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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-09-18
BIG GROWTH IS SHOWN
IN THE DAIRY INDUSTRY

EVER since that day, nearly three
II centuries ago, when spotted calf
went for walk through the fields of
Massachusetts, Bay COLONY, and so
laid out the first street in New Eng
land, old Brindle and her family have
been Of much Importance in the do
nestle and commercial life of Amer
lea. This is the cows only recorded
use as street-makers, but as producers
OF the great milk, butter and cheese
supply of the nation they have
series of long and successful years
back of them.
The dairy industry of the United
States is congenial study for those
VINO like statistics. The growth has
been tremendous. There are more
than 21,000,000 cows MIXED in the
United States every day, each gives
$500 pounds of milk a year, making
the annual output of this country
about 70,0O0,000,000 pounds of milk.
1t Is disposed of in various ways. A
little over half OF it is required for
the making of butter, 100000 900
pounds Of it goes into condensed
milk, 5000, 100000 into cheese, and the
rest is sold as cream, fed to the
calves, or divided among the people Of
the country, each of whom should re.
celve seven-tenths of a pound of milk
day-a good-sized tumbler full.
II the cows were all told of and as
signed to specific duty in this dairy
products business, 100000 of them
would be required to furnish the milk,
condensed milk and cream; 10000, 900
would confine their attention solely
to butter, and would each be expected
to furnish 1917 pounds year; $780,
GOO would be assigned to the cheese
Industry, and the remaining number
would have the raising of all the
calves.
AS each individual in the United
States is supposed to eat 20 pounds
of butter each year, the Brindle fam.
lily cannot quite supply it, so we still
import something like $4,000 pounds
to make up the deficiency. One-third
of the nations output of butter comes
from the farms where 100000 farm.
ers and their families, still churn it,
pack 1t In firkins or tubs and deliver
it to the nearest shipping point. Over
5000 factories make the rest of the
1900, 100000 pounds that we use an
nually.
Chicago, New York, Philadelphia,
Boston and St. Louis are the great
butter distributing centers of the
country Shipped by express, or
freight, by boat or rail, the butter
reaches these points at all seasons
OF the year and is Immediately put in
cold storage to await the demand, q
continual temperature of from 20 de-
grees Fahrenheit to below zero being
maintained.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-09-18
CONGRESSMAN PLANNING
TRIP TO THE ISTHMUS

w AsH1NGTON.-A subcommittee
W Of the committee on appropria-
tons of the next congress will go to
the tsthmus in November to investi-
gate Secretary Taft's canal estimates
for 1909, If present plans are carried
out.
The proposed visit is the outcome
Of suggestion from Representative
James A. Tawney Of Minnesota, chair.
man OF the appropriations committee
In the last congress, who was at the
1sthmus following the adjournment
last March. He believes it will be to
the best interests of the service, as
we'll as to those directly and indirect
ly in charge of the administration of
the forces at work there, If the mem
bers OF the appropriations committee
having In charge the preparation Of
the sundry civil bill go to the isthmus
with the estimates for the next fiscal
year and consider them carefully with
the officials having supervision of ex-
penditures for all kinds Of work being
done.
The suggestion has met with
hearty response from those identified
with the commissions work, who be-
Ieve that great deal of good will
result from a heart to heart talk be-
tween the congressman who prepare
the appropriation and the officials
who spend it, and that it will clear
away In advance any misapprehen-
sions or Misunderstanding that may
exist as to the business and propriety
OF alloting the money estimated to be
necessary for the years work. OF
particular Importance is the proposed
visit regarded at the present time,
when the question is now before the
president whether the commission
can lawfully expend during the pres
ent fiscal year any more money than
was specifically appropriated,
Officials here think congress may.
as a result Of the observations of the
members of the appropriations CON-
mittee who go to the isthmus, see fit
to provide legislation under which
work may proceed, regardless of the
appropriations, if this authority does
not already exist The committee
Will return to Washington in time for
the opening of congress in December:
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-09-18
CRUSADE ON GAMBLERS
Is LED BY ROOSEVELT
ID RESIDENT ROOSEVELT ia inter

p RESIDENT ROOSEVELT is inter
1 ested deeply in the crusade against
gambling in the District of Columbia.
He Is more than cooperating with the
local authorities. The campaign is
made under his direction. He has
thoroughly impressed upon the dis
tr1ct commissioners his determination,
announced In one Of his speeches, to
make Washington clean city. As
the commissioners are his appointees.
and can be removed at his pleasure,
1t Ia not surprising that the incum-
bents show zeal in the work cut out
for them.
In raid on alleged bucket-shops re-
Gently secret service officers were con-
spicuous. The explanation of the
presence OF federal officers is that the
president Is determined that the local
laws shall be enforced and that gam
bling shall be suppressed. The metro
po1itan police and detective forces
are sufficiently strong, numerically, to
do the work, but to see that it was
performed thoroughly secret service
men were detailed. Whether they
have been assigned to keep tab on
local police is not known. It is known.
however. that much Of the evidence
upon which the raids were made was
gathered by the federal detectives.
No cry will be raised by the district
commissioners Of federal interference.
The prosecutions which are to follow
In the courts will be directed by a
presidential appointee, the district at
torney, who In the District Of Colum-
bia has charge of all cases before the
criminal courts.
The president also is giving hearty
federal cooperation in the efforts to
make Washington a clean city from
a sanitary point Of view. The health
officers Of the government are assist
ing the district health Office and from
the marine hospital service work is
being done in this direction.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-09-18
ALFALFA AND FERTILITY.
Ono Farmer In the West Finds the
Two Go Together.

Out here in the west where corn
and wheat and oats have been our
staples for years We have found the
land to demand something to replen-
lsh the humus that grain growing took
from 1t, writes a correspondent of
Farmers Voice. The day Of the big
grain farmer who wrings the fertility
from the land and does not put back
enough to help the next seasons crops
Is about past. Farmers of the great
corn belt have learned that corn land
needs fertilization the same as any
other; that the growing of corn and
cattle and hogs and alfeifa is the So
luton OF maintaining fertility. To-day
there is more cattle feeding than ever
IN the corn belt, and it has come about
because of the desire to maintain fer
t1lity. The great increases in popula-
ton will in time make the price Of
corn land double what it now is if it
Is fertile!
There is . lot Of meaning in those
few words. Not only has the corn
grower found that the signs point to
future fertility, he has discovered that
Immediate benefits come from fer
t1llty, hence the big feed lot with it's
cattle and hogs and consequent big
loads of manure to feed to the hungry
land. Every farmer in the corn belt
will grow alfalfa. Where it would
not grow ten years ago, to-day -four
ishes and waves in the summer wind.
And the mighty advance of this won
derful plant is not over. IT'S only
begun. The wise farmers only are
utilizing it. The smart ones ignore
1t. Twont grow here" they say,
trying to initiate the sages.
Corn and alfalfa rotated keep up
the lands life, and if the manure Of
stables, hog pens and feeding yard
is added, fertility will increase and
land bear heavy crops as WE'LL Let
the farmer send his produce to market
on the hoof and feed up all his hay
and grain. A field that has grown al
falfa three years to five will produce
from fourth to a third more corn
than land that was of the same orig
inal value in fertility, but which has
grown corn continuously. Three cut
tings of extra good hay can be made
from the average alfalfa field, and in
extra good years four may be made,
each cutting from one and a quarter
to two tons per acre.
know one farmer of $50 acres of
land worth over $4,000 who saw five
years ago the evils of grain growing,
but who now grows alfalfa and corn
and dairy cows. His is the best pay
ing farm that I know of in the great
state of Nebraska, and he tells me
that such combination as he is work
ing towards is steadily upbuilding fer
tility and increasing the revenue
Another stockman whose GAO acres
is worth $4,000 keeps half in alfalfa
the whole time and half in corn. He
ships in his feeders and generally fats
800 head every fall and winter. His
farm grows heavier crops to-day than
ever before, so he says, and he blames
the alfalfa plant, manure spreader and
steer for the results
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-09-18
PoINTERS.

A hedgehog-the neighbor who
won't keep up his fences.-Farm Jour-
nal.
Some farmers find great advantage
in sowing rye at the last working Of
the corn. Might try patch.
The manure spreader has decreased
the number Of rich barnyards and in
creased the number of rich fields in
stead.
Don't sell any clover hay If you
have stock to feed it to. 1t is worth
nearly as much for fertilizer as for
feed.
Sow only the plumpest, incest wheat
this fall. Run it through the tanning
mill and take all the foul stuff out.
Good seed Is half the crop.
The cost of a pair of farm scales
will be saved the first year in prevent
ing the losses from guessing at
weights of other products bought or
sold.
The hoe is one of the most useful
implements on the farm, but it is not
automatic in its operations. To be
effective it needs strong arm and q
willing hand.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-09-18
preciate my fathers character and {,

precfate my fathers character and to
understand how terrible this sorrow is
to him. Every morning of his life he
spends an hour after breakfast with
my dear mother, who is a cripple from
hip disease. He takes her in his arms
and brings her down from her room to
the library as if she were a child. He
then reads to her-and he knows good
books as well as he knows his friends.
After he takes mother back to her
rooE.. he gives an hour to our people,
the blacks of the plantation and his
white tenants throughout the county.
He is father to them all. He settles
all their troubles, big and little. Then
for hours he and go over his business
affairs. Every afternoon from four to
five he devotes to his estates and the
men and women for whom he acts as
trustees. He has often said to me:
We have clear million of money and
property, and that is all any man
should have in America It is all he
is entitled to under our form of gov
eminent. Any more than that An
honest man should in one way or an
other return to the people from whom
he has taken it. l never want my
family to have more than a million
dollars When he went into the Sea.
board affair, he explained to me that
it was to assist the Wilsons-they
were old friends, and he acted as their
solicitor for years-in building up the
south. He discussed with me the
right and advisability of putting in the
trust funds. He said he considered it
his duty to employ them as he did his
own in enterprises that would aid the
whole people of the south, instead of
sending them to the north to be used
in Wall street as betting for the 'Sys-
tenn grinder. These fortunes were
made in the south by men who loved
their section of the country more than
they did wealth, and why should they
not be employed to benefit that part
Of the country which their makers and,
owners loved? I remember wildly
how perplexed he was when, at the be-
ginning, the Wilson's would show him
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-09-18

had individual knives, forks and
spoons. but the common people ate
with their fingers. You helped your,
self from the general dish with your
own spoon If you had one, but If you
were very, very fastidious you licked
the spoon clean first. The food was
queer-rich, rank food-swans, herons,
porpoises, garlic, verjuice, saffron.
There was mead and wine In foods
and ushers stood about whose, duty
it was to lead to convenient couches
such guests as had dined too we'll.
These ushers, being overworked, were
continually striking for more pay. The
hours were queer, too. Breakfast
dawn; dinner, ten o'clock; supper, tour
o'clock n the attarnooo.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-09-18

that the investments were returning
unusually large profits.
1t is not right, Beulah,' he said to
me one morning after receiving let
ter from Baltimore to the effect that
Seaboard stock and bonds had ad-
vanced until his investment showed
over 50 per cent. profit, it is not right
for US to make this money. No man
in America should make over legal
rates of interest and a fair profit on
an investment, that is, an investment
of capital pure and simple, particu.
larly in a transportation company,
where every dollar of profit comes
from the people who patronize the
lines. I have worked it out on every
side, and it is not right; it would not
be legal if the people, who make the
laws for their own betterment, IN
derstood their affairs as they should
He was always writing to the Will
sons to conduct the affairs of the Sea-
board so that there would be remain.
ing each day only profits enough to-
keep the road up and the wharves in
good condition and to pay the annual
interest and fair dividend. And
when the Wilson's came to our house
to lay before him the offer of Rein
hardt and his fellow plunderers to
pay enormous profits for the control
of the Seaboard, he was indignant and
argued with them that the offer was
an insult to honest men. It was he
who advised the trusteeship control
of the Seaboard stock to prevent
Reinhart from securing control. Isat
in the library when he talked to the
elder Wilson and the directors.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-09-18

but the sunshine OF prosperity and hap
piness; the one, my dear Beulah, who is
to save your old father from a dishonored
grave. Dear child, forgive me for plac-
ing upon your weak shoulders the addi-
ttonal burden of knowing am now help
less and compelled to rely absolutely
upon you. After you have read my letter.
if there is no hope, command you to tell
me at once, for although I am now
financially and almost mentally helpless,
I am still Sands, and there has never
yet been one Of the name who shirked his
duty, however stern and painful it might
be.
When l handed the letter back to
Miss Sands, she said:
"Mr. Randolph, let me tell you and
Mr.. BROMLEY a little about my father
and our home, that you may see our
situation as it is. My father is one of
the noblest men that ever lived. l am
not the only one who says that-if you
were to ask the people of our state to
name the one man who had done most
for the state as state, most for her
progressive betterment, most for her
people high and low, white and black,
they would answer, Judge Lee Sands
He has been, and is, the idol of our
people. After he was graduated from
Harvard. he entered the law office of
my grandfather, Senator Robert Lee
Sands. Before he was 80 he was in
congress and was even then reputed
the greatest orator of our state, where
orators are so plentiful. He married
my mother, his second cousin, Julia
Lee, OF Richmond, at Is, and from
then until the attack of that ruthless
money shark, led life such as true
man would map out for himself If his
Maker granted him the privilege. You
would have to visit at our home to ap-
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-09-18
SALT CELLAR OF LONG AGO.
Was Distinctive Mark Of Caste in the
Middle Ages.

This is a medieval salt cellar" said
the antiquary. 1T is huge, it is shaped
like castle, it is solid silver and the
price-but what is the use telling the
price to you? Very magnificent, Ell?
In the middle age, you know, the salt
cellar was the principal table ornar
ment. Guests sat above or below the
salt as they were prominent or the
reverse. Where do you think you'd
have rat, eh Queer table manners
they had IN those days. The fastidious
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-09-18

platform. For runners at the front end,
I took runners from an old Keystone
planter and fastened them from the
bottom SO as to have them run about
6 or inches from the rows of corn.
For knives, l took two blades of
an old stalk cutter. The platform may
be either nailed or bolted down. The
wheels are old planter wheels On the
table I have buck fastened to the
platform SO one can sit or lean upon
it when tired. Below this l have a
pail large enough to hold a ball of
binder Irvine. AS soon as l have an
armful of corn is is compressed with
the device shown and tied ready for
putting in the shock"
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-09-18

with quaint persistency to the customs
OF her young days, when there was
time for respect and courtesy. She
could, seemingly, by holding a sick
baby in her arms, cure it of whatever
ailment it had. After we had grown
too big to be her babies, she seemed
to pine, and, as she said, she 'honed
for baby And so she became the
head nurse Of the neighborhood, and
always had some baby in her arms.
usually a sick one. Then it was that
her eyes shone with that soft fire that
alone seemed to burn away the ira
gedy back of her."
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-09-18
Old Reliahlea.

While we are waiting for the adap.
tation Of the automobile to farm work,
old Bill and Jerry can be depended
on to pull the plow and harrow. The
best Of it is the manure that Bill and
Jerry make is good for the laud,
while the refuse from an automobile
will not benefit anything IL H.,
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-09-18
Slightly Twisted,

The Observer, in an article on the
Pekin-to-Paris race, asked: Can any,
body conscientiously say that the sue.
cessful competitors have driven from
Paris to Pekin by motor carr"
Mr.. Punch, for one, cannot honestly
lay his hand on his heart and say any
thing of the kind. For, deep down in
his conscience, he knows that the race
was run in the opposite direction
London Punch.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-09-18
ARMY COURTS. MARTIAL
FEWER THAN LAST YEAR

THERE was Z decrease Of 663 trials
! OF ofhcers and mel Of the army by
courts-martial for the fiscal year end.
ing June 80 last, a. compared with the
previous year. according to the report
'of MAJ Porter. the acting Judge ad7o-
cate Of the army. 5
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-09-18
Maxine 4 Bold Stab n II.

Making Bold Stab at Il.
We enjoyed our little vacation ever.
20 much, said Mis-. Lapsling. I'VE
came back on one Of those elegant
par1or trains with the vesatabuls
Cars 5.. 5.. : +.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-09-18

He that ventures not tails not
French.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-09-18
A CORN HARVESTER.
Handmade Cutter Which Will Cut
Two Rows at a Time.

An Iowa reader describes this two
row homemade cutter which he says
pulls easier than a sled cutter: Il
used by for an axle, and bolted
a by to this axle 21k to feet
apart, and let it run out IL inches on
the rear side. Board this over for a
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-24
CONVINCED THAT THERE
IS LIFE ON MARS

PARIS, Aug. 19.-Camille Flam-
marion, the great astronomer who
has been observing the planet Mars,
writes the following:
cat the observatory of Juvisy OBJ
tanned two drawings of Mars in tele-
scopic views. The south pole is at
the top, the north pole at the bottom.
The first drawing was made on June
IS, the second on August IA. In the
first the upper polar SHOWS are very
extended, whereas no trace of snow
is visible at the bottom.
In the second drawing the south
ern SHOWS are considerably dimin-
ished and the northern SHOWS are
clearly manifest. The differences are
not due to variation in the inclina-
tion of the axis of the planet toward
the earth, for this variation between
these dates is less than six degrees.
They are due to the fact that the
southern hemisphere of Mars is at
present in summer and the northern
hemisphere in winter. The northern
solstice will take place on October %.
ut results that the southern
SHOWS have been melting for months
every day, while upon the other the
SHOWS are growing in extent. This
melting is marked at the upper pole,
not only by elimination of the
polar cap, but also by the darker
shade of the surrounding area, which
represents water resulting from this
melting.
Thus there is before our eyes
these summer nights living world
in which the seasons show us varia-
lions indicating very intense climat-
illogical activity.
ut is difficult to witness manifes-
tations of this activity without being
convinced of the existence of a con-
dition of life, assuredly very different
from terrestrial life, but the nature
of which was very difficult to obtain"
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-24
ARE EVER READY
TO FACE The MUSIC
BY Cap ]. L. Smith,

While the large majority of the
common people look on army officers
as men of leisure, with nothing to do
but wear fine uniforms and attend
social gatherings, those of us who
have seen service in the army and
heard the cannens roar, especially
those who, like the writer, went
through the civil war, know the true
value of these West Point gentlemen
who are ever ready, when the emer-
gency arises, to step to the front, and
with raw recruits, or any and all
kinds of fighting material, face the
Idsic.
The history of the civil war, as
well as that of the late Spanish war,
will go to prove the intrinsic value
of the West Pointer when it comes to
fight, or, as Kipling puts it, when
the band begins to play. Grant, Sher-
man, Sheridan, Lee, Longstreet
Jackson and many others on both
sides-in fact, none but the West
Pointers on either side-amounted to
anything in that gigantic struggle.
They are not only ready to fight
with any and all kinds of firearms
but the writer has known them tc
"get down to business" with theil
bare fists when no other weapons
were handy. They will brook no in
suit, either to their uniform or tc
their flag.
On one particular occasion, at a so
cial gathering in Salt Lake City, 9
"bull-headed" Englishman so far for
got himself as to pull down and tram
pie under foot an American flag thai
had been festooned in and about the
room; but he had no sooner giver
the insult when an army officer sta
toned at Fort Douglas (Which mill
tary post is just on the outskirts Of
that city, proceeded to put "head'
on the Englishman in the most ap
proved style-he knocked him down
kicked him in the head and laid him
up for repairs for about three
months.
This thrashing at the hands of the
West Point officer was not without its
beneficial effects on the Englishman
| for since that time he has quit whis
| ky, Joined the church and became
naturalized and thoroughly an Amer
lean citizen, and today holds a lucra
| tive position here in Denver, where
he is invited into respectable society
| and where, it is needless to say, he
conducts himself with great decorun
and "sits straight up to the table
whenever he is invited to attend any
social gatherings.