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The Prosperity Steam Roller.
Can anybody doubt that America is
to enjoy almost uninterrupted pros
perity when the achievements of the
farm are carefully considered? The
product of the farms for last year
alone is big enough to buy all the
railroads in the country.
The pessimist may say that one
year of good crop is not enough upon
which to base prophecies of good
times. Well, then take the last nine
years. In that time the farms have
turned oil products worth $53,000,000,
000—a sum so vast that it can only
be understood after careful analysis.
• But it was enough to have kept the
prosperity wheels going around at a
rate never before witnessed in this
or any other country. And they are
still going. Crops this year will sell
for more money than ever before in
any one year.
The prices of farm products have
steadily advanced and last year
brought an average of eight per cent
more than in 1891, when they were
at the highest notch ever known.
The farmer of today knows how to
make the land yield larger and bet
ter crops than ever before and our
agricultural wealth, which is the
basis of our prosperity, will grow in
long upward leaps.
Our prosperity will be permanent.
There will be little temporary ob
stacles like the bank shark scare last
fall, but the big steam roller of good
times will move on, flattening them
into obscurity without stopping long
enough to be seriously noticed.
And the farm is behind it all the
time.—American Farm World.
. Sunshine in the Dairy Stable.
A farmer, whose cattle have always
been kept in a stable on the north side
of the barn, well lighted and ventilat
ed, had occasion to enlarge his stable
building the extension with a south
ern exposure, into which the direct
rays of the sun were permitted to
enter with no obstruction. He discov
ered by accident, what he subsequent
ly demonstrated by repeated experi
ence. that, the same creature in the
sunlight took on flesh more readily,
ate less and produced more than when
kept in the stable w’here the direct
sunlight never entered. .,iOre than
this, he proved conclusively that crea
tures suffering with various diseases,
or reduced physical condition from di
vers causes, recovered more readily
when afforded the energizing influ
ences of the sunshine.
Favors Acting in Time.
A brother in Sumter county, South
Carolina, writes in reference to the
state meeting of the union that it ap
pears to be very necessary to have
such a meeting. Some of our trou
bles are due to procrastination. We
wait until the cotton crop is made
before trying to finance it. Whereas,
if we would finance our farms on a
conservative basis for the first eight
months of the year more than half
the battle would be won, and the cot
ton crop would finance itself. Our
local unions need to be made live
farmers’ clubs, where the second
aries of farm management will occupy
as large part of the discussions as
co-operation in buying and selling.
If sheep of certain breeding meet
your ideals you had better obtain as
much of that blood as possible and
then continue along the same line.
If pedigree is of no value, why have
the world's best breeders practiced
line breeding? They value it highly
because sheep whose sires and dams
are of a certain trype will produce
lambs with the same desirable char
acteristics. Although registered, cer
tain individuals may have a short
pedigree, their ancestors are practi
cally unknown, and if with undesir
able characteristics same will be in
evidence among the lambs sooner or
later. Although there are exceptions
to all laws of breeding, to be rea
sonably sure of the best results you
should know that your purchases
have high class ancestors.
Sentiment should begin to crystal
lize in some plan to sell cotton on net
weight so that the farmer will not
lose more than at present for bagging
and ties. As it now’ stands the tare
taken off the weight of each bale is
thirty pounds in European countries,
and twenty-two pounds in England,
while the actual weight of bagging
and ties is seldom over 21 pounds,
but often under that figure. The re
duction to twenty-two pounds tare by
the English spitjners last year was
brought about through the efforts of
the Farmers’ Union and has resulted
in a great saving to the cotton farm
ers, but the majority of the American
cotton is sold on the Continent and
hence the necessity for extending the
change to European spinners.
As a rule, people judge the age of a
fowl by its spurs, but t..e length of
spur is no positive criterion to go by.
We have some cockerels that show
more spur than do some oi our cock
birds. But generally speaking, the
size of bpur will help out a doubt.
An Australian authority says that a
pullet, wi'l show rose-colored veins
on the surface of the skin, under the
wings. There will also be long silky
hairs growing there. After a year
old those hairs disappears, as also
do the veins, and the skin grows
white and veinless.
FOR CORN IMPROVEMENT.
Prof. C. P. Norgord, Formerly of Ar
kansas, but Now in Wisconsin,
Writes Corn Letter to Board
of Trade.
A letter relative to the methods that
may be used for the improvement of
corn culture in Arkansas was received
yesterday at the Board of Trade from
Prof. ('. P. Norgord, assistant agron
omist of Wisconsin, and connected
with the Agricultural College at Mad
ison. Professor Norgord was former
ly at the Arkansas State Experiment
Station. The letter is a reply to a
request for literature and information
relative to the improvement of corn.
In part the letter follows:
In regard to the movement for the
improvement of corn, I wish to state
that this work has been in progress
for a number of years at this station
and three varieties of corn suitable
to I he three different climatic and soil
conditions have been introduced and
disseminated throughout the state.
These are not purebred varieties,
nor are there any absolutely pure
bred varieties of corn in the United
States, but they are good yields and
suitable to the conditions of the sec
tions in which we have placed them.
In addition to this, we have endeav
ored to improve the methods of hand
ling of corn.
This consists of getting the farm
ers in the state to set aside a plot
of land, say from one-half to one
acre of ground, each year, upon which
they raise their seed corn. The corn
is planted in this plot in such a man
ner that corn from the same ear is
planted side by side in a certain num
ber of rows, and thus from fifty to
one hundred ears for the whole plot.
In this manner we determine the
profligacy, vitality and yielding pow
er of each ear used in the test, and
select seed corn only from the rows
from the best ears as indicated by
their yields and characteristics. We
then select about one hundred of the
best ears from the highest yielding
parent ears from the seed for the
seed plot of the following year, and
use the remainder of the seed corn
front the seed plot for the general
field for the following year. In this
way we each year improve the qual
ity of our seed corn and lose none of
the work done during the preceding
year.
With reference to sending you seed
from this station, I wish to say that
corn which is adapted to this state
would not at all be adapted to your
state. It would not be a large enough
variety nor late enough, neither would
it give the yields that you could get
from varieties of corn suitable to
your state.
During my work in Arkansas I en
deavored to establish and breed one
variety of corn for each of (he sub
stations, namely, at Mena, Hope, Lo
noke, Imboden, Latour, Danville and
Fayetteville, the main station. It was
my purpose to select good seed corn
from the variety grown at each of
these places and to disseminate it in
the section surrounding the substa
tions for this year. At the same time
it was my purpose to carry on close
breeding work year by year, by means
of which, within four or five years,
pure bred strains of superior qualities
would be produced for future dissem
ination.
The following are some of the best
varieties for your state, and are some
which were used for original stock
for the breeding work at the substa
tions: Hickory King, Held’s Yellow
Dent, Farmers’ Favorite, Boone Coun
ty White, Iowa Silver Mine, Learning,
Cookes Prolific, Marlboro's Prolific
and Texas Strawberry.
I would also advise you to get in
close co-operation with the station
at Fayetteville in response to the
glowing and distribution of seed corn
r-nd the dissemination of improved
methods of handling corn. The sta
tion is anxious to be helpful to the
farmers and is the proper and most
effective channel in your state for you
to work through.
I should have been more than pleas
ed 1o have joined with you in this
good work had I stayed with the sta
tion in Arkansas. You have a fine
state and a fine field for work, and I
look ior great development in both
the corn and cotton industry in your
stare within the next few years. 1
shall be pleased to hold myself at
your service for any information that
vou wsh to call upon me for.
About Fertilizers.
A few simple fertilizer maxims are
so important that thej should be
fixed in the mind. Per cent is only
another way foe saying parts in 100.
Fertilizers may be direct or indirect
in action. The former contains need
ed plant food, the latter enables the
plant to get food from soil or air.
Lime is not plant food under common
conditions; it corrects a bad condi
tion of soil—sourness—and unlocks
soil materials. Sulphate of iron (cop
peras), sulphate of copper (blue
stone), sulphate of.magnesia (Epsom
salts), and sulphate of lime (gyp
sum), are among these indirect fer
tilizers.
Yards and runs that are used for
poultry year after year should be fre
quently plowed or spaded over to get
the filth turned under where the soil
will take care of it. Where you can
have an extra yard or two plow deep
and seed to wheat or barley ant?
when it gets up some size turn th
chickens in this and plow and seec
the other yard just vacated. This id
a little trouble, ’tis true, but it has
two or three advantages. It turns up
the bugs and worms where the hens
can get them, freshens the ground
1 and gives them a crop groan >111111
TO MARKET.
HIS little pig: went to
market.
And wliat came back
now say, what do you
think?
A string of sausages,
link after link.
0«ie thin old goose went to
market.
And afterwards what do
you s'pose we saw?
A nice tin can of pate
de fois gras.
One fatted calf went to
market.
Next day as veal, so
tender, fresh and pallid,
That calf was served to
us as chicken salad.
Whatever goes to market—
’Tis true that in whatever form one
buys it,
The poor thing’s Maker would not rec
ognize it.
“Lapereau aux Tomatoes."
In plain English, rabbit with to
matoes.
Pulp one pound of cooked tomatoes,
and mix with three tablespoons of
stock. Line 12 cutlet molds with this,
and fill them with the following mix
ture: Take some cold rabbit (previous
ly cooked), and mince it. Then niois
en with white sauce made of the stock
in which the rabbit was boiled, thick
ened with flour and cream. Add half a
pint of whipped cream, and three ta
blespoonfuls of liquid jelly; cover
with more of the tomato sauce, and
leave them to set. Turn out and serve
with any nice salad. Any cold game
may be served in this way, and you
will have a good luncheon with no
other meat.
A POLITE CHILD.
HE children at the party
Were awfully polite,”
Said little Bess, “for every
one's
Behavior was just right.
“When any of the kids
were asked
To have more cake or
bread.
Or apple pie. or cocoanut,
‘No. thank you,’ they all
said.”
asked: “Of cowrse
You said: 'No, thank
you,’ too?”
j Bess shook her Iiead; the
mother frowned,
“Child, I’m ashamed of you."
Tlte baby laughed: “Why, mamma, dear,
When they passed cake or bread,
I could not say: 'No, thank you,' ’cause
‘Yes, thank you, ma'am,’ I said,"
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That “Finicky” Taste.
Many a one prides himself upon his
dainty taste in eating, when he should,
on the contrary, be ashamed of him
self for an over-critical, “finicky" epi
cure.
In the east there is a proverb which
says: "He that has true faith in an
Omnipresent Being, may eat all that
exists"—which is only another way
of adjuring us to be sensible and re
frain from too close inquiry into that
which we put into our stomachs.
The dainty lady who looks with hor
ror at the coarse fare of the street
shoveler, may exercise infinite care in
the selection of her favorite brand of
candies, or utmost thought as to the
make and quality of her particular
taste in cake. For it is not the quan
tity we egt which makes for gluttony
—it is the capricious palate, the over
nicety in food of which we ought to
be quite as much ashamed.
How often we hear the words: “I
just simply can't eat this,” or “My
folks won't eat it cooked any way but
that,” or even “My children have to
have their meat prepared this way or
they won't eat it.”
All forgetting that “it is not the food
which entereth into the mouth of a
man which deflleth him, but the appe
tite with which it is eaten,” and ex
treme care and thought put upon that
we eat, except, of course, for the pur
poses of hygiene and price, is worse
than wasted. And those children are
especially unfortunate whose parents
humor their every whim at the table.
It is they who will suffer the most in
after life if denied that which pamper
ing has taught them to expect as a
matter of course.
A gypsy woman stewing rabbits
over a camp fire, and dishing the
soup with a tin cup, may be a coarse
sight, but it is a question of environ
ment rather than taste, and signifies
less attention to the material things
of earth than does the exquisitely pre
pared salad or the "filet-de-something
or-other,” served at my lord's table.
Sweet Potato Pie.
Boil and mash sweet potatoes, add
ing a little milk before straining. Beat
into the potato one egg, a half cup
sugar, salt and a dash of nutmeg. Add
two cups milk and bake in open crust.
This has the flavor of squash pie, but
Is richer.
Cuisine Queries.
Why will some home-made soap
float, and another kind sink?
The soap which floats is that which
is freed from excess of pork fat. The
mutton or beef fat is lighter.
What is the meaning of the words:
“a la Newburg” attached to a recipe
for lobster, chicken, etc.? The title re
fers to the sauce which is made of
thickened cream, eggs and, usually, a
dash of some sort of wine.
THE RULING PASSION
PIOUS vegetarian was
.font's.
The flesh of animals he
would not eat.
“It makes my brother to
offend,” he’d say,
“While the world stand
eth I will eat no meat.
“The prophet, Daniel,
when to court he came.
With meat would not de
file himself, and he
Waxed strong in skill and
w i s d o m — therefore
grain.
Milk, fruit, with nuts and
eggs my portion be."
Wlien on his death-bed.
and the doctors said,
That he the “Valley’s Shadow” soon
must pass.
There was no thought of fear; Jones only
said:
"The flower withereth; all flesh is
grass.”
They further urged: "The bishop shall
we call?
A priest? A Baptist? Unitarian?”
He only shook his head. "No shrift I
need;
I've always been a vegetarian.”
New England Notions.
Whether they deserve it or not, the
fact remains, there is a prestige en
joyed by the New England housewife
which the western woman respects.
Time, of course, will show the bene
fits of the New England example. The
following hints had their origin in
towns still under the atmosphere of
Priscilla.
Use a No. 1 paint brush for greasing
tins or griddles.
Sage cheese is best for Welsh rab
bit.
Instant relief for indigestion is af
forded by taking a teaspoonful of
glycerine in a little water immediately
after eating.
When pouring hot fruit into a glass
dish or jar, place it on a wet cloth;
this will prevent the cracking of the
glass.
Always soak raisins in cold water
before stoning.
Bread crumbs are much better than
cracker crumbs for covering articles
io be fried. They do not absorb the
grease.
Instead of eggs—this suggestion is
offered, with the assurance of several
who have tried it, that it is success
ful. Use grated potato instead of an
egg. For every egg called for take a
potato the size of an egg, peel and
wash well, and grate into the sugar
and butter which has been well
mixed. Use a little more flavoring
than usual, and beat the mixture with
an even stroke.
SUNDAY MEETING.
HE gossips of.the village
are repeating.
How queer it is I’m not in
Sunday meeting.
I’m there of evenings, and
on Wednesday night;
But Sunday mornings
never—it’s not right.
They tell me I’m “beyond
the pale”—a sinner,
But it I went, who'd Ret
the Sunday dinner?
It's hard to know some
times, just which is
right.
But somehow, then, my
duty seems in sight.
'When two or three are gathered in one
place,”
The Lord has promised to bestow his
grace.
But, maybe, for the will God takes the
deed.
And though I'm far from learned, In
pious creed,
I have the feeling that, ’spite I’m a
sinner,
I am not all alone while getting dinner;
He knows how much I'd like to go, you
see,
And sends a Messenger to stay with me.
Sugar-Saving.
Many a woman begrudges her chil
dren plenty of sugar spread on the
bread and butter who will stir it quite
recklessly into fruit or sauce which is
boiling. This is the wrong economy.
Sugar is a necessity with growing chil
dren; they should have all they want
(unless, of course, it is plainly an un
natural craving). Give it to them on
their bread, but do not put it into any
fruit while the latter is boiling. Sugar
boiled with an acid is converted into
glucose which has less than half the
sweetening power of sugar in its orig
inal state. So it is plainly seen that
the fruit should be first boiled and
the sugar added when it is cooling.
Then one pound of sugar will go as
far as two put in during the cooking
process.
Chestnut Soup.
To a half pint of boiled and ma«hed
nuts, add a half pint of boiling water,
the same of milk, a dash of pepper
and celery salt. Thicken with a little
flour, and when smooth add half a
cup of cream and the beaten yolk of
an egg. Take from fire, beat until it
foams, and serve hot with salted
crackers.
*• "Guess Again*’ Pie.
To a cup of split cranberries add
one-half cup seeded raisins, a cup of
sugar, one of water and a spoon of
Hour. Boil, and when cool, add half a
teaspoon of vanilla. This is enough
filling for two pies with strips on top.
The mixture of berries, raisins and
vanilla is pleasing and indefinable.
FUEL FROM WATER
PLAN WHICH MAY REVOLUTION
IZE INDUSTRIAL WORLD
Missourian Said to Have Perfected
Method of “Burning” Water, End
ing Use of Coal and Oil for
Creation of Power.
St. Louis.—A native-born Missouri
an proposes to solve the fuel problem
and revolutionize the industrial world
by burning water for fuel.
He proposes to abolish coal mining
and coal hauling, to make possible an
ocean leviathan which will cross from
New York to Liverpool in three days,
to have at hand always and every
where a never-ending fuel free of cost
to all comers.
Capt. Warren’s scheme has the in
dorsement of Nikola Tesla, that fa
mous wizard of science. The captain
has recently returned to New York
from a two years' absence on a sailing
vessel, and has brought with him the
crystallized result of many months of
study and research. While he has been
sailing the deep or alternately leading
the strenuous and simple life ashore
he has steadily pursued his experi
ments, building boats and apparatus
for the purpose, and now he is pre
pared to give the results to the
world.
The invention is nothing less revolu
tionary than manufacturing fuel out of
water!
The world now secures power from
water by utilizing its weight on an
old-fashioned water wheel or a modern
turbine. It also utilizes the power of
water by turning it into steam. Capf.
Warren's invention separates the
CAP7.L CWARRZN
chemical constituents of water and
takes advantage of the explosive
capacity of these elements in recom
bining to produce power
“Burn water,” Capt. Warren says,
“only in the sense in which we burn
carbonic gas. Both are products of
combustion. The constituent ele
ments of each are combustible when
isolated The only problem is to sep
arate or isolate them after they have
once been combined. This nature is
constantly doing, and we have only to
accelerate or short circuit her pro
cesses in order to restore immediately
these combustible substances to their
elemental state and have them ready
to reunite at our bidding in the phe
nomenon of combustion. Burning, or
combustion, is simply the manifesta
tion of the action of chemical affinity.
We burn the elemental substances,
hydrogen and oxygen, by bringing
them together under conditions favor
able to the operation of the affinity,
which causes them to unite in a new
chemical compound, which, when con
densed, is water. We separate these
elements by subjecting their com
pound, water, to conditions which
overcome or neutralize this affinity.
“When we can burn hydrogen for
power, when the industrial w'orld awa
kens to the fact that prodigious expen
ditures for coal and liquid fuel are
entirely unnecessary, and that there is
right within our grasp an unlimited
supply of fuel substance available
practically without cost, for it is self
producing, there will be a revolution
in the industrial world. When the
centuries-old theories of the inde
structibility of matter and the con
servation of energy and matter have
once become really understood by
men, we will witness the utter collapse
and extinction of one of the oldest and
most gigantic of human industries, the
mining of coal.”
As applied to warships, Capt. War
ren believes that his new propulsive
power will be of far-reaching impor
tance ana give the American battle
ships adopting the fuel and apparatus
he has devised immense advantages
over warships of other navies, as the
mechanism of the Warren scheme is
so simple and comparatively small
that it will not be easy for a torpedo
or shell from the enemy to reach it.
“But what is the secret of the pro
duction of this new motive power?"
Capt. Warren was asked.
“The secret of the production of hy
drogen for fuel lies in the successful
manipulation of that mysterious force
in nature called chemical affinity of
alements, in other words, the isolation
af the hydrogen under certain condi
tions and its recombination through
combustion with Wie oxygen through
which it was originally associated iu
the form of water,’
ONLY OOTBACK HlS 0WN.
Umbrella Had Longl7en Ahc.
,ts P^per Hall ^ee f'0m
Stories about umbrellas" e u
New York physician, when that ^ a
article was the subject of , 1 USeful
“are as numerous as fish f SCUS8i°n,
often test just as L '63’ and
credulity of those who listingthe
This is a true one- in” then>'
phoned an hour after lfe hadT tele'
my office one morning , hat he bV, at
his umbrella on the halrlk t T
see that it was kept for him, m*
servant found it, and that ,My
while we were at dinner he called Dg
the umbrella nad canie in to tii ?' g0t
There he told a long s,or a Zb™*'
he valued the umbrella because bh'"'
carried i, a long time, andT^ £
the right weight and showed a d
in the silver handle which had fi
made by his little boy when he used it
as a hockey stick, i sawmywi
smile while the story was being tol l
She understood my wink, however
and we said nothing. But when the
man had gone away with the umbrella
under his arm we laughed, for we had
recognized the umbrella which I had
carried out and never brought back
more than three years ago,”
CHILD HAD SIXTY BOILS,
And Suffered Annually with a Red
Scald-Like Humor on Her Head
Troubles Cured by Cuticura.
"When my little Vivian was about
six months old her head broke out in
boils. She had about sixty in all and
I used Cuticura Soap and Cuticura
Ointment which cured her entirely
Some time later a humor broke out bei
hind her ears and spread up on to
her head until it was nearly half cov
ered. The humor looked like a scald,
very red with a sticky, clear fluid com
ing from it. This occurred every
spring. I always used Cuticura Soap
and Ointment which never failed to
heal it up. The last time it broke
out it became so bad that I was dis
couraged. But I continued the use of
Cuticura Soap, Ointment and Resol
vent until she was well and has never
been troubled in the last two years.
Mrs. M. A. Schwerin, 674 Spring Wells
Ave., Detroit, Mich., Feb. 24, 190S.”
Potter Drag ft Chem. Corp., Sole Props., Boston.
Not Included.
After the dry goods salesman had
completed his business with Cyrus
Craig. Centerville’s storekeeper, he
asked what was going on in the town.
‘‘Had any entertainments this winter?”
he inquired.
“No,” said Mr. Craig, “not one. Sa
lome Howe’s pupils have given two
concerts, piano and organ, and the
principal of the ‘cademy has lectured
twice, once on ‘Our National Forests’
and once on ‘Stones As I Know Them;’
but as far as entertainments are con
cerned, Centerville hasn’t got round to
’em yet.”—Youth’s Companion.
Looking Forward.
Mr. Wiggins, being in a frivolous
mood, was giving a burlesque imita
tion of palmistry—pretending to
read his wife’s fortune in her palm.
Six-year-old Ruth was listening with
intense seriousness, but neither of
them was noticing her.
“And, finally,” he concluded, after
the usual recitals about a dark man, a
light man, a journey, and a large for
tune, “you will live to a great age.
"Thank God!” broke in Ruth, dap
ping her hands ecstatically. "Then my
children will have a grandmother!
Come Get Your Medicine.
If that little bit of three-cornered,
half-jointed, pin-headed squirt with a
big automobile and a size three head
on his miserable, slanting shoulders,
who turned t lie corner of Ferry and
Main streets on two wheels the other
ofternoon, and nearly sent three pedes
trians into Kingdom Come, will call
at this office we'll tear his scrawny
soul to pieces and lick him to a fraz
zle” after the most approved Roose
vpltian methods. He knows who we
mean.—Buffalo News.
NO MEDICINE
But a Change of Food Gave Relief.
Many persons are learning 'hat
drugs are not the thing to rebui
worn out nerves, but proper food is
required. .
There is a certain element in the
cereals, wheat, barley, etc., which is
grown there by nature for food to 1 -a‘n
and nerve tissue. This is the P i0;
phate of potash, of which Grape-* u s
food contains a large proportion.
In making this food ail the food ele
ments in the two cereals, wheat an
barley, are retained. That is wh> so
many heretofore nervous and run
people find in Grape-Nuts a truenen
and brain food.
“I can say that Grape-Nuts food h<
done much for me as a nerve 1 — .
er,” writes a Wis. bride.
“A few vears ago. before m> n1:
rlage, I was a bookkerijcr .
firm. I became so nervous towai •
end of each week that it se< ” .
must give up my position, "!
could not afford to do.
“Mother purchased some Grape - ■ •
and we found it not only deliciou
I noticed from day to day that I ‘
improving until I finally realize
net nervous any more. . .onj«
“I have recommended it to ■ *
as a brain and nerve food. nei>*
ing found its equal. I owe nm - ^
Grape-Nuts as it saved 11 t0
nervous collapse, and enabled
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