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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-03-16
FARMER AND PLANTER
BROOM CORN.
Some Things Necessary to Learn
About Growing It.

We published piece sometime ago,
giving the high price being paid for
broom corn and suggested that some
of our southern farmers might be
realizing some of this money, at same
time promised to publish the details
of growing it successfully. says the
Southern Cultivator. Since then we
have been posting ourselves upon the
subject and we never more strongly
realized the value and importance OF
knowing just exactly how to do
thing right Broom corn can be
profitable business only to those who
will take the care and pains to learn
1t thoroughly and carry out each de-
tail with exact precision. The hrst
requisite for success is to obtain GOOD
seed There are two main varieties,
the standard" or long, and the
dwarf" The former is used for mSk-
ing carpet brooms and the other Tor
whisks" and hearth brooms." Any
party here in the south would want
to grow the standard" They shouh
get the best seed possible and then by
pains, taking selection, improve their
seed from year to year. Three quarts
of seed will plant an acre. An acre
will produce 500 or 600 pounds OF
brush. The seed should be planted
in three-foot rows, from eight to ten
inches in drill and have from three
| to five stalks in a hill. The ground
should oe well prepared and MANFRED.
Sandy land makes the best quality.
Never plant until ground is warm, say
good season for cotton planting, as
| the broom corn grows off slowly and
would get foul if planted too soon.
| After It grows off can be cultivated
as easily as corn. When it Is in
good bloom is time to cut. Generally
a man goes through and turns the
heads of two rows down, by bending
the stalks over to the middle. Then
he comes along and cuts them of with
six inches of stem to each head. Nc
rain must fall on this brush. 1t mus
be taken to a shed and arranged In
layers like you cure tobacco. An ocer
shelter is best, but any well-ventilat
ed clubhouse will do. The seed should
be curried off before stacking. Where
they grow in large quantities they dt
this with a machine very much nkt
our threshing machines, but IN sma!
way one would have to use curr!
comb or invent some arrangement
with sharp spikes. When the stem
are so dry that no water can be driver
of by twisting them, which is usuall'
about three weeks, they are ready t
put in large stacks. We should hav
said, at first they should not be pile
in layers more than three inches dee
or the brush will not cure bright
This brush is packed into bales YER
much like our cotton for shipment
The price of broom corn depends upo
J the bright green color and tn
! straightness and length OF tn
prush.'
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-03-16
Congo Reform.


Prospects are encouraging for . re-
form of the outrageous abuses In the
administration of affairs in the Congo
Independent State. The natives In
that vast equatorial region have been
treated with an incredible inhumanity.
They have been forced to labor for
the companies that deal in rubber;
cannibais have been employed an
guards over the rubber gatherers; lit
tie children have been bound out to
labor for long terms Of years; the ad-
ministration of justice has been so
bad that the name Of the place where
the chief courts sit is regarded as
word of Ill omen. Men, women and
children have been mutilated and
beaten and otherwise maltreated.
The Congo Independent State Is con-
trolled at present by the hing OF the
Belgians. In 1889 the king made a
will bequeathing to Belgium his rights
IN the country and in 1890 Belgium
made an agreement by which it Sc
cured power to annex the territory
after ten years. Reform. explains
Youths Companion, is likely to come
through the assumption by the Bel
gian parliament of its powers under
this agreement The chamber OF rep
resentatives voted last month to an
mex the territory, and the senate may
lave approved the plan before this pa
per Is in the hands Of its readers.
When this il done, irresponsible per-
sonal government will cease. The
king, who has been an autocrat In the
Congo, will have no more power there
than he has In Belgium Responsible
Ity for the government will rest with
parliament. and the public sentiment
of the world which has forced the par
lament to take up the matter, will
compel 1t to treat the 30.0O0.OOe
blacks as human beings.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-03-16

Every year in the Rumai country.
India, marriage lottery-a sort Of
lsweethearts sweeps held. The
names of all the manageable girls
and of the young men of the circle
i'who want to get married are written
on slips of paper and thrown into
separate earthern pots. From these
they are drawn against one another
by the local wise man. This simply
determines the fact that the Rumai
girl has come out and is ready to be
married. and the youth whose name is
drawn against hers thereby obtains a
particular letter of introduction, with
authority to make love Immediately
with what ardor and success he is
capable of.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-03-16
Sow Some Oats For Hay.

Have you got corn enough to leed
your stock until next October!
not, take Charles Cotton Mooore's ad-
vice and SOW oats for hay. Put them
ON good land and manure or fertilize
them we'll. You can begin cutting ana
feeding any time after they head out
but cut the whole crop just as II
reaches the dough stage. We nave
never fed anything that stock and cat
tie relish so well.
You remember 1901 was a wet year.
The first of January, 1902, We had 80
bushels Of corn, and two mules and
three pigs and a family OF five TO
feed. BY pursuing the method out
lined above, we kept our mules rat,
carried our pigs along and arriver at
October with about three pecks OF
corn left. Necessity forced us 10
adopt this method, and it has proved
so profitable we have been following
it ever since.
But we do not stop with the crop
of oat hay. We follow with peas, or
peas and sorghum, and thus get two
crops of hay per year. Theoat hay
will come on earlier If sown in fall,
and the land improved If crimson
clover is sown wits IT. All should be
cut when crimson clover is in full
bloom. This is our method.-Writer
| in Progressive Farmer.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-03-16

Numerous methods have been rec
commended for killing the wolves
LARVAE of the OK warble) found un-
der the skin along the backs of cattle
from January / to April but none APP
pears to meet the case. To kill the
grub and allow 1t to remain In the
hack is unsatisfactory. because the
presence of the dead body usually
causes more or less irritation and a
disagreeable sore. One of the best
methods is to enlarge the opening In
the skin with knife just as soon
as the grub is formed. and force
II out by pressure.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-03-16

The great need for the development
of the agricultural resources Of the
south. says the Progressive Farmer,
il not immigrants. as some seem to
think. but it is the incubation Of right
ideas and correct principles of agri-
culture into the minds and practices
OF the people we already have, and
nothing will enforce them so much as
the scarcity Of labor. We certainly
don't need labor to enable M to make
more cotton. The fear that we viii
make too much cotton has become =
nightmare to the cotton farmer Z
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-03-16
ron six THOUSAND YEARS
Other People Have Priced the Farm
ery' Product.

4 great deal has been said Of late.
especially among cotton raisers, con-
corning the need of closer co-opera-
ton among farmers so that may con-
troll the prices of their own products
In this line of thought the Nacos-
doches (La.) Plaindealer says:
For six thousand years other peo-
pie have been pricing the farmers
products. 1t has mattered not what
he raised, nor in what quantity, ne
has had absolutely nothing to say
about the price at which he should
dispose of it, Through al these weary
centuries of labor he has toiled IN the
rain and in the sun. the heat and the
cold, to make two blades OF grass
grow where only one grew before
and If reference is had to crab grass,
he has more than succeeded-and
caused the earth to bring forth an
abundant harvest of products for man
and beast, but until now he has been
regarded as a nonenity when it came
TO fixing q price on these products.
Such has not been the case with any
other class of people. except In a
limited extent to laborers. The price
of all manufactured products. PROBES
sional services. etc., has been, and 10
almost wholly regulated by the ven
dor-you pay their price or let 1t
alone. Under this system the burden
has fallen unequally on the shoulders
of the farmer-he has taken what ne
could get for his own products and
Maid what he had to for the other Tel
lows product Can it be successfully
| denied that this inequality is largely
| responsible for his condition to-day
Isn't it about time change was De
ing wrought and the farmer was pric
ing his own products? What is sauce
for the goose ought to be sauce iol
the gander. What is fair for ONT
ought to be fair for the other"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-03-16
! distinguished professor

A distinguished professor has de-
clared that the so-called lazy boy is
only boy of too strong individuality
to endure the conventional school rou-
tine which the grown-up thinks is good
for him. 1t used to be consoling
thing to some of US who were not
quite the best boy in the class to read
of one and another great man whose
stupidity in school gave no hint of his
future greatness. Any lazy boy who
is perfectly sure that he has great
individuality and that he is going to
appear some time in biographies may
refuse to be classed with the lazy
boys. All other lazy boys are just
lazy.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-03-16
Judgment Needed In Garden.

II am only gardener or trucker,
but find good sound Judgment Is
needed in the garden as well as on
the farm" writes a Louisiana CORE
spondent. "My truck patch is small,
but / have sold at the rate OF $4OO
on an acre. have IL rows OF straw
berries. l sold $40 worth last spring.
These rows are 62 feet long. How Is
that for strawberries? We have q
fine. healthful country here in the
pine hills. Everybody that works has
plenty, but you viii find some that
will not work-and always ready to
say hard times. They are lazy
Don't you think so? Well, ! VIII Gloss
for this time
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-03-16
DON'T BE A PLvNeER.
"ee Sure You Are Right, and Then
Go Ahead"

The blacksmith who would thrust
an edged tool, a pillow and a horseshoe
in the fire all at the same time would
be apt to spoil all of them. He would
show as much wisdom as farmers who
endeavor to do three or four things,
each of which is a specially. We
know a young man, says the Progress
sive Farmer, brought up on farm.
He is industrious. But he read up
on poultry and incubators and thought
It would be fine to have 100 or ~.
chickens falling over each other TO
get out of their shells. We have
never heard of him getting any broil-
ers. An incubator might be bought
from him at bargain. There is an
other man who has quick, penetrating
mind, and he catches on to correct
methods of doing things. But he has
an orchard of several hundred trees,
had bees, and ran a truck farm pc
sides his regular farm. He attempted
all this work with little help; con-
sequently he does not succeed. Rais'
ing chickens with the aid of an incu'
bator and brooder is specially. Sc
is an orchard and truck farm. These
are very exacting The work has to
be done at the right time. An expert
is required to do it. No farmer car
give up his main work for these spe
cial crops. No grower of truck car
attend to cotton and corn farm a.
the same time. The old saying, Jacf
of all trades, good at none." is espe
cially applicable to farmers. :
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-03-16

] The Paris court that decided that
Z woman must be reasonable in her
expenditure for dresses did not stop
to reflect that to be unreasonable is
the dearest privilege Of the so-called
fair sex. In this country such de-
cision would be violation Of the con-
titutional right to the pursuit of hap
piness.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-03-16

you're welcome to that! But q gun!
My dear, among other things on this
place I have a $4,000 bull. A stray
rife ball"
why not q shotgun" Dudley sug-
gested. Penny objected so adroitly
that Mr.. Mixter was presently in the
position of urging on his daughter the
advantages of weapon he detested
as well as feared. She finally conced-
ed that a shotgun would do II she
could have 1t at once.
An hour later she was on her way
to town to make her selection and or
der her suit. She had declined to try
the one until the other had been sent
up, a week later. Then she came
proudly down the front steps for the
benefit of Dudley and her father.
feather and gun at exactly the dashing
angle, and beamed frank satisfaction
at them from pose on the graveled
walk.
&c ne on, Dud." And so volatile
are lovers spirits that this alb.
breviation of his name set Dudley
on prancing high horse for day
and a night.
Don't e., near the bull pasture
called Mr.. Mixter after them.
Penny fred her first shot, then eel
down on a log, hand against hel
right shoulder, her face dubious.
"It's-very loud" she said. Did
hit anythi, e."
you will do splendidly when yor
learn not to shut your eyes," said bud
ley, happy in the correct placing o.
her hard, little, sun-browned hands. n
little nearer this time. Readyr Pen
nv rose to a second attempt, and at I
third began to show enthusiasm. B!
the end of an hour she could 'almos
hit things" as she proudly explaine,
to her father.
You will be glad q it yet" sh
told him. Some day may save you
life!"
"H'm!" said Mr.. Mixter. Il hop
you lock the dogs up when you 8
out"
Penny's Workmanship improved .
rapidly that presently she began to g
out shooting by herself, course whic
Dudley opposed with outward disinte
estedness and inner chagrin. 1t SCENE
impossible to get any hold on thi
cheerful and friendly young womal
who never appeared to feel anythin
deeper than amusement. He began
find out from the inside the meanin
of many old, familiar phrases, anon
them the psalmist's sick of love
Three times he grimly mounted hi
horse and rode over to take his refus'
and say good-by. The third time 81
had last been seen going on to Il
woods with her gun. and he set out 9
foot after her, determined that q
other sun should not go down on b
misery of false hope.
He found her sitting on q stun
with her gun across her knees, rage
her face; at little distance, cove
humble, but as determined as herse
croushed Rajah.
That old fool won't go home!" vi
her indignant greeting. Il have Yell
at hirc. I've chased him, I've hit him.
Re ,ust looks like Christian marty
and won, bulge. Coat" She threw
handful of twigs at the ancient sett'
who drooled apology, but did not st
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-03-16
First Thing to %.

The first thing for a farmer to 40
is to sit down and count up how much
land he is going to tend this year,
then divide his crops just the best ne
can. Then the Dtxt thing to 40 IL 70
prepare the land that he wants to
plant first.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-03-16

The msa who pays attention to
anonymous letters is almost az un-
worthy OF notice as those who write
them.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-03-16
rexans RaisIna Saddle Horses.

Texas Is coming to the front as .
saddle horse breeding state. A writer
from Mckinney says: "The saddle
horse interest is growing here In Tex-
as almost by leaps and bounds.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-03-16

"He fen in love with her At 1rst.
sight"
How odd? Did she have her auto.
mobile mask on Houston Post
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-03-16

PENNY GOES HUNTING
Bv juliet Wilbur Tonpkins

Copyright. by Joseph B. Bowles.,
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-03-16

boy was hero"
She came toward Arthur with.
trembling steps.
Here is his photograph" she muir
INJURED. Perhaps you have seen him."
For q moment Arthur's heart ceased
to beat. He knew the face instantly
! The thin features. the bright eyes, the
long curl that clustered about the fore
head.
His hands clutched the photograph.
He felt like tearing 1t into pieces and
| flinging the bits into the old woman's.
| face. She was the woman who had
brought murde-ous coward into the
| world.
He handed the photograph back to.
her. His fingers were shaking. His
| eyes were aflame.
You knew him--you saw him die?"
the mother cried. You know my
brave boyy
Arthur bowed. For moment he
could not speak.
yes, saw him de-" he said, as he
turned away. Il saw him at the last.
He was in one of the boats that was
saved. but he leaped into the sea to
make place for woman"
Heaven be praised for that an
proud that he gave up his life for
Others said the old man.
| Arthur had given up his vengeance.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-03-28
DO YOU ENTERTAIN?

If so, you will be interested in the
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Easy" (which contains many sugges-
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"What to Serve and How to Pre-
pare IT, is companion book of the
above, and contains 1913 receipts for
sandwiches, salads, cakes and cake
lest, drinks and ices, candy, and
luncheon dishes, besides a collection
of toasts and quotations, menus and
suggestions as to what to serve on
different occasions. ." :-..
Price each, Csc, or send postal for
further particulars, together with
our booklet, telling how to make
paper flowers, which we send free on
request. Home Entertainment
Bureau, l50-l52 N. Trumbull Ave-
nue., Chicago.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-03-28
ARTHUR SANDERSON is FREED.
Slayer Of DR.. Meredith Is Acquitted at
Carthage, Mo.

Carthage, Mo-, March 25.-The jury
in the case of Arthur Sanderson,
charged with the murder of DR.. Solo.
mon D. Meredith in Carthage on Jan.
uary 2 last, brought in a verdict Sun.
day evening of not guilty, after being
out rs hours
Mrs. Sanderson, in defense of her
husband, testified that DR.. Meredith,
who had been their family physician,
5ad made love to her when she went
to his office to consult him. In the ar
guments Of counsel for the defense
a parallel with the Thaw case was
drawn and the "unwritten law" was
brought out.
In a dying statement DR.. Meredith
denied that his relations with Mrs.
Sanderson had been criminal. He was
prominent in Richie, o., before COM
ing here.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-03-28
CITATION FOR HEARING ON
PETITION FOR PROBATE OF
WILL.

WILL.
Estate of Peter Backstrom, Dece-
dent.
State of Minnesota, County of Mar
shall, In Probate Court.
In the Matter Of the Estate CT Pc
ter BackstrOm, Decedent.
The state of Minnesota to Mathilda
G. Backstrom, Ellis F. Backstrom,
Evald L. Backstrom, Henry Allen
Wurzback, and all persons interested
in the allowance and probate of the
will of said decedent: The petition
of Ellis f. Backstrom being duly filed
in this court, representing that Pc
ter BackstrOm, then a resident of
the County of Marshall, State of Min
nesota, died on the 22nd day of Octo-
Der, 1904, leaving a last will and Ues-
lament which is presented to this
court with said petition, and praying
that said instrument be allowed as
the last will and testament of said
decedent, and that letters testament
tarv be issued thereon to Mathilda
G. Backstrom, Now therefore, you,
and each of you, are hereby cited
and required to show cause, if any
you have, before this court, at the
Probate Court Rooms in the city of
Warren, county of Marshall, State of
Minnesota, on the 24th day of April,
1907, at two O'Clock P. M, why the
prayer of said petition should not be
granted.
Witness the honorable Peter H.
Holm, Judge of said court and, the
seal Of said court, this 2lst day of
March,, 1907.
Peter H. Holm
(Oourt Seal. Judge.
Julius J. Olson,
Attorney for Petitioner
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Typewriter paper at the Warren
Sheaf.
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emptied his gun the officers, whose
own pistols we're emptied, fell upon
him with bare hands and made him q
prisoner.
Crowd Wanted TO Lynch Him.
Soon the police patrol wagon came
dashing through the crowd and the
officers came out dragging Thompson
with them and holding their empty re-
vclvers In their hands. The mob
threw themselves upon the officers
and were only prevented from attack
ing Thompson by the declaration that
the man was dead.
With men hanging On the steps Of
the wagon and demanding the life Of
the wounded prisoner the race was
made to the station and the prisoner
was carried into the police hospital
The story was then spread that he was
dead and the mob Quoted.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-03-28
In the
Presence of:

WIIUuT +. POWeII
Tn tbo Chas. Wittensten
pranoncn Louis M. Olson
oAoo ~ Harry j. March
II. L. Wood G 7.,1:l ~ G; huaoquAs'
WV Wiz 0. H. Taralseth
liver N. Lodoen
Andrew Grindeland
VIM. J. Brown
George S. Wattam
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H. L. Wood
g. L. Stevens
State of Minnesota,

State of Minnesota, &C
County Of Marshal
On this 18th day of March, A. D.
1907, before me, a Notary Public
within and for said County, person
ally appeared, Wilbur F. Powell,
Chas. Wittensten, Louis M. Olson,
Harry J. March, Charles E. Lund-
quist, Julius J. Olson, O. II. Taral-
seth, liver N. Lodoen, Andrew
Grindeland, Vim. j. Brown and
George S. Wattam, to me known to
be the persons who executed the
foregoing instrument, and acknowl-
edged that they executed the same
as their free act and deed. ..:
NOTARY Seal H. L. Wood.
My commission expires June l, 1913.
Notary Public, Marshall County,
Minnesota.