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this country largely depended upon
foreign markets for seeds, but between
1850 and 1870 as many seed farms
were established as had been during
the thirty years before the conflict.
Growers also became expert and the
market gardener found he could get
from the scedmen Just as good seed
as he could save himself and at less
cost. The business of seed-raising in
creased rapidly anler the war, farms
being established In various parts of
the eastern United States. In 1875
seed growing commenced in Califor-
MIA, when II. W. Wilson planted 90
acres TO bcets, onions. lettuce and car
rots for seed purposes.
Two Thousand Acre Seed Farm.
From this beginning the business has
grown to enormous proportions. Now
a single firm Of growers devotes nnnu-
ally some 1000 acres to seed crops.
Onion and lettuce are staple seed
crops, while carrot, celery. leek, en-
dive. kale, kohl-rabi, arsnips and
parsley arc all grown by California
seed growers.
While the census of 1890 showed
that there were In the United States
500 seed farms, containing 169.5SO
acres, the census Of 1900. with incom-
plete returns, showed more than $500
seed farms. The Census Office made
IN effort to collect statistics of seed
growing farms, but owing to the re-
fusnl OF number Of the large firms
handling seed 10 furnish the names OF
tho farmers growing seed for them.
the Information secured was very In.
complete.
Not a small pnrt of seed-growing is
devoted 10 the raising of flower seed.
Flower seeds have been regularly
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half f-tones and color plates. The bar
rel of peas first sold in Newport has
grown to hundreds of bags, and the
few thousand packets to millions. The
modern seed house has every mechani-
cal contrivance to aid in making the
business economical and systematic.
From the cellar to the mailing room
everything is so arranged that orders
may be filled with accuracy and dis
patch. During the late summer and
carly fall catalogues are prepared for
mailing, and seeds packed in READINGS
for distribution. While one hundred
letters day was considered large
business thirty years ago. some houses
now receive over six thousand daily
during the busy season.
OF course to supply this enormous
trade much attention must be paid to
the growing Of the seed. The present
development of garden-seed growing
began when David Landreth estab-
iished a small seed farm at Philadel-
phia in 1854. During the Civil War
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water and a warm place in the
kitchen. A stitch In time often saves
nine, and a little trouble month be-
fore planting time may make the
farmer or the gardener considerable
money and conduce greatly to his hap
piness and good temper. Nothing is
certainly more aggrayatlng than to
Hem then. as t the ne Golden moments @ % Of spring @
slip by, wait in vain for the young
plants to appear, or secure only half
stand.
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Good Seeds Are Half the
GUY ELLIOTT MITCHELL

scedman's agent, Is textbook Of hor-
ticulture. Millions Of these books find
their way Into rural homes and become
the basis by which the amateur gard
ener derives knowledge Of varieties
and even methods Of growing plants
under varied conditions.
Seed Growing Big Industry.
The seed trade has changed quite as
much as has the catalogue, first with
Its woodcut engrayings, to excellent
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BEATING OUT HEMP SEED IN KEN.
TUCKY.
English and Dutch homes. These OF
course were Of such plants as were
considered necessaries Of life-corn
barley and peas, while fruit trees
were also set out
Early records show that in 1903,
Nathaniel Bird, book-dealer Of New
port, Il. l., advertised garden seeds
just arrived from London. The fol-
lowing year nm announcement was
made by Gideon Welles that he had
some choice Connecticut onion seeds
for sale. In New York city hemp and
fax seeds were advertised for sale as
early as 1765. Boston, however, be-
ing the commercial center in the early
days, was the chief city for the sale
of garden seeds. In 17G7 out of twen-
ty-six advertisers in the Boston Ga
xette, six were dealers in seeds. Dur.
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GLOVER SEED STORE-HOUSE.
both with regard to their germlnatiye
quality and their trucness TO name.
There Is great opportunity for adulter-
alton. and many farmers are apt to
consider they are saving money IL they
can get seeds at a reduced rate, find
ing out when 1t is too late that they
have been swindled with false varie-
ties or that perhaps so per cent. Of
their seeds fail utterly Of germination.
Personal Seed Tests.
The average farmer, however, would
do well to carry on little seed test
Ing establishment Of his own each
year, and this course is advocated by
the Department Of Agriculture. In
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A CALIFORNIA ONION PATCH.

fact, the Department will send any
methods OF testing seeds.
Firms with any reputation behind
them can not afford to work of poor
seeds. and II lot OF seed is tested
and found to be defective In germina-
tive qualities. the sccdsmen will prob
ably stand ready to supply good artl-
Gle in its place. The fault,in fact, may
not be the seedman's. Although the
seed dealers attempt to convey The
Idea that they raise their own seeds
mnnlfcstly impossible where vast sup
piles of seeds are furnished. They
raise some Of the seeds, but large
quantities are contracted FOR by them
with other growers and farmers, and
there is always a chance of the seeds
men themselves being imposed upon.
So that It IL well for the Individual
grower to test each batch OF farm or
garden seeds which hc expects to
plant. The test which he can make
viii show him nothing regarding ynri-
etles: he may be getting Il common
cabbage instead Of some hIgh-priced
novelty, that can only be determined
at the end Of the year: but the gov
ernment experiments along this line
are eiyectually holding the more fire.
spOnsible seedsmen In line, and the
farmer himself can check up with his
seedsmen on the question of germi-
nation. -
Seeds Csrminate Quickly.
Most seeds will terminate in from
three to ten daya The auparntun n.
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also planted of the vast quantities OF
seed sent out for Congressional dis
tribution. The Department bas in fact
done much to purge the country of
dishonest seed dealers. and large
force is constantly employed securing
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Mulberry Fences.

There are but few fences in ia
pan. The mulberry tree is planted in
stead, the leaves Of which furnish food
for silk worms. Nearly 100000 acres
are thus utilized.
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grown in this country for at least fifty
years. The amount raised, even at
the present time, is not sufficient to
meet the trade and the greater part of
the lower-seed sold Is Imported from
Europe.
Importance Of Seed Testing.
Since the days Of tradition a great
deal Of attention has been paid to
seed testing for quality Of germina-
ton. Seeds have been foated or have
been heated until they popped; they
have been broken and the fracture
noted; they have been cut and judged
by the appearance of the inside.
Various experiment stations of the
United States have, for a long time,
paid much attention TO practical seed
testing. The Department of Agricul-
ture for nearly eight years has con-
Quoted trial ground in connection
with Its seed laboratory where studies
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-03
DRIVEN TO DEATH
By FANClE[D PAIN
Woman Physician of New
York Dies Of Mental and
Physical Torture.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal.
MYEW YORK, Dec. 2.-Dr. Kate
III i. s. Sterling, one of New
A York's ablest women physi-
clans, widely known and beloved, died
last night at the New York hospital
after months fight against the keen
est mental and physical torture.
Suffering from affection Of the nerves
Of the left arm, long endured in silence
the doctor finally decided to 60 to the
hospital for treatment. There, on the
advice of surgeons, she consented to
amputation The operation was per.
formed successfully and the patient
seemed to rally Nh
But the severed arm came back TIC
haunt the victim. The throbbing nerves
lost in substance, still were present in
spirit. The former agony. augmented
tenfold, returned to rack the unfortu
nate woman She felt the arm contract
until the muscles seemed strained tC
the bursting point. She screamed with
pain, altho no actual torment had beer
able to wiring a murmur from her lips
Her physical suffering was SO great
that the doctors kept her under thu
influence Of opiates. Two weeks 5agt
it was seen that her general health wa'
failing. Nothing remained real to her
but the throb of her lost arm. Sht
gradually wasted away until at $3.50
pm. Friday the end came.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-03
NEAR TRAGEDY ON
| ROOSEVELT TRAIN
Heavy Missile Hurled Into
a Car, Narrowly Missing
Webb Hayes.
By Publishers Press.

By Publishers Press.
sKW = ASHING,TON, Dec. 2.-The re-
!" turn trip of the presidential
train from the football game
at Princeton narrowly escaped fatal
ity. If an iron plumb-bob weighing
four pounds, which was thrown thru a
car window at Philadelphia, had taken
q course one foot lower it would in
all probability have killed Webb Hayes,
son of a former president
The iron was thrown as the special
train, long one, containing the presi.
saential party and the distinguished
people from the army and navy, was
passing thru North Philadelphia at Ok.
ford. The heavy iron struck the other
side Of the car with terrific force. It is
now in possession Of the secret service
men. It is said Mr.. Hayes bears slight
resemblance to the president and some
Of the party think that it was das
tardly attempt to injure the chief ex
ecutive, but the more general impress
sion is that the iron was thrown by
some evil-minded person who desired tt
show his contempt for the-to him
magnifcence of the train.
The car occupied by Mr.. Hayes ane
friends was the first Of the train. Thu
president was in the last car.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-03
n. LIFE MEN
SUED FOR RICHES
AID HAAIIL TON
Trustees Made Defendants
in Action Begun BY
Policyaold
Thousands Alleged to Have
Been Diverted to
Lobbyists.
WHY DID HE GET m?

ANDY Hamilton, the boyhood
friend Of John Al. Mccall and the
legislative agent Of the New York
Life Insurance company, is wanted
by the Armstrong investigating
committee to tell what he did
with it. -
TT means 81, $50, 8o3.s7 which
Hamilton is known to have re-.
ceived since 1892. as follows:
New York Life gave Hamilton
81, 245, 927.02; Mutual Life gave
Hamilton S22,381. Is: Equitable
Life gave Hamilton $40 800; Met
ropolitan Life gave Hamilton $685.
795; 2. Morgan & Co. gave
Hamilton $59,3l0.75; New York
Security and Trust company and
Central National bank discounted
Hamilton paper or paid him in
cash 1921, 900; total, $1,63o,so3 90.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-03
GO1iS%,2.R PLANS
SPECfS&s> SESSION
Home Rule in Police Depart
1nents Another Reform
to Be Sought.
Better Hold on the Sunday
Lid a Measure Needed
by Folk.
By Publishers Press.

By Publishers Press.
U JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, Dec. q
81 Deeply impressed with the les
sons of the last election, Governor
Folk, it is admitted by those close to
him, has practically. decided to call an
extra session of the Missouri legislature
for the enactment of reform legislation.
The first Of the reforms Governor
Folk wants is simpler ballot law, the
lesson of which he has drawn from
New York. The governors idea is fol
a single ballot with the names of all
candidates printed thereon in alphabet
ical order. Under the present Missouri
ballot system there is ballot for every
ticket. This works for "straights - anc
makes it almost impossible for the less
intelligent voter to express his choice
in mixed ticket. ~. ..... ...".r .
"There seems to be strong demand
thruout the state,' said the governor
for a change in the ballot system. My
recent speech in Kansas City on thu
needs of this change attracted big
audience, which strongly favored thu
adoption of the mass ballot.
| elf an extra session is called the
| election will be the chief subject fo1
consideration. The governor, of course
has the power by special direction t,
recommend the passage of other bill
and in the event of special session i
| is probable that other legislation will
be taken up >, ! .~ Il,
Home rule in the police department.
is another reform the governor thinks
! imperative. Under the present system
the governor appoints the police com
missioners in the larger cities of tn
state. 1tswas through this system tina
the old machine held it's power and i
was one of the things which Folk prom
Used to change if he was elected. TIL
machine made it's greatest stand agains
Folk thru the police.
In addition to these measures tn
governor wants laws enabling him t
better hold down the Sunday lid an
to compel all life insurance companie
to incorporate in the state before the
can do business. .-..
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-03
France, Too, Without News.
New York Herald Special Service.
Vienna Is Apprehensive.

Vienna, Dec. 3.-There is no news
from St. Petersburg and in consequence
there is feeling here that there is
serious trouble in the Russian capital,
as well as in other sections of the en-
pire. The last telegram received from
st. Petersburg was shortly before. noon
Saturday and since that time nothing
has come to tell of the conditions there.
The telegraph companies have teen I'M
able to raise their Russian offices and
it is thought that the strikers may have
destroyed the lines in order to isolate
Russia and permit them to work their
will without CHANGING interference from
the powers.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-03
ALL coNMuN1oAF1oN LOST
Russia Shut OFF from the World fol
Many Hours.

Russia Shut OFF from the World for
Many Hours.
By Publishers Press.
London. Dec. s3.--6 a.m.-Up to this
hour no word has been received here
from Russia and the most alarming
rumors are in circulation. The Rus
sian empire is at the. present moment
completely isolated from the outside
world and until some of the CORE
spondents manage to reach the frontier
it will be impossible to learn what has
TRANSFERRED there
France, Too, Without News !;
New York Herald Special Service
Paris, Dec. 3.-None of the French
papers have received dispatches from
their Russian correspondents for the
last twenty-four hours At 2 O'Clock
Sunday morning the Paris central post
office stated that the chief lines Of
communication with Russia by way of
Berlin and by way of Fredrica, DEN
mark, have been interrupted since Sat
urday morning.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-03
WEDDED IN CHIcAGo..

Chicago, Dec. PA marriage license
was issued here today to John Z. Nc
Lean, aged "a, of Minneapolis, and
Ruth Fry, aged %, residence not given.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-03
CRATER OFFICIALLY
!. DEFINED BY FOLK
Journal Special Service.

Journal Special Service.
r JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, Dec. q
81 E'Grafter-One who preys on the
people,, either against the law or
under the law. The boodler sells his
official vote or buys official acts, con-
trary. to the law. He is CRATER. But
a CRATER is not necessarily a boodler.
Grating may or may not be unlawful.
It is either a special privilege exercised
contrary to law or one the law itself
may give.''
The foregoing is the definition Of the
word "grafter" as given by Governor
Folk today, when asked to do SO by a
New York publishing concern for use
in the Standard dictionary,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-03
New York Herald Special Service.

FEW YORK. Dec. Trustees of
IN the New York Life Insurance
company have been made THE
individual defendants in suit brought
to hold them responsible to the com
pany 8 policyholders for sums inlprop.
.erly diverted to Andrew Hamilton and
not accounted for on the books Of the
company.
Complaints in the suits are
certain policyholders of Saratoga
county, which is the home Of Senator
Edgar 2. Bracket and his henchman
Sheriff Kayanaugh. Senator. Bracket,
was an active n n exposing TN
irregular practices3}f the 4nsuranc.
companies and was the sponsor fol
various bills frame6bitc modify The
present state insurance laws In, the in
terest Of the policyholders.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-03
CRASH WAS EXPECTED
Delayed Dispatch Tells of Spread Of
the Russian Strike.
By Publishers Press.

BY Publishers Press.
St. Petersburg, Dec 2.-(Delayed in
transmission. "A crash is expected
momentarily. The army surgeons, gun
ners, technicists and artillerists have
struck. The revoiutionaries. unwilling
to give the government an excuse for
employing violent repression, are them
selves abstaining from violence, except
that discharged workmen are burning
factories.
The strike of the postal and tele-
graph employees is a severe test of the
governments strength. Russian tele.
graph operators are educated men, but
the hardest worked and poorest paid
skilled workers in Europe. Therefore
they have popular sympathy in their
present strike. Minister Durnovo's
severity in dealing with them is blamed
for the present difficulty, but the law
against organization in unions is on
his side, so Premier Witte must sup
port him.
Peril Of Armed Resistance.
The public, which is the victim of
the strikes, is responding to an APP
peal from Professor Martens for vol
unteers to take the places of strikers.
Many persons fear that this will cause
the strikers to change from passive to.
armed resistance. In any open battle
with the labor forces the. attitude of
the army would be uncertain. It is
regarded as significant that whenever
soldiers or sailors during recent weeks
have presented petitions reciting griev-
ances, they have headed the list with
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Last Tidings from St. Peters
burg Full of Ominous
Forecast.
Grand Ducal Party Organic
ing Against White and
Liberty.
Moscow's Treasures in Peril
of Destruction and Pill
lage by Mob.

BY Publishers Press
" 7 ARSAW, Poland, Dec. 3.-1:15
" ANA railroad telegraph
dispatch just received here
from Moscow states that a great in
cendlary fire is raging there and that
already hundreds of buildings have
been destroyed.
A few seconds after this information
had been received here the wire failed
SO that no particulars could bo ascer-
tanned.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-03
ENTERTAINMENT Is CHARGE
Wells, Is Arrested at Escanaba.
By Publishers Press.

By Publishers Press.
Escanaba, Mich, Dec. 2.-Horace J..
Henderson, confidential clark for the
late Daniel Wells, Jr., who was the
richest man in Wisconsin, and land
commissioner for the I. Stephenson
Lumber company, was arrested today,
charged with embezzling $3.50 Of the
funds of the Ford River Lumber com
pnany. Henderson formerly lived at
Flint, Mich, where his parents still re-
side. He is said to have lost money in
gambling.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-03
LIFE PRISONER GIVES
POLICIES TO ATTORNEY
Special to The Journal,

Special to The Journal T..
st. Cloud, MINI, Dec. 2.-Crawford,
condemned to be executed Dec. 5, was
baptized as a Catholic in the county
jail tonight by Father Goebel, of the
cathedral. Sheriff Ward, came up from
Elk River and at his instance a pho
tographer was called who took a pic,
ture of the condemned man. Craw.
ford made no objections.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-03
TARGET FOR HUNTER
Michigan Nimrod Has Two Marrow
Escapes From Death.
Special to The Journal.

Special to Tho Journal. -
Calumet, Mich, Dec. 1T. II. Mac
Neil had two narrow escapes from death
while deer-hunting near Lake Gerald.
While following deer he had wounded,
two bullets whizzed past him. The first
passed directly over his head. Another
shot was fred and the bullet shattered
the stockof MacNeil's gun. He stepped
to a clearing and there found man
pointing a gun at him, expecting to see
deer coming his way.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-03
MAY PUT ASIDE
SENATORIAL TOGA
Governor Sees Fatal Weak
ness in Wisconsin Pri-
mary Election Law.
Machine Likely to Regain
Control if Little Bob
Becomes Senator.
Special to The Journal.

Special to Tho Journal.
- IT ADIsON, Wis, Dec. e.-The
preservation Of good govern
ment in Wisconsin underlies
the motives that have actuated Gov
ernor La Toilette in converting the leg
lslature in extraordinary session next
Monday.
1t is not the question merely Of
choosing between the governorship and
United States senatorship, for which
he has only to qualify at Washington.
that confronts Mr.. La Toilette. 1T is
not the further regulation of railroad
rates or the investigation of public
service corporation influence in legis-
lation and politics, or the adjusting
OF railroad taxation. that is at the
bottom Of the special class.
The problem that confronts La Fol
-lette-the greatest in his stormy politi-
cal careers connected with the Wis
consin primary election law, providing
for party nominations by direct vote.
It. is a La Toilette law La Toilette
was the architect and the builder, and
the work Of legislation represents
years Of labor.
Like Frankenstein.
Recent political developments have
made the elaborate primary law struc-
ture loom up as Frankenstein that
may turn and destroy its creator.
The law, the most drastic of its kind
ever enacted in the country, is yet to
have its first trial, which in the nat
ural course of events will take place
next September. AS The provisions of
the act now stand. the candidate for
governor who receives the most votes
cast at the primaries. altho he may not
come within reach of the majority of
the total vote cast in the state, will be
the legal and incontestable nominee of
his party.
And because the present dominant
reform wing Of the republican party
which, since it's existence, has known
no other idol than La Toilette, now is
torn by the ambitions of loyal follow
ers, who want to succeed to the Cover
norship, this law. which abolishes, con
ventions and theoretically places nomi
nations in the hands Of the people
really throws the balance Of power into
! the hands Of the old machine, which
La Follette's ten years Of effort has
been directed to overthrcwing.
Weakness Of System.
La Toilette has discovered the weak
ness Of his untried systematic rea
| lization precipitated the midnight cal
for the extra session Of the Legislature
two weeks ago-and that is why he il
hesitating between conflicting persona
opinions and ambitions and the con
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