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Huslne Correspondence
11 Hpci'litlly.
1134 N 8t. Tol. 303
J. S. EATON,
Physician and Surgeon
Office: nfiS. Eleventh St.
Telephone: Office 685. Residence 561.
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Fill'. KINCS CORN (illOWKII.
On. WOLFE, OF CINCINNATI, AND HIS
WONDERFUL GOLDEN EAR.
He Mmln .Irrry lln.k, Nrrrrliiry of Aisrl
rntliirt'. ArliMiiH liiln IIU NowrxlBiily.
1ln l)'tir' i:prrlim.iiU 1111 IIU Muni
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Wahiii.noton, April a I. Ono day Inst
week 11 hIioiI, robust old man, who worn
1 slouch hut and carried a largo grip sack
hi lilt hand, called at tl ilip.'irtiiuut of
igrleultiiieatid wilt hlscnrd to Secretary
Itllnli. Ho wiih hIiowii in.
"You nro Jerry Husk?" ho asked, put
tine down his grip suck.
"Yen; and you?"
"I am tho King Corn Clrowur of
America."
Hlit'HKTAKY UUHK IIKATKN.
"Oliul to meet you, Mr. King Corn
Grower. Iltivc you houio Bpeelini'iiH of
your skill with you? If ho, trot 'em out."
Tho visitor opened IiIh big cnrot bag
nud t(Kk out an r,ttonlshlng number of
llttlo tin Imixch, llko a prostidigntoiir pro
ltichiu flowers: from tho inner recesses: of
11 silk lint. I to removed tho sliding lids
of these boxen, of which thero wore thirty,
nml Hpread thoni out 011 tho Kocrotury'H
desk. Thero wero thirty Hinall masses of
corn, a ohrouintlo hciiIu In nml.o. Ilox
No. 1 wiim full of kernels almost an whito
an iH-rlwlnklofl, whllo Ixix No. .10 wuh iw
black iih darkness. All tho tint and
shade known to tho chemist were to bo
found in thin product of 11 corn Held lab
oratory. "And hero aro houio of tho oinblomnof
my royalty," nald tho victor, diving
deep down into IiIh carpet nook and Itrlni;
lug forth two or three long yellow
wands, not with rowH of golden drop.
"You think that a klnglv ear of corn,
do you?" exclaimed tho Heoretary of agri
culture. "You think it can't bo beat?
Well, wait hero ono minute nud I'll take
tho conceit out of you."
Undo Jerry touched his olectrio ImjII
button, and in a couple of minutes he
held in his hand a long ear of corn.
"Now, h!.o up hero with 1110," ho ex
claimed, merrily; "now wo'll hoo if you
are tho King Corn Grower of America,
Measure up, now!"
Hut lo and behold! tho ear of yellow
corn which for many moutliH had Ihhmi
tho pride of the department of agricul
ture wuh shorter by an Inch or more than
the ear which tho visitor held aloft in
triumph.
"I acknowledge tho corn," wild the
"ooretary; "you aro king; but now give
111 an account of yourself."
The visitor needed no second Invitation.
"My name is Wolfo-I)r. N. H. Wolfe
-of Cincinnati," said ho. "I practiced
medicine for thirty-live years. Now I
have retired and Ihxsoiiio a farmer."
"Heing a millionaire, you can alTortl
to till tho soil," interjected tho secretary.
"Yes, and let mo tell you what I havo
done with tho soil. Let mo talk corn to
you. Some years ago I purchased four
sections of laud, 2,500 acres, In Reno
county, Kansas, intending to havo a cat
tlo range Mr. Secretary, you never huw
a prettier piece of laud, A Btream runs
through it, and it lies as u great basin,
from tho rim of which every other spot
of its surface can bo seen. In May, I8S8.
I gavo orders to havo ono of the sections
put under plow. To do this, tho season
being late, thirty breakers wero set to
work turning over tho thick turf. Our
furrows were a mile long. How long do
you think it took us to break and plant a
square mile of ground? Just twenty-two
days. In tho history of farming in Kan
sas never has so much been done iu so
short a timo. Forty men and 123 horses
ilid tho work. Of course that year's
crop of 'sod' corn didn't amount to much.
It was not expected to.
"Last spring wo began preparations for
raising a real crop of corn. I had some
Ideas of my own about corn planting,
and I put them into oKration. The soil
had not boon touched for a year, but now
we put tho listers in, plowing out fur
rows ten tnchoa deep, with a two inch
sulwoller following to pulverize a soft
boil in which to plant and bury tho beod.
Again, our furrows wero a milo long, and
by tho timo tho three or four horses at
tached to each plow had dragged a heavy
lister sixteen times across tho Held they
wero tired enough to quit for tho day.
Plowing and planting wero dono nt the
snmo time. When wo had finished our
field it looked like n lakoon a breezy day,
Thero was a succession of littlo ridges
alxmt three feet apart, and their crests
rising a foot above tho furrows which
ran between them. In tho bottoms of
theso furrows tho corn grow, and whou
It had attained a height of four or live
inches tho crests of tho furrows wero
harrowed oft and tho earth thus disturb
ed fell Into tho furrows and covered tho
plant completely, Tho surface of the
Held was now perfectly lovol again, and
no corn could be seen. In a short timo
tho bright green blades renpiioared, and
when they had grown up six or eight
inches tho cultivators wero set to work
shoveling tho earth toward the plant.
Twice afterward tho cultivators went
through the Held, and when tho corn was
up IS or 18 inches, and again when it
.vat. about 80 inches. Then the crop was
laid by to make itself."
"And how did tho crop do?" asked the
w t Iff
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secretary of agriculture, now thoroughly
Interested,
"How did It do? Just wait till you
hear tho figures. Every grain of Heed
loomed to havo fruetilied. Every stalk
boro a good oar, many two ears. When
wo can to harvest wo found a great
deal of corn. It wemed as if tho heaps
never would stop growing In my cribs.
It was a iierfoct mountain of corn, Why,
from tho 500 acres devoted to this crop
B8,500 bushels of Hrst class corn wero
gathered, shelled, measured and weighed,
From M0 acres of oats, the icmnindcr of
the section, tho yield wiih 5,1100 bushels,
giving iih a total of 11,000 bushels of
grain tho largest nop ever gathered
from ono section of hind In America,
"Just think what a quantity of grain
that is, Mr. .Secretary," continued Dr.
Wolfe, with tho genuine eiiMnisiasni of
a farmer, a statistician and an economist
combined in one, "It would load nearly
11 thousand wagons and would 111! three
freight trains, each composed of thirty
live cars. It Is a greater quantity of
grain than was impoited by tho United
States iu tho last Hscnl year. What
would tho farmers of Germany, of Hol
land or England think of a crop like that?
And this must the more amaze us when
wo rollout that my farm Is right in the
midst of what was once known as the
"Great Amoilcan" desert tho region of
which tho authoritative Ilumlioldt,
whose word no one over dared dispute,
wroto 'It Is as sterile iih Sahara.'"
"I havo hecu out In that country," said
Secretary Rusk, "iyul I saw no desert
there. Do you think it over was a des
ert?" "I do not. While it is true that vege
table life has never manifested Itself
luxuriantly iu this region, and that it
wiih apparently barren, I have my own
theory as to the causes. The laud was
always rich, was always waiting to Imj
tickled with the plow and smile In return
with a Isimitlful crop, but it was for an
unknown period of timo tho runway
for millions of bulTalo which traveled
north every spring and south every fall.
Tho hoofa of tho bulTal j destroyed the
grass roots, and gavo to geography that
Immense llctlon, 'The Great American
DosorL' Iu 1870 tho herds of butTalo be
came sensibly reduced iu nuuiler, and in
tiio fall of 1874 the bison disappeared
from the plains of Kansas, never more to
ruturu. Coincident with his dlsnpiKar
anco tho grass began to grow on tho
hitherto dusty plains, and now it carets
tho earth richly with green. Some say
tho buffalo enriched tho soil and made it
Hsslblu for tho grass to grow, but I do
not lielleve tho fertility of tho earth de
ponds on top dressing. Hy planting tho
seed deep in tho ground the germ reaches
tho electricity of tho earth, and from
this relation is nourished Into llfo and
stimulated into development. My crop
of corn, twice or three times as great as
that harvested by my nelghlnirs, who
plant iu the old way, near tho surface
attests the correctness of this theory. I
did not make any money on my crop
no one can mako money raising corn at
present prices but I succeeded In ac
complishing what I Hturtod out to do,
and that was to give tho American
farmer an object lesson in tho value of
going IhjIow tho surface of tho ground
with seed wliich is to mako his crops."
"I guess wo shall havo to confirm your
title as tho King Corn Grower of Amer
ica," said Secretary Rusk.
"Thanks for that. I confess I am an
enthusiast on tho 'subject of corn. All
my life, though engaged In tho practice
of medicine, I havo kept close watch of
tho agricultural interests of our country.
See how corn has entered into our na
tional life. It is tho one distinctively
American product of tho farm. It is a
plant of American origin. Iu tho uni
versality of its uses, and itsdntrinsic im
iK)rtanco to mankind, no other grain can
bo comimrcd with it. Readily adapting
itself to every variety of clinmto and soli,
it is grown from the warmest regions of
tho torrid 7.0110 to tho land of short sum
mers iu northern Canada. Tho Hrst
settlers learned from the Indians how to
grow it, and a distinguished historian
once told mo tho Hrst larceny committed
in America was when a party of Puritans
stole fho horde of corn from an Indian
village iu Massachusetts. Tho James
river settlers, taught tho art of corn rais
ing by tho Indians, had thirty acres un
der cultivation within threo years after
their arrival. It Is n curious circum
fctanco that the James river Indians and
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TII1KTY l'LOWS TOaKTHr.lt.
tho New England Indians had precisely
the same method of planting. They dug
llttlo holes in tho ground and put small
Hshos in along with tho seed. At Plym
outh in 1025 a writer said: 'You may
boo in one township a hundred acres to
gether set with these small herrings or
shads, every acre taking a thousand of
them; and an aero thus dressed will pro
duce so much corn as threo acres with
out Hsh.' Ah, Mr. Secretary, if they had
only had my deep planting along with
tho herring in each 1)111!
"Undoubtedly corn saved the early
settlements in America, lint for maizo
tho Hrst colonists would have perished,
and this continent would now be a cen
tury or two behind the present mark.
Corn saved tho day for our forefathers
when they struggled for iude)oudonco.
Without corn thero would havo loen no
revolution no great republic- to lead th
world Into now paths of government.
In the struggle between north and south
in the late war It wus corn aaainst cot
fliitK-gS flu yd
?yfcijPiJiw-.w. .ArsfZM
tontwo agricultural kings In mortal
combat- and corn was tho victor. Why
should I not love this loautlful plant?
"Moreover," continued the doctor,
placing his hand 011 the shoulder of tho
secretary of agriculture, "corn is today
used for food, directly and Indirectly, by
a greater iiiiiiiIkt of tho earth's inhabit
ants than any other article. Mr. Martin,
of the New York Produce Exchange,
whom I mot only this morning at the
hotel, told mo corn was never so popular
in Europe iih it In today. The demand
for It over there is mi groat that tho ex
port Is limited only by the vessel room
avMlablo. Yet it is within my recollec
tion and yours, Mr. Secretary, when the
cxportH wero a mere trllle. I remember
reaJlng as latons IHI7 an ofllclal report
which stated iu ollVct that the value of
Indian corn had Imcii heightened by the
recent Introduction of It into Great Brit
ain, and that while It ImmI not at once re
ceived universal approbation there was
reason to Udlovo It would win more fa
vor there when nioro pains wero taken
to prepare It for a foreign market. When
you and I wero boys, Mr. Secretary, a
few ships could hold all tho corn that
was oxHrted from our shores. Now
whole Heets sail with their holds full of
tlieyellowgriiinnud coiuo back lor more.
Corn lias literally conquered the earth,
and yet wo of the prairies burn it in our
stoves."
"Why?"
"There is too much com. Much as I
lovo this royal grain, my eyes are not
Minded. Com is king, but wo do not
need to mako it a tyrant. We must de
throne it. Thirty years ago the good
people of a section of our country thought
cotton was king, that it ruled tho land.
One day a 'mudsill' rose in his place In
congress, armed with olllcial documents,
and made tho astounding statement that
the hay crop of thecountry quite doubled
the value of tho crop of cotton. This
hitherto undiscovered fact distorted tho
stability of the Union. It recast tliecon
stitution, freed slaves, made a new na
tion. We do not want kings on our
farms. Kings aro un-American. We
must dethrone com, and in his place
set a republic of diversified crops.
We need more wheat, oats, rye, barley,
sorghum, beans, jwas, boots, goolwrs,
hemp and tobacco. Our bins and barns
nro literally bursting with com, for
which thero is 110 market at n prico that
will repay first cost. Corn absorbs too
much of our energies, exacts too much
of his subjects."
And when the shades of evening fell,
and tho typewriter girls, and tho seed
girlB, and the clerks and every ono was
gone, thero sat short Dr. Wolfo and tall
Secretary Rusk, still talking corn.
WaIjTKh Vy'em,man.
A NEW SWINDLE.
How Ortiiln Nmv Vuikorn llitvn llrn
"Donn Up" of LHto.
8cUil Corresnmdei)ei).
Nkw Youk, April 2-L Tho ingenuity
of tho Now York sharper Ih proverbial,
but the latest swindling scliemo that has
liocn doveloped really soars Into tho
realms of high urL It is lclng worked
by a very clever couple a medium Bized,
rather nlcu looking man, and a delicato,
modest appearing woman. How many
times they have been successful is not
known, for tho jkiIIco havo not, as yet,
leon Informed of their oiiorntions. I
only heard of it by accident.
While at lunch with some friends ono
day this week an old friend of initio
joined tho party. For tho bettor appre
ciation of the story, I may lo ermitted
to remark that he is n solid and prosper
ous looking citizen of bcuovolcnt appear
ance. "When I was coming from my house
to the elevated station," ho began, with
the air of a man who has a story to tell,
"there caino round tho corner, just in
front of me, a prettj , modest looking lit
tlo woman trying to lead a very drunken
man. Tho fellow was well dressed and
not bad looking, but he was horriblv
drunk. Ho would lurch over against
her every fow steps and nearly knocked
her over several times. Through it all
he was good natured, even drunkenly
alTcctiountc.
"As I passed them ho lurched against
meaiid the woman, who naturally seemed
much distressed, spoke: 'Would you bo
so kind as to help me take my husband
home,' she said. 'It is only around the
corner, hut I'm afraid ho will push me
down: he's U-en out all night and I must
get him home.' The appeal wan mi sim
ple and pathetic that I of course took
hold of his other arm and steadied him
around the corner and saw him safe in
the hallway of one of the big Hats. I
noticed that he lurched up against me
onco or twice, but I thought nothing of
it until I reached tho City hall station,
when I went to look at my watch. It
was gone, and my ockctbook had evi
dently departed to keep It company. Ho
certainly could not have picked my
pocket if ho had loen as drunk as he
seemed to be," concluded tho old gentle
man sagaciously.
"That was this morning?" queried a
member of tho irty. who had listened
to tho recital with much interest.
"Yec."
"Well, I guess it must be the samo
couple who played exactly the same
game on mo one day last week. They
took $180 in cash and a $200 watch from
me."
"Well, they only got fifty odd dollars
from 1110, but my watch was worth $200,"
said the Hrst speaker. "I went to inquire
alsnit them at the Hat, but no such peo
ple lived there. They probably onlj
stood in tho hallway until I got out of
sight."
"Why don't you apply to the iwlleo?"
I inquired.
"rd rather bear the loss than have the
story with my name iu the papers," they
chorused iu answer.
And so this ingenious couple nro prob
ably going on reaping a rich harvest
among kindly disposed people. There
aro two middle aged gentlemen iu Nuu
York, however, who, if they see a man
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