Putnam County herald., July 16, 1914, Image 4

About Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922

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TAKES PLACE
OF INSTITUTES
MOST PRACTICAL IN DAIRY EQUIP
1 MENT, SPRAYING AND PRUN-
ING TREES ARE SHOWN. -
The Agricultural Special will take
the place of county institutes in the
counties it is enabled to reach, and it
Is expected to be more beneficial and
effective, because the train and its ex-
HOGS MOST ECONOMICAL PRODUCERS
OF MEAT OF ANY FARM ANIMAL
Summer Feeding is the Most Important Factor Hofi3
Should Not be Kept in a Small Pen and
Fed Nothing But Grain
I A French doctor says that you are
'liable to brine on Insanity nnlae wn
lay 'n bed fifteen or twenty minutes
after you wake up. There is no need
of special asylums in this section.
The man who declares he will wear
no man's collar should always put his
monogram on his laundry.
" J. A. Dinwiddle, of Tennessee.
hibits will be seen by a much larger
number of people In the rural commu
nities than could possibly be gotten to
attend the institutes.- County institute
work has. been and is being conducted
la those counties not reached by rail
reads. . .
The train Is to be operated at a time
when the farmer and kis family hare
the most leisure, and it la hoped by
the Commissioner of Agriculture that
every one who is convenient to the
scheduled stops will attend. They will
see on the train what many of them
would not have an opportunity to see
otherwise. They will see the finest
types of beef and dairy cattle, the best
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f -S s 4 .2k lis Is
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Hogs grazing on, soy beans.
Dr. Lucius P. Brown, State Pure Food
' --- " and Drugs Inspector.
breeds of sheep and hogs, and the best
poultry, ajid hear the very best lec
tures orf these subjects. They will
learn about-the silo how to build it
and how to fill, it and feed ensilage
They will learn about agricultural lime
-for sweetening their. soils, and how to
grow clover, and all about winter cover
crops.
They will be enabled to see the most
, practical in dairy equipment; about
the care of the orchard, spraying and
pruning trees, and about marketing
fruits and vegetables; about the honey
bee how to keep it with pleasure and
profit; about the work that is being
done by the State Department of Agri
culture to. eradicate hog cholera from
the State, and see demonstrations of
the use of cholera serum and the virus
In the simultaneous treatment for this
scourge, and will be Instructed in the
use of this serum and virus, which
will render their swinelabsolutely Im
mune from this deadly disease.
Visitors to the train will be shown
the progress that has been made for
rural education in the State, and will
be told the benefits and advantages of
rural community co-operation. They
can learn how to prevent disease by
using preventive measures. The farm
' wives and daughters may learn
bout domestic science and home eco
nomics, and what is being done to
xnake home life on the farm more com
fortable and more attractive.
The farmer who leaves the "Shade
at the old apple tree" on the farm,
raveling miles over dusty highways
to the railroad, will find that his time
baa not been wasted, and that he will
Cain useful Information that will en
hie him to do better along all lines
than he has done in the past. . A visit
to the train can not be without profit
The train la planned to offer helpful
uggestions that may be easily put
into practice, and this opportunity
should be taken advantage of by every
farmer In the State who is convenient
to any of the scheduled stopping
places. '
Those having the train in charge
will leave nothing undone to make the
tour a success in that It will dissemi
nate useful Information for the benefit
of all who may care to learn. The
dates will he published often In the
county papers, and by posters, so that
everyone may be ready to take a day
off and profit by a visit to the Agricul
tural Special:
Hogs are the most economical pro
ducers of meat of any. animals on the
farm when they are properly fed, but
when they are not, they produce meat
at a greater oost than any other class
f farm animals. It Is not economical
la keep the hogs shut up In a small
yen and feed them nothing, but grain.
In nature they have the run f the for
est and oshibw suoh feeds aa roots,
herbs, grease and grains la their sea
son. We often handle hoc aa though
we thought they could not consume
any kind ef toed ether than grain.
Bogs on Many sarins are kept in email
eleenrsa ar In small pens where
Chey can nni receive any kind of green
feed and hence the gains that are
made most be made with the more ex
pansive grain feeds. It requires from
4 to I lbs. of grain to produce galnaJ
With feeds under these conditions,
which leavee hut IK tie profit when
(rains are high priced; while under
Mature coaditloBe a pound of gala
saay be produced wit I to lbs. of
grain. There should always be pro
vided pasture crops for the hogs the
same aa for any other kind of live
stock. The farm should always be
fenced so that the .hogs can- be turn
ed Into any of the fields after the
crops are removed and obtain such
feed as may be left from the harvest
An abundance of succulent green
feed should be provided throughout
the summer. During June such crops
as soy-beans; cow-peas, sorghum and
sweet corn may be sown for the hogs
and will be ready for them from the
middle of July and through August
the most difficult seasons of the year
to provide pasture. Of these pastures
soy-beans are the most satisfactory,
for the hogs like that pasture better
than cow-peas or sorghum: Hogs will
eat the leaves of soy-beans much more
readily than they will the leaves of
cow-peas. Sow the soy-beans in rows
and keep cultivated until well grown.
Turn the hogs in when the soy-beans
are just forming the pods. At this
stage the hogs will begin by foraging
on the leaves, and the pods will con
tinue to form and ripen, even "though
some of the leaves are being fed off,
and the hogs will obtain a greater
amount of nutriment per acre than
they would if held from the soy-beans
until they are ripe. A greater gain
may be made per acre than by leaving
the soy-beans until they are ripe and
then turning In the hogs. Do not turn
In too many per acre for the greatest
good can be obtained from the crop if
it not pastured so heavily, but that it
will laat for at least six weeks. Ordi
narily from S to 12 sboata may be turn
ed on per acre. Better results will be
obtained if the forage crop Is supple
mented with some grain, such aa com.
Feed the grain, such aa com, at the
rate of 1H to 3 per cent of the live
weight of the hogs. lor example, If
the a ember of head be 11 and the total
Weight should he about 1.Z00 pounds,
the total feed for the day would be SO
to U lbs. of grain la addition to the
forage consumed. Ordinarily hogs
will not make gains en forage naleae
the forage crop la aoppleaiented with
grain; bnt with the addition of n little
grain very cheap gains may be made.
Sorghum may be sown as either soy
beans or cow-peas. It contains 'too
much coarse material to be well util
ised as a forage crop for hogs. Al
though it is a coarse forage it is better
than nothing, and, in fact. If pastured
at the right stage may be a very use
ful crop. When Intended for hog for
age it should be spwn with the grain
drill wlth9every hose running and at
the rate of one bushel per acre. Turn
into It when it is about & inches high
and at' the rate of 10 to 16 shoats per
acre, according to crop. This crop
should be supplemented with some pro
tein feed, such as cottonseed meal
with copperas. If copperas is fed with
the cottonseed meal at the rate of one
pound of.copperas for every 50 pounds
of the meal no harmful results will
follow its use. Make a solution of the
copperas by putting 2 pounds of the
copperas in 50 gallons of water, and
then feed of this solution 2 quarts for
every pound of the cottonsepd meal
that is fed. For hogs that are forag
ing on sorghum, feed from to lb.
of cottonseed meal for every 100 lbs.
of live weight. In addition to the cot
tonseed meal they Should also be fed
from 3 to 4 ears of corn per head per
day,
BE A BOOSTER
I Be a booster 't you can,
Boo ter of your fellow man.
Boost your county, boost your state,
Boost your town at any rate.
Boost it as a place to I've,
Boost it ev'ry boost you give
Makes the town a better town
Boost it up, don't knock it down.
Be a booster for you can ;
Boosting it the better p!an.v
Boosters always win acclaim,
Boost the knockers to their shame.
Boost t-em when th y need your help;
Make them yell instead of yelp.
Boost them till they have to boost;
Boost them up, or off the roost.
PUBLIC LETTER
To All Whom it May Concern:
We will state for your information
that JOHN W. GILLEM has a very
bad, weak leg, and cannot wokr at
hard or heavy work or get overheated,
as he had an operat'on on his leg and
was on crutches for three years, and
his leg has never got well and it looks
as it never will. We have been treat
ing him in sickness all his life.
Respectfully,
DR. J. B. S. MARTIN.
DR. CLAUDE P. MARTIN.
HOW WE HURT OURSELVES
If you have anything to sell In this
community labor, crops or material
the people here must have money with
which to buy it.
If you keep sending your money
away from home it will be a long time
gett'ng back; it ma ynever get back
at all.
If all of it were sent away and none
of It came back, how long would this
town last.
NOTICEI SALE!
I will on Friday, July. 24, 1914, offer
the property of William D. Walker,
deceased, for sale to the highest bid
der, to-wit : 30 or 40 pounds of feath
er , two pillows, 8 or 10 quilts, 2 or 3
coverlets, 2 or 3 counterpanes, blanket,
one cook-stove and vessels, one heater
stove, one clock, dishes of different
kinds, one table, 2 guns, axos, saws,
hammers, hoes, chairs, etc. Also 25
stands of bees.
Terms of sale: All under 5.00
cash; over $5.00 six months time, with
note and good security.
Sale at home place 5 miles north of
! Cookeville, and one mile east of the
Small Change church. Sale begins at
10 'cloek a- m,
E. T. PHILLIPS, Guardian."
Sunday School Convention
The third divicion of the Putnam
County Sunday School Association
will hold its second cession with the
Sunday school at Union Grove, three
miles south of Baxter, on the first
Sunday in August. Program as follows:
Welcome Address, Mr. Jesse Max
well. Devotional Exercises, Mr. J. L. En
&or. Some Problems of the Sunday School
and Their Remedy, Dr. W. E. Sypert.
Tho Preparation of the Lesson and
Teaching, Prof. I. E. York.
The Training of Children, Prof. Ches-'
tor Patton.
How to Gain and Hold Attention,
Rev. C. E. Austin.
The Duty of the Superintendent, Mr.
Henry Puckett.
The Value of the Sunday School to
the Community, Re. J. T. Harris.
The Financial Question, Rev. W. W.
Baxter.
Song services will be conducted by
Mr. A. H. Crawford.
Every Sunday school in this division
should be represented, and everybody
is invited to attenl as we lesire to
make these conventiins of Importance
to every Sunday school in the ciunty,
regardless of denomination, and speak
ers 6hould not wait ti be .placed on the
program, as we are liable to need you
at any time.
W. T. ENSOR, President.
R, L. RICHARDSON, Secretary:
CHICKASHA, OKLA.
Dear Editor, Herald Readers and
Friends : I will now again write a few
lines ti see if I miss the waste basket
You will know when I eay I have
changed my address from Alba, Texas,
who I am, aas where I am from. You
will also find out that I am located for
a few years at least six miles from
Chickasha, three north and three west.
I have bought a nice place here that
cost $9,600 and I am now at home. I
have 70 acres of corn, 30 acres of al
falfa, 20 acres of kafflr corn, 12 acres
of cotton and five acree of millet. I
dd think at one time I would make 70
bushels of corn per acre but I guess 40
will be the yield this year with a good
rain soon. Tou see corn is in good
shape yet.but will soon lose from the
dry, hot weather.
I left Alba, Texas, April 21 for Ten
nessee in an extended visit. Got to
Ciokeville, your home and my home
town, o nMa first. Here I met a num
ber of people whom I have known from
childhood. My thoughts went sw:ftly
back to a few years gone. But then a
thought of my life "came to me, and
how I had lived and used my time and
talent. I have been Indolent,-" but I
can not blame any one but myself.
We in this day stand in" fault of our
miEOom'ngs. You eee our prayers are
not answered because we ask amiss.
When I was a mere lad I thought I
knew beet. How my. dear parents
begged, plead and insisted that I go to
school, get a good education and live
and do right, be useful in this life,
make 'hinge pleasant for myself by
treating myself right. When you treat
self right you are sure to treat the
other fellow right. I have fell far
short of treating right
Again, as my brother and I drove by
our old home we had been over to
see our dear old feeble, gray-haired
uncle, as we were taught to call him,
I. D. Harris, who is known throughout
the county. This was a sad meeting,
yet a glad one. I was pleased to know
he was yet living, but in his blind and
feeble condition it made me feel sad.
Boys, when your father and mother
call fo ryou to do and live rig' t heed
the call. In sp rit my father and
mother ever seem near me, and on
the day we took dinner with Uncle
Dent we drove by our old home.' No
old pottery shop, no garden fence, and
tr'ngs changed so much. Here we
were living when I left home In Jan.
1904, and again in 1907, when I kissed
and sa'd good-bye to one of the best
and sweetest of mothers.
of Comanche are up to visit T. T.
Odum, and while here will visit J. B.
Roberts and family and I. N. Roberts
and family.
I close wishing all a good season
and a bountiful harvest, both temporal
and entrltiinl T M YAtiAita
Prominent Real
Estate Man
Credits his cure from Malaria to Grlge-
by's LIV VER-LAX, the modern, non
metallic Liver Medicine.
Mr. F. E. Gllmore of 209 Slaughter
Bldg., Dallas, Texas, says unqualifldely
hat he was cured, of biliousness, Stonw
ach and Liver trouble and Constipation
by LIV-VER-LAX.
He had been a sufferer for years
from the above complaints which were
a sure indication of malarial condition
so prevalent in this climate and his
cure is but one of, hundreds that are
occurln, daily.
LIV-VER-LAX is really a wonderful
remedy and preventive for malaria and
all the obnoxious conditions that arise
from this dread -disease.
Every one should protect themselves
against hte malarial germ before it
takes hold and develops ino serious
St AjaGS
Keep a bottle of LIV-VER-LAX In
the house and take a dose regularly
once a week. Thus vmi will insure
to yourself a clear eye, ambition, hope
and every mental condition that makes
life worth while.
Z. T. Hinds Drug Co., Cookeville, Tenn.
NOTICE
To any one having "a "claim ag'airist
W.-D. Walker, deceased, you w'll
please file same with me at once, or
By following the abovnlan hogs any one oweing, W. D. Walker, will
please call and settle same.
Also. I have in my care 3 boys, ages
9, 11, 13, years old, which I would be
glad to place in a good home, either
all together, or one at a place. Any
one interested pjease let me know.
Home Phone, 26 X.
may have plenty of pasture throughout
the summer montha when it is usually
most difficult to obtain suitable forage
crops for this claBS of animals. Gains
will be made very cheaply and the
profits will be large. C. A. Willson,
Tennessee Experiment Station.
A SUCCESSION OF VEGETABLES
The farm garden should be a place
of continuous planting and continuous
harvest. Lettuce, raddlshes, spinach,
mustard and 'English peas are usually
all gone by the first of June in Ten
nessee gardens. No sooner should a
row in the garden be harvested than
by deep hoeing the place is made
ready for other seed. By this time
very garden should have its second
or third planting of snap beans. A
row of beans sixty feet long will pro
Tide as much as a family can use
while the pods are in good condition;
tf more is planted at one time some
must be wasted, or used when past
their prime. It is so of almost all veg
etables. Every garden should have at
least two plantings of tomatoes; the
early plants for July and August use.
and a later setting for canning and for
a fall supply. Sweet corn, like beans,
should be planted a row or two at a
time at intervals of two or three weeks
until the middle of July. There should
be a succession of plantings of beets
and of carrots; and a second- planting
of okra, made about the middle of
June, will give a much better product
In September .than the early plants.
With the abundance of other vege
tables that summer provides, greens
are not wanted from June to Septem
ber, but planting of endive In June
will give the best of greens in Septem
ber,, before turnip greens, planted In
August, are ready. And for a winter
supply of all root crops salsify, par
snip, beet and carrot, the seed should
be sown in July and early August.
0. A. Keffer, University of Tennessee.
E. T. Phillips, Guardian.
AFTER-CARE OF THE
BERRY BED.
STRAW-
The trucker usually plants his straw
berries in April, cultivates thoroughly
the' first year, get his best crop the
second year, and lets the plantation
stand without other care than mow
ing the weeds for a second crop, then
turns the plants under. He plants a
new field every year, letting the straw
berry take a place in his regular crop
rotation.
But the farmer who grows only a
amall bed of strawberries for home
use and every farmer should can
maintain the same bed continuously
for ten years or more by barring off,
chopping out fertilizing and cultivat
ing every year.
As soon as the crop is harvested,
take the turning plow and throw a six- When planting trees on the lawn It
inch furrow from both sides of every I Is well to consider the future and not
row, leaving as narrow a strip of! plant trees too close together. Then
plants as possible from four to six j there will be no need of lopping off
Inches wide in the center cf the row. j limbs cr having shade so dense that
Then hoe out all th..' - i thl grass won't grow.
strip except one every twelve or fif
teen inches, preferably leaving young
plants. Distribute well-rotted barn
yard manure or 10-4-4 fertilizer In the
furrows and cultivate back to level as
the season progresses. During the
summer an abundant supply of plants
will form for a crop the following sea
son. Of course the first new plants
that form will give the best setting of
fruit so that the bed should be barred
off and cultivated Just as soon as pos
sible after the crop Is removed. When
berries are grown In the farm garden,
rather than under field conditions, this
method of handling will be found vary
satisfactory. C. A.' Keffer, University
of Tennessee.
PLANNING FOR FUTURE.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF
' JACKSON & OFFICER
Geo. W. Jackson and H. D. Officer on
the 18th day of June, 1914, havins
made an assignment for the benefit of
all thel rcreditors, to me, 'he under
signed trustee, which trsignment has
been duly executed and recorded In the
Register's office at Cookev'lle, Tenn.,
and he undersigned trustee having
properly qualified and given bond as
such trustee, which is filed with the
County Court Clerk at Cookeville, Ten1
nessee;
Therefore, all persons having claims
against said Jackson ,& Officer, are
hereby notified to file with me, their
claims properly proven In the manner
prescribed by law, on or before the
15th day of July, 1915, or they may be
forever barred.
This July 6th, 1914.
jul9-4t . A. B. WATSON, Trustee.
LUMBER
I A large stock of Rough and Dressed Lum-
I ber for sale at greatly reduced prices for
I quick sale. If you need here is your opportunity.
COOKEVILLE
TENN.
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j J. F. SCOTT,
A MESSaGETO WOMEN
Who Are "Just Ready .to Drop."
When you are "Just ready to drop,
when you feel ao weak that you can
hardly drag yourself about and be
cause you have not slept well, you
get up as tireeVout next morning aa
Then you went to bed, you need help.
Miss Lea Dumas writes from Ma-
lone, N. V., saying: "I was in a bad
ly run-down condition for several
weeks but two bottles of Vinol put
me on my feet again and made me
strong end well Vinol had done me
more good than all the other medi
cines I ever took."
If the careworn, run-down women.
the pale, sickly children and feeble
old folks around here would follow
Miss Dumas' example, they, too, would
Boon be able to say that Vinol, our
delicious cod liver and Iron, remedy.
had built them up and made them
strong.
It la a wonderful, strength creator
and body-builder, and we sell It un
der a guarantee of satisfaction. Ton
get your money back If Vinol does
not help you.
I. T. Bind Drag Ce Oeekerffie, Tenn.
iFor Sale in Cookeville
One Ten Room House, located about 300 yards north of the public
square; good well good barn and otherouthouses.
One Eight Room House, located on Washington Ave., about 200 yds.
north of Public square. Fine well, good shade, lot 207x100 ft. Room
for another residence also.
One Farm,- 2mile north of Cookeville. 137 acres, good, five room
house, four acres In orchard, 60 acres level and cleared, lays well, fine
spring near the house. Anyone desiring to buy a home It will pay
them to see this farm.
One Small Farm, located two miles east rf Cookeville. About 40 acres
12 acres cleared.. This is an excellent piece of land, over an average
for this country.
This property is located In and near Cookeville, as good a little town '
as any in the upper mountain country. Think of it, five churches, two
excellent schools, six maunfacturing concerns, all the fine water and
pure air that human hearts could wish, good railroad facilities. Taking ,
it all In all, w ethink It Is over an average. You people who want a
Home see
W. B. RECTOR
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