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Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-20
queer Drugs once in Use.

Alchemy and medicine, as it was
practiced in the early part of the Fiji
teenth century, haa many strange be-
liefs. Among them was that a roasted
mouse would cur cannon ball wounds
If it was bound tightly to the fracture,
and old blood could be made young
again by TRANSMISSION. Every starbeam
was thought to be a thread of light
that ran directly to the head of some
living man, and his fate was deter
mined by its action. 1t was also be-
lieved that rock crystal was ice that
had been buried a thousand years,
and that gold was once lead, that after
being buried 200 years changed to red
arsenic and 200 years after that was
changed to tin and her to silver and
last to gold.
A favorite treatment for govt was a
tea Of daisy petals and cures were
many, although the real secret was in
the fact the physicians put the patient
on a diet and a rest cure went with
the flowers.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-20
UNMARRIED BY PLOW's TOUCH
Rolling Plains a Scene of Great Beauty
Before the Advent of the
AgricuIturist

Seventy years ago Indians were
Indians, and the plains were the plains
indeed.
Those plains stretched out in limit
less rolling swells of prairie until they
met the blue sky that on every hand
bent down to touch them. In spring
brightly green, and spangled with wild
flowers, by midsummer this prairie
had grown sere and yellow. Clumps
of d%ark-green c~ottonwoods marked the
courses Of the i%nfrequent streams
for most of the year the only note Of
color in the landscape, except the bril-
liant sky. On the wide, level river
bottoms, sheltered by the enclosing
hills, the Indians pitched their conical
skin lodges and lived their simple
lives. If the camp were large the
lodges stood in a wide circle, but if
only a few families were together, they
were scattered along the stream.
In the spring and early summer the
rivers, swollen by the melting SHOWS,
were often deep and rapid, but a little
later they shrank to a few narrow
trickles running over a bed of sand,
and sometimes the water sank wholly
out Of sight.-George Bird Grinnell.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-20
LITTLE STORY CARRIED STING
Neglected Industrial Possibilities
Of the South.

D. A. TOmpkins, the father of the
%cotton-oil industry, who built his for
tune on his inextinguishable faith in
the industrial possibilities Of the
South, was fond of quoting this little
story about a Georgia funeral, says his
b~iographer, DR.. George Tayloe Win
ston, in ga Builder of the New
South"
II attended a funeral once in Pick
n county, Georgia, 1t was a poor,
'one-gallus' fellow. They buried him
in the midst of a marble quarry; they
cut through solid marble to make his
grave, and yet a little tombstone they
put above him was from Vermont.
They buried him in the heart of a
pine forest, and the pine coffin vas
imported from Cincinnati. They bur-
led him within touch of an iron
mine, and yet the nails of his coffin
and the iron in the shovel that dug
his grave were imported from Pitts
burgh. They buried him by the side
Of the best sheep-grazing country on
earth, and yet the wool in the coffin
bands and the coffin bands themselves
were imported from the North. The
South did not furnish a thing on earth
for that funeral but the corpse and
the hole in the ground. There they
put him away and the clods ratified
down on his coffin and they buried him
in a New York coat and a Boston pair
of shoes and a pair of breaches from
Chicago and a shirt from cincinnati,
leaving him nothing TO carry into the
next world with him to remind him
Of the country in which he lived and
for which he fought four years but
the chill blood in his veins and the
marrow in his bones"
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-20
CLEAN COWPEAS
MOST VALUABLE
Dealer Reaps Profit for Doing
Work That the Grower Neg
lects to Perform. .
wide Difference IN PRICE
Despite Commercial Shortage and
High Market Prices Producers Do
Not Sell More-Specialists
Give Timely Advice.

Until the growers see fit to place
their cowpeas on the market in a
clean and attractive condition they
may expect the wide difference be-
tween the price they receive and the
Wholesale price charged by the dealer to
continue, say marketing specialists Of
the bureau Of markets, United States
Department Of Agriculture. When the
dealer is compelled to do work that
the grower fails to perform, it is the
dealer who enjoys the profits.
Marketing Factors.
According to estimates prepared by
he bureau Of markets some 1O0,000,000
pounds of cowpeas enter commercial
channels every year. Of this quantity
% per cent is of mixed varieties and
sold at a discount of from so cents to
81 per 100 pounds. A large percentage
Of it also is made UP Of poorly
thrashed, unclean stock containing
much foreign matter and packed in
secondhand bags, improperly sewed.
AS a result of the use Of these ineffi-
cient marketing methods the average
wholesale selling price for ret1eaned
stock during the spring of 1920 was 60
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-20
PROPER Time TO
PREPARE GARDEN
A Few Well ared-For Hotbed
Sashes Are Good Money Max
ers on Any Farm.
COVER CROP IMPROVES SOIL
All Rubbish, Dead Vines or Plants,
Stakes and Poles Should Be
Cleared Away and Ground
Planted to a Green Crop.

Whether it is conducted on an ex-
tensive scale to supply the market or
whether it is to produce food for the
family the garden plot is likely to be
the most profitable acreage on the
farm. Gardening really starts in the
fall. When the last vegetables have
been removed and stored the prudent
gardener sets about to prepare the
ground for the next years crop.
Clearing Away Refuse.
Any rubbish, dead vines Or plants,
and bean poles or tomato stakes should
be cleared away, says the United
States Department of Agriculture,
and the ground sown to rye or some
other green crop to prevent the loose
earth from washing under the winter
rains. A cover crop also improves
the physical condition of the soil.
When a cover crop cannot be supplied
the next best thing that may be done
is to plow or spade the soil and allow
it to lie rough throughout the winter,
This practice destroys many insects
that lie just below the surface. This
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-20
Mixture of Races in France.

The mixture of races that have con-
stituted the French people Of today
has determined the principal physical
characteristics Of our people. Thus
1t has been found, writes the Paris
correspondent of the Journal of the
American Medical Association, that
the average height for men is 165
en-. Is feet 2 inches).
The observations indicate that $50
per cent of the French people have
chestnut hair. The blonds are next
in order, forming only 1882 per cent
Of the population. Pure black hair
is found in 1873 per cent-that is,
slightly more frequently than red hair,
which altogether was found in only
Or per cent of cases.
Pure black hair, so rare in France,
isl the rule in certain Mediterranean
countries lfor instance, in definite re-
gions of Spain). Very light blends
form the majority of the population Of
northern Europe.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-20
WANTED TO KNOW TOO MUCH
Young Financier Forgot That Banks
Relations With Its Clients Must
Be Confidential.

Banks and bankers give much time
and attention to the training of their
apprentices. The head of a big down
town institution was once giving a lee
ture on the work Of the paying teller
and, as Homer occasionally nodded,
this man felt justified in lapsing, to-
ward the end of his talk, into an in
formal narrative Of some of his early
experiences. He told of the. natural
reluctance of a bank to refuse to cash
a check for n entitled to the money
who might not be fully or regularly
identified and of various ways in
which an experienced teller satisfies
himself Of an applicants good faith.
"Once a charming young woman pre-
sented a small check at my window"
said the speaker. "She was transpar-
emily honest, but had no acquaintance
in the bank nor any letters or other
papers with her. I asked her if she
had a handkerchief or some article of
jewelry marked with her name or ini-
tials. After a moments deep thought
her face frightened and she asked:
"'Would an initiated garter buckle
do?'"
In the tumult that followed a bud
' ding inancier near the back of the
room raised his voice to ask, in a tone
Of detached scientific inquiry:
did she get the money!"
young man." answered the great
one, II have to remind you that a
banks relations with it's clients are
often highly confidential."- Wall
Street Journal.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-20

50 nc,p nu!N re East and West In
dies and from our farmers in the
South. The process was simple and
was just another Instance of a great
industry altering itself almost uncOn-
SciouSly TO meet new conditions. the
Nations Business states.
MOI mann wears age the prizes nf
the pig world went to the round. short
legged type, the kind nf hog tla; son
couldn't see under. The chief purpose
IN the life of that hog was to turn
corn into lard. Now it's the pig tyne
that is popular. the pig that makes
Q lean meat, more bacon and more
ham.
What has done it? For one thing
the Chinaman and his soy bean, coco
nut. corn, %cottonseed and peanut are
furnishing a vast amount of lard sub
stltutes at prices lower than the pig
can supply his product. SO the four
legged lard factory is turning to the
nam business and Tie Cinnamon. his
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-20
Best Sprinkler.

Many persons must have noticed
that the most diligent sprinkling of
lawns and flowerbeds fails to impart
to the grass and plants a vital stimu-
lus eqaal to that that comes from a
good shower Of rain.
1t is because rain. falling from a
great height through the air, brings
with 1t a considerable quantity of a r
bonic acid, of heterogeneous particles,
and of other elements nutritious to
plants. which II has washed out of
The atmosphere. So a sprinkler used
from the top of a tall building might
be slightly more effective than when
employed at the surface OF the
ground.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-20
s-..sl tall unlengtnened, has added to-
the legs of the American hog.
The Split Infinitive.

An infinitive is said to be split when
an adverb or adverbial phrase is in
serted between ito" and the infnitive,
as ito readily see" this construction
is not considered good English. AS a
sign of the possessive, "of" may be the
equivalent of the apostrophe IS" or it
may be used with the apostrophe So
in a somewhat different meaning, thus:
A saying of Wilson might mean "a
saying about Wilson," while "a say
ing of Wilson's would be lone of
Wilson'S sayings" said by Wilson him
self. You could say ''This is a hat of
my fathers" meaning one out of his
numerous hats. The English language
avoids the use of the genitive sign "of'
whenever possible, preferring the apos-
trophe With IS" my fathers hat"
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-20

per cent higher than the average price
paid the growers for the 1919 crop of
cowpeas. Similar conditions prevailed
with regard to the 1917 and 1919 crops.
To secure higher prices for cowpeas,
specialists Of the bureau of markets
who have made a careful investigation
of the matter recommend the following
practices:
1. Clean cowpeas thoroughly before
marketing. All hulls and other foreign
matter, as well as light and immature
seed, if any, should be famed out.
2. Keep the varieties pure. Only
straight varieties should be planted for
grain or seed production, and precau-
tons taken to prevent mixing at har-
vest time.
). Sack in new overweight bags,
well sewed. This prevents waste in
handling and the package will be more
attractive to the buyer.
a. Market in as large lots as posi-
Bile. 1t costs the shipper or local deal
er practically as much money to re-
ceive, weigh, record and pay for one
bag Of cowpeas az it does a ten-bag
lot. If car lots are available the cost
of handling per unit is still smaller.
All efforts made by farmers or grow
ers to improve the quality and mar
reliability of cowpeas add to the ini-
tial selling price.
Cause of Shortage.
Cowpeas are usually grown as a
catch crop, and on most farms regard
ed of secondary commercial impor-
lance. Yet the farm value of cowpeas
produced in the United States is some
thing like $3O,000,O00 a year. Approx
imately 750,00O,00O pounds of cowpeas
are produced annually, about As per
cent or 340,000,OO0 pounds of which
is required for planting. Of this latter
quantity is per cent is sold by growers
direct to farmers and 80 per cent nor
mally enters commercial channels to
be distributed by various dealers. In
1919, and again in 1920, the demand
for cowpeas for planting purposes ex-
ceeded the commercial new crop sup
ply, and abnormally high prices pre-
vailed. Despite this shortage and the
high prices, practically no effort was
made to increase the commercial sup
ply.
In the opinion of the bureau of mar
kets the commercial shortage was not
due to decreased production, but to
failure on the part of the growers to
prepare more of their cowpeas for
commercial distribution. To increase
the commercial supply it is seemingly
necessary for growers simply to con
serve the supply produced, and to pre-
pare and market more of 1t for plant
ing purposes. Such action would di-
rectly result In a larger profit to pro-
ducers of cowpeas, and indirectly bene-
At farmer consumers who desire 10
grow the crop for purposes other than
grain production. To feed cowpeas
suitable for planting purposes TO live
stock IL n practice that growers
should readily perceive Improbable IN
view of the prlces that cowpeas nov
command.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-20
WORLDS DEBT TO cHlNAMAN
Celestial Is Directly Responsible for
improvement in the Breeding Of
American Porkers.

The economic genius who figured
out that all that was needed to bring
unbounded prosperity to the cotton
mills of New England was to add half
an inch to each Chinaman's shirt tail
never carried out his project, but the
Chinaman, without Announcing his
plan, has done something quite as re-
markable: He has added inches to
the legs OF the American pig,
He has not done II alone He h"-
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Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-20
Ho.beds Furnish Early Vegetables at
a Time When They Command High
est Market Prices.

Ho!.beds Furnish Early Vegetables at
a Time When They Command High
est Market Prices.
winter frosts have a tightening effect
upon the soil, especially on clay soils.
The earliest and choicest vegetables
are harvested by the mar who main
tains a few hotbed sashes and uses
them to start his garden. He is able
to handicap the frost line by several
weeks, and to set strong, ~well-devel-
oped plants in his garden at a time
when his neighbors are planting seed.
The farm income is at it's lowest
point in the early spring. but it can be
increased considerably by the sale of
young plants grown in hotbeds and
ready for transplanting. Tomato, cab
bage, eggplant and pepper plants are
always snapped up when the first
warm planting days come, and they
are easily grown in the hotbed. A
little more space and a little more seed
than the grower needs for his own use
are, likely to bring good profits. Be
70. the ground freezes in the fall is
a good time to clean out the old hot
beds.
Unless the soil used in the hotbed
is. to be exchanged for fresh earth it
should be shoveled from the bed and
tossed into a pile nearby. The de-
cayed manure from the bottom is scat
tered over the pile and thoroughly
mixed with it 10 form rich soil for
next years beds. Over this goes "a
coat of straw or leaves held down by
bits of board to keep it from blowing.
Some farmers find it convenient to
use Evergreen boughs instead of straw
for the outer covering.
"A. Preparation Of Hotbed.
New hotbed pits should be dug so
that they will face the south, and the
location should be selected so that
the beds will be protected from the
cold north winds and late spring
storms. Sometimes the earth taken
from the new pit is suitable for use in
the hotbed, but this is the exception
rather than the rule. A few loads of
leaf mold from the woods mixed with
the natural soil wiz often form a
smooth. rich stoneless mass which
gives an ideal hotbed filler.
The back or north side of the frame
is usually from 10 to Is inches high
while the south end is about eight
inches, so that the whole bed may have
pitch enough to get the sun upon all
parts. The standard hotbed sash is
handled by most dealers, and measures
three feet in width and six feet in
length. A frame just wide enough to
support the sash seems to be the most
satisfactory, though wider beds are
sometimes used with supporting ridges
placed at six-foot intervals. A we'll
painted cypress. sash, glazed with a
good double-strength glass well SCI in
putty should give the careful gardener
~ to is years service.
Heat for the hOtbed Is furnished by
means of a bed of horse manure 8 to
no inches thick In the bottom of the
pit. Permanent h0tbeds are often
heated with coils of steam or hot.
water pipes under the bed,
Hotbeds require constant care to
prevent their becoming oyerheated,
especially during bright weather.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-07-28
Army, Navy and Ship
 Board Purchases To Be Under One Head

WASHINGTON, July 27.-An exec utive order to coordinate purchasing for the army, navy and shipping board and to permit transfer of sur plus from one government agency to another, was signed today by Presi- dent Harding. Director Dawes of the budget bureau originated the or der which divides the country into zones corresponding to army corps areas for supply purchasing with a general purchasing agent for each area, all working under a purchasing supervisor h Washington.
 General Dawes said the order must not create the impression that the war and navy departments are being placed in control of tsle budget or ganization.
 In each of the ntne areas, the order provided for the selection of an off cial known as the "co-ordinator." ]" They are to serve under a chief CO., ordinator general supply at Wash ington.
 The co-ordinator will have charge of sales of surplus government prop erty in their areas as well as eXer- else supervision over the purchase functions of the several departments and establishments.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-07-28
MAJORS BID IN VAIN TO LAND
 COAST LEAGUE BABE RUTH"

They are saying some nice things about Jimmy O'Connell, 19-year-old first baseman of the San Francisco Seals.
 The kid is an embrionic Babe Ruth and he looks like another Bill Lange.
 And major league clubs are bidding for him.
 This is O'Connelrs second season in professional company. Charley Graham discovered him at Santa Cla- ra College in the spring of 1919, but didn't sign him until the closing week of that season.
 Fred Mitchell saw O'ConRell at the plate in an exhibition series between the Cubs and Seals in 1919. After the first game he offered Graham SlO,000 for him. O'Connell had never played a league game.
 OConnell was an outfiesder in 1920. Graham converted him into a first sacker this season. He has the pep both in the field and at bat.
 O'Connell has hit .350 or better since the season opened He's i'm proving with every game.
 Scout Bob Connery of New York s Yankees just completed tour of the big western circuit. He saw every club and player. Before leaving San Francisco he remarked:
 YankS Bid
 t"Pll take O'Connell and let the oth- CT fellows buy the rest of the major league prospects in your league"
 Connery tried to make a deal for O'Connell, but Graham couldn't hear him. And Bob talked in five' figures, too.
 Muggsy McGraw wants him. That means the other clubs must bid high before Graham will even consider their offers.
 OConnell is a big, powerful boy He weighs about 190 pounds, runs exceptionally fast for big fellow. He takes natural, follow-through swing with his bat
 Distance Record
 OConnell has two record drives to his credit this season. Both were
Bisbee daily review., 1921-07-28
COP. CHIEFS ADMIT
 FAILURE NORRIS BILL

WASHINGTON, July 27.- Failure in the senate of the Norris bill to create a government agricultural ex- port financing corporation virtually was conceded today by Republican leaders and the agriculture commit tee, of which Senator Norris is chair man, decided to attempt drafting of compromise substitute to be brought up tomorrow. The action followed President Harding's recon mendations that the war finance cor poration be given power to finance agricultural exports.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-07-28
Nevada Will Fight
 Plan Of Los Angeles
 To Grab River Power

CARSON CITY, New, July 27.- The application filed last week by the City of Los Angeles for au- thority to appropriate waters ot the Colorado river in Boulder Can yon for hydro-electric powe~ de- Velopment has been returned for correction, it was announced to- day by state authorities, who said they had insisted that separate applications be filed for power and storage.
 Governor Boyle said the state would not get in the matter until it knew in detail just what the various public and private propos- aIs for Boulder Canyon develop -ment really meant. He declared the state would not permit "bar- tering away forever our rights to development of our own rich and vast territory with our own re- sources.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-07-28
Importers, Business Men Differ As To American Valuation

WASHINGTON, July 27.-Views of business men on the American yalu- ation provision in the Fordney tariff bill were given the senate finance committee today, ~nd support and condemnation of the plan came alter nately. The testimony marked sharply the line between the domes- tic manufacturer and the importer, the former supporting and the latter denouncing the proposition to change the basis of duties.
 Hearings on the tariff will be side tracked by the committee temporari- ly tomorrow while it considers fur ther the subject of funding the allied debts.
 Senator Curtis of Kansas. Republi- can whip, introduced amendments for a duty of 35 cents a barrell on oil and 15 per cent ad valorem on hides.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-07-28
COSTA RIGA REJECTS
 ARBITRATION PLANS

WASHINGTON, July 27. - Propos- als for submitting the boundary dis pute between Costa Rica and Panama to special arbitration at The Hague, laid before the state department by Narcisco caray, Panamanian secre- tary of foreign relations, have been rejected by Costa Rico. The attitude of the United States has not been publicly expressed, but is believed to be adverse.
 Octavio Beeche, Costa Rican minis ter here, in statement today declar- ed Costa Rica holds the controversy to have been legally determined by the White award.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-07-28
::, !lg!:I|:IEII|g'

The Miners & Merchants Bank, of Bisbee, has secured judgment in the superior court at Tombstone against Richard Sivich for the sum of $2151.- 73,. and for an order foreclosing a lien on Lot 4, Block IA, in the city of Bisbee.
 Bertha k. Roller has been granted a decree of divorce from William A. Roller, in the superior court at Tomb stone.
 l.. G. Moore has secured judgment in the superior court at Tombstone against J. c. Taylor in the sum of S143.27 and $500 costs.
 Antonio Borreo of Benson was brought to the county jail yesterday by Deputy Sheriff Billie Bennett, charged with having butchered a salf belonging to Supervisor D. A. Adams of Dragoon. While Borreo was not caught in the act, a number of wit nesses swear they saw the hide in Borreo's possession and on investi- gauOn a quantity of the meat was found under his bed at his home near Benson. H0 is held for trial in the superior court