Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1916 — Page 6

Does Sloan’s Liniment, Help Rheumatism? “ • Ask the man who uses it, ■’he knows. “To think I suffered all these years when one 25 cent bottle of Sloan's Liniment cured me,’’ writes one grateful user. .If you have rheumatism or suffer from neuralgia, tackache, soreness and stiffness, don’t put off getting a bottle of Sloan’s. It will give you such welcome relief. I: warms and soothes the sore, stiff painful places and you feel so much better. Buy it at any drug store, only 25 cents.—Advt. An armload of old papers for five cents at The Democrat office. BLACK PRINCE Sound PURE BRED Stallion „ ■ No.. 7386 (Laws of Indiana 1913. chapter 28) The pedigree of the Stallion BLACK PRINCE, No. 101172 American. Owned .by Thomas Turner, postoffice Hebron. Ind.. R. F. D. 4, County Porter. Transferred to August C. Schultz. Parr, Ind., April 11, 1916, described as follows: Color and marks; Black, star, hind feet: and pasterns white. Breed, Percheron. Foaled in the year 1913, has been examined in the office of the Secretary of the Indiana Stallion Enrollment Board, and it is hereby certified that the said Stallion is of PURE BREEDING and is registered in the Percheron Society of America Stud Book. The above named Stallion has been examined by Dr. C. Harvey Smith, a duly qualified licensed veterinarian, and is certified by affidavit to .re fr-e from the transmissible unsouhdnesses specified as such in the Indiana Stallion Enrollment Law-. C. M. McCONNELL. President. C. H. ANTHONY, Vice-President. (Seal) Not good unless Countersigned tv H E. McCartney. Secretary. Dated at Lafayette, Indiana, this 1 Sth day of May, 1915. Renewed .March 14, 1916. Void after January i, 1917, BLACK PRINCE was brect by Thomas Turner of Hebron, Ind. He is of good style and action and weighs 1800 pounds. BLACK PRINCE MjßtßßroffwW ’.-.v north and 1 mile Mhf, Jf,,/ ■ east of Parr. 1 1-2 mil-s w,.-r. l-.'mile north and 1 mile (Not exact likeness) west of Aix fl mile west of B. D. Co mer’s residence; 3 miles east and 1 mile south of Fair Oaks, at sl2 to insure colt to stand and suck. Parting with mare or moving from county, fee becomes due and payable at once. Care will be taken , to prevent accidents, but will not be responsible should any occur. AUGUST C. SCHULTZ, Owner. Phone 953-R—l long, 3 short. Parr, R-l i MAGELLAN d’HONDZOCHT. Sound PURE BRED Stallion No. 5153: ' (Laws of Indiana 1913, Chanter 28) The pedigree of the Stallion Magellan d’Hondzocht. No. 5636 American, Vol. XVII. P. 543 Foreign. Owned by North Union Belgian Hofse Co., postoffice, Rensselaer, Ind.. R. F. F. D. 2.. county Jasper, described as follows: Color and marks: Bay, star in forehead. Breed, Belgian. Foaled in the year April 7, 1908, has been examined in the office of the Secretary of the Indiana Stallion Enrollment Board and it is hereby certified that the said stallion is of PURE BREEDING and is registered in the American Association of Importers and Breeders of Belgian Draft Horses Stud Book. The above stallion has been examined by Johan Hansson, Rensselaer, Ind., a duly qualified licensed veterinarian, and is : certified by affidavit to be free from the transmissible unsoundnesses specified as such in the Indiana Stallion Enrollment Law. CHARIJ6S W. HICKMAN, President. C. M. M.cCONNELL, Vice-President. D. O. THOMPSON. Secretary. Dated at Lafayette, Ind., this 31st day of March, 1914. Renewed March 7. 1916. Void after January 1, 1917. Magellan was /graSfiL foaled April 7, 1 . 1998, and was f'-b-'''i,'W St f , k Farm ImJL I"'! -tig. .meat,-, of T I; i: Lid. H»- has good bone ‘JC'ety •.i ” ’ and action and (Not exact likeness) 19 °° Maggefian will .make the season of 1916 at the farm of Paul Schultz, Z miles cast and 2’j miles north °f Parr, 4 miles ,-ast and L mile south of lair Oaks, I'-j miles west and I’4 mi.es north of Aix. 4 miles south of Virgie on main grave] road, at sls to insure colt ,to .stand and suck. Parting, with mare or removing from county, fee becomes due and payable at once. Care will be taken to prevent accidents, but wLI not be responsible should any occur. PAUL SCHULTZ, Keeper, none 953-M. Rensselaer. R-2.-

GABON JUNIOR Sound GRADE Stallion No. 6328. ILws of Indiana, 1913, Chapter 28.) The pedigree of the Grade Gabon, Jr., Stallion, owned by A. T. Keijer. postoffice Rensselaer, county Jasper, described- as follows: <’o!or and marks; Black, white snip, foaled in the vear 1!»1:; sire Gabon Stud Book No. 61851.' has/beeti examined in the office of the Secretary of the Indiana Stallion Enrollment board and it is hereby certified that tin- said stallion IS NOT OF PURE BREEDING and is. therefore, NOT ELIGIBLE To REGISTY in any Stud Book recognised by the Indiana Stallion Enrollment Law. The above named stallion has been examined by Dr. J. Uansson, a. duly quan- ' fled licensed veterinarian, and is certified by affidavit to be free from the transmissible unsoundm sses specified as such in the Indiana Stallion Enrollment Law C. M. M.CONNELL. President. _ IL ANTHONY, Vice-President'; • Not good unless countefsigned by H. E. MCCARTNEY. Secretary. Dated at Lafayette, Indiana, this Gth day of March, 1915. ' Renewed March 3. 191 G. Void after January 1, 1917. GABON, JR,, is sired by Wrn. Barkley's Gabon No, 61994 (American), who is of pure breeding. Gabon Junior's dam was sired by the Omar Kenton pure bred horse, and dam was by Peirre, also £ -dL cß* “Wie d l,v Oranvill. next dam was the Blown hors.-. So ’‘ggfeffipSggliwWiß ,!lis •'•'b'.v.s this Gabon Junior to be (Not exact likenessl pUre , for four iJNOt exact HKeness) erations on the dam side and pure on the sire’s side, making him a very high grade horse to breed to He is much like his sire in many respects, being of good action, lots of quality and very sure. Come and see mm. He makes the following stands: Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday at my farm three miles south and one mile east of Rensselaer, and Thursday Friday and Saturday at Hemphill's stallion barn in Rensselaer. Terms: $15.00 to insure colt to stand and suck. Service due and payable if mare is sold or removed from the county. Care will be taken to prevent accidents, but will not be responsible should any occur. „. ->. T " KEIPE R. Owner. tsa-rn phone 600. I-arm phone 929-E. CHICHESTER SPILLS rn BIAMOND erami * LWleat Ask y»«r f or /\ 1 *• and Osld «hcuih c \C#J Ek 2L13 — with Blue Ribbon. VZ Tj I*** •«*•»- •fyonr V Always Beliable r SOI IT M?tGGISTS EVERYWHERE

MAY INCREASE CROP VALUES WITH FERTILIZERS MADE FROM THE AIR

Photo © by Anschutz, Keokuk, Ia.

THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER DAM AND POWER PLANT AT KEOKUK AND THE MAN WHO BUILT IT.

By HUGH L. COOPER,

American farmers are going to school. 1 They are learning that farming is a I manufacturing business; that every garden, farm, orchard and ranch is a chemical laboratory. The chemists are the agricultural schoolmasters of today. The virgin soil contains certain ele- • merits which furnish plant food and grow crops. As these elements are taken from the soil by cropping year after year, its productivity’ diminishes ' and the crops fall off. Every intelligent farmer knows nowadays what these vital elements are and in what proportion they must l>e restored to the soil to keep up his crop yields and make his business pay. With farmer and manufacturer alike the present day problem is to secure an adequate supply of necessary raw materials and labor at prices that will give him a profit on his finished product. The war, for instance, has shut off our potash supply from Germany, and the government experts are almost ■ hysterically seeking to devise processes for converting seaweed into potash or : making available the immense supply | of this salt locked up in the common rocks of our hills and mountains and scattered broadcast over the earth. Earth'a Vast Cemetery. The most important of the plant foods, though, and the most costly, is the nitrogen, which is vital not only to : plant life, but to all forms of life. We commonly think of oxygen as the life giving element, but the scientists tell us that were the supply of nitrogen cut off the w hole of the earth would soon , become a vast cemetery. So lavishly has nature supplied us with nitrogen that four-fifths of the atmosphere is composed of this element Agriculturally we must supply nitrogeneous plant food in the form of ammonia. Through countless ages a very small part of the nitrogen in the air has been made into ainmonia, deposit ed in the soil by lightning and other natural processes. It is this tiny deposit of ammonia or nitrous acid which gives the virgin soil its plant building properties. These deposits, however, are so small that additional means must lie found of changing the form of air nitrogen and putting back into the earth the ammonia consumed by plant life if the soil is to remain fertile.

Tlie processes of animal digestion fix some part of the nitrogen consumed by the body in the form of ammonia valuable as plant food. It is these processes which give stable manure its lertilizing qualities.

For many years we brought guano from Peru ami supplied our ammonial soil needs from the deposits of bird droppings accumulated there through countless ages. These Peruvian deposits are exhausted, and while there are similar deposits in several parts of the earth they are so remote and inaccessible as to be practically unavailable.

City sewage and garbage waste, very much of which is.'carelessly drained into the streams and pi-eiin. contain valuable fertilizing qualities because of its ammonial content. In our desperate need for nitrogeneotis fertilizers we are extravagantly using millions of tons a year of cottonseed meal for fertilizer manufacturing. Because of the high cost of cliemigal fertilizers, farmers in many sections find their use unprofitable and are obliged to lose the use of their land during frequent seasons, planting it in clovers, cowpeas and other plants of the small family of legumes which have the property of extracting nitrogen from the air, converting it into nitrates and leaving these in the soil in the form of small nodules or pimples which form on the roots. Costly Makeshifts. These are some of the cumbersome and costly makeshifts to which farm-

WHY EUROPE GROWS BIGGER FARM CROPS

The European farmer uses 200 pounds of chemical fertilizer per acre of cultivated lands. The average use of fertilizers In the United States Is twentyeight pounds per acre. As a result the 'comparative crop yields per acre in bushels of European and American farms are: Wheat. Oats. Barley. Potatoes. Europe ....... 32 47 38 158 United States 15 29 25 .96 We must Increase our crop yields per acre if farming in this country is to pay and If we are to continue to feed ourselves without excessively high cost of living. To do so means using more chemical fertilizers, and at present price! or even normal before the war of both fertilizers and crops it

Builder of the Keokuk Dam.

’ ers have been obliged to resort for plant food. Only three other sources of nitrogen supply are known. At present and for many years past the world’s greatest supply has been saltpeter or nitrate of soda from the deserts of Chile, where in the course of past ages nature has impregnated great beds of soda with atmospheric nitrogen. Until a few years ago the whole civilized world depended upon these Chilean nitrate deposits for its supply of saltpeter, nitric acid and ammonia. Today the United States relies mainly upon this source, and American manufacturers and farmers pay tribute to the Chilean government, which collects an export duty of 60 per cent on the product, to the tune of upward of $12,000,000 a year. Even at this cost the Chilean supply is giving out, and we must face the prospect of still higher prices. The total export of saltpeter in 1860 was 70.000 tons. In 1915 it was nearly 2,(J00,(MX) tons. Robert Kennedy Duncan, late professor of chemistry in the

University of Kansas, says the best deposits of saltpetre in Chile will be exhausted by 1925. Then what are we to do for ammonia and nitric acid? In the process of coking- coal some ammonia is obtained as a byproduct, but this Is only adrop in the bucket as compared with our national needs, and to burn coal primarily for the production of ammonia means a fuel waste and cost that is unthinkable. Nitrogen From the Air. From where, then, is our future supply to come? Science has answered the question, as it answers most questions. Other civilized nations more progressive than we have accepted the aid of science and freed themselves from the Chilean monopoly, saved their coal, increased their supplj- of fixed nitrogen and reduced its cost by harnessing their watt. powers, converting into electricity the energy in flowing waters and using this cheap electricity to burn the oxygen out of the air and change the free atmospheric nitrogen into forms of acids and compounds available for chemical, manufacturing and agricultural uses.

The supply of nitrogen in the air is inexhaustible so far as it can be expressed in human terms. Above each acre of land on the continent there are 34,000 tons of nitric acid in the form of free nitrogen. Europe is using 1,400,000 horsepower of hydroelectricity to capture this nitric acid from the air. Germany is waging war with gunpowder made from the atmosphere and furnishing agricultural fertilizers to her farmers at one-half the price paid by the American farmer.

The astounding thing in the United States today is that we do not wake up and take advantage of our opportunities. Our natural resources, the richest in the world, are largely neglected. Of our water powers, which compare favorably with those of any other country, we are using only 10 per cent. It is said that only 5 per cent of our agricultural lands are productive. A Waste of Two Billions. In comparison with the enormous development and use of water powers in Europe not a single large hydroelectric plant has been built in the United States for several years. Not one electrochemical plant has been established in this country. Not an ounce of atmospheric nitrogen ifj being produced within our borders. In the last ten years we have, by neglecting our water powers, destroyed and wasted more than $2,000,000,000 worth of fuel and labor that could have been saved.

The only reason the United States is so far behind other civilized countries in this respect is that the federal government controls the use of our best water powers, and for nearly ten years, under a mistaken conception of con-

doesn’t pay to use more fertilizer ou small grains and general farm and forage crops. The increased crop yield won’t pay for the fertilizer used to produce It. In Europe the bigger crop yields pay because fertilizers are cheaper. The German farmer buys fertilizer for about half the price paid by the Amencan farmer. We pay twice a» much/ for potash to a German monopoly. We pay twice as much for nitrates or ammonia to a Chilean monoply. The nitrates are the most expensive element in fertilizers. Euro pean farmers are getting their supply from the air, made by water power. Our water powers, which would give us cheap fertilizers, are not used. We must use the resources of the nation, not lock them out of use.— R’oodrow Wilson.

serration, they have been locked out of use by inadequate laws. American capital and investors have sought to develop the water powers and establish the new industries dependent upon cheap power, which would make us free of the Chilean monopoly, but the laws have said "No.” To Induce investment in these industries investors must have assurance of reasonable security and some hope of fair return or profit, and the laws deny either the security or hope of return. To no class of American citizens does this situation come home so closely, perhaps, as to the farmers. There is absolutely no relief in sight from the high prices of fertilizers or for fertilizers at all, except through development of cheap water powers. Not only does the water power question affect the future of fertilizer sup ply and prices, but it is closely related to the labor question. For several years farm labor has been increasingly expensive and hard to secure. Immigration has stopped and is not likely to be resumed for years or generations to come. Europe will need all the men she has, left after the war. Conservation of American labor means abolishment of unnecessary work and the re leasing of workmen for better occupations. Our Undeveloped Water Power. The United States figures show that there is now undeveloped in this country about 35,000.000 horsepower of water power. To develop and use even half of this means conserving the labor of 300,000 men now employed in coal mining. If applied to furnish jower for present uses it would relieve the railroads of the United States of the necessity of transporting more than 110.000,000 tons of coal a year, most of it for their own use. Electrification of the railroads means better and cheaper transportation. To bring 300,000 men from the bowels of the earth and put them to work in the sunshine, in factories and on the farms, means not only a new supply of farm and manufacturing labor, but bettering the condition of these men and making this country a better place to live in from every human point of view. But to get these results, to get any development and use of water power we first must have federal legislation that w’ill open the water powers to use. The United States senate the other day passed the Shields bill by a vote of 46 to 22. This measure gives water power companies the right under careful restrictions to dam navigable streams and .build power plants therein. A bill providing for leasing of power sites in the public domain has passed the house and is now being debated in the senate. Certain men and interests are trying to defeat the purpose of this constructive and beneficial legislation by loading it up with unworkable terms and conditions. They are making charges and statements, generally vague and containing more innuendo than argument, intended to create suspicion and mistrust and preveiifcj’egislation. It behooves the American manufacturer, the American farmer, the American citizen who has any direct, indirect or patriotic interest in this subject to study this legislation for himself and arrive at his own conclusions. A Suggestion to Citizens. Instead of taking the opinion of somebody- else 1 urge every interested citizen to write to his congressman in Washington for copies of the Shields bill and the Myers bill and read them carefully, thoroughly, impartially and critically. After reading these’ measures and making up his mind as to their merits, 1 urge him to write his representative in congress exactly what he thinks of them, demanding their passage if he thinks them good bills, and their defeat if be thinks them bad bills.

Secretary Lane on Water Power. Under existing conditions, due largely to laws relating to the matter, a condition of stagnation exists, and water power resources are not being used. Existing law is not fitted for the uses to which it is put- ♦ * • There is that mystifying miracle of drawing nitrogen from the air for chemical use, which can be done only with great power, but is being done in Germany, Norway, Sweden, France, Switzerland and elsewhere, by which an inexhaustible substitute for the almost exhausted nitrates of Chile has been found. To increase the yield of our farms and to give us an independent and adequate supply of nitrogen for the explosives used in war we must set water wheels at work that will fix nitrogen in lime.—Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior.

THE UNIVERSAL CAR 30,000 workmen m the Ford factory at Detroit—each man concentrating on his particular job. The most improved working conditions, good pay for reasonable hours and a wellbalanced organization. These are reasons why F ord cars lead. Excellence, strength and the spirit of service are built into them. Touring Car $440; Runabout $390; Coupelet $590; Town Car $640; Sedan $740. All prices f. o. b. Detroit. On sale at Rensselaer by W. 1. Hoover.

HELPFUL HINTS FOR HOUSEWIVES

Portable Wardrobe Rack That Fits Into Cdrner.

A portable rack has just been patented by which any corner of a room may be made to answer the purpose of a wardrobe. A pair of metal bars are hinged together at one end arid supplied along their length with hooks suitable for holding garments. It is designed that this shall be placed in the corner and will be held there securely by the action of a rod passing from one of the far ends to the other and which also answers the purpose of a curtain rod. The pressure of this bar is sufficient to hold the rack in place with security

□□□□ ?□□□□□ •"> t .n.. __ □□□□ ; > ■ jlclli : jlXl TJjl t Honest Work at Honest Prices j <: There are two highly important :: I points for a man to consider before having his car overhauled. The first point is to assure himself that the men who are going to worh on his car are mechanics expert enough to locate and properly repair all the parts that need attention. The second point is to convince I himself that he can trust the shop to give him an honest accounting of the amount of worh. that was actuallydone on the car. 1 We gladly welcome an investigation on both of these points. We have the facilities, the workmen and the uJ business methods that will more than L_ | satisfy all who investigate. CENTRAL OARAGE Phone 319 Rensselaer, Indiana

to meet all ordinary demands, but in case the rack is to be subjected to particularly heavy use a couple of nailsdriven through holes in the metal strips will greatly increase the capacity of the rack. Bean Chowder. Wash and soak overnight a pint of dried navy, lima or kidney beans. In. the morning drain, cover generously with cold water and cook till nearly; tender; then add- three slices of bacon or salt pork, one large onion, two potatoes. half a cupful of uncooked mgcaroni and a pint of tomatoes. A cupful of chopped carrot or parsnip may also be added. Season to taste and cook slowly one hour, adding water if necessary. Break salt crackers into each plate before serving the chowder. —Country Gentleman.

Cool summer underwear for these warm “muccy” days; perfect fitting freedom: 50c to $1.50 at HILLIARD & HAMILL. F/e Could Hardly Wear His Clothes Alvis Sowers, Ade, Ind., endured terrible pains in his back and through his kidneys for eight years before he finally used Foley Kidney Pills. He says: “I would bloat up at times so that I could hardly wear my clotties. Secretions were scant and very, red. Foley Kidney Pills were recommended to me, and the first box removed the pain and after taking only three boxes the bloating was all gone and lias never bothered me since.” Just about everybody who has used Foley Kidney Pills is anxious to recommend them. From every state in the Union come letters praising Foley Kidney Pills, because they so tone up and Strengthen the kidneys that by their vigorous, healthy action all the ill results of sore, weak, ailing kidneys and irregular bladder action are lost in a return oi health and vigor. » Swollen, aching joints and rheumatic pains quickly jfjeld to their healing, curative qualities Sold everywhere