TVoember 25. 1904. THE OMAnA ILLUSTRATED REE. i L I Preaching r "i-aVli. 1 CROWD AT ' ' Vy ' "' , J;' ' --". Lain wwk Kelraiik was trmvr d from nd to nd by i special schooling train for th benefit of farmer engaged In ralvnc corn. It wii practically a rolling rgrlcul turaJ Institute Mnt through the com belts of this state by the Burlington railrOkid for the benefit of the grain producers. What ever mercenary motive may have moved the rr.Troad company to go to thl expense It Is c mpletely-off -et by the gool It must have accomplished. The railroad company mny be locking to future results as a re- f wnril for Its enterprise, but the be-eflt to the farmer must be almost Imm dlitc. The railroad company may be trying to I'icreas the volume of Its grain hauls, but It can ot be denied that while It Is Increa Irg IM own volume of business by hundreds of dollars. It la Incrertnlng the Income of the farmer by thousands pf dollars. The Seed Corn Special Is an Innovation In railroad enterprise. It la the outcome of a Joint conference between the railroad company and the agricultural department of the Cnlverslty of Nebraska. The Inter est shown In the special was manifested In the Immense audiences which met th train at every station. Farmers came fro-n long distances to attend the lectures .ind tliey were well repaid for the trouble: Only thirty-minute lectures were given, and wihle this did not prm:t th fc! nt'stn to do tnor than touch the principal points relating to the production of corn. It was ' long enough to convince some cf . the largest growers that there la considerable to learn about corn. i MaJce-Cp ( the Trala. The train waa made up of two private ear and two warm coaches, in which the lectures were held. Corn specialists repre senting the University of Nebraska, and of In addressing the farmers. Lectures wtre "" given simultaneously In each car and in ' this way from 200 to too peoplo were ac- i COTnmoaaiea m. a ume. ine lectures at ' each station and In each car were prao- tlcmlly the same, and to give a summary of Arte la ?1 fftv a nunmirv of all Thi 1 Mv. turers went down to the root of the mat ter. They began with the seed. Expert-, menta have shown that If the seed Is all right the corn wlU be all right. The experiments at the various agricul tural experiment stations are conducted upon the same theory that governs experi ments In the animal world. It haa been demonstrated that like begets like, condi tion of the soil and climate being equal. It was demonstrated by one of the speak ers) that In Vormont where the conditions of soil and climate are not so propitious for th raising of corn as In Nebraska, the yield per acre Is from eight to ten bushel greater than in this stats because corn growing Is conducted along scientific lines. While attention haa been paid to giving th soil the proper attention and supplying those elements which It lacks for the proper nourishment of the growing plant, still more attention has been given to the seed because It has been proven that the seed of vl rnmiil health v fnr-n will nmilnM iHv. oroua and healthy plants, but there are details to be watched In order that each ear will yield the largest possible amount of grain. Issaortaae of Good Seed. "If you want to raise a thoroughbred animal," said one of th speakers, "you wouldn't pick out a scrub or a weakling. r- a i raiUOUS 111 Frontier AnnQlS uver iii grave of Jim iinuger a monu luam wui uu veiled ai Jai,a C'ily mat aunauy as a uitua to a i)ukau and lamuut Uiarocier lu liouuer auuois. ii,ier n becu uliw "Uie uiw hunter, uiuujiuuntwr and guiue vt Uie wai." ils uomtvus Uut UU. At the age of U years ttriiigar began his career In lu western w.ius aa a lur huu ter. 'Itutt waa in 14 auU lot iwumy-uno years, until low, lis was acuve in ill t-r uauo. iu uaar ui kiu ol U.uiKr. Vvyo.r he tuuuueu sort U.iua.er, w uicu was a suppiy yust un ih uieun ua.1, ui.uw beiweou luupu.ui,ca, aiw., aila a oi'i Van couver, and wluuu waa a tauiv.ua uu uur for Uie "ptairie sclioouui ' oi p.un.u emi grant, in uie eais loiluwu.g uu waa eui plued aa gu.de, ircyoeuliy by Uie twrexn iuouu .imager's kiiOMltUaw U Kooky tuuui.iaiu I Ibputfiapuy was probabiy never eciuu.-U kAa tri.n.y never suipaaacu. lie wa jrirue repreaeuuiuve wi iiuti auioi icau tl Of wtiicit liariM'ed and a, ru ai-u tun sorted will! savage lur fuis bclur Ml tieiueut btsau. xna uruwliua was Weil varied when at. la waa hair spent. ii cuange. uul uie period that iui.uvii pio neer xt.ttiiiuil and buiit due waa uu, of lita lypo, uitur "caiiyuiis," as lie om.ua their siruvu. wore tow narrow lor ms "robust ii'tedum," Aud ui.n uca.u luu turn oii m loui he hau bctu oui ot iiuie waa uie nuw order many years. iu in si wait man, auumritauvtt.y i e toruvd iu liaving u.covied tirta Uail iaau, is t.i later, iu 1A he ut;iiud itar tivsi' lo ueiiuuiiu lor a teagw u.e uuusi oi thai uin-am. At thai Uui h.a party, uu o nuur iietiry, was cauipid in v.uiy. 'ill iut of salt a.r h i.d puriy supposed to L an aim of tiia r-c.o ot.uui. bvideuiiy iinuaor cud i.ol obaciw ins absenoe of Udaa. ii.ouau lr.der ia calieU l.i jiiaooveier . ; uiul taac, lie waa pooaoi 1101 .10 uic to via.t IU bpaiuaU aiiii J.a of iw jtfe oclole UkuUUoiA Uoa a a. 'X'latf . ,.oi' pi'iy u kLuHU lw have pawed Uuar i.v taasia loli-ii uu the way lo lue Co.- uii. .11 iaa- aiuart aitd Clooas. rlui'U .ud .ioui Aaioria, Mere cloaa Ui lu t'ux ..villus of Uuuaou'a-liay compauy and the ,urilivtiiu s'ur company oilen roaiuod mvugu the - region before tond,ser. aUienn 'frunai, a well known truppw of VU'iajn li.ury Ashley's Hocky Mountain Fur company, la said lo hav hunted i.ear ha la. In Jsj. Ganeral Ashley is said hav bvoa In th same vicinity ahead of lfcridgeri likewise a trapper named Y asanas. the Gospel of Good Seed ..... - fry u & ASHLAND, Nab., 'WAITiNO FOH TKS BUXLXNOTON OOHN ftPTCXAX-boU by 4 t ri tflnr iH .? ." - f (,(! (" if"'1, ' rmn ..i.j '',' i Wit'- M.JfeQfc- v -i'' '..' s. i 4irf Ln.J.-a.'itoaVa4 i;jp,. PROP. T. U TON OP TUB tTNIVERSITT OF NEBRASKA TELLING FARMER3 THE VALUE OF GOOD SEED CORN. Photo by Staff Artist- Why? Because you know perfectly well that you wouldn't get a thoroughbred; you would get a scrub. Then, why do you ex pect any more of the vegetable world T rhe laws that govern reproduction ar the same in the vegetable world aa they are In the animal world. Like begets like. "Supposing that , the yield of corn In the Andean (Copyright, WA, by Frank G. Carpenter.! ASHINGTON, Dec, ,18. (Speoial w Correspondence, of The" t Be.) What promises to be .cae ot the chief mining enterprises of ' our hemisphere' haa been started by Americans in the heart of th Andes." Thus spoke Mr. Irving B. Dudley, our minister to Peru, as we chatted together In Washington prior to his leaving for his post, last week. I spent some time with Mr. Dudley In Peru, when I visited that country a few years ago, and with him went to the tan of the Andes on the rail roaj built by Henry Melggs, the Callfor- njan at tnormou cost about thirty yers ago. That road la the hlshest moun- taln of th, world. lt you ,n . d.v .h. paclfla d.., to the top of 'the Andes, and lands you on the other side more than three miles above the sea. The road goes through some of the richest mineral territory of South America, and lt was originally Intended to reach the famous Cerro de Pasco silver mines. Meiggs' money gave out before he got there and, although the road had been continued after hla death, lt waa from fifty to seventy miles away from Cerro de Pasco when I rode over It. Aaerlua Capital la Fera. "The enterprise I refer to," continued Minister Dudley, "Is connected somewhat with the railroad by which we traveled to lh. tnM nf th. Anil.1 It ! thi nurahiM of , r the Cerro de Pasoo mines by a corps of American millionaires headed by J. B. Hagtiin. D. O. Mills, Henry C. Flick and others, among whom are said to be the Hearst heirs, and the Vanderbllts. The company la largely composed of men who have been connected more or less with ths great copper mlnej at Anaconda, Mont., which ar supposed to be the richest cop per mines on the globe, but which may be eoualed b Cerro da Paaco. Thev have alreudy tpent 8,000,000 In purchasing the property and In extending the railroad to Cerro de Pasco and I understand that they will spend J2.0o0.000 more before next fall. They have bought up the mines from the Individual owners, not asking conces sions of the ' Peruvian government, and their work la all done after practical busi ness methods. They are said to have In the nelKhborhood of 300 mines and almost everything of value In that immediate vicinity. They expect to extend the rail way to coal mlnea about twelve miles far ther on, so that they can have their own fuel for the smelters." "I thought the Cerro de Pasco mines were sliver mines, Mr. Dudley T" "So they were, but copper has been found under the silver and the ore now taken out Is a mixture of silver and copper. This Is the copper age and copper mining Is now paying better than silver mining. I see It estimated thst the Cerro de Pasco crmpany will be exporting within less than two y-trs about .000 tons a month, or eo.ooo tons per annum. This will repre sent a value of almost 115.00.000, five times the whole production of Chill. It will be more copper, than Spain and Portugal, the great copper countries of Europe, pro duce." Toaa ef Silver. "Tell ma some-thing about th silver-of Cerro de Paaco V "Those mines have seen producing silver since the seventeenth century." said our 'rt" cost hut little to gt It down to th minister. to Peru. "They were discovered, seacoaat If they have s good deposits as by an Indian shepherd who camped out they think their concession should be a very' one night where the town of Cerro de Pasco valuable one." i now standa That place Is more then 14.000 "I suppose that a railway will be event fee above the sea and It Is usually bitter ualiy extended by. the Paclfle company to eold after dark. The Indian built a Br be- the Amason?" fore going to sleep shd awoke the next morn- ' ,n to nn1 ,nat ,n0 stone, under his Ore had m""a mna " "nip snver stag iay iq their piaoe. Bine then thousands of tons of pur silver hsvs been taken out of Cerro de Paaco. Twenty-seven thousand tors bad bn mined as far back as U3. and altogether more than ti.i.0H worth of silver has been produced there. "Much of the .liver ore waa .hipped to Europe," continued Mr. Dudley. Then a 4 -.. v - state can be increased only five to tan bushels per acre, what does It mean to the farmer of Nebraska? It means an Increase in wealth amounting to millions of lars. It Is ust as much to your ad vai.tdge to raise a good ear of corn aa a bad one. Here are two ears of com," continued the speaker, picking up two 1 ' i u run 3 :mr ml .... ,JL... o.:. !t . r n in iJ ,iJ- '-if : 'j '? V ' Silver Mine Now 'smelter waa built at Casapalca, on th railroad, about seventy-five miles from Cexro de Pasco, and for the past few years the ore has been carl red there on the backs of Hamas. A llama will carry only 100 pounds. It Is a stubborn beast and will lie down and refuse to go if overloaded. As a result the cost of transportation has been enormous, and only the beet of the ore could be taken to the smelter. There must be a great' deal of this silver still in the dumps about these mines. This ore is now being carried to the smelter by the new railroad built by the American syndicate. I understand, however, that the rates of transportation by llamas have been reduced that they are carrying ore at about the same freight rates as the rail road, the animals walking along beside th tracks." "Is Peru still rich In gold and silver, Mr. Dudley' "Yes; but lt is hard to tell just how rich It is. Much of the country has not been thoroughly prospected, and the mines may be better further down. In these Cerro de Pasco mines the upper deposits consisted of a great body of low-grade sliver ore. more than a mile and a half long by three' ------- quarters of a mile wide. This was worktd down to a depth of about 200 or more feet. and then tunnels bad to be driven in to drain th mine. They have been making Immense tunnels still lower down, and th lunnei comDaniea ciajm certain risrni ... 7.. ' .. . '.. 7. wmrn Will possiDiy conmci W1U tnoa or th American syndicate. "As you go down In these mines the sil ver or changes to copper, and, aa I havs said, lt Is the copper and not the silver that la valuable now. There are probably good copper mines in other parts of Peru; and Bolivia, you know, baa very valuable deposits of almost pure copper. Ther are gold mines In different parts of the coun- tr- nd a mlne leaa- -ln Jul- ,llvr. Altogether, there are mora than -ow different Peruvian mining claims on record, one-third of which, perhaps, are unworked." Paetfle Coasaaay's New Coaeesslea, "When I was in Peru, Mr. Dudley, soma New York parties, known as the PaclBa company, had a concession for coal mlnea in the Andes, and were about to build a, railroad to them. What ia that company doing?" "The Pacific company haa recently se cured new concessions, and valuable ones. It haa a atrip of land running from Pacaa mayo to Chlmbotc, and extending front there back up the Andes to one of the nav igable branches of th Amason. There are coal mines In the territory, and with th concession goes th right to build a rail road to get thte coal to the aeacoast. On of the great troubles shout th west coast of South America is the lack of good coal. There are mines in southern Chile about the Bay of Cohoeption, but th coal ther Is not of tho best quality. The deposits ex-', tend for some distance along the coast, and -far out under th water. Hundreds of miners ar employed and the men work in tunnels away down below the' bed of th ocean. Aa a result mining Is expensive, and coal from Australia and England com petes with th Chilean coal. The coal that th Pacific company's railroad will open up on tn highlands of th Andes, and It "Probably so," replied Minister Dudley, "but you must remember that It la only a concession sa yet. There Is no road built. It also Is planned to extand tha Qroyo rall- road, to the Crayall river, which Is one of the navlgsble branches of the Amazon. Th distance from th end of the Oroyo line, the same road we have been talking about lu connection , with th new copper prop." ertlee, to th Ucayall Is only about 1M (BUea. When It to built eu can fa la - i;: -? s i J- r a V f -' i J SUA ArtiaU I - ' ' -.,? i: 1: nil ' ,.--v I -i hum sample. "One you see Is a tapering ear and grows smaller at the end. The other Is cylindrical. It la about the same from tip to butt. Common sense will prove to you that the tapering ear which gets thin ner near the tip cannot yield as much corn as the cylindrical one. Ears rail down In one or two way a In this tapering ear barges and boats down that river to th Amason. That road would open up th Peruvian territory adjoining the Acre ter ritory which Bolivia has just sold to BratlL There are valuable rubber forests In that region, and It is probable that' similar forests are also found on Peruvian soil. The government would like .to have a railroad there; so that It eould quickly transport troops to that point In case of trouble. The Brazilians are, you know, to build a railroad in that region to facilitate travel to and from the Amason." Backwoods ot Pera. "It must be difficult for Peru to control it territory on the eastern slopes of the AndesT They ar practically inaccessible, are they not' "As far as easy travel Is oonoerned. i.o.'Thich'l.T Peru . Vth." Maranon! a great river that form, a part of th said the minister to Peru. "Take , Amazon. It used to be that officials going from Lima to Iqultos sometimes went around the Strait of Magellan and clear up the Atlantic coast of the continent to the mouth of the Amazon, and then up the Amazon to Iqultoa At present a fa tuo aiimiu m .ijui iu a, ,ivovu. w- Vonte way is to go to the Isthmus of Panama and then up th Amason. On can go up the Oroyo road and thence down by trail to the Ucayall and thence by boat on to Iqultos, but that takes several weeks, ack It would take more, as ana in cominsr oaca il wouia uu mora, aa . ' mo doiu go mucn mure wowiy up siraain. You can ao from New York to Iaultos Is lens time, I venture, then lt would require to get there from Lima by way of tho Ucayall. Ther are steamers from New York to Manaoa, which is 1,000 mile, up th Amason, and there are smaller steamers irora aianaoe to iqunos. "How about the railroad that takes on frora the Pacifio to Lak Tltlcaca? Has It been extended 7" to death. It is said that some of the ' ' "That road has an extension to Slcuanl, treasures of the Incas were burled, shortly tramway from 'Lima to Chorillas, on the and from ther a wide oarriaga road bag after this. In Lak Tltlcaca and other- cout- Both of these companies will proba bly do well" ;,;-:;.''.v-.:-f.- '.V" j.-. Eft VINO B. Corn to . -. I - a. M.t: - FARMERS IN LECTURE COACH the kernel gets smaller and smaller toward the tip and there Is very little corn aa It tapers off, while the rows begin to drop out and get thinner. Work to get a corn that will give you the largest yield per ear and you will have corn that will give you the largest yield per acre. "Here Is another kind of corn to which I want to call your attention. This you will observe has a large cob and small kernel, while that ear has a small cob and large kernel. One Is all cob and the other Is nearly all corn. One has a deep kernel and the other a shallow one. Well, It's corn you want, not cob. but If you plant com from an ear like this you are going to have ears that won't yield as much per acre as by planting from that ear whlob ia all corn, trtarea from Object Lenssi. "These pictures." continued the speaker, tainting to several charts behind him, "will give you a clearer idea of what I am about to say next. They are enlarged photo graphs of ears of orn with which experi ments h'ave been made. Here is a kernel that tapers Into the cob. Tou will notice that there Is a space between the kernels, top and bottom, although they touch In the Worked for Copper been built to Cuzco, the old capital of the Incas. Freight automobiles are now used to connect Cuxco with the trains, and this road ought to open up the ruins of that famous city to visitors. There ar good trains from the Pacific to Lake Tltlcaca, and It will now take but a short time to reach Cuzco from there. Cuzco is a town of about 20,000 or so. It is the center of a rich province and a busy place. though lt has nothing of Its political lm portance of the past. At the time that the Spaniards came lt was perhaps the richest of all the Indian cities sout'i of the isthmus. PUarro got much of hla booty from there, and the tradition is that he took from one native temple 40,000 pounds of gold and 80.000 pounds of silver. Some of this earn from th Tempi of the Sun, at Cusco." "How about the hidden treasure of the Incas. Mr. nudlevT It u said thev burlixt ' Andes when the Spaniard, ban to Pob tnemr "xou win near such traditions In all parts of the Andes, but I doubt whether there is much truth in them. The Spaniards car- ried away about all the gold and silver that th lno hd mm.d .n,t . fe .. i e - - - know, but few hidden treasures have come . - - . . . - to Uht. You see, the Incas were the ruling the rest of the people practically woraea ior tnem. as a result, most of th silver and gold came into their hands and they turned it over to th Spaniarde. Such mining aa they, did was after the rudest """'"i m iu,j oiu wom ttiicr ins ruaesi j.. buu m, y uci tram uui nave been very great Nevertheless. It Is said 'that th Spaniards, for a time, shod their horses with sliver, and Pizarro, when he captured Atahualpa, the Inca king, by treachery, agreed to release htm if he would fill a room seventeen feet wide and twenty reet long with gold. This was don, and history tells how Pizarro then want back on his word and put the king DUD LIT. Nebraska Farmers i; - W - v - UBTENINO TO THE GOSPEL. OF GOOD r ;. : - v ; - -v. - ,7 - -W-. ...-W , - - - -I,, r - middle. Well, you can't get anything for my wagon In the fall and when I found space. Tou can't aell It. It won't weigh perfect ear that answered all the require anything and you can't feed it to your menta throw It Into the box. From this lot cattle. What you want Is corn. Here Is a I should sort out my seed. Put It ome picture of an ear In which the kernels press where where It will dry out perfectly. It against each other from top to bottom, and stands to reason that corn kept In the crib, they are very deep. There la very little where It Is continually rreeslng and thaw cob to one ear and quite a good deal to the Ing, will not be as good a germlnator a other, although they both were of about the corn that has been protected from the same diameter when picked. Yet you freeilng. High vitality, with lota of vigor can euslly comprehend that the yield from and good shelling power. Is what you want, one corn would be much greater per acre If you haven't killed the vitality of the than the yield from the other. "Another thing I want to call your at tention to Is the fact that experiments hav demonstrated that rough ears are the most vigorous germlnators. They hav the greatest vitality. Corn from such ears take and putting them back of the stove, or, bet hold from the start and mature more ter still, near the furnace, they will sprout quickly. I don't want to be misunderstood nl you can then determine their germl as saying that rough corn is better than nating vitality. If ths kernels from on a smooth corn, but that th rough ears' of don't meet the requirements replace It wittt any kind of corn are better than the smooth the kernels of another ear. Keep track of ears of the same kind. If your corn yields a rough ear select your seed from the roughest ears. If your corn Is a smooth variety then take the roughest ears of that Row to Go A boat It. "What I should do is to have a box on ' ' wherea, found." but, if so, they are yet te be Bolivia's New Railroads. "I understand, Mr. Dudley, that a new railroad has been built from Lak Tltlcaca. to La PaaT" - - . ' " "Yes, a road has been built, but it does not go down Into- the city of La Pas. You may remember that there is a great plateau away up there, almost three miles above the sea. In which Tltlcaca and La Pas i.e. at a distance of forty or fifty miles apart- Tltlcaca lies in one basin. La Pas in an- other. The road begins at Gauqual, tho port In Bolivia which you reach by sailing across Lake Tltlcaca from Puno In Peru, The new railroad crosses the plateau to the Alto, or rim of the basin containing La Pas, and there stops. As you get out at th. -r,n . inu.nn. and look down at th chief cy of BoUvia. Woh lies about 1.000 feet below you. Ther are now carriages which take you down to the city, but plans have been made for cable or electric lines, and eventually these will probably go through. " v...... ,. aUU 1T saws l TCJ-WJU1 IV UUIIU (10 W .H.k rninn ,t - i., ivmuo i v ii uiv fc,wv,wv niutu iv c v cu frora Brazil for the Acre territory, and among- the lines proposed la one from La p,, t0 oruro, on the Autbfagaata line, thus giving Bolivia a railroad outlet to the At ,antlc. T believe there are also propositions . wlth ih, -t.nBn ,,, 4 . . ,.u .v. : i , . v. - . " l r-iiwoy systems" "Ia Peru developing along electrical lines?" "Not very rapidly," mas th reply, "but w have electrlo lights In Lima and many of the factories are run by electricity. Some of the Interior cities are so lighted. We bav elec'rif, tramwy ow running from LJmtt t0 CallM. wr chlef Prt. a distance Antriou Trade With Perm. "How about our trade with Peru, Mr. Dudley?" I asked. "It la steadily increasing, although the people of the United States do not make much effort to push It. When I first went to Peru the Germans exceeded us In their exports to that country. We are now far in advance of them and second only to Great Britain. Our trade today Is almost three times what it waa when I first cam to th country, and lt seems to me that Vie 4rospects for a continued increase ar good." "What do w sell to Peru" I asked. "Wheat, bread tuffs and all sorts of hardware and machinery. Much of th wheat comes from our Pacific coast statea The machinery Is Isrgeiy from the east. This trad will be benefited by tha Panama canal." "What do w buy of Peru, Mr. Dudley?" "We buy a great variety of things, among others medicine and chemical products, foodstuffs and wool, and especially cotton. Th Peruvian cotton commands a far higher price In the markets of the world than our own cotton. It has a long fiber which la so much more ilk wool than cot ton that It could be passed off for wool. It Is used In making hats, hosiery and un derwear. The factories mix It with wool and th article Into which It goes havs a fmer luster and fin 1st than those made of pure -wool. This cotton is of different col ors, some white, some brown and some al most red. So far the area of Cotton terri- ' tory has been limited, but companies have been recently formed to Irrigate the la nils of northern Peru, which will bring much mors cotton soil Into cultivation. The most of the desert you know, will blnsHorn Ilk th roas If it ran only have water." "What are the political conditions In Peru at present, Mr. Dudley? Do you have msny revolutions?" "There hsve been no political trouble during my stay In Peru, arid there are no Indications that there will b any In tha future. Tha country Ls quiet and tha peo - set VJ il V-7 4l, SEED CORN. Fhoto by Btatt Arust. corn by the freezing and thawing process It I natural to assum that you hav low ered it By taking a few kernels from each ear and wrapping them In a piece of dampened paper, blotting paper Is th beat. th ears from which th kernels were taken by numbering them and making the num ber on the paper In which th kernels are wrapped correspond." Constant Experience Necessary. In a private conversation Prof. T. 1 Lyon of the University of Nebraska said that experiments are being made at that station with oats and wheat. The oats yield B Nebraska has been increased ten bushels to the acre, "Hie university has been ex perimenting with th Kherson oats from southwestern Russia and It haa been shown that fifty bushels can be raised to the acre They are early maturing oats and get out of the way of the hot, dry weather. Ex periments with the macaroni oats from Al giers, In northern Africa and southern Rus sia, hav also proved satisfactory, and lt haa been shown that wheat can be raised In any part of th state. A variety of corn haa been developed whloh waa grown, this year as a distinct variety. Satisfactory experiments ar being mad with alfalfa and Hungarian grass, which makes a good sod and grows through the hot summer months without drying up. It Is a good pasture grass and resembles the Kentucky blue grass grown In Illinois and lows. Ho also cautioned against bringing grain for seed from too great a distance, and ex. plained why warm nilmate grains will not nourish In cold climates and vice versa, and wnT trains should not be Imported for seed ,rom to far ' or wst, and why seeds ,rom ao rrirated country will not do well ta a country not Irrigated. Th Interest In Z" ""to year continu.d from ; 77 -v , V, con',enl1 J" -WW The death or President Caudamo was followed by th 'ctlon of Jose Pardo to lak. hla place. q-, ,la l m ana lne heU of government have moved Bmrwithlv t . IT . ,,, . w,1Jent Pard. although P0;'"01 reer ha btm hort on h i aoverumeni email. uiuca mil exociieni president, tte is a young man, not over 40, who has been en gaged In business for the greater part of his life. and. who up until a year ago had had but little to do with politics or the gov eminent. He waa chosen by Pre: dent Cun damo as his chief ministerial adviser, and upon Candamo's death he naturally became president. He Is a very patriotio man and is anxious to do well for Peru. He saya he will devote his energies to Improving the ro(Ldway, other cotnmunlca,Uon the country and to bettering tha peop.e along educational lines." FRANK O. CARPENTER. Prattle of the Youngsters Willie I don't b'lleve that story of "Puss In Boots." How oould a cat have seven league boots? ; Tommy Mebbe a big giant threw 'em at him on night "Mamma, do barbers go to heaven?" "If they ar good, dear; but why do you ask?" "Why, I was wondering who trimmed th saints' whiskers." Edgar, aged (, was taken In to see hla new baby brother. After walking around him several times and viewing him crltlo- ally he Anally said: "Mamma, don't you think we had better get a wig for that kid nies grandpa's T" Mamma Harry, you have again failed to do as you were told. I'm afraid that every thing I tell you goes In at on ear and out at the other Harry Well, mamma, why don't you stop one of 'era up? "NoW, Minnie," said th Sunday school teacher, "can you tell m what happened ta Lot's wife?" "Yes, ma'am," answered Minnie. "8h was always fussln' with the neighbors and one day when she got too freeh God cam down and put her In a sack of salt" Ethel was year, old, and very much given to xaggeratna. Her mother called It by a lees po'lte Dims, and worried bver what she considered a vicious tendency In the child. One day the little girl rushed In bresthleas and told her mother that a 'big black lion wss loose, and that several of her playmates' mothers had fainted when they saw It Investigation disclosed the fiver that the child had Men a blaok poodle clipped to resemble a Hon. Her mother ordered her to go Into her room and ask God to pardon her for lying. Wheir she came out her mother asked her If she had asked God to forglv her. "Yea. mamma." said ths little girl, "gnd He said to me, 'Dear child, don't mention It. I thought It was a lion myself when I first laid eyea aa IC "