation of any sort, and a vastfund of invaluable information in them. GERMAN KALI WORKS New York—95 Nassau Street, or Atlanta., Ga.—22;i So. Broad Street The Everlasting Tubular Steel Plow Doubletree. Guaranteed Dot tobreak or bend, hnr-DlHhed with rings orbookB for trace attach-ment. Hample ordersffent to rfsponslbleparties on trial Send lor our No. 8Catalogue lor 1906. Contain! eTtrythtnfo( Interest to DealeroruserofWhlffletraei. PATTERN N*. )0B EQUIPPED WITH FORGED manufaeturer of Farm Wagon Doubletrees. Neck Yokes and Slngletrtet. Pittsburg Tubular Steel Whiffletree CoInpanx^ SOLE MANUFACTURERS PITTSBURG - - PENNSYLVANIA. 1906.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 77 THE VERY FIRST MATCH. John Walker, an English Druggist, Was the Inventor In 1827. In the nineteenth century—the cen-tury in which so many wonderfulthings were done—the fourth step inthe development of the match wastaken. In 1827, John Walker, a drug-gist in a small English town, tippeda splint with sulphur, chlorate of pot-ash, and sulphid of antimony, andrubbed it on sandpaper, and it burstinto flame. The druggist had discov-ered the first friction-chemical match,the kind we use to-day. It was calledfriction-
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