The Alto Herald (Alto, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, May 8, 1908 Page: 3 of 8
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KEEPING BEES ON FARM
A Neglcctsd Industry Which li Very
Promising,
Gilbert Allen, writing to Farm
mid Itaneh on this subject, says: 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 the
keeping of bees. A good strong col-
ony ill the midst of the busy sea-
son will collect and store four or
five pounds or more of honey daily,
the amount of work done by the
bees depending upon the forage and
the strength of the colony. As soon
as a colony becomes weak and in-
capable of defense it will be attacked
by the stronger ones and robbed.
Heme, in order to keep each hive
up to its fullest capacity, the bee
keeper must provide' plenty of comb
foundations in order to lessen the
work to be performed, and sow such
crops as will afford honey later in
the season, when the flowers have
finished blossoming.
The swarming process is nothing
more than the departure of the old
queen and her working bees, in or-
der to abandon the hive to the young-
er queen and bees. By being on the
alert and hiving the swarms as they
alight, the number of colonies may
be largely increased, but the weaker
colonies seldom swarm. Moths usu-
ally attack the weaker colonics, and
only the stronger ones arc able to
pass safely through the winter.
The common bees may be grad-
ually replaced with the Italian va-
rieties bv removing the old queen
and substituting a new 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 bees
will all be dead and the new ones
will be of the desired variety. The
queen is compelled to lay numbers
of eggs daily in order to supply the
great loss constantly occurring by
destruction from birds, storms and
other dilliculties. Tlicy should be
left plenty or honey for a winter
supply and the hives should be well
protected from storms.
What the bee keeper should aim
to do is to sow such crops as will
enable the bees to lay in a large sup-
ply of honey, and he can well af-
ford to do so if he has a number of
hives. At this season the bees find
plenty to do in working on the flow-
ers, but later will have to seek oth-
er means of sustenance.
Enterprising beo keepers combine
bee keeping with poultry raising,
finding that a small piece of ground
may in that manner return large
profits, llow to manage bees well
can not be explained in a single ar-
ticle. All who aro interested should
first make themselves familiar with
the details before beginning by
consulting authorities 011 the sub-
ject. That bee keeping is a profit-
able occupation, however, has been
fully demonstrated by man who are
engaged in it.
RAISE MULES.
any age, they have endurance under
trying conditions and great stress of
labor, they arc sure-footed, steady,
not rattle-headed, active when well
bred and well nourished, and are
safer than horses. Of course, they
are not such elegant road animals,
but who needs them for roadsters,
anyway? Their place is on the
farm and plantation, in the lumber
camp or mine. There never was a
more tireless and faithful beast of
burden than the mule. Put him
where you will and he is there to
work. With ordinary good treat-
ment he w ill buckle down to any job
that would make a horse say quit.
The weakness of the horse i.s the
foot. The strength of the mule is
the foot. The weakness of the
horse is its fretfulncss annoyed by
flies, etc. These things do not seem
| to affect the mule very much. This
is worth considering when cultivat-
ing corn. The horse can't walk
straight and keeps turning to knock
of! the flies. The mule doesn't have
to, so he goes right along.
Sighs for Shirt Tall Days.
Xo matter how old you get to be
you will never forget the barefoot
days. How good it felt, in the
springtime, when the johnny-jump-
j ups peeped out from beneath the
leaves and threw off their coverlet
of snow, and old earth shook otf
the shadows of winter, to take otT
the shoes and stockings! .hist to wig-
gle the toes in the sand, to wade
in the water, to walk on tho green
grass, was happiness beyond descrip-
tion. Hut there is the other side.
How vivid is the recollection of the
morning when mother send you to
town after 25 cents worth of soap,
•jO cents worth of vinegar and $1.00
worth of sugar, and you were scur-
rying along saying "'soap, 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! Nor will you forget
the first horned frog that you
steped on, 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 dirty, a red ant crawled up your
leg and stung you just below the
bend of the knee. Of course you re-
member.—J. 1{. Itansome, in Cle-
burne Enterprise.
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 ho only
wants half a chance to add to its
greatness and 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 his feet,
stays by his feed and returns good
for evil. The mule is a hyfrrid—
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 rcadj demand for them at
It is the deadly house fly toward
which man's attention is directed at
this immediate time. He has stud-
ied the mosquito scientifically, seri-
ously and thoroughly, and ho knows
just how many people each mosquito
is capable of destroying, just how
long he lives and how many mem-
bers there aro in his family. And
the study, while it hasn't materially
affected the census report on mos-
quito increase, has brought about
means of shutting tho mosquito out
of tho fight. Now science is busy
about the fly. It has been deter-
mined by scientific investigation and
reported to Governor 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 tho
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 fly 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
SENATOR BAILEY LEADS
BY ABOUT 20,000 VOTES
votes
The follow-
which have
He
Dallas. May .V I p
plet.c returns have I. u received
from 18 counties, and v. i \ full re-
turn* from till the ri'M 1:1111 i 11' coun-
ties in Texas, which l:< ! I primaries,
the Bailey ticket ha- 11<..1;vote,
and the .Johnson ticket n.'i.Mo vote-,
making a majority of
for the Mailev ti !.et.
ing are the countie>
made complete return.-:
Camp, Cass, Delia. 11 •• t ■ n.-. l.a-
tnar, Morris, lied Ki\. . \ngelina,
Harrison. Jasper, Sln-lic.-. tiregg,
Henderson, Kaufman. Ku-k, Van
Zandt, Collin. Rain-.
Witt, Brazos, Char
Grimes, Harris, 1-ay>
Refugio, Burleson, 1
ington, Coryell. Ila
McLennan. • 'omatiiv.
son, Somervell, I in m
\ rchcr. Armstrong. I'. \
Deaf Smith. Denton. Ila
man, Hartley, Jack,
tague. Hal), Itanda .
ita, Wise, Young, B
Lampasas, Llano, M i 1. I',
Eastland. Lubbock, Martin. Mil
oil, Nolan. Palo I'into, |J, <«ves,
nels, Scheleichor, Stephens, 1
Tom Green and Ward.
The returns from Dallas ('
while not quite complete, are ;
so, since but six very small
are missing. The may I
of all other large eountic-
whieh complete returns hav
1
A LESSON IN FARMING.
FARMERS' EDUCATIONAL
AKD
CO-OPERATIVE UNION
OF AMERICA *
! When In doubt, go to the local.
As fast as you 1 >1111 up one plant
In the garden, plant another.
fn education there Is conservatism
of power; In unum there is strength,
The man who plants pigs Instead of
cotton Is the man with the long head.
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I lalve-t'rn, 1
. Gonzales,
fell, Wash-
l.m. Balls, |
m1, John- j
Carson,
laylor. ('lav. I
lale. Harde-
Knn\, Mon-
'otter. Wleh-
ar, «i i 11• -1 lie.
till 11-
'aylor,
utility,
ilinost
boxes
ie said
from
e not
Better get up ;cirne plan to keep
♦ lie school going a 1:1. lonrcr if pos-
sible.
Make your 1 *uion worthy to stand
by, and then through thick and thin
stand by it.
The split log iliag is good every
day in the year, ami it is particularly
gooil today.
What are you doing about that pic-
nic you local Is going to give right
soon? (let >011 neighbors Interested
in It.
You only have to .show peoplo that
your I'nlon Is of benefit to you to
Induce them to become active mem
bers.
There is not a Southern State thai J
could not raise all the navy beans |
that all of them use, yet there Is not '
a Southern State which raises all i
the beans that it us"s alone.
been received. What i- ini--inu' is
but a very small fraction of the total
vote of these countie-.
Johnson carried only three Con-
gressional districts, the Third, the
Tenth and the Kb-vi ith. Johnson
lost the Fifth or Da I la- Hi.-t rat,, but
there is a possibility tl it the re-
turns yet to be received from this
district may change this apparent
result.
Returns by I >l-i riet
While the figures given below nre
subject to minor changes, they arc
generally fairly complete, and the J
final dilTerencu will be but slightly
changed:
It ought to be a reasonable cans"
for throwing any member out who
will raise mongrel chickens, stock or
crops. In fact, no good Union man
will have mongrel: of any sort.
The time will have to come when
all men will have the same right to
a til ice on earth which nature so
kindly gave all her children. I.and
monopoly la the greatest curse tin-
world has to contend with today.
Bailey Johnson
First District
... 8,515
0,897
Second District
... 7.302
5,54 1
Third District
... 5,247
7.121
Fourth District
...11.507
5,550
Fifth District
...10,017
10.261
5,088
Seventh District ...
... 3.8(T:i
2,012
Eighth District
... .r>,!i:i:>
3,770
Ninth District
... 4.119
2,880
Tenth District .....
.. . 5,059
5,877
Eleventh District ..
.. . 8.175
9,017
Twelfth District ...
.. . 9,1104
7,7 SS
Thirteenth District
...13,187
7,504
Fourteenth Dlstri t
... 0,300
5,183
Fifteenth District ..
... 050
219
Sixteenth District .
.. . 10,009
8,913
Totals
. 110,508
95,743
You are too busy now to listen to
the calamity howler. The farmers
that are of any account are all mak-
ing their living at home, and the ca
lamities are of no direct interest to
them.
A Booze Haven.
St. Louis, Mo.: Benbow City, the
lint town which has grown up around
the Standard Oil Company's new
refinery, eight miles south of Alton,
is the wettest town in Illinois, and
because it is the wettest it is also
the richest. It began its corporate
existence Monday with eighteen reg-
istered voters and twenty-three sa-
loons. Within the corporate limits
of Benbow City there are 1500 per-
sons and one saloon for each thir-
teen inhabitants.
Sulphur Springs' new j
school house was opened to the pub-
lie last Friday night.
Cotton Planting in Brown.
Brownwood: Since the recent !
floods, which destroyed till crops in
the bottoms, the farmers are busy
in preparing and putting in cotton,
which will mean many thousand
more acres in cotton than was at
first thought would be put in the
fleecy staple. The farmers think it
would be too late to plant corn, and
as the bulk of the bottom ground
was in corn, wheat and oats, all this
ground will be put in cotton.
Indictment of State Senator*.
Little Rock, Ark.: The indict-
ments returned bv the Gratid Jury
charging State Senators with perjury
and bribery were served over the
State last Saturday. George Kbnd,
a member of the Senate in l'.io.i and
1!)07, was arrested at hi* home in
Danville, charged with perjury. Ife
gave bond. Warrants are out for live
other Senators charging bribery.
A3 soon us tile cholera breaks out
among your chickens, cut off tho heads
of all affected fowls, burn their bod-
ies and get a new roosting and dust-
ing place for the balance of the Hock.
This always cures the disease.
Don't fall cut with your neighbor
because he has not even yet become i
a member of the Union. It may be
that your local Is so low about do-
ing anything that he has been un-
able to see the advantage to him of
coming In.
Judged by the number of Unlcn
papers sprine ag up a! over the coun-
try, there I 110 dearth of literary
ambition among tin brethren. How
will it be thi fall when the prizes for
best farm truck are distributed among |
the farmers?
OUT OF THE GINGER JAR.
Farm Journal:
Farmers are the moBt generous of
men. After butchering they always
give a hog a weigh.
Hob: "See that accident?" Bill: I
"What accident?" Bob: "That cowslip
on tho lawn."
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 1
quired the prospective buyer. "Well,
yes," replied the dealer, "but really 1
wouldn't care to be the lady's bus
band."
This Is the season when farmers |
are obliged to make everybody and
everything bustle. They even work
the butter.
There are many men who. no matter I
how tired they are, seem to take a
pleasure In going away down the road
to meet trouble.
Tho lecturer began his remarks
with: "Once thero was a sensible
woman," when ho was interrupted by
a good mother on the back row, who
retorted: "All women are sensible,
though some doubtless have more
♦onse than others." Whereupon the
lecturer revised his remarks.
It was Emorson that advised man to
hitch his wagon to a star, but the ns-
tronomers have not advised us wheth-
er the star will stand still long enougn
to be hitched.
Don't get too much wrapped up in
some ofllce you nre not running for
In this campaign. It might hurt the
man who 1b running for it. Ho usu-
ally has enough of his own sins to
answer for without any of yours.
The middleman is all right in hU
place. It is when he reaches out and ,
tries to overlap both ends that he be-
comes offensive. J
Arkan in (Con.\ay) I'nlon Tribune:
It seems Iiki a nervy thing for a
man who Is $1000 In debt and no
money on baud to buy a farm, but
that is what was done by ('. M Flem-
ing of Saline County, \rk., and he
i uccoedi d iu pa ing for his farm out
of crop proceeds in the space of ilvo
years.
It was In 1 vr, that Mr Fleming
bought the 90-acre sandy Mil farm on
which ho hns since liv• I. At that
time he was not only $i(iiio in debt,
but had no money and h id to bo fur-
nished with team, tools, Implements
and supplies, li was an unpromising
beginning, yet by reason of hard world
Intelligent planning and good manage-
ment he paid for this farm iu live
years.
Mr Fleming 1m not an all-cotton
farmer, but believe:: In diversification,
lie had Oil acres in cultivation, di-
vided usually about as follows:
Ten acres are in cotton, 1" acres
in corn, 25 acres iu pease for pea
hay, followe I by oats, which i.s cut for
hay, J acres in watermelons, 2 acres
in cantaloupes, 2 acres In Irish po-
tatoes, 2 acres in sweet potatoes, anJ
the rest, or about 10 acres. In peas,
part of which are In drills and part
broadcast. This last ten acres fur-
nishes some hay and all the seed for
the next year. Peas are also planted
bet wi • n the corn rows at. the last cul-
tivation and are hogged down.
It Is Mr. Fleming's practice to ralso
all his supplies of hay, corn 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 lunch, and the prico received Is
usually about $ 1 r. 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 tho soli particles.
He us's all tho manure made on his
farm and buys some commercial for-
tlle/.ers, particularly for his vege-
tables.. He breaks his land Hat and
practices shallow cultivation.
Mr. Fleming is a reading . farmer
and a man who studies bis business.
Ho 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. He believes In and
practices diversification. Ho also
plants his crops so that his work will
be distributed throughout the year.
Mr. Fleming has a wlfo and two
' small children. He says that his sue-
' cess would have been greater If ho
hail not been troubled so much with
111 health.
The above Is a good lesson, and
we deem it a very important lesson.
COTTON SEED PRODUCTS AS
FEED.
A correspondent to Southern Culti-
vator ask;:: "1 have Homo mules and
they go to my cow stalls ami eat the
meal and hulls. How would this do
as a feed for them? Would It be bene-
llclal for them or injurious? Please let
me know in your next Issue of tho
Cultivator."
To which the editor replies: "Cot-
tonseed hulls and meal can be fed to
horses and mules. It will be much
better to give about four pounds of
bran to every twenty pounds of hulls.
If hulls were cheap as they used to ba
it might prove an economical feed.
However, It is best to raise hay anil
peavlness for your horses and not de-
pend upon cottonseed hulls. Wo do
not know the effect that continued
feeding of hulls would have ou the f-
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 tho
delay of sending to a shop or to tho
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 Held
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.
l)o not become discouraged because
the 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
on the farm seem hard and full of
aches and pains, It Is trying to get
along with dull tools. Grind them, fel-
low farmers. 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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