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The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-09-29
PERSONAL MENTION.


o. BRYAN of Centralia is in the
city.
NJ, k. Holt Of Vincennes, Ind is in
the city.
d. b. Kennedy was in Wickliffe
yesterday.
Sam Collins is in New Madrid, Mo
on business.
4 Chas E. Haeferle of Burnt Prairie
is in the city.
Miss Fora Lee left Monday for Ohio
points to visit
Roy Lutes leaves Thursday for a
visit to Chicago.
Mrs. Leo Carno is in Charleston,
visiting relatives.
j. T. Chambers is home from a
trip to Jonesboro.
! Wylie A. Young of Carbonate is in
Cairo on business.
Carl Parkman of Mound City was 4
Cairo visitor Monday,
Special Agent Cronan Of the |. c
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-09-29

The home visitors excursion on the
Big Four was well patrOnized this
year. Seventy tickets were sold for
this popular trip to people in and
around Cairo 1t was to points in
Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-09-29
Country Club POSSESSES.

Five hostesses instead Of the usual
four will serve at the Country Club
next Saturday, They will be Mes
danes Arthur Thistlewood, David 5.
I.ansden aud W T, Wall and the
Misses Leila Thistlewood and Sarah
Jane PINK.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-09-29
Leaves Department.

Guy Sites resigned his position on
the fire department yesterday He
was at station No and until the
mayor appoints his successor, John J.
Kelly is acting fireman. Sites goes
to Murphysboro to take a place in the
NJ and @. shops as boile. makers
helper,
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-09-29
Presented For Probate.

The will OF Bris Brown was pre-
sented for probate yesterday in the
county court. DR.. William Fields was
named as executor.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-09-29

There was a woman who made prayer
TO be saved from W4shday with all its care.
Then she tried Fels-Naptha and quit pray
ing that particular prayer. 1t wasn't ex-
actly WaShday thar she meant. What she
really did mean was to be saved from boil
ing clothes, with its resultant nauseous
steam and heat, and from back-breaking
hard rubbing.
Fels-Naptha answers that kind of peti-
ton pletely, If you use it the
Fels- Naptha way. Follow directions on
the red and green wrapper. For white
clothes you'll read: Soap the clothes, roll
and let them soak in cold or lukewarm
water for 80 minutes Then rub lightly,
rinse, hang out on the line No, you
don't boil them; FelS-Naptha takes the
place of that and hard rubbing, too.
FelS-Naptha has many other valuable
uses washing dishes for instance. You'll
find directions for all on the wrapper.
Be sure and follow them.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-09-29
Tag Day.

October is Tag Day" for the
Cairo Children's Home, Donations OF
from dime to dollar will be re
ceived by ladies, in exchange for
tags. The Home needs the money,
tribution of citizens for its exist
eucp
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-09-29
WANT DISTRICT AGENT.

For Cairo and vicinity by an old.
strong, well known and progressive
Eastern Life Insurance Company. A
liberal contract to the right party.
Address Agency Manager, care Hal
liday Hotel,
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-09-29

The city has filled some of the holes
in Fourth street with gravel. thus DO
inc away with some of the bad ruts
near Ohio street.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-09-29
Licensed TO MARRY.

Marriage licenses as follows were
issued Yesterday: Francis l.. Valdez,
2G, Cairo and Catherine A. Zettler, -,
Dubois, ILL.,
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-09-29
Rel Gall.

The Cairo Baptist church will have
their annual roll call Tuesday Dc
tober &. A luncheon will be served
after the meeting,
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-09-29
CITY NEWS in BRIEF
increase Capital.

The Clean Sweep Co, at a meeting
held a few days ago. increased the
capital stock of the company to
$4,000.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-09-29

Any D,u4et-"Why, Mr. Sorrowfu, what makes you sit
the doorstep?
Jha &no,yfa-"Im JUS wasting for Mary hand me
bite Of cold lunch 90 in the house w'ashday,
smells Ike i bore NIL
.fnfy DAf Nonsense our wife washed with Fels- Naptha
soap to-day and all done TWO hours She has
hot lunch for ard nAt time read and play the
piano besides Aud there's any boily Sme! when
FelS-Naptha S used
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-09-29
Miss l.aneaster,s Class.

Miss Beatrice Lancaster gave in
struction to her class at the armory
yesterday evening The class is
steadily growing.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-09-29
y SOCIAL oAND personal II
Peerless Dancing Club.

The Peerless Dancing Club had
their semi-weekly lance last night at
Swoboda's Hal.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-09-29

! Mr. and Mrs. O. f. BeCkwith Of 3d.
Sixth street are visiting in St Louis
Frank Wilkerson Of Villa Ridge
was seen on the Cairo streets Mon
day.
| Will Ware of Jackson Miss, is here
visiting his cousin Miss Mary Hop
! kins.
Mrs. w. J. Johnson of Milburn, Ky,
is here visiting her sister Mrs. T. K.
Green.
Mrs, Roy Adams of Mound City,
called on the Cairo merchants yes.
terday.
Miss Olive Crippen has returned
from four weeks visit to Wichita
Kansas.
Mrs Joe Dishingle OF 2005 Syca-
more street is confined to her home
by illness.
Mrs. George Eichhorn of Mound
City was in Cairo yesterday calling
on friends.
Mrs. Milton LadstaW is here for
the week visiting her cousin Miss
herol TAYLOR,
c. NJ, Ellis has returned from a
business trip to Mounds and leaves
today for ST Louis
Mrs Alex w Weldon of H. Eighth
street leaves Monday for an extended
visit TO ST Louis
Mrs. P T. Langan and daughter,
Miss Mabel are home from a short
visit in st. Louis
Mrs. Ike Marshall aud Miss Laura
Washington Of kuttawa Ky, were in
the city yesterday.
f. c. Lee of Poplar Bluff is here
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. 7. Chambers
of 429 Eighth street.
Rev. J. G. Dee has returned from
Centralia where he attended the
Methodist conference.
Miss Mamie Cobb has returned
from an extended visit to Arizona
points for her health.
Angus Mcneil has returned to his
home in Paducah after a visit here
to his father f. F. acNeiI.
p L. owen OF Pine Bluff, Ark. is
here visiting Mr.. and Mrs. H. D. Bar.
ton, of 1919 Eleventh street.
Mrs. c. c. Beird has returned from
an extended visit with relatives in
Keokuk, Iowa and Macon, Mo.
Mrs o. B. Archibald has returned
from a visit with from a visit with
friends in Chicago aud Albion
Mrs. G. P. Wenger Of 22l Sixth
street is in Charleston. Mo. visiting
her laughter Mrs. Ed Rolwing.
Mrs. Walter Leidig;l of villa Ridge
was the guest of Mrs.. J. Klein Of
upper Sycamore street yesterday.
Mrs. j. Chas Hancock OF Stuart
Florida. is here the guest of Mr.. and
Mrs II. c. Lentz. of Fifteenth street
Misses Ella and Carrie Marshall
and Miss Sarah Everett spent sunday
in Mound City the guest OF Mrs. Hil-
lerich.
Mrs Archie Williams of East Prair-
lie, Mo-. arrives today to be the guest
of Mrs. w, Z. NJ. Glover of 1909 Wash
ington avenue.
Mr. and Mrs Force W. Balm of
I3ll Seventh street save gone to In,
diana points for three weeks visit
with relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Blum, Mrs John
Culp and the Misses Jessie Neadstne
and Hazel Curran were Cairo shoT-
pers yesterday.
Misses May and Norma Schneider
of Kenton, Ohio, arrived yesterday to
be the guests of Mayor Parsons at
the "Magnolias'.
Mr. and Mrs. j. B. Reed of 419
Twentieth street, have as their guest
, their daughter. Mrs. J. A. Knesche OF
Wheeling w Va
Il Mrs. F. x. Mills of wickliffe, who
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-09-29
Daily Thought.

-
A man is only happy when he be.
lieves himself to be so, in whatever
way the proposition is turned, and
no man believes himself so happy but
what he might be happier. II, Marion
Crawford
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-09-29

Mesdames r, Henderson and Geo
Stone of Milburn Ky, are here as
the guests of Mrs. f. B. Thomas of
636 Thirty-fourth street.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-09-29

Miss Jodie Parker of 6l0 West
Twenty-sixth street who has been
seriously i'll with typhoid fever is
convaleScent
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-09-29

lhas been here as the guest of Miss
Cushman has gone to Cincinnati for
an extended visit.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-09-29

Thos Lindsey, Jess T. Byrd, A. ID,
J. Pinney, Bailey Niainson and c. J.
Moore and daughter made trip to
Cairo yesterday evening.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-09-29

Mr. and Mrs Robert Thompson and
son Ralph of 412 Thirtieth street have
returned from a three months visit
to relatives in Centrala, Ill.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-08-20
ID klII. San e0r.,

The meanest weed that infests the
irrigated country orchards Is the
sand bur or grass bur as it Is some.
times called. When this pest gets a
foothold it is very difficult to eradi.
cate and will spread rapidly unless
entirely wiped out. The plant will
grow up and mature seed sufficient to
perpetuate itself in two or three
weeks toward the close Of the sum-
mer Therefore to kill 1t out the
work Of cultivating must be kept up
throughout the summer until frost
kills all vegetation. The burrs are
sufficiently matured for seeding as
soon as the sharp stickers that cover
the seed are formed and while they
still appear perfectly green. Where
the plants have secured such foot.
hold as to defy all efforts with cult.
vator and hoe they may be choked
out by q heavy growth Of sweet
clover. The clover grows SO tall and
rank as to entirely shade the ground
and will kill out all other weeds In.
Guiding the sand or grass bur. 4
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-08-20
REAL BASIS FOR
IMPROVING CORN PLANT
There are Three Ways IN Which Advancement Can be
Secured and Careful Study IS Urged.-By fs
Edward NJ East.

Ever since plant breeding has been
brought to the front as means of in
creasing yields and producing new
qualities, distinct from the mere feed
Ing of crops by means OF fertilizers,
we have been taught that by selection
we could accomplish anything.
Take the character length of ear as
a concrete example, says Edward NJ.
East in Rural New Yorker. Varia.
tions in length are seen in every field
of corn, no matter what the variety.
If we select the longest ears in sue.
cessive seaons we are taught that we
shall continually improve the strain
in this character. Even the teachers
have always had an inward con.
seriousness that there must be limit
to the progress that could be made
in this way, but the thought has been
indefinite, and has been designedly
kept in allegiance. The man who has
been so indiscreet as to ask where the
limit of his improvement is to be has
been judiciously steered into other
lines of thought. Some questions are
hard to answer, and it was more in.
teresting to let him dream of the time
he could fill an order for bushel OF
corn with one lone ear.
Likewise, we have been taught that
by hybridizing two strains we could
obtain any desired new character or
quality if we only continued on the
lob for sufficient length of time. We
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-08-20

tried to breed this character into the
watermelon by selection. The water
melon reproductive cell does not pos
sess this character, and on this ac-
count there is no basis upon which
to select. The kind of selectionist
against whom we are speaking would
begin by going into field and TAX
ing seed from those plants that were
the least affected by the disease, yet
he would never obtain results because
he would be selecting non-affected
plants instead of resistant plants.
3. There is third method by which
slight and temporary improvement
can probably be made, although some
biologists are beginning to lose faith
in it because the results scarcely pay
for the trouble. This Is the selec-
ton of fluctuations. Fluctuations are
the variations that are not due to
structural changes in the reproductive
cells, but simply to nutrition. They
are, therefore-strictly speaking-not
inherited, but simply give temporary
aid in the development of the next
generation. For example, let us mag
inc two corn plants having exactly the
same characters; one of these plants
has grown on good soil and is we'll
developed, while the other has grown
on poorer soil and is weakly devel-
oped. The seed of the well-nurtured
plant has more nutriment stored up
in it, and the young Seeding that it
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-08-20

grew stronger, and within three months
/ was perfectly we'll woman.
II want this letter made public to
show the benefit women may derive
from Lydia E: Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound."-Mrs. JOHN G. MoLDAN,
2115 Second St., North, Minneapolis.
MINI.
Thousands of unsolicited and genu.
inc testimonials like the above prove
the efficiency Of Lydia B.. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, which is made
exclusively from roots and herbs.
Women who suffer from those dis
tressing ills peculiar to their sex should
not lose sight of these facts OF doubt
the ability Of Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound to restore their
health.
Ifyou want special advice write
to Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass.
ShewilltreatyOur letterasstrictly
confidential. For 20 years she
has been helping sick women in
this way, free Of charge. Don't
hesitate write at once.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-08-20

have only made beginning in breed
ing as a science, and it will be
many years before we can predict with
the accuracy Of chemical reaction
what will take place on crossing two
individuals; but even now we know
enough of the laws of variation and
heredity to show us that this point
Of view is all wrong. The quail
ity of the grist depends upon
/. the grain in the hopper. There
/. are three and only three ways in
which plants can be improved, and
q careful consideration of them shows
the errors in both of the above teach
ings.
1. Every plant is composed of a
large number of characters, each of
which is inherited as a unit. The
basis and the plan by which these
characters develop are held in the fer
tilted egg from which the seed and
finally the plant results From the
structure within this egg-cell, each
character and through these charac-
tiers, the entire organization is finally
self-constructed by the utilization of
food materials from the soil and from
the air. No permanent variation oc-
ours in plant unless it occurs first
in the structure of these reproductive
cells. Such variations are, therefore,
the only foundation for plant improve
ment, and the sole function of selec-
ton is to pick out the most desirable
of them for propagation. Unfortu-
nately for the ease of the task, varia-
tions due to nutrition and other
causes, variations that affect the plant
and not the reproductive cells are,
therefore, not inherited, often obscure
the rarer, inherited variations, and
thereby cause much unnecessary and
unavailing selective work.
q. The object Of naturalization is to
shuttle and recombine the unit charac-
tiers Of the parent plant. If we knew
what all the results would be when
these characters combine we could
predict the percentage of the progeny
of a cross that would contain certain
definite combinations of characters.
But we do not know enough concern
ing the Inheritance of these characters
to make predictions. We simply know
that we can only expect to. combine
the characters actually possessed by
the parent. For example, resistance
to the disease called watermelon wilt
was found to be a single unit charac-
ter possessed by the first cousin Of
the watermelon. the citron. This quail
ity was therefore combined with other
desirable qualities possessed by the
watermelon by. naturalization. Here
was definite basis upon which to work
and by which tangible results could be
obtained. But supposing no wilt-re.
sistant melon had been known, It
would have been utterly futile to have
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-08-20
B Water for strawberries.

During the fruiting season irrigation
is given to strawberries frequently
enough to keep the plants we'll sup
piled with moisture. Drying the soil
at this time not only reduces the size
of the fruit but shortens the period
Of bearing as well. It is found that
the rows should not be over 18 rods
long between laterals. Greater length
than this necessitates keeping the
water too long time in the upper
end Of the rows in order that 1T may
reach the farther end. The Desirable
ty Of having the land as even as pos
sible Is apparent at this period for
the plants. in depressions are then
flooded after which the fruit scalds
under the hot sunshine. Irrigations
during the picking season are given as
soon as possible after the pickers
have been over the field In order to
allow as much time as possible for the
soil to dry off before another picking
Is ready.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-08-20
Use for WindmiIIs.

Windmills may be used to pump wa.
ter from canals, bitches, reservoirs,
lakes, and wells. In irrigated dis.
tricts 1t is desirable to locate the
farm buildings on high ground, and
the site selected is frequently above
the canal. A windmill furnishes one
Of the most convenient and best
means Of elevating SUFFICIENT canal wa
ter for the irrigation Of garden, fam
lily orchard, and shade trees. Water
pumped for domestic purposes should
be first stored in a tank, and then
filtered. but water used in Irrigation
may be applied directly from the
pump, tank or reservoir. The pipe
which conducts the water from the
pump to the tank or reservoir should
be Of ample size, in order to lessen
the loss of head created by friction.
The speed Of the water as it passes
through the discharge pipe should not
exceed two feet per second or about
the same rate as the water In canal.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-08-20
rupercurosis Conference.

! Under the auspices of the Swedish
National League Against Tuberculo-
sis, the international tuberculosis con-
ference held its annual meeting in
Stockholm July 8 to 10. Among the
American speakers on the program
we're DR.. Hermann M. Biggs of New
York and DR.. John G. Wise. medical
director of the United States navy,
who was the official representative of
this country. Two subjects Of special
interest discussed were: Care of
Tuberculous Families, Especially of
Healthy Children" and tuberculosis
and the Schools"
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-08-20

produces has a better start in life
than has a Seeding from the poorly
nurtured plant. The actual charac-
tiers inherited by the two plants are
the same, but the seedlings from the
poorly nurtured plant are handi-
capped, and are not so we'll able to
utilize their food supply and produce
a normal well-developed plant. This
is also true of poorly-nourished ami
mails.
Let us apply these principles to
corn breeding. Corn is wind pol
linated plant, therefore when change
takes place in the reproductive cells
of any individual Of a variety, it is
quickly recohbined with different
characters in other individuals. As
these changes take place with some
frequency, what we call CONNER
cial variety is actually set of
hybrids between individuals possess
ing various characters. The real eff
feet of selection is gradually to iso-
late strain having characters that
we desire, in so far as such charac-
5SSNS AAAsS ss@AASeAAy bSOAl p1OuuCCu yfuy
nature. There is no question of our
originating anything by thisrselection.
II there are plants having undesirable
characters we can reject them, pro-
vided there are plants that are with
out these characters, but that is as far
as we can go. In this mixture of types,
the commercial variety, there are
some strains that produce greater
variety than others. 1t is the aim of
the line breeder to take out these
types and discard those having less
efficiency. For these reasons we can
see how great is the Importance of
our original breeding plot If the type
desired has been included among the
original plants it can be selected out
and established as a variety, If 1t
has been left out we can only wait
for nature to produce such type. And
as nature is not p1odigal in her new
productions our chances are relative.
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The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-08-20
LITTLE UNEVEN LAND WORKED
So Far .lrrIgators Of West Have Paid
No Attention to Irrigation Of
Rolling Ground.

4 -H
In speaking recently to a land agent
that deals in semi-arid land, the
writer was told that up to the pres
ent time little OF the rolling land
is being irrigated, says H. A. Rob
erts in Farm Life
| The head of an important educa-
tional institution tells the writer that
the Chinese think nothing of irrigat-
| ing hill sides. They run their canals
around hills with the greatest of per-
| lection.
| What the Chinese have done and
| are doing, we also can do. We have
not yet got to the point of reducing
all our hillsides to irrigated areas, but
some Of our common farmers long
ago learned how to irrigate hillsides
even when the water had to be
pumped from a river far below
| One of them made canvas hose that
he could carry in any direction. He
pumped the water from the river by
means of his windmill, and the tank
on the windmill was the factor that
gave the pressure to the water in
the canvas hose.
When he had occasion to water the
crops on the top of the hill, he sim
ply carried the end of the hose to
that point and turned on the water.
| The rest of the work was done by d.
recting the flow of the water in the
| burrows.
This latter work requires some ex-
perience to insure its being done in
the best possible manner.
Another farmer that was devotee
Of irrigation made his burrows by
means of logs dragged over the
ground after he had plowed it. If the
logs were dragged over the soil when
1t was still moist, glazed surface
resulted that prevented the water
! flowing out except at the desired
points. ;.
This was makeshift in irrigation
ditching. but served fairly well.
Where fields on hillsides are annu-
ally plowed, the problem is a difficult
one, in land where labor is high
priced. When such land is to be
placed under system of irrigation,
it is better to have the land in some
permanent crop, SO that the irrigation
burrows can remain from year to year,
and the levels that have been found
one year may be available the next.
The Chinese are signally success
full in this kind of irrigation, princi-
pally because they depend on hand
labor, and such labor need not dis
turb the main features of the irriga-
ton system.
If Americans find it necessary to ir-
rigate their hillsides, they will doubt
less also find it necessary to use
hand-work instead of machine work
in the cultivation of the ground thus
| used.
The writer believes in introducing
irrigation wherever possible, whether
the land be arid or not, as crop in
surance, but he believes that the prob
lem can be worked out but slowly.
| The American farmer is welded to
the use of machines and will be slow
to abandon them. Perhaps some
bright inventor will find way to dis
| tribute water to the hillside crops
and yet retain the methods we now
| employ