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The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1908-12-02

than raising crops from the soil.
For you can breed corn quickly
almost to IA certainty to fixed
type, but you cannot get as good
or quick results from breeding
cattle, horses. hogs or sheep. You
can make hey good from many
mixtures, but you cannot breed
horses with the same results.
You can increase the yield and
at the same time the quality of
your potatoes, but not of your
pigs. So say it takes the highest
order of intellect and learning to
deal successfully with the laws of
life, inheritance and pedigree of
live stock. In short the study of
biology can hold and interest a
farmer forever.
Who would not be a Booth or
Bates or Colling or Cruikshank.
and leave the legacy of good short
horn blood that flows in our best
cattle today? Who would not be
the proud imprOver of these cattle,
us the late DR.. W. W. Crane, and
breed the horns OFF of these cattle.
yet retaining all their other GOOD
qualities; who would not be proud
to have to his credit the record of
Sir Walter Gilby, who has the
reputation of breeding the greatest
Hackney horses in England, and
who has written books on all
breeds of horses and is known as
one OF the greatest horse experts
in the world.
And there are names of men in
our own State made famous only
by the breeding and improving OF
our own Kentucky saddle horse.
Then take the old English name
of the Bakewells, who spent their
lives in improving and refining
sheep, from which have developed
the numerous breeds Of today.
And the men who made and I'M
proved the different breeds of
hogs, until we have most every
color and kind suited to be raised
in different parts of the country
and fed on the cheapest feeds of
their respective localities. In
other words produced the breed of
hogs best adapted to the country
he is raised in.
All these men and many more
have been intelligent farmers, and
to them is due the honor and glory
Of doing something worth while to
their fellowmen, for it was said of
such of these by Dean Swift.
That the man who can make two
ears Of corn grow where only one
grew before, or two blades of grass
grow where only one grew before,
is entitled to greater credit than
all the politicians" +. j. b.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1908-12-02
Want No Other.

n. G.. Mcdonald, merchant, Avon, KY,
says: II handle several stock foods and
hog remedies, but my customers want
Bourbon Hog Cholera Remedy. An cpl
demic of hog cholera broke out in this
locality and it cured every case in which
it was used"
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1908-12-02

Acting Secretary of the Navy
Newberry has approved plans for
the final location of the proposed
dry dock at Pearl Harbor, Hawa-
iian Islands. This dock will be
LOO feet long.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1908-12-02
Great Success.

+. p. Clay, Jr., Paris, Ky, says: Il
have had great success with Bourbon
Poultry Cure. On several occasions have
cured chickens that wern too sick to walk
or stand up. Have lost but one old
chicken this year
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1908-12-02

For turkeys, chickens, oysters,
celery, cranberries and cake ingre-
dents. call on Roberts Il Ringo.
19-6t
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1908-12-02
for Sale.

Pure Mammoth Bronze Cob
blers Owen, Barbee, Wright
strains. Until Dec. 25, 1908.
2O-2t RObt. Marshall.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1908-12-02

According to statistician one
American woman in Eve has
abandoned domestic life and be-
come a bread winner.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1908-12-02
TIE KNOWLEDGE
A FARMER NEEDS.

kinds of questions that arise in all
kinds of cases. And, indeed,
have known lawyers to be more
expert than the expert witnesses
themselves in certain cases OF NAL
practice, or diseases affecting the
mind or body. But this knowl-
edge is called for only in oc-
casional cases.
Now let us see what knowledge
a farmer needs:
First.-He should not only have
the trained mind of lawyer. so
that he may reason correctly and
come to correct conclusions, out
he should know the laws of his ma
tive land, to guide him, as the
first principle of our law is that
law does not excuse ignorance of
law In other words, if you
break any of our numerous laws,
you cannot plead ignorance, but
must suffer the penalty just the
same as if you knew the law and
broke it Intentionally.
The farmer should not only be
familiar with the Constitution of
the United States and the State of
Kentucky, or whatever State he
lives in, that guarantees him life,
liberty and the pursuit of happ-
ness" sbut he should know the
necessary land law and the law of
contracts. which he has use for
most every day.
Second. And even the knowl-
edge of other professions would
not come amiss, for the farmer
could frequently use the knowl-
edge of medicine and surgery on
his live stock, and even his family
in knowing the first aids of the in
jured. because he lives so far from
the nearest doctor.
Third. While some Of our best
farmers have been doctors, some
of most progressive farmers have
been preachers. Everything in
nature suggests Il creator, and the
laws of nature are in evidence of
divine law, and 1--WE look up
through nature to natures God"
Fourth. Leaving the profes
sions, the knowledge Of a mer.
chant is needed by the farmer. for
no matter not how successful he
may be in raising grain and live
stock on his farm, he must be Il
good merchant to sell them well.
He must not only know the ever
changing markets, but he must be
such "A good Judge of live stock
that he can divide the best from
the good. and inferior, and put
the proper price upon each. He
must know how to grade his grain.
Moreover, he must, like the mer-
chant, know how to buy as well as
sell. For feeders well bought
are half fatted."
Fifth. Then there are two
kinds of branches of farming in
the general sense grain farming
and live stock farming.
A farmer can devote lifetime
to improving or perfecting certain
grain, like the Funk brothers, of
Illinois, in corn raising, who use
the knowledge of chemistry in
breeding certain qualities into
their corn, in that they claim now
to have bred corn that is actually
a balanced ration. having the
requisite amount of protein and
carbohydrates.
And all of you have read about
that wizard of horticulture, Luther
Burbank, of California, now in
the employ of the United States
Government, who has bred seed
less fruit, thornless cacti, etc. So
that a man can devote his days to
any one Of dozens of branches of
grain or fruit farming, or grasses
or soiling farming
/ think the other branches of
farming - stOckraising - is even
more attractive and interesting,
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1908-12-02

Special lot of mems up-tO-date
Hats, 81. so and Sl.75 styles at CSC.
The Louisville Store.
The Washington herald., 1908-08-02

The central station viii contain 500 lines.
and ten stations will be needed contain
ing from 20 to 30 lines. An automatic
switchboard and about 500 house installs-
tons viii also be needed Full infOrma-
ton Is requested as TO the cost Of send
ing a superintendent Of construction TO
erect the plant and engineer the system.
Further particulars can be obtained from
the promoter and correspondence can be
conducted in English
CeIIuIOId TubIng-A report has been
Great Britain. stating that an inquiry
has been received at the consulate from
a British firm that IS anxious 20 purcha Sc
from manufacturers in the United States
black celluioid or xylonite, tubing. from
one-fourth Of an inch to five-eights Of an
inch in diameter and 0.02S thickness of
wall. unsealed at each end
Electric street RaIIvny-An Ameri-
can consular officer in the far East re-
ports that d franchise has been granted
fer the construction OF an electric street
railway IN his district Should the par
ties receiving the franchise fail 10 con-
struct the railway other tenders viii be
received The port in question is the
chief shipping point IN that region and
extensive improvements are being made
to the harbOr and throughout the city
a modern waterworks system and electric
lighting system are being installed. and
the parties having these in charge are
chiefly interested in the proposed electric
street railway
The Washington herald., 1908-08-02
Rrnn RufIdInr Coal Road.

Construction work on the Carolina,
Ciinchfeld and Ohio Railroad Is progress
ing satisfactorily. and the indications are
that the line from the coal mines Of the
Clinchfeid region of Southwest Virginia
10 Rostic. on the Seaboard Air Line. Will
be ready for operation on January I. 1909.
Ultimately the road will be extended to
Spartanburg s. c, and thence to Co
luubia and Charleston. s C It is also
planned to build north TO a connection
with the Chesapeake and Ohio system. or
some other line tapping that section The
Carolina. CIinchfeId and Ohio is being
built by the Ryan-Blair interests, which
are developing extensive coal mines in
Southwest Virginia It Is estimated that
the new road will deliver 70 the SeabOard
Air Line at Bostic about 100000 tons of
coal traffic a year.
The Washington herald., 1908-08-02
TO AVERT NINE DISASTER
United States Invites Foreigners TO
Consultation
Experts VIII Come from Great
Britain, Germany and
Belgium.

In response 20 an Invitation extended
by the United States government on be
half OF the Geological Survey. Great
Britain. Germany. and Belgium viii send
10 this country next month their leading
experts in the prevention OF mine dlsds-
ters 70 aid in the Inauguration Of the
work Of safeguarding the mines here.
The negotiations were con5ucted through
the State Department. and word has beer
received from the American ambassadors
al London and Berlin and the American
Minister al Brussels that the three couu-
tries have acceded 20 the request Of the
United States. and that the experts VII
be granted a leave OF sbseRce Cor two
months.
The three experts who viii sail for
New Ycrk next month are: Capt. Des-
borough. inspector OF explosives unde-
the Home once. Great Britain: Heu
4eiss1ner. the head OK the German mine
service. and Victor Watteyne, enEireeT-in-
chief. administration Of mines, Belgium
Il IS expected that the experts wiz
reach New York about the end OF August
and 20 To PittsBurE. where the United
states Geological Survey is now engaged
in erecting a plant Tor the purpose o'
conducting Investigations into the cause
Of mine explorations.
In company with the experts in cha-gs
Of the chronological branch OF the survey
the party will visit the anthracite fields
OF PENNSYLVANIA. the bituminous fields OF
Western Pennsylvania. the coal fields OF
Illinois. wyoming. Colorado. Alabama
West Virginia. and Oklahoma. in order
that they may learn the conditions under
which coal IS mined ia this country.
Experimental stations for the preven.
ton OF disasters ii the mines have beer
in operation for a number Of years. ir
each country. represented by the experts
with the result that the death rate oi
the mines has been reduced 10 mini
mum
In the United States there have beer
no investigations along this line and this
/ country has a most uueuTIdble record oi
deaths. the number killed In th- several
States being from two 10 four time;
greater for each 1.ol9 miners employed
| IN these foreign countries
with the knowledge that the mine ac
cidents in the United States have bee
| Increasing and the death rate greater II
/ proportion. the government authorities
| are in haste 70 obtain information which
| 1t is believed viii greatly diminish tn.
waste of human life. Il IS thought tha
/ the advice OF the foreign experts ex
| perienced IN this work will be invaluable
[ in this direction
/ George 6. Rice. consulting coal mining
engineer Of the United states Geological
Survey, sailed Saturday for Europe TO in
/ vestigate the methods OF mining there
/ having in view the prevention Of waste
l If coal a-d the loss of life in mining
The Washington herald., 1908-08-02
HOW FRENCH WORK FARMS
Rich Land Owner Compared with
Half-share Man.
The Agricultural Class Comprises n
Hierarchy Almost Hs Power
full ns the Church.

From Outing slssazins.
In France there IS a hierarchy Of farm
ers
The great land owners we need not con-
sider. They are not in their fields. They
are idIinE. gaming. talking politics In
Paris. They number their acres by the
thousands Take the French Roths-
chIds. for Instance-they own 10000
acres OF land. Other barons OF finance
and many gentlemen OF ancient houses
are masters Of similar estates.
Such farmers" as these are al the
head Of the hierarchy; the farming baron.
the gentleman farmer. Their lands are
exploited in the broad. businezslike way
that rules the syndicate wheat farms OF
the great Northwest.
Let Us 60 down the scale Next In or
der come the farmer generals. They are the
mlddIemen- They are the capitalists who
stand between the owner. from whom
they rent a hundred farms. and the ten
ants to whom they sublet Few Of them
have ever turned a furrow. The farmer
general is an intermediary parasite
II this point in the agricultural heir
arChy. comes the man who cUitivates his
fields The largest class is made I'D of
those who rent their farms-as in Eng
|land-fron some great landowner. # the
Z lease be long and the terms be good he
fears not i'll He owns his stock and i'm
pIeueuts- Usually he is well % do. He
] employs a dozen men. labOrers. sEep-
herds More and more he IS becoming
the type Of the French farmer. Tor the
small owner-he who ploughed his own
ncres-is giving way before the universal
Z tendency toward concentration. even so
the little shopkeeper IS being destroyed
bv the all absorbing department store
In a great measure this man is inde-
{ pendent Twice a year he PAYS his rent.
I probably he rents his farm on a lease OF
three six. and nine years He is master
I IN his domain He may sell. buy. SOW.
/ and garner rs he will Perhaps hfs great
! est difficulty IS in procuring laborers, for
/ the young men 60 10 the cities. 10 the
( faCteriesi 50 he works from dawn 20 dusk
and with him IN the field his women work
Lower in the scale is the farmer who
works his land on shares receiving one
half OF the product. His farming Is done
under the direction Of the owner OF far
( mer general This IS the method In vogue
! at FeTrieres the great estate Of the
/ Baron Rothschild in the Seine-et- -Marue-
/ Usually but a small farm IS allotted 70
the ''half-share man In reality. he IS
/ the serf Of the new regime. for financial
| feudality has preserved many Of the old
servitudes Of the soil
In the first place he may at any time
/ be called away 70 work in the owner
/ fields He must make all repairs. lie
must dig trenches wherever the owner
4 sees fit He must supply all the straw
{ and hav the owner requires. and send 70
( his kitchen eggs and butter and vege-
tables in season. He must allow all or
I any Of the owners IabOrerS TO cook their
I food in his kitchen whenever such labor
( ers are employed near by And lastly, il
the owner finds the work ill done he may
I hire outside laborers and send them into
/ 'be fields. for which the "haif-share
+ an must pay
The Washington herald., 1908-08-02
CHINESE LIKE SUGAR.
Increasing Consumption of sweets
in Celestial Empire

Writing from TsinErsG- Vice Consul
Ernest Vollmer says that sugar is one OF
the principal imports into North China
Although among the native Chinese
consumption OF sugar may be regarded
as a luxury. IL is nevertheless food
product whicl. more and more people are
getting 10 use and which IS growing IN
disreusabIs 10 an ever-izcreaSi1g part OF
the population.
All Of the sugar now IN use IS cane.
coming from the southern provinces os
the empire. with Swatow as the leading
source Of supply fer ShantunE- Unresaed
brown sugar IS stlu far in the lead but
the cleaner and better refined white prod
rct also shows "A steady gain Refneries
are located az HongkOng and Shanghai.
while the japanese draw a considerable
part Of the business 70 their country.
They take the raw sugar TO their refn-
cries in japan. and after purifying again
fnd China 10 be their best customer IN
this way they secure profits from the
transportation TO and from japan for
processing the sugar. and naturally also
take profit on the article itself Il Is
probable that several small refneries
tivez. who control the bulk Of the trade
Impo-tations for the first quarter os the
present year as reported show a marked
Increase
While cane sugar alone is used ia Man
churis. strong competition from beet su-
gar may be looked for IN a fsw years
The Chinese want sweetness at the lowest
possible price. not caring whether il IS
cane or beet sugar The following arti-
Gle recently appeared IN one q the Ger
man papers Of China
Construction work on the FIRST Man
ch,sriau sugar factory has recently been
started by a Polish company near the
station OF Ashitsche. in the Harbin re-
gion. Extensive experiments with beets
showed that the soil was adapted 70
growing unusually heavy crops. while the
percentage Of sacchsrine was exceptional
ly- large A second factory is being start
e6 at the junction OF the japanese and
Russian railways at kwanecheptzu by a
7 rich Chinese general. while the Chinese
capitalist tt Fon Tai is planning a third
{ The technical adviser OF Gen LU Chsua
{ IS q Frenchman, while the farming is IN
der the direction cf a Russian. The new
industry NAV look forward 20 rapid de-
veIopment. as IL is favored by climatic
conditions. cheap labor and an unIim-
t lied market"
The article closes with a comment on
the fact that the German sugar industry
/ may soon have TO face serious competition
+ from a new quarter. despite the fact that
the first market 70 be gained would be
one which up TO the present had belonged
+ 10 Japan. and advises manufacturers OF
/ German sugar machinery 20 keep their
eyes on Manchuria and try 20 secure
eventual contracts for factory equipment
The Washington herald., 1908-08-02
Union Paciac's Earnings.

Since 800 the Union Pacific Railroad
has earned for dividends over S195, 70o, ,Ooo.
OF this approximately s113 3S00.0 900 has been
disbursed 70 the holders OF the common
and preferred stocks OF the company. and
approximately SSI. 00a has been put back
into the property in one form or another
This great record of earnings is made
after more liberal expenditures for MAIN
tenance. depreciation. and renewals than
IN the case Of any other transcontinental
road in this period. which makes the re-
suit all the more remarkable. If TO this
there should be added upward OF $50, 900, =
0o9 Of profits which the company has
made on account Of financial operations,
there is a total Of earnings and profits
since 1900 Of SIS. 600 e0G. of which stock
holders have received sf1s 10000
The Washington herald., 1908-08-02
Maryland Road May Improve.

Il IS believed that the future welfare
OF the Gould properties. including the
Western Maryland. has been so seriously
considered by the Gould interests that
they are now willing to accept certain
conditions under which powerful banking
houses VIII throw the weight Of their in
fiuence and money toward the rehabilita-
ton Of the entire Gould system Those
who built Up Union Pacific and Southern
Pacific who tock the control Of the I'LL
nols Central from Stuyvesant Fish. who
are interested in putting Erie on its feet
and who are powerful factors in Balti-
moro ard Ohio. in all probability will bs
dominant IN the management of the Gould
lines before the year is over.
The Washington herald., 1908-08-02
Vnlne of fhe Cnttnn crnn.

The cotton crop at the low figure Of 9-1-2
cents a pound for 12G00,goo bales will
amount 70 Ss17, 10000. II the entire wheat
yield be figured al cents less than the
December price al primary markets. It
viii easily ran up to $3.50, ,000. 600 This sum
of these two Is practically half Of the
principal Of the entire public debt Of the
United States. This does not include the
immense quantity Of farm products. both
cereals and others. which make this total
skiold larger, or three times the entire
r7Taf1Tir. debit
The Washington herald., 1908-08-02
Stocks Are More Plentiful.

The floating supply Of stocks has been
materially increased. Some Of the big
bull interests have fewer stocks than
they had sixty days ago. and the COM
mission house element must have great
many more. Commission houses are not
filed up. in the sense In which that term
is usually applied. but In many houses
one finds the clients all long OF stocks
and wishing prices to go Up. They do
not want to buy more stocks until prices
Go 80 up to increase their profits.
The Washington herald., 1908-08-02
Make. Good Impression.

In every quarter favorable impression
Of the conditions in the iron and steel
industry was gained from the United
States Steel Corporations report, the fact
that the net earnings fo1 June were larger
than those for any previous month since
November, taken IN connection with the
announcement that orders have been re
ceived during the current month up TO 2
per cent Of the company's capacity for
the period, being regarded as especially
encouraging. The Improvement has now
continued long enough to make It prac-
tically certain that It marks the turn OF
the tide
The Washington herald., 1908-08-02
WILL USE ELECTRICITY.
Plan Develops to Employ Current in

Plan Develops to Employ Current in
Reducing Ores I'm Canada.
Consul l. Edwin Dudley. Of Vancouver.
states that In consequence OF shis report
regarding the establishment of a plant at
Nelson, British Columbia. for the cleo
tricaI reduction of ores containing a con
siderable quantity OF zinc he has received
a number Of inquiries He now adds the
following:
II understand that a loan OF $4,000 has
been granted by the provincial govern
ment TO assist in the establishment OF the
new plant. which Will probably soon be
IN working order
The Washington herald., 1908-08-02
stocI.s GOOD Trnhe nnrometer.

Prices OF securities are good trade ba-
roneters- Since 5gly 1 the average price
o. the leading railway issues has advaHc-
ed from 99.s2 70 more than Jos and that
OF the leading industrials from 727s to
1s.Ss- If the country had been going TO
pieces the money OF capitalists would not
have EUne into stocks.
The Washington herald., 1908-08-02
stock Being Depost,ed.

Deposits OF the preferred stock OF the
Baltimore. Chesapeake and Atlantic Rail-
way under the call Of the protective COM
mlttee. which is endeayoring to force the
Pennsylvania Railroad to account, for
surplus earnings claimed to rightfully
belong to stockholders. but diverted TO
other purposes, is progressing satisfsc-
torily.
The Washington herald., 1908-08-02
Put Your Rent
Money in a Com.
Portable Home in
a High and
Healthy Country

groom frame. new, well
built: SI,65O. 500 down;
SI7 a month.
Groom frame with over
two-thirds OF an acre OF
ground. Highest point
around city. Excellent
neig hb orhood. 5000.
$500 down. SIS month
Other homes, home sites,
and acreage on Great Falls
and Old Dominion Rail
way.