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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-09-19
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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-09-19

Without intending any dfscredit in
the least to the cause Of charity, I
am led to observe that the zeal Of
some persons working for that cause
is remarkable. have known o. So
Hcitors who begged the year round
and got no more than they could have
earpad in a decent weeks work. What
= fascination there is in getting some
thing for nothing.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-09-19

Advancement in Burma.
Burma is to have a Pasteur in.
stitute.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-09-19

A woman is known by the acquaint-
ances she, cuts.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-09-19

Keep CHEEKY and half Of your
traubses will disappear.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-09-19

Even the prude isn't averse to sit
ting In the lap of luxury.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-09-19

Paiha costs pretty high these days,
but it will pay in the long run in ss.V-
ing the buildings--proyided it is good
paint.
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He smiled grimly. Two hours or so
on the torturous dental chair would
make his mother-in-law change her
opinion about pain being all in the
mind.
The lady also smiled, but her smile
was all sweetness and guilelessness.
The dentist lowered the dental chair
to accommodate his patients height,
and, after spreading nice fresh towel
over John Fishers shoulder. filed his
mouth with a sheet of rubber to keep
him quiet and began his several acts
of torture.
With screw-wedge device he pried
John Fishers decayed and aching eye
tooth from against it's neighbor,
screwing the wedge tighter and
tighter; then, with a sharp, crooked
pick he busted himself for awhile cut
ting and gouging into the aching
tooth. This done, he sorted over his
drills, calmly proceeded to sharpen
the understanding one that he could
find, placed the same in the dental en-
CINE, put his foot to the power and
began to bore for the nerve.
1t was agony, and John Fishers
body grew cold and hot by turns, and
he began to squirm in his chair and
groan aloud
Tt isn't very pleasant, know" re-
marked the dentist.
With shiver John Fisher looked
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-11-28
Small Boys Idea Of Spot Beyond
Reach of Yankees"

Sherman's march through Georgia
to the sea has become mere history
now, and the tinge of bitterness has
faded out from those personal cpl
sides which our mothers and grand
mothers used to relate with SO much
feeling. Yet the flavor of humor in
some of the stories can never be Who'll
~ lost.
In our own family, they tell to this
day how an uncle of mine, then a
quaint child of five years, solved the
problem of the household migration to
some safe spot when the invading ar
my was known to be marching
straight down toward the beautiful
plantation home.
A hasty and anxious council of
women, boys and decrepit graybeards
had been called in grandmother's big
sitting room. Immediate flight was to
be made by this helpless group, but
the burning question was-whither?
Place after place was proposed, and
rejected. Aunt Hates was too far;
they could never reach it with their
insufficient teams. Cousin Dora's was
too near-the Yankee soldiery
might reach out long arms and cap.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-11-28

third Of the concentrate consisting Of
cotton-seed meal, the daily gain per
steer from feeding cotton seed was
1.68 pounds, and from feeding an equal
weight of corn-and-cob meal LII
pounds.
8. To produce pound increase in
live weight required practically equal
amounts of cotton seed and of corn
and-cob meal. This shows that under
the conditions Of these experiments a
pound of cotton seed was equally as
valuable as a pound Of corn and-cob
meal. Cotton seed is cheaper per
pound, and hence is the more economi.
cal feed.
4. Cotton-seed meal proved more eft.
fective and economical than corn-and-
cob meal when each was fed as an
appetizer in connection with cotton
seed.
5. When, in ration of cotton-seed
meal, one-third Of the weight of the
cotton-seed meal was substituted by
an equal weight of corn-and-eob meal,
the daily gains were slightly in
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-11-28
THE STORY.

= ZEKIEL was among the choice
IL young men whom King Nebuchad-
nezzar had seized upon his conquest
of Jerusalem and had taken back with
the others to Babylon. A son of Buzz,
priest in the temple service at Jeru-
salem, and a devout man who had
kept himself free from the corrupting
influences which had wrought such
awful havoc to the religious life Of
the nation, he had had careful instruc-
ton in the word of God and had had
drilled into him from the earliest
years the awful sin of idolatry which
was eating the very heart out of the
nation.
And because his father had re-
manned steadfast to the service and
worship of the true God and would not
listen to the alluring words of the
compromising priesthood who sought
to remodel the worship Of the true
God to conform to the idolatrous de-
sires and icentious practices of the
apostate Jews, he and his family suf-
fered privations and prosecutions
without measure.
This had come not without it's rein
ing influence On the young life and
deepened his love for God and made
him eager to learn the truths of Gods
word from the lips of his father.
And as good fortune would have it,
it was his privilege to come in con-
tact with the great prophet, Jeremiah,
for whom he had the profoundest love
and admiration. He was eye-wit-
ness to the wicked opposition and
persecution which fell to the lot of the
prophet, and his young heart burned
within him in Indignation, and he
would find relief in earnest protest
to his father, urging him to take VIC
lent action in defense Of the prophet
And the father had quietly and sadly
replied:
Nay, nay, my son. These are apos.
tate days, and they who would serve
the living God must suffer persecu,
ton. We are in Gods hands. He
will deliver"
Such discipline and such teaching
could have but one Of two results,
Either it would drive in fear and
doubt from God or it would deepen
and strengthen one in loyalty and
faith toward God. And the latter
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-11-28
TEMPERANCE APPEAL.
II Is Addressed to the Physicians OF
All Lands.

A committee of the International AS
sociation of Physicians at Stockholm
has just prepared and issued the fol-
lowing appeal. It is entitled can APP
peal Of the Physicians of All Lands to
All Rulers, Governments, Legisla-
lures, All Educators, Teachers, and
Ministers and All Who Have Sincere
Interest in the Welfare of Our Race
and Coming Generations" 1t proceeds:
1--WE, who belong to the medical
profession and have by study and ex-
perienee been especially enabled to
recognize the true nature and the eff
fects of alcoholic beverages, hereby de-
clare that we are thoroughly con-
WINGED that these beverages are alto
gether unnecessary and in every way
injurious, SO that we believe the evils
arising from the indulgence in intox-
icating drinks can and should be elm
mated and avoided. Above all, the
youth should be taught by precept and
example and protected by legal enact
ments, so that they will abstain from
alcoholic liquors We declare that it
is our conviction that this course must
be pursued to insure the future So
briefly of the race, which is the founda-
ton of it's prosperity, welfare and
progress"
It is signed by DR.. Holitseher, Pirk.
enhammer, Germany; DR.. santesson,
Stockholm, Sweden; DR.. Ridge, En-
field, England; DR.. Stein, Budapest,
Hungary; DR.. Vogt, Christiania, Nor.
way; DR.. Laitinen, Helsingfors, Fin
land; DR.. Dirk, Frederiksvaerk, Den.
mark.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-11-28

Ezekiel the Prophet. Name means
God will strengthen" He was son of
Buzz priest and himself was probably a
priest at Jerusalem prior to his captiy-
ity. Unlike jeremiah he supplies but
scant details Of his personal history. Ia
ken captive in captivity Of King Je-
hoiachin, II years before final destruction
of Jerusalem, he settled with other Jews
on banks Of Chebar, supposedly about
200 miles north of Babylon. He dates his
call to the prophetic Office as 'in the NTH
year of Jehoiachin's captivity" B. c. $50
From incidental allusion to personal MS
tory in chapter PALS we learn he was
married, and had a house SD, in his
place of exile, and lost his wife by SUD
den and unforeseen stroke. He was con-
temporary with jeremiah and Daniel, the
formers long period of service Of 40 years
overlapping that of Ezekiel about seven
years, while the latter began his prophet
ic mission toward the close of Ezek1eIs
ministry. Tradition, probably false, states
Ezekiel was killed at Babylon by prince
of his people whom he had reproved for
idolatry.
Scripture Authority-EZekIel, chap
tiers 1-3.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-11-28

The return to the United States
treasury of the sum of $1,172 gaid
out to a pensioner of the civil war,
with the explanation that the recipf-
ent's conscience would not permit
him to keep the money, is said to be
something without precedent in the
history of the administration of our
pension system. This should not be
interpreted, however, as reflection
on pensioners in general. There are
unworthy pensioners as there are I'M
worthy persons who draw public
money. in other forms, but they are
the exception, not the rule.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-11-28

"Why don't you go to the dentist
and have the tooth attended to-"
John Fisher held his hand to his
mouth and groaned.
That's just like mani" exclaimed
John Fishers mother-in-law. Rather
have the toothache than go to the den
tist."
Still John Fisher said nothing.
When one has bad case of toothache
even talk isn't cheap.
Pooh! don't make such long face
about it. Besides, a toothache is all
in the mind"
John Fisher glared.
"All in the mind" reafirmed the
lady, calmly and exasperatingly.
John Fisher arose to his feet.
Madam" he demanded, do you mean
to stand there and tell me that this
raging toothache is all in my m1nd?"
Il do"
"And that If I only imagined 1t
didn't hurt, it wouldn't hurt?'
Exactly"
This was adding contempt to insult,
and John Fisher said as much.
Nov, now, keep your temper,
john" cautioned the lady. You
know very well that If you hadn't
any mind at all you couldn't be con-
scious of having the toothache. So II
you will but withdraw your mind from
the Jain, It will be the same thing
You will be unconscious of il"
John Fisher sat down in disgust.
''I'll tell you what will do" contin-
ued the resourceful mother-in-law. IF
you will go with me to the dentist and
have that tooth attended to l will
have two of mine pulled and the
nerves killed in four others. l should
have had them attended to before
this
John Fisher looked surprised, then
ashamed. Had his mother-in-law the
toothache?
And l won't take gas, either. I'll
depend wholly on the power of mind
over matter
John Fisher reached for his hat
VERY well,'' he said; its bargain"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-11-28

teer and Purebred Angus Cow of Same Age.
tween 1897 (for the pen fed on corn
slower, cotton-seed meal, and corn
and-cob meaD and $4.42 (for the pen
fed on cotton-seed meal and hulls).
10. OF the eight rations fed the fol-
lowing were the most profitable at
prices assumed: (1) Cotton-seed meal
and hulls; (2) two-thirds cotton-seed
meal, one-third corn-and-cob meal,
with cotton-seed hulls as roughage.
With cotton-seed meal at $40 a ton,
bulls were worth in these experiments
from $462 to 1882 per ton. Inferior
sorghum fodder and corn stover were
worth less than bulls.
IL. A margin ranging between 0.54
and 0.83 of cent per pound in the
feed lots for the different lots would
have made the feeding operations
come out even. To find the cores
ponding margin between purchase
price and selling price in New Or
leans, any intending shipper can add
an amount sufficient to cover expenses
of shipping and selling and shrinkage.
~. The scrub dressed out 543 per
cent as compared with 57.2 per cent
for grades fed on similar ration.
~. The scrubs dressed out SAB per
the best showing was made by the
steers fed on cotton-seed meal hulls,
and the poorest by those fed on corn
slower or on sorghum fodder. The
steers receiving mixed hay ranked
lower in percentage of dressed weight
than those fed on hulls and higher
than those fed on sorghum or corn
slower.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-11-28
SERMONETTE.

) "The word of the Lord came
expressly unto Ezekiel" 1T
, is the specific word which
calls to the specific service.
Ezekiel must needs feel that
God was speaking to him, and
to him alone, before there could
, be ears to hear the message, a
heart to understand it's import,
, and eyes to see the vision of
Gods power and glory. SO,
, with every servant of the King
Emanuel.
, Gods Word for everybody, but
Gods Word potent to the &C.
compIishment Of the work
whereunto he hath sent it only
) az it comes expressly to the in
diViduaI heart.
Have you never been read
ing Gods Word, perhaps a pas
sage which you had read thou
sands of times before and had
) found It bIessedIy helpful and
comforting, but now it stands
; forth In letters of fire as though
traced there by the finger of
God for you In particular? 1t
was as though God had spoken
) audibly, and the conviction was
deep upon you that Gods spe-
cific call had come to your soul.
This is the significance of this
passage that "the word of the
Lord came expressly unto Eze-
KEEL"
1t is one thing to hear or read
Gods Word, and it is another
thing to feel 1.-THE Sword of
the Spirit piercing to the very
center of the heart.
"The hand of the Lord was upon
him." This is a favorite ex-
preston of Ezekiel in speaking
OF his enduement with power
for the work he was called upon
to perform. Vision, voice, touch.
Note that the three were essen
tiaI to full preparation for his
ministry. And is this not true
) of every one who would engage
in Christian service? Vision of
God and his power; the voice of
God calling to service; the
} hand of God touching, the thrill
of his power, like the electric
; current passing to the great dy.
namo to enable 1t to perform it's
) great task, might enereize the
poor, weak, human arm of flesh
} and make it as the arm of the
infinite.
Shine forth, Q God, that we
, may be transformed by behold
ing thy glory; speak, Lord, that
the soul may be quickened into
life and action for thee; touch
, US, Lord, that the finite may find
contact with the Infinite, and re-
, ceive the inflow Of thy power,
for without thee we can do MOTH
, ing.
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creased. The amount of concentrate
per pound of gain was greater with
the mixed ration, making this slightly
less profitable than the ration con-
tanning cotton-seed meal as the sole
concentrate.
6. The effect of shelter varied with
the character of the winter. In two
tests shelter increased the daily gains
and decreased the amount of feed re-
CURED per pound Of gain. In the
third experiment the pen fed without
shelter made the larger gains and bet
ter use of it's feed. The average of
three years is in favor of shelter. The
selling price in all three experiments
was higher for the steers fed under
shelter, the average difference being
10 cents per hundredwefght in favor
of the sheltered steers.
Z. The scrub steers in two expert
ments made practically the same daily
gains at practically the same costs as
the grades At the beginning of the
toher experiment the scrubs were thin
ner, and they gained more rapidly
and economically.
8. Heavy shrinkage during ship
ment, due to unusual delays, greatly
reduced the possible profits.
9. The average selling price OF
grades in New Orleans ranged be-
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-11-28

Fig. 3.-Relative Size Of 3-Year-O1d Scrub
the Angus, Shorthorn, Red Polled,
Hereford, and Devon breeds, and were
obtained In Wilcox and Sumter coun'
ties in the central prairie region of
Alabama. They were not as uniform
as desirable, because of the fact that
they were obtained from different men,
as no one man had very many OF the
size and quality desired.
The feed lots were Is by 80 feet.
the ground sloping away from the
shed. These lots had good slope,
but still became very muddy in wet
weather. The lot without shelter was
at times several inches deep in mud,
so that the steers had no dry place to
lie down. None of the lots we're bed
ded, though the sheds were. The feed
troughs were under the sheds. The
water troughs were near the feed
troughs and under the shed, the wat
er being supplied from a. well. The
troughs had float valves, SO that a
fresh supply of water was kept in them
at all times.
The conclusinos given below are
based on the average Of the three ex'
periments.
/. With cotton-seed meal as the sole
concentrate the average daily gains
were as follows: With cotton-seed
hulls, 1.55 pounds; with cut sorghum
fodder, 1.39 pounds; with shredded
corn slower, 1.19 pounds.
2. With mixed cowpea and sorghum
hay as the roughage, and with one.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-11-28
; EARNING IN
; THE SOUTH
GROWING OF BEEF CATTLE IN
THE GULF STATES.
Experiments in Alabama Prove 1t Can
Be Done at q Profit.-By j. ?.
Dugean, Director, Alabama
Agricultural College.

In planning these experiments two
main objects were in view. These
were to throw additional light on the
questions Cd whether farm-grown for
age can be substituted profitably fol
cotton-seed hulls, the usual roughage
and (2) to determine the relative val
ues of the most common southern con
centrated feedstuffs- seed, cot
ton-secd meal, and corn. The expert
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-11-28
ONE HEAVEN OF SAFETY.

ture all together. Grandaunt Drue's
was in the possible line of march. And
SO 1t went with every place proposed.
When finally moment of despair
ful silence had settled upon the little
conciaVe the piping of small voice
was heard, that of the curly-headed
boy the pet of all, who had crept in.
unnot1ced, and listened to the anxious
counsehng. He was saying with such
an air OF absolute decision as en-
couraged everybody present:
Let's all go to Gods-they Won't
be no Yankees there!'' -Brooklyn
Life.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-11-28

Get your incubator early next spring
and try only few eggs at first. So
many beginners at artificial incuba-
ton waste hundreds of eggs and valua-
BILE time in the midst of the Matching
season getting acquainted with the
principles that should have been Cb-
served when there was less at stake.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-11-28

When W. W. Astor found that Eng
fish law sustained the people of HeveI
in their right to travel ON the foot
path across the beautiful park of He
yer castle, which he has lately bought
he built a high brick wall along each
side of the footpath, surely for once
justifying the ancient jest Of calling
him William Walled-Off Astor.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-11-28

Some Of the weather experts in the
rural districts announce that we are
going to have hard winter because
the squirrels are laying in unusually
large supplies Of nuts this fall. OPP
timists will be inclined, however, to
conclude that this is merely sign of
a good nut crop.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-11-28

An enlightening commentary on the
present state of affairs in Morocco is
contained in a recent dispatch of the
London Times correspondent in Tan.
gier, who writes: "Abd-eLAziz in
herited a throne; he has left his sue,
cessor footstool With the stufing
taken out"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-11-28

Wyoming experiments In preserv
ing fence posts show that when the
posts were dipped in crude petroleum
and burned off SO that the charred
portions come above the ground when
set they will keen indefinitely.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-11-28

At the University of Illinois nearly
100 students were last year enrolled
in the course in elementary bird
study. The object of this work is to
prevent the needless destruction OF
birds and to teach farmer boys how
to protect those which are useful to
them.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-11-28

ments were conducted with a total of
$50 steers; so steers were fed for each
of three winters under as nearly the
same conditions as possible. The steers
were 2-year-old grades of the beef and
dual-purpose breeds, except that one
pen each year consisted Of typical
scrubs. The animals were divided into
10 lots Of steers each, in such
way that the results obtained would
permit of the following comparisons:
1. Sorghum hay or fodder versus
cotton-seed hulls.
2. Shredded corn slower versus cot
ton-seed hulls.
8. Sorghum hay or fodder versus
shredded corn stover.
4. Corn-and-cob meal versus cotton
seed as the prinripal concentrate.
5. Cotton-seed meal versus corn as
an appetizer in a cotton-seed ration.
8. The effects of substituting corn
and-cob meal for part of the cotton
seed meal.
7. The value, If any, Of shelter in
fattening southern steers.
s. A comparison Of scrubs with
grades of the beef breeds or duaipur-
pose breeds.
The grade steers used were in most
cases 2-year-old half bloods. They
were out Of native cows from bulls Of
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-11-28

Pa Elkins says there has never been
an engagement between his daughter
and the Italian duke. This being the
case, it would seem to be up to Pa
Elkins to ask the duke, the next time
he remains after ten o'clock, whether
he means business or not.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-11-28

A novel method of pumping liquids
from bore holes is by means of an
endless rope, somewhat after the fash
ion of the chain pump, only in this
case the liquid to be raised is alb
sorbed by the rope and squeezed out
between rollers at the surface.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-11-28

The Garrett winery OF Norfalk, Va.
makes over 100000 gallons of wine
every year, almost wholly from Soup
pernong grapes, and there is one vine
yard of nearly 1000 acres devoted to
thsi grape near Norfolk. The Soup
pernong cannot be raised in the
North.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-11-28

Daniel Freeman of Brownsville,
Neb., filed on the first free homestead
provided by the government on JAN
uary /, 1868. He is still in possession
of this old patent, which is numbered
/, and lives on his homestead.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-11-28

New York's state board of equaliza-
ton has tabulated the "equalized
value" of real estate and personal
property in the Empire state at 49,
553 ,298,178; the total with per-
sonal property added in is $9,173,566,-
245. MY, my! New York is almost
as rich as some of her wealthiest citi-
zensi
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-11-28

A Brooklyn minister astonished his
congregation by declaring that selfish
people ought to commit suicide. But
he suggests an anomaly when he ex-
poets selfish people publicly to declare
themselves such, even if they recog-
nize it themselves.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-11-28

Wizard Burbank of California de-
clares that it is quite within the range
of possibility that Massachusetts
farmers will soon lay out banana
groves, as before long he will have
perfected species of hardy but lus-
cious plantain that will come to per-
feet fruition anywhere in New Eng.
land