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THE PROMOTION OF
THE ADMIRAL SEAD COMEDlfcs
Ey Morley Roberta Author of "The Coloaaua," "The Fugitives."
Copyright, 1 tto it, iso.t, by 'l'ht Curtis J'ublUhing Company.
Copyright, 19 o 3, by L. C. Page Company, (Incorporated.)
(Continued.)
"I believe I seo BomethinK out
thereK' said the astronomer feebly.
"You are always seein' suthinV
said Simpkins crossly, but as bo
spgke he looked round and almost
dittfped his-oar.
"Wake up, captain!" be shouted.
"Here's a barque almost so near wo
could touch her."
The skipper roused up, and with
him tho rest. They jumped to their
feet.
"Sit down, sit down, you gang of
idiots," said the captain; "d'ye want
to capsize us?"
"Oh, we are saved, we are saved!"
said the ethnologist, for within half
a nillo of them a vessel lay with her
main-topsail aback. There was noth-
ing odd about her to the uneducated
eye, but the skipper looked at Simp-
kins, and Simpkins looked at the
skipper.
"Derelict," said both.
For with such a light breeze It was
absurd to see a barque with nothing
set but a close reefed main-topsail,
and a fore-topmast staysail banging
in hanks like a wet duster.
"She has seen us," said the geolo-
gist.
"Seen your grandmother," said the
skipper rudely. "There ain't a soul
aboard her, and she's water-logged
and loaded with lumber out of Hali-
fax, and she's a northerner, ami about
six hundred tons register. Get the
oars out. If her decks are awash
she'll be better than this boat."
By the time they came within a ca-
ble's length of her, it was broad day-
light, and the least maritime member
any European scientific society was
able to form an opinion as to her be-
ing a derelict. As she rolled, the
water came out of her scuppers, for
her main deck was almost level with
the sea. Part of the gear was let go,
and most of the yards were chafing
through their parrals, tiie main-top-
gallant yard, indeed, was only hang-
ing by the tie and the lifts, and came
crash against the mast every time the
sea lifted the vessel's bows. Half the
bulwarks were gone, and the remains
of the displaced deck cargo showed
through tho gaps. As they got up to
hor she went right aback and came
round slowly on her heel.
"Row up close, sir," said Simpkins,
"and I'll jump."
"No," said Captain Prowse, "not
with this lot. I wouldn't go near her
with a crew of misfits like these, not
for money. We'll go a bit closer, and
you must swim."
And in ten minutes Simpkins was
on board. He threw the end of a
vang across the boat and they brought
her astern.
"Thank heaven," said the men of
science as they trod the slippery deck
of the Kamma Funder, belonging to
Copenhagen.
But their troubles were only just
beginning.
The skipper walked aft on the slip-
pery deck, and climbed upon the poop
by way of the rail, for some of the
Ioosq lumber had dislodged and
smashed the poop ladder. When he
found his foot upon his native heath
he was once more Captain Joseph
Prowse in all his glory; and turning
about, he addressed the crew.
"Simpkins," said, "you are chief
officer, second officer and bo'son, and
don't you forget it. As for you others,
I'll have you know that you're the
crew. Just drop any kind of height-
ened notion that you are passengers,
and we'll get along easy; but if you
don't, look out for squalls. Simpkins.
turn this useless lot to throw in' the
remains of the deck cargo overboard,
and try a couple of 'em at the pumps;
maybe her seams may have closed up
again by now." And going aft to the
scuttle, he disappeared from view.
"Well," said the geologist, "of all
the infernal "
"Oh, stow that," cried Simpkins,
"and turn to. You're here, ain't you,
and lucky you should consider your-
self. And the captain's a man of
his word, as I know; so loop slippy,
and pass this bloomin' truck over the
side."
The miserable crew looked at each
other in despair.
"Come now," said Simpkins lmpa-
•'Wake up. Captain!"
tiently, "do you want me to report
you chaps as refusin' duty?"
The geologist, who was the young-
est and sturdiest man in the crowd,
said that he did; but the astronomer
k and the entomologist remonstrated
with him.
"I think we'd better," said the un-
happy Insect man. "This Prowse
seems a regular brute."
"He is," said the astronomer, "and I
pray to heaven that he doesn't find
any rum on board."
But heaven did not lis! . and the
captain presently came on deck with
a flushed face.
t "Simpkins," roared Prowse. as his
field appeared over the edge of the
scuttle.
"Yes. sir," said the new mate.
"Is that lumber over the side yet?"
•Quick, for Gawd's sake." said
Simpkins, an4 tbo reluctant men of I
science commenced sliding the boards
over.
"It's going, sir," answered Simp-
kins.
"Goin'!" said Prowse, when he got
his bands on the after poop rail.
"Goin'! I should say so! What a
crowd! Oh, you miserable things, I'll
shape you; I'll/get you into condition;
I'll make sailors of you. Get two of
these hoosiers on to the pumps and
see if she's leakin' very bad, and then
we'll make sail. This 'ere Kamma
Funder won't make a quick passage,
but by the time we're picked up, or
sail 'or 'ome, I'll make you chaps fit
to ship in the worst Cape Horner that
ever sailed."
He turned away, but ntopped.
"And when the deck's clear, Simp-
kins, you can let 'em eat what they
can get. There's plenty of biscuit,
but mighty little else. Now then, you
Stars, pump!"
And the astronomer and entomolo-
gist pumped for their lives, while tho
sea round about the waterlogged
barque was whitening rapidly with
many thousand feet of Nova Scotian
lumber. For when the captain was
out of sight, Simpkins was encourag-
ing, and talked what he told them was
"horse" sense. *
"You wants to get back 'ome to
your families, don't you," he asked,
"and to your instruments and your
usual ways of llvin'? Why, of course
you does. Then buck up, and pitch in.
and learn to do your dooty. I'm not
a hard man. I can make allowances.
I know you didn't ship to do this. But
it's your luck, and you must. Now,
then, that'll do the deck. Just lay
Into this pump all of you, and I'll
sound 'er again."
And as good luck would have it.
there soon appeared some reason for
hoping that the leaks in the Kamma
Funder had closed.
"Blimy." said Simpkins, "we'll 'ave
'er sailin' like a witch yet. Chuck
yerselves into it, and I'll call the cap-
tain."
But the captain was fast asleep in
the bunk of tho late skipper.
"What's become of her crew?" asked
the new crew, as they sat round the
deck and ate their biscuit.
"Took off by a steamer," said Simp-
kins; "you see they've left their boats
and the captain says the ship's papers
'as gone, so they was took off, for
sure."
"I wish we were taken off," said
the weary astronomer.
"That'll come, I dessay," replied the
consolatory Simpkins, "but if we sails
'er 'ome, we'll get salvage, and your
time won't be wasted. So cheer up,
and let's make sail, while a couple
of you keeps the pumps a'goin'."
The wind by now was a light yorth-
westerly breeze and though the barque
worked heavily and wallowed in the
sea, Simpkins took her as she went
round and put the geologist at the
helm.
"Keep the wind in the back o' your
neck," said Simpkins to the nervous
helmsman, "and I'll loose the fore-
sail."
He jumped up aloft and loosed the
ton sail and two fore-topsails. Com-
ing down, he got the scientific crew to
work.
"Here, you, ketch hold of this and
pull. There, that will do. Belay! Tie
the thing up, I mean, on that thing,
you silly ass!"
And the member of the Royal So-
ciety, who was thus addressed for the
first time since he had left school,
made the starboard foresheet fast to
the cleat.
"You ain't such an ass as you wants
to make out," said Simpkins, a. he
watched him critically; "me and the
captain will soon put you chaps In
shape. Now,then, all of you! Fore-
topsail 'alliards! Stretch it out and
lay back. Which of you can sing?"
They declared that none of them
could.
"Then I must," said Simpkins; "and
he gave them the chanty, "Handily,
boys, so handy," until he had the top-
sail well up. And just as the crew
were looking aloft with a strange new
feeling of actual pleasure in seeing
results grow under their hands, a
sudden row arose aft. The captain
was interviewing the geologist.
"Steer small," said Captain Prowse;
"don't work the bally wheel as if you
was workin' a chaff-cutter."
"I'm doin' my best," said the furious
man of science, "and I beg you will
speak to me civilly."
"I'll speak to you how I like," said
Prowse; "didn't I tell you a while
back as you wasn't a passenger no
more, but one of my crew?"
"Sir." said the geologist, "I beg that
you will be so good as to refrain from
speaking to me. I am not accustomed
to be talked to in that tone."
Captain Prowse gasped, and. walk-
ing hurriedly to the side, endeavored
to pull a fixed belaying pin from the
rail. After three or four trials he
eanie to a loose one. By this time the
Kamma Funder was yawing all abroad
and when Captain Prowse came to-
wards the wheel again the geologist
let go. and in his turn sought for a
weajK)n. The captain caught the
wheel in time to prevent the vessel
getting right aback, and roared:
"Mutiny, mutiny!"
Simpkins and the scientific associa-
tion came running aft.
"Simpkins." shrieked Prowse,
"ketch hold of that geological chap."
"I dare either of you to touch me,"
said the geologist; "the first one that
does, 111 brain him!"
He held the iron pin firmly, and
looked desperate.
"Cone and ketch hold of the wheal,"
said 1 rowse. in a choking voice.
"No, don't let hiin," said the of-
fender. ami a violent argument arose
"This is perfectly scandalous." saiu
the meek astronomer, "and "
"We won't put up with it," cried
the entomologist.
"1 must obey orders," said Simp-
kins.
"Or Ml murder you." screamed the
skippet.
"If he lets go she'll be took aback,"
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geologist knocked imm captain down.
"Oil," cried tho pathologist, "I be-
lieve you've killed him."
"I hope so," said the hero of the
occasion, with rather a pale faco. "I'm
not going to bo bullied by any coarse
brute of a sailor."
"but he's the captain," said Simp-
kins.
Hut mutiny was In their hearts. Hut
all talked at once, and tho pathologist
felt tho captain's skull to see whether
It was still sound.
"Will ho die?"
"No," said tho doctor; "ha has a
skull like a ram's. Take him below."
"And lock him In," said tho astron-
omer. "And we can argue with him
through the door."
it was a happy thought, and even
Simpkins, in spite of his ingrained re-
spect for the lawful authority of tho
most lawless skipper, approved tho
suggestion.
"You ain't all so soft as you look,"
said Simpkins, "and it'll bo a lot of
trouble."
"Wo don't care," said the men of
science, and then tho captain let go
and rushed for the geologist. Simp-
kins broke from the astronomer and
eaugl.t the spinning wheel just as tho
The lumber went overboard.
said Simpkins, "but the sea does bring
the devil out in a man if so be he's
got any."
And they carried Captain Joseph
Prowse down below. As his cabin
door would not lock, they jammed
short pieces of sawed lumber between
it and the other side of the alley
way.
"It's mutiny," said Simpkins, "but
it's done, and maybe he'll cool off
when he comes to and finds his 'ead
aching."
But nevertheless the situation was
not pleasant, and no one was quite
certain as to what should be done.
"Hold a committee meeting," said
the entomologist.
(To be continued.)
SHE LIES AMONG NOBLES.
Fruit Seller of Genoa Has Grave
Among Aristocrats.
The most unique piece in tho ceme-
tery at Genoa is a life-size figure of
an old woman who sold fruit and fried
cakes on the streets for forty years,
and was known to every citizen.
She had no family or friends de-
pendent upon her, and for many years
before her death became infatuated
with a determination to be buried
among the aristocracy in the Campo
Santo, and have a monument as fine
as those of the rich people who are
burled there.
She saved her money and employed
the most famous sculptor in Genoa,
who made a striking likeness of the
old lady in the same garb that she
wore while peddling her wares upon
the street, and before her death she
had the satisfaction of selecting and
paying for one of the most conspicu-
ous places in the cemetery, where the
monument now stands.
This old woman and Balilla, a boy
who threw the stone that brought on a
war between Austria and Italy, are
the two favorite characters among the
common people in Genoa. The lat-
ter has a statue in one of the public
squares.
The stone he threw hit an Austrian
soldier, who fired a shot into a crowd
of people. The latter, furious with
indignation, charged the troops with
every missile they could seize, and
the rest of the story is told in his-
tory.
Balilla is regarded as a patriot, al-
though he may have meant only mis-
chief.—Chicago Record-Herald.
Attention to Breeding.
When man first domesticated tho
fowls of the jungle he had no thought
of the wonderful things that were to
develop from them through the sci-
enco of breeding. It Is altogether
likely that the first distinct breeds
came Into exlstenco gradually and as
a result of tho differing conditions of
tho countries in which they wero
raised. It is believed tho first fowls do-
mesticated were thoso of India. From
that point they were taken east, north
and west. In the beginning they had
all one general set of characteristics.
But In the course of time the fowls
of China developed in one way, the
fowls of India in another and tho
fowls of tho various countries of Eu-
rope In other ways. At first no at-
tempt was mado by man to direct
tills development, that Leing a result
of place and conditions. So at the be-
ginning of poultry history we find a
few distinct breeds that have since
been named after tho locality from
which each came. Thus, from the
north of Asia wo have obtained the
Langshan, from the south of Asia
the Brahma, and from Europe' the Leg-
horn and the Dorking. These were
pretty good breeds, when we remem-
ber they were the result of breeding
without an object. During the last
70 years a groat many new breeds
have been created by fanciers, who
appreciated tho possibilities locked
up in the fowls and which might be
brought out by selection and breed-
ing. Doubtless tho coming hundred
years will see an enormous increase
in the number of distinct breeds of
poultry and a general improvement
in the special points for which each
is bred.
Every farmer should be a breeder
to a considerable extent. He may not
originate new varieties, in fact should
not waste his time In trying to de-
velop these, but he can do the same
thing, in fact, that 13, develop a strain
of birds of more than the common
value. Many of tho breeds we now
have are no better than the ones out
of which they have been developed,
their distinctive markings in color
and form being about the only quali-
ties their parents did not possess.
But the farmer may well develop
strains that will prove earlier matur-
ing, better laying, healthier birds than
were their immediate ancestors. The
laws of breeding are to be studied to
advantage and when understood will
open the way to both pleasure and
profit. The neglect of the laws of
improved breeding is responsible for
much of the poor stuff now to be
found on our farms. We have to say,
however, that there has been a great
Improvement in tho last ten years, at
least in the matter of meat producing
birds.
Tho farmer that has a flock of 10
hens can well afford to adopt some
regular system for his breeding oper-
ations. If he has eggs in view he can
adopt a system of culling out all of
tho poorest egg producers from year
to year. By so doing he would in a
course of years have at hand a flock
that would be a paying investment.
Yet there are farms on which the hens
have not improved for half a century,
principally because there has been
no care taken at all in the breeding.
The eggs for sitting have never been
selected, and the result has been a
reproduction of the average quality
of the flock. Attention to the matter
of breeding will pay every person that
expects to raise fowls.
Soft Corn as Feed.
The soft corn problem Is a serious
one. In many sections of our state
during the past two years there were
large areas on which the com was
worthless from a market standpoint.
It must either bo fed to live stock or
allowed to rot In the field. To the
man who had plenty of stock the
commercial value of this product was
not a serious question. He could
solve tho same by feeding It to his
animals. We have a large number
of farmers, however, who belong to
the class called grain growers. Thus,
they had to either sell this soft corn
for feeding purposes, or else allow it
to rot In tho fields. To them the
commercial value of this product was
an important question. It was also
an important question to the cattle
feeders who had to purchase soft
corn for feeding purposes. We re-
ceived a great many requests from
parties belonging to both classes ask-
ing for information concerning the
feeding value of this soft corn.
We therefore conducted some ex-
periments with the hope of giving
them some aid. It is very likely that
in tho future, we will conduct some
further experiments with the hope of
finding some feed stuffs which per-
haps can be fed to advantage with
soft corn for fattening cattle. Many
attributed tho large losses which re-
sulted in many sections of the country
last year from the cattle feeding busi-
ness to the fact that the corn was
of poor quality. Perhaps some of
these losses might be attributed to
this cause. In the majority of cases,
however, I think the trouble was due
to the fact that feeding cattle in the
fall of 1902 were unusually high In
price, and the finished cattle in the
spring of 1903 were rather low In
price. In too many instances cattle
which were bought for five cents per
pound as feeders had to be sold for
less when sent to the market as fin-
ished animals.
W. J. Kennedy,
Iowa Agricultural College.
EQUAL TO THE OCCASION.
Flowery Language in No Way Discon-
certed Kansas Senator.
Senator Randolph Burton, of Kans-
sas, while in l.awaii with the Con-
gressional commission, was sitting
one morning in the dining room of a
Honolulu hotel. A Japanese, In Occi-
dental dress of extreme fashion, who
was sitting close by, heard Mr. Burton
addressed as Senator. He rose, walk-
ed over to the Senator and presented
his card.
"If your charming Excellency should
become contaminated with the cli-
matic anhelation," he said, "he will
find palliative ferbifuges at the above
indicated location."
The Senator was astonished, but
long years in politics have developed
a singular readiness, and he answered
in kind.
"Your Samaritan commiseration
overcomes me. sir. Should I stand in
need of proficient medication, I will
call at your justly-famed establish-
ment. If I have appeared stultified in
my paraphrases of gratitude, it is due,
believe m«\ rather to a paucity of vo-
cabulary than to any insufficient ap-
preciation of your beneficience."
The little Asiatic bowed away
dazed but beaming.
Grading Up the Flock.
There are several ways by which a
farm flock can be kept up to a very
good standard of excellence for prac-
tical purposes, by just a little effort
of the keeper, said J. H. Robinson in
an address before the Massachusetts
State Board of Agriculti Thus,
where it is the practice to take the ' There was a time, but that was many
eggs used for hatching from the gen- years airo, when tho big boned steer
eral flock If, besides reserving his weighed 1,800 to 2,000 pounds
best pullets, the keeper weeds out all was looked for by the buyers of
the decidedly inferior ones, and uses ! beeves, but now tho animal that Is
Good and Poor Steers.
If a man will visit the Union Stock-
yards, Chicago, and watch the buyers
selecting cattle he will soon come
I to understand that an animal, to
j bring the good prices desired by the
j seller, must have something more
I than weight and fat. The good cat-
tle are in demand and the buyers
compete with each other in bidding
1 for them. But when they get to the
j lough cattle it is different. These do
j not catch the eyes of the buyers and
thn latter do not feel the interest
in buying that they evince when
bid.ting for the other animals. The
'■ i'as> sellers are high grade, which
meal's that they show in their con-
formation and coloring much blood
from »ome one of the accepted beef
breeds. The really good cattle do not
comprise one-tenth of the total num-
ber going to the yards. It not ;u
frequently happens that a farmer
takes a bunch of steers to market and
wcrks hard to sell them, but finally
gets for tl <2m only about ono-half the
price he e.vpected to receive. Profes-
sor Munford tells the writer that the
buyers value the cattle largely accord-
ing to the proportion of improved
blood they show, unless this Improved
blood is dairy blood, In which case
it is a « 'triment rather than a help.
The dairy cow or steer may get fat,
and show good weight but the butcher
knows that when he comes to kill
and dress the animal he will find the
greater part of the fat on the Intes-
tines where it has but little commer-
cial value. A very large per cent
of the animals coming to the stock-
yards are poor, inferior animals, both
in finish and form.
Profit in Young Animals.
The profit in beef and mutton pro-
duction lies in the young animals.
Uses of the Sermon.
Trddv and Mary had been taken to
church for the first time, and on the
way home they discussed what they
had heard and seen.
"Well, now." said Teddy, with a
frown. "IM like to know what the ser-
mon was for. anyhow."
"Why Teddy," said little Mary, with
a superior air; "don't you know that
j«t" It's to give the singers a rest, at
OMM*
only well developed males, any one of
which would be considered a desira-
ble breeder, the stock cannot go back
very rapidly, even though, as we have
seen there might not be enough of the
product in any year from the best
birds to strongly Impress their quality
on the floek.
It Is such selection as this, accom-
panied by selection of the largest
eggs for hatching, that is practical on
most farms where some special atten-
tion is given the matter of making
poultry profitable. It Is doubtful
whether any marked progress was
ever made by such methods, but they
are a long way in advance of leaving
it all to nature. At best, these meth-
ods are crude; their use under the
condition described is illogical.
The logic of such a situation re-
quires that a poultry keeper who real-
izes the importance of reserving his
best fowls to breed from, should make
sure that it is only the eggs of his best
hens, fertilized by his best males, that
are used for Incubation. The logic
of the situation requires that a poul-
try keeper who thinks it worth while
to select the best eggs for Incubation
should, sooner or later, come to con-
sider it necessary to know that these
eggs were from hens possessing the
other qualities prized, and fertilized
by males most suitable for mating
with these particular hens. Selection
Is not complete if It stops short of
the separation of the fowl selected—
unless the whole flock is select—
a thing which does not often happen.
With a big flock ot fowls It is no
small matter to keep up the snpply
of grit. Where natural grit cannot
be easily obtained commercial grit
should be purchased. We are satisfied
that on some of our farms In the prai-
rie states the securing of grit by the
fowls is so difficult that they are un-
able to obtain the quantity required.
This is especially true on a soil that
Is soft and velvety and free from
gravel In such cases giit will have
to be bought.
sought by the butchers Is one that
weirhs from 1,200 to 1,500 pounds.
We have long since found out that
the cheapest meat is made on young
animals, and the money thus invested
is soonest ready to be turned over.
Not only is the money tied up long-
est in old animals but the cost of
producing meat on them is so great
that our best beef feeders are no
longer attempting to do that. The
method advocated now is to keep the
animals growing right along from
birth to the period when they weigh
what the market demands. Steers
are now ready for the market at two
years old or under. If all the animals
shipped to the stockyards were of
this kind there would not be much
complaint about poor returns in stock
breeding and beef making. A good
many farmers are still trying to make
profitable beef on old steers. But
the young steer is the only animal
that gives us any promise of a
profit.
Corn a Too Carbonaceous Food.
Corn Is by no means a balanced
ration, though it Is considered by
many men the best single stock food
known. This opinion is erroneous.
The nearer a grain comes to be-
ing balanced the more nearly Is it
a perfect food. Corn contains a very
large amount of carbonaceous matter
and a small amount of protein. Corn
to be used to the best of advantage
must be combined with some protein
that will act as a balance to the
elements that make up the starch,
fat, sugars, and digestible nutrients.
It has been demonstrated over and
over again that by combining corn
with some food that will Increase the
total amount of protein to a point
where it will be a fair balance foi
the carbohydrates, the steer will be
more smoothly finished and his coat
mill be more glossy than where corn
is the single grain food.
Sugar Beet Culture.
While It Is true that In all sections
sugar beets cannot be profitably
grown on account of soil and climatic
.conditions, yet there is a wide belt
running through the northern states,
from New York to Minnesota, where
it Is a safo Industry to consider. The
proper selection of soil upon which
the beets are to be grown is the first
essential to successful beet culture.
Not only is the top soil of Importance,
but the subsoil as well. A subsoil
rieli in lime, a clay or sandy loam,
which will hold moisture well in a
dry season, are the best, providing
they are well drained. The top soli
should be fertile, easily tillable and
free from stones; very heavy clays
as well as very light sands should be
avoided. Fall plowing seems to be
a favorable practice in the beet belt
and if it has been plowed In the fall
to a depth of six inches or over and
has not settled too much, it need not
be replowed in the spring, but har-
rowed as soon as soil conditions will
permit, and a dust mulch established
to preserve the winter moisture. If
necessary to plow again In the spring,
it should be done early and each half
day's plowing should be harrowed and
rolled, so that the chance of drying
out will be reduced to the minimum.
While it is desirable to have rich
soil, it should not be manured the
same spring as planted, as this has a
tendency due to the nitrogenous
content, to cause the beets to make
too rapid a growth without becoming
sufficiently rich in sugar. Since the
purpose in the growth of sugar beet
is to obtain the largest total yield of
sugar per acre, and Inasmuch as the
sugar content of the beet as well as
the right growth and development is
very largely influenced by the char-
acter of the fertilization, this matter
becomes of a very considerable Im-
portance. The sugar beet draws
heavily upon the soil for nitrogen and
potash, a 20-ton per acre crop, remov-
ing 100 pounds of nitrogen, and 192
pounds of potash. Phosphoric acid is
also needed especially during the ear-
ly growth. As was stated, the rapid
growth should not be encouraged too
late In the season, therefore the nitro-
gen provided should be in quickly
available forms such as nitrate or am-
monia compounds and applied early.
The potash should be in the form of
sulphate and from 100 to 150 pounds
per acre is a proper application
Good results follow the use of phos-
phoric acid derived from superphos-
phate. The mineral fertilizers are
best applied the fall previous to plant-
ing or at any rate quite early In the
spring, while the nitrogen may be
used as a top dressing after the
plants are up.
The time for planting will vary
slightly with the season, usually
around the beginning of May. The
soil should be pulverized to a depth of
four or five inches; then packed well.
The best way to plant is across the
last harrow marks, using a beet seeder
drill. This drills four rows at a time,
sixteen, eighteen or twenty inches
apart. The seed should not be cov-
ered more than a half or one inch
deep. Eighteen pounds of seed are re-
quired per acre if the rows are eight-
een inches apart and twenty pounds if
sixteen.
Cultivation Is to begin as early as
the plants are above the ground.
After the third or fourth leaf has de-
veloped, bunching should begin—1. e„
hoeing out the beets before thinning,
leaving little bunches about two Inch-
es wide and six or seven inches apart.
After another cultivation, the bunches
are thinned. After thinning they
should be cultivated from a week or
ten days to keep out the weeds and
preserve the moisture. The beets are
"laid by" when the cultivator cannot
be run without breaking off the
leaves.—D. I. Duncan in Farmers' Re-
view.
4 IMPORT/KIT QATCWAT* 4
PACIFIC
"Bo Boato# U unir fMtltai.*
'A FAST TRAINS DAILT2
to St. Louis, Chicago
and the Cast ••••
If PCLUUI VESTIBVT.ED BLEEPBZS
so nil shw cam cam (Suit rnu.
FASTEST TIME TO NEW ORLEANS
(OOMMR* sohidulm).
QXLT Lin BtTfiriO THiOOGH OOi
JJTO 8LBEPEBB VTTHQUT CEUtVB.
■COMMNAILK PULIMON lltt.tlt AM*
»OUSI»T CAR SCAVICI TO
CALIFORNIA.
POSITIVHLT NO CHAJfOB.
KsoSaiiif Ghat? Osn (Saats Fm) Dafty to
ST. LOUIS, MEMPHISwoELPASa.
It> may TlakM As*at, or vrlto
■. r. imsh, ha. h>ni> n vnn m.
VS. THOSH1, «. P. TtTtSEB,
hmlm Ip. *■ : lui t u* BaM
0*LL*«, TIJt,
Roots Versus Silage.
In Europe the use of roots in stock
feeding is quite universal especially
in those countries that are too far
north to permit of the extensile
growing of Indian corn. But in the
United States root raising for cattle
has never been very popular, for the
obvious reason that It is very much
easier to grow corn than roots. We
have talked this matter over with
stockmen in the West and their ver-
dict is uniformly that roots cost too
much, except when grown and fed In
a small way, in which their use Is
justified as a laxative rather than
a food. Careful experimenters have
shown that roots cost about three
times as much as corn to grow, bas-
ing the comparison on the dry matter.
Corn in the form of silage is one of
the best and cheapest foods for stock.
It has been regarded as a dairy food
par excellence and as a milk maker.
But it is equally good for beef mak-
ing. and some of our leading cattle
raisers are now building silos to en-
able them to make the best use of the
cor„ crop.
M. B. WHITLOCK,
1
Contractor
Builder,
All work guaranteed to
be FIRSTCLA&S, Lu»
me figure with yoo...
LOANS 8ECU3ED
ANDREW T. BAKER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
QfPraotie* in all th« Co art*.
Abstracts of Tltla
Office over Firot National Hank.
OENTOK, — — — TEXAS.
Won Id Lhikt we eonld
SHOUT FROM EVERY HOUSE-TOP
wtlk the aSren^ta of a la Lille* m«oi
Ml
Dr. King's
NewDiscover
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P»-ioe 50o and Of.OQ. TrUi BottJe Fn
, STOPPWD rtll
IPvmut&i thire »«■>■■> > ¥<•<.»• *4
'm i rat ih.mi «<- PMAo-bifc
Kodol
Dyspepsia Cure
Digests what yoo eai.
rbU prop*™Mod contains til ot tha
llffveMct* »D(J dlffMt* ftll klndi of
Itlot) "" ' "
I relief fcixi nerw
rood. Itjll
CaJU to cur*. It lilows 70a to aU
food you want. The most leutltl v#
itomarh* can take It. By 1U use many
thousands of dyspeptics have been
jured after everything else failed. Is
unequalled 'or the stomach. ChlUU
ren with weak stomachs thrivs on IV
First dose relieves. A diet unnecessary.
Cures all stomach trouble a
prepared only by E. C. D* Witt k OCX
St. boiue una tha Ma i*1
CHICHESTER'S ENGLISH
PENNYROYAL PILLS
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The economy of feeding silage In
| preference to any other soli:n( crop
was denonstmted »t the Pan Anierl
Milk cans filled with milk cool fast- can Model Palry. whe-e the eahaus
er In water than In air at the same 1 tlon of the silase supply caused a *e-
temperature. as the water Is a bette- I elded advance in the cost of making
conductor of best both butter and c ilk.
Stock in Orchards.
Now and then we see the advice
given to pasture the stock in the or-
chards. But if the orchard is a mod-
ern one. we doubt very much if this
advice Is good. It might have been
all right In the old-fashioned orchard
that had trees headed high, and of
which the stock could not eat the
lower branches or gather the fruit
from them. But in some of our best
orchards the trees are headed so low
that the branches almost lie on the
ground, and in the growing season a
very large amount of fruit would be
within the reach of tho stock what-
ever kind It might be. Poultry Is
about the only class of farm stock that
can be given access to the orchard
without running great chances of ex-
tensive injury resulting.
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ihutfi.+rn* ri<. 11*11
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or wild 4«-. ;? Pnrllrular*. Imi*
*•"'•1' ' " Srllrt for l.adm." it. IMr
*T rvlurn MiUl. I».«oo 1 soul I*
*11 l*ru£gi«ta
CHinigTlR ORBidlCaL CO.
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Meallaa -JtU oeeai
Kodol Dyspepsia Cora
Mnrati akai yea aat
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»c>c kaatfrfds aad hundreds af
tamr tort; li w trad* '
wartk Adtertislig far?
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