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The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-03-28
Advantages of Ignorance.

The advantages of ignorance are not
often apparent, but here is the case of
a man who could neither read nor
write a farmer. His n~eighbors got
interested in the story told by a man
selling a ~newfangled road grader, and
with them he was invited out on the
road to see it work. Thirty men in
spected the machine and its work, and,
as is quite frequent in such cases, the
machine in the hands of an expert did
god work, the conditions being 1.-THE
agent attending to this) just right. The
crowd was asked to sign a certificate to
the effect that the machine was all
right. and all signed save our ignorant
friend, and he, only because he could
not write his name and seeking TO
avoid the humiliation of publicly eX
posing his ignorance, told the crowd he
would wait and see. The machine
turned out to be a perfect fzzle, and
this nan never ceased to rub it in on
the other fellows because, as he says
he was wiser than they.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-03-28
Alfalfa.

An Iowa farmer the past season Sc
cured two crops of hay of two tons per
acre and a third crop of five bushels OF
seed per acre from his field of alfalfa.
The hay brought 1872 per acre and the
seed SO, or more than half what the
land was worth. In this connection we
wish to emphasize the great value of
this alfalfa plant for all localities where
ii can be grown. All through the great
corn belt of the country the crops pro-
duced are but poorly balanced SO far
as their feeding value is concerned. be-
ing low in flesh forming elements and
high in fat formers. For this reason
stockmen and dairymen have to draw
at a heavy expense upon the bran and
gluten products of other sections OF the
country in order to secure fairly we'll
balanced rations for their stock. Wher-
ever alfalfa can be grown this deticien-
cy in flesh forming food is fully met,
and the man who grows it may be abb
solutely Independent of any and all
other high priced protein foods, for al
falfa meets every need in this respect.
We would suggest that every farmer try
a small piece of alfalfa just as an eX-
! pertinent. While in many cases the
soil conditions may not prove suitable,
still in every case where they are it
will prove a bonanza to the grower.
Among the special good qualities of
this plant are the following: 1t enrich
es and nutriies the soil as does clover;
it is drought proof; it is rich in pro-
tein and a great dairy ration: hogs can
be grown and fattened for market upon
1t; it lives forever. Give alfalfa a trial.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-03-28
THE HEALTH OF HAVANA.
Success of the Government in Com
batting Yellow Fever and Small.

Success of the Government in Com
batting Yellow Fever and Small.
Pox.
Major Gorgas' last report January.
1902 shows what extraordinary sue
cess continues to attend the sanitary
work of our government in Cuba.
During the last nine years of Spanish
rule ClS9O-1S9O) the minimum number
of deaths for December occurred in
1898, when there were ST. deaths.
with a rate of 2S.32. The maximum
was 1924, in 1897 a rate Of 1OO.OS
per 1000 citizens.
During the three years of American
occupancy there were 534 deaths in
December, 1899, ASS deaths in Decem-
Der, 1900, and 463 deaths in Decem-
Der, 1901, showing a progressive de-
crease, and the placing of Havana in
the class of healthy cities of the civil
lized world, having an equal popula-
ton. The city, it must be remem-
bered, has been increasing in popula-
ton
Not a case of either yellow fever or
smallpox occurred last December.
The last case of yellow fever &C.
CURED in September, 1901.
Major Gorgas considers the likeli-
hood of yellow fever occurring this
season about over. Still, the mosuui-
to work is to be kept up. For this
purpose a "Stegomyia brigade" works
In the city and an "Anopheles brig
ade" works in the suburbs. Thus an
official wal is maintained against the
pests. The matter most deserving Of
comment is the entire disappearance
OF yellow fever during the three
months, October, November and De-
cember. This has never occurred be-
fore in the history of Havana. Major
Gorgas is evidently convinced that
the mosquito Is responsible for the
Observation-Disclosures Medical Jour
nal.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-03-28
What Kills Clover.

We are asked to give some of the
reasons why clover kills out. Under Or
binary conditions clover is a biennial.
Sown in the spring. it lives over the
next winter, produces its seed the sec
ond year and then dies. its mission be-
ing ended. Some plants, failing to pro-
duce seed, will live over another sea-
son This fact explains the loss of the
clover to the many who do not know
the history of the plant. Many fields are
killed out the first summer by the too
great affection of the nurse crop. Then,
if pastured heavily the first fall. many
fields will winter kill for want of cover,
while on clay soils alternate winter
thawing and freezing will heave the
soil and break the roots. Scant nurse
crops and plenty of cover the first win
ter will usually insure the crop.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-03-28
Latitude and Land Values.

The mere fact of latitude will
materially affect the value of farm
land. Farms located in the north
try, while unable to produce some of
the crops common to a lower latitude,
can still produce many things which
such lower ATTITUDES cannot produce at
all. For instance, while northern Min
nesota, North Dakota and northern
Wisconsin cannot be called countries
and may be short or fruits, they can
still produce the best grasses, wheat,
oats. barley, flax and roots of any part
of the country. Then the longer days
of summer in those sections do much
to offset the more protracted season Of
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-03-28
Made Her Contented.

A lady friend of the writer who has
long been anxious to have her husband
sell the farm and move to town because
of the loneliness and isolation Of farm
life under the old conditions has been
converted and made entirely contented
and happy on her farm home by the
placing of a telephone in the home, the
passing Of a rural mail route by the
door and the installment of a small gas
plant and Welsbach burners in the
home. When those moments come, as
they SO often do in the lives Of women
so isolated, that IL just seems as though
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-03-28
The Country Paper.

Amid the pile of papers
That swamp my desk each day
And drive me weak with clipping
And filing stuff away,
Comes once a week-on Thursday
The quaint old four-page sheet
That's printed VI in Pelham,
A drowsy county seat.
You see, twas up in Pelham,
That | first saw the light,
And-well my heart grows softer
And | feel my eyes shine bright;
Right reverend my touch is,
1t spreads the columns wide,
The locals what I'm seeking
The patented inside.
All, here ii is: The County"
And lettings" Local News
You learn who's trade horses
And who ave rented pews;
1t tells about the school house
Where we used to sit and dream
A-watching dust specks dancing
In the sunlight shifty beam.
The sturdy names of boyhood
Come tumbling through our thought,
OF Tom n Brick and Patsey-
How we loved n nov we fought
Inc IrienuS Wnen years grew graVer,
Called now beyond our ken,
In the type-lines of the paper
They live and speak again.
Oh, toilers in life's workshops.
Are not those dream-mists sweet,
which memory casts about us
When past n present meet?
And so, ! love hat paper
From the village in the hills
For the old life that 1t wakens,
For the WEAKNESS 1t stills.
Nathaniel S. Olds, in Rochester Post
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-03-28
Trained Nurses.

A farmers daughter asks us to say
something about the business Of the
trained nurse and whether such a voca-
ton offers any opportunity for a girl
who does not like teaching, does not
want to marry just for a home and does
not take to clerking or typewriting.
Some of the incest girls we know have
become trained nurses. They tell us
this: The apprenticeship period in
some hospital is a most trying ordeal.
and only a few of the many novices
who enter can stand the grief. In fact,
the two or three years spent before
graduating are mostly a mighty hard
road to travel, the most mental and I'M
pleasant work, and hard work, scenes
which try the nerves, little chance for
recreation or pleasure, no compensa-
ton in money. Once graduated, a more
inviting field opens-work in private
families, a liberal rate of compensation
OF from $40 to So per week. We should
say that unless a girl is built of stuff
to stand grief, and lots of it, and has
unlimited endurance and patience she
had better let this trained nurse bust
ness alone.
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be a ssorted

they must talk to some one and say
something, the telephone gives every
opportunity, while the rural mail route,
bringing the daily paper, puts her in
touch with the busy world, and the gas
plant saves her the bother of cleaning
those nasty old lamps. Now our friend
is entirely contented and would not sign
the deed to the farm even if her hus-
band wanted to sell. There is some
thing for other men with disconnected
wives to think of in this item.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-03-28

One of the most noticeable changes
going on at the present time is the
marvellous increase in the manufacture
and use of cement, brick and other
building materials, excluding wood.
The wooden age, so far as architecture
in America is concerned, is rapidly
passing away. Cement and concrete
are largely displacing stone for heavy
foundation work both in the erection
of buildings and bridge piers, while
brick has become n of the most pop
ular of materials for street paving.
Cheap structural steel and the products
of clay banks and kilns are revolution
izing building methods and will do
much to limit and lessen the tremen-
dous fire losses which the wooden
built communities have to endure.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-03-28

winter. It's more the questions of soil
fertility, rainfall and markets which
determine land values than that of latl-
tude. improved land has always been
worth more in Vermant than in Ken
lucky and Arkansas and would be still
were it not for the simple fact Of soil
impoverishment in the east.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-03-28

London, March 24.-The Central
News special from Rome says: 1.-THE
strike of the agriculturists is spreading
throughout Italy, $50, 900 farm laborers
having gone out in the provinces Of
Ferrarra, Bologna and Vicenza.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-03-28

For all practical purposes it may be
said that genius is just another name
for hard, persistent work.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-03-28

Now, here is a new thing which
seems to have merit. A Kansas man
has patented a new method of seed
sowing for the garden. He attaches
the seeds of the garden vegetables to
a narrow tape by machinery, spacing
the seeds on the tape at the proper dis
lance. You then go to the store, and
instead of buying a paper of seed you
get so many yards of seed, and, making
the furrow to receive the seed, you
stretch out the tape and cover it up,
and the job is nicely done. No crook
ed rows and no back ache by this
method.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-03-28

The good hired girl is dead sure to
get married just about the time the
family which employs her thinks 1t is
fixed just right. 1t is a way hired girls
have.
The skunk is one of the nuisances of
settlement and civilization. There are
a hundred of these beasts now where
there was one when the country was
first settled.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-03-28

The Danish Baldhead cabbage is rec
commended to us as one of the best cab
bages grown for winter use. 1t is not
a large variety, but wonderfully solid
and may be kept well until spring. We
shall try it this year.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-03-28

The best field of corn which we know
of as grown last season was produced
on a gumbo soil Oh a clover sod turned
owe the middle of May, and the corn
plows kept working in the field until
the middle Of July. The last plowings
we're done with a single horse, and the
corr growers neighbors stopped on the
highway long enough to tell him he
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-03-28

A good example is just about as
catching as a bad one, and along agri-
cultural lines we think more so. No
nan can go to work and increase the
prod%uctiveness of his fields, raise bet
ter crops and stock, fix his home
grounds up and put into his home
modern improvements but his less en-
terprising neighbors are stimulated to
follow his example. For instance.
where a man of this progressive type
keeps his side of the highway neatly
mowna and trimmed free from weeds his
neighbor across the road is almost COM
PEELED to do likewise or else have his
own slovenliness thus continually en-
phasized. There have to be pioneers
in this good work of agricultural prog
ress and development, those who set
the pace and pave the way for better
conditions. With such examples to pat
tern after the masses are ready to
follow.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-03-28

Denmark has 1892 cooperative
creameries, making $50, 900, 900 worth OF
butter each year.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-03-28

We do a great. many foolish things
in our ignorance. Years ago, not know
ing the sexual differences in different
varieties of the strawberry plant, We
planted a bed of the wrong sort-old
maid plants-an6, while they grew fine
ly and blossomed profusely, rot a berry
did we get for all our trouble.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-03-28

There are many evergreen groves
now growing through the West. and in
many cases these groves have been
preempted by the crows as roosting and
nesting places, to the great annoyance
of the owners and the 6etriment of the
groves. In m case a lot of city sports
We're invited out to a grove so tenant
ed, and the crows were slaughtered by
the hundred, but when the guns left
the birds returned.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-03-28

No general and specific rule can be
given for the adornment of a farm
home, as conditions differ SO much, but
any person may easily study his home
and it's surroundings from an artistic
standpoint and learn what may be
done to improve the looks of things.
A good sized dooryard from which the
hogs and poultry should be excluded
is very essential; so are straight fences
kept in good repair. paint for the build
ings and the location of the stockyard,
and particularly the hogyard, well
away from the house. The trees should
be kept trimmed, and the old truck
which accumulates on every farm
should not be piled around promiscu-
lousy in the front yard. No work done
on the farm pays better than this of
keeping things sleeked up.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-03-28

We are asked whether alfalfa can be
made to grow successfully on a soil
where there are coarse gravel subsoil
ana permanent water to be reached
within ten feet of the surface. We
should say that these were just the
conditions where alfalfa would thrive
and do its best. At any rate, any man
having such soil should give this most
valuable forage plant a thorough trial.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-03-28

A piece of land in the city of New
York sold recently at a price which If
you could realize the same figure for
your quarter section farm would bring
you in the sum of 1862 1924 900.
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Copyright, 1901, by j. S. Trigg.)
Rockford, la.
Correspondence Solicited.

If you plant juneberries. you may be
sure that the birds will get every berry
unless you cover them up.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-03-28

A majority of the corn growers are
agreed that it pays to cut up the corn,
but they are by no mea agreed as to
the best method of handling and feed
ing the fodder after it is cut up. Some
favor feeding it in bundle. Others say
that it pays to thrash or shred. Much
depends upon the kind OF stock it is to
be fed to. If steers for beef, it is best
fed in the bundle; If dairy cows, it
should be shredded ana some other ra-
ton substituted for the corn. The horse
will use it to the best advantage if
shredded. Any way is ahead of leaving
the crop in the field to waste.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-03-28

was fooling away his time while doing
the work. He got Go bushels per acre,
they % bushels.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-03-28

When America gets as large an
army of paupers and has to support as
large a standing army as do the ma
tons of Europe, then We may expect to
secure as fine a class of macadamized
highways rs may be found in those
countries. Military necessity and the
pauperization Of the masses have made
the good roads of Europe.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-03-28

The last large body of white pine
left in the estate of Wisconsin was sold
recently. 1t was estimated to contain
800, 000, 900 feet of lumber and brought
500, 000, 900. Northern pine forests are
almost a thing of the past.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-03-28

There are hundreds of stacks of good
straw all through northwestern Iowa
and southwestern Minnesota, which the
owners would not sell last fall save at
an eXorbitant figure, which will have
to be burned inside of 80 days to clear
the ground for another crop.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-03-28

The farm hand is feeling quite cocky
this spring and talks about $25 per
month, his board and washing and no
COWS to milk. And he has not got to
the end of his string either, for he is
studying the government eight hour
plan with a good deal of interest.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-03-28

1t is a great misfortune that most of
the information which farmers as a
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-03-28

whole obtain about fruit and fruit
growing ome from tree peddlers. If
you want to set out an orchard, large
or small, go to that man in your own
immediate neighborhoOd who has been
most successful in producing fruit and
abide by his ADVICE. letting the stories
of tree peddlers entirely alone. There
are hundreds of thousands of dollars
thrown away each year in the purchase
of orchard and garden stuff from ped
dlers which is wholly ~unsuited to the
locality where sold.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-03-28

Even the godly minded nan never
seems to get much good out of Sunday
even when he has been to kirk and
Sunday school when he finds at chore
time that the hired man has gone off
to see his girl and left all the cows for
the good man to milk. He will 40 the
milking because he has to. but all the
time he will be thinking things which
if spoken right out would not harmon
ize with the parsons sermon.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-03-28

In all those sections where the rain
fall does not exceed % inches and
where the springs are almost always
dry seed of all kinds, including grass
seeds, should be planted deeper than
where moister conditions prevail. In
such dry localities we would put clover
and timothy in with the small grain
and cover from two to three inches
deep, and we would plant corn from
four to five inches deep and potatoes
six inches.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-03-28

The lovers of bullfghting in Spain
tried recently to get up a fight between
a bull and an automobile. 1t was a
total failure, as the machine scared
the bull out of his wits, and he would
only run. tail in the air, and below as
loud as he could.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-03-28

The most expensive system of farm
home water supply is where the wife
is MADE to lug in all the water from
the well. We know of a case where
this system of waterworks cost $500 in
doctors bills to make repairs.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1902-05-22

The first car Of gravel for the use OF
the city in improvement OF streets
and alleys arrived today.
Bert Chandler is having an electric
fan placed in the clerks Office. Bob
Lybrand's carmine hosiery are too
warm for Bert.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1902-05-22
Long Distance Telephone Connec-
fiOus.

The long distance telephone is now
completed to Sapulpa and all inter-
mediate points on the Frisco West,
and from Coffeyville, Kansas to Wag-
oner on the Katy. IF
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1902-05-22
Local Savings.


Prepare to pay your dog tax.
Freshest strawberries at Burns.
City council meeting this afternoon
Milk crooks and churns at Balen
tines.
Soda fountain for sale at Burns
Racket.
Jumbo's big Remnant Sale of en-
broidery.
Fred L. Kelley returned from Hot
Springs today.
Mexican stamped leather belts at
Lee Barrett's.
Morning Glory Coffee zoe per pound
at Balentine's.
Tennessee sorghum 35 cents per gal
Ion at Balentine's.
List your property with the Vinita
Real Estate Agency.
A fresh lot of queensware just re-
ceived at Balentin's.
Col. VIM. Higgins returned from
Ft. SCOTT this morning.
Deputy Pies Thompson was over
from Miami yesterday
w. e. Halsell left over the Frisco
today for Texas points.
Remember the closing date OF the
prize contest is May 18th.
Mayor L. f. Parker, Jr., returned
from Muskogee last night.
II you fail to receive the Daily
Chieftain notify the Office.
We will buy or sell your property.
Vinita Real Estate Agency.
Mrs. J. w. Miller went to Seneca
last night TO visit her husband.
Prayer meeting at the Presbyterian
church this evening at So'clock.
Mrs. +. S. E. Amos is expected
home from Louisiana this week.
Dr. J. G. Rucker, of Claremore, was
transacting business here today.
More Of those beautiful presents at
Balentine's. Come and see them.
Mrs. +. A. Abney, Of Alton, is yis-
iting her mother Mrs. Dora Trott.
DR.. Feazell, Surgeon Dentist,
Office in Raymond building. 35tf
Furniture .varnishe1, carpets laid,
mattresses made over, at B. Graffun-
ders.
Miss Halle Thompson of this Office
is confined to her room with sore
throat.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Morris, of Pa rsons
Kans., are visiting Miss Anna
Reamer.
Foley's Honey and Tar contains no
opiates and can safely be given to
children. DIV
Mrs. Carl Bradley, who suffered a
relapse several days ago, is improving
fairly we'll.
You never heard OF any one using
Foley's Honey and Tar and not be-
ipg satisfied. DIV
For upholstering and furniture
pairing 60 to B. Graffuuder, back 0
Hill building.
Foley's Honey and Tar is peculiarl,
adapted for asthma, bronchitis ano
hoarsehess. DIV
Have your clocks repaired at Chas
Hartman's. He will deliver or cal
for them at any time.
| Not only the most useful thiDI
ever devised for the family, but dis
tinguished for beauty, as an artisti
piece OF furniture. See the new kitch
en- cabinet at the Singer Sewing Ma
chine Office.
Children who are weak, fretful o
troublesome should be given fe'
doses of Whites Cream Vermifugt
They will then become strong
healthy and active, have rosy.cheeki
bright eyes, will be happy and laugh
ing all the daylong. Price, 25 cents
/ For sale at peonlae' Drup Store. dl
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1902-05-22

For sale--Two houses and lots In business
section OF Vinita One lot 50xiCJ one s5xl50
feet Also most desirable residence prop
ertv In the city containing four lots, each
Ie0S. y feer Good 8-room house, two wells.
good barn and outhouses, ine orchard and
svineyard Apply here.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1902-05-22

fnA &c Boarded, Yard Worked
LII liz and conditioned. Pup
rA040 pies raised and prepared
Nor field work. All diseases OF the
ldog treated. My marge and distem-
tper cures are the best, and my condl-
4 tion pills and worm medicine never
efail. Young dogs for sale.
GEO. HIGGINs. Vinita, /. u.