Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-27

a good driving storm Is the thing that
will put a practical test to the roof over
your heads.
Farmer wants 10 ne shown.
The practical farmer gets to be 9 little
shy on things which have not been put
through the experiment station and tried
out there. He has heaps OF propositions
put up to him which look just as good as
gold dollars, just as good as this guar
antee OF deposits scheme Of Mr.. Bryan's
looks at first reading.
But after he's gone into experiment work
on his own hook for awhile he generally
comes to the conclusion that, so long as
there's an experiment station at hand, and
willing to try the thing out at its own ex-
pense. there's nothing lost in getting the
station to handle the experiments. lie can
do fairly well and stick to the things which
have already been put through the test.
oats Beat 81 variety.
The other day l fell in with a man in one
Of the big cities who owns a grain farm up
in the northwest. He's a wideawake fellow
who doesn't want any good thing to get
past him. Well. a man came to him with
some seed oats which looked as clean and
bright as a new dollar. They were Of a
new-fangled variety. The fellow declared
they would yield double what any Of the
ordinary varieties would produce-100
bushels an acre or more.
The result was that the farmer decided,
for once, at least, to pass UP the expert
ment station and not wait for them to try
It out first. So he paid 50 a hushel for
enough to SOW a good big acreage. And
what was the result7 His yield was five
to ten bushels an acre under that Of his
common oats. the kind he had been rails
ing from year to year.
mo more experiments for met that man
declared. Next time I'm going to let the
experiment station test things out for me.
Meantime I'll let well enough alone and
stick to standard oats. what's the use of
taking chances when some one else is will
ing to do that for you? After this I'm
going to wait and see."
Chasing BaubIes Foolish,
There's a man in New York state and
another In st. Charles, ILL.,, who have be-
come enthused about a breed of dairy cows
which seem to nave been originated in a
back country of Ireland. These COWS are
called the Dexter-Kerrys, and are only
three or four feet high, built on the dach-
shund plan. If all the wonderful things
told about this COW are true, the Guernsey,
the Jersey, and the dairy shorthorns will
have to go way back into the back pastures
and lie down .
1t is claimed these little creeper COWS
VIII produce so much milk, so high a per
centage OF butter fat, on SO small a ration
Of food that the Guernseys, the Jerseys
and the shorthorns are backed right off the
dairy map. But so far as is generally
known, these Dexter-Kerrys haven't been
tried out here in this country at all. II
| tbRTe'g ;. herd mr. an indiyfdIya1 gDacipxay, 1,
any experiment station in this country the
dairymen haven't heard of 1t.
Now wouldn't it be a bright idea for you,
as a live and progressive farmer, to get rid
of your Guernseys and slorthorns and
send right over to Ireland for a drove OF
Dexter-Kerrys without waiting to see how
an individual herd has panned out in this
country for a year or two at least?
Why Experiment on Whole Nation .
That's just what Mr.. Bryan and his party
are asking you to do in urging you to vote
the ticket on the ground of the plank de-
claring for guaranteed bank deposits, ]
can't see 1t in any other light. Why make
the experiment on the whole banking sys-
TEN OF the country when an experiment is
already in progress in one state-an expert
ment which will demonstrate whether the
principle OF guaranteed banking is good or
bad, sound or unsound, in actual practice?
That can't be determined in a minute or
in a year. II it turns out well well be
for 1t; II it's like some of Mr.. Bryap's
other pet political novelt'e we'll be glad
we waited for the experiment station 10
operate on 1t first and save the whole bank
ing system from a general calamity.
Mr.. Bryan seems to have a great liking
for talking big things and brushing aside
the precautionary steps of experiment
which common prudence would suggest. His
whole proposition reminds me of a homely
little story. A boy came home with a new
dog and said to his father:
Dad, this dogs got the real stuff ir
him. I'll bet he en- lick anything around
here"
He does look as IL he could take care
Of himself replied the father. who ad'
mired a plucky dog. There's Jim Town
ley's Tige out in the street now looking fol
a little trouble. Suppose we call him in and
see what this new pup of yours'll do t.
him
Bryan Demands Big Chance.
nay. +, ,ron,ntIv ohfected the how. ''hC