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Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-03

d student. I have noted some interesting
illustrations along these lines: In some
places / see full-grown man working all
day behind an SOO-weight horse; in another
part of the country, raising the same kind
of crop, l see a man working all day with
two horses; in another part of the country
l see a man working all day with four
horses, and this might be carried further.
The use of fine machinery on the farm ia
to a great extent replacing hand labor, and
the individual farmer is doing more now,
raising more crops in year, in the north
west, and hope soon will be in other parts
of the United States, than he ever did be-
fore.
The education Of the farmer is progress
ing. He is becoming a more potent factor
than he ever has been, and no one can zee
the limits to this education and the results
of IT,
The question has been raised, "Will we
g Jme day have to buy wheat?" I think It
is not at all likely. The pioneer has been
our wheat grower generally in the past.
principally our spring wheat grower
but all the states I'm the grass
and corn belt that used to grow
it again if they got sufficiently good prices
to induce them to do it. There is no dan
ger of the United States lacking bread; the
farmer is keeping pace with the require
ments of the people, and as multiplying
millions come to inhabit the United States
he will be found equal to the occasion.
JAMES WILSON,
Secretary of Agriculture.
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Quaint Cama9uey Which American Tourist Travel Will Make Ne0

chete or sword at his belt. and all wear
huge spurs. Great carts drawn by oxen
with down-hanFing heads, yoked to tongues
as big as telegraph poles, drag their creak-
ing way along goaded by the drivers he
side them. Goat wagons owned by pcd1lcrs
are common. and hay wagons bread
wagons. milk wagons, all hauled by goats,
are everywhere seen. Sometimes one long
bearded white or black animal does the
pulling. and sometimes two. but in every
case the driver walks along beside and
directs the way. There are also pcddlers
who carry their wares in pauniers on
horses. There are milkmen with their cans
slung TO each side OF the saddle. and fruit
peddlers who carry oranges. bananas and
plneapples about upon their ponies
Let us stop one of the milKmen and get
a drink. How queer the milk tastes. 1t
Is scalded to make II keep. ana salt is
sometimes put in for that purpose. Indeed
Cuba is a land Of boiled milk and sailed
milk. and it is almost impossible 10 buy
a glass Of cold. fresh milk outside Of Ha-
vana. At the hotels it is sold boiled. and
boiled milk is served with the coffee Two
pitchers one containing boiled blk and
the other hot coffee. are brought in by the
pitchers one containing boiled milk and
filling your cup, and then the coffee. which
Is as black as ink and as bitter as sail
Plenty Of sugar is added by most coffee
drinkers
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then the domestic animal can be introduced,
the dairy COW and others. II we can get
plants for these people that will meet their
present requirements they will in a few
years change their system OF agriculture
altogether
We have two classes OF farmers: One
goes into new country, as people go into
the northwest, and gradually adapts him
self TO the condition Of his surroundings.
He gradually adopts new system of man
agement; he brings in domestic animals
and conducts a system Of agriculture that
keeps the soil up to it's primitive strength,
perhaps he improves It; he surrounds him
self with or helps to build up the neighbor-
hood with all the accomplishments OF highly
civilized life; he helps TO get schools
churches, roads. railroads, ETC. and that
man is satisfied with surroundings as long
as he lives. But we have another class Of
people who have been, perhaps. pioneers.
and whose fathers. perhaps, have been
pioneers, who do not feel at home in we'll
settled countries that have all the benefits
and limitations of advanced society, but
who feel more at home in a new country.
Then we have young fellows. the sons OF
our we'll established farmers who may have
a desire 10 see the world and grow up with
a new country, as they know their fathers
did. Just what the British provinces to
the north Of us have to OFFER 70 those
classes Of people Is not definitely deter
mined altogether. They are to the north Of
US. There are things that can be grown
there. The agriculture must vary from
the agriculture Of Illinois Iowa and
Nebrska They are beyond the corn
belt. but there are plenty OF people in the
world who cannot grow corn. and high
civilizations are maintained where the
maize plant is not at home. Generally
speaking. the people who 80 up there have
Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-03

In a northern California town a supposed
murder had been committed
The half-breed wife OF an Indian had
died, as the husband said. from natural
causes, and was buried without the usual
formalities being FIRST complied with. After
a lapse OF two weeks the body was disln-
TERED by the authorities at the instance
OF a particular enemy Of the accused and
marks Of violence. as the former stated,
were found upon the deceased.
The prosecuting attorney was examining
the talesmsn to ascertain II any Of them
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risks to run and many things to learn
We got large immigration from Canada
in the early days when the corn and blue
grass belt of the northwest was settled,
and it may not be so difficult for these
people or for their children to move up
north and go under the British flag again.
/ think a good many people have gone
there TO buy land who do not intend to re-
main there permanently. l think the spec
ulative idea is in the minds OF a good many,
and whether Canada is TO hold these people
who have been going up there is a question
for the future to determine. There is no
question but what the lands are rich in
great many cases, and there is also no
question but what the winters are very
long and very severe. I think the move
ment from the grass and corn belt has
reached its maximum and perhaps is on the
wane. Lands are going up in value there
and careful estimates will be made as to
whether dearer lands in the corn and blue
grass belt Of the northwest are not on tho
whole quite as desirable as the cheaper
lands north Of the American line Then
there are other conditions that they will
discover: the economic laws Of our neigh
bors on the north are quite different from
ours. When It Is a question Of getting rid
Of a heavy surplus OF animals or grains
they will miss the American market, which
is the best market In the world. They will
have to do as the Canadians do now. seek
the European markets for their grains and
dairy products and meats, etc.
The American farmer Is growing more In
the knowledge OF the sciences that relate
to his affairs. He is learning how 70 make
more from his days work by the applca-
ton OF power to the farm: he Is learning
how to make more from the soil by the
proper knowledge OF the soil; he is learning
how TO grow greater crops by a better
knowledge Of each individual crop. He Is
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In CamaEuey.

Camaguey is one of the oldest cities Of
Cuba and the oldest and most picturesque
in all Spanish America. It was an Indian
village when Columbus landed, and a Span
ish settlement hundred years before the
Mayfower was crossing the ocean. For
generations IL has been one of the richest
cities of Cuba, and it's people are still ia
nous for thier wealth and good breeding.
The city now has about 5000. II is
spread over a great plain which is dotted
with palm trees and upon which Craze
thousands OF cattle. This is the great beef
country Of the island 1t had 100000 cat
tie before the war, and II has about 1000
900 today. In the past 1t supplied not only
Havana, but many OF the West Indies with
meat, and Its bulls were noted In the rings
of Barcelona and Madrid.
The houses OF Camaguey are almost all
of one stofy. They are made Of brick COW
cred with stucco, which is painted all
colors of the rainbow. One house may be
bright blue, the next red and a third yellow
or pink. The buildings are flush with the
sidewalks and the sidewalks are built with
regard to the houses rather than the whole
street Along one house the pavement will
be eighteen inches high. while in front OF
the next 1t will drop to a foot and the next
perhaps, to six inches. The pavements are
only eighteen inches wide, except where
the windows are built out over them, where
they are narrowed to one foot In walking
upon them one Is continually going up and
down steps, so that It is better to take the
cobblestone roadway. This, however, is
narrow and as all Camaguey drives at
great speed such travel is dangerous.
The houses are fiat rooted. thick walled,
with great doors and lattice work windows.
Many OF the windows have bars in front
of them so beautifully twisted that they
remind one of the lace work patterns I'm
the old buildings of India. other windows
are of wood carved and turned as in the
Moorish buildings OF India. Indeed. the
whole city has an oriental look. At times
I imagine myself in Granada or Madrid
again I am in Tunis and again in Egypt
Many of the windows are OF bow shape
all have shutters, but each shutter has a
peep hole a foot or more square out OF
which the girls can look without opening
the whole shutter.
Walking along the Camaguey streets one
Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-03

There is a great deal Of business done in
these Cuban cities. The stores are scat
tered. You find them mixed up with the
residences. They are oriental In style, many
being more like bazaars than stores. They
usually face the street. being scpa-
rated from 1t by doors. which are taken
away in the daytime so that everything is
open. The dry goods stores, for instance,
have walls shelved from top to bottom. The
ceilings are high and fancy patterns of
cloth are hung down from the roof to catch
the eyes of the passer by. The shelves are
filed with bright goods, as are also the
counters. The clerks are polite and study
to please. As rule the prices are as high
If not higher than in the United States.
In the grocery and vegetable stores onions
are sold in strings. and one sees them
hanging down from the roofs Oranges and
bananas are cheap and delicious as are all
kinds of tropical fruits. There are many
harness and saddler shops, as well as
hardware and furniture stores.
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can see the home life of the people through
the windows and doors. Everything IS open
and the people go on with their work or
play without mindng. Here, a family is
chatting or reading. There some girls are
sewing while farther on the children are
playing, sprawling about on the floor
Every one knows all about the houses OF
his neighbors. If Sonora Smith has new
suite of furniture Sonora Jones next door
is bound to see 1t, and If Sonora Jones
gives a party all her friends know it and
they have only to keep their eyes open
while walking the streets to count the
guests and know what they wear.
The people dress up for the evening dis
play. At that time poor and rich put on
their clean clothes and the windows are
filed with we'll clad people sitting and
chatting or looking out in the street. The
children have on their best clothes and
there are many little ones playing about
who would not seem out OF place on the
front steps of our White House.
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Cuban Cattle Ranches.

This is one of the best stock growing
provinces of Cuba. There are large ranches
scattered throughout Puerto Principe and
many big ones not far from Camaguey.
The grass grows luxuriantly in this part of
the island, and fortunes have been made in
the past selling cattle. During the revo-
luton and the wars which followed all
the Cuban cattle were killed, and within the
past few years Americans have been buy
ing cattle in Texas, Florida and other of
our southern states and shipping them to
Cuba. They have also been bringing in cat
tie from Venezuela, Mexico and elsewhere.
They are importing stock not only for
beef but also for breeding, and the result
is that an American cattle industry pro-
Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-03

- along the line or recuperauVe
agriculture We have used our explorers in
southern climes abroad to find new things
for our southern ATTITUDES, and have been
successful to a considerable extent. We
have also taken under consideration the re-
uuirements of our people who live in the
semi-arid parts of the United States, that
part which does not have rainfall enough
to grow such crops as are commonly found
east of the Tooth meridian of west longitude;
the result OF which work for these people
in a dry country has been the introduction
of many crops for their benefit, extending
our agricultural area well toward the
Rocky mountains; and It has also been
serviceable to the people between the Rocky
mountains and the Pacific coast. Our
latest attempt along these lines has been
a study of the requirements of our people
who live in the northern and western tiers
OF states.
The soil robber (the wheat grower who
has been found on our frontier for many
years back) has pushed his way westward
until he has reached the Pacific ocean. In
the northern states ne has grown wheat, in
many cases, until he cannot get a profitable
crop. He has resorted to summer fallow,
or to the growing OF a wheat crop one year
and blowing without any crop the next
year which has given the soil more time
10 elaborate more plant food Of mineral
Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-03
Money In stnck.

talked last night with Captain Cush-
man A Rice formerly connected with the
United States infantry, but who is now en-
gagged in stock farming near Camaguey.
He has several large ranches and is import
ing cattle from the United States and
breeding and fattening them for the Cuban
markets
proftably here than in North America.
They require but little care and no grain,
feeding out of doors the year round On
one Of Captain Rice's ranches two men
only are required to look after 1000 head of
stock, and 1 have heard others estimate
that one man could care for that number.
1 asked something as to the prices OF
Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-03
Love Through the Bars.

In most of our Spanish-American cities
there are two and three-story houses, and
the swell people live upstairs. They have
balconies extending out over the streets,
and when the young people make love the
girls stand in the balconies and look down
upon their lovers in the streets below.
There is no such counting as in the United
States, the young man being never left
alone with his sweetheart until they are
married. 1t is different in Camaguey, al
though the sexes are supposed to keep
quite as far apart before the wedding.
What separates them is the iron or lattice
for ornamentation, but also for the sake OF
work Of the windows. The lover stands on
the outside in the street and makes goo-goo
eyes at his mistress through the bars.
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misses to grow up here in the heart OF
Cuba
Many of the cattle bought are yearlings,
which will sell for double what they cost II
kept for twelve months. Others are brought
in to fatten and sell at orce, and others
still to be used as draft animals large
part of the farming of Cuba is done with
oxen. They are better than mules, as the
latter are towards in the mud and will not
work well with wet feet. The oxen will
pull anywhere and a good steer will bring
more money as an OK than for beef An
OK is valued according to his work. II he
will pillow and work In harness and has
what may be termed general purpose
qualities he is worth about $50 There are
OK teams which sell here readily for 500
apiece.
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character, but has not furnished the soil
with any of the plant food that comes from
the atmosphere. Summer following does
not add to the soil what 1t requires, and
that is a humus or decaying vegetation.
While the process of blowing will kill weeds
and give the soil time to elaborate mineral
plant food, 1t does not really improve the
soil. This is a practice that was common
in European countries for many years, but
has been discontinued for over half CEN
fury. In most of these countries they have
discovered crops that will grow in a system
of rotation and supply a plant food to the
soil-organic matter, humus, etc.
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studying to HeIp Farmers.

Studying to Help Farmers.
In studying the requirements of our
people living in our northern states the
question has come up as to what system
of agriculture might be adopted there to
bring their soils back to their primitive
wheat-growing strength, and at that place
in our study we are not prepared 10 advo-
cate any particular system of cropping, be-
cause we do not know what plants might
be successfully grown in North Dakota,
for example, in a system of rotation. We
have been pushing the alfalfa, and IT sue
ceeds in all parts of the United States
where the soil is at all adapted to 1t, and
our people are learning to grow it; but IL
is not well adapted to a short rotative sys-
tenn where it would have to be plowed up
at the end of three years for example.
In order TO ascertain what might be done
for that situation have sent explorers to
northern Norway, northern Sweden and
Finland, where people have lived for many
centuries and where the conditions are as
cold in winter as our northern states and
where they are as hot in the summer. 1
have sent our people there with instruc-
lions to particularly ascertain what legu-
minous plants are grown In the northern
part OF those countries. II there is clover
that stands the summer and stands the
winter up there and could be used in a sys-
TEN OF rotation in North Dakota, for ex-
ample, we want it for the North Dakota
people, for the Montana people, for the
Idaho people, for the Washington people
and for others. We did not rest content
with sending an explorer to bring us the
legumes, the grasses. the grains, the vege-
tables, the fruits, etc, OF northern Scan
dinavia, but we sent another explorer TO
the foothills Of the Himalaya mountains
a.. AaIo 81.
river and follows II up until he comes TO
its sources away up to the great mountain
range on the roof of the world" as II is
called. the original home of the peach
We want that peach, among other things
TO see IL We can infuse vigor into peaches
in some parts OF our country where they
have been showing delicacy; but particu-
larly We want him to find out among the
people who have lived there for centuries
what crops they grow. what legumes, par
ucularly. are suited to those high attitudes
that are cold in the winter and warm in
the summer; what grasses they grow up
there; what they use for pasture; what
they use for hay; what grains they grow
for their stock and what they grow for
themselves. We want their fruits, their
vegetables, and everything that is neces-
sary in their system OF agriculture, and we
want them for our people along the north
eTn border.
When these things are brought TO US We
will go into cooperation with the expert
ment stations and sub-stations, as the case
may be, in those northern commonwealth
and make a study of the sevarl things
that are brought all along the line. and
ascertain which are adapted to those con
ditions Of ours. so that the people who are
nearly at their wits end with regard to
growing what they have been growing
may get new ideas of farm management
and new plants with which TO adapt them
selves to a better system.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-03
Girls of CamaEuey.

1 like the girls of Camaguey. They are
the prettiest have seen In Cuba, although
it may be that they look better from be-
hind the bars. They have olive complex
ions. dark soulful eyes, luxuriant black
hair which they coil on the tops Of their
shapely heads and lips as red as ripe
cherries and I doubt not more delicious.
The thing do not like about them is their
use of face powders. They dust their COM
plexions with talcum or rice -four until
Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-03

have sold good grade cows, Shorthorns. and
Herefords, not thOroughbreds, for as high
as $50 apiece. cuba does not begin to supply
its own demand for cattle. and it probably
will not do 50 for the next six or seven
years
Indeed, know OF nothing in Cuba that
offers better opportunities just now than
stock raising. This is the ideal country for
cattle raising for one who has capital OF
from 5000 to $4,000 The stock requires
no grain and they can be reared more
cheaply than in any stock country in the
United States. Nearly all sorts OF cattle
do well, and 1 think it is safe to say that
so per cent of the COWS will drop a calf
each year. With good care and attention,
after acclimatisation, 5 per cent should
cover all the losses, including that OF the
calves"
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odd street Scenes.

Indeed, the street scenes of this city are
stranger than those of any town in Europe
north of the Alps Puerto Principe is the
land of the COW and the cowboy. Men, who
look as though they might have come from
the Argentine pampas, ride through the
streets on rugged ponies. Each has a ma
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Gossip and Stories About Noted People

("Here / am; here l stay'O, these words
made him famous all over the world. Yet
his friends said that the worthy soldier had
written them in the most matter-of-fact
manner, with no thought OF phrase making
The most surprised person over the success
of his epigram was MacMahon himself.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-03
Tales Of a Famoua soldier.

Many queer blunders are attributed to the
famous Marshal MacMahon OF France. It
is related Of him that once, when he visited
the military school OF ST, Cyr, he encount-
cred a negro cadet. The color OF his skin
at once attracted the worthy marshal who
said, with some surprise; "Vous etes negre,
n'est-ce pasG" "Oui. NJ le MarochaL" "Ah,
tres bien; continues de l'etre." This might
be rendered: "Ah, I see you are a negro"
Yes, NJ. lie Marechal" Here the marshal
paused. Not knowing what TO say, he
added; "Ah, that is well: continue TO be
So"
Another anecdote of the marshal is this:
A new consul had been appointed to repre-
sent France in San Francisco. He had called
on the marshal TO make his farewell bow.
Just as he was leaving the marshal said
TO him; "Oh, by the way. monsieur, the
governor general OF Tahiti is a great friend
OF mine. II YOU ever run down there from
San Francisco over Sunday say halo TO
him for me-" II takes about thirty days
for a steamer 20 sail from san Francisco
20 Tahiti
When MacMahon in the Crimean cam
paign took the Malakoff by storm and wrote
his celebrated dispatch, "J'y suis. ~ reste"