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Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-08-06
Preserve the Manure.

Farmers will find that it will pay to
give more attention to the preserva-
ton of barnyard manure; first, by
guarding it from the sources of loss
which occur in the ordinary open
barnyard, and, second, by treating it
with materials calculated to reduce
the losses from escaping ammonia on
the one hand, and to increase its con
tent of phosphoric acid on the other.
To accomplish this purpose. acid
phosphate appears to be the material
producing the largest and most prof
liable immediate increase in effective
ness of the manure; but experiments
strongly suggest the possibility that
Underground phosphate rock, from
which acid phosphate is made, may
be found an economical substitute for
the latter, by using it as an absorb
ent in the stables, and thus securing
an intimate mixture with the manure
in its fresh condition. The yields will
be found larger and the increase due
to the addition of the preservatives
smaller in ease of the stall manure
than in ease of the open-yard manure,
thus showing that either with or with
out the addition of pre%seryatives, stall
manure suffers less loss and is richer
in fertilizing constitents than open
yard manure.-Midland Farmer.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-08-06
HERE AND THERE.

The annual consumption of binder
Irvine in the United States is esti-
mated at from 10000 to 10000 tons.
The acreage of tobacco is greater
than hat of last year by about 1000
acres, or or per cent, and the condi-
ton is s5.1.
Exports of corn from the United
States for the twelve months ended
June 80, 1908, amounted to 7~4,360,370
bushels, against &c, ,26s for the cor
responding period of the year pre-
yious.
For orchard purposes the subsoil
is of more Importance than the sur
face soil. Deficiencies of surface soil
are easily remedied. 1t is not so with
the subsoil.
The worlds visible supply of cot
ton on July 10, as reported by the
New York Commercial and Financial
Chronicle, was 2,O65,475 bales, as COM
pared with 2,199,s49 bales at a CORE
spending date last year.
There were Exported from the
United States in the fiscal year ended
June 80, 1908, 2oo,947,637 bushels of
wheat Including -four as wheat)
against a32, 6s4, 42o bushels for the like
period of the year before.
-Thirty-cent butter is not made
from milk churned whole. MOI from
stripper cows, mol from butter sold
with its butter milk easily seen. The
gilt-edged article must be as free
from these flaws as from flies and
dirt.
They say that the cows olfacto-
ries are about ten times as acute as
those of man. If this is true. the nee
essity of keeping the freeding trough,
the drinking vessel and all the sur
roundings of the COW clean becomes
very apparent.
Put your faith into words and
deeds. 1t needs only patient, persist
ent, tactful. wise endeavor to bring
to pass all the things you desire. You
may not see it this year or next, but
nature is just. She rewards each ac-
cording to the labor he performs.
The acreage of potatoes, exclud-
ing sweet potatoes, is less than that
of last year by about $4,000 acres, or
1.6 per cent. The average condition
of potatoes on July l was ssh. as com
pared with 92.s on July /, 1902. STA
at the corresponding date in 1901, and
asten-year average of 92.6.
If the farmer is in love with his
profession, as he should be. he can, ii
he will, do much to elevate it and
make it looked up to. Let dignity be
added to labor. and the most nom
orable, IS well as the most useful. of
all occupations will be accorded it's
full share of respectful considera-
ton.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-08-06

plants by what might be called over
feedi4g with nitrogen, fail to produce
any seed. BY the same means fruit
ing may be very materially changed.
On the other hand. an excessive use
of phosphoric acid may check the
growth and develop seed on plants
half grown.
This illustrates the influence of
plant food in Industrial plants, and
brings us to the main point of the
sketch-the fertilization of cotton for
lint.
Chemical analysis shows that the
lint of cotton contains much more
potash than nitrogen, and perhaps ten
times as much potash as phosphoric
is not to suppose that potash alone is
needed for lint cotton and that nitro
gen and phosphate are of little inn
portance, because to make lint we
must also make stalks, leaves and
bolls. The point is simply hat to in
sure lint in good quantity and quail
ity, we must have a free supply OF
potash in the fertilizer. Now, Curl
ously enough, commercial cotton fer
~tilizers are often compounded from
cottonseed meal and acid phosphate,
neither of which contain an appre-
cable amount of potash. These ma
terials are used because they are
common in the south, and not so
much a matter of cost. Potash costs
per pound about the same as phos-
phoric acid and about half as much
as nitrogen, but it must be imported
and hence, potash is apt to be lack
ing in average commercial fertilizers.
The lint making problem, however, re-
quires potash, and all fertilizers Of
fered for cotton must be examined
for this ingredient.
1t is very simple after all. The
state inspection calls for an analysis
of fertilizers stamped or printed on
the package. Nitrogen Tor ammonia)
potash and phosphoric acid are all
marked in percentages. For lint cot
ton, the potash in fertilizers should
not be less than 3 per cent, while the
nitrogen may be lower in case COW
peas or less leguminous plants pre-
ceded the cotton.-R. Garwood, in
Farm and Ranch.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-08-06
F~ERTILIzING I
All Fertilizers for Cotton, II Lint n
what IL Sought, Must be Rich
In Potash.

There is nothing new in feeding
plants or animals for special qualities
since all of our valuable farm plants
have been developed from forms
much less useful. In the cast of cot
ton, it is possible to produce seed, at
the expense of lint, by applying regu-
larly fertilizers promoting the
growth of seed, but cotton planters
are interested in the lint production
mainly and without regard to the
quantity of seed that may incidental
ly be obtained.
1t is well known that each of the
principal plant foods, that is, potash,
phosphoric acid and nitrogen, has its
special function to perform, and an
over-supply of M Or the other of
these plant foods at the expense of
the others may influence growth dis
sdvantagseusly. To illustrate, some
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-08-06
VALUABLE LAND.
Homesteader "Ran I'M Half HIS ClAan
on an @~Innocent" for Good
Measure.

Through the not, dusty roads of Kansas
a would-be homestesder was pursuing his
way to the Cherokee strip IN search of one
of Uncle Sans free homes. He had his FAM
ily and goods in a shaky wagon. which was
drawn by two feeble horses near dissolution,
says the Kansas City Journal.
.Whar YOU boundt" asked a farmer q
whose house he stopped for water,
Fer a hundred an sixty acres o govern
ment land in tn strip, responded the trav-
eler, bombastically. =.
A few month. later the same man stopped
again at the Kansas farmers for water, this
time travelling north.
Watcher done with yer hundred an sixty
~acresy" asked the farmer, with a note 0
suspicion.
See them mules thar queried the homo
steader, pointing to a fine pair of animals
which were harnessed to the prairie schoon-
er. Il traded 80 acres o my claim fer en-
Watcher do with tn other S0?"
Don't give it away till ! get farther on.
Th' Teller was an innocent, an / run tn 9TH
er so acres in on I'm without mis- KNOWN it"
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-08-06
What Was Itf

Frairpoint, Miss, Aug. 3rd.-One of the
etrangest cases ever reported occurred here
recently. The son OF Mr.. g. L. Butler was
very III. The doctor said he had some dis
ease OF the spinal cord, and treated him for
two months. but he grew worse al the time,
and finally the doctor told mr. Butler that
he did not know what was the trouble.
The bow would wake up in the night and
say that he was dying. He would be nery-
Gus and trembling and want TO run out of
the house, saying he saw ngly things which
frightened him.
one day he saw a new remedy called Dodd's
Kidney Pills advertised, and he at once
bought some and began to give them to his
boy.
was entirely cured. He has not been
troubled since. Mr.. Butler says:
II feel it my duty to tell what DOdd,s klG.
ney Pulls ave done Tor my ooy md At 4 Snii
sneak for itself"
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-08-06
PIGS IN
How an Illinois Farmer Has Sue
ceeded I'm Solving the Farm
LabOr Problem.

An Illinois farmer has achieved con-
siderable success in solving the farm
labor problem. He raises a goodly
number of hogs, but he grows and
fattens them on such feeds as they
can harvest themselves. This class of
feeds, together with the work of har-
vesting them, keep his hogs in a very
healthy and thrifty condition, and he
has little fear of disease One of his
main crops for pork making is clover.
the clover pasture. If for any reason
his clover fails or he does not have
quite enough of it, he finishes out
with rape and soy beans, making a
deduction for the corn fed of ter
pounds of gain per bushel, he has had
his hogs make a gain of 465 pounds
per acre from the clover alone during
the summer. This, at 5 cents per
pound, means $23.25 per acre, which
seems very good for a clover crop
without any expenditure of labor in
the harvesting. In 1901, the excep-
tional dry season, his hogs did not do
so well in gain, but did not fall much
short in the price received. The elo-
YER alone, after the proper reduc-
ton for all the corn fed, made a gain
of 375 pounds per acre. This. at 5h
cents per pound for the pork, made
s-1.62 per acre. On June 1, 1902, 4.79
acres were drilled to soy beans in
rows two feet apart, using three-ffths
of a bushel of seed per acre. Into this
area were turned. on September II,
1872 pigs weighing a total of 10,1s0
pounds. On October z they were
again weighed, when they were found
to have made a gain of Also pounds,
or 1.22 pounds each per day. During
this time they consumed 10s.65 bush
els of corn. The 4,1s6 pounds of pork
at 6 cents per pound would amount
to s251.16. Allowing 40 cents a bushel.
or S43.46 for the corn fed, leaves
s207. 10, or $43.36 per acr for the soy
beans without any labor in harvest
ing. There is no question but such
a system ofmanagement gives thrift
Ter, healthier pigs and renders an at
tack of cholera less liable than where
they are heavily fed with corn
Prairie Farmer.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-08-06
BASE NEGLECT OF DUTY.
Some OF the Things That Are Ex-
pected of lei who Aspire to
Political leadership,

To become a political 'leader," and to re.
tain the post successfully, requires eternal
vigilance. One politician, quoted by the
Cleveland Plain Dealer, says that in the
tenement districts the leader becomes a
sort of unofficial mayor, guardian and fa-
Their of<his people. He can never ignore a
request. To do so is to offend not only
the individual who makes it, but all mis-
relations.
One woman asked a district leader TO take
her baby into his family while the mother
went out of town for a weeks visit. Again,
he was called up at two O'Clock in the morn
ing by a couple of men who had got into a
dispute, and wanted him to arbitrate. He
was expected to see that the poor had coal;
to bail out those who, were arrested; to Sc
cure work for those who were out of employ
ment; to have police fines RENTED; to at
tend marriages, picnics and funerals.
One family of voters renounced him perma-
nently because he did not call when seven
y~ear-old Thomas broke a leg.
But | didn't know he had broken his
leg," the leader demonstrated.
Sure, and you should have known 1t.
"But / didn't even know yon had a son
named Thomas"
THAT settles it," and the father took
up his hat. Tim Sullivan would have
known it. Niver a meal have you ate in me
house"
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-08-06
Cost of Feeding.

Investigations have shown that it is
often best to modify a ration, for in
stance, by substituting corn, wholly
or in part, for oats, SO that the horses
remain in good condition, while at
the same time the cost of the ration
is diminished. When large numbers of
horses are fed, this is often a matter
of considerable Importance. The cost
of a ration made up of the ordinary
grains and coarse folders has been in
~vestigated by at least two experiment
stations. The Massachusetts, station
recorded the kinds and amounts of
foods consumed by three farm horses
for five years, with a view of learn
ing the average cost of the daily feed.
In the different years the cost of the
ration, which consisted of hay, corn,
pats and other common feeding stuffs,
varied from 1875 to PAS cents per
head daily. Using mixed grain ra-
lions, according to the New Hamp-
shire station, the average cost of feed
per horse per year was $74.32. The
average cost for feed per hours work
performed during the two years COW
cred by the test was "a cents.-Mid-
land Farmer.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-08-06
Another club woman, MRS. =
HauIe, of Edgerton, Wis.,, tells
how she was cured of irreguIari-
ties and uterine trouble, terrible
pains and backache by Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.

IA while ago my health began to
fail because of female troubles. The
doctor did not help me. i remembered
that my mother had used Lydia f..
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
on many occasions for Irregularities
and uterine troubles, and l felt ure
that it could not harm me at any rate
to give it a trial.
81 was certainly glad to find that
within a week / felt much better, the
terrible pains in my back and side
were beginning to cease, and at the
time of m~cnstruation ] did not have
nearly as serious a time as hereto
fore, so / continued its use for two
months, and at the end of that time i
was like a new woman / really have
never felt better in my life, have not
had a sick headache since, and weigh
20 pounds more than / vel did, so /
unhesitatingly recommend Vegetable
Compound."-MRs MAY HAuLE, Ed.
gerton, Wis, President Household
Economics Club. - $4,000 forfeit II original Of
abops istte, proving gcnaineness cannot be produced.
Women should remember there
is one tried and true remedy for
all female ills, Lydia f.. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound. Re-
fuse to buy any other medicine,
you need tile best.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-08-06
MA n-n., nv the Yard.

One Of the soldiers Woo had been reported
killed In q certain battle in South Africa
and against whose name in the Iegimental
books a note TO that efest bad ban made,
sfterward turned up-and reported himself.
Then the sergeant made anothsr note IN the
nisned in the hospital. and a few weeksafter
tuccumbed to the injuries he had received.
This fact was communicated TO the sergeant
through the colonel Of the regiment, and
then a third note was made: "Re-died By
ordsr OF the colonel."-London "V. C."
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-08-06
KIDNEY

Aching backs are eased.
Hip, back, and loin pains
overcome. Swelling of the
limbs and dropsy signs
ganish.
They correct urine with
brick dust sediment, high
colored, pain in passing.
iribbling, frequency, bed
wetting. Doan's Kidney Pills
remove calculi and gravel.
Relieve heart palpitation,
sleeplessness, headache,
nervousness, dizziness
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-08-06
COMFORT.

much pain in my back ; az
time went on / could hardly
endure it / could not stand
except for a few moments 81
q time ; / grew weak and
exhausted ; / could not even
do light housework ; l could
not sfoop or bend my head
ached severely was in pain
from my head down to my
heels ; centering In the kid
neys it was a heavy, steady,
sickening ache ; could moi
rest nights, and got up
mornings weak and tired. ]
thought l was about done
for, when l saw Doan's Kid.
neg Pills advertised. Within
a week after commencing
their use I began to improve,
and from that time on rapidly
grew better. / used five
boxes In all and was cured"
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-08-06
Posterity Of prunkards.

A professor of Bonn University. in
tracing the posterity of habitual
drunkards, has found 834 descendants
from a woman who for forty years
was "a thief, a drunkard and a tramp"
and whose miserable life came to an
end in the last rear of the eighteenth
century. The professor has traced
the lives of 700 of this woman's de-
scendants from youth to old age. and
of these 142 were beggars and "a more
lived on charity. There were in the
family rs convicts, including Z MUIR
derers. The professor estimated that
in se~venty-ive years this family has
cost the German authorities in aims
houses, law courts. prisons and other
institutions about s1.250. 000.-Chicago
Journal.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-08-06
The Girls Were Loaded.

The stage presented a pretty scene
In the first row were the graduates.
ten young girls dressed in white. each
carrying a large bunch of carnations
and one young man.-Huntington
(Va.) Herald.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-08-06
Mistake.

Harry Blueface--Ah, the good woman has
come out to admire my new racing auto-
Isn't it so, ma'am
. Good Woman-Wny, no, sir. / heard the
horn and thought it was the fish peddler.-
Philadelphia Record.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-08-06

Friend-"What's the matter, old man!
Doesn't she return your love-" Tilted One
That's just the trouble. She returned it
and told me to give 1t to some other GIRL
Princeton Tiger.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-08-06

Mrs. James Beck Of 314
West WhitesboTo stree ct (,
Rome, N. Y, says II was
troubled with my kidneys for
eight or nine years; had
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-08-06

Caller-Are you sure your mistress is not
in, Bridget-Oi am not, but she sames to
be, so It's not fur the loikes o me to doubt
it.-Phiadelphia Press.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-08-06

Tess-"Graclous, You're as cross as two
sticks this morning Jess-"No wonder:
That's what | had calling on me last night"
Tess-"What?" Jess-Two sticks
Philadelphia Press.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-08-06

Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken Of
IS a cough cure. w O'Brien, 322 Third
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-08-06

A woman gains weight might fast when
she has a habit of sitting on her husbands
lap.--N. Y. Press.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-08-06

All the world hates a good example,
New Orleans Times-Democrat.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-08-06

Sumner Is a good time 10 treat Chronic Kidney.
Bladder, and Urinary troubles with Doans Kidney Pflis;
fhey Conquer the most stubborn cases.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-08-06

II you suffer from Epilepsy. Fits, Falling SICK
ness, ST. Vitus's Dance. or Vertigo, have chli'
dren, relatives. friends or %neighbors that DO so,
Treatment will Immediately relieve and PER-
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w. H. MAY, M. D.,
"a Pine Street, New York City.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-08-06
non,t Get Footsore! Get Foot-Ease.

A wonderful powder that cures tired, hot,
aching feet and makes new or tight shoes
easy. Ask to-day for Aliens foot-Ease.
Accept no substitute. Trial packagefhEE
Address A. S. Olmsted, lie Roy, n. Y.
When people marry for fun, the laugh il
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-08-06

To Cure q Cold I'm One Day.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. An
druggists refund money if it falls to cure. 25c.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-08-06
False Gods Brought Evil.

negro is more and more the sufferer
from the false position in which he
has been placed.
who does not know that it would
have been infinitely better for he ne
gro not to have clothed him with po-
litical rights? Who fail to see the
Injustice and the wrong that 1t will
do him in the future? That he is less
secure in his life, liberty and property,
which every good man wishes him to
enjoy to the fullest extent, with po-
Iftical equality than Without it, is a
lesson the whole country is slowly
learning, as well as the more intelli-
gent of the negro race
Effects Of Negro Suffrage on South.
The effect of universal negro suf-
frage has been an unmixed evil to
the people of the South. 1t has Gre
ated an unnatural and unhealthy polit-
ical condition. 1t has been a blight to
the ambitions of Southern men. Ii
has dwarfed their aspirations.
Not since the day of universal ne
gro suffrage has a Southern man
been seriously considered for either
president or vi~ce-president of the Unit.
ed States. He has accepted this ex-
clusion, not as a suspicion of his 10y.
atty, for he has never doubted that
himself-neither has the North, except
for political purposes-but as a pen
atty he was required to pay for pre-
serving the heritage of his fathers.
The alternative which confronted
US vas white supremacy or negro
domination, light or darkness, hope
or despair, rule or ruin.
with all the black man attached
to n party, in the majority in some
States and in many localities. led by
INSCRIPTIONS adventures, intent on
public plumber and using the negro as
a tool, what was more necessary than
that seif-preseryation should have
forced all Southern men to another
party?
ITO attempt to divide the negroes
The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1903-1906, 1903-09-03

takes to enter through the door or in
any way interfcrcs with II will turn
the knob or rattle the door sufficiently
to set tho alarm bell vibrating and APP
prise the inmates Of the house Of what
is going on. III this case, of course,
tho noise Is also heard by the persons
outside, SO that 1t would frightcn away
many times when the bell may not
have awakened the inmates of th
house. Such alarms can readily be at
tachcd to my or all Of the doors OF Il
house and are also convenient for truv.
elers for suspension from the door
knobs Of the hotel rooms assigned to
them In their travels.