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The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1906-11-15
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sofcsser g l.. C!oshser, Agricultural
College. Miss
The National Nut Growers
Association meeting held Oct.
Il 10 Nov. i, at Scranton. Miss.
was a success. About tifty deli
gates were present. represent
ing the states from Virginia TO
'TcSa@ and from Minnesota 10
Florida. 4 number OF the firms
present have sufficient faith IN
pecan culture To have invested
upward Of SioO. 600 in nut or
chards. The chief interest cen.
tered around this queen nut OF
the cotton states.
One point was brought out
and reiterated in almost every
paper, aud that ~ that the pc.
can does uot reproduce true
from seed. According TO the
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1906-11-15

r. II. jauaea. rcscf. Mas.
EDITOR GAZETTE:
can't keep still any longer
after reading the October Is
Gazette. brother farmers. |
think il our time down 10 South
Mississippi to speak. 1t seems
like some think we need n dog
tax. We are n free people. or
that i. what our iorcfaihcrs
fought for; but the bosses have
taxed us 20 We are not free. II
il goes on this way very long,
a man will be taxed 10 sleep with
his wife ADD baby. For Gods
sake don't ask Tor more taxes.
am with our Kentucky brother.
Let every man have a dog TO
hunt with. Onc brother was 40
greedy that he wanted to let
them that owned land have
dog and cut the poor man out.
Tha, kind IL one reason there
are 40 many poor. They don't
get their rights. | don't think
il right 20 pay taxes on ii farm
wagons and tools 10 run our
farma with.
Nov, brothers, my plan -
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Coco

EDITOR GAZETTE:
Please tell me 10 your next
paper the name Of the enclosed
grass, also If it is useful or
harmful, etc.
ID. w. TINS, McCool, Miss.
Answer oy Prot. S. NJ. Tracy,
Biloxi, Miss.
regret TO say that the grass
IL the "coco' which is such a
pest in a good par. of the Delta
country. II you have only a
small patch OF il the best thing
you can do IS to dig it out very
carefully, going down until you
secure the very lowest bulbs.
"hieh are sometimes a foot be-
Low the surface OF the ground.
II there Is too much OF II for
that. YOU may be able TO DESTROY
il b. icncing oil the field aud
pas'uring II heavily with hogs.
II II has spread over the whole
farm i, Will probably remain
there permanently. /, will be a
nuisance. bu, II can be kept, in
check by thorough cultivation.
There is NJ easy method for
killing it, and i, il not eaten we'll
by either horses, mules or cat
tie.
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1906-11-15

ceediug years. That knowledge
is worth more than a crop for
one season. 1t cannot be de.
stroyed by i'll weather or crop
pests. No court can take it
from its owner, no thief can car
~ il away. Practical knowl-
edge is power, wealth, success,
If its owner will use it. The
man who honestly tries to learn
more about his work, who tries
TO see the good in suggestions
instead of spending his time 10
contending they are all wrong,
will have still more TO be thank
ful for when Thanksgiving,
1907, arrives. Good field work
requires good brain work. II
will be moro so next year than
this, aud still nor SO the sue
ceeding year. Improvements in
agricultural work are coming
fast.
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If It was not trespassing; and !
know good dogs are a blessing
here for US, as coons, minks, opos-
sums. and other varmints would
work havoc if there were no dogs.
My small shepherd pup is a
valuable little creature, and al
fo-ds more pleasure to m BOYS
than a mule or COW.
Charge Sl.o0 or even Sl.5O for
your paper and make it as good
a weekly as it is a scmi-monthly.
Editorial note: \ man who
has suffered from tick fever as
this correspondent has is in a
position 10 feel that M~ississippi
lawmakers should have provided
some means to cooperate with
Uncle Sam for putting the tick
out OF business. He is also put.
ting himself into position IL he
has good luck. to be independent
Of iaborers most OF the year.
There can be no doubt that tho
labor question will grow more
difficult in the South very rapid
Ivy. and live stock and improved
i'm IMPLEMENTS aud machinery ,ha.
will enable one man TO do as
much work and do il better than
several men by old methods will
be the final solution OF the ques.
ton. With this solution will
come a feeling OF indcpcn dcnec
aud surcr profit. Above all, the
soil will be bull, up, instead Of
being injured by successive
crops.
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this: Let every man that wants
to have dog or more than
one pay 81 tax per head, and let
him pay that in varmint scalps.
We need dogs down here. am
glad that our representative
from old Smith is a lover of
dogs. He had niue at one time
this year. so | was told. Broth
crs. don't advocate more taxes,
reduce them.
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Several Topics
Chickasaw Farmer.

EDITOR GAZETTE:
I've been reading your paper
one year. like il very much, and
think il the most practical farm
paper | ever saw. When read
a copy it makes me think like
the Madison county farmer; but
when | commcncc to write 40
many subjects appear to nc
the goose, stock. labor, pasture,
dog tax. aud 100 more. As 10
the goose. | don't use it a. a hoe
hand, but want 100 to raise feath.
ers. My cotton land won,
make grass enough to keep one
goose TO % acres. The weeds
and morning-glories crowd out
grass.
I'm not much on cattle, have
about IS common and grade
Herefords, but can't sell any Of
them for living prices as they
have had the fever this III mcr
and are somewhat thin. I've A.
bout decided ! don't want 10 sell.
The labor business is out OF
sigh, here. a. you can't hire a
man. woman or child. I've al.
most decided to work about 81
acres in corn, buy some pigs in
the spring or summer and fat
ten the steers on corn. letting
hogs follow them: also plant corr
land in bur clover 10 winter
more stock on.
So many are writing on the
dog. | will say the Madison coun.
~ farmer has the right dog tax.
My little bunch OF sheep are
protected by a shot quo keep
At home for that purpose. ]
would not Kill even a negro dog
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1906-11-15

Pure bred polond Chinas. Pigs
eight weeks old s. each. X. X. But
Ter, Knoxville. Miss.
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Dogs Needed

r. NJ. Jan7ca. flc,cr. Aaa.
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1906-11-15
Breeders Cards.

For sale cheap several hundred
~f.cghorn chickens. Airlic Farms,
Na;chcx. Miss
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ter place. would it?''
The Rajah sat back in his chair and
regarded her thoughtfully. Then a
slow smile twitched the huge mus
taches and worked Its way up to the
fierce eyes.
What is it?" she asked.
Nothing, my deah-nothing at all.
I was just wondering how a woman's
-ah-sense OF proportions was put to-
getheh. But your plan has merit. Do
understand that you will faveh me
with your help?"
Why, ye-yes. certainly, II can"
she assenteu, not wi..,out dubiety.
THAT is. I'll be nice to Mr. Winton,
If that is what you mean"
The saying of it cost her blush
and Mr.. Darrah remarked 1t. But he
did not give her time to retract.
THAT is precisely what I mean, my
deah. Well begin by having him
heah to dinneh this evening, him and
the otheh young man-what's his
name adams"
But. uncle" she began, in hesitant
protest, what ever will he Think"
Neyeh mind what he thinks You
faveh me, my deah Virginia, by send.
ing him right pretty invitation. You
know how to do those things, and L
why, bless my soul-1've quite for
gotten"
Virginia found pen, ink and paper,
something Notwithstanding a great
deal, If the truth were told-but not
knowing how to go about refusing a
confederacy which she herself had
proposed.
And the upshot OF the matter was a
dainty note which found it's way by
the hands OF the private car porter
TO Winton, laboring manfully at his
task of repairing the landslide dam
ages: this in the middle of the after
noon. after the sheriff's train had gone
back to Carbonate and all opposition
seemed to have been withdrawn.
Mr.. SomervilIe Darrah.s compliments TO
Mr.. John Winton and Mr.. Morton F.
Adams and he will be pleased II they Will
dine with the party in the car Rosemary
at seven o'clock.
"Informa
"Wednesday December the Ninth"
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oCopyhsht. 1906. by !. e. Lippinoot. Co,

Which we are all acting as corpora
ton proxies needn't spell out anything
like blood feud between gentlemen.
Straight ahead, Misteh Winton; afteh
you, Misteh Adams"
Such was the suspicious beginning
Of an evening which Winton thought
worthy to be marked in his calendar
with white stone.
The dinner was astronomical
marvel, considering its remoteness
from the nearest base of supplies; the
.Rajah laid aside his mask of fierce
ness and beamed hospitality; Mrs
carteret was innocuously gracious;
Bessie of the flaxen hair and the Rev.
srend William Calvert came in har-
moniously on the cheerful refrain:
and Virginia-but 1t was Virginia who
allied all horizons for Winton.
Knowing no more than any serious
minded man the latest social nice:ies
Of a dinner party, and caring still less
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TOR them, he monopoliZed her shame,
lessly from the moment OF greeting.
In the interval OF plate laying he ma
neuvered skillfully to obtain possess
sion OF the tete-ateto chair, and with
that convenient piece of furniture for
nm aid he managed to keep Virginia
wholly to himself un... dinner was
announced.
For another man the informal table
gathering might have been easily pro-
hibitive of confidence deux, even
with Virginia Careteret to help, but
Winton was far above the trammel-
ings of time and place. All attempts
on the part OIL his host, Mrs Martha.
Adams, or the Reverend Billy to en-
tangle him in the general table talk
failed signally. He had eyes and ears
only for the sweet-faced, low-vo.ced
young woman beside him, and some
of his replies to the others were ir-
relevant enough to send smile
around the board.
How very absent-minded Mr.. Win
ton seems to be this evening"" muir
INJURED Bessie from her niche between
Adams and the Reverend Billy at the
farther end of the table. He isn't
quite at his best, is he, Mr.. Adams?"
->o, iiAuSVd, odlu lile tecHuOlOS1an,
matching her undertone, very far
from it. He has been lit off all day:
touch Of mountain fever, I'm afraid. I"
But he doesn't look at all ILL.," OBJ
1ected Miss Bessie. II should say he
Is a perfect picture of rude health"
You can't tell anything about him
by his looks rejoined Adams, glib1y.
Absolute mask-that face of his
But between us, don't you know, I
think he must be going to have a
fever. Struck him all at once about
three o'clock this afternoon, and 1 am
sure he hasn't been quite right in his
head since"
why. how dreadful" said Bessie,
sympathetically. And I suppose there
isn't doctor to be had anywhere in
these terrible mounta-As."
But upon this point Adams reas-
sured her promptly.
"Oh, yes. there is; Winton has al
ready had his preliminary consulta-
ton and Is. as you may say, in the
way of Deing prescribed for. And I'll
see to 1t that he takes his medicine
before he turns in tonight. You may
trust me for that"
Thus Mr. Morton P. Adams, In
irony far too subtle for the flaxen-
haired Bessie. But Winton's replies
were not specially irrelevant when Vir-
ginia evoked them. On the contrary
he was finding her sallies keenly pro-
vocative of what wit and readiness
there was in him.
Il believe your chief delight in life
Is to catch a man mapping" he
laughed, when she had succeeded In
demonstrating. for the third time in
| as many minutes, how inadequate a
mans wit is to cope with woman S
| do enjoy it, she confessed, with
/ the brown eyes confirming the adj
/ mission What woman does not7
Isn't your mans attitude towards us
| one of thinly yelled contempt at the
! very best? For instance: you said
| just now that while no woman could
do without a man, the reverse was
true of the man"
= l olah Know I said sssSthing like
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admiring the Rajah's sk,llfr, !.
OF formal dinner-givings the.
easily have been an end, sins +
construction camp had notb;s
offer in return But the fornss
were studiousiy ignored, and ~
young men were put upon
of intimacy and encouraged tn
and go as they pleased.
Winton took his welcome ~.
as what lover would not; and -
a week was spending most o,s
evenings in the Rosemary-tbss !
time when every waking MONIES.
the day and night was deenlv
gagged to the chance of success 4
now that the Raiah had witbs.'
his opposition, nature and ths !.
versity of inanimate things had 4
hand, and for a fortnight the :
of track-laying paused fairly ~
sight of the station at Argentfn.
First 1t was carload of stss.
ctdentally derailed and dumped I
Quartz creek at precisely the =
possible point in the lower canv,,
jagged. rock-ribbed, clifr-bound )
where each separate piece of n,
had to be hoisted out singly by a
rick erected for the purpose pro
which effectually blocked the h
for three entire days. Next it wa,
other landslide (unhelped by d
mite, this) Just above the STATIC
crawling cataract of loose. Sill
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HE OPENED THE DOOR FOR HEI


shale which, painstakingly dug d
and damned with plank bulkhead du
ing the day, would pour down al
bury buRhead, buttresseS, and u
very right of way in the night.
In his right mind-the mind of
ambitious young captain of indust
who sees defeat with dishonor starin
him in the face-Winton would haV
fought all the more desperately ID
these hindrances. But, unfortunat
ly, he was no longer an industry cal
tain with an eye single to success
He was become that anomaly despiss
of the working world-a man in low
Its no use shutting our eyes \
the fact, jack" said Adams one eve1
ing when his chief was making read
for his regular descent upon the RoS
mary eve shall have to put nigh
shifts at work on that shale-slide |
we hope ever to get past it with th|
rails"
Hang the shale!" was the imp
tient rejoinder. I'm no galley slaveI
Adams slow smile came and wed
In cynical ripplings.
ut is pretty difficult to say precid
~ what you are just now. But 1 Cd
prophesy what you are going to
If you don't wake up and come alive
Having no reply to this, Adam
went back to the matter of nigf
shifts.
eff you will authorize It. I'll put
night gang on and boss it mysel
What do you say?"
II say you are no end of goc
fellow, Morty. And that's the plai
fact. I'll do as much for you SOM
time"
"I'll be smashed II you will-youl
(To be Continued in our Next
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CHAPTER VIII.

Adams said by Jove!" in his most
cynical drawl when Winton gave him
the dinner-bidding to read; then he
laughed.
Winton recovered the dainty note,
folding it carefully and putting 1t in
his pocket 4 he handwriting was the
same as that of the telegram abstract
ed from Operator Carriers sending
book
II don't see anything to laugh att
he objected. in the tone OF one who
does not mean to see.
No? You must be In fathoms deep
not to be able to mulHply such n very
evident twice two. First the RaIah
sends the sheriff's posse packing with
out striking a blow, and now he in
vites us to dinner. What's the infer
ence?"
'Oh. don't know as there has to
be an inference. Let us say he has
seen the error of his way and means
to come down gracefully
Don't you believe it! Beware of
the Greeks bringing gifts. You are
going to be hit right where you live
this time"
Winton growled his disapproval of
any such uncharitable hypothesis
You make me exceedingly tired at
odd moments, Morty. Why can't you
give Mr.. Darrah the credit of being
what he really is at bottom-a right
hearted Virginia gentleman of the old
school?"
"Yes gods and little minnows!-
worse and more of it. You don't
mean that you are going to accept"
said Adams, aghast
Certainly; and SO are you We
shall have quite enough of Mr. Man
talini's 'demnition grind up here in
this God-forsaken wilderness without
scamping our one little chance to for
get it for few social minutes"
There was no more to be said. and
the technologian held his peace while
Winton scrubbed a line of accordance
on a leaf of his notebook and sent it
across to the Rosemary by the hand
OF the water boy. But in the evening
as they We're setting out from the con-
struction camp to walk up the track to
Argentine, he made a final effort to
call halt.
Jack. this is worse than idiotfc."
he protested. There is that consign-
ment OF steel you were wiring about
to-day; one of US ought to go down
TO the junction to see if it is ready to
be showed to the 'front.'
Bother the STEEL" was the impa-
nent reJoJinder- 'Drayton wired it
wound be there. didn't he? Come on,
we shall be late"
Whom The gods would destroy they
nrst make mau," quoted Adams under
his breath; but he made no more diff
crlties
Their reception at the steps of the
rosemary was generous proof of the
aptness of that aphorism which sums
up the status post bellum in the terse
phrase: After war, peace" Mr. OAR
ran met them; was evidently waiting
for them; and was as heartily hos
pltable as a master of men can be
when he puts his entire mind to it.
Come in, gentlemen; come in and
De at home'-this with a hand for
each Virginia allowed you wouldn't
taveh us, but 1 assured her she didn't
rightly know men of the world; told
Der that picaynne business affair IN
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CHAPTER TX,

q . 70
II Mr.. John Winton, c. E., stood in
need of moral tonic, as Adams had
SO delicately intimated to Miss Bessie
Carteret, 1t was administered in
quantity sufficient before he slept on
the night of dinner-givings
For clear-eyed Technologian, free
from all heart-trammelings and able
to grasp the unsentimentalS fact, the
enemy's new plan of campaign wrote
itself quite legibly. With his pick
and choice among the time-killing ex-
pedients the /. Rajah could scarcely
have found one more to his purpose
than the private car Rosemary, in
Guiding in its passenger list Miss
Virginia Carteret. There would be
more dinners and social diversions;
other representations like this of
neglecting to look after the consign-
ment of steel-whtch, by the by, was
not yet to be seen or even definitely
heard from; and in the end, defeat
All of which Adams, substituting
friendly frankness for the disciplinary
traditions of the service, set forth in
good Bostonian English for the benefit
and behoof of his chief. and was an
swered according to his deserts with
scofings and deridings.
y y y,
and I'm not so desperately asinine as
you seem to think" was the, besotted
ones summing up. IT know the
Rajah doesn't split hairs in bust
ness fight, but he is hardly unscrupu-
lous enough to use Miss Carteret as
a cat's-paw."
But Adams would not be scofred
aside.
You're off in your estimate of Mr.
Darrah. Jack, way off. I know the
tradition-that a southern gentleman
is all chiva1ry when it comes to a
matter touching his womankind, and
don't controvert It as a general
proposition. But the Rajah has been
fighting western railroad magnate
SO long that his accent is about the
only southern asset he has retained.
If I'm any good at guessing, he will
stick at nothing to gain his end"
Winton admitted the impeachment
without prejudice to his own point of
view.
Perhaps you are right. But fore
warned Is forearmed. And Miss Vir-
ginia Is not going to lend herself to
any such nefarious scheme"
mot consciously, perhaps; but you
don't know her yet If she saw a
good chance to take the conceit out Of
you, she'd improve it-without think.
ing overmuch of the possible conse-
Quences to the Utah company"
'Pshaw!" said Winton. THAT is
another of your literary differences.
I've met her only twice, yet I ven.
| ture to say I know her better than
you do. If she cared anything for me
which she doesn't"
'Oh, go to sleep!" said Adams, who
was not minded to argue further with
man besotted; and so the matter
went by default for the time.
But in the days that followed, days
in which the sun rose and set in
cloudless winter splendor and the
heavy SHOWS still held aloof, Adams
prediction wrought itself out into
sober fact. After the single appeal to
force. Mr.. Darrah seemed to have
given up the fight. None the less, the
departure Of the Rosemary was de-
layed, and its hospitable door was al
ways open to the Utah chief of CON
struction and his assistant.
1t was very deftly done. and even
Adams. the clear-eyed. could not help
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much Tor the social diversions.
Shall


much Tor the social diversions. Shall
we go in?'
"If we must; but not until have
thanked you for your timely hint of
yesterday morning. 1t saved me no
end OF trouble"
THE telegram? Mr.. Adams sent
that. And besides. it was meant to be
scolding."
He ignored the reproof and spoke
to the pertinent fact.
81 have no doubt Adams sent the
wire. but he didn't write it. Or, If
he did, he also wrote our invitation
to dinner. They are in the same
hand, you know
She laughed again. 81 think it is
quite time we were going in" she
averred, and he opened the door for
her.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-18
CONTINUED RAINS
CAUSED THE DELAY
Alabama Field Trials viii Begin Tc-
day-More Stringent Game
Law Desired.

Huntsville December 17-(Special)-
The continued rains of last night and to-
day caused postponement of the open
ing of the Alabama field trials Tie
fields were soaking and in no condition
for bird hunting. The membership stake
open only to Alabama owned dogs, was
to have been run today.
There are eleven entries. among them
being the best of the coursing dogs of
Alabama. This stake will be run to-
morrow, and after that the derby will
begin. Delay caused by the postpone
ment of the opening today will run the
trials to Saturday.
A large number of sportfnen are here
from all parts of the country and they
have made up their minds to stay
through the trials despite the unpromis-
ing weather. A meeting of the members
of the club was held tonight and the en-
actment of a more strigent game law for
Alabama was heartily recommended. The
sportsmen are agreed that unless some
thing is done to save the birds they will
be almost exterminated in few years.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-18
OLIVER REPORTS
TO BOARD OF TRADE
Was Delegate to Rivers and
Harbors Congress
MUCH GOOD is EXPECTED
The Rev. S. E. WATSON, New Pastor
of Methodist Church at Tuscaloosa.
Is Given Warm Welcome.
Mrs. F. L. Walter Dies.
MUCH GOOD IS EXPECTED

Tuscaloosa, December 17.-(Special.)-W
Is. Oliver Tuscaloosa delegate to Rivers
and Harbors convention in Washington,
has returned, and has submitted a re-
port to Hon. f. G. Blair, the president
of the Tuscaloosa Board of Trade Among
other interesting items in this report,
Mr.. Oliver states that the interests of the
Warrior, Tombigbee and Mobile harbor
will be properly looked after by
Congressman Bankhead Taylor and I'm
derwood. The Rivers and Harbors COM
mittee is now busily engaged in making
its report, and Chairman Burton and
Congressman Bankhead constitute the
subcommittee to whom has been referred
the interests of Alabama. From informa-
ton obtained, Mr.. oliver states, it seems
reasonably assured that the committee s
report will carry an appropriation suf-
ficient to construct the remaining locks
in the Tombigbee, complete the work on
all locks below Tuscaloosa, and build two
new locks in the Black Warrior above
Tuscaloosa. This will give to Tuscaloosa
and the large coal territory adjacent
thereto, slack water navigation to the
gulf the entire year Mr.. Oliver suggest
ed that cordial invitation to visit Tus-
caloosa during the next year be extended
of the convention, Congressman Randall
of Louisiana.
Yesterday morning at the Methods
church the Rev. S. f. WATSON preached
his first sermon to his congregation. AL