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The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-11-18
Selection Improves Sugar Cane

Sugar cane responds to selec.
ton. The common practice Of
planting just any kind of canes
decreases production. By select
ing the most vigorous and sturdy
canes during the fall and caring
for them until planting time, the
farmer can produce larger and
more uniform crops.
According to G. K. McQuarrie,
state agent for the University of
Florida Extension Division, small
weak canes will not supply sufi-
Gent nourishment for the young
plants until they become establish
ed. Select seed canes of uniform
size and vitality and the crop will
be maintained throughout the sea-
son. Furthermore, good seed canes
will make a stronger, more vigor-
Gus crop.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-11-18

kidneys work night and day, re-
moving uric acid from the blood
and other waste created by expen-
diture of strength and energy.
Naturally life of unusual activi-
ty doubles the duties of the kid
neys and in time the strain gener-
ally tells. Doan's Kidney Pills
have brought new strength to
thousands of bad backs and quick
relief to weakened kidneys, so u.s.
ers say. Let them do the same for
you. Convincing proof of merit
in Punta Gorda testimony.
A. j. Kinsel, prop. shoe and
curiosity shop, Railroad ST., Pun
ia Gorda, says: Zone of my fam
lily suffered from a lame and pain
full back and had almost constant
headaches. The sight became
more or less affected and the pa
tient was much run down in
health. Doan's Kidney Pills i'm
proved this ones health at once
and before long gave great bene-
fit. :"
Price SOC, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy
get Doan's Kidney Pills-the
same that Mr.. Kinsel recommends.
Foster Milburn Co., Props, Buffa-
10, N. Y.
ADVERTISEMENT
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-11-18
Milk Cheaper and Better Food
Than Meat

A great deal of work has been
done to determine the value of
skim milk for feeding calves and
pigs. That skim milk is valuable
| food for man has been lost sight
of in many cases. For all pur-
poses where whole milk is used,
except in particular cases such as
feeding babies, skim milk may be
substituted. Some folks are apt
to think that skim milk is worth
less as human food. AS q matter
of fact nothing but the fat is re-
moved by the skimming process.
AS an indication of the value of
this product the United States De-
partment of Agriculture states
that two and one half quarts of
skim milk is about equal in food
value to a pound of round beef.
When skim milk sells for
4 cents quart, or about 2 cents
a pound, and round beef for 20
cents, given sum of money spent
for skim milk will provide about
twice as much nourishment as
when spent for round beef. When
the comparison is made with the
higher grades of beef, the milk is
still cheaper. The food constitu-
ents of milk are equal to those of
any grade of beef.
Whole milk is more pleasing to
the taste than skim milk, but
when it is used in the preparation
of food the taste is just as good
for cooking. There are a number
of dishes that can be prepared
from this cheap dairy product,
and they may be substituted for
the higher priced meats, eggs, fish
and poultry, by persons who wish
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-11-18
THE CENTRAL FLORIDA
HIGHWAY ASSOCIATION
Will Meet at Gainesville on the
9th Day of December

| One of the most important meet
|ings to take place during the pres.
ent winter is that of The Central
Florida Highway Association,
which will convene at Gainesville
on the 9th day of December. The
Association is composed of more
than two thousand active mem
bers who are uniting their won
derful energies toward the crea-
tion of a sentiment which will
stop at nothing short Of a system
of good roads in this section, the
first of which is to be called the
Dixie Highway.
Every booster for good roads in
the section known as the West
Coast, the Central, the Middle and
the Western part of the state are
directly interested in matters that
will be discussed at this meeting
and should now begin making pre-
parations to be there.
Besides the good roads matters,
word comes from Gainesville that
are already under
way for handsomely entertaining
the good roads delegates and any
friends who may go along with
them, and that town always does
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-11-18
Growers Should Buy Nursery
Stock Grown in Florida

There are reasons other than
sentiment which should induce the
grower to buy nursery stock
grown in Florida. Florida has the
highest nursery inspection re-
quirements of any state in the u
nion. The soil of the state is diff
ferent from that of any other and
many trees which do well else
where will fail here. According
to f. M. O'Byrne, state nursery in
spector, nurserymen of Florida
have learned the varieties best
suited to the state and their ex-
.prience will prevent the buyer
from purchasing those which will
not grow well here.
In addition to the soil, Florida
has a climate peculiar to itself.
Certain varieties are adapted to
the state and others are not. The
domestic nurserymen are produc-
ing the adapted varieties. Fur
thermore, the trees produced in
the state have become acclimated.
Peaches are grown on plum stock
here because such stock is immune
to nematodes and root-knot.
1t is less difficult to obtain legal
adjustments when they become
necessary in ones own state than
it is in another state. If diseases
threaten particular fruit the
home nurseryman can be depend
ed upon to help fight it, while
those in other states will not con-
Germ themselves with it as a rule.
Diseases may be imported on for
eign stock. Even though the
stock is inspected after it arrives,
the diseased portions of the trees
. 1.ig1.t have Keen removed prey
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-11-18
Sanitary Preparedness

An ounce of prevention is worth
a ton of cure.
The cost of disease prevention
compared with that of its cure is
as one to a hundred, perhaps a
thousand, and it's lot surer in a
large proportion of the physical
ills that afflict humans. An attack
of typhoid fever brings an expense
anywhere up to a thousand dol
lars for doctors, medicines, nurses
and from six weeks to three mon
tbs of lost time-and every man
must figure for himself what that
is worth.
You can be insured against ty-
phoid for a dollar or two and, in
Florida for nothing if you can t
find the dollar. The same is true
of a number of other diseases
smallpox, malaria, tetanus, diph-
liberia, even against having a cold
with its varying complications of
grippe, influenza and the rest.
so it seems no one really need be
very sick in Florida unless he, like
the old negro, enjoys po'
health. " This state has recently
been declared on the highest au-
thority to have the lowest death
rate of all the Southern States,
yet too few people in Florida die
of old age, too many die before
they ought to be worn out.
The Southern Medical AssOcia-
ton, which recently met at Dallas,
Texas, spent an entire session dis
cussing sanitary preparedness. DR.,
Rupert Blue, Surgeon-General of
the Public Health Service, one of
the highest authorities in the ma
ton on sanitation, emphasized the
Importance of maintaining the bo-
dy of man constantly con a war
footing against disease +" The eff
fciency of sanitation, enforced
though it may be, was aptly illus
.trated by the result of measures
adopted in the United States
Army and Navy, which in the for
mer prevented a single death from
typhoid through an entire twelve
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-11-18

the handsome thing in this line.
One of the interesting features
of the entertainment will be Wis
it to the University of Florida, af-
fording for those who do not al
ready know, an opportunity to
see just what the State has provid-
cd in the way of educational facil-
tiles to train her boys for the pro-
LESSONS and for agricultural pur-
suits. This alone is worth a trip
to Gainesville.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-11-18

be settled with our own conscience
whether our selfishness shall i'm
peril their safety 1t might be as
well to remind ourselves of the
converse proposition, that our
brother is our keeper, and if his
greed or his neglect shall menace
our wellbemg, the remedy is in
our own hands, peaceful if posi-
bic, by force if need be.-State
Board of Health bulletin.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-11-18
WHEN THE KIDNEYS FAIL
Punta Gorda People Have Found
That I'll Health Follows

Do you ever feel that you sim
ply can't go any farther-that you
must have rest from that lame and
aching back-relief from the con-
slant, deadtired feeling-freedom
from those stabbing, darting
PainsY Likely your kidneys are
worn and tired and need help. The
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-11-18

Pick out the best men and elect
them, next Tuesday.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-11-18

Iiously and all visible evidence re-
moved. The only efficient inspec-
ton is that made on the nursery
premises. Florida cannot go to
other states and inspect the stock
which is to be shipped in. Pack
age inspection after the stock ar
rives is all that can be done and
this is not satisfactory for the
foregoing reason. The only way
that the buyer can be reasonably
sure that he is not importing dis
ease is to buy at home where he
knows that the inspection is as
thorough as it can be made.
Pick ont thp hest mnn and a1pot
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-11-18
months. A plea was made fol-
like protection in civil life.

months. A plea was made fol
like protection in civil life.
Florida's Board Of Health ha.
been for a quarter centuary pic
neer in the fight for better santa
ton for sanitary preparedness
and the learned men at Dallas
were discussing matters that Flor.
ida health officials have made
household words in this state for
years. For they have advocated
not only the employment of spec
ial disease preventives as they
have been worked out and proved
by medical science, but they have
taught and insisted that proper
sanitation is the best weapon
against diseases of all kinds, for
| it puts the body in the best condi-
ton to make the fight. They have
urged and argued that cleanliness
.of person, of habits and of sur
roundings induces the physical
power of resistance, which in it.
self is the best preparedness.
The clean man, physically and
morally, the man who lives his life
not in excuses but in moderation,
the man who at sixty looks, and
practically is, twenty years young
Ter, such man is accepted by the in
lsurance examiners, our severest
critics, as the best risk. He is
willing to sacrifice appetites and
passions for something worth
while. He does not share the SEN
timents of the old lady, who being
advised as to her diet, replied: ~
don t want to eat what is good for
me. | want to eat what I'd ruth
err"
There is no lack in Florida of
educational opportunity as to san
itation, nor how it may be accom-
.plished. The dangers peculiar to
the climate have been described a
thousand times, and the press Of
the state has been and is inspired
in these directions by the highest
motives and intelligence. Per-
haps more than in colder ATTITUDES
there is here disease-danger from
germ-carrying insects, and the last
twenty years have heightened the
list of such diseases. If Florida
could Danish all diseases that are
carried by the several varieties of
flies and mosquitoes, the doctors,
or most of them, would have to
practice law or go to farming.
Therefore, Florida s hardest
fight for health should be directed
against these insects, to destroy
conditions that favor their breed
ing, to screen them away from
food, from pantry and kitchen
and from the person eating, work
ing or sleeping. A fly is filthier
than buzzard and a mosquito
proportionate to his size, more
poisonous than rattlesnake.
Then why come into contact with
them when it ism t necessary?
And in all the fight for better
sanitation, or in our failure to
make any fight at all, it is as true
as when first questioned centuries
ago that we are our brothers
keepers. 1t becomes a matter to
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-11-18
o reduce living expenses.

to reduce living expenses.
C. L. Willoughby of the Univer-
sity of Florida College of Agricul-
ture, suggests that whole milk at
Is cents a quart is about as cheap
as beef or meat of any kind.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1915-09-24

To those wanting to buy good
land suitable for both stock and
grain farming, where the rainfall is
sufficient each year to mature the
crops, we recommend the Blackfoot
valley, which lies Just east of Mis-
soula, in Montana. We can offer
you first class land very cheap and
on easy payments.
1t costs but $25 to see this land
and If you intend to buy it will be
worth your time and money to in
vestigate what we have to offer.
H. FOLGER REALTY. co.
jly9tf Pullman. Wash.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1915-09-24

cooperation in pork packing can be
conducted successfully in the absence
OF some such protective feature that
will sompel support on the part of
the membership at least until the
plant is established on a sound basis,
! has yet to be demonstrated.
In considering the feasibility OF q
cooperative packing business the
number and location OF plants al
ready drawing supplies from the
locality in question ought to be taken
into consideration. In many cases
it will be found that comparatively
small plants already are taking con
siderable numbers OF hogs besides
those which go to the large market
centers. In Minnesota, for example,
there are porR-packing plants which
have government inspection, and
therefore do an interstate business,
at seven points besides st. Paul.
These plants IN 1914 slaughtered
460,G62 hogs and 1902 cattle In
Iowa there are eight packing points
besides Sioux City at which federal
inspection is maintained, and these
plants in 1914 slaughtered ,439,52S
hogs and 77773 cattle In Wiscon-
sin, at four points mot including
Milwaukee, plants having govern
ment inspection, slaughtered S2,3O3
hogs and 2214 cattle
These figures indicate that the
small plants thus far established at
interior points have not been able to
divert a large number of hogs from
the large central markets. Further
more, during certain seasons, many
of these plants buy more or less hogs
on special orders at the large stock
yards in order to obtain the number
and the grade Of hogs required for
this trade. Some of the smaller
companies state that they can sell
lUI 81 pdIL III LuGA III OuNNL " LhS
large packers more adyantageously
than elsewhere. Altogether it is
manifest that prospective investors
should look carefully into the factors
which seem to limit the field of these
smaller plants. In this way certain
mistakes may be avoided and yalu- |
able information obtained which will |
aid in the development Of these or
CARNATIONS along wise and safe |
lines. One or two cooperative COM
panies already have been organized /
and at least one is in operation. 1t /
is suggested that communities con
templating similar enterprises avail |
themselves of the experience of this
pioneer in the field before proceed
ing along untried lines.
1t is not to be taken for granted |
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1915-09-24

that the products of meat packing
plant always may be marketed quick
ly, easily and at satisfactory prices.
! Competition in this field remains
keen, and the location of satisfactory
markets, together with the devising
of effective marketing methods,
should receive early attention. The
| selling branch of such an enterprise
is quite as important as any other.
The more successful packing en-
terprises have developed gradually,
having started on a relatively small
scale, and experience has not shown
that new undertakings of this sort
can be begun successfully in as large
way as is planned for some of those
which are under consideration. Pack
ing plants, especially those which
it is proposed to handle upon a CO.
operative basis, should be under COM
petent thoroughly experienced man
agement. Men known to be we'll
qualified to fill positions of this sort
are not numerous and generally COM
mand relatively high salaries.
The amount of capital required to
establish and operate successfully a
packing business of this kind is con-
siderable, especially in the case of
new concern establishing a trade for
its products. 1t is believed that the
size of the investment required for
this purpose often is underestimate,
and this seems to have been one of
the causes contributing to the fail
ure of several packing houses. The
ability to obtain credit sufficient for
operating purposes is of great i'm
portance and should receive very
careful consideration before the es-
adjustment of a plant is under
taken.
Authorities on cooperative or
ganization agree that the more sim
PIE the processes involved, the more
certain is the success of a cooper
alive scheme. AS a conservative
hi easure calculated to prepare the
way and feel out the possibilities of
community as a field for cooper
alive packing, it is believed that
simple object and form of organiza-
tion--such as the car-lot livestock |
shippers associations that have
proved so successful-ar we'll
adapted to the needs of the live stock
farms in many of the localities in
which cooperative packing plants
are being seriously considered.
The first thing to ascertain is
whether the farmers of a community |
will be able and willing to adjust |
themselves to the simple require
ments of an association for shipping !
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1915-09-24
DESTROYING WASPS

DR.. A. L. Melander, Entomologist
of the Washington Experiment Sta
ton, gives the following simple
method of destroying wasps:
These wasps nest in the ground
or in old trees. If the nest can be
discovered, which usually means
watching the insects when they fly
home, the entire colony can be quick
ly eXterminated. A gallon jug,
Quarter-filled with water and placed
next to the nest, is all that is needed.
A wasp will emerge from the nest
opening, perceive the jug, and fly
angrily at it. The hollow sound of
its buzzing, echoing from the jug,
will make it enter, when it falls into
the water, Wasps are able to COM
municate with each other and the
imprisoned wasp possibly calls to it's
sisters. At any rate, the colony, one
by one in the course of the day,
will find its way into the jug. This
system is perhaps easier than the
of poison on food for the
Wasps. If the latter method should
be tried a little Paris green or white
arsenic may be distributed on minced
meat and scattered where the wasps
will find it.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1915-09-24

stock together in carload lots to be
sold at the large markets. Until
such demonstration has been salts
factorily made it would seem advis-
able to defer the matter OF organic
ing complicated undertaking in the
packing business. In any case, the
careful observance of the precautions
herein enum Grated can not be too
strongly urged.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1915-09-24
The Fair "COpette" and the Mideets.

MISS Blanche
ieWopan In the United States Her bearing inscription
q special Police Toyand the
Francisco Miss Poyson
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zone she enthusiastic great tbrongs
over crowds OF many thousands Of beside
Miss
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Ioyland Grown
$>o and
ana IN this land OF tba
poicewoman presde dignity efficiency '' No SA"
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1915-09-24
COUNTY AGRICULTURIST
FOR GRANT COUNTY

H. w. Reaugh has been appointed
County Agriculturist for Grant
County with headquarters at
Ephrata.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1915-09-24

FOR SALE-Bartlett pears, cook
ing apples, Italian prunes, Bradshaw
and Columbia plums. G. w. Vance,
phone M145, Pullm an. SEPT Tiff
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-02-20
Veteran Tobacco Dealer Dies
of Kidney Trouble
Thursday.
HE WAS Y YEARS OF AGE
Had Long Been Prominent As a
Business Man of Hop.
kinSville.

Maxwell D. Boales, the veteran
tobacconist and one of Hopki nsville's
most prominent citizens, died Thurs.
day night at his home in this city,
aged II years.
He had been a sufferer from kid
ney trouble for several years, but
had been in bed only three or
four DAYS. The funeral services will
be held this afternoon at the family
residence on Walnut street, conduct.
ed by Rev. Lewis Powell, of the
the Methodist church, of which Mr..
Boales was a member. lnterment
in Riverside Cemetery. He is sur
vived by a wife and one son, Max
we'll E. Boales.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-02-20
Member Of Famous RObbeF
Band Had Been in i'll Health
for Several Months.
HE WAS "a YEARS OF AGE
Afrer Spreading Terror over
Many States Lived Quiet
Life for 30 Years.

Excelsior Springs, Mo-, Feb. is
Frank James, of the notorious Jam e.
gang, died on his farm near here
yesterday. James, who was "a years
Old, had been in i'll health sever Al
months.
One of the last members of tire
robber band whose unparalleled ca
reer of crime during the Civil War
and the unsettled period that fo.-
lowed kept the people of dozen
states in terror, Frank James haG
been living the life of quiet farmer.
for more than thirty years.
The son Of a minister, respec ted
throughout the community, Frank
James joined Quantrel's guerril as
together with his brother, Jesse,
and took part in the sacking of Law
renee, Kan.
After the guerrillas disbanded the
James brothers became bandits.
Many notorious crimes of the decade
following the war have been laid at
the door of the James Younger gang,
of which the surviving members
were frank James and Cole Young
err, the latter of whom is now living
; at Lees Summit, Mo.
= Detectives surrounded the James
Y home near Kearney, Mo-, on Janu-
: airy %, 1915, and threw a lightee
I bomb into the house, thinking to
0 kill the James brothers 1t exploG-
j. ed, tearing the arm off their mother
and killing their brother, Archie.
In 1882, after Jesse James haC
been shot and killed in his home in
St. Joseph, Mo by Bob Ford, also q
bandit, for a reward Of $50, 100,
G Frank James surrendered IN Jeffer-
son City, Mo.
After his surrender, James sur
rendered at Independence, No,
:. where he was held in Jail three weeks
Sa1d later sent to Gallatin, where here
d manned in Jail year awaiting trial
= The trial was hard fought and
, lasted several weeks. Finally James
D was acquitted and went to Oklaho-
y ma. He never was in the peniten-
e tiary and never was convicted Of any
/ Of the charges against him.
s Funeral services have been ar
! ranged for Saturday at the farm
2 home. Burial will BE- in Kearney n
= Mo; the little town the former out
? law first knew as boy.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-02-20
EDITORIAL COMMENTS.

J Col. Eph. w. Lillard. one of the
Kentucky's best known politicians,
shot and killed himself Wednesday
at his home in Danville, KY. He
shot himself through the head, using
a revolver. Six years ago Lillard
was read out of the democratic par
ty when with three other democratic
members of the legislature he bolted
the party s nominee, j. c. W. Beck
ham, for the United States senate,
returning the late VIC Bradley a
winner after long deadlock. AS a
reward Bradley made Lillard his
private secretary and he served in
that capacity until the senator's
death, some months ago. Lillard
was former colonel in the state mi.
litia and wrs active in democratic
politics for many years. He was
native of Lawrenceburg, KY, but
had lived here for twenty yeare. He
is survived by his widow and three
children.