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The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1906-12-15

powers of the soil now hidden
from him. The work of the De-
partment has already had results
valued at hundreds of millions OF
dollars annually and yet has
barely crossed the threshold OF
its mission of discovery and edu.
cation"
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1906-12-15

foot. the advice given by Drl
Robert, which is referred to
above, will be found to have a
common sense basis.
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1906-12-15

Jim Cooper. Cadarcsta. Miss.
EDITOR GAZETTE:
have been 4 subscriber to
your lpaper nearly a year. and
find that it Just suits me in
every particular. A semi.month.
ly suits me better than a weekly
would. l will do all l can to
help support it. will send the
names of some Of my friends
who believe will subscribe.
Please send them sample copies
of the Gazette. and l want TO ask
every one that receives 4 copy to
send fifty cents direct 10 the
Southern Farm Gazette for 4
years subscription. You will
never regret it..
Seeing 40 much about dog tax,
| would like to say a word.
While | AN no dog owner still /
am opposed to dog taxation.
The first place il would deprive
negroes OF their favoritc COM
panion. Then the cottontailx
would destroy our farm truck
and the 'possums would get
afoul OF our chickens at night.
They would be numerous II they
were not kept caught up. Ne.
grocs nearly live on that kind OF
game here. and still | can hardly
have \ goobcr patch. There il
always two sides to \ question.
but the way 10 settle this one 10
to shoot every prowling dog. II
will be all right IL you don't let
the owner see you.
Dog. never bother my sheep.
have kept them \ good many
years and live right in \ dog
quarter. l keep them close to
the house and we'll beIled,
though. ! keep pure bred sin.
gle comb brown Leghorn chick.
ems, and think | made no mis-.
take in selecting them-that il
for a small farm. am a chick.
en- lover aud would like 10 follow
poultry keeping a. a business;
would like to help some good
honest man or woman on som {
poultry and stock farm. | would
like to hear from any one need.
ing the help of n young single
man in any way.
Editor ial note: This is inter.
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1906-12-15
Sweeny Cure
=. T.. 4.

Mr.. l.. II. c.. Crawford. Miss.
the Doctor has prescribed for
your horse. but l want TO tell
you my remedy for the sweeny.
Catch the hide on bis shoulder
with both hands and jerk it ~
hard an you can three or four
times, and do that four times .
day for two wecks. But don't
ride him. think that will cure
the sweeny.
Editorial note: As boy !
followed that treatment and
blew air under the skin OF the
shoulder by inserting \ quill into
a small hole cut in the akin.
Using liniments was also resort.
ed TO. Tha, was before / learn
cd that the shrinking away OF the
muscles OF 4 limb in usually
caused by \ diseased condition
OF some lower part. now also
know that shoulder hmcness
of:en disappears IL merely ie,
alone, and suppose that &C.
counts for some Of the imagined
cures. An injury to the foot OF
4 horse may make the foot pain.
full when stepped on, aud that
causes the animal TO favor the
foot; and when muscles arc not
used they may shrink. a man
may have stomach trouble that
affects his eyes. and an untraiu.
ed obaerver would want to treat
the eyes with salvc maybe,
while a doctor would treat the
stomach in such a case. This
statement il made 10 that il may
appear more reasonable to treat
the foot Of a horse when the
trouble seems to an unframed OBJ.
server TO be confined 10 the AMI.
mails shoulder. II one will con.
slider why the shoulder muscles
shrink when the cause ia in the
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1906-12-15
Improved Farming

ture Wilson. it is we'll to remem.
Der that he was a highly sue
cessful farmer before he was
called to Washington to take up
his present duties. While at
Washington he has done far
more for good far ming than any
other man who ever held a SINH.
lay position anywhere on earth.
This is a very broad statement;
but the intensely practical quail.
ty Of his work has borne such
fruitful results that the state.
ment is fully justified. His
forthcoming report will speak of
the good scientific farming will
do, and when he mentions scien.
tiic farming he means farming
in which any careful man of in.
teiligence can apply the discov-
cries that are being rapidly made
by trained workers for aiding
farmers-not something that al
expert is required to use. Who.
ever will read good agricultural
literature, including the bull.
letins published by the expert.
ment station in ones own state
and by the Department Of Agri-
culture at Washington. all Of
which are sent free on request,
will be in . position to keep up
with the procession OF progress
and larger harvests per acre.
Secretary Wilson's report will
say:
mo miracles would be re.
quircd to double or even treble
the production OF cotton per
acre. The corn crop can be in
creased by onc.half per acre
within the fourth OF a century
and yet without reaching the
limit. and the same may be said
Of wheat and other crops. One.
fourth OF the dairy cows OF the
country do not pay for their
feed, and more than one-half OF
them pay no profit. The egg
production per hen will be in.
creased by at least a dozen a
wear within a generation. while
some poultrymen foretell double
that increase If the hens of this
year had each laid a dozen eggs
more than they did, the increas.
ed value Of this production
would have possibly aggregated
fifty millions of dollars"
The Secretary follows this
with some very pertinent sug-
gestions, saying: "The farmer
.;ii mt fail the nation ~ the "a.
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1906-12-15
Dogs Are Needed

Jim Cooper. Cadarcsta, Miss.
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Bath for City Birds
From ne Kansas cip Star

NN'' 70 ~ wv H'@f
A night telephone operator at IRE head
quarters stood at a window and looked OUT
upon the roo: OF an adjoining building from
out OF which protruded the exhaust pire
81 an engine. The condensed steam from
this pipe had fallen upon rhe 1st roof and
formed a pool in a depression.
Before the sun was an hour high at least
hfty birds had taken their morning bath IN
this pool and others we're chattering and
splashins and flying sround the exhaust
pipe on the roof.
It's the regular morning bath. 80 said the
operator. The En- glish sparrow is The cock
Of the walk up on the roofs Of these buildings
Pigeons. .~wallows-in facr, all birds. m AXE
way for the sparrovs. Not Ions ago two
pigeons. seeing the shower bath nor IN use.
Aev down 10 IL. and we're having . big time
bathing. They Just simply ~monopolizsd
ell the spray. A sparrow loined Them One
Of rhs pigeons nipped him 'rith his bull and
the sparrow darted away He stopped on
the roof a few feet distant and Contemplated
rhA pigeons. Then he l>ft. In ahout Ave
minu-es a flock OF fully thirty sparrows
swooped down on the bath and attacked
the Two pigeons and drove them owsv
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lLandlubber Guiis.

From the Pail NdH Gusette.
One Of the rarest birds at the seaside Iust
now is the scagull. and the reason Of it is that
at this season OF the year the land has more
attractions for many a sesfsrins bird than the
sea. Without reckoning the large number OF
gulls that find their way up the Thames as
far as London and beyond. a very large pro-
portion of those whose real nome Ia among
the wind swept cliffs OF our southern coasts
spend nearly all the hours OF daylight from
autumn until spring upon the nplsnds many
a mile from the shore.
Sometimes you may md them following
in the track OF the plough at the p~loughman's
very heels. at other times the gulls are by
themselves in the stubbles and. again, with
the stsrlings in the meadow OF near the sheep
fold or h~obnobbing. with the peewits in the
marsh.
But these visitors from the sea are most in
their element when they find tho farmer
manuTing his land with what is known COM
merciaIly ~ fishery salt. among which are
to be found many fra gments of food and
sometimes whole FISH. IL lie easy. work then
10 pick up a living, and the birds become
quite a nuisance to the husbandman, who
does not buy stale fish in order to provide a
feast for gulls too lazy 10 catch it for them
selves.
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she has never vet recovered her standing
artietlcallv.
Tho difference the past was the desire
Of the manager 70 have an actor play any
part thai he thought suited To him SO soon
as he was ripe to act HGWlet, " tcbe'h or
any Of the great parts he usually got tho
opporrunitv. for his public wanted to see
him do II and the manager expected, Of
course. 10 prCit bv this curiosity. Nova
DAYS the actor is compelled to play what the
manager engages him for Actors cannot
afford 10 refuse offers which will coUphl
them 70 play parts absolutely uns,dted to
them. they take the risk even when the
result is almost certain TO put them back
several years in their professional progr' 50.
OF course the actor ought TO say that he
will Tlay less important parts and TAX q
ANYTHING Of a humber kind until he gets
the chance 70 aCt what II suited 10 him.
Few Of them. however, are able TO resist
the temptation Of a large offer.
do you suppose that an actress h al
lowed herself 10 be made a star several
years ago in a part utterly unsuited 70 her
would ever have made the mistake If she
had foreseen the consequences She " a
Coincidence, healthy loo ing rather than
beautiful. jolly and pug noSed. Her mana
ger cast her for al intensely emotional role
in a French play. He might almost as well
nave cast Marie Dressler for FroU-F'rou.
Tho woman knew that tho part vas out Of
her line, but any fears she may have bad
NFlT dlag VI ~ WV fAlNlllA0hnNAl W wv
manager at rehearsals. He probably was
sincere. az managers do not always discern
the qualities Of a performance uncrrinGly.
"The pubic is going To zee tho most re-.
maIkablc iheo o emotiopal acting witnes 2 !
since The night that Leslie Carter NO .
'em up IN "Zazs. " he told every ono as
the rehearsals were in progress.
The play fell down and she fell with II.
The manager N0s 20 mad a. the public
reversal OF his judgment thai neither he nor
his associates would over give the unfor-
tunate woman another chance TO bo . tar
She il one nov, bat II is in the camp of The
enemy.
a good plHy did not help one woman
who had been engaged by q maragsr 10
hecon" q star. The manager with whom
she had made her contract would not put
her into the play she had acquired from q
young 9uihoI Because he wanted her 10
play only fh" parts Of rood NOmen. This
heroine was by no means good. Although
her MANAGER would not par her into this
play he wa apparently able 10 find no
other. So u was amicably decided be-
tween them that she should GO 10 ONE
body else.
with such u good play A. hat You
will find no difficulty IN getting q manager
to iakn y"r,' h" said, although II n not
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the world in 1901 to contribute the funds
required as a religious duty. They have
responded tirelessly, funds are continually
pouring into the treasury and nearly the
entire cost OF the road, as il advances week
by week, lie betrayed by these free will
offerings
Gen. Auler Pasha, formerly OF the Ger
man army and now in the service Of Turkey.
knows this enterprise from it's inception
TO the present time. He has just written
the history of Die Hedschasbahn," illus
trated with many views OF the progress
~ the road. II is published as a supple
ment to Petermdrn's MitteiIungen, and the
facts and illustrations used here are taken
from this exhaustive report.
Every Moh0mmedan h is rich enough
TO make the costly journey believes it il
mis- religious duty 10 go on a pilgrimage to
Mecca the Prophets birthplace at least once
10 his life. About 100. 600 of these pilgrims.
coming from all parts of the Mohammedan
world, meet every year to worship at
the Ka'aba and win the special blessing of
heaven.
Many caravans Of Arabian pilgrims take
che sandy routes across Arabia 10 Mecca.
Many Fersians also cross the Arabian
desert. but most OF them take the sea route
% Jedda. on the Red Sea. and then the cara
van road TO Mecca. From 1000 10 10000
pilgrims a year, coming from Egypt, north
africa and India, as we'll as Turkey. Asia
Minor and south Russia, reach Mecca by
c1v Of Jedds
T. i rhe Syrian pilgrims, about 5000
annually. who travel the wearisome pill
grim road from Damascus through Medina
r7d Mecca. For the poorest travellers the
Journey cess az least $3.50, and none but
the comparatively we'll 70 do can AFFORD
this expense.
The route Is especially famous because
i' .s he road followed by the annual cara
IAN Of the sultan Of Turkey. who sends
costly presents 70 the Sheriff Of Mecca and
me Hcdouin sheiks, carried all the way
between a battalion of infantry and a bat
terry Of field artillery.
The pilgrim railroad. though only one
third completed. is already attracting many
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road is that II is being built almost wholly
by soldiers. Regiment after regiment of
Turkish troops has from time 10 time been
ordered 10 tha front and with pay averaging
about twelve and a half cents q day the
soldiers perform the hard work of railroad
building with the Utmost c~heerfulness and
even with enthusiasm. for they believe II a
blessed thing 10 ave a part in building
the railroad 70 the holy cities.
Far out in the desert three large detach-
ments of the working force may az all times
be seen. One is the force of surveyors n
engineers, which Is from thirty to ninety
miles in advance Of the second party They
are busy with compass, chain and aneroid
barometer laying out the roadway and
making the technical studies required.
In that desert waste they must q course
be fitted out as a complete caravan. with
tents. food. coal. water and a guard of sol
diers 70 protect them against Bedouin
bandits They make large scale maps
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the sort of a part in whiol I am willing 70
present you. Why don't Won go 10 see
Mr. N.?'
"She did 90 70 sec Mr.. Y. He was glad
TO see her and she left the play with nun
He read il. and when she came again 10
see him he told her il was great. He was
perfectly willing 70 engage her and to do
all that was necessary 10 make her a sue
cessful star. butt was a colossal but
B W | want 70 use this play for another
actress IN nv ranks, Miss Y, he said. 1t
suits her as II il we've written for her. She
Is an extremely difficult woman to tt.
have been for two years looking for some
thing that will do for her. She is dellg hUed
with this play and ] am willing 70 star You
in any other piece you select. but nor this
one.
~She was furious and declined the offer.
The manager told her with greater charity
than she might have expected that she
could come back TO him whenever she
wanted. He knew well enough that none
of his colleagues would go against him IN
his matter. The actress learned thar
later. In vain she sought other mana gers
but none Of them wanted her in that play.
SO her tour for that season was an Impos-
sibility. She had the play, however. for
she had paid her advance royalties. IL was
the author who next came 10 the attaC6.
81 shall lose the han 70 have my play
acted unless you give ~ back 10 me, he
said 10 her. and IA am q young man IL Is
important for me 70 get a hearing with this
play. One like II may be written some
time before you become a star and my work
will be worthless. IL seems 10 me that
you ought 10 let me have my play back If
| pay you the AMOUNT you ave me beca USE
there is no telling when ycu may prod'Ice
it,
The actress saw the truth Of this and
gave him hack the play. The manager
who wanted IL was. Of course. the pIr-
chaser. The other woman was announced
in " the next week. The failure ~ tho
piece was the only consolation that tho first
actress got ont Of the affair
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thousands Of devotees from lands which
have hitherto used other routes. The day
will soon come when all the pilgrims from
European Turkey will travel by rail between
Constantinople and Mecca.
The railroad from Damascus north
through Aleppo L. nearly completed to
the railroad which the Germans arc build
ing between Co~nstantinople and the Persian
Gulf. When this German road is COM
pleted Persian and Indian pilgrims may
also travel all the way by rail from the
Persian Gulf TO the pilgrim railroad and
thence south TO Mecca. The pilgrim rail-
road Is expected ultimately to carry abou
half the pilgrims who visit tho holy cities.
Gen. Auler says that the evidences OF the
terrible s%uirorings endured by pilgrims ON
this longest desert route 90 Mecca are most
impressive. and the completion Of the pill
grim railroad will be u boon to mankind.
Up to September /. 1885. the total amount
Of contribut ions from Mohammedans to-
ward the building Of this railroad amounted
to 0.3O.OOO. TO the steady incoming Of
contributions the profits Of working th"
phosphate and sulphur beds along tue line
add an important amount 10 the conStruc-
ton funds.
All food and railroad material must be
brought from afar, and a. the line progresses
southwark the cost Of thC material required
is increa sed. II was decided a white ago
that the transportation OF the great guam
THY Of railroa d material over the French
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called managerial tyranny. Miss Russell
had always wanted 70 play schening n
wicked adventuresses. She would have
reveIled in the aRnnies and wickedness Of
Cora, in Article Al Her manager. how
ever. would never allow her 20 do anything
Of the kind. He made her play comedy
roles. in which the public delighted TO see
her As A consequence she made money
for herself and her manager.
Such uncompromising control, however,
does not always lead 10 such satisfactory
financial results. Only a short time ago
one manager selected as a star a young
actor who bad made considerable success
in polite refued comedy. To introduce
him ar n star the manager selected a broad
cocknev farce Of English life The title
role had been played abroad by q queer
little rn,iDcer who would never have caused
a smile in this country. he played the
part in the manner Of the late Dan Leno.
Well. the actor was Wnen, ne
read the part. He was so overw helned a.
the contrast in what this part needed and
what he had been in the habit OF acting
that he went to the manager and told MIN now
impossible he felt IL was for MN TO act
such a part,
I'm glad 10 hear YOU say that - the man
saer esld. 1T shows me that my plan IS all
right. I know thnt such q piece wouIo De
hound TO tail ia New } ork II " was pidSeu
as the English actor uld ". ! want YOU 10
make IL polite and refined. I don't want
snv Of the funny tricks that the Bnglsllrnan
nut into l.. want ~ PLAYED. Id other
words. in a high comedy way
Tbs result was awful. High comedy
was not possible ~ applied 70 the piece.
and the failure Wa complete lfthat Young
actor had been less talented and had made
less of . reputation the blow would nave
killed his aspirations. AZ II was he had me
modification of seeing The theatre closed
nt the end If two weeks and h" spent m -
ot tho season out Of employment.
Another case ~ what an actress mag 10
under contract wa shown last wear when
a rather noted Coincidence appeared m
musical farce She was. Of course. entirely
our of her element, had no voice and scarcely
auy other qualification for such work.
Her friends wondered what in the world
she was doing. Only . few persons knew
tbat she was under contract 10 star with
the msna ger who produced the hnrles1'le.
The play had proved u failure and she
would have been on 81 a job for the rest
Of the seaAOn had she not seized the oppor
tunity to take "A part IN the burleeque he WIS
producing and thus assure herself SALARY
n was comfortable 70 get the NalHry. but
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railway between Beirut and Damascus had
become too costly.
A part of the railroad FUND was therefore
diverted to hnilding a branch line from the
Port of Hai;a to the pilgrim railroad b I
sixty miles south of Damascus. This
branch is II wv in operation carrying mater y
to the main line. " is expected in future
10 bring many thousands Of pilgrims from
Mediterranean lands to Haifa and over the
branch line To the pilgrim railroad.
The track is narrow gauge. Many ex-
periencps during the progress Of co%nstruc-
ton have been entirely novel.
As the line advanced into the Arabian
desert it vas found that no matter how
we'll seasoned the wooden ties were they
we're warped under the intense heat of
the sun and with their use a level track
could not possibly be laid. Iron ties have
been substituted for them.
The great est difficulty is the lack of water.
A few stations have deep wells and others
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Devil bird OF CeyIOD

Ryor, the Chiecro pdIv News
Most people Who have visited the sian
~ Cevlo0 and penetrated into IT. jungle
Businesses hsve heard vhe cry Of the dewitt
bird This awe inspiring sound resembles
nothing 50 much as rhe scream Of q humln
being undergoing rhe most terrible torture
Naturalists have identified IL with the brown
wood owl found IN Hindistln
Rut nc de,il bird. or ulau9, as the Cinsa.
lesr col II. II m eiu-iy" creature. and no one
has Ind the good fortune 20 Kill az catch .
-ue,im ~ Tho Cingaiasp-naturally o III
pers'tIous race regard ne rr,- Of this bird
with thc utmos; horror they telieye that H.
scream heard AZ uiGht presa ges the most
dire misfortune, and they are In the In nit Il
Offering sacrifices 20 avert tho appron ching
disaster.
Mr. Milford ~ rho Cevlon civil service
studied the mysterious bird with great In.
terest. "lts ordinary note, he Vrr'es Is
. magnificent. clear shout like that ~ Q M
man being. which ran no heard az Q gres'
distance. and has a fine eject In the silence
~ III" closing night But the Sounds which
have earned for H. it, bad harnn and witch
] have heard but once - perfection. sre
indescrihahle. rho most appalling that car b.
imagined and scarcely 10 he hes rd without
shuddering ] can only compare n N a boy
IN torture. whose scTPr ms are being stopped
b. being stTanGl"i