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The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-11-19
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mat come up to my idea of what a
perfect plant should be. While this
requires time, it pays we'll if proper
ly done.
Live stock are also being improv-
ed by breeding to pure-bred males.
Have secured several registered ami
mails, and as these come into service
Will dispose of my grades. This plan
requires time, but it is better than
not to get them at all, which would
have been the case if l had waited to
get all pure-bred at once. Last, but
not least, l am giving closer atten-
ton to the little things that come up
every day, such as ditching the bot
toms, terracing the hills and keeping
them clear of weeds and briers. Also
to use better business methods. AS a
rule, we farmers do not give this the
attention and study it deserves. Am
going to reverse my plan and work
my brains more (what little have)
and rest my muscles some.
w. B. KYZAR.
Goshen, Ala.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-11-19
A BETTER FARMING PROGRAM.

Messrs. Editors: I raised at home
wheat, oats, peas, rye and few GRIM
son clover seed for planting this fall
and next year. Planted 80 bushels
peas this year, feeding the peavine
hay to live stock and putting the ma
nure on oats and for corn next year.
Have about one acre sowed in GRIM
son clover and rye and about five
acres sowed to rye to turn next
spring. I am preparing my oat land
better. Break with two-horse pillow.
narrowing and fertilizing better.
Disking my land for wheat, and will
fertilize and drill with Can't drill. 1
am trying to clear my land of rock
where I SOW small grain, turning
stubble land 6 to inches deep for
cotton next year. Will put from 400
to 600 pounds of high-grade guano
per acre. 1 have selected cotton from
the best stalks to get seed enough to
plant my crop next year. I have
raised and gathered enough corn to
feed my hogs and horses and for
bread. have hogs enough to kill-to
make meat for my family of ten. I
have kept weeds from seeding on a
portion of my land this year, and will
dig or blow up some stumps and rock
this fall and winter and build a dam
across gullies and hollows.
Carlton, Ga. L. G. KING.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-11-19
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1t Pays to Sow Oats.

Messrs. Editors: Please continue
urging the farmers to diversity, fer
tilize, and raise their supplies at
home, and then all of the cotton
ways get good price for cotton and
seed.
Last year ought to open their eyes.
Cottonseed in the past has averaged
the planter about zoe. bushel; now
it is soc. I do not believe it will pay
to raise wheat, but I know it will
pay to raise oats. The red is the
best, and early in January is the time
to sow. CICERO w. STEPHENS.
Cedar Bluff, Miss, R. F. D. 2.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-11-19
A PROGRESSIVE PLAN OF ACTION

Messrs. Editors: The fall Is the
only time the seed-bed can be prop
erly prepared. Especially is this
true where there is much vegetation
to be decomposed, so as to get best
results from fertilizers and to cult
vate nicely and easily. Am prepar-
ing to break cotton and corn land
six inches deep Zone inch deeper
than ever before) turning under all
velvet beans and peavines, stalks
and grass.
/ am fencing my farm In three
equal plots, to carry out a 3-year ro-
tation. Hope to realize a nice divi-
dend on time and money invested in
fencing by grazing peas. peanuts, vel
vet beans, etc, and also get nice
lot or high-grade manure spread free.
VIII SOW rye and clover for cover
crop, which will either be grazed or
turned under next spring.
Fertilizer factory is running "a
hours a day, 365 days year, manu-
featuring all feed grown into Cow
ano,' ETC., and is being saved like
gold-dust. The only difficulty is that
stock and feed are limited. However,
this is trouble that can partially,
at least. be overcome in the near
future. Wherever this manure Is
used l expect something to be doing.
All seed for next years crops are
being carefully selected from stalks
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-11-19

Editorial Comment.-It is better,
no doubt, to pillow with two horses to
a one-horse pillow than to use only
one horse, but we believe it will pay
Mr.. Kaiser, another season, to get
two-horse pillow. 1t is hard to do
good work with poor tools, and we
have never seen one-horse plow
which seemed to us to be made for
real blowing. AS for cooking the
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-11-19
BETTER LAND AND BETvrEp
SEEDS.

Messrs. Editors: / am doing var;.
Gus things this year to increase nv
next years crop. l have added over
one dozen head of cattle and hogs IN
what stock l had. am saving and
applying several times as much ma
nure as l usually did. l also sowed
cowpeas in all my corn land and got
a very heavy growth of vines. These
l am turning and shall continue IN
turn as much land as possible this
fall. On that already turned | have
secured fine stand Of rye and GRIM
son clover. This is now making a
fine growth and will soon have the
surface completely covered. I shall
also continue to sow rye on the land
turned up to December 1st.
My brother and l are exchanging
work In order to subsoii a large part
OF our farms. ! know from extern
sive experience this alone will give
a handsome increase in our corn
yield. In my corn-breeding field Of
3 acres we have been subsoiling while
turning in fall and sowing in rye.
This has been done years. The
first year / got an average of 60
bushels OF corn per acre; last year,
65 bushels per acre; this year
used 16 2-horse loads of manure and
1000 pounds of 1922 fertilizer per
acre and got 121Z bushels of she'll
ed corn per acre.
am also making special improve
ment In my corn, cotton and potato
seed, and expect this to help me
greatly in making larger yields next
year. / go over my breeding plot Of
cotton and pick enough choice bolls
from ideal stalks to plant my next
years crop. l am selecting my po-
sato seed from hills free from blight
and scab and from those that bear
the largest yields Of uniform tubers.
/ am also selecting my seed corn
from my detasseled breeding field
I made 121A bushels per acre.
Besides doing the above am read
over 20 good agricultural pa
, ers and getting many things from
them to help me. Professor Massey
said two years ago that / was likely
to reach TO- bushels Of corn per
acre. am now working towards
100 bushels per acre. l must give
you more credit than anyone for
what success l have already made
farming. w. c. CROOK.
Huron, Tenn.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-11-19

potatoes for hog feeding, we doubt if
1t is a paying proposition. Nearly
all the experiments indicate that it
is not.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-09
Conquering the Air

The conquest of air Is being made by the chemist as well as by the aero naut. The advantage is with the chemist, who not only supplies the aeronaut with needful things, such as the bag and the gas, the frame of the heavier-than- air machine, the motor and the gasoline, but with remarkable results has also made an independent study of the air.
 It is pleasant to have our theories verified. When air was liquidied and solidfed. as the theory of heat predicted it would be, there was intense satis- faction in scientific circles The hrst great expectations of what liquid air might do were not realized, but lm- portant uses for it are being found. Since it's constituents have different boiling points, they can be separated from another by the same methods or distillation that are employed to separate alcohol from water. Thus is obtained nitrogen, from which is manufactured fertilizer essential to the growth Of wheat, known as nitrolime or calcium cyanamide. This is prepared by passing nitrogen over red-hot calcium carbide.
 The oxygen separated in distillation process is not wasted, but is used, Tor instance, In the oxy-acetylene blow-pipe, the flame temperature of which Is nearly eonal to that of the electric arc. The b,ow-pipe Is employed to make large rnb,es by melting small ones together to weld iron and steel, to cut steel beams any desired length, to cut port-holes In the sides of battleships; and to do the latter so rapidly as to displace the older
 mechanical methods.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-09
How to Get Rid of Catarrh
A Simple, Safe, Reliable Way,
 and if Costs Nothing to Try

Those who suffer from catarrh know it's miseries. There is no need of this suffering. You can get rid of it by a simple, safe, inexpensive home treat ment discovered by pr. Blosser, who, for over a6 years, has been treating catarrh successfully.
 His treatment is unlike any other It it not a spray, douche. salve, cream, or inhaler, but Is a more direct and thor ough treatment than any of these. It cleans out the head, nose, throat and lungs so that you can again breathe freely and sleep without that stopped up feeling that all lcatarrh sufferers have. It heals the diseased mucous membranes and arrests the foul dis charge, so that you will not be con- stantly blowing your nose and splitting and at the same time 1t does not poison the system and ruin the stomach, as internal medicines do.
 If you want to test this treatment without cost, send your address to pr. J. w. Blosser, 96 Walton street, At lanta, Ga, and he will send you by return mail enough of the medicine to satisfy you that 1t Is all he claims for 1t as remedy for catarrh, catarrhal headaches, catarrhal deafness, asthma, bronchitis. colds and all catarrhal complications. He will also send you free an illustrated booklet. Write him immediately.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-09

the far east, for Japan trusts neither
 China nor the United States. Therefore.
 Englands resistance would consist only , of words. Before ten years Russia will | be unable to lend a single soldier. as she
 must first strengthen herself from her in- ternal revolution. Russia, therefore, must put on a good countenance to any alli-
 ance between Austria, Germany and
 Turkey.
 'It is unnecessary to mention France
 and Italy, as France can receive no ma
 terial assistance from Russia, scarcely
 any from England and none from Italy.
 As the colonial and domestic relations of
 England and Russia prevent their un- dertaking a way to remain with the triple alliance. As matters stand, there
 would therefore, be no resistance to this
 quadruple league, except in the news papers.
 to let this opportunity for increasing her political strength escape her. As regards the domestic policy of Austria Hungary, the Italian irredentism need not trouble her so long as Russia remains unarmed, as they receive their strength from abroad. AS Italy Is bound to the triple alliance she can neither be assisted by
 Russia nor England, and thus Italian irredentism falls to the ground. The Servians, too, would be forever crushed by this quadruple alliance. as Russia Is now weak. The best soldiers from the
 Bosphorus to the Baltic sea are those
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-09

President Taft, when he spent a week in Washington recently working with his cabinet advisers to cut down the government expenses and institute real touch a golf stick or fondle gold ball during the eight days he was here. q am here to work" he said to some in- ouirine friends. T am not going to touch a golf stick. The game Is elimin- ated for this week, for I am here to work" There was a pause and then the President continued: Confidential lv the golf course at Chevy Chase is all torn up. could not play there if [ wanted to, for they arc making i'm provements. including the laying out of a new course.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-09
RUSSIAN ACTRESS
 COMMITS SUICIDE

Paris, October 8.-(Special.)-A young Russian actress of great beauty named Claudia Jakousgaia committed suicide in Paris recently in the belief that her love romance was nearing a prosaic end.
 Her love story began when she met Anrde Lessing, the son of one of the best known Russian financiers in St. Peters burg, some time ago. The couple were very fond of one another, until the young man, who was of the same age as Mile. Claudia, tiring of finance, became attracted to airmanship and came to France to learn to fly He left her in Russia while he went through the air. manship course at Chalons camp, but his sweetheart pined for his company, and finally, in response to her piteous ap- peals, he sent for her and she came from Russia.
 She was, however, jealous of the fasci- nation that the new sport exercised over her lover while M. Leasing found her presence embarrassing in the workaday atmosphere of the camp at Mourmelon. so yesterday they returned to Paris and engaged @ suite of rooms in hotel in the Rue de la Paix. After a shopping ex- cursion with Mile. Claudia, M Andre Lessing took her back to the hotel to dress for dinner, while he went out again, returninS shortly after with frst-class ticket to St. Petersburg. It is surmised that she saw in the green ticket cover the confirmation of her gloomiest forebodings, for shortly after her lovers return to the hotel she shot herself with silver plated revolver
 There was no sound of a quarrel, but only sharp report. The servants rush ing upstairs found the young man sob t~ 1~s. nf fIa oir
 M Leasing declares that the girl shot herself after she had sent him out of the room on some pretext, and he put forward as the motive of the suicide her unreasoning fear of the future. He is half crazed with grief.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-09
TURKEY MAY JOIN
 TRIPLE ALLIANCE

Vienna, October S.-(Special)-I have more than once called attention to the fact that it was regarded here as merely a matter of time when Turkey would be- come to all intents and purposes a mem Der of the triple alliance. Along this line a most remarkable article has just appeared in Dan vaterland, which is so clearly identified with the aristocracy and leading officials that its utterances may almost be regarded as. having semi-offi- cial sanction.
 It says: Turkey cannot wait with folded arms until Russia has organized her army and navy and the Balkan states form a union in consideration of the fact that Russia and the Balkan states are preparing themselves and that Montene- gro, assisted by Russia and Italy. is arm ing. 1t is now to Turkeys greatest inter est to unite herself with Austria-Hun- gary
 "Opposition to such an alliance would have no significance, as Austria Hun gary, Germany and Turkey are armed for every eventuality. England must ac:- |cede, however, unwillingly, as if she un- dertook @ great war she would lose India and Egypt, and notwithstanding her al- lance with Japan. she would have to re- duce her northern fleet to send ships to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-09
MONEY TO BE PLENTIFUL
 DURING WINTER MONTHS

treasury of the United States was in very healthy condition and prompt meas
 ures were taken to relieve the acute sit
 uation. Today, if such a situation should
 arise the treasury department could not do thing to relieve the conditions The terse reason given for this Is, because 1t hasn't got the money The expense of digging the Panama canal separates Un-
 cle Sam from s2,0Oo,OOo to s4OOO,oOo a
 month, and Is thus a great drain on the
 amount of national ready cash. At the beginning of operations on the canal 1t was intended to build the water
 way with borrowed capital, obtained by
 selling bonds. The bonds could not be
 sold on favorable terms. so it was nee
 essary to meet the expenses from the working balance in the treasury. The amount taken from the public registry to date amounts to some $120, 000,000. But to offset the present stringency in the financial condition of the United
 States treasury banks all over the coun-
 try are preparing to float about $500 900, GOO of extra currency. under the recently passed emergency currency law. This of
 itself, 1t is said, will be an ample safe
 guard against a possible money panic
 Through the timely warning of Sec retary of the Treasury MacVeagh banks in most of the large cities have fortified themselves, while others are taking the necessary preparations. MT. MacVeagh
 believes that the knowledge that immense
 sums are available to fight a stringency
 will stop any general movement to take
 money out of circulation and hoard 1t in depositaries.
 If the United States government
 would expend the amount of money 1t
 pays annually in rent for public build | ings, it could build and own one every | two years"
 This assertion is made by Supervising
 Architect Knox Taylor of the treasury department.
 According to statements sent to Con-
 gress over s46O,OOO Is paid out yearly in rents for public offices in the District of
 Columbia. Of this amount the District of Columbia government pays a rent bill Of $50 22S, of which more than $27OO0 Is for schools. The militia establishment rental
 alone Is s1S,0OO
 The department of the federal govern
 ment because of overcrowded conditions pay the following amounts each year for rented offices: State department S49O | treasury s60.1 war $59,o66, justice $3O,6O interior $55, 400, Interstate Commerce Com
 mission $43,200, navy $4492o. government printing office $7400. United States Sen
 ate s3eOO, agricultural department $65,225 postoffice s49,3 ,305, commerce and labor ssS,- | 379 geological survey $S4,900.
 At the next session of Congress con- certed effort, it Is thought, will be made | to curtail the annual rent roll. In all probability bonds will be issued to con struct number of public buildings, the | interest on which will not exceed the stupendous rent bill that the government | Is now required to pay.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-09
An Expen.Iye cnsket

Pretoria, October s. Especially IT town council of Pretoria will prese the Duke of Connaught on his arriy here with an address enclosed in a gold casket. specially designed by MT. A. VI Wouw, the sculptor who designed t Kruger monument for MT. S. Marks. ! tool or file will be used in the maxi. of the casket, which, if found to in any way faulty, will be recast aga and again till perfect. Over 12 poun of gold will be used in the constructic and every part will consist of the so metal. The design will be simple, and t lid will be mounted by massive Il couchant.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-09

than order F dozen" Another lady wi make silk stockings her pet fancl
 These stocking,'' she will say, holdin out foot encased in covering of sil as fine as cobweb, "cost 1000 francs pair. am sorry to say I shall not | able to get any more of then. for tf man who wove them hsls turned blind American women, according to this wri CT, has millions of pounds worth of dit monds, quite apart from their collection of other stones. The jewels are worn a cording to the occasions, and one woms will be heard asking another about h. summer diamonds and her winter one and so on.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-09
TIz Cured Her Quick.

If you nave sore feet. tired feet. tweaty feet, lame feet, tender feet. Smeiiy feet. corns. callouses or bunions. read what happened to Mrs; Crockett. of Jeffersonvf1le. TIZ DID IT. MT. Crockett says: "After the second treat. eat. ment she walked downstairs one loot at \ time. She has not been able to walk downstairs before in past hve years, except by stepping down on each step with one foot mt a time: Tn: is remarkabIe. Send i've more boxes"
 No matter what ai1s your feet or what under heaven you have used witn. it;. different. It acts right of. 1t cures sore feet to stay cured. It's the only the principle of drawing out all the Feet. Powders and other remedies merely clog up. the pores. TIz cleans them out and keeps them clean. You viii feel better the first time it's used. Use 1t a week and you can forget you Sarth that can compare with it. TIZ ls for sale at all druggists. 25o per box, oi direct. if you wish, from Walter Luther Dodge \ Co., Chicago, Ill. Recommended and sold by
 NORTON's DRUG STORE
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-09
PIaeue of snails

Colombo, Oct0ber S.-lbpecfaI.J-A nlarue of snails on the coast of Ceylon is assuming a serious proportion. Mil lions of snails are to be found and some of them weigh as much as one pound each. The snails have begun feeding on the young cocoanut trees. and 1t Is feared that they may attack the young rubber trees. The government is taking meas ures to check the devastation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-09

of the triple alliance and Turkey. Il Turkey does not accede to this alliance
 a Balkan war may ensue. and the best
 plan for consolidating herself would be
 to accept 1t. Such an alliance, however,
 must always be armed, for in ten years
 Russia would be fully armed, as we'll as
 Italy, France and England, and will also possess a strong colonial army, when grave fears of war may arise. Now Is
 the time for the triple alliance and Tur- key to act"
 | There Is more truth than poetry in the old saying one has to go from home to hear news. For example, the News Wien | CT Journal has some most remarkable facts" about the spendthrift qualities of American women. It says: There are 100 women in New York known to spend S150, 900 every year on dress. more than 1000 others lay out $75,0oO on the toilette | Almost every American woman who Is in the position indicated possesses some special taste which she indulges freely.
 One, for instance, rhapsodises about lace pocket handkerchiefs, and has the great est delight in displaying her collection when she gets back from Europe. She may have searched the great cities of America without finding handkerchief that takes her fancy. but in Paris she gets just what she wants and ESys 300 francs dozen. "Of course," she will explain to her friends. 'the design was made specially for me, and I could not do less
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-09

FREE BLOOD CURE COUPON This coupon cut from The Birmingham Aso Herald, is good for sample of Botanic Biooo Balm mailed free in plain package Cu. , ou' 'e X. coupon and mail to BLOOD BALM CO.,. At- lanta. Ga.
 State name of trouble if you know.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-05-25

Come to our home---we will greet you there
Come to the home of the peach and pear;
Come where the Strawberries blossom wide,
And the rose bush scents the eventide.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-05-25
June 2, 3 and 4
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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-11-22
NORTH MONTPELIER.

Mr.. Shaw Of Roxbury was in town
Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. p. Spaulding were in
Montpelier Saturday
Miss Grace Bagley Of Waterbury is
visiting at Joe Martins.
The apron sale held here Thursday
night was quite successful.
Charles Mears and Master George Pray
were in Barre Friday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Grant visited
at their home in Mortified Falls over
Sunday
Miss Ethel King is working in the
wooden mill and boarding at Mrs. Henry
Chapins.
Thanksgiving ball at the new hall,
North Montpelier, Thursday night, No
yember p.
Mrs. Fred Buzzell Of White River
Junction is visiting her mother, Mrs
Clara Shortt,
Mrs. Webster Cate and son, George
Of North Calais visited at George L.
Pray's Sunday.
Mr.. Holmes and family from Plain
field are living in o. X HOLSTERS house
while he is cbopping wood for Mr.. Hol-
lister.
Mrs. Bishop and sons of East Mont
pclier, who had been stopping at her
fathers, John Gallison, for while, went
home Sunday.