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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-10-24

tanned, all the time, enough phosphates,
nitrates and potash for considerable
number of successive crops A chemi-
cal analysis of the soil proves this.
It is in answer to these questions
that the new theory of Professor Whit
ney comes in.
In plain and unscientifc language
the new theory Of soil fertility is that
plants secrete their own poisons. That
is to say, every plant leaves behind It
in the soil some sort of soil which is
injurious to its own growth, and an
other crop, coming along in the same
place, has to fight with this substance.
These substances are called toxic sub
stances, which is only another word
for poison.
An interesting series of experiments
we're conducted by two scientists
Lewes and Gilbert-running over peri
Cd of fifteen years, in which potatoes
we're grown successfully on the same
plot of ground for that length of time;
when they absolutely refused to grow
any more. Then a crop of barley was
sown on the same spot and it gave an
enormous yield
But the same chemical elements
enter into barley as into potatoes.
So the experiments are led to con-
clude that the soil is poisoned for
potatoes by something which the sue
cessive potato crops leave in the soil
"a potato toxin-which substance,
however, does not poison barley or
some other crops
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-10-24
Experiments in "Doctoring" the
Soil.
Soil.

We have found in a California paper
credited to Express an article which
contains some new ideas There are
some things in plant culture, which
seem to give some weight to the new
theory of plant poison in the soil. One
is that we have heard orange growers
say that they could not grow more
than two or three crops of COW peas
in a grove before they would run out,
that is, would not grow, though the
soil was good and we'll fertilized every
year.
There is one statement in the article
which is a misprint Or a misstatement:
viz "Tha1 ground cowpeas contained
no plant food.' Every form of vege-
tation contains more or less plant food,
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-10-24

ISOLATION has prominent feature. 1t
is distinctively Scotch and is every
where known as the long turn plow
ing
When these blowing matches be-
gan, nearly thirty years ago, there
were twenty-five plows and between
five and six hundred people. In the
match of Saturday, September IS,
1906, there were fourteen horse plows
and steam plow that turned ten fur
rows in one sweep, and there were
over five thousand people, The lar
gest number of plows ever in one con-
test was thirty-two and the lowest
five. The year of the Chicago worlds
fair was the only one in which the
match was allowed to miss.
Some idea of the wonderful inter
est that has been taken in the blowing
matches can be formed when It is
stated that approximately, in term
of nearly thirty years, the Wheatland
Association has paid $1,000 in cash
premiums in prizes ranging from So
to SIS for good blowing. Besides
there have been innumerable awards
of the finest plows that modern fac
tories have been able to turn out,
and on several occasions some beauti-
full gold medals and silver cups have
been awarded, chiefly by General
Andrew WEIGH, Of Aurora, a promi-
nent agricultural implement dealer,
who on several occasions has contrl-
buted from his means to further the
interest of good blowing.
Another of these blowing match
associations was organized in Kane
county about twelve years ago, and
was the offshOOt Of the Wheatland or
parent organization. This, too, has
been singularly successful in bringing
off interesting matches, and the two
organizations have contributed plow
ing Drawn and intelligent knowledge
of soil turning to vast area of farm
ing country in the Southwest, West
and Northwest Annually the Chica-
go, Burlington & Quincy Railroad
people, along whose lines both of
these matches are held within easy
reach, afford what is known as the
harvest home excursions The farm
people go to far distant points to view
the harvest fields there Many Of
them buy farms and remain there.
There has not been an excursion of
this kind in the last two decades in
which some graduate some prize win
ner of the Illinois blowing matches,
has not gone forth to till the rich
soil of distant states and there firmly
plant the seed of good blowing as it
was obtained at the grand old insti-
tuition organized by that grand old
Illinois plowman, Uncle James Pat
terson.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-10-24
Education in Good Flowing.

w uCdlldLu, LII. L lowing ASSOCldLlO1l
Annual Matches Held for Twenty
Nine Years.
The art of good blowing is not as
we'll understood now as it was
few years ago. That is generally,
there are exceptions to this state
ment as there are to all rules The
Tribune Farmer tells of a Flowing
Association in Illinois, which has held
annual matches for 20 years, to the
advantage of all farming in that com
munity Something of the kind would
be a good thing for southern farmers.
James Patterson, of Wheatland
Township, Will county, ILL.,, who has
been a farmer all Of his life, and who
nearly third of a century ago organ
lied the Wheatland Plowng Match
Association, and for twenty-one years
was it's president, has given some
opinions as to the importance of good
blowing, some of the shortcomings in
blowing, and what the blowing match
has accomplished in educating young
and old blowers to turn the soil prop
erly.
Recently he was seen at the twenty
ninth annual meeting of the Wheat
land Flowing Match Association,
which has missed only one annual
match in all of the twenty-nine years
of it's life, and which this year was at
tended by more than 5000 people.
Here are some Of the things that
Mr.. Patterson, while sitting in the
headquarters tent, said to the inter
viewer:
"Not one farmer in ten thousand
knows how to set a gang plow SO as
to do the best work with the least
possible draft.
''The farmers of the Du Page VAL
rather than straight, and of the same
width and depth.
'The farmers of the Du Pake Val
ley, by good blowing, have increased
the corn yield fully 80 per cent, and
this increase has spread and is spread
ing to other great corn valleys of the
State
"The Wheatland Flowing Match
has sent good blowers to agricultural
communities of practically every State
in the Union.
'The Wheatland Flowing Match
forced the blowers to make better
plows, and the p1ow-makers have at
tended every match of the association
since it's organization.
'The agricultural press does not
give sufficient prominence to blowing
subjects; the greatest thing in farm
ing is good blowing.
s'The agricultural colleges should
have a blowing department, and teach
young men how best to turn the sol"
= While Mr.. Patterson was saying
these things a crowd of some of the
best and most successful farmers of
the most fertile Illinois counties were
gathered in and about the tent. They
all kept nodding their heads afirma-
lively with each epression of this
veteran plowman. Each expression
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-10-24

PlOPSlllCo, Dll IL Will lOC 10 10 Say
that they contain nothing.
An entirely new idea as to why
plants will grow in one soil and not
in another has been developed by the
government scientists. The whole
theory of soil fertility, it now appears,
his been challenged and may have to be
revolutionized.
From time immemorial farmers
have been taught to believe that they
put things on the soil to "feed the
plant They have learned that crops
exhaust the soil
Now comes Prof. Milton Whitney,
chief OF the bureau of soils, and de-
clares that this is all mistake.
The bureau Of soils has conducted
some very simple but interesting ex
periments bearing on the question
whether Or not plants really do Eek
haust soils" Here is one:
The professor takes sealed pot
containing about pound of earth.
In this he grows six grains of wheat
At the end of few weeks, when the
sprouts are about four inches high,
he cuts them off and plants six more
grains. At the same time he takes
another pot filled with fresh earth and
and similarly six other grains. What
is the result? The second crop in pot
No. 1 will be about half the size OF
that in pot No. 2.
Why? According to the old idea
the soil has been exhausted The
first growth took the essential cheri-
cal elements out of the soil; it lacks
potash, phosphorus and nitrogen.
But the experiment is not comp1et-
ed. The scientist knows just how
much nitrogen, phosphorus, etc,
little wheat plant takes out Of the
soil in making it's growth. It is a
very easy matter, in the government
ldDOl dlOly, " IColOlC lllC CXdNt
amount. So, the experiment is tried
again, with the addition this time of
the chemical elements subtracted by
the first crop.
But what is the result? Very much
the same The second crop still is
puny, and far below the crop which will
grow in the pot with fresh soil. What
is the matter? The plant now has it's
food, but still it refuses to grow
Now, to complete the experiment.
The professor now adds to the pot
which refuses to grow a good crop,
what? Phosphate? Nitrate? Pot
ash? No. Not any of the chemical
elements which have gone into the
construction of the wheat plant, but
tablespoonful of ground cowpeas
or a quantity of pyrogallol, a sub
stance used for developing photo
graphic plates Neither contains plant
food. What happens now? He finds
that he can grow three successive
crops OF wheat seedlings before the
soil begins again to deteriorate.
It is evident, from the above ex-
pertinent, that the mere addition or
subtraction of chemical elements from
the soil will not determine the fertility
Of soil The o1e ctiOn iS what does
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-10-24
E. O. Painter, Esq.,:
Jacksonville, Fla,

Please ship me six tons Bean Fertilizer sam,
as you sent me last. I will add that I testet
it carefully by side of - and so far your
goods at $27OO per ton, are giving better re-
suits than at $3.50. Several of INV
neighbors are watching results and think it will
be big adj for your goods.
Bill my order to Stuart, Fla, and oblige
Fl. E. Olds.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-04
Atrocities in the Congo.

CENTRAL CITY, Neb., March ITO the
Editor of The Bee: Father Delfosse of
Central City, full American citizen by
adoption French and Belgian by birth,
begs Rev. Johnson of Boston and Mrs.
Harris of the missionary society of London
TO quote the truth concerning the treatment
by the Belgians of the dark race of Africa.
If you are true followers of Christ and not
enemies, practice charity and treat your
brother Belgian you like to be treated
yourselves. There was time in our broad
land OF America when you had II show 70
Islander U.S. but 1t is passed and now YOU
have gone in a faraway land to preach the
gospel TO the dark race, while you have
millions of them in America. Are you paid
to come and Islander your Catholic breth-
rem? Is there country behind you anx-
ious to take hold of the Congo?
The Belgian king has been ruling Congo
for more than eight years, and why do YOU
come out so late to denounce his cruelties?
Leave alone our good. broad and just
President Roosevelt and his congressman.
They have their hands full Just now.
Go back to Congo. Brethren johnson and
Harris and preach the true gospel of Christ.
| Our Catholic ministers and sisters bave
gone there long ago Tell to the Opaha
people OF the happiness and welfare of the
negroes of Congo since their priests and
sisters have landed there. II you have to
calumniate another nation to impant your
religion, let me tell you that you had bet
ter be good lay people rather than bad
missionaries.
I trust the good people OF Omaha will
/ take care of their own negroes before the
ones of Congo. FLoRENT DELFossE.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-04

make spread OF e.; how 1t would appear
on the first page of the paper.
Il cheered Butter up so that he went on
in Joyous frame of mind 10 kill himself
Buffers idea was to kill himself with a
revolver, but Reporter Clemens and the
poet didn't have enough money to buy a
revolver, and the reporter persuaded the
poet to drown himself Drowning is so nice
and clean and writes up we'll in a newspa-
per.
But" said the speaker. things ne'er do
go smoothly--in wedding, suicide or COURT
ships only there at the edge of the water
where Butter was to end himself lay a
iife-preserver-a big, round canvas one,
which would float after the scrap iron was
soaked out OF IT,"
Butter wouldn't kill himself with life
preserver in sight and Reporter Clemens
had an idea He took the life-preserver
to a pawnshop and soaked" 1t for re-
volver, the pawnbroker didn't think much
of the exchange but when Clemens ex-
planned the situation to him he acquiesced
Then the reporter and the poet went up on
top of high building, and this is what
happened to the poet:
He put the revolver to his forehead and
blew a tunnel straight through his head
The tunnel was about the size of your
finger You could look right through it,
The job was complete. There was nothing
in it.
"Well. after that" concluded the humor
list, that man never could write prose
but he could write poetry. There IL lots Of
talent all over the country, but the trouble
is they don't develop IT,"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-04

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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-04
our LETTER SOX.



MULLEN. Neb.. March Ito the Ed
tor of The Bee: In the article of Febru-
airy p issue of The Bee, entitled, Change
in the Cattle Country" the writer may be
giving a prospective scene within the
territory of Cody Cherry county but
such prospective is far from applying to
this part of the much discussed sand hills.
He states that there is being dis
proved by the secret service men that it
requires forty acres to run a steer"
Hooker county contains 46S.SO acres, ac-
cording to the government survey. The
assessors returns for 1906 of Hooker
county show: Cattle, SAC head; horses,
621, matter of fifty-one acres per head,
and one-third of the cattle owned by the
resident ranchmen are wintered outside of
the county so as to procure enough feed
for winter. As we are dealing in facts
and not theories l will state that our
merchants to a man are well pleased with
the holdings as they now exist here. l
would like to ask the writer II he has sold
very much cream and hauled 1t into the
railroad station from five to thirtyfive
miles on sand hill trails and produced it
on the "succulent native bunch grass,
when any cowman knows that a COW does
exceptionally well to grow calf every
two years, and the calf must be weaned
in October to prepare the mother for the
winter. In this country no one claims
more than what is due any good citizen.
but do find fault with being deliberately
put out of business, when we have spent
from twelve to fifteen years of the best
years of our lives in a country in which
but few enterprising people will cast their
lot. Naturally such people feel entitled
to some consideration. Has the govern
ment been ignorant of this country being
fenced for many years?
For many years but little land was en-
tered in this country. when a few men
established herds. these sold their surplus
feed to them; others coming in did the
same, some leaving the country after max
ing final proof, some hired to feed in win
ter. but since the coming of the secret
service brigade even friendly feeling be-
tween a cattle owner and one with but a
homestead is sufficient to lose the home
stead and prosecution of the other.
The writer knows from twelve consecu-
tive years experience that forty acres is
barely safe estimate for a COW in herds
of from 400 to 800 head
II this country is so well adapted to
such holdings as this writer speaks of
why are not the parties coming here in
punches, entering this land instead OF
leaving without making scarcely an en-
try? This writer may be a separator agent
or a secret service fellow. one thing is
certain, he is not practical stockman
Get in the daylight where we can see you
in the same manner in which Mr.. Wood
run Ball has done. X. w. MAHAFFEY.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-04
CONFESSION OF STEVE ADAMS
Alleged 0o-Conspirator Of Orchard Tells Of
steunenberg Assassination.
STORIES AGREE UPON ALL MAIN POINTS
Oregon Man Tells of Number
Of Murders Not Touched Upon
D., the Earlier Confess
sion.

BOISE, Idaho March S-The Statesman
tomorrow morning will say: The States
man is authorized to announce that steve
Adams arrested at Haines, Ore, on Feb
ruary 20 in connection with the Steunen-
berg assassination, has made a full and
sweeping confession.
This second confession is far more inn
purtant than that made by Harry Or
chard." This statement was made by James
MCFARLAND, the detective, last evening, In
the presence of Governor Gooding and j.
II. Hawley. who is In charge of the prose-
cutiCn.
Mr. MCFARLAND added that Adams con-
f. ssion fully and exactly corroborated that
made by Orchard at every point touched on
by both
Moreover" MI. Mcfarland continued.
Adams knows far more of the workings of
the inner circle than Orchard did and was
able to give mass of detailed information
that Orchards confession did not cover"
The confession of Adams, he said corrobo-
rated that given by Orchard in every sub
stantial point connected with the assassi-
nation of Governor Steunenberg. Adams,
however, was not AT Caldwell at the time
Of the assassin alton. nor was orchard at
the time of the unsuccessful effort in No
venlber. The man who assisted Orchard on
that later occasion, as set forth in Or
chards confession, Jack Simpkins.
Still another statement made by the de-
tective was that the Adams confession
gave the details Of large number OF MUIR
dcrs that were not referred to in any man
ner by Orchard. II was further stated
that the confession had been reduced to
writing, signed and acknowledged II was
a voluminous document. covering a greater
field and in more detail than was made by
Orchard. The further statement was made
that Adams had made this confession with
out being promised anything. When talked
with about the matter he simply made a
clean breast of all he knew of this case
and OF the secret workings of the Western
Federation.
1t was announced by the governor Mr..
Hawley and Mr.. MCFARLAND that. while
they thought these facts should be given to
the public, there would be no further infor-
nation given out or limited at respecting
this confession.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-04
BLOOMING OF A POET
moved by Pistol
Bullet.
POET

Mark Twain talked TO the members OF the
New York press recently and told of his
interest in young people who wanted TO be-
come poets. He remembered that he was
particularly interested in one budding poet
when he was a reporter on a newspaper.
This young poets name was Butter Mark
was out Of job. and Butter came around
to him one day and said disconsolately that
he was going to commit suicide; he was
tired of life. not being able to express his
thoughts in poetic form. Butter asked Re-
porter Clemens what he thought of the
idea. Said the speaker:
Il said Il was a good idea. You can do
me friendly turn. You go on In private
place and do il and I'll do as much for YOU
sometime
The speaker said he told Butter how he
would write up his death; how he would
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-04
Objects to Lott Bria N .

ST. EDWARD. Neb.. March 2-To the
Editor of The Bee: In The Daily Bee OF
February - was AN article in regard to
l.. G. Brian of Albion. candidate for state
treasurer, being In Lincoln. with H. c.
Lehr. looking uR political matters; also
that Mr.. Lehr came along as sponsor for
Mr.. Brian. stating Mr.. Brian, his towns
man, would land the place; also stating
If the people % Nebraska knew Mr.. Brian
as we'll as he Gehr) does he would get
the nomination without opposition.
As one of the county central committee
of Boone county. voicing the sentiments
Of large part of the voters in the south
part of Boone county, we are opposed 10
Lott Brian for state treasurer or apy other
office, and Mr. Lehr being sponsor for
him does not help him, as the people this
year in Boone county will see to il that
Lehr. Brian and others who are identified
with the Union Pacific railroad will drop
out.
In our last state convention Brian, with
others did not vote as they were in
structed by their county convention Lott
Brian can never get the delegation to the
state convention, as the people Of Boone
county will say who will be delegates "a
the state convention, and they will be in
favor OF the people as well as the rail-
roads. Look at Congressman McCarthy's
vote in one precinct-Beaver! Seventy-six
republicans voted for McKillip, as we'll as
other precincts Look at the standing OF
Boone county-part republican, part demo
cratic and independent Why? Because
one of the most rotten deals was engi,
neered by Brian as chairman OF the
county convention, with the help Of few
others. The people would not stand for II
and Mr.. Lehr knows why the fight wa:
made on our congressman.
MIKE CAREY.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-04
LOCAL BREVITlES

The city has issued a permit to DR.. J. o.
Nystrom for 800 frame building at
Twenty-eighth avenue and California street.
A decree of divorce has been granted Car
RE Marcus from Henri ID. Marcus by Judge
Kennedy. Nonsupport was the only allega-
ton.
The evidence In the damage case Of Ora
Thomas against the Union Pacific Railroad
company was concluded Saturday morning,
and the remainder of the forenoon de-
voted to the arguments of counsel The
plaintiff is suing in the United States cir
cult court for $4,000 damages from per-
sonal injuries sustained while a passeng ger
in the companys train at Gilmore a year
or more ago. The case has been on trial
for the entire week.