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R. a STROTHER, Editor.
F. K. STROTHER, Manager.
COLUMBUS.
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Tho New Footbair.
Daring the past two months advo
cates and opponents of football and
hose who regard it dispassionately
as a human activity, to be reckoned
with and understood, have had oppor
tunity to see it played under the new
rales. For some years educators and
parents objected that the game was
aurally and physically injurious.
Some good players, frank enough to.
brave the charge of disloyalty, con
fessed that the game was all work
aad little sport. Spectators protested
.that the play was a formless struggle
of massed power, not intelligible, nor
pleasant to watch, except for thrills
of partisan loyalty. After long con
fereace the rules were changed. It is
evident that the changes were real
and in the right direction. The play
is now more open. There is more
chance for agility and speed, less,
scrimmage and shock of mere weight
and muscle. The players cover mora
ground in a given series of plays.
Offenses against good conduct ara
easier for the officials to see and pun
ish than in the old dense formations.
From all parts of the country come
expressions of satisfaction with the
improvement Spectators find it more
interesting to watch. Players seem
to enjoy it better. Besides observing
the formal rules of the game, players
have felt that football was on trial,
and have evidently tried to show a
good spirit Several prominent edu
cators who opposed the old game
think that the new game has earned
its right to an extended probation.
There is room for further improve
ments, remarks the Youth's Compan
(ion. Undesirable roughness is still
possible. Those whose duty it is to
frame the. rules can proceed on the
basis of this year's experience toward
yet better game. The real faults
Jie in loss of temper under excitement
and the presence of a spirit which
idrives contestants to try to win at all
costs. Football cannot be made a
(satisfactory game by mere changes in
Its outward form; real improvement
must be in the spirit of the contest
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To Work Together.
An address before a woman's club
is not the place, nor Is the president
of the National Federation of Wom
en's clubs the source, from which
men look for understanding of their
work and methods. Nevertheless, a
vote of cordial appreciation and com
mendation has lately come from that
place and that source. "The man
makes the best club-woman," said the
speaker. "Men get things done, and
they are so fine and loyal." Did the
president wish to imply that women
are not loyal? No, but she argued
for a more catholic spirit and a
broader tolerance among women a
greater willingness to take one an
other for granted. Here, indeed, is
lone respect in which men have oppor
tunities to excel, remarks Youth's
(Companion. Their business life brings
them into contact with men of all
(sorts of religious beliefs, of various
Nationalities and all shades of cultiva
tion and attractiveness; and the club
Jlfe and political life of men is
marked by the same characteristics.
.The effect is a growth of tolerance
'which makes for practical achieve
ment as well as for comfort and the
Enenities of life. Many men find
ey can agree to work with others
for one thing in which they are inter-
tested, although they may differ radi
cally on other things. "That other
(woman, that woman who is so differ
ent from you. who is a little less cul
jtivated. a trifle 'impossible. " said the
president of the federation, "she. too,
(belongs to this movement and we
jaaust let her in."
Novelists, some of whom may never
feave owned a dress coat used to be
fond of drawing, in their tales, a
sharp social distinction between per
sons who "dressed for dinner" and
those who did not Now the editor of
British medical journal has been
discussing and commending from a
hygienic point of view the habit of
dressing for dinner. Everyone knows
that a change of clothing is often re
freshing. The English editor believes
that the effect is physical as well as
mental, or physical through the men
tal stimulus, and advises that even
the hard-working clerk, the shopkeep
er and the laboring man cast oft their
workaday clothes and put on clean
clothing for the evening meal, when
Ithe toil of the day is over.
The American method of sowing
wheat has been introduced in Asiatic
Turkey. If the sultan has any regard
for some of the ancient institutions of
iris kingdom he will see to it that the
American method of sowing wild oats
Is kept out
Georgia justice of the peace
dropped dead the other day as be was
about to kiss the bride after having
performed a wedding ceremony.
There have always been many who
regarded this practice as harmful.
The
United States eovernmont- i.
said to be after the Wright brothers'
(aeroplane, and has made an offer,
provided the brothers show that they
can fly the coop.
Things are jumbled in this world.
No sooner had the shah of Persia
.granted his country a constitution
than his own went on the blink.
A fisherman claims to have caught
a skate weighing 144 pounds at Bally
cotton, Ireland. He certainly did have
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tO ME STRANGE LAPSES
LOVER.
But before there was time for me
to get a distinct impression, that ugly
shape of cynicism had disappeared.
"It was a shadow I myself cast upon
her," I assured myself, and once more
she seemed to me like a clear, calm
lake of melted snow from the moun
tains. "I can see to the pure white
sand of the very bottom," thought I.
Mystery there was, but only the mys
tery of wonder at the apparition of
such beauty and purity in such a
world as mine. True, from time to
time, there showed at the surface or
vaguely outlined in the depths, forms
strangely out of place in those unsul
lied waters. But I either refused to
see or refused to trust my senses. I
had a fixed Ideal of what a woman
should be; this girl embodied that
ideal.
"If you'd only give up your cigar
ettes," I remember saying to her when
we were a little better acquainted,
"you'd be perfect"
She made an impatient gesture.
"Don't!" she commanded almost an
grily. "You make me feel like a hypo
crite. You tempt me to be a hypocrite
Why not be content with woman as
she is a human being? And how
could I any woman not an idiot be
alive for twenty-five years without
learning a thing or two? Why should
any man want It?"
"Because to know is to be spattered
and .stained," said I. "I get enough
of people who know, down town. Up
town I want a change of air. Of
course, you think yon know the world,
but you haven't the remotest concep
tion of what it's really like. Some
times when I'm with you, I begin to
feel mean and and unclean. And
the feeling grows on me until it's all
I can do to restrain myself from rush
ing away."
She looked at me critically.
"You've never had much to do with
women, have you?" she finally said
lowly in a musing tone.
"I wish that were true almost," re
plied I, on my mettle as a man, and; re
sisting not without effort the impulse
to make some vague "confessions"
boastings disguised as penitential ad
missions after the customary mascu
line fashion.
She smiled and one of those dis
quieting shapes seemed to me to be
floating lazily and repellently down
ward, out of sight "A man and a
woman can be a great deal to each
other, I believe," said she; "can be
married, and all that and remain as
6trange to each other as if they had
never met more hopelessly strang
e." "There's always a sort of mystery,"
I conceded. "I suppose that's one of
the things that keep married people
interested."
She shrugged her shoulders she
was in evening dress. I recall, and
there was on her white skin that in
tense, transparent bluish tinge one
sees on the new snow when the sun
comes out
"Mystery!" she said impatiently.
There's no mystery except what we
ourselves make. It's useless per
fectly useless," she went on absently.
"You're the sort of a man who, if a
woman cared for him, or even showed
friendship for him by being frank and
human and natural with him, he'd pun
ish her for it by by despising her."
I smiled, much as one smiles at the
efforts of a precocious child to prove
that it is a Methuselah in experience.
"If you weren't like an angel in
comparison with the others I've
known." said I. "do you suppose I
could care for yon as I do?"
I saw my remark irritated her, and
I fancied it was her vanity that was
offended by my disbelief in her knowl
edge of life. I hadn't a suspicion that
I had hurt and alienated her by slam
ming in her face the door of friend
ship and frankness her honesty was
forcing her to try to open for me.
In my stupidity of imagining her not
human like the other women and the
men I had known, but a creature apart
and in a class apart I stood day after
day gaping at that very door, and won
dering how I could open it how pene
trate even to the courtyard of that
vestal citadel. So long as my old
fashioned belief that good women
were more than human and bad
women less than human had influ
enced r.e only to a sharper lookout
in dealing with the one species of
woman I then came in contact with,
no harm to me resulted, button, the
contrary good whoever got into trou
ble through walking the world with
sword and sword arm free? But when,
under the spell of Anita Eilersly, I
dragged the "superhuman 'goodness"
part of my theory down out of the
clouds and made it my guardian and
guide really, it's a miracle that I es
caped from the pit into 'which that
lunacy pitched me headlong. I was
not content with idealizing only her; I
went on to seeing good, and only good,
in everybody! the millennium was at
hand; all Wall street was my friend;
whatever I wanted would happen. And
when Roebuck, with an air like a ben
ediction from a bishop backed by a
cathedral organ and full choir, gave
me the tip to buy coal stocks, I can
nonized him on the apot Never did
a Jersey "jay" in Sunday clothes and
tallowed boots respond to a bunco
steerer's greeting with a gladder smile
than mine to that pious old past-master
of craft
I will say in justice to myself,
though it Is also in excuse, that if I
had known him intimately a few years
earlier, I should have found it all but
impossible to fool myself. For he
had not long been in a position where
he could keep wholly detached from
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the crimes he committed for his ben
efit and by his order, and where he
could disclaim responsibility and even
knowledge. The great lawyers of the
country have been most ingenious in
developing corporate law in the direc
tion of making the corporation a com
plete and secure shield between the
beneficiary of a crime and its conse
quences; but before a great financier
can use this shield perfectly, he must
build up a system he must find lieu
tenants with the necessary coolness,
courage and cunning; he must teach
them to understand his hints; he must
educate them, not to point out to him
the disasagreeable things involved In
his orders, but to execute unquestion
ably, to efface completely the trail be
tween him and them, whether or not
they succeed In covering the round
about and faint trail between them
selves and the tools that nominally
commit the crimes.
Wilmot was the instrument he em
ployed to put the coal industry into
condition for "reorganization." He
bought control of one of the coal rail
roads and made Wilmot president of
it. Wilmot taught by twenty years
of his service, knew what was expect
ed of him, and preceded to do it He
put in a "loyal" general freight agent
who also needed no instructions, but
disaster, buying up more and more
wreckage; third, reorganise; fourth,
offer the new stocks and bonds to the
public with a mighty blare of trum
pets which produces, a boom market;
fifth, unload on the public, pass divi
dends. Issue unfavorable statements,
depress prices, buy back cheap what
you have sold dear. Repeat ad In
finitum, for the law is for the
laughter of the strong, and the public
is an eager ass. To keep up the fic
tion of "respectability." the inside ring
divides into two parties for its cam
paignsone party to break down, the
other to build up. One takes the
profits from destruction and departs,
perhaps to construct elsewhere; the
other takes the profits from construc
tion and departs, perhaps to destroy
elsewhere. As their collusion is mere
ly tacit, no conscience need twitch. I
must add that at the time of which
I am writing. I did not realize the ex
istence of this conspiracy. I knew, of
course, that many lawless and savage
things were done, that there were ras
cals among the high financiers, and
that almost all financiers now and
then did things that were more or less
rascally; but I did not know, did not
suspect that high finance was through
and through brigandage, and that the
high financier, by long .and unmolested
practice of brigandage, had come to
look on it as legitimate, lawful busi
ness, and on laws forbidding or ham
pering it as outrageous, socialistic, an
archistic "attacks upon the social or
der!" Roebuck had given me the impres
sidh that it would be six months, at
least, before what I was in these fatu
ous days thinking of as "our" plan for
"putting the coal industry on a sound
business basis" would be ready for the
public So, when he sent for me short
ly after I became engaged to Miss Ei
lersly, and said:' Melville will publish
the plan on the first of next month and
will open the subscription books on
the third a Thursday." I was taken
by surprise and was anything but
pleased. His words meant that, if I
wished to make a great fortune, now
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busied himself at destroying his own
and all the other coal roads by a sys
tem of secret rebates and rate cut
tings. As the other roads, one by one,
descended toward bankruptcy, Roe
buck bought the comparatively small
blocks of stock necessary to give him
control of them. When he had power
over enough of them to establish a
partial monopoly of transportation in
and out of the coal districts, he was
ready for his lieutenant to attack the
i mining properties. Probably his or
ders to Wilmot were nothing more
definite or less innocent than: "Wil
mot my boy, don't you think you and
I and some others of our friends ought
to buy some of those mines, if they
come on the market at a fair price?
Let me know when you hear of any
attractive investments of that sort"
That would have been quite enough
to "tip it off" to Wilmot that the time
had come for reaching out from con
trol of railway to control of mine. He
lost no time; he easily forced one
mining property after another into a
position where its owners were glad
were eager to sell all or part of the
wreck of it "at a fair price" to him
and Roebuck and "our friends." It
was as the result of one of these
moves that the great Manasquale
mines were so hemmed in by ruinous
freight rates, by strike troubles, by
floods from broken machinery and
mysteriously leaky dams, that I was
able to buy them "at a fair price"
that is. at less than one-fifth their
value. But at the time and for a
long time afterward I did not know,
on my honor did not suspect, what was
the cause, the sole cause, of the
change of the coal region from a place
of peaceful industry, content with fair
profits, to an industrial chaos with
ruin impending.
Once the railways ami mining com
panies were all on the verge of bank
ruptcy. Roebuck and his "friends"
were ready to buy, here control for
purposes of speculation, there owner
ship for purposes of permanent in
vestment This is what is known as
the reorganizing stage. The processes
of high finance are very simple first,
buy tha comparatively small holdings
necessary to create confusion and dis
aster; second, create confusion and
was the time to buy coal stocks, and
buy heavily for on the very day of
the publication of the plan every coal
stock would surely soar. Buy I must;
not to buy was to throw away a for
tune. Yet how could I buy when I
was gambling in textile up to my limit
of safety, if not beyond?
I did not dare confess to Roebuck
what I was doing in textile. He was
bitterly opposed to stock gambling,
denouncing it as both immoral and
unbusinesslike. No gambling for him!
When his business sagacity and fore
sight (?) informed him a certain stock
was going to be worth a great deal
more than it was then quoted at he
would buy outright in large quanti
ties; when that same sagacity and
foresight of the fellow who has him
self marked the cards warned him
that a stock was about to fall, he sold
outright But gamble never! . And I
felt that. If he should learn that I had
staked a large part of my entire its
tune on a single gambling operatioa,
he would straightway cut me off from
his confidence, would look: oa me as
too deeply tainted by my long career
as a "bucket-shop" man to fee worthy,
of full rank aad power as a financier.
Financiers do not gamble. Their oaly
vice is grand larceny.
All this was flashing .through my
mind while I was thanking aim.
"I am glad to have such a long foro
warning," I was saying. "Caa I be of
use to you? Yoa know my machinery
Is perfect I caa buy anything and la
any quantity without starting rumors
and drawing the crowd."
"No, thank you, Matthew." was his
answer. "I have all of those stocks I
wish at present"
Whether It is peculiar to me, I don't
know probably not but my memory
is so constituted thst it takes an in
delible and complete impression of
whatever is sent it by my eyes and
ears; and just as b? looking closely
you can find in a photographic plate
a hundred details that escape ycy
glance, so on those memory plates of
mine I often find Iocs afterward many
and many a detail that escaped me
when my eyes and ears were taking
the impression. On my memory plate
of that moment in my interview with
Roebuck,. I find details so significant
that my failing to note them at the
time shows how unfit I then was to
guard my Interests. For instance, 1
find that just before he spoke those
words declining my assistance and
implying that he had already 'in
creased his holdings, he opened and
closed his hands several times, finally
closed and clinched them a sure sign
of energetic nervous action, and ia
that particular Instance a sign of de
ception, because there was no energy
in his remark and no reason for en
ergy. I am not superstitious, but I be
lieve in palmistry to a certain extent
Even more than the face are the
hands a sensitive recorder of what ia
passing in the mind.
But I was then too intent upon my
dilemma carefully to study a man who
had already lulled me into absolute
confidence in him. I left him as soon
as he would let me go. His last words
were, "No gambling, Matthew! No
abuse of the opportunity God is giving
us. Be content with the just profits
from investment I have seen gam
blers come and go, many, of them able
men very able men. But they have
mpltMl nwav and when are thvT i
And I have remained and have ia
creased. I feel that I can trust you.
You began as a speculator, but success
has steadied you, and you have put
yourself on the firm ground where we
see the solid men into whose hands
God has given the development of the
abounding resources of this beloved
country of ours."
Do you wonder that I went away
with a heart full of shame for the
gambling projects my head was plan
ning upon the Information that good
man had given me?
"You've gone back to gambling
lately. Matt," said I to myself. "You've
been on a bender, with yonr head
afire. You must get out of this tex
tile business as soon as possible. But
it's good sound sense to plunge on the
coal stocks. In fact, your profits there
would save you if by some mischance
textile should rise instead of fall. Act
ing on Roebuck's tip isn't gambling,
it's insurance."
I emerged to issue orders that soon
threw into the National coal venture
all I had not staked on a falling mar
ket for textiles. I was not content
as the pious gambling-hater. Roebuck,
had begged me to be with buying
only what stock I could pay for. I
went plunging on. contracting for
many times the amount I could have
bought outright
The next time I saw Langdon I was
full of enthusiasm for Roebuck. I caa
see his smile as he listened.
"I had no idea you were an expert
on the trumpets of praise. Blacklock."
said he finally. "A very showy ac
complishment." he added, "but rather
dangerous, don't you think? The
player may become enchanted by his
own music."
"I try to look on the bright side of
things," said I. "even of human na
ture." "Since when?" drawled he.
I laughed a good, hearty laugh,
for this shy reference to my affair of
the heart tickled me. I enjoyed to
the full only in long retrospect the
look he gave me.
"As soon as a man falls in love,"
said he, "trustees should be appointed
to take charge of his estate."
"You're wrong there, old man." I
replied. "I've never worked harder
or with a clearer head than since I
learned that there are" I hesitated,
and ended lamely "other things ia
life."
Langdon's handsome face suddenly
darkened, and I thought I saw in his
eyes a look of eavage pain. "I envy
you." said he with an effort at his
wonted lightness and cynicism. But
that look touched my heart; I talked
no more of my own happiness. To do
so. I felt would be like bringing laugh
ter into the house of grief.
(To be Continued.)
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It's the blind farmer that puts
blinders on his colt
It's the cow, not the breed, that
counts when figuring the profit
Sheep prices keep up. Good profit
in them. Get a few.
Feed the sheep in good troughs.
The ground is a poor feeding place.
It pays
swine.
to cook the food for the
The man who doesn't know bis hens
is on the easy road to failure and
loss.
Poultry shows are good schools for
those who are not hide-bound by pre
judice and pet notions.
Good feeding as well as good breed
ing is essential in producing the su
perior animal.
Your farm is entirely what you
make it By your methods you can
run it up or down.
Experiments with sulphate of iron
show that it has value as a weed de
stroyer. Pumpkins make good hog feed if
cooked and mixed with corn meal and
shorts, or any other meal.
An occasional drink of milk is rel
ished by the hens, and it is a help in
egg production.
The chemical value of peas for fer
tilizer is in the nitrogen they bring
to the soil.
The well conducted poultry show
will cater to the farmer and try to
make him an interested visitor.
Mark the pullets with a belt punch
in the web between two toes. Mark
all alike, and you can tell their age
at a glance.
The farmer who has never learned
the lesson of sticktoitiveness in over
coming obstacles will never cut very
much of a furrow in farming.
Don't take it for granted that'
everytaiag is all right Keep a sharp J
lookout for anything wrong among:,
the sheep, or other farm stock. It ia
easier to conquer disease ia its early
stages than after it has gained a
strong foothold.
Did yoa ever stop to figure how
large a percentage of sunshine that
dast-aad cobwebs could abet oat ef
the barn? Sunshine is the host ef
tonics to pour iato the Mre stack
quarters.
The careless housewife floats eC
many a pound of hatter during the
season in the buttermilk which she
draws off from the churn, If she has
aot a strainer to catch the butter
particles. These little flakes ef but
ter seem so insignificant but la the
aggregate they prove aa expensive
waste.
The first steel frame barn has been
constructed by F. E. Dawley at
Fayetteville. N. Y. It is a gigantic
affair, capable of storing 509 tons of
alfalfa hay. 159 tons of alfalfa ensil
age, and 150 tons of corn ensilage,
grain tor 50 cows and stable room
for 50 milch cows for the produc
tion of sanitary milk.
W. H. Jordan. New York experi
ment station, in speaking of pig feed
ing, says: "I doubt the wisdom of.
feeding pigs with oil meal at least ia
anything more than very small qua-,
tity. The oil meals are aot considV
ered as desirable hog feeds, and I:
would not ia any case put in more!
than ten pounds of oil meal to 100'
pounds of ground oats."
The 6.000-acre government swamp
land in Kalamazoo county, Michigan,
is to be drained next summer at a;
cost estimated at $15,000. when it Is'
expected that it will be the finest of
land for celery culture. Such is the
progress of agricultural science. The
waste places of the earth are being
conquered and made to yield their
fruits in their season.
One of the important question
which is up to the interstate com-?
merce commission to answer Is
whether the potato is a fruit Iti
seems that the new railroad rate law
permits the giving of transportation
to caretakers who travel with per-,
isbable fruit, and the potato carrying
roads have been in the habit of giv-
ing such transportation with potato
shipments.
What are you going to do with
those calls from your flock? They
are not fat enough to kill, and under
the ordinary conditions they will not,
fatten for market Try this plan:
Put by themselves in quarters that
are reasonably warm, and feed corn
meal mash. In which oyster shell is'
mixed. Crowd the feed, and ia a
week or two you will be surprised to
see what a marketable lot of birds
you have.
Warm food is enjoyed by the hogs
in winter, and don't forget that the
more food is enjoyed by the animals
the more digestible it is.
Don't talk about that waste piece
of land. Find out how to treat it.
what to do with it. and make it work
for you.
The oldest agricultural college in
the country is said to be the Mich
igan Agricultural college, which is
48 years old.
A new apple picking record has
been established by William Vine, of
Greece, N. Y., who picked 63 barrels
in one day.
A half hour spent in quiet observa
tion in the poultry house will tell you
more about your hens than you can
learn in any other way.
Shivers are expensive blankets for
the farmer to use for his stock. Es
pecially is this true of the growing
animals.
Cow peas and crimson clover are
sure improvers of the soil. Try
them on that piece of poor land,
and with the addition of a little fer
tilizer you will be able to raise corn.
The frost strikes deep in a well-
drained soil, and the farmer knows
what that means in pulverizing the
soil and perparing it for next sea
son's crops.
' Treasure the hickory trees you
have on your farm. If prices continue
to go up for this variety of wood, a
hickory forest will be as good as a
'gold mine.
Guimard the Idol of Paris
The Great Dancer of the Great Days
of the Ballet
The elder Vestris, who flourished in
the middle of the eighteenth century,
called himself the "god of dancing."
and declared in all sincerity and with
out rebuke that his country had pro
duced but three supreme men him
self, Frederick the Great and Vol
taire. On one occasion, when reprov
ing his son Augustus for refusing to
dance before the king of Sweden at
the request of the king of France, he
said that he would not tolerate any
misunderstanding between the houses (
of Vestris and Bourbon, which had
lived hitherto upon the most friend
ly terms.
Madeleine Guimard made her debut
when she was 13 years of age, and
for nearly 30 years kept all Paris wor
shiping at her feet This was a suc
cess of ait, and not of beauty, for
Guimard was so aggressively thin
that she was known as "the Spider."
She discovered the great painter Da
vid, who helped Fragonard to adorn
her house with frescoes. Indeed, Fra
gonard, for whose paintings to-day
fabulous sums have been paid, lost
his commission because he dared to
fall in love with his patron. Guimard
had a theater in her own house, and
her entertainments there were
deemed extravagant In an age of
luxury. Paris could not spare her
to London until she was past her for
tieth year. She was a sort of boudoir
adviser to Marie Antoinette, and so
great was the esteem in which she
was held that one of the most dis
tinguished sculptors of the day mod
eled her foot and when her arm was
broken in a state accident a mass
for her speedy recovery was cele
brated at Notre Dame. Macmillan's
Magazine.
A successful strawberry grower
says he has quit using fertilizer on
strawberries grown for plants, but he
gets his plants out as early as pos
sible and gives them a top dressing
of stable manure.
Circulation.
"I notice your esteemed contempo
rary claims your edition never exceeds
500 copies," remarked the neutral ob
server. "Yes." replied the editor of the
Weekly Bazoo, "and his remarks have
stirred up a good deal of bad blood
in our office "
"Bad blood? Ah! then your circula
tion really is poor, 0"'
The farm house bath room! Why
not? Part of the store room off
the kitchen can easily be partitioned
off and fitted up. And the heat of
a small oil stove will make it com
totrable for bathing.
Good brisk work for the cold day
is the sharpening up of the saws, the
grinding of the axes, and the filling
of the wood box. You keep warm
outside getting the wood, and you
keep warm inside with the wood after
it is laid in.
Many of the apple trees growinf In
this country are on stocks from the
seeds of apples grown in France, for
the reason that they come from the
pulp from the cider mills which use
a hardier apple for that purpose than
is used in this country.
There is a story going the rounds
of a farmer who used an automobile
horn to call his chickens. When he
got them well trained, an automobile
tooted its horn in passing, and his
chickens started after the machine,
I and 14 hens and two roosters ran
I themselves to death. Another score
i agalast the auto.
An orchardist who has tried it
for several seasons, says that if
green boughs are scattered between,
the rows of fruit trees it will prevent
the mice from gnawing the bark of
the trees, as they will prefer the
tender bark of the twigs to the tough
er bark of the trees. Worth trying,
anyway, although it may encourage
the breeding and protection of the
mice. Along with the green boughs
use a little poison to kill off the mice.
or. better still, soak the boughs ia
arsenic solution.
Two lots of steers fed at the Kan
sas experiment station, one lot fed
with silage and the other without It
were marketed with 25 cents per 109
pounds in favor of the silage fed
steers. In this test silage was est!-'
mated to be worth $3.29 per toa and.
three tons of corn silage was equal'
to one ton alfalfa hay. The silage
lot were pronounced excellent cattle,
fat enough for the ordinarv trade.
The carcasses showed good quality
with very little waste, and would be
salable ia any market
The American Cultivator complains
of a condition that has long existed,
namely, the neglect of the local mar
ket by farmers. We have known the
markets in towns in the peach belt
to be absolutely bare of peaches
in the height of the season, though
eight or ten car loads of choice fruit
might be shipped from the station
daily. It is often impossible to get
good butter, milk, apples, potatoes,
and many other articles In the neigh
borhood in which they are abundant
ly produced, owing to the fact that
everything is shipped to the cities,
and often at lower prices than might'
be obtained at home.
The influence and power of organ
ization is shown in the statement of
President Miles of the National Asso
ciation of Agricultural- Implement
and Vehicle Manufacturers made at
the thirteenth annual meeting of that
organization recently held. He said
that while in 1893 when the associa
tion was formed, the exportation of
farm tools and machinery amounted
to only $5,000,000. ia 1900 it had
reached $10,000,000. in 1905 it was
$20.00.00. and this year it was $24
000.000. With our billions in crops
and our millions in farm machinery,
we are going a long ways towards
farming and feeding the world.
It Is interesting to note the differ
ent ideas which farmers hold as to
the meaning of rotation of crops.
There are those who think that va
riation in the succession of the crops
grown means rotation. In tho literal-sense,
of course, it is rotation.
but not in the sense in which the
term is used by the experiment sta
tions. Wheat may be siufPfiirrf k
barley, and barley by oats, and the
bare fallow by wheat again, but this
does not in the true sense mean rota
tion. All these crops and also the
bare fallow detract from the fertil
ity of the soil, and put virtually noth
ing into it in return. A true rotation
has in it a soil builder such as grass,
clover or green crops plowed under.
The rotation described above will
stimulate production for the time be
ing, but it does so by depleting the
sou more quiCKiy or Its fertility
sy growing but oae crop.
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