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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-19
FROST PROTECTORS.

When the weather gets cool and
frosts are expected it is a good plan
to have pile of straw drawn out to
some handy place in The garden. This
can be quickly thrown over the to-
matoes and other tender vines. A thin
coat of straw is sufficient to pro-
tect against freeze. 1t can be quickly
put on, and its use will save many
crop.
The bushel crate is handy to use
for cover and is a sufficient protec-
ton against the first frosts. 1t is sur
prising what a difference even a light
Stat cover will make in the tempera-
ture. The crates are now commonly
used on farms and are of a size that
will cover many kinds of plants quite
nicely.
If the Stat crate is not to be trusted.
it is easily and quickly lined with
paper. Then it is sufficient for a hard
freeze.
1t really takes little TO protect
against the first frosts. Thin cloth.
like muslin, or a single thickness of
paper may be better than a heavier
covering, as it will not break down the
plant or bruise the stalks.
In some countries it is a common
practice to build bonfires in the field
during a frosty night This might often
be done to good advantage in the gar
den. Little piles of brush, cobs, rub
bish, anything that would make a fire.
could be lighted about midnight and
save the garden.-F. d. W., in the Ma
tional Fruit Grower.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-19
FORAGE FOR COWS.

Forage plants belong to two families,
the grasses and the legumes. June
grasses, red top, timothy, corn and the
cereal grains are types of the former;
and the clovers, alfalfa, vetches, peas,
ETC., of the latter. The legumes are the
most valuable of the two families, be-
cause they materially increase the nj
trogen supply of the farm from sources
outside the farm. Alfalfa and the
clovers are the most highly priced.
Good forage must be easily digested
and in palatable form, as it is this
portion of food that gives vallce to for
age. The quality of any feed inh1ences
its value for any purpose. This is sue
of roughage, grain or concentrated
feeds. Bran and Oat and pea meal is
good if fed in connection with roughage
of good quality. Pasture grass, silage,
soil crops, roots, ETC., are the best for
age and pea hay, corn fodder, sorghum.
straw, millet, are the best for winter
feeding. Millet and sorghum add vari-
ETY. and are good for soiling purposes.
Early cut and nicely cured corn fodder
is valuable as affording variety and
is relished by the COWS. For winter
feed there is nothing that will equal
corn silage and clover hay; they make
a combination that is succulent, palata-
BILE and fairly well balanced, and for
cheapness it cannot be excelled. A
good silo and plenty of clover solves
the problem of winter forage. Of the
cloyers, alfalfa is the most valuable
as a source of protein, as it is the
greatest yielder Of all legumes and has
q high protein content and is the best
soiling crop known.-O. Irwin, in The
Epitomist.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-19
FLATITIS IN GOTHAM.
Nothing Between Princely Apartment
and Wretchcd Flat.


and Wretchcd Flat.
''If only Mr.. Carnegie, instead OF
spending his money on libraries
would make New York a present of
string of reasonably-priced apartment
houses, where women of refinement
could enjoy the comfort and privacy
of pleasant home, how delightful
it would be-" sighed young matron
on whom fate had placed the respon-
sibility of bringing up a family of
children in the city. Its the prob
lem that confronts every business
woman l know-the problem of
where to live.
There is no half way in the apart
ment house situation in New York.
The houses are so expensive that they
are entirely beyond the limit of the
average woman's income or else they
are so tenementy that they must be
excluded on that score.
Where can l find an apartment
that l can rent for SIS, $50 or even
$35 in a decent neighborhood suita.
bic for me and my children to live in?
l shouldn't be surprised if a new dis
ease should soon spring up among
women breadwinners called flatitis-
the effect of a constant but unreward.
ed search for cheap fiat in a decent
neighborhood where respectable peo-
pie dwell. I've about given up the
problem myself and have resigned
myself to the inevitable-a boarding
house. New York Evening Sun.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-19
British India on Standard Time.

Consul Fee writes that the new STAN
dard time for India was adopted in
Bombay on Jan. /, and is gradually
overcoming the prejudice incident to
a new departure. He further says:
"The Indian standard time is in ad-
vance five hours and thirty minutes of
Greenwich time, being nine minutes
faster than Madras time, about twenty
four minutes slower than Calcutta
time, and about thirty-nine minutes
faster than Bombay local mean time,
the longitude of the city of Bombay be-
ing u deg So minutes east of Green
wich. Five hours and thirty minutes
advance Of Greenwich time would be
the local mean time for longitude 50
deg. 80 minutes east of Greenwich.
This parallel of longitude passes
through India at about the eastern
mouth of Godavery river in the Bay
of Bengal, and near Benares, the sa-
cred city of the Hindus, on the Ganges
river 1t is the local mean time of
this parallel that now sets the stand
ard time for all India" u. S. Consular
Reports.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-19
THE ELocurioNIsr's cuRFEw.

England's sun was slowly setting-( Raise
your right hand to your BROW,
Filling all the land with beauty Wear
a gaze OF rapture now;
And the last rays kissed the forehead
OF man and maiden fair
with movement slow and graceful
He with sad, bowed head-(A dropping
of your head will be all right.
Till you hoarsely, sadly whisper) Cur
few must not ring tonight"
Sexton" Bessies white lips faltered-
CRY here to resemble Bess,
Though OF course you know she'd never
49,. worn quite such charming dress),
i've lover In that prison"-(Don't for
get to roll your RS
And to shiver as though gazing through
az, the iron prison bars).
Cromwell will not come till sunset
SSpeak each word as though you'd
Every syllable to pieces)-"Curfew must
not ring tonight"
Bessie" calmly spoke the sexton
tnere extend your velvet palm,
Let y tremble like the sections as
ar though striving to be CALM,
Long, long Vars I've rung the eurfew-
(Don't forget to make 1t vars
With pitiful infection that world of
~ sorrow bears),
Il have done my duty ever"-(Draw
yourself up to your height
For you're speaking as the sexton).-
'Gyurl, the curfew rings tonight!'
Out she swung. far outflow here is
where you've got to do your best;
Let your head be twisted backward let
great sobs heave up your chest,
swing your right foot through an arc Of
ninety lineal degrees,
linen come down and swing your left
loot. and be sure don't bend your
Keep this up for fifteen minutes till
,-, your face is worn and white
Ahen gaze at your mangled fingers)-
"Curfew shall not ring tonight"
Ger the distant hills came Cromwell
tRlght hand to the brow once more;
Let your eyes look down the distance,
say above the entrance door,
AT his foot she told her story-Gift your
hands as though they hurt)
ana her sweet young face so haggard-
(Now your pathos you assert,
Then you straighten up as Cromwell.
and be sure you get it right;
Don say: Go your liver loves")-
well; "Curfew shall not ring to,
night"
w. D. Nesbit, in Harper's Magazine.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-19
Salmon Varieties and Their Color
BY HI. c. BLISS.

Very little seems to be known
throughout the country about the va
rieties of salmon and their color.
There are five distinct varieties of
salmon caught on the Pacific Coast.
The best known species, in past
years, has been the chinook" or
Columbia River salmon; this is quite
red in color when caught in the
spring; in the fall the color is light
and the quality not so good.
The best known variety at the
present time, and the one in most de-
mand throughout the country, is the
"sockeye" of Puget Sound, or the
red salmon of Alaska. These fish
are the same species, but those caught
in the Sound are branded "sockeye, >"
and those caught in the Arctic are
branded "red salmon" This is the
most important member of the SAL
mon family; it's color is deep red,
and it's flavor delicious.
Then there is the "cohoe," or sill
yer salmon, which is very fine fish,
but the color is pink. The two
cheaper grades of salmon are the
"humpback" of Alaska and the
"dog" or "chum" salmon. The
"humpback" is a good fish when
caught, but the canning process soft
ems it and bleaches out the color, so
that it is almost white. While nutri-
tious it does not appeal either to the
eye or the appetite. The ''chum" or
dog" salmon is the poorest species
of all the salmon family, being quite
Tough and tasteless.
The remarkable thing in connec-
ton with this latter salmon is that
some years ago an unprincipled deal
sr, having large lot of "chum' or
'humpback" salmon on hand which
he could not dispose of, advertised it
extensively throughout the South and
put on the label the following legend:
Fish in this can are warranted not
to turn red"
1t never did, but the results of this
act of trickery are still apparent all
over the country, as many people
suppose that choice salmon is white.
After tasting the s'sockeye" or
Alaska red salmon there will be no
further question in their minds. No
salmon has ever been or can be arti-
ficially colored. The difference In
color is due entirely to the species.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-19
A Medical Estimate of PRAYER.

At the recent ANIMAL meeting of the
British Medical Association DR.. Theo-
dore b. Hyslop, superintendent of
Bethlem Royal Hospital, a specialist
in neurology and in the treatment OF
mental disease, said: "As an alienist
and one whose whole life has been
concerned with the suherings of the
mind, 1 would state that of all n.y.
gienic measures to counterfeit dis
turbed sleep. depressed spirits and all
the miserable sequels of a distressed
mind. / would undoubtedly give the
first place to the simple habit of
Drayer."-The Outlook.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-19
5HoRTICULTUREy
y SAS o. ~
THE Value or BIRDS.

This is one of the subjects that
heed to be kept constantly before the
people.
The article given below we clipped
from the Rural Californian:
Birds are natures check on insect
life. BY controlling the increase OF
certain insects they prevent the de-
struction of plant life, and without
plant life, animal life-including that
of man-would be impossible. Each
species Of bird has its special Office.
One cares for the leaves and twigs
of the trees; still another guards the
trunk and limbs from attack; still
others hunt upon the ground, seeking
their prey beneath the fallen leaves
and loose soil.
The stomach of one Bob White
quail has been found to contain more
than 100 potato beetles; another had
eaten 500 cinch bugs. Ninety of the
destructive cotton boil weevils were
found in the stomach of three mead
ow larks. A single robin had eaten
175 caterpillars; chickadee has been
know to cat 5000 eggs of the canker
worm in one day; a barn swallow will
destroy more than a thousand flies
and other winged insects every twenty
four hours; pair of chipping sparrows
were observed to carry their young
more than 200 insects, mostly cater
pillars, in less than one day; a night
hawk will consume hundreds of injuri-
Gus insects, continuing the beneficial
work long after the day-fyiIg birds
have ceased their work and gone to
sleep. A pair of nesting orioles will
destroy thousands of the small, green
caterpillars that are so destructive to
the foliage of deciduous fruit trees
some years in California. The farmer
who kills one of these birds takes the
life of one of his best friends. Fifty
per cent. of the food of the red shaft
ed flicker consists of ants, 5000 OF
these having been taken from the
crop of a single bird. The black
phoebe destroys vast numbers of flies
and gnats that annoy horses and cat
tie. Food is brought to the young of
these birds every two or three min
utes.-FlOrida Agriculturist.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-19
FEEDING A DAIRY COW.

A practical dairyman writes the
Jersey Bulletin on feeding his COWS.
He says: "Our herd numbers in all
fifteen head. Our cows are grained
the year round, have the run of pas
ture in summer, and are we'll housed
in winter. Our summer ration for
dairy cow is barley chop, about four
pounds per diem. In winter we use
shredded fodder for roughage; grain
ration, eight pounds per day per cow
Of a mixture of cornmeal, barley meal,
malt sprouts and cottonseed meal,
mixed in the required proportions to
produce feed which would analyze
one part of protein to six of carbohy-
drates. Our cows are not allowed to
stand alongside a straw stack for
shelter when the thermometer shows
something a little less than zero, but
are kept in the stable, and even wat.
cred there.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-19
SOFT SHE'LL EGGS.


Hens that acquire the habit of lay
ing soft she'll eggs should be watched
very carefully in order to break them
of it. There are two causes for soft
eggs. One is the feeding of too much
stimulating food, the other not
enough shell-forming material being
furnished. Too much spiced food
and meat is generally found to be the
chief cause, and If that is cut out the
evil can generally be overcome If
the hens have been overfed they will
show it by the lack of eagerness with
which they eat new food. After you
are satisfied that they have been fed
too much reduce the supply and add
a little epson salts to their drink
water for about four days. Grit or
crushed oyster shells should be fed If
want of lime is the trouble.-Journl
of Agriculture.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-19
AGE OF EGGS.

There is simple method of ascer-
tanning the age of eggs, based upon
the fact that the air space at the
broad end of the egg increases with
its age. Now, when the egg is placed
in tumbler of water in which any
amount of common salt is dissolved
it will with increasing age tend even
more to assume a position with its
longitudinal axis in perpendicular
direction. A freshly laid egg will
lie horizontally on the bottom of the
vessel. An egg from three to five
days old will rise with its broad end,
so that its longitudinal axis is at an
angle of twenty degrees. At the age
of eight days the angle increases to
forty-five degrees, at the age of two
weeks to about seventy-five degrees.
When the egg is more than a month
old it will float perpendicularly on
its small end, says Rural Magazine.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-19
Real Cause of EARTHQUAKES.

While civilized man is trying tt
grasp the meaning of an earthquake,
the unciyilized of all ages have long
ago resolved their doubts In Mon
golia it is the breathings and skip.
pings of huge frog that causes the
mischief; in China a gigantic dragon;
in India world-bearing elephant;
in Celebes a hog, and in other coun.
tries the scheme is varied by the in.
PRODUCTION of bull and a tortoise
Earthquakes in Siberia are believed
to be due to the frolics of mammoths
who live in the centre of the earth,
while in Vancouver Island it is the
spirit OF evil with his marshaled hosts
of all the wicked people who have
ever lived.-Kansas City Star.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-19

IT'S he close friend?" 81 should sa
10. He wouldn't even lend me dol
ar."-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Dear, you know Jack was just crazy
to marry me-" remarked the new bride.
Yes. That's what everybody thinks"
Milwaukee Sentinel
An English wit remarked of English
women that while romance made
wrecks of them, marriage made them
look like public buildings. Harlequin.
Copy Reader-Man dropped dead in
a Turkish bath. How'll | head the
story? Night Editor-Another Sweat
Shop Outrage Plain Deal
er.
'I've just heard of an auto that
will annihilate time and space" well,
the present sort is good enough for me.
1t annihilates everything in sight
Life
Ethel: 1 hear that Mrs. Newwed is
taking the Jiu Jitsu training.
Maude: Well, she had to do some
thing to enable her to handle that ba-
by.-Life.
Dentist-'T've filled all of your teeth
that have cavities, sir" Mahoney-
We'll, thin, fill tn rist av thin, too
thin whin tn cavities come they'll be
already filled, b'gobs!"-Puck.
Mamma-"There, Dick; you just go
right to bed without a mouthful of sup
per-" Dick-"Oh, mamma, l can't
sleep on an empty stomach" NAM
ma-"Then turn over on your back
Judge.
Joakley-"I understand Crooks is
anxious to be a Congressman-at-larg
Coakley-'You mean ex-Congressman
Crooks? Why he's in the penitentiary
serving sentence" Joakley-"Ex-
philadelphia Press.
A joke came into an editorial sane
tum where it was i'll received. Con
sidered as a mere jest" it admitted,
81 may not be without defects. Never
theiess, there is due to age such respect
as should guarantee me civil treat
ment" This view, indeed, seemed SO
reasonable that in the end it pre-
vailed.-Philadelph Public Ledger.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-19

serve IT. keeping all interests
compact OF those VINO "aA
laws and by of the them
seu Genuine patriotism private
any calculation sense
nation would
IKE to recall the Tocquevle in which he mavs
information excellence OF
pohy did hesitate demand of its people, the
p than anything invented IN h way
FORM that have become distinguished among nations
America fallen level all the oner
ns which have her her in the race @
men deas and of her typical citizens whom principles seem ever
sustaining of actor
there trouble the signs
the
discomfort
""
we that think
easy process making shall public
can hardly which change them
noed the chief mind is there
action the
WHICH excite u.s. that what
we really need smaller administration
OF slight without watchful public
snail pubic opinion watchfu
SLOW study OF conditions patient seeking remedies careful ova
ZION OF the real the
seems to be thing
checking pnazng wealth which
lead to its unnatural
to raise money for the ought al
be obtained
check or discourage industry
governments that individuals
poaions penalze
and
turbing
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-19
Taxable Incomes in Prussia

The Prussian income tax returns
the largest increase registered in any
of the past thirteen years. These
returns, covering all incomes of G45
($21S) and more, indicate a gain OF
aS5, 100000 ($17O,449,100) in the
peoples incomes for 1905 over 1904.
Since the income tax law was intro
duced, fourteen years ago, the mum.
Der of persons taxed has risen from
2,440, 900 to 4.6S0,0OO, and their ag.
gregate income from &29S,0OO, O0O
$1,445,30O,00O) to a536,O0O, 0OO
($2,608,444,0 00) department Bull
letin.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-19

France wants the New Hebrides
and has wanted them ever since
1850, when she annexed their neigh.
Dor, New Caledonia We want them
partly because they are a valuable
asset in themselves; mainly, however.
because they are no more than four
days steam from Sydney, and possess
the only good naval harbors for thou
sands of es.-London Windsor
Magazine.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-19
A GOOD RULE FOR STABLES.

The following is one of the rules
OF prominent livery stable In this
city, where horses of many wealthy
men are boarded: "No man will be
employed who drinks intoxicating
drinks. No man must speak loud to
any one of the horses, or in the stable
where they are. Horses of good blood
are nervous, and loud, excited con-
versation is felt by every horse in
the stable that hears it. Excited
words addressed to one horse are felt
by every other horse that hears them,
and keep them all nervous and un-
easy. No man may use profane lam
guage in the hearing of the horses"
If such rule prevailed in all the
livery and many other stables
throughout the country, the welfare
of all concerned would be promoted.
Let it be generally adopted.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-19
A silent Woman.

The opposition to the payment of the
church tax in Scotland is occasionally
relieved by ray of humor.
Quite recently the Rev. J. Stephen
son, president of the Free Church
Council. resolved to face a weeks in
generation rather than submit to tax
alton. He had no property which
could be distrained upon, and on the
form which he received on which to
state what lie was willing to hand
over to be sold he wrote:
self"
In the next column, in which, says
the London Standard, he was required
TO state the value Of the goods. he in
serted:
.'Wife won't say"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-19
A Neglected industry.

One of the most amazing instances
Of a neglected industry is to be seen
In the almost total Indifference of
fruit and vegetable growers to the
possibilities which may lie in the can
ming of their produce. Huge imports
OF timed fruits come to our shores
from many parts of the world, COM
pared with which the amount produced
in this country is almost nothing
English Worlds Work.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-19

tracks in New York and st. Louis, and
was finally arrested in the latter city.
Soon after this sentence was impos
ed, Miss Mccormack, to whom. by his
order, $4,000 had been turned over af
ter Crahan's affairs were Strengthened
out, began to make an effort to have
the sentence reduced.
In the first place, Miss Mccormack
declared that she was simply a friend
of the counterfeiter, but in the last
week, when the final request was
made to the President, she acknow
lodged that she was his fiancee, and
the President, plying her, responded
to her request SO far as lay within
his power and gment.-Providenc
Or. ID Dispatch to New York World
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-19
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| FARM TOPICS. |.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

RETURN OF THE WILD PIGEON.
The recent appearance of a flock OF
fourteen wild pigeons in the Connectl-
cut Valley has given rise to much con-
lecture among sportsmen as to wheth-
er the birds will return again to New
England. Thirty or forty years ago
these birds swarmed the whole coun-
tryside at certain seasons, but none
have been seen in recent years.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-19
British Stupidity and Art.

If Whistler and Wilde and Moore
had had to deal with the French in
stead of the British public their en-
tire devotion probably would have
been given to art. Their conscious
superiority" would not have been
aroused-their egotism would not
have thrived on more or less exag-
gerated persecution. But perpetually
reminded of British conservatism
its reverences, superstitions, hypoc-
risies, lies and stupidity-reminded
always of British indifference to art
its antimacassars, chandeliers, pub
lie statues, it's Dicksees and Trollopes
they substituted the pose of super
iority for the poise of supremacy
Chicago Evening Post.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-19

This indictment of the English vii
iage as it exists to-day appeared in
prominent London newspaper: THE
English village is remarkable for its
imperfect drainage, contaminated wells
and bad lighting, the impractical teach
ing of its children, the vice connected
with its public houses and the more or
less entire absence of cottage. hospital.
reading rooms, clubs. bath or wash
house. flower show. telephone, often
times It's telegraph, and all that makes
life enjoyable and healthy"