TVoember 25. 1904.
THE OMAnA ILLUSTRATED REE.
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Lain wwk Kelraiik was trmvr d from
nd to nd by i special schooling train for
th benefit of farmer engaged In ralvnc
corn. It wii practically a rolling rgrlcul
turaJ Institute Mnt through the com belts
of this state by the Burlington railrOkid for
the benefit of the grain producers. What
ever mercenary motive may have moved
the rr.Troad company to go to thl expense
It Is c mpletely-off -et by the gool It must
have accomplished. The railroad company
mny be locking to future results as a re- f
wnril for Its enterprise, but the be-eflt to
the farmer must be almost Imm dlitc. The
railroad company may be trying to I'icreas
the volume of Its grain hauls, but It can ot
be denied that while It Is Increa Irg IM
own volume of business by hundreds of
dollars. It la Incrertnlng the Income of the
farmer by thousands pf dollars.
The Seed Corn Special Is an Innovation
In railroad enterprise. It la the outcome
of a Joint conference between the railroad
company and the agricultural department
of the Cnlverslty of Nebraska. The Inter
est shown In the special was manifested
In the Immense audiences which met th
train at every station. Farmers came fro-n
long distances to attend the lectures .ind
tliey were well repaid for the trouble: Only
thirty-minute lectures were given, and
wihle this did not prm:t th fc! nt'stn to
do tnor than touch the principal points
relating to the production of corn. It was '
long enough to convince some cf . the
largest growers that there la considerable
to learn about corn. i
MaJce-Cp ( the Trala.
The train waa made up of two private
ear and two warm coaches, in which the
lectures were held. Corn specialists repre
senting the University of Nebraska, and of
In addressing the farmers. Lectures wtre
"" given simultaneously In each car and in
' this way from 200 to too peoplo were ac-
i COTnmoaaiea m. a ume. ine lectures at
' each station and In each car were prao-
tlcmlly the same, and to give a summary of
Arte la ?1 fftv a nunmirv of all Thi 1 Mv.
turers went down to the root of the mat
ter. They began with the seed. Expert-,
menta have shown that If the seed Is all
right the corn wlU be all right.
The experiments at the various agricul
tural experiment stations are conducted
upon the same theory that governs experi
ments In the animal world. It haa been
demonstrated that like begets like, condi
tion of the soil and climate being equal.
It was demonstrated by one of the speak
ers) that In Vormont where the conditions
of soil and climate are not so propitious
for th raising of corn as In Nebraska, the
yield per acre Is from eight to ten bushel
greater than in this stats because corn
growing Is conducted along scientific lines.
While attention haa been paid to giving
th soil the proper attention and supplying
those elements which It lacks for the proper
nourishment of the growing plant, still
more attention has been given to the seed
because It has been proven that the seed
of vl rnmiil health v fnr-n will nmilnM iHv.
oroua and healthy plants, but there are
details to be watched In order that each
ear will yield the largest possible amount
of grain.
Issaortaae of Good Seed.
"If you want to raise a thoroughbred
animal," said one of th speakers, "you
wouldn't pick out a scrub or a weakling.
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raiUOUS 111 Frontier AnnQlS
uver iii grave of Jim iinuger a monu
luam wui uu veiled ai Jai,a C'ily mat
aunauy as a uitua to a i)ukau and lamuut
Uiarocier lu liouuer auuois. ii,ier n
becu uliw "Uie uiw hunter, uiuujiuuntwr
and guiue vt Uie wai." ils uomtvus Uut
UU.
At the age of U years ttriiigar began his
career In lu western w.ius aa a lur huu
ter. 'Itutt waa in 14 auU lot iwumy-uno
years, until low, lis was acuve in ill t-r
uauo. iu uaar ui kiu ol U.uiKr.
Vvyo.r he tuuuueu sort U.iua.er, w uicu was
a suppiy yust un ih uieun ua.1, ui.uw
beiweou luupu.ui,ca, aiw., aila a oi'i Van
couver, and wluuu waa a tauiv.ua uu uur
for Uie "ptairie sclioouui ' oi p.un.u emi
grant, in uie eais loiluwu.g uu waa eui
plued aa gu.de, ircyoeuliy by Uie twrexn
iuouu .imager's kiiOMltUaw U Kooky tuuui.iaiu
I Ibputfiapuy was probabiy never eciuu.-U
kAa tri.n.y never suipaaacu. lie wa
jrirue repreaeuuiuve wi iiuti auioi icau
tl Of wtiicit liariM'ed and a, ru ai-u tun
sorted will! savage lur fuis bclur Ml
tieiueut btsau. xna uruwliua was Weil
varied when at. la waa hair spent. ii
cuange. uul uie period that iui.uvii pio
neer xt.ttiiiuil and buiit due waa uu,
of lita lypo, uitur "caiiyuiis," as lie om.ua
their siruvu. wore tow narrow lor ms
"robust ii'tedum," Aud ui.n uca.u luu
turn oii m loui he hau bctu oui ot iiuie
waa uie nuw order many years.
iu in si wait man, auumritauvtt.y i e
toruvd iu liaving u.covied tirta Uail
iaau, is t.i later, iu 1A he ut;iiud itar
tivsi' lo ueiiuuiiu lor a teagw u.e uuusi
oi thai uin-am. At thai Uui h.a party,
uu o nuur iietiry, was cauipid in
v.uiy. 'ill iut of salt a.r h
i.d puriy supposed to L an aim of
tiia r-c.o ot.uui. bvideuiiy iinuaor cud
i.ol obaciw ins absenoe of Udaa.
ii.ouau lr.der ia calieU l.i jiiaooveier
. ; uiul taac, lie waa pooaoi 1101
.10 uic to via.t IU bpaiuaU aiiii J.a of iw
jtfe oclole UkuUUoiA Uoa a a. 'X'latf
. ,.oi' pi'iy u kLuHU lw have pawed Uuar
i.v taasia loli-ii uu the way lo lue Co.-
uii. .11 iaa- aiuart aitd Clooas. rlui'U
.ud .ioui Aaioria, Mere cloaa Ui lu t'ux
..villus of Uuuaou'a-liay compauy and the
,urilivtiiu s'ur company oilen roaiuod
mvugu the - region before tond,ser.
aUienn 'frunai, a well known truppw of
VU'iajn li.ury Ashley's Hocky Mountain
Fur company, la said lo hav hunted i.ear
ha la. In Jsj. Ganeral Ashley is said
hav bvoa In th same vicinity ahead
of lfcridgeri likewise a trapper named Y asanas.
the Gospel of Good Seed
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CORN. Photo by Staff Artist-
Why? Because you know perfectly well
that you wouldn't get a thoroughbred; you
would get a scrub. Then, why do you ex
pect any more of the vegetable world T
rhe laws that govern reproduction ar
the same in the vegetable world aa they
are In the animal world. Like begets like.
"Supposing that , the yield of corn In the
Andean
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What promises to be .cae ot the
chief mining enterprises of ' our
hemisphere' haa been started by
Americans in the heart of th Andes."
Thus spoke Mr. Irving B. Dudley, our
minister to Peru, as we chatted together
In Washington prior to his leaving for his
post, last week. I spent some time with
Mr. Dudley In Peru, when I visited that
country a few years ago, and with him
went to the tan of the Andes on the rail
roaj built by Henry Melggs, the Callfor-
njan at tnormou cost about thirty
yers ago. That road la the hlshest moun-
taln of th, world. lt you
,n . d.v .h. paclfla d.., to
the top of 'the Andes, and lands you on
the other side more than three miles above
the sea. The road goes through some of
the richest mineral territory of South
America, and lt was originally Intended to
reach the famous Cerro de Pasco silver
mines. Meiggs' money gave out before he
got there and, although the road had been
continued after hla death, lt waa from
fifty to seventy miles away from Cerro
de Pasco when I rode over It.
Aaerlua Capital la Fera.
"The enterprise I refer to," continued
Minister Dudley, "Is connected somewhat
with the railroad by which we traveled to
lh. tnM nf th. Anil.1 It ! thi nurahiM of
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the Cerro de Pasoo mines by a corps of
American millionaires headed by J. B.
Hagtiin. D. O. Mills, Henry C. Flick and
others, among whom are said to be the
Hearst heirs, and the Vanderbllts. The
company la largely composed of men who
have been connected more or less with ths
great copper mlnej at Anaconda, Mont.,
which ar supposed to be the richest cop
per mines on the globe, but which may
be eoualed b Cerro da Paaco. Thev have
alreudy tpent 8,000,000 In purchasing the
property and In extending the railroad to
Cerro de Pasco and I understand that
they will spend J2.0o0.000 more before next
fall. They have bought up the mines from
the Individual owners, not asking conces
sions of the ' Peruvian government, and
their work la all done after practical busi
ness methods. They are said to have In
the nelKhborhood of 300 mines and almost
everything of value In that immediate
vicinity. They expect to extend the rail
way to coal mlnea about twelve miles far
ther on, so that they can have their own
fuel for the smelters."
"I thought the Cerro de Pasco mines
were sliver mines, Mr. Dudley T"
"So they were, but copper has been found
under the silver and the ore now taken
out Is a mixture of silver and copper. This
Is the copper age and copper mining Is
now paying better than silver mining. I
see It estimated thst the Cerro de Pasco
crmpany will be exporting within less than
two y-trs about .000 tons a month, or
eo.ooo tons per annum. This will repre
sent a value of almost 115.00.000, five times
the whole production of Chill. It will be
more copper, than Spain and Portugal, the
great copper countries of Europe, pro
duce." Toaa ef Silver.
"Tell ma some-thing about th silver-of
Cerro de Paaco V
"Those mines have seen producing silver
since the seventeenth century." said our 'rt" cost hut little to gt It down to th
minister. to Peru. "They were discovered, seacoaat If they have s good deposits as
by an Indian shepherd who camped out they think their concession should be a very'
one night where the town of Cerro de Pasco valuable one." i
now standa That place Is more then 14.000 "I suppose that a railway will be event
fee above the sea and It Is usually bitter ualiy extended by. the Paclfle company to
eold after dark. The Indian built a Br be- the Amason?"
fore going to sleep shd awoke the next morn-
' ,n to nn1 ,nat ,n0 stone, under his Ore had
m""a mna " "nip snver stag iay iq
their piaoe. Bine then thousands of tons
of pur silver hsvs been taken out of
Cerro de Paaco. Twenty-seven thousand
tors bad bn mined as far back as U3.
and altogether more than ti.i.0H worth
of silver has been produced there.
"Much of the .liver ore waa .hipped to
Europe," continued Mr. Dudley. Then a
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bushels per acre, what does It mean to
the farmer of Nebraska? It means an
Increase in wealth amounting to millions
of lars. It Is ust as much to your ad
vai.tdge to raise a good ear of corn aa
a bad one. Here are two ears of com,"
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Silver Mine Now
'smelter waa built at Casapalca, on th
railroad, about seventy-five miles from
Cexro de Pasco, and for the past few years
the ore has been carl red there on the
backs of Hamas. A llama will carry only
100 pounds. It Is a stubborn beast and will
lie down and refuse to go if overloaded.
As a result the cost of transportation has
been enormous, and only the beet of the
ore could be taken to the smelter. There
must be a great' deal of this silver
still in the dumps about these mines. This
ore is now being carried to the smelter
by the new railroad built by the American
syndicate. I understand, however, that the
rates of transportation by llamas have been
reduced that they are carrying ore at
about the same freight rates as the rail
road, the animals walking along beside th
tracks."
"Is Peru still rich In gold and silver, Mr.
Dudley'
"Yes; but lt is hard to tell just how rich
It is. Much of the country has not been
thoroughly prospected, and the mines may
be better further down. In these Cerro de
Pasco mines the upper deposits consisted
of a great body of low-grade sliver ore.
more than a mile and a half long by three'
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quarters of a mile wide. This was worktd
down to a depth of about 200 or more feet.
and then tunnels bad to be driven in to
drain th mine. They have been making
Immense tunnels still lower down, and th
lunnei comDaniea ciajm certain risrni
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wmrn Will possiDiy conmci W1U tnoa or
th American syndicate.
"As you go down In these mines the sil
ver or changes to copper, and, aa I havs
said, lt Is the copper and not the silver
that la valuable now. There are probably
good copper mines in other parts of Peru;
and Bolivia, you know, baa very valuable
deposits of almost pure copper. Ther are
gold mines In different parts of the coun-
tr- nd a mlne leaa- -ln Jul-
,llvr. Altogether, there are mora than
-ow different Peruvian mining claims on
record, one-third of which, perhaps, are
unworked."
Paetfle Coasaaay's New Coaeesslea,
"When I was in Peru, Mr. Dudley, soma
New York parties, known as the PaclBa
company, had a concession for coal mlnea
in the Andes, and were about to build a,
railroad to them. What ia that company
doing?"
"The Pacific company haa recently se
cured new concessions, and valuable ones.
It haa a atrip of land running from Pacaa
mayo to Chlmbotc, and extending front
there back up the Andes to one of the nav
igable branches of th Amason. There are
coal mines In the territory, and with th
concession goes th right to build a rail
road to get thte coal to the aeacoast. On
of the great troubles shout th west coast
of South America is the lack of good coal.
There are mines in southern Chile about
the Bay of Cohoeption, but th coal ther
Is not of tho best quality. The deposits ex-',
tend for some distance along the coast, and -far
out under th water. Hundreds of
miners ar employed and the men work in
tunnels away down below the' bed of th
ocean. Aa a result mining Is expensive,
and coal from Australia and England com
petes with th Chilean coal. The coal that
th Pacific company's railroad will open up
on tn highlands of th Andes, and It
"Probably so," replied Minister Dudley,
"but you must remember that It la only a
concession sa yet. There Is no road built.
It also Is planned to extand tha Qroyo rall-
road, to the Crayall river, which Is one of
the navlgsble branches of the Amazon. Th
distance from th end of the Oroyo line,
the same road we have been talking about
lu connection , with th new copper prop."
ertlee, to th Ucayall Is only about 1M
(BUea. When It to built eu can fa la -
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sample. "One you see Is a tapering ear
and grows smaller at the end. The other
Is cylindrical. It la about the same from
tip to butt. Common sense will prove to
you that the tapering ear which gets thin
ner near the tip cannot yield as much corn
as the cylindrical one. Ears rail down
In one or two way a In this tapering ear
barges and boats down that river to th
Amason. That road would open up th
Peruvian territory adjoining the Acre ter
ritory which Bolivia has just sold to BratlL
There are valuable rubber forests In that
region, and It is probable that' similar
forests are also found on Peruvian soil.
The government would like .to have a
railroad there; so that It eould quickly
transport troops to that point In case of
trouble. The Brazilians are, you know, to
build a railroad in that region to facilitate
travel to and from the Amason."
Backwoods ot Pera.
"It must be difficult for Peru to control
it territory on the eastern slopes of the
AndesT They ar practically inaccessible,
are they not'
"As far as easy travel Is oonoerned.
i.o.'Thich'l.T Peru . Vth." Maranon!
a great river that form, a part of th
said the minister to Peru. "Take ,
Amazon. It used to be that officials going
from Lima to Iqultos sometimes went
around the Strait of Magellan and clear
up the Atlantic coast of the continent to
the mouth of the Amazon, and then up
the Amazon to Iqultoa At present a fa
tuo aiimiu m .ijui iu a, ,ivovu. w-
Vonte way is to go to the Isthmus of
Panama and then up th Amason. On can
go up the Oroyo road and thence down by
trail to the Ucayall and thence by boat on
to Iqultos, but
that takes several weeks,
ack It would take more, as
ana in cominsr oaca il wouia uu mora, aa
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mo doiu go mucn mure wowiy up siraain.
You can ao from New York to Iaultos Is
lens time, I venture, then lt would require
to get there from Lima by way of tho
Ucayall. Ther are steamers from New
York to Manaoa, which is 1,000 mile, up th
Amason, and there are smaller steamers
irora aianaoe to iqunos.
"How about the railroad that takes on
frora the Pacifio to Lak Tltlcaca? Has It
been extended 7" to death. It is said that some of the ' '
"That road has an extension to Slcuanl, treasures of the Incas were burled, shortly tramway from 'Lima to Chorillas, on the
and from ther a wide oarriaga road bag after this. In Lak Tltlcaca and other- cout- Both of these companies will proba
bly do well"
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the kernel gets smaller and smaller
toward the tip and there Is very little
corn aa It tapers off, while the rows begin
to drop out and get thinner. Work to get
a corn that will give you the largest yield
per ear and you will have corn that will
give you the largest yield per acre.
"Here Is another kind of corn to which
I want to call your attention. This you
will observe has a large cob and small
kernel, while that ear has a small cob and
large kernel. One Is all cob and the other
Is nearly all corn. One has a deep kernel
and the other a shallow one. Well, It's
corn you want, not cob. but If you plant
com from an ear like this you are going
to have ears that won't yield as much per
acre as by planting from that ear whlob
ia all corn,
trtarea from Object Lenssi.
"These pictures." continued the speaker,
tainting to several charts behind him, "will
give you a clearer idea of what I am about
to say next. They are enlarged photo
graphs of ears of orn with which experi
ments h'ave been made. Here is a kernel
that tapers Into the cob. Tou will notice
that there Is a space between the kernels,
top and bottom, although they touch In the
Worked for Copper
been built to Cuzco, the old capital of the
Incas. Freight automobiles are now used
to connect Cuxco with the trains, and
this road ought to open up the ruins of
that famous city to visitors. There ar
good trains from the Pacific to Lake
Tltlcaca, and It will now take but a short
time to reach Cuzco from there. Cuzco is
a town of about 20,000 or so. It is the
center of a rich province and a busy place.
though lt has nothing of Its political lm
portance of the past. At the time that the
Spaniards came lt was perhaps the richest
of all the Indian cities sout'i of the isthmus.
PUarro got much of hla booty from there,
and the tradition is that he took from one
native temple 40,000 pounds of gold and
80.000 pounds of silver. Some of this earn
from th Tempi of the Sun, at Cusco."
"How about the hidden treasure of the
Incas. Mr. nudlevT It u said thev burlixt
' Andes when the Spaniard,
ban to Pob tnemr
"xou win near such traditions In all parts
of the Andes, but I doubt whether there
is much truth in them. The Spaniards car-
ried away about all the gold and silver that
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know, but few hidden treasures have come
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to Uht. You see, the Incas were the ruling
the rest of the people practically
woraea ior tnem. as a result, most of th
silver and gold came into their hands and
they turned it over to th Spaniarde. Such
mining aa they, did was after the rudest
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been very great Nevertheless. It Is said
'that th Spaniards, for a time, shod their
horses with sliver, and Pizarro, when he
captured Atahualpa, the Inca king, by
treachery, agreed to release htm if he
would fill a room seventeen feet wide and
twenty reet long with gold. This was
don, and history tells how Pizarro then
want back on his word and put the king
DUD LIT.
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middle. Well, you can't get anything for my wagon In the fall and when I found
space. Tou can't aell It. It won't weigh perfect ear that answered all the require
anything and you can't feed it to your menta throw It Into the box. From this lot
cattle. What you want Is corn. Here Is a I should sort out my seed. Put It ome
picture of an ear In which the kernels press where where It will dry out perfectly. It
against each other from top to bottom, and stands to reason that corn kept In the crib,
they are very deep. There la very little where It Is continually rreeslng and thaw
cob to one ear and quite a good deal to the Ing, will not be as good a germlnator a
other, although they both were of about the corn that has been protected from
the same diameter when picked. Yet you freeilng. High vitality, with lota of vigor
can euslly comprehend that the yield from and good shelling power. Is what you want,
one corn would be much greater per acre If you haven't killed the vitality of the
than the yield from the other.
"Another thing I want to call your at
tention to Is the fact that experiments hav
demonstrated that rough ears are the most
vigorous germlnators. They hav the
greatest vitality. Corn from such ears take and putting them back of the stove, or, bet
hold from the start and mature more ter still, near the furnace, they will sprout
quickly. I don't want to be misunderstood nl you can then determine their germl
as saying that rough corn is better than nating vitality. If ths kernels from on a
smooth corn, but that th rough ears' of don't meet the requirements replace It wittt
any kind of corn are better than the smooth the kernels of another ear. Keep track of
ears of the same kind. If your corn yields
a rough ear select your seed from the
roughest ears. If your corn Is a smooth
variety then take the roughest ears of
that
Row to Go A boat It.
"What I should do is to have a box on
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but, if so, they are yet te be
Bolivia's New Railroads.
"I understand, Mr. Dudley, that a new
railroad has been built from Lak Tltlcaca.
to La PaaT" - - . ' "
"Yes, a road has been built, but it does
not go down Into- the city of La Pas. You
may remember that there is a great plateau
away up there, almost three miles above
the sea. In which Tltlcaca and La Pas i.e.
at a distance of forty or fifty miles apart-
Tltlcaca lies in one basin. La Pas in an-
other. The road begins at Gauqual, tho
port In Bolivia which you reach by sailing
across Lake Tltlcaca from Puno In Peru,
The new railroad crosses the plateau to the
Alto, or rim of the basin containing La
Pas, and there stops. As you get out at
th. -r,n . inu.nn.
and look down at th chief cy of BoUvia.
Woh lies about 1.000 feet below you. Ther
are now carriages which take you down to
the city, but plans have been made for
cable or electric lines, and eventually these
will probably go through.
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frora Brazil for the Acre territory, and
among- the lines proposed la one from La
p,, t0 oruro, on the Autbfagaata line, thus
giving Bolivia a railroad outlet to the At
,antlc. T believe there are also propositions
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r-iiwoy systems"
"Ia Peru developing along electrical
lines?"
"Not very rapidly," mas th reply, "but
w have electrlo lights In Lima and many
of the factories are run by electricity. Some
of the Interior cities are so lighted. We
bav elec'rif, tramwy ow running from
LJmtt t0 CallM. wr chlef Prt. a distance
Antriou Trade With Perm.
"How about our trade with Peru, Mr.
Dudley?" I asked.
"It la steadily increasing, although the
people of the United States do not make
much effort to push It. When I first went
to Peru the Germans exceeded us In their
exports to that country. We are now far
in advance of them and second only to
Great Britain. Our trade today Is almost
three times what it waa when I first cam
to th country, and lt seems to me that
Vie 4rospects for a continued increase ar
good."
"What do w sell to Peru" I asked.
"Wheat, bread tuffs and all sorts
of
hardware and machinery. Much of th
wheat comes from our Pacific coast statea
The machinery Is Isrgeiy from the east.
This trad will be benefited by tha Panama
canal."
"What do w buy of Peru, Mr. Dudley?"
"We buy a great variety of things, among
others medicine and chemical products,
foodstuffs and wool, and especially cotton.
Th Peruvian cotton commands a far
higher price In the markets of the world
than our own cotton. It has a long fiber
which la so much more ilk wool than cot
ton that It could be passed off for wool.
It Is used In making hats, hosiery and un
derwear. The factories mix It with wool
and th article Into which It goes havs a
fmer luster and fin 1st than those made of
pure -wool. This cotton is of different col
ors, some white, some brown and some al
most red. So far the area of Cotton terri- '
tory has been limited, but companies have
been recently formed to Irrigate the la nils
of northern Peru, which will bring much
mors cotton soil Into cultivation. The most
of the desert you know, will blnsHorn Ilk
th roas If it ran only have water."
"What are the political conditions In
Peru at present, Mr. Dudley? Do you have
msny revolutions?"
"There hsve been no political trouble
during my stay In Peru, arid there are no
Indications that there will b any In tha
future. Tha country Ls quiet and tha peo
-
set
VJ il
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SEED CORN. Fhoto by Btatt Arust.
corn by the freezing and thawing process
It I natural to assum that you hav low
ered it By taking a few kernels from
each ear and wrapping them In a piece of
dampened paper, blotting paper Is th beat.
th ears from which th kernels were taken
by numbering them and making the num
ber on the paper In which th kernels are
wrapped correspond."
Constant Experience Necessary.
In a private conversation Prof. T. 1
Lyon of the University of Nebraska said
that experiments are being made at that
station with oats and wheat. The oats yield
B Nebraska has been increased ten bushels
to the acre, "Hie university has been ex
perimenting with th Kherson oats from
southwestern Russia and It haa been shown
that fifty bushels can be raised to the acre
They are early maturing oats and get out
of the way of the hot, dry weather. Ex
periments with the macaroni oats from Al
giers, In northern Africa and southern Rus
sia, hav also proved satisfactory, and lt
haa been shown that wheat can be raised
In any part of th state. A variety of
corn haa been developed whloh waa grown,
this year as a distinct variety. Satisfactory
experiments ar being mad with alfalfa
and Hungarian grass, which makes a good
sod and grows through the hot summer
months without drying up. It Is a good
pasture grass and resembles the Kentucky
blue grass grown In Illinois and lows. Ho
also cautioned against bringing grain for
seed from too great a distance, and ex.
plained why warm nilmate grains will not
nourish In cold climates and vice versa, and
wnT trains should not be Imported for seed
,rom to far ' or wst, and why seeds
,rom ao rrirated country will not do well
ta a country not Irrigated. Th Interest In
Z"
""to year continu.d from
; 77 -v
, V, con',enl1 J" -WW The death
or President Caudamo was followed by th
'ctlon of Jose Pardo to lak. hla place.
q-, ,la l m
ana lne heU of government have moved
Bmrwithlv t .
IT . ,,, . w,1Jent Pard. although
P0;'"01 reer ha btm hort on
h i aoverumeni email.
uiuca mil exociieni president, tte is a
young man, not over 40, who has been en
gaged In business for the greater part of
his life. and. who up until a year ago had
had but little to do with politics or the gov
eminent. He waa chosen by Pre: dent Cun
damo as his chief ministerial adviser, and
upon Candamo's death he naturally became
president. He Is a very patriotio man and
is anxious to do well for Peru. He saya
he will devote his energies to Improving
the ro(Ldway, other cotnmunlca,Uon
the country and to bettering tha peop.e
along educational lines."
FRANK O. CARPENTER.
Prattle of the Youngsters
Willie I don't b'lleve that story of "Puss
In Boots." How oould a cat have seven
league boots? ;
Tommy Mebbe a big giant threw 'em at
him on night
"Mamma, do barbers go to heaven?"
"If they ar good, dear; but why do you
ask?"
"Why, I was wondering who trimmed th
saints' whiskers."
Edgar, aged (, was taken In to see hla
new baby brother. After walking around
him several times and viewing him crltlo-
ally he Anally said: "Mamma, don't you
think we had better get a wig for that kid
nies grandpa's T"
Mamma Harry, you have again failed to
do as you were told. I'm afraid that every
thing I tell you goes In at on ear and out
at the other
Harry Well, mamma, why don't you stop
one of 'era up?
"NoW, Minnie," said th Sunday school
teacher, "can you tell m what happened ta
Lot's wife?"
"Yes, ma'am," answered Minnie. "8h
was always fussln' with the neighbors and
one day when she got too freeh God cam
down and put her In a sack of salt"
Ethel was year, old, and very
much given to xaggeratna. Her mother
called It by a lees po'lte Dims, and worried
bver what she considered a vicious tendency
In the child. One day the little girl rushed
In bresthleas and told her mother that a
'big black lion wss loose, and that several
of her playmates' mothers had fainted
when they saw It Investigation disclosed
the fiver that the child had Men a blaok
poodle clipped to resemble a Hon.
Her mother ordered her to go Into her
room and ask God to pardon her for lying.
Wheir she came out her mother asked her
If she had asked God to forglv her.
"Yea. mamma." said ths little girl, "gnd
He said to me, 'Dear child, don't mention
It. I thought It was a lion myself when I
first laid eyea aa IC "
