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FRANK B. KELLOGG, OF ST. PAUL.
He has had charge for the Government of the case against the Standard
Oil. Company, which has resulted in a sweeping victory against the com
pany in a unanimous decision that is called “an industrial Magna Charta.”
Can You Do Tills Sum?
If a bookkeeper on a salary of sl2
a week steals $1 44,000 from a bank
in a small city, how much ought an
office boy on a salary of $3 a week
take from a New York corporation?
Back of this question in mental arith
metic lie two serious thoughts. Men
and boys who are responsible for vast
sums of money or who can obtain ac
cess to them should be adequately
paid for the services they render and
the moral character they must pos
sess to resist great temptation. They
should also be heavily bonded, checks
should be placed upon them and a
strict oversight of their work should
be provided.—Providence Bulletin.
An Insurgent Leader in the House.
All the insurgents are leaders, and
they claim to number thirty-four in
the House with hopes of more to
come. This leader is Victor Murdock,
of Kansas.
THE GOOD LORD WHO DELIVERED THEM.
THE MARQUESS OF LAXSBOWNE.
After a political career extending over forty years, he induced the peers
to reject the budget after their lordships had, for the most (part, felt that it
might" be too dangerous for the hereditary chamber to throw out a
money bill.
Milk Thieves Balked.
Only the police know the thou
sands upon thousands of milk bottles
that are stolen in a big city in a year.
Most of the milk thieves are poor folk
who are too hungry to resist the
temptation of food and drink so easily
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Saves Empty Bottles, Too.
reached, and the New Jersey man
who invented the patent bottle hold
er did them' a good turn when he re
moved the temptation from their path
as well as he saved householders and
milkmen a pretty penny. This holder
comprises two clasp members which
fit around the bottom and neck of the
bottle. A hingelike affair acts as a
lock and retains one end of the upper
clasp, the lower one being already
fast to the wall or door jamb, as the
case may be. The milkman sets the
bottle in the lower ring, adjusts the
upper ring around its neck and snaps
the lock, defying early morning
prowlers to get the bottle away. In
the same way the housewife can pre
vent other sorts of thieves, who steal
the bottles for their trifling value, by
locking the empty ones up.
The British salmon Is said to be
worth $550 a ton.
SPOKTS
Air Ships Coming Before Auto
Races in Atlanta.
An aviaticn meet such as the
south has never seen will usher in
the big auto races at the speedway
in Atlanta in May.
Glenn Curtiss, winner of the
world’s speed record, and the Ben
nett trophy at the international con
test held at Rheims last season, will
be in Atlanta with the aeroplane
which was the wonder of Europe.
Hamilton, the aviator whose flights
and experiments have been much in
the public eye since man first
ed the domains of the air, will also
come to Atlanta with ono of IPs ma
chines, to participate in the contests,
and contracts will probably be clos
ed shortly with aviators equally well
known.
The speedway auto races will be
held May 5, 6 and 7. The aviation
meet will take place May 2 and 3.
Hangers will be built on the level
ground within the periphery of the
race course, and the aerial flights,
maneuvers and races will be conduct
ed above the field. Experts familiar
with such matters, declare the loca
tion admirably suited, and predict
that if the weather is fine some of
the records made in France will be
matched or even broken.
The coming of Curtiss, Hamilton
and other aviators to Atlanta will
mark a new era in the history of
sports in Atlanta and in Georgia rnd
in the south, and will give the people
an opportunity to see contests and ex
hibitions which have up to this time
taken place only in the north and
west and on the famous fields of the
old world.
Since the dates have been so ar
ranged as to coincide with the auto
races without, .conflicting with them,
an added inducement will be offered
out-of-town lovers to sport to visit
Atlanta, and it is confidently believ
ed that the crowds this season will
surpass those of last year.
The track this year is faster; the
management is naturally better or
ganized arid in better position to give
the people even finer sport than when
the speedway was opened. The en
tries already secured practically guar
antee that the field will be fully as
large as last fall and that cars rep
resenting all the best known ’ makes
will compete, driven by men of in
ternational reputation.
All railroads will sell round trip
tickets from al southern p ints to
Atlanta at a greatly reduced rate dur
ing automobile week.
South Atlantic League in Fine Shape.
Th«A affairs of the South Atlantic
league are in better shape than they
have been since the first day the
league was organized.
President Joyner has not been idle
a minute since he was placed at the
head of its affairs, and his untiring
zeal is to be seen everywhere in the
good results that have been obtain
ed.
The president has been to every
city in the league and looked over the
local situation in person. Where there
have been kinks to straighten he has
been right on the job and stuck until
the problem has been solved. He is
being given the hearty support of
every club in the league and the sea
son of the Sally bids fair to be the
best ever.
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Wagner Says He is Champ.
Hans Wagner has put in a bid for
the automobile offered by an automo
bile company to the champion bats
man of the country. He intimates
that he considers his .339 of last year
better than Cobb’s .377, on the
ground that he had harder pitchers
to swat. Says Hans in his letter:
“Motor car for leading batsman has
medals and loving cups beaten a mile,
and it is a generous offer on your
part. You cannot clearly decide the
world’s championship batsman on ac
count of the different pitching and
fielding in the two leagues, something
should be done whereby the leading
batsman of each league should be
considered.”
«l'm a Good Mr.n,” Says Johnson.
Jack Johnson, the prize fighter,
was not granted his request for two
negroes on the jury that heard the
testimony in his trial in Chicago for
automobile speeding before Judge
Scovel in the municipal court, but the
twelve Caucasians who sat in judg
ment proved satisfactory to the pugi
list by promptly returning a verdict
of not guilty.
“They saved me the trouble of go
ing up to the supreme court with the
case/’ said Johnson. ‘ 1 am not going
to have the police put it all over me
all the time, just because 1 am a well
known man. If I ran around and got
drunk and gambled, the cops ought to
pinch be, but I’m a good family man
and behave myself. •. If everyone was
like me, it would be a good world.”
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Maxedon made a fine showing in
Saturday’s game between the Univer
sity of Tennessee and Brooklyn and
it now looks as if the dispute over the
center field question has been settled
He fielded perfectly and got three
hits out of four times up. ,
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A great baseball expert writes 00l
the “fadeaway attachment to the
hook worm slide,” can ycu beat this
baseball lingo? Of course you know
what the “hook worm slide” is and
the “fadeaway attachment ’ is per
fectly plain —eh?
Modern Farm Methods
As Applied in the South.
A k.
rdotes of Interest to Planter,
Jjrult Grower aAiil SStOcliiniiis
FORMULAE FOR SPRAY MIX
TURES.
Copper Sulphate Solution.
Copper Sulphate (Milestone),
2 to 4 pounds
Water 50 gallons
Dissolve the copper sulphate in a
bucket of hot water as it dissolves
more quickly in hot water; and dilute
to the desired quantity. Use wooden
or earthen vessels for copper sulphate
solution. This solution is to be used
on dormant plants, before the leaves
have expanded.
Bordeaux Mixture.
1—
Copper Sulphate 4 pounds
Unslaked Lime 5 pounds
Water 50 gallons
O
Copper Sulphate 3 pounds
Unsiaked Lime 6 pounds
Water 50 gallons
For all stone fruits, after leafing
out.
No. 1 can be used on these plants
during the dormant season.
Dissolve the copper sulphate as
mentioned above, slake the lime in a
bucket of water and dilute with sev
eral gallons of water and strain
through a coarse cloth to free the
mixture of the small lumps. They
interfere with the free flow of the
mixture through the spray nozzles.
Mix the two solutions together after
diluting each to twenty-five gallons.
Use this for rots, molds, mildews and
all funguous diseases. For jiotato
blight add two pounds more of cop
per sulphate.
A combined fungicide and insecti
cide for biting insects may be made
by adding eight ounces of either
Paris Green or London Purple, Green
Arsenoid or Arsenate of Lead to the
above.
Ainmonlacal Copper Carbonate
Solution.
Copper Carbonate 6 ounces
Ammonia about 3 pints
Water 50 gallons
Dissolve the copper carbonate in
ammonia in a closed wooden or
earthen vessel, and add to it the re
quired quantity of water when ready
to apply. As ammonia varies in
strength, some care is necessary to
use no more than is needed to dis
solve the copper carbonate. This
preparation is used for the same pur
pose as Bordeaux, but is intended to
be used only when fruit is nearly
grown, as Bordeaux sometimes af
fects the skin of ripening fruit.
Kerosene Emulsion.
Hard Soap pound
Boiling Water 1 gallon
Kerosene 2 gallons
Use “soft water” (preferably cis
tern water). Dissolve the soap in
the boiling water; add the kerosene
and churn violently until the mixture
becomes like buttermilk—not less
than five or ten minutes. Dilute with
water ten to fifteen times before
using. For sucking insects.
For scale, use strong emulsion and
apply while the insects are still in
the larval stage. For plant lice,
mealy bugs, red spider, etc., the
weaker solution may be used. Soft
bodied insects like the cabbage worm
may be destroyed with this solution.
Lime, Sulphur and Salt Mixture.
Lime,* 15 pounds (unslaked); sul
phur (flowers), 15 pounds; sail, 5
pounds; water, 50 gallons. Put four
or five gallons of hot water in an iron
kettle (20 gallons capacity), add 15
pounds lime. Stir with wooden pad
dle so' as to spread it about, then, as
soon as in full boiling from slaking,
add 15 pounds sulphur and mix brisk
ly with lime, adding boiling water as
needed to bring the whole mass into
a thick paste, then add water enough
to make 10 or 12 gallons and boil
from 30 to 40 minutes. Add the salt
when the paste is diluted. When the
wash is cooked, strain and dilute to
50 gallons.
Palis Green.
For biting and chewing insects;
Paris Green l pound
Water IGO to 200 gallons
Lime 2 pounds
If used dry, as a- powder, mix it
with 100 times its weight of dry flour,
plaster-or air-slaked lime.
London Purple may be used in the
place of Paris Green, but should have
more lime mixed with it.
Persian Insect Powder.
Fresh Powder l ounce
Water 2 gallons
Spray tin plants for soft-bodied
Insects. The powder* is frequently
dusted on plants, and is probably pre
ferable to the liquid form. The ma
terial is not poisonous to man, hence
can be used in dwelling houses to
kill house flies and mosquitoes. For
such cases, first close all doors and
windows and dust the room well with
the powder (usually at night) and
leave it so for several hours.- It is
a good idea to burn a spoonful or two
on hot embers so that the fumes may
fill the room. Be sure that the pow
der is fresh, because when old it
often fails to kill.
Hogs in Partnership.
A workable solution for the diffi
cult problem of .keeping fertility on
rented farms and yet make it possible
for tenants to secure cash value for
their crop has been found by J.
Dwight Funk, of McLean County, Il
linois. The past season tried it
and both landlord and tenant profited
handsomely by the deal. The fine
thing about it for the tenant was that
the usual lack of capital did not ham
per him from becoming a stockman
and sharing a stockman’s satisfaction
and profits. It offers inducements to
tenants to keep on the same farm
year -after year and build it up to in
creasingly higher yields.
For the tenant to start with, Mr.
Funk provided the boars and thirty
brood sows—twenty Chester Whites
and ten Poland-Chinas. It was agreed
that the tenant should take care of
the hogs and- keep up the original
stock out of their produce. The hogs
were fed from undivided corn so that
each partner furnished half the feed.
All other expenses -were borne equal
ly, except that the tenant paid $3
an acre rent for the pasture where
these hogs ran with ocher stock, in
cluding a small flock of sheep handled
on a similar partnership basis, and
after harvest the stock ran on the
tenant's stubble and stalk fields.
When the hogs were sold the pro
ceeds were divided equally.
In estimating his returns on the
deal, Mr. Funk considered the thirty
sows worth S2O each, or a total of
S6OO. Interest on this at six per
cent, -would make $36 annual ex
pense for the landlord. The sows
raised 175 pigs, or an average of
nearly six to the litter. They ate
1840 bushels of'-corn, one-half of
which would be 920 bushels; and
this at sixty cents made $552 for his
half of the feed. Mr. Funk’s half of
other expenses amounted to $2 3,
making a total outlay on his part of
s6ll for all expenses, including in
terest on the stock of sows.
The pigs sold for $3062.40, most
of them going over the scales when
fat, and eighteen or twenty boar pigs
selling at sl2 apiece at weaning time.
Mr. Funk’s half of the receipts for
hogs was $1531.20. Deducting his
expenses of SGII, he had a net return
of 5920.20.
It would be hard to find any easier
money to be made by a landlord, as
this is mostly profit, for the corn was
charged to the hogs at the market
price of sixty cents a bushel. The
only thing that was not counted, for
the reason that it could not be esti
mated with any degree of accuracy,
was the small amount of corn these
pigs got after cattle during four
months of the time. A liberal allow
ance for this would still leave a large
cash profit for the landlord. Setting
the tenant’s pasture against the in
terest charged the landlord on the
sows leave a fine profit for the ten
ant on his work of caring for the
hogs.—Breeders’ Gazette.
Well-Made Farrowing Pen,
The illustration shows a mew of the
corner of a farrowing pen. It is pro
vided with a fender around the inside
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Weil Designed Farrowing Pen.
of the pen w'hich keeps the sow from
lying up against a partition and kill
ing young pigs, which a large sow' will
often do. The fenders should project
at least eight inches into the pen and
allow eight inches clear between the
fender and the floor.
For Wheat and Oats.
Fall-sown wheat and oats are
greatly helped by harrowing them
with a sharp-toothed harrow as soon
as the land is dry enough, if they
have not been heaved out by the
frost. After harrowing, let stand a £
week and then roll, preferably with
a ridge and furrow roller.
