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TIME OF TRAINS AT Starkville. LEAVE. No. 41. (daily) 10:05 a. nr No. 43. “ 4:25 a. ir ARRIVE. No. 43 (daily) 12:15 p. m No. 44 “ 6:35 p. tn C. 8. CLARKE, G«seral Manager, 8T. LOUIS. C. M. 8HEPARD, JNO. M. BEALL, Gen’l Fui'r Agent. A n't Gen 1 Pa«e> Agent. * MOBILE. 8T. LOUIS. For Sale. Two Grand Daughters of Exile o St. Lambert. KIZZIK GORDhN . No. 148403, out of May Day No. 10717. a 14 lb. tested cow, due 2nd calf ENID SWKREN No 148404, out ol Patty Hzalice No. No. 89547. a grand draughter of Thisbee 2nd. 19 lb. test Due with 3rd calf. These young cows are all that conk be desired for 1st class family cows gray in color, large, well-shaped ud ders, fine teats, fine milkers, easily milked—any child cau milk them. Nc correspondence necessary’ if you wan1 the cows, or either of them. Send a checK with order—they are guaranteed j ist as represented or money refunded Price S6ri each f. o. b. cars. First checli gets the cows. AB. PERKINS, Starkville, Miss “GROW RICEffl Get a Cata ogue telling how to prepare it for MARKET By Writing THE ENGLEBER6 HULLER CO. Syracuse, N. Y. Jersey Bulls for Sale Three young Jersey Bulls whose dams and grand-dams on both sides are tested cows. Old enough for service: good individ * urls and solid colors. For tabu lated peuigress and other infor mation address me at Koscius ko. Miss. _D. F. LOVE Herd headed by the 800 tbs. Hoar, PKINOE LEE-KNIGHT No. 8071, that won first prize at Vicksburg and Meridian in 1900. One extra-nice Boar ready for service for sale. Pigs from premium winning sires and dams now ready to ship. LEE HARRINGTON, DALEVILLE. MISS. Unknown Peas. We have a few hundred bush els Unknown peas, also some mixed peas for sale. The mixed consist of blacks, clay speckle, unknown,*red rippers. Address THE GIBSON GROCERY CO., West Point, Miss. i fifia; NEW ORLEANS, LA. COMMISSION MERCHANT for ale of Sugar Rice, Coffee, Molan ees, Poultry, Butter, Eggs, Se^ds and all countiy produce. Velvet Beans for sal-.. Dogs for Sale. I will sell my tine Trigg bitch “Gull” and her 3 1 year old pups and that grand old Virginia dog “Big Foot, and “Red”—Red and Gull are trained cat and fox dogs—for $35 or trade for Registered Jersey bull or Poland Chinas. Also 1 pure bred young Hereford Bull in service for $65 or will trade as above. H. R. IHRIE, Ihrie, Miss. I 11 Do Not Mix Breeds.! -C-'fc.O Under the above caption, a writer w ho signs fWmself ‘‘Auro ra** in the New York Tribune Farmer, says some good things. One has only to ride through the country and look at the herds of cows which the farmers have bred, in nine cases out of ten. from evey breed they could lay bands on, to seethe truth ot what Aurora says. By the way, -ve suspect Aurora is none other than that uizird of Ohio. John Gould. He says: In recent numbersof the Trib une Farmer there has been not a little said about the purity of breeds and keeping them pure, I and pronouncing against the in discriminate amalgamation of all 1 kinds, breeds and conditions of .! cattle, and of all kinds of stock, that is going on so indiscriminate ly at prest nt. There is no surer 'way to produce schrubs than to i mix bleeds and get antagonistic (forces and purposes into close contact. While it is true that . I common cattle can be graded up land made far better, the con tinued improvment is only ac complished by keeping to one |line of breeding—that of full | blooded sires of the same breed ! every time; but never when first one breed, then another, is taken. The trouble is that our cattle, as a rule, have too many relatives, and each of these has contributed a family or breed characteristic, until the desirable influences and “points”are so far in the mmori tv that it is “constitutionally” Impossible to carry on any im provements with degree of cer tainty, and so, year by year, the bad.predominates, and the scrub class is brought more prominent ly into view, and with diminish ing values. The reverse is true when single‘bloods are the rule. This isnoticable in our dairy stock the country over. Ina herd of cows, nine times out of ten, as herds go, one will find traces of about all the breeds of stock in existence, and these cows run through the entire gamut of ^x celence, about in proportion to their purity of blood, which, be ing interpreted, means that the majority of the most mixed breeding, and this majority of cow’s are of the class that makes less than thirty-two hundred pounds of milk per year each, when they should produce fully six thousand pounds, and cost not a cent more for ca-e or keep ing. The great market world is not asking for or paying high or fan cy prices for mixed breeds of any kind of stock. It is the full bloods of any kind of stock. It is the full bloods of any class that are first wanted. This is true of dairy cattle, and yet we see mixing going on every day. The argument is. that a cross ' the better animal. Is it so, or is the cross of two pure breeds a compromise? Granted that the j cross is better the fiirst time, j what is it the next? It is argued j that the cross of Poland China and Chesters makes the best fat tening hog, but what of the next cross? The man is out of a breed who even crosses the cross of the best two breeds and then he has to go back to the pure again. Last year I saw a herd of fine bred Jerseys headed with the beefiest of a n. fy black Polled Angus bull, the idea being to get beef and milk in the cross. I asked what he would use for the second cross— a beef or a milk type? Why go back to the Jersey again. Why try to breed out tile Annus when you wanted beet? Well, the re sult will be a repetition of the old old story. Two breeds crossed with two distinct purposes—one beneficence, forever giving; the other misery, lorevcr storing up only to give back on the butchers block; the mating of a pound of 25-cent butter w:th a pound of b-cent beef, each costing the same to make, and in the mixed blood, each pulling its own w<tv, and the usual compromise. <-o tie milk and some beef. But the beef cannot be had with out the. sacrifice of milk—the death of the cow. It is grand and worthy to ho a breeder and feeder of the beef types, and to such breeders all commendation; but the spec tacle of a man trying to combine the milk and beef, and running^ both tyf>es, >s a sa(l one’ Tins | is where the law of common! sense should rail an emphatic halt, and stiP more so when two or three tweeds are mixed am graded up at last with com mot stock. Wherein .could a betterment be made in our breeding better am! purer types of cattle, especially dairy catth? Stop the p omi-cuous breed ing of all kinds and breeds ol cattle in one herd. Select some breed best adapted to the con ditions which exist, and gee a sire of best dairy breeding possi ble, and use this same sire for at least three generations. The first heifers will be 50 per cent of the desired blood, and influ ence. Breed them back to their own sire. The second genera tion will be 75 per cent .of dairy influence, and 75 per cent of the relationship with their mixed in fluerrees and weaknesses will have disappeared “crossed out”, and if the second generation is again bred in line, the needed blood wil be as 87 to 100. Then another sire of the same family blood, and as far removed from kinship as possible, is secured for the fourth generation, and the herd is freshened with new blood, and not weakened. If the first sire is of strong vitality, there is no reason in the world why health, vigor and strong in fluence will not be begotten eae h time—far more possible than it would be to introduce a new sire each generation, and with him introduce a new line of family faults and frailties, not to men tion new heredities; while in the other case it would be a matter of confirming and making strong cr the lines of the strongest and most desirable characteristics. In degree this is natures methods of breeding, the “survival of the fittest” line of breeding so long as the sire could maintain the su premacy of his particular harem. We firmly believe that the aver age farmer will go wrong far fewer times in his fai m breeding of stock bv retaining the same sire for two or three generation, than by the promiscuous mixing of breeds .that is now going on There are possibilities in it; but with the present general method, 1 he deterioration of stick that is going on. by this breed mixing, promises nothing for the future but still lower level of the com mon. 1 hope the matter will be tuched upor, and with emphasis, in the future, Tribune Farmers, anti all the light and encourage ment possible thrown in favor ot the idea, “Dout mix any Sf the breeds.” 11 cat men t Cotton Injured by llail. A Macon County correspon dent writes as follows, under date of June 2/ tb: “I have a two horse farm on a sandy land place with clay foundation, which was literally demolished on last Fri day by a severe hail storm. The field looks as it a hundred goats bad grazed it, the tops and leaves being all cut off and the stem left standing. It has commenced to put out new leaves just above the old limbs. 1 his cut ton was a little better than knee high when struck by the hail. The tenant had used used four tons of cotton seed meal and phosphate (10 per cent goods) on 1 he farm. Have you any suggestions to make as to further treatment of the cot ton? *‘I had given instructions be fore the hail to give it one more plowing and then quit, but now am inclined to have the tennant continue the usual cultivation. Do you remember results from any field of cotton that had a sim ilar misfortune in the past? If fifty goats had grazed the field for a day or two jt would uot have presented a worse appear ance. In reply I would state that no such case has come within my own experience and that I can only niakea suggestion founded ou theoretical considerations. It seems highly important that the usual cultivation be continued rather late and at frequent inter vals on cotton that has had such backset as this. The moisture retained by cultivation will hast en growth. Probably cultivation can he continued till the new growth is loaded with blooms. If at that time the plants show no special tendency to excess of weeds or leaf growth working could be continued even some later. Nitrate of soda, Jifty pounds or more per acre applied inimed ately at slight depth along one side and close to the row would perhaps hasten the growth of new leaves, hut necessary delay in obtaining it, its high cost and the increased risk probably makes its use impracticable.—J. F.-D. FUTURE HOG PRICES? The farmers throughout the country are interested in getting a’l the information possible as to the prices of hogs the coming season. There is every indica tion at the. present time mat there will be? fair prices, almost as high as at present, unless something unforeseen might arise to change the present pros pects. It is a conceded fact that the supplies of stock in some parts of the country, were largely drawn and scarcer this spring than has been the case in many years. In pigs it doesn’t take long to restock, but it certainly will not be done inside of'another crop. The high prices of feed will tend to support the high prices of the product of the feed trans formed into meets. While the summer grains will act as sub stitute for corn, there will be no great lowering of prices and feed until the corn crop that will be grown this year is available for leed purposes. Stops the (lough and Works off the Cold. Laxative liromo-tjuinine Tablets cure a cold in one day. No Cure, NoPay. Price 25 cents. * Whippoorwill Peas...-.$1 ™ **"• Clays and Vfondorfuls. 1 *, * , Mixed and Unknown. 1 0,) bUl Tc in. Gorman Millet Seed.SI 50 bu. Dwarf Rssex Rape .f.' Vo.' " Hinder Twine.:.: 12c ll>. Red Top & Orange cane seed sd 40 b.!. msta 11 in cotton bags 15c extra each, and terms NK 1 CASH. 3. BA5R8 § 00., - Ohatlanaaga, Tens /VI 1 Meridian Home Mixture, i ▼ ja. W i 1 ill di± , Meridian blood rd Conr, w-a . «* © f Meridian Vegetable Grower 1 6 ft lliZGT*S^ Pkospbai*. Kainit end z ) * O ; FsrtiiizidgSaiorials.^* Made more than one fourth of all the fei tilizers sold in Mississip^ last season, besides large quantities in other states. -ALSO MANUFACTUKKKS OF COTTON SEED OIL MILL PRODUCTS. MERIDIAN FERTILIZER FACTORY MERIDIAN, MISS, M.AAAAAAAAAAA A AAA A A A A A A AAA M « » ^li Of Every Char- j* acter and... ^ Description, jj .;» jj The GaZGtV S Job Department^* JS is fully prepared to handle all kinds of Commercial^ 2 and book 'Hinting, such as Letter Heads, Note Heads, fcl* JJ bill Heads, Statements, Envelopes, Cards, Posters. Le S gal blanks, Minutes, Catalogues, etc., on short notice 4^ GOOD WORK, | GOOD MATERIAL, jj LOWEST PRICES. ’ 4I We Solkiit a Trial Order—__ + H. F. CASSELL, Successor to W. H. Cassell. NURSERYMAN, CANTON, MISS. . Fruit and Ornamental trees, Grape Vines, Roses arid.flow ering Shrubs. Ask about our ne\V Peaches and Apples. Catalogue Free. “RED RIPPER” Hay Press. Full circle, double stroke: li^lit draught, easy to move from phuv to place. Recommended by (ieortfla (experiment station. alNn tieortfia 1’iImw Farm. it* Sati-tu •. iitiaranteed. This superior machine sold at Factory for $60. SIKES BROS., & CO, Manufacturers, x HELENA, CA. | Located on the Yazoo it Mississ issippi Valiev R. R. in the fan.(in' YAZOO VALLEY | of Mississippi—specially adap'etl to the Raising of COTTON, CORN CATTLE AND HOGS SOIL RICHES! IN THE WOBLD^ Write lor Phamphlets and Maps E- P. SKEEHE, Land Commissioner. , Central Mai ion, i*ark Row. .*• oom \ _CHICAGO, ILL. Send Tile Gazk i tk ^rour - !|U' I j scription today. Only 50c a ;, ar. I