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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-07-13
How COwDeaS Paw.

The following Illustrations Of the
practical or actual beneficial results
from the growth of legumes are taken
almost at random from hundreds
which might be cited if space permit
ted.
The North Carolina State Depart
ment of Agriculture found that a crop
of bur clover increased the yield Of
seed cotton 40 pounds per acre and
gave a net profit of Sic.
The Mississippi Delta Branch Elk
pertinent Station found that a Gro of
cowpeas in corn as a result Of two
years tests increased the Weld of lint
cotton 10 pounds per acre, which
with cotton at 10 cents a pound, gives
a value Of s11 per acre from a crop
or oWpeas grown in corn.
At the Alabama Experiment Station
in four tests the average increase in
yield Of seed cotton per acre in the
year Immediately following the plow-
ing in of the coWpeas and velvet vines
was SGT pounds.
At this same station one test with
corn gave an increase in the first crop
where velvet bean vines were plowed
in 81 per cent. Of 1928 bushels When
vines Of the p and velvet bean
were. utilized as hay and velvet only
the roots and stubble left as fertilizer
the increases in the succeeding crops
were as follows:
208 pounds seed cotton.
AZ bushels of corn.
28. buShels of wheat.
81 bushels of wheat.
2.0S tons of sorghum hay.
At another experiment station the
yield Of corr Immediately following a
crop Of crimson clover was increased
from 35.7 bushels per acre to 55.1 bu-
shells or over 5 per cent.
With these facts and hundreds Of
others equally convincing before us,
why do we buy commercial nitrogen,
and why don't we grow more legumes
By the use of the summer legumes
for making hay to feed to live stock,
and the use of the winter leGumes for
cover crops to pillow under-by these
and these alone-that $500 More q
Year" is easily within the reach Of the
average Southern farmer. Let's make
it!-Raleigh Progressive Farmer.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-07-13
NeWSe4 Views 0fFdrmerS

I know of no breed that possesses
more vitality right from the she'll
One Of the reasons for this is that the
chicks feather out rather slowly urtil
about two months old.
Most of the food goes toward max
ing flesh, zone and muscle instead Of
feathers.
In this respect the Reds are SUI
perior to those breeds that feather out
young.
When three weeks bic the chicks
weigh about eight ounces and when
they reach the first brOiler stage at
six weeks they weigh about n ad
one-fourth pounds. Two weeks later
they weigh about two pounds.
At this age the cOckeral is CONNER
cally more profitable if plump and
Matched at the right season than he
ever will be afterWard, if feed and
care are considered. In the roasting
stage at three months they will weigh
three pounds and will gain a pOllIl
per month thereafter until they weigh
five pounds.
In this stage they appear awkward
because of their rapid growth and de-
velopment Of their second feathers,
but their we1l-shaped bodies and long,
plump, white breasts make them very
attractive when dressed for market.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-07-13
SOMETHING ABOUT TREES.

The cloye is the flower bud of an
evergreen tree. When the flowers are
in full bloom they are of a brilliant
red, the little ball at the top of the
Glove being formed of Gu cd-up pet
ais. Glove trees are natives OF the
MOluccaS. OF Spice islands.
Horticultural inspectors in Wash
ington, Oregon and Idaho report that
there are $4,000, 600 growing fruit
trees in those states - 5, Ti4,25T of
them bore fruit last year.
In some parts of china are many
caEphor trees, some Of which are
known to be over a Thousand years
old.
A yearling tree is preferred by many
to older trees. They are thought to be
safer to transplant han tw~C-year-old
trees.
When planting never let the roots
get dry by leaving them in the sun 81
wind. Keep the trees covered with
wet sacks and Uncover one at a time
An old elm tree was recently cut
down near Oldtown. Me. Tie trte
was four feet and four inches at the
butt and 121 bateau knees were cut
from its branches and sold for $3.50.
Five more cords of wood from the
tree sold for s. per cord.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-07-13
GROWING ~CAULIELOWER.

l have grow caulifOwer for a num-
Der Of years and have found it a very
profitable crop, as it brings a good
price in the market.
Soil that will produce cabbage is
suitable for c~aulifower, provided it is
enriched with we'll rooted manure The
manure should be thoroughly mixed
with the soil and the ground put in The
best possible condition.
When the seeds begin to grow / give
the plants sufficient air to keep them
from rotting off. AS soon as the
plants are large enough to handle l
take them up and transplant them two
inches apart each way and keep them
we'll Watered. / expose the plants
to the open air before time to plant
outdoors SO as to harden them. 1 find
that few plants die when treated in
this manner.
Several hours before setting out I
give the plants a thorough soaking il
the hot bed. When ready to set the
plants I mark off the ground three
feet eac way and set the plants some
what deeper tina they grew in the hot
bed and press the earth firmly about
them.
AS the c~aulifower requires a cool
atmosphere and a cool, moist soil,
there is little chance Of sucress unless
it is planted very early in order to
come on before the heat of
or it may be planted late and come in
during tie cool weather of fall.
In c%ultivating I use a one-horse Gull
tivator twice a week, going both ways
when the plants are small. When they
come to maturity and tie flowers APP
pear. I cover the flowers with aleaf
Of the plant early every morning. /
have had good success in this n
of protection.-William H. Under
wood.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-07-13
CROPS ARE ALL RIGHT.
Concord Tribune.)

We do not remember a year but in
the Spring and early summer the crop
ak was not most discOuraging. It
was too wet. too dry, too something
or other until we felt like laying down
and weeping over the direful results
sure to follow. Somehow this feeling
always prevails. There is so much
wrong But in the end every thing
seems to right itself and the crop
turns UP a certain percentage Of the
average, whatever hat means. This
season has been no exception, and al
most daily there have been poor crop
talk, much of which has found it's way
into print. It may be put Town that
in spite of too much rain, too little
rain, hail, grass, drought, boil weevil
md chinch bugs there will be a crop
harvested this fall, in all respects very
much like the rest of them that al
ways start off with the very poorest
;ort of prospects. In truth the good
Lord gives us a bountiful harvest in
spite Of u poor mounting and COM
plants. And the funniest thing about
it all is hat the smallest percentage
Of this talk comes from the men who
are working the crops and depending
directly upon them.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-07-13
RHODE Jan REDS
Ore Writer'S Argument in Favor OF
This Celebrated Strain of Fowls.
Pv Z. T. De Craft.

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After sixteen years experience with
fowls [ have concluded that Rhode
Island Reds combine more practical
qualities and fewer undesirable ones
than any of the twenty varieties L
have kept.
Their popularity is due to their
rapid growth, oblong bodies, with
wide, plump breasts and yellow skins.
Resides their early maturity, they
are very hard and lay large eggs,
especially in winter. AS mothers they
compare favorably with Plymouth
Rocks and Wyandottes.
In raising these birds to table sizes,
the following is my regular practices:
In a corner of the house cellar is an
asbestOs-lined cubator room.
When a hatch is made, fifty of the
1iveliest chicks are removed at about
thirty hours old in the afternoon and
placed in a thoroughly clean, lice
having it's bill dipped in water to
teach it to drink. The other chicks
remain in the incubator until next
morning.
The first feed consists Of stale bread
soaked in either sweet or sour milk
and squeezed out.
The second day they are given
range Of the brooder scratching floV.
upon which is scattered sand and
charcoal dust, with some litter.
Until they are six weeks old they
get mostly chick feed in the litter and
charcoal, grit inc meat scrap in a
hopper. ALI Utensils are kept scrupu-
lousy clean; they are boiled once a
week. The chicks are fond Of dry
Wheat bran, which is always before
them. Feed little and often is the rule.
Milk Is often given in addition to
water. All liquids are protected so
the chicks cannot wet themselves.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-07-13
Farmers, Take Notice.

Cash price for corn today, retail, is
about $1.1O. Our demonstration
farmers have sworn to statements
that corn a be grown in our State
at a cost ranging from 10 cents to
about 80 cents per bushel. Salt pork
retails at about IL cents, while our
speakers at farmers meetings state
they can raise pork at a cost Of from
1 t-2 to 3 cents per pound. What a
commentary upon the intelligence
and business qualifications of the av-
erage farmers of our State. Farmers,
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-07-13
WHY BE n BEE FARMER:
Bee Keeping Is Both Prof1taDie ana
Tnteresting-Every Farmer Should
Have Them.

Bee Keeping Is Both Profitable ana
Interesting-Every Farmer Jul
Have Them.
CBy F.. G. Herman.)
I know that many feel
that they have as many calls upon
their time and energies as they can
attend to, and they realize that this
industry is an art in itself and requires
no little intelligence and study to con-
duct it in the best ashton, they are
apt to be discouraged in adding it to
their already overfull duties.
/ think, however, that there is an
other way to Iook at this matter. In
almost every business the person en-
gagged in it will be more successful If
he dds so recretaive work. This, if
entirely different from his regular
work, will give restful pleasure and
make life p~leaSanter. Beekeeplng IS
especially desirable in this connection,
as there are very few kinds of work
that are so full ct interest ana SO
generally attractive.
Every one growing fruit or any
plant thai is intended to yield seed
should be interested in beekeeping-
There is a nurseryman ana perry
grower who has a farm about two and
a half miles from my home apiary,
Just a little too far for the bees to
visit, so by mutual agreement I keep
about thirty colonies on his farm and
run them for extracted honey, and we
are both benefited by the arrange
ment.
Nearly all parts Of our country pro-
duCe honey in quantities sufficient to
pay for the gathering. h amount
of honey that goes to waste every
year for want of bees to gather it is
very large; in fact, too large to esti-
mate.
Every farm has on it fruit trees,
berry patches, clover or buckwheat
folds all of which nrO6Iop nectar.
which,, in the absence Of bees, is evap-
grated by the sun and practically
wasted. The forests also contain
many linden and white wood trees,
which are good honey yielders.
The beginner who buys bees in the
spr;ng usually takes a daily interest
in them. H will then have number
less chances to enjoy his bees, and
the daily or weekly visits will not In
::uTe them, especially if their needs
are properly attended,; while in the
fa'l he would only be inJurlng them
- listing them often.
he reason for advising one not to
buy bees in the fall is that there is
much more risk in transporting them
n that season than in the spring
he combs are more likely to break
in transit. Also the bees are probably
I'll cid enough to be acquainted with
he ocation and more of them VIII be
lest when putting them on a new
stand. especially if but little distance
fra their former location.
Winter is probably the most d1fh-
crlt Fart of Bookkeeping and it is hard
X advisable to buy bees just before
they have to face the winter, for a be
ginrer would scarcely be able to Judge
Of the strength andswealth Of the col
CrE.
II the fall the breeding has stopped
and if is more difficult to ascertain
whether the bees have a good queen,
and it takes quite a little experience
to be able to know positively 1hat
they have enough honey.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-07-13

Do some men a favor and they will
do you two. Do some other men q
favo. and they will do you twice.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-26
SMUGGLING CHINESE.

Australia is perturbed by the. discover
les of Mr.. Bachelor, the Commonwealth
Minister for External Affairs, who has
been inquiring into the illegal influx
of Chinese. There is wealthy or
ganization in China with agencies in
all the principal Australian ports and
with the connivance of ships officers
the systematic smuggling of Chinese in
to Australia has been carried on for a
long time.
The ships trading between Hong
kong and the Australian ports have
been so cunningly supplied with false
bulkheads, walls and floors that hiding
room has been provided for eighty
Chinese stowaways on single voyage.
Ship cooks have been secretly paid TO
supply the stowaways with food.
The trade is very profitable, as Aus
tralia is only few days steaming from
China, and many thousands of Mon
golians are always ready TO pay large
sums and run all sorts of risks to get to
the land of gold.-Chicago News.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-26
THREE MILES OR FIvE7

s"One of the many things we did IN
Cuba during the American occupation,
said the army officer, twas to survey
distances between towns and puS up
guide boards. We had up a dozen or
more giving the correct distances to
Havana from points, but it was soon
ascertained that the Cubans were tear
ing them down One day | caught an
old fellow in the act, and after cuss-
ing him for awhile | asked for his
reasons.
:. .senor, he replied, what does this
sign say"
.. 1T says that it is five miles to Ha-
vana.
- SO I read it, and that is why 1
pulled it down.
But why should you pull it down!
What is wrong about itg'
- sSenor. when I was little boy my
father said it was three miles to Ha-
vana. -
But it is five. The distance has
been measured. y
'''I do not doubt your word, Senior
but you see the situation. If it is five
miles then my dead father was a liar;
if it is only three miles then I must go
into the city every day and get
drunk.
81 saw the situation,'' said the Off
Ger. "and that was about the only
guide board on the island that we
failed to maintain We didn t want to
put his dead 1ather in a hole
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-26
HIGH SCHOOL
COMMENCEMENT
fContlnued From Page one.)

CONTINUED From Page One.)
High School and the hall was packed
to overfiowing when the graduates
were called to take their places on the
platform. It was indeed gallant
sight. Grouped on the platform were
the seven girls and twelve boys who
had satisfied their examiners and were
entitled to certificates of graduation.
The hall itself was alive with the
beaming presence Of relations and
friends of the graduates. The stairs
leading up from the back of the hall
and facing the platform were crowded
with junior students and at the back
they crowded all, the standing room
into nothingness.
The exercises were opened by the
High School chorus which sang Gou-
mods "Praise Ye jehovah and then
Rev. A. A. Ebersole gave the Invoca-
ton. Then the girls double quartet
sang Ethelbert Nevin's beautiful "The
Night Has a Thousand Eyes"
Mrs. E. A. R. Ross played sweetly
on the violin, after which Mrs. Frear
gave a delightful little talk. 1t was
entitled "The Golden Thread of the
Spiral" Mystic, dainty and idealistic,
it was such as to touch the hearts
of all her hearers and give the gradu-
ates something to carry with them
through life after their step from the
golden days of school life to the hard
er and sterner times of the grownups.
There was a touch of the clinging ro-
manticism of the East in what Mrs.
Frear said. One thought instinctively
of the pass of the hundred eagles, OF
Nazidir Bey and the golden ring Of
love and then remembered that it was
good to have such women who know
how to tell of the thread and how to
| follow it.
After Mrs. Frear there came the
boys quartet. They sang that stir
ring old song 'FThe Boys of the Old
Brigade and <" In Dear Hawaii. y
Then Superintendent Rabbit spoke of
the past and future of the High School
and awarded the diplomas.
Those who have graduated from the
| College entrance course are entitled to
| enter either California or Stanford Uni
versities without further examination.
The course is a quite strenuous one and
includes thorough study Of Latin or
Greek, Mathematics, French or German,
English and History. Distinction means
/ an average of 90 per cent.
| The following is the list of those who
graduated:
| College Entrance-Olaf Herman In
coils Saw Kan Ian Valentine Marcal-
| limo and Edward Robert Tracy, with
distinction; John Scott Boyd Pratt Jr.,
flames Roy Douglas. Uarda Burt and
He1ga Agnes Wikander.
General Course-Frank Lester James,
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-26

same, we have awarded the bid to
Dimond & Co. as a whole
AS to the petition to have Quarry
street repaired on Punchbowl, the road
committee finds that it is controlled by
the Kapiolani Estate, and they are not
willing to have the street extended.
Chairman Quinn states that the com
mittee notified the residents that If
they got a right-of-way from the Ka-
piolani Estate, that the county would
try to fix the street to make it passable,
although at present there are only
gulches up the hill.
The sum of 800 was appropriated as
a fund upon which to draw for ex-
penses incurred in putting up street
signs. A request was made for a sign
on Thurston avenue.
By resolution the board adopted 800
as the pay of the Waialua district road
overseer.
Salary warrants and demands were
approved for the second half of June.
Adjourned to Monday at 1880 p. m.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-26
ROOTS, HERBS AND BARKs.

You can no doubt recall the collection
of roots. herbs and barks your grand
mother made every fall for the family
medicine chest.
1t is interesting to note that the most
successful remedy for female ills had
its origin more than thirty years ago in
one of these home medicine chests, and
Lydia E. Pinkham S Vegetable Com
pound is made today in immense guam
titles from those same roots and herbs
with extreme accuracy, care and clean
illness.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-26
Quinn Without Whiskers.

Quinn Without Whiskers.
When Attorney Glen Quinn was an
nounced as present to ask for better
road into Palolo valley, he was barely
recognizable as the hirsute adornments
with which he has concealed his coun-
tenance for sometime had disappeared
and he presented himself clean-shaven,
much to everyone IS astonishment. Mr..
Quinn made an earnest plea for repairs
to the Palolo road over which large
number of residents who are now prov
ing up on their government lands, have
to pass. Residents have to pass through
private land at one place.
The request precipitated a long state
ment from Supervisor Jim Quinn, who
averred that many petitions were being
filed about "deplorable roads. - but Just
now the county was in deplorable con-
dition, too. He felt that nothing could
be done until August. He said King
! street had to be completed and many
other down town streets, after which
some of the outside streets could be
looked after
The Mayor stated that first of all
roads which were difficult of passage
for people to get to their homes should
be repaired.
Mcclellan Given %.
Supervisor Mcclellan gave written
notice that he would be absent from
the Islands from July to about Sep
| tember 10, and asked for leave of alb
sence. He said that should he absorb
any ideas in regard to municipal meth
DDS while away he would gladly shed
| them all on the board on his return.
| Tenement House Ordinance.
Deputy County Attorney Milverton
presented a redraft of the tenement
ordinance offered to the board by At
torney Weaver on behalf of the Kaahu-
manu- Club of Makiki, designed to pre-
vent the indiscriminate erection of
| tenement houses in the residence sec
| tions. The only amendment made by
! him was to make the ordinance apple
able to the whole City and County
| of Honolulu, and not to the "District
of Honolulu. -
The park site at Wahiawa will be
set aside for pound purposes.
A request of the City Fence and
| Monument Works to be allowed to close
the sidewalks surrounding Kawaiahao
cemetery for sixty days while new
coping was being placed was referred
to the road committee.
A letter was received from President
Mott Smith. of the Board of Health,
in regard to the relocation of the gov
eminent road TO the Kalihi Receiving
Station, and the same was Fefe:re 10
| the road committee.
Tenders for supplies for the month
of July were opened, read AMI awarded
| to the lowest bidder.
! K.--Matsumoto was given permission
to enclose half Of the sidewalk on
Hotel street between the Empire Thea
ter and the Hub while building opera
tons were underway there.
In regard to the petition of property
owners of Palolo valley to have the
public road graded and made fit for
travel the road committee recommended
this be done as soon as possible.
The request of property owners to
have the Diamond Head road repaired
will be granted as soon as the road de-
partment can get down to it, but it is
impossible, says the road committee
to do the work now.
Honolulu Jail Spoons.
W. W. Dimond & Co, were awarded
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-26
Shipping Notes.

The steamship Monteagle, reported
to have sailed for Honolulu from Vie
toria, probably went direct from the
latter port to Japan. A Victoria news
item gives information of the deporta-
tion of japanese on the vessel for
Japan.
The schooners Espada and Sophie
Christensen have been chartered to
carry lumber from Grays Harbor to
Honolulu at a S. rate.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-26

Edith Elizabeth Smith, Harold Wilson
tombstone, Herbert Melville Dowsett,
Toxic Miamoto, Florence Elaine Towse,
Daniel Herman King, Elmer Davis and
Hedwig Otremba.
Commercial Course-Goichi Nakamoto,
with distinction, and Jane Edith Tread
way.
Moiliili School Picnic.
Special cars of the Rapid Transit
Company yesterday morning carried the
children of the Moiliili school out to
Kapiolani Park, where they enjoyed
themselves in various games during the
day. Luncheon was served. Races
were held, John Camacho winning the
three-mile run and also the greatest
number of points during the day. An
interesting football game ended the
exercises of the day.
Normal Commencement.
Yesterday morning the Commence
ment exercises of the Territorial Nor
mai School were held, the training
school program being rendered first in
the morning. Following this came the
exercises of the Normal school grad
uating classg Hon. E. A. Mott-Smith
making the address to the graduates.
Diplomas were awarded to the grad
yates by Principal E. Wood.
Central School Exercises.
The exercises at the Central School
yesterday were very interesting on ac-
count of the fact that an excellent
class was graduated from the eighth
grade. After the program rendered
by the graduating class, the closing ex-
ercise of the school for the year were
held, these being very successfully
carried out At the school building
last evening, the eighth grade grad
yates gave a dance in honor of their
advent next year into the High School
world.
Exercises were held yesterday at the
Pauoa school, large number of chill
dren taking part. The program was
interesting, and proved a pleasure to
the parents and friends who were Wis
it0rs
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-26
APPRAISING IT.

"I went into bank this morning to
change my mind,'' said young Light
wit, with large, open-faced smile.
"Indeedl" rejoined Miss Caustique.
''You got FIVE pennies, I supposed"