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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-01-25

IS by soil Improvement. II tour Dales
of cotton can be grown on North Car
DINA soil that would not make more
than o~ne-thlrd of a bale per acre q
lew years ago, two bales can not pc
considered a hig yield. Certainly
no progressive farmer should be con-
tent to sweat owe land that does not
produce as much as a bale per acre.
The man who has improved his soil
to q degree that yields a bale per
acre is hurt less by low prices OF cot
ton than the fellow who gets only a
half bale per acre. The profit IN all
crops depends upo the fertility ana
productive capacity of the soil. The
soil is your capital stock. Invest in
it and it will return good dividends
and make you prosperous and indie
pendent. Soil improvement is the
secret of success in farming. With
out it there can be no success.
If you have no patches wired in
for peas. SOFA beans and other hog
crops don't let the winter pass with
out providing these necessities. Meat
raised on corn or mill feed is eX-
pensive meat. The only way to grow
meat at low cost is to plan special
crops and let the hog do the gather
ing. In the fall SOW your hog patches
in rye or rape for early grazing crop.
If you'll try this you'll realize that
Mr.. Hog comes in the grazing class
of animals. Follow with peas or
SOFA beans as a fattening crop. Turn
the hogs in at h proper time and
let them do their own harvesting.
The peas and a are soil improv-
ing crops and your land will be bet
ter after the hogs have gathered the
crop. There are farmers in North
Carolina who fatten great droveS Of
hogs by letting them gather the peas
from the vines in the corn field. The
peas are sOWn when corn is laid by
for Improvement Of the land and the
hogs are fattened on this extra crop.
1t would pay any cotton farmer to
make a trip to some county in the
north Piedmont section Of North
Carolina, where cotton is not grown,
and see how easy the up-tO-date
farmer there make a living and how
they make money with live stock and
food products.
Don't expect to see any more low
priced meat. It is said that there are
two million less hogs in the United
states this year than last year. And
there are more people to consume
hog meat. It would not be surprising
to see meat go to eighteen cents d
pound and ountry hams to twenty
five cents.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-01-25

Wonderful Story of the Most Success
full Farmer in America.

1.-THE most successful farmer in the
country today" is the IN
which Director Burnett, of the gov
agricultural station in Ne
braska describes Arnold Martin, a
Swiss, whose holding consists Of only
twenty acres, and who has worked this
small stretch Of land for only seven
years. Martin himself is convinced
that he has land enough and to spare
end as he succeeds In making q big
income from which cost him only
1870 in the first place (and OF that
he was only able to pay $1OO DOWN
he has right to speak as an expert.
Martin settled in Nebraska ten
wears ago, soon after his arrival in
this country from Switzerland. All
he knew anything about was farming.
and that Information had been gained
on a rock hillside form in his native
canton. lie first hired out in Pawnee
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-01-25

county as a farm hand and saved
$275 in three years, Then he bought
a 20-acre farm. Decent" lana in
hat nelghborhood was selling for $50
and SIS an acre, but Martin picked
out a tract that was rocky and which
its owner haunt used because it
wasn't worth anything. Martin got
it for $3.50. He paid 500 down and
spent the remainder Of his savings tor
implements and live stock
For the first few years Martin was
nicknamed by his neighbors Hazel
brush" that being the principal prod
uct Of his farm. They don't laugh at
him now. They frankly admit he is
making more off his 20 acres than
they are off their $50 acres. In proof
Of this Martin spent three months in
his native land last winter and fees
from the hot Weather to the Colorado
mountains every summer. In seven
years he has put $4,000 Of value into
the land, he own q fine house, sew
eral big barns and has all the live
stock he Wants-and a in the bank.
The government intends to exploit
the system followed by the energetic
Swiss, SO that arner everywhere may
be induced to adopt it for not only
does Martin make lots of money out
of his farm, but in the last two years
he has taken cash prizes at fairs and
eXpoSitions amounting to $1,40O.
His secret lies in keeping every
inch Of the soil working every minute
Of the time from early spr nS until
lat in the fall. This year the farm
was divided as follows: Eight acres
in field Of corn, and popcorn. one-half
in small grain, two in potatoes, one
in alfalfa, two in grasses, two and a
half in pasture (one-half iii timber),
fhron in orchard ono and q half io
onions and one-half in miIlet. This
makes q total of twenty-three acres.
the three extra acres being secured
in his way: Two were in alfalfa and
after the first cutting on May "a he
planted one acre to white rice pop
corn, pumpkins, s~quashes, beans and
late vegetables. OF the two acres of
potatoes one-ha1f was planted in corn
after the last ploWings Of potatoes,
one-half acre Of German millet was
sown May "a, after the p1oWing of the
potatoes; and the ground disked up
ready for alfalfa in September.
At the last cultivation Of potatoes
each year Mr.. Martin plants corr be-
tween the rows. A full crop Of po-
tatOeS and a fair crop of corn were
produced from the same ground. At
ter the potatoes ripen the corn keeps
the weeds down, and by the time the
corr needs the ground the potatoes
are through drawing upon it for sus-
tenance The corn is in the shock
before it is time to dig potatoes, and
thus neither interferes with the other.
Some parts of the potato patch are
sown with sorghum and millet for
feeding before the last Gull
tivation, and these get out of the way
before the potatoes nee attention.
The onion patches grow corn and
melons, which are planted between
the onion rows.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-01-25

We must get back to the first prln-
ciple of farming-to get back to the
Iive-at-home policy. The few South
ern farmers who have all these years
made his the fundamental idea OF
farming are out Of debt ana lhu9-
enden and the can lend money 70
the one-crop planters Who nave been
farming with the idea OF MAKING
money!" The sure and absolutely
certain way to make money on the
farm, then. is to make a living at
home. 1he planter VINO buys his
living at / stores pays the Jobber
a profit, / Wholesale man a profit,
the retail 444dn a DrOht and as much
freight as the railroads see fit to
charge. The man VINO has ms
smoke house, cribs and barns filled
with proUucls grown on his own farm
gets has living at cost and he mas no
tribute to pay to ANYBODY Tor ms
home raised supplies. The man who
does not plant Tor a living at nome,
as lar as practical, isn't farming right
for success.
Don't buy things on credit. One
Of the purposes of the Farmers
Union is to discourage the credit
SYSTEM" The credit system would
never have prevailed in the South in
such alarming proportions ii our
people had not departed from the
INe-at-home policy. Going cotton
crazy did the work. Buying west
ern mules, western meat and western
corn is a suicidal economic error that
We are still confronted with to an
alarming degree. AS long as we pay
$3.50 Tor mules hat we can raise for
SIS, $1.OO for corn that can be grown
for % cents, ii cents for meat that
can be raised tor 5 cents, we may ex-
pect our profits, as farmers, to con-
tinue to pour into other sections.
Then when we begin to add to his
the enormous time prices paid by
credit customers the figures are ap-
palling Let us prepare now to get
back to the bedrock principle of a
living at home and stay out of debt.
The twelve million dollars that
North Carolina farmers pay annually
for commercial fertilizers represents
another tax that towers above all
other taxes and expenses combined.
If our people will learn to farm III
the scientific way, using the legumin-
Gus crops to draw nitrogen from the
air and supply the humus necessary
to render available the natural phos-
phate and potash already in our soils,
this fertilizer tax could be almost en-
tirely eliminated. Raising live stock
would also help to get needed relief
from the fertilizer tax.
u l.
Changes in methods come slowly
and it will be a long time before even
a majority of our farmers see the
error of their way and they will con-
tinue to buy commercial fertilizers.
In buying this product, Farmers
Union men should determine hence
forth, and always, to buy ingredients
for cash and mix at home. In this
~, ON Tn+ iIYct thn kind of far
tilizers you want for the different
crops and get a better product than
the "ready-miXed" goods. If you
have been a Farmers Union man long
and nave not yet learned to mix your
fertilizers at home, you have not
made much progress. Home-mixing
means a saving Of at least $500 PEI
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-01-25

If you keep guineas, turkeys and
chickens. build separate louise and
yards for them. If you confine all
three varieties in one yard during the
winter it will prove disastrous.
Never allow two or more cocks to
remain in the same enclosure with
the hens during the winter.
One cock to ten hens is sufficient
and these should be separated until
the breeding season begins.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-01-25
Timely Suggestions

ton if you buy the right kind of in
gradients and buy them right.
The time will probably come when
the use OF acid phosphate in fer
tlizers (and all ready-mixed fertili-
zoIo contain acid phoSphate) will be
abandoned. The legume crops. which
are so essential for soil Improvement,
will not grow we'll in acid soil. The
long continued use of acid phosphate
on our soils has made it necessary to
use lime to correct the acldlty in the
soil. Instead of buying lime straight
some Of our more progressive Farm
erS Union men have been buyin9
ThomaS phosphate which contains Is
per cent phosphate and 35 to SO per
cent lime. In this product they get
the phosphate without the sulphuric
acid contained in acid phosphate and
at the same time they get a good per
cent of lime which the soil needs.
Other Farmers Union men nave used
with highly satisfactory results the
raw ground phosphate rock which
contains about 80 per cent phosphate
and 80 to so per cent lime. With
this product it takes three years, on
soil containing a supply of humus, for
the full amount of phosphate in the
grOund rock to become available, but
it is the cheapest source of phosphate
in commercial form. 1t has been
used and tested side by side with
! acid phosphate and gave just as good
results the first year to say nothing
of the benefit that will follow for two
years. Northern farmers use the
raw ground phosphate rock more and
more every year, and it costs but lit
tie more than half the acid phos-
phate. Take this matter up and dis
cuss it in your local unions.
The price of cotton will probably
go abnormally high this spring. A
short crop puts all the big cotton
merchants and gamblers on the
bull side of the market, because it
Is easier to win on that side. with a
short crop. When there is a big
crop all the spectators and gamblers
get on the bear side and use their
influence to depreSS prices. In all
probability there will be a bumper
cotton crop this year and we can not
expect present high prices of cotton
to prevail. But the price OF food
products will remain high. With
so per cent of our population living
IN towns and cities tue prices for
food products will continue at high
level and perhaps go even higher than
now 1t is q dangerous thing to
Liant heavily of cotton, and Farmers
Union men should be careful where
they tread Cotton is a delusion. 1t
has caused more pOverty-Stricken
homes and more Impoverished soils
in the South than all other causes
combined. Improve your homes,
with your surplus money, and make
them more attractive. Also 1nVeSt
something in the legume crops to i'm
prove your soils, but for the sake OF
your own safety and welfare don't
go wild on cotton and buy more high
priced western mules. If you have
a laundering after another mule SO as
to spread out with more cotton. just
abandon that idea and invest the
money in peas, clover, rye and vetch
to SOW on your land and improve your
soil.
There is just one safe way to in
crease your yields Of cotton and thai
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-01-25

There is just n safe way to in
crease your yields Of cotton and hat
The Illinois issue. (Chicago, Ill. ;) 1906-1912, 1910-07-08
TIL e ILLINOIS ISSUE
Reform BreWerieS

The Cook County grand jury indicted wealthy real
man and property charge of leasing property
for immoral purposes This gentleman Immediately began
to get from UNDER and he let the burden Of the whole
crime fall upon Of Chcagos righteous breweres
nothing surprising about the fact that the brewery the
real cuprit We call attention it merely because these
Chicago beer makers have lately been going Of their
way inform the public Of their desire separate
the beerseng industry from the vice of gambling and pros
ttution The referred to is this according the real
estate He says that he leased the property the
Wacker Birk Brewing Company three years ago for
Of five years. The brewer subleased Adoph Sen
who operates saloon the first floor and who in sub
leased the upper floors to who conducts the place
hotel The place attracted the attention Of the police
because of the fact that several young girls have been red
the alleged hotel These places will be wiped Of
speedily when the breweres have been annihaed
brewer friends that their failure to fulfil promises of reform
peculiar to Chicago brewers The public everywhere
have long since recognized that the dive is child of the
brewery and entirely dependent it. For instance hear
what the ST. Louis Republic of June 81 says about brewers
sincerity in reform in editorial under the caption:
Suggestion to Saloon Men
The saloonkeepers Of this region, in convention
assembled, recently protested their reverence for
law and professed their grief that their excellent
The Illinois issue. (Chicago, Ill. ;) 1906-1912, 1910-07-08
Dry Rule Wrecks Dives

Two months which the sale of liquor prevented
the segregated districts Of Chicago except by regularly
licensed saloons has wrecked the fortunes of number of
keepers and made the business Improbable for many
others, says the Chicago Tribune of July 3.
There has been general exodus of the regular habtues
from the cred light districts and proprieors Of dsordery
houses many instances trying to get rid of their leases
July marked the beginning Of the third month under
the order of things brought about by Chief Of Police
Stewards rule prohibiting the sale Of ntoxicans in dis
orderly houses Chief Steward said yesterday that the
suit satisfactory to the and himself Inquiry
the district itself disclosed the thorougnes of the enforce
ment Of the regulations.
Some Verge of Bankruptcy
Where two months money spent nightly without
apparent thought of it's value many keepers of
the verge of bankruptcy Chief Stewards 'dry'
order has been enforced strictly Pop BEER grape juice
and imitation Of champagne offered customers
The few left in the resorts complained that they
there because they had not enough money pay their
debts to the proprietors and leave.
''Men won't spend much money unless they half
drunk ~ said resort eve paid dollar
bottle for beer and that counted up pretty fast They won't
buy pop at that price,
Many habitues of the Twenty Street district
The Illinois issue. (Chicago, Ill. ;) 1906-1912, 1910-07-08

it learned, have left Chicago for other cities
'here has been general exodus from the segregated
DISTRICTS said Chief Steward Ialf dozen were
closed before the proprieors would believe that
earnest when issued such drastic ORDER but what little
liquor is brought into dsordey houses this time
by trckey
Il recently learned that unusually large number of
laundry bundles being carried into the houses
and have detailed to search all laundry bundles going
into these places
Women Go to Other Cities
Il have received notification from the chief Of police of
Gary and other surrounding cities that drifting
there from this city. All advise them to do is to keep
them moving
Lquor is still being sold in hotels which have only gov
eminent licenses Some of these better than the
Twenty Street Where my succeed in
getting actual proof that hotel dsorery
women raid the place
The best do is place detectives the entrances
to such hotels instructed to people who about to
go in of the character of the places
case pending before the Supreme against
hotel for selling liquor without a city license and am
waiting for decision before attempting to put stop to
the sale of noxnts in hotels which have only govern
ment license
The Illinois issue. (Chicago, Ill. ;) 1906-1912, 1910-07-08

intention and devotion to social uplft were fire.
quently misunderstood. And Mr.. Otto Stife brewer
and politician, followed with an interview in the
Republic in which he pictured the saloon of the
future family resort in which the entire popula-
ton of the future American city would be found
Sunday afternoon.
Now, take the sincerity of these utterances for
granted and desire to help the good work by a
practical suggestion. 1t is surely known to both
Mr. Stifel and the retail liquor dealers that it would
be utterly impossible for pure woman to enter
hundreds of the saloons of st. Louis by reason Of
the pictures which they contain In fact the in
terror decorations of many of these places Of bust
are such as to suggest not that temperance in
all things eloquently championed by Mr.. Stife
ct al, but knship between the liquor business and
all the and lower pleasures Of the flesh
We propose that these pictures be removed
There would be no loss to cart in the reform
and there would be very considerable gain to
decency The sight Of saloonkeepers actually doing
something along the line of the resolutions passed
enthusiastically at recent conventions would not
be without effect There is cant enough in the world
without the liquor dealers adding to the visible sup
ply. Will they do away with these suggestive pic
tUres and thus prove that the saloon is not an ins
tuition which must be waved back from the frontier
of indecency by the arm of the policeman?
The Illinois issue. (Chicago, Ill. ;) 1906-1912, 1910-07-08
A Suggestion to Saloon Men

The saloonkeepers Of this region in convention
assembled recently protested their reverence for
law and professed their grief that their excellent
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1910-09-16
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Non coal land.
Ol16S4.

Non coal land.
Oll6Si.
Department of the Interior United
States Land Office. Roswell New Mex
leo. August 10 1910
Notice is hereby given that Thomas
Ewalt. of Boaz. y. M. who, on January a. 1907.
made H. Il. No, i0555. Serial 0ll6S4, for SEA,
Section g. Township South, Range 80,
East, N. M. p. Meridian, has filed no.
tice of intention to make Final Com
mutation Proof, to establish claim to
the land above described, before w, T.
Cowgirl, U. S. Commissioner in his Of
office, at Kenna, N. NJ, on the 18th day
of September. 1910
Claimant names as witnesses:
Lee Murphy Lee r. Robertson, Beyrl w
Brown, William J. Foster, all of BoaZ. N, NJ
T. c. TILLOTSON, Register.
aug IL sept 49,
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1910-09-16
Lenathen the Hours Of sIeep.

insufficient sleep" says physician,
sis one of the crying evils of the day.
Work and pleasure encroach upon the
hours of rest. and body and mind de-
teriorate in consequence. Even the
children have their hours OF sleep
shortened and suffer all their lives in
consequence. A child of ten or eleven
rarely gets more than eight or nine
hours sleep, whereas It should have
ten or eleven. Up to 20 at least nine
hours Of sleep are needed. and an aY-
eragc adult needs eight There may
be an occasional Napoleon who can
get along with four hours sleep a
night. but If you happen to belong to
that class nature win tell you by
waking you up at the proper time aud
you don't need 70 interfere"
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1910-09-16
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Non coal land.


Department of the Interior U. s.
Land Office at Roswell, N. M,
August TO- 1910.
Notice is hereby given that John II. Caden-
head, of Kenna. N. NJ. who. on May 1851,
made H. E. No. 1913. Serial O1a4s. for NE1,
Section 35. Township South. Range 80
East N. M. p. Meridian, has filed notice of
intention to make Final Communication Proof
TO establish claim to the land above describ-
ed. before w. II. Cowgirl, U. S. Commissioner,
mt his oflce in Kenna. n. NJ, on the nth day
of September 1910,
Claimant nfsnes as witnesses:
Robert L. Robertson, Mack Carmichael,
Albert Garner Reeves Evans. all of Kenna,
Y. NJ.
T. c. TILLOTSON,
Register
aug l2 sept &c..
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1910-09-16
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

Non coal land.
Ol3sil
Department of the Interior, U. S.
Land Office at Roswell N. NJ,
August TO- 1910
Notice is hereby given that Beyrl w.
Brown, of Booz. N. NJ who on January %,
1908. made II. e. No 1887. Serial 0i3sl1, for
SwH. Section o. Township South, Range
20 East, N. NJ p. Meridian, has filed
notice of intention to make Final Com
mutation Proof, to establish claim to
the land above described, before W.T..
Cowgirl, U. S. Commissioners in his Of
flee. in Kcnna. NJ NJ. on the r. day of septem.
Ter. 1910.
Claimant names as Witnesses:
Lee Murphy, Marion o. Mills. Thomos Ewalt.
William j. Foster. all of Boaz n. NJ.
T. c. TILLOTSON,
. Register.
aug ~ sept 10.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1910-09-16
The E1gman in Philadelphia.
August 5 September o.


A yourG farmer from Clementon, N.
j., was selling sgs at the corner OF
Fourth and South streets when bar
tender walked up to him and asked
him the price of a dozen eggs. The
farmer answered: Forty cents a
Dozen" and as there was an extra egg
in the dozen he wanted three cents
extra, but the bartender wanted it
thrown in with the bargain"
well" said the one who sells the
liquor, 81 will take the egg and treat
you to drink"
"All right" said the farmer. When
they came to the tavern he was asked
what he would drink. to which he re-
piled:
We'll, allus drink sherry with an
egg in it,"
And they say farmers buy gold
bricks.-PhiladCHtW Tines.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1910-09-16
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
aug IL sept 10.
Non coal land.
0115I1.


Ol75IT.
Department of the Interior, U. S.
Land Office, Roswell, New Mexico,
August 10. 1910.
Notice is hereby given that Jack G. Gree
man, of BoaZ. N. NJ, who. on April 10. 1863,
made II. L. No. OI7547. for NWA, Section If,
Township 6 SOnth Range 20 East, N. NJ. p,
Meridian. has filed notice of intention to make
Final Communication Proof, 10 establish claim
to the land above described, before II. j.
Lively, U. S. Commissioner, in his Office. at
EllSins. N. NJ, on the II day of September. 1910
Claimant names as witnesses:
Marion o. Mills. Alma f Squire. Lee II. Rob
crtson. William Horner. all of Boaz. n. NJ.
T. c. TILLOTSON,
Register.
aug i2 sept 49,
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Notice for PubIieation.
August . September o.
Non coal land;
O6s93.

Non coal land
Oees3
Department of the Interior. U. s. Land.
ONCE at Roswell N. M, July %. 1910.
Notice is hereby gwen that VIVA e. Waugh.
of Boa2, N. M. who, on January Z. 1902 made
homestead Entry Serial tCesS. for SWA, Sec
ton 20. Township South. Range 80 Last. N.
NJ +. Meridian has filed notice Of intention to
make Final Communication Proof. to establish
claim to the land above described, before W
Cowgirl L. S Commissioner, in his office. ut
Kenna, N, NJ, on the 10th dag OF September
1910,
Claimant names us Witnesses
Walter Eaton. Margaret Peery, Jafnes
c. Pattillo, Lee r. Robertson. all OF Boaz N, NJ;
II: G, rillotson.
Register.
August September