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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-08-22

atsd about ten miles southeast OF Pierre
and are not ouly valuable for agricul-
tural purposes but much Of them can be
cultivated without irrigation. Each
applicant for land will be required to
execute ali affidavit before some officer
in the land district Of Pierre and present
II 10 the register and receiver of the
Pierre land office between o'clock IN
the morning of Monday, DC and 4
o'clock on SATURDAY., oct IL The draw.
ing will take place on Oct IA. aud on
the Monday following the successful
applicants will begin TO make entry.
These lands are TO be entered under the
homestead law In tracts not exceeding
$50 acres, and are TO BE- paid fol at from
81 % to ~ 30 an acre The first pay
ment of 81 is required on the date of
entry and the others in annual install
ments
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-08-22
Imitation of Ebony.

There are two processes. says the
Carriage Monthly. in use In the imita
ton of ebony. Take a fine grained
piece Of wood, use French black pol
ish, made black with fine coloring mat
ter, or good air drying black varnish
may be applied. This. however. gives
only a superficial coloring. and when
the edges wear or the light colored
wood shows. The other method is to
wash three or four times any dense
wood with boiling connection OF log
wood, allowing II to dry between each
application Then wash with solu-
ton OF acetate OF iron. which is made
by dissolying iron filings in vinegar.
This stain Is very black and penetrates
into the wood so that ordinary wear
and chipping viii not show the original
color.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-08-22
The Oriain of a Great invention.

On one OF the daily trips Of yor ng
Westinghouse frg.i Schenectady to the
foundry at Troy his train was held up
by bad wreck. Two freightS had
come together in a hcad-On collision on
a piece of straight track. The engi-
neers had seen the danger plainly, but
by the time the hand brakes We're
brought into play it was too late. The
young man allowed these facts to sink
into his mind. Then he said To one OF
the train hands:
eff the engineers had been able to
control their trains from the cabs, the
wreck could have been prevented,
couldn't it?'
Control 'em how?"
Brake them"
ayes. They had lots Of time"
That was enough. The air brake was
conceived. Amid the piled up wreck
age the thing that was to make the
name of Westinghouse familiar to ev
cry schoolboy the world over was call
ed into being. 1t did not come in its
perfected form, but the idea itself had
germinated.-Paul Latzke In Every
body's.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-08-22

II would perhaps be pushing meta
phors 10 an unwarranted extreme to
speak OF dignity of labor" In connec-
ton with the occupations of ants. But
II by the phrase we mean that labor
IL the honorable lot Of all citizens. and
that all labors of whatever sort are
upon the same level Of responsibility.
then we might venture to apply the
saying even to the labors OF an ant
hill. For therein all are workers. from
the newly fiedged callow to the veteran
OF a second summer.-Henry McCook
In Harper's.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-08-22

"Oh. It's easy! Easy as taking candy
from baby"
Easy. en-? Ever try to take candy
from q babyr'-Pittsburg Post.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-08-22

he that i proud eats up himself
Shakespeare.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1907-01-30
A safe, speedy and
positive cure. for

burrows On the 10th of April | drag
ged pole with the rows to drag the
ridges down and set out slips. |
worked then with sweep until the
vines began running. I barred them
off and | drilled in IS pounds of nj
trate of soda by hand; then L threw
two burrows back to ridge and threw
middle out with "a inch sweep. I dug
100 bushels off of the quarter acre I
fertlllzed, and | had one-quarter acre
| did not fertilize, which yielded rs
bushels. The two plots lay side by
side. Multiply by four and we have
400 bushels on the fertilized acre and
four times rs will give 100 bushels
per acre without fertilizer
The fertilizer I used was pure cot
ton seed meal, 800 pounds, and phos-
phoric acid, 1900 pounds, making one
ton. The fertilizer cost me $1.1o
hundred and the nitrate S. per hum
dred. The cost of all fertilizer was
$3.50 per acre. Extra work one dol
lar, making total of $3.50 per acre.
[ have sold all of my potatoes at so
cents per bushel. Now, 400 bushels
at 50 cents would be $500. Take
$3.50 from $500 and you will have
$500 left on the fortified acre.
Now 100 bushels at so cents, will be
$50 in cash on the acre without ferti-
lizer Take off the cost of fertilizer
and work and we have $I3I.2o clear
on one fortified acre over the I'M
fertllized. [ want to say to the old
mossbacks, if there be any, you can
go on with your bowling about ferti-
lizer killing land. | will use it and
keep on killing my land. If this hap
pens to miss the waste basket l may
write again.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1907-01-30
Sweet Potatoes.

Does it pay to use commercial fer
tilizers on sweet potatoes? A cor
respondent of Farm and Ranch thinks
that it does, and gives his reasons
for this belief as follows:
I promised to give to Professor
Cornell my experiment on sweet pota-
toes. will now give it. I first broke
my land deep in November, then har-
rowed the land three times | used
an Acme harrow twice, and section
harrow once on the 10th of February.
I opened my land deep with an eight
inch shovel p1ow and on one-fourth of
an acre I put in 200 pounds of fertl-
lizer on the same day. took a one
horse turn plow and put two burrows
on it the 18th of March. I took a
section harrow and narrowed the
ground twice, going with rows. On
the first of April I opened the ferti-
1izer ridges deep and bedded back on
the furrow with the turn plow four
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1907-01-30

they get on this subject, and relieve
themselves of the most outlandish and
absurd statements. For instance, I
have just thrown into my waste bas-
ket an editorial that appeared in an
afternoon New York newspaper, in
which the writer attacks the denatur-
ed alcohol law on the grounds that
it makes it impossible for any one to
engage in the manufacture of dena-
tured alcohol in less quantities than
500 gallons day. Why is it that
many men will, take some other mans
statement of a fact rather than go to
a little trouble and make certain Of
the thing themselves? AS matter
of fact, the manufacture of alcohol
and it's supervision has not been al
tered one iota by this new law. 1t
merely throws certain safeguards
about the business of changing the
nature Of the product 1t makes me
sick to hear some Congressman talk
about the ease with which the German
farmer can engage in the manufac-
ture of denatured alcohol and the
difficulties thrown in the way of the
farmers The German can go ahead
and make all he wants, they say,
and all the government does is to
send around man a couple of times
week to unlock and lock the con-
tainer that holds the product Now,
I'd like to know what difference it
makes to the farmer whether the gov
eminent Inspector comes around twice
week or stays on the place all the
time! In either case the farmer does
not pay the bill The government
pays the salary of the Inspector, and
the farmer is not charged a cent
That's what this government offers
to do, and it does not make one bit
Of difference whether he makes five
gallons, 500 gallons or 100000 gal
Ions day. The government will
pay the cost Of inspection, and not a
cent will be deducted from the profits
of the distiller for. that purpose. There
is nothing on earth to prevent any
farmer in the country from going
into the manufacture of denatured
alcohol tomorrow if he wants to, and
he can do it on a capital of $500, ST.
900 or almost any amount he pleases.
1t is only a question with him wheth-
er it is going to pay him. Out in
Kansas, where corn is now selling
at AZ cents a bushel, it probably
won't pay him to do it. When corn
is down to 20 cents it doubtless would.
There is the case in nutshell The
farmers who have the product at hand
with which to make denatured alco-
hol-if it is cheap enough-will prob
ably engage in the business with pro-
fit Those who have not got it will
find it to their interest to stay out.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1907-01-30
The Boy and His Dog.

All children and most sweet-tem-
pered grown-ups love pets,. but there
seems to be peculiar affinity between
a healthy boy and his dog, and it is
a very good companionship to en-
courage. You may be sure that trus
ty dog will never teach a boy to
smoke nor to use unbecoming lam
guage, while he may impart to him
lessons in fidelity and affection.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1907-01-30
DENATURING ALCOHOL.
An Explanation by the Commission
er of Internal Revenue.

1IICl Z lids DCCll llluSu SOlAlp ldlllI Oll
the part of many of Our agricultural
exchanges that the government Of
6cials were interpreting the law al
lowing the manufacture and sale of
denatured alcohol free of tax, that it
could only be made by large disti1-
leries. We have copied some of these
and commented upon them very I'M
favorably to the officials who seemed
to be setting aside the clear intention
of those who were instrumental in
procuring the passage of the law.
We believe in equal and exact JUS
tice to all men. Therefore we are
glad to give space to an authoritative
denial by the Commissioned of In.
ternal Revenue You will see that he
positively denies the assertion which
has been made that no still Of less
capacity than 500 gallons per day
would be allowed to make denaturcd
alcohol.
A press telegram says:
Internal Revenue Commissioner
Yerkes has denied permission to a
New York department store to deal
in denatured alcohol, on the ground
that the concern also deals IN drugs
and pure alcohol, and it would be
against public policy to allow those
who handle potable alcohol to sell the
other product.
1--WE are DESTROYS of ascertaining
whether there can be anything in the
regulations, wrote the manager of
the store to the Internal Revenue
Bureau, (which will prevent a depart
cnent store like ours from selling de-
natured alcohol in Our drug depart
enent in sealed packages of less than
four and half gallons. Our drug
department. is situated on the main
floor of Our building We have a
wholesale liquor and rectifying license
in our grocery department on the fifth
floor'
IF denatured alcohol were sold on
one floor and spirituous beverages on
another floor" said Mr.. Yerkes today
1T might happen some day that there
would be mixture, by mistake Of
course we do not say that there would
De, but such mistakes have been
'-nown to happen.
Commissioner Yerkes announces
the Internal Revenue Bureau is ready
to take care of the denatured alcohol
business as soon as it is allowed by
law to begin operations throughout
the country, on January I.
81 have no means of knowing how
many concerns will engage in the
manufacture or how many will deal
in the denatured product" said Mr..
Yerkes, "but in any event we will be
able to take care of the volume of
business, no matter what it's size may
be- I have just sent out letters to
all the collectors of internal revenue
in the country instructing them i'm
mediate1y to furnish me with all the
information they can gather about the
manufacture of denatured alcohol just
as soon as it starts in their Districts
and to at once call on me for whatever
additional help they may need proper
1y to supervise the industry.
"In this connection, I want to say
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1907-01-30
Facts About Florida.

contributor to the Farm Journal, Wis
tied this state and wrote series of
letters, or rather described things as
she saw them in her regular monthly
letters. Of course, she followed the
beaten track and saw only the worst
part of the state and was not pleased
We felt at the time that an answer
ought to be made but never found
time to write it. Now at this late
date some one, writing from Brooks
vile, has written a shor t answer,
which we think is good so far as it
goes, but leaves much unsaid that
might have been told. The letter is
as follows:
After reading Mary Sidney's i'm
pressions Of Florida in past issues of
Farm Journal, became quite anxious
to correct some of them which seem
mistaken. The vacation-spender in
Florida is often led to believe that
the ''east coast locality represents
the state in topography and general
characteristics, but in the interest of
"Fair Play" it should be known that
the western side of peninsular Flori-
da, as we'll as the northwestern part
of the state, is Of billy nature, much
resembling the prosperous farming
regions of the middle and western
states, and very productive.
Florida folks having been until re-
cent years largely dependent on or
ange growing for all their needs, have
not learned to farm like many of
Our Folks, but are waking up to the
possibilities of their surroundings
Very few, even now, fertilize anything
but oranges,-all farm and garden
truck doing without. To the know
ing, this shows splendid resources,
considering what is actually produced
Like other states, for distant from
the centers of population, Florida is
taxed heavily by the railroads, and the
railroads generally are built through
the --LATEST or most unfavorable Sec
tons (to save expense in construc-
tion); and thus the tourist in passing
through sees little that is like "fairy
land" Too many tales of the riches
and ease possible in Florida, have
been told by schemers; but she is
made Of good stuff, just the same. L,
for one, prefer this state to Michi-
gan, Missouri or New York, on &C
count of merit as we'll as climate. This
is written at an elevation of more
than 800 feet above sea-level, and on
the ground floor, too, in Florida.
When people take care of them
selves (and their stock) they are
healthy, in Florida or in Pennsylva-
MIA. A few good old Pennsylvania
Dutch folks would work wonders
here The writer wishes to say that
he arrived here February 10th of last
year CATER an absence of eight years),
and pulled fresh beets, lettuce, tur-
nips, mustard, .radishes and strawber-
ries for the table (and no hotbeds
either) He has been eating all the
vegetables, fruit and berries that his
capacity would admit, ever since.
Fresh figs and peaches frequently go
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1907-01-30

Whenever you think that you have
money enough to buy more land,
spend the amount, or a portion of it,
in an effort to raise bigger crops on
the land you already have. 1t is
intensive rather than extensive farm
ing that creates the healthy balance
in the bank.-Farm Journal.
The Washington times., 1907-12-06
PAYS FOR DINNERS
WITH STOLEN GEMS
Youth RobS Maiden Lane
Store and Does Fast
Spending.

NEW YORK. Dec. 6.-DIamonds worth
10000 stolen by an elghuoea-ypa
bookkeeper from the jewelry hrr OF
Rudolph Noel & Co. 81 Maiden lane,
furnished the Tenderloin with its latest
spectacular spender and put Louis ].
Harris in the Tombs prison yesterday.
Harris might still be uncaught II he
had not persisted IN paying for dinners
at Sherry's and for automobiles in dia-
monds instead OF gold.
Private detectives failed to find Har-
ds, but detectives from headquarters
spent only enough time to trace down
the young man who was tipping Up
things" on the White Way. They ar
rested Earris in few hours as he ten
dered a diamond ring in payment for
auto hire at Ninety-third street gar
age.
The police say Harris made a com
plete confession. According to his story.
told the police. he net h girl on Broad
way one October afternoon who wanted
TO be taken TO the theater. Harris liked
her. but had 70 ready money.
He said he went 10 the Maiden lane
store and stole a email diamond pin
from the jewel tray, 10 which he had
easy access.
Ihe girl went 10 the IuedIer Win AlLn-
AftSrward he took more diamonds, so
tina. they might ride about In autOmo-
biles. AS bOUkkeeper, he says, he had
no trouble falsifyinR entries to cover
up his thefts. and before he realized IL
81 500 worth OF his employers gems had
gone into entertainments for the win
some girl.
He declared he was The son Of tho
head Of the jewelry firT which he had
looted, and he soon became swath-
rarnniuofn scala THAT
made even the Tenderloin take notice.
When the girl deserted him for an
other on November 1. Harris disap-
peared. He began drinking heavily, II
Is said, and began TO tender diamonds
in payment for his eXcesses-
When caught he had so far depleted
his stolen stock OF gems that he was
selling pawn tickets 10 get ready cash.
The Washington times., 1907-12-06
Georgetown Goes Too Fast.

The athletic relations between the
two leading collegiate institutions
of the District-Georgetown Univer-
sity and Georgetown College have
become a public question. Until
Day, those relations
hung upon a demand from George
town for an exceptional share of
the gate receipts at the great game
of the year. Now they have been
severed by this same college on a
basis wholly different, an allegation
that at the Thanksgiving Day meet
the George Washington students Of
Tended against good taste. Upon
which facts and the assumption
that the rivalry between the two
schools has become too intense a
local contemporary urges that the
discrimination of all athletic en-
counters between the colleges is
good for both.
On the merits of the controversies
as such The Times does not presume
to pass. The workings of the under
graduate mind are too uncertain.
Nor does this paper undertake to
say with which side lies the greater
blame. But it does suggest that
Georgetown's present advantage is
one more of strategy than of sports
manship and that it is extremely
doubtful if either institution will
profit in any substantial form
through the discontinuance of ath-
Ietic contests.
For Georgetown has taken this
step at an extremely unfortunate
time for her. Year by year her ath-
letic leadership over George Wash
ington has been lessened. From 60
to 0 her football scores have fallen
to 6 to 0, to to 0. At baseball,
sport in which Georgetown students
have done their Alma Mater special
credit, she was able last year TO
beat George Washington by only
one run In indoor athle dies she has
been beaten. This is the stage at
which, for another assigned cause,
she ceases the contests. Better
judgment would have been either to
cease them earlier or endure such
bad conduct as her rival might in
The Washington times., 1907-12-06
Wisconsin Demands Chance
From Republican Committee

Ine Wisconsin Republican, delegation
met last evening at the call OF Senator
Stephenson and prepared an address to
the national committee. The meeting
and It's action are expected to occasion
something Of a sensation The delega-
ton instructed Representative Cooper to
present the national committee a de-
mand that the call for the Republican
national convention be so worded that
it will give Wisconsin the unquestioned
right to be represented by delegates
named under the states primary law.
The proposal to exclude the Wiscon-
sin people from the convention because
Of their primary law has been under
or the resolution adopted at the time
Of the last national convention requir-
ing that dele cations should be admit
ted as selected by Congressional dis
tricts and State convent ions" This OF
course, shuts out delegations selected
by primaries, as in Wisconsin
The statement was signed by all but
two Of the Republican members. These
two will later append their signatures,
Snd Wisconsin Republicans will appear
In Ar unanimous attitude for the first
time in years. The statement sets forth
the claims of the state to the right
vided for the purpose. 1t Is expected
that there VII be q discussion before
the national committee which will con-
stttute one of the edifying features Of
its session.
The Wisconsin people are united and
determined, and insist there is no room
for compromise.
The Washington times., 1907-12-06
THE pEKING GAZE -,rE.

The Peking Gazette. the publication of
which. according TO a recent telegram,
has been suspended, is = very vener-
able patriarch among newspapers, since
IT is said to have made It's frst ap-
pearance something like l oC years ago;
but IT Is not. as often sc ted, the old
est journal in the world.
This distinction belongs 70 TIE Using
Pao Cor Peking News). wh:ch was found
ed nearly twelve centuries ago, and was
venerable when its younger rival, the
Gazette, was Graded. Indeed, NJ. Huart
French consul at Canton. claiI1s a still
earlier birth for the News, which, he
says, was founded early In the sixth
century. 500 years before a newspaper
was known in Europe.
The Using Pao. which Is the Times of
China. now appears as book OF
twenty-four pages. octave size, tied IN
yellow cover by two knots OF rice
paper, and It's price is absCt twenty
cents a month. This is the edition de
luxe. officially recognized by the EN-
peror; there Is alsJ popular edition.
Exchange
The Washington times., 1907-12-06
ARMY PROMOTIONS OPPOSED
IN SENATE COMMITTEE

Already there are signs OF trouble In
the Senate over the confirmation Of
those army officers who have been pro-
NOTED by the President by the process
Of selection and who have been
Jumped" over the heads Of other off,
GERS
Symptoms OF impending opposition TO
confirmation appeared at the meeting OF
the Senate Military Affsirs Committee
Yesterday afternoon. The committee
laid aside the nominations of officers
who have been advanced over the heads
OF others Protests have been fled
against their confirmation. The nomina-
tions of several army Chaplains were
also laid aside.
A large number OF norninations 20
which there is no opposition were IA
vorably reported.
The Washington times., 1907-12-06

fiict upon her until the scores be-
came less portentous.
As for George Washington's mis-
conduct at the Thanksgiving Day
game, there appears to be no rea-
sonable doubt that her students of
Tended and ought to be pun; shed.
But was the situation so critical
that in ord,s,- to inflict that punish
ment q college IN the shadow OF
defeat must brave suspicion OF it's
spirit to avoid contamination? Has
the offending had the strange quail
ity Of being all on one side2 Would
not protest from the faculty of
the one college to the faculty of
the other have accomplished every
reasonable result? Or conference
between the athletic councils? Or,
best of all, an Informal meeting be-
tween the presidents?
Finally, every argument in favor
of intercollegiate athletics hes spe-
cial force when applied TO contests
between institutions close at hand.
There are no travelling expenses.
The interest is particularly likely to
enlist the greatest possible number
of students in active athletic train
ing. The rivalry can be made the basis
for fine practice in self-restraint.
And, whether the contests are good
or bad, they ought 10 be discon-
tinued, if at all, on their merits and
not because OF an offense which is
not insepsrable from them and can
reasonably be safeguarded against
in future