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THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
ATUUTTA. GA. « MOB TH FORSYTH ST.
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What about the cam pal gn against tha
| boll wssvil?
Indications are that tha prune crop this
I year will also be a good one.
Georgia's per capita of candidates of
various kinds continues to increase.
We would also point out that the open
season for red bugs la still in full blast.
The legislature has gone on record for
’ world peace; now let congress follow
suit.
In Savannah they have a “champagne
fiend." Savannah is nothing if not
distinctive
What are you kicking about? You
I Mven't heard Mr. Fairbanks kick about
the beat
Florida is boasting over having had
no heat prostrations, but whag about
mosquitoes?
The legislature continues to pass new
Mils for the later Interpretation of the
. supreme court
Duly thankful are we for lowek- tem-
I perature, and may we continue to have
cause for thanks.
Dog days will soon be here—dog days
and the 40 days of rain or drouth, as
‘ the case may be.
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r Every day there comes evidence that
the commission form of government is
inevitable for this city.
I "Sweet potato crop will break rec
ords." Better a crop record broken than
L nearly any other record.
Atlanta's pension roll will be 100.000 In
ten years, according to the mayor—or
| almost as bad as the G- A. R.
The Rio Grande river Is In flood, but
then Texas has been pretty quiet since
hostilities ceased across the border..
Mr. Stokes, of New York, must regret
| by now that his advlee to the two girls
• was not verbal. Instead of written.
Market prices are down, but automo
biles. champagne and other necessities
are still at the same old high levels.
"Pittsburg elubs refuse to sell drinks
after 1 a. m.” Awful hardship. • This
is an eight-hour night with a vengeance
Champ Clark may be losing SI,OOO a
week from the Chautauqua platform, but
if he weren’t speaker of the house he
couldn't.
Why shhuld congressmen kick about
the length of the extra session? Think
. of being able to run up to Atlantic
City every Sunday.
New tbe Japanese are reported to be
going after a portion of our cotton erop.
There can be no objection to this. Ja
| pan’s money Is good, whatever her war
intentions. "t
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Witnesses in Dawson say they can
drink near beer without intoxication. This
may sound boastful, but there probably
are people who can.
It is quite true, as the New York Even
ing Telegram remarks, that nobody has
yet succeeded in handing J. Pierpont
Morgan the double cross.
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jrfty that now extends from Jacksonville
\ to New York city, is to be continued
Jfccros s the Canadian boundary to Mon-
Kfcraal. The legislature of New York state
Hkas recently appropriated one and a half
dollars for the construction of a
road from the metropolis to
Hltouses Point on the Dominion border
the work will be continued by
Vth* Canadian government to Montreal.
■ Thus will the national highway, the
■ father of good roads, become Intema
■ clonal.
GEORGIA'S NATURAL TREASURES.
Georgia is entering the most constructive era of her history.
To develop and conserve the state’s natural resources are the
sovereign need and purpose of the time.
The people have awakened to the vast treasure stored in their
streams and forests and fields, and have realized that these must
be duly protected if they are to be duly enjoyed.
It is well, therefore, that public thought should be embodied
into law and made a definite policy of the state government.
Just this is the design of the conservation bill which has been
introduced in the senate, a measure that is eminently practical and
opportune. It provides for the establishment of a state depart
ment of conservation, consisting of a board made up of the gover
nor, the commissioner of agriculture, the state entomologist and
the state geologist and also of a commissioner of conservation
wttom this board shall select. The work of this department will be
at once protective and educational.
For one thing, and that a vitally important one, it will see to
the rigid enforcement of laws relative to birds and game of fevery
kind. It will supervise the state’s forests and streams, safeguard
ing them against fires and destruction on the one hand, and against
pollution and reckless waste on the other. It will investigate the
extent and area of public lands lying along the coast of the state,
including the state’s marine oyster beds, with a view to their de
velopment. From time to time, it will issue bulletins, showing the
importance of protecting forests, particularly those about the head
waters of streams, and tbe disastrous effect upon soils when such
precautions are ignored.
Such a department as this will be of direct and far-reaching
service to Georgia’s agricultural and industrial interests. It will
provide an effective instrument for carrying out a policy in which
everyone believes, but which must be given definite application,
in order to produce practical results.
Especially useful will be the work of such a commission in
protecting birds and game. Under existing conditions the state is
fast being stripped of birds that are worth thousands and perhaps
millions of dollars to the farm as insect destroyers. The true
sportsmen of the state have repeatedly urged the passage of ade
quate game laws. No one understands more thoroughly than they
that unless protective measures are taken promptly many of the
most valuable species of birds will become extinct in Georgia.
The conservation bill provides for a thorough system of game
wardens in each county and for other administrative machinery*
that will make the statutes pertaining to this matter truly effec
tive.
Under the provisions of this bill, no additional expense will
be entailed upon the treasury. Indeed, the proposed department
will take nothing from the state’s general income, but at the same
time it will contribute to the public welfare benefits that will be
worth millions of dollars.
NATIONAL AID FOR GOOD ROADS.
United States Senator Swanson, of Virginia, has introduced a
bill calling for the annual appropriation of twenty million dollars
during a 1 term of five years for the improvement of post roads and
rural delivery routes.
* This measure, if adopted, will establish what has been long
and sorely needed—a national policy of highway development.
This is a vital issue to which the federal government has thus far
been singularly apathetic. Though many of the states, perhaps a
great majority of them, are devoting much time rfnd money to
road building, the nation itself has held virtually aloof from this
important field of public endeavor.
Any yet there is no duty which is more peculiarly national in
character than that of road building. The need and the value
of good roads apply to all the people of the United States in com
mon; and in order that the individual states may accomplish what
each of them desires and deserves it is necessary that the national
government link together these separate activities into one co-op
erative undertaking. Only thus can a nation-wide system of high
ways be created. „ v
Senator Swanson declares that his plan would open mpre thrin
a million miles of roads to government aid. Under the terms of
his bill the state would furnish an amount equal to that contribut
ed in each instance by the federal government, just as watpr power
find swamp land surveys are now conducted. Thus within the
next five years something like two hundred million dollars would
be spent on the improvement of public roads throughout the union.
It has been estimated that nine-tenths of the highways of this
country are impassable during rainy seasons. Yet, ninety per cent
of our internal commerce, it is said, must first or last be hauled
over the public roads. Senator Swanson reckons conservatively
when he declares that if these impassable routes were put in good
condition the agricultural and industrial interests of the country
would be saved more than twenty-three million' dollars annually.
The fact that such a bill has been introduced in the senate in
dicates the importance with which road building is now viewed.
It is to be hoped that the measure will become effective, and, fur
thermore, that it will stimulate the state governments to follow this
enlightened policy. i
FOR THE GOOD OF ALL GEORGIA.
A timely and progressive movement has been organized to
present a display of Georgia’s manifold products at the United
States Land and Irrigation exposition, which is to be held next
winter at Chicago. A more fruitful enterprise could not well be
conceived. It merits the hearty support of every community in
the state, for it bears vitally and directly upon their common in
terests.
This exposition is the greatest undertaking of its kind in
American history. It will exhibit the richness and variety of the
nation’s natural resources, particularly those of the south and the
west. It is estimated, conservatively, that half a million Ameri
cans will be in attendance between the day of its opening, No
vember 18 and its close December 9.
Never before, perhaps, has Georgia had such an opportunity of
presenting her inducements to capital and to home seekers. At
this exposition she will have the eyes and ears of the class of
people she must reach if her natural wealth is to be developed as
broadly and rapidly as it should be.
Many other southern states have already contracted for space
at the exposition and are now busily gathering material for their
exhibits. These include Alabama, Florida, South Carolina, Mis
sissippi, Louisiana and Virginia. Georgia cannot afford to lag in
this procession.
In order to get the movement definitely under way, “The
Georgia Exhibit Association” has been formed, with branches in
each of the eleven congressional districts. Its officers and com
mittees include the present governor and his predecessor, together
with scores of the state’s foremost citizens. Approximately ten'
thousand dollars will be required to give Georgia an adequate ex
hibit at the Chicago exposition. The towns and cities of the state
are called upon to raise this amount either through their boards
of trade and chambers of commerce or by individual subscrip
tions. It is estimated that twenty thousand citizens at fifty cents
per capita can easily supply the fund.
Every community should join earnestly and promptly in this
splendid enterprise that means so much for the progress and en
richment of the commonwealth. __
THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1911.
NIP THIS EVIL IN TIME
• bV BISHOF W. A. CANDLEB
In the South there are more church
members and a better observance of the
Sabbath than in any other section of our
country. If, indeed, it may not be said
that our section excels any other part
of the world in these things. We owe
it to ourselves, *to our ancestors who
ft&ve us these things, and to the world
which needs like blessings in all lands,
that we maintain the good which is
characteristic of us. Certainly we
should not become worse than we have
been, if we can not be better.
But there is a sjy movement on foot
to rob us of our Sabbbath- It proposes
at first to have Sunday games of ball
and moving-picture shows opened on the
sacred day, Sunday concerts having al
ready been secured without special pro
test upon the part of the churches and
those who are concerned for religious
things. Later it will call for other
forms of Sabbath desecration.
The movement has gone far enough,
and it should be arrested without delay
before it runs to a greater excess of
riot. “The Gideons,” an organization
of godly travelling men, are very wise
ly resisting the Introduction of ball
games on Sunday, and the preachers
have spoken strongly against both the
games of ball and the picture shows on
the Sabbath. These good men, both
clerical and lay, should press their op
position to these evils with all zeal. It
is not enough to pass resolutions in op
position to them: the most vigorous war
fare should be waged against them. They
are backed and defended by men who
will be active In their efforts to secure
them, and it will require equal activity
upon the part of all who oppose them
to defeat what is proposed. ready tne
cities of Montgomery and Mobile have
been captured by the enemies of the
Sabbath. They will try to accomplish
the same results in all our cities.
Once base-ball and picture shows are
allowed, other violations 01 the Subbath
will be demanded, and every added pro
fanation of the day will be invoked as
a precede... .or me Introduction o. some
thing worse. In the end not a vestige
of Sabbath observance will be left in
the South. Tne Sunday concerts (mis
called sacred concerts”) are made the
basis for arguments for allowing Sun
day ball-games and picture shows, and
from this fact we may easily preoict
how rapidly will be bro’ught in far
worse things unless the «'-• —> arrested
now.
There is no earthly justification for
any of these invasions of the Sabbath.
The stock plea made for them to the
effect that they are needed by "working
men,” who can not get any recreation
during the week, is the merest and shal
lowest pretence. The demand for such
evils comes from Idlers, whose lives are
given up to amusement and indolence,
not from the men of toll and industry.
The working men know very wen, or it
they do not know it they should know
it, that when Sunday sports have bro
ken down the Sabbath they will >e
forced to give seven days labour fqr the
wages of six. .-bove all men in v our
section, wage-earners have most to lose
in the ovei -hrow of the Sabbath and
most to gain in its maintenance.
But all classes are interested. Few
will be found to deny that it is necessary
to have religion in the land, and it is too
clear for argument or doubt that religion
can not survive without a day of wor
ship severely hedged about against the
intrusion of secular things into its sacred
hours. In all those lands where the Sab
bath has been given up to amusements,
and turned from a holy day into a holi
day, religion is languishing and ready to
die. Years ago Dr. J. G. Holland, while
editing Scribner’s Magazine, wrote upon
this matter after extensive observation
of the effect of what is sometimes called
the "Continental Sabbath”. He said
among other things: - "The most religious
and earnest of the Catholic clergy of
Europe lament ttife fact that the Sunday
of their church and their several coun
tries is a day of amusement. They see,
and they publicly acknowledge, that
without the English and American Sun
day they work for the spiritual benefit of
their people at a sad disadvantage. It is
this European Sunday, which we are
told is to come to America at last
through her foreign population. We hope
not. We would like to ask those who
would rejoice in its advent, how much it
has done for the countries where It ex
ists”.
Unfortunately what Dr. Holland hoped
would not come to our country has come
to many of the cities of the North. For
eigners coming out of Sabbathless lands,
have over-ridden, the Sabbath in New
York, Clflcago, Cincinnati, and other
cities in the North and West. Now the
tide of immigration has turned South
ward, and the same result will follow in
our section, if our people do not rise up
promptly and give all parties to under
stand that we will not have any such
things. Now we can nip the evil in the
bud, but if we d,elay, it will soon become
exceedingly hard to overcome.
THE INTERNATIONAL HIGHWAY.
The Jonrnal-Herald national highway that now binds New
York to Jacksonville is soon to be made international. In this
giant chain of good roads there is to be forged still another link,
extending across the Canadian border to Montreal.
This announcement becomes possible through the action of the
New York legislature in appropriating one and a half million dol
lars for the construction of a highway from New York city* to
Rouses Point, on the Dominion boundary. Thence the long road
will be developed by Canada on to-Montreal. Governor Dix has
signed the bill providing for this appropriation and in the imme
diate future tne work of construction will begin.
Three years ago The Journal and the New York Herald un
dertook the establishment of a highway from New York to At
lanta. The splendid success that crowned this effort is familiar
history, and is witnessed today by hundreds of miles of smooth,
well posted and durable roads. A few months ago, in response to
numerous and insistent appeals, these two newspapers launched a
irtovement to extend the national highway to Jacksonville. This
effort met with equal success, so that today an unbroken stretch
of good roads joins the north to the south.
The chief value of work of this character lies in the fact that it
is continually progressive. The Broadway-to-Whitehall highway
led naturally to the Florida extension. This is now to be followed
by the extension to Montreal, and thus will be consummated the
greatest achievement in the history of modern road building.
It is expected that the highway to Montreal will be completed
within two years. By that time we shall be enjoying the fruits of
Canadian reciprocity, and the anniversary of one hundred years of
peace between the English-speaking people will be at hand. A
happier commemoration of this event could not be conceived than
the opening of the international highway.
VICTIM OF ELECTRIC CHAIR ALMOST
BRINGS DEATH TO JAIL PHYSICIAN
(By Auociated Fre**.)
EDDYVILLB, Ky., July B.—When the
first execution under the new law pro
viding for electrocution in place of hang
ing took place in the state penitentiary
here today, it came near ending in the
death of tw’o persons Instead of one.
Prison Physician R. H. Moss stepped for
ward to feel the pulse of the negro, who
formed the first subject, before the cur
rent had been turned off, and barely
Men in our cities, who are apologists for
the evil, are deceiving themselves by en
tertaining the notion that in standing for
it they are only resisting an outworn and
useless piece of Puritanism. They are
undermining the foundatiori of faith
and uprooting piety. Whether they be
lieve it or not, they are fighting the
cause of all religion, and they are array
ing themselves with the forces of all un
godliness. They are helping to lead mul
titudes away from public worship, and
from all those inspirations and instruc
tions of the house of God which minister
to godly living and ordinary morality. In
the end they are preparing for their
children a religionless country and for
themselves the most unutterable and un
availing regrets.
Our country people are interested in
this matter, and to them we must look
for much help in the good fight of faith
for the maintenance of the Sabath. Their
sons and daughters come to the cities to
live and engage in commerce. The pro
cess of transplanting a young life from
the wholesome atmosphere of rural
scenes to the blighting influences of ur
ban surroundings is always dangerous,
however carefully its perils may be
guarded against; but if the Sabbath be
overthrown in the cities it will be fatal to
piety in almost every instance. For the
sake of their children, who have come
into the cities or who may come into the
cities, our country people should make
themselves heard in opposition to the
overthrow pf the Sabbath which is
threatened. Moreover, evils in the city
are more quickly now than ever com
municated to the country. If games of
ball are allowed in the cities, very soon
rowdy elements will go out from the
cities and combine with the same sort
of evil-doers in the country to inflict on
rural communities the same evil. The
automobile and the motor-cycle will make
their coming and going easy’. Away from
the eye of police they will not stop with
■the violation of the Sabbath, but will set
at nought all other right things, and will
commit all sefrts of evil deeds. Most of
our people in the country are church
going people, and they wish the contin
uance of the Sabbath handed down to
us by our fathers; but they must now
bestir themselves, or they will lose this
priceless heritage, which when lost can
never be recovered.
There is a phase of this subject which
the good people in both town and coun
try should not over-look. It is this: We
have state laws against these evils, and
city authorities are not competent to
nullify a state law. With reference to
many things this seems to have been
forgotten. Police-commissioners, city
councils, mayors, and other like authori
ties can not license crimes against state
laws within the municipalities under
their control, and when they attempt it
they should be caused to know their
place by the most vigorous application
of state law. There ought to be good
citizens enough in any county in Geor
gia,—including the urban counties that
assume to nullify statutes of the com
monwealth,—to have any transgressor of
our Sabbath laws arrested and prose
cuted.
If some cities continue their defiance
of the laws of the state, It may be
come necessary to ask the legislature
to' enact laws whereby their charters
may be repealed or suspended, and their
government put in the hands of commis
sioners who will see that the authority
of the state is respected within their
limits. Nullification by city is a new
and dangerous form of anarchy that
must be throttled. No city in Georgia
is wiser and better than the whole com
monwealth, and any of them can be
spared rather than allow the statutes
of the state to be defied with supercil
ious, urban contempt.
For the protection of the Sabbath qf
our fathers already we have good laws.
It may be doubted it another statute is
needed. But it is time to enforce these
laws. Buying and selling, gaming and
rioting, are already unlawful in Geor
gia. What is needed is the rigid en
forcement of the laws against these dis
orders. Before we can get these and
many other good laws enforced it may
be necessary to enact some further stat
utes to the end that corrupt juries may
be avoided. “The professional juror”
lynches the law every time he goes in
the jury box, if sufficient consideration
appears in view to him. It is time to
get rid of him. He should be excluded
from jury service and denied the right
to vote; for why should a perjured an
archist, who swears to support law only
that he may secure the opportunity to
subvert law, be allowed any part or
voice in choosing men to make laws.
Clear out the professional jurors, and,
if possible, put to work on the public
roads the starving shysters, who for
small fees conspire with law-breakers to
corrupt the fountains of Justice. Then
our Sabbath laws and all other statutes
will be effective for the ends which they
were designed to secure.
missed having several thousand volts
pass his body.
A warning ‘ yell from the penitentiary
electrician did not deter the doctor, who,
misunderstanding the caution, still ad
vanced, when a second warning had to
te given before he understood.
The negro, James Bucker, paid the
death penalty for the murder of a police
man at Lebanon. Ky., several weeks ago.
The report on the first electrocution de
clares it to* have been a success, except
for the slight burning of tbe negro's head.
FLIES THAT ANNOY THE COWS
Mid-summer is known as “fly time” i habit of settling in great numbers about
in the dairyman’s calendar. The mark- i the base of a horn, which they some
ed falling off in the milk flow of the 1 times completely cover, a habit which
dairy cows at this season of the year gives them their common name. They
is looked upon as unavoidable, and is confine their attention to cattle. They
attributed by many to the worry of the burrow in the hair about the shoulder,
stqck by flies. The failure to provide an the roots of the tall, and other portions
abundance of succulent forage to supple- of the body where they are not easily
ment the parched pastures seems a tri- dislodged. The injury done by the horn
fling contributory cause of the lessen- fly is by stinging, much like the
ing mills secretion, compared with the to. By means of a fine lancet they pierce
activity of the pesky, übiquitous fly, es- the skin, and suck the blood through
pecially at milking time. the tube or sheath. A small amounut of
The flies that are most numerous about irritating saliva is secreted in the oper- N
cattle are known by their common names ation. which causes congestion around
of the stable fly and the horn fly. the wound and probably more pain than
The stable fly resembles the house fly the piercing. They appear In swarms,
very much in appearance, but differs in and feed with the wings spread. The eggs
having the mouth parts fitted for piercing are placed in the fresh droppings of the
.the skin and sucking the blood of ani- cow, and the larvae can exist in the
mala. , The eggs of the stable fly are soft almost liquid manure.
usually laid in horse manure, the female Some individual animals suffer more
laying from 125 to 150 in a season. The than others, and dark colored animals
period of development from egg to adult more than light colored. These flies fol
fly is about 15 days. low cattle to the barn at night and re-
The horn fly is a new pest, and was main with them all the time.
first noticed in this country about 1886. Various remedies have been suggest- *
The first appearance of this fly was ed by good authorities.
the cause of considerable alarm among. Destruction of larvae in the droppings
the cattle men, and the experiment sta- by application of lime or the immediate
tions of the various states were appealed spreading and drying of the same,
to for Information in regard to origin Application of tobacco powder to de
and life history of this insect and for stroy the flies.
suggestions as to agencies for repelling Application of one of the following re
pellants: Ten to 15 per cent kerosene in
The horn fly is a small, grey fly, very water.,
much like the house fly, but smaller. Fish oil with smaU mixture of carbolic
measuring about three-sixteenths of an acid. Cotton seed oil, two parte and
inch in length. They have the strange pine tar one part.
THE COST OF
At present the horse is practically the
entire motive power of the farm. In
combination with Improved farm ma
chinery, the horse has, to a great ex
tent, replaced human labor. And the
modern farm deplends as much upon the
efficiency of the horse that is kept to
perform the labor as it does upon the
use of the human labor upon the farm.
In fact, the efficiency of human labor
upon the farm, and In many instances
the proper operation of the farm, de
pends entirely upon the farm horse. We
may readily understand, therefore, that
the farm horse is often the greatest
single factor in the success of the farm
ing operations. It is essential, then,
that the farm horse be so cared for, and
the farm so organized, that a maximum
return on the horse's labor can be se
cured annually.
It is true that horse owners generally
are not accustomed to look upon the
horses of the farm, or their labor, as
costing anything. The horse has been
considered so much of a necessity, and
so much a part of the farm, that the
question of the cost of the horse labot
to the farm, or of the methods by
which such cost may be decreased, has
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We are apt to neglect the hens during
the late summer months.
It is a sad mistake for a man to make
a good crop of grass into poor hay.
Work becomes drudgery >
fail to put our heart int</ it.
It is the evetß ateady thrift of our
stock that makes them pay a profit.
Clover is a more .efficient sub-soiler
than the best subsoil* plow.
Ducks kept on land must be supplied
with fresh water three times a day.
Your heifer when just coming in has
a very tender udder. Do not forget this
and ruin a good cow.
Fine gravel is not the proper grit for
poultry. They want a sharp material
with which to grind their feed.
Charcoal pounded fine and kept in the
drinking pans will keep the young and
old birds in good condition.
We can kill weeds by spraying but
they will not stay dead without rotation,
mowing and pasturage of tne land.
It is no sign that a hen is* hungry just
because she runs with outspread wings
whenever called. A hen never knows
when she has enough.
Locate the low spots and water chan
nels in your field this summer and see
that they are properly drained before
next spring.
Berkley county, W. Va., produced 100.-
000 barrels of apples last year and the
entire crop was sold In the orchard to
buyers at from $3 to >5 per barret
The farmer who wants good colts
should select his best brade mares and
creed them always to one good type ot
horse.
The National Assembly of Panama
City, has voted 5100,000 in aid of the
proposed world’s fair to be held in that
city in 1916.
Tobacco was Introduced into England
from America by Raleigh in 1586, and
wheat, barley and oats were introduced
Into the United States in 1607
Clubs for farm boys and girls to stim
ulate Interest in improved methods of
agriculture and better living condtlons
on the farm now have a total member
ship of 144,000 in the United States.
The Japanese government sent to Pres
ident Taft 2,000 cherry trees for use in
the national capitol grounds, but they
were found to be infected with diseases
and all had to be destroyed.
If the hens are expected to lay heavily
during the winter they must be cared
for every month of the year and fed
more heavily as the fall months come
on.
At seven weeks of age the ducklings
should be fattened for market and fed
only three ti.nes a day. A good fatten
ingfood is three-fourths meal .one fourtn
flour and 15 per cent beef scraps, and all
the green food they can eat once a day.
Ninety head of Jersey cows at Kirks
ville, Mo., sold at an average of 5170
per head, one cow alone bringing $760.
A local paper thinks the time is coming
whtn butter will sell for $1 per pound
and good milk cows at SI,OOO each.
A young woman 20 years old, manages
a frog farm in Alameda county, Callfor
fornia. It consists of two acres of
swajnpy land, but produces a fine profit
as she sells all the frogs she can raise
at from $2 to $3 per dozen.
A citizen 1 of Sheffield, Mass., owns
the oldest churn in country. It was
made during the war of 1812 Tor tne
purpose of churning goat's milk on ship
board. It has two small barrels or
wood In which plungers are operated by
a sort of walking beam.
HORSE LABOR
been very largely neglected. The/ques
tion of economy of power on the farm
is only brought up at those times when
consideration Is being given to soma o«n-
> er form of motive |>ower than the horse,
i It is a question, though, that—with ii»-
i creasing cost of feed, of care, and larger
> investment in horses—will constantly be
come of greater and greater import-
■ ance.
i The cost of horse labor depends upon. i
• many conditions that vary on each
i farm, so that costs are not siml ar on
different farms. However, the items
: that make up cost are similar on all
farms, and only vary in amount. It is
, essential, then, that the farm operator
have an accurate knowledge of what
i comprises cost, and what average costs
are. that he may institute such econo
mies in his management as seem desir
’ able. Carefully-kept records and ac
i counts with the farm hwse, show that
i the average cost of horse labor on the
i farm is about 8 1-2 cents per hour. The
I rate seldom averages less, and generally
i runs higher. This means that the ac-
■ tual cost, on the farm, of a horse's
r labor for a 10-hour day, is 85 cerits./or
i 51.70 for a team.—Thomas P. Cooper.
■' 11 J " .
A grouch is always the child of self- j
ishness and ought to die before it Is born.
i A milk can washed in pointed water
from the farm well may carry disease
to thousands.
■
Never drive a horse with so loose a
rein that you can not Instantly com
mand the situation if necessary.
.
Anything that is worth doing at all is
worth doing well. This applies to every
branch of farming.
1 Leave ten feet of space at each end,
of the garden for turning rows and seed •
these spaces to grass for wide end walks.
,
1 Florida and California orange* were
exported last year to the extent of 962,-
229 boxes, worth $2,445,559.
1 The machinery men just naturally love
a lazy farmer who houses his binder in
a fence corner and leaves hit plow
! standing In the ground.
The wise farmer will not lease his land
for less period than five years and it
is a foolish tenant who will accept a
short time lease.
This is the time to settle all dlfdcultfes
between owner and tenant, not at the end
’ of a law suit. Make written contract.
The milk-fed chicken is never allowed
to put on any frills in regard to its ap
petite. It is forcibly fed through a rub
' ber tube.
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When you cut the oats next spring get
Into them before they are dead ripe,
stack the straw carefully and feed it to
the sheep next winter.
Eight hundred miles of Improved roads
are to be undertaken by the Southern
Appalachian Good Roads association Os
these 300 miles are to be in North Caro
lina.
A narrow border of flowers, shrubs
or vines may be placed along the spaces
next to the fence and the scheme will
enhance the beauty of the garden.
Plant plenty of sweet corn. It is a •
wholesome food and the surplus, stalks,
and all is the very finest food for cows
and horses.
Plant a succession of beans, sweet
corn, radishes, lettuce and all other
quick-maturing vegetables so that they <■
may be had for use at all times.
To make strong egg shells the hen
must have a plentiful supply of mineral
matter, such as crushed oyster shells,
ground bone and clover.
Make continual war on the lice if
your poultry house is infested with
them. If free from them, see to it
that your premises are kept free
Montana has 20.000,000 acres of good
farm land unoccupied and much of this
which has been used for stock ranges
is being cut up into small farmt.
A woman of Dayton, ‘Wash., cleared
$9,330 last year from ten acres of on
ions. Her crop yielded about 1,000 sacks
per acre and all were sold to a New
York firm.
The garden soil is to expensive mate
rial to lie idle for half the growing sea
son when it is capable of producing
large crops through all the grovdng sea
son.
V
Alfalfa is not a pasture plant. It will
not stand pasturing very well, and cat
tle and sheep bloat very easily on it.
It is, however, an ideal pasture for
hogs. It will likely Last two or three
years under such treatment.
The cause of mortality among young
ducks may be traced to overheat, damp
ness, getting wet. lack of grit, gray head
lice, sudden showers, delayed hatches,
exposure to sun, lack of frest water,
drinking vessels too shallow, breeding
stock out of condition.
