The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., January 22, 1910, Page 45, Image 9

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the Interest of our big family of Farm Life Folks,
and with the belief that every effort we may make
to Improve the character and appearance of our
magailne will be appreciated by you. wo shall not.
hereafter, accept any medical or matrimonial ad
vertising for publication In Farm Life.”
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Next week remember. Is our Poultry Special;
and we verily believe It Is going to be about the
best one we have ever Issued. It will be practical
ly made up by the time this reaches you, ao we
can not nsk you to help us with It; but we hope
you will remember our Farm Equipment Special
of February 12. This treats of one of the most
Important subjects the farmer has to consider,
and we want to make It of practical value to all
our readers to those with large farms and those
with small May we not count on your assist
ance?
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Hookworm disease Is confined to no one class
of people and to no one section. In a recent In
vestigation It was found that one-third of the
Junior class of Tulane rnlverslty had the disease,
and It has also been found, to a large extent, In
California and some of the Northern States. The
extermination of the disease Is, therefore, a mat
ter In which all sections and all classes are vitally
Interested.
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Not for one Instant should any reader of ours
think of letting up In the war against the cattle
lick That U a remarkably encouraging report
we are publishing on page IT. and there. Is no
longer any question that the tick can be utterly
•iterminatrd Inalst on liberal appropriations for
the work from your legislature, and then do
your part In disinfecting and rotating pastures
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Thousands of acres of corn and cotton were
drowr«-d out last summer This Is not likely to
happen again this year, but 11 may. The only
safeguard Is better drainage The best drainage
Is with tilesi. but open ditches can be made to
answer See what l* said on page 41 about the
kind of open ditches to make.
Right now. if you ha»e not already done so
you must map out your year's work. Surely no
I rogre*»he Farmer and (laselte reader la going
to try to farm longer without some definite sys
tem of crop rotation and some definite plan of
work Head what Is said on page 39. and then
put It into practice
To complete our office flies we greatly need two
copies of The Southern Farm (Jarelte of Novem
ber SI. 1909. and July 31. 1909 We shall be
glad to give a thre#>monthi* subscription each for
the first two copies of each dale sent us by any
reader who will be kind enough to supply the
missing dales
"A reasonable acreage In cotton thla year with
a good yield from every acre home-grown com
and vegetables and bacon and butter, a liberal
acreage in legumes with good live stock to feed
them" let this be your motto thla year and yon
*UI come out all right whether cotton prices are
high or low.
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Of course, after reading all that was said about
garden making In last week's paper, you will not
r»**gle< t that part of the work this spring. Right
now get the garden plowed, get It enclosed, and
Itet a supply of good seeds. Then whenever the
leather permits, you are ready for work.
Remember, you need not write to ask us wheth
*r any advertiser In The Progressive Farmer and
Gillette la reliable or not. Read the standing no
t!r« In which we guarantee the trustworthiness
of all advertising that we carry.
A Thought For the Week.
R WAS A noon man. my father was. an
his usual form of address to me was my
son.” thess so, unadorned, nn' I don’t know
hut lt*a helped me all my life. It sort o' chal
••uges a boy to be called "my son" by a good
man—Kuth McKnery Stuart
What s The News?”
_ B* CLARENCE H. POE.
The Week’s Happenings.
1 RESIDENT TAFT has appointed H. S
J Graves of the Yale Forest School to suc
ceed Gifford Plnchot as Forester. Concern
•ng Mr. Plnchot. the whole country deeply regrets
h‘S dismissal from office, and yet admits that
President Taft could not have done less than or
der his removal after Plnchot’s letter to Senator
Dolliver. But Taft’s mistake was made before
that time—began, in fact, when he put in Bal
•mger with his unsavory associations as Secretary
of the Int«rior. So while we can have no blame
for Mr. Taft for dismissing Plnchot after the ap
pearance of the Dolliver letter, the country can
not hold him blameless for permitting the condi
tions which provoked that letter from a splendid
public servant to whom conditions In the Depart
ment of the Interior had become intolerable.
Elections held Saturday and Monday for seats In
the Lower House of the British Parliament indi
cate that the Liberals will retain control of the
Government, although with material losses from
their present overwhelming majority—which
means, of course, that the Lords will be forced to
Rive their assent to Lloyd-George’s hated Budget.
M the same time the Liberals will be sobered by
'he losses they have suffered, which will probablv
prevent them from going to the extreme of de
manding the abolition of the hereditary chamber
Ibe House of Lords has had Its fangs pulled and
rill probably not stand much In the way of the
l iberal program from now on. Of the ninety
one members of the House of Commons for which
elections were held Saturday, the Liberals lost in
eighteen districts to the Unionists, and In one to
the Laborites, the Unionists in three cases to the
Liberals, and in sixty-nine districts there was no
change of party majority. Numerous other elec
tions will be held during the next two weeks, and
under the English law a man can vote in each dis
trict In which he owns land. The nature of the
l.loyd-George ‘‘budget,” or system of taxation, has
been several times explained In these columns, as
well as the unprecedented action of the Lords in
refusing to assent to the scheme of taxation pro
posed by the elected representatives of the peo
ple. The Unionists or Conservatives (the party
of the Lords) propose that England shall abandon
her historic free-trade policy and set up a pro
tective tariff, and It was upo* this appeal to the
people that they based their unrealized hopes of
party success.
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Although similar amendments have been twice
defeated, the Maryland Democrats propose to sub
mit to the voters next year another negro-disfran
chtslng Constitutional Amendment. To this no
one could have objection were it not for the ir
regular methods by which it is proposed to carry
It. It Is proposed to have an entirely new regis
tration with the machinery entirely in the hands
of the majority party, and the registrars instruct
ed to refuse to register negroes. As the Mary
land negro population is not large anyhow, it looks
as if the main motive were the ambition of the
Democratic State machine to perpetuate its su
premacy. And never since the days of Senator
Gorman’s rise to power has the Maryland ma
chine been noted for moral scruples.
Like other Southern States. North Carolina suf
f«red much in Reconstruction days from the
wholesale issue of fraudulent State bonds by irre
sponsible carpetbag Legislatures, some of which
issues were so flagrantly dishonest that the State
repudiated them utterly. A citizen being prohibit
ed from suing a State, while one State may sue
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another, some adA^enturers holding some of these
repudiated bonds recently made a gift of some of
hem to the State of Rhode Island, Avhereupon
khode Island last week demanded payment of the
Treasurer of North Carolina. Fortunately the
Rhode Island Legislature seems to have recog
nized that it was being made a cat’s paw of, and
will return the donated bonds. It certainly seems
as if a decent sense of shame should prevent any
Northern State from seeking to hound and embar
rass Southern Commonwealths with new remind
ers of a time when the South, in the fine illustra
tion of Senator Lamar, lay like a Prometheus
chained to a rock while vultures preyed on her
vitals.
A lamentable lack of vision Is revealed by the
report of the Louisiana legislative committee ap
pointed to draw up a new scheme of salaries for
the State officers. The Governor’s salary is fixed
at $6,000; Auditor’s, $2,500; Treasurer’s, $3,000;
Supreme Court Judges, $4,500; while the Superin
tendent of Public Instruction is fixed at $2,500
and the Commissioner of Agriculture at $2,000.
The offices of State Superintendent of Public In
struction and Commissioner of Agriculture offer
finer opportunities than any other for splendid
constructive work in building up our Southern
Commonwealths, and we should make way for the
biggest men in the South to go into these offices
and reward them accordingly. Hardly the Gover
nor himself should have a larger salary.
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That Speaker Cannon with his vulgarity, vin
dictiveness, and subservience to special interests
is becoming too heavy a burden for his party, is
fast dawning upon wiser Republicans. The recent
vote by which the appointment of the House
members of the Ballinger-Pinchot committee was
taken from the Speaker is an incident without
parallel, as the Springfield Republican points out.
Never before has the House voted such a want of
confidence In its presiding officer.
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Mayor Gaynor of New York (the only Tammany
candidate elected, it will be remembered, and he
on a platform strongly Independent) is being
generally complimented for the splendid appoint
ments he is making. He Is either giving little re
gard to Tammany, or else that organization slnee
it no longer has control of the city money, is
willing for its one representative in the adminis
tration to make as good a representation for It as
possible.
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The small body of noisy extremists in the
North who are protesting against admitting Gen
eral Lee’s statue into the National Capitol very
naturally excite our contempt. Bet while our con
tempt for them is aroused let us not forget that
their prejudice is exactly on all-fours with that of
Southern extremists who refuse to recognize the
greatness of Northern leaders like Lincoln and
Grant.
By no means surprising, and yet not uninterest
ing, is the report of Senator Culberson’s question
put to the forty-four ranking living ex-Confeder
ates as to whom they regard as the greatest Con
federate general. Thirty-five answered Lee; four,
Jackson; two, Johnston; one, Stuart; one, Beaure
gard or Taylor.
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The death of General Rufus N. Rhodes of the
Birmingham News removes a notable figure from
Southern journalism, while the removal of Editor
J. C. Hemphill to the Richmond Times-Dlspatch,
after twenty years on the Charleston News and
Courier, amounts to little less than a sensation.
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Thomas W. Lawson Is said to be organizing a
$50,000,000 tobacco manufacturing company to
take over the entire pooled holdings of the Burley
Society of Kentucky. Lawson, however, Is so un
certain a proposition that this may maan little or
much.
The German cotton manufacturing Industry is
reported as in a desperate plight owing to labor
troubles and the Increased price of lint.
The Turkish Cabinet has resigned owin* to
partisan differences.