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The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-03-31
The Necessity for SPRAYING.

The Farmers Review has been ad.
vising farmers for many years to
eiopt spraying as a means of control.
Ing the fungous and insect pests that
destroy the crops in their orchards.
Slowly about all OF our orchardists
have come into line, but as yet there
are a good many farmers with small
orchards that are taking their chances
with the apple scab and other pests.
We do not believe that 1t will be pos.
sible 10 get the very best results with
spraying till we have induced every
nan that has an orchard to take meas.
ures to protect that orchard from the
pests that assail IL from the time the
buds begin TO swell in the spring till
the leaves fall in the autumn. We have
watched the practice OF spraying since
the process came into vogue and are
sure that 1t is a process that the
farmer cannot afford TO ignore. II
every farmer will take up the study
and practice Of spraying in earnest,
the fruit crop OF this country will be
enormously increased thereby~-Farm.
ers' Review.
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-03-31
Fertilizers,

\ man must use fertilizers inte,li.
gently or he will throw away a great
deal Of money upon them. It is sb.
surd for a farmer 10 purchase a fer.
tilizer just because it is a valuable
fertilizer and put it upon land that
he does nor know needs fertilizers.
\ man should not cXpend a dollar IN
fertilizers Till he knows what kind
ne needs. If his land is rich in n
certain element he will but throw
money away II he buys fertilizers 20
put en- his land. Wasting money In
this way is one Of the penalties az not
knowing.
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-03-31
Rotation Of Crops.

The tendency of many a farmer Is
to grow the same crop upon the same
ground for an indefinite series or
years. One field is known as the pc.
tato field, another as the corn field,
another as the wheat field, and an
other as the meadow. This retention
in one place of n kind OF CROP is a
mistake. Any kind or rotation Is bet
ter than no rotation. The meadow
kept as a meadow for a long series OF
years gives a thin sod very generally,
while the ground retained as a corn
field for twenty or thirty years gives
IN exhaustion Of humus. Moreover
certain kinds of insects multiply in
he old sod lands, and they, too, al.
feet the grass crop. Bill bugs multi
ply in the corr lands and become de-
structivo to the corn crop. BY a rota'
ton the insects are largely destroyed
as their food is taken away from them.
A continual rotation, bringing in clover
every few years, will keep the land
in a very workable condition and VIII
keep the insects from establishing
themselves. Different kinds Of plants
have different kinds Of roots. Some OF
the roots are surface feeders and some
penetrate deeply. A. an illustration OF
these two we have the corn plant,
which Is q surface feeder, and the
clover plant, which reaches deep into
The earth. The deep roofing plants
furnish much roots to the soil and in
their decay these leave minute chan.
nels for the passage Of water and the
upward movement Of fertilizing mate,
rial. A rotation that includes the le.
gumes Is a good one, but even with.
out the legumes a rotation of any
kind is generally beneficial.
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-03-31
The Tree peddler.

hoNihS Setu q great uedl on lDt
much abused tree peddler, allow ne
70 say what l think on this line. Now
everything has its inception or source.
and before we indo-se or condemn
anything we should look we'll TO its
source. In my opinion the biggest
ao%l against the despised tree peddler
comes from certain characters of mar.
fow principles in that direction, and
the majority of these individuals are
those that pose as nurserymen and
horticulturists. men that grow nursery
stock by proxy and always manage to
hod a good, fat position.
NOW as to the despised tree ped.
dter, there may be one now and then
with impure motives, but a very large
majority OF them are of a high moral
character, educated and honest. cheer.
sruy taking mp their arduous work of
going ont in the country. travelling in
all kinds Of weather and all kinds of
conditions tina: a man on the road
runs up against. interesting the farm.
ers n landowners in planting orch.
ards and teaching them how to are
for salIe. He is the educator OF the
planter and grower Of commercial
orchards, He Is the one that has
caused the farmers to convert their
cheap farming lands into high.priced
commercial orchard lands. He is the
one that has caused the many small
landowners to o live in good houses
with good barns and a nice little bank
account.
I will venture to say this much
despised man never signed a petition
70 have a state or an increased state
appropriation, neither does he want
Any state aid; he is a man Of broad
principles, believes any business
oul stand on its W merits, and
a. the same time he knows that he has
ocnetited the mar he sold trees to
more than he was benefited himself.
Now, brother nurserymen let us give
trat one his dues. How often does he
E" out among the people, interest and
create a desire for good fruit. and
then, because so much has been said
aud written about the tree peddlers,
VII lose his order, as the farmer may
s'nd his order direct to some nursery.
is ne moi entitled TO our respect, at
l'as,? How often has a face to face
talk with men on the matter OF
orchards and fruit growing resulted
ia a good order 20 some one. I have
leon a canvasser for trees and am
o a grower of nursery stock for IS
Years and ! think know come things
+ ! can't tell it in an interesting way,
The requisites of a successful can.
rasser OF nursery stock are integrity
necessary business qualifications, a de,
sire TO succeed, strong personality
and a good ability to mix with the
pCople.-C. A. Bennett, White Co., III.
in Farmers Review.
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-03-31
The Small Farm Is the Home Farm,

William Smythe in his book on the
Conquest OF Arid America, says: The
great farmer of California is the sue.
cessor Of the gold hunter. Both were
spectators. Both looked with con.
tempt upon the matter of making Il
living and dreamed only OF making a
fortune. or homes and institutions
they were neither the architects nor
the builders. They sought only TO
take the wealth from the soil and
spend IL elsewhere. The miner leaves
nothing to commemorate the place
where he gathered gold save the
crumbling novels and empty tin cans
The five thoussnd-acre wheat farmer
leaves no monument beyond fields of
repulsive stubble and the shanties of
his "hoboes."
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-03-31
500 Reward, 500,

The readers ~ this paper VIII be pleased 10 learn
that there + nj least one dreaded disease that science
has been able 20 cure In all its stages, and that IL
tatarrh. Hairs IHtarrh cure Is the only positive
being o constitutional disease, requires n cOnstitu'
tonal treatment. Halls IHtarrh cure l. taken In.
teInaIly, acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces ~ the system, thereby destroying the
Foundation u the disease, and giving the patient
strength 10y building up the constitution ard assist.
Ing nature I'm doing IT. work. The proprletors have
so much fam IN It's curative powers that they oner
One Hundred Dollars for any case that Il falls to
cure. send tor list of testimonials,
Address -. tHENEi 4 CO., Toledo, o.
Sold hy all Druggistr, 1ic.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-03-31
Arid America to Be Productive

In time the arid sections of the
United States will be among the most
productive sections, as in those local..
ties the sunshine is about eternal
and the soil is rich in mineral food
IL needs but water and humus to
make it bloom and blossom. Grear
quantities OF water are now going 10
wastn that will ultimately be turned
back for the irrigation of the land.
Tab!elands that are 0 ahcye the
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-03-31
Garfield Tea, Mild Laxative,

Regulates the Liver, Kidneys, Stom.
ach and Bowels, cures Constipation
and Sick Headache. Send this notice
with your name and address 10 the
Garfield Tea Co, Brooklyn, n. Y. for
free sample package. Sold at all drug
stores. Send us the name of your
druggist.
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-03-31
More Flexible and Lasting,

won't shake out or blow out; by using
Defiance Starch YOU obtain better re-
suits than possible with any other
brand and o%ne-third more for same
money.
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-03-31

Judge llall"t Is not To be accused
Of the crime of punuing Just because
when an attempt was made TO get into
his count the ease Of Il man charged
with importing horses with abbrevi-
atod tails he refused TO docket says
tn" Denver Republican.
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-03-31

It may be all right for a girl TO learn
skating from a teacher in a cores
pondenCe school 900 miles away, but
a young man with a strong right arm
right here at home is better.
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-03-31
FITS

EIIC permanently cured. No hts or nervousness After
= " hrst day suse Of Dr. K!ine'sGreAt Nerve Kestor.
or, send i9r FREE $500 trial hottie and treatise.
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-03-31

"rhc first cigar | smoked cost me
twenty cents. You muSt ave had
an awfully cheap DOCTOR
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-03-31
Worth moving

that Allcock's are the original and only
genuine porous plasters; all other so-called
porous plastcrs are limitations.
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-03-31

reach Of the ~irrigator will ultimately
he reached by the fume and the lat
eral. That land Is capable OF enor'
nous productivity.
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-03-31
Those Who Have Tried II.

Will use no other. Defiance Cold Wa
ter starch has no equal in Quantity
or Quality-lt on, for 10 cents. other
brands contain only II OF.
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-03-31

Yes. the widow married rather soon.
but then she n"cdd u man to care for
h"r fortune "Doubtlcss she found one
who cares for it,
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-03-31

You say tina YOU made some good
New Years resolutions. What had
hahils dld YOU decide to quit" only
one, | resolved to quit being a gutter"
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-03-31

Theft and stingiuess are similar, but.
OH, so different.
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-03-31

SOM" Of our greatest joys spring
rom S"rIpWS We have almost for
GutltN.
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-03-31

~ impossible to convince a girl tina
complexion
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-03-31

b0n waste money on a patent when
you invent an excuse.
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-03-31

Originator Of the Tin Foil Smoker Pack.
age. The mar who has made Lewis
Single Binder Straight SC Cigar famous
among smokers throughout the West
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-19
A Horrible Example.

What a lovely inauguration day this
would he, What cheerful time the crowds
gathered from all quarters would have!
What a delightful experience for the ven
cradle officials and foreign representatives
assembled at the Capitol to participate In the
ceremonies, And think of the marching
men, Gould anything be more appalling?
Yet this is just in line with the posi-
bIlities every Inauguration year. March 4
this year was not especially bad. The
ceremony might have been conducted with
the usual features without danger to any
one or serious discomfort But since then
there have been several days of the kind TO
make converts by the score to the change
of-date proposition in Congress.
Are these object-lessons sinking into the
hearts OF members of the House and SEN
ate2 Are they realizing the risk that IS
run with each day of delay In acting upon
the constitutional amendment now pending?
The end Of the session IS not far distant.
Two months more viii probably bring all
work az the Capitol to a close. This amend
ment should be passed by Congress at this
session If it is to take effect. upon ratifica-
tion by TIE states. In time for the next in
auguratiou.
No man can safely say that the Inaugural
ton OF President Rooseyelt's successor If
It occurs on the 4th OF March will not be
precisely such a day this. If the pend
Ing amendment is adopted. there will be
no possible chance of this sort of vista
ton. There will certainly be no snow and
no keen airs. to cause pneumonia and carry
on victims by the hundreds. The day may
be damp, but no visitor to the capital city
would 90 placed in jeopardy OF life by par
tieipaung in or watching the ceremony
The passage OF the amendment will put
everybody on the safe side. AS long as 1t
Is held up there is danger Of a caIamitous
result from every recurrence of the great
rational ceremonial.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-19

About this time. to adopt the lingo OF
the old-style almanac. look out Tor as
saults on the rules of the House Con-
gressional nominating conventions are ap-
preaching. Statesmen ambitious to con-
tinue in Office are anxious about, and are
keeping tab on, sentiment at home. w hat
about that bill for the relief of Colonel
Smithkins which was introduced early in
the session? The colonel, and his ten sons
and his four sons-in-law. and numerous
nephews--all husky citizens for or against
fellow in a campaign-are waiting to
hear. A speech the subject at least
would do some good, and yet the tyranny
of the Speaker Is a bar even to a word. Out
upon such an un-Amercan arrangement!
What are members of the House. anyhow?
Serfs? Or free representatives of a free
people? How much longer will the people
stand for such a travesty on popular gov
eminent? And
Never was patter more entertaining, or
more futile. Really, If the public business
could afford the experiment. It would be a
good thing to have one House run on the
principle that every member should be the
Judge of his own time OF recognition by the
chair, of the topic for the occasion, and
of the time to be consumed in discussing it.
HtlaI CIRCUS IDHI NOUiu De! Oiie Has
only to consider that the membership of
the House approaches the four-hundred
mark, and that thousands CT bills and
resolutions are introduced at every session,
to see the absolute necessity for perfect
order and the utmost economy of time in
regulating the proceedings. II every mem
Der were at liberty to unbosom himself at
pleasure and at length on subjects nearest
his own heart and political interests, chaos
would come again. and a village school
Il playtme would be parodied at the
national expense,
But it is all for the galleries, and for
the old folks at home" A member learns
the situation in a very short time, and In
his heart approves of what is going on. If
he is eloquent" one or two opportunities
will serve his purposes. and If he is only a
plain man of business and holds highfalutin'
talk at low rate, he finds time enough in
which to express himself. AS matters stand
1t is case of little oratorical cry and
much Legislative work-maybe too much.
As proposed. it would be a case of con-
tinuous cry, and nothing else doing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-19
Cleveland.

Mr.. Cleveland, sixty-nine years old yester-
day. is In Florida fishing in good health and
spirits. Is he out of politics for good Z?
Would it be safe to answer in the aff1rma-
tive? When were our affairs in quite so
much confusion? Both of the old parties
are divided on important questions, and a
third party is on the cards for action two
years hence. 1t may aot call itself, or
permit Itself to be called, the socialist
party, but 1t squints strongly in that direc-
ton. The radical wing of the democracy
is under the influence of the Bryan and
Hearst people, and there is a faction of
the republican party somewhat out OF line
with the old principles Of that organization
Cries OF radicallsm and conservatism are
filing the air. Would 1t be startling if
one of the conservative factions should
nominate the man who, though rated as a
radical some years ago. is. according to
the definitions of this time rated as a con-
sentative now2
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-19

weather was all over. But what Is our dis
appointment compared with his. He has NO
precedents fer going back We can stay In
doors-some OF us-and scoff at the snow
and the cold. but he must root hog or die
in earnest.
The vagaries of the weather are such that
no one Is safe In striking out on bold lines
of prophecy. Neither the highly scientific
forecaster. who disdains to spread himself
over more than couple or possibly three
days. nor his deadly rival. the long distance
prophet, is ever easy In his mind when he
has uttered q warning or a promise. Noun
tains have disturbing way of holding back
storms. and oceans have an equally disturb
ing habit of sending IN warm and wet and
cold currents of air. and both tend occasion
ally to upset the best-laid plans of the wise
acres In their roosts and laboratories.
The sun crosses the line" at Q: 80 am. day
after tomorrow. That means that spring
begins officially and automatically at that
time. Thus the present snow may be mere
ly bit of winters insistence upon taking
advantage of the full time allotted. 1t may
be showing of natures authority over her
creatures. Just because there has, been SO
little snow and cold and generally season
able weather this winter is no reason why
the year should fade into another phase
without some sign of fidelity to tradition.
And there Is always the consolation that all
the chill We suffer now serves to even up
the average. 1t may be that these raw days
or mid-March will lessen our debt to nature
to be paid next winter by sufferings far be-
yono those OF the closing season.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-19
Salaries, Duties and Years.

one Of the critics of the department clerks,
speaking IN the House the other day on the
proposition in the legislative bin for an age
salary limit. declared that there are hun
dreds of cases of men doing important work
and receiving low salaries and other men
doing uninportant work and receiving high
pay He cited this fact-which Is undoubt-
eddy true-as reason for hopping off the
elder men. 1t is about as sensible a reason
as any that has been advanced for the
nonstrous injustice now proposed.
II this paragraph becomes a law through
congressional enactment and presidential
approval scores OF elder clerks now receiv-
ing salaries commensurate with their per-
formances will be automatically reduced In
pay, those over sixty-f1ve to 81. 100 and less
those over sixty-eight years to $1,000 and
less end those or seventy and over to $50.
and possibly less. These reductions will be
obligatory upon departmental and bureau
chiefs. There is to be no discretion what
eysr.
Under these conditions the elder men now
satisfactorily performing important duties
must either reliuQuish their present desks
In favor of younger men and accept duties
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-19

proportionate In degree of difficulty and
responsibility to the salaries attached to
them, or else they must continue to perform
the important tasks at less pay than they
have been receiving. To permit the latter
world perpetuate in aggravated form. the
evil complained of by the speaker just cited
To do the former would seriously interfere
with the organization of some OF the most
important branches OF the executive ad-
ministration.
No one who opposes the proposed enact
ment claims for moment that any clerk,
be he old or young, should be paid for sen-
tenental reasons more than be is capable
of earning No one seriously advances the
proposition that the men over seventy VINO
are still in harness should be retained on the
rolls at high salaries simply because thes
are advanced in years OF have been long
In the public service. The opponents or the
appropriations committees proposition,
however do claim that 1t Is worse than
nonsense for the government to seek to es-
tablish arbitrary limits of salary on the age
basis. in the face of the undeniable facf
that there are hundreds of elderly men the
departments who are earning far more than
the salaries permitted by the civil service
law and the appropriations.
These men not Indispensable NO man
is that But they are In the service TO-DAY,
doing ably the work assigned TO them.
faithful, accurate, painstaking In detail, re-
liable. Now and then one of tfrem passes
away in the fuilness of years His desk Is
vacated and some younger man Is promoted
to it. perhaps an understudy. Maybe the
successor is as capable as the one who has
gone, but he is a rule no better. he Will
be better, possibly. ten years later for the
accumulation of his own experience Plus
his knowledge of the experience of his pred
ecessor. And this second man, in turn, IL
retained at the desk in question long
enough, win, under this proposed law, Do
faced in time with reduction in salary, ana
eventually with abrupt dismissal at the very
height of his usefulness.
Congress Will blunder seriously If II ut
tempts in this wise to establish any bar
riers of Individual discrimination in the de-
partmental service 1t will reduce the pub
lie service to a spoils basis. take from the
clerks all incentive to good and faithful
work and perpetuate In an aggravated form
the evils of misadjustment now cited IN
criticism of the existing system.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-19
Another Farewell. +"

That ''P. p. c." card left by winter last
Friday on the doorsteps OF Neutrality-suspicious.
was evidently subject to recall. 1t may be
that winter missed her train. Let the femi-
nine pronoun stand. Women do miss trains,
as well as men. and sometimes they change
their minds. So let US regard winter as of
the gentler though sometimes stormier sex
1t may be ungailant. but there are further
reasons for the choice. For there Is no
stronger tradition than that of the repeated
farewell tours of the prima do..na.
However. winter has called again. There
is nothing to be done The visit must be re-
ceived with eduaninity. No amount of
grumbling or complaining can change the
fact. Here is the snow. 1t is q fact,
whether the grounding Is In or out OF his
burrow. Poor little chapl He Is more to be
pitied than censured. He may have raised
our hopes by his temperance last Friday
according to schedule, and we may have
been deluded into thinking that the bad