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Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-20

Ing that they are excellent as table
fowls, and come nearer the flavor of
the turkey than any other breed, they
are not popular in our American mar
kets from the fact that they dress a
white skin, and being of dark plumage
show black pin feathers. 1t is the
same with the Houdan and the Orping-
ton.
Strange to say the American people
object to a white skinned carcass in
chickens, and at the same time they
glory over the turkey and the duck,
both of which are white skinned birds.
This prejudice for color of skin is to
be lamented, as many notable breed
is sacrificed for a mere fad.
In the growing of table poultry,
aside from the color of skin, 1t must not
be forgotten that flavor and plump
ness are secured by food, tenderness
by quick growth and lack of exercise.
1t is amusing to see the advocates Of
new breeds advertising the fact that
their production is noted for the flavor
of the meat and the desirable qualities
of table poultry. The truth is that
food and care alone are responsible
for those conditions. We believe that
they can be combined with any breed.
Feed the purest of grains, furnish
tidy quarters for the fowls, keep them
from overexercising themselves, and
fatten quickly, and the carcasses will
be fine in flavor, tenderness and
plumpness. For this reason, yard
raised chickens are always more in
demand than farm raised ones. A
fowl at nine months of age, raised on
farm where it will have unlimited
range, will not be of as good flavor,
nor as tender as a yearling raised in
yards and fed the choicest of foods.
For success in this branch of poul-
Try culture, it is necessary to carefully
study the food question as well as the
sanitary laws. There is money in the
raising of broilers and roasters, and If
it is intended to gain a reputation for
gilt-edged stock, it is important that
goods be produced that are of the first
quslity, and that also present an at
tractive appearance. Appearance goes
a great way in making the sale.
Until the successful manufacture of
ARTIFICIAL methods for Matching and
'earing chicks, market poultry culture
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-20
GETS COTTON CROP cHEAPLY
Three-Acre Field With Assistance
Of Bur Glover.

The clover and vetches are not only
a great advantage to the corn farmer,
as many of our farmers seem to think,
but equally as good for the cotton
farmer, writes ]. A. Boone in the Pro-
gressive Farmer. By sowing the
clover early In the fail, or better still
in late summer at the last cultivation
of the crops, it will make a good
growth by the middle of April, at
which time it should be turned, in or
der to get the land ready for the cot
ton crop.
The cheapest cotton crop l ever
grew was planted after bur clover
the first week in May. This clover
was sown in August at the last cul-
tivation of cotton. BY the middle Of
the following April this clover had
made good growth. With two large
horses and a disk harrow l thor
oughly cut to pieces this clover sod
and then with a two-horse plow, this
land was broken nine inches deep.
then ran over the land again with my
disk harrow to finish cutting up all
turf. Then with my lime spreader
broadcasted 500 pounds of ground rock
phosphate per acre, which cost de-
livered SO per ton. Then / was ready
for my smoothing harrow, after which
ran my rows and planted my cot
ton.
At the time of planting l put 200
pounds Of my own mixing of fertilizer
per acre, which cost me about SIT per
ton. l put as second application
fifty pounds of top-dresser, which was
all the fertilizer this cotton got.
The three-acre field, which was very
ordinary poor land, made me four
bales. weighing about 500 pounds per
bale.
With the aid of weeder and spring
tooth harrow / was able to cultivate
this cotton at a very small cost, as
very little hoe work was necessary.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-20

did not gain much heaaway. Up until
that time the stock on the market was
exclusively produced by hens on the
farms.
Where it is intended to raise mar
ket poultry on a more or less extern
sive scale, it is necessary to use incu-
bators and breeders. To rely upon
hens to do the work is not only uncer-
tain in the production of a quantity OF
stock, but entails considerable labor
in the spring of the year when other
farm work is crowding. Artificial
methods have long since passed the
experimental stage, and with the inn
proved machinery now available, the
farmer can add a winter crop that
gradually may be built up to be one
of the most extensive.
AS a rule, there is an increasing de-
mand in all large cities for good, soft
roasting fowls, at the beginning of the
year. The weights mostly desired
vary from four to six pounds each.
The large eastern markets have
their trade classified as nearby"
meaning stock shipped from all states
east of Illinois; and western" for all
stock coming from states west of ILL
nois. The nearby" goods command
an advance of about two cents a pound
above western" stock.
A former United States secretary OF
agriculture once said: Nothing is
the matter with the American hen,
but something is wrong with the
American farmer" On the average
farm the poultry department is a very
small affair, and often left entirely to
the care of the women folks, who al
ready are overburdened with house
hold duties.
Downright, 1879
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-20
Witness In Trial of Doctor Accused Of
Wife Poisoning Presents Crew.
some Exhibit.

Springfield, O.-Two human hearts
were exhibited in the court room here
before the gaze of the jury and society
folk in the crowded court room in the
trial of DR.. Arthur B. Smith, charged
with poisoning his first wife. Mrs.
Florence Cavileer Smith.
The testimony was offered showing
that the doctor and Miss Mabel Mar
chant, a hospital nurse, formerly OF
Newton Highlands, Mass, now his
second wife, were seen "spooning" IN
a sleeping car shortly after the death
of the first wife.
After almost three days of expert
testimony pertaining to the death of
Mrs. Smith, the state succeeded in in
PRODUCING motive evidence. Several
witnesses we're called to testify as to
the relations between the doctor and
Miss Marchant. whom he married five
months after his first wifes death.
Miss Ora Beck testified that she
saw DR.. Smith and Mabel Marchant
"spooning" in a section of a Pullman
car less than one month after the
death Of the first Mrs. Smith while on
a train en- route to Columbus. When
asked to explain what she means by
"spooning'' Miss Beck said she saw
DR.. Smith holding the hand Of Miss
Marchant and sitting near her as IL
asking her some question. She said
she did not think the matter any OF
her business and paid no further at
tention to it, she testified. Charles
Darner, truant officer. testified he had
seen the doctor and the nurse auto
riding ten days after the death of Mrs.
Smith.
Slipping on a pair of rubber gloves
DR.. H. NJ. Brundage. assistant path
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-20
HUMAN HEARTS SHOWN JURY

ologist for the state, just after court
opened. reached into a suit case and
removed a rubber sack containing the
heart of Mrs. Florence Cavileer Smith.
He took position where the jury
could plainly see him. He described
infinitely concerning the post-mortem
and pathological examinations and
what he and his chief, DR.. J. ]. Coons,
found. The effect was startling. DR..
Brundage exhibited another heart, that
of a man between fffty-five and sixty
years of age, who died of myrocarditis
The jury failed to reach verdict and
a new trial will be held.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-20
MAN EATS HIS GUIDE.
French Trapper, Crazed by Hun
ger, Slew Companion.
Each Awaited Chance to Murder
After Deed Remorse Drove Slayer
Into Waste Of Snow and Ice to
Probable Death.

Buffalo, N. Y.-Wilder than the
beasts which ranged the snow bound
wastes around them, two men sat
penned by the drifts in a prospector's
shack, rs miles north of the Mile
tifty-Three. British Columbia, half
frozen and wholly starving, an Ed
monitor correspondent of the Buffalo
Express writes.
They had eaten nothing but dead
animal skins for a month. AS they
waited and watched for death to stalk
in at the door, the only bit of flesh
visible to either was the shriveled
body of his companion, and each re-
solved to get that at any price.
On the eighth day Henri lie Claire.
a French trapper. caught his compan-
ion, Len Lemieux, Hudson bay COM
pany guide, unaware. plunged knife
into his body and ate
This dread story of the wintry prai-
RE land was scratched with a hunting
knife by LIE Claire on the door of the
cabin before he flung it open to flee
from the company of his slain compan-
ions body and his own mad, remorse-
full raving.
Other guides tramping through the
snow on the way to civilization, saw
the lonely shack which had been occu-
pied by the two men and pounded on
the door for admittance, hoping to
get food and shelter from the wind
and cold. No answer being received
to their knocking. they pushed open
the door and found Lemieux's body.
At first their impression was that
wild beasts had been at the man, but
then the stab wounds were noticed
In addition to the eight In the region
of the heart, there were % in various
parts of the body.
The guides, startled and mystified.
started to drag the body 10 bury It be-
meath rocks in the outer air, when
they saw lie Claire's scratching on
the back Of the door. LIE Claire and
Lemieux started into the north coun-
try in December on an extended hunt
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-20

The silo contest is on; are you "on?'
pluf often goes broke just before
pay day.
big dividends.
competition is the mother of busi-
ness courtesy.
A miss is better than hit when it's
a anigger-head."
Holding on usually gets one farther
than holding up.
The tide that leads to fortune is tied
dovn to business.
A minute of thinking is often worth
whole day Of hard work.
A mans superstitions are like his
.orns-hit 'em, and he yells!
The road to cheaper money passes
the tolLgate of better security.
Longer farm leases will help to
Auild I'D the fertility of the soil
When a man mistakes booze" for
sboost" he is soon at the wrong end of
the ladder.
Heaven helps those who work; those
Who plan generally are able to help
themselves.
The price of success is unceasing
labor-frst to get, and forever after
10 maintain.
Somebody else is getting the bulk
Al the money for nearly everything
the farmer grows.
II will-power could be purchased
IKE gasoline power, probably we
would all be mighty personalities.
Pushing the seeding season over in
10 the growing season is responsible
for many mortgages and some foreclos-
ures
The producers of this country some
day will insist on a square deal, and
when they do they will come pretty
near getting IT,
Your luck this season will depend
very largely on the planning and your
systematic. work throughout the
months OF planting and harvest.
Self-reliance is all right, but indie
pendence is out of the question. No
man gets along in life without the CO
operation and support of other men.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-20
YOUNG ADMIRAL GETS FLEET
Beatty, Who Married a Daughter Of
Field, Takes Charge of British
Dreadnaught Squadron.

Observation-Disclosures David Beat
ty. the youngest officer of his rank in
the British navy, took command of
the First Battle Cruiser Squadron.
which includes the dreadnaught and
super-dreadnaught cruisers. He is
forty-two
He is the second husband of Edith
Field. daughter of the late Marshall
Field of Chicago. She was married In
1891 at Chicago to Arthur Tree, son
of Lambert Tree. and she has a son
by that union. Tree divorced her in
1901 in England for desertion. and she
then became the wife of Captain Beat
ty. a chum of King Edward She has
a son by the second union. who will
share with her other boy the greater
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-20
CRv MICHAEL K. BoYERO

(By MICHAEL X. BOYER)
The road to success in the pToduc-
ton of broilers and roasters, depends
upon the quality of stock sent to mar
ket. Unfortunately, for the cause of
better poultry, the demand is so much
greater than the supply that almost
any kind of a carcass finds sale. But
the prime article will ever command
the preference, and that, too, at a
figure far in excess of that reached
by the ordinary goods.
The practical poultryman must be
up-to-date, and must use every en-
deavor to better his condition.
The words prime" and fancy"
have such an important meaning in
the market reports, that it is well that
the subject be carefully studied. In
the matter of carcasses, more than in
any other phase of the poultry bust
ness, appearance means a great deal
Color, condition and neatness are
prime factors.
Our American buyers want yellow
skin and yellow legs. 1t is our bust
ness W pIOuuCS Ouly SuCu, Jul AAnSl-
lean buyers want plumpness of car
cass and tenderness of meat, and we
are called upon to produce the same.
These facts bring us home to our own
American breeds, the Plymouth Rocks.
the Wyandottes, and the Rhode Island
Reds. They are ideal in our market
requirements. and they must be en-
couraged.
Next in line, under the head of meat
fowls, belong the Asiatics. especially
the Light Brahmas. The Langshans
belong to that class, and, notwithstand-
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-20
MAKING YOUR DREAMS COUNT
prone Who Mods in Sun and Let's
World Rush by Him Has No Place
In the Scheme of Things.

To Members and officials of the
Farmers Union:
Dreamers are all right If they ma
terialize their dreams into something
tangible
Every great progress marked in the
worlds history was born in the dreams
Of some great thinker, who wrought
his dream into concrete form. Dreams
are but the visions of great souls
building ships and railroads and sky
scrapers and threshing machines and
ali the things going into the advance
ment Of humanity.
The farmer boy following his sweat
Ing horse in the furrow of mellow up
turned earth dreams and dreams until
lies horizon lifts and broadens for
him No available statistics are at
hand. but very many of the men who
mark the outposts of the worlds on
ward progress dreamed in the furrow.
Something about the contact with
Mother Earth, the intimate association
with her moods and her brooding heart
begets stamina. character, stability and
deeprooted purposefulness.
So when some foppish young city
chap with tailored suit, polished shoes
and manicured nails sneers at "the
country pumpkin" don't let it disturb
you, for your dreams made possible
bis bed Of ease and wrought the city,
the softcushioned automobiles and
The comforts he enjoys. Moreover, you
are worth dozen of him in doing life's
work. for your bent back, your winkled
and unkempt clothes, your horny hands
and tanned skin result from doing the
hard the humble. but the absolutely
necessary work to keep this old world
turning in its orbit.
But the dreamer drone who mods
IN the sun and let's the world rush by
BIN has no place in the scheme of
lhings We have had hundreds of that
sort In the Farmers union, who sits
down and dreams that everything will
come to him without effort on his part
Then he wakes up and quits because,
as some one has expressed it. they
ant doing anything"
Dream, but turn your dream into
something. c. S. BARRETT.
Chicago III.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-20
RULES FEAT is IMPOSSIBLE
Judge Declares That No Power on
Earth Can Stop a Woman
From Talking.

New York.--A magistrate presiding
in a court of justice went on record
recently as being OF the opinion that
no power on earth could stop a wo-
man from talking. The opinion was
expressed by Magistrate Murphy
when Morris J. Klein. a resident Of
the Bronx, asked Murphy to issue
some order that would silence a wo-
man who lives in an apartment across
from his and who makes the days
and nights hideous by talking and
shouting across the areaway."
ut can't be DONE" declared Muir
ply. II am but a magistrate; have
no supernatural powers. There is no
power under heaven that will keep
quiet woman who wants TO talk"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-20
GIRL SKI JUMPER SAVES TWO
Reseues Friends From Starvation
and Exposure When Lost In
Snowstorn.

New York.-Miss Augusta Christian
sen of Christiania, Norway; Miss EN-
lily Ellertsen of Chicago and Miss Al
ma Tredge of this city arrived on a
Scandinavian American liner recently
The girls are of the attractive outdoor
type, with blond hair. rosy cheeks and
1.-THE figure, and are considered the
best women ski-runners and jumpers
in the world
Miss Tredge and Miss Christensen
had a thrilling experience when they
we're lost in snowstorm in the noun
tains and for three days were COM
PEELED to remain in a small cave.
A large rescue party headed by Miss
EIlertsen reached the girls as they
were on the verge of death from
starvation from exposure.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-20
Attention of Colts Feet.

Don't forget to give the colts feet
attention. Now is when the set of
limbs is determined. There is always
reason for a poor set of limbs. 1t
may be hereditary, but it is generally
carelessness on the part of the own
er who did not keep his feet trimmed
down level with the frog. A colts
feet are continually breaking off and
splitting If they are not attended to
promptly.-Horse Journal
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-20
Time to Clean Up.

Hyou have been allowing the black
berry bushes to grow up in confusion.
mus making it difficult for anybody to
set through the patch at picking-time,
sno at the same time. causing the
PUSHES to be smothered out by the
ssnk growth. it's time for you to
eean up the patch and keep the
bushes In nice. well-kept rows.-M.
coverdell
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-20
LIGHTNING Hunts It's Man.

Gettysburg, Pa.-Lightning struck a
telephone wire here. and travelled
along ii distance Of IL miles be-
fore finding a victim. At Hanover,
G. A. Leach. lineman. strapped by
his safety belt TO the top OF a pole.
was struck and rendered unconscious.
1t was not until some hours later
that the cause of his accident was as
certained.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-20

old, who fell lifeless in the street
while searching for work to buy food
for her invalid husband. Even when
the husband, Edward Webb. eighty
years old, learned Of his wife's death.
he refused to allow himself to be
taken to the Philadelphia hospital
Webb sat in his cellar room. lighted
only by a candle stuck in the neck OF
a bottle, when DR.. T. F. Buchanan. the
district surgeon. called to take care
of him.
mo. will not go to the poorhouse .
he sobbed. I'VE kept out this long.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-20
LIVE AFTER MONTHS DEATH

being massaged show signs OF life,
sometimes reviving completely.
No claim is made that after death
life can be restored, but in many in
stances where life is thought to be
extinct. it is only masked, and 1t re-
mains for the scientists to discover
through experiment whether he is
dealing with death itself or with lat
ent life.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-20
RuIlet for LlttIe Sweetheart.

Danbury, Conn.-Because pretty lit
tie Margaret Sullivan. ten years old,
coyly declared she didn't like him.
Thomas Collins. aged twelve. play
mate. shot her through the arm on
lonely road near here. In court the
girl pleaded that the boy be freed
Thomas frankly confessed he knew
the revolver was loaded. but that he
only meant to brighten the little girl
and make her declare she loved him
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-20
PLIGHT OF AN OLD COUPLE
Pathetic Battle Against Almshouse
Is Revealed by Death
Of Wife.

Philadelphia.-How an old couple
battled for years against the necessity
of going to the almshouse while their
strength declined. their eyes grew dim
mer and sickness overcame them was
revealed recently in the death OF Mrs.
Elizaba.A Webb, seventy-five years
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-20
Poultry Terms.

large rooster means plump,
soN chicken of four or FIVE pounds
Se'sht The broiler weight in March
one and one-quarter pounds each.
= april one and one-half pounds. in
AAy one and one-quarter pounds or
.o pounds Old male birds have a
speeial classification, and DO not come
'Aoes the head of large roasting fowls.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-20
Deep Garden Flowing.

The roots of many flowers and vege-
tables reach down very deep in the
soil if they have a chance. Hence. it
is always a good plan to pillow or spade
deeply, and work into the soil a liberal
quantity of decomposed fertilizer
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-20
SiIage From an Acre.

A yield of twelve tons of silage
may easily be obtained from one
acre of corn. Allowing thirty pounds
of silage as daily ration, one acre
of corn will furnish four COWS with
silage for two hundred days.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-20
Don't Sell Brood Sows.

Donl sell your brood sows because
~. INSULTS are high. Many are doing
~ ~ ana the result will be that the
s.'ee Tor good brood sows will in a
49, months be as high as an 1S-slory
o'ace building
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-20
Cleansing Crop.

Glover is a cleansing crop; its dense
growth shading the land and. keeping
it moist is favorable to the germina-
ton of seeds but prevents the young
plants from reaching the light
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-20
Weight Of Hogs.

The average weight of hogs is de
creasing every year. Some markets
will not take a heavy hog at all un
less it be in the dead of winter.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-20
unusul Accident.

Mrs. Church@Hear about the &C
cident on the train my husband was
mixed up in today?
Mrs. Flatbush-Why, MOI What
was It?
The car window opened the first
time he tried it."
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-20
Pigs Asset.

At five months of age the pigs most
valuable asset is about 120 pounds. of
boae and muscular development, aided
and supported by keen and natural
appetite.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-20
Care of Machinery.

The care of farm machinery while
idle is of just as great importance as
care while in use. Most farm ma
chinery is idle 95 per cent. of the
time.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-20
Calves in Stanchions.

The calves should be confined in
when fed, and so fixed that
they cannot suck ears. Give them lib
erty after they have eaten their dry
feed.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-20
YOUNG Nearo Hurled to Death.

Bolton. VA negro youth. about
nineteen years old. was hurled into
the Winooski river, near here. and
drowned. The boy was an unwilling
participant in the game of snap the
whip" which four other negroes re-
sorted to in trying to make him con.
fess the theft of their dinner pals.
The boy denied the theft. and they
tried to force a confession.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-20
Important Lequme.

Soy beans will become one of the
most important legumes when it's ad-
Vantages are better understood. Try
soy beans.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-20

and will keep on fighting. She would
never want me to go there"
From neighbors. it was learned that
the old couple had lived in the cellar
several years.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-20
TranSpIanting Strawberries.

Success in transplanting strawberry
plants depends, first, on the quality
of the plant, and, second. upon the
time and manner Of doing the work
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-06-20
Nitrogen and HumuS.

"argen and humus can be sup
-, 80 % the growing tree by such
'Ds as cowpeas, vetch or clover.