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Smyrna times., 1906-01-17
SELECTION OF SEED CORN.
weight of Kernel and Size of Germ
az AGectiasS Xfgor of Plant.


There has teca diversity of opin-
ion as to whether the vigor of a corn
plant is or is not governed in any way
by the weight of the kernel or the size
of the germ in the kernel from which
1t grows. AS a result of experiments
ON these points the following conclu-
slons are reported by the Maryland
experiment station:
FirSt.-EXperiments to determine if
the size of the kernels as determined
by the weight have any effect on the
vigor of the plant show:
(a) The heaviest grains do not nee
essarily have the best terminating
qualities.
90 Plants from the b aviest grains
attain the greatest height when sup
piled with moisture, but this need not
hold true in time of drought.
(c) Plants from the highest bred seed
hold their vigor better than others dur
ing drought.
I'D The heaviest grains do not nee
essarily revive most quickly after
moisture has been supplied succeeding
a drought
Second.-EXperiment to determine
the relation between the size of the
germ and the vigor of the resulting
plant show:
la) The terminating properties of
the kernels containing different sizes
of germs may be equal.
(b) As the plants grow older the
largest, hardest and most vigorous
plants come from the kernels with the
large germs.
(c) The plants from the kernels with
the largest germs withstand the
drought best
These experiments are also consider
ed as indicating that in the selection
OF seed corn the following points
she be observed:
First-That there is not only a grea-
difference "a the individuality of plants
coming from kernels fl ON differen
ears, but from kernels of the same ear
Second.-High breeding is of NOR,
Importance than weight or size O.
grain.
Third.-To insure a good stand anC
a large yield none but large germeC
kernels should be used.
Smyrna times., 1906-01-17

poultry house fixtures. Simply tack a
square of white cotton cloth on the out
side of the window, covering the space
occupied by the lower sash. The lower
sash can then be raised and trial made
of the cloth curtain. which let's the air
gradually flow in and out, with no
drafts Try this plan and see if the
stock does not do better in every way.
Smyrna times., 1906-01-17
FALL SOWING FOR OATS.
: Case Where This Departure From
Precedent Proves Valuable.


We have always been strong advo-
Gates OF fall blowing for oats. This is
not in accordance with the advice of
our best agricultural writer's and in
stitute lecturers. nearly ali of whom
recommended cover crops to prevent
the loss of fertility In this latitude,
however. snow usually forms a very
good covering Besides the ground,
usually stays frozen nearly ali the
time; hence it is quite safe to fail
pillow. as the freezing and snow pre-.
vent the teaching or waste of fertility.
Farther south where the ground is no;
frozen much and rains are heavy and
frequent. Il is a different proposition.
and fall plowing may not be advisable.
How to PlOw.
We piOw our fields in equally divided
lands. plowing out this time and Sin"
or. the other way, next time. thus keep
ing them comparatively level. We do
our deep plowing in the fall, so that the
winters freezing and springs thawing
will correct or tame the soil that has
been turned up for the first time. The
dead burrows are run out well. and all
water burrows are made so as to carry
all water off in the spring in a hurry
If there is no chance for the water to
stand stagnant there is not much dam
ger of the ground pudding and baking
where it is a little heavy.
This Means Early Sowing.
Land prepared in this way means a
week earlier sowing oats, and the early
sown oats are always the heaviest and
best and are less liable to be hurt by
the rust. 1t means an earlier harvest,
and if you wish to SOW the oat stubble
to wheat you can pillow the ground ear
lier and get better seed bed. We used
to be troubled by our fall plowed land
baking in the spring, but since we have
practiced letting the water off and got
our land full of clover roots and have
increased the humus by blowing under
so much clover and quit pasturing' our
farming land in and out of season, we
are not at all bothered in this way.-I.
n. CowGrey. Gratiot County, Mich, in
Ohio Farmer.
Smyrna times., 1906-01-17
The Unkindest Cut.

'Is it true that your father is so
angry with you that he even refuses
to speak to yoa?"
"Why, he won't recognize me at all.
He is so angry that the last time we
met he even cut my allowance. BAL
timore American.
Smyrna times., 1906-01-17
Cloth For GLASS In Poultry House

Cloth For Glass In Poultry House.
There is an increasing appreciation
of the fact that fowls need great
deal of pure air and an increasing tend
ency to substitute cloth for glass in the
windows of the poultry house.
An American Agriculturist writer
suggests an easy way, as outlined in
the accompanying sketch, to make trial
of this plan. with no great change of
Smyrna times., 1906-01-17
Her Version of 1t.

"But didn't you promise when we
were married that l should smoke in
the house whenever l pleased|'
Eyes, but you never please by smok-
ing in the house. You displease-me."
Smyrna times., 1906-01-17

1 have also seen the world and after
long experience have discovered that
ennui is our greatest enemy and remu
nerative labor our most lasting friend
-Justus Moser.
Smyrna times., 1906-01-17

vi that certain farm or tract Of land situated
in Murderkill Hundred Kent County and state
OF Delaware, adjoining lands of Cornelius Frear
and others and said 70 contain One Hundred and
Thlrty-five Acres Of land, be the same more or
less and being the same lands and premises
which Elihu A. Drake Jr.. and Elizabeth O., his
wife, by their deed of bargain and sale dated
April the fourth, A. d. 1868 and recorded In the
proper Office at Dover, granted and conveyed
unto the said Annie Matilda Barnard In fee as in
ana by the said deed relation being thereunto
had will more fully and at large appear. The
Improvements upon which are large dwelling
house, with back buildings aud porches attached,
barn, stables, carriage house and other outbuild-
ings. Apple, pear and peach orchards and other
small fruits. Also two tenant houses. Together
with all and singular the buildings, fixtures,
waters. ways, easements, improvements, privileges
and appurteIances to the said lands and pre-
misses and TO every Of them belonging or in any
wise appertaining and every part and parcel
thereof
Seized and taken in execution as the properly
Of DANIEL p. BARNARD and ANNIE Nj.
BARNARD, niortgagors. and will be sold by
EDWARD BAKER Sheriff.
Sheriis Office, Dover Del, January /, 1906.
Smyrna times., 1906-01-17
Watch and See.

A well known hOrseman describes a
fact in natural history which may not
be generally known. 1t is that all four
footed beasts in making the first move
ment in walking, running or any sort
of forward motion always employ the
left hind leg as a starter. Even a
child if put down on all tours and bid
den to advance in that. position will
make the first move with its left leg,
its hands at the time occupying the
place of an animals fore legs.
Smyrna times., 1906-01-17
A Grim Tragedy.

is daily enacted, in thousands of homes
as Death claims, in each one, another
victim of Consumption or Pneumonia.
But when Coughs and Colds are prop
erlv treated, the tragedy is averted.
F. G. Huntley, of Oaklandon, Ind,
writes: "My wife had the consumption
and three doctors gave her up. Finally
she took Dr.. Kings New Discovery for
Consumption, Coughs and Colds which
cured her, and to-day she is well aud
strong" 1t kills the germs of all di-
seases. One dose relieves. Guarau-
teen at soc and $1,00 by Benton n.
Weldon, druggist. Trial bottle free.
Smyrna times., 1906-01-17

SHERIFF'S SALE.
By virtue of a writ of Levari Fa cias to me
directed viii be exposed to sale by way of Public
Nendue, al the front door of the National Hotel
in the town of Camden, North Murderkill Hun
dred, Kent County and state of Delaware, on
Smyrna times., 1906-01-17
Wanted Idea s $ss !; . sals:

Protect your Ideas; they may bring you wealth.
Write JOHN wEDDERBURN e CO., Patent Attor-
neys Washington y. c.. for their Sl.S00 prize of1er
and list OF two hundred inventions wanted.
Smyrna times., 1906-01-17
TUESDAY.

The 2srd DAY OF JANUARY. A. D. 1906.
at 2 o'clock p. m, the following described real
estate to wit
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-07-20
Separations.

Why do we grieve mt separations?
Why do everlasting farewells chill our
hearts, and the fading away of lost
joys fill us with bitterness?
BE not the slave of words,' says
Carlyle. SIS not the distant, the dead,
while | love it and long for it and
mourn for it. here in the genuine sense,
as truly as the floor stand on?'
And are not all good experiences thus
forever n part of our lives? Can we
therefore regret or mourn any past joy,
any lost friend? Nothing is lost or gone
from us that we have the spirit and
capacity to appropriate and make our
W forever. 1t Is not the touch Of
body that makes presence. Have we
not all known times when presence in
the flesh brought no n%earness, and
again when the absent n seemed I'M
%speakably near in spirit? So not to be
within the actual physical sense, but
10 be able to appreciate and love the
spirit of another, Is the true association
and communion. Hence our friends
parted from them.
Further, in order to realize them
truly we need to be separated from
them in the flesh at times. Else we
shall grow to think them all body and
forget that dlviner. intangible, I'M
namable essence--the living spirit, the
real self.-Exchange.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-07-20
EAGLES IN BATTLE.
The Daring and skill of These Fierce
Birds of Prey.

B1rds or Frey.
Ornithologists are inclined to dis
courage the idea that eagles are in the
habit of attacking large animals, but
a contest witnessed by an observer dis
pels such a theory. The battle was
between an eagle and a stag.
The bird singled out from a herd one
particular buck, which it succeeded in
driving from the rest. 1t struck the
animal with its powerful wings. knock
ed it down and finally killed it. A still
more remarkable spectacle is well au-
thenticated. An eagle attacked q
fawn in the highlands of Scotland.
The cries of the little one were an
swered by it's dam. which sprang upon
the eagle and struck it repeatedly with
Its forefeet. Fawn, deer and eagle
rolled down a declivity, the bird was
dislodged from its hold and the fawn
rescued.
Many traditions are extant as to the
carrying off OF children by eagles. The
most recent case bearing close scru-
tiny is one which happened in South
Africa. A Boer farmer whose stock
had been harried by eagles lay in am
bush for the robbers and saw n of
them descend and carry off the FIVE
year-old child Of one of the Kafir serv-
ants. He shot the bird. which, with
the child still clutched in its grip, fell
into a thorn bush. The bird was dead,
but the child was little hurt.
Two eagles will stalk a covert in
concert. While II conceals itself the
other beats about the bushes with
great screaming, driving out its quarry
for the hidden eagle to swoop down
upon. An we more insidious method
has been observed. An eagle seeing a
sheep on the edge of Il precipice flew
at it, screaming shrilly and with force
full beat of wing hurled it into the val
ley below, where it could devour it at
its leisure. In the light of such rec
ords there is good reason for believing
the legend of the eagle dropping a tor
toise on the bald head of H1schylus,
the Greek poet, and so causing his
death.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-07-20
BRANDON.

Mrs. w. H. Williams of Rutland is
visiting Mrs. George Paramenter.
John Carbee of Greenfield. Mass. is
the guest of MIR. and Mrs. H. o. Lowell.
Miss Addie Wood has resigned her po-
sition with the Brandon steam laundry.
Rutherford H. Everest of the Burn
ham store is taking a two weeks vaca-
ton.
Miss Maud Wright OF C%larksville, n
V. is the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. M. 7.
Mead,
The little daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Center of Depot street is ill with
diphtheria.
Mrs. Virgil Thomas and two children
of New York have rented rooms at Mrs.
Stevens's OF River street.
Misses Margaret and Ruth Peck of
Concordia, Kan, are spending the sum-
mer with Mr.. and Mrs. G. H. Young.
Two batteries of United States field
artillery arrived here from Fort Ethan
Allen Saturday and went to Primes lot
where they camped over night, leaving
Sunday morning for Saratoga.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-07-20
BOOK ILLUMINATION.
An Early Example of the Artistic
Culture of he Ancients.


The underlying thought which has in
spired Illumination from its very be-
ginning is more interesting even than
the gorgeous pages which pass beyond
our power of appreciation and defy
our comprehension. To the ancients
he arcst gems in all the world were
the gems of thought. The book was
he tangible and visible expression of
mans intellect, worthy of the noblest
setting. Its covers might be made of
tables of beaten gold inlaid with pre-
cious jewels, its words might be writ
ten in minimum of rare brilliancy
brought from India or Spain or in
Byzantine ink made from pure orien-
tai gold upon parchment soft as velvet
made from the skins of still born kids.
while upon the ample margins could
be displayed miniatures and decora-
tons portraying the highest skill of the
great artists of the day.
The earliest example of illumination
is Il papyrus in the Louvre in Paris,
which contains paintings representing
funeral ceremonies executed in bright
'%colors, touched in it's high lights with
penciled gold. Although we find fire.
quent mention of some poem written
in gold, of soIse magnificent volume or
codex of coloredj vellum or some col
lection of miniatures or of some mag
niticent gift book decorated for prince
or church, yet this simple, imperfect
fragment at the Louvre is the sole
tangible evidence we have that so
obvious a form of artistic culture a
the art of illumination was known to
the long period of classical antiquity
or to the later luxuries of the life of
Athens and Corinth, of Pergamum and
Ephesus, of C%yzlcuus or Rhodes, SYRIA
cuse or Tarentum, of Sybaris, of Pom
peii and of Rome.
With the invention of printing the
demand for the illumination and the
scribe became gradually less, and final
ly by the end of the sixteenth century
illumination ceased to be an art. The
book as the developer of the people in
science and literature and in learning
generally had crowded out the book as
an object of art. 1t need not have
done this, perhaps. hut as a matter of
fact it did.-BostOn Transcript.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-07-20
WEST BRIDPoRT.

Farmers are busy putting in their hay.
Pratt Tyrrell of Ferrisburg was in
town Sunday.
Michael Cronan is to be a guest IN town
for two weeks.
Melvin Wilkinson was in Rutland on
business Friday.
A Whitehall steam tug passed this
point on her way for Rouses point last
Friday having in tow 40 canal boats
Hay is turning out a much larger crop
than was anticipated, about one third
more than last year and of a good quail
ty. Oats are coming on and will be a
large crop; barley is looking we'll; a fair
crop of corn is looked for in most sec
lions. Apples. in some sections are fair.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-07-20
Her Dilemma.

A Doniphan county woman who was
Ill and found herself in a trying posi-
ton explained her woe to a friend.
you see, my daughter Harriet mar
ried one of these homeypath doctors
and my daughter Kate an allypath. If
l .call the %homeypath my allypath
s%on-in-law and his wife will get mad.
an if I call my allypath son-in-law
then my homeypath son-in-law an his
wife will get mad, an If l go ahead an
get well without either of 'em then
they'll both be mad, so l don't see but
I've got to die outright."-Troy (Kan.)
Chief.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-07-20
EChOea.

Every one is familiar with the phe-
nomenon of echoes. In a cave in the
Pantheon the guide. by striking the
flap of his coat, makes Il noise equal to
a twelve round lannon's report. The
~singularity is noticed in a lesser de-
gree in the Mammoth cave in Ken
lucky. In the cave of Smellin, nea
Viborg, in Finland. a cat or dog thrown
in will make a screaming echo lasting
some miIutes.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-07-20

A person may not merit favor, as
that is only the claim of man, but he
can never demerit charity, for that Is
the command of G~od.-Sterne.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-10-25

lege. The agricultural school is the
support of the newspapers and the
public. 1t derives thousands of dollars
worth of free advertising that private
and UNCONVENTIONAL colleges must go
without or pay for. 1t Is the general
selection of most farmers as finish
ing place for the education of their
sons. When its students go to Il foot
ball game loaded with coin" and ac-
companied by plunging bettors, 1t de-
serves and may expect criticism.
The average patron of the ]. S. G. is
hard to convince that foot ball is a
necessary complement of college
education. His impressions are not
likely to be modified by public boast
fulness over the success of a gambling
contingent following the team with a
bushel of money. The friends of the
game will find no reinsurance in the
report that places foot ball on plane
with horse racing. There is no place
on the college athletic field for the
bookmaker's booth or the gambler with
a roll" They are scarcely part of a
liberal education and should be kicked
off the field No game can carry the
gamblers and stay straight. Not one
man in a thousand can gamble with
out crookedness. 1t is time that col
lege faculties asserted themselves to
put the gamesters or the game out of
business
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-10-25
The Strawpile
yield for the place will be a little ov
thirty five bushels to the acre

yield for the place will be little over
thirty five bushels to the acre.
Mules are used exclusively on the
ranch for draft purposes and there are
200 of them on the place. Adams be-
lieves in never straining an animal and
loads that some men would put on two
mules he will have double team of
four in harness to do the trick.
The ranch is perfectly equipped with
machinery, machinery. by the way,
that is given perfect care, and there
viii be thirty-seven stalk cutters used
TO bind the corn in the near future.
Machinery on this place Is painted
every year, kept under roof and well
cared for, as Mr.. Adams knows that in
the long run it is common sense econ
omy.
There are no cattle raised on this i'm
mense farm except enough cows to
furnish milk for the army Of help,
but in the fall Adams purchases a
large number of feeders, and these he
fattens for the market. Last winter
he shipped in 5000 sheep from North
Dakota for feeding purposes and thu
experiment was so successful that he
will repeat the dose this year.
The affairs of the ranch are con-
Quoted on strict and modern business
principles. All the houses of the en-
ployes are located in one place near
the center of the big farm where
there is collection of buildings that
make what is practically small town
including school house for the chill
dren OF employees, % blacksmith shop;
etc. The farm is divided into sections
and each section is under the direc-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-10-25
a BAnE OF COLLEGE SPORT.

we have been won't to look upon COL
1age athletics and intercollegiate con-
tests as the type of clean sport, where
/ men battle for the pure love and lust
Of the game and the honor of the in-
stitutions they represent, Here. # any
where, we may expect to see men fight
fairly, despising dog tricks, and free
from the baleful influence of the gam
bier and the sport" Consequently
the following interview, published in a
state paper Of wide. circulation, will
lar the sensibilities Of the old
toned and set many q parent wonder.
ing whether his son went to Lincoln
loaded with coin," like a track fol-
lower to race meeting.
mot only by their roofing, but by
their money as. well, are the students
Of the Iowa State Agricultural College
supporting their team" said Roy Igo
yesterday.
II never saw such enthusiasm in my
life as was manifested at the game last
Saturday between the Aggies and the
University of Nebraska. The students
went to Lincoln loaded with coin. and
they placed it in big wads, too.
over $4,000 changed hands on that
day. One banker. it is said. bet $500
on the Aggies. Two real estate men
placed like Sums, and the rest of the
money was put up by the students.
Ames people believe they have a great
team this year, and it is even thought
that they will rank right along with
any of the big nine"
1t is possible. and even probable. that
Mr.. Igo. whoever he may be. let his
evident enthusiasm leak into his fig
ures, and that the sums wagered were
far short of those specified in his nara
ton. II is evident, however, that there
was some pretty hard betting on
game where nothing of the sort should
be permitted Mr.. Igo's ill-advised in
terview has cast discredit on the stu
dent body of the school, and is precious
poor advertising for the school itself.
So far as the banker who is reported
to have risked $500 on foot ball game
is concerned, that is between him and
the men who trust their money to his
care. Incidentally, 1t would seem rath-
or a poor way for bank to adver-
tise.
It is different vito Iowa State Col
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-10-25
The Iowa Farmers.
Il3ritt Tribune.l

Again the farmers of Iowa have an
abundant harvest, and when you hear
man complaining of either crops or
prices there is something wrong In the
man instead of the country. The writer
has lived in Iowa for the past thirty
years and has never seen a year that
Hancock county did not raise at least
three times as much as the inhabitants
OF the county could consume. II they
feed the corn crop at home at least
three-f ourthsi of finished products, polk
and beef is sold to other places, If they
feed the hay and rough feed at home
the horses and cattle and sheep event
ually take it out Of the county. Flax
is all exported out of the county, large
quantities of oats, some wheat, barley
and rye, we believe that three fourth3
for export is too low. Our farmers one
year with another could make money
by planting two acres Of potatoes, this
year that amount we'll cared for would
bring in better returns than almost
any crop that has been raised. Take
such farmers as Mr.. Mantle for in
stance, he paid for quarter section
of land with two crops of potatoes by
preparing a place to keep them, any
always had q stock to sell in the
spring wherl they brought the best
prices. Godfrey Carlson, of Miller. is
another farmer who raised as high as
twenty acres in year and usually sold
in the fall in Chicago. and we believe
that he still makes the potato one Of
the principle money crops of his splen-
did Ellington farm. Any we'll drained
piece Of knoll land seeded to clover and
plowed up the second year will bring
good returns In potatoes One year
when we were on the farm wet weather
spoiled ten acres of corn, we plowed
the land the fifteenth of June, sowedi
the field to buckwheat, and hauled the
crop to Garner to the only mill that
was then in the county. When sold