The Grand Saline Sun. (Grand Saline, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 4, 1915 Page: 4 of 8
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Published evSiy Thursday mornli _
F.ntnrod at the postefflee at Grand
Suline, Te\ , as second-class matter.
SUBSCRIPTION,.$1
Advertising rates furnished upon
application. Four weeks constitute
u month on all advertising contracts.
THURSDAY, FEB 4. 1915
HIM! 9 THOUSAND
FOLDtRS PUBLISHED
dozen small a larga crop of grain.
With a wall cultivated garden,
with eggs, chickens, '.'pork and
Irish and sweet potatoes raiaad at
home and grain and hay for hla
teams raised b.v himself the cot-
the inclina-! ton grower will find that most of
two dozen his need for credit will ihave been
hens, it is easv to raise 200 chick- met by himself. He should plow
ens during the summer. Chick- the land for field crops two inches, marketed,
ens well fed are ready to eat in deeper than it has been plowed be-
eight weeks from hatching. The fore to get soil that has not been
eggs will save buying much bacon worfl out. This will make a deep
through the spring and as soon as cul- m ^'s fertilizer bill.
,oan pjck up half thair
n fdf gsnsrously to
emainder, will produceJ
at of not over 5o a
e hens should be set
as they show
Starting with
bc
condition throughout tho country
of oaoh special orop that ho grows,
so that ha might judge in what
markets .there will bo a shortage
and where there will be an over-
supply. The cotton grower knows
none of these things. He can not
afford to lose in 1915. There-
fore he should raise crops easily
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Dumdum bullet* ere barbarous. So
la war.
INFORMATION PREPARED FOR
USWn ‘ LET TEXAS FEED
CAMPAIGN
One hundred thousand folders
*jnve been published by the Texas
Industrial Congress at the request
of the committee of the Dallas
business men engaged in the
"Let Texas Feed Itself" cam-
paign. They set out in detail what
crops a farmer should plant, and
how they should be cared for in
order to assure an abundance of
feed and hod for Texas without
the necessity of importing those
at tides lor 1915.
The folders were intended for
use by the business men, and are
of convenient si/.e and shape for
mclosure in the ordinary business
envelope. Those companies or
individuals desiring to co-operate
in the campaign will be furnished
the folders by William G. Berg,
chairman of the committee.
The folder is entitled "Feed
Your Family and Your Stock in
1 915." and is as follows:
The cotton grower should in
1915. produce the food for his
family and the feed for his stock.
Then the bill at the store will be
only a few dollars and the farmer
will be comfortable financially
even though cotton does not
bring over 5c a pound. The cot-
ton grower should never take a
dollar from the sale of cotton to
buy either food or feed.
For the Family.
The cotton grower should plant
one-half acre in garden, putting
everything in rows thirty inches
apart so that mo6t of the work can
be done with a one-horse cultiva-
tor. As soon as one crop is eaten,
p'ant another in its place. In this
wav two or three crops of vegeta-
bles will be grown from the same
ground on much of the land. A
garden of this siire, well tended, will
supply all the fresh vegetables a
large family can eat for eight to ten
months and enough for canning to
furnish pickles, preserves and
canned vegetables every meal
through the winter. Just $4 75
will buy all the seed needed,and if
the work is well done, the garden
will furnish more food than can be
bought at a store for $200; as
much as the average ten aores
of cotton will buy.
The cotton grower should plant
half an acre to Irish potatoes early
in the spring.
The cotton grower should plant
half an aore to tweet potatoes.
The seed to produce the plant for
this acreage should not ooet over
$S.t0. Under this plan it will take
owe and a half aores for garden
aod Irish and aweet potatoes, and
,tho total coat for seed will not bo
to rente
ohouid get the uao ef this amount
‘' agreeing to deliver to
notion raiaad
Cub Crop*.
Alter food and feed have been
provided for, the remainder of the
land may be safelv planted in cot-
tin. Unless extraordinary, unex-
the young "frys" are ready to eat
the need to buy meat stops.
The cotton grower should have
one sow to raise pigs to furnish
meat for his family.
A good sow that has two litters pected favorable conditions occur
a year will raise ten to sixteen pigs, otton will have to be sold next
The sow and the first litter of pigs Ml at a low price, but if he has no
.tore bills, the cotton grower will j
not be hurt so badly from a low
nrice from his staple crop as he
was in 1914.
It «ould seem that it would be
safer and wiser to raise for cash
What a piker old Napoleon
anyhow..
was.
can be kept on the waste from the
Kitchen, pasture or green stuff,
cut and thrown to them, and five
or six pounds of grain a day until
the farmer can raise the crops to
‘eed more heavily. The p gs will
furnish bacon, ham, shoulder, fresh m ops part cotton and part corn,
The place to w ear a smile la on the
outside of the fane.
Our notion of hard luck la to fish for
flah and catch a carp.
You never hear u loud talker declare
he lias nothing to say.
A vaulty hag covers a multitude of
•Ins of the complexion.
At playing havoc London militant*
now look like amateurs.
i jrk and lard at an actual cost of
one-fourth of what an equal
j amount of as good meat can be
bought at the store.
The cotton grower who follows
; this plan will have to buy for his
table only sugar, coffee, salt, pep-
per, flour and meal, and if he is
thrifty he will have a surplus of
garden truck or some eggs or a
few chickens that he can trade for
these so that at setting time in
the fall he will not owe a dollar
for food.
For the Mules.
The cost of feeding the work
horses and mules can be reduced
considerably by giving each anirru
• me pound of cottonseed n^al in
the morning- and one pound at
li ght. The two pounds of cotton
s ed will take the
founds of corn. Two pounds
cottonseed meal daily is as much
us the inexperienced feeder should
give a worx animal, it should be
fed well mixed with shelled corn,
coaise corn chops or oats.
The cotton grower who has
Spanish peanuts, cured tops and
nuts together, needs no other feed
for teams doing hard work. The
tops furnish the hay and the nuts
the grain. Teams will keep in
K-tffir or Spanish peanuts. Span*
m i peanuts are particularly adapt-
e l to thin, sandy land and worn
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on’, upland. The nuts will bring ,
from $20 to $60 an acre on such
land and the hay from the tops is
usually worth the cost of raising
the crop. On sandy land, Spanish
peanuts properly grown will return
more cash an acre than cotton
even in years when cotton brings
a high price. Peanuts can be |
marketed as earlv as cotton. The J
richest hay grown is that madef
from Spanish peanuts, the tops
and nuts cured together. It will j
sell in southern markets for as \
much or more than the best quali- !
ty of alfalfa. The farmers on
heavy lands can grow peanuts for
feed and on sandy lands for j
place of four marketine- In this way not over|
j half the acreage in a state will be'
1 marketed for the nuts.
! Much of the upland in the cot-
ton district is adapted to Kaffir,
milo or feterita. These grains
will probably be high next season
in sympathy with corn and oats
and a cotton grower on upland can
afford to raise them for cash crops.
Some strains of Kaffir produce
filteen to twenty-five bushels an
acre, while others the same season
In the great international ekes*
game peaHantR are the pawns.
Misfortune generally overtakes the
soldier of fortune. It seldom falls.
What will the newspapers look like
'when thlH European war Is over?
The man who talks In his sleep la
much more entertaining than .a snorer.
At least, the Swiss navy will not
do anything to complicate the situa-
tion
Borne men become aviators tand go.
up In the air. Others merely glet mar-
ried.
Bibles are being hurried to the front,
Instead ot to the men who started the
war.
Oon’t snarl,
the nsjment
wrtfikleu.
It spoils your eyes'for
and enlarge* your
J K. P. BOWEN ‘
Physician
4 and Surgeon
Office at W. L. Snow’s Drug Store
Offlse phone 75. Res. phone 15
.ibson & Qibson
Real Estate igjj
and Insurance U
Office on South Spring Street
Phone No. 58. ,. v
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'AT M. CKAWE^)RD
Lawyer
- ' ORANdJsALINE, TEXAS
Office up stairs in the Meeks Build
ing, cor. Main and Frank streets
V8
pHARLEY SMITH
All kinds of
Watch, Clock & Jewelry Repairing
in first class style. At Clark 6a
Fail’s Drug Store.
V.
B. COZBY, M. D.
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Physician
and Surgeon
Ollice at Clark &i Fail's Drug Store
There la not any tierce oompatltlon
that orro can notice for the Nobel
peace prize.
The new hairdressing etyles are
not mullah, but the women are expect
ed to show their enrs.
Personally, we do not believe that
discarded straw hats make good break
Oast food,'even for cowl
good condition doing tho heaviestI on the same kllld of soil and with
kind of farm work if they are giv-
en plenty of this peanut feed.
the same kind of cultivating yield
fifty to eighty bushels an acre.
Sudan grass is a new crop from ' The cotton *rower should secure
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which the farmer can get an early
crop ol hay. The seed is planted
just after corn planting is finished.
Plant in rows thirty to thirty-six l
inches apart, dropping single seeds
six to eight inches in the row. I
Plant with a one-horse cotton!
planter, taking a blank plate and '
drilling holes in it at the right dis-
tance and of the right si/,9. Cov-
er the seeds one and one-half to
two inches deep. Two pounds of
seed are needed tor an acre and
an acre in a fair season will yield
three to five tons of hay. With a
favorable rainfall Sudan grass yields
four cuttings of hay during the
season. The crop will be ready to
out the first time in eight to
Mo weeks after planting.
Kaffir on thin land yields more
grain than corn. It la the grain
orop to raise for work horooe and
muioo on tho upland in tho cotton
growing diatriot of Totao. The
tends should bo fod without thrash-
ing. Pl»nt tho dwarf, blank hulled
Kefltr In rowo three nod
feet sport and drop ooodo
there vdl he throe
the high yielding strains.
Corn is going to be high next
fall an I the cotton grower who
has land and climate adapted to
corn had better plant all he can
handle well.
Diversify With Staple Crop*.
In e ery cotton growing com-
munity as soon as diversified farm-
ing is seriously considered, the
farmers and business men begin
to plan for garden truck, melons,
potatoes, and small fruit. Let
these crops alone. Raise staple
crops like corn, Spanish peanuts,
Kaffir arid hay, crops thrt are not
perishable, that require no special
skill in shipping and for which
there is a large demand through-
out the country.
It requires muoh experience to
produce the quality m garden
truck that will make It sell at a
profit. Often when thee# special
orops are poor in quality they can
not be sold for enough to pay tha
freight. The grower must put up
theas special crops in just tb«
kind of a package wanted by the
How to get‘your name in the paper*.
Take a trip to Europe and come back
uod tell yqfur experiences.
This war teas all the ’modern Im-
provements. Both side* can win great
victories In the same battle.
When, a woman Insists on having
ybur (undid opinion about anything,
jkou'd better agree with her.
It may have been noticed that tew
ot the fashionable honeymuun plans
are Including a trip to Europe.
I «aot gtalks af
particular market to i
M you ar th«y ars sold at
Modfcru bullet* are advertised a*
iiakJnjg a clean, neat bole through a
man, I ait satisfaction Is not guaran-
teed
The swatting campaign has had It*
effect; flies are fewer than ewer be-
fore Edit at that they are not.**,scarce
as bufljiloes.
Homegrown llmburger cheese will
have to answer for the present Any-
way, It 1* * difficult matter to smell
the diff^renco.
In the meantime the billiard cham-
pionship changes hands as often *»
does • Oestrsl American state> and at-
tract* no more attention.
A doctor aaya women should whis-
tle If they would b# beautiful. A Ust
contradiction of the old theory that
handsome la as handsome dost.
Om of the charming thing* about
the mlgtsry flyiag machine la that It
usually drops bombs where th«y hart
nobody (Me of the htdsou* tMsga
about tt la that It eo oftan drops tha
flior.
Sleep, oaby/dear.
There will come food and warm
Soon.to us here.
Far from a’distant land,
Over the sea,
Ships are a-sailing, babe,
To you and.me.
—New York
Wouldn't.Soare Ml at.
‘‘Why didn’t you toot your
if you'Tsaw the man in thg re
ahead?”
“I. figured" replied the chaufifev
“that it would be more merciful
if he never knew what atrufl
him.’’—Judge.
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Coalfields of tho World.
Tho world’s coalfields cover at least
-110,000 square miles.
Listening.
Magistrate—1 understand
you overheard the quarrel betwi
tha defendant and hit wife?
Witness—Yet, air.
Magistrate—Tell me, Ifyc
what ha teemed to be doing.
Witneee—He teemed to
doing the Intoning, eir.—1
Monthly.
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Chas. l Hubbard Richey D. Alexanbei *, 1
HUBBARD & ALEXANDER |
LAWYERS j
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Upstairs above Neil Bros.’ Drug ■ B
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Store, i Office & Residence <J|
Telephones. .jaffifll
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A Belgian Lullaby. A
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Hush, cease your^hungry cry, JHH
(Sleep, baby mine. '9
Your father fights tonighf 4B
„On the battle line. |fl
Far from a distant land | f-;^B
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Over the sea,
Ships are !a-sai!ing babe, "
id ^
To you and me.
Ships are a-sailing, love, • j8E
Out of the west,
Bearing the very things BteX.9
You like the best.
Sod grant them safe escort 9
Wmt.
Through tempests wild, ’
BpgPyifri
That from their bounty I .J9|
H May[save*my'child. ' > - sSSL
Hush, cease'your hungry cry; *i3nm
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Walton, Roy. The Grand Saline Sun. (Grand Saline, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 4, 1915, newspaper, February 4, 1915; Grand Saline, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1015750/m1/4/: accessed June 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Van Zandt County Library.