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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-05-05
ABOUT BERMUDA GRASS.
Farmer Jones Tells His Brother
Earsaers what He Knows
AbOut Bermuda Grass.

Much has been said and writer
about bermuda grass.
What soil suits it? is it a good ha,
grass, and good grrss for grazing:
Also what is best mode of destroying
the sod when once set?
have grown this grass for fifteen
years, and find it like vegetation
grows best in good soil. but will take
hold on poor washed land and in gull
lies and will soon improve the poores,
soil.
On strong clay land it does well,
but l prefer sandy loan, or rich
bottom for "a profitable hay crop.
I prefer Rermnda hay even to tim
cthy and on good mellow soils it will
produce from two to three cuttings
annually.
mode Of eradicating this grass when
once well set, is to plow up and SOW
In cow peas that the shede of the pea
vines will kill it out. ! have never
seen this done nor do i think il will in
any reasonable number of years.
/ have found the only way 1 can
kill it out is to plow it up with a
small sharp sco0ters harrow with ro-
tary harrow, which throws it up in
lunches, then take team and. wagon
and pitch fork, load it and haul to
some gully or washed place or pasture
lands which will pay you for hauling.
or yosi may take the roots and throw
them ont to dry, then stack for winter
nse. You will lind mules and cattle
win eat them and keep sleek and fat
IN them ~ a fodder.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-05-05
HERE AND THERE.

When Sambo is supplanted by the
mechanical cotton harvester, il will Lc
time for the horse to take fright at tine
automobile.
The very common opinion that a
bee, after using and losing its sting,
dies, is an error. Bees seem to suffer
10 Inconvenience from the loss, except
that in war tim. are without weapon.
There is "a natural affinity between
hogs and mother earth, and they
should never be separated. Hogs.
whether young or old, should At all
times have access to the ground.
The Florida experiment station
mas proved that the fsttening proper
ties Of five articles of food us follows.
Cassava, 95.a per cent; corn, are 20
per cent; gorbus, 32.2 PER cent; pin
ders. 24.2 per cent; chufas, per cent.
An occasional feed of cut veye-
tables like potatoes. turnips, beets,
carrots, and apples fed raw in
troughs, add to the variety Of grren
stun. and are greatly enjoyed by the
fowls.
--Ensilage ID better TRAN dry fodder,
especially for milch cows. The differ
ence between dry fodder and the same
fodder made into ensilsge il in the ws-
ter the latter contains, and yet We can
not combine the dry fodder with wa
ter and make 1t equal silage in feed
ing value.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-05-05

have tried this with crafty Ing r
feet. After taking the bulk of The
grass of the land as above, plow thor
oughly, breaking every ridge, and cult.
vate fast through the summer in cot
ton or corn and You will have no grass
to trouble you. The thing to do is 70
keep the roots Sd stirred that they cen
not take n strong hold.
As = grazing grass there can not l,e
better nor more lasting one. In tine
south it affords grazing from the 18th
of April to last of November, end ii not
fed too close in summer stock will eat
the dead tops all winter even to the
surface of the ground.
When / have had Bermuda thicklv
sodded l have plowed it up, sown in
oats in fall and narrowed well and
have had oats to grow on it three to
four feet high where land was good.
i have plowed nr the sod with
small scooter. breaking both ways. or
cross breaking. 1 plowed in medium
corn, cultivated fast and made line
corn. Jf you will keep the sods finely
broken it does not injure corn at all.
If you think this worthy of space in
your valuable paper place it there,
some one may profit by -it.-Only a
Farn,er-JOnes, in Southern Cultiva-
tor.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-05-05
A Concealed DANCER.

The presnt price of cotton. owing
entirely to the shortness Of the crop,
possesses a concealed danger to grow
ers. 1t is now certain that the acreage
will be increased this year, but to
what extent is unknown. There is but
one way to keep production within
the limit that it will result in fair
prices, and that is to SO diversity crops
that overproduction of cotton will be
practically impossible. 1t used to be
said that the world had only certain
amount of money to spend for raw
cotton, and that whether the crop was
large or small it would command that
amount, and neither more nor less.
The fact is, as revealed by statistics,
the smaller the crop, the more money
it brings. II farmers, misled by the
ignis fatuus of present prices, grow
a large crop this year, expecting eight,
or nine, or ten cents per pound in the
fall, they will recover from the illusion
and came crawling out from under .
pile of digust as high as q Dakota hay
rick.-Farm and Ranch.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-05-05
LONC-DlSTANCE MOVING,
A Common Thing to Move HsssehelA
Goods . Hundred or thousand
Miles, or More.

Every year there il in the United
States more and more long distance
moving of household effects, from one
city or one part of the country to an
other. Such moving has increased ten
fold in the past half dozen years.
There isn't . day in the year when
the larger storage and van companies
here in New York would not have one
or two shipments of this sort of house.
hold goods coming in from, or going
to, places so or 100 or 1000 or more
miles distant. OF course there has
always been more or less of such NOV
ing. Some of the increase in it is
due to the increase in population; but
much the greater part of it is due
to modern multiplied means Of easy
communication and to the systematic
ing of modern moving methods. So
far as the actual moving is concerned,
that need not be any annoyance to the
mover in these modern times. II he
does not want to bother about it him.
self he has only to put the key of
his house into the hands of . concern
that does this sort of business, and IL
will literally do the rest, down to and
the taking up of the car
pets, attending to absolutely every
thing, and packing and shipping these
goods and delivering them in Kam-
or anywhere else in the world.
putting them into his house there IL
he SO desires, without calling for any
whatever on the part Of the
owner except to pay the bill.
Various reasons lead people to this
sort Of moving, business reasons being
the most common. A man may have
business interests that. will take him
from here to Chicago for year or ten
years, or permanently. There are .
dozen or twenty or more passenger
trains daily between here and Chica-
20, and as far as distance is con-
.erned the thousand miles is to the
practically nothing; it is .
lays journey. The same idea holds
With regard to the movement of goods.
N. Y. Sun.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-05-05
AN INVENTIVE RACE
Produced the Go-Aheaa
Yankee.

The inventor is the man of the
hour. British manufacturers do not
seem to realize, and British mechanics
certainly do not realize, that they
are engaged in . close struggle for
industrial supremacy-that is, exist
ence-with eight or nine eager ma
tions, and especially with the 6O,oo0,-
600 people of the United States of
America; that within the last 20
years industrial conditions have en-
tirely changed, and that since Brit
ain came into direct industrial con-
fiict with the states the contest has
been in favor of our cousins. 1t is .
matter of some Importance, then, to
consider whence the Yankees derive
their world-famed inventive powers.
Al in most other questions of the
kind, numerous answers have been
provided, from the Nova Scotian the
ory of pure cussedness," to be differ
ent from old effete Europe, to elabor-
ate dissertations on the New England
climate. But Can . nation be born
in . day?" Least Of all, can day pro-
duce q nation of inventors whose
works supplant those Of all other ma
tions.
II we are to understand the Ameri-
can. we must examine him from the
days of the Mayflower;; and we shall
find that not one but many condi-
tions, some of them entirely new in
the history of man, have united to
make him what he is. Longfellow il
probably right when he says that the
choice of three nations was taken to
provide "the seed for that sowing"
which after generations would see
growing into the great republic; but
unquestionably the faith the 'seed"
carried with them was an excellent
foundation for a nation. Carlisle
never tires of telling us that belief
makes men strong;" but one cannot
help thinking that it very much de-
pends on what the men believe in
at least, the object of belief makes
difference in the result
ing strength. Yankee quickness Of in.
tellect and the Yankee inventive fac
ulty had their foundation insthe creed,
SAoS OCAA~As VI ACASiVus tu0S tuCy
took with them to America.
A creed like TIE old Egyptian one
would have led them to build huge
temples and splendid monuments, and
all their energies would have been alb
sorbed in stone; but the Puritan
creed was strongly opposed to tenn
pies of any kind, very much prefer
ring superior men and women to
scenic display. % that the energy of
the emigrants was free to take all
kinds of useful practical shapes.
America would never have been a for
rival Of Britain If the whole
continent had been settled by build
rs of fine churches. The pilgrim fa-
hers, well taught, shretd and acute
men, were driven to Boston by their
reed, the practical leading whereof
vas the right to thoroughly. search
he Bible for themselves, to form opin-
ons from it, and to carry out the
they arrived at. Now,
hat a nation built on such q founda-
ion must be an intellectually strong
lation hardly needs demonstration.
let it be understood that what is here
written refers only to the New Eng.
and states, the real Yankee land,
md the Quaker state of Pennsylva-
ia. These are the true source and
upport Of American inventiveness.-
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-05-05
THE STRAWBERRY BED.
the Plant that n Followed by
the Hest Fruit.

| When strawberry plants are In
bloom. any amateur may learn the diff.
ferences that mark the productive and
barren Sorts The large snowy
blooms, filled with bright yellow
stamens are the barren sort. Smaller
sized blooms with heads Of pistils
like small, green Strawberries, are the
fertile sorts. The barren plants are
the most vigorous and if let alone
will Out-grow the fertile plants. Then
the strawberry bed will be as white u
snow but will produce nc berries, and
pc rsons say the plants have run out.
They have only run out in the sense
of not having pistillate plants to fer
tilize the staminate blooms. This is IN
important fact with Strawberries. Ex-
anime bed when in bloom, and mark
the fertile plants, and when a new bed
is set, allow one fertile to every seven
barren plants. That is the writer's
rule, although some expert straw
berry culturists have one fertile to
every ten barren plants. Thus
planted, they will equalize themselves
by full crop of berries, not an unpro-
ductive plant being amcng them.
Of course, good culture must he given,
but that is another consideration
from having the plants pistillate or
fertile and staminate or barren, prop
erly interspersed. Eotanically the
strawberry should produce both
staments and pistils in each flower and
every flower should produce a berry.
This is the case with the alpine and
the wildwood Strawberries, but not so
with the cultivated. hybridized md
perfected berries. To be sure each
bloom may have both stamcns and pig
ills, yet the latter may be 50 few that
their natural functions are Intellectual
to produce berries.
There is very good plan adopted
hy many Of making u small bed enc
tirely CT fertile plants, SO as to have q
reserve supply TO draw upon, for
every year, bed ought to be caro-
fully noticed, and pistilates reset,
wherever the strong growing stami-
mates have overgrown them. Clipping
the runners Of strawberry plants pre-
vents the two free growth Of the bar-
rem sorts and preserves the fertile
plants. Cutting off the runners, and
keeping the plants in stools is always
but the above reason is
not always given, but it is 4 very i'm
portant reason.
The small bed Of fertile plants here
to be kept to draw from,
will not bear berries. Neither the
male nor the female plants alone of a
sind. will fruit. 1t requires the fanc-
ions OF the two sorts combined to pro-
luce fruit.-Old Fogy,in Dixie Farmer.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-05-05
He Knew.

The latest school story comes from
Paisley. A teacher in one Of the
local schools was examining q child
ON general knowledge, and. talking of
languages, he asked small boy what
was the most useful of modern
tongues. The child looked bewildered.
To suggest the answer the teacher
put it in another way:
"what is it," he asked, 'that your
elder brothers learn?"
A light dawned on the little chan.
and he answered, with great alacrity,
'-Swearin', sir. Scottish American.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-05-05
Another ce,.e f.r c-,.v....

1t may be stated with some positive.
ness, says the Chicago Tribune, that
. few Of the servant girls will rebel
against any regulation requiring
them TO work eight hours . dav.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-05-05
Collecting Het Iro..

It was no uncommon thing at Kim
berly to see dozens of native boys
watching for Boer shells. As soon as
the smoke OF the discharge was seen
they would all lie down fiat. and, when
the shell had pitched. made rush to
the spot and collected the pieces.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-05-05

He-Darling, suppose mould be
killed in railroad accident, and that
you should be there; suppose my
crushed and mangled body should bs
brought out and placed before you?
What ,vorld you do?
NE o. 5er hier.-Harlem Life.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-05-05
o. he way Hsne

First Clubman-Do you suppose your
wife will BE- swske when you get inf
Second Clubman-I guess not. I put
. few drops Of Iaudanum in her tea to
niRht.-PittsburHh Telegraph.
Sierra County advocate., 1900-08-17
WOULD NOT CHANGE METHODS
This shows That English Merchants
Are Too Conservative fer
Their own OoDd.

The intense conservatism Of tie Brit
ish character Is sillustrntpd ia the story
~ q young Lnelislmau who came to
Amsflea 70 seek lis fortune and found
il ii new process for manufacturing
ihnP1iael1 Aays The kansns Cify Star.
1he principal market for his product
WAS Germany, but he found thni the
deriaau buyers. In turn. sold II III Eng
iahc4 80 he conceived the logical idea
u FoinR e England and selling the
lampblaek direct which appeared To
be eeriain ~ success, for he wns able
@ eag 81 The English firms
@lneitnd of busing my lampblaek
through Germany and paying for un-
necessary transportation, 10 sny noth-
ing Of fhe inildcman's profit, lei mo
send sou he product direct, You can
then buy even cheaper than the Ger
mans, TO whom you now pay a profit"
Tho head OF one OF the largest
houses replied
Really, Mr. Smith, our house has al
ways found he goods bought in Ger
many satisfactory. This house has
been ia existence 200 years, and we can
see NO reason for changing satisfactory
methods. ycu know"
Poor Mr. smith gotthis reply on alb
sides and bis trip was failure.
Sierra County advocate., 1900-08-17
BIG PROFIT ON BAGS.
Grocers Charge for Paper Put
Around Their Goods.
xsensen~ Weinht of Article Sold at
Consumers' Cost-~Tigures show
inw How the scheMe
Works.

Purchasers OF sugar at retal nlso
pay the grocer for the paper bag in
which II is wrapped. II the sugar be
contained IN heavy colored paper the
chances are that the buyer pays many
times more for the bag than its cost
To the grocer, says the Chicago Record.
In making purchases NJ u number
Of grocery stores in Chicago il wns
noted TINT the grocer first placed the
heavy bag IN the scale pan aud then
put in the article desired The pur-
chaser was charged for the gross in
stead Of the net weight rs this process
the customer was not only made TO
pay for the wrapping paper, but the
grocer was given neat profit on the
bags
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS weights
ot these heavy colorod hags the follow
ing table of comparative Weights OF the
standard manila and colored haga ii
given:
Sierra County advocate., 1900-08-17
BET WITH THE NEW BOARDER
Tho brooklyn Man Who Was Sure
the Lsndindy would stick 10
pink Ice Cream.

when feel the gambling instinct
taking possession Of me now" said n
brooklyn man who, relates the New
York sun, lives in u private boarding
house, II get on my wheel and go out
TO Concy Island. where am not
known, and 20. up against anything
which strikes my fancy, | don't try
| malsing n winning Oft the new hoarder
nuy more I'm not smart enough for
| that The last new one at our honee
! had manner and look which would
have encouraged a shellWorlSpr to pick
him out as the one altogether easy IN
a thousand had done nearly all the
hoafders from time To time in some
innocent way and when this chan
came in spotted him as my meat.
4 vns Saturday. | remarked in his
hearinR IN my Oifhand, free and easy
speech TINT would bet sa that could
eall The turn on the kind Of dessert we
have put In front Of us on the morrow
Il thought | had cinch on naming
II, but II was such mn exceedingly
opcu-faced wager | was little lcnry
that the blonde wouldn't look at Il.
Nut he came mp like young pig 10
the xviii and asked me to name the
goody which the andlndy would use
IN hNpuotixing the pAlatps OF her
hoafdefs. ! named pink Ice cream.
had been boardor there for eipht
months, md never had the pink ice
cream business failed to show up on
the SnbiAth menu, The blonde board,
er said the chances were against him,
and that he had never considered him
self q sport hui he would lay me two
even thot il wouldn't be pink lee cream
tpr the Sunday dessert The money
was put IN the hands Of book agent
who had threatened to leave the house
every Sunday when the frozen cream
with cnrnation hue was landed before
him The time enmc all too soon.
"Ihe other boarders we're waiting
mud Watching ihe outcome, and thcy
al hnd i Ia for me because | Ind
named pink ice crenm for they
thought had stood IN with th. land-
Indy on thia particular occnsion
When the remains ~ he last course
iefnre cream were removed the land
ttAH ihiiFf tlAA iltii ibI tue UONhibUA.
~ walked the waiter with IL trny on
hauecrs heaped up with white Ice
crrain, The hook agent handed over
the W. f. tho blonde bonrder, and the
refreahment was put out Of sight with
out any remarks, The landlady, how
ever, m clesing The incident, said she
hoped we All liked the white cream, as
The man who usually delivered the hue
which was her fnsofite had left the
wrong bucket by mistake, and she had
not discovered II until II WIS too late.
showed no curiosity 10 know how
! had come to 90 up against the new
but the book agent let II out
one evening On the stoop that II be
ever took to gambling he would not
bet with man whose brother held
ne earas The blonde hoard,r's broth
'r was the dellyerer of cream 10 this
house aud u course wcll, you know,
9lood's thicker than water"
Sierra County advocate., 1900-08-17
Thr nunrtinn.

Watts de matter wit you?" aalteA
sannteiing Slm, you look like you
had something rrcyin' on your mind =
II have responded Tired TREAD
we'll. Il done something to-day dbAtn
haunt me to me grave. got ~
blamed hungry dNt | done nearly half
an hours hard work for me dinnerl
Now III have to go through life hand
ia hand wit . weight OF remorst "-
Chicago Chronicle,
Sierra County advocate., 1900-08-17

In addition to this profit the grocer
Is said to get his wrapping material alb
solutcly free Of cost
Aa the product Is weighed up in hng
size larger than the amount Of the
commodity placed therein the groeer's
profit Is cOrrespondinEly greater, For
instance, II takes u No, hng for
pound purchase Of ten. The dealer who
sells 900 of these pound bags of ten
gets S2l for the hngs and phys but %
esHts for hem. a single pound sale Of
sugar weighed up in one Of these col
ored sugar bags nets the grocer ono
cent on The bag.
Dealersexp xplain their use Of the heavy
colercd hag on the ground that il ii
tougher and stands the raps better
than the light manila product In
test Of two empty nnnila and colored
sugar bngs of cqnal capacity, mnde
with one af the latest appliances Tor
this work.. both made the same record
Of durability 2s pounds notwith-
standing that the colored bag weighed
three Tines as much ns the manla bag.
IN Germany the law requires the sell
ing Of household food supplies net In
stead of gross, and u dealer IL subject
10 heavy penalty II caught weighing
IN the bag with HIS wares
Sierra County advocate., 1900-08-17
Two DOLLARS Per YEA

most dangerous snoals on the NirRna
coast, 1t il an iron tower and stands
lSN feet above mean high water II u
a first class light aud can he seen from
the bridge Of steamer distance of
nhnnt "a milns
Sierra County advocate., 1900-08-17
WEIGHT PER- 1000 nAGa.

The following table VIII Ahuw u
what extent the heavy coloreal sugar
bag figures In the purchase OF food.
stuifs at tile grocery stores.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1900-09-19
GRANITEvILLE.

d. NJ. Miles was in town Tuesday.
George Lucia from Waterbury, a
brother of w. II. Miles, was here yes
terday.
Mamie McAuley has gone to Barre
to attend school.
A reception was rendered Rev. Mr..
Ropes last evening at the home of
Mrs. Toni, Websterville.
Nal. McKinnon, Angus McIver,
Lewis Mcleod and Jack McWilliams
attended the meeting Of Odd Fellows
at East Barre last evening.
Dan. Smith and family from Cabot
we're visiting friends in town last
Sunday.
James Patterson has moved his fam
lily from the McAuley farm to tene-
ment Of ID. A. McFarlane.
The funeral Of the little child of
Mr.. and Mrs. w. II. Miles took place
this morning. A goodly number of
friends and relatives we're in attend
ance. The burial was ia the Catholic
cemetery, Barre.
ThGBaptist church, Websterville,
has had considerable repairing this
summer under the supervision OF Rev.
Mr.. Ropes. 1t was formally dedicat-
ed for divine worship last Sunday by
Rev. Mr.. Fuller Of Barre.