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The Florida agriculturist., 1906-04-04

thick syrup. | had rows in green
cane and the one row of Jap made
more than the other 9 rows
Another good thing about it, il
takes so little to seed an acre
My SOn-in-law had one row less than
an acre long. that made him about
IA gallons. There were as many as 6S
stalks to the hill, and from ) to 9 feet
He had less than half an acre second
years crop, and he made 135 gallons
of syrup as fine as any man ever
tasted; nice and clear; he sold 30 gal
Ions and saved back plenty for family
use and is happy.
1t is also a good stock feed horses.
hogs and cows all like it. | have one
neighbOr that cuts it up on a cutter
and feeds it to his dairy cows. they
eat it readily. and it produces milk
he says.
1t will stand more cold weather
than any other kind. | had some to
stand in the patch in the freeze of the
winter of 1902, and was cut and plant
ed and came up.
| am of the opinion that japanese
cane will grow in Georgia. South Caro-
lima and Alabama, and pay as well
as it does the farmers of Florida: and
will do as it has done here. fill a long
wanted purpose; that of supplying
'lenty of syrup when it can not be had
from other cane.
A few words as to planting and cul-
tivating. Set rows feet wide. cut
cane three joints to the piece and
drop one cutting every three or four
feet i'm the drill. Cover as you would
other cane, and cultivate as for other
cane. 1t is with Jap as every other
cane. the better You treat if the better
the crop 1t responds readily to good
treatme..t. and now when prenaring it
FOR the mill knock off all the long
leaves, don't try to clean it too close,
as that is very hard to do and is of no
"se. When it's put in the kettle to
boil don't hurry it too fast until it is
well skinned. then crowd it to syrup.
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-04-04
A Word to Texas Fruit Growers.

We have as every one knows, been
shipping carloads of fruit from Texas
to Northern and Eastern cities and
not getting enough to pay for the
crates, and of course threw in the
peaches and the expense of gathering,
packing and delivering to car.
Last season it would have been bet
ter for us to have emptied car or
more into the nearest ditch than what
we did with them. But there is a
better way to do than the above or
than what we did last year.
Last season | shipped some of the
finest peaches that the sun ever gave
color to- 1t was more than a month
later when | heard from them, and
the honorable secretary of our asso-
citation promptly passed me the re
turns of 9 5-S cents per six basket
crate, about half the cost of the empty
crate. | canned the balance of the
crop and am selling them at So per
case and can't supply the demand.
My remedy is to cOnsign no more
peaches. l will can my entire crop
this season if l can't get a guaranteed
profit. When blackberres went be
low one dollar per crate i'm Dallas
canned them, and am selling them at
fair gain. My canned goods rank
with the best. 1 use the cold pack
process which 1 have been practicing
seven years. Before starting the can
ming business | went in 1898 to Balti-
more and studied the methods emplov-
ed by the Aughninbaugh factory where
they have a capacity of 10000 cans
per day.
This season | shall be fitted with
a 1000 can capacity outfit, but shall
only can two to five hundred, as | Just
can my surplus, or what cannot be
sold at profit
To those wishing to adopt nv
course, (and the course already of
many others }, allow me to assure you
that the art of canning is very simple
L should be only too willing to give
you the benefit of seven years ex-
perience in placing on the market
some of as fine fruit as ever pleased
the palate of a princess: all Texas
grown and all Texas consumed.
Texas will one day have the wei
merited reputation for hgh-grade can
ned fruits that California now enjoys.
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-04-04

windows, the oxygen of the air is un-
able to do its work When you sleep
in the closed room at night time with
no fresh air admitted. you may do
more harm than an entire days work
in the open may be able to remedy.
The Two Fundamental Laws-And
how often we say we cannot help the
depressed feeling. We are ill., Some
of us excuse our illness by the belief
that we inherited our trouble ana all
ments. Well, that poor old ''heredity'
has been too much abused. Really we
have abused the word too long: but
few of our pains and miseries have
come from heredity. The fact is, that
while we may inherit a predispOsitiOn
to certain diseases, the most of us
really acquire our ill health by failing
to appreciate the Importance of two
things:
(D Fresh air twenty-four hours each
day.
(2) Wholesome food two or three
times daily.
If you will accept this idea, and
make it a rule of your life
never TO sleep in small room that is
closed AMI never to remain in room
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-04-04
$500 More a Year Farming.

! In the twelfth article of the series.
which be has been writing for the
| progressive Farmer Prof Burkett
| fWellS mostly on the importance of
GOOD health to success. and emnhasizes
The fact that prevention is better than
cure.
1t has been clearly and definitely
demonstrated that country life is the
most wholesome. the most heaIthfuI
and most enjoyable of all occupations.
Free omen air in the country, whole
some food. and food material fresh and
nutritious. are all actively at work
furnishing stamina. strength. health.
md individuality for those fortunate
enough TO enjoy these gifts of nature
That living in the country does not
bring these benefits always is due to
lack of apDrecia ton and more or less
consequent disregard of their whole
some influence-lack of aDnreciation
because they are freely given and in
extensively bestowed.
The highest ideals man can have
are those that look to the develonment
Of child intellectually. physically and
morally. No man is wholly develoned
# either of these divisions of his ma
ture is lacking or improperly develop
ed The highest aim of the farmer
should be the efficiency of his family |
IN these three directions. That man
has lived best. most wisely. and most |
completely, who has left as his legacy |
to his family. culture. health and |
character. The more or less fancifuI |
IDEAS. such as fame and power and
wealth are impOtent. childish. and en-
tlrely valueless. if we do not find with
them trained mind. sound BODY.
ana Il strong character Measured i'm
MS manner every farmer may secure
not only dollars and cents for the in
'reaSe we are striving to make this
coming year. but he is able to secure
1fher things that are far more desir-
lDie and important.
DO You Pin Your Faith To Food and
Water or Pills and NoStrums But
Why does country life not bring more
frequently than it does high ideals Of
haracter and finer examples of mental
nd physical development? Why is it I
hat doctors are so much needed in ;
he country? Why is it that so fire.
uently i'll health, inefficiency and dis j
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-04-04
A Good Word for the Japanese
Cane.

Three years ago great problem
confronted us, that of raising sugar
cane for our syrup supply at home. as
we had failed TO make sugarcane on
commercial fertilizer: but luck came
to us-we read an article in some
paper about what one man up in
Baker county, Florida. had done rails
ing Japanese cane, and he had seed to
sell; so our Union took up the sub
Ject and discussed it to some length
ana there and then made up an order
Tor nearly 5000 feet at short order. il
came and was distributed and planted.
and to our surprise we were satisfied
win lt as to growth and yield. and the
quality OF syrup it made. At that time
syrup was scarce, and price high. and
many families without it. Now nearly
every family has a Jap patch and has
plenty of syrup for home use and
some to sell, for which they find
ready sale at from 60 to 20 cents ner
gallon.
Now If L should not worry You or
your readers | would like to tell Won
Wnat we of this neighbOrhOOd have
done raising Jap for syrup: as | have
sald, syrup was scarce and high. now
we have plenty and some to spare. the
reason is this. it will grow to success
where the green ribbon cane or bIue
cane is failure. 1t will make fair
cane on ordinary land. but if treated
as you will have to treat the above
varieties, it will surprise any one TO
see what it will do.
One of my neighbors planted one |
acre on poor blackjack. sand land: put |
1,ooO pounds of commercial fertilizer.
and his cane stands from 80 to 60
10 the hill. and from , to feet tall:
ana 1t will yield him 800 or 400 gallons
Oh syrup that he can sell readily at
80 cents per gallon
L had one row one acre long by side
)f my green cane. that | ground seDa-
'ately to see. and it made 60 gallons of
iilce, and made ten gallons of good
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-04-04

ease become prevalent in rura
districts?
Is it not because we are not suffi
ciently mindful of our food, our drink
and the simple laws of health ant
sanitation? Not that the city is less
frequently visited by ills that come t.
the country home: but from the very
fact that city living is more artificial
and more affected by its environments
illness more frequently comes.
The old prOverb that runs ''tell me
what a man eats. and I will tell yOu
what he is" is too true to be trivial
TOO wise to be disregarded I wonder
how many of us give the same atten
tiOn to Our food and drink as we give
to that of our crops and live stock
I wonder how many of us consider
the healing effect of air and water
with the same understanding that we
do pills and nostrums? Here may be
a saving possibility if we will but ap-
prove the practice. and in the saving
there is gain.
Giving the Best Food TO Our Live
StOck.-We must give full considera-
tion TO the feeding of ourselves and
children. Like the animals on the
farm orr bodies for the full develop
ment need each day proper quantities
of protein. carbohydrates. fat and
SaltS-and feed these to our
the mill remove the bran and gluten
which contains the protein and
mineral salts-and feed these of Our
calves and pigs that strong muscle
GOOD Tooth and homo hn 1nuo1nnnI
and we fail to consider that our chill
1ren need these materials that their
bones and teeth and muscles may also
be develODed and made strong and en-
Turing. We may go TO the dentist TO
nave our teeth renaired. but money
is necessary. and i'll health often
iollows. If our children are wisely
ed. there is little need for dentists
If our children are furnished with
Ood constituents containing the proper
and provided with an
bnndance of air. free and fresh. there
will he less need for doctors and
urses. But you live i'm the country
on say, and you have an abundance
f fresh air. What more can be done
o provide it?
Never. Never Sleep in Closed
'OOm.-Let me ask about those long
winter nights when the doors and
7indOwS all are closed. and the family
l"ether in one room for several hours.
Where is the pure. fresh air then?
And when bedtime comes perhaps |
ne. two. or three persons in one room. !
he doors closed and the windows !
listened tight! Where comes the fresh /
ir then? Remember that seven. eight |
r nine hours are included in the sleep |
l@ fine Do you think the average |
pom large enough to furnish an |
bundH nee of pure. fresh air? And |
Dw often we say we cannot help the |
ay he opened. if but slightly. that a |
instant stream of fresh air may be |
lTitted DO this and there will be |
If fewer mornings when that tired |
cling will manifest itself
Remember it is the oxygen of the air
at CONSUMES the brOken-dOwn ma
rial of the body: keeps the tissues
nj organs in healthy and efficient
,ing. When You render this work
lpossible by closing the doors and
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1906-09-14
The County Machine Wants No Negroes
in the Republican county convention blow to Negro
The defeat Of ]. W. Jackson in tn

REPUBLICAN COUNTY CONVENTION HAS DISAPPOINTED
THE NEGROES DENVER COUNTY. THE NEGROES OF THE
STATE LOOKED FORWARD TO HAVING REPRE-
SENTATIVE IN FROM THIS COUNTY
ARE DISAPPOINTED.
rrr ron rn.rR SUPPORT REPUBLICAN TICKET
70 ELECTIVE OFFICE AS A CANDIDATE REPUBLICAN
NEGROES KNOW THEY
THEIR PARENTS FACED THE BULLETS OF THE SOUTHERN
WHITES IN ORDER TO CAST VOTE FOR THE PARTY OF LIN
COLIN. NOT BELIEVE THAT REPUBLICAN CONVENTION
REFUSED PLACE DECENT NEGRO UPON ITS TICKET.
NEGROES WHO KEEP UP WITH WHAT is GOING
TICS AND KNOW ADVANCES SENATOR PATTERSON
AND LEADING DEMOCRATS ALLEVIATE
FROM THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND WIN IT OVER
DEMOCRACY. NOT CONCEIVE HOW ANY sHsewo PARTY
CONVENTION WOULD DELIBERATELY OPPOSITION IN
RAPID GROWTH OF THE sTAY.AT-homE VOTE AMONG
PEOPLE UNTIL NOW IT is SAFE TO SAY THAT NOT ONE
THIRD WOMEN VOTE AND ONLY PORTION OF
WOULD SEEM REASONING MEN SUFFICIENT INCENTIVE FOR
REPUBLICANS MAKING PLACE ON THE TICKET FOR NEGRO
IF CONSIDERATIONS FAIRNESS
WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT eAru,rv POSSESSES REPUBLICANS
STATE THAT THEY DELIBERATELY INSULT coLoREo
AGO THIS SAME CONVENTION DOMINATED SANE
TIoN NOMINATED FOR OFFICE A WHITE MAN WHOM NEGROES
BELIEVE DELIBERATELY W-rEwAsAEo A MURDER
AoosgssoR Now If THAT ENOUGH, REFUSES
l. L
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1906-09-14

CITIZEN is GENERALLY ACKNOWLEDGEMENT PLACE ON THt Leg
TICKET.
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION OF TWO YEARS
DECLARED FOR SQUARE DEAL FOR THE NEGRO IN THE
PLEpciNc ITSELF ETHER ENFORCE PRESENT
REFERENCE VOTING ENFORCE PROVISIONS
OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS COVERING THE RE.
sTRIcTIoNs OF RIGHTS. CLAUSE OF THE
PLATFORM HAS BROUGHT NO RESULTS. NOT WORD
OF H.
IN POLITICS
HAVE CERTAIN ARE
HELD If WE HAD BEEN TOLD WE ARE NOT WANTED.
POSSIBILITY OF SPLIT IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY MAY BE
GRATIFYING REPUBLICAN
PARTY THAT THINKS UNNECESSARY. OR
MAY FEEL THAT WE ARE SUCH cRAvENs AND cowARps
STRICT PARTIsANs THAT CONSIDERED
WHY DOES IT PERSIST IN MAKING PRoMlsEs9
THE STATESMAN RECOGNIZES THE ESSENTIAL PART THAT
PLAY IN THE ADMINISTRATION
LONG RUN. BUT WHERE WILL LANE
DEsPsED BLACK MAN IN COLORADO? WHEN WILL
DISAPPOINTMENT cEAsea
TWICE THIS WEEK WE HAVE FELT THE SLOW AND AS LAST
RESORT COME TO THE STATE CONVENTION. FOLLOW
AFTER DENVER AND sPuRN US. OR WILL FLING
NeR OF REPUBLicANsM ON HIGH AND SAY
I AWAIT THE ANSWER
ALLEGIANCE THE REPUBLICAN PLAT
FORM AND PLEDGE ITSELF TO THE ENFORCEMENT
STATES OR PROMISE SUPPORT OF ITS CONGRESSIONAL
NOMINEES REMEDIAL LEeisLATIoNg
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-05-15
A Coming Attraction.

The Willard Compau y are now
nlaying an engagement at the
Grand Opera House in Salem.
The "Statesman' of the 9th
instant, has the following to say
regarding this company: "Those
who are missing these plays are
missing the best and most even
ly balanced show company that
ever came to Salem. Mr.. Will
lard is not only a good actor, he
is a grea; actor, and has the luck
to be supported by splendid
talent in every line"
This is undoubtedly the best
company that has played in
Corvallis for long time, and
lovers of refined amusemen
should make special effort to
attend their performances next
Thursday and Friday nights.
Reserved seats are how On sale.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-05-15
WARD
HILL
LAMON,
His Friend.
Partner
and
Bodyguard

was really advanced to save Johns
mother from utter penury. No matter
how much the land might appreciate in
value, John was to have it upon these
terms, and no interest was to be paid
by him except after the death of the
survivor, as aforesaid"
Kindness to lis Stepmother.
AS soon as Abraham got little up in
the world he began to send his STEP
mother money and continued to do SO
until his own death. At the close of
the Black Hawk war Mr.. Lincoln went
to see her for a few days, and after
ward, when a lawyer making the cir
cults with the courts, he visited her
and his father whenever the necessities
of his practice brought him to their
neighborhood. He did his best to serve
Mrs. Lincoln and her son John, but
took little notice Of his father, although
he wrote him an eXhortation to believe
in God when he thought he was dying.
Abe left the Lincoln family late in
March or early in April. He did not go
far away, but took jobs wherever he
could get them, showing that he had
separated himself from the family not
merely to rove, but to labor and be an
Independent man. He made no engage-
ment of a permanent character during
this summer. His work was all done
by the job. All this while he clung
close to John Hanks and either worked
where he did or not far away. In the
winter following he was employed by
a Major Warrick to make rails and
walked daily three miles to his work
and three miles back again.
After Abe got to Decatur" says
John Hanks, cor, rather, to Macon (my
country, a man by the name Of Posey
came into our neighborhood and made
a speech. 1t was bad one, and said
Abe could beat it. / turned down a
box or keg, and Abe made his speech.
The other man was candidate. Abe
wasn't. Abe beat him to. death, his
subject being the navigation of the
Sangamon river. The man, after the
speech was through, took Abe aside
and asked him where he had learned so
much and how he did so well. Abe re-
piled, stating his manner and method
of reading and what he had read. The
man encouraged Lincoln to persevere. "
In February, 1881, Mr.. Denton
Offutt wanted to engage John Hanks
to take a fiatboat to New Orleans.
John was not we'll disposed to the busi-
ness, but Offutt came to the house and
would take no denial; made much of
Johns fame as a river man and at
length persuaded him to present the
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-05-15
!. needle and thread SO that If the ami

needle and thread so that If the ami
mails fought any more they should do
it in the dark. Abe held their heads
and John Hanks their tails, while Of
futt did the surgery. They were then
thrown into a cart, whence Abe took
them one by one in his great arms and
deposited them on board.
From this point they sped very rap
idly down the Sangamon and the Illi-
nois Having constructed curious look
ing sails of plank "and sometimes
cloth,'' they were s'sight to see'' as
they rushed through Beardstown," !"
where '.the people came out and laugh
ed at them" They swept by Alton and
without tying up, but stopped at Mem
phis, Vicksburg and Natchez.
In due time they arrived at New Or
leans. There it was,'' says John
Hanks, 1--WE saw negroes chained, NAL
treated, whipped and scourged. Lincoln
saw it; his heart bIed; he said nothing
much; was silent from feeling; was
sad; looked bad, felt bad; was thought
full and distracted. / can say, know
ing it, that it was on this trip that he
formed his opinions of slavery. 1t run
its iron in him then and there-May,
1881. I have heard him say SO often
and often.'
Some time in June the party took
passage on a steamboat going up the
river and remained together until they
reached st. Louis, where Offutt left
them, and Abe, Hanks and Johnston
started on foot for the interior of Illi-
nois. At Edwardsville, twenty-five
miles out, Hanks took the road to
Springfield and Abe and Johnston took
that to Coles county, where Thomas
departure from home.
Scarcely had Abe reached Coles coun-
ty and begun to think what next to
turn his hand to when he received a
visit from a famous wrestler, one Dan
iel Needham, who regarded him as a
growing rival and had a fancy to try
him a fall or two. He considered him
self the best man in the country, and
the report Of Abe's achievements filed
his big breast with envious pains. His
greeting was friendly and hearty, but
ry. Abe valued his popularity among
'the boys" too highly to decline it and
met him by public appointment in the
greenwood at Wabash Point, where
he threw him twice with so much ease
that Needham's pride was more hurt
than his body.
Lincoln" said he, you have thrown
me twice, but you can't whip me-
'sNeedham," replied Abe, ''are you
satisfied that can throw you? If you
are not, and must be convinced through
a thrashing, I will do that, too, for
your sake"
Needham had hoped that the young
ster would shrink from the extremity
of fight with the acknowledged ''bully
of the patch," but, finding him willing
and at the same time magnanimo ously
inclined to whip him solely for his ow9
good, he concluded that bloody moss
and black eye would be the reverm'
Of soothing to his feelings and theks.
fore surrendered the field with ssxH,
grace - hs could command.
ITO be Continued.)
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-05-15

Lincoln took with him to Illinois
"some stock cattle, one horse, one bu-
reau, one table, one clothes chest, one
set of chairs, cooking utensils, cloth
ing" etc. The goods Of the three fami-
lies-Hanks, Hall and Lincoln-were
loaded on a wagon belonging to Lin
coin. This wagon was ironed, a no.
ticeable fact in those primitive days.
and was positively the first one that
he Qincoln) ever owned" 1t was
drawn by four yoke of oxen, two of
them Lincoln's and two of them
Hanks. We have no particulars of the
journey, except that Abe held the
gad and drove the team; that the
mud was very deep; that the spring
freshets were abroad and that in cross
ing the swollen and tumultuous Kas-
kaskia the wagon and oxen were near
ly swept away.
Arrives In Illinois.
On the 1st day of March. 1880, after
fifteen days tedious and heavy travel,
they arrived at John Hanks house,
four miles northwest Of Decatur. Lin
coin settled at point ten miles west
of Decatur. Here John Hanks had cut
some logs in 1929, which he now gave
to Lincoln to build house with. With
the cid Of John. Dennis. Abe and Hall
4 house was erected on Il small bluff on
the north bank of the north fork Of
the Sangamon. Abe and John took the
four yoke of oxen and broke up ff-
teen acres of land and then split rails
enough to fence it in.
Abe was now over twenty-one. There
was no Uncle Wood to tell him that
his age was against him. He had done
something more than his duty by his
father, and, as that worthy was now
again placed in a situation where he
might do we'll If he chose, Abe came to
the conclusion that 1t was time for
him to begin life on his own account.
1t must have cost him some pain to
leave his good stepmother, but beyond
that all the old ties were probably bro
ken without a single regret. From the
moment he was a free man, foot loose.
able to go where and to do what he
pleased, his success in those things
which lay nearest his heart-that is,
public and social preferment-was as
tonishing to himself, as we'll as to 9TH
erS
Thomas Lincoln subsequently moved
at least three times in search of a
healthy location, and finally got him
self fixed near Goose Nest Prairie, in
Coles county. where he died of a dis
ease of the kidneys in 1851 at the ripe
old age of seventy-three. The little
farm (forty acres) upon which his days
were ended he had, with his usual inn
providence. mortgaged to the school
commissioners for $500. its full value.
Induced by love for his stepmother,
Abraham paid the debt and took a
deed for the land, with a reservation
of life estate therein, to them, or the
survivor of them" At the same time
QS4D he gave a helping hand to John
Johnston, binding himself to convey
the land to him or his heirs after the
death of Thomas Lincoln and his
wife upon payment of the $500. which
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-05-15
HELP WANTED.

A MIDDLE AGED LADY TO DO
house work on a farm near Corvallis,
Ore, and assist in caring for three
children. She can arrange if she de.
sires to assist in caring for chickens
and other duties in farm work COM
monty done by ladies. If the lady
has husband. son, or ether male
work, he can have work at least part
of the time. In answering send refer
ences. Address: P. o. Box 344,
37tf Corvallis. Oregon.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-05-15
Do You Love

Your baby? You wonder why he
cries. Buy bottle of Whites Cream
Vermifuge and he will never cry. Most
babies have worms, and the mother
don't know it. Whites Cream Vermi-
fuge rids the child of worms and cleans
out its system in a pleasant way
Every mother should keep bottle of
this medicine in the house. With it
fear need never enter her mind. Price
25c. Sold by Graham & Wortham.