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The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-24
FEEDING EXPERIMENTS.
Vetch, Cow Pea and Soy Bean HAY
y rs substitutes for Wheat Bran
for Dairy Cows.

The following is a summary of Bull
letin No. 1913 of the Alabama expert
ment station:
The object of the feeding expert
ments herein described was to ascer-
tain whether hay made from hairy
vetch, cow-peas and soy-beans could
be advantageously substituted for
most of the wheat bran in the ration
of dairy cows.
"The following values to the ton
were used in calculating 1.-THE cost of
food: Wheat bran, $50; vetch hay,
$40; cow-pea hay, $40; cotton seed,
$12; cotton seed meal, 500; cotton
seed hulls, S..
"Vetch hay proved fully equal In
feeding value to a similar weight of
wheat bran. By this substitution the
cost of the food required to make a
pound of butter was reduced 25 per
cent, which is equivalent to a month
ly saving of 5000 in a herd OF 20
COWS.
with the vetch ration the cost of
food for one pound of butter av-
eraged ten cents in contrast with
thirteen and four-tenths when bran
was fed.
''The waste in feeding vetch hay
was with most COWS about 6 per cent.
of the amount offered, and with cow
pea hay about 16 per cent; the latter
residue, being useless, is charged as
a part of the ration.
THAT portion of the cow-pea hay
actually eaten proved fully equal in
feeding value to a similar weight of
wheat bran. Charging the cows with
all the cow-pea hay offered them, we
find that cow-pea hay had Sc per cent.
of the feeding value of wheat bran,
one ton of this hay being equal to
1,720 pounds of bran.
"When wheat bran was worth $40
a ton, cow-pea hay vas worth $17.20,
and vetch hay $40.
1.-THE monthly profits on a COW
we're $4.65 on the vetch ration, and
$4.35 cents on the cow-pea ration.
Zone of the Jersey cows used in
this test produced butter as a cost
for food of only eight and one-third
cents a pound when fed on the vetch
ration.
Running cow-pea hay through a
feed cutter did not decrease the waste
in feeding this food.
-Four and one-half per cent. more
butter was produced with soy-bean
hay than with cow-pea hay, if we take
account of the portion of each actu-
ally eaten; however, a larger proper
tion of the coarse stems of the soy
bean hay was uneaten.
"When corn-hearts were substitute
ed for wheat bran, the yield of but
ter was increased by eight per cent"
The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-24
Passed for a Man.

A strange but well authenticated
story comes from Prentiss county
that a young woman, who is known
as Willie Ray, has for several years
practiced the deception that she was
a man, and her true identity was re-
vealed last week to officers of the
law in order to disprove allegations.
This person has worked several years
with different farmers in the country
as a share cropper, but is making a
crop this year on her own account.
During all this time she has dressed
IN full male attire, and on anything
like special occasions appeared as a
n~eat-looking boy, riding horseback
astride, chewing tobacco and smok-
ing cigarettes. Willie has always
been regarded as a good field and
farm hand, and possessed the conf
dence of neighbors to the extent of
opening individual accounts with
storekeepers and other business men.
She is rs years old and came orig
inally from Tennessee.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-24
The Right. of the Hog.

The high prices of pork that have
prevailed for some time have induced
many farmers to embark in swine
raising more extensively than has
been their custom. This has not in
every case been done wisely nor well.
Many a female representative of her
race is having motherhood thrust up
on her, quite contrary to earlier at
tentions and without regard to any
of the fine points of adaptability,
heredity and other traits which ex-
%perienced breeders insist upon.
1t is well to remember in the breed
ing of swine that it is easily possible
to come out with a loss even when
high prices are ruling if business att
tention is not given to the production
of pigs that will make generous re-
turns for food eaten. And they must
have the food to eat. When prices
are high, as now, too many consider
the hog principally in point of num-
bers. The object appears to be to in
crease numbers without much regard
to the quality, or the qualities of the
individuals. Pens and yards are
crowded, and feed expanded SO that
the amount of feed that would push
II pig family to an early finish is
divided between two, and the develop
ment of neither is such as will ena-
BILE the feeder to extensively >partici-
pate in the profits of good prices.
This condition of affairs will show
its true significance when supply over
takes demand, as it is sure to do.
Then the poorly bred and half-fed
porker will be present to remind us
of our unwise haste.
There is rarely a time when there
is not good money" in good swine
for the feeder who feeds literally and
with judgment, but to the scrub
breeder and the stingy feeder the
times of profit come seldom and do
not remain long.-W. F. McSparran,
in Farm and Fireside.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-24
FARMERANDP LANTER.
DEATH TO SAN JOSE SCALE.
Unique Industry Pursued In Georgia
-"Lady Bugs Bred In the In
terest of Peach Growers.

State Entomologist w. NJ. Scott, of
Georgia, who, in addition to inspect
ing the various orchards of the state
and to keeping in touch with all the
fruit growers of Georgia, is expected
to kill all the bugs which might in
jure the fruit interests, has been vio-
lating the law t. some extent of late
by raising, actually raising a colony
Of bugs down les Marshallville. But
it must be stated hat the bugs are of
the kind that will destroy the San
Jose scale, a dreaded disease among
peach trees, and if the plans of the
entomologist meet with success he
| will be a hero in the eyes of the or
chard owners
About a year ago the United States
government presented Mr.. Scott with
twenty small insects known as the
Asiatic lady bug. 1t was said to be an
insect, imported from Asia by the
United States department of agricul-
ture, and was guaranteed to kill the
San Jose scale rapidly, provided, of
course, there were a sufficient num-
Der of bugs. They were discovered
by one of the government entomolo-
gists several years ago, and by being
very careful he managed to bring sew
eral pairs to this country. These pairs
multiplied, and last year the govern
ment furnished several of the south
ern states with twenty bugs each.
Entomologist Scott determined to
try the scheme and he took the bugs
sent him to Marshallville, placed them
in a wire cage built around a peach
tree which was infected with the San
Jose scale, and now the state of
Georgia owns some 10000 of the scale
killers. MI. Scott is very pround of
his colony and says he will in a short
time be enabled to furnish every fruit
grower in Georgia with a supply.
Where the bugs have had an oppor-
tunity to get after the scale they have
almost annihilated it, ana it is be-
lieved that if the multiplication of the
insects continues, the San Jose scale
will be etfectually checked in Georgia
before many years.
FoT some Time past tne scale mas
been playing havoc with the peach
trees in the state and thousands of
trees have been completely killed or
dug up as a result of the dreaded dis
ease. Since the appearance of the
bug from Asia. however, strong hopes
have arisen with Entomologist Scott
and he now dreams of the time when
there will be no scale in Georgia and
he will find it necessary to begin an
determination of the bugs instead of
the scale. The bugs are said to be
much better for the San Jose scale
than the kerosene spray and all other
remedies combined, and low that the
colony of insects is in such a thriving
condition, Mr.. Scott, who usually
wears a large smile, now has a larger
n than yer before, and in fact. he
has been in such a jolly humor for the
past two months that his friends at
the capital are wondering if he hasn't
been willed two or three million dol
lars by some distant relative.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-24
THOUGHTS FOR THE TWILIGHT

The best weapon in the world Is a
steady EYE. Eggleston.
hope to over-hope and over-believe
my troubles.-S. Rutherford.
Half the ills we hoard in our hearts
are ills because we hoard them.-Barry
Cornwall.
Not what the world is to us, but what
we are to the world is decisive Of our
Observation-Disclosures Won Hillern.
Do not think it wasted time to sub
NIT yourself to any influence which may
bring upon you any noble feeling.-John
Ruskin.
Make allowance for infirmities of the
flesh which are purely physical. To be
fatigueG. body and soul, is not sin; to be
in "heaviness' is not sin. Christian
life is not a feeling; 1t is a principle
Elizabeth Prentiss.
The world is so waste and empty when
we figure only towns and hills and riv-
ers in it; but to know of someone here
and there whom we accord with, who is
living on with us even in silence. this
makes our earthly ball a peopled gar
den.-Goethe.
Kindness has converted more sinners
than either zeal, eloquence or learning,
and these three never converted anyone
unless they were kind also. The con-
tinual sense which a kind heart has OF
its " need of kindness keeps it hum,
ble.-J. J. Murray.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-24
Fine Crop Prospects.

Ideal weather conditions for the
cotton crop have existed in Missis-
sippi during the past week, and the
crop has made more satisfactory
progress than during any week since
its planting. The steady prevalence
of high temperature, accompanied
by a succession of bounteous show
ers, has brought out the plant in a
wonderful manner, greatly advanc-
ing the growth, which was so much
retarded during the early part of the
season.
The farmers are quite jubilant
over their prospects throughout the
State, and from all quarters of the
commonwealth come splendid re-
ports on the corn crop, which prom
ises to be the largest grown in Mis-
sissippi for five or six years. Roast
ing ears are now plentiful on the
market, the watermelon supply will
be sufficient to supply eve the most
clamorous demands of the negro
population, and there will also be a
large canteloupe crop. Fruits are
fine and abundant, the crops of
peaches, grapes and figs being par
ticularly good.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-24

letting their work push them. And
then there are still a few who will
not even permit themselves to be
pushed.
The kind of farming done fairly IL
l~I5trates the kind of farmer. There is
no salvation for the man who is too
lazy to farm; and there is little hope
for the farmer who is SO deficient in
planning capacity as to let his work
push him. To be sure, there are times
when the season seems to be against
the intelligent, pushing farmer; but
ordinarily executive ability will tell
against any form Of obstacle. Many
hands and far to little with his head.
You have known hundreds of such.
They stick to their farms and old
and antiquated methods. They do not
know why some of their neighbors
r u%p-to-date and thrifty. They do
not see the need of improvement in
culture and in stock. They are
strangers to good agricultural jour
nalism and experimental station
work. They simply drive on, gaining
as little for their physical effort as
they annually learn.
But heaven pity the farmer who
frets. Fretting betrays a want of
confidence in his own intelligence; it
questions the power of the arm up
on which the reason relies. More
over it poisons the man himself and
renders him unfit for association with
his kind. He bGghts the happiness of
his own family and even breaks his
relation with his dumb brutes. Hap
Ply is the farmer whose knowledge is
wide, whose confidence in his ability
to execte the mandate of reason is
equalto any emergency,a and whose pa
thence never forsakes him. Not only
his children, but also his neighbors,
will rise up and call him blessed
Cor. Successful Farming.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-24
Mississippi State News

gins. Miss Emma French; primary
(2).
Sharkey-August "a "a, j. J.. Hug
| gins.
Yazoo-July 81 ca, w. C. Sans,
Miss Frances l.. Ellison; primary (2).
Madison-August 10 %, J. A. Huff.
Noxubee-August 10 (2), s. p.
Walker, Miss Carrie Foose; primary
(2).
Winston-August "a ~, T. E. Pc
gram.
Holmes-August 10 %. w. T. Fos-
ter.
Carroll-August II (2), ]. M. Kim
brough, Miss Annie Alexander; pri-
mary (2).
Observation-Disclosures II %, T. O..
GrifRs.
Sunflower-August "a (2), ]. w.
Williams.
Leflore-August 3 (2), o. A. Shaw.
Choctaw-August II (1), A. A. New
ell.
Webster-August II ca, B. H. Ma.
lone.
neutrality-suspicious. 81 ~, o. B.
Taylor.
~Clay-August 10 q, d. A. Hill.
Miss Susie Strong; primary (full
time).
Lowndes-August II ~, E. w.
harrington.
Oktibbeha-August "a (2), J.. H.
Woodland; Miss Villa Bolton; prima,
ry GU.
Monroe-August II (2), Claude
Clayton. Miss Ruth Mcfarland; pri-
mary (2).
Observation-Disclosures II (2), B. T.
Schumpert.
Calhoun-August 10 (2), j. s. Price,
| Miss Clara Bigham; primary (2).
Pontotoc-August "a (2), M. Rose.
Grenada-August II %, L. E. Bates.
Observation-Disclosures "a ca, w. P.
Dobbins.
Leake-August 10 (2), J. F. Parkin.
son. Miss Mary Davis; primary (2).
Tate-August 10 %, c. E. Saun
ders.
Panola-August II (2), C. E. Saun.
ders, Miss Elizabeth Young; primary
(2).
Tunica-August 10 %, ]. w. Buzz.
bee.
Tippah-August II (2), L. H. lobe,
Miss Mary Anderson; primary (2).
Observation-Disclosures "a (2), Ira G.. AL.
len.
Observation-Disclosures II (2), E. S
Balthrop.
Lee-August 81 (2), ]. o. Loony,
Miss Ellen Phillips; primary (2).
Prentiss-August II (2), j. o. Loo
ny.
Bolivar-August 10 %, ]. S. Thorn
ton.
Coahoma-August II ~, j. S.
Thornton.
DeSoto-August 81 %, j. S. Thorn
ton.
Observation-Disclosures 10 %, Percy
Wall.
Alcorn-August II (2), Percy Wall.
Benton-August 81 %, Percy Wall.
Neshoba-August 10 (2), H. Y. Ora
ham, Miss May Haddon; primary (2).
Union-Miss Hope Mckinney; pri-
mary ca.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-24
Helpless Land.

The biggest consideration in Amer
lean farming to-day is that of putting
and keeping land in such condition
that it can produce humus for itself
when given a chance. The soil falls
below that point through too much
cropping, lack of drainage, poor TIL
lage or some other kind of misman-
agement, and then the store of humus
steadily declines, seedlings to clover
and grass are whole or partial fail
ures, and matters grow worse year
after year. The soil that is in good
physical condition produces humus
for itself whenever it has opportuni-
ty, and it is the old law that unto
him that hath shall be given. Usually
it is only a matter of physical condi-
ton. 1t is only a comparatively small
area of naturally good soil that will
not supply itself with the needed or
ganic matter to furnish fertility when
it already has a supply of such rotted
material to make is retentive of mois-
ture while admitting the air needed
for chemical changes in its store of
plant food. The fertile field can grow
heavy sods for itself, and thus help
itself.-Farm and Fireside.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-24
KNOW.

l read in Thine own word, dear Lord,
That though oppressed by cruel foe,
Thy sheltering arm would be my shield:
And l believed, but did not know.
That though the path Thy will had planned
Should lead me where dark waters flow,
Thy peerless Son would walk with me;
This / believed, but did not know.
Time flew apace. and loved ones came
Making my home a HEAVIER below,
A very CLEAN of Paradise: i.
Still l believed, but did not know.
AT last there dawned a day, when through
A fiery furnace l must go.
Oh, there. my Christ! ] saw Thy face
And now, / praise Thee. that L know.
Lizzie l.. Baker, in Springfield (Mass.)
Republican.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-24
II BEST THINGS.
Are Those which Have Had Their
Source in the Life of a
Vital Faith. p

The best things in the world, says
the Chicago Interior. are fruits, not
finds. They are results which have
behind them adequate causes. The
great wealth of this continent is not
its gold or its silver, but it's h~arvests.
Beside what we raise, what we dis
cover is a mere %pittance. The best
things are vital. They grow. They
bud and blossom and mature. They
are due to living processes whose Sc
cret is with the Almighty. The only
way to possess the fruit is to possess
the life. The only way to possess free
dom as a state is to possess the char
acter from which freedom is a natural
product. a normal fruit, a vital result.
All of this is just as true in the
sphere of religion. The only way to
possess the fruits of Christianity,
love, joy, peace" is to possess the
life to which love, joy. peace" are
native. Neither education nor art can
do more than mold and color an imi-
tation of that which owes its being to
the vitalizing power of faith. "An
altruistic philosophy" has so far
proved itself as sterile as a belief in
Jesus has shown itself everywhere
proliferous. The world looks with en-
vious eye upon the Happiness of the
believer and attempts to secure it by
institutions. Happiness does not come
from environment, but from life. The
Master and His inspired disciples
taught us that faith is a vital thing.
1t transfuses, suffuses, infuses. Unbe-
lief may initiate it's results. but not
duplicate them. Root and fruit are in
separable in the divine economy.
Whosoever covets the joy of the be-
lever, the peace of the believer, the
divine patience of the saint, must, to
possess what he covets, possess the
faith from which they all spring; that
faith which establishes a vital union
with the source of all divine life and
everything which is most worthy to
pOSSesS.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-24
HERE AND THERE.

More live stock, more feed sud
less cotton acreage, more cotton per
acre, and a better price for it, is a
farm policy so plainly in the interest
of farmers that there is no need of
argument to prove it.
-Pencillaria is not a "new forage
plant" as extensively advertised by
speculative seed dealers. Under the
name of pear or cat tail millet, it
has been grown in the south for near
ly 60 years. It is an excellent forage
crop.
The ordinary ground meat, also
known as "animal meal" contains
meat from superheated steam. 1t also
contains a large proportion of bone.
Considering the price at which it can
be purchased, it is a cheap and excel
lent food.
We have not heard of a farmer
having a dozen or more cattle to feed,
who once tried a silo and afterwards
abandoned silage. Every farmer
should have n of these storage
tanks to keep his green feed all the
year round.
Some farmers (and these the best
ones) should abandon cotton alto
gether, because they can devote every
acre to o profitable crops. Others
must continue to grow cotton be-
cause they don't know any other
money crop.
Young ducks should be marketed
when they weigh about three pounds,
and they may be sold either alive or
dressed, the best prices being OBJ
tanned for the dressed carcasses. The
proper time for selling young ducks
is in the summer. and they should be
plump and fat
The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-24
OUR LORDS ADVICE.
The Man Who Does the Best Work
Does Not Worry Over To-MOr-
rows Possibilities

The man who will get most work
done, and done with the least trouble
whether for himself, for his family or
In the calling and duty to which God
has called him, will be the man who
takes u Lords advice. Who takes no
thought for the morrow and leaves the
morrow to take thought for itself, that
man will believe that this world is q
well-ordered world, as 1t needs must be,
seeing that God made 1t, God redeemed
it, God governs 1t; and that God is mer-
ciful in this-that he rewardeth every
man according to his works. That man
will take thought for to-day, earnestly
and diligently, even at times anxiously
and in fear and trembling; but he will
not distract and divide and weaken his
mind by taking thought for tomorrow
also. Each day he will set about the
duty which lies nearest him, with a
whole heart and with a single eye, Civ
ing himself to it for the time as if there
was nothing else to be done in the
world. AS for what he is to do next he
Will think little of that. Little, even,
will he think of whether his work will
succeed or not. That must be as God
shall will. All hat he is bound to do is
to do his best; and his best he can only
do by throwing his whole soul into his
work. AS his day, he trusts his strength
will be; and he must not waste the
strength which God has given him for
to-day on vain fears or vain dreams
o tomorrow. To-day is quite full
enough of anxiety, of care, of toll, Of
ignorance; sufficient for the day Is the
evil thereof. Yes; and sufficient for the
day is the good thereof likewise. To-
day and tomorrow, too, may end very
differently from what he hoped. Yes;
but they may end, too, very differently
from what he feared. Let him throw
his whole soul into the thing which he
is about and leave the rest to God.
For so only will he come to the days
end in that wholesome and manful
temper, contented, if not cheerful, sat
isfied with the work he has had to do, il
not satisfied with the way in which he
has done it, which will leave his mind
- Z iCllClluGl LII Ills COullOlLS, oil
his blessings, even to those commonest
OF all blessings, which we are all too
apt to forget, just because they are as
necessary as the air we breathe; which
will show him how much light there Is,
even on the darkest day.
He has not got this or that fine thing,
1t may be, for which he longed; but he
has at least his life, at least his reason,
at least his conscience, at least his God.
Are not they enough to possess? Are
not they enough Herewith to lie down
at night in peace and rise tomorrow to
take what comes tomorrow ever as he
took what came to-day? And will he
not be most fit to take what comes to-
morrow like a Christian man, whether
it be good or evil, with his spirit braced
and yet chastened, by honest and pa
tient labor, instead of being weakened
and irritated by idling over to-day,
while he dreamed and fretted about to-
morrow?-Charles Kingsley.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-24
County Institutes.

The State board of education last
week gave out the announcement of
the institutes and the institute con-
ductors appointed for the coming
season. They are as follows. The
addresses of the conductors are given
at the end of the list. The numbers
between the dates and names refer to
the number of weeks the institutes
will run:
Pike-August 10 (2), H. P. Hughes,
Miss F. Atkins; primary ca.
Acknowledgements "a (2), T. P. Scott.
Covington-August 10 (2), c. E.
Saunders, Miss Emily Jones; primary
"a.
Lawrence-August "a (2), ]. T. Cal
houn.
Amite-August 8 ca, ]. D. Wallace,
Mrs. E. M. Baker; primary (2).
Wilkinson-August II a., ]. T.
Wallace.
Adams-August 10 (2), T. H. Free
ny, Miss Mary McAllister; primary
~.
Franklin-August "a %. w. H.
Weathersby.
Claiborne-August 10 (2), P. D. l..
McLaurin, Miss Carrie Harrell; prima.
ry %.
Jefferson-August "a a., P. D. l..
McLaurin, Miss Mary McAllister; pri.
mary %.
Copiah- - (2), T. L. Trawick,
Miss T. NJ. Wiener; primary (2).
Kinds - (2), E. l.. Baily, Miss
Tillie Wolfe; primary (2).
HancocK-August 3 %, j. T. Con
nell.
Pearl River-August 10 ~, T. A.
Evans.
Marion-August II a., j. T. Con-
nell.
Jackson-August "a (1). E. F. Bill.
lington.
Greene-August 81 %, E. F. Bill.
lington, Miss Annie Donald; primary
%.
Harrison-August II %, w. F.
Bond.
Perry-August 10 (4), ". v. FAINT,
Miss lola Tapley; primary ca.
Clarke-August 10 (2), George H.
Brunson, Miss Minnie B. Wilson; pri.
mary "a.
Wayne-August "a %, P. P. Gar.
ner, Mrs. Minnie B. Wilson; primary
Q).
Jasper-August "a %, w. H. Eos
ter, Miss Annie Donald; primary %.
Smith-August 81 %, P. P. Gar
ner.
Simpson-August 10 %. S. l..
Stringer, Miss mil Jones; primary %.
Rankin-August II (2), J. L. John
son, Jr., Miss Sallie Enochs (2).
S~cott-August 10 GU, w. S. Huddle-
Ston.
Newton-August "a (2), w. S. Hud-
dleston, Miss Susie V. Powell; prima-
ry (2l.
Observation-Disclosures 10 (2), ]. C.
FAINT, Miss Jennie M. Austin; primary
(2).
Kemper-August "a (2), J.. C. FAINT.
Warren-August 10 (2), j.. ]. Hug
The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-24
An Unusual Case.

A very unusual cast of bone frac-
ture is now being given professional
treatment in Jackson. A few days
since a base ball team of that city
was playing the team at Ridgeland
and a young man named Quincy
was occupying the position of Left
fielder for the Jackson team. In
attempting to throw the ball from
left field to first base his arm
snapped in twain just above the ell
bow. The sharp, cracking sound
could be distinctly heard by the
spectators gathered near the home
plate.