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AUTOMOBILE DRIVING AND RE-

pairing; men wanted to train in three
weeks for positions paying so to $50 per
week; great demand now. Portland Auto
Co.. Portland. Me ml8d&W4W
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-16
BY A. L. French.

the first field the farmer is, we will
say. grazing dairy cows that are max
ing 400 pounds of butter per year,
and the pasture is providing suffici-
ont feed to Craze a COW per acre for
five months Of the year. that is, fur
nishing feed enough to produce 1864
pounds Of butter per year, which
product, after taking out the cost Of
manufacture. is worth, in the South,
20 cents per pound, or $3.50 per
acre Of pasture. This amount means
the interest and taxes on this good
pasture land at 5000 per acre. Now in
case he is grazing COW that makes
only 100 pounds Of butter per year,
his pasture is worth only one-fourth
as much as it would be in the other
case You see in this case he is sell
ing his grazing on a poor market.
Well, take another case: Suppose
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-16

largely. How? Simply by the con-
dition of productiveness in which we
maintain them and by the quality of
the products we produce on them.
To illustrate: A certain number
OF acres of land on one place devoted
to pasture is rich, well drained, full
OF humus, kept absolutely clean of
all plants except such as grazing ami
mails may make use Of, and the plants
are OF the best quality Of their class.
On another farm is a field of the
same acreage, half Of which is COW
cred with brush; weeds, thistles,
briers, mulleins, cover the more fer
tile portions that are not brush grown
gullies abound, and rocks, stumps,
etc. The land, large part OF 1t. is
poor, devoid of humus, and every
little drouth causes havoc among the
feeble grass plants. 1t doesn't take
a man of extreme intelligence to
see that one of these fields is produc-
ing Ave times the amount OF pasture
plants as the other, and hence is
worth five times as much, as meas
ured in food products.
But there is another measure: On
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-16

live stock husbandry. Tick fever has
always stood as the one greatest OBJ
stacle to the development of the
cattle industry of the South. While
other sections were importing pure
bred cattle to improve the native
herds, the South was prevented from
doing SO because of the losses of all
such imported improved cattle from
tick fever. The losses were so GER
tain and SO heavy that in our finan-
cial condition we could not stand the
expense necessary to obtain pure
bred sires for breeding purposes.
The result has been that little at
tention has been given to the raising
of cattle and our soil fertility has
suffered immeasurably in conse-
quence.
In later article we shall
discuss the symptoms and proven
ton and treatment of tick fever, but
at this time it is sufficient to state
that there is but one effective, eco
nomical and practical way to prevent
tick fever and that is to eradicate
the ticks. Some object to getting
rid of the ticks on the ground that
they may, after rearing a herd of
cattle tick-free and therefore suscep-
tible to tick fever, again become in
tested with ticks. but the losses
from such occurrences, when any
thing like intelligent care is observ-
ed, are not hundredth part of the
losses from tick fever where no eff
fort is made at tick eradication. If
the cattle owners of the South un-
derstood the disease so that they
could recognize and appreciate the
losses which they suffer from 1t, no
other argument would be necessary
to induce them to eradicate the ticks.
There are, of course, other and
greater reasons, but this alone would
be sufficient.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-16

no way by which the masses of cat
tie owners can be impressed with the
magnitude of the losses which they
suffer through the death of cattle by
tick fever, but to one who has had
an opportunity to study the disease
and observe its prevalence, the mag
nitude of the loss is little short of
appalling. Probably over one-half
million dollars will be spent in tick
eradication during 1910, but beyond
doubt the deaths from tick fever will
cost the cattle owners of the South
several times that amount during
this year.
mo Ticks, No Texas Fever"
Tick fever occurs naturally only
when cattle fever ticks infest the
cattle-in other words, mo ticks, no
Texas fever" If the deaths among
native Southern cattle were the only
losses sustained by Southern agri-
culture by the disease tick fever,
these losses alone would more than
justify all the trouble and cost of
Graduating the ticks from every foot
OF American soil; but tick fever has
struck deeper and extended its
blighting influence further into our
agriculture. The greatest defect in
our Southern agriculture is lack OF
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-16

harvest by hand
or machinery have
a fixed market
value established
by the law Of sup
ply and demand
or o I h e r W | S e
sometimes. w Q
have the fixing of
the values Of our
pastures In our
own hands, very
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-16
ENGINES and BOILERS

Traction Engine. 10 horse compound, $500: IS
horse plain traction 10 horse traction: 10 and II
horse portable. iron trucks: 20 horse portable.
skids: 20 horse portable. on iron trucks; gaso-
line engines all Sizes new saw mill. $50: boilers.
engines. pumps. heaters.
Casey Boiler Works, Springfield, Ohio
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-16
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on this good pasture the farmer is
producing beef. He secures high
class beef-bred calves that will pro-
duce 200 pounds of growth and fat
per head in six months, and the acre
will produce feed sufficient for two
animals. This class of meat Is worth
on the market to-day cents per
pound, or a product from each acre
of $28. But instead of this class of
animals, suppose our farmer does as
thousands are doing in the South
secures scrub calves of no breeding,
that make only 800 pounds of gain
per acre of pasture, and this gain
worth 3 cents per pound. 1t will be
readily seen that his pasture is worth
less than one-third as much to him
as it was in the other case.
Take another case: Let the farm
er stock the pasture with high grade
mutton ewes that produce pounds
of 30-cents wool per year, and $50
per cent of lambs that bring on the
best markets Sc per head. One good
pasture will feed about four ewes per
acre for months of the year. Hence
the pasture share of the income from
the sheep is $31.46. Contrast this
with the produce from the scrub
lock-3 pounds of wool per head
and 80 per cent increase of So lambs
that secure their entire feed from
the pasture II months in the year.
The income Of $1,000 per acre as
contrasted with the other case should
be enough to convince any reasonable
man that it will pay him to use his
brain and energy in securing for his
pasture plants good market.
I am trying, my readers, to make
this point so very plain that you
will have to see it whether you wish
to or not, because in these two
points-the class of pasture, and the
class Of animals grazed on these pas
tures-is where my farmer friends
of the South fail ninety times out Of
the hundred, and about seven Of the
other ten times they fail in one or
the other of the points I have made.
So let it be remembered, then. that
to make land devoted to pasture pro-
duce the greatest profit, the land
must be in a good state Of fertility,
we'll drained, and with big sign on
the fence warning every class OF
plant not valuable for grazing to
: keep out" and the farmer then, with
mattock, scythe, moving machine.
etc., must see that they do keep out.
r And then let our farmer keep ever
: in mind the other equally essential
point-that he must see to the prop
, er marketing of his pasture plants
Z and we will hear less of that oft-re-
peated saying that pastures don't
pay"
8 In the next paper we will consider
l the building Of pastures, etc.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-16


Il Boophilus Annulatus) in at
taching itself to susceptible cattle,
introduces into these cattle very
small, living. animal parasite which
causes the disease variously known
as tick fever. Texas fever, splenetic
fever, bloody murrain. red water.
acclimation fever. etc. Many Of the
cases enormously called hollow
horn" or wolf in the tail" are also
tick fever. The losses from this dis
ease are very heavy, but there is no
way at present of ascertaining ex-
actly what these losses are. The
veterinarian who is able to readily
recognize the disease rs the best
judge OF the extent OF the losses
from tick fever. but most cases are
never recognized as tick fever and
are attributed to other causes. For
Instance, an animal may become in
tested with the small seed ticks and
sicken and die before these ticks
become large enough to be seen or
suspected by the owner. During the
first two weeks the ticks are on the
COW. they grow very little and In
that time the disease may develop
and death OF the animal result.
Southern Cattle May Die With Texas
Fever.
Many people suppose that only
cattle brought into the tick-infested
area from the tick-free area die OF
this disease. 1t is not. however, the
matter of location which determines
the susceptibility OF an animal, but
whether said animal has acquired
immunity, or freedom from a severe
attack, by having previously had the
disease or from having been infested
with ticks. There are many animals
raised In the section under quaran-
tine, and where ticks are more or
less numerous. that do not become
infested with ticks. Many farms are
free OF ticks and calves raised in
town or In small lot free OF ticks
until they are past year old, may
also contract a severe case OF the
disease.
w men HlsN ihtSStcA NANs si~Hs'
cattle raised in Mississippi. or any
other Southern State, IL they do not
carry the fever tick until mature, are
Just as susceptible to the disease as
cattle raised in Minnesota or New
York. Owing to these facts and the
failure OF the average cattle owner
TO recognize the true nature or the
disease, the losses. even In what is
known as the permanently tick-in-
tested sections, are very heavy and
greatly underestimate by the people
OF the South.
No One Knows the Extent of the
Loss.
AS veterinarian with rather un-
usal opportunities for observation
during the past 10 years, the writer
Is convinced that more cattle die
from the effects OF the ticks and the
disease-tick or Texas fever-which
they transmit, between May and
December /, than from any other
half dozen diseases combined. The
losses are probably greatest where
as many as half the farms are free
OF ticks, but even in those sections
where ticks are supposed to infest al
the cattle the losses are heavy. Ever
animals that have carried ticks al
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-16

TN THIS PAPER we wish to con-
slider the matter OF pasture val
Il ues. The value of all ordinary
things is the price they will bring.
The ordinary farm crops which we
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-16
PERMANENT PASTURES FOR THE SOUTH.

Determines Value Of Pasure-Whether 1t Is
the Farmer HiniselfGood
Land Crops Stock the Greatest
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-16
K LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY \
HOW TO GET RID OF THE CATTLE TICK
II-The Losses Resulting From Of
Cattle Die With This Disease Every the Fact
Being Suspected by Their Owners-Natve Cattle Die as Well
asI Imported.
By TAFT Butler.

YUydE COMMON Southern cattle
tick (Margaropus be impressed with the
Newark post., 1910-03-16
Base Ball Association Meets

A largely attended meeting OF the
Newark Base Ball Association was
held in the Hose House on Monday
night. president 5. L. tlcrdman pre-
siding.
Atlcr the regular routine of business
had been transacted Manager Young
stated the object OF calling the meet
ing. stating that the purpose of the
meeting was for considering the ad-
visibility of how to raise money IN
order to properly equip and place a
team to represent Newark in the lri-
County League The team will need
at least $Ioo to start the season, cost
ing SIS for the guarantee on entering
the league and new uniforms and other
supplies that will cost SIS more
After considerable discussion it was
decided to get out a subscription
paper, a great many people having
promised subscriptions toward getting
the team in shape.
Ii was also decided to give benefit
in Notes Moving Picture Hall on
Thursday, March a4th. when special
program will be given.
Special music reels and singers will
be there on that date. There will be
another meeting of the Ass ,ciation on
March aSth, at the Hose House, at 8
o'clock p. m.
Newark post., 1910-03-16
Information Wdnted

CitiZcn-Not to get i'll a discussion
at all, but for pure information, would
you kindly tell me Of the two two pieces
oi graft you spoke OF i'll your COM
munication OF March 9th.
This is a strong accusation, and so
strong that surely you must have some
grounds.
| have always maintained that wi h
ali our differences Of opinion that there
mas never been the least semblance OF
graft in our town. And SO convinced
am ! OF this, that i'll spite of your
article. | hesitate TO credit it. | can't
help but think that you have been
misguided.
Ii there is any such thing, and you
know such to be true, must criticize
you for not boldly striking from the
shuuder-giving the facts III your
communication and signing your name.
Personally, | am not i'll this fight,
nor do | care to enter 1t, but such
things should be done in the open
In the interest OF the town feel
sure you will agree with me in the
request that the plain truth shall be
known You do the men an injury
to leave them for suspicious natures
to critlcise.
Again, you apparently take an ac-
tive interest in town affairs. This is
commendable But, though not a poll
tcian, 1t appears to me that you are
injuring the cause Df those with whom
YOU are associated in not stating facts
and concrete facts at that-but in
stead, you make a purely personal at
tack.
his is said i'll no spirit of pure criti-
cism, but simply in the interests of the
town.
feel sure the citizens OF Newarl
will agree with me.
NEUTRAL.
p ST. wish to say | have voted
| for the 'lns" and Outs" | am not {
| town partisan.
Newark post., 1910-03-16
College Notes

The Delaware College Cadet Corps
are preparing for the annual inspec-
ton to be held in April. The nspec
tor this year will bs Ca r'- D n
Lochridge, General Stat tI. s.
Last year, in spite of the la- weather
on the day of inspectio Dulara7r
was awarded third place j., laa lar,d
Grant Colleges. Greai c @ de.
to Lieut.. Edgar S. Stay srJ a.
fsntry U. S. A., >-,om aa
Cadets, for the decided nnp.o.---
shown by the Cadets over former
years.
Prot, Hayward, OF the Experiment.
Station, will address the Pomona
Grange, at Lewes, this week.. Also
visit other Oranges in lower part of
the State.
Prof: Hayward and Mr.. Hossinger
were in Baltimore Saturday, looking
for live stock for the College farm.
The agricultural students are at
present taking practical lessons in
sheep shearing at the College farm.
Mr. Teller manager OF the College
farm, is the instructor.
DR.. Nj. T. Cook, plant Pathologist
OF the College Experiment Station, re-
turned on Friday e,ening iron a
trip to New York City. While in
New York, DR.. Cook delivered lec-
ture before the Iorrey Botanical Club
on the Flora and Agriculture of
Cuba DR.. Cook also attended lee
ture given i, the American Museum
of Natural History OF New York City.
he remainder of the week he spent III
| research work n come ct;on with the
| experiments nov being carried on by
him and his assistant, Prof. Tauben-
haus. DIR. Cook is gong TO Whining
ton this week To lecture on Cuba" be-
tore tine Natural History Society of
! Delaware.
| On Thursday, in the last OF the in
ter collegiate shoots, Delaware scored
| ISS2.
| The College students were afforded
some little amusement last week when
several gypses with bears made their
appearance on the College campus. The
| gypsies put the bears through numer-
Gus tricks, and one bear climbed up
| one OF the large trees on the campus.
Newark post., 1910-03-16
Rifle Range To Be Moved

The Rife Range. located on the
Hossinger and Elliott's property near
the Curtis dam is being dismantlcd.
The increase in rent OF the Elliott
property where the targets are situated
is such that Compan L. has been conf
PEELED to abandon the location.
1t is hoped that some other site will
be secured, as it was OF great benefit
to the State at larg. as well as to
Conpany E. and the Cadets at Coll
lege.
The rent last year was merely uomi-
nal; but $3.50 was asked and the Com
pany mere is unable to pay this amount
The range was put up by the Gov
ernment at cost OF about $500. 1t IS
one of the four ranges of the State
and probably has been used more than
any OF the other ranges.
Our local Compan" stands highest
in the State as Company, and also
has the highest number OF experts to
the Company. 1t furnished last year
onc-thrd OF the expert shots from all
oyer the State for the National Match
at Camp Perry, Ohio.
Although the National Government
built the range. the maintenance must
be kept up from the funds oi the home
company.
Every effort should be made to Sc
cure suitable place for the range.
No branch OF work OF the service is,
| III our minds. more impoi tant than
that OF craftsmanship. And in view
of the very high standing OF our com
| pany, we feel sure that our people Will
| do all in their power to retain range
It this place.
Newark post., 1910-03-16
Milford Cross Roads

When turning to the side OF the
road To allow team to pass. the
chains oi the automobile owned by
Francis Quiglcy became wrapped
about the axle, twisting it badly.
Mrs. Porter, who is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. William Johnston,
was taken suddenly i'll last Friday, but
is now slowly recovering
Mr.. and Mrs. Christopher spent Sun
day with their sister and brother, Mrs.
Maggie Smith and Mr.. James Greer.
Mr. Benjamin Harris has moved into
his lately purchased house.
Mr. F. +. Kitchens is now a resident
OF the Cross-Roads
Mr.. Wilmer Mote and wife spent
Sunday with his uncle, A. S. Mote
Mrs Samuel Little visited her par
ents i'll Wilmington last week.
Mrs. Thomas Dempsey is spending
the week with her father, Mr.. Jacob
WEIGH
Mr.. Harvey Sheppard spent Sunday
afternoon with his aunt, at Beech
wood.
Newark post., 1910-03-16
Grange Elects Officers

The Newark Grange met Monday
evening at the College and elected the
following officers:
Master-Jo ohm Nivin.
Overseer-Everett Johnson.
Eecturer-llarry Hayward.
Secretary--A. 4. Grantham.
Treasurcr--George Kelly.
Steward-J. IL. Richards.
Assistant evard-A. {. Heiser.
Chaplain-Rc> DR.. Gilfillan.
Gate-keeper-H. M. Campbell.
The Grange wlt meet again on
Monday evening, March 21st. A talk
will be given on The Care of Live
Stock The Steering Committee will
arrange the program for the coming
season.
The Grange is increasing in mem
bership, and there is hope for some
good work to be done this year.
Newark post., 1910-03-16

the United States that have legally
recognized this movement. Without
the authority OF law the work is being
carried on III many other towns and
cities in other States, and it is becom-
ing more general every year In Our
own State the City of Wilmington,
through the energy OF its superinten-
dent. is securing at least beginning
in the right direction. Newark is the
only other town in the State in which
any attempt has been made to have
systematic and detailed examination
for physical defects.
Several years ago Drs. Guiick and
Ayers. working under the auspices Of
the Russell Sage Foundation, on an
examination into the causes of retard-
alton among school children, address
cd letter to the State Boards of Edu-
cation i'll every State, asking what the
status OF this work in heir State was.
Answers were recitcd from every
Board except that of Delaware, and
IN the book OF Drs. Ayers and Guiick,
in the list of States we find Delaware
No answer" ~ This is no reflection
on our State, but it indicates the apa-
thy OF some OF our officers. But it is
signlhcant to school authorities when
| they see that iii 1850 Delaware was 80,
| and IN 1000, 81, in the list of the States
arranged as to the percentage OF the
! lli.eracy OF its people, ..
The history of medical inspection oi
schools you will see is brief. beginning
i'll 1879 in Paris, by the end Of the last
century it had been becoming compul-
sorry iii all the progressive States of
Europe, and beginnings had been
made all over the civilized world. Be-
ginning in Boston in 1894 three
States now have compulsory and one
permissive laws, and the work mas
spread until most of the large cities
and many small towns over the couu-
try have voluntary inspection. The
tide is rising and the period OF flood is
not far off. 1t is not improbable that
within the next ten years almost 3ery
State in our own country will have
compulsory laws. If we are not ALWAYS
the advance guard Of civilization, we
have at least the merit OF not dali Wing
long i'll the rear.
Newark post., 1910-03-16
! Around Town
Bury the hatchet.

bury the natCnet.
: ut the water main on one side OF
the street. Stop this breaking of the
main, costing several hundred dollars
a year.
A complete sewer system. Have
you done anything?
Maurice Maeterl;nck says that one
bee can never make honey for the
reason that a bee alone has no intelli-
gence. Bees succeed onfy by working
for the good of other bees. Let's
make honey.
How about a Y. NJ. c. A. Hall on
Main street?
Let us trv oil on the street this SUM
mcr. --'''.- 80 .--~ --..
A New Century Club Building and
new Town Hall.
Main street can be made one OF the
most beautiful streets in Delaware.
How about it?
Go--Listen to the Band. The CON
cert by the 18th q. S. Coast Artillery
Band on Saturday promises to be a
great event The proceeds are for
the Newark Library Shall we see
you there?
Between the great things we can
not do, and the small things that we
will not do. the danger is that we shall
do nothing"
Newark needs one hundred houses
| A chance for the capitalists.
| Some one once said it was a crime
to make money in Delaware. Strike
it off the books.
Who attended the midnight feed or
Monday?
| Play the game fair.
| There is talk of a minstrel show
given by local talent.
| God created the world and all tina
therein is, and looking upon the WORK
| of His hands, pronouIced it good
| That was some time ago--long before
THE POST was published. Wha
would He say now.