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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-12-01

MACHINERY.
BARGAINS in SECONDHAND en-
gtnes, boilers, etc. rebuilt as good
As new G, b.. FORD co, Tr1Sg Sn!p-
yard. Phone 302S.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-12-01

ASK YOUR GROCER FOR SAIlTl[-
field sausage. 1t is the best.
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LET US CLEAN YOUR WINDOWS.
NATIONAL WINDOW CLEANING
CO.. 1919 East Main Street: phone
S146,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-12-01

reds (first and second prizes at last
State Fair): ais white Wyando te
cockerels; eggs In season. from beth
breeds. for hatchit g.. JOHN CAMP
BELL r. D. D.. 2. Beaverdam Va.
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pYElNG AND CLEANING,
SUITS SECURED AND PRESSED
suits pressed. 60e.. gents \ ledlea'
suits dyed at GIi4L'S, 32S North Ftith
Street. Phone 1869,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-12-01

BUY AN EDISON OR VICTOR PHO
nograpli, and have all kinds. from
THE MANCHESTER MUSIC CO., No.
1924 Hull Street, Manchester.
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FOR RENT, ATTRACTIyELY FUR
nished rooms, with on Without board;
gentlemen preferred. 62T EastEMain
Street, 4gQ
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low ABOUT THOSE sPEcTACLES
or eyeglasses that need repairing or
new lenses? We have the best only.
and can do all your repair work
promptly and correctly. THE RAY
1iORN-FRASER OPTICAL CO., INC,
221 East Main Street.
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FOR RENT, FURNISHED ROOMS. II
North Seventh Strect.s
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-12-01

TWO ROOMS FOR RENT: ONLY SIS
per month; water on floor 423 1-2
North Sixth Street..
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WANTED, AT ONCE, OCCUPANTS
for second floor room. 400 Lpmbardy
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FRENCH LADY FROM PARIS IN
Richmond for winter would give
lessons in language. Address q SIG,
care .Tinles-Dispatch.
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LARGE UNFURNIsHED ROOM; ALSO
furnished4han room; both on second
floor, at No. A West Clay Street.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1907-01-23
Small Farms Well TILED.

We do not know that any of our
readers are land poor. We hope not,
for it is an unfortunate condition. But
if so, it will be wise to turn part of the
land out to pasture and to farm the
balance in the very best manner that
is possible. The following object les
son is from the Southern Cultivator:
He said it had been his firm belief
that no man could make any money
farming on less than a hundred acres
He now believes that forty acres is
ample for nine out Of ten farmers. If
they would work that much land right
they would have more money at the
end of the year than they would with
twice the amount Of land. 1t is fact
that many farmers are land poor, and
are unable to farm it right because they
have TOO much. But there are also
thousands who farm poorly, whether
they have much or little. So many
farmers who have a small farm, which
they could work nicely if they would,
go miles to rent more land to half
farm like they do their own A great
many farmers think they must add to
the number Of their acres as the land
becomes poorer and produces less. In
stead of bringing their land up-in-
creasing it's fertility until it will produce
as much, or more, than it did when
first broken up, with clover rotation,
they go aimless1y on in the same old
rut, and lots of them end up as day
laborers in town. I wish I could in
duce some thousands of these farmers
to thoroughly fertilize aad farm, one
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1907-01-23
Florida Rich in Various Woods.

The following communication,
which is self-explanatory, has just
been received:
Editor Pensacola Journal:
Among the many good things said
about Florida through the press we
note that but little attention has been
paid to Florida woods.
People residing outside the state,
(some at least) naturally think that
this state is only a swampy, sick1y,
quagmire with an occasional scope of
pine timber, which has been hasked
by turpentine operators until it is
unfit for any purpose. A mistaken
surmise indeed
No finer pine timber exists any
where than in northwest Florida
This state does not only abound in
pine timber, which has been hacked
lands produce an abundance of cy-
press, cedar and juniper, suitable for
the manufacture of lumber and shin
giles A single mill located on Black
Water river in Santa Rosa county
owned and operated by J. F. Cotton
cannot supply the demand at $3.50
per thousand at the mill.
Not only this, but hard woods are
plentiful, suitable for the manufac
t,tre Of wagons, buee;es, etc.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1907-01-23
READY SALE FOR HOGS.
Florida Cannot Supply the Demand
for Her Own CONSUMPTION.

The stock Of the Florida razorback
is looking up. We have been inclined
to recommend the breeding of improv-
ed stock Of hogs-in fact, we looked
upon the razorback as a back number.
Yet all the time we recognized the fact
that no better favored pork was ever
made than that from a young acorn
fed razorback. This winter such pigs
have been sold in Jacksonville at 10
cents per pound, not live weight but
for the whole carcass, dressed. The
Gainesville Sun says:
A report recently made by one Of the
officials of large meat packing COM
pany, who has investigated the matter,
says in part that Florida cannot supply
the demand for pork from her own
people. This report is predicted upon
the fact that it is impossible to get the
Florida razorback or improved breed
Of hogs to the market, even though
good prices have been offered for them
in Jacksonville, where the only pack
ing house in the State is located.
This packing house has been forced
to send to Georgia and Alabama for
the same character of hogs which are
raised right here in Florida The re-
port goes on further to state what can
be made from the raising OF hogs
where ready market exists, such as
the one in Jacksonville. The figures
are based upon facts as gathered by
the State Department Of Agriculture
and indicate that the farmer can do
better with the hogs than he can with
the cattle that he endeavors to raise
for the market Hogs cost little, and
it takes but few months to raise
them and prepare them for market.
If the Florida farmer would raise a
sufficient number OF hogs each year to
make up a carload, or club with
their neighbors, the packing house in
Jacksonville would readily take them
off their hands, paying a good price for
them
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1907-01-23

acre and see what it will yield. Farm
it in the best manner possible two years
and see what can be gotten out of it.
Last year man who farms fifty
acres, told me that he had grown 22O
bushels Of corn on three acres, and his
neighbor, just across the road, grew
81 bushels on three acres. The previ-
Gus year he had grown a crop OF cow
peas on his three acres, then emptied
the barnyard into it, titled the land
well, planted perfect seed and got a
full stand, cultivated it six times and
kept every weed out. His neighbor
had corn the previous year, plowed it,
planted the seed and cultivated about
as the average farmer does. The
reighbor declared that his land could
not be made to yield a crop like the
fifty acre farmer grew. Under the di-
rection of the latter he tried one acre
by way of experiment. He called it
gardening corn" The acre yielded
sixty-eight bushels of fine corn. He
was astonished That one experiment
made him an intensive farmer, and I
once heard him say: "These fellers
that raise only twenty or thirty bushels
Of corn to the acre make me tired. If
they'd only handle their land like I do
mine they would get more than double
that!''
Another farmer who was looking
through the fine fields of corn belong
ing to these two men remarked: eff
| could spare the time to work small
patch Of five or ten acres like these
men have l believe I could grow quite
as many bushels to the acre. But my
farm is too large to permit of it. I
grow about seventy acres of corn each
year." The ffty-acre farmer asked him
what his average yield was. Between
thirty and forty bushels he replied.
WELL" said the other, "are you farm
ing for crops, or to see how much land
you can run over each season?'
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1907-01-23
Old Age in Florida.

The Tallahassee Sun informs us that
the census report compiled in the Of
flee of the secretary of agriculture
shows seventy-one persons living in
Florida more than one hundred years
DID, 1t is natural that an Indian
should stand near the head of that list.
Alachua county may claim the pre-
MUM for numbering among it's resi-
dents four Of the oldest centenarians
The Indian is a woman III years old;
negro man is I25; another negro is
116, and white man 10 is the old
est of the race in Florida.
The whites who have counted the
passage of 100 seasons are very few.
The roll is quickly enumerated:
David Roberts lives at Summerheld,
Marion county He is 1I2 years old.
George Mcclellan, 100 years, Nc
Clellan, Alachua.
Phoebe Sparkman, Fairfield, Marion
county, 1o8 years Of age
Abraham Clabran, 100 years, Brent,
Escambia county.
Mary Jones, 1o2 years, Goes Mill,
Liberty county.
Leon county leads all in number
of centenarians, but there is not in all
the county one white person who can
lay claim to the distinction. There are
eight negroes. Some of them are ma
tive Africans, who came over on the
last slave ship, "Wanderer"
The list of counties is given for
those who have more than one, for
it is nothing for a country in Florida
to have one centenarian:
Escambia has 7, Duval s, Jefferson
6, Leon s, Marion 6, Madison 4, ST.
wannee 4, Liberty 2.
The census report develops the
fact that Florida has a Davy Crockett.
He lives in Hillsborough county and
is III years old. His wife bears the
faithfully gentle name of Dolly and is
but ten years younger than her lord
David and Dolly have lived near
Tampa for a number of years.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1907-01-23
A Large Orange Crop.

A little over ninety-nine thousand
boxes OF oranges have been shipped
from Wauchula this season. It is
estimated that there are ten thousand
boxes yet on the trees. How many OF
the latter have passed through safely
remains to be seen. The crop was
slightly heavier this year than last
Wauchula Advocate.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1907-01-23

pay and with the higher prices obtain
ed for products and the difference is
clear proft-and considering how much
less work will be required, one can
safely figure that the smaller plant
will yield as much profit as the larger
one, if only one half as many hens are
kept.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1907-01-23
Z. 0. Painter, Esq:

=. o. Painter, ESQ.,:
Jacksonville Fla,
Please ship me six tons Bean Fertilizer same
as you sent me last. will add that tested
it carefully by side of - and so far vouf
goods at $500 per ton, are giving better re-
suits than at $780, Several of NV
neighbors are watching results and think it will
be a big ad. for your goods.
Bill my order to Stuart. Fla, and oblRc.
Fl E. Olda
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1907-01-23

the year and after getting started one
will be surprised to find how the bust
ness branches out, disclosing new
sources of profit. 1t all comes step by
step, little at time, the result OF
well-directed effort.
One very important thing is to re-
serve part of the money to be invest
e1 After a while-a few months or
perhaps a year-there will come
time when more money will be
needed; there may be a chance to
buy some desirable fowls at a
bargain, or maybe there will come
dull time when just little more money
will mean success or failure. OF course
if poultry raising is only side issue
and one is engaged in other work to
meet expenses, more chances may be
taken, but if one has put all they have
into the business he cannot be too
cautious.
Two brothers invested heavily in
poultry and fixtures and spent their
money freely in buying the furniture
to fix up their home, so sure were they
that money would come to them read
ily; but after a few months, when
mou1ting time came, and hens stopped
laying, having spent all their money,
they were obliged to "sell out" at a
loss only themselves knew If they
had gone slowly at first, holding back
part of their money to help them out
when the crisis came, they probably
would have become successful poultry
men.
After the first season there will be
pullets to lay when the hens are moult-
ing, and one should plan to have young
roosters to sell at this time
If it is the intention to have large
poultry plant and keep hens by the
hundreds, the matter of feed becomes
of first Importance. This can be
bought in variety more cheaply near
some large poultry center where there
are stores making a specially of all
kinds of poultry supplies, and there is
also the benefit to be derived from the
cooperation of the pou1trymen. To
an Eastern man the price Of feed in
California would seem to be almost
prohibitive Of going into the business
with any expectation of profit, but the
excellent prices to be obtained for
eggs and poultry, together with the
fact that hens lay in this mild climate
when eggs are the highest, make poul-
try raising far more profitable than it
is in the Middle West or East.
If capital is lacking to establish a
large poultry farm it would be better
to locate Just outside some large city
and sell direct to first class hotels or
storekeepers whose customers belong
to the rich, fastidious class who de-
mand fresh eggs regardless of cost
Any one able to supply to these deal
ers eggs guaranteed to be new-laid
will be able to command the highest
market price, and when eggs are
scarce sometimes more. But the eggs
must look fresh as we'll as be fresh.
If necessary to wash them, do not use
soapy water or wipe them, but wash
in clear water, remove stains with
vinegar, rinse and drain For this
a..r1aea 4ae1< q .:oao az .,z:xe .,o44:ae.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-12-05
Fake Spices Sold to Public.

1t has been found that more than
80 per cent. of the groceries sold by
travelling agents who sell direct to
consumers are of the adulterated
classes. Examinations made of cot
fees sold by such concerns proved
that there was so per cent. adultera-
ton. The cheapest kind of Santos
is used for a base, and with this
ground cocoanut shells, burnt corn
and chicory are combined. Such con-
coctions are dangerous, and a rank
imposition upon the people. The
spices that are sold by many of the
alleged pure food concerns that have
agents working among the people in
small towns are dangerous to health.
Many classes consist of ground
bark, nut shells and other materials
and Favored with artificial flavors
that are coal tar products. 1t is I'M
safe to buy from the concerns that
gain their business through can
vassers, or who do an exclusive mail
order business.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-12-05
Catalogue Houses Busy.

Thousands of dollars are being spent
with the big catalogue houses of the
east by the residents of the small
towns in southern Utah, according to
reports brought to Salt Lake by Or
son Hewlett, president of the Manu-
facturers' and Merchants association,
and Lorenzo jenkins, secretary and
manager of the Retail Merchants as
ISOLATION of the state.
Messrs. Hewlett and Jenkins spent
nearly a week in Sanpete county and
vicinity, calling merchants and farm
ers together to urge greater patronage
of home industries. Ephraim, Moroni,
Fairview, Spring City, Mount Pleas
ant, Fountain Green, Manti and Ches-
ter were visited and in each place the
greatest enthusiasm was manifested
by merchants over the campaign re-
Gently inaugurated by commercial
bodies of the state for a more extern
sive patronage of home industries.
Meetings we're called and ways and
means discussed by which the prac-
tice of pa~tronizing the mail order
houses can be done away with. This
practice has reached alarming proper
lions in the southern part of the state,
according to Messrs. Hewlett and
Jenkins. One small town alone last
month received goods to the value of
$4,000 from a hig eastern mail order
concern.-Salt Lake (Utah) Herald.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-12-05
MUST BUILD UP BUSINESS
Country Merchant Can Use the Local
Press to Advantage.

The sentiment exhibited in the nu-
merous articles now printed in
try newspapers for the purpose of in
ducing people to trade at home in
stead of sending their money to mail
order houses is good and noble, but
we doubt if it appeals to the multitude
who p~atronize these mail order
houses.
The best way in which the mer-
chants in the towns and smaller cities
can fight the mail order houses is to
advertise. They know most of their
patrons personally, al show them the
goods before they buy them, have
many other advantages over the nail
order houses and in almost every in
stance can sell just as cheap, if got
cheaper.
If the home merchant lacks fore
sight and is too penurious to proper
ly advertise his goods, why should the
publisher exert himself to keep the
trade at home for him? If solicita-
lions on the part of the publisher fail
to educate the merchant to the fact
that he must advertise If he wants to
keep up with the procession, then
nothing is left to the merchant but
to learn in the school of experience,
and if the teachings of that renowned
school are of no effect on him, then
there is no place for him and eventn
ally his place in the commercial
world will be taken up by some
more enterprising competitor.-Buck-
eye Informer.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-12-05
Catch Penny Schemes.

Those who make a habit of answer
ing advertisements in the cheap
mail order papers are sure to bite at
the bait" held out to them sooner or
later. One of the m gratis is
advertising for men to distribute cir
culars' and offering from three dol
lars to five dollars a day for the serv-
ices. These concerns generally charge
a fee O. from two dollars to five dol
lars for Registering" and in return
send a number of printed blanks and
of companies who want adver-
Using matter circulated. After some
dollars worth of postage stamps is
wasted in writing to the names sup
piled, the person anxious for a job
concludes that he is out of pocket.
A common form of fraud is the adj
vertising for men to become detec-
tives. There are few of these rank
humbugs doing business, and in a way
so shrewdly devised that the authori-
ties cannot deny them the use of the
mails. In a few cases fraud orders
have been issued against them, but a
change was quickly made to another
city, and the same old graft put in
operation. In these cases a fee is
| charged for commission and badge
and instructions. The bit of nickeled
brass sent out as a badge is familiar
in nearly every police court as a
| source of trouble for green young men
who think that it's possession gives
them official authority.
Business men should be on the look
out for a new game which has been
played in a number of parts of the
country of late. A stranger enters a
store, buys a small bill of goods, not
exceeding ten or fifteen dollars, says
that he will call for them later, and
gives a check for $50 or more on a
bank, receiving no change in return
He remains away for a few days, then
calls for the goods. He is told that
the check is NJ good. After roundly
"cussing" the bank he pays for the
goods, takes the check and goes. In a
few days more the check comes to the
merchant, paid at the bank, because 1t
had the merchants endorsement on it
This was the end to be obtained. Be
on the lookout for this game.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-12-05

world is so susceptible to atmospheric
a stout-hearted n has been known
to postpone the Inauguration of a long
planned coup merely because the air
filed his blood with the dank chill of
superstition. Because of the expected
Sugar pyrotechnics, stock exchange
members had gathered early; the
brokers offices were o~vercrowded be-
fore ten; the morning papers, not
only in New York but in Boston, Phil
adelphia and other centers, were fill-
ed with stories of the big rise that
was to take place in Sugar. The
knowing one saw the ear-marks Of
the Systems" p~ress-agent in these
stories; and they knew that this in
dustrious institution had not sat up
the night before because of insomnia.
All the signs pointed to q killing, and
and a terrific one-pointed SO plainly
that the bears and Sugar shorts found
no hope in the atmosphere or the
date.
Bob had not been near the office the
afternoon before, and as he had not
come in by five minutes to ten, 1 de-
cided to so over to the exchange and
see if he were going to mix up in
the batting of the Sugar bears. 1 had
no specific reasons for thinking he
was interested except his recent
queer actions, particularly his hanging
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-12-05

in earnest. They had land once worth
ten dollars an acre. Now they are sell
ing it for $40, $22 and $25 an acre
and then letting real estate men turn
it over" again to hundreds of immi-
grants from Illinois anu Indiana. The
immigrants have seen how drainage
paid in their own states and are will
ing to wait two or three years when
they may decide to sell again-finally
for $50, SIS and 500 an acre. They
have seen the evolution and believe in
the future for experience has taught
them the inevitable benefits of owning
drained land.
The Marie DIES Cynges river is the
Kansas and western Missouri. 1t be-
gins south of Topeka and is n of the
attractions of the ottawa Chautauqua
which it usually overfiows about every
other ear. From Ottawa it meanders
across the line into Bates county, Mis-
souri,, and zigzags across the south
ern part of this county into Vernon
and back again before the Usage river
finally captures the stream and pro-
ceeds on to the Missouri not so very
far from Jefferson City.
The people of Bates county have
learned to hear of rain in Kansas with
fear, An ordinary downpour in q
damp season means that the Marie DIES
Cygnes, Usually IN orderly water,
course, wal spread over miles and
miles of country, There have been
times when during almost an entire
summer 1t was impossible to drive
from Rich Hill to %Papinyille, a small
village ten niles east and south Of this
place. Even in ordinary dry weather,
long lakes Of pond lily depth must be
skirted by the roads. In times OF
freshets, the Marie DIES Cynges is like
ly to change its course by the erosion
of the soft dirt banks. A man may
own acres of land before a rainstorm
and when the overflow from the
stream has subsidized, he may find II
goste, perhaps owe a neighbours field
or perhaps in the bottom Of the river
that has decided to change its course.
So 1t was not surprising that a few
levelheads got together and decided
that the overflow must be stopped
They engaged engineers and found
that relief WIS possible. According tc