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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-10-19

True and tried friends of the fami-
ly-DeWitt's Little Early Risers
Best for results and best to take.
Rosy cheeks and sparkling eyes fol-
low the use OF these dependable little
pills. They do not grippe or sicken.
Sold by j. H. LuerS Drug Co.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-10-19
SPECIAL BARGAINs.

Friday and Saturday Bargain Counter.
Come and see Our Special Bargains
for Friday and Saturday of.each week.
Don't forget the days-Every week
you will ind some new targains.'
Give us call whether you want to
buy or not. VIM. KELLow, Jr.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-10-19

A cold is much more easily cured
when the bowels are open. Kennedy
Laxative Honey and Tar opens tn
bowels and drives the cold out of til
system in young or old. Sold by ]. 81 !,
LuerS Drug Co.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-10-19

Hives, eczema, itch or salt rheum
sets you crazy. Can't bear the touch
OF your clothing. Doans Ointment
cures the most obstinate cases. Why
suffer. All druggists sell 1T
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-10-19
Doomed for Warden.
Dickinson Want, Change of Venue.

Dickinson Wants Change Of Venue.
DR.. e. p. Gadd and H. B. Dickinson
may be tried in another county for,
the murder of Irene Blydenburgh.
Attorneys for the defendants are con,
sidering a motion for change OF
venue when the case is called up an
the November term of court,
Attorneys for both men say that the
citizens Of Polk county are unduly
prejudiced against Dickinson and
Gadd because OF newspaper publica,
lions and that they could not ger
justice in Polk county. The motion
will be resisted by County Attorney
Miller
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-10-19

If an article is initiated, the origi.
nal is always best. Think 1t over, and
when you go to buy that box of salve
to keep around the house get De Wits
Witch Hazel Salve. 1t is the original
and the name is stamped on every
box. Good for eczema, letter. boils,
cuts and bruises, and especially req
commended for piles. Sold by j. II.
Luers Drug Co.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-02-07

Because by incubation, which we
have often advised and strongly be
lieved in, and which every cattle own
err in the South ought to subject all
his cattle to, we can almost wholly
prevent loss by Texas fever;~yet we
do not agree with. our correspondent
that the fever ticks should be allowed
to continue to infest our lands and
imperil our herds, and the herds of all
those they may come in contact with.
Without the presence of the ticks we
should have no Texas fever and no
necessity to inoculate and our stock
could be shipped into open markets
of the North and West at all times.
The vexatious quarantine restrictions
and discrimination i'm price against our
stock would cease with the eXtermi-
nation of the ticks. incubation will
never cause these to be abandoned
Until the ticks are eXtermina ted, the
South will never become great stock
country. With their determination the
South will become the greatest stock
section Of the United States. They
can be eXterminated from Virginia
and North Carolina, and at a less cost
than is suffered i'm each year by the
stock keepers of those two states To
tempOrize with such an enemy to our
progress and wealth is worse than fol-
ly. incubation is only palliative
1t makes it possible to keep pure
bred stock imported from the North
and West to the South, but it will
never make it possible for us to send
our stock to the best markets at all
times free from discrimination against
Used -. p
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-02-07

both have much to do with it. Where
the conditions are equal the dried
blood and the cottOnseed meal are
most quickly available. Then would
come the concentrated tankage, the
fsh scrap and the bone. 1t would de-
pend somewhat upon the amount of
oil left i'm the fish scrap, or the grease
left in the tankage. 1t is understood
that fish scrap means fish with the
oil pressed out of it, and tankage
means meat refuse with the grease
cooked and pressed out. 1t would be
impossible to tell what part of the
nitrogen would be left. Experiments
i'm New Jersey show that i'm an average
season all the nitrogen in high grade
dried blood was used up the first sea-
sOn-at least the crops which followed
in the next season received no benefit
from it. -. -.-.- .-...
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-02-07
Organic Forms of Nitrogen.

The Rural New Yorker answers
some questions as follows:
How long does it take for the fol-
lowing forms Of fertilizer to become
available. after they are broadcast or
drilled in the ground? Dried blood,
high. grade; dried blood low grade;
concentrated tankage; tankage Ipone) :;
dried fish scraps: cOttOnseed meal. If
used 100 pounds per acre, how much
of each kind would become available
the first season. and how long would
it take before it would be all avail
able? =
Ans-No one can answer the ques-
ton exactly. These organic forms of
nitrogen are changed into nitrates
the form in which plants can use them
when heat and moisture are provid
ell. You might put dried blood in a
warm. sandy loan soil and have it
available in a month, while some of
the same. blood. in cold. undrained
clay, might not be available in three
months. The season and the soil
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-02-07
Reaches 200, 900 Homes
Over a Million Readers
Texas Fever Ticks.

A cattle breeder. in North Carolina,
takes different view of the tick
question from that usually held by
those who keep improved or pure bred
stock He expressed his opinion i'm a
letter to the Southern Planter. The
editor answers his argument very
clearly and forcibly. AS we said be-
FORE so long as the open range exists.
it will be impossible to exterminate the
ticks. at least on the range. Those
who keep their cattle in pastures
might do so if they wished.
| notice the frequent articles as TO
cattle tick or 'TeXas Fever" and
more particularly notice the various
answers given farmers as to tick era
dicatiOn and show easy some of you
say it is to get rid of, the ticks.
Mr.. Editor, do you reckon many of
these. click Smart Alecks'' ever saw
fever tick. or. would *Ee know one
should he be so fortunate as to meet
him In the road? You know 1 gave
you my actual experience along the
tick fever line now nearly two years
ago I can not help feeling sorry for
the poor fellow or fellows who come
to many of you Southern editors ask.
ing what can 1 do for my cattle
they are dying from tick feper?'' And
some | notice say. f'unleSs cam get
you TO help me. | shall be compelled
to quit the cattle business Then
can but laugh when. see t1Te advice
given to this or these same worried
people. Mr.. Editor will say. Il send
you such and such BULLETINS giving, full
treatment as to Kidding asolif1 1andt of
fever ticks. fahd it is SO easy. a. task
to get rid of them. etc. Let some of
you people get a herd of cattle and
try raising them among ticks, unless
already immune against tick fever.
and undertake to clear out the ticks.
and he or they will then know how
to sympathize with these tick-afflicted
people.
| long since found out that free ad-
vice was no more appreciated than
free anything else. So ste keep from
worrying your readers, will Gay to
them, after a-loss of about 50. 500 with
Friend STfck."s.1ves named my stock
farm "Eureka,v and, Sfi.;s 'sEs have
found, it," Now. | would; not rid my Il
pastures of ticks. | am one man who
would not sell them so long as con-
tiITue. to raise cattle. Two fine bulls,
each pure bred. one an Angus. the
other Oneaa RedEPeRTand forty head
of grades .antb calves constitute our
cattle belengiifsls---I Inocu-
iuonsInoOuI iuoqgI A. Williams.
Halifax County, n. G.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-02-07
Loss in Fertilizers on Keeping.

Is there any loss of value from fer
tilizers that are kept over for a con-
siderable time? This is a question
that is often asked. The Progressive
Farmer answers it as follows:
The question is frequently asked as
to whether or not the fertilizer ma
terials, acid phosphate, kainit, muriate
of potash, sulphate of potash, cotton
seed meal, blood, fish scraps, nitrate
of soda, etc, or the mixed made fer
tilizerS from these, lose any of their
fertilizing properties by standing or
keeping over from one season to an
other. There are only two ways in
which loss could occur, namely:
~ By rOtting or decay of the ma
terials and the change into gases
which would enable them to evaporate
and pass off, in the air. and, - =,
90 BY being dissolved in water
from rain or other sources and washed
away. t- go .-. ,.
! Neither acid phosphate nor any. of
the materials supplying potash evapO-
rate. though great many think they
may be lost from the fertilizer. sacks
an this way or from the soil after they
ife applied to the land. The only
danger. then. of loss of phoSphOric
cid or potash from any of the mate
Eials supplying them. is from expos
tlfe to rain, which would dissolve them
Ind carry them away or where the
materials or the sacks containing them
ate left in damp places the water from
the soil Will come in contact with them
ana dissolve some in this way. @
. fSulphate of ammonia which furn-
ishes nitrogen. does not evadorate.
neither does nitrate of Soda when I'M
mixed with other fertilizer materials
These are very soluble in water,
however. and there is great danger in
loss from exposure to rain.
When c0ttOnSeed meal. dried blood.
fish scraps, tankage, and similar mate
rails are kept. thoroughly dry, there is
no loss from keeping them.
iong periods, even for a number of
years. When they are moist, however,
Dh become so on exposure. -decomposi-
ton sets in slowly and there is loss of
he nitrogen, or ammonia. in them.
rs long AS cottonseed meal retains
is bright color there is no loss from
and even after it becomes
quite dark there has not been very
much loss. but this change in color
indicates slow decomposition and con-
'equent slight loss. After this has
)een going on for sometime the loss
nay be considerable The same APP
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-02-07

plies to the other materials. These
last materials are but slightly soluble
in water and there is but slight loss
in them from solution, though becOm-
I ing vet on eXpOsJlre.Of course hastens
heir:decofnpcsition and increases loss
Wien these materials :are mixed,
either by the manufacturers or at
home to make complete~fertiIizers for
various crops, with few exceptions
| there is little or no loss on standing,
provided, the fertilizers are kept in
dry, protected places and are not eX-
posed to rain. Where the materials
are dry. and in nice condition fertili-
;zers may. be kept one or more years
jim this. way without deterioration.
With acid phosphate, either alone, or
i'm mixed fertilizers, there is usually
some change on long standing, es-
pecial1y where there is iron or al1mina
in considerable quantity in the origi-
nal phosphate rock from which the
acid phosphate was made. The iron
and alumina makes some of the phOs-
phOric which was soluble and avail
able again insOluble and of less value
to plants. Where cinder, which is the
refuse from which the manufacture
Of Sulphuric acid at the fertilizer
plants, is mixed with acid phosphate
| or fertilizers, as is sometimes the case
in late years, some of the phosphOric
acid is rendered inSOluble by it, when
the fertilizer stands for a considerable
length of time. Where this is not
done and where the phosphate rock
does not contain originally very much
iron and alumina, the acid phosphate
or mixed fertilizer from it will keep
change in value.
There may be, and frequently is,
considerable loss from nitrate of soda.
due to its decomposition by acid phOs-
plate, when mixed with this material
alone or along in mixed fertilizers. In
high grade trucking goods, where a
large amount of the nitrogen, or am
mOnia, comes from nitrate of soda,
there may be a loss of several per
cent of nitrogen, or ammonia, from
decomposition in this way i'm the
course of a few months. The dryer
and more protected the material is
kept, the less will be the loss and
if allowed to become damp either from
exposure TO rain or from being put i'm
damp place, or even from exposure
to the air, in moist climate, the decom-
position will be materially fastened
Outside of the cases enumerated
above, there is very little change or
loss i'm fertilizers or fertilizer materials
from standing reasonable lengths of
time. and observation of the precau-
lions given will decrease losses where
the conditions are favorable for them
After the fertilizer materials or fer
tilizers have been applied to the soil
the conditions are. of course, different;
even then the phOsphoric acid and
Potash can only get away by washing
with the surface soil into drains, or
else leach through the soil into them
The nitrogen. or ammonia, in the ma
terials supplying them may be lost in
the same way. and in addition, BY de-
composition and evaporation in the
air.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-02-07
Manures and Soils.


All agricultural papers recommend
a rotation of crops. While this is not go
easy where the land is used exclusive
ly for gardening purposes, yet our best
truckers have learned that it is not
best to grow the same crop continu-
Ously on the land. An article from the
Practical Farmer says that the OBJ
ject of rotation is to loosen up the soil.
That is not necessary on our sandy
land, but we do need to grow rota-
ton that will furnish more humus to
the soil, that being the great lack of
our sand. The article from the Practi-
cal Farmer is as follows:
Probably a good deal of the land
now plOwed occasionally would be bet
ter off if not plOwed at all, but kept In
permanent pasture or allowed to grow
up to timber, says Prof. Thomas N.
Hunt i'm N. e. Homestead 1t means
that those lands that are adapted to
cultivation and are part of the regular
tillage operations should be plowed
and changed from one crop to another
sufficiently often to give the crops the
best environment. The purpose of this
rotation of crops is % to give oppOr-
tunity for modifying the physical tex
ture of the soil by tillage, by which its
water-holding capacity is changed, the
circula ton of air FASTENED and the
ease with which the roots penetrate
increased: 02) to add organic matter
to the soil. by which plant food is
added and the physical properties of
the soil are again modified. as just in
dicated: 60 to eradicate noxious
weeds. insect enemies and plant dis
The basis of all soil culture is first
to select the plants or seeds of plants
having the characteristics most desir-
ed. and then furnish them the most
"Ongenial home possible by removing
Ill possible instructions to their fullest
development. A judicious rotation of
"rops is generally the most economic
way of furnishing the environments.
One of the important purposes of q
rotation is to get a new start. This
is an important consideration TO the
New York farmer. who has so large a
norton of his arabic land in meadows.
1t appears that it is customary for
meadows to remain down for
six to eight years in this state without
The rule is two to four good
crops are produced and then the yields
begin to fade away. The reasons for
this are many. but one important
factor is that the timothy plant is not
strictly perennial. its length of life de-
somewhat upon the favorable
ness of its surroundings.
1t has been pointed out that when it
was customary to cut timothy that had
seed i'm it the meadows lasted longer
than at present. Doubtless by the
continued applica ton of seed to mea-
lows. especially if accompanied with
the application of stable manure.
meadows may be successfully main
tanned for many years, but it will
be found better practice to
plow and take off one or more cult
waited crops, and thus get fresh start.
If 1 were to suggest a general form of
rotation applicable to New York state
it would be about as follows: An in
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-07-12
EDITORIAL COMMENT.

Toledo, as far as we can recollect
at this moment, is the first city to
succeed in actually putting some of
the ''big men" in jail. Other com
munities are still struggling with the
tangled mesh of appeal which makes
the laws delay; or have compromis-
ed on the Intellectual punishment of a
fine, easy to bear for the rich crimi-
nal who elves out of a check book. ;"
But in Toledo, the members of the
ice trust are actually behind bolts
and bars. The article, which we print
in this issue, describing Toledo's eX-
perience, we count as n of the
most important contributions to the
very extensive literature on Il pres
ent social and political unrest. 1t Is.
at once a narrative of a great victory
and a sermon; and as a sermon we.
prize it for what distinguishes 1t
from nine-tenths of the contemporary
literature on the same subject-the
serene and confident optimism that
breathes through every line and is
epitomized in the last few words:
"a free people with a free press and
free officials will ONE day find the
way OUT The writer of the article
Aea, mayor of Toledo, Brand Whit
e ana he political nd personal lega-
4hat former mayor of Toledo
ne into the focus Of the
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-07-12
Limitation of Births Is Needed
By Professor F. W. BLAcKMAR. University of Kansas

- HE most general as well as the most fundamental problem OF
charity and philanthropy is to practice the law of love and
to lend aid to the helpless and the weak in such fashion IS
not to degenerate the stock or WEAKEN THE SFlKlI
of the individual race or destroy the social order.
But there are still deeper problems to consider, and these are the
restrictions of marriage and THE LIMITATION OF BIRTHS.
Something must be done to stop the multiplication OF The
UNFIT by heredity, as we'll as by environment. How this is to be
brought about is difficult to say.
We are stepped in tradition and convention. We have so much
hypocrisy in our civilization that it is difficult to apply scientific
methods. But education, legislation and radical social selection, TO
SUPPLEMENT- NATURE, may relieve the situation. This, with
continuance of the social forms and individual characteristics, may
help us to eliminate the unfit.
If left to herself, nature eliminates the weak and the unfit, but
SCIENCE DOMINATES CIVILIZATION, and civilization must
submit to the demands of science.
WE MUST EITHER CEASE TRYING TO RECLAIM THE WEAK OR
MAKE A BETTER SELECTION OF STOCK. IF WE WOULD ELIMINATE
DEeENERAcY, CRIME, PAUPERsM AND POVERTY WE MUST SEE TO
THE STOCK OF THE PEOPLE.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-07-12
Reform in Dem Jersey


of the republican party we find the
following newspapers in favor of re-
tanning the regular" administration
and all that it represents: Jersey City
Journal, Paterson Call, Trenton
Times, State Gazette, Camden Post
Telegram, and Courier, Newark Adj
vertiser, and New Brunswick Home
News. All told, the calculations of
these newspapers is less than $4,000
.-one-half that of the daily papers
devoted to reform. 1t will be noted
that the Elizabeth Journal is omitted
from the list. This is because the
Journal Is regarded as being ION the
fence" Its leanings, however, are
toward the regulars" so it may be
counted as one of their supporters.
AS with the Colbyites, the regulars
have considerable weekly newspaper
support, but it n more than off
sets that accorded to the reformers
by the same class of journals.
Thus it will be seen that in the
matter of newspapers the Colbyites
are fully fifty per cent. better off
than the regulars" This fact is
significant to those who are trying
to get an accurate idea of the proba-
BILE results of the political battle be-
ing waged in this state.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-07-12
Our Peoples Greatest Need
Is Sobriety of Judgment
BY ANDREW D. WHITE. Ex-Preddent of Cornell University

BY ANDREW D. WHITE. Ex-Preident o Cornell University
HERE is but one thing, the development of better education
of the people, to lift them above bufoonery, party cries and
the wles Of chicanery and to insure a fair discussion IN pup
lie affairs and a REALIZATION OF REPUBLICAN
IDEALS. The most important factor to develop in the majority OF
the people is sobriety Of Judgment above all brides, trickery, hy'
tercs, etc.
Closely connected with the study of history IN schools should 90
given the elements of political institutions, studying all the machinery
of our government, and there should be steady moral development to
develop honest thinking, not for the plausible, BUT FOX The
TRUTH. The great thing needed in this country is truth. Simple
ethics. the distinction between right and wrong, should also be taught
Stress should be laid upon WHAT is BEST in history, noble deeds
and sacrifices, especially those which show that the greatest man is not
the greatest orator or the trickiest politician
IN EVERY COMMUNITY THERE ARE FAR roo MANY SHARP
MEN THEY ARE Al CURSE. WHAT WE WANT ARE NOBLE MEM
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-07-12

rope. The ashes of the Tuleries were hardly cold when
hazarded that forecast. The breakup of the Russian en-
pire, as it has hitherto been known, can hardly fail to give
a powerful stimulus to the movement in favor of the formation of
SMALLER STATES ON THE BASIS OF NATIONALITY.
The separatst movement in Hungary, like that in Norway, which has
been held in check for years by the dread inspired by the existence
of the Russian Colossus on the eastern frontier was left free to realize
its ideals when the danger of Russian aggression disappeared. Norway
is already lord in her own house. Hungary has already advanced far
in the same direction. If Hungary becomes a sovereign independent
state, Austria Hungary disappears, and out Of its ruins who can say
how many nationalhies will strive to attain their Independence
The consequences of the Russian revolution and of the war which
precipitated the revolution will affect America most IN CHINA.
The great yellow empire, with its 100000 subjects, was the prize
for which Russia and Japan contended in the recent war; Korea
and Port Arthur were but tries. The dread of japanese domination
in China led Germany and France to make common cause in eecting
the Japanese from the mainland of Asia. ALL the European powers
feel more or less tina, the exploitation of China by European capitalists
is imperled by the appari6on of a victorious Japan upon Chinese terri
tory. THE PEACE o. PORTSMOUTH TRANSFERRED THE
OVERLORDSHIP OF CHINA FROM EUROPE TIC JAPAN.
The results were not long in making their appearance. Japanese mill
tary instructors were imported by the Chinese provincial authorities
for the purpose of drilling the Chinese troops. China also wishes to
be lord in her own house. Already the Chinese are talking about
China for the Chinese, "Asia for the Asiatics and THE PACIFIC
FOR JAPAN"-these are corollaries of the efacement of Russia,
the significance of which Americans and Australians will be the first
to discover.
Out of the welter of blind and bloody anarchy into which Russia is
drifting peace and order may come. After a time, how long no one
can say, after IN mexampled slaughter of human beings by famine
and sword, Russia will emerge in some more or less recognizable shape
and slowly begin to find her new place in the community OF nations.
If the new Russia, which will emerge PURIFIED BY HER
BLOOD BATH, sobered by her affections, should forswear mill
tarism, abandon the fond dream of reconsructng her navy and abol-
ish the monstrous tariff which has choked the life out of her peasantry,
then the world may witness a scene of recuperation and of develop
ment such as may parallel the industrial progress of the United States
after the civil war. r
FOR RUSSIA 1 A NATION WHOSE RESOURCES HAVE BEEN
ONLY SCRATCHED. THE LATENT ENERGIES OF HER PEOPLE,
STIMULATED BY LIBERTY AND EDUCATION, MAY CONFER INES
UNABLE BENEFITS UPON CIVILIZATION AND HUMANITY