Brenham Daily Banner (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 16, 1912 Page: 4 of 8
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BRENHAM DAILY BANNER
Published Daily and Weekly by
the brenham banner publishing company
GEO. A. T. NEU Business Manager
WM. M. CATHRINER Advertising Manager
JOS. CATHRINER Manager of Plant
FRANK EBERLE, Editor.
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Address all business communications and make all
checks, drafts and money orders payable to The
Brenham Banner Publishing Company.
Address all other communications, news items and
articles for publication to Editor of Brenham
Banner.
Entered as second-class mall matter at the Post-
office at Brenham, Texas.
BRENHAM'S MAIFEST.
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HOM EAND FARM TJPS
The glorious advent of spring has been cele-
brated in Brenham for many years by a great
Maifest in which the entire town participates,
custom and the merry month of May is enjoyed
wherever there is a German settlement. It is
such a delightful custom that all nationalities
join with the Germans in having happy May
festivals every year.
The Brenham Maifest has become so noted
and so popular that it is one of the important
events of the year for that part of the state ex-
tendin gfor many miles around Brenlums, Tn«
year the Maifest is going to be of special in-
terest and its attractions of extraordinary
merit. The people of Brenham are determined
to make their Maifest better and better. They
realize its value as an advertising medium and
they have made it a great drawing card to at-
tract people to their town from various parts of
the state. They regard this event as one of the
gala occasions to which they can look forward
for months.
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On Maifest days Brenham dons holiday at-
tire and sets business aside for pleasure.
Stores, banks, shops, and early all lines of trade
close up on the afternoon of the Maifest days.
It is a proper relaxation and recreation ,and the
town and the country are the better for it.
Maifest brings many strangers to Brenham
and this year the visitors will probably be more
numerous than ever. They will be accorded a
good itme and every one of them wil doubtless
become a Brenham booster.
DUTCH BANKING
From the Progressive Farmer.
One of the most interesting developements in
Dutch banking of recent years is the announce-
ment of an increase of the cauital of the Rotten-
damsche Bankvereeniging (Rotterdam Banking
Union). This instution was formed as recently
as the middle of 1911, with a statutory capitol
of 25,000.000 florins, of which 14,000,000 flor-
ins have been issued. It represented the fusion
of two old established Rotterdam banks, the
Rotterdamsche Bank and the Deposito and Ad-
ministratie Bank which latter was familiarly
known as the Standard Oil Bank. Soon after the
business of the Amsterdam firm of Determeyer,
3Ve$lingh & Zoon was taken over and an Am-
sterdam office opened.
The present increase of the issued capitol by
6,000,000florins to 20,000,000florins is the out-
come of negotiations concluded with the big So-
ciate Generale in Paris, in consequence of which
this institution takes 5,000,000 florins of the
new shares firm. In connection with this trans-
action the Rotterdamsche Bankvereeniging will,
in agreement with the Societe Generale and the
Societe Francaise de Banque et de Depots in
Paris, takes over, as from April 1 next, the
Rotterdam office of the latter. The details of the
offer of the remaining 1,000,000 florins shares
have not vet been disclosed, but it is understood
that a syndicate will be formed to underwrite
the same.
The consummation of the above deal will un-
doubtedly considerably enhance the prestige
and strength of the Dutch institution, and com-
mendation must be accorded to the skill of its
board, who have thus not only succeded in elim-
inating a rival which might, with its influential
backing, have become a powerful competitor,
but at the same time have secured the support
of one of the most powerful institutions in
France, which will surely lead to a mutually
profitable exchange of business. For the past
year the Rotterdamsche Bankvereeniging has
just declaredits initial dividend, which amounts
to 8 per cent after liberal allowance for depre-
ciation.
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So lad, we have failed, maybe,
And the other boys may pass
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But we've found a lesson for you and me
That's finer than one in class;
We've learned what the bitter tear *. *
We've learned the need of a word of
And the sorrow of boys may be, ''
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So we haven't failed, you see! '*I
Tobacco stems and dust, or the refuse from
tobacco and cigar factories is excellent mate-
rial to put in nests for the laying hen and some
can be sprinkled on the floor or mixed with the
litter
When breeding horses the aim should be to
produce the one that will bring the largest prof-
" it.. If cheaper animals are desired, sell the high-
er priced animal and buy the cheaper grade.
Grass and good livestock go together. Where
one is found, the other is almost certain to be.
The farmer from other sections is very likely
to comment unfavorably on the poor stock of
the South and the bare and brush and weed-
grown fields. Probably no other one thing has
done more to discourage immigration from
other sections than has the endless strtch of
bare fields which the winter traveler sees
througout the Cotton Belt. Yet the cotton-far-
mer has to fight grass with all his might to
keep it from growing. Isn't it time for a change
of policy?
The man who gets the most out of his corn
is not the man who seeks to convert it at once
into money, but the man who uses it, in connec-
tion with other feeds, to build up h'is farm
through the feeding of good livestock. The man
whose corn crop goes into the silo does not get
any immediate cash returns for it, but he prob-
ably makes more out of it in the long run than
the man who handles it any other way.
You would like for that boy of yours to grow
up with a love for good livestock, wouldn't you?
Then give him a pig or a calf—a half interest
in one at least.
Pine fence posts can be made to last longer
by coating the parts in the ground with coal-tar
or by burning the part to go in the ground so
as to make a coat of charcoal on the outside.
The claim that the purebred animal is less
valuable or desirable than the grade or the
scrub because he will not stand hardships so
well, is fallacious because the business of live-
stock is not to stand hardships. It is the busi-
ness of the farmer to protect his livestock from
hardships and to the extent he does so the
greater will be his profits.
Doesn't it make you feel a little proud of
yourself when your neighbor who hasn't a
green spot on his place, rides by your
farm and can't take his eyes off your fresh,
velvety, juicylooking field of clover? A clover
field is usually an advertisement that a good
good farmer lives nearby.
If you are using one horse, use one section
and harrow your corn at least once a week, or
better, twice a week, till it is at least four inch-
es high, crossing each time. Don't be afraid
that you will hurt the corn, although it may
look like it is tearing the corn all-up, it won't
hurt it
Continue to give everything in the garden
frequent and shallow cultivation. Cultivate at
least once per week, and as soon after each rain
as the soil is dry enough. Never let a crust form
on the soil in the garden, even if you have to
cultivate three times per week to prevent it.
Don't keep chickens and ducks in the same
yards. They must be handled differently to give
the best results. Ducks need moist mash food
and good grass runs. ,
A LESSON OF SCHOOL.
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So you failed in your class, my lad?
You couldn't quite make the mark?
You failed—and you feel so blue and sad
And all of the world looks dark?
You lost, nad your heart is sore,
And you wish you could go and cry?
Well let us not worry a minute more
Or give it another sigh.
You failed, and you stand in fear
Of the things that the boy will say?
Why there isn't a boy who is worth a
tear
For it isn't to win that's good
And it isn't the head held high,
But to know you did the best you could,-
But knows he may fail some day.
And the best we can do is try.
You failed and you know how sad
And what did you say to them, my lad,
When you knew that their hearts were
Were the ones who have failed before;
sore?
: Did you come to them, near and near,
With a kindly word and a smile, >
And bid them dry that very tear
That come to you after a while? ' "
, Ah yes—you didn't know TI
What it meant to the ones who lost;
, And maybe you said some boy was slow !
And you didn't count the cost
Of the sorrow it was to him
When he heard what his fellows said,
But you know it now, when your eyes are
dim
And the sorrow is yours instead.
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You can start a city but it takes a capitol to
make it go.
To be progressive is to hold the card of entree
to the money bags of capitol.
The majority of visitors notice the condition
of a city's streets and sidewalks the first thing,
few and far between, they usually take the first
If the streets are ungempt and the sidewalks
train back.
Good roads are more essential than million
dollar court houses, the one benefits the masses,
the other the classes.
A commercial organization is the backbone
of a city. It builds factories, advocates home in-
dustry and is in favor of every movement that
makes for the progress and upbiulding of the
city.
The success of the city depends on the pro-
gressiveness of its citizens.
Keep a pushing and a pulling, and it will not
be long before others join in and help lighten
the burden.
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SAVE SEED CORN FOR NEXT YEAR.
Careful experimentaiton and investigation
covering a period of ten or fifteen years has
satisfactorily proven that Texas grown soecl
produced in the neighborhood where it is to be
planted is the safest, best and most productive
that can be used.
As almost every one knows tt>3 silk on riie
cob before the corn is formed is simply a hollow
tube leading to the cob and cannot produce a
£rain of corn unless it is fertilized by the pol-
len or fine dust .that falls in great profusion
from the ripening tassel. If conditions are fa-
vorable for crop growing and the stalk that
bears the ear is well bred and vigorous and the
stalk that bears the pollen is its equal or super-
ior in these desirable qualities, then great ears
•iiid full plum pgfains are the fcappv results.
But if either party to this union lacks in these
qualifications then the results are not satisfac-
tory.
Every corn grower can greatly increase his
next year's yield by a careful system of cultiva-
tion and selection from his own crop this ses-
sion. This is very harmful to allow positive in-
breeding with corn, that is, to allow the pollen
from the tassel of a given stalk to fertilize the
silk on the ear of the same stalk. To prevent
this, choose a few acres of the very best of your
corn where all conditions are favorable, good
stand, good growth, etc. Mark off, say thirty
rows, about the center of this good patch sev-
enty steps long and pull off the tassel from <
every weak or inferior stalk in the first row to
prevent pollen from these rusty stalks from
fertilizing the silk of your strong stalks and
thus dwarfing the corn. In fact, it would pay
big to go over the entire corn field and pull out
th etassels of every feeble stalk. Thin the corn
in row number two to one goo dStalk to the hill,
stalks in this row and detasseling all weak
stalks i nthis row and detasseling or pulling
out the taSsel from all of the stalks.
As the even rows in this patch are to be your
seed producers every stalk must be a good one.
Treat row number three and all other rows of
odd number as you did number one and treat
all other rows of even number as you did num-
ber two. To be sure that no mistakes are made
watch the corn closely for five or eight days
after the first tassel appears, as some of it may
tassel earlier tha nthe balance. See that these
few acres are carefully and frequently culti-
vated, aiming as near as possible to keep the
top soil for about one and a half inches deep,
well pulverized practically all the time until the
grains are hard on the cob.
When this corn is ready to gather, pull and
keep for seed the best ears on the strong stalks
in the even rows where the tassels have all been
pulled, as these ears will have been cross fertil-
ized, that is, fertilized from the pollen not o 1
their own but of their strong neighbor stalks, n
In gathering these ears for seed it will pay to
give preference to the goose-necked ears, that
is, those that have bowed their heads. The fact
that they have turned over instead of standing
upright indicates, in the first place, that they
are heavy and in the second place that their
shranks are comparatively weak. It is desir-
able of course ty perpetuate the heaviest ears,
and it is also desirable to perpetuate the tend-
ency of the ear to turn down when it ripens, as
this insures perfect protection of the grain by
the shuck from the rain that woud otherwise
run into the ear and to some extent damage it.
Hang this corn in a dark, dry place to pre-
serve it carefully for the next season's planting.
Repeat this breeding process fro myear to year
and thi salone, other conditions being, will add
twenty-five to forty per cent to the value of
your corn. Tr yit.
HENRY EXALL,
President Texas Industrial Congress.
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Lord Jesus, thou hast known
A mother's love and tender care:
And thou wilt hear, while for my own
Mother most dear I make this birthday pray-
er.
Protect her life I pray,
Who gave the gift of life to me;
And may she know, from da? to day,
The deepening glow of life that comes from
thee.
As once upon her breast t
Fearless and well content I lay.
So let her heart, on Thee at rest,
Feel fears depart and troubles fade away,
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Her every wish fulfill; f "
And even if thou must refuse
In anything, let thy wise will
A comfort bring such as kind mothers use.
1 can not pay my debt
For all the Jove that she has given;
But thou, Lord, will not forget
Her due reward—bless her in earth and
heaven.—Henry Van Dyke.
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WHEN THE AD MEN COME TO TOWN
Houston is making extensive preparations to
enter the advertising men this week.
Come kll ye men of Houston, J \
Get ready for the crowd, \ \
We'll make the ad man welcome, i
In tones lusty and loud.
We'll show them our great city,
And turn them o'er its keys,
We'll give to them whate'er they want,
To do with as they please.
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We'll tell them of our waterway,
From Houston to the Bay,
i Where ships fro mevery foreign land
Will sail along some day. *
We'll show them Sa nJacinto's field,
Where Texans won renown,
And make them love the "Lone Star State"
When the ad men come to town.
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We'll show them our Main highway,
With its handsome, charming homes,
We'll show them archictectual homes,
Excelling all of Rome's
Great mansions that all men admire,
No matter whence they come,
And all around these charming homes
The streets are on the bum.
We'll show them all these pretty things, '
But not our unpaved ways,
Whose long neglect and waxy mud,
Recall Old village days.
We'll show them Houston, grand and big,
With very high priced ground,
We'll show them progress everywhere,
When the ad men come to town.
We'll show them our sky scrapers tall,
Splendid, stately grand,
Like those on New York's great Broadway
And those on London's Strand.
We'll not tell them what rent we pay,
Because of landlord greed, v
How few the habitations are,
Compared to what we need.
But not the salary-loaning banks,
With surplus to millions grown,
But not the saolary-loaning banks,
That make wage earners morn.
We'll be ashamed to show these sharks,
Or the victims that they drown,
We'll keep this outrage hidden well,
When the ad men come to town.
We'll show where the street cars run,
Then lead them all away,
Lest while they wait to catch a car,
They might grow old and gray.
We'll take them in our auto cars,
And toss them up and down,
Along.our rugged, holey streets,
When the ad men come to town.
We will not let them telephone
And sleeping Central wake;
They'd weary of wrong numbers,
Until their heads would ache, 1
But when we've shown them what we have, <
The good, the bad and all 1
They'll tip their hats to Houston,
And give that burg the call.
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The movement o fthe cotton crop is an inter-
national transaction. It demands the use of the
best and most moder nbanking facilities. Under
present conditions it calls for the transfer of
cash to an unnecessary extent. If it were lawful
fo rour banks to accept drafts for their custom-
ers—and so create bankers' bills—and there
were some co-operative banking agency with
facilities for doing business abroad, bankers'"
bills would supplant the promissory note, the
draft wit hbill of lading attached and other
cumbersome methods. The cotton crop would
be moved easily without embarrassment to
plantes, and without staining me credit facili-
ties of soutern banks. Until/neans are pro-
vided for a scientific use of /he jfiachinery of
credit in effecting the mo^ment of cotton,
southern planters must continue to pay tribute
to New York and London for the movement Of
their cotto nt omarket.
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Eberle, Frank. Brenham Daily Banner (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 16, 1912, newspaper, May 16, 1912; Brenham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth483543/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Library Consortium.