Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1896 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

mg that excels it for feed and nothing that stands the dry, hot winds, and always Jmeps growing like it. Ilis experience shows that the Kaffir corn, in his region, should be put into the ground ns early as other corn, and the more it is cultivated the that it can be cut for feed three times in early summer. "I tV hile there seems to be a good deal to be said in favor of the new corn, there are, of course, two sides to the question ns applied to a region so far north ae South Dakota. A resident of Watertown, who spent fifteen years in South Africa, the region from which the corn was brought to this country, saw the corn grow there time and again, and expressed the opinion Jhat it will not prove a success in the Dakota climate. He has never witnessed any experiments with it here, however, therefore his opinion is wholly superficial, but adds that he does know that even in the warm climate of Africa the corn crop was a failure for three or four seasons. Virginia S. Washington and Mary L» Washington, of I‘ortstnouth, 0.. senting themselves to be immediate 'descendants of George Washington, liavs written to the {Secretary of the Interior offering to sell the Government a number of relies of Washington. Among these *s a snuffbox presented to Jefferson by Washington and afterward returned to the donor. R. MeKay, aged 83, died suddeQly In Bruce, Mich. He was one of the original abolitionists, casting hits vote for that party In 1842, when It had nardly two anti-slavery vetes in the town.