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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30
Catch Crops,

Whether corn is cultivated level or
In check rows, it Is always profitable
to SOW some crop at the last working.
whenever we see a cornfield bare
during the winter we think what a
waste of opportunity. Sowing a catch
crop at the last working of corn not
only enables this crop 10 grow with
out extra preparation, but 1t covers
the land during the winter, which
prevents teaching and washing of the
soil, and materially increases succeed
ing crops.
There are so many crops that can
be sown at the last working of either
corn or cotton that the wonder to me
Is that any farmer should try to get
along without using one. You can
SOW to advantage either crimson
clover, rye, winter oats or vetch. All
OF them usually give good results
sown in this way.
ii corn is planted early cowpeas
are an excellent crop to SOW at the
last working. Farmers who have had
experience state that the cowpeas In
crease the yield of the corn crop, and
at the same time make a most ex-
cellent quantity of feed, as well as
improve the land for the crops to fol-
low. A. Barnhard, in Farm and
Home.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30
Profit in Cherry Raising.

An illustration of the possibilities
there are in fruit culture in western
Washington is seen in a brief dis
patch from Stanwood, recording the
fact that the cherry growers in that
section of the country are closing
their shipments after the most sue
cessful season ever known. The late
varieties of cherries, such az the
Royal Annes, brought the record
price of seventeen cents a pound in
the orchard, about eight cents more
than the previous high price paid
there.
There is no fruit that does better on
the deforested land of western Wash
ington than the cherry, and nowhere
in the world are finer cherries pro-
duced than here. The cherry tree
grows to great size and bears in this
favored climate abundantly. There
are forty-year-old cherry trees in this
county which are loaded with this
delicious fruit every year. A single
old cherry tree has been known to
bear d crop of 500 pounds in a sea-
son.
At the price in the orchard of less
than one-half that which was recent.
ly paid in Stanwood, the owner OF a
Puget Sound cherry orchard in full
bearing can have an annual income
from each acre larger than the high
est income earned from the best of
the orchards under irrigation in east
ern Washington. The western WASH
ington cherries are produced without
irrigation, and will grow on lands of
which thousands of acres are yet to
be had at prices but petty fraction
of that commanded by lands under
ditch in the better advertised fruit
growing sections of this State.
There could hardly be better and
safer Investment than the purchase of
a few acres OF logged-off lands in
western Washington at the present
time, clearing 1t and planting It to
cherries. The man who has a ten
acre cherry orchard in this part of
the world, after 1t gets in bearing,
VIII have an annual income consld-
erably higher than IS earned by the
average professional man, here or
anywhere else.
II the land hungry. who have been
so much in evidence in the recent
rush to take up opened Indian reser-
vations, will look over the opportu-
mites open here, they will find thou
sands of opportunities for homes
Seattle Post-Intelllgencer.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30
Alfalfa Will Grow Everywhcr,

While experts have been declaring
that alfalfa would only grow in cer-
tain soils and in certain climates It
has proved its adaptability to nearly
all climates and almost all soils. It
produces with a rainfall as scant as
fourteen inches, and in the Gulf
States flourishes with sixty-fve
inches. 1t gives crops at an eleva-
tion of 5000 feet above sea level, and
in southern California It grows be-
low sea level to a height of six feet
or over, with nine cuttings a year,
aggregating ten to twelve tons. An
authenticated photograph in possess
sion of the writer shows a wonderful
alfalfa plant raised in the (irrigated)
desert of southern California, sixty
feet in height. Satisfactory crops
are raised, but on limited areas as
yet, in Vermont and Florida. New
York has grown 1t for over one hum
dred years in her clay and gravel;
Nebraska grows II in her western
sand hills without plowlng, as does
Nevada on her sage brush desert. The
depleted cotton soils of Alabama and
rich corn fields of Illinois and Miss
ouri each respond generously with
profitable yields to the enterprising
farmer, while its accumulated nitro
gen and the sub-soiling it effects are
making the rich land more valuable
and giving back to the crop worn the
priceless elements of which 1t has
been in successive generations de-
spoiled by constituencies husbandry.
-Coburn's Book of Alfalfa.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30
Value of Sweet Clover.

Sweet clover is generally consid-
cred a weed, and under certain con-
ditions it is such. 1t, however, pro-
duces valuable forage in sections
south of the clover belt Stock do
not like it at first, but they can easily
become educated to eat it either
green or cured.
Sweet clover is biennial and dies
after the second year, hence to keep
a field seeded it will be necessary to
allow a good portion of the plants to
go to seed in July.
The greatest value Of sweet clover
is as soil builder. 1t will grow on
land too poor to produce anything
else. 1t is commonly found growing
wild along railroad cuts. roadsides
and other places where the top soil
has been removed. In a few years It
would reclaim poor land and make
1t capable of producing other and
more valuable crops.-Weekly Wit
ness.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30
Old Friends Arn n.

What have I in heaven9
sides Thee. what do I desire anu anu be.
Psalm 1925. vi earth!
This is a cry from the tor...,
heart of David--a cry from 'V,.areo osu
need to friend indeed. poor ~ Tne ~
truth Is he who calls no man ~ sr,.ey very
but poorer he who is no mans s.a' s.iena'
This would be bleak world nvaa rI.s
out affection. and hence tbe M" VIM
mas established, as a primal sonros r,os's, :,
all solace, fountain of 1--we sr.'.o
ing up perennially in Himse,t tp',ng' Tl
fairest and most fragrant fouo. ias
that love is friendship. An nea .oe. OI
anection is inseparable from SrIe friSnS
snip. The friends we have tried AVA
not found wanting are the frianS. aua
trust, and where the trial of fr,o,s w
snip has been longest our trns, !.
greatest, and so old friends arc h..
one there Is who outdates and ~,
classes all other friends He tr. ur
us and He understands. and ahoyo 'I
He Is willing and powerful 10 heln -,
lie alone possesses the fullest enun,
ment of friend. He knew ne IN ~.
eternities. He shaped events co ~
10 make us fit into the marvellous
scheme of His universe. He cared n,
us since our coming into all the bs.
wilderment of this creation. We bavs
walked erect or bent, and often havs
we stumbled and many times have wa
fallen. Yet whether upright or nro,,
trate the touch of the strong hama
OF His friendship has been upon us
even when in insensate moments We
nave struggled to fling 1t off.
AT all times, sick or well, waking
or sleeping, sad or joyous, His love
holds us like the clasp of a mother
Others have-never has He-shut
door against us. He was no mera
life saver, stirred by feeling or BY
thirst for fame or by hope of reward
He was all He was to us not because
He had pity on us, but because He
loved and wanted us. He is walking
by our side ever. He meets us at the
turn of every road. At every tick Of
the timepiece we can address our.
selves to Him. Whether our feet are
In the narrow path and we need cour.
age, or whether we are fighting with
!" AhO III thClt nuShS, IL Is always our
blessed privilege to appeal to this
Friend to keep us uncontaminated or
to bring us back from our wandering
under the roof of the Father.
Such friendship teaches us our own
worth. If He values us so highly Il
He thinks so much of us, tO what
heights of manhood and womanhood
may we not climb, How pitlful to
be surrounded by such an atmosphere
of love and not to live OF its vitality
What fools we are to starve amid
such plenty! If we realized all this
we would not leave this Friend until
we had failed with every one else, but
our prayer to Him for help would be
as our breathing and we would dis.
cover beyond doubt that old friends
are best and that of all old friends
He, the Ancient of Days, is verify old.
est and best.-Rev. P. A. Halpin, St
Angela's College, New Rochelle, N.
Y, in Sunday Herald.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30
FEMININE NEWS NOTES.

Grace Van Studdiford, an actress.
Bued her husband for divorce.
Six towns and cities of Colorado
nave elected women as treasurers.
Mary Elizabeth Crocheron was
found dead in her Staten Island home.
Miss Kate Cary's coaching parade
at Lenox, Mass, was declared a sue
cess.
Bessie I. Starr was non-suited in an
action against w. L. Albee, a wealthy
Buffalo man.
Miss Meredith, daughter of George
Meredith, has demonstrated In Eng
land her ability to lead a municipal
orchestra.
DR.. Mary Wolfe, superintendent OF
the State Hospital at Norristown, Pa,
has under her supervision more than
500 patients.
Mrs. Nelson Morris. widow of the
wealthy packer, of Chicago, died at
Fontainbleau, France, from an auto
mobile accident.
Miss Gertrude L. Sawyer has ac-
septed call to the pastorate of the
Free Baptist churches at New Port
land and East New Portland. Me.
The National Association of Retail
Milliners, meeting In Chicago, said
women ought to throw away the
peach basket and other freak hats.
Mrs. Florence Forbes. of New De-
,atur. Ala. one OF the foremost poul-
try breeders OF the South, was elect
ed vice-president OF the Tri-State Fair
Association.
Professor Frances Spire Potter,
whose paper read before the Buffalo
convention for equal suffrage attract
ed much attention. is the mother OF
four children.
Mrs. Clarence II. Mackay, president
OF the Equal Franchise League, called
on Mrs. Belmont at the new suffrage
headquarters, In New York City. and
the union between the former rival
Nctions was formally ratined-
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30
.EPWORTH LEAGUE LESSONS
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8.
Obedience and Abundance prov. II:
"a, rs; Nal. 8: 1o).
The Meaning of the Theme.

'"S W e'S
The enrichment of life by the law
ex2ounded by the wise man contains
the secret of saving the world, says
the prophet. Obedience is the gate
way to abundance In things spiritual
as truly as in things personal and
things social. The Coast and Geo.
1etic Survey of our Government has
perfected a machine for estimating
tides. 1t looks like a grandfather's
clock constructed on small SCALE
BY its use 1t is possible to tell ex.
actly the facts as to the state OF the
tide at any point at any time, a hun
dred years past or future, 1t makes no
difference which. The truth we study
today is like one of those machines
BY its application we may discover
for ourselves, for our church, what
our conservation is, and by 1t may
discover the depth and strength of it
In times past, or what 1t will amount
to hereafter. More than that. 1t is
practical partnership with God our
Father in business. Its observance
calls for method, honesty and care.
AS a means of taking religion into
ones business, 1t has no superior. 1t
will break the hold OF the world, and
control the greed for gain. and spirit.
ualize the so-called secular" activi.
ties until the counting house and
schoolroom and factory shall be as
holy as the prayer service and public
worship. Besides, IL means largeness
of life and its ministries. Next to
prayer money Is the most universal
force which men control. Obedience
in its use means abundance of life
and blessings In return. / know of a
man who had two horses, Bob and
Bill. At the end OF the day or week
Bob was turned loose in the large
pasture. He roamed at his own sweet
Will, and found the juicy grasses. and
shade, and water, and at the first call
came galloping across the broad acres
to his master. Not so Bill. The pas.
ture was more inviting elsewhere.
Over the fences or through them,
away he went, trampling down the
flowers, terrorizing the children. and
destroying the vegetable gardens and
lawns Of the neighbors. The only
way the poor, silly brute got pasture
at all was at the end OF a long chain
made fast at one end to strong
stake and at the other to the halter
which he wore.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30
Against Long Hat Pins.

The police at Hanover, says a Ber-
lin dispatch, have issued the follow
ing public proclamation:
Recently 1t has been frequently
noticed that excessively large hat
pins worn by ladies have not only
been a nuisance but also a positive
danger to other persons, who have
sustained injuries.
Notice is hereby given that those
who use hatpins of this type are not
only guilty OF the infringement OF or
dinary police regulations. which pro-
hibit any articles being worn in the
streets whereby other persons may
be annoyed or injured. but that they
may easily come into conflict with the
criminal law. and are also liable to
pay compensation for any damages
inflicted by their hatpins.
"In the interest of the ladies' them
selves II Is therefore recommended
that excessively large hatpins. or hat
pins whose points are not sheathed,
shall not be worm"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVORN NOTES
OCTOBER THIRD,
Topic-life lessons for me from the
book Of Ephesisns. Eph. a: 1.e,

Topic--Life lessons for me from the
book Of Epheslans. Eph. q: 1.e,
1882 CONSIDERATION meetlna.)
The eternal purpose. Eph. 1: LA;
Q: 10.
My great desire. Eph. /: 1923.
My spiritual resurrection Eph. q:
1-10.
The old man and the new. Eph. a:
1925.
Walking in the light. Eph. s: 1.21,
Social relationships. Eph. s. 90:
G: 9.
1t requires diligence to keep the
unity OF the Spirit" ". 81. That
precious prize is not obtained without
effort.
Christ's followers are one, because
He is one, and In proportion as they
draw close to Him Tvs. 5, 6).
Christians are not only to help each
other. but they are to be each other,
members, parts of each other ". 25).
The most powerful preventive OF
thought, is that It grleves God ".
30).
Gold from Ephesians.
IL is easy to be holy and without
blemish" before men; but who, with.
out divine aid, can be holy before the
all.seeing God? O.. 6)
1t is of slight value that our natural
eyes see II the eyes of our heart are
blind q: 1S).
The church is the holy body OF
cirist, the instrument by which He
must do all that He now does in the
world q: 23).
If any man thinks that he can save
himself, he does not know himself: IL
he thinks that Christ cannot save him,
he does not know Christ e.: 81.
Christ Is tho worlds peace, and II
there is war or hatred anywhere, Il is
because Christ is not there e.: 14).
If anything but Christ is the corner.
stone Of our life, let us look to the
building, for 1t Is sure to fall q: 20)
No one knows how unsearchable are
the riches of Christ till he has begun
to search them g: 81.
A Christians strength comes not
from outside. but through tho spirit
and from within g: 16).
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30
Best Litter For Hons.

we were once asked to visit a poul-
try farm where the hens were not
laying satisfactorily to see II we could
discover any reason for the lack of
eggs. The work on this place was
entrusted to help. The owner had
the theory OF poultry raising. but
very little practice. He knew that
the grain should be fed in deep litter
The men told him that there was
straw in the houses, and what more
could the hens want?
My hens have plenty of feed, -
said the owner OF the farm. "They
have plenty OF water. grit, charcoal,
and litter to scratch in, and yet In
May | am getting only one-third
egg yield"
The trouble was not far TO seek
The litter was packed down 80 solid
that II might almost as well have
been barn floor. The grain had
been thrown on top OF this TIL the
birds were surfeited, and grain was
scattered in heaps on the floor and
In the corners of the house. The
yard had been picked clean, there
was no inducement to exercise out
side, and no opportunity inside, so
the hens waxed fat and lazy. II the
straw had been tossed up each day.
kept light so that the hens could
scratch It about. and II the grain had
been scattered on the bare floor and
the straw kicked over It, the chickens
would have been forced to scratch
for their living.
The great advantage of leaves for
Hitter IL that they are too light to
pack. A house twelve inches deep
n leaves y ideally equipped for
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30
Courage.

How often do we hear the admoni.
ton, Keep your head above water"
The best way to fulfil the injunction
Is to keep the spirit above. Courage
nope, what can a man lot do with
these? What Is he able TO do with.
out them? Courage is an elixir Of
life. giving power both to mind and
body. 1t strengthens the snews, II
revivifies the. spirit. It makes life
indeed, worth living.
But" 1t may be asked, how can
person gain courage who is not
born with it?"
There are two requisites: 1. He
must believe that what he is doing
Is worth doing. 2. He must feel
that of all things in the world, Il
the thing that calls him. With these
convictions he is equipped with weap'
ons that shall level every obstacle
make a path through every mare
for OF these are born courage anu
faith.
All common things, each days events
That with hour begin and end.
Our pleasures and our, discontents
Are rounds by which we may ascend
Christian Advocate
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30

scratching Lacking the leaves, straw
is good, If allowed to pack.
We thought we had found Just the
litter we wanted one year when we
saved the chaff from the threshing,
out later found that the hens pick
up too much chan with their feet.
and the chaff was unwholesome as
well as unnutritious.
Make some provision this year for
litter and feed in that, not on it.
Inland Farmer.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30
Hateful Processes.

Apologists for Christianity shoula
never be guilty of maintaining super,
stitions. because they help to conIlgl
the passions of the ignorant. suen
processes are hateful to rightly con.
stituted minds, and II we serionsl.
care for our religion and Its deiehss Hs,
and establishment we cannot maniless
our solicitude in better way than "
frankly and fully examine every sl.u'
alton which Is involved In it.--he"
3. Parkes Cadman.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30
Handling Fowls.

1t is well to handle fowls occasion.
ally after they have gone TO roost.
II tames them. Also feel their crops
and see II they are we'll filled, but
not gorged. A little grain thrown
into litter at night. gives the fowls
something to do when they come on
the roost. II no rats are troubling,
the morning feed may be put out in
the litter when poultry house Is
closed for the night.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30
Graveyard of Shattered Hopes. -

Saloons are the graveyards of am.
billions and burial grounds OF many
wasted lives" In these striking words
the Chicago Tribune, July 20, gives
two columns OF space to a discussion
OF the menace In the saloons back
room" "No other agency In Chi
cago," writes elias Tobenkin, in this
Tribune article. "can compete with
the rear room of the saloon in the
matter OF destroying character, ruin
Ing homes and blighting lives" quot
ing a careful student Of this phase Of
city life.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30
% FATHER, REVIVE Us A.,

Quicken us, Lord, for tho vo.
o.Apd And the waiting time t's see@s geaP' go go +;
Quicken us, for our seers i1nS J;o long
And blind is the needless tbro.
Quicken us. for the fields are eenrong;
And earth needs harvest.soorGyo', ory
we speak, o Lord. of the "formo, -.
n And point to the Covenant fi1ner Rosrr rain,
" sena US revival showers again INV
And naI e,, snail th make the mountains A..
Lord, the tns iatteT 'fna w,6 Thts the waving s
Oh; give us a year amidst ,h.
That our children NAV recall s"g years,
AS we do now through n ,nist
IN me showers, that vet shall fslI, 'ear'-
me dawn OF the sunrise GLORY no,..
y, Father, revive us ali wy nears,
j. IL. s., in London Cbri.s.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30
Weight of Eggs.

There Is a decided difference in the
weight OF eggs from pullets and hens
and OF those laid by different breeds
These figures are approximately cor
rect: Single Comb Brown Leghorns
pullets, I'm ounces per dozen; hens
Il " ounces. Light Brahmas, pu.
let's, 23h ounces; hens. 2S ounces
Black Langshans. pullets, "a ounces
mems, u ounces. Pekin ducks,
35 y ounces.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30
Iioup.

The first thing to do upon dlscov-
ering roup is to Isolate the infected
bird, put It in your hospital If you
have one, and II not get busy and es-
tablsh one, for at this date all up-to-
date poultry plants have their hospi-
tai to which all ailing birds are re-
moved and the majority are thereby
sayed.-Farmers' Home journal.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30
Fresh Air.

Give the chickens plenty of good,
fresh air these hot nights, even II you
Chickens that are cooped up in a
close atmosphere all highland turned
out in the cool of the early morning,
will be fit subjects for colds, rheuma-
tism and roup. Farmers Home
journal,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30
AIL IN rHE Family.

'You know the artist we met lss'
summer. who boasted so OF his i1I Il.
lily connections? Were any OF -
pictures hung?"
mo. but his grandfather was
Baltimore American.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30
Produces Criminals.

Theodore Roosevelt says: "The
saloon tends to produce criminality
In the population at large and law
breaking among the saloon keepers
themselves. When the liquor men
are allowed to do as they wish, they
are sure TO debauch, not only the
body social. but the body polite
ALSO"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30
Good VIII.

II you are sure OF the good VIII " ~
your own heart, you will surely 1nl
IL In God, In man, everywhere, apy
you will be able to see that the sun y
shining. all nature is fair and friep''
are kInd.--Rev. A. G. Singsen.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30
sunaower seeds UsefuI.

Some sunnower seeds should be
planted around edge OF yards for
shade. II no other Is accessible. until
a few fruit trees can grow large
enough for shade. sunhower seeds
are good for fowls. especially at
moulting season. 30 be sure to plant
a few every year. Get the large
kind.-Mrs. J. @. Deaton.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30
NOR OURS. EITHER.

He--"A gentleman Is defined "
enc who never gives pain"
ehe-''Then my dentist 70 no seS
tleman. ."--Boston Transcript
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The Cburch's Supreme Mission.

To restore man to himself. to nls s
place In nature, to society and TO ovs
was the comprehensive mission OF Wv
Son of Man. and 1t is the suprenu'
mission of His church in the twenn'
eth century.--Rev. James d. Clayton