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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 22, 1905)
THE OMAITA ILLUSTRATED BEE. Jnnoarr wos. What Animals Produce Good Beef, Good Mutton and Good Pork V NTF.REST in the work of th ihort course at the Iowa Statt Agricultural college at Am this 7?l'!5, year wi-mefl to center armiinl ' r the Mock demonstration ' which, wan held on January 11. This was, perhaps, owing In jiart to the (treat success of the demonstration which was held a e-ir ago and which attracted bo murh at tention. Mr. John Gosling conducted thi demonstration a yenr ago and the cne,i wan fortun.-ite enough to secure hi service again this year. m the front cover of thl Issue w'lll to found his portrait, together with Prof, t'nrtlss nf the university. .' The genernl orject of th demonstration was to show the necessity of feeding from a utilitarian standpoint. Mr. Gosling madi It very plain to thosf present that a live, stork feeder who la In business for profit must produce the kind of Mock th.it best eatlsflf the wjnt of the consuming public If the greatest profits are to be derived. In other words, animal must neither b overfed nor underfed. For tho purpose of the beef demonstra tion four animals were selected. One waa a blue gray steer which was underfed. The second was a blue gray spayod heifer. 8hc waa fed Just about the right length of time. The third waa a Hereford steer that was overfat. The fourth waa a high grade canner. The live weight, dressed weight and dress Ing per cent of the cattle, sheep and hogs used In the demonstration Is aa follows: Pressed Live weight, weight, Dressing, - ' Lbs. Lbs. per cent. Blue gray Steer l.l'O 719 tifi.M Blue gray heifer.... 1.190 87. M Hereford steer i,) R9 i "8 Good canner cow... 9x2 476 4 47 Shesrltr.g wether L li l"i R7.S3 Shearling wether 2. 181 1W 19 W Shearling wether 1 W 113 .75 Lamb 13er 70 W S3 Fat hog 3.-) 271 77.42 Huron hog 13;! W 66 IS These cattle were Judged on foot by the f : COT OF LAMB BETWEKN SADDUR AND LIT.OH SHOWINO LARGB PRO PORTION OF LEAN TO FAT NICELY MARBLED. Photo by Staff Artist. Uncle Sam's Matrimonial Bureau and Some (Copyright, 1806, by Frank O. Carpenter.) lASinNQTON. D. C, Jan. 19. (Spe w ma cial Correspondence of The Bee.) Uncle Sam has turned match maker 1 The fact need not excite the 80,000 splnaters of Massachusetts nor the millions who are pining for husbands In the other parts of the United States. Uncle Sam's matches have not to do with human beings. Such unlona are made In heaven. Uncle Sam's marriages are of the earth, earthly. They t.re the marriages of plants and fruits, and they are adding to the Wealth of the country. I can't tell just how much; but the sum runs high into the mil lions, and the matrimonial bureau Is just beginning to work. A'ew Oraaget for tho Sonth. t spent today at the Agricultural depart ment talking with Dr. Herbert J. Webber, the head of the laboratory of plant breed ing, and with other scientists on what Is being done to produce new plants and fruits. Dr. Webber has devoted his life to this work, and under the direction of the secre tary of the agriculture he and his associ ates are accomplishing wonders, They have produced new cottons, tobaccos and grains, and they have now discovered an orange which will grow about too miles further north than any we now have. At present the oranges of the United States era grown almost altogether In the south ern half of Florida and In a comparatively small part of California. This will extend the orange region northward throughout Georgia and into South Carolina, the gulf states, Texss, parts of Arlsona and Into many other parts of California. It will make tt possible for every southern farmer of these regions to have an orange grove In his back yard, and oranges will be as common there as apples are throughout the north. It took tea years to produce this result. How It came about Is aa follows: In 1894 and Ut we had a terrible frost which de stroyed the orange groves of Florida. The trees were frosen down to the ground, and upon looking back It waa found that such frosts had come from time to time and destroyed everything. The department then tried to find a hardier orange which would withstand the cold, and Dr. Webber and Prof. W. T. Swingle, who were thea working for the department In Florida, were given this task. After a time Prof. Swingle dropped out, but Dr. Webber con tinued and produced the oranges which he showed me today. Tbe drat work that Dumbbell Feat Performed in Ireland N AMERICAN. Anthony McKinley, with dumbbells lit Ireland re bus made a remarkable ahowlng cently, according; to the follow ing extract from the Belfast U7 Evening Telegraph: tin Monday afternoon Anthony McKinley gave another proof of hla remarkable speed, staying powers and endurance in handling dumbbells. He gave the exhibition ill the billiard room of the Boyd Arms hotel with a taelve-pound one and one-fourth ounce dumbbell, shoulder to arm's length above shoulder, one hand, and succeeded In put ling It up 11000 times In two hours Ufty- NO. l-CUT FKOM BLUE-GRAY students on Monday, January In this connection It ahould be remembered that Ames college la carrying on aome extensive experiments with blue gray steers, which are a cross between a Oalloway and Short born, and these animals were aome of their own breeding. The heifer waa about 22 months old and waa a prise winner at the International ahowa of 1802 and 1903, standing next to Tama Jim, who. was first In hla class. The blue gray steer waa about 22H months old and waa out of a load that topped the Chicago market De cember 24 on a dull day. The Hereford steer waa about 26 months old and Waa purchased aa an example of overfeeding. Jndaed First on the Hoof . After the cattle had been Judged on the hoof they were slaughtered and on was dona was the selection of hardy trees. They picked out the toughest and tried to breed tougher ones by seed selection. This was very slow, and they looked around to see If they could not find types wltb which they might cross breed. Among the other things experimented with was a hardy little orango tree which grows aa far north as New York. There are some on Long IsLand and several In the agricultural department grounds. The tree Is grown for hedges. It Is known as the Trifoliate orange and It has a fruit about as big around as a baby's flat, but as sour as vinegar and aa bitter as galL It la, however, a perfect orange In shape, and Is really an orange, although not fit for eating. They took this tree and mar ried It to the sweet orange tree of Florida, and after many trials they have now pro duced the trees which will grow and fruit 300 miles farther north. The new orange la three Inches In diame ter; It Is a good eating orange, although a little bitter. It can be propagated by budding and can be easily spread through out the southern portion of the United Statee. Our navel oranges all come from a tree which was sent here from Brasll and grown In the agricultural hot housea That tree was the father of the seedless orange Industry of California. Theae trees will be the father of orchards all over the south. Orsage-Lsaioas and Pomelos. In crossing these trees several other varieties of orunges were produced. The seed from the union had to be first planted, and as it takes about as long for an orange tree to yield fruit aa it does for an apple tree, it has been aeveral years before the department could know whether tt had any i thing or not. Tke first fruiting came this year. One variety was the Rusk orange, named after the late Secretary Rusk, of which I have already writteij. Another was an orange-lemon of just about tbe sise of the Rusk orange. This orange Is ss sour' a a lemon and it tastes not unlike one. having a delicious flavor slightly different from the lemon. It has more Juice than a lemon of the same size, us can be seen by a photograph I give of several tubes showing the amount of juice In each fruit. This orange-lemon cun be grown wherever the Rui'k orange can be grown and It will give crunge-Iemuii wrchards to millions of fami lies throughout the south where lenioas cannot now be grown. Another of the trees produced by murry ing the Trifoliate orange with the Florida seven minutes fifty seconds at the late of ninety times per minute, regular through out, with one or two over every time after the counter called out and often more. The dumbbell was weighed at starting and llnishlsg, In tbe presence of all. and the total weight , amounts to elghty-aix tone five hundredweight one quarter twenty-two pounds. The previous -beat 'with this weight, a twelve-pound dumbbell, was by A. Corcoran at Chicago, which waa also the greatrst total weight ever put up, when on October . 1S73, he put It up 1 tinirs. time not stated, or a total weight f uev-enty-rlve tons. . , STEER UNFINISHED, Wednesday, January 11. they were put on the block and cut up before the atudents, under the direction of Mr. Gosling. The accompanying cuts show In excellent man ner the proportion of lean to fat In the meat of the three animals. Beginning with the blue gray ateer, which can be designa ted as the thin steer, it will be noticed that the percentage of lean meat Is ap proximately greater than In either the heifer or the overfat steer, but it lacks the marbellng. the fat not being pushed Into the lean sufficiently. It would have been Improved had the feeding been car ried on a little ior.ger. The Chicago cutter said, however, that it was the kind cut up most in the markets In Chicago. It was also noticed that the meat waa a trifle coarser than In the heifer and not so rich, owing to the fat not being pushed Into the lean. Taking the heifer which Is shown In Illus tration 2, It will be aeen that the propor tion of leun to fat Is smaller than in the thin steer, hut greater than In the over fat ateer. liown In Illustration ". The heifer dressed 67.Stf. ns compared with 60.30 for the thin steer, and 6S.0S for the overfat steer. The canner dresKfb 4.t7. The peculiarity about the heifer was thai s!ie carried a lnrs amount of int-rnal fat. while tho ovei fat nicer cirri, d his fat on the outride. It will lo noticed that thu heifer meat is beautifully marheled ami was pronounced of finer quality thi'.n either of the sleirs. It would meet I lie. highest demands of the trade, though, perhaps, there might be some objection to the thick vein of fat In the side. As a general thing, though. It is just about right for the high classed trade, being both rich and fine In quality. What Too Much Fat Does. The feature of the overfat steer Is the excessive amount of fat on the nutxide. as well as the thick veins of fat pushed through the lean. This is clearly a case of a steer being overdone. In tiie show ring such a steer would, of course, he placed over one like the thin steer or heifer, but from a utilitarian tUumlpoint the overdone steer is unprofitable, owing to the cost of producing that extra amount of fat, which la practically waste. By noticing the three f-uts of meat It will b aeen that the extra feed put Into the overdone steer simply went Into fat, or. In other words. Into watte. The loss in the thln'sleer conies from the fact that thero Is not quite enough fat to give the flesh the proper richness and more feed could have been given the. animal to advantage. The cutter cr high grade canner used In the demonstration was bought for $18. She waa slaughtered and cut up to show the different grades and different uses to which such meat Is put. The tenderloin orange has a fruit which might be called the orange pomelo, or the pomelo orange. This fruit Is about the size of a large orange, but It tastes somewhat like a cross between the orange and the pomelo. It will grow In these same localities and will make a fine breakfast food. In short, from the union of these two varieties of trees, one little more than a scrubby buBh and the other a fine orange tree, have been pro duced three good varieties of trees which will give the greater part of the south oranges, pomelos and lemons. . 1e Tangrelo. Have you ever seen a Tangerine orangeT It is a little orange with a loose skin so fastened to It that It Is sometimes called the kid glove orange. The akin can easily be taken off and the sections of the fruit pulled apart and eaten. You know also the grape fruit or pomelo, which has a delicious acid flesh, but a bitter, tight-sticking skin. Both fruits are sold In the markets. Dr. Webber and his assistants have married this little tangerine orange tree to the pomelo, 'and they have produced a pomelo which, although not so large as the ordi nary pomelo, Is of a good size. It lias a loose skin so that you can tear it off with our fingers as you can that of the tanger ine orange. Tbe flesh of the new pomelo t, a i IK'. j -.: ;i v. v.'.' , "'W ti. Cvs,rVv-4.'f' it ' HI sPKHKkw -V prko iQ. 2 CUT FROM BL.UE-GRAY was stripped out, the lean meat waa taken off the back and upper ribs, and. In fact, the rlba were stripped. The round were cut to show from which parte the corned beef, dried beef and chipped beef of com merce are obtained. The fact was also brought out that It la from Just such canners or cutters that the fine steaka are taken which people buy at many hotels, dining cars, restaurants and butcher sho:s. Characteristics of t.ond Mutton. In addition to the beef there were dem onstrations In slifep and swine. On Mon-lny three shearling wethers end a Southd.iwn Dorset Iamb were placed in the show lpig and Judged. The weth.r- were placed ah ad of the lamb lrom a show ltand pu.nt. When slaughtered the wethers killed out exceptionally fat. tarrying from one to one a'-d a ouartrr Inches of fat along the b i k, while the lamb :arHed about i ne-hn f imh. The three Wethfs dressed ;7.r. 5 , 'fi wml "."'. respn lively The I imli d" "sr, r.i. ! One point given special attention wa ih size of Ihe eye (if meat in the back of -lanib. being Inr-jer (bin in the Wt-Ci.r. showing the ex-'i.:t- fit In t'e Wether. There was very I'ttlt wa-.e in (ho. I.imb. The tressed wc.'pht of the 'n-n'.i w i about seeniy-two pci.nJs. vhk'i fives nh nit eighteen poinds to the ti:.tr'e' which is a very dctdrabl.- welKhl on the market. Anything from sixty to sevnty-two pcunds Is called handy wrlght. Vt ry heavy sheep have to go to elubt and peclal custrmers. The carcasses were i.lso cut to show tho amount of lean meat between the sadlle and the less. These ouls ar shown In the accompanying Illustration. Here again the lamb showed to the best advantage, having fi larger proportion, of lenn to fat and nicely mHrbeled. Mr. Gosling cnlhd attention In an Inter esting manner to how easily a superior carcass can he turtle lo jippe r Inferior by simply a slip of the knife in the hands of tli" cutter. To show this he lioliiteil to th'. patches of f:it In t';e limb in. irked in t'he ii In vc cut with a irt'iM. In reality theru Is but a thin llim of f,it there, nnd had the knife j .-: .d but a sl.arV to the rear It would i;nv shown loin pi at 'the same as on to oT P'site Ides. Swiuc I ntler Uatcber'a Kulfe. For the swin? demonstration two lugs were selected. One was a fut back Ches ter White b.irrew. weighing 890 pounds. He dressed out 77.42. He was out of the winning pen of Cheater Whites at the In ternational. Tho other win a Tamworth pig, weighing 182 pounds, and drersed 65.15. In the accompanying Illustration the two are shown on the hooks, the larger of the two, of courss, being the Chester White. The excessive fat In the Chester White Is orango is more delicious than that of the pomelo Itself. It is sweeter than the po melo and more Juicy and acid than the tangerine, and it contains the bitter prin ciple of tke grape fruit slightly reduced.' It might be called a kid glove grape fruit. Vnclo Sam's New Babies. These products are among the most prom ising of Uncle Sam's new babiea They are really the output of the Agricultural de partment and any one good healthy Infant of this kind Is worth more to the country than the coat of that department ' for a number of years. In the marriage of cot tons Qr. Webster has united the long staple aea Island cotton with the short staple upland cotton and has thereby pro duced a medium staple cotton whloh will grow on the uplands. The Egyptian cotton has also been cross bred with Uncle Sara's product and the probability Is that we will raise the $11,000,000 worth of Egyptian cot ton which we now Import, upon our own soil. I have written as to the wonders which have been accomplished lu tobacco breeding and something as to the Improve ment being made In our corn. In the plant breeding houses of the department here I have examined the crossing of the Texas blue grass with the Kentucky blue grass whereby they hope to get a rich sod 1 ' ,' 1 .':.( . I BY LUTHER BURBANK. HEIFER ntOFEiL.Y FINISHED. very apparent. The pig, on the other hand, would have to be considered un finished, aa a bacon hog should weigh from 180 to 200 pounds and ahould have from one and one-fourth to one and one half Inches of fat on the back, while this one only had one-half to three-fourths of an Inch. In spite of this fact, a butcher would consider him a profitable hog. as he Is handy weight and the kind thut takes well on the market. From a feeder's stand point, though, he is not a.s profitable as one that Is carried until weli;M ig aro-.ihd 200 pounds, as a l.'-p ir.d ;'s is Just In eond.tlon to put on flsli rapidly. The fat ba k, huweor. Is 'tnprd' table to the feeder, ns the cost of producing that tx ces.'ive fut Is to great. some Represenlat 1 1 e students. Among the younger men who to,.k tho ruurse was P. A. Honker. Jr., r,f Arcolla, W)o. He re;rcented the Wyoming Cattle company, whlrh controls the Camp Siool ranch. He was sent to Ames by his com pany to Ret In touch with the i.emam's of the feeder huyrrs. pa k' is tnd t o: sum.ira. In siu .ikiiiiT oi' tils tr p Mr. Ki k' r .said th.it his conn "' 'il2(F that the fe.rmers of the Tu lilt ate l.e.ng rtliuatt.i along tl.e 'il ef coiln t teeiiillg That tllC inS tl it in .l.e fut .ii e i h.v win he mt r- Ils crirr. inatin;, in iheir select. i n of :ettllng stock. Thy we: t rn rat.chm.in is prima ily a producer cf feeding cattle and therefore It devolves tipen him to jiroduee the kind that will he wanted. With that end In view Mr. Kooker went to Ames and said that from what he learned the feeding steer that will he in the greatest demand In the future wl'l be low set, with straight lines both above ami below. He mutt be broad, thick and deep, with a good h ad, and be well balanced ger.eral'y. With lhat tjpe In mind the breeder can set to work to Improve his stock nnd in that way se cure the highest market prices. II. '. H:n:limr. cf Anl.my, la., was an other interested student. Mr. Haulman has been a butcher and dealer in live atuck of all kinds for nineteen years and yet, as he raid, he found frum his experience at Ames that he mill hns a good deal to learn. He whs particularly Impressed with tho way In which Mr. Gosling in the beef demonstra tion pointed out to formers tho necessity of feeding from a utilitarian standpoint. That Is, they must feed with the Idea of produc ing the beef for which there Is tho greatest demand. The average farmer la not In po sition to feed for the show ring, that should be left to the breeder of pure blood cattle.. In traveling through the country buying; cattle for the Chicago market Mr. Haul man said he has an excellent opportunity to see how few farmers know when their cattle are ready for the market. They which will grow all over the south. In the same houses they are breeding clovers with alfalfas and also lettuces and different varieties of flowers which have a com mercial value. Marriage of the Lettnces. One of the strange things Is the mar riage of the lettuoes. There are 'two com mercial varieties in the United States, one of which Is sold east of the Alleghenles and the other west, the latter being raised orderly about Grand Rapids. The Grand Rapids lettuce Is a loose lettuce wltb long loose leaves, delicious to taste. The east ern lettuce Is a head lettuce and la much better In some respects for the table. Dr. B. T. Galloway, the chief of the bureau of plant Industry, first figured out in his mind what he thought would be an Ideal lettuce for the market and he then told his experimenters to go to work and see If they could not produce that lettuoe by crossing the different varieties. They have married the eastern and western lettuces and they think; they are rapidly producing their Ideal. Indeed, I saw many heads of lettuce today In the plant breeding hot beds which seemed almost perfect and combined tbe excellencies of both varieties. In talking with Dr. Galloway the other day he told me of some experiments he had made with violets. He wanted to show that money could; be made by raising them If they were properly handled, so he estab lished a commercial hotbed and set out 6,000 plants. As they grew he found that some produced only one blossom apiece and that others had a half dozen or more, that some (lowered lu tbe month when they brought the blggettt prices and others just when there was the least demand. He made a careful selection of seeds and after a time produced violets which flowered Just at the right time and in the largest number per plant. The result was the hot bed paid a good dividend. He had then shown the success of his experiment and sold out. His succeusor paid no attention to plant selection and In a short time he was making no more out of the hotbeds than his neighbors. Humance of the Potato. Among the mut romantic stories of plant production is that of the prosaic potato. I'ot a toes nru ordinarily produced by plant ing the potato or cuttings of It. A potato plant, however, sometimes produces a seed which may be planted and may possibly yield a new variety. About lteo a man named Goodrich experimented with wild Peruvian and Chile potatoes. He grew seedlings from these plants for a number of years and finally from them produced two varieties which were fairly vuluable, one of which was known aa the Garnet Chill. In loflo Mr. Albert Bieese of Ver mont planted some seed of a Gurnet t hill plant and one of the results was the Karly Rose. Win n this potato wus put on the market ' it brought fabulous prices, and It Is Hill one of the most valuable potatoes we have. It was the Early Rose wb'ch was the mother of the Burbank potato, which was named after Luther Burbank, who was a school boy when be discovered It. Young B nbd nk bad heard what Hreeae hud done In producing the Early Itoke, and he had become generally Interested In plants of alii kinds. One day while walking throjgh a field of Karly Rose potatoes he saw a seed pod on one of tbe pUals. Hs watched ?l III II MM sPI I MM ! II II NO. I-CUT FROM HEREFORD STEER OVERFED. either underfeed or overfeed, with the result that they do not get the greatest profit. If a fanner la to bo a successful feeder he must learn to tell when his cattle have reached the pink of condition and there Is no way In which he can lesrn that si easily and quickly as by attending tho beet Chester-Whit. BXAMPLES OF UNDER AND OVER of Its It carefully thinking he would save the seed and plant them. The field was near where he went to achool, and he examined the pods from day to day until they should be ripe. He was especially anxious about them, for, although such seeds are often found on other varieties of potatoes, they seldom occur on the Early Rose. One morning when he looked for the pod he found It had disappeared. His heart fell, but he got down on his knees and hunted the field over. He cried over his loss and went every day for a week to tho Held looking for this seed pod. He finally found It about sixteen feet away hidden under another vine. It had evidently been knocked off by someone passing rapidly; He kept the seed pod and the next year planted the seed. Prom the plants which grew ha secured tho one which produced the Bur bank potato, which is now known through out tbe world. Bnrbaak's Wonderfal Discoveries. As be grew older Burbank became still more interested in plant production. He worked for a time in. the shops of the Ames Plow company in Massachusetts, and there invented improvements in woodwork ing; machinery which were so valuable that his employers offered to multiply his wages twenty -five times If he would stay with them. He decided, however, that he cared more for plant breeding than for shop work, and finally went to California, where he started a plant breeding farm. He has this farm, just outside Santa Rosa, Cal., and upon it has produced some of the plant wonders of the world. He has produced no end of flowers, vegetables and trees, as well as new varieties of fruits. He has married the plum to the apricot, and got what Is known as the plumcot. He has made a white blackberry, and has taken the common field ox-eyed daisy and made the Shasta daisy, a beautiful flower, many times us large. The Shasta daisy will grow out of doors and will bloom several months every year. He bus originated new cal I a lilies and a great variety of peaches, apples, pears, plums and nuts, as well us valuable trees, fruits, flowers and vegeta bles. Gets IO an Hour for Private Talks. I met the other day a man who had just visited Luther Burbank. He tells me that the people who live near by cannot under stand him. They look upon him as a harm Rival Systems I I association was holding Its regu- S. I hi. annnnl ,il..,i "I reckon," said ths ven erable Mr. Simpson to the equally venerable Mr. Sklles, "we old fel lows could give these younger men a lot of useful pointer about living to a good old age." 'Well, I guetts tu," responded Mr. fckllejt. "But they wouldn't do us we've dope. You couldn't get those chaps to be aa particular about whul they tat and drink us we ar. They wouldn't go to bed at 9 o'clock at night and take regiur exercise every day." "Is that the way yeu liver' ' TV. f t A rfir 'A Ffitim l-lm- I ' J I V w demonstration at Ames college. Mr. Hsut man also thought the course In horse Juflg Ing Was of great value to Iowa farmers anil he Is of the opinion that there Is a good margin of profit for the farmer who will breed high class horses, either heavy os light & R. DAVENPORT- TnmwortTk FINISHED HOGS. Photo by Staff Artist. Offspring less Idiot, who Is raisins; thousands ol plants and cutting them down without reason and then raising others. They da not realize that he la carrying on a great business and that tie Is doing wonders fost the world. He Is wrapped up In his worM and wants to devote himself to It. He Is 8j modest man and does not oars for notoriety He keeps away the crowd of alghseers tot some extent by charging for his time. Hla price to interviewers Is 110 aa hour, and X am told that many people are glad to pay? that for the Information they get from him. He is an enthusiast on plant production and on plant breeding, the possibilities of which, he says, can hardly be estimated. In a recent paper which I have before mt he. speaks of the great staples of the United States, saying: "It would not be difficult for a man to breed a new rye wheat, barley, oats or rica which would produce one grain more ta each head, or a corn which would produce; an extra kernel to each ear, another potato, to each plant or an apple, plum, orange o nut to each tree. Suppose this were dons what would be the result T In tho Ave eta pies only, In this country alons, we should have annually, without effort and without; cost, more than B, 200.000 extra bushels) of onrn, 15.ouo.000 extra bushels of wheat, io.CtiO.ono extra bushels of oats, l.SnO.OeO extra bushels of barley, 21,000,000 extra bushels of potatoes." What Plant Breedors May Do. Here Is what Luther Burbank says plant breeders may dof "Cultivation and carsj may help plants to do better work tempore rlly, but, by breeding, plants may b brought Into existence whloh will do better work always, In all places and for all tiros Plants are to be produoed whloh will pert form their appointed work better, quicks and with the utmost precision.' "Science sees better grains, nuts, frnltsl and vegetables, all In new forms, sizes, ool ors and flavors, with more nutrients ana less waste, and with every Injurious and poisonous quality eliminated and with, power to resist sun, wind, rain, frost and) destructive fungas and Insect pests. It sees better fruits without stones, seeds vt spines; better fiber, coffee, tea, spice, rub ber, oil, paper and timber trees and better sugar starch, color and perfume plants. Every one of these and ten thousand mors) are within the reach of the most ordinary, skill In plant breeding." FRANK O. CARTENTE3C for Prolonging Life "Sure." ""1 "Well, that may do for you, but tt wouldn't suit me. I eat and drink any thing I blame please; I don't take any eisr else, and I go to bed whenever I fee like It." "That'll tell on you some day, Simpson. When you get o be as old as I am you'll see things different. Here I am without sm ache or a pain of any kind and I'm ft." "Huh!" exclaimed Mr. Simpson, wllk lofty contempt. "I'm M." riilzing Ids cane, he hobbled away la great wrath, leaving the momentous ques tion of longevity and ths best method of at. tolulng It still ujistuwd Chicago. STrlbuno.