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■Arms Garden
FATTENING STEERS.
THE money in cotton. POINTS FROM CANADA I ROADS AND MOTOR cars.
I’olnt*
if \ -111
In KmlltiK rnrn and
( lovrr liny.
H. \V Munifnril of tlit* Illinois ox
jiormioni Gallon Inis rooonll.v iimiouno-
o.l a nunilmr nf i oiii'IuhIoiih from a ton*
xvllll toll lots Of sto.TH to determine tun
most profitable way of feeding com
and Hovor haj to cuttle. They nro as
follows:
Silage rank* wltli our corn, com
mon I mill corn mid cob modi In Its
ability to make rn|ild gains on fatten
ing uttlc
t'oriiincnl and corn and cob mcnl
to be about ciiually efficient In
producing quick llnlsb.
In this test more rn|ilrl guilts wore
Hoenrod with whole than with sbcllrs 1
corn and oi|tinlly ns good an with meal.
A reasonably i|itlcl< finish may be no
rilled Without the ling of all excess
LOT 4 AT TIMS. OF MAHKKTINH.
| Market value, to lb per rwt Hatton miuln
up of eornmenl,
mid clover hay.)
llluten meal, ollmenl
Instructive Hem From Seeretnrr
Hester’s Report on l.nst Year.
The annual report of Secretary Hes
ter of the New Orleans Cotton Ex I
change, Issnisl Sept. 8, contains some i
Instructive facts. He makes the crop of
11HI4-05 lS,5(Vi,H5B bales, an Increase of !
3,001,011 over tbe tllng crop. Tex- |
as and Indian Territory furnished “t18,-
000 bales of tills Increase.
Tbe commercial value of„ the crop
was $40.31 per bale as against $01.US
last year.
Tbe enormous crop sold for $028,-
105,350, which was only a trifle mote
titan tbe crop of 1003*04 brought to
farmers $017,501,548.
The highest figure reached for mid
dling was 113-10 cents In September
at tbe opening of the season. The low
est was O'.j cents, on Dec. 20.
Tbe average value' per pound for tbe
crop Just past was SOS loo cents com
pared with 1215-100 cents for last
year.
I lKorliiK on file Present Crop.
I .el iis now make a few estimates on
the present crop on the basis of 10
cent.4 to learn what the cutlr# crop will
bring to its when marketed. I.ast
year's bumper crop, selling at about 0
cents, brought to the south $028,000.-
ooo. In round numbers. A 10,non,000
bale crop, tills season's estimate, if
sold at 10 cents will bring us only
$5110,000,000.
Valuing tin* crop at II (suits mini
mum fixed by tbe farmers' organiza
tion* tbe short crop will bring $550,-
oon.ooo.
Were Ibis larger stun of money dls-
trlbiited to all of the varied Interests
concerned In the growing and market
ing of this year's crop, the millions of
men, women ami children on tbe farms
and plantations of tln> south, the earn*
lugs of the Individual grower would
not warrant any sense of exultat ion or a
purse proud feeling. Texas Ranch and
Farm.
A Hood Old Arrangement.
RULES FOR IMPROVING AND REPAIR
ING HIGHWAYS.
Canadian Commissioner'* Advlrr For
Krrplnic I p Hood lto«(lnsr»— All
Work lo Be Done With a View to
Pernianrnee and Rnrabllllr.
A. W. Campbell, provincial highway
commissioner of Ontario and one of
the ablest exponents of good roads on
tbe American continent, has formulat
ed a set of rules which could be follow
ed with profit by highway commission
ers generally, says the Auto Advocate
and Country Ronds. These rules are
printed In bis nnnunl report:
First.—Every good road hns two es
nentlnl features:
(a) A thoroughly dry foundation.
(h) A smooth, hard, waterproof surface
covering.
Second. The foundation Is the nnt
urn I subsoil, the dirt road, which must
be kept dry by good drainage.
Third.—The surface covering Is gen
erally a coating xtf gravel or broken
stone, which should be put on the road
lit such a way tlint It will not lit wet
weather he churned up and mixed with
the earth beneath that Is, It should
form a distinct coating. .
Fourth. To accomplish this—
(a) The gravel or broken stone should
rnntnin very little Hand or clay; It should
be clean.
(t» The roads should bn crowned or
rounded In the center so as to shed tlio
water to the open drains.
(e) Ruts should not Ire allowed to form,
ns they prevent water from passing to the
open drains.
(d) The open drains should have a Hiiftl-
clcnt fall and free outlet so that the wa
ter will not stand In them, but will bo
carried away Immediately.
(e) Thn open undnrdralns should be laid
wherever tlm open drains are not sutfl-
clent and where the ground has a moist
or wet appearance with a tendency to ab
sorb the gravel and rut readily. Hy this
means the foundation Is made dry.
Fifth.—Do not leave the gravel or
stone Just as It drops from the wagou.
but spread It so that travel will at once
Bfeet of Hood Highways aa Noted kr
An Antomoblllat.
Whatever the reputation for reck
lessness and disregard for the rightB
of the road which many automobile
drivers or chauffeurs have acquired,
the advent of the big car Is undoubted
ly exerting a strong influence favor
able to good roads, an Increasing Influ
ence which may be exerted powerfully
when tbe time becomes ripe for legis
lative assistance, says the Auto-Ad
vocate and Country Roads. An Inter
esting experience Is related of roads
and country ways by Whitman Osgood
of Washington, who with his wife, two
children aud a chauffeur made a round
trip to St. Louis In Ida Oldsmoblle.
They went by the famous old national
Ivel.v heavy grain ration. In this test
Hie largest average amount of concen
trates fed dally throughout the experi
ment was In lots 2, tl, 7 and 8, In all of
which the cob Is Included. Tbe dally
ration of concentrates In these lots
varied from 23 to 28.5 pounds or ap
proxlmately one peck of ear corn and
three pounds of gluten meal or oil meal
per 1,0011 pound* live weight of cattle.
The feeding of a nitrogenous concen
trate to supplement coni undoubtedly
stimulates the appetite and Increases
the capacity of the steer for consuming
to udvnntnge large quantities of con
centrates Hence this system of feed
ing Is to lie recommended where a
quick finish Is desired.
Where conditions are hiicIi ns pre
vailed In tills experiment corn nnd cob
mcnl Is not so valuable for fattening
steer*, pound for pound, iih coriimeiil.
The presence of the cob In ground corn
does not nppeur to materially Increase
the efficiency of corn for beef produc
tion or for combined beef and pork
production under conditions prevail
lug In this test.
A given amount of corn und cob meal
did not produce any more beef anil
considerably less beef nnd pork com
btned than did ear corn.
Comment proved much more effi
rlent for beef production than shelled
corn, while for combined beef and pork
Ail Iowa farmer tells of a feeding over nnd consolidate It before the
rack he tins used many years for feed
Ing bay and fodder to cattle, lie says
bo would not trade for many of the
newer kinds seen on some farms. It Is
made of logs, as shown In the Illustra
tion, and Is never getting out of repair
110(1 FICIUHNO HACK.
nor torn down. The lower part of It Is
made about 10 by 24 feet, being two
logs high on sides over which the cat
tle reach to get the hay or fodder.
Then Jogging In about two feet nil
upper part Is put In several logs higher
nnd the rnck holds two good loads of
hay. The one from which the sketch
was taken linH liecn In use for many
years and Is still quite serviceable.
Western Sheep Industry.
One of the unique characteristics of
the sheep raising Industry In the west
Is that It ofTerH opportunities to men
with no capital. Instances are com
mon where men starting ns hands ou
monthly pay of, say, $40, nnd having
been found faithful have been trusted
with flocks of sheep on shares. With
this iih u stepping stone, they have pro
gressed until within a few years they
have got together flocks of their own
numbered by the thousands. \
The western farmer who Is engaged
In other Industries on his land uaunlly
shews h disposition to keep a flock of
from 50 to 300 sheep ns n "side line,"
and Incidentally It may be remarked
that some of the best yields of fall
sown wheat which have been secured
In the northwest In recent years have
been from land on which the growing
crop was grazed close down by the
fanner's sheep In the early spring until
the Held looked absolutely bare.—Wal
lace Fawcett in Farm and Fireside.
I.OT 7 AT T1X1H OF MAHKKTTNO.
[M iik. t value. Iii 15 per cwt Ration made
up of corn and cob meal, slutcn meal,
oilmen! amt clover hay, chatted. I
production they appear to be about
equally efficient. Common I Is not more
efficient for licof production than Is ear
corn.
Ear corn Is much more efficient for
beef production than Is shelled corn.
This test Indteated that the supple
menting of corn with nitrogenous con
centrates used lu this Instance In
creases the efficiency of corn and clo
ver bay for beef production.
Apple Huai In town.
The experiment station of the lown
State college at Ames has Just Issued
front Its botanical department n bulle
tin tNo. 841 dealing with the apple
rust In Iowa. In tills bulletin Profess
or Pummel has collected a Inrge
amount of useful Information concern
ing the rust and apple fungi nnd tbe
districts In which they are prevalent,
together with reports from other states
as to their appearance and the means
taken to cope with thmn.
The origin of the apple rust ts traced
to the red cedars, so often used as
windbreaks in the vicinity of orchards.
Experiments In spraying In different
parts of this and other states are do , gravel,
tailed with their results.
fall rains commence.
Sixth.—Keep the road mntertnl rnked
or scraped Into the wheel or horse
traeks until consolidated.
Seventh.—Grade and crown the road
before putting on gravel or stone.
Eighth.—If a grading machine Is
available, grade the road which you In
tend to gravel before the time of stat
ute labor and use the atntute labor as
far as possible In drawing gravel.
Ninth.—A fair crown for gravel roads
on level ground Is one Inch of rise to
each foot of width from the side to the
center.
Tenth.—The road on hills should have
a greater crown than on level ground,
otherwise the water will follow the
wheel tracks and create deep ruts In
stead of passing to the side drains.
About one and one-fourth Inches to the
foot from the side to centor will be
sufficient.
Eleventh.—Repair old gravel roads
which have a hard center, but too little
crown, and which have high, square
shoulders, by cutting off the shoulders,
turning the material outward and plac
ing new gravel or stone In tho center.
Do not cover the old gravel foundation
with the mixture of earth, sod and tine
gravel of which the shoulders are com
posed. The shoulders can be easily cut
off by means of a grading machine.
Twelfth.—A width of twenty-four
feet between ditches will meet most
conditions, with the central eight feet
graveled or metaled with broken stone.
Thirteenth.—Wherever water stands
on the roadway or by the roadside or
wherever the ground remains moist or
Is swauipy lu the spring and fall bet
ter drainage Is needed.
Fourteenth.— Look over the ronds un
der your charge after heavy rains and
during spring freshets. The work of a
few minutes In freeing drains front ob
struction or diverting a current of wa
ter Into a proper channel may become
the work of days If neglected
Fifteenth.—Surface water should be
disposed of In small quantities. Great
accumulations are hard to bundle and
are destructive. Obtain outlets Into
natural water courses us often as pos
Bible.
Sixteenth.—Instead of having deep
open ditches to underdrniu tbe road
and dry the foundation, use tile.
Seventeenth.—Give culverts a good
fnll and free outlet so that water will
not freeze In them.
Eighteenth.—In tnklng gravel from a
pit see that precautions are taken to
draw only clean material. Do not let
tint face of tho pit be scraped down,
mixing clay, sand and turf with good
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HARD MOTORING ON A 11A1) llOAU.
road, passing through Hagerstown, Mil.;
Bedford, Fa.; Pittsburg, Zanesville, Co
lumbus, Indianapolis, Terre Haute, etc.
"The roads lu Maryland were very
good,” said Mr. Osgood, “even In the
mountains. In Pennsylvania they were
bad and In West Virginia they were
bad. lu Ohio the roads got better,
especially around Columbus, where for
seventy miles they are as level und
Riuootb as a floor. In Indiana they
were fair, but In Illinois aud Missouri
—well, the next time I go over those
roads It will be with a flying machine.
They wore simply fearful. We had
no bnd weather.
“I uevor knew before what an excel
lent Index to the character of people
the roads which cut through the coun
try nre. Where there were good rouds
there were good farms; where the
roads were poor the farina were poor,
and the fnrniers looked shiftless and
devoid of energy and ambition. We
found It difficult to get proper food in
aome of the country districts, the farm
ers sending all their products Imme
diately to the market.”
No
Matter WHAT
you Want—
If it’s sold in a Grocery
Store—you can buy it at
C. P. STEPHENS & CO.
The Prompt Service Grocers.
Shall We
Convince You?
FRANCE’S FINE ROADS.
Millions of Dollars Spent br tbe Gov
ernment Yearlr For High waps.
There are some things In tbe old
world from which America should
draw Instruction and wisdom, says the
Kansas City Star. France has the
best roads on earth, divided Into four
classes: First, national; second, de
partmental; third, military, and fourth,
communal. National roads are built
and kept up by tbe national treaaury;
department roads are a charge upon
the departments through which they
pass; the military roads are usually
kept by the government, but some
times the government Is aided In this
work by the departments through
which the roads pass. The communal
roads, like our civil district and town
ship ronds, are kept up by the com
munes, but even these receive assist
ance from the government when they
pass through thinly populated regions.
The departmental roads are thirty-nine
feet wide nnd the other roads vnry In
width.
Not less than $7,000,000 Is annually
expended by the Freneh government In
making new ronds nnd repairing old
ones. This work gives employment to
35.000 persons, nnd the totnl length of
the roads Is something over 350,000
miles. The roads are so well con
structed that one single man can keep
ten miles In repair If furnished with
[tiles of broken stone, placed at inter
vals along the road, and a cart for dis
tributing the stone. Every rut and
hole as fast as made Is tilled.
It is hard sometimes to make a merchant believe that
somebody else can collect money from people whom he
looks upon as deadbeats, yet we are in a position to con
vince the most skeptical that we can do that very thing.
During the past twelve years we have collected over a
million accounts from people who had been dunned in
every conceivable way; people whose creditors never ex
pected to recover a dollar.
We guarantee to collect five times as much as our fee
amounts to, and we expect no percentage on the collec
tions until we succeed; after we succeed we ask only six
per cent. If you will write us we will introduce you to a
new method of bringing dead heats to book, a method
that very seldom fails.
THE NATIONAL COLLECTION AGENCY,
Washington, D. C. ;
Atlanta & West Point Railroad Co.
The Western Railway of Alabama.
Direct Lines Between North, East, South and Southwest. U. S. Fast
Mail Route. Through Palace Sleeping Cars. Dining
Cars. Tourist Sleepers to California.
RKAD DOWN
SCHEDULE IN EFFECT APR. 23, 1905.
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Clover Meed.
of the thirteen prlticRml clover seed
producing states one namely, Illinois
reports an Increased acreage; four
namely. Ohio, I'tuh, California nnd Col
orado report no change In acreage,
and all the other principal states report 04.7
decreases. In Ohio and Utah condi
tions nro reported the same ns their
ten year average, while In all other
principal states conditions lira nbore
such average.
Stock linn Slow Fattening.
The numlter of stock bogs now being
fattened is ti per cent less titan the
number a year ago. Reports ns to size
und weight of stock hogs indicate a
condition of Otl.2 a* compared with 84.2
a year ago and a seven year average of
GARDEN SNAPSHOTS
ttoo(1tnR Timothy aid (Tower.
A common practice In lown and other
states Is to sow timothy in the fall
with a light seeding of wheat or rye as
a nurse crop aud early tbe next spring
sissl tile clover, simply sowing broad
cast nnd depending upon the spring
rains to cover the seed. Ten Eyck.
Big Corn Crop.
The official statement for September
of the corn condition as 88.S is used as
the tnisis for estimating the totnl yield
at 2.71ti.lU8,000 bushels, which ts about
60,000.000 bushels larger than the pre
vious high water mark, established in
1880.
Sow pausles in cold frames.
Start new beds of asparagus and
rhubarb.
Fnll sown grass seed generally
makes a better lawn titan spring sowu
seed.
In the latitude of Richmond sow ear
ly cabbage, turnip for "salnd." kale,
spiuach, lettuce aud mustard.
Toward the end of the month set out
cabbage and lettuce plants which are
to stay outdoors all winter.
From every standpoint the fall Is the
ideal tree plHutiug time In the south.
Don't forget the lilies, the most Im
portant of summer blooming bulbs.
They must be planted In the fall—Gar
den Mags alee.
Nineteenth.—Gravel which retains a
| perpendlculnr face In the pit in the
spring nnd shows no trace of slipping
Is generally tit to use on the road with
out treatment. Dirty gravel should be
screened.
Twentieth.—Finn and lay out the
work before calling out the men.
Twenty-llrst.—When preparing plans
keep the work of succeeding years in
view.
Twenty-second.—Call out
day only such number of mou and
teams us can be properly directed. i
Twenty-third. — In laying out the
work estimate ou a full day's work
from each man and see that It is per
formed. Specify the number of loads
of gravel to constitute a day’s work.
Every wagon box should hold a quar
ter of a cord.
Twenty fourth.—Make early arrange
ments for having ou die road when re
quired and In good repair all Imple-'
mount and tools to be used in perform
ance of statute labor.
Twenty-fifth.—Do all work with a
view to permanence and durability.
Broader I sen of Soil Sarrey*.
For several years past the depart
ment of agriculture has been operating
soil surveys lu various parts of tbe
United States for the purpose of deter
mining tbe value of special crops.
More than 00,000 square miles have al
ready been mapped, and records of the
surface and subsoil constituents aud of
drainage have been made. Beyond the
value to agriculture the importance of
the information thus gathered Is being
appreciated by the war department In
possessing data for military roads In
case of necessity, says the Good Roads
Magazine. Such information at the
time of the Spanish war would have
prevented the selection of a pestileutial
camp like that established at Chick-
ainnugn. These surveys will doubtless
prove of great value, too, lu determin
ing highways for the many uses of
peaceful life, aud the scope of the un
dertaking may well be broadened to
meet the demand for good roads, both
In defining the most favorable location
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