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Thornton, "that 10 better time could
be selected for change in the law.
English shipyards, 1t must not be for
gotten. are at present quite as busy as
the American ones. II the law were
modified l think American. builders
would still have a strong chance of
securing the contracts for all the new
vessels that would be required. Amer
lean owners would also be given a
chance to secure vessels for immedi-
ate use and thus hold the trade until
new ships could be built"
Against these reservations, obvious
~ put forth in the hope of counterfeit
ing the strong desire son the part OF
all patriotic Americans for adequate
marine protective legislation, let us
array the statements of Mr.. Alexander
r. Smith, editor of Seaboard, and a
man who knows whereof he speaks:
1--WE have here in the United States
today at least fifteen firms that can
turn out ocean steamers of the finest
-class, and at as rapid rate as any
ship-building concern in the world.
Half dozen of these firms could take
an order tomorrow for steamships Of
the size and power of the st. Paul,
Campania, or Kaiser Wilhelm der
Crosse and set them afioat In the
shortest possible time, and as for
building vessels equal to or better
than Mr.. Williams Atlantic Transport
Line. there are any number of firms in
this country who could produce them
with little difficulty.
To-day, as our leading ship-building
plants stand, they have a capacity Of
a yearly output of 10000 tons of steel
ships, and their proprietors stand
ready to execute all orders as they
may come to them, and could, in very
short order, enlarge their plants to
any size to accommodate all demands
for new American steamers. I"
We could name twenty-five American
shipyards that could today, were the
orders placed with them, built freight
steamers of the stanchest and most
economical type. Witness the fact that
in few months time the Bath Iron
Works, that extensive ship-building
enterprise up in the state of Maine,
turned out a magnificent freighter Of
the much maligned but money-making
tramp" class. the Winifred. and in
the space of four or five months the
William Cramp & Sons Ship and En-
CINE Building Company, as an aside to
their regular work of building war
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FARM AND, GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO
AoRlCULTURISTS
0o0o Upto-Dat0 Hints Aboat Cal.
tivatiea Of the Soil and Fields
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. vitiesltuEe and
1leg1culturA


Our Pears Abroad.
France has usually supplied England
with most Of her best pears, but last
year heavy importations of American
pears created q sensation in London.
Writes s. w. Chambers in Wisconsin
Agriculturist Our pears are far SUI
perior to anything raised on the con-
tinent Of Europe. and Englishmen ap-
pear to appreciate the fact. The Eng
lish are naturally as fond Of pears as
they are of apples. and there Is q good
prospect Of sending heavy consign-
ments Of pears to England every year.
California fruit growers opened this
market, and demonstrated to the coun-
try what organized effort could do. But
there is no reason why one part OF the
country should monopolize this trade.
According to the best advices obtain
able the Bartlett pear sells about as
we'll as any variety in England. They
bring from 5s to SIS per case. Next to
them the Seckels are considered lus-
cious and desirable pear. and also the
Duchess. The fact is the same pears
that we raise for our own market sell
In England. This may be due partial
~ to the fact that most of the pears
will not thrive we'll in England or on
the continent. Either the climate or
soil is against their doing well. But
the English gardeners raise some very
fine varieties of pears in the espalier
form, but these hardly ever find their
way into the general market. Among
these We find many familiar varieties.
such as the Duchess. Vicar. Clairgeau
and Eastern Beurre. There Is such
limited space in the English gardens
for pears that the annual crop is COM
paratively small. The question OF ex-
porting pears to England is now re-
ceiving the attention of Eastern ship
pers, who anticipate good trade In
the near future The corsignments
sent over have been in refrigerators,
but as this is too expensive method
some other will have to be adopted. 1t
Is proposed to wrap the choice pears
in paper, and to pack them In barrels
through which the air can circulate
freely. II this method proves a sue
cess. We will soon expect to see our
pear exports creeping up on our al
ready enormous shipments Of apples
to England.
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Few people realize the great differ
ences existing in neighboring locali-
ties. as relates to their susceptibilities
to frosts. Experience has taught the
fruit culturist that deep valleys are rot
suitable for growing certain fruits.
owing to their frequent devastation by
frosts. Frosts appear in these places
when the nearest hillsides are I'M
touched. Who has not noticed corn
fields frost injured. in the hollows. but
untouched elsewhere? The facts stat
ed are easily explained by science. That
cold air settles is known to all, but how
great are the variations in the temper.
atures of narrow layers Of air is ap-
preciated by but few. In a calm. still
night the air tends to form itself in lay
ers, the coolest air settling to the
bottom. Actual tests have shown that
the air at the surface of the soil at
such times is very much colder than
even ten feet higher up. In some cases
the variation is as much as one degree
per foot. Thus il at distance of ten
feet above the ground the thermometer
registered AZ degrees above zero. at the
ground 1t might be 80 degrees or at
the freezing point. For this reason
valleys are more likely to be cold. The
air stays in them and the cold layer
is deposited. Even the layer of cold
air that starts to form on the hilltop
is unable to keep its position. but grad
ually flows down into the valley like a
stream of water. Ten extra degrees of
cold in the late spring or early fall
may and often do make all the diff
ference in the world with the crop. Be-
cause of this it Is not advisable to
place an apple orchard in a valley, or
to attempt to grow tender vegetables
there. The plain is less likely to suf-
fer from cold layers of air, but even a
plain is not so free as hillside.
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vessels, have built entire and placed In
commission four elegant coastwise
freight and passenger steamers. named
after our admirals. and two ocean
steamers of the first class, the Mexico
and Havana, are approaching compile
ton. At Roach's shipyard steamship
of the Oil-carrying type, as strong as
any ahoat, was launched the other
day, while at Harlan & Holdings
worth's plant in Wilmington no less
than four steamships are under way.
one of which is the second American
tramp" which has been constructed
in an incredibly short space Of time.
The Newport News Shipbuilding and
Dry Dock Company have their yard
filled with the bulls Of new steamships
which are to be used in the American
trade. Such firms as these, as we'll as
the Maryland Steel Company, the CO.
lumbar Iron Works, the Pussy 4
Jones Company, John H. Dialogue, the
Neafie & Levy Ship and Engine Build
ing Company. Lewis Nixon, the Charles
Hillman Ship and Engine Building
Company. T. s. Marvel & Co.. the At
lantic Works, the Union Iron Works
and many other coastwise shipyards.
are capable ct building the future
merchant marine Of the United States.
mo, no, Mr.. Ascor. We are not puz-
cling over where we shall build the
ships that are to carry our commerce.
Home shipyards. equipped with the
finest tools and managed by the BRAIN
lest men in the country. are awaiting
orders. Only let the contracts come
and there will be no delay in the exc
cution."
We have quoted thus literally on
the two sides of the question for the
purpose of illustrating the craft and
the guile with which the established
shipping interests Of England are at
tempting to influence American
thought on the subject Of our naviga-
ton laws as they are and as they
should be. More than ell the rest Of
the world combined. Great Britain is
concerned In what the United States
shall or shall net do in the matter Of
a marine protective policy. Fortunate
", however. the merits OF the question
| are not to be obscured by the British
sslf-interest. America has fully decid-
| ed that she will have q merchant ma
line Of her own, composed of ships
built in American yards, flying the
American flag and sailed by AEer-
lean seamen. We can supply the ships
as quickly As they shall be needed,
and can build them as cheaply as any
Sody. What We want IS legislation that
shall insure them profitable employ
ment after they have been built. TAis
b the need Of the hour. and there
/ should Be no delay In satisfy1ng It.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1899-01-26
Selling Farm Fertility.

In deciding what should be the SAL
able products Of his farm, one of the
most important questions is whether
such sales will take small or large
proportion Of the fertility which is the
farmers best capital. says American
Cuitivator. Most New England farm
ers have for years given up growing
wheat, though 1t is probable that those
who have turned their land to produc-
ing tobacco or garden crops could now
produce wheat in larger crops than
they ever did before. But it would
take from the soil mineral elements
that they can better use in other ways.
Whether q farmer shall sell milk or
take on its cream and make it into but
ter, while using the skim-milk as food
for pigs. poultry or other animals. may
not depend wholly on the amount Of
money the butter or the milk would
sell for. but upon the effect on soil fer
tility. The sale Of butter removes
nothing of value from the soil. Nei-
ther. and for the same reason, does the
fattening Of fully grown stock. But
in the growth Of any young animal.
and in the production of milk, the most
valuable elements Of fertility in the
food are drawn upon. It was on the
light lands Of England that had long
been pasfured by mich cows that sup
piled London with milk, that soils first
gave out and would not grow grasses
a they used to do. until guano was ap-
Piled It was found afterwards that
phosphate Of lime was what was most
needed. - It made the lands a. pro-
6uetive - the guano could do. OF an
en- gTalns Indian corn takes least nom
- 0oil. 1ta stalk and grain are both
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1899-01-26

The increase in the savings banks
deposits is simple but effectual test
of increased prosperity among the peo-
pie. The increase in savings bank de-
posits in Davenport for the year end
ing October, 1898. was -in excess o.
those for the year ending October. 1897.
by the large sum OF $7S4,S54 This is
proof that the people of Scott county
have more generally surplus from
their earnings than in the year 1897,
for the savings deposits represent a
great many depositors. 1t is a pros
perity among the people that a Repub-
lican administration Of the nations
affairs represents.-Davenpo Qowa)
Republican.
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Tried It to Their Sorrow.

This year there has been an increase
of two and one-half million tons in
the output of the West Virginia coal
mines as the result of the Dingley
tariff shutting out from the New Eng
land market the foreign coal which
found Z market there under the Will
SON law. and restoring it to the miners
of West Virginia. II was the Hon.
William n. Springer and the free
traders who told the miners in 1899
that free coal would give them more
work and better wages, and the miners
tiled the experiment to their sorrow.-
Decatur m.) Republican.
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WITHOUTA PARALLEL
THE FIRST FULL YEAR OF RE-
STORED PROTECTION.
1soes Went Out In . Blaze Of spleadId
xresperify and tho New Year Comes
4 With Che Assured Prospect Of In
ereased Activity nnd Progress.

The year now closing is without .
parallel in the history Of the United
States. It is the first full calendar
year of McKinleyism and Dingleyism.
and in respect of trade conditions has
as far surpassed 1892 as that year sur
passed in substantial prosperity any
year previously known. The neutral
and non-partisan commercial journals
may be trusted to tell the story fairly
and without bias. Dun's Review for
December says:
1T is a year beyond parallel. and
goes to its close with the biggest vol
ume of business ever seen. Enormous
transactions at the stock exchange
make some difference and heavy rail-
porting and speculative interests are
eliminated there is still a much larger
business than in any month OF any
year. Last year the exports were in
volume greater than in any previous
month in the history of the country,
but this year the three weeks report
shows an increase of 25 per cent
against 8 per cent in imports, which
would indicate much more than $780,
0O0. 900 excess of exports this month.
The payments through clearinghouse
have been for the week 26.5 per cent
greater than last year and 12.4 per
cent greater than in 1892, and for the
month lis per cent larger than in
1892"
Similar testimony is supplied by
Bradstreet's, as follows:
Probably never before at this date
was the course of general business so
animated as it is at present. Specula-
tive activity is no longer confined to
the stock market, but has widened to
include wheat and corn among the
cereals and copper among the metals.
while the rush of business in iron and
steel seems little, If any abated. and
some lines. notably cotton goods and
raw wool, are displaying an activity
and strength which would have been
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1899-01-26

tirpate it. The fact that this plant rip
ems some of its pods early in the season
and long before crops are ripe. or even
before they are generally cut for hay.
renders it difficult pest to overcome
The only ways of fighting it seem to
be. first, pulling it by hand when not
too thick; second. cutting down the
whole crop before any false fax can
have matured its seeds; third. the
much more rational treatment Of
planting some hoed crops upon the
land the year after the fax is first dis
covered: fourth, summer-fallow till
June. then pillow up and seed with about
a bushel of wheat, which land. when
the grain is up. pasture with cattle and
pillow again in the fall. seeding heavily
with wheat.
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(Camelina saliva. CrantzJ

(Camelina saliva. Crantz)
Bulletin IA, Idaho Experiment Sta
ton: AS the name would seem to i'm
ply, this weed is most noxious in hax-
fields. for it is hardly tall enough to vie
with the cereals in its struggle for ex-
istence. It exists to q limited extent
In Southern Idaho, especially in the
nelds near railroad depots, but in some
OF the fine fax fields of Northern Idaho
1t Is serious evil, and may even be-
come q drawback to the production Of
max or its seed.
Oescription.-The false max Is a
member Of the great mustard family.
though its round short pods would
hardly lead a superficial observer to
think so. Like all of the previously
mentioned weeds. it is a native Of Eu-
rope, probably reaching this country
In shipments Of fax seed. 1t grows
from foot and a half to two feet
high. and is sometimes unbranched.
but generally branches freely. The
surest means of Identification is fur
nished by its mature or maturing pods,
which are short pear-form to nearly
orbicular. This Is a character present.
ed by no other weeds Of this order in
this country. and therefore leads to its
easy recognition. Each pod is supplied
with many small seeds. so that one
plant of the false fax may furnish a
host of seeds. and dozen plants will
soon SOW q whole field. Examples of
this are only too common in Nez Perez
county. where the rich. sandy loan
common there furnishes a natural hot
bed for this weed and many more.
Prevention and EradicatioD.-When
this weed is once well established in a
field. 1t is very difficult entirely to ex-
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SMALLER PURCHASES.


Large Decrease In British Exportatiea1
to the United statsa
Under the workings of the Dingley
law the importation Of manufactures
from Great Britain into the United
States seems likely to show an unusu-
ally small total in the year 1898. The
November statement of exports from
Great Britain to the United States
which has just reached the Treasury
Bureau. of Statistics, shows in nearly
every case that the expectations OF
manufactures in the eleven months
ending Nov 80 were less than in the
corresponding months of earlier years
States in the early part Of the year
1897 were, of course, abnormally great
in anticipation of the higher duties oil
the Dinghy tariff, and a comparison OF
the eleven months of 1898 with the
corresponding months of 1897 would In
many cases be misleading. A COMPARE
son, however, with the corresponding
months of 1896 and 1898 shows in
nearly all cases smaller imports in 1898
than in either of the earlier year3.
When it is remembered that the i'm
ports of the eleven months of 1896
were the smallest with a single ex-
ception since 1890, and that those OF
1893 were less than in the three years
which preceded it, a comparison of 1898
with these two years will not be con-
sidered an unfair one, while to COM
pare with the years 1894 or 1897, in
which tariff laws were being c0nsid-
cred and enacted, would be manifestly
unjust. In nearly all classes of man
ufactured articles the figures of the
eleven months of 1898 show a reduc-
ton as compared with 1896 and 1893,
and a very large reduction as COM
cared with 1897. In jute manufactures,
for instance, the imports of the eleven
months of 1898 were 95,2s7 300 yards.
against 143, 984 300 in the corresponding
months of 1897; in wooden yarns the
drop was from 5000 pounds in 1897 to
$500 in 1898: in worsted yarn. from
GA. 800 pounds in eleven months OF
1897 to TO-, 900 in 1898; in wooden It's
sues from S,046, 100 yards In eleven
months of 1897 to 1,478.3 300 In eleven
months of 1898. and in worsted tissues
from 4O.667 900 yards in eleven months
of 1897 to 1906, 400 in the correspond
ing months of 1898.
In many other articles the decrease
of impOrtations from the United King
dom is equally significant. For the
first eleven months of 1893 We bought
Of Great Britain tin plate amounting to
241. $50 tons, while for the correspond
ing months of 1898 our purchases were
cut down to 61.676 tons. OF British
locomotives We bought in 1893 about
1000 worth. against $500 worth
this year. Five years ago Great Brit
ain sent us textile machinery valued at
over $2,SOO,0OO; this year. S1.3OO.OOO
Our purchases of English chinaware
have fallen from S4,2OO,00O in 1893 to
$2,500,000 in 1898, and our hardware
purchases from $500 600 in 1893 to $685.
900 in 1898.
These heavy decreases are not the
result of a diminished ability to buy.
On the contrary, the country is richer
and better able to buy in 1898 than
ever before. We buy less from Europe
now because we buy and use more
American-made goods 1t is good
thing.
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mainly carbon, ana this can be got in
abundance from the air through the
broad expanse Of leaves which the corn
plant shows. But the max plant IS the
direct reverse Of this. Its root robs
the soil Of both nitrogen and phos-
phate.. /.
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Our Enemy-Rust.

There are few thirgs that tax the
farmer more heavily than rust. It in
vades his storehouse. his barn and his
home. 1t is an invader that does not
delay its attack. because the implement
is an expensive one. Its work is so
subtle that sometimes, before the farm
er really has come to think Of it. his
high-priced machine is ruined. II 1t
does not ruin the machine, it puts 1t
into such shape that it requires hours
of hard labor to place it in -servicea-
BILE condition. We remember one farm
er that used to SO neglect his horse
rake Every summer when haying time
came the cleaning of the horse
rake became an event The
from one end to the other. The
work of removing the rust was great.
The machine partly cleaned of rust was
nearly unserviceable, as the teeth re-
fused to drop their weight of hay A
little work in the fall would have pre-
vented the rust The teeth could have
been polished and covered with any of
several preparations that would have
kept OF the rust. What is true of the
hay rake is true of most other tools
They should be carefully examined and
covered with protective preparations
By this time of year many of the tools
will have begun to show rust, especial
ly as this has been a very damp fall
To remove the rust now will be found
a much less task than it will be three
months hence
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1899-01-26

Sex of Pigeons.-To distinguish the
sex Of pigeons there is no sure way TO
be given, as most always the cock and
hen look alike. The hen should be
bred as near like the cock as possible.
In most cases the cocks are thicker
and more massive about the head and
beak. The neck Is thicker and stouter
built in every respect. But this Is not
always the case, and fully-developed.
vigorous, stylish hen can be passed on
for a cock Again, the cock makes .
louder noise than the hen. and his
breast boro is larger. When two
young birds are Matched the cock il
most generally the larger, and feathers
ont the faster.-Ex.
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Color and Food.

That the color of the plumage may
be deepened by the character Of the
food is a question that has been dis
cussed pro and con by many, but for
the information of those interested it
may be stated that in 1870 Emile Por-
den, Frenchman, opened an aviary In
Paris and made a speciality of dealing
in canaries, says Miner and Farmer. He
had an enormous cage, which held
nearly a thousand of the feathered
songsters, whose combined warbling
must have been something terrific.
Strange to say, every bird was of
deep red color. and the novelty Of the
thing attracted attention. The French
man did not hesitate to show the
young birds in their natural feathers,
and the old ones gradually changing
their color from yellow to red. but he
refused to divulge how the change was
brought about. Red canaries became
the rage in Partisan society, and Por-
den was enabled to retire in a few
years with quite a respectable fortune
In 1873 the old Frenchman died, but on
his death-bed he told how he had pro-
duced red canaries, which was simply
by seasoning their food very highly
with Cayenne pepper just before and
during the molting season. When the
plumage appears it is red, instead of
yellow The health of the bird Is not
injured in the least unless too much
pepper is given, by the treatment. IN
fact, it is improved. Breeders Of brown
Leghorns. Partridge Cochins and other
breeds of fowls where a bright red
plumage is an object may probably
practice the method with advantage.
Good Broilers.-A Well-raised broilef
il something to be appreciated. being
vastly different in flesh from the aver
age farm-raised chick. The method Of
feeding broilers has much to do with
t.e delicacy AID favor Of the nesh.
From the time the chick Is hatched
until Il Is marketed the best Of food
and attention II given 1t to produce the
hogt eesults.-Ex-
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Regular habits, fixed places and
times for milking. and regular feedin0
With an occasional change Of diet. viii
do . great deal to keep your product
eonatant and even.