Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1907 — Page 3

FARM AND GARDEN

A nail in time saves nine. The best method of paying for the ■farm Is to make it productive. Keep the -n eeds from securing a start ■by constant, thorough cultivation. Labor is never spent In vain when it leads to the accomplishment of good results. : To make sheep pay, keep the best sheep obtainable and give them the best keep possible. Limbs that are diseased on trees are best removed as saon ns discovered, regardless of the season or age of the trees ,-c - ■■ . . - - . • • * . _ The feeding of grain to sheep" wITT make their wool'grow faster and more -dense, and consequently a heavier fleece will be the result. Rtabh* manure is the most practical -fertilizer known, for an application of It seems the adding of both the elements of fertility and humus. - The farm products must be put in the - form in which they will command the most money and yet leave the farm In the most productive condition. Do not sell the jxmngest yearllhg stock while there are older animals that can be disposed of with equal adwantage mid which will not grow into more money; The best system of farming Is that which giveythe largest returns for tlie labor and capital invested and still, leaves the soil In condition to produce maximum crops.

When the food supply Is only suffi•cient for maintenance In an animal there is no gain In weight simply for the reason that nothing to make growth or weight has been furnished. Make a study of the herd of cows, ■select the best ones, sell the poor -ones, buy or raise more good ones, grow more cowpea and alfalfa hay for winter feeding, and make the ■cows keep you Instead of you keeping the cows. All kinds of coarse food can be ren--dered serviceable by Judicious combination of the ration. Even cut straw will be eaten if bran and oil meal are •added to it Fodder can be made acceptable to stock by preparation, nnd hay may be fed with other foods in a manner to make the whole ration very palatable. ' A cattle breeder, who has experimented in various modes of feeding, states that he estimated the cost of the flood according to the value of the land and the crop, ana with a bunch of steers on a pasture, from May to September, he cleared SO.BO an acre. As no labor was required,, the steers securing the food from the pasture, the gain was an addition to that which the pastures give ordinarily, while the manure Is -also an item of profit. It is very easy among a Jot of fowls to decide which will be the best layers. It is always the hen that has red combs and that gets up the earliest, even In cold weather. When a hen is moping and dumpish she will not lay many eggs, and those she does lay, while they may be all right while fresh for eating, are worth little or nothing for setting. If the eggs for "setting were always chosen from fowls that were themselves active nnd vigorous, ■the greatest possible improvement in ■the prolificacy of fowls would be at no ■expense whatever.

The Larveit Orchard. Where are the largest orchards In •the world? The general Imprecision la, no doubt, that they are to be found In the United States, but, according to a rfrult trade paper which ought to know they ar# at Werder, near Berlin. They ■extend without a break for “between 12,000 and 13,000 acres.'l By canal and river alone the Fruit •Growers' company sends away 48,000,■OOO pounds of apples and pears In a year. From Werder railway station an additional 12,000,000 pounds of fruit foes forth to the world. Then there is Jammnklng, for which a thousand tons -of pugar is used in a twelvemonth. The produce of the orchards of Werder has lately been advertised by a fruitgrowing: exhibition at that place. One of the features was 2,000 yards of model orchard, containing examples of the choicest sorts of fruit. It Is well to -be reminded that commercial fruit ■growing on the most up-to-date lines has made progress oversea outside Canada, the States and the antipodes. Valae of Cora Stalks. The true value of foods to the fanm--er la In the proportions of protein and ash (mineral matters) contained. < lf •sorn la exchanged for bran and bran Is

used on the farm as food for stock, there Is brought on the farm more protein than is contained in corn, as well as a larger proportion of the phosphates (bone-forming elements) than the corn contains. The manure from bran is also much more valuable than that from com, and when a fair price can be obtained for corn it may toe to the advantage of farmers to sell their corn and buy-bran for stock. When the com crop is planted the fodder should be considered as one-half the crop expected. The crop, of fodder frond a field of corn should be equal In value to the grain taken therefrom, and yet the fodder is wasted and the grain saved. In fact, if the fodder is given no better treatment than It receives" on some farms it would be cheaper to drive into the fields, pull the ears from the stalks, throw them Into a Wagon and haul direct from the field to the crib, leaving the stalks standing, than to expend labor in cutting It into shocks, with the additional work of husking the grain after the corn is shocked, as it will save labor by so doing, if the fodder is to be wasted, especially as It Is a very disagreeable task to husk the corn Im the field In cold weather.

Growing Protein Feed. Protein foods, so essential in feeding live stock, can be grown far more cheaply than they cost in the market On this subject Wallace's Farmer says: The- experience of the last thirty years has shown that a balanced ration can be grown on the farm without the purchase of any feeds protein, as, for example, bran, oil meal -or-cotton seed meal. It has shown that forty pounds of silage and eighteen pounds of good elover hay will make a fairly well balanced ration for an ordinary cow*; In other words, lliafirton of "StTfrge"will furnish:: half the ration of an average cow for fifty days; mid that an acre of good corn that >vlll yield fifty bushels to the acre will furnish from eight to twelve tons of silage. The farmer who has corn of this character and clover, or clover and timothy, or alfalfa meadow that will yield from two to three tons of hay per annum can easily figure on the number of tows he can keep on a definite number of acres during the winter season. The number of acres of pasture that will be required will depend upon the character of the pasture and the season; but usually on the care he takes of his pasture. Every dairyman who is keeping from ten to twenty cows Bhould, therefore, begin to study the silo question vfery thoroughly. This is one of the topics that should be discussed not merely at institutes, but at the firesides in every dairying community. The great obstacle In the way of the individual farmer using the silo Is not the cost of building It, which, considering its capacity, is not as great as the cost of a barn would be. It is rather, in the cost of machinery necessary to convert the corn into silage, and of the help needed at that particular time. Here Is where co-operation comes In.

Lite and Diseases of Grapes. The author of a Texas bulletin presents data covering a period of nineteen years, secured for the most part from his records of an eight-acre grape vineyard planted In 18S6-7 near Denison, Tex. The soli In this vineyard Is a light sandy soil' from C inches to 3 feet deep, with a red and yellow clay subsoil. The land has had but one application of fertilizer, consisting of a heavy coat of cotton-seed meal some twelve years ago. Data have also been collected from vineyards grown on different soils, Including “black waxy” and lime soils. In table 1 the relative longevity, health and vigor of twenty-six species of grapes grown In the vineyard at Denison are noted. The species usually found native to lime soils are distinguished from those native to sandy soils. Table 2 gives the names of each variety cultivated, the specific blood, the number of vines of each planted In 1887, nnd the number nnd percentage alive In 1905, together with notes on the coloi\ economic value and use of the fruits, and condition of the vines In 1905. The varieties are noted which have been suitable for •*blaek waxy A soils with clay subsoils, and for “black waxy” and “adobe” soils underlaid with white rock as near as two feet from the surface. The author presents data on extensive personal observations and reports secured from different experimenters in Texas on the adaptability of different varieties of grapes for the limy rolls In Texas. It is stated that ail species and varieties grow well In sandy soils wheifere carbonate of does not exceed 25 per cent of the soil. Some species will flourish In soils which contain as high as 40 to 00 per cent of lime. Varieties much subject to rot and mildew are not recommended for planting In the ham id forest region of East Texas unicss spraying with sulphate or carbonate of copper solution is thoroughly attended to. Grapes are not considered to succeed well in boggy or seepy soils on account of lata fronts and fungus diseases. ,

THE DESERTED SANDWICH.

It Had the Fatal Gift as Beauty u 4 / t It Wa* CoTeted by Many. “Don’t leave your sandwich up there on the advertising boards,” said Tommy’s mother; “the train will come along soon and you will forget It” But Tommy did not heed the warning, the train came find went away with Tommy and his mother and the others, bound for Coney Island, and the sandwich remained, says the New York Sun. , It was - a remarkably neat package for a sandwich. Lying there on top of the advertising boards it looked as If It had been done up by a Jeweler, so rectangular was it and so precisely were the ends of the wrapper folded over.

An elderly man stood near by reading his newspaper. He had heard the talk about the sandwich and he noted that the event had turned out as Tommy’s mother had predicted. A young girl eame up the stairs and walked along the platform. She saw the neat package and looked from it toward the man. He drew a step nearer to it, glanced at It as If to assure himself that it was still there, and resumed reading his paper. Several passengers alighted from the next train, and as they passed the sandwich most of them saw it and the man and tried to decide whether ft belonged to him. One yonng fellow strolled back, after going as far as the door of the waiting room, and walked slowly up and down the platformT” The elderly man stepped to the edge of the platform and looked along the track, as If to see whether the train was coming. Just as he turned to take his former position he saw the young man lingering close to the sandwich. He cleared his throat with a loud “Ahem!” and rested his arm on the advertising boards a few feet away from the package. The young man took the next train that came along. A large woman rigged out in clothes that she evidently thought were just the thing hurried up the stairs and was rushing toward the train that had just come in. Her eye caught the package, with its jewelry store appearance, and she did notenter the train.

She looked up and down the track and glanced toward the sandwich, and from it toward the man. He folded his paper, put his reading glasses in his pocket and again stepped to the edge of the platform and looked along the rails. The woman eyed him and the package alternately. The roar of a train was heard. As It slowed down the man, all unmindful of the package, hurried toward one of the car gates. The man stood on the car platform as the train moved out. By leaning outward as the train rushed away he could watch the package long enough to see the large woman grab -it from the top of the signboards, thrust it under her summer wrap and hurry down the platform stairs faster than she came up. Quite naturally he smiled.

A Wardrobe in a Hat.

Grandfather De Voe is an artist who appreciates fine millinery. His young married daughter, however, was practising domestic economy, when a hat, a beautiful creation in real lace, arrived for little Ellse from her devoted grandparent, whose eye had surrendered to this bit of baby apparel the moment he saw It In a department store. “That hat Is too extravagant for this family,” remarked the young mother. “I’ll take It back and see what I can do.” A few days later the grandfather called to see the baby In the new hat. “Do let me see how she looks In It,” he said. "And how did you like It?” “Very much, father, thank you. They gave me two hats, two dresses, a sweater, and thirty-nine cents In change for It.”

Politics in Domeatic Life.

A story Is told of a Bradford County politician (the sharp and shifty kind) who was urged by his wife to hoe the garden. He couldn’t think of any very good reason, so he went at It. Soon he came in with a silver quarter he said he had found. He washed it, put it in his pocket nnd went back. In a few minutes he showed up with another coin, this time a half dollar. He said there must be a buried treasure In that garden. He unearthed a couple of dimes and another quarter. Being very tired, he announced his intention of taking a nap, and duly went to sleep. When he awoke his wife had a dangerous and steely glint In her eye, but the garden was all hoed. It Is mistrusted that she had hoed while he slept, nnd that she had failed to find any burled treasure. —Milton Standard.

Good-Bye, Euclid.

Within the last few years a revolution has been accomplished at Oxford which ought really to affect the mind of the nation more than the difference between Lord Curzon and Lord Rosebery. A text-book has been discarded which was already venerable for Its antiquity at the beginning of tbe Christian era. heedless to say, we are referring to Euclid’s “Elements.” For what other text-book ever had such a run as that? It haa been accepted ever since Its publication, which was In the reign of-the first Ptolemy (B. G. 323285). No writer hns ever become so Identified with a science ns Euclid with geometry. The nearest approaches ar« to he found lu the relation of Aristotle to logic and of Adam ( Smith to political economy.—London Spectator. It’s very, very easy to be foolish. Better watch out

Political Comment

The Call of the Indnatrlea, From factory, mine and harvest field comes fllfr call for additional workers. At Gary, Ind., the largest steel mills in the world have been opened. They belong to the United States Steel Corporation, which produces about half of the American steel output. Gary is the town which the steel trust has been building. Many millions of dollars have been expended in getting iron and steel works established at that point, and many t more millions are to be invested there in the next year. The United States produces 40 per cent of the world’s iron and 42 per cent of its steel. And yet it can not entirely meet the home demand. Iron and steel furnished a considerable part of the $740,000,000 of manufactures which were exported in 1907, but they also figure In the imports with some prominence Notwithstanding the expansion in the number and the capacity of the Iron and steel works of the country, they are unable to supply all the orders which are pouring in, und thus thoaforeigu furnaces and mills are being drawn upon by American consumers. Cripple Creek has sent out a call for miners, but it is unable to get as many as it wants. The reason why It can not get as many as 1t would like to employ is that Nevada and the rest of the gold fields in the United States are sending out their demands for additionar workers. In the coal and iron mines of the East and the Central West there Is a shortage of workers, and there has been for many months. A like story comes from the copper, lead and zinc regions. In most of the important minerals the United States has a loltg lead over any other country. It stands second in gold production, having only the Transvaal abend of it, hut it is first not only in iron and steel, but in coal, copper and other minerals. For the calendar year 1907 our aggregate mineral product will be over 52.000.000.000. or more than double that of 1899. We furnish much more than half of all the world’s copper, and also more than half of its petroleum, another industry which is calling out for more workers. As the demand for all the minerals is Increasing, the production of 190 S is expected to pass far beyond 1907’s record. The old days when the Unite* States was third oifourth in the list in coal, iron and steel production are not far behind us in years, but the extent of our lead to-day makes it hard for us to realize this.

The earlier reports of crop failures are shown by the later returns to be baseless. Not only will we have a full average yield of the cereals, but cotton will be above the mean of the past five or six years. The appeals which the harvest fields are sending out for additional workers show that the grand aggregate of all the crops will not be much below the record figures of 1906. The United States produces a fifth of the world’s wheat and three-fourths of the world’s corn. The aggregate value of its products of the soil in 1906, which was nearly $7,000,000,000, was far ahead of that of any other two countries in the world. From present indications the 1906 figures will be closely approached in 1907, and may be equaled. With the farms, the factories and the mines bidding against each other for workers, the condition of the wage earner Is especially happy. Although the immigration was 1,000,000 in 1905, 1,100,000 in 1906 and nearly 1,300,000 In 1907, the West and the South are calling loudly for more “help.” While the average employer would prefer American workers to all sorts of newly landed aliens, the latter can find employment In the Mississippi Valley and throughout the South, at good wages. Immigration bureaus from many of the States west of the Alleghanies and below the Potomac and the Ohio are offering inducements for the immigrants to come In their direction, but the labor shortage still persists. This condition shows the folly of the predictions that business Is on the decline. The railroads are hauling more goods than they did a year ago, which means not only that the people are buying more, but that the mills and the mines are producing more. If this Is adversity, the country wants all of It that it can get.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

Ten Year* of Dlnaley Tariff. We have Just passed the tenth anniversary of the enactment of the Dingley tariff law. And what a change there is In conditions! Ten years Is not a long period In the world’s history. The memories of most of us can easily span it Ten years ago our foreign trade was less than $2,000,000,000, now It Is more than $3,000,000,000 a year. Then the government revenues were Insufficient to cover the expenditures, while now, with the expenditures greatly Increased, we have a substantial surplus. At that time business, was depressed and Industry languished, while now there is prosperity on every side. Ten years ago freight cars were going to decay on the sidings with no call for their use, and now, with vastly Increased equipment. It Is the freight that Is tied np because there are not cars enough. Tbe ten years under the Dingley tariff have been such years of activity and growth as neither this country nor the world has ever known. —Grand Rapids Herald. Tbe world’s gold production la 1905 fcas been figured at $370,280,200.

BECOME A DUMPING GROUND.

What Would Follow a Rcffuetion of the Tariff. If our tariff is reduced, as fs seriously proposed, the United States will become the common dumping ground of the German and the British trusts, in competition - with each other. The American people can then have the pleasure of buying steel at a very low price, probably less than the cost of production. They will also have, concurrently* the pleasure of finding other employment for many thousands of workmen, as American steel plants shut down in the face of such a competition. Free traders in this country are relying in their forthcoming assault upon die tariff 1 on the prejudice they may. be able to arouse "by reason of the faet that a small percentage —a very small percentage; almost infinitesimal ns compared with the whole —is sold abroad cheaper than at lfome. But that is the settled policy of manufacturers in .European countries, and especially is it the policy of free trade England. If we should lower any of our protective duties below the point of ade-quate-protection European manufacturers would go after this market—the richest aud the greatest in the world—ls they had to give their goods away. And their people at home would applaud them for doing it, expecting to reap their reward* later on. Meantime, w ith A merican industries crippled^ millions of our laborers would be without employment aud hence ‘unable to sustain the tremendous buying power that the country now possesses and which is the foundation of our unexampled prosperity. We went all through this experience only a few years ago, but some of us seem to be itching for another term at i.t. If they keep on fussing we shall get it.—Cedar Rapids Republican.

Shots From Taft’s" Speech. Never was such united opposition to any national measure by the railroads so strong as that against the rate bill. The Elkins bill was supported by the railroads because it eliminated the penitentiary penalty, which the rate bill TestugpL r If tlie rate'bill was harmless, why was It so strongly opposed? The evil of overcapitalization would not Justify federal restraint, but the practice tends to divert money from improvements into the .pockets of dishonest speculators. Interstate roads should not be allowed to issue stock or bonds without a certificate from the Interstate Commerce Commission that the securities are issued for legitimate railroad purposes. “I am opposed to government ownership.” The new law will lead to the settlement of claims without suit, as in many cases of personal There must be something more than union of capital and plant before the law is violated; either coercion to buy from one concern or put a competitor out of business. Secret rebates enabled the Standard and the sugar trust to reap Illegal harvest. “I think the imprisonment of one or two managers of unlawful trusts would have a healthy effect.” State Legislatures have complete control of what shall be done with a man’s property on his death. “I do not favor federal legislation now to reduce swollen fortunes by income or inheritance tax.” - The Wall street slump was not due to the President’s policies. The laws must not punish guilty rich and let the guilty poor escape. Bryan’s theories are based on distrust of the honesty of individuals. The tariff question will be up to Congress at the proper time.

Dr. -Roosevelt’* Prescription. i Wall street should be happy. It has wanted a word from President Roosevelt during one of its paroxysms over the juggllngs of high finance and has received a prescription written out In plain English which every one can understand.- Here it is right from the doctor’s eagerly awaited address at Provincetown: “Once for all, let me say that as far as I am concerned, and for the eighteen months of my administration that remain, there will be no change In the policy we have steadily pursued, noi let-up in the effort to secure the honest observance of the law, for I regnrd this contest as one to determine who shall rule this government —the people through their governmental agents, or a few ruthless and determined men whose wealth makes them particularly formidable because they hre behind the breastworks <?f corporate organization.” Individual patients have found the medicine a trifle bitter, but now that It is put beyond all manner of doubt that there Is to be no change In treatment there should be an end to peevish and futile tricks. The alarmists have played their little game and lost. As for Wall street collectively, It has one big certainty to tie to amid Its many uncertainties. It knows exactly what the government will do nnd may make its plans accordingly. Meantime, business will continue to flourish as It has right along while lamentations filled the alr.-J-Chleago Record-Herald. In a discussion In the House of Par’ liament relative to tbe danger of cordite, Mr. tlaldnne said that be had a walking stick made of this explosive, which he had often carried into the cloakroom of Parliament.

Indiana State News

JOKES MAKE MANIAC OF WAITER Believing? He la Panned by Policemen, Chicagoan I.andn in Aaylnm. Possessing the hallucination that he is pursued by policemen, Edward Hoover, until recently employed in a Chicago restaurant, was the pther day taken ;o the insane asylum, the result of continual jokes of his fellow employes ; n Warsaw. During the last holiday season a woman guest at tfye restaurant became infatuated with the boy and placed a $2-T0 stickpin in his coat. When he told his friends of the experience they laughingly accused him of being a thief and continued joking him about the matter. This preye-J on Hoover’s mind to such an extent that he gave up his place and went to his parents’ home at Shipshewanna, where he became a maniac. SAINTS HOLD TO SIMPLE GARB. Decide at Camp Meeting Not to Change Characteristic. Apparel. Notwithstanding a persistent effort by the reform element to bring abont a change in the apparel of the members of the church, the Saints have decided to continue to attire themselves in the same plain garb which has characterized them for years, a majority of those present at the business session of the annual national camp meeting at Yellow Creek 1 Lake declining to make any change in* the prevailing custom. Nearly 8,000 people were present at the closing sessions, twenty States and several foreign countries being represented.

FIVE HURT IN AUTO WRECK. Machine Land* Bottom Side Up al Foot of Embankment. A touring car containing Mr. and Mrs. Don Hawkins, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Ostendorf and a chauffeur, of Indianapolis was wrecked at Dayton and all the occupant* were injured. The car skidded and turned a landing bottom side up at the foot of an embankment. Hawk in* and Mrs. Ostendorf were pinioned under the car. Hawkins’ legs were crushed and Mrs. Ostendorf’s head was badly cut. The Other occupants were bruised. The party had been visiting in Chicago and was on its way to Indianapolis. Farmers with Liquor Men. Farmers of the surrounding country took a hand in the saloon fight which ha* stirred the city of Warsaw to fever heat, threatening to boycott the merchants who sign the remonstrance petition now being circulated, arid which will be filed with the Council. All northern Indiana is interested in the effort being made to wipe saloons out of that city. Rob Chnrch, Tben Set Fire. St. Mary’s Roman Catholic church in Greensburg was entered by bnrglars for the fifth time in three months and, after robbing the mite box, they set fire to the church, causing damage of $7,000. Bloodhounds were put on the trail of the incendiaries and followed it for three blocks, where it waWost. Man Dying: on Tracks; Had" 9338. Joseph Sbelran, aged 35 years, of To* ledo, Ohio, was found In a dying condition on the Lake Shore tracks, near Nillsburg. He either fell off or was thrown from the train. Sbelran had $338 in bank certificates in his pockets. Minor State Item*. ';", George N. Arthur, a musician, 47, shot and killed himself in Terre Hante. In an X-ray examiriation to locate a piece of wire his finger was burned so badly it had to be amputated, thus destroying his usefulness as a musician. The directors of the tri-State fair, which was to have been held in Evansville from Sept. 30 to Oct. 5, decided to abandon the project, because the City Council had intimated that no beer could be sold on the grounds this year. O. T. Walker, 28, murdered his wife, I.aura Walker, in Crawfordsville by cutting her throat from ear to ear. Walker’s wife had abandoned him and applied for a divorce. Walker called on her and asked that she withdraw her suit and rettirn to him. She refused, whereupon he dragged her from the house and cut her throat, making five vicious slashes. Walker tried to kill himself in the same manner, but was unsuccessful. He is now in jail.

While she was walking in North Jackson street, Anderson, accompanied by her 10-year-old brother, Mrs. Florence Huty 22 years old, wife of John A. Hull, a factory employe, was attacked by an unknown man, who inflicted a gash seven inches long, but not very deep, in tbe woman’s neck. Her cries aroused the neighborhood and the man released his hold, leaped over a fence into an alley and disappeared. The knife or razor used barely missed tbe jugular vein. Because, it is charged, he whipped his motherless boys, aged 10 and, 7 years, Elmer Robinson, living on East Lynn street, in Anderson, has aroused the ire of his neighbors and tbreata of summary punishment have been made. Tbe children’s stepmother is said to have gone to Illinois and left them alone. The father is reported to have locked the children in an upstairs room and left home for the day. The older boy tied bed clothing together and escaped from his prison. The attention of the board of children’s guardians has been called to tbe case. Two expert accountants are working in the office of County Treasurer George W. Irvine at Warsaw as the result of charges recently made to the effect that his accounts are badly muddled. Mr. Irvine declares that all funds belonging to the county are Intact. Carriage manufacturers of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois have formed an organization, to be called the National Association of Carriage Manufacturers, tbe purpose of which’ is, as stated, to control the prices of their product. An advance of 10 per cent to the trade ban already been declared. . r