Water Valley progress., November 11, 1905, Image 6

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At the Ttfeddfr.!*.
•Ye», the girl \va* from Boston, and the
•nan was from Battle Creek.
“What of it." . ^ . . . .
“W ly.‘as* a dedicate'trtbute, instead ot
throwing lice, ire threw beans and buak
fast food”—Chie.igo Sun.
Sentimental.
“She was a woman,” said the poetical
boarder, “whose beauty^urned men’s hearts
to fire.” ,, t
“And their necks to rubber I sumioae,
added the prosy old bachelor.—Chicago
Daily News.
Loss and Gain.
“Did yonr husband find that golf im
proved hss health?” .... _
“Yes. It improved his health. But un
less he learns to play better it will spoil his
disposition.”—Washington Star.
There would be fewer failures in the
business world if there were fewer men
ready to drop their business on toe smallest
provocation and discuss suan questions as
who was the father o.‘ the American navy.
—Somerville Journal.
Best in the World.
Cream, Ark ./Oct. 9th (Special).'—After
eighteen months suffering from Epilepsy,
Backache and Kidney Complaint. Mr. W.
11. Smith, of this place, is a well man
again, and those who have watched his
return, to health unhesitatingly give all
the credit to Dodd’s Kidney Fills, in an
interview regarding his cure, Mr. Smith
•ays:
"1 had been low for eighteen months
with my back and kidneys, and also
Epilepsv. I had taken everything I knew
of, and ■ nothing seemed to do me any
good till a friend of mine got me to send
for Dodd’s Kidney Pills. I find that they
are the greatest medicine in the world,
for now 1 am able to work and am in fact
as stout and strong as before I took sick.”
DotM's liidhey rills cure the Kidneys.
Cureik KidOeym cleanse the blood of all
impurities. Bure blood means good health.
The western farmer who cannot move
his crops does not despair. He keeps
his crops at home and feeds them to
the hogs. Then he moves the hogs.—
Philadelphia inquirer.
Mothers Are Helped
THEIR HEALTH RESTORED
Happiness of Thousands of Homes Due
to Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com*
pound and Mrs. Pinkham’s Advice.
A devoted mother seems to listen to
every call of duty excepting1 the su
preme one that tells her to guard her
health, and before she realizes it some
derangement of the female organs has
manifested itself, and nervousness and
irritability take the place of happi
ness and amiability.
Mrs. Ph.Hoffm an
Tired, nervous and irritable, the
mother is unfit to care for her chil
dren, and her condition ruins the child’s
disposition and reacts upon herself.
The mother should not be blamed, as
fthe no doubt is suffering1 with back
ache, headache, bearing-down pains or
displacement, making life a burden.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound is the unfailing cure for this
condition. It strengthens the female
organs and permanently cures all dis
placements and irregularities.
Such testimony as the following
should convince women of its value:
Dear Mrs. Piukham:
“ I want to tell you how much good Lydia E.
Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound has done me.
I suffered for eight years with ovarian
troubles. I was nervous, tired and ir
ritable, and it did not seem as though I could
stand it any longer, as I had five children to
care for. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable
Compound was recommended and it has en
tirely cured me. I cannot thank you enough
for your letter of advice and for what Lydia
TS. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has done
for me.—Mrs. Ph. Hoffman, 100 Himrod
Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.”
Mrs. Pink ham advises sick women
free. Address, Lynn, Mass.
HAVE YOU COWS?
If you have cream to separate a good
. Cream Separator is the most profitable in
vestment you can possibly make. Delay
means daily waste of
tune, labor ana product.
DE LAVAL CREAM
SEPARATORS save
$10.- per cow per year
« every year of use over all
f gravity setting systems
and $6.- per cow over
all imitating separators.
They received the Grand
‘ Prize or Highest Award
)e
at »c. louis.
, Buying trashy oash-in-ad vance sepa
ratists is penny wise, dollar foolish.
Such machines Quickly lose their cost
instead of saving it. ,
If you haven't the ready cash
DE LAVAL machines may be bought
on such liberal terms that they actually
pap far themselves.
Send today tor new catalogue and
name of nearest local agent.
The De Laval Separator Co.
•Wdolph & Canal S'*, i 74 Cortlandt Straa*
CHICAGO I NSW YORK
FARM tiKAND FLAN TEH.
THE EXPERIMENT STATION.
Tbr Farmer’* Intercut lu the Expe
riment Station la Greater Than
Man)- of Them Imnglne.
The real purpose of the experiment
farm and its relation to the farmers of
the state do not seem to be clearly un
derstood. There seems to be in the
public mind a confusion of the experi
ment farm with a model farm. The
two are by no means the same; but
that no distinction is made is evident
from the expressions you hear in a
crowd going through an experiment
farm: “That corn is not as good as
mine,’’ says one, or “John, you can beat
that cotton.” Such comparisons show
that the speakers think the crops grown
at the experiment farm are intended
as models for the farmers of the state.
This Is a mistake. What then is the
purpose of the experiment farm? It
is to test the value and adaptabilities
of new crops or new varieties that have
been originated in other sections or are
recommended by individtials to develop
useful crops flrom nfitive weeds or
grasses, to test methods of culture and
fertilization, and to submit the results
to the farmers of the state in a form
that will be practically useful.
It is clear that since the greater part
of its work is really experiment, that
there must be many failures—more fail
ures than successes. The fact is that
the advantage of the experiment sta
tion is just this: To save the individual
farmer the time and expense of making
these experiments and necessary fail
ures himself. It is cheaper to appropri
ate money to the purpose and let them
be made once for all than for each of
us to do this work for himself. It is
unreasonable to expect all the crops
we find on the experiment farm to be
successful and useful as models for our
farming. What we have a right to ex
pect is a clear statement of the meth
ods, etc., which have been tested, and
the results of the test, so that we may
avoid those that are not good and
make use of those that are
To illusrate: The may pop is perfect
ly familiar to us all, as a weed, and
most of us have enjoyed sucking the
seed while we were boys. It is quite
possible that from this weed may be
developed a fruit that would be a source
of pleasure and profit. On the other
hand, it is possible that an attempt to
develop such a fruit would only end
in failure. Certainly the average farm
er has no time or money to spend on
its development. Right here comes in
the experiment station. Through it we
all combine to make the test. The cost
to each of us is very small, and if the
attempt is successful we shall all share
the benefit.
Or again, our woods are full of wild
legumes. Some of these with proper
handling may prove equal in feeding
value to clover and alfalfa and, being
native to our soil, will be easier to
grow- But no individual has the time
and money necessary to make the test,
with the possibility of failure that has
always to be reckoned with. And so
we should look to our experiment sta
tions to do this for us. Their service
in regard to testing new varieties and
methods of cultivation and so forth is
similar. And the experiment farms
have done much good in these direc
tions. Let us judge them by their real
purpose, and we shall not only be more
just to them, but we shall be in a bet
ter position to get good from them.
On the other hand, the experiment
stations are sometimes at fault in esti
mating their obligations to the farm
ers, by whose will and for whose ad
vantage they have their existence, as
secondary to their obligation to pure
science and scientific men- That they
can and ought to make contribution to
science is» net to be denied. But the
lines of invetsigation that they pursue
and the form in which the results of
their investigations aie published
should be determined by the needs of
the farmers in their section. The bul
letin issued should be written in a
popular and interesting style, and
should be eminently practical in their
treatment of the subject. Furthermore,
they should not consist generally in
statistical tables, etc., which are hard
reading. They should ste'e and inter
pret results in the most simple, clear
and popular style possible. In order to
do this the men engaged in this work
should come frequently and intimately
in touch with the people for whom
they work and understand the manner
of thought and the problems that meet
them.
When the people expect only what Is
legitimate from the station, and the sta
tion realizes its relation to the people,
we may expect the best iesults for ag
riculture—B. M. Drake, in Southern
Cultivator.
DOING IN THE GARDEN.
Don’t Plant a Garden and Then
Allow the Weed* to Choke
Down All Growth.
Many farmers work hard all summer
and raise fine crops and have fine gar
dens, but as soon as crops are laid by
they stop all manner of work. In a
short time all vegetables are overgrown
with grass and weeds and brush for
want of attention. I know farmers
now (and unfortunately their narao Is
iegion), who have from thin sort of
neglect lost all their vegetables, and
now their wives are put to it to find
something to cook Now this ought
not to be so. Work while you work;
play while you play, is the way to be
cheerful, happy and gay, but too much
of it will put you on short rations.
No one likes to see the young and
old folks enjoy themselves more than
I, but there should be moderation in
all things. Have hours to work and
hours to play.
Now begin to cultivate yoor turnips.
Those tomato vines that hawe fallen
down and died with bushels of neg
lected tomatoes on them, can be cut
ofT, cultivated, and maimed suckers
will put up from the roots. These will
tear a crop of late tomatoes. Some
will get ripe before frost. Then take
all green ones that are grown or near
ly so wrap them in paper and lay them
on a shelf. They will ripen. In this
way I have had ripe tomatoes on
Christmas day. I have treated mine so
two weeks ago, or a part of them, at
least. They are now blooming.
Work out your celery and begin to
earth slowly. Work your parsnips and'
carrots and beets. Look after your
Irish potatoes. If they are on the
ground take up and put them in the
house till cold weather, then keep them
away for the winter./ Look after your
Gmail fruit vines or bushes and flowers.
Your cows should be fed now with
plenty of succulent foodi and some
grain, too, or they will lose their flow
of milk.
That pork will be higher, goes with
out saying, so push your hogs, vary
ing their food, using corn, peas and
sweet potatoes alternately.
With plenty of fine fruit, vegetables
—peas, beans, green corn1—both fresh,
canned and dried; poultry, eggs, pork
and beef, with fresh and salt fish, well
cooked and prepared, what more could
the president of the United States or
any of the crowned heads of the world
ask—except the dower empress, who
perhaps would like a few rats and some
birds’ nests for dessert?
No reason why the farmers who
iaise everything should not be the best
fed people on earth; so don’t neglect
your opportunities.—J. H. Parker, in
Progressive Farmer.
The Cost of Ijfnorunee.
“Ignorance and the lack of informa
tion has cost the southern farmer many
dollars, and in many ways. First, be
cause we have not had the practical,
chemical knowledge of our soils. We
have spent millions of dollars in sup
plying our land with fertilizing mate
rial that they were not deficient in.
For instance, some of ouf lands are
well supplied with nitrogen or am
monia, especially after certain crops
have been grown the previous year.
Others contain potash or lime, or acid
phosphate. Still, as a rule, the farmer
will buy a complete fertilizer for his
crop, when only certain material is
needed, thus spending large sums of
money for material with which his soils
are already supplied
“We have wasted time and money in
poor preparation of soils for our crops,
and in the improper cultivation of same.
“The lack of knowledge in judging
live stock and the proper care of same
has also been expensive- to the south
ern farmer.
“Another thing that has cost the
farmers sums of money is the habit
we have of going from home to buy
our mules, hay, corn, meat And other
things we couldl so easily raise at
home; fcr instance, Edgecombe county
raised last year about 35,000 bales oi
cotton that sold for about one million
dollars, and she spent the same year
for mules, meat, hay, corn anfi fertiliz
ers about three-fifths of this whole
amount, or $600,000. Not only did we
pay out this large amount Tor some
thing we could1 have raised, at home,
but the over-production of cotton cost
us nearly an amount equal to this, the
difference in price we could have got
ten had the cotton crop been reduced
sufficiently to have enabled vs to raise
these things at home.—E. L*. Daught
ridge, in address at Farmers’ State
Convention. Raleigh, N. C.
HERjj. AND THEEE.
—If the hens are lousy when they ere
given a brood of chicks, the lice wiJ
leave the hens and infest tie chicks.
—Remember that if you do as well
as you can you have done ay that you
ought to do- Do not worry about the
superior achievement* of others.
—Meet your problfflus with an ef
fort of the mind- Meet your difficulties,
your sorrows, your disappointments
with an effort of the will v hich is a
struggle of the brain.
—The farmer having ordinary fore
sight should see that nothing could en
hance the value of his farm more than
having groves of catalpa, bialk locust
walnut or pecan trees.
—A dairy farmer should always h
far as possible breed and rear his cr
heifers, paying the greatest] attention
to selecting the calves from the be
I butter-producing cows.
—Pure-bred- and high-grade d;a
mares are the farxheda' mascot now. IJ
draft horses for heeding and fer vc
are in most urgent demand, A i
dealer what good draft gelding;
worth, and he will tell you to find U.
flrst and then buy them
AWFUL NEURALGIA
Mr. Porter Thought He Should Go Med
But Or. Williams’ Pink Pllis
Cured Him.
“It seems like a miracle that Dr.
Williams’ Pink Pills should have cured
my neuralgia,’’said Mr. Porter. “They
we certainly a marvelous medicine and
I am always glad to recommend them.
“For two years,” he continued, “I had
suffered almost unendurable pains in my
head. They would start over my eyes
and shoot upward most frequently, but
they often spread over my face, and at
times every part of my head and face
would be full of agony. Sometimes the
pains were so intense that I actually
feared they would drive me mad.
“ My eyes ached constantly and there
was always a burning sensation over my
forehead, but the other pains varied,
sometimes they were acute, and again
they were dull and lingering. I could
not sleep. My temper was irritable and
I got no pleasure out of life.
“ I tried remedy after remedy, but
finding no help in any of them, I be
came a despairing man. Even when I
began to take Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills I
had no great hope of a cure.
“ That was in December of 1903. To
my surprise, a change in my condition
took place right away. The pains grew
less intense and the acute attacks were
further apart, as I kept on using Dr. Wil
liams’ Pink Pills. The improvement be
gan with the first box, and when I had
used six boxes I stopped. My cure was
complete and has lasted ever since.”
Mr. Charles H. Porter lives at Ray
mond, N. H. He is one of many grateful
people who have found that Dr. William^’
Pink Pills will cure diseases of the nerves
that have stubbornly resisted every other
remedy tried. Not only neuralgia, but
sciatica, partial paralysis and locomotor
ataxia yield to them. They are sold by
all druggists, or may be obtained directly
from the Dr Williams Medicine Co.,
Schenectady, N. Y.
Revised.
“You don’t give much heed to the
admonition, ‘blessed is the peace
maker.’ ”
“No,” answered the nervous citizen.
“The version for these rapid times
Bhould be ‘blessed is the pacemaker.’ ”
—Washington Star.
The Proposal Unexpected.
“Why have you never married, Miss
Antique?” he thoughtlessly inquired.
“You never, asked me before,” she
said, coyly, as she gave him her hand.—
Tit-Bits.
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Julv 6.1878.
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AMY OTHER MAMUFAOTURER.
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REWARD to anyone who c*n
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W. L. Douglas $3.50 shoe* have by their
cellent style, easy fitting, and superior weartaj
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shoe In the world. They are Just as good as
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If I could show you the difference between the
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their shape, fit better, wear longer, and am of
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W. L. Douglas Shoes are not sold Full line ol
samples sent free for Inspection upon request,
fast Color Eyelets used; they will not umor Arosey.
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