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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-07-06
HERE AND THERE.

An adage for the sheep raiser:
"Throw physic to the dogs" and let it
be of the most drastic kind.
"A given measure contains. more
weight when the individuals contained
in it are large. A bushel> of large po-
tatoes weigh more than a bushel of
small ones.
The man who can convert his feed
into marketable meat in the shortest
time is the man who will make the best
profit. II will not pay these days to
spend a year in doing six months work.
On many farms it will pay better
to feed all the surplus milk to pigs and
calves than to make it into butter.
Distance from market and ability to
turn out the best butter, are conditions
to be considered.
"A hundred bushels of potatoes
stored in cellar in fall will weigh out
about eighty-three bushels at planting
time next spring. They lose in bulk
in the same proportion.
1t is stated that an Idaho sheepman
has arranged for shipping 1,5oo car
loads of alfalfa and corp~fed wetherz
to London. This is wholesale bust
ness that ought to give good balance
on one side of the account, and will al
least be instructive.
Good cream contains from II to II
per cent. of butter fat. and six pounds
of such cream will make pound o.
butter. About 20 per cent. of butter 4
other than fat. In average butter-mak
ing the loss of fat during the process,
nearly equals the solids in the butter
other than fat
The Industrial American says Mis-.
sissippi and Louisiana will feed thii
year 25, 900 beeves on cotton-seed mea
and bulls for Northern markets. Texas
will do the same for more than $50. 00'
beeves. This is q business that is il
its infancy now. by the time the west
ern lands wear out the southwest vii
! be able to feed the entire outfit
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COTTON PRODUCTION.
Uan the Staple DO Probably Produced q
Prevailing Prices

Uan the Staple BIO Probably Produced at
Prevailing Prices
The south is suffering to-day from
''underconsumption" rather than over
production. The increase of popula-
ton and the march of progress should
demand. the present season, over TO-
600, 900 bales of cotton at fair prices.
The general financial depression limits
the worlds capacity to buy it. Hence,
low prices and stagnation of trade.
Cotton responds more quickly to finan-
cial depression than do food products.
1t is the sensitive plant" among agri-
cultural products. The external man
must suffer before the internal, and
clothing is bought in limited quantities
only when incomes are barely sufficient
to supply the table. The high tide
of universal prosperity, eliminating
first in the Argentine Republic, then
in Australia, has been followed by the
lowest ebb of prices ever known all
over the world. These low prices are
due to the worlds incapacity to buy
rather than to overproduction.
The present crop of cotton is esti-
mated at $780, 600 bales. This will
give an average acre yield of about
200 pounds of lint cotton, with about
four and one-half cents per pound to
the producer, or nine dollars per acre.
To this may be added the seed, about
twelve bushels. worth now to the
planter not over ten cents per bushel-
an extremely low price, caused by a
combination Of oil mills. An aggre-
gate value per acre for cotton-raising
is thus $1,000
Can cotton be profitably grown at
such prices? Under existing conditions,
no. emphatically no. Shall the future
crop be reduced, or shall new condi-
tions be established and the present
| size of the crop maintained? We can't
afford to surrender cotton-growing to
the competing countries of the world,
and any material reduction in our cror
would cause increased prices next year
which might stimulate enlarged pro
duction in Egypt, India, Brazil, Rus
| STA, etc. We must destroy the compe
tition of other countries by growing il
| cheaper than they can do it. How car
we do this? BY adopting new and i'm
| proved methods of cultivation, diversi
| fyiug crops, readjusting labor and
| changing our system Of finances. De
| pleted soils, unreliable and unintelli
gent labor, and high money rates, arr
the causes of low yields and unprofita
BILE returns.
The soils must be improved. Thi
can be best accomplished by introduc
ing q rotation of crops involving corn
oats, cowpeas and cotton. Corr ant
oats will furnish feed for stock (nov
largely bought in the vest, and.
heavy annual expense saved. The.
will raise hogs and furnish bacon TO
lsborers. which is now almost ex
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-07-06
HOW SHE BID IT.

It Was q Very simple Matter After ALI
Did the Best She Could.
An excellent lesson for persons in
any profession of life is contained in
the admirable reply made by the famous
Mrs. Siddons on one occasion. to some
learned questioners. When her fame
as tragedienne was at its height. she
was persuaded one day to join party
OF ladies, many of whom were persons
who might be termed ''blue-stockings."
Among this formidable assembly were
Mrs. Montague, Mrs. Carter and Miss
Hannah More.
The object Of this learned company
was to extract from Mrs. Siddons the
secret of her wonderful acting, and
Mrs. Montague was deputed to be
spokeswoman on this occasion.
pray, madam" said the learned
woman, addressing Mrs. Siddons in the
most formal manner, ''give me leave to
interrogate you, and to request you
will tell us, without duplicity or men,
tai reservation, upon what principle
you conduct your dramatic de-
meanor. Is your mode of acting, by
which you obtain so much cele brity, the
result of certain studied principles OF
art? Have you investigated with pro-
found research the rules of elocution
and gesture, rs laid down by ancients
and moderns, and reduced them to
practice? Or do you suffer nature to
predominate, and only speak the un-
tutored language of the passions?"
Ladies'" replied Mrs Siddons, with
great simplicity, and without the least
hesitation, II do not know how to an
swer SO learned q speech. All l know
of the matter, and all l can tell you is
that always act as well as cam
Youths Companion.
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Ruby Mining In Burmah.

A large quantity Of the worlds sup
ply of rubies comes from the Rurmah
mines, which have been actively
worked since the annexation OF
Burmah by the British government.
The ruby district is about twenty-six
miles long and twelve broad, and lies
ut elevations varying from four to five
thousand feet above the sea level
Some of the mines have been worked
by the natives from very remote
periods; in fact, old workings are
found over an area of sixty-five square
miles It is in the lower clay beds OF
the river alluvia, and in similar de-
posits formed in gullies in the hill
wash, that the rubies, spinels and
other gems are found. In the alluvia,
square pits from two to nine feet
across. ingeniously timbered with BAN
boo, are sunk to the ruby earth, which
is drawn up by bamboo baskets In
the hill-wash long open trenches are
carried from the sides of gully.
Regular mines are opened in some
places. in others, the limestone il
Quarried.'-st Louis Glope-pemocrat
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Intelligent Dairying and Prosperity Go
Hand In Hand.

"You show me a community of
farmers who are largely interested in
the dairy industry and will show
you community of prosperous and
happy people. no mortgages on their
farms, plenty of money, children prop
erly educated, and all enjoying the
luxuries of life. Hard times do not
materially affect them On the other
hand, in community where the COW
is left out or is of secondary consider
alton. where they keep but few. and
those not half cared for. picking up
their own living in the winter from
corn fields or straw stacks, where they
make little butter and trade it at the
stores for groceries, kick at the cream
cry, claim it does not pay to keep
cows, and i feel sure it does not for
them, and / will show you a COM
munity that is continually growing
about the times, this or that admins.
tration, etc.-Prof T. L. Hacker.
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RATS AND MOTHS.
Rules for Warfare Upon Them During
Spring Houss-Cleaning.

Rules for Warfare Upon Them During
Spring DEMONSTRATING.
In the spring there is wholesale
resurrection of domesticated insects
that fill a house-keeper's mind with
forebodings.
Furnace fires have not only kept the
family warm all winter, but also in
Vulnerable coy mice nests, the larv@
of moths and the irrepressible cock
roach. At the first warm, sunshiny
day every one Of these small abomina-
tons are up and doing unless q strong
hand of resistance is put forth at their
first active demonstration. s45
This is accomplished by using naph.
tina and benzine literally on mat
tresses, pillows, etc., that are summing
In the back yard.
Where a movable wooden washstaud
becomes infected with croton bugs or
cocluoaches there is a sovereign cure
in washing it out with hot suds, leav-
ing it open to dry in strong sunlight
and then soaking every joint of the
wood with pure ammonia To guard
against any return to the old haunts
cut few squares of stiff brown wrap
ping pape-, paint them lightly with
mucilage, dust over heavily with boIax
and lay squares in the drawers and
cabinet.
For moths there has at last been
| found present preventive. If a florist
can not supply one with sprays OF
dried English lavender the corner
apothecary will be sure to- keep it in
| packages; when on closet shelves, in
drawers and trunks it will defend ones
| wooden things against the most aggres-
i've onslaughts of the enemy.
As one by one the draperies come
down dust, sun and fold them up with
squares of tar moth paper and directly
the furnace fire is put out send for an
expert rat catcher to examine the walls
and cellar for those most offensive Of
parasites, mice that breed vermin of al
kinds. If it is a country house order
him 70 send ferrets through the walls
but in the city insist on traps and for
bid any use of poison, else the crea
lures will die in the walls and render
the house unlivable. After three days
experiment he should have coaxed ev
cry mouse from its nest and the five OF
six dollars he asks for his work is wei
invested. Where a rat catcher can no
be had buy a half dozen round til
spring traps and set them all ever!
night for a week in every suspected
spot, batting each time with a differen
dainty and scaiding the traps to cleeI
tsem in the morning. boston HcTsld
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The route to Chattanooga over the Louis
Vile & Nashville Railroad IL via Mammoth
Cave, Americas Greatest Natural Wonder.
Specially low rates made for hotel and
Cave fees to holders Of Epworth League
tickets. Through Nashville, tho location Of
Vanderbilt University, the pride OF the
Methodist Church, and along the line be-
tween Nashville and Chattanooga where
many of the most famous battles OF the war
were fought Send for maps Of the route
from Cincinnati, Louisville, Evansville and
StL ouis. and particulars as to rates, etc, to
@. p. ArMoRs, General Passenger Agent
Louisville, KY, or Gao. b. HoRNER, d. =.
A., st. Louis, Mo.
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Deafness Cannot be Cured
by local applications, Is they cannot reach
thediseased portion of theear There u only
one way to cure Deafness, and that Is bycon-
stitutional remedies Deafness iscauscd BY
an infiamed condition OF the mucous lining
of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube
gets inflamed you have arumbling sound or
Imperfect hearing, and when 1t Il entirely
closed Deafness Is the result, and unless the
Inflammation can be taken out and thistube
restored to its normal condition, hearing will
be DESTROYED forever; nine cases out OF ten
are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but
On infamei condition Of the mucous sur
faces
We win give One Hundred Dollars for any
cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
Send sor circulars, free.
F. ]. CHENEY b Co., Toledo, O.
HE-Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills, Is cents
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THx Nashville, Chattanoors q st. Louis
Railway Is the Historic route to Chattanooga
and the Southeast and the short line from
the North and Northwest, to be used by
those who desire the best facilities and the
quickest time going TO Chattanooga TO at
tend the Second International Convention
Of the Epworth League in june. Special
cara can be parked convenient to the place
Of meeting, to be occupied as sleeping quar-.
ters II desired while n Chattanooga. For
further Information call on or address Bat
ARD r. HUI, N. p. A. 920 Marquette Build
ing, Chicago, III; r. @. CowARDrN, w. r.
A., Room Insurance Exchange Building
Agent, b9W. Fourth Street, Cincinnati. O.
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PuNoENT PARAGRAPHS.

Some women are so ill-mannered
as to go right into store and try to
interrupt O conversation between the
clerks Cleveland Plain Dealer.
-Shopper-'Isn't se5 rather dear for
this?" Salesman-'The price Is $40.
That other ticket is meant to be kept
ON when you make a present OF the
article. "-Tit-Bits.
why. she actually cut Mr.. Stor-
fiington, and Storfington is one OF the
better sort" Eyes; choice cuts come
high now, but we must have 'em."-
Boston Transcript
I'm pleased to see you are better,
dear. What was it, influenza" "Infiu-
enza! Why, no, dear. had influenza
when it first came out, when Lady
Blakeborough and that set had it,
Tit-Bits.
-"Doctor, what is the meaning OF
thenpeculiar formation just back OF
baby's carp" 'Combativeness, per
haps. why. some one said it was
love of domestic life" ''Oh, well, it's
all one and the same thing. Harlem
Life.
Mr.. Mainland so You have been
established in this town for Several
years? Have you had many cures|
DIR. Jalap-''No; but You see, I've not
got along SO far as that yet. I'm only
practising just at present."-Boston
Transcript.
-Travers-"Did you go down to my
tailor's and tell him l would settle
that little matter?" Office Boy--"Yes,
SIR" Travers-"And did he seem con-
vinced?" Office Boy = HE did He
said he was convinced that you would
nt"-N. Y. Herald.
-"Uncle, how do you stand on the
enforcement of the Monroe doctrine?"
'"Ain't got no time to fool wild SIGH"
answered the old man. ''De good ole
straight Baptis' doctrine am good
enough for me, an is been for nigh
more'n thutty yeahs." = Cincinnati
Tribune.
Mrs Bordroom-"The boarder with
the musical tastes is a nuisance. We
used to make him wake up in the morn
ing by dropping coal scuttles down
stairs" Star Boarder-"And now?''
Mrs. Bordroom-"And now he's taken
to attending Wagner opera and we
can't wake him up at an"-Chicago
Record.
Among the questions sent ont by a
school commissioner was the following
example in arithmetic: IF one horse
can run q mile in one minute and fifty
seconds, and another a mile in two
minutes, how far would the first horse
be ahead in a match race of two miles?'
A teacher returned the question with
this attached: II will have nothing to
do with the horse-racing problem.
Atlanta Journal.
Grant Allen relates that he was sit
ting one day under the shade of the
Sphinx, turning for some petty point
of detail to his Baedeker's guide-book.
A sheik looked at him sadly and shook
his head. Murray good" he said, in a
solemn voice of warning; "Baedeker
no good. What for you use Baederker?'
mo, no; Baedeleer is BEST" answered
Mr.. Allen. "Why do you object te
Baedeker?" The sheik crossed hi:
hands and looked down on him with
the plying eyes of Islam. "Baedekel
bad book" he repeated; Murray very
good! Murray say: Give the sheik hal
CROWN Baedeker say: Give the she'll
shilling "-Harrison's Family Maya
zine.
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Sun HAD Hen Own WAr.-'sHave you
heard from your daughter since she started
on her wedding tourl Is she happyp Every
much so. Only think, in Venice she COM
menced to have her own way In everything,
and ever since they left Rome shehas carried
the ursel''-Taghchc Rundschau.
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The cowpeas would furnish hay NOV
largely purchased) besides improving
greatly the soil. Judicious fertiliza-
tion in conjunction with the above ro-
tation would largely enhance prod
ucts- Improved plows, planters and
cultivators must be more largely used.
The cotton chopper; and cotton picker,
Instruments now imperatively de-
manded in every cotton field, will. 1t IL
hoped. be soon perfected. If SO, their
use would materially lower the cost of
raising cotton.
The raising of horses and mules
would save many millions Annually to
the cotton planter, and they can be
raised here cheaper than elsewhere,
and will be when the diversified sys
tenn described above is adopted.
The labor system must be changed.
Ignorant negroes are poor renters and
inferior troopers. Intelligence must
direct the operations of farm, in the
time OF low prices and strong COMPETE
ton. ldleness of several months, in
cident to renters and troopers, must
give way to constant employment the
year round. Hiring for wages will
enable the planter to fix fences, make
repairs, dig bitches and haul out
manures in January and February,
months now spent in idleness by rent
ers and choppers. Every farm or
plantation should be run by hired
hands, and the wages should be paid
in cotton, or be commensurate with
present prices of cotton.
Our system of credit must be greatly
modified. The advancing merchant,
with his apparently large profits, must
go before permanent prosperity will
prevail-a very difficult task. Cotton
is now the basis of credit. 1t must be
dethroned. Personal integrity or land
values must supersede it. and lower
rate of interest must be obtained. Ex-
travagance in every direction must be
stopped and a strict system of farm
economics be universally adopted.
Greater care in preparation Of crops
for market must be exercised, and
transportation rates to market and
charges for handling in cities and
ports must all be reduced proportion
ately to prices of cotton. If all of the
above conditions and methods were es-
tablished, it is possible to grow cotton
at five cents, but the large money re-
turns of the past would be impossible.
Mary of our best farmers. who have
practically followed the above methods
for years, are to-day in good financial
condition, and are living witnesses to
their practicability. But will they be
universally adopted? No. Great re.
forms are slow in movement, especially
among so conservative class as farm
ers and planters. Many will adopt
them and thrive, making cotton here
after a money crop only. Others will
continue with the old methods to bank
ruptcy.
Packing-houses in centers of trade
would develop both the growing O.
hogs and cattle, and indirectly aid II
adopting the diversiflcation Of crops 81
essential to permanent prosperity
Canning factories would greatly aid il
enlarging the areas devoted to fruit
and vegetables. and should be estab
lished in every village. The south i
rapidly improving. The largest crop
of corn and bacon since the war hav
just been harvested. and while there i
not an abundance of ready cash, Their
is no want or suffering. Exchange.
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FARMER ANDPLANTER.
FARM MANAGEMENT.

Some Cogent Objections to His-and-Miss
Business Methods.
In these days of sharp competition,
narrow margins of profit, close calcu-
lation and the application of maths-
NAUTICAL accuracy to the conduct of al
most all human occupation, it is as
tonishing that the business of farming
is still carried on in such loose way.
In many cases it is largely guess
work.
Every merchant and manufacturer
knows that to escape bankruptcy he
must clearly observe business princi-
Piles, and must at least keep ac-
counts, simple perhaps, but complete
and accurate. On the contrary,
many farmers don't even keep cash
account; they know how much money
is in the wallet, but beyond this their
financial affairs are very misty, and
the income and outgo judged only by
guessing. more or less shrewd. Yet
farming is business; indeed, it is the
business of the country, upon the gen.
oral success Of which all others depend.
The farmer is q manufacturer, and a
merchant, and much more. OF ali per-
sons he is the one who should conduct
his affairs on the strictest business
principles The very fact that farm
ers who often utterly disregard funda-
mental business maxims and methods,
without utter ruin, is in itself the
strongest evidence that it is business
offering unusual security and WIDE
margin Of profit when properly man
aged.
Every farmers boy knows all the
tables of weights and measures "by
heart" but how little these are used on
the farm. Even the size of the farm
itself is matter of uncertainty, de-
pendent upon an old and unverified
deed or the books of the assessor.
There is no accurate knowledge of the
size of the various fields or thei4
actual product; 1t is all guess work:
The farmer gusses which COW gives thu
most, and guesses which is losing
weight and which gaining, and guesses
which gives the most milk. in a
year. and guesses which milk !;
the richest, and SO guesses at ths
merits and profits of all his stock
with very little actual knowledge as
to any, and making frequent seriou.
mistakes which are never known. AND
in the house they guess the cream il
just warm enough to churn, and guess
it won't pay to become patrons of the
Lcreamery. 1t is wonder that clocks
and watches are ever used in sucf
places, instead of depending upon tn,
sun and guessing at the time of thu
day in cloudy weather.
tape line, or a surveyors chair
in foot lengths is an inexpen
/ sive article, and every farm should
have one and use it, that tn,
size of every field may be &C
curatly measured and recorded, and tn,
exact average of every crop known. no
guessed at. And to apply the ordinar.
prudence and system to ones bushes
affairs, the farm equipment should 10
clude scales of such capacity and va
riety as to enable complete record o
everything going into the barn o
storehouse, and of everything con
sumed or sold. In place Of estimate
and rough guesses there should be
correct record of almost every occur
renee on the farm which involves tim
or quantity; product, purchase or sale
Southern Farm
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ma, as she crumpled the printed sheet, threw
it upon the floor, and stamped upon It.
sWhst is the matter, my dearlv asked her
husband. IA brand OF piano has been
placed on the market without my knowl.
edge, and have not written q testimonial
saying it is tho finest instrument have
ever used. This Is the first time that such
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That leads to health are marked In the
persistentiy, have been conveyed thifher BY
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, . potent aux
iliary of nature In her efforts to throw on
the yoke of disease. Malarial, kidney,
rheumatic and bilious trouble, constipation
and nervousness take their departure when
this benignant medicine II resorted to for
their eradication.
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OurLAwED.-Mrs. Midlage-"Aft you've
been married year or more, my dear,
you'll know better than to tell your husband
that he owes you . lifetime Of devotion"
Mrs. Younglove-"And why, prayr Mrs:
Midlage- sBecause he'll be sure to plead
the statute of limitation Harlem Life.
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the charge7n Cabman-"One shilling"
Passenger-"Wcll, that's quite reasonable.
/ knew from your face that you wouldn't
be extortionate" Cabman-ssThankee. !
knew by your face that you'd be too mean
to pay more than the legal fare without q
lawsuit. "-Tit-Bits.
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During the Franco russian war
the Germans fred o.0Oo, 900 rifle cart
ridges and s6s, 900 charges OF artillery,
killing or mortally wounding 1900
Frenchmen. showing that 400 shots
were required to kill or mortally wound
one man.