The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-07-07
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
(By r. A. Whitfield, Florence. J


dying out of the pest at this time, but
to keep up the fight against it. He says
it is the old weevils that passed through
but they have left behind them a large
crop of punctured squares, which, if not
destroyed, will soon produce larger
crop of weevils than ever. To prevent
this crop, the squares should be gathered
In the middle of the water furrow and ex-
posed to the heat of the sun to destroy
the egg and the young. Don't plow the
squares under Use shallow cultivators,
and shove the young squares 70 the middle
and to the surface. Do this work once
a week, and commence right now.
'What is a..good farmer?" Is ques-
tion asked by some one. in the Southern
Cultivator, and answered by only girl,
as follows: A good farmer is one who
makes a good living farming and leaves
the land in as good or better condition
than he found it. He studies everything
connected with his soils, crops and mar
ket, tools and livestock as we'll His
mind is on his farm every day in the
week, Saturdays and rainy days do not
find him on the street corners loafing.
Nor is he idle. Everything he has on his
farm, tools, and stock are the best to be
had and nicely and carefully sheltered.
He is business man, and would be
successful in any other business as well as
in farming He never buys corn, hay,
nor anything else that can be pro6tably
grown on his farm. Butter, chicken, eggs,
vegetables-all convenient necessity, can
be found on his we'll regulated farm And
his women folks don't have to work like
slaves to produce these things. During
winter he has something growing on his
cultivated lands to keep it in proper fer
tility and use.
A girl was graduated at the High
School in Granite City, ILL.,, lately with
high honors, at the age of IL years Three
weeks after, she died of tuberculosis of the
brain, caused by studying till way into
midnight, to master her lessons. She was
stricken the day following her graduation.
She was too young and precocious and per-
haps neglected her physical development
The keel is laid in Germany for a
passenger and freight ocean steamer near
ly 900 feet long, IS feet broad, and 81
feet from keel to upper deck This boat
when finished will be the largest in the
world. Step off 900 yards and you will
get an idea of this great length.
Showers have been unpIeasantly fire.
quent in this section, and the corn is
doing fine, put the young cotton will have
severe tussle with grass
The great Zeppelin airship has been
almost totally destroyed by storm. The
air ship took flight from Dusseldorf,
Germany, where she landed after nine
hour hysa few days ago, on June 18th,
with thirty men aboard intending to take
three hours trip up in the air. A storm
arose and by some means it was forced
down on to the tops of trees in a forest
and there lodged The men all escaped
with their lives by climbing down on the
limbs of the tree underneath the hier.
1t seems that the gas in the great bag
lessened considerably during the struggle
with the storm, and thus it lowered itself
perferce and, unfortunately was just skim
ming along, driven by the storm wind,
over the forest of tall trees and got caught
in the tree tops and torn. A great part
of the material can be utilized again in
making another ship Ii is thought that
the next one made will be much smaller.
The one just wrecked cost the company
owning it, $137,5oo.oo Makers, owners
and operators of the airhiers will con-
tinue the experiments w(h th/n until
they eventually learn under what con-
dition it will be safe to sail with mini
mum risk of danger. At any rate the
world is eager for complete success in
the use of these wonderful machines.
Col Walter Weaver Columbus. Miss.
sounds new note in the interest of people
generally, but farmers in particular. He
advocates the use of corned beef in place
of western pork. He says: Western hog
meat is now selling in our state at II
cents per pound On credit it sells at al
most any price the seller chooses to fix.
mississippi cattle are selling to wes-
tern packers at to 3 cents pound on
foot
Gust little figuring will show that
one pound of western hog pays for about
4 pounds CT Mississippi beef.
81 want to suggest TO farmes of Missis-
sippi that, instead of selling their beef
at cents per pound and buying hog
meat at II cents why not have your cattle
converted into corned beef? :" Mr.. Weaver
saws: "This beef will boil with greens,
collards, turnips, or anything you put
into the pot, and there is not any form
of meat that produceN more ,nuscu1ar
power" He offers the following recipe
for packing beef, which he saws is from
cne of the best packers in America "Have
the beef thoroughly cooled, cut into con-
venient size pieces for packing in barrel.
To every five gallons of water add eight
pounds of salt, four ounces of salt peter,
and two pounds granulated sugar. Keep
the beef covered with this brine, and al
WAYS in a cool place"
A Jackson Daily tells US of Mr..
r. c. Jones, living three miles out of
Jackson, raising corn that yields six to
fourteen ears to the salk. Fourteen years
ago ne begin with the one ear stalk on
ordinary Mississippi soil, crossed it and
developed it till new re produces fourteen