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The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1903-07-15

point the writer is indebted W III
rector c. e. Thorne, of the Ohio tx
pertinent Station. During the SOs the
price of live stock in Ohio suffered a
serious decline, coincident with the
opening of the Western ranges. About
the same time improvement in ma
chinery for handling grain greatly re-
duced the cost of producing this class
of crops. The ease with. which grain
is marketed also contributed to the
development of grain growing. Many
farmers were rendered bankrupt by
the decline in prices OF live stock, and
they naturally turned to grain growing
because less capital was required in
that style of farming. A few years
later the development of grain grow
ing in the Northwest reduced the price
of grain, thus leaving the farmers
without recourse. AS result, agri-
culture was at very low ebb and land
values shrank nearly one-half. me
turn came with the recent advance in
the value of live stock, but it found
many farmers without the capital re-
uuired to take advantage of improved
conditions. Director Thorne estimates
that the amount of live stock in Wayne
County, Ohio, is now about half what
it was in 1870, and that $4O,OOO a
year has been added to the bill for
commercial fertilizers.
Similar conditions prevailed in all
the great live stock regions OF the
East. The dairy industry in this
country had it's birth about the time
this depression began, and it proved
to be the salvation of many farms.
But many farmers found dairying
either uncOngenial or were not in a
position to adopt it. AS result, a
system of farming has developed
which depends upon proper rotation
of crops, or upon catch crops and green
manures for humuS, and commercial
fertilizers for mineral plant food. The
ultimate effect of such a system upon
the fertility of the soil has not yet
been satisfactorily demonstrated. Any
system which results either in rapid
Improvement or rapid deterioration of
the soil may have it's merits or de-
merits established in a comparatively
short time. But system which has
no radical tendency in either direction
must be studied through a long series
of years to determine it's ultimate eff
feet. 1t has been quite generally as
sumed that unless a large proportion
of the crops (the amount depending
upon the strength of the SOLD is fed
on the farm, the fertility of the soil
cannot be maintained. 1t will per-
haps be conceded that a wOrnOut soil
cannot easily be brought back to it's
original fertility without the aid Of
live stock. At any rate such process
could be much more easily accom-
plished by feeding the crops and re-
turning the manure to the land than
in any other way, unless indeed farm
ers simply grow crops, especially le-
gumes, and turn them under again.
But where a soil is already in good
condition, intelligent management has
enabled farmers in the section referred
to to maintain good yields for gener-
alton at least by the methods outlined
above Too often, however, this sys-
TEN degenerates into the original sys-
Ii
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1903-07-15

corn. oat, and clover region Vi the
IJpper Mississippi valley. other types
of special live stock farming are con-
mon in the same region, such as tnosa
in which horses or swine are the prln-
cinal source of income. These special
tvnes are also common in all the re-
zion east of Illinois and north OF Ter.
nessee and Virginia. Isolated cases
occur in the Southern States and on
the Pacific Coast. Dairy farming IS
best developed in the northern tleT
of States. on the whole Pacific Coast
and in certain of the States OF the
second tier, notably Iowa. That style
of farming which depends on trequent
crops of grasses and legumes to keen
I'D the supply of humus, making little
use of live stock and which uses an
abundance of commercial fertilizers, Is
found mainly north of Virginia In the
East and Tennessee in the West, and
east of Illinois, as already stated. 1t
has it's fullest development in Mary
land. Pennsylvania and New York.
The distribution of these various
types has evidently been largely the
result of the adaptability of soil and
climate to certain crops. the cotton
crop has determined the development
of agriculture in all those regions
adapted ii it's cultivation 1t will al
ways have an important influence IN
those regions, as it should. The fact
however that it long ago excluded 9th
err excellent crops leaves us without
proper knowledge of the adaptabillty
of the cotton-grOwing sections to other
crOps and to live stock farming. The
adaptability of the wheat plant to the
prairie soils of the Northwest and the
Pacific Northwest has determined I'M
til now the course of agricultural de
velopment in those regions. Corn, clio
yer and oats are responsible for the
general prevalence of live stock farm
ing in the Upper Mississippi valley,
while wheat, corn and timothy and
clover, together with market condl-
lions, are largely responsible for the
systems that prevail in the East Cen
trail States. marked instance of the
adaptability of a crop to a given soil
and the resulting influence on agricul-
ture is found in the case of bluegrass
in Kentucky Taking point twenty
five miles north of Lexington as
CENTER with a radius of approximately
fifty-fve miles, if we describe an arc
of circle in Kentucky with both ends
CT the arc resting on the Ohio river,
we shall include that part of the State
the soil of which was formed from the
dolomitic limestones of the Cambrian
era This area is the far-famed "blue-
grass region" of Kentucky. Outside
of it bluegrass is of no Importance in
that State There is no question that
the adaptability of bluegrass to this
particular soil accounts for the great
stock farms of the State, which are
practically confined to this area.
1t is not difficult to point out GER
tain changes in prevailing systems OF
farming that are necessary to agricul-
tural prosperity, both present and flu
ture. 1t is not so easy to indicate
how these changes. are to be brought
about In general efforts in this di-
rection must first be given to methods
of supplying humus to soils deficient
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-18
THE HARDY SEX.

It is yet to be proved that women who wear low shoes are more subject to cold than those who wear high shoes. As yet, it is to be proved that those who are constantly on their guard against what is called exposure live longer than those who do not care. When women not only survive a fckle climate, but come out of its most trying changes in clothing of a weight that men would hardly feel, it is dif- fcuIt to see how their health can suf- fer because they wear low shoes.
 Now take a man-take the average man. He puts on five thicknesses Of clothing on a cold day. He is not con- tent if the temperature is below 75 in | his office. He would not think of step- Eping across the street without putting on his overcoat. Tn most cases, he would not venture out without his muff1er and overshoes. And take that mans wife. She wears two or three thin thicknesses of clothing. She doesn't mind the weather, She will meet the blasts of winter with uncon- cern. In her home, she will allow the {, furnace to get low. She will follow q caller to the door, out on the veranda, and talk and talk, entirely unmindful of wraps *f-@ @SS f. 2 l Her husband takes colds all kinds of colds-every kind that is going. He wonders why he takes cold His wife I is good enough to wonder with him, and tells him he must be more careful of himself. Maybe she will insist that l in addition to all of his other precau- tions against exposure he shall wear 3 chest protector or porous plaster But she takes no colds. That is, she seldom does, and, if she does, she at tributes the cold she takes not to care lessness, but to the fact that he has in advertantly undertaken to be too care ful of herself.
 If she-or any other woman-finds greater comfort inflow than she does In high shoes, why blame her for wearing the former? Even if she wears low shoes and open-work stocks from pure vanity, why blame her? Are not wo- men of America healthy? Are they not strong? Are they not hardier than the men-as rule? Then why not let them have their own way about low shoes, open-work stockings and every thing else that gives them comfort or pleasure ?-Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-18
DIDN'T KNOW o AMERICA"
Marked Contrast Between English : and American Ways on am
 Ocean Liner. <

Returning to my native New York this summer by an English ship" says a transatlantic traveller, accord ing to the New York Sun, 'T noted again the lack of knowledge we Amer jeans have of our national songs.
 3On Sunday the captain read service in the dining saloon and at it's close, in deference probably to the prepon- derance of Americans in his company, designated America as the hymn to be sung. Everybody stood up and the first verse was given with gusto.
 Much weaker in volume was the singing of the second verse. The third began with only two or three voices that trailed off into dead silence before it's end, though the organ kept bravely on.
 Either the captain intended it from the first or else the weakness of our singing suggested it to him, but at the finish he asked for God Save the King. Then it was that we Americans were ashamed to listen to the handful of Englishmen among us sing lustily and with confidence, led by the captain him. self, their national anthem from start to finish.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-18
HE LINER.

My ma an mes decided by strictly
 party vote
 That's pals the darndest jiner ever
 rode billy goat, An'$he keeps sayin' she's to blame fur
 all his jinin', fur, He got the jinin' habit time he was
 jined to her. t".s He lined the secret Mason's fust, then
 jined the Woodmen's lodge. Then tined the Elks, it bein' one he said
 he couldn't dodge, An then he kep' on jinin', gettln'
 secrets fur to keep, -,, .... Ontil he got talkin' about jin1n' in his
 sleep.
 Ma coaxes him to tell her what they do . at lodge O nights, An why they don't take Wlmmen' Ill | this state of wimmen's rights Men pa hell wink the other eye at me
 real sly an say A woman couldn't ride the goat, not
 bein' built that way. Ma says while he's a jinin' he ort to
 jine the church, An labor fur a roostin' place up on the
 Zion perch, But pa has J1ned the Snflnefs hoW' aii
 says he knows that sich A combination wouldn't jine in a sue " cessful hitch. ..< .....t.. Ma had her dander up one night when
 pa come home, an said She wouldn't stand fur fairy tales nc
 more, fur, on the dead, She thought this jinin' business was a blind fur trustin' wives To let deceivin' husbands lead the
 wustest sort O lives. 3 Then pa explained the jiner cash t d
 come to her when he Would take the last sad fatal plunge
 into eternity; ta An now she's jes' as patient as a hog
 stuck in the mire, A-waitin' fur the day when he will J1ne
 the heavenly choir. Denver Post.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-18

abused wife why she did not whip him. and she said she could do it all right if he said she might. Judge Riley re- piled:
 Well, will get you a whip and see that you do it."
 He told Patrol Driver Wallace to bring him a buggy whip, and, arming the woman with the whip, he told her to march her husband into the station house lobby and lay it on him until she got tired. The woman did so.
 The husband at first took the matter as joke and laughed. but soon he began to realize, after the woman began laying on lick after lick with full force that she was in earnest and he begged her to stop. He promised to be sober and 8 good husband and she stopped.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-18
SUNDAY TRAINS.
NAUGATUCK DIvTSION.

Trains leave Bank street station for New York, Bridgeport, New Haven and other places south at 6:35. 7:55, 11:13 a. m.; LAO, 3:O5, 4:4O, 6:15 and 500 D. m.
 Trains arrive at Bank street station from New. York Bridgeport, New Ha- ven and way stations at TIA. S:23. 9:O5, 10:55 a. m.: 1:24, $40, 6:30, GAS, S:4S D. m.; 12:S9 a. m.
 Trains leave Bank street station fer Winsted and way stations at S:2a, 1O:55 a. m.; $40, 5:20 (Waterville on- ly), GAS and S:48 p. m.
 Trains arrive at Bank street station from Winsted and way stations at 6:35 7:55. 11:13 a. m.; 3:05, 5:46, (Water- ville) 6:15 p. m.
 Trains leave Bank street station for watertown and way stations at 0:45, S:2S. 11:17 a. m.; 1:30, 3:45, 5:1O, 6:12. 6:53, S:53 and 11:2O D. m.
 Trains arrive at Bank street station from watertown and way stations at $40, TAT, 10:42 a. m.; 100, 2:56, 4:30. 5:51, 6:45. 7:45. 11:16 p. m.
 SUNDAY TRAINS.
 Leave Bank street station for New, York. Bridgeport and New Haven at 7:05, $50 a. m.; 40, 5:10 and 500 D. n1.
 Arrive at Bank street station from New York, Bridgeport and New Haven at e:53 a. m.; :24, 7:52, 1O:10 D. m.
 Leave Bank street station for Water town and way stations at 9:5S a. m. and S:03 D. m.
 Arrive at Bank street station from Watertown and way stations uI u:53 .. n. and 4;5S ?. n.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-18
MAKES RAIN WITH GAS.
Australian Says That by Use of Cer- tain Chemicals, Doyvnpour Can Be
 Produced at Any Altitude.

pr. Mccarthy of Melbourne, Australia, claims to be able to produce rain by sending up continuously from three centers a column of gas made of certain chemicals. After a maximum of thirty two hours rain is produced over range of ninety miles at any altitude, in any sky, with the wind in any quarter. Dr Mccarthy explains that the gas causes in different strata of the atmosphere a vacuum which is the center of heat storm filled with dense rain clouds. The rain which follows is of tropical character, slight at first and then very heavy. His experiments have been con- ducted in an inclosure twelve by eight feet. The chemicals react and must be changed in accordance wiNh the alti- tudes.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-18
Man with . Big Appetite.

Some of the principal landed pro. prietors of Koenigsberg, Germany, recently collected fund of money to give Johann Braun, farm hand, a, free passage to America. Braun is an excellent 1aborer, but his appetite is too phenomenal to allow him to retain position at home. All his employers bore testimony to his in- dustry and willingness, but he ate more than six other men, and Ger man agriculture cannot stand such inroads on its budget. The man is accused of getting up in the night and devouring all the bread in the house, together with the uncooked flour and potatoes set aside for breakfast. He carried to America sufficient money to insure his land ing, and as there is no clause against big appetites in the United States inn migration laws, Johann's patrons hope they are rid of him.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-18
J A 5T C EA Haar, tha s The Kind You Have Always BougR Ss4a' of L%e>HZNzZM1
FIRE ALARM.

4-Cor South Main and Grand sts.
 5-Scoyill Manufacturing Go l(P-)
 6-Cor Bridge and Magill sts.
 7-Exchange Place.
 12--Rogers x Bro (P0
 13-Cor East Main and Niagara Sts. 14-Cor East Main and Wolcott road. 15-Cor Cor High and Walnut sts. 16-Cor Fact Main and Cherry sts. 17-Cor East Main and Cole sts. 21-Cor North Elm and Kingsbury sts 23-Burton street engine house. 24-Waterbury Manufacturing Go CP) 25-Cor North Main and North sts. 26-Cor Buckingham, and Cooke sts. 27-Cor Grove and Prospect sts. 2S-Cor Hillside avenue and Pine sts. 29-Cor Ludlow and N. Willow sts. 31-Cor Bank and Grand sts. 32-Cor Riverside and Bank sts. ' 34-Cor w. Main and Watertown rd. 35-Conn By & L't'g Go, car h'se (P1 S6-Waterbury Brass Go (P) 37-Cor Cedar and Meadow sts. 3S-Cor Grand and Field sts. 42-Cor South Main and Clay sts. 43-New Englaru Watch Go P) 45-Benedict x Burnham Mfg Go. (P) 46-Waterbury Buckle Go. (P) 47-Cor S. Main and Washington sts. 51-Cor Baldwin and River sts. 52-Cor Franklin and Union sts. 53-Waterbury Clock Go, case fac.(P) 54-Cor Clay and Mill stS.
 56-Cor Liberty and River sts. 57-No hose house.
 5S-Cor Baldwin and Stone sts. 62-Cor Doolittle alley and Dublin sts 72-Cor West Main and Willow sts. ~73-North Willow st, cor Hillside. 74-Cor Johnson and WatervilIe sts. 142-Wolcott st, beyond Howard. 1G2-Cor East Main and Welton sis. 212-The Platt Bros Go. P) 213---Hammond Buckle Go. (Pl 214-Waterbury Clock ro.rn'v't fac Tp, 216-Cor North Main and Grove sis. 251-Cor Round Hill and Ward sts. 261-Junction Cooke and N. Main sts 272-Grove, bet Central & Holmes ova S11-S. N. E. Telephone Go building (Io, 312-Cor Bank and Meadow sts. 313-Randolph & Gloves (P) 314-Plume SS Atwood (Pl 315-American Ring Go. P) 316-Electric Light Station P) 31S-Holmes. Booth & Haydens 1pl 321-No Hose House. S23-Cor Washington ave & Porter s+s 324-Cor Charles and Porter sis 325-Cor Simons st & washinptor ava 371--City Lumber & Coal Go. rp, 412-Tracy Bros P) 432-Cor Liberty and s. Main sic 451-Steele X. Johnson Mfg Go ID, 5s2-Cor Baldwin and Rye sts.
 P) Private.
 SIGNALS.
 1. One stroke calls superintendent to the City hall. Il. Two strokes, fire out, recall.
 1-1-1. Three strokes, 12 m. 9D. m
 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1. Ten strokes ouich will indicate a general alarm and will call the entire force Into service.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-18
GOD MADE THE ORCHESTRA,
Sir George Grove Thought the Devil
 Added the Voices.

Sir George Grove Thought the Devil Added the Voices.
 Sir George Grove, editor of the great Dictionary of Music and Musicians cared much more for Instrumental than for vocal music He used to say that God made the orchestra and the devil added the voices" and though he was strongly impressed by the beauty of Schubert's songs, he never really ap- preeiated any music which was not purely orchestral and absolute" in form.
 His likes and dislikes in schools of composition were emphatic. He stood for the "great German succeSsion'- Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schubert Schumann and Brahms. LisZt and Wagner he did not like: the music-dra- ma did noteappear to him. He defen- ded Handel from disparagement
 He liked melody and grace in music, beauty and pIeasantness, an inviting style which he compared to pleasant address. Sounds and fury, he complain ed, had taken the place in music of that caressing treatment of beautiful phrases and subjects of which Mozart, N Beethoven and Schubert were SO fond.
 "Bayreuth. makes me angry and 1erce," he wrote. At the same time he was not really a musical scholar. A writer in the London Musical Her aid intimates that the first edition of his work on Beethoven's symphonies was so full of errors that it had to be destroyed. On the vexed question of music and morals he would say, "It culture is outside of morals, then mus ic may be a cultivator, but I can't sec that 1t has anything to do with nor als." On another point he writes 1T 1884, "A musical nation we may be, 1T one sense, since we pay any amount of German musicians to play and sing their music to us, but musical nation in the sense that Germany and Italy are musical nations, thatiI am sure we gre not"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-18
TIME TABLE.
HIGHLAND DIVISION.

A1GHLAND DIf SAONs
 Trains leave Meadow street station for Boston, Hartford and way stations at TOO and S:3s .m.: 12:3S, 3:30, S:Oz D. m.
 Trains arrive at Meadow street sta> ton from Boston. Hartford and way stations at S:05, 11:40 a. m.; 1:45, 6:z0 and 7:38 D. m.
 Trains leave Meadow street station Tor New York, Fishkill Landing, Dan- bury and way stations at S:13 a: m. and 1:5O and 6:24 D. m.
 Trains arrive at Meadow street sta ton from New York, Fishkill Landing, Danbury and way stations at 8:S6 a. m.; l2.34 and S:O4 D. m.
 SUNDAY TRAINS.
 Leave Meadow street station at 8:3O. 1o:O5 a. m.; 200, 5:O5 and TOO p. m. Arrive at Meadow street station at 9:5O, 11:30 a. m.; 4:50, $50 and $50 p. m.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-18
WIFE WHIPS HUSBAND.
Police Judge i'm Lexington, ky, Or ders Matrimonial Thrashing for
 Civil War Veteran.

Henderson Cass. Lexington, Ky, aged 76 years, a veteran of the civil war, was horsewhipped in public by his wife by the order of Police Judge Riley. The woman had lodged a complaint against her husband, claiming that he was
 squandering his pension money and wss drunk a great deal of the time. He was brought into court and told Judge Riley that ha wanted to have a good time. The Chicago Chronicle corre- spondent says the judge asked the
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-18
TOOK A BITE OF REPTILE.

the head of the snake remained. The man gave his name as R. O. Gramby, and said that he had just finished his dinner of snake and grass.
 Then he went on to explain that he was follower of Mime. Blavatsky and believed in the theory of reincarnation. He said he was the reincarnation of a. hog, which was the reason he had a fondness for snakes and grass. He said he distinctly remembered where he was In the form of hog, some thousands of years ago, and that he was one of the herd of 2,000 swine mentioned in Mark, v., 13, that were drowned in the sea be- cause the devils which had been cast put entered the swine.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-18
EATS SNAKE AND GRASS.
Man i'm New Jersey Explains to Hor- rified Cyclists That He Is Rein
 carnation of a Hog.

Bicyclists passing along the Hibernia turnpike near Beach Glen, N. J., the other morning saw man sitting beside the road holding squirming black snake in his hands. Suddenly they were mortified to see him lift the snake to his mouth and take a bite of it. This he ate with apparent satisfaction, and then picked up handful of grass, which he also chewed vigorously, after which he took another bite of the reptile.
 The authorities at Rockaway were notified and the man was at once taken into custody, but when captured only,
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-18
Birch Bark Postss.

A pretty fancy, in vogue just now among the summer residents in the mountains, is to take a strip of birch bark and cut 1t up into the dimensions of postal cards, stamping and sending the same to town friends. The mails accept these little missives which, prop erly directed and bearing friendly message on the reverse side, constitute an agreeable variation of the souvenir snostal card.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-18

Medicus-Any opening for good doctor here?
 Native-Last doctor left here yester- day.
 Medicus-Why?
 Native-Those' he Killed were never worth cent, and those he cured got so well they used to lick him when he pressed his bill.-N. Y. Sun.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-18

OOETWWUEAtUWs
 Sha-I know woman in this street who has been offering to bet she knows one woman who won't get new hat this summer.
 He-Indeed? Does she know you? ''Yes, she knows me. and I'm the one she means"
 "Ah! she must know me. too. Phil adelphia Press.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-18
Emperors order Seasons.

The beginning of the winter or sum- mer in China depends on the whim of the emperor, says Pearson's Weekly. On a certain day announced by him all his subjects have to put on their winter clothes, though, in some regions, sum mer haak may still prevail.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-18
STFRIDEN RRANCH.

Trains leave Dublin street station For Middletown and way stations at osO5 a. m. and 6:15 p. m.
 Trains arrive at Dublin street station from Middletown and way stations at 7:50 a. m. and 3:5S D. m.
 Trains leave Dublin street station for New Haven by way of Cheshire ait 700, S:43, 11:1O a. m-: 1:5O, 4:04 p. m- Trains arrive at Dublin street sta ton from New Haven by way of Cheshire at 9:33 a. m.; 1:05, S:2O, 6.00. 7:45 p. m.
 SUNDAY TRAINS.
 Leave Dublin street station for New Haven by way of Cheshire at 7:50 q. m.: 5:50 D. m.
 Arrive ar Dublin street station from New Haven by way of Cheshire at $50 a. m.; $50 D. m.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-18
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