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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-28
SERMoNETTE.


bringing the king back?"-Sad
that the king has been forced to
flee; but sadder still is it that
the people are slow to bring him
back.
What a picture we have here
of the human heart and its re-
Iations to its Lord and King,
Jesus Christ.
The aIIurinq voice of selfin-
! diligence and sin speaks in the
ear and it steals away our
: hearts from loyalty to the true
. King.
; THE next step in the down
ward course is open rebellion
against the rule of the true and
) rishtfuI King.
The king is driven forth. One
cannot read the chapter re-
counting David's departure from
5 Jerusalem without an over
wheIming sense of the sadness
and shame of il all. But how
{ infinitely more tragic and sad
) is it when the King of kings and
: Lord of lords is forced to flee
! from the rebeIIious heart!
And when the fires of sin
, have burned themselves out and
5 the heart feels its desolation
and loss. what reproach it is
I that there is no move to bring
? the King back and reestablish
s him upon the throne!
I The King cannot come except
: by invitation. He may not be
: far away. May, Scripture giveth
5 the Kings own words:
( "5ehold, stand at the door
! and knock" he says. He waits
! on the threshold. The heart
5 must say: "come in"
Z Think of what Jerusalem was
8 without its king. The palace
7 of cedar deserted, and the
5 city without a ruler to whom
( they could turn for advice and =
: help.
Z Think of the human heart
0 without its King. The temple
& which God has created as his
! own peculiar dwelling place
3 empty, or worse, occupied by
> self, and the whole life drifting
q without the master hand of the
9 Pilot to steer clear of the rocks
3 and the shadows upon which so
, many lives are shipwrecked.
5 Let US go, then, at once and
& call back our King.
8 How many times daily are
2 we forced to do this very thing?
5 Neglect, or conduct that is
g worse, drives forth the King,
8 and we must turn and invite
z him again to enter, in order that
5 we may sup with him and he
z with US.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-28
BREEDING and FEEDING.

While inbreeding is the surest and
quickest means to fix type, the prac-
tice weakens vitality unless very care
fully followed. For this reason, closely
inbred hogs are more susceptible to
cholera than those whose constitu-
tions have not been impaired by the
system. The straight corn diet which
many hoge receive from one years
end to the other also lessons Vitality,
and the researchers of the Wisconsin
experiment station have shown that
this is probably brought about by
actually retarding the development Of
the vital organs. A minimum of in
breeding and varied diet, including
ample range, will therefore better en-
able the herd to resist the attacks OF
disease.-Dr. Alexander.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-28
Dry Land FOR Sheep.

1t is generally well known that
sheep require a reasonably dry eli
mate and land that is well drained,
but it often happens that farmers I'M
dertake to raise sheep pn bottom
land and on land that is too wet to
pillow for crop. If sheep are kept On
such land for any length Of time ltrou-
Bile is absolutely certain to follow.
Sheep can not stand wet feet, and
they must have dry ground to sleep
on at night. Sheep lie down a great
deal when Illuminating. Unless the
ground is dry and warm they are sure
to suffer. Besides foot rot, internal
parasites that affect sheep are worse
on wet land. The hoof of the sheep is
golden only when the hoof is dry.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-28
THE STORY.

MOT until after the news of the death
IN of Absalom and the utter failure
of the rebellion which had at the first
been managed so brilliantly and sue
cessfully did the people of Israel and
Judah realize the enormity of their
wrong doing. Then they wondered
how they could have been SO easily led
astray, and contention arose among
the people, each charging the other
with responsibility for the misstep
They saw now how vain and ambitious
fellow the man Absalom had been;
how little of real worth there was to
be found in him, and they saw also
as never before the sterling qualities
of their aged king, and appreciated
how much was owing to him for the
nations greatness and prosperity
During those days of darkness, and
doubt, and uncertainty, memory was
busy, and the people recalled David
mighty deeds, from the first encounter
with the giant Goliath to the many
brilliant campaigns through which he
had led his armies. When had the
nation had such deliverer as David
had been? When had they ever had
such leader as David, since the time
of Moses and Joshua? Where was
there a ruler in all the nations about
SO faithful to his people, and so loyal
to God? He had kept the nation free
from idolatrous practices of the ma
tions about He had organized and
solidified the nation as whole as it
had never been before. He had made
the name of Israel to be honored and
feared among the nations about.
And with the reaction which began
in the nation following the collapse
of Absalom's rebellion the memory of
all these things swept over the minds
Of the people, and the question arose
on every hand:
What shall be done?"
The king had been driven forth.
What was now to be done? Shame at
their disloyalty, and anxiety over the
consequences of their wrong doing
gave rise to wranglings and disputings
among themselves, and added to the
confusion of the situation.
Some there were-perverse and re-
bellious spirits-who set themselves to
plotting further mischief. Absalom
was dead, to be sure, but the spirit
of Absalom still was at work in their
hearts and far from longing for the re-
turn of King David, they secretly set
themselves to further insurrection. The
king was old, and could not be with
them many years longer He had
lost his grip on things. He had been
driven out of the royal city. Why
again saddle the aged king upon
them? Let him remain in exile.
They would seek out another who
should rule.
This new conspiracy was strongest
among certain of the tribes of Ben.
iamin, prominent among whom was
Sheba. the son of Bichri. But among
all the tribes of Israel there were NAL
contents, who were only waiting the
call Of a leader to make fresh rupture
IN the nation
Such was the chaotic state of the
] aation while the old and sorrow-strick
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-28
HOW ABOUT RESTING LANDq
Should 1t Be Allowed to Lie Out, OF
Should 1t Be Fed Up?

Messrs. Editors: l was talking to
some farmers recently who SAID that
they had some land that needed
resting" and they expected to let it
lie out for a year or so. Is this the
correct practice?
Land does not need resting" it
does not get tired; it simply gets
starved. The so-ealled practice of rest
ing land is a little better in some re-
spects than annual clean culture, but
about all man makes from such
Practice is crop of weeds and grass,
and harvest of seeds to give trouble
in future crops. This does much to
Offset the protection from the sun and
the little vegetable matter afforded by
the wild growth.
The true way to rest land is to fat
ten it by growing crops that will add
to the soil and enable it to produce
larger crops.
The true use of commercial ferti-
lizers is to give heavy growth of
recuperative crops, crops between our
sale crops, to enable US to feed stock
and raise more home made manure,
and to store up nitrogen in the soil
for other crops. Herein consists the
difference between the true farmer
and the mere planter. The first uses
fertilizers to enable him to make a
store Of fertility in his soil and to
draw thence dividends in the shape
of constantly Increasing crops, while
the mere planter draws on the orig
inal deposit in his soil until his drafts
are dishonored, and then CANDLES in
fertilizers, taking the chances Of sea-
sons as to whether they will pay him
or not, his account with the soil being
continually overdrawn until the bank
bursts.-Carl B. Riddle, in Progress
sive Farmer.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-28
Hurry in Your Oats and vetch.

Fall oats that have not yet been put
in should be planted at the earliest
possible moment. But be sure the land
has been well fitted for the crop be-
fore they are sowed. If vetch seed are
to be sown with the oats-and we
advise this when the crop is intended
to be used for forage, provided the
land will grow vetch-sow twenty
pounds of vetch and one and half
bushels oats per acre, and SOW with
them from 200 to 800 pounds fertilizer
per acre. If they follow pea crop,
use a fertilizer containing phosphoric
acid and potash only-from to 10
per cent phosphoric acid and to 5
per cent potash, according to the soil.
If the oats do not follow a pea crop
it may be we'll for the fertilizer to
contain from 1 to 2 per cent ammonia.
With the prevailing high prices for
hay farmer can not afford to omit
planting oats.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-28
FARMER AND
PLANTER.
LIVE STOCK IN WINTER.
Good Shelter Will Pay Good Divi
dends.

BY actual experiment it has been
demonstrated that the saving of food
by means of good shelter is equal to
the cost of the shelter in short time
Pigs, when provided with good shelter
and warm quarters, were fattened on
much less food than was formerly re-
CURED to simply keep the unprotected
animals alive. The comparison is an
important one. In the first place, ami
mails that were not properly provided
with suitable accommodation and not
gaining in weight at all, really de-
stroyed or wasted all that had been
provided them, for the food was con
verted into heat in order to give the
animals protection that should have
been furnished with boards and shin
giles.
In one case it might be asked wheth-
er feeding an animal On the products
of the farm, which require labor in
order to produce, is cheaper than the
shelter, which, when once erected,
lasts for number of years and does
service for successive seasons. The
use of the shelter is as important as
the quality of the feed. A pig fed at
irregular intervals on mass of bulky
provender containing but little nutri-
ton, certainly is not expected to dc
as well as one that receives plentiful
supply Of all that is needed to pro,
mote growth, health and thrifty condi
ton and neither should it be expected
that a shelter which allows the cold
to enter, or the water to leak in, can
properly protect the animal against
the rigors of winter and the moistures
Of early spring.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-28
Millions In 1t.

Bacteria is now known to be the
life of soil. The number of these min
ute organisms which may develop in
soil richly fortified is enormous
amounting to hundreds of millions
per gram of earth; and there are over
100000 grams in pound of earth
The degree of heterogeneous decompo
sition, i. e., the making available as
plart food Of locked-up nitrogen IN
the soil, depends upon the number OF
bacteria inhabiting it. Sandy soils sus
tain the least number of bacteria and
heavy marshes the greatest.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-28
The Lesson.

A writer says that when he was a
lad the standard of gentlemanliness
was impressed upon him by his father
not with strap-in way that he
never forgot. They were walking in
the country, and as they reached a
stile a workingman, who was on the
other side before them, and had the
right of crossing first, stood aside I'M
til they had passed. The boy, thought
less, after the fashion of his kind, got
over first, saying never word. Then
his father got over and said, Thank
you" to the man. Turning to his son
he said: You did not thank the man
who stood aside for you" But he
isn't a gentleman" answered the lad.
Perhaps not" was his fathers crush.
ing rebuke, but | want you to be-
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-28

According to figures just given out
by government statisticians, there are
approximately 100000 pounds of
milk produced in this country every
year from the something over 21,000,-
600 COWS, which is enough to give each
man, woman and child seven-eighths
Of pound per day. OF these seventy
billion pounds of milk somewhat over
one-half Is made into butter, one
billion pounds are condensed, while
three billion go into the making OF
cheese. the remaining thirty-two bill
lion pounds and over being sold in its
natural state.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-28
More Colts in the Country.

The horse traders say that there
are more colts in the country now
than ever before. The enormous price
of horses and mules have SET many
farmers to work to raise their own
stock The price of western stock has
gone so high that it is out Of the ques-
ton for this section to buy it profit
ably from now on, no matter what the
price of cotton is" said a dealer the
other day. you go west now he
continued, "to buy bunch of mules
and find that they will average away
up towards two hundred dollars for
big ones and little ones, to which must
be added the freight, the feed bills,
the trip expenses and many other
things, and they are away up yonder
before any profit can be thought OF
We will simply have to go to making
them at home, as the day for cheap
stock in the west Is over. Monroe
Journal.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-28
Push Your Porkers Hard.

Fattening hogs should be pushed
with all rapidity.: Let them have the
run of the pea fields and potato
patches, giving them at the same time
small feeds of corn. The food con-
sumed before winter weather sets in
will make cheaper pork than that fed
to them after cold freezing weather.
"a dollar saved is a dollar made is
good logic, and if we can save it in
feeding hogs it is worth as much to
us as if saved in any other way.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-28
Prices of Stocks Fall.

Since last December there has been
an average fall of prices of stocks
equal to over $40 a share in the case
of railroad shares and of SGT in the
case of industrial shares. Applying
this to the entire capitalization of
stocks and bonds of the railroad and
industrial corporations of the country.
and the apparent depreciation in
prices amounts to about FIVE billions
of dollars.-Wall Street Journal.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-28
Will Test Foundations.

The dean and chapter of st. PauTs
cathedral, London, acting under the
advice of Mervyn E. Mccartney, con.
sulting engineer, are about to apply q
practical test of the safety of the
cathedral Metal disks will be placed
in the pillars in The crypt and other
parts of the building, and by accurate
measurement it will be possible to
come to a definite conclusion as to
whether the foundations and supports
are stable or not.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-28

Weed out the old hens. Early
Matched pullets are the ones that ill
the egg basket when winter prices
are high. That is the hen to keep.
One-yesr-ols hens lay better eggs for
Matching, but not SO many as pullets.
After that age most hens do not pay
as layers and should be marketed.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-28

Advertise your poultry 1t it is worth
anything at all it is worth advertising.
People will not know you have good
poultry unless you tell them. Answer
your inquiries promptly, convince the
buyer that your stock has
the merit you claim for it, make your
price reasonable, consistent with its
quality, and you will make sale.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-28

Be very friendly with your hens. If
they are of q nervous temperament,
like the Leghorns, do not frighten
them, but be quiet among them. Win
the proper handling they will become
as tame as some Of the heavier breeds.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-28

Shoes should not be left on a
horse longer than six or eight weeks
without. being reset. Many foot is
raised by not attending to this in
time.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-28

When the weather is warm the old
hen should be helped in the care OF
her chicks by busting her once week
with insect powder. until chicks are
three weeks old. Then they can take
dust baths for themselves.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-28
Made Record Climb

DR.. Longstaffe, who is mountaineer.
ing in the Himalayas with two guides
and Gurkha officer, has reached
the summit of TrisuI, 23.406 feet. This
is the record for the HimaIayas.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-28

The profit in poultry depends en-
tirely upon the care given the hen.
the eggs, the poultry house, the feed
and the chicks.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-28

Il you sin against your stock, be
sure your sin win ind you but il
reduced profits.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-28
The World and You.

The world owes every man living.
Every man owes the world a good
life.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-28
]. NJ. YATES,
= Parish Surveyor =
FOLSOM, LA.

All orders left with Fl. R. Warren
clerk Of court, or addressed to J. NJ
yates, Verger Postoffiee, La, will re
fsiye prompt attention.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-02-08
Gar Reeds Stock Code.

"This talk about the Speaker of the
House." chmed in a third member
of the party, reminds me Of the
novel manner. resorted to by the late
Speaker Reed when he wanted TO
take a flyer In the stock market. Tom
was not averse to dabbling in Wall
street, but ne did not make the fact
known with a brass band. Hanging
,on the. wall in the Office of a stock
broker in this city is one of the or
ders given by the big man from
Maine, which is probably only one of
the many similar ventures. Mr..
Reed would cut out the picture of a
bull or a bear, paste it on a piece
of paper, and send it to the broker
. in question with instructions to bull
or bear a certain stock. This was
his code method, and the picture with
the name of the stock written be-
meath it constituted the sole guide for
tne lroker in carrying out the wishes
Of his distinguished patron. No
body save the broker understood the
meaning of such a communication" -
Charleston News
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-02-08
SPORTING BREVITUS.

Boxing clubs are doing very wen
In New York just now.
1t is seldom that boxmen, once
they lose their grip, are able TO re-
gain it.
Cornell has adopted the graduate
coaching system for her football
eleven next season
Jack Dunn Is working hard 10 get
team OF pennan- winners for Balti-
more, for he gets a $1,000 bonus If
he turns the trick.
Professional billIardists are again
promulgating the idea that one
worlds championship titles.
w. X. Vanderbilt ecllpsed all own
crs OF race horses i'm the matter OF
money won during the season. His
horses In France won $225,000.
Eugene HildcbraHd, the leading
rider twO years ago, has been forced
90 retire. as he finds he cannot make
the weight acceptable to- owners
The athletic grandstand that viii
be erected ~ England for the Olym-
pic Games next year viii seat 3G7 600
people. AT Athens the Stadioa seated
1000.
Walter Eckcrsall, tine Iaighty lead
or OF the Chicago University football
team, has announced his intention OF
taking part i'm baseball and track ath-
lctics this season.
Eben NJ Byers, Of Pittsburg, ma
tional amateur golf champion. expects
10 sail for England next month to
play in the British amateur cham
pionship tournament.
IL iG rumored at New Orleans that
Frank O'Neill intends TO become
jockey again, owing to the scarcity OF
really good riders, any one OF whom
can earn at least 10000 a year.
John j. McGrath, prominent as
manager OF semi-professional teams
In and around New York, has been
appointed manager OF the Savannah
team OF the South Atlantic League
for 1907.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-02-08
MAY BE COFFEE
That Causes All the Trouble.

When the house is afire, it's like a
body when disease begins to show,
it's no time to talk, but time to act
delay Is dangerous = remove the
cause Of the trouble at once.
For a number of years." says a
Kansas lady, Il felt sure that coffee
was hurting me, and yet / was so
fond Of 1t could not give 1t up. l
paltered with my appetite, and OF
course yielded to the temptation to
drink more. At last got so bad that
made up my mind must either quit
the use OF coffee or Gle.
Everything I ate distressed me,
and I suffered severely almost all the
time with palpitation of the heart. I
frequently woke up In the night with
the feeling that l was almost gone
my heart seemed so smothered and
weak In its action that / feared II
would stop beating. My breath grew
short and the least exertion set me TO
painting. l slept but little and suf-
feTsd from rheumatism.
Two years ago stopped using the
old kind ofAconee and began 10 use
Postum Food Coffee, and from the
very first / began 10 improve. II
worked a miracle, Now ] can eat
anything and digest It without trou-
bic. sleep like a baby, and my
heart beats full, strong and easily.
My breathing has become steady and
normal, and my rheumatism has left
me. feel like another person, and
IL Is all due to quitting coffee and
using Postum Food Coffee, for I
haven't used any medicine and none
would have done any good as long as
I kept drugsing with coffee" Name
given by Postum Co, Battle Creek.
Mich. "There's a Reason" Read the
little book. The Road to welivills."
N pkgs. All srocers,
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-02-08
No Latest Fashion.

Necessarily, with the handsome
robes we are TO wear, the hats must
be large, and it is no exaggeration 20
say that they run up the whole scale
Of shapes ever worn, for one sees the
bergere, the Gainsborough, the bon
net Dauphin, the cloche and so on
forever, until choice is impossible, IL
il is TO be ruled by the --latest fash
lon." There is no latest fashion now
adays, and the only thing to do Is to
buy Just what suits one. The place
for the small hat is with the morning
tailor-made, however.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-02-08
Evening Gloves.

For so long time evening gloves
have been Ct white kid or suede that
anything else seems almost too novel.
Yet there are beauty and good taste
in the more recent fashion OF wearing
long gloves in pale color exactly
matching the delicately tinted gown.
This fancy is more and more eyem-
plified. Such colored gloves come in
glace kid, in lengths of twenty but
tons and more. and are extremely
pretty. Women are going To the ex-
treme in lengths, and there seems TO
be no danger of OVERRIDING the matter.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-02-08
Misses Over Waist or jumper.

Seldom has any fashion taken
such firm hold upcl feminine fancy
as this one of the over waist. 1t is
adapted both to the young gigl and
TO the woman and appears TO be
equally charming and attractive for
both, while ii can De made from n
variety of materials. This one Is
eminently simple and girlish and is
quite appropriate for either silk or
wool, plain or fancy material, while
it can be made TO match the skirt
or as a separate waist as liked. In
this instance plaid taffeta is trimmed
with little fancy braid and worn
over a guimpe of all over lace. But
one great advantage of the waist is
found in the fact that it can be
slipped on over any guimpe that the
young owner may possess, those OF
lingerie material being we'll liked for
the purpose, the special one being
by no means obligatory.
The waist consists OF front and
back and is fitted by means of shoul-
der and under-arm seams. There are
tucks from the shoulder which pro-
vide becoming fulness and ribbons or
tapes at the waist line to regulate
the size. The guimpe is a plain one
with front and backs and is closed
invisibly at the back, while its sleeves