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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-08-25
A MENACE
TO RURbER
Strange Bug Appears
at the Nahiku
Plantation.

r. n. Anderson. manager of the Ma
hiku Rubber Co., who is at present in
town, told an Advertiser man yesterday
that the chief enemy of the rubber seed
on his plantation is an insect, half as
big as flea, gray in color and vigor-
Gus and enthusiastic jumper.
This pest puts in an appearance about
a week after the seeds are planted, at
lacking the abraided parts of the seed
caused by filing done to assist germi-
nation.
If the bug gets into the kernel before
termination starts, the germ is eaten
off and the seed spoiled, rotting
quickly.
AS soon as the shell splits and the
seed sprouts, the bug does no harm
the young plant being well up in day
This insect, says Mr.. Anderson
threatened planting Of 10000 seeds
some time ago. He was fortunate
however, to discover an effectual rem
edy, which consisted in inoculating the
soil before planting and continuing the
operation every week until the seed is
up.
The Portuguese around Nahiku say
that until quite recently the mysterious
little hoppers were quite unknown to
them and that no other seeds grown by
them have been attacked.
According to Anderson, the ground
around the seeds is alive with the bugs
thousands being turned up at time.
Entolnologist Kotinsky of the Divi-
sion OF Entomology says that he is ig-
norant of any insect corresponding
with Anderson's description. A bottle
of bugs will be forwarded to him by
the next boat.
The treatment used by Anderson is
said not only to kill the rubber seed
gnawers but to be death on ants, cut
worms and all crawling things.
This country hasn't nearly as many
pests as other tropical Countries said
Anderson, land the majority of the
noxious bugs here come from other
countries and are not original to Ha-
wall.
1.-The bug question could be success
fully combated," he concluded, eff peo-
pie would fight the pests intelligently
about the situation and letting the in
sects get in their good ticks mean
WHILE"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-08-25
Doctor Brigham Says
MANY PHYSICIANS PRESCRIBE
Lydia Z. Pinkl1an,1S
Vegetable Compound

Inc wonderful power of Lydia E..
Plnkham's Vegetable Compound over
the diseases of womankind is not be-
cause it is a stimulant. not because ii
is a palliative. but simply because it is
the most wonderful tonic and recon
structor ever discovered to act directly
upon the generative organs, positively
curing disease and restoring health and
vigor.
Marvellous cures nre reported from
all parts of the country by women who
have been cured. trained nurses who
have witnessed cures and physicians
who have recognized the virtue of
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, and are fair enough to give
credit where it is due.
II physicians dared to be frank and
open, hundreds of themwould acknowl-
edge that they constantly prescribe
Lydia =. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound in severe cases of female ills, as
they know by experience it can be re-
lied upon to effect cure. The follow
ing letter proves it.
DR.. 8. c. Brigham, Of Brigham
Park. Fitchburg, Mass, writes:
ut gives me great pleasure to say that I
have found Lydia E. Pinkham,s Vegetable
Compound very eficacious, and often pre-
scribe it in my practice for female difficulties
my Oldest daughter found it very benefi-
cial for uterine trouble some time ago, and nv
youngest daughter Is now taking Z for fe-
male weakness, and is surely gaining in health
and strength.
81 freely advocate it as most reliable spe.
cfhc in all diseases to which women are sub.
ject, and give it honest endorsement"
Women who are troubled with pain
full or irregularmenstruat bloating
Tor fatulence), 1eucorrhoea, falling, in
hammatioa or liberation of the uterus,
ovarian troubles, that bearing down
feeling. dizziness, faintness, indipes-
ton, nervous prostration or the blues.
should take immediate action to ward
off the serious consequences, and be
restored to perfect health and strength
by taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta-
BILE Compound, and then write to Mrs.
Pinkham, at Lynn. Mass, for further
free advice. No living person has had
the benefit of a wider experience in
treating female ills. She has guided
thousands to health. Every suffering
woman should ask for and follow p er
advice if she wants to be strong aud
well.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-08-25
A BROKEN DOWN SYSTEM.

This Ia a condition Cor disease) to which doc
ors give maDs names, but which few Of then
really understand. 1t IL simply weakness
breakdown, as 1t were, Of the vital forces thai
sustain the 81 stem. No matter what may 81
Its causes (for they are aim 1st numberless)
It's symptoms much the same: the mors
prominent being sleepessness, sense or pros
ration wearness, depression OF spirits AND
want Of energy for all the ordinary Affairs OF
1fr- Now. wat alone Is absolutely essential
all snch cases is INCREASED VITALITY
vigour-vITAL STRENGTH AND ENERGY &
proves that as night succeeds the day this may
.nrow on these morbid feelings, and experiences
be more certainly secured by . course of the
celebrated hfe-reviving tonic
THERAPIoN NO. 3
than By ahy other known combination. d
surely as 1t Is taken In accordance with the
printed directions accompanying 1t, win the
shattered health be restored. the EXPIRING
LAMP OF LIFE LIGHTED UP AFRESH, and
a new existence impaired in place Of what
nad so lately seemed WORKOUT, used up" and
va.ueless. This wonderful medicament Is pure
" vegetable and tnnocuous, is agreeable to the
taste-suitable for all constitutions and condi-
tions In either sex; and 1t Is difficult to fm-
agine q case of disease or arrangement, whose
main features are those of debility, that Will
cot be speedily and permanently benefited by
this never-failing recuperative essence which IL
destined to cast into oblivion everything that
had preceded 1t for this widespread and numer-
nlas Of hum stiu
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-08-25

one and shows that far more students
finish their education in mainland in
situations than might be supposed.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-08-25
THERAPION

Is sold by principal Chemists throughout the
world. Price in England 2/9 and 4/6. In or
dering, state which of the three numbers re-
luired, and observe that the word ''Therapion
appears British government Stamp Or
white letters on a red ground) afnIed e
every package by order Of His Matesty's Hon.
Commissioners, and without which 1t 10 9
forgery
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-08-25

,YAD fHE ADVERTISEI-
WopLD's NIWs DAILY
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-08-25

HOLSTER DRUG CO.. AGENTS.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1905-10-15
To Break Up Land Frauds.

AS a means of reducing fraud under
the various laws the land commission
ers will recommend to the forthcoming
congress an enactment imposing heavy
penalty upon any one who offers in
ducement to another to make any kind
of a public land entry in the interest
of second person and increasing the
penalty to be imposed upon those who
make entries for the sole purpose of
selling out at a profit. 1t is difficult
to secure conviction of persons who
make speculative entries under the law
as it stands today and the government
has been hampered and practically
thwarted in every attempt it has made
to prosecute speculative entrymen.
If the law is made more drastic, and
will apply not only to the man who
submits to a speculative proposition,
but to those who offer the bride, less
difficulty will be met in reaching the
fellows who are really responsible for
much of the fraud now perpetrated in
every western state. Another recon-
mendation will concern local land Of
fees. Experience has shown that In
almost every instance the work of the
local land office could be more salts
factorily handled by one official than
by two. Time and again embarass-
ment has arisen because of personal
friction between the register and re-
ceiver in the same land office with tenn
porary suspension of business pending
adjustment.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1905-10-15
vetch HAY or vetch siIage.

An Oregon farmer wanted to know
the relative value of vetch hay and
vetch silage, and in reply Ex-Governor
Hoard said: "There is probably from
85 to 80 per cent of dry matter in the
vetch hay, and from 25 to 80 per cent
in the silage. These figures present
the only mathematical basis for esti-
mating the relative values of hay and
silage There is, however, an addition
al feeding value in the silage, due to
it's succulence, which cannot be &C
curately measured or estimated. 1t Is
sometimes attempted to explain it by
contrasting and comparing dried fruits
with the best quality of the same fruits
canned. The silage is more easily oil
gested than the hay, and it's effect upon
the whole digestive tract is beneficial.
Calculated upon the units of nutri-
ment, it would require approximately
three tons of silage to equal one ton or
hay, but for the reasons indicated
above, we usually estimate two and
one-half tons of silage to be equivalent
in feeding value to one ton OF hay,
where both are of average quality"
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1905-10-15

lv speaking. can become master OF his
farm. without proper drainage he
never can, either with or without
system. The writer practices a short
rotation-three or four years. First
potatoes and roots, to be followed by
wheat or vetch, and wheat when sown
in the fall, or oats or barley in the
following spring. Under the cover OF
these crops seed down to rye grass,
orchard grass and red clover, or tim
othv. red top and alsike clover This
makes a three years rotation, when,
bv letting the grass stand the second
wear. we have the four years rota-
ton. The writer finds these rotations
we'll suited to his line of farming
dairy and poultry. With either ord1-
narily one blowing will serve for three
or four crops, when sowing the grain
and seeding down in the fall. Under
this system we get from 60 to 70 BUSH
els of fall wheat per acre, whereas
the yield of spring wheat falls consid-
erably below, although the labor when
seeding with spring grains is greater
even on the same land. At once after
removing the root crops we harrow in
the wheat anu SOW IuS glass oOOu,
to be followed in February or early
March with the clover seed. When the
grain is harvested we clip the stubble
high, say three or four inches. This
furnishes a mulch for the clover and
grass. In the early winter we top
dress the clover with barnyard ma
nure, and again after the June cut
ting. Under this rotation the potatoes
ana roots appear to prepare the plant
food for the following crop, especial
ly when sown in the fall, as can be
done in no other way. The manure
used for the roots also serves for the
wheat and grass seed, while the sur
face applications of manure to the
clover and grass, together with the
nitrogen provided by the clover crop,
admirably prepare the ground for the
roots and potato crop.
Under this system the farm becomes
more productive year by year, thus in
surfing for the home increasing bless
ings and comforts, for with the de-
velopment of the farm the home like
wise becomes developed.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1905-10-15

Stockmen and stock yard companies
do not realize the value of whitewash
as a preventive of scab and other con-
tagious diseases. If the cars in which
sheep are transported were given
fresh coat of whitewash each time
sheep were put in them there would
be less scab transferred from one
state to another.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1905-10-15
Crop Rotation and The Home.
Oh. l.. Blanchard.)

Generally speaking, farmers as
class occupy their farm as a nome.
The life of farmer to them is that OF
a home maker, rather than that or
money maker. His ultimate aim is 10
secure for himself, wife and family an
independent home with congen1al sur
roundings Incidentally, in doing thls'
they become public Generators IN
many ways. The intrinsic value OF the
farm can be known, while that OF the
farm home cannot. The ordinary farm
then has a double value-its nome
value and it's farm value. So many
things enter into making the ideal
home that it is very difficult, ii not
impossible. to fix a pecuniary value
upon it, while such value upon the
farm is, or ought to be, based upon It's
power to produce the luxuries for the
family and the necessaries demanded
by the public. Such power is IN
creased or diminished proportionately
as the farm is wisely or unwisely con-
Quoted The productive power OF the
farm ought to sustain the home being
established thereon in accordance with
the existing ideals of such home. Thus
the true development OF the home ana
the farm go hand in hand. Whatever
affects the farm and it's development,
likewise affects the home. 1t there
fore follows that any system OF farm
ing that would naturally lead to the
destroying of the power OF the farm
to produce, would destroy the home as
we'll And thus are evolved the aban-
doned farms that we read about.
The farm may be fertile, and yet
it's power to produce can in various
ways become very greatly enfeebled.
The great study then, with the pro-
gressive farmer is how best to make
the lands fertility available to the
growth of the grasses and other plants.
The writer's farming more and more
cOnvinces him that too little attention
is being given by the farmers OF the
northwest to the practice OF crop ro-
tation; that the advantages following a
judicious system of rotation of crops
are quite equal to. that following the
application of barnyard manures; that
under wisely selected rotation one
crop has a tendency to prepare the
plant food of the soil for the crop
that is to follow, quite as well as does
the application of barnyard manure.
But even with the best rotation, we
would not for moment dispense with
the barnyard manure, which we at
all times use quite literally and thus
insure maximum yields. For the farm
err whose supply of barnyard manure
is limited a suitable crop rotation
becomes indispensable.
Under any system OF farming thor
ough drainage is of first importance.
With that secured the farmer, general
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1905-10-15

the gluten in the wheat grown there.
The gluten in California wheat has run
out SO badly that the milling quality
has deteriorated so perceptibly as to
give alarm and this has put the agr1-
cultural department on the run. Inc
fault can be remedied but it Will prop
ably cost little fortune before the de-
sired end has beef attained.
The big poultry show at the Lewis
and Clark exposition was a great sue
cess in every way Never in the his
tory of any fair or poultry show held
in the west has there been such mag
nificent display of birds of all KINDS
as there was at Portland. A large
number of the prizes were captured
bv Washington breeders. The Ranch
goes to press too early to give list
of them, but will speak OF the snow
and it's birds further in future issue.
There is much to learn from this ex-
hibl, and we want our readers to get
as much benefit out of it as posi-
BILE.
There is very general interest being
taken in the series of articles that Mr..
Walden is writing in The Ranch, under
the title of Orchard Problems" the
third installment appears in this issue.
Mr.. Walden has been spending the
summer in Portland, being in charge
of the Yakima county exhibit at the
Washington building. Naturally sur
roundings have not been very conduc-
i've to the preparation of much matter
for so important a subject, but here
after Mr.. Walden will have the quiet OF
his own fireside in which to write, and
our readers may look for some hlgnly
instructive productions. The copies
that contain previous installments VIII
soon be exhausted, and when that oc-
ours back numbers will not be avail
able.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1905-10-15

aid, it is no reason why individual
communities should not take up the
work and push the horticultural work
in their immediate vicinities.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1905-10-15

The American Breeders Association
has just issued Volume 1 of the pro-
ceedings of it's annual meetings, in
Guiding reports of the first two meet
ings, 1903 and 1905. This association
is composed of the breeders of plants
and animals throughout the country,
and it's scope is broad one. Its OBJ
ject is to add wealth to the breeders
and value to their stock of both plants
and animals. The president is Hon.
James Wilson, Secretary of Agricul
ture, and the secretary, his assistant,
Prof. w. H. Hays. Other officers are
men prominent in agricultural work
throughout the United States and Can
ada The first volume of their reports
is meaty one, containing some eX-
ceptionally valuable information for
every man interested in the improve
ment of plants and animals.
The Provincial Government of On
tario has adopted a policy for the
betterment of local horticultural soci-
cites which, if adopted in this country
would work inestimable good for our
horticultural interests. Under certain
conditions maximum sum of $3.50 is
given by the government for the pur-
pose of supporting and pushing the
work in which the society is interest
ed. Then the society distributes an
nually to it's members choice of some
new and promising plants or of worthy
old and little known ones. Another in
teresting thing to note is that indi-
vidual members offer prizes for the
accomplishment of certain Objects
such as the improvement of certain
school grounds, increasing the interest
of children in school garden work, eX-
hibiting some special type of plant,
etc. Although very few organizations
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1905-10-15

II. F. Blanchard, an expert in the de-
partment of agriculture and son of our
poultry editor, was recently sent to
California, as mentioned in these col
umns. His instructions were to con-
duct experiments designed to increase
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1905-10-15

Address communications to Tne hanch'
ave Colman Bldg, Seattle, Wash
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1905-10-15

The Big Bend country THIS year Iaie.
ed a record crop of wheat ana oInel
grains, and the farmers are ieeline
iubilant thereat. They are keeping the
threshers pretty busy too.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1905-10-15

ed q record CTOp VI WhO"o -
grains, and the farmers are Ieeiins
iibilant thereat They are Keeping INC
threshers pretty busy, too.
The season for the northwestern
fairs is drawing to close. fron aii
that have been held have come reports
couched in the most encouraging terms.
This is ample evidence of the prosper
ity that pervades the entire northwest
It is very gratifying to the publish
ers TO note the large number OF new
subscribers who are ordering Inc
Ranch. They are coming from every
corner of the great northwest and
swelling the subscription list to big
proportions. Advertisers who have not
vet placed their orders for space In
these columns should hurry up.
The Lewis and Clark Centennial Tx
position will have passed into history
when this paper reaches its readers:
It has been a brilliant exposition and
will do much to show the great north
west in it's true light before the people
of the east. The attendance at the big
fair was a record breaker, in COM
portionately larger expositions From
all accounts 1t is evident the EXPOSE
ton management has been making
money with the enterprise.
Railroad rumors are so persistent In
this state that there must be some
g truth in the claim we will shortly have
another transcontinental line. 1t is
claimed the Chicago, Milwaukee & ST.
Paul is coming to the coast, the report
being confirmed to an extent by one OF
the western representatives, and the
line between Bellingham and Spokane
is very much in the public eye these
days. Either or both these lines will
be a reality some day, to the great
benefit of a large section of country.
New subscriptions and renewals to
The Ranch have been coming in so
fast during the past few weeks that
the Office force has been quite unable
to add them to the mailing list as fast
as they would like. The publisher asks
the kind indulgence of the readers ii
it happens that the label on your paper
does not have the date changed as
early as you expect, or that new sub
scribers are not served with their first
copy promptly. We are working hard
to catch up, and will soon have matters
in such shape that any number of
names can be taken care of expedit-
iously.
II. f. Blanchard, an expert in the de-
partment of agriculture and son of our
poultry editor, was recently sent to
California, as mentioned in these col
umns. His instructions were to con-
duct experiments designed to increase
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1905-10-15

The season for the northwestern
fairs is drawing to a close. From all
that have been held have come reports
couched in the most encouraging terms.
This is ample evidence of the prosper
ity that pervades the entire northwest.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1905-12-30

.I0h Wnpk of all kinds done
uUU uUlA at The News office.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1905-12-30
Notice to Taxpayers.

Taxes viii be due and payable with
out penalty from October Is to De-
cember 81. 1905.
The tax levy for State ia
o1a mills, for ordinary county purpos-
es AZ mills, special county PURPOSES
(L. " &. X, X. bOnds) 2 mills. consti-
tutional tax for school 2
mills, making a total levy of is mills
on all taxable property of the count
In school Districts Nos. 5, 80. 80 and
40. there is a special levy of 2 mills
additional for school purposes: i'm
District No. "a, 3 mills; Districts Nos.
II, II and 80, 4 mills; District No. 2 3
. mills; No. II, 6 mills, and No, 40
Z mills. In Cane Creek Township
there is a special local levy of 41 mills
TOT railroad purposes; ellis Creek, s
mills, and Pleasant Hill, 3 mills.
There is also a tax of one dollar IN
each male citizen between the ages of
twenty-one and sixty years, except
eX-ContederaUe soldiers and sailors.
or those who are so disabled that they
cannot earn a support by mammal
labor. j. r., RJACKMOM
treasurer Lancaster County.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1905-12-30

corn exactly at the right time,
so much so that it did not suffer
an hour for rain from the time
1t was up until it was fully ma.
tured. The yield of corn aver.
aged a fraction over SO bushels
per acre on 15C acres that |
worked with contract labor, but
L had Is acres more worked bv
share troopers that did not do
nearly SO well, it being a we'll.
known fact that negroes cannot
grow corn successfully. l will
make more net profit per acre
this year on corn than | will on
l2-cent cotton. [ have p~ut!away
plenty of corr to supply a TWEEN.
ty-horse farm another year, and
raise my own meat, and have
tour thousand (4,0OO) bushels
of corn and forty thousand 40.
OOO) pounds Of good, sound fod.
der for sale.