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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-11-25
JoTT1NGs FROM JUDsoN.

Corn shredders are heard humming all
over the country these days. Several
farmers are complaining of soft corn
and mouldy stalks, and if the weather
does not turn colder, the chances are
that the stuff will heat and spoil.
John NJ. Jones and family have moved
from AIankato upon the Owen Roberts
farm, formerly occupied by o. S. Hughes
who has rented the j. C. James place
John f. Thomas of Henriette, MINI.
returned home last week after spending
the fall threshing with w. w. Evans
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-11-25

There was considerable discussion
over Mankato markets and what mea-
sures should be taken to improve them.
Prices paid here for butter, eggs and
horse feed are much better than in the
surrounding towns. An effort should be
made to place other lines of farm pro-
duce on the same superior level, and
bring the trade of the country people to
Mankato.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1904-04-28

What to Put on the Early Potatoes.
If you follow the advice of Professor
T.. 3. Voorhees, of New Jersey you will
push your potatoes along with the fol
lowing: Nitrate of soda, 100 pounds;
sulphate of ammonia, 100 pounds; tank
age, 100 pounds; acid phosphate, 900
pounds; sulphate or muriate of potash,
200 pounds. You may use from 500 to
1,200 pounds per acre. For late pota-
toes use fifty pounds less nitrate of
soda, 100 pounds of acid and fifty less
Of potash. Application per acre. GOO to
800 mounds
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1904-04-28
80. slr,y vas the PROMPT reply.

,ur father walk round
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1904-04-28

meath the saturated soil. The wells
consist of curb boxes twelve inches in
diameter made with eight sides from
boards an inch thick They are sunk
from eight to twelve feet deep, the ex-
cavations being made with a large au-
ger. The wells have underdrain out
lets about three feet deep leading to
surface ditch The water rises at once
in these wells to the height of the out
let provided and flows away. The soil,
which is about five feet deep, is under
laid with gravel, which through the
process of seepage from higher lands
has become surcharSed with water
which by reason of constant pressure
and continual supply from land occu-
pying a higher level saturates the soil
above the gravel. These wells, put in
at various points where water appear
ed. reclaimed at small cost field
which had been given over to grazing
on account of saturation and alkali.
This method of draining is regarded
as highly successful by the farmers of
the vicinity who have witnessed the
reclamation of the land so treated. The
individual well and drain as used in
the work described are shown in the
first figure The method is simple. Its
efficiency consists in relieving the pres
sure of the underground water at such
a depth that it will not continue TO
force itself upward against the soil and
also In removing such a quantity that
the gravel stratum underlying the
tract will provide for the remainder.
Drains upon another plan have been
used by j. Hetzel and others in the vi
cinity Of Longnont, Colo. a continu-
GUS line of underdrains is laid cross
wise Of the slope along the upper bor-
der of the lands showing seepage.
These drains are laid five feet deep,
which is regarded as necessary to their
success. The subsoil Is adobe clay, in
which pockets Of sand are encountered
which interfere with the laying of the
drains. The method of location is
shown in the second figure. The drains
are made of one inch boards in the
form of a continuous box by 6 inches
in the inside, with no bottom. These
drains complete cost about 81 per rod.
1t is not uncommon in this vicinity to
find one drain located in this manner
intercepting sufficient water to reclaim
forty to eighty acres Of land where the
soil is of i stiff nature. Where soils
are open ard admit of very free perco-
lation of water the same plan Is ap-
plicable, but the size of drains must be
increased. The quantity of water
which it is necessary to intercept Is
greater than is usually suspected, and
some failures to obtain good results
are probably owing to the fact that the
drains are too small. Shallow drains
do not accomplish the result, nor do
drains laid up and down the slope, as
fully and cheaply as those laid across.
Where drains are laid in wet land its
unstable condition and water bearing
sand pockets often make it impractical
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1904-04-28
A SCHEME THAT FAILED.
Unsuccessful Ruse 10 Discover
Competitors secret.

Unsuccessful Ruse 10 Discover n
Competitors Secret.
A group of young men, all active in
| the world of business, were telling
| hard luck stories at the Manufacturers
club one evening recently. An elec-
| trical engineer whose salary Is repre-
sented by five figures told the follow
ing:
"I've been up against it more than
once, but an adventure | had in New
York in 1896, like Aarons serpent,
swallows all the rest. At the time l
was manager and stockholder to q
limited extent in Baltimore. We were
operating under q patent, and things
were just beginning to come our way
when we got word from our statesmen
that goods similar to ours were being
placed upon the market at figure
which we could not meet.
II got samples of the goods and the
figures from three different sources and
at once called n meeting OF the di-
rectors Our patent was worthless as
matter of protection, and our only
resource was secrecy, and, so far as we
were able TO do 1T, our process was kept
from prying eyes. But there was some
one who was beating us at our own
game IL we could find out how 1t
was done, we could do it ourselves; If
we couldn't, 1t meant ruin.
"The next day, disguised as work
man, / went over to New York and
found the factory without any trouble,
but try as l would / couldn't get en-
ployment The foreman said he hadn't
enough work TO keep his men going
and would have to discharge some OF
them. l was desperate. 1t was bit
ter winter day, and foot and half OF
snow lay on the ground. As n last re-
sort | asked him If he would let me
shovel the snow from the sidewalk and
give me a square meal in payment.
This appeal reached his heart. and /
got the job. 1t was no joke, | can tell
you. for the factory was big one and
the sidewalk long. But | was glad to
get the chance for it meant that | was
to have show TO get inside the works.
and | only needed few hours ut most
to find out how the trick was done. 1t
took me four hours TO get the sidewalk
cleared, and my back was nearly bro
ken when | went into the Office again.
The foreman looked up from his desk
as l came in and said:
Got it done so quickr
eyes said l.
LETS go out and look at it.
"And we went out. He looked the
sidewalk over and said: It's good
Job. | didn't think you could do II.
Now, II you look sharp you'll be In
time to catch the noon train for Bald-
more, and Just tell them that you saw
me"' That was new song In those
days, and I've detested It ever since
Philadelphia Press.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1904-04-28

DRAINAGE DY INTERCEPTING DRAINS.
bic to use short tiles unless laid upon
a broad base. Sewer pipes known as
seconds" may sometimes be used in
place of draintiles.
The plans of treating land for the
purpose of redeeming 1t from alkali
which has accumulated through evap-
Grafton and seepage are not uniform,
nor is there any practice which has
been SO reduced to system as to JUS
tlfy an authoritative statement of
methods that may be best employed.
The cutting off of the underground
supply by drainage has often resulted
in the full reclamation of the land,
with no other treatment than subse
Quent irrigation and cropping.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1904-04-28
>ss 80
IfARH7s cARDEN
sSsB5
DRAINAGE OF FARM LAND.
SucccssfuI Plans of Irrigation Farm
ers In the Central West.

Successful Plans of Irrigation Farm
ers In the Central West.
BY C. C. ELLIOTT. Drainage Expert.
In many irrigated lands the water ac-
cumulates at various points by under
fow from the waste of irrigation prac-
ticed upon more elevated land adjoin-
ing or from leakage of supply bitches
which are constructed through pervi-
GUS material The prevention of the
accumulation of water in harmful
quantities is best accomplished by in
tercepting it before it reaches the low
er level.
Albert Igo, near Greeley, Colo, has
used series of small wells located AT
points where water appeared, sinking
them into the gravel which lies be-
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1904-04-28
THE COTTON BOIL WORM.


IT'S Damage Lnst Season was $1,000
OoO-Sscond OnIy to- the Eccvsl.
Second only In Importance TO the
Mexican cotton boil weeyil rs an enc
my to cotton * the cotton boil worm.
This insect has long been known as de
stuctiye In Florida, Alabama, Mis-
slssippi and Louisiana and In 1879 had
become the principal insect enemy OF
cotton in Texas. Nevertheless little If
any effort has been made by plant
ers during the many years of boil
worm injury to check lis ravages,
and along with increased cultivation of
cotton from year TO year, often 10 the
exclusion of any other crops. the losses
from this insect have tended to in
crease, and the injury during the past
two or three years In Texas has been
notable
Aside, in fact, from certain isolated
localities here and there in the great
cotton belt, bollworm injury during
1908 appears to have been confined
mostly to Texas and the southern
part of the Indian Territory. The
most serious injuries in Texas were
In the northern and central counties of
the eastern portion Of the state. the
loss in each county being estimated at
from 20 to 60 per cent Of the crop.
The ravaged district includes the prin-
cipal cotton producing area of the
state from which came in 1902 ap-
proXimately thrcc-fourths of the cot
ton crop of the state. 1t Is hard to ar
rive at even an approximate estimate
Of the loss, but u conservative view by
n special agent I'm charge of cotton
boil worm investigations places it Mt
10000 bales for 1903, which, at n valu
alton Of $50 per bale, would mean n
loss of $4500,O00. Add to this the
value Of the cotton seed, and the total
loss would easily exceed $J000.0O0.
The bollworm has a worldwide dis
tribuuon. 1t need hardly be explained
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1904-04-28

ROASTING EAR INFESTED BY BoLLvoRM.
until after the corn has begun to hard
en-. 1t would therefore appear that
bollworms might be largely kept out
of cotton by the proper use of corn as
trap crop.
Extensive tests of corn as a trap
crop were made the last year both at
Calvert and at Willspoint, Tex. Boil
worm moths fly about freely in cotton
fields and would be attracted a consid-
cradle distance by the trap crop. The
experiments in question provided for
belts of corn around and through the
cotton fields, planted so as to be in
prime silking condition about Aug. /.
By this means the large generation OF
moths appearing late in July and Au-
gust from larvae injecting roasting
ears in the surrounding cornfelds was
largely detracted from the cotton, and
egg laying was concentrated on the
trap rows of corn. Thus the number
of eggs found ON q single corn plant
was often surprisingly great. Fur
thermore, the trap rows of corn were
attractive to moths all through the
season, from the time the plants were
twelve to eighteen inches high till
ripening began. The total number of
eggs deposited on a single plant must
be very great, and single calculation
will indicate the enormous number of
bollworm eggs that are kept from cot
ton by a series of belts of corn planted
through the cotton field.
1t might be supposed that by thus
furnishing the insect with its favorite
food its increase and consequent great
er destructiveness would be the result.
This, however appears to be not the
case. From the several hundred eggs
that may be found on a single corn
plant but two or three larv9 will even
tuaIly succeed in attaining their
growth owing to the cannibalistic hab-
its Of the larvae themselves and for
other reasons.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1904-04-28
On the other Hand.

Lawyer-Your case would have been
stronger, Mr.. Mcclure, If you had acted
only on the defensive, but you stYuck
first. If you had let him strike you
first you would have had the law on
your side. Mr.. McGuire-Yis, Ord had
tn law on my solde, but ord "a had
bim on my chest a-pourdin tn loife
out av me.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1904-04-28

that the larva known variously rs the
bud worm of corn. the tassel worm,
corn ear worm and tomato fruit worm
Is identical with the cotton boil worm.
Bollworm eggs may be easily detected
with the unaided eye on the fresh silk
Of corn AS the larvn grow remark
able diversity of color may become ap-
parent. ranging from whiush or green
ish to rose color or almost black. with
distinct spots and stripes. \ full grown
larva measures from one and guar
ter TO one and half inches in length.
Corn when In a suitable condition is
the preferred food of the bollworm,
and cotton Is not materially injured
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1904-04-28
VIM. Wuerthele,

Billiard and Pool Tables, Bar Fix
lures, Officee Desks, Chairs, Tables,
Partitions, Bookcases, etc. Turning of
Billiard and Pool Balls. Bowling Alley
Equipments. 416 Diamond ST.
Above Smithfield ST. Pittsbnrg, Pa.
i1.5-03som
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1904-04-28
Good EcnEon.

a school inspector, explaining to his
class that the land of the world was
not continuous, said TO the boy who
happened to be standing nearest to
him:
"Now, could your father walk round
the world?"
mo, SIR was the prompt reply.
"Why notg"
Because he's broken his leg" was
the altogether unlocked for response
Chums.
The oasis., 1904-05-21

to the farmers down the valley.
who will be glad to know that the
companies are arranging as speed
lily A. possible to do away with
them.
Journal-Miner: The old Bonanza
mine, better known as the Haroua
Hala, has been sold by A. G.. Hub
bard for $4,000 to an eastern syn
dictate and the first payment has
been made. The mine, formerly
owned by Hubbard and Bowers
was sold about twelve years ago to
an English syndicate for $1,000
600. Bowers died soon after that
and Hubbard subsequently repur-
chased the property, the English
owners failing to find the operation
OF it profitable employment. 1t
was said that it had been worked
out, but since then several valua-
bic deposits have been found. The
Bonanza was at one time one of
the greatest gold properties of the
west. There is a great deal of
now in that part of the
country. The owners OF the Ora
Cobra adjoining the Agard prop
critics in the Hacuvars have let
contract for $50 feet of work and
are figuring on the early building
Of a smelter.
The oasis., 1904-05-21
RAILROADS..

The attention of the public is
called to the fact that close connec-
tons are now made between points
along the line OF the Sonora Rail-
way and the great copper camp of
La Cananea.
Please note condensed time card
below. Passengers can now leave
Guaymas at $40 p. M, and arrive
at La Cananea the following morn
ing at l1:30; returning, leave La
Cananea at 200 p. M, and arrive
at Guaymas at $50 the following
morning.
Condensed Card Between Cananea, Noga-
les and Guaymas, Via Fairbank
Mountain Time.
Mountain Time Zone hour faster than
Southern Pacific Time
The oasis., 1904-05-21
Southern Pacific Company.

Train No II leaves Nogaes 80 daily Benson 5
at tucson IA. nj
Train No II leaves Tucson daily arriving
at Nogale m.
Sunset Limited bound, a m
Golden State Limited bound, Benson Il
Sunset Limited west bound Benson 10 m.
Golden Limited IN,
Close &
Tombstone Bsle Douglas
a r
q steame
hall
Saloon and second cabin beeed in
JORDAN, Agent.
The oasis., 1904-05-21
MINING NEWS.


dav and reported that a few days
AGO he had started to sink shaft
on the ledge about 1000 feet from
the present working shaft and had
uncovered some fine ore that
carries values from $50 to $25 per
ton. The ore streak runs about
eighteen inches thick but gives in
dication of widening out as depth
is attained. About ten tons of the
ore has already been taken out
and mill test will be made on it
in few days.
Prospector: Figuring upon an
anverage of five per cent of copper
in the ore, it is estimated that the
Copper Queen will put out at its
new smelter at Douglas, when all
Of its five furnaces are at work.
100000 pounds of copper a year,
which would be greater than Cal
umet IL Hecla's output and well up
to Anaconda's. The copper out
put for April of the Old Dominion,
Arizona, is reported at 100000
pounds, the largest in its history.
A solid mass OF copper weighing
seven tons was recently taken
from the Adventure mine, Michi-
gan. Annual meetings of the Cal
umet a. Arizona, Calumet d Pitts
burg and Junction Development
companies have been held lin
Bisbee.
Courier: f. A. Bletcher is in from Z
the Keystone mining group, Tur- (
key creek, where he says he is TAX
ing out ore which ranges in value
from 5000 to $500 ton. The ore
which he is now taking out comes
from a new shaft which is fifty feet
deep. The ledge is sixty feet wide.
The rich vein matter is from thirty
to thirty-six inches wide. The
values are gold, silver and copper.
he has a carload Of ore now sacked
for Shipment, and he figures that
this carload will yield $4,000. In
sacklng the ore it averages three 20
one high grade. The ore on the
dump is good cyaniding PROPOSE
non and carries average values of
1880 per ton. There are three
other shafts on the group-one 900
and one 100 and one 300 feet deep,
all showing the same character of
ore
Copper Era: The Arizona Cop
per Company this week commenced
handling the tailings from their
Longfellow plant. The tailings
are stored in a series of bins and
after they have become thoroughly
airy they will be drawn from the
oihs and used for filling the slopes +,
IN the mines. This will relieve
Onase creek from carrying the tail
lngS from that plant. For some .
time the company has
Oeen disintegrating its Stag by
wafer, and then allowed to find :
" way to the Frisco with the
-alnngs from the plant. This sys-
.gll mas been abandoned and the
Ia Stag train again put into SER
wee In addition to the Stag the
l Oolonpany is now handling about E
~, ,otl IONS OF tailings daily by cars,
'''n oil which will be great relief
. ~ Vhe Frisco river. The A. c.
;vnlpany expect to soon be hand
;bee all of their tailings. The
,n n"lhon company have also an 10
'o4id that they will soon dis II
The oasis., 1904-05-21

J.A. NAUGLE, Gen'l Passenger Agt.
Guaymas, Nov. %, 1908.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-09-19

1t was six or seven years after Car
touche-of whom l wrote previous
letter-had been condemned and exc
cuted that rurrors of another thief, more
adroit, holder, more extraordinary and
even more cruel, troubled the peace OF
Paris. At first no one seemed to know
his name, nor to be able to explain ex-
actlv his methods. None the less, tear
of him pervaded all classes, a fear which
aroused the police to earnest effort to ef-
feet his capture. At last his name
PorIaiIler-was in everybody's mouth.
The police, after considerable research,
established his identity and learned OF
his origin.
In a little village on the coast OF Brit
tany there lived a young man, poor
modest and well-liked by his neighborS.
He was an intrepid sailor, very pious,
and. with his stalwart build, winning
countenance. prodigious strength and
fearlessuess on the water he aroused the
interest of the young women OF the ham
let. His name was Jacques Poulalller.
Among the girls of manageable age VINO
+be more attracted him was one not only
exceptionally pretty but also rich as COM
pared with her companions On account
of this reputation for wealth and her
physical and mental endowments she was
called the beautiful Isabeau Colomblet-
At short distance from the village. at
the edge of the sea. on the top OF rock
battered by the waves and surrounded
bv water az high tide, was a tower occu-
MED bv a man of whose origin everybody
was ignorant. The house IN winch ne
lived had an evil reputation; It was
known as La Tour Mandite ne Ac-
cursed Towerl It was believed that III
tbe nast the devil had occupied It and
since then no one could live there unless
he had previously sworn allegiance TO the
demon. The isolation OF the spot, the
constant agitation OF the sea about It:
the howlings OF the winds, the traces OF
lightning which at different times had
scored its b1ackened walls, its bad rcpu-
tation. its distance from any other haol-
tation. bare of trees, shrubs and grass
had so obsessed the minds OF the sur
rounding population that Tor 40 or 50
wears il had remained uninhab1ted-
One dav man was seen roaming
about the rock and walking on the oeacn
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-09-19

: 1t was at this time that the approach
ing marriage of Jacques Paulailler and
the beautiful lsabeau was announced.
The ceremony was performed on Sun
day and the Young men of the village as
-sembled on the beach to congratulate
their newly married comrade. when
-Roussart was observed approaching He
walked directly to the groom, looked him
earnestly in the eyes and said Your
first born viii be son and he shall be-
long to the devil" With these words he
turned about, disappeared III the direc-
ton of the tower. and was never more
seen. That is the story.
1t was said that Tacoues Poulailler, SUI
perstitious like all Bretons, did not forget
the sinister prediction of Roussart. When
a year later a son was born to him he
expected he would become the father of
"a deformed, ill-favored child. Instead of
that, the infant was uncommonly comely
with black ewes, white skin and curing
dark hair. Morally, however. as he in
creased in years he became incorrigIbe.
vicious, quarrelsorne. a robber of fish
traps, orchards and of every insignificant
triae left within his reach. The priest
had great trouble in prenarino him for
first communion, while the schoolmaster
exhausted hisrepertory punishnents-
lengthy one-without being able to
teach him the simplest elements of edu-
cation. AS the young scamp said. he had
no need OF it, as he was under the pro-
lection of the devil, who would care for
him