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The Tupelo journal., 1903-06-12
RECLAIM THE WASTE PLACES.
Words of wisdom Directed to Those
Looking Forward to Owning
Farms an the

Land has been classed as good and
bad. fertile and infertile, productive
and un~productive. The bad land can
be made good, the infertile can be
made fertile, the unproductive can be
made productive. But why do the
work necessary to reform waste land
when there is enough good land for
every farmer a farm? This question
was once pertinent; but how is it
now? Farm land is becoming every
year more scarce, and in a very few
years none out refuse lands will be
o~btainable, except at prices beyond
the reach of men of ordinary means.
Population is rapidly increasing, i'm
migrants are coming in by thousands,
and soon these waste places will be
taken in by intelligent, progressive
farmers and made to blossom like
gardens. There are thousands of
acres in the southwest that have
heretofore been passed by on the
other side" because some needed
draining, some needed irrigation,
some needed terracing, and some
needed fertilizing. bet all capable of
being made fertile and productive
when taken in charge by the right
men. Such lands are comparatively
cheap and there are many young ten
ant farmers who would do better to
buy and redeem such lands than to
await the uncertain contingency of
accommodating enough capital by cul-
tivating the lands of other people to
buy a far more costly farm. In the
days to come every acre of farm land
and every acre capable of being con-
verified into farming land, will be cul-
deemed farms will be more profitable
than those that were originally fer
tile.-TeXas Farm and Ranch.
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without Water Six Weeks.

John Jackson, of Glasgow, Mo-,
noticed recently that a valuable
heifer had disappeared from his
herd, and advertised for her in the
newspapers. A month after he had
first advertised, and after he had
given up all hope of recovering her,
he found her in a straw rick in a field
adjoining his feed lot. The poor
brute had got into a narrow passage
way in the center of the rick, which
was closed at one end, and being I'M
able to turn around and lacking
sense to back out, had remained there
throughout the time without water
and with no food except such straw
as she could reach. Mr.. Jackson, on
finding her, got her out as quickly az
he could and gave her some water,
but she had taken only a small drink
of it when she dropped dead. 1t is
supposed she was without water at
least six weeks.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-06-12
FARMERAND Pr ANTER.
WHAT CONSTITUTES SUCCESS.
The Successful Farmer II the One
Who Gets the Most Satisfaction
Out of Farm Life.

The successful farmer is not always
the one who makes more money. but
the one who gets the most satisfac-
ton out of farm life. We know some
modest farmers, who have good
homes, containing many conven-
able to educate their children and az
ford their families many of the home
1y Injuries appropriate to a farmers
home. We also know farmers who
WI ten times as much land, and who
have bank accounts that would star
tie the modest farmer first named,
and vet these two farmers could not
exchange conditions without serious
loss to the one first mentioned. AS
society is organized, moneysis a neces-
sity of life, and one must have some
of it or he is at a serious disadvant-
age. But money does not constitute
all a farmer wants. His fields and
tlocks, his trees and vines furnish him
an Abundance of things hat are better
than money, as is proven by the fact
that men having money are always
ready to exchange it for the better
things the farmer grows. There is
more rational enjoyment in a crate
of strawberries or a peck of Elberta
peaches than in an equal measure Of
gold coin. Men want money because
Others want it, and therefore it can
be exchanged for things which we
can enjoy. Farmers can get more
pleasure out of life with less money
than any other class of people, be-
cause they get so much of the beauti-
full and good direct from first hands
from natures own hand. and without
money, but with honest, health-giving
labor that makes them all the more
enjoyable. The man who ''dwelleth
under his w vine and fig tree" is
held up to u view by holy writ as
one who ought to be Supremacy hap
Ply, and conveys the idea of rural con
tentment, as it existed two thousand
years ago, as it exists to-day, and as
it will exist as long as men must sub
sist upon the bounties of mother
earth. The truth of this doctrine is
not affected by the fact that there
are many farmers who get but little
out of farm life. They may get more
money than satisfaction out of it in
which case they are poor indeed Or
they may get neither money nOr sat
.isfaction, because they are out of
place on farms, and should be else
where. 1t requires a welI-developed
man, mentally, morally and physical
~, to be a good farmer to find pleas
ure in farm life. 1t can't be done by
a disciple Of mammon; it can't be
done by a servant of the wicked one;
it can't be done by "a fool.-Texas
Farm and Ranch.
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WEAVING Pigs.

A series of eight experiments re-
Gently demonstrated the a~dvisability
of keeping pigs on sows as long as
possible, consistent with the healthy
and strong condition of the mother.
The chief reason for this is that a
sow and her pigs together will ex-
tract nourishment from a given
quantity of food than will the
weaned pigs alone.
The sow and pigs were weighed
separately each week. and any loss or
gain of the SOW was deducted from
or added to the increased weight Of
the pigs. The pigs were allowed to
remain on the SOW for ten weeks,
then a similar course of feeding was
carried on with the pigs for seven
weeks. The SOW and pigs consumed
on an average 231 pounds of meal
and 534 pounds of skimmilk in making
a similar increase.-Farmers' Home
Journal.
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WHO BUYS THE FARM.
The Farm Lands of the Country are
Rapidly Passing Into the Hands
of Foreign immigrants.

A glance over the list of recent
sales of country real estate shows
that more and more of the good old
ancestral farms are passing into the
hands of a different class of ners
The names include plenty of such
ending as ski, 'ello, berg, han, sen.
These people are supplanting the ma
tive-bred young men to such an ex-
tent as to completely change the
makeup of some eastern communi-
ties.
Their purchase of property is of
course not due to any prejudice in
their favor on the part of former
owners, but to the fact that Jean
Calette or Steve Kalouski is, perhaps,
the only buyer willing to pay any
thing like a fair price. These enter
prising persons have worked a few
years in a city shop and laid up sew
eral hundred dollars. Taught by their
experience in overcrowded Europe to
prize the ownership of land, they are
ready to take a farm on easy terms
and work hard to pay for it in full.
They do not despise a location which
happens to be over five minutes walk
from a trolley line or more than ten
miles from a city. They expect to
work and save, with a great deal Of
help from vigorous, ambitious women
folks and their numerous and docilc
children.
Meanwhile the young man, who
would have been natural heir to the
farm, has sold his birthright for a job
where he can wear creased trousers
The Tupelo journal., 1903-06-12
TREE PLANTING IN ALABAMA.
Eighteen Hundred Acres to be Plant
ed to LObIolly Pine Chest-
nut and Oak.

A planting plan has recently been
prepared by the bureau of forestry
for 1880 acres of land in Cullman
county, Alabama, owned by Emil ALL
richs, and valued at from $1.25 to SO
per acre. The planting will be done
in several different localities, but all
in Cullman county. Work will begin
as soon as growth ceases next fall,
and will continue through the winter,
except in freezing weather. The first
seasons work will include the plant
ing OF loblolly pine seedlings collected
III the forest on a tract of 100 acres OF
open woods. Two hundred and eighty
acres will be planted with chestnut
and white and post oak. A seed bed
will be prepared for the raising of
loblolly pine for a tract of GAO acres,
as it is considered not advisable to
use entirely stock collected from the
forest.
All this planting is based on the
fact that while immense quantities of
loblolly are being cut in that locality,
there is little or no reproduction on
the land III question, due chiefly tc
annual fires set to improve the pas
ture. Mr.. Ahlrichs will have a fire
patrol system.
1t is purposed also to treat a tract
Of 6to acres to improve the natural
reproduction by the prevention of
fires. g.
Labor may be obtained at SIS per
month, hence the work can be done
at very small cost. 1t is estimated
that the planting will cost only from
81 to So per acre.
Loblollv pine is to be planted for
the production of lumber, chestnut
for posts and telegraph poles, and
oak for railroad ties.-Farmers' Home
Journal.
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SURPASSED IMAGINATION.
Growth of the United States in One
Hundred Years Create Than Pic
tured by Widest Dream.

In his first Inaugural address
Thomas Observation-Disclosures his coun-
trymen on possessing a chosen
country with room enough for our
descendants to the t~housandth and
t~housandth generation That was
the Judgment. passed on March A.,
1901, by N of the most president of
Americans. On that day the coun-
try's western border was the Missis-
sippi. Its southern boundary was lat
itude 81 degrees. The region west
of the Mississippi, the province of
Louisiana, had just been coded by
Spain to France by the treaty of San
lldefonso, but that compact was not
executed until two years later.
Spain held that territory. Spain
also held the territory east of the
Mississippi below the thirty-frst par
allel. That region, comprising the
present state of Florida, The south
ern ends of Alabama and Mississippi
and the eastern projection of the
present state of Louisiana was
known as East and West Florida.
The area of the United States at that
date was 2 1000 square miles. It's
population vas in the neighborhood
of 5,400 900, all but about 100000 of
which was east of the main divide of
the Alleghanies.
A country a little over three and a
half times as large as the one Jeffer-
son had in view when he uttered that
prophecy 102 years ago, counting
only the contiguous portiop of the
nation of to-day, has since been fair
ly well peopled, says the st. Louis
Globe-Democrat, although only three
of Jefferson's Thousand and thou
sand" generations have passed since
then. The 5,405,O00 population of
1901 has grown to more than S0,000,-
900 in 1908. The beginning of the en-
largement ia area in the century
dates from the annexation of Louis
lana, which was two years in the fu-
ture when Jefferson made his fore
cast, and which he was not looking
for rs a possibility. That acquisition
was directly the cause of all the en-
largement of the country's area in
the interval, and was of the rea-
sons for the immense increase in pop
ulation.
To the 1927, 900 square miles of ter
ritory of the United States previous
to that time the Louisiana acquisi-
ton added a tract of $4,000 square
miles. Every expansion of territory
which the country has made since
that day came as q consequence OF
1SO3's addition to the national do
main. It constrained Spain to cede
Florida in 1919, sent the settlers
across the Rocky mountains and into
the valley of the Columbia who won
for us, in the Anglo-American treaty
of 1916, undisputed control of the
Oregon region, started the series OF
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HERE AND THERE.

The latest in packing house
schemes is the establishment of an
Angora goat packing house in Kan
sas City. The proposition has not yet
gone beyond the preliminaries.
A farmer should now be careful,
about breeding his saddle mares. He
should select a stallion which will not
be too lear akin or too violent an
outcross, and be sure that he is reg
istered.
The condition in which farm prod
ucts are sem to market often deter
mines the question of profit or loss.
Although of inferior quality they may
be put up in such nice shape as to
make them acceptable to the dealer.
Try it.
All that an animal consumes be-
yond what is necessary to sustain life
goes to make increased weight or
product; when the quality of feed is
reduced below a certain point, the ami
NAL is bound to consume it's own It's
sues to make up the deficiency.
"A great many steps can be saved
in doing chores if one will only car
ry a little thought with his activeness.
Do all the work that lies in n di-
rection at one time, and that, too,
without retracing the steps. A step
saved means a longer lease of life.
According to the latest mail adj
vices cotton planting in Egypt is gen.
orally completed. Upper Egypt will
probably show an increase in area Of
about twenty-five per cent. In the
Delta the area is undoubtedly in
creased, but only by a small percent
age.
The time to begin feeding a pig to
get the most profit out of it is the
day of it's birth. A little attention
to feeding the pig given some six
months ago or so previous would not
be missing it SO far. If we wish to be
successful swine growers our first aim
must be to keep the animals healthy.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-06-12
ARP'S FOUNDATIONS.
Philosopher Now Realizes Truth of
Certain Old Maxims.
Incidentally He Tells of Australian
Way of Dealing with "a Prob
Iem-Quotes Uncle Remus' Re-
view of His Book,

Longfellow said: "All things come
round to them who wait" Emerson
said the same thing in substance be-
lore L~ongfellow. Both got it from
the Prophet Isaiah, who said: Wait,
l say, wait on the Lord, for though
lie tarry, He will fulfill His prom
ises.' And jeremiah said: let a
man hope and quietly wait We are
all too impatient, and if we look back,
We will be surprised that we cannot
recall the numerous things hat dis
turbed our peace through apprehen-
sion, but that never happened. We
did not wait.
There is IA good story about an old
Persian king. who, on his death-bed,
friend and counselor, and said; II
am about to die, and am troubled
about my son., who is to succeed me.
He is good-hearted, but thought
less and imprudent. You must look
after him and guide him. Can't you
give him a maxim to live by, and
that he will never forget?" SO the
old sheik promised, ana after the old
king was buried he had u long talk
with the young man, and gave him a
maxim of five short words: Even
TINS shall pass away" If you Suf-
fer adversely, it will pass. If you
have war, and are defeated, victory
will come in time. If your people suf-
fer from famine or pestiIence,
health and plenty will come again.
But you must wait.
| was eliminating about this. be-
cause the printers have gone to work,
at last, and my publisher has plenty
OF o now. But the time is COM
ing When all this foolishness will
have to stop. | take an Australian
paper, and am interested in what the
new parliament is doing.
England has recently given that
great country u parliament of their
own, and they are making laws to
suit the people. One of the first
was to grant to woman the right of
suffrage. Another was a vigorous,
drastic law against strikes, and the
law has completely driven labor or
carnations out of existence. Par
Lament provided a substantial pen
sion for the families of those who
had labored long and faithfully. Rail
roads and manufacturers we're taxed
to pay part of this pension, but par
lament had to approve it all, and the
new law provides that any Iaborer
who joins a strikers organization
shall be dropped from the rolls, and
it further provides that if more than
four persons meet together to or
game a strike, they shall be arrest
ed and imprisoned and tried for
crime The law was f~ar-reaching.
and left no escape, and now peace
and contented labor prevails all over
the land, and the price of their labor
on railroads and other great works
is fixed by law, and is uniform. The
truth is that this striking business,
that drives others from work, I'M
der maltreatment and intimidation,
cannot stand the test of time and
reason. 1t is close akin to anarchy.
But now that Mr.. Byrd writes me
he has plenty of my books on hand,
/ wish your readers to know it, and
that single orders will be filled post
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influences which, first peopling Texas
with Americans, then made it indie
pendent of Mexico, annexed it to the
United States a few years later, and
brought on the war which resulted
in the annexation of the locality
comprised in the present states of
California, Nevada, Utah, portions of
Colorado and Wyoming, and the ter
ritories of New Mexico and Arizona,
in the treaty with Mexico in 1913.
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every day in the week and keep his
finger nails white and smooth. With
an idle wife and pug dog he live:> in
q little fiat, of which the monthly
rent is equal to the rrice' of an eacre
OF good farm land. He grows hol-
loweyed and nervous, and wears out
young, but the people with the
strange names live and multiply in
the ancestral homes.-American Agri-
culturist.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-06-12
On the Heavinu Sea.

Wont you have another piece of
cake, John? o! where is he?" ex-
claimed the bride, suddenly discover
ing that he was no longer at her side.
Hes just gone up on deck, ma'am,
to prove an old saying" said the pas
senger opposite. ITO prove ar old
saying?" Eyes. You can't eat your
cake and have it OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Press.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-06-12
A Mean WOman.

Mrs. Homer-How do you anage
to get your carpets SO clean? Do you
hire a professional carpet beaten?
Mrs. Neighbor-No; my husband
beats them, and l always do some
thing to make him angry just before
he begins the job.-London Answers.
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Faithful to His Trade.

81 hope you try to push business,
John, even after office hours,' said a
coal dealer to his clerk.
lido, sir" replied. John. 81 call upon
a different girl every night and never
leave before IL o'clock, and have a big
fire going all the time."-Tit-Bits.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-06-12
All the Same to Him,

DR.. Kallowmell-"I can cure AZ once
by an operation, or in about six
months by external applications AID
internal remedies" Patient-"Which
would you advise, doctor?" DR.. Kali
lowmell (making a mental calcula-
tion)-"Well, it's immaterial. The
expense will be about the same in
either case."-Chicago Tribune.
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They Mix Nicely.

Percy FlawgeI thought oil and.
water would not mix.
c. Reeyus-They'n not.
Percy Flawge-Aren't the official
heads of the Standard Oil company
Baptists?-N. Y. Times.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-06-12
TO Avoid Confu.ion.

The Stranger-And so you are
named George Washington, the same
as our distinguished president?
The Colored Porter-Yaas, sub; but
I has a differnut birfday, suh.-
Brooklyn Life.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-06-12

A Test.-"He has been mentioned as a
candidate for office very frequently"
Yes answered Farmer Corntossel; the
only trouble is that everytime anybody
mentions him, the other fellers laugh
Washington Star.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-06-12
Difference in Value.

Il understand your poetry is a drug
on the MARKET" said the sympathetic
friend.
"Well it isn't" rejoined the sad-eyed
person with the uncut hair. "Drugs are
worth real money."-Cincinnati En-
Quirer.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-06-12
Wisdom From Georuie.

Georgie-"Pa, what are the latest
letters in the alphabet" Give it up,
George; what are they?" 20, B, c.,
T."-Yongers Statesman.
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The "ThoughtIess Man.

This is a very difficult piece" she said,
as she turned from the piano. 1T makes
me tired"
Same here" returned the thoughtless
man.-Chicago Post.
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DOCTOR ADVOCATED OPERATION
I PE-RU-NA MADE knife UNNECESSARY.
CATARRH is a very frequent cause

TATARRH is a very frequent cause
~ OF that class of diseases popularity
known as female weakness.
Catarrh OF the pelvic organs produces
such a variety of disagreeable and irri-
tating symptoms that many people
in fact, the majority of ~people-have
no idea that they are caused by catarrh.
Ii all The women who are suffering
with any form of female weakness
would write to DR.. Hartman, Columbus,
Ohio, and give him a complete descrip-
ton OF heir symptoms and the peculiar
ties OF their troubles, he will immedi-
ately reply with complete directions
for treatment, free Of charge.
Mrs. Eva Bartho, 1873 East f2h
street. N. Y. City, N. Y, qvrites:
"Isuffered for three years zvM
leucorrhea and alteration of the
quomb. TIE doctor ADVOCATED an
operation zvhich I dreaded Very
mach. and strongly objected TO go
under it. Mo4v I am a changed
qwonan. Peruna cured me ; IT took
nine bottles, but IfeH so mach i'm
proceed Kept taking It, as / dreaded
an operation SO mach. I am today
in perfect health and haze not felt
so 4eH for fifteen years. "-Mrs.
EVa Bartho.
Miss Maud Steinbach, 1899 18th St.,
Milwaukee,, Wis, writes:
Last winter l felt sick most of the
time, was irregular and suffered from
nervous exhaustion and severe bearing
down pains. l had so frequently heard
of Peruna and what wonderful curesit
performed SO l sent for a bottle and in
four weeks my health and strength
were entirely restored to me."-Miss
Maud Steinbach.
Every where the women are using
Peruna and praising it. Peruna is nota
palliative simply; it cures by removing
the cause of female disease.
DIR, Hartman hasprobably cured more
women of female ailments than any
other living physician. He makes these
cures simply by using and recommend
ing Peruna.
HyOu do not derive prompt
S of Peruna, write at once to D.
of your case and he will be please
gratis.
Address DR.. Hartman, Presid
Columbus, Ohio.
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Younu Wit.

what supports the sun in the heav.
ens?" asked the country school
teacher.
why, It's beams, Of course" replied
9 p~recocious youngster.-Lippincott's.
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HOW 70 STERILIZE
YOUR Bl GOD AND KILL
DISEASE GERMS
OF CONSUMPTION

A Great Free Offer to All Reader of this Paper,
by Accepting Which They May Obtain Free by
Mail, a Large Bottle of the New Sterile Me-
dicinal Food, OzomuIsion.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-05-29
Cow Capacity.

In the selection of milch COW for
the farm some attention should be
paid to her capacity to produce milk.
There are on American farms alto
gether too many cows that give only
5000 or 1000 pounds of milk per
year. The 5000 pounds of milk mark
is a good one to strive for, and If
man can get together herd of COWS
that can average that amount he Is
about sure to make money out Of
them. But this milk should be above
the average in richness, say per cent.
There are indeed numerous cows that
give as high as 10000 pounds of milk
per year, but they form but small
per cent of the whole. At the pres
ent time an average Of even 5000
pounds OF per cent milk is some
thing to look forward to. 1t is to be
regretted that In the past there has
not been more method in breeding
up and selection. Cows have been
retained In the herd without much
regard for their real capabilities, and
ones that have been sent to the butch
er have also been little understood.
Some of our best strains as well as
some Of the poorest have gone to the
shambles: and this process continued
year after year has been to the detri-
ment of our herds.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-05-29
Cream for the Creamery.

There are good many things that
our creameries will have to do before
they succeed in getting firstclass
cream for use in making butter, espe-
cially when the gathered cream sys-
TEN is followed. One manager sug-
gests that every creamery should fur
nish the haulers with canvas covers
for their cans to keep out the dust
that SO often gets into the crease
where the covers At in and are after
ward rinsed out with the cream when
1t is poured from the cans. He also
suggests that 1t would be a paying
investment to furnish the haulers
with soap-stone stoves or some
other kind of heaters in winter, SO
that the cream will not freeze, as it
is not possible to make first-class but
ter from frozen cream. In the sum
mer time haulers OF cream should be
required to be at the creamery at q
certain time, as several hours un-
necessary exposure Of cream to the
suns heat is likely to injuriously at.
feet its quality.