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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-28
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 The following appointments by the 1ovcrnor were announced yesterday rom the .oIsce of the Secretary of State: Constables--R. W. Scarborough, Troy; y ". Witherington. Precinct i, Mon- roe County; W A. WiIlingham, Baylor, Fayette County .--r @f
 Notaries Public and ex-Ofhcio Jus- Lces of the Peace--Jam4s M. Studdard. Spencer. Fayette County.
 The Murphy Rhudy Furniture Com pany had filed with the Secretary of State articles Of incorporation In Cal houn County by ]. L. Murphy w. Al. Rhudy and c H. Baiiy. Capital stock of the company is si0 000
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-28

PHoNE-TATUM & RoBINs0N4-ess For chickens. butter. eggs and all kinds of sea food. including fresh and salt water fish and crabss We guar antee every article, we sell and are pre- pared to deliver promptly. Special rates to Hotels. Restaurants and the Wholesale Trade. Eggs. 15c. Tatum q Robinson. 10 Monroe Street. adv.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-28
Engineer is Ixllled

Hazelton. Pa. June 21--Spreadtns rails wrecked Pennsylvania Railroa d passenger train. on the mountains near here today and caused the death of the engineer. Aaron sRaup, of Pottsviiie, "a. Eight passengers were Injured Ihe train was composed Of baggage car ana two day coaches. All three cats leit the tracks and they narrowly bankment.
 1u zus Lemon Snaps, Uneeaa pffIk Biscuits. for Ice. All Toe. Crackers 2 for 2Sc,
 BROCK GROCERY co.
 rhe Pure Food stores.s
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-28
MoTTo,

MOTTO, O the world is full of roses and roses x,,a the dsxy ia full of heavenly love that drips for ne and you
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-11-28

MoAsrp. Editors: In n recent Ia
sue Of southern Farm Casrssc. Prof.
W. y. Massey recommends the SOW
Ing Of ry- as cover crop. | wish
hc had gone further With III. subject.
attn surc IL would have been very
interesting aud beneficial TO the
readers OF tho paper.
have sown rye extensively In
cotton and corn land IA Prof. Mas
s-y recommends. Where land II
fail riowcd. or early winter plow-
ed and subsidized sow ryc nj tho
rate os one bushoi per acre and har-
row IL sn with a dinc harrow. On
land Of rolling nature. or Ut sandy
suhsoii. where fall piowing In not
profitable. I sow rye and only run
ridges down with disc harrow. In
this manner l can put In ak to eight
acres daily. ! aiso SOW ryo after
tho a.eond crop potato harvest.
and ind IL q splendid crop for this
purposc.
have made several experiments
with land that was sown TO rye after
potato harvest. and where good
growth Of rye was secured. | always
got a decided increase In yield of
corn. cotton or potatoes over tho
same naturod soil. bu, no rye Sown.
I have observed particularly that tho
Increase In tho corn or cotton yield
on n ryo sod over corn and cotton on
similar land. was greater In u
droughty year. IL certainly must be
the immense amount of humus fur
nishcd by tho decayed rye that
causes the increase. Last year this
Increase In yield on the rye sod was
$50 pounds Of seed cotton per acre.
On broken and subsoiled land rye
sown. the increase OF corn yield was
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-11-28
Rye . Good Cover Crop.


ca bushels over tho samc natureo
soil broken aud subsoilcd but no.
sown To rye.
Prof. Massey. which was Il thai
caused tho increase mostly. tho IN
mus furnished BY the ryo or tho soti
teaching and surface washing tnat
we're prevented by IT.
l also ind where the Irish potato
crop follows rye that the iubcrs arg
more free from scab IN well as larger
aud moro uniform. md u %
make a very valuable winter pasture
and had no idea until l began e
grow II Of tho number Of colts. pi0
and calves that u few acres Of re
would support. For pasturago y
better To sow II as early rs possioles
yet I have had good results Tor iats
winter aud early spring pasturinS
when sown aa late m December iOth.
I ind nothing better than rye TOT
chickens. Tho fowls relish II ana
when given FREQ access 10 II AWAY
repay me Handsomely for all uMe
lost In Sowing ". py tue pou""-
incrcaa. OF eggs.
Where ono Ia scarce OF feed rye
viii como I'm as poor substitute io'
hay. but cattle must almost be staTs-
ed To Il before they viii eat Isc
hay. l never use IL for this purpose
but have seen II tried and the results
hardly justified cutting IL for nay,
/ am OF tho opinion that IL wM
pay the man who Is scarce OF nay
and also scarce OF soil humns, %
buy his hay and turn the rye ~
tho benefit OF the soil. In SOWING lsu
late be sure aud use only new SEED -
II In difiicult To get stand iro"
old seed. In fact. can't at all.
w. &. GROOM.
Henderson Co., Tenn.
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-11-28

any eight or ten-inch breaking, aud
personaily. I believe they are genera
~ wise in this. This year l have
made Just as good corn and cotton
with thrce-inch breaking as with SIX
inch breaking. have made just as
good crops with three-inch breaking
and bedding as with plow running six
inches deep. have not found man
who could inspect the crops mt any
stage and tell anything about the
method of preparation used. should
not like to say other years will show
the same result. but most OF tho sta
tlons of the country are getting rc-
suits very much like this.
These farmers do not practice fall
breaking. because tho land runs To-
gcther again and requires rcbrcaking
in spring. Then tho falls are gen
orally I'D dry as To make tho work
difficult or impossible.
Fall breaking for a spring crop In
a wet country will not promote cari!-
ucsw. Clay lands fall;plowcd cannot
hc planted so early IA spring -plowcd
land. rall-pIowci land holds toe
much water where we have heavy
winter rains. Tho old theory that
sai. plow.ng saves moisture for next
summer applies only To a section
where ihcrc Ia seldom enough rain
to oil tho sosi. Leave Mississippi
land $50 IL w!ll cot rid OF a. much
win,or rainfall as poaalhla. and then
plow IL. aud IL will got % full OF
water IA n will hold swo or three
sifnca before tho crop comes 90 ma.
surisy. Work tho land 90 ~ TO XIII
weeds and save this moisture. and
tho crops on tho spring -plo~ed land
vill DO "a good or better than shosc
on sall-plo~cd land. Just ~ export
men, station results have generally
indicated.
t.sow Winter Cover Crups.
rrrhar. better stsll. plo~ or dssk
or cultivate just deep enough In fall
To COW oats. vrsch or bur clover for
pasture and fertilizer. Green plants
arc real pumping cngin~s. and ~sll
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-11-28

always help to dry the land ~.
these under In spring and n,an.
cultivate. and we Will still have uo.a
water than the land can hold .as
will make better crops by reason !.
the humus and fertility afYorded H.
the green crop.
Wide Rows and Thin stand. =,
Cotton.
For ten years the Cotton States a,a-
tons have been regularly proyInv
tina, close rows and thick stands 81
cotton have been making more cotton
per acre and making IL earlier than
where II has wide rows and large dI.-
lance between plants. At the same
time many authorities making war
on tho wcevll have been stcadil,
preaching wide rows and wide spac.
Ing OF plants. This year have made
ties, OF wide and close spacing In
rows OF Same width, and the result
has been In favor OF close spacing
hero under boil w.eyll conditions.
let Us not DO certain I'LL more triah
for moro seasons are made. This
year ought TO have been favorable To
thin spacing. because all cotton here
grew too iarw"--in fact. fortified
cotton grew an large ma Mississippi
Delta cotton on good land. Yet the
thicker cotton made moro and made
IL earlier.
Frequency at Cultivation.
wc cultivated about once In four
teen To sixteen days ihls year. and
made over a half bale To tho acre a.
rather poor land. by using ~
pounds average commercial fcTtil
lsor. wo cultivated about ~ oftea
an good farmers generally do. and I
do not believe cuissva,lng oftea1s
would has. done any good. Va kepe
the plants growing we'll aitributo
tho yield OF over half bale =
against our nr.xhbor's yield q
quarter bale. almost wholly tn beetoe
treatment OF the land tho last tvo
CONTINUED on Page ia.)
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-11-28

crop was late and the weevil early
ms well az numerous. In this part
of Texas, about the latitude of South
Mississippi. all fruiting was stopped
about July 25th. Texas made only
little more cotton than Georgia.
but had enough planted 10 have
made over twice as much. In 1907
Texas had over nine million acres
planted. and made a bale TO four
acres. Mississippi that year made a
bale In every 40 acres.
In 1906. however. Texas averaged
bale TO each ala acres. in 1905 a
bale 10 each sT5 acres. In 1904 n
bale TO each 2ss acres. and I'm 1909
and 1909 bale io slightly over
averaged as much cotton per acre ns
Georgia. taking long period OF
years. This In spite OF tho fact that
Texas uses on cotton lcss than half
million dollars worth OF fertilizers.
while Georgia uses perhaps Eve mil
Hon dollars worth OF fertilizers on
her cotton crop.
Bns Let no one suppose the boil
wecvil IN not serious matter In
Texas. Much 81 tho best cotton nos
raised In Texas IL north and wcas Of
any infcxsatson. The vas; areas OF
black wary prairscs have not been
seriously hurt by tho wcovil these
two years. while tho ssmhcrcd lands
nearby have been almost ruined. II
seems In the open prairsrs tho wee
wills do not survive tho winters I'm
anything like tho numbers that live
over In the timhcrod areas.
W~~stl Worse In Ttmb~rci SECTIONS.
saw last year many fields In
South Texas that should have made
= half bale. produce no moro than
u tenth OF a bale. I eco this year
fields that should make bali bale
ar over without tho wccsii. making
only a quarter 81 bale. This p~st
has made cotton raising I'm the tim
b~rcd areas OF Texas 80 hazardous
that some towns formerly handiin.
1900 io $4,000 bales Of cotton. last
year handled 1000 90 5000 bales
years Of struggle and doub, necessary
In bring such changes have caused
great distress. While perhaps half
Of the cotton nrca Of Texas. and the
hest half. too, docs not seem TO be-
seriously hurt. the other half cor.
tainiy has been: and tina, half more
nearly resembles Mississippi condi-
tion2.
In 1905 ail sections Of Texas
made bumper crop. II s"cmh
that cotton leaf worms stripped tho
cotton In South Texas the fall before.
and deprived the ~eovil1 al food
early. This was followed by n cold
winter that killed more wecvils than
usual. The spring Of 1906 was early
and the season was favorable. no that
cotton made an early start and made
rapid growth. Eighty per cent Of
cotton squares never come 10 mainr-
ity under good conditions. Twenty
per cent OF the squares mature into
good. fat hollis 30 nm tn load the
stalks 10 their full carrying capacity
In 1906 the 90 per cent had maiured
before the slender crop of weevils
had multiplied sufficiently 10 catch
any Of ihem--the wceyiis stili had
plenty OF food I'm the so per cent OF
squares that could not have maturcd
any way.
Making n cron I'm knite of Weeyils
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-11-28

people do Il: perhaps they ough, to
| understand many farmers have
tried IL, but were discouraged be.
cause their neighbors would not. and
dropped out OF the practice. I don''
think one per cent OF Texas farm.
ers destroy the stalks az n means o,
lessen!ng tho wccvils tho next year
Ny view IL that pasturing the stalks
with cattle will be about an effective
as cutting and burning tho stalks
The main purpose IL 20 deprive the
wccyils OF food IN early aa possible
and bunch OF cattle will do this n,
quickly as II could be done by cut
ting and burning. We save tho cal,
II. food and fertiliring value os Oh.
stalks when NC grace them. Fer.
siliring tho land socms 10 mo to b.
tho biggest thing in tho whole figh'
any way.
Early Planting.
think people very generally tr,
To plant early. at lraa, REASONABLE,
early. Some observations have
made this year would Indicate thai
extreme csrlsncsa possesses no nd
vansaw-a over medium carilnrss.
sa~ somo extremely early cossns
that seemed TO serve az 4 nursery q
breed up early wccvIls for tho malt
crop ON this flcla and perhaps OF
other fields. Ny medium early cot
ton made fully nn much ns rnr vcr,
earliest. bat some planted quito late
made nniy a third OF a crop.
No Improvement In Varieties of Cns
toni
Sorsh.rn-grawn s0cd have sashri
generally been disappointing. Coos
TunaA-.f seed hare proved Just nj
early and have suited tho conditions
better tn ether respects. Mr. o~n oh
aevvasion and experience would leas
INC tn believe there il more fake ana
fraud about the claims pat forth Got
seed than there In in green goods ans
gold bricks. David Dsaon probabl,
had 80 productive and as early cossos
forty years aEo as &C have had since
III 70 per cent OF tho claims al sccs
dealers siacc bad PANIED out. every
body In tho iscls ought To have beet
making four bales per aero bosor.
ibis. make this statement afsrr
having tried largo number % kinds
that arc so nearly alike in results
sha, l would hardly know which q
choose neat year. mako ~ .aftoi
having made a study Of the results q
all Experiment Station work on cot
ton for ten yrars. and from shes.
many Of The old standard Kinda ans
The ao-cailed now kinds show Tn ay
eraEo go cioa1 together that do no
believe there IN much In runnin. af
ter new brands os Hrcd. got man,
letters asking to know the mo.t pro
dueslvc aud tn. earliest kind Of CO,
ton. attn not sure IL I could no
.rmthfuliy answer: You have II II
your own n.lghborhood. look nrouns
aud you will md It."
Fairly and necp Fall Preparation o
Land.
This has not generally been resort
cd To. The black land farmers oftei
piow in tho late fall and on through
the winter. They do most OF thoi
blowing from December on up 4
planting time next spring. but the!
have always done this. They do no
generally piow deep perhaps thra'
or four inches. The farmers In tn
iimherfd heiiA where the MeaYila mr.
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-11-28
Two Years Experience With Boil
Weevil.

Professor Wclborn Tells Something What
Done and How to Combat Statcs-Graz-
Crops, Early Planting thorough Cultivation and
Fertilization Recommended.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-01-28

raigned for trial before the police
judge sought change Of venue. which
was denied. He then went to the
district court and secured q writ 81
mandate directing 3 cnange Of venue
He was thereupon tried before Z JUS
tice. An appeal was taken to the su,
preme court, but this body In It's opin.
ion today holds that the mandate hav.
ing been issued and the trial he'd
there is nothing left for the supreme
court to pass upon, hence this dismis.
sal.
The appeal IN the Silver Bow coun-
ty suit Of the Chicago, Milwaukee &
st. Paul Railroad Company Of Mon
tana. plaintiff. against w. McC. White,
John a. Cannon, trustee; Catherine
Cannon, his wife; j. w. Murphy and
others, defendants; O. E. Kenyon, ap-
pellant, John A. Cannon and others,
respondents, Is also dismissed IN an
opinion by Justice Smith. The rail-
road company condemned certain
lands for It's right-of-way and paid the
money therefor. $4,000, into the
hands Of the clerk Of the district
court, leaving 1t to determine the d.
vision. .
The owners pooled the issues and
made Cannon trustee. Some Of the
owners, It seems, did not want Cannon
to obtain possession Of the money,
and presented a petition asking that
be withheld. The lower court held
that Cannon, being the trustee, was
entitled to the money for division and
the action. Thus in dismiss
Ing the appeal, the supreme court at.
firms the lower court.
Justice Holloway delivered the opin-
lon of the court in the Yellowstone
water right suit Of White
Darling. In. the lower court the
plaintiffs were victorious and this
is affirmed, as was that OF the
court Of Madison county in
he similar suit of Hill against Filing
house. This opinion was by Chief
Brantly.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-01-28
OF its indepe ndence and makes It il.

OF Its Independence and makes It II
erect q part OF the same system.
A to the Santa Fe, which is /.
competing line with both the Unio1
Pacific and Southern Pacific. IL an
pears that Mi. Hartman and his as
sociates acquired sufficient interest II
the Santa Re SO that two members 10
the Union Pacific board, to-wit:
"Messrs. Frick and Rogers became
and still are directors Of the Sants
Fe; and the Union Pacific as q corpo
ration purchased and still holds
large block Of Santa Fe stock. AZ the
result Of the close union between
these lines, competition has to q large
extent been destroyed. The Oregon
Short Line fs also holder Of large
amounts OF stock Of the Northern RI.
cific and Great Northern railroads.
M pre- Operations.
In pursuance Of the plans of Mr,
Hartman and his associates for &C
quiring control Of transcontinental
traffic the Union Pacific in 1901 sc.
cured q majority of the stock OF. the
Northern Pacific Railroad company
which was later turned over to the
Northern Securities company. When
1t was held by the supreme court Of
the United States that 1t was illegal
for the latter corporation to hold the
stock OF the Great Northern and
Northern Pacific, q distribution was
made among Its shareholders as . re-
suit of which the Oregon Short Line
received Northern Securities stocks,
both Of the Great Northern and North.
ern Pacific. The latter companies are
joint owners Of the Chicago, Burlinp-
ton & Quincy railroad, which ia an
active competitor Of the Union Pacific
through a large territory. n the
Northern Pacific and Great Northern
are likewise competitors of the Union
Pacific"
The attorney general has engaged
special assistants for the purpose
OF this litigation, Messrs. Frank B.
Kellogg and Cordence A. Severance
of st. Paul, who acted as counsel for
the Interstate commerce commission
the investigation above referred to.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-01-28
PENDANTS who are alleged to have con;

PENDANTS who are alleged to have cor
ceived and carried out the cor
[ spiracy complained OF, to-wit: d. q
Hartman, Jacob NJ. Schir, Otto Il
Kuhn, James Stillman, Henry {
Frick, Henry 8. Frick, Henry H.. Roe
ers and William A. Clark"
While naming the individual defend
ants, the statement makes no mention
Of any intention to prosecute d o
these officials personally In any Grim
lnal proceedings.
The statement continues:
1T appears by the testimony In th,
prosecution Of the department that
committee was formed about the be
ginning Of the year 1901 by e. II. Har
rlman OF New York, the president q
the Union Pacific, and certain Of hi,
associates, for the purpose Of obtain
ing q monopoly Of all transcontinenta
transportation business. The frs
move was the acquisition Of suficien,
stock OF the Southern Pacific company
to insure Its control. That company
owned q line of railroad extending
from New Orleans and points in Tex
as on tidewater Though California t6
Portland, Oregon. also another line
from Ogden, Utah, to San Francisco
The Southern Pacific had been fol
years one of the principal competitors
OF the Union Pacific: AS the result Of
such control by stock ownership, the
management OF the two companies
has been amalgamated, and since 1902
g. majority Of the board OF directors OF
the Southern Pacific have been mem.
bers Of the board OF directors Of the
Union Pacific. Competition between
the two companies has been substan.
TALLY eliminated.
on the san Pedro.
THE San Pedro, Los Angeles &
Salt Lake road was projected as an In
dependent line by w. A. Clark and his
associates, to run from San Pedro, on
tidewater in California, through Los
Angeles to Salt Lake City. having con
nectton: at that point with the Union
Pacific and with the Gould system. AZ
ter the work Of construction was in
progress, the parties In control Of the
Pacific, by means of harassing
litigation designed to prevent the ac-
QUESTION of necessary right-of-way
and by.threats Of paralleling the line,
II constructed. SO as to render the
improbable and by other
means, induced Clark and his assoc
to abandon the scheme Of an In
pendent road and to join with the Or
egon Short Line in taking over Ger.
ain track owned or controlled by that
company In Southern Utah and East
ern Nevada, and giving to the Oregon
Short Line an equal stock interest In
San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt
AXE road with that held by Clark and
his associates.
In addition trafic agreements and
were made between the San
Pedro and variou@A Interpretations In
Guiding the Hartman system, So
called. which deprives the San Pedro
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-01-28
HAYrIEN REVOLT CRUSHED.

Port au Prince, Jan. 25.-The revo-
luton has been suppressed. Juneau,
the leader of the movement, was cap
tured at Dessalines, a little hamlet
close to Gonaiyes. and was at once
shot to death by the government
troops that made him prisoner. Go
naives has been occupied by a gov
eminent force.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-01-28

The motor shops will not be attest.
ed by the new rule, but other shops
will Superintendent Of Motive Power
McKeen admitted that .he cut would
be made. but further than that re-
fused to talk.
Mr. Mohler admitted to the Associ-
ated Press that beginning Monday
there would be q general reduction IN
sources Of employment In the mechan.
ical departments Of the Union Pacific.
He said there was no political sig-
nificance to this reduction, declaring
1T vas the result only OF reduced traf.
fc. He stated that Mr.. Hartman had
not given him any political instruc-
tons, but admitted It was%his personal
belief that President Roosevelt and no
other person was the cause Of the
present reduction In railroad trafic.
Great Reduction.
He dictated a statement regarding
the report Of the reduction printed In
a local paper as follows:
= was called up by telephone at =
late hour in the evening relativeSto d
rumored reduction In the force Of men
employed in the Mechanical depart
ment Of our road and Inquiries were
made which to me appeared rather In
trusive. It was distinctly understood
that the conversation was Of an jndk
vidual and not official character.
"The reduction In force is only made
to meet the same percentage Of re.
duction in traffic. and. dealing directly
as we are with the large body OF men
and realizing the suffering that en-,
sues, and having been through sinh
lar experiences In previous years Il 81
not q pleasant task TO perform nor
pleasant surroundings 10 View.
Il have received no political instruc-
tions from Mr.. Hartman, either al
or indirectly, since my cnnlec-
ton with the Union Pacific railroad q
Mr.. Mohler stated that there arc
about 10000 men employed In the me
chanical departments Of the Union
A reduction to 5000 viii be
made. No further reduction Of force
will be made. but hours OF employment
will be cut.