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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-09-07
MIR. Cobb Will Clear $4,000
on Robson Farm
THAT EMINENTLY SUCCESSFUL
Farmer Believes That the Supreme
Head of North Carolina Today is
Expert Agricultural Education.

Prof. J.. B. Carlyle, Of W-ke Forest,
passed through Raleigh yesterday re-
turning from umbe Bridge, ii
Robson county, where on Sunday he
presented in behalf of Rev. J. w.
Cobb a portrait of Rev. John. Monroe
to Lumbe Bridge Baptist Church, of
which he was pastor more than fifty
years. Prof. Carlyle spent Sunday night
with his cousin, Mr.. w. S. Cobb, who
owns and operates one of the finest
truck farms in the State. Twenty
years ago this farm of five hundred
acres could hav been bought for 81
900. Today under his expert manage
ment it is easily worth more than
fifty times that amount. The returns
already realized from the present crop
after ~deducting freight and commits
sions, are as follows English peas,
3 cars, $1,e13; Irish potatoes, ? cars,
$3.50; snap beans, 5 cars, $1,000;
early corn, , cars, $500; c~antalopes,
As ears, $11, SOC; waterme1ons. So
cars, $2,S50; making q total of So, 215.
On pea, bean and potato lands a
small crop of cotton was planted
which gives promise of a bale per acre.
Mak1nS q total Or l5U DdleS. On the
watermelon and eantaleupe land, peas
and hay are the second crop from
which $50 tons are expected. worth SIS
per ton. On wheat and pats land corn
is planted from which enough feed
is expected to run the whole farm. His
main idea is to raise two crops on
every acre and to utilize fully every
thing produced. He rotates all crops
in such way as to supply humus n
prevent soil exhaustion. His products
are in demand in PittSburg, Philade1-
phia and New York, in which cities he
has regular representatives. He classI-
ties all his goods carefully into three
trades, thus meeting the exact needs
If the trade. The grading and ship
ping are in the hands OF an expert
from Philadelphia. The business is
organized perfectly. The profits on
the farm this season will probably
exceed $50, 60e.
Mr.. Cobb believes that the supreme
need of North Carolina today is eN-
pert agricultural education, and that
the public schools should more n
more train boys and girls for content
G, happy and useful lives on the
farm. He thinks that more n more
the emphasis in our great
college at Raleigh should be shifted
from the mechanical to the agricuI-
tural. Mr.. Cobb's previous success
proves clearly that farming can be
made profitable in North Carolina.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-09-07
VISIT TO MIR. d. H. HIGH.
What a Town Farmer Can Accomplish
the Most Corn We Ever Saw Grown
an land

(WhitevilIe News-Reporter.)
The other afternoon we went TO see
our esteemed friend and fellow towns
man, Mr.. D. H. High, one of our best,
most honored and public spirited
citizens.
Mr.. High has 81 acres of and sur
rounding his home, and we that
he show us over his little farm, n
which we have heard SO much about
and he kindly consented to do so.
For those h admire fine stock
and poultry, and to feast on delicious
fruits, it is certainly a rare treat TO
visit this hospitable home. o find
everything here to add to the COM
fort and pleasure of life. Mr.. High
has every variety of fruit. and his
orchards are producing the greatest
abundance of fruit. He has fou- acres
in LeConte and Keifer pears. that nave
produced 1900 bushels. He has three
varieties of the scuppernong grape.
We never saw fig trees (not busheS) SO
laden. Besies there are all manner
of fruits, including different varieties
OF the Japanese persi1nmon, and which
are bearing to perfection. And then
he has the finest gardens in our eoun-
ty or town.
1t would make the mouth of a Meth
odist preacher water to see the droves
of fine Plymouth Rock chickens that
cover the yard. Mr.. High hatcheS
them in an incubator, and says he has
never had any disease among his
poultry.
We next went into his pasture and
saw what we believe to be the finest
and largest Jersey cow in our State,
ana Xix everything else around MI
high, she shows attention and plenty
VI TODD. And we have always. been
d sort of crank on fine hogs, and Mr..
ftighs Poland Chinas certainly took
our eye. This breed Of swine is be5t
ADAPTED to the South. for with the
same feed the Poland China viii make
"a per cent more meat than aHy
breed of swine. This has been tested
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-09-07
WORKING NOTES OF DAIRY.

Cow stables shou1d have no cellar
under them nor storage place above
Stables used exclusively for dairy
COWS should be disinfeeted frequently
by the use of w~hitewash.
A. decrease Of from 70 to5a pei cent
in milk yield follows exposure at this
season, or any other, for that matter.
There should be nc unnecessary
changes in the attendants who feed
IN milk the cows.
Il will take a month-perhaps more
a COW to regain her normal milk
flow if you permit her to be exposed
to the cold rains OF early spring,
No two cows can be fed alike. Each
must be studied separately. Increase
the protein In the ration and watch
the milk flow.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-09-07

of virgin soil where an old fence a
stood.
ALI h neighboring ground would
have grown clover fifty years before
that time, but the continual cropping
had the humus supply from
the soil. so that it did not retain suti-
cient moisture for clover growth
The trouble to get a stand of clover
today results from farming the land
to- death. It is Of it's hui
mus and hence unabEe to retain sutfi-
cient moisture for the young clover
plants in a dry time.
1t takes good round to grow clover
The soil can be made SO rich that it
cannot help but grow clover. A man
took a WORKOUT timber farm and by
manuring it brought it up to a point
where it grows immense crops Of corn,
oats and clover.
The farmer will never get his
ground to grow clover by selling the
crops from the farm and not returning
anything to the land. If the ground
now grows clover well, it will not con-
tinue to do SO if the products are re-
moved from the and rear after year.
Even the man who grows corn, oats
and clover in rotation, selling the prod
ucts and RETURNING nothing to the soil,
is sure TO come to a time when he
cannot crow clover. There is not a
farm in the country so rich in plant
food that it can stand such treatment.
This is true of the black prairie soil
as we'll as the others.
If we have good ground we will have
moisture, for ground is good in pro-
portion as it is supplied with humus,
and hunus is the element that will
retain sufficient moisture in a dry time
to furnish water for growing plants.
The ideal seed bed is not newly
plowed ground, because it is too loose.
1t will dry out too readily. It is not
a good thing to pillow the clover
ground in the spring; neither is it
necessary to work it with a disk or
euItivator.
The best seed bed and the one that
has given me splendid results the past
fifteen years is secured by sowing the
clover seed on corn ground, with oats
as a nurse crop, using a good grain
drill for both oats and clover, without
any previous preparation Of the
ground.
Then harrow with a smoothing har-
row once OR twice, or any numbe of
times There is no breaking of the
water ladder and drying out Of the
soil.
Much Of the trouble in getting
clover started is due to the shade of
the nurse crop. It is a critical time
for the clover when the nurse crop
is removed, and a good deaI of the
clover dies at this time. It does, not
die from lack of moisture, because
it previously held it's own while the
nurse crop was taking moisture from
the ground.
What would you think of the farm
er who WOULD plant his corn and
then put a shade over it, if it were
possible, and compel it to grow for
three months in the shade. Then in
the middle of the summer, in the hot
test weather, remove that SADIE, and
then blame the vorn plant because it
dies?
But this is the very thing that man
farmers do with their clover. They
grow it in the shade Of d nurse crop
that is sown too thick, and the resuIt
is small, tender, spindIing plants.
What the clover needs is the sun
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-09-07

Millions are Being Spent on Irrigation
Projects to Redeem Wastes Of the
Far West.
By G. S. Miller.

Approximately one-third of the
United States is vacant government
land, much Of it desert-great arid
wastes Of yellow sands, with only
crooked and dwarfed mesquite. the
vicious looking giant cactus and sage
brush of dusty green to relieve the
awful monotony.
In order to redeem these desoIate
areas and fit them for commercial
pos and to provide farm homes
for more of u people, the govern
ment has already expended $4,000
900 and is constantly adding to that
sum in the furtherance of it's great
irrigation plans.
Putting aside politics and all other
considerations it must be admitted
that to- the splendid personality, the
fOrcefuI nature and the tenacity Of
of Roosevelt must
be given much of the credit for the
retaining of the arid West. He did
not originate the movement, but he
did make it possible.
In his first message to Congress in
1901, he urged the passage of an act
to reclaim the desert. As a result of
h public interest created by the APP
peal, Congress, in 1902, passed VIVA
is known as the national reclamation
act, which provides that 95 per cent.
Of h moneys received from the sale
of public lands in Arizona. Nebraska,
Nevada, New Mexico, California, Col
orado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana.
North Dakota , Oklahoma, Oregon.
South Dakota. Utah Washington and
Wyoming, beginning with June so,
1901, be set aside for the use of con
structing irrigation works.
1t was stipulated that as soon as any
work was completed the owners of the
land benefited must begin to return
the cost thereof, payments being made
in ten annual inStallnents without in
tarnCf tho rrnnaU CO rotYrnp6 hajno
used yer and over in the construction
of other works.
To eliminate speculation and put q
stop to greedy acquisition of large
tracts it was provided that no one
could own more than 160 acres under
any of the projects and the owners
must actually reside upon and Guilt
waite the land.
Numerous State laws strengthened
this provision, some of them reducing
the holdings to eighty, and in some
cases to forty acres. Soil to be used
for cha purposes is to be limited
to forty acres. while that for alfalfa
and other grasses to eighty acres.
The work of the reclamation service
has been simply marvellous, nine prof.
ects having been completed in these
few years and twenty two others are
in course of construction, several OF
these. will be finished during the pres
ent year.
When these projects. counting those
completed. shall all have been accom-
pIished, approximately 2.600, 0o0 acres
of ground, valued at $40, zoe, zoe, will
have been reclaimed, and land tracts
whereoH a few years ago existed only
starvation and woe and want-wheFe
every living thing SHOWED the des-
perate struggle for mere existence
have been changed into thrifty or
chards, green fields and prosperous
gardens and have been made to
bloom as the rose"
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-09-07
TO MAKE CLOVER CATCH.
Prepare Soil Carefully. Select
Only Very Best Seed and Put It III
Right.

Only EeTy Best seed and Put 1t III
Right.
1t is no wonder there are now many
poor stands of clover, because the oats
and clover seeding is done with a rush,
and only half done. The oats are soWn
too thick, and the clover is given sec
ond consideration.
Farmers must not expect to succeed
with Gle ,er by any less careful meth
DDS thar those that insure success i'll
other lines of farming, and that the
farmer must ain more of the clover
than he does of the nurse crop.
In the exceptionally dry year of
1891. when the clover plants on all or
binary soil in Wisconsin died. there
was a fine, thrifty stand upon a strip
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-04-24
Band Gives Concert.

Bigelow's steel city band appeared
on the Gary streets last night for the
first time this summer. and their con-
cert on Broadway, near Fifth ave-
nue., was greatly enjoyed. The mem
bers Of the band have been practicing
all during the winter and have greatly
improved, and are now an organization
that Gary can well be proud of The
new popular music was played last
night and seemed to please the large
crowd that was gathered. The fnan-
cial conditions of the band are not
just the best, but they hope by the
end Of the season to have all their
bills paid. A subscription will be TAX
en- up among the business men and
open-air concerts will be given during
the summer
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-04-24
The Final Ranking in High School ontest
Judges on
Music
Bald

Hammond.
Treasurer-E. n Canine, East Chi
cago.
Secretary-John C. Hall. Whiting.
Assistant secretary-W. H Morey,
Lowell.
NOTES.
Gary sent over a lively set of en-
thusiasts. who made their presence
known.
Walter Smith and Miss Packard were
the happiest in the big audience after
it was all over.
The Crown Point delegation was, as
far as behavior and modesty is con
cerned. a credit to the Hub, but Lowell
and Hobart didn't fall far behind.
The East Chicago and Whiting root
ers filled the air They seemed to
know from the first what was com
ing.
Hammond was bitterly disappointed
over the way the music contest was
decided. but Professor Leaning was
reundly congratulated just the same.
Miss Agnes Benson, supervisor OF
music of the Crown Point and Lowell
schools, was formerly in the same ca
pacity in the Hammond school.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-04-24
HEARD By RUDE.

One Of the latest creatures of spring
millinery seen on the streets yester-
day afternoon must have been two
carats over two bushel.
"Oh! you alma matters"
And what will the people Of Gary
do now for snake bites?'
The unsuspecting public of Gary are
soon to see a fresh start made on the
Gary pavement. The ought to be asham
ed to take the money.
One of our anxious readers wants to
know If the Gary & Interurban are go
ing to put on peekaboo cars and i'm
Now that your in it.
In minute
You will sneeze a cough.
You'll regret It; you can bet 1t
If you take 'em off.
No doubt there are other, candidates
in the mayoralty race that might, at
least, mention their names.
About this time the Gary youngster
has a feeling that he would like to
cast off his shoes and tread the hot
sands.
Barnum & Bailey's circus went
through Gary yesterday without as
much as stopping to let US get a, glance
at ferocious looking creatures who are
about to meet their waterloo out IN
Africa in few short weeks.
Some of the residents out in the
south end are discussing it under the
revised form: How to be happy
though thirsty"
OF course, it will be great thing
for the voices of the Gary baseball fans
that ali their games are to be played
out of town, but it will be an awful
strain on the bulletin boards.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-04-24
GARY BRIEFS.

special meeting of the school board
was held last night for the purpose
of making a special bond issue for
the new Emmerson school building. No
other business of Importance was tran
sacted.
Attorneys Clarence Hall, Geo. Man
love and ]. R. Morrison were in Ham
mond yesterday on legal business.
DR.. Prentiss, who has been visiting
in the south for the past three weeks,
is expected to return Monday.
Wilbur D. Hart of the steel mills
went to Chicago last evening. and saw
the grand opera "Oida" at the Audi
torium.
Attorney Frank B. Pattee of Crown
Point was in Gary last night on legal
business.
J. A Hunter. father of Attorney c.
Hunter, Is visiting in Gary for a few
days this week Mr.. Hunters home is
in Elwood, Ind.
Glenn Henches of Gary will spend
Sunday with friends at Crown Point.
The ice cream social, given by the
members of the Junior Endeavor of the
Presbyterian church, last night, was
well attended and a very enjoyable time
was spent.
Architect J. J. Verplank has moved
his offices from the Gary building to
the newly completed ogden building.
Mrs. Stephen Metcalf OF Anderson is
the guest of DR.. and Mrs. J. E. Met
calf for a few days.
All the bargains advertised by SpIeg-
els In the Chicago papers are dis
played and for sale at our large South
Chicago store. 91Ss-9135 Commercial
avenue. ~
Am prepared TO do all kinds of house
cleaning. Carpets and rugs cleaned al
reasonable rates Telephone Gary 1852
or call at 662 Broadway. Peter Mitch
ell PIP
We deliver the Furniture and Car
pets TO your door. no extra charge-nc
waiting and at Chicago bargain prices
Spiegers, South Chlcago's leading fur
For a good home cooked meal, will
quick service, go to the German Hom
on Tenth avenue, near Broadway. TIL
best meal in the city. Lunches of al
kinds from a. m to 10 p. m. Mrs A
! Jensen, proprietor. 9-1-n
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-04-24
SUNDAY CHURCH SERVICES.

Congregational Church. A. }. Sui
lens. pastor.
Services held in the new church build
ing on Adams street, near Fifth ave-
nue..
Mems League meeting at $50 a m.
Regular morning service at 1890.
Rev. Sullens will preach a special SER
mon in honor of the annual anniver-
sary of the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows who will be present at the
church.
Sunday school at II o'clock.
Junior Endeavor society meeting at
$3.50 o'clock for boys and girls.
Evening service at 7:45 p. m. Spe-
cial song service. Subject: 'Izlahs Call
to Service"
Wednesday evpnin-SmiIe service at
the home of pastor, 7oS Jefferson
street All members and friends in
vited.
Thursday afternoon at 2:s0 o'clock
Woman's association meets at the home
OF the pastor and as the guests of Mrs.
C. o. Wicks and Mrs. Sullens.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-04-24
INSURANCE CO. NOT
FOR GARY FIRE LOSS
John Siemanski Cannot Col
lect From Caledonia
in Lawsuit.
HELD POLICY FOR $500
Has Also Filed Suit Against Dixie
MISUNDERSTANDING Evi-
dence introduced.

John Siemanski, owner of a saloon
on Sixteenth and Massachusetts street,
will not be able to collect the insurance
on his building which burned to the
ground last July during the series of
fires which destroyed over $4,000
worth of property in this city. Both of
the insurance companies that he was
insured in, the Caledonia and the Dixie,
have refused payment, and the suit to
recover from the Caledonia was lost.
Sufficiently strong evidence was intro
duced by the insurance company to
show that the house was not accident
ly set on fire.
The decision in the case was given
yesterday by Judge McMahan of Crown
Point, in the case entitled Siemanski
vs. the Caledonia Insurance company Of
Scotland. The amount Of the insur-
ance in this company was $500, and II
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-04-24
THE CITY
MANY Elks Expected.

Large delegations of Ell1s from Chi
cage and the other cities Of the Calu-
met region are expected to be present
at the installation OF the Elks lodge
in Gary next Wednesday evening. Word
was received by Attorney Clyde Hunt
er, who Is on the invitation commit
tee, today saying that the entire lodge
from East Chicago will be here and
the Hammond Elks will charter a spe-
cial car and come over on the South
Shore line. Crown Point, Hobart, VAL
paraiso, Michigan City and Joliet (Ill)
lodges will also be represented. East
Chicago will bring over their own can
didate for the initiation during the
evening.
Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler w. A
Ream is expected to arrive in Gary
on Tuesday.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-04-24
Judges on
Thought and Composition
ing place tonight, is as follows:
PROGRAM


PROGRAM
Music: Selection from Balfe's Bohem-
ian Girl-Whiting High School Orches-
ira
Grafton: THE influence of an Ideal
Life'-Walter Smith, Whiting.
Chorus: 1.-THE Gallant Troubadour -
Words. Sir Walter Scott; Music, NJ Wat
son-Whiting High School.
Grafton: our Relation to the Negro
-Flossie Pickard. East Chicago.
Chorus: tai The Mountain Lake"
&C. Donauron) OBJ Holy Art Thou
(HandeD East Chicago High School.
Grafton: "Indiana"-Oakley Morton,
Crown Point.
Chorus: Wandering in Woodlands"
Otto Roeder. Crown Point High
School
Grafton: "Toussaint rOuverture" -
Floyd Murray, Hammond
Chorus: 'Daybreak'- Hammond High
School.
Grafton: Our National Resources
George Tabbert, Hobart
Chorus: List the Cherubic Host" 4
Heard the Voice of Harpers'-A- r.
Gaul, Hobart Township High School.
Grafton: IAN Appeal Against Child
Labor Milford s. McNay Lowell.
Music A Selection from Stubborn
inderella-Hammond High School Or
chestra.
Chorus: Night" Lowell High
School
Schools Represented.
Crown Point. Golf Pink
East Chicago. $500 Maroon and White
Hammond .........P Purple and White
/ Hobart. 1919. Royal Purple and Gold
Lowell. ................ Red and Black
Whiting $500. Moss Green and White
Judges on thought and composition
VIII David Howe, Phi. D.. department of
English, Indiana university Emma
Mont McRae, A. NJ, department of Eng
| lish, Purdue university; Buford Wiaid
Taylor. A. NJ, department of English
Hanover college.
Judges on delivery-Edwin Pritchard
Trueblood. B. s.. B. l.. department OF
oratory, Earlham college; Douglas
1 Crawford. A. NJ, department of English
Lake Forest college; Christopher Bush
Coleman. A. B.. B. D.. department OF
! history, Butler college.
Judges on music-Alice lone Cramer
supervisor OF music, Lagrange, Ill.
Rena NJ. Rice, supervisor Of music
Lafayette. Ind; Jane Baldwin, super
visor of music, Berwyn, Ill
Officers of the Association.
President-w r. Curtis. Crown
Point
First vice president = Charles H
Barts, Hobart.
Second vice president-w. A. Hill
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-04-24

BY the end Of next week hftyfve
counties+in the state will have settled
the saloon question for two years at
least. Ten elections are ordered for the
week. Five more elections will be held
during the following week. Clay and
Pulaski, both dry" by remonstrance,
and Spencer will have elections on
May 4. Fulton, also dry" by remon-
STRANGE, will vote on May 8. and the
election in Posey county will be held
on May Z.
The vets" in White county early
this week applied for temporary re-
straining order to prevent the election
next Monday on substantially the same
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-04-24

the case against the Dixie is lost, the
burning Of the building on Massa
chusetts street VIII cost the owner
about $1,000.
Testimony in the case showed that
the owner was not only prohibited
from insuring in more than one com
pany but that the police Of Gary had
found that the fire in hts place had
started in three different parts of the
house, at two different times. The first
time the fire occurred July 10th it
was easily extinguished by officer Neu-
man and others. but the second time
the blaze got beyond control The
second fire occurred July 10th
The case against the Dixie Insur-
ance company will be tried at the next
term of court. Attorneys Corbett and
Dunn represented the plaintiff and
Widermuth and Carnduff represented
the defendants.