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TO DOUBLE AMERICAS
COTTON CROP.
more like the old upland cotton than it
Is like Egyptian or Sea Island.
L
Results of Patient Experiments by
Government Agrculturists.
GUY ELLIOTT MITCHELL
ro,,or Hing r,,,ons bv tnentof Agriculture

more like the old upland cotton than II
| 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 departments collection, and each
year rs 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 little
trouble and spend pre- "tically no
money at all, they will be abe to keep
up the improved strains so that in Il
few years the American cotton crop
will have been doubled in value with
out necessarily expanding by single
acre.
1t has been tedious work. and has
been carried on Systematically.
"Scorc cards" such as are used in
Judging ut 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 tirmnesS 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
the open field and not in the 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-
partmcnt in the work have been as
rule careful, enthusiastic and palms.
taking under the direction of the eX-
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 n
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
a strain may be improved in one To-
cality, and that by moving it to new
surroundings 1t shows little, II any,
improvement over the local type. This
error has been avoided with the new
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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-
quirements of each strain.
IF FARMERS WILL HELP.
The farmers at large can help great
ly in keeping up the work that has
been given practical start by the de-
partment. There are simple methods
of seed selection that will insure I
steady improvement in each successive
crop, and that will prevent the crops
from deterioratng. The selection Of
seed takes a 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 foll1w.
The cotton belt" so called, In the
United States Is clearly defined. Cot
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modelled because of these handy little

modelled because Of these handy little
machines.
1t is hard to find place to begin to
enumerate their advantages. In the
Item Of travelling to the creamery
there Is great saving. Where the
dairy owner has one Of these ma
chimes, he need not go to the cream
cry more than three times n week In
the warm weather and twice in a
week during the colder months.
When cream only instead OF the
whole milk Is delivered to the cream
cry, the item of hauling is reduced to
its lowest limits. Say ten cans Of milk
q day Is the product of given dairy.
Where hand separator Is used, haul
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With the cotton crop of the United
States reaching an annual value of
nearly $6OO,OOO,OOO it is easy to see
that the man who can make it worth
four or five cents n pound more to the
grower will put n 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 be grow
Ing a longer staple cotton worth on the
average of Az cents a pound more
than the present crop. OF course this
millenial condition Of things will not
be altogether realized. That there
will be a decided and general advance
n the value Of the crop as the result of
work already done by the Agricul-
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ORDINARY COTTON STAPLE.

ORDINARY COTTON 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 be raising thorough
bred stock, cats and chickens. which
cost no more to feed and rear than
scrubs, but everyone does not breed
thoroughbreds, whether they be dogs
or cows, and so it Is certainty that
when the average Of the cotton crop
Is vastly improved by the use Of
better seed there will be large num-
ber of planters who are sticking to the
old methods and complaining because
they find it hard to make a living.
SEVERAL NEW STRAINS.
1t is a 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 stra ins Of cotton that,
while having all the desirable qualities
of the old types, produce staple that
is almost a 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 fleecy
whiteness on black card, is striking
object lesson in the possibilities of
plant breeding.
The Department has been at the
work for some years, and in the course
Of its 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 as
new fixed types. The story of this
Improvement is long one. inter
spersed with many disappointments.
But the result now is success beyond
contradiction. Northerners, people
who live outside the cotton belt, do not
realize just what a 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 fve-siXths of
the cotton crop Of the Whole world.
and 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 a
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 '"ngth OF the
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and il the planters will cooperate with
the department to even a reasonable
degree the value Of the whole cotton
crop in the United States can be vastly
enhanced without planting 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.
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ton is planted over the whole of 1t 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 800 pounds to
the acre. What the department
would like is to see this yield doubled
in value and in quantity. The founda-
tion for this increase isnow firmly laid,
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fiber in q cotton boil means cent a
pound additional on the value Of the
crop. Now by careful breeding ana
selectiop the Department of Agricul-
ture has produced cotton that runs
from ree-auarters Of an inch to an
inch and a quarter longer than the
parent plants from which It was pro
6uced. This is not a freak growth,
sifher. It is an Improvement that has
ISyeioped into . fxed type, ana is no
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MISCELLANEOUS.

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The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1906-11-07
AS TO A K FAIR.

Quite a number of parishes
have held successful fairs this
fall. and it is their intention to
repeat them next fall. Lafayette
so far has neglected any enter
prise of this kind. but if other
parishes find that fairs bring re.
suits which justify their rep.
elton. certainly it ought to be
worth while for the people of
this city to go and do likewise.
The matter should be taken up
by the business men and a com.
mittee appointed to look after
the matter. Should it be de.
cided to undertake the fair,
plans and ARRANGEMENTS ought to
be made as early as possible and
energetic effort made to make it
a big success.
A town grows eby its citizens
doing things, and among the
things that help in more ways
than one is the holding of Parish
Fairs,
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1906-11-07
means much for the better gov
eminent of city and State.
$1.5O to $500 per day for s
hours work. Address Miss FL
len G.. Cain, DuSOn La.

The friendship existing between
Father Kelly and Rabbi Levi is proof
against differences in race and reli-
gion. Each is distinguished for his
learning, his eloquence. and his wit:
and they delight in chatting each
other. They were seated opposite
each other at a banquet where some
delicious roast ham was served and
Father Kelly made comments Il 'nn its
flavor. Presently he leaned forward
and in a voice that carried far. h" ad-
dressed his friend:
rabbi Levi, when IRE you going
to become liberal enoughto eat ham,"
Sat your wedding, Father Kelly"
retorted the rabbi.-Everybody's Mag
aZine.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1906-11-07
Pay Your Poll Tax.

Times DemOcrat.
Only a short time remains in
which the poll tax for this year
can be paid in time to admit the
debtor to the privilege of the
franchise. There is a general
election two years hence, in
which a President and Congress
and State and city officials are to
be elected. Those who wish to
participate in that election, which
will be one of the most important
ever held in this country. must
pay their poll tax before the ex-
piration of the present year. So
far the payments have been dis
appointing, although unusual eff
forts have been made to provide
conveniences for those who owe
the State and city this debt.
In the last municipal election
we saw many citizens disfran-
chised who desired to vote, but
who had not prepared themselves
for the franchise in the time stip-
ulated by law. Unless unusual
activity is shown by those who
have thus far delayed this duty,
there will be equally as many
who cannot vote in the coming,
: general election, important as it
will prove to city, State and ma
ton. The attention of the public
has been frequently called to the
matter, and the disfranchised
voter will have no one to blame
but himself if he is not permitted
to take part in one of the most
important campaigns known to
history. There are to be so many
questions of the first Importance
presented to the suffragists in
1908 that it is almost unthinka-
BILE that any man who can quail
ify himself as a voter should fail
to do so. Noone, indeed. intends
that he shall be disqualified, but
representation is apt to deprive
him of a privilege which he should
highly prize.
Pay your poll tax now, while
you have the matter still in mind,
and you may find two months
hence that you are entirely dis
qualified from lifting a voice in
the great campaign which is to
be fought against the trusts,
which will decide many impor-
tant matters now only being
vaguely discussed. and which
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1906-11-07
Cane Crop.

Louisiana Planter.
Although the first of November
has passed, the grinding season
has not yet been universally in
augurated, which is somewhat
out the ordinary and indicates
stongly the deficiency in the size
of the crop, the majority of our
factories recognizing that they
have less cane to grind than
usual and need not begin their
operations as soon as it has been
customary for them to do.
Some of the factories which be-
gan last week have discontinued
operations, as they find the cane
too green; others report a more
satisfactory condition of the juice
and the weather we have been
having is calculated to ripen the
cane very rapidly and we believe
that there will soon cease to be
any complaint on the score of
green cane, in fact some parties
report sweet cane, but short in
quantity.
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~ San FraNsiseo

by her husband. John Brazerol, and several
children. The pallbearers were James w.
Barley and William Webb of Anacostia
and Messrs Roth. Benrich, Ardiser and Lo-
cenJo of Washington. The interment was
made in St. Marys cemetery.
The special services held last week in the
Garden Memorial Presbyterian Church,
Minnesota avenue. have been discontinued.
Rev. George NJ. Cummings, the pastor last
evening opened the special meetings In
Groves Hall. Twiping City, which will be
continued tonight and Thursday
Monsignor Them of Wichita, Kan. de-
ivered the Lenten sermon last Sunday at
st. Theresa's Church, Washington and Fill
more streets. Anacostia
Miss ]. Ethel Finotti, the daughter OF Mr.
Frank NJ. Finotti. who has been a student
at the Polytechnic Hospital in New York
city. where she was recently taken III, will
reach home this week
Rev Charles o. Isaac, the pastor of the
Anacostia Methodist Episcopal Church, who
opened ms first term as one of the chaplains
10 the Government Hospital for the Insane
Sunday afternoon last, was greeted by a
large gathering.
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NEW PASTOR IN CHARGE.
Rev. John Weidly breaches at Church
of the Reformation.

Rev John Weidly, formerly pastor of the
Bethany Lutheran Church of Pittsburg,
Pa assumed the duties OF the pastorate of
the Church of the Reformation in this city
Sunday, and at the IL o'clock service
preached his first sermon before the con-
gregation.
ME-. Weidly is a native OF Hollidaysburg
Pa, and until he was twenty -one years of
age worked In a rolling mill. His acquisi-
ton OF an education did not commence until
after he was of age. He studied in a pre-
paratory school and then entered what Is
now the Susquehanna University, then
known as the Missionary Institute. Later
he graduated from the Pennsylvania Col
lege and the Lutheran Theological Semi
nary, both at Gettysburg, Pa. His first and
only pastorate until he came here was at
Bethany Church in Pittsburg, and he had
been there fifteen years when he resigned
Mr.. Weidly is man of middle age and
considerable experience in life. Washing
ton conditions are, of course, entirely new
to him, but he believes the field for re-
ligious work is ripe, and has high hopes
for the future of the Church of the Re
formation.
Il was delighted with the kind and
courteous reception given me yesterday by
the congregation of the church, he said
yesterday, land I shall certainly try to
do my very best work here in the center of
the universe"
In his sermon Sunday morning Mr.
Weidly preached upon the theme, 1.-The
Minister and His Work. from the text II
am determined to know nothing among YOU
save Jesus Christ and Him crucified" His
impression of what the real minister should
be was given at length. and he said he
based his conception of the gospel on the
Bible from Genesis to Revelations.
He emphasized the statement that the
church today has a distinct mssion-the
salvation and enlightenment of the entire
world and the teaching of the gospel of
Christ to those who are inclined to drift
toward worldly things
DIR. Weidiy. with his wife and little
daughter, twelve years old, will take up his
residence in a few days at 13S c street
southeast, about a square and one-half
from the Church of the Reformation. which
is near the corner of I'd and streets
southeast
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News Briefs.

Albert Sonnichsen correspondent Of
the New York Evening Post who disap-
peared from Sofa, Bulgaria, Recently un-
der such circumstances that it was feared
he had come to harm. has been heard from.
sensation was caused at Sioux Falls,
S. D., yesterday over the arrest of twenty
men and four women suspected Of COM
plicity in or knowing something of the
death of CHRISTOPHER Sven, a farmer,
whose home was near Humboldt. s. D.,
and who disappeared several weeks ago.
Joseph Jordan, the Patrick witness who
pleaded guilty to perjury, was sentenced
to one year and six months Imprisonment
at New York yesterday. Jordan had stated
that he had not been in prison In Texas,
and afterward admitted his statement to
be untrue
The case of George Hasty. charged with
the murder of Abbott Dawson and Milan
Bennett, two members Of a show company,
was given to the jury at Gaffney, 5. c.,
last night, after a comprehensive charge
by Judge Memminger.
Santa Fe passenger train No. /, west
bound, was wrecked by spreading rails
yesterday at Toltex, n. NJ. Eleven persons
were injured, several seriously. Five cars,
including one tourist car, left the rails.
J. A. Summers of Albuquerque may die.
The others injured were Mexicans.
w II. Macaffee assignee by Attorneys
Lowrey of Philadelphia and Tomlinson,
filed suit at Birmingham, Ala, yesterday
for s650o00 against the Atlanta and 8ir-
mingham Air Line division OF the sea-
board Air Line, for alleged work and labor
DONE and damages for alleged breach or
contract.
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day afternoon of Mrs. Maurice Kngsbury,
shler-ln-iaW OF the great English au-
tnor' Charles Klngsbury, at her home in
New Rochelle, n, Y. Miss Kaspar will
also visit Mrs. Francis Wilson wife OF
the comedian, before she returns To her
home here. She was fellow student in
Paris of Miss Wilson, the only daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Francis Wilson. who was
studying piona while Miss Kaspar was
studying singing Miss Wilson met her
fate there In NJ. Huard, a young Illus
traitor OF repute in France. and at Thanks
giving of this season she was married to
him at her fathers home In New York
Miss Elizabeth Tyler, the wel-kuown
contralto sooist I'm the choir OF the Fourth
Presbyterian Church. and formerly OF the
choir of St. Patrlck's and St Stephens
Catholic Churches, won additional honors
last week and was voted the best debater
in her class in the law school Of the George
Washington University. She was one of the
debaters on the affirmative side Of the
question of congressional action on railroad
rates. and she made splendid argument.
which not only won her the contest but
gained the admiration of all who heard
her. Miss Tyler has hitherto been known
only as musician of much ability. She Is
a member of the class OF 1908. and has
been made president OF the class. still
further distinction. A knowledge of Miss
Tyler's attachments helps to dispel the IL
fusion that musicians know nothing but
music.
AIR. Josef Kaspar spent last Sunday at his
country place near Bluemont, Va. He will
sail on June for Europe. and with Mrs.
kaspar will spend the summer abroad.
They will go first to Naples and will be
joined in southern Europe later by their
young son, Henry Kaspar, who has been
in Berlin for several years studying piano
under the leading masters there They
will travel for several months, and Will
visit the former home of Mr.. Kaspar at
Prague. He was, youth concert mas
ter of the orchestra of the Prague Consery.
atory of Music, where he received his mus
steal education. He and Mrs Kaspar first
met in a concert company of which sho
the prima donna, after several years
study abroad, and at the end of the first
season they were married and came shortly
afterward to Washington, where they have
made their home, and where they have
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FUNERAL OF DR.. eILLILAND.
After Services Remains Were Inferred
in GIenwood.

The funeral OF the late DR.. o. c. Gilliland
was held yesterday at the residence of his
parents, GIG 18th street northeast. Among
those who attended were representatives
Of the Department Of Commerce and La
Dor, the pension bureau. the Maccabees and
the Modern Woodmen OF America
Rev. G. c. Bacon Of Douglas Memorial
Church ofiiciated. The Maccabees read
their burial service at the grave. The in
terment was In GlenwoOd cemetery. Many
beautiful floral offerings were received.
DIR. Gilhand was born near Beaver. Ohio
December %, 1869. His parents removed
60 Illinois In 1871. and he was a legal resi-
death. He was always student. even in
HIS childhood. When only fifteen years of
age DIR. Gilliland received a certificate and
began teaching school. He pursued this
calling until 1891. when he was appointed
TO clerkship In the Department of Com
merce and Labor. this city His health de-
clined from January /, 1905, as the result
OF an attack Of the grip, which affected his
lungs. In October last he went To Ten
nessee TO investigate the coal strikes for
the department and while in Knoxville he
contracted n cold which resulted in a very
severe attack of pneumonia DR. Gillland
rallied from this sufficiently to permit his
removal TO this city January 10 last. but
he was constantly confined to his he'd
The deceased was held IN high esteem
He was noted for his thorough accurate
and conscientious work. He was a gradu-
ate of Columbia Medical School. class of
1894, and was proficient French scholar.