Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-06
THIS IS GOING SOME!
Bread From Standing Corn in
lust Four Hours.
WORK OF POWER MACHINE
Acre Field Then Flowed and Sowed in
Jig Time.
EDWARDS GOING TO MOVE
But Hasn't Decided Just Where.
Suffragists Are Rowing Among
Themselves Now.


Special Cabegram to The Star.
LONDON, October 5.--Thursday last on
farm in Lincolnshire most remark
able demonstration was given Of tho
power of motor machinery applied to
agricultural operations. An acre of stand
ing corn was cut, bound, threshed and
ground by power supplied from a tractor
worked with a patrol engine. Bread was
then baked from the -four and the Ioaves
left the oven in a very little over four
hours from the time when the traction
engine entered the field This. however.
was only part of the days operations.
and hardly even the most striking part.
The acre ground was plowed, dressed
sown and narrowed in less than fojN
hours more. The whole time was occu-
pied by the double feat of turning the
standing corn into bread and sowing an
acre of ground for next years crop, taxing
precisely six hours and forty minutes,
after deducting an interval for the mems
lunch and half an hours delay due to tho
overheating of the bearings.
Where Are All the Horsesp
The serious dearth of foals in this
country, which Earl Darlington has en-
phasized by pointing out that there have
been 10000 fewer this year than last. Is
really a national danger, and one concern
Ing which for some time past we have
made constant representations to the gov
eminent. This statement was made ny
A. B. Charlton, secretary of the Hunters
Improvement Society, an organization
which is working in conjunction with the
Brood Mare Society and the royal COM
missioners on horse-breeding, to increase
the present annual grant of $4,000 which
Is paid by the government to the last
named body to improve the conditions OF
hnr -hvaa6 ING hrf uhntr h.
France, Austria and Germany" OBJ
served Mr.. Charlton, recognize the inn
portance Of maintaining the numerical
strength Of their horses, and also the
quality Of them, and each of these coun-
tries spends s1,000,000 a year in this
direction. Under existing conditions for
eigners come over here and buy all the
best Of our blood mares. In some dis
tricts there are no good animals left.
They have been secured by other coun-
tries, and we have to make shift with
those which continental buyers do not
consider worth purchasing In time Of
war the position Of the government would
be exceedingly serious"
suffragists Split Up.
The suffragettes nave suffered a seces-
sion. Three OF the most active-Mrs. Des-
pard, Mrs. Howe Martyr and Miss Hodg-
son--have left the parent organization and
are starting one of their own. The trouble
came through a mere man. These ladies
are members of the independent labor
party, and wished tha: the suffragettes
should join forces with that party, but the
Pankhurst family and the other advanced
sunragettes maintained that they should
ally themselves with no party until their
own policy had triumphed. The fact that
the Independent labor party is for them
to a man did not affect their view. The
present policy shows the suffragettes al
most wholly on the side of unionism and
reaction, result against which Mrs Des-
l41
fighting election more agreeable, as q
rule, to be on the side Of the classes.
To Set Noon at Eleven.
Vice President Wright of the British Watch
and Clock Makers Guild is evidently a dam
gerous revolutionary. He proposed at a
meeting Of that body that all clocks should
be put an hour forward In the British
Isles, so that noon would be at II. NOM
inally, instead of II. The salutary motive
for this change was TO transform the in
habitants of these isles into early risers
and correspondingly early bedders. He
council, and made light of the gigantic OBJ
stacles in the way of such turning of
night into day. 1t would necesstate an
alteration in all astronomical calculations
In nautical and other almanacs. Besides, 1t
would take more than an order in council.
or even an act of parliament. to convince
the average sluggard that o'clock on q
raw, dark, wintry morning was g. If he
had proposed to put the clocks back an
hour he might not have excited SO much
feeling in astronomical and other circles.
Where Will Edward Livep
When the king visits Balmoral this au.
tumn II is stated that he will try to como
to some determination as to the future Of
the residence, which is something of a
white elephant to rim. He has no great
liking for the Scottish highlands, and, in
deed, finds the air almost too severe for
him for any length of time and had it not
been for the sentimental connections of the
place there Is no doubt that he would have
disposed Of it in some way or other sew
eral years ago There Is a report current
that the king, II the climate of Deeside were
more agreeable and the distance from Lon
don not SO great, would divide the house
into suites Of apartments for bestowal upon
prominent peop'e whose circumstances war
ranted it, much after the fash on In which
Hampton court is divided. In the mean
time, most of the treasures of Balmoral
have been transferred to Windsor and
Buckingham palace and many others are
likely to follow. 1t is well known that
few years ago the king made offer OF
Balmoral TO Princess Beatrice for her life
time. but the princess decided. after con-
sderation, that the place would be too ex-
mol for her n m atnfain