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The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-03

railroa4 cars the mines of his company are able to operate just one-third of the time. This, he says, Is very ex- pensive Other large independent coal companies are complaining of the car. situation and say that the loss of time because the product cannot be handled from the mines Is knocking the spots out of the profits of mining altogether, There is demand for every ton of coal that can be mined in Alabama.
 Recently high officials of the Southern Railway were in the district looking over the situation to see what could De done to give some relief and 1t was announced that schedules of trains would be arranged so that the trains would be lighter and thereby the cars could be used two and three times while at present they ars beiag used but once and then stalling on the road at that. An investigation shows that the Southern Railway has something like 1,200 cars tied up in shops under- going repairs in this district.
 The Gates Interview.
 The interview given out a few days ago in which John w. Gates stated that the Birmingham district was one of the greatest in the world and that it's greatness was being developed now, Is causing much favorable comment and is attracting much attention to this section. The, prediction made by Mir. Gates that in twenty years from now there would be a population of 1.00o, ,000 people in Birmingham is startling, but Mir. Gates backs up his estimates with considerable facts and the predictions do not look so bad after all
 He says that the ore and coal valu~ ations in the Birmingham district can hardly be estimated and that Pittsburg in time will be overcome and over shadowed. Nothing of more value to the district has come out in the recent past or even in the last ten years which will do the Birmingham district more good than will the Gates interview.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-03
sOutAern cestoe Company.

Farm ana E1oraA WOrlds
 A majority of the committee ap- pointed by the Southern Cotton Asso- citation to devise a plan for takipg weak cotton off the market and hold ing 1t for definite demand by thS mills, report the following for consideration by the association:
 | The object purpose and business of this corporatio9f Shan be the pur-- chasing. selling .ahd warehousing of
 3. The aNfthorized capital stock of this eofporation shall be one hundred Gafflion dollars, and it shall be author fixed to begin business when ten million dollars of its capital stock shall have been subscribed and paid in. The shares of stock shall be or the par val- ue of $5 each. and shall be paid for either in cash or in cotton at the min- imum price fixed by the board of direc- ! tors.
 8. The company shall devote It's en. ! tire capital to the purchase of cottor at the minimum price fixed by the board of directors. and shall purchase all cotton offered for sale at said price without regard to what may be con sidered the market price, excepting such part of its capital as its board of directors may deem wise to invest | in the construction, purchase. or leas- ing of warehouses, and in defraying the expenses of the business of the com pany.
 (. The company is authorized to bor- row money on such terms as it's board of directors may deem wise and au- thorize and to pledge its cotton and other assets as security for such loans and to purchase cotton at said mini. mum price with the money so bor' | rowed.
 B. The company shan sell all of itt ! cotton, or any part thereof. whenever and as fast as 1t may bc. able to obtain
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-03
Hnmns nnd I.ont FertilItv.

The following is a summary of the relations of humus to soil fertility, as given in The United States Yearbook of Agriculture:
 1. The decline in the crop productive power of many soils is due to loss of the partly decomposed animal and veg etable matter known as humus
 ?. The humus Of the soil is de- creased by the continuous cultivation of grain, cotton, potatoes or any crop with which the land is kept constantly under the blow without addition of any humus forming materials
 ,. The loss of humus involves loss of the nitrogen, which Is one of the elements composing humus. The loss of nitrogen from the soil Is not always due simply to the nitrogen removed by the crop. but Is frequently caused by waste of the humus by improper methods and systems or cultivation.
 4. The humus of the soil is increased by the use of well prepared farm ma nure, and by a systematic rotation or crops in which grasses, or preferably clover, form an important part
 ,. The loss of humus from the soil results in decreasing It's power of storing up and properly supplying crops with water. Soils with a liberal amount of humus are capable of more effectually withstanding drought than
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-03
Feed Hay an the Farm.

L Professor Thomas Shaw in Rural Voice
 Of course the question as to whether hay shall be fed to live stock on the farm or sold, must be determined by the conditions These are such as touch the relative market value of hay and meat, the needs of the dive stock on the farm, and It's conditions as to fer tility There are instances when 1t is justifiable and commendable to sell hay. The revenue of some farms runs in great part or entirely from the sale of hay, and this is not incompatible with the maintenance of fertility Everything depends upon the way in which the work Is done.
 It is difficult under any American conditions to get more than $10 to $11 a ton for hay. however 1t may be fed On the other hand, the conditions are seldom or ever present when the grow CT can afford to deliver hay in the market at much less than $7 or $s a ton. An exception is found in alfalfa areas in the western mountain valleys where hay is sold at $3 to $4 ton in the stack. to men who graze cattle on the adjacent ranges.
 Thus much is clear, 1t never pays the farmer to let his stock go backward for the sake of selling hay at high price Tho policy is also mistaken which sells hay from farm much in need of fer tility unless the price is such that fl will justify selling the hay and buy ing the needed fertility in the form of commercial fertilizers.
 When hay is fed to live stock, the resultant product in meat, wool, milk or labor, is only part of the farm er's return. He has also the fertility obtained from feeding it. It is com mon to estimate that the fertility off sets the cost of labor from feeding the hay. Usually it is worth much more than such labor
 It should be observed also that hay composed of Iegumes is usually much more valuable for feeding than non- leguminous hay, and the resultant fer tility is also much greater. On the other hand non-Ieguminous hay. as timothy and red top, is most in demand in the markets and brings the highest price. If, therefore, hay is to be sold from the farm. let 1t be hay that is non -leguminous in character Such hay ships much better than the other, sincc 1t breaks less while being handled. For some kinds of hay there is virtual ly no market off the farm, and proba- bly, it is we'll that it is so, as they can be utilized so well on the farm. Such are sorghum and Kafir corn hay.
 Uusually 1t pays better to feed hay on the farm than to sell it. Where it does the farmer should aim so to stock his farm that the animals on the same will consume it all The great truth that should ever be remembered, is that the relation between abundant stock keeping and high values of land and profits from 1t, is of the closest possible kind.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-03
Corn nnd seed Corn.


 Farm and Ranch.
 An Ignorant farmer rarely carries a distinct Idea through more than one season of what his seed corn should be- This year the ignorant man VIII plant a gourd seed, to be followed next season by a rush to Kansas Early Flint and then the next looks for help to Mex ican June. He has no constant opin- ions on the corn he needs for his own soil. his rainfall and his peculiar sys- tenn of culture. The more intelligent the grower Is the better opportunity there is for him to observe and reason on this subject of the nature of diff ferent types of corn.
 Cur American corn crop Of lSO6 is esti- mated at 2,7OO, 1000, 900 bushels-the larg- est in history. It Is our most valuable crop. If this corn were shucked and thrown in piles 1t would make not only a pile as high and as broad as the py- ramid of Cheops but seventy-six or them. Put the corn into cars It would take S9, 900 trains of thirty loaded cars to carry Uncle Sam's crop to market"
 The largest yields per acre and the greatest acreages of corn are round in Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska Scientists have a theory that the ideal corn States are those having about sixteen inches of rain from May to August. inclusive, the growing months, where the average temperature for this period is between seventy and eighty degrees. This view is based on the weather as 1t is found in the corn States;~ yet the largest yield of corn per acre reliably reported, was in one of the Carolinas. So we are inclined to think thar much depends on the kind of corn planted as to the extremes of temperature that 1t will stand and yet yield It's maximum crop. The Illinois, Iowa and Kansas corn dis tricts have settled on what they call standard of perfection for corn. These standards cover every feature of an ear and its grain-shape of ear rows of kernels butt of ear, tip of ear, ma turity, kernel, shank and cob. They think they know just what a variety of corn should be In all of these re- spects for their section.
 The corn growers of the "corn States" demand that every ear of dent seed corn show from eighty-four to can not be had unless the tips and butts are we'll filled, the kernels long and fit closely together. Extreme Southern types of corn, such as shoe peg Mosby and Welborn's Conscience often show more than the required ker- mel percentage mentioned. But in Tex as. where climate and soil conditions are so varied, can we fix on any single kernel percentage as the right and proper thing? We can not at this time Seed corn growers of the Southwest need to study this point more care fully in our Judgment before announc- ing a complete and final standard.
 On many points" all sections may agree. These are "cylindrlcal ears"- ears that taper very little from butt to tip; "trueness of type"-uniform col or, shape, etc.. also butt and tip fea- lures. But In matters of proportion. size of grain, of cob of stalk and all ! Al -T..A Southwest need to put on our thinking caps and to begin to compare notes A we'll bred corn, fitted by selection to definite rainfall conditions, will yield full five, or even ten. bushels more per acre than will scrub seed corn.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-03

fection. Tn the publications both of the
 Illinois Station and the Bureau of Plant Industry the authors recommend cut
 ting out the eankers and thorougn
 spraying of the trees with Bordeaux
 mixture. but Atwood advises caution Tn
 pruning. unless 1t can be done without
 material Injury to the tree
 Marked dffference in susceptibility
 of varieties to bitter rot have been
 noted. While no list can be given that
 will apply to all reg5ons, yet In gen.
 eral the Yellow Newton or Albermarie
 Pippin. Rhode Island, Willow. Hunts-
 man. Northern Spy. Ben Davis, York
 Imperial, Grimes and Winesap are suD-
 ject to the disease almost in the order of enumeration, the Yellow Newton
 seeming to be most liable to serious
 loss. s4
 Certain conditions of weather influ-
 ence the spread of the disease. It Is favored by q hot. moist temperature
 the fungus being very dependent upon the combination of high temperature and moisture for it's development. Dur ing cool. dry summers little of the dis ease may be expected, and an outbreak may be checked Tn the mean temper ature falls to and remains at or be- low 70 degrees F. for few days.
 w. M Scott, of the Bureau of Plant Industry, of this department, gives an ~N~ the control of the bitter rot on apples
 These experiments were carried on in 1905 on an orchard of Yellow Newtown or Albemarle Pippin trees in Vienna,
 and the conditions that season were so
 favorable for the development of bitter rot. as was shown by the large num-
 Der of decayed fruits on unsprayeo
 trees, that the conclusions are believed to be of general application. The Bor- deaux mixture used in the experiments ts
 was composed of five pounds of cop per su1phate, five pounds of lime and
 fifty gallons or water. It is shown that bitter rot can. be controlled py four applications of Bordeaux mixture If applied at the proper times and in a thorough manner. The first applica- ton should be made about five or six weeks after the trees bloom, followed by others at intervals of about two weeks. By this method the expert- menter was able to save from ninety. three to ninety-eight per cent of sound fruit on the trees. while on ad3oinins trees that were not sprayed, the frult was a total loss. In drv. cool seasons the intervals between the later spray ings may be increased, while in hot moist summers the intervals should be
 shortened and the number oe apptica- tions increased. If for any reason the spraying Is not begun until after the bitter rot has made it's appearance on
 the young fruit. the trees should be given at intervals of only few days two thorough sprayings, tn be followed by applications as described above. By beginning the spraying with the swelling of the buds and following at intervals Of about two weeks untii about eight applications have been given the trees, attacks of apple scah, leaf blotch and sooty mold may be pre- vented.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-03


 warm weather begins in spring. at which time the young plants will make profitable use of the nitrates then formed.
 The Demand for Men Trained in Agri-
 culture.
 Within the past few weeks three of the graduates of the agricultural course of the Alabama Polytechnic In stitute have been appointed to positions at good salaries in the United States Department of Agriculture. Fortunate- ly all of these are assigned to work In Alabama, and at once their special training Is utilized in helping hundreds of Alabama farmers. Within about the same time have received several ap- plications for technically trained farm managers. one of the positions as farm manager paying as much as the salary of college professor, The tendency of those who have large agricultural properties is to turn to the agricultural graduate as being the man best fitted cessfuIly to meet the demands of the new agriculture. that Is far more com plex than the farming operations of our fathers.
 Moneyed men and landed corpora tions are coming more rapidly to ap- preclate the ddVdukak@B oI special ana broad agricultural training than are our young men preparing to enter col- lege. It is the general experience with most agricultural colleges that the de- nand at fair salaries for graduates having some practical experience and good training in agriculture is greater than the supply of eligible men grad uated from the agricultural courses. The young man who has farm expert- eence and who has yet to choose his career, and to go through college in preparation for 1t. should bear this fact in mind. He should also remember that if he tires of salaried position, he can, unlike most young men, begin farming for himself with an equipment in knowledge that others may we'll envy and that should crown his work with highest success.
 As a single instance bearing on the demand in the immediate future for this class of graduates in salaried posi- tions, mention the fact that the State of Georgia has just made approprfa- tions for the support of an agricultural school in every congressional district, each to be presided over by an agricul- turist. Again in a recent educational conference. what most impressed me were the indications of an enormous and rapidly increasing. demand for ag- ricultural graduates to teach agricu1- ture in high schooIs and agricultural schools in alI parts of the United
 ED.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-03

of large amounts of readily soluble ni- trates. However, this vegetabIs matter plowed under in December is in condi- tion for most rapid fermentation when warm weather begins in spring. at which time the young plants will make profitable use of the nitrstes then formed.
The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1906-05-19
he Scrap Book

Nunse-'1 "c'- magazine the Scrap
Boo. Nth its first edition
ny p!in - man 1 Aillion copies. with
al. .ltz long head anu accuracy n
aguring on what ,be public like Nun
zay discovered that he had made .
mistake. He should have printed
more. The edition was exhausted in
three days The name Of Lansay oE
the magazine was enough 10 induce
the public to bny it ana the contents
were Sufficiently attractive, 20 insure
the selling Of the next edition
There are no contributors to tie
magazine, no hish sounding names
CT Hteratue The editor cvlls the
best of the worlds literary work 10
matter how old. or who wrote it. or
where it comes from. 50 long as It IS
good to read. An obscure writer, 40
matter what he writes. cannot gain
entrence into some of the big IGaga-
zines. but if he gets his work nto
the most obscure paper in The Unrted
States and the Scrap Book editor
sees ii, it is sure To appear. republ,sh-
ed in most attractive way and given
to the world The contents are pub
lished on merit and they interest and
del ght every reader. People laughed
cent magazine but the public stood pat
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new one. The Scrap Book, seems TO
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II can be had at Mulcahys
The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1906-05-19
COMSTOCk LODE RELIEF FUND
misleading Statement in Governor
Pardee's Account Explained

A statement over the signature of
Governor fardee appeared in a San
Francisco paper, in which the Com
stock was credited with sending only
Slp0 TO the relief fund This led TO
the Impress ION that a mistake had
been mace in the Governors state
mGnt, whereas it was literally corres.
only Sloe Of the total cash contributed
from the CCmstocll having been sent
TO him direct. which was the amount
contributed by the Mechanics Union
The teal cash contributioa u the
tuna by the Comstock amountcl 70
about $3.50, of which S1,100 "as ex-
pended for cloth.ng and provisions
and Including private contributions
/ Tt- total amount IL coin. prov sicna
and elotEing raised on the lode toE
the relief fund exceeded $1,000, The
Relief flIDd cummitJee wili publish q
statement as soon as ali the coin SUB
scr bed is collected, giving a detailed
! account Of every dollar contributed a.
the fund and the disposition lnatf
/ Of !t.-Chrunic!e.
The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1906-05-19
The W ashoe Lephec'

This is the tile of a piece OF statu-
AIRY exhibited in Farrers window.
1t is woman standing on a fat,
iron trying to hold On her spring hat
and keep her crinoline from a too pro.
nounced arrangement by The wind.
It is claimed that the figure is the
work OF d University student and
Prof. Cohn the famous Nevada Arch
eolog'st claims that the student was
q member of a secret society orga-
nizarion at the University known as
the Smooth Ephes." The notice of
this order is to be smooth and avoid
friction in the daily affairs Of life.
Thus the smoothing iron is printed
as the great seal of the organization
ana the emblem Of the order.
Gov Colcord however says that the
statue originated in New York where
the tall F'latiron building. corner Of
Fifth Ayenue and Broadway catches
All the wind and lifts the ladies skirts
wth an up-cast draft into the air
Whether the Governor knows these
facts as an eye witness or from
hear-say evidence is not stated.
The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1906-05-19
After the Sub-TreasIry

A San Francisco dispatch relates
that an attempt was made by looters
to raid the sub'treasury on Com
mercial street a few nights since and
that some thirty shots We're fired
at the robbers.
During the fire it was reported that
a gang had raided the mint and fifteen
were killed. II was stated later that
nothing of the KIND occurred. The
statement that some hundred and fif-
ty looters had been shot in their
tracks was simmered down to the
killing OF one man.
These stories sent cut from San
Francisco need considerable sitting be
fore they will pass muster.
The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1906-05-19
THE INDIAN RESERVATION
Work of AlIoting Finished and Reports
Will Go to Headquarters

Mr.. w. Casson, who has charge of
the allotment of lands to the Indians
of the Walker Lake Reservation. IS
spending a few days in this city.
For the past year he has been busy
allotmg lands to me Indians in antici-
patton of throwing open the reser-
walton for mineral purposes by the
Government. His work is nearly com
pleted and III speaking OF the opening
OF the reservation he said:
The work cf allotment S practic-
ally finished; that is the indians have
been give their lands, but there is
some detail work to dn'sL, such as
correction OF records, duplicating the
report and filing the same with the
Government. This clerical work VII
be finished early next month, when
the reports viii be in the hands OF
the Washington Officials.
1 am asked repeatedly when the
gCserE alton VII be thrown open. The
answer has been il every case the
same, that the earliest possible time
! VIII be the latter part OF September
or the first Of October This tine
will he necessary owing TO the fact
tat all Of the records VIII have to be
approved by the proper officials and
ne Government does every thing thor
oughiy. The public need not worry
about any one man getting in on the
reservation first as the ground WI be
thrown open by proclamation and ali
VIII have an equal show The few
prospectors who have been camping
near the ground are moving away.
as they can see that it IS to be an
equal thing for all
The ground that j. 10 be given the
public to prospect Is strictly N neral
land. as the Indians have been al
loJ1ed the agricultural and grazing
idJl1S, 81 IL is not 10 &c d nome hiltl-
ing propos zion but strictly mining.
The officials IRON headquarters are
answering enquiries in the same tenor
that l have quoted. chat the ground
will not be ready before the dates
mentioned 1t would keep one man
busy answering letters regaru 'ng. she
matter, as thousands have been lead
to believe that the resery alton is
a mat OF mineral There VIII ua-
questionably be some valuable de-
posts found but it IS not all one vast
mine. The rush OF prospectors will
develope what there is in the dis
trict and be the means of calling
a great deal Of attention 10 v estern
Nevada, which is a good thing for this
section as well as any place where
mineral has been found. The Walker
Lake section will receive wonderful
overturn mg when the ground passes
into the hands OF the army that
threatens TO invade it.
The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1906-05-19
Making Travel Safe

The plock system from Tonka to
Eiko will be ready for use in three
Or four days, and will be turned n
before the end OF the week, The sys-
TEN from Harvey, six miles west Of
Palisade. 10 Tonka was recently put
in operation. When completed the
block system viii extend over the Har-
rinan lines from san Francisco to
ymaha.-FlkQ Free Press.
The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1906-05-19
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