Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 55, Number 50, Jasper, Dubois County, 3 October 1913 — Page 6

REMOVE PINE STUMPS

Clearing of Land for Agricultural Purposes Is Problem.

When Cleared and Properly Handled Soil Is Rich and Valuable Big Coit of Work Hat Discouraged Many Settlers.

(By JS. B. FERRIS.) Practically one-third of the area of Mississippi is embraced in what is known as the Long-Leaf Pine belt. Also large portions of many of the other states bordering on. the Atlantic ocean and Gulf of Mexico are, or once wore, covered with this long-leaf pine.

The clearing of these lands for agricultural purposes is quite a problem.

as so many acres have been denuded

of their timber growth and await de

velopment at the hands of the farmer.

As a rule it is quite an easy matter

to free the land from logs and tree-

tons, but the removal of the stumps is

the really serious task about clearing pine lands, for unlike the hard woods and many other pines, the stumps of the long-leaf pine do not decay very fast, many being almost as resistant to decay as bronze. The McNeill experiment station has removed the stumps from 100 acres of land, using all known methods, and keeping sufficient data to determine approximately the cost by each meth-

SOME GOOD BEE ESSENTIALS

Neglect to Provide Honey Gathei-eri

With Drinking Water as Culpable as Neglecting Food.

(By BESSIE L. PUTNAM.)

We take pleasure in kindness, in various ways, to the higher domestic

animals, well knowing that there is profit in this humane treatment, but that it should extend to the bees may

come as a new thought to many.

Neelect to provide drink is as culpa

ble as to cut off the food supply, and yet the bees are in many instances

wholly disregarded in this respect.

Yet the insects pluckily shift for

themselves in such cases, and they

may be found congregated around the vilest spots, if they happen to contain

mnicsfiirp not hecause they do not pre

fer pure 'water, but because it is not

onnvenient to obtain.

You may notice how they invariably

flock around the watering trough, if it

happens to stand in the neighborhood

nf thft hives, showing: plainly that wa

ter is necessary, and can you fail to

appreciate how many are drowned in

this effort to get a drink?

A fountain for their special accom

modation is so easily made that it is

wasteful to neglect it. Cover a pan or

other shallow dish with wire screen

cloth, and keep the dish filled with

water, placing it in a shady place,

where it will keep as cool as possible.

The bees can get the moisture throufh

the screen, and yet there is no possi

bility of their drowning.

Another hardship through pure neg

lect. and one which often results dis

astrously, is' a failure to keep the grass

mowed in front of the hives.

How would you like to have such an

obstacle in your path when coming

home tired find heavy laden?

Ease and convenience applied to the work of every helper is not without its

reward.

15 VEXING PROBLEM

Distribution of Public Documents

Big Job for Bureaus.

becoming harder and harder to dis

seminate the vast amount of informa

tion which Uncle Sam is spending millions of dollars to gather.

AMERICAN WOODS GO TO ORIENT

WOULD SERVE AS SOLDIERS French Women Anxious to Make Every Sacrifice for the Sake of Their Loved Country.

Government Is Spending Millions of

Dollars for Popular Dissemination of Information Through Medium of Printers' Ink.

A Stump Puller.

TOAD SHOULD BE PROTECTED

od. Fifty acres of this land was cultivated several years before removing the stumps and this experience led to the conclusion that it is far better to remove all stumps before the land is put into cultivation. The lands cannot be cultivated economically with the stumps on them. Digging and cutting is a sure method of removing the stumps if persisted in, but under our conditions has proved the most expensive one except for stumps ten inches or less in diameter, or for lands that have been in cultivation a long time and are partially decayed.

So far the most successful methods of getting rid of the stumps necessitate the use of fire to destroy them. The common method is to Hg a hole 3 2 or more inches deep on c e side of the stump and as close to it as possible and use this as a furnace for firing the- stump. In digging these holes it is necessary that the soil be removed from as much of the stump as possible so as to allow the fire to come in contact with at least six inches Of it. Burning stumps by this method is a slow process, but it necessitates no outlay of money and besides it may be done by one individual, while to pull them requires several men and a team. f The burning of stumps may be greatly hastened by boring a hole diagonally through the stump from the surface of the ground on one side into the furnace on the opposite side. This serves as a flue through which the heat and flame pass out, going through the stump and heating it up in one-

' fourth the time required without the hole. A stump thus treated usually burns out with little effort on the part of attendants and in most cases to A sufficient depth beneath the surface to be out of the way of plows and cultivators. : A quick and fairly satisfactory method of removing stumps is by first blasting them with dynamite and then burning the shattered remains. It requires from one-quarter to one pound of dynamite to shatter the general run of pine stumps. In order to do this with the amount of explosive mentioned, it is necessary to place the dynamite into holes bqjred well into the stump and to tamp same thor-

Food of Little Creature Consists of

Insects of One Kind or Another Helpful to Farmer.

Investigations which have been carried on by the United States department of agriculture give the common garden toad a most useful place among the insect destroyers which are helpful to the horticulturist. An examination of 149 toads stomachs showed that 98 per cent, of the little animals' food consists of insects of one kind or another. Among these were found cutworms, ants, bugs and beetles, spiders, potato bugs, thousand legged worms, weevils, tent caterpillars and grasshoppers, wire worms, and army worms, cucumber bugs, plumb curculios, gypsy moths, cabbage moths and grape .caterpilars. In the stomach of one toad seventyseven thousand-legged worms were

Washington. How to insure prompt

ness in the distribution of publica

tions continues to be a vexing prob

lern in many bureaus of the various

branches of the government, particu

larly in the departments of agricul

ture, commerce, interior and labor,

These are the departments which pub

lish the greatest number of printed

documents for which there is a popu

lar demand. The government is spend

in millions of dollars, on printed bui

letins for popular distribution each

year, the fund for the dissemination of

information through the medium of

printer's ink in the department of ag

riculture alone amounting to more

than $1,000,000.

At the present time all bulletins are

sent out by the superintendent of

documents of the government printing office. This official's task would be

easy and his service most satisfac

tory if his work were restricted to

the sending out of bulletins to large

mailing lists, but, according to the

law passed by the last congress, he

has to take care of all miscellaneous

distribution, and all mail requests vfor

bulletins of any kind must be filled

by the government printing office.

The object of this law was efficiency

and economy, but chiefs of various bureaus believe that it entails more

expense in the end than the original

system of direct distribution, when

congress made the law, which has

been in operation about one year,, it

did so on the information that at the time bulletins -were carted from the

government printing office to the in

dividual bureaus and thence mailed

'out over the country. Because of the

fact that the government printing office is near the Union station it was figured that a saving in transportation could be effected if the bureaus would refer their requests for bulletins to the superintendent of documents and

Recent statistics indicate a marked

increase in exports of lumber from the

United States to the Orient. More

than a quarter of a million feet of

American woods are reported as being

used in Samoa, Hawaii, and the Philip

pine Islands.

Heretofore, it is said, raw materials

have been made up into finished articles in the United States, almost with

out exception, and exported as such.

With the discovery by American man

ufacturers in the Philippines that they

could import United States woods and

make them up with profit there, wood-

using factories were built. Pacific

coast woods, in consequence, are in

many cases taking the place of the na

tive woods with such picturesque names as apitong. teak, narra, and

yacal.

Douglas fir, according to the infor

mation collected by the forest service,

is the principal wood exported from

this country. It is said to be the favorite wood among jnsular manufacturers for flooring, ceiling, siding, cornice,

shelviug, finish, and boat work. Makers of furniture demand California

redwood and sugar pine, southern quarter-sawed oak, eastern ash, sugar maple, and western white pine.

Four woods, principally conifers and

oaks, go into the construction of

boats; for framing parts, masts, spars, interior trim, planting, boat crooks

and tiller handles. Meat blocks are made from sugar maple, which with

sycamore supplies the entire demand in the United States. Wagon felloes are made of white oak, and other parts of vehicles are manufactured from

high grades of white ash and white

oak.

The women of France are not content with merely serving as nurses on the field of battle and attendants on the wounded or dying. They have in their minds the example of Joan of Arc and other heroines of France, and they are confirmed in their aspira

tions after military service, according

to the Journal des Debats (Paris), by

the example of the ancient Amazons of

Greek mythology. They affirm that

the law of three years in France will

not produce forces of reserve sufficient

to defend the frontier of their well

loved country. They have accordingly

through the hands of Colonel Dnant,

commanding the troops in Paris, sent a petition, carrying about a thousand signatures, to President Poincare in

which they say:

"The French women who have il-

luminated our history with so many

beautiful examples of self-denial and

self-sacrifice do not wish in the pres

ent generation to be surpassed by the

women of other countriesvin which the

question of female rights is being so

earnestly agitated.

"The members of the Red Cross com

pany have already obtained leave to

serve in the ambulance corns. But

a great number of us, not having the

leisure to pass the infirmary examina

tions, would like to make ourselves

useful to their country, and would de

sire that a law should be passed in

parliament giving them this privilege. "Our dearest hope is to obtain an

opportunity of offering to France some

part of our youth, and so to co-operate with our brothers in the national de

fense." Literary Digest.

Uric Acid Is Slow Poison

Exceai uric acid left in the blood by

weak kidneys, causes more diseases

than any other poison.

Amoofif its effects are backache, head

ache, dizziness, irritability, nervousness,

drowsiness, "blues," rheumatic attacks

and urinary disorders. Later effects

are dropsy, gravel or heart disease.

If vou would aroid uric acid troubles.

keep your kidneys healthy. To stimulate and strengthen weak kidneys, use

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CURIOUS JAPANESE FOWLS

HE CAME BACK.

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Representative Ben Johnson, chair

man of the District of Columbia com

mittee of the house, was aroused from

sleep at three o'clock the other morning by the ringing of the electric door bell. Being alone in the house, Mr. Johnson had to answer. Poking his head out of a second story window, he asked:

"What is it,?" ."A telegram," came the plaintive cry of a messenger boy. 'Read it," said the congressman. The telegram was from a constituent asking Mr. Johnson who is- going to be recommended for postmaster at Blennerhasset, where the present incumbent has IS more months to serve. "Take it back to the office; leant come down for it." Mr. Johnson returned to his bed and went to sleep. Abbut five o'clock the bell rang again. "What is it?' 'he shouted. "You didn't sign for the telegram," said the boy. What Mr. Johnson said would not do to print.

DANIELS RIDES IN COAL TRUCK.

Common Garden Toad.

found; in another fifty-five army worms. One toad in captivity snapped

eighty-six house flies in ten minutes;

another was given twenty-four gypsy

moths at one feeding. With so much

required to satisfy the appetite of a

toad at a single meal, it would be dif

ficult indeed to put an estimate on the

huge amount of insect food consumed

in a single season.

The natural' enemies of the toads

are hawks, owls, crows, snakes and

skunks, and poultry d'estroy many young toads. The little animals,

which are to be found in every gar

den, should be protected with- the

same care as are the useful birds

which frequent it.

J

Director Harris of Census Bureau.

ROTATE OR FAILURE, WHICH?

Weeds and Insects, Too Numerous to

Mention, All Accumulate Under the One-Crop System.

A Stump Borer, oughly with sand or clay. Effort should he uinde to so place these holes that the pressure from the explosion will In exerted equally in all directions in ih stump, otherwise it will simply

blow out the weakest side and fail to shatter the stump. A good boring machine can be used very effectively for 'mrlng these holes, reducing fie cost ver hand boring at least 50 per cent. There is an element of danger in the ue of dynamite, but a very slight one if even ordinary precautions are used.

Alfalfa Hay for Cows. Because of the high protein content, alfalfa is especially valuable as a feed for dairy cows for breeding animals -and for growing young stock. It is of considerable economic value when grown and fed on the farm, as it takes the place of high-priced, protein-rich concentrates, such as bran and cottonseed meal. It is more economical, under most conditions, at least, to feed It as a part ration either with com or some carbohydrate roughage. a corn stover or grass hmj, rather than to

The -accumulation of noxious weeds,

diseases, and insects on the farm is one of the most serious sources of loss. This results as a rule from the constant growth or too long continued

culture of the same crop or class of

crops on the same land. Wilt in various crops, bacterial diseases,

grain rusts, and weeds and insects too numerous to mention all accumulate in the soil under the one-crop system. These pests often multiply to such an extent that ultimately.it becomes impossible to secure profitable returns from land thus infested. Resistant varieties must then be secured or croDS cultivated on land not sub

ject to these pests. All these troubles can be avoided and the fertility of the soil greatly improved by intelligent systems for any locality or type of farming, so far as they have been developed, can usually be obtained from state experiment stations or from the department of agriculture, Washington. D. C.

Small Farms in Demand. The U. S. Reclamation Service announces that an increased desire on the part of settlers on irrigation projects to take up small farms has necessitated regulations facilitating the subdivision of established farm unite On most of the government projects the farm unit consists of 40 and 80

acre tracts.

he should mail them direct to the ap

plicants. The theory of the practice

which was outlined and on which the

law governing the present method of

distribution is based was good, but

its working out has proved defective

in many instances.

Director William J. Harris of the bu

reau of the census had his attention

called to defects in the present meth

od a few weeks after coming into of

fice. A correspondent wrote to Direc

tor Harris requesting that a summary

of the latest agricultural statistics be

mailed him. A form letter was writ

ten in the census office to the appli

cant for information, saying that the

request had been referred to the su

perintendent of documents, and that

the bulletin containing the statistics

would be mailed from the government

printing office. The information was

wanted in a hurry; the correspondent

waited five days, then wrote to the su

perintendent of documents stating

that Director Harris had written say

ing that the bulletin would be mailed from the printing office. A polite request was made of the superintendent of documents to hurry the information, as the time for completing the article in which the statistics were to be included was growing very short. The superintendent of documents then sent a form post card to the corre

spondent, saying that his letter had been referred to the director of the

census. The correspondent, whose patience was almost worn out by this time, having expected the information in one or two days at the most after

his original request was made, brought the matter to the attention of Director Harris, who was surprised that the red tape created by the present law makes prompt distribution of public documents almost impossible, providing the request for them comes by mail. On personal application a document will be furnished immediately, but only those people living in Washington can have the benefit of this prompt service.

Hundreds of cases similar to the on.

which has just been outlined occur every month in the departments, and. according to chiefs of bureaus, It U

Then was some mistake In placing an order for a cab to take Secretary Josephus Daniels of the navy depart

ment to hear President , Wilsen deliv

er his message on Mexico to congress.

At ten minutes before time for the

message no taxicab appeared.

Mr Daniels and his secretary, How

ard A. Banks, stood on Pennsylvania

avenue waiting. It was too late to

take a street car. Two minutes later

Secretary Daniels and Mr. Banks,

seated by the driver, were going up Ppnnsvlvania avenue as fast as the

law would allow, in a big truck used

to haul coal for the navy department.

Mr. Daniels, seeing TJ. S. N. on the truck, hailed the driver, jumped in,

and told him to "beat it" for tne cap-itol.

"I am the secretary of the navy, and

have authority to press any of our vehicles into service," was the order the

driver got.

Among the mosr. wonderful of rare fowls are the Phoenix, the males among which have tails five feet long. It is the custom to keep the birds in houses, the only windows in which are near the roof, and with perches in front of the windows so high that the tail feathers will not drag on the ground. Each day the birds are taken for a walk, while an attendant carefully holds up the tail so that the feathers will not become broken or soiled. Mounted specimens of the cock and hen of this breed were obtained in Tokio by H. D. Baker, vice consul General to Australia. The fail of thß rooster is 11 feet long. The hen Is

very plain. These cocks are very vai.

of their beauty.

Some young men would rather love

and lose than never love at all.

Mrs.Winslow's Soothlnr Syrup for Children

teeth in tr. softens the frums, reduces inflamma

tion, allays pain.curea wind college a bottle Jr

Few men are prominent enough to

claim that they were misquoted.

PIMPLES ON FACE AND ARMS

411 Howard St, Dayton, Ohio.

"About a year ago my face, neck, arms

and back were beginning to become, afflicted with pimples and blackheads.

My pimples would get very large ana appear to come to a head. If I tried

to open them the pain would be terri

ble, but nothing could be taken from

them. They itched very badly; I suf

fered terribly from itching. After

scratching, the pimples would swell and after the swelling was gone my

face would become very red and remain so for some time. My clothing;

can Red the itchine to be worse. When

it was warm it was utterly impossible

to sleep.

"I used a cream and the more l

used the worse they got. Shortly after.

I read the advertisement of Cuticura.

Soan and Ointment and determined to

use them. The itching stopped almost

immediately. This was about three

months ago and I am entirely cured

now." (Signed) Miss Marguerite 12. Jacobs, Jan. 13, 1913.

Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold

throughout the world. Sample of each free.with 32-p. Skin Book. Address post

card "Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston." Adv.

After a Pleasant Evening. Mr. Svdney Buxton told an amus

ing story for the purpose of illustrating a point at a recent dinner. A certain convivial soul, who had been invited to dine with a friend, whose

house was at the end of a dark and

muddy lane, was advised to bring a big lantern. After a very jovial eve

ning the convivial one left and struggled home through the mud, firmly gripping his heavy burden by the

handle. Next morning h receivea this message from his host: "Herewith your lantern; please return parrot and cage."

NEW POSTMASTER LIST BIG. In the 178 days, including Sundays

and holidays, since postmaster Gen

eral Burleson assumed the duties ot his office, he, among other things, has appointed 5,765 postmasters. This

makes his average sometning oer a day. Of the total number, 2,203 were presidential postmasters, who receive si .000 a year salary, and

whose appointment must be confirmed hv the senate. The remainder, 5,562,

are nostmasters of the fourth class,

named either as a result of civil serv-

ir.fi examinations or after personal m

vestigations by postoffice inspect-

ors.

First Assistant Roper the other day

renorted to Mr. Burleson that the ap

pointment work was up to date, all cases having been settled in which the

department has the necessary data

upon which to base affirmative action.

London Had Cabs in 1822.

Carbriolets, one-horse vehicles, from

which we get the name cabs, wer

first introduced into the streets of London in 1822, when twelve wer

placed in service. In 1831 they had increased to 165, and then the licenses

were thrown open. The number in

1862 running in the English metro polls exceeded six thousand. Previ

ous to throwing open the trade, the

number of hackney carriages was

limited to twelve hundred, when there

were few omnibuses. The horse car

riages are rapidly being supplanted

by taxicabs in the streets of Lon

don.

Caution. It was the last day of his vacation.

,He had just finished carving her name

on the smooth bark of the birch tree. "Dear," he said, "will you promise to wait for me till I came again next summer?" She looked up at him with the love light in her eyes. "Yes, Henry," she murmured. "Then I'll cut my initials beside vours."

Conditional."Figures can't lie." "Well, that depends on whether they are on paper or in a bathing suit." Exchange. I

He who has no mind to trade with

the devil should be so wise as to keep

away from his shop.

HAPPY OLD AGE

Most Likely to Follow Proper Eating.

FOUR BILLION CARDS.

Four billion postal cards will be re

quired by the postoffice department

during the next four years, ana row master General Burleson recently ask

ed for sealed proposals for furnishing that number. The contract-now is

hPld bv the government printing of

fice, but previously was executed by a

nrivate printing concern.

The postoffieo department supplies the nlates from which the cards are

nrinted. and it may change them at

any time. Engravers now' are work-

in upon a portrait of Thomas jener-

son, which is to bo substituted for that of William McKinley on the nw

issue.

Device Fiqures the Interest.

A Hungarian citizen has invented an

instrument which shows instantly the

p mount of interest due on any given

sum for any period at any given rate

of interest.

The Instrument, which is made in

the size and shape of a watch, hau a

very simple construction, and all that

i? necessary to operate it is to place

the hands in the proper position on

thf dial and the exact amount of in

terest in each case is indicated on the

face. The instrument is inexpensive and its usefulness is apparent The

inventor has applied for an American

patent.

Somewhat Hard to Do.

Patsy and Tom were working near

where there was a beehive and

bed of onions, when a bee stung Tom

on the wrist. Patsy exclaimed: "I a!

told vez Whin ye'd get a stint

av a bee to suck it and thin rub in

onion juice." After a short time a bee

lodeed on Patsy's neck when he shout-

pd- "Oh. Tom, there's wan on me

neck. Oh, 'tis gone down between m

shoulders. Berorra, Im stung!

"Suck it. Patsy." ordered Tom; "sunk.

mnd I'll mb in the onion juic.

As old age advances we require less

food to replace waste, and food that will not overtax the digestive organs, while supplying true nourishment.

Such an ideal food is found in urape-

Nuts. made of whole wheat and barley

by long baking and action of diastase

in the barley which changes the starcn

into a most digestible sugar.

The phosphates also, placed up un

der the outer-coat of the wheat, are included in Grape-Nuts, but are lacking in white flour because the outer-

coat of the wheat darkens the flour and is left out by the miller. These natural phosphates are necessary to

the well-balanced building of muscle,

brain and nerve cells.

"I have used Grape-Nuts," writes an

Iowa man, "for S years and feel as

ood and am stronger than I was ten

years ago.

"Among mv customers I meet a man

every day who is well along in years and " attributes his good health to Grape-Nuts and Postuin which he has

used for the last 5 years. He mixes

Grape-Nuts with Postum and says they go fine together.

"For many years before I began to

eat Grane-Nuts. I could not say that I

enjoyed life or knew what it was to bs

able to say 4I am well. I suffered

greatly with constipation, but now my habits" are as regular as ever in my

life.

"Whenever I make extra effort I

depend on Grape-Nuts food and it just

fills the bill. I can tninK anui write a great deal easier."

"There's a Reason. Name given oy

Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Road

The Road to Wellvill," in pkgs.

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