The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 73, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 27, 1927 Page: 3 of 8
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BASTROP, BASTROP COl'MI TKXAS THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 11)27.
[lIK FARMERS GARDEN;
HELPING TO ( I T HIGH COST
OF LIVING HY RAISING FOOD
There is not a spot on tht* entire
fc.rm which will yield u> much in re-
turn fur 'he labor H the space devot-
ed to production of vegetables for
|umi' us* . It not only reduce® the
frocery bill, but the «lru r bill as well
say nothing of the pleasure af.
forded by having u variety of frush
vegetables.
It seems that not enough atten-
tion is given to the value of fresh
rcgetahcls in our diet. We find it
to be <0 easy tu depend upon canned
products as a substitute . It is
claimed by dieticians that very im-
jportant vitamins are found in raw
leafy vegetable*, which are destroyed
by rooking.
There is a great need of a variety
if of fresh vegetables in winter to bul-
ance the heavy meat diet. Most of
Us emerge from the winter with that permanent vegetables and
lay in receiving them. If we read
the catulcyucs carefully we can get
information that will prove valu-
able to us in planting and cultivat-
ing our gardens.
Onion sets or seed may be planted
now. I'lants also may l>c obtained
from commercial growers. Cabbage
lettuce, turnips, radishes, mustard,
spinach, and English pea* may be
planted now.
Last winter we planted Early Jer-
ey Wakefield cabbage January 12.
The plants stood in the open with no
protection, and we had cabbage by
May 1. We als<^ had English peas
by May 1, from a planting made Jan-
uary 11. We are planning to plant
very much earlier his winter, as we
had 4 serverc weather after Janu-
ary 11, last winter as ww usually hava
any time during the winter.
A home garden is incomplete un-
less it contains some of the mmre
small
ews
lazy lanquid down-anil- out feeling,
and think we need a spring tonic,
when the truth of it is we didn't in-
clude enough fresh vegetables and
fruits in tiur diet during the winter.
We study balanced rations for our
pigs, poultry and cow, but forget to
balance the ration for ourselves.
It is never more important, from
fruits in addition to the regular an-
nual vegetables that usually are
planted.
A few grapevinoi may Ih' set along
the garden fence und in a few year s
we wiil have all the grapes we can
use and hardly miss the time spent
in caring for them. Many times we
can secure cuttings free of charge
financial viewpoint, than at thip from a neighbor when he prunes his
time to guard against the high cost
«<f living for another year by plan-
ning for a good garden. When cotton
■ell:- for 20 cents to 25 cents, ma.iv
farmers forget the gardpat. h
They figure they can raise enough
Cotton on the garden spot to buy veg-
etables for the family and choose the
"paper sack" route. Some of them
pay for this "store-bought" living
with money borrowed th.> bank
and expect to repay it with cotton re
turns in the fall.
In the colder part of our country j Some thought shoukl be given to
it is ncccsary to go to considerable ; tj1(1 location of these permanent frui*
expense to grow vegetables during vvgetablos. They should be
winter and early spring, but the I p)il(.(,,| where they will not interfere
Southern farmers has the advantage | cultivation of the annual veget-
over hi Northern neighbor in a long jtblc-s. as intensive cultivation more
than any ether factor (unless it Ik
the upply of plant food) is essen-
tial for the rapid growth of annual
vegetables. Only those are pushed
best
vines. They are easily rooted and
make rapid growth in rich garden
oil. Now is the best time fqr root-
ing them.
A row each of dewberries and
blacklwrries will furnish abundant
material for jams, jelles, preserves
and pies.
Asparagus, horseradish and rhu-
barb are perrennials that are found
in very few farm gardeil . A littl.
time and money spent would start
some of these growing in our garden
growing • eason and short, mild win-
ter. With little extra effort he can
have fresh vegetables from the gar-
den throughout the year. All through
the cotton are-i cabbage, collards, j j() writy rapidly are of th<
carrots, lettuce, radishes and Eng- j mmijty.
Mrs Ida Mac Fowler was an Aus-
tin visitor last week.
Miss Dora Simms of Smithville
was a Bastrop visitor Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Powell and
daughters were Smithville visitor-*
Sunday.
Miise.s Audrey Kunn and Inez
Hart- of Smithville spent the week-end
in Bastrop.
Mr. Harry Johnson of Houston was
in Bastrop this week.
Mrs. Joe Nichols and Son of Aus-
tin are visiting friends and relatives
in Bastrop.
Mr. and Mrs. Pete CJriescnbeck has
returned from a pleasant visit to
Galveston
Miss Helen Booth of Grassyville,
was at home for the weekend last
week. Mi * Dorthy Johnson of Gid-
dings spent the week-end with her.
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Hyde of Waco
visited relatives and friends in Bas-
trop this week.
Preston Fowler spent the
(end in Bastrop last week.
week
A. C. Kleinert hiss returned home
after o plea ant visit in Dallas and
Fort Worth.
Frank Green i iti Au.^tii, this week
attending Court.
| Mrs. W. D. C. Jones, Dr. George
j Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Mark Young ol'
Smithville attended the funeral of
Mf. M. K. Anderson Thursday.
Mrs. Forest Reid o' S1111 Antonio
ariwd las' week t,, bo at the bedside
of her father, Mr. T. K.Moore, wh„ -
died Thursday morning.
SPITE FENCE SEPARATES
TWO NEW TOWNS IN TEXAS
Tom Down Several Times, Armed
Guards Are Now on Duty
to Protect It.
whom are fathers of 22 children, and
pointed cut Matthew Dawson of the
siiiue village, who has u family of 17.
I'dssell organized a football team
among his sons and challenged ull
comers.
The record, however, Is held by Mrs.
John Austen of Piatt's Common, near
Barnsley, who Is mother of 24, and
has In addition, reared 4 adopted chil-
dren. One of Mrs. Austin's daughters
has 12 children and two others 11
each.
Stinnett, Texas.—Perhaps no more
remarkable "spite" fence was ever
built than that which separates the
towns of Stinnett and East Stinnett, j .. ,
These two new and rapidly growing Beautiful Dolls Used as
lish peas will grow in the open all
winter; in fact, these vegetables do
better in damp, cool, oil, and when
planted late in the spring rarely, if
< vor, do well.
It is time now to begin prepara-
tions for a garden. 'I he first point
to consider is location. In this the
farmer htt< the advantage ove rthe
city back yard gardener in that la-
is free to select the choicest plot of
ground on his farm.
hand with a gentle -l'i>e toward
the south or southwest is preferable
and it is an advantage to have a hill
or group" of trees on the north in
t rder to break the force of wind.
Good drainage is of prime interest
and importance. The surface of the
land bhould have sufficient fall of
drain off surplus water during heavy
rains, but not fal enough to cause the
soil to wash. On hi1l«(ides washing
can be prevented to; some extent by
contouring the rows so as to cause
the water to run off slowly.
There should be no depressions
where water will accumulate and
stand. Such depression may be fill-
ed with soil taken from higher places
with a drag.
It is an advantage to have the gar-
den iu near the house a possible,
so most of the work can be done at
odd times and for convenience of the
hoir . wife in gathering vegetables.
It is necessary to have a good wov-
en wire fence around the garden plot
to protect the crop from farm ani-
mals, poultry and rabbitts. If the
garden 1- to be worked bv a horse,
the plot should be long and narrow,
and the rows laid off the long way,
about three and a half feet apart. If
I.and cultivatiton is to be given the
garden, r >w may be a close togeth-
er as eight ten inches.
If the s< t'l i: po« v, 1, must be put
intq good conditio) bef> 1 > • at is fac-
tory results can be had. The soil
must be in good tilth and well sup- j
plied with plant food and humus, j
Barnyard manure supplies both plain
food and humus, and therefore is
much to be preferred,
men ial f'-rlit r/.ers ma
We have found nitrate of soda to
be a great help in pushing early vog
estables, especially the leafy kinds.
We dig a narrow trench close up by
the side of a row of vegetables and
sprinkel in a very lig;ht application
an rake the soil over it. In about
two weeks we give the opposite side
of the row the same treatment. Ni-
trate of soda being available at once
its effects are noticable in a very
few days. Last spring we left some
rows untrealed ,iust to obesrve the if
feds of the element in fertilizer. In
a few days there would be a marked
difference liotween the vegetables ir.
the treated and untreated rows
By Mrs. Irvin Pickle in The Semi-
Weekly Farm News.
4()—
EIGHT LIVE OIKS
On account of bad weather and
mid-term exams, we have neglected
sending in our weekly write up, but
wo hope that from this wvek until
school ends, we will have n<(thing
to hinder us.
Mr. Helton Hcfnpr spent Sunday
and Sunday night with hiH sister,
Mrs. Alan Thompson of Upton.
Misses Winnie and Allic Mae N'ite
\ytre gue-ts in the home of Mrs. ().
T. Rucker.
communities are In the heart of the
Hutchinson county oil field of the Pan-
handle. The two towns adjoin and
only a street separates them. Tlie
people of Stinnett for some unex-
plained reason fell out with the peo-
ple of their neighboring town of East j
Stinnett and It was decided to suver j
all communications between the two
places.
To prevent traffic from passing from
one town to another a fence was !
built across the street leading from
East Stinnett Into Stinnett. At first
It was only a makeshift of two-by-
fours, but a careless truckman ran
over It. T\ ti It was built stronger
and extended soini what. Likewise It
was torn down
Then a real honest-to goodness j
fence was put up. It consisted of 1
railroad ties put In the ground, many
barb wires strung along them, some
two-by twelves spiked to them and a j
big cable along on top. It was like- j
wise extended out In the field In each j
direction, separating the two town- \
sites, but travel continued around It.
Several nights ago a squad of men
arrived and while some patrolled with
shotguns others proceeded to lay the
fence tint. It was rebuilt and extend-
ed the next day and also a shack was
moved up to the west side of it and
armed guards are stationed therein,
with orders to s e that no one again
molests It.
In the meantime, several by-plays
have been going on In tho way of
painting signs on the fence and otlu-r
stunts that add to the merriment.
Lure to Sell Delicacies
Paris. The Alsatian restaurants of
Paris have hit upon a new way to
sell their pate de fole grus, the food
that nMide Strasbourg famous.
Cans of pate, all ready to be taken
home, are placed beneath the volumi-
nous skirts of dolls dressed In the
provincial costume, with big Alsatian
bows adorning their hair. A wife,
sweetheart or daughter, taken Into the
restaurant for u good dinner. Is al-
most sure to he attracted to the dolls,
placed on tables In the center of the
room. When her escort yields to her
whim and decides to buy the doll, he
has to buj the pate de fols grus that
goes with It—and there are few deli-
cacies In the world that cost so much.
A Reserve Bank Account
Is a Cash Foundation
For Your Dreams==
No smallest economy should be too
insignificentj no sacrifice too great,
to assure the building up of a ub-
stantial Reserve Account,
No dream can come true that has
not a Cash Foundation.
OPEN \ KESER\ E At < OI VI
HERE TH AT YOUR AMBITIONS
MAY BE REALIZED.
Citizens State Bank
OF BASTROP
Too Much Speed
New Haven. Conn. Strain and speed
of modern life, in the opinion or Dean
drown of Yale divinity school are
causing Increasing nervous break
towns, insomnia, hysteria and In
sanity.
A PITIIl'L CONDITION
Ex-Shah of Persia Is
Going Into Business
Paris. As 11 perfume dealer selling
delicate scents from his native Persia,
the vale of Kashmir and other ori-
ental lands of mystery and incense
Ahmad Majar, deposed shah of Persia,
Mr. Jimmy Anderson visited Mr. hopes to recoup bis broken finances,
and Mrs. W. A. Anderson, Sunday. Since Ms flight fcp Paris in 1923,
Mr. Price Hefner spent Frida
with Ins Aunt, Mrs. (>. J, Hefner.
Mr. Keete and Lr|>by Harlow of
Prim visited friends of this commun- |
ity Sunday.
Mr. "Sonny Boy" Lee visited his
Cousin, Ralph lloligan, Sunday.
We have been very interested in
mur school work and are ;(tricing to
be as near standard as a rural school
can be.
Those that had excellent grade* on
mid-term examination., were: Irene
Whitworth, 100 in spelling, and
,1 I, , !: '-''ona Rucker, 10H in landing. Thev
I profitable wpr,> om'h given a story book a- 1
reward.
Our school has made some im-
provement in the playground equip,
mnet. We have a new volley ball
and net. The court has not been
fixed on ac out1 ejf bad werlher. V. .•
hope to he ready for real play bv
the latter part of the week.
Those making an average of nine-
ty and over, on mid-term examina-
tions were: Leornn Rhckcr, DO and
Ethyl Whitworth, P4.
We have one pupil that has a per
j r"ct attendant record for this term
The honored pupil is Miss Alma
Rucker of the ninth rrade.
SCHOOL SECRETAR\
Jo
"Mamma," said a child reccntlv.
'am I d«'< cende.| from n monkev*"
"1 don't know," rerlied mamm".
liable growers and other ced verv | «j did not know your father's people
irly, before the rush, and avoid de- very well."
and used with the maiitiv • T\* :it >
to thirty tons of barnyard man'iro
per r.cre is sati factory mil vili ee* d
but little reinforcing with commer-
cial for ili/er. Ne(w the time to
appi.. 1 he manure, ,-o i' will have
time to decay before much of the
veietil'o* planted It hould be
applied la mdcast befor orcaking
the ground. It help.' to run a lisk
over it before hi aki' r. • 'o <c
the manure with the so>'.
The ground should be broker deep
•id t h> ro.irhly an I then harrowed
.'"veral t iini -s. or until i' is well pul-
verised. ^
Good -hm ' is a >ther important es-
"iitial. S ei| may be poor in power |
* (Termination, or it niav be inbred J
and hence not pure. It is very im-
portant to get seed catalogue front
to I
even before Heza Kliun deposed him.
tills last ruler of the Majar dynasty
j has become known to the boulevard",
the gambling casinos and the gayest
spots of the city. A abort black haired,
mild mannered person who saw no
tragedy in Ills loss of a throne. Ahmad
found that a man of twenty-nine years
could completely forget falls of dynftu-
tles hi Paris. His secretary, carryln*
a revolver and package- of high de-
nomination frauc notes, accompanied
him to the casinos. If he wins the
profit usually goes to an Attractive fe-
male companion. If he loses more < f
the Jewels which he nad brought from
Teheran are sold. Now almost all of
the Jewels are gone.
Despite the drastic reductions 'n
the expenses of his establishment the
former shah feels that he must turn
to a business career. Paris, ever de-
lighted with exotic perfniiK s, will ' e
quick, lie thinks, to buy the rare ere.
itions of the country Ahmad knows o
well, where hundreds of years 10
roses, lilies and other flowers were
packed away In Jars to be 11st d years
later In some da I tit v boudoir.
Mother of 24 Rears
4 Adopted Children
Barnsley, Yorkshire, Villages In this
part of Knglaml are vleing for the
largest family.
The first claim was made by the
village of Dciiahy Main, when Mrs,
William Manchester, wife of a miner,
became the mother of her nineteenth
< blld.
The village of Blacker lllll then put
up Noah Blssell and his next door
nejghbort Thomas Hardwood, both of
The governor of Georgia found out
Something the other day that mad
him fighting mad. He learned that
under a ruling of the War Depart-
ment the shirts for our soldier boys
must be made of Egyptain cotton.
The governor voiced his indignation
in a telegram to President Cooldge
and the president cancelled the rul-
ing in the selfsame hour he received
hhe mesage. It appear,, that a rul-
ing was made during the Spanish-
American war for a reason that i
lu^t known. But for twenty-five
years Egyptian cotton hns been the
material used for our boy's shirts.
The order was first, given no doubt
in order to secure better garments
than was procurable from short*
stapel cotton. The Egyptians raise
long cotton, anl long cr/tton mad"
good goods. At present there i so
much low grade cotton on the Amer
it an market the s dders shirts may
lie too rough for any but the , hanl
es'-boiled buck private. It is d< wn
right pitiful the way millions of
bales of good intentioned cotton has
been harvested in the nio-t hap-haz-
ard manner imaginable. It has bo n
"sledded" in some part , and "pulled"
in other parts. The puller do not
null the cotton from the boll but
pulls the bolls fr< 111 the stalk.- This
means that the nn « y mass has to
'«• threshed rather than ginned. The
staple grades as bnv that ■ i\ cent
a p< und is paid fer a good deal of it
and nobody wants to bin the wot*-'
of it at any price K retton is worth
taising af all, which it is. then it
must be raised right and handled
right nfti r raising. A man win
weuId go to the trouble of building
and baking a brick kiln in order to
p.ij.ipisuo.i ,111 pjno.M jj.ii.iq |).
crazy. But in what better case a
farmer who build a cotton crop and
then turns it into a clog- trailing? To
nlant more cotton than rnn be can
^ully Fathered in the three brirrht
months of autumn i'- to pur tie re4-
le««, harkmntev process. It i- fi < I
icidav. Marshall Messenger.
TF\M WORK
What N most needed just new, in
the great effort to rescue agricul-
ture from destruction, is real team
work, a unanimity of both spirit and
action.
I he world is full of illustration*
which clearly show how utterly use-
loj-j, and unproductive eff favorable
re ults is any movement, when its
managers and supporters are at vari-
ance wth one another, and we can
easily find |iro<(f that harmonius
action nearly always brings about
tho success sought.
Years ago, before farming was
speeded up and the tractors 'crawled'
the sod, it was customary to do much
WHY THE SONG MOVED HIM SO
The ju s band had just finished
playing "California Her I Come,
when the hostess saw a man weep-
ing in the corner. Going over to
bin;, she inquired sympathetically.
"My good man, are you a ( alifcr-
nian that this music affects you so "
"No, madam," replied flu- man as
he reached for his hat, "I'm a musi-
cian."
First Attorney: "Your honor, un-
fortunately, I om opposed by an un-
of the ploughing with a yoko of oxen litigated scoundrel."
and the ri* t of us who were not born '
yesterday well remember how con-
sistently those old stners pulled to-
gether, how they leaned toward each
other when the burden became great-
est and how they produced results
by real team work. We have seen
similar work being done by bc|t,h
mules and horscs and w. have ad
mired the united efforts which
brought forth success. Thu' the
animal kingdom, by instinct, has set
a much needed example to the hu-
man race.
Successful action never perches
upon wings which fly in oj pi ite di-
rections. This axiom ;s nue in home
life, in the business w.irlu, ociety
and in movement lo d^ng toward
the securing of legislative reform.
The principle was recjgu: zed and
adopted by our ancestor0., when they
took as their motto and slogan.
"United v*e stand, divided we fall."
Whether you apply this doctrine to
the home or to any other of the act-
ivities heretofore mentioned you
will always find that it becomes a
"yardstick" by which success is
measured.
Right now, there is urgent, demand
for team work in the efforts to ob-
tain proper recognition of agricul-
ture and the stabilization c/f the
farmer's dollar. Pride of Readership
and authorship should be immedi-
ately "Junked" for the benefit of
the cause and every friend of the
soil tillers, whether engaged in the
business of farming or only a friend
and well wisher of those engaged,
should make it his or he.' hu im
to unite with all other of like spur
and march forward towaid succe
Wi may have a "pet" measure win--':
we would ike to enacted into
law but if it is found that others are
111 like position, it is cur duty to it
down with them and reason the mat
fer out and reach the agreement
whereby all friends of agriculture
can and will weprk in perfect har
niony. You will find the ciiemit of
the farmer well organized in order
to successfully n^et the sort of op
position. It is absolutely necessar
if we would win this fight, that all j
those who want to sec ngrieultur"
restored t( normalcy to get togeth-
er and stick together. National
Farm News.
o —
IIARN DESTROYED U\ FIRE
The barn en the farm of Charlr1
Powell, at Hills Paririe was d< stroy-
ed by fire on Saturday night, the ori-
rin of the fire being unknown. Tlv
toss was estimated to b,- about
* «>intr the entire contents of the barn
which was 1200 bushels of corn, one
mule and one hog.
fH00.00 insurance was carried.
Second Attorney: "My learned
friend is such a notorious liar
Judge (shatply): "The council will
kindly confine their remarks to such
matters as are in di pote."
A colored agent was summoned
j before the insurance commissioner.
"Don't you know," said the commiss-
' ioni r. "that you ca nnot sell life in-
| surance with out a state license?"
"Biiss," said the darkey, "you suah
said a moufful; I k no wed I couldn't
sell it, bul I didn't know the reason."
Forlw s.
\ NEVER FAILING SI PPLY
The fond husband was seeing his
wife off with the children for their
vacation in th.' country. As she got
into the train he said, "but, my dear,
won't you take some fiction to read *
"Oh, no! she responded sweety
"I shall depend upon your letter#
from home."
of*
Mr.
this
President, to talkative junior
ficer at meeting): "Really,
Blank, are you president, of
bank, or am I "
Mr. Blank: "Of course I'm
president."
President: "Very well, then don't
talk like an idiot."
not
united States!)res
arc Good Tires
HE experienced car
owner can best realire
juit how good Royal Cords
are.
But most every o n e
knows they are better. Let
ui e.juip you
Elzner Corner
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