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Does Pain Interfere?
There is a remedy
Sloan's
Liniment
Read this unsolicited grateful
testimony—
Not long ago my left knee be
came lame and sore. It pained
me many restless nights. So se
rious did it become that I was
forced to consider giving up my
work when I chanced to think of
Sloan's Liniment. Let me say—
less than one bottle fixed me up.
Chan. C. Campbell, Florence, Tex.
iKHMaiamaaiuaiiia
THE CHIEF CAUSE
OF HUMAN TROUBLE
Things wuzn't goin’ righta-tall,
An’ l wuz feelin’ blue.
Although I didn’t owe a cent,
And there wuz work to do;
The home wuz jest the same
old home,
The wife and kids wuz well.
The stock wuz lookin’ fat and
slick
An’ there wuz crops to sell.
Rut yit 1 wuzn't satisfied,
Ner nothin’ I could see,
Er feel, er hear, er talk about
Seemed like it used to be.
I didn’t like the things I et,
My liver felt like clay,
An’ apple pie might jest as well
Have been filled in with hay.
Ef there wuz sunshine on the
flowers.
An’ bees wuz on the buzz,
An’ birds wuz singin’ in the
trees,
I didn't know they wuz.
Ef I had friends, they didn’t
seem
To be like friends no more,
An’ I quit goin’ down to loaf
At Grimes’ grocery store.
Doc Simpson said he couldn’t
V tell
What ailed me, an’ I tried
So many things, the wonder is
I hadn’t up an’ died,
I ill Susan, she’s my wife, one
day,
She said she couldn't see
What ailed me everywhere like
that.
Unless it must be me.
That set me thinkin’ an'by heck
I say it now with shame,
'Twuz jest myself, my denied
old self.
An’ nothin’ else to blame.
HOXIE REVIVAL CLOSES
Hoxie, Feb. 1.—“Wild Rill”
Evans, the great Methodist
evangelist, after holding a
meeting here for the past four
weeks, left Monday for his
home, Dallas, Tex., for a few
days, after which he will go to
Black Rock to hold a revival
meeting.
HATS OFF TO THE
HUMBLE LITTLE HEN
The good old hen, the modest
the indomitable, the busy hen—
she of the red comb—to her
would 1 write an apostrophe!
More paradoxes could be writ
ten of her than of any domes
tic animal on the farm. She
earns more in proportion to her
cost and is given less credit
than the horse, the cow, the pig
or sheep. She works harder,gets
up earlier, attends to her own
business better, while less
thought is given for her com
fort than to any animal on the
farm. She picks up what noth
ing else wants and what nooth
er animal would find. She pays
in cashable product each day
for what she picked up the day
before. Her contributions to the
breakfast table and to the cred
it side of the grocery bill are
regularly made, for which she
receives scant thanks; yet she
sings and cackles and goes un
complainingly on her way. She
deserves more than she gets,
and she gets what she gets by
going after it. God bless the
humble hen; she is one of man’s
best and most neglected friends.
Fifty hens paying a net pro
fit of $1.50 each save $75 from
going on the charge account at
the store for groceries. The $75
means .just about that much
added to the net profits of the
farm by reason of the facHhat
the care and feed of the flock
was purely incidental to the
operations of the farm, and
really represented no addition
al cost for labor or feed.
The cow,the pig and the hen,
the indomitable trio that has
saved the farm to many a home
steader. of these not the least
is the humble hen.—Dakota
oooo aanadseruhnnetaoinschrd
Farmer.
Woven wire farm fencing in
all the best styles; also barbed
wire, nails and staples. A fresh
carload just received at the
Newark Lumber Co.
You Need a Tonic
There are times in every woman’s life when she
needs a tonic to help iier over tiie hard places.
When that time comes to you, you know what tonic
to take—Cardui, the woman’s tonic. Cardui is com
posed of purely vegetable ingredients, which act
gently, yet surely, on the weakened womanly organs,
and helps build them back to strength and health.
It has benefited thousands and thousands of weak,
ailing women in its past half century of wonderful
success, and it will do the same for you.
You can’t make a mistake in taking
The Woman’s Tonic
Miss Amelia Wilson, R. F. D. No. 4, Alma, Ark.,
says: “1 think Cardui is the greatest medicine on earth,
for women. Before 1 began to take Cardui, 1 was
so weak and nervous, and had such awful dizzy
spells and a poor appetite. Now I feel as well and
as strong as 1 ever did, and can eat most anything.”
Begin taking Cardui today. Sold by all dealers.
Has Helped Thousands.
XWMW
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(he Uots and Abuse'
of Fertilizers
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to \ Bricultii riaf « aiul IlortimItur
l»t« of ArkaiiKiis—ll> Prof. IX. J.
IJ. I)e l.onch, I)ir<M (or of (>oor(;la
Kxpcrfmmt Stntlon.
1. THE USE OF COMMERCIAL FER
TILIZERS—HISTORY.
We would not be disposed to try to
give a complete history of the use of
commercial fertilizers, but only to
show how this great industry begun
and grew in the Southern United
States. Generally speaking, tlie far
tners of this generation inherited the
habit of applying fertilizers to soils
but have not been taught the underly
ing principles of the industry.
The use of some kind of manures on
soils with crops for the purpose of in
creasing the yields goes back to an
eient times. W'e know that many an
eient people applied animal manure
to their soils for this purpose Tin
Chinese centuries ago, applied ma
nures of various kinds to their soils
and gardens and with phenomenal re
stilts In Von Tshtidi's Travels in Pe
ru we find that as early as the middle
of the last century notes were being
taken on the actual value of Guano by
the Peruvians.
Bousingault speaks of seeing fields
in Peru on which wheat had been
grown every year for two centuries,
and the yield still high and the grow
ers prosperous
The praetire of using mineral ferti
lizers was introduced direct from Pe
ru t the United States in the year
1S46, and was based on such reports
as we find above. It had already been
used in England before it found its
way into the United States, but Peru
seems to be the country in which the
application of minerals to soils as
plant food originated. We do not
know this is true, but all evidence
points to this. It is of greater interest
to us therefore that we know about
ilie customs in Peru.
The first man in the Southern States
to use this Peruvian guano was David
Dickson, of Sparta, Ga., who saw an
advertisement of it in the old Ameri
can Farmer published in Baltimore.
The South has perhaps never had a
more successful farmer tlu n David
Dixon, who made many millions of
dollars farming, and who was a pio
neer in many other lines as well as in
the use of mineral fertilizers. In the
year 1846, the year after it was intro
duced into the 1'mted States, lie bought
three sacks and used it, and on find
ing that it paid him, bought n in in
creasing quantities till the year 1 sr»_,
and 1856. when he “went into it fully.
As is suggested above this is no doubt
the first instance of the use of a con
centrated mineral fertilizer on cotton
in the United States.
The universal success with which
Mr. Dickson tm« in the use of this Pe
ruvian guano led many other promi
nent farmers to follow his example,
and in every reported case, success
followed its use. We are constrained
to believe that the way that the appli
cation of this mineral fertilizer to the
cotton anu other crops in the South
could not possibly have been an acci
dent. Its success was unquestionably
based on the actual needs of the soil,
v quick.!.' available manure was " iiat
tho i inp needed, and when this was
were applied results were ecident
After a time it was found that the
Peruvian guano, which contained prin
cipally nitrogen, produced too much
stalk and not much increase in the
yield of fruit, and hence ns use was
somewhat discouraged for a season.
About this time the war between
the States began, and at the same
time the discovery of the potash be;ts
of Germany, also, the offering on the
market of various kinds of mineral
fertilizers resulting from the teach
ings of von Liebig of Germany, who
was at that time the greatest cham
pion in the world of agriculture and
its possibilities. As a result the pop
ularity of Peruvian guano subsided
and more study was given to the gen
eral question of the use of mineral
manures, both by farmers themselves
and the students of agriculture.
Two great contributing factors to
the rise of the fertilizer trade in the
South are first the abolition of slav
ery, and second, the rise of agricul
tural education. Before the war the
question of land was secondary. If
growing farm crops in the South “wore
the land out,” there were plenty of
slaves to “take in more land.’’ It was
cheaper to take in land than to pay
for any artificial manure. In 18b*2,
the Morrill Bill passed Congress,
creating agricultural colleges in the
various states, after which there be
gan a campaign for improving meth
ods in agriculture. Kxperiments at
public expense were begun on a small
scale, and the public was induced to
make greater use of plant foods of all
kinds, as well as to improve methods
of tillage. This, of course, caused an
Immediate increase in the use of min
eral plant foods, and out of which
grew demanns for great quantities of
fertilizers. From this great demand
there sprang up fertilizer factories in
all parts of the country. All kinds of
materials were tried out, some was
good, and some was not, but much of
both kinds used. The factories had
no restrictions and many of them
palmed off on the tarmer. anything
t;,would smell surong and that
r •, Id be put ia tacks. Tl..t condi
tion on account of state laws did not
last very long. We begin the next
article by giving a resume of the part
taken in the rise of the trade by tbs
i isfcWS thyutt&lVcg.
LiZERL IN GLn : i AfIY.
All state institutions have foste.c ’
tint fertilizer l ratio s . e its origin in l
the early fifths, Stale organizations ,
of all kinds have la o n a lively part in
the building up of il o trade, and in lai
er years ;ne states have taken it to/
granted that the trade is profitable to
farmers and merchants alike, and
have ther* fore framed laws to reg i
late its niarufariure and sale. In every
state where fertili er is sold in appre
ciable quantities laws have been
passed exacting certain requirements
of the maim tact urer, because tanners
"ho are not able to analyze such ma
terials for themselves would be the
sufferers Be ides the trade, over-am
bilious, would forget its obligation to
the consumer and offer for ale in
f rior material under ihe name of for
tilizers. We may -ay without fear of j
successful cent radii tion that the states
m/eives are largely responsibb for
the rise and \ olmu • of the fertilizer
trade.
It has long been recogniz'd that
Ce- -iiianv leads i , world in many i
lines of science inis is perhaps trim !
in regard to the use of fertilizers in
early years. (1 /man: discovered that
mineral salts npplvd to growing
crops incre; cd the yields immensely, 1
"1 gave tii i end slimy to the under- 1
ly eg causes, a:. I has suggested to the
.tber parts of the world many vain- j
hie lessons on her findings. Von
1! big through his udies and lee
‘tiles on modern agriculture has made
known much of tin work of Germany
in the early hi tnry of the use of com
mercial fertil'Z'Ts Liebig says that
Kulilmann, a <;« rinan agricultural
scientist, applied tajummoniac to a
meadow in ine year 1K45 and 1S41>.
anti found that on a hectare (2L
acres) i.o gather* i ,14b pounds of!
hay more than on Lie same kind of j
meadow where he did not use the sal- j
ammoniac. He secured this result oy
Using about 200 pounds of sal am
moniac to the acre
In comm* ctii : upon this Von Liebig
has Lie following to say: “it is quite
certain, that in the action of liie gua
no, which prod.H i d ifie crop next high
* st after tli*‘ Chili saltpeter, an un
raistakahle part was played by the
ammonia contained in it. On the
other hand, however, the experiments
with carbonate and nitrate of ammonia
show that a quantity of ammonia, or
nitrogen equivalent to that in 20 j
pounds of guano and employed under
the same conditions, was almost with
out effect."
A little further along he says: "The
most recent obs» rvntions on the com
portment of the soil towards the food
of plants show how slight is the
knowledge w» possess of their mode
of nourishment, and of the part which
the soil, by its physical condition,
plays in it The comportment of the
salts of ammonia, of chloride of so
dium, and of nitrate of soda, towards
the earthly phosphates in the soil,
may perhaps assist us in throwing
some light on their action, or one of
their actions, on the growth of plants."
This statement was made because it
was always found that when common
salt was added to certain mineral ma
nures, greater yield was obtained, and
Von Liebig came to the conclusion
that this was due to the relation of
litis added material to the liberation
of potash in the soils.
Only a short time after the war he
tween the state? the German potash
beds were nr covered and by rapid
leaps and bounds this material gained
in favor with planters as well as ex
perimenters, The necessity for find
ing a combination to liberate the pot
ash in the soils was now removed
The Kind. You Have Always Bough* .and v.hi- !i j
iu use for
is been
over 30 years, lias borne the sk nauire of
,..I — and lias boon iiuulc tind. p bis per*
Sonal i since .ary.
Allow no cue t -deceive y t in this.
AM Counterfeits,, Imitations a: :d **,Tr: {-as- <>od ” are but
* A|M‘viuii'iils that trlde with and endanger the h> dth of
Infants and Children—experience against It; uriiuent.
What is CASTORIA
Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare
goric, Props and Soothing Syrup;. It i, j V ]fc
contains neither Opium, Morphine nrr <>{ ,, r rootle
substance. Its age is its guarantee. It tl< -.troys V. onus
mid iilla.is IYvci’ishnoss. For more than thirty years it
lias been in constant use for the relief of Constipation,
Flatulency, Wind Colie, all Teething Troubles and
Diarrhoea. It regulates the Stomach and Bowels,
assimilates the Food, giving healthy and natural sleep
The Children’s Panacea—The Mother's Friend.
GENUINE CASTOR IA ALWAYS
In Use Per Over 30 Years
The Kind You Have Always Bought
T M > -.i MrA'in COMPANY, f) W VO H K O I TV
TAX COLLECTOR’S NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that I
will attend in person or by de
puty, in the differenttownships
throughout the County for the
purpose of collecting the State,
County and Special Taxes for
the year 1915 on the days and
dates specified below. Each
taxpayer is requested to bring
his last year’s tax receipt. I
would suggest that as many as
can do so meet me the day lam
in their township and therefore
avoid the rush which comes la
ter.
Dota, at Charlotte,on Friday,
January 21.
Cushman, at Cushman, on
Monday, January 24.
Union, at Salt Peter school
house, on Tuesday, January 25.
Cushman, at Cushman, on
Wednesday, January 26.
Jefferson, at Montgomery’s
tore, on Thursday, January27.
Barren, at or near Gray’s
store, on Friday and Saturday,
January 28, 29.
Ashley, at Brewer’s school
house, on Tuesday, February 1.
Gainsboro, at Ham’s school
house, on Wednesday, Febru
ary 2.
Washington, at Bethesda, on
Thursday and Friday,February
3 and 4, at Gilbert Luster’s
store.
Logan, at Jimerson’s store,
on Tuesday, February 8.
Wycough, at Nelson Fitch’s
tore, Wednesday, February 9.
Big Bottom, at Newark, at
Boss Allen’s store.on Thursday,
Friday and Saturday, February
10, 11 and 12
White River,at SulphurRock,
Monday and Tuesday.February
14 and 15.
Magness, at Magness, on
Wednesday, February 16.
Ruddell, at Batesville, on
Monday, Tuesday and Wednes
day. February 21, 22 and 23.
And after that time at my of
fice in the Court House until
the 10th of April. 1916, taxes
can be paid without penalty,
and after the said 10th day of
April. 1916. the law requires a
penalty of 25 per cent to be im
posed for non-payment.
BURTON ARNOLD,
Collector of Taxes for Indepen
dence County.
I reserve Hie right to leave at
noon on the second day where
we collect more than one day
at any one place.
I WANT TO SELL
YOUR FARM?
1 We are inaugurating a plan to thoroughly ad
| vertise this section of Arkansas and will bring
our town and community to the attention of
many people throughout the North and East who
re desirous of locating in the Southwest.
If you have a farm for sale, call and iist it with
us and we promise to use our very best efforts to
dispose of it for you.
If you want to buy, consult us, we may have
the very place you are looking for.
Newark Real Estate Co
S. C. Knight, Secretary
Newark, Arkansas