OXFdkD PUBLIC LEDGER. FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1910. f I .'i'V'i, x. Money in Raising Mules. several ad vantages mules the The which draft are t'i,i breeding of nnimni nt' the South, oflers over hore are in part, "breeding cf breeding. uncse itu- thoe which nirtte firnft horses the most wo lit able for the h Xrr ! . i e?n i1 i iil - - i.. u,.ow horses are not it'll . j. - i South and pov " . 1 ' - . 1 . . ri 1 ' f'L'' ,! I climatic reasons far p. we must either breed lig-ht ...-,n?b horses cr ?o 10 the ruil-?. The nord.r' d. the. nr' h r. s s r e n n i r ; s t : t a i. . r clas 8 Mil r.r.d care, a larger v...t-,Vii.- ,1 ir- p. ltd investment tor heavier exrensos 1j, trainlrg i nd fitting tor market In mule racing a cheaper grade of lJv may be used, -hile at the Kim? farm time tnev aie ut- work hors and the young anc- mais are move ta i' Tiifi'cf'T. Jit an ;irv raised. ?o en to early ae and iv- q-iW no special fating or education to r.nd r ta-m xii.-?. Wt-. no net acr:e that a mule can vi?cpi us cheaply s a steer, n-1' 1 ,kelv to be th most profitable ca vourua Cdieiii' without abr.iuiance of feed but on and eood nte'.l:gent ct;it , uut -l-h lar&i which will prcdr.ee good pas ture and with liberal feeding, .the rcrV?KS of nml-s at present prices, offers' profits no le-;s attractive than ir.-ent catton and 75-cen.t corn Counting the work which the brood mares and the young knules will oo. and which iis so much needed on our farms in order to cultivate them eco Tcniiailv. the average cost of ra-s;ng v. mule need no- i iw- ip nioro tuan cuc-- half tht seM ing price, in rt1- Cr r.t years. Cr.urtiiis the dcpreciatien in tne i value nt -i mare ana n-e aiuifi O'll a i V. . -,T1- l"Vtt(:1 "ill i r 1' at vear 'afbv: $10 as the service fee ; cf Viie j" 'k and calculating one mule i colt to two mares, we have $50 as the co-1 of the mule colt. If to this ' we add $25 a year for its feeding, i we b ive a two year-old mule colt at J v coiit cf $1 - or a thr?e-year-old ; nule at a cost of $125. Of coarse j fit will cost more than 5 ly grow a roui? from : cf ase. but d iring this ?. to proper- to 3 years time he may i be broken and earn in work perform- ed a good share of his keep, t-ven-jare on his liberal estimate a profit of from S75 to $100 may be made on each 2-vear old mule. This alone cn thonh there were no other TfPMr.c! whv we should not grow should be sufficient to induce j mor friv farmpr to consider the direct profits of mule raising most favora bly. Ralieigh (X. C.) Progressive Fai Etr and Gazette. The Sleeping Sickness'.' The first life i's the : this can be two weeks ot a cnicK s weeks icst critical time, and it tided over, given a half a chance it w 11 live to .inatudity. rIppfiv chirks and bowel trouble are unheard cf where chicks been fed to eari!y in their Mites and lice frequently nav: not chicks on very short notice, -and no one who pretends to rait chicks should think of removing them from under the mother hen to the brood coop without greasi'lng them on the top of the head and under thie threat, and repeating this every week or 10 days until the hen leaves them. For ch-cks that are drooping and have bow; trouble there are several remedies, though it is hard to effect a cure when diBrrn-ea makes us: ap- j pearar.ee. Scraped raw Irsh potato i is good, so is rice boiled in milk and : led cold, eneaan red mixea w .in Venetian wixn meal until it is pink in color moi.s tenerl with bOittecl milk is also sooa. & - -Uncle -To. in RaMgh (X. C.) gressive Faarmer and Gazette. I'ro- i The Deadly Fly. A numb; of counts of a large number disease germs upon of flie;4 1 examined, showed a range from ;50 to GO. 00. 000 germs, representing ty phoid, consumption, dysentery, not to speak of the presence of filth upon their bodies, collected from their visits to every sort of haunt, Xot onlv do i'liies transmit disease! through ineir capacity to carry aissase germs upon their feet, wimgs and bodies, bul ; often in ieeding they take germs nto tneir bods, many of which in Pai- ing tnvoucn t.ie digestive tract, not ; onlv rimain numbers so that fly ' been found to contain 'specks" a large have num- I b?r of ( : a s ? -1 ) r c d u c i n g g e r m s . It is disgust! as to read things, is it not? I5ut it th cut thr. se 5 rot mere dissustjr.g thun to see these same j flies after th-ir repast of fif th, dro'vvn i in the milk pitcher, drop their! specks en a frosted cake, or clean j their feet on the bread. Is1 it pleas-! ant to .ee r.Tes that may have been i feasting on the sputum from a con-1 snmptive cr upon the waste from a j typhoid patient crawl over the lips cf j a, sleeping baby or gather on the r.'.p-! pie of its nursing bottle? Thesfe are! daaily occurences in some homes un L. Stevens, in Starksville (Miss,) Pro protected. L. Stevens, in Starksville (Miss.) Progressive Farmer and Ga zette. Six Things to do For The Baby. it.,. (1) -Remember that a mother must be trained to know, not to guessi. (2) Secure a reliable book upon the care and feeding of infants and be gin to study the first principle of inteliligent baby culture. (3) Remember that every year in calculable damage is done to the eyes of babies where mothers have not thought to protect thevn from the glare of the sum. (4) Let the baby have a bed to himself, if it be only a clothes basn ket, or a clean, dry wash tub, or dry goods box. Have the mattress firm and soft and the cover warm but light. (Z) Avoid soothing syrups and soothing "teas." Keep in mind that so-called soothing syrups advertised as harmless contains morphine, opiuu cocaine, or other harmful drugs in da ngerouiM Q uantiti e s . )6( Remember that the baby iM the most important thing in your life and don't neglect him in any way for any thing else. Mrs. F. L. Stevens,, jn Raleigh )N. C. ( Progressive Far mer and Gazette. LUTE i NECESSITY. can't have! paying farming That you on a one crop basis- this was the beainning ot wisaom 'lihat me w io-n-ia farmers learned when Prodigalr r.i;e, and also like cur own cotton farmer s he "came to him self," after riotinz in the riches of a mew, stran- ge country. And hits next lessoni was ! lice unto' Ti vrvn r-3ii'r 11111(1 ( Ilk v4 VI -v up land wniiout. live stccx. .-iture has decreed that where grass! ana. ve& i etaiiou grow there mast atii'raals' fe?a : and i,ji.urn the fertility to the earth i and Xairre's trimity the soil, the plant, the anonial, and back again I through the same cycle over and ov ! er is as inseperable as the links in ' a ch.tiu. Wisconsin turned to dairying l)e cau :e of climatic advantages for) this form of stock-raiising, and now in stead of her land getting poorer, it is getting richer every year and .this in-scite cf the fact that Wiscon iisin"s total fertilizer bill is lss than (the tonnage tax cu fertilizers, in North Canolina. In other words, : where we spend one dollar for ferti lizees. they spend one cent. Wisconsin farmers b.ave learned to i grew corn, too, although thrirty -years ago the common variietiet of dent ; corn would not mature in this sec ! tion. But this did not faze thebi, ! end they set out to breed a type i that would mature in their little ov ! er ir'nety days of assmred grow.'aiig ! season. Tbis tJiey sociii accomplished ! and by the aid of other work in I Wisconsin has now become one of ! the best corn States :.n the AmeTi- can Union. Raleigh X. C. roress ! ive- Farm or and Gazette. WHEN A BAIL TO THE ACRE IS The average cotton crop of the whole Cotton Belt is less than two hundred .pounds of lint per acre, a gCod deal Sess. And yet, when we know that all over the South there are here and titer e men who sieldcm faM to to make five hundred pounds and aa smaller number who make more than tins, and now ama tnen one who makes a thousand pounds., it is evident tiliat to make this low average there must be many who growing cotton at an actual loss, j fcr 200 pounds hardly pays more thai j the cost of growing it. In fact it does not pay the cost of those who are carried by a merchant. If every farmer in the Cotton Belt made a bale an acre, it would not take half the area to make the usjual crop, and the remaining acres could be arowi'ns: something: to feed the land or the cattle, and helping to improve j the land so that one-fourth of the J area now planted would make the i crop. I may not live to seeit, but it is coming when a Southern farmer wilt be ashamed of a crop of half a bale an acre, and will be disappointed at less than a tale. The leaven is work ing, and as the young men come to CROP ROTATION AN eicstanee. 'Ke cuarge or auaurs. ineie is vtil voanziing to be a general breaking away from all methods. XV. F. Massey. in I Ralighe (X. C.) Progressive Farmer ! and iCazette. j " m m . The Farm Woman's Ncble Work. ! Where the farm woman's work is lightened by labor-saving convenien ces and where she is studying her wcrk and trying to learn, about j foods and food values, sanitation, arc J also about how to make the most i spi.ondid examples of phvsicaal and moral ma.n:hocd and womanhood out of i,pr rhiMrpn wpII siIip has a chan- ce to fjd ten times as c T f5 d t times as much joy n i1f1 sweetness in life asl the wealthy ' society woman in town who fritters more importance than now to piay bridge or how to deck her body a little differently to-day from what she diid yesterday. It seems to me that I should as lief not live at all as to reproach my Creator with a life wasted in such aimless'uess. Clarence Poe, in Raleigh )N. C.( Progressive Farmer and Gazette. - HIU fll IUi What I Did Not See. The writer has just returned from r tmiv ftf cuc-VcitqI It nnrl rr. .-1 roilcc? rf &vm countries in Illinois and W!isccnsin. among SOme of the richest a,n1 most progressive farmers in tire ,vorld- 1 dm , to tell what I saw th:. PXT.l2.iaa "the almost, tinm railed exftaias prosperity cf these farmers, but Per haps a better explanation may be ex- found :a what I did not see For j ample take this list. Xc mrlos. I Xo cabin;, i Xo gulirs. j Xo old iields. Xo. forest fires.. I Xo big plantation. -No cue horse plows, j Xo loafeirsi at depots, j Xb sheep-killing degs. I 'No small work horses, i Xo 'Stii.mp.s i,ni the field., Xb commercial fertilizers. No factory-slave children. No farm homes unpaiiinted. XTo one-room schoo.IhouseSj No farms without live! stock. No anaemic-looking children. No land without cover crops. Xo cows or mules with ribs! show ing. X'o burning of vegetable matter. No parasite store at every cross road. No farms cut up into piddling patches. No surface-scratching miscalled plowing. No farm home without sianitary convenience. No farmers "bossing" hands wajth out working himself. And it might be said in conclu sion, that there were no negroes and consequently no white men and women either waiting for negroes to do work they might do themselves, or abstaining from what their hands found to do from any absurd idea that it was beneath them." Clar ence Poe, in Raleigh (N. C.) Prog ressive Farmer and Gazette. If you have intelligence enough to manage two horses profitably, then you tie up half your power, -you throw away half your intelligence, kill haK your profits, wThen 3rou use only ens horse. When you cajE usie two 'hands prof itably, what would you tbijrik of tying one hand by your side, and using only one? And yet, the economic effect is : almost the sajme, if you can uisle two norses prcuta.piy ana are content to ; use only one. Raleigh (N. C( Fro- j gressvv - Farmer and -Gazette. Supersentiveness to Criticism. In l'ove for tiie soute i yieit to no i mmi living. If I have any master 1 passion, it as the to make my li?ie j service to her and her Peo- - -Jf pie. and My father fought im her armies, I pity the man who does not re- spond to the tor Carina ck's- partriotism, ot Sena- eloquent declaration : "I was borne of that land; I was n tured at her besem, and to her everj drop of my blood, every fiber of my beihig, every pulsation of my heart, is consecrated forever." But how are we going to sierve the South? Certadnf.y it wift never be plaj i.ng the ostrich and hiding our heads in the sand in order to keep from seeing facts as they are. The mis erable flatteries that the Soarthern people have toleratd so. long in a certain type of politician and dema gogue makes me wonder sometimes if Dante was not right after all in putting flatterers in one of the low forgers. If you are going into trail ing to struggle for the mastery, with some powerful and muscular wrest ler, that man is not your friend who flatters you with a thousand lulling complmients about your strength and your superiority over your op ponent . Your real friend is the man I vh- t pIIs von the pxact. truth about the strength cf your rival who tells j-ou how necessary it is that you put yourself in the very best of training, on the very best of diet and who. urges you day after day to avoid every weakening and debilita ting influence, who encourages you, indeed, for every well-meant effort you put forth, but who never lulls you into a siense of ease and fafee security that would only ruin you in the end. Clarence Poe, in Raleigh (N. C.) 1 'regressive- Farmer and Ga zette. A writer in one of our exchanges tells cf finding a school house in a prosperouisi village, with the doors unlocked for the summer, the desks disa.tr anged, the books in the libra ry scattered about and mistreated, the glasla) broken in the windows, the floors dusty, the whole building open to any one who chances to come b5. Such neglect of the school- house discredit's the community, and the com miss oners iinje uubmlc-s. h is to take care of it, and the patrons whose self-interest should prompt tern to do it, cughht to feel asha med whenever such abuse or neglect of the school buildimg is permitted. Raleigh (X. C.) Progressive Farmer and Gazette. The planting of the early potatoes that have been kept in cold storage is a perfect successs, and will give a good, if not better, seed than the real second crop, and planted in July will make a larger crop and bet i ter tor table use. t wotuci piani. them in a deep furrow and cover ver. ng&tly til they grow and then work the earth to them till level and wou(j not at all as we do early pota toos, theobject being at that season to retain moisture. v . Jb . Massey, i in Raleiigh (N. C.) Progressive Farm I er and Gazette. -9-m Before we shall ever have the work stock to properly and econom ically cultivate our crops we must breed them, and before we are likely to breed them, we shall probably find it necessary to grow more feed for live stock: but we are going: to produce more horses; and mules be- do good tarmjng. J-et us, theretore, make the start thisj year, and make ii right. There are just two important points at which we should careful!! y try to avoid mistakes. We need to grow larger hcrsies to feed them better. mules, and If we do these, we will not fail, but wrHl find the business! of raising farm work a prof itable branch of farming .Raleigh (N. C.) Progressive Farmer and Ga zette. VERDICT OF JURY 12 MEN What they Had to Say About John son's Chill and Fever Tonic. "I think it the best Tonic on earth." T. ville, La. T. Bienvenne, St, Martin earth." "The best Grip cure en Cedar Bluff Woolera Co.. Cedar Bluff, a "1 think at the finest medcine on earth" G. W. Morrow, Sherrill Ark. "They say it is the best medicine in the worjtfl." We take i't. J. E. Bayliss, Paster-La, Ark., "I think your Johnson's Tonic is the best medicine on earth." L. Dur ousseau, Flynn, La. "The best onj earth". Ecksl'f Phar macy, Crowley, La. "Best on earth. Sell 50 bottles to one of any other kind." J. F Nulch olson, Cheap Hill, Temn. "Finest in the world." W. P. Lips comb & Co., La Giran-ge, Tenn. "I think Johnson's! Tonic is the best medicibe on earth." A. Baker, Hurricane Mills, Temn. "It is the best Tomic of its kind 5n the world. Everybody thinks so." A. J. Gilllen, Maxeys, Ga. "The best on the top side of this mundane sphere." J. L. CorBett, Bish opville, S. C. "Best on earth." M. E. Lott, Quit man, Miss. The combined ratiing of these 12 merchants is $200,000.00. Napoleon's Grit. Was of the unconquerable, never-say die kind, the Mod that you need most when you have a bad cold, cough or lung disease. Suppose troches, cough -syrups.or doctors and all have fail don't losie heart of hope. Take Dr. King's New Discovery. Satis faction is guaranteed when used for any throat cr lung trouble. It has sa ved thousands of hopeless sufferers. It masters stubborn colds, obstimatt coughs hemorrhage, iLagrippe, croup, asthma hay fever and Whoop ing,cougl and is the most safe and certain rnaigdy for all bronchial' affections. $1,00, -Trial bottle free at J. G. Hail's. Vortham. Mrs. Mary Jones Yrortham died at a, pr ,ome npir Prnvirieno rnin home Co N c. on the 8th of Julv 1910 in the 54 year of her age.' ' She leaves a devoted husband, four chil- Ul Cll, t":ic o.ila dliU Ulie U'O . At ei-even years ot a.sr3. Sister Wortham professed f&ilth in Christ. and joined Mt. Carmel Methodist Church. When that church. wont down, she joined Enon Baptist Church, where she was a loved and ; honored member. When Beulah Bap tist Church was organized at Provi- j dence, she, with other membersi of the family moved their membership to this church, she- was lyoal, lov- ing, useiuli church member, was respected and loved by all knew her, she was an- angel of She who mer- c.y dai every Home she ccuid reach, where there was sickness sorrow or need of help and sympathy. She loved her Bible, arid had more than an average knowledge of its teachlngisi. Her burial! services were conducted by her pastor, at the church she loved so well, in the presence of am unusually large concourse of people. After this! service the tody was laid tn rPRt ,iin tfl a rti rl taroi. v hiirvini? i ground, at the home of her brother Mr. James Renin. "And I heard a voice from heaven saying, blessed are the dead, who die in the Lord, for they shall rest from their labors, and their works do f elbow them. J. A. S. Flat River Baptist Association. This body met July 12th, and 13th, with Mi'Ui Creek Church in. Person' Co. N. C. Rev. P. II. Fonta(ifo, the foreman moderator, was kept away on acccunl of an injury received by his horse runnriaig away with him. Dr. A. B. Dunaway was1 elected moderator J. C. Howard Clerk, and Snijth Humph ries Treasure. The business of the Association was greatly hampered, by the fail ure of a number of Erethern appoint ed last year to make reports cm dif ferent subject& to be present and failing to send in. their reports. Tlhe reports from the churches showed an improvement over the reports of j last year. j Visiting Brethern were remarkably j scarce. The crowds were large, and i was a pleasant and profitable meet- j ing. Rock-Spring and Virgilina churches' asked for the next session to meet with them. The contest wras sharp, but friendlj', Rock-Spr'tng wone by a safe majority. Delegate. m mm Second or Western Tour Oxford Or phanage Singing Ciass of 1910. After almost a month at Oxford, following its first or eastern tour, the Oxford Orphanage Singing Class) will, about July 21st, start upon its second or Western tour. Tbilisi far this year the Class has seemed to meet with exceptional suc cess and excellent are the prospects for the second or Western triip. The concert of the children aire of great merit, interesting, refreshing, helpful. They are really worth more than the price of admission. The Oxford Orphanage is nowr at tempting to care for about 330 of the hrjtmeliess children of our state and to prepare them for useful' lives. Since its establishment in 1872 5t has been a greatly used agency in the salvation of souls', in the rescue of lives for service to God and hu manity. The visits of the?? brrlhht, attract ive, welll trained children, who give a delightful concert, cannot fail to deepen interest in this institution and in. the ether splendid orphanages We bespeak fcr the Oxford Orphan age Sing'aig Class of 1910 in its) tour sos oon to begin even larger pat ronage than ever before from all cf our people. Must be Above Suspicion. Kidney and Bladder ailments are;s( serious aai their consequences, and if unchesked so often fatal that any remedy offered for their cure must Pills contain no harmful drugs, and have successfully stood a long and thorough test. j Sold by all Druggists. I I a-9m j A Wonderful Discovery Which Pract-; icalfy Eliminates the Dangers of j t Death by Catarrh or Disease Which Originates vlth Catarrh. (From the Patc-rsou, N. J. Guardian) Ninety four per cent of all the di seases with which the human; system is afflicted, orrig'jnate cr turn into catarrh; assuring himself of this fact IV. Barker gave the matter of catarrl his entire time and study, and after several years of the most through research for a remedy which would positively cure catarrh in any form, prepared a prescription he used in his private practice without a sin gle failure of any case of catarrh, (he treated. After a considerable amount of persuasion he consented to put ' prescription up in convenrifent form, so that sufferers frcfcii this terrible disease could purchase; the treatment at a normal cost. The prescription will be found i)n most any drug store in.the Uniited States under the label bloodline. In a recent introductory sale in the city of New York, more than 20,000 bottles were sold fax. a single week. I am so confildent that bloodine wiH cure any one afflicted with ca tarrh that I will gladly supply it to any patient on a positive guaran tee to cur or money will be as cheerfully refunded as it is taken. If your druggdist does not keep blood ine you can be supplied by The Bloodlilne Labotories, Boston Mass., at 50c a bottle or six bttlesfotr 2,50. Hamiiilton Drug Company. A Few Short Weeks. Mr. J. S. Bartwielil), Edwardsvi'lle, 111., writes: "A few months ago my kidneys 'and hips. Foley kidney pills ere backache .and pain across the kidneys and hips. Foley ddroey Pills promptly cured my backache and co rrected the action of my kidneyg. This was broughtabout after hiy us ing them for only a few short weeks and T cam. cheerfulllv recommend thorr 1 Sold by all Druggist, if 1 1 1 Coupon For Subscription. Pinnix & Pinnix, Oxford, N. C, Enclosed find a dollar for which send me the Ledger for one year, i understand that unless I renew, you will stop my paper when the twelve months has expired. 1 1 Name Address enclose Mower, or Rake vou want, then Davis is the man 3ou want to get in touch with, for he handles the International line, and it is the BEST in the Reaper or Mower. Write at oaice to SAMUEL DAVIS, Clarksville, Va., for prices, and catalogue." ATTi ill Cut this out , V js f it is a Mower, or Rsk von EMTOM Now that the wheat crop is be ing harvested, permit us to suggest that you exercise great care to house it thoroughly dry, if you de sire the largest yield of good, pure flour out of it As soon as your wheat is well dry, we invite you to let us mill it for you. We offer you now the best advantages that have ever been available to the farmers of Granville County for getting out of their wheat the larg est possible yield of pure, white flour. By all means, however, see that your wheat is dry. All that we ask is a trial. We know we can please you. We have the ma chinery and the facilities to get out of wheat all there is in it in qual ity and quantity. Our has made a hit, and taken front rank in popular, as a high grade flour. Many users will have no other. If you will bring us good, dry wheat, we will make you flour of "SUN RISE" quality, we know that will please you. Some have asked us if we vill have the time from our merchant milling to handle custom ex change. In reply to all, let us say that we will; for while we are al ways busy we have large capacity, and provided large capacity in or der that we might do justthis;that is, handle our merchant customers, and our custom exchange as well. We assure you a cordial welcome Tar Valley 1. 0 W. R. KIMBALL, Sec'y. Route a dollar and send it in. Foley's kidney Remed5T will cure an: case of kidney and bladder trouble now- beyond the reach of medicine Xo medicine can do more. Sold by ail druggists. m m tm Smoke Manila Stogies. They are fine. 3 for 5 cents. Lyons Drug Store. i in in i -r-v