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I I I Want Column WANTED. WANTED-Good carpenters, no others need apply. Wages 40 and 45 cents per hour. Steady work. J. II. Harte lJ Webster St., Omaha, Neb. 15 C CIGAR SALEM AN WANTED In your locality to represent us. Exper ience unnecessary; $110 per month and expenses. Write for particulars. : Monarch Ch'vr Co., St. Louis, Mo. CALIFORNIA POST CARDS-Send 25c for one dozen beautiful post cards from the coast, mailed postpaid. Address Lulu E. Thomas, General Delivery, Los Angeles, Calif. 1S-4 Making Money On the Farm VI. -Seed Com Breeding By C. V. GREGORY. Author of "Home Course In Modern Agriculture" Copyright. 1909. bj Ameriemn Pre Auociation. 1 WANTED-Young men and women to fill position? paying 000 to ?200O per annum, ig demand for stenograph ers in the Government service, as well as in private business life. Our new method of teaching shortham by mail insures as thorough ai.d practical a training at your own home as is obtainable by personal attend ance at any business college in the country. We guarantee success. Complete course for small cash pay ment; balance to be paid when you secure a position. Trial lesson free. Central Business Institute, Central Building, Washington, D. C. FOUND. FOUND-On train to Omaha, lady's purse containing money. Owner may have same by calling at News-Herai.d office and proving property. N the preceding articles Improved methods of growing a few of the most widely growu farm crops have been given. By study aud careful attention to details It Is pos sible for a fanner to make a good profit raising common produce for the general market. Much- greater re turns, however, may be obtained by specializing In some particular line and soiling the products on a special market. One of the most profitable special linos that can be followed Is breeding Improved seed cum. This Is some- j A. L. TIDD LAWYER References: Bank of Eagle, Eagle. Nehawka Bank, Nehawka. Bank of Murdock. Murdock. P'irst Nat'l bnnk.Greenwood. State bank of Murray, Murray. First Nat'l bank, Plattsmouth. will w fill BAILEY & MACI! THE DENTISTS Utest ppnci. nijn-Gisit Denti-try. Bhsoo able Prltfv BfM-'qulpof (I D'nUl Of fice U the Middte West. trlCMl OitCOUI)TTO CITY VIlTOi. Id floor KnlonHm ,liii.Vrnm, OMAHA, NEB. a uidcuiii n n c ..Graduate Dentist.. Price9 Reasonable All Work Guaranteed Twenty-six Years' Experience Office in Fitzgerald Block An Inherited Falllna. A native of Annain, lndo-China, tea tonced in Tarls for theft, wrota the fol lowing aj.ology to his employer: "All Annaniltes, whether emperors, man darins, secretaries, literary men and others, are born thieves. It la grave and deadly complaint, and there Is no cure for It. I know people do not like thieves in Frasce, tut it can tot be helped." Attenticn. Attention is the first requisite for making any progress In the acquire ment of knowledge: It may be given In various degrees, and it rewards accord ing to the proportion In which it li given. A divided attention Is, how ever, njore hurtful (ban otherwise;, it retards the progress of the learner, while It Injures his mind by Improp er exercise. George Crr.bbe. Indictment of Flat Life. In pronation as fiat life Increase home life decreases. (.(The flat dweller ought not to keep a dog. prefers not to keep a cat, cannot have a garden, has no chance of keeping house, has no possible place for memories, und, most emphatically of all, has no use or accommodation for tables. Fortnight ly Review. ' The Why. There Is a belief that if yon hang a bright, pretty picture In your room nnd look at it earnestly every n'.ght and morning, your face will grew to resemble, the one In th? frame. This probably accounts for the fact that in almost every girl's room tl'ere Is a picture of a Madonna. Atchison Globe. When Europe Shivered. The winter of lS.IR was very rr.Mrt In the I'nltcd States, but particularly Hcvere In Kuropo. For the first time In the nineteenth century the river Po i was frozen over at Ferrnra, permitting ! fnr a long time the cor.stant passu:.: : of n.rn nnd heart. At Constantinople ; mow fell ronsinntly for 15 days. The mow extended to Smyrna, the ad.la- j cent district! of Asia Minor, and the Creek Islands were clothed In white. FIO. XI GOOD TYPE OP KEIiNEL. thing that must be done for every lo cality, since com shipped In from any distance cannot be relied on. It Is entirely possible to Increase the yield ing ability of a strain of com teu bushels to the acre or more by n very few years' breeding. Seed from such an improved strain will find a ready market at satisfactory figures. Selection of Ears. In starting out to improve a, strain of corn there are two main points to be considered-yield and quality. The quality can be determined readily by Inspecting the ears. In examining the ears the following five points are to be looked for: (1) General appearance The ear should be as large as It cau l;p and still be sure to get ripe every year. It should be straight, symmet rical and not tnper too abruptly. The butts and tips should be fairly well filled, though other more Important points should not be sacrificed for this. (2i Triteness to type. Every establish ed breed of corn has Its peculiarities ol shape, color, etc.. that must be consid ered. The general typo of the breed should be adhered to closely, as unl formlty is an Indication of breeding (3) Maturity. No ear should be used for seed that Is not sound and well matured. Soft, chaffy, starchy kcr nels or those shrunken at the tip. with chaff adhering to them, are indications of Immaturity. Deep kernels go with late maturing corn. Extreme depth of kernel cannot be expected In the early varieties that must be grown Ir the 'n.Mth. (4 Vitality. While nil corn should be tested before It U planted, yet there are many ears that can be thrown out without the trouble of tost Ing. Immature ears are usually lack lng In vitality. If the kernels are blistered on the back or the embryo I? dark or yellowish the chances are that It will not grow. (31 Shelling percent age. A high percentage of corn to cot Is desirable, but should be secured by compact, fairly deep kernels rather than by an abnormally small cob. Increasing the Yield. While quality Is Important, yield Is even more so. This Is not so easily determined, nctual Held tests being re quired. Before starting these test the breed of corn to be grown should bo selected. It pays to begin work with the best corn obtainable, as you are thus starting where some one else has left oft. A breed of corn that has proved Itself adapted to your locality Is the best to select. There are almost as ruauy methods of breeding seed corn as there are corn breeders. Many of these nre too com plicated to be adapted to the farmer who Is Just starting In as a corn breeder. After n few years' experi ence with n simpler method, some of the plans for keeping a record of each car from year to year and producing "pedigreed" seed corn may bo em ployed. The breeding plot should be COO to COO feet long just long enough so tbnt It takes nn err to plant h row. It should be wU enough for about fifty cf these rows. The soil and drainage conditions of the plot should bo as nearly uniform as possible. It should be located twenty to forty rods rroiu! v ... .. ... ."T. nny other cere, po mar mere win ne no danger of mixing. Fifty of the best ear. of the desired strain should be selected and shelled separately. F.neh of the row In the breeding plot N to bo planted with one of these car. The work can be done with n planter If care Is taken to clean out the boxps thoroughly each, time across. It !s ; better to drill the corn in the breed- j lng plot since it is too uarrow to culi Uvate to a 1 vantage crosswise. Two j or three border rows should U planted I around the edges of the plot. ; Caro of the Breeding Plot. j The breeding plot should not be fer- j tilized any better than nny of the oth er fields on the farm, and the prepara- j tlon of the seed bed and cultivation i should be the same. The prime ob ject is to develop a strain of corn that will yield well under overage field con ditions. The extra work that Is put on the breeding plot should be applied to the corn Itself and not to the soil. About the time cultivati n ceases all suckers should be cut off. This can be quickly done with a straight bladed corn knife. These suckers take nour ishment needed by the good stalks and produce Inferior pollen to fertilize the silks. The most important part of the work Is detassellng. When the tassels begin to appear go through the plot and carefully pull them out from every other row. This should be done' every day for a week or more as long us tassels continue to appear. At the same time any Imperfect stalks in the utiii.p rows should be detnsseled. If there are any rows that, show a mark ed tendency to sucker, carry the ears ton nr low or have t.ny other marked defect, they should be detas seled also. Comparing the Yields. As soon as the corn is an ripe uie cars fni: the twenty-live detasseled rows should ls husked, keeping the produce of each row separate. The corn from the tasseled rows, as well as from the Imperfect rows that were de tasseled nnd from the border rows, should bo discarded. At the time of husking the detasseled corn any pe culiarity of the stalks in a row should be noted. The number of stalks in each row should also le counted. The weight f the corn from a row divided by the number of stalks In that row will give the weight per stalk, which Is the proper basis for comparison, it will be found that there is a very great difference in yielding ability, some rows yielding twice or three times as much 'as others. This yield, togeth er with the number of good seed ears to the row. forms the ba!s for determining from which row to select ears to plant next year's breeding plot The rest of the ears worth saving should be stored away to plant In tin Increase field. The Increase field Is not for the pur pose of Improving the corn, but merely to secure larger quantities of that which lias been improved In the breed In" nlut. Each year seed from the highest quality ai'.d best yielding of the Individual rows Is saved to plant the next year's breeding plot and tin remainder used in the increase field In this way the standard keeps im proving from year to year. Ten bush els to the acre Increase is by no means the limit to which the improvement can bo carried. Indeed, almost the only limit Is the care and time be stowed upon the breeding plot. - The Seed Corn House. Where several hundred bushels ol corn nre to be saved for seed, as 1 the case where a specialty Is belli. made of well bred seed com, It Is uec essary to have some sort of tspecla seed corn house. This may be flllec with slatted racks, on which the eon Is laid, or the ears may be bung frot the ceiling with binder twine. Thi latter 'is the better method, as it per mits a more thorough circulation o air around the com. The use of tw Remarkable Educated Horse. The (i tiiiirkablo sagacity of Trixlo, the 'dociitfil horse that was killed In a raihtad wreck recently. Is vouched for by Mis . Louise Cub), of Cleveland, O., who saw the animal while It was on exhibition at the Jamestown fair "Si oil the lady's name," said Tiixle's owner to the horse. "Her name is Louise" dividing the syllables and pronouncing them "Lo-es." The horse promptly spelled the "name and spelled it phonetically "Lo-ob." ( About two months later, when he had become acquainted with the namo, he also conformed to the spell er and picked it out properly. Louise. What puzzles the students of natural history Is how the horse learned to spell at all. H"XKK"XXK"XKK"X"X"XKK" Johnson's Shaving Cream Call at Store for Free Sample Should Genuine Heroes Be Dead? Real heroes are like Sherman's def inition of "good Indians;" they are all dead. They commit suicide as he roes by appearing in the music halls, by qualifying as professional athletes, by giving out too many newspaper In terviews, by yielding too readily to the camoa. by succumbing to kissing bees, by becoming too strong to work In one method or p.nother by seek ing to capitalize the admiration of the moment Into permanent maintenance and support. If they escape suicide they i.re asphyxiated by the adulation of mankind or extinguished In - Its speedy ha getinmess. .ew mm .Man. V V ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? V $ V V ? ? ? ? ? ? The perfection for comfortable and clean shaving. Makes a creamy non drying lather superior to soap. Sooth-, ing, antiseptic. F. G. FRICKE & CO. Of Learning. Reading niaketh a full man, con ference a ready man, onu wilting an exact man; and. therefore, ir a man :vrlte a little, he had need of a great memcry; it ne comer www, ne mm need have a present wit; and If he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that lie doth not. Francis Racon. XXXXKXXXXXXXX ESTABLISHED 1871 Emerson's Philosophy. The things that are really for thee gravitate to thee. You are running 10 seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not. . . . For there Is a power, which as It Is In you, Is In him, also, and could therefore very well bring you together, if it were for the best. Emerson. The Horse for HimI "When you -have an automobile," said Mr. Chuggins, enthusiastically, "you depend on your own Intelligence entirely. Now it's altogether differ ent when you drive a horse. Yes, answered the unassuming man, "that s one reason why I think maybe a horse is safer." V ? T f ? ? f ? ? ? f ? ? t ? ? ? V f ? T The First National Bank of Plattsmouth, Nebraska. SAFE, SOUND AND CONSERVATIVE i Careful Attention Prompt Service Reasonable Terms George E. Dovey, President. Frank E. Schlateu, Vice Pres. Horatio N. Dovey; Cashier. Carl G. Fricke, Ass't. Cashier. "XX"X"XKKK"X FIO. XII OOOD BILL OF COW. strings, one at each end of the eat keeps It from wnrplng, as It will wan If tied by one string in the middle. One of the chief requirements of i j A. X I I X X X X X X X x X X X X x x X X X X t t t t f t T ? ? ? ? ? t X-hx . . - : . . .. ... ..... ft-.; 2 r a. CHEAPER THAN DIRT Somebody will get a great big bargain in the piano which we have on exhibition at our store. It is an excellent instrument. Note the description below: seed corn -house Is adequate ventlla tlon. Iu the northern section when severe cold weather comes early somi artificial heat will be needed. Thi corn may be hung In the seed house ai soon as It Is gathered. At this time I contains a large amount of moisture so the windows should all bo openo. allow It to dry rapidly. Artllkln j heat should be applied gradually a first. a too much when the corn b full of moisture will Injure It. Aftei the corn Is well dried out less ventlla i tlon will be needed, though souk should be given at all times. Heat wll be needed from this time on only 01 very cold or dninp days. 1 ? ? ? NETZOW CABINET GRAND PIANO. 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