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"--at rVfVv :.;' ;.. , W '0 -.-'...Tjl-VoV - -'V- .if." - A R&ORD THE CHINA GROVE. NORTH CAROLINA One seasonal occupation is swimming. ' going . .1. - i Nobody envies a fat man in ot weather. t , il you'can'twim, any depth ol l W ter is too deep. ,,, . T , TT JDven Boston, has. started a: crusade against ''animal dances.!' -5 J An outing for a man usually' means an inning for. a mosquito. . - - Fishing must 'he-, good. .Mighty few stories of wonderful catches. A woman's face-1b her fortune, says an exchange. Yes; and money talks. The most popular currency bill is one with a green back and a good fig ure. - Vesuvius again shows signs of actlv Ity. As rule such signs are unmis takable. ' . Still, they managed to play - ball be fore the word "jinx" entered the vo cabulary. It does no good to turn the ther mometer to the wall. You can't turn off the heat. No matter how many troubles a man has, he. can f orget them all when a fish grabs the bait. i Every time hot weather comes a man - Wishes - he had the courage to dress comfortably. The man who ate six dinners to . win a bet, of $25 could have sold the food for twice as much. Tongues can get a man into trouble tt more, ways .than one. A Philadel phia man choked on hi. A title doesn't seem to fit the man who wrote "Peter: Pan,' at least a "tailor-made" title doesn't. There is not sufficient tension in the baseball situation at present to make the fans enjoyably maniacal. Excursion, rates make it almost as cheap to travel as to stay at home and not nearly so monotonous. As potato cars are to be heated in winter, the earnest hobo will proceed to disguise himself as a potato. . Little birds that frolic in the woods and eat berries do not get as much stomach-aches as the picnickers do. Tbie .Chicago i husband, who has to woo his wife all over again probably will not be so ardent as the first time. . There " is an - opportunity for some genius to bless mankind by thinking up a reasonable excuse for going fish ing. ;' It Is a mean business , man who asks the college, graduate .that applies for work to translate his college di ploma. As Xady Constance suggests, what's the use of acquiring a beautiful figure if you can't get rated accord ingly? In New York one might say, If one were sufficiently reckless, that the combination is "wine, women" and Sing Sing." To discover that last year's bathing suit has shrunk does not daunt the young woman who is as courageous as she is fair. People who take poison by mistake may be careless, but what . shall be said of those who leave the poison lying around? A $19 steer is said to cost the con sumers $99. Men are given steers oc casionally that eventually cost them more than that. ' Jacksonville, Fla., announces a movement in favor of more clothes for women, but nothing has been heard from Yuma, Ariz. It is fortunate that all ' the best poetry of love and practically all the best romances were . written before eugenics became a fad. According to a decision recently made by the supreme court of Mis sissippi, a razor is not a weapon. On the other hand it could hardly be called a toy. ' Now that the navy has abolished "starboard' and "port" for "right" and "left," cannot somebody relieve the clash between "interstate" and "intra state?" A Chicago doctor says Americans are short-sighted. Still, that's not tiu real reason why they don't save money. The San Francisco Dishwashers union announced that it has 100- col lege men as members. A blow to per sons who ..claim that the college man is not practical. Might be pleasant to take a trip with Count Zeppelin about now In one of his airships. The atmosphere is quite cold when a certain elevation above the earth's surface is reached. .. v - The mongrel dog gets into, the news papers as a hero much more 'often than his fashionable contemporary. 'Tis well. ' And among men th scrubs have more heroism as a rule han the dandies. Queen Mary of England may be Very strict m' her views, but she ii iclever in enforcing them. She keeps Jhex son, the prince of, Wales, from top gay and festive a 'career,' not" by (threats, commands and punishments, out simply by restricting his money allowance. The rest is easy. Siiiiii A CONDENSED RECORD OF EVENTS OFJTHE WEEK. SEVEN DAYS' NEWS AT A GLANCE Important -Happenings. In .All. Part f the World Summarized for K tha Busy Reader; r Southern. Dressed in a pair of overalls, bro- gan shoes and a. man'& sshirt,, which was -much '.torn and soiled, the body of Mrs. Etta Patton, wife of Zeb Pat- ton, a former resident of Asheville, was picked 'upon on the tracks of the Southern, railway, about, three miles from Asheville, ' N. C. The deceased was: struck:-by a freight train which passed about half an hour before the body was found. She .was. 27 years old. Secretary- of State" rwtlliam " Jen nings- Bryan, - In', a; telegram : marked "confidential,", has ' instructed .Doctor Pressley, treasurer of .'the' board of missionaries of the Associate. Reform ed Presbyterian church in Mexico; with headquarters at Duo West, S; C, to-order all missionaries of that church out of Mexico at once, as they are, in peril. '- " Federal Judge Grubb at Birmingham, Ala;, -fined the Southern Wholesale Grocers Association $2,500 for con tempt ot-court in violating a decree issued in 1911,, - commanding : the or ganization to abide by federal auti- trust laws. President J. ELMcLaurln of Jacksonville, Fla., was fined $1,000. H. Lacey Hunt of Wilmington, N. C, and L. A- Melchers of Charleston, S. C, were fined $1,000 each and the costs were assessed against the cor poration and the three individual de fendants according to costs of their respective witnesses. , v General The situation in Canton remains se rious. The electric lightsv are cut oft, and the people are fearful, of mutiny. Trains, junks and other -vessels leav ing the city are packed with refugees. A , siege of Canton is expected with the arrival there of General Chi-Ku-angi commander of the - government forces in ithe . provtode of Kwang-Si, who is moving toward Canton with his army. ' Eighteen men were killed and two seriously injured in a double explosion in the East Brookside mine of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal . and Iron company, near. Tower City, Pa., by a double explosion of what is be lieved to have been dynamite and gas. Thirteen men died in the first explo sion, and five met death in the sec ond blast after a heroic attempt to rescue the first victims. One of the rescuers escaped. District Attorney Manwell and three other men of Yuba county were shot and killed and -six others wounded,- including two women, when a sher iff's posse endeavored to quell a hop pickers' riot at Durst' s hop field in Wheatland,. CaL A. special train car rying ; five companies . of militia has left Sacramento for Wheatland. The militiamen - are equipped with . 100 rounds of ammunition to the man, and three days' rations. Stroudsburg, Pa., and the Delaware Gap were the center of a storm which is said to be unprecedented in this section of the state. Seven and one half inches of rain fell. No lives have been reported lost. . During a severe electrical storm at Winnipeg, Manitoba, a herd of eighty elephants with a circus showing there, broke loose, wrecked half of the cir cus tents and thousands of, seas, damaged a number of small buildings and caused a panic in the neighbor hood. The elephants were captuted several times, only .to break their bonds again. . Trainers with iron bars and pitchforks at length subdued them. No other animals escaped. - One man -was killed and 146 passen gers and trainmen were injured, only one dangerously, when a fast express crashed into, the rear-end of a passen ger train on the Pennsylvania : rail road at Tyrone, 15 miles east of the city. . All of the injured, excepting eleven, who were being cared for in the Altoona hospitals, were able to continue their journey. Both trains were of steel construction, and this is believed to explain the fact that there were not more casualties. - , . Two are dead, six will die, according to attending physicians, one other is prorbably fatally burned and eleven others are seriously injured, as the result of a motorcycle accident at the Lagoon . motordrome, across the river from Cincinnati. Odin Johnson of Salt Lake City, captain Of the Cincinnati team, who was contesting - at the motordrome, for some reason that will probably remain unknown, drove his cycle to the extreme top of v the cir cular track, crashed into an electric light pole, broke it off and the ' con tact of the live wire with his. machine exploded the gasoline tank,. - Commissioner Clements, in render ing the decision of the Interstate com merce commission in the LaGrange, Carrollton and Vienna rate cases, con demned the existing arbitrary- differ ences in rates to these points, as com pared with rates to Atlanta and Cedar town, the basing points, which are in the state of Georgia. ' ' Reductions in express rates , which will cost the companies $26,000,000 a year aprpoximately 16 per cent, of their gross revenue -were ordered by the interstate, cominerce commission to become effective oh" or before "Oc tober 15, 1913. Annie Higgins, near Larkihsville, Tenn., single handed, captured and de stroyed a large wild cat distillery and a. lot of liquor found in a wooded swamp near her father's farm. The young lady had noticedthat the .farm hands came in from work-in an In. toxicated condition, and so she set; to work to find the .source of, their .liquor supply., ."She secretly followed one of the' workmen and - fou?nd the stilt in" : full operation. When the operators saw her approaching on horseback, they fled. The girl at once destroyed the still. -v, Mid-summer, heat fringing, to many citie temperatures ,as high as 106 and making the 100 degree mark common oyer wide areas,' extended throughout the : eentrai .statessjueneraiaescriDea the heat -wave extended from ; the Rocky mountains to the Atlantic coast, but the mxalmum temperatures were reported from points between Kansas and Ohio. V, . -. li Twenty-hine persons, all - of Chica go, were , Injured when Martin5 Roy, a .chauffeur of the autobus in which they were riding- drove' into a culvert to avoid running down four-year-old Mary Banko. The bus. . turned .over "on the occupants, but. with , one excep tion, none of the injuries was serious. Martin Roy was cut . about the ', eyes and at a hospital at- Hammond, III., it was said he may lose his sight. The party .-was - returning from a' night's outing, at a Lake county sum mer resort, v v - - -The ' demolition of a portion of a mosquS at Cawnpore, India, for street improvements which had caused indig nation meetings to be held in many parts' of India and Burma, led to se rious rioting at Cawnpore. A pro cession of natives carrying black flags visited the mosque and began replac ing theb ricks-of the partly demolish ed edifice. An attempt to disperse thq' gathering resulted in a conflict with the police, who fired a volley into the crowd killing 13 per sons and .wound ing 30. One policeman was shot and forty others were injured. The allies in demands presented toi the ,-Bucharest peace conference proposing the establishment of fron tier, standing east from . the Struma river, running midway, through Rou mania and reaching the Aegean sea 15 miles west of Dedeagatch. ' This would leave 'Bulgaria a coast line on the Aegean sea of less than thirty miles. Bulgaria will Issue from the two wars in a little larger than when she entered into them, but she will have to . abandon a large amount of terirtory to Roumania. Washington Keen interest has been aroused In Washington official circles by the re port to the state department that Great Britain is contemplating a na val base in the Bermuda islands.- It is authoritatively stated that the Brit ish government has made inquiry con cerning the plans of the United, States for protection of the Panama canal routes, and it has been suggested that this indicates an intention to safe guard British shipping through the isthmus as is done in the Mediterra nean. Officials realize that the prob lem raised is a tremendous one. News of the apearance in Venezuela of ex-President Cipriano Castro, after his five 'years' exile, caused something of a sensation at the state depart ment at Washington. For the past five years the department has been keeping Castro under surveillance to prevent his returning to Venezuela, which country has been enjoying a period Of unwonted prosperity and quiet since his retirement. The United States government Is only represented In Venezuela at present by a legation clerk. ' ; ' t -'-- . . - . i " . Secretary McAdoo prenared to dis tribute twenty-five to fifty millions of dollar of government funds in the ag ricultural regions of the South and West. The secretary is collecting in formation as to the relative needs of each section where harvesting is now under way or soon to begin, and ex pects to have, the money in the banks In ample time for the movement of the crops. Treasury officials were confi dent that the secretarys'- plan would be a powerful factor in averting or re lieving the prospective tightness of money. t . f' .. Consideration of the American cur rency bill was practically concluded by the Democrats of the house bank ing .and currency committee after more than five weeks of constant and stormy discussion. The bill has been ordered closed and reported. It will go to the caucus with only the dis approval of three members of the com mittee. Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson's conference with members of the sen ate, committee on foreign relations re sulted in stronger support for' his plan to recognize the Huerta govern ment in Mexico than he has received at any time since he reached Wash ington. After three hours' question ing of the ambassador, many members of the senate committee expressed the opinion that serious, consideration should be given to his recommenda tions. ' v y '-. , Like a giant flaila -cyclonic storm of, wind, rain and hail whipped back and forth across the nation's capital, leaving death and ruin in its wake. Three dead, scores injured-, and hun dreds of thousands of dollars' worth. of property destroyed, was the toll re corded in the' hurried-canvass made when the city aroused itself from, half an hour of helplessness in the. grasp" of, the elements. Out " of a blazing sky, under which the city was swelter ing with the temperature at 100 de grees, came th storm, Tearing' from7 the north, driving a mass of . clouds that, cast a mantle of darkness over the city. i . Representative bankers of fifty-nine large cities in the agricultural regions of the South, .Middle West, and Pa cific coast were invited by Secretary McAdoo to come to Washington to confer? with the treasury : department regarding the .distribution of fifty million dollars of government funds about to te deposited in the national banks of those - sections to facilitate the. marketing and moving of : the crops., This unprecedented step will call t6 Washington bankers from the centers that will "finance the handling ot, the great crops soon to be har vested. , - -President Wilson took the first steps in . the policy through which he pro- poses to deal with the Mexican situa tion He formally accepted the resig nation: of Ambassador -Henry Lane Wilson, to take effect on October 14, and sent to Mexico City as, his per sonal repTesentatiye-rrbut not accred ited to' the Huerta government form er Governor John Lind of Minnesota. The understanding is- that when a stable government is established In Mexico Mr. Lind will be formally named as ambassador, s , ' Unidn of America : -A - - . it Matter Especial Moment to the Iretsire Agricnlbirist Te surest thing to ; kill Joy t is to , Cultivate patience. ; Frfetftng never brought raiin; qr stoppedt J J .jome women would be' unhappy' if they had nothing to Cicomplain of, ? si '' There are .many good .Intentions tha cannot be put Intoexecution for lack of funds. ..- -.-., . -, Wat proflteth a man it he 'raise, the best crop in the county and lose money; In the selUng; : . . r; v ; . ' X . .' "Maybe it is because most of us are fond of crowds, that there is so much: room at the top. , Institutions of industry, creative and co-operative, la -. what : makes greatness everywhere,,? 1 If 5 you say sour things;1 say -them lh : such a sweet way as to . make a sortr, of , verbaL lemonade. - ..j,. Talking back is hot " Impudence when t the land "replies to seeding and cultivating with a bumper ?c,rop. .; l The man who has no use for the opinions of others never has any of his own that other peopje .wanu,. - if; Some farmers ; act as though they could give nature cards ''and spades .IIS -i ttt .r and then beat her in the game' of regulating the weather, i .-. . , There is no use trying to run away from trouble.. The merchant, the bank er and every other business man has his "trials and tribulations." We have : found that one of the best ways to get along' with work Is to never let It hurry yori. This means keep well ahead of the hounds. ,It is easy to be thankful when, we are prosperous, but it takes real op timism to be thankful things' are no worse when we suffer heavy losses. : Too many of us are like .the. man on the jury who complained that "the eleven other fellows : were the most stubborn fellows he ever saw." The man. who keeps his children out of school in order to save a few dollars is a thief robbing his own flesh and blood of its opportunity to make a success in life. , , . . . If we would keep the boys at home, we must meet the demands for them that come from the cities. ' We must give them a chance to make money for themselves and broaden their oppor tunities for enjoying everything good In life within their reach. MORE CO-OPERATION NEEDED Strict. Conformity: tp' business Princi ples -and Loyal Support of Officers - Are iMentiai." -y. Never before has there be, en a great er demand for the right kind of co operation - among farm - communities. It is indeed a broad subject ahd so many factors enter into it that it ,1s impossible to lay down any definite rules that can be followed which will bring - about , Immediate, success, but. there are many plans of, co-operation that will bring immediate results. The farming community that is doing the. largest amount of things ,in farm development, are the ; sections where co-operation among farmers is being followed. ' . We believe that the basis . of com? mercial co-operatioa in any line is confidence in the organization, says the Western Farmer. Any organiza tion to succeed must , be run -strictly, on business lines. . Where Farmers' Co-operative societies' have been suc cessful in the United States through' strict conformity, to. business princi ples ' with the organization handled by , competent men and given loyal support by the members. It is true that often these organizations, meet witH failure, but .where one organiza tion falls many more succeed and each year sees a greater success. 7 During the past ten .years the work of co operation has been felt not only in the marketing OL Crops, but in the , se curing .of legislation which directly affects the farmer and his needs. Through this co-operation have come co-pperatiVe - grain i; warehouses, "co operative creameries, mutual - fire in surance companies, fruit shipping as sociations; and farmers' telephone companies.- The reason that the woik of. co-operation is progressing is due, to .the fact" that greater attention is' being paid to the business side 'of the organization. A thorough under- Etahding should first of all be under stood regarding the basis upon which the organization is formed. A co-operative -start has been; made In ithfs work , of co-operation .through ouj the country, and ths wqrk is be ing felt. Western Farmer again urges th farmers to get together on issues that concern. : their business. They need to do this for protection and to promote T "their profits' in ""the-' sale "of farm- products. They need' to pull together. Cooperation . ; among .the .farmers means better business meth ods," applied just like the other fel lows, who are, succeeding, apply them. Did, you : ever stop,, to, think that -the farmers pay about one-half of all the taxes ' collected and if any ' class of people need co-operation the f armers are jthe. ones. The heads of the farm home ',, should be . thinking about, the co-operative . movement and - get ; in touch with everything that, tends -toward the unification of the interests In which the farmer and his family is connected.'; , 'i .,.--f ,,1.;, .;" ; Piantihrj Too Closely: ItIs a mistake. to plant strawberries or other small fruits too.closelyroThe average strawberry beds are" planted' so close thatthe plants have to fight each -other for. existence. - - , ' .. Ideaf Pouftry .Feed. .- - - ; -w -.7' -. TzTi- ii I. , .When gathetihg , in ;the .. vegetables J turnips ; as - worthless. - They make Ideal food for the poultry. is LACK IT! ! CAUTION Ordfna,ry,very-Day - Word, but Oh .f 'M?te: Reaching Importance; i&y' To Officials ' and Members d the Union; -:'-' .- ' v " ' ' V' . . . i Cautipn ; J ust an ordinary, e rei-y tayfe'ward but one" Craugnt with deep and ; far-reaching Importance. J It " is-the--one" thing farmers lack above all other qualities. Caution they nave IfipIenTy 1ST cerfalff dlfecWnsT but .usually not in the . direction it sliould beapplied. ? v " SThey ae overautous Abourhon estly - accepting plans v and . organiza- due in a measure, to the fact that his bump "of .feautibn .has becbmeabhdriip ally-developed. v.r-: V-. .i 'i- BuConthe btheri hand, the wordy, windy,)'- promisin,g politician. ; - seems able; to wipe j out tills bunip"vof : cau tion eveW. eleitioh' day; Fooled time and time again I by broad , promises j jjciuto : vue election,- vuiy, w wb lujgui, teri ''anor ignored after rtiie "election; yet the farmer'a caution bump fails to show; whenfthe same deceiving, srflsh politicians comes to'rwar"digaJ, afcjyrj&i J(he''ii&mel old ejaptypron ises arouses : his enthusiasm to high pitch, to such a high pitch that he throws -tautlb'KSbiomW'Iffitfwl7 edge that he is f dealing . with a, rascal, to the winds 'and votes once more for. the idle promiser. -. r.Nqw, As J stated, farmers are slow to : accept and take ' hold' of move- meets witnin tneir- - own ranas ior self-advancement,, because they haye been . fooled., in, the past Why the same theory "don't' work with them as '; regards i this 'scheming politician" is something too profound ior. my un raveling. But the truth of it is too J well known for argumeht. That old designing, crafty politician is mighty bumble,. mighty cordial, eager to promise anything asked when before : you seeking your vote. But just .see him In Washington, as ?l have. ...There he laughs at? your gulU b.iityj sneers at your confidence in his premises; openly flaunts you and your causes , r -:-.-.' V.':"-t"-.- f-l You are waking up a bit along that line, Ill4 confess, but only after con sUnt hammering "on you.' Some men who have stood in, places of power for years : and sneered at ypu and your needs have felt your righteous wrath and gone into the oblivion they have long merited. - ' ' r ' v But otherr remain. , Many, of them are. going to come as humble suppli cants for your suffrage " next year. They wear the outward garb and sem blance of real and true friends to .you and, your cause. They are oily, shrewd. kplausible. Every artifice of the de signing self-seeker-will ' be used on you again. . - Will you stand for him? Will you let that sort fool you yet again? Oh, my credulous brother, wake up, wake up!" Put; on' your- thinking. cap, read; study the public . career . of the . man seeking your" franchise. ' Know, don't guess, that he is your real friend and that he will do all in his power hon estly to make good on his, promises to you. ' Do this and you . will get true friends in the high - places.; You will get leg islation loug denied you, becauee you haven't had some one to press your cause like the trusts' and -corporations have had. . .; ,- - . . . Come out of jour sleep, brother. Quit letting them fool you. ' C.S. BARRETT. Union City, Ga. f Tent Caterpillar. , The tent caterpillar is one "of the most annoying of -.tree fruit t pests.; Much of the annoyance may be avoid ed by collecting the eggs during the winter. These' are laid In masses' on twigs. They can be easily seen. .N ever burn, them. PJace, them .where,, the young 'worms cannot,- escape but where the parasites that' are nearly always- present can . fiy - away. , These parasites will take .care, of the cater pillars that are missed when the eggs were collected." I - : '. : .;. f Selecting Good Layers. . At the Maine Experiment station V they select the good layers "by pick ing up the pullets which soonest show red combs and begin to sing, as pul lets So when getting ready to lay, 'and putting-' them in a flock by themselves. By picking out; these ( early ' layers they, got a flock which averaged 180 eggs during their 1 flrsjr laying ; year and a 'flock of that, kind - is- good enough ,f or, anyone, -j . , Air Blisters in Chiefs. Air ' blisters often show themselves in ycjungchicks rTh skin, .puffs? out and seems like a bladder of " wind. It comes on the -abdomen sides and" un der the. wings, and; neck. Prick the I Dusters wun a neeaie to lei out tne air. 'Add carbonate cf iron,- alternat ing with granulated ;, charcoal daily , in the .fopd. Theration shguld be.oat 'me'al principally with plenty of sharp grit- within reach. ' "? r : : Proper Selection. ... Sele9tf cows of the breed and, ype that best meets your "needs and never attempt? to mix the J breeds-: Size ac-J companied ,by a certain ' egree of . re finement Is desirable in the cbilry cow and it can be obtained more surely and easTry: by sticking' to rone ; breed and fusing r sire r frcm (8imilar(,lines oi breeding' .until prepotency la estab llshed In the herd. 3 ; t ' Road ttf Bankruptcy. The farmer who- tuys: hlf Jee4 d, other supplies that can ,be grown on the farm and growB 'nothing but cot ton0 is on the straight toad to bank-"iPtcy- ' .- . : ,, vIaiuUieact iv.jy..- ;Those fjwho gro.w .perishaWe pro ducts, must look ahead and 'not plant more than can be marketed at a pro fit ' r:-i'-" 'h .y- for co-operstion nutualaid and ielf sacrifices I know, bf 'course it is FARMERS ADVISEDAGAINST? SELLING COWS )$m tic Inwaoewwin iwiaiiaaBaMeaocaMoqBaBwaiitiJi6tf6CTW "wiaMflaaMMWBgana Filling a Sllo'orr ? ' W . ..... v. . -i k During the past twelve months cafe tie 5 buyers have been active in 'Louis iana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia I andFJd:puTchwing cattie.rta. be shipped to the middle western mar kets' .asr either .canners; or stockers..' The prices, paid , for .canners during this ' period have ' been so higb: that thousands of cows , and heifers, have gone . to .the shambles-which should haye been retained' 6nv the farms for breeding purposes' . This is especially noticeable when the receipts of , south ern cattle at the St. Louis market for the last 12 months are compared witji those for" any previous period of similar length. The receipts of Ala bama, Mississippi i and Louisiana cat tle j at that market have almost -doubled during this period. ; Since the, first o February? buyers from the farms and" ranches of the west have been scouring the gulf states in; search of breeding stock. A few years ago this class of cattle would have been scorned by the west ern ranchman, as breeding stock, but with the shortage' ot cows for breed ing purposes the ranchers are glad to get: these cheap cows, to which they will breed good beef bulls. The half breeds resulting ; from this mating make fairly" desirable beef animals. , Several thousand cattle have already been sent from these states to Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas, and some of them are said' to have been shipped as far as Montana. . . . , . - . , Recently there were perhaps more cattle unloaded . at one time . In Bir mingham, Ala., for - feed, . water and rest while en route to the western' ranges than - have ever been seen in that place, before In. one day. Georgia and! Florida are sending out thousands of. these native southern cattle at the present, time, at, prices ranging, from $15 to $23 a head for mature animals. A shipment of 40- carloads', of cattle was recently, made from. Osceola county, Florida, r In7: one day. ; They were shipped to Kansas via Oklahoma City. The. cattle were dipped in ar-. senical solution before loading, to free them of ticks, and were to be dipped again on arrival at, Oklahoma City, be fore going above the' federal quaran tine line. . Some people of the south seem glad that these cattle are being shipped out, as the, number, of scrub cattle is being reduced and the south will get. better cattle' as a result ! They do not look .farenough ahead, however, ! or they .would see that If the y short-j age of cattle is such as to cause buy'' i ers to come from the far west to buy i these scrub cattle for breeding pur poses, the, chancel of .'southern . farm ers refilling .. their pastures with good cattle are indeed small, for where are these good breeding cattle to ' come from at a reasonable price?: The best and most profitable way of getting j good cattle - throughout the south is to breed. up the native, cattle by the BEST BREED FOR- FARM USE Some (Excellent .Points, .That., May As- sist Farmer in Making "Selection Some Rapid. Growers. " 'fhe. Wyandotte is smaller than the Plymouth Rock, but an equally rapid gregver. i-It is generally claimed that th& White Wyandotte will stand, push ing for rapid' growth the best Of any breed. .' - ,: ' As layers .the Wyandottes. seem to rank about with the Plymouth Rocks, 1 Columbian Wyandottes. ; f f i - - "i ) -- j", . ij hut being, somewhat more active, and buying - less: tendency ta- bverfatness they should be ' credited, withf a slight i ;' The Rhode .Island Red breed consti tuiesfbe fatest addition td the list of popular American .breeds tpf ( chickens. This variety differs 'from the majority Breeding piac Tor Flies? Tha (, manure- ,ple . is .the - natural breeding " place for" flies' just as 'the hearts of some men are the breeding places iqf jealous y,y bitterness and. the. grouch. -L- i-i ft t- ; H India's ' CotldHWop; ; ilndla's cotton crop is estimated Hat 497,000 bales of 400 pounds, the yield of L91U0OO acres. , : '..-. I i a Dairy Fanh.k. , : . i -; --S. 45 -JT: - use of mire-bred -bulls, :$nd by castrat- mg au scruo Duus,.atan eariy age. The south is especially -adapted to .ralsmgcatUeW.becu18 lon&-: grazing season, the enormous areas of cheap land much of which is how' lying rIdle, !thegrat vaflety of pas ture grasses and' legimes? which grow luxuriantly on; all soils, and , because of tbe mild winters. -' 1 - - -; If the western rancTiman can afford to pay southern ' farmers good ; prices.; for:jws,ay,,.aetbJgjh,: freight rates to the west, stand the losses which naturally occur during-: shipping thin cattle . such , long ; distances, also . bear the lossesdue to a change of climatic conditions,' and then make money on -them, why can not the southern fann er who already owns the soils,- keep this stock on the farm and secure the ? Increased profits ? He can If ( he will free his cattle of ticks, increase the", efficiency -of his 'pastures by planting mixtures of lespedeza, bur clover, white clover or perhapB melilotus, alsike clover; and 'redtop over, his pas-t ture lands ; and by raising tmore hays -and forage '. crops for' wintering his stock and finishing them for market The surplus cattle can then be fat- , tened by feeding cottonseed cake i on -grass, or. grazing- j fields of '-velvet . beans while feeding some concen-' trate; or they can" be finished in th dry lot during the winter !months. ,FQr . ry , winter feeding no roughage has prov en more valuable than sQage, ' as thet ' -addition of it to a feeding ration inva riably increases the size of the daily gains and reduces their cost, thereby -making greater profits. ? The quality - f and the quantity of silage which can '-' ; be produced on , some t these, cheap-; lands cannot be surpassed by the high- priced lands of the corn belt, whereas -the cost of producing it is far less be- ... cause of. the cheap labor. ' . f '; -'"" " The farmers of the south' are 'there- : fore urged to discontinue , this whole sale shipping of their female" cattle to other states, to free the pastures of . the cattle tick, and to increase the . number and quality -of their cattle' 'by' the use of pure-bred beef bulls.r , The s progeny will not only grow faster and make larger and'better cattle; but will ; be far more profitable to raise, and to feed tnan are the natives.- The soils w will, be Increased In; fertility by fh . : manure, .which gives "such profitable returns when applied to the' cotton, crop . and puts vegetable ; matter' into, the -soil. The amount of commercial fertilizer necessary to produce a prop will he reduced and- a more bountiful yield will be produced.. . - ." ' Literature - regarding '' methods, of -feeding cattle in the sotfth and eradi cating the cattle ticks 'may be ob tainedi from the; Bureau off Cattle In dustry, .Department ; of Agriculture, Washington,' D'. C. , Southern farmers are also advised to consult thedepart ment's county farm demonstation agents. -' . -.' ' ' of breeds in .claiming for themselves, an origin baaed solely on , practical considerations : - '. ,vThey are partly of Asiatic blood,, but 111 : their selection, which extends over a period of B0 .years, attention i has been paid to rapid .growth; .and, egg production, 'so - that the breed today more nearly resembles the 'Leghorns than does either , the Plymouth Hock or Wyandotte. . - - ' - One fundamental difference stilt ex ists that , shows the .Asiatic origin of the: red. f 11 ' ; " ' ; , riie Rhode t Island Reds, do not re produce themselves with certainty .as to shade of color or style of comb, but: In practical points thy ifcky - be considered a distinct and well-estab- -llshed breed.-' " v ' ;: ; ? ' TEkAS RAVAGED BY WEEVILS More Damage Expected This Year Than Has Been Done' of Late-' Every County Pestered. . j -More damage Will result this year to cotton from .the. bolljwevll than , has been occasioned by that pest- dur ing the last four years inTexas Dis trict demonstration, .agents employed Jointly by the United States! depart ment i pt agticulture 1 and jther Agricul- turai and mechanical college of Texas say, that every j&ottbn' t county" in the state is being .ravaged by the weevils.' The weevils are especially bad in Central and South Texas, In ihe tlm-C bered . regions. The agents ay the weevils wil bring ' abtut a loss of ' thousands upon , thousands of dollars j to, cotton ; growers unless the insects l are stamped out'- : ' ' v -' ' " Destroy Tobacco Pest5 -5 u , , A method Involving the .use of cop per, sulphate has been perfected In Surinam for destroying bacilli which injure .tobacco plants r thrbugli' the kmm teaturcha of; American cotton seed oIL with Great Britain ranking next i -'..- . a;?-: 1 : -ir - i v- :. --S !.S.-. ..--.---.;.., -. igi, v, ", '-f'-r'
China Grove Record (Salisbury, N.C.)
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Aug. 8, 1913, edition 1
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