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Cañon City record., 1905-11-23

who told him that he could not make
a living out here on five acres of land.
Other cases OF parallel character
might be cited. but to multiply them
Us hardly necessary in the course of
a short newspaper article like this,
suffice il to say that farmer who can
adapt himself to the conditions which
an intensive cultivation of the soil
demands can make as much money
here. and make IL easier than the man
who tills a quarter section in Nebras-
ka or "Old Mizzou" Alfalfa land
that may be flooded as often as
necessary to produce three crops of
hay. can be bought at from $3.50 to
$3.50 per acre, the price depending
upon its nearness to the city and its
accessibility from the principal streets
Well improved properties adapted 20
horticulture or gardening are more
valuable, ranging in price from 5000
to $500 an acre: in some cases as
much as 1900 per acre being demand
cd by the owners. The higher
prices. of course. apply to lands fully
improved and containing well bear
ing orchards.
Alfalfa is splendid forage to grow
preparatory to a crop of strawberries
and the money obtained from the pro-
duec OF the soil in one year from these
crops is sometimes sufficient to pay
for the land, remarkable as it may
appear to the eastern agriculturist.
We have been informed OF 1--WE
Cañon City record., 1905-11-23
The Irrigated Lands
Bring Big Returns

Many eastern people are appalled,
when told that irrigated land under
a good water right in the Arkansas
valley is worth from s2so to $500 an
acre. but their astonishmcnt arises
from the fact that they arc unfamii-
lar with the character OF the crops
the soil will produce and the revenue
which 1t yields. Another thing tina,
people unacquainted with irrigation
are apt to forge; that cultivablc land
out here is not subject TO the ca
prices of rainfall and drou,h. and tha,
a failure of crops cannot occur. as
they frequently do in the sections OF
the country where artificial means of
watering the earth to promote the
growth of vegetation is not. resorted
to.
If you tell a farmer in eny os the
agricultural states OF the Mississippi
valley that the fruit ranches in Col
orado command anywhere from $500
TO 5000 an acre he at once becomes
as skep,ical as the traditional Mis-
sourian and he will not be convinced
that you arc not joking until he has
Cañon City record., 1905-11-23

that he thinks cannot be made remun-
era,ive for every investor has "an eve
TO the main chance"
Despite the high values placed upon
land by Canon City ranchers and gar
deners they are able to show a far
bigger revenue on their holdings than
farmers who have the same amount
OF money invested in the so-called
productive lands of Illinois. Michigan,
Iowa or Minnesota, although they
may cultivate only one-twenticth as
much soil area as the latter, and at the
expenditure of only one-half as much
physical force For instance we
know of man. now resident of
Lincoln Park. who sold farm of 100
acres in one of the best agricultural
counties in Kansas four years ago
and invested the proceeds in five
acre fruit ranch across the river from
this city. He kept an aecoun, of all
the produce sold from the ranch for
the first twelve months, his successor
on the Kansas farm doing likewise
for the same period. AT the end of
that time the Lincoln Park ranchman
was ahead of his eastern competitor
by several hundred dollars, greatly
to the surprise of his Kansas friends
Cañon City record., 1905-11-23

acre ranch on Lincoln Park, which
contains an orchard from which the
owner marketed four years ago S2.Soo
worth of apples and the following
season increased his sales to $500.
This property upon which there is a
nice brick residence and all necessary
ouibuildings and couveniences may be
purchased for $1,000 or for Sc. 500 after
the fruit now on the trees is har-
vested
II may be assumed that under the
most favorable conditions an ener-
getic rancher or gardener will be able
to obtain a gross income of from
twenty-five to forty per cent on his in
vestment year from a crop of straw
berries, and perhaps, two thirds as
much from a crop of apples and other
fruits. In exceptional cases straw
berries will yield as much as 5000 an
acre, and few well cultivated patches
of the most prolific varieties of plants
have produced at the rate of $1,000 an
acre. There is no satisfactory way
by which the cost of marketing
crop of either fruit or berries to the
average ranehman can be ascertained,
although il is presumed that twenty
FIVE per cent of the income from their
sale would cover all expenses of that
kind
OF course, there is no arbitrary rule
governing the price of land here, the
conditions in that respect being much
the same as they are everywhere else.
People moving away are sometimes
willing to dispose of their property
at sacrifice, but these bargains can
not be relied upon by people who de-
sire to come here for the purpose of
making a home and in the majority of
cases they will find the valuation
something near what we have given.
The eastern man that concludes that
land prices here are fictitious and
must necessarily slump in a short time
is greatly in error for they were new
cr upon so sound basis as they are
today. Ranch properties in the vicin-
ity OF Canon City are far more likely
to appreciate than to decline in price
during the next few years.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-03-24
WILL "HIr THE TRAIL"
Visitors at the Next Worlds Fair
Will Have a Change from
Midway" and "Pike."

One went down" the Pike in st. Louis
and took in" the Midway at Chicago
but it will be chit the traii' at the west
ern worlds fair at Portland, says the
Kansas City Star.
All of these familiar sights which have
come to be expected of every well reg
ulated amusement street" will be a part
of the Trail, and many new startling nov
elites are promised.
While the march of progress has
changed the character of the shows, the
methods of doing business will remain the
same. The harsh-voiced spieler will cry
out as of old, and the best spieler will
get most of the people. Many of the
shows, probably most of them, at the
Lewis and Clark exposition will be of real
educational value, but does the sp:eler EN-.
phasize this fact? Not he. He knows
that the people want to be amused.
Have you saw Coral" he bellows, and
the crowd stops a moment and smiles at
his bad grammar, and wonders who Cora
is. And then he proceeds to tell them Of
her marvellous feats of digestion.
you come on, john" says the little
woman in a last years bonnet. We've
seen enough of them shows"
well we haven't saw Cora, have we"'
and the big man laughs and buys two
tickets.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-03-24
Vegetable Gardens.

We do not think sufficient attention
is given to our vegetable gardens.
Often the wife has exclusive charge of
it, getting a most precarious help from
the farm labor at odd times.
We would make a suggestion which
though not original works well. At
the end Of the rows in the fields near-
est the residence leave on each side
about o|ne-fourth of an acre. Manure
these terminals at the same time you
fix for the field OF cotton, or
whatever else, only put & larger guam
tity. Plant on these the coarse yari-
ties OF vegetables, avoiding only the
running kinds. Plow them of course
the same time you plow the same
field crop row, AID hoeing when neces-
sary. This plan makes attention to the
| garden a certainty, and it will by this
system stand a drought much better
than when in q heated-up old garden
spot. The choicest and most delicate
vegetables may be planted in the gar
den Enclosure.
We are glad to contribute anything
which tends to increase the vegetable
raising in our section. We know OF
nothing which is more acceptable on
our table than these healthy, delight
full fruits of the earth. Any good gar
den seed catalogue will. give hints and
directions as to the proper varieties to
select. We had tomatoes at Christmas.
We put out the plants in July, being
careful to constantly water and, when
first set out, shade. Omitted to say
plant IL deep.-Ewing Gibson, in
Dixie Farmer.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-03-24
Reward to the Worshiper.

If we get no good out of the sermon
we are more to blame than the preach
err. If we had gone into the house OF
God in the spirit of worship, no matter
what the sermon, we would have re-
turned to our homes with a blessing.
The church is a place to worship God,
not to hear whatthe preacher has to say.
But when the sermon is listened to in
the spirit of worship, God will always
use it as a medium through which He
will reach us and speak helpfully to us.
If we approach it in the spirit of criti-
cism we have shut the door of our hearts
against the entrance OF good Even a
child may tear the most beautiful rose
to pieces, but in doing 50 it has gained
nothing and ruiued the rose.-United
Presbyterian.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-03-24
Farm Leases.

As it has a way of doing, the time
of the year for making new farm
leases has come around; and. as is
usual. it is a time Of trial to mems
souls. AS long as farms must be leased,
this will continue TO be true.
What oueEt the men who rent farms
do when this crisis comes? What ought
the renter 10 when it comes to draw
ing up the papers?
Just four things ought to be kept in
mind when making farm leases: First,
be fair; second, be fair; third, BE
FAIR: and fourth, put it all down in
writing.
In fact, nine-tenths of the trouble
that men have with their neighbors in
this world, and perhaps we might say
one-half of the other tenth, comes from
lack of perfect fairness on some ones
part. and all the rest cOnnes from neg
lecting to have the bargain written
down by some men who is competent
to do such work, and who has UNI
bounded patience to listen and to write.
E. l.. Vincent, in the Farm Journal.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-03-24
Mrs. Lee

Mrs. Ella Lee, Frankfort, Ind. writes:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-
81 want to thank you for what YOUR medi-
cine has done for me.
"Three years ago l had Inflammation of the
ovaries and ulcers on my womb. | was under
the doctors care for about three months, and
the only time l was not in pain was when
under the influence of morphine. The doctor
finally said | never would be better, and
would be an invalid the rest of my life. / had
given up in despair, but one evening I came
across one of your advertisement and decided
to write you for advice. | did so and coro-
menced to take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege.
table Compound. l began to improve at once,
and to-day | I'm a well woman, and | know
it is all due to your advice and medicine.
Mrs. J.. II. Farmer of 28O9 Elliott
Avenue, st. Louis, Mo-, writes:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-
II cannot thank you enough for what your
advice and medicines have done for me,
They have done me more good than all the
doctors / ever had.
"For the last eight years I have suffered
with female troubles; was very weak; had
nervous prostration, and could not do my
work; but l am happy to say Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound has made a
different woman of me. l am in perfect
health and have gained in weight from 90
pounds to 100 pounds"
No other medicine in the world has
received such widespread and unquali-
fled endorsement. No other medicine
has such a record for actual cures of
female ills as has Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound.
Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women
to write her for advice. She has
guided thousands to health. Address,
Lynn, Mass.
~ KencE EIndnrcAordc A NnnannEn nr1n
The Tupelo journal., 1905-03-24

An eminent physician says that
"Women are not truthful; they will lie
TO their physician" This statement
should be qualified; women do tell the
truth, but not the whole truth, to a
male physician, but this is only in re-
gard to those painful and troublesome
disorders peculiar to their sex.
There can be no more terrible ordeal
to a delicate, sensitive. refined woman
than to be obliged to answer certain
questions when those questions are
asked, eve by her family physician.
This is especially the case with I'M
married women.
Is it any wonder, then, that women
continue to suffer and that doctors
fail to cure female diseases when they
cannot get the proper information to
work on?
This is the reason why thousands and
thousands OF women are now CORE
spending with Mrs. Pinkham. To her
they can and do give every symptom,
sc that she really knows more about
the true condition of her patients,
through her correspondence with them
than the physician who personally
questions them.
If you suffer from any form of trouble
peculiar to women, write at once to
Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass, and she
will advise you free of charge.
The fact that this great boon, which
is extended freely to women by Mrs.
Pinlham, is appreciated, the thou
sands of letters received by her prove.
Many such grateful letters as the fol-
lowing are constantly pouring in.
Ask Mrs. pinkEam'S AdviGe-A Won
The Tupelo journal., 1905-03-24

profitable crops Of cotton may be
grown in spite of the presence of the
bollworm, the following procedures are
important: "a Through blowing of the
land during the fall or winter months
to destroy as many as possible OF the
alternating pupae in the soil; (2) the
use of seed of early-fruiting varities of
cotton; CD the use of fertilizers to
hasten and increase the growth OF
planting at the first practicable date
in the spring; 90 early and frequent
cultivation.
The use of corn as a trap crop is rec
commended. In planting cotton leave
vacant strips across the fields every 200
or 300 feet sufficiently wide for plant
ing 10 or IL rows of corn. The corn
should be planted SO that it will be in
prime silking condition about August
J.. Under favorable conditions Of rain
fall and with good cultivation, Mex
lean June corn planted by June l will
be in proper condition by August l..
Plant cowpeas in the corn belts SO that
the peas will be towering at the time
the silks and tassels appear On the
corn, thus furnishing food for the
moths and keeping them out of the
cotton fields. Much the same benefits
may be secured by planting patches OF
late corn ON different parts of the
plantation, as after oats, wheat, etc.
In all cases peas should be planted in
the corn. The corr thus grown may be
harvested in the usual way. The orn
should be planted for trapping in the
spring. To be of value in bollworm
control it should not be in silk and
tassel until about August 1.
During seasons of evere bollworm
injury, poisons may be profitably used
on cotton. Poisons should be applied
late in July and early in August to
secure the maximum destruction OF
young larvae of this generation. Two
or three applications may be necessary
at intervals of a week or ten days.
After rains the application should be
Immediately repeated. Paris green at
the rate of from two to three pounds
per acre for each application will be
satisfactory. 1t is best applied in a dry
condition, either pure or mixed with
cheap -four, and busted over the plants
by the usual p~ole-and-bag method or
by means Of a dust-spray machine
U. S. Farmers Bulletin,
The Tupelo journal., 1905-03-24
HERE AND THERE.

Feed and pasture in abundance are
what make fine, fat hogs nj healthy
pork.
The hog is useful on the farm as
a scavenger to eat the refuse and drink
the slop and extra milk.
liable is no reason why she should be
kept beyond her age of usefulness.
Pillow up the hen yard this spring
and sow oats, lettuce or rye. 1t will
be a feed saver and an egg maker.
of course the COW that is well born
will always show her bringing up; but
the man has more to do with her sue
cess than most OF us admit.
"A small nest and a large number Of
eggs is usually the cause of the first
matches being poor-the very matches
that we are most DESTROYS should be
successful.
He who puts the finest product ! n
the market reaps the richest harvest.
Eggs are refined wheat, corn and grass,
and they contain much that on the
farm would go to waste.
The way to build up a thrifty, pay
ing poultry business is to always sem
the customer a little better quality
than he has any right to expect to re-
ceive for the amount paid.
If the hens have the run of an or
chard they will not render as good
service in protecting the trees from
injurious insects as they will if con-
fined in yards around the trees.
The south is dotted with cotton
seed oil mills, and what was once re-
garded as refuse now brings nearly
500, 600, 900 a year to the south, but
the mills take the best of the seed.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-03-24
An Ex-Sherif Talks.

Scott City, Kan, March 20th.-(SpeciaD
Almost every newspaper tells of cures
of the most deadly of kidney diseases by
Dodd's Kidney Pills. Bright's Disease,
Diabetes, Rheumatism and Bladder .trou-
bles, in fact any disease that is of the
kidneys or caused by disordered kidneys
is readily cured by this great American
remedy.
But it is in curing the earlier stages of
kidney complaint that Dodd's Kidney
Pills are doing their greatest work. They
are preventing thousands of cases of
Bright's disease and other deadly ailments
by curing Kidney Disease when it first
shows its presence in the body.
Speaking of this work Ex-Sheriff James
Scott of Scott County, says:
Il have used eight boxes of Dodd's Kid
ney Pills and must say that they are Just
the thing for Kidney Disease. We have
tried many kidney medicines but Dodds
Kidney Pills are the best of all"
The Tupelo journal., 1905-03-24
THE COTTON BOIL wEEvIL.
The Use of a Trap Crop as a Means
of Minimizing the Ravages
of the Pest.

The work of the bureau of entomol-
ogy during the past two years has
shown that by the adoption of certain
cultural expedients, desirable in them
selves, a satisfactory crop of cotton
may be grown during years of severe
bollworm injury. This requires, for best
results, the adoption of all methods
useful in the production of an early
crop, and is ba on the fact that cot
ton is not attacked in force by boll-
worms until the corr in surrounding
fields begins to harden, which in gem
eral is about the first of August.
In the cultural system, by which
The Tupelo journal., 1905-03-24
New Erie Locomotives.

The Erie Railroad has ordered 1877
very heavy freight locomotives and 5000
freight cars. The company is also hav-
ing built three of the new and fast type
of passenger engines known as bal
anced compounds" These locomotives
will pull more passenger car at a high
err rate of speed than any other kind.
The company is also having built three
heavy Pacific type Of passenger engines.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-03-24
Shakespeare Revised.

ShyIock was about to take the pound of
flesh,
Too bad you aren't a pugilist who lacks
just one pound in getting down to the
weight limit" he said, airily.
Even at this Antonio did not vince, but
when the money lender went on and
light or the dark meat, Portia stepped up
and sprang her famous surprise.-Detroit
Tribune
The Tupelo journal., 1905-03-24
A ROMANCE:
OF BABEL
OUR SERMON STORY by the +,
"Highway and Byvay" Preacher. .
IA Vision Between the Lines of 4
Gods Inspired Word


Scripture Authotty;-"And the Lord
came down to see(the city and the tower,
which the children os men builded. And
the Lord said, Behold, the people is one
n they rave AL one language; and this
they begin to 40; and now nothing will be
restrained from them. which they have
imagined to 10. Go to, let US go down, and
there confolnc their language, that they
may not understand one another's speech.
20 thts Lord scattered them abroad from
upon the face of all the earth; and
they left off to build the city.'-Gen. Hos.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-03-24

AR to the north of
the land of Shinar,
that fruitful alluvi-
al plain comprised
by the refreshing
waters of the Eu-
pirates and Tigris
rivers. there dwelt
many years a f t e +
the food a nunler-
Gus multitude OF
people. The fear OF
God was before
TIL e i eyes, and,
The Tupelo journal., 1905-03-24
His Swear-Of.

Did Browns wife make him give up
smoking?"
'In an underhand way; she gave him
some cigars Christmas. Houston Post.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-03-24

Taylor's Cherokee Remedy of Sweet
Gum and Mullen is Natures great rem
edy. Cures Cough, Cold, Group, Con-
sumption and all throat troubles. At
druggist, 25c.. SOC. and $l.00 per bottle.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-03-24

Do not believe Piso's Cure for Consump-
ton has an equal for coughs and colds.
+. Boyer, Trinity Springs, Ind, Feb. 10, 1900.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-03-24

"It's purity hard sometimes" said Uncle
Eben, ito sympathize wifi one mans wrongs
wifout havin' another man claim you's
tryin' to interfere with his rights
" Washington Star.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-03-24

Life gives many a man a handful Of
trumps who hasn't sense enough to play
them.-N. o. Picayune.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-03-24

The greatest miracle is the casting out
of the devil of self.-Chicago Tribune.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-03-24

An English scientist says that insects
are fond of whisky. He seems to agree
with that other English scientist who says
that man is only an insect.-Atlanta Jour
mol
The Tupelo journal., 1905-03-24

A Guaranteed Cure for Piles.
itching. Blind, Bleeding or ProtrudingP Piles.
Your druggist will refund money if PAzo
OINTMENT fails 60 cure in 6 to IA days. soc.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-03-24

The fact that riches cannot buy happi-
ness doesn't influence a man to remain
poor.-N. Y. Times.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-03-24

Woman Best Understands A Wcman's EIls.
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1905-04-06
A Sample Story OF Plain Facts.

1t is positive fact that the cost
manufacturing all standard grade goods
is practically the same, but the Gust to
the Retail Dealer is widely different
Those dealers who buy through the
Kansas City ioobers or branch houses
are compelled to pay about 20 per cent
more ,han n. johannes e. Sons pay for
the same quality, by reason Of the fact
that we are direct factory agent and cut
out all this branch house and travelling
mer's expense and also save the freight
besides.
As compared TO the mail order houses
we own our goods just as cheap vs. they
do, as our volume Of business places us
in POSITION to do this. We can sell
cheaper than than the mail order house
simply because our expenses are not half
rs much as theirs and our car load
freights are not halfas much as the local
freight the consumer has to pay for mail
order goods.
These are positive facts and we ask n
chance to prove to you that we have n
1icense" to sell goods cheaper than any
and all competitors
Try us before you spend your money.
Yours truly,
N JOHANNES Is Sons, INIT. Co. Houses
Rich Hill, Nevada and Lamar, Mo.
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