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The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-12-12
Prepare for a Garden and Fix Up
About the House.

mn Ow. On the farm. IL the limo 10 prepare
UNI for n good garden. II you have an old gnr-
G9 den that has been annually treated WITH
stable manure you will ind IL an advantage 10
change of 10 fertilizer. especially To acid phos-
phate and potash. as the manure las gotten tho
plant food In the soil sided. and an excess OF
nitrogen may cause you 10 think that the garden
Is too rich for potatoes. since they run To tops
This is not because IL III too rich but because IL
has an excess OF nitrogen over tho mineral ele-
ments. and "A good heavy dressing 81 acid phoS-
plate and potash will often work wonders In an
ola garden that has had only manure Tor years.
Then. IL YOU have no lawn and grass. determine
10 have one. and To have Towering shrubbery ana
mower beds and make the place look home 'lih"'
'si the old house painted and all tho ont"bu'a
Jugs whte@aHhed was through section last
week where nearly every farm WAS fenced WIN
plank fences and all of them whitewashed' ana
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-12-12
Comments on Late Issues.

MN Y FRIEND. Henry Wallace gives the South
IINk ern farmers some advice that have for
S years been trying to urge upon them. Mr..
Wallace Is not only n successful editor. but a
cessful farmer.
asked him some years ago what tho best
way to make farm paper successful He said:
Make II 50 good and useful. that people want It.
That Ia the rule have practieed on the wallaces
Farmer and II has worked we'll" That is what
we are trying to do with The Southern Farm Ga
xcttc. and II all the farmers of the South would
back tho paper with their names. what paper
could bc made. We could not only make II
full but pretty as DIR. Wallace makes his paper
Mr.. Crook IL all right about rye. but always
advise rye as the last resource. when too late for
sowing anything better. Crimson clover Is far
better than rye. But where tho sowing comes In
TOO iaie for the clover. rye Is the next best thing.
for viii at least save fertility that would other
wiao bc lost but the clover would get nitrogen
from the air and hence DO far better.
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-12-12
Drain Your Wet Lands.

@7F you have iow-iand that needs drainage.
Nh now In tho time To do the work. open
lUNJ bitches are better than none. but under
drains arc far better. You can make these cheap
~ with skinned pine poles laid aide by SIDE IN
ditch with n space between and n larger pole laid
a, ton Of this Then cover with pine straw and
MI in with earth. Where low piece OF lane
has hills around that have springs that Keep the
Iow.iand wet. cut drain around the base OF the
hills first To cut OF the springs. and from TINS
take drains to tho outlet direct This may DO
stream or n main open ditch nave dra'hea III
80 .a,, and grown fine clover on n piece OF bot
tom where the winter before the drainage they
cnt ice for storage. These pole drains last ior
many years for the piece ! mention was drained
va, twenty years ago. and is still drained.
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-12-12

not bush anywhere in the fields. and those
farms are making forty or more bushels of wheat
and seventy-fve bushels of corn per acre. though
can remember when they made one-fourth these
crops. But this was not in the cotton country 7
am sorry TO say. | was also In company with a
man VINO has made fortune on piece of poor
sahdy 'ahd originally as poor as any in the South
He now sells millions OF strawberry n,an,s annual
~ and last spring beddcd / 900 bushels of sweet
potatoes and said that he had then not enough
plants to supply his demand He sells cabbage
plants by the million TO the Northern planters in
the spring. There is money in the Southern soil
Tor the man who fertzes II with brains
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-12-12
Clean Advertising and Its Cost.

N1R. WALLACE congratulates The Southern
IlWI Farm Gazette on its clean advertising Few
~ realize but those who have been inside
what 1t costs to keep the advertising pages clean
Why. $4,000 a year Is very low estimate of what
the patent medicine, stock food people and whis-
key men would be glad to pay to get their ads In
TO The Southern Farm Gazette. tried once to ex-
clude the stock food people from another paper,
but was told that II would never do as they paid
$4,000 year in advertising You see that It
costs good deal for The Southern Farm Gazette
TO protect its readers against frauds. We would
like to protect them from the peddlers of fertilizer
recipes. but unfortunately. so many had rather
believe tho fellows who are after their money than
those who would protect them.
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-12-12
Next Week.

kA7Q EXT WEEK We expect TO reprint part OF
Uni thospeech OF Mr.. wilmon Newell of Louis
CN lana nj the Matches Farmers Institute. on
the necessity of discriminating the cattle tick Mr..
Newell regards the tick n more serious menace
to the cotton growers than even the boil weevil
and presents some strong arguments to sustain his
position.
We shalt have the second OF our series OF illus
traiions OF the dincren, breeds OF cattle: Mr..
French will write on Jobs for Your Leisure Win
ter Days" a Mississippi farmer viii have a short
bu, pointed paper giving his experiences with a
stump .puiler. and the tenant system will be dis
cusscd by several readers who speak with the au-
thorlty OF experience. Commissioner Blakeslee
will tell OF the successful work OF the boys corn
growing clubs I'm Mississippi.
Another article by Mr.. Green will tell just what
It costs to build telephone line and how to do
tho work.
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-12-12
A Perennial Fraud.

m HAD really supposed that every farmer I'm
No the South was by this time perfectly aware
III that we had over ten years ago shown up
the miserable fraud known "a the Lipps fertilizer
recipe / published his recipe in full many years
ago. and explained it's absurdity and Lipps then
took out patent on II, which patent would not be
worth penny in court.
But year after year Iipps has agents all over
the South selling the humbug. Many OF these
agents are ignorant and really do not mean TO de-
ceive people, and have been persuaded by the
originator OF the fraud that they arc selling good
thing.
Farmers all over the South are paying 50 for
perfectly worthless recipe: In fact worse than
worthless since IL causes them TO waste their
manure. and yet the same men. when told that
they can get advice from tho Experiment Stations
In regard to fertilizers without any cost at all
Will at once repeat what tho fertilizer recipe ped
der tells them, tina; tho Stations are In league
with the fertilizer manufacturers
And they cannot afford TO pay 81 for n farm pa
per that would help them I'm every way and pro.
ieci them from throwing away their money. so
that one often feels like letting them 20 and waste
their money IL they wish to- IL IL really amazing
tina, farmers otherwise intelligent. will a, once
accept the statements OF scif-s,yicd "profcsmora'
like this man Lpps. and fail TO have confidence I'm
the ofnocrs OF the stations whose only object In
life is TO help them. while tho only object OF Lipps
is 10 get their money.
And s;iil moro amazing ia tho fact that insclii-
gent farmers will use the recipe and finding that
they have gotten some results from wha, they
have left after losing iarg" part OF their manure
In the making OF tho mixture. will write enshus-
iss.ic testimonials 20 aid tho fraud In dcccving
more people.
The whole result, OF tho f.pps mixture IN TO
waste the most valuable part OF tho manure 10 &c;
little that is I'm n moro nnc and cut-up condition
and mon using this recipe year after year will
soon waste manure enough 10 have paid for ma
nnrc spreader. and ihci- land has los, what II
should have had In the shape Of organic matter.
And yet. year after year tho peadiora of these
fertilizer recipes flourish and take money out OF
the pockets OF farmers who do not believe In book
farming but accept tho statements Of every fraud
tina; seeks their pocko;-hooks. while their land
stays poor and cash In In their pockets and
the merchants have crop liens on what they make:
end all tho time tho National Government, and tho
States arc paying trained men solely for tho pur-
pose Of aiding them 60 better methods. and while
these men doing all In their power TO aid them
without cost, tho frauds fatten on them,
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-12-12

er in the South Central States S. SO worth
or $53S a year less. although the
South Central farmer averaged l55
acres per farm and the North Central
only l441
These are the startling figures tina,
form the basis OF Editor Clarence II.
Poe's address before the Southern Com
mereiol Congress in Washington City this
week on $500 More n Year For the
Average Southern Farmer: \ Practical
Program OF Progress and Wh", !, Would
Mean TO Our Section. This address
will be published in our mex, issue, and
ts objec, is no, only to arouse our own
farmers to the importance OF adopting
better methods. bu, also to arouse our
entire citizenship. regardless OF oeeupa-
ton. to the need OF thorough going.
well-rounded and comprehensive policy
OF rural development. Increase the earn
ing power OF the average Southern farm
$500 year. and il is hardly too much to
say tina, the profits OF every banker.
merchant. lawyer. and manufacturer in
the South would double in twelve
months.
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-12-12

Wood that is dried out before being burned
has much higher heating value. II pays richly
To have fuel wood under shelter Any kind OF
shelter will do II II keeps the wood dry. Cover
the wood with old boards. with the sides OF
store boxes rather than to let II be water-soaked
Mt burning time. II may look dry and feel dry
and stili be too wet to yield a large quantity OF
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-12-12

A man must be very rich indeed to AFFORD to let
tho waste products of crops rot not letting live
stock get some good from what remains on or In
the land after man has gathered the crop.
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-12-12

Once more II Is time to look over tho farm to
zee what needs attention first. Looking over
your neighbours fields still remains instructive.
Both your neighbours successes and his failures
can teach you. II you only get at the causes OF
results.
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-12-12

Employ thy time well IL thou meanest to gain
leisure Beware of little expenses. for small
leak will sink a big ship-~Benjamin Franklin.
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-12-12
PROF. M A SIS E US
Editorial Page.

Prof Massey will personally answer
inquiries on Agricultural subjects
sent By our readers.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-07-21
WHAT THE KIDNEYS DO
Their Unceasing Work Keeps
Us Strong and Healthy.

All the blood in the body passes
through the kidneys once every three
minutes. The kidneys filter the
blood. They work night and day.
When healthy they remove about
500 grains of impure matter daily,
when unhealthy some part of this
impure matter is left in the blood,
This brings on many diseases and
symptoms-pain in the back, head
ache, nervousness, hot, dry skin,
rheumatism, govt, gravel, disorders
of the eyesight and hearing, dizzi-
ness, irregular heart, debility, drow-
siness, dropsy, deposits in the urine,
etc. But if you keep the filters
right you will have no trouble with
your kidneys.
Mrs. w. l. Bailey, living on East
Greenville street, jacksonville, KY,
says: 1T is four years since recon-
mended Doan's Kidney Pills through
our papers, and my confidence in
them during the time which has
elapsed has not been shattered in the
least, but to the contrary, l learned
more about them and can recon-
mend them even more strongly. l
said at that time that Mr.. Bailey
had suffered with kidney complaint
off and on for a number of years,
and had used almost every known
remedy for this trouble but nothing
brought permanent results. He f.
nally learned of Doan's Kidney Pills
and got box. They benefited him
in every way, more so than all other
kidney medicines he had ever tried.
He has used them many times during
the past four years, and they have
never failed to give him relief from
these severe attacks. ! have used
Doan's Kidney Pills myself for a
weakened condition of the kidneys
and they proved just as satisfactory
in my case. We both think there is
no remedy like Doan's Kidney Pills.
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents, Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the Unit
ed States.
Remember the name-Doans-and
take no other.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-07-21
Morrison Against Taft.

Rev. H. c. Morrison. the evange-
list and editor of the Pentacostal
Herald, is sending out circulars ask
ing the voters to repudiate William
n. Taft as he repudiates Jesus
Christ. He says that the Republican
nominee denies that Jesus Christ
was the Son of God and says that ev-
cry minister of the gospel and lay
man of the faith, and every mother
who loves the Lord, and every Sab.
bath-school teacher in the nation,
ought to rise up and march to the
polls on election day, singing IAN
hail the power of Jesus name" and
give Mr.. Taft rebuke that will go
ringing around the world. up to
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-07-21
KERN is A FINE MAN
Political Opponent Pays a
High Tribute to the
Nominee.

Indiana people in Washington, ir-
respective of party affiliations, CON-
mend the Denver convention for its
choice of John w. Kern, of their
State, as the Democratic candidate
for Vice President.
Judge A. L. Wishard. of Indianap-
oils, leading lawyenand Republican
politician of the State, said. Il have
known John Kern for many years.
No man in the state commands more
respect or has more friends. He is a
man of that kind of ability which
Yields influence-the ability of COM
mon sense, backed by high character
and unblemished good name. While
| do not think Indiana is ready to
vote for Bryan, the name of Kern
has undoubtedly strengthened the
Democratic ticket. The Democrats
of Indiana are in good shape this
year, l must admit. In Thomas R.
Marshall, their candidate for Gov
ernor, they have put forward the
man of them all since Thorn
as A. Hendricks. ! shouldn't won
der if Marshall were elected and
with him Democratic legislature,
but on account of the nomination of
Bryan l expect the State to remain
in the Republican column"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-07-21
HAS REFORMED
One of the Police Depart,
ment's "Steadies" Has
Quit Drinking.

George Coleman, the colored boot
black, who has spent much of his
time working on the streets for the
city for several years, has reformed.
About two months ago he was ar
rested for the usual offense, drunk
enness, and put in the lookup. When
he sobered up he called Chief Roper
to him and told him he had conclud-
ed to take the advice of a street
preacher who talked to him one day
while he was shining the preachers
shoes, and quit drinking. He said
the good man told him he was ruin
ing himself by drink and he believed
he was right and that he was going
to get religion and stop drinking.
He went into a season Of praying
and shouting which he kept up for
nearly two days. In due time he
got out and nobody has seen him
drinking since. At any rate he has
not been back in his old quarters.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-07-21
Kentucky Fair Dates.

The following are the dates fixed
for holding the Kentucky fairs for
1908, as far as reported:
Stanford, July %, 4 days.
Georgetown, July %, 5 days.
Henderson, July %, 5 days.
Madisonville, August 4, 5 days.
Winchester, August 4, days.
Madisonville, August 4, days.
Danville, August 5, 8 days.
Lexington, August 10, 6 days.
Uniontown, August II, 5 days.
Burkesville, August II, days.
Broadhead, August IL, 8 days.
Springfield, August II, 4 days.
Shepherdsville, August 18, a days.
Lawrenceburg, August 18, days
Carroll, Gallatin and Owen Tri-
County Fair, Sanders, August 10, 4
days.
Vanceburg, August 10, 4 days.
Richmond, August Is, a days.
Ewing, August 20, 3 days.
Shelbyville, August 25, 4 days.
London, August Is, 4 days.
Elizabethtown, August 25, 3 days.
Burlington, August &c, A days.
Germantown, August &c, A days.
Morgantown, August 27, 8 days.
Somerset, September l, days.
Hardinsburg, September l, 8 days.
Fern Creek, September 2, 3 days.
Bardstown, September 2, a days.
Monticello, September 8, 4 days.
Hodgenville, September 8, 8 days,
Glasgow, September 8, A days.
Louisville State Fair, September
IA, 5 days.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-07-21
q "A - IN q R Z "A.
Rs.rstb. 1.-The KinO You Have Always BOggh
Signature at I1NAzzz$M
A Watermelon Romance.

A dispatch from Owensville, Ind,
says:
By carving his name on a large
watermelon that was shipped from
Owensville, Ind, last summer, Alva
C. Montgomery, farmer and mel
on raiser living near this place, has
won a bride. The melon fell into
the hands of Miss Arena Hardy, of
Fairfield, and a correspondence fol-
lowed that resulted in marriage.
Montgomery and his bride will live
on the farm near Owensville and
raise melons, but Montgomery says
no more melons that he ships will be
He is one of the wealth
lest farmers in Posey county.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-07-21

Grape bags for sale at this office5
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-07-21
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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-07-21
NOTICE.

All stock holders in the Crescent
and Climax Mills are required to
call at the Crescent Mills Office and
have their stock transferred.
Hopkinsville Milling TO.
Incorporated.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-07-21

Harsh physics react, weaken the
bowels, cause chronic constipation.
Doan's Regulets operate easily, tone
the stomach, cure constipation. 25c.
Ask your. druggist for them.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-07-21

Accidents will happen, but the best
regulated families keep DIR. Thomas
Electric Oil for such emergencies. 1t
subdues the pain and heals the hurts.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-07-21
,sa&~a&4s f4%x~ s%ts%@lk4 &@44
/ The Old Swimmin' Hole. {
sMN.NAkaM $1,000


vengeful eye in the heavenly cano
by, when the sun rides like fiery
charioteer, when the golden wild
parsnip, the dog fennel and the rag
weed flourish. thoughts revert easl'
ly to the "Ol' Swimmin' Hole. "
1t was located at bend in the
creek. During the spring freshets
the swirling muddy waters had been
hurled around this bend against the
fibrous and dense roots of a group
of willows. A swift, eddying whirl-
pool dug away at the soft sand and
gravel until mighty depth resulted.
1t was so deep that even that ire
mendous unit of measure, a fence
rail, couldn't touch bottom. Right
back of it, up over the bank, had
been a wheat field whose golden
stubble was yet virile and sturdy
enough to punish bare feet and legs.
On the other side was the shorter
stubble of fragrant timothy field
which offered still less attraction for
barefoot lads. Any way one tried
to reach it meant a trip through pur-
gatory to paradise that manhood
never realizes. Guarded and screen
ed by the gentle willows, with just
enough of sunlight and just enough
of shadow, what boy could resist its
allurement? Down below the water
rippled swiftly over rock and sands
where diversion might be had in
catching crawfish and minnows in
the bare hands. Then there was
the tiny beach where one might
bury himself in the hot blistering
sands to acquire the proper tone Of
tan and freckles.
Is there anything sweeter' in mem
DRY? Release from toll, a dash
across the prickly fields, convention
thrown to the winds off with shirt and
trousers, and a plunge into the clear,
cool watersl What matter if some
loafer on the bank busted himself
behind a clump of bushes in moisten-
ing and then tying ones shirt in ten
hard knots? What difference did it
make if some malicious fellow splat-
tered one with mud when he was
ready to come out? That was only
excuse for one more plunge.
A thousand memories crowd in.
There were dangers to beware.
Right out in the deepest part there
was a whirlpool, according to the
big boys, which only the sturdiest
swimmer could overcome. If you
couldn't swim strongly it would
suck you right down" Then there
was that wicked offset" beyond
which small boys dared not go.
There was but one way to avoid the
cramps" and that was to ba he
both wrists in cold water before
plunging in. Finally there remained
to be watched the little bastard who
couldn't swim, but who sat out in
the shadows and cracked rocks"
The pernicious practice would burst
eardrums, so the malefactOr must
be detected quickly and chased from
the water.
In all your later life have you
known anything like it? What mat
tered licking FER goin' in swim
min? You had tasted of the joys
vourchsafed only to boyhood. One
by one the years have stolen you
away from those celestial pleasures
of youth, but it will do no harm to
think them over in.-Springfeld
HeraI
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-07-21
Poultry Printing.

We have a very large and COM
plete line of poultry cuts and are
prepared to do any and all kinds of
printing for poultry raisers at low
prices.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-07-21

WANTED-Second hand; bag and
burlap; any kind. lany quantity, any
where; we pay freight. RICH
MOND BAG CO.. Incorporated,
Richmond, Va,
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-06-20
SOME COMPARISONS.

Not one in seven union men take
a paper edited and published in the
interests of organized labor More
than two in five take newspapers that
are either non-committal or openly
opposed to organized labor.
Let 8 labor paper publish an edi-
torial or a news paragraph that does
not meet with the approval of union
man. and Immediately he stops his
paper and cuSseS the editor. Let his
daily newspaper abuse labor organi
Eations editorially and print false and
faxed news reports and he merely
swears q little and continues paying
his So or So q year for the paper.
Outside of the Official organs OF in
ternalional unions-which are forced