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The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1911-12-01

1t doesn't do the poultry business
in general any good to have men
tackle it who are entirely untitled for
it, and, as frequently happens, with
out adequate means to make proper
start. Some money, some energy and
some staying power is needed if one
is to make a success of it, and the
whole country is dotted with abandon
ed chicken ranches started by people
who possessed an insufficient quantity
of these requisites. Besides that, it
should be borne in mind that all the
work around a chicken ranch is not
delightful. There's a whole lot of
cleaning and disinfecting to be done
and the man who leaves an office job
in the city to 60 to poultry raising is
apt to find this part of the work far
from agreeable. But it has to be
done and it is best to think it over
before hand and be reasonably sure
that you won't throw it up in disgust
before you are fairly started. Then
too, although the work on chicken
ranch is not especially laborious and
may be performed by any city bred
man in reasonable health, it is in
cessant. There's always something
to be done, and the successful man is
the one who "does it now" A
chicken rancher's days work is apt
to be fourteen hours long in mid
summer, but it is correspondingly
short in winter, and at all times he
is his own boss.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1911-12-01

cubator and chicks in brooder have
had outlets gobble up wire staples,
tacks and the heads of matches, with
fatal results; have had punches of
young ones smother, before I learned
to bevel off the corners of my brooders;
but it is all in the game. Ii poultry
raising was too easy, there would be
no adequate profits for those who
stick to it and attend to business
properly.
The greatest care must be taken to
provide the fowls with healthy food.
I have seen number of egg ranches
started on restaurant Stops and l have
seen most of them go out Of business,
too. Fowls require a good quality of
food. Rotten cabbage, musty or
weevily grain, corn that is too new or
that is heated, have all numbered
their victims by the tens of thousands.
And a good deal of the meat scraps
sold nowadays needs close inspection.
[ wouldn't give my fowls any food
that | couldn't eat a mOuthful of, my
self. Recently, while l was away
from home, this rule fell somewhat
into allegiance and l lost some fine
birds through the use of some meat
scrap of decidedly poor quality though
bearing we'll known brand. You
can t be too careful in this matter of
feeding meat scraps. | found a good
many California egg ranchers this
summer who had discarded the meat
scraps in favor of dried milk. There
are at least two firms in New York
state manufacturing the latter com
modify and it sells in California at
the same price as the local, and some
what cheaper than the eastern meat
scraps. 1t is the clear stuff, free
from adulteration and has nearly as
high percentage of protein as the
meat scraps. A bulletin issued by
the Cornell Experiment Station about
year ago gives details of splendid
results obtained by feeding the dried
milk. [ do not think it is obtainable
in this section at the present time;
but it is Ger tainty that some of the
larger feed houses would put it in
stock if requested to do so by a suffi-
cient number of their customers.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-05-21
Industrial Rrieflets.

Draper, little village over In Pulaski
county, has organized a banking house To be
known as the Farmers and Merchants'
Bank. il has ample capital. and is being
engineercd by some OF the best business men
In that community. ,'''
John r. Lane. OF Esmont. Va. has becom
me president OF the new Aitav!sta Cotton
Mills. and n l.. Cumnock, formerly OF An
derson s. c., becomes the general manager
in place of C. f. Hutchlson, who declined
me job. OWING to other engagements Tho
factory is expected to start up with "a 900
splndlea and 800 looms early in the fall
Wise county authorities Will receive bids
this week from road builders to make l2S
miles OF good roads in that county and make
them out OF the money realized on a 500. :
COO bond Issue. n
The Turkey Knob Orchard Company has
been incorporated Mt Winchester, with sl60, :
COO OF paid In capital. mostly Saw York
money The company has acquired several
hundred acres OF orchard lnnds.
The Virginia Box and Lumber Company.
Of Petersburg. has decided to build a branch
factory 8, Disputantn. iIil
Wake county. \. c.. viii vote Angus, 81
on n Sa6o.coo bond issue for good roads
The good roads being made In the neigh
horhood OF purkevillo are said 10 be gems
In the way or the sand-clay blond construc-
ton. and as far as they have gone they
have awakened n good roads enthusiasm In
that part OF Nottoway county.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-05-21
~ FRANK s. WooDsoN,
Industrial Editor.

Thomas G. Karnes, q man who has
done much in the way of developing
southern interests. especially agricul-
tural interests. died in sanatorium
in Orlando. Florida two weeks ago. Mr..
karnes did good practical work, and
he was graceful writer, who pictured
that practical work in a number of
agricultural journals of the South. and
was sometimes contributor to the
Industrial Section of The Times-D Dis
patch. His special theme was the
dairy subject. and n various journals
ne tried TO teach the people how 10
make the Southern dairy business a
success. Mr.. karnes wrote more for the
love OF the work he sought to ad-
vance than for the pay he got out OF
his labors, for. as matter of fact, he
got very little pay. He did his very
best TO advance the interest OF the
Southern folks who have ventured in
the dairy business. True. he ran a dairy
Of his own. but 1t was demons trative
and but little profitable. He tried to
set the pace for the enlightenment of
others. In this respect he accom-
plished much His body was laid to
rest last week in Knoxville, Tenn, his
home town.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-05-21
BLACKSTONE FAIR
ON LARGER SCALE
Second Annual Exhibition Will
Be Held October 4,
S and 6.
Especial 10 The Times Dispatch.

Especial TO The Times Dispatch.1
Blackstone. Va, May 2o.-The second
annual exhibition of the Blackstone
Educational and Agricultural Fair AS
socia ton will be held on October 4,
5. and at the Farmers Warehouse
grounds in this city
From what was considered a doubt
full experiment last year there has
been formed compact organization of
the business men of this town, aided
by the best farmers. who realize the
great advantages of this progressive
movement as an advertising medium
for their products.
For some years past tobacco growers
from this section have received awards
al the Richmond fair. and last year al
both corn and tobacco
grown near Blackstone successfully
competed with corn and dark tobacco
EXHIBITS from other sections, and agrl-
cultural experts judged these products
second TO none in Southside Virginia
Inc cash premiums this year will be
double what they were in 1910. and live
STOCK viii be given prominent place
on the associations program. Last
year suitable accommodation was not
STOCK, and the premiums awarded were
small, yet II was interesting TO note
the eagerness which breeders sought
TO advertise their herds
rs TUG name OF this association
would imply, the educational features
are prominently brought out by the
various teachers and pupils of the
counties cooperating. and q splendid
EXHIBIT or the students work was q
feature of last years fair
The counties OF Nottoway, Amelia
Lunenburg. Dinwiddie and Brunswick
are represented on the directorate.
win the success of last year fresh
In the minds OF the thousands that at
tended on the two days of the fair. IL
Is predicted that this years attendance
VIII be a record breaking event for
Blackstone 800
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-05-21

D.nrille, Va. May e5-There Is now no
tobacco In the hands OF the farmers 10
amount TO anything. The sales at the ware
houses for the week Will foot up total OF
very meagre proportions.
The weather recently has been good for
preparing the land for planning. and on the
hrst good rain the plants VIII be set In
earnest Practically no planting has been
done yet in the old belt, but everything Is
In readiness waiting for the necessary rain.
Plants are plentiful and healthy and the
land we'll prepared.
There is much complaint OF the condition
OF I'll. unusually small crop that has been
Carolina districts. The crop was planted
planted In thu South Carolina and Eastern
late. and the hot. dry weather has done So
much dana sc that in some instances the
tobacco has been powed up and the land
planted in cotton.
The usual dizziness incident 10 the present
season of tho year prevails in all lines OF the
Leaf trade. and very little business Is being
done in redried tobaccos. Conditions are
such that the holders OF the stocks OF avail
able leaf are encouraged In their ideas of
advanced prices and in feeling quite com
Portable over the situation.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-05-21
virginia Conf porta.

am taking the following bodily
from Middle West journal. It speak
for itself:
The Chesapeake and Ohio. Norfolk
and Western and the virginian roads
are planning to make Hampton Roa q S
the greatest coal port in the world (.
taking supremacy from Cardiff. Wales,
which has been in the van for over a
century. Last year between 100000
and 100000 tons of hard and soft
coal were handled at Cardiff. while
Hampton Roads with three distinct
piers at Lamberts Point. Sewell's
Point and Newport News. maintained
by the three roads. handled a grand
total Of 9.52o,SlS tons. distributed as
follows: Norfolk and western, A.
203,9S7 tons; Chesapeake and Ohio. A.
oS7540 tons. and the Virginian, l.i39,-
29l tons.
Plans are being worked out by big
coal operators in Southwest Virginia
and West Virginia to pool their inter-
ests In the European and Pan-Amer-
lean markets. The Guggenheim inter-
ests are said TO be behind the move
ment. Selling agents Will be stationed
In Europe, and Will act Jointly for the
big coal miners OF the Norfolk dis
trict. The roads will also place n
fleet of coalng vessels In commissi on.
sailing under the American flag, and
carrying coal into the markets now
reached by the Welsh mines.
From Hampton Roads approximately
100000 tons of coal are Transports ed
on vessels to Panama. Last year the
coal shipments were divided. but this
year. according to the agreement
signed April last. all coal destIn ed
for Panama must now be dumped at
the Sewell's Point and Lamberrs Point
piers. Nearly all of the coal used by
the Atlantic fleet is loaded at Hanp-
ton Roads on naval golfers, and taken
by them out to sea for tho battleshl ps.
The Norfolk and Western coal re-
ports for 1910 show that its black
diamond traffic was the greatest In It's
history, and so far this year the traf-
tic exceeds that Of last year. April.
1910, holds the record. 44s.o0o tons be-
ing dumped that month. This year. up
to May /. 1,352,5os tons have been
handled through the chntes ut Lam
berts Point. while Mt Newport News
tho tonnage for four months was H.
209,27S. The Virginlan tonnage figures
for the first four months of 1911 are
not available at the present time, but
Continued From Third Page.)
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-05-21
JvncI,burp Tnbacco ,1ort.t

LynchburE. Va, May la.-John D. Ogesby.
pany Nnc.l. makeslthe following report OF
tobacco sold on the Lynchburs market:
Sold week ending May 49, $500 pounds
sold week ending May H. $500 pounds; in
crease this week 1900 pounds. M
Sold from September !. 1900. to May IS. 1910.
HS2i.5c0 pounds
Receipts were again very light this week
but prices on all grades were strong and
active with quotations unchanged from last
week.
AS the crop OF tobacco Will be sold by July
the I.ynchburg Tobacco Association has de :
cidrd TO suspend sales during the months OF
July and August. so there Will be no sales
on the Lynehburg market from June 80 to
September l. Ht tt i.5 -5.lia.fl 'l
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-05-21
Chatham Tobacco Market.

Chatham. Va. May a0.-The closing of the
tobacco warehouses on Friday last marked
tho closing OF the most successful year OF
the tobacco market since Its beginning three
years ago. During the season uf 1909 and 1910
the quantity sold was 3.5iI,672 pounds: for
the season OF 1910 and 1911. 4.254.eS pounds. a
gain Of 1909 pounds over the last season.,
4 plan Is now under way TO establish 4
steam drying plant here. and the promoter,
are very much encouraged with the outlook.
THO warehouses will be In charge of the
same firms next season. and they hope to
make tho increase greater for that season
thar the one just closed over that of one
yenr ago. Most OF the buyers have left for
the far South markets. and Will return to
this plaee In Ootohnr m ~. .EL--,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-05-21
TOBACCO MARKET !.
TAKES LONG REST
Loose Leaf All Marketed The
UT Package Dealers Are Doing
i Some Business.

The tobacco season is rapidly peter
ms out. in fact. SO far as the sales OF
the loose leaf weed are concerned 1t
has about frazzled out already. The
sales In Richmond Warehouses for the
past week took up cnly about two
hours of two days Tuesday and Friday.
and II the buyers and the sellers had
hay anything else to do for the time be-
Ing they would have cut those two
hours down much more, than half In
all. less than $4,000 pounds of the
loose leaf We're sold. Such as was
offered was good stock ana the buy
ers did no, let pile of II go beg
gins. But there was SO little TO be
offered the buyers could not very Well
get interested. Like reports come
from pretty much all of the interior
markets,
The package dealers. and they are
always Very reticent. say they are also
having dull business but on the side
a Times Dispatch man learns that
some big round lots OF wrappers pack
ed in big hogsheads changed hands
during the past week
Anyhow from now on until the new
crop shows UP the most OF the local
business will he In the hands OF the
package dealers. f
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-05-21
AND NEAR. VIEWS.
HINTS. AND SUGGESTIONS
Good Man Goes Hence Great Opening for Viz
ginia Creameries- Hampton roads to Cut
do Cardiff The Blessed Mountain Shed
and What 1t May 10.

to that of Western creameries, and yet
can't make hftieth part of what
Is needed right here NJ home. why
should not other Virginia towns and
localities get busy in the butter max :
ing business and supply the home
demand? There is no better land on
earth for paying creameries than tina t
of old Virginia. That land will feed
the cows all right and provide all
the other necessary things. There are
great things in the creamery business
in Virginia II the Virginia folks will
just catch on to how to utilize them.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-05-21


The Times Dispatch has taken but
little If any stock in these '.machine"
encouraged creameries In Virginia In
fact. 1t has discouraged them. 1t has,
however. in a number of cases shown
how By good business management
creameries have been made to pay in
Virginia. The Farmvlle Creamery Is
a shining example, The Burkeville
Creamery got black eye at one time
but some wide-awake men there took
hold of II and they are pulling 1T
through. and It, too. Is an example OF
good things.
There is room in Virginia for many
other creameries, room for them TO
make money. In this conn ction news
item which clip from a Western
journal may be interesting Here Is
the item:
THE thirty ninth annual report Of
the Elgin Board of Trade shows the
average price Of butter for 1910 to
have been the highest in twenty nine
years, being 29.S cents, per pound"
This. mind you. was the wholesale
price to the first handler of the goods.
BY the time that Elgin butter (and, Of
course. am talking about Elgin, I'LL
nois) reached the nearby consumer the
figures and the cost had gone up to
about 30 cents per pound, and by the
etiite IL gu " tSicliiHOHd---dnQ many
pounds of Elgin butter are consumed
in Richmond-the figures had gotten
up to about IS to 40 cents per pound.
I know whereof speak. have tried
the Farmville butter and tho Burke
Vile butter, and, being a Judge of but
ter. ] stand to say that the Virginia
stuff Is superior to the Elgin product,
Now. the point I am trying to make
Is this: II Farmvllle and Burkeville
can make butter In their creameries
that is .just as good and even superior
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-05-21
castaIIa Yynnts a natlroad

castalia, N. c.. has voted $4,000 Of bonds
to MD the construction of a railroad. posi-
bly, to Rocky Mount. n. c., OH the Atlantic
Coast Lime, twenty-one miles. although Il
may be constructed to some nearer. point
upon tho same systen,-for instance. Spring
Hope. twelve miles; Nashville ten miles or
Dunola. eight miles, Loulsburg, on the Sea-
board tir Line, is seventeen miles FROM
Castalia. and II iA said that some are con-
aidering the possibility Of building TO that
place, which is In . direction opposite 10
Rocky Mount. Right of way'is to be given
in addition to@tho bonus,$1t Is SAID.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-05-21

'1continued on Last Page.)
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1911-10-17
Farmers Attention

Ship all Your poultry. eggs. veal
and pork direct to the largest and
oldest produce dealers in Portland.
We pay the highest prices quoted
In "The Orcgonian" for fancy
stock. We can supply EGG eases and
coop>. Checks sent by return mail.
+. II. Schmalz a Co.. paid up capi-
tal stock Sl0.0O0Oo. l4l-143 Front
street, Portland. Oregon.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1911-10-17


Advertising isn't donation, or
rather the money you pay for II
to the newspaper publisher shouldn t
he so regarded. If there is any
value in newspaper advertising 1t IS
for the merchant who handles 1t Ju-
diciously. But, when a business man
saws "we can't advertise IN the
newspaper as much as we would like
to. because we spend considerable IN
other ways" he unconsciOusly ad-
mits that he believes that advertls-
ing with the publisher is just 50
of that newspaper. The mission of
Of thee manovemas T,Tae.. RLnT
advertising is to bring business to
the store of the man who advertlses.
If an ad in one paper will bring HIM
20 customers, then an ad in two pa
pers should bring him 40 new peo-
ple to trade over his counters. II
he is unwilling to increase his trade
and doesn't care whether he secures
new customers, then he should to-
tally ignore the columns Of his local
papers. But, that isn't the way
heaviest advertisers in this country
look at the proposition. The men
who have made the greatest success
es have been liberal and consistent
advertisers and each and every one
of them declare that the major pOr-
ton of their success has been due
to advertising. And what will hold
good in the largest city in the coun-
try is also true, to lesser extent
of course, in Dallas, and even IN
every other community in the coun-
try.
"This scheme is money making
proposition, isn't it?" asked a GER
tain Dallas business man Of an OBJ
server solicitor who endeavOred to
interest him in the forthcoming Pro-
gress Edition Of this paper. "lt
certainly is" replied the solicitor,
everybody who goes into it will
make money" Both Of the above
are true. 1t is money
making scheme, but rest assured
right here that the publishers won't
retire on the wealth that comes from
that edition. But the motive back
of the business mans remark is
worthy a passing thought. Because
it was ga money making scheme
for the publisher, as the business
man believed, he refused to patron
ize it, and by the way, his name is
never seen in newspaper adver-
doesn't believe in adj
He evidently believes
that the only money making
schemes" should be those that flow
in his direction. That's the trouble
with some folks. They can't bear
the sight of somebody else making
a few cents unless they have their
finger in it. Such a spirit builds
hardly.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1911-10-17

in this city and county. but through
out the entire state. Before coming
here ID Years ago. Mr.. Cher1ingtou
conducted the leading Photographic
studio in Salem. where his skill as
an artist was recognized BY all res
idents and visitors in the Capital
City. During those years. he photo
graphed governors. congressman and
members of the legislature. and to-
day there are probably more pictures
bearing his imprint In the homes of
Oregon politicians and prominent
business men than have ever been Ia
ken by any other artist In the state
Mr. 1herrlugtou Is recognized bv his
brother photographers as one of the
leaders ln his profession iu the North
west. and he has long been one of
the prominent figures iu the annual
conventions held in Portland. s.
attle and other coast cities.
\ remarkable feature of Mr.. Cher
ungton's l5-year business career in
Dallas Is found in the fact that he
has never lost a cent through the
non-payment Of bills by his patrons.
Although he has taken thousands Of
pictures IN that time. his books 5o
not show a single unpaid account
Tins noteworthy record doubtless has
no parallel IN Oregon. and II hears
eloquent testimony 10 Mr.. Cher
unston 5 ability as a bin collector
as well as 10 the honesty Of the peo-
pie who have SET before his camera
Having amas>ed a competence lrr-
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1911-10-17
NOW
OUT Of BUSINESS
T. J. CHERRINGToN WILL TAKE
LIFE EASY HEREAFTER.
Sells Studio to Portland Man After
Fifteen Years of Active Business
Life in This City.

After having conducted a photo
graph gallery in Dallas for l. wears
1. :. Cherrington has sold the equip
ment and goodwill Of the business
10 {. B. Stone, an experienced pho
tographer from Portland. Mr.. Stone
has taken charge of the gallery and
viii move his family to this city at
once.
In the retirement OF Mr. Cher
nngton. Dallas loses an enierprs-
ing buslnesSman-one who By his IN
Innate knowledge Of photography.
has made his work known not only