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The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1898-02-05

We understand that there are num-
bers of colored people throughout the
parish who, because they do not owe
anything, will not pick out the bal
ance of their crops. This is q great
mistake, aud it goes TO show how little
value some of the colored people place
upon their crops after they have paid
their debts. There are thousands OF
dollars worth of cotton IN the fields
which has never been touched, and
acres of The fleecy staple will be turned
under this spring. 1t seems to US thai
1t would pay to pick this out and pos
pone the breaking up OF this land; FOL
the cotton is there, and, although II
brings low price, is clear profit.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1898-02-05

Two or three different inquiries have
been made in the last fifteen days
about bank in Lake Providence. IL
a bank pays in Bastrop. it will pay
here; and if the railroad once comes,
we will have a bank. Over $4,000
goes through the post office alone every
year: and this amount OF business
would be done through the bank.
Besides there would be large num-
Der of depositors. Cotton buyers
would come here, as well as TO Green
vile. Mer Rouge aud other places
aroundus, and cotton would be paid
for spot cash, thus making it a great
convenience for the planter aud the
public generally. Let US have the
bank.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1898-02-05

Mcguire & Schneider.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1898-02-05
The BANNER DEMOCRAT.

Saturday, February 5, 1898.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-06-02
Use of the nabcock Test.

The use of the Babcock test to deter
mine the amount of butter fat in the
milk is not for the purpose of determin-
ing how much butter can be made from
the milk. The object is to find the
relative value of the milk. Before the
Babcock test was invented milk was
bought at so much per 100 pounds re-
CARELESS of quality. 1t was known that
this was not fair way, as some COWS
gave milk much richer than others, but
it was the best way they had. The
test is used to find how much fat there
is in the milk and in that way the rela-
tive value of all milk brought to the
factory is Observation-Disclosures Field
and Farm.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-06-02
MAKING A HOTBED.
1t should BE Located Where 1t Will
BE Easy Of Access and Shell
tered from Winds.

The ordinary hotbed consists of q
pile of fermenting stable manure COW
cred with frame and glazed sashes, in
which is layer of fertile soil. The bed
should be located where 1t will be easy
of access, but it should be on dry
ground, and not where water could flow
over the ground and about its base'
even in wet weather. It should also be
sheltered from heavy winds, and with a
full exposure to the sun. In prepare
ton for a bed the fresh manure and
long litter are collected from the
stables and drawn together to the loca-
ton of the bed, where they are placed
in conical pile. AS the manure is thus
thrown together it is packed down by
treading on it, the treading being re-
peated MS the bed is raised few inches
at a. time until the pile is finished or
to point at the top. After few days
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-06-02
ABOUT BARN FRAMES.
Description of One That Is Said
to Possess Absolute Simplicity
and Very Great Strength.

Inventions change conditions. Once
any high barn was white elephant.
Next the harpoon fork running up to a
track under the roof-peak made height
an essential Of the model barn. Then
came the invention of the hay-sling,
that final perfection in unloading OF
hay. With the sling came the problem
of waste of power, of time, in hosting
the draughts over the great beam or
ste" that in all old barns connects
the tops of the posts at the upper ends,
Not only was there prodigious waste
of energy and time in, hosting these
great draughts of hay to the peak be-
fore running in, but when 1t was
dropped from the height, if at all green,
it might pack so solidly as to "mow-
burn" at that place.
Next followed the "open center"
barn, and to-day there is no barn built
Ivy up-to-date builders with tie across
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-06-02

1t will cost you nothing unless sales are
made. We give below description OF
some of the properties now i'll our hands;
40 acres of fine land in the corporation
of Richlands, south Of Clinch River, all In
high state of cultivation, nearly one-halt
in river bottoms, splendid, new, S-room
house and all necessary out-buildings.
Price $1,000, one-third cash, residue !, =
and years. Title perfect.
214 acres of fine blue grass land, all
cleared but about 30 acres, 4-room house,
two barns with other outside buildings,
fine spring of never-failing water, school
houses and churches nearby, good fences,
about one mile south of Doran, n. & w.
r. r. Would sell in two parts. Price $50
per acre, third cash, residue /, 2 and
years.
10000 acres of the finest coal lands in
Virginia, in the counties of Tazewell and
Buchanan. Price given upon examination
Of property.
A good dwelling with rooms, at Rich
lands, $3.50, half cash, one and two years.
lnlS Is bargain.
PA acres of land in Baptist Valley, 120
acres cleared, rest in gooo timber, Groom
house, good barn and other necessary
out.buildings, water in the yard and fine
white sulphur spring 2G0 Yards from the
house, which is NOTED FOR IT'S ME-
DECIMAL QUALITIES, $4,000, half cash,
residue ! and . years.
10 acres of fine land within two miles OF
Cedar Bluff and Pounding Mill, $50 acres
cleared and ~ acres Of splendid white oak
timber, excellent water IN yard, fine, large
orchard good Groom dwelling, new barn
G0x34 feet, good stables and convenient to
house, fences and all buildings in excellent
repair. Price $500, 5000 cash, balance
in l, and years.
A farm of 75} acres in Thompson Valley,
all cleared except two acres, new six room
dwelling outside work completed, good
barn, stable, two new corn cribs, granary,
apple house, splendid spring, good fences,
$50 fruit trees selected fruit. Price 81, 800,
5000 cash balance when possession is given
next fall. This is fine bargain.
Farm of lis acres at Graham, so to GO
acres cleared, 3 good gardens, five room
dwelling, good stable, ice house, coal house,
corn crib, etc About so acres in grass.
This land can be bought at bargain.
Terms given on application.
For particulars call on
VIM. C. PENDLETON,
Tagewell, Va,
Or w. r. SPRATT,
Richards, Va.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-06-02
ASHES IN THE ORCHARD.
Their Value rs Fertilizer Ia Not M
Generally Understood by Farm
ers aS 1t Should Be.

1 do not think we place as high .
value upon ashes as we should. have
been testing their value as fertilizer,
and am convinced that on many kinds
of soil nothing is as good. Three years
ago plowed up an old orchard. When
1 seeded it down I spread unslaked
ashes literally under the trees. Last
fall when most of my neighbors COM
planned of having no fruit L had fairly
good crop. The grass was also heavy
under the trees.
Last spring 1 put in two acres Of
corn with a horse planter. The ground
had been quite well fertilized with barn.
yard manure. When l planted l put
ashes into the fertilizer box and let it
run out as fast as it would when set
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-06-02
IMPROVING QUALITY.
Why Farm Butter Should BE Made
with the Same Care as the Best
Creamery Product.

One of the problems of particular inn
portance to the dairy interests is that of
improving the quality of butter made
on a great many farms. Large quanti-
ties are made in this way and a great
portion of it is Of quite inferior quality.
1t is not remunerative to those who
produce it, says the Indiana Farmer,
and it adversely affects the general
market for good butter, because it is
transformed into ladies" and process
BUTTER" which enter into competition
with genuine butter, with much the
same results as follow oleomargarine
competition. A good deal of the butter
that is made might just as well, from
the standpoint of the maker, of the in
dustry and of the consumer, not be
made at all, since it does not pay any of
them. If this butter could be improved
In quality it would add largely to the
value of the dairy product of the coun-
try and would help its makers to earn
living. Perhaps the most serious OBJ
stacle to improving the lower grade of
dairy butter is the fact that the butter
in rural districts that is made on the
farm is so largely sold at groceries and
general stores. The buyer is princi-
pally engaged in selling goods. He
must hold his trade and he purchases
Farm butter as mere incident to his
business. he does not, and dare not,
conduct this branch of it on its merits.
He is glad enough to buy good farm
butter if it comes to the store, and he
will set it aside for his own use or for
the use of good customers, but when
the maker of poor butter brings in
batch, he is afraid to refuse it or to
pay less for it than he did for the good
butter. He knows that he would lose
the trade of the maker if he did. One
farmers wife will make good butter,
but what indueement has she to try tn
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-06-02

The latest drink out is Zipps Benny
Belle. Try glass at Tazewell Drug Co.'S
Fountain.
MIR. VIM. Hufford, of Wytheville, the
venerable father of Dr. HufTord, is in town
and will spend some time visiting his SON.
Miss Maggie Gillespie, who has been a
pupil at Virginia College, at Roanoke, Va,
during the past session, got back to Taze-
well yesterday.
Misses Olette Hartman, Hattie Surface
and Lizzie Barns, who have been attend
ing school at Southwest Virginia Institute,
at Bristol, have gotten home.
Misses Amanda Barnes and India Moore,
of the Cove, and Mrs. 7. L. Painter and
Miss Eva Painter, of Liberty Hill, are in
town on shopping expedition.
Miss Evelyn kits, who has been pupil
at Martha Washington College, got back
home Yesterday. Her brother, Mr.. FRANK
kits, went to Abingdon to accompany ner
home.
MIR. and Mrs. Joseph Barns, Of the Cove
were in town yesterday and today. Mrs.
Barns went to Giles county this
afternoon to visit her father, Hon. P. w.
Strother.
Messrs. Sexton & Walton, underwriters
and general insurance agents, place an ad-
yertisement IN the REPUBLICAN. These
gentlemen represent number Of the most
substantial companies in the country.
A gentleman of our town suggests that
if Cervera is bottled up in the 'har-
Dor at Santiago Tazewell man be sent
there Immediately to take the cork out
Our neighbor smythe says if the stopper
is corn cob he knows lot of fellows
who can draw it with their teeth.
Our Spring stock is now open and ready
for inspection. We have line of the
latest Spring STYLES in clothing. The best
and handsomest goods ever shown II
Tazewell. IL is worth your while to LOOK
them over, Hartman & Bottimore.
The Norfolk & Western Railway has
recently had printed for circulation through
the South and East a very attractive folder
entitled Summer Resorts" 1t is illus
trated with number of well executed IL
Illustrations of landscapes and places OF re
sort situated on the different divisions O.
the Norfolk!& Western. 1t has well writ
ten descriptions of the different points o
interest on the lines of this railway, and II
we'll circulated to attract favorable atten
ton to our section of Virginia
We are carrying line of clothing thl
season superior in quality to anything eve
before carried by this house. We. don
care how particular your taste may be, W.
are sure we can satisfy YOU Call and see
Hartman & Bottimore.
A party of young ladies and gentlemen
from our our townlwentlto Burke's GardeI
last Saturday on a picnic excursion. 0
course they bad a splendid time, The!
had the picnic near the spring at Mrs
Gose's. A veryremarkable feat in angling
was accomplished by Mr.. Z. l.. GreeNe'
who was one of the party. He tied
string to buggy whip and put pin hooi
on it. He baited the hook and made
cast in the stream about twenty feet from
the spling and landed, much to his sur
prise, a fourteen inch trout. This is
pretty big fish story, but it is fact.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-06-02
TaZeVell, Va.
Horn1es. Cows Are Best.

My experience in the past 16 years,
in herds of both horned and dehorned
cattle, both milk COWS and fattening
cattle, leads me to the opinion that
horns are great source of trouble and
expense to the herdsman, says writer
in the Jersey Bulletin. have found
that cattle that were of quarrelsome
disposition before the operation were
rendered as docile as lambs by being
dehorned; and in cases of milk COWS,
their product was materially increased
from the fact that they attend strictly
to business instead of chasing their
mates around the yard or pasture. d..
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-06-02

do still better when her neighbor, wis
makes poor butter, gets as much a
pound for it as she does, or what motive
has the maker of the poor better to
make it better when she gets just as
much for it as is paid for the better
butter made in the neighborhood?
Human nature is so constituted that
the doctrine of rewards and punish
ment cuts large figure with it. On
the average it does not take extra
trouble and pains unless it sees CORE
spending rewards for doing so. The
quality of a large mass of farm butter
would be very much improved if some
way could be devised whereby every
pound that is made were sold upon its
actual merits, the good butter-maker
receiving good price and the maker of
grease grease price. .,,
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-06-02

the center of It. The Shaver frame
has the open center; the joint frame
that 1 have invented has no tie and
there is no tie in the modern solid
timber, pin-and-mortise frame.
The cut illustrates perhaps the most
common and generally applicable sort
of frame possessing the advantages OF
open center, simplicity and great
strength. I supposed that 1 had in
vented this frame, did, in fact, in
vent it, yet this winter 1 have seen
more than one barn built on exactly
the same model and built before our
barn was planned.
1 have said that the modern barn has
so tie across it. This is true, yet not
just an accurate way of stating the
facts. The barn must of course have
a tie to hold the thrust of the rafters,
else it would spread and the roof sag.
Really, the tie is at the level of the
NOW floor, at II, Fig. /. From here the
strain is taken by the standing-brace,
b, to the short ties, C, C. With this
arrangement the building is quite as
solid as though the ties, c, c, were con-
tinuous.
Perhaps 1 should have stated that
the modern hay carrier has the faculty
of gripping the rope at any desired
height and taking the load in whenever
it is high enough to clear the NOW
floor or height of hay in the NOW. Thus
it is readily seen how convenient it is
not to have the tie, G, cross the path
of the travelling draught of hay that
may perhaps be quite below its level.
When we built our barn our carpen-
ter was quite anxious for fear some
thing would give way and the thing
wreck itself. 1 had no fears, yet l
watched it curiously when first we be-
gan to lift the hay. Our barn takes
in hay ut the end, from outside, SO
that it is not tied together abovd at
this end. We often hauled up as much
as 1000 pounds of hay at a draught and
not the least fraction of an inch of
giving was anywhere noted, although
I watched 1t very closely. 1t amuses
me, however, to see how anxiously
some old gentlemen even yet advise
that spike on some plank for collar
beams, for fear that it may "spread."-
Joseph E. Wing, in Ohio Farmer.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-06-02
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A PERFECT HoTBED.

it may be noticed that the pile is heat
ing by seeing the steam rise from it. II
it then customary to handle over the
manure, shaking it out and again MAX
ing it into pile and tramping it down
as before. In two or three days the
signs of heating will again be evident
and it is then ready to be made into
bed.
The bed should be made large enough
to extend at least foot outside of the
frame at sides and ends. In throwing
the manure into shape. as the pile rises
in height every few inches, it should be
beaten down with the back Of the fork
so that the material will be of uniform
density. The bed should be two feet or
two and a half feet in depth; the deeper
il is the steadier and longer continued
will be the heat. When the bed is fin
ished evenly on top the frame can be set
on and covered with the sashes. In
few days u strong heat will rise, and
when this abates. somewhat, so that
the thermometer thrust into the ma
nure indicates only IS or 90 degrees,
layer of rich mellow soil that has been
previously prepared should be placed in
the frame and spread evenly over the
bed, to depth Of about six inches. The
bed is now ready for use, and seed SOW
ing in it can commence. In the manage
ment Of q hotbed constant reference
must be made to q shaded thermometer
kept inside, and air must be given suf-
fciently to keep the temperature down
to about 10 degrees, and there'should be
mats provided for sheltering the bed on
cold nights and in severe storms
Yick'a Magazine.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-06-02
Outer That Soils Cheap.

There are many grades of butter on
the market, and it may be safely stated
that hundreds OF farmers wives do not
know how to make good butter. Every
one has some methodical way of Per-
forming the work, learning nothing and
increasing the cost and labor, only to
PIT ON the market an article to be sold
at low price, because buyers will not
take it as long as they can get some
thing better.-Troy On. " Times.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-06-02

for 400 pounds of phosphate. 1 had
splendid crop of corn.
A friend told me yesterday that he
tried an experiment in fertilizers last
year. On one strip he sowed ashes
broadcast on meadow land. On strip
alongside he put on q top dressing of
lime, and on still another q broad band
Of phosphate was used. This rotation
was kept up right along until he had
covered five acres. The result was very
favorable for the ashes. 1t was easy to
sec just where the ashes left off every
lime, and on still another good brand
blowing under rye and using ashes lib
orally. He keeps little stock and sells
his hay. Having followed this plan for
good many years he is sure that he
makes more money than by keeping
stock and sill keeps up the fertility of
lis soil.
A number of years ago l used to mix
ashes with hen manure for corn; but u
little reflection taught me that this was
poor policy. There is no doubt that the
two will not mix without loss. The
chemical union weakenS the strength
of the combination.-E. l.. Vincent, in
National Stockman.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-06-02
w,nd-Brenks for Orchards.

The orchard is benefited in several
ways by wind-break, chiefly by pre-
venting windfalls. Thousands Of dol
lars are annually los1sby apples falling
prematurely. To be sure, many apples
fall on account of worms, but there are
many sound ones also that are blown
off. AS the fruit approaches maturity
it naturally parts more readily from the
tree, and it Is no uncommon thing to
see, few weeks before gathering.
time, the crop reduced by a strong wind
one-half or more. There is no doubt
that much loss from this source might
he avoided by good wind-breal1.-De-
tofa FIELD md Farm.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-06-02

VIRGINIA: In the clerk s office of the
circuit court for Ta2ewell county,
June 1st, 1898.
The Princeton Banking Company, cor
poration, situated, organized and doing
business at Princeton, Mercer County, in
the State of West Virginia, complainant,
vs.. In chancery on cross bill,
Henry Bowen, John 6. Watts. Charles
Watson, Sergeant of the city Of Peters
burg, Virginia, and as such administrator
of William Malone, decd, Otelia Ma
hone, widow Of said William Malone,
Butler Malone, William Malone, and
Otelia McGill, heirs at law Of said Will
liam Malone, F. G. S. Watts, a. P.
Gillespie, trustee, Bank of Clinch VAL
ley, a corporation, II. Newberry, Kate
C. Peery, administrators Of w. L. Peery,
decd, John D. Daley, John w. Crock
EFT, James O'Keehe, d. q. Savers,
James Bandy, w. q. Harrison, w. n.
Surface, J. S. Gillespie and a. p. Giles
pie, late merchants and partners in
trade under the firm name and style OF
Harrison, Surface & Co. and Bowen
Watts, an infant under The age Of twenty
one years, defendants.
The object of this suit is to enforce the
lien of two judgements in favor of the said
The Princeton Banking Co. against John
G.. Watts, William Malone and Henry
Bowen one for the sum of S2l 1860 with
interest on S21, 1853 go part thereoffrom the
3rd day of May, 1891, and on $3.50 the
residue thereof from the 18th day of April,
1895, and S2097 costs at law, and the
other for the sum OF 81 ,187 81 with interest
thereon from the 18th day Of November
1892, and $3.50 cost, which said Judge
ments are subject to and are entitled to
the following credits paid thereon, the said
credits being as follows;
1898, October 25th S2O0,0O
1894 October 30th $4,000
1894 November 26th 100000
1894 December 3rd S53.76
1895, October 10th 500. SO
and 295000
1895, November 25th 1919
1896 March 18th $40
against the lands of the defendants, Watts
and Others, mentioned in the bill and pro.
ceedings in said cause, and for general relief
&c. And it appearing from affidavit on
file in said Office that the defendant Butler
Malone is a nonresident of the State OF
Virginia, it is ordered that he appear here
within fifteen days after due publication of
this order and do what Is necessary to pro-
tect his interest in this suit, and that
copies hereof be published and posted az
prescribed by law.
A copy; teste; II. BANE HARMAN,
Johnston r Hale. u, q. Clerk.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-06-02
MIX Food for Calves.

How many persons know that no
bird that flies, save one, feedsits young
on anything but flesh food. There is
only one bird that know of that does
not feed its young on insect food, even
our own sparrow, which has the power
to partly digest grain in its crops and
gives it to the young. The young
calf must have food that its delicate
stomach can digest, and it isn't ground
feed; 1t is flesh in q sense, because it
is milk. He has not good digestive
stomach at that age.-Jonathap Peri
am.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-06-02
HINTS FOR DAIRYMEN.

A large mouth in COW is one in
dication of good digestion.
Get good knowledge of the dairy be-
fore you look for good herd.
Keep good clover hay. if you have
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-06-02

fence on many farms to carry away to
the dairy each pail as soon as it is filed.
Fhe sketch shows handy shelfoutside
the cattle quarters, but reached from
within. AS each pail is filled the slide
is pushed back and the pail is set out on
the shelf, where it is protected hv the