Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-01-02
Fifty-Six Iowans Members of
American Association for
Advancement of Science
MEMBERSHIP A GREAT HONOR
Number on Active List Limited to One
Hundred, Seventy six Now Being En-
roIled-Discussion of MonopoIization
of Markets of World by American
Agricultural implements.
Special to Times-Republican.

ond annual meeting here this week, ha:
brought together men of note in nearly
every branch of the American scientific
world. and Iowa is we'll represented
among the members OF this notable
company by ffty-six of her well
known scientists and educators. Among
this number is listed Prof. Charles
Noye Kinney of Drake University;
Prof. Richard Heramnn of the Dubuque
Institute of Science and Arts; Rt. Rev.
John j. kean; Prof. George d. Gable,
Parsons College; Prof. Fred DeForest,
Parsons Callege; Prof. Bruce Fink,
Upper Iowa University; Prof. Charles
c. Nutting, State University; Prof.
John +. Tilton, Simpson College; Prof.
John w. Edwards. Iowa Wesleyan
University; Prof Henry st. Clair Put
nam; Prof. Maurice Kicker, Burlington
high school; Prof. Clifford l.. Webb,
State University; Prof. Samuel w.
Boyer, Agricultural College; Prof. Bur-
| ton S. Lanphear, Iowa State College;
! Prof. l.. H. Pammel, of the Agricultural
and Mechanical College, who Will read
a paper before the section of the gem
eral society known as the Society for
| the Promotion of Agricultural Science.
| To be an active member of this last
named society is an honor to which
| only men who have made names for
| themselves in promoting agricultural
science may attain, such membership
being limited to 100 on it's active list.
DR.. Pammel was admitted to mem
bership when the number was limited
to only fifty, but the number has since
that time been increased TO 100 as the
limit, and the society now numbers
seyenty-six active members. Hon.
James Wilson, secretary of agriculture.
being the only honorary member in
this country.
American agricultural implements
are taking the markets OF the world
Yesterday, 1t was France and China,
now it is Turkey in Asia as the geog-
raphies say. Last year. says report
received from Harput, an agency was
established at that place for the sale
of our agricultural machinery and inn
plements, and variety of plows, har-
rows, drills, as we'll as reaper. were
imported. The experimental trials
have been. made upon an extensive
five miles from the American consulate
at Harput. Some time was lost In
training the Turkish horses to work
with the plows and other implements. /
for their horses are not by any means
good work horses. The results obtain /
ed from the deep blowing of the +
American plows are said to have been
very striking when compared with the
yield of grain in adjacent fields where
the ground had been "tickled' by the
primitive native implement. Equally /
striking results were obtained when I
the wheat drills were employed instead I
of the customary broadcast seeding.
The reaper was used during the har-
vest of the past summer and has been |
found able to accomplish the work of +
forty men, and it is thought that when i
Doth horses and drivers are aceus-
toned to the work. 1t will probably re-
place seventy or eighty men.
AS the chief item in raising grain in
Asiatic Turkey is the cost of harvesting,
the consul reports tina. the introduction I,
Of this labor-saying appliance caused +
no little stir in this region where the &
population Is so exceptionally n
dependent upon the earnings of harvest T,
time. Soon after the reaper was rum (,
ling regularly and smoothly, the price
of days labor descended promptly 80
per cent-from 203a cents per day to II /,
cents per day The enterprising agent, S
l graduate of an American agricultural /
college, was forced to face condition +
II affairs similar to that which followed !,
he Introduction of The spinning Jenny (,
md the cotton gin. Every attempt was !
made to wreck the offending machine, 7
80 that the owner had to keep 1t in his :
lwelling at night. His garden of +
american vegetables was destroyed his
ruit trees We're cut down, shots were j,
lred at his house during the night time g
md his workmen were induced to de- !
ert him. In spite of all these discour- f
gements, thA experiments were con- /
lnued to end of the season, and an /,
ther year it is expected that the use | q
# the reaper will be more Widespread, "
nd that the threshing machine will be !
Introduced. 4
The chief difficulties In using the | {
eaper extensively are the terraced ar
angement of the irrigated fields, the y
Madness of the Individual holdings, liz
he abundance of stones, and the habit La
f cutting the grain Close to the ground =
n order to get the maximum of straw. IL,
he thresher when introduced should "
e accompanied by straw cutter. The n
traw is withdrawn from the old Ee
ashioned threshing floor, the same as :,
hose described In the Bible story OF
.uth, in very soft, finely cut condi- -
ion. An Illustration of the tenacity u
18th which they hold to old methods is II,
he practically universal demand Of the !,
lrmers, in ordering American plows, Eof
Dr the reversible or "sidehilP plow. In ;,
lowing with the primitive oriental i'm >,
lement, it has always been customary :,
, plow back and forth and not around i,
ne field. -,
They are beginning to like our hoes, n
ikes, pitchforks and other small farm :,
nd garden implements, and there ara
God prospects, says the report, of
teady trade springirg up. Probably
lie metal parts only will be exported n,
'om this country and the handles at es
lched after they reach Turkey. Fan y
ing mills are used universally, mod to
led after mill introduced by an al
merican missionary some years ago. o,
he metal parts are imported from the ST
nited States, with the exception of the to
ire gauze for the screens, which is &C
ought from France. Their native car liz
enters turn out annually from $50 to is