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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-14
SOUTHERN
AGRICULTURE
u7-TO-DATE METHODS.
Mules and Machinery Are Cheaper
Than Two-Leoged Labor.

The lesson that is needed to be
learned by our southern farmers and
lesson that the increasing scarcity
OF human labor will teach, is that
mules and machinery are cheaper
than men, and that If ever we are
to reduce the cost Of the production
OF the cotton crop to point where
the growers will be Independent of
the fertilizer makers and dealers in
supplies" we must use machinery
and mules and less two-legged labor
The farmers of the northwest, who
have always had to contend with Ia
Dor scarcity, have learned this lesson,
and in Iowa the labor of one man
produces five times the amount that
it does in the Cotton Belt, and with
crops not so valuable as the great
staple of the south. A successful
contemplating machine is yet in the
future, but there are implements for
cultivating the crop which economic
labor of men far more than the old
implements common in the south
When one man can ride on a cultivator
with two mules and do twice as much
work as two men with the mules to
seperate tools, there is no reason for
using two men.
When by improved methods we
make bale or more cotton per acre,
and at the same time increase the
crop of corn and of small grain, why
should We laboriously go over five
acres to get the same cotton and buy
the supplies that keep us and the
mule? When, by raising an abundance
of forage and fodder and ensilage, we
can feed stock and get at least the
value of the feed and have the manure
left for the land why should the cot
ton grower always be short of cash in
the spring and pay the fertilizer man
and the merchant big profitso There
are many men in the south who are
doing these things, but there are too
many struggling along in the old ruts,
following the single mule with little
pillow, and complaining that their
crops are poor because their land is
poor, and failing to realize that they
could improve it with the proper eff
fort. We 2hear in the south farms
rated as one-horse, two-horse, and any
number of horse farms, and people
seem to have notion that on a GER
tain sized farm man should have
but one horse or two horses, and they
leave out Of view whether the one
horse farmer could not more profit
ably use two horses, even if he has
to go in debt for the second. In other
sections of the country we never hear
of farms rated by certain number
of horses, but the farmer is supposed
to know low many horses he can
profitably use on his land.
If the cotton crop of the south of
twelve million bales was grown on
twelve million acres, and the other
millions of acres now required were
producing cattle and forage for them,
what rich people the south would
be! We will see some rational i'm
provement when, as my friend John
son of South Carolina said, the farm
ers of our southern states feed three
beeves for every bale of cotton they
grow, instead of as now, three bales
of cotton for every beef raised and
fed. And when we feed three beeves
for each bale Of cotton, we will grow
more cotton per acre and grow 1t at
half the cost.-W. F. Massey, in Pro
gressive Farmer.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-14
DIVERSIFIED FARMING.
How Live Stock Will Help the Cotton
Grower.

The Farmers Union and Cotton
Association both are advocating what
clear-headed men have long contended
for-namely, that the cotton acreage
should be kept down. The farming
population must have something to
make living on, and if it is to be less
cotton it must be more of something
else. Raising other plowed crops to
replace part of the cotton would aid
the cause; but there is still better
way.
One crying need today in the south
is land that is in good condition. HUI
mus, decayed vegetable matter, has
been lost from the soil to an extent
that makes the soil hard to work
easily affected by both wet and dry
weather, SO that crops are injured
easily by either, small yields of crops
every year, and small profits. There
are several ways that organic matter
can be added to the soil, but in no
way can it be done so profitably as by
raising stock on the land. The grass
or stored feed used by the stock
should give some profit at the time
the stock are Sold and the manure
would still remain behind to improve
the soil. In very large number of
cases it pays the farmer who owns his
own land and works to raise a crop of
COW peas, for instance, to be turned
under solely for improving the soil.
If, instead Of turning the crop under,
it. is grazed off by the stock Or is
made into hay and fed to stock, the
extra gain in flesh or wool should in
itself prove profitable; and if the ma
nure has the care that product of
it's value should have, from three
fourths to four-fifths of the manurial
value originally in thee rop can be
regained in the manure. This practf-
cally means that such a crop handled
in the latter way ultimately brings in
from one dollar and half to two dol
lars for every dollar of outlay. This
can be counted on with more certainty
that the profit from a crop Of corn
or crop of cotton
If he does not have much money
to start with, he may find that it is
difficult to get stock enough to do
much the first year, and he can not
get much returns from the manure
before the second year; but the cash
returns from the manure can be got
almost as soon as the cash returns
from commercial fertilizer could be
got. Men sometimes say, ooh, / can't
do that; don't have money enough"
They seem to imagine that if they do
not have capital enough to engage in
stock farming on large scale at the
very beginning they can not engage
in stock raising on small scale. If
they had reasoned that way when
they were learning to walk, they would
be creeping yet; but at first they made
small progress in walking, but they
kept on according to their ability, and
more than few of them have devel-
oped into very good sprinters. They
can win out in the stock business in
the same way, if they show as much
determination as men as they did in
creeping children. On the whole, it is
generally just as well for the average
farmer to start into stock raising on
a small scale.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-14
EARTHQUAKES Brine seasickness.

Seasickness is proved by DR..
Charles Dawson to be a common ef.
feet of earthquake. The feeling of
nausea may be produced by shocks
lasting not more than eight or ten
seconds and whose vibrations have
a total range of only small fraction
of an inch, and in one slight English
earthquake-too small to injure any
buildings-about one observer in fifty
was affected. The feeling usually
lasts few minutes, though sometimes
persisting an hour or more.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-14
British and American Jews.

A statistical report recently pub.
lished by the. British government
shows that there are 10000 Jews in
Cape Colony, $4,000 in India, 1900 in
Australia, 10000 in Canada and 1000
in Ireland. A Yiddish paper comment
ing on the report says: These fig
ures look large, but they become small
when compared with New York, where
there are in two wards more Amerls
can Jews than there are British Jews
all over the world"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-14

1t is getting chilly enough to make
the poultry quarters as near alright
as practical on all sides but the south.
Leave the south side open for the
most part, so that an abundance OF
fresh air can enter every day and
every night in the year; but keep the
other sides closed during the cold sea-
son, so that no drafts can sweep over
the rOOStS
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-14
The Chief End Of Man.

Said Carlyle: The older / grow
and now I stand on the brink of eteT-
nity-the more comes back to me that
sentence in the eatechism which ]
learned when child, and the fuller
and deeper its meaning becomes:
What is the chief end of man To
glorify God and enjoy him forever
This is true success, for it will stand
the test of time and eternity. And
this is a success unto which we can
all attain"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-14

The secret of success in farming is
to make each acre of land yield its ut
most at the least possible expense. As
many as sixty bushels of wheat have
been grown on one acre, as an expert
ment, yet some farmers who secure
twenty bushels per acre are satisfied.
There is always room at the top in
farming as in every other occupation.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-14
VIII Visit America.

DR.. Asher Ginsberg. the JEWISH es.
sayist, is about to visit America. Three
volumes of his essays, published under
the title AT the Parting of the Ways,
have been translated from the Hebrew
into nearly every modern language.
He is coming here to study the con-
dition of the Jews in this country,
and large receptions in his honor will
be held. He is a Russian by birth and
fifty-one years old.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-14

When the first trap nests were a
craze and the excitement soon abated,
there were enough logical poultry fan
ciers who held onto the trap nests
to start and maintain an improvement
in egg yield. This improvement is
entirely with pure breeds. The trap
nest serves useful purpose. They are
to the poultry raisers what the Bah
cock test is to the dairyman.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-14
TIMELY FARM SUGGESTIONS.

Colds that start in the poultry flock
during the fall should not be allowed
to run on and develop into serious
disease. Give such troubles early at
tention, and little of it will be re-
quired.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-14

That strawberry DatcH that has been
long thought OF, but has not been
planted yet, ought to have attention.
AS compared with market prices,
strawberries can be grown almost
without cost by any one.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-14

While planting berry plants, do not
stop when a few berry plants are in
the ground. There are black berries
and other bush berries that are easily
grown If they are only set out and
given a little of the right kind of
work.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-14

Many farmers do not know the value
of Kaffir corn as a feed for poultry.
1t has the same nutritiYe value as
Indian corn, but is not so fattening
and therefore is better egg-produc-
ing grain. The fowls like it.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-14

II you had rs sheep in the pasture
and one found its way through hole
in the fence, how many would remain
in the pasture? Don't stop to figure
it out, go and put the whole flock back
and then fix the fence.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-14

Ordinarily, there is no advantage in
high roosts, and the fowls will do bet
ter and keep healthier if the perches
are not more than three feet above
the floor. OF course all the Stats should
be on level, as this avoids crowding
and fighting for the highest positions.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-14

A farm is no real home till it has
an orchard growing on it. Old ones
can be very frequently improved at
comparatively small cost, new ones do
not cost enough to be prohibitive. The
greatest trouble in getting an orchard
planted and taken care of is in get
ting started to work.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-14

Many families must choose between
eating fruit within reason or paying
doctor bills, and any farm will raise
fruit if the farmer will
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-14

Dust boxes should be prepared for
the pens this winter. They should be
placed in corner of the house where
the sun can penetrate and warm them.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-14

Feeding fowls well with a variety
of food is quite essential to egg pro-
duction, but no amount of good feed.
ing will compensate for bad quarters.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-14

Keep your poultry house free from
drafts. Drafts cause colds. and colda
cause roup, and roup usually meanR
cath.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-12-14

In mixing whitewash use two table
spoonfuls of crude carbolic acid to a
bucketful Of whitewash.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-12-12
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN.

Washington has renewed it's acquaint-
ance with William Jennings Bryan dur
ing the past few days. 1t has seen him
at close range in roles that fit him adj
mirably political roles. AS a good
citizen, an advocate of civic virtues, a
persuasive preacher of right living, he
is at his best. An optimist, he loves
his fellow-men as he loves his country.
His influence is far-reaching and whole
some. No other public character, Theo-
dore Roosevelt himself not excepted,
has more effectnally impressed his per-
sonality upon the masses than this
stalwart Nebraskan. He is potent
medium for the general good.
Tonight the Capital will meet and
greet William Jennings Bryan in his
capacity as party leader. The demo-
crat who does not recognize that lead
ership, who does not see in Mr.. Bryan
chieftain head and shoulders above
his confreres, is dullard indeed, liv-
ing in the dead past. But for the pre-
empted republican right to that term,
such democrat should be classed as a
"reactionary". 1t is no theory confront
ing the country, but a condition. The
times are radical. Everybody knows it.
An area of reform set in some time ago.
1t is not going to pass quickly.
The condition that confronts the
country confronts both parties alike.
Bryan typifies popular sentiment. ELM
mate Roosevelt, and Bryan more fully
typifes it than any other man in the
public eye today.
With all his shortcomings, politically
and his career, like Roosevelt's, is
characterized by political shortcomings
the people believe in him. respect
him and give implicit faith to him, If
not to all his theories. The rank and
file of his party trust his leadership in
more than two decades. And it is the
candid opinion of this newspaper that,
in the Forthcoming presidential race, ii
Roosevelt persists in eliminating him
self, Bryan will have magnificent OPP
portunity to reach the goal. His
strength is infinitely greater than that
of any other democrat-north or south
1t is fitting that the democrats of the
district of Columbia should do honor tc
this Nebraska man. He lived among
them when in congress. They know
him and esteem him. Their friendship
for him is bound with personal nc less
than partisan ties. The time is ripe
and the place appropriate for a politica
utterance. He is among friends-dis
trict democrats, staunch and true. Ii
speaking to them, he will speak to the
whole country, and the country will
hear.
The Washington Herald joins it.
democratic friends in greeting the dem
ocratic Observation-Disclosures Herald
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-12-12

For Oklahoma real estate write Of
call ono B. Jordan, Enid, @. 4.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-12-12
AN EARLY OR LATE CONVENTION

The proposal to hold the Democratic
National Convention next year in ad-
vance of the Republican gathering is
in many ways attractive. In advancing
it the Democratic National Committee
men who have been visiting Chairman
Taggart at French Lick Springs are
eminently correct in the view that the
Democratic party will make a great
fight for the Presidency and will not
wait upon Republican initiative.
The Democratic party will make it's
own national platform without refer
ence to what the Republicans may say
in theirs There is reason why it would
be better if it were made in advance of
the Republican declaration. The Dem
ocracy knows it's own mind and will ex-
press it strongly for the Jeffersonian
principle of equal rights for all, special
privileges for none. 1t will declare
war upon the special privileges enjoyed
by law-created trusts and monopolies
which bear oppressively upon the
people.
The Democratic platform will contain
no word but Of hostility to the robberies
of the Dingley tariff. 1t will declare
for just and rational revision OF the
tariff which shall reduce the overgrown
Treasury surplus and curb the Dingley
monopolies without in any way harm
ing American industries.
The Democratic party, in the coming
campaign, will resist with all it's might
the encroachments of Federal power up
on the rights and powers of the States.
1t will wage war upon the Republican
tendencies of President Roosevelt to
usurp judicial and legislative powers
in addition to his proper exec utlve au-
thority.
The Democratic party will insist that
the President not only support the
Constitution of the United States and
enforce the laws made in accordance
Herewith, but that he himself shall be
governed by them.
The Democratic party will insist that
Justice be done to the inland States by
, adequate appropriations out OF the over
full Treasury for betterment OF navlga
! ton in their waterways.
) The party knows it's own mind so wei
on all these things that it can write
i better platform before than after tn
Republicans have spoken. On tn
a other hand is the very interesting
| question whether it would or Woul'
not be better to let the Republican
o have their Kilkenny cat fight undis
!, turbed by knowledge of what the Dem
h ocrats are going to do.
d The probability that there will b
+ more pickering and factional bitterness
:, :. in the Republican convention if it
+ held first is the only considerable
a which should cause the Democrat
" National Committee to hesitate to d.
4 clare offhand and unanimously for holt
N ing their convention in advance of TT
f. date set by the Republicans.-St. Lou
n Republic.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-12-12
CONFIDENCE is RESTORED.

President Roosevelt has restored con-
fidence. He did just exactly what
Cfeyeiaad did in 1898. He issued $780,
600 900 in bonds. The Republican pa
pers Tell US confidence is restored and
we hope it is true.
We do not understand the money sit
uation at all. We do not claim to I'M
dcrstand it. But we do know that
when Grover Cleveland did what Roose-
yelt has done, the Republicans and
many OF the Democrats simply had con-
niption FITS. They howled themselves
black in the face and they howled and
.shollered till they simply lay on the
ground bowling and swearing and
wheeling. But now that Roosevelt
does the same thing he is called hero,
and we confess, candidIy, that we do
net understand it.
We presume there was nothing else
for Roosevelt to do and he did what
was his duty. But why damn Cleveland
and sing the TIE Deum over Roosevelt:
We do not comprehend it.
They say confidence is restored, and
vet, the banks in the big cities are pay,
ing in clearing house scrip. We arc
glad to remark in passing that our loca
+ banks pay everything and they. pay IL
gold or silver or paper or any old thing
chat the people want, but if you remem
Der. the panic in 1898 did not do mucl
to Washington. We howled a goot
deal, but we weren't really much hnrt
Washington never reached such an un
natural plane Of prosperity, so then i
does not have to fall so far when tn
crash, comes. We never really kne'
anything about hard times in 1898 an
we do not now. But you get away frol
here and you hear great deal about il
The railroads are laying OIL mel
4 Many travelling men are out of jobs an
those who are working say their sale
are hurt. We do not know, only
they tell us. But the Republican p'
pers, who damned Cleveland now sd
& that Roosevelt is the greatest patrit
n since the beginning of the world ar
that George Washington and Patrit
Henry were mere tyros in the patri
business. We hope this is true, but
could not refrain from asking VIII;
caused the difference between bone
by Cleveland and bonds by Rooseve
Washington Democrat.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-12-12
How's This?

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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-12-12
ABOLISH THE GAME.

The Philadelphia North American
says: "The institutions that are in
trouble owe their troubles not to any
incidents or accidents of legitimate
banking, but to gambling. The disclos.
ures of the last few months are not of
new found evil practices. Wall Street
assumes the virtuous pose of being
shocked by the traction scandal and the
use of chain of banks as an adjunct OF
stock jobbing. These practices, known
now by The public, have been known
for years by Wall Street and by we'll
informed bankers throughout the
country. The cover is off now, or at
least partly lifted. But the malodorous
mess that has long been stewing be-
meath is not of new mixing.
Then why not concerted movement
by men of all parties toward the abo
Hilton Of this great gambling game tina
traffics in the property OF the people?-
CommOner.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-12-12

The New York World admits that let
ters it has received indicate that the
majority of it's readers favor the nomi-
nation Of Mr.. Bryan for president next
year, but feels that it should mold pub
lie opinion in favor of safe and saner."
In whose employ is the "World?"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-12-12

The republican national convention
will be held at Chicago on Juoe 16, 1908,
the date and place having been fixed at
meeting of the national committee
held at Washington last Saturday. The
convention will be held at the Coliseum.
Kansas City and Denver both made a
hard fight to capture the convention
but Chicago was successful.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-12-12

Some of the searchlights of the coun-
try in seeking the cause of the present
panic have focused on Uncle Joe Can
non. AS speaker of the house he has
stood pat on the tariff and on the cur
rency policy.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-12-12

If fall OF So hundred on live hogs
results in no perceptible change in the
price of pork how long will the drop Of
cent a bushel for wheat require to
make itself felt in the flour line? Use
algebra.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-12-12

Third termism stands too strongly for
0ne-man power to suit the American
palate. The electorate is too easy, but
there are some doses against which it
revoits, and that is enc of them.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-12-12

It is the boast of the administration
that the US. treasury is overlooking
with gold. That the per capital circu-
Iatien is 1929. Yet, the country is
sick, financially. No Democratic doc
tor has had anything to do with the
patient, that is sure.-Albany Ledger.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-12-12

Mrs. Bradley may not be insane but
the common verdict will be that she
and the man she killed should have
been shut away from decent people
long ago.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-12-12

The fact that President Roosevelt has
adopted Democratic policies and put
them into execution is no reason for the
Democratic party to abandon it's
politics.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-12-12

Congress, which is now in session, is
not expected to do any thing this
session except pass the appropriation
bills and talk politics.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-12-12

Question for senior class in politics:
What is the difference between issuing
bonds in Republican boom times and
Democratic panic times?
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-12-12
SUBSCRIPTION RATES

The wave of prohibition now going
about the country seems to be the kind
that prohibits.