The Post-Signal (Pilot Point, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, October 28, 1910 Page: 2 of 8
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For the Farmer
Gumption on the Farm.
Gather and burn the rubbish.
How some folks do enjoy roll-
ing up their sleeves, and then—
bossing the job that somebody
else does.
Gather pumpkins and squash
before a hard frost, and store
away in a dry place (not in a
damp cellar).
Bring in the corn horse after
you are through with it. Even a
wooden horse will show the
effects if stabled out in the field
a few months.
Do not leave the old cabbage
stumps sticking up out of the
ground. They look slovenly and
breed fungus pests. Pull them
up and burn them.
When killed by the frost, mow
off the asparagus tops and burn
them. Then give the bed—and
the rhubarb plants, too—a thick
winter overcoat of stable manure.
The cultivating season is over
and all tools should be cleand
up and housed. One winter's
exposure to the weather will do
tools more harm than several
years' use.
A good growth of rye plowed
in next spring will give you
more and better potatoes. But
you'll have to get it in right off
or you won't have much growth
to polw under.
Just because an ear of corn is
large, does not necessarily make
it the best for seed. See that
the rows are straight fiom tip to
butt, and that kernels are all
well formed and plump.
Build the line fence strong
enough to keep your own and
your neighbors' stock on the
right side, but do not have it so
high that it will prevent you from
being neighborly.
We never like to put potatoes
in the cellar when they are at all
wet. In bad, catchy weather it
is better to store then in an out-
house till they are thoroughly
dried off. They will keep much
better, then.
Hurrying wheat to market has
a tendency to keep prices down.
The wise farmer who holds on to
his grain will be likely to realize
several cents a bushel more than
the hurry-up bretheren are like-
ly to obtain.
About this time of the year
things get pretty hot in the
political pot. Let 'em eizzle!
You just keep cool! If you talk
politics with your neighbor, be
reasonable. Loud talk and yell-
ing never convinced anybody.
Soon the hunters will be out
from town, tramping over your
WHAT CURES ECZEMA?
Wfc have had so many inquiries
lately regarding Eczema and other
Iskin diseases, that we are glad to
make our answer public. After care-
ful investigation we have found that
a simple wash of Oil of Wintergreen,
as compounded in D. D. D., can be re-
lied upon. \\V would not make thla
itatement. to our patrons, friends and
neighbors unless we were sure of it—
and although there are many so-called
Eczema remedies sold, we ourselves
unhesitatingly recommend D. D. D.
Prescription.
Because—We know that it gives in-
Itant relief to that torturing Itch.
Because—D. L>. I), starts the cure at
Hie foundation of the trouble.
Because—It cleanses, smithes and
heals the skin.
Because—It enables Nam?*. <o repair
the ravages of the disease.
Because—The records of ten years
nf complete cures of thousands of the
mo t serious cases show that D. D. D.
Is today recognized as the absolutely
reliable Ecsema cure.
Uiop Into our store today, just to
talk over your case with U3.
Whiteside & McDonald
fields and pastures, killing your
feathered friends and disturbing
if not injuring your stock. It is
well to be neighborly, but the
birds served you faithfully
through the year by destroying
millions of bugs and insects, and
it is your duty to protect them
now. Do it.
Keeping cabbages: Select a
dry place in the path, pull up the
cabbages and stand closely to-
gether, heads down. Cover with
soil from five to ten inches, thin-
ly at first so they will not heat,
covering only enough to prevent
freezing as the season advances.
The burying beds may be made
from four to six feet wide.
If potatoes are inclined to rot,
don't be in a hurry to dig yours.
Leave them in the ground as
long as you can before digging.
There will be far less waste. I
have seen some lots of potatoes
all go to mush after they were
dug; if they had been left in the
earth till cold weather cam6 on,
most of them might have been
saved.—From October Farm
Journal.
It is in time of sudden mishap or
accidcnt 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 and bruises
Chamberlain's Liniment takes out the
soreness and drives away the pain.
Sold by All Druggists.
Terracing hillside Land.
As W. A. Banner wants some
information from one who has
had experience in terracing
and hillside ditching, I will tell
him that I moved here from
Georgia 18 years ago, and bought
the place that I now live on The
rows all ran up and down the
hill; in some places the middles
of the rows were half-leg deep. I
soon saw that something had to
be done, so I began to talk to my
neighbors about terracing. Some
of them made light of it and said :
"Every row has to carry its own
water, here in Texas. I bought
a terracing machine and terrac-
ed my farm; now all my neigh-
bors have their land terraced
and but few have gullies. The
time to do this work is when you
clear the land. If a man doesn't
think it pays, just lot him go
over his terraces after a big rain
and he will see on the upper side
of the terraces for ten or twelve
feet, a black sediment which
would have been carried off the
land if it had not been terraced.
With land terraced I contend
that a man can make a crop with
less rain, as you hold all the wa-
ter that falls on the land. You
may find some renters who don't
like to keep them up, but I think
they are worth as much to rent-
ers as to landlords, as it keeps
their crops from washing. I al-
ways let my terraces drain at
one end. If they are in iho
woods or road, I move my ter-
races every two or three years
I find this pays, as the terrace
bank is the best spot in the field.
I take my two horse plow, take
as near half of the bank as I can
and throw to the lower side;
then I go to the upper side and
throw as much as I take from
the lower side. The next spring
I do the same. In this way, in
two years I have my terraces
moved.
Some people don't like terraces
because they have bo many
short rows. I admit they have
lots of short rows but just look
at the long rows. I would not
farm in this country if I could
not terrace.—A. P. Fauche of
Cassoounty, in Farm & Ranch.
• It Beats All."
This is quoted from a letter of M.
Stockwell, Hannibal, Mo. "1 recently
used Foley's Honey Tar for the lirst
time, l'o 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.
Why Not Ponds in Texas?
Illustrative of another phase of
the plan suggested by Pat Paf-
frath to store the stcrm waters of
Texas for irrigation and power
generating purposes, State Game
and Fish Warden L. L. Dyche of
Kansas, who ia al90 professor of
systematic zoology and curator
of birds, mammals and fishes in
the State university of that state,
advises the building of ponds on
every farm in central and western
Kansas, and presents these as
satisfactory reasons for such ac-
tion:
"A pond on a farm is a wond-
erful institution. It would con-
serve a great amount of water
which at present runs out of the
state and causes flood damage.
Water could be piped to the
stock pens and houses. Gardens
could be irrigated. Trees could
be planted around the banks;
trees attract birds and birds eat
insects; trees retain moisture
and modify the climate. A pond
provides the kids a swimming
hole in the summer and a skating
rink in the winter; ducks and
other wild water fowl would be
attracted when their flight is on,
and best of all, a pond can be
stocked with fish enough to pro
vide the home and the neighbor's
table, to say nothing of frogs.
A farmer, Samuel Bailey, liv-
ing three milee east of Pratt,
Kan., near the state fish hatchet -
ies, has a quarter-acre pond fed
by a windmill. He irrigated a
five-acre garden this summer
and had the best vegetables in
that section ofjthe country and
and plenty of them."
With some modifications these
reasons would justify the build-
ing of a farm pond on most farms
in Texas. Of course it would
afford a skating rink only about
one year in ten and ice for fam-
ily use south of the latitude of
Wichita Falls not at all at any
season. But for stock use, for
garden irrigation, for fish and a
for wild fowl a farm pond in
Texas, of good depth, supplied
by storm water in the rainy sea-
sons and supplemented by the
overflow from deep wells in pe-
riods of drouth would prove
profitable and pleasure-return-
ing investment.
There are innumerable places
along even the smaller streams
of Texas where the storm waters
could bo impounded by means
of a slight dam and a small canal
both made by the abutting land
owner at odd times and at no
further expense than the labor
of himself, boys and a team or
two. Such impounding of the
flood water would give all the
domestic facilities mentioned
above. Along the large streams
of Texas the opportunities for
impounding storm waters at the
mouths of ravines and small
canyons are innumerable. And
the wonder of it is that land
owners along the streams have
not taken hold of these opportu-
nities long ago and realized on
them.
The Texas farm that has not a
Do You Want to
Sell or Exchange
Your Farm?
We can put your property before more
than sooo real estate firms, some of
whom most likely have a client want-
ing just such property as yours. See
us about it.
Southern Land & Loan Co.
(E. C. Barton - D. J. Moffltt.)
Office with Post-Signal, Pilot Point, Texas
pond of at least an acre in extent
is lacking in one of the funda-
mentals of farm success.—Fort
Worth Reoord.
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has
become famous for its cures of colds,
croup and inlluenza. Try it when in
need. It contains no harmful sub-
stance snd always gives prompt relief.
Sold by All Druggist.
California is the first state to
establish a bird-farm. The step
has been taken as a means of
fighting the insect pests and to
replenish the supply of game-
birds which has become so sadly
depleted by the pot-hunters.
The farm is located near Hay-
wards, in Alameda County, and
from here the young birds are
sent out in lots of fifty and one
hundred to all parts of the state.
The first species propagated
were the larger woodland and
field birds, as pheasants, quail,
partridges and wild turkeys, and
arrangements are now making
to raise the smaller insect-eating
birds, as robinB and warblers.
The farm is to be increased from
forty two acres to one hundred,
and it is expected that eight
thousand young birds will be
sent out next year. The fruit
and grain-crops of California
annually suffer to the extent of
many million dollars from the
insect pests, and the peste have
become much more destructive
as the birds have become fewer.
— Youth Companion.
The pleasant purgative effect ex-
perienced by all who use Chamberlain's
Stomach and Liver Tablets, and the
healthy condition of the body and
mind which they create, makes one
feel joyful. Sold by All Druggists.
them. This is the month to store
away a supply for the winter.
They can almost always be had
for the asking. If you haven't a
supply in your own yard oollect
them on the street, or in the yard
of someone who does not want
them. In a few hours you can
collect enough leaves to last a
long time. If you have no bin
or shed where you can store
them, pack them in bags or
barrels. Just as good as straw,
and straw costs money these
days.
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, Bolls, Ulcers.
Ec/.emaf Salt Kheum. For Sore Eyes.
Cold Sores, Chapped Hands, or Sprains
it's supreme. Infallible for Piles.
Only 25c at Whiteside & McDonald.
In seleoting a breed of chick-
ens, don't make the mistake of
thinking that "breed" is every-
thing, when in reality it oounts
for very little. It is the "strain"
that we should consider when
buying breeding stock, as there
are good and bad strains, or
families, in every breed.
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Reminiscent.
The melancholy day has come,
And brought its chilly night;
I lay me down when day is done
To dream of anthracite.
There is nothing better than
dry leaves for a litter on the
floor of the poultry house. T.t
will keep the hens comfortable
and give them plenty of exeroise
in hunting for the grain fed
Your cough annoys you. Keep on
backing and tearing the delicate
membrances of your throat if you
want to be annoyed. But if you
want relief, want to be cured, take
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. Sold
by All Druggists.
Chance For Herois:n.
Adorer nmxiouslyi- What did you,
father saySweet Girl—Oh. he pit
so angry 1 was afraid to stay and lis
ten. lie's in a perfectly terrible rag:
Co in and appease him.
The Dallas Semi-Weekly News
an 1 Post,-Signal one year $1.85.
A MOST TOUCHING APPEAL
falls short of its desired effect if ad-
dressed to a small crowd of interested
listeners. Mr. Business Man, are
you wasting your ammunition on the
small crowd that would trade with
you anyway, or do you want to reach
those who arc not particularly inter-
ested in your business? If you do,
make your appeal for trade to the
largest and most intelligent
audience in your commun-
ity, the readers of this
paper. They have count-
less wants. Your ads will
be read by them, and they
will become your custom-
ers. Try it and see.
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The Post-Signal (Pilot Point, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, October 28, 1910, newspaper, October 28, 1910; Pilot Point, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth291140/m1/2/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Denton Public Library.