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The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1910-09-27
EXECUTORS NOTICE.

All persons having claims against
the estate of the late John Clark,
coiored. will present the same prop
erly proven to
PEALE COLLIER,
13sept4t-eot Executor
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1910-09-27
VOLUME XXX.
See US before insuring your
tobacco.
6-oct Mcclure & Clendennin
For Sale.

Zoos Jr., 2-horse power gas engine
in GOOD condition. Reason for selling
will install electric motor. Cost SIPS
viii, sell for $50 cash. Apply to
THE BOURBON NEWS.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1910-09-27
California and Washington
Fruits.

Tokay grapes. pears, apples, plums
and peaches.
C.P. COOK & co.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-01-15
Average Weekly Circulation 1900, 30, IOs
Save Your Papers This Year.

(VIlOU WISH TO GET the most out of your sub
INq scripton to The Progressive Farmer and
Gazette this year, do you not? Well you
not going to do this unless you take care OF
your papers,-not one and then that seems
to have something special in it, but each and every
copy as it comes With the beginning of this year
we are beginning new volume, and the pages
will be numbered consecutvely through from the
first issue of the year to the last. Then at the
end of the year we going to publish an index
which will enable you to find any article in very
few minutes. This index will be sent free to all
subscribers who ask for It,
Get binder and save your papers We will
furnish you binder at actual COSTS cents. and
with it you can have at hand any time you want
it information on wide range of subjects that
would require a good many dollars worth OF
books to duplicate. You have already paid for the
paper, why not get the most out OF it? II wifi he
of value to you in hundred instances to have
a complete file where you can refer to 1t at need
Begin now. at the first of the year and save every
number.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-01-15
Editorial Notes.

VKTE MUST AGAIN remind our good friends
NNf who write US for information that they
must sign their namca II won't do TO
sign. "A Farmer" or ~ Subscriber" totterm
signed in this way can not receive proper atten-
ton We can do nothing with tho Inquiries or let.
'erS to which no name is signed. they Invariably
20 to the sastc-haskot We do not like 10 do
that with an inquiry. but II must be done We
90 not make practice OF printing the namon
signed to Inquiries. so you need no, heaitat, n
sign your correct name
Last year over 1900 Americans. moatly farm
ers from the Northwest moved into cn,as,
many OF these men would have come South In
STEAD we are sure. II they had known the noxs,.
oiIlues and advantages OF the South aa n far,,t,,
section. IL would have been good for ua too -
nave had them here. VIII II not pay us to g,vo
'''''o moro attention TO tho advertising OF our n.
sources?
"''''"s oi MIS- recent trip through the South
EDITOR Henry Wallace. OF Iowa, says: "Ons not,,
upon which probably every State visited "a ssr..,
ID the necessity OF good county roads A,o,h..
point IN which there is unlyersaI eera.,,.., :,
'hat OF postal savings banks. and stil another :.
phFcss post" Speaking OF our schools rduo.
wallace makes this very pertinent ob.erv.,,o,
"hlch We shall do we'll to keep I'm mind. .r.
none OF The Southern States liz there apv .nr.,..,
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-01-15
Some Practical Book" Farming.

~1OME OF THOSE who have been too ready
NH to sheer at what they eontemptuousy call
- book farming" should study the results
of the farming Mississippi Experiment station
farm at Starkvle under Prof w. II. Perkins.
and at Stoneville. in the Delta. under Prot J. w.
Fox in the year 1909 II will be readily conced-
ed that this was OF the worst crop years the
central part of Mississippi experienced but
Professor Perkins made 53 bales OF cotton on so
acres and Professor Fox % bales on SIS acres
No. my dear SIR they did not do IL by the of
commercial fertilizers: for none was used on the
cotton on either farm. Neither did they have
labor machinery than was profitable and
easily within the reach OF any average farmer.
There is use trying 10 and any other
for the difference In the crops on these two places
and that on the average farm except better farm
ing-book farming. II YOU please Go ye and do
likewise These crops not phenomenal. but
merely represent what ought to DO done on every
farm. and what will DO done when intelligent
methods OF cotton production arc employed.
They merely represent the yields which our lands
should produce. and will produce. even under un-
favorable conditions when properly treated but
what results might follow these demonstration.
u the farmers OF the State would learn Lessor
In cotton culture from these two good farmers,
There is nothing secret or mysterious nbou, their
methods. They simple aud easily followed
Plain common sense. II seems TO US would com
pei every man who makes icsa cotton per acre TO
study and follow the methods by which another
makes 30 much better yields II Is good bust
ness policy 10 try TO initiate tho methods of any
one who working in your line. gets better results
han you. Why will farmers not follow that pol
icy,
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-01-15

have been known to be by any one, is astonishing
We repeat: There are no secrets in agriculture.
and the mere fact that any one offers such for
sale is sufficient to arouse suspicion and justify
condemnation. Give UP no money to any one for
any secret formula method for the mixing OF
fertilizers; you can obtain all the information In
existence about this subject merely for the ask
ing; and just certainly is there secret meth
cd of cultivating any crop. that is worth one
penny. You can get all that is known on this
subject by reading farm literature.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-01-15
Don't Buy Quack Formulas"

NHlLh Wish 10 again warn our readers against
MN the purchase of secret or mysterious for
mulas for fertilizers. the treatment Of dis
eases In animals, or for any other Agricultural
purposes. Likewise beware of the secret methods
OF cultivation which are offered for price
through advertisements in certain agricultural pa
pers. We are informed that numbers of farmers
have been caught by that transparent swindle adj
vertised as new and mysterious bunch" method
OF planting cotton. That any one would give nm
good money for so plain fake" as this ought n
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-01-15
We Guarantee Our Adverusers.

WE win positively make By An,
w subscriber a MISREPRESENTATION
made In our columns the part OF advertiser VII
deliberate does not mean tina
We will try to adjust trnins disputes between reliable bust
ness houses and their patrons but
fraudulent dealing will make food the subscriber A
have Just indicated The this guarantee
that the claim for loss shall reported within
month After the advertisement in a
that the subscriber must when
i am writing advertiser The
mer which guarantees the reliability OF Ali advertiser
Il carries"
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-01-15
You Can Not Get Something for
Nothing.

! N'Q tne farm or elsewhere. III you wish better
crops. larger profits. a more fertile farm
you must expect to pay the price. This price Is
usually harder and more persistent work: but this
work may be done with either the hands or the
head. We believe. too. a general proposition
that it is head work rather than hand work which
Southern farmers need most to do 1t is useless
to expect to drag along just any old way. trusting
to luck and the for success. or blaming
luck and the seasons for failure and make sue
right down TO the bottom of the matter and try
to find out what were the real reasons for the
success or the failure.
Did you ever see one of those darkies who when
he went to do hard Job would play e little on
one side OF it and then fool little on the other
SIDE doing this and that and the other and con-
cerned chiefly with keeping out OF the real work
just as long as possible? II you have you know
how much he Is really worth when downright
hard labor Is demanded
Well, we have often seen farmers who seemed
TO us to think Just like such darkies work They
would wonder and debate over and plan for pea.
nut or potato patch. but they never did good
half-hour's really honest. concentrated thinking
about their farming as a whoe-neyer considered
the various lines OF work In relation to each other
or to their own substantial and permanent vel.
fare. They farmed without plan or system. with
no definite goal in view and therefore, no certain
course in any direction.
TO succeed at farming a farmer has got To
think. honestly. earnestly persistently and brave.
ly. He must when he finds a problem that needs
solving. put his mind TO work on IT and keen Il
there until he has mastered IT, lust ma he np,s his
team into field and keeps 1t there until the field
Is proved The man who is afraid work his
hrin iittIc must expect TO do "A lot OF work with
MS mucles for which he will get very little pay.
The farm paper. the institute force the expert.
ment station. all furnish aids to the solving Of
the individual farmers problems. but he must. of
last. work them out for himself We can in o,r
columns, lay down the general PRINCIPLES NJ eooa
cultivation or OF rational fertilization. but we can
not Tell you when you should pillow your field. how
often you should cultivate your crops, Just how
much fertilizer you should apply, and what kind
and In what way. These details each man ,,us,
work out for himself; and in direct ratIo n INA
understanding he has OF general prlncIpIes and
me correctness with which he applies these nr,u-
cpes TO his particular conditions VIII be tho nro,
Its he gets from his work
iHeie ID nope Tor the man who thinks; even II
"i' CONCLUSIONS are Incorrect he will learn better
But the man who is too indoent TO do more tb,,
Supply follow traditions or custom. mr. otbar
iolks direction not. in the very natura .,
things De anything else than one OF those "avsr
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-01-15

age" farmer who help make the farming averages
low.
We cannot get something for nothing. We must
pay the price and the price OF success Is usually
careful and well-balanced thinking.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-02-04
How the German Blinded Him.
From the Philadelnhia Tfmes.

From the Philadelphia Times.
]. Campbell White, secretary Of the
laymen's mission movement, during his
work for missions had had some
queer experience, but one he had in a
mining camp in Montana some years
ago gives him much amusement when
he reverts to the story.
There was a German immigrant in
the camp, who had received a letter
from home. He was illiterate and no
one in the camp understood enough
German to read the letter to him. He
was Of course overjoyed to learn that
White could read German.
As the missionary began the man
from the banks of the Rhine clapped
his hands over Mr.. Whites ears.
What are you trying to do?' ex-
claimed Mr.. White, after he had been
able to free his ears from the fellows
palms.
dot letter vas from mine girl.
hold your ears so you don't hear vat
in ii vas!" was the reply.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-02-04

grew stronger, and within three months
] was a perfectly well woman.
Il want this letter made public to
show the benefit women may derive
from Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound."-Mrs JOHN G. MoLDAN,
21l5 Second ST., North, Minneapolis,
MINI.
Thousands of unsolicited and genu-
Inc testimonials like the above prove
the efficiency of Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, which is made
exclusively from roots and herbs.
Women who suffer from those dis
tressing ills peculiar to their sex should
not lose sight of these facts or doubt
the ability of Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound to restore their
health.
Ifyou want special advice write
to Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass
confidential. For 90 years She
has been helping sick women i'm
this way, free of charge. Don's
hesitate write at once.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-02-04
EIGHTEEN YEARS AGO HE HAD
LESS THAN THREE DOLLARS.

ne is Now One of the Riches Farm
ers I'm saskatchewan, Central
Canada.
Arriving in Canada in 1891, just
eighteen years ago, E.. A. Guillemin,
could speak but his native language.
He is a Frenchman. He had but a
little over 50 in his pocket, thus be.
ing short over 81 of the $40 required
to secure entry for a homestead OF
100 acres. He eventually borrowed
the money, and, near Forget, Sas-
katchewan, he started life in Canada
on the homestead in which to-day he.
is the fortunate possessor Of fifty quar-
ter sections Of laid, or 5000 acres.
Now Mr.. Guillemin did not acquire
all these acres as a result altogether
of his farming operations, which were
extensive. He looked with satisfac
ton upon what he was doing on his
limited area, he was saving, careful
and had foresight. Surrounding land
could be had for about So per acre,
and he continued buying as his saw.
ings would permit, until now he has
fifty quarter sections, some of which
he can sell at SIS per acre.
ThreShed Fifty thousand Bushels.
This year he was engaged in thresh.
ing on his place for 5412 days. he
threshed out $4,000 bushels of wheat,
of which he sold $4,000 bushels, N
train load, at a price varying from
"a to 81 cents per bushel. He has on
hand still 16, 900 bushels. In addition
to wheat he raised 10000 bushels of
oats, 1000 bushels of barley and 500
bushels of fax. He owns 1O4 horses
and a number of cattle, but since the
construction of the railway he has
been engaged chiefly in raising wheat.
This year ne bought mis- first tnresnlng
machine, paying for it the sum OF
2,100. He estimates that the machine
earned for him this fall $4,000, thus
paying for itself in one season, and
leaving him $500 to the good. The
weather was very propitious for farm
threshing, not a single day being lost
in the two months which were spent
in this work. The wheat averaged %
bushels to the acre and graded No.
1 and No. 2 Northern. In the past
nine years, seven good crops have
been harvested on this farm. For six
successive years the returns were ex,
c~ellent, that is in the years 1901, 1902,
1903, 1904, 1905 and 1906. In the two
following years there was a partial
failure. AS the years have passed the
quality of the buildings on the farm
have been steadily improved, and are
now as good as can be found in the
district. About $4,000 has been in
vested in this way by Mr.. Guillemin.
The farm consists of $3.50 acres, OF
which about 5000 acres were under
croD this season.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-02-04
I ||eeaasSal 1t Refreshing BBe2II1lqgti it5iiaai|

Syrup OF Figs and Elixir of
SIENNA appeals to the cultured
and the well-informed and the
healthy because its component
parts are simple and whole
some and because it acts with
out disturbing the natural func-
tons, as it is wholly free from
every Objectionable quality or
substance. In its production a
pleasant and refreshing syrup
of the figs of California is unit
ed with the laxative and car
minative properties of certain
plants known to act most bene-
hcially, on the human system,
when its gentle cleansing is de-
sired. To get its beneficial eff
fects, always buy the genuine,
for sale by all reputable drug
gists; one size only, price
fifty cents a bottle. The name
of the company - California
Fig Syrup Co.'s always plain
ly printed upon the front of ev-
cry package of the genuine.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-02-04
THE FlREFLy,s WARNING.

Daddy" said little Ethel one night,
what makes the light in the Fire Fly's
body?'
II am sure / cannot tell you," said
her father. They say that it's the Fire
Flies cooking their supper in the kitch-
en-. But that has nothing to do with
the time that the Fire Fly warned the
Potato Bug family so that they got
out of the way Just in time.
Frank, the hired man at Miss
Lucy's, had got ready to put some poi
son on the potato plants, M Sonny,
that was the little boy who lived at
Miss Lucy's, was getting the tomato
cans for him.
1T so happened that the Fire Fly,
who was under the grindstone, was
just near enough to hear what was
said.
Yes Stree said Frank: there will
not be a potato bug left within 10 miles
Of here when / get through tonight
THAT was enough for the Fire Fly.
He was a good friend of Mr.. and Mrs.
Potato Bug, and he thought the best
thing for him to do was TO go over
and tell Mr.. Potato Bug what he had
heard. So as soon as Frank and Sonny
had gone, the Fire Fly unfolded his
wings and started for the new home of
the Potato Bugs.
When he arrived there DR. Beetle
and the Lady Bug were talking to Mr..
and Mrs. Potato Bug and the children.
Run for your life!' said the Fire
Fly to Mr.. Potato Bug, for Frank Is
4ecm!GS 20 set you. / just heard him
tell Sonny that there would not be a
potato bug within 10 miles of here
by night.
Then you all get into my carriage
said DIR. Beetle,A and will drive you
over TO the Lady Bugs bungalow, and
you may hide there
you would have laughed to see them
all hustling into the good old doctors
carriage, and they had nc sooner got
out Of sight than Frank and Sonny
came down the potato patch.
81 wonder where all those potato
bugs have gomez said Frank to sonny"
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-02-04
A Gift.

Professor Munyon has just issued a
most beautiful, useful and complete al
manac X contains not only ali the SCI
entific information concerning the
Moons phases. in all the ATTITUDES, but
has illustrated articles on how to read
character by phrenology, palmistry and
birth month. 1t also tells all about card
reading, birth stones n their mean
ing, n gives the Interpretation of
dreams. 1t teaches beauty culture, man
touring, gives weights and measures
and ~antidotes for poison. In fact, II is
a Magazine Almanac, that not only
gives valuable information, but will af-
ford much amusement for every mem
Der Of the family, especially for parties
n evening entertainments. Farmers
and people in the rural districts will
find this Almanac almost invaluable.
II will be sent to anyone absolutely
free on application to the Munyon
Remedy Company, Philadelphia, Pa.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-02-04
DOCTORS REST FORMULA
For Remarkably Quick Action on
Colds and Coughs.

This prescription will frequently
cure the worst cold in a days time,
and it is a sure cure for any cough
that can be cured. Two ounces Glyc.
crime; half ounce Concentrated Pine;
put these into half q pint ef sccS
whiskey and use In doses of teaspoon
full to a tablespoonful every four
hours. Shake bottle we'll each time"
Any druggist has these ingredients in
stock or will quickly get them from
his wholesale house. The Concen.
trated Pine is a special pine product
and comes only in half ounce Walls,
each enclosed in an alright case; but
be sure it is labeled Concentrated"
This formula cured hundreds here last
winter.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-02-04
He caught a little,cold---
That was all. (Puck.)

Neglect of a cough or cold often
leads to serious. trouble. To break up
a cold in twenty-four hours and cure
any cough that Is durable mix two
ounces of Glycerine, a h~alf-ounee OF
Virgin Oil of Pine compound pure and
eight ounce of pure Whisky. Take a
~teaspoonful every four hours. You can
buy these at any good drug store and
easily mix them in a large bottle.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-02-04
Odds On.
From Tit-Bits.

FROM IIt-BllS
A Durham farmer was travelling TO
London to consult a lawyer, when the
fear struck him that he had left GER
tain important papers behind. He made
a hurried search of his bag.
IF j did leave those papers" he re-
marked, Tn a fool"
The search proceeded, and a moment
later he said:
II believe it'll turn out I'm a fool"
Just as he was examining the last
bundle of papers he exclaimed:
Well, I'll bet I'm a fool"
A man on the other side of the COM
partment lowered his newspaper for a
moment and said, slowly and deliber-
ately:
"Oblige me, sir, by laying a little
money that same way for me-"
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-02-04
"Hump.r

EtuE0Ps
There is no time to sit around
And dump, dump, dump,
The man who gets discouraged is
A chump, chump. chump,
No matter how put out you feel,
No matter If you miss a meal,
Just put you shoulder TO the wheel
And hump, hump, hump
The lucky men are always on
The jump, jump, Jump,
If there's a leak pulisoff your coat
And pump, pump pump,
Good spirits make a pleasure trip.
A heavy heart Will sink a ship,
Don't for a minute lose your grip
But hump, hump, hump.
the tviefui man Is always up
A stump, stump, stump,
Dow the toboggan slide his form
Goes bump, bump, bump.
The gates of glory stand ajar
To him who X things as they are
So hitch your wagon to a sta
And hump, hump, hump.
Mortimer Brown in Huiett Wyo.
Globe.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-02-04
DADDY'S =
GOOD. NIGHT STORIES
DR.. BEETLE GOES RIDING.
BY Farmer Smith.

Daddy" said little Ethel II night,
do tell me more about the Lady u
THE Lady Bug had a great time get
ting her bungalow liked up, but all the
other bugs were very good to her. be-
cause she belonged TO the royal family.
zone day when she was sitting on
the porch of her bungalow the Fire
Fly flew down at her feet almost eN-
hausted.
Pray, what is the natter asked
the Lady Bug.
81 had such a fright answered the
Fire Fly. L was quietly eating a piece
OF AXE which some one at Miss LucyS
had thrown out OF the window, when
the Big Red Rooster came along and
almost caught me. 1t is a busy world
around here when one has TO keep on
the lookout for all the things that are
likely to eat one up
II am very sorry TO hear IT., said
the Lady Bug.
q suppose you do not realize nat
1t means, for every one is so good TO
you,' said the Fire Fly. I know that
the chickens will not eat you; why,
everybody seems to love you, dear, kind
Lady Bug
"fYou are so good, l am sure I do
not deserve it all, said the Lady Bug,
b~lushingly.
Then the Fire Fly flew away and
left the Lady Bug all alone. BY and
by she heard a noise, and, looking
around, saw DR.. Beetle driving up with
the new carriage and team of June
Bugs.
"'Good morning, my dear, dear
Lady Bug; how are you this fine morn
ing?' asked the good doctor, at the
same time shouting whoa! whoa! to
his fiery steeds.
81 never fa!t letter ia my lie, said
the Lady Bug.
Then you must get in with me and
take a long ride said the good doc
tor, making room for her beside him.
THE Lady Bug climbed in, and to-
gether they started away.
How beautifully you drive said
the Lady Bug. Would O mind driv-
ing me around to invite my friends to
my party?'
"'Not at all; not at ALL said the
doctor, beaming at her over his glasses,
and they drove to the Potato Bugs. the
very first place."