HARO PROBLEMS IN RECLAMATION PROJECT omrr* or* tub TArs\ O o>rr noAC> Tt- -a, k,.'! r-ijBi'nii pro)**.: in Arizona, the greatest ever undertaken by the government, involved the •* : *m* j? ,• jj.. udoi> magnitude. Some of these roncerned the building of the Roosevelt dam, ■ hirfc mas oywud recently hr the former president, Ifcr whom D was named. In order to render the dam dlte arremWc and «• coniey to :t the va«t amount of T.t tertal needed the engineers were compelled to build a • mtarksble wagon rojd. ’be const met ion of which involved to miles of rock blasting. KANSAS FARM LANDS acres, as against 2S.041.000 In 1900, an increase of 4,817,000 acres, or 19 per cent. The Improved acreage formed 69 per cent, of the total acreage In 1910 and 60 per cent. In 1900. The average acres per farm report ed in 1910 were 244. as against 241 in 1900, an Increase of three acres, or I 1 per cent. The average value per acre of farm land and buildings in 1910 is stated as $40 07, as against $15.45 in 1900, a rise of $24,62, or 169 per cent. The average value per acre of farm land alone in 1910, was reported as 1 $35.47, while In 1900 it was $12.77, the amount of gain being $22.70, or 178 per cent Of the whole number, 177,299, of farms reported in 1910, there were 175,618. or 99 per cent., opera ted by white farmers and 1.681, or j 1 per cent., by negro and other non white farmers, as compared with a to'al of 173.098 in 1900, of which 171,- ! 232. or 99 per cent., were conducted by white farmers, and 1,866. or 1 per cent., by negro and other non white. The increase in the number of farms of white farmers during the decade amcumed to 4,386, and the decrease in the number of farms of negro and other nonwhite farmers to 185. Values Greatly Increased in Last Ten Years. tut* Mt«ti Very Favorable Showing •• Agricultural Statistics Just libiw—Smaller Farms Hava Diminished Topeka. Kaa—Tbe I'nltH States m—« bureau kaa just issued the sari si tarsi statistics for tie state of Kan sas. as -ottected at tbe thirteenth dm usual 'casus of list April. Tbe Sat.tr* are pm out a year after the Sate uben tbey were rolierted. but tbe uc« of tbe -eosua bureau has been devoted principally to population MatuHlra star* tbe uork at taking tbe cwuas s as completed Kansas makes a very favorable showing tn the agricultural statistics as jost issued- Tbe total value of (arm lands increased threefold In tbe deresxnium from 19tw to 191*. or over Outn« to (be Increase it population and tbe advances tn ir Rgation. tbe farmed area Increased • ur.k« tbe period by four per cent. There are (,M mors farmers in the state than ten years age. more farms, more tenant farmers and more farm senses Tbe number at farm mort rage* is about tbe same, which does net as«ua that tbe farmers are no neber than tea years ago. but. on tbe oosttwy. that they have been in cmtat their holdings aad placing improvements an their farms. Per haps a few farm mortgages tray he tee to autos, but tbe number is prob tbly not large Lmnag the ten years tbs number of unslier farm*, with the exception of tra-k patches, has diminished Over sne-tbird at tbe farms of tbe state are ITS inw and over Tbe number * negro sad Indian farmers is de rrenaang The fanners at the state spent leas for farm fertiliser* in 1916 •tan m 1>*». but this is probably toe to butter roaaervation of tbe fer *i«*ty of their farms and tbe use of bars yard fertilisers i« relative 'o the acrct{« sf -top* u4 the yields will b« mad* later by Ceaeua I* rector Imrand as utahHos of thli data baa not k«** COKfittld Tbe yharlHl rate* of Iscmws in 191b aa 'oje pared to 1900 la tba total value of all farm ltd per ceat.; la the ar- | mr acre at farm land tin, ltd par rant ; la tbe total value at farm land and buildings. 1«9 per ant . tm tbe average value per acre of farm land aad buildings. 1S9 per c**t : la tbe total eapeodttare* for la bor. M per ce®t la tbe total value of farm buildings aloes. 79 per east.; In tbe total value of all farm implements aad asrfeisrtr. M per cent.; la tbe lotal Improved farm arrea*e. 19 per camt . la tbe total farm arrasr. « per «Mt . la tbe whole number of farms, t per rent. aad la tbe avenge acres per farm. 1 per cent. Tbe oslj decrease during the decade oerurrwd ta tbe total expend:lures for ferttUaera. 71 per cewt Tbe etaiemeat Shows in detail that tbe at farms reported in 1910 was 177.299. as eoaspxrrd with 171.09* la 1Mb. aa lamaae of 4.201. or 2 per The total value ot farm lands and buildings was given In !910 as $1,733, 433.000. at against $643,653,000 in 1900, an Increase of $1,090,000,000, or 169 per cent. The total value of all farm land alone was reported In 1910 at $1,534, 552.000. as compared with $532,188,000 in 1900, a gain of f j.002,364,000, or 188 per cent. ’i^»e total value of farm buildings alone was given in 1910 at $199,101. 000. as against $11*..465.000 in 1900, an increase of $87,636,00. or 79 per cent. In 1910 the value ot the farm land alone constituted 89 per cent, of the total value of land t.nd buildings, as ompared with S3 per cent. In 1900. The reported value of farm imple ments srd machinery was $48,244,000 In 1910, as agninst $29,491,000 in 1900. a sain of $18,733,000. or 64 per cent. The total acreage reported in 1910 waa 43.241.000 acres, as compared with 41.663,000 in 1900, an increase of 1.596,000 acres, or 4 per cent. The improved acreage was returned in 1910 as amocnting to 29.858.000 CUPID BUSY AT BRYN MAWR Girls Deny New York Clergyman's As sertion They Are "Puffed Up"— Forty Per Cent. Marry. Philadelphia.—The New York clergy man who recently declared that only an infinitesimal percentage of the graduates of the big women s colleges were able to find husbands is refuted by the statistics issued by Bryn Mawr college, it is asserted here. figures In the annual register of r.umnae and former students show aat 1 per cent of the entire grad ate body, numbering 3.724. have mar red. while of three classes graduating -:nr» 18*9 more than 50 per cent are married, ar.d of seven other classes.* also since 1889. neariy 40 per cent have been wedded, a general average of about 40 per cent. The New York clergyman declared that graduates of woman's colleges were -inromietent in the domestic arts, puffed up with a little super ficial knowledge and entirely too ex pensive a luxury for »be average man ' to undertake to support." This asser tion the Bryn Mawr girls Indignantly deny and point to the siatistlcs to bear them out. DOG CATCHER USES AIRSHIP Hopes With Aeroplane to Trap Stray Canines That Have Become Wary —Haa Amassed Fortune. Montclair. N. J.—David Steinfeld. who la official dog-catcher In ten towns in Essex. Union and Morris counties ind who haa amassed a small fortune from his work, announces that he has awarded a contract for a small aero plane and a large net for use In his work. He adds that he will try it cut 1 'hr stray and unlicensed dogs in Mont clair first. Steinfeld has been hunting dogs so 1 long in the three counties that the ani mals recognise him half a mile away and rush for shelter long before he j gets within striking distance. He has repainted his wagon, put on false wigs and whiskers and resorted to other expedients in his efforts to fool the unlicensed dogs, but without avail. Now he says he will try the aeroplane, soar a few feet above the ground, load his machine with fresh beef bones, and then, after all the dogs j assemble beneath his machine, drop the net over them and alight and sep arate the licensed from the unlicensed dogs. FLYING TESTS FOR BERLIN A.rships Will Start and End Summer Competition at German Capital Limited to Germans. Berlin —A great flying competition limited to German aviators, will take place early in the summer. The flight will be over a circuitous course be ginning and ending in Berlin and will | include Magdeburg, Hamburg, Bremen, I)u8seldorf and Dessau. The decision to hold the contest is the result of the failure of plans for a Joint competl I tion by. French and German flyers, caused by the objections of the chau ! vinists. 1 Withdrawal of the French aviator* : aroused much bitterness in Germany and the officials of the Aviation Engi neers’ Verein. who are in charge of the preparations, are on their mettle to make the independent competition a brilliant success. The contest has unique interest from the fact that special attention will be paid to the military phase of aviation. It is pro i posed to offer a special prize for ma ; chines carrying two passengers, so a* j to admit of their taking military ob i nervations. Zeppelin to Carry Passengers. Dusseldorf. Rhenish Prussia.— Count Zeppelin's dirigible balloot Deutschland II arrived today from | Frankfort-on-the-Main and will be sta tioned here permanently to carry out ; the contract with the municipality for I passenger flights. TRAMP RESCUES HUNGRY DOGj THowtaeds ad Wetl-OrtMrt and Evi dently Weli-Eed Peoewrians Pm toy Sowitwl EjrM Canine. Ctokago —Likt “yon Cml«' hr toad a Itu n4 keen look, and until a playful wind Mc« him of ku “pin..” Wat Madina tlnrt pedettrtana Jocj tarty rwformd to kim aa “Kos-eo with •im MMlltii «T«* ~ M kra ka lay Is ttoe ww. with hit amw* Haply over it* curbing aod tota bony riba adrkaiageoualy die ptayod Ik met bit muddy white akin. m ^,4 catkarad round kiln and "Ro mo wilt (too aoulfnl tr«" waa given I too dirty and bedraggled to entitle him to the respect cf any Godfearing or otherwise deserving pedestrian. Ro meo was too weak to make use of bia skinny leg* Romeo's eyes blinked as he looked up at the muddy sky and down at the muddy street, and there ' didn't appear to be much encourage ment In either, for he closed his eyes. Xo one ventured to soothe his poor reelings, and Romeo might have died a suffering martyr or hero or something. If a man whose appearance was not greatly different from the starring bound, had not come along and picked Mm up. As It was. Romeo let his head rest against the tattered coat of his unshaven benefactor, and In some manner gave rent to ribratory glad ness by means of his tall. The man and the dog went away, while the crowd stood looking after them. — Girls, Take Notice! A wealthy Yonkers (N. Y.) man has lust married Lis housekeeper because she made such capital apple pies. BIGGEST SHERIFF IN WORLD He le 6 Feet 7 Inches Tall ant. j Weighs About 440 Pounds—Mora Popular as "Big King.” Atlanta, Ga.—Certainly not th» least among the city's prominent guests last week was W. B. King ol Anderson. S. C.. widely known as the largest sheriff in the world. Looming 6 feet 7 inches in the air, tipping the beam at the 440 mark, he was mak ing big fellow delegates look like Lii Ilputians. and even the bulk of the nation’s chief executive sank into in significance beside the embodiment ol the majesty of Carolina law. Up in Anderson the sheriff is famill arly known as "Big King" to every body, and he accepts his nlcknamt with a ready good nature which has made him the friend of all. That his constituents do not think his size af fects his ability as sheriff is shown by the majorities which he always re ceives at election time. Mr. King visits his friends here sev eral times each year. RECORD LAMBS’ PEDIGREE IN PRACTICAL MANNER Far More Satisfactory and Businesslike to Keep Numbers In Black and White Than to Rely on. Glib Tongue of Sheep Breeder. The writer visited a pure bred flock not long ago where the lambs were not marked and where the owner re lied on his memory alone to tell him the pedigree of each lamb. This par ticular flock was small and the own er's memory above the average; he did appear to really know his lambs; but for the most part it is obvious that a written record is a great deal more reliable proof of pedigree, says a writer in the Farm. Stock and Home. It is a mistake for anyone handling pure-breeds not to number his lambs and keep a record of them. It is more businesslike, to say the least, and cer tainly more satisfying. One would feel much more certain of a lamb’s pedigree if he saw it in black and white in a book than if it were re lated by the glib tongue of the owner. About the surest as well as the simplest method of marking is that of notching the ear. Metal ear tags for the most part have the habit of pulling out, in which case their effi ciency can be valued as nil. but the notch if made with the right sort of instrument is there to stay. When made with a round ear punch, the two sides of the notch sometimes grow together but when made with a tug punch, the opening in which is nearly an Inch long and about a quar ter or three-eighths of an inch wide, they are there to stay. In notching some arbitrary value must be placed upon a notch placed In a given position in each ear. Ex perience has shown that any number can be most easily made when the following values are used; One notch In top or left ear Indi cates 1 unit. One notch in bottom of left ear indicates 1 ten; 1 notch In tip of left ear indicates 1 hundred; 1 notch in fop of right ear Indicates 3 units; 1 notch in bottom of right ear Indicates 3 tens; 1 notch in tip of right ear indicates 3 hundreds. The accompanying illustration may help to make this clearer. to JO urr caj* miCMT cm Suppose, now. that one wanted to make the number 17; this is made up of 1 ten, 2 sets of 3 units, and I unit. The notching would then be as follows: Method of Making No. 17. Or if one wan'ed to represent 135 which consists of 1 hundred, 3 tens and 5 units, he would use the follow ing marking: Method of Making No. 135. One ought, of course, always to aim to use as few notches as possible; that is, in making five, for instance, to use one notch to represent three of the units, and make but two sin gle unit notches. Two less notches are thus used, than if the five were conceived as consisting of dve single units. While it seems a simple mat ter to make the numbers up to the best advantage, yet tt not infrequent ly proves quite a little confusing and one ought to take a sheet of paper and make a drawing of each number he wants to represent before he makes any notches. Then if as he numbers each lamb he writes down the name or number of the ewe after the proper illustration, he can com plete this record simply by adding the name of the sire, and the date of the lamb s birth. Such informa tion copied and lUed neatly away will prove very valuable to him. It will be a great deal more indisputable than would a statement made from memory. PROTEIN FEED IS DEFINED No Word In Agricultural Etymol ogy Is So Often Encountered and Most Frequently Used in Articles on Food. (By CHARLES C. WEXTZLER.) No word in agricultural etymology is so often encountered as protein. To a person not versed in farm chemistry the term is more or less confusing and to many others it has no meaning at all. To such people it is Just an empty, technical phrase. The word is most frequently en countered in articles on feeding. Protein is the opposite of fat. It is about the same as albumen. In feeding we baYe two principal classes of foods. One is the carbon aceous or starchy foods. These go to fat. The ether is the protein foods. These go to make milk, eggs and meat. The protein foods are tissue builders. In balancing rations we have to see. therefore, that the animal does not get too much of one kind of food. In feeding a cow. for Instance, we cannot feed her corn alone as this goes to fat rather than to milk. There is some protein in corn but not enough. On the other band it would not be advisable to feed a cow food like alfalfa, whose content Is practic ally all protein. To begin with fat is the principle on which an animal de pends for bodily heat and energy. So a cow. for this reason alone, should have corn or other grain or hay in which there is starchy matter. Then, too. she needs some carbonaceous food for the milk as there is con siderable fat and sugar in milk. If, however, we feed too much protein some of it is bound to go to waste. She will use half of It for maintenance. One quarter of it goes to milk. From the other quarter her digestive organs extract the fatty principle if there is any; if not some is held by the system in reserve; the rest passes out of the system. Of course. In feeding, we have to be guided some by temperament, in dividuality, and other conditions In cluding metabolism. Metabolism is the way the food is assimilated, or | rather. It refers to the chemical changes that the food undergoes in the stomach. Te can't say here Is so much corn and depend that it will make Just so much fat or feed so much protein with the idea that it j will be converted into an equivalent | amount of milk. Some of the fat- ; making elements may combine with still other elements and be converted into meat while the protein may be j converted partly into fat. STRENGTH OF GAMBREL ROOF A gambrel roof will be sufficiently strong for a barn 34 feet wide. Use 2-inch by 6-lnch by 14 feet for first rafter. Prom plate to hip of this raft er is 12 feet 6 Inches. This rises 11 feet above plate and drops in G feet. This leaves a span 22 feet. Use a 2 inch by 6-inch by 13 feet, giving about a 7-foot rise and put in a 2 by fl inch plank for ridge. Use a 1 by S Inch board and spike on at hip as shown in plan, at each side of rafter. You can get two pieces out of a 1 by S-inch by 14 foot board. This will ryn about 4 feet each way from hip. This will carry hay fork or sling. SHELTERING HOGS IN HOTWEATHER Shad* May B* Provided for Swine by Tarnlns Them Into Wood Pasture or Orchards, or by ExecUnt Shed x iBy WILLIAM F. Pt'RDfE.) I provide shade and shelter for my Pigs by turning them into a wood pas ture or the orchards or by construct ing a shed. This is done by setting some posts to support a roof of rough boards. The pigs seldom hurt the orchard if they don't run in it more than a month or two during the hot test weather. Sometimes where there are but few trees in the orchard it is not best to let the pigs run there too long as they may kill some of the trees by rubbing and gnawing them off. If they start at this I turn them out and provide artificial shade. But, I furnish them shade of some kind and have abolished the dirty wallow holes. Shelter is also needed at certain times. There are always a few wet and cold spells every summer when the pigs will suffer If they don't have good shelter and they can easily get a set back during a cold rain that will take them a long time to recover from. When to Spray. The proper time to spray fruit trees can be determined only by watching the fruit buds and weather. The first application should be made before the first rain after the blossom buds have been exposed, but before they have opened: the second after two-thirds of the petals have fallen, being sure to get the mixture on ahead of the rain; and the third about two weeks later. Watch the fruit buds and the weather. Paraffin Killed Wooly Lice. An English fruit grower declares that he has been able to preserve his apple trees from the woolly aphis by scraping off the loose bark and apply ing a thin coat of paraffin. Each tree requires about one pint of paraffin and the application is made threa times a year. THE NATURALIST By LAWRENCE ALFRED CLAY Miss Gertrude Ainsley put on her bat that sunny spring day and walked down the road and over the creek and up into the woods on the hill. There were stately elms and beeches and maples; the spice-bush gave out its scent; there were violets under foot everywhere, and the robins and blue birds seemed to welcome an intruder. There were paths running here and there, and as the girl took one of them she heard a queer sound from the brush on her right, and investigated to find a rabbit caught by the leg in a snare. Poor Bunny was having a hard time of it, and it frightened him ttye more as the girl approached. He bounded this way and that and into the air, but the snare held and he cried and whimpered and feared for his life. When the girl had come closer and began to call him poor thing and ex claim that It was a burning shame, the captive huddled down and stared at her with his great big eyes. She was stroking it with her hand when a boy of twelve came running to shout: “He's mine! He's mine! I set the snare for him last night!” Up he came, and was about to lift the rabbit In his arms when Miss Gertrude gave him a push and de manded: "What business have you snaring the poor creatures! ” "Business: Business!” he repeated. ‘ Why any one can catch rabbits any time they want to! He's a daisy, and the fellow will pay fifty cents for him. Gee. but I'm in luck!” "What fellow, as you call him?” "He's at the tavern. We wants me to catch all the rabbits and quails and birds I can.” "Then he’s a villain!" “He don’t look like one.” "I don’t care how he looks! Any man that will hire a boy to trap such poor innocent things as rabbits is a villain, and you can tell him I said so!” “I will, when I carry this to him.” "But you won't carry it! You keep hands off! It shall have its liberty!'’ “If you let my rabbit go-!” blus tered the lad. Miss Gertrude picked up Bunny, loosened the wire around his leg and Poor Bunny Was Having a Hard Time of It. watched while he disappeared in the bushes. Then she said to the boy: "You call at the house in about two hours and I'll give you the fifty cents, but if I hear of you catching another rabbit, or if you capture a bird of any sort I'll make you trouble!" "Maybe you own the earth!" called the lad after he was thirty feet away. “You can tell that villain I do!" She hunted for other snares, and she found three and destroyed them. After a couple of hours she started for home. Just as she left the woods she passed a young man entering them. He was well dressed and a stranger, and the manner in which he raised his hat and his deferential bow told her that he lived in the city. He was staying in the village with some relative for a few days, probably, and out for a stroll, the same as she had been. That evening the boy called at the house. His fifty cents was ready, but he would not accept it. He brought a note to be delivered and he sat down with a grin on his face while Miss Gertrude answered it. It read: “Miss Ainsley: Your conduct this tfternoon in the brow-beating a young employe of mine is simply reprehensi ble. The terms in which £ou char acterized me are no less so. I have yet to learn that you havz been ap pointed the legal guardian of the birds aid animals in this locality." Then there followed a ••sincerely," | and the name ‘‘Carroll Denton.” “The villain! How dare he!" ex | claimed the girl as she looked at the | boy. “He’s an awful fellow,” was the reply. “When I told him how you bluffed me out of the rabbit up there he just gnashed his teeth. He only wanted five rabbits at first, but now he says he'll catch a hundred. He's cross-eyed and red headed, and he's got an awful temper on him.” Miss Gertrude was absent from the room four or five minutes, and then returned with a reply for the awful man. It read: “Sir: I reiterate that you are a •villain!" That was all. No "sincerely,”—no “respectfully"—no “your very ob't servant." Even the initials “G. A." were lacking. Mr. Ainslev was away from home, and when the mother learned what had happened she said: “You were always that way from a child, and you can't help it, I sup pose, but I hope you won’t carry it too far in this case. Calling a man a villain is slander, unless he is a vil lain." “But of course he Is!" was the re ply. “Would any one but a villain hire a boy to murder a poor rabbit? If he catches a robin, a blue-bird or a quail I'll—I'll—!” Miss Gertrude clenched her hands and breathed hard and left it to be understood that something very ter-] rible would happen to the cross-eyed and red-headed man. Next morning she went up to the woods again. She went in the forenoon because she sus pected that boy would set snares over night and visit them early. She walked the paths and found four, and the wlrea were thrown far away. They had snared no victims. As she was on her way home she met the young man of the day before. She looked at him mose closely this time, and she liked his appearance. Surely he was a gentleman. The boy was not seen until mid-afternoon. Then he brought another note, and as he de livered it he said/ “I was lying up there In a brush heap this forenoon when you destroyed the snares, and oh, wasn't the awful man awful mad when I told him of it!" And the note read: “Miss Ainsley: I must again politely request that you cease to meddle with my affairs.” The same name was signed as to the other, but the “sincerely” wa3 lacking. Carroll Denton was no longer sincere. He was grumpy. A reply was sent as promptly as be fore. It consisted of a few stirring words: "And I must repeat that you are a villain!” It was afternoon of the next day when Miss Gertrude went up to the woods again. Almost at once she be held a robin with a broken wing flut tering about. She had picked it up and seated herself on a log and was crying over it when a soft voice at her elbow said: "Please give it to me. I thing I can do something for it.” It was the young man. He took the bird, made a brief examination and said: "The wing is broken, but I can use splints and make it sound again after a bit. Nature is very kind to animals and birds. Hope that old maid won't hear of this. She’ll say I used a club on the bird and call me more villains." “What old maid?" was asked, forget ting that she was facing a stranger. “A Miss Ainsley. She's close on my trail." "Why—why, I am the only Miss Ains.ey, and I am not an old maid. You can’t be the—the villain!” Then of course it came out. The * boy had lied for revenge. There was no old maid, and there was no cross-! eyed, red-headed man. Mr. Denton was a naturalist, and he wanted his specimens alive and sound that be might study their habits. He was merciful to a degree. Miss Gertrude heard his explanations with blushing cheeks and downcast eyes, and at the end she was generous enough to re ply: “Well, that makes a difference." And it did. The naturalist found his way to the house to tell her how the robin was getting along, and the day the bird flew away on the restored wing be said to himself that he had discovered a “specimen” worth all others put together. Without Naming Names. An alienist says that one out of every 279 residents of this city is in sane. And each of the 279 is abso lutely certain he knows which one.— New York Herald. PROFIT IN “BATTLE RELICS” Greater Part of Mementoes Said to Have Been Fou