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Judith Gap journal. [volume] (Judith Gap, Mont.) 1908-19??, 1910-01-14
ASSASSINATION FROM the LIFE.

1t is Il curious fact that backward
Russia has got ahead of the world in
the moving-picture business. This is
in the possession Of a film 500 feet
long representing the assassination of
Prince Ito on the railway platform at
Hardin. 1t is not Il picture of people
made up to represent the occurrence,
but It is the actual Photographic re-
production of the event itself. The
Photographic apparatus had been set
up to catch the meeting of Prince
Ito and the Russian finance minister,
kokovtsotf. But the unexpected hap
pened and the instantaneous photog-
raphy recorded more important
scene than it's possessor had dreamed
Of
This is probably the only photo
graph in eNistance of an assassina-
ton from the lie. 1t is likely to add
new zes' to the pursuit of scenes by
the moving picture man. If he tries
to snapshot an imperial progress
Judith Gap journal. [volume] (Judith Gap, Mont.) 1908-19??, 1910-01-14
$1,000 IN CASH PRIZES
FOR MONTANA CORN
Continued from first page.

each independent of the altitude list.
The classes in each county are: First
prize, $40; second prize, 81; third
prize. 81; fourth prize, SIS, and fifth
to ninth prizes, 81 each.
The total number of prizes is thus
275, which includes Is state prizes and
nine prizes for each county. Prof. F.
5. Cooley, who will have charge of the
contests, says it is probable that the
boy or girl who wins the state prize
for the best corn will receive a prize
amounting to $3.50. and that the first
person would be almost sure to win at
least sl3O as prize. Each person
who enters the contest will not only
be competing for the county prize, but
for the altitude prize as well, and it is
thus probable that he will secure
money from both the altitude class
prizes and also the county class.
Judith Gap journal. [volume] (Judith Gap, Mont.) 1908-19??, 1910-01-14
THROUGH A COMETS TAIL.

Have you arranged your affairs
! against the day in May next when the
earth will be in the tolls OF Halley's
comet? The east has had a glimpse
of the solar system 8 unbidden guest,
and now the less fortunate west is
permitted to know that it's tail will
be the length of Il hundred full moons
beaded on a string. or long enough to
stretch from the zeneth to the hori-
Zon. The body of the comet is of
great brilliance, surrounded by a
nebulous something and as it ap-
proaches the earth in the early spring
months Venus and Jupiter will pale
and the moon herself be reduced in
shining power. Passing between the
earth and the sun ut a distance Of
only 100000 900 miles from the earth,
the tail will envelope lis in its ex-
panded width, but without evil con-
sequences, the astronomers say. A
few years ago the earth passed
through thick haze of unknown
source, and It was not until some
time later that the scientists sur
missed that we had gone through the
shadow of an invisible comet.
Halley's comet is not All entire
stranger as our grandfathers were ia
vored with visit about seventy-hve
years ago. Long ages probably have
elapsed since it's first approach to the
sun. Owing to its periodical charac-
ter, the same fears and superstitions
do not cluster around it's appearance
in the heavens as attach to the COM
ing of the celestial stranger. \ comet
popularity is associated with war,
pestilence and destruction, and hence
is regarded as Il forerunnpr of calam-
itous events. When Donati's great
comet came in 1858, the gathering
clouds Of the civil war led people to
look upon it as prophecy Of evil. For
once superstition was right, but the
sign has failed so often of late years,
notably as to the comet of 1881, that
the discovery Of new comet has lost
much of the cOnduciveness to goose
flesh and Spinal chills. Halley's
comet is now approximately lsO, 00O,-
600 miles from the sun and 135, OOO, 900
miles from the earth. 1t travels
about l,2oo,oo0 miles day, a moder-
ate rate of speed that will be materi-
ally increased as it nears the sun.
Judith Gap journal. [volume] (Judith Gap, Mont.) 1908-19??, 1910-01-14
~.~,.-
CANADIAN GOVERNMENT
PURCHASES 700 BUFFALO

said fewer than one hundred remain
Ell. Now there are seven hundred in
single park.
Reckoning on the record Of the
herd that developed from four calves
captured bv the Indian hunter. the
new national park ought untloub tedly
to perpetnate the existance Of the
buffalo Of the plain. Three years ago
there were at the park in Banff, AL
berta, seventy-five head, and the nat
nral increase was eighteen Circum-
stances are more favorable for the
better birth rate in Buffalo park, for
the territory is larger and the. en-
virOnment more suitable. In twenty
years there should be from seven to.
ten Thousand head on the Canadian
ranch.
Judith Gap journal. [volume] (Judith Gap, Mont.) 1908-19??, 1910-01-14

of gold, than year ago. and with
the exception of London, where a po-
litical crisis caused temporary dis
turbance, the same is true abroad. AS
clinching the president explanation,
his supporters point to the influence
the Boer war exerted on the cost of
living. During its continuance there
was a decrease from the normal out
put Of gold, owing to the closing of
the Transvaal mines. which was ac-
companied by a fall in the prices of
necessities. After and since the re-
sumption of mining in South Africa,
the tendency of prices has been stead
lily upward.
Both sides of the controversy seem
to overlook the important fact that
half billion dollars in currency has
been added to our circulation within
the last dozen years. This money is
in the form of national bank notes,
and it must exert the same influence
on prices as so much gold would.
Our silver circulation also has in
creased appreciably through fraction
al coinage, and all told the annual
output has averaged about $50, 900 900,
plus the output of gold. Granting
the plausibility of the presidents eX-
PLANTATION, it necessarily follows that
this currency was an added impulse
to the upward price movement here
in America. whatever the effect may
have been abroad.
Judith Gap journal. [volume] (Judith Gap, Mont.) 1908-19??, 1910-01-14

there is always the chance of his bag
ging bomb explosion. If he takes
the aerOplane's flight there is the
chance of fall. or 4 moving picture
OF football game may be punctuated
by broken necks. Of course, this
is subject to the drawback that the
Photographic apparatus would be
charged with such grim suggestions
that they would become as unpopular
as the reportorial kotlaks and move
imperial guards or football fans to
assault and battery on the cameras.
Judith Gap journal. [volume] (Judith Gap, Mont.) 1908-19??, 1910-01-14
CENSUS WORK IN MONTANA.
W. J. Barrows Of 0eaeral Census Office Pre-.
diets Great Showing for This State.


diets Great Showing for This State.
W. j. Barrows, of the general GEN.
sus Office at Washington, is in Butte.
where he will take charge Of the First
Montana district until a supervisor is
named by President Taft. Mr.. Bar
rows has charge of the division of
finances, division employing nearly
100 men. He visited the state capitol
and secured much data in connection
with his new duties. He also held
more or less extended conferences
with Leon Shaw, supervisor for the
Second Montana district, in which
the state work was generally gone
over and an understanding reached,
especially with division of counties
into enumeration districts by means
Of school districts.
Mr.. BarrOws, says the Helena Rec
ord, will at once begin a tour Of the
counties of the First dis. riot with the
view Of dividing them into enumera-
ton districts, and he expressed the
belief that it would be physical inn
possibility to get this accomplished
before the expiration of the time in
which applicants for enumerators'
position may file their petitions.
He stated that from his brief visit
here and his general knowledge Of tile
operations in the census office that
Montana will make one Of the great
est If indeed not the largest compare
tive gain Of any state in the UNION
This was shown from land office rec
orls, both federal and state, from the
constantly increased population us
shown by the annual bulletins Of his
department and his personal know
ledge.
Mr.. Barrows related an incident
which if the plan Were carried out in
Montana would result in splendid adj
vertising for the Treasure state.
Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, -
said he, ''has the reputation of being
the wealthiest county in proportion
to population Of any III the United
States. This is due to the fact that
newspapers Of the county have drilled
and drilled into the residents: OF the
county the necessity forgiving census
enumeratOrs an exact statement Of
their possessions. That is. they shield
nothing, and when everything is
shown, that county makes the great
est record of them all. The residents
there realize that any figures given
the census enumeration are kept i'll
violate, that they do not fall into the
hands of the county assessors, OF any,
one else, save the census bureau.
For instance, if man has team Of
horses worth $500, lie informs the
enumerator. The same is true Of lis
cattle, his chickens, his crop yields
and all. Now, this should be done in
Montana. The result would be the
best advertisement the state has ever
had.
1.-THE law provides that enumerators
shall receive not more than 81 nor
less than 81 per day, this being de-
pendent upon the place where the
work is done. City enumerators will
be paid by the name, but they will
make with any sort Of active efforts
far more than 81 per day." :.
Judith Gap journal. [volume] (Judith Gap, Mont.) 1908-19??, 1910-01-14
Yours For IL Cents a Davf

We announced this new sales plan RECENTLY.
Just to feel the pulse Of the people. Simply q,
small cash payment-tllen IL cents day. That
is the plan in a nutshell.
The result has been such a eielmga of applioa,
tio's for machines that We simply astoundesl
The demand comes from people Of all classes.
all ages all occupations.
The majority Of inquiries has come from. peo>
pie of known financial standing who were at
tracted by the novelty Of tina proposition. An
impressive demonstration Of tile immense poD~
ulnrity Of the Oliver Typewritsr.
A startling confirmation, of our belief that the
kra Of Universal Typewriting is at hand.
Judith Gap journal. [volume] (Judith Gap, Mont.) 1908-19??, 1910-01-14
Card Of Thanks.

l wish to thank the people of judi
It'll Gap and vicinity for their kind
ness and assistance given me. during
my recent bereavement, and the
Catholic ladies of the city For the
beautiful floral offerings presented
Mrs. Gerald o.. Walker.
Judith Gap journal. [volume] (Judith Gap, Mont.) 1908-19??, 1910-01-14
Local Market.
"A, Deserted Village"

"A Deserted Village"
Tom Fowmni lived OH n section farm.
Not far from a prosperous village:
He worked 1afR anaearlM and caliouscd his palm
But thrived BY industrious tillage
He saved up some money and stood very WELL.
His luck would haxe lasted for all we cau tell
II he had never heard OF Chicago.
One day big catalogue came through the mail
That told of a wonderful heater
The figures were tempting Tom swallowed the
tale.
Says he. Mr.. Merchants a clleater.
His profit must Ike near a. numbered per- cent
I'LL iufs call his bluff and, unless hen relent
Ill order a stove from. Chicago"
So he drove to the village and entered the store
With an air th0t was lofty and knowing
Says he. MI. Merchant. please tell me once
more
The price Of that stove You were showing"
Thirty five. cash or credit. the best one in town.
Tom turned on his heel and went out with a frown
And sent of a check to Chicago.
He Dragged to his neighbors and they in trice
Sent away for whatever they needed;
They often were stuck. but they got low price.
Which. Of coarse. WAS the one thing they
needed.
And this was the notice he left on his door:
GONE To LOOK Fox A Jon IN CHICAGO"
Toms mail order stove didn't work very we'll.
But no one in town could repair it:
At last he was forced to admit he was wrong,
His neighhors weren't slow to admit il.
With no stores there one to lA,y or to SELL
The drumners stopped coming. they closed the
hotel.
Twas surprising how quickly the town wen, to-
we'll.
very long way from Chicago.
The lawyer the doctor. the editor. too.
They all got cold feet very quickly:
The parSon soon noticed the way the wind blew
He eft. for his children got sickly
At last Tom decided to sell his old farm
hut no one he found with the greatest ALARM
Would buy one SO far from Chicago.
When blank desolation stared Tom in the face
His courage grew weaker and weaker.
Till he made up his mind to ret ont Of the place
And 70 on a jaunt as home seeker
So he put OIL his overc0at. packed up his grip,
Says he I'll Ike giving my Meixht,ors the slip
For must he of to Chicago
When he got to the station to Toms great SUR
He found it deserted and dusty
Inhabited only hy spiders and flies
And the sidin9s was crook ed and rusty.
The train flew by whixzing. Tom waited in vaii,-
Says he: Neither merchant nor doctor nor train
Will stop any place but Chicago.
Prom The Iron Age.
Judith Gap journal. [volume] (Judith Gap, Mont.) 1908-19??, 1910-01-14

AS about tWo-thirtls of the OUTPUT
goes into coinage, it is seen that gold
in excess of $500, 00O, 900 has been adj
ded to the common stock this year.
This sum is considerably in excess of
the worlds requirements for new
capital for the year, and TIL surplus
is @: the money market as lolnable
gold. Money rates are lower in New
York, even wit the current outflow
Judith Gap journal. [volume] (Judith Gap, Mont.) 1908-19??, 1910-01-14
A $n00 TYPEWRITER
FOR l7CENTS A DAYI

Please read the headline over again.
Then its tremendous significance will
dawn upon you.
An Oliver Typewriter-th standard
visible writer-the 500 maci,ine-the-
most highly perfected typewriter on
the market-yours for II cents Il dayl
The typewriter whose conquest Of
the commercial world is matter Of
business history-yours. for II cents
day!
The Typewriter that is equipped with scores of
such conveiiienoes rs THE Balance Shift"-"'rhe
Ruling Device'-'rhe Double Release-" The
locomotive Base"-'rhe Automatic Spacer-
The Automatic Tatulatur' Disappearing
Indcator'-The Adjustable rape, Fingers
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., 1910-06-18

Editorial Answer.-In addition to
the Bermuda grass and bur clover,
we think we would also try small
white clover and lespedeza, or Japan
clover. The more plants you can get
in permanent pasture the more feed
1t will afford. On the uplands it
might be we'll to SOW some orchard
grass, which will afford considerable
feed before the Bermuda gets set
sufficiently to completely cover the
ground. If the land is wet or any
part of it is inclined to be moist, it
might also be well to sow on this part
Of the field, red top.
The bur clover seed on the mar
ket has been chiefly the California
re-cleaned sort. which has not given
as good satisfaction as the seed for
merly sold here in the bur, For
such seeds as are wanted we advise
consulting several of the advertisers
in The Progressive Farmer and Ga
zettc.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., 1910-06-18

In lightly. The yield was enormous,
When | first sowed vetch / did it
on a very small scale. | made the
small piece of ground very rich with
stable manure, and fertilized liber-
ally with phosphoric acid. | got
good results from the first. Since
then | have not seeded a field where
vetch had not previously been grown
without inoculating with soil from
an old vetch field. | get heavy yields
OF vetch from old worn land, and
there is no other crop that builds
up land so fast. ] attribute my sue
cess with vetch on these old fields to
incubation.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., 1910-06-18
A FIELD OF vETCH AND OATS.
4 Great Combination Crop for the
Dairyman and Stockman.

Messrs Editors: | am enclosing
a photograph of one of my fields of
vetch. with rye as a support for the
vetch. This has proven a very profit
able field. 1t came in just as my sill
age was running short and | began
to soil my dairy COWS with it. It was
fed green to mules and horses. too.
and they did we'll on 1t. When the
rye commence TO toughen il was all
cut for hay. 1t has yielded three
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., 1910-06-18

clover and vetch are valuable winter
or early spring legumes, serving as
some winter cover to the soil and CIV
ing early grazing or forage, while
adding to the nitrogen of the soil.
We would certainly advise trying
them again and again on a small area
until the soil becomes inoculated and
the crop grown successfully. or until
IL is demonstrated that they can not
be grown successfully on the farm
One trial Is not sufficient test unless
some easier or better crop is avail
able. and we confess we do not know
what that is to be.
We know OF nothing that can be
planted in June at the last working
OF the corn along with peas that will
act as winter cover crop and afford
winter pasturage. The requirement
is unnatural and too great. Such
plant must be able to stand the long
hot summer and the winter. as we'll
as the smothering effect OF the peas,
and we know Of nothing that will
vetch do we'll and are allowed to rip
en- and make seed in May, before
corn is planted. they come very near
ly supplying the requirement; but
this means later corn and laying-by
in late July instead of June.
Vetch is not likely to come up and
be summer killed; at least, we have
seen the seed plowed under in June
and peas sown and a splendid crop of
vetch harvested the next spring; but
crimson clover would probably sum-
mer kill if planted so early.
On good land winter barley will
probably give more winter grazing
than any other cereal. If the land
is not rich, we prefer rye to either
oats or barley. These cereals, how
ever. should probably not be sown
until September or October. Your
last years experience was successful
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., 1910-06-18

Cowpea Would Be if We Gave 1t a
Chance" | understand this to mean
that it would give better returns for
the cost of production than any other
crop.
To justify this conclusion, the wri-
ter uses figures them fairly and
conservatively, except that he does
not compare them with the only crop
which, in this section, is the equal of
cowpeas on every score he mentions,
and will beat them in yield SO per
cent.
would not belittle the cowpea,
but with us the soy bean will do we'll
anywhere that peas will, and often
where the peas will not. They are a
much safer crop in wet seasons or
dry The hay is little more val
liable than cowpea hay The grain
is much richer than cowpeas. This
is as to quality, pound for pound.
AS to quantity, the beans will give
about so per cent more than PEAS
The feeding value of an acre of soy
beans was found by the Tennessee
Agricultural Experiment Station to
be about so per cent greater than
that of cowpeas on an adjoining acre.
ZENO MOORE.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., 1910-06-18

Keep Up the Fight Against the Boil
Weevil.
Among the farmers in newly-in-
tested weevil territory, the impress
sion is some times current that the
weevil should not appear before July
or August, and any earlier appear
ance has been the signal for panic
and decentralization. Remember that
1t is perfectly normal for the weevil
to appear when warm weather comes,
and it's appearance should occasion
no alarm.
On the other hand. all fields of
cotton should be closely watched, and
vigorous fight kept up to hold the
weevils in check. The methods es-
sential have been repeatedly publish
ed in the past. and it will only be
necessary here to state that for the
remainder of the season these must
consist of rapid, shallow and clean
cultivation, the continual mainten-
ance of dust mulch, and the careful
destruction, by picking and burning,
OF all punctured squares. A rigid ad-
herence to these methods has given
good results even in the worst sea-
sons, and while this years crop is a
little late. the present good weather
will enable 1t to largely regain this,
and in general the outlook is fairly
promising.
In a few years the farmers of
southwest Mississippi will be grow
ing a profitable crop of cotton in
spite OF the weevil. and will then
wonder just why they became so de-
moralized when 1t appeared.
We can make cotton under weevil
conditions, and every man owes it,
not only to himself, but to his COM
munity, to make the strongest pos
sible fight and demonstrate this fact
to his own and to his neighbors' sat
isfaction.-B. L. Moss. District Agent
U. S. Department of Agriculture.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., 1910-06-18

heavy cuttings. and the ground is
now ready for crop of peas. This
vetch and rye was sown about the
last OF September. The ground was
we'll broken with two-horse plow
Four tons of barn-yard manure per
acre was then spread with manure
spreader and was narrowed in with
spike-tooth harrow. We had a good
rain. and as soon as the ground was
dry enough, ID bushels of rye per
acre was disked in. Twenty pounds
OF vetch was then sowed and brushed
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., 1910-06-18

The One Crop Better Than COwpeas.
Messrs. Editors: In your issue of
June 4th notice one head, "The
Most Valuable Crop of the South"
with sub-head, This is What the
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., 1910-06-18

Editorial Comment: II is rather
unusual for vetch TO winter kill bad
~. 1t makes little growth until
spring and hugs the ground closely
during the winter, but II II comes up
In the fall and gets some growth. II
does not usually winter kill badly on
land adapted to it's growth; that is,
inoculated and well supplied with
lime. In the winter and early spring
there may look to be little of 1t, but
when spring comes the vetch springs
up and makes a much larger show
ing than expected from It's winter APP
pearancc.
We think bur clover, Grim
son clover and vetch should be plant
ed so as to get some growth before
the cold weather and freezes come
on. This Is the difficulty with bur
clover and crimson clover, in dry
falls they may not get growth enough
to develop sufficient roots to with
stand the cold weather, and II sown
too early, the dry weather may kill
them. Bur clover we regard as
chiefly valuable to give early grazing
on Bermuda pastures. but crimson
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., 1910-06-18
WINTER COVER CROPS.
The Best Are Crimson Clover. bur
Glover, Nctch, and the Cereals.

| have tried bur and crimson
clover and vetch with but poor
success. Vetch seems to do bet
ter than either OF the Others; but
II gets TO growing only In early
spring and winter kills badly.
What you would suggest TO plant
In June al last working of corn.
along with peas, which will not
only serve ms n cover crop In
winter. but give some winter
pasturaEe after peas are pas
tured ofg G.. h. j.
Uniontown. Ala.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., 1910-06-18

l want some immediate infOr-
nation in regard to a permanent
pasture. l am plowing. disking
and getting my land ready to set
in Bermuda. l am going to put
out the turf, as I have plenty o.
it, and what l want to know is,
what to sow with it except bur
clover, IL anything. j. ]. r.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., 1910-06-18

find vetch and oats a fine combi-
nation. Mules can do heavy work
with no other feed but we'll cured
vetch and oat hay. 1t should be cut
when the oats are just passing the
dough stage. Wheat, too, is a very
satisfactory grain to grow with vetch.
The only trouble with wheat and oats
with vetch Is that but one heavy cut
ting can be had. But they are both
far superior to rye in food value.
FELIX WILLIAMS
Carroll Co., Ga.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., 1910-06-18

with oats sown in peas in July, and
II this can be repeated, we know of
nothing better for your purposes. We
would not expect the oats to do we'll
planted SO early, but the peas may
keep them back so much and protect
them so they will not grow much, or
be smothered, or killed until the peas
are off.
We are sorry we can not suggest
an entirely satisfactory crop for your
purposes, but such are the limita-
tions of our agricultural crops