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Farm Demonstration Column
By B. M. DRAKE, County Agent
Haire Phone 81; Office Phone 205
N. K. Vickers Korean Lespedeia
In April of last year Mr. Vickers
got some Korean Lespedcza seed and
towed on his oats in a piece of very
good bottom land. On account of
late sowing and dry weather the les
pedeza did not make a large growth
but did yield a fair yield of hay and
the land was left well seeded again.
Mr. Vickers again planted the land
to oats but the field was in the path
of the hail storm and was badly dam
aged but a few days ago Mr. Vickers
cut what oats there was. The field
now shows a good stand of lespedcza
about two inches high and growing
nicely.
This is of general interest because
or.e thing needed by this county is a
good crop to follow winter grain
without the expense, lubor and loss
of time from other crops that is con
nected with the reseeding of our
grain stubble lands at this season ol
the year. I hope farmers of the coun
ty will watch this experiment and it
may help us to put our farming on
a better basis by reducing expense
and giving a better distribution of
labor. Such experiments are a worth
while public service.
More Blackleg
Additional cases of blackleg have
been reported during the past week.
It is a great pity that we are de
prived of service of the State Vet
erinary Department just at this time.
The checking o fthe spread of infec
tious diseases is a very important
factor in developing the livestock in
terests of the state and it is difficult
to accomplish this by private initia
tive.
There is no licensed veterinarian
in the county. While some individ
uals may be able to bear the expense
of sending out of the county for x
veterinarian there are some who
would not be able to do so. The coun
ty agent is not a veterinarian but
he will be glad to give any assistance
he can in checking this disease.
Cotton Price*
No matter who may tell you that
cotton prices are going to 15 cents
you would be very unwise to make
your plans upon the basis of such
a prophecy. Asa matter of fact no-
Bright Woman
Lost 20 Pounds
FEELS MUCH BETTER
“June 28th, 1932, I started taking
Kruschen Salts. Have lost 20 pounds
from June 28th to Jan. 10. Feel bet
ter than have felt for four years.
Was .under doctors care for several
months. He said 1 had gall stones
and should have operation. Kruschen
did all and more than 1 expected.”
Mrs. Lute Bright, Walker, Minn,
(Jan. 10, 1933).
To lose fat and at the same time
gain in physical attractiveness and
feel spirited and youthful take one
half teaspoonful of Kruschen in n
glass of hot water before breakfasi
every morning.
A jar that lasts 4 weeks costs but
a trifle at any drugstore in the world
but be sure and get Kruschen Salts
the SAFE way to reduce wide hips,
prominent front and double chin and
again feel the joy of living—money
hack if dissatisfied after the first
jar. ’
T. A. NUTT
A!1 Kinds of
FIRE INSURANCE
Including System Gins, Cotton, Country
Property, Dwellings, Household
Furniture, Plate Glass
Also
Bonds, Burglary, Liability
Insurance i
bedy knows what cotton prices will
be next fall.
Asa matter of fact reports indi
cate that there has been an increase
in cotton acreage, that there are good
stands over the belt and that sea
sons have been favorable for work
ing out the crop. That is conditions
up to the present time are favorable
for the production of another large
crop. If that is added to what we
now have on hand it will certainly
be very hard to maintain prices at a
high level. There is no reasonable
hope of a sufficiently rapid change
in business conditions to make the
world able to buy that much cotton
no matter how much it may be need
cu. Everything points to a gradual
improvement but it will take time
for this improvement to reach the
great mass of the popula
tion.
j That cotton growers have gone
ahead and increased acreage in spite
of the large amount of cotton already
lon hand would indicate that they do
not realize the seriousness of the
'situation or that they are guided by
a short sighted selfishness that wouM
gamble on the chance that other far
mers would heed these indications
| of danger and so reduce acreage that
the ones who increase their acreage
will get the benefit without bearing
J their share of the burden. Evidently
they guessed wrong.
The government is trying to work
out some plan by which a sufficient
reduction may yet be made to secure
good prices for cotton. The success
of these efforts of the government
will depend on the co-operation of
the farmers generally, and it would
be a shame for the cotton growers
to fail at this crisis. We hope thai
the government’s plans may be ready
to publish this week, possibly in time
for this issue of the paper. Will you
not study them and do your part to
make them a success?
TODAY and
RANK
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SHINPLASTER . . now unique
Looking through some old family
papers at my farm home the other
day I came across a curious relic of
my childhood. It is a U. S. 25-cenl
paper note, issued in 1878.
When I was a small boy this paper
fractional currency, which rejoiced
in the popular name of “shinplaster”
was the only equivalent for quarters
and half-dollars in circulation. This
old bill is about an inch and a half
wide and two and a half inches long.
It seems to me that it is only the
very young or those who have never
studied history who object to chan
ges in our money system. In my
life time the United States has gone
from bimetallism to the gold stand
ard and off again, from greenbacks
to “hard money’’ and back again,
from cheap dollars to high dollars
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and back again. But a dollar has al
ways been a dollar, so far as domes
tic trade goes. It is only when wo
have to trade with foreigners whose
money standards are different, thac
the shape, material or gold content
or equivalent of the dollar makes
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COINS .... need 21& piece
In the same collection I found
seme old coins, and hunted through
an ancient desk to see if I could find
out what ever became of a six-sided
gold eagle that my grandmother used
to have. That is one of the rare coins,
issued by a private mint in Califor-
nia in the 1850’s, that bring high
prices from collectors. I found no
trace of that, nor of the spread
eagle cent of 1856 which was one of
m yfather’s curios.
I found a tiny silver five-cen:
piece, precursor of the “nickel,” and
other coins familiar to my boyhood,
such as the twe-cent piece, the old
ccpper pennies, bigger than a quar
ter of today, and the nickel three
eent pi*ee, about the size of a dime.
I think the coin we need most and
never have had is a 2^-cent piece.
MEMORY .... spilled sugar
The old coins brought back a good
nrany boyhood memories, one of them
'elated to the “trade dollar,” which
was coined by the United States
mint for purposes of trade with Chi
nn and the Orient. The trade dollar
was a little larger than the standard
silver dollar, containing. I believe,
an exact ounce of silver or 480
grains, instead of the 412 grains of
World Record Economy
iht silver dollar. The Chinese, then
as now, trade with silver by weight
instead of by the value stamped up
on the coin, and the trade dollar
came handy in settling balances call
ing for a given number of ounces
of silver. It was not Supposed to cir
culate in the States, but seafaring
men would bring them back to New
England ports from the Far East.
The incident which fixes the trade
dollar in my mind is that, when I
was about nine, my mother gave me
a trade dollar and sent me to the
store for eleven pounds of sugar.
Pete Hopkins was having a bargain
sale of sugar. Sounds absurd today
doesn’t it—sugar at that price?
I bought the sugar and started
home. I stopped to play with some
other boys and set the paper sack
down on a stone. The stone was wet,
and when I picked up the bag a dol
i lav’s worth of sugar spilled all over
the lot!
RUM .... and black strap
I went into a store in a Mew Eng
land village the other day and asked
the storekeeper if he was selling
much beer. Not much, he said; Yan
kee folks don’t care about anything
with no more kick in it than that. If
'twas rum, now . . .
I grinned, for I remembered, as
he knew I did, when the sign over
the same store, in his grandfather’-'
day, i-ead “Groceries and W. I.
Goods.” “W. I. Goods” meant “West
India Goods” and West India goods
meant rum and molßsses, from Por
;to Rico, Cuba and Jamaica.
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Jamaica rum was called the best,
but many stores sold the cheaper
Medford rum, made right in Massa
chusetts from New Orleans molasse®.
Both were weak stuff when compar
ed with the West Indian products.
Porto Rico molasses, familiarly call
ed “black strap,” was the staple ba
sis of Yankee gingerbread and many
other goodies, as well as of “stewed ,
Quaker,” which was molasses, vine
gar onions and butter boiled up to
gether. Taken hot, in liberal doses,
it was a sovereign remedy for chil
dren’s colds!
DRINK .... a battleground
After all the fuss and furore over
beer, I don’t find many people drink
ing it. Of course, there’ll be a lot of
beer sold; likewise a lot of ginger ale
sarsaparilla and other forms of soda
pop which eastern New England
classes under the general name of
“tonics.” But what the American
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drinker wants isn’t beer; it’s rum,,
whiskey, “cawn licker” as they call
it in the South, and what New Eng
land calls “hard cidy.”
The real temperance battle will be
gin after the 18th Amendment has
been repealed and some twentieth
century Father Matthew or John B.
Gough starts anew “total abstin
ence” crusade.
I have always believed that there
is no such thing as wholesale salva
tion or reform of individual charac
ter by law.
Fire destroys about $500,000,000
worth of property in the United
States every year.
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