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Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-08-20
ADVERTISING LOST.
Clever scheme spoiled by h over
Carefulness of . Com
eerned Friend.

As an advertisement the man had had
prepared some pretty little match boxes
filled with matches; and be made 1t a point
to leave one Of them, as il by accident, wher-
ever he happened to be, relates the Chicago
Post.
That's more effective than giving them
sway he said. The man who hnds one
will give more attention to it than will the
man to whom one is given
But his friend persisted in ignoring tins
scheme. He picked up the match box
and restored it to the owner. whereupon the
owner would leave it again.
Never mind it, he would say; Blu the
friend persisted IL minding it to the extent
that he always Jagged behind when a match
box was left.
One day the advertiser happened to b
in the friends room and came upon about
q gross of his match boxes.
where did yop get these ne asked.
"Oh. I've picked them up where YOU nave
left them anywhere was the reply. No
use buying matches when you are giving
them away you know.
And now the advertiser is trying to inquire
out what good the Advertising on thoss
boxes does MIN.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-08-20
HOG RAISING IN THE SOUTH.
A Southern Farmer Tells How he
Manages the Meat Question
On His Farm.

In the last few years the high price
of meat has drawn the attention of u
people to raising hogs and only In a
small way it has been done economic
ally and at a profit. / am an extreme
cotton planter, but have always given
much attention to hogs, cattle and
grass. Let the negro make all the cot
ton he can for it is all he will success
fully do on the farm. Then If you are
a large land owner, raise all the. grain,
hay and meat you can. You can get
their labor cheaply when they are not
needed in the crop. Make them plant
almost exclusively cotton and sell
them their rations and horse feed.
Most of them want only a little money
Christmas. | furnish that to them.
Give all your idle and spare time to
your stock and grass. To be a sue
cessful stock-raising and hay-farmer
you must have knowledge and that can
be acquired here only by long years OF
experience, a thorough reading of u
southern magazines. You must know
what kind of grass and grains to SOW
that is suitable to our climate and soil.
To raise hogs cheaply you must have
good grazing for them every day in
the year. Plant your corn next to
your summer pasture, plant ground
peas in the drill of your corn and fill
all water burrows with peas and have
your corn field as fenced. For summer
pasture you must have Red Glover,
Johnson grass, Mellelotus and Bermu-
da. Mellelotus and Red Clover will
furnish you good grazing in February,
johnson grass in March and Bermuda
all through the summer. Then peal
your corn last CT September and turn
your hogs in your ground peas and
field peas. As soon as they eat up n
field sow it in grain early in October.
Then put your breeding sows in your
grain fields July with their pigs. Turn
them in then till last of March; take
them off and as soon as grain is in
the milk, l put them back and let them
eat it up then plant again in corn and
peas.
| feed pigs in pens literally. They
are the only hogs l eve feed corn to.
/ sell my hogs off the pea field with
out any corn, either gross or dressed.
and | sell hogs from October till April.
Get you a good breed of hogs. l have
tried every breed of hogs and l pre-
fer the Berkshire hog, he is shifty,
prolific and his meat is very superior.
You want good fences and the best
and in the end the cheapest fence is
the woven wire, it costs about SIS per
mile and will last a life time. 1t will
take from $4,000 to 5000 to go into
the hog business; then from that 3d.
600 you should sell $1,000 worth of
meat besides eating 80 or 40 shoats a
year and having your own meat. But
hogs are like chickens, you must look
after them every day in the year,
Napier, in Southern Cultivator.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-08-20
CALF CHOLERA REMEDY.
Lime Water, Followed by Corn
Starch, Has Proved Effcacious
Treatment in Many Cases.

Last spring l was feeding my cows
corn and my calves when first born
seemed all right, but when n to three
days old they began to show signs of
cholera, | tried several remedies, but all
failed; when, after losing five or six !
made some strong lime water by putting
a piece as large as your fist in a quart
glass bottle and filed with good rain
water Tor any other clean water would
do) and then after shaking we'll set it
aside to settle. | took the calves, says
the Stockman and Feeder, when first
noticed sick, away from their mother Q
few days; took a little of her milk and
put two tablespoonfuls of the lime wa
ter in it and fed them three times a day
After drinking it l gave each a dessert
teaspoonful of c~ornstarch. moistened
with the milk. The cornstarch is cool
and healing. This saved them.
Another good remedy is laudanum.
When the rest were born (some seemed
to be affected when born ] gave ten
drops of laudanum in their milk twice a
day till they were better. Two doses
were generally enough, as it won't do tc
give too much. The calves should not be
allowed to eat too much at a time.
The sick ones should be kept from the
well ones, and the laudanum away from
the children. have used lime water for
hog cholera and found 1t very beneficial
This year we are feeding whole oats and
stock food to the cows and one or two
calves were affected a little with cholera
/ gave one dose of laudanum as soon as
noticed and let them run with mother
and they are all right now.
non nCCrnYYCrryyD Coyryc
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-08-20
HERE N THERE.

YER sen0 a boy and a dog to
bring the cows from the pasture un-
les YOU know your dog.
The COW that has salt where she
can get at it whenever she wishes is
not going t o eat too much.
Every farmer ought to raise clover
to maintain the fertility of the soil.
Glover is just about a balanced RAJ
ton of itself.
Buy milk cans that have the can
smooth. NO others need apply" would
be a good motto to use when buying
utensils for the dairy.
Windows, and lots of them, on the
sunny side of the COW barn, is the soy
ereign preventive of tuberculosis and
lots of other mean things.
Continue the grain ration for a
while after the cows are on grass. By
the way, would it not pay you to con-
tinue some grain right along?
Give the boy a calf. teach him TO
feed it, rare for 1t, shelter 1t and let
him feel when it becomes profitable
that he is earning what he receives.
Does it pay to drive our children
away from home to find pleasure when
we might make our homes brighter and
the most attractive places to them on
earthe
There is no question, in sparsely-
settled localities, where creameries can
not be sustained. because of the dis
tances milk must be hauled. that the
hand separator is a boon.
We feel strongly on this subject,
and believe it needs strong language to
impress on the careless dairyman how
much be is likely to lose by deliberate
ly remaining in ignorance of the quail
ity of his cows.
The dairyman who claims be can
not make money should say he will
not. If he feeds without keeping any
account of his feed he does not know
now much it costs him to keep a COW,
or any given COW. and if he does not
weigh and test his milk he cannot
tell how much the milk Of any cow IL
worth.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-08-20

can grow alfalfa they will no longer
need to buy bran and oatmeal to feed
with their corr to COWS. and neither
win the steer feeder find it necessary
to buy cotton seed meal to balance his
ration for his steers. The extraordi-
nary value of alfalfa will warrant con-
siderable expense in experimenting on
a few acres.
at is useless to try alfalfa on soil
that is wet or had a ~hardpan subsoil.
1t requires soil sufficiently porous SO
that its roots may go down from ten
to Is feet. Mature alfalfa is of the
most vigorous plants, but young alfalfa
is one of the weakest plants grown. 1t
grows slowly, is a weak feeder. and is
easily checked by weeds or other UNI
favorable conditions of soil or wealth
er. Hence, the soil should be free
from weeds. in the best possible filth,
rich in plant food, and not too loose
on the surface, or the seed will like
moisture for termination and growth.
Alfalfa should be seeded at the rate OF
twenty or more pounds to the acre,
and should have the full use of the
land the first year, should be moved,
but not removed from the ground, as
soon as the blossoms begin to appear.
If the soil is at all sour, lime may be
added with profit.
Some experiments in Illinois seem
to indicate a probability that inocula-
ton of the soil will be a valuable aid
in growing alfalfa. By putting in the
soil some of the soil brought from
old alfalfa fields of western Iowa or
Nsbraska is is believed that the bacte-
ria necessary for the successful growth
of alfalfa will be furnished, and VIII
quickly multiply and insure the best
results from the alfalfa. The farmers
of the state will find the question OF the
proper ration completely solved as soon
as they can raise sufficient alfalfa hay
for their cattle, as alfalfa hay and corn
make a balanced ration for cattle. IN
der present conditions, even If the
farmer has good clover hay, he must
buy oil meal or bran or some other
feed that will Supply the lack OF pro-
tein in corn and corn fodder, and the
other farm grains and rough feeds
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-08-20
TIL. Cow That Fills the Pocketbook.

The, Cow That Fills the P~OcketbOOk.
1t is not always the COW that gives
the richest milk that fills the pocket
book. A homely farmer put this truth
to me the other day in bright If homely
words. In answer to the statement
that a certain lot of cows gave milk so
rich that 16 pounds of it would make a
pound of butter, he said: Eyes. and 1t
would take 16 of them to make the
pound of butter"
The fact is, quality is not the only
thing we must seek in the COW There
must be quantity as we'll. Suppose we
figure on this a little. Here is a COW
that gives milk, 16 pounds OF which
will make a pound of butter. In a day
we will say she gives the 16 pounds.
This butter is sold at say rs cents a
pound. This the COW does 800 days
in the year At the end of the season
she has to her credit, if she can mail
tain this record and the price remains
the same, 300 pounds of butter, worth
s75. Here is another GOV that gives
milk requiring 20 pounds for a pound
of butter. Every day for the 300 days
she gives 25 pounds of milk, making
IL pounds of butter. When the sea-
son ends she has 375 pounds of butter,
worth S93.75, to show for her work.
Which is the better cow?-Farm and
Fireside.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-08-20
q DAIRYING PAYS.
Farm By Maintaining Fertility
Of the Soil.

Prof. Curtiss at the recent dairy con-
yention in Cedar Rapids, Ia, told why
dairying mair.tains the fertility Of the
farm. He said: In selling 81 900
worth of wheat from an Iowa farm AT
present prices we sell with it about $3.50
worth of fertility. In selling $1,000
worth of corn we sell about $3.50 worth
of fertility-or constituents which would
cost the farmer this amount If he were
Obliged to buy commercial fertilizers to
maintain the fertility of the farm. But
we can convert 81 200 worth of corn
into beef, pork or mutton and sell 1t In
that form and not remove over SIS worth
of fertility from the farm, or we can
convert 81, 200 worth of feed into but
ter and not remove a single dollars
worth of fertility with it. Butter is al
most wholly pure fat or carbon, and 1t
adds nothing to the value or productive
capacity of the soil.
I'VE probably shall neve be Obliged
to pay out much money for commercial
fertilizers in Iowa il we farm intelli-
gently, but we have already learned that
we cannot grow wheat indefinitely OF
constantly draw upon ven a bountiful
store of plant food without diminished
returns. The fact that this lesson has
been learned and is coming to be univer-
sally recognized is the main safeguard
and the strongest feature of Iowa agri-
culture. We not only produce an aver
age of 81 ,000, 900 worth of agricultural
products for every day of the year, but
we know enough to feed over $3.50, 600
worth of produce on the farms every day.
No other state in the union approaches
this amount, and there are only five
other states that feed even half as
much. BY this means Iowa not only
leads in agricultural products. but
conserves her resources" MARITIME
Farmer.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-08-20
Red PolIed Cattle.

With the breaking up OF large
ranches and fast increasing populatlon
the man with the hoe, the small farm
err. is encroaching upon the big cattle
men. Big cotton farms are being u
I'D into smaller ones. Changes are be-
ing wrought now that were never De-
fore thought of. New methods, new
ideas, new implements, better stock
and high priced lands have caused a
revolution with the farmer. Diverslf-
cation is the cry and to be SUCCESSFUL
stock farming is a necessary ADJUNCT
Good blood is essential. The best and
cheapest way to make a beginning is
to buy a registered bull. Study the
qualities and characteristics of the diff
ferent breeds and buy the one that
suits your fancy best.
If you want a bull whose get are
red and muleys, buy a Red Poll. Nine
ty per cent of his calves are red. We
have two crops of half-breed Red
Polled calves and have to see the hrst
one with horns. Hornless cattle re-
quire less feed, less shelter and COM
mand higher prices in the leading mar
kets than cattle with horns.
Red Polled cows are early maturing,
easily handled and long breeders. They
give a good quantity of rich milk.
Their dairy records will compare IA
vorably with the strictly dairy breeds.
AS a farmers COW the brute stands
pre-eminently in the lead, as their rec
ord at the last International fair in
this class clearly showed they were
first. A farmer who wants a COW that
will give a good quantity of rich milk
and raise a good Red Polled calf be-
sides. the Red Polled GOV fills this re-
a%uisite. If the calves were selected
with the same care from large ances-
tors, given the same attention, pushed
and pampered as beef cattle are, their
weights would be heavier, but the prof
its less.-l'exas Farm and Ranch.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-08-20
MiIdew ON Gooseberries.

The mildew is one of the greatest
obstacles in the way of gooseberry
growing in most parts of this country.
A grower of experience has found that
salt hay spread over the whole surface
of the ground to the depth of three
inches is a preventive. Common coarse
hay or bog grass, soaked in brine,
would possibly answer just as well.
On account of the manner in which the
salt abserbs water from the atmos-
phere, the mulching. and consequently
the vines, are kept at an even temper
AZURE.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-08-20
ALFALFA FOR DAIRY FARMS.
1t Is Proliac and Has q Feeding val-
ne Almost Exactly Equal to
That Of Bran.

State Dairy Commissioner Wright. of
Iowa, has issued a little pamphlet on
alfalfa growing, from which the follow
ing paragraphs are taken
Not only does successfully grown
alfalfa produce three or more tons of
hay to the acre, but it has a feeding
value almost exactly equal to that of
bran 1t furnishes the protein which
is not found in sufficient amount In any
of the commonly-grown grains and
folders from which a balanced ration
can be put together. II Iowa farmers
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-08-20
BEGGAR GIVES CREDIT.
But He Doesn't Relish the Practice
That some People Have of
Putting Him on.

Chekib Bey, the Turkish minister to
Washington attended in Philadelphia the
recent launching of the Turkish warship
Medjidia at the Cramps shipysrd.
During the luncheon following the
launch Chekib Bey an~imadverted for a mo-
ment to the beggars of Philadelphia, says
an exchange Of that city.
You have here" he said, an enterpris-
ing and intelligent collection of beggars.
One of them approached me this morn
ing. He told a moving tale of misfortune;
then he asked me for a little money.
Il put my hand in my pocket, to find
that | was altogether out of change.
MY man. | said, Il have nothing for
you now, but in an hour ! shall be pass
ing this way again. Then | promise
you you shall get something. from me-
IAN right, sir said the beggar; but
all the same, he added, fretfully, you
wouldn't believe the amount of credit l
give in this way"
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-08-20
Butter Beats olive Oil.

Now comes an experiment which
tells us that butter and other animal
fats are much more healthful than
vegetable oils, hence the Haunted yir-
tues OF olive oil may be questioned.
In this experiment, made by testing
the quantity OF fat assimilated after
digestion by a section Of liver, The
amount observed six hours after the
ineestian of len grains of butter fat.
was 7.e3, while after the ingestion Of
the same amount OF vegetable Gil fer
the same time, the per cent, was ONLY
2.6-Ohio Farmer.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-08-20
rree Di.tribution of Seeds.

One of the officials of the a%gricultur-
al department who is close to Secre-
tary Wilson tells me that any action
by the seed merchants which would
have the effect of disseminating the
free distribution of seeds would be
welcomed by the department. For
years the department has been trying
to rid itself of this work, but congress
annually a%ppropriates money for the
purchase of the seeds and causes to be
distributed throughout the country
1880, 900 packages every year.-Wash-
ington Letter in Country Gentleman.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-08-20
our Sfrenuaua Life.

Foreigners seek in various ways to ex-
press their sense of the s-trenuousness of
American life. An educated young Ital.
ian, who is a purist in his own language,
tried to express the idea with precision
the other day. He said slowly and with
much care:
Americans do-everything-rushly."-
N, Y. Times.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-08-20
Possibly True,

A certain nouveau richie woman, OF
Philadelphia, who bears the reputation of
a Mrs. Malaprop and misuses her English
with a fine disregard of the, proprieties,
was staying with her daughter at an At
lantic City hotel. , One evening, while
seated on the hotel porch, she overheard
two young men, who were unaware OF
her presence, discussing her daughter.
THAT Miss Blank is a very charming
girl" said one. Don't you think SOL" !
YES" was the reply; but what a pity
she's so delicate"
This was too much for the mother,
who prided herself on her daughters good
health.
"Delicate." she broke in; my dangh-
ter delicate! Why, she's ore OF the ihUst
indelicate girls | ever saw in my life!"-
Philadelphia Ledger.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-08-20
An Admirable Tonic.
Misplaced Affection.

The Eskimos were very angry with the
arctic explorer.
What did he do?" asked the member Of
the relief expedition.
He petted our dogs" explained the
native.
is there any harm in petting your
dogs?"
yes; their tails were frozen stiff, and
when they went to wag them they broke
off "-Stray Stories.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-08-20
Merit Makes 1t h worlds Leader.

Merit Makes It the WorId's eader
Merit, greatest medicine ever put into
convenient form for quick, easy, pleasant
use-backed by the right kind of adver-
Using, has given Cascarets the great
est sale in the world among laxative med
icines. Over ten million boxes a year are
now being bought by the American people.
Great success always brings out imitators,
and readers are warned that when it
comes to buying medicine the best is none
too good, and whenever a dealer offers to
sell you. something Just as good, put it
down as a worthless fake, put your money
YOU will be treated fairly, and where,
when you ask for Cascarets, you will
get what you ask for.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-08-20

Mrs, P. Conlin, So Green
Geld Avenue, Carbondale,
Pa. says: II suffered with
backache, and, despite the
use Of medicines, l could not
get rid Of 1t. Ipds compelled
10 saso a crutch for eight
months, and a part of the
time was unable to walk at
all. / fairly screamed IL l
attempted to lift my feet
from the floor, and, finally,
lost control of my limbs
through weakness, as | could
neither bend nor straighten
up 10 my full height, and IL
sver o woman was In a serious
condition, / was. My hus-
band went TO kelly's drug
store and brought home q
box of Doan's Pills. l felt
easier in a few days, and,
continuing the treatment, /
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-08-20

posts. The cut is self-explanatory.
Pegs are driven through the poke in
such a way that when grazing they give
the animal no inconvenience, but when
she reaches through the wires the sharp
points jab her shoulders sharply, and she
quickly learns to keep on her own side
of the fence.-Farm Journal.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-08-20
Too Suggestive of the Past.

mo, the Duckleighs never have hay
fever"
But l thought they had everything that
was fashionable"
eyes. but they are a little sensitive
about hay fever. Their father used to
run a feed store, you know."ICleveland
Plain Dealer.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-08-20
THE SALESWOMAN
Compelled to BE ON Her Feet the Larger Part OF the
Day Finds a Tonic In Pe-ru-na.

pelvic organs, the discharge OF mucus
Is sure to occur
This discharge of mucus constitutes
a weakening drain; the system cannot
long withstand the loss of mucus,
hence it is that women afflicted with
catarrhal affections of the pelvic or
gans feel tired and languid, with weak
back and throbbing brain. A ourse OF
peruna is sure to restore health by
cutting off the weakening drain OF h
daily loss of mucus.
An Admirable Tonic.
Congressman Mark 81. Dunnell, Ma
tioual Hotel, Washington, ID. c.. writes:
.sYour Peruna being used by myself
and manyo of my friends and acquaint-
ances not only as a cure for atari
but also as an admirable tonicfor phys
zeal recuperation, | gladly recommend
it to all persons requiring such rene
dies."-Mark II. Dunnell.
If you do not derive prompt and salts
factory results from the use of Peruna,
write at once to DR.. Hartman, giving a
full statement of your case and he Will
be pleased to give you his valuable ad-
vice gratis.
Address DIR. Hartman, President OF
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus,O y.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-08-20
Mcn and women

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line of the NJ, X. & T., where the careful
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capital proftably. Send two-cent stamp
to prepay postage, to KATY Suite B.,
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Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-08-20
FOR DESTRUCTIVE cows.
Simple Device to Use on Animals That
Insist on Pushing Their Heads
Through Fences.

An Iowa subscriber sends us a sim
pie device he uses on cows that insist on
pushing their way through wire fences,
or at least tearing the wires from the
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-08-20

Have you had much experienced" asked
Mrs, Youngwife of the applicant for the
position of cook. Mum, . said the cook
lady, portentously. II could write .
understandable Journal.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-08-20

A Lack of Coincidence.-Downer-"I am
glad it is good form not to wear a watch
with a dress suit" Uppcr-"NNhy?"
Downer-"Because | never have my watch
and my dress suit at the same time
Pick-Me-Up.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-08-20

Aching backs are eased.
Hip, back, and loin pains
overcome. Swelling of the
limbs and dropsy signs
vanish.
They correct urine with
brick dust sediment, high
colored, pain in passing,
dribbling, frequency, bed
wetting. Doan's Kidney Pills
remove calculi and gravel.
Relieve heart palpitatio Q
sleeplessness, headache
nervousness, dizziness.