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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-09-06
WILL FAST FORTY DAYS

New York, Sept. 5,--For purely sclen-
tiflc purposes stepney a. Playsted, Of
Brooklyn, is attempting to fast for 40
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gam the vigor Of young manhood without TAX
ing any medicine into the stomach. and TO
prove that it will do this they offer full
len Days Trial Treatment to every man
sending name and address TO DR.. Stevens "
Co, BOX 100, Columbus, Ohio, the Ameri-
can importers. You apply it locally TO the
seat OF the trouble and it quickly finds its way
to the desired spot, enarging the muscles, IN
creas'ng the nerve force, and giving the nee
essstry vim and energy. The world of science
and medicine thoroughly indorse it.
1t cures In wonderfully quick time. in your
own home, lost vitality, emacation, prema-
surity. varicocee, structure, unnatural irrita-
ton and enlargement of the prostate gland.
and all bladder and urinary disorders of men
1t is the only method known to science that
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others tell you nothing be done for you
this VIII surely you.
Write TO Pr stevens & Co. Columbus. Ohio.
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send the most complete book ever written on
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Everything is confidential and sent perfectly
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truet every gentleman reader Of this pa
per viii write them Mt once as above ana
thus get the Ten Days Trial Treatment and
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IMPROVING LAND
SOMETHING FOR EVERY FARMER
no READ.

w f., A. Reedbrake, Ala ! have some
land that has been in cultivation thirty
years; it will make about 500 pounds seed
cotton per acre with fertilizer. l am de-
sirious to bring this land up to 4 higher
stat of cultivation. I have an old pine
orchard in close proximity to this land
Will it pay me to haul pine straw and put
on this land and bed on it this fail; or
VIII It pay me best to plant this land in
peas and let the vines remain on land?
I am after building up the soil. Give me
the cheapest plan. How many years OF
pea culture will it take to make 1t pro-
duce a bale per acre?
Answer-It would be much sounder
practice to let the pine straw remain
where it is that it may gradually restore
the humus OF which the soil has been de-
prived by past cultivation. TO rake it up
and apply to other land would be roboing
Peter to pay Paul. Moreover, the expense
and labor OF gathering and hauling and
spreading the straw would make the
ira nsac ton Of doubtful profit.
Nor would 1t be sound practice TO sow
the land to be improved in COW peas with
the intent to ''let the vines remain on the
land" This practice cannot be too strong
" condemned as opposed to the first prin
ciples of farm economics. and | have
many times endeaVored to impress this
truth on the readers of The Weekly Con-
stitution. You might almost as well use
wheat bran as a manure for which IT is
well adapted or even the wheat itself.
In other words. the pea vines, property
saved in the form of hay or utilized as
pasturage, would be worth at least twice
as much as food for animals than as
fertilizer for the soil. Think q moment:
The vines that would make ton of COW
pea hay would return to the soil only Sc
OF hay would be worth at least S Is, either
as food for your animals or if sold in
market; and if fed to your own animals
and the manure all saved and returned to
the land 1t would return with Il not less
than 80 per cent of the plant food that
the original pea vines contained.
In general no method of culture is to be
approved that does not at least pay ex-
penses every year. l would SOW the land
in small grain, preferably oats, and fertii-
ize literally (see editorial in Weekly of
September D. After harvesting the oats
SOW in COW peas and fertilize moderately
say 200 pounds of acid phosphate and
25 to so pounds of muriate of potash pei
acre When the peas reach the right
stage NOW them and make into hay. You
may if practicable. pasture the pea stub
BILE or turn under about November /
Next year plant in cotton and fertllize
literally. using the formula No 2 so OFT
en- recommended. The third year plant III
corn and fertilize lightly with formula
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"AMEKICAN FORESTRY.

A book Of $50 pages, by Samuel q.
Green, just published by John Wiley d
Sons, New York. contains great deal
of correct information IN regard to for
estry, including methods of propogatinS
shade and forrest trees, transplantirg
ha bits of growth OF different trees. how
to preserve and economically use forest
timber and fuel trees. /. is a most In
te,esting and instructive book and will
be appreciated by all who are interested
in the subject of trees and forestry. "A
copy will be sent by mail to any one Tor
$3.50 Address Publishers, as above.
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Ten Days
TrialTreatment
Offered Men.

Great Partisan Method That Cures
Seminal Weakness, Varicocele,
Structure, elect, Gonorrhoea, I'm
natural Discharges, Irritation and
Enlargement Of the Prostate
Gland, Bladder and Urinary Dis
orders, Without Taking Medicine
Into the Stomach and in Their
Own Home-Let Every Man Send
for It.
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clover on pea stubb'es for winter grazing
and to he nlowed under in spring before
planting cotton?
3. What would be best fertilizer for su-
gar cane on this land?
Answer Your suggested rotation IS
identical with the one ! have advised
and urged upon farmers for many years
# YOU will add to The first year. corn to
be cut down and shocked and the slower
shredded when dry [ do not advise
turning under pea vines. If thick enough
and tall enough TO NOV TO advantage.
and make into hay; or, if convenient,
pasture off the peas.
2 IT might do very well on pretty
good land, but there would not be much
to turn under If grazed during the win
ter.
g. One-t third each OF acid phosphate,
kainit and cotton seed meal will answer
for cane. applying about 1000 to 200
pounds per acre.
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grass. she coughs more intensely after
eating Has had the cough about three
rlcnths, and it gets verse.
Answer cannot say what is the cause
of the cough. A cough is not itself a
disease. but is a symptom of some irr;-
tation Of the lungs, bronchial tubes and
wind pipe. and such irritation may be
due to any ore of several diseased con
ditiors It may be chronic catarrh tbad
cold). or it may be due to indigestion. !
may be caused by too long feeding on
cotton seed hulls and meal Lastly II
may be q premonitory symptom OF tuper-
cuosls or consumption. advise you to
change her food gradually, 50 as 10
leave off the hulls and meal in the coarse
Of a week You might leave Oft the bulls
first. substituting ha", for couple of
weeks. If no Improvement then leave off
the cotton meal for two or three weeks.
If no change or bere1t results then you
nay safely conclude that 1t IS not the
food that causes it.
FOOT-EVu4. GUTTER.
r. w. b. Horn Lake Miss.--I bought
a mule a few days ago that had his foot
injured by wagon running over it, But
since examining Ii closely l think it has
me the best method of curing 1t, and
can it be cured at all. 1t is swollen about
twice the natural size and seems to
have corruption in II as it runs all the
time Just little.
Answer 1t would have been better to
have simply and carefully described the
symptoms instead of giving it n name.
"Foot-eviI' is a name that is Variously
applied. l presume 1t is the affection
known among veterinary surgeons as
carbuncle of the coronary band, or quit
ter First poultice the foot for several
days, changing the poultice daily Then
apply lotion of half ounce acetate Of
lead, half ounce of sulphate of zinc, half
ounce of carooic acid, In quart OF
water. Use this several times a day.
If there is discharge from little openings
inject into each a solution Of grains
OF bichloride of mercury, ounce of al
cohol and 20 drops of muriatic acid. In
ject some three times the first day,
twice the second and once day there
after When the discharge has ceased
and the wound is almost superficial,
stop the injection and apply a Simple
dressing of wet tow.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-09-28

in January or February. cane places
are of considerable value as an ameno-
ment to the soil. but can hardy Do
considered as good as stable manure.
8. Light sandy soil is apt TO produce
many pops" The remedy usually
recommended is lining the soil. MY De-
lief is that a good potash-ac1d phos,
phate would cure the defect. u seno
you bulletin on dewberries.)
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COW COUGHS

]. S. B.. Greenviile, S. C.--Please give
me Sc me information about my COW. She
Is q fine half Jersey and half Holsten,
calf about IAonths old, in very good
condition; gives x I2 gallons milk and
2 pounds of butter daily. feed her twice
Ter day on best selected food. consisting
Of ! peck cotton seed hulls and half gal
lon cotton seed neal and six quarts of
wheat bran and Craze her on bermuda
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FARM CORRESPONDENCE.
RUST OR scALD OF COTTON.

! w W. W., Pitts, Ga.-What will pre-
vent rust or scald in cotton? 1t seems
to be the greatest drawback to the far
mer in this part of the state as we'll az
some parts Of middle Georgia Some
say kainit will keep it off but l see
the cotton just rustS right on where they
use H. 1t seems to be worse on fiat
country entirely exempt II there IS
any kind of fertilizer or method by which
it can be kept off, would be glad OF
your advice in regard to it, Some peo-
pie call it scald: some call it rust; l
don't know which is right, but do know
1t turns cotton red or a black rotten color
and kills it, stopping further develop
,uent of bolls almost as sudden as II
lire mad burned through the field. VIII
be glad of any or all information you
can give in regard to it.
Answer-The exact cause of rust In
cotton has not vet been exactly ascer-
tained 1t is not a disease-that mucn
seems to he settled-but is failure OF
vitality due to physical conditions. 1t
has often been stated. and there seems
no doubt OF the truth of the statement,
shat a liberal application of kainit Will
prevent ruat 1t is but fair to conclude,
then. that the physical condition that
causes rust is a deficiency of potash In
the soil / have long oeen of the opinion
That if The crops on a farm be rotated
and literally fertilized including a crop
Of small grain and peas at least once in
three years, there will rarely be any
rust and when it does appear 1t VIII
be about the close of Il severe drou gut
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-09-28

BY a wonderful method successfully used for
years in France, and now for the first time
introduced in America. it is possible for any
man, no matter how bad off, to instantly
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% OATS IN GRASS sTTBBLEt2.
PLANTING PEACH TREES-(3) PEA
NUT POPS"
George K. T., Muscogee, Fla.-I. am
now cutting crab grass hay from ] acre
OF land that cannot pasture and desire
to broadcast oats in November. When
IS best to piow, would 1t do well to turn
as soon as frost kills sod and plow oats
In with disk harrow? What time should
fertilizer be strewed, at time of blowing
or before? Will use 200 pounds bone
compound and co cotton seed meal.
e. have some choice peach trees that
came from seed planted last spring and
are to feet high; would 1t be safe
to set them this fail or wait till next?
Has cane fodder any value as fertilizer
when we'll rOtted?
g. planted acre in peanuts. Spanish
and Florida varieties, and l am now
harvesting plenty vines ana puiIs ana
but few sound nuts What must l do
win some Of The Constitution readers
who cultivate the dewberry please write
me? VIII return postage. My land is
high and level and has no clay founda-
ton.
Answer. II you cannot reasonably
expect another cutting OF crab grass be-
fore frost 1 would turn under the sod
at once go that 1t would rot as much
as possible before you SOW the oats.
do not like the plan of narrowing In
oats Or other small grain Did you
read the editorial in the issue OF the
Weekly of September 7? That article
answers your question as to time of APP
plying and the composition OF the rer-
tilizer that would prove most effective
Won say Won will use 1900 pounds of
bone compound and 100 pounds OF cot
ton meal" The name bone compound"
convevs no definite idea OF what the
fertilizer so-called may be. The analysis
should be given; could then pass judg-
ment on 1t. (See Weekly of September
which tells how to sow oats In "opcn
burrows" as a defense against winter
killing,
2. ] would prefer to set the peach trees
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E 1ss@S s.

the farmer will be richer. and his family
more comfortable and happy. "A word
to the wise" etc. +. ]. REDDING.
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BLIGHT OF PECAN LEAVES.

p NJ H. Stockton. Ala-Inclosed YOU
will find some pecan trees and stem hay
ing brownish-yelow discoloration. VIII
you kindly inform me If this is disease?
If. so. what is it, and the remedy Sew
eral of my young trees have turned this
color, and when they DO their growth is
materially impeded, Some have died Of a
black discoloration. resembling pear
blight I would be glad if YOU would
look into this matter closely for me.
Answer--I am not enough of a bacte
biologist to enable me to say what Is
the disease affecting your pecan trees,
Send specimens to the Alabama Expert
ment station, Auburn, Ala.
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NOT The WOKk Ut IN INSECI,
W. G. s, Lexington County. South
Carolina.--I herewith incIose some insect
that is playing havoc with NJ cotton.
1t started about the time 1t began TO
fruit AS you will see. it sticks its bill
in the rib of the leaf and poisons the
stalk where it first started. Leaves al
dropped off. Now everything drops off
but the grown hollis. Please let me know
what the insect is through The Atlanta
Constitutions and what is the remedy?
Answer--The above letter with the
leaves and the supposed culprit insect,
were turned over to Professor Gtarnes.
and tlls following ia his reply:
mo Indication of the work OF any in
sect Punctures mistaken for WORK of
same are glands. and the cause of the
dropping OF bolls may be due to many
agencies, none of which however are in
Dictated by foliage sent
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M r1,RNINfi IrNnER PEA STUBBLI

Cd TURNING UNDER PEA sTuBBL iSE
! AND GRASS ~ TRUCK CROPS TO
BE PLANTED IN SEPTEMBER, ETC.
C A. b.. Fountain. n. CT. When
| is the best time to turn under pea STUD
BILE? Some say November. Would 1t pay
To turn under grass and weeds IL NO
veInher and December for next year S
crop OF cotton. corn, or tobacco
2 What would you consider a good
manure for tobacco on ordinary light lana
/ that has been planted in tobacco for the
last four or five years. using 800 TO 9oo
! pounds Of common guano per acre?
3. Please give me some information on
hop culture. Where could ! sell them
and at what price?
a. What kind of a crop Of truck or some
kind man could plant now (mddle OF
| September that he could sell and realize
any profit by first of January. The farm
! ers in this county and others are III very
sore straits as they planted mostly to-
! bacco for money crop and il Is selling
| so low that they will hardly be able to
! pay for their guano they used under It,.
am a subscriber to The Constitution
and get lot Of information from the
/ Farm and Farmers department.
Answer--I. The, proper time to turn I'M
der pea stubble grass and other remains
of crops, is about the time of first frost.
/ As a rule grass not turned under before
February would better not DC turned un-
der at all. unless with a very deep run
nins, plow. Better burn it off
/ 2. A good mixture for tobacco is the
following: Acid phosphate $50 pounds;
| sulphate of potash I25 pounds: cotton
seed meal 500 pounds In place of the
cotton meal Gf it IS not conveniently use
800 pounds Of dried blood
5. Write to Orange Judd Company, New
York. for copy Of book on hop culture.
Sell hops to any brewery. Prices vary
greatly.
4. None that know OF except t,lrnIp
green's or something OF that sort.
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No t. This completes n three-year roi--
ton, viz: First year small grain and cow
peas; second year, cotton; third year corn
and peas If YOU Wish To improve more
rapidly You may make four year rota
ton viz First year small grain and
cow peas, second year small graft and
cow peas; third year. cotton; fourth yoai
corn. BY tho three-year plan you may set
coo TO 200 pounds Of seed COTTON per
acre the second year, and bale or more
per acre the nth year-the conditions be-
ing good. BY the fouryear plan SOU win
ccrtaiAly get 200 to 500 pounds of seff
cotton per acre the third year aud nos
less tnan one bale and some times laie
and a half per acre the seventh year b-
der either plan you get a paving crop
every year provided. Of COURSE tha sca-
sons be fairly favorable.
This reply is given not solely for iha
benefit Of the one inquirer but for ger
eral consumption. one result OF Go
adoption Of such system. involving elaal
parts OF the farm to small grain ami oW
peas. corn and COW peas, and cotton.
would be tho production Of more graiH
aud hay than the average farmer ever
had, and more than his ordinary farm
animals can consume folesee that re-
suit and it Is just the pvedicament
would ike to see every southern farmer
get into He VIII then see that The wise
and natural thing to do will be to raise
more live stock in order to consume is
surplus grain and hay. lie viii tAr ae
| that he can raise all tie pork. beet butt
ter. mutton he can consume al home au4
q good deal 10 sell Would that eyad,t aa
Of affairs embarrags a farmer? moreover
with proper care TO prevent Wa ias ana
returning all the manure 10 the 9 bis
land will become richer and richer every
| acre of H.
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He has done very little work since in
that condition--nono at all for the last
four morths He is in a good pasture
and in fine condition otherwise I wrote
In Won a few weeks $50 about the same
mule Did not know at that time he had
been hurt.
please let me know what can be done
for him.
Answer-see reply to E, A. White, in
issue Of September Id. under head Of
Partial Paralysis of Mare" 7 have no
doubt that your mules spine was injured
by the fall into Il ditch
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The Jersey City news., 1903-04-21
WANTS TO Bind DECKER
Excise Board Nominations. 1t Is
Said. Wait Cast
iron Promises.

A rumor this morning says that the
hitch in the announcement by Mayor Fa-
gan of the personnel of his Excise Board
is due to the efforts of Mr. Pagan and
the Republican machine to bind George
W. Decker down to promises to support
the machine and especially John III.
Weastell as an Eighth Ward Executive
Committeeman. Mr.. Decker for years has
led the independent Republican faction
in the Eighth Ward and but recently
scored decided victory over the regu-
lars when he was elected president of the
Republican Club. He at present is a
member of the Board of Appeals in cases
of Taxation, the salar yof the members
of which is the same as that allotted
by law to the Excise Commissioner-
81 ,000 The term of ia commissioner
expires with the Mayors term, whereas
the excise commissioners, under the law,
hold office for term of two years after
appointment. Decker has been afprom-
inent aspirant for berth in the Excise
Board.
1t is also learned on good authority
that Charles Reynolds will bet the clerk
ship of the Excise Board. which carries
with it a salary of $500 year.
Mayor Pagan yesterday said that he
would probably announce the personnel
of his Excise Board tomorrow-W ednes-
day.
The Jersey City news., 1903-04-21
JERSEY CENTEAARlAN.
Joaas Livermore of Camd n
Celebrates His Birthday.
Especial to '.rhe Jersey city News,

Especial to "The Jersey City News.'')
CAMDEN, April 21, 1908. South Jer-
sey's Grand Old Man, Jonas Liver
more, will celebrate today the one hun
dred and first anniversary of his birth at
his home in Blackwocd. A fine boquet
of flowers will go to him from the officers
and directors of the First National Bank,
this city.
Mr.. Livermore was one of the founders
of this, old financial institution, and for
years he was one Of its directors, and
prior to that its President. A year ago
when Mr.. Livermore reached the century
mark there was a great celebration, but
this year the spry old man win have none
of it.
whats the use?'' he says. 'sThere
was too much fuss last year.
Some of his most intimate friends, in
cluding Rev. F. r. Bruce, the aged postor
emeritus, and Mr.. Livermore's fellow eld-
ers will call on him tomorrow and offer
congratulations. but there will be no for
NAL observances.
Mr.. Livermore does not look like a
man who had passed the century mark.
he takes every day a walk about the
town, no matter what the weather. and
he says he would suffocate if he were
cooped up in the house all the time. He
is in fine health and spirits and goesk
is in fine health and spirits He goes
early to bed. He reads the daily news.
papers as soon as he can get them in the
morning and he is keenlp alive to all the
topics of the day.
Until couple of years ago Mr.. Liv.
ermore, in high boots, overalls and jump
ers, could be seen any day in the early
spring with spade and shoe at work in
the extensive garden adjoining his pretty
home. He is passionately fond Of garden
work, especially that which brings him in
contact with flowers, but this year he
finds that he is scarcely equal to the
strain, and Reluctantly he has given up
his work.
"Plenty of pure air, plenty Of sleep
plenty of work and no worry" are the
rules of the old mans life. 'Teetotal-
ler?V he says; mo, not exactly, but all
drink is just a little wine as tonic
1t isn't much, and my advice to men and
women is never to drink. do not smoke
though ! did chew once. That was ever
SO many years ago. It's bad habit