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uirmGrNARCHISTVBACK H wrtuilCDUl SUGGESTION FOR THE UP-TO-DATE AGRICULTURIST How is Your Alfalfa Coming On? The exceedingly dry fall prevented many from getting a stand of alfalfa. Where thare is a stand and it is de sirable to top-dress with manure now is the time to do so. Where there is no stand and it is desired to resow with alfalfa now is the time to apply stable manure and cut in with a disc harrow. It is better to make all preparation a month or two before tima to sow the seed. Progressive Farmer. Ghesp-Breeding. One of the best authorities on sheep says that it is expecting too much of an ewe to make her growth, shear a heavy fleecs and raise a lamb in one year. It can be done, but it will check the growth of the sheep and produce a lamb lacking in constitution. If per sisted in for several years the sheep raised will have a very uneven flock, .greatly lacking in hardiness and thrift and correspondingly lc?s profitable. Epitom.ist. How Much Corn? It t: hat qusnlity and how often car. ground corn meal be fed to horses and cows? C. Holken. Answer: If you have clover hay to feed cows, corn meal may comprise as much as one third by weight of the total grain feed. If you have timothy or ordinary mixed hay, tha corn should not exceed one ( fourth of the grain ration. Horses at ' heavy, slow work may have one-half their grain in the form of corn. Corn should be used sparingly, if at all, for driving horsss. Country Gentleman. ' Fat Fov.is il:s Demand. It does not pay to sell a fowl that is in poor condition, as such a bird in market must bs almost given away, or sold at a price below the regular quot ations. It does not cost over five cents, even with the heaviest feeding, to pro duce a pound of poultry. A poor hen, weighing six pounds, can be gotten to . the eight pound mark in from ten to twenty days seldom more than two weeks and if the market price is twelve cents she will bring fourteen cents owing to her superior quality; but allowing twelve and a half cents 'per pound she will bring a dollar. On ly the choicest, fattest fowls are the ones that bring the high prices. By expending ten cents for food, and mak ing a hen very fat, not only is the ex penditure of food returned but the prof its are also much larger. In fact, by Increasing the weight and improving the quality the value of the hen is nearly doubled in two weeks. Farm ers' Home Journal. Shade for Poultry. Poultry suffer greatly if they do not have plenty of good shade to shield them from the rays of the sun. The CMJltry quarters are too close and of ten too filthy to be cool and comfort cable cn hot summer days. Let the "-binfiSvhave good shade where the air 'win fee pure and where breezes will :play freely. -Frinc bushes or fruit trees will arswer the purpose well, iastl its birds will help the trees by fertilizing1 thsm and by destroying jrmry harmful insects. ! This subject is brought up at this time, because trees or bushes can be set out to advantage now and will give some shade by the time the poul try must have it. Bushes that branch out near the ground will do even more the poultry resting under the low hawks from pouncing down on their victims. Hawks do not, like to dive into secluded spots after anything, and the pountry lesLing under the low tranches will be safe from hawks. No combination i3 better than poultry and ' fruit trees or bushes any bush larger than the strawberry, Progressive ' , Farmer. Th? Arn:r.b!e Ccw. "The Ayrshira cow is the one which will ultimately predominate in Amer ica," said Mr. William Ballou, of Mid dletown, N. Y., who was at the Fifth Avenue Hotel to attend the thirty-third annual meeting of the Ayrshire Breed ers' Association. "Our most eminent physicians agree that her milk is the only suitable milk for children. "Wherever the Ayrshire cow may be located she maintains a cheerful and gentle disposition, combined with an exuberant spirit and bloom, which are as' apparent and pronounced in the old cow as in the young. "The Ayrshire is pre-eminently the family cow, and analysis shows her milk to be particularly nutritious for human kind, a .balanced ration, a com plete food; it is ea.iily digested. "The Ayrshire Breeders' Association claims, and is prepared to demon strate, in competition with the Hol stein, the Jersey, or the Guernsey cows, that for quality and quantity of milk,, of butter fat and solids, considering the cost of feed In each case, and the actual net profit, the Ayrshire, as a dairy cow, stands ou an average pre-eminently above them all." New York Evening Telegram. About Shropshire Cheep. In referring to the popularity of the Shropshires, the Farm Steel; Journal says that from tha first exhibition of this brc:d made at the Royal Show in. England in 1S55, they have rapidly grown in favor. From that date it pushed rapidly into popular favor and was soon the most prominent sheep in the stock shows 01 that country. In 1S84, 875 head of Shropshires were ex hibited at the Royal show of Shrews bury against only 420 of all other breeds. In this country the Shrop shire is comparatively new. In 1S60 Samuel ' Sutton of Maryland imported one ram and twenty ewes, which are said to be the first of the Shropshire breed in America. A. B. Conger of New York state, also had a flock about the same time, however. Shropshires were exhibited at the New York state fair at Elnrira in 1S61. They reached Illinois about 1879 or 18S0. The standard weight for mature Shropshire rams is 225 pounds.. Ewea weight from 150 to 100 pounds. A few years ago a large importer of these sheep advertised his rams as averaging 250 and his ewes 175 pounds. Most of the muttons are marketed as lambs from six to ten months old, averaging from CO to SO pounds. Sheep men say there is always good money in young mutton sheep. ' 1 ' 'jj ; ' 7 vw Age of Breeding. If cows are going out of commission at the expiration of seven years they are not dyimj, but going out of the dairy in the prime of life, and there's something out of joint. Year after year we meet and discuss the cow and her product. Why do we do it? Because we have not learned all we need to. She is truly a mysterious being. Some have thought tnat they knew it all, but tnoce tfcnt study know better, for she is like th.2 boys and girls of rich par ents, she is handsome to look at but expensiva to support. Boys and girls and heifers are bred for a purpose, but sometimes spoiled in the bringing up. A heifer may be bred right and prove a disappointment. People disagree as to the age a heifer should be bred. I am going to put a chip on my shoulder and say that I don't think any cow owner capable of indicating when his cow shall become a mother. It is just according to her ancestry, care and feed. When she is ready she should be bred. Dictate and you will soon have a barren heifer; this is backed by my experience. Bred as dairy cattle are and have been, they are unbalanced and abnor mal animals. Bred as they are, to 'give a rich product, we must breed at younger age or we wih have barren stock. Bred and fed for milk we have weakened the organs so closely (relat ed. While it is true, under a restrict ed feed, that breeding young dwarfs the heifer, fed generously, I have nev er found it true tha an animal was seriously injured or dwarfed. Dr. C. D. Smead, in the American Cultivator. Poultry Notes. Chicks well hatched are half raised. Breeders not in good health will not give eggs that will hatch vigorous chicks. Feeding young chicks Is important, but of Jess importance than the care they have. In preparing for young birds, the breeding stock is the first thing to be considered. The early birds are the hens that find a market willing to take them at a good price. Cleanliness is a necessary part of raising chickens, especially when a large number are together. Many prefer two-year-old hens for breeders. At least have yearling hens well developed if they are the breed ers. An incubator will get broody earlier in the season than a hen, and will stay by the eggs if it has a good care-taker to assist. Those who feed bread crumbs to yrv.ng chicks will do well to moisten "ths bread with skim, milk instead of with water. If brooders are used, keep a watch ful eye cn the chicks till they learn to run back to the heat and warm up. One bad chilling may ruin a chick's usefulness. The prepared chick feed found at poultry supply houses may cost more than other feed, but generally nets more profit, as mose chicks live and have more vigor. Do not feed young birds till they are at least one or two days old. They absorb the yolk shortly before leaving the shell, and that gives all the nour ishment their systems can use for some time. For hatching, select only such eggs as are of normal size and of normal shape. Very large or very small eggs or those of freakish shape or with freakish shells should always be re jected. All breeds and varieties of fowls have some fowls that have much les3 or much more vigor than the average for its class, and may 6e expected to have offspring of like nature. Select breeders with care. The downy feathers of chickens do not shed water like the feathers of old fowls, and chickens cannot stand so much dampness as old fowls. The poultry:na:is head will have to do the thinking for the little fellows, and keep them where it is dry. Piogressive Farmer. Dr. W!xy Addresses Congress of Mothers ETERNAL VIGILANCE NEEDTUL Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, Chief of tie Bureau of Chemistry, Declares That "With the Housekeepers Rests the Best Means of Executing the Pure Pood Laws. Washington, Special. An urgent plea for pure food. in the household was made by Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, chief of the bureau of chemistry of the Department of Agriculture, in an address before the international congress on the welfare of the child, which is being held here under the auspices of the national mothrs' congress. Dr. Wiley emphasized the import ance of the mothers of the country being eteranlly vigilant as to the source of food products that came into their homes to see that they an fresh, uncontaminated, palatable and wholesome. Continuing Dr. Wiley said that the best means of executing the pure food law is in the household. Import?-:: cf Purity. Dr. Wiley called attention to the great importance of purity in such articles as butter, maple syrup, honey and particularly of all dairy suoplies. "Especially where there are children in the house," said he, "the import ance of the purity of the milk can not be sufficiently accentuated. Tlie actual danger to health and actual throat of death in the case of infnnls that are fed impure milk is one of the greatest curses of the country." Dr. Wiley advocated the formation of a union of the mistresses of house holds, which, he said, by singleness of purpose, unity of action and power or organization could secure a better conformity to the law than any vig ilance on the part of the executors of tho law would be able to accom plish." At the afternoon session, addresses were made by Clifford . Webs tei Barnes, of Lake Forest, 111., on "Moral Training Through the Agency of the Publie Schools," and by Hiss Jane Brownlee, of Toledo, 0., on "A Plan For Moral Training." A symposium on parent teachers associations was conducted by Mrs. Edwin C. Grice, of Philadelphia, at the night meeting following which five minutes reports were made from the different States. Miss Alice Leckey, chairman of the food committee of the national con sumer's League, spoke on "What the Consumer Can Do For Pure Food." Greek Laborers Attacked. Washington, N. C, Special. Ac cording to reports arriving in this city there came near being a race riot in Belhaven Tuesday night. It seems that the Inter-State Cooperage Company, employing between 400 and 500 men in Belhaven, had brought down a party of sixteen Greek labor ers to, take the place of negro work men, these ureeks, one- ot whom was married, were living in four dwel ling houses on the company's prop erty. Tuesday night about 10 o clock while in these houses and; unarmed, the Greeks were attacked by a mob. of fifty or sixty negroes, supposed to. be led by several whites This mob. shot up the houses and forced th Greeks, both male and female, to ttee to a nearby swamp in order to save their lives. Later it developed that five of the Greeks were seriously, if not fatally, wounded. The mob, tan able to find them in the swamps, dis banded for the night. Soldiers in Havan Riot. Washington, Special. The Secre tary of -War has ordered an investigation of the part tak en by the American soldiers in a riot early Wednesday morning, be ginning with a disturbance created by a drunken private in a cafe o'f the "Redlight" district and followed by an unsuccessful attempt by his pom ricles to rescue him from the police, and a free fight in which several shots were fired, and finally by the arrest of forty soldiers and their re turn under guard to Camp Columbia. Washington Clerk Kills His Wife. Washington, Special. Walter -Ilil-lis, a clerk in the War Departent, shot and killed his wife Friday. When arrested he said he took his wife for a burglar. Hillis' statements are corroborated by his mother, who as serts that there had been no trouble between husband and wife. 'News in Brief. President Roosevelt delivered a ser mon to the delegates to the Internat ional Mothers ' Congress, who were received at the White House. James Clark & Co., a Baltimore firm of distillers, in answer to a Gov ernment suit, attacked tho legality of the whiskey provisions of the Pure Food law. The visit of King Alfonso to Barce lona was marked by great enthusiasm. Doinss of Our National Law-Makers Day by Day. Senator Tillman Caustic. Under the guise of discussing l?g slalion the session of the Senate was devoted to r. political discussion in which Senator Tillman, of South Car. olina, and Senator Beveridge of Indi ana, were the chief participants. The Senate considered the conference re port on the Indian appropriation bil? and after some criticism of the ac tion of the conferees on minor pro vision tho report . was disagreed to and another conference asked. The House bill appropriating $403, O.'li) to pay Ihe archbishop of Manila as representative of the Roman Cath olic church for damage to church property during the Spanish war alse wati passed. The Pendulum'? Extremes. Mr. Tillman traced what he termed a "swinging of the pendulum" from the regime of Andrew Johnson when Congress assumed control al most to the exclusion of the Presi dent from legislative influence to the administrations that followed, which ho declared witnessed a growth of presidential power. The dominating influence and control of the executive branch, he said, over the legislative and in a less degree over the judicial branches of the government were tha most marked features of American oolitics at this time. "It has taken," said Mr. Tillman, "jusi forty-one years for the pendu lum to swing from one extreme to the .other." "Now," he said, "the House of Representatives has degenerated into litle more than a recording machine to do the will of the Speaker and his Untenants." Freedom of debate in the old and true sense has disap peared from that end of the Capitol, ho added. lathe Senate "servility and cowardice are the order of . the day," he declared and "the shadow of the Executive hands over all. ami (ho President's wishes are almost the onlv lav.'." Eoaslri Wall Street. Mr. Tillman reviewed the events of the recent currency crisis and charged Wall Street with! many mis demeanors. " The . profits of this5 nefarious, stock monger have," he said, "found their way into the- pockets of the very men who with the evil results of their fraud manifest pose as 'saviours' and 'uncrowned kings,' and are landed to the skies when they were really trying to save themselves from the disasters which threatened to overwhelm them along with their deluded victims. One of these 'sa viours' had done more than any oth er of the maney kings to deluge the stock market with watered stock." Millions for Protection. The' House' sub-etmimittee on forti fications has reported to the commit tee on appropriations the fortifica tions appropriation bill with the es timates fix- the War Department slashed from $3S,3iM5, to $S,210, Gll on account of' the desire of the committee tax avoid! giving ground for the impression thai the United States is preparing- for wjtr with Japan. Most of th appropriations is for Hawaii awd . the .Philippines. The bill was at once reported to the House wills recomaasieudation that it pas:". This yeasr'k biOr is revised by th committee',, cover among various projects the- following: For range finding (fire control) in continental United! States $270,000; for guns and implxcements at Decep tion Pass, .$,")73.000; repairing storm damage a:t Charleston, S. C, $50,000; at Pensacola. $58,(M)Gr and at Mon bile, $589,000; for fortifications at Honolulu, inckiiding placing in a few additional mortars at Pearl Harbor, $1,10.0JK)0? far fortifications in the Philippines-, $1,940,000. Brownsville Case Again. Reports, from the committee on military affairs were presented to tha Senate in regard to the investigation of the affray at Brownsville, Tex. which resulted in the discharge with out honor of three companies of negro soldiers of the Tewenty-fifth Infan try. At the same time a message was received from tho President call ing attention to the fact that the tes timony taken by the commitee sus tains his position in discharging- tin negro soldiers. He recommends ex tension of tho timo for re-enlistment of the discharged men who might hi lOMliU IlOl IU Law 1111111 HIV IIUIIJ 9 tlir. nrder. There were foui report:'.? from the committee, the majority be ing signed by Senatois Warren Lodge, "Warner, Dupont, Taliaferro Foster, Overman, Frazier and Mc Creary. A minority report was sign ed bv Senators Foraker, Scott, Bulke. ley and Hemenway. In his special message coverin the matter the President says: "Applications to re-enlist from former members of Companies B C and D., Twenty-fifth Infantry, who were discharged under the provisions of special order No. 2G0, War Depart ment, November 9th, 1900, must be made in writing and be accompanied by such evidence, also in writing, as the applicant may desire to submit, to show that he was neither indi cated in the raid on Brownsville Tex., on the night of August 13th, 100G, nor withheld any evidence that might lead to the discovery of the p?ipet;'ators thereof. DEALING W1TM Washington Officials Admit DSfflcultlcs Latest Measures Effective Measures Too Drastic to Receive Popular Sup port Restrictions on Immigration Inadequate to Keep Out Anarchists. Washington, D. C. It may not be reassuring Information, but the Wash ington officials are none too optlmfa .tic about the outcome ot the attempt to drive all the anarchists from the United States. Those officials whose duty it Is to deal directly with the an archists cannot talk for publication. The officials who can issue orders to immigration inspectors telling them to be alive to. their, duty have talked for publication, but the talk, like? much of the work done, is Impotent. Some one here has said that anar chists are made, not born.. This fa largely true, and anarchists1 will be made as long as there are anarchist teachers who get within touch of re ceptive pupils. This means that as long as there are anarchists in the country their ranks will grow daily. Since thff shooting of the priest st the altar in Denver and the attempted killing of the chief of police, Shlppy, (n Chicago, the Senators and Repre1- sentatives have been busy talking about immigration measures, but they lhave confined their talking largely to1 th corridors antf cloak rooms. Most of them are just as afraid to-day to. pass a restriction bill that means re strictlon as they were before the shootings gave them sharp excuse for' the' passing of aot absolutely drastic measuire. One- member, who Is not more than one generation removed from being a foreigner himself, told your corre spondent that it wouldnt do to draw a line- part way ut the continent of Europe and to say that no one from below the line should come to this country.. "What we ought to do," he said, "Is-to draw a line down the mid dle of th1' Atlantic Ocean and another one down the middle of the Pacific Ocean,, and to say n one shall cross." Restriction Problem Difficult. When' a1 New York Representative, on the floor- of the- House, spoke in advocacy ot ai really restrictive immi gration' meamire,. several Representa tives whose1 constituents are largely Southern. Europeans, at once began misaionary-work.. They told the other members-what? a wrong it would be to punish the many because of the fail ings of the? fev-,. and they did not neg lect to touch cm the matter of power; the 3alance-ofpx)wer,of course, which the mem coming from some of the luropeani countries bold at' the polls In America.. Oire member;, air Illinois man, told a coafeague who was urging no action, that' it would? lie far .better for him Snd' itor his peopla In the future to aver all- immigration stopped from their-native couiTtrles for a series cf years;, until the-nited States had op portunity to assimilate those that were here to- that point of assimilation-which meana the dropping of hy phema, and writing of themselves- as FA1TAMA CANAL. MUST Foruiar dvref Engineer JTew Uaveu!, Conn. John F;. Stev-i ens,. a vice-president of the New York,. New Haven and Hartford Rail road,, and ai former chief engineer of the Panama Canal, has issued a state ment regarding the latter enterprise. In which ho prophesies a failure o fthe undertaking. la this statement Mr. Stevens says that the- eanal will not helpi the Uni ted States in Its trade with South America, as practically afli of th9 in habitants of the Southed Continent are- on the east of the Andes, so that it would he of no advantage to make use f the canal to reach there. Mr, 3tevens also says that In our commer cial relations with th islands of th Pacific and the Far East the canal will be of little value. Our coal and wheat centres are inland. . Their pro ducts have to be started on their way by rail. When loaded on cars it would not be cheaper to ship to the At lantic and then ship to the East by the way of the canal tha it would be to send directly to the ports on our Pacific coast and then get on board hip. Furthermore, Mr. Stevens believes that our coal supply i3 fast diminish ing and that China will be the coal country for the future. Siberia, he Bays, will be the wheat country of the future, with India a close second Mr. Stevens maintains that the Swift Interests Roy 300,000 Acres and 20,000 Cattle in Texas. Austin, Texas. Major George W. rdttlefield, of Austin, closed a deal for the sale of his 300,000 acre ranch, which comprises nearly all the land in Lamb and Hockley counties in the Panhandle of Texas, to a syndicate of Chicago men closely identified with the interests of Swift & Co., packers, prominent membsrsof the Beef Trust. He disposed of 20,000 cattle and 500 saddle horses with the land. The total consideration v&3 approximate ly 13,900,000. F. Bowers, in Hie Indianapolis News, ANARCHY BEGUN - Not Optimistic as to Outcome oTth Americans, not oniy to the full letter of the law, but to the full of the American spirit. The men who have given the sub ject of immigration the closest study seem to feel that the work connected with the keeping out of the criminal and the anarchistic classes should be done on the other slde of the water. They believe that a means can be found by which every intending em igrant from a' foreign country can be made to "prove his record" before he shall be allowed to step otr shipboard. The immigration inspection laws were useful last year to tiro- extent of keeping out something fewer than 1&0O undesirable citizens.. The rec ord was 3 00 -better than for the pre ceding year, and yet the man whevfet tempted to kill Chief Shlppy c&BeVin as a "desirable," and it took-Mm only a few months to do something: more than prove his undesirabllity.. Educational Test Inadequate. The reading and writing, clause which It was proposed to -putt ih' the last immigration bill would not" have kept out Lazarus Averbach,. neither would It have kept out the Denver as- sa3sin:i and, in fact, it wouldn't haw lcept out one in a hundred of the real anarchists whq seek America;. Sons other mean3 must be found,, if the desire- be to debar from the country the men. whose "thinking drives. then mad"..'" There1 fs recognition In Washington of" the fact that in the heat and' pas sioiu following the recent Denver-murder;, a-mf the attempted assassination in Chicago,, there is a disposition- on the part of the police officials to con fuse anarchism with socialism and with! other forms of thinking' and practice- which take no cognizance ot violence- in any shape. The difficulty is that in Che heat and passion the officials-are apt to do things which-they ought?; not to do, and which tend! te increase,, rather than to diminish.. th plague- which they are seeking- to passed",, there comes forgetfna?8xanl the- officials lapse into thret state of ' apathy,, to stay in It until: soma new violence rouses them. Alt! that has been said within- tho last -week -was said immediately, fot-lbwihg-the- assassination of President McKinley. Then anarchism wa to be-killed',, and anarchism kept on; liv ing;. and1,, from all appearances,, it 2s pretty much alive to-day. The Wash ington preaching is for systematic and continued pursuit of the- amor chist&i. but the preaching, If one- may judge fry ihe past, will not- ba fol lowed' by the practice. Congress? can. do-much with a proper form, oft rmmi grationi bill, but there Is no.. present prospect that Congress carvesr;, to. un dertak.-e- the work. FAIE SAYS STEVENS'- of Istliint.Tiv Waterway Gives. Z2Le2soiis IT or ProplM&csr. Panama Canal cannot hope-to become anything more than an expense. It wilt not meet expenses and it. will cost more: than is expected.. It will be an advantage, yes, but am advantage to ELurapean countries and not to us. ; Tho Idea of the canali being of great value to us in times: of warfare, sitae our naval' forces, can be quickly, seat from, one coast to. th other, he sas, is utterly absurd.. It would take days for the ships to get around, and daring that time hostile shells could have done their work. Mr. Stevens believes that it would be a far wiser plan of defense to put the money that the canal will cost Into a greater navy. Mr. Stevens is not unique, however, as a prophet of evil for ship canals. Forty-odd years ago many British and other mercantile economists were cocksure that the Suez Canal could never pay expenses. Yet for years the directors of that work have had periodically to reduce their tolls on shipping in order to keep their net yearly profits from exceeding the twenty-five per cent, permitted by the charter, and the $20,000,000 worth of shares which the British Govern ment purchased in 1875 are now es timated to be worth fully $155,000, 000. There is no objection to Mr. Stevens keeping company with thoa who went so wide of the Suez mark. Trustee f Northampton Academy of Music Report Gain of $2000, Northampton, Mass. The trusteet of the Academy of Music have made public their annual report showing for the financial year, which corre sponds with the calendar year, a profit of $2000. This showing is th more satisfactory when it is consid ered that it covets a part of the pres ent season of hard times. Tho lasi two annual reports have shown a profit of $3000, and have done much to justify Northampton's experiment of maintaining a u-uniciijal tlicatra. J
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