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GO BACK TO OLD REMEDIES
War Brings a Return to Medicines
Used In the Days of Our
Grandfathers.
Physicians have been Jumping from
one drug or chemical to another ever
since Lister found a way to check or
prevent the infection of wounds. Doc
tors have tried friars balsam, carbolic
acid. Iodoform and dozens of other
antiseptics, some of them very costly,
and now seem to have gone back to
old fashioned household dressings of
past years and even past centuries.
On the battlefields of Europe sugar,
salt, tincture of iodine and common
garlic have superseded drugs and
chemicals with high sounding names,
the New York Commercial states. Su- j
gar is used as a dressing for wounds
already infected. The British govern
ment has found that wounded men on
ships whose injuries have been
washed with common sea water make j
better recoveries than fhose treated
in field hospitals, the conclusion being
that the waters of the ocean are an
ideal antiseptic;. Tincture of iodine, a
preparation as old as the hills, is the
favorite protection against lockjaw;
and so it goes.
ur all tnese reversions to grand
mother's specifics, however, the dis
covery that garlic is almost a cureall
is the most striking. Doctors who
prescribe and use only the most costly
and new-fangled preparations im
ported from Germany will have to
give respectful attention to garlic, for
its efficacy is vouched for by the Lon
don Lancet on the testimony of two
eminent London surgeons. Garlic ap
plied to a wound stops the Infection
and heals quickly, whereas modern
antiseptics used in fashionable prac
tice injure the tissues. Garlic has
hcon tested thoroughly at. the Pad
dington infirmary in London, as well
as in field hospitals in France.
The story of the rediscovery of gar
lic possesses human interest. An old
French peasant woman was found to
have dressed thu sores and wounds of
soldiers in the wa. zone with remark
able results. An army surgeon inves
tigated and garlic is sold by the ton
where it was formerly sold by the
ounce in England chemists' shops.
Garlic Juice diluted with three or four
parts of distilled water seems to be
the standard dressing.
Garlic is also found to be effective
In preventing tuberculosis and in cur-1
ing it in its early stages. The com
mon onion, cousin of the clove of gar
lic, 1b good for colds. Hindus have
used plasters of garlic for ages. Just
when speculators have cornered the
drug and chemical market, army doc
tors find substitutes in things that are
cheap and plentiful.
Finn Boy Escapes Jail Sentence.
It may be true that "there is noth
ing new under the sun.’ but Judge
Howard's daily experience in the mu
nicipal court of Rockland brings up
lots of things that are new to him.
Among the offenders who faced him 1
the other day was a Finn boy who had
been arrested for shooting a raccoon
out of season. The boy did not deny
the act, but asked the court to hear
his defense, which he read from manu-!
script prepared by himself. It was an
Ingenious setting forth of the circum
stances which led to the coon s de
struction—a tale of how the glaring
eyes of a strange animal had fright
ened belated pedestrians in a West
Rockford suburb; how a frightened
woman had Implored him to "get a
gun and shoot the creature." The
young Finn's “brief” was so well pre
pared that Judge Howard suspended
sentence.—Augusta (Me.J Kennebec
Journal.
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Boys and Girls
Club Work
Eight Studies In Education
Through Club Activities.
EDITOR'S NOTE.
The Extension Division of the Uni
versity of Arkansas, in co-operation
with the United States Department of
Agriculture, will offer this year,
through this paper, a free correspond
ence course in "Roys' and Girls' Club
Work," consisting of eight lessons or
articles. These lessons will appear in
this paper at intervals of six weeks
Those who wish to take this course
' should write to the Director of Exten
sion Work, University of Arkansas,
Fayetteville, stating name, age, occu
pation. and statin* that he (or she)
proposes to carry the work through foi
| the eight lessons. A farmers’ bulletin
| will be sent to supplement lesson No
j 1, and later for each lesson if tht
question blank be returned for the pre
ceding lesson. These blanks will b«
sent with each bulletin. Preceding les
sons will be sent on request. The next
lesson will be "Primary Rules of Cot
ton Growing.”
BOYS’AND GIRLS'CLUB WORK
No. 6. Primary Rules of Cotton
Growing.
By W. C. Lassetter, Assistant Director
of Extension, University of Arkan
sas, and U. S. Department of Agri
culture, Co-operating.
Cotton responds more readily, more
perceptibly and more profitably to a
little good treatment than any other
farm crop. It will seemingly do bet
ter under adverse conditions than any
other crop. Never a year comes but
that some money can be made from
cotton. But since the crop responds
so readily to good treatment, there is
no reason for requiring that it grow
without attention. Yield of cotton per
acre can be materially increased
through attention to variety to be
grown, the preparation of the land,
fertilization and cultivation.
More than 300 varieties of cotton
are being grown in the South, and
these vary widely in their ability to
yield. In tests conducted by the Ar
kansas Experiment Station the aver
age of the better varieties showed an
increased return of from twelve to
fifteen dollars per acre as compared
with the average of the poorer varie
ties. Repeated tests conducted by the
Experiment Station show that for av
erage conditions the Mebane Tri
umph, Cleveland Big Boll, Trice, Rub
lee, Simpkins and King are reliable
varieties from the standpoint of yield
per acre.
All cotton seed to be used for
planting should be tested for germi
nation before planting. Use for this
two plates and a piece of absorbent
cotton cloth as outlined for various
farm seed tests. Do not use seed for
planting purposes that show less than
70 per cent germination.
If the soil fs to produce good cotton
it must be well prepared. All land
for cotton should be broken in the
fall or in the very early spring, going
one inch deeper than at the last
breaking.
Well drained land fhould not be
bedded. Very poorly drained land
probably should be bedded. Do your
bedding at least three or four weeks
ahead of planting time.
If land has been broken in the fall
or early spring, begin to double disk
it about three or four weeks before
planting time, then harrow each week
until ready for planting. This repeat
ad harrowing will kill successive
crops of grass and weeds as fast as
hey come up, and will leave tha land
uuch freer of weed seeds and will
uake the strop easier to Work. Where
and is bedded, harrow the tops of the
teds well before planting. Try to
vork the beds down in such way that
vTien the seed are covered they will
oe about on an average with the sur
a^e of the land.
Fertilisers.—Apply ten tons (ten
?ood loads) of barnyard manure and
100 pounds of 16 per cent acid phos
>hate per acre broadcast and disk or
harrow it immediately. In the event
vou can secure only three or live tons
uf manure, lay off the rows with a
xood, large shovel plow and distribute
he manure and the acid phosphate in
'he furrows. Follow with a bull
'ongue and eight or ten-inch heel
sweep run In the bottom of the fur
row to mix the fertilising materials
with the soil. Bed on this and allow
to settle for two weeks, if possible,
before planting.
If barnyard manure is not available
you may substitute commercial fertil
isers. For Just average soils thor
oughly mix 260 pounds cotton seed
meal and 250 pounds 16 per cent acid
phosphate. Apply in the drill previ
ous to bedding. For good soils mix
200 pounds cotton seed meal and 300
pounds acid phosphate. On rteh soils
apply 300 pounds acid phosphate.
Plant cotton as soon as the soil
begins to warm up. Never use a
planter that drops only one seed in
a place. It is much hetter to plant
in rows from three and a half to five
feet apart and in hills from 12 to 22
Inches apart, putting from eight to 15
seed to a hill.
Begin to cultivate with the section
hsrrow before the cotton comes up.
After that chop out and cultivate with
an implement that will not run more
than three inches deep. Practice shal
low cultivation two to two and a half
Inches continuously. Cultivate After
every rain as soon as the soil will do
to work, and in case of dry weather
cultivate every ten days. Continue
until the cotton begins to show signs
of maturity or until the plants are so
large that the cotton oannot be work
ed without seriously breaking thefh
Then sow crimson clover for winter
pasture and to build up the land.
THOUGHT SHE KNEW COFFEE
Young Lady, Testing Beverage Made
of Refuse, Declared It Unmistak
ably the Right Thing.
A great many people who flatter
themselves that they are judges of
coffee or other beverages may learn
a lesson of caution from the experi
ments carried on by Sir Hiram Maxim
when he was trying to find a pala
table preparation of wheat and coffee.
It occurred to me, says Sir Hiram in
“My Life,’’ that very few people knew
much about coffee. One Sunday I
brought out from the Maxim Lamp
works about thirty young men and
women. My stenographer was also
present: she was one of those young
ladies that know all—from whose de
cisions there is no appeal.
I had cleared off a long bench and
arranged on it a large number of cups,
milk, sugar, cream, much coffee, and
plenty of apparatus for making coffee.
1 got from the army and navy stores
various kinds of coffee that were sup
posed to be the very best in the world,
such as Mocha, Java, and so forth, and
I also got from a dealer in coffee some
of the sweepings and siftings of hia
shop—small, imperfect, and broken
kernels. These I freed from dust and
dirt, roasted and ground, and mixed
with three times their weight of chic
ory. I was ready for the test.
My shorthand writer came in, tasced
the Mocha, the Java, the Costa Rica,
and pronounced them all very bad.
She then tried some of my wheat cof
fee, which she said, was also bad,
but not so bad as the others. But when
she reached the mixture of siftings
and chicory she was delighted. "That
is coffee!” she said, with an air of
finality. “That’s it! That’s the right
stuff!”
In all probability the young lady had
never tasted a cup of genuine coffee
in her life until that Sunday morning.
—Youth’s Companion.
Flameless Guns.
Airships equipped with machine
guns run a certain degree of risk from
an explosion caused by the flame at
the muzzle of the gun. Hence con
siderable study has been devoted to
obviating this danger. This has now
been accomplished by a young Floren
tine chemist named Outdo Fei. He is
said to have recently given a demon
stration before an Italian military
commission of a new powder invented
by him which burns without either
flame <y smoke and does not flare up
on detonation. While specially use
ful for the guns of aircraft, it will be
of value in artillery and infantry en
gagements from the fact that it will
not betray the firing line to the en
emy.
RAILROAD TIME TABLE.
St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern
LITTLE ROCK * MONROE HY.
South North
5:39 a. m.Huttig .2:2? p. m
7:40 a. m Monroe.12 26 p.m
LOCAL. *
Leaves Arrives
11:40 a. m. Huttig .. 12:15 p.m.
St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern
PARMERVILLE * SOUTHERN RY.
North South
5:01 a. m. Huttig 2:55 p. m
i 4:15 a.m. Farmerville 4:15 p.m
| LOCAL, f
10:10a.m. Huttig 2:25p.m.
fArrives Monday, Wednesday, and Fri
day from Monroe and goes to Farmer
ville.
•Arrives Tuesday, Thursday and Satur
day from Farmerville and goes to Mon
roe.
LODGE DIRECTORY.
ROWLAND LODGE No. 594 F. & A.
M.meets every second and fourth Satur
day evenings at 7:30 o’clock. Visiting
Masons always welcome.
L. M. Despain, W. M.
C. A. Berry, Sec’y.
HOWARD CHAPTER, No. 122, R. A.
M.—meets every first and third Thurs
day evening at Masonic hall. Visiting
companions welcome.
L. G. Gibson, H. P.
D. F. Coljett, Secy.
HUTTIG CHAPTER No. 320, Order of
the Eastern Star, meets every first and
third Friday evening at 7:30 o’clock.
Visiting brothers and sisters welcome.
Mrs. J. A. Brignac, W. M.
Mrs. L. G. Gibson, Sec’y.
HUTTIG LODGE No. 348 I. O. O. F.
I meets every Tuesday evening. Visiting
1 brethern cordially invited to attend.
W. E. Chadwick, N. G.
Harlan Sehon, Secy.
HUTTIG REBEKAH LODGE No. 66.
meets every Monday night at 7:30 o’clock
Visitors are invited.
Mrs. Lou Milstead, N. G.
Miss Murray Pilkinton, Secy.
SWEET BAY CAMP No. 411 W. 0. W.
meets every first and third Saturday eve
nings. Visitors made welcome.
C. A. McCormick, C. C.
J. C. Bridges. Clerk.
Sweet Bay Circle No. 145, W. C.,
meets every second and fourth Thursday
night at 7:30 o'clock. Visitors are cor
dially invited.
Mrs. W. R. Dickerson. Guardain.
Mrs, C. A. McCormick, Clerk.
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