The Alto Herald (Alto, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, May 29, 1908 Page: 3 of 8
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Demand for "Mortgage Llftera" la Too
Great to Reckon.
For many years Texas lias held
the leadership of all the States in
•tht production of cattle. Within
the past fivo years the State has at-
tained first rank in the production
of mules. The State surpasses any
other two in the production of cot-
ton. It is well up among the lead-
ers with the production of corn, hav-
ing 155,000,000 bushels annually.
But when it comes to the humble
liog, Texas must take a hack seat.
True, the State is credited with a
trifle over 3,000,000 head, or one for
every fifty bushels of corn produced ;
but the total production of hogs in
Texas is scarcely more than one-third
of Iowa, a State with an area no
greater than West Texas and the
Panhandle combined.
Iowa leads all the States with 8,-
400,000 hogs; Illinois has 4,000,000
and Nebraska 4,243,000. Kven Mis-1
souri and Indiana produce more hog* |
than Texas.
There is no reason for it. It if I
were alwolutely essential that hogs 1
lie fed Indian corn. Texas could still j
lead the country in hog production,
The thornless is derived from the
common cactus of the desert, which,
by reason of its thorns and the spines
on its fruit, can not be made to sus-
tain cattle on the arid wastes. Bur-
bank has developed a plant, the
leaves of which, eighteen inches long,
are worth $500 each for reproduc-
tion, and which will mean in a short
time the reclamation of millions of
acres of desert land in Mexico.
Forage will be supplied cattle and
the problem for beef for coming gen-
erations will be solved. The new
cactus is more than 90 per cent, wa-
ter as to its leaves, and is eagerly de-
voured by live stock of all kinds on
the desert. It is both food and
drink to man and beast in tropical
areas.—Chihuuhvi Enterprise.
C08T OF BAD ROADS.
And Mr. Farmer Has the Bill to Pay
All the Time.
The Herald has repeatedly urged
that the farmers of the country arc
heavily taxed because of the bad
roads over which they are forced to
haul their crops to market. The Bu-
reau of (!ood Roads has recently is-
sued some statistics along these lines
which called forth the following com-
ment from the Oklahoma City Ok-
lahoman:
"In reducing the good roads
though the corn would liave to be j'lups*'on to the dollars and cents
shipped from sections of the State ,a*18' th° of Agriculture
vhcrc it is raised easilv to those in !1,88 han,lo<1 the fnrm("ri and countrv
which it is more difficult to raise ^"eraMy an argument
it. But Indian corn is not neces- * ,lch '°"g ^
«ary. .Green forage to start, aud kaf-11 hc findinKs nre of sPoclal ,nterfist
fir corn, milo mai/.e and cotton seed
to finish will produce hogs anywhere
in Texas.
Since the opening of the 1908 sea-
son St. Louis has been compelled to
take a back seat for Fort Worth's
cattle market. Fort Worth has been
in Oklahoma at this time, when tho
matter of making public highways
is urgent in many parts of the State.
"The department's figures arc
based on careful and exhaustive tests.
They demonstrate that the actual
cost of hauling per ton mile is 04
handling from two to three times as ccnts ove,r «V, sandy roa,L\f P0 ^
many cattle daily as the older yards j:vcr™rtll^a,li of ^ usually mud-
on the east bank of the Mississippi.
But during the same period St. Louis
has been handling 10,000 hogs daily
against Fort Worth's 300 to 5000.
Texas will not reach its full meas-
ure of prosperity until the pork pro-
duction shows an increase. America
Is a great pork-consuming Nation,
and the fact that Texas itself pavs
from $12,000,000 to $15,000,000 an-
nually for pork not raised within its
own borders shows that this State
is no different from the rest of the
country.
LarH type, packing type or bacon
type, Texas must produce more hogs.
When the State's annual hog produc-
tion is pushed up past the 5,000,000
murk, not only will the Fort Woii,;.
packing houses reflect the increase,
hut the improvement will bo felt in
the pockct of every farmer and stock
raiser who has taken the time and
trouble to test and find the profit
that lies in pork.—Fort Worth Citi-
zen.
THE 8PINEI ESS CACTUS.
Large
Experiments Are
for Mexico.
Mentioned
Burbank's thornless cactus, said to
he so rich as a forage plant, may be
tried in Mexico—something which
will be of great interest in Northern
Mexico, including Chihuahua. The
following should be of interest to
stockmen:
Robert P. Probasco of Los An-
geles, Cal., who promoted the Sina-
IiOa Land Company, and directed its
operations for several years, is, ac
dv and rutty variety, 11.9 cents on
broken stone roads in ordinary con-
dition, and ft cents o;i broken stone
roads in good condition.
"This means, concretely, that good
roads pay ample cash dividends, and
that the saving which they make pos-
sible far overbalances the cost of con-
struction. A road of broken stone
meaus consistently reduced expen-
ses as long as it lasts. It cost the
farmer $"21,050,000 to haul the wheat
crop to the railroads in 190(5. This
was an average price, for all drayage,
of 19 cents a ton mile. But where
there were improved roads the figures
show that the drayage cost was only
10 cents per ton mile. Had all the
com, wheat and cotton crops of 1906
been hauled over good roads, the pro-
ducers of thom would have saved
$27,000,000.—Denison Herald.
"Ingerns" Invade Van Zandt.
The Chronielc was unaware until
Tuesday of the fact that the onion
business is being tried on a nice scale
in this community during the pres-
ent ;eai. B. F. Bright and Didc
Manning together have seven and
one-half acres in onions that arc do-
ing nicely, and W. II. Jeremiah and
Ed (loolich are transplanting four
and one-half acres with the plants
thinned from tho Bright and Man-
ning patch, which will make twelve
acres planted to onions in this ocm-
munity. The result of this experi-
ment will be watched with much in-
terest, and the Chronicle trusts that
it will prove so successful that many
cording to reports, about to devote |ncres w'" ',0 planted to onions an-
his attention to the introduction of °ther year. Wills l'oint Chronicle,
the Burbank thornless cactus into
Mexico. Mr. Probasco was recently
in Seattle, and in connection with
his visit the Seattle Times announces
that, as the representative of Mr.
Burbank, he proposes to interest the
Mexican authorities in a project to
plant 1,250,000 acres of desert land
to the Burbauk cactus.
The new thornless cactus bears a
spineless fruit, as rich in food values
as a banana. It grows at the rate
f of from ninety to four hundred tons
per acre of forage on absolutely des-
ert land, without irrigation of any
kind. It is eagerly devoured by live
stock, and in its production Bur-
baivkT whom David Starr Jordan
called the greatest originator of new
and valuable forms of plant life in
this or any other age, spent fifteen
years.
Coming That Way In Texas Too.
Keep the idea of tho etockman-
farmer well In your mind. He is the
boy v ho will own the farm lamia
of Oklahoma twenty-five years from
now. He raises horses, cattle, hogs,
sheep and poultry, and at least five
kinds of good feed to feed them with.
His alfalfa, bcrmuda, cowpeas and
feed crops are turned into tho fin-
ished product on the farm, and the
elements of fertility which they ton-
tain are returned to tho soil. The
boll weevil, the green bug and the
Hessian fly are great aids in the de-
velopment of stock farmers. They
spank tho single-croppers into lino
and wake them up to a realization
oi the finish of farming without liva
stock as iU foundation.—Oklahoma
Farmer.
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i'lant plenty of feed stuff ami then
feed It to profit-yielding stool;
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PROVIDING FOR BOYS.
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The garden Is the enemy of the drug
trust and the doctor's trust.
That day that has marked no prog-
ress In either mind or matter to you
you have lost.
The man who has no homo, nor
ambition to own one, makes u mighty
poor sort of a citizen.
Be your own warehouseman, you
won't assess yourself too heavily for
what you do for yourself.
Don't wait for the meetings of your
local to got Interesting; start some-
thing, even if you can't stop It.
You never make any mistake when
you stand up for your own community,
but while you are standing don't stand
still.
The average of American life Is
stretching out in proportion as tho
fruit diet of the people Increases. I'lant
trees and berries.
When pigs, .peanuts and poultry
reign In the Sunny South, anil cotton
Is a flller-ln crop, the Union conten-
tions will be vindicated.
If you have no homo cannery get
one at once. It may not consist of
more than a few cans or Jars and a
kettle, but that U a right start.
I.ess of cotton surely means less of
the credit system; the abuse of the
two things which have robbed tho
South of the cream of Its earnings.
Tho Union Is like any other human
institution—it Is strong and helpful if
you make It so, or It Is a mockery If
allowed to run Into ruts or weaknesses.
There Is not a spot within the entire
South where the nut trees of all kinds
will not grow, and the pecan, tho
prince among all nut trees, Is at homo
anywhere in the South.
If you have not done so yet, get
busy after the mosquito breeding
places all around you and rout them
out. That Is where most of the sum-
mer fevers come from.
l)on't forget your pocket knife when
you go among your treea. There la
hardly one among them that does not
need a little trimming here or a little
pruning there every week.
Union men all understand that it
takos but little more to raise a good
colt than a scrub, hut that a good colt
Is always in demand, while It is hard
to "work off" a scrub and be done with
It at any price.
Hard to Conceive.
The tremendous size and power of
modern machinery may bo Judged
from data regarding the mechanical
equipment of the "Lupltania," which
now seems bent, at the sacrifice of
Its firemen, on beating Its own record.
The six turbines of this monster ship
have 094,000 blades and an equal num-
ber of spacing pieces between the
blades. If the blades and spacing
pieces were laid end to end they would
extend 182 miles. Their total weight
Is 194.500 pounds, and the surface of
the blades exposed to the action of
steam amounts to 114,000 square feet.
A consumption of one thousand tons
of coal per day requires about fifteen
hundred pounds per minute. Kach of
the one hundred firemen is therefore
required to feed fifteen pounds of coal
per minute Into the furnaces—Ex.
Dairy Dots,
Texas Farmer.
Good milk cows arc seldom In good
flesh. They are not flesh makers,
but milk machines, or should be.
Kindness in tho dairy not only in-
dicates a kind heart, but the self-
control of good common sense.
Plants for making condensed milk
are becoming more common. Several
have recently been established in
Vermont.
A good dairyman, whether In Iown,
Missouri, Indiana or Texas, is usually j
a prosperous man and his farm Is n
paying proposition.
Cream of the proper acid or ripe 1
condition churns more easily than
sweet cream, because tho acid ren-
ders it less compact.
A good cow Is a profitable Invest-
ment, aside from tho Increase, which
should represent the profit. This can
be said also of the hen, tho mare and
the ewe.
Carefully kept statistics kept by
dairy associations in the Southwest
part of Scotland during the winter of
1907 shows the cost of producing a
gallon of milk, ten pounds, Is about
8.72 cents.
The Red-Blooded Boy Must Have
Something to Do.
Tho following was written for the
parent of the country-town boy, but
it is eo well written that we prefer
to publish It as It Is, and lot each
parent adapt it to Ills own case. The
article is taken from the Fort Worth
Telegram:
Every so often there may be found
In almost any newspaper a paragraph
like the following from the Denlsou
Herald:
"Parents who allow their boys to
run on tho streets lato at night need
not be surprised if sooner or later they
get Into trouhle. No greater mistake
can be made than to allow boys to
feel that they are beyond the restraint
of the home life."
Not so often are there paragraphs
telling how to keep tho boys from en-
gaging In this very natural pastime.
All the gorgeously-colored pictures
portraying tho Joys of home (usually
painted by men who have lived most
of their lives In boarding houses) do
not offer much appeal to tho healthy,
red-corpuscled boy who knows that to
stay at home after supper means sit-
ting lu a room where father Is reading
the paper and must not bo disturbed
by talking, and where mother Is us-
ually busy at her work basket. It Is
easy to say "Give the boys books aud
magazines to read," but only about one
boy In ten can endure seven nights
reading a week and even tho tenth
will find It hard work keeping up the
program unless a constant supply of
literature which particularly Interests
him Is supplied.
Also It Is easy to say "Find out the
boy's natural bent and let him follow
It." Yet it Is not so easy to clean up
shavings after a lad who wants to be
a carpenter or to say In the house
with ono who wants to be a musician
and persist In practicing on the cor-
net.
The problem of keeping boys nt
home and keeping them Interest Is not
an easy one. It can not bo solved at
all unless parents are willing to make
considerable sacrifice and take an in-
terest in everything that Interests
their children.
Most boys for the greater part of
the year are Interested In athletics.
For such an outlay of less than $10
ought to supply enough gymnastic ap-
paratus sufficient to keep two or three
boys occupied any night when they
are not inclined to other sports, it
is a good deal better to have your hoy
pummellng tho boy of your next door
neighbor with a pair of boxing gloves
In your woodshed than to have him
lounging around street corners doing
nothing. A black eyo occasionally, a
sprain acquired In a gymnasium, or
even a broken bone, la better than a
set of twisted morals or a broken code
of ideals such as tpny be obtained by
promiscuous association with othiT
boys who have nothing to do.
If the boy has a scientific turn, and
Is fond of making experiments, noth-
lug will please him better than a cheap
mlscroscopo and a guide bonk on how
to use It. Evenings for a whole year
can be spent examining such simple
things as bread, meat and vegetables
and to draw outlines of what the mi-
croscope shows offers practical as well
as Interesting work.
The vital thing Is to show an Inter-
! est in what interests the boy, and to
' share his enthusiasm. He will get
: over the enthusiastic period soon
enough, and when he looks back to It
In later years It will he a pleasant
' memory to recall that his parents
' were the best and truest friends he
j over had.
Notes by a Working Farmer.
j Homo and Farm.
Work that is not done In time re-
quires double the labor to perform
' afterward and then the results are
; never so good.
There is no luck about farming.
Every success Is the result of well-laid
plans, and the failures, with rare ex-
ceptions, ara because of the lack of
them.
The process of grading up brings
one continually nearer to the full
blood, which is a source of all satis-
faction and profit In stock feeding.
It requires a faculty of closer ap-
plication and study along a single line
to make a specialty go, but when it
It does go It usually pays best.
The man who works so steadily that
he never has time to stop and make
his plans ahead does not often produce
the best results.
If there were no other argument In
favor of keeping stock the single one
of helping to market the bulky prod-
ucts of tho farm should be consid-
ered.
Commercial fertilizers do not per-
manently benefit the land. They have
their legitimate uses In helping to pro-
duce larger crops, but they do not
make the land any richer. They
should be used in connection with oth-
er manure.
There Is a good reason for dairying
pnyjng_a cow Is the most profitable
of all animals If properly managed.
An average cow Bhould produce five
or six thousand pounds of milk a year.
This properly managed Is profitable
In the home and lu the house# ot
others.
COMMON PHRASK.
"Something hard to beat."
Saved From Being a Cripple for Life.
"Almost six or seven weeks ago I
became paralyzed all at once with
rheumatism," writes Mrs. Louis Mc-
Key, 913 Seventh street, Oakland, Cal.
"It struck me In tho back and extend-
ed from tho hip of my right leg down
to my foot. The attack was so severe
that I could not move In bed and
was afraid that I should be a cripple
for life.
"About 12 years ago I received a
sample bottlo of your I.lnlment but
never had occasion to use It, as I
have always been well, but some-
thing told mo that Sloan's Liniment
would help me, so I tried It. After
the second application I could get
up out of bed, and in three days
could walk, and now feci well and
entirely free from pain.
"My friends were very much sur-
prised. at my rapid recovery and I
was only too glad to tell them that
Sloan's Liniment was the only med-
icine I used."
Succeaaful Demonatratlon.
Romulus was founding Rome.
"What I'm trying to do," he ex.
plained, "Is to show that it Is possible
to start a big town without building
It around an oil well or a copper
mine."
At this inopportune moment Remus
broko in with a remark that the new
city was a Rutte, all right; and he got
It In the neck, as you find fully set
forth In your Latin reader.
We Reiterate,
That, for more than fifteen years
Hunt's Cure has been working on the
afflicted. Its mission Is to cure skin
troubles, particularly those of an Itch-
ing character. Its success is not on
account of advertising, but because
It surely does the work. One box
Is guaranteed to cure any case.
Between Doctors.
"Was the operation successful, doc-
tor?"
"Entirely. I charged $600 and his
executor signed a check for It with-
out winking."—Kansas City Times.
TO ' K'VKO,TMA!;ARJAtiie RYSTKM.
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CHILL. TONIC. Y a know what Tuu aro Uklnii.
Tho formula Is plainly prlnUxl ot* # T«ry bottle,
nhowli * It lialroply Quinine and Iron In a taste 1«M
form, and the moat effectual Iorm. For gruwn
pcopla and children. 60c.
It Is not enough to have earned
our livelihood, the earning Itself
should have been serviceable to man-
kind.—R. L. Stevenson.
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The man who Is after results Isn't
always particular as to the moans.
Smokers appreciate the quality value of
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or I^ewis' Factory, I'eoria, III.
WIbb women get their rights without
talking about them.
Truth and
Qualify
' appeal to the Well-informed in every
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why it is the best of personal and family
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sweetens and relieves the internal organs
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after effects and without having to increase
the quantity from time to time.
It acts pleasantly and naturally and
truly as a laxative, and its component
parts aro known to and approved by
physicians, as it is free fronVall objection-
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gists.
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