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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-07-27

United States that we can grow our
own supply. The $10O,O00,0oO our peo-
pie pay for sugar every year is the purse
hung up for them, for which they are
striving. Some of the experiments
with the beet have been discouraging
because the conditions were not fa-
vorable. The sugar beet requires TO-
600 units of heat for its successful Gull
tivation. Climate and soil must be
chosen with care
another thing this department is
doing is to investigate the experiments
which have been going on in the south
for the cultivation of tea. have let
ter here now from the man who has
been conducting the tea farm about his
work and how he has taught the little
colored children to pick the leaves. He
is getting better tea there than we can
get from Ceylon or Formosa. am hav-
ing an investigation made to ascertain
the isotherm on which he is working, So
that we can calculate how much of the
territory of the United States is adapt
ed to the cultivation of tea.
another thing we have done is to
undertake the investigation of the for
estry question. Not long ago this de-
partment sent to the senate report on
coniferous trees, showing the destruc-
tion of our forests. Pine is growing
scarcer every year, you know, so that
it has become almost as costly as black
walnut. The time will come when it
will be too expensive for general use;
indeed, they are talking already about
building cars of steel. What interests
us just now, though, more than the de-
struction of the pine, is the planting of
trees in the more arid region. | have
a man in Asia making Investigations Of
the subject
These are only some of the things we
have begun to do. This department has
more than 30 divisions. Their work is
all important. l have not had time yet
to become well acquainted with more
than three or four OF the divisions.
"But as to the value of the agricul-
tural departments work, it is spread
ing all the time, Example is more ef-
fectiye than precept. Most men are GO
ing TO keep on in the way Of their ia
theirs and their grandfathers until they
look over the fence and see their neigh
bors doing something different"
GEORGE GRANTHAM Balm.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-07-27

exact results, but proved that for the
corn fed to those lambs l was getting
40 or so cents a bushel. The farmer who
sells his corn at 10 cents a bushel can
dress in rags, let his hair grow long,
and yell over hard times; but the farm
er who gets return of so cents bushel
for his corn can slap his thigh and be
merry over the return of prosperity"
And the secretary slapped his thigh
vigorously to illustrate and emphasize
his remark.
"An Iowa farmer" he continued, "fed
corn to his cows. He found that they
ate five cents worth a day and yielded
Is cents in milk. A farmer who gets
that return can grow rich"
Mr.. Wilson went south with the pres
ident in his recent trip; he found two
things that interested him, he says
One was that the women of the south
have accepted the result of the war;
at least, those whom Mr.. Wilson met
had stopped fighting and laid down
their arms.
"Another thing that interested me"
be said, "was the condition of the soil.
1t is a very shallow soil, and they have
been planting the same crop in ii year
after year until every bit of organic
matter has gone out of it; the soil is all
worn out. We went to Belle Mead
farm, where Gen. Jackson is raising
blooded stock He has ten or 10 fine
stations and 100 brood mares; but he
has found that the business is not prof
table. People would not pay the prices
he wanted; so he has put herd of so
cows on the farm and gone into dairy
work. That interested me. think the
people of the south ought to plant
grasses and take to grazing. They
should put fve-sixths of their land into
grass, and the other sixth into some
thing else. BY changing around from
year to year they could soon restore
their soil TO it's own fertility. They
have the finest grazing country in the
United States except the northwest
and they have this advantage over the
northwest--they can Craze all the year
round"
I asked Mr.. Wilson if he thought the
farmers were profting by their lessons
Ia scientific agriculture.
''.rhey are Tearing all the time" he
said. "'The experiment stations are do
Ing splendid work. The bulletins OF
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-07-27
TIE FARMERS TROUBLE
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
Diagnoses the Casa.
says They Do Not Raise the Things
the People Want-Recent oh
scrvntions in the
south.
tcopyright, 1871

Zone trouble with the American farm
or is that he win raise what he thinks
people ought to want, and not what
they do want"
That is the answer of Secretary
James Wilson to the question: What
IS the matter with agricultureY'
The secretary of agriculture ought to
know what is the matter with it If any
one does.
1 found the secretary in his office
when l called at the department a few
DAYS ago. His confidential clerk sat OPP
posite him at his big, tat-topped desk,
and two or three of his bureau chiefs
came in and waited for a word with him
while be was telling me what allied the
farmer.
flake my own state, Iowa, for ex-
ample" sail the secretary. I'VE have
been raising there a little, wiry horse of
1000 pounds or thereabuts under the
impression that it was wanted. Now
we find that people want draft horse
Of about 900 pounds, and they will pay
good price for it. They want stylish
carriage horse, or a good riding horse,
or a horse for army use.
at is true, also, in great many
cases, that the American farmer does
not know the best use to make of his |
products. My state raises one-seventh
Of the total corn crop of this country.
To-day the cribs are full, and the best
price the farmer can get for his corn is
Is cents bushel. Not long ago l tried
an experiment. / got a flock of range
lambs and fed them on corn. l did not
carry the experiment far enough to get
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-07-27

this department are being distributed
very widely
and are the people reading themy
"They are. A farmers meeting to-
day is very different from what il was
few years ago. The farmer to-day
would not listen to the talk he used to
hear. The doctor and the preacher
used to be asked TO speak sometimes,
and they would make humorous re-
marks Nowadays the farmer would not
stand that minute. The talk you hear
at his meetings now is all practical.
Farming has become science. Take
dairyirg for example. 1t is as different
from the old dairying as the transport
alton of to-day is from that of 100
years ago. The farmers wife used to
throw away one-third of the butter fat
in her milk. To-day the separator saves
every bit of it. We make in this coun-
try to-day the finest butter and cheese
in the world. England makes nothing
like it. Unfortunately we have been
sending abroad oleomargarine - the
stuff they rub into a sleeps wool to
keep the rain out; and we have sent
cheeses which were filled with cotton
seed oil. The Englishman has got his
idea of our dairy products from these, !
and he does not want them. am try |
ing to find market abroad for our
best cheeses and butter. and / am try
ing to have the restrictions removed |
from our meat products.
There have been so many gibes at the
agricultural department. that I asked
the secretary if he believed it had really |
done any good in the few years of it's
existence.
ibid you ever eat navel Granger
he said in reply. 1.-The parent tree is
here. It was brought from Brazil and
cuttings from it were distributed over
the country by the department. Sor-
ghum was introduced into the United |
States by the department of agrieul
ture. The department brought the first
beet seed here for experimental cul-
ture; and it has pursued its expert
ments with beets, until now there is no
doubt in the minds of the farmers of the
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-11-11
WESTERN RANGE HORSES
CannerieS, Klondikers and CaValYmen
viii Need Large Numbers.
TWENTY-FIVE NILES PER DAY
Ninety Days. Continuous Riding
Covers24OO Mites and sho WIS Their
wonderful Powers Of Endurance.
Charity Concert Program.

Mr.. T. s. Phillips, of Mabton, is au-
thorty for the statement that II the in
terest in the Klondike and in mining
generally continues the Portland horse
meat packing establishment will have to
close its doors.
Mr.. Phillips is horse dealer and
claims to know whereof he speaks. He
says that every horse dealer in the state
is getting better prices for his stock.
Cayuses that sold for 81 and $l2 several
months ago are now bringing from SIS to
$25. 1t can be easily seen what effect
this advance in prices will have on the
Portland concern, as before the excite.
ment farmers were disposing Of their
horses for from 81 to So a head.
"Our owners of horses have seen their
worst days." continued Mr.. Phillips,
land Klondikers are not the only people
who have their eye on our western
ranges. DR.. Bruett, special commits
sioner Of the Bureau of animal industry
of the department of agriculture says
No horses in the world excel the range
horses of our western states for military
purposes and think a trip recently fin.
ished by two of my cowboy friends proves
my assertion. These young men have
demonstrated that the bronchos and
range horses OF our plains can cover a
a distance of 24OO miles in ninety days
and subsist oh on grass and water along
the route, without grain, and more i'm
portsnt still, from a military point OF
view, without being shod.
4 can say without fear OF contradic-
ton that no other horse in the world can
make such a trip under these circum-
stances. The route, beginning at Sheri-
dan, Wyo., and ending at Galena, cover
ed all kinds OF country, turf, sand, rock
clay and mud. When they entered the
last 100 miles Of the journey the horses
were in as good condition in every way
as when they started from Wyoming, but
from Dubuque to Waterloo, Ia, the road
along the Mississippi river was either
over Jagged rocks or through deep mud.
The heels and frogs of the horses feet
were 30 badly bruised that, although they
could have completed the distance to
Chicago, telegraphed the men to let
the noble little animals stop at Galena.
Had the horses been shod at Sioux City,
Iowa, as l telegraphed, knowing the
roads over which they would have to
travel to Chicago, the horses would have
reached here in first-class condition. The
telegram failed to reach the men and
they brought the horses through under
my original instructions.
AS test of the endurance of the
western range horse l am sure the De-
psrtment OF Agriculture will be more
than satisfied with the result, as it dem.
onstrates the animal is all that has been
claimed. AS 1 said before, no other
horses in the world could have made
such trip under such conditions l be-
lieve it will change the opinions OF foreign
governments who have felt that our
range horses were too light for military
purposes.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-11-11
school Officers Appointed.

DIR. Angus has been appointed director
IN district No As, at Belma, vice Lse re-
signed.
Walter Tuesley having moved out of
Artemesia district for the winter, w. T.
Clark has been appointed clerk in his
place.
j. L. DeMoss has resigned as director
in Kennewick and G. w. Owen appoint.
ed to fill the vacancancy.
Fl. M. Shaw has been appointed to sue
coed Louis Joerdens who resigned as d.
rector Of the Tampico district.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-11-11
HOW's This?

We offer One Hundred Dollars reward
for any case of Catarrh that cannot be
cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
F. j. CHENEY & Co., props, Toledo, o.
We the undersigned, have known f.
j. Cheney for the last Is years, and be-
iieve him perfectly honorable in all bust
ness transactions and financially able to
carry out any obligations made by their
firm.
WEST & TRUAx, Wholesale Druggists,
Toledo. o.
WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN, Whole
sale Druggists. Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internal
ly, acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces Of the system. Price
rs cents per bottle. Sold by all drug
gists. Testimonials free.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-11-11
A sure Thing for Yen.

A transaction In which you can not lose
is sure thing. Biliousness, sick head
ache, furred tongue, fever. piles and q
thousand other ills are caused by consti-
patton and sluggish liver. Cascarets
Candy Cathartic, the wonderful new liv-
or stimulsnt and intestinal tonic are by
all druggists guaranteed to cure or
money refunded. G. c. c. are . sure
thing. Try box to-day; 1oc., &c., So,
Sample and booklets free. All druggists.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-11-11

On Sunday morning Pete Walen made
rather startling discovery in the Cyrus
Walker residence on the corner OF Second
and d streets. He has charge Of the
garden and is also employed by the local
agent TO keep the inside Of the house tidy
and free from dust. He discovered last
Sunday morning that the house had been
entered by burglars, who had given the
premises q general ransacking. Cup
boards and closets and drawers had been
turned inside out and many articles ap-
peared to be missing, among which are
silverware, table linen and towels, cloth.
ing and tools, and a case Of liquors. All
Of Mr.. Walkers clothing was taken. The
burglar changed his socks while he was
there and left his old ones on the floor,
and they are the only cue that was left
behind. Two weeks before this q music
box was stolen, but it was not made gen.
orally public for fear of advertising the
fact that the house Is vacant.
The Northern Pacific disposed OF 1896
acres of land in Washington, Idaho and
Oregon during September, and practically
every one of the $50 purchasers were
buying with the intent to become actual
settlers and cultivate their newly &C.
quired holdings. Last October the sales
were only 1859 acres, or less than one
seventh those Of the present season.
During tour months ending with October
the total sales of Northern Pacific land in
these states were 105, 1856 acres, as against
l37, 1886 acres for the fiscal year ending
with June, 1897, and these four months
sales are greater than any entire year
since 1891, exceeding the combined sales
in 1894, 1895 and 1896.
Owing to a dispute between himself
and his landlord regarding some hay, a
few days ago, Mart Geek, who is living
on a rented place in the Wenas valley,
very suddenly loaded the aforesaid hay
ON as many wagons as he could muster
and proceeded to haul it off the place and
into town.
Do your house cleaning before cold
weather sets in. A. S. johnson & Co. have
everything you need to make your re-
pairs such as wall paper, paints, window
glass, window shades, room mouldings,
etc. Their prices are the lowest. 3S-tf
Work on the railroad bridge across the
Natcheez is finished and the damage
done that structure last winter is en-
tirely repaired.
Marshal Backer, Thos. McIvor and
Nick Hartung left Tuesday night for the
lower part of the county on a goose hunt.
DR.. Gum and Judge Henton were pas
sengers on the east bound train Monday
night bound tor Walla Walla.
Three valuable reform volumes have
been added to THE HERALD library by
DR.. Angus of Euclid.
The wing dam in the Natcheez river
above the Nelson bridge has been COM
pleted.
Deputy U. S. Attorney Robertson. oil
Tacoma, was in the city on Monday.
Fred Miller is pronounced the cham
pion ball roller at the bowling alley.
Fred Mathieson, special agent, left for
Walla Walla Monday night.
Henry Grissom and family have been
visiting in Ellensburg.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-11-11
Group Quickly Cured.

CFOup UuICKtY Cureu'
MOUNTAIN GLEN, Afk.-Our children
were suffering with Group when we re.
ceived q bottle of Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy. 1t afforded almost instant re-
lief.-F. A. THORNTON. This celebrated
remedy is for sale at Janeck Bros.
Drug Store, North Yakima, and G. A.
Jensen, Prosser.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-11-11
II eadquarters for Fruits & Vegetables
- for Thanksgiving at Otter &
Mechtel's,
How to Cure Bilious Collie.

/ suffered for weeks with collie and
pains. in my stomach caused bv bilious
ness, and had to take medicine all the
while, until used Chamberlain's Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhes Remedy. which
cured me. have since recommended it
to good many people. MRS. F. BUTLER,
Fairhaven, Conn. Persons who are sub.
ject to bilious collie can ward off the at
tack by taking this remedy as soon as the
first symptoms appear. Sold by Janeck
Rros., Pharmacists, North Yakima, and
G. A. Jensen. Prosser.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-11-11
Great Music Offer.

Creat MUSIC Offer.
Send US the names and addresses OF
three or more performers on the piano or
organ together with ten cents in silver or
postage and We will mail you ten pieces
full sheet music, consisting of popular
songs, waltzes, marches, etc., arranged
for the piano and organ. Address,
POPULAR Music PUB. Co.,
Indianapolis, Ind
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-11-11

A merchant, as we'll as any one else,
likes to talk Of something he has which
he knows is little better than the "other
fellows" That's why Coffin Bras. are
talking so much about their Fish Bros
rigs. 1925
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-11-11
A UBURN Golden Medal cheese a.
"A Otter & Mechtel's.
Two Millions a Year.

When people buy. try. and buy again,
it means they're satisfied. The people OF
the United States are now buying Casca-
rets Candy Cathartic at the rate of two
million boxes a year and it will be three
million before New Years. 1t means
merit proved that Cascarets are the most
delightful bowel regulator for everybody
the year round. ALI druggists loo, 25c,
SOC box, cure guaranteed.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-11-11
St. Eliza beth,s Benefit

The following program will be render
ed at the Second Annual Benefit Enter.
tainment for st. Eizabeth's hospital at
Mason's opera house, Tuesday evening,
Nov. 23d.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-11-11

You can't cure constipation but you
can avoid it and cure every other form Of
throat or lung trouble by the use of One
Minute Cough Cure. Janeck Bros. Drug
Store.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-11-11

Ewing & Mikkelson are selling wood
80 and rs cents cheaper than the other
dealers. and coal in the same proportion.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-11-11

II eadquarters for mihce meat and all
- sorts of Thanksgiving supplies at
Otter & Mechtel's.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-11-11

Remember We have always on hand
Folger's pure spices-whole and grou nd.
40 KINsEY Il Co.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-11-11
Local Bargains.

II eadquarters for mihce meat and all
"a sorts of Thanksgiving supplies at
Otter & Mechtel's.
Nine-roomed cottage and two lots, well
located, for sale by owner. Terms reason
able and title good. Address box 43.
Home advantages and choice table
board for limited number at the home
Of Mrs. G. G. Shearer. corner G and Third
streets. 38-ti
Small pill, safe pill, best pill. DeWitt's
Little Early Risers cure biliousness, con-
stipstion, sick headache. Janeck Bros.
Drug Store.
The geese are flying high this year and
they are wilder than usual, but those
hand loaded shells of Wallace & Coburn's
bring them down every time.
To be candid, we are alter the wagon
trade of Yakima. and II you want the
best hack, carriage, surry or farm wagon
that is made, we are sure to get 1t, as
our prices are the lowest and our wagons
the best. COFFIN Bros.
Rossland and the Kootenai country
are now only nineteen hours distant from
Yakima according to the time table Of
the Northern Pacific. This popular road
is making special efforts to secure the
travel to and from that district and
there are no longer tedious waits at Spo-
kane. Passengers taking the east bound
train at II 20 In the evening will be
landed In Rossland early the next even
ing. 14tf.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-11-11
To cure Cons,ipation Forever.

Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c
or Csc. If c. G. G. fail to cure, druggists
refund money.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-10-30
A PLEASANT AFFAIR.

Mrs. r. S. Wallace entertained /
score of ladies from this city at "Tht
Willows" Friday afternoon. The
party went out in Basey's wagonettt
and private c~onyeyances and spent 6
most delightful afternoon, returning
home about dusk.
Those enjoying the hospitality OF
Mrs. Wallace we're:
Mrs. A. McGill, Mrs, M. Mcdonald.
Mrs. Herren, Mrs. +. A. Moore, Mrs,
q. E. Wolverton. Mrs. g. p. Bishop.
Mrs. NJ. It. Rineman, Mrs. II. j Big
ger, Mrs. r, j. Fleming, Mrs. J. A,
Van Eaton, Mrs. Dodd, Mrs. Reeves,
Mrs. Thomas Sims, Mrs. G.. A. Rock.
we'll, Mrs. A. o. Condit, Mrs. j. o,
Bozorth, Mrs. N. j. Damon, Mrs. d.
p. Junk, Mrs. q. w. Putnam, Mrs. w.
III. Odell, Mrs. E, f. Osburn, Mrs. w.
F. Boothby, Miss Neal, of Meadville,
Pa, and Miss Condor, of Eugene.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-10-30
SCHOOL ENTERTAINMENT.

The pupils of the ninth grade at
the East school are contemplating
the presentation of a literary aud
musical program to conclude with a
dialogue, In the near future. 1t is
possible the entertainment will be
given at Reeds opera house to which
a small admission will be charged.
The object for which the ninth grade
purposes giving the entertainment are
laudable and will merit a generous
patronage. They wish to secure funds
with which to engage, il not purchase,
a musical instrument and a quantity
Of music for the school room. The
ninth grade has the necessary persons
possessing musical and literary ability
to arrange aud present a very credi-
table entertainment.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-10-30
DIED.

GRAY-At the family home, No.
443, Commercial street at l O'Clock,
Friday, October 20, 1897, Mrs. Alice
b., wife OF John Gray, aged AZ
years. 10 months and p days, OF
consumption.
Deceased was born at Westburke,
Vermont on December 2, l647. In 1870
accompanied by her husband she came
To Oregon, settling 10 this city where
she has since resided. She was a
sister Of +. j. Babcock, also deceased.
Besides tie bereayed husband, John
Gray, the deceased leaves an only son
Walter, to mourn the death ofa low
Ing v lie and mother.
Funeral services will be held at 2
p. M. Sunday from the late residence,
by Rev. w. G. Kantner. The remains
will be inferred in the / o. o. f.
cemetery.