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The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-10-18

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Building Roads in Illinois.

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Building good roads all over the
West is more general now than ever
before. The Drovers. Journal, in re-
ferr1ng to this work in Illinois, says:
AS a means of educating the peo-t
pie to the advantages of good roads
and OF the ways and methods to pro-
duce them the State highways COM
mission of Illinois is pushing as rap
idly as possible the construction of q
number of experimental roads in var
ious sections of the State.
One stretch Of road has been COM
pleted at Salem. Ill. This road is
just outside the limits or the city OF
Salem. The highway commissioners
of Salem township applied for bro
ken stone, which was furnished them.
and apiece of road built by the local
commissioners; owing to the lack or
proper methods the road thus laid
was poorly made. The State high
way commission completed about o.
200 feet of the work with the aid or
a steam roller and modern methods
of construction, making as smooth
and fine appearing a piece of road
as can be found anywhere.
The width of the macadam is
about fourteen feet and put on eight
inches deep; part of the work was
resurfacing the road laid by the local
commissioners, at the end of which
was about 500 feet of newly con-
structed road. The exact cost Of
this work cannot be as~certained ow-
ing to the lack Of records on the
work done prior to that under charge.
of the State highway commission.
The estimated cost of this work per
mile, including grading and shaping
the subgrade, hauling the stone a
distance of about a mile and a quar-
ter, spreading and rolling, is about
$500. The material was furnished
free by the State from the State
rock crusher at the Southern Illinois
penitentiary at Menard. The freight
on the stone over the Illinois South
ern railroad was paid in ballast.
The contrast between the portion
of road built with the steam roller
and that upon which the roller was
not used furnishes a most striking
illustration Of the importance of
proper equipment and technical ex-
perience in highway construction.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-10-18

1t is a severe commentary on the
state of civilization of this republic
that no first-class wagon or carriage
road has as yet been built between
Washington, the capital, and the
nearest large city, Baltimore. Such
a road is about to be built, and 1t
will be constructed by the State of
Maryland. The impulse to perform
this belated service has sprung from
the good roads movement, which
owes much of its vitality to the auto
mobilists. Under the influence of
this movement, the vicinity of the ma
tional capital of the United States
may within a dozen years or so be as
we'll equipped with roads as Dalmatia
or the mountainous districts of Wales
now are. \
In order not to leave the active
work of stimulating the construction
of good roads entirely to the motor
lists, the Government is going into 1t
in some degree in connection with
the rural free mail delivery. State
highway officials have been addressed
on the subject of road improvement
by the United States Department Of
Agriculture and the Postofice De-
partment, and the construction Of
roads is discreetly stimulated along
the line of more rapid nail delivery.
It is to be hoped that the farmers
will see the point of this argument.
They certainly ought to. 1t takes
less than one-half the time, and
probably costs less than one-half the
money, to deliver the mail over a
| good road than over a bad. If the
roads throughout the country were
as good as they are in some parts of
this State and of Massachusetts and
Connecticut, the free delivery could
be extended everywhere, for the car
riers would be able to owe so much
more ground that the cost Of the SER
vice would be greatly reduced. The
people of the United States never
| paid higher for any other eXtrava-
| gance than for it's Indifference to the
matter Of good highways. - New
York Mail.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-10-18
Value of Cow.

In undertaking to place an eSti-
mate on the value of a COW the exact
amount of milk and butter fat pro-
duced should be determined.
Most people when estimating the
value OF a cow will be largely in
fluenced by the statements made by
the owner of the number OF gallons
of milk. she Will produce. This in
formation is usually very misleading,
as most persons do not take into con-
sideration the foam in milk, and
again. the party wishing to sell a
cow will sometimes e~xaggerate as to
her production as we'll.
The milk from a cow, as usually
measured, should not be given n
consideration. but to know the exact
amount of milk a COW gives 1t should
be weighed with an accurate scale;
foam adds nothing to the weight OF
milk. When the milk from a cow is
weighed morning and evening, then
her daily production can be esti-
mated, but it is better to know the
weight of milk produced for a num-
Der of consecutive milkings and to
take an average of these for deter
mining her daily production
After determining the amount Of
milk produced per day in pounds and
ounces, then n should know the av-
erage butter fat contained therein.
This can be determined by taking a
sample from each milking, and from
about five consecutive milkings, put
ting these samples together and de-
termining the per cent. of butter fat
in this composite sample. This will
be an average per cent of fat for the
time during which the samples were
taken. From the average daily pro-
duction of milk and the average per
cent. of fat the average amount of fat
produced daily a be ascertained.
AS six pounds of butter fat thus de-
termined will make about sever
pounds of butter, the value Of the
milk for butter-making purposes can
be determined. AS butter fat is the
foundation of cream, the value of the
milk put into cream AN be estimated.
While this method does not give any
idea of the amount of milk and but
Ter fat a cow will produce during her
milking period, it does show how
much she is producing in butter or
cream for the time being.
No dairyman should be without
this record of each one of his COWS at
n time. 1t will enable him to know
when a cow is not producing an
amount which justifies her keep, and
she can then be replaced with a bet
ter COW. Where records are kept as
has been suggested at the end Of the
milking period the amount of milk
and the amount of butter fat from
each COW can be estimated and her
value for that period pretty closely
determined.-Wm. D. Saunders.
Dairyman Virginia Agricultural Ex-
pertinent Station, BlacksbUrg.
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About Nitrate Of Soda.

As you are probably aware, nitrate
of soda supplies only one constituent
OF plant-food to the soil and that one
is nitrogen or ammonia If it is per-
si5tently used on the same land 1t
will, by stimulating increased growth,
cause the supply Of phosphorie acid
and potash in the soil to be more
heavily drawn upon, than II only
small or moderate yields yer pro-
duced; hence it might be found such
circumstances that the yields on a
soil thus treated would materially de-
cline. 1t might be found, too, that
under such treatment, unless the
store of vegetable m~atter4of the soil
were kept up, that the mechanical
condition of the soil would probably
become worse, especially if the soil
were fine grained, and would be no
ticed by the soil running together
and tending to work hard after each
rain. 1t is not believed, however,
that nitrate of soda used properly,
and in reasonable quantities per acre
would injure land. Neither do we
think it would be at all necessary to
materially increase the application
per year, unless the yield be much In
creased. To secure the best results
from the use of nitrate of soda, it
will usually be necessary to use with
fertilizing materials containing phos-
phoric acid and potash and in some
cases lime. The amount and proper
ton of these constituents will de-
pend upon the crop to be grown and
the soil in which it is to be planted.
The normal plant-food supply of a
soil is being kept up when as much
is added to /. in the fertilizer or fer
tilizing material as is removed by
the growing crop and by teaching
c.. B. Williams, North Carolina De-
partment of Agriculture, Raleigh.
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NO DAWDLING
A Man Of 20 After Finding Coffee
Hurt Him, Stopped Short.

When a man has lived to be 20
years old with a 40-year-old habit
grown to him like a knot on a tree,
chances are he'll stick to the habit
till he dies.
But occasionally the spirit of youth
and determination remains in some
men to the last day of their lives.
When such men do find any habit of
life has been doing them harm, they
surprise the Oslerites by a degree of
will power that is supposed to belong
to men under 40, only.
81 had been a user of coffee until
three years ago-a period of 40 years
and am now TO-" writes a N. Oak.
man. 81 was extremely nervous and
d~ebilitated, and saw plainly that /
must make q change.
IT am thankful to say I had the
nerve to quit coffee at once and take
on Postum without any dawdling,
and experienced no i'll effects. On the
my nervousness within two months,
also gaining strength and health
otherwise.
For q man OF my age, / am very
well and hearty. / sometimes meet
persons who have not made their
Postum right and don't like it. But
I tell them to boil it long enough,
and call their attention to my looks
now. and before / used it, that seems
convincing.
Now, when I have writing to do,
or long columns OF figures to cast up
I feel equal to it and can get through
my work without the tagged out feel
ing of DID," Name given by the Pos,
tum Co.. Battle Creek, Mich. Read
the book, "The Road to Wellyiiie,
! in pkgs. There's a reason"
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-10-18

, with q greenish louse and the trees
are dying. We are bothered with
these insects every yea and want
to know what they are and how to
destroy them. ]. q. j.. H~artselle,
Ala. 41ie4rlt,< n1g
Answer.-During the spring and
early summer, one often finds the
leaves and tender twigs of apple COW
cred with small green lice or aphides.
These are the Apple Aphis. They in
jure the trees by sucking the sap
through their tiny beaks. So far as
we know it, the life history of these
insects * follows: The lice hatch
from eggs in spring as soon as the
leaf buds begin to expand, and in
rease with marvellous rapidity, SO
that almost as fast as the leaves de-
velop there r colonies of the plant
lice to occupy them They continue
breeding on apple until July, when
they largely leave the trees, and mi
grate-we know not where, but prob-
ably to some annual plant that is sueA
eulent in midsummer. Here, appar-
emily, they continue breeding until
autumn. when they return to- apple,
and the winged females may he found
establishing colonies of the wingless
~egg-laying form upon the leaves. The
males r apparently developed on
the same plant that the winged fe-
males are The'small, oval eggs are
now laid on the twigs and buds, and
the cycle for the year is complete.
Remedies.-These lice have varr
Gus natural enemies that destroy
them-especially the lady-bird bee
tles-but it is often necessary to
spray infested trees with kerosene
emulsion. or a strong tobacco decoc-
ton to get rid Of them. The latter
may be made by soaking refuse to-
bacco stems in hot water, and then
draining the liquid on--The South
ern Fruit Grower.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-10-18
Active in Road Improvement.

Autoists from all parts of the Key
stone State have learned with inter-
est that the York (Pa.) Automobile
Club is taking an active baud in the
good roads problem. and is doing all
in its power to have the thorough
fares improved. This latest real work
has been started on the famous Get
tysburg pike, which runs from York
to Gettysburg, twenty-eight miles
distant. This pike is travelled by
thousands of autoists every summer
and the improvements are badly
needed at certain places. 1t is the
direct run between New York and
the National battlefield, and hundreds
of the metropolitan tourists use it
annually. The pike between York
and Wrightsville, east to the Susque-
hanna River, is also receiving its
share Of improvements. This is part
of the same thoroughfare which goes
through to Philadelphia.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-10-18
Mixed and Unmixed Fertilizers.

Farmers should now be planning
for their small grain crop. Will it
be better to buy mixed or unmixed
fertilizer. The syndicate controlling
commercial fertilizers and the prices
will not sell by the carload to farm
ers. All has to be bought through
agents. If the farmers should COM
bine in an effort to secure goods at
first hands, they could do it. The one
who wants a few sacks has to buy at
retail. Let. the farmer buy fourteen
per cent. acid phosphate and muriate
{. potash of kainit, and do his own
mixing. On a good floor, or a hard
place in the lot, a hand with a shovel
"a mix a ton thoroughly in two
hours.
1000 pounds of acid phosphate; +
200 pounds of muriate of potash.
That will give 12.75-4.50. That
is a high grade.
If ammonia is desired, make it
this way:
1000 pounds acid phosate;
200 pounds of muriate of potash:
1000 pounds ~cottenseed meal.
That would give a fertilizer an
alyzing 9-3-2 r.. That is first
class for wheat or oats, and will not
cost more than $40 a ton. The
agents would charge about $24.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-10-18
The Berry Crop.

If you live near a city, nothing Is
so profitable as a berry crop. Ii you
live away from a market, nothing is
nicer for your w table. We cannot
understand how our farmers can do
without strawberries, and raspberries.
The blackberry also deserves consid-
Grafton everywhere, except where
wild ones are plentiful and near at
hand. 1t is time to begin to prepare
for your patch of a row or two, or an
acre of two, according to your means.
You ladies who want some pin money
of your own, and have little children
to help, gather them. If you cannot
do this have a little berry patch. We
always think strawberries the best
fruit that grows, until raspberries
come in, and then we think they are
the best. Both are worthy a place in
every garden in our South. They al
ways help out a supper and round out
a dinner; and we eve object to
them for breakfast. No one has ever
been able to reach the maximum
yield of our berry crop of either va
riety. Wonderful yields have been
made. We saw a blackberry bush at
our near neighbours hat yielded ten
quarts and brought him in the hand
some return of $1.0O. Putting the
plants at -four by six feet, this would
give US 1885 plants per acre, and a
revenue of $1185.00 per acre. No
one car say this is an impossibility,
since one bush has made the proper
tionate yield. This amount of straw
berries has been made. AS to rasp-
berries we are not so we'll informed,
but as they sell at double the price of
either of the other berries, we cannot
e why a like return can not be OBJ
tanned. There is a good living for
the small farmer who will take wife
and children into co-partnership and
get down to business and learn how
to grow the many things our market
now demands. Don't let's talk cotton
until We know of nothing else; but
let US give our garden crops due con-
s%ideration, and don't forget the berry.
Southern Cultivator.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-10-18

Tie preacher who is faithful to Il,
Master viii not have 70 worry. aboat
his people being faithful TO him.
1t IS better to waste o little tins.
mending tire children 5 TOYS nov thar
TO shed many tears over them by-snd.
by.
Nothing damages the son!d NOR.
than the enjoyment of . great sermon
without Unemployment Of It's mo-
tiyes In sope service.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-10-18
Pointed Paragraphs.

You cannot elect Heaven while you
reject holiness.
Every girl makes at least one mis-
take on her wedding day-and that
is when she thinks her girl acquaint-
ances envy her.
Love enables a man to reach the
limit of either happiness or misery.
Trying to induce some people to
be thankful is a thankless task.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-10-18
News Items.

The campaign on the liquor ques-
ton at Suffork closed, and the election
will be held.
The annual convention of the Unit
ed Irish League of America opened in
Philadelphia.
Judge Alton B. Parker issued a
statement declaring several charges
made against him by William r.
Hearst as absolutely false.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-10-18
Could Eat, But Not See.

"A farmer who went to a large city
to see the sights engaged a room at
a hotel, and before retiring asked
the clerk about the hours for dining.
1--WE have breakfast from 6 to IL,
dinner from IL to 3, and supper
from 8 to g." explained the clerk.
"Wa-al, say" inquired the farmer.
surprise, what time air I goin'
ter git ter see the town?"-LadieS'
Home Journal.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-10-18

Mems Shoes. so TO- 500 5SZE snoes' ~
Misses 6 Childrenns Shoes. $2.25 to $1.OO.
Try w. l.. ouglae W~01aen's. Misses an"
Children'ss Shoes for style, At n wear
they excel ether makes.
If l could take you into my large
factories at BrOckton, Mass. and show
you how carefully WI Douglas shoes
are made, you would then understand
why they hold their shape, fit better
wear longer, and are Of greater Valus
than any other make.
Wherever you live, yo0 can obtain w. =
Douglas shoes. His name and price Is stampeS
prices and inferior shoes. Take no SaeStts
fute. Ask your dealer for W. l.. Douglas SHOES
and insist upon having them.
Fast Color Eyelets used; they wiH not VeGr OrdSst
Write for Illustrated cata1oI of Fail Styles.
w. l. DOUGLAS, Dept. IS, BrOckton, Mass
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-10-18

If it makes you miserable to see
others happy, you had better take
your heart to the Lord and get 1t
fixed.
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oBLLGING.

OBLIGING.
Are you the applicant for the pO-
/: xitfou Of butler?"
Lam sir"
--What are your quaancatfons A4
butJer?"
Il was bartender, for two years.
sir.
s~But 1 don't drink. I'm on the
water wagon"
well, sir; before that 1 drove a
watering-cart all one summer."-fon
kers Statesman.
THE USUAL VARIETY.
Jaggles-Is his fyfng-machlne
success?
Waggles-Half-way so. 1t Always
comes down f1ying.-Puck.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-10-18

A great deal of energy IS wasted
worrying over the criticism of the BIZ
bic that would work wonders If ap-
piled toa the practice Of the Bible.
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SURE Of THAT

: Mether-How often have I told you
net 70 allow tina. young man to kiss
yOays
Mabel don't know. ma, but GER
ttaIniy not rs often rs he has kissed
Me.-Philadelphia Ledger.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-10-18
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The Greenland whale often lives
400 years
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PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD CO
General Offices, Brevard, North
Carolina.
WINTER

WINTER SCdEUUIE
Effective Monday, October s, 1905.
No. 8 Eastern Standard Time No. Z
Daily STATIONS Daily
q. M. P. NJ.
1925 Lv S. Ry. Asheville S. BY 1918
$50 So. Ry. Biltmore So. Ry 1910
Hender-
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Southern Railway Trains

Southern Railway Trains
Effective Monday, Oct. 8, 1905.
Trains on the Southern Railway
leave H~endersonville as follows:
No. IA. No. 10
East Bound East Bound
Vest Bound West Bound
$40 A. M. 5:15 p. M.
No. 8. No. 13
West Bound West Bound
l2;50 P. n. 1852. N.
Connects at Lake Toxaway with
Turnpike Line to the Resorts Of the
Sapphire Country and Highlands-at
Hendersonville with Southern Rail.
say for all Points North and South.
T. S. BOSWELL,
Superintendent
J. q. HAYS,
Genera1 Manager
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The Apple Aphis.
My apple trees are badly affecte
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0-9O LAKE wv
Flag Station.
Parlor Car daily between Lake To1.
away and Asheville.
, 1906-03-21
THE PENNSYLVANIA DELEGATION
LOSES A REPRESENTATIVE
FROM TWELFTH DIS
TRlcT OF STATE.
George Robert Patterson Victim of
Heart Disease at His Home at
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. the Largest
Plurality at Last Election Ever
Given Any Candidate for Any Po-
sition in That District.

Washington, March 21.-Congress-
mar George R. Patterson of Pennsyl-
vania died today of heart disease. Mr..
Patterson was born at Lewiston, Pa,
November 9, 1863, and was a merchant
by occupation, some of the time being
employed as a travelling salesman. Mr..
Patterson had always been a republi-
can, taking an active part in the poll
tics Of the Twelfth Pennsylvania dis
trict for a number of years. He was
a frequent delegate to local and state
conventions, n was a delegate to the
republican national convention at Chi
cago in June, 1904. He was elected to
the f~fty-seventh and fifty-eighth con
crosses and was reelected to the fifty
ninth, receiving 17,419 votes to 1905
for H. o. Haag, democrat, the largest
plurality eve given to any candidate
for any Office on any ticket in the dis
, 1906-03-21
John D. Has INDIGESTION.

Lakewood, N. j., March 21.-John
D. Rockefeller is ill at his country
place here, but his illness is indiges-
ton, from which he has suffered for
years, and he is in better condition
than usual. His most serious Attic
ton at present is the curiosity of those
who seek to penetrate his seclusion
and the stories of extraordinary Wig.
lance used in guarding his place
against intrusion. These statements
are made on the best authority.
Mr.. Rockefeller is so much annoyed
by the attempted invasion of his pri
vacy here and the slight protection he
has had outside his own employees that
he has decided to leave Lakewood
soon, never to return. He will lease
or sell his place here. This statement
also is made on entirely responsible
authority.
, 1906-03-21
CODY NEWSPAPER MAN
WISHING The GEM CITY.

John Hook Of Cody, a brother of j.
w. Hook, editor of the Cody Enterprise,
and one of the owners OF that publica-
ton, is in the city and was a caller at
this Office during the forenoon with
Hon. H. d. Beemer, al old friend. Mr..
Hook is a cartoonist of some note and
has created a good deal of interest by
some of his timely cartoons in his own
paper m other papers in the northern
part Of the state. He was formerly a
travelling salesman, but has given up
that calling for newspaper work. He
is, however, at the present time doing
a little drumming" for the concern
with which he was formerly engaged
while travelling about this and sur
round states looking after the interests
of the Enterprise. MIR. Hook is very
enthusiastic vel the future of Cody
and the railroad outlook for his town.