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The Neshoba Democrat. (Philadelphia, Miss.) 1881-current, 1908-10-08
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K iGewood, Tex,
Sept. 9, 1898.

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The Neshoba Democrat. (Philadelphia, Miss.) 1881-current, 1908-10-08

Character alone gives 70 man the
dignity of his mission and enables
him to mlGll his lito work in accord
ance with the divine scheme manifest
in his being Without it bis life is
negative, blank, Instead of a we'll
rounded aud full period.
The Neshoba Democrat. (Philadelphia, Miss.) 1881-current, 1908-10-08
win Find Cure for t.eprosy.

1t is estimated that there are some
100000 loLefs in Tie wor,a, but the
cure of leprosy is nov regarded as b'ss
i.g within measurable diS.dace,
The Neshoba Democrat. (Philadelphia, Miss.) 1881-current, 1908-10-08

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peck "'li ~ dcnh' revive the pink
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Imperial Valley press., 1908-05-09

Brawley and Calexico as cities of the sixth class necessitates changes in the precincts as they now exist.
 Supervisor Webster was authorized to act in the matter of sending to their former homes certain tubercuiar patients at the Imperial Hospital, who have become county charges.
 County Superintendent Carr report. cd that old Beach school district was suspended, there not being enough children there to sustain a school. and the supervisors voted to attach this territory to the Brawley school dis trict.
 l. I. Inman was appointed constable for the Hanlon precinct.
 The matter of taxing stallions wa postponed until the next regular sey sion.
 M. B. zimmer was appointed arbi- trator to adjust the differences be- tween the county and the court house contractors regarding extra charges for additional roof bracing.
 The road petition and bond for the F. B. Fuller road were received, and R. l. Greer, w. s. Ballard and E. II. Gaines were appointed viewers.
 The report of the viewers on the F. J. Brockman road was accepted and the road was declared county high way.
 Thomas Beach was appointed view CT for the Schlatter road.
 Hearing on the Conser and Haskell road petitions was set for June ?, at 10 @. m.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-05-09
REPUBLICAN,. COUNTY POLITICS.

The Republican County Central Committee met in El~Centro last Sat urday and appointed John M. Eshle- man, of I1l Centro, and R. H. Benton, of Imperial, as delegates to the state convention-an even break between the old Hardy machine and the reform element. The executive committee was instructed to arrange for pri- maries next fall, and for a convention to readjust the basis of representa- tion. A resolution endorsing the re quest of commercial bodies for estab- lishment of a consular office at Mexi- cali was adopted
Imperial Valley press., 1908-05-09
FINELY EQUIPPED INSTITUTION
 IN FL cENTRo.
Available to All Physicians in the County--Ample Room for the Sick of This HealthfuI Hcoion--Complete Facilities for Surgical and Lsbera- tory Work.

Today the finishing touches will be given to the Central Hospital, an insti- tuition that will be a credit to the I'm perial Valley and to El Centro, where 1t is located. Within the ensuing week the Central Hospital will be open for general hospital service to the physi- clans of the valley.
 At a later date, possibly on May 16, when the county medicos are to meet in El Centro, the building will be thrown open for public inspection, and the county physicians will be invited to become guests of the hospitalm an agement at that time.
 Central Hospital is located in the southern part of El Centro, between Fifth and Sixth streets. It is built in the cottage or bungalow style of archi- lecture, with shady porches surround ing the entire structure.
 The building is 64x80 feet, with ten foot screened porches with plastered ceilings There is an eight-foot corri- dor running the full length of the buildings interior, so that ventilation Is we'll planned.
 Besides the living rooms for the house physician, there will be fifteen rooms, with provisions for ten b5ds, four of which will be in private rOons and six in wards. The is al up to- date operating room and surgical dressing room which it IS beli eyed jS dust-proof, and there is also a comm1- dious laboratory and X-ray room for analytical work.
 Central Hospital has been erecte by Dr. Virgil McComb and pr. Merritt Hut, but it's design is to give general hospital service to all the settlements of the valley, and it's central location should mkae it of value to the general practitioner. The hospital and equip ment represent an outlay of about S9,O00.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-05-09
THE COUNTYS BUSINESS.
Proceedings of Board of Supervisors
 Auditor Kellogg Resigns.

Imperial county supervisors were in session Monday and Tuesday of this week, and accomplished much general business besides auditing bills for the past month.
 The resignation of T. w. Kellogg as County Auditor was accepted and c. P. McClelland was appointed to fill the unexpired term.
 The County Surveyor was author ized to at once locate county road lines from New River through Braw- ley to the Alamo River, and numerous road easements were accepted
 The board ordered that all county offices in the new courthouse be giv- en telephone service immediately
 A resolution was adopted notifying all county officials that they are not to buy or order anything for their of fees without written order from one of the supervisors.
 Clark Bradshaw, justice of the peace for Imperial township, was granted siX-months' leave of ab- sence from the state, and similar permit was granted to County Treas urer Paul Roman.
 The board received and accepted the returns of the tristees for Imperi- al school district on the recent bond election, and took steps to provide for the issuance of $7OOO bonds for that district.
 Provision was made for placing fire extinguishers in the new courthouse immediately.
 Jesse J. Colby, Jr, was appointed night watchman at the courthouse, at salary of $75 per month.
 Maps were approved of Randolph's subdivision of section 16 south, town ship 13 south, range IA east, s. B. M., DeBlois subdivision of block 43 of Brawley townsite, and of Yocum's sub division, near Bernice.
 A resolution was adopted requiring that all maps submitted for accept ance by the board shall have upon them the endorsement of the County Surveyor.
 The District Attorney was instruct l ed to prepare new county ordin- ance defining the election precincts as the incorporation of El Centro,
Imperial Valley press., 1908-05-09
TWO STORY RESIDENCE.

M. W. Conkling is having the foun- lations constructed for a two-story frame residence for his home on Brighton avenue, east of Fifth street. The building will be 32x32 feet with about $25O0. J. L. Trayers is the con tractor
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1908-04-16

in the habit of saying, or to fail to produce
certain crops. The question to determine IN
this case is just what crop is adapted to the
land, to act as a corrective, a kind of medl-
cine for the noxious bodies that are in the
soil Crop rotation-with the proper crops
is especially valuable, as different species Of
plants themselves aid in the destruction Of
deAterious organic substances. The proper
fertilizers, too, are most valuable. The bu-
reau has been giving special attention to to-
bacco soils, and has met with signal success.
In Connecticut, Florida, Texas and Alabama,
excellent types Of tobacco are now being
grown as a result Of the Investigations de-
scribed. Similar studies are being made Of
soils adapted to certain kinds Of cotton, no
tably the varieties which are being used in an
attempt to combat the boll-weevil. Surveys
Of swamps have shown the possibilities Of
these waste stretches Of land, and may lead
to large schemes Of reclamation. The work is
soils and it is to be hoped it will lead to that
being extended to cover wide variety of
earth and the rational treatment thereof, that
intimate knowledge of the contents of the
represents the fundamental problem of pres
ent-day Observation-Disclosures Advocate
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1908-04-16

with those reaching to every part of the
country.
There are approximately 100000 farms in
the United States, and it is prophesied that
within decade two-thirds of them will have
telephone service Meanwhile less is heard
of the monotony and isolation of the farm
steads and more Of the boys and especially
more of the girls are contented to stay where
life is natural and healthy, and is still under
new conditions in touch with the whole big
and busy world.-Texas Farmer.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1908-04-16
FERTILIZER WASTE.

FERTILIZER WASTE.
Our farmers spend hundred million dol
lars every year for commercial fertilizers, and
Secretary Wilson asserts that one-third of
this amount is simply thrown away. If GER
tain sections of land do not produce crops as
they should, the one remedy that occurs to
most people is to buy fertilizer. More is being
bought every year The quantities used are
enormous, and the employment of the agent
is extending steadily. Thirty million dollars
are annually wasted in this way-and this
is due not to any deficiency in the fertilizers
themselves, but to lack Of understanding Of
the proper fertilizers for the different soils.
This is a relatively new problem in agri-
cultural economy, and it is likely that the
investigations now being conducted will lead
to surprising results. One of the recent dis
coveries revolutionizes that ancient idea, that
certain products so exhaust the soil that the
following crops do not flourish. The new
theory is that it is not what the product takes
from the SOIL but what it puts into it, that in
lures the succeeding growth. In ether words,
there is an excretion from plants that, unless
counteracted, is noxious to other crops. The
chief Of the bureau of soils, in recent report,
gives interesting explanations Of the manner
in which the soils actually feed crops and
the influence Of fertilizers upon this feeding.
AS everybody knows, all soils contain more
or less minerals, covering those necessary food
products for plants, potash, phosphoric acid
and lime. The nitrogen has to be obtained
elsewhere. These minerals are dissolved in
the soil water, and feed the plants; and as
those on the surface are absorbed, there is
movement upward Of moisture from below,
bringing further food supplies. Thus the soil
is in sense steadily enriched by these de-
sirable constituents although the actual feed
ing medium for the plant is not essentially
altered Similarly artificial enrichment Of
the soil by commercial fertilizers does not
materially affect the mineral composition Of
the soil solution, as is popularity supposed, but
has other profound functions of which we are
just beginning to get glimpse.
AS above noted, infertility of soils is often
due to the presence of bodies deleterious to
plant growth and the bureau has discovered
exactly what some Of these substances are,
and the proper means of fighting them. It is
the presence of these bodies that causes some
fields to become " exhausted as we have been
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1908-04-16
FARMING AND IT'S OPPORTUNITIES
FOR YOUNG MEN.

That young men should leave the farm for
the city. as SO many of them are doing, in
stead of movement the other way, of young
men from the city to the farm, is truly
strange It can be accounted for only by the
assumption that the opportunities offered by
the farms are not understood, neither by the
farmers sons or the young men Of the cities.
And this is really the case.
The country lad looks with longing to the
life of the city. He sees it from the distance
and in the enchantment which distance lends
to the view. When he visits the city he sees
an activity which charms him in it's contrast
to the quiet life on the farm. He sees and
hears Of men who have gone to the city from
the country, and have grown rich and reached
high station. Ard thus he leaves the farm,
only to be disenYanted when it is too late,
and he has him bound to the treadmill Of
drudgery, requiring exacting work from day to
day, from year to year, with the prospect of
betterment almost as disappointing as rain
bow chasing. For every young man who
leaves the farm and makes a success in the
city there are hundreds who fail, and who
wear out their lives chained to the exacting
routine Of office, store or shop.
On the farm there is freedom. On the farm
only can real independence be found It is
healthful occupation, and many a man who
falls victim early to the confinement and
unhealthfulness of city employment would en-
joy robust health and reach a ripe old age
in the open air and diversified work on the farm
Then, too, in the matter Of recreation and self
improvement life in the country offers advan-
tages which cannot be found in the city, while
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1908-04-16
KEEPING BOYS AND GIRLS ON THE
FARM.
FARM.

girls stay on the farms instead of fastening
to the crowded cities to seek their fortunes as
soon as emancipated from parental authority
has engaged the attention Of thinkers writer's,
and takers in America for a good many
years. Various remedies have been suggested
for state of affairs that was recognized as
serious all aiming in one way or another to
remove what was felt to be the main cause
of dissatisfaction of the rising generation with
the life which had satisfied their parents,
namely, its isolation and monotony as COM
pared with that Of the town.
Meanwhile, while students and theorists
were discussing what ought to be done, the
drain cityward of the sons and daughters of
the farms continued until in the fullness Of
progress the farmer himself and the indus
trial organizer began in practical fashion to
change conditions by introducing the i'm
proved facilities Of communication which the
growing prosperity Of the farming communi-
ties enabled them to pay for. Good roads
first and the extension of free mail delivery
to rural communities did much. Along with
them worked the rural trolley lines, reaching
out from the cities in all directions and
creating brand new freight and passenger
traffic wherever they went. Finally, what
promises to be a more potent influence than
all else, has come the telephone, striking iso-
lation forever from the list Of rural ills and
birding the farthest community it reaches
frmlv into the web of natural activities and
interests.
Where the nearest neighbor instead OF
being half mile away is within easy CONVEX
sational distance and can be communicated
with at any time without stopping the farm
work and in spite Of the biggest snow storm
that ever come out of the Northwest it makes
a difference in a good many ways, economl-
cally and socially That is what the telephone
has done in the country, and that is why
country villages and farm communities are
linked together today by thousands of miles
of wire and local lines built and equipped by
the subscribers themselves, and why telephone
development is proceeding more rapidly IN
this field than in any other at the present
time, chiefly by the method Of cooperative
construction.
The strongest possible indication of the
hold which the telephone has gained on the
farm and the future which is before it there,
in the belief of telephone men themselves,
has been given by the change Of policy OF
the greatest telephone manufacturing COM
pany in the world, which has just entered
the competition for this trade. By making it
possible for the first time for the organizers
of such local systems to obtain standard ap-
naratus and equipment such as is used on the
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1908-08-25
Keen Stock. Separate.

There used to be theory that every
thing could run together in the barn
yard-the colts, the calves, the cows.
pigs and chickens should all have ac-
cess to the same yard. After the farm
ers began to keep better stock they
saw the advisa bility Of giving each
class a yard for itself. 1t is hardly
right to keep the cows and the calves
In the same lot for evident reasons.
The colts and the cows will not har-
monize because the exuberance Of the
former tends to irritate the latter and
lessons the milk flow. The chickens
and the pigs should not be kept to-
gether because there Is chance that
the hogs may get to eating hens.
Every farmer has had experience with
all of these things. The only peace
able plan is to have yard for each
kind of stock. If you want to run the
pigs in the barnyard, do so for time
each day, but not when the calves and
hens are there. 1t is just as advisable
to keep stock upon the farm separate
as it is to use separate fields for the
CROPS,
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1908-08-25
Pasturina Sheep on Alfalfa.

Every now and then the statement
is made that sheep may be success
fully pastured on alfalfa. In some
instances they can. In other instances
they cannot. Under some conditions
they can. Under more conditions they
cannot In a very dry atmosphere
sheep may be safely grazed on alfalfa
when accustomed to it. If fed dry
food early in the day. such as grain.
they may safely Craze on it.
But the fact remains that there Is
usually some danger that sheep will
be lost through bloating more or less
while being thus grazed. Moreover.
the further fact remains that the sheep
Craze so closely that under many con-
ditions they injure the alfalfa plant
and shorten its period of growth.
When the alfalfa grows with grass
crops, the element of danger from
bloat is practically eliminated.-Pro-
fessor Thomas Shaw.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1908-08-25
GOOD ROAD CONGRESS.
Purpose and Features of the lnterna-
tionaI Gathering a. Paris.

Purpose and Features of the lnterna-
tionaI Gathering a. Paris.
Colonel Charles S. Bromwell. Cliff
ford Richardson and William Page
have been appointed by President
Roosevelt to represent the United
States at the international road con-
gress to be held in Paris during Octo-
Der, 1908.
Napoleon was a great advocate Of
road building, and since his time
France has spent between $5OO.OOO.-
600 and 10000, 900 on her highways.
The advent of the automobile has
proved a serious menace to the sur
face of the roads, and the purpose of
this congress is to hear opinions of
experts on the subject and to con-
dense them into practical idea of the
treatment and care of the surface of
a road.
This congress, to which the govern
ments of the various nations have
been officially invited to appoint rep
resentatives, will be opened Oct. II
and will be in session seven days.
1t is proposed during the life of the
congress to give several festivals in
Paris and also excursions, one par
ticularly to Nice, to enable the mem
bers to visit especially fitted up roads
or roads in course of preparation.
The United States government has
made several tests at Washington late
ly, principally by taking photographs
of the clouds of dust raised by each
automobile, going at different rates
of speed at from FIVE to- sixty miles
an hour. These dust clouds were
weighed in order to determine how
much of the surface Of the road was
taken off by a motor going at an ex-
cessive rate Of speed. This point and
| a number of others which have been
ascertained by the government of the
United States undoubtedly will be
brought to the attention of the con-
gress by one of the American repre-
| sentatfves, and it is more than likely
that Colonel Bromwell will read pa
Der
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1908-08-25
THE DAIRYMAN.

l used to have a lot of trouble feed
ing calves their milk. says dairymau n.
So will anybody who sets pail over
the fence and lets the calves do with
it as they have a mind to. But finally
woke up to the idea that stanchions
are just as good to feed calves in as
they are for cows. l picked up a few
pieces of boards such as are to be had
on almost any farm and fixed up a
nice little pair of stanchions. with
managers to feed hay in besides. That
ended my troubles in that line.
A Big Influence.
The bull is one half of the herd. The
cows are the other half. The bull ex-
erts his influence, his breeding, over
every COW in the herd. whether it be
for good or bad. If his breeding or
pedigree is of the wrong sort-that is.
for example. of a poor dairy sort-his
influence is for bad, and the young
stock will not be of the kind that de-
velop into useful animals. This inf1u-
ence is not on one cow, but on all the
herd. With cows it is different. IF in
the herd there be a poor cow her ef-
fects are felt only on her calves. while
the calves of her sisters in the herd
will be good or poor. according to the
individual cow. The good bull will
make his good qualities felt in all the
cows.
Protect the Cream.
A great deal of cream leaves the
farm in fine condition for the cream
cry, but in being exposed to the sun on
the road to the creamery or receiving
station the development Of souring
germs rapidly begins. In delivering q
can of cream throw a wet blanket over
the can and dry cover over the wet
blanket. The dry blanket prevents the
evaporation of water from the wet
blanket and will enable the farmer to
deliver cream only few degrees
warmer than when 1t left the farm.
Testing the Milk Giver.
The farmer can learn TO operate q
nand tester in a half hour. His results
will not be accurate to a fraction. but
close enough for all practical purposes
There is no way to determine the
actual value Of a COW except the milk
be weighed and tested. 1t is worth
many dollars a year to know what
each COW Is doing and is worth while
to buy a tester and flnd out The more
a farmer knows about his dairy the
better he win be pleased with thl
creamery treatment
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1908-08-25
THE WYANDoTTEs.

This breed was at first commonly
called American Sebrights." which
was changed to "Wyandotte" after the
indians of that name. Historians have
failed to trace the time and circum-
stances of its origin. but all claim it to
be an American bird with Dark Brah-
ma and Hamburg blood in its veins.
Today the man who originates a breed
erects a marble statue to himself If
no one else will. The varieties are Sill
yer. Golden. Silver Penciled. Partridge.
Columbian. Black. Buff and White.
STANDARD WEIGHTS.
Cock ........ S1k lbs. Hen .......... 61z lbs.
Cockerel 80. ~ lbs. Pullet ....... 5k lbs.
The White Dotte is the most popular
and is bird of beautiful curves. The
original of this picture is a feathere
aristocrat low kingly! What vigo.