The Advocate and news., 1899-03-22

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this spring II 1t Is our good fortune 70
raise a crop this year our State will be
loaning more money in the East than II
now Is and also be buying more govern
ment bonds than ever, but our country
IS going to prosper also, so there will be
no bonds offered for sale and our wealthy
Kansans will have to invest elsewhere.
The business outlook for the future is
bright for the United States in general.
Kansas Freemason: No lodge should
expend its means In balls or other enter
tainments while single needy brother
romans within its province or reach.
This is at least unshakable Masonic gOs-
pel and II we should go further, and say
that q lodge should not spend money to
minister to the simple pleasure OF its
members while single individual within
It's touch, regardless Of afflliatiOn, is suf-
fering for the necessaries Of life, who
dare attempt refutation of this position?
indianapolis Journal To-day agricul-
ture presents the only field for men who
desire to be independent workers. It has
been demonstrated that the combination
cannot so we'll manage large tracts Of
land as a quarter or half section Of land
It Is because France is broken up into
little farms that it holds its own. When
the American people come to consider
that agriculture Is noble science,
worthy of the best brain, and that we as
people are ignorant concerning 1t, we
shall be much wiser than we are now.
Girard Independent News: No student
Of affairs expects the trust" or cOmbi-
nation of capital to be done away with.
It is here to stay an inseparable part Of
our present economic system. Just as
we'll expect the farmer to go using the
cradle or reap-hook again in his harvest
as to think we can get rid Of the trust.
But the combines as they are formed
to-day cannot last long The sooner
everything is manipulated by few self
ish individuals the sooner will all the
people see the need of controlling these
combines.
Wallace's Farmer: Work on the dairy
farm, when conducted as 1t ought to be,
is confined and everlasting. The dairy
man must be at home night and morning
every day In the week. The COWS must
be attended to just right. Close atten-
ton must be given to every detail Of the
business. But the pay is commensurate
with the work. The dairy districts are
the prosperous districts. Where dairying
Is general you find good houses and good
barns. The dairyman gets his cash every
month instead Of twice year. He is
able to pay cash for what he buys, and
consequently is able to buy where he can
buy the cheapest and gets the lowest
prices. He is desirable customer to
have.
American Cultivator: We feel so sure
that the coming year will be a profitable
one to all farmers except, perhaps, the
peach grower that we feel like urging all
to make arrangements to grow a larger
acreage this year, and to care for 1t bet
ter than they have done during the years
of farm depression. If the severe cold
has destroyed peaches, and possibly some
other kinds Of fruits in sections, there will
DO all the better demand for what fruit
there is, and also the kinds Of garden veg
etables that when fruit is scarce takes
Its place. Even the man whose main de-
pendence Is on peaches need not despair
He can grow something else this year,
and by next, those Of his peach trees that
the winter did not kill will bear crop
that will, maybe, sell for more than a full
peach yield this year would have done.
Santa Fe Monitor: S. Derby threshed
his cane recently and he had very good
crop. He had 4S7 bushels OF cane seed
from 19 acres, making a little over 25
bushels to the acre; and 1876 bushels on
Kafiir corn from acres Of ground, max
ing over 80 bushels to the acre. Mr..
Derby's cane crop will pay him better
than wheat il 1t was dollar bushel.
Centralia (Kans) Times: Great Brit
ain has been the leading commercial ma
tion of the world. The United States
has become her rival in the matter Of ac-
cumulating dollars and cents. With rare
good sense the British people see the
handwriting upon the wall and have
set about the task Of becoming our men