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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-04-21
WOODSTOCK

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WOODSTOCK. VA. April ga
simple ana beautiful home wedding
was soIemnized Thursday morning at
o'clock at tho home OF tho brides
parents on South Muhlenoerg street.
when Miss Margaret Gregory. the
youngest daughter OF M. and ,d,s.
James H. Bowman. was 3osnsd in
marriage to Robert Gray Sanders. OF
smithleid. n. c.
Or. W. s. Hammond. OF the Meth
odist church. performed the ceremany.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sanders took the train
for q bridal trip including New York
city and Schenectady. where they
will visit the brides sister. after which
they Will make their home In Smith
field.
Among the out-of- town guests was
Miss Ethel Sanders. sister OF the
groom. Of Smithfleld.
An elaborate wedding reception
was rendered the bridal party and
guests Wednesday evening.
Miss Rebecca Paxton. accompanied
by her parents Mr.. and Mrs. J. G.
Paxton. left Thursday morning for
Charlottesville. where Miss Paxton
will undergo a. surgical operation for
appendicitis. at the University hos.
pital.
Miss Eleanor Grahili has returned
from a BRIEF visit to Mrs. Dudley
Staples. Of Harrisonburg.
Miss Mary Kneisiey has returned 10
her home in Strasburg. after visit
to her grandmother. Mrs. Frances
Kneislcy.
Miss Claire Irwin has returned from
visit to her sister Mrs. Richard
HOFFMAN. OF Toms Brook.
Mrs, Harvey p. Miller and children,
OF Washington. are guests Of Mr.. and
Mrs. John D. Boyer. on South Muh-
Misses Msdge Funkhouser ana
Louise Gibbs were visitors In Har.
risonburg this week.
Mrs. J. d. Grabili and Mrs r. NJ
Fravei were called to Mt. Jackson
Thursday by the death OF their uncle.
| Linden Allen.
A. n. Chaplin. A. w. Nicodemus. Jr.,
and Mr.. Sacks. OF Washington. with
State Health Department, Of Rich.
,mond; -!nspected the. Cha min Sxcks
plant in this place this week.
Mrs. =. "A. McMurraY 10 I'll At her
home at the Manse on North Church
street.
Miss Ethel Sanders has returned tc
her home in Smithficld. N. c.. after
attending the wedding OF her brother,
which took place In Woodstock last
Thursday morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. p. n walton. have re.
turned from Baltimore. whore tAa1
hare been spending the past SIX
weeks.
M-s Jos MofTet has returned From
Florida. whore she spent the winter.
G.. n. Irwin, who has charge Of
drug store In Logan. w. Va. II spend.
ing this week with hts family.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-04-21
SCOTTSBURC

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SCOTTsBURG, VA, April 20
The Royal Ambassador Society gave
an advertisement party Friday even
ing in the school auditorium. Each
. boy and girl came dressed to repre-
sent some advertisement. Miss Pat
tis Ryiand won first prize. represents
ing a Red Cross nurse.
The Domestic Science Club will
have an exhibit under the auspices
of the league In the school building
. Friday evening. May 3. An inter-
esting program has been arranged.
]. III. Binford will speak. There will
be a debate and two spelling matches.
A play. Hearts and Dial..onds."
will be presented hero Monday even
ing. April ~. by Glover talent. The
proceeds go to the school league.
Misses Ruth Lacy and Lanicr VIM
Dish. of the Woman's College, Rich
mond. Va. visited their parents here.
Miss Mary Dunn has returned from
trip to Henderson and Lew!sburg.
n. c.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jere I.oveiace and
children. Of Keysville. were guests Of
friends in town last week.
]. NJ. Lacy. who underwent an OPP
Grafton at Grace Hospital In Rich
mond several days ago. 10 slowly Inn
proving,
Miss Katherine Saunders spent the
week end at do Well" in Charlotte
county,
Miss Ethel NcKanney Ia at home
after teaching the past winter at
Roddon,
Mr., and Mrs, Fiddle, Of Rocky
Mount, Ca, vera recently guests Of
the lAttes's MISTER. Mrs 4suss VIM
banh.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-04-21

She toesn't care whether she keeps
up appearances or not. She loves
babis and doesn't consider large
family an affliction. She is the old
fashioed woman with some of the
old-fashioned graces. She is a
remnant of the romantic age tossed
into the lap of the impatient present.
Think of the women you know
and you will soon remember the
spangled net woman. She is DASH
Ing, glittering person. but like tho
fiimsy. sequin sown net, she soon
wears shabby. An honest dressmak-
er will tell YOU that unless your
wardrobe is a large one, 1t Is extra
vagantto spend your money for a
spangled gown. IT'S snowy but
won't last" says the dressmaker ana
her words would be a suitable epi-
taph for the glittering woman
There's silk woman, too, wo-
man of delicate texture and sensi-
tive nature. At glance we may
fancy that she will not wear and per-
haps she won't, but silk differs.
There's sleazy sort that isn't worth
making up. Usually 1t has shining
surface and little bdoy, still there
are silks Of little or no iustre that
have exquisite pliancy and lacc-like
softness, and yet a most stubborn
hold upon their soft-fixered lives.
Pleasing to the eye. soft to touch,
they are of almost infinite durability.
OF these stuffs are made ideal
wives
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-04-21
WOMEN LIKE CLOTH
By ADA PATTERSON

is a good blue, or brown. or green.
The tears that life bring do not cause
her eyes TO fade. illness and years
make little difference IN that rudy
bloom of her cheeks. Her lips keep
their freshness through many year.
The spirit wears on and on. undimin-
ished to the end.
There's chiffon woman. soft and
delicate and exceedingly perishable.
She is an ornamentai woman. a man
drapes her in delicate folds about his
life. and that the winds OF the world
soon whip her into tatters Is quite
what he should have expected. Chiffon
Is exquisite. but no one expects II
to endure the changes Of weather or
the dust storm. nor does anyone ex-
pect that its color Should remain af-
ter the unexpected hurry Of cinders
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-04-21

Every woman is like piece of
cloth.
There is a broadcloth woman, fine
and strong of texture. and for one
season after another wearable. She is
a substantial woman. OF practical con-
ventional spirit. II she were a horse
or a dog she would be a thorough
bred She In good all through. this
broadcloth woman, good to look at.
but especially GOOD to wear. Like
broadcloth. her colors are fast
1T does seem thar the longer you
wear this suit tho better it looks
said a visiting maid as she laid down
the whiskbroom. fiicked the last bit
OF lint OF the sleeve or a Jacket. and
hung it back in q closet. "Its gooc
blue.
So with the broadcYoth woman. She
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-04-21
THE WELL DRESSED MAN
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DEAUNAsH
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initials. nre dainty and inexpensfys
trifies for the pocket. In brass 2
novel smoking-table ornament con-
sits Of a matchstand and cigar CUT
ter combined in one. 1t has been
found that cigars, when carried IN :
leather case. are prone. from clos
contact. to absorb the odOr OF the
leather. There ID a new pocket
humidor." which. being very nat.
takes up little room and keeps the
bouquet of the tobacco intact.
The kit bag. which has supplanted
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-04-21

Followers of fashion arc impressed
with the wane OF the unbendingly
formal spirit that used to govern. af-
ternoon dress. There is much less
attempt at a "Sundayfiald" appear
ance. The tsately frock coat Is seen
10 little nowadays. as to maze its
wearer noticeable. while the braided
eutaway, long sort of mongrel,
. 'alf-and-alfv coat. has stepped to
first place.
Doubtless. this change Is to he
credited to the speaking wish to
dress comfortably above all things
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-11-22

By w. G. PALMER, Agricultural Ed
tor, North Dakota Agricultural Col
lege)
1. Crop Rotation Is Crop co-opera-
ton.
Rotation includes crops that pre-
pare the land for the next crop. In
continuous grain-growing, weeds, in
sects and plant diseases are encour-
aged. Wheat, not being a fighter like
these, gets the worst of the battle.
Letting weeds grow in grain is like
feeding hog and lamb in the same
trough. H. Worst.
2. Crop Rotation Keeps Up Fertility.
Alfalfa and clover enrich the soil
in nitrogen and humus. Grasses add
humus. Corn makes plant-food avail
able. Manure is the best fertilizer.
8. Crop Rotation Eradlcates Weeds.
The cultivation given corn and po-
tatoes kills weeds. Alfalfa, grasses
and clover crowd OUT weeds and pre-
vent their seeding.
a. Crop Rotation Eliminates Plant
Diseases and Insects.
Each plant-disease lives on GER
tain crop. Rotation removes that
crop for few years, so the plant
disease starves out. Insects likewise
prefer certain crops
8. Crop Rotation Saves Moisture.
The cultivation given corn and po-
tatoes saves moisture. The humus
added by alfalfa, grasses, clover and
manure increases the waterhoIting
capacity of. the soil The enriched
soil has more concentrated solution
of plant-food, consequently the plants
need less water to make given
growth.
6. Crop Rotation Decreases the Drift
ing of the Soil.
The humus added by the alfalfa,
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-11-22
RECIPE FRAUD IN THE SOUTH
Individual Making Money by Selling
Farmers Formula ObtainabIe at
Experiment Stations.
(By B. E. Lara.)

A shrewd fellow who lives in the
south where a great deal of COM
nercial fertilizer is used is adyertis-
ing recipe for fertilizer. He charges
SO for it, and the recipe simply tells
them what ingredients to use and how
to mix it. He claims to have a patent
on the recipe, but this is denied by
the patent office. The fact is. any
state experiment station will give to
farmer of the state any number OF
recipes and tell him how to mix them
II he cares to make his own fertilizer.
This looks great deal like fraud
to me. Any recipe that this man sells
can certainly be of no value to farm
ers, because any man can mix a com
mercial fertilizer and does not have
to ask anybody's permission to do it.
have no doubt that this man has
made great deal Of money through
his scheme because it seems that there
are always plenty of people ready to
bite at any bait held out to them no
matter how much of fraud it may be
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-11-22

the creosote is forced into the wood
by atmospheric pressure, to take the
place of the air and water that have
been forced out.
This forms shell of creosoted
wood from one-eighth of an inch to
two inches in thickness around the
post that effectively excludes moisture
and prevents the entrance of fungi
The simplest form of treating tank
would consist of an iron tank four
feet high and about three feet in
diameter, set up over brick fireplace
with a stove pipe smoke stack Such
an outfit would cost about $12 or SIS.
Often an old iron boiler can SO
found that will answer the purpose
bottom to set up over an opeE fire,
Such tank, however, can be utilized
and heated by means of d three-inch
U tube. In this case, since the cres-
sote is very inEammable, it should b.
shielded from the open fire. IG esther
case false bottom should hs tslased
in the tank for the posts to Yea pen
SICOoOIS COSIS lICut lf~soTu 10 tWSu-
ty cents a gallon in Afty gallon bar
rels, the cost varying with the loca-
ton, transportation facilities, etc. A
gallon of creosote should treat three
or four posts or more, depending upon
the kind of wood, some woods absorb
ing the creosote more readily than
others. To a farmer who furnishes
his own labor, the cost should not be
above six or eight cents a post.
The advantage of preservatasS
treatment lies in the fast that it per
mits the utilization of material for
fence posts from the woodlot, or OF
material that can be purchased at a
low price, which ordinarily could not
be used for this purpose. Such posts,
even with the cost of treatment added
will amount to less than the original
cost of durable post. AS to length
of life, well creosoted post of per
ishable wood will outlast by many
years the most durable, fence post.
Posts that ordinarily last but three or
four years in the ground can be made
to last over twenty years by preserv-
inf the wood from decay.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-11-22

man 81 per day, the teams 81 per day
and the crew and machine So per
hour, running time OF course, this
Is not the exact cost for there are
numerous conditions that we cannot
allow for, but taken one year with
another believe that seventy cents a
ion is fair average for the cost of
cutting the corn and filling the silo
When it is possible we fill one silo
Saturday and allow it to settle over
Sunday and fill the other Monday
and then place woven wire fence
around the one that is filled first and
refill to the top of the fence so that
when the ensilage settles it will be
as near full as possible, and after
this we refill the other one in the
same way.
For a few days we make a praoA
tice of keeping the edges packed down
and lose but small amount of ess-
silage. When it is porsable for a
man to exchange help tho cash cost
of filling may be greatly reduced, but
my figures are based strictly on a
cash basis, bringing everything done
by outside labor.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-11-22
PRoLoNGINe LIFE OF POSTS
Cheapest and Most Effective Sub
stance for Preserving Wood Has
Been Found In Creosote.
1Rx ]. A. rERausoN.l

The most effective method of pre-
serving fence posts is to thoroughly
impregnate the outer layers of the
wood with some substance that will
poison the wood and deprive the
fungus plant, which destroys the
posts, of its food.
Many substances have been used
for this purpose, but the cheapest and
most effective is creosote, or dead
oil of coal tar, formed as by-product
in the manufacture of coal gas. 1t is
not only poisonous to the fungus
plant, but being an oil, it also tends
to exclude moisture from the wood.
The treatment is best carried out
by the so-called open tank method"
Thoroughly seasoned posts are heated
for several hours in hot creosote and
then allowed to cool down in cold
creosote.
When the posts are heated in hot
creosote the high temperature causes
the air and water in the wood to ex-
pand so that portion of this air and
water is forced out. When the posts
are then placed in cold creosote, the
air and water left in the wood con-
tract. forming a partial vacuum; and
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-11-22
H0MINY is EXCELLENT FEED
Than Cornmeal-Results of
Trials at Indiana Station.

The high price of corn in recent
years has caused many farmers in
the vicinity of hominy mills to resort
to the use of hominy feed for fatten-
ing hogs Such large number of
inquiries have been received by the
experiment stations in regard to the
comparative value of hominy feed and
corn for hogs. that series of trials
was planned In order to secure reli-
able data on the subject.
The result of these trials in Indi-
ana are as follows:
/. Hominy feed must be considered
as a substitute for and not supple
ment to corn
2. Hominy feed, like corn, should
be supplemented by some feed high
in protein content such as tankage,
linseed oilmeal, shorts, milk, etc. in
order to secure the most rapid and
most economical gains.
s. Hominy feed produces more rap
Id gains on hogs than does cornmeal.
4. Hominy feed produces gains on
less grain than does cornmeal.
S. AS a general rule, the high cost
of hominy feed binders its more gen
eral use as hog feed and prevents
It's economical substitution for corn,
except when the latter is very high in
price
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-11-22

grasses. clover and manure holds the
soil-grains together. This prevents
drifting, just as the bunch of shingles
will not blow, but when the. band i'd
cut the wind carries the shingles away
one by one.
7. Crop Rotation With Live Stock
the Most Profitable.
In feeding crops to stock the pro
duct secured is worth from twice to
The capital, work and expense needed
in feeding the crop is not as great as
that required in producing it. From
this it is plain that the most profitable
part of farming is stock-raising.
8. Crop Rotation Distributes Work
In grain-growing the work lunches
This makes the labor expensive, in
efficient and hard to secure When
crops are, rotated the work is spread
over longer season. Competent help
is then more easily secured at reason.
able prices.
9. Crop Rotation Is Crop insurance.
Rotation Of crops brings increased
returns and returns every year, favor
able or unfavorable, and continuously
through the year In grain-growing
the returns grow less and come only
at threshing time Some years thresh-
ing time never comes
10. Crop Rotations Better Returns.
Necessitate more manufacturing,
more transportation, more banking,
more merchandising, more professions
al work.
Keeps more boys and girls on the
farm, and brings better farming, bet
ter roads, better homes, better living.
The products of the farm are the
foundation and measure of commerce,
industry, prosperity and happy homes.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-11-22
WAY OF FILLING sILO
First See That Huge Tank Is in
Good Condition.
Expensive to Stop All Hands to Do
2 Little Tinkering That Should
Have Been Done at More
Favorable Opportunity.
(Ry w. M. Kelley

Before it is time to fill the silo 1t
should be examined and if a stave silo
the hoops should be frightened and
the doors numbered SO that each door
will fit properly in it's place as soon
as the silo is filled up that far All
of these things should be attended
TO before the crew and machines be-
gin to work, for It makes an expensive
delay to stop all hands and do lit
tie tinkering that could as well have
been avoided by a little work at some
more favorable time. We figure that
1t costs us about $50 or $40 a day
when we are filling our silos and plan
to make every mans time count as
much as possible.
We make practice of starting one
corn binder cutting the day before
filling time and then keep two binders
cutting while the corn is being run
into the silo We do not like to get
too much corn on the ground before
we begin filling, owing to the danger
of rains and unfavorable weather
When the corn is convenient to the
silo we employ four teams to haul
the corn to the cutter and four extra
men in the field to hand the bundles
up to the drivers. One man is kept
at the cutting machine to assist the
feeder and to save the strings that
are used to bind the bundles. This
we do as a matter of precaution more
than to save the strings for there
have been numerous instances where
rows have been injured by eating the
strings after they have been run into
the silo.
Two or three men are kept inside
the silo to keep the outside edges
packed and to distribute the ensilage
over the surface properly. With
good working crew of fourteen men
besides the crew with the engine and
cutter one hundred to one hundred
and twenty tons a day is a good days
work. Of course, the exact cost of
filling will depend upon how every
thing works and how the men are
arranged SO that they can do the most
work in the easiest manner None
but good men should be sent into the
field to hand bundles onto the load.
I find that on figuring everything
On strictly cash basis it costs about
seventy cents a ton to harvest the
ensilage crop, that Is, allowing each
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-11-22
IN LONELY CORNERS
Scouts of Science Seek Strange
Places Of the Earth.
American Institutions Spend Vast
Sums in Exploration and Send
Their Men to the Darkest
Spots Of the Globe.

New York.-Up on the fifth or office
floor Of the American Museum Of
Natural History, just opposite the eles
vators. is bulletin board, on which
are painted fifty or sixty names or
persons actively connected with the
institution, all of them well known
and many of them famous through
out the scientific world. Opposite
each name is little movable block
of wood which shows whether the
owned is in or out
Inquiry discloses that some of the
outs are not far away, but that
many of them have been absent
long time; that they are in the lonely
corners of the earth and that they
are not likely to be in for another
year or two. These scouts of science
come and go at long intervals, but
there are so many of them connected
with the museum that every month
or so some one marks his departure
or arrival on the board.
AS a matter of fact such institu-
tons as the American Museum of Nat
ural History, the Field Museum in
Chicago, the National Museum at
Washington, and various European
institutions are doing the largest
share of the geographic exploration
of the earth just at present The
plan that each follows is usually the
same.
First they send out one man alone,
or two together, to penetrate some
remote region about which nothing is
known. This is really scientific
scouting party. The instructions are
to move as quickly as possible, but
to make a thorough survey of the
scientific possibilities of the country
When the scouts come back and re-
port then a large expedition is fitted
out, arrangements being made for il.
to stay in the field several years. The
scou,s do not accompany this ex-
petition. They are off on another
reconnaissance in some other distant
part of the world
Within the last year or SO, for in
stance, the Museum of Natural His
tory sent e. O. Hovsy to the West In
dies and thence to the chihuahua dis
trict of Mexico to study volcanoes. 1t
sent Henry E. Champion on three e4-
petitions to Tahiti and the South Sea
islands, and later to British Guiana
and Mount Roraima. Frank M Chap
man has covered more than $4,000
miles in collecting materials for the
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-11-22
zyyneJIsAl9IJ,ERAL
EKRMllN0rBEsS

You cannot get a 5000 colt from,
SIS stallion service.
Fall is the critical period with the
careless sheep raiser
Oats are fine rations for the ewes
until after Landing time next spring
The fall rains and suns will very
soon put pillow left in the field to
the bad.
Bullets are the best known cure for
persistent sheep-killing dogs. The
sooner the remedy applied the better
Have you found 200-egg hen yet?
Well, you never will if the lice and
mites are thick in your poultry house
Live stock is hard ON the fences
during the summer months Go over
all the lines and mend the breaks
now.
1t takes pretty good blacksmith
to point pillow properly and unless
one has the knack and skill better
not try it.
The wise and prudent shepherd
knows that his sheep require and
greatly relish salt every season of the
year, winter included
Do not imagine that cold weather
win discourage the lice on the pigs
Better kill the pests now, and then go
at them again a month later.
Apple orchards ought to be sprayed
three times year and when it
comes to taking care of 500 to 1000
trees it will readily be seen that it is
no small undertaking.
Never buy a dairy COW that shrinks
and shows signs of fear when her
owner approaches-unless you simply
want to rescue an animal from the
ownership of Z brutal man.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-11-22
Reclearing Old Fields.

There are many old fields that have
been thrown out years ago and have
so grown up with scrub timber, green
briers and other filth that it looks to
be almost an impossible undertaking
to reclear them.
If it is undertaken to kill them by
grubbing out the briers and brush it
is indeed hard job, and the briers
will sprout for years, but if the brush
is hacked down and let dry, then
burned over, the land can be effect,.sl.
ly cleared by pasturing it with cattle
and shep.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-11-22
WEAVING Pigs.

The most critical period in pigs
life is at weaving. Therefore | begin
this as soon as the little fellows will
eat, says a writer in an exchange. |
build pen in the field SO that only
the sucking pigs can get in, and by
feeding them this way for several
weeks prior to separating the pigs
from their mothers they can be very
easily weaned and not check their
growth at all. prefer leaving the
pigs In the field where they have been
and removing the sows. for the pigs
are accustomed to the surroundings
sad will fret less.