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The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-23

Messrs. Editors: am 15 years
old, and / want your advice. | have
been on the farm all OF my life and
expect to make 1t my occupation.
but / would like to have a good or
chard and large poultry yard.
have some ducks and guineas and
am trying TO raise more. | want TO
know what kinds of fowls are best
which kind of turkeys. guineas.
ducks and chickens.-and the best
way to raise and take care OF them.
and what kind Of feed is best for
them.
am in the hills now, but | have
just moved from off the Tallahatchee
River. / like the hills better, but
liked down there very we'll. My
father owns las acres right on the
river and now 100 in the hills, but
it is awfully poor and washed full
Of gullies. I Just don't like to see a
place go down so bad; and another
thing, l would like to see all OF my
farmer friends go to work and make
everything tnat they can at nome.
and not have to buy so much that
they could raise at home.
And l would like to see every man
let each one Of his boys stay at
home and work separately and see
what he can do by himself; but my
father would never let me do as I
wished to.
/ want to know what kind of hogs
are best, too; and how Is the best
way to grow good fruit and how To
take care Of the trees, and how to fix
them when ! go to set out new trees
and the best method of trimming.
JOSEPH DENMAN
Tillatoba, Miss
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-23

II will pay all farmers TO continu.
ally examine their cotton fields for
boil weevils. Don't wait until thar
eat up your cotton. but commenes
now TO fight them. II you have 4
large cotton crop. get sufficient labor
10 work your cotton every seven
days. Thrash them of and cover
them up shallow In the hot dir.
Pick up all the punctured squares
you can and burn them. Use brushes
on your plows: agitate the stalks all
you can. Don't lay-by your cotton.
but 30 through the middles every
six days after you quit blowing the
rows. Try this plan. and see II Il,
don't make more cotton than you
can pick. JNO. O. ALLEN.
Gilmer. Texas.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-23

how meager is the mess OF pottage
for which the birthright is bartered
is witnessed in the half-starved con-
dition of many of the cattle that
roam the fields in winter.
In a later article mention will be
made of other means of growing
good crops of cotton on land infected
with cotton wilt.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-23

the boy will learn most and TAI.
more interest IL allowed to wort
piece of land as he thinks best
When you get the bulletins wo
are having sent you and have ra.s
them write us again. telling us vb,,
you think OF them. If you lea,.
anything from them other ho,,
might do the same
Sincerely yours.
TAFT BUTLER
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-23
COTTON WILT OR BLACKROOT.
How -Wilt Spread fastened by
Turning in Winter.
By Prof ]. F. Duegar Alabama Experiment Station.

breaks and destroys terraces, origi-
mates washes, Injuries the soil, pro-
hibits the growing of winter crops
and so makes impossible the best
practice in soil improvement and di-
versification of crops.
In return each farmer gets the
privilege of swapping with his neigh
Dor a few tons of corn stalks, a little
nibbling at the frosted cotton plants,
and a few dollars worth of over-ripe
crabgrass. If the custom works fair
ly, it is an exchange between neigh
bors, for AS cows eat BIS stalks.
while BIS cows tramp over AS fields.
Both men give up the privilege of
protecting their own property against
injury for the liberty, or license, of
invading their neighbors' fields. And
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-23


widely spread. Fortunately, 1ts
spread is by no means as rapid as
that of the boil weevil. Moreover,
the farmer has better right to ex-
pect to triumph over it than over the
greatest insect enemy
Cotton wilt needs no description
for those whose fields have been in
vaded by it. But for the benefit OF
those who have never seen it or have
had so little troubled with it as not
to recognize the disease, it may be
described as a sudden willing of the
cotton plant, especially when in full
bloom or in the midst Of the boil
forming period. Usually the affect
ed plants die. but they sometimes
live as dwarfed and sickly specimens,
in spite of the loss of large proper
ton of their leaves. Such surviving
plants may be distinguished from
those which lose their leaves on ac-
count of rust by an examination OF
the cut stem.
On cutting through a stem, root.
or diseased branch of plant affect
ed with cotton wilt, there appear In
the pith black specks and usually
there is dark layer just under the
bark. These dark specks represent
the water-carrying vessels of the
plant; their dark color is due to their
being now stopped or plugged with
the minute plant which causes the
disease.
This germ. once introduced into a
field from some other diseased spot,
lives in the soil. retaining its life, in
some cases for more than five years.
Hence, in any rotation intended COM
pletely to starve out the germs OF
blackroot, cotton must be kept of
the land for a considerable number
of years. In practice. it Is found
that by growing cotton not oftener
than one year in three, and observing
certain other precautions, fair crops
of cotton may be obtained, though
some little disease may be present.
1t has been found that the bes,
rotation for reducing the amount OF
cotton wilt is one which excludes ahy
plants whose. roots are attacked by
the minute worms that cause another
disease, root-knot. Among plants thai
must be kept off the field, because
root-knot worms multiply on them
are most varieties of cowpeas lex
tho Trnnl 70 hlnc n
weeds, or other plants having tender
succulent roots. for example, morn
ing glories.
The reason for avoiding any
plants on whose tender roots nema
tode worms can grow Is this: Aftel
such plants, the roots of cottor
would be more generally attacked b.
these root-knot worms, on account o
their increased number The will
germ, which is low form OF plan
life, is believed to gain entrance Il
the cotton roots more readil.
through the wounds made by tn,
root-knot worms than into cottoi
roots where no nematode worms ar,
present.
Among the plants which may b,
safely grown on land infected will
germs Of blackroot are the Iron va
riety Of cowpeas, peanuts, begga
weed, corn, oats, sorghum, and an,
Of the forage grasses.
Probably the principal means b
which cotton wilt is spread is tn
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-23

My Dear Young Friend: Your let
ter asks for rather more informa-
ton than can be put into one letter,
but we are having the United States
Department Of Agriculture send you
bulletins on chickens, turkeys, ducks,
and guineas. These will give you
more complete information than we
could give in letter. but after you
have studied them carefully, II you
still wish to know anything not COW
cred in those bulletins, write us
again.
We are also having several bulle-
tins sent treating on hogs and fruit
growing.
AS regards the best breed of hogs
we wish to impress upon you that
there is no best breed Of hogs. There
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-23
Our Progressive Farmer Boys
WHAT A BOY WANTS TO KNOW.

Department Agriculture Furnish Infor
Almost Any Subjec-Get Farmers Bulletins and
Then to o Rid of Gulles.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-23

YOT EVEN THE boil weevil is bl
M more destructive force in n;
4 Y cotton culture than is cotton hi
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-20

FINAL SCORE
Is IL TO s
(By United Pre- IS Leased wire.)

= BY ntedP
Cubs and the Philadelphia
upon for the worlds cham
with Reulbac and King in the points for the Ma
their station for the Americans
for Reubach in the third and Pester went
in in the fourth.
surprise expressed when IL announced
Coombs would pitch
giving two bases for hits into
the crowd ,,,,>,o
Phadelphia-Strmk Lord sacrificed, Reulbach to
Collins flied sheckard Baker singled to center seor
stealing King to Tinker One rum
ChicagoSheckard walked schulte douoed 10 leIt
strunk sheckard scoring Chance famed zimmerman
flied to Strunk One run.
SECOND INNING. ..,..,, =.
walked Murphy sacrificed Steinfed TO
Chance Barry doubled to left scoring flied
Schultz Coombs doubled to right scoring Barry Struck oub
Chicago-stenfeldt Barry Tinker doubled to right
out batting Ruelbach walk
doubled to left. scoring Tinker
Beaumont. Hoffman famed. TIVE runs
Pbiadelpbis-McIntyre succeeded flied to
single hot for Tinker to field Baker
erreached third Mcintyre hit Davis 1t is raining again. murphy
field bleachers Davis and Baker scoring ahead
bali sailed clear the crowd Chance kicked SO
benched Archer relieved him NC
the latter safe Barry scoring
Coombs hit into double play zimmerman to TINKER 10 Ace
Five
PadelphiaThe ball slippery and difficult TO hande
Lord Peser zimmerman Collins out stealing hhns 10 INK
No
Baker Barry Pfste out Baker to Davis NO runs
INNING.
Zimmerman to Archer DAVIS slngleo
Hoffman Barry forced Davis Tinker
Zimmerman No
Chicago-sheckard buned safely Schultz famed norman
flied Murphy sheckard thinking double continued running
and out, Murphy to Thomas to Davis. No runs.
Phiadephia-Thomas Tinker Archer coombs popped
famed. No -
retired first Thomas TO Coomps
norman famed steinfeldt fouled to Baker. No runs
CONTINUED Page Six)
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-20
DAVID BENNETT HILL DEAD
(By United Press Leased Wire.)

ALBAN N. Y, Oct. 20.-Da-
vid Bennett Hill, democratic lead
er, former governor of New York
and ex-United States senator, died
at his residence, Wolferts Roost,
at $3.50 O'Clock today. Hill had
been i'll for two weeks with cold
and it's IMPLICATIONS. During
the last week his condition grew
more serious but yesterday he
seemed to improve in health and
appeared in exceptionally good
spirits.
Age and waning vitality caused
relapse last night and he died
suddenly, only the nurse being
present as Hill breathed his last.
Was Governor of N. Y.
Hill was the dominating power
in the Empire state democracy for
years and his famous conflicts
with the late Grover Cleveland
caused Cleveland to leave New
York and go to New Jersey.
Hill was great lawyer and re
ceived many large fees, which i'm
his time were regarded as excep-
tionally big.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-20
AWAITS CENSUS
WORD FROM
EAST

President Burke of the chamber
of commerce is this afternoon anx-
iously awaiting for word from
Washington on the Tacoma census
situation.
Secretary Sommers is believed
to be there now, and it is hoped
to have some definite word from
either Mr.. Sommers or direct
from President Taft or Secretary
Nagel today.
In the meantime the public
spirited citizens here are getting
ready to wage a fight that will
attract the attention of the ma
tion if the government refuses to
do justice to this city.
Facts are being gathered now
and data collected that will be
shown at Washington. A little
private investigation is also going
on as to the record of Special
Agent Mckenzie in this city and
what he was doing while here.
The Tacoma people are not sat-
isfied with Mckenzie and they are
going to see what is back of this
unheard-of cut of the Tacoma CEN
sus by eliminating every third per-
son in the city.
Congressman Poindexter, who
was here for a few minutes last
evening, announced that he
would wire Washington at once,
and would do all possible to get
recount for Tacoma or have the
matter Strengthened out to give
the city what she is entitled to.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-20
DECLARES
WIFE LEFT HIM

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
LONDON, Oct. 20.-Dr. III. HI.
Orippen took the witness stand i'm
his own defense this afternoon to
answer to charge of having
murdered his wife, Belle Elmore
Grippen, for the love of his typist,
Miss Ethel Clare Leneve.
Crippen indicated that he
would seek to prove that his wife
is not dead but that she fled to
America to join Bruce Miller, a
Chicago man. Crippen was dap
per of appearance and nonchalant
of manner. He displayed absolute
ly no signs of nervousness.
Quarreled For Years.
After outlining his medical
career he said:
81 knew my wife was friendly
with Miller and often upbraided
her for corresponding with him.
In 1904, Cora, which is Mrs. Grip
pens right name, admitted her
fondness for Millers,and l ceased
cohabitating with her and from
that time our relations were
strained.
ssRepeatedly she threatened to
leave me; saying that she would
20 to America DO join Miller. The
last time I saw her was january
81. of this year, and l believe she
fed to America.
Said She Had Died.
aIn an effort to avoid scam
day, concocted a story that she
had gone to America TO attend to
private business for me in Cali
forsiaa and that while en- route
She had died and was incinerated
in America. / simply couldn't
face my friends and admit that
my wife had deserted me.
.sMonday night before she left
l wrote a letter in her name to
the; Music Hall Ladies Guild re-
signing from her position as
treasurer.
Said She Was Sorry.
ssMr. and Mrs. Martinette came
QUE to dinner and my wife abused
me for not paying them more at.
tentbon, saying:
EThis Is the finish; ! will
stand it no longer. shall leave
tomorrow and you will not hear
from me again.
ssBefore this she told me that
the man she would 30 to would
be better able to support her.
II went to the office next morn
ing and returning home between 5
and 6 O'clock and found that she
had gone. 1 trled 30 think how
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-20
HERE'S A FINE CHANCE FOR
SOME RICH AMERICAN GIRL
s KING MANUEL is FOR SALE

continue to find himself in increas-
ingly straitened circumstances is
undisputed. There would be small
surprise in leading circles if the
deposed ruler at once sought mar
riage in a rich American family
with view to retrieving his fallen
fortunes.
The queen mother, herself, is
wealthy, but as she is extravagant
there seems little chance of Manuel
getting material assistance from
her.
For Manuel to marry into a roy
al family is now practically out of
the question. Should he be so un-
wise as to wed a woman outside
of royalty, any small chance he
may now have of regaining the
Portuguese throne would be gone
forever.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-20

NEW YORK, Oct. 20.-"Unlim-
tied families are a curse. 1t is
crime for most people to have
even as many as two children. The
world would be far better If most
marriages were chfldless ana most
children orphans"
Such is the opinion of Lillian
Bell on a declaration made by De
Rose Howe of Chicago to the ef-
feet that "some day 1t will be a
statutory offense for any woman to
become the mother of more than
two children.
"How many out of the countless
millions who marry are prepared
to care for even one child physlc-
ally, mentally and financially as 1t
should be cared fort" continued
Miss Bell.
81 believe that if the residents
of the country Of unborn children
that Maeterlinck speaks of in 'The
Blue Bird" could express their
wishes, not one of them would
choose to pass through our mortal
existence.
every child should be wished
for, planned for exactly as a house
is. 1t should be the product OF
conscious will, not a haphazard
consequence which the father and
mother do not want, and take care
of not from love, but from a sense
of shame.
EVERY woman who has had ten
children should have statue
raised to her-a monument to her
martyrdom. A child can be at once
the greatest reward, the greatest
sorrow and the greatest Joy.
Lillian Bell, who is Mrs. Arthur
Hoyt Bogue in private life, glanced
at her 7-year-old daughter, blond
and brown eyed little beauty, and
sighed.
"I've just been through long
siege of illness with Lillian she
said. "There is no other worry in
the world equal to that of the
mother who cries all night over a
sick child. Most children would
be better off IL they were born or
phans.
"That's because so many parents
and children are misfits. The
mothers leave them to the care OF
nurses and governesses, who pinch
and slap them and tumble them
out of their perambulators.
'But what is the use OF talking
about families, limited or unlim-
tied. in the east. There are none.
The word family. is becoming obso-
lete here. A young man and young
woman get married in New York
and then have-not children-but
dogs. Marriage to them means
taking a better apartment than
other persons they know can af-
ford, and then entertaining thei1
friends more extensively than
their friends can entertain them
They don't long for children, save
for children. They plan for an au-
tomobile. The motor is supplantine
the mother. That's all there Is
about 1t.
"The world wants better child
ren and fewer children, so they
will have a chance to be better
This idea that every woman Is
predestined mother is ridiculous
"Women should train fol
motherhood just as they DO fol
professions. They should make
| matrimony career. They should
I have children when they have tn
means and the talent to max
brotherhood success
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-20
Unlimited Families a Curse
Declares Noted Authoress

"But the maternal instinct is by
no means so generally distributed
as men suppose. Mothers are born,
not made. 1t is crime for a wom-
an to have children that she
doesn't want or that her husband
can't support; to bring helpless be-
ings into lives of misery and de-
spair.
"Of course, what that woman in
Chicago says about limiting fami-
lies by statute is perfectly asinine.
But they should be controlled by
the common sense and responsible
ity and humanity of the parents
themselves.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-20
Prefer Charges
on Ballinger

PORTLAND. Ore., Oct. 20.-
Preferring charges that Richard A.
Ballinger, secretary of the interior,
has refused to admit him to prac-
tice in the department of the in
terror and it's bureaus because of
unfavorable testimony he gave in
the Ballinger-Pinchot investiga-
tion, Horace Tillard Jones, former
ly a special agent Of the general
land office, today telegraphed in
structions to Washington to his
brother, Eugene A. Jones, to- in
stitute mandamus proceedings
against the secretary of the interi-
or and the commissioner of the
general land office compelling his
admission.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-20
Billy Burk gets another chance /

Billy Burk gets another chance,
He was bad boy. But maybe
he can do better. Humane Or
ficer Van Voris believes in him
and that is why he went down in
his pocket and hired a lawyer and
went into police court yesterday
afternoon to fight for Btlly's free
dom.
And he got 1t.
Billy was in for vagrancy. He
had been arrested by Superintend-
ent Hoover of the charity depart
ment. For ten years Hoover has
been trying to get that boy to
work and help support his mother
and invalid sister. No wonder he
was discouraged and few to the
law when he still found poverty
and filth and squalor at the Burk
home at Twelfth and Tyler streets.
Reaping the Whirlwind.
But Billy Burk has sown the
wind and is reaping the whirl-
wind. His father died when he
was 1 1 and he never had a chance.
Maybe his harum-scarum disposi-
tion was born in him. Anyway
he did not take to discipline nor
instruction. He "blitzed" from
school. He ran the streets and
grew to manhood in idleness and
crime. He went to jail and came
out worse then he entered. He
married and took his wife home
and still clug to the notion of his
criminal associates that fellow
is a fool to work.
And then he got down on his
back. He was sick. The roseate
hue of crime and shiftlessness dis
appeared and when he was all in
he called Humane Officer Van
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-20
Dynamiters Believed
to be Aboard Steamer

he had received word that three
men suspected of completely in
the dynamiting we're now aboard
a Pacific Mail steamer which
would soon land at San Benito, a
Mexican coast port on the Gulf of
Tehauntepec.
KnTv'3 telegram said he had re-
eeive( he information through
the N AIcan ambassador at Wash
ington, who Is believed to have
secured his facts from the Mexi-
can police, who have been active
in watching for the dynamite sus-
pects.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-20

to cover up her absence so there
would be no scandal.
When asked where my son
lived l gave his address. / then
advertised in the Era that she
was dead, thinking it would pre-
vent people from asking me a lot
of questions. Whatever 1 told
others regarding her death was
absolutely wrong and was done to
prevent a scandal"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-20

During the day "Tabby" and
Floss" the lovely Angora feline
pets of the Skmith family, were
drowsy and demure. Their con-
duct was irreproachable.
At night? All, at night they
were perfect FOUNDERS.
They would hold forth ON
Neighbor Bjones' fence.
Neighbor Bjones was not such
a sound sleeper that he didn't no
tice this. He got into the habit of
sleeping with the old family blum
derbuss by his bedside.
One moonlight night '"Tabby"
and Floss" pulled few minor
chords.
Then Bjones pulled the trigger.
(The End.)
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-20
BILLY BURK WILL GET
ANOTHER CHANCE At LIFE

Voris.
"I'm down and out" he told
Van Voris.
He was ready to listen to ad-
vice and try to make new start
in life.
And right there Van Voris took
hold of him. When law and
charity and the ordinary avenues
of society fail then Van Voris Is
the last resort of the stricken i'm
Tacoma. And he makes good.
He went to a drug store and
stood good for medicine and Billy
Burk was put ON his feet and be-
gan to get ready to take a job.
Life Before Him.
Van Voris started to hunt work
for him and then Superintendent
Hoover happened along and found
poverty in the home and squaior
and wretchedness i'm the home OF
Billy's sister back of it, where
four little children are huddled
and he said Billy had got to go.
He arrested him for vagrancy.
Billy was in jail when Van
Voris heard of it.
In fifteen minutes he had a
prominent business man ON Billy S
bail bond.
"I don't know him, but know
you," the bondsman told Van
Voris, and Billy Burk began to
see that a good name does count
for something. And ne was in
court when his name was called
yesterday.
He is still a boy, just over his
majority, and has a life before
him. He may yet make good.
Van Voris says he shall have a
Hhanna. ~
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-20
WITH GODS help I'LL BREAK THE LAW-R0YS
Public Safety Man Has
Strange Speech Method

Mrs Henrietta Smawood, nineteen-yearod girl the
city SmaIlwood child boy, and that makes
Police
ciety will endeavor
Judge tells Small woods
which
'de about finally discovered her saloon,
a C in
She n a saloon dr hiking a
woman? There a which shall permitted
a aSaloo
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-20
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LONDON, Oct. 20.-Dom Man
uel deposed king of Portugal,
Queen Mother Amelie and suite,
arrived on the royal yacht Victoria
and Albert, last evening, and today
are on their way to the duke of
Orleans, estate in Worcestershire,
where the dethroned hoy king"
and his motehr, together with sew
eral noble friends, will rest for a
time.
As Manuel stepped ashore he
looked pale and worried. The
events of recent weeks had clear
ly been a severe strain on him.
Need Money Badly.
Reports are current regarding
Manuel today that he is badly in
need of money, and probably will