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The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-29
DISK rLow DRAWN BY rRAcrIoN ENGINE.
because of these handy little | eve

every one of these projects there is an
excellent opportunity for the use of
powerful traction engines, accom-
panied by gang plows and harrows.
These engines could be purchased and
managed by a number of settlers or
they could be operated by one man
who would contract to do the work.
Up in the Northwest Territories
Michigan man is preparing to intro
duCs this method of custom blowing
and cultivating. He is building a pillow
which will turn nine burrows, each
fourteen inches wide, and with a trac-
ton engine which he has designed
Will pillow 33 acres per day. He has
already contracted for 2,700 acres at
So per acre for blowing, and expects
to close arrangements for a much
larger area.
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HOW TO HOLD A POSITION.
Courtesy, Promptness, Loyalty and
Hard Work Are Keys to Success in
BY II. j. HAPGOOD.
President of Hapgoods.

President of Hapgoods.
How to hold position? Do just as
little work as you possibly can: take
no interest in the business; curse the
injustice of your employers when you
see younger men advanced over your
head. By following these rules you
may hold a position ten years, but the
salary paid you and the responsibility
placed upon you will be little If any
greater than when you started.
But by holding n position we mean
something broader and better than
this. We mean constantly increasing
your employers satisfaction. steadily
developing higher ability and surely
advancing to larger and greater re-
sponsibility.
My subject is then really success
in business" and this, like success of
any kind, is ''untaught and unteach-
able" There are, however. certain
valuable hints to be gained by study
ing the careers of men who have sue
ceeded. Although the paths by which
these men have won success are wide
ly different. there are certain features
which stand out prominently in all of
them. These 1 believe to be the es-
sentials for business success-prompt
ness, courtesy, loyalty, hard work.
Promptness is the key note in this
age of hustle. Opportunity waits for
nobody, and the man who is always
little behind time is playing a losing
game. always there with the goods
| is one of the highest tributes that can
be paid modern business man.
Having the goods is the first con-
sideration. but this will avail little If
you are not always there with them
| when wanted.
In this connection good story is
| told of Philip ID. Armour and Il young
man who had just begun work for
| him, When on the first morning the
young man reached the office at 0
| O'Clock. he found his employer al
ready there at work. The next MORN
ing at $50 and the following morning
at s o'clock it was the same. At last,
determined for once to be there first,
the new clerk was there at Z o'clock.
When he walked into the office Mr..
Armour looked up from his desk and
grimly inquired: Young man, where
do you spend your forenoonsf"
Business hours are not usually as
long as Mr.. Armour made them, but
whatever they are they are rigidly OBJ
served. Five or ten minutes in the
morning, trivial as it may be itself. is
a pretty sure indication of the degree
of promptness you VIII show in more
important matters.
II know of no Investment more GER
tain to pay large dividends than
courtesy" said successful business
man the other day, and he spoke the
truth. In the nerve-racking, endless
rush of affairs, there is nothing which
leaves stronger impression than a
pleasant word or kind act, especially
il it be something most men over
look. Business courtesy is largely q
matter of habit and is one of the
habits we can afford to cultivate.
|, In the army and navy loyalty is ar
essential for success and it is no less
SO in the business world. Enthusiasm
and loyalty go hand in hand; mar
cannot be really interested in his worl
unless he has an employer to whom
he is loyal. There are many brighter
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-29
more like the old upland cotton than it
is like Egyptian or Sea Island.
SEEDS OF NEW TYPES

is like Egyptian or Sea Island.
SEEDS OF NEW TYPES.
The parent types from which it has
been evolved are listed and carded in
the department collection, and each
year as the fresh crops come in from
the improved fields their output is
carded for comparison. These new
types have now reached point where
the department feels justified in send
ing out the new seed TO the farmers.
And if the farmers will take a little
trouble and spend PR ideally no
money at all. they will be abe to keep
up the improved strains so that in a
few years the American cotton crop
will have been doubled in value with
out necessarily expanding by a single
acre.
1t has been tedious work. and has
been carried on Systematically.
"Score cards" such as are used in
judging Mt stock shows are kept. The
records of the individual plants are
known, the shape and opening quail
ties of the boil, the date of maturing,
the length and firmness of the cotton
fiber and the degree to which the
parent plant may be depended upon to
transmit its desirable qualities to its
progeny. The work has been done in
inc open Htll ana uOl III lle care
fully tended plots of the experiment
stations. Thousands of plants have
been destroyed each year, and only
the best types Kept. These have
again been weeded out the following
year, and only the best of the breed
have been kept. The farmers who
have been cooperating with the de-
partment in the work have been as a
rule careful, enthusiastic and pains
taking under the direction Of the eS-
perts sent into the field by the depart
ment, and slowly but surely the length
of the staple and other desirable quail
ties in the new cotton have increased,
till the department now feels it has a
new and fixed type that can be de
pended on to perpetuate its desirable
qualities.
one thing that has been carefully
observed is to keep growing the new
types on the ground where they will
be cultivated commercially. There
are several new strains adapted to
slightly different conditions of soil
and climate. 1t has been found In
the case of wheat, for example, that
strain may be improved in one To-
calty and that by moving it to new
surroundings it shows little, If any,
Improvement over the local type. This
error has been avoided with the new
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-29

1t has been only a few years since
the manufacturers OF separators
brought out hand machines with the
definite purposes of making them pop
ular and selling them in large num-
bers, says the Farmers Wife In O
well considered editorial. From that
time to this they have gained friends,
and now it is rare to hear anyone say
anything against them, and when this
does happen one may be sure it comes
from some person who has been in
jured by their use, and this is never
the man who provides.
The hand separator has SO many
advantages over the creamery sepa-
rator that the whole creamery BUSH
ness is being reyolutlonized and re-
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-29
UNITED STATES RECLAMATION.
Flowing by Cooperative Traction
Engines.
By c. J. Blanchard.

A million acres will be added to the
cultiYatable area of the country during
the next three years, under the various
government irrigation projects. Most
OF this acreage is raw land upon which
the pillow has never turned furrow.
Thousands Of new settlers will be To-
Gated there and for several years the
principal work will be clearing, level
ing, and blowing, to prepare the land
to receive the water.
Over vast stretches the sage brush
is the only vegetation. In other places
the bunch grass makes a tough sod.
unfolding and hard to break. The
subiugation to agriculture of this new
empire has attracted the attention of
the manufacturers of implements and
machinery. They see in this work a
virgin field for the products of their
factories. AS most of the settlers 60
ing upon this land are not in af-
fluent circumstances, and as feed for
stock will be scarce and costly, any
Or position which will eliminate the
necessity for the purchase of horses.
plOws and forage will naturally prove
interesting.
1t has occurred to the writer that In
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-29
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COTTON PLANT IMPROVED BY SELECTION.

cotton, and the department not only
knows the seed that will give best
results. but the condition of soil and
climate that are best suited to the re
quiremcnts of each strain.
If FARMERS WILL HELP.
The farmers at large can help great
ly in keeping up the work that has
been given Il practical start by the de
partment. There are simple methods
of seed selection that will insure
steady improvement in each successive
crop. and that will prevent the crops
from deteriorating. The selection OF
seed takes little care and intelli-
gence, but it is not deeply abstruse
work, and the department has reduced
it to simple directions that are easy
for any planter to follow.
The cotton belt" so called, in the
United States is clearly defined. Cot
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-29

oIAblNAh1 tollo STAPLE.
SELECTED AND IMPROVED COTTON.
tural Department is certain. But there
are always the factors OF ignorance,
Indifference and prejudice to be
reckoned with, and that will hold
down the grand total Of the advance.
This is human nature. Otherwise
every one would he raising thorough
bred stock, cats and chickens, which
cost no more to feed and rear than
scrubs, but everyone does not breed
thOrOughbrcds, whether they be dogs
or cows, and SO 1t is Il certainty that
when the average Of the cotton crop
is vastly improved by the use OF
better seed there will be large num-
Der of planters who are sticking to the
old methods and complaining because
they find ii hard to make living.
SEVERAL NEW STRAINS.
1t is fact, however, that the De
partment of Agriculture has, by several
years of persistent work, bred from the
old varieties OF cotton raised in the
south several new strains of cotton that,
while having all the desirable qualities
of the old types, produce a staple that
Is almost n half longer. 1t is just one
branch of the general industry of plant
breeding, and the result, as shown by
the cotton itself combed out in heecy
Wilderness on black card, is 4 striking
object lesson in the possibilities of
plant breeding.
The Department has been at the
work for some years. and in the course
OF it's experiments has handled thou
sands of samples and hundreds Of
thousands of individual plants in max
ing the selections that are now con
sidered good enough to be sent out rs
new fixed types. The story of this
Improvement is long one, inter
spersed with many disappointmcnts.
But the result now is success beyond
contradiction. Northerners, people
who live outside the cotton belt, do not
realize just what long staple cotton
grown on the uplands means. Cotton
is our principal export crop. 1t is the
second most valuable crop grown in
the United States, corn coming first.
1t is the principal crop of ten states,
and in large areas of these states it Is
almost the only crop grown. The
United States furnishes tive-siSths of
the cotton crop of the whole world,
md while there are great areas, espe-
cially in Africa, that are adaptable to
cotton, there is no prospect that the
United States will be overtaken as q
producer for many years to come,
The worlds consumption of cotton and
the consequent demand are increasing
steadily, so that there is little prospect
of over-production. All these things
are in our favor. Then comes the
question of improving this great crop
Outsiders do not realize that an
eighth Of an inch on the 'angth of the
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-29

ing is reduced from taking the ten
cans to the creamery every day to
taking two cans of cream every other
day, or three cans twice week.
The hand separator allows the
dairyman to feed the skim milk 10
calves or pigs within few minutes
of the time it is drawn from the udder
and before the natural animal heat
leaves it. This saves warming the
milk and allows its use when it is per
fectly sweet and fresh.
The hand separator saves hauling
skim milk from the creamery to the
farm, and it also saves the dairyman
from the risk of getting milk from dis
eased cows to feed to his young stock.
This is not great risk, to be sure
but 1t is worth considering. Tuher-
culous cows are frequently found IN
this country, and probably there IS
hardly a creamery among the patrons
of which no cows suffering from
this disease could be found. If the
| dairyman is sure of his own COWS,
the hand separator saves him from
the risk of getting tuberculous milk
from the mixture in the milk vat at
the creamery, from which he gets his
skim milk when he delivers the whole
milk.
The saving in work Is large Item.
Instead of ten cans to care for ana
keep clean and free from germs, there
are only two. This saves labor and
the Investment of money in utensils.
At the low price at which hand sepa-
rators are sold. one will pay for itself
time and again before 1t wears out,
on the various items Of economy men
toned above.
There is another item. The hand
Iseparator Is rapidly bringing about
the Capitalization of the creamery In
Idustry. Cream gathered from hand
lseparators is now transported as fai
as 200 miles to the central creamery
and here 1t Is made into butter al
much less cost than would be possible
in the local creamery with limited
field in which to operate. This allows
the creamery to pay better price fol
butter fat and gives the dairymar
more money from his cows.
The man who keeps as few as five
cows will find it to his advantage tt
} buy hand separator, especially il he
/ makes butter on the farm. for in suct
case the saving in work is muct
greater than where a creamery takes
the cream.
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-29
TO DOUBLE AMERICAS
COTTON CROP.
Startling Results of Patient Experiments by
Government Agriculturists
GUY ELLIOTT MITCHELL
recruitment OF Agriculture.


With the cotton crop of the United
States reaching an annual value OF
nearly S600,oOO00O it is easy to see
that the man who can make it worth
four or five cents pound more to the
grower will put a few dollars Of
spending money into the pockets OF
the southern planters.
This Improvement of the crop has
been realized, and there is no reason
why in ten years from now the whole
OF the cotton belt should not he grow
ing longer staple cotton worth on the
average of Az cents a pound more
than the present crop. OF course this
millenlal condition of things will not
be altogether realized. That there
will be a decided and general advance
in the value Of the crop as the result of
work already done by the Agricul-
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-29

modelled because of these handy little
machines.
1t is hard to find a place to begin to
enumerate their advantages. In the
item of travelling to the creamery
there is a great saving. Where the
dairy owner has one of these ma
chimes, he need not 90 to the cream
cry more than three times week In
the warm weather and twice in q
week during the colder months.
When cream only instead of the
whole milk is delivered 10 the cream
cry, the item of hauling is reduced to
its lowest limits. Say ten cans of milk
a day is the product of given dairy.
Where a hand separator is used, haul
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-29
LOADING COTTON AT SAVANNAH.

ton is planted over the whole of it so
that there is no large addition of range
to the plant likely. 1t is true that the
acreage within the belt could possibly
be doubled, but that is not the thing
the department is after. Good cotton
land now yields 400 to 500 pounds to
the acre. What the department
would like is to see this yield doubled
in value and in quantity. The foundn-
ton for this increase isl firmly laid,
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-29

and If the planters will cooperate with
the department to even reasonable
degree the value of the whole cotton
crop in the United States can be vastly
enhanced without planting a single
additional acre, and there will still be
enough land available in the cotton
belt to assure the United States Of its
supremacy in the cotton world for
many years to come.
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-29

fiber in a cotton boil means a cent a
pound additional on the value of the
crop. Now by careful breeding and
selection the Department of Aericul-
ture has produced cotton that runs
from three-quarters of an inch to an
inch and quarter longer than the
parent plants from which it was pro-
duced. This Is not freak growth,
either. 1t is an improvement that has
developed into fixed type, and is no
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-29
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Bisbee daily review., 1906-09-22
pAoE THREn

DOUGLAS. Sept. 21.-(Special1 1--
 Levi Perry. riding bicycle. ran into . buggy driven by Mrs Adolph Born this morning near the Copper Queen shelter The horse became frightened and ran away. Mr- Perry was considerably bruised and his bi- cycle was ruined. The runaway horse was stopped at the fence around the residence of Alex Adamson before ser ious damage was done either to the buggy or it's occupant.
 The collision of the bicycle and buggy occurred at the bridge across the ditch which runs just west of the general onice. Mrs. Born had driven her husband to the smelter where he is a foreman and was returning home. Mir. Perry was going to his work on his bicycle. As MT. Perry approached the bridge which is a narrow one. Mrs Born turned her horse to one side and the bicycle went between the wheels There was a crash which scared the horse, causing 1t to run, carrying the buggy over Perry and his bicycle Ar ter crossing the ditch the horse ran across the flat, but some men who saw the start succeeded in turning the frightened animal into the fence of Alex Adamson before any harm was done to the buggy or to Mrs. Born-
 MT. Perry was stunned by the blow which he received when the buggy passed over him, but he soon recoy- cred. He received several bruises, but they were not of serious char acter. The bicycle was a complete wreck. however
Bisbee daily review., 1906-09-22
Brief Civ News
PERSONAL MENTION.
HHH>A~ . . . . >> .

George Toles left on the evening tram for a visit to his old homs in Michigan. after an absence Of twenty five years. Toles expects to visit many of his relatives. and hoyhood friends before returning to the terri tory. 4
 w. w. Foley, who has been in charge of the Copper Queen warehouse, left the city yesterday to accept posi- ton at Kelvin.
 Mrs. c. E. Montgomery. of Naco, spent yesterday in the city, returning 10 her home in the border town last evening.
 Bert Gemchle left on the afternoon train for Hereford. from which point he wih travel overland through the Huachucas-
 General Manager Walter Douglas returned to the city yesterday morning in his private car s'Nacozari." Mr. Douglas has spent the past few days at Fl Paso on railroad business.
 Lew Hepner was passenger on the outbound train lest evening for Colo rado Springs, where he expects to spend the next few weeks.
 Mrs. D. James Hogan, and daugh- ter, Ethel, left the city last evening for Butte. Montana, where they will visit relatives.
 J. Sturgih was a passenger on the outbound train for Colorado Springs.
 Miss Josie Moore arrived in the city last evening from Cananea. and will spend the next few days in Bisbee.
 Superintendent L. U. Morris, of the L. P. & s. w. system, arrived in the city last evening.
 Albert Geisenhofer, nephew of the proprietor of the Edelweiss Cafe, left the city on the afternoon train. re- turning to his home in San Francisco.
Bisbee daily review., 1906-09-22

Hard Luck For Jamaiean.-The Ja- maican negro. Frederick Henry. whose story about Mexioan revolutionary meetings and plans told City Marshal Stambaugh caused an activity among the officers which culminated in the against Mexico. for his trouble is in jail The reason of his being held is to 'cinch" him as a witness before the federal grand jury. He is under bond in the sum of $250, but has not been able to furnish it. While in jail he is allowed q a day. Looks like pretty hard luck for a fellow who did the right thing.
Bisbee daily review., 1906-09-22

Thief at Corona House.-Mr. and Mrs. A. NJ. Corona awoke the other morning to find. when the hour of pr.paring breakfast arrived. that a nifty thief had beat them to the good things in the family larder that had been reserved for the morning meal. Among the articles missing were a basket of tomatoes, jar of cream and a nice piece of juicy meat upon which Mir. Corona had looked the night be fore with watery mouth. The thief forced his way into the house through the screen door at the rear.