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The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-03-01
TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES.


The last spike in the Spokane, Portland Seat
tie Railway was driven February 20 at Shermans
Point, three miles from Stevenson. 1hls COM
petes the track of the new North Branch road
from Pasco to Vancouver. Operation OF trains
between the two points will be started about
March 16, thus adding another link to the trans
portation facilities of the state.
The Chicago Milwaukee & st. Paul trains
have started to run into Montana, and cOnStruc-
ton gangs are busy all along the line from there
to Seattle The North Coast road reported to be
controlled by the Canadian Pacfc) is busily at
work on it's line from Spokane to Seattle, between
the Great Northern and the Northern Pacific lines.
The Canadian Pacific is surely reaching southwark
from Vancouver B. c.. to Seattle, and many
branches of these transcontinental lines are in
active progress.
The Great Northern and the Northern PACING
lines are also preparing to bore tunnels through
the Cascade mountains in order to ease grades
and increase their traffic and travel capacity, the
trains to be operated by electric motor power.
Electric interurban companies also active In
constructing and planning lines throughout the
state These will open up territory and make
possible greater range of home building WIN III.
tensive and diversified agriculture. they VIII
act as feeders to the transcontinental lines by
assembling the products of the land for use and
transportation, and by distributing manufactures
and merchandise to consumers.
The locomotive has been termed the great
American cvilizer, and the electric car the great
American developer The improvement in social
conditions in villages towns and the adjacent
farming country along the lines of interurban roads
has been remarkable. Commercial opportunities
that have hitherto lain dormant have been de-
veloped, and are profitable realities New
markets have been created, and reciprocal rela-
lions between city, town and country have taken
on new features All these advantages will be
realized in this state with the further expansion or
it's interurban lines
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-03-01
THE NEXT ISSUE OF THE RANCH

The next issue of the Ranch will con-
tain many interesting features dealing with
matters of vital concern to our readers
among which will be the following:
How the Meat-Packers Have Killed the
Live Stock Industry of Southwest Washing
ton: This is a complete and specific re-
cital of how the low prices compelled by
combination of North Pacific Coast meat
packers is killing the one time prosperous
live stock industry of the southwest por-
ton of the state of Washington. We will
give the individual experience of many
prominent growers, testimony which is
complete refutal of all the denials made by
the meatpackers. We are vitality interest
ed in this matter, and we want our readers
to take an interest, and write in and ex-
press their opinions.
Two Sides of a Question: A series of
correspondence between two farmers and
produce dealer who the farmers thought
had skinned them.
Logged-Otf Lands: Furthert strong fea-
lures of this interesting movement will be
comprehensively dealt with in manner
which will be interesting to our readers.
A Trust That Plays Fair: An article
dealing with the history of the international
Harvester Company, which will be of con-
Germ to every farmer In the Northwest.
WATCH FOR THE NEXT ISSUE.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-03-01

constructing and conducting the leading land anu
wafer TRANSFORMATION lines manufacturing and min
ing industries and commercial enterprises, also
permit their arrangement and management SO as
to secure many economics and greater etlclency.
While it is not practicable to fully secure econ
omies and efficiency among the separate inter-
ests and properties of individual home owners,
there are many things to which cooperation can be
successfully applied, if accompanied by nearly
good will. Mutual fire insurance is familiar eX-
ample. So is the cooperative creamery or cheese
factory. These have not always been success
full but frequently are, and show that the prln-
cple is right if rightly applied. Washington con-
ditions offer many lines for the successful appca-
ton of cooperation to production and marketing
of farm products and every week brings reports
of efforts to apply it.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-03-01
TO CONDUCT MODEL RANCHES.

Representative Scott of Kansas, chairman or
of the House committee on agriculture, has con-
ceiyed plan which involves the establishment OF
100 experimental farms of one acre each-ln every
county in a group of four Western agricultural
states for the purpose of giving the farmers
practical demonstration of the best methods OF
growing different kinds of crops 1t is proposed
that the lands for this purpose shall be furnlshed
by the farmers themselves and that they do the
work of cultivation under the direction OF the
Department of-Agricuture. No additional appro-
pration would be required to test SCOTS plan as
the department now has the requisite number OF
experts to carry out the plan.
Rosalia is practically assured of having dem
onstration farm, to be conducted under nstruc-
ton of the agricultural department OF the Wash
ington State College. The object is to awaken
interest in the cutting up of the big farms into
smaller tracts for homes for more people. Mr..
Campbell donated the free use of 10 acres or
land for period of three years. 1t lies west oil
Rosalia almost adjoining town. An experienced
market gardener will be secured to manage the
farm The work will consist of dairy and truck
farming approved methods
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-03-01
TO A BEN DAVIS APPLE

I've saved this roast for thee-thou false alarm!
Thy rosy cheek and wnsome outward charm
Are but deceit. Within thy gay outside
Within the confines of thy lying hide
Is juiceess pulp, dry pomace, where should be
Grand cider that should hint of rural spree.
Oft have piped thee the fruiter's stall
CA wonderful place-thou art not fruit at allD
Good shekels have jingled on the board
When raked this fruiter his illgot hoard;
Bit on thee greediy with eager tooth
Then longed for good, old Rambos known in youth
Thou art an apple; yet, by hen, not that.
AS we'll indeed, eat that thou, bum bunch
Of stuff but fitted for dead mans lunch!
Thou art a nuisance, I'll eat my hat
blithely loathe thee yet no doubt again,
Tn like as not to buy thee the train
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-03-01
HOMES IN THE COUNTRY.

There is a movement on foot in New York Tor
the establishment in that state OF agricultural
colonies in which to provide work for unemployed
men able and willing to earn their living but not
in position to do so in times of financial strin-
gency The United Charity Organization Socl-
cites of New York have considered and approved
a plan for such farms The idea is to make them
entirely self-supportng. They might, for exam
pie produce and prepare supplies for the states
charitable and penal institutions. Pingree potato
patches" were tried in several cities in the panic
year of 1893 and later, and they served useful
purpose Cleveland has endeavored to extend
and develop the farm colony scheme and 1T lis
believed that the example of that municipality is
good one to follow.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-03-01
ASSOCIATION AND COOPERATION.

This is the age of united effort. Associations IN
vite the farmer on every hand to utilize them In
the promotion of his business and social inter
ests Education politics, religion labor and rec
reation are alike subject to the prevalent spirit OF
organization. Harmony and hepfuness are es
sental to success while jangling and jealousy are
sure forGrunners of failure and loss.
Organized effort is perhaps highly developed
among the ranchers of Washington in any Sec
ton of the country To secure the highly devel
oped water systems for frutgrowing, the extensive
appliances for grain culture and handling, the
expensive apparatus required for manipulating
milk products the improvement of highways, live
stock, machinery and methods of production and
marketing requires cooperation of effort and cap
ital
The large aggregations of capital required for
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-03-01

During the past year more than 100000 men,
women and children babe farewell to the East and
came into the broad West to make their homes.
Colonist rates effective March 1 on the northern
transcontinental lines will bring vast flood OF
immigrants to this state and will people it's vacant
places as never before. The past few years of
good times has enabled many of these people to
accumulate money, and the stringency resulting
from the New York money panic has caused even
the well-to-do farmer to seek the milder climate
of Washington and the better opportunities thaA
exist here Farms that from twenty acres
upward in extent will be subdivided to make room
for the settlers from the great Mississippi Valley
country while the newly irrigated fields being
brought under water and the new lands opening
to settlement will be improved and covered with
homes.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-03-01

A modern Jewish agricultural colony is to be
established in the state of Louisiana. 1t is the
beginning of a general removal of 100000 poor
people from New York and vicinity to the coun
try fields of the sunny South tract OF 1000
acres has been purchased, about half of which
devoted to truck farming Each family is to have
thirty acres on which to build home and lay
foundation for future success. Estimates place
the cost of taking family of five from New York
City to the proposed colony at about $1,000. That
represents the first price of the land transporta
ton, food and clothing for the first year, farming
implements and all that may be needed until an in
come can be obtained from the crops Similar
colonies have been established by the Salvation
Army in Colorado and California, and almost the
entire membership paid back the money advanced
and received personal deeds to land and appur
tenances. Some of the more thrifty ones return
ed the original funds and out of debt within
five years from the time of entering the colony.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-03-01
MAINTAINING FERTILITY.

Fertility is the keystone of successful agricul-
ture Without it may go through all the
motions of farming without securing adequate re-
turns for his labor. There number of fac
tors that contribute toward a proper condition of
fertility, and the lack of any one of them may
deprive man of his reward. chemical test
will not always determine the missing factor,
for it may be present in the SOIL but in an un-
available form.
A generous yield of wheat other crop is fire.
quently followed by scanty yields because the
available supply of some one element of the soil
is left deficient. 1t may be the nitrogen, the pot
ash the phosphate. Barnyard manure will sup
ply these, while several commercial fertilizers are
also valuable Sod and green manures turned
under will supply more humus than Will barnyard
manure. Humus from any source helps the water
holding capacity of Soils improves its mechan-
ical condition and assists in unlocking fertility
from it's unavailable forms in the soil
Thorough tillage contributes to the same end,
as we'll as to the destruction of weeds. The pillow,
the cultivator the disc tooth harrow the roller
the plank drag, each have place in promoting
fertility and in securing clean and profitable
crops. Soils that are provided with humus from
manure growing vegetation are thoroughly pull
verzed compacted then protected by finely pull
verified surface, will develop their latent elements
of fertility and yield good harvest to the care
full husbandman.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-03-01

There is general movement throughout the
state to require dealers to give fair weights and
full measure of articles handled over their coun-
tiers. This is as 1t should be. The citizen who
makes purchase of any sort is entitled to fair
weight or good measure according to the selling
rule of the trade. He is also entitled to know
that the article bought by him is all the seller
represents it to be, both in character and amount.
Several parties have been arrested for selling
butter and other articles at the public market
in Seattle that failed to measure UP to the legal
standard in weight quality. Charter amend
third day of March, authorizes the city council
to establish and regulate public markets, to pro-
vide for the weighing, measuring and inspecting
of all articles sold at such markets. and to estab-
sh public scales at convenient places In the city
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1908-01-02
This Sale Is Held Only AT Theodore kQhns
DON'T FAIL TO COME TO ORNGEBURGS GREATEST BARGAIN DISTRIBUTION

richly finished with heads and tails.
Value $500. Sale Price. :. $3.50
Large Hemstitched linen table
covers full 27 inches square. Values
75c. Sale price,. :. :. ;. ..43c
Rich Cut Out Embroidery table
covers and bureau scarfs. Values soc
Sale price. ..Soc
Dainty Swiss Curtains. made with
deep insertion. Value $500. Sale
price =. ..@1.oo
Handsome Nottingham: Lace Cur
tains, richly made with scroll design,
full 3 1-2 yards long. Worth $i.75
per pair. Sale price 80. >. ..S1.19
Japanese Leather Bags made with
strong frames and handles, all col
ors. Values 500. Sale price,. ..4Sc
16 button Long Lisle gloves. All
popular colors. Values s1.25. Sale
Price. ..SGc
Wrist Length Kid Gloves, black,
tan and white, soft pliable kid. Val-
ues $1.O0 to SIPS. Sale price. 73c
500 yards 20 inch deep embroidery
flouncing. All rich work, brand new
patterns. Worth 35c per yard. A big
mill and Special at sale price. 19c
500 yards linen torchon lace val
ued at SC to IL 1-2 per yard. Sale
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1908-01-02
hope for future success.

greatest hope for future success.
Columbia is a good proof of what
business can do for the South. With
a population that has nearly doubled
since the last census was taken it is
one of the most progressive cities OF
the South.
Time was when a female who did
not marry was not allowed under any
circumstances that might arise to do
anything towards her support, but
thathas passed away along with 9TH
er old time ideas.
Today the daughter of the South
who has received a college education
goes out to use that education by
helping to improve the minds and
morals of others. The speaker has
known of a number of young ladies
of the greatest refinement, coming
from the best homes in Orangeburg
who are not obliged to do anything
for living, who are at the present
time teaching school in the rural
communities about Rowesville and
St. Georges. What this means not
only to the better education of the
coming generation but in the way of
teaching them by example more
refined way of living, can only be es-
timated by those who have lived in
those communities and understand
the necessity for such an education.
While the people of the State have
some characteristics that seem un-
fortunate to a dweller in a more con-
servative State, such as the two fire.
quent homicides, yet the better ele-
ments in the State, including all the
leading papers, are casting the infiu-
ence against the too frequent using
of the gun to settle disputes.
It must be remembered that half
of the murders in the State are laid
to the negro population and that
they belong there.
The home life Of the Southern
family is something to be admired
No child thinks of addressing a faith
er without adding sir and the love OF
the children for the mother is some
thing beautiful to see. The Southern
white family as a rule is big one
and this in the mind of the speaker
is going to solve the supremacy OF
the race question. Families of eight,
ten or twelve children are the rule
instead of being the rare exception
as in the North. While this is true
Of the whites just the reverse is true
of the colored children. While they
are born into the world in great
numbers only a small comparative
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1908-01-02
Mill End Specials.

rs Colored Belts, some silk, some
velvet and some leather, all worth
25c to 75c. Sale Price. :. ..15c.
120 Children's Union suits, all
sizes from to II years well made
Of good yarn. Sale price,. :. ..21c.
rs Suits Ladies Union Suits, fam
GUS Oneita make, 75c values, sale
nr,ce .42c
Taffeta Top Umbrellas, variety Of
good strong handles, s1.25 values.
Sale Price,. >. ..ooc.
;Mesaline and Satin Taffeta Rib
bon, all desirable colors,' 4 to s in
ehes wide. Sale price. ;. :. ..1ec
Children's TTamoshanter Cap, red,
blue and white, best quality. Worth
Use. to s1.00. Sale price. :. ..48c.
Baby White Six Caps, all new
stock, all new designs. 75c values.
Sale price,. ..4oc
Heatherbloom Petticoats made
with full deep ruffles, nice as silk,
Worth S2.75. Sale price :. ..S1.98
Near Silk Petticoats very full, and
made as nice as any $500 skirt. The
splendid line Of nice values $500.
60 inch Fur Neck Scarfs made of
Sable Coney, values $500. Sale
Price,. ;. ..$1.7S.
70 inch Isabella Opossum scarfs,
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1908-01-02

Shoes.
rs pairs of regal Grade shoes, all
brand new goods, sold usually at S3'
to $3.50. Sale price !. :. :. ..$2.65
SO pairs best Regal kid shoes,
cheap at $4.0O. Sale price,. ..$2.9s
80 pair Boston High Grade Ok
fords, these are $3.50 Oxfords. sale
price. ..SA.So
Bleached Cotton Goods.
700 yds guaranteed Lonsdale Cam
brio. extra wide, beautiful finish.
Syndicate price .. :. :. >. ..1Sc.
450 yds. English Long Cloth,
grand for underwear. the zoe kind
Sale price. :. -. ..127sc.
1000 yds. 36 inch Irish Bleach
ing. soft finish, no starch, worth
10c. Sale price :. :. :. >. - &c.
Big lowell Bargains.
300 Huck Towels, IS values, Sale
Prlce.. 1Vc.
ESQ Large Turkish Towels, worth
zoe for. ;. :. :. ..12c
24o extra Size Turkish Towels val,
ue 80 cents, for. :. :. :. .13c
325 Extra Fine All Linen Towels
worth 25c, for :. :. IL 1-2c
Children's Coats.
SO Broadcloth Coats, all popular
colors, worth $3.50 Sale Price 81 .4s
25 Velvet Corduroy Coats, worth
$500. Sale Price. =. ..$1.9s
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1908-01-02
Suits and Coats.

Beautiful and Stylish models at
prices that wouldn't pay for the cost
of the materials.
10 Novelty Tailored Suits, eezei
fitting jackets. Values up to S12.E8-
Here are big bargains. Note the
price,. :. ;. ;. ..$S.04
~ American Woolen Serge Suits,
in black, navy and brown, sold a.
$3.50. Sale price. 80 !. ..&S.a6
is Handsome Chiffon BroadeloGa,
in navy. brown and black. Values up
to $4,000. Sale price. /. ...S14.5a
Is Ladies' Long Coats madG Of
fine all wool mixtures, splendid
wearing coats. Values up 10 $3.50
Sale price -. -. ..$S:9S
12 Ladies Wool Cravinette Coaks.
extra long, shown in all colors, sDleR-
did coats, values up to $12.5o. Sale
price. :. :. >. :. .$7.Sa,-
25 Ladies' Extra Fine English
Kersey Long Coats, grand shades of
Tan, grey, castor, and garnet, coats
worth up to $500. Sale price 5000
Fine Art Squares.
8hx10R IT. Body Brussel Art
Square, splendid designs, wears flne,
worth 1850. Sale price. :. SLIGO
9x12 TT. Lovely Brussel Art
Square, the handsomest designs ever
shown; the colorings are superb;
worth easily $4,000 Sale price 1885
8Bx10kft Administer Velvet
Art Square, rich Oriental and floral
designs, no handsomer ones shown
for S27.50c. Sale price,. $1,000
Napkin Bargains.
$1.25 All Linen Napkins at. ..92c
$3.50 Big Linen Napkins at ..$1.l2
Sits Fine Linen Napkins at. .$1.S5
$50 Elegant Damask Napkins$1.72
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1908-01-02

rolling with higher hills in the vicin-
ity of Columbia and mountains in the
northern part of the State.
The conformation of the land de-
cided apparently the character of the
settlements of the early days. The
cavaliers came to South Carolina and
settled on the lowlands and built up
large estates and lived in baronial
style and with their great estates
cultivated by negroes became the ar
istocrats of the State. The higher
lands were settled by small farmers
of Scotch-Irish ancestry and to this
day there is something of distinc-
ton in the character of the people
inhabiting the different sections.
There never have been nearly so
many negroes in the upper counties
of the State.
In speaking of the social conditions
1T can be said that the ever present
negro furnishes a question that only
the Southerner can handle wisely and
he will be put to his wits ends to
know how to handle it to the best
advantage of all concerned. In the
first place there is no we'll defined
race antagonism. The negro must not
ask for social or political equality and
it can be said that in the rural COM
munities he is not looking for it or
expecting it.
A white man who goes into the
State from the North must learn
that the negro is never to be address
ed as sir. He does not expect to be
put on the same social plane as the
white man and will despise the white
man who accords him that place.
Then again the white man from the
North must not do it, if he expects
to be treated like a white man by
the Southerners.
Among themselves the Southern
ers are the most hospitable people on
the face of the earth and the strang-
er in their midst will be treated like
one of their own kind, as long as he
does not overstcp p the code of conduct
which the Southerner has establish
ed for himself.
When it comes to business the
Northerner will find that the man in
the Southland is able to hold his own
with the sharpest Yankee that ever
tried to make bargain. There was
time when the Southerner who call
ed himself the aristocrat looked down
on the man of business and the pro-
fessional man as we'll, unless the lat
j ter was a land owner also, but that
day has largely passed away. Today
the business man of the State is its
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percentage get beyond infancy and
of those who grow up but few live
to old age. At the Prospect camp
meeting, which the speaker visited
last fall, where 1000 negroes were
gathered together there were but
few to be seen who were over SO
years of age and of these all without
an exception were old time slaves.
The larger portion of any gathering
of negroes to be seen in the State are
under 80 years of age and the cause
for this is found in the death rate
which is abnormally high, owing to
unsanitary living and inherited dis
ease which saps the vital powers.
The speaker boarded while in the
South with a doctor and he was told
that the death rate among the ne
groes from pneumonia during the
winter and spring months was
something great. They take NO
! care Of themselves or of each other
when sick and a pneumonia patient
is almost sure to die.
Consumption which was unknown
in the old slavery days. now claims
its victims by the thousands among
the negroes.
This condition of the negroes may
be something to be deplored but it
looks to the speaker like survival
of the fittest and as being the way
that nature takes to carry out its
inevitable laws.
In speaking Of the wave of prohibi-
tion that is sweeping over the State
it can be said that the negro or rath-
er the presence among the people of
the negro is responsible for what is
being done all through the South.
While the negro in the rural COM
munities Of the South is tractable
and docile when sober, there is no
telling what he will do when drunk
and the fear of what might happen
in communities where the negro out
numbers the whites three or four to
one, as he does in many places in
the South, that is making the white
man pass laws that will make it as
hard as possible for the black man
to get liquor. The white man Of the
South is much like his white broth
er of the North. While there is nc
| longer the sidebeard in every home
with an invitation to drink extended
to every visitor any more than the
same thing exists in the North, yet
the white man by means of clubs
and kindred organizations will get
what he needs to drink even in pro-