The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-10-22

Aessrs. Editors when the greatest organist
n the world sits down to play the greatest organ
n the world you can expect something fine in
he music line. This is what has been happen
ing here. The Exposition managers have en-
ragged Monsieur Felix Alexandra Guilmant to
rive series of thirty-six organ recitals in Fes-
Eival Hall, one to be given each day. He was
born in France in 1887 and Is the greatest living
Drganist and composer now living. he has held
the position as organist Of Trinity Church, Paris
since 1871. He is also professor of the organ at
the Paris Conservative and at the Schola Cam
forum and gives during the season weekly reci-
tails as organist Of the Trocadero, Paris. His
recitations are Of the productions Of the leading
as well as his own. The organ here
Is the largest and most wonderful in the world.
It was built by the Los Angeles Art Organ Co..
of Los Angeles, Cal. It is SO feet long. 30 feet
deep and 80 feet high. 1t has 140 speaking tubes,
90 mechanical movements and TO- 059 pipes. rang
ing from half an inch to SIX feet in length. The
largest metal pipe weighs $40 lbs. and is II inches
in diameter. The largest wooden pipe is 23xx2e
inches inside and weighs 1.7a5 lbs. 1t has set
of 20 tubular chimes. The combination switch
board has 1915 electric switches, capable Of pro-
ducing IT. 179 1888 1s3 distinct tona combinations.
THAT sounds like whopper, but guess it's SOL
The organ contains 100 miles of electric wire,
1900 magnets and motors, aggregating 23K
horse power. It weighs $4,000 lbs. and required
IL large furniture to bring 1t to the Fair. 1t
has separate keyboards for the fingers and
sets of key and pedalboards for the feet.
The Oliver Chilled Pillow Co. has collected some
old plows, one dating back to 1776, and was used
in Virginia and afterwards in Maryland. 1t has
a wooden mouldboard covered with two saw
blades. One plow is 100 years old and one Is sup
posed to have been used by Daniel Webster.
zone apple day keeps the doctor away Is
the sign displayed by an state N the
phosphoric acid than any other food according
to bulk, not excepting fish. When eaten In the
evening they tend to produce sleep. Apple
eaters have steadier nerve and clearer brain
than beef eaters. Peaches act upon the kidney
and liver and cool the blood and nourish the
system Grapes tone up the system and unfer
mented grape juice lie used in cases Of typhoid
fever. Altogether fruit is very important
article of diet and the Palace of horticulture is
attracting widespread attention. The State of
Washington displays apples that are one year
old this month.
The two weeks program. conducted under the
auspices of the American Association of ARri-
cultural Stations in the Live Stock Congress
Hall, closed Thursday evening, October 18th,
with huge barbecue in which roast pig. lamb
and Angora goat were served with bread and
butter and apples. Judges were appointed to
decide the merits of different parts of each and
to compare the lamb with the goat. The goat
was pronounced fine, although it is not general
ly supposed they are used for food. The Angora
goat exhibitors claim they are sold the same as
lambs, and persons eating the meat are unable
to detect the difference. The wool commands
the highest price, as much as 60 cts. to $100 per
pound, and makes the finest mohair cloth. Very
fine rugs and cloaks can be made of the tanned
hides. About fifty exhibitors of Angora goats
were represented and the goats attracted much
attention. They will live on rougher ground
than sheep and can survive in wooded sections.
About sixty exhibitors showed fine sheep. one
displaying sign that he had been awarded over
8, 600 in prizes. He had medium size flock of
beauties. About Is different breeds of sheep
were shown. besides Angora and milk goats.
Over 100 exhibitors showed hogs Of 10 different
breeds. The Red hogs (Duroc Jerseys) have come
rapidly to the front. They are immense in size
and brought big prices at the sale on Wednesday.
One SOW sold for 500, and this together with the
$500 she won for her owner in prize money, made
him 81 100 richer than when he came to the Fair.
This is not so bad for what some call Nothing
but a hog" Thirty-seven barns were required
to hold the sheep and hogs.
The program of the meetings in Congress Hall
was mainly Of plant and animal breeding and
was conducted on the idea that plants and ami
mails can be bred upon tho same identical lines.
Anentire new idea in growing crops was brought
out in the address of Prof. H. L. Bolley, of the
North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station.
For FIVE or six years he has been experimenting
at Fargo, where the station is located. with dis
eases such as rust, blight, &c. Prof. Bolley was
sent to Russia last year by Secretary Wilson, Of
the Department of Agriculture, to study fax
growing. Flax is quite an industry in North
ground it was thought the ground became dis
eased, but in reality it is disease of the root of
the fax. BY taking seeds of many varieties and
mixing and sowing on this supposed sick ground
he obtained only few struggling heads. the
other plants dying after a few inches growth.
From those obtained that resisted the disease he
got larger lot by again seeding them and so
built up fax that grows strong and well. Some
of this seed immune from the disease was sown
with lot of other seed in greenhouse in earth
taken from 'sick" and this disease resisting
seed was all that came up. He has applied the
same principle to rust in wheat and says that by
taking the wheat grown where it was damaged
by rust and using what matured you will have
rust resisting wheat. Should farmer have a
crop of wheat damaged by drouth in which most
of it is shriveled up, instead of selling 1t to
miller and buying seed wheat of some one not
in the drouth section, he should take his wheat
and fan out all the shriveled and small grains
and use the plump grains for seed, as that is
drouth resisting and would better stand another
drouth than what had grown plump where it
was not dry. It is not intended to convey the
idea one is not to grade up and improve his
wheat each year, as Prof. Bolley says and so is
it the opinion of the Experiment Stations that
have made years of tests with wheat, that 1t does
better when used continuously in one section
rather than to change the seed often; that the
proper care of the ground and its preparation is
as important as the seed. The question was
asked If this principle of grains being bred to
resist disease would apply to stock also. The
question evidently came from one of the hog
exhibitors, for the Professor said Eyes, il you
have lot of hogs and the cholera breaks out
among them and they all die but grade SOW,
use her for breeding, as she is immune from the
disease VIII. r.
The EFFORT of the Republicans to keep the
name of John E. Mudd off the official ballot
in the Fifth Congressional district fsiled the
General having decided that Mudd's
papers claiming to be an Independent Re-
publican" candidate for Congress are regular.