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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-20
Misses

White cotton and Isle. 25c.
White lace Isle, 25c and SOC.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-20

Beloit. Kan. April 2O.-Judge Pick
Ter was nominated by reclamation for
third term as judge of the Fifteenth
judicial district-Smith. Jewell, Os-
borne and Mitchell counties. No reso-
lutions were passed by the convention.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-20

Z. T Hussey of Lyndon and Senator
q s. Grifan Of Jefferson county we're
IN Topeka yesterday on political bust
ness.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-20

The Lawrence Journal intinates
that there are some Republicans trv-
1ng 70 get on the Democratic state
Gieket- It says in speaking Of the com
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-20
Livery and Horse Men, Attention

We have just received quantity Old Green CAST
Soap the genuine imported olive oil CASTLE five wears oil
the best for stable put up five pound bars worth Il
pound-special price five pounds for 6Oc 1Oc cake
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-20
White Stockings for Women
and Children

The call for white hosiery only with the gem
eral fashion trend of the days which ap-
preaching. White gown white shoes with white stockings
of Hosiery ready with good supply.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-20
Infants

White, plain cotton and Isle, Is and Csc.
White lace Isle, IS and 25c.
White silk, plain, SOC.
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Ladies'

White cotton and Isle stockings, Csc pair.
White medium an1 gauze isle, at 35c, SOC and Use.
White lace boot and aover lace isles, $780, So rs and ST.
White se embroidered lace boot plain
ered SOC and ST 90 pair.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-20
White Canvas Belts
Special for Tomorrow

Gilt Belts, with good strong buckles, good quality of belt
ing, worth 19c, while they last 1Oc
BraceIets-new designs, with seal top and stone settings,
Doc values, yours tomorrow for Csc.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-02-18

main large, vigorous stalks that produce
only nubbins. To be able to accurately
identify parents of an ear the individual
plants should be mated and the pollination
of the ear performed by hand from n single
apparently desirable sire. The pollinatIon
should be carried on between mated indi-
viduals as extensively as possible and a
correct record kept of such crossing The
plants used as male. as we'll as those used
female, should be numbered and tagged
in order that the performance OF each sire
can be identified.
1t will require n great many OF these
crossings to procure even one good big
ear that was pollinated entirely from
plant producing a good and heavy ear q
similar type.
Upon our own farm we conduct fifteen Of
the large eighty-row breeding blocks, some
fifty of the small mating blocks. and last
year we made 600 individual crosses. We
have identified at least twelve strains out
NJ an aggregate Of over 5000 in four DIFF
ferent varieties that annually head the
list as to yield in their variety Each year,
Of course decreases the number Of strains
LEFT IN the race and increases the amount
OF coed produced bv the remaining strains
We devote some P5o ac~ns TO multiplying
nIots (on which eighty different strains are
being propoeated> and about 5000 acres TO
the production Of pedigree seed.
All OF these strains must be kept IN such
a way that their identification is known.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-02-18
American Citizens Are Buying Up the British Northwest Teror

dian Pacific railroads. It is lively city OF
1000 souls, and the liveliest part of 1t Is
the railroad depot. Just outside the sta
ton buildings a pyramid has been erected
of sheaves of OATS wheat and barley, with
a Canadian flag floating over 1t. The
pyramid is made up of samples of the
grain grown in the vicinity and they are
so displayed that they can be seen from the
cars. We had a wait of twenty minutes
at Moose Jaw, and l stepped off and walked
about. AS l stood before this pyramid a
flne-looking American woman of 40, with a
buxom, rosy-cheeked girl of 49, drove up
in a buggy. Both women were clad in
furs and the cheeks of the girl shone like
jacqueminot roses The woman accosted
me, asking If l were about to settle in
Canada. and If so did l not want some
choice lands. l replied that had not fully
decided, whereupon she continued:
well, l can tell you, sir, that there is
no better soil than right about Moose Jaw
and that 1 have the best of all left in the
neighborhood. l have few choice pieces
that want to sell. and If you care to look
1 will drive you out into the country
That is my signr' And she thereupon
straw stack saying that Mary Jane -
bought and sold lands.
l asked her where her lands were and
she told me, saying that they were worth
from SIS to $50 and that they would pro-
duce forty bushels of wheat, ninety bushels
of barley or 100 bushels of oats to the acre.
But" said l. II am afraid it will be too
cold. understand you people freeze to
death in the winter"
LAS to that" said the madam, II am
an American woman, who came here for
my health from Colorado a good many
years ago. Suppose you take look at my
daughter, who sits here beside me. She is
l6 years old and l have never paid cent
for doctor bills on her account. Do either
of us look like freezing to death? No,
sir, We have a few cold days in the winter,
but as a rule our climate is better than
that of the northern parts of the United
States"
l then told the madam that l was
newspaper correspondent and not land
purchaser, whereupon she handed me her
card. saying: well, l would like to inter-
est you in our lands, and, if you see any
one who wants to buy, send him 10 me-
l mean any man with good hard cash,
Send your card along with him, and If he
buys you will get your commission" With
that she drove quickly away to accost an
other stranger who had come out of the
station.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-02-18
Changed His Luck

It is told OF Schliemann, the exhumer OF
buried cities of the ancient world that
he was pursued by Ill luck in his earlier
undertakings. Mentioning the fact to
friend the latter asked him which leg and
arm he first inserted in trousers and coat.
Sehliemann said he habitually inserted the
right. THAT is the cause of your mis-
fortunes" said his friend. you have
offended the left hand fairies and they
take out their vengeance on you. Reverse
your habit and see." And" said Schle-
mann, In telling the incident in his later
and prosperous years, you see how 1t
changed my luck"
Omaha daily bee., 1906-02-18
Four Divisions of Progeny.

In harvesting make four divisions of the
progeny gathered from each row, namely,
the ears gathered from the standing stalks
Of the tasseled end; SECOND. the ear from
the fallen stalks of the tasseled end; third,
the from the standing stalks of the
detasseled end. Each of these divisions
should be weighed separately and the num-
Der of ears in each counted. The sum of
the four weights will give the corn pro-
duction of the mother ear.
Now, all of these rows should have been
equal in length and the same number of
kernels planted by hand in each hill. At
the time of maturity inspection the exact
number of stalks and hills in the row
should be taken. If the hills are planted
three and one-half feet each way
there will be 1855 bills in an
acre: having the corn production
per hill, the rate of yield per acre can be
easily obtained
The breeding corn should be saved only,
the third division previously mentioned.
namely, from the standing detasseled
plants.
In your selection Of what may be called
champion rows you first eliminate those
rows that have failed to meet the require
ments in growth. Some have terminated
poorly, some have lacked in vigor and
strength of growth, others have suckerei
abnormally; the ears have been produced
too high up In some rows, and the per
Omaha daily bee., 1906-02-18

1.2oo Milestone COO. and others. In such
towns the business men are chiefly Amer
leans.
Another line Of American settlements has
grown up along the Prince Albert branch
of the Canadian Pacific railroad and others
along the Canadian Northern. 1t is on the
Canadian Pacific branch that Davidson got
his cheap lands and resold them. AS it is
now there is continuous line of unbroken
wheat fields running from fifty miles above
Regina to Rosthern. distance of 10 miles
Ninety per cent of the lands along that
road are owned by Americans, their farms
extending back from the track for about
twelve miles on either side. Some of the
farmers are homesteaders, many of whom
bought the lands adjoining them, so that
they each have all the way from 800 acres
up to 5000 acres. They are building COM
Portable houses and good barns.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-02-18
American settlements In Canada.

During my travels here / have visited
many OF the localities where Americans
have settled. They have come to Canada
In all sorts of ways. Some were brought
by the trainload. by the real estate agents
and the government almost depopulatinss
the little farm communities of our country
from whence they came. Iowa. for in
stance. has fallen OF 1000 or more through
this and other immigration. Some of the
settlers had crossed the boundary in can
vas-covered wagons and others had driven
into Canada in all sorts OF vehicles. l have
photographs of men who came in using
oxen and horses to pull their effects, and OF
some who plodded along for days with or
teams on the way.
The first Americans to arrive squatted
down close to our boundary, getting home
steads and buying farms along the 500 Pa
cifc railroad. Soon afterward they began
TO take up the lands farther west, and now
fully 20 per cent Of all the settlers between
Moose Jaw and the international boundary
are Americans. They own a line OF wheat
farms extending on each side from the rail-
road back far into the country. Their
homes remind me OF the settled portions
Of North Dakota, and they have many good
little towns such as Weyburn. which has
Omaha daily bee., 1906-02-18
Seed for the General FIELD.

The seed for the general fields should be
selected first from the plot giving the
greatest yield, and then from the next, If
you have not enough. and so on.
There is yet another and much more
technical step to be taken which, l think,
is hurrying the development and perma-
nency of high-yieldng power as well as
other beneficial tendencies. In the second
year, or mating block. there will be some
individual plants that are undesirable as
sire, yet these cannot be identified such
until after 1t is too late to prevent their
pollenating some kernels on the dam rows.
OF course in the detasseling season all APP
parently weak and undesirable stalks
should be detasseled. But there will re-
Omaha daily bee., 1906-02-18

Der OF our citizens are Americans still.
Within the last year the Canadian North
ern has been pushed through the wheat
belt to beyond Edmonton. There are Amer
leans settled along that line, and 1t is prob
able that some of those who come this year
will take up settlements between Edmon-
ton and the Rockies, toward which the
Canadian Northern is building. The latest
colonies are along the line OF the Grand
Trunk Pacific, and. indeed, there are Amer
leans in every part OF the New Canada. In
another letter I will show the effect that
this large American influence is nkely to
have upon the future of this great region.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-02-18
Performance OF both Parents.

Now the breeding ears for the next years
block having been selected from the eight
or ten rows producing the greatest amount
from standing detasseled plants which did
not sucker or show a tendency for any
undesirable features. In short, the dams
of these ears have made an excellent
record and these characters should reap
pear to some extent in the progeny. But
we know only the performance record of
one of the parents. To facilitate the de-
velopment the influences of the sire must
be controlled.
We have for planting this next year
four rows of corn retained on the cob of
the original breeding ears Select the eight
or ten that give you the best results in the
breeding block; mate these ears in pairs
or small Isolated plots; plant some five
rows from one of the ears and six rows
from the other, alternating the rows, and
detassel all the plants in the even rows.
One of these ears is being used entirely as
the sire. 1t produced all the pollen used
in this miniature block. The other is used
only as a dam and from its rows are Sc
lected the breeding ears. The kernels of
these we know, have been fertilized by a
sire which the year before proved itself TO
be a champion.
The best of these ears just described are
planted together in a multiplying plot from
three to five acres in extent and one-third
or one-half of the rows detasseled. From
Omaha daily bee., 1906-02-18

these rows enough seed can be secured to
plant large field. This corn now has a
traceable pedigree on both sides It's par
ents have annually been subjected to rigid
tests as to yielding power and other good
characteristics, and annually the liability
of disastrous effects of Standardization has
been eliminated. There are four or five of
these multiplying plots in the same field
The amount of ground In each plot
should be known and at harvest time each
plot should be gathered by itself. making
a division of the tasseled and detasseled
corn. The product of each plot should be
weighed and the rate of yield per acre
computed. Here again we have a COM
petitive test.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-02-18
Don't Want HOMESTEAD DIS.

Some of the Americans will not take up
homesteads. although they can get the land
for living on 1t. They prefer to buy rather
than relinquish their allegiance to the
United States. Every homesteader has to
become a naturalized Canadian before he
can have a clear title to this free land II
he buys. however, he can get title upon
paying the money. and as the outsiders
have about as many rights as the Cana
dian, with the single exception Of being
able to vote or run for office. a large num-
Omaha daily bee., 1906-02-18

The fundamental object in corn breeding
is utility. Obviously OF greatest Importance
is yield But there are other qualities to
be sought, such as maturity, construction
Of stalk, amount of foliage, a minimum
tendency to sucker and that which is Of
much Importance, standing ability. The
task of the breeder is to identify strains OF
corn in which inherent tendencies are for
utility, in which great power OF produc-
tion is transmitted to the progeny Within
this strain or family he will find great
variation. He must work for the ellmina-
ton of all weak members and control and
direct the life forces OF the best individuals
into beneficial and prolific channels The
Influence exerted by both parents must be
controlled. He must deal not only in a
general way with the performance of the
family, but directly with the performance
Of the immediate parents. Then, having
produced an individual within a strain Of
marked ability, whose sire is of equal
Omaha daily bee., 1906-02-18

merit he must propagate this seed in con-
finement-that is keeping it by itself, in
dividualize it; always, however, preventing
Standardization Of the seed intended for
breeding purposes.
Corn thrives under the condition Of
open or cross fertilization, but there is
a great chance of Standardization under
which condition it hastily retrogrades.
To eliminate the possibility of any
such disastrous results the seed intended
for breeding purposes must be detasseled.
The Selection of Varieties.
Having chosen the plot of ground for the
breeding block, then follows the selection
OF variety or varieties, II his facilities
for keeping them separated are adequate.
In the selection of varieties he should pro-
cure those that had already proven their
merit. Within the variety some eighty
ears should be chosen for breeding pur-
poses. Several qualities should govern this
selection, especially uniformity of ears and
kernels and the capacity of the ear (by
this 1 mean size of ear, depth of kernel,
in fact a great amount of grain).
The eighty ears should each be given
number, which Is entered in record book
along with other data which describes the
apparent characters of the breeding ear
This data should be the length and cir
conference of the ear, the depth of kernel.
the weight of the ear, the weight Of the
cob; the difference of these last two men
TONED points gives you the amount Of
grain.
We will now call these breeding ears
mother ears. Each mother ear is planted
in single row of the breeding block
Each row represents the progeny of one
mother ear. In Smelling the mother ear
Omaha daily bee., 1906-02-18

acre he was still more excited. He heard
the Same stories at other villages and when
he returned to Winnipeg he called upon
Mr.. Griffin, the Canadian Pacific railroad
land commissioner, and told him that he
wanted to buy $4,000 acres along the 500
Pacific, which comes into Canada from the
United States and joins the Canadian Pa
cific trunk line a short distance above the
boundary
AS the story goes, Mr.. Griffin was not at
all anxious to sell. l am told he looked
upon Robertson as crazy, and advised him
to purchase the lands through the local real
estate agents This was DONE and 1t
created such sensation in Winnipeg that
the agents employed by Robertson were
accused of numerically skinning a poor
American. At all events. the land was soon
purchased, and within four months it was
all sold for so per acre. A short time
after that Robertson and Lynch came to
Canada and bought 10000 acres of the Can
adam Pacific railroad grant, in the west
ern part of Manitoba, and in what is now
lower Saskatchewan. They paid, am told,
less than SO per acre. That was four
years ago and their land has all been sold.
They have let the land go at all kinds of
prices, but 1t is said that the average has
been at least Sc per acre, and that they
have made in all probability $2,0OO.0O0 out
of the DEAL
Omaha daily bee., 1906-02-18

for planting one third of the rows should
be left on the cob, and this with an at
tached label Identifying It, should be pre-
served in such condition that the germina-
ton of the remaining corn is not impaired
The rows of the block are numbered as
entered in the record of the ear.
Cutting Out Undesirable Rows.
1t is during the growing season that a
great deal of the elimination of undesira-
BILE rows should be made. Or rather, rows
showing such characteristics should, at
the end of the season, be discarded. Care
full observation of all the characteristics
In growth should be made of all the rows
First the termination should be counted
Immediately after the corn comes through
the ground. The vigor and strength of
growth should be noted. The color, amount
of foliage and construction of the stalk
The tendency of the row to sucker should
be carefully entered in the record of each
mother ear. You see this record is to be
her performance record. To prevent self
fertilization one-half of each row should
be detasseled and the breeding ears for the
next year selected only from the detasseled
stalks.
In detasselng alternate the ends of the
rows upon which this is performed. For
instance, detassel the north end or half of
all the odd numbered rows and the south
half of all the even numbered rows. In
this way you are using each breeding ear
as both sire and dam in your breeding
block. This work requires strict attention,
for no tassels should be allowed to shed a
particle of pollen which is produced in the
dam end of the row. The tassels unioint
readily when they are out of the leaves
some three or four inches They should
Omaha daily bee., 1906-02-18

per head. which for the 100000 immigrants
who have so far gone there would mean an
actual loss of something like $500 10000. II
the average is kept up 1t means that Uncle
Sam will lose $780, 900 from such immlgra-
ton this year. and that to say nothing Of
the energy. brains and muscle of $4,000
good American citizens. 1t is generally
estimated that first class man without a
cent In his pocket is worth at least 81 900
to the country in which he settles, and
our emigrants are certainly worth that to
Canada. They are worth more in the
building up of the country, for they know
just how to handle 1t. They are, valued at
something like $.OOOO0O a year by the rail-
roads as traffic producers. James j. Hill
estimates that every new family which
settles along the Great Northern is worth
at least 500 year in additional freight.
Now $1,000 Americans at even five to the
family means 10000 families; and at Mr.
Hills estimate this equals an annual in
crease of at least 100000 to the receipts
OF the Canadian railroads.
Do you wonder that the Canadians are
anxious to get usf
Omaha daily bee., 1906-02-18
Corn Breeding Large Scale illustrated by Experience

ORE attention is being paid to
M corn breeding now than ever be-
Iva fore. Investigation has demon
ES6YsI strated that corn breeds true to
Gs&g type that It is possible to i'm
prove the yield ia any field on which the
maximum is not grown and that by little
attention to the selection Of seed the farmer
can put many more bushels into his crib
from the same number of acres. In this
light the following article from J. Dwight
Funk is Of great Importance:
Corn breeding. perhaps more than the
breeding OF any other plant presupposes
the application of endless and technical de-
tail. and to do this on a large and yet
practical scale lnfers the conducting OF
mammoth enterprise in a small way.
However with time as the immediate and
connecting cog. the corn plant is go album
dainty prolific that great quantities of the
strain originating from a single kernel can
be produced in a few years.
The successful breeder of plants will
make as exhaustive a research for the
proper environment for the individual as
possible He must always bear in mind
that in the growth and development of an
individual there are two influences or prin-
ciples at work These may be called in
herent and external influences. The inner
ent influence IL transmitted through gener-
alton after generation 81 ancestors and dis
plays its force in anticipated characters
tics
Hardly less important Is the external In
fuence which is more apparently under the
control Of man. The environment Of the
plant must be such that II will give full
play for the development of all inherent
tendencies.
The selection OF the plots OF ground used
for breeding purposes IL thus made i'm
portant. fertile. well cultivated plot Of
some three or four acres should be found
where plant food and opportunity for
growth are equal throughout. These plots
may be called breeding blocks. However
II is with the inherent tendencies and
characters that the corn breeding must
deal. It is within the scope OF every corn
grower to better the immediate conditions
for growth OF the corn plants.