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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-09

operating in larger measure than ever
before. The plans have two parts, the
former intended to carry forward work
while the latter is being perfected The
earlier plan contemplates simultaneous
canvass for money. The dates that will
probably be fixed upon are March and
April, 1914. and IL is certain that all forms
of missions. local. home and foreign. will
be given equal emphasis. The unity of
action and emphasis has never been seen
in America or any other country, unless
it be Australia and Canada. In which
countries a good many experiments in
militant Christianity have recently been
successfully tried out.
The second part of the missionary plan
is the organization of laymen by cities,
who shall be charged with missionary
responsibility not for money only. but
for men; men for mission fields and for
the ministry at home. When organized
and trained, it is reckoned that these lay
men, cooperating with the ministers, win
themselves do the propaganda work of
missions at home, and so enable the So
cieties to bestow all of their energies upon
work in the fields. The saving in ex-
penses will be enormous, it is promised.
Already in few cities considerable prog
ress toward this new efficiency In mis-
sions has been made.
Catholic priests of the United States, in
large numbers, are planning ptlgrimages
to Rome In May, the month this year
when the vatican will receive the largest
pilgrimages. and make the pilgrims a
part of the Constantine celebration. A
good many st. Vincent de Paul members
and their friends will start week ear
lier and stop in Paris to attend CEN
tennial service of the death of Frederic
Czanam, founder of the Society of St
Vincent de Paul. There is also to be a
conference on the society's work through
out the world. The dates are April 26
and q. The pope has just appointed Car
dinal Vannutelli-the younger of the two
brothers of the name in the Sacred col
lege-to be his special representative.
st. Vincent de Paul members are found
in almost all dioceses in this country and
Canada. There are two provinces for
English speaking Catholics, and one for
Polish, the headquarters of two of them
being Philadelphia and of the third Per-
ryvile Mo. In parish service and con-
ference are to be held in the famous
Lazzarists chapel. Special rates of travel
the entertainment in Paris and
Rome have been. made for priests in
this country. Cardinal Lucon, Archbis-
hop of Rheims, will be the celebrant of
the pontifical mass at the memorial SER
vice for the Vincentians founder
Twenty-Five Episcopal churches in the
Borough of the Bronx, New York city,
have just voted to hold a church social
week, April % to 81 with supplemental
group meetings on the Wednesday nights
in May. 1t is the first such week to be
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-09

From Pearsons Weekly.
Excited Lady tat the telephone): Num-
Der, please?''
Telephone Girl from exchange): How
many do you think I've got, you i'm
pudent thing?'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-09
LIVE Church NEWS
OF WHOLE WORLD
Missionary Leaders Making
Comprehensive Plans
CHURCH SOCIAL WEEK
First Affair of Its Kind to Be Held
by Bronx Episcopal Churches.
Many Priests Are Going
to Rome
CHURCH SOCIAL WEEK

New York, March Especial .)-Mission-
ary leaders have in hand Just now the
most comprehensive plans they have ever
put forth. These leaders are both Protes-
tant and Catholic, and the former are CO.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-09

The Catholic church in France, since
the separation law, has developed young
lawyers and bank clerks. tradesmen and
artisans, along lines familiar to the Cath
olic church in this country. There have
been set up schools that are teaching
social SERVICE Sunday school and boy
welfare. Congresses or conventions Of
young men have been held. and there
has just been started monthly periodical
that In aim and appearance is like the
Catholic Young Mems union organ here
These congresses are strongest in Paris
but have been held in fully dozen prov
iIlcial vities.
In France today the church that once
was part of the state is now legal
outcast. That Is. while Catholics may
build churches and are doing SO, they can
not legally own them, as they may own
other property. Yet 15 new parish
churches In the suburbs of Paris alone
have come into existence within three
years, and more are projected. Under
the concordat, when the Catholic church
was Supported by the state, new parishes
and new churches were refused, and
church extension in suburbs of cities was
of by the church authorities themselves
has now come with separation.
Priests and even bishops are cut off from
support by the state, while budgets made
by authorities frighten the faithful, who
are not falling readily into self-sup-
porting hierarchy, and are unmet by half
and more Yet priests are forming teach-
ing staffs for colleges, are bringing
pafochial schools on the American plan
into existence, and are even founding
hospitals and institutes rather than use
such money as is given them for their
own support. The progress on independ-
ent lines already making surprises even
the vatican itself.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-10-14
FLASH ES
OFF THE WIRE

Paris, Oct. 11.-Mrs. Emmeline
Pankhurst, militant suffragette, sailed
for the United States.
Washington. Oct. 10.-Representa.
tive Goulden introduced q resolution
naming October IL Discovery day"
and setting 1t aside as a national holt
day. On this date, 1892, Christopher
Columbus discovered America.
Washington, Oct. 10.--Secretary of
the Navy Daniels rejected the bids of
the Carnegie. Bethlehem and Midvale
Steel companies for the armor plate
for battleship 80, now being built at
the New York navy yard, on the
ground that the prices are excessive
and the bids identical.
Madrid. Spain, Oct. 1o.-President
Raymond Poincare of France, who Is
now visiting King Alfonso at Madrid,
declined to attend gala bull fight
which had been arranged in celebra-
ton Of the Franco-Spanish festivities.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-10-14

every day in the year on farm prod
ucts, makes it possible for him to uti-
lize three times as much land as the
average farmer in such q way that his
productiveness rapidly increases in.
stead of wearing out about Is acres
at the time and keeps the cotton money
at home, but as James j. Hill says, our
prime object in adopting a system Of
farming. should be to increase the
fertility of the SOIL
The wise farmer should always
strive to grow that crop or crops
which extended over long period will
possess the greatest money value. BY
this do not mean that farmers should
be so shortsighted as to sacrifice the
fertility of their lands and future
wealth for immediate returns.
Now, it has been found by actual
tests on experimental plats that on a
definite area, say 20 acres, that it is
possible to produce as much cotton in
ten years by practicing three-year
rotation of corn and peas, oats fol.
lowed by peas and cotton, as 1t is
possible to produce by planting the
entire 20 acres in cotton every year
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-10-14
SEVERAL HURT IN TORNADO
Storm Sweeps Across Nebraska, Near
Broken Bow, WreckIng Build
ines and Killing Stock.

Broken Bow, Neb., Oct. 11-Ant Oc-
tober tornado tore its way through
Custer county on Thursday, striking
Broken Bow, the county seat, a glanc-
ing blow, and doing only minor dam
age here, but wrecking many buildings
and injuring number of people in the
country districts. So far as reported.
no one was killed. In the McCaslin
home, eight miles north Of Broken
Bow, two members of the family were
injured. Several men members Of Ar
thur Bevington's family near the town
of Sargent were hurt, how seriously
Is not known.
Many horses, cattle and hogs wert
killed by the storm, and the property
loss is believed to be heavy.
The town of Sargent is reported to
have been in the direct path of the
storm and badly damaged, but nothing
definite has come from there. Near
Lodi many houses and barns were de-
stroyed, but 1t is believed there was
no loss of life nor serious casualties.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-10-14

81. That in all cases where any pig,
shoat or hog shall die of the disease
commonly called hog cholera or any
other disease, it shall be the duty OF
the owner or owners of such pig, shoat
or hog, or the person or persons hav
ing the care or custody of the same
having knowledge of the fact or upon
receiving notice thereof, to cause the
carcass of same to be burned within
twelve hours or securely buried two
and one-half feet deep.
"2. Any person or persons failing
and refusing to comply with the above
provisions shall be deemed guilty of 6
misdemeanor and upon the conviction
thereof shall be fined in sum not les:
than ten nor more than fifty dollars.
Approved by the Governor. Marcel
IA, 1872"
During the outbreak of cholera
some farmers pay little attention tt
| this law, and as none of their neigh
bors complain to the proper authori
| ties, the law is not enforced. Hogs
which die from cholera and are al
lowed to remain On the ground, will
| infect whole community. The above
law should be complied with, in ordel
| to protect the interests of others.
Burning is the best method Of de
! stroying cholera carcass. two
! trenches, Is inches wide, should b.
dug so that they intersect at RICH
angles. Across the intersection, place
iron bars to support the carcass, ant
wood can be fired in the trench be
meath the carcass. To facilitate thu
destruction of the carcass, coal oil car
be poured into the abdominal cavitie:
of the carcasses. This method il
much preferred to burying, for there
is always danger that the carcass will
be removed and brought to the grount
surface. When hogs that die from
cholera are buried on farm, there ii
constant danger of an outbreak of thu
disease for years after. The grea
loss from hog cholera in this state will
not be checked until these precautionl
are observed.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-10-14

Carefully conducted tests have also
proven the maximum results. These
tests show the absolute necessity for
growing several crops and live stock.
Before adopting system of crop
ing and selecting crops to grow there
in, we must consider the local condi-
lions, such as climate, labor supply,
market demands and transportation
facilities. We cannot grow perishable
products unless we have quick trans
portation facilities. Even if farm
crop is not perishable and we have the
quickest transportation facilities at
our door, we must be careful and not
glut the market. These observations
being true, we find that we must de-
vote our energies to staple farm crops
such as grass, corn, oats, peas, soy
beans, cane, poultry and live stock and
some cotton.
Many agricultural writer's and speak.
ers are busy shaking the foundation
of our present evil-the one-crop sys
tenn. Their work is to large extent
destructive, not constructive. They
seldom suggest practical method to
take the place of our present badly
balanced, lopsided farming that com
pels a farmer to wear out about Ii
acres at time. 1t is not enough tc
expose the evils of the one-crop sys
tenn. We must be able to show, on
general lines, what system we intend
to establish as a substitute, and or
general lines how the average cotton
farmer can do so.
The system Of farming that I shall
now suggest, if adopted and carried
out by our cotton farmers, will, in ten
years, make our soils exceedingly pro
ductive, our farmers rich, and the
cotton belt the financial center Of the
world.
Cotton first year; corn and peas, soy
beans or velvet beans, second year;
oats, followed by lespedeza, soy beans
or cow peas, third year; or cotton and
crimson clover sowed at last working.
first year; June corn and volunteer
crimson clover, second year; oats, fol-
lowed by soy beans, lespadeza or cow
peas, third year; or cotton and GRIM
son clover, first year; June corn and
volunteer crimson clover, second year;
oats, followed by lespedeza, third year;
lespedeza, fourth year.
OF course, commercial fertilizers,
thoroughly good permanent pastures
and plenty Of good live stock must
be added to the above rotation or sys-
tenn Of farming.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-10-14
INVESTIGATION ON
SOUTHERN FARMS
Demand for Staple Rapidly In
creasing All Over World.
COTTON is GREAT CASH CROP
Farmers Are Advised to Supplement- 1t
With Thoroughly Good Permanent
Pastures, Inaugurating Sys-
tenn of Rotation.
By q. H. AFFORD,

de- not wish to be understood as
advocating the Investigation of crops
to the extent of developing a scarcity
of raw cotton to meet the demand Of
the consuming world. Such a course
would be fatal to our cotton-growing
interests in more ways than one.
am anxious to see suficiency of raw
cotton produced each year to meet
all demands Of consumption at, say IL
cents a pound.
Cotton is the greatest cash crop
grown. The demand for 1t is rapidly
increasing. The demands of the con-
Stunning world double every % years.
If we estimate 100000 bales as a
minimum supply on the part of the
United States for the worlds clothing
at the present time, it will require
100000 bales in 1882 and 100000
bales in 1854 to meet the demand for
commerce. I do not advise the farm
ers Of the cotton belt to supplant cot
ton as the main cash crop, but urge
all Of them to supplement it with thor
oughly good permanent pastures,
leguninous crops, grazing crops, for
| age crops and good live stock. The
sensible thing for each farmer to do
is to largely reduce his acreage in
cotton, practice system of rotation,
including leguminous crops, and raise
mules and horses. cattle, hogs, poul-
try and other live stock. Plant fewer
acres in cotton, plant prolific seed,
fertilize and cultivate better and OBJ
tain an increasing yield of lint cot
ton per acre. The acres which will
not be needed for cotton under this
modern system Of farming can be
thoroughly sodded in grasses and clio
vers and planted in leguminous crops,
corn, oats, rape, sorghum and cane
Under these advanced methods the
soil will rapidly increase in fertility
the money obtained for cotton will be
kept at home, the cotton crop will
cease to bear the entire burden of the
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-10-14
CARE OF FARM MACHINERY.

IT. r. Bryant, Superintendent Exten
sion Department, Kentucky Agricul
tural College.) 4
The money invested in implements
and machinery on the average farm
is large item in the business, but +:
is astonishing how little attention Is
paid to its care. Flows are often lef'
in the last furrow or beside it, binders
and mowers are left under tree fol
months at time and the consequence
is poor service, heavy draft and shor.
life of the machine. For example, we
would at least expect binder to Gu
]. 900 acres of wheat without actually
wearing out, if we had time to do i
at one job, and yet the farmer who
raises a SO acre wheat crop rarely
uses a binder 20 years. It's life should
in reality be much greater. The same
rule holds good for other implements
The lesson to be learned is that ma
chinery rusts out or becomes unsatis
factory more from neglect than from
use. A good shed should be provided
and all implements should be carefully
cleaned, working parts creased anc
the machine stored after each perloc
Of use. During the winter or other
convenient time all implements shoulc
he gone over and put in perfect re
pair to avoid vexation when they are
| to be used again.
proper attention to such matters
will SION a serious financial drain upor
the farm and will prevent much worry
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-10-14
SECURE BENEFIT OF MANURE
Should Be Applied to Land Soon az
Made and Before Plant Food Has
Leached and Burned Out.

A little manure applied often bears
just the same relation to the benefit
of our land and crops as moisture
applied at intervals throughout the
year. We should not want a deluge
Of water once year and nothing be-
tween times. And the point of this
is that to use the manure in a way
so as to get the most benefit out Of
1t we must spread it as fast as it is
made practically throughout the year
to our growing crops and hay land,
says writer in an exchange. There
Is always some part of our land that
needs an occasional application of ma
nure.
believe that every reader will sup
port me in this statement that ma
nure applied to the land as quickly
as 1t is made is worth at least six
times as much in increasing crops as
that which has lain in the barnyard
until all the plant food has leached
and burned out Of it, and yet it takes
Just as much time and labor to dis
tribute this almost worthless stuff as
it does to haul it at its best,
Let's apply the manure just as soon
as it is made, if possible. It's our
gain
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-10-14

There are three methods of i'm
munizing hogs-the Serum-alone
Method, the Serum-simnltaneou
Method, and the Combination Method
The Serum-alone Method, as the
name implies!S consists in injecting
only serum into the animal This is
usually injected into the thigh of the
hog, or into the neck. This method
will protect hogs from taking the dis
ease for period of from three weeks
to three months. The average dura-
ton Of immunity by this method is
about eight weeks. This method
should be employed on healthy ami.
mails where the disease of hog cholera
is already in the herd. 1t is advisable,
also, to- use this method on hogs that
are kept for short feeding periods, and
during extremely warm weather.
The Serum-simultaneous Method
consists in injecting the proper
amount of serum into one side of the
neck of the hog or into one of the
hams, simultaneously with a small
amount of virus (blood from a hog
suffering from cholera) injected into
the opposite side of the body. This
method. of vaccination will protect
hogs from the disease of hog cholera
for at least six months, and usaully for
life There is a certain amount of
danger accompanying this method, for,
if there is any infection in the herd in
the incubative stage at the time of
incubation, irregular results are liable
to follow. The average loss from this
method is from one to two per cent
Pregnant sows should not be treated
with the Simultaneous Method, if they
are as far along as 80 days in preg-
nancy. They can, however, be given
the Serum-alone Method with safety.
Pregnant sows should never be
thrown when being treated, but they
should be held by a rope inserted in
the mouth, and they should be vac
cinated in the neck.
The Combination Method consists in
giving serum only, and in ten or
twelve days revaccinating the herd
with the Serum-simultaneous Method.
This treatment is used by breeders of
pure-bred herds, and it din1inishes the
small loss incident to the Serum-sim-
ultaneous Method.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-10-14
OFFICERS END RACE RIOT
Constable Uses Revolver on Giant
Negro When Latter Threatens
to Take His Life.


Joliet, H.. Oct. 9.-One negro was
killed, the village jail was wrecked
and a serious race riot narrowly
averted at Romeo, eight miles north
of Joliet Wednesday,. The arrival of a
big corps of special deputy sheriffs
from Joliet, sent in answer to the ap-
peal of Mayor Edward Swanson of Ro-
meo, was all that saved a part of the
whole population from massacre.
John Winfield. giant negro. bat
tered in the lookup door with a rail
road tie, seized Lulu Hills, negress,
and holding her before him as a shield
made savage attack upon Louis Han
son. a resident of the village. whom
the town marshal had called to his aid
Hanson killed Winfield In defense OF
his own life.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-10-14

After hogs have been vaccinated,
they should be given dry, clean quar-
ters in which to sleep. They should
be fed a moderate amount of mill feed
given in a slop, for a period of eight
or ten days. Hogs should never be
rung or castrated for at least Is days
after being inoculated.
The dosage of anti-hog cholera
serum and virus for hogs OF different
size is as follows:
Serum.
10 &C. up to 10 lbs.
Is &C. for all sizes between 10 and
20 lbs.
20 &C. for all sizes between 20 and
so lbs.
30 &C. for rs lbs or more than so lbs.
40 &C. for 100 lbs. or more than rs
lbs.
80 &C. for $50 lgs or more than 100
lbs.
60 &C. for 200 lbs. or more than $50
70 &C for $50 lbs. or more than 200
lbs.
80 &C. for 800 lbs. or more tnan zoo
lbs.
80 &C. for 400 lbs. or more than oUO
lbs
100 &C. for more than 400 lbs.
Virus.
Is &C. for pigs up to weeks of age.
n &C. for pigs 4 weeks to SO lbs.
" &C. for sizes so to 100 lbs.
/ &C. for sizes 100 lbs and over.
From the above schedule of dosages.
the cost CT vaccinating any herd, as
far as the serum and virus necessary
for the incubation is concerned, can
be readily calculated. If a veterina-
rian is employed TO do the work, his
fee. of course, will have to be consid.
cred in addition to the cost of the
serum and virus.
The serum treatment is the best
method of combating hog cholera.
but. along with this, thorough disinfec
ton and cleanliness OF the premises
Is essential. No matter now mucn
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-10-14

total expense Of each farm, the in
iQuitous credit system that has for AZ
years dragged the growers bound an6
broken will no longer exist, and the
growers will each year grow In
strength and permanent prosperity.
The first efforts at breaking away
from cotton usually consist in going
largely into another single crop sys
tenn Of farming rather than going into
the production of variety Of crops
The evils Of the new system are much
greater than those of the all-cotton
system. Many farmers rush into the
truck business. OF course, truck
crops should be grown on every farm
and, in some particular localities, they
may constitute the main reliance for
cash, but I assert positively that the
truck business is a gamble for the
average cotton farmer and that he will
win just enough to cause him to put
up all he has and lose. Trucking has
lured many a farmer to financial ruin.
James ]. Hill, one of the greatest
thinkers of this age. says: "Giye US a
system of farming that will greatly
increase the fertility of the SOIL" He
further states: Forty years ago a
farmer had to provide for but one
other than himself. Today every farm
er has to produce food for two besides
himself"
Hon. Henry Wallace recently said:
"The nineteenth century farmer,
20 90
all, but miner of soil fertility, a soil
robber." Mr.. Hill, speaking along the
same line, said: "The average Amer
lean farmer has no equal for careless
ness and for adhering to discredited
methods Of farming; we will soon be
unable to feed ourselves or to feed
the boosted home markets for the 9TH
a constantly narrowing BASE
OF course, the farmers must drain
the land, thoroughly prepare the seed
bed, plant prolific seed, practice fire.
quent and shallow cultivation and
make the most careful use of manures
and fertilizers, but no problem is Of
such Importance as the maintenance
of the supply of plant food in the soil.
The first step to be taken in order to
add to the supply of plant food, is to
reduce washing to minimum Flow
ing water removes more plant food
in one year than is removed in five by
crops sold from the farm. The addi-
tion of the vegetable matter, winter
cover crops. deep blowing and proper
ly constructed terraces will reduce the
washing of land to a minimum.
Diversification of crops enables the
Garuaer's family to fare sumptuously