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Arizona republican., 1905-05-28
A POSITIVE NECESSITY.

Having to lay upon my bed for A. days from a severely bruised leg. I only found relief when I used a bottle fo BalIard's Snow Eminent. I can cheerfully recommend it as the best medicine for bruises ever sent to the afflicted. It has now become a posi- tive necessity upon myself. D. R. Byrnes, Merchant. Doversville, Tex as. 25c. soc. s1.O0. Sold by Elvey & Hulett,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-08-05
MAKING STEERS PAY.
Experiment Which Proves the Supe-
riority of the Long-Keep Steers
Over Short-Keep Ones.

At the Ontario agricultural college
the long-keep steers have always pro-
duced cheaper gains than the short
keep steers. 1t is impossible, however,
to produce pound Of gain in live
weight at the price per pound for
which live animals are sold. There
is, therefore, loss on every pounS of
increase which steer makes, and the
more pounds of increase which he is
required to make before he is fit for
market, the greater the loss will be.
Thus steer which requires to gain
only 200 pounds before he is At
for market, will give a smaller loss
than the steer which requires to gain
300 pounds before he is finished
It is true, as mentioned before, that
the long-keep steer can be made,
with careful feeding, to produce q
pound of gain at a less cost than the
short-keep steer; but this difference in
favor of the long keep steer is not suf-
ficient to counterbalance the disadyan-
tatge in having to put on greater
number Of pounds. The only chance
OF profit that the feeder has is In
making the carcass which he pur-
chases worth SO much more per pound
than he paid for it that it will wipe
out the loss incurred in producing the
gain in weight. This being the case,
1t follows that a person can afford to
pay more per pound for f1eshy steer
which can be finished in a short time
than for steer which requires to
make larger gain, and consequently
calls for q longer period Of feeding.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-08-05
FLYING FISH ATTACK SHIP.
Singular Experience Of the Steamer
Mauna Loa, OF the Cost
Of Hawaii.

A remarkable occurrence is reported
by the officers Of the steamer Maur a
Loa, a vessea operating along the west
and southwest coasts of the island Of
Hawaii. While the vessel was OF
South Point, on the Kau coast. the
craft was attacked by enormous
scAools OF flying fish. The flying fish
are Of large size IN the waters about
Hawaii and the attack resulted ia sew
eral persons being badly bruised.
Three separate columns Of the fish
swept upon the vessel. 1t was the last
column which made its attack felt.
One of the fish passed in front Of the
face OF Capt. Simerson, knocking his
cap OF; another few against a native
sailor on the forward deck, knocking
him down, while another made its way
into the wheelhouse and, striking
against the man at the wheel, sent him
Keeling to the deck.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-08-05
HOW CROPS WERE DOUBLED
Report of Consul Frank W. Mahin Of
What Was Accomplished on
Poor English Land.

Consul Frank w Mahin, of Noting
ham, England. makes the following re-
port On experiments recently made i'll
England, showing what liberal fertiliz-
lag will do with naturally poor land in
he way of increasing yields:
Experiments carried out during the
PAST season in this country demonstrate
wat liberal fertilizing may do with
naturally poes clay land. In one case
i. mangold field was divided into five
plats, one OF which vas left unmanured
for comparison, while the others re-
ceived As pounds per acre Of superpEos-
phate, with and without heterogeneous
manure. The unmanured plat gave 12:A
tons of roots per acre. Superphcsphate
alone raised this yield to 20A tons,
superphosphate and 224 pounds OF
nitrate of soda per acre raised the yield
to 2714 tons; superphosphate and 44S
pounds of nitrate raised it to "a tons,
and superphosphate and 672 pounds OF
nitrate raised it to 80 tons.
/. 1.-THE respective increases due to ma
nuring on>the four fertiliZed plats were,
therefore, in round figures, 7, IA, II and
26 tons per acre, and, if the cost of the
fertilizers be taken into account, the
average cost of the increase in roots
was less than 73 cents per ton-consid-
cred a very cheap price to pay for man
colds in a season not especially favor
able to their growth. The board of
agriculture estimates the mangold crop
of the country for 1904 at 1871 tons per
acre. The yield Of the best plat referred
to. 80 tons per acre, was therefore double
the average.
"An experimental oat crop followed a
crop of roots. Without manure the yield
was 81 bushels Of oats and 1904 pounds
of straw per acre. With 336 pounds Of
superphosphate per acre the yield was
"a bushels of oats and 1880 pounds of
straw, and with superphosphate and liz
pounds of nitrate of soda per acre II
bushels Of oats and 2,6SS pounds Of
straw; while superphosphate with 224
pounds OF nitrate. applied in two dress.
ings, gave ~ bushels Of oats and 3,136
pounds Of straw. In each case the in
crease in grain ard straw is taken as
worth, roughly. twice the cost of the
fertilizers employed in producing it.
ssThe board of agriculture estimates
of normal oat crop indicate that the
yield of AZ bushels per acre is at least
ten bushels beyond the average from
ordinary SOIL
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-08-05
RANGE FOR LEGHoRNS.
This Breed Of Fowls Needs Plenty Of
Room in Which to Run-Good
Breed for the Farm.


In case the fowls must be confined
in a limited space, one should not con-
slider the Leghorns, and particularly
the White Leghofns, for they are
nervous and require range OF con-
siderable area to do their best. On
the farm, where they may have this
range in colonies, they will probably
produce more eggs than any other
breed, but if poultry is raised on the
farm for, the purpose Of selling both
eggs and carcass, then the Leghorns
should be crossed with some heavy
breed or two breeds kept, one for the
eggs and one for the carcass
Another thing about the Leghorns
is that they are timid and must be
treated with consideration, so that it
is good plan to give the flock over
to the care Of one person and keep
other people away from them; they
must also be fed regularly for best
results. Like all living things that
are nervous, they are impatient Of
anything that does not suit them, and
an hours difference In the time Of
feeding may make some difference IN
the egg return.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-08-05

ter will not listen to anyone who
speaks of Capt Green's hardness.
It is peculiar, also, that the lawyer
down in Peacham, who drew Capt
Green's will, chuckles whenever the
subject of the mortgage is mentioned.
saQues Leset-er. over in the lumber
yard, is working desperately and few
erishly. ut will kill my wife" he
says II must pay it
The l55ther Only Smiles.
And, stranger than anything Else, a
few days age Marie Leseuer was sew
ing on a little blue jacket for Clara,
and she said to neighbor:
Don't let Jacques hear of it, but
I'm making this SO Claire can go over
to Peacham for visit this fall
s'Then the old skint1int is going to
foreclose the mortgage?" asked the in
dignant neighbor.
ssYou mustn't call him a skinflint.
He's been kind to us, and, whether the
mortgage is paid or not I'm going to
let him have Claire for time I think
1t will do them both good
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-08-05

the bottom. The water may be then
turned into the larger, or main cistern,
by opening valve in connecting pipe,
C, by the rod, d. The end Of this pipe, a,
is placed about one foot from the bot
tom of the receiving cistern, to prevent
drawing the sediment into the larger
one. The check, C, may be any good
gate valve to which the rod, d, is at
tached for opening and closing.
l find it much easier to clean small
cistern six feet deep than a large one,
says writer in Farm and Home. This
small one may be emptied into the
main cistern at any time and cleaned,
even when the storage cistern is half
full
To prevent possibility of checking or
cracking in the cement, allowing leaks
in the side of either cistern where con-
Meeting pipe goes through, walls should
be reinforced, as shown. with cement
on the inside. The small c:stern can be
placed at any reasonable distance from
the main cistern. With this arrange
ment it is not necessary to allow the
roof first to wash Off before turning in
the water. thus losing what is often the
greater part of the rainfall.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-08-05
The Strangest Financial Transaction
Ever Known in This Country.
A ROMANCE IS BACK OF IT ALL
Capt. Milo Green, Tilted by the Girl He Loves.
Advances Money. with Her Child as Secu-
rity. When She Gets in Financial Diff
culties-Clairn Is DIE September
~ of This Year.

4Peacham, VT One Of the strangest
mortgages ever recorded in this coun-
try is held by Capt. Milo Green, rich
recluse farmer, living Eear this place.
The amount of the debt is $4,000, and
the security given is bright-eyed, sew
en-year-old 10y. .
The mortgage falls due on September
- If this year, and if it is not paid
promptly on that day no one who
Knows OF the case doubts for minute
tut that it will be foreclosed, and lit
.lo Claire Ieseuer will pass from his
parents to Capt. Green.
That IL may not be paid is more than
a possibility.
: To tell the story of this remarkable
transaction, anG the strange romance
which is Lack OF it. it is necessary to
go back a number OF years, and to the
town of st. Johnsbury, where all of the
characters, with the exception of the
boy. lived 20 years ago. At that time
Capt Green was but beginning to
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-08-05

the interest, and the little fortune in
the Eank grew larger
They do not know it yet, but every
cent Of interest money that has been
paid is in bank at St. Johnsbury to
the order of one Claire Leseuer.
Working Hard to Pay.
The struggle has been hard one.
but the couple is certain that, by extra
work and extra saving, they can al
most accumulate enough to settle the
debt by September. The father is wor-
rying over the prospect, and working
harder and harder to get money enough
to settle the debt, but, strange as it
may SEEM the mother is not worrying
bit
During the four and half years that
have elapsed since the mortgage was
given Milo Green has never been near
Guildhall He is living down at Peach
am, on his farm-a little older, little
harder, little grayer than at that
time His neighbors Go not like him.
They say he is hard man.
Fhilanthropist in Disguise.
There are stories Of grim treatment
accorded persons who have had financial
dealings with him. He has demanded
his pound of flesh from scores and fore
closed mortgage after mortgage.
But there are also stories of baskets
of food left secretly ON doorsteps Of
needy persons. of gifts OF cow to a
woman who lost hers and needed one
to supply milk for her children, and
money to a hard-working man who
lost all by sickness.
Nine out Of every ten persons in the
community VOW Milo Green is a Shy
lock and the others say:
There is q soft spot in his heart II
you ever touch it. The world has treat
ed him coldIy and he knows no other
way to treat it.
Minister Takes Hand.
A few weeks ago the minister heard
Of the strange mortgage that Capt.
Green held On the little boy up at
Guildhall, and he drove over to remon-
strate with the captain about such I'M
natural traffic.
What Capt. Green said to the minis
ter is not entirely known. But it is a
strange thing that the next day, on
meeting a neighbor, Capt. Green re-
marked that the preacher was pretty
decent sort of a fellow, and the minis
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-08-05
FRUIT At WHOLESALE.
This Custom Is Steadily Growing Ia
Big Cities--Keep It in Cold
Storage

A practice which 10 steadily growing
in favor among town folk, not alone in
New York but in other American cities
as well, is that of buying their fruit at
wholesale and keeping it in cold stor-
age until needed for cOnsumptiol.MT The
cost Of such storage is now inconsider-
able; in most progressive towns space
to accommodate package OF about the
dimensions of an ordinary flour barrel
may be rented for Is cents month, or
so cents for season Of three or four
months. Those persons who have
once tried the practice are enthusiastic
over it's advantages, maintaining not
only that it is much cheaper than to
buy fruit in small quantities from day
to day in the retail market, but also
that 1t enables them to get the best
fruit that comes to market and to have
only the best all the time.
There is a valuable suggestion here
for the farmer and fruit grower, says
the Country Gentleman. Apples,
grapes pears, ounces, plums, apricots
even peaches and melons, as well as
bananas, oranges and grapefruit-can
be kept sound and good for surpris-
ing length of time in cold storage. AS
people come to realize this more gen
orally, the opening for such trade be-
tween townsfolk and country growers
must increase immensely. There IS
such an opening now, and the fruit
men whose warns are near enough to
the cities to permit them to carry their
fruit to the consumer have such an OPP
portunity as never was known before
to market all their produce Of kind
at one time-the best time for them
and at good prices.
Large growers living at too great a dis
lance from any city to carry their fruit
to market themselves would find it
both profitable and advantageous to
employ an agent in the city to handle
this trade for them, soliciting orders
from consumers for fruits in bulk at
wholesale prices and making the Geliv-
cries in season. It is easy enough TO
find plenty of buyers for good fruits;
the fruit-eating habit has increased
enormously in the last decade or two
indeed there has been a remarkably
widespread awakening to realization
of the value of fruit as a staple article
of diet. The one thing needful is to
bring the grower and the consumer to-
gether. A highly profitable trade is
bound to follow.
Having started with fruit, there Is
no reason why such direct business re-
flations between farmer and city house
holder should cot broaden to include
eggs, butter, vegetables and farm
produce in general. The consumer
would much prefer to deal directly
with the producer whenever possible,
rather than with some middleman. be
he commission merchant, wholesaler
or retailer-not alone because doing so
would be in the long ruin appreciably
cheaper. but still more because It
would enable him to get the best of the
farmers goods and get them more
quickly and in fresher, better shape.
The grower who exerts himself to dis
pose of his product in this way will
soon find that he has secured a good.
profitable and sure market for all the
produce he can supply.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-08-05
Couldn't Remember ..conn Man

Couldn't Remember ssCon, Man.
Judge Tucker Of the Boston criminal
court is man Of most unpretentious
appearance. Generally he wears a de-
cidedly bucolic look. One day recently
he was walking along Boston street
carrying shabby cotton umbrella and
looking for all the world like coun-
tryman, when bunko steerer stepped
up to him and claimed acquaintance.
i don't seem to remember YOU" said
the Judge. Upon being urged to refresh
MS memory the Judge. seeing through
the little game, calmly said: well. NV
friend, have sent SO many of you boys
to jail can't remember you all, you
know" !,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-08-05

The birth Of Claire was fatal to his
fathers good resolutions The day aft
er the child was born Jacques went out
to celebrate. He returned home drunk
and for most of the next two years he
remained drunk. He lost his savings,
his little home. his employment. The
mother worked desperately, taking in
washing and ironing, doing anything to
support herself and child. But the
strain, the worry and the shame told
on her beauty.
Then the drunkard husband fell sick,
and affairs came to crisis.
Green to the Rescue.
How Milo Green ever heard OF the
plight of the girl who Tilted him no
one knows, but one morning he ap-
peared in Guildhall and inquired the
way to the home q the Leseuers. The
mother, worn out by nights vigil at
the bedside of her sick husband and
the care of her child, answered the
knock on the door, and saw her old
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-08-05
Mo GREEW

amass the wealth which is now his;
at that time jacques Leseuer had but
just crossed the American border from
Quebec and was beginning to thrive in
the lumber business; at that time Ma
RE Mercier, daughter Of poor French
Canadian parents, was one of the beau
ties of the district around st. Johns
bury, and among her admirers were
Milo Green and Leseuer.
Green had lived hard life. Born up
In the northern hills of Vermont. Of
poor parents, he had had ito fight for a
little education, and had succeeded. He
was a reserved, cold, silent man-as
forbidding and cold to most people as
his native hills in winter, but to Marie
Mercier all the warmth that was in
his nature was turned.
Wealth was beginning to come. to
him then, and the little, black-haired,
black-eyed girl perhaps was flattered at
the silent, unasking alteration Of the
man who was so hard to others. She
could turn him with smile, or draw
him from his Office or his work with
a nod, and she knew it. In those Le-
suer was strong, handsome, young
man, given to drinking and gayeties.
Green Tilted by the Girl.
There never was any promise, so far
as men knew, from Marie MERCER to
Green, but every one supposed sne
would marry him for his money-if not
fol himself; and some thought perhaps
she would love him because he was so
opposite. There was surprise. there
fore, when she was married to Jaques
Iseseuer.
If his heart was broken Gieen failed
10 showit. He was little more silent.
little harder. a little colder, and he
got rich q little faster-that was all.
For five years he continued to live in
ST. Johnsbury: then he sold his grow
ing business to combine. and, with
out word of explanation, retired to
farm he had bought near Peacham, in
the hills. He put his money into mort
cages, stocks and bonds, and simply
dropped back to live the life of a. rich
recluse.
Misfortunes in Abundance.
Things went badly with the Leseuers
from the first. A boy was born Emil,
and three years later he died. Then
business went rapidly to the bad. Lee
seuer drank heavily. His wife stood by
him bravely. even after he was forced
to leave st. Johnsbury and seek work
day labor-at Guildhall. What the
little woman suffered in the first ten
years OF her married life she alone
knows. Her beauty changed-but she
still was beautiful Trouble and hard
work could not change everything, and
her eyes were Just as flashing and her
hair as black as ever. The husband
still drank hard, but for time she
thought she had won the victory. He
quit drinking, settled down to work,
and there were three years OF compare
tive happiness. Thea Claire came, and
the mothers heart, hungering for Fears
DOR be- losk boA yas satisaed. .
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-08-05

Before the Almighty. he declared
IF you don't brace up and be a man
and support this woman and child I'll
forecloss the mortgage the minute It
falls due. l did this in the hope Of
making man of you. I wish you'd
debut. IL she wants you to live, I'll
give you chance. If you drink and
fail to pay that mortgage I'll take the
boy"
From that day on Jacques was sober.
AS he slowly regained his health he
sought work and found it in lumber
yard, and he and his wife settled down
to save money to raise the mortgage on
their boy. Every six months they paid
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-08-05

sweetheart standing there. With a
word of Sympathetic greeting he enter
ed and. spoke with her plainly. He
urged her to leave the man who had
treated her SO badly, but she refused.
He pleaded that she owed it to herself
and her child, but she still refused, and
he departed.
An hour later he returned with a
woman, bearing food and wine and del
icacies. He assumed control, sent the
mother to bed, sent the woman to care
for the sick man upstairs and then sat
down to rock the baby to sleep.
Loved the Child.
Never before in his life had Milo
Green held a child in his arms It
was reputed among the little boys and
girls of his neighbors that he ate chill
dren, after boiling them alive, and, in
substantiation of this charge there are
several small boys who declare he
growled at them when he caught them
in his apple trees.
Yet, with the infant in his arms, the
man appeared happy, and the child,
which had been fretful and peevish,
seemed to find something to trust in
the hard, stern face above it, and fell
asleep with it's arms clasped around
the mans neck.
Three hours later, when the mother
awoke, refreshed, the house was clean
ed, nourishing meal ready for ner,
the woman mad gone to employ nurse
for the sick man. and Milo Green was
sitting before the fire with the boy,
sound asleep, clutched in his arms,
and he seemed happy. Marie said he
was almost smiling as he watched the
boy.
When the boy was in bed Milo turned
upon Mrs. Leseuer. WELL" he said,
what are you going to do?''
The Mortgage Given.
II cannot leave him-he is my hus-
band" she said.
you cannot live this way" he said.
Il have paid the woman and the nurse
for month, and the grocery bill, but
you must have more money
"He will soon be able to work. she
began.
Not fcr months perhaps longer"
Then must work. she said, des-
perately. 4.
"You shall not. It will kill you. |
gill advance you money"
'We.cannot accept it from you. We
have nothing to give as security"
Eyes, you have" said Milo Green.
There is the boy. I'll advance you
$4,000 in cash for q mortgage on the
boy"
The mother wept awhile, and then
sobbed her assent. Two weeks later,
when jacques was able to sit up in bed,
the mortgage was given, and both hus.
band and wife signed It.
Swears He'll Foreclose.
Milo Green put the document IN his
pocket and rose to 60. The wife was
sobbing. As he started towards the
door Milo turned suddenly and blazed
oGs ct his sick rival:
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-08-05
New Anaesthetic.

German papers report that new an.
aesthetic juice has recently been dis
covered in Japan, the product Of a
plant growing in that empire. This
anaesthetic has been called scopol-
anime, and is said to be superior "a it's
effects to all other aticles Of this kind,
It is administered hypodermically. and
produces deep sleep lasting from
eight to nine hours. It is claimed
that it does not produce the slightest
i'll after-effects.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-08-05
Alaska a Good Purch ! 90

The United States bought Alaska
from Russia in 1867 for $1,000, 900
What would Alaska be worth to kuszta
now, in her fight with Japan, at which
her fleets could rendezvous and coal?
As It is, Alaska has produced us $780,
900, 600 and has furnished market fn-
millions Of our products.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-08-05
Ante-Dates Ali.

Charles H. Holm, a paperhanger. Of
Maiden, Mass. the father Of "a chill
dren by one wife, is nearly 50 years
old, and his enlistment in the United
States navy in 1897 probably ante
dates that OF any living man. His pen.
sion began at two dollars per month.
and he now gets So.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-08-05
One Case.

do you believe in divorces?"
'.In some cases. =
''Cite me case where a divorces 10
excusable' .
There's the case Of Chollie Mahl-
stick"
u But he isn't married?"
"He has told me that he was we'd
ded to his art. Houston Post.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-08-05
In Buying Eggs.

In buying eggs, remember you are
buying stock at the least cost Of pro-
duction, you are entitled to q thorough
bred chick from every egg that hatch
es, but not prize winner.
Journal.