The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1909-04-09

rho Power Of Roots.
The tremendous power of q pnshini
root Ia a subject for marvel. II vii
lift tons by the swelling Of itH sleE's"
trunk or rerd rocks with The pow"
of dynamite. hut silently and insisiais
The p~rtlnacity aud force of plants
occasionally shown In the great care
In this wise: Some old residences nav
vines many years old climbing up tlfl
weathcr.beatcn brown frouts- Ihet
roots are deep In the tiny front gafde'
plot, and their tendrils were ~ mrs
trained mp slender cords To the iro'
balconies on the first door. Ihes
slender green things twined In and gu
OF the iron railing OF the balcony IiA
little serlents till they reached To
vertical wall, which. nothing daun'ed
they began TO CLIMB.
Little by little the tender green stem
~,E1nged to hard, woody tissues whic
sweiled into Dat plaits TO acSommoaat
itself 10 the bars Of the iron rniiih
through which It had wov itseif. hu
the accommodation "a only lorna
for. swelling steadily. the vine trunk
appear to-day to have become - iars
as a mans arm. and the iron rail-
which were Its earliest support hay
been broken In twain by their migrate
full dependents.
Another singular example OF . pei
tinacity OF the roots Is the Following
A drain pipe seemed TO be choked. II
vestigation showed that a thread Liz
shoot Of a tree had penetrated u
the minute pores Of the city pipe onS
inside the drain the tcndril found sue
luxurious nourishmcnt that 1t grew an
divided into branches, which .wour
themselves in coil on coil. until finall
passage In the drain was completeI
choked up. 1t Is said that bucketfu
OF tangled filaments were taken OF
of this pipe, which measured only eigl
inches In diameter. while the sheli
originated In a single threadllke I'll
ment, back through which coursed Il
abundant nourishnent to push on Il
growth OF the maple tree above groun'
Draft Horses.
The draft horse Is getting bigger an
bigger. In tho late SOS IL one weigilf
over LOCO pounds and came fro
France. It was an event and the hor,
papers talked about him, with picture
To-day the draft importer will tons
nothing under 1900 pounds and 3-yea
old colts often run up to a ton.
The favorite draft breed In Aneri'
six TO one-is the P~ercheron
France. IL comes from lie Perch
southwest OF Paris, and nowhere els
The horse breeders In that district ha'
banded themselves into a guild
union, and decreed that nc horse fro
outside the borders OF their dlstri
can ever be recorded as a Percheron
the studbook or the breed. A colt foa
ed just across the line out Of q ma
and by a sire correctly registered Gu
not himself be registered.
The foundation blood OF the Perch
ron is, or Is said to be, Arab. II
Frenchman viii tell you that a Perch
ron is an Arab made heavy by Il
climate. But whether Arabian extra
ton or not, It Is sure that the bre'
has been made heavy by the climate
human selection during the past ha
century.
When George Sand was writing Z
Percheron was famous as a road hor
IA traveller. a ground coyerer. IL
heroes used to drive hithcr and thith
behind four splendid distance eatil
percherons. No modern Frenchmi
would dream OF driving UP TO his J
nette's door behind four Percherons.
The Perche peasants, within the lin
tations Of their material, most wc
derfully fashion into being their equi
imaginings. 1t Is much easier and sil
pier to carve n horse OF the shape "
want on the Partlienon frieze than o
In n Lucerne pasture In the Enre-'
DOR district. Dazed ny their artists
the French minister of agricultu
gravely reports. These men OF
Perche are incredible. Command fro
them n horse. they will build you o
to your specifications"
From the current report Of I
French horse breeding bureau Is Teal
ed that during the fiscal year 1914
mares were bred 10 stations belongi
to the state. LOT to approved st
lions. 9,467 to authorized stallion
This IL bureaucratic, isn't II. that
country should be able to report
thing like that? And In the aren't,
Of the French government Ia the nal
and description OF each mare In Fran
together with date about the horse vi
which she was bred. \
The French never dream Of breedl