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\ ' . NEBRASKA CORN AND OATS.
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What II Shown by Union Pacific Ag
rlcultural Bulletins.
Agricultural bulletins just Issued by
l the Union Pacific show what Is being .
' Ing done this year hy the farmers
I working In conjunction with Mother
Nature In the production of corn ,
i , wheat and oats In Nebraska and Kan-
' , ' Bas. In both corn and oats Nebraska
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mItes a splendid showing , both by
taking this year's crops by thomselveu
and by comparison with last 'ear.
. In wheat there is a fnlllng off in
.1 acreage
, - In Nebraska the corn acreage in
- . creased from G,964,048 last year to
6,174,040 acres this year. This acru
ago produced an average yield of
34,23 bushels , malting a total corn
crop of 211,230303 ; bushels. The com
averages of higher quality than last
. , ear. In Kansas there was a { Ie-
crease In both acreage and yield on
account of continued wet weather at
. . . . . . planting and cultivating time
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J The Nebraska oat crop hm a
slightly larger acreage and a better
yield by 7,000,000 bushels than last
year. This year it amounted to 2-
096,011 acres , averaging 3.11 bushels
to the acre , making a total of 69 ,
410,312 bushels Wet weather accounts -
counts for a decrease In Kansas.
Winter wheat was short in acreage
' shout 300,000 as compared with last
. . rear and rust struck the eastern portion .
" tlon of the state at the wrong time
But a showing Is made of 1,661,110
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If' acres , averaging 13,68 bushels , and
" aggregating a yield of 22,9G4HO
bushels Kansas has about three
( times the acreage and about two and
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\ Dne-half times the results , as com
pared with Nebraslm
" . Adding to Nebraslm's winter wheat
output that of the spring wheat an
estimated total wheat crop for the
state of 30,000,000 bushels Is made ;
'And for Kansas about 60,000,000 bush.
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! BIQ IRRIGATION PROJECT
Federal Government Asks Permission
to Tap North Platte River.
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LlNUULN-'l'be secretary or the interior -
terior has filed an application with
the State Board of Irrigation asking
permission to tap the North Platte
river In order to carry out some of
the big Irrigation projects authorized
by congress. By his application it
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j-- pears that the secretary contem-
plates tapping the North Platte just
below Its junction with the Sweetwa-
ter In Wyoming , where a storage res-
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ervoir will be constructed covering
Q3OOO acres It Is proposed to con-
Itruct a dam across the North Platte
which will be 250 feet long at the
top and sixty feet long at the bottom
It will have a depth of 220 feet and
. the water will approach within ten
feet of the top , so that the maximum
depth of water In the reservoir will
be 210 feet. The mean depth Is given
61l sixty feet , whcih over the area II
"tatoo would give a normal storage
. capacity of 1,280,000 acre feet. The II
proposed dam Is to bo ten feet thick
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ILt the top and 144 feet thick at the
bottom and to be built of solid mason- :
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ry.Tho
The cost of this plant Is given at
U,260,000 or somewhat less than $1
per acre foot of storage capacity
State Engineer Dohson says that Its
rapacity : : will be sufficient to hold the
entire flow of the North Platte In
years wherein the stage of water Is
low. Its purpose Is for the collec-
Ion of the surplus waters In the seaS
sons of moisture and to hold it for
release In quantities sufficient to irrl-
rate the lands below all along the
course of the river.
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THE STATE AT LARGE.
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Papillion has decided not to extend
its corporate limits.
'rhe Journal at Columbus has commenced .
menceel publication of n dally paper.
The Union Pacific Is rapidly IHtsh.
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lug wort on its freight depot in Fre-
mont.
Andrew NCH'llino of Cass county
has been pronounced a fit subject for
te Insane ns 'lum ,
Mrs A. A. King of Edgar ! died at
Delphi Indiana , while on a visit to
her daughter In that 11laco.
The Nebraska State Institute for
time mind at Nebraska City opened
with fifty pupils enrolled for the com-
ing torm. A number of pupils are
still expected and the total attendance
will reach about sevent-fivo.
One dollar a bushel has been paid
for wheat to the farmers at York
for the first time since the Loiter
wheat deal in Chicago At Henderson ,
York count , 30,000 bushels were con-
tracted at $1 per bushel in one da ) ' .
Oliver Emmert , a farmer living
west of halls City , was compelled to
kill five of his horses on account of
glanders The state veterinarian waR .
called and ordered that the animals i
should bo killed to prevent contagion.
The contractors at the now govern-
ment building at Lincoln have begun
the erection of time steel work of the
lower floor of the structure It Is
contemplated that the bUilding will
be finished and ready for occupancy
by next fall.
The citizens of Lincoln again have
began to agitate the project for a now
union depot. Articles of Incorporation
of the Lincoln Union Passenger sta-
tion and Terminal company have
I been drafted and are being signed by
the business men
II Brent K. Neal , alias Olney D. Smith
the young man lodged In jail at
I Beatrice a month ago on the charge
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of obtaining money under false pretenses -
tenses , pleaded gUilty In the district
court and was sentenced to one year
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In the penitentiary
The Seymour camp team of Omaha ,
won the first prizes of $500 each In
the two classes open to competition
in the W. O. W contests at the
world's fair , and Alpha camp team of
the same city won second prize In the
one class which it entered. .
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Josepll : scott , tile Yorle county
young man who was charged with assaulting -
saultin Olgio Caglo of Pierce , Neb. ,
with intent to do great bodily harm ,
had his preliminary hearing at Nor-
folk and was bound over to district
term of court under bonds of $800
The city authorities of Hum-
bohlt , Nob" , are malting an attempt -
tempt to test their new ordinance
against boot-logging , and have placed
under arrest one J. Hoppe , who has
been making his home there for some
time , on a charge of disposing of
liquor contrary to law He was arraigned .
ralgned but plead not guilty
Rufus E. Geiger , a fIreman , has
sued the Burlington for $50,000. Ho
was Injured while acting as fireman
on August 28 , 1900 In his petition
he claims that the engine was In bad
I repair and that owing to this condi-
tion ho was thrown from his seat to
the tracks near Germantown. His
I skull was fractured and ho sustained
I internal injuries and other injuries
I which are described as of a perman-
; eat character.
One of the most dastardly crimes ,
and one which has caused aR great an
amount of indignation as any ever
IJCrpctrrterl l In the community , wa !
committed at what is known as the
south barn , In Kearnoy. Some scoundrel -
drel or scoundrels mixed up a quan-
tity of paris green in some feed and
I 1 placed It In the barn where It was
i eaten by a number of horses belonging -
Ing to F G Roudabush and .Too Ducl-
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varth resulting in the death of four
101 I 'them.
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Standard Cream.
There was a time , soma years ago ,
when cream was always of about time
same consistency. That was before
the cream trade had settled down to
bo one of time great industries of u
dairy naturo. Since that time wo have
noticed a gradual wenlcenlng of the
cream. Now when one orders cream
in a restaurant 01' hotel ho Is not
sure whether the fluid that Is brought
to him Is milk or cream. In fact , it
Is very apparent that some of the
cream so-called Is nothing more than
very rich milk. We doubt not that avery
very large proportion of the cream
contains less than ten per cent of but-
ter fat. The state law at Illinois and
some other states now makes It necessary '
essary for commercial cream to have
not less than 17 per cent of butter
fat. But there arc practically no
state Inspectors , and unit means that
the people In all of the smaller places
have no protection from the law as , to
what the density of the cream shall
bo. Time movement hy some of our
leading dairy scientists to get a stan'
dardized milk will doubtless result In
getting a standardized cream. It
seems to us that time cream Is more
often low In fat content thl1n Is the
milk. The tendency is much greater
to sell attenuated cream than It Is to
sell milk from which the cream has
been partly removed. The latter is
quite generally regarded as a dishon-
orablo course , while In the malting or
cream there Is r.o standard recog-
nized , and even the one established
by law Is arbitrary and not natural.
Low Pay of 8uttermakers.
It Is quite natural to blame the but-
termnker whenever a creamery Is
kept In a bad condition. Time proper
one to blame In most cases Is the
manager , as In time fIrst place 110
should never hire an Incompetent
man. He simply does so that he may
save from $10 to $ lG per month. He
does not realize that by doing so ho
is losing $100 per month. Some of
our Iowa buttormalcers are working
under rather discouraging conditions
The average wages paid our butter-
makers does not reach $60 per month ,
and even at that figure some of time
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directors are continually worrying
about how they will bo able to reduce
his wages They do not appreciate
their buttcrmalwrs' work , no matter
how well and skillfully It has been
performed. The result often Is that
the same creamery hires a cheaper
man. lIe has perhaps been employed
as can washer In some creamery. Ho
knows nothing about buttermalcing
and as a result the quality of the
butter from that creamery Is Im-
paired. A $7G or $100 man Is 0. great
deal more profitable than a cheap
man , and unless good men arc employed -
ployed It will be impossible to keep
up our butter standnnl.-l\I. Morton-
sen.
Bill Nye's Cow.
The story Is going the rounds of the
press that Dill Nye , having a cow to
sell , advertised her as follows :
"Owing to my III health , I will sell
at my residence , township 19 , range 18 ,
according to the government's survey ,
one plush raspberry cow , aged 8
years. She Is of undoubted courage
and gives milk frequently. 1'0 a Ulan
who does not fear death In any form
she : would bo a great boon She is
very much attached to her present
home with a stay chain , but she will
bo sold to anyone who will agree to
treat her right. She is onofourth
Shorthorn and threo.fourths hyena. I
will also throw In a double . barrel shotgun -
gun , which goes with her. In May
she usually goes away for a wcel or
two and returns with a tall , red calf
with wabbly legs. Her name is Hose
I would rather sell her to a non-resi-
dent. . "
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Recorda of Farm Drains.
Another feature of enJ.lneerlng
work for farm drainage In whIch there
should ho great ImIJl' > voment Is that
of maps and \ ( records ( , At Amos , on
the college farm , the present autlmor
Itles have had ( predecessors \ who put
in quite extensive amounts of the
drains without leaving accurate plata ,
so that in many places wo cannot now
find even where the drains wore
built , to say nothing of theIr sizes ,
grades and depths. In malting excavations -
vatlons old lines of the whose very
existence was not suspected are not
infrequently encountered , and the
writer Imowt of places : whore Ilt least
two systems of tiles In ! the same locality .
callty have been put In by successive
generations : of nuthoritles. The same
or 11 worse state of affairs must result
on individual farms throughout the
state , as time goes by and the farms
change owners , unless the present al-
m08t total neglect of keeping com-
ploto records of all tile drains built
Is romedlod. Even 11 the land does
not change owners , men's memories
full , and the writer has often noted
that even after n very few years men
who actually help build drains are fro-
Ilucntly unable to locate them within .
In a considerable dlstanco. Without
complete mUlS showing the particulars -
lars of our drains how can we hope to
keel them In working orderl Time
breaking and cholclng up of a single
tile might render many acres of land
I worthless In a wet season , and cause
enough damage In a single year to
pave laid ten times over for records
which would have enabled the difficulty .
lculty ! to be located and remedied at
less than one dollar's expenso.-Iown
Station.
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Breeding Hardy Fruits.
Over a largo area of the prairie
northwest , many of the fruits grown
In the eastern and southern states are
deficient In hardinelJs. This has been
demonstrated by thousnnds of plant-
ers. The climatic extremes of time
northwestern prairies do not make
fruit culture hnpossihlo : but care
must bo taken in the selection of
vnrletles. The fruit lists adopted by
the various state horticultural societies -
cieties give tine general experience
with varieties. The beginner should
confine his first main planting to the
sorts which have stood the test , but
often the list Is ao short that the
varieties recommended for trial are
needed to fill out the list. There Is
need of extending time present short
list of fruits. Successful fruit culture
Is essential to true home-making
thin open prairies , hence time work of
originating hardy fruits Is of the high-
est possible Importance It Is only in
recent years that the immense importance -
portance of plant-breeding has become
generally recognized Plant-breeding
means the originating of Improved
varieties by Hcloellon , crossIng and
hybridizing. These are often termed
"now creations , " and the work corresponds -
spends to that of Invention In the do-
main of the mechanical Industries. A
strIctly hardy winter apple , a hardy
cherry or a hardy grape or large size
and good futility would bo worth millions -
lions of dollars to time prairie north-
west.-Prof. N. E Hanson.
At the Ontario agricultural college
potatoes were planted In rows 2GIh
Inches apart with the sets one foot
apart in time row , and others were
planted 33 Inches apart each way , exactly .
actly the same amount of seed being
used In hoth cases The close plant-
ing gave a yield of 31.4 bushels more
than time other method
Loading peaches Into cars before
they have been cooled will bring
them to market In a very bad condi-
tion The fruit should bo thoroughly
cooled before being put Into the cars.