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The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1905-08-01

even, to a certain extent, beneficial as
they destroy by parasitism the PERM
cious codling moth and several species
of destructive grasshoppers or locusts.
In 1904, however, the subject increased
in proportion, the bureau of entOmOl-
ogy frequently receiving five or six
communications daily in regard to this
creature. In most cases these were
accompanied by clippings CLEANED from
the daily press. The object of the
circular is mainly to facilitate the cor
respondence of the department, to
place the facts in the case on record
and before the public and to correct
erroneous reports and mere rumors
when have been circulated in regard
to cases of poisoning of human be-
ings. In only single case was the
name of the person or persons who
had been killed by eating cabbage
supposed to be infested by this hair
worm given, and the postmaster OF
the city promptly denied any knowl-
edge of the facts, all efforts that were
made to locate the origin of the ac-
count being without success. 1t may
be safely assumed that all other re-
ports were equally untrue or greatly
exaggerated. In fact, the entire mat
ter was a hoax save for the fact that
the rumors were placed in such gen.
eral circulation that the consumption
of cabbage was greatly curtailed,
many persons fully believing in the
poisOnousness of the hair-wOrm. From
data it can truthfully be said that
thousands of cabbage growers in
Cured severe losses on account of the
unfortunate "scare" due to the unwise
circulation of the veriest rumOrs.
In support of the statement which
has been made by the department of
agriculture for the past two years, a
DR.. Louis Leroy made tests in order
to determine whether the hair-worm
or "cabbage-Snake" possessed any
poisonous properties. The usual lab
oratory animals, rabbits, guinea-pigs,
and domestic animals, were fed with
the worms, raw and cooked; extracts
from the hair-worms were prepared,
and the animals fed with them, anu
the substance was infected hypoderm-
ically, the final result being reached,
as none of the animals thus treated
was affected, that the 'cabbage-snake"
is entirely harmless and the public
rumors and superstitiOns are fallacies
without semblance of foundation.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1905-08-01
p OULT r Y
Communications for this department are
solicited. Personal experiences detailed ana
questions prove of great benent. Write to
II. L. Blanchard at Hadlock, Wash, or
direct to The Ranch, Seattle.
Poultry Need Green Vegetables.
HI. L. BLANCHARD

All raisers of poultry do not realize
the advantages of variety in food; this
has been referred to in this depart
ment several times, but more partic-
ularly in reference to the grain ration.
1t applies, however, just as well to
the green food portion; because the
fowls are on the range it does not
follow that they find much variety
in the grasses they eat, and it will do
them an immense amount of good IL
they can have some of the discarded
vegetables, both tops and roots, that
come from the garden. We have found
it an excellent plan, even in summer,
to feed our growing chicks In the
morning a mash composed OF wheat
bran with a sprinkling OF oil meal
in it and then completing the mash
with about a quart of finely chopped
vegetables and vegetable tops to about
every twenty-five fowls. They seem
to find in these vegetable tops and
roots some element of food not con-
tanned in the grasses on the range.
If this feeding is done at the house,
where it should be done, it will not
be necessary to give them anything
more in the way of grains until they
come to the house to rOOst at night.
At this time we give them a ration
consisting of two-thirds wheat and
one-third corn and in quantity about
one-half of the winter ration. 1t is
impossible to keep up either an egg
supply or proper growth of bone and
muscle in the growing chicks by de-
pending entirely on the range for
their food supply. 1t is particularly
essential that the early Matched pull
let's on whom we are relying for fall
and winter eggs have this summer ra-
ton of grains. One should not forget
that drinking water is essential dur
ing the summer, and it should be sup
piled so that the fowls can have 1t
fresh and clean as often during the
day as they need it.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1905-08-01
Glover as Green Manure.

There is no doubt but that the turn
ing under of heavy crop OF clover
would equal twenty loads OF manure,
but nevertheless we would hesitate
about turning it under. First, because
if that crop were made into hay and
fed to cattle and the manure hauled
out, it would have quite as much
value. less waste, than the clover IT.
self, or that part of the clover which is
cut off.
We can conceive of very great
benefit to clay land from turning un,
der this clover, not only in the way
of fertility but in the way of putting
the land in better physical condition
The objection to 1t is that heavy
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1905-08-01

Don't sell your good draft mares;
they are worth double as much for
breeding as you would get for them on
the open market. Entirely too many
good grade draft mares are being sacri-
feed on the market when they are SO
urgently needed to improve our mar
ket supply of heavy horses.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1905-08-01
The Cabbage Hair-Worm.

The cabbage hairtwOrm is the SUBJ
ject of a circular lately issued by the
bureau of entomology, United States
department of agriculture, the pub
LEGATION of which was made necessary
by numerous inquiries in regard to the
identity and alleged poisonous nature
of a minute worm popularity known
during the years 1903 and 1904 as the
"cabbage-snake." During the former
year the species first attracted atten-
ton. but was not considered seriously
as il was well known that hair-worms
are not in any degree poisonous
fact they are perfectly harmless and
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1905-08-01

crop of clover turned under is likely
to render the land acid. In short, we
would prefer using it as hay, applying
an equal amount of manure to the
land and blowing that under, thus get
ting the advantage of the manure
without risk of injuring the land, and
at the same time the full value of the
roots and Stubble.
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5000 600 600
IN POULTRY.

Do you know that the government census
of 1900 gives the value of the poultry !"
that year at very nearly 100000 DOOR
Poultry Success, the twentieth century
poultry magazine, is absolutely indispensa
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whether they be beginners. experienced
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It is without question the foremost pouitry,
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realize that II is plain truth that there -
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Sample copy free. 80.
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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1905-12-29
100

When left alone to its natural func
tons nitrogen pursues perfectly
peaceful course, but when man sue
ceeds in capturing 1t and combining
II with other elements 1t becomes q
dire potentiallty for evil, as is Oh
yious in the recent events of the wal
IN the Far East and in the crime II
the streets Of Moscow.
The love Of freedom. SO to speak
characteristic Of nitrogen Is terribly
exemplified in the explosion OF tht
bomb in which it is imprisoned and
hound to other elements. On tn
slightest provocation-a spark
shock. q fuse-the nitrogen suddenl,
expands from seemingly nothing, a
regards the space which it occupies
into infinity. This is. in reality, VIVA
happens when dynamite, lyddite 2
other unstable nitro compounds ez
Mode when hurled in shells IN wal
fare and in bombs in desperate q
lacks on human life-
Nitrogen. against its natural dispt
sition. is locked up in an uncongenia
snace in these compounds, from wl1ic'
# is set free by very simple means I
an enormously expanded gaseous stat
with deadly effect, returning, 10 acl
to its normal peaceful mission ono
more.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1905-12-29

The almost placid indifference with
which America receives. the news OF
the completion. of arrange lnents for
the extension OF the present Pacifie
cable which links the United States
with Hawaii. Guam and the Philip
pines to the shores of Japan and China
is In remarkable contrast to the pop
ular demonstrations which attended
the completion OF the first successful
cable across the Atlantic in 1858. iii
that year. the news was heralded by
the ringing Of bells and the discharge
Of cannon all over the land. aud the
first messages that passed beneath the
oceanic deeps voiced The fluctuations
and tho rejoicings OF the whole wors0
at the great and ds FiJg triumph which
had been aecolnId shed. Philadelphia
Ledger
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1905-12-29
Henry came and stared at the plat


zone of the greatest blows to the
burglars trade is the electric light
with push button appliances" said De-
tective Charles Heidelberg, recently.
at is not far out of the way to say
that the electric light has driven at
least 80 per cent. of burglars out of
the business and the remaining 70 per
cent has had to learn. their business
all over again.
"The whole art Of burglary was
based, in the past, on darkness-a
hopeless darkness as regards the VIC
tim. There was one feat-a peculiar
way of crouching, striking a match
above ones head, and tossing it to left
and right-that took the burglar weeks
to learn. 1t was valuable because it
showed him what he wanted to see,
while it misled the victim, who might
be armed, as to the burglars location.
The trick is now worthless, for the
victim, instead of covering in black
darkness at the burglars mercy, now
reaches over, touches a button atshis
bedside. and up flashes the light.
Eyes. electric lights, / guess, have
done more in the last decade TO do
away with burglary than nything else
/ has done in the last 1900 years. New
York Press.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1905-12-29
crip aless. Patlent work.

4 Beajsmin j.: MoEgans cripple, has
completed "a wonderful. piece of work
which is .attr2 cling copsia erable at
tention. Inside, a bottle. Sla. inches
long, 41s irches .ine diameter and Y
fnch at the neck he ha.sserade NINA
ture Representation CT the Iitchfield
County Choral, Union. giving its con
cert at the arulory-
Twenty-Five of the singers are rep
reseEted on six rows, the women be
ing attired in white and the men IN
black, each singer having a red GOV
cred choral book in his or her hand
The twenty-five dolls representing the
singers ere az inches in length, IL
inches across the shoulders, each doll
having to be separated into. twelve
pieces in order to get it through tne
neck Of the bottle. ~
After they were passed through the
neck they were glued together. There
are ISL pieces in all in the glass yes
sel. The stopper of the bottle repre-
sents the front Of the arfnory.-
Winsted spondence Waterbury
Republican.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1905-12-29

Al0 RiltGS VII tH0t&tA 0stAAf ~tf~ee
IN every Protestant or Reformed
Church" that / have visited while
unon a five weeks tour through the
Netherlands l have been pleased to
sos several large quarto Bibles IN
every pew upon the wide shell or rail-
ing In front.
1t is very convenient and enticfng,
therefore, for each person at services
upon the Sabbath to open a large
print Bible when the lesson therein
f. read or the text announced and I
observed that it is the universal Gus
tom to do so. Some of the Bibles
opened were of as old date as the
seventeenth century. Twice / found
that the Bible in my pew CHANGED to
be Of the year 1880, and most Of those
used are of the eighteenth century
Only one as late as 1910 did / find.
All the English text ! found to
have the old style Of So and general
" antique type, for the books were
all well bound in heavy leather and
with clasps calculated to last, and
look las good as new" like the old
houses of all the ancient towns or
this stable country.-Rotterdam cor
respondence Pittsburg Dispatch.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1905-12-29
STOPS BELcHINc.


A sweet breath is priceless.
Mull's Anti-Belch Waters viii cure bad
breath and bad taste instantly. Belchine
and bad taste indicate offensive breath,
which is due to stomach trouble.
Mull's Anti-Belch Waters purify the
stomach and stop belching, by absorbing
foul gases that arise from undigested food,
and by supplying the digestive organs with
natural solvents for food.
They relieve sea or car sickness and
nausea of any kind
They quickly cure headache, correct the
Ill effect Of excessive eating or drinking
They will destroy tobacco, whisky OF
onIpn L--SSath instantly. +
They stop fermentation ir to- oh
acute indigestion, cramps, colIs, "A tn
stomach and intestines. distended alb
domen, heartburn, bad complexion, dizzy
spells or any other affection arising from
diseased stomach.
We know Mull's Anti-Belch Waters vii
do this, and we want you to know It.
SPECIAL CFFER.-The regular price. OF
Mulps Anti-Belch Waters Is Doc. box, but
to introduce it to thousands of sufferers
we will send two ~ boxes upon receipt o.
Use and this advertisement. or we viii
send you a sample free for this coupon.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1905-12-29
This Little World.

l. don't suppose that many people
know that the homes of Francis Scott
Key, the author oil. the Star-Spangled
Banner" and John Howard Payne, the
author of Home, Sweet Home" were
withins seyenty-fve feet of each Other
in Washington. They lived in {
street, between Third ana Fourth ana
a Hail, .aad We're neighbors for a lone
time. Il OF course Key got his fame
first, for Payne did. not write Home
Sweet Home" until he went to Tunis,
Algiers, as United States Consul
Key preceded him, on Jan. H., 1873,
by nine, years. Their bones rest il
the same cemetery, Oak Hill at Wash
ington. Payne, who was an actor and
dramatist. wrote a great many things
and played ard sang in many Of them
Himself. Home. Sweet Home was
a sorg Written in an opera by him, but
| is by 70 means his best composition
though it is the only one that is likely
10 be nlembered, The fame of Key
however, rests ent1re7y CIR ~his- aRe
hymn, the "Star-Spangled Banner" |
am telling this story to illustrate one
ide1:: that Is, that though this world
is large, 1t is very small when you
e-ne to think of it; that though their
productions are the nations hymns,
are known all over the world and are
leasined to live, at least, as long ss
this country lives, they lived within
sound of each others voice during
their lives, ard their bones are rest
ing almost side by side.-New Orleans
Times-Democrat.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1905-12-29

on s"2 DoSFuss -
ire int1oaVctsQn or a deck Of sfeep
ITO a stage spectacle seems ron
newspaper comment to hgve given tn \
impression that livestock is new OF
the stage. ThIs, of course, Is wide Q,
the mark. A tragedy referred TO RI
this column the other day had Its II
sception in a play written round -four
ions and lioness which used TO plag
nightly at Astley's. There was an
opera whch revoiycd around q Spa'
ish lbul uEtf one night the lattsJ
u7molsncd ire mock arena on %
stage and stampsded the whole com
!: papy a real Derby winner USED
each nlsnt 20 TeWin ms triumph De
., sn9 ioo'i.snes' ana play " suca q,
Tue PHI Aia at ana b 1l0l5.i
owsl Y ;lsn y ln p success 70 sne' -
qaasl peus- a.. ssgs.a. II ~
laloss 6 = M, ~ ,s',.s. !
"a, ,, VS. ssffSu =. II e. ~
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1905-12-29


around his neck and laid her cold
cheek upon his
Il too love you," she confessed; "but
what will you say, wonder, when
you find / am no longer the White
Princess! Your words have thawed
my heart and driven my power away.
I nm only d poor, peasant maid See.
my palace, my garden, even my lovely
white robes, have melted, and / am in
my old rags oncesmore.a What wiily0u
DO nowsn 49, ~ ISL -
"Do?" he echoed, looking into the
pretty little face, upturned SO anxious
" toward him, II care naught for
grandeur. 1love you, and you alone.
dear one-so I viii give you the kiss
just the sa1ne.''-C assell's Magazine.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1905-12-29
RIne Range in church Vaults

Lord Roberts on Saturday descended
the extensive vaults beneath the
churchyard Of ST. Martin's-in-the..
Fields. Westminster. and there open.
ed a new tube rife range, which has
been constructed for the Westminste or
CITY Council Rife Club. The length
or this obviously situated range 10
twenty-five yards-the equivalent Oh
an ordinary range of 200 yards /.
Lord Roberts said his daughter and
several of his staff in India began
their shooting with a pea-rife in 2
ballroom, and his star officers devei
oped into extraordinary good shots
London Daily Express.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1905-12-29

With LOGAN APPLICATIONS, as they cannot
reach the seat OF the disea { alTh Is
blood or constitutional disc. AZ IN order
to cure It YOU must take lLte-a.aal lemedies.
Halls catarrh Cure is taken internally, and
acts directly On the blood and mucous surface
Halls CatarFa Cure is not a quack medicine.
1t was presSribed by one Of the best physi-
clans in this country for years, and Is reg
llar prescription. 1t is composed OF the
best tonics Known, combined With the best
blood puri fiers. acting directly on the mu-
cous surfaces. The perfect combination OF
the two ingredients IS what produces such
wonderful results in curing catarrh. Send
ior testimonials, free.
f. J. CiiENEY 4 Co., Props, Toledo, O.
Sold by drn ggists, price, 75c.
Take llaH,s Family Pills for constipation
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1905-12-29

"As you know, wrote you that my DOCTOR
said must have an operation or could not
live then wrote you, ftefniIg yoh my all
ments. I'followsd your advice and am en-
tirely well. / can walk miles without AM
ache or a pain, and / owe my life to you and;
to Lydia e. Pinl1llam's Vegetable Compound.
wish every suffering. woman would read.
this testimonial and realize the value of writ
ing to you and your remedy."-Mrs Mary
Dimmiclz, 59th and E. Capitol Streets, Ben
ming P. o., Washington, d. c.
When a medicine hasibeen successful
in restoring to health SO many women
whose testimony is SO unquestiOnable.
you cannot well say, without trying it,
81 do not believe it wilNhe1p me-" II
you are ill. don't hesitateto get ne bot
tie of Lydia E. Pinkhar's Vegetable
Compound at once, and write Mrs Pink
ham. Lynn. Mass, for speciak advice :
lit is free and always helpful.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1905-12-29
PREcocIoUs CHILD.


Hindu Children and Their Popularity of
speech
Hindu children are not like those of
the Western world. They have afsin-
gular maturity of speech, caught from
their elders, and tinctured by inIagina-
tive charm, and they are as quick
witted, as subtle in their judgment of
character as those elders themselves.
Pagal is a little boy described in Cor
nelia sSorabji's Sun Babies" book
made up of delightful studies. of the
child life of India. The child is first
introduced to the reader in the ante
chamber. of the man who he hopes
will become bis employer, and who is
magnificently referred to as the
Presence" ~ ). .se. ~ -
] Pagal made. a low obeisance, and
then, asked to tell what he had come
for. responded: '.Presence,I am man
child. While my years We're yet few
my mother turned me adEift to earn
my living. have never gone foodless,
but the work did was. the work of i
child. Now that my years. are many,
would do the work of q. man," 500
His many years seemed to number
about seven. = ava (
The Presence wonders about that
child work." he explained. Two
years, maybe three, have sat at the
sahib's door, being the hand TO bear
the note things to and fro; and much
knowledge of the world have | thus
gained. Now that am come to mans
estate, it's higher work should be my
portion" &c., .fst
Pagal was gently persistent, he was
shrewdly diplomatic, and he got forth
with chance to pull the. punka-the
swinging fan-7in the chambers of the
potentate. He expressed his joy, and
then prudence impelled him to bargain
about his pay. :, M
Let my wages come to me-" said he,
lin daily coppers. 1t is not good for q
man child to get into the claws of the
money lender
His employer hoped to make it easier
for him by arranging that he should
eat with the gardener, who was of the
same caste, and sleep in the servants
quarters. But he would not consent.
"a man gets settled" he said. ''even
in his ways of eating" He could cook
for himself. In the day parched rice
and earthnuts would be enough to kill
| hunger, ''and when my work is done,
| the evening meal is well favored at
my poor idle hands,"
So he arranged a kitchen out OF
doors, and automatically asserted that
he knew his employer would under
stand. 1.-THE Presence will say, Let
him have as much license in these mat
| ters as the birds yonder, who live in
my trees and feed all over my garden
and sleep in the boughs at night
time.'n
What Presence" could deny him?
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1905-12-29
Underwood Travel System.

This system is travel OF the truest
kind. vet il does not utilize either ship or
railroad Such a statement is 50 extra
ordinary as to seem at first unbelievable,
hit many have proved its truth. To ex-
r-rience sensations Of pleasure or pain in
the presence Of famous objects and places
which insrsire thoughts and produce states
Of feeling enrehing life and adding to hap
lness IS to travel truly. BY making use
Of simple scientific principe, and spend
ing twenty years in its development, there
has been perfected the means. of actually
securing right in ones home these very
experiences and benefits which actual
travel gives.
DR. James H. Breasted, of C.:cago Uni
versity, says: by this means the Joys
OF travel are extended to that large class
ri our neople who thirst for an aequaint-
ance with the distant lands of other ages,
but arc prevented by the expense in
vowed, or by the responsibilities of home
business or profession"
More information about this truly re
marlyahIe system, and strong endorsements
Of it b. hundreds of our greatest educa
Tors. ca. be had by addressing
UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD,
Reut. ~ 3-5 West 10Th ST., n. Y. City
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1905-12-29

Taylor's Cherokee Remedy OF Sweet Gum
and Mullen is Natures great remedy-Cures
Coughs Colds. Group and Consumption,
and all throat and lung troubles. At drug
gists, z5c., soc. and e1.00 per bottle.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1905-12-29

Piso's Cure is the best medicine We ever used
for all affections of throat and lungs.-WM.
0. ENDsLEY, Vanburen, Ind, Feb. 10, 1900.