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The semi-weekly messenger., 1906-10-23
THE CUMBERLAND FAIR
Everything in Readiness for the Big
Fair Which is to be Held This Week.
Feature of the Fair Will be the Rae
ing.

Everything is in readiness in FaFy-
etteville for the fair which is to be held
during the present week, beginning on
Wednesday and ending on Friday.
Reduced rates have been given on the
railroads and it is expected that a
lrge crowd will visit the hustling town
on The Cape Fear. On Wednesday
there wilf be a big parade and $3.50 in
prizes will be given for the handsomest
decorated floats and private turnouts.
The feature OF the fair viii be the
racing and about 40 horses have been
entered. On Wednesday there will be
2:5o class trot for $75 purse in
which only county horses will be al
lowed to be entered and on same day
will be 2:25 class trot for purse of $3.50
Thursday will be PIG pace for purse
Of 5000; 2:35 trot for purse of $3.50;
2:25 pace for purse of 5000. Friday
2:20 trot for 5000; free for all pace for
purse of $3.50 and $3.50 trot with purse
for 5000.
Fayetteville has a fine track and some
fast time will, no doubt, be made
Some very fast horses will be entered.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1906-10-23
hILMItCTON markets.

Saturday. October 90.
COTTON-Nominal
Receipts of cotton today-5.s si{
bales
Receipts this season TO date-ss.31s
bales.
RECEIPTS same day last year-1,s1o
bales
NAVAL STORES.
SPIRITS OF TURPEET1NE -
ssi. bid
ROSIN-Nothing doing.
TAR-Steady s2.20.
CRUDE TURPENTINE Firm
hard, s3.s5; dip, $3.50: virgin, $3.50.
RECEIPTS TODAY.
IL casks spirits turpenune.
107 barrels roSin.
&c barrels tar.
135 barrels crude turpentine.
RECEIPTS SAME DAY LAST YEAR
~ casks spirits turpentine.
321 barrels rosin.
So barrels tar.
202 barrels crude turpentine.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1906-10-23
RECEIPTS AND EXPORTS.

New York, October 20-Total today,
at all Forts, Net receipts s7,565 bales;
exports to Great Britain 23,291 bales;
exports to France 419 bales; stocks
55,S94 bales.
Consolidated, at all ports, Net re-
ceipts 67,565 bales; exports to Great
Britain 23,291 bales; exports to France
419 bales.
Total since September 1st, at all
ports. Net receipts 1,774,54 bales; ex-
ports to Great Britain 496,421 bales;
exports to France 107,S32 bales; ex-
ports to the Continent 450,052 bales
exnorts to Japan $3.50 bales.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1906-10-23
Interior Movement

Houston steady at 10 1916; net re-
ceipts 30,025 bales.
Augusta firm at 10B; net receipts
1855 bales.
Memphis steady at 11A; net receipts
2-754 bales.
St. Louis; net receipts 279 bales.
Cincinnati net receipts 1,194 bales.
Louisville firm at liz.
Total today: net receipts 37,117
bales: gross receipts 39,S39 bales; ship
nsents 34,244 bales: sales 4,S3S bales;
stocks 129,457 bales.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1906-10-23
THE MONEY MARKET.

New York. October 20.-Prime mer-
camille paper to Ga per cent: sterling
exchange strong with actual business
in bankers bills at s4.s5.15 to s4.S5.25
for demand and at $4.s0.15 to s4.80.2 25
for sixty day bills. Posted rates s4.s0h
to s4.s11k and Sassy. Commercial
The semi-weekly messenger., 1906-10-23
Accepts Call to Southside Baptist
Church.

Rev. G. A Martin, of Spring Hope,
has accepted call TO the pasuorate of
the Southside Baptist church aud
will be here some time during the
present week to assume his work.
Both the morning and evening ser
vices today will be conducted by Rev
A. Fl. Bryant.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1906-10-23
RECEIPTS OF COTTON.

New York, october 20.-Receipts at
the ports today 67,565 bales, against
5S.742 last week, and 40,542 last year.
For the week 100000 bales. against
37227 last week, and 293,863 last year.
Today's receipts at New Orleans 1926
bales, against 1852 last year, and at
Houston 3O,025 bales, against 1880
last year.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1906-10-23

bills s41eR tn s4.7sa. Bar silver 20.
Mexican dollars 50. Government
bonds frrri: railroad bonds weak.
Money on call nominal: no loans
Time loans strong: sixty days per
cent: ninety days s: six months 5.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1906-10-23
IF THOU HADsT KNOWN +"
Text of Or. Hamilton at First
Baptist Church Last Night

He Preached an Excellent Sermon
and His Words Were Listened TO
With the Closest Astention-He said
the Professed Christian Was Too
Often a stumbling Block to Those
Around Him-Ordinance OF Baptism
VIII be Administered This Evening
just Prior TO the Sermon.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1906-10-23
4 SEVERE STORM
RACES OFF the North Carolina
Coast Yesterday
THE TIDE WAS VERY HIGH
Greatest Damage Was Done Along
Waterfront at Southport

Trestle Over Wrightsville Sound is In
tact-OnIy One Car Made the Trip
to the Beach Yesterday and That
Was Early in the MOrninS-HaVes
Swept Over the Southern End Of the
Beach-Same Storm Which Caused
Such Damage i'm Cuba and Florida.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1906-10-23

Rev. Edward Wooten has gone to
Warsaw where he will conduct services
today.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1906-10-23
COFFEE-9e to I1is.

COttEE-91 TO 113.
FLOUR-Straights s3.75 to $3.50
second patents s4.75: full patents S.
25.
MOLASSESS. House Ice; New
Orleans brights 24c; Porto Rico 81 to
SIC. Cuba csc.
SALT-Prices car load lots 100 lbs
c. F. S712; 200 lbs. c. F. 75c; 200 lbs.
F. F. 9Oc; less than car load lots, 100
lbs. c. F. 3Sc.
SuGAR-Granulate $500. W. c.
X. No. 5 $3.50; No. $3.50; No. .
s4.30; No. II s4.25.
LARD-(Tierce basis) pure Q: COM
pound 712.
CORN-No. mixed 81 TO 20.
OATS-No mixed 4s TO As; white
seed oats soc.
HAY-No. Timothy $40 to s22.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
PEANUTS-North Carolina prime
75c; extra prime so to S5c; fancy 90c:
Virginia prime 55c; fancy zoe.
BEESWAX-27c.
ECGS-22 to CSC.
CHICKENS-Hens 30 to 35; springs
Is to csc.
\. c. BACON-Hams (old) 17c;
shoulders IL to 13c; sides IL TO 13c.
SHINGLES-Per 1000: 5-inch saps
$500: 5-inch hearts $3.50: G-inch says
s2.O0; 6-inch hearts 1915.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1906-10-23
CLOSING OF COTTON.

New York, October 20.-Cotton:
Closed quiet: middling uplands lie;
middling gulf 11.25; no sales. Fu-
lures steady. Prices follow:
The semi-weekly messenger., 1906-10-23

Mr.. J. G. Larkin, of Goldsboro, Is
registered at The Orton.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-04-11

factory system of Germany, Austria
and the West, will be found most sat
isfactory. Where the acreage is made
up by numerous small fields of ten to
forty acres each; each farmer in case
of threatened freezing weather, can
properly care for his crop by wind
rowing, or malt laying, as is now prac-
ticed in Georgia, Mississippi, and fire.
quently in Louisiana.
The crop can then be delivered as
the factory requires it. This process
of securing the crop adds but little
to the cost, and keeps the cane per-
fectly for months No silos or bins
are required for cane, as with beets.
The delay caused by a cold snap sell
dom retards the work of sugar max
ing to exceed three days.
That the sugarcane will, in the near
future, replace the beet as the most
economical source of sugar, | have
no doubt. | am convinced that only
the apathy, and false security, felt by
the cane grower, his neglect of scien-
tihc and economical methods, together
with the careful, economical and ag
gressive methods of the beet grower,
backed by government aid, and en-
enlargement, in this and European
countries, has temporarily increased
the worlds supply of beet sugar as
compared to cane sugar.
That the "cane belt of the South"
can, under the same intelligent sys-
tenn of culture and manufacture, pro-
duce pure sugar at profit, when sell
ing at a price less than the cost of
producing beet sugar under the most
favorable conditions, | believe can,
and will, be demonstrated in the near
future, and that the American cane
grower, will supply not only the enor-
nous home demand, but large part
of the foreign consumption.
That others beside myself are of
the same opinion, is best evidenced
by this gathering of representative
farmers. cane growers and business
men of the New South; from the
Brazos to the St. Johns; from the
Carolinas to the Keys; this gather
ing certainly shows that the ''cane
grower of the South" has awakened
to the possibilities of the profitable
commercial production of sugar, in
the ''cane belt" of America.-The Fla
Fruit and Truck Grower.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-04-11
Corn Breeding.

All of the most desirable seed ears
produced in the multiplying plat serve
as seed corn for the next years COM
mercial field. which may consist of
several hundred acres. When the COM
mercial field is harvested the yield is
registered and the finest seed ears are
selected and carefully dried with arti-
fetal heat if necessary, and they con-
Stitute the first stock of pedigreed
seed corn for the market. said Cyrisl
G. Hopkins, of the University of Hi
nOis in a paper read before the Ameri-
can Breeders Association. as printed
in Home and Farm
1t will thus be seen that three years
time is required before the seed corn
breeder is able to furnish to the mar
ket pedigreed seed corn from his COM
mercial field
The first year he has breeding
plat planted with carefully selected
but not pedigreed seed unless he has
obtained registered seed from some
other breeder).
The second year he has a breeding
plat and a multiplying plat, both of
which are planted with registered pedi-
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the same variety and taken from the
same field, were planted on the same
kind of soil side by side, the one lot
produced ears which averaged about
eighteen inches higher from the ground
than those produced from the other
lot
In changing the protein content Of
corn we began breeding the same kind
of corn i'm two different ways, one lot
to increase the protein. the other lot
to decrease the protein. The first year
the percentage of protein was the same
in each lot The second year it differ
ed by 60 per cent: the third year by
60 per cent: the fourth year by 1.6O
per cent; the fifth year by 2.9S per
cent: the sixth year by 4.O7 per cent.
and the seventh year by 400 per cent.
Similarly we have tried to change
the oil content i'm two lots of what
was originally the same kind of corn,
increasing the oil i'm the one and de-
creasing it i'm the other
The first year the one lot contained
40 per cent of oil and of course the
other lot contained the same.
The second year the one contained
473 and the other 4.O6 per cent
The third year the one contained
5.15 and the other 800 per cent.
The fourth year the one contained
5.64 and the other 3.S2 per cent.
The fifth year the one contained 61O
and the other 3.54 per cent.
The sixth year the one contained
600 and the other 3.43 per cent
The seventh year the one contained
6.23 and the other 2.95 per cent
Several corn growers have suggest
ed. and more recently two or three
scientists have assumed lin theory.
that it is a waste of time to breed
high protein corn because we can get
plenty of protein in clover hay and
other 1egumeS. Perhaps this is true
but it would seem that an extension
of the same theory would do without
corn entirely i'm the balanced ration.
because we can get plenty of carbOhy-
drateS in straw Or corn stalks.
So long as the livestock feeders
continue to buy oil meal. gluten meal
and other concentrated food stuffs
valued chiefly for their protein content,
so long the corn breeders will contin-
ne to breed high-protein corn for feed
ing purposes
They will also breed high-protein.
lowell corn to meet the demands of
the hOminy mills. On the other hand
they will breed low-protein. high
starch corn for factory use where the
starch is purified or manufactured into
glucose or alcohol, while the protein is
considered an Improbable by-product,
and. for these manufacturers who de-
sire it and who are prepared to sepa-
rate and refine it, the oil of corn will
be increased by the corn breeders to
meet that demand. But the first OBJ
iect of the corn breeder should be, and
probably always will be. to develop
corn for the highest possible yield of
grain per acre.
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greed seed obtained from the best
yielding rows of his first years breed
ing plat
The third year he has a breeding
plat. a multiplying plat, and CONNER
ciaI field, all planted with pedigreed
seed. the seed for the breeding plat
and for the multiplying plat being
from the second years breeding plat,
and the seed for the commercial field
being from the previous years multi
plying plat.
OF course. the breeder may sell a
few pedigreed ears from his breeding
plat if he has more choice ears from
the best yielding rows than he needs
for both breeding plat and multiplying
plat the next year. He may also sell
a few bushels of pedigreed corn from
his multiplying plat in case it furnish
es more choice seed than is needed for
his own commercial field, but his main
stock of pedigreed seed corn must
always come from his commercial field.
The breeder himself does not plant
seed corn taken from his own COM
mercial field. Each year his own
stock seed comes from his multiplying
plat. and the seed for the multiplying
plat must always come from the best
yielding rows of the breeding plat.
this seed being second only to the fifty
most perfect ears which are each year
selected for the next years breeding
plat.
In general this is the method of corn
breeding which is followed:
We may breed only to increase the
yield Ofs grain. or we may also breed
for many other purposes: AS (D to
improve the physical chara cteristics of
the ear. so far as we know what are
desirable physical characteristics; to
increase Or decrease the height or size
of the stalk: (2) to raise or lower
the ear on the stalk: (0 to improve
the composition of the grain by in
creasing or decreasing the protein. oil.
or carbohydrates, as may be desired.
No sooner had the Illinois Expert
ment Station worked out the method
and demonstrated absolutely (although
on a small scale) that marked improve
ment of corn by breeding is possible,
than the Illinois Seed Corn Breeders
AssOcia ton. and more recently several
other similar associations, took up the
work. and they are rapidly demon
Strating that the breeding of corn is
practicable and profitable on a very
large scale. and within the capabilities
of every up-tO-date farmer
The individuality of the seed ear be-
comes apparent when one field row
yields fifty bushels per acre, and an
other adjoining row, planted from diff
ferent seed ear but on the same kind
of soil. produces one hundred and
twenty bushels per acre. Such differ
ences are not unusual in breeding plats
Similar differences are often seen i'm
different animals. sometimes even
among the different pigs from the same
litter. Experiments have been shown
that one COW may produce two hun
dred and fifty pounds of butter fat in
year. while another cow, even when
consuming the same quantities of di-
gestible nutriments. produces only one
hundred and eighty pounds of butter
fat.
In changing the height of the ear
on the stalk we have selected one lot
of ears borne seven to eight feet from
the ground and another lot borne three
to four feet from the ground, and.
when these two lots of corn, both of
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Neptune, Fla, June Is, 1905.

Neptune, Fla, June IS, 1905.
E. o. Painter Fertilizer Co.,
may send box of grape fruit to N. c.
Wambolt My fruit is grown fat-woods
land where most people here told could
not grow anything in the CITRUS LINE.
The fine quality of fruit is due entirely to
Simon Pure.
]. Thomas Zieg1er.
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-09-29
SECOND HAND MAIL BOXES.
Why . Little Village May Have Big
Numbers in Its Post Office.

The man who was spending his
summer vacation in the country was
looking quizzically at the mail boxes
In the rural post Office.
Il did not know this was such a
large place." he said. Il thought it
had population of only about 1000,
but the mail box numbers run much
higher than that, and don't suppose
every one in town rents, a box either"
The postmaster peered out OF his
little barred window.
Il can explain that" he said. you
see the country post ohices never
get new boxes, but we have those
left over when the city establishments
make over their Offices and get new
boxes. So. you see lots Of country
places are bound to have high num-
Der boxes.
although our numbers run over
1000, you won't find any less than
1000, some other country post Office
drew the lower ones. ! myself would
rather get the big numbers, for 1t
makes us seem like a bustling little
sity."
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-09-29
WHEN THE BED GOES 'RouNp
But emlth Was Too Wise 70 Wait on
the Procession.

"That was an amusing story about
the congressman who caught his bed
the fourth time 1t came around. It
REFUNDED me-" continued the narrator
"of the first time heard the bed
phrase. It happened in Harrisburg,
where / was then stationed, and 1t
happened to legislator whom shall
call Smith.
AT the first session Smith became
famous for his ability to comfortably
carry more liquor than any other man
in the legislature. At the opening OF
the second session some Philadel-
phians got together and put up job
on Smith. They arranged relays, 80
that when one party had enough an
other should take hold, and thus keep
going until they had Smith down and
out. Well, they began with Smith
one evening, and after two relays had
succumbed their successors noted
with much satisfaction that Smith
was mixing his beverages-they
didn't know that was his custom, and
he fooled them all The bout con
tinued all night and all Of the next
day, and when the second evening
came Smith was the only man able
to get away unaided.
Several days later I asked Smith
how he got along after he reached his
hotel. when / got into my room" !"
he replied, Il saw procession OF
beds coming in my direction. I
grabbed the first one. fell into 1t, and
woke up the next afternoon Pitts
burg Chronicle Telegraph.
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-09-29
LOT OWNERS ARE DEEDLEss.
Millionaire Who Kept Accounts II
Head Leaves Queer TangIe.

Webster City, Ia-Since the death
Of George Wells, the eccentric Iowa
millionaire, at his home in Grundy
Center it develops that many of the
business houses ct Wellsburg, the
thriving German town in Grundy
county named after the millionaire,
are built on lots for which the owners
have no deeds except that which
comes from verbal agreement and the
fact Of occupancy in peaceful posses.
sion for number OF years.
It appears that Mr.. Wells had a
great habit Of deferring action in
many Of his deals, trades and trans.
actions, that he disposed of lots, gave
the buyer possession and stated that
he would make a deed some day, be
ing too busy to attend to the trivial
work of executing the deed
Mr.. Wells carried his books in his
head, 80 to speak, and many of his old
time friends took his word for many
things, expecting, Of course, to receive
the deed in time, but realizing after
the old mans death that they had NO
title to their property. A number OF
legal actions will be the outcome Of
the matter.
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-09-29
TERRIBLE scALY ECZEMA.
Eruptions Appeared on Chest, and
Face and Neck Were All Broken
out-Cured by cuticura.

II had an eruption appear on my
chest and body and extend upwards
and downwards, so that my neck and
face were all broken out; also my
arms and the lower limbs as far az
the knees. I at first thought it was
prickly heat. But soon scales or
crusts formed where the breaking out
was. Instead of going to physician I
purchased a complete treatment Of the
Cuticura Remedies, in which had
great faith, and all was satisfactory.
A year. or two later the eruption ap-
peared again, only little lower; but
before it had time to spread / pro-
cured another supply Of the Cuticura
Remedies, and continued their use un-
til the cure was complete. It Is now
five years since the last attack, and
have not seen any signs OF a return.
have more faith In Cuticura RENE
dies for skin diseases than anything
I know of. Emma E. Wilson. Lis
comb, Iowa, Oct. /, 1905.''
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-09-29
sing BOWS At cIRL,s REouEaT,
4-endon Hears Story Involving Amer.
team Visitor At Marjenbad.

l. SaY y W Z E9 +r ~.
London.-An amusing story ia heine
olu mere about a letter which awaited
Ang Edwards arrival at Marienbad
One missive OF many for the royal
perusai This letter, as the story
soes' was from an American woman.
wnose name was not signed to it.
hut between the lines 1t appeared,
however falsely, that it was written
Oy 9 near relative OF Miss Matilda
townsend. This is charming young
woman whose maternal grandfather
was Congressman Scott, of Erie, U. s.
A., and her father, Richard Town.
send-"one Of the Herbertons"-of
Philadelphia.
BY whomever written, the writer
asked his majesty that, graciously, he
would salute the young woman any
morning he CHANGED to be walking
near the springs. She wrote that
she would never forget such proof
OF his favor. and naively she described
her personal appearance and the gown
she would wear-for Identification.
The king was highly amused. He
appeared to be on the qui vive for
two mornings-and to be twice dis
appointed. The third morning he saw
the gown the letter described, and
lifted his hat with the grace that is
only his to q group of women in
which there were two Americans, at
least. 49,.
The p. 8. in the letter added that
the writer's cousin is engaged to
marry dear personal friend of the
king"
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-09-29
When Woman lsn't Young.

W0en woman J8n't vOun8s
The report is that local religious
institution which is for young wom-
en-" has drawn the deadline of youth
at 35. Every woman over that age
will be marked % and requested to
skiddoo. This is painful. It is unkind.
What is worse, it is impracticable. We
are glad the task is to be performed
by women. No man nor set of men
would ever have dared tackle such a
problem-not they. This is simply
another example OF woman's inhu-
manity to woman.
We have been told for many ages
that woman is as old as she looks
and q man is as old as he feels, Just
now, we say 1t with regret, nest wom-
en- look like 60 and most men feel like
Methuselah.. But the general rule
seems good one. It is a plain, un-
palatable fact that women will deceive
as to their age as long as possible and
then openly lie about it. There are
many women who were born during
the ravages of the civil war who stu
claim sweetly to be in the thirties.
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-09-29
LEADS CHICAGO in DIVORCES
Separations In Minneapolis More
Numerous, According to Population.

Minneapolis, Minn.-With a popula
,tion one-tenth as large as Chicago, II
Is estimated Minneapolis has granted
in the last 81 years one-eighth as many
divorces as Chicago. The exact fig
ures, as near sas can be placed are:
Chicago, 10000; Minneapolis. 5000
Such is the estimate Of Clifford Jer
name, who is the governments repre-
sentative in this city securing statis.
tics as to the number OF divorces
granted during the last 20 years.
"One peculiar thing" he said, about
the work here is that there are five
grounds on which one may secure a
divorce, while In Washington or any.
where in the District OF Columbia
there is only one-infdelity. 1t is
therefore i've times easier to secure 3
separation IN this state than in Wash.
ington."
A census Of divorce cases and mat.
ter pertaining to them is in progress
all over the country, but started only
this week In Minneapolis.