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The San Francisco call., 1905-06-18
EVEN GRASSHOPPERS
RIDE IN AUTOMOBILES
Destructive Pests Cling to
Vehicles in Three North
ern Counties.

MARYSVILLE. June 17.-Grasshop-
pers are so numerous IN Sutter. Butte
and Yuba counties that they cling to
the buggies, wagons and even automo-
biles and bicycles passing along the
roads. The insects are destroying
everything green IN the infected dis
tricts, attacking even the orange
groves. In some places green almonds
on the trees have been eaten. The
damage will be severe
Steps are being taken under the di-
rectfon OF the department of agricuI-
ture to prevent general devastation.
The San Francisco call., 1905-06-18
suspected of burglary.

William Sumner. a colored man. was
arrested Yesterday by Detectives Con-
Ion and MCGOWAN. He is suspected OF
having broken into house at lie
Jackson street on Friday and stolen
some clothing.
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SENTENCE OF A MURDERER
COMMITTED BY GOVERNOR
Pardee Releases Prisoner ON Petition
of Judge Before Whom He
Was Tried.

SACRAMENTO, June i7.-Governor
Pardee to-day commuted the sentence
of Albert l. Williams. convicted of
murder in the Iirst degree in Merced
County in December, 1888. and stetenced
to life Imprisonment at San Quentin.
Judge c.. II. Marks. who tried the case,
and a majority OF the jurors signed the
petition for commutation.
The San Francisco call., 1905-06-18

George 8. Elgood. an English artist.
is said TO be the greatest living paint
er Of gardens.
The San Francisco call., 1905-06-18
OF NoTRE DAME.

SAN JOSE, CAL, Exclusively for boarding
students Fiffy-fourth year Courses: Class
icaI Literary, Scientific, Conservatory, College
preparstory accredited intermediate and Pri-
mary Classes. Studies resumed Thursday. Au-
gust II 1905.
The San Francisco call., 1905-06-18

New South Wales Is overrun with
mice. In one store In the town OF
Merrion the other day 10000 were
caught.
The San Francisco call., 1905-06-18

Miss Owen of Warwick. England,
who is 90 years old, has been teaching
Sunday school for eighty years.
The San Francisco call., 1905-06-18
First Apricot Shipment.

WINTERS. June 1.-THE first car
load of California apricots for this sea-
son was shipped to Chicago to-day by
the Winters Dried Fruit Company.
The San Francisco call., 1905-06-18
PALO ALTO ACADEMY

One-ouarter nile from Stanford University.
T-horough preparation for college or business
noderate terms Exceptional advantages
write for catalogue MAYNARD SHIPLEY,
e,,nerinrendenf.
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HARKERHUGHES SCHOOL

FOR GIRLS AT PALO ALTO.
College preparatory. Pleasant home life.
Music education under q pupil OF Calvin 3.
Cscy Accredited Vsssar and Wellesley.
opens August q. 1905 II2l Bryant Street.
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Your baggage may be transferred
both going on your vacation and re-
turning for so cents round trip at s F.
Transfer Co., lis Ellis street. Tel
Main sos
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ST. MATHEWS MILITARY SCHOOL

SAN MATEO. CAL.
For Catalogue and illustrated Circular Address
REV. WILLIAM A. BREWER. A. B.,
Rector and Head Master.
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DIXON COLLEGE. Oakland, CAL
EDUCATE FOR PROFIT" Specialists In
Gregg Shorthand. Touch Tying. Bookkeeping.
PenTnanefip and Preparatory Studies Life
echolarsbsn $50: six months $50; month.
SO Individual instruction; day and night.
Write for proepectue.
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FRESNO'S STUDENTS VISIT
THE CITY OF SANTA CRUZ
Guests of Pupils of Business College
In the Beautiful City by
Sen

SANTA CRUZ. June 1.-THE inter-
collegiate gathering of the Chestnut
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27ei CLAIMING WAY. For girls. Univer-
ssfy preparation and academic courses 1s:r
SIC art elocutlon Location beautiful -c5x-
door life athletics 26th year. For catalogue
address MRS EDNA SMELL POULSON or
Mss MARY z. SHELL. principals.
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rrIf Pam. GERSnN sCHooI. or

THE PAUL GERSON SCHOOL OF
ACTING-The largest institution devot-
&c exclusively 70 dramatic learning IN Amer
ica- POSITIONS GUARANTEED. Pupils
nay enter any time. Send for catalogue Ma
tive eons building
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Hitchcock Military Academy
SAN RAFAEL.
Christmas term will commence August I5

HIIIINI sTAAfMER? The Melbourne schools
lEIIIV OF s. +. will and perrna nently:
tNl - close Individual attention, no class
"II work Don't waste time money,
HH faith. Don't be nisleo by false tes-
~ ~ tirnoniele. Write or call az school,
ee3 Narket,S-F-, next TO Hale Bros.
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s. MARGARBT'S HALL

Full Academic and College Preparatory
Courses as well as thorough Primary 1nstruc-
ton Nuefc under the direction of Masters.
Fer full illustrated book address Miss ELEA-
NOR TEBBETTS. Principal, San Mateo. Cal
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Our now catalogue is tho hand
somest ever issued on tho Pacific
Coast. IF interested send for
one.
The San Francisco call., 1905-06-18
Sosciai THIS Week

siASc0, the English cleaner for
white shoes. wrapped in paosr 100,
in tin 6cxss. with sponge zoo
The San Francisco call., 1905-06-18
AOUKT TlHlLPMs HILLARY ACADEMY,

eAN RAFAEL CAL
School Year Begins August 16th.
Junior School Separate.
ARTHUR CROSBY. D. D.. Head Master.
The Lamar register., 1905-12-20
Can't Corner Chemistry.

AS is well known there
are two great fertilizer trusts
having their main offices on the
Atlantic seaboard. These are busily
engaged in cornering all the fertil-
izer material they can and selling It
out at too high price. They are also
educating the farmers wherever they
can to buy complete fertilizers, be-
cause by so doing they can sell their
phosphorus for four times its value.
But the chemists in hundreds of col
leges are teaching that science to tens
of thousands of pupils and chemistry
in the end will destroy the fertilizer
trusts. The truths of chemistry can
not be cornered. They are the prop
erty of the world. Every farmer that
sends his sons to college and has them
take full course in chemistry is. in
the way to shake OF the power Of such
trusts as those controlling the bulk of
the fertilizer supply.
The Lamar register., 1905-12-20
Wealth in Corn Land.


Owners of good corn land are fi% d.
ing themselves well off on account OF
the great productiveness of such land
and the high price at which corn sells
and is likely TO sell. A good farmer
can grow fifty and more bushels OF
corn on an acre of land. A very good
farmer can grow 20 or so bushels per
acre. Some OF whom make even bet
ter records than this when the sea
son is favorable. The average crop
Of state is no criterion by which
to Judge the performances of our most
intelligent farmers. The average
crop of the United States. taking one
year with another, is in the neighbor-
hood of 25 bushels, though it varies
enormously, running down some years
to about l6 bushels and at other times
going up to about 2s bushels. The
average yield of corn in the state OF
Illinois. which lies mostly in the corn
belt. is all the way from 81 bushels
up to 40 bushels according to the
year. 1t must be kept in mind that
this average gives no hint as to what
our reading, studying farmers are ac-
complishing. When a man raises an
acre of corn and gets fifty bushels
and is able to sell 1t for s25 he has
made big profit on his operations.
That acre of corn has not cost more
than s13, and the s13 has paid him his
wages. The s12 is profit. If the acre
is worth 500, his profit is about IL
per cent in addition to legal interest.
for in the expense of s13 was in
cluded interest on his land, or rent if
the farm is a rented one.
Now for the point OF this article.
which is that the temptation is very
great, at this time of high prices for
corn, to make the land produce big
crops of corn and give it no food eth
er by direct application of fertilizers
or by process of rotation. The far
mer says: What, put that land into
clover for two years, while corn is
bringing 80 cents bushel!" Yet that
is what must be done on many of our
farms If the fertility is to be kept up.
The larger the crop of corn being ta-
ken of. the greater the amount of
phosphorus that is every year being
drawn from the soil and exported.
The loss of nitrogen and potassium is
considerable, but the losses of the Sc
elements are not SO great or serious
as the loss of phosphorus.
The farmer that is getting a big
profit of his corn land should care
fully conserve that land by giving it o
rest from corn growing during certain
years and putting some of his prof, 5
into phosphorus and other elements
If needed. The clover will get the
nitrogen from the air. Potassium is
cheap. even when the farmer has 10
buy it in commercial form.
The heritage in good corn land
should be saved for the coming gen.
erations. No man has a right to de.
stroy this heritage. 1t is only his fos
use. not for destruction. 1t is the
greatest patrimony that can be left to
the children.
The Lamar register., 1905-12-20

Good Qualities of Ben Davis Apples.
The Ben Davis. apple requires long
season to reach its proper develop
ment; that kind of season 1t finds
in Kentucky, where 1t originated. II
is not probable that the Ben Davis
apple as grown in Wisconsin will ever
be very popular. although 1t will be
long keeper. Another thing in favor
of the Ben Davis has been the fact
that the trees have been wonderfully
productive of fruit. 1t is a wonder in
the apple world because it produces
crop every year. Most varieties of
apples produce a good crop every 9TH
er year. but the Ben Davis produces
crop every year. That is why the
great commercial growers have been
planting out orchards when they had
to sell the fruit very much under the
price offered for some other varieties.
One man said: Il can make money
by selling the Ben Davis at 50 bar
rel. The Ben Davis is my money
maker. even at low price these yield
me a larger profit than any other var
iety | can grow" We have, added to
this, the fact that the Ben Davis tree
is not subject very largely to the at
tacks of fungous diseases. Another
great thing in favor of the Ben Davis
apple is one remarkable characteristic
relative to bruises. When a Ben
Davis apple is bruised it forms hard,
dry, sponge-like crust and this does
not develop into rot. Most other ap-
pies when they are bruised begin i'm
mediately to rot at the bruised places.
The bruised Ben Davis apple merely
dries up at the point where it is bruis-
ed. and no rot sets in.
The way that the Ben Davis apple
deteriorates in the latter part of the
winter is by becoming hard and of
dry sponge-like texture near the core
We believe that the Ben Davis apple is
destined TO be more extensively grown
even than at the present, and from
the Ben Davis apple many new varie-
ties are to be developed, which will
come to be known as the Ben Davis
group of apples. We have the begin.
ming of this in two apples already quite
prominent, the Black Ben Davis and
the Gano. The Gano has been deyel.
oped by selection from the Ben Davis
wood of a certain quality. There is a
dispute as to whether the Black Ben
Davis was developed By selecting Ben
Davis wood of a certain quality or by
planting the seeds from the Ben Davis
apple. But the two are so similar that
no one can doubt that Black Ben
Davis belongs at least to the Ben
Davis family.-Farmers Review.
The Lamar register., 1905-12-20
Soldiers True to the Flag.

Col. Joseph w. Kay, having been
elected National Commander of the
Union Veteran Legion at the National
Encampment of the order at Whining
ton. Del. in October last, resigned his
office as Colonel of Encampment No.
20, at its regular meeting, says the
New York Press. The lieutenant col
onel, Jabez Chalmers, was elected as
colonel to fill the vacancy. Major
Nathan Armour was elected lieutenant
colonel and Peter Dwyer was made
major. Major Dwyer was member
of the Eight regiment, United States
infantry, when war was declared, and
was surrendered by Gen. Twiggs, and
with the greater part of his regiment
was held as prisoner of war for many
months. To the credit of the United
States soldiers they remained loyal
to the Flag and to the Union. while
many of the commissioned officers.
who had been educated at West Point.
deserted the Flag and went over to
the Confederacy. The Union Veteran
Legion, as its name implies, is veter-
an organization, but no one Is eligible
to its membership unless he saw at
least two years or more of service or
was discharged for wounds.
The Lamar register., 1905-12-20
Locality and Fruit GROWING.

The longer l am in touch with hor-
tculture the more | am convinced
that locality has very much to do with
the success of certain varieties OF
fruit trees. Even when the locations
are separated by only hundred miles
or so, the difference is noticeable. |
believe that we too often condemn va
rieties because they have proved un-
successful IL certain localities, when
the same varieties would do well in
some other locality.
The soil has so much to do with
success or failure. but even when the
soils seem TO be Of the same texture
there is difference in experiences.
At coed many conventions that
have attended the question of varie-
ties has been brought up for discus.
sion. 1t is surprising to find what
differences of experiences can be re-
lated regarding the same fruit There
are some varieties. however, that are
of no use anywhere and should not be
planted. think this is true of many
of the new varieties. A new variety
gets the support of some of our hor-
ticulturists, who really believe at first
that it is going to be a good fruit.
Hortculturists are very sanguine peo-
pie anyway, and always look on the
bright side. 1t is therefore natural for
them to expect more of fruit than
is in it. The nurserymen take up the
growing of the variety and begin TO
put it on the market. Then it is found
that 1t is not SO good for many locali-
ties as 1t was for few. But the nur-
serymen naturally do not like to let go
of the enterprise till they have dis
posed of the supply of that variety
they have on hand.
Because variety proves usable in
one locality of state is no sign that
1t will prove usable in all localities Of
all states in the same latitude?-
Helen Jones, Calhoun Co., III.
The Lamar register., 1905-12-20
The Black Knot

Look over the trees fo- black knot.
The protuberances will be easily de-
tected this fall when the leaves have
fallen The knots are produced by
fungous growths and they will destroy
the plum trees If they are not attend
ed to in time. Many people can re-
member the first coming of the black
knot. which was an immigrant from
Europe. Our people did not under
stand the nature of the trouble and
permitted the disease to spread till
1t took whole orchards.
II but few knots have appeared on
tree cut them out and burn them.
II great many knots have appeared
on tree cut out the entire tree. pull
ing up as many roots as possible. Use
the larger portions for fire wood and
burn the branches. The black knot
affects cherry trees and will spread
TO them from the plum orchard
Probably all readers OF the Farm.
ers' Review know what black knot of
plums and cherries is. II there are
any that do not. it will be easy for
them to recognize it from the fact
that its presence is made known by
black excrescences on the limbs, the
blachness appearing only after the
kLots have hardened Some of them
are as large as walnuts.
The knots first appear as swollen
places on the twigs. AS the swelling
increases the bark cracks open longl-
tudinally. Within these cracks the
fungus produces spores and these are
blown about by the wind. They lodge
on bark and where 1t is tender sue.
coed in sending their roofing fla
ments and grow into masses. At first
the knobs are olive green and only
become black when they get old. Give
the orchards of plum and cherry trees
thorough going over this winter, and
If near wild plum or wild cherry trees
inspect them too. 1t may be the dis
ease is obtaining a foothold among
them.
The Lamar register., 1905-12-20
Clean Up the Farm.

This is good time of the year to
clear up any parts OF the farm which
may have grown up to brush or sec.
ond-growth stun. We have been work
ing for a number OF years on such &.
piece of land on the back end of our
farm. This once had been all cut off
clean and piece of wheat grown
there. But after that it had been per-
mitted to grow up to small saplings,
some of them five or six inches in
diameter. Along in the fall we wen.
at 1t, when other work did not press
and cut strip of this timber of. The
largest saplings were trimmed up for
wood, the brush piled neatly and burn
ed later when thoroughly seasoned
and the land left ready for pasture
We cut the brush of close to the
earth, and have now the satisfaction
of knowing that when chopped at this
season of the year, little If any
sprouts will come up to trouble US.
The white clover came in thickly
where We cut the brush off, and to-
day we have a number of acres of
splendid pasture, where a little while
before we had only a tangle of brush,
anu ITOm WQlCQ We
realized little or nothing in the way of
profit. Most farms have such places.
They do not yield a single cent of
value in their present condition, but
might be made to bring in a hand
some revenue If treated as l have
suggested. We have learned that fall
is the best time to cut such a piece
of brush. If cut later in winter the
sprouts will almost surely spring up
TO trouble you and compel you in the
course of few years to do the work
all over again. do not think the old
rule of doing these things in the old
of the moon in August amounts to
anything. The moon has no part in
that sort of business; but | do think
that when the sap is up in the top
and the branches are well matured,
the brush is far more apt to die than
when cut at any other season of the
year.-E. L. Vinvent in Farmers Re
view.
The Lamar register., 1905-12-20
Soldiers Lost Identity.

That story of lost identity" said
the Major. "on the part of a soldier
who served some years in the regu-
lar army did not strike me as being
necessarily untrue. There were not a
few strange cases OF the kind in the
civil war. We found in the hospital
at the close of the war and among
the released prisoners many men who
could not satisfactorily explain them
selves. Their personality had shifted
to such an extent that some of them
were sent to infirmaries and insane
asylums, and in later years to the
soldiers homes.
While We were stationed at Bridge
port, Ala, after the battle of Mission
ary Ridge. regiment of veterans
came down from Chattanooga with
several hundred prisoners en- route for
Camp Chase. Ohio. The guard was
to go through with the prisoners and
the boys were counting the trip as
good as furlough. When the col
umn of gray. fringed on either side
by line of blue, started across the
pontoon bridge to take the train wait
Ing on the other side. prisoners and
guards were in high spirits and there
wa1 . great deal of jollity.
The Lamar register., 1905-12-20
Greatest American Fowl.

. The turkey is regarded as the great
est American fowl. although turkeys
are not raised in such abundance as
are common hens. But the turkey ap-
pears to be distinctively an American
bird. 1t is associated with American
history from the time white men first
set foot on the continent More than
once the American settler in the depth
OF winter las been saved from starva-
tion By the focks of wild turkeys
roaming the woods. The feasts of the
pioneers were largely made possible
by the presence of wild turkeys. The
domestication of the turkey has been
the work of these same American
pioneers. We believe that the bust
ness of turkey raising is yet in its
infancy. There are now raised annu-
ally in this country about seven mil
lion turkeys. This compares poorly
with the 240 million chickens, but IL
must be remembered that one turkey
weighs as much as several chickens.
1t is probable that the seven million
turkeys represent as much meat as
would thirty million chickens.
The chief obstacle to the increased
production of turkey is the belief that
turkeys must have a large area over
which to roam If they are to live and
prosper. 1t is altogether probable that
the turkey can be raised in confne-
ment almost as easily as other kinds
of domestic fowls. The question is one
OF knowing how. Under existing con-
ditions i. is altogether probable that
the turkey in confinement is not care
fully enough fed to produce the same
results as are produced when the tur-
key roams the fields and woods and
hunts his own living. There is room
here both for study and expansion, and
the increase in price from year to
year is making the raising of turkeys
an important branch of farming.
The Lamar register., 1905-12-20
The Incubator.

The use of incubators in the hatch
ing of chickens is not new to the
world. For hundreds of years the
Chinese have been Matching chickens
artifcially and some of them make
business of that work. In Egypt also
Matching ovens" are common, and 1t
is probable that all the country be-
tween China and Egypt is the scene
of more or less work of this kind. 1t
is not improbable that the first men
that made incubators got their ideas
from these old countries. as men have
been journeying to those countries for
centuries. Some of the travellers must
have reported what they had seen.
The incubator. as We call It, is one
OF the greatest helps a farmer can
have in the raising of chickens. The
modern incubator is far superior TO
the oven of Egypt or the Matching
house" of the Chinaman. In those
leases the Matching is trade and the
small farmer cannot afford to go into
1T on a small scale. In this country
farmer can buy an incubator of any
size desired and start it in his cellar
o. his bedroom, as he likes. When
one comes to understand an incubator
1t will be liked better than the old set
ting hen. 1t never gets lousy. never
loses its temper and attacks other
broods, and never changes its mind
about incubating. 1t does not carry
hatch along for two weeks and then
forsake the eggs. Try an incubator.
-Estella Harper. Carroll Co.. H.. in
Farmers Review.
The Lamar register., 1905-12-20
A Caterpillar.

mayoral fancy-dress ball in a pro-
yincial town was held in the drill hall,
and veto was put on the admission
CT chaperons.
A fond mother presented herself at
the entrance to the building, and
clamoured for admittance. but man
in blue was obdurate.
You can't come in here. missus on
any account" he grunted.
Then came the plaintive appeal,
But l must go in, My child repre-
sents butterfly and she has forgot
ten her wings,"
To which retorted the custodian of
the law. We'll it can't be helped,
she'll have to go as caterpillar. -
Liverpool (Eng.) Mercury.
The Lamar register., 1905-12-20
Now 1 Lay Me.

(Found in the knapsack OF a soldier oil
the civil War after he had been slain In
hattisl
Near the campfire's Pickering light
In my blanket bed l lie.
Gaziag through the shades of night
And the twinkling stars on high:
Ger me spirits in the air
silent visils seem to keep
As ! breathe my childhood's prayer.
Now l lay me down to sleep
Sadly sings the whip-poor-
In the boughs of yonder tree;
Laughingly the dancing rill
Swells the midnight melody:
Foemen may be lurking near
In the canon dark and deep;
Low breathe in Jesus ear: .
y pray Thee. Lord, my soul to keep"
Mid those stars one face I see
One the Savior turned away
Mo osher. who in infancy
Taught my baby lips to pray;
Her sweet spirit hovers near
In this lonely mountain brake.
TAX. me to her. Savior dear. :. l
= / should die before / wake
Fai,ter grows the fickering light,
AZ each ember slowly dies.
Pl-intively the birds OF night
PHI the air with sad'ning cries;
Over me they seem to cry:
You may never more awake.
Low 1 lisp: 'If l should die. :,
pray Thee, Lord, my soul to take.
Now lay me down to sleep;
1 pray Thee. Lord. my soul to keep.
II should die before l wake.
Unidentified.