OXFO D PUBLIC LEDGER, FRIDAY APRIL 22, 1910
RAISING HOGS IN THE SOUTH.
The Swir.e Industry is Growing and
Packing Plants are Going up in
Pork Producing Areas.-
."Stoo. evidence accumu.
chnwins- the great
Southern States
1 event B-iu'jf . v.
lutl . za , in nnA that is
advantage
-a a
. - . rr l i vo stock Ot CHI-
.- , i ri ll lib. "
i:ieir -,iV,
that
mi. n,HT 1PHSIH1 II U t-t."
are mow taking their right ful place
Irnong the corn producers uj
counts, and that means an iramense
i.u-Mit"e in pork raising and in all
1 fnds oTstoi These states can pro
5ie best not on
their own supply of pork, ut com
eto with any of the country for tn
-Inarkets of any other section. Trie
North mast eventually look to
Pcuth for a good part of it swfr.
So rood an authority on stock as
theBrSers' Gazette, CMo. which
let in touch with the. stock in
terests and developments in . an v
t;cn of the country, recently saad.
-The South 5s a large consumer or &
con Southern table delicacies etill
count lard ar.oug their ingredients
Hut the attempt to produce these
staple food products on Southern
farms has keen difficult. Mongrel or
native hogs could not be kept quiet
.oh to fatten. Improved breeds
of hcss could uat live as the razor
.ick lived and make lard vwiere it
fp'W to make it. Through misun
derstanding of fat hog type some un
fortunately poor selections from Nor
thern herds found hemes on South
ern aru::i. contributing to the dis-.-ouragouient
of progressive men.That
southern hogs are finally to supply
, smiths demand for pork prod
ucts is promised by the steady per
.i5tmi;. wJi wh.oh. fcrmdatiion sOck
'..Iv boon taken from Northern herds
vhiio nv,iir-rs have solved the proo
:ot-i tif iuvnintr their native feeds in-
v a combination on which hogs great
)v thrive.
' "The Foufh srows cowpeas, soy
Wans, an-' aiCalfa, which are the
backbone of diyap perk supply. The
lone urowiiu: season obviates the ne-
eesitv for a large- amount, of concen-
-v,i a ,. ! Hi.-cii.Kh is supplied by
he
vvoevu aM
cru vinoa itus wee it iciiu
i 1 A. l-
n ih, cotton seea meai mai
careful
hogs ii
fattening
reduce i
Progress
1 : . . ' . . t K n! t
i.-i ;:vr.-i are suwmvuis . ui"'
?: ili fni.riiitit.iea and for short
ri.-j' with nasture xo
nossibilitv of fatalities
as breu steady, and the
industry aas been recognized u uie
"Stabii-iiiient cf packing plants in
the new ara; of pork production. The
growing industry, new already past
-he experimental stage, seems des
tined to make rapid progress under
x:us new
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PHOTOGRAPHING HEART BEATS.
WHEN CITY MAN FARMS.
Now and itthen we see a city man
move out onto a farm and in a short
tune build up a very successful busi
ness. Tliis is happening oftener
than it did a score of years ago. We
wonder why it is that one who has
has not been engaged in farming, can
so aufrMy adapt himself to modern
.methods of agriculture and do things
after the most improved style.
One reason is that we older farm
ers get in the habit cf doing some
things prettv well, but along other
ncs are net as progressive as we
might be. For instance a farmer
who is making money hand over fiist
with hogs, and handles two or three
lines of hiss business in the best
possible manner, may lose out in two
or three other lines.
He may keep a bunch -of old cows
that eat their heads off every year.
He may let the orchard lie barren
and-fruitless, He may raise some
light, scrawny celxs, stuff that a buy
er wall pass upon as indifferent, if
not undesirable. In half a dozen dif
ferent wiays like this, he gets rfol
of most of the profit that the hogs
and wheat are giving him, and he wo
ders why he is making braely more
than a living.
Here is the trouble: . He is a pro
gressive man in a few lines, but
is In the deepest ruts In others. We
get in this fix because we do not
once or twice a yeargive our four
r.ess a complete investigation. We
take farm papers with a department
on every phase of our farm opera
tion, but we have the habit cf rare
lv looking at anything but the
columns tnat treat of our pet bra ach
es of agriculture.
The city man takes up only those
branches of work he has investigat
ed and understands. He gets his in
formation directly from the most suc
cessful men in those lines, studies
every phase he desires to takeup.han-
dles only those things that he as
almost sure are going to pay. His in
terest does not flag; every depart
ment is looked after, because he 3s
not so sure of nL footing in any
one.
Then the city man knows he is
watched Ly his old chums as- well as
ty the farmers of his vicinity. He
s. stays eii the rut. He forgets his
has a reputation tQ make all along
the line. While the veteran farmer,
-ui avi b ui ssaOcHis u eptiiu seu; ou.-
state agricultural college is issuing
bulletins upon almost every point in
which he is intreested and unlike
the city maji, awake to the import
every source, he does not read and
profit thereby, nor go to see most
successful farmer and find out how
he does things.
it was stuffed with straw. Then MARRIAGE IN HENDERSON,
the blaekibi! went back and told his ' The following clipping taken from
cornrtfininns. ncd the next, ilav when News & Observer is interesting to
in
Vogue
Hospitals.
in
the farmer went to his field, he
saw, from a distance, over 400 black
birds pulling up his corn, while a
couple of dozen sat on that scare
crow ajnd watched for his coming
so ftihat they might tell th erest of
the flocik wnen to hike out.
MORAL The things that we are
most scared about amount to the
least when we come to investigate
them.
A sheperd dog that had been set
to watch a flock of sheep, seeing a
lamb regaliltng Itself at that matern
al fount, shaking its tail With great
vigor as it filled, it3 interior, fin
aily asked the lamb, after its appe
itie had been satisfied: "Why do
you yank your tail abuot in that man
ner when you are feeding? It
strikes nne as a useless waste cf en
ergy." "I wU answer you.," said the
lamb, whose ancestors i.ad bee
b rough, from Vermont and which had
inherited Yankee characteristics, "by
saying I will tell ycu why, when you
explain why you follow your tail a
round in a circle once or twice be
fore you lie down."
MORAL Nearly every one notices
that his neighbor fcas some habit
that there does not seem to be any
particular sense in, but it does not
occur to him that he has quite a
collection of tfc habits himself.
On a certain range in western Ne
braska gr.eew a clomp of cottonwood
fees near a stream of water. Out
on the prairie the grass grew rank
and sweet, but the owner of that
range noticed that the most of his
r.erd instead of filling up that
grass would stand all day in the
shade of those trees and fight flies.
They were putting on no flesh and
the prospects for profit on that herd
were getting mighty slender. For a
day or two the jowner of the range
tried driving the herd out to graze,
but as scon as he would leave them
they would hike back to the shade.
Finally the ranchman called his
hired man a"Bi together they strung
a wire fence about that clump of
shade trees so that the herd could
not get under them. And when the
steers found that there was no
chance to lie around -in the s'lade
they betook themselves to the rich
buffalo grass and the way they laid
on fat was a pleasant sight for
tore eyes. Seeing which the ranch
man said: "After all, there isn't so
much difference between a man and
a steer. Give a man the chance to
lie around in the shade and the
chances are that he won't be worth
the powider necessary to blow him in
to the auriferous hence."
MORAL. Luxury doesn't generally
tend to success.
Interesting Process
Many European
lYom th eChicago Tribune .
The heart beat is photographed
in many important European hospi
tals. The patient is ushered into a
iiitch-dark room from which every
ray of light is excluded, vv-iinout
y. -moving luis clothes or making any
other preliminary preparation he is
invited to silt down on an ordinary
ohair before a large glasss bulb. Thei
The operator switches on the current
raid in response the electric sparks
r.iss in the glass iulb, filling it
-.viith a paio green light. Then the
cperatcr holds in front of the pa
tient a plate, which has been prepar
ed with a compound of barium plati
num. On this is thrown a clearly
defined image of the heart, and
the electric rays" are so arranged
that the shadow of the rib bones is
scarcely perceptible and does not in
any way interfere with the exami
nation of the heart.
The mage is so distinct that one
an clearly observe tha opening and
closing of the vaive as the blood is
ceing pumped through it. The pat
ient feels nothing cf this whatev
er. It is thought that before long
the action of the heart as seen cn
the screen may be transfserred to a
cinematograph flam. At present the
movements -are recorded on an elec
trocardiagram. In order that this may be obtain-
d the patient has to place his bare
r-rms in "two large vessels filled with
water. Into each of these vessels
is led a copper wire charged with"
electricity. Where these wires meet
n thin platinum wire is attached to
them, resting within a highly' charged
magnetic tieid. As scon as the con
tact is complated this platinum nee-
die begins to move, its movement be
ing regulated according to the stren
tin oi trie eienc current passing
t urougn at.
Since the human body is a conduc
tor of electricity the contact cir
cant is made when the patient places
iris armti in the vessels of water in
to which the wires are led. The
movement cf the needle follows the
oiitraction and expansion of the heai
impelled by the electricity generat-
d through tLe action of the heart
muscles -while pertormang that func
non. When the contractions are
fctroug the scoring of the needle is
riiiuch greater than when the contrac
tions are weak. Under the moving
needle a photographic film is slow
ly passed and thelsight above at so
arranged that a faithful imprint of
Hie beating of the heart is recorded
en the electrocardaagram.
The Demon of the Air
i the germ of LaGxippe, that, breath
ed in, brings suffering to thousands.
Its after effects are weakness, ner
vousness, lack of appetite, energy anc
ambition, with disordered liver and
kidneys. The greatest need then is
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Then the new man takes up no
more departments than he can handle
while we old fellows get swamped
right along, year after year. Let us
watch the city man as he farms. He
may teach us something after all.
Two of the bigges. and most success
ful farms in Nebraska are managed
'-.ell. Hundreds of other smaller one,
are Sbeing handled at a profit by the
fellow.33 whom we farmers call city
bred. Put cn your thinking can and
v, a tcili the city-bred farmer with un
prejudiced eye. J. O. Shroyer fi
Nebraska Farm Journal.
A NATURAL BORN FOOL.
Man who thought Republicans would
Reduce the Tariff.
'.Written for Nebraska Farm Journal)
A Nebraska youth who was determ
ined to be worthlses and tough was
one day presented by his father with
hunk of Limbnrger cheese. "What
do you suppose I want of this stuff?"
ssked the allecky youth as he gave
a sniti ot disgust. lake it. my son.
said the old man. "I got it for you
to carry about in the hope that peo
ple in 3rour vicinity might forget for
the time being the cdor of your gen
eral reputation."
A swaggering bully was boasting fo
a slender and rather frail man about
his feats of agility and strength. "I
can," said the boaster, "climb to
the top of that flag pole quicker
than any other man in this town, and
I can carry you and twice as big a
load as you can lift and not half try.'
"I haven't a doubt of it," said the
frail man quietly, "but if that is a
measure of greatness both that mon
key which travels with that son of
Italy and the muekle dun mule tied
to yonder post have the advantage
of you. The monkey can climb that
pole twice as quick as you and the
mule can pack three times as much
as you can carry."
A lean and hungry cat was scout
ing along the back fence when she
saw an empty can that had at one
time been filled with packing house
meat. In a minute the cat had her
head in the can and was licking up
the remnants that had been left in
the can when it was thrown out of
tiie katchen window. The cat was
enjoying herself well until she un
dertook to draw her head out of the
can and found that she was fast. And
as the unlorfcCyiate cat was dashing
about trying to get loose from that
can unomer cat that was tramping
about in company with a couple of
iver offspring, took in the situation
diid said: ou may learn from the
movements of that feline two thinas.
one is that what seems like a good
unng oiten turns out to be a lot
ino o; uetp ojut iaS oi aaisu3
of, and the other lesson I want to
impress on your youthful minds is
talis: Don't be too blamed gJffy
about your eating. Now if that cat
had reached into that can politely
with her paw "and dug out that de
licious meat in a moderate and po
'"e sort of way, instead of trying
to get her whole head into the can,
the wouldn't have been humping
herself to get loose the way she is
at prsent."
Exchange.
The recent tariff debate in Con
gress was occasionally illumined by
some welcome bits of humor, says a
Washington correspondent. One of
the brightest of these was a story
told toy Representative George E.
Burgess, of Texas, who insisted that
the country was no going to be fool
ed by the Republican promise of
tariff downward. He said ihe pub
lic would take the view of it that
the lunatic did in the folioYin- sto
ry: "Two lunatics were being conveyed
to the asylum. One said to the eth
er: "Where are you going?"
The other one said:
"I am going to the lunatic asy
lum.' "What is the matter with, you?"
"Why I got to studying predesti
nation and foreordaiiatioi and God's
election and man's free, will, and all
that, and I got mixd up.
"I talked with the preachres and
deacons and it all got worse. I got
so I couldn't sleep, saw all kinds
of Viisions, and they just took me
and said they were-to send me down
to the asylum to straighten me out.
Nw, what is the matter with you?"
"Well,, said the ether, 'I am going
down to the asylum, too. They say
1 am crazy.'
"Well, what is he matter with
you?
"Why, I got to studying tariff re
vision, free trade, tariff for reven
ue, reciprocity, free raw materials,
:he maximum, and minimum, and
drawbacks, and all that, and I got
all mixed up, and I thought the coun
try was being ruined. One night I
had a vision, and I heard a voice
that told me the Republican party
was coming into power at the next
election and that they were going
to revise and reduce the tariff in
the interest of the people and straigh
ten all this out. I believed it, and
told my friends of my vision, and
they took me and sent me down to
the lunatic asylum "
"Well,' the other man saifi:,' "you
did not believe in avision like that,
did you?"
"Yes."
"What, did you believe that the
Republican party, as at present organ
ized.would reduce the tariff in the
interest of the people?'
"Yes, I did."
"Well, you ain't crazy: you are
just a natural-born fool."
many (people in OxfortAwf.ere the con
tractmg parties, in the pretty Hen
derson marriage on the 12th, are well
known:
Mr. Guy T. Horner, cf Boy-kin Va.,
and Miss L-elle C Horner, of Hender
son, were limited in marriage at the
FLr&t Rapti.st church in Henderson,
yesterday, at noo. Rev. J. R. Doan
performed the ceremony, assisted by
Rev. Mr. Green, ojf Uoyfcin, Va. A
large concoursse of the friend3 and
relatives of the parties witnessed the j
contract. Some of those from a dis
tance were Mrs. Col. T. L. Hargrove,
Mrs. Capt. A. S. Peace, Mrs. Dr. E.
T. White, and Mr. a.dMrs James W.
Isomer, of Oxford; Mr. and Mr3. Wil
lis G. Briggs, of Raleigh; Mr. and
Mrs. William I). Horner, of Rosemary
Dr. and Mrs. F. O. Mooklar, of Boy
kins, and Mr. and Mrs. Harris, of
BranchvlMel Va. Mr. Horner is a
lawyer of fine ability and good prac
tice of Southhampton county, Virginia
The bride Is the ontv daughter of
Mr. and Mrs .W. LY Horner, of Hen
derson. Her modesty of demeanor
has "won upon all beholders;" her
attracive presonality is the admira
tion of her acquaintances independ
ent of the honorable name to which
she was born, and has not yet dis
carded.Hendersou has been the scene
cf many handsome weddings, exhibit
ing fair women and brave men attire
in elegant apparel. The occasion
here recounted will be memorable for
its wealth of personal attractions,
the health and comeliness of the con
tracting parties and the high hopes
entertained by their friends for the
success and happiness of this cou
pie.
A fine supper was served to the
r'aniiily and friends of Prof and Mrs.
Homer on the evening before the
wedding .
Shortly atfer the ceremony the bri
day couple left on a fast rfcain north
ward for a bridal tour, amid showers
of rice and myriads of blessings and
good wishes.
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Candidate's Notice.
I hereby aanouncei my candidacy for
nomination for the office of Clerk
of the Superior Court of Granville Co
subject to the will of the Democratic
votera of the county. If nominated
I will serve to the best of my abil
ity. Respectfully,
D. CAM HUNT.
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