The Mustang Enterprise (Oklahoma [Mustang], Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 25, 1912 Page: 2 of 8
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PLANTERS WILL UNITE
Co-Operation in Producing Cot-
ton in Southern States.
Community of Growers Will Work To-
gether and Rai6e but Single Type
of Staple—Accidental Hybri-
dation Avoided.
Co-operation work In cotton growing
Is being started throughout the south
this year by the Department of Agri
culture. The work is under t h. gcu
eral direction of Prof. 1?. T. Galloway,
chief of the bureau of plant industr>,
but there are hundreds of demoiiHtra
tors working among the cotton plant-
ers.
One of the aims of the work i 'o
introduce community cotton growing
This simply means that a larger or
smaller community of growers will
jvork together and raise but a mgle
(.pe of cotton, excluding all other
•pes, so thai there will be 110 chance
for accidental hybridization When
the type of cotton best adapted for
any one community Is settled, It will
be ginned and baled and sold under
Vie community brand, and the cotton
buyer, whether I10 is In Liverpool or
New York or Tokyo, will know from
the community brand Just what to
pect In the bale.
This method of standardizing cot-
ton has been followed In Egypt and
parts of India for years. The cotton
from these localities Is considered
among buyers as standard, and they
are willing to buy on the strength of
the label without tearing open and
sampling the hale. This Insures the
bale getting to market In the fcest
possible condition, and eliminates the
problem of "tare," which Is the
amount of weight arbitrarily deducted
by the foreign buyers for extra weight
of extra wrappings that have been put
on the bale.
The same system has been followed
for years In the "Sea Islands" where
that remarkable long staple cotton of
the United States 1b grown The Sea
Island plauters keep up their strain
of seed at a Jo not allow any inferior
cotton to be planted on the islands
The Department of Agriculture has
felt for a long time that while It was
not possible to grow Sea Island cotton
everywhere in the 1'nlted States, It
was possible to greatly improve the
local cotton, and. what was equally
important, to develop a local type so
that spinners and mill men would
know 11 1 what to expect from the
stock grown in a particular locality.
Another work that Is now progress-
ing and that promises to be of great
use to the planter is the grading of
cotton i'< t only on its color and length
of staple, but on its strength and spin*
nlng qualities. Kxperlments on the
milling qualities of various types have
been carried on for some seasons by
the department in co-operation with
pn
cot 10
mil
urk
NOTES
MEADOWBROOK
FARM
is approaching a point where a good
deal can be told in advance of the way
cotton will behave In the mill. \N ben
this Information can be added to the
color and liber length of a certain type
It will do a great deal to settle the I
value of this type and will make the
"community brand" of cotton a mat
tor of . vin gn ater importance as a j
guide among the buyers of the world. !
Other Crops Than Cotton.
Remember that cotton is not the .
only money crop that you can grow. |
There Is as certain a demand all the j
year roun< for hogs, sheep, cattle, ,
poultry products, hay. corn, oats and |
many other crops which are grown ,
In Texi.s with more profit than cot- I
ton.
Swine Raising Pays.
Cement lloors are best.
Cowpeas Improve the soli.
Poultry need much attention.
Plant trees in the poultry yard.
The dairy sire Is half the. future
1 Ira n Is
In calves.
1 good feed to make muscle
Around for asparagus and rhubarb
•an't be too rich.
It Is not always the largest
that is the best layer.
The demand for good draft horses is
greatly on the Increase.
If the garden Is not well drained
don't expect much from it.
Plant enly good seeds.
Use the manure spreader.
There is no profit in dunghills.
Cultivation conserves moisture
The man who plants right starts
right.
No lice or mites on incubator chlcka
to begin with.
Early batched pullets are those that
lay next winter.
There isn't much gained in trying
to save a runt chick.
BLIND WRITER OF HYMNS AND HER HOME
Mended the broke
Good time right no\
i-xtra harness?
Sow alfalfa b]
eed any nurse <
itself; it doesn't
Let the chicks have sweet milk to
drink and watch them grow.
Over-feeding anil lack of exercise
ften cause pigs to have lits.
Have two or three plow points on
hand ready for the time of need.
Poorly fed sheep will not produce
very good wool, nor good mutton.
Alfalfa Is a great feed for
j bow in summer and winter.
brood
Swine raising will put your farm 1
on a cash basis and enable you to
educate your children If you follow It Clcanllnemi Is next to (fodllneoa-
j nnd ahead of it with the milk inspee-
j tor.
Soy Beans.
Intelligently.
WORK OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Paint costs little, and adds much to
, , I the beauty ami sale value of the
Soy beans will make a good gubsti- 1 jj0me
tute for the clover hay that isn't, here i
this year. j jvarge yields make cheaper feed.
Therefrom arise the easiest profits of
farming
CfiAMT /H0/C*r/A/G D/STR/Bur/OH OT TNI' r/fl D SfWCL
Or TH£ D£P*RTM£Hr Or 4GB/CUC TUft£,
or 1, '9'2
r,. d'M
The modern home needs the electric
j light, and the modern home-maker de-
serves It.
Cowpeas, as well as clover, is a very
common crop to grow for soil im-
provement.
Mate up the teams intended for
farm work at least a few days before
they are needed.
If the fetlocks are clipped and the
horse's legs are kept clean, scratching
will never bother.
It Is easier to hatch chickens than
to raise them, but both are easy if
you go at It right.
| The development of the young horse
| requires the exercise of the best judg-
ment in handling him.
The accompanying chart indicates
approximately the distribution of the
field service of the department of ag-
riculture, as of February 1, 1911!, by
states and counties. There are j in the north Atlantic and north con-
1,773 separate agencies represented tral (east and west) divisions The
throughout the I'nited States, with a eradication oj animal diseases, scabies
total of 7,499 employes, divided as of sheep and cattle In the west ami
law This service covers 239 cities. I The sheep quarters, at lambing
This explains the proportionately time especially, should be kept well
large number of employes as com- j bedded and very clean.
pared with the number of locations
follows:
Statin.
North Atlantic
Bouth Atlantic
North Central, east
MiHhtsnti>i'l river ...
North Central, weat
Mtaalaatppl river ....
South Central
Far Western
Locations. Emploj
The distribution of the service by
bureaus Is indicated below:
j
t Ixjcatlona. Employees.
Weather Bureau -19
Animal Industry "11 2,Vl \
Plant Industry .7.4
Bureau Chemistry ........ TI 247
Bureau Btntl*tl<* . • *
Experiment Stations 44
Entomology 34 Ichi
Bureau Bolls . 26 46
Office Solicitor « 11
]>t\is!on Accounts «'•
Biological Survey IS
The large number of locations In
the south Atlantic and south central
states is due principally to the farm j
ers* co-operation demonstration work,
the appropriation for which was made
cattle ticks In the south, the enforce-
ment of quarantine laws, a small
number of experiment stations and
the inspection of Imports at Mexi-
can, Canadian and Atlantic ports
make up the remainder of this serv-
ice.
The held service of the bureau of
chemistry consists almost entirely of
food and drug Inspection laboratories
at the principal ports of entry and
trade centers.
The field service of the weather ,
bureau Is rather uniformly distribut-
ed New York. Michigan, Texas, Wash |
lngton and California being the states
in which the largest number of sta-
tions are located These consist prin-
cipally of meteorological and cllmato* '
logical stations, forecast centers,
river nnd rainfall, hurricane, and for-
est stations
The bureau of entomology In its
Investigations relating to the gypsy
moth and Insects affecting cereal,
fruit and field crops, citrus fruits and
forest trees. Is represented principal-
ly In Massachusetts, Texas, I'tah and
Soybeans ca
ly in a cllmato
be grown successful-
vliere cowpeas do well
I
ckijbtsr/u
From Six to Ten Million Tons
Found in Mojave Desert.
young lamb will grow rapidly,
so give him a chance. There Is profit
in it.
If it is cold weather when the
young trees arrive, hill in until it mod- |
erates.
Strong chemical fertilizers should
not be given too lavishly to growing j
plants.
Don't make the mistake of thinking
that lice do not trouble poultry in cold !
weather.
Wise farmers are paving consider-
able attention to the quality of their
seed corn.
Milk is the hog's natural food.
Give him all of it you can scare up
every day.
Better plan to have some rape next
summer. As a feed for eheep it ia
hard to beat.
There Is more risk than gain In
breeding a heifer before she Is eight-
een months old.
Overclaiming makes the butter!
"salvy." Stop when the grains are the j jt exists.
size of wheat kernels. ^ The department states that a pocket
! has been found down In the Mojave
Cultivation does.not add any water desert In southern California contain-
to the soil, hut presents that already Jng from 6,000,000 to 10,000,000 tons.
MUS FANNY CROSBY, the blind hymn writer, celebrated her 92nd birthday the other day at her home In
Bridgeport, Conn. I'p to the present time she has written more than seven thousand hymns. Among the
most famous of them ure "Safe in th Arms of Jesus," "Jesus Keep Me Sew the Cross" and "Jesus the Water of
Life Will Give " Mrs. Crosby was born at Southeast. N Y.. on March 24. 1820. fnd has been blind since she was
tlx weeks old She is still enjoying good health, and spends most of her time knitting when not dictating hymns.
BIG POTASH DEPOSIT
the earth's crust—where a great area
has been dropped down.
The salts are not evenly distributed
over the surface of the lake. Borax
I was found plentifully over about three
minerals being thus concentrated In it. square miles, common salt is every-
The water has been evaporated under ! where, and sodium carbonate and so-
the intense heat of the long, hot sea- dlum sulphate are widely distributed.
Located In Old Lake Bed—Many Have
Lost Lives in Traversing Waste
Which Will Now Yield Prod-
uct of Much Value.
Washington.—Following the an-
nouncement by the geological survey
that a survey party In connection with
a party from the department of agri-
culture had located a potash deposit
sons, but the salts have remained, so
that for most of the year, in fact often
throughout the year, the bed Is a glis-
tening plain of white salts, in attempt-
ing to cross which under a brazen sun
1 men have lost their lives.
The mirage plays Its strange tricks
here, and at the driest places the
traveler can generally see what ap-
l*ars to be a broad expanse of water
covering the bed a little way ahead—
always a little distance off, until he
One boring is said to have passed
through 2S feet of solid trona (hydrous
carbonate of soda) of great purity. At
other places there is 25 feet of solid
mixed sulphate and carbonate of soda,
with smaller quantities of other salts.
Several years ago an English com-
pany attempted to work the soda de-
posits on an extensive scale, but for
some reasons the project has not been
pushed.
In the Mojave desert, the agricultural I appr< th< shore of Borax lake,
department tells more about the de- ; I hen when he looks behind him Tie
posit and tlio circumstances under M'''s "ie water apparently covering
1 the ground over which he has just
come. The lake occupies a valley
made by faults breaks and slips in
Child Takes Long Trip.
Chicago—Sadie Nelson, six, came all
the way from Norway alone, to join
her parents here. The parents left
here a year ago and little Sadie baa
organized a search for them.
there from getting away.
The hail from a candy bucket at-
tached to the othec end of the bucket
gives you a handy milk stool.
to the bureau of plant Industry tor ! California
the purpose of combating the cotton The bureau of soils is
boll weevil. Or a total of y >4 loca the making ot noil -\rvc\- in Ala-
tlons with l,t 19 employes In these batna. Arkansas. California. Florida,
sixteen states, 644 locations with ap Georala. Misslsslj | lY\a and other
proximately 650 employes are charged 1 southern state- Parties are kept In
to demonstration work, leaving a bal-1 the south during the winter months
ance of 260 locations with 6i> em and transferred north when weather
ployes assigned to other lines of actlv , conditions permit.
ity. These demonstration farms are | The bureau of statist
Seed potatoes are high in price.
Make them go as far as possible. Two
eyes to a piece are enough.
For two or three days after freshen-
ing, a light bran mash, a little sllag<
and some hay, are good for the cow
A blockish built mare with a large
barrel on short legs is likely to pro-
duce a better foal than the tall leggy
kind.
Four hundred head of good draft
horses were eagerly mapped up at
I good prices at a recent horse sale In
I Illinois.
The difficulty of disposing of com-
mon grades of horses Is as much In
finding buyers for them as in getting
respectable prices.
No matter how highly bred nnd
carefully cultured a colt may be If It
Is not carefully trained nnd properly
developed It loses Its value.
It makes some horses ugly to work
them with horses that do not travel
up with them. Match them as to
gait as well as to other things.
so far as can he ascertained now. The
prospect Is that It will last twenty or
thirty years and tide the country over
till a more thorough search can be
made.
— i The deposit was struck slmultane-
Horses cannot be grown as cheap ously by the two searching parties in
as they were when land was half the the Borax lake region of the Mojave
price and grain half the price. j This section, like most of this south
— j western country, Is an old,, lake bed.
A stumbling habit may bo caused j The borings for potash were made In
by poor shoeing; or it may be caused a section of plya or hard desert sand,
by ignorant or careless hitching. The region that has been invest igat-
— ed is underlaid by a big body of nat
Get the parsnips out of the ground ural brine that comes to the surface
at once. A few warm days will start In the form of wells when borings are
growth and give them a strong flavor, made
, Borax lake, or Searle lake, is one of
the many playas or Intermittently wet
and dry lakes common throughout
the arid regions of the west It lies
between the Argus and Slate ranges,
In the Mojave desert. Borax lake was
the original scene of famous borax
mines. The lake or flat is about ten
miles long and five miles wide and
has received the drainage from the
surrounding mills for many thousands
of years, vast quantities of dissolved
Seek Medals For Women
Rescued Father From Vicious
Steer and the Other Saved
Her Husband.
Topeka,
displayed
fourteen,
Mrs. Nora
saving li\
Kan.—Because of heroism
)y Mary Houghton, aged
f Hamilton county, and
Munday of Gray county, In
s in western Kansas dur-
Kan , when her husband failed to
reach home after a heavy snowstorm
March 14. started In search of him.
For miles over the prairie she fol-
lowed an almost obliterated trail and
found her husband in a deserted hut
almost frozen Both Mrs. Munday s
hands and both her feet were frozen.
A chunk of salt where the cows can
lick It any time is one way of making
sure they are getting the right amount.
No use waiting for the potatoes to
come up before working them. Har-
row right along and after they are up,
too,
It is a good plan to plant all the po-
tatoes we'll need and then a few more.
We don't often raise too many pota-
toes.
ing recent snowstorms, friends of the
two have started a movement to ob-
tain tor them Carnegie hero medals.
While rounding up cattle before a
blizzard, Mary Houghton s lather was
attacked by a vicious steer. He was
thrown from his horse and the animal
was about to gore him when the girl,
mounted upon a cow pony, drove the I foi
steer away. A few days later a rural in
mall carrier became lost In a storm, ur
Mary Houghton found him, dug him
out of a drift and saved him from
PRIMARY ELECTION I? COSTLY
$1.50 to $10.50 a Vote Is Expense New
York Taxpayers Have
to Pay.
ire
zing.
Mrs Nora Munda
Buffalo, N Y. —
payers from $1 50 t<
for each vote at the
tern New York,
res compiled by ti
ommissioners. The
vas $1.50 and most
hown wc
cost the tax-
$10.50 a vote
*ent primaries
^cording to fig
Ijy the local election
The mlniinum cost
iiost of the figures
isiderably above that
V If €
of S.
Cimarr
1' i figu
The
in New York city
about $11 per vote
In order to grow a good crop of su-
perior vegetables, we must have a suit-
able soli, good seed and thorough cul-
tivation.
Has Pensions For Mothers
BOY OF 11 IS LIFE SAVER
ngaged in Horse bleeding requires more capi-
s in Ala- j tnl, Is more profitable, if successful,
and involves larger losses If not, than
any other kind of stock breeding.
conducted In the southern states to
illustrate methods of growing cotton
despite the weevil, and to educate
the farmers in crop diversification
Other plaut Industry stations consist
of testing gardens, experiment farms,
dry land experiment farms, reclama-
tion projects and grain standardize
IJon laboratories.
The number of locations with the
lcs maintains a
state statistical agent in each state
and certain additional agents report-
ing on special crops. The field serv-
ice of the office of experiment sta-
tions is In connection with drainage
and Irrigation Investigations principal-
ly In the south central and far west
divisions. The biological survey has
agents and game wardens principally
in New York, Florida, North Dakota,
relatively large number of employes Oregon and California \ssistant so
in the far west Is due principally
the forest service organisation 1'he
six field districts of this service are
In the west with the principal admin
istratlve offices and office and field
employes located in each district
The bureau of animal industry
maintains a considerable forc e or in
spectors at each of the principal
slaughter centers, such as Chicago,
Kansas City, South Omaha, Philadel-
phia, New York, etc., In carrying out
lie-iters and district fiscal agents work
ing under the solicitor nnd division
of accounts, respectively, are at-
tached to each of the six torest dis-
tricts In the west for the handling of
local legal and financial matters.
The chart Is not and cannot be more
than approximately accurate. Tem-
porary employes, those In transit, or
stationed at locations for a short
space of time, and those devoting only
portion of their time to the work
the provisions of the meat Inspection . of the department, are eliminated.
There Is money In dairying In spite
of a prevalent notion to the con-
trary, but It needs a combination of
good cows nnd good management to
get It out.
Bucks are frequently afflicted with
rheumatism It comes from roosting
on damp ground Give them a good
dry house with plenty of straw for
bedding, nnd keep them in it at
night.
Don't try to economize by buying
seeds that nre cheap. Get the best,
and don't complain If the price seems
high. It costs money to grow and
save high grade seeds, and It doesn't
pay to use any other.
1 It it all
A dry ground floor Is better than j seda from
a cold, damp cement floor, but It must: or vegetables from one
be remembered thnt the hogs will i but In the long run so
loon work the ground floor Into a dust | liable firm will gl\
mulch, which la Injurious to their
lungs Better have a good cement
floor covered witn boards and plenty
ot bedding
Follow the first bed of radishes and |
lettuce with successive plantings ev- |
cry two weeks to provide a continu-
oub supply.
Concrete structures are desirable j
because they can be kept in a sanl- \
tary condition more easily than j
wooden ones
After growing a crop of corn, the j
soil is always In excellent form to ab- |
sorb and retain the autumn rains and j
winter snows.
It is Important to have the garden
tools sharp Some people never think
of sharpening the blade of a hoe, but
It Is altogether worth while
Corn treated with a dressing of
plaster and ashes will soon show by
the strong growth and the dark color
of the leaf the effect of the dressing.
As a rule It does not pay to save
garden seed because varieties are apt
to become mixed and professional
seedsmen can give us better seed than
we can grow ourselves.
'11 to experiment with
specimens of fruit
.mi garden,
from a re-
better satlsfac-
possible exception Is tomato
seeds. Very often we can get better
seed from choice specimens In our
own garden than anywhere else.
tlon.
French Government's Scheme to Solve,
Birth Rate Problem—Priest
on Marriage.
Paris—Although Its enemies dePtg
nate it as "an attempt to blackmail
nature." much support, both journalis-
tic and legislative, is being given the
petition now before the senate to
pension the French mother tor every
child to the extent of Irancs ' *11
a year during the child's minority
More than this, under the same meas-
ure, the mother of eight children
would receive a medal corresponding
to the medaille mllltalre granted it
recognition or valor. '1 he measure-
will probably become a law, as the
senate committee appointed to report
on the matter has signified Its ap
I proval of the scheme to the ministry
1 of the Interior.
Another Interesting occurrence on a
j similar subject was the first ot a
series of lectures by the well-known
I priest, Mgr Bolo, on "The Marriages
of the Future," In which the ecclesias
tlcal speaker took a view quite ad-
vanced for his profession
"Not only are there more bachelors.
' but they are becoming systematic. h>
i said. "No longer do they render bom-
j ago to matrimony by regretting that
I they are bachelors because the. can-
not'do better. Theirs Is the philoso-
phy of the good man to whom some
one snld. Your son Is not old enoi nh
to marry ; you ought to wait till bo
knows what be Is doing to wnicu
this good man replied: '\0U 'ire ml -
taken, for If my son grows wiser he
will mi • r inti's
Mgr Bolo continues by upbraiding
the men of today for their hesitancy
in the matter of marriage if you ,
wish me to use the proper word, al-
low me to utter It In an attenuated and j
Inoffensive tense I will say that you
have be omc c. wards. You are afraid
u marry
will have
absinthe.
ng rich.
t hi
o not care to risk
>r criticism of the
no liking tor cbll
j Trenton (N. J.) Lad Jumps Into
Creek and Rescues Drown-
ing Playmate-
Trenton, N J.—Raymond Morton,
eleven years old. son of Clarence Mot
ton of Clay street, proved himself a
hero when he jumped Into the Assan
pink creek here and rescued his pla>
mate Norwood Skinner, ten yearn old
from drowning.
Skinner fell in but could not swln
and immediately sank Morton, realli
Ing the danger of his playmate, Jumped
In after him, and after a few mlnute>
struggle succeeded in rescuing his
friend. Two other boys who witnessed
the struggle carried the young hero
home on their shoulders.
Hungry Pair Desert Isle
London Phosphate Company's Care-
taker Gives Up the Job After
Six Years' Service.
San Francisco Gustav Schults and '
Darla Pin/en, caretakers for a London
phosphate company on the Cllpperton
Newport, told ol
one until their departure a month a^
except the Mexican Harrison ot t<
soldiers and the crew of the supi
steamer.
Schults nnd "Betiora" Plnzen at
awaiting the settlement of the owjie
ship of the Islands in April, when
tor Emmanuel of Italy will arbitrate
dispute between France and Mex
Joan of Arc Not Militant
New York—Speaking of Joan
Arc, Father Vaughau said her*
have lived on
and qu
> Islnnds
ear®, and in that time have seen no I hat
en suffrngetti
i'ii our hearts
broken our
s she might h.cV
but she would t >
windows."
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