The Post-Signal (Pilot Point, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, October 21, 1910 Page: 2 of 8
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For the Farmer
Dan Patch's Hascot.
Great horses, like great men,
have their peculiarities and have
to be humored in their fads.
Dan Patch, the greatest of
harness horses, is no exception
to this rule. The peerless pauer
has several fancies that Hersey
and the care-takers know and
carefully heed. Among the
most unusual of these is the
horse's love for dogs.
The haughty Dan, who has
lowered the oolors of the proudest
pacers of the world, and who
accepts the homage of multi-
tudes, is meek and gently
thoughtful of the canine pet
that is lucky enough to have
won his favor.
It i9 the little dog that Dan
cares most for and he is never
more content than with his
favorite silver Yorkshire terrier.
The favorite is known as "Patch"
and ie an exceedingly promising
youngster, who seems to ap-
preciate the honor being con-
ferred upon him. He is less than
two years old and was selected
for royal favors last season,
since when great friendship has
sprung up between the world's
champion and his little mascot.
Dan Patch is not the only
horse to have a mascot. Minor
Heir, next in rank to Dan on the
Savage farm, is accorded that
privilege. He has chosen as
his favorite a remarkably well-
bread and good looking Boston
terrier. This favored female is
very jealous of the attentions of
Minor Heir and is continually on
guard to make it unpleasant for
strangers who venture too near
her favorite's quarters.
Minor Heir accepts the
blandishments of the Boston
terrier with pleaseant unconcern
but he is always careful not to
move when it might prove
dangerous for the "Heiress," as
this little mascot is called.
Both of these pets are the
constant traveling companions
of the two world famous horses
on their exhibition tours. They
will visit and be part of the re-
ception committee when Dan
Patch and Minor Heir visit
Dallas. It is hoped that the
Yorkshire and Boston terriers do
not allow themselves to be drawn
into any pitched battles over the
merits of their respective affini-
ties, even if Minor Heir doe9
lower a world's record or two.
the rear, built to work either one
or two rows. The engine is con-
nected with the traction wheels
separately, so that one wheel
may be locked while the other
cotninu«39 to turn, the advantage
here being in turning short
around at the ends. The inven-
tor claims it to be adapted to
many other kinds of farm work
where traction power is needed,
such as plowing, breaking, plant-
ing, harrowing and hauling.
The Poultry Yard.
The way one keeps his fowls is
generally the way the fowls keep
him.
The day of crossing breds is a
thing of the past. We now have
utility pure breds.
Work up a strain of hens that
will lay. Save the eggs from the
' best layers, and set thfam.
The fowls that are small for
their age should go now. Their
room is of more value than their
company.
Hens dread to get into dirty
nest boxes. They won't do it if
they can help it. Why don't
you see to this, right off?
Never change to a new breed
simply because extravagant
claims are given. It is better
to try to improve the old oneB.
No one can consistently be a
fancier and a marketman at the
same time. The branches are
antagonistic to each other.
The experienced poultryman
breeds only from his best winter
layers. It is then when prices
are at their best, and profits aie
to be oounted upon in the poultry
business.
Start the trapnests so that it
can be known which are the best
winter layers. Almost any old
hen will lay in spring and sum-
mer; it takes a good hen to lay
in late fall and winter.
This is good season for dispos-
ing of all the surplus old hens.
Better get rid of them while they
will fetch a good price as roasters
The prices are good up to about
November 20th.
It is too common practise to in*
breed. Don'c do it. It is easier t)
secure good cockerals now than
it will be later in the season. Get
them and you will have them
when needed.—Farm Journal.
We Hay Cultivate with
Gasolene
A new thing in the way of
farm implements that will be
found on the market next season
is a cultivator, the invention of
W. A. McKinney of Gainesville,
Ga. It is a three-wheeled affair
with two big traction wheels in
"It Beats All."
This is quoted from a letter of M.
Stockwell, Hannibal, Mo. "I recently
used Foley's Honey Tar for the first
time, fo say I am pleased does
not half express my feelings. If beats
all the remedies I ever used. I con-
tracted a bad cold and was threatened
with pneumonia. The first doses
gave great relief and one bottle com-
pletely cured me." Contains no opi-
ates. J. R. Peel.
" LIQUID CU^IS ECZEMA
WHErifc. SAt-Vh FAILS
In regard to skin diseases medical
authorities are now agreed on this:
Don't imprison the disease germs Id
your skin by the usa of greasy salves,
and thus encourage them to multiply.
A true cure of all edematous diseases
can be brought about only by using the
healing agents in the form of a liquid.
WASH THE GERMS OUT. A
simple wash: A compound of Oil of
Wintergreen, Thymol, and other ingre-
dients as combined in the D. D, D.
Prescription, penetrates to the disease
germs and destroys It, • then soothes
and heals the skin as nothing else
has ever done.
A 25-cent trial bottle will start the
cure, and give ycu instant relief.
Whiteside & McDonald
Picking Seed Corn.
A good plan to follow in pick-
ing seed corn from the field is to
begin selecting several rods from
the bord er of the field. Corn on
the outside rows is more apt to
be crossed with pollen from other
fields. Carry a sack or basket,
take one or two rows at a time
and at the end of the field empty
the seed ears into sacks or a
wagon box.
In picking seed corn select the
large, well-developed ears which
bend downward, rather than
those which point upward, and
have large spanks, making them
hard to break off from the stalk.
On the other hand, ears with
long, slender shanks are not
desirable.
If picking seed corn for your
own use, one day's picking will
secure an abundant supply for
next season's planting.
Select the seed ears from the
field after the corn is fully
matured and before hard freezing
weather. Select for uniformity
in maturity. If the corn is in-
clined to be late in maturing
choose the earli«r-maturing ears.
Choose a well-developed good
type of ear and kernel. Select
for uniformity in type of stalk,
height of ear on stalk and ma-
turity of corn.
Tribute to Alfalfa.
The following taken from the
Farmers Mail and Breeze is a
fine tribute to the alfalfa plant.
It seems that Texas farmers are
neglecting this profitable crop.
While it will not do well on just
and kind of soil, there are places
on most every farm where it will
theive and Texas farmers should
grow it more extensively :
"The real agricultural develop-
ment of Kansas is coincident
with the increase in the acreage
of alfalfa. I don't know how
many acres of alfalfa are grow-
ing in Kansas now and didn't
have time to ask Coburn. But I
do know that alfalfa is strictly
the thing and very fashionable
there. The corn crop sometimes
goes a-glimmering in Kansas,
but there's the alfalfa to fall
back on and a year too dry for
corn is fine for alfalfa seed. It
may rain during wheat harvest
and reduce the quality of Kansas
No. 1 Hard, but the same rains
make the alfalfa grow an extra
crop of hay and thus things are
evened up. Kansas farmers let
the millers sell the wheat bran to
eastern dairymen at high prices;
they don't need to buy it when
they have alfalfa for their horses
and cattle and hogs and chick-
ens."
It is in time of sudden mishap or
accident that Chamberlain's Liniment
can be relied upon to take the place
of the family doctor, who cannot al-
ways be found at the moment. Then
it is that Chamberlain's Liniment is
never found wanting. In cases of
sprains, cuts, wounds anl bruises
Chamberlain's Liniment takes out the
soreness and drives away the pain.
Sold by All Druggists.
Good Roads Coming.
Ft. Worth, Texas, Oct. 20—
That Texas will be covered with
a notwork of good roads within
the next few years, is the predic-
tiou of the Texas Commercial
Secretaries' Association, and the
clubs through out the state are
particularly active at this season
of the year in pushing the sub-
ject of improved public high-
ways.
A farmer in the central portion
of Texas this year produced
$900.00 worth of cotton on 22
acres of land, on 5 acres of land
he produced 300 bushels of corn
besides plenty of hay to feed his
stock the entire year; also pota-
toes and other vegetables for
home use. This illustrates what
can be done by intelligent ef-
fort on Texas land and is only
one of the many examples of the
fertility of Texas soil.
Diversification is a leading
factor in successful agriculture
and in these days of high priced
pork, hogs, whether produced on
seventy cent corn and alfalfa
milo maize, sugar cane, dairy
products or on the range, cannot
fail to be a ready money crop.
No matter what the combination
of crops, ther« is always room for
the hog, and the diversity farmer
who is far seeing and who has an
eye for business, plants hogs,
for his ready money, says the
Texas Commercial Secretaries'
Association.
DON'T RENT
Buy a Farm Now while
land is Cheap
Come in and see us about some of the these propositions.
We have others besides these.
No. 147—100 acres 2 miles north-
west of I'. P. 55 in cultivation, 3-
room house, barn and orchard. Price
$10 per acre.
No. 150. 138 acres 2 1-2 miles w.
of Bloomtteld, 70 acres in cultivation
2-room house, also log house, well
and tank. Easy terms. $12.50 per
acre.
No. 151. 75 acres, one mile north
of Bloomfield, 40 in cultivation, lial-
lance timber. Two-room house-
Price .$10 per acre. Would take in
a span of mules or mares.
No. 152. 83 acres, 05 in cultivation
balance pasture and timber, 2-room
house in good condition, fine water,
4 miles southwest of Pilot Point.
Easy terms, $25 per acre.
No. 134—70 acres land 3 miles south
east of Aubrey, 40 in cultivation, bal-
ance in pasture and timber. New 3-
room box house, good well, log crib
and shed.
No. 140—60 acres \% mile north-
west of Pilot Point, 50 acres in culti-
vation, 5 room house, barn, orchard
and well. Price $21 per acre.
No. 148—89 acres mile north-
west of town, 15 in cultivation, no 1m
provements. Price $13.50 per acre.
No. 133—100 acres land lfti' miles
n. e. of Aubrey, 75 in cultivation, bal-
ance in timber Four-room house,
good well, crib anil shed arid good
well and tank.
No. 130—1H0 acres black land 3?^
mi. from Celina, 145 in cultivation,
balance pasture, 5 room house, good
barn, deep well and wind mill, young
orchand, wire fence all round farm
A first class farm on easy terms.
40 acres, 35 in cultivation, moder-
ate improvements. Net rent last year
was $132—nearly 20 per cent. Terms
% cash, balance 1, 2 and 3 years. A
Bargain.
SOUTHERN LAND AND LOAN CO.
PILOT POINT, TEXAS.
See E. C. Barton or D. J. Moffltt at Post-Signal Office, Southwest Cor. Sq X
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Hickory Nut Time.
Did you come from a country
where the hickory nut grew tall,
the old shellbark hickory of your
boyhood? If so, there comes a
certain longing when the mellow
days come in the fall after the
early frosts have painted' the
leaves golden and red and brown,
to go back and wander in (he
woods and watch the squirrels
making ready their winter stores
and throw clubs at the hickory
limbs and listen to the hickory
nuts fall on the ground.
You can smell the fresh hulled
nuts even yet, more delicate than
any perfume prepared for the
most fastidious lady. No matter
how far you may wander, the
memory of the days when you
hunted hickory nuts in the long
ago never leaves you, and when
the tang is in the air; when the
Indian summer haze pervades
the atmosphere you want to go
back again—Mail and Breeze.
Reachiug the top
in any calling of life, demands a vigor-
ous body and a keen brain, Without
health there is no success. But
Electric Bitters is the greatest Health
Builders the world has ever known.
It compels perfect action of stomach,
liver, kidneys, bowels, purifies and en-
riches the blood, tones and invigorates
the whole system and enables you to
stand the wear and tear of your daily
work. "After months of suffering
from Kidney Trouble," writes W. M.
Sherman, of Cushing, Me., "three
bottles of Electric Bitters made me
feel like a new man." 50c, at White
side & M Donald.
Stepping Stone to Success
Learn your business thorough-
ly-
Keep at one thing; in nowise
change.
Observe system in all you do
and undertake.
Whatever is worth doing at all
is worth doing well.
One today is worth two to-
morrows.
Be self reliant; do not take too
much advice but rather depend
on yourself.
Never fail to keep your ap-
pointments, nor to be punotual
to the minute.
Never be idle but keep your
hands or mind usefully employ-
ed, except when sleeping.
Use charity with all; be ever
generous in thought or deed;
help others along life's thorny
path.
He that ascends the ladder
must take the lowest round. All
who are above were once below.
It's the World's Best.
No one has ever made a salve,
ointment or balm to compare with
Bucklen's Arnica Salve, It's the one-
perfect healer of Cuts, Corns, Burns,
Bruises, Sores. Scalds, Boils, Ulcers,
Eczemaf Salt Rheum. For Sore Eyes,
Cold Sores, Chapped Hands, or Sprains
it's supreme. Infallible for Piles.
Only 25c at Whiteside & McDonald.
A little home orchard, well
cared for, pays well. But the
orchard msy easily be too big for
a busy farmer, interested in oth-
er things, to care for, and then
it beoomes an annual loss.
Mighty few farmers are fruit
growers.
A Reliable Hedicine-Not a Nar-
cotic.
Get the genuine Foley's Honey and
Tar in the yellow package. It is safe
and effective. Contains no opiates.
Refuse substitutes. J. R. Peel.
A Business Proposition
Did you ever
stop to think,
Mr. Business
Man, that the
news of your
business is as
much a part
of the local
events as a
wedding or a
church fair?
The ladies
are just as
much interested in a new fabric
you have on the shelves as they are
in any home happening. Your store
news and anouncements in these
.columns will reach a large circle of
eager buyers. This will enable you
to 6ell your goods while they are
jnew and fresh and you will not
have to sacrifice later at remnant
counter prices. Think it over.
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The Post-Signal (Pilot Point, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, October 21, 1910, newspaper, October 21, 1910; Pilot Point, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth291139/m1/2/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Denton Public Library.