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Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1909-10-05

Hot chocolate with whipped cream
still ingers in the lap of the belated
strawberry shortcake.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1909-10-05

Look not upon the wine when it is
red but some kinds are white or yeh
low.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1909-10-05

West Point cadets must realize that
they are there for business. and not
TO cut monkey shines.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1909-10-05
Transcontiental Railroad

Mexico now has a transcontentaj
railroad.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1909-10-05
German School Children

German school chiNldren number
5,75O,O00.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1909-10-05

Nuts aid digestion, also the coun-
try folks who are fortunato enough to
raise them.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1909-10-05

Sometimes cucumbers are too free
iy used for the purpose of filling an
aching void.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1909-10-05
Standard Oil Walls.

The Standard Oil Company's real
estate holdings in Bayonne, N. j.,
where its largest oil refining plant in
the east is situated, have been in
creased from s7.36O.OOO, the value
fixed upon them in 1908 for taxation,
to s13,000,000. The company is APP
pealing against the increases fixed
upon the realty by the Hudson county
board of equalization.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1909-10-05

Some peoples breakfast is a sort OF
cereal story.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1909-10-05

Good intentions in sowing tares
will not make them come up as wheat
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1909-10-05
In Auto Terms

"Why does courtship run so much
more smoothly than marriage?
The sparker is newer
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1909-10-05

The prospect of everlasting life
looks a good deal better to the aver
age man than an everlasting sermon
sherry cobbler.
Imperial Valley press., 1909-08-21
THE FARMERS BURDEN

What do you think of 26 cents per crate for standard melons? Talk about the white mans burden, the commission man is sure TT to our peo- pie. No wonder he can wear big dia- monds on his shirt front, on his fin
 gers and in his wife's ears, and pay big salaries to his host of walking delegates, who. year after year, whis- per assurance of large returns into the willing ear of our prominent and oth
 erwise farmers, who start in at the beginning of the melon season with the Bunco Mans promises ringing in their heads and perched on top of a load of melons drive gleefully over miles and miles of dusty roads, pay more for handling their stuff through a hot, open warehouse, than it could be handled properly at home, thus
Imperial Valley press., 1909-08-21

gins. They have proved by these ex- periments that Egyptian cotton is a commercial boon to this country, apd that the American Nile Company is preparing to profit by these experi- ments. We see a great need for such a staple as cotton in California and Arizona valleys. That need lies in the near future when many irrigation projects place so much rich land under water that alfalfa, which is now such prime favorite, will be reduced to it's normal feed value. This value does not exceed six or seven dollars ton. It brings more now because the supply is less than normal. When the supply is normal the price will be normal. The big profits in alfalfa will then fall away and the farmer will be face to face with new problem. We look to Egyptian cotton to answer that problem. Under ideal conditions the government has proved that cot ton will net more than fifty dollars an acre. The average farmer should make it net twenty-five dollars an acre. If he can do this, he can make cotton pay.-Los Angeles News.
Imperial Valley press., 1909-08-21
INDUCEMENTS PROFITS
Experiences of Growers of Melons and
 Grapes Are Not Encouraging

An Fl Centro melon grower, who received next to nothing for his crop of cantaloupes,-w was in a northern city three days after he stopped pick ing, and saw at a grocers some crates of cantaloupes from his own ranch. The grocer said he paid $4.50 to $5 crate for the melons. According to the commission mans returns, these same melons were "sold for freight" Somebody between the gro- cer and the grower made big profit. Who was it?
 In the first carload of grapes ship ped from the valley to Chicago, E. E.. Forester had 42 crates of the finest Muscats ever grown anywhere. For rester reports that he received ab- solutely nothing for his muscats, all though the grapes were sold in Chi cago at $1.50 a crate, according to market reports. Another grower had 60 crates in the same car, and he re- ceived $50. Forester says he re- ceived $16.40 for 72 crates of Malagas. He shipped through H. Woods & Go. and he says he will not grow any more melons or grapes for that con- cern.
Imperial Valley press., 1909-08-21

knocking their own town and discred- iting their own station with the rail road management; doing all this at the behest of Ye Commission Man.
 Truly these farmers have had their reward The question is will they ev- CT learn by experience? It seems very doubtful, as they have gone on doing the same thing for many years. knowing better than we can tell them that the only way to get returns for the toll, labor and sweat they spend is to do their own business at this end themselves. When they did that in thet past, good money for their crops was the result and it is up to the farmers of Coachella Valley to organize again. Send the commission man home and tell him to stay there, and keep his spell binders with him. Coachella News.
Imperial Valley press., 1909-08-21
COTTON HAS MADE GOOD

The American Nile Cotton Company of the Imperial Valley is preparing to erect a cotton gin at Fl Centro. This is significant. It means that cotton growing in that section of California and also in Arizona has passed the experimental stage. II means that cotton in this country has made good
 It means that the rich Imperial val ley has a new and very dependable resource to which the farmers can turn with a certainty of profit. For long time all the tests in that section of the country have been made by the government Some cotton has been raised by individual enterprise, but all milling has been done at government
Imperial Valley press., 1909-08-21

M. J. P. Heil has sold his interests in the Imperial Valley steam laundry to his uncle, J. P. Hell, and has gone to Santa Ana, his former home, to engage in business.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-17
TRYING 40 FOOL THE FARMER.

ISt Paul PiOneer-Press.) q
The proposed increase in the duty
on wheat furnishes an example that
should enable the northwestern farme5
to realize what the A1drich bill
amounts to from the standpoint OF thet
people The present duty on wheat is
25 cents bushel The Payne bill left
the rate unchanged. Then Senator
Aldrich and his allies came forward
with the idea that the rate should De
raised to 80 cents.
The Senators idea probably was that
the farmer Of the Northwest might be.
foolish enough to suppose that he IS
getting increased projections; that the
raise would be of some use to him
and consequently he would not objects
to the increases the Senator proposefi
to grant to the trusts Of the East. AS
a matter of fact the increase on wheat
is absolutely useless. Congressman
GroHna of-North Dakota. made the
servation has been that the difference
in the price of wheat in this country
aud Canada. the year around, is about:
8 1-2 cents a bushel~ AS matter OF
fact wheat is selling for more today at
Georgian Bay points that it is in Chi;
cago. Certainly no 3O-cent duty nor.
ever: 10-cent duty is needed to keep
the Canadian farmer from flooding!
our market with his wheat.
We export wheatgand the price paidi
In Liverpool 1lXcS Jno price mere th
Carada and other exporting countries. I
There is no duty needed to protect
us. Certainly it should not be more,
than IL cents, according to Con-
gresham Gronna's figures. The extra !
2 IL cents Senator Aldrich would al :
low is useless, SO far as the farmer lisa
concerned, and worse than useless SO !,
far as the government is concerned?
for it precludes the probability of any;
revenue from wheat imports.
But suppose the farmers were a.
trust and could get together on thei
price Of their output? They would put.
up the price to the limit They wouidH
charge the American consumer all the5
duty woud allow and then Sell theirs
surplus in Liverpool for 80 cents al
bushel less than they charge us. That's !
what the trusts are doing on Other4
articles and they offer to the farmer a !
useless raise in order to buy his si- !
lenCC. /
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-17
Progressive Farmer

broad fields of wheat then nearly
ready for the harvest. And I
thought as my train whirled along
through these beautiful farms, that /
wished all our readers could see how
tn ese farmers farm and grow great
crops on land not bit better naturally
than thousands of acres of the South
ern uplands. They cut their corn with
the corn harvester, and put the land
fn wheat, and the SilOS that stood by
their barns showed where the corn
stalks went. and the fine cattle on the
pastures showed, too, the final place
where the corn went to pay the far
mer. They had no pine bOughs to cut
and did not piddle with corn stalks
in the furrow, but they had a sod to
turn Under On the whole land for corn
after the manure had been spread
over the field.
c.. P. P. has discovered that rotten
corn stalks are good. Now, let him
try rotten corn stalks full of manure.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-17
Mr.. Myatt's Wheat.
(Snit n ripld Herald

Mr. j. Walter MyNt was here
fa wdays ago and we asked him about
his wheat crop. He had just threshed
$40 bushels from twenty acres which !
was thirty-one bushels per acre. He ]
planted this wheat the 9th and 10th
Of November. sowing five pecks to
each acre. The first week in Aprils
he use done hundred and twenty-five
pounds per acre of nitrate of soda. !
The wheat followed a crop Of corn
where peas were soWn broadcast the
last time it was plowed. He says he
has found that wheat does best after. !,
peas His rotation is cotton. then
corn and peas, which are followed by
wheat Peas always follow wheat the
same year By following this rotation
neither cotton, corn nor wheat comes
on the land but once in three years
and peas are grown on it twice IN
three years
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-17
Growing Good Crops of Wheat.


The present good price for wheat,
and the apparent prospect for its con-
tinuance, is exciting interest in wheat
raising in the South, and ] am getting
letters from many farmers who nave
not been growing wheat, asking Tor
the best methods for it's cultivation
While wheat can be grown in the cOas-
tai plain of the South Atlantic region
it is hardly probable that uniformly
good crops will be made there. be-
cause as rule the soils are rather too
light and the climate too humid for
the. best results in wheat, though in
certain unusually favorable seasons
good crops may sometimes be made.
The best wheat soils are the me-
dunn heavy clay loans, and a lime
stone soil is highly esteemed for
wheat Good drainage is, Of course,
essential to crop that must pass
through the winter, and only we'll
drained soils can be expected to~make
good wheat crops.
Formerly it was thought that the
ideal preparation for wheat was a
clover sod broken early in the summer
and narrowed and tramped till Well
settled. And there is no doubt that a
we'll prepared fallow is still excellent
for the wheat crop. But cultivatorS
have long since learned that this sort
Of preparation for the wheat crop is
toe expensive, as it takes the labor Of
the farm through most of the SUNNI er
without any crop on the land, and
thing for the soil. In my bOyhOOd /
can we'll remember that a farmer
would apologize for the appearance of
a certain field by saying that it was
corn land" wheat, and could not be
expected to be equal to failow wheat.
Z But these same farmers who for
merly thought that they were doing
we'll to get fifteen bushels of wheat
per acre, have long since found out
that fifteen bushels is a very small
crop. and that there is no better prep
aration for wheat than a corn field
waited ShallOwly all summer, so as to
bring about the same ideal conditions
that an early-broken fallow gives.
They have found, too, that after the
hoed crop, whether wheat or tobacco,
there is no need for re-plOwing the
land. In fact, there is good reason
for not doing SO, for the shallow and
level culture OF the corn has brought
about the very best conditions for
wheat, a well compacted soil and
fine surface.
Have the Soil Fine and Firm.
Therefore, after a crop of corn or
tobacco is off the land. a light disking
kept up both ways till the surface is
made very fine, will be all that is
needed. IF peas have been sown
among the corn or Tobacco, they should
be mown off,. for the turning under
of such a growth would prevent the
compacting Of the soil that wheat de-
mands. and more wheat will be made
with the peas cut off than if they were
turned under. But one thing is GER
tain, and that is. that the surface soil
can not be made too fine. The best
wheat soils in Virginia and North Car
olina are the red uplands of the Pied
mont section. Lands like the farm of
Mr.. Lambeth in Randolph county near
Thomasville. in Davidson, where a
crop of over thirty bushels is reported
this season, should be made to average
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-17
Hog Cholera i'm Martin.

(Williamston Enterprise.)
People have lost a large number Of
hogs in this community. Cholera is
very prevalent. and in violent form.'
DR.. j. S. Rhodes has lost fifty very fine
shoats. many of which were blooded
stock
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-17

We put one little three-line adver~
tisement for a bookkeeper in one OF
our daily papers the other day. andl
we had a score of applications in far
less than a score of working hours:
The commercial field is already over
crowded. but for the young man who
gets an agricultural education there
is a constant and unfaiiing demand. :.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-17

loss of one animal will over-balance
the gain derived from a large quantity.
of either feed. 1t is better In such'
cases to stay on the safe side.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-17

A farmer reported to us yesterday
the loss of a fine $3.50 mule as a re-
suit of eating crimson clover cut af-
ter the blooms had become too ma
ture. This will make it plain why we
have consistently advised against the
feeding of over-ripe crimson clover
hay to horses green sorghum to cat
tie, or eottonseed meal to hogs. The
Arizona republican., 1909-08-30

bon of the Garter is familiar to all, but that it is equally possible to wear the badge of the Garter around the neck. on the left shoulder. on the breast or encircling the left leg may not be generally known.
 It has been said that the desire to possess honorary distinctions has shown itself in various shapes, from very remote times, and to be able to wear them on the person as evidence of some particular qualification in the individual has been an object of human ambition almost from time inn memorial The sovereign naturally leads the way; he is the first man in the state; he is himself the fountain of honor. But with the accumulation of honorable decorations at all the courts of Europe it grew impossible for one individual to wear all the chains, ribbons, medals and crosses of which King Edward is the recip- tent. Consequently a selection only can be worn and this selection is governed by his majesty's predilec- tions and the nature of the occasion. Thus at a purely British function the display of the insignia of British or ders and of British decorations is naturally the rule.
 But first of all let us see what the insignia of an order generally con- sist of. In the case of the order of greatest distinction the Carter, they consists first of habit, collar. badge, star and the garter. In what ie called a full chaptpr of the order of the complete habit and insignia his majesty would wear the collar. from which is suspended the "Geoe'gr' la which is suspended the George" Ca gold and enameled representation of the St. George ad the DragOn), to- gether with the star (worn on the left breast) This full chapter of the habit is worn only on certain days. known as collar days" On or dinary Occasions-a levee or a court his majesty wears the ribbon over the left shoulder, from which is suspend
Arizona republican., 1909-08-30

ing for fourteen years and there is a clear majority for the Carter bill to- day, but the minority prevents a vote
 "To this principal stockholder in his bank. the president naturally was cordial and confidential. About that postal savings bank scheme, the facts are, smith, we bankers don't want it. won't allow it, for government bonds are getting scarce, scarce and high If the government accepts postal de- posits up to SI0OO from individuals and pays per cent on them a great big fund will roll up. That means that the funded debt of the govern ment will not increase as it should for the good of the banking business You're a banker now yourself and you can see how it would work. We need more currency to make more money and we've got to have gov ernment bonds The president wink ed playfully But, he added, 'ot course, it won't do to say that out side There was a hint of warning in the tone.
 Smith left the bank amazed at what he had heard of the inner se- crets of that institution, which dis closed suddenly the reason why the national banks had joined the savings banks in smothering a measure that seemed more than ever to involve the thrift and commercial stability of the nation. There was no secret about it any more The national banks wanted more borrowing by Un- cle Sam. Regardless of the protesta- tions against an imitation of the cur rency. they wanted more bonds and more currency. Of course the savings banks were afraid their deposits would decline, even though the gov ernments competition for savings was based on the rate of per cent and they paid g and even f and , per cent
 Bill Smiths case is the case Of every fair minded man who examines into the merits of a postal savings
Arizona republican., 1909-08-30

ed the lesser George Gan oval badge with a representation of St. George and the Dragon), together with the star. The garter. which is worn only with brooches and bears the motto of the order-"Honi soft Qui nal V pense"-is worn below the knee on the left leg.
 The badges have grown so numerous it has been found necessary to fasten the small ones issued to companions of any order in a closely packed row 1 upon the left breast. By this means it is possible for his majesty to wear a great many orders and decorations. For in addition to a row of say nine on the breast he can carry four stars below, a ribbon suspending a badge across his breast, another round his neck, another fastened to his right shoulder and another to his left, making in all seventeen decorations which King Edward VII can wear at onse, whereas King Edward VI could only have worn three or four.-From the September Strand Magazine.
Arizona republican., 1909-08-30

bank depositary system such as a
 commission of the United States sen
 ate years ago endorsed in an exhaus-
 tive report of 5000 pages" Chairman
 Currier concludes. Every postmaster
 general for years has approved the
 plan as practical and a necessary stimulus to the thrift of American
 people. It will get the mites, the
 sums too small to be banked or too
 precious. being small and all, to be entrusted to any institution less than the United States government. Bill
 Smith had personal knowledge that the mahogany and marble does not entice the man of some standing but with only dollar or a few dol lars as a starter for a bank account. He had personal knowledge that just such men needed the privilege of de- posting any surplus dollar at the plain old postOffice where one counts out pennies for post cards and stamps. He had a personal knowledge now that the bankers opposition was determined self-interest and the ar
 guments advanced publicly were hol- low and spacious. designed to make noise like like a patriot song.
 Bill Smiths case is Illuminating
 He saw what the public had surmised but too vaguely to raise the storm unanimous demand that will compel congress to create the institution of thrift that nearly all European coun- tries have found so Fundamentally helpful the providence of their peo- pie"
 But the sequel in Smiths case is in teresting. He ascertained from gov ernment documents that in Austria a postal savings system has actually in creased the deposits in commercial sayings banks. Smith told the di- rectors what he knew about it and they being plain, keen business men not wholly immersed in banking nor
 glutted with the sense of the power there is in a bankers combination or any subject, instructed the president to put about and do it right quick.
Arizona republican., 1909-08-30
lie debt, he has held up for public

lie debt he has held up for public gaze.
 Citing the case of q man who sud- denly came into a legacy of controll- ing interest in a national bank, Mir. Currier in an article in the Chicago magazine Everyday Life" said Now that he was a banker by virtue of sudden good fortune he resolved to find out mad settle in his own mind why a postal savings depositary sys- tenn. that he had felt the need of, was so impractical and useless in this country that congress couldr continue, session after session, to fail to vote to create it. Bills have been pend
Arizona republican., 1909-08-30
KING EDWARDS ORDERS

When King Edward goes abroad among his subjects on occasions of ceremony the least observant eye will note some details of the insignia he wears. Every one is aware that the emblems of an order of knighthood are not restricted to one portion of the royal person; they may be worn on the right or left shoulder. across the bosom, on the left breast. around the neck or suspended at the hip. It is probable that the broad blue rib
Arizona republican., 1909-08-30
GREED FOR CURRENCY
 INITIATION IS CHARGED
Alleged Motives of Some National
 Bankers in Fighting Bill

Chicago, Aug. 26.-(Special Cores pOndence to Republican)-The active hostility of some national banking in terests to the long delayed postal say
 ings- depositary interests. notwith- standing the obvious benefits of the measure to all interests but savings banks. has had caustic explanation here by Chairman George H. Currier of the Postal Savings Bank League. Anxiety of national banks to increase their currency issues and their con- sequent greed for government bonds, necessitating an imitation of the pub
Arizona republican., 1909-08-30

He did and was surprised to find he was in company with the biggest, broadest and most farsighted bankers of his acquaintance. That inspired him to utter a vigorous protest against the fight the American Bank CTS Association was making on the Carter postal savings depositary bill about which cOngressmen are hear ing so vigorously from their cOnsti- tuents. He found the prosperity band was in the other wagon and was glad to chamber in.