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IOTTON CROP IN MIDST OF BOLL WEEVIL A Longansport, La., Farmer Raises Cotton Sac. cessfully, and Has Bank Account. PLANT EARLY, PUSH MATURITY Writes Letter Telling Ais Methods-Also Sells Chickens, Eggs, Batter, Milk, Begs, Corn, Vegetables, Etc. Mr. D. J. Bland, a farmer of Logansport, DeSoto parish, makes money planting cotton, notwithstand ing that he is in the heart of the boll weevil district. The Monroe News of a few days ago contains a letter from Mr. Bland, in which he gives an idea of how he succeeds in making a bank account farming. The letter is written to the Mon roe Progressive League, together with a circular letter, which he sends to farmers inquiring about his methods. The letter and the circular follows: MR. BLAND'S LETTER. "Longansport, La., Jan. 10, 1909. "Monroe Progressive League, "Monroe, La. "Dear Sirs: Your letter to hand. Yes I have been fairly successful at raising cotton in spite of the boll weevil. "No, I am not employed by the State regularly. I went with the Crop Pest Commission, touring the lower part of State, holding a series of Farmer's Institute Meetings. "I would have been glad to have met you in Monroe. We did not hold any meeting in Monroe, but stopped there en route from Mer Rouge to Columbia. "Now I will tell you what I think of your land (what I saw of it) in Ouachita Valley. "On all that land that is well drained, and has any sand In it, I would not think of :making less than a thousand pounds to a bale per acre, but on that stiff or buckshot 4 land, I would not plant cotton. "I thoroughly prepare my land 1 before planting. I plant about the 1 first of April, then I cultivate well. "I made last year, 1908, 800 pounds seed cotton per acre on poor hill land. On Castor Bayou I made from 1100 pounds to 1500 pounds seed cotton per acre, and on a pet patch, highly fertilized and cultivated. I made 2,700 pounds per acre. "And I had all or about all my cot tonmade by the 20th of July. I plant Kings, Triumph and Brodwells Double Jointed. I don't plant Tri umph on my strongest land. The t foliage is too heavy. I like thin I foliage cotton on rich land. "I judge, looking at your land from the window that your land around Monroe needs fertilizer to make a paing crop of cotton. "I use a mixture of 100 pounds cotton seeds meal and 200 pounds c phosphate, and put-out from 200 to 4 300 pounds of that to the acre. c "I put it in drill and bed on it about ten days before I am ready to is plant. ii "Respectfully, "D. J. BLAND." t CIRCULAR OF INFORMATION. "Logansport, La. "Dear Sir: I am in receipt of your letter of recent date. Since I wrote Prof. Newell on Oct. 10th how my cotton was turning out. this year, I have been receiving so many letters that it is impossible for me to write a personal letter in reply to each one. "Therefore, I have prepared a cir cular letter with which to answer such inquiries as yours. Because I am sending this circular letter, do not think I am in any way connected with the State Crop Pest Commission or that I am drawing auy pay for this service. "Yes, I make money farming in the midst of boll weevils. I refer you to the Bank of Logansport or any business man in Logansport. "I sell corn, hogs, cattle,.chicke-s, eggs, butter, milk, and veget*liles all in my local market. so U get my" cotton out, of October, I commence to turn un der my cotton stalks using a 12-inch turn plow. "I fastern a hervy chain .to right end of double-tree, given a proper slack; then fasten other end to beam just in front of king-bolt, and my cotton stalks don't grow so rank that I can't cover them completely un der. r In January, when, as I believe, all the weevils are in winter quarters, I burn all the stumps, trash and s thickets I can. "If I am to plant cotton where I had corn, I try to start in January to throwing out the old row with middle buster. "If, where I had cotton, I start to 9 streaking off with middle buster in time to put in fertilizer about 10 - days before planting. "I use from 200 to 300 pounds of a mixture of cotton seed meal to two a pounds of phosphate per acre on hill land. I bed on fertilizer in middle buster furrow. About the first of t April, I run harrow ahead and plant on bed. "I have tried many varieties but Kings and Triuiiph are hard to beat. r "When cotton comes up I cultivate about every 10 days, and on ordinary land, say land that will make 700 to 1000 pounds seed cotton per acre, I cultivate shallow. "On rich spots where cotton would go to weed, I plow deep-'top it with the plow.' "On my thin land, I put my rows three feet apart, with cotton in the drill, two stalks about every 10-inches, the stronger the land the more distance I give it each way. "No set rules can be laid for farm ing as the climate, seasons, and soil vary; but we can make cotton by de stroying the cotton stalks as early in the fall as possible; thereby cut ting off the food-supply of the weevil. "Then planting an early variety of cotton, planting it an early as it is consistent on well prepared land, and pushing it to maturity, insures a paying crop in the midst of the boll weevils. "Very truly yours, "D. J. BLAND." Value of Advertising. Wn Baton Rouge State-Times: er A writer with a gift of phrasing ot once wrote: "If your store is not worth advertising, advertise it for id sale." His phrase runs trippingly, 1e but his logic halts. To sell a store that is "not worth advertising" would ) be to defraud the buyer-so that the advice is ethically unsound. le Of course there are not so many stores that are not worth advertis ing-in this city, perhaps, none at all. The fact is that no store ever d gets to be worth very much-beyond the mere open market value of stock t- and fixtures-until it has been ade I quately advertised. Until then it has is exerted no influence as an organiza i- tion, equipped for useful service to e to the people. It has simply been a n place where certain things were kept for sale. d After it has had the breath of life d put into it by advertising it becomes a store in the militant seuse-intent upon winning friends, upon the pro blems of growth. s The dullest store in Baton Rouge can be revived in a month by intelli o gent and consistent advertising and can be made as busy as a bee hive. t There is nothing like it to stir up o interest and trade among the people in a business. Take the stores in Baton Rouge that advertise and see how they prosper. The ones that advertise most prosper most. There is no bet ter indication of business than the manner in which a merchant adver tises. Follow the crowds any day and they will lead you to the place of business of a man who invests largely in newspaper space-the best sort of advertising on earth. Hunter's Licenses May Be In creased. New Orleans dispatch says.-The state game commission is considering the advisability of raising license fees through proper legislation, as a means on increasing Jthe revenues of the state fron a t source. It is estimated that the value of the game killed in Louisiana annual ly is $5,000,000, while the revenues derived by the state amount to less than $100,000 in fees, etc. President Frank Miller declares that the pressing need foran increase in the revenues ca be met in thf manner, ' EATINh T'POSSUM AiNT NO SIN t Presidet-Elect Taft Did Not Fellow Advice of Chicage Divise, 'Deed He Did't. r ' Atlanta, Ga. Jan. 18.-'-It is not a t sin to eat 'possums, declare a number - of Atlanta divines and Biblical scholars to whom were referred the appeal of , the Chicago man to Presicent-elect , Taft, "For God's sake" not to eat 'possum in Atlanta if he wished to avoid committing a sin. This zealot referred Judge Taft to the eleventh U chapter of Leviticus, in which the Mosaic law prescribed what kind of meat should not be eaten. The D President-elect read the chapter in the Bible to which he was referred and ate all the 'possum wanted and declared that he enjoyed it. The Atlanta ministers who were appealed to by a local paper-to pass judgment 1 upon the matter, expressed the opin e ion that the Chicago man is laboring under the impression that a 'possum t is an animal with a cloven hoof :or one that chews the, cud, whereas it is nothing of the kind. It is a member of the Marsupial family with a foot hand-like, and its principel diet is persimmons, though it is sometimes held responsible for the disappear ance of small chickens. Jack London's Latest Novel. t Uncle Remus'-The Home Magazine B makes the important announcement that it has secured the serial rights of Jack London's latest novel, "Mar !tin Eden." It will begin in the Febuary issue of that popular Maga - zine, which was founded by Joel 1 Chandler Harris, and is edited by - Julian Harris and Don Marquis. ! The critics who have read "Martin - Eden" state that it is gripping, vivid " and picturesque, and is such a story Sas only Jack London could write. t the editors of Uncle Remus's-The ,Houne Magazine believe it to be a 3 story that every man, and woman • should read, as it contains a big les son, and in its arraingment of false ideals, both noble and notable. Martin Eden, the character who is really the book, is so keenly true that he seems lurid with life. He is in tense, big in his ideas and-Ide ls, and without faltering, yet Unselfishly, he strives ceaselessly and courageously for the genuinely best in life. "It is just the story that should be printed serially," state the editors of Uncle Remus's-The Home Magazine, for there is much you will want to learn more about and understand bet ter before going on, and the time be tween each issue of the Magazine gives the reader ample opportunity. Send 50 cents in stamps to the Sbny South Publishing Company, I and they will send you Uncle Remus's -The Home Magazine eight months, beginning with the Feburary issue which contains the first instalment of "Martin Eden." Church and p'iritualism. One of the most significant facts of this new century is the presence in the United States of Dr. Godfrey Raupert, professor in the College of the Propaganda at Rome, and mem ber of the London Society for Psychic Research. He comes as the special delegate of Pope Pius X to.tell the people of the United States the posi tion of the Church on the facts of spiritualism, spiritism, or so called occultism, and his presence and his mission are of themselves evidence that the Church accepts the facts as genuine; that is to say, that the Church admits that apart from the fraudulent mediums, meni have receiv ed and do now receive communica tions from intelligent beings who live in an invisible world; beings which can, and do, now and then, take on a visible human form which can be photographed by an ordinrry camera. --M. A. LANE, in Uncle Remus's The Home Magazine. Write Your Name on Farm Tools Do you know that you can write your name .n the metal of your farm tools? You can. Just take a little tallow or bees wax, melt it and spread it over the place on which you want rour name. Write your name down' through the wax with a big needle or iwl and pour a few drops of nitric acid over the letters you have made. Leave a few minutes, and then wipe f the was and your name will be on ,he iron. 'SAII WANTED-to look ifter or interest in St. Landry and dcet counties. Salary or Com eieion. Address t he Harvey Oil i Jo., Cleveland, . "TIlE LILY AND TIE IPIIN EW A Play Replete With Resmue and istery 1 Opera use.Ts·ght. To the soft melodyof curtain music and the rippling of fountain watei the curtain rises on Mildred Holland'l greatest success, "The Lily and The Prince," at the Opera House tonight, Saturday, 23. No epoch in Italian history was more replete with grandeur, romance and tragedy than during the reign of the House of Borgia in the sixteenth century. It is with-this period thai the life and action of "'The Lily ad The Prince" deals. The powerful Borgiss influenced the politics of th greater part of the world, so much sc that England, -Fan:. and Spain casi avaricious eyes upon the Papal States with the result that a conspirai arose for their overthrow. The Houses of Ferrara, Orsini and Colon& na all figure in the story, as does the beautiful Lucrezia Borgia, but not as a dispenser of poisons. Carina Jor dan, the author, merely depicts thiE character, as the beautiful, powerful and unscrupulous woman. As a direct foil to the preceding character is that of Angela di Savelli, the daughter of a Florentine noble who is the Lily of the story. Angela is first seen at the house of her ather, te. Count, where he is approached by Ferrara, disguised as Frontini, who has a scheme for the downfall of the Papacy. The Count spurns Ferrara, and as a result he is imprisoned in the Fortress of St. Angelo. Angels goes to Rome to seek her parent, and in her absolute innocence calls at the house of Lucrezia to plead his cause. It appears that Lucreziais attached to Orsini, the young noble betrotBed to Angela, and she welcomes the girl with subtle design. This, of course, is not apparent to the innocent Floren tine maiden. At this time the Prince of Colonna is the favored suitor of Borgia, but he is attracted to Angela, which affords Lucrezia another opportunity for her unscrupulous designs. Under a pledge of secrecy Angela is allowed to visit her father in the fortress and penetrates the inquisition chamber; Ablong the-councillorsiinthe chamber is Cardinal Capua, in disguise and in the president Angela detects the voice of the man who had approached her father with the plot to dethrone the Pope and Vatican.. She denounces him and the Cardinal, appreciatihg the truth of her tale, dissolves the council. Her father and brothers are re leased and full of joy Angela hurries to. the palace of Lucrezia only to he met by her lover with a charge of perfidy, exhibiting convincing proofs, due to the machinations of Borgia. Even the Prince of Colonna is deceived, and declares his belief in Angela's unfaithfulness. It then follows that the Prince and Silvio, the lover, -risk their lives on the cast of the dice. Silvio loses and is to take his life within an hour. Bound by her oath, Angela is an able to prove her innocence, while the beautiful Borgia maintains a grim silence. While everything is dark news arrives that Ferrara' is excum municated and Borgia is exiled. The clouds roll by and the sorrow enshrouding the life of the innocent Lily falls away. Prices: Orchestra seats $1, par quette 75c, general admission 50c, children 25c. s Abbeville Will Act. The business men of the comrmunity are very much displeased at the ao tion of the Cumber!and Telephone Company in raising the rate to New Orleans to seventy-five cents for a conversation of three minutes and twenty-five cents fbr every additional - minute or fraction thereof, and steps will be taken to have the railroad Co~tmission restore the old rate. -Abbeville Meridional. Small Pox at Washington. The Washington correspondent of the Church Point Democrat says that small pox has broken out in the -~s. gro section of that town; and that every possible means have been taken to prevent its spread andstamp ; ou the disease. This makes threr smallpox f this parish-at I~eplf8isa e and Washington. The da `. e fied to neroe anatlea io Ilers have it under i* , ; *t firs prea. I - ý B. L. BAILY. it No. 1624, 14th Judicial District Court, Avoyelles Pariph, La. By virtue of an order of seizure and sale dated the .6th day of December, 1908, and to misdirected slgnedbytheJudge oftheFour teenth Judicial District Court, of Louisiana in iad for Avoyelles. parish issued In the matter of the $outhetn Saw M0ill O.eIlP , SLimited, versus Robert L. Baiey. No. 1.24 on the docket of said Court I have seized g :and taken Into and will sell to the lastad at public t auction, at the'pri pal id door of ,the Court HOose of voyell.ish _.in the town of Marksvtlle, La. at no'c [ on, on Saturday, Feb. 20, 1909, the following described. property situated in Avoeilee perish, La., %elonging to Itob ert L.alney, to-wit:. The nel of section 18 eI of seta oe sec tion 1; ue of s of section 9. ontaening 26.62 cons.t i of tn of se ofth a nwKt of section 12, con 0 acres, all is tow ip 2 south a east, - ouho rang e g 9.7atres. logs and mber ye b e tfore been sold r ,.,e oitoi ert e to e othern W cog Athh e tame, g toaleasethereof made btre saist Robert L.n e S ,btlpattlDsle SBailey e to a bothe t. r w yO, week N-o a th e ' o of the racords of conv1ances of Avrferes Dparish La S io oldetl atiod thenreon g especialiy including an engine and boler formerly constitutin part of the sawmill of said-t nobert L ai y rbaf L The saidland Ia the same purchase) by o the said RobHert Laefro Casdwell and llpatrick on Deemr tr 1906, by act se Scor sidedro f sal rt8 47of ges at pag The regcostr of sade pars on Januar 19y will07 to aehich rerece is had for further description of the sad ndend. Terms of sale-Cash, sulf ect to appre sent tax .0000 Jangc-8t Sheriff of Avoyelie ParIsh, La. AUSTIN REED Feed Stable Feed by day, week or month n9Best of Care iraven to Horse Loae 1 . Vine ii I1 I b",r, Then regitratiod one mls fnow open inOpelousas, and under the law every9 body wieell haveto re-registatea, Persons wishing to bsreglatired under r thesqopen qualification" must pro jans 't e Granit t rea parls Notie. Notice is hereby`' given that, ttesieassi and huntifng on my. plntration, nar Grant Coteau. is stricfly forbidden, underpenalty of the law. J. L. OUILBK.AU. dee-54t Trespass Iotice. Notice is hereby geive that trespassin and huntingohmy plantation situated nea Arnaudville is strictly prohliited,, nude penalty of the law. faos2-5. J. M. CALLANDRET. SHERIFF'S SALE. .SOUTHERN VEHICLERMPG., CO. LTD., vs. LUSTMaAN dROONRY. No. 18444, 16th Judicial District Court Parish of t, Landry, La. By virtue of a writ Of fler facias, lssuec out of the Hon. 1th Judicial District Cour in and ftor the Parish2f St. -Landry, in the above entitled and numbered salt, and ti me directed I havesefed and will offer fo sale, for cash, at public auction, to the las and highet bidder, at thefront door of Gui Puesller's store, at Eunice, La., on Saturday, Sanisatiy*30, '09 at 11 o'clock a. m., the following describe. property, to-wit: One red colored trap one black hors named Black, one gray horse named 'Di tance. one roan horse named Roan, four tol erms- Cuah. Sanlk-St . M L.SWORDS, Sheriff, R. 8. A. P II T PHYSICIAN AND rSURGEION, Saizan Building, PHONE eildec 82 OPELOUSAS -. LA. Notice. I have sent to the public school teachers of St. Landry parish manuels contanitng the rules and programes for the exerclsea to be held ii the public schools respectively on Arbor Day. Library Day and Bird Day. All teachers are requested to report to me promptly at the onclusion of said exrcses, the charaeter and extent of the exercises held. C. J. TIOMPSON, Jan16 Parish Superintendent. Notice. There will be an examination of appli cants for teachers' certlcates at the St. Landry High SlchOOl at 9 o'clock a. m., on January If. 298, 019. All persons whose certificates have xpired, all persons who may be teachingw twiho. a cer tcate and all persons of good moral character who desire to enter the ublic school service, will berequired to tae this examlnatlon. OC J. THOMPSON, W. B. PRIISCOTT, LE 3. Ofr TiBGO, Committee., Act 2e of 18. wilbe received lunti 6 ___ Fe 6. 1, by, -the Boas d oftt sot.andlr Parish, from the banks of 'tIxls a bfh bfr the 1cial, 4000r eithe School =° Aibidsh0 tenls ec' osat of 'hihoo tDircto v ¾re, sps ' 1 .e. Mo=tb a herea 'by tta i Peoples Stat OF OPELOUSAS. LA. BEGAN BUSINESS SEPTEMBER 9, 1896i GROWTH: SUtRPLs AND UNDIVIDED PROFITS. 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