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Evening journal., 1911-05-29
QUESTION: on BusINEsS.

II HE Democrats during the present city cam
/ paign are placed on the defensive. They
have hard work in finding reasons why they
should be continued in Office. They pretend to
smooth over the actual condition of the city
finances But they make mess of il.
If the issues of the coming election are looked
fairly in the face it is a question of indorsing a
bad management which has plunged the city into
a financial hole The Democrats are try
ing to keep the lid on the hole so that no one can
look in. They shy at the facts. They refused TO
pass a resolution calling for a Showdown" of
actual conditions by City Council Let il 60 for a
while, until after the election, is practically their
cry.
If the Democratic Council has got things into
such tangle how can they etout of it7 Would
it not be better to try a new deal a deal that
promises much considering that the Republicans
have excellent candidates? Why not give them
one chance in preference to giving the Demo-
Gratis two chances? Would the Democratic Couu-
Gil change its spots any more than the leopard
does?
The Democrats have had ample opportunity TO
show that they could give the city good business
like administration. They made extravagant
promises during the last campaign but they failed
10 make good Was not the tax Office repair in
cident, in which the actual figures the city paid
for the work we're far than the contract price
example of the way the Council has been doing
things during this administration?
Evening journal., 1911-05-29
DELIVERING KIAlTENsI WATER.

The Consumers Ice Comply here
after will have full charge Of the de-
livery of Kiamensi Spring water. The
company has started in with deliv-
cries and expects to improve the SER
vice
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Nay the dinner that is to celebrate the opening
Of the new State road be held in the handsome
proposed new hotel
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Stories of The Day
MARRIAGE As GREECE HAD IT.

MARRIAGE rs WkbEUh HAU II'
One of Ex-Governor Pennypacker s
best stories-and he has rare col
lection of real witty stories-is one
bearing up the prevalence of divorcse.
At a recent meeting, when he dis
cussed the need of uniform divorce
laws. the Ex-Governor told the story,
saying:
TOO many Americans are In sym
pathy with the little schoolboy who
was asked to write his idea of Greek
marriage customs.
after a little thought the lad
wrote.
Among the Greeks. a man only
married one wife, which was called
monotony' "-Philadelphia Times.
Evening journal., 1911-05-29

How do the doctors diagnose the Public Utili-
ties situation?
Evening journal., 1911-05-29

Because the city has assets in thousands of dol
lars in uncolected taxes and sewer liens Chairman
Kane of the Finance Committee OF Councitargues
that there will be no deficit, and that the city is
not in serious financial straits after all. The Demo-
cratic Councimen are putting on a bold face. but
really they must be sweating" when they con-
template the real situation In years gone by,
when there we're deficits, it was not considered
that fguring on back taxes and other assets pre-
vented the talk of deficit. We have always had
taxes overdue.
Evening journal., 1911-05-29
Editorial Opinion
boulevard and Milford.

Milford Chronicle
There is one argument in favor Of
building the proposed boulevard
either through or near to Milford,
which the routes west Of here cannot
advance The new stone roads being
built by the State of Maryland, will
parallel the Delaware State line for
practically its entire length, and IL
would seem for the best interest of
the people of Sussex county, that the
new road should be built through that
part Of the county, where the most
Delawarians will be benefited by its
construction. The surveyors are
working on the route each day, and it
seems an assured fact that the road
will be first built. through Sussex
county and then northward through
Kent and New Castle counties.
Evening journal., 1911-05-29
Has Found the Man.

Dover Republican.
Some of our exchanges claim that
we have not a man for Governor in
either party as progressive and level
headed as Woodrow Wilson, of New
Jersey. We know Of man who is
likely to be the next Governor Of this
State who is practical and level
headed business man, and a success
full one, too He is residing here in
Kent county and Is a staunch pro-
gressive Republican.
Evening journal., 1911-05-29
A Small Quantity Of Charcoal

used in your range will heat sufheient
HOT WATER FOR THE BATH
without heating YOUR kitchen. Sold in larFs
paper bags by Grocers ~ Sc One bag
being suficient for several baths II used
spsringly. II will light from a handful
Of crumpled paper.
Evening journal., 1911-05-29

TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION
~ mall postage prepaid 400 year. 25 cents month
payable in advance BY carrier, six cents week
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oa,.ro oneo. $50 MiehIsan Avenue.
Evening journal., 1911-05-29

Tomorrow Mr.. Edwards will tell Of
"The Remark That Caused Booth Il
Play Hamlet"
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TELEPHONES:

New York once sst Fitth Avenue.
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Continued on Page 8.
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Advertising rates on application
NJ attention paid 10 unsigned communications.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-01-12
Burning Stumps.

In the early part Of the winter
bore a two inch anger hole to a
depth of about three inches in the
top of each stump to be removed,
fill the hole with refined nitrate
of potash and drive a pin tight on
it. Let it remain until the spring,
when the potash will be absorbed
Pour little oil on the top of the
stump and in great many In
stances all the roots will be con.
sumed by a slow burning. Rural
New Yorker.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-01-12
With The Dairy Herd,

The fault of dairymen in gen
eral is not so much the lack of
knowledge as the proper appli-
cation of the knowledge they
possess.
One thing that we ought to
consider when we start out to
buy breeding cattle is the fact
that the knowledge, skill and
character of the man we buy
them of is about as important as
the animal that we are buying.
Can man SOW poor seed and
hope to get good crop? Will ma
ture make any exceptions in one
mans favor? These are questions
which ought to interest the man
who keeps on year after year
breeding his COW to some scrub
bull.
Too many farmers lack the
push and energy required to
build up a fine herd of dairy cat
tie. They are poor business men.
The cow cannot turn all of her
energy into the production of
milk and still have enough to
build up her offspring rightly. To
raise good, vigorous calves, we
must see to it that the mother has
sufficient of the right kind of food
and goes dry long enough to dc
the work rightly.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-01-12
SMUT IN CORN KILLS CATTLE
Several Faremrs Near Cotton
wood Falls Have Suffered Losses

Corn infected with smut" is
killing live stock near Cotton
wood Falls, Kas. All of the losses
so far reported have been where
cattle were turned in to the corn
fields to feed on the stalks and
small nubbins may have been left
ungathered on the standing corn.
Losses have taken place in al
most every part of the country.
Specimens of this smutty''
corn which were sent to the Ag-
ricultural College, at Manhattan
by j. III. Mercer, state live stock
sanitary commissioner, for ex-
animation, shows that the smut
is a poison. The corn is said to be
infected by a small moth, which
burrows in the kerned and leaves
behind it this fine powerlike
"smut" which is poisonous to
stock. After eating the diseased
corn the cattle generally die in
a few hours.
John Heldersan, of Homestead,
lost seven head of cattle out of
SMALL bunch of stock he turned
on his fields the other day, and
William Studer, a stock raises of
Prairie Hill, lost four head from
the same cause. A. sR. Coleman
recently lost ten head of stock
from a bunch of thirty which he
had turned in his field.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-01-12
SMALL FARMS.
What Is Needed in this Country
is More Farmers and Smaller
Farms.

Farms.
Over in Arson county, North
Carolina, at Wadesboro, COM
pany, called the Dixie Develop
ment Company has been organlz-
ed with the purpose of purchas-
ing large tracts of land and divid-
ing them into small farms and sell
ing these small plats to men OF
moderate means. The Company
proposes to sell on easy. annual
payments and at a fixed rate with
a provision for insurance in or
der that the purchases may be
protected from loss of the amount
paid ia case of death.
This is the beginning of the
execution of lOng-cherished
theory that the South would
prosper most when the old plan
tation could be sub-divided by
proprietary farmers instead of
depending upon colored and other
tenants. The best stimulus to the
white farmer, native or immigrant
is the open door Of ownership, of
a 20 to 40 acre farm. The Best
incentive to the colored man is
tho open door of ownership of a
far of comparatively small
"a number Of acres that he
G.. take care of himself.
Eg plantations have meant,
ever since the civil war;: a Deepen
dent tenent tenancy and a help
less poverty for the owner The
tenant system on the old planta-
ton practically precludes that
diversity in farming that makes
for the best success. Cotton! Cot
ton! Cotton! and Poverty Power
ty! Poverty! Spiritless poverty
have been the rule Small farms
owned by their occupants great,
~ increased thrift among the oW,
ners.
When this movement has made
a fair start in it's development
there will come the opportunity
to inaugfurate the German sys
TEN Of land loan banks on the
mutual plan to furnish credits fol
those who have not all the money
to pay cash down for a small farm
and a home.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-01-12

be provided for. This will call for
greater production from the same
labor expended and greater profit
must come to theproducers in pay
ment for the greater amount of
ability required of him for the Ia
borer is worthy of his hire.
Ibelieve it is high time that
those who have the soils Of the
great south in trust should drop
the system of land robbing that
has been almost universally pra-
ticed for many years and make the
effort of their lives to start the cor
section Of the wrong that their
lack of thought has caused them to
work upon the heritage that has
decended to them from the Crea-
tor through their ancestors. A
start has already been made In the
right direction by men in every
nook and corner of our country
and evidence enough has beer
produced to show that no matter
in what section you may be locat.
led, soil Improvement may go hand
in hand with the practical work
of the farm that provides the liv.
ing for the farmers family.-A. u
French, in Progressive Farmer.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-01-12
Underdrain The Feeding Lot.

There is no good reason why
the feed lot should not be kept
in good condition even if there is
no hill on the farm. If the land is
level and only a small bunch of
cattle is to be fed, a good plan
is to remove the top soil with a
road scraper to the depth of six
inches or more, and then cover
the surface with smooth stones
topped off with coarse coal Gin
ders mixed with sand.
Of course, the best way to keep
a small feed lot dray is to pave it
with brick. This costs something
at the start, but the investment
will pay every time. The cattle
are always on dry footing, and
no feed is wasted by being thrown
on the ground.
If a large lot of cattle is to be
fed, the cost of paving large
lot is out of the question; but it
can be undetermined with success.
The drain laid in the ordinary
way, from 10 to 20 feet apart
will keep any lot that is not To-
Gated in a swamp in good condi-
ton, even In the rainest part of
the season. "a
Drainage wilp cost no more tina.
sheds, they soon become soaked
| with% the drying rains and mud
lis then carried into them by the
cattle3,. and are little better than
an open lot.
On our own farm we have two
lots of ten acres each, which are
perfectly drained. They are on a
slightly sloping rise, and we plac.
ed the drains about twenty feet
apart. Perhaps forty feet would
have answered the purpose, but
| we decided to take no chances
and are satisfied with our invest
ment. These two lots costs us
$500 for tile and work, besides
our own, but we think it has paid
because our cattle have been fat
tened in comfort. &C. M. Coul
) ton.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-01-12

All over the South, and especial
ly in the hill section Of the Pied
mont country the eye is panied
by the appearance of field after
field with hollows grown up in
bushes, a patch of corn here and
patch of broomsedge alongside
and a great lack of broad, clean
fields. A traveller coming, for in
stance, from the highly cultivated
fields of Lancaster County, Penn
sylvania, where weeds and bushes
are absent and the whole field
cultivated in the best manner and
in strict rotation, would wonder
how farmers who keep their lands
IN such condition as in much of
the South ever make living. And
the Pennsylvania farmer would
wonder, too at the lines of weed
grown terrace banks circling the
hillsides, the poor makeshift for
scratch blowing and the absence
of sod, They have billy land, too,
in Pennsylvania, but they use
heavy teams and big plows and
have, a sod to turn for corn to hold
the soil together. and the same
methods in the South would soon
do away with the terrace banks
nd their weeds and the bitches be-
hind the terraces would be filled
with tile or rock. Land that will
grow bushes will grow crops, and
the bush patches in the fields are
simply occupying land that should
| be- in crops.-Prof. Massey in Pro
gressive Farmer.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-01-12

Farm work for January.

January is apt to be an idle
month on many farms; but there
is always work that can be done.
Flowing for the spring crops
where no cover crop has been
sown will put the spring work a
little ahead, but it is always best to
have a cover crop to turn in the
spring.
For the general farmer Janu-
airy is good time to plan for a
good rotation of crops. We do not
advise a rotation for the purpose
of resting" the soil. Soil does
not get tired; it gets starved,
though, and needs feeding with
organic decay that will enable you
to use commercial fertilizers more
literally and to better advantage.
Rotation means keeping the land
harder at work growing things
for its improvement, and thus in
creasing the sale crops. 1t means
farming as profession instead of
gambling on the chances with a
little fertilizer on dead soil. 1t
means putting ife-bacterial life
into tie soil, and while getting pro-
fitable crops of other things be-
sides the staple money crop to in
rease the production of the money
crop. Now is the time to study this
and to plan for the coming season.
If you have not been farming in a
that you will start it.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-01-12
Permanently Profitable Farming

Permanently Profitable Farming
Has it ever occurred to you, my
reader. that here in our country
as well as in army other sections
Of America, We are giving less at
tention than we should to perman-
ent profitable agriculture l have
been impressed with this idea, for
years, and the impression has been
strengthened lately by the let
ters [ have received and the talks
l have had with readers concern
ing matter of the drainage
to ! IN the Progressive Farmer
has Ii giving some special atten-
tic gently. Agriculture is the
hu. IS upon which every great
business of the world is founded,
and it naturally follows that if
our other great businesses are
builded uppn agriculture as
foundation, the making secure of
this foundation is the most vital
question that cOnfronts the peo-
pie Of the world.
We are feeling the pinch already
In this young country of ours,
that the unbusiness-ike, slack me-
thOds of soil treatment brings.
Our consumers have for the past
ten years been living freely, con
Stunning of the products of our soil
as well paid people can, and I be-
lieve should The result is that the
high cost of living has become al
most a national cry. Had the labor
of our people on the land been pro-
ductice Of only 80 per cent more re
turns-as it could well have been
had the sold and methods of work
been more careful looked to, there
mi sht today have been ali abund-
art provision for all at a greater
profit to the producers. This last
because Of the we'll known fact
that a rich soil worked with brains
and proper tools, will provide q
large crop at less expense than
that required to produce and har
vest small crop from the same
acreage of poor land, by the use
Of un ousinesslike methods.
It : GEMS to the writer that what
the i armers Of all America neec
most to learn is far greater re
gard, love and respect for the soil
They should know that at thi:
stage of our coutry's development
nothing is Of as much importance
as soil Improvement, not alone thu
maintenance of soil fertility, bu
actual soil improvement, thu
steady betterment Of soil condi
tons to meet the needs Of our in
creasing consuming population
their increasing needs and those O
our producers, as civilization pro
crosses AS the world grow olde,
more wants will arise that mus
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-01-12

If your farm machinery is pro-
perly housed and cared for when
idle, there will be no cleaning up
to do; no inspection; no worry
ing about repairs nothing to do
but hitch up, drive to the field
and go to work next spring.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-01-12

Those who are feeding beef cat
tie or dairy COWS will find Janu-
airy no leisure season. The fertili-
ger factory of the farm should be
actively at work turning the for
age that has been grown into beef
and milk and butter, and the stu
dious farmer will find it to his adj
vantage to study what DR.. Butler
is writing about feeds and feed
ing. The man with dairy products
to sell, or the NAH who will have
beef cattle to sell, will not need
to borrow money to start his cot
ton farming in the spring. He will
have cash for hiring hands and
all other expenses, and even if he
makes only the value of his feed
on the market, he will have the
manure for his land as a profit
above the value of the feed, and
the feed will thus be going back
on his land instead of being sold
from it.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-01-12

A broker is man who keeps
others broke to keep from going
broke himself.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-01-12
JANUARY POULTRY WORK.
By Professor ]. S. Jeffrey,
c., Experiment Station


! The demand for eggs for hatch
ing starts this month and if you
expect to sell eggs for Matching
your pens should be mated up at
once. It is best to have fowls mat
ed at least ten days before send
ing out eggs. Do not use any birds
| in the breeding pen that are not
well developed and vigorous.
If you are breeding for increas-
ed egg production it is specially
important to select only healthy,
vigorous stock. Heavy laying and
the feeding necessary for heavy
laying are drain on the vitality
of the hen and unless she is strong
to start with she is not apt to be
good breeder.
Hens that are to produce mar
ket eggs only can be confined in
small quarters and fed heavy ra-
tons with good prospects of sue
cess for a season.
The breeding stock should have
plenty Of room both in the house
and yard and should not be fed
too heavily Or on too stimulating
rations, if the best results are to be
obtained.
Do not buy as breeders hens
that have been forced in their firts
year for egg production. They
have in most cases lived their lives
and should go to the table rather
than to the breeding yard.
Hens that have not been forced
and that have been good average
layers, have shown no predisposi-
ton to the ailments common to
hens and have come quickly
through the moult should be the
best breeders.
Mate with these hens a good
vigorous, early-hatched cockerel
and you should get a good percen.
tage of fertile egg that will hatch
chicks that are strong and likely
to live and grow off rapidly.
Many prefer using a cock bird
instead of a cOckerel, but if the
1 cockeral is well grown and vigor
Gus, better fertility is generally
got early in the season than where
a cock is used.
If the females in the breeding
pen are pullets it is best to have
them mated with cock. The eggs
from pullets should not be useC
for Matching till they reach nor
NAL size.
The first clutch of eggs laid by {
hen will generally give better
chicks than those laid later on, es
pecially if the hen is a persisten
layer.
! Green feed is specially impor
tant for the breeding birds, as i
, keeps them in good health. If 70,
any reason you do not have greer
f feed for all the fowls, special eff
fort should be made to supply i
to the bereding pen.
If there is no crop growing tina
can be. used for this, oats may b
sprouted In shallow boxes. Thi
will give good results, but cost
: more, both in time and money
than having a crop growing 70
the hens and should only be a.
emergency method.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-01-12

Washing a razor hone in hy-
drochloric acid and then in wa
ter, will remove steel particles
which have filled it's pores.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-01-12

The legislature is now getting
down to business.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-01-12

If your implements and machin-
rey have not been cleaned up, you
have plenty of time now to see
that everything is in good order
for the spring work.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-01-12

If there is no crop growing that
can be. used for this, oats may be
sprouted I'm shallow boxes. This
will give good results, but costs
more, both in time and money,
than having a crop growing for
the hens and should only be an
emergency method.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-01-12

Hens that are to produce mar
ket eggs only can be confined in
small quarters and fed heavy ra-
tons with good prospects Of sue
cess for a season.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-01-12

Green feed is specially impor-
tant for the breeding birds, as it
keeps them in good health. If for
any reason you do not have green
feed for all the fowls, special eff
fort should be made to supply it
to the bereding pen.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-01-12

If you are breeding for increas-
ed egg production it is specially
important to select only healthy,
vigorous stock. Heavy laying and
the feeding necessary for heavy
laying are drain on the vitality
of the hen and unless she is strong
to start with she is not apt to be
good breeder.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-01-12

Hens that have not been forced
and that have been good average
layers, have shown no predisposi-
ton to the ailments common to
hens and have come quickly
through the moult should be the
best breeders.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-01-12

The breeding stock should have
plenty of room both in the house
and yard and should not be fed
too heavily or on too stimulating
rations, if the best results are to be
obtained.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-01-12

Do not buy as breeders hens
that have been forced in their firts
year for egg production. They
have in most cases lived their lives
and should go to the table rather
than to the breeding yard.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-01-12

Mate with these hens a good
vigorous, early-hatched cockerel
and you should get a good percen-
tage of fertile egg that will hatch
chicks that are strong and likely
to live and grow off rapidly.