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The champion. (Arcadia, Fla.) 1895-1911, 1908-01-23
MY DEPARTMENT
Things That Interest Me Told in Ny Way For Those
Who See as | See, by IT.

Recessional, After Kipling
God of the Nation, known Of old,
Supreme, al-powerful and just,
No longer on our coins of gold
Dare we nscribei In Thee we trust
Lord God of Hosts, forsake us not
We have forgot, we have forgot
Our fathers did not ask in vain
When unashamed, they sought Thine aid;
Now. in our day of stress and strain,
We falter in our faith-afrad,
God of our country, long forgot
Forsake us not, forsake us not!
We bowed before the shrine of wealth
And drunk with riches, went astray;
Restore, o God, the Nations health
And lead it i'll the DID, true way.
In sorrow, shame and vain regret
We plead that Thou wilt spare us yet.
Forgive Our wilful waste, our pride.
Our foolish pomp and wicked lust;
Olce more be thou the Nations guide
That we may say In God We Trust J."
For thoughtless act and idle word,
Thy mercy on thy people, Lord!
From the Beman, Minneapolis
The orange trees of DeSoto are beginning to bl
or blooms The indications are that the crop of IN
viii be the largest ever known.
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We hurbly beg the pardon of our readers ~
reek for CONSUMING so much of THE CHAMPION
aluable snare with so small a matter as the recu
ction of DeSotos board of county commissions
With regard to the letting of the public printing ID
ear. Our only excuse for this action is the unss
bile. demand for the sayings of the press on the matt
hat we have found on every hand. Of course it
impossible to give all that has been said, yet \
publish enough to show how others look upon |
unwarranted action,
Wonder how many people realize how much pap
wo and onehalf pounds of red ink will print
lon't think there are many outside of the busnd
hat know and lots that have been printers for yea
who don't. Nevertheless TIE CHAMPION s Job y
'artment did use that amount of red ink in tri
,ver day last week. And many were the thousanl
If papers that it printed. Nor was this all the 4
ised last week for our presses were busy almost
he time mostly on black and other coiors. This
ust by way of reminder that there is no prints
oncern in this part of Florida that handles lar
riders for sale bills etc., so WE'LL or expedtiously
The CHAMPION office. If you want it printed CI
ult the 'Artistically Neat" print shop.
The champion. (Arcadia, Fla.) 1895-1911, 1908-01-23
Has Developed FRICTION.

The mix up in DeSoto county between
the commissioners and the newspapers
has developed 30 much friction and heat
that hands Off should b.. motto Of all
outsiders. Tampa Tribune.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-06-01
INTELLIGENT COOPERATION.

'Wisconsins progress in the darying industry
has been studied throughout Europe, and the Bah
cock test has been enthusiastically accepted in
the British Isles,' said Sir Horace Plunkett mem
Der of the British Parliament from Ireland, in an
address to the 300 agricultural and dairy students
at the University of Wisconsin. II know some
thing about farming in good many OF your states,
and am astonished at the progress agricultural
education has made in the last few years, notably
in Wisconsin; but think that, considering the in
telligence of the farming community of this coun-
try the farmers of the United States are lament
ably backward in a knowledge of business meth
ods especially in methods of combination, which
the farmers of the countries of Europe have found
essential for the solution of their industrial prob
lens.
There is not single county, not a parish in
Ireland, where the farmers not completely
revolutionizing the entire business OF farming by
introducing the cooperative methods.
"The first thing to introduce system or
AGRICULTURAL education which extended into every
branch of the industry, teaching the farmer, for
instance to purchase everything he requires-im-
plements and machinery-of the very best quality.
They combined to consign in bulk and distribute
their goods in the market. They combined to
raise working capital for their operations They
combined to own breeding animals. They did just
what you are doing here, brought science into
farming by getting it into the schools. They had
the same system of instruction and experimental
ton applied by your government"
This isSthe trend of the movement that has
begun among the farmers of the Pacific North
For several years past farmers from the corn
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-06-01

in handling wheat from the ports of the Pacific
Northwest.
Mr. Thompson contends that an immense saving
will be effected in handling grain cargoes by using
the bulk system of loading. He estimates that
the present cost of loading and discharging wheat
handled by elevators the cost is not more than IL
cents bushel. Grain ships are moored alongside
the elevator and pipes are laid into each hold,
down which the wheat pOurs readily as water
is run through funnel. The only labor required
is to spread the wheat out in the ships hold.
When the ship reaches port on the other side, big
tubes from the elevators are run down into the
wheat and the cargo is taken up by mechanical
conveyors handily elephant sucks water
through his trunk. The exporters say that owing
to the varying seasons a shipoad of wheat goes
through while it's way from the Coast around
the Horn to Europe, passing through frigd wealth
in rounding the extreme southern point of South
America, and crossing the Equator twice, the
wheat heats from the varying temperatures. Mr.
Thompson believes however that the jute sacks
aggravate this tendency and that the wheat
would stand the weather conditions better in bulk
In any event. he says, upon the completion of
the Panama Canal grain shipped foreign will not
need to be subjected to various climatic extremes
and the long voyages of from so to 65 days for
steamers and $50 days and over for ships will
be very much shortened He is satisfied that
then, if not before, the shipping of grain to the
old country in sacks will be thing of the past
and wheat elevators will be used exclusively on
this Coast
three years Tacoma and Seattle will experience
the most widespread prosperity and the greatest
increase in realty values ever known in any Sec
ton of the United States, depending for it's
advancement solely upon railroad and industrial
development"
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-06-01
THE GRAIN-SACk PROBLEM.

The Spokane, Portland & Seattle, better known
as the North Bank Railroad, has let contract
for the construction at Portland of the largest
wheat warehouse in the United States. The North
ern Pacific warehouses the Tacoma waterfront
cover slightly ground space than will be
covered by the one at Portland, but they single
story houses while that in Portland will have two
floors, the combined capacity of the two floors
being nearly equal to that of all of the East Side
grain docks win The contract calls for
the completion of this monster warehouse by Sep
TENDER l. which will be in ample time for han
ding the 1908 crop
It is probable that eventually this structure
will be transformed into grain elevator, with
capacity of 100000 bushels or more. Preparations
are also in progress to increase the grain handling
facilities at other Coast cities. That lofty wheat
elevators along the waterfronts will replace the
present wheat docks within the next few years,
is the belief of A. d. Thompson head of A. d.
Thompson & Co., of Duluth, very extensive wheat
exporters Mr.. Thompson says wheat should be
handled in bulk cargoes instead of in sacks, as
at present. He announces his intention of send
ing out cargo from Portland to test this method
of exporting grain.
Mr. Thompson in conference with wheat
exporters and with prominent Hill officials and
it is known that the big wheat exporter came to
the Coast as the emissary of James j. Hill him.
self, and it is understood that the Great Northern
magnate is interested in this problem of economy
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-06-01

straight through the thick of the driving brine,
Slamming aside each roaring crest"
The Fleet has kept both order and time
In the fve-months to the waiting West;
All sailings prompt, and no delay
In wOndrOuS around continent;
There many grumblers ready today
To admit they ARE glad the Fleet sent
Through the Straits where Magellan sailed his craft
A full four hundred years
Such Scanty briggs, should have laughed;
Had yesterday such pigmy show;
But that phantom fleet still haunts the seas
On crested where brave men sailed,
And Evans best better than these
'Twere easier then methinks, have failed!
Pizarro too with his gallant
In their fishing smacks" of a hundred tons,
Not single ship-Ctis easily true)-
Carrying than dozen
And Evans has sailed the self-same seas
Where Cortez conquered for ancient Spain,
With ships not quite the these,
Though they just proudly ploughed the main.
Balboa from the ISthmuS heights
The Pacific that flows today,
With a vision unaded by harbor lights
Nor chartered to point the way
America then strange, new name
With nothing behind, and all ahead;
Her lands and her were just the same
But both, since then, have been running red
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-06-01

fields and orchards and meadows of Iowa. from
the dairy farms of Wisconsin and Michigan and
from the wheat fields of Kansas, have focked
from far and near to greet the demonstration
trains sent out by the railroads. to inspect pro-
ducts that have literally been evolved from the
soil by intelligent farming, and to listen to men
who accompanied the trains to tell how the won
derful results attained.
The attendance upon agricultural colleges has
been substantially increased and farmers insti-
tutes, to which men and women of all sections and
ages flock for instruction, have sprung up
the result of the encouragement that has been
given by national and state departments of agri-
culture to this Oldest of industries This is practi
cal science, supplemented Shy an enthusiasm that
is contagious and by farming that pays.
Now this work is in progress in the Pacific
Northwest. Farmers focking to the demon
straton trains seeking for information that will
give better results with less expenditure They
combining to apply the suggestions made, to
handle their products more economically, and to
better returns for the proceeds of their
labors. They have demonstrated that this work
is practicable and profitable. There is room for a
1t will prove helpful factor in creating better
agriculture and promoting higher citizenship.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-06-01
CONCERNING THE NAVY.

The visit of the Atlantic battleship fleet has
geen a great revelation to the people of the
Pacific Northwest These majestic levathans of
the came promptly and grandly on time to
their several stopping places. At most points
immense crowds of eXcursionists focked to see
them. Never was city better decorated to greet
visitors than was Seattle. No serious mishar
married this important occasion. The entertain
ments and the parades, the fireworks and the IL
Nominations alike pleasing and instructive
to guests, visiting sght-seers and citizens.
Costing from nearly $5,000,000 to nearly $4,000,
900 each, these war vessels are great consumers
of varied products 1t is estimated that the
coal for this voyage of display and instruction
will cost S. 900, 000 The contract for supplies to
start them across the Pacific includes the follow
ing items:
Eight hundred thousand pounds of frozen beef
$4,000 pounds of frozen veal and mutton 10000
pounds of pork loins, 10000 pounds of young
chickens, 5000 pounds of turkeys, about 10000
pounds of frankfurters, pork sausages, bolognas
and compressed ham, with 100000 pounds of
smoked ham, 100000 pounds of flour, 100000
pounds of sugar Of canned peaches, pears and
tomatoes and evaporated apples there will be laid
in about 100000 pounds. Vegetables include po-
tatoes, 100000 pounds onions $4,000 pounds; lima
beans, $500 pounds and sauerkraut, 80 900 pounds
The visit of the fleet to the Pacific,
object lesson to the rising generation, may be
worth all that it will COST but it is a needless
waste of money to force many of these big
ships to steam back to the Atlantic. Civilization
has been completed both sides of that great
ocean, but the Pacific, it is still in the
making. The commercial destiny of the Pacific
may be worked out on peaceful lines, but there
is much at stake, and the situation is fraught
with possibilities for trouble
Commerce and the two great factors
in making political history. On the Atlantic, com
merce has attained such proportions that war is
practically out of the question There no new
fields for conquest on which our white armada can
be turned loose. The ships should be kept where
they are now anchored until they are needed for
actual duty.
If the battleships are ever needed anywhere in
the world it will be at some point in the Pacific,
and when they needed here, the urgency of
the case will be such that there will be no time
to bring them over at Is, OOOmile stretch
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-06-01

During the recent spasm of reorganizing the
dairy division of Seattle health department, the
State Dairy and Food Department came in for a
share of criticism the shoulders of L. W.
Hansen the local deputy. Mr.. Hansen is as we'll
aware as any one that the conditions surrounding
the milk supply of Washington cities are not up to
the standard of perfection. The department is
constantly at work endeavoring to bring about.
changes for the better. Lectures and demonstra-
tions made at Farmers Institutes, dairy meet
ngs and in connection with the creamery and
condensary work of the state. But limited ap-
preparation for dairy work is allowed the de-
partment, and only two deputies can be set at
work. the time of the commissioner being largely
claimed by other work connected with pure food
regulation In consequence, not all is done that
ought to be done, but good progress is being made
and good results already show The effort is to
persuade darymen to do better rather than to
force them. To encourage progress in the bust
ness instead of arbitrarily depressing evils though
that has to be done occasionally
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-06-01
THE SAN JOSE SCALE.

Although the spraying season in the various
horticultural districts of the Pacific Northwest IS
virtually over publish in this number disser-
tation the San Jose scale because we believe
that the conclusion of the is the best time
to impress the object lessons set down in this ar
ticle upon fruit growers. Having recently
been confronted by the various problems which
they have to solve each and every season, these
things will be more firmly impressed upon the
minds of the horticuturists than at any other
season of the year. Therefore, do not believe
that we could present this article at any more
opportune time at any time when it would
make deeper impression upon the mind of the
fruit grower. This report is written by Professor
A B. Cordey, of the Oregon Agricultural College,
who has had many years experience in dealing
with this and other spraying problems which
front the Northwestern fruit grower. We have at
tempted in the past to take up this subject in
horticultural department, which is edited by Mr..
Walden, but lack of space in this department has
precluded any possibility of our publishing an
extensive article with technical illustrations We
are, therefore, taking this opportunity to publish
the article in full.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-11-07
THE REELECTION OF JUDGE COLE.

In the Judge Franklin J. Cole the voters of I'm shown their sympathy with who, they believed unfairly with by those assuming to direct party political action.
 It Judge Cole had expect renomnaon ground for complaint when the situation pcatd the appearance of other candidates unexpectedly the field That his grievance held good after his participation primaries the party another proposition Those who took part convention accorded that body recognition could do otherwise than support the nominee matter how mach sympathy they may have had for Judge Cole.
 But it matter what considerations moved the poters of the rival candidates Judge Cole his fight and sumaby is happy the people content with the oucome I pera County will have for the next term just Superior Judge had and the disappointed will their dis appointment few days and the of will forget that there irritating and vexatous contest the place Judge Cole is to be congratulated his successful campaign.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-11-07
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY OF OFFICERS
 OF IMPERIAL COUNTY.

Supervisors-F. s. Webster. Sydney Me Harg, R. H. Clark, Porter N. Ferguson. c. R. Wade.
 Judge of Superior Co1rt-Franl1lin J. Cole.
 District Attorney-John M. Eshleman. County Clerk-D. s Elder.
 County Treasurer-Paul Roman. County Auditor-C. P. McClelland.. County Assessor-Fred Fuller. County Tax Collector-E G. Wright County Surveyor-E H. Gaines. County Recorder-John B. Baker. County Supt. of Schools-J. E. Carr County Sheriff-Mobley Meadows. County Coroner-T. I. Mitchell. County Health Officer-Virgil McCombs. Asst Health Officer-E. H. Sherman Public Administrator-E E. Forester.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-11-07
4 VOTE OF RENEWED CONFIDENCE.

The of the United States have extended to the Rpub party of their distinguished consdea on and gently firmly put Mir Bryan away for the third time in political ambition To take Mr. Bryan out again would be desecraton of grave
 There is no question that the Republican party indebted chiefly Roosevelt for the revival of popular confidence it's poll ce leaders Before Roosevelt took hold of its affairs the party was getting bad way and following men whom the people profoundly srusted Party control in the hands o Adrch and Foraer type and the holders of spca prvege-he nerestsas they term themseves-were apower full in Washington.
 Roosevelt made rough the combination and forced reorganization of his party He antagoned the ogachy o the it's power and he rallied the common people to his support their entrencments hose to whom in His wisdom had entrusted the business interests or he country" and did things that Mr. Bryan had been talking dozen years He purged his party as Cromwell pge rotten Parliament and he set in motion moral that working out problems of vital import to the Republic
 The Republican party that the tremendous victory ot Tuesday political organization that Mr. Bryan fought in 1896 and 1900 is not the same combination that Theodore Roosevelt against his protests for to get him out of the way him ostentatiou obscurty
 repubcanism something quite different from the repubcansm Hanna Quay Adrh and Ode The people reganed confidence the party because they have seen formed and led by who thinks talks and acts as they do They believe Roosevelt when he them that Taft will go on with the work he has in hand and wrench loose the hold that greed has long retained the machinery of government and law in this country.
 There not Roosevelt and Bryan contemplated in their policies but there is porant difference the methods by which they seek to achieve results the people keen recognize the difference between and practical administrator The Republican party efficient working instrument for good for evil The De mocracy has not shown capacity doing things talks about
 breaks down when the strain of work put it. There is the reborn Republican party has taken the work the people have commissioned to continue under national house cleaning naugurated by Roosevelt
 not to be believed that the Democratic party will under the banner Bryan He has led only to feat time overwhelming and disaster He good czen sincere and enthusiast for reformation of politics he lacks the dmentary qualities of statesman and political leader he has been only pathetic failure
Imperial Valley press., 1908-11-07

The Supervisors of Imperial County have seen the light on the good roads question and have taken the first step toward substitution of real high ways for Wheel tracks in the dust of the desert by appointing highway commission in response to the de- mand of the people and in obedience to the law. It is not necessary to build rock-bottom Roman roads in this region, but it is necessary that prac- ticable highways be constructed of the material at hand, which is good enough when properly placed and cared for. The extra cost of hauling one load over roads full of chuck holes is more than the annual tax upon a farmer for his share of the interest on a reasonable issue of road bonds. One broken spring costs more than the bond tax on a good-siZed farm. Nothing pays so we'll in farming region as money invested in good roads. The settlers of Imperial Coun- ty are not backwoods trail-trotters. They know what roads mean to them and they are intelligent enough to un- derstand that it would be an immense benefit to the county to get money in here for investment in the most use ful improvement that can be made in a new country.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-11-07

From returns it appears that Imperial county took intelligent interest in the amendments and knew what to do with them. The county voted em- phatically against letting the corpora tions of from paying local taxes, and expressed its opinion that the salar- ies of state officers are high enough It approves paying members of the legislature enough to give them an excuse for being honest and cutting of the "attache" graft and patronage nuisance It is not in favor of reapeal- ing the mortgage tax section, con- corning the effect of which there is serious difference of opinion, but is strongly in favor of direct primaries. It wants no monkeying with school funds and the State Board of Educa tion by the politicians, andit sees no necessity for removal of the State Cap ital By narrow margin, which may be reversed by full returns, the amend ment relating to lotteries it approved, but the probability is that many vo- ters were misled by the wording on the ballot. Had they understood that teh real purpose of the amendment is to legalize bucketshop gambling and swindling, they would have voted against it
Imperial Valley press., 1908-11-07
WEALTH OF THE DESERT.

the brief history of Imperial Valley de reliable statistics relating to the development of its and the wealth produced by recame of the desert available the compiled from the Assessors books In sderng figures given should be borne mind that the values the assessed values which but fifty cent of the true vaues also is be remembered that nearly a if not all figures relating things owned and subject taxation likely to below rather than above the real figures
 That productive of land reclaimed in process reclamation only partial indicated plainly While half million assessed only 175343 actually irrigated last March, There has been increase irrigated the assessment made The figures the fact that desert claims but the settlers putting water only fast they small tracts the and twenty farm will possible the irrigated and the productivity of the land will increase largely
 It is safe to say that the grain acreage given 69OOO raised least 700 this fa and alfalfa may be estimated safely at than 6OOOO About devoted orchards vineyards and the growing of vegetables and miscellaneous crops.
 assessed value of property about 8OOOOO including railroad telegraph telephone lines The total actual value of personal property exclusive of the property of invested in canals is not less than $1OOOO OOO fairly good showing of reclamation of a desert in half dozen years.
 It interesting the start that has been made culture industry promises be of the most profitable per acre in the valley Already 542 growing and being set The few bearing trees have rpenng fruit that be ready for shipment long before Thanksgiving Eventually Imperial Valley and sections of Arizona having similar climate will supply the early citrus fruit for the Eastern market.
 The roll may show considerable of cotton More OOO will be planted but sby will be put until after the first of March and will show the Assessors books for the year
 Since the there has great advance beekeepng The books show only 95 hives and but $500 pounds honey The beeeepers association represents than stands exclusive of few hundreds outside of the