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The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1909-03-27

and down Hill it slides till the land is quilted and
broad areas are converted into red gals.
1t has been demonstrated in the experience Of
several Northern farmers in Georgia, who had
the nerve to pillow deep and get humus-making
material in the soil that the terraces can be abol-
ished proftably
Therefore. am happy 20 note that Mr.. Stribling
has found in South Carolina what the men men
toned have found in Georgia that terraces are no
advantage and totally needless If the land is
farmed right ! have farmed on red hills as steep
rs any. and sleeper than most Of the cotton up
lands OF the South. and I never made terrace
and never made gully but cured old ones that
are now full Of grass.
But in the present condition OF most Of the cot
ton upands Of the South terraces do help some.
and cannot be ut once abandoned. But every time
you plow deeper and follow with the subsoiler.
and grow leEumes and keep a winter cover on the
land. you are getting closer TO the time when you
can forever abandon terraces.
After you have deepcned the breaking and have
n few crops OF sod turned down TO hold the soil
together. and then cultivate level 50 as TO make
no burrows around the hills 70 gather a head OF
water. you can boldly plow down the terraces and
MI the hillside bitches.
Then when lines or bitches and
weeds crossing the hill slopes Of the South. We
Viii see bigger crops and more prosperous farms.
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1909-03-27

does not pay. But It pays the supply company
which carries the farmers a. big percentage
ana builds hne warehouses and whose members
i've in nice town houses. while the men who
ought to be selling them produce are working ike
slaves 10 make the company rich, leaving their
fields bare all winter to wash away what little fer
tlity they have left
And these men are starting a new season IA the
same old hopeless way. belonging TO the supply
company because they will not use their brains
and read and learn 10 farm and improve their
land Every season they must work hard for
other folks, and every season make the same old
debts 70 be paid out Of the cotton while the land
gets poorer and the crops get smaller aud less
profitable. Is 1t always 10 be like this or will
these planters finally learn 10 farm?
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1909-03-27
Why Not Change All This 3?

"1 lDING on a railroad In the upper part Of
~ The Cotton Belt last week I saw ane large
IL warehouse at one station where the train
paused. AZ side door farm team was loading
baled hay. The warehouse had big sign Far
n'ere supply Company" And all around on the
brown fields men with single mules and little
poes ~cre scratching down the old dead cotton
stalks. which did not look 10 have been much over
foot tall, and preparing that land for cotton
again. with prospect OF its taking four acres to
make a bale. and buying Western hay to feed the
mules
And when that little crop ia made on that
starved soil the most o. II vIl 20 20 that supply
company for hay and fertilizers and food Doubt
less the men who we're walking after those little
mules and Little plows conclude that farming
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1909-03-27
Do Away With the Terraces.

nv ERRACES are simply the poor effort to
RI atone for shallow blowing and the constant
G- clean cultivation OF the soil. The humus
and vegetable abre which would hold the soil to-
sether have been used up and the land scratched
with oue-horbe pow three inches deep that
when our summer deuge. come. the small depth
Of loose snA fills quickly with water. and the hard
clay right below prevents rs sinking 70 the soil
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The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1909-03-27

80. SOIL erllltT-
25s. Texas or Tick Fever and It's
Prevention.
26l The Cattle Tick.
264 The Brown-Tall Moth and
How 10 Control It.
266 Management Of Soils to
Conserve Moisture
2es- Industrial Alcohol: Sources
and Manufacture.
@69. Industrial Alcohol: Uses and
Statistics.
27.. a Successful Hog and Seed
Corn Farm.
49,. The Use Of Alcohol and Gas
oline in Farm Engines.
27s. Legumluous Crops for Green
Manuriue.
2Ts. a Method OF Eradicaung
Johnson Grass.
$50. 4 Profitable Tenant Dairy
Farm.
@S2. Celery
@>4 insect and Fungous Enemies
81 the Grape East OF the Rocky
Mountains
2s5. The Advantage OF Planting
Heavy Cottonsecd.
$50. Comparative value OF Whole
Cottonsecd and Cottonseed Meal in
FeriiliEing Cotton.
ass. Non Saccharine Sorghums.
goo. The Cotton Boil Worm.
@92. Cost OF Filling Sllos.
go. Methods OF Destroying Rats.
2ss. Diversified Farming Under
the Plantation System.
500. Some Important Grasses and
Forage Plants for the Gulf Coast
Region
302 Sea Island Cotton; Its Cul-
ture. Improvement. and Diseases.
303. Corn Harvesting Machinery.
$40. A Successful Alabama Diver
sincation Farm.
81. sand-Clay and Burnt-Clay
Roads
3l2. A Successful Hay Farm.
913. Harvesting and Storing Corn.
3I4, \ Method OF Breeding Early
Cotton TO Escape Boil weevil Dam
age
3l5. Progress in Legume Inocula-
ton
31S. Cowpeas.
3l9. Demonstration Work In Co
operation With Southern Farmers.
321. The Use OF the Splt-log Drag
on Earth Roads
324. Sweet Potatoes.
326, Building Up Rundown Cot
ton Plantation.
327 The Conservation OF Natural
Resources
333 Cotton Wit
33S Macadam Roads.
339. Alfalfa.
334. The Boil Weevil Problem.
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Editorial Page.

Prof MAs.cy wil, personally answer
tnquI res OF AErisBsturAl subject.
seut y or readers
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10. FTac4ca4 Suggestions Tor
arm buildings.
IL. important Insecticides
To- Insect Enemies 81 Growing
Wheat
lS5. sorghum syrup Manufacture.
lS'. II" Angora Goat
l2s. Irrigation OF Field and Gar
den
l49. Carbon blSulphidc az an In
seci4olde.
"a. Winter orage crops Tor the
south
$50. Clearing Nc~ Land
la-- Soaoie@ IN Cattle.
l5t. The Home Fruit Garden
preparation and Care
ls"- ITO" Insects Affect hea!'h W
"aTa4 o.Aff'ess.
lse- he tio'"e vineyard.
49'' TIE fFopaS~'oa OF F'ant@-
4es' ae@o !" Sh"ep.
4e4. Ff"ei4oa4 SaSseaaoaS Tor
Ffu'' "Fo~eF@
4eA' IN"Pe 49, d oTAse TOP.
~ ifIh''p'"a o. Morse f"ea'as.
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l's h"rr@hoe'us.
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lsS- Meat on The Farm Butcher
go ''''"'
IS. Drainage o. faFm Lands.
49,. bAFhy~Fd Manure,
l9f. A1I"i'A seed.
1876. Usefulness OF the American
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4sA. S'TA"oeFF'os'
1872. Corn Growing.
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The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-11
All Who
Would Enjoy

good health, with its blessings, must I'M
derstand, quite clearly, that it involves the
question of right living with all the term
implies. With proper knowledge OF what
is best, each hour of recreation, OF ENJOY
ment. of contemplation and of effort may
be made to contribute to living Alright.
Then the use of medicines may be dis
pensed with to advantage, but under or
binary conditions in many instances a
simple. wholesome remedy may be invalu-
able ii taken NJ the proper tlne and the
California Fig Syrup Co. holds that it is
alike important to present the subject
truthfully and to supply the one perfect
laxative to those desiring it.
Consequently, the Company's Syrup OF
Figs and Elixir of SIENNA gives general
satisfaction. To get its beneficial effects
buy the genuine manufactured by the
California Fig Syrup ca. only and for sale
by all leading druggists
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-11
What He Wanted to Say.

The new principal of New college,
Edinburgh. DR.. Alexander Whyte, wa
asked on one occasion by a Highlan |
minister for some financial assistanca
for work in the north DR.. Whyte re.
eretted that he could not afford TO
assist the Highlander. but advised him
70 visit wealthy layman in the city.
The latter was not only disinclined 10
give. but ungracious in manner.
Nettled at his reception, the High
lander answered brusquely. Resent.
ing the tone, the rich man asked
And whom do you take me for?" "A
hell deserving sinner, like myself,
came the quick retort. Returning to
Or. Whyte, he explained the circum.
stances. You did not say that?''
eagerly asked the doctor. AYE, |
did" replied the other.
We'll, WE'LL I've been wanting to
say that to him for the last Is years.
Here's tive-pound note for your
fund"
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-11
Are You a Georgian ?"

The conductor made the unqualified
statement that Georgia Is the best
state in the union.
Are you Georgian asked the In,
quisitive passenger"
No. said he, I'm not, but the
finest people | meet come from there.
They are just as full of nice habits as
they can stick Why, they even stop
at the door when they get into a car
that has not adopted the pay-as-you-
enter system and pay their fare. and
so save me the tFouble of pushing my
way through YIN crowd to collect it.
II that isn't consideration. I'd like to
know what Is. nearly tumbled over
the first time that trick was played on
me, and / haven't got used to it vet.
or course, those thoughtful people are
few, and | was puzzled for good
while to find out where they came
from. | knew they couldn't be ma.
tive New Workers, and | was anxious
to place them, Finally | asked one
OF the pay atthe-door men where he
halsed from.
Georgia. said he.
Good for Georgia. | said. I won
dere If there are many more people
down there like you?
You bet there are, said lie.
Just keep your eyes open and you'll
see some of them up here.
The next time a man paid me at
the door | put the question to him
straight off. Are you from Georgia .
| asked
You bet am, said he. How'd
you know?'
Since then have made a practice
of asking all those beforehanded PEG
pie the name of their native heath,
and every time the answer comes.
pat, Georgia, When a fellow finds a
set of people that 60 to all that trou-
Bile to accommodate him, it is no
wonder that he thinks their state q
mighty fine section of the country"
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-11
FARMERS Wife
HAD HEAP TO DO
Mrs. Shepherd Was in Bad Shape
When She Could Not Stand on
Her Feet.

Durham, N. C.-''I am a farmers
wife," writes Mrs. ]. NJ Shepherd, OF
this city, land have a heap TO do"
"Four months ago | could not stand
on my feet, to do anything much, but at
this time do the most OF my work. |
took cardui and it did me more good
than all the doctors. .a
"You don't know half how thank you
for the Cardui Home Treatment wish
that all women who suffer from womanly
trouble would treatthemselves as have. )"
Ladies can easily treat themselves at
home, with Cardui, the woman S tonic.
1t is easy to take, and so gentle in its
action, that il cannot do anything but
good.
Being composed exclusively of vege-
table ingredients, Cardui cannot lay up
trouble in your system, as mineral drugs
often do. Its ingredients having no
harsh, medicinal effects, and being nom
poisonous and perfectly harmless, Cardui
is absolutely safe for young and old.
Ask your druggist. He will tell you to
Try Cardui.
NJ B-Write TO. Ladies' Advisory Dept, chatts-
qo0ga Medicine Co, Chattanooga Tenn, for Special
distinctions, and 64-page book. Home Treatment
sef Women sent in plain wrapper. on request
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-11

zone of the most striking lessons |
ever learned about the relative value
of different kinds of evidence was
taught me by an old monk over in
Rome. This monk had taken me in
tow to show me a slab where some
saint had been burned, or killed-at
least. the stains of his blood were on
the slab. so the monk said,
What evidence have you that it's
really stained by the blood Of saint? o.
l asked him.
HE smiled tolerantly 1t is that
you are a lawyer?' he asked me, and
owned up. He said he thought so.
"'You lawyers have lot of queer
views about evidence he told me.
Don't you know. my dear sir that if
you were TO accept only such evidence
as you lawyers admit in court of
law, that you must discard at least
othirds of the things you believer
Il told him to go on. Let US sup
pose said the monk, that the old
fashioned watch you wear was handed
down as a family heirloom from your
great-grandfather You believe that
the watch belonged to your great
grandfather, and value it accordingly
And yet what evidence have you that
the watch did belong - your great
grandfather? II you accept only the
evidence of your senses, you cannot
l. IL, 1E, 4
ever saw watch, or. for that mat.
ter. that you ever had a great grand
father
"Of course he told me lot Of things
| didn't believe said Kerruish. but
just the same he opened my eyes on
the subject of evidence. '--CleyeiaEd
Plain Dealer
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-11
BOYS SEEK INDIAN SCALPS
Quartet of Fighters" Each Twelve
Years old Saved Up $40 and
Started on Warpath.

Chicago boys--eaeh IL years
old--who saved up $40 and ran away
from their homes in Cleveland, o.,
to fight Indians out west" were cap,
tured in the LaSalle street depot with.
out a battle by Detectives Bailey and
O'Connell The boys had purchased
tickets for st. Louis, where Indians
were believed to abound, and were
waiting for train when they We're
ambushed by the detectives,
At first they explained that their
grandmother had died and they were
going to her funeral" but later, weep
ing they admitted that they were on
the warpath against the red men
The boys are Clarence Schaff. sol
Eighty-first street, son OF e. H. Schaff I;
James Shaw, $685. Market street. son
of w. p. Shaw; William Lang, 90i
Market street, son of j. W. Sanford.
Where were you boys going?' ask
ed Capt. Woods.
Well, captain. to tell the truth, .
said the Lang boy, "me and my friends
had been planning trip out west for
nearly a year. We had been selling
papers and doing odd jobs and had
saved up $40 between us. Last Sat
urday we packed up our suitcases and
arrived in Chicago Saturday evening. "
The boys we're taken to the HART,
son street annex, where they We're
held until word was received from
their parents, when they We're shipped
back home
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-11
LEARNS LATEST FAD
oHioAN TRIES CIGAR ASHES IN
HIS COFFEE.
initiates travelling Man Who Sets the
Styles for Small Towns, and De-
ciares Flavor of Beverage
is Much improved.

A Cleveland travelling man who al
to.the-minute wrinkles in dress, who
knows what's doing on all the theaters
from, New York to Chicago, and in va
rious other ways keeps his calendai
torn off right up to date, has host OF
admirers In the small towns that he
makes. The natives always wait to see
what kind of goods this Cleveland
man is wearing before they buy any
clothes.
It's the same way in regard TO din
ing He's strong on SAVIOR foire in q
dining room. Unlike some drummers
this clever fellow uses his knife mere
ly to cut with. and not as a means OF
food transportation. He was the first
man ever In one town down the state
to have eaten ice cream with fork
instead of spoon, or to have sampled
lobster la New0urg. In fact there
wasn't a native there who had ever or.
dered a caviare sandwich until after
he heard this Cleveland may talking
about them.
One day this gifted young travelling
salesman met down state customer
in Cleveland and took him out to lunch
with him at one of the best places.
As they sat over their cigars at the
finish of the meal the Cleyelander
licked his cigar ashes into his coffee
cup-the same being empty. His oh
servant guest did not miss the move
ment.
That's the latest, is it?7 asked the
out-of-town man, anxious to get hep tC
things.
Sure" says the local man, though
not quite catching what the ether was
getting at
The novice Immediately followed
suit and knocked off about a half incl
OF ashes into his cup. Then he took g
swallow of the coffee.
All. makes 1T better, doesn't it?" hi
remarked, looking pleased over the
thought of how he would be the first
to show the rest of the bunch down
home the newest thing Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-11
LARGE METEOR HITS FENCE
Eight Feet Into Earth
Like Stag Iron.

Walpole, Mass.-A Meteor weighing
200 pounds dropped on the farm of
". F. Nickerson. a former newspaper
man of Boston, in Brooks street.
That the meteor struck the earth
with fearful force is attested by the
fact that it buried itself nearly eight
feet In the soil
The wandering body came within
Is feet Of falling on the boundary line
between Walpole and Norwood and
rested when found less than ten feet
from the Walpole line in Norwood
Covered by eight feet of earth, it
might have remained for years with
out being discovered If 1t had not in
the course of its fall broken a fence
which separates two fields on Mr..
Niekerson's property A workman
on the place making his rounds of
the fences discovered the fence
broken and near by hole almost two
feet in diameter.
He reported the matter to Mr.
Nickerson, believing that the fence,
which stands about ten feet from the
Walpole line, must have been broken
by cattle and that rabbits had been
burrowing in the field.
After an examination Mr. Nickerson
decided that the hole was not made
by rabbits and instructed his men to
dig to the bottom of the cavity After
30 minutes digging they unearthed a
peculiar-looking piece of Stag, which
looked as if it had been subjected to
some powerful degree Of heat and had
been discharged from a furnace.
The conclusion reached by those
who viewed the strange rock is that
1t Is of meteoric formation. 1t is of a
grayish color. closely resembling iron
Stag. 1t is rough and corrugated on
the exterior, but is Of solid formation.
While measuring barely two feet
In diameter its weight is estimated
above 200 pounds. and the efforts OF
three men were required to place it in
a wagon
The meteor has been taken to the
HUME % MI. NlckeTSOu III 4NoF"oou
and will probably be turned over
either to some geological society in
this city or to the museum at Har.
ward.
While the exterior of the meteor is
cold, heat seems to radiate from the
interior of the body If one holds a
hand against it long enough the heat
is readily felt
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-11
COLLECTING A DEBT
QUICK WORK BY A WOMAN ON A
BROADWAY CAR.
She Made Charge for SIS Bill and
Retained $3.50 Which Was OW-
ing to Her by the Other
Passenger.

or collecting debts there are many
ways. but undoubtedly one of the most
novel on record was tried in a Broad
way car i'll New York the other day.
TV A wen-dressed Woman came iht6ithe
car at Nineteenth street When the
conductor called for her fare she gave
him a tive-dollar bill, He put the
usual question about smaller change,
and she gave him the usual negative
reply. The situation was unpleasant
for both, especially for the conductor.
Obviously she was such fine lady
chat to put her off the car for non
payment OF fare would be equivalent
10 inviting his own downfall, and he
could not afford to risk that. He
looked at the men who stood near
with urgent appeal for nickel in his
eyes, but those unchiyalrous strap
hangers were Injured to the toes OF
ladies who travel with five-dollar bills
as their smallest change, and de
clined to respond,
The woman got nervous What
shall | do?" she said
Perhaps can find somebody who
has change for the BILL" said the con.
ductor.
He sounded several people on the
subject but they proved to be short
OF funds themselves that day and
could not accommodate them. Pres
entity woman up near the front
of the car took u hand in the pro
ceedings
Il think | have the change" she
said
At the sound of her voice the own
er of the tive-dollar bill turned with
a startled look and blushed deeply.
You need not bother about the
change" she said TO the conductor. Il
believe I'll get off at the next corner,
anyway"
The conductor said: very well,
and reached out his hand for the bel,
but the second woman had already
tucked it into her pocketbook and had
counted out so cents in nickels and
dimes.
Here" she said, give this to her,
and tell have kept back the $3.50
she has owed me for the past year
and a half
The conductor looked from one wom-
on to the other helplessly.
Give it to her" was the supple
mentary command She'll take it.
She knows better than to raise a
row."
He rendered the 50 cents to the
we'll gowned woman. She picked IS
cents out Of his palm gingerly and
started toward the door
You mean old thing" she said to
her satisfied creditor, And then she
left the car, followed by the aston.
| ished gaze of two score passengers.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-11
LOW PUBLIC SENTIMENT"


In somewhat labored effort to JUS.
tify Judge Buffers charge that low
public sentiment prevails in this
community. the evening contemporary
gives its readers another dissertation
on Sunday closing" Admitting ali
that the contemporary charges
against an s'open Sunday" as proof
of low public sentiment" ana
as the cause of all our afflctions;
granting also all that il claims for
Sunday closing" as cure.all, it
still remains true that Judge Butler
has failed signally on sundry and
diverse very important occasions to
show that he disapproved and desired
to. resist or correct the low tenden-
cies OF the people.
In his charge last Tuesday morning
to the special grand jury now in SEES
SIGN. Judge Butler had chance to
show where he stood in regard to
what he must know has been one Df
the most potent factors in defeating
justice im the murder trials in his
court during the last several years
perjury. He must know that the
jnries have not been always to blame
for the miscarriage of justice, as The
Bulletin has repeatedly pointed out.
He ought to know that the cleverlv
concocted and as cleverly presented
testimony OF perjured witnesses,
coupled with the instructions given
them by the court, rendered it prac-
tically impossible for some of the
juries to find otherwise than they
did.
And yet the judge, in his instruc.
tions to this grand jury, gave no hint
of the very recent and very glarlng
attempt by well-organized gang of
perjurers to defeat Justice in the
county court.
Judge Butler was strong in his dc.
nunciation of the mob, he was strong
in his denunciation of the appalling
amount of crime during the last
month (saying nothing of the appal-
ling amount of crime which preceded
i for several years past); he was
strong in denouncing graft in the pu,
lice department; especially strong in
denouncing those who charged graft
tmeaning. OF course, The Bulletinl ;,
declaring that they ought to be in.
Il Il
charges true. But the Judge had no
word about the men who sought ito
defeat justice in the Bourgeois gamb
lers' case and would have succeeded
but for the fact that the jury was
able to recognize them and refused to
accept their testimony. sss
Judge Butler had here, Just as he
had in the Davidge and Boren cases,
and In several other cases that
might be mentioned, fine opportun-
ity to align himself against the 'low
public sentiment" in the community.
OF which he has complained, and as
in these other cases, he failed to
use it,
It may be said by way of addenda.
that had Judge Dewey permitted the
examination of candidates for the jury
in the Bourgeois case, in the manner
which Judge Butler has permitted at
torneys for the defense to pursue In
his court, and had Sheriff McManus
deputies followed the example of some
OF their predecessors in office. there
would have been quite a different sort
Of Jury than there was in the Bour-
gcis case, and the dive keepers OF
the city probably would have scored
another victory for low public senti
ment9 Rtbe. community
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-11
Remedy Suggested.

What Il pity it is" said the dyed
IN the wool baseball fan, that tie
pitcher for the home team is 50
wild"
Single man. isn't he?' queried tn
man occupying the adj,mirg SCI.
who knew absolutely nothing about
the game
Yes, / guess so, answered the fan
but what has that got to dc
with it?"