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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-27

Having breakfast at I o'clock in
the morning is II pretty good cure for
city relations.
The bugs and insects which eat the
crops apparently never have any Holt
days They are on the job all of
tile time
The Monday morning sun never
shines with proper brightness to the
boy on the farm.
DO your horses earn enough to pay
for their feed and care. and enough
To meet the interest. depreciation. and
other expenses. as harness costs and
shooin.1
SIXTY million dollars were lost by
the American farmer last year simply
because he did not take steps i'm time
to i.reveut the deadly hog cholera.
Clean farming. by which is meant
the KILN" of all weeds 10y thorough
cultivation. is important il the best
crops are desired.
Tho Poland China breed of hogs is
sail To have originated in Southwest
cru ohio.
An ogg il never in better condition
foH setting than on the day IL is laid
ont OF 100 dairymcn in Iowa. the
only ones that were making money
from their COWS were those who read
papers which gave information con-
corning their business In this case
book farming" had some cffcct--as it
invariably does.
II is Il good idea 20 know how to
raise fruit but ono of the most import
ant things in connection with it is
how to market il.
y gentle mother makes gentle
chicks. VIXEN the mother hen is wild
and tightly, il is hard to tame her
young.
Hens should not be allowed to run
with male birds except during the
Matching season.
\ hand spray pump is necessity
ON every farm; useful for watering
plaCts, washing wagons and windows
ami whitcwashinE the poultry houses
I'm ease Of fire breaking out it NIGH,
save the building.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-27
Facts for Farmers, Stock
Breeders, Poultry Raisers.
Orehardists, Truckers and Gar
deners--!Queries and Answers
BRIEF NOTES THOUGHT
OUT BY THE WAYSlDE

Having breakfast at o'clock in
the morning is II pretty good cure for
city relations.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-27
Much Answer as To s,,nrc

J 6. Hunter. farmers demonstration
agent. writes:
Dear Mir. Agricultural Editor--lIind-
j. iusert the following answer to a
number Of questions that have come
to me recently about silagc. This clip
although every one has been answered
scraratcly by mail, this may be of help
10 others:
Slace is the best and cheapest form
iu which succulcut feed can bv pro-
Nded for winter use. .>n acre of'grain
can be placed in the silo at Il cost not
exceeding that OF shocking, huslSing
pun tn the silo during weather that can
not he used in making hay or curing
fodder, which is an important consider
alton in some localities
given ainouu; OF corn in the form
of Silage Will produce more milk than
the same amount when shocked aud
dried. There is less waste in feeding
silagc than in feeding fodder. Good
Silasc properly fed is all consumed.
and IN addition very pIlatablc Like
other succulcnt feeds il has bcnc-
fetal effect upon the digestive organs
and some stock can bc kept ON ~ given
area OF land when It is the basis OF
the ration.
ON account of the smaller cost for
labor, silagc can lac used for supple
mcntinE pastures more economically
than carl soiling crops. unless only II
small amount of supplementary feed is
required. Converting the corn crop int o
si!agc clears the land sooner than if
the corn crop is shocked and huskcd.
and because Of these advantages siingc,
in the general opinion Of dairy farm
COW ana has Increased the. profits. per
acre. ~
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-27

y hand spray pump is Il necessity
ON every farm: useful for watering
plants, washing wagons and windows,
ami whitcwashinE the poultry houses
In ease Of fire breaking out 1t Nigh,
save the building.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-27

DO your horses earn enough TO pa,
for their feed and care. and enough
To meet the interest. depreciation. and
Shooin.Y
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-27
AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT

u
suss will he wecomc
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-27
Weekly Bureau of In
formation for All Who
Till the Soil or Are In
terested in Making Homes
GENERAL INFORMATION
THROUGH QUESTION BOX
killing ont sn.snfrns bushes.


Il. G. asks; How can sassafras
bushes be KILLED out in other ways than
by GrnhbinS clean" Clean grabbing
will not always Kill out sassafras. but
continued cutting Will. When this can
he done with the moving machine it
makes the work less expensive and
very efioctual. Now is the time TO be
at work on them.
Inoculntion.
H. II. J.. Which is the better way to
inoculate the soil for alfalfa. by cul-
lures OF by using soil from an alfalfa
nelde"
Use soil from an alfalfa field If YOU
can get it. spread evenly over the en-
tire surface and cover at once with a
light harrow to preNenr the sun from
killing the bacteria. The cultures
failed in many Instances last year. Use
any quantity Of soil. from five to TWEEN
~ bushels 10 an acre. hut spread ii
evenly oNcr every part.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-27

SIXTY million dollars were lost by
the American farmer last year simply
because lie did not take steps in time
10 f,rcTcut the deadly hog cholera.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-27

Clean farming. by which is meant
the KILN" of all weeds 10y thorough
cultivation. is important il the best
crops are desired.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-27

Tn" Poland China breed Of hogs is
sail To have originated in Southwest
cru ohio.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-27

liens should not be allowed To run
with male birds except during III,
hatchinr season.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-27

An ogg ia never in better condition
70" setting than on the day II is laid
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-27

y gentle mother makes gentle
chicks. When the mother hen is wild
and tightly, il is hard to tame her
your:-.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-10
Personal Breefs

Blueberries has all went by long ago.
Oh there may be a few left clean on
top of Sawridge Mountaing praps but
who would be fool enuf to go clean
up there after EN- we ask?
Hez Andrews says that all Simmer
long there was deer follerd his cows
around in the pastchure and grazed
with EN- jest as tame as sheep, but
that sinst the Law went off on deer and
a person is allowed to shoot EN- he
amt seen hide ner hair of that deer.
Beats all how turrible impident a deer
will git when the law is on and how
blamed sl<eerce they be when the law
is off.
Dad Henderson tried to shave his
self with a razzer which he swept for
with soljer during the sivil war and
which Dad has used on and of ever
sinst but which amt never been honcd
and when Dad tried to shave with it
the razzer simply puld his whiskers out
by the roots. Dad got SO Disguised that
he throwd down the razzer and went
acrost to his nearest nabers Hen Smil-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-10

of shot where he was least expectin EN-
Strengthened mp and went into the air
about FIVE feet with 4 awful yell of
anguish & then fell all in q heap on
the ground where he groveld around in
the dirt.
As for Pluto he was almost Is mulch
surprised as Hink was and rusht up to
Hink and helped him onto his feet and
askt him if he was dead or what
Hink wanted to know of Pluto what in
tarnashion made him shoot at him when
he had his back turned and was stoop-
in over like that for and Pluto said he
was awful sorry being as he thort HIM
was rock. Hink then said all he had
to say was that Pluto had la dufn poor
eye for rocks.
Hink revived q little mite after the
first severe. pain and started for Doc
L1kermore's 4offisA with Pluto walkin
along by his side helpin him. Hinls
lippd a good cal and every little while
hef would bust out into perfanity and
csiss Hink until fly would skeercely
lite on him and still Pluto talked soft
and simpathetick to Hink and told him
how sorry he was and stuck right to
him and helped him along all he could
AS luck would have it Doc was II
his offs when Pluto and Hink arrove
Doc examined Hink and told him he
would haft to perform a operashion on
him in order to REMOVE the shot being
as there was no lessen % of same in
askt Hink If he wanted to take c1oro-
form and Hink said no but If Doc had
emmy ticker he would take swig OF
that to give him curridge to undergo
the operashion but otherwise to perceed
with the torchure. Doc had no Ticker
so got Hink stretched out on sofy
and went to work on him with q small
oggur drill and a screw-driver.
Hink hol1erd like everything while
Doc was diggin out two of the small
shot and when he wassent hollerin he
would break out and cuss Pluto who
stood back meek as a lamn and lookt
on without saying a word. After Doc
had dug out the two shot referd to
Hink got up often the sofy and told Doc
he diddent need to take out emmy more
shot being as them two he had TUX gu.
was enuff and what remained in his
carcass might stay there as long as he
lived as fur as he was concerned being
as he would ruther die with en- in
than die havin EN- TUX out.
Then Hink told Pluto to 90 to blazes
and limpd home in deep disgust where
he went to bed and laid the most of
the day on his stummick. Next day
Hink was up and limpin around but he
couldn't set down with emmy comfort a
tall and ever sinst the axident happend
Hink has been mostly on his feet and
even takes his meals standin tip. Hink
is improving rapidly however and ex-
pecls to be as we'll as ever in a few
days. Hink amt spoke to Pluto sinst
and praps never will. Cy Hoskins says
if he was Hink he would apply for a
penshion to the guvverment on the
grounds of bein shot in his potater
patch.
Let this be sollum warning to US
all to allus wear our fur sighted speck-
tacles
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-10

eys 4 borrerd Hens spokeshave to m
ish Shawn with & cut off the lower edge
of one ear with the spokeshave. Dad
has powerful hard luck somehow.
Hen Weathersby prop of our general
store treated all the boys who happend
to be in the store last Satterday mite to
a feast of crackers from q bari which
he had jest opend. Hen filed up pail
fill Of crackers and pasd EN- around.
Enos McCraclein tried to etc 50 menuy
befor the pai1fu1 give out that he choIk-
ed and nearly died before the rest who
was also bixzy eating all the crackers
they could found time to pound him
on the back. It amt very often that
Hen has 4 generous spell like that and
nacherly the boys who frequents the
store takes advantage of Il
Jed Peters orr intelligent school tea
cher reports to M that At present he
has II skollers and expeclss to have 1t
least IS by the 1st of next month be.
ing as at least four more sleollers viii,
come who are At present helping their
fathers with the fall work. This 10
quite large attendance for the Bing-
vile school.
Miss Almira Hobbs has 4 bealing In
her ear ~ we 60 to press that has
caused her considerable angwish. Not
so very long ago Almira had siege Of
pneuralgia and now its bealing. Poor
Almira pears to have her share Of tfou-
bles lately and they amt over yet-she
expecks to VISIT the dentist It the co
seat next wk.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-10
LokaI Squibs

Abe Thomasses dog "Towser" met
up with 4 skunk one night last wk
and next morning when Abe slept out
en- the house before breakfast to do the
chores and Towse run up to him the
oder which emenated from Towse like
to of knocked Abe over backards. Abe
helt his nose in one hand and tribe to
kick Towse with his other foot but
missed Towse and kicked the pump
nearly breakin two toes. Abe says
Towse amt never been so friendly sinst
he was a pup a. he has been sinst he
met up with that skunk and he'll be
turrible glad when the odor wears off.
Brad Tucker went fishin down along
Snake Crick last Sunday brite & airly
talsin his lunch in his pocket and ex-
pectin to stay all day, but jest as Brad
was getting over a fence below town
he like to Of slept on big waiter snake
IS # or more long if it was a inch and
this expericnts Tux away all Brad's
appytite for fshin so he turned and run
home and put away his fshin pole in
deep disgust and went to church IN
std.
Rev. Saml Moore our beloved pastor
of the Bingville church wishes us to a
nounce that next Sunday he will preach
a red hot sermon on the Evils OF
Strong Drink" Everybuddy is invited
to hear this sermon speshially Bill Hep
burn our artistick blacksmith who is
slowly. but shurely tottering lords q
drrnlkard's grave
Mrs. Alb Skinner has our thanks for
a appel pie made outen Baldwin appels
which she sent to us by her little girl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-10

boosted you along & helpt you do
your work until the next meal of
beans come along.
That's the great trubble with the
average hurning being-he sets
down and eats like a blame hog of
whatever is put before him with
out thinl<in anythink about it or be-
! ing thankful from the depths of
his stummicl< for same.
Beans is the blood & bone &
sinoo of Bingville, so to speak, and
as we partake of beans in the sank
tity of our own home or baked
beans at a baked bean soshiable
give by the Ladies Aid of the Bing-
vile Church on a Saturday evg,
1--WE ort not to forget as we fill up
on beans to our fullest capacity
that there amt nothink in the line
of huming edibels which will not
only satisfy the cravings of hunger
but will also give US strenth for
toll in the SWEET of our brows like
Jest common, ordinary beans.
Therefore let US not look with
content on beans never. Jest be-
cuz beans is plenty this yr let US
not turn up our noses at beans &
say we perfer appel pie or sawsidge
or some high toned truck like that.
Let us remember with thanksgiv-
ing that ever sinst we was old enuf
to eat beans they have been our
staff & our rod of life-that they
have comforted US when we was
hungry & have been a bulwark agin
famine & starvashion. AS we etc
beans day after day and wk after
wk through the coming winter, let
us return thanksgiving to whoever
invented the bean & give same to
humanity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-10
EDDYroR1UL ON BEANS

Being as this has been a terribul
tremerjus prolifick yr for beans in
Bingville, sinst beans has turned
out better than they have for men
ny, menny yrs, and being as we
have alreddy in the past wrote ed
dytoriuls on almost every subjeclt
except beans we thort it wouldn't
be a bad idee to dash off one on
this occasion on this important
subjeckt of beans.
Never before in the history of
Bingville so fur back as the Oldest
inhabitant (who is old Dad Hen
derson, who claims that when he
was a boy only IL yrs old he seen
General George Washington pass
through the co seat on his way to
take charge of the Revolooshionary
War, but there is some as has their
doubts about Dad having saw
George can remember, the farm
ers of Bingville & visinitty amt
never harvested SIGH a enormus
crop of beans.
AS a result beans is almost a
drug on the market, as you might
say. There has been times in the
past when beans diddent turn out
well and then the price of same
was high, owing to their sl<eerce-
ness, but this season it is other
wise. Beans is 80 plenty that no
buddy thinks ennythink of em a
tall. Hen Weathersby, prop. OF
our general store & bizness empor-
ium. amt only paying SIS cts pei
bu. for shell beans, shelled and
heaping measure, and Hen says
unless folks stops bringin so menny
beans to him he'll be doggoned il
he don't cut the price down to $25
cts per Blu. That's jest how cheer
& insignificant beans is this yr.
We desire in this conneclshior
to ask the gentel reader who reads
this eddytoriul on beans if you ev.
yer paused in your mad career te
consider what awful nutrishiou:
& sustaining power is contained II
the humble bean? You have beer
eating beans all your life ever sins
you was knee high to duck-yot
have ct beans baked and stewd &
biled-in fackt you have beer
brung up on beans, as we NIGH
say, & yet you have newer stopt
long enuff betwixt mouthfulls o.
beans to realise what a turriblt
boon they be to humanity. Ii
other words you have ct beans til
Iyou was full of EN- fit to bust ane
got up from the table in distress
and yet you never thort of how
they stuck to your ribs & satisfids
1.-The cravings Of the inner man AMI
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-10
wa Oh

This spase for my ad this wlk or
the wk after. I have some Of
the biggest bargains ever brung
to Bingville, but am too bixxy
opening new goods to write .
ad at present.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-22

Even while ne does this we divine
something wistfully languorous i'm his
art. SWinburnian as lie is i'm his proud
hosannas of the nesh.' he is also pro-
foundly lastldious. a man of very fine
and pure Imagination. \ subtle, almost
sad. sentiment pervades his designs. In
the Autographs, especially, which rep
resent him on this occasion more vol
uminously than the paintings or draw
ines. and are, indeed, most like him
he seems akin to the musician, absorbed
in exquisite reyorie ard developing, in
a minor key. casual. feeting harmonies.
In one Of his several studies of bathers
he portrays The Dive" but there is no
crude violence OF movement suggested
i'm tho sketch. All movement in his art
is gentle, beautiful. In his treatment
Of form, as in his suaye craftsman
ship, grace. and always grace. is the
object Of his aim. There is a good deal
Of the Ivory Tower about Shannon,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-22

the old masters recalls saying
of Matthew Arnolds. The critic, he
says somewhere. should make it his
business 10 know the best that has been
thought and said i'm the world. Thus
these men have ranged among the
masterpieces of European art In the
fruits Of their reaction to this or that
influence hints of this or that historic
manner are more or less family per-
ceptible But chiefly YOU feel that con-
tact with great eXemplars Of fine paint
ing has meant, for them. the cultiva-
ton Of a trait common TO the most di-
verse types of genius. This is the trait
of style. tho mysterious and in the last
resort, absolutely indeiinabe quality.
which is the most personal thing i'm the
world and yet in the elevation which ii
gives e work Of art. seems like some
broad virtue suceradded To personality.
STYLE SIS like some pervasive and en-
PRECIOUS spirit. dwelling now I'm works
of grandeur and now in some tribe like
a couplet of Landors or drawing by
Vatican ii il is impossible To- say
precisely what i is il is fairly simple
TO say what IL is not. style is the an
tithesis of the commonplace: the man
who possesses it does not know how to
be prosaic. He may not always strike
twelve. but in everything that he does
there IS distinction
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-22
Shanpon's Revival of a Venc-
tan Tradition.

shannon. beside Ricketts,, is like a
Venetian of the high Renaissance oe-
side Florentine He is voluptuous
where Ricketts,. if not exactly austere'
is at all events Of a moro intellectual
habit. shannon is all for sensuous
grace and glamour which rests not
only upon the poetic invention OF
which he is capable, but upon his lus-
cious sense of form. He, likewise, had
his precious" period, when he, too,
was discovering the 'Hypneroto-
macbia." and when. with more per
sonaI impulse he was designing the
cbiaroscuro woodcuts which make one
If the most delicately alluring groups
in the exhibition. But these things are
comparatively negligible. The things
that count all testify to that Venetian
Gesture which we have noted as most
eloouent of his central powers. II IS
nor nurelv Venetian. He is the sumr-
tuous Palma tempered by the courty
Van Dvck. We note again a certain
distinction between him and Ricketts,.
Loss the thinker than his friend IS, we
s,,rnise he is still a shade more So
nhisticated His psychology, so TO say,
is of q more mundane order. But he
has his dreams, and, indeed, on this
noint turns the whole question Of the
charm of his work. The superficial
observer. looking only TO the substance
Of that work, to the constant appear
ance of nude form in the drawings,
autographs and paintings, might easily
conclude that shannon was at bottom
q realist. and an earthly one at thai.
But il has been recorded of him by
picketts that he finishes his pictures
and portraits far from the model, ana
there we have a clew TO the peculiar
beautv that he achieves. II is beauty
of subjective origin, a beauty depend
ont tlpon feeling, upon mood and
once more we must return To the sub
iect-upon the artists faculty for style.
We can imagine how naturally he
would. at a given point, turn from the
model as from the preliminary study.
All the Interrogation Of il that IS nee
essary To- apprehension Of the truth he
is willing To give but after that comes
the making of his picture.
lie is incorrigbly and delightfully."-
pictorial. II is most fitting that the
Portrait of the Artist in this exhibit
ton should also be called The Marble
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-22
The Artist Turned Critic, to
Good Purpose.

II is opposite to allude at this point
10 a recently published book by
ono of the contributors 10 the eXhi-
bition Just traversed. Mr.. Ricketts, in
his Pages on Art" (Charles Scribner's
Sons). gives us what is in some sort his
profession of faith. As such it is. to be
sure. shade disconcerting. Some of
his estimates. notably those of Gender
Rodin. Meunier and Dalou. wake a
momentary distrust Of his judgment
Matters of taste are. after AL. matters
of eValuation. one follows little UNI
easily. for example the critics study
of Dalou. If we must grant him his
warm appreciation of the "DelacroiN'
let MS hope that as We are half led to
infer, his enthusiasm is for the bust
alone and not for the monument as a
whole. I'm any case let us turn from
the few debatable ESSAYS i'm the book to
those I'm which ne writes of Puvis de
Chavannes Vatican Oriental art
st-Impressionism, stage decoration,
and Gustayc Moreau He veritsbly
Eliminates these themes, and as he
does 50 offers us all manner of pithy
observations.
I'm his tcrse and scornfully polite
analysis of the Post-Impressionist
craze. Mr.. Ricketts, resolutely defends
those ancient. principles which have so
often been cited with the same pur-
pose, i'm these columns We confess To
a special interest i'm remarks thus put
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-22
A Pair Dedicated to the Cult OF
Beauty.

White. too. was frantic about Boards
icy and all that side Of the new dispen-
sation, but hc stl insisted upon placing
shannon and Ricketts, apart. lie used
10 tell how they lived at The Vale, the
choicest Of roomy studios. and how
hey were attacking every sort Of ar
us;ic problem, interesting themselves,
among other things. in the making OF
beautiful books. lie would bring out
with glad flourish the first number Of
The Dial" q periodical established by
me two comrades for the exploitation
OF their ideas md those of one or two
Of their friends Surge Moore be-
'onsed 10 the group. The poetry and
Prose In The DIAL like the woodcuts
ana other Illustrations. pointed to- q
oehshuuliv romantic enthusiasm. one
o'scerned tro influences Of Rossctti and
O'e German ant. of Italy and William
MOTIFS. one felt. above ali, the play OF
certain sincerity. a certain honest
afdor' ver- different from anything
,SeWhere visible among the youthful