Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 181, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1917 — Page 3

GRAIN CROPS ARE PROMISING

Western Canada 1917 Crops in Good Shape. While it is a little early to predict what the Western Canada grain crop will there is every indication at the present writing that the 1917 crop will give an excellent return. Reports received from all portions of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta speak of good growing weather, a fairly advanced stage of all grains, with prospects as good as in the past two years. Should conditions continue as at present, it is safe to conclude that Western Canadian farmers, already free of debt, as a result of the splendid crops and prevailing high prices, expect from this season’s returns to be in a position that will place them away beyond any fear of the future. _ The acreage of Western Canada will be about the same as last year. Seeding was somewhat later than last year, but germination was quicker. The only possible drawback now would seem to be a scarcity of harvest hands, but it is felt by the authorities that the situation will be pretty well cared for by that time. Land values are increasing, but there is room for a much greater increase than in the past, owing to the returns that farmed land will give when compared with its cost. In some districts land that could have been bought five years ago for sls an acre is changing hands at S6O an acre, the seller satisfied that he is giving the purchaser good value for his money. And why not, when it is known that in a great many cases during the past two years crops have been grown on this land that have produced a profit of forty and fifty dollars per acre, over and above cost of production. These cases, while not general, were not exceptional.

In addition to the lands that are offered for sale by railway companies* land companies and private individuals, the homesteading areas offer great inducements for those who are willing to do a little pioneering for a year or two. By that time settlements would come into existence, and this means a condition similar to that enjoyed by many of the older settlements of today—schools, churches, railways. The land is of high-class quality, strong and vigorous, easily worked, and capable of producing the very best of crops. The demand for all grains for some years will be great, and It will require all the resources of man, beast and soil to meet it. That the prices win be good goes without saying, but at the present time there is something more appealing than the lucrative prices that prevail. That is, the desire to assist in winning the w’orld war. The man at the plow is doing his “bit,” and the spirit of patriotism that prevails will lead him Into a broader sphere of action. No matter where he may be he will look about him that he may find land to further develop the country’s resources. It is possible that his own state may furnish the land, In which case he will be quick to take advantage of the offer. If land In his own state is not available, Canada (now our ally) will be glad to furnish It in unlimited quantity, as she is vitally Interested In largely Increasing the supply of foodstuff which is now as urgently needed and is as valuable as ammunition to the allied countries. The appeal made by Mr. Hoover, United States controller of foods, and also by Hon. W. J. Hanna, Canadian controller, emphasizes the need of the allies, urges economy and the prevention of the waste in food, and bespeaks whole-hearted public co-opera-tion. Speaking of Great Britain, France, Italy, Belgium and their European allies, they say:

“For nearly three years their man power has been engaged In the direct work of war, and in some cases large hreas of their most productive lands have been overrun by the enemy. Their food shortage and the food to supply the armies of Canada and the United States must be wholly provided from this side of the Atlantic. The supply must also be sufficlent to cover losses at sea. Australia, New Zealand. the r Argentine Republic and other "countries are not now available to relieve the situation because of their remoteness and the shortage of tonnage. “The crop of storeable foods grown in Canada and the United States suitable for shipment overseas threatensto he entirely Inadequate to meet the demand unless the whole people determine by every means in their power to make up the shortage. Every individual is under a direct obligation to assist in rationing the allied force*. There must be national self-denial and national co-operation to provide the necessary supplies."—Advertisement.

Mild Malevolence.

“I hope I haven’t a - mean disposition,” remarked the man whose head resembles a billiard ball. “Of course, you haven’t” "But every time I see a fellow with a few .wisps of hair laid out to the best advantage on top of his cranium, I can’t help wishing something would, happen to It”

Swift feet get a man out of lots of trouble that bls tongue gets him into. Adversity sometimes brings out a man’s good points—-by the roots.

Rice as Valuable War-Time Food

Some fads, about cultivation of this nutritious and palatable grain that feeds millions of folks throughout the voorld

fMAN must eat, whether he is a fighting warrior or a preacher of pacificism. If porterhouse steaks are not available we are satisfied with corned beef. Formerly the lowly “spud” was considered the barricade that separated man from starvation,\but of late the poor potato scarce as attractive heiresses and they are as eagerly Many a disconsolate lover has found that another sister of the starch family is possessed of attractions second only to her expensive sister, and today the eating of rice is becoming general throughout the country. - ■' It isn’t a bad habit to acquire, either, this eating of rice. Rice Is nutritious and palatable and digests well. It can be cooked quickly, without the necessity of troublesome preparation and without waste. It Is almost a perfect substitute for potatoes, and it forms the basis for the food supply of over two-thirds of the peoples of the world. In fact, practically every other country In the world consumes more rice than the United States, on the basis of population, and its enforced use here, due. to war conditions, ought to prove a benefit to our people. Rice has been grown in this country for more than two hundred years, the growing areas being restricted, however, to several of the Southern states. Within the last few years California has entered the field as a rice producer, and the development of the csop in that state has been remarkable, From 7,500 acres planted in California in 1913, the acreage has grown to 60,000 acres in 1916, with a crop valued at over four million dollars. The 1917 planting will exceed 100,000 acres. The total devoted to rice culture in the United States is about 900,000 acres, and the 1916 crop amounted to 40,702,000 bushels. This is less than half the quantity consumed in this country, however, as great quantities are imported from the Oriental countries. Japan, a great rice producer, has more than two thousand varieties of rice, but there are only three or four varieties grown in this country. Rice, like oranges and lemons, requires certain favorable conditions for its growth. The climate must be warm, with plenty of sunshine and' hot days. The land must be practically level, with plenty of water available. The top soil should be underlaid with a subsoil that Is impervious to water. The subsoil should He near the surface, for a deep soil requires more water and more time for its submergence than a shallow onej Good drainage Is necessary to get the land in condition quickly for harvesting and to prevent the crops from becoming waterlogged. Like all cereal crops, rice should be harvested quickly after it reaches maturity. One of the great difficulties which the Southern growers had to contend with was their inability to get on to the land quickly to harvest the crops after the water had been drained off. In California the “growers - have solved this problem by using small but powerful ball-tread tractors that run on their own endless track, and are capable of pulling the harvesting machinery through mud that would mire horses. These tractors, by reason of their adaptability to changing conditions, are also used for almost any kind of wofk on the ranch. They will do the plowing and checking of the land, will haul supplies to and from markets, will pump wa,ter from the irrigation ditches, or the motor will turn a feed mill or churn the butter for the housewife., . In rice culture the size of the field depends largely upon local conditions. Where the land Is very level, a field may range from sixty to eighty acres, ■while In other localltles the field cannot,rbe larger than one dr two acres. In Oriental qnuntries, where all the labor is done by hand, the fields average half an acre in area. As water is required to stand at a uniform depth over the growing rice it must neces-

WAR REVIVES JET INDUSTRY

Demand for Black Ornaments by Nation in Mourning Gives New Life to an Old Business. The American consul Wt Hull, England, reports an interesting revival of the jet industry which has been carried on at the town of Whitby since before the Norman conquest, but which had nearly 4ied out in recent years, partly owing to the competition of glass Imitations of jet made In Germany. The

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

BINDERS IN RICE FIELD

sariiy follow that the topography of the country will largely determine the size of the fields. Where rice lands are along a river it is customary to run a canal to the outer rim of the rice field, entirely surrounding it. The dirt taken from this canal is thrown upon the outer bank to form a protecting levee against sudden rises from the river. Water to fiood the rice fields is let in from the stream. The larger tract inclosed by the main canal is now cut up by smaller canals into fields or subfields of suitable size and small levees are thrown upon each side. It Js essential that the surface of each of these subfields be level. The main canals average from 10 to 30 feet wide and are about 4 feet deep. They connect with the river by flood gates. The subcanals average from. 6 to 10 feet wide and are nearly as deep as the main canals. Boats are used to reach any point of the growing areas, and sometimes . the levees are made wide enough to form roads. Vaftous methods for preparing the soil for the crops are used, some growers advocating deep plowing, while others use the shallow method. Naturally, the character of the soil should govern. One of the advantages cM fined for deep plowing is that, as the rice —does not feed much below the plow line, the deeper the plowed area the more food Is placed at the disposal of the growing crops. After the ground is plowed, a disk harrow isrun over the surface, followed by a smoothing harrow, and Often a heavy roller Is used to break up the clods. Sowing is done early in spring and about two bushels of seed are used to the acre. While there are several methods of planting the seed, the best results are said to be obtained with a drill. This insures the equal distribution of the seed at a uniform depth.

Flooding is the most important feature of rice growing. Except where water is necessary for germinating the seed, flooding is not practiced until the rice is 6 or 8 inches high. When the rice reaches that height water is run onto the land to a depth from 3 to ft inches. It Is constantly changed to prevent stagnation. The principal thing to watch is the height of the water, as It is essential that the water be kept at the same depth throughout the entire field, otherwise one part of the crop will ripen before the other. Harvesting machines are brought on the land as soon as the grain is ripe. It takes about six months to grow a crop of rice in this country. Where the drainage is good and the ground dries quickly, reaping machines are generally used. In California the track-laying tractors are almost universally used in the rice fields, and the harvesting can be commenced a week or two earlier by their use. In harvesting, the rice Is cut from 6 to 12 inches from the ground and the cut grain is laid on the stubbles to keep it off the wet soil. After a day’s curing the grain is removed from the field and stacked on dry ground. Extreme care must be taken in shocking the grain to prevent the rice from being lost. The bundles are stacked against each other, with the heads In. Slow curing In the shade produces the toughness of kernel necessary to withstand the milling process. The rice is left In the shock until 'the straw Is cured and the kernel hard. The threshing is done by tjie regulation threshing machine. The rice as It comes from the thresher is called “paddy” or “rough rice." It still has surrounding it the husk of close-fitting cuticle. The process of milling removes this husk and polishes the rice. This polishing is more a fad than a necessity, for by it some of the most nutritious parts of the rice are lost. The improved method of milling rice is quite complicated. The paddy is first screened toremove foreignsnbstances. hulls are removed hy rapidly revolving stones set abouttwothirds qf the length of a rice kernel apart. The product goes over horizontal screens and blowers that separate the.. light chaff and the whole and broken kernels. The grains are now run into huge mortars holding from four to six bushel s - each, ami pounded with pestles weighing about

war, besides cutting off the supply of these imitations, has thrown the nation into mourning and thus greatly Increased the demand for black ornaments. The Industry was most prosperous In the period from 1850 to 1880, when It gave employment to some 1,500 men and boys. The jet mined at Whitby is said to be muCfi superior to that produced in Spain, much of which. In former ydars, was brought to Whitby to be manufactured. Mostofttje workers now engaged In carving, turning and polishing jet in the Whitby sac-

by Robert H. Moulton

400 pounds. The grains, if properly cured, are not broken by this pounding, although it would crush to pulp any other cereal. From these mortars the rice is removed to flour screens, where the whole grains are separated from the flour and chaff. During the various processes the rice becomes heated through friction, and at this stage it passes into cooling bins, where it remains for eight or nine hours. It is then passed over brush screens, where the smaller rice and flour are separated from the larger kernels. The grain is now ready for the polisher, to give it the pearly luster. The polishing is ‘done by friction against the rice of pieces, of moose hide or sheepskin, tanned and worked to a wonderful degree of softness. •These skins are loosely hung around the sides of a revolving cylinder constructed of wood and wire gauze. From the polisher the rice goes to the separating screens, which grade the rice for the market. Rice is a member of the grass family, and there are numerous varieties cultivated throughout the world. As it is the principal food of a large proportion of the earth’s population, rice growing is one of the oldest agricultural industries known to man. The average annual imports of cleaned rice into the United States is about 125,000,000 bushels, and that of broken rice, flour and meal, over 70,000,000 bushels more. The demand Tdr~the better qualities of rice in this country has always exceeded the supply, and now that this country has been called upon to feed a large proportion of the warring nations, the rice growers of the South and of California are assured of a ready market for their supplies.

AIRPLANE AND CAVALRY MEET

Allied Flier Escapes Capture by Charging Foes and ■Passing Short Distance Over Their Heads. To show that it is sometimes possible for an aviator to pass surprisingly low’ over guns and yet escape being brought to earth, Mr. Claude GrahameWhite cites in “Heroes of the Flying Corps” an interesting encounter between an airplane and a squad of cavalry. One of the aviators of the allies, descending near some German outposts. was surprised by a patrol of hostile cavalry that galloped into a corner of the field where the airplane had alighted and rode full tilt toward it to make its occupants prisoners. At the side of the field farthest from the Germans lay a wood; and the space between the airplane and the trees was so small that the machine could not rise into the air in that direction. All that the pilot could do in his endeavor to escape was to run his machine across the ground directly toward the approaching horsemen and seek to rise sufficiently high to sweep above their heads. He took his machine abruptly Into the air and flew down straight toward them, thinking that Ills chance was poor, and expecting either to be struck himself by bullets or to have some vital part of his machine hit.

There was one point in his favor, however : the German cavalrymen, taken by surprise when the Aircraft came rushing toward them, had opened fire in a scattering and very haphazard manner. Only just above their heads, although traveling very fast, swept the airplane, with its pilot and passenger crouching low in their seats. Over the cavalrymen it flew and then it began to climb rapidly; and although a storm of bullets had met it as it approached and had been directed on it while it passed overhead, the craft flew on pnchecked. No vital part of its mechanism was hit. nor were its occupants injured. Youth’s Companion.

Christianity Gains in China.

The progress of Christianity in China has become so marked, that the Mohammedans of the nation are arousing themselves to greater activity. A recent conference pf 500 priests discussed translating the Koran, improving schools. preparing a defensive literature, ami taking other steps to protect the faith of Mohammed.

torles are old men who learned their trade In the days when the industry was at its height.—Scientific Araerfcan. =

Call the Police.

“I met with an unusual experience today.” ' ~ “That so? What happened?” “I upset an ink bottle on a clean tablecloth.” * “Nothing unusual about that” “Yes there was. The bottle waa empty.” »

Intelligent Alarm Clock.

r ‘i An alarm clock awakened a lady tn Philadelphia just In time to allow her to escape from a burning building. She had set the clock as usual at five o’clock, but that morning It failed to ring. During the afternoon she lay down for a nap on the divan. At five o’clock the alarm clock started its racket twelve hours late. She awoke to find the house full of smoke and flames creeping up the stairway. She was aroused just in time to escape to the street. “That clock has.feeen my pal for years,” said She. “I never knew It to miss its regular morning alarm before. It must have known something."

Promise Easily Kept.

“Your honor, let me off this time and I’ll never appear before you again," pleaded the culprit. “Am I to take this as a promise to reform?”.' “Yes, your honor. And I might add that lam on my way to Australia. If I should happen to backslide, some other court would attend to my case.”

How Sad.

Bess —Poor Grace! Her husband died of cigarettes just as she had almost enough coupons for a vanity box.

Don’t Poison Baby. rRTY YEARS AGO almost every mother thought her child must have PAREGORIC or laudanum to make it sleep. These drugs will produce Bleep, and a FEW DROPS TOO MANY will produce the SLEEP FROM WHICH THERE IS NO WAKING. Many are the children who have been killed or whose health has been ruined for life by paregoric, laudanum and morphine, each of which is a narcotic product of opium. Druggists are prohibited from selling either of the narcotics named to children at all, or to anybody without labelling them “poison.” The definition of “narcotic” is; “A medicine which relieves pain and produces sleep, but which in poisonous doses produces stupor, coma, convulsions and death.” The taste and smell of medicines containing opium are disguised, and sold under the names of “ Drops,” “ Cordials,” “ Soothing Syrups,” etc. You should not permit any medicine to be given to your children without you or your physician know of what it is composed. CASTORIA DOES NOT CONTAIN NARCOTICS, if it bears the signature —Zs of Chas. H. Fletcher. Genuine Castorla always bears the signature of

Canadian Farmers Profit From Wheat The war’s devastation of ■ European crops has caused 1 F *-I an unusual demand for grain ■ ’ 11 IllarvVjjga pi I from the American Conti- ■ ' IwRBB I Gl ’A I nent. The people of the world must ■ wfe be fed and wheat near $2 a bushel ■ I A I RnR offers great profits to the farmer. ■ Y< I di Canada’s invitation is therefore ■ 1 1 A *M especially attractive. She wants ■ Ka 1 ■ settlers to make money and happy, I ■ if* * J ■ IB prosperous homes for themselves by I helping her raise immense wheat crops. M a | Yob can get a Homestead of ISO acres FREE . and other lands at remarkably low prices. Durtag many cFW years Canadian wheat fields have averaged 20 bushels to ■ •»**•? On -n I n nsFIW the acre many yields as high as4s bushel* to the acre. Wonderful crops also of Oata, Barley and Flax. A •* J Mixed farming aa profitable an industry a» grata rata ■ I ■■ .f tag The excellent graces fuU of nutrition arethe only aP food required for beef or dairy purposes. Good schools, ■>A Wjm churches, markets convenient, climate excellent. ■ Cg ■ There is an extra demand for farm labor to replace U»e ■■'oy k7* 'KuXjflwT ■ many young men who hare volunteered for the war. The ■»> ? fW A?'—'■ Government is urging farmers to put extra acreage Into VA swMS UkLSO. CLg ■ grain. Write for literature and particulars aa to reduced ■»» * railway rates to Bupfc of immigration. Ottawa, Canada.or ■ C. J. Broughton. Room 412, 112 W. Adame » WJtTf A Canadian Government Agents \ NOREBiMgIjKIMMHIOtfIIMHITMnraaRM .

World's Sugar Production.

The New York Journal of Commerce is responsible for the following figures ta regard to sugar production: The world’s production of sugar in 1918 amounted to 37,193,000,000 pounds. The production in the United States, not including external possessions, was 2,026,000,000 pounds; Imports from Hawaii amounted to 1,137,000.000 pounds, from the Philippines to 217,000,000 pounds, from Porto Rico to 850,000,000 pounds. From foreign sources 5,416,000,000 pounds were received. The consumption in the United States in 1916 was 7,960,000,000 pounds, or 73.13 pounds per capita. The United States exported 1,686,000,000 pounds. ’ v

What He Saw.

An excited man at Evansville called the sheriff’s office and asked in an anxious tone of voice whether William Habbe, the sheriff, knew that “three or four boys were playing on the roof of the courthouse.” The sheriff didn’t but he promised to make an investigation at once. When Sheriff Habbe had climbed the long flight of stairs to the cupola and looked out he saw— Four tinners engaged in laying a new cornice around the eaves of the building.—lndianapolis News.

Her Opinion.

First Painter —I’ve just been showing my aunt round. Most amusing. Invariably picks out the wrong pictures to admire and denounces the good ones. . - - Second Painter—Did she say anything about mine? First Painter —Oh, she likes you!

Patience is frequently lauded, but tenacity is what gets there. Some people never find con ten t exceptin contention. ’

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Well Covered.

A benevolent old lady saw an unfortunate motorist coming out from underneath a wrecked car. “My poor boy,” she said, “are you covered?” ' • ~ “Yes,” replied the motorist, "with mud, blood, chagrin and insurance!”— London Opinion.

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Natural Result.

“Banks looks all gone to pieecs.” “No wonder. He’s broke.” —Balti-more-American.- • •

Improved, But Not Cured.

"Don’t you think her voice is improved?” “Perhaps, but not cured.” —Life. When a husband fiddles away his time and a wife harps on one string there isn’t much harmony. • ■ ■ ■ ———

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