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CORN GROWING SCIENTIFICALLY
Qorn growing is an art that has not
yet been learned by all farmens,
though some of sm have been work
tag at it all their |
Professor P.
Pert, cays poor
poor stands,
“I have
ded over 5.000 x
od
sent me from all over Iowa,
of a poor and of com is
ia at ( Rapids,
where the farmer said he had no need
to hear me corn, I found
teen hills missing out 100
thirty-nine hills that mly
stalk, and per
were barre He had
of 50 Ch oleate
ves
G
seed is the cause
gone int
rn fie
over 6,000 samples of seed corn
The
pr rr
seed.
one fleid oon fowa,
talk
of
had one
tH
ant. of the STaIKS
planted corn
school
od
“Years ago I taughta country
kt 1
in which i
dor every farmer
ware allowed
«hon :
savas oaf
and not
hh
a andiar
Ne AUGiend
examination
feeding
pig. He
eR CO
&# hie,
&lops
The
elopa
will
«ay, and
ow i
doting
~~
NE
#:
Increased gr
were weaned
make 300-pound
arith “hat feed.
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BPARROW HAWK
While name
Urings to mind only slaughtered p yul-
¢ry, careful investigation shows that
most of the hawks are decidedly
friends of the farmer. Though
fong-talled hawks, §ooper’s, the Sharp-
skinned and the Goshawk aptly styled
the “drigands of the family,” are not
to be favored, the shorttailed species,
even if some of them do invade the
poultry yard occasionally, destroy so
FRIEND
often
OUR
the hawk too
the
to many times amend for the few mis.
demeanors.
The smallest, handsomest and one
of the most useful is the sparrow hawk
which, besides killing many Insects
and furry pests, makes havoc with
the bully among little birds, the Eng.
fish sparrow. Whether the latter
beneficial or injurious, its quarrel
some nature seems to demand that
some check be given to protect our
motive youngsters,
In summer it poises over a meadow
vibrations of the wings and tail,
watching for a stray grasshopper or
cricket which it is not slow to spy.
In localities infested with locusts,
dt also does incaleuable ald. In win-
ter it may come to the barn or straw
stack: but it Is mice, not chickens,
very small, are never harmed
It is a handsome, innocent, bird, well
deserving protection, despite its sharp
and and
has chance to
laws hooked beak, no one
who admire its
rich and ruf-
\ ous coloring, barred and polkadotted
! with will wish this
efficient mouser.—Richmond
Democrat.
had a
blending of slate, white
black harm to
| THE HORSE TO BREED,
The breeder have a
tain and distinct type of horse
mind before
| his constant aim should be
only
i
i
i
cor.
in
and
to produce
kind Un-
ambition
that he will
produce anything valuable, He should
hr ed he
ought to
starting to bre ed,
the best of it
his aim
probability
very
be
and
is
less
y the
that
his
¢ 3 hat
and that
5
4
select the or breeds
thinks are
ditions and
when ralsed
him the
he decides
best adapted to
circumstances,
and
con.
marketed will ne
money. Assuming tha
draft and
p 3 y .
afest aver.
maost
to ralse horses
)
}
l
they are much for the
age farmer
| ducing
| maturity
pounds
ie
ie
ought
horses he il
to alm at pro-
weigh at
not less than 1,500 or
But size, of course, ls
| everything, The
1
ly made
1.700
not
be pro-
he of
best al wnd stamina, sound, have
ing and
itness,
portionats the
¥
FLOWERS
fra ¢
irfagran
}
be
beautiful and
the iawn can not
inn fall
is in full bloom
Cannon Balls of Stone,
On either side of
Asylum on
immense
the entrance to
Gray's Ferry
stone sphere,
ring about twenty-five inches in
There a legend that
these used or intended for use
in a Turkish mortar, “the largest
piece of ordnance in the world”
These balls were given the in-
stitution soon after its founding by
Commodore J. D. Elliott, who obtained
them during a cruise on the frigate
Constitution in European waters, An
inscription on one of the balls re
lates that they were obtained on the
Aslatic side of the Dardanelles, and
it 1s within the realms of possibility
that the Turks may have intended
them to serve as shot in a mortar.
It is also more than probable that
with sufficient powder to project them
stones would have been badly
shattered.
Commodore Elliott presented them
in 1838, and ever since then they have
ornamented the entrince and mysti-
fled curious visitors, — Philadelphia
Public ledger.
the Naval
road, is an
measu
diameter is
were
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the
—— — J — y—
Queer Wicks,
Sam, a aegro servant of a Harris-
burg family, is very ambitious to ap-
| pear well Informed on all subjects.
| His master had Installed electric
lights throughout the house and was
explaining the workings of the fluid to
| Sam as follows:
“You ses, the whole thing comes
| trom the dynamo and goes luto the
| wires and then into the lights. Now,
| do you understand?”
{| “Yes, sah,” sald Sam. “ understana
| all ‘bout dem dyaamos and other
how do the kerosene squirt throo dem
wicks?" —Phitadelphia Public Ledger.
Fault of System,
Not ¢f Men
Railroad Accidents Caused by Operation Economy,
By Grand Master PP. H. Morrissey of the
Brotherhood 6f Railroad Trainmen,
HENEVER the the
the public a of
of
as being
t of wrecks is before
fail
rallway
subjed causes of railway
certain rallvay writers to speak
never
the of izations of labor men
disel
ipiine
disa
There is
influence gan among
subversiy ood and consequently a cca-
tributing cause to the many ters that have shocked the pub
lic in the past
not a rallroad labor organiza:
t that }
charged with enforcement
Le
object 1 1¢ adoption of
hampering tae
tion
operation
Call
of safe by opposi unre le
ABOIIAI
method !
ile death
organization would
employment men less hazardou
em There
ting train . and too
to employee and
State railways of
mile
Every advance
tion, such as off
ractical
Of
time
hurry
safety
The
among th LOO
in condud
of tray
G
that we
taking
men
are capable and i
¥.
are is the fault
iy
Lion
American Investments
Are the Safest
By H. Allaway,
in the
World
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What Schools
Can Do For Peace
Education Commissioner Draper
of New York.
By State
How Railroads May
Still Grant Rebates
By Justice Gaynor, of New York
Y own view is that it is only necessary for
the s¢
to fix
schedul
i
office
paid the
t no ess act
sidom done, but
is done One way is to give favoritism
in freight rates by billing goods at one-half weight Another
means of the private switches or tracks which connect many
with the railroads. One of these little n ade a quarter of a mile
get twenty-five or even fifty per cent. of the freight money charged he
ralircad it connects and which carries the freight hundreds of of
miles: private freight cars leased lo the railroad at exorbitant rates are an
other means, and still another the giving of large commissions to a
between for getting the freight This favoritism. in freight rates and
genger rates is also a wrong to the railroad stockholders. There are
now paying three or four per cent dividends which would be paying
ten per cent. if the favoritism in freight rates were stopped
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Clear Thinking Essential
To High Morality
By Dr James M. Taylor, President of
Vassar College,
T is essential to see clearly, to think straight! and to speak aceur
ately. No man can be educated without this. We must not cnly
gon facts and know facts, but facts. Education must give
us breadth of view ans force us {rom provinciality. It should
develop a taste for art and literature, but, ahove all things it
must form the will and give the ability And impulse to use oppor
tunities. The groaning lawlessness lu Amerioa--and by this |
mean pot merely crime, but the unloosing of the bonds and anarchic concep:
tions of social life—is due to the enormous expansion, the sudden increase of
our wealth. and to {mm gration, Moreover, we owe a jarge part of ii to clever
lawyers, who make It possible to sat aside justice and avold the laws. Amer.
{ca does not need physical development. The great need of America is the
preaching cf moral conviction and intensity, go that theft shall be known as
Hes. And to help in accomplishing this the teacher must have the missionary
spirit—the spirit which gives and asks no roturn but the joy of seciag fruit
age from its work,
ge ———
Working women in the fruit fields
of California wil hen eforward work
only eight hours a day instead of
working from sunrise to sangel, as
doy have hitherto done,
£ rae no more Vik ray
ghippers is now favon
back to
other
ment of rebates
itism in mans wave
their way is
husiness
thousands
is gO
pas
roads
ue
nye
- — a
Mme. Emma Calve, as proorioiross
of the Chateau de Catrders ‘n the ie
partment of Aveyron, France, has re.
ceived a gold medal at ths Rodez a
reultucal show for model farming
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ANCESTRAL MEMORY.
A THEORY TO EXPLAIN SOME
FREAKS OF THE MIND.
These Flashes of Reminiscence Are
Into Action of Something We Have
In Our Blood.
I'here are few people who }
minds
w locality
ene which
seen before,
Car Fat
decido@]y believed
was the explanation
ena as | have mentioned
er and Fichte have dealt with ©
I ask. is there not
ancestral memory”
should present certain
father and mother, and reg
tain well known gestures and manner
jams of his grandfather, is i
on as something ordinary. Is i
not possible that the child may inher
something of Mis ancestors memors
That thease flasher of reminiscence are
the sudden awakening, the cal¥ing in-
to action of something we have in
our blood: the disks, the records
an ancestor's past life, which require
only the essential adjustment and con
ditions to give up their secrets? If
then we have in ancestral memory a
natural answer to many of life's puz
zles, without seeking the ald of East
ern theology
Have we Jot got here, 100, a theory
which explaing a iarge class of appar!
tions, the evidence for which it is eas
fer to ignore than to explain, and zo
we prefer to shrug our shoulders and
pass them by? Take the common
form of ghost story. A sees the ghost
of one B, whom he subsequently iden
tifies, say from the family gallery of
portraits, to be an ancestor. Some
member of his house, 1 shonld 2a
back in the centuries, did actually
witness such a scene, did see B come
in as A saw, oaly the original witness
saw B in the flesh at such a moment,
under such conditions that a great im.
pression was made upon him, and this
impression wa: handed on to a later
scion of his house, 10 be preserved In
this rackal consciousness,
The theory of an ancesral memory,
1 maintaia, is a reasonable proposition,
and as a working Sypothoeils will be
found useful in the olullon of many
That
features of his
reproduce cer
looked up
ye ¥
OO!
0
puzsies that confront as dalive 1 the
.
cells of coslors were
|
the collected photogral impress
and
photographing
of heir experis
in the p
ness, these
i CC 1
subjected to some subtle
physical structure, 1
should
posterity Is not dificult
itand and accept. That
blurred,
gative Of impre
handed on 1o
to under t hice ipa
negatives
dis
may be broken,
tinet, obliterated, 18 10 be expected
but at
may be intact
the polentiaiities to
ed attention —For
+» Nineteenth Century
the time them
BAIS potne of
passed on
messing
MATRIMONY AND FARMING,
How One Ingenious Kansas Agricul
turist Managed to Combine the
Two.
aughter re
ood
ex
WOrmenriy
way be an «
win ¢}
pan
find some
to secure a wife for the old man
dificult t
But if
rafty be will
ceodinely ming tw
ast rose some young
1 first
o is a widower
improvement
as would merit the recogaition
ever so exacting a father. Then
happy family would be complete —
New York Tribune
This would be such
wife
af
the
to the latter's
Worshippers Carry Fires,
While seeing many people leaving
the cathedral 1 entered to look around
‘he interior of the fine chancel. In-
side 1 saw numbers of men carrying
huge wicker baskets filled with tri
angular earthenware dishes in each
of which still smouldered some giow
ing embers in a bed of white ash.
These they carried into the cloisters
and emptied solemnly into great met
al bins,
On re-entering the building the se
eret stood revealed. Owing to the ex
treme cold each member of the con
gregation hires for a droppeltjer, on
the sum of 24, an earthen dish wish
a block of glowing peat to put under
the little wooden perforated fool-
stools with which each chair is pro
vided. —Tit-Bits,
Squirrel Ran Down Tree and Bit Mim.
Eugene Oliver, a carrier boy, is re
covering from a severe wound re
ceived in a peculiar manner. He was
standing beside one of the trees in
the park a few days since when a
squirrel ran down and took hold of
the top of his right ear.
The boy ran away screaming for
help, but the little animal held on.
In fact, took hold tighter, until it
had bitten a hole clear through and
half across the top of the boy's Ar
fola correspondence Topeka Capital