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Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-28

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of nitrogen is may be seen from the fact that
a 100bushel crop of corn takes from the soil
almost 100 pounds of nitrogen in the corn and
about 4S pounds In the stalks. Rich, wellbal-
anced land in the corn belt contains about
5000 pounds Of nitrogen Therefore, II the
process of subtraction Of nitrogen goes on
year after year with never an addition. it can
be seen clearly that the farmers finances can
not multiply. Rotation plans for grain farm
ers always should include crop of legumes.
Wheat, corn. oats and clover is a satisfactory
rotation: also wheat, corn and COW peas; also
cotton corn and oats and COW peas. The first
of these rotations should include a catch crop
of clover seeded the first year and plowed I'M
der for corn as late as practicable the second
year. The other two should include catch
crops of legumes whenever possible. Legumes
when plowed under perform valuable services
besides supplying the soil with nitrogen-as
they decay they supply organic matter to the
soil which helps other elements of plant food
to free themselves from the earth and into the
farmers bank account
Now that the question of nitrogen has been
outlined. suppose We turn to the problem OF
phosphorus, the only element of plant food we
ever shall have 20 buy AS to the importance
of the use OF phosphorus upon the common
soils of the United States. DIR: Hopkins has
this to say:
Phosphorus is the key to permanent az
ricuIture on these lands To maintain or in
crease the amount of phosphorus in the soil
makes possible the growth of clover or other
legumes and the consequent addition of nitro
gen from the inexhaustible supply in the air:
and with the addition of decaying organic mat
ter in the residues of clover and other crops
and in manure. made in large part from clover,
hay and pasture, and from the larger crops OF
corn and other grains which clover helps to
produce comes the possibility of liberating
from the immense supplies in the soil sufficient
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-28
REST AND PEACE
Fall Upon Distracted Households
When Cuticura Enters.

Sleep for skin tortured babies and
rest for tired, fretted mothers is found
in a hot bath with Cuticura Soap and
a gentle amounting with Cuticura Oint-
ment. This treatment, in the major
ity of cases, affords immediate relief
in the most distressing forms of itch
ing, burning, scaly, and crusted hui
mors, eczema, rashes, inflammations,
irritations, and chafings, of infancy
and childhood. permits rest and sleep
to both parent and child, and points
to a speedy cure, when other remedies
fail. WORKOUT and worried parents
will find this pure, sweet and econom-
lcal treatment realizes their highest
expectations, and may be applied to
the youngest infants as well as chill
dren of all ages. The Cuticura REM
edies are sold by druggists every
where Send to Potter Drug e Chem.
Corp, sole proprietors, Boston. Mass,
for their free 32-page Cuticura Book on
the care and treatment of skin and
scalp of infants, children and adults.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-28
NEED MONEY FOR GOOD WORK
the Study and Prevention
of tuberculosis.

What "a Million for tuberculosis
from Red Cross Seals" will do in pro-
viding some of the 275,000 beds need
ed at once in the United States for
consumptives, is explained in a recent
bulletin of the National Association
for the Study and Prevention of Tu-
berculosis. There is just about one
bed for every ten INDECENT consump-
lives, and if all tuberculosis persons
In the country are counted, both rich
and poor, hardly one for every % or
30. If sufficient hospital accomoda-
tons are provided only for those
who are too poor to pay the full
price for their treatment, fully 275,000
more beds i'm special institutions for
tuberculosis would be needed at once.
The immense outlay necessary to pro-
vide and maintain so many beds in
hospitals, make it imperative, the
National Association for the Study
md Prevention of tuberculosis de-
clares, that such institutions be erect
ed from public money, either NUM-
cipal. county or state. In order to
get appropriations for public hospitals
for tuberculosis, agitation is neces-
sary, and in order to create a CAM
paign of agitation, organization is de-
manded. But In order that an organi-
cation may carry on an effective cam
paign, funds are needed.
These funds 1t is proposed to secure
In as many communities as possible
from the sale of Red Cross seals.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-28

let US consider a few fundamentals of crop
growing
First. there are six positive, absolutely
sentia factors. They are: % the seed.
CD the plant home (3) the food of which the
plant is made. (4) moisture. go heat, 60 light.
Now, except in the case of the seed and plant
food these factors are largely beyond the farm
er's control. Dame Nature can, however. be
trusted to attend to them satisfactorily. How,
then, has the farmer made of his ability to
control the two factors? BY exercising judg-
ment and care in the selection of seed and by
ignoring the matter of plant food entirely. The
result? When the land was worn out and had
no plant food to give the good seed the agricul-
turist arose irately in farmers institute and
told what he thought of the seed seller. The
trouble all the time not with the seed but
with the soil, which had had the elements OF
plant food removed in previous crops, and as
a consequence could not respond to the call of
the seed
What these elements? There are ten
in the list. but eight provided abundantly.
Three-oxygen, hydrogen and carbon-come
directly from the air and water Most nor
NAL soils contain enough potassium, magne-
stun, iron, calcium and sulphur. although some
times the first must be supplied. The problem
of plant food, therefore, narrows itself, in most
cases, to maintaining and increasing the phos-
phorus and nitrogen
Now nitrogen is easy to catch as the
measles II one knows how. The air contains
it In inconceivable amounts. Dr. Hopkins has
estimated that the air above an acre Of ground
contains about s10,000,000 worth. IL sold over
the counter at ordinary commercial rates. In
order to induce this nitrogen to enter the
earth. where it may reappear as food for man,
all that is necessary is to plant clover, alfalfa.
peas or any legume. By means of the bacteria
upon the roots these legumes draw the nitro
gen into the soil. How necessary the element
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-28

tb,t only? Improved seeu, Hhpro'eu hiaS"iH
cry. irrigation. even crop rotation all are
means for extracting from the SOIL 'he 'ion
noss that il; in it. not for returning any OF the
CO. elements of grain building. All OF these
,,ot,ods of soil stimulation are excellent In
thoir wav If used in connection with methods
of returning the elements of plant food; but
~ used without them they are means OF
Fastening the Impeachment of the SOIL
To return to the question Of limestone. one
ton to the acre finely ground Will correct the
acid condition of most soils. 1t is. however,
in the end cheaper and easier to apply more
and to aprly it less often. AS much as ten
tons to the acre was applied to the soil OF one
of the experiment fields in southern Illinois
and the crop yields there have been greater
than upon any other fields In that district
question that has been given much at
tention lately is the question of crop rota
ton Undoubtedly it is absolutely essential
for successful grain farming but it is not
the universal panacea some would have us be-
lieve. For instance, a group OF theorists
have declared that fertilization Is unnecessary,
that crop rotation will keep the soils In per-
feet condition. The idea is that plants do not
injure the soil because they use its plant food
elements but because they throw off poisonous
excreta as animals do. Therefore a so-called
WORKOUT soil simply has become saturated
with this excreta. Plant crop which Will
neutraliZe the poison Of the last crop and the
soisoil will be sweetened and the breasts Of
Mother Earth kept dripping with plenty for
ever. This is very attractive-as a theory. 1t
has, however, no foundation in fact AS DR..
Hopkins has said, the rotation Of crops has Just
the same effect upon wealth in the sooil as
the rotation of the check book among the
members of the family has upon the wealth
in the bank. Plant food elements cannot be
used up and not returned without resulting
in impoverishment of the soil.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-28

county Office and he shouted his slo-
gan to some native playing baseball
up the creek, to the porches of the
houses as we passed, and when we
met q voter in the road he stopped.
while rode discreetly on. and he new
er failed to overtake me with a wink
Of success. I'd like to wager that the
brother won. Hell-fer-Sartain Creek
had once deserved its name, he said.
Cor there had been q heap Of devil
nent" done up there. There had been
,everal fights IN the schoolhouss
RAsre where had heard preaching.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-28
Completely Pauperized

Albert w. Hebbard, New yo-s,-
charity expert, said at a recent a.
ner:
The great danger of charity n a.
pauperizing effect. This effect NM.
be avoided. or the recipients will an
become Jack Ranches.
Jack Hanch, on the score Of h.,
health never worked, and the pasto.
of the Methodist church, a man who.s
heart sometimes outran his head ss,s
the idler and his family weekly yit.
of food and clothing-supported N.
whole crew, in fact.
"A church visitor, after listenipo 4.
Jacks complaints one day, said:
Ives, of course. you have had h.s
health. we know that; but one thin.
at least you ought to be thankful e.
and that is our pastors kindness n
sending you all this bread and ma,
and jelly and blankets and so nm
Don't you think it is good of him "a
look after you so well?"
Good of him.? said Jack. h,n.
tiently. why, what's be forr"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-28
On HeH-Fer-Sartan Creek

Sartian through an avenue Of cucum-
Der trees. Never had ! seen so many
cucumber trees IN my life as were on
that one rocky road, and had they
only been starred with their great
creamy blossoms they would have
been compensation for the whole toll
some trip. Disappointment awaited
me at the mouth Of the creek. The
church there was closed, and above
its doors was not the picturesque title
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-28
Easv for Her.

An extremely corpulent old lady was
entertaining her grandchild at lunch.
con when she found occasion to repri-
mand the little girl for dropping some
food on the tablecloth.
You don't see grandma dropping
anything on the table," she said.
"Of course not" replied the child |;
God gave you something in front to
stop it,
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-28

Of the stream, but some fernlike name
that was easily traceable to some
shocked feminine taste from the outer
world. Half mile on I got dinner
of cold beans and cold cornbread, and
Joined by 20-year-old school teacher
on a big black mule, turned my face
toward Jackson. This young school
teacher was making money In his ma
tive mountains In order to study law
outside; he had gone to school in the
Bluegrass and he knew my books.
Just then he was electioneering for
bis brother. who was running for .
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-28

had been to Hell-fer-Sartain, and
I had heard preaching there. II !
went back now the way l had come |
should save six long weary miles. /
was tired, as was Old Faithful. but
had not been to the mouth Of Hell-fer-
Sartain and I had not seen the church
there, and while my curiosity was sat
tsfied, my conscience wasn't, and so
from sheer stubbornness I saddled Old
Fsfthful and rode on down Hell-fer.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-28

but everything had quieted down
there. as it was quieting down all
through the mountains, except over
toward Jackson. Yes, the good old
times were gone!-John Fox. Jr.. In
Scribner.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-28

not the man with the hayseed I'm his hair WIN
feels 1t first but the man with the pen behind
MS ear. Month by month the price of each
separate commodity puts little large pune.
ture in his salary, until by the end of the wear
his savings which began hopefully as an m
known quantity, have ended as TX nothing"
He it is who knows the cold dread of middle
age; for unless the land be induced TO
Weld abundantly prices will not settle down to
the point where the man on moderate salary
can live free from fear Farmer and clerk
alike, We are all vitality concerned in this
problem of maintaining and increasing the fer
tility of the soil that is fertile and of restor-
Ing soils that have been cruelty exploited
Fortunately they con be restored Intelli-
gence is more potent than avarice and can
undo the evil it has wrought Even those soils
that have been exploited to the point of appar-
5nt ruin can be nursed back to health DR.
Cyril Hopkins, head of the agronomy depart
ment of the University of Illinois, soil spe-
cialist of national reputation and the author of
numerous pamphlets and book entitled Soil
Fertility and Permanent Agriculture" is one
of the most enthusiastic workers along this
line He is a man of hard facts and loves
pretty theories even as the devil loves holy
water. Every fact that he gives out must
prove itself over and over again in tests upon
his own farms or those belonging to the uni
versity or upon one of the various experiment
tai plots. There are about thirty of these plots
scattered through the state of Illinois. where
the soils are carefully examined and then
cropped according to their needs. could tell
YOU tales OF what Mother Earth has done In
The way OF corn. wheat. OATS or clover when
she has received proper treatment that would
set you TO building castles in the air upon an
earthly foundation. The corn yield upon one of
the university farms in 1909 was 81 bushels
TO the acre, due to treatments with limestone
and PHOSPHORUS. But before we go farther
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-28
Old OaHen Bucket.

Doctor Ito typhoid patienD-Do you
remember where you drank water?
Patient ian actor)-Oh, yes! 1t was
back on the dear old farm-twenty
years ago,-Puck
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-28
First and Foremost.

MY wife has a great deal to say to
me about her first husband"
Nonsense; you're wife was never
married before"
Il know 1t. That's what makes her
reflections so painful. "-Puck
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-28
TRY MURINE EYE REMEDY

for Red, Weak, Weary, Watery Eyes
and GranulatedE yelids. Murine Doesn't
Smart-Soothes Eye Pain. Druggists
Sell Murine Eye Remedy. Liquid, 25c,
SOC. s1.00. Murine Eye Salve in
Aseptic Tubes, Csc. $1.00 Eye Books
and Eye Advice Free by Mail.
Murine Eye Remedy Co., Chicago.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-28


address from his relatives of the soil
for fear they would bring their earthly
smell into his new residence.
With quiet Indifference old Mother
Earth endures this ingratitude, but
the time comes when she has nothing
for his greed. What happens then?
Look to India for one answer. Ten
million OF cur own Aryan blood starve
there in a single famine year-starve
upon a soil that once was, and still
could Be. almost inconceivably fertile.
Russia offers another reply, where
with stomachs empty men enter a
world that never fills them. Yet an
other answer, centuries old, may be
found In the Tigris-Euphrates valley,
which, once marvelously fertile, now
scoTches uselessly In the tropic sun.
The necessity of man forged weapon
that brought him plenty; but the greed
OF man forged a weapon that brought
him penury. For do you think there
can be prosperity when the earth no
longer yields? Do not forget that the
shame of Rome was coincident with
the time when one bushel of seed re.
turned but four In the harvest. When
the soil exploited, that is when 1t
Is 30 farmed that the essential ele-
ments are taken out in crops and moth
ing returned to build it up, the result
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-28
So Thew Saw,

Stranger say, my lad. what is
considered q good score on these
links?
Caddie-Well. sir, most of the gents
here tries to do ii in as few strokes
as they can. but iti generally takes a
few more.-Scottish American.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-28

A man can't understand why a
woman who never spends more than
II cents for her luncheon should think
nothing of blowing in $50 for hat.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-28

When it comes to facing an enemy
some men show their retiring DISPOSE
tons.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-28

potassium, magnesium and other es-
sential abundant elements supple
mented by the amounts returned in
manure and crop residues for the pro-
duction of large crops at least for
thousands of years; whereas If the
supply of phosphorus in the soil is
steadily decreased in the future in ac-
cordance with the past and present
most common farm practise, then
poverty is the only future for the
people who till the common agricnltu-
raj lands of the United States"
Phosphorus may be applied in lib
eral amounts-as much as 1000 pounds
to the acre every three or four years
and it costs about 81 ton.
After the problem of returning tho
elements to the soil has been solved
the farmer may find another condition
of the soil which must be corrected
before his farm will produce as it
should. This is the tendency of GER
tain soils to acidity. Glover, alfalfa
and other valuable legumes cannot
thrive upon soil that is sour. Some
times on acid soils when applications
of farm manure are made, the legumes
will seem to grow well, but examina-
ton reveals the fact that the nitrogen
gathering bacteria fail to develop
properly. Hence the most valuable
contribution the legumes have to make
to the soil is largely lost. Upon GER
tain fields belonging to one OF the
most famous agricultural stations in
the world, that of Rothamstead, Eng
land applications of natural limestone
we're made a century ago. They are
still moderately productive, although
other fields near by, which have never
received the application. are extreme
ly unproductive.
Care should be taken that lime
stone is used for the one and only pur-
nose of correcting soil acidity.
And while We are upon this
subject of soil stimulation, have you
ever thought that most OF our I'M
movements have that in view and
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-28
Queens Hiuh.

Does Bliggins ever bluff when n.
plays cards?'
Never until he gets home and az.
plains where he has been"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-28

Mrs. Winsjcw-s Soothing Syrup.
Eorchildren teething softens the gums. reducesin
hammAton ALA pain. cures wind collie DC bottSo
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-28

Anything left to be done at your
leisure seldom gets done.-S. Martin.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-28

best friend is his
mother--the earth. All
she asks is the Oppor-
tunity and she will
Weld him the wealth of
an account that has
been growing for ages.
And he has treated her
as he usually treats his
best friends. He has
taken all she had to
give. bought an auto
mobile and a house in
town and then hid his
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-28
CNRTEZkZDL Y NGS4iI7
E1T g Wax RSZzZz2N
No ESEzzz4zzlTv

: exactly the same as when men are
exploited In workshops and nothing
returned to build up their bodies You
cannot haul phosphorus and nitrogen
in oats and wheat and corn from your
farms year after year and maintain
the fertility of the soil. if you give
back no phosphorus and nitrogen in
return. Twelve thousand abandoned
farms in the state Of New York alone
testify to this. After sixty years OF
cultivation the lands of the corn belt
are beginning to hint at the same
hing.
The Paducah evening sun., 1910-02-28
GET POWER
The supply Comes Frop Food.

II we get power from food. why
not strive to get all the power we
can, That is only possible by use of
skillfully selected food that exactly
fits the requirements of the body.
Poor fuel makes poor fire and
a poor fire is not a good steam pro-
ducer.
"From not knowing how to select
the right food to fit my needs. I
suffered grievously for long time
from stomach troubles" writes a
lady from a little town in Missouri.
IL seemed as If would never be
able to find out the sort of food that
was best for me. Hardly anything
that l could eat would stay on my
stomach. Every attempt gave me
heartburn and filled my stomach
with gas / got thinner and thinner
until literally become a living skel-
eton and in time was compelled to
keep to my bed.
"A few months ago / was per-
suaded to try Grape-Nuts food. and
IL had such good effect from the
very beginning that J have kept up
its use ever since. i was surprised
at the ease with which digested IL.
IL proved to be just what | needed.
'All my unpleasant symptoms,
the heartburn. the inflated feeling
which gave me so much pain disap-
peared. My weight gradually in
creased from 9S to 116 lbs, my
figure rounded out, my strength
came back, and am now able to do
my housework and enjoy it. Grape
Nuts did it."
A ten days trial will show anyone
some facts about food.
Look in pkgs. for the little book.
1.-THE Road to Weilville." There's a
Reason"
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time TO time. They
are genuine, true, and full Of human
interest. ~s
The Paducah evening sun., 1910-02-28
ANSWER BY THE
U. 5. POSTOFRICE
STATEMENT OF PERIODICAL DE-
CLARED ERRONEOUS.
IL Rate Covered Cost Of Handling
Letters Could Go For
One Cent.
THE RATE is NOT BIG ENOUGH

Washington. Feb. 2s-"Erroneous
or misleading" is the characteriza-
tion by the postoffice department or
the statement recently published by
the Periodical Publishers associa-
tion. entitled "An Argument on Sec
ond Glass Postal Rates from the
Business standpoint Alone
The answer of the department to
the argument of the magazine pub
fishers was given to the public to-
day. IL declares that the very ma
torial promises to which the argu-
ment Is based. proves to be faulty.
and consequently every important
conclusion reached Is fallacIous.
The interesting startling
assertion 10 made by Postmaster
General Hitchcock that III the rate
on second class mail is made high
enough 20 cover the entire cost of
transporting and handling II. which
has not been suggested, IL would be
possible without creating a deficit.
90 reduce the postage on letters from
two cents TO one cent.
IL Is pointed out that the gov
ernment Is losing over s cents .
pound on second class matter sent
through the malls. the annual loss TO
the national revenues from this
cause being approximately sG4.OOO,-
OOO."
There are $1,000 publications In
the country enjoying the second
class privilege. a large proportion OF
which are magazines.
In conclusion. Hitchcock says that
n this tremendous loss could DO
saved the money could be applied in
other ways - a much greater adyan-
tage to the public generally.
The Publishers representative also
persistently refuses to recognize the
obvious effect Of length OF haul.
which 10 the principal element in de-
tormining the average cost OF trans
porting a pound of mail. Possibly
the reason for this Is found In the
fact that the average haul OF maga-
zines has been shown 20 be i.0iS
miles and the average haul of daily
newspapers only 29i miles.
Tho conclusion that there Is no
more expense 10 the government IN
carrying magazines an average dis
tance OF i.0fS miles than In carrying