Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1912 — Page 3

Organization of a Stallion Company

By D. O. THOMPSON,

A Purebred Belgian Stallion Which Has Proved a Valuable Sire.

' When farmers In. a community, find jthemselves so situated that the serviices of /ft truly high class stallion of (the desired type or breed is not availSable, and when no one of their numjber is able or desires to invest and astsume the risk on the amount of money {required for the purchase of such an (individual, a stallion company may (well be organized. : Farmers interested should deter(mine upon the extent of the membership desirable, 20 or 25 persons generally forming a sufficiently large organization of this kind. These may be secured upon solicitation of the leadiers in the matter, or may be secured tat a meeting to which desirable prospective members have been invited. They should all be progressive farmers, and preferably owners of mares (salted to the type of stallion to be secured. , At the organization meeting, sales (of stock should be consummated, and (the following officers elected: President, vice-president, secretary-treas-urer, stallioner, and one executive committeeman, who, with the four Above officers should form the executive committee of the company, the duty of which it should be to manage the affairs of the company according (to the policies which should be formulated at the regular meeting of the company with not less than threefourths of the membership present The stock should be sold in shares (of SSO or SIOO, the latter being a good unit, and every share should be fully paid in at the organization meeting. Each share should carry with it one vote in the business sessions of the

Final Selection of the Seed

By C. O. CROMER.

Selecting Seed Corn.

The wise fanner In providing seed corn for next season’s crop will begin in the fall preceding to select from the field the ears which most pearly approach his Ideal. Aside from type of ear, the seed, ear has certain characteristics as shown on the ptalk which are of considerable importance in their relation to the quality of seed. Experiments have shown that the best seed ear is produced on the well developed stalks. Experiments have also shown that the height ' of the ear from the ground and strength of the shank can be changed more or less by selecting ears having the desired qualities. However, all ears which are produced on desirable stalks are not desirable ears so far as type, shape and gtaeral characteristics of the ear Itself are concerned. Consequently a second or final selection of ears most he made. This means that a larger lot of corn should fee chosen in the fall than will be required to plant the crop. more time to nuke his selection and should do so before making the

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company. Thus two small farmers may unite in purchasing a SIOO share, and still the total number of voting units be kept down to a workable number. Stock should be issued In amounts sufficient to finance the company; about $2,000 or $2,500 should be sufficient to cover cost of purchasing a stallion, initial traveling expenses, and keep for the first year. The service fee to be charged should be determined and should be uniform to members and non-members. It should be payable to the secretary upon certified assurance that the mare is In foal, and there should be nothing in the contract about “guaranteeing a foal to stand and suck.” The stallion should be properly recorded with the county recorder, so that the lien law may apply. The earnings of the company may well be expended in the following ways: Insurance on the horse; maintenance and salary of stallioner, to an efficient man, and none other should be employed, should not be less than 25 per cent, of the gross earnings of the company; salary of the secretarytreasurer, which should be sufficient to pay for the labor of book-keeping, and collection and payments of accounts; expenses of advertising and showing the horse and his get at the local and county fairs and shows; dividends to shareholders. The shareholders shouid usually find they have a fair return on their Investment in the way of dividends. Their greatest profits, however, will come In the Improvement they realize In their horse stock as the result of having the services of a valuable stallion.

mination test, as he can save the trouble and expense of testing a large number of undesirable ears as to type. To do this in the best possible manner, all the com should be laid out on a table or In some place where all the ears can be gone over. With the ideal ear in one hand, those which conform to the Ideal type as to shape of ear, character of kernel, maturity, etc., can be selected out to be put to the test for germination. This means that there will still need to be more com selected than Is required to plant the crop, as more or less will be discarded on account of poor germination In passing through the test Any ear which germinates less than, four out of five kernels should be discarded at once and thrown Into the feeding crib. Of coarse, it would be best if one could select only those ears which have a perfect germination. By giving this final critical selection of seed ears cartful attention the stand of com and general type of the crop can be greatly Improved and the returns will many t times ofw

RAM’S HORN BROWN

'■ '. V'.V-: A good habit. to go» of the beet of all good things. " The man who walks with God will sever get Into thejnire. A sin big enough to have a name la Trig enough to kill a soul. The man who forgets others win soon be forgotten by them. The faith that moves mountains also moves a lot of other things. It is better to be solid mahogany In the rough than polished veneer. The lower a good man has to go down the higher he should look. Love never falls, hat a good many people who say they are full of it do. Unbelief goes out through the window when a coffin comes in at- the door. - A mouse may find fault with a lion, but what difference does that make to the lion. The great many of today is only a sample copy of what all men will some day be. If it ever rained money there are people who would be sure to have up their umbrellas. A good man helps to make the world better, not so much by what be says as by what be is. More showers of blessing would strike the church if we did not have so much dry preaching.

CHEER-UP THOUGHTS.

We never believe the “believe me** man! Laughter Is the pepsin for mental dyspepsia! The coward calls It “pursuing a policy of nonresistance.” The *1 can't help it” man Is sebra’d With saffron streaks. ■M We never know how good that UP thing feels until after we’ve been downed a few. The time to hold your head up is when you feel cast down! We’ve known at lot of men with retreating chins who never retreated. Bite the peroration off short when you’re preaching to a man in hard laok - u We always take more stock in the man who proclaims things in the pianissimo tone. The invertebrate, when he makes good resolutions, usually holds out for an occasional recess! The boss gives ear to the aggressive employe, but he always fires the antagonistic one! “They say” that “prosperity spoils more men than adversity”—but we’re all willing to take a chance!

UNCLE OBADIAH SAYS-

Talk is cheap—but it depends on who does the listening. Some folks can’t meet enough troubles, so they overtake a few. Most physical culture exercises look like a poor imitation of work. No matter what the skeptics say, Noah was a man who stuck to his Job and won out. Efficiency isn’t doing twice as much work as you are now doing, but doing it twice as well. Eli Pitts is going to have his daughter’s voice finished —but foe neighbors think it hasn’t begun fairly. Just because a man looks good in a long tailed coat he is apt to think his country is calling him to serve it. An inventive genius is a man who rigs up a shingle naji toehold his suspenders instead of learning how to sew on a button.

TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY

You can’t convince an average man that he Isn’t a little above the average. Take advantage of your opportunities, bat don't “take advantage” of them. He who knows how to make much of little generally has something to spire. It seldom requires a very strong levee to withstand a flood of generosity. When you begin to suspect a fault in yourself you may be sure it is quite plain to others. Host of ns feed that we could have done great things if it hadn’t been for the little things. Sometimes when you say a writer Is beyond his depth, it simply means ha is beyond your depth.

NOVELTY IN CAMPAIGN FOR THE PRESIDENCY

SPEAKER CHAMP CLARK’S campaign managers have introduced a novelty In the way of campaign methods. The other day, for the first time, a moving pioture machine was taken into the house of representatives and Mr. Clark posed before it for half an hour. The resulting pictures are to be used throughout the country In connection with phonograph speeches by the speaker.

AN AID FOR TOURISTS

Completion of Swiss Road Will Be Boon to Sightseers. Is Finished to the Joch—Bome of the Innovations That Will Follow Accomplishment of Work Begun In 1897. Berne, Switzerland.—After nearly 15 years’ work (the first section of the Jungfrau railway was begun as long ago as 1897) the tunnel has just been pierced to Jungfraujoch, at an altitude of 11,348 feet, or 2,311 feet below the summit. Since 1905 trains have been running as far as Eismeer station, which is 10,345 feet above the sea. The railway, it will be remembered, goes absolutely through-the lower part of the Eiger. The total length of tunnel is nearly ten kilometers, or about six and a quarter miles. When trains run to the station which 1b to be constructed at Jungfraujoch, it will be possible by descending to Jungfraufim, to reach the summit of the Jungfrau in from three to four hours from the station. It is proposed, however, to exploit still further what is, after all, an exceedingly beautiful mountain, and construct a lift or aerial railway, from the highest station to the summit of the mountain, so that the feeblest persons, provided their hearts are not seriously affected, will be able to ascend to a height of 13,669 feet. Curiously enough, the completion of the desecration, of the Jungfrau occurs just a little more than a century after the first ascent of the Jungfrau, which was accomplished in 1811, while in the next forty years only four other ascents were recorded As if lt were not enough to have tunneled the Eiger and to be going to build a hotel on the snows of the Jungfrau, some speculators are actually contemplating the construction of what is called a “Schlittelbahn” —a kind of sleigh railway, to convey tourists from Jungfraujoch station over Jungfrauflrn and the Aletsch glacier, past the Majelensee to the Eggishoro, whence it will be possible to proceed by cogwheel railway to the Rhone valley. It will probably be a long time, however, before this part of the plan is really carried out. The Jungfrau railway will certainly foment the desire of the Zermatt peo-

COUPLE DIE 36 HOURS APART

Pathos In the Last Hours of Mr. and Mrs. Bmlth of Pennsylvania, Who Were Long Wedded. Pittsburg, Pa. —John S. Smith, 86 years old, and his wife, 79, are dead at their home in Reynoidsvllle, Pa., and they were buried side by side. Many times Mrs. Smith had said: “If John dies first I • want to live only long enough to know that he Is dead.” Both became 111 from pneumonia. When the husband died the aged woman, in another room, knew by the faces of her children that her companion had gone. She called them to her bedside. “John is dead, isn’t her When told the truth she said: “Don’t bury him till Wednesday." She Joined him id death thirty-six hoars later.

Disinfecting Arabs a Puzzle.

Rome, Italy.—A dispatch from Tripoli says that the military authorities have had recourse to an ingenious expedient to disinfect the Arab population, but it was difficult to know how to apply it without hurting their feelings or prejudices. The office of hygiene has established, dext to . the American consulate, a pump which sprays A disinfectant The Arabs at first ran away frightened, thinking it was a kind of quick firing gun, bat whan they saw the Italian soldiers going under the spray and coming dad refreshed and perfumed they all rushed to do likewise, and now there is a dally procession of dirty, ragged na-

pie to see the completion of the Matterhorn railway, the protests against which a few years ago were so loud that the proejjct for its constnictlon had to be abandoned. They will argue, no doubt, that the Bernese Oberland will now be able to offer an attraction to tourists which they cannot offer, quite forgetting the number of people who are repelled and disgusted by the “berailment" of mountains. The Jungfrau railway, even as far as it runs at present, is .187 feet higher than the Oornergrat railway (10,346 feet), but when it is carried to Jungfraujoch and the summit station It will be much the highest railway in Europe, although not, as the Swlsa say, the highest railway in the world, there being at least two Andean lines which are some 4,000 feet higher.

KISSLESS WIFE IS UPHELD

Mrs. Mildred Markowitz Need Not Caress Her Husband and They Must Stay United. New York.—Declaring that his wife would not kiss him, Samuel Markowitz asked the Supreme court in Brooklyn to annul his marriage to Mildred Markowitz. Mr. Markowitz, who la noted among his friends for his sartorial perfection, declared that whenever he attempted to embrace bis wife she repulsed him. coldly and got beyond, hie reach. Mr. Markowitz admitted that except in the matter of kissing him Mrs. Markowitz was a model wife, and that It was with sorrow he was forced to bring proceedings for annulment of the marriage.—— - Justice Marean, before whom the motion was tried, characterized aa absurd the ground upon which Mr. Markowitz sought freedom from his wife and denied the motion. Mrs. Markowitz in a counter action before Justice Blackmar prayed that alimony and counsel fees be granted her. Through her counsel she stated that she was married when her husband was eighteen years old and that prior to her meeting with him he had contracted other domestic alliances, of which she was ignorant at the time. Mrs. Markowitz made no effort to deny her coldness to her husband, and

New York Stepless Cars

Ons Gotham Traction Company There Trying Out a New Type of Coach. New York.—The New York City Railways company Is trying out this week the first samples of a new type of street car which probably will be adopted throughout ttfe city. The car which in appearance differs vastly from any others at present In use, is the notion of two officials of the company and is designed primarily with a view to ease and safety in boarding and alighting, the floor being only ten inches above the roadway. / Outwardly the new car resembles s torpedo, although the name the officials of the oompany attach to it Is the “stepless car.” It Is forty feet la length. The extremities are rounded and (he wheels are incased, causing it apparently to slide along the tracks. The principal feature is the slight distance the passenger is required to step either in boarding or alighting from the car, as entering is like stepping from the street to the curb. = * There is no front or rear platform, passengers entering and leaving through a side door. The conductor sits at one side behind a miniature desk, where he makes change and issues transfers. The doors are automatic and cannot be opened while the car is in motion. The seating capacity is fifty passengers and there is standing room for thirty more. Bests are placed as in a railway coach, except at tho ends, where there is s semicircular seat His that at the w ';;; ~

declared that the marriage w»s performed at the instance of her mother, to whom she said he had gone, threatening to commit suicide if he could not marry the daughter. The court denied the motion.

GIRL SENDS ODD REQUEST

Daughter Attempts to Find Husband for Pretty Widowed Mother of Kansas City, Mo. Portland, Ore. —Setting out to find a good husband for her mother, Who wishes to be out on a ranch, “away from the city,” la the teak Miss B. Eckles of Kansas City, Mo., has bet for herself. She has written a letter so Mayor Rushlight, asking him to have it published, In helping on the work she has undertaken, expressly with her mother’s consent and approbation. Her letter follows: "I have a mother and I want to find a good husband for her. She has two daughters, one eighteen years of age and the other one seventeen; one aim, fourteen. She la & good housekeeper, neat and clean, and the man must have a home and plenty to provide-for her. She hs# made so many wishes to be out on a ranch some place away from the city, and I asked her if I would find her a good hutitead if aha would have him and she said 'Yes/ So I thought I would advertise for her. She dresues nice and Is pretty. Any man writing in answer to this must send photograph.” Miss Eckles’ address is 2324 Bellevue avenue, Kansas City, third floor.

ICE CREAM ON SAUSAGE PLAN

i How American Colony at Panama Gets 50 Gallons of Frozen Product an Hour. Hu— Washington, D. C. —Members of the American colony in the Panama canal zone may fairly claim to he the world’s champion ice (Team eaters, according to the Canal Record.. Down on the isthmus the government itself makes the ice cream, and It has bega necessary to provide three hew "continuous process” machines to meet the demand. These great foeeeers X turn out the frozen delicacy in a constant stream, the raw materials being fed into one end and the completed product emerging from the other at the rate of fifty gallons .an hour.

visible, are beneath the extremities of his seat, and the axle is situated Just under the floor. The car fe constructed wholly of steel. ; —

WOULD TURN COAL INTO GAS

. . . •: English Scientist Offers Unusuafptnn to Save Mining and Handling • Fuel. New York.—A proposal which, ,if adopted, would revolutionize the coal mining business -of the world 'has been offered by Bir William Ramsay. mining and handling might be avoided If the coal was turned Into gas In retorts in the bbweis of the eqrth. The gas thus generated could either he ptpeUnea, or used at which could be distributed from

Poor, Refuses Legacy.

82,800 for him in the hands of the public administrator at San FrancUco Edward Weeks, of this place, htMilfaatly refuses to go to the California metropolis and claim his money:- i§|| The money-Is portion of the*|ftate left by Week's mother* who <*!«*-% short time ago. Weeks has-IWOMU ryitawA* and Las Vsgas fee tttUsijNK UiVCvU JDMB* ** - . _ m ~ -