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Newspaper Page Text4 THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL ATLAMTA GA.. S NORTH FORSYTH St. £«:«red at tbe At'anta aa Mail Mattar of tb* See-'nd Ciaaa. JAMES R. OBIT, President and Editor. SURSGRITTION PRICE TwHro ssontbs Hr mmtbs 4* Three axictbs . -* c T»* fcad-WrHlj J.woal la published ea Teeoday and Friday, and Is malted by tbo abort *st rnntra for early delivery. '■ •-states sews from all over tba wnrld. mvarbt by seeda! teased wires Into ew efrc«. It baa a staff of dl«ttnea*bed contributors, with »tH»« departments of epevlal ea.ue to tbe bmw and tbo farm. oavaca arantro at ever? pcatofflce. J l ****’ eetnmlsatno shewed. Outfit f ve. Write te R. R. BRADLEY. Circulation Dept- The only travetlcy repreeectatiees we hare are 3. A. Bryan. B. F. Bolton. C. C. Coyle and M. B. Gil roe th. We will •>* reorcoafble only foe mosey paid to the abate saaiM trarolls* reoeeoeo tat I r ee. NOTICE TO sJBbCRIBEM The label seed foe adArraalnc yoo» paper abowa tbe time yncr •utecrlptloa expiree. By reoewlo; at leant two weeks before tbe date oo tbs label, yoe tenure regular etvien. in ordering paper changed, bo ante to mentivo yonr old. aa well ma year new, eddreaa If co • rural route, tdeaae giro tbe route number. tee cannot enter aaboeripttetia to se cts with beck sombero. Remittance •booil be eent b/ portal -rder or re«f»- t*r»d mail. drpartmect to TBE BBMI-WEEKLT Addr-m all o-dero trd notices for tile JOtRNAL Atlanta. Oa. ——J The real battle, however, will be In the world's series. Wonder what Japan thinks of the Republicanism in old China? The weather is cool enough now to don Schedule K and keep it on. It is a cinch that the police, in their crusade against vagrants, won't bother the idle rich. . I a large part of the population of the state of Georgia just now is com posed of candidates. In spite of various arbitration treat ies the nations continue to add to the strength of their battleships. The loss of the bath tub trust’s case is not as severe as it. would have been if It had come during the hot weather. The Italian-Turkish war has dropped to the semi-obscurity of being featured on the inside pages. Twenty-three Inches of snow in Mon tana sounds like a hard winter prospect— for Montana, at least. No ambitious war correspondent, who Is sober, capable and wants to wont. need starve these troublous times. The time is not yet for advising people to do their Christmas shopping early, but when it arrives we shall so advise. There may be some great writers liv ing, but the man who writes about tbe world s senes will be the most read. * The council committe thinks that 12 clubs are enough to satisfy the city's thirst. Maybe so In normal times. There must be something in Dr. Cook. Here he is still inspiring doubt, as to whether he ever reached tbe north pole. Now the pure food experts want u. know what vinegar is. They might swallow a glass or so of it and find out. \ If wars continue to grow in fre quency there will be a scarcity of a certain kind of labor —war corespond- ents. Jt is quite probable that somebody is Snaking money out of the depression or stocks on the New York Stock ex change. Where is the old-fashioned business letter which began: “Yours to hand and contents noted and in reply to same"? Would that we had the time to at tend some of tbe interesting county fhlrs that are being held throughout the state. Now that China has become a Re public. it is to be hoped that she won't put a prohibitive tariff on Christmas fireworks. Tact's main object these days seems to be to defend his admin istration and attack the “muck-raking*' magazines. w Now that war has been ordered on the city s vagrants, maybe we can get labor for at least one day out of the week. It makes no difference as far as his own personal reputation as a ball player is concerned, whether Ty Cobb's team wins the pennant or not. Here's hoping we've beat all the para graphers to the statement that the Ohio courts gave the electric .trust a shock when they ordered it dissolved. Tbe latest news from Paris is that hoopskirts are coming in again. As contrast to the other extreme, they should prove effective. What a relief, on opening your mail and dreading the usual dun, to find instead a letter from a candidate ask ing you to vote for him! x That old talk about elastic currency is again current. Os course we need elastic currency, a one dollar bill, for instance, that would stretch into two. When the. world's series is decided, it will be time to definitely decide who Is entitled to the cotton flicking championship of the state of Georgia. Never was there such changing of governments. First it was Portugal, then Mexico, and now China. New watch the United States for a change of presidents. Yesterday was Friday, the thirteenth but the major part of the population of the city of Atlanta is back at- the same old stand today, no worse for the experience. The wife of an Indiana novelist has divorced him because she wants to con tinue to live in Indiana. If she wants to live in Indiana, is that anybody eise's business ? y, A Chicago tailor says that Mr. Bryan Is the best dressed man in' public life. This may or may not help Mr. Bryan with the voters of the rural middle west It Is our opinion, based on what we have read and observed and oh a gen-» eral knowledge of conditions, that the -earn wnich gets the most runs will win the world’s series Hood’s Best family physic. Mt ■ ■ ■ Ho not gripe or cause ■ ■ ■ K pain. Purely regeta- | I■ ■ LU •••» k* OK*. A NEW MOVE TO RECLAIM SWAMPS. It is announced that the National Irrigation Congress which meets this winter at Chicago will give particular attention to the drainage of swamp and overflow lands. This is a matter of vital and timely interest to Georgia and, indeed, to the entire south. It is hoped that the forthcoming convention will enlist more liberal aid from the federal government in the reclamation of the coun try’s morasses, so many of which are found in the Mississippi val ley and along the South Atlantic coast. The government is said to have spent something like seventy million dollars in irrigating the arid lands of the west, with the result that thousands of hitherto idle and hopeless acres have been made to blrtssom and contribute to the country’s growth. In this particular enterprise the government not only supervised the sur vey of the lands, but also advanced money which the property holders repay in installments;'and thus the carrying out of the improvements was greatly hastened. In this connection the Louisville Courier-Journal says: It would not coat as much to dram swamp lands as it does to deserts Once the draining was accomplished the swamp land would be “.“rod than th. ..ml. Th.r. .re mt™.. °' = P. in some parts of the United States, the drainage of which represents too 1/rge a proposition for- individual effort. The work of reclamatom would be greatly facilitated If the rederal government could advance the money for these larger projects on the sam? plan by whichit now advances millions every year for irrigation en ‘ e^ ,aea Certaln y investment would be no less safe tn the matter of drainage. Georgia is especially interested,©! should be, in the reclamation of swamp lands. With the single exception* of Florida, she has a larger area of this kind of territory than any other state along the Atlantic coast. If these vast stretches of marsh were drained, as they easily can be, they wohld add incalculably to the state’s agricultural resources and to its tax revenues. Land that lb practically valueless today would develop into, productive farms, worth upwards of a hundred dollars an acre. An act passed at the last session of the legislature opens the way for the organization of various district drainage associations, empowered to issue bonds within certain restrictions and to carrj out a campaign of improvement. This will go far toward reclaim ing by degrees a portion of the state’s swamp land. If, however, the federal government can be persuaded to come to the aid of stat* and individual enterprise, as it has in the irrigation of the west, this important work will be wonderfully expedited. MORE POSTOFFICE OPPRESSION , The federal indictments recently brought against two Rich mond newspapers at the instance of the postoffice department are evidently part and parcel of that oppressive regime which has low ered under the Hitchcock administration and which is becoming, more and more, a menace to the freedom of the press. These two publications, which are among the most reputable in all the land, are charged with having sent “unfit” matter through the mails, in connection with tbe Beattie trial. It is, to be sure, the right and duty of the postal department to protect the mails against obscenity but when, as in this instance, it assumes redical censorship over the editorial functions of a newspaper, it has over ridden all fair and rightful boundaries. In commenting on these indictments and the spirit behind them, the New York AVorld aptly declares: > No more powerful engine of oppression can exist than a postal service which is used by a government bureaucracy to spy upon the opinions and actions of men for their correction according to bureau cratic standards. No more.effective cloak could be devised for the exer cise of personal and party malice. The truth is the postoffice department as now administered apparently does not understand, or else flippantly ignores, the rest! object for which it was established. It has subverted business to politics and while grasping for power has neglected its plainest duties. In many parts of the country, it fails miserably to give the public anything like an adequate or dependable mail service. It is deaf to popular complaints and apathetic to public needs. But when it comes to the prosecution of reputable publications on charges which, at .most, are purely technical if not altogether groundless, then the department exhausts every resource at its command. ; ”, * The time has come when congress must call a halt upon the reckless incursions this and other federal departments are.making into the rights of the press and the people. It is the duty of the postal department to give the country a prompt and efficient mail service, not to build up a machine so. partisan politics, not to fos ter a Russian-like system of espionage, not to establish a censor ship over the policies of the nation’s newspapers. This is a matter that concerns the vital welfare of the people and the publications of the entire country and they should unite in a determined effort to secure from congress such laws tfs will limit the arbitrary power of these departmental heads and put an end to this oppressive regime. THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS It is a pleasing circumstance that of recent years the Amer ican people are ascribing more and more importance to October the twelfth, as the day on which their birth-land was discovered, and are rendering a more generous tribute to the memory of Christo pher Columbus. Scores of cities observed last Thursday with unusual heartiness, and in thirteen states it was set aside as a le gal holiday. There was never a time more truly keyed to the spirit that led., the great admiral to brave unpathed waters than the present dec ade, and never a country where that spirit was more alert than our own. This is an age of bold-adventuring and discovery. On the earth itself there are few corners left to explore; even the farthest north has been compassed by an American. But nature still holds vast dominions that are uncharted and unknown. Science is send ing forth her caravels and in hundreds of laboratories some quiet Columbus is faring on his voyage. In aviation alone things are being attempted and done that are epoch-making. The slow and toilsome conquest of the sea is being repeated in the air. New realms for human activity are unfolding. Men are dreaming, and not altogether vainly by any means, of a flight from the New World to the Old. Os this far-seeking and hardy spirit the great Italian who crossed the unknown Atlantic over four centuries ago was a perfect type. It is well that his name should bear a human as well as his toric charm to the people of the continent he brought to light. JUSTICE HARLAN In the death of Justice John M. Harlan, of the United States supreme court, there has passed one of the most virile and inter esting personalities America ever produced. For nearly thirty-four years, more than a generation, the country has felt the power and the wisdom of his influence in its highest tribunal. His insight into the republic’s constitution was marvelously rich and deep and he was no less stout-hearted in protecting it against encroachments. It is a fitting circumstance that among the last noteworthy acts of the great jurist’s life was his dissension from the supreme court’s decision in the Standard Oil case. The opinion today, said he, means that the courts may, by mere • judicial action, amend the constitution of the United States or act of congress. These words and the incisive reasoning that accompanied them will,become a part of our history. Spoken on a great issue and in the evening of his days, they summed up Justice Harlan’s life-long fealty to the spirit of the nation’s law. With but two exceptions, he served longer on the supreme court bench than any other justice, and to the hour of his last illness his vigor seemed unimpaired. He will be mourned by his associates as a man of rare and lovable gifts and by the whole country as one of its greatest judges. ... THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. ATLANTA. GA.. TUESDAY. OCTOBER 17, 1911. TEXAS, MAINE and PROHIBITION By Bishop W. A. CASTOLEB. In 1884 the State of Maine put into the constitution of that commonwealth a section prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicants within its limits. Three years later, —>1887, —the State of Texas refused by a very large majority to embody in Its Constitution a similar provision. This year elections on the issue have been held again in both states, apd both contests have been drawn battles. The large majority m Texas against the prohibitory amend ment in 1887 has been reduced to a few thousands, and the large majority in Maine ,for the prohibitory amendment In 1884 has been about wiped out. The returns as officially published in both states show the* voters about equally di vided for and against prohibition by constitutional amendment. But this does not mean that the prohibiton areas in Texas wll* now be "wet,” or that the prohibitory law In Maine will be instant ly repealed. Quite two thirds of the people of the United States are already under prohibition, and the number thus living in “dry” areas will be larger rath er than smaller with every passing year. But the campaigns in Texas and Maine and tnelr results have some les sons to teach which the people of Geor gia, as wel las certain other Southern States, will do well to consider. (1) It is to be noted that the character of the voters who favoured prohibiton in both Texas and Maine was distinctly higher and purer than that of those who voted against prohibition. The gam bling elements, the men who were most familiar with the “red-light districts” m the cities, the distillers, the brewers, and the “ward-heelers” were practicably unanimous in their support of the cause of anti-prohibition. The revelations made by a legislative investigation in Texas sincexthe election show that these immoral forces did not hesitate to bribe voters when they could, and that other wise they corrupted the ballot. On the other side were arrayed the cnurches. the ministers, the educators, and all the better classes morally. They bought no votes, but made their appeals to reason and conscience. We are likely to see the same sort of line-up in Georgia. Shall the virtue and intelligence of the state be subject ed to the will of the vicious and Ignorant and lawless? In the days when our state was rescued from the horrors of the reconstruction period this was the issue, and then to the question decent men gave but one answer. Can any oth er answer be given now? (2) The brewers and distillers spent large sums of money to buy votes in both Texas and Maitie. This was shown as to Texas by sworn testimony before the Committee of Investigation, appoint ed by the Legislature. It has been pos itively and frequently charged that the same methods were followd In Maine, and no one has dared to deny the charge. It is evident that the saloon is still in politics, and that its incurable un scrupulousness persists everywhere. And if the liquor interests can succeed in ’.epealing our prohibition law, they will be in politics more than ever. Those in terests fought the passage of the local option law when it was enacted, and in every local option contest under that law their money was freely used for open saloons. Now they profess to favour local option; but they do not favour pro hibition under any form, by any method, or any where. If they could, they would repeal the prohibition of the sale of liquor to minors, on Sunday, and on days of elections, and near school-houses and churches. There Is not a spot in the country nor a day ii> the year over which they would have prohibition ex tended if they could prevent it. In this connection it should be said that our state-wide prohibition law re pealed the local option law, and now If the prohibitory statute under which we live were repealed, we would not have even the local option law to fall back upon. Let man be deceived about the real issue involved. However poli ticians may undertake to distort or dis guise the issue, at bottom it is an is sue between open saloons and prohibi tion. ’ And we may look for the distillers, brewers, and bar-keepers to put much money into our elections in Georgia in order to secure their nefarious ends. They are trying to whip the forces of prohibition by states. They put much money into the elections in Texas and Maine, and they have more to spend in other states in the same evil cause. It is vastly important to elect no man to office who is not unquestionably an un purchasable man; and this is especially true with reference to members of the General Assembly. The Senate being a smaller body than the House of Repre sentatives, it is less expensive to buy votes enough to achieve their ends in that branch of the Legislature than in 'the House, but both houses must be bought if the whiskey interests are to succeed. The liquor Interests would have secured a great power to obtain votes in both houses of the Legislature, if they could elect a governor favourable to them; for a governor can threaten and reward with ratronage a certain class Inf and make them do what ne, de* ires. . n i SCWG IN THE NIGHT , A weird, sweet gloom, the perfumed Southern night, j Envelope hill and vale, While far away, upon a sea of light, I Star-craft in wonder sail. \ Along the hedgerow crimson poppies blaze Into red passion's fire. The primrose lifts Its cup In purple haze Filled with the night’s desire. So tense the silence, so profound its peace, That where the zephyrs went Their noiseless feet the tangled vines release In loving wonderment. A clump of myrtles bloomed along the hill, Qne strange bouquet of white, These, with the moon and starlight, seemed to fill The mystery of night. O night of silence, slumber of the soul Os eager, restless day, I marvel not yon bird could not withhold Its love-impassioned lay. 11. Somehow the slender bands of sleep . < Untangled as I heard z Faint echoes through my window creep Os singing mocking bird. * • ' I leaned without the casement far To hear each love-spent note; • » Then some one left the gates ajar • e •* Through which old mem’ries float, 111. The years slipped bacld to other days, Each bar of song was twined about ( With one Jost face, within whose gaze , Old dreams and hopes went out. The years slipped back I knew not how, I only knew I heard a song; Then thought of some one’s spoken vow And knew that love Is strong. I wondered not that tears should fall; Who would not sadly weep as I Should some one from the hedgerow call Who long has dwelt on high. —H. E. HARMAN. (3) It was noticeable in both Texas and Maine that the anti-prohibition ma jorities were confined to certain of the cities in those- states. The bad elements in these urban communities united with a few mistaken good people to inflict on the country people theF consequences of saloons in the cities. will be tried in Georgia. Appeals in the name of "lo cal self-government” will be made in be half of allowing cities to have saloons if they want bar-rooms. But every body knows that t local self government is de stroyed in ’ the rural ’districts by the saloons of the cities. Liquors ate sold in town which result in drunkenness in the country where there is no police force to protect helpless women and children. With respect to liquor selling the case of Maine is vastly different from that | of Georgia. There is no race issue in Maine; but in Georgia every man who I votes for saloons in the cities favours taking the risk of having a c< tain num ber of rapes, murders, and lynchings in i the state. The good men in our cities . should unite with our farmers in the country to maintain our state-wide pro l hibition law in both town and country,— I AND TO SEE THAT IT IS ENFORCED. ' It is an outrage to allow the liquor inter est to make profits by dumping disorder and disquiet into our rural districts through saloons run in the few cities we i have. The homes and families of our country people are entitled to protec tion from such injury. (4) The plea was made In both Texas and Maine that prohibition could not be enforced in the cities, and,* therefore, should be repealed. Such a plea In its Last analysis means that we allow law lessness to dictate our laws. If under the fllfcense-system there has grown up an in terest that thus assumes to defy law, and then urge its lawlessness as a ground for repealing the law it has de fied, it is evident that such an interest has become too anarchistic to be allow ed to live longer. It must be put down by law, or it will put down all law. Doubtless there are “blind-tigers” in the cities; but the revenue laws of the United States are broken by some “moon-shlners” without any one propos ing to repeal those federal statutes. Why should the prohibition laws of our own beloved State of Georgia be less sacred than the revenue laws of the federal government? If they are enforced as vigorously as are the revenue Laws of the federal government, they will be broken as infrequently. What we need is not the repeal of these laws, but their more stringent enforcement. Perhaps if ! the saloon forces of our cities continue to > defy our prohibition laws, it will be I necessary to put In the hands of the governor of the state the power to re move sheriffs and other officers of the law who will not do their duty, and put I in their places men who will enforce the ! law without’fear or favour of local in- I fluences. At any rate a w*ay can be found to enforce prohibition in the few small cities we have. We have not many cities, thanks to a good Providence; ’and not one of them Is big enough to defy the laws of the State of Georgia. However, it should be said that prohi bition has been better enforced in our cities than some wish Us to believe. From Washington, dispatches have been \ent to certain newspapers telling of the vast amount of liquor sold In the prohibition states of the south. These dispatches have failed to state that the one city of Chicago consumes more in toxicating liquors in a year than do all the prohibition states in the South. It should also be remembered that much of the liquors consumed m these prohi bition states is shipped into them for the use of individual consumers from distillers and brewers doing business In "wet” states. If; liquors can be had so easily in the- cities oF Georgia, why do the liquor houses of Jacksonville, Cin cinnati, Louisville, Peoria, St. Louis, and other “wet” cities carry such costly ad vertisements in the daily papers of At lanta, Augusta, Macon, and Savannah? >Why do they get the names of all the men and boys printed in the directories of those cities and send \hem circular letters urging them to order brandies and whiskies and beers from them by mall? If local dealers were selling as the open saloons did in former days, none of this expensive advertising for retail trade by mail would be done by the liquor dealers of cities outside of Geor gia. Let none of these specious pleas of the liquor interests deceive any of our people. The price of our prohibition law is eter nal vigilance, and it is worth the price. The Coster Girl's Plumes Tit-Bits. Ostrich plumes are as much of a necessity to the London coster girl on her .outings as are the pearl buttons to her masculine companion, and tbe big tfissmed hats with their drooping feath ers are famllilar in all gatherings of this class. Many of the girls cannot afford to keep their money tied up in useless plumes and there thrives a brisk Industry in the hiring of these feathers. Tbe loan of a single plume for a day costs a quarter, or for a dollar a gorgeous trio may be had for .an outtng to be returned prompt ly the next morning. Weather conditions cause the terms to fluc tuate somewhat, since a wet or foggy day will take the curl out of the feathers and make re cnrllng necessary, for which “’Arrlet” has to pay an extra quarter. THE THE WHY OF BAD FARM COO KIN Q. We believe that morp dyspeptics are every year produced on the farm. — counting numbers —than in the cities, and this belief is based on many years of observation and considerable actual experience. The reverse would naturally seem to be true, aS the farm cook has a great advantage over her sister in the city in the matter of raw materials —fruits, vegetables, butter, milk and poul try being always at hand in (abtind ance and fresh and wholesome in condition. With these advantages it may’ be the charg ethen is due to ignorance or carelessness or both of the women folk on the farm. But this is not al ways true. The fact Is that the men, who by the way are the severest critics, are themselves to blame. They do not give their wives half a chance to do good cooking. On thousands of pros perous farms the housewife never has sufficient time to do her work well; she is not provided with the proper facilities. Her kitchen is provided with nothing more than the barest necessities and she is deprived of such aids as hot and cold water, quick fuel and an abundance of cooking utensils and tableware. She Is not only the cook, but the mainspring of the Whole family. She Is doctor, nurse, counselor and friend; besides the cares of maternity she of ten milks the cows, makes the butter, hoes the garden and makes new clothing for her husband and chil dren, mends the old, sweeps and dusts, gathers her own vegetables and fruit and prepares them for cook ing. She is expected to make no excuses when the meals for the family, large or small, are not ready and on the table to the minute. Naturally, under these conditions, which exist on thousai}ds of farms, and they are overdrawn, no woman, no matter how good a cook she may be, can properly prepare and cook wholesome and nutritious food. If the farm cooking is to be Im proved the men must supply their wives with everything needed in the kitchen and pantry. They must Sup ply them with help, at least until the children are old enough to assist. The wife must insist upon having what she y needs to work with and she must abandon the work of the dairy, garden and the poultry to the men folk. She can teach her chil dren, either boys or girls, to be of great assistance In her daily tasks. She can so regulate her work hours that she will have time' in which to do these things alone; she must have the active and sympathetic assistance of her husband, and If he refuses to give hgr * these, the family must be abandoned to dyspepsia and its attend ant miseries. 1 GET RIGHT ON THE SEPARATOR. Did you ever know a person who has a reliable separator to say that it does not pay? They all tell you it is the way to do it—the only way. The other day an acquaintance in need of a wheel for some machinery visited a junk pile in a neighboring city and dis covered a separator which "looked al most new.” But he did not get that. “Was It a standard make?” "No, one of the kind made only to sell” was the reply. .. ?g We only wondered what was the re sult of this purchase and Its early con signment to the junk pile. Was It a general condemnation of the separator? Or did the owner find he had made a mistake in his selection of a machine, and so at last start right, after expe rimenting with a machine which was only a vexation? Look at a first-class machine and note the high speed attained. Only the best material and workmanship can be in cluded in such a combination. It is no wonder that separators which Rre worth owning cost money. Yet a good one will soon pay for itself and with proper care it will last almost a lifetime. Look over the standard makes and no others, thoroughly before Investing, but get a good one. If you are the first in the neighbor hood to give the separator a trial, re member it will be but a sheet time until the others will follow your example as a flock of sheep follow their leader. You may have led in nothing before, but will soon see the advan tages of the machine and fall in line. On the other hand. If you have allow ed the rest to precede you, the advance step must be made if you hold your place in the ranks of dairymen. The work of separating a moderate amount of milk is easy in comparison with the old way, or even with keep ing water on it in a tank. If it runs too heavy a gasoline engine will soon fix that besides proving a most profitable servant in many other duties. Keep a dish for the dog and the cat in a convenient place where you can take off the froth before straining and separating. Froth only proves a nuisance In the separator, but the chickens will be glad to- get any that the dog or cat leaves. • RAFE FOB SOUTHERN CLIMATES. For several years the Missouri sta tion attempted to grow rape success fully by following the Instructions given by the experiment stations in Canada and the northern states. These instructions in most cases insisted that to succeed in growing rape it was nec essary to plant it late—from June 1 to 15. Professor Mumford says: •We have never succeeded in grow ing rape when planted at this time. For the past three or four years we have sown our rape for pasture at the earliest possible date in the spring. One year the rape was sown in February, but it is generally sown in March. By this method we have been able to secure good pastures as early as the middle of May and this properly handled will furnish good grazing the entire season. “Or>e can grow rape successfully on land now planted ' to rye, either by sowing four pounds of rape seed per acre in the rye, by means of a disk drill, or it will pay to plow the rye ground and sow the rape separately. I should be inclined to follow the former method. By ihls means .the rye will furnish good pasture in May and the rape,will come in.for later grazing. “In some cases we have been able to pasture as nrany as ten pigs per acre for the season. The rape, if sown early, will be ready to pasture before the rye is in the milk. POINTS ABOUT RAISING FEAN U TB. Peanuts are a profitable crop in the southwest and south where the soil Is light and the climate friendly, but a great many farmers do not seem to know it. The nuts can be raised more cheaply and more easily than corn and they always bring a good price. Both horses and cattle are fond of the hay and It makes excellent rough age. Peanuts are one of the best crops going for tyoys because they seem to take more interest in this than any other crop on the iarm—particularly if they are allowed to have the proceeds which they should have. The way to start is to get perfectly good seed. The nuts should be smooth, of good size and free from any blem ish. ' • In Kansas and Missouri the seed should be planted about the last of April, but in Virginia they are often planted a little earlier. Do not plant until ‘ the grounu becomes warm. Plant two seeds in a hill and make the hills' three feet apart or they can be planted in check rows. Keep the ground loose and mellow with cultivator and hoe until the plants begin to make little root-like pods which later develop into nuts. After that al? the, work that is necessary is enough to keep down the weeds. In the south many growers cover the bloom as soon as It develops, but in Kansas that is seldom done and good crops are raised there. Peanuts are harvested with a four tined fork. The fork is snuck into tho ground under the hill which Is then gently loosened up and pulled out with the hands. The nuts should be placed in a diMf room—the hay loft makes a good store house —and when they are thoroughly dry and clean tjjey are ready for mar ket. Nuts should be put up in bags holding about 100 pounds. COW MANURE AND BOCK PHOS PHATE. "At the Ohio experiment station,’* says “Director Charles A. Thorne, “we for five years conducted an experiment In the use of cow manure in the produc tion of corn, wheat and clover grown In rotation. "The result of this test Is that In tbe five year average we have produced an Increase of about two bushels of corn, two-thirds' of a bushel ot wheat and about 60 pounds of clover hay for each ton of manure, when the manure nas been taken from an ordinary open barn yard. "The total Increase was worth |1.50 if we value corn at one-third of a dollar per bushel, wheat at two-thirds or a dollar, clover hay at one-third of a dol lar per 100 pounds, corn stover at |3 per ton and straw at |2. "When, however, we leave this manure in the stable to be trampled under foot till ready for use the increase has been worth 22.50 per ton of manure; ana whep to this straw manure we hnve added as made about <0 pounds of phos phoric rock to each ton of manure /ot the purpose not only of preventing the escape of ammonia but of reinforcing the manue with phosphoric acid wo have realized a total value of $3.25 per ton of manure. “The manure treated in this manner produced an average increase of three bushels of corn, one. and three-quarters of wheat and 125 pounds of hay for each ton of manure.” An Efficient Battery. NOTES OP THE HOG LOT. Never permit a brood sow to get so fat that .she will not take exercise. If she must be forced to walk about her condition is not right for breeding. A brood sow should be well nourished, but it is a great mistake to allow her become fat, as a rat sow will lose litters or produce weaklings. Up in Canada, where they raise little corn, the farmers produce, with feeding peas, clover and alfalfa, some of the finest pork that ia seen on the English market. The farmer who does not separate the milk from the cream and feed the skim milk to his pigs, is simply selling his ground out from under him. The only way to make good pork and make it cheaply is to crowd the pigs from the time they are able to eat ! grain. The farmers in many parts of Califor nia, where field peas grow rank, fattea their hogs by allowing them to run in the uncut pea fields. v z A Colorado farmer, near Alamosa, feed* • cut alfalfa hay with a portion of good barley and wheat, feeding about ona pound of grata daily and all the alfalfa they will eat. This farmer says h>» can I feed tnis at a cost of about 50 cents per month, land the pigs make fin* growth. If taken at a very early age cbiokena can be taught to come and go at cer tain times, feed in a certain way and do other things that will save time ana an noyance. A young girl of our acquaintance who raises about 100 White Plymouth Rocks, always brings every bird in the Hock flying to her feet by a single particular, cry she utters. This cry is never heard by the Birds by hep or anybody else except at tne times when they were actually wantect and the way they came running was a striking lesson in training. If the young ducks do not nave plen ty of bone-making material whue they * are young they are likely to show leg weakness and pine away and die. A lump of copperas as big as a pea put into tue drinking water twice a week will generally aid In keeping tha fowis in good condition. As soon as the range feed becomes scarce weed out every old cockerel an 2 other useless birds and send them to market. No use buying high priced feed for them. SENSIBLE SHEEF NOTES- Consider what a costly and disagree able task it is to shape up any of the farm animals after they once start down hill and you’ll surely see how profitable it will be to furnish the sheep with a wide variety of first class rations before the severe winter comes on. that they may start through the winter in prime shape. If you are a beginner with sheep go slow until you have mastered the indus try. As in poultrying or any other like business, experience 18“ the safe, sure teacher. Sheep require different feeding and handling from any other animal on the farm. Even though you are an experi enced sheep raiser, don’t get too am bitious and try to manage a larger flock than you can keep up to the stand ard of excellence. < * GOOD POULTRY SUGGESTIONS. Don’t pay a dollar or any otiier sum for some "secret" about poultry raiar ing. We will guarantee that every, valuable "secret" about- the business will be’ published one or more times in these columns every year. The man who advertises "secrets” is seeding suckers, every time. We have all heard a lot about forced moulting of fowls in order to get them to moult early and begin to lay before winter comes. It Was now been demon strated that forced moulting, if it makes any difference in the annual output of eggs from a hen, is a damage rather than a benefit. Hens which are allowed to moult nat a illy lay at least as many eggs .as they would if they had been forced to moult quickly.—Miller Purvis.