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The Springfield herald., 1917-08-17

If it is patriotic to put mini
mum price on wheat. why not be
patriotic all the way through and
also put a minimum price on
flour? If these flour men are to
lose out next year as they have
the last year-it would certainly
be a great calamity.
The Springfield herald., 1917-08-17
Hon. Edward Kea, ing has for

Hon. Edward Kea. ing has for
warded a large supply OF agri-
cultural bulletins to be dlstriout-
ed at our fair this fall. These
bulletins are good thin.9 and
should be made more use Nj py
farmers generally. 1t is very
kind of Mr.. Keating to thus an
deavor to place these bulletin s
where they will do the most
good.
The Springfield herald., 1917-08-17

An interesting letter from Reg
lister Beavers with reference to
oil leases and oil rights on home
steads will be published next
week.
The Springfield herald., 1917-08-17

The shipyard at Portland, (,
Ore, after securing the Pacific
states for help, is, through their
state editorial association, ap-
pealing to all newspapers to adj
vertise the fact that they must
have $1,000 nore men, and that
the job will be good for years,
The Springfield herald., 1917-08-17

At II a. m. Saturday there
were 65 cars, 63 other rigs and
three motorcycles on the streets
Of Springfield, and at 8 p. m. 10
cars and IS other rigs. Cars in
the garages were not counted.
The Springfield herald., 1917-08-17

Setonsburg in the west part of
the county and Boston and Ston-
ington in the east part each had
a five-inch rainfall Monday night.
The Springfield herald., 1917-08-17

By an order of the army COM
missioning Red Cross officers,
Ex. President taft became ma
ior general. If Roosevelt were
dead, that would be enough to
make him turn over in his grave.
The Springfield herald., 1917-08-17

BE patient.-83 sacks of mail''
displayed in the P. o. window
Monday, gives an idea of the new
order of things in Baca county.
During the Middle Ages of Baca's s
history two sacks of mail loaded
to the brim wasn't very bad.
The Springfield herald., 1917-08-17

Denver had a chance to get a
great aircraft factory-the Buck
outfit, but let Kansas City come
right up to their door and take it
away from them. What's eatin'
those Denver fellers, anyway?
The Springfield herald., 1917-08-17

The fair premium books were
ordered the first of the week.
and next week will be here for
distribution. The rains of the
last week gives assurance of d
big fair this year.
The Springfield herald., 1917-08-17

The national assets of the Unit
ed States is equal to the combined
wealth of Great Britain, Russia,
France ard Italy. America to.
day has two and quarter times
as much wealth as Great Britian
four times as much as France
aud eight times as much as 1t.
ally. 1t is the richest nation in
all history. = Capper's Weekly.
That is good report, but the
great trouble is that a few men
havei their hands on the great.
er part of the incre ased wealth.
TIE richest nation on earth
doesn't mean anything more
than a country of millionaires
and near billioaaires-in these
modern days.
The Springfield herald., 1917-08-17

Our exhortive neighbor seems
to be burning with feverish de-
sire to get into a conversation
with the Springfield Herald.
The Springfield herald., 1917-08-17

We will venture there isn It an
inland town in the west, and
centainly no other town in south
eastern Colorado, that is doing
the growing that Springfield is
and has been for the last three
years. Marvellous, wonder
full, !" is the common expression
of visitors and prospectors driv-
ing into or through Baca's Pres
ent pleasing metropolis.
The Springfield herald., 1917-08-17

At last the drouth am broke.
A million-dol rain has fallen
% inches to as high as 9 inches
average probably 4 inches. Feed
is thus assured for prac-
tically everybody, there will be
much grain, while broomcorn
and beans Will bring thousands
of dollars into the county. The
sowing of wheat is next in order.
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1917-04-26

turn on in about six weeks. If as
much as two acres is sOwn it is better
to have the lot divided into two pieces
and SOW on piece a little later than
the other and pasture alternatively.
Sow six pounds of seed per acre when
Isown alone; but if oats are sown with
the rape then one-half bushel of the
former and four pounds of the latter
will be sufficient The land should
be fortified unless it is very rich.
One acre of rape is supposed to keep
ten hogs for three or four months.
Another reader asks whether the
ground should be ~inouelated for rape
and where the seed can be purchased.
R0a, IL a0& q hegNAe and therefore in
aculatton would do no good. Our,
readrs should remember that only.
legumtnous crops needs inoculatioo
and they do not need 1t after they have
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1917-04-26
. GARDEN FOR EVERY CHILD.

American farmers are keen1y alive
to their duties as we'll as to- their op-
portunfties. The great drawback is
lack of help. No one will expect the
boys and girls to do the heavy work
of the farm. No one should want to
deprive them of their right to health
full play. but there are kinds of work
which will be helpful to the child as
well as to the nation OF these gar
dening is both easy and interesting
Encourage the boys and girls to. do
their bit by caring for the garden.
Give them a plot of ground for their
own on which to grow potatoes, beans
and other staple crops to sell. Let
them feel that they have-a part in
helping Uncle Sam in these turhu-
lent times and thus encourage patriot
ism as well as thrift. Teachers, par
ents. every one who has to do with
children in country, town or city Will
do well to help them to do their part,
We hope that every child may have a
MISUNDERSTANDING.
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1917-04-26
GIVE "sYRUP OF FIGs''
TO CONSTIPATED CHILD
delicious "Fruit Laxative" can't harm
tender little Stomach, liver
and bowels.

Look at the tongue, mother! If
coated, your little ones stomach, liver
and bowels need cleansing at once.
When peevish, cross, l~fstless, doesn't
sleep, eat or act naturally, or is fever
ish, stomach sour, breath bad; has
sore throat, diarrhea, full of cold, give
"A teaspoonfuI of California Syrup Of
Figs" and in a few hours all the foul,
constipated waste, undigested food
and soN bile gently moves out of it's
little bowels without gripping, and you
nave aGweH1 playful child again. Ask
your druggist for a 59-cent bottle of
tains full directions for babies, chill,
dreu Of all ages and for grown-ups,
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1917-04-26
MEICAILF,
Enf0mO10pis

Editors Note-Mr. Cannon will be
glad to have a pint Of these bean seed
from any one to send to Raleigh.
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1917-04-26
STATE CAPITAL FARMERS.
Wake and Raleigh Well In the Lead
I'm Raising FOod-Takfng Tine
by the FereIOck.

Wake county, slow to move, per
haps, in some things, will not yieE
first place to any one in doing it's par
in the production OF food-or least
that official part of Wake county which
can lead it's leading. County Super
intendent of Schools Giles, who has
been talking preparedness at all
points of school committeeman and
children. has issued orders that the
farm life schools of the county plant
their entire acreage to food crops.
The Chamber of and RO-
tary Club campaigns for home gar
dens resulted in the distribution of
free seeds to two-score of families
and to about 700 school children. 1t
is probable that some of this number
had gardens last year; but an ultra
conservative estimate places the in
creased number gardens which will
partially care for the vegetable wants
of the city at five hundred.
Practically everybody is going in
for Irish potatoes, and it will not be
long before one may know the home
gardener by his aura. for all are
planting onions. The Chamber of
ommerce president is specializing on
these two crops in his home garden
and is putting potatoes in some lots
in. Bloomsbury.
Commissioner of Labor and Print
ing Shipman has his garden planted
here and can show callouses or. his
palms to prove it. He also issued in
structions that own property at Hen
Jacksonville be put to truck, corn.
bunch beans, lettuce, tomatoes, pota-
toes and the ubiquitous onion are his
specialties. His assistant, George B.
Justice is the owner of a farm in this
county. and while the planting is left
to. q "culIud" gentleman ION the
sheers", Mr.. Justice has seen that
every available bit of land is planted.
and on this one warm the acreage
given to food crops last year has been
increased several hundred per cent.
State superintendent Joyner could
not be found Thursday morning. but
was probably in Lenoir county seeing
that his farm does it's part in increas-
ing the food supply. Chief Clerk
Pittman of the Department of Educa-
ton has one garden in and is trying
TO rent another. E. E. Sans works in
his garden from a quarter past in the
evening to eight O'Clock, eats supper
and spends the rest of the evening in
looking at pictures in a seed eatalog:
Loan Fund Clerk, Sol Brewer in
tends to at least plant a "1azy mans
bed" of Irish potatoes in his back yard
if nothing more.
All in all, granted a good season,
Raleigh will come nearer feeding it
self than it has since the municipal
authorities banished Digs.-Raleigh
Evening Times, April 10.
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1917-04-26
BOYS AND GIRLS CAN HELP.

Unless all signs fail the greatest
need of our country next fall will be,
not men or munitions. but food. Never
has the gospel of "raise things" been
more needed than now. Never has
the country been so short of food nor
has it ever had such a tremendous
call for foodstuffs from other lands.
We Americans may we'll apply to our
selves, the statements of Lord Sell
borne of England who in speaking to
the English farmers said. "You are
trustees of your land to do your best
for England. You have your duty
cruiser or the colonel of a battalion.
England has a claim on you farmers
as clear as she has on sons and
husbands who go and serve in the
trenches"
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1917-04-26
HUSI[ERS AGRICULTURAL PAGE

Henderson Comfy Farmers are urged to contribute to thee columns Of this page which are devoted to the
ubundngH the eunHs4 agricultural interests. AL letters mMfb signed W Ee n u% an. I Ia.a 1
M wmdd from mbUaHnT renetd 1t hodM thai members fhe HOnaRs Bemmef A@Mhom and
Girls Canning Clubs will take admtaNf this page In sHEhEdng aH@@"H We 90"
respective mOdadash throughout the "Nb.
this PAGE is UNDER THR DIRECTION OF TR BOARD n GRCULTVk or hEmhNeN Ce0NT11
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1917-04-26
An APPEAL 10 THE BOYS
OF HENDERSON COUNTY.

There are over 5000 boys and girls
belonging to the club organizations,
which is doing great things for North
Carolina in this time of need, We
wasn't more boys in these clubs. Will
YOU be one to help your country
You expect to be leader among men
some day. Why not commence now
by being a leader among the boys OF
your community? Prove the fact that
you are a rural leader. We want
more corn, pigs, potatoes-things that
can be eaten. II. you can't grow any
thing else, grow soy beans or COW
cas-.
Women and children are now till
Ing the soils of England. France, and
Germany, III order that the men who
fight may be fed. Last year we had
a shortage of all foods, with the ex-
ception Of rice. Let us put u
shoulder to the wheel and do our
part.
MI. Bradford Knapp, the chief OF
all this work in the South, suggests
this slogan: Every Club Boy Feed a
Family" Mr.. Knapp says: eff every
farm boy in North Carolina between
the ages of u and Is could raise
enough food to sustain a family of five
persons for n year, what a great
thing it would be-"
We need your help. President Will
son believes in you. He has just said
that the nation would have to depend
on boys and girls like YOU.
(FRANK FLEMING.
> County Agent.
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1917-04-26

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French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1917-04-26
b a BREED OF COWS.

I had no trouble to select a breed
Of cows for my dairy work, but when
T. E. H. of tVirgisia asks me what
breed Of-cows he should select for his
work I cannot answer SO easily. He
had thought of the AYRSHIRE and the
Dutch Belted for several reasons. The
Dutch BeIted cattle have. passed as
the Holsteins have become more pop
ular. In the opinion of the great ma
jority of breeders the Holstein q all
! the good qualities. OF the Dutch Belt
| ed and some more besides and the
Dutch Belted has gone far in the back
ground. The AYRSHIRE cattle have
many desirable traits and qualities.
First they r hustlers and q living
is to be had on the rough pasture they
get 1t. Also they have not been bred
SO long or so much for show points:
or fancy 4 features as some other
breeds and while they do not show so
much uniformity as sGme breeds they
can compare with any in vigor and
have to spare usually. But in both
Of these Qualities the Brown Swiss can
also hold up their end well. Neither
the Brown Swiss nor the AYRSHIRE
gives so much milk as the Holstein
nor so much butter as the Channel
10ldnu CdGG1Cs. IL Is 00AAO 0AN \ AAA
truthfully, that the Ayrshire milk is
particularly desirable for infants or
invalids as the b~utterfat g1obules are
very small, but if we wish to make
butter out of the milk this might be
undesirable. The same is claimed
for Holstein milk. The Ho1stefns are
the great mixers of rather low test
ing milk but they are d~eservedIy pop
ular breeds in the United States at,
this time. The Channel Island cattle
are the great butter makers of the
world. They make butter for less J
money than any other cattle and you
need not handle a carload of milk to
get a little butter. You do not need
big a bucket because they do not
put so much water into it. Between
two two Channel Island breeds, the
Jerseys and Guernseys, there is not
much choice except at a matter OF
fancy. It is just possible that the
Jerseys in certain families have been
bred mere for show than is desirable
We exchanged fancy points for
igor. This is not true of all fam
lies, as l have had experience for
many years with Jerseys and found
hem equal to any along this line.
The Guernseys are forging to the 4
rOnt rapidly in many sections and are
cattle. l believe our Vir-
sinia friend will not go wrong on ar
If the breeds mentioned if he will Sc
'ure foundation stock from good and
workers. Possibly several
armes in his community have pure
'red stock of one of the dairy breeds,
md if such is the case it is we'll to
consider that breed carefully because
here are many Advantages in having
ne breed only in a community. When
he breeders increas to a respectable
that section will become
as a place to r~cUre the par
ocular cattle bred, AMI buyers will
ONE in and bid up to top prices for
II surplus. Furthermore it then
'ays well to have an extra good bull
n the community to use with the best
0ws and try to produce record break
Isl. ". Lightly in National Stock
IAN and Farmer.
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1917-04-26
KEEVIL EATEN BEANS.
West Raleigh, April II. 1917.
Mr.. A. Cannon,
Horse Shoe, N. G.

Mr.. A. Cannon
Horse Shoe. N. c.
Ny lear Sir:
Mr.. Sherman has forwarded me sam
pies of badly weevil eaten beans with
a note to the effect that you were intel
ested in methods for the control OF
these insects.
We have carried on numerous ex-
periments for the controT>of weevils in
beans and peas. The two most salts
factory remedies consist of storing
beans to two parts Of air Stacked lime
All that is necessary in using this
method is to mix the beans and the
lime together at the time they are har-
vested. This method is perfectly sat-
isfactory for seed beans so there
would be no objection to the lime in
case the beans are stored for eating
purposes. The lime might be consid-
cred Objectionable by some however,
but the lime can easily be washed off
and so it cannot possibly injure the
beans for food and it seems to. me
that there cannot be any serious OBJ
lection to its USE 1t has a very
great advantage, when once the beans
are treated they require no further
treatment if they are used. The
treatment of air Stacked lime Gems
to have no effect on the terminating
power of the beans hence, there is no
danger in treating beans to be used
for seed.
AS beans become infested with wee
wills in the field they should be treated
as soon as they are harvested and an
other satisfactory method is to treat
the beans with not water. This is
done by simply throwing the Deans
into a vessel containing the hot water
and leaving them in for a few min
utes, the beans are then taken out and
dried and stored in the usual way.
If the water is no hotter than 40 deg.
this will not injure the beans for seed
purposes.
Water al 40 is a little hotter than
one can bear the hand in comfortable.
If the beans are tC be used for TODD
purposes only there would be ad-
vantages in using the water hotter.
the chief objections to this method is
that it may be necessary to give the
beans additional treatment so II
sure that you will find the air
Stacked lime the best.
Would it not be possible TO ryou to
send me a large sample of these beans
by mail, say a pint if you have that
manyAtO spare as we are anxious to
get weevils from your section Of the
state.
Trusting that this gives you the de-
sired information and that if there are
any points that are not clear to you
that you will please let us know, I am,
Yours truly,
z. P. METCALF,
Entomologfst.
Editors Note-Mr. Cannon will be
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1917-04-26
RAPE FOR HOGS

- A Kentucky reader writes that he
was interested in what was said re-
Gently in these columns about rape
and oats for hogs and asks that more
specific information be given. There
is possibly no plant that can be soWn
now that will come on and make pas
ture SO quickly as rape and there is
nothing the seeding Of which is cheap
err. Rape may be soWn any time be-
tween March first and August first and
In good growing weather will do to
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1917-04-26

What can I do This is the real
question right now. No one. per-
haps, but yourself can answer. the
question. You may be able to plant
more than ever before. You may be
able to help your neighbor in the
village by blowing his garden. But,
whatever your and my part may be,
let us raise things" as never before.
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1917-04-26
WHY Constitution INJURIES.

The bowels are the natural sewer.
age system Of the body. When they
become INSTRUCTED by constipation a
Fart Of the poisonous matter which
they should carry on is absorbed into
the system, making you feel DUH and
stupid, and interfering with the dfges-
ton an ASSIMILATION Of food. This
condition Is quickly relieved by Cham
berlain's Tablets. Obtainabfe every
Where-adV.
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1917-04-26

Late cabbage is q great crop when
food is scarce. &c Is easily possible
ito grow Is to 20 toms Ia the acre. Ths
domestic. sorts such as Bnglingen
lGlory and Succession are good kraut
varieties. Danish Ba1lhead is our
best keeper. Sow Iate cabbage when
the apple trees are in full bloom
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1917-04-26

Field beans should be more gener-
ouslX grown. The, CAMDEN shell va
rieties should also be more commonly
cultivated. Beans for seed purposes
are very scare. tits, important not
to- delay ordering. If you ere anxious
to plant q larger area than usual
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1917-04-26

been, grown a time or two on a piece
OF land. Rape seed can be bought at
almost any seed house. The seed
costs 10 cents per pound.-Exehanga
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1917-06-15

wrench from the hand of the engineer.
who had listened from the e%ngine'room
door. 1t struck Elisha's chronometer
and knocked it off the house. box and
all, into the sea. The tug steamed back
to her scows.
THAT lessons our chance just so
much" growled Elisha as he joined the
rest Now we can't do all we
agreed to-"
Keep dead %reckonin'. 'Lisha,' said
Martin. Oats good 'nough for us
An, say, can't you take sights by a
watch, Jess for a bluff, to show in de
logbook?"
Might. 'Twouldn't be reliable. Good
enough. though. for logbook testimony
That's what III do"
Inch by inch they gathered in their
cable and coiled it down. unmoved by
the protesting toots Of the steamers
whistle. When half Of It lay on the
deck the steamer slowed down, while
her crew worked at their end of the
rope; then she went ahead, the schOon-
er dropped back to nearly the original
distance, and they saw a long stretch Of
new manila hawser leading out from
the bride and knotted TO their cable.
They cursed aud shook their fists. but
pumped manfully on the windlass and
by nightfall had brought the knot over
their bows by means of a messenger"
and were heaving on the new hawser.
"Weakens our case just that much
--- .NFN A.
furnish the towline."
"Heave away. my boys!" said Mar
tin. "Dey's only so many ropes aboard
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1917-06-15

rious expression. They re not dom Il
for nothin'. They're wavin' their hats
at Us. SOmetAin VI their minds.
Wen 1es' let 'em wave Wen 20
long bout orr business"
So they went at eight knots an hour
for. try as they might. Amos. could get
no more out Of the engine shes a
devil to chew up COAL he explained
We may have to burn the boat yet"
Hope not" said Elisha Tween
you an me. Amos. this is a desperate
bluff we're maxim. an If we 20 to de-
stroyln' property we may get no credit
for savin' It. We'd have no chance In
the English courts at all, but it's likely
an American judge I'D recognize our
original p~osition-our bargain to steer
her IN"
Too bad bout hat tarred cable Of
ours. 'rejoined Amos. Three days good
fuel in that, | calculate"
We'll. it's gone with the Goldfish, and
the fact is properly entered In the log