The Bell County Democrat (Belton, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 6, 1908 Page: 3 of 8
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1908
THE ftftrj, COUNTY DEMOCRAT
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The Best
$350.00 PIANO
on Earth; Guaranteed by
M. F. HIATT & SON
"Elements of Auricul'ure."
" This is a new buuk pu oils lied
by Prof. W. ('. Welborne, vice
director of the Texas Experiment
Station. It is a valuable book
and should be in tin* hands of
every fanner in the state. Below
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Is the instrument selected to be given to
the young lady who wins in our Piano Contest.
The piano is on exhibition at the music house
of M. F. liiatt & Son, Belton, Texas, and the
young ladies who are interested may call there
and see the piano and test it at any time that
suits their convenience.
HESSRS. HIATT & SON
GUARANTEE THIS INSTRUflENT
To Be
THE BEST FOR THE MONEY
To Be Had Anywhere.
From Bud Short.
Pecan Bend, Feb. 3, '08.
Editor Dimocrat:
Seen through the paper that so
many of your country friendsare
gittin' prizes for writin' thought
it would not be ini-quiti-ous for
me to try for one of them five
dollars lyin' around loose in your
office, for a few items from this
bend of the creek. I haint never
seen anything from this part the
kintry and am kinder scared to
write myself—feared you'd think
I wanted to jine the pianner con-
test to get the thing for my Sary
Ann. Wouldn't mind capturing
the five dollars if it can be done
square, but we don't need the pi-
anner. Sary Ann has one but
can't say that its an upright, up-
to-date music concern, yet it has
been making music for about
three generations and never has
gone back on us yet. But law!
My Sary Ann can make music
on anything, you never did hear
her play did you? Well, when
she puts herself on that stool,
strikes a singing attitude with
her head, her mouth opening ajar
(she has a lovely mouth for sing-
ing) and her tapered snow white
fingers playing from one end of
the ivory to tother, it is said her
music puts them all to sleep alike.
Now, I never saw her pat any of
them to sleep but I've seen her
drive the whole family to bed
many times before they were
ready to go. No, thank you,
we don't need anymore planners,
we hope, though, the girl who
gets the pianner can play as well
as our Sary Ann.
As I said at the beginning I
haint seen nothin' from this bend
of the creek and don't know that
I will unless I'm able to say
something about some big thing
or some noted mean person; we
have none of them in this kirn-
munity. Should I want to say
something about big things I
couldn't do it for my 'quaintance
doesn't go much farther than the
school house or my nabors' farms
ajining me. Tho, since I've been
reading the Dimicrat I see that
it speaks now and then of some
big man a runnin' for some of-
fice. Right here I want to say
that I don't want to throw any
dout on the paper 'bout telling
the truth for 1 think it comes
as ny~ telling it as any paper I
ever read, yit, when it said that
all them big men whose trying
to git the people to put them
at the head, are good men,
its about as srtaiter shot to a
fellow as if it came from the
left hind foot of my gray mule.
Still I ain't got no room to dout
and can only say thats a mighty
big lot of men together not to be
narry sorry one in the bunch.
Spose, though between now and
lection I'li git to pass my own
sentiments on all of them. I sor-
ter think this vote hunting is like
some of my hunts down in "the
swamp. Often, I take old Bptsy
dawn from her rack in the house
and go down in the swamp after
game, you may be surethatwhen
anything bobs up thats worth
a load, old Betsey is turned loose
and the game is brought quiver;
ing to my feet, This is the way
I've heard the vote hunter does.
He hunts every nook and corner
of the ground and \tfhen he finds
a man worth a load (and all are
worth it whos got a poll tax) he
takes good aim and at the explo-
sion of his carefully loaded, auto-
matic, back action, safety-valve
fouling piece, his game comes
tumbling, seemingly lifeless and
the hunter goes awap feeling as
though that load was well spent.
This is is alright and the way for
them to do, for a feller never gets
anything without asking for it.
These fellers shore do want to
see me for I was up town not
long ago and Mr. Ensor gave me
the privilege to help some of
them when the summer time pri-
mary comes. Well, as this is my
first effort at writin and for fear
you'd think I want to come pre-
eminent among your writers I'll
pull down and take out here
and come again some time should
this apper with face up in your
paper. With best wishes to the
Dimocrat and its big family of
readers, I am yours very truly,
Bud Shout.
Neglected Cold Threatens Life.
(From the Chicago Tribune.)
" 'Don't trifle with a cold' is good
advice ftv prudeut men and women. It
may be vital in the case of 11 child.
Proper food, good ventilation, and
dry, warn) clotgiii"', a -e the proper
safeg.'a ds egal.)st colds. If they are
maintained through the changeable
wei-tlicr of njtumn, winter and sprang,
the chances of a sorpcise from ordi-
nary colds will be slight. Hut the
ordinp'-y light cold will become se-
vere if neglected and a well establish-
ed ripe co <1 is to ihe germs of diph-
theria what honey is to tho bee. The
greatest menace 10 child life at this
season of the year is the neglected
cold." Wisechei- it is a child or adult
the colc'i sl:ght or soeve, the very best
trer.tmeii^ ti'.ou can be adopted is to
give Chamoe'lain's Cough Remedy,
it is safe pnd sure. The great popu-
larity and immense side of this prep-
aration has been attained by its re-
markable crres of this ailment." A cold
never resul s in pneumonia when ,it is
given. For sale l>y all druggists. y
A Bachelor's Dream.
Next Saturday night, Feb. 8,
there will be a play given at the
Carnegie Library entitled "A.
Bachelor's Dream." It will be
given by home talent and the
proceeds will go to the benefit of
the library and Buckner's Or-
phan's Home. Everybody come
and bring your friends. Charges
will be reasonable---adults—35c,
children 25c. We guarantee you
will get your money's worth, be-
sides you will be helping a good
cause.
Forecasts by Foster.
Washington, Feb. 1.—Last bul-
letin gave forecasts of disturb-
ance to cross continent 30 to Feb.
3, warm wave 29 to Feb. 2, cool
wave Feb. 1 to 5. Next disturb-
disturbance will reach Pacific
coast about 6, cross Pacific slope
by close of 7, great central valley
8 to 10, Eastern states 11. Warm
wave will cross Pacific slope
about 9, great central valleys 11,
Eastern states 13.
This disturbance will extend
the warm spell of weather ex-
pected on the continent from
Feb. 1 to 10 and which will con-
stitute the February thaw, When
this disturbance reaches the Pa-
cific slope, about Feb. 6, a cool
wave will be passing the great
central valley, but while that cool
will not bring very cold weather,
the two storm waves that will
reach meridian 90 near Feb. 1
and 9 will cause very warm
weather, making the nine days
average very warm.
Indications are not favorable
to much rain during February
and I expect the first nine days
of the month to be very dry, par-
ticularly in the central valleys.
I expect the dryest part of the
continent to be the section within
500 miles of Burlington, Iowa,
and wettest that section wii(hin
200 miles of Washington, D. C.,
with very little rain east of the
rockies during the first ten days
of February.
The Northeastern states will
average cooler and wetter for
February than the central Miss-
issippi valley and for these sec-
tions temperatures and rainfall
will shade off to about normal.
Immediately following Febru-
ary 1 severe storms may be ex-
pected and thunder storms will
reach farther north than usual.
The cool wave expected to reach
meridian 90 not far from Feb. 11
will be a severe cold wave with
increasing rains south and snow
north. This cold storm will be
extensive, covering most of the
continent, and will be the begin-
ning of a long, cold February
winter.
Better get ready for that cold
wave; it looks bad. It will prob-
ably reach the Middle Northwest
between Manitoba and th.e Rock-
ies not far from Feb. 8 and move
from there to the Northeastern
states.
Baby Hands
WUl get into mischief—often it
means a burn or cut or scald. Ap-
ply Ballard's snow liniment just as
soon as the accident happens, and the
pain will be relioved while the wound
will heal quickly and nicely. A sure
cure for sprains, rheumatsm and all
•>rias. P ices 25c, 50c and $1.00 a
botte. Sold by Hunter & Freemae.
Wanted:—5 cars EAR CORN
at 75 cents per hundred.
Smith & Peyton Hwd. Co.
a southern rotation'.
If an East i <'.\as farmer plants
on a field, cotton one year; corn
olid peas the next ,\ear; and tin n
oats followed by peas, tin.* third
year, lie not only lias an excellent
three-year rotation, but grows
live crops in three years -two of
tlieiu restorative crops. Where
cotton can be matured and gath-
ered early, it might be a good
plan to have the oats follow the
cotton. Corn and peas leave the
and very dry, and oats come up
much better if sown on the land
that has been well worked in
cotton. It might be well to sow-
oats after one of the pickings and
cover them with a cultivator run
between the rows.
Different crops do not require
different elements of plant food.
They all require the same ele-
ments, but they use them in dif-
ferent proportions. Therefore,
one kind of crop may temporarily
exhaust the soil of one element,
and cease to grow well, while an-
other crop can still do well. But
the greatest benefit of this, or
any other rotation, arises from
the restorative crops grown, and
the great amount of nitrogen the
bacteria enable them to get from
the air.
fall plowing for cotton.
Some people recommend deep
fall plowing as a means of plant-
ing early, and of getting the
young cotton to grow rapidly.
This is; certainly the correct
practice for the dry West Texas
country, where the boll weevil
first appeared, but clay and bot-
tom lands farther east have too
much water in the early spring
to permit very early planting
and the most rapid growth of
the young cotton. If plowed
deep in the fall, this difficulty is
only increased. If practicable,
such lands should be handled in
a way to make them get rid of
water as rapidly as possible un-
til about planting time. At that
time there will be an abundance,
if not an excess, and if the land
is worked from then on so as to
conserve moisture, every require-
ment of good agricultural prac-
tice will be met.
EVAPORATION PRODUCES COLD.
Again you have noticed that
wet clothes in windy weather
make you very cold. The water
evaporates, or dries off, and takes
up the heat from your body.
That makes you cold. So a soil
full of water has been found to
lose from its surface by evapora-
tion several times as much water
as a soil that contains only the
proper amount of moisture.
Therefore the wet soil will be
much colder than a moist soil.
A very wet soil has sometimes
been observed to evaporate an
inch depth of water a week more
than a moist soil. The heat re-
quired to evaporate this amount
of water from an acre of land
would melt 600.tons of ice The
cold produced by evaporating
this quantity of water would con-
vert over 500 tons of well water
into ice. Hence it is that a ther-
mometer stuck into a very wet
soil often shows temperature
ten degrees lower than it does
when stuck into a well drained
soil of the same kind. It need
not be wondered at, then, that
corn and cotton will frequently
remain small and yellow on un-
drained land. Corn and cotton
will not grow at 50 degrees, Fah-
renheit's thermometer, but they
grow well at 60 degrees. A plant
may stand with its roots bathed
in water and be able to use but
little of it. In fact, the large
amount of water in the soil, and
the evaporation from it, may
make the plant so cold that its
sap will not llow.
the farmer his own seeds-
man.
As far as possible every farm-
er should select his seed in his
own neighborhood or his own
farm. He should select seed
with a view of obtaining a size
and type of plant that suits the
soil and seasons of his locality.
It is highly probable that all the
desirable qualities cannot. b.e.
combined in any one type of cot-
ton, for example. We should
like earliness, hardiness, prolific-
ness, high per cent of lint, large
bolls and long staple. It is prob-
able that some of~these qualities
are antagonistic to each other,
and consequently all of them can
never be fully attained in one
variety. But large boNs, earli-
ness, and at least fair prolificness
can be obtained in short staple
cotton. This has been proved
many times.
LEARNING TO JUDGE COTTON.
All farmers and farmer boys
and girls should learn to judge
cotton. They should get some
samples of known classes and
practice judging. While cotton
is in the seed, a fairly correct
judgment can be formed. Pull
the seed apart and straighten out
the lint, as in figure 47, and com-
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pare the lengths. You will find
the larger staphs will make
much larger tufts. Then if the
cotton is quite free from trash
dirt and stain, and is ginned care-
fuliy, you will know that it should
bring a large premium over the
ordinary kinds. If a farmer sells
a steer, he knows whether it is
fat;.if he sells butter, he knows
whether it is good quality: yet
he allows the cotton buyer to be
the sole judge of the quality of
his cotton.
COMMERCIAL DAIRYING.
People who produce dairy
products in a commercial way
cannot afford the time necessary
to rope off calves and to wait for
them to "bring the milk dosvn."
Neither can the dairyman afford
to give the calf the richest milk,
the "strippings," which is three
times as rich as the first milk
drawn. A commercial dairyman
must wean his ca'ves when they
are a day or two old, and teach
them to drink skimmed milk
from a bucket. He must also
learn them to eat corn and meal
worth one cent a pound instead
of butter worth thirty cents a
pound. He must drive up bis
cows regularly, feed them well,
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and milk them thoroughly. Many
people in the South think their
native cows would not give milk
without suckling calves. If the
calves are taken away young,
nearly all cows will give their
milk, just as jerseys will.
PREPARATION OF LAND FOR COT-
TON.
In order to be certain of get-
ting a stand of cotton, the land
should be prepared some time
before planting, so that it may
settle and become compact. A
compact, linn condition enables
enough water to be drawn up
from the subsoil to sprout the
seed, even in dry weather. A
good plan is to list cotton land '*•.
the fall, winter, or early spring
with two furrows of a turn plow.
Then, just before planting, the
middles should be broken out.
This gives a firm soil to plant in,
and a fresh, clean bed for the
young plants. Planting time
usually marks the beginning of
dry weather, when the farmer
should begin to work to save
moisture. If prepared just be-
foro planting, without previous
^sl'og, the land should be rolled,
dragged, or harrowed, so as to
make it firm. Often when the
weather is dry, cotton seed lie
in the ground from April to June
on account of being planted on
a loose, fresh bed. Did yon ever
notice in a verv dry season the
cotton or wheat came up well
near a turn-row, where the team
had packed the ground, when it
did not come up over the rest of
the field?
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The Bell County Democrat (Belton, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 6, 1908, newspaper, February 6, 1908; Belton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth233429/m1/3/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.