The Albany News. (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, May 8, 1908 Page: 3 of 12
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KEEPING BEES OK FARM
A Neglected Industry Which Is Very
Promising.
Gilbert Allen, writing to Farm
find Kanch on thU subject, «avs: In
proportion to the population, the
number of people who keep bees is
very small, yet there is no branch
of farming—for it should be con-
nected with farming — more profit-
able at certain seasons than tho
keeping uf bees. A good strong col-
ony in the midst of the busy sea-
son will collect and store four or
live pounds or more of honev daily,
the amount of work done bv the
bees depending upon tlie forage and
the .strength of the colony. As soon
as" a" colony becomes' weak and in-
capable of defense it will lie attacked
by the stronger ones and robbed,
llence, iii older t<> keep each hive
Up to its iulk'>t eapaeitv, the bee
keeper must provide plenty .if, comb
foundations in <u d' r to le-seii the
work to be performed, and sow *uch
crops as will afford honey later in
the season, win 11 the flowers have
lniisiie.! blossoming.
1 he swarming' process is nothing
more than the departure of the obi
queen and her working bees, in or-
der to abandon the hive to the young-
er queen and bees, liy being on the
alert and hiving the swarms as thev
alight, the number of colonies um-
bo largely increased, but the weaker
colonies seldom swarm.. Moths usu-
ally attack the weaker colonies, and
only the stronger ones are able to
pass salely through the winter.
I lie common bees may be grad-
ually replaced with the Italian va-
rieties by removing the old queen
and substituting a th-w. fertilized
queen of the new variety preferred.
If she is carefully guarded in a small
cage for a few' days the' bees will
soon recognize her, and in the
course of a few months the, old be vs
will all be dead and the new ones
wiU be of tire desired variety. The
queen is compelled to lay numbers
of egg? daily in order to supply the
great loss constantly occurring by
destruction from birds, storms and
other diiliculties. . They should be
left plenty or honey for a winter
supply and the hives should be well
protected from storms.
\\ hat the bee keeper should aim
to do is to . sow such crops as will
enable the bivs to lav in a large sup-
ply of honey, and he can well af-
lord to do so if he has ;v number of
hive.s. At tjus season the bees find
plenty to do in working on the How,'
ers, but later will have to seek otli-
1 r means of sustenance.
I'.nterpri-iiig Li.. 0 kV-cpers combine
bee ;kecping w:.th poultry raising,
finding that a small piece of ground
may in that manner return large
profits. llow to manage bees we.l!
can not be. explained in a single ar-
ticle. All who. are interested should
lir<t make themselves familiar with
the .details before beginning bv
consulting authorities on the sub-
ject. That bee .keeping is a profit-
ably occupation, however, has been
fully demonstrated by mau who are
engaged in it.
any age, they have endurance under
(trying conditions and great stress of
labor, they are sure-footed, steady,
not rattle-head 1, active when well
bred and well nourished, and are
safer than horses. Of course, thev
are not stub elegant road animals,
■ but who nvds them for roadsters,
anyway? Their place is 011 the
| farm an! plantation, in the lumber
camp or mine. There never wa< a
{more tireless and faithful beast of
1 burden than the mule. Put him
I where you will and he is there to
work.. With ordinary good treat-
! merit he will buckle down to any job
j that would make a horse sav quit,
j The weakness of the horse i.s the
i foot. The strength of the mule is
; the foot. The weakness of the
horse us its fre-tfulness ani'ioved bv
' flies, etc. 1 hese things do not seem
to a fleet the mule \ery niu<h.' This
is. worth considering when cultivat-
ing com. The horse can't walk
straight and keeps'.turning to knock
SENATOR BAILEY LEADS
BY ABOUT 20,000 VOTES
ui'
mule
-11 t have
so' he :oe, right al ng.
Sighs for Shirt Tail Days.
Xo matter how old-you m t to be
you will never forget the barefoot
days.. How good it felt, in the
springtinm, when the johnnv-jump-
ups peeped out from beneath the
leaves and threw off their coverlet
of .-now, and old earth shook off
the shadows of winter, to take oil'
the shoes and stockings ! Just to wig-
gle the toes in the sand, to wade
iu the water, to walk on the green
grass, was happiness bevoiid descrip-
tion. 1 iivt there is the other side.
Ibnv vivid is the-recollection of the
morning when mother- Send vou to
town alter 2o cents worth of soap,
■*•0 cent- worth'of vinegar and
worth of oiigar, and \• • u were scur-
rying along -saving'"soup, soap, sug-
ar; sugar, soap;" so you would not
fail to remember, and as you- turned
the corner the second toe of the right
foot struck.a big rock and off came
the toe nail 1 Xor will vou forget
the. first horned frog that you
steped 011, and the feeling of'horror
that, swept over you. believing that
the thing would poison you. One
day you were playing marbles in the
favorite spot, near the old brick wall,
knuckles and bare knees wrinkled
and dirtv, a red ant crawled up your
leg and stung you just below the
bend of the knee.. Of course vou re-
member.—J K. Kansonie, m Cle-
burne Enterprise.
Dallas, May •>. — I p t > date com-
plete returns have b. 11 received
from 78 counties, an I \< r\ full re-
turns from all the reiuaining coun-
ties 111 Texas, which held primaries,
the Bailev ticket ha- llii,.">GS votes
and the Johnson tick, 1 :«.*»,7 to vote-,
making a majority of ?• •.si;» votes
for the Bailey ticket. The follow-
ing are the count:. - which have
made complete ret urn-:
Camp, Ca>s, 1 >111 i, Hopkins, La-
mar, Morris, lied i.' >.t, Angelina,
Harrison, Jasper. Shelby, tiregg,
Henderson, Kaufman, Husk, Van
Zand?. Collin, IJain-, levkwall, IV-
Witt, Brazos. ( ban 1,• (ialvotoli,
(Jrimes, Harris, I . (i oil/.ales,
IJetugio,- iVurle-oii. 1 I'-vvell, Wash-
ington, C'Vrvell. II -, t,. 11, Fall-.
McLennan. t•mam - 11. ..I; .l.>hu-
soii, Somervell, I '.on, I ;ir-oii,
\rcher, Arm>tr<»nu. iS.'nl-.r,' (''lav,-
Deaf Smith, L>eiit<• . li. . Ilai-.le-
man. Hartley, da... Kimv. Mon-
tague, Hall, Kanda}'. I'l'tcr,Wich-
ita, Wise, Young, I;, yar. Cillespie,
Lampasas, Ida,no. ,\b e'idbxh. Polk,
Eastland, Lubbock, \|art: n. Mitch-
ell, Nolan, Palo Pint- •. II.. .-us, Kun-
nels, Scheleicher, Si .iph.-ns; Tavlor,
Tom (ireen and Ward.
The returns from Dallas. Countv,
while not quite..complete, are almost
so, since but six verv -mall, boxes
are missing. The same may be said
of all other large counties from
which complete returns have not
been received. \\ hat is missing is
but a very small t'rac- >u of (be total
vote of these count
Johnson carried ..hIv thro. Cons
gressional districts. .■ Third. the
lentil and the Kb ■■■ mil. John-on
lo-t the l-'i fth or I >;i I" 1 - I »!.-t rict .. but
there is a pos.-ibi 1,1. titat the re-
turns vet to be r. ■■■ I fr
r" \
FARMERS' EDUCATIONAL
AND
CO OPERATIVE UNION
A LESSON IN FARMING.
I
OF AMERICA
I
When in doubt, go to the local.
As fast as you pull up one plant
!n the garden; plant another.
In education there Is conservatism
of power; in union there is strength.
The man who plants pigs instead of j
cotton is the man with the long head ;
Better get tip some plan to keep
the school going a litle longer if pos-
sible.
Make your I'niou worthy to stand .
by, and then through thick aiul thin
St.TTld t)> il.
The split log drag is good' every !
day in the year, and it is particularly ,
good today.
What are you doing about that pic- j
nic you local is going to give right '
soon? Get you neighbors interested ,
iu it.
■ — :
You only have to show people that
your I'nion is of benefit to you to
Induce them t'o become active mem
bers.
There is not a Southern State that j
could not raise all the navy beans j
that all of them use, yet there is not
a Southern State which raises all I
the beans that it uses alone.
i- tliis
,1 lent
RAISE MULES.
The Demand Is Always Good For Good
Mules.
In season and out of season we
have preached "raise mules" to Tex-
ans. The mule has built up the
Southland Empire, and he only
wants half>a chance to add to ita
greatness anil grandeur. Texas is
an empire in territory and resources.
"Turn Texas loose" and give the
mule a chance. On this subject
'"Successful Farming" says:
Consider the mule, my friend.
He toils much, and is always ready
for more work. He keeps liia feet,
stays by , his feed and returns good
for evil. The mule is a hybrid—
a cross between a horse and an ass.
He is neither, he is both. He pos-
sesses thhe good qualities of both
parents, though he differs from both
in physical and mental make-up.
Why not raise mules? They are sub-
ject to fewer diseases than horses,
they mature quicker than horses,
cost less to breed and raise, there is
always a readj demand for them at
It is the,deadly house tly toward
which mans.attention is directed at
this immediate tune, lie has stud-
ied the mosquito scientifically, seri-
ously ami thoroughly, and he knows
just how many people each mosquito
is capable of destroying, just how
long he lives and how many niem-
bers there are in his family. And
the study, while it hasn't materially
| affected the census report on mos-
I quito increase, has brought about
j means of shutting the mosquito out
J of the fight. Now science is busy
about the fly. It has been deter-
mined by scientific investigation and
reported to Coventor Hughes of
New York, that the great prevalence
of typhoid fever and the many forms
of intestinal ailments during the
summer are due entirely to the house
fly. It is from such complaints that
a greater number of deaths occur
in all North American cities than
from yellow fever and malarial ail-
ments which are transmitted by the
mosquito, hence the danger from the
fly becomes greater than the mos-
quito. It has also been determined
that one fly is capable of carrying
100,000 bacteria on his legs and in
his mouth at one trip. It has fur-
ther been determined that each fe-
male fly during the summer is the
progenitor of twelve generations,
and that each female lays 1000 eggs
in the course of her short life.
From which it is apparent that
one fly crop gets started there is no-
stopping them until cold weath-
er freezes them out. The point is
prevention. The stable is the place
where the big tly crop comes from,
and now is a good time to look after
things and use all possible means
to control a matter which is such
a menace to the health of the com-
munity.—Fort Worth Record.
district in ax v !tan_'
n - ult.
Returns b\ 1» -• r:■ t
While the figures _ *. n below ar"
subject , to -minor e.utiles, they are
generally fairly completi , and the
final difference will -be but slbditlv
changed:
Bailey Johnson
First restrict S,54j (j.S'JT
Second District ....... 7,302 f»,5(I
Third District ......... 5,247 7.121
Fourth -District ... . ... 11,.Vm
Fifth District 10,617 lo.l'.'.t
Sixth District ........ 5.951! 5,K.sS
Seventh District' ... ... 3.So:;. . 2.612
Righth District . ...».' .5.9".9 ij.7"0
Ninth District .. t.llH 2.W>
Tenth District ...5,ur.!V 5 s77 i
Eleventh Disttic't s. 175 17
Twelfth 1 list- icf . 9,i!64 7.75S
Thirteenth !>•-•: • r . . 1 ls7 7.561 '
Fourteenth Dint-; i 1 ... G,::ih; 5,1s;!.
Fiftecntli I >i : i -t 656 219 i
Sixteenth- I>i tri• . .•....IO.i'0'> ^:S,9i:i;l
Totals .116.JOS :v5,715 .
A BoQie Haven.
St. Louis, M ■ Hi tlbow t ;t\, the 1
,llat town w h-> b - _;.!•*u n up at'oiin I I
the.. Standard , Comp.fin's lievv -
re littery, it ^li t. miles .M'uit'h oi \ (ton,
is the vvett. !• •.'. n in I llinois, and.
because it is The' wetto-t i.i is al>o I
the richest1. I t b-'^au 'its 'coi-p,,irate
existence: M-ipdViy , iili eight' en reg-
istered votoiH .111.1 tweiu\-t'l 1 r<■ sa-
loons. Within t'i corporate limits
of l?eubow l itv (Mere are p> r-
sons and, one saloon f.n- e.-n-h tfiir-.
teen inhabit.tut-.
It ought to be a reasonable cause [
for throwing any member out who
will raise mongrel chickens, stock or
crops. In fait, no good I'nion man i
will have mongrels of any sor.t.
The time w ill have to come w hen j
all men will have the same right to ,
a place on eaitti whi.h nature sol
kindly gave all her children. I.and )
monopoly is the ■greatest curSe the !
world has to contend with todav.,
Yoil are too busy now to listen to 1
the calamitv howler. The farmers
that are of any account are all tuak-
tug their living at home, and the ca-
lamities are of no direct interest to !
them.
As-scwn as th'' cholera breaks out
among your chickens, cut off the heads
of all affected fowls, burn their' bod ;
ies and get a new roosting and dust- "
ing place for the balance of the tlock. '
This always, cares the disease.
Don't fall cut with your neighbor
because lie has' not even yet become 1
a member of the Union. It may be J
that your loc ;1 is so slow about do-
ing anything that he has been un- 1
able to see the advantage to him of
coming In. .
Arkansas (Conway) I'nion Tribune:
It seems like a nervy thing for a
man who is $1000 in debt and no
money on hand to buy a farm, but
that is what was done by C. M. Flem
ing of Saline County, Ark., and he
succeeded in paying for his farm out
of crop proceeds in the space of five
years.
It was in 1S95 that Mr. Fleming
bought the 96-acre sandy hill farm on
which he has since lived. At that
time he was not only $1000 in debt,
but had no money and had to be fur-
nished with team, tools, implements
and supplies. It was an unpromising
beginning, yet by.reason of hard worK>
intelligent planning and good manage-
ment he paid for this farm in five
years.
Mr. Fleming is not an all-cotton
farmer, but believes in diversification.
He had t>5 acres in cultivation, di-
vided usually about as follows:
Ten acres are in cotton, 12 acres
in cfirn." 25 acres in pease for pea
hay, followed by oats, which is Cut for
hay, 2 acres in watermelons. 2 acres
in cantaloupes, 2 acres in Irish po-
tatoes. 2 acres in sweet potatoes, anJ
the re.st, or about lo acres, in peas,
part of w hich, are in drills and part
broadcast. This last ten acres fur-
nishes some hay and all the seed for
the next year. I'eas are also planted
between the corn rows at the last cul-
tivation and"are hogged down.
It is Mr. Fleming's practice to raise
all his supplies of hay, com and meat,
and he usually has a surplus of $150
worth of hay to sell every year. The
average yield of pea hay is about
one ton per acre, and of oat hay near-
ly as much, and the price received la
usually about $15 per ton.
Mr. Fleming's land is mostly quite
sandy and rolling or slightly hilly. Its
fertility is naturally inferior, and it
washes badly if given a chance. The
washing, however, is checked by deep
plowing (breaking) and by the crops
of hay which bind the soil particles.
He uses 'all t he manure made on his
farm and buys some Commercial fer-
tilezers, particularly for his vege-
tables. He breaks his land fiat and
practices shallow cultivation.
Mr. Fleming is a reading farmer
and a man who studies his business,
He does not believe that success in
farming depends entirely or mainly
on "main strength and awkwardness,"
but that there is such a thing as sci-
entific farming lie believes in and
practices diversification. He also
plants his crops so that his work will*
be distributed throughout the year.
Mi; Fleming has a wife and two
small children. He says that his suc-
cess would have been greater if he
had not been troubled so much with
ill health.
The above is a good lesson, and
we deem it a Very important lesson,
COTTON SEED PRODUCTS AS
FEED.
Judged bv the number of t'nicn
papers s,printing up all over the coun-
try, there' is no dearth of literary
-ambition anung the ■•'•brethren. How.
will it be tin.- fall when the.prizes for
best fai 111 trii k are distributed among
the farmers''
Sulphur Springs' new *-,».5,oOo |
school house w as opened to .the. pub- |
lie last Friil,iv niuht.
Cotton Planting In Brown.
'|
• Brown wood: Since the recent
floods, which de-troyed all crops in
the bottoms; the fanners arc busy
in 'preparing and putting in cbfton.
which will mean many thousand-
more acres in cotton, than was, at 1
first thought would be put in the.
fleecy staple. .The fanners think it
would be too late to plant corn, and •
as the bulk of the bottom ground
was in corn, wheat and oats, all ibii j
ground will be put in cotton.
Indictment of State Senators.
Little Rock. Ark.: Tho indict-
ments returned by the Grand durv
charging State Senators with per jury
and bribery were served, over the
State .last Saturday, (i. orue. Fbiy.1,
a member (if the Senate iu lHti.5 and1
11M>7, was arrested at his bo.n;e di
Danville, charged with perjurv. il"
gave bond. Warrants are -m! IVr live
other Senators charging briber .
OUT OF THE GINGER JAR.
Farm Journal:
Farmers are the hicst' generous of
men. After butchering they always
give a hog a weigh. .
Hob: ."See', that accident?'" Bill,:
"What accident?" Bob: "That cowslip
011 the law u."
Do not buy all the machinery for
yourself; remember your wife's bur-
dens might be lessened also.
"Can a lady manage this horse?'' in-
quired the prospective buyer. "Well,
yes," replied the dealer, "but really 1
v ouldn't care to be the lady's hus-1
band."
This Is the season when farmers
are obliged to make everybody ami
everything hustle. They even work -
the butter.
There are many men who, no matter
how tired they are, seem to take a
pleasure in going away down the road
to meet trouble.
The lecturer began bis remarks }
with: "Once there was a sensible
woman," when he was interrupted by
a good mother 011 the back row, who
retorted: "All women are sensible,
though some doubtless have more
lense than others.'' Whereupon the '
lecturer revised his remarks.
It was Emerson that advised man to
hitch his wagon to a star, but the as-
tronomers have not advised us wheth-
er the star will staud still longenougn '
to te hitch«d.
Don't get too much wrapped up in
some ollice you are not running for j
in this campaign. It might hurt the
man who is running for it. He usu-
ally has enough of his own sins to
answer for without any of yours.
The middleman^ is all .right in hia i
place. It is wh^tPhe reaches out and j
tries to overlap both ends that he be-
comes offensive.
A Correspondent to Southern Culti-
vator asktK 1 have some mules and
they go to my cow-stalls and eat the
meal and hulls. How would this uo
as a feed for' them?' Would it be bene--
rifi.it for them 01 injurious? Please let
me know in your next issue of tha
Cultivator."
To which the editor replies: "Cot-
tonseed hulls and meal can be fed to
horses and mules., It wilt be much
better to- give about four pounds of
bran to ever> twenty pounds of hulls.
If hulls were cheap as they used to ba
it might 11 rove an economical feed,
itowever. it1 is best to raise hay and
p.,a\ iness for your horses and not de-
pend upon cottonseed hulls. We do
hot know the effect that continued
feeding of hulls would have oa the
stomach and digestion of a horse, but
do not think it would be as wholesome
as good hay A farmer should grow
this and not buy it. If you have all
your feed to buy yOU' can try the hulls
and meal, but the more wheat bran you
mix With them the better your mules
will thrive."
TOPICS OF THE SEASON.
Farm Journal.
By taking a little time, some wet
day, to study the mechanism of thu
mower and binder and other farm' ma-
chinery, you may save yourself the
delay of sending to a'shop or to the
factory for repairs or adjustments you
might make yourself
Plant plenty of pumpkin seeds this
year. Not the great big overgrown
kind, but common, every day field
pumpkins. They are fine for man and
beast. A few pie pumpkins will come
in handy: best for pie timber of any-
thing in the world. '
Do not become discouraged because
thy tree insect pests are numerous
and persistent, but Keep on planting
trees. Science will.eventually come to
our relief. Suppose we had all stopped
planting potatoes when the Colorado
beetle came to stay"
If there is anything that makes life
011 the farm seem hard and full of
aches and paius, it is trying to get
along- with dull tools. Grind them, fel-
low fanners. It takes but a few min-
utes to sharpen the scythe, axe or
other tool that you are to work with.
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