Middletown transcript., 1906-05-19
THE FARM, GARDEN AND DAIRY
Short Pungant Paragraphs Gathered Here
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Canada produces six barrels OF apples
gear for each family.
Cheap candies of all kinds are the pro
duct of glucose, degraded saccharint
conversion If the starch obtained from
corn.
Small farn,s are the rule i'll Japan, ano
every foot of land is put TO use. The far
mer who has more than ten acres is con-
sidered a monopolist.
Farmers bulletin No. 2$9 OH the corros
ion Of iron wire states that the life of a
steel nail is six years; OF iron wire twenty
to thirty years while that of steel is six to
ten On the basis of these figures iron
products are more economical then steel
at twice the price.
The hen won't set this year" was the
dolefu announcement made a few days
ago by well known local Illinois Central
railroad official to the Kankakee Gazette.
Out of several hundred CHECKERS he has
on his place not single one will set
though lie had tried them all. The trou-
bic, he said, was all due to the incubator.
"AlI the hens Ihave were Matched in incu-
bators. Having no real mother of their
own they have not the Matching instinct.
Then, too, in my opinion, the eggs laid
by incubator chickens do not possess the
fertility of the product OF hens that were
raised in the good old fashioned way"
Illinois is the banner apple state of the
union. This information will be sur
prise to apple growers generally, as the
opinion has been prevalent that it was
laggard in this direction. The produc-
ton by the leading states is as follows
Illinois 100000 bushels of apples and
IL, 100000 trees; Kansas, 5000, 900 BUSH
els of apples and 100000 trees Mis-
souri,, 100000 bushels of apples and TO-
OO6, 200 trees Michigan 100000 bushels
OF apples and 100000 trees Arkansas,
100000 bushels of apples and 100000
trees. When you have taken 200 bushels
of potatoes from your land you have re
moved two bushels of potash, one of th'
most valuable of plant foods.
GROWTH OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE IDEA
One needs only to read the resolution
recently sent out by the Industrial Ad
visory Committee of the General Fedora
tion of Women's Club to prove that be
lief in the advisability of granting th'
ballot to women is rapidly gaining ground
The General Federation is composed o
organizations OF women working alon!
all different lines of human activity il
which women are engaged, and the fac
that they are coming to realize the ne
cessity of the ballot in order to accom-
plish the greatest good shows most con
clusively that women do want the ballo
as soon as they begin to think and worl
outside their own home and that tn
movement is not going backward as som
would have us believe. The resolution
is as follows
WHEREAS, The number of wage-earnin
women and girls in the United States
now more than 100000 and is rapid,
increasing:
| WHEREAS, Wage workers who are dis
franchised are at serious disadvantag
in the industrial world, without the pro
lection and power that the ballot gives ::
WHEREAS, The American Federation 0
Labor has preceived this, and for man.
years has endorsed the eniranchisement Q
women as necessary step in their in
dustrial advancement:
THEREFORE, This Committee, standin
in an advisory capacity to the Genera
Federation in all matters relating to in
dustrial condition of women and children
urge upon the General and State Fedora
tions, and Women's Clubs affiliated will
them. the duty of equal suffrage 10
women, and the advisability of takin
such action in securing state laws an,
amending municipal charters as shoul'
give to the working women of the countr
the needed protection of the ballot.
Jane Adams.
Maud Nathan.
Mary Norton Kehew.
| Edith NJ Howes.
| Jean Hamilton.
Florence Kelley.