THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1901.
WHAT CROPS TO PLANT NOW
Prof. Cottrell Gin. lone Qocd AdWice Rt-
IN THE FIELD OF ELECTRICITY
Titorm.K at tiii: imm.i:.
Soms Pregresi Mads in Piuhiny Wiraleu
THE BEST KNOWN
girding Preterit Coiditions.
Toleguphy to a Practical Finish.
FEED GREEN FORAGE NOW AND SAVE HAY
SUMMARY OF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
Auvrl I'citturrn of u ruriuor' Tole-
liliiini! . filcni lUi-ctrlc Will it
llculcr Nci.i Hut (runt
tin- Wire.
A new system of wlreloss telegraphy,
said to overcome many of the points of dlffl
culty In the present system, hag been In
vented by three Chicago students of clec
trlclty. The problem!) of Increased speed In
point of words per minute, greater distance
In transmission, and, most tmportnnt of all
the operating of several instruments In the
same territory, arc said by the Inventors
to bo practically solved. Tho three collab
orators In perfecting the new system are
Trof. Clarence E. Freeman of Armour Instl
tutc, I5r. L. Do Forrest, lately of Harvard,
and Kdwln It Smytho of tho Western Lien
trie company. Secret tests have been car
rled on since early In the summer, and the
results havo been so satisfactory that a
publts exhibition will be ghen. A most sat-
lsfactory test was given some days ago fiom
the top of the Lakota hotel to the tower on
tho Armour Ir.slltuto. Tho test, tno in
ventors say, was given under tho most try
Ins conditions, with n broken field along
tho route of transmission and a metal roof
directly under tho upright at the sending
station. Although tho distance waB only
spven blocks, there was much metal to at
tract currents. Tho messages enmo sharp
and clear Into the receiving Htatlon. Tho
Inventors declare that their system galm
over the Marconi method nt both sending
and receiving stations. The sender, whli-h
Is worked out from tho theory evolved by
l'rof. Freeman, makes no use of tho Induc
tion coll, which has heretofore been consid
ered an Indispensable part of tho system.
In Its plnce Is a condenser which, beside
being less bulky than tho sending cabluot
with Induction roll, liberates energy with
greater spued. The advantage of tho con
denser over tho coll was given a test In the
messago sent from tho I.akota hotel to the
Institute, and, It Is stated, the condenser
made a better record. Tho receiver alms to
recclvo signals from the sending station as
fast as tho oporator can work tho key.
Heretofore fifteen or twenty words a rain
uto has been tho best speed attainable by
wireless telegraphy, and the Inventors say
nractlcat results seldom show more than
ten words a mlnuto on an average. In for
mcr Inventions the tubo of metal tilings
which was affected by tho electric waves
and recorded tho signal had to bo tapped
mechanically to tilnce tho apparatus In
readiness to receive another signal. Tho In
ventors say that electrolysis now does tho
work1 that the mechanical blow onco accom-
nllnhrd. and that thereby much time Is
saved. "There really Is no reason why sov
cral stations could not bo operated In tho
snmo territory with our Invention." said
l'rof. Freeman. "The receiver acts Instan
taneously and can take signals at any speed
In this way different senders can get off
their messages nt different rates of speed
and messages can bo properly dlstln
gulBhcd."
Keameiuleii'n i:iirrlitientH.
Prof. Fessendcn of the national weather
bureau contributes to a recent number of
tho Electrical World and Engineer a short
paper on wireless telcgrnphy. This Is
drawn out by nn address recently mado In
which. Marconi, described a number of im
nrovemonts on his earlier apparatus; be
cause a considerable portion of tho Amcrl
can expert's artlclo Is devoted to showing
wherein he has paralleled tho young
Italian's methods, and wboroln he has do
parted from tho same.
For Instance, Marconi has of lato cm
ployed hollow vertical cylinders, Instead
of nn upright wire, because ho finds th,at
ho can produco n more prolonged wave do
volopmcnt from each spark. l'rof. Fes
senden has used cylinders, too, but docs
not arrange them one Insido tho other,
Again, Marconi tunes his transmitter and
receiver so that they aro both sensitive
to Hertz waves of tho tamo frequency, and
ho doss so by Introducing devices known
to tho electrician as the "Inductance coll"
and "condenser." Tho objects of this pro
ccduro aro to prevent the rccolvor from
taking moro than one message, no matter
how many transmitters nro at work near
it, and to Insure secrecy. l'rof. Fessendcn
has employed tho same means for tho samo
purposes, but In n somowhat different man-
ner, while Marconi makes tho length of
wlro In tho "secondary" part of one of his
colls equal to tho height of his radiating
cylinder, Fessenden doubles tho ratio. He
has also tried several new forms of "radi
ator." Hut two other advances havo been made
at Washington, compared with which the
other Innovations nro Insignificant. l'rof.
Fessendon has greatly slmplllled tho me
chanism for sending messages and at the
samo time enhanced Its efficiency. Ho says
that whllo dispensing with induction colls
and cylinders he has produced radiation six
teen times ns great ns that obtained from i
Marconi Instrument having a one-Inch spark
gap. He has thus sent messages for a dlR
unco of fifty miles without using moro than
n part of his avnllablo energy. Ho wns suc
cessful In finding two other ways of accom
plishing tho same object. For reasons that
seom good to him l'rof. Fessendcn restrains
from telling how big a distance he has ac
tually covered, or hopes to covor. Uut bore
Is already a promise of exceeding Marconi's
maximum of 100 miles.
The other rndlcnl Improvement to which
tho Washington expert brlelly refers Is his
system of tuning. In order to secure secrecy.
The statement Is mndo that Marconi's latest
plan has been tried and found open to ob
jection. Only within cortaln limits can In
terference bo thus avoided. l'rof. Fessen
dcn describes a device by means of which
one could break up communication by Mar
coni's tuned transmitter and receiver.
"Consequently," adds tho Yankee investiga
tor, "this method has been buperseded by
several others which permit of selectlvo
signaling, no matter how strong tho Inter
fering radiator may be nor how close it may
be, even approaching tho Interfering radia
tor within a fow feet, producing absolutely
no effect."
Novel Telephone System,
A novel telephono system, Invented by an
electrician In tho llttlo town of Vorktown,
Aselnlbola, N, W. T., may offect a revolution
In the methods of existing systems, particu
larly In the lines of communication between
farmers In tho great prairies of the west
and nt great distances apart. Tho Inventor
two years ago established at Yorktown a
telephono line upon what was then an en
tirely now system, Into which he Introduced
several original and economic features.
This system gave such universal satisfac
tion that he, as a further experiment, com
pleted last winter a trunk line of thirty
miles In length to the north of the town
and supplied tho farmers of that district
with communication with Yorktown and
with each other. It Is tho first farmers'
line In Canada. A Joint stock company Is
now being formed to extend this system,
which, In somo respects, Is similar to tho
mutual systems In vogue in somo parts pf
tho United States.
A few of tho novoltlrn of tho system are;
A battery sltuatod at "central," working an
open circuit, rings both subscriber and cen
tral alike. The subscriber simply lifts his
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A polar bear by tho Arctic sea
Sat Ashing one cold day,
When up ther crept nn Esqulmo
And stole his fish away.
The bear then grabbed tho weeping Es-
Qulmo and bore him hence,
And swore that Esqulmos should not
Eat Qsh at his expense.
4.
3.
He stood him up so that the sun
Could shine right through his skin,
His shadow on tho ground disclosed
The fish curled up within.
Ills fish regained, Old Bruin Is
Unstinted In his praise,
Unto tho great dlscov'rcr of
The wondrous solar rays.
telephono and Is at onco In connection with
central." or, If tho central operator nas
not tho telephono nt his ear, then an In
dicator s actuated. Ono Indicator only is
required for each section of, say, 100 sub
scribers, and yet no difficulty or confusion
Is occasioned thereby. The system Is me
tallic, and yet only single plugs and cords
aro required to give connection; no ringing
or listening keys aro required: no instru
ments, other thnn tho subscribers' sets, aro
In circuit, consequently speaning is loun.
and clear. Subscribers are constantly in
connection with "central." who, however.
does not overhear conversation. Only threo
simple nctlons aro required to glvo connec
tion. There aro other advantages attached
to the system.
An Electric Water Ilenter.
Amnne tlm natents recently Issued Is one
for an electric water heater, which Is sim
ple in construction nnd whicn is aeciucniy
Interesting as a novelty, although practical
electricians are Inclined to doubt Its prac
ftri iitiitiv. Its description Is as follows:
The device Is arranged In a water pipe and
In Juxtaposition to n faucet, in rorm me
heater Is compact, being mado with an
enclosing shell, which has Inlet and dis
charge pipes directly connected to the op
posite heads of tho shell. Concentric elec
trodes, preferably mado of enrbon pressed
into shape, nro arranged within the shell
and connected with nn outsldo source of
current. One electrode Is mado in tho
form of a hollow cylinder and tho other ono
Is In the form of a core, fitting within tho
cylinder, but providing a spaco between its
periphery nnd the inner wall of the cylinder
for tho passage of the water to be heated.
Tho core electrode Is provided with a cen
tral bore opening at the bottom, but closed
at tho ton. and the Inlet pipe terminates
short of tho top, whereby the water dis
charged from tho pipe will pass Inwardly
Insido tho coro and between the two elec
trodes to tho faucet. Tho periphery of tho
coro eloctrodo Is formed with spiral grooves
In tho shape of screw threads, the faces of
tho grooves being covered by soma suitaoio
fabric which Is pressed Into shape when tho
core Is being formed, Tho object of facing
tho coro or electrode with fabric Is to pro
vent the disintegrated carbon from passing
out through tho faucet with the running
water. Tho cylinder electrode Is formed
with spiral grooves on Its inner face, pro
duclin; substantially a female thread,
which, with tho main thread on tho coro,
forms n zigzag path for the water. By tho
manipulation of tho handle of tho faucet
in ono direction an electrical current Is
sont through tho heater, so that hot water
may bo obtained, according to tho Invon
tor's assertion, whllo turning the handle In
the ouoosltb direction will result iu cold
water issuing from tho faucet. One ad
vantngo mentioned In the patent specifics
Hon Is that "an electric current, say, of
110 volts, will destroy all animal and vege
table matter In water to a largo extent
The zigzag path which tho water being
trentcd Is compelled to travol Is advan
tngeous In that It tends to precipitate any
foreign matter In tho grooves of cither the
core or encircling electrode. The preclpl
tatlon Is due to the formation of eddies in
tho baso of tho grooves, which eddies re
tain tho precipitated matter and prevent Its
escnpo through tho faucet.
Nrn h Hot from the Wire.
nuda-I'csth has tho most singular news
paper In tho world. It Is called the Telcfon
Hlsmondo, or Telephono News. For eight
years this venturo has been In working
order and It is a great Unancl.il success
There aro 6,200 subscribers, who at regula
stated intervals receive the news of the day
"hot" from all over the world while sitting
comfortably at home. The subscribers take
up at a certain time of day their telephone
receivers and listen to tho news which I
spoken to them all simultaneously by
"teller" In tho nowspaper offlce. Advertise
mcnts are heard In the same way. You can
not skip the advertisements In the tele
phono newspaper, for they aro artfully
sandwiched by the teller between exciting
pieces of news and you are bound to listen
for fear of missing nnytning.
One editor, four assistant editors, nln
ropnrtors and a number of "tellers" com
noso the staff of the paper. .Vows Is col
lected In the usual way and Is written out
bv tho reporters, passed by the asslstan
editors and finally Initialed by the editor.
Then It is handed to tha "teller," wh
sneaks It over the wires.
The telephone newspaper does not escape
libel actions. It has had rour ana
them all.
There are two Sunday "Issues," as well
as muny "editions" during the secular day
of tho week.
Aggrieved subscribers dlssattstlod with
the editorial policy of the paper sometimes
wish to stop their connection with It, but
this Is not done easily. In tho nrat place
Instruments have been. Installed In th
house and security glien for year's sub
tcrlption and some time must elapse before
the receivers can be removed. The sub
scriber may dccllno to listen to the news,
but the maddening bell will nevertheless
continue to ring him up at the customary
Intervals. ...
The pcnny-ln-thc-slot system Is being
tried In connection with the newspaper, so
that soon any ono In nuda-I'csth will be
ablo to havo "pennorths" of news doled
out to them.
This novel and Interesting enterprise was
started about eight years ago by Theodoro
Buschgascb, who had been Interested In
electricity and had patented some Invcn
.i iiimrhcaRch died In 1893 nnd the
present efficiency of the paper in all that
pertains to Its technique Is largely due to
Emll von Szvotlos, who Is known on the
staff as technical director. His skill and
energy havo produced great results. The
concern Is owned by a stock company with
a capital of about $250,000.
At first somo difficulty was experienced
In hearing the news clearly over me ieie-phone-a
difficulty which telephone sub-
,h.r. in niner coumnce cawciivhvu ...
ordinary conversations nui a siraino
cntlon soon dUposed or tnis oDsiacic.
All nnKlng
nt Once In SlKht of Vir
ginia City.
"Virginia City," said a man from Nevada
, a WaHhineton Star reporter, "Is pretty
uv.il nn in tho world, as any one knows who
has ever been there, nnd thore are very few
localities In all tho Rocky mountain region
from which n wider range of country can
bo taken in at ono view. Owing to that fact
some very beautiful, striking ana unusual
i?htji are freouently seen by me uwewerb
In that famed City, almost Wlinin souuuuig as laio as August, wwi inane uay buu iuu
rilntmcB of the clouds. I navo wiiuvaocu cncci snoma uo iu uuiuiu us uiuuu poo
KIVB MOUNTAIN STORMS.
Ureen Stuff Will Deteriorate, While
llnv Will He J"t ns flood
Six Months Hence.
"Tk. .-. .hint- to do In arranging to
ri tnMf thrnueh the coming fall and win
.r u m ii.o tn the best advantage the
rrnn nnw prowlnc." says Prof. H. M. Cot
trell of tho Kansas Agricultural college, In
a special article to tho Topeka Capital
"Tho preen utalks of corn, sorghum, Kaffir
corn and other plants used for roughness
ar worth more for feed green than they
will bo If fed as dry fodder next winter
If tho stockman does not havo the neces
sary nasture and Is obliged to feed now,
it will pay him to feed his corn and other
green crops nnd savu hay for winter,
"A great deal of corn Is In tassel nnd
drying un with na prospect for ears. Corn
In such condition is not worth mucn, nut ii
It Is fed green cattle will get all there Is
In It, while If It Is cut, shocked and left
In the Held until winter there will be only
a pile of poor manure whero the shocks
havo rotted down. 11 U Is not necessary
to feed the corn now, leave It as leng as It
stays green, then cut with a binder and
when dry stack. Small shocks of Immature
corn will not keep In tho Held
"On the college farm July 13 twenty-six
head of cows are being pastured on flvo
acres of sorghum. The sorghum stands
waist high, has not headed, nnd even If
we get no rain whatever, promises to sup
ply all tho pasture these cows will need
fcr at least n month. We have eight aens
of sorghum In another field, and when this
heads out we expect to turn the cows on
It and from present promises wo will have
enough feed on theso thirteen acres of
sorghum to pasture twenty-six cows until
October 1. Our tome pastures arc bare
and furnish no feed whatever, and we have
tho choice of either feeding bay now and
saving tho sorghum to be cut for winter
or pasturing tho sorghum and saving the
hay for winter. Tho hay will be Just as
good for next winter as It Is today. The.
sorghum fed green lo worth much mote
than It will be It cut and fed dry.
"Tho college has somo high-priced, pure
bred cattle and we aro pasturing them now
on cow peas and second-growth alfalfa
Uoth these crops will make good pasturo In
dry weather. Wo would not daro to pas
turo them when damp, If we needed It
wo would pasture our soy beans and Kaffir
corn, feeling sure that moro can bo gotten
out of these feeds green than dry. Wo aro
pasturing fifteen hogs on halt an acre of
rapo and this will probably give all
tho pasturo they will need until frost, even
though no rain should fall.
"Alfalfa that w'as cut early has made a
fair second or third growth and moro feed
will bo obtained by pasturing It than by
letting It mature Into a short crop of hay.
Alfalfa must not be pastured tc clcs'r
"Where It Is possible to keep tho n.o-k of
drled-up pastures and put them on sor
ghum or some other pasture It should be
dono. If the stock are kept entirely off
the grass It will make a slight growth no
matter how dry and 'hot tho weather may
be and then If we got fall rains the pas
tures kept freo frortPstock now will furnish
much moro feed and' feed later In the sea
son than If tramped whiIo dry.
"Sorghum, Kaffir corn, cowpeas and alfalfa
mako sa fo pasture after- cattle become ac
customed to them, but great care must be
used on starting .stpek on such pastures.
At tho college we fill the cattle with grass
or hay In the morning and then turn them
on the sorghum or other crops only fifteen
minutes the first day, the next day thirty
minutes and then Increase tho time fifteen
minutes each day until we reach an hour
and a half, when It Is safe to let them stay
on all time and not glvo them other feed
"Cattle turned on such pastures nt first
If hungry -will often eat a fow roouthfuls
and die In a few minutes or hours. Tho hay
that they need whori first getting them on
feed will be worth much less than the cat
tle that will probably bo killed It hay Is
not fed.
"Wo do cot know of any crop that, sowed
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in
somo of thorn myself and one In particular
remember. In fact, It was a sight tnai no
one having seen could ever forgot. It was
moving panorama, grand, impressive in
the extreme, being no less than five distinct,
snow storms raging among the mountains
and deserts to the eastward, while in tho
city not a flake of snow was falling. Tho
storms represented all degrees of fierceness
and covered an area of at least 100 miles.
Tho one furthcrcst to tho cast aud at the
same time the most northerly one, was
apparently passing directly over tho forty-
mile desert. It wns as biacK as a munaer
cloud, so dense wns tho whirling body of
snow, and wns. nerhaps, ten miles In di
ameter. Any one In the midst of It would
have been willing to swear that a snow-
storra must be raging ovor the ontlro con
tinent, but Just to tho north of It several
tall, stotcly peaks rose out of the fierce
storm and towered above It In the full
splendor of sunlight. The high hills that
lay beyond tho storm were shut on from
sight as though by a gigantic black curtain.
"Nearer, and to tho southward, nnothcr
storm, not so black and llcrco ns tne nrat,
hut still dense enough to hide nil tha region
behind It, wns In less active progress. It
crept along toward tho east, reaching from
tho level of the Carson valley upward to
the very cloud whore It came, high In the
heavens. Still nearer nnd between tho city
nnd tho mountains of Como n lighter storra,
yot ono only two or threo miles In width,
passed on Its way. Through this tho moun
tain peaks could bo seen dimly, as In a thin
fog. A mile further south a fourtu snow
storm, smaller In area than oven the Inst
one, but as black and tempestuous as tho
great blizzard that, with the sun touching
Its crown, was sweeping tho forty-mllo
desert, raged Ir. awful fury. All behind It
was hid as with the pall of blackest night.
Miles away, further up to the southward,
the fifth storm, a vast and violent one, was
sweeping along, covering and hiding a range
of thirty miles of high bills.
"netween theso several storm bodies hill,
plains, mountains, peaks stood revealed as
far as the eye could see, all lying In the
glory of a late October sun. The gleaming
peaks that rise golden far abovo the black
masses of storm as tbey raged tn fury at
the mountain bases and far up tho rocky
sides made a particularly striking and awe
some part of that strange picture."
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Ilavld Nntlon Sneii for Divorce.
MEDICINE I.OPOE. Knn.. Auc. 9 Davll
Nation, through his attorney, today brought
suit for a divorce from his wife, Mrs. Carrie
Nation, the temperance crusader. Mr. Na
tion, who Is now visiting In Iberia, O,, al
leges that his wife held him up to pub'!'
ridicule, neglected her family duties and
abandoned hu home.
ture as possible.
"If It does not rain enough to soak tha
ground to a depth of four Inches It will
not pay to sow anything tor feed, as sow
Ing In dry ground simply wastes seed. It
Is too late to sow soy beans. Cowpeas may
be sown as late as August 1 with a pros
poet of a fair crop it weeds do not have
early frosts. List shallow and drill In tho
furrows one-halt bushel per acre, sowing
the hlp-poor-will variety.
"If tho season Is favorable early Amber
sorghum sown broadcast, one bushel per
ncre, will furnish some pasturo if sown as
lata as August 1.
"Hare sown as lato as September 1 will
furnish pasture for hogs. Sow nwarf Essex
rupe, five pounds per acre, broadcast, or
three pounds per acre If drilled. It will do
to feed In six weeks after seeding. An acre
will pasturo ten to twenty hogs and as seed
costs only 10 to 15 cents per pound tho cos
Ii light. If w-e get a good rain It will pay
to sow turnips largely.
Wheat, oats and ryo will furnish a large
amount of pasturo If the season Is favora
ble, nnd whllo theso crops are In good cou
dltlon cattle will do well on thorn without
any other feed thnn straw. A farmer
pastured his dairy cows on oats and
sold during the fall $7 worth of milk
for each ac.ro of oats pastured, the cows
having no other feed.
"It Is too early to decide what will bo tho
cheapest cr.nbinatlon of feed for winter.
Shortugo will be In roughness. There Is
enough straw In Kansas to supply rough
ness (or every animal In that state and
with ninny stockmon straw will bo the feed
to use. Farmers usually feed from twenty
to thirty lounds of hay or fodder a head per
day lo stock cnttlo. Very much less may bo
fed If a proper grain ration Is used.
"nran will take the place of nearly all tho
roughness and can be mixed with cotton
seed, gluten, germ oils or Unseed meals,
oats or corn, whichever Is cheapest and
make a good ration nt a reasonable cost.
Whcnt Is worth about as much pound for
a hog feed.
pound as corn and middlings are worth as
"Fattening hogB fed all tho alfalfa hay
they will eat will fatten on much less grain
than without hay. Sorghum hay Is good for
hogs. A few winters ago some farmers In
northwestern Kansas carried their stock
hogs through the winter on alfalfa hay
alone. A little grain added would have
been better.
"Tho writer began his experience In Kansaa
In 1875 and has seen years when there
was much less feed tn the state than this
year and cattle were wintored all right.
It will not pay to rush good animals on the
market, to be sold for half what they are
worth, Oo slow, It Is a good time to sell
the culls from tho herd, but It will pay
to hold tho profitable animals.
Keep your vital organs In good condition
It you would have health through tho
malarial season. Prickly Ash Bitters
cleanses and strengthens the stomach, llrer
and bowels and helps the system to resist
disease germ, ,
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Cool in Summer.
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