Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, September 3, 1909 Page: 3 of 8
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Cautious Just Now.
“You say your protege is a garden-
er? Then there is no chance whatever
of his getting a job just now in the
city hall."
“What objections have they there
to gardeners?"
“Know too much about grafting.”
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Try This.
When life seems a heavy burden
And the load is hard to bear,
'Twill help you along to warble a song
'Bout the good luck waiting somewhere!
LEADS TO THE WANTON SLAUGH
TER OF MANY HEAD OF
FINE CATTLE.
Very Much So.
“I t ope the man you are engaged to
is a man of deeds.”
“He ought to be; he's a real estate
dealer.”
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BG RICE
IN HAWAII
Mrs. B—Yes, we were going to leave
our flat for the summer and take a
bungalow at the beach.
AIrs. W—Why didn't you?
Mrs. B—We discovered at the last
minute that the bungalow had no ele
vator in it—just fancy.
Despise Evil Tongues.
We cannot control the evil tongues
of others; but a good life enables us
to despise them.—Cato.
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Knapp in Egypt, has proved to be type of grain rather than the flinty,
better than any rice ever grown in
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Not as Lucky as He Might Be.
The man who doesn't care enough
for his wife to think it necessary to
have an excuse when he stays out
late at night may be envied by his
friends, but he is really to be pitied.
The Fruit of Evil.
“I wonder why vegetarians include
fruit in their diet as healthful.”
“Is it not?”
“Not when you consider how all our
trouble originally came from fruit. It
was a pair with an apple, not caring a
fig for posterity, who handed the first
lemon to the human race.”
The Verdict.
The Judge—Gentlemen of the jury,
have you reached an agreement.
The Foreman—We have, your honor.
The Judge—What is your verdict?
The Foreman—We find the accused
not guilty—providing he will leave
town.
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but the preduction of forage. The
This Egyptian strain culm and leafage of the dry-land types
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Mrs. Henpeck—See the poor people
moving into that boarding house. Ah,
there's no place like home!
Henpeck—Thank heaven for thatr
Masculine Viewpoint.
The Bachelor—I saw something
framed up this morning that was cal-
culated to make women false.
The Widow—Indeed! What was it?
The Bachelor—A mirror.
The Wonderful Imagination.
Yeast — Newfoundland is without
reptiles. It is said no snake, frog,
toad or lizard has ever been seen
there.
Crimsonbeak—Well, isn't it just as
Plenty There.
“If this were the theatrical season
beginning, managers would be hurry-
ing to Pittsburg to fit up their com-
panies.”
"Why to Pittsburg?”
“Because there are so many walk-
ing ladies and gentlemen in that
city.”
Slight Misunderstanding.
Jack Swift—I tell you, old man,
Dolly Dimpleton is up to snuff.
Jay Green—I’m sorry to hear it
It’s bad enough for a girl to be up
to cigarettes.
the rice industry in Hawaii was begun
July 1, 1909, funds for the purpose
of a co-operative experiment having
been provided by the Bernice Pauahi
Bishop estated (limited), and the li
estate (limited). The trustees of the
Bishop estate (limited), and the li
work, and the II estate contributed
the lease of 3.2 acres of rice land,
located at the junction of King street
and Kalakaua avenue, in the city of
Honolulu. Mr. F. G. Krauss, who had
been agricultural instructor at the
Kamehameha boys' school for the pre-
ceding five years, was appointed an
agricultural expert in this office to
have charge of the work. Operations
were commenced about August 1, 1906,
and consisted of variety tests of 130
different rices obtained in the islands
through the Bureau of Plant Industry,
United Sattes Department of Agricul-
ture, and through the bureau of agri-
culture, Manila, P. I. In addition care-
ful selections had previously been
made from individual plants, repre-
senting some of the best strains of
rices now being grown in Hawaii.
Two crops of rice have been grown
during the period from August 1, 1906,
te August 31, 1907.
The results of the variety test have
been that one variety, seed of which
was originally obtained by Dr. S. A.
The street car had just passed the
excavation for a great building when
a man on the rear platform who bad
the face of an artist or poet asked of
'he one at his elbow:
"How many people should you es-
timate were standing around gazing
down into that hole?”
"About 75, sir.”
“And will they stand and gaze all
day?”
"Yes, most of them.”
"They must have thoughts as they
gaze at the men toiling below. If one
could go among them and collect and
write down each man’s thoughts what
pages of human life they would make
—what a book those pages would give
the world!”
“It would be a very small book, sir.
I am a publisher, and I shouldn’t care
to bring it out. There would be just
one leaf and just one sentence on that
leaf.”
"Is it possible?"
“Yes, sir. Those 75 men with their
arms on the railings and looking down
don’t have different thoughts. They
all have the same one thought, aud it
is expressed in the sentence:
"What a lot of durned fooled those
men are to work when they could
loaf.”
Why He Was Excited.
Druggist—What’s the matter with
you? You seem excited.
Clerk—No wonder. Mrs. Griggsby
wanted an ounce of boric acid and I
gave her an ounce of strychnine by
mistake.
Druggist—Well, of all the careless
idiots, you head the list! Say, haven’t
you any idea of the value of strych
nine?”
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San Antonio, Tex.—An outbreak ol
voodooism is responsible for the mys
terious killing of many fine cows in
the vicinity of this city. Many own
ers of cattle living in the suburbs
have looked in vain for their mil
purveyors in the morning.
The gentle friend of the family was
found to be missing and the instituted
search usually disclosed her body in
the chapparal. G. A. Davis of this
city was one of the first to miss his
valuable Jersey in this manner and
since then others have sustained siml
lar losses.
The odd feature of the case was
that nothing but the hide and ths
heart of the animal were missing. Al
first it was thought that the animals
had been killed for their skins, but a
close watch kept over the dealers it
hides has shown that so far none ot
the hides has been disposed of.
Sheriff Lindsey and his deputies
have been working day and night to
get a clew that might lead to a com
plete solution of the mystery, but so
far they have not been successful. The
offer of a substantial reward has now
been called to their aid.
Though the Mexican population ot
San Antonio is a very orderly and
law abiding one as a whole, there is
enough of an indifferent element
among them that would not be averse
to committing these depredations it
spurred on by what they would con-
sider a religious motive. As is well
known, the Indian strain is very
prominent in the lower class Mexi-
cans. As a matter of fact, in a large
percentage of them the Spanish or
other Aryan blood is a negligible
quantity.
That some of the old Indian super-
stitions should have survived in them
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of rices are soft and pliable, lacking
, the silica that causes the harshness
of irrigated sorts. These strains pro-
duce a quality of hay which is greedily
eaten by horses and cattle. The pres-
ent outlook is that dry-land rices will
fill a very important need in Hawaii
in the production of hay and forage.
Fertilizer experiments have been
conducted for two crops in pot, plat,
and field experiments. While it is
perhaps too early to draw conclusions,
the Indications are that an increase of
from 15 to 20 per cent, of grain per
acre can be induced by use of com-
mercial fertilizers of suitable composi-
tion.
Early in the year orders were placed
for a number of types of agricultural
machinery not hitherto used in the
rice Industry in Hawaii. These in-
cluded disk tillage implements and
the twine binder. Disk tillage is
promising, provided machinery can be
secured which will give a penetration
of from six to eight inches. The type
of cut-away, or disk plows and disk
harrows, which the station has se-
cured, would only penetrate about
four inches, although the manufactur-
ers claimed a much greater penetra-
tion. It was found that 4.5 acres of
rice land could be plowed per day
with a five-foot cut-away bog plow
and four horses, as against from one
to one and a half acres with two wa-
ter buffalo, or from three to four
horses on a ten-inch mold-board plow
turning the soil to a depth of about
six inches. This is the only advan-
tage which this form of implement
has over the improved types. If
manufaceures of disk implements
will evolve a type of bog plow that
will turn the ground from six to eight
inches in depth, there is no doubt that
they would be immediately adopted
by the Chinese rice growers.
A number of trials were made in
the harvesting of rice with a five-foot
twine binder harvester, and it is be-
lieved that the Chinese rice growers
would adopt- this type of machinery
if they could secure a lighter machine.
end be liable to periodical outbreaks
is therefore not to be wondered at.
Indian voodooism, as practiced after
the fall of the Aztec empire, is really
nothing more than a continuation of
the old Aztec religion, the principal
feature of which was human sacrifice
The victims of the old Aztec priests
suffered death by having their hearts
torn out of their bodies by main force
After the Spanish had succeeded in
stamping out this barbarous practice
the Indian tribes, still adhering to the.
faith of their fathers, though nomi
nally Christian, took to sacrificing an
imals in the same manner that human
beings had formerly been sacrificed
and, like all primitive people, thought
to appease their gods best by sacrific
Ing that which was considered most
cherished.
In tearing out the animal's heart
the object to day is to get possession
of the blood contained in it. To thir
fluid are ascribed a number of miracu
lous properties of a disease combating
nature.
The authorities of this city and
county are in no mood to permit aa
noxious a practice as voodooism to
flourish under their very noses
Though a number of arrests have
been made, more important clews are
now being followed, and further de-
velopments are anticipated as a result
of the reward ottered.
Of all people the low-class Mexican
is the least able to withstand the lure
of money. Every effort will be made
to get the high priest of the cult into
the clutches of the law.
waiian rice, while largely of the gold
An investigation of the problems of seed type, is really a mixture of a
growth. An increase of 23 per cent,
of yield of paddy has already been
produced from only the second selec-
tions from individual plants. The ad-
vantage of this use of pedigree stock
of seed derived from a single parent
is greater uniformity in the size o
grain, the yield, and the time of rir
ening. The substitution of such pedi-
gree stock will tend tc decrease the
very large milling losses which have
been characteristic of the Hawaiian
rice industry. The ordinary Ha-
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panicle, heavy straw, good leafage,
and is of the type demanded by the
largest consuming trade in these is-
lands. Its milling qualities are very
much superior to those of any other
variety which has been produced in
the islands, the hulls approximating
only 20 per cent, of the total weight
of paddy, as compared with from 26
to 30 per cent, for the best Japanese
types, and 28 to 36 per cent, for the
ordinary Hawaiian variety. In addi-
tion to this Egyptian type three other
strains have shown marked superi-
ority to the ordinary Hawaiian-grown
rices. These are in order of merit, a
Philippine variety, a strain of the
gold seed from Georgia, and a Japan-
ese type, seed of which was secured
direct from Japan.
This Japanese variety produces a
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"John,” said Mr. Dawson’s mother
n-law, “what were you doing in the
corner drug store this morning?”
“How do you know I was in the
drug store?” John cautiously asked.
“I saw you as you were coming out."
"Oh, I went in to buy a postage
stamp.”
great many different types, so that to
get the best results in harvesting
some of the rice will be so ripe that
the grain shatters, while a portion of
the plants in the field have perhaps
barely attained a sufficient degree of
ripeness to warrant their being cut.
The losses in milling are due to the
varying sizes and types of grain and
their varying stages of maturity. The
miller sets his burrs to accommodate
the average size of grain in the run,
so that grains which are too large arc
broken and those which are smaller
than the average are insufficiently
milled, causing bad color in the prod-
uct.
The uniformity of grain will un-
doubtedly prove of greater impor-
tance than any other single factor in
the production of this crop. This un
iformity can be produced only by the
production of pedigree stock; that is,
stock derived originally from a single
parent plant.
Three varieties of dry land rice have
been selected from the original va-
riety collection. An interesting point
about these dry-land rices is that they
produce a better crop without irriga-
tion than with it. The value of dry
land rice is going to be not so much
the production of grain, because
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crop in three-fourths the time required
for the maturity of the Hawaiian va-
riety, provided it is transplanted from
the seed bed at the proper time. It is
of the Kiushu type, yields as heavily
as the Hawaiian variety, mills from
ten to 12 per cent better, produces
only about two-thirds the amount of
straw, and is therefore less exhaustive
on the rice lands. It is the type of
rice now most largely consumed in
Hawaii by the Japanese laborers on
the plantations. A further advantage
of the adoption of this variety will be
that two crops can be grown each
year, with a long rest between crops
to permit the drainage of the fields
and their better tillage and prepara-
tion. The station now has 50 pounds
of this seed on hand, and will probably
have 1,000 pounds at the end of the
next crop. The field was thoroughly
rogued and the strain is being propa
gated from the best Individual plants
of the whole field, thus laying the
foundation for the production of pedi-
gree rice.
The so-called Hawaiian ri is de-
rived from original gold seed, South
Carolina stock, the first rice cultivated
in Hawaii having been thus obtained.
, The Georgia variety, mentioned above;'
is hardly to be distinguished from* Ha-
waiian rice. ''A number of selections
have been made of individual plants
showing the best individual character- >
istlcs in yield of grain, form of pan-
icle. stalk, and leafage, and vigor of
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