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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-13
A pAsrARpLY PROPOSITION.

Press dispatches of couple of weeks
ago told of the proposal to perpetrate
one Of the most dastardly agricultural
outrages which have ever been recorded
In this country. 1t seems to have been
a scheme hatched by two or three New
York cotton spectators who had laid
a plan to scatter through Georgia and
South Carolina 100000 cotton boil
weevils so that the fields In these
states would be attacked by the pest
and the yield OF cotton correspondingly
reduced and the prices boosted. 1t Is
estimated that at the rate at which
the weevil Is spreading from the west
ern and central southern states 1t will
be about two years before this enemy
Of the cotton plant will reach the ter
STORY above referred to. but how any
man or group OF men could be so alb
solutely money mad as to conceive the
idea of Fastening the spread Of the In
sect when the combined federal and
state insect fighting forces are doing
all in their power to hold 1t in check
r. absolutely incomprehensible 1t
would be hard indeed to devise a pun
ishment that would be adequate for az
offeusa Of this kind.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-13
curryinu No Favor.

Lend hand. Hiram. and help ketch
the alderman's pig"
LET the alderman ketch bis own pig.
I'm out OF politics fer good."-Louis-
vile Courier-J Journal.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-13

There are a good many farmers who
will likely have the beet growing prop
Osition put up to them for the first
time this spring. Before signing a
contract to grow ten. twenty or thirty
acres, as the case may be, better talk
the proposition over not only with the
special agent of the company solicit
ing the contracts, but with some fellow
who has had turn at the business or.
better. two or three of them if possible,
some who have done well at 1t and
some who have not. After canvassing
the situation you will be able to decide
intelligently whether 1t will be worth
while to take hold of the business.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-13

Owing to facts which have recently
been made very plain relative to the
transmission Of disease germs. the pre-
caution urged by health authorities OF
having school children provided with
individual drinking cups can no longer
be looked upon as fad, but is sane
and highly essential safeguard &c
health.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-13

If the kerosene lamp persists in
smoking up the carefully cleaned chin
ney try boiling up the burner. If it
still persists try throwing it out the
back door.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-13

In any section Of the country where
land will produce two crops of clover
or three or four cuttings of alfalfa
one need not be afraid OF paying from
500 to $500 per acre for land, as the
growing of these iegumes will give a
generous interest return on the invest
ment price.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-13

Recent experiments which have been
made in the matter of using sows OF
different ages for breeding purposes
show that, while young sow. well
cared for, will average seven pigs to
the litter. the mature sow FIVE or six
years old will average between nine
and ten to the litter. 1t has also been
found that the offspring of mature
sows weigh II per cent more at birth
than those of young sows, grow more
rapidly and are stronger.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-13

A filing In time may not save nine,
but it will reduce toothaches and ex-
fractions and save whole lot Of pes
tering trials with false ilolar outfits.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-13

As with cattle, the breed of poultry
to be selected by any individual
should be the one which he prefers
or which will best suit his purposes,
as any one of number will pay well
IL given proper care and attention.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-13

England imported 2,20l, 296.440 eggs
in 1910, which cost 35,459,254. or an
average of 1872 cents per dozen. II
would be worth knowing what these
eggs cost the consumer when served
on his table.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-13

1t is just as easy to form good habits
rs bad ones, and this is an important
point not only in the formation Of
character in man, but in the training
Of animals that serve him.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-13

After May /, as result of new i'm.
port regulations, good deal of Chi.
nese tea that has been quite uniformly
green will assume variety of colors-
green. yellow and brown and inferno
date shades. The uniformly green
color which has characterized the
cheaper grades Of popular teas in the
past has been due to the use by the
Chinese of a harmless dye.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-13

New Mexico has approximately 5OO.-
600 acres already under irrigation, with
100000 more that can be watered
artificially. When this shall have been
accomplished New Mexico's place as
an agricultural state will have been
secured
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-13

While it is mighty fine thing for
the farmer TO have an automobile and
money in the bank with which to pur-
chase the machine, 1t is very Ques-
tionable procedure for any fellow who
has to increase his Indebtedness to
buy one. We have in mind a fellow
who did just this thing, and in the
end it meant that he lost the farm, as
he couldn't get his moneys worth out
Of the machine without using it, and
he couldn't do this without neglecting
the farm work
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-13

In all too many instances a fellows
attitude on this matter Of bovine tuber-
culosis depends upon whether it is up
to him to drink the milk or eat the
flesh of animals affected with the dis
ease or whether he has some of them
on his hands that he is anxious to get
rid of and lose as little as possible.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-13

If the writer ever had any doubt
that birds know a good thing when
they see it, it was dispelled last sea-
son when he noted the certainty with
which they singled out the ripest and
reddest checked peaches and devoured
them completely, leaving nothing but
the pit hanging to the limb. Other
fruit in garden and on mountain slope
was scarce at the time, and this doubt
less accounts for the trespass of these
feathered friends.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-13

A fellow can have a dish Of ham
and eggs now and then since the egg
corner collapsed without borrowing
money on his life insurance policy to
foot the bill. Ham and eggs used to
taste pretty good, but 1t was so long
ago the most of us will have to learn
all over again.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-13

The Plymouth Rock, perhaps the
most popular breed of American
fowls, if numbers are taken as cri.
terion, was originated by Mr.. Upham
of Connecticut. who crossed a white
Brahmapootra cockerel on a black
hen and this cross on Dominique.
The breeders purpose was to produce
an all around general purpose fowl.
When this cross bred true to type Mr..
Upham exhibited it under the name of
Plymouth Rock, because he thought ii
appropriate that the first distinctly
American breed should be named for
the spot on which the first settlers of
New England landed. In subsequent
years. as result of other crosses, the
White and Buff Plymouth Rocks have
been developed.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-13

Contrary to an idea that seems to
have got root in the minds Of some
folk here and there, careful expert
ments with the tuberculin test prove
conclusively that the application Of
tuberculin will not only not cause tu-
berculosis in a healthy animal, but
has no harmful effect whatever upon
culosis or other disease.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-13

1t will soon be time TO cut the early
potatoes for planting. If they are at all
scabby they should be treated as fol-
lows: Put potatoes in sack before cut.
tlng) and suspend for about two hours
in solution made by the addition Of
half pint Of 40 per cent formalin to
fifteen gallons of water. The same So
luton may be used lor several patches
of potatoes. On removing from sack
spread potatoes out to dry. They should
then be cut and planted within few
hours. 70 get best results potatoes
should not be planted this season on
land which produced scabby potatoes
last season. An entirely new piece of
land or that which has not been in po-
tatoes for several years is preferable.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-13

One of the reasons why the dairy
cows give the largest returns In milk
yield in May and June is that the wa
ter they drink does not chill them to
the bone. This condition can be re-
produced in the winter by warming the
drinking water with tank heater by
the use of cobs or other fuel instead
Of making the COW do the job, utiliz-
ing corn and other high priced feeds
for the purpose. Every bit of heat
which the cow has to furnish In the
warming of ice cold water means that
the energy and vitality which she can
devote to milk production are reduced
by just so much.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-13

The one great point in favor of corn
silage is that it comes nearer than any
other winter ration to duplicating the
succulence of the lush grasses of May
and June. 1t is because of this fact
that stock is so fond of silage and that
the feeding of it results in such gen.
erous milk flow in the dairy COW and
the rapid gain in flesh of the other
farm animals to which it Is fed.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-13

In all too many cooperative cream
cries the buttermaker is kept tied
down too closely to scrubbing, clean
ing and stocking work when this could
be done just as well by much cheaper
help and the buttermaker given this
time to inquire more carefully into
the stable and milk house conditions
to be found on the farms Of the sew
eral hundred patrons Of the creamery.
Owing to this shortsighted effort at
economy there is little question that
creameries Of this type lose thousands
Of dollars annually, which they might
Just as well save in an improved but
ter quality by giving their buttermak-
er more help, thus enabling him to
give them more Of his service as spe-
cialist.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-13

Persons afflicted with tuberculosis
would do well to keep In mind the
curative power of fresh air, whether
In the east, west, north or south. Many
people Of limited means might better
stay at home, using the precautions
they would take elsewhere of sleeping
and living In the open air, in the mean
time enjoying the comforts OF home.
than to go to some far away. strange
place without means sufficient for real
needs. Still another class might as
well stay at home, those who have
money, but who go and live in stuffy
boarding houses In some large city,
keeping late hours and disregarding
the fundamental requirements Of
health with the expectation that eli
mate alone will work q cure, and that
without Its being given fair chance.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-13

1t is entirely misleading when the
promoters of beet sugar factories have
articles published In which the claim
is made that larger crops can be grown
after beets than after any other crop
While beets do not pull on the soil as
do oats, timothy hay, wheat or cab
bage, the fact remains that they ex
haust 1t nevertheless and are not sci
renovators In any sense as are the
several members of the legume fam
lily. There is this to be said for beef
growing. however. that the very thor
ough preparation of the soil and fire.
quent tillage during the growing sea
son leaves it in the best possible con
dition for succeeding crop. Used in
rotation with corn, oats and clover
beet culture has much TO commend it.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-13

In way of proving that 1t is the way
the soil is handled rather than the
length Of time it has been cropped that
chiefly determines its fertility 1t may
be mentioned that. while the average
yield Of potatoes for the United States
as whole Is but about eighty or nine
ty bushels per acre yearly. the English
peasant who makes business OF rails
ing tubers frequently secures yield
of 800 bushels per acre. while In Bel
GUM, where the most intensive kind
Of soil tillage is followed. the acre
yield sometimes runs as high as LOCO
bushels. The difference between the
American and the Belgian farmer
seems to lie chiefly in the fact that the
latter views the fertility of the soil
as the principal he has invested and
that 1t Is his prime duty to keep it un-
impaired through renewal of fertilizer
elements, so that its productive ca
pacity will not be lessened.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-07-27

Printers Of Cedar Rapids, Ia, adj
Vanced their wages to SIS per week,
with two year contract.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-07-27
Briefs and Personals.

|
Daniel Williams and Cid and Ivor
Morgan of Steubenville, visited P. J.
Morgan Saturday and Sunday. The
latter has just returned to his home
on 18th street from the City hospital.
The LaBelle plant mil and nail fac
tory is working tseadily.
The Northwood Glass WORKS is on
in full.
The Mcconnell cooper shop is run
ming full.
Dick Selway was down from Steu-
benville to hear John Mitchell and at
tend to some business. He got union
labeled goods and he told the mer-
chants that he saw their ad in the
Majority.
The Pope tin mill in Steubenville,
is working its IA mills and tin house
in full.
The Follansbee Bros. mill at Fol
lansbee, IS working full.
The Creek mill win be off all this
week.
The Riverside plate mill and tube
works is on in full.
Except the puddlers, the Wheeling
Steel and Iron Co. is working full.
The plate mill and the blast furn-
ace at the Belmont is working steady.
The Laughlin tin mill is on in full,
the % hot mills and the 40 pots in the
tin mouse.
Six more mills go on at the Aetna
Standard this week.
The LaBelle coal mine is still on
strike, with no settlement in sight.
Charles Mckinney and son, Samuel,
are learning new trades, plastering,
bricklaying and laying cement walks.
Joseph Whitehouse and bride have
returned from an extended wedding
trip through the east. Joe is popu-
lar roller in the Creek mill.
Jenkins Jones was a Wheeling Wis
itor on Saturday, to hear John
Mitchell.
w. F. BelIville has removed from
4Sth street to 18th street.
Mrs. Julia Fortney, aunt of Mrs. G.
3. Dittmar, who fell from second
story window, is improving steadily at
her home on 48th street.
AL Weidman has gone on fishing
trip, to spend his vacation. AL is a
former mill worker who is now in the
fire department.
R. G. holland, the well known car
penter. IS again in Wheeling, working
for Taylor, Ogden and Bauer. Bob
was working for some time il Park
ersburg, .and has lately undergone !
severe attack Of appendicitis. and has
been operated upon successfully re-
Gently.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-07-27

but their labor to sell must band
themselves together into an organiza-
ton. offensive and defensive, to make
the best terms of sale they can in re.
speet to price, to time, and the like.
(Applause.) do not regard that as
natural ! regard it as unnatural.
That is the kind Of arrangement that
has to be made by men in state of
industrial warfare. The condition /
am talking about is of men in a state
Of freedom; where every man can
look every other man in the eye as a
free man. From speech of Henry
George in Congress.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-07-27


the party serves the interests which
finance and maintain it Our political
parties may be at the root Of all mod
ern political graft and corruption, but
ene political party is the sole safe
guard Of the intelligent voter. Wheth-
er or not we have Short Ballot or
Massachusetts Ballot or Direct Prim-
aries, candidates are but empty names
to the thouands, sometimes millions,
of voters called upon to choose among
them. The political party is the only
constant factor in our. politics. It's
identity is fixed. Its composition,
platform and records are known to
all voters. 1t presents itself to the
citizens for endorsement or censure
every year. Our two leading parties
have at this time become SO similar
in their aims and methods and in their
service to the dominant class, that
their separate existence is only con
tinued by the rivalry for political
spoils. Hence the crusade of our
radical reformers" against party do
mination,' and the cry for good men
regardless of politics. But when the
struggle is not merely between the
two old parties, as for instance, when
the Socialist Party seriously contests
an important election, all supporters
of the vested interests the good
and the bad the spure" and the
corrupt" the "reformers" and the
s.reactionaries" speedily combine t
defeat the Socialist. without stoppine
to ascertain whether he is a good
man or bad" man, as the recon
Milwaukee school election have AGAR
demonstrated.
The Socialists have little sympathy
for non-partisan politics. To then
politics is a struggle Of social classes
and the political party, an organized
army in that struggle. They expec'
the salvation Of the country not iron
a curtailment of its democratic insti
buttons, but from strong economic
and political organization of the
workers and their sympathizers alons
the lines of the modern Socialis
movement.
+ Very truly yours,
1 MORRIS HILLQUIT.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-07-27
-. To The Gutter -.

(5y John M. Work.)

So you are tired, and discouraged
and propose to lie down and quit.
Just when things are coming our
way all over the United States, and
all over the world. When the maya
zines are devoting large amount Of
space to us. When the newspapers
are compelled to give us attention.
Wien we are drawing the fire from
the biggst batteries the enemy has.
When our municipal and congressional
victories nave put US on the map, so
to speak. y-When a presidential cam
paign is coming on in winch we
should all do our duty and reach an
other mile post on the way TO the Co
Operative Commonwealth.
In the fact of all this, you propose
to lie down.
Well-good-bye!
There haye always been those who
lack the stern qualities and the grim
persistence to keep on fighting until
the goal is reached. There have al
ways been those who drop out of the
ranks and take it easy, and then pro
fit by the sacrifice Of their comrades
after the victory is won. There have
always been those who want to get
something for nothing. There have al
ways been those who give the enemy
aid aud comfort by throwing down
their arms in the midst of the CON
flict.
To one who was IN the fight before
you heard Of It, your lament is baby
ish.
Some Of your plans have not WORK
ed out as you expected. There were
not as many votes as you thought
there ought to be. You are unable
to ee visible results of your efforts.
You have not been fully appreciated
BY your comrades.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-07-27

Even so.
The changing of peoples minds is
gradual, not a sudden process. Sci.
dom does a comrade see the direct
results of his own individual effor' ),
for the Cause.
But, let him look back few years.
comparing the standing of the move
ment then with its standing now, and
he will see the marvellous advance
that has been made through the COM
mon efforts of all the comrades, in
Guiding himself. -
And let him not expect to be pat
ted on the back every time he aims a
blow at the enemy. There are others
| in the fight.
Persistence persistence and. yet
again persistence-is the thing that
wins.
And working for the Great Cause is
the only thing that is worth living for
at this stage of human progress. He,
who quits is dead. He is intellectual.
ly and spiritually deceaseu
Let the faint-hearted and the weah-
ings lie down if they like.
But they whose coura oe and whose
conservation to the Cause make them
worthy to be called men and women
will keep on fighting, with dogged
determination. in spite of all OBJ
tacles and discouragements, until
capitalism is conquered and Socialism
takes possession.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-07-27
GOUernn1eI1t
By The FelU
a great deal more.

a great deal more.
You are doubtless familiar with the
Short Ballot idea and realize that it
takes no stand for or against any of
the items in the economic program for
which you stand. Our movement is a
totally distinct field and has to do only
with the simplification of politics by
reducing the number of elective Off
GERS to a point where the citizen can
exercise his civic functions without
the air Of outside help.
There seems to be no good reason
for any antagonism between the So
cialist program and the Short Ballot
movement. In fact, If we see the mat
ter clearly, the accomplishment of the
Short Ballot idea would possibly has
ten the coming of Socialism because
it would put the instrument in the
hands Of the voters whereby they
might achieve the objects of their de-
ire. If that object were identical
with what the Socialists advocate, so
much the better for the Socialists. OF
course, If Socialism is not destined to
be the object which the majority OF
the people will ultimately seek, there
would be no gain from your point Of
view in making the electoral process
simpler.
Under separate cover we are send
ing You copy Of the Short Ballot
pamphlet, which has been widely cir
culated in the United States. We
would deem it a great favor if you
would read it and give us an expires
ion of opinion on the principle which
it advocates.
Yours very truly,
THE SHORT BALLOT ORGANIzA-
TON.
H. S. GILBERTsoN.
Assistant Secretary.
Mr.. H. s. Gilbertson,
The Short Ballot Organization,
1888 Fourth Ave.. New York City.
Dear Sir:
The Socialist Party has never ex-
~
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-07-27
LARoRERs WIN.

Canton, n. z. July 27.-All the
Workmen on the Canton-D ekalb juno
ton state road, went on strike recent.
" for higher wages. Following very
short contest, the men received the
increase asked for, which was raise
from $1.75 to s1.S5, while the quarry
and crushermen got $500 instead Of
$f.S5 per day.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-07-27

The following merchant tailors can
uppIy you, and want your trade;
Browne Bros, 1920 Market Street,
Wheeling.
Geo. T. Finck. 1903. Jacob Street,
Wheeling.
W; H. Frank Co. So Twelfth Street
Wheeling.
K. e. Hill, Bellaire, o.
J.. Kasten's Sons. Bellaire, o.
q. vegel. Bridgeport. o.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-07-27

hour day was agreed to in May and a.
contract to this effect was to have
been signed on August II. The firm,
however. has violated its agreement
and locked ont the men.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-07-27

Mr.. H. s. Gilbertson,
The Short Ballot Organization.
1888 Fourth Ave.. New York City.
Dear SIR,
The Socialist Party has never ex-
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-07-27
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