The National tribune., 1909-07-22
ANSWERS TO
CORRESPONDENTS.
A Word to Correspondents.

A Word to Correspondents.
Please do not write on both sides OF your
letter paper. Sign your full name. mot neces.
proper names very distinctly. Do not alb
breviate your words. Give your postofficc. and
State We get letters occasionally in which
been overlooked. Do not mix business qnes-
tions and correspondence. Use separate
sheets Of paper. All letters will be given
prompt attention, ether by mall or III Ihe
| National Tribune.
T. NJ, G., Titusville, Pa: The law
abounds in technicalities. Evidence of this
| is seen in the case of Harry Thaw,. whose
hand is red with murder, and who inherited
a fortune, and is now spending 1t IN legal
| fees instead of dissipation, as he Was dong
before the murder and trial, which has
made his name and career a stencil IN the
annals of American indecency.
q. NJ, Long Beach, CAL: A man and
wife cannot each take up homesteads. Nor
can man and woman who are living on
h0meSteads without having completed the
lawful period of residence necessary TO Sc
cure patent. enter into the marriage rela-
ton and live separately and complete title.
One or the other must give up their claim.
j. b. NJ, Lucas, iowa: The most pro-
ductive of Southern forage crops is one
known as Te tie. This is the plant of
which Prof. Gray said: Possibly
afforjing an opportunity for one to make
millions OF blades OF grass grow where none
of any account grew BEFORE At the
Florida and other Gulf State Experiment
Stations it has reached the enormous yield
of over 30 tons to the acre. 1t is vigor-
Gus grower of dense stems and leaves. and
attains hight of 10 to II feet. When
excellent fodder. Its leaves are similar TO
those of sorghum, but longer, and the
stalks contain from = to 10 per cent of
sugar. The Florida beggarweed grows
three to 10 feet high, with abundant leaf
age 1t makes Il hay much relished by
farm stock. 1t will grow on any kind OF
land and is Il valuable green manure when
turned under, four tons being equal to a
half ton of commercial fertilizer.
G. s. NJ, Youngstown, o.: The general
stock of money in circulation in the United
States, July ], 1909. was So 40G.G54,31S,
which with the estimated population OF
81. S.926,000 at that time gives per capita
circula ton of S3;5.01. according TO the re-
port of the United States Treasurer.
f. b., North Yakima, Wash: The Con
gressional Directory is sold to the public
at a cost of 60 cents each. 1t can he had
by addressing the Superintendent of Pub
lie Documents, Washington. ID. C., and
inclosng Z. 0. order or draft; no stamps
accepted. If you know your Congressman.
he may have an extra copy and will send
1t upon request.
A. L. r., Bangor, Me-: The tariff is
being revised by its friends" and the best
interests of all will doubtless be considered.
The President is being constantly consult
ed, and 1t is not likely he will veto it. but
time will tell. Az amendment to the Con-
stitution is to be submitted to the State
Legislatures to allow the enactment of an
income tax law. There will probably be
a close vote for or against it.
f.. B. J.. Eureka, ILL.,: The National
G. A. X. EncaApment at Toledo. o., last
year, did not pass resolution declaring
that its committees would not ask any PEN
sion legislation for three years.
B. A. F., Macon, Ca: Florida has an
Experiment Station at Gainesville. 1t en-
joys high reputation for successful work
1t prints large variety of leaflets in whieir
experiments in growing fruits, vegetables,
live stock, etc, are discussed. These leaf
lets or bulletins are mailed free 10 resi-
dents of Florida.
Il. L. NJ, Louisville, Ky: The Presi-
dent will spend the S;::nIl~- ut Peyerly,
Mass. According to present arrangements
he will start on Sept. IL. bis J2d birth
day, from Beverly, going direct TO Seattle
TO the Yukon-Alaska Exposition. He viii
stop enroute at Denver, Salt Lake and
sSpDHdut- lie VIII 70 ITDHi Sedttit La
coma and Portland, and then visit San
Francisco. From there he will go to Los
Angeles, then into Arizona and New Mex
leo. He will stop at El Paso, San Antonio,
Austin, Dallas, Corpus Christi, New Or
leans, jackson, Miss, Montgomery and
Birmingham Ala, Augusta and Savannah,
Ga, Wilmington, n. c., and Richmond,
Va, then back to Washington. Congress
appropriated $4,000 expenses.
l.. NJ. c., Johnson City, Tenn Your
State went dry June 30, under a State
wide prohibition bill passed by the last
Legislature. The bill makes it Illegal 10
sell alcoholic liquors within four miles OF
any school house. 1t wiped out Il large
number of saloons and jug shipping CON
Germs that had domiciled in Tennessee
cities from Georgia and Alabama when
those States went dry.
s. T. T., Archer, Fla: The u. S.
Department of Agriculture. Washington, |
ID. c., prints a Farmers Bulletin, No. 102, |
Entitled Southern Forage Plants" 1t IS !
sent free 10 any address. 1t discusses at
some length the chief GRASSES and forage |
plants of the South, how to plant and har-
vest them, and their value for hay, green |
feed and the silo There are about 400
grasses occurring in the Southern States. |
and there are wide areas in each Of these |
States which may be proitably devoted to |
meadows and pastures. In the past the
cotton, tobacco. sugar and rice planters
spent a good deal of time trying TO kill
grass crops 1t has been clearly demon
strated that the soils and climate of
Florida and the other Gulf States are fav-
orable to the production of an abundance
of forage and that the quality OF Southerni
grown bay is fully equal to that producedI
in the North and West, so largely i'm
ported at high prices by Southern farmers