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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-05-11
Hard Pest to Fight.

The treatment for root maggots is
very difficult, owing to their manner
OF working upon the plants. The
treatment which is recommended is
not entirely satisfactory at times. The
method Of dealing with this pest
which has seemed most satisfactory
up to the present time, has been to
watch the different stages of the in
sect and when the first maggot ap-
pear to be working in the plants II is
the practice to open a furrow away
from the plants and sprinkle into this
furrow a quantity Of tobacco dust.
afterwards recovering the furrow.
Another method is to apply at this
time carbolic acid emulsion mad, in
the proportion Of one pint crude car
bolic acid, one pound soap and one
gallon water. This should be diluted
IN 30 parts water and applied near
the plants along the row. Either of
these treatments win in general be
somewhat satisfactory. We are at
present planning to take up the onion
naggot problem during the coming
season and hope We may be able to
get more conclusive resuls.-H E.
Hodgkiss. Assistant Entomologist New
York Experiment Station.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-05-11
TILE DRAINS AND ALFALFA.
Testimony of One Farmer Shows That
Roots Do Not Fill Up the
Drains.

A neighbor planned to SOW % acres
OF alfalfa this spring, but some one
told him that the roots would stop up
tile. and render them worthless. | can
not grow it, unless on tile-drained
land, says an Ohio farmer in writing
to the Ohio Farmer. In a field OF al
falfa five years old on my farm, where
there is as much as so rods Der acre
the tile are still at work. In some Of
these tile, however, does the water
now continuously. In two or three
days after a very wet spell, the water
Will, In the main, il not altogether
cease flowing. Several times | have
examined carefully, to see II any roots
could be found in the tile, but I was
unable to find any. The roots grow
down to the tile, and then pass ON
around.
| am told that where the water f,ovs
constantly through the tile, there ia
sometimes trouble from the alfalfa
roots entering the tile. ! have eight
acres Of alfalfa sown last August, that
has near 400 rods Of tile under IL
From the prospects the alfalfa holds
out to me, ! am perfectly willing to
take the risk. In fact, / put down $50
rods last spring, that | might feel safe
In sowing the alfalfa. have no ex-
pectation that will ever need to take
up the tile to clean the roots out of
them.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-05-11
VALUE OF A GOOD GARDEN
A Word Of Advice as to Devoting
Small Patch on Farm to Rails
ing Vegetables.

Many people fail to realize the great
value Of a thrifty, well kept garden.
Even an inferior one is much better
than none. Vegetables are indispensa-
BILE to family, so far as health is
concerned to say nothing of the money
saved by not having to buy to much
hour and so many groceries.
1t would seem that every man
should manage to obtain a piece of
ground and see that 1t became well
fortified and enriched and then put
under thorough state OF cultivation
before trying to plant the seeds. 1t
only costs little to buy enough seeds
for quite a good sized garden.
Radishes and early onions may be
made to grow in such a way as To
Keep the table we'll supplied nearly
the whole season, and, when taken
fresh and crisp from the garden, they
have proved to be q fine aid to diges-
ton. Rasishes soon grow too strong
and pithy, and are not ft to use on
the table. To be good they must be
planted In rich and well prepared soil.
My way Of having a continual sup
ply, explains a correspondent Of the
Orange Judd Farmer, is to get two
packages Of radish seed, one Of the
small turnip-shaped kind, the other
OF the long kind, that are not quite so
early, both Of the red variety. then
plant one third Of each package. This
amount is for a small family, but
where there is large family 1t will be
necessary to plant more.
When the early, little round rad
ishes are about gone, plant again
about a third from each paper. By
the time the third planting has been
nearly used other vegetables have
come on and are taking their places.
The ground, however, should be
cleared by removing all the waste
ones. have found that hogs relish
these leftover radishes very much.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-05-11
Special Bargains In PaWnee County.

A fine half section OF coed
wheat land; all in natural grass
five miles north of Rozel. Price
s4SOO.OO. Time on part.
No. 992-303 acres 6 miles
from Larned in the famous
Pawnee valley, one-half mile
from Frizell station, A. T, & S. f
R. R. Buildings new, well paint.
ed and in best OF repair. House
of four rooms, barn 45x60, room
for 100 tons of hay, patent stea
stanchions for 30 head OF cows
stalls for eight head of horses
besides horse barn for 10 head,
cattle sheds for 20 head, new
sheds for machinery, tool house.
two windmills, tanks, corral Of
close board fence and many
other modern improvements.
1876 acres in wheat, 30 acres Of
growing alfalfa, 80 acres Of
orchard and English blue grass.
All this farm is the best Of alfalfa
land being only IS feet to water,
black sandy loan soil. ALI crop
goes with place and possession
given at once. This place must
be seen to be appreciated. Price
$40 per acre. FRIzELL & Ely.
LARNED, KANSAS
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-05-11


and a pasture Of this grass, II taken
care Of, will last for many years. The
grass starts to grow very early in
the spring and flowers in the northern
United States In June. II likes a
limestone soil, and on soil rich in
lime it establishes itself by forming a
very compact sod.
This grass is better adapted to pas
ture than to hay meadow, for the rea-
son that 1t does not work we'll into the
rotations. 1t takes three or four years
for 1t to form compact sod. When a
pasture has been once taken by blue
grass, the farmer has something that
will stay by him through cold and
heat, flood and drouth. In Kentucky
the farmers pride themselves on the
luxuriance Of their blue grass pas
lures, some of which are more than
80 years old. 1t flowers but once in
the season, but after being grazed or
cut 1t quickly sends up a new vigor-
GUS growth.
The grass does well in rather dry
soils, but will adapt itself to almost
any soil, even to the wet meadows.
In Kentucky and other states in which
the winters are mild 1t is used, says
the Farmers Review, for winter pas
lures and 1t is not infrequent that
herds are kept on it the year around.
1t does particularly we'll where trees
are scattered about to give it partial
shade during the hot days of summer.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-05-11
THE FARM.

Good seed is essential to good crops
and Is cheap at any price.
Flowing too wet ground glazes over
the clods and keeps In the water.
Don't pillow the soil deep when II 1,
wet 1t will result In lasting injury
The COW that is spring poor" now
won't be worth much the coming sum.
mer.
Keep plenty Of vegetable matter In
the soil BY use Of clover, cowpeas or
manure.
Don't blame your neighbor becsuse
his cattle get in your field. Keep your
fences repaired.
We have as yet hardly begun to
study our grasses, Of which MANI
kinds grow wild in the United States
Give the boys five square rods of land
for garden. Let them plant anything
they like, hut insist that they keen
down the weeds.
No barn dressing should be used in
growing potatoes. 1t has a tendency
to produce rot. Use barn dressing in
seeding to grass after the potato crop.
e.. Rogers. Cumberland county, Ne.
A top dressing Of nitrate Of soda ID
applied early In the spring by that
very successful hay grower .; Cvanse-
ucut, George N. Clark. It gives sraa
. vigorous start
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-05-11
Planting Corn in Warm so;I

In the growing Of corn / find that
the matter Of seed is Of very great i'm.
portance, writes Kendall county Ull.)
correspondent Of the Farmers Review.
| sometimes buy seed to get a change
and then | SOW my own for a few
years. | prefer to buy any time after
January l, as after that time seed can.
not well De changed. II it is good seed
at that time It will stay good, and Il
bad there Is no way Of improving It ]
test several times and make q thorough
test In winter. The sandy loan Il
ready to plant several days earlier
than the clay loan I prepare my
ground thoroughly, and when the soil
has become warm plant about one
and one-half inches deep.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-05-11

Music, in the opinion of MANY.
ranks second only to faith and
religion. Is your home lacking
in the pleasures which come from
sweet music on a good pianoi
Let us put in on trial one of our
Fischer, Packard, Ellington;
Howard, Valley Gem or Martin
pianos. We guarantee prices as
low as the lowest and quality the
best.
E. R. Moses Nero. Co.
Music Dent
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-05-11
A HANDY MARKER.
One Which the Farmer Will Find
Convenient Under Certain
Circumstances.

Where the check row planter or
two-horse drill is not used the marker
here shown is very convenient in lay
ing on a field for corn or potatoes,
says a writer in the Farm and Home.
The runners should be 2x6 in strips
at least six feet long, the cross pieces
2x4, as long as you want the rows Of
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-05-11
KENTUCKY BLUE GRASS.
Plant Whose Botanical Name Is Poa
Pratensis Is One of Much
Value.

This is one Of the very famous
grasses Of the United States and one
of the most valuable. In different
parts Of the country 1t is known by
different names, among which are:
Green Meadow Grass, June Grass,
Common Spear Grass.
The grass attains a good height,
sometimes being 80 inches tall. The
leaves are narrow and long and are
easily distinguishable from Canadian
blue grass. which has a broad leaf.
The roots are perennial. and creeping,
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-05-11
MARKER FOR CORN OR POTATOES.

corn In width. An extra board is
placed on the two center runners to
stand on while driving. The guide is
fitted with double end and hinged
at the center Of the marker, 50 that
1t may be turned over to either side
as desired. The tongue of an Or
binary bob-sled can be attached with
out much bother, or a special tongue
constructed.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-05-11

N. j. Berscheidt and W. ].
Murphy attended the Knights of
Columbus state convention at
Hutchinson Tuesday
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-05-11

Will Schwartz, one of the re-
publican wheel horses of Comanche
township, was in the county seat
Wednesday.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-05-11

If you are in need of glasses,
90 not strain your eyes trying to
get along without them, but see
George Winstead the Optician,
at 1919 Main street, who is pre-.
pared to fit your eyes with thu
kind OF glasses required in your
individual case. Try him.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-05-11

Henry Trauer called at this Office
today, and says that the Democrats
are going to elect their ticket this
fall in Barton county.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-05-11

See "A Noble Outcast," a four
act comedy drama, by the Y. NJ.
7. Club. Remember the date,
May 25th.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-05-11

A brilliant display Of cut glass
ware, silver ware, sterling silver
spoons. hand painted china etc. is
what we have to offer for gradual
ing presents and for spring we'd
dings. We take pleasure in show
ing you this stock even if you do
not want to buy.
E. r. Moses Mercantile Co.
Jewelry Department.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-05-11

G. E. Purkis, of the north side,
took in the convention at Dodge
City Wednesday, and also looked
over the land situation while
there.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-05-11
LOCAL HAPPENINGS,

Mrs. F. A. Mallonee is visiting
friends and relatives in Wichita
this week..
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-05-11

II. j. Achatz of route one,
Ellinwood, was a visitor Wednes-
day morning and showed his SUBJ
scription to the RuStler up a notch.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-05-11
THE MARKETS TODAY

Grain and Stock Markets furnished
daily by special wire to the A. M.
McDearmott Commission Co-Ofice
over Crescent Grocery.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-05-11

Fred Newcombe and DR.. Fl. E.
Lindas visited Dodge City Tues
day, to look over the telephone
business there, in which they are
interested.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-05-11

Dan Carey, of Clafin, was up
near Cimarron this week. He
just sold a piece of land there
which cleared him up about
$1,000.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-05-11

George Winstead is now located
at 1919 Main street where is pre-
pared to do all kinds of watch and
jewelry repairing. Take your
work to him.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-05-11
NORTHWEST WHEAT RECEIPTS.

According to the Drovers' Telegram, the fol-
lowing prices ruled in Kansas City yesterday On
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-02-27
jackson and Polk.

One of the last earthly things that
Jackson did was to read a note from
Polk asking his advice about the ap-
pointment of certain federal officers in
the south. Polk had been In Office only
a few weeks at the time, and he want
ed to get the Endorsement of Jackson
for his administration. In order to
win Jackson's favor Polk was called
Young Hickory" by his admiring
friends, but "Old Hickory's" favorite
for the nomination in 1874 was Van
Buren, and not Polk. Jackson was
Texas annexationist, as was Polk.
while Van Burens opposition to an
nexation was what caused his defeat
for the candidacy. Yet personally he
preferred Van Buren, Polk, after his
Inauguration. made war on Francis
p. Blair who edited Jackson's and Van
Buren's old organ at Washington, the
Capital, and thus displeased Jackson,
though the latter knew that Blair had
been lukewarm toward Polk In the
canvass. Blair was forced to get out,
and the Capital was changed into the
Daily Union, with Richie of Richmond
as its editor. From the hour of his re-
tirement until his death, through Van
Buren's administration and in the open
ing days of Folks, Jackson remained
an influential figure In the Democratic
politics of the time-St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-02-27

There is an almost puritanical SIM
plicity about many of the old English
inns and alehouses often In keeping
with the old world names of their pro-
prietors, as, for example, Amos Gale,
Shadrach Meade, Samuel Ward or Ma
ry Ann Mulcock. The names of the
inns would require a paper to them
selves The Three Horseshoes has for
its rival across the road the Four
HorseshoeS. AT Peters Green the sign
of the Half Moon mods complacently
across the heath to the Bright Star A
favorite name In many a village Is de-
rived from the number OF bells In the
tower of the parish church. Thus there
Is the Six Bells at st. Michaels, where
Lord Bacon lies buried, and Hatfield
and Luton have each their Eight Bells
The Bull, the Bell, the Pillow, the Rose
and Crown, the George and the Dragon,
the Red Lion. are old stagers to be
found everywhere, reminding one Of
Joseph Addisons delightful essay in
the earlier Spectators on the signposts
Of London, in which he says that ''our
streets are filed with blue boars, black
swans and red lions, not to mention
dying pigs and hogs In armor."-Lon-
don Spectator.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-02-27

There was one special act In Irving's
young life on the stage that has les
son for all young artists. When, in
1859, having then had three full years
OF experience as a player, he got a
three years engagement in London
and made his appearance at the Prin-
cess, he came to the conclusion that
his work was not yet good enough for
metropolitan favor. So he resolutely
bent himself to the task before him
and, with the reluctant consent of his
manager, cancelled his engagement He
went back to the weary routine and
labor and hardship of the provinces till
the time should come for a more wor
thy effort When we remember that
a London engagement was, and is, the
goal of an ambitious actors hopes and
that it means regular work and regular
pay and an ever increasing opportunity
for distinguishing oneself, we can un-
derstand that his self denying resolu-
ton was little less than heroic. When,
however, he did come again, seven
years later, he had his reward. He
came to stay. He knew his work then
and knew that he knew it. His record
from that on was an unbroken one of
success and honor. His fight was won.
Success Magazine
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-02-27

1t does not seem very clear at what
period the legal age for members Of
parliament was fixed at twenty-one.
1t is, however, certain that in the
reigns of Elizabeth and James /. boys
of sixteen and seventeen occupied seats
in the house of commons. The poet
Waller took his seat as an M. P. before
he was seventeen. Charles James Fox
took his seat at eighteen and Chester
field before he came of age. This, how
ever, was clearly irregular, because IL
is recorded that Chesterfield was
threatened with a penalty OF $500 for
sitting and voting In parliament while
under the legal age If he did not cease
his attacks upon the government. Lord
John Russell also sat before he was
twenty-one, and he seems to have been
the last of the parliamentary minors.
An act Of William Ill, passed In 1895,
made the election of a person under
twenty-one void, but the act was not
very stringently enforced. - London
Standard.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-02-27
TREAcHERoUs RIVER BEDS.
4 HOmesteader's Outfit When Caught
In the Qufcksands.

4 HOmesteader's Outfit When Caught
In the Quicksands.
The movers" wagon, canvas covered
and travel worn, is always picturesque.
The travelling home for family and
all their worldly goods, from furniture
to poultry, is still a familiar sight on
western roads. The spirit of dissatis-
faction and longing for newer fields
that turks under that broad brimmed
hat is spark of the same fire that has
been the theme of our history. By
some stream under the cottonwoods of
an evening you may sometimes see this
half gypsy, and the fire, with its &C
campaigning smell of bacon and beans
or the song and accordion, will suggest
as you drive by why the rowing has al
ways It's destinations.
There are, however, the long dusty
days of travel and sore backed horses,
the occasional swollen fords, and al
ways present. though seldom encoun-
tered, are the quicksands Of the dry
bottom streams. They are indistin-
guishable and silent. The shallow rib
bons Of water flow over them as over
all the rest of the river bed, but once
fairly in their grasp there is remorse-
less, certain settling, which a struggle
only hastens and which ends in an ever
lasting disappearance. Cattle and
horses are caught In 1t oftenest, and, II
seen in time, can be pulled out with
rope and horse, but into its hungry
nav have gone horses, wagons and
men, and even a locomotive, going
through bridge has been known to
disappear in this bottomless mystery
Allen True in Outing.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-02-27
EARLY English Lotteries.

Probably the first public lottery ever
held took place in England in 1867,
when 10000 chances were sold at 10
shillings each, the prizes consisting
chiefly of plate and the profits going for
the repair of certain harbors. The
drawing took place at the west door Of
st. Paul's cathedral In 1912 another
lottery took place at st. PauPs. This
was for the benefit of the Virginia COM
pany. The highest prize was $1,000,
and 10000 profit was gained. Again.
In 1880, a lottery was promoted in Or
der to bring water into London, and
after the civil war another lottery help
ed to replenish an exhausted national
exchequer. Private lotteries soon b,
came very common, and, being general
ly conducted on fraudulent principles,
an act of parliament was passed early
In the reign Of Queen Anne suppressing
them "as public nuisances." In 1894 /
loan of 100000 was raised by the
sale Of lottery tickets at f10 each, and
In ITO f1,5O0,00O was raised by ten
pound tickets, each ticket being enti-
tied to an annuity for thirty-two years,
the blanks IA shlllings per annum, the
prizes varying from IS to $1,000 per an
num
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-02-27

ASSEMBLY Bill No. 81, which passed the
House of Assembly last week, is of great
Importance to Burlington county. 1t was
introduced from Passaic county and was
intended to put Prosecutor Eugene Emley
on salary instead of on the fee system.
The bill provided that in counties having
more than forty. five thousand and not
more than sixty-five thousand inhabitants
the salary should be 81. 500 per year, and
in counties of more than sixty -five thous-
and and not more than seventy thousand
the salary should be $4,000, and so on
through the various grades of population.
When this bill was up for consideration in
the House it was amended so that the
word 'sixty-five" in each of the provis-
ions above was made to read sixty" By
the last state census Burlington countyhas
population of so, O42. so it will be seen if
this bill is passed by the Senate in It's
present shape the salary of the Prosecutor
of Burlington county will be increased
from 81, 800 to $4,000, a raise of 81 900 or
66So. We do not believe this advisable or
necessary just at this time. That the
Prosecutor at present is pressed with work
is beyond dispute, and he has had several
murder trials in his term, but that is one
of the contingencies which goes with the
position, the acceptance of which is for
better or worse" Right here we want
to say that we do not wish to lead to the
impression that Prosecutor Atkinson is in
any way responsible for this bill or the
amendment; in fact if we were to express
determined opinion it would be to the
contrary, for his rule has been to keep
down expenses in every particular In
the murder case which has occupied and
is still occupying attention the Prosecutor
has watched every item with scrupulous
care. One of his objections to having a
struck jury, with every evidence that the
panel in existence is not strictly legal, was
that the other method would be an ex-
pense that was not necessary. In many
other instances his regard for the treasu-
ry has been noticeable and commendable
To allow this bill to go through in its
present shape means to open the door for
other expense. If this salary is to be in
creased then that of the county judge
must be favorably considered for an ad-
vance. There are in allegiance bills provid-
ing for placing on salary the various
county officials, many Of whom are now
working on fees and whose revenue will
be materially decreased if the proposed
bills become laws. So that the general
tendency is not towards increase, but ra-
Their retrenchment in expenditure of pub
lie moneys. We do not believe the tax
payers will clamor for an increase of 669S
in any salary, and with the Prosecutors
well known regard for the financial well
fare of the people he serves. there will be
little censure and much praise for Sena-
tor Horner If he restores the bill, when it
comes to the Senate. to its original form.
In doing this he merely will be following q
precedent established by himself during
the last and present session in vigorously
opposing increase of salaries of state offic-
ers.