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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-02-07

anv but high-grade suipn
pasture Grasses.-For a pas then
&c or three years. a sow
90 in the rotation, l W. rr.ss
1-ixture of 5 pounds orciia.u and
nonnds of tall meadow" oaIs acre.
. p o'd IF Canada bluegrass an co.
. pounus ~ the land this sprlhs
%" - 900 hounds Of acld pms.
~ and q pounds Of muTla'0 y.
pn+as. or acre. Cut the peas -. -
po n-enare the stubble wen ana So
10 Grass seed in OCTOBER.
v~;,tor Crazing.-Hairy Vet ! anu
49, have made a fine tan grow
oaa he pastured moderately uuiin9
40 winter if the cattle are No. -
loved on il when the SOIL Is "et
the grazing should be only nhooeion
ond the nlants should not De eaten
down to the ground. ,she1s
Ir;o,, pOtatOes.-HoW many pusieio
If irish potatoes it will take 10 pla.r,
on acre when cut to single EYES W."
denenl largely on the size o. Tue ~.
tatoes used. But | wouio no., -.
POTATOES TO single eyes. ~ Ah
axnerience I have gotten better re-
s1Its from cutting to two eyes Win d
liberal piece of the potato. rms VIII
,snallv take about three barrels o.
| SuCi1 loA
N adiuTn-sized potatoes to plant al
acre.
How to Apply Lime.-"Should llme
| he spread broadcast and let remain
on TOP the land all winter or spread
lust before plowing?" Neither. Lime
shoula not be left entirely on the
surface. nor should it be ploWed IN
deeply. The place to spread lme Is
lust after blowing the land, and tnen
harrow it in lightly. Lime SINKS
RAPIDLY into tn, soil, and we want II
to anec the whole soil. Hence, we
put it on top and merely harrow 1t IN
Bermuda Grass.-The best way 20
kill out Bermuda or wire grass" as
some call it, is to pillow it now snal-
lowly and harrow out all you can
get n haul it into a gully. Ihen
in spring SOW the land thickly IN
peas. for the Bermuda will not thrive
in shade. Now the peas for hay and
harrow the stubble and SOW crimson
clover and turn this under for corn
in the spring, and you will not find
much gra4s left if you SOW more
peas among the corn and disk them
down for oats in the fall.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-02-07
WEAKNESS IN YOUNG PIGS.

When any weakness is discovered
IN the pigs it is time to change the
BOAR He should be disposed Of at
once and a new boar. not related to
your sows, should be
when n pigs are weaned they should
De fed on something that will Give
them blood n muscle. Corn is ey-
lremely fattening and should be fed
very ilgntly if at all during the first
'"p OF tnree n of the pigs life.
middlings and a little dry HOOD mea,
occasionally. h ration. with nlantr
OF exercise. clean water ann . 49,
Well ventilated placo 10 sleen ny;
oou sound animals tina vii, tata
oa lat readily when the time comes 70
pour corn into them. -
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-02-07
COWS NOT MERE MILLING NJ,
CHIMES.
NV r. 3.

Among my acquaintance tier
numbered a man who recently de-
cided to make a tria! Of FURNISHING
milk for the local market Havinr
yentured into several other branches
Of agriculture without having achieved
any great success at any one Of them.
he determined to attempt this: maxi
one more play for V at the hands
of Dame Fortune.
For a start, he purchased half a
dozen COWS Of nondescript extraction.
and set himself up in the husiness ot
:. milk farmer. His idea seemed to be
that all he had to do was to feed a
little grain and hay to these animals
night and morning, and in return re-
ceiye an abundant supply Of milk, thu
equivalent of ten times, and more. in
value.
Bur before he had been at it long
he found that he had made a mistake
in his calculations, somewhere. The
account was running against him. IN
stead OF in his favor. He was play
ing a losing game once more!
What was the trouble? Simply
this that he had misjudged animal
nature, in one respect at least There
is no such thing as a milk machine.
patented or u~npatented, INTO which
YOU can pass hay or grain at one end
at your pleasure and pull a valve
land draw off milk from another. to
YOUR fancy. At any rate, a cheap,
scrub COW is not such a machine, and
cannot be made over into one. These
six COWS turned out to be just ordi-
nary. barren quantity mixers, a bur
| den and expense upon any man who
ssumed their care and keep. And
now they are for sale, away below
what was paid for them, put are n
poor bargain at that.
And as for my friend, their present
owner. he says h a he is going out
Of the milk business for good and all
and try his han at something else.
| because there is no money in this, o.
that he is sure.
And certain it is hat he is right,
There is no money to be made at il
in the fashion in which he went about
it. And there never was.
But for the enterprising farmer who
sets about it in the right way, choos-
ing the best stock and employing the
best methods of feeding, there is
plenty of profit in milk, as is being
successfully proven, the country over
daily.
Dairying has many excellent advan-
tages in its favor. It brings quick
returns, with no long waits until the
close Of the season, as is the case with
liz SIoWiijS LII u1dIhcllHS VI SItpS4
Then, too, there are no such hazards
to be encountered. Let the season be
tickle or late, let frOsts come and de-
structiVe storms rage, let insects de
stroy and crops fail to mature as they
should, yet the milk farmer IL not
seriously affected, his daily return
coming in as usual.
All winter long he has employment
for his time, and the seasons as they
come and go do not interfere with
his source Of income. He is more Sc
cure than many of his brethren and
is usually found to display all the
signs Of material property.
Yes, there is money to be made in
dairy farming, but success at it re-
qulres knowledge and skill. 1t is no
mere work which anyone can
superintend. One must know how to
go about it And when he does. il is
sure to pay.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-02-07
PROF. MASSEY'S VIEWS

yon will need a mower 10 GU horse
.nd clover, and a good hois
aa rake TO save it. and 1or e
naa hay we'll, you will be pe'te1 "a
with a tedder that losses
wilt rapidly. orc
Then if you and your neignoois
nea hay YOU will need d
n~eighborhood thresher. hhe. 49,.
Koeer to thresh them from the nay
or if you grow the peas III ~" aove
" for the seed and mean 10 60
the vines on the land, you can va
and thresh and clean the peas Win -
T,barn and Sexton pea harvester,
which is cheap enough for one as
farm TO own. or three or tour siildiie>
ones to own it in
corn harvester and binder WIZ
facilitate the work OF SHOCKING zig
corn. but is not essential, tor the coz,
can be cut easily with a SnOrl-IdIuio"
steel hoe with eye set al rlShl aiiSie9'
and this will do the WORK Detter 'ha1
the corr knives sold for the PURPOSES,
for you can cut at the ground anu hot
leave a tall stubble TO be IN the way
Of getting in the fall grain.
Then if you have hay-hoisting ap-
paratus In the barn, you can use
rope sings under the hay on the
wagon and a horse can put the nay IN
faster than two or three men conlo
fork it up. Then for larger farms
there are hay-loaders that make the
work of gattiro the hay in more
rapid and save human labor.
A gasoline engine for pumping
water &c a tank to supply house ana
barn. cut wood. thresh, etc. will be
very useful and the man who keeps
up with the procession Will soon nave
one.
But says one, II am not able to
get all these things" True, but
there are some that are essential and
some that you can get along without
for a time. or combine with a neigh
Dor and get.
On small firms the mower and
rake can be owned by neighbors, but
they are essential in the making OF
hay, and any one with ten acres in
peas will need q mower. and rake.
Some day I have no doubt that a
perfect cottOn-gathering machine will
be introduced and an energetic man
can 20 around the neighborhoOd and
gather cotton on toll just as thresh-
ing grains is done.
One thing is certain, and this is that
the Southern farmers must as rapidly
as possible substitute horsepower and
machinery for so much human labor.
There are plenty Of laborers if their
labor was made more effective
through the use Of machinery as is
done in the West.
| was once talking with a State
Commissioner Of Agriculture, and re-
marked that when ! was farming on
a large scale l used ten mules. He
SAID, h is too many. A four
horse farm is all that one man should
have; and his idea Of a four-horse
farm, was u tract of land on which,
where 1 now live no one would think
OF using less than eigh horses. Or
such a farm as this man Indicated
every n OF the four horses would
be h1tched to a ploW to pillow the lane
tor the crop, and every pillow would
axe a man. and the blowing would
be about three inches deep. while the
eight horses would take no more men
put h team would pillow at least siy
inches deep. and the same four men
you'd cultivate a far larger area
with riding c%ultivators. we
need to get away from the old idea
OF estimating a farm by horses and
should use all the horses we car
make profitable.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-02-07

me same dry grains that are fod :,
1puns chlcks Will answer for /
aneS should not be overfed. for thev
ne very 'ender things for the f-st
t r.onoi or SIX weeks, especially 80
dry. pi!eSs. Keep
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-02-07

magazines and ereat
many books are now 50 chaon 49,
.otai denial Of these to any farm
nome involves either a new definition
u extreme poverty or an extreme Of
s~ordidneSs.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-02-07

\ good feeder can make corn worth
through II hog.
The Parker post., 1911-07-22
Scientific MANAGEMENT.

Broadly speaking, scientific man
agement is simply the expert study of
details and the application of intelli-
gent methods to save unnecessary la
Dor, coupled with an incentive to the
workman to interest himself If it
be found that in common practice the
bricklayer makes eight motions in set
ting brick and lays 120 bricks per
hour, whereas the same thing can be
done equally we'll by three motions
and the result be an increase to $50
in the number of bricks paid per hour,
the economic benefit is self-evident.
Such has been actually effected Even
in the lowest kind of manual labor,
such as the moving Of pigiron, it has
been found possible to triple, and
even to quadruple, the accomplish
ment per man. These are not theo.
retical estimates. They are actual re-
suits.
The Parker post., 1911-07-22

weeds are greatly injured, owing to
their different root systems. In sec
tions where the wild barleys are
troublesome it is sometimes thought
necessary to burn the first crop OF
hay Another method is to cut the
first crop while the wild barley is still
immature and feed the mixture of
alfalfa and grass hay. The objection
10 this method is that it necessitates
the cutting of the alfalfa when too
young. A heavy growth of crab
grass is sometimes burned in the early
spring.
Dodder is one of the worst weeds
so far as alfalfa is concerned. The
dodder seeds germinate in the ground
and the young plants soon attach
themselves to the alfalfa seedlings,
AS soon as the threadlike stem is firm
ly attached to the alfalfa plant the
stem connecting it with the ground
withers away. Thenceforth the dod-
der lives entirely on the alfalfa. 1t is
very difficult to eradicate when once
care should be taken to avoid intro
ducing it with the alfalfa seed at seed
ing time. Grazing close with sheep
has been recommended as being effec-
tive in holding dodder in check Ii
dOdder appears in isolated spots
through the field, it is advisable to
cut the affected alfalfa plants very
low and remove them. Destroying the
dodder by burning with different ma
terials has occasionally proved sue
cessful, but it is apt to be more expen-
sive than the removal of the affected
portions of the plants. If the stand OF
alfalfa is badly affected with dodder,
the alfalfa should be plowed up be-
fore the dodder goes to seed and the
land kept in cultivated crops for two
Or more years.
The Parker post., 1911-07-22
FORFEITURE NOTICE.

10 Jack Gaynor, Vicksburg, Arizona
You are hereby notified that
have expended during the year 1910
Five Hundred Dollars ($500) in Ia
Dor and improvements upon the fol
lowing named mining claims, to-wit:
The Raymond mining claim, the To-
cation notice Of which is found of
record in Book r, of mines at page
206
The Japan mining claim, the lOca
ton notice of which is found of rec
ord in Book r, Of mines at page 208.
The Troy mining claim, the lOca-
ton notice of which is found of rec
ord in Book R, of mines at page 207
The Big Horn mining claim, the
location notice of which is of
record in Book R, of mines at page
1862.
The Queen Bee mining claim, the
location notice of which is of
record in Book r, of mines at page
163.
Said records being in the office of
the County Recorder of Yuma Coun-
ty, Territory of Arizona.
Said work and improvements were
done in order to hold said claims un-
the Revised Statutes of the United
States, and the amendment thereto
approved January 22, 1880, concern
ing annual labor upon mining claims.
Said sum of Five Hundred Dollars
($5OO.) being the amount required to
hold said lodes for the period ending
on the 31st day of December, A. d.
1910.
And if, within ninety days 900
from the personal service of this no.
tice, you fail or refuse to contribute
your proportion of such expenditure
as cO-OWner, which amounts to
($250), your interest in the claims
will become the property of the sub
scriber, your co-owner, who has made
the required expenditure, by the
terms of said section.
THOMAS P. QUINN.
Witness: C. d. CHAMBERLAIN
Territory of Arizona, County of Yu-
mass.
Thos. P. Quinn, being duly sworn,
depOses and saith, that he served the
within forfeiture notice upon Jack
Gaynor, the delinquent co-oWner
therein named, upon the 18th day of
May, A. d. 1911, by delivering and
registering a letter with a true copy
of this notice in it, to the postmaster
at Bouse, Arizona, to be forwarded
to Vicksburg, Arizona, the postoffice
address of the said Jack Gaynor.
THOMAS p. QUINN.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 18th day of May, 1911.
c. d. CHAM BERLIN.
Justice of the Peace, Bouse Pre-
cinct, No. TO-
Territory of Arizona County of Yu-
Thomas P. Quinn being duly
sworn, depOses and says that he is
a citizen of the United States and
more than q years of age, resides at
Swansea. Yuma County, Arizona Ter
ritory, and is personally acquainted
The Parker post., 1911-07-22
SURPRISE DINNER IN PARIS
How Friends of Author and His Wife
Carried Out Familiar Scheme
With Additions.

Partisan society has tired of the Jig
saw puzzle and adopted the surprise
dinner as a relaxation OF course the
surprise dinner is not exactly new, but
In the French capital some amusing
additions to the original idea have
been evolved. Thus, quite recently, a
well-known author and his wife cele-
brated their wedding day. They had
been out for a drive to the Bois de
Boulogne and had strolled down the
pathway where they became engaged
They had ordered dinner for two at
home, and when they returned for the
meal were a bit surprised to hear
much laughter and talking coming
from the interior Of their fiat. On en-
tering they did not recognize the
rooms in which they had lived for the
last ten years. A crowd of their
friends had invaded the apartments
and transformed the chief room into
replica Of the country registrars Of
flee in which they had been married.
The guests were trinked out like vii
layers. and the garde champetre or To-
cal policeman was master of the cere-
monies. Madame was laid hold of and
carried off, and, despite her laughing
protests, was arrayed in her wedding
dress. Before sitting down to table
a repetition Of the marriage ceremony
was hilariously gone through and a
bunch of ripe oranges utilized as
substitute for the wreath of orange
blossoms
The Parker post., 1911-07-22
MINE WARNING NOTICE.
To Whom 1t May Concern

IO WuOIu IL May concern
Notice is hereby given that the
Black Metallic, Black Metallic No. l,
Black Metallic No. 2, Ohio, Iron Cap,
independence, Last Chance, Della
Mammoth Copper, Mammoth Copper
No. l, Mammoth Copper No. 2, Nam
moth Copper No. 3, Annabell, Flag
staff, Champion. Champion No. l,
Champion No. 2, Big Horn, Big Horn
No. L, Big Horn No. 2, Big Horn No.
3, Big Horn No. 4, Big Horn No. 5,
North Star, Excelsior, Cholla, Bessie,
Hope, Orc Fino, White Rock, and
Golden Reef mining claims, situated
in the PlOmosa Mining District, Yu-
ma county, Arizona, and which said
mines and mining claims are the
property of the Excelsior Gold and
Copper Mining company, are under
bond to parties working the same,
and that neither the mines, machinery
or owners thereof, will be responsible
for any labor or debt contracted, nor
injuries sustained by any employee or
employer in working said properties;
and that no employer or employee is
the agent of the owners for any pur-
pose, and that all operatives engage
in such service at their own risk, and
that no debt Or claim of debt is valid
against said mining claims or their
owners
THE EXCELSIOR GOLD AND COP
PER MINING COMPANY.
By GUSTAVE MUDERSBACH,
President.
Dated: Bouse. Arizona, August II,
1910.
The Parker post., 1911-07-22

with the mining claims known as
the Japan, the Troy, the Big Horn,
the Raymond and the Queen Bee,
the location notices of which are re-
corded in the office of the County
Recorder of Yuma County, viz:
The Raymond, in Book r, Record
OF Mines, Page 206.
The Japan, in Book r, Record OF
Mines, Page 208
The Troy, in Book r, Record OF
Mines, Page 207.
The Big Horn, in Book r, Record
OF Mines, Page 162.
The Queen Bee, in Book R, Record
of Mines, Page 163.
That between the twenty first day
of October A. d. 1910, and the TWEEN
ty-seventh day of April, 1911, at least
five hundred dollars worth of work
and improvements were done and
performed upon said claims, not in
Guiding the location work of said
claims. Such work and improve
ments were made by and at the ex-
pense OF Thomas p Quinn, co-oWn-
er, for the purpose of complying with
the laws of the United States per-
tanning to assessments of annual
work, said work and improvements
being as follows, to-wit:
On the Raymond claim: Stripping
ledge III tunnel and wash, $3.50; on
the Japan claim: Open cut, $75.:
on the Troy claim: Shaft work, $50;
on the Big Horn claim: Shaft work,
$75.; on the Queen Bee claim Open
cut, $50. total, $500.
THOS. P. QUINN.
Subscribed and sworn to before
me this twenty-fifth day of May A.
d. 1911.
VIM. c.. MEEK.
Justice of the Peace, Swansea Dis,
18th Precinct
(First publication June 10, 1911
The Parker post., 1911-07-22
WILD ORGIES IN NEW GUINEA
"Sprees," Indulge in Fierce
Fights Among Themselves.

Of the unpleasant drinking customs
Of certain nations in New Guinea,
Walter Goodfellow writes: eve did
not find the people down by the coast
nearly so tractable or companionable
as those at the headwaters of the
river They were also much more
quarrelsome among themselves. They
tap a species of sugar palm up the
river and make fermented drink out
of it. On this they get fearfully in
toXicated and wild orgies take place
all day. Parties of them would go off
in canoes and sit under the palms
from which the drink was obtained
In the morning they would return ex-
lremely drunk, and fights used to be
the result.
Sometimes these fights lasted for
two days at a time. In our vicinity
at night. The natives then made such
an indescribab!e din with their howl
ing and their noises that we could not
sleep at our base camp. Spears and
showers Of arrows were discharged
in all directions and one could hear
the sound of their axes dealing blows
on the bodies of the combatants.
after time the women would join
in the fray and their shrill voices
added to the babel, making the noise
greater than ever. When they be-
came involved in the fights they
The cries were not like sounds emit
ted by human beings, but rather like
the cries of animals"
The Parker post., 1911-07-22
Pet Dogs FaithfuIness.

A Paris contemporary gives a re-
markable instance of dogs fidelity
near Limoges. Two little girls, one a
mere child of four and the other ten
years of age, got separated and the
younger one seemed to be lost. They
were accompanied by dog, which for
tunately followed the younger child
all day, and in the evening when the
parents and given up hope of finding
the little girl she was discovered by
a shepherd in field She had gone a
considerable distance and had even
crossed a brook on a narrow plank.
She probably even fell into the water,
for her clothing was soaked
But the faithful dog had pulled her
out. AS it bore the name of it's own.
er on it's collar, the little girl, who
was unable to give any account of her,
SELF was taken home
The Parker post., 1911-07-22
HAIL TO GREAT UNWASHED!
Get Good Crust and You'll Be
Healthy, Says Founder of
New Aristocracy.

We who take our tub as a duty, our
Turkish cleansing as sacrament,
may no longer be an aristocracy. Our
foundations of hot and cold, soap and
towels are assailed. The founder Of
a new aristocracy is Sir AlmrOth
Wright, and the washed are to be
submerged by the unwashed; the
cleanly few representing an old sys-
tenn are to fall before the Oncoming
black horde.
''As to Washing" Sir Almroth says
there is belief that by doing so.
people wash off the microbes. We do
take off a certain amount of microbes.
but we also destroy the protective
skin which is all around our bodies
like the tiles of house, Again:
When one has a horny hand, no mi
crObes can ever get near the skin. II
one has a skin like a tortoise, mi
crobes will never get through. To
have a Turkish bath is to take away
ones horny protection. A great deal
of washing increases the microbes Of
the skin, so I do not think cleanliness
is TO be recommended as a hygienic
method"
The untubbed heroes of tomorrow
may reach heights of efficiency of
which we never dreamed, but it does
not follow that their presence or
passing may be more fragrant than
that of the generation they super
seded.-London Outlook.
The Parker post., 1911-07-22
Mysterious Disappearance.

A girl had gone to dinner in New
York with her steady. The young
man noticed a speck of what appeared
to be lint on her shoulder. When she
wasn't looking he attempted to knock
it off with his finger. After several
futile attempts he took hold of the
line and started to. pull it off. He
unraveled several yards of the feecy
stuff and when he seemed to have all
Of it threw the wad under the table.
That night the girl told her mother
that she had had perfectly lovely
time. But" she added, Il have just
been lying here in bed, mother, and
suit
The Parker post., 1911-07-22
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Serial 010601
Not Coal Land.

Department of the Interior
u. S. Land Office at Los Angeles
Cal,
June 23, 1911.
Notice is hereby given that Rob
ert G. Stevenson, of Neighbours, Cal
who, on May IS, 1910, made home
stead entry, No. O106O1, for SEA
Section 8, Township S., Range 22
E., S. B. Meridian, has filed notice OF
intention to make Final commuta
tioh Proof, to establish claim to the
land above described, before the Reg
ister and Receiver, at Los Angeles
Cal, on the 10th day of August 1911
Claimant names as witnesses: Pc
ter A. Burnett, of Neighbours, Cal.
l.. l.. Morse, OF Blythe, Cal; L. b
Todd, of Neighbours, CAL; George T.
Todd, of Neighbours, Cal; Robert
Furlong, of Rannells, Cal
FRANK BUREN,.
(1-z9J Register
The Parker post., 1911-07-22
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
03118
Not Coal Lands.

Department of the Interior.
U. S. Land Office at Los Angeles
Cal.
June 80, 1911.
Notice is hereby given that Win
field S. Lowe, of Blythe, Cal, who
on June 20, 1909, made Homestead
No. 0311S, for SWA, Section 80
Township S., Range 22 E., S. B.
Meridian, has filed notice of intention
to make final Communication proof, to
establish claim to the land above de-
scribed, before Register and Receiv-
er, United States Land Office, at Los
Angeles, California, on the 10Th day
of August, 1911.
Claimant names as witnesses: w.
r. Teale, G.. D. Patterson, Henry
Patterson, j. B. Murdoch, w. Mars
den, Lizzie Marsden, John R. Dutch
er, all of Blythe, Cal.
FRANK BUREN,
$50 Register