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The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-12-12
Special Crops.

Certain states best produce certain
agricultural products. At least 1t seems
to be taken for granted that such prod
ucts will do better in such states than
anywhere else. For instance, Connect
icut is noted for it's fine grade of to-
bacco. So is a limited area in Dane
and Walworth counties, Wis. New Jer-
sey sends us the best sweet potatoes,
and Michigan from just a narrow strip
on the lake shore our finest peaches.
The growing of broom corn is centered
in one or two counties in central ILL
nois, while we take it for granted that
all peanuts come from Virginia and
North Carolina. The good butter comes
from a limited area of Iowa, Minnesota,
South Dakota and Nebraska, while il
you get hold of a piece Of good cheese 1t
is more than likely that it was made
at a Wisconsin or York state cheese
factory. Some localities run to beet
sugar and some to sweet corn n can
ming factories. In most of the cases
named it is not true that any particular
locality has any special advantage over
| other places, save as the growing OF
certain crops may be arbitrarily regu-
lated by climatic conditions. For in
| stance, it has been discovered hat the
| special soil needed for growing a choice
grade OF tobacco is not confined to the
limited localities where it has been
heretofore grown, that peanuts will
grow on any of the light soils of the
south, that as good apples a be pro-
duced in Iowa and Minnesota as in the
eastern states, that broom corn is a good
crop for Kansas and Oklahoma and thai
as fine butter can be made in Louisi-
ana as in Minnesota. The mission OF
improved agriculture is to look into
these things and open new areas of ter
ritory for the growing of new crops.
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THE SCARCITY OF SERVANTS.
Thousands of Immigrants Who Come
Do Not Dispose of Trouble.

More than three centuries ago
Martin Luther, commenting on the
complaint of Mrs. Luther that her
servant girls were nc good" or
words to that effect, sadly remarked:
"A faithful and good servant is a real
godsend, but truly tbs a rare bird in
the land"
This serves to remind us that, al
though the household-help problem is
just now extremely acute, it is one of
the standing riddles Of the ages, not
likely TO be solved until somebody
squares the circle and discovers per-
petual motion. Immigrants described
as domestic servants" are arriving in
greater numbers than ever before:
$1,000 of them came in during the year
that ended June 80 last. Yet the sup
ply of domestic servants, even of the
just-landed Craze of ability, was never
so scant.
Domestic wages have risen, of
course, in obedience to the late Benja-
min Harrison's maxim hat when two
jobs hunt n person labor is worth
more than when two persons hunt one
job. But the testimony of the employ
ment-office managers, as well as the
dlS"tlo tOlltIltu ny lhe opCIldl III
queries of the Wisconsin state labor
bureau, indicates that something more
than the question of wages is the
cause of the famine in servant girls.
A sentimental grievance is at the root
of the matter. The American young
woman of the period resents the term
servant" Still more does she resent
the conditions of household service,
which, as she complains, include long
err hours than any other occupation,
less personal freedom, less leisure and
| pleasure. and a constant implication
of social inferiority.
1t is not, then, a matter of money,
but one of sentiment. Benjamin
Disraeli said a sentimental question
was the hardest to settle. American
matrons who keep house are face to
face with the democratic sentiment
that has invaded the kitchen and filled
| Mary Ann with an ambition to have
all her evenings free, to be called
Miss just like salesladies and other
female wageworkers, to have her
working day limited to eight or al
most ten hours, and to have in all
| things something like equality witt
other working women. regardless OF
| previous conditions of s~ervant-glrli
tudp-New YORK World.
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Worst Effect of a Strike.

Here in our towns these irritated and
enraged men will continue to live, and
so strong is their hatred that in social,
political, Industrial, and religious life
they will never let pass al opportunity
to do their man. Should not this Ia
mentable condition of affairs, due to
industrial conflict, count for something
in the eyes of the worlds men of ac-
ton and of thought? The Thirty Years
War scotched the progress of society
in Germany for fifty years. A six
months industrial war leaves our com
munities in a state of material, intel,
%lectual, and moral confusion which viii
need many years of patient work to SCI
in order.-Outlook.
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Hunting for Borers.

We completed the last of September
a close and critical examination of
$500 apple trees in u orchard hunt
ing for borers. 1t is hard, back break
ing work. We find that in order to
make a thorough job of it it is neces-
sary to remove the dirt. from the base
of the trees to a depth of an inch or
two, as these borers quite as often work
down as up. AS showing the absolute
necessity for this close examination we
add that of the $500 trees, mostly four
and five years planted, we found no less
than 300 trees with borers at work in
them. Let alone, these pests would
have certainly killed these 800 trees in
side of four years, and then if we had
not known any better we should prob
ably have assigned the climate as the
cause of their death. The borer kills
more fruit trees than any other enemy
of Il orchards. The absolute need of
remembering this fact is sufficient eX-
cuse for so frequently referring to it.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-12-12
Recalls the Past.

There is no fragrance to be found like
the fragrance of the woods these au-
tumnal days. The ground carpeted
with the fallen, rustling leaves which
so lately emblazoned the forest with
splendor gives forth an aroma which
stirs the old barbarian instinct and
makes one want to get away from the
grind of business, the daily paper and
the telephone and live some days of the
long ago over again, watch the wood
duck preen his glorious plumage on
some secluded forest pool, hear the
chatter of the squirrels and wild pig
.eons, the drumming of the ruffed grouse,
hear the distant bay of the hound on
track of the deer or cast a line in the
woodland stream for a trout or a bass.
Strange how so small a thing as the
fragrance of the dying leaves could re-
call so much of the almost forgotten
past, but for us it does.
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outline map OF Alaska is drawn upon

outline map OF Alaska is drawn upon
the map of the United States.
The same scale is used in both
maps, and Point Barrow, the most
northernly point in Alaska, is placed
upon the Canadian border in northern
Minnesota. This carries Mount st.
Elias to a point near the Ohio river
between Kentucky and Montana. The
main portion of the territory covers al
most the entire area of the great
plains and of the Mississippi valley
as far south as Arkansas.
The Ilaska panhandle, in which are
situated Sitka and Juneau, extends to
the Atlantic in Georgia. Nome falls in
South Dakota, neal the Wyoming line,
The Aleutian islands extend in a curve
across Texas, New Mexico. Arizona
and California, to the Pacific coast
near Los Angeles.
In other words, Alaska placed on the
map of the United States would cover
in whole or in part 20 states and
territories and the western third OF
Lake Superior and would reach from
the Atlantic to the Pacific and from
Canada TO Mexico.
When this great territory of 600 .O0C
square miles was purchased the Amer
lean people were taught by the anti
eXpansionists to believe that Alaska
was valueless except for its furs, and
that it had been transferred to us be
cause Russia had found it a burden
without commercial or strategic posi-
bilities. and was glad to get rid of 1t.
Because this impression prevailed al
the time, because the climate and sol
were misrepresented, and because O
it's remoteness, Alaska for 30 years
was little understood. But now tina
investigation has shown the marvellous
resources of the territory. and indicat
ed methods for their development, anC
has dispelled the misconceptions based
on prejudice, the American people fine
ready to their enterprise an empire
rich in and so situated as &c
form a most important base for con
troll of the trade of the Pacific.
The eye of William H. Seward saw
in 1867 what is now taking place in the
great ocean between America anc
Asia. and with the ~sagacity of a rea
statesman he saved Alaska to serve &
great purpose in the development o.
the commercial and political power O
the United States.-Chicago lntel
Ocean.
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AMERICAN PACIFIC CABLE.
The Terms Under Which 1t Will be
Laid to Manila and Yokohama.

The Pacific Gable company has
agreed to the terms which the presi-
dent and attorney general offered it
in pursuance Of the law passed at the
modification. 1t is not required to
employ American operatives only. It
undertakes to do so when feasible.
This was the least important of the
conditions. The company agrees to
lay a cable from San Francisco to the
Philippines, touching only at American
islands, and to lay an extension from
Luzon to the Chinese coast indepen-
dent of the existing British cable. The
government may at any time buy the
cables at a valuation to be fixed by
disinterested parties. but it probably
never will care to do So. The com
pany further agrees to lay a cable
from Guam to Yokohama. no doubt
because it expects that it will profit
more from the Chinese and Japan
csc business over that route than it
can over the line to Manila.
At the same time it is announced
that the cable ship now en- route to
pdh fluiNlSNO VIII NOulplStt lHc lluG
to Honolulu before Christmas, and to
Manila before the end of summer. The
imperial plan of an all Bristish round
the world cable has been carried out
a year before the American cable
can be completed. In spite OF this
it is doubtful if the English will gain
much by their commendable enterprise
and energy. The line runs by almost
tradeless islands to Australia, and will
come into direct competition with the
Eastern Extension cable for messages
to London. 1t will no doubt reduce the
tolls from Australia, but the entire
business of the island continent would
hardly suffice to make the cable prof
liable, and there are no feeders,
actual or prospective. on the long line
~diagonally across the Pacific. The
American line will have the Philippine
business, the Japanese messages for
the United States, a great part of
those intended for Europe, and a con
siderable proportion of those from
China, which now go via the Siberian
route or the Eastern Extension and
India. The British Pacific cable has
the start, but the American line will
be fully as important politically and
will be more important commercially,
Chicago Tribune.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-12-12

The new department of education in
the University of Tennessee is to be
opened on Jan. 6, 1903. The department
is largely modelled on the Teachers
college of Columbia university, and is
the outcome of a desire to meet the
growing demand in the South for an
advanced and extensive school for the
professional training of teachers. IL
will include courses if modern pedago-
gy and psychology, also instruction in
the latest methods of teaching English,
history, the physical sciences, nature
study, manual training and domestic
science. 1t aims to prepare men and
women of good scholarship for superin-
tendents, principals and teachers il
public and private schools OF cities,
towns and country districts. Teachers
and persons pledging themselves to
teach will receive free tuition.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-12-12
Won't Milk.

1t seems on the face of it strange that
a time of general agricultural prosper
ity such as the country has rarely known
could in any way injure any farm indus
try, but it is a fact that such a condition
has seriously hurt the creamery bust
ness. 1t about in this manner
The farmers, finding themselves on
easy street, very naturally sought some
relief from the heavy burdens of farm
work, and the keeping of a dairy herd
being one of the most slavish and bur-
densome of the farm interests they nat
urally decided to quit milking, with the
result that not a few creameries have
been forced to quit business in those
localities where they had done business
successfully for many years.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-12-12
Should Work for $4,000.

Every mar should work hard and
economize to make himself worth $10,-
900 for the reason that he should have
this much at least to care for him and
his when he gets too old to work, and
having got this much which he can cal
his own it then is small odds whether
he gets very much more or not. More
money makes more worry and care
more scrapping in the probate court
more fees for the lawyers, and still we
note that the men who work the hard.
est to make more and more money are
the very ones who do not in any sense
need it and who only find it ar add.
tional burden and worry when they gel
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American

Rudyard Kipling has an American
wife, and likewise an American moth
er-in-law. The latter, Mrs. Wolcott
Balestier, lives in New York. The 9TH
err uay Mrs. Balestier sent her famous
son-in-law a present. What do you
think it was? A glass rolling pin for
use in making pie crust. In making
the purchase she explained that Mr.
and Mrs. Kipling and all the little
Kiplings are pasionately fond of pie.
Here is a pointer for chose who would
win literary fame. Pie is the stuff
that dreams are made of.-Utica OBJ
server,
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-12-12
The Wheatfelds of Canada.

Western Canada has $1,000, 900 acres
of the best wheat producing land in the
world. The crop Of No. l hard amounts
to 100, 000, 900 bushels this year, and 1t is
in a fair way to be trebled If the price
will justify. If the Chinaman and his
rice eating kin of the occident take a
nation to like wheat bread, as 1T seems
they are likely to, the wheat product of
western Canada may all be wanted for
the western trade.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-12-12

The best farm lands in the Western
and Northwestern states have now
reached a valuation of close to 800 per
acre, this for the choicest farms with
modern improvements thereon. We are
asked whether these lands will still
further advance in value. Not very
much until population becomes more
dense than it is at present. In Eng
land and or the continent the best
farms are worth much more money
from $3.50 to $500 per acre-but in such
localities population is five times as
dense as 1t is in this country. Higher
prices for land will only come as a re-
suit of higher prices for the product of
land,
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Urged His On.

Miss Gotrox: "The idea of your pro-
posing to me! Why, l never gave you
any encouragement"
Mr.. Poorman: you forget that you
once informed me that you had a half
million in your w right."-Chicago
News.
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OUR NORTHERN EMPIRE.
The Great Size of Alaska as Compared
With Iowa.

Alaska is as large as ten states like
Iowa. Believing, however, that ever
this statement conveys only a vague
idea of the immensely of our great
Northwestern territory, George B. Hol-
lister of the United States geological
survey publishes a chart in which an
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-12-12

The Indiana College association at its
annual meeting declared against the
plan suggested by President Butler, of
university, shortening the
college course to three years. 1t is held
that plenty of time for specializing re-
mains even after a four years course
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-12-12

The feeders of the country have got
on to the i'll effects of Jersey blood in
the steers of the dairy sections and will
not give more than one-half as much
per pound for the steers of this kind as
they will for those not tainted with
Jersey blood. The butchers do not like
this sort of beef ever when it is well
fattened, for the fat of such animals
is of such a very deep yellow color that
it looks almost repulsive. and people
will not buy the meat. The Jersey is
strictly of value as a dairy COY and for
no other purpose whatever. The male
calves are best killed very young.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-12-12

Will a small potato produce large
ones? Yes, for the first crop or so, but
If the small ones are continuously
planted the breed will run out, just as
it is with all other forms of vegetable
and animal life. 1t is always best to
select the very best of anything for
the purpose of reproduction. Nature in
a thousand different ways compels this
with all her wild life, and man shoulc
at least have sense enough to follow
her example.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-12-12

The government has sold no less than
Is, 48S, 55 acres of the public lands the
past year, more than in any year since
| the present law went into effect. The
man who wants to take up a homestead
| has got to get a move on himself, and
he will find it pretty poor picking ever
| now.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-12-12

A friend killed his strawberry bed by
dosing it with a heavy covering of hen
manure A little of this fertilizer goes
q long way.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-12-12

The science of butter making now
lies almost wholly in the ability to de-
velop and fix in the butter that delicate
aroma which makes the difference be-
tween butter which sells for 20 cents
and hat which sells for 80 cents. This
aroma is an Elusive and fugitive es-
sence born of blue grass, clover and
corn and exquisite cleanliness and is
always unable to hold it's own with
the malodorous in the barn or cream
cry.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-12-12

A mortgage on the farm is a good
deal like a corn on your toe. 1t is al
ways reminding you that it is there.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-12-12

The man who stays at home on cleo
ton day and husks corn has no right
to kick on the way the government is
run.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-12-12

Neither church connection, wealth
nor social standing should prevent the
dirty patron of a cooperative cream
cry from being promptly fired.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-12-12
We are asked about the fall planting

WE arc dSktu dDUUC tH6 IdII PIdHIIIb
of trees. II the ground is thoroughly
moist, trees may be successfully plant
ed in the fall. but W. do not regard 1t
as any advantage, ave as it may save
valuable time in the spring. II the
earth is dry. however, we would on no
account plant in the fall.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-12-12

Good health seems to be largely a
question of getting hold of the right
breed of microbes.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-12-12

There is one thing which has left the
farms of the country for good, and that
is the 10 per cen faym mortgage. 1t
was a gripper and a slayer in its day.
a remorseless sucker of blood and more
nearly represented n of the beasts
described by the prophet Daniel than
ANYTHING else we ever saw
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-12-12
GQPYRLGRL I9OL.RI
CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED

Strange as 1t may seem, the English
man knows nothing about pork and
beans.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-12-12

When a mans income does not ex-
coed $3.50 per day, it comes that his
good wife has to be a permanent COM
mittee on ways and means.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-12-12

Agricture is developing wonderfully
in Mexico. The old-fashioned farming
implements which have been in use
since the days of the Aztecs are giving
way to modern American machines and
tools. The soil and climate are very
congenial, and three crops may be raised
on the land in year. The poems
make good laborers when under proper
direction.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-12-12

The beefsteak and the roasts begin to
show the effect of the large crop of soft
corn which is being fed literally to get
rid of it before it spoils.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-12-12

building in which to do the work, pro-
cure a reliable gasoline engine with
shafting and connections, and then you
can do the pumping, the Smelling, the
grinding, the churning, the woodsaw-
ing at any and all times at a mere trifie
of expense and be Independent of the
| wind, which either will not blow at all
or blow so hard that it rips things tc
pieces. But If you get a gasoline en-.
CINE. get a good one, for there are some
which will tempt a man to break all OF
the commandments while trying to gel
them to rum.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-12-12

The difference between a thirty dol
lar grade bull and a registered animal
at 500 is $40 in favor of the scrub to
start with, and with a herd of fifteen
cows it is $500 or more in favor of the
registered animal inside of three years.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-12-12

The most worthless thing which the
country produces is the young nan who
at twenty-one years of age has deter
mined to make a living without work
and have a good time. We would al
most be in favor of killing this sort off.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-12-12

The length Of time the heifer is kept
in milk during her first lacteal period
will largely determine the length of
time she will give milk in future years.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-12-12

The turkey buzzards in the state of
Florida are protected by law, with the
result that they have so increased in
number as to become a menace to the
live stock interests. They follow the
herds and seize on the young and weak
lings of the herd, pick their eyes out
first and soon make away with them.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-12-12

If you run an account with a store
keeper, as so many do, don't be mean
enough to send off for your goods when
you happen to have the cash. The man
who accommodates you is certainly en-
titled to the benefit Of your cash trade.
Some folks are mighty mean about this
thing and deserve more of a roast than
would be proper for us to administer.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-12-12

Don't be afraid to feed the pumpkins,
seeds and all, to the cows. Some old
moon prophets claim that the seeds
will hurt the COWS, when old bossy has
Just the right kind of machinery to
make the best possible use of them.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-12-12

If thrift and economy practiced by
the New England farmer could be COM
bined with the push and enterprise Of
his western brother, every such nan
with a Mississippi valley farm would
find eighty acres plenty of land.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-12-12

We feel like saying again If you do
not want to lose your hogs do not stuff
them on soft and new corn. While it
may seem to be the best way to use
the poor corn, it is quite likely to prove
an expensive experiment.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-12-12

The machine which will successfully
husk corn has not yet made it's appear
ance, but the machine which will pick
cotton has and is reported a great sue
cess.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-12-12

Constantly catching on-the grip car.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-12-12

A man is pretty greedy and avari-
cious when he will deliberately send
the first three days milk of a fresh
cow to the creamery, and he is not
only a greedy man, but a mighty mean
one also.