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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-02-18
SIXTY DAY RACING BILL.

HELENA, Mont, Feb. 1S.-If a
bill to be introduced in the Mon
tana legislature by representative
Berlin passes, Butte will have 60
days of racing every year, and the
result will be to counterfeit to a
great extent the anti-pool selling
bill which has become a law.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-02-18
WINS MARATHON
AT THREE SCORE

BUTTE, Mont, Feb. 1S.-The
first roller skating Marathon was
won last night by James Reynolds,
a 81 year old skater, who won
handily over his competitors.
There was a large entry list, but
after a bad spill Reynolds had no
trouble defeating those who re-
NAMED in the contest.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-02-18
FIVE HITS, NINE BASES.

Editor The Press: think a ball
team can make five hits for a total
of nine bases and not score, as
follows First man up makes three
base hit. but tries to stretch it
home. Second man up makes three
base hit, but is also caught be-
tween third and home. Next three
men make singles, filling the bases.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-02-18
DAD GiMllN KNOCKS

w. II. Lucas and Jack Grim are
now In Salt Lake boosting the In
termountain league but so far have
failed to interest Dad Gimlin in the
project. Dad is knocking the game
In the interest of his old Utah State
league, which he hopes TO keep
going.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-02-18

whip. To look at him, one would
never suspect him of being able to
handle his mitts or to be able to
take stiff punch. In the ring, how
ever, he is as aggressive as a
diminutive Bengal tiger, as rough
as college football player, and
when it comes to taking beating,
Bat Nelson has nothing at al on
the youngster.
Reagan is to defend his title here
in a 20 round bout with Monte At
tell on Washington birthday.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-02-18
PINK GETS NEW JOB

Pink" Griffith, the old coach at
the University of Idaho, has been
selected as the head coach at the
University OF Iowa. where he
studied in his college days and rep
resented his college as fullback on
the victorious 1900 team.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-02-18
LOVES TO SWIM
IN ICY WATER
Special Correspondence to The Press

Special Correspondence to The Press
SEATTLE, Feb. 1S.-When it
comes to living near to nature, T..
B. Mcmahon. Seattle lawyer, is
about the healthiest and most radi-
cal exponent of the out-of-doors life
that has bobbed up in long while.
For an appetizer before break
fast, Mcmahon goes bathing in the
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-02-18

Sporting Editor Daily Press
During tanning bee yesterday. A
stated that he once witnessed a
ball game in which the losing side
made 16 or II hits, including some
for extra bases. stole bases fire.
quently land played an errorless
fielding game, while the team that
won made many errors, and did
not get hit. Is this possible?
A FAN.
Not only is the story that A tells
possible. but so uncertain is base
ball that during full nine inning
game the losing team could make
81 hits for III bases without scor-
ing run, while the winning team
might go hitless in the face of er-
rorless ball, and win by score of
from 10 to 90.
Or the losing team could make
81 hits for 10S bases, steal nine
bases and not score a run; or it
could make 54 hits for 10S bases
while the other team made more
errors, and not score a run; or 1t
could make 81 hits for 1903 bases,
steal nine bases while the other
team made nine errors, and 1t
would not score run. And in
each event it might be defeated by
a team that went hitless through
out the game.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-02-18

DiMINUTiVE SCRAPPER WHO
LIFTED TITLE FROM JIMMIE
WALSH HAS HAD JUST FOUR
PROFESSIONAL FIGHTS IN
HIS LIFE.
BY RlNGSIDER.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Feb. IS.
San Francisco has produced an
other worlds champion pugilist.
This one is Jim Reagan, a 10 year
old slip of lad who recently won
the bantam championship from
Jimmy Walsh of Boston.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-02-18
SHE MAKES FUN OF ETHEL BARRYMORE

Special Correspondence to The Press
ME- WYORK. Feb, 17.--Broadway
likes to look on Elsie Janis as an
irrepressible child
In this way L sides with her
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-02-18

Gold is good in its place, but Iiv-
ing, brave and patriotic men are
better than gold.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-02-18

The recording angel probably
does not pay any attention to the
lies man tells when he is In
love,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-02-18
MGN1fER
e! 5 y s! !: 9! !! !:

Mike Kelly once said to the Lit
tie Old Man: 1--WE are having our
fun now, but the base ball player
of the future will be sober and a
money saver" Kelly spoke by the
book. He was talking about the
wretched support his team had
given Clarkson in the games be-
tween the Browns and White
Stockings for the worlds pennant
IN 1885 and 1886.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-02-18

In both the series Clarkson was
one of the main twirlers for the
Chicago team. In the former year
Mccormick was his teammate, and
Williamson helped out when a SUBJ
stitute was needed. Against Clark
son and Mccormick, st. Louis op-
posed Carruthers and Foutz, and
the result was a tied series, each
winning three games and one being
drawn
In the series of 1886 Mccormick
and ClarksOn again featured for
Chicago, while Carruthers and
FOutz were helped by Hudson. St.
Louis won, taking four of the six
games.
Clarkson pitched his first game
of the 1885 series on Oct. IA, open
ing day, and secured a draw. The
Browns made five runs and six hits
off his delivery, he gave no passes
and struck out 10 men. Usually
Clarkson was not a strike out
pitcher. but that day he just
whizzed them through. Eleven
rank errors were made by the
White Stockings, which would in
dictate that the whole bunch was
going badly, and that John struck
men out rather than take a chance
on his fielders.
On Oct. 16 the Browns beat
Clarkson Z to 4, making eight hits.
Clarkson gave but one pass and
had given none In the game on the
14th. Twelve miserable errors
were made by the White Stockings
and John famed five men. Kelly
often said. in after years, that
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-02-18

In the meantime, how about this
little problem
WHAT is THE LARGEST NUM-
Der OF HITS AND THE GREAT.
EST NUMBER OF BASES A
TEAM CAN MAKE IN ONE IN.
MING WITHOUT A RUN BEING
SCORED?
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-02-18
ADDIE JOSS 9

those two games were played with
redundant jag" hanging over
half the stars. and the error col
umn looked like it.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-11-02
The Two

Hairy vetch is a very hardy plant
and can be sown later thar crimson
clover, though to make a good winter
cover it should nave been soWn early
in September. Sown now it will
make a small growth during the win
ter, out will come out rapidly in the
spring-in fact, Will grow strongly
after the middle Of February. In fact.
one mild winter in Raleigh 1 measured
vetch in my garden three feet long.
But that was a volunteer plant that
had started early in the fall. But I
once had it sent to me from Michigan
nine inches high the first of April The
trouble with the hairy vetch has been
that the seed have been too costly, and
it costs more to SOW a patch than Of
rinse clover. I do not think the
vetch will equal crimson clover us q
~sOil-imprOver, and it must have some
grain with it to hold it up off th5
ground. But it will max a hay crop
larger than crimson clover and one
easy to cure. [ once cut a CrOD Of
vetch and wheat at the experiment
farm at Raleigh, then ploWed the land
and sowed peas and cut another crop
of hay and sowed the Ian in alfalfa
that fall, getting, however, q good
stand on but part of the land. AS q
regular thing, I greatly prefer the
crimson clover.
Vicia Saliva. or Smooth Winter
vetch, is in eastern North
Carolina, and if this is what the So
called Oregon" vetch is, it will not
make anything like the crop that the
Hairy vetch will. On good land II
grows rankly, but dries out very light
and makes a much smaller crop than
it's height would indicate. This send
ing out of old things under new names
iC q n11iSo noo and ant 10 deceive those
unacquainted with the botanical char
acter of plants. There are several
native vetches that / would prefer 10
the saliva. Vicia Caroliniana is better
and also Vicia cracca. CarolIniah4
has light f~esh-colored flowers ana IS
commonly found wild in North Caro-
lima, as also is the cracca.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-11-02
Economical Cattle Feeding.

A writer in the Charlotte Observer
grows enthusiastic over the wonderful
chance that Southern farmers have for
feeding cattle on cOttOnSeed meal and
hulls. Now, I am fully in favor Of
feeding cottonseed meal in a judicious
manner, but any one who has tried
the feeding Of cottonseed meal and
bulls as the sale feed for cattle Will
soon find tina he is losing stock.
Chemical analysis will show that cot
tonseed hulls have some feeding value,
but the tax on the digestive organs
is such hat they have little value,
and depending on them as the sole
carbonaceous feed will soon demon
strate that the ration is not a good
one. C~ottOnSeed meal as a Ource of
protein in connection with good car
~bonaceous feeds, such as corn and corn
slower and hay, is all right, and the
Southern farmers should feed it, but
not in an undue amount. A pint twice
a day for an animal in milk, accom-
panied with plenty of good roughage,
will be found progtable. Too much
cottonseed meal is sent out OF the
South to feed stock and make fertil-
izer for other lands, while the grow
ers replace but a small part of the
nitrogen in the soil with the poor
2-S-2 fertilizer.
But do not imagine that you can
keep cows on c~ottonseed meal and
hulls, for you cannot do it success
fully. You can kill them faster than
you are to build them. The best
use for hulls is in the cutters behind
the cows to absorb the They
are fine, too, for covering ensilage in
the silo, and are unsurpassed for COW
ering half hardy plants in the flower
garden in winter
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-11-02
Cover Crops For Peanut Lands.

I want to endorse heartily what Mr..
Blount says about the Importance Of
a winter cover for the peanut land,
and lot only for the peanut land,
but for all land from which a late
field crop has been removed. In our
mild climate there is a great waste
of fertility in the winter rains and nj
trates are washed away which could
have been kept and returned to the
soil.
But the man who makes n hun
dred bushels of peanuts per acre fully
understands this. The difficulty is in
getting the 25-bushel men to under
stand the Importance of good farm
ing.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-11-02
Lived 5 Years.

VIM. Parr-England's oldest man
married the third time at 120, WoTht"
in the fields till 1872 and lived 20 years
longer. People should be youthful at
so. James Wright, Of Spulock, ~;
shows how to remain young. u Ie@1
just like a ~16-year-old boy, ne
writes, latter taking six bottles o.
Electric Bitters. For thirty years
Kidney trouble made life a bur4@H,
but the first bottle of this Woncet-a,
medicine convinced me [ had lou-1
the greatest cure on earth" Ihe5
a godsend to weak, sickIy rundown
or old people. Try them. 5oc' d.
all druggists.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-11-02

say that North Carolina is the most
progressive State in the South. She
has developed wonderfully in manu-
features and civic Improvement, and
I hope that she will soon lead in agri-
cultural advancement. So let me para
phrase a little on the toast:
Here's to the land of the lOng-leaf
pine,
The summer land, where the sun doth
shine,
Where the weak grow strong I the
strong row great,
Here's to the boys Of the Old North
State"
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-11-02

be done with many Of these quilted
hills is to get them covered with val
liable timber trees.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany has planted i'll the OF
that State thousands of acres Of yell
low locust trees in anticipation Of a
famine Of trees. These trees grow
faster in the South than NORTH have
seen locuSts grown large enough for
posts in eight years from the seed, and
the Western catalpa Of similar size in
the same size.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-11-02
PROFESSOR MASSEY'S
VIEWS
WIS

now prune eff all the roots to a mere
stub as lon as ones finger and can
then plant the tree in a hole maze
with a croW-bar, and it will live n
grow.
I am not ready to advise such rad
zeal pruning, but do advise pruning
all roots to about six inches in length,
making a clean sloping cut on the I'M
desirable Of the DOT. The preparation
Of the ground is, Of course rather i'm
portant. 1t should be broken and
SUBSIDIZED sixteen inches deep. and if
the rows are checked out with a good
two-horse pillow, there will be no need
for digging holes for the trees at the
intersections. For apple trees, make
the rows 35 or 40 feet apart each way;
the greater distance for the strongest
soil. At 40 feet apart you q plant
peach trees between the apples, ana
they will nave run their course and
can be removed by the time the apples
need all the room.
See that the trees are lined in well
in both directions, if only for looks.
In planting, ram every incl Of soil
as it is put In as tight as though
setting a gate-pOst, putting the sur
face sol, in the bottom Of the fur
rows. Never put any M in con-
tact with the roo of a tree. If the
soil needs the put it on after
planting.
Having the tree planted, cut the
top off just above a bud about IS to
20 inches from the ground-yOu will
then have rows of little Stumps. In
the spring as the growth starts, select
three or four buds to form the limbs
to carry the head and rub off all buds
below. Do not AVE the limbs start
opposite, but arrange around the stem
in natural order from within a foot OF
the ground up. Then. if care is taken
in the subsequent pruning to form
a round, open head, you Will have
fi~ne-Shaped trees.
The Keiffer pear tree should have a
different pruning from the apple. 1t
is naturally inclined to make long side
limbs that are apt to break down. In
planting a keiffer pear tree [ would
use the same yearling trees as of ap-
pies, but instead OF cutting it back
to a short stem I would leave the
switch entire to form a central stem.
cutting it only slightly back to four
feet in height. Then in spring [ would
let all the buds start from the ground
I'D, and would rub off those below a
foot and all weak shoots above so as
to leave the limbs free from interfer-
ence. Their keep the lower limbs the
longest and form the tree to q regu-
lar pyramid. This will require a good
deal of summer %pinching, but it is
the best form for the Keiffer.
In all subsequent growth, of apples
particularly, which the start of water
sprouts in the center of the tree and
rub them out while young.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-11-02
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NOTES AND COMMENTS ON RE
CENT FEATURES.

It is high time hat the owners Of
woodland all over the South were
aroused to proper methods Of forest
management. In no other part of the
country is forest growth reproduced
more rapidly when properly cared for;
but with cattle, hogs, goats and sheep
ranging the forests there can be no
proper reproduction.
The valuable long-leaf pine seeds
only once in four or five years to n
extent, and if the seeds are consumed
by hogs or the fires are allowed to
run unchecked, there is an end to re-
production. The example Of a few
sections in North Carolina shows that
where stock are kept out OF the for
est and fires prevented, the long-leaf
pine grows up very rapidly. Good
forest management will soon be as i'm
portant as good farming of the cleared
land.
There are thousands Of acres Of
steep hillsides in the South which
should never have been cleared or Gull
tivated, and the best thing that can
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-11-02
OUR UNNECESSARY EXPEN-
DTTURE FOR LABOR.

All over the South one Of the
greatest faults in farm manage
ment in the waste of human labor.
Last year in travelling I saw a
great deal of this lnismanage-
ment. i saw in one field five men,
; each with a mule and turning
pillow laying by cotton, each going
four times to the row., banking
: earth to the rows, cutting the
roots and then blowing out the
middIeS, when one man with a
; riding Cu1tivatOr and a pair Of
, mules would have done as much
work as the five men and mules
and would have lone 1t much bet
; ter. Ana yet our farmers all over
the South complain of the scarcity
of labor!
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-11-02
professor Massey, in Progressive
Farmer.)
Planting Fruit Trees.

Now is the best time for planting
fruit trees Of all sorts in the South,
with the single exception Of figs. Most
inexperienced planters want to get
trees three or four years old with the
idea that they will give fruit sooner,
while the reverse is true. I have long
since quit planting any fruit trees
older than one year-peach trees, OF
course, have always been planted as
yearlings-but apples and pears and
other fruit trees have commonly been
let grow in the nursery till three or
our years old.
The is, that the nur-
sery1nan, knowing that most people
want a tall tree, heads his trees three
or -four feet from the ground, and
when such trees are planted, this
height of stem must be accepted with
all it's disadvantages.
But the tree that has been in the
nursery but a single season is a mere
switch, with live buds from the ground
up, and is just in shape for the Or
chard planter to form the tree as 1T
should be. Such trees can be solo for
a lower price, cost less to pack ~
freight. and live better when trans
planted.
But the great advantage in planting
yearling trees is that the grower can
uldhS 1O"-uSdQtu trees, III III lIlcSe
days Of spraying, low-headed trees are
very important for ease in spraying
alone.
But there are other reasons why we
should have trees with short stems.
h only need for a stem to q tree
Is to carry the head, and if we ave
enough for that there is no
need for growing extra feet of stem.
h taller the tree the more liable it
is to be blown over, the more the fruit
is blown off, and the more it is bruised
by a long fall. It is easier, too, to
gather fruit from a low tree than
from a tall one-and another impor-
tan matter in the South is, that it is
cas- to protect the stem that is only
a foot long from the SUI until the
top shades it over, for sun-scald is
often a serious damage on q tall, ex-
posed stem.
Having, then, trees of the proper
age, how shall we plant them? Form
erly writer's on fruits placed great
stress on the Importance of digging
and saving all the roots. OF course,
it is important hat the trees should
be carefully lifted and the roots pro-
tected from drying out in the sun and
wind, and good nurserymen fully I'M
derStand this.
But no matter how carefully a tree
Is lifted from the nursery, nor how
carefully it is packed, the root hairs
on the extremity Of the fine fibers are
all destroyed, and as these root hairs
are the only part of the root that
takes food from the soil it is OF the
greatest Importance that new ones
shall be formed as soon as possible
after planting. The new fibers and
root hairs are more quickly formed
on roots pruned with a sharp knife
than from the old dried-up fibers
Hence we find that good pruning OF
the roots before planting is impor-
tant. It has been shown that we may
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-11-02
The Young Men Making Good.

Farming, farming, is what I have
been working for in the South for
many years. And I am glad to say
thai some are trying to do it, and as
the men who are getting en-
Unused with advanced ideas Of farm
ing at the colleges of agriculture go
out from there, no one can calculate
hat the effect will be on the farm
ing Of the South.
The hope of the South is in these
young men, and in the young men
On the farms who may not be able to
take the college course, but who read
and study the farm papers. Heaven
bless the young men, many Of whom
have sent me most encouraging let
ters on my birthday. We may not
do much for the old men who are
"sot in their ways" but the young
blood of the South is awake to the
need Of better farming. and better
farming is being done by them, and
more and more Of them will Join the
procession.
I often hear people in other States
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-10-21
FEARS GRAFT IN COMMISSION
PLAN OF GOVERNMENT.

At meeting last week Of the To-
peka Mems Brotherhood Of the Third
Presbyterian church, in the church
assembly roof, the commission form
of government was discussed, A
number Of prominent citizens of the
east side were present as well as a
number OF the hackers of the COM
mission form of government from
other parts of the city The meeting
was intensely interesting. Only one
member Of the brotherhood. j, G.
Alexander, discussed the negative
side of the question. He said:
81 hold that five men can be more
easily influenced to do a thing than
thirteen men and this Is one Of the
reasons why cannot support the
commission form Of government, Ev-
cry one knows that when a corpora
tion gets after a man to do a thing
he does It in nearly every case. 1t
has already taken place In our nat
lonal, state and city governments.
| believe that II the people want to
reduce the number Of men govern
ing the city, II would be better to
reduce the number Of councilmen to
six one from each ward. than to
adopt the commission form OF gov
ernment. There are many men that
are controlled by some outside forces
and they do not know 1t at the time,
Nevertheless. after several months or
years IN office the man begins to do
something shady. 1t is then that
the people think they have found
'sOmethins on him. I believe that
the present system Of government =
the best and with some more amend
ments vould far Outclass the COM
mission form.
I'VE have accomplished much With
In the past few years with the pres
ent goYernment and the city hiss been
managpd economically. The present
officials have done - much as they
could under the present conditions.
All they lack is more power. II they
we're given ss much power as the
commissioners would have. thsy could
even have done more and aceomp-
Hshed ps much ss the commission
form of government has IN other
cities where Il has been adopted"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-10-21

ting down their time. Then Page
who had been following Stillie, the
leader, closely passed him and gained
nearly a lap before the race ended.
Stillie won in 1888. The perform
ance of the Page Buick was notable
because the car is three years old and
has been run over 10000 miles mostly
on country roads.
In the obstacle race the course
was between barrels set to make it
difficult to guide between them,
Points were on time and obstacles
escaped. Ames Rogers in the little
Case Browniekar was an easy winner
in 1918, the small car making the
turns easier than the larger ones.
The other contesting cars were two
Bucks, a Hupmobile and a Ford.
The final race was the free for all
ten mile race, purse 5000. 1t was ex-
pected that there would be several
starters but only two came to the
line, Earl Stillie in a Buick No. 10
and Glenn Breed, the famous racing