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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-05-04
Weekly Bureau of In
formation for All Who
Till the Soil or Are In
terested in Making Homes
ARE THEY BLIND GUIDES?-
WHO KNOWS THE ANSWER?
GARNER" Inclined to Doubt Benefit to
Producers of Scientific Methods
of Agriculture.
HE is SEEKING ENLIGHTENMENT
Fears Efforts Go to Swell Profits of
Mfddlemnn Rather Than Reward
His Own Lahors.

TO the Editor of The Times Dispatch
Agricultural Department.:
Scientific students OF agriculture,
many observers who have travelled
abroad" and MANY others who think
they are something OF both. have been
puzzling our farmers more than u little
of late. and nobody could fairly blame
them--the farmers-if they were soro-
ly irritated as well as puzzled.
The student tells them that our soil
has fallen off in productiyeness enor-
mously since we began to cultivate II,
mainly because of unscicntific and
wasteful methods OF treating 1t. They
are assured that scientific methods
will double their production. and that
the moro careful husbandry OF tho
European farmer does nearly double
his harvests per acre, as compared
with those In their country. This, tho
farmer is told, is one of the necessary
means TO that greatly desired end, to
reduce the cost of living. and he
doesn't see how it will benefit him
much to produce double as many
bushels and sell them for half rs much
per bushel. and, on the other hand. If
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-05-04

since the department has been furnish
ing 1T 1T cost TO the farmers its place
ms preventive medicine has been
thoroughly established. While i'm
provements are being made in the
methods OF producing the serum and
In It's application, Its present efiici-
ency cannot be questioned II has
been shown by figures in hand that out
or n total of 235 diseased herds every
one OF the hoes vaccinated were saved
~ forty herds, and over 10 per cent OF
All diseased hogs vaccinated In ali OF
.hc nerds were saved. This shows that
the serum has much virtue as q cura.
tive agent rs well as a preventive.
but. being dead sure preventive. the
safe and SANE thing to do Is to use 1T
III time before or as soon as cholera
gets in neighborhood, not waiting
Tor Il 20 get in your own pen. Vac
cination should be done while the ami
mails arc still healthy. but IL cholera
rs present In tho herd, large per cent
Is saved through the use OF the serum; ;
ana the earlier II Is used in an out
preak the greater the per cent saved.
The Virginia Agricultural DEPART
ment. furnishes the serum TO farmers
ut 80 cents per dose. exactly what II
costa tho State. The serum tho State
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-05-04

ness, and 1t Will IL the mon at the
head Of II are given chance. y doz-
en- or more years ago the commission
er. one clerk and two chemists con-
sttuted the whole force, and they,
with all of their paraphernalia and
Implements. were crowded into two
rooms in the State Library Building.
Four years ago the department was
moved 20 the Capitol. where seven
rooms were assigned II. Since then
the work has been continually grow
ms and doing more and more good
every year.
a pure food and dairy division and
= seed laboratory have been added, and
IT requires six chemists in the chemi-
cal laboratory to keep up with the
work. Owing to the lack OF sufficient
room, these different divisions had to
he located elsewhere in rented rooms.
so now the Department OF Agriculture
is working nj four different places In
Richmond. The great agricultural
interests nf tho state demand an agrl-
cultural building, where large mu-
scum can DO located. which will be a
most valuable advertising medium to
show the world all tho varied and
magnificent resources of this great
State. Such building would be a
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-05-04
pWEvENTIvE AND CURE

This is the season In which to look
out for hog cholera, which Is costing
the farmers of tho South more loss
than any other one thing. Tho best
and surest way to look out for this
dread disease is the use OF the ounce
OF prevention, and 1t can be kept off
IL tho law Is complied with and this
followed by just q little work OF n
sanitary kind and n little care with
your hogs. Too many people have an
idea that 4 hog can stand anything
and tho more filth 1t finds the better
off IL Is. Hog pens and hog lots re-
quire rs much care and attention look
ing TO sanitation as do cow barns and
horse stables or hen houses.
Look out too for contagious diseases.
The Virginia Legislature Mt its 1912 Sos
sion made the following law: 1.-The
owner Of any animal or grown fowl
which has died from any disease shall
forthwith crcmatc or cause to be ere
mated or bury or cause to be buried
the body OF such animal or grown
fowl. and if he fails to do SO, any JUS
tice, after notice TO the owner. If he
can be ascertained. shall cause any
such dead animal or fowl to be Gre
mated or buried by n constable, or
other person designated for the pur-
pose, and the constable or other person
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-05-04
son 1noculation for Peanuts.


In reply to question often asked
THE Progressive Farmer says:
1T is not customary to inoculate the
soil for peanuts. This may be due to
the fact that the small Spanish peanut
is most likely to be the variety used,
In any section taking up the growing
Of peanuts for the first time. and this
variety is usually planted in the shell.
In such case tho germs are apt to be
introduced with tho planted peanut.
IT is also possible that tho germs that
live on the roots OF the peanut and
gahter nitrogen from tho air arc
more generally distributed through
the soils OF the South than are the
germs that live on the roots OF some
other legumcs.
While these are facts, there is ample
evidence to show that some soils are
rot inoculated with tho germs that
arc necessary for tho best develop
ment of the peanut plant. Such soils
would produce a better crop IL inOcu-
lated at the time of planting the pea
nuts, but the cowpea docs not furnish
this incubation.
There is good proof that the germs
chat live on the roots of some lcgumes
arc sufficiently like those living on
the roots OF certain other legumes to
make the one inoculate for the other,
and this seems to have led some into
thS Ciioi ~ pCH''NVuS ltiil iUy one
legume will inoculatc for all others.
II is pretty we'll established that any
one Of the legumes i'm tho following
group OF legumes Will inoculate for
any other legume In tho same group:
Group Alfalfa. sweet clover or
melilotua. bur clover.
Group Red clover, alsike clover.
white clover. crimson clover.
Group 8-Vetches, English or Cana
Dian field pen, garden pea.
In SO far as wo know. the following
ieYumes require separate or special in
equation; cowpeas. soy beans. velvet
beans. peanuts. japan clover or les
pedeza.
or course, some of these, like Japan
clover and cowpeas are so generally
grown that most soils nre already in
ocuiatcd. and others. az stated regard
ing peanuts. may carry the inoculation
with tho sccd: hut II Is believed that
he germs living en- the roots are suf-
iiciently different TO make separate in
oculaticn necessary IL the special germs
Tor any one of these legumes arc not
already in the soil
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HOPE OF SETTLEMENT.
or BENEFIT TO MARKET
Hcycrsai of Form in Speculative Stocks
Quickly Follows EnSiug of Tension
In NcXicun .tHnirs.

New York, Alay 3.--1!opc OF - set
Element OF the Mexican problem
through the good Offices rendered by
The three South American republics
caused 4 complete reversal OF the
form Of speculative stocks. This was
Supplemented in the course Of the
week by the growing strength of
money. splendid promise for the coun-
trys crops and increasing confidence
that the Interstate Commerce Com
ilission would sanction the advance in
freight rates.
Improvement In London, owing 10
The likl!hood of an agreement Ola the
nome rule question, also benefited this
market. M!sgivinss persisted over
gone important features OF the SIT
nation. but II was obvious that nee
essary covering operations were add
ing substantially to the markets
strength.
Resumption of railroad buying
Awould nrl up the principal hiatus In
DO present demand for steel Indus
stocks. therefore, shared In the
ct from the expected relief 10 rail
~ through higher rates. This tom
y Offset the influence OF the poor
e Of the United States Steel
~ for tno first quarter. Rail-
- rings for March showed i'm
over February and in many
March of last year. when
~ hea:y losses
e. - maintained by capital
titles for corporations
-, At with maturing OBJ
Der OF which were
n market. Financing
made progress.
helped ny foreign
80 k,ere and by re-
a. Inducements un-
= nonclearing-
&asing of ten
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-05-04
"Damngcd Goods" To-,rorrow.

1t is announced that children under
parent or guardian. Will NOT be ner.
mitted 10 attend performances OF
Damaged Goods" Eugene Bricux's So
Geological play. which will be presented
at the academy of Music on Tuesday
and Wednesday. with Wednesday natl
nee.
However, II is understood that the
management OF the house will not re-
quire a certificate or affidavit from
parent. guardian or physician MS TO the
age OF the prospective purchaser OF
judgment Of MIR. Jones, Of the box Of
fee and Mr.. Smith, OF tho orchestra
door, Will be, relied upon 20 decide
plicant is seventeen or nineteen years
old. d. O.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-05-04

furnishes on these terms is no Quack
or patent medicine. but Is bought In
largo quantities from the Kansas Ex-
pertinent Station and the Missouri Ex-
pertinent Station where 1t Is made for
distribution and use in those States
and where It's efficiency has been
cbundantly proven and thousands upon
thousands of dollars saved by Its use.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-05-04
Fsets>for Farmers, Stock
Breeders, Poultry Raisers,
Orchardists, Truckers and Gar.
dsners.- Queries and ANSWERS

crop. The soil need not necessarily DO
very fertile; In fact, n medium fertile,
sandy loan which contains q moderate
amount OF organic matter Is omore suit
able for sweet potatoes. They arc
often grown upon almost pure sand.
Heavy retentive soil will seldom grow
good potatoes, either In quantity or
quality. AS to fertilizer. when any is
needed, well-rotted stable manure is,
perhaps. the best This should, pre-
ferably. be put under the hills rather
than applied broadcast.
Clover In Corn.
Brunswick County reader asks;
10 you think II wise to SOW crimson
clover In corn at the last working?"
No. September or October IS soon
enough to SOW crimson clover In this
climate, If conditions are just right
The Times Dispatch last year advised
n man who asked almost the Same
question to SOW peas in the corn at
the last working and. after the corn
was cut, disk or cut down tho peas and
then, in September or October. SOW
crimson clover. He did ne advised,
sowing his clover seed during the first
week in October, and now has as pref
~ piece of clover ready to bloom as
can be found anywhere In tho State.
Cutting Sweet Potato Vines.
Does the cutting of sweet potato
vines help the growth of the pota-
tocs?' Is Il query that comes from
Jumcs city County. On the contrary,
the cutting of the vines Injuries the
potatoes and retards. II II does not abb
solutely prevent. full growth. An UNI
questioned authority says the more
healthy leaves any plant has, the
moro starch is made for the roots and
the more that is stored In the roots
to feed the fruit the bettor and great
er Will be tho fruit. For Instance, 81
has long since been found that saw.
Ing blade fodder Is bad business. be-
cause the pulling away of the green
blades from the stalk causes a big loss
In the grain on tho car.
Crimson Glover Seed.
II notice that the crimson clover seed
of the crop of 1919 is being offered IN
Richmond for $3.50 bushel. Do you
think that II Will bo safe to buy these
seed to SOW next summer or fall" Pro-
fessor Massey last year tested Grim
son clovcr seed that had been carried
over and found that they terminated
over 90 per cent. IL the seed OF 1913
has been in the hands of careful
scotsman and properly kept they will
be perfectly safe for sowing the COM
ing fall.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-05-04

Best Soil for Sweet Potatoes.
The sweet potato plants thrive hos,
IN sandy soil, although "A mellow
Gay loan will produce fairly good
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-05-04

merited tribute to the great agricul-
tural interest Of the State and pleas
Ing monument 10 the progressive
spirit of the Virginia farmers.
1t Is in tho power of the farmers of
Virginia to get such Il building. 1t
Is not too soon to commence agitation
to that end. Tho next Legislature
will provide for II IL the farmers COM
mencc and keep up the agitation.
HOG CHOLERA SEASON,
PREVENTIVE AND CURE
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ADJUSTMENTS

Bijon--Grncc Scott Company, in
"Thc Prisoner of Xcnda."
byric-Kcith Vaudeville, matinee and
night.
COIOnIaI-Nnuicyilic md ntcturcx
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AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT


cn twill
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The Elk Mountain pilot., 1914-11-19
GEN ERAL.

Francis Ferari widely known as n
carnival show man and former cir
Gus proprietor, died at his home in
New York from complication OF dis
cases..
prince" Paul de Clairmont. an ac-
tor, and the hero of Elinor Glyn's
novel "Three Weeks" was found dead
in bed in west side rooming house
in New York.
j. p. Morgan & Co. moved into the
building erected for their exclusive
and Bond streets In New York. The
cost Of the building and ground is
estimated at s5,000,o00.
The advent of Montana and Ne
vada to. the ranks of suffrage states
was cele brated by delegates to the Ma
tional American Woman Suffrage AS
sociation, which opened its annual
convention at Nashville, Tenn.
More than 100 resolutions dealing
with the many problems of union la
bor, boycotts, jurisdictional differ.
ences, the European war and the So
cial welfare of workman were pre-
sented to the American Federation OF
Labor convention .or its consideration
at Philadelphia. :
At the annual meeting of the Lin
coin Highway Association held in De-
troit, the following officers were elect
ed: President, II. B. Joy, Detroit; vice
presidents, R.D. Chaplin, Detroit; Carl
G. Fisher. Indianapolis; A. r. Pard-
ington New York; w. F. Coan, Gin
ton. Iowa; treasurer, Emory w. Clark,
Detroit; engineer, Frank H. Trego,
Springfield, Nrass.t secretary. A. r.
Pardington, New York.
Appropriations for missionary work
amounting to SS0O.00O were voted at
the Boston meeting of the general
Committee OF the Methodist Episcopal
board of foreign missions.
First casualties occurred Friday the
18th on the Pennsylvania grade cross
ing at Atwater, Ohio, and three men
are dead and one injured as a result
of two accidents.
The boom in Wall Street is be-
lieved to be due to the secret report
received by Standard Oil interests
that the Kaiser had asked the Pope
to arrange for terms Of peace.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1914-11-19
Reduction In Living Costs Made Pos
sibIe by Perfect Product.

The sudden and highly alarming In
crease in cost of food necessities, such
as sugar and flour, demand increased
domestic economy. For Incomes have
not advanced with this wartime soar
ing of food prices.
Waste of food as well as cost of
food must be considered and minimized
in these days of exorbitant prices.
Fortunately the greatest food waste
with which the housewife has to con-
tend-bake-day failures and the waste
OF costly baking materials-is rendered
preventnble by the perfect leavening
power OF Calumet Baking Powder.
Calumet is an absolutely sure baking
powder of absolute purity. 1t never
fails to produce fully raised bakin gs
that are tender and temptingly deli
cious. For it's. wonderful leavening
strength never varies. It's always UNI
form-and always unexce1led.
To pay more than is asked for Calu-
met simply means a useless waste of
money. To pay less. and obtain an in
ferior powder. means the useless waste
OF BakinK Materials.
stantial sum on the price asked for
Trust Brands when you buy. it. Save
the flour. sugar. butter and eggs so
often wasted by Big Can Powders
when you use 1t. You are safe in or
derinx Calumet, in trying it, in testing
not thoroughly satisfied the purchase
price will be refunded by your local
dealer.
In buying n can of Calumet send tho
slip found in the one-pound can to the
Calumet Baking Powder Co. Advertis-
Will receive one OF their handsome ~
page Cook Books. illustrations in COL
ors and a book that Will be a guide to
economy in the kitchen.-Adv.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1914-11-19
Activities of Women.

Philadelphia has five women factory
inspectors.
Women farm laborers in England
number nearly one hundred thousand
Over fire thousand women are en-
gagged in industry in Italy.
Over six thousand women in New
York are employed as tailoresses.
Canada has an active rifle associa-
tion composed of women.
There are over three million widows
in the United States and there is no
estimate as to how many there will
be in Europe after the war. but II
will probably be twice as many as we
have.
In Java. when man marries, he
goes to his wife's house, where the
women sit in council upon all mat
ters of importance and dictate the af-
fairs of the home.
Widows of soldiers killed in the
service of the British army will re-
ceive a pension of from five to ten
shillings a week. depending upon the
rank of her husband
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1914-11-19
FOREIGN.

Contributions at Honolulu to the
Belgian relief fund totaled $4,000.
Monday, Nov. % was fixed as the
date for the evacuation OF Vera Cruz
by the American forces.
Emperor Yoshihito has given $4,000
yen ($25,000) toward the foundation
of ST. Luke's international hospital at
Toxic.
With quiet In Haitien revolutionary
activities, Secretary Daniels ordered
tho transport Hancock, with 500 ma
rines. back from Port Au Prince to
Guantanamo.
Reports reaching Peking, China,
from Harbin, Manchuria, set forth
that Russia is transporting her Euro
pean prisoners of war as far east as
Vladivostok.
Rules issued by the government at
Rome prohibit from Jan. / the impor-
tation of pigs or pork products from
America, Turkey, Rumania, Cyprus
and Egypt because Of the hog cholera.
Premier Asquith will ask parlia-
ment's sanction for 100000 addi-
tional troops, bringing the total to p
900, 900 men. The government intends
to issue a new war loan of $1,000, ,000,-
600.
The alleged shooting of five Span
iards by German soldiers at Liege and
the bombardment OF the Spanish con-
sulate at Rheims were the subjects of
a lively debate in the cortes at Ma
drid.
IN speech delivered in the House
of Commons after the opening of par
Lament, Premier Asquith declared
that he doubted whether the war
would last as long as many people
originally predicted.
General Villa has ordered an attack
on Tampico. His army is operating
from the city of San Luis Potosi,
which was occupied without firing a
shot. Official dispatches received at
Washington Friday say the people re-
ceived Villa with an ovation.
Nine. Alexandria Donvela, a Rus
sian woman of high social position,
whose husband is at the front, has
been accepted as a volunteer by the
viceory OF the Causasus. She will
wear the regular soldiers uniform.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1914-11-19
WASHINGTON.

The next session of Congress opens
IN Monday, Dec. 7th.
Government receipts from ordinary
sources were nearly s20,00O,0OO less
during October than for October
last year. Customs receipts were off
about sl4,000,0O0 and internal revenue
nearly s6,oOO,0OO.
The gross public debt of the United
States at the close of business at the
Treasury Department Oct 81 was So.
7S3, ,1G2, 1924, compared with S2,S09, ,262,-
1893 on Sept. 80. The net debt Oct. 81
was s1,0S2 ,291.
Wars effect on the price of cotton
and cotton seed has caused a loss of
about $455, 100000 to American cotton
farmers this year, it was announced
by the bureau OF crop estimates of the
Department of Agriculture.
More than 100000 annually will be
saved to railroads operating west from
Chicago through the discontinuance
Jan. 1, of the hotel timetable racks
and the distribution of 100000 fold
ers annually by this means.
Secret service men and radio Off
cials. seeking wireless stations said to
be violating American neutrality. have
located a hitherto unknown station at
Ensenada, Lower California;, not far
across the United States boundary.
Charles II. S. Robinson of Roxbury,
Mass, who ran for Congress in his
district on the Republican ticket,
filed his report at the capitol. 1t
read: 81 received nothing, promised
nothing, expended nothing, got moth
Ing"
Secretary Bryan announced after a
conference with Count Won Bernsorff,
the German ambassador. that there
had been no change in the plan origi-
nally approved by the German govern
ment for the transportation Of relief
supplies to Belgium.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1914-11-19
DOCTOR KNEW
Had Tried It Himself.

The doctor who has tried Postum
knows that it is an easy, certain, and
pleasant way out of the coffee habit
prescribes 1t for his patients as did a
physician of Prospertown. N. j.
One of his patients says:
During the summer just past l suf-
fered terribly with heavy feeling at
the pit of my stomach and dizzy feel
ings in my head and then blindness
would come over my eyes SO | would
have to sit down. l would get so nerv-
Gus / could hardly control my feelings.
Finally l spoke to our family physi-
clan about it and he asked if l drank
much coffee and mother told him that
l did He told me to Immediately stop
drinking coffee and drink Postum in
its place, as he and his family had
used Postum and found it a powerful
rebuilder and delicious food-drink.
Il hesitated for time, disliking the
idea of having to give up my coffee, but
finally / got a package and found it to
be all the doctor said.
"Since drinking Postum in place OF
coffee my dizziness, blindness and
nervousness are all gone, my bowels
are regular and am well and strong.
That is a short statement of what
Postum has done for me-"
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read THE Road to Well
ville,' in pkgs.
Postum comes In two forms:
Regular Postum - must be well
boiled 15c and 25c packages.
Instant Postum-is soluble pow
der. A teaspoonful dissolves quickly
in cup of hot water and, with cream
and sugar. makes a, delicious bever-
age instantly. 30c and soc tins.
:. The cost per cup of both kinds is
ABOUT the same.
There's Reason" for Postum.
= sold by Grocers.