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Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-12-26
BRAIN WORK AND LONG LIFE
Two Would Seem to Go Together Pro-
vlded That Element Of Worry
Can Be Eliminated.

English judges, according to Lord
Alverstone, are often at their best
between sixty-five and eighty. The
scientific explanation of this Is that
judges use their brains constantly
and with great concentration, and are
at the same time relieved of worrying
about their material welfare.
Worry hastens death, but hard men,
tai work is a tonic and life-strength-
ener. II you want to live to a good
old age. use your brain. Mental ex-
ercise keeps the brain well supplied
with blood. With the source of vi
tai energy well nourished, 1t acts as q
tonic to the whole system. Those, on
the other hand, who are deficient in
mental exercise deprive their brains
of a sufficient blood supply.
The same study which found judges
doing their best work between sixty
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-12-26
PROPER WASHING OF TOWELS
Those Used In the Kitchen Require
Especial treatment to Be Of
Good Service.

Towels used in the kitchen should
always be rinsed In moderately cool
water and then washed In hot soapy
water. They should be rinsed and
then dried in the open air. II time In
at premium they need not be ironed.
Probably this laxity would shock
many careful housewives, but clean
towel. dried in the open air, is quite
as useful for drying dishes as one
that is ironed smooth.
One clever woman always saves the
coarse sacks that sugar and salt
come in-the big ones. She rips the
side seams and hens the ends and
uses them for towels for pots and
pans.
A dolls clothesline. which comes
with half dozen tiny clothespins and
two small pulleys. IL a convenience
for drying kitchen towels. II can be
fastened from the kitchen porch to q
nearby tree, and extra clothespins
can be bought for a small price. The
pulleys, rope and six pins are sold
for ten cents.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-12-26
cr..med Cod In Potato Case.

Boil and mash six good sized DO
tatoes, add one egg. gill Of milk,
salt and pepper to taste and beat until
light. Pick and scald one pound OF
homeless salt cod, drain and scald
again. Now press fish until dry. Put
one large tablespoon butter In fry.
ing pan and add two tablespoons -four.
Mix and add one pint Of milk. Stir
till 1t thickens and add pepper to
taste. Grease a pudding mold and
line bottom and sides with the DO
tato. Add the cod to the cream and
fill the center. Cover the top with
potato and bake q nice brown. II
may be served in the dish It was
baked in or turned out
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-12-26
HIGHEST PRICE FOR COTTON
Movement Inauaurated at Bonham
That Deserves Consideration of
All Shipping Points.

The merchants Of Bonham, Tex,
have organized company to offer the
farmers top prices for their cotton.
The company does not care to deal in
cotton, but will take 1t where the
regular buyers refuse to pay the high
est market price.
The business men of Texas are be-
ginning to realize that they can be-
come most useful on the marketing
side Of agriculture and the Bonham
movement deserves the consideration
OF adj other shipping points.
Business men can employ their ener-
gies to no better advantage than to
assist farmers in getting fairer market
prices for their products.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-12-26
KILLING BOIL WEEVIL EARLY
Warning Sent to Farmers In Cotton
Belt cautioning Them Against
Spread Of Harmful Insect.

The department of agriculture is
sending out warnings to the farmers
in the cotton belt, cautioning them
against the spread of the boil weevil.
1t is also advising them through field
agents how to destroy and prevent the
spread of the insect.
Destroy the cotton stalk early in
October If possible" advises the de-
partment Destroy your stalls even
If your less progressive neighbor does
not. 1t will pay. Clear of and burn
all your rubbish on ditch banks and
other hybernating places for the
weevil. This should be done early in
the fall.
DO not plant cotton after cotton
but plant your cotton on land that has
grown heavy crop of cowpeas, velvet
beans, LespedeZa, or some other legu-
minous crop to supply the land with
nitrogen and vegetable matter Break
the land in the fall or early winter
that is to be planted to cotton next
year.
Where sufficient teams and tools
are available to pillow under and COM
pletely bury the stalks this should by
all means be done. Where 1t is i'm
possible to pillow the stalks under they
should be uprooted, raked into wind
rows and allowed to dry for a few
days. They should then be burned"
To prove the value of destroying
the cotton stalks, the department con-
Quoted experiments in Amite county,
Mississippi, last year and the following
results are shown:
On III acres where no stalks were
destroyed but where all other instruc-
tons OF the government we're followed,
the average yield was GIG pounds of
seed cotton per acre. On % acres
where the stalks were destroyed be-
fore October 10, and the same cultural
methods applied, the average yield
per acre was 1850 pounds of seed
cotton, or a gain of AL pounds of seed
cotton per acre, worth at that time
s17.64, was secured by early fall de-
struction of stalks. If 1t pays a few
men $17.64 per acre to cut their cot
ton stalks before October 10, what
would it mean to a county II every
stalk in it we're cut before October
10?
On the other farms in the same
county where none of the government
were followed. 1t took
from eight TO ten acres to make a
bale of cotton.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-12-26
CO. COOPERATE IN HOG SELLING
Practical Plan for Farmers Given by
w. J. Shuford at Conference for
Education In South.

The following plan for cooperative
esg-seIIing by farmers was laid be
| fore the conference for education In
the south by w. J. shuford Of Hick
! DRY, N. c.:
Any number of farmers from six VI
can start an egg-selling association
They should have enough hens to fur
nish at least two cases of eggs pei
week at the season of the year when
egg production is the lightest.
The amount of capital necessary
to start might be as low as $50 or
800, depending upon the number OF
members. There should be an initia-
ton fee Of IS to get the necessary
capital. Organize by getting the
farmers and their wives together to
talk the matter over. There should
be four or five meetings, and the sub
ject thoroughly discussed, before get
ting down to business. The farmers
should secure some central location
In the neighborhood that would be
accessible to all who might wish to
join the association. The school house
during the school term could be a
place for the gathering of the eggs.
The children could bring in the eggs
when they come to school. Sales,
etc, could be looked after by the
teacher.
Constitution and bylaws should be
very simple. There should be an
agreement in writing specifying fresh,
clean eggs, gathered daily, and de-
ivered at least twice a week to the
association for a given period; and
rules should be made that If a patron
brought in bad eggs over three times
he would be dropped from the asso-
citation.
A stamp should be given each
member with a number on it as a
means Of Identification, together with
an agreement to attend a meeting
when called by the president.
Officers should consist of president,
secretary, manager and treasurer,
with a governing board of from four
to six directors. Possibly 1t would be
best to combine the Offices of score
tary, treasurer and manager.
Some nearby market should be Sc
lected and good grocer found who
desires a good quality of eggs. Hotel
and college trade should also be cul-
tivated.
Shipments should be made two or
three times a week in warm weather,
and twice a week at other times of
the year.
A record should be kept of all
eggs received. If any profits accure
they should divided among the
patrons at the end of the year, in pro-
portion to the amount of business fur
nished.
Cash should be paid for all eggs as
bought, price based on daily market
reports.
Start the association in a small way,
give it a name, and sell your eggs
under this name. All goods should
be carefully packed "a cartons.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-12-26

The result Of the experiment sta
tons seem to indicate that it makes
no particular difference In yield
whether the corn is planted in hills
or in drills.
The distance apart in rows and
drills must be settled for each 10
cality and each particular soil. The
amount of moisture and fertility Of
the soil must be considered in de-
Gliding the distance in the drill. Where
the soil is light and dry, weather US
ually dry during the growing season,
best results are generally obtained by
having the rows four or five feet
apart, with one stalk every three feet
apart in the row. Where such thin
planting is necessary, it is generally
preferable to plant soy beans, pea
nuts, or some other crop between the
corn rows.
The cultivation Of the corn crop
should always be level and shallow, ex-
cept in low, undrained lands, where
it may be necessary to plant in ridges
and to keep the middle clear to assist
In drainage. The first cultivation
should be made before the corn comes
out Of the ground, and the best i'm
plement to use Is the harrow to mere
ly break the crust and allow the corn
to come up easily and uniformly. Then
follow with a harrow or weeder, going
both ways, and after the corn gets
six or eight inches tall, the two-horse
cultivator, which enables the operator
to cultivate both sides of a row at
once, is the best implement to use.
1t Is always much easier and more
satisfactory to prevent the growth of
weeds or destroy them soon after the
seeds terminate than 1t is to attempt
their destruction after they have at
tanned firm. fast hold. The sectional
steel harrow. or the weeder, on light
lands full of humus and so on are the
to use in cultivation.
The later cultivation after the corn
gets tall Is the small-tooth, one-horse
cultivator. Worked in this way the
roots are unframed and the moisture
is kept right where they seek it.
Many carefully made experiments
have shown that the stalks, leaves
and shucks Of corn have a feeding
value equal to the grain. or course.
II we let the stalks stand in the field
until the grain Is fully matured the
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-12-26
UNITE TO GET FAIR PRICES
Give Opinions on Scope Of
Farmers Cooperation.

To what extent may producers unite
10 obtain fair prices and better dis
tribution? Is II legal for cotton grow.
ers in each state to hold conventions,
vote that the price should be a GER
tain figure, and then through their
own state organizations urge upon
local oranges and unions within the
state the wisdom of cooperating to
demand and obtain such prices?
We submitted this all-important
question to the attorney general Of
each Of the southern states, says the
Iowa Homestead. Their replies indi-
dicate that such action on the farm
ers' part does not violate the antitrust
law in any of the southern state. The
Mississippi attorney general writes a
lengthy opinion to the effect that the
antitrust law was not aimed at that
sort of thing, but that 1t is an advant-
age to the state and to the public for
growers to receive a reasonable price
for their produce. Evidently there
is not much danger but that the eff
forts Of farmers to cooperate in
marketing their produce wholly with
In their state may be legal and not
subject them to prosecution. How
ever, it will be wise for them to take
counsel on this point.
Interstate combinations of pro-
ducers to effect better distribution and
secure better prices may run up
against the federal antitrust statute.
That is why so harmless a corporation
as the New England milk producers
company had to disband as a result
Of being indicted for violating the fed
eral law. 1t has been succeeded by a
voluntary association, which strives to
avoid any conflict with the statute.
The organization of the California
orange growers, which so efficiently
promotes the distribution Of that crop
at fair prices, has thus far escaped in
dictment. Instead of discouraging
cooperation, both federal and state
laws should encourage 1t.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-12-26

was / a-going to help it? Once my
old woman makes up her mind to do
thing. there amt no use arguing
with her about it. ! seen that at the
time. / didn't know her as well as
/ do now, but / was wise to that all
right.
"Nels, my friend" continued the
janitor, after a few reflective puffs at
his pipe, I'm going to give you some
good advice. l take back what I've
been saying about them frugal habits
of yours. Go right On nourishing your
self with cold water and cabbage
soup. Stick to that red vest and
bottle green coat of your grand-dad-
dy's and save money; then you go and
take a trip back to the old country
and give the girls there a chance at
you. You've got to a marrying age
now and some female or another is
going to cop you out sure, so you
might as well take the curse on as
far as you can by going where your
wife can leave her relations a matter
Of two or three thousand miles be-
hind her. II my wife's aunt was in
Scandahoovia or Shanghai, I'd be a
happy, carefree man this minute, but
having her as close as Indianapolis
and knowing that any time a year,
she may hop on the train and come
to see US is quinine in my whiskey
and hair in my pipe; it's thought to
chill hot victuals and make my feath-
er pillow feel like a gunny sack full
of half bricks; 1t puts an ache in
my bones and a fever in my brain,
makes the cold sweat stand out on
my forehead and fills my mouth with
dust and ashes. It's flerce!"
The janitor shook his head mourn
fully. You wouldn't have thought It
was dust and ashes in my mouth this
evening, though" he went on. You'd
have supposed 1t was butter that was
due to stay there until swallowed It
whole or spat 1t out. There she sits,
looking like a Philippine curio in a
missionary museum, with her old gim-
let eye boring into my depraved and
degraded soul, and me feeling as II
/ was the biggest mistake in a small
size that ever happened. Me, with my
forty-two inch chest and my noble and
commanding presence! Me that's re-
duced the arrogantest tenant to hum
bleness! Me. Mike, limp as a lunch
counter dishrag, picking and sorting
out my words and smiling till my
cheeks is stiff while she's asking my
wife IL drink as much as ever.
81 hate a fool says she.
They're sure poor company for an
intelligent person, ma'am,' says 1.
I'm glad to see you realize IT,
she says, but l doubt IL you'll ever
improve much for all that
Wouldn't that Jar you? It's well
I'm a reasonable man or I'd come out
here and bust in that bone head of
yours to get even. And two days
more Of 1t to enjoy! II it was just
her talking-just her!
Who is It? / wonder at you now,
as little sense as / know you've got.
Do you suppose any human hundred
and-ten-pound, vipegar-tongued harri-
dan could hand me out a spiel like
that and get away with it? Not on
your picture postcard. It's money
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-12-26
Farmers Educational
mi and Cooperative
I'LL Union of America

Common quality seeks low level.
Debt Is a malignant form of pow
erty.
Education should be with a view to
action.
Politics, without education, rs a dan
gerous thing.
Clear-sighted reason is ones most
valuable asset.
Debts make towards Of US all-pro-
vided we are honest.
Success comes to the man who be-
lieves in succeeding.
Clean bodies and clean clothes have
O moral effect upon children.
We should water and cultivate the
flowers, and destroy the weeds in our
disposition.
No talents, no circumstances, no op-
portunities will make a successful
man unless reinforced by a reasonable
amount OF energy.
The man who bitches his horse to a
fne shade tree ought to be condemned
to holding the hitching strap in his
teeth until he learns better.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-12-26
sImnI. Isllx BAG straln.r.

Another old method of straining
Jelly by hanging the bag on broom
handle between two chairs might be
banished from the efficient kitchen by
using new strainer with bag which
sits on a stand on the table. A large
iron ring suspends the bag, which
drips into a bowl on the table. All
juices can thus be strained without
attention, and the muslin bag may
be easily cleaned. and the strainer
packed away when not in use.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-12-26
CORN GROWERS RULES.

Is because Of the vacant hills and bar.
rem stalks attributable to poorly Sc
lected seed.
The method Of planting must be
adapted to the section and nature OF
the land. Where the soil is high and
dry soil, or where very dry weather
Is likely to prevail during the grow.
ing season, planting corn in the water
furrow is probably best. The soil
can be gradually worked to the corn.
Where the land is well drained, it is
generally best to plant the corn on a
level so that fat, shallow cultivation
may be practiced to the best ad.
vantage. On wet lands, it is usually
best to plant on beds and give the
corn ridge cultivation.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-12-26
RalsIn puffs.

Onehalf cup sugar. onefourth cup
milk. two eggs. two teaspoons baking
powder. pinch Of salt. -four 80 batter
will drop from spoon. Stir in a cur
of chopped raisins. butter cups and MI
one-half full Of batter. cover and
steam one hour. VIII make six or
seven cups. Eat hot with sauce. Ap-
pies. cherries or figs may be substi-
tuted to give change.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-12-26
RakIna Powder aIseuIt.

Into mixing bowl put two cups
sifted -four, one level teaspoon salt.
four level teaspoons baking pow.
der. Mix and sift several times, rub
in two level tablespoons butter or
one Of butter and one Of lard, TIL fine
and mealy. Wet with one cup OF milk
and mix into a stiff dough. Toss
onto a well-foured board and pat out
with rolling pin. using flour enough
on board to prevent sticking. Bake
In hot oven from 10 to Is minutes.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-12-26
EnnIIsh Tea Biscuits.

To one cup hot mashed potato add
half cup sugar and one yeastcake. dis
solved in half cup lukewarm water.
Cover and let rise; then add half q
cup each Of butter and sugar, two
eggs well beaten. one teaspoon salt
and three and one-quarter cups Of
-four. Knead. again let rise, shape,
let rise again. Brush over with sugar
and bake in modern oven. And. II
liked. half cup Of raisins. cut in pieces
or currants.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-12-26

five and eighty, cited the English ag-
ricultural laborer, who, after life of
hard, outdoor work, but practically
without intellectual exercise, frequent
ly goes to pieces between the ages of
sixty and seventy. For most people
bit Of serious meditation or concen-
trated thought would prove a more
vigorous tonic than physical exercise.
Work your brain hard and keep
young. Any man who devotes himself
to serious thought without worry
about the future will be more produc-
tive Of high order of work In his
last years than at any earlier period.
-Leslie's.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-12-26
rhInk. the word WIN Stick.

A magazine writer is credited with
the invention of the word "Highbrow. !"
1t was coined to express a blend Of
"snob and academic" He first used
1t when. as reporter, he had occasion
to describe the proceedings of socie-
ties who talked about the betterment
of the drama He thinks that the
word viii be assimilated by the die
tionaries.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-12-26
Swine Shelter

oneap shelters and fences should be
USED until the profits from the hogs
vi pay for better ones. No large
ssliding should be erected until hogs
nave been grown several years on the
arm and the breeder is sure of what
ae wants and where he wants to To-
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-12-26
Tongue and Eoq Salad.

Cut cold tongue in thin slices, then
cut again into pieces about one inch
square; arrange a layer Of tongue on
fresh lettuce leaves. and on the
tongue place a layer OF hard-boIled
eggs sliced thin; then another layer
Of tongue. and cover all with a good
mayonnaise. Decorate the dish with
slices Of cold beets and parsley.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-12-26
Eunnnean Wines

The total production of wine in 1919
in the following countries: Spain,
France. Italy, Luxembourg, Roumania,
Switzerland. Algeria, Tunis, is esti-
mated at 2,7s1,9s5,O00 gallons, against
2.4ss.322.000 gallons In 1911. an In
crease of ia per cent.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-12-26
PraetIee ver,u, PreaohInn.

Our young people have thought and
written much on labor and reform.
and for all that they have written,
neither the world nor themselves have
got on a step. Intellectual tasting Of
life will not supersede muscular ac-
tivity. II man should consider the
nicely Of the passage Of a piece Of
bread down his throat, he would
starve.-Emerson.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-12-26
heet Ions for sIIaue.

Wisconsin farmers are enthusiastic
at the results Of using beet tops with
shock corn for silage. Where beet
tops are thrown away a great saving
is here shown to be possible. By us
ing shock corn it can be put in when
the beets are topped.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-12-26
Health Of YOUNG PIna-

ioung pigs should not be given
.IoWoed quarters. In order to keep
enem In healthy. growing condition.
proper diet should be fed. Healthy
INDIVIDUALS possess a certain amount
:, power to resist disease. and this
pays no small part in preventing it.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-12-26
Wethers for Market.

Wethers intended for the fall market
should be taken from the flock, put by
themselves and fed literally until they
are so fat that another weeks feeding
viii not add a pound.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-12-26

II the newly set strawberry plants
are dying look around for the cut
worm The best remedy is to dig the
worms out and destroy them.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-12-26

ture and we have not seen any of the
lice since two years ago, barring one
or two times in the summer when
went right at the roosts with the
mixture and they quickly disappeared.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-12-26
comment ON the Mar

Just to think" said Mrs. Tricken-
bury, that this great Balkan war
should have been started by a little
bit of a country like Monte Carlo
Christian Register.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-12-26
crnn In Poultry Yard.

Plant the poultry yards to some
crop If possible. II this is not prac-
ticable. keep the yard sweet and
clean by blowing and disinfecting.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-12-26
Benefits of Cultivation.

Thorough cultivation not only kills
weeds, but saves moisture and enables
plants to stand drouth better.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-12-26
Indication of YeIlnxs

The premature ripening of peaches
on a small branch or part OF branch
is sure indication of yellows.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-12-26
Comfortable coons

Ooops for the hens and chicks
snouio be we'll ventilated. easy to
.'esn, and Of sufficient proportions
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-12-26

A bird that has been sick with any
contagious disease is disqualified from
being either q safe breeder or mother.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-12-26
DaIry's Biggest Leak.

Keeping two cows to do the work
Of one constitutes the biggest leak in
the dairy business.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-12-26
Locate Borera

The drops Of gum which exude
from the roots Of the peach trees show
where the borers are.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-12-26
Keep PIas GROWING,

Prepare to keep the young pigs
growing from the hour they enter the
world.