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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-04-16

Judged by northern standards. Our
climate, the nature of the foods most
easily produced and our type Of
hogs all combine to favor the pro-
duction of the bacon hogs Grades
produced by breeding thoroughbred
bears of any Of the improved breeds
on our common stock of sows I'LL the
bill admirably for bacon hog. On tho
other hand a lard hog is exceedingly
expensive in this section. The common
stock must be kept until they are old
before they will lay on fat, while corn,
the food par excellence for making
lard. is expensive. Lard at Ave or
six cents pound and corn at 40 or 50
cents per bushcl are not in harmony.
From these facts it would seem that
we might afford to buy our lard from
the north if we would only give moro
attention to producing more bacon
enough for home use and surplus to
exchange for northern lard.-Southern
Farm Gazette
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-04-16
LARD VS.. BACON.
A Question for Those Who Raise Hogs In
the South to Consider,

A Question for Those Who Raise Hogs In
the South to Consider.
The manner of raising hogs in the
south would produce the sort of bacon
demanded by the market, and that
most suitable for the farmers table
were it not for the single fact that hogs
are kept until they are year and a
half old, and then the tendency to Law
on fat is too great. Few southern hogs
are fed too much corn. they live prin-
cipally on grass and other food which
the mild climate enables them to find
the whole year round and are only fed
corn for a few weeks before slaugh-
tered. Strange as it may seem, how
ever, in the north, where lard hogs are
numerous they are clamoring for bacon
hogs, while in the south. where the
razor-back yields the best Of bacon.
the demand is for q lard hog. The
southern people consume more lard per
capita than any other people. 1t is
to say they use three times as much as
the same number of northern people.
The hot bread biscuits which they cat
three times day, explains the matter.
It is this demand for lard that makes
the big fat hog so popular in the south
and induces our people to keep their
hogs until they reach an age and size
tar beyond the profitable limit q
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-04-16

The fences will need looking after,
and that is job not to be put off.
Drive few nails here and there where
they will do the most good. Very
likely there is part loosened by the
frost, or gate that says, or hinge
out of order. Coal tar and morter.
mixed, is good thing to stop the rat
holes. 1t is something they will not be
apt to gnaw. The drains and the sew.
ers ought to be watched and kept
clean. A little plaster, bone meal, or
superphosphate makes a good tor
dressing for pasture lands, and for all
grass lands; and there is no better
time to put it on than this, when the
coating of snow has left them soft.
Cows need a little extra care ut this
season, and chickens will repay add.
tional NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Epitomist.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-04-16
OLD WAY AND NEW.
Better Work and Better Crops ON tn.
Farm.

Better Work and Better Crops ON thu
Too many of our farmers are farming
the same way their fathers did twenty
| five or thirty years ago, some of them
| trying to raise crops on the same land,
and in all that time it never has re-
| ceived one shovelful of manure, and
still they will complain if they do not
get 20 to 80 bushels of wheat or so of
corn per acre. We shall hear the same
complaint next year in regard to wheat,
as never saw it put in the grou nd in
worse shape than much of it was last
fall. Most Of the ground was left till
time to sow, and it was SO dry and hard
it was impossible to get 1t in good
shape for seeding. Ground for wheat
should be well plowed early mot later
than the LIST of july, while it il
moist and breaks up fine 1t will then
hold moisture much longer, and when
it is time to sow it always works up
much finer and makes a better seed
bed. with much less work than the late
blowing.
In regard to sowing clover one of
your correspondents seems to think the
best time is to SOW on wheat in the
spring. have always had the best re-
suits to SOW with oats, as you have the
ground worked up and are more sure
OF a good stand. We will sometimes
lose it, after harvest, if it is too dry. on
either wheat or oats. To get good
stand of clover and keep it, think it
would pay us to sow about one bushel
OF oats with the clover and let it stand
as a protection against the hot.
dry weather we usually have in
the fall; but most of us are too selfish
to leave one crop on the ground
for the protection of another. Up to
the time of harvest the young clover
has been protected by the standing
grain, which is then removed, when
the thermometer may register 90 to 100
in the shade, and if it is burned out we
will say we can not get a stand. How
can we expect it under the circum-
stances?
Another great mistake with most of |
us is we are in too much of a hurry. do
not get the ground in as good shape as |
we should. try to get 20 acres sown
when we should have put the same
work on ten. Let us try to go little
slower. do our work better, and think
we will be pleased with the results
G. E. Miller, in Epitomist.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-04-16
JUST MARRIED.
BOW "Hubby" Orders His Supplies
Through the Telephone

Through the Telephone.
When young man Marie. and opens W
Z home one of his chief anxieties is to appeal
master OF the situation and as much like
veteran as possible. Blueton, who would BIZ
widely known by his real name, is a new ben
edict and just settled. Here is sample Sc
lected from his almost continuous converse
tion at the telephone:
Send me up a pound of carpet tacks
Number? l don't know anything about the
number OF tacks in pound. All you've go,
70 90 Is to fill my order. And, say, send me
malt peck OF nails. Tenpennyss I'm not
asking the price, am II Yes, half peck;
that's what | said. Now want saw.
private residence-Mr. Blueton's residence
It's no lumber mill. ] don't want any buzz
saw ga, or gang saw, just a regular house saw.
throw IN hammer and hatchet and a
stepladder. And say, / want a good strong
stove leg. We broke one in moving. None OF
your business who made the stove All you We
got to do is to send up the leg"
Alter swearing for few minutes Blueton
was rafting away at the grocery:
Three pounds of steak. What kinds
beefsteak, of course. We're not eating
horsesteak or sheep steak at our house.
Three yards of sausage Never mind, now,
how other people buy it. i always buy by
tae yard: gallon of coffee, two dozen
Trying onions, half bushel of oranRes-ves.
half bushel- Now, whose make Of canned
goods do you handler All right, send us a
couple OF cases Of selected, quarter of
section of cheese, half bale of lettuce. two
OF those cigar-shaped loaves of bread, a
pail of butter and sack Of sugar. Yes, just
on, put in basket Of eggs Good-by.''-De-
trOit Free Press.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-04-16

The readers of this paper will be pleaset
10 learn that there is ut least one dreaded
disease that science has been able to cure il
all its stages, and that is Catarrh Hall.
Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure
known to the medical fraternity Catarrf
being a constitutional disease, requires a
constitutional treatment Halls Cat1rrh
Cure is taken internally, acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces OF the
,ystem, thereby destroying the foundation
strength by building up the constitution and
assisting nature in doing It's work. IT
proprietors have SO much faith in its Gu a.
tive powers that they offer One Hundred
Dollars for any case that it fails to cure.
Send for list of testimonials.
Address I. j. Cheney & Co., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Hats Family Pills are .hc hest.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-04-16
HUMOROUS.

Heart Delusions.-"Howc can 4 MAJ
tell when he is really in lover" well
man is really in love when he think
he doesn't eat or sleep.
Its hahd," said Uncle Eben, "foh
er man ter excuse q boy fob bein' n
foolish at IS years OBJ age as he wah
hissef at 25."-Washington Star.
Lingering Delights ickenlooper
gets his moneys worth whenever he
buys a newspaper" I'm what way7''
He can read any joke four times before
he sees the point"
What is an aggressive policy.
grandpa?" "Well, 1t is a policy which
makes man so mad that he wants to
fight. but which scares him so that he
doesn't dare to."-Detroit Free Press.
-Financial.-"What's the difference
between wages and boodle?'' "Well,
wages is money man earns and some
times doesn't get: but Doodle is what a
man gets and doesn't earn."-Detroit
Free Press.
Reputation. = Editor - II cannot
consider your contribution; you have
no reputation" Poet-"Ah?" Editor
-"Yes, go and impose on two or three
lesser editors, and then I'll talk with
Journal.
Broke the Rule.-"This coffee, nv
DEAR" said Kickles, reminds me Of
what mother used to make" Does 1t
really?' exclaimed his wife. a pleased
look coming into her face. "Yes; and
she used to make about the worst cof-
fee l ever drank. Boston Traveller.
"A Source of Comfort. - Summer
must take lots of COM
fort In winter from that great fire.
place." Green Mountain--"Wal, you
see we don't hev much time; I'm busy
chopin wood for it most of the time,
an Johnny he's busy luggin' it in, an
ma she's busy putin it on the fire.
Truth,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-04-16

March opens the farmers busy sea-
son, and it is not wise to be caught
mapping. A lot of little odd jobs is sure
to turn up as spring advances, and it
will not do to leave them until the
work crowds. There are wagons to
mend, tools to fix, manure to be forked
over, hens to look after; to say nothing
OF the barn. and of the cows that are
sure to come in. We must begin sys.
tematically, or be left behind. It is far
better to drive the work, than to let
the work drive us. A coat of paint
here and there will make things shine,
and save wood and iron. Cut the brush
in the pastures and along the walls.
Bushes crowd out great many plants
that ought to have chance to grow,
The frost has set loose great many
stones in the lots, and it is easy to
throw them out now, or as soon as the
ground opens. Do not put it of until
the sod gets hard again. 1t saves time
to do it now.-C0r. Epitomist.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-04-16

Why isn't . wealthy actor a fixed
star?
Why can't a man save time by stop.
ping his watch?
Why shouldn't a sleepy man be of a
retiring disposition?
Why are not more sermons equally an
deep as they are long?
Why does the average young lady
pine for spruce young man?
Why don't chattering teeth usurp the
functions of the tongue?
Why should the wearer Of 4 stove
pipe hat take cold In his head?
Why does a sin look twice as big to
. man before he commits it AZ It does
after?
Why is it tina. the man who drinks
fve-cent whisky and smokes three-for-
five cigars never swears of Chicago
Daily News.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-04-16
HE BROUGHT IT FROM THE
WORLDS FAIR.
And kept it two years.
How he lost it at last.

The great Worlds Fair, at Chicago. in
Isss while Il gave pleasure to many. gave
PAIN 70 not few as an indirect result OF
their visit to the White CITY. People were
iured along the miles Of wonderful eshib-
us Dy the new marvels that met the gaze
It every step, and did not realize their
exhaustion until they dropped into a
cnair IN some breezy corner by the lake,
ana cooled off," That's what began the
trouble. In many cases Of one such case,
MIS-. 1. W. Stevens. Fort Fairfield. Me-.
MY husband took severe cold and
cough two years ago last october-time Of
the Worlds Fair, which we attended. This
cough lasted over two years, was accom-
panied by splitting of blood. and nothing
could be found to help him, although vari.
Gus remedies were tried. Several doctors
were consulted, but their prescriptions
Afforded no relief. Finally, saw an ad-
vertisement Of DR.. Ayers Cherry Pectoral
IN my paper and prevailed upon my hus-
band to get a bottle and try it. The very
FIRST dose helped him and he was com
Pletely cured in short time. We feel
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-04-16
LANGUAGE OF THE ESKIMO.

Spoken by Inhabitants Of Ten Thou
| sand Miles OF Coast Line.
! The Eskimoan language, which ID
| spoken at the extreme north of this
hemisphere, is also found in the north
Of Asia. The people have been called
Orarians, that is, jewellers on the
shore" They inhabit a narrow strip Of
country around the margin of Green
land, and to the west of Baffin's bay,
around all the great islands and down
the coast to the gulf of st. Lawrence.
and about the bays and straits to the
north; then to the west around Alaska,
and still further along the Arctic
shores of the eastern continent. They
thus extend along the winding island
and mainland coast for more than TO-
900 miles, inhabiting q narrow fringe OF
country by the sea, and obtaining their
livelihood therefrom. More than 10000
miles of coastland are occupied by q
people who speak one language.
But in Newfoundland there are tribes
which speak another tongue mixed
with the Eskimoan, while ON the
southwest coast there are other tribes
speaking mixed tongues; and the same
is true of tribes inhabiting the north
ern coast of Asia. II we call ell these
tongues Eskimoan, then the princi-
pal tongue is still homogeneous and .
cor medium for the communica-
ton of tribes occupying, as I have said,
more than 10000 miles Of the most
difficult coast known to mankind.
While there is INSTRUMENTATION, 1t
is infrequent because of the difficulties
and perils of Arctic navigation. Thus,
in all that stretch of country there is
but one language. What are the condi-
tions under which this language has
been preserved In its integrity and
homogeneity? Simply these: The ter
ritory occupied by the people speaking
this language is cut off from the inte-
rior by an uninha bitable belt Of glacial
land, so that the means Of communion
ton are to be found mainly on the sea-
ward side. The inhabitants. having
been distributed over this enormous
belt of coast from primitive tribe hav-
ing one language, have preserved that
language through all their vicissitudes
and stages of culture; while in the
where the Eskimoan ter
ritory joins territory occupied by
tribes having other tongues, we find
mixed languages. The same facts ap-
pear on the southern coast OF
Alaska, in languages differentiated
from the main stock by admixture with
rther languages. With the exception
pointed out, the Eskimoan language
IS the purest language known on this
hemisphere. So far as they have been
all other languages are COM
of at least two. and usually of |
|
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-04-16
Bought the first boz.

Il have recommended the pills to mar
women who are suffering rs / suffered.
They are the only thing that helped me in
the trial that comes to SO many women at my
age" MRS. j. H. WEAVER.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
I'D day of October, A. D., 1897.
o. c. HICKS, Notary Public.
When woman is passing beyond the age
OF motherhood, it is a crisis in her life.
Then, if ever, proper attention to hygiene
should be exercised. The attendant suffer.
follow if DR.. Williams Pink Pills are used.
These pills exert powerful influence ID
restoring the system to its proper condition.
They contain in condensed form all the
elements necessary to give new life and rich
ness to the blood.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-04-16
HERE AND THERE.

| No matter how cheap horse flesh
may be in the market, good team Of
horses is just as essential on the farm
| as it ever was, and, therefore. worth
just as much money to the farmer.
A horse trained to walk fast,
whether he be for the saddle, single
harness or team, always commands a
better PAIGE than one equally good in
other respects. but slow walker.
Cattle of any age will eat split ears
OF corn without soreness of the mouth.
which frequently results when fed on
whole ears, or on parts Of ears which
have been broken crosswise on the cob
1t is not only a waste of value, but
it is killing time. to clean out the horse
stable every day and throw the manure
under the caves, to be forked over again
into a wagon or other vehicle before il
can be hauled to the field.
AT a recent swine breeders. meet
ing in one of the western states the
president OF the association designated
the hog as freight-condenser. tax.
payer. mortgage-lifter, house-builder
and general advance agent of good
times.
The legumes should be more ex.
tensively grown. they make the best of
feeds. and. besides, they improve the
land. Those of our readers located in
southern and south-central ATTITUDES
should investigate the merits of the
stock pea.
notwithstanding the many unkind
things that have been said of the Amer.
lean hog, he is faithful and will con.
tinue to be the firm friend of the farm
er who gives him proper care and at
tention, without which the best busi-
ness on earth will not thrive.
AS the best-bred animals can MT
produce paying results without good
feeding and care, neither can the best
improved varieties of grain produce
paying crops without liberal supply
Of plant food and a thorough prepare
ton OF the seed bed followed by good
Instead of washing the legs of the
horse when coming in from a drive or
from work In wet and stormy we athar
-ub them with sawdust; this Quickly
lbsorbs the moisture, and will drv thu
limbs quicker than rubbing with
straw or cloths. and prevents both |
'olds and scratchsA I
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-04-16
A FEW REQUISITES.


The hired girl out of job cast her eagle
eye over the want notices of the newspaper.
Wanted, Wanted, Wanted" she read in
one or two-line ads, straight down the col
umn, shaking her head at intervals as il
disappointed in her search. Finally her
face lightened as she saw a loaded notice
in another column Of more pretensions than
its fellows.
She turned to it and read eagerly. Then
she threw the paper from her.
What's the matter" asked the girl with
her.
Read that" and she gathered up the
sheet and handed it over to the other one,
who read this notice:
"Wanted-A young and strong woman of
good disposition and habits, obedient and
knowing her place, willing and ready, act
i've and efficient, to cook, wash and iron, do
general homework and take care of chill
dren. Evenings and afternoons off when
possible. Apply, with references, etc, ETC."
Well?' said the reader.
ITS not well at all" responded the one
looking for work. THAT man. whoever he
is, is advertising for a wife. should say
from the advertisement, and I'm not look
ing for that kind of job just a plain
hired girls place is good enough for me. p
WashinRton Star
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-04-16
The Vow Of : BOY Henesis-

Bring to me my large revolver and my Keen
Damascus blade, and the rubber 49,. nl
used to when in gore freely wade ssaeE
snee, / say; for my day has come for murcsF
and I'm going forth to slay. shall eoforfh
to the slaughter like bridegroom 70 h.
joys, and III fill the nearest graveyard with
string of gifted boys shall brain the bar
attorney with spasm of delight and tee boy
who breaches Sundays, he shall fail before
my might On the trail Of boy physicians
lists tremble when they hear my roaring
tramp. When they strike the boyish states-
man he must say his prayers and die, when
the boy reporter meets me, mark We how
the fur shall fly For I'm weary and disgust
ed and my mind has lost its poiee; haye
read such beastly twaddle treating of ths
gifted boys.-Atchison Globe.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-04-16

very grateful for what DR.. Ayers Cherry
fectorai has done for us, and Shall keep L
constantly on hand in the house."-Mrs. L.
". STEVENS, Fort Fairfield, Ne.
Two years Of docto.ing for cough, two
years OF remedies" that gave no help, Of
prescriptions that profted only the men
VINO wrote them, and then a trial OF DR..
Ayers Cherry PectoraI. which helped from
the very hrst dose and effected a complete
cure IN short time The difference be-
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IL mas cured the most stubborn and obsti.
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effected by Pectoral in DR.. Ayers Cure
book Sent free. on request, by the ]. G.
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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-04-16
MOMAN'S FATE.
From the Record. Bushnell. III.


No woman is better able to speak to Others
regarding 'woman's fate" than Mrs. Jacob
Weaver, of Bushnell, ILL.,, wife of City
Marshal Weaver. She bad entirely re-
covered from the illness which kept her bed
fast much of the time for FIVE or six years
past, and says her recovery is due to that
well-known remedy DIR. Williams Pink Pills.
Mrs. Weaver is fifty-six years old, and
has lived in Bushnell nearly thirty years.
She is of unquestioned veracity and unblem.
ished reputation. The story Of her recovery
Is interesting. She says:
i suffered for five or six years with the
trouble that comes to women ut this time of
my life. ] was much weakened, was unable
much OF the time to do my own work, and
suffered beyond my power to describe. !
was downhearted and melancholy.
Il took many different medicines, in fact
l took medicine all the time, but nothing
seemed to do me any good
Il read about DR.. Williams Pink Pills
for Pale People, and some of my friends
recommended them hi1hly I mazda nm mi,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-04-16
cHlDED HER MOTHERS SPIRIT.


PRACTICAL Young Woman Didn't want
to He Aroused ut Night.
Kansas City has at least one young mar
ried woman who takes very prosaic view
OF ghosts and socalled spirit manifestations.
She was forced to spend night alone in a
st. Louis hotel, her husband being detained
elsewhere by business. In the dead of the
night she was awakened out of sound sleep
by tremendous noise in the wardrobe 1t
was such sudden and unearthly uproar
that the woman, sensible and practical
though she was, was frightened. The noise
ceased, then returned. The woman jumped
up. lighted the gas, and made thorough
search both of the wardrobe and the ROOM
There was nothing so far as the evidence of
the senses went which could account for the
racket. The woman put out the light and
went back to bed. The noise was not re-
pcated.
Six months afterward, however, the
woman was in San Francisco. and for the
hrst time in her life, and solely out of Gu
rlosity, she attended Spiritualistic meet
ing. Almost Immediately the medium.
perfect stranger, turned to her and said:
The spirit of your mother is present, mad
am, and she says that six months ago IMAM
ing the precise date) she tried to commune
cate with you by means of the wardrobe In
the Blank hotel, St. Louis"
lhe woman's practical good sense did not
desert her.
well, you just tell my mother" she said.
that the next time she wants to communi.
cate with me not to make such an awful rack
ct IN the dead of night and brighten me half
out Of my senses. Chicago Chronicle.