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HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY.
J. A. FOUCHE, Publisher.
R. L. JOHNSON, Editor.
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Prof. Hugo Munsterberg declares
that the experimental psychologist
can determine whether there is truth
in what a man says, as surely as the
chemist can find out whether there
Is arsenic in his stomach. He has
little machines that pick out the lies
with accuracy. This is one of those
curious instances in which science
rises unexpectedly to the demands of
mankind, opines the Boston Pose.
There never was a moment in history
when Professor Munsterberg's psycho
logic apparatus would find such wide
an '. important use as to-day.
The American people love their ora
tors, says S. P. Orth in The Atlantic
Monthly. No other people flock as we
do to hear sonorous sentences, well
rounded periods, plausible epigrams,
multiplied alliteration, and picturesque
metaphors. Nowhere else is a resonant
voice so potent as in America. Where
else in the world, and in history, could
be re-enacted the scene that witnessed
the nomination of an obscure news
paper reporter for the highest office in
the gift of a great nation, because of
the full rotund of his voice and the
appealing figures of his speech? And
what greater tribute could he paid to
roan than was vouchsafed by the as
cembled thousands gathered from
every state at the eastern gateway of
the continent to greet the necromancer
of words as he returned to his native
land from a world tour? It is not
Bryan the statesman, nor Bryan the
sage, nor Bryan the politician, but
Bryan the orator, whom the masses
adore.
Professor Arrhenius, of Sweden, re
nowned physicist and Nobel prize-win
ner, in a new book about the origin
and formation of worlds, expounds
new and consoling theories, remarks
Harper’s Weekly. For reasons that he
sets forth, he concludes that the sun
is not burning up, nor the earth cool
ing, nor the machinery of the universe
wearing out in any measurable degree.
Things celestial are likely, he thinks,
to go along as they are, not for a few
million years, as Lord Kelvin com
puted, but for millions of millions of
years. A world without end, this
learned man thinks ours is, and there
are shreds of consolation in his con
viction about it, and in the stiffened
realization that if the railroads, trusts,
and all of us other sinners are not per
fected in good conduct before next
New Year's, there probably will still,
in Heaven’s mercy, be an extension of
opportunity, and we can go right on
laboriously climbing the golden stair.
Maybe we can even rest a minute or
two and knot our broken sandal
strings and take drinks out of our
gourds, but as to that the learned
physicist does not say.
In his recent admirable address be
fore the Syracuse members of the Hol
land Society of New York, Professor
A. C. Flick of Syracuse University,
showed how great have been the con
tributions of the Dutch to civilization,
and paid fitting tribute to the bravery,
patience, independence, and heroism
which made them leaders of political
liberty, democracy, and religious free
dom. Incidentally, states Leslie’s
Weekly, he criticised Washington Ir
ving’s travesty and misrepresentation
of the Dutch settlers of New York in
representing them as a coarse, stupid,
drunken, nicotized, and immoral lot of
people. In later life Irving himself
called his picture of them a ’’coarse
caricature." Professor Flick is an ac
complished historical scholar and au
thor, and he traced to Holland rather
than to England our political ideas,
our system of land tenure, our public
schools, our free press, and our re
ligious liberty. With enthusiastic elo
quence he eulogized the sterling racial
characteristics of the Dutch, their
industry, pel severance, honesty, cau
tion, lrugality, cleanliness, good sense,
reliable judgment, morality, and lofty
but liLcrai faith.
Modern Farm Methods
As Applied in the South.
Notes of Interest to Planter,
Fruit Grower and Stockman
Tennessee Hams.
The hams of Virginia have long
been celebrated as the “finest In the
world,” hut in Tennessee they believe
they can raise as good or better—ac
cording to the Nashville American.
Here is an account of the achieve
ment of one of the leading producers
of Tennessee hams, Mr. John M.
Graham:
The hog I breed is the Berkshire,
and as I raise two crops a year, one
is slaughtered and baconed, the other
is fed with cattle and shipped in
April; so those baconed run in age
from seven to nine months, and net
about 200 pounds.
These pigs have the run of the pas
tures, beginning with grass in the
spring, followed in the order named,
with clover, the gleanings of the oat
and wheat fields, sorghum and cow
peas. At all times they have access
to a mixture of salt and wood ashes,
and good water. I have a dipping
vat through which the entire herd is
made to swim as often as indicated,
to keep them free from vermin.
About August 10 those intended
for slaughter are put on the fatten
ing ration of old corn, with cut sor
ghum once a week until the new corn
is matured sufficiently to use, when
they are turned into a field of corn
and pumpkins to eat, grunt and grow
fat.
I slaughter the first cold spell in
November, which usually comes be
tween the 15th and 20th. The hogs
are allowed to hang on the pole over
night to allow the animal heat to
escape, and next day they are cut up
and salted. Tne hams are neatly
trimmed, removing all surplus fat
and cutting off the foot well up the
leg to remove the shank.
They are well rubbed with salt, and
on each ham a pinch or so of saltpeter
is put. They are packed on a plat
form in the centre of the bulk, the
middlings being around the edges of
the pile and the shoulders on top,
as they are the first used. Each layer
of meat is covered with salt, and that
not absorbed by the meat is used for
salting stock hogs. It is allowed to
remain in salt from four to five
weeks, owing to the weather, when
it is taken up, washed clean in warm
water and hung to be smoked. The
hams are hung on the top tier of
joists about twenty feet from the
floor, the sides and shoulders being
on the lower tiers.
I use nothing but green hickory
poles, from two to four inches in
diameter, for smoking, for the smoke
produced by no other wood can im
part the fine flavor derived from
young, green hickory.
The smoking is continued daily
until the latter part of February,
when the hams are taken dov:n,
wrapped in strong, tough paper,
sewed up in brown muslin and white
washed with lime, and rehung to re
main until needed. No borax, boracic
acid, salicyclic acid or other anti-fly
chemicals are used in curing my
meat; the paper, canvas and white
wash are used to prevent “skippers”
entering the hams.
I prefer not to use my hams until
they are a year old, as an old coun
try-cured ham, thoroughly boiled and
well baked is, to the Gentile, the
acme of good eating, and to the sons
of Israel a “terrible temptation.”
Cottonseed Meal.
As a fertilizer of which ammonia
is the chief fertilizing constituent,
cottonseed meal in the Gulf States
stands pre-eminent. It is generally
conceded that we can put nitrogenous
fertilizers into the soil in the Gulf
States more cheaply by using cotton
seed meal than by the use of any
other fertilizer.
The evil of cottonseed meal has
been the tact that its condition as
meal was one that led to its easy
adulteration and, as is generally
known, large amounts of cottonseed
hulls were ground up and introduced
into the meal, until the abuse became
so flagrant that legislation has been
had in many of the States of the
Union to define what constitutes a
good delivery of cottonseed meal as a
fertilizer, eight per cent, ammonia be
ing generally established as a min
imum.
Incidental to this easy adultera
tion of cottonseed meal, it is gener
ally stated as a fact that the reason
why the European countries that are
such large buyers of cottonseed prod
ucts, persistenly refuse to buy our
cottonseed meal, but do buy our cot
tonseed oil cake is because it remains
in its original condition after the ex
pression of the oil ana the opportun
ity for its adulteration after the oil
extraction is practically reduced to
nil.
Denmark, among the nations of
Europe, has long been noted for the
excellence of its dairy products, as
well as for the excellence of its bacon.
In that kingdom great attention has
been given to the intrinsic value of
feed stuffs, and they now claim to be
the most economical and scientific
feeders in the world. A few years
back linseed oil cake was the favorite
feed stuff among the Danish people,
the merits of this oil cake being con
sidered as compared with all compet
ing commodities. A vast amount of
sunflower oil cake is produced in
Russia and sunflower oil cake is said
to be a valuable food stuff, but the
value of American cottonseed oil
cake now stands in Denmark above
any of the rest in the popular esti
mation. The importation of cotton
seed oil cake for 1906 into Denmark
given in metrical tons stands at 203,-
000 tons, and this nearly equals the
total of the importation of all other
kinds of oil cake into Denmark. In
cidentally it is stated that some cot
ton oil cake is made in Russia and
is said to be equal in its feeding
qualities to the best American cotton
oil cake. It is produced in the Rus
sian provinces northeast of Persia.
Dr. Stubbs said in Louisiana years
ago that when the intrinsic merits of
cottonseed meal became more thor
oughly appreciated our European
competitors would buy it all away
from us, using it there as their most
valuable stock feed. His view fur
ther was that if the peculiar flavor
and odor of cottonseed meal could be
modified, ameliorated or altogether
removed, it would become one of the
most valuable human food stuffs
available.
Those of us who have been feed
ing cottonseed meal to mules are fa
miliar with the fact that the mules
at first reject it entirely. If it be
mixed with other food more to their
liking they will endeavor to select
out the other food and reject the cot
tonseed meal. This gradually leads
to a little familiarity with the meal
and little by little their willingness
to consume cottonseed meal develops
until some of our planters are said
to have reached a daily consumption
of cottonseed meal in their mule
stables equal to three pounds per
head. We know by experience that
two pounds of cottonseed meal per
head can be freely taken by mules
in connection with molasses feeds
and the results are extremely satis
factory.—Louisiana Planter.
What Fertilizers Are Worth.
A ton of fresh farm manure con
tains ten pounds of nitrogen, two
pounds of phosphorus and ten pounds
of potassium, with a total value of
$2.34.
Of dried blood, 280 pounds of ni
trogen, worth $42.
Of raw bone meal, eight pounds of
nitrogen and 180 pounds of phos
phorus, worth in all $33.60.
Of sodium nitrate, 310 pounds of
nitrogen, ■worth $46.50.
Of steamed bone meal, twenty
pounds of nitrogen and 250 pounds
of phosphorus, worth $33.
Of ammonium sulphate, 400
pounds of nitrogen, valued at S6O.
Of acidulated bone meal, forty
pounds of nitrogen and 140 pounds
of phosphorus, Avorth $22.80.
Of slag phosphate, 160 pounds of
phosphorus, worth $19.20.
Of rock phosphate, 250 pounds of
phosphorus, worth $3 0.
Of acid phosphate, 125 pounds of
phosphorus, valued at sls.
Of potassium chloride (muriate of
potash) 840 pounds of potassium,
worth $50.40.
Of potassium sulphate (sulphate of
potash), 800 pounds of potassium,
worth S4B.
Of kainit, 200 pounds of potassium,
worth sl2.
Of wood ashes (unbleached), ten
pounds of phosphorus and 100 pounds
of potassium, worth $7.20.
Lumber For Silos.
Professor A. M. Soule, in Southern
Farm Magazine, of Baltimore, says:
Chestnut or oak staves may be used
in the construction of a silo. We
would prefer the chestnut, as we do
not think there is so much danger of
warping as with oak, even after the
latter is well seasoned. Of course,
oak staves are frequently used in a
silo with satisfactory results, but
chestnut, if of first grade, should last
very well. We would prefer the
staves cut out of a single log rather
than to use the twelve and fourteen
foot pieces, which, of course, must be
spiked or toe-nailed together in some
way, and we do not believe an arti
ficial joint can be made as strong and
secure as where a single piece of
timber is used. In building a stave
silo be sure and have the staves of a
uniform size, and we believe it will
pay to tongue and groove them. It
will add a little to the cost, it is true,
but a stave silo properly constructed
and cared for should last for many
years, and pains should be taken to
put up a good structure.
TAX COLLECTOR’S NOTICE.
I will be at the different precincts on the days mentioned foi the*
purpose of collecting the State and County Taxes for the year 1907.
OCT. NOV. DEC.
Hampton 2 4 and 22 13
Sixth 3 6 “ 25
Flippen 4 7 a
Stockbridge 7 8 “ 27 16
Shake Rag B.* n “ 28
Brushy Knob 9 12 “ 29
Loves 10 13 2
McMullins 10 14 4
Beersheeba 14 15 5
Sandy Ridge 15 18 9
Tussahaw 16 19 10
Locust Grove 17 20 11 and 17
Lowes 18 21 12
Snapping Shoals IO o’clock A. M 6
Island Shoals I o’clock P. M 6
Woodstown 2 u P. M 6
F O UR T H ROUND.
Hampton Friday December 13
Stockbridge Monday ‘ ‘ 16
Locust Grove Tuesday “ 17
McDonough, Court Week, First Tuesdays and Satur
days until books are closed, Dec. 20th.
SEAB MARKNESS, T. C.
Henry Co., Ga.
VERY LOW RATES
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cing April 19th, to and including November 30th, 1907.
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