The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1907-01-15

dry belt to make crop every year.
'Tn addition to this hardy alfalfa
Professor Hansen brought back several
new species of clover, with which the
natives Of northern Siberia fatten their
stock and make hay. 1t grows in the
| coolest regions In short summer, with
| very little rainfall, and we hope that
it will do as well on this side of the
| world under similar conditions.
Congress has passed an alcohol law
| In anticipation of the time when our
| people will have to go to the fields for
light and power, and it was up to the
agricultural department to provide
them with the best plants in existence
to make alcohol from. Professor Han
sen was on the lookout for such things
also. He investigated the alcohol busi-
ness In the countries he visited and
brought home seventeen barrels of
what are called alcohol potatoes
which will grow in dry ground and
turn out 800 or GOO bushels to the acre
They are full of alcohol and are also
yery valuable for fattening stosk, but
they have a coarse fiber and are not
delicate enough for taeie use. We ex-
pect to introduce those potatoes among
the farmers of the United States and
make 500 gallons of alcohol an acre
from them. We propose to distribute
them among the experiment stations
throughout the United States to be
planted next spring
Professor Hansen brought back sew
eral other interesting and valuable
plants, but these are the things l sent
him for, and he brought them. Han
sen is man who does things. He Is
an intelligent, intrepid fellow, full of
resources, and nothing stops him.
When he sees anything Of value he
knows 1t, and when he goes after any
thing he gets 1t. Up at Tomsk, In east
ern Siberia, he was unable to find any
clover seed, so he went out and bought
a load Of hay in the market and hired
men to pick the seed out of It,"
The Still Life.
Still life upon the farm
What sylvan charm
Now let us sing,
Loud let the chanson ring,
Not Of the simple life
And simple wife,
But of the manly hands that till
The soil and tend the still!
For with denatured alcohol
The farmers, each and all,
May still
The wolf across the sill
Keep; any rural swain who's willing
May do little home distilling
And sell his distillation
Throughout creation.
And, thus replenishing his till,
He may be happy still.
Still
And here's q bitter pill
He cannot Guench his burning
Thirst and case his yearning
For red eye forty rod,
Though from his private sod
He takes
The stuff that makes
Large alcoholic lakes,
For all
His alcohol
Oh, bitterness and GALL
Is locked within a tank
Strong as a vaulted bank
Till Uncle Sam comes round and dopos
The spirits. blasting thus his hopes.
But still
Not all Ia Ill;
Some JOY Is left;
He Is nat all bereft;
Some comfort still abides,
Because the law provides.
Though tedious labor mar
And JOY be flown afar,
Each farmer, IL he will.
Nay keep a little still.
-Robertus Love In New York Sun.
To Make Garden ON SeashOre.
Long ago it was said an American
could do almost anything II he had the
money. A man who has refused to join
the brigade of rich Americans who
would rather live in England finds
Long Island satisfactory and is plan
ming to show that garden may be
made to grow on the exposed seashore,
says the New York Press. He has
sunk an Italian garden on the west side
Of his house and built glass wall on
the east side, SO that only balmier
breezes may toy with the shrubs and
flowers. The view from the windows
will have the charm of variety, for
while ON one side 1t Is rugged and Wild |
on the other will be the beautiful and