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The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-29
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The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-06-27
Preparing Land For Alfalfa.

M. r. o., Bandana, writes: When
is the best time to SOW alfalfa this
spring? Is it best to get the inocu-
lated seed? The land is very poor
and / have no manure for it, but I
have lime. muriate of potash and acid
phosphate. 1t was sowed late last
summer. Do you not think it would
be better to SOW cowpeas again after
putting the fertilizer on? It is for
an experiment in our school garden.
Answer would suggest seeding
alfalfa any time from the 1st to the
18th of March in your section of the
State. OF course we might have cold
backward weather at that season,
and in that case, 1 would wait a little
longer. 1t is hardly worth while to
SOW alfalfa until after the ground
warns up sufficiently to insure ger
mination and until danger of q late
spring frost is past You know that
alfalfa when first started is very ten
der and so a light freeze might kill
it and all your efforts come to naught.
It is really not worth while to SOY
alfalfa until after the ground is very
AANA LIN IAoI las nv O~~h
particularly if the sub-soil is of a clay
nature and very tenacious in charac-
ter. Under your conditions it would
therefore be advisable to seed to cow
peas again this year and pillow them
under, because ever if you get a good
stand of alfalfa from seeding this
spring, it would not remain on tina
land long unless it could obtain a
plentiful supply Of plant food. Alfal-
ia is one of the finest crops we can
grow in Virginia because Of it's won
derful ability to gather nitrogen,
which makes it very rich in protein;
therefore, it makes desirable grazing
for many kinds of farm stock and a
hay of very superior value for feed
ing; so rich in fact that about liz
pound Of it under some conditions
can be fed to livestock in the place
of a pound of wheat bran. Now, as
we can make alfalfa for from SO to
Sc a ton under favorable conditions,
you can see what immense. advantage
it would be to u people to grow
this crop. Therefore; you can afford
to take no end Of pains to secure a
stand of it in your school garden,
for if you succeed with it, it would
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-06-27
Tho Fest is Nome Too GOOD,


The Southern farmer and breeder
must learn that to have herds and
focks to compete with his Northern
or Western brother he must buy the
best to start that herd or flock. The
motto of many of the most famous
breeders is: "The best is none too
good" and it should be the motto of
every man who raises an animal of
any kind. You cannot get some
thing for nothing; you must give val
ue for value received. There are
bargains" perhaps, but the best
bargains are the young animals from
some good breeder, at a fair living
price. You do not get the best
breeding animals because you will
not give what they r worth, but
buy possibly a scrub" with 4 pedi-
gree. I am pleading for a change
in animal breeding of all kinds -
horses, cattle, hogs and sheep There
are some good herds and flocks in
the South, but they are few and far
between. Raise more of them, buy
the best you can find to starr that
herd or flock and in a few years, and
very few at that, you Will see the re-
suit. Let us have more breeders,
who are not afraid to give a fair
price for good breeding animals and
we will then have better stock.-W.
w. H., Fairfax County, Va, in the
Progressive Farmer.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-06-27
CATTLE

There is usually one man in every
neighborhOod who is especially negli-
gent in the matter of keeping hts
cattle in proper bounds. Sometimes
a stronger wcrd than carelessness is
used in describing this neglect. AS
a rule this particular business of cat
tie that forages on the country at
large is accompanied By the poorest
bull in the community, says the
Farmer. There are few farmers that
have not had a sOre experience along
this line The chances are that some
of those farmers who happen to read
this article can look out of the window
and see some of the neighhor's cows
trampfng down a good stand of clover
or tearing I'D the corr shocks There
is just one way to handle this kind
OF trouble The first step is to- noti-
fy the offender that his estrayS are
looked apoH as a nuisance. II this
notice does not bring the right Kind
Of treatment the next thing to do is
to put the stock up where they can
not get away and keep them there
till their owner owner calls for them.
If even this fails to bring about The
desired result the only thing tO do
is to take advantage Of the law.
When it costs z man money tO let
his cattle stray he is going to find
some way to Keep them at home. Tres
passing cattle r a great nuisance
and the stray bull is the pest Of the
n~eighborftood- Look up the law and
make it a point to correct the trou-
BILE. Do not worry about spelling the
friendship of the neighbour. A neigh
Dor is not a good neighbor unless he
observes. your rights.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-06-27
Fertilizers For a Grass Land.

B. III. W., Stevensvi1le, writes: /
! have a twenty-acre field of rolling
land which is rather thin with very
J little vegetable matter in it. 1t has
been grazed for several years. Some
clay gals have of late years ap-
peared. 1 used 200 pounds of $4,000
a ton guano per acre. 1t was in corn
I last year. What fertilizer would you
! advise? 1 also have another five acre
field of level land that has been pas
tured twenty years. 1t has never
had any commercial fertilizer or ma
nure. 1 am blowing it and want to
put it in peas. Any suggestions as
to fertilizing these two pieces of land
will be appreciated.
Answer rather expect the fields
you mention are acid and that an ap-
plication of lime at the rate of one
ton per acre would be highly bene-
fetal to them. Then deep blowing
and thorough cultivation will, no
doubt, help them very much. The
fertilizer you used was not a pSrticu-
larly good one and did not supply a
very, large amount of plant food to
the land. In order"to improve Sveur
land a crop rotation would be very
advisable. Bring clover, cowpeas, o.
some other leguminous crop on the
land once in three years and plow it
down. Use wheat, corn, potatoes
and such other crops as do well in
your community, leaving the land IN
grass for two or three years at q
fimn Nv fn1lnv-fnn cpah q rnfofinn
as this and using 200 to 800 pounds
of sixteen per cent. of acid phosphate
and fifty pounds of muriate of pot
ash per acre on your pea and about
half this amount on the corr and
wheat, you should be able to improve
the quality of your land and increase
the yield. Peas draw heavily on the
phosphate and sometimes the soil.
Our soils as a rule are deficient in
phosphate and sometimes in potash
as we'll. Through long cultivation
they have frequently become acid,
and therefore lining is necessary to
correct acidity and improTa the me-
cnanicai condition as we'll. Lime also
sets free certain forms Of plant food.
For this reason is should not be used
TO excess. The application of a ton
once in three years is likely to prove
beneficial in your case.\ The legumes
you grow will supply nitrogen gath
cred from the air, and as it costs if
teen cents a pound in the commercial
form, you can appreciate the value of
these crops for soil building purposes
in this State. From the description
given 1 imagine your land is deficient
in vegetable matter, and therefore
you must put plenty of green manure
in the soil because it changes the
whole physical nature of the soil, in
creases it's capacity holding water,
promotes fermentation, and supplies
nitrogen, a very essential clement of
plant food.-A. M. Soule.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-06-27
UGLY TWIN SISTERS.

OF all vain and egotistical creatures
none equals the girl who thinks that
people are always talking or thinking
about her. Vanity and self-conscious-
ness are ugly twin sisters. Any girl
who is possessed of these ugly sisters.
is to be pitied, and should be glad to
be well rid of them, as was Cinderella
when she ~triuTnphed over her less Tor
tunate relatives.
People have plenty Of things to dis
cuss and think about besides their
friends. A girl who is in a constant
state OF wretchedness on account of
what her friends may be thinking or
saying about her is lacking in COM
mon sense. No girl on earth is OF
such absorbing interest to her friends
as to be continually food for gossip
Or reflection.
The girl who is constantly living in
the thought that her every action and
word is being criticized by her friends
or otherwise, spends a miserable ex-
istence. And the pitiful part Of it's
that any young girl of this type can
rarely be made to realize her own
foolishness, or the misery it causes
her. She cannot, it seems, recognize
the simple truth that representative
ness never has found, and never can
find, happiness.
Some girls are so sensitive-and
very foolishly so-that if by some i'll
chance they believe they have given
cause for offence they are utterly
wretched and go about half crazy,
wondering what so-and-so will think.
AS likely as not the offence is abso-
lutely imaginary, and so-and-so is not
giving the slightest attention either to-
the supposed offence or 10 the person
who is fretting her life over 1t.
But if the sensitive girl should hap
pen to really offend Or make a mis-
take, let her take her criticism brave
ly-let her profit by it. If she hears
herself adversely criticized she must
be truly thankful, and acknowledge
that it is dearer t o her than the sweet
est compliment Of a friend. 1t is only
by learning our faults that we can
know ourselves, and kill what In US is
distasteful to others.-New York
Journal.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-06-27
Change i'm Cotton. Growing.

Flat cultivation of cotton, as in
PRODUCED by the Arkansas experiment
station, is finding favor with the lint
growers of that State owe the old
method of hill tillage, the advantage
being in the saving of labor and
economy of seed, and, it is declared,
a better yield,
Under old practice, says Southwest
Magazine, the soil was thrown up in
a furrow and the seed sown continu-
ous1y in a drill. Later the plants
were thinned to a single stand by
hoeing the entire surface of the cot
ton row and cutting away nineteen
Of every twenty stalks.
Flat cultivation consists of thor
oughly preparing the seed bed and
planting the cotton in checks eigh-
teen to twenty-four inches apart in a
drill, to enable cultivation in both
directions. a method that will >natur-
ally lessen the work of the chopper
and save a greater part of the seed.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-06-27
DOCTORS FOOD TALK.
Selection Of Food One of the Most
Important Acts in Life.

a Mass. doctor says: "Our health
and physical and mental happiness
50 largely 1nder our personal con-
zzD1 that the proper selection of food
should be and is one of the most i'm
PGztant acts in life
~On this subject, / may say that I
Know OF no food equal in digestibility
and more powerful in point of nutri-
weaf than the modern Grape-Nuts,
6DEr heaping teaspoons of which is
for the cereal part of a
meaI, and experience demonstrates
&xaf the user is perfectly nourished
EFon one meal to another.
am convinced that the extensive
&ad general use of high class foods Of
9gEn of human life, add to the sum
aoE2l OF happiness and very consider
&bly improve society in general. /
S~ free to mention the food, for i
RergonalEy know of it's value"
GFape-Suts food can be used by
BABES in arms or adults. 1t is ready
GGsohed, caA be served instantly, either
cold with cream, or with hot water or
Eot milk poured over. All sorts of
M1GffngS and fancy dishes can be
made with Gxape-Nuts. The food is
concentrated and very economical, for
fSaz aeapirg teaspoons are Sufficient
Tor the cereal parc OF = meal Read
7&zse little EoDx, The Road to Well
-SElile, a. @ a Eeason.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-06-27
Southern Agricultural Topics.
Modern Methods That Are Helpful to
Farmer, Fruit Grower and StOekman.

= be an object lesson to the farmers OF
your community.
Lime the land at the rate OF one
ton per acre. Use acid phosphate at
| the rate of 200 to 800 pounds per
acre and muriate of potash at the
| rate of fifty pounds. The cowpeas
plewed under should supply a fair
amount or nitrogen, though an appii-
| cation of fifty pounds of nitrate Of
| soda after the crop is well up would
be an advantage. 1t is better to feed
alfalfa in the fall in your section OF
| the State rather than in the spring,
| as the cowpeas will mature so you
! can turn them under about the first
Of September. Prepare a good seed
bed, seeding to alfalfa about the 18th
of September If there is enough
moisture in the ground to insure rap
id termination. This will give the
| alfalfa an opportunity to make a
good growth before cold weather.
Andrew M. Soule. IEA
~ Capacity of a silo. s
w. w. l., Nashville, Tenn: How
many tons of corn silage. will a silO
twenty-five feet in diameter and
twenty-six feet deep hold, filled slow
ly and allowed to settle? How Go
yoI figure it?
Answer.-A silo OF the size men
toned has a capacity of 237 tons.
This is arrived a. by determining the
number CT cubic feet in the silo,
usirg the same rule as is used to find
the cubic feet in a cylinder. A cu-
bic foot of silage will weigh forty
pounds. Thus, by multiplying the
number of cubic feet oy forty and
dividing the result by 1000 n will
get the entire number of tons a silo
will hold. This means the entire ca
pacity. AS a matter o. fact, one sell
dom gets a silo ever full. One Of
that height would settle five feet; if
the filing was very slow it might
not be more than three. 1t would
be safe to figure on the total height,
less three feet. A cubic foot, OF fo--
ty pounds Of silage, is a days feed
for 2 good sized COW One can, then,
readily tell how many head of cattle
"a be fed for a given period. l do
not consider the diameter-twenty-
five feeS-a desirable one unless a
large number of cattle are to be fed,
for with SO large a surface exposed
there is more loss from mildew. One
twenty-nine feet high and twenty
three feet acros would figure out
nearly the same capacity, and would
cost no more. AS Il matter Of fact a
-
aeros would really store as much
IS either of the otners, because
the downward pressure being great
er in the deep silo it win settle faster
and there will be less waste sDace at,
the top when the filing IS DONE
Edward Van Alstyne.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-06-27

Lovers purses are tied with cob
webs.-Italian.
He tried the luxury of doing good.
-Crabbe.
Falsehood is cowardice, thruth is
courage.-Hosea Ballon.
The mind is like a bow: the strong
er for being unbent.-Ben Jonson.
Do not make unjust gains; they are
equal to a loss.-Hesiod.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-06-27
Hiss Lncy's Inconsistency.

M13 1ncy 3 INCONSISTENCY
1iss Lucy say she love him
Dat what she say one day;
De next, de sun amt shinin',-
Den, what Miss Lucy sayf
eco long I tell you
Sum don't shine yo' way;
4 pledge my ham
Ter a nice young NAM
Dat what Miss Lucy say!
De young man say: "Good evein'-
L aint got long ter stay"
Mss Lucy cry ter say goodby,
Den, what Miss Lucy say?
<1Come back, I tell you,
i loves you night en- day!
Dat nice young man
Can't git my ham
Dat what Miss Lucy say!
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-06-27

He is; a very poor type Of reform.
er who,. according to the Canadian
Magazine. says that all that popular
education has done is 10 make, the
poor man disconnected with his lot.
Discomfort may be an unpleasant phe-
nomenon to the man who has more
than his share Of the good things, but
in the best sense discomfort is divine.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-06-27
Rrread of the Consolidated.

: SHrread of the Consolidated.
sE|What building is that in the
= Azz1up7'' asked the capitalist.
That's the great consolidated
-r7st mill" replied the real estate
agent
AiAnd that shiny affair by the rail-
road tFack?''
H'That, sr,7' said the agent, els
= Tie monster consolidated water
Tank"
1fyVen, we111 And how far are we
from the town itself?"
<ESir," said the agent drawing
Himself up- "we are now in the very
center of Greater 'PossUm Trot!''
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-06-27
A Little Song.

A Little Song.
LITTLE less of sofrow,
little less Of signs,
L&EzG less Of human tears
To Tall fEam human ewes.
Little less eGf darkness
In the heavens above;
LITTLE less Of hatred,
Little O Of love.
little less of doubling; 3
fR7nbows arch the sodi)
-Afsle more of faith In man
Little more in God.
And, for all that's given,
Just to try to make
Earth a little heaven
For the. other heavens sakei
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-06-27
Proverbs and Pharses.

Il Is wrong to sorrow without ceas-
~-HOmer.
Do not make unjust gains; they are
equal to a IosS-Hesiod.
II Is proper to leave modesty rath-
er than gold to children.-Plato.
How foolish is tie toll of tri1ing
GxS-Martlal.
A man who wants bread Is ready
Tor anYthing-French.
Sincerity mean sine-cera-ty-with-
Mt vsx.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-06-27
That So.

"Macaulay was the first author to
introduce the automobile into litera-
ture."
elbow do you make that outq''
"He speaks of Lars Porsena and
his ivory car. "-Pittsburg Post.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-06-27

He is sufficiently learned that
knows how to do well and has pow
er enough to refrain from evil
Cicero. I
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-06-27

A life in continual need is half
Geath-German.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-08-04

baboon monkey, has made over one
hundred ascensions in a miniaur,
balloon
The Connecticut legislature recent
adopted a joint resolution, memorial.
izing congress to make an appropria.
ton at its next session to improve the
Platt National Park. which was named
in honor of the later Senator Orville
Platt of that state. The memorial
also contains suggestion that the
park be made repository for the sur.
plus geological. chronological and geo.
logical specimens. etc, with which the
Smithsonian Institute is full TO over.
flowing. The legislature of his native
state will make an appropriation to
place a statue of Senator Platt in the
National capital at Washington. r
replica of which will be placed in the
National park at sulphur
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-08-04


Fifty dollars for one bee viii seem
to the average farmer an estraordi
nary price and withal a foolish extra.
vagance. but that is the price / G..
Renfro Of sulphur paid for a green
bee. recently Imported from Switzrr
land MIR. Reniro began bee culture
ness he has made himself a thorough
master. lie got his best start In b'"s
by hunting ana cutting bee trees In
the Arhucklc mountains. \ carcri
study OF these wild bees soon con
yinccd him that while they We're In.
dustrious workers. they were not the
most profitable to the apiarist. lie dis.
covered that they could not extract
the honey from certain Of the most
prolific flowers and especially was
this true of the alfalfa blooms. To
remedy this defect OF the Wild bee he
began crossing them with the Swiss
bee, "a bee than can dclye deep into
IA flower and extract the nectar there.
from. lie Is now crossing the Oft
spring OF these bees with the black
and Italian with the result that he has
secured happj combination of breed
that have the strength of wing for
long flights aud that pos oss all the
other essential working qualities.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-08-04

oozy mud of the Florida and Alabama
swamps, the alternating period com
m"nc.us about the first of October
and ending in the following March
lr April During this period they 40.
stain from food OF any kind, in conse.
queuce OF which they emerge from
their long sleep and fast in an enact.
atod condition. In captivity their
food consists OF an occasional feast on
refuse meat from the butchers shop
with side dish of dog or cat meat for
relish.
The alligator's method of securing
live prey is to deliver a stunning
blow to the victim with its armored
tail, following up the advantage thus
gained by seizing the victim between
a pair of long, projecting paws that
are armed with four rows of sharp,
bat massive teeth. When the jaws
close on the victim they become au-
tomatically locked and in the case OF
4 young alligator the grip can only he
mechanically looscued by dislocating
the socket or crushing the bones. The
alligator hunter becomes so thor
oughly famillarizod with the reptiles
characteristics that he can, when
seized by an alligator on dry land
his antagonist To illustrate, I.
suppose the alligator scizes the hun.
ter by hand or foot Knowing that /
the gator viii roll over and over aft. T.
er selling its prey the hunter throws .
himself at full lengtL on the body of
his antagonist, locks his limbs .
around its body and then uses every |
eXertion possible TO prevent the ami, |
NAL from reaching the water, Should .
he succeed in the latter effort the
gator will shortly become discouraged
and voluntarily loosen its hold. Should
the gaitor succeed In reaching the
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-08-04
PALACE BOARDING HOUSE.
Mrs. r. Dougherty, Prop.

Mrs, c. l. Patterson. Ada. |. T., Mrs
c. +. Anderson, Frisco, Tex, Miss
Mayme Beale, sulphur Springs, Tex,
jeff Davis, sulphur Springs, Tex. C.
Il. Stickley Purcell, c. H. Anderson,
Frisco, Tex, Mrs. G. I Mehl, Oklaho.
ma City, Mrs. J. u. 1nomas, Green.
vile, Tex, Mr.. and Mrs. w. l.. Thorn
hill, sulphur, |. r., Miss Cary Miller,
Sulphur, |, T.. Miss Niena Kendall,
Wynnewood, Mrs. Ella Land, sulphur,
|. r., \. ID. Goodenough city. G. |. Pat.
terson, Ada, Miss Juuil Dabbs, city.
Mrs. \. II. Denny, Oklahoma City.
Irene Denny, Oklahoma City, Mrs, h.
Clark, Oklahoma city Irla Clark. Ok