Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1908 — Page 7

FARM AMD GARDEN

With oats around half a dollar It certainly does take money to make the mare go. The breechy horse la the most aggravating thing on the farm, unless It la an old cat that kills chickens. The man who has hogs or cattle to feed In an open lot does not grow very enthusiastic over the prospects of good sleighing. A good way to move a hand corn aheller a short distance is to turn It upside-down and run It on the balancewheel, after the fashion of a wheelbarrow. Small grain throughout a considerable area otf the corn belt Is not a very profitable crop, but it is a very necessary crop In order to get a supply of straw. For good results in farm dairying and butter making in Tenter, keep the milk at an even temperature. Keep the cream sweet until the day before churning, and Btlr the cream well. Some . people • would have prices bf farm products Increased by lessening the output. This, however, seems a foolish idea In view of the position which the factor “supply” holds in the game of markets. As a producer of human food a good dairy cow is about equal to two beef steers, and the cow has to give only 10 quarts of milk per day to do the work. And, besides, the cow Is left, while the steer is not. Some farmers say that there is more money to be made in dairying than in sheep raising, and there are others whose opinions are the reverse. The fact of the case is, each Is profitable, depending altogether on the man who Is hunting the profit. The only sure way to know is to try both.

A speaker at the New York Farmers’ Institute saldt “Yarded fowls are the modern Improved egg machines. Fowls let run and given free range cannot produce as great'a number of eggs, for the reason that they divert a part of their capacity for forming the eggs. In my own case, I Increased my egg yield 18,720 eggs last year by yarding my fowls.” A stockman living just outside of Nebraska, according to report, drove his cattle over the boundary in order to take advantage of low railroad rates. Evidently the railroad “caught on” and disciplined him by compelling him to wait for cars twenty-five days. All this time shippers around him were able to secure cars. Suit Is now being brought for discrimination. When a man gets very wise in matters relating to any single profession he writes a book, but if you will call to mind the best farmer of your acquaintance—the man who is best qualified to say something on crop growing or live stock raising, you will find that he never wrote a line on* the subject, lu his life and possibly has’ never as much as pronounced his own name in public. It Is a distinct loss that such men are not more active as educators. To Feed ja Calf One Year. In an experiment to ascertain the cost of raising a calf Professor Shaw, of JlficHtean Station, took a dairy calf and kept an accurate account of the expense of feeding for one year from its birth. The amount of feeds used in that time were 381 pounds of whole milk, 2,568 pounds of skim milk, 2,260 pounds of silage, 219 pounds of beet pulp, 1,254 pounds of hay, 1,247 pounds of grain, 174 pounds of roots, 14 pounds of alfalfa meal and 50 pounds of green corn. Tbe grain ration consisted of three parts each of corn and oats and one part of bran and oil meal. At the of the year the calf weighed 800 pounds at a cost of $28.55 for feed. The calf was a Holstein. - Nan Tppo of Rwklwaf, A new type of roadway has been developed in some parts of California, known as the iwtrolltlilc, which Is nothing more or less thnn a well-built oiled road. Tbq leading feature of this pavement la tbe very complete compacting of tbe oiled material by means of a rolling tamper, a new piece of road machinery. It was designed to insure the tamping of tbe from tbe lower portions upward to the surface, instead of downward from the surface. Tha inventor received tbe idee from seeing a large flock of sheep walk over a newly plowed road. After tbe abeep bad passed over it tbe tot I was found to be packed eo hard that a pick indented It but a short distance. To obtain tills effect with a roller tbe circumference of the main roll Is covered with tampers, which set like so many ■ feet wetting over tbe earth and pecking It down. .. ■£ To Soleel a Cow. While there may be no Infallible nde bp which a man can be goveraefi

in selecting a high-class dairy cow, there are many points that will assist and If carefully considered, will prevent disappointment as a rule. Remember that a cow Is a machine and Is Intended to change the different products on which she is fed Into something of more value. There are-two distinct types of these machines. One .manufactures or converts feed Intq beef j the other Into milk. There is s very decided and pronounced difference in the type of the animal that makes beef, and the one whloh manufactures milk. In the dairy type we have an animal that Is angular, thin, somewhat loeseJolnted and with prominent bones. She IB wedge-shaped froin the front with a lean head, moderately long face slightly dished and a general contented expression of the features. The muzzle is large, mouth large, nostrils wide and open, a clear, full bright eye, a broad, full and high forehead, ears medium size, fine texture, covered with fine hair and orange yellow Inside. The neck is thin, moderately long with little or no dewlap and the “throat Is clean. Wide space between the Joys, the withers lean and sharp, the shoulders lean and oblique and the chest deep and wide, which indicates vigor and constitution. Begin at the Top. The mistake that most persons make when they decide to go into the poultry business, is that of starting with mongrel fowls and trying to drift Into the pure-bred line year after year. They will buy, perhaps, a sitting of pure-bred eggs of pure-bred fowls and at the end of the season they allow the entire lot to run together, and when the next year’s hatching season comes around they decide that they will still keep some of the mongrel hens, if for no other purpose than to furnish eggs for the table. It naturally follows that the two breeds get mixed, and at the end of the next season there are but few of the young fowls which do not show a cross. Another mistake that they make is that of trying to keep mors than one breed. Those who have had years of experience and have provided ample yards and houses for each breed may be able to do this > but those who are not so arranged should never attempt to keep more than one. It Is folly to expect to supply every kind of fowls which individuals may *Bk for, and no. one should attempt to do so. Select one pure breed—one best sulb eJ to the needs of near-by markets and the one you fancy most. Dispose of the mongrel fowls on the place and keep the breed pure. Each year select the best males and females and again dispose of those that do not come up to all the standard requirements. Year after year small defects will disappear and you will soon have a flock which will not only be handsome, but at the same time profitable. Don’t try to supply all customers. Make a specialty of one kind and let your customers know that they can get nothing better than you can offer them. —Wisconsin Farmer. ..

- - Corn lu llllnola. In an Interview recently, Doctor Cyril G. Hopkins of tbe University of Illinois, at Urbana, remarked: “Some years ago corn was a strangte* We fouud it here when we came—a native of the country, yet until fifteen years ago we took lffor granted. Then a close study of its individuality and peculiar characteristics demonstrated that It was possible to breed up corn Just as we improve animals, although we have not yet learned how to control the male parent. The Importance of thlff may be appreciated when we remember that the corn crop of this country is worth $1,600,000,000 every year—2,250,000 bushels. WBars trying to get one ear of corn to the stalk. That is what we are working for, because some stalks are barren; we don’t know why. Various people have various theories, but they have not been demonstrated. "Take a hundred ears of com, plant them exactly alike, three kernels to the hill, the kernels from each ear in a row by themselves, In exactly the B«me soli, cultivate them tbe same way, and the yield will vary 100 per cent. We cannot account for that variation. It ia Impossible thus to determine why some corn will grow and other com will not; but in planting, a farmer should always use tbe seed from the best ears, because that Is likely to yield more than poor ears. But every ear of seed corn should be tested by a germinating pan during tbe winter. This is a new. thing, but it Is being introduced rapidly ; all seed men and the better elass of farmer* are taking this precaution. None of the big com planters will use any but tasted seed. "We ere teaching these methods to our students by practical experiments conducted In twenty-five different counties of tbe Btate of Illinois, as well as on tbe campus of the university. The results have been most satisfactory, and they are appreciated by tbe farmer*. We have a corn breeders' association in this State composed of twenty-five seed growers, and they are all working earnestly with os In breeding up the con es Illinois to the very htgheet quality and the greatest yteUk** 1

BATTLE ROYAL IN THE CHICAGO CONVENTION

Republican National (lathering Alone Will Determine Who Candidate Is to 80. GREAT 1908 CAMPAIGN NOW ON. W ¥ V. —— p—“ In the Democratic Field, Washington Political Observers Think Bryan la a Certainty. Washington correspondence:

rarQHIS city will be ir the center of the great political campaign which will rage from •* California to A Maine until the §L ballots wf_ next ■ November determine the people’s ■set choice for President. From now on until tjbe suecessor of Mr. » Roosevelt is chosen there will not 1 * be an instant’s intermission in the

din of political battle. Secretary Taft stands sharply in the limelight and his friends are redoubling their efforts in bis behalf. The fact that he is the candidate of the administration is sure to have the effect of keeping Washington on the jump to watch every move. Senators Foraker and Knox and Secretary Cortelyou, also located in Washington, will help.to keep the political pot furiously boiling In the capital. New York will get the height es its excitement from the fact that Qov. Hughes seems destined to be a factor of no small moment in the lineup of the contestants In Chicago. Vice President Fairbanks and Speaker Cannon, presiding officers respectively of the Senate aid House, must Inevitably keep these bodies embroiled In the stress growing out of their candidacy, and their home States of Indiana and Illinois are likely to feel the heat. Between these men, Taft, Knox, Hughes, Foraker, Fairbanks and Candon, the convention at Chicago is -regarded an open ehanee. All are powerfully backed, all will push their campaigns with that energy for which the American politician la famous. For them will be expended limitless eloquence, and in their interest the quiet

work, which appears little on the surface, but which means so much in tbe final result, will keep forces of trained mem busy from now on until tbe nomination is made. For tho first time in twenty years tbs Republican convention will see a real battle. The gathering that nominated Benjamin Harrison In 1868 vai an open fight much similar to tbe one that promises for this year. In 1892 the renominatlon of Harrison was a foregone conclusion; in 1896 the movement against free silver had fixed on McKinley In advance of the convention as tbe man to lead the fight; aud in 1000 not a shadow of opposition developed against bis renominatlon. Similarly -Roosevelt outranked In popularity every name suggested for the Republican nomination. But this year tbe qnadrounlal upheaval will be made still mor chaotic • by the shsrpnees of the Republican battle. Democrat lo Fight Dlltrtal, , The Democratic fight U a little different There is no mixed field with tbe fitfpes even. It is everybody against Bryan. In oppoattion to tbe Nebraskan will be welded all the forces that contend that bis two defeats for tbs place eliminate hlib, but though Judge Gray, Gov. Johnson of Minnesota, Chanlar of New York, and Hoke Smith have bean tentatively mentioned, there Is no evidence of any boots powerful enough to prevail against tha

There have been thirteen campaigns by the Republican and Democratic parties. Republican CandMetet. 1866—Fremont and Dayton. 1860—Lincoln and Hamlin. 1864 —Lincoln and / Johnson. 1868—<3rant and Colfax. ----- 1872—Grant and Wiluon. 1876—Hayes and Wheeler. 1880—Garfield and Arthur. , . 1884—Blaine and Logan. 1888—Harrison and Morton. 1892-—Harrison and Reid. 1896—McKinley and Hobart. 1900 —McKinley and Roosevelt. 1904—Roosevelt and Fairbanks. Democratic Candidates. • .m 1856—Buchanan and Breckinridge,' 1860 —Douglas and Johnson.* 1864—McClellan and Pendleton. 1888 —Seymour and Blair, 1872 —Greeley and Brown. 1876—Tilden and Hendricks. 1880—Hancock and English. 1884 —Cleveland and Hendricks. 1888^—Cleveland and Thurman. 1892 —Cleveland and Stevenson. 189&—Bryan and Sewall. 1900—Bryan and Stevenson. 1904—Parker and Davis. *Ry the northern Democrats and Brechinridge and Lane by the southern Democrata. " t ----- - - Electoral Votes. The number of electoral votes received by the two parties in these contests and the pluralities are shown here: Rep. Dem. Plu. 1856.. j 1.114 174 60 D 1860 180 *72 108 R 1804.. ...212 21 191 R 1808 214 80 134 R 1872.. 286 63 223 R 1876 ....185 184 1 R 1880 214 155 C 59 R 1884 182 219 37 D ISBB 233 168 65 R 1892 ....271 ’ 176 132 D 1896.. 271 176 95 R 1900 vv> 292 155 137 R 1904. *. . .336 140 196 R ♦The electoral vote of the Breckin-ridge-Laqe ticket of the southern Democrats; the Douglas-Johnson ticket of the northern Democrats received 12.

magnetic Nebraskan’s undoubted strength In his party. Six months of contention must take place before the two parties place their standard bearers in the field, the Republicans at Chicago, the Democrats at Denver. the nation’s business will be swayed and moved by every new boom, by every straw, by every Indication. Capital, sensitive above all things of which man has knowledge, will rejoice or tremble as this man or that seems to gain the ascendancy, and gigantic projects will hang fire pending the nominations.

PHEW! IT’S GETTING HOT.

And when the men are in tbe field, far from helping the situation, a new and even worse upheaval will take place. Frenzied stump speakers will tramp up aud down tbe country, painting in Jjorrlble phrase tbe terrific experiences that confront the nation la tbe doleful event of the success of the opposition party. Platforms will be torn io pieces in this delirium of exhortation ; men’s lives, alms and characters riddled; the constitution of the country will be both Invoked and condemned ; tbe giants of business will on the one baud be extolled, on tbe other savagely condemned. And every speech, every mass meeting, each attack, will further send new tremors up and down tbe spinal cord of business. The’campaign will last four months, and In that time both parties will call on tbe biggest guns they bare; tbe star speakers will be drafted to present the opposing arguments. As a forensic struggle tbe fight ip bound to be more than ordinarily interesting. Each side has orators of tbe first rank, veterans who understand tbe art of stirring audiences. ' s -

One direct result of the recent agitation in Chicago concerning tbe filthy conditions of tbe city's bakeries is tbe passage of a regulating ordinance providing for tbe instant rerocatlon of tha baker’s license if be fails to conform te the rate* of cteaaHnens proscribed.

PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS SINCE 1856.

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Indiana State News

MOBS “BUND PIGS” THAN BARS. Authorities of Clinton Buev Running Down Violators of Liquor Law. Court developments Showed That while Clinton has forty-nine saloons, the town and country nearby supports half a dozen “blind pigs” to every saloon. The authorities are kept busy running down clews and making arrests. The ingenuity of these violators would furnish material for criminologists. A favorite device is the boarding house rilse, in which the proprietor furnishes beer to his boarders. A strip of .paper is tacked to the wall, with the name of each- boarder on it. Each boarder hek?s himself to the beSr, putting down on the paper what he has drunk. This is charged up to him, the boarding house keeper collecting each pay day. In the Italian, quarter nearly every house has a “blind pig.” Even the saloon men have rooms fn which intoxicants are dispensed on Sundays and after hours. In one street secret tunnels, leading from basements beneath saloons, reach basements under private dwellings, thus making it easy ’to get supplies for Sunday drinks. ATTORNEY KILLS HIMSELF. .Worry Over Son’s Disgrace Causes the Deed. Suffering from a broken heart, caused by sorrow over his son’s disgrace, Ira C. Hoops, 60 years old, a wealthy attorney of Kokomo, committed suicide at his home. Unobserved by members of his family, Mr. Hoops entered the parlor, made a pillow of his overcoat, lay down before the grate and fired a shot from a 32-caliber revolver into his right temple. The bullet passed entirely through his head and killed him instantly. Mr. Hoops had been cast down and unconsolable for several months and his grief was pitiable. Last March his son, Richard Hoops, who was a student in the Lake Forest university, was arrested for robbing homes of millionaires in Evanston, 111., and confessed his guilt, but was not prosecuted because it was represented that, when a boy, he had met with an accident which might have led to kleptomania. "N HUNT TIGER IN INDIANA FIELDS. Army of Thousand Search for Animal Escaped from Menagerie. Nearly 500 men and boys, armed with guns, revolvers, pitchforks, clubs, hatchetc and knives, are engaged in an exciting hunt for a tiger that has been destroying bogs and other animals near Petersburg. Women and children have been terrorized by the beast. The tiger seems to he afraid of persons, but does not run from dogs that try to interfere with its depredations. Three dogs that gave battle to the animal were so badly injured that they were, killed and several others have been maimed and torn. The general fear of the animal has caused the people to turn out to bunt it down. It is believed that it escaped from a menagerie. So great is the excitement that parents have withdrawn their children from the schools.

KILLED BY FALLING SLATE. Pit Bose Loses Life While Examining Condition of Mine. Lon Ragsdale was crushed to death by falling slate in tbe Fiimore mine, near Sullivan. He was tbe pit boss and he bad gone through tbe mine to inspect timbers which tbe miners said were rotten and were likely to loosen at any time. While engaged in this work the slate fell. lie was 42 years old, a man of family, with his home at Washington. State Troops Leave Mancie. The five companies of the Indiana National Guard remaining in Mnncie left for their homes Friday. Muncie is now without military protection. The troops were ordered there Jan. 4, when martial law was declared on account of disturbances in the strike of the street railway employes. Liked Blind Bov’s Music. Inspired by the manner in which Clarence Clark, a 19-year-old blind boy, played the organ in the North Hide Mission Sunday school at Crawfordsville. Mrs. Julia Iloefgen of Crawfordsville. left him SSOO as a legacy. Hhe died a few days ago. Clark is a student at tbe Hcbool for tbe Blind. Forbid Carriages ia Polls. In addition to forbidding candidates to treat during the coming campaign, the Wayne County Republican central committee has decided to refuse to permit the use of conveyances to get the voters to the polls. Will Live Without Stomach. Physicians have taken out the stomach of Mrs. Minerva Porter of Evansville, aged 38, and connected tbe esophagus with the little intestine. Hhe will live. Tbe woman suffered from cancer of tbe stomach. Train Pluagsu from Trestle. An engine on the Southern railway plunged from a 90-foot trestle at Corydoo Junction, and Engineer Clarence Dunham, Fireman W. 11. Hcott sod Brakeman Frank Carter were killed. , . BRIEF STATE HAPPENINGS. Fire at Otwell destroyed a barn owned by Joseph liensey, together with hay and grain, causing $1,500 loan. While hunting near Evansville William York, farmer, was instantly killed by the accidental discharge of a gun in tbe hands of a companion. The open winter ia beginning to show it* effects on the winter wheat, which has bean dsamged. Disced* snow and unless that is forthcoming tbe crop will be a failure around St. Post.

WASHINGTON GOSSIP

The commissioners appointed bff President Roosevelt to investigate strike conditions |n Nevada and.to id* vise him as to the need of federal troops in, Goldfield to preserve order, has been made pnblic. In connection with it the President gives out his letter to Governor Sparks, in which he calls attention to the- report and the conclusion reached by the commissioners that, If the state and county exercise the powers at’ their disposal, they can maintain satisfactory order te Goldfield; that, so far, those authorities have done nothing, bat are relying upon federal aid, and their attitude is that of expressly refusing to do anything, and desiring to throw thsir own burdens upon the Federal Government for the maintenance of those elementary conditions of order for which they, and they only, are The President states that the troops will be kept at Goldfield until the meeting of the Legislature, when he intimates that they win be withdrawn. In their report, the commissioners say that, in their belief, there was no warrant Whatever for calling upon the President for troops; that there wa# no insurrection against the power of the State, and that nobody supposed there was such an insurrection. Tbtqr say “The action of the mine operators warrants the belief that they had determined upon a reduction in wages and the refusal of employment to tbs Western Federation of^—Miners, but that they feared to take this course of action unless they had the protection of federal troops, and that they accordingly laid a plan to secure such troops, and then put their program into effect.” , Before the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Chief Engineer Goethals of the Panama Car nal Commission and ex-Senator Bladeburn, governor of the canal zone, explained the present state of the great enterprise. Colonel Goethals said there were now 30,000 men on the roll, and that last month there was for tha first time more men available than could be employed. No Americana are on the laborers’ roll, the list being made up from West Indians and whites from the south of Europe. A Spaniard would do twice as much work as a negro. Although he had formerly Tavored a sea-level canal. Colonel Goethals was now convinced that the lock system was the best The cost of the total work would be about 1250,000,000, exclusive of the modiy paid for the French rights. Blackburn said he bad reduced tbe number of saloons In the zone to tbirty-four, which pay SIOO a month license. A number of lively debates cropped up in tbe House during tbe consideration of tbe bill to codify tbe laws. The civil war was fought over with great heat when the Southern Democrats wanted to have tbe sections paaeed In 1866 and 1870 to compel tbe enforcement of tbe negro amendment! stricken out. To this the majority would uot listen. Then came a warm disco*slon over the campaign contributions of corporations, tbe Democrats —irT-*mg to Increase tbe penalties Imposed under tbe Tillman law upon' bank officials who thus misused their funds, but their proposals were voted down. By direction of tbe President, Seem tary of tbe Navy Metcalf baa an order directing Surgeon Charles F. Stokes te take command of tbe hospital ship Relief. This is the last step in the controversy which resulted In tbe resignation of Rear Admiral Brownson froze tbe office of chief of tbe Bureau of Navigation. In connection with this action the President transmitted to the Secretary a letter defending hie course and citing the precedents in the American and other navies te suck procedure. Tbe Interstate Commerce Oommte slon is preparing plana for a thorough Investigation of Thomas F. Ryan’s manipulation of tbe securities of tbe Seaboard Air Line, which resulted In a receivership. It is understood that this investigation is undertaken at the Inatenre of President Roosevelt and la bigoly pleasing to some of tbe Southern United States Senators, who have been preparing to urge Congress to taka tbe matter up. A bill to estabish a central bank at Washington, to be known as the United States National Bank of America, has been Introduced by Foraes of New York. Tbe bank would hava SIOO,000,000 capital, of which tha government ia te purchase three-fifths from tbe sale of gold bonds and the remainder to he sold to national banka. The President has sent directly te the chairman of the Committee on Military Affaire of the. House of imprint tativee urging tbe Importance of Improving the horsemanship of army officers by establishing remount stations for tbe training of horses for army nos sod suggesting legldaUon for tha mounting of infantry captains, whs may thus be better fitted for the perIM n .... r.- 1 ''» 1 -J*