AN OPTIMIST ON CROPS.
SHALL WE EVER HAVE ANOTHER
HARVEST FAILURE?
The Sccretary of Agriculture's Pre.
dictions as to the Future of Ameri.
can Grain Production and What
the Grain Trade Thinks of Them.
with Secretary
Department
A recent interview
of the Agricultural
tracted considerable notice in
grain trade, 1903,
begun to i appear
United States fron e list of
exporting n . 3 etary Wils
in the interview referred to, now
clares hat her il
*erop fa
that
will
19040."
The
shown
the trade he
ance Ol the
wae
and
Some
begins
time,
fertili
telligen tle
little
inte
make
18 will exhau
supply smicals,
by (requ
80 quick
worthy of
destruction by
noticeable in flelds
grain planted ox
for
tation is destructive to
bug, Hessian fly, and insects
But notwithstanding the Improve-
ments cithbd, there are decidedly
experienced dealers who agree
Secretary Wilsom that tae
acre in 1910 will be twice
it was in 1900. The average
tion per acre should show
animal
where one kind
ntinuously
nas Deen
showing taat
the chil:
geveral seasons,
other
with
per
yield
increase,
yield has too
per
been entirely
1800 the average yleld acre
placed at 12.3 bushels, while in
the average was approximately
it hardly seems credible, however,
that this can be increased Ia
years to 24 bushels, although it
brought up to 29
not be considered a particularly
production In foreign
the United Kingdom,
yield per acre is frequently
bushels:
28, Belgium 33, and Holland about
28. These comparatively
show beyond a doubt what can be
done with old soll provided
ground is properly cultivated, and the
right kind of fertilizers, etc., are used,
ft ghould be borne in mind at this
juncture however, that a large per
centage of our wheat is raised on soll
that is either nearly virgin or kas
Bttle if any fertilizer In it. This
would suggest that many flelds in old
or esstern States that are now idle
age be
nigh
used only for grazing might be
good erops if proper.
well manured.—New
O Droaut
tilled and
hk Post,
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PORFIRIO DIAZ,
Mexico's Ruler as an Englishwoman
Sees Him,
Mrs. Alec Tweedls
sistance of
asm in
uno
ographer
To her Diaz
last centur
THESE BULLETS DO NOT KILL.
Permits Prac
ets.
invention That
Vith Muman Targ
Paris
ite disconcer
when the
fn
to fire
to 0
opponent
hserve the rules
and keep
men
the combatants inadvert
and recelved
his thumb,
oper ration
New York
cossary
at the
1 . +41
i unti
face the
both have fir
sed
his plstol
his bullet in
compelling a surgical
Lond correspondence
opponent 8
on
A Woman's , Way,
patient in Roosevelt Hospi
rradually weaker without
ward
grew
y apparent reason
“She's fretting
some!
she would
would get tter
By and by the patient did open her
mind and heart.
“if © could only
walled “I'd feel different,
must look like death, or you'd
me have a looking glass.”
It was against the rules to supply
patients in that ward with mirrors,
but the nurse, recognizing the gravity
herself to
sald the nurse, “If
me | think she
deat
about hing
'
confide in
bett sy
sce myself,” she
I know 1
let
a small hand-glass, The result
miraculous
“Why, dear me,” sald the sick
woman, “1 don’t look half so bad as
I supposed I did.”
And from that hour she began to
fmprove,
was
To Be
Successful
By Beatrice Fairfax,
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amount
netaal
By Graham Hood
By President Hadley
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By Va nce
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watchful eye of iT
theatres: in a restaur
easy to recognize thos
dently beén instructed
them the livery of a
rain or suniight--an }
fancy that, in an open ca
at least be safe from surveillance
and speak of the weather, The fat
Lair and good puterna' ayes, may be a 8;
the traveling stranger; and if the cabman has
great clubs, the hotels, or the embassies,
subtler police than that of the third seciion-the
fications in every capital in Europe and America
osplonuage. Its mesh 1s over every man In Rusgla
ve only old Count Tolstol Success
wii
bean |
akra
Democratic and socialis
state
but in
Moscow, in the streets
function
3 deed in
ANGTEG 1
yards;
niga
Bouse
he would
gignificanti
gomnoient, with white
d in the language than
ound loitering near the
strong that he Ia. A
which has its ram!
touch him
ne,
no one goes unwatched
THE KEYSTONE STATE
The Latest Pennsylvania News Told In Short
Order.
ween
and he
About two
ago brother badly
Girardville had its worst fire
many years, At about 1t 0
other night simoke was seen ss
Caton,
and ough the
unptly
fire
to th
siren
de-
partment responded pr
alarm, before they could get a
into play the buildin was nvel
ining
yrities deemed
ped
a short time adj build
took fire and the auth
ask for assistance from
Ashland responded
fire was under con-
houses were
contents of
fire ong
Ings
wk the
Eight frame tenement
together with the
where the
The loss is $11,000,
Because of the increase in member.
ship the Lutheran congregation at Spring
down their present place
church cost
$35.000 and Sg40.000
to years old of York,
working on the
Yost,
ing between
James P. Ream,
dropped dead while
lawn in the yard of Dr. G. P.
Death was due to heart disease.
The Canton Bridge Company, of Can
ton, Ohio, was awarded the contract for
the erection of a bridge over the Kis.
kiminetas River at Salina, at its bid of
$65,504.
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