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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-31
PRETTY FLOWERS IN GARDEN
Great Beauty and Fragrance Of Sweet
Peas Make Them Most Popular
Must Have Support.

Sweet pea vines must have good
support. Brush branches suit them
better than anything else, but these
are not always easy to get. A good
substitute for brush is very coarse
meshed wire netting.
AS soon as the plants begin to
bloom begin to cut from them. The
more blossoms you cut off the more
you will have. If care is taken to
remove the blossoms as soon as they
begin to fade, the plants will continue
to bloom until frost comes; but II
seed is allowed to ripen, you will have
but few flowers during the latter part
OF the season
In cutting sweet peas give the fiow-
ers as long stems as possible. Never
crowd them in vase or bowl. Just
bunch them loosely in the hand, and
then drop them into whatever is to
hold them, give 1t a shape. and 10.
your flowers will have arranged them
selves to perfection.
No garden should be without some
sweet pea vines. The great beauty
and fragrance of the blossoms make
them one of the most popular Of flow
ers.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-31
WATER REQUIRED
BY DAIRY COW
Should BE Pure and Fresh and
Easy Of Access to Animal
IN Pasture and in
Baruyard.

Inasmuch as 1t has been proven by
actual experiments that the average
cow will drink 1900 pounds of water
month, great care should be ex-
ercised to provide her with water.
That is true enough, but there are two
other points that need to be also in
cluded.
/. This water should be pure. I'M
pure water Is just as hurtful to the
health and vigor of cow as it is to a
human being. 1t produces disease just
the same. It reduces the amount of
milk the cow would naturally give.
3. The water should be easy of ac-
cess for the cow, both in the pasture
and the barnyard. With large herd
of cows, say 80 to so, 1t is a good plan
to have two or three watering tanks
in the yard, where the cows are wa
tered out of doors. 1t is worth while
also to have man remain in the yard
while they are drinking, to drive the
master cows away from the tanks as
soon as they have drunk their fill. In
turning cows out to drink, 1t is a good
plan to first turn out the underlings
and the most timid ones, giving them
plenty of time to get what water they
want undisturbed. Lots of money can
be lost with herd of cows by being
Indifferent or careless on this water
question.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-31
Establishes Tourist Courses

a headquarters from June Is to July
"a. Those who enroll are expected to
have some knowledge Of Spanish.
The lectures will give especial at
tention to the Spanish epic, to the
lyric as developed in various prov
inces, TO the picturesque and regional
novel and to Cervantes. Other lee
lures will deal with the relations OF
the Spanish language to the French
and Italian; with Iberian, Mozarabfo
and "Mudejar" art and with the po-
litical and social life Of Spain in the
nineteenth century. There will also
be two illustrated lectures surveying
Spanish art.
Each of the lectures on Spanish lit
erature will be followed by an hour
of practical work on the text. There
will also be a special class of Castil.
ian phonetics and daily conversation
classes.
The principal museums Of Madrid
especially the Prado, the Modern Art
museum, the Archaeological museum
and the Royal Armory, will be visited
while excursions will be taken to To-
ledo, Escorial,. Avila and Segovia
These trips will be in the charge OF
DR.. Manuel Cossio and DR.. Manuel
Gomez Mereno, two authorities on
their subjects.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-31

stance, known as honey dew" of
which the ants are very fond. For
this reason the root lice are very well
cared for by the ants, and especially
by one kind of ant known as the 'lit-
tie brown ant" In the fall the ants
take the eggs Of the root aphis down
into their nests and keep them there
throughout the winter. The next
spring. when the egsg hatch, the ants
place the young root lice on the roots
of the common smartweed, or some
other common weed, where the lice
begin to feed Later on, If the ground
be planted to corn, the ants transfer
the root lice from the weeds to the
corn roots.
So the ants care FOR the root aphis.
and in order to fight the root aphis
the farmer must fight the little brown
ant
A deep, thorough stirring Of the soil
on old corn ground will tend to re-
duce injury by the root louise. This
stirring of the soil breaks UP the
nests and scatters the ants. Conse-
quently the ants cannot give the lice
the proper care. The burrows Of these
ants do not often reach to depth OF
more than six inches. If the ground
is stirred at that depth, the attempts
of the ants to recover their property
and reconstruct their nests are rem
dered largely fruitless.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-31

itude to the school boards of its larger
cities.
The more important cities whose
school boards have passed regula-
lions restricting or forbidding high
school fraternities, are Denver, Meri-
den, Shicago, Covington. Ne Or
leans, Lowell, Waltham, Worcester,
Kansas City, Mo-; st. Joseph, Butte.
OKLAHOMA City, Reading, Salt Lake
City, Madison, Milwaukee, Racine and
Superior The commonest penalties
are suspension, expulsion, or debar-
ment from school athletic or other
teams.
The United States bureau of educar
tons report also cites some of the
more important court decisions, every
one of which upholds the school au-
thorities in dealing vigorously with
the high school fraternity, on the
ground that the measures so taken
are authorized as a part of the school
boards discretionary powers. Most
courts cited, however, will not allow
the offending pupils to be barred from
classroom exercises. although they can
be barred from participating IN all
athletic or other contests.
"The high school society will very
likely never win such place in the
American educational system as that
now occupied by the college fraterni-
ty," said William R. Hood of the edu-
cation bureaus division of school adj
ministration. There is no such need
for a high school fraternity; indeed,
among it's most insistent opponents
are many college fraternity men,"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-31

II he is particular he may not be able
to find more than ten hills to his Hk-
ing.
In the springtime these should be
treated by themselves and planted in
a separate patch. The second years
product from the ten hills will be suf-
ficient to plant quite a piece of
ground, perhaps as much as the farm
er desires.
II the farmer wants to follow a
method even better and more accurate
than this, he should plant each OF the
ten hills in little plat by itself.
This requires that each hill will be
sacked separately at planting time. II
the ten plants show up OF about equal
value and all good, 1t is not necessary
to keep them longer separate, but the
product of the ten plats may be
sacked together and saved to plant
the main patch the year following.
If two or three of the ten plats are
of, these should be discarded and the
good plats saved.
If an occasional farmer follows the
method here laid out, he will soon
find that his neighbors will be after
him for seed and they will be willing
to pay him a bonus for them.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-31

Catalpa speciosa is good tree. 1t
makes a post sometimes in eight
years, sometimes in ten. We have so
many better trees, however, that we
don't have to fall back on the catalpa,
says a writer in the Ohio Farmer.
/ have tried a little catalpa to see
what it would do. In some sections
we have chosen the white oak. In
South Georgia we have an excellent
post, when we can get 1t, of long leaf
pine. Where we cannot get that, we
have the loblolly pine. and the short
leaf pine can be used If we treat 1t
with creosote to the amount of Is
cents a post, and it will last Is to 20
years.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-31
GARDEN and
NOTES

Give the earth good seed to work
with.
A silo built Of concrete will pre-
serve silage well.
Truck farming in this country ie
not yet being overdone.
Rye may be cut for hay and used
for all classes of livestock.
Most experienced melon pickers can
tell ripe melon from the looks.
The tool which usually follows the
plow in the course Of tillage Ia the
harrow.
A ten-cent bolt now may save dol
lars worth of time when the rush OF
work comes.
With the exception of the plaw, the
harrow is perhaps the Oldest OF tillage
instruments.
There is no reason why potatoes
should not be cultivated with riding
corn cultivator.
Frequent stirring of the soil Is said
to be a good preventive Of rust form
ing on the cultivator.
A liberal application of ashes to the
soil where cabbage plants are grown
is preventive of clump root.
If the soil leaves the plowshare
shiny and wet, wait day or two.
Wet blowing makes cloddy ground.
In seasons when drought prevails
better stand of clover can be secured
by sowing the seed without nurse
crop.
When moss creeps into the meadows
and pastures they need to be broken
up and the soil exposed to the sun and
air before reseeding.
Teams, wagons or stock passing
over the meadows when they are sofi
and spongy cut the life out Of the 500
and lower the profits
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-31
BETTER HOMES
FOR THE FARMS
The Department OF AgricuItnxe
Establishes a Branch for
Information on House.
hold Topics.

Secretary Wilson of the department
of agriculture has always recognized
the influence for good farming which
flows from an attractive farm house.
and has developed branch Of the de-
Rartment which, through its CORE
spondence and its publications. has
become a bureau of information on
household topics. Bulletins on sub
jects relating to food and to home
making have been prepared which
have had a circulation of more than
10.000.0 900 copies. One of these, The
Economic Use Of Meat in the Home.
reached an edition Of million and a
half copies. At the same time this
branch Of the department has given
special attention to agricultural edu-
cation, assisting states to plan and or
ganize schools. to secure teachers. and
to prepare courses.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-31
Bacteria for Alfalfa Soil.

Alfalfa needs certain kind OF bac'
terra In the soil to give the best re-
suits. These bacteria live on the
roots of the plants, and give of as
by-product the nitrogen which the
plant needs. This is an example OF
cooperation in nature.
In the soils where sweet clover has
grown. these bacteria are usually
present. II they are not, it is some
times necessary to get soil from some
field where alfalfa is growing, OF
some sweet clover soil, and scatter II
over the alfalfa patch. This is called
'inoculating the SOIL
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-31
their home at 1922 Fifteenth street,
Northwest.

LH0lF QOu0 DIT 1OAA E11l06nbu SLIS0L1
Northwest.
The negro ran downstairs, with
Cromwell, clad only in pajamas, snap
ping his revolvers as he pursued.
Bromwell had center-fire cartridges in
his rim-1re revolvers, and no explo-
sion followed the swapping of the
hammers. The negro opened the front
door, ran down a flight of iron steps
and started across the lawn. Again
Bromwell pulled the trigger and this
time there was an explosion.
When the report rang out the fu-
gitive jumped high in the air as
though he had been struck and de-
veloped remarkable speed. The
neighborhood was aroused. windows
few open, and shouts filed the air.
The intruder fed around corner into
Corcoran street, and after running
half block, with Bromwell, barefoot,
in hot pursuit, the negro disappeared
in an alley.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-31
ANTS AID coRN-RooT LOUISE
Little Brown Insects Care for In
furious Aphis Because OF Liking
for Honey Dew"
(By r. L. wEBsTER.)

II you notice your corn plants
dwarfing in patches over the field and
the leaves of such plants turning yel-
low or reddish color, look carefully
around the base of the stalks for ant
hills. If numerous ant hills are found.
you may conclude that the corn-root
louise is sucking the juice from the
corn roots, weakening the stalks and
consequently reducing the yield.
It Is the presence of the ants that
Is the interesting part Of the story.
The root aphis secretes a sweet SUBJ
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-31

bronzes are base alloys; the silver il
pewter; the silk is filled with pow
dered clay.
Silk goods, according to Consul An
derson at Hongkong, are being adult
terated to an extent and in a way
never allowed before, and Japanese
and Chinese goods supposed to be
made from native-worked Japanese or
Chinese silks are partly of American
cotton. Silk hosiery Is sold which is
not only not all silk, but is understood
and otherwise unwearable. Iyories are
Of bone or other imitation. Embroid-
cred screens are made of the fiimsiest
materials glued to last but a day.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-31
FARM CART IS QUITE HANDY
Little Vehicle, Useful for Great Many
Purposes, Is Set on Two Dis
oarded Buggy Wheels.

The illustration shows a side view
of our hand cart which we have used
for ten years. 1t Is on buggy wheels
which are high and yet the box is low
down, writes C. r. Bashore in the
Farm and Home. The axle is an old
buggy axle bent as shown at b. The
box, a, is about four fet long and two
feet high. 1t can be used for many
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-31
TELEGRAPH OF SAVAGE
SENDS NEWS SWIFTLY OVER
GREAT DISTANCES.
Natives OF the Sudan Use Horns OF
Elephant Tusks, Tomtoms and
Whistles - Basutos Employ
Large Gourd Drums.


The principle of telegraphy would
appear to have been anticipated by
the savage tribes of Africa In the
heart of Africa. This barbaric system
of communication, at once practical
and effective, survives to this day
and its value has been tested many
times.
French explorers seem to have been
the first to bring this system to the
knowledge of civilized people. BY
means of it news of important events
in the interior of the Sudan reaches
all the trading ports on the coast in a
very short time.
The communication Is made by
means of various instruments, the
most common ones being horns. TOM
toms and whistles. The horns are
made of solid ivory, followed out of
elephants tusks. The mouthpiece is
at the side. These trumpets are Of
various sizes, but the favorite ones
are very long and give seven distinct
notes, produced by plugging the
mouthpiece with corks, of different
sizes. The ordinary tomtom is hol-
ow bit of wood, with a goatskin
stretched over one end.
The following instance illustrates
the manner in which this native tele-
graph is employed. The post COM
mander at Stanley Falls was once in
formed by a native of neighbor1ng
village that provision train had been
attacked two days before at point
$50 miles further down the Congo. A
week later the party arrived and con-
frmed the story in part
They had reached the scene OF the
alleged attack at the time reported,
but the shots that the natives had Ia
ken as indications of conflict with
robbers had been fired at a herd OF
antelope.
At a later period, when an officer or
the French Congo came to grief in the
rapids, the accident was reported the
next morning at a village 1876 miles
distant.
Among the Bengala tribe a sort OF
xylophone is used with four notes, by
means of which the natives communi-
cate over great distances in kind OF
telegraphic language.
An American missionary working
among the Basutos discovered that the
villages had means of conveying mes
sages from one chief to another or Of
transmitting the intelligence OF defeat
or victory.
The Basutos hollow out large
gourd and thoroughly dry 1t. Then
kidskin, as hard and as thin as parch-
ment, is stretched across the hollow OF
this gourd. When beaten with a pad
ded drum stick this gives forth
sound that can be distinctly heard at
distance of from five to eight miles.
In every village there is class OF
men who are utilized as scouts.
Among these there are always some
trained to use the gourd drum. The
code is what might be called an AT
rican Morse alphabet and is beaten on
the drum in the open air.
The sound is carried across the val
leys and glens to the next village,
where it is interpreted by another
scout. If the message is for dis
tant village he repeats it on his drum
and in this way it is carried from VII
lage to village, with very little loss OF
time until it reaches the person for
whom it is intended.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-31
Handy Farm Cart

purposes and the box can be made
any length and height desired. The
shoe at C, made of heavy scrap iron,
keeps the box level when the cart is
at rest. Two hardwood handles, d,
should be bolted on to push or draw
the cart.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-31
POSTS KEPT FROM SPREADING
by Connecting Rod Placed Be-
meath Surface Of Earth.

Gate posts may be kept parallel YER
tically, without cumbersome braces,
by connecting them beneath the sur
face of the earth with a long rod.
When setting the posts, small rocks
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-31

or bricks should be packed tightly on
the inside of the lower ends, says o
writer In the Popular Mechanics. This
construction will make substantial
brace, which will be out Of sight and
will effectively prevent the posts from
spreading.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-01-26


exhibited this
represented about
A Cook OF
this much enthusiasm the
Orpington breeders created during this show
Rocks, Leghorns, Indian
practically bal
exhibited
APPLIANCES
n While much ice
practically Florida
The above taking into
Especially Red
birds this
Florida
the birds Florida their best
Florida
fine weather the little chicks
December
This a and is only
beginning will Jacksonville
behind this
association it will eventually of the
helping develop
the other Flor
ida attended the Quite
directly interested making their
conditions this exhibition and they
in the Florida
of Poultry
ida, will
backbone will
full list of will be
published in few days of the win & C2no~>2
birds at this show. -E1~@-~--~|
Very truly ~
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-01-26
Sprinn Planting

Oats and Canada field peas are
planted as early in the spring as pos
sible.. One and half bushels each of
peas and oats were planted to each
acre, the seed mixed together and
sown with an ordinary drill. The
crop was cut when oats were in the
dough stage. the peas beginning to
form pods. About nine tons per acre
were harvested from June to July
10, according to the date Of sowing.
This gave time for the land to be
prepared for and planted with barley
and peas or sown with rye. In IA
vorable seasons the peas and barley
furnish forage until in November.
and rye will furnish forage almost all
through an open winter. The rye
averaged six to eight tons per acre,
mbarvested the frs tot May.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-01-26
THE WoRLD's RECORD LAYERS.


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which they laid
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tells this
Two hens at the experiment station the Oregon Agricultural
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This of breeding
Dryden poultry expert for the experiment station tonight I'm
Plymouth
but six although she of the breed and received the
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-01-26
CENSUS BUREAU REPORTS
14,510,G76 BALES GINNED

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2S.-The census bu-
reau's ninth cotton ginning report Of the sea
son, issued at 10 a. m. today, and showing
the number Of running bales counting round
as half bales, of cotton of the growth Of 1911
ginned prior to Tuesday, January 16, with com
parative statistics for last year and other
record years, is as follows:
United States, 14,51O.676 bales, compared
with IL 1858, 147 bales last year. when 81 .S per
cent Of the 1910 crop was ginned prior to
January 10, 12666,2O3 bales in 1909, when
CO.'S per cent Of the 1908 crop was ginned, and
10 767, 800 bales in 1905, when 94.9 per cent
OF the 1904 crop ginned.
Round bales included were 81, 1852, compared
with Ill ,O79 bales in the 1910 crop, 146.31S
bales in 1909. and 232, $40 bales in 1908.
Sea island cotton bales included were 1O9, 592
compared with sc, 424 bales in the 1910 crop,
81, 191 bales In 1909 aud 90, 2S7 bales in 1905.
Ginning by states, with comparative statistics
and the percentage of the total crop ginned
prior TO January is, last year, and in other
record crops follows:
States. Bales. Per cent.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-01-26
BUTTER. CHEESE AND EGGS.

NEW YORK, Jan. 25.-The butter market
was weak. Creamery special, 3sc; ex-
tras. 4Oc; firsts. 36d37l5c: seconds. soas8c:
thirds, 2S629c; creamery held special 37JSc:
extras. 36@36hc; frsts, 32M34c; sec-
onds, 3o931c: thirds, 27Q29c; state dairy tubs.
finest 35637c; good to prime. 30d34c; coms
mon to fair 23@29e: process extras. 25h@
26c; specials. o9@2915c; firsts, 24625c; sec1
onds. 22623c; factory current make, firsts
25c; seconds 211s622c: packing stock held,
% y 624c; do current make No. 2, 24c; pack
ing stock No. 3, 22623c.
Cheese market firm. State. whole
milk full and earlier specials, 16%c; do aver
age fancy. 6h@16%c; state, whole milk win
ter made specials 16Ac; do. average fancy
16c; state whole milk under grades, 14h 916c;
daisies. fall and earlier best, Ice; skins. "a
14Ac.
Eggs market was firm. Fresh gathered
extras, 3T613sc; extra frsts, 35c; flrsts, 33I5c;
seconds. 31633c; thirds and poorer 2s03Oc:
fresh gathered dirties No, 1, &c; No. 2
22G25c; fresh gathered checks, prime, 23@24c;
pc; poor to fair 1S0cOc; refrigerator special
marks. fancy local storage charges paid. 29hc;
do first, 2S630c; do seconds. 2315 d2416c;
do thirds, 2O023c; do poor 1701Sc; do dir
ties, 10000; state. Pennsylvania and nearby
hennery whites. fancy large. new laid. 800 EOc;
do selected whites fair to good, 35d3Sc; near
by whites. small. 30@33c
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-01-26
MARKET REPORTS

NEW YORK. Jan. 25.-Cotton opened steady
at a decline of points, in keeping with
lower Liverpool futures, but the English spot
market showed continued firmness, sensational
advance was reported in the price of Egyp-
ton cotton at Alexandria big spot people
were active buyers on the initial decline here
ana the market soon rallied ON vering OF
shorts or bull support with prices late in the
first hour showing a net advance OF OF
points.
The report Of the census bureau showing
domestic mill stocks of December 81 to have
been 10000 bales less than last year probably
attributed to the advance.
Trading became rather less active late in the
forenoon and prices eased off under scattered
realizing with the market at midday point or
two under yesterdays closing.
Private wires are beginning to come In from
tie south indicating that picking Is being re-
suIned In some sections of the belt, but an ac'
tive demand was reported again this morning
for spot cotton, supposedly for the purpose OF
filling out January commitments which had
been delayed by the bad weather earlier In
the month.
Notwithstanding beaTish advices from the
south regarding resumption of picking and gin
nlng, the market held pretty steady during the
afternoon at about the closing figures of last
night.
Cotton spot closed quiet; middling uplands,
9.65; do. gulf, $50; sales, 100 bales.
NEW YORK COTTON
The following were the ruling prices on the
exchange today:
Tone steady; middling, 65-1Ooc; quiet.