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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-10
Points of a Dairy Cow.

A good dairy cow possesses rather
thin, pliable, elastic skin. A coarse,
harsh handling skin is a poor tndica-
ton. When cows possess these quail.
ties of skin they are rarely good pro-
ducers.
Much attention should be given the
udder Of the dairy cow-a large udder
does not indicate that it is a good one.
They are often very fleshy; a good
udder should be elastic and pliable,
and shows many folds when MIXED
out. The teats should be placed equal
distance apart and this is generally
always the case of the udder is SYM
metrical and we'll proportioned Large
milk veins are good indications, the
more winding and branching they are
the better the indication. The veins
do not carry milk. as many think, but
carry the blood from the udder to the
body and the more hjaod that passes
through the udder the more milk there
is produced, because the milk is pro-
duced from the blood.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-10
RUBBER IN TEXAS
Good Commercial Article Made
From GuayuIe Shrub.
Plant Grows AbundantIy in Southwest
Texas and Is Baled About Like Hay
Crushed Into Powder Some
thing Like Sawdust.

| When the discovery was first an.
nounced that a good quality of com
mercial rubber could be made from the
guayul shrub, which grows abundant.
ly in southwest Texas and Mexico, the
announcement was the occasion for
many extravagant stories in the daily
| press.
| From time to time during the past
year there have been announcements
of leases Of rubber plant rights by the
| land department of Texas, the pro-
ceeds of which go to the school fund,
but 1t is doubtful If many Texans are
| aware that the rubber-making industry
is actually on its feet in Texas, and
that 200 men are employed at the little
town Of Alpine in the task of turning
hitherto worthless shrub into money.
The Alpine Avalanche thus interest
ingly describes the process:
THE guayule shrub grows to the
height of about eighteen inches with a
spread of about the same; the body of
the shrub is about one inch in dia-
meter, roots running horizontally The
leaf is long and narrow, light colored
and the veins running to the point of
the leaf. Above the plant are numer-
GUS lesser stems that bloom and bear
seed. The shrub grows at an average
elevation of about five thousand feet,
generally found on low, rocky hills and
high table land.
THE plant Is gathered by men who
go into the field with a press and
crew of Mexican laborers who pull the
shrub. The shrub Is baled about like
hay and hauled to the factory at Mar
athon, where 1t is carefully inspected
and fed into machine that brushes
and cuts it into a powder resembling
saW-dust. This product is then trans
ferred to the pebble mill, which is a re-
Volving drum containing over a thous-
and pounds of imported flint pebbles
the size of eggs. A quantity of water
Is added and the whole mass is re-
volved for several hours. The product
Is by the action of the pebbles reduced
to pulp and is transferred to large
watts where. after being chemically
treated and the water heated, a scum
rises similar to the process of boiling
sorghum. This scum is taken off, and
carried to the cleansing department,
where all foreign matter is removed
from the gummy mass that is made
into rubber.
The next process is the sheeting
machine, where the gum is fed be-
tween rollers under dripping water;
the sheets are folded until they come
out perfect. They are next taken to a
table, where they are cut to fit shallow
pans and put in drying oven-it has
turned from yellow to black. It is
Eow placed in press and comes out
slug OF solid rubber about six inches
square and two feet long 1t Is then
busted with soap-stone and wrapped in
cloth and. nailed up in box made to
fit it.
THE price of the shrub delivered at
the factory has averaged about $500
per ton. The factory, when running
night and day employs about two hun
dred men, most of the labor being per-
formed by Mexicans.''
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-10
;gGellelul q
Fdr'1llNOt&S

When nights turn cold and the
weather is stormy, the cows should be
stabbed.
The colt should be taught to respect
the whip and it will never be worn out
on him.
In blowing one should seek to turn
over narrow furrow rather than a
wide one
When a dealer buys apples he is
pretty sure to cut into both ends Of
the barrel
Get stable manure on the orchard
land during the early fall and right
along through the winter months.
There are now about 483,000,O
sheep in the world. About $4,000 900
of them are in the United States.
Not few farmers use a tin can
gravity cream separator In which cold
water is used to do the separating.
Oats straw makes good roughage
for idle horses when it is we'll saved.
but feed little hay along with It.
Heifers that will come fresh next
March, one-year-olds and calves, may
be kept at pasture until the middle Of
next month.
For those who wish to raise large
numbers of early chickens or who
keep only nonsitting hens the brooder
is a necessity.
A uniform flock Of thrifty sheen.
whether white or brown faced. pure
bred or grade, is a source of much
pleasure to the lover of animals.
Do not use the corn fields for your
ewes after picking? No better place
on earth, but take care that there ia
not too much grain left, else they will
be foundered.
A eve showing too much masculin-
ity, and ram showing too much fem.
nifty are to be avoided, for such ami
mails are apt to produce progeny that
are not uniform.
A good authority on horses saws
that the gray will live the longest.
and that the roans como next In or.
der. Blacks seldom live to be over
20, and creams rarely Live more than
10 or Is years.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-10
Cause of Ropy Milk.

Bacteria cause ropy milk and are
usually found in the milk utensils and
not in the cows udder. Clean up, dis
infect and whitewash stables and per-
fectly scald and sun dry milk utensils.
See that the drinking water and water
used In cleansing the vessels are free
from contamination.
If the milk Is affected when drawn
from the udder, says Breeders Gazette,
the cause is garget and bacteria in the
udder. For that treat by physicing the
cow. giving tablespoonful of salt
peter twice daily in water for a few
days and then mixing half an ounce
Of sulphite of soda in feed night and
morning for week. The milk will be
safe for pigs and chickens.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-10
"oH, YOU cIDERi"

Fall is the season when man Is
moved to praise Of things humble in
origin, but rich in fulfilment. The
young turkey struts about, preparing
himself for November's ideas; the
woods cackle with the dropping of
hickory and butternut as the boys
sent clubs into the branches, and the
pumpkin swells and yellows on the
vine. Especially is 1t the time when
the muse lnclines to sing Of cider.
And the muse might be in far worse
business, says the Detroit News The
Romans knew the drink, and before
them the Greeks. In the days Of
Isaac and Jacob the pastoral tribes
were familiar with It's bead and zest.
To such drink does the palate yearn
In these October days. Exalted be
the natural. undistilled juice of the
first pressing. A good custom is the
old one of grating Up little horse
radish and dropping 1t into the
secured casks that are to hold the
liquor. 1t improves and lends the
tang, which is beyond the powers Of
description. With cool place for its
storage, the resultant product can be
kept in any receptacle. If no cool.
cobwebby cellar be at hand, then a
stone jug will do admirable service.
From either a geneouY-mouthed pitch.
er, topped with the lightest. arrest
bubbles that ever rode an underlying
depth of rich, clear brown, can be
brought out to make an autumn or
winter evening with book and hickory
meats and popcorn and a swapping
fire an evening of life, indeed.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-10
The inevitable predictions as to the

The inevitable predictions as to the
character of the coming winter are be.
ing made. And it was just as newt
able that they should disagree. From
one source we have the announcement
that wild animals are putting on an
extra-heavy coat of fur In preparation
for exceptional cold. OF course the
farmer who observes that the husks
on the maturing corn are unusually
chick, presaging a winter of more
than usual frigidity, has been heard
from. And so forth and so ON as re-
CARDS the chilly side of the question.
But on the other hand weather
sharps" have noted that conditions
prevailing about the time the sun
Crosses the line" foreshadow a mild
winter. All Of which may be put down
for what 1t is worth, in the calm as
surance that nature will run the cold.
weather program without any assist
ance from outside
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-10

under brush heaps or in tufts of grass.
punches of weeds, briars or bushes.
1t occupies this form by day and at
night moves about, feeding. The point
we want to make here Is that the up
to date fruit farmer would not have
those brush piles, grass, weeds and
briars anywhere around, so the cot
ton tail would have hard work to hide.
hence would be apt to stay away
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-10

Americans are not the only ones
who engage in the search for lost
treasure or unclaimed estates. Very
little has come of efforts to find Cap
tain Kidd's loot and other valuables,
though no doubt attempts will be con.
tinued. And now an association has
been formed in England for the pur.
pose Of recovering about 100000 In
specie believed to be in the British
frigate Lutine, which was wrecked In
1899 and sunk at the entrance to the
Zuyder Zee. The association has
been incorporated, and doubtless
there will be plenty Of persons ready
to take a chance by investing in the
shares. But the probability is that
almost any ordinary business venture
would bring better returns
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-10

California astronomers report the
breaking up Of big sunspot into q
group of uncommonly small frag.
ments, and intimate that the phe-
nomenon may be the forerunner of
some extraordinary disturbances. It
is about time for the sun to come into
the spotlight again. The big luminary
was eclipsed, in scientific interest for
a time. by the appearance of the Hal
ley comet and the speculations and
observations accompanying that celes.
tial exhibition.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-10
Hog Cholera Cure.

If you will give five drops of crude
carbolic acid to each hog it will pre-
vent the rest of the bunch from catch
ing the disease. This is a remedy
that has been used by our family with
good results. We have never had a
sick hog after giving acid mixed with
food. We don't let them have any
thing else until they eat up the feed
with the acid In it. The hogs will
not eat 1t very readily. The same
remedy will answer for chickens with
cholera, only give them but two drops
per chicken.-W. H. Burke. Clarks-
vile, Tex.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-10

Sir Walter SCOTS mother superior lover OF poetry
and painting Bons his mother she proud and
itemped The mother Napoleon of superior mind and deep
pe The mother of Nero murd The mother of Patrick
henry marked by The mother OF the
Weys distinguished for her intellectual and executive ability
SO that she has been called "the mother of Methodsm
Mothers have trained presidents and statesmen Wasngtons
father died when George only twelve old Jefferson Madison
Jackson and Harrison the elder left aheress when small boys
Tyler Hayes and Cleveland depended their widowed mothers for
their training Abraham Lincoln confessed that his most
"reminiscences those his excellent mother to whom he imputed the
best and brightest qualities he had inherited Lincoln also owned that it
his pmoher than other person, that made him the
man he
General Grants mother into certain hour
during the pray for her Ulysses President Mckinley left the
capital and the affairs of state watch at the side of his dying mother
receive her last blessing and her his last kiss Gareds father
died when the future president babe On the day of his
ton he turned from all the representatives of kings and
all great beautiful who had gathered to do
honor thing did after he had taken the oath of Office
wrinked face of his mother and Mother you have
brought me to this"
John Quincy Adams till the day his DEATH said the little
his taught him. Now lay down to Sleep Daniel Webster
mother those abilities which ultimately made him long
distinguished
If the world lost through she alone it. The
future society the mothers The mother
holds the key the SOUL and she is who stamps the of char
acter.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-10
Watering WindoW-Box Growths.

Don't be sparing OF water on your
window beyes. Ninety-nine cases of
failure out of hundred results from a
lack of sufficient water. Being ex-
posed to the air at all times, evapora-
ton takes place rapidly. Apply water
by the pailful instead of bowlful, and
there need be no failure to grow Just
as good plants in the window box as
In the garden beds.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-10

Receipts Of sheep at Omaha make q
new worlds record, more than $4,000
having arrived in one day. This i'm.
mense number taxed the stockyard
facilities almost to full capacity. Ye:
the announcement Of these facts is
coupled with the statement that "the
market prices showed no tendency to
break" Heretofore 1t has been alleged
that high rates for meat were due to
the short supply. But with unprece-
denied shipments of sheep this rule
certainly does not apply to at least
one class of meat What is keeping
up the prices? Would it be unfair to
suggest that the packers trust might
throw some light on the situation?
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-10

Has aviation as sport" no longer
power to attract? Reports from the
old world are to the effect that the
principal British and continental
meetings this year resulted in finan-
cial loss to their promoters. who are
"cut" total Of $375.0O0 Most Of
the "bird-men" also are worse of in
pocket through participation in the
exhibitions. Some big money" has
been made in the United States and
in Europe by winners OF prizes Of
fered in aerial competition. But there
are numerous signs that the matter
has been overdone. both here and
abroad.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-10
Cotton Planter.

erer at the other, says Scientific
American. A driving wheel is mount
ed directly behind the opener and is
geared by means of chain to seed
reservoir, consisting Of two cups
mounted mouth-to-mouth with a mar
row space between them, in which a
seed-wheel projects. The latter is also
geared to the driving wheel and
serves to drop the seed at measured
intervals into the furrow opened by
the pillow.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-10
DAMAGE CAUSED BY RABBIT
Makes Its Hiding Place In Brush
Piles, Grass, Weeds and Briars-
Should Be Removed.

We picked up recently, govern
ment bulletin on 1.-The Rabbit As a
Farm and Orchard Pest" This gives
some very interesting statistics re-
garding the damage caused by the
little cotton tail, but no specific state
ment is made as to money loss to or
chardists from the rabbit, says Ma
tional Fruit Grower. This bulletin,
among other things, says the cotton
tail is fond of frequenting farms and
plantations and makes It's forms"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-10

Poison ivy, which nearly every one real
ICES is dangerous vine, has three leaves on
one stem. If people knew the vine they
naturally would avoid coming in contact
with it, as it is poisonous. However, only
in certain time of the summer is this true.
I have walked barefooted through the
vines many times when I was boy and
have never been poisoned by it.
There are about two months when it is
dangerous and this time is between the
third week in July and the second or third
week in September, depending on the frost.
The only WAY to exterminate the vine il
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-10
Spelling Promising FoaI.

Many a promising foal is spoiled
through lack Of good food or insult
able feeding. and haphazard and
wrong methods of breeding are not
the only cause of such a great num-
Der of inferior. weedy and understood
horses being raised by the farmer.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-10
VoIga Cabbage.

Volga cabbage has made remark
ably fine showing at the Pennsylvania
State College during the past season.
This is comparatively new variety
that is well adapted to limestone soils.
The plants are sure headers not nearly
equal to Danish Ball Head in this re-
spect. 1t may prove quite valuable
as late cabbage, and it certainly pos
sesses special merit for limestone
soils.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-10
Texan
Scores
HObble
Skirt as
HideOuS

cropping the rich prairie grass but ey hinder their strayng
great distance from camp
Now Of all ungainly ungracefu looking objects erh put
hobed rather did this day. eyes first time
behed a hobbled
How there be without
hobbed ought be taken and shown the and
hobbed hop of hobbd horse honestly that one look would
cause her to change her skirts
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-10
INVENTS A COTTON PLANTER
Plow-Llke Implement Ia Arranged
with PIow or Opener at One End
and Coverer at Other.

Mr.. Thomas N. Seay Of Columbia,
S. c., has invented a cotton planter,
an illustration of which is given here
with. It consists of a plow-like i'm
plement, comprising a frame with q
pillow or opener at one end and q cov-
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-10

A Washington man has been ar
rested and fined for selling "adulter.
ated eggs" Served him right At
the present prices Of "hen fruit" to
palm of imitation and impure articles
for the good sort is to add insult to
injury.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-10

If any man needs better wages and
shorter hours it is the drug clerk. A drug
clerks association would 60 a great way
toward remedying this, but time and again
has this been tried.
The clerks at one time had an organiza-
ton going at fair Roadway when some one
disappeared with a greater part of its funds.
This discouraged the clerks and now it
is very hard to get them together.
# these clerks could be organized ii
would mean more pay and shorter hours
which are what they deserve.
This would benefit the people in general.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-10
Tedious
Long
Hours
of Drug
Clerk
By CLARENCE G. MALMR0SE

No prescription would then be filed BY clerk who half asleep
(which often the case this mistakes made and
nt is in danger of hard nowadays get
boy to learn the business
The body of clerks is getting smaller and smaller.
me- why should they learn the business when plumber
ter any tradesnan gets pay than they do?
lover Of the business stick and of these
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-10

A magazine writer explains that
aviation in dreams is due to function
al disturbances of slight nature.
Aviation in real life is the produce OF
genius and courage.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-10

Out on the big cattle ranges of the
Southwest it is the common practice of the
nestor or cowboy, when he makes his camp
for the night, to put hobbies on his work
horses or saddle ponies.
There's a reason. With the hobbies on,
the animals are SO impeded in their walk
that they can cover but little distance,
even in the course of an entire night, and
the owner goes serenely to his slumbers,
knowing that his beasts will be in range of
his vision on his awakening
The restraining thongs, attached only to
the forelegs do not nrevent them from
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-10
Good
Mothers
Future of Society
Lays in Her
Hands
By REV. MADISON c. PETERS

HE OLD SAYING "Iike mother like son." is historically
correct Henry ~. of Germany becomes miserable prince
but blessed with wise mother Louis X of France grows
to be of God. distinguished writer has called atten-
ton to the fact that of the sxnne monarchs who have
the French only three have loved the people, and all
these three reared by their mothers ST. Louis trained
by Blanche; Louis XII by Marie of Ceves and Henry w.
by Jeanne dAb and these three really the fathers of
their people +
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-10
Getting an Education,

"Has your son learned much since
he went to college" asked the new
minister.
Nav" replied Farmer oatcake.
"but hev, by hen!"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-10
Avoid
Contact
With
Poison
Ivy

kill all shoots that have formed
for the vine spreads very fast and is not to kill
have been poisoned, but know what does
swollen that he couldn't for week.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-10

nave peerless among
nations Any encyclopedia of American biography will
prove that most ustrious statesmen most dis
nguished scientists, most eloquent preachers
merchant princes and great benefactors from
the humble families where mothers rule not
of fashion, but where the nursery for the family is
nursery for the church, where the first ispngs Of child
hood the accents of prayer and the first thoughts of
the heart are the thoughts of God.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1910-11-26
"Perverting History

Bullfog Las Vegas indebted the foceful
FzMac for his clever portrayal of conditions that egned
early days when tent houses and bottle hack the chief
the landscape Mccarthy the southern desert
country the wake of the depoed Coloradoan and he
idea of the this district the
His pencil portrayed the discovery high grade
grass told of the struggles of the pioneers he delighted
with the struggles of Toans who trying
establish the desert with the taantua atenake
cenpede This wondrou picture the world
its first real knowledge the Goded and the writing
coped and reprinted iii of the globe 1t
similar discovery of the Klondke fitted
imagery Argonauts
hyporboean of White Pass their struggle
o reach the land of gold.
The which portion of editorial copied from the Gold
Durham would call perverng
Godfed but he old and would that
of local would lie better posted the
history of the early days.
FitzMac mot the first writer idea of this Gold
field district the outside As of fact FtzMac
1905
engaged him write The Pilgrims the Desert which used
for the leading article of the Annual Edition of the Godfed
News
That undoubtedly the first article that FtzMac
Goldfeld He good and clever writer need
than his efforts would be
cept such credit were it given while he earth
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1910-11-26
NEVADA WINS AGAIN FROM THE
RAILROADS ON RATE QUESTION

Ninth Judicial Circuit Court of Appeals at San Francisco
November and 22 the
company W Tonopah Underwater
company Pedro and the Las Vegas Tonopah railroads
represented by Attorneys Dubrow Camp Johnson and Wemo
support restraining order prevent the Interstate
from enforcing the reductions ordered in class
Reno Phoenix and Sacramento rate
Attorney c. w Lamb for the Interstate Commerce Commission
splendid argument against application and in support OF
by the commission. Today o'clock the
able and comprehensive opinion by Judge Gilbert denied
application injunction and upheld the Interstate Commerce
Commission every point.
The from Eastern defined territory to Eko Winnie
the from Sacramento Reno Love
Wnnemucca and ko will become effective December
as ordered by the Commerce Commission.