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Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-22
CHINESE VS.. JAPANESE

T religious meeting recently a
Chinese convert said: when an
- American Christian meets Jap
anese he asks the Japanese, What col
lege do you attend?' and when he
meets a Chinaman he asks him. What
washhouse do you belong to?' and SO
our people have come to be regarded as
lower than the Japanese"
The business man who has dealings
with both races has different story to
tell 1t is current in all commercial
circles that the Japanese merchants
are prone to dodge business engage
ments, so much so that advance pay
ments are now regularly exacted from
them to insure their living up to agree
ments; while in the cases of Chinese
they will keep their agreements even if
they lose thereby.
The Chinese washman is emblematic
Of the stable qualities of his race, hold
ing to traditions, habits and qualities
his fathers held before him, conserva-
tive and trustworthy, while the Jap
anese, trying to forget his national
breeding, and to initiate western civil
ization, exemplifles his readiness to
forego all that was sacred to him for
profit.
The Russo-Japanese war resulted in
awakening pride. cupidity, craftiness
and insincerity in the Japanese, and
these weaknesses honeycomb all their
acts. Suavity OF manner and oiliness
Of tongue cannot hide the innate con-
ceit and characteristic duplicity OF
their acts, and the test of mercantile
association with them proves these
methods and manners to be national ir
scope.
The Chinese new year forces honesty
upon the Chinese, because of religious
belief running in his blood and that Of
his ancestors for generations unnum.
bered, and he is content to be JUS
what his people were and are til
assimilation or other circumstance shal
change him. The Japanese, always {
Japanese, apes the ways of civilization
from a Japanese standpoint, seeking
advance through stealth and cunning
and always hiding intent and purpos'
till his time of advantage arrives
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-22
NEEDS THE RECALL

nOLICE COMMISSIONERS THAT
WAS FINN OF San Francisco
after being ousted by Mayor Tay-
lor and being asked what he would do
when the new mayors appointees came
to take office and claim the records, ETC.,
of the board said: Leave that to usl"
And in that terse sentence he called up
all the innate ruffianry of the South-of-
Market-street contingent of San Fran
cisco politics.
Jerry Dinan, to be ousted from office.
as he has long been from the respect of
good men everywhere, deepens the mire
about him by agreeing to use the
"foorce" to keep the legally appointed
board out of the office and duties. This
means that a vicious, cunning and
powerful man will obstruct great
commonwealth in its fight for chance
to live, inviting riot and bloodshed,
defying the law as interpreted by the
supreme court and defying the urgent
remonstrances of nearly all the people.
The power behind this mans inten-
tions is great and makes him really
QetuS6IOuS. AUG ILucl anu
made present friends by common dis
grace; boodlers. grafters and indicted
bribe-givers and takers; all the en-
ginery of malice born of political
enmity; all of the vagrant and parasitic
classes who thrive on trouble will be at
force and make a desperate play for
delay, so vitality necessary to all con-
cerned with him. till the next election
shall tell whether any or all of them
may hope for respite from jail or prose-
cution.
If ever a people needed to be circum-
spect, discreet and patient the people of
that unhappy city need to be so. Finn,
Dinan & Co. have nothing to lose and
everything to gain, and the great
weakness OF law, proverbial in that
city, gives a color of authority to their
acts which makes it possible for them
to go to any length to defend their as
sumed rights.
The supervisors were confessed GRIM
inals and had to go out of Office or go
to Jail; the police board members, while
guilty of long-continued and criminal
malfeasance in office, yet have the sup
port of question in law. and Dinan,
their chief reliance as well as their
creature officially and personally. will
block every move of Mayor Taylor's
administration simply because he can.
There is one ray of light in all this
dark and forbidding way, and that is
that San Francisco may yet incorporate
the recall in her city charter, and thus
render a repetition of such disgraceful
things impossible.
It is, indeed, an i'll wind that blows
nobody good, and the people of Los
Angeles may get much good from the
bitter experiences of San Francisco, if
they serve to direct attention to the
imperative need of initiative and ref
erendum and recall, and all other safe
guards in the coming new or amended
charter. 1t is opportunity that makes
rascals. Men are very much alike
everywhere.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-22

Stranger things have come to pass in
politics than the predicted cooperation
of Calhoun and the Union Labor party
to bring about the defeat of Langdon
in San Francisco. With such an align
ment the distinctly humorous feature
of the campaign, so far as Los Angeles
is concerned, doubtless will be the mad
scramble of one of The Herald's morn
ing contemporaries to discover where
II Is at"
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-22

They say Long Beach may adopt as
costume de rigueur the German style of
bathing sans skirts ct sans stockings.
But they who say that don't know how
truly good Long Beach is. Long Beach
isn't Blingum by blamed sight, and
Blingum isn't Long Beach. This proves
the contention that every situation has
it's compensation.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-22

The siege of Ashfork will doubtless
pass into history with the same rela-
tive value as the battle of Dunnville
Both were only less spectacular than
the cavalry charge up San Juan hill.
All three actions are alike in one par
ticular-they didn't happen.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-22

Don't swear at the retail milk dealer;
he isn't to blame for the advance in
prices. Don't swear at all but get
some evidence against the trust and
carry it to the district attorney. He
will let you tell your troubles to the
grand jury.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-22

President Roosevelt, in an article on
mature taking" in popular priced
magazine, says DR.. Long is ''most reck-
less and least responsible" That will
admit him without initiation fee into
the nearest lodge of ;'undesirables."
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-22

with what Jealous eyes will Consul 1,
the educated chimpanzee, but one short
month ago dined, wined and coddled by
the ultra swell set at Newport. view
the similar performance with downy-
Tipped Swedish princeling usurping his
place.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-22

The charter makes no provision for
investigating charges of incompetency
against an elective officer and the
johnson inquiry may be dropped. Make
a note of it, revisionists.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-22

Not to be outdone by America while
the little farce is being enacted at The
Hague, England has ordered three more
monster battleships.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-22

Well, it was to / and Hen Berry's
men on the short end of the score; a
sort of a welcome to our city, ex-
tended to the tailenders.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-22

And now the hotels must pay taxes,
though the guests will continue to pay
the walters and bellboys.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-22

Mayor Schmitz has resigned from
the Native Sons. That's a good Begin
ming.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-22

Most of those dots and dashes are stIl
dashes.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-22
Population of Los Angeles. 100000
ICE AND COAL TRUSTS

nTSTRICT ATTORNEY FREDER-
ICKS is growing great clusters of
leaves on his official halo, through
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-06-08
WILD FLOWERS FOR BEAUTY
SPOTS.

How many have ever tried cultivat-
ing some of these (even one) wild
flowers: ox-eye daisy. golden rod and
common marguerite?
In my garden they did nicely. yet
received no extra care in cultivation.
1t is advisable to remove them very
carefully with a good sized clump OF
the same soil in the bargain when the
trial is made.
find 1t pays to get acquainted with
our familiar common field and mead
ow flowers, for all we see and are free
to gather them,.a any time in theil
season.
In removing them from moist OF
meadow land, notice every time the
muck or leaf soil-if very wet or only
moderately so, and those coming from
upland, by roadside, or fields as te
their soil, and dryness.
Ferns do better taken from the
roadside on account of not needing
much extra moisture growing II
comparatively hard earth.
Ferns collected in meadows fade
and droop very soon, losing theil
beauty, while those from fence line!
or highway will remain fresh for days
with a little water in the --oee, giving
out delightful ferny odor.-France
l.. Risley, Rockville, Conn.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-06-08
THE DENAruRED ALCOHOL GAME

Farmers should not be too saneuine
over the prospect for immediate profit
IN manufacturing denatured alcohol
at home. 1t must be understood that
farmers stills would tend to curtai1
the business Of the great whiskey trust
and reduce the profits. It is not rea-
sonable, therefore, to believe that it
VIII allow the farmers to make alco-
hol If 1t can prevent it by fair or I'M
fair means. The trust in the last ses-
sion OF Congress sought to emasculate
the farmers alcohol bill by imposing
restrictions that would render it i'm
possible for farmers to engage in BUSH
ness.
The trust, through friendly senator's.
partially succeeded. and no alcohol
will be made on farms this year or
next. In fact, it is safe to saw that
1t will be many long years before the
laws are so framed as to carry out
the intention of Secretary Wilson in
the matter.
There is, however, every prospect
that the manufacturing Of denatured
alcohol will soon assume large pro-
portions and that farmers will profit
by raising those crops that can be
used in the business.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-06-08
CARING FOR THE HORSES.

If mare with a sucking colt shows
signs of sore feet on hard roads or
stable floors, have her shod lightly.
Take a look at the colts feet occa-
sionally. Keep them clean and. if
they show signs of cracking, pack
with damp clay.
Never allow your horse to become
whip shy. That kind of horse is
nearly as useless as gun shy dog.
The bad habit of paving in the sta
BILE is generally caused by irregular
feeding. A horse does not like to wait
for his meals any more than man.
Don't be alarmed if your horse
evinces a desire to eat dirt, but change
his feed and give him what nature
Graves. Cut out the corn for a few
days and feed oats and some roots
Do not pamper the stallion too
much. He can be worked lightly
every day to advantage. A hve-mile
walk does stallion no good. Give
him q brisk drive.
Is your horse a cribber? Then give
him away.
The best horse we ever owned was
"a Morgan mare whose mother died
when the colt was three weeks old. II
was raised by hand on cows milk,
molasses and corn meal until she was
old enough to take her place at the
trough.
w. ]. Stevens, of Illinois, recently
sold a colt which weighed 1.035
pounds when seven months old He
was fed ground oats and corn with
bran and shorts and clean hay.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-06-08
HOW TO KILL CANADA TH1srLEs
There is no secret about it, but IT j,

There is no secret about it, but it is
work.
First. rotate crops.
Second, top dress patches when
seeding to grass and clover unless they
are rich and get a heavy growth that
will choke out many of the plants
Third plow up the sod and put in
corn. Cultivate this corn every ten
days with cultivator having sweep
like teeth that will cut off all sprouts
below the ground. If any remain
about hills or elsewhere, go over each
time and cut them out with the hoe.
Fourth, ii they persist, put in a
hoed crop the following year and keep
cut as before and your Canada this
ties will be we'll nigh eradicated.
If any remain they can be cut in the
next hoed crop in the rotation. OF
course, none should be allowed to go
to seed in the grain and hay crops.
We have killed many patches in this
way. and though some say 1t cannot
be done, I know that it cans. b.
Hartman.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-06-08
INCUBATION FOR ALFALFA.

To the Editor: In the fall Of 1905
seeded six acres with alfalfa and
met with both marked success and
complete failure,
had success in that portion Of the
field where the soil was inoculated and
failure where there was no incubation.
My field was thoroughly prepared
and I obtained a very easy stand. At
the time Of seeding I sowed about one
acre across the field with soil infect
ed with alfalfa bacteria-soil in which
alfalfa had grown successfully, with
root tubercles in abundance. I APP
Fplied about 100 pounds per acre broad
cast and narrowed 1t in.
The entire field grew we'll during the
summer and found root tubercles six
weeks after seeding. AS the season
advanced the infected area began to
show more thrift and in the fall was
parts.
Last spring the field presented on
May 18th most convincing proof of
1.-The value Of soil incubation. The al
falfa on the infected acre exceeded
my most sanguine expectations. 1t
was of dark green color and made
big growth. The drainage has car
ried the infection in streaks and spots
to the lower part of the field, all of
which showed the same luxuriance.
The division line separating mar
row strip of uninfected land on the
upper side of the field, toward which
there had been no drainage. was as
distinctly marked as the boundary OF
a field.
| On those portions of the field where
there has been no incubation the all
falfa has been Of a pale yellow color
and very much of 1t SO feeble and
stunted that 1t will soon die out un-
less assisted. However, intend to in.
oculate these remaining parts of the
i field with the infected soil. VIM. H
Underwood. Illinois.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-06-08
THE CROP KILLER.
Secretary Coburn Describes the Meth
DDS of the Grain Spectator.

COFTLY caressing his Dubious alb
.NC domen, lined with fat capon and
irrigated with Mumm's extra wet,
he fareth forth to Kansas on his trusty
Pullman, and at eventide desolation
and threatened famine stalk where
morning saw the smiling plain bask-
ing all unsuspicious in the sunshine
of prosperity, promise and peace; the
countryside from Alma to Wamego
has been laid waste by such bug or
able to his season, and the morning
and the evening journals tell of the
wrack it hath wrought
On the morning of the second day
his pals, disguised as bulls with fierce
horns, rush into the pits where the
bears, and by loud bellowings and
fierce demeanor become possessed of
the large portions of juicy meat upon
which the bears fain would feed, even
to fairness, the winter through.
In good time the killer putteth out
to sea; not in cattle steamer, but in
sumptuous yacht, wherein he con-
tinuously maketh merry, with music
and maidens, and chortles at the
newspaper chumps who wasted their
substance in spreading his poison ex-
actly as he would have it spread-at
their own expense, In turgid type, on
the front page top of column.
About the selfsame day the farmer,
knowing the heat and burden of the
season so near at hand, calleth about
him his men servants and his maid
servants and telleth them to prepare
for a. bigger job of harvesting than
they have ever tackled before. while
he goeth in his automobile at dawn
seeking to lease the highway for a
stack yard and the court house as an
additional granary. And his latter
end shall be worse than the first. when
he gnasheth at the railroads that their
sidings are too short for the cars he
needs, and the worlds grain prices
get baggy at the knees because Kan
sas has again. as Is her habit. raised
the biggest crop ever.
And 1t was ever thus.-F. D. Co.
burn, Secretary Kansas Agricultural
Board.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-06-08
ONE B0Y's BIG CORN CROP.
Raised One Hundred and Nineteen
Bushels on One Acre by Himself.

Raised One Hundred and Nineteen
Bushels on One Acre by Himself.
A # corn was raised on high marsh
M ground. The soil was very dark
in color, being mixture OF
sand and clay. The land was first CUT
tivated in 1902. and this was the nth
crop taken from 1t.
The only fertilizer / used was com-
mon stable manure. This was put on
February 25th, while the ground was
still frozen, it being my opinion that
1t would have been harmful to the
ground for me to cut 1t up with
wagon by hauling over it while 1t was
muddy and soft
April 3oth plowed the ground and
disced 1t twice, also planked 1t twice
to set nice, even surface. May 7th
planted the corn. Instead OF plant-
ing 1t in rows little closer than reg
alar gauge. I went round and round
he acre in the same way you would
have plowed the plot. My idea for
'oing this was that thought 1t would
Increase the number of stalks on the
acre. The corn was drilled from eigh-
teen to twenty-five inches apart In
rows two feet eight inches apart
ming to show through the ground
and on that day I dragged the ground
twice, once each way. plowed the
corn May Gath, June 7th, June 21st
and June 30th. On the 10th Of July
just as the corn was about to tassls
out. I went through the corn. remov-
ing the suckers and on the same day
hoed the entire plot to clear the weeds.
While the actual yield was 119 bush-
els and fifteen pounds. am confident
that actually raised over l20 bushels.
for 1t was not husked as clean as It
should have been and considerable
corn was carried away by persons who
came to visit the field.
The corn was of good quality and
am fully convinced that 1t Is pos
sible to raise 125 bushels Of corn per
acre and have an excellent quality of
good, sound corn. hope to be able
to demonstrate this to the people OF
LaPorte county in the near future.
Harold G. Barr, Indiana.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-06-08
now TO FILL THE sILo.
Requires Very Careful Attention Both
as to Method and Contents.

is not too early to think about
the silo and make due plans for
filling it when the harvest is over.
In the Northern states alone there
are more than half million silos and
more are being built every year.
Farmers are learning that silage is
the best thing they can use for feed
ing and are paying more attention to
the methods of putting it up.
The filling of silos can be done by
any intelligent farmer, but it is be-
coming a specially with certain men,
really jobbers. They get the largest
cutters possible, and if teams and men
can be had will fill large silo in a
day and try to fill thirty or more silos
in the month.
This means that some of the corn
on their route must be cut much too
soon and much too late, so as to have
Smith fill our silo because he rushes
things and he never breaks down"
OF COURSE all this results in silage
of different qualities in the different
silos; some too acid, a number more
about right: some cut late and too
ripe. and some frosted and inclined to
be mouldy.
There needs to be change in this
matter; little more cooperation In
machinery owning, in neighborhood
outfits, and in the work of filing,
About eight silo owners, combining
on labor and machinery, will cut the
corn for the silo at it's best, and not
wait three weeks. as we have done
for a chance to fill and then three
days more because of breakdown.
1t will be found that the best silage
is that which ferments the least, and
Is the sweetest" whatever that
means: and that which is most eager
ly eaten by the cows Is made from the
corn just as the grain is we'll in the
glaze, cut in one-third of an inch
lengths, the filling not fastened. an6
the silage allowed to settle largely by
Its own weight, 1. e., tamped little ant
not covered, but wet down on the tor
at few days intervals for two weeks
after filing.
We shall also learn another lesson
that of preventing the air from fall.
Ing into our silos during the winter
by keeping the tops closely covered
a layer of straw on the cover and the
manhole doors replaced as fast as no
needed, thus allowing the latent hea
of the silage thus imprisoned to defend
the silage against freezing; not tina
the silage is injured by freezing, bu
| there is Inconvenience in thawing |
out, for no one ought to think of feed
ing frozen chunks Of silage to COWS
though some do without thinking, ant
complain of results.
/ We will come to smaller machinery
neighborhood ownership and NOR
( timely cutting of silage; and the en-
HANGED economy of labor, better Stag
and consequent better feeding value
will be the reward.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-06-08
FEEDING CATTLE.

Answering many inquiries relative
to car of cattle which sold for $3.50
in Chicago, got them at Kansas City,
September "a, 1906. for $4.25 per cwt.
They consisted of eighteen high grade
Durhams and six grade Herefords, all
branded and all dehorned except one,
and averaged 1.149 pounds.
I shipped them to my farm near
scarboro, Lee county, Ill, where they
were put on a light feed of shocked
corn and good pasture for a little
over three weeks, when they were on
a full feed Of shocked corn, shelled
corn fed through self-feeders. plenty
of good grass and for the first ninety
days 100 pounds of stock food daily
until the last thirty days, when the
stock food was increased to $50 q
day and mixed with a little oats
They were fed no hay.
This is all they were fed until the,
were put on the market, January "a
1907, when they averaged 1856
pounds. After they had been fed
ninety days they were weighed and
showed that they had gained an av.
erage of three and seventeenth
pounds per day over Kansas City
weights.
They had access to plenty Of good
well water and to covered sheds, bu,
the good weather made 1t unnecessary
for them INTO seek shelter. After ]
had them thirty days I put two ligh,
steers in with them, making twenty.
six in all that were fed together. They
were followed by hogs
1 4 Z
They We're very tame and / gave
them much personal attention. Al
the time corn was selling for 35 tt
| 81 cents.
have fed cattle continuously since
1853, and they were the best carload
of short fed cattle that ever handled
which was due. in my opinion, to good
grain and grass. stock food good
weather and proper care and attention
H. B. Cobb, Illinois.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-06-08
WORK WITH THE FLocKs.

1t requires between eight and nine
pounds of dry feed to produce one
pound of gain with lambs. Older
sheep require about third more.
Sheep, like hogs, make fat on a
corn diet more rapidly than on any
thing else.
Wherever practicable hurdles should
be used to give lambs pastures BY
themselves. This will often proven,
parasitic diseases in lambs
On some of the large plantations
in Virginia sheep are successfully
raised without much trouble from nod
ular diseases. Pastures are changed
frequently and some planters confine
their sheep and feed them soiline
crops.
If the coarse hay in the managers
is given to sheep they will nibble {
great deal Of it away.
The sheep is a dainty feeder an6
will not eat musty or unclean hay o.
fodder. Neither will sheep drink un.
clean water.
! 1t is strange why some men will
persist in raising a scrub ram when {
! thoroughbred costs SO little in com.
parison to the Improvement he will
make in the flock.
If you have any old sheep the,
should be separated from. the rest O.
the flock, and if they are to be fat,
tened, corn should be cracked fol
them.
Sheep will sometimes eat weeds
but it is generally because they havs
nothing better
Handling or dragging a sheep by 1T
wool is just as humane as draggint
child around by the hair of Its head
The reason so many men fail ii
the sheep business Is because they d.
not study it before they begin. Sheer
raising means something more thar
buying a flock Of sheep and turnin,
them into bare pasture without shell
ter.
The western markets have this yea
been overstocked with sheep tina
lacked from five to fifteen pounds o
being finished and the market ha
broken under this sort Of pressure
The demand for fat sheep is constant
ly increasing.