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Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1909-04-23

varieties of better quality. but the
work viii not be easy owing to the
difficulty in distinguishing between
these characters and those produced
by differences in environment which
are not hereditary.
There is a wide individual variation
in chemical composition in the potato,
and tubers with a total content of nj
trogenous materials higher than the
average for corn calculated to dry
weight have been found. 1t can
hardly be doubted that varieties can
be produced with a much higher food
value because of a higher nitrogen
content, by selection of seedlings by
a chemical analysis. II has also been
found that a new variety with high
nitrogen content would not be OPP
posed through any law of compost
ton, to our conception of good quail
ity.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1909-04-23
FOLK IN PULLMAN
Noted Reformer to Deliver Lecture
in College Town Saturday,
May 1.

The people of the Inland Empire
will be given an opportunity to hear
Joseph w. Folk, ex-governor of Mis-
souri, and one of the nations greatest
characters, on Saturday May /. Gov
ernor Folk speaks at but three points
in eastern Washington, namely:
Pullman, Spokane and Wenatchee.
He was secured for a lecture by the
literary bureau of Washington State
College and will speak at the college
on Saturday evening. Excursion
trains will be run from many In
land Empire points in order that peo-
pie may hear the great reformer
speak
People living along the line of the
Northern Pacific can visit Pullman
on the regular trains and excursion
trains will be run on the o. r. & N.
The subject of Governor Folks lee
ture has not yet been announced,
but the subject makes but little diff
ference. The people want to see and
hear him and know that his address
will be full of interest and of high
moral tone. Governor Folk is to-day
ranked among the nations great men
and his reform work in Missouri
places him among the front ranks of
reformers.
In addition to the lecture of Gov
ernor Folk, which will be given in
the evening, there will be the annual
track meet between Washington State
College, of Pullman, and the Univer-
sity of Idaho, located at Moscow.
The fierce rivalry existing between
these two schools makes an athletic
meet of any kind between the teams
Ia matter of great interest and the
double attraction is certain to draw
to Pullman hundreds of visitors from
all sections of the Inland Empire.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1909-04-23
Make Find of Rails and Tles.

What amounts almost to an arch.
geological railroad find has been made
recently In the Allegheny river. be-
tween Oil City and Franklin, Pa" saws
The Railroad Mans Magazine. 1t
goes on to say: Half a mile of ties
and rails were found. The rails bore
the stamped trademark b. B. |. c.
Indicating that they were made by the
Brady's Bend IRON Company. This
was the first company to manufacture
iron for railroads west of the Ale
ghenies. AS the Franklin branch of
the Erie when it was the Atlantic g.
Great Western, and the Franklin g.
jamestown branch of the Lake Shore.
both followed the course of the river.
there would seem to be some doubt
as to which of the roads lost a half.
mile of track in a landslide. without
resort TO further records. The Bradv's
Bend Company has been out of bust.
ness for about forty years"
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1909-04-23

are merely new combinations of quail
ties which were held by the Germ cells
of the two parents
The real effect of selecting fuctua,
tons within a variety (such as select
ing the heaviest tubers to improve the
yield is still questionable 1t seems
definitely settled that the use of dis.
eased and immature tubers as seed
has an injurious physiological effect
upon the succeeding crop, but there is
no evidence that planting the best
tubers or planting tubers from the best.
yielding plants will increase the Weld
of the variety. Such an inheritance
would necessitate the supposition that
germ cells of large tuber have a diff.
ferent constitution from those of a
small tuber of the same variety, and
there is no warrant for such an as
sumption.
Wide variations or bud mutations
are rare and have never produced any
thing especially valuable They are at
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1909-04-23
VETERANS EAT ELK STEAKS

BILLINGS, Mont. April 17.-Three
hundred members of the G. A. R.
and friends attended the state en-
campment hehe and were treated to
an unusual feats when they were
served with elk steak, elk roast and
elk stew at an elaborate banquet last
night. Two large elks, donated from
the famous herd of Paul Mccormick.
were prepared for the occasion.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1909-04-23
CALL FOR BIDS.

Sealed bids will be received by the
County Auditor OF Whitman Comfy
washington, up to the hour of 10 "a
O'Clock A. NJ. on May 4, 1909. for doing
the official county printing of Whitman
county for the year July l, 1909, to June
50, 1910, both inclusive. Bids to be hv
the inch, column-wide, nonpareil solid
BIDS will be opened on the day and honr
above mentioned.
The Board of County Commissioners
reserves the right to reject any and ali
bids. All bidders must submit with
their respective bids sworn statement
setting forth the number Of their bona
ida subscribers in Whitman County
State OF Washington.
Bidders will be required to sign con-
tract and furnish bond in the sum of
One Thousand Dollars, both 10 be an.
proved by the Board OF County Commits
sioners.
VIM. NJ. DUNCAN,
Auditor of Whitman County.
By d. L. Kemper, Deputy. -.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1909-04-23
CROSS SECTIONS OF POTATO OF
GOOD QUALITY.
Large Cortica and External Medul-
larry Layers and Small or Finely
Divided Internal MedulIary Layer.

Divided Internal MeduIIary Layer.
present more worthy the study of the
scientist than the attention of the
practical potato breeder.
The universal belief in the hypoth,
esis that potato variety must degen.
crate through continued bud propaga-
ton appears to have little ground
either in theory or practice. The de-
generation that sometimes does take
place is due to physiological effects
through the use of tubers which are
abnormal, from inhospitable soil or eli.
mate, or from the ravages of insects
or fungi on the plants. The old idea
that a change of seed is necessary
belongs to this same category. The
phenomenon is entirely physiological
Quality depends upon the following
factors:
l. Homogeneous Anatomical Struc
ture.-In general, quality increases as
the proportion of cortical and external
medullary layer to internal medullary
layer increases. (When a potato is
halved lengthwise the cortical layer
is the outside ring, the internal medul
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1909-04-23
ORIENTAL PALACE AND MANUFACTURERS BUILDING

The Palace Of Oriental Exhibits
frontage Cascade Court Geyser
Exhibits Agricultural Palaces
nifcen display buildings,
and California
Construction work these buildings
exhibits being received
will the valuable
been sent from the Orient will
India Ceyon Straits Settlements French
a he 0
building
The
will be
ceved S ACCOMPLISHED
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1909-04-23
MANY CORN GROWERS
Hundreds of Farmers VIII Grow
Corn In Washington This
Year. Seed supply Gone

Professor George Severance, pro-
fessor of agriculture in Washington
State College, announces that the
supply of seed corn from the College
farm has been exhausted already
and that no more orders can be fill
led. Although the corn planting sea-
son will not open for some time, more
than zoo farmers in eastern Wash
ington have been supplied with free
seed corn this year and applications
are arriving at the rate of 10 to l5
daily. The experiment station has
been working for several years to
produce variety of corn that will
stand the cold nights and short sea
sons of Washington and has succeed
ed in producing a corn that will ma
ture in this state, where the seasons
are short and the nights are cold.
Two years ago the college induced
80 farmers to try raising corn on
land they would otherwise have sum-
mer fallowed. The results were quite
encouraging and with hard work
while on trips with the demonstra-
ton trains last year, the experiment
station staff secured $50 farmers in
every county in Washington east of
the Cascade Mountains, to plant
corn. Although last year was un-
usually dry and the most unfavor-
able season for corn this country
has known for many years, many of
the farmers secured good yields and
the general results were so satisfac-
tory that already more than 700
farmers have been supplied with seed
corn this spring and requests that
cannot be filled are coming in every
day. Professor Severance told a
Herald reporter that these requests
will average a dozen a day.
Professor Severance and all those
connected with the experiment sta
ton are delighted with the prospects
for corn growing becoming a popu-
lar industry and the deep interest
aroused but they were unprepared
for the avalanche OF applications
which have been pouring in this
season They feel that the work
done by the staff in Institutes, on
demonstration trains and through the
press is certain to bear fruit and
that great good is bound to result
from these efforts.
If any one near Pullman has seed
corn that can be relied upon to ma
ture in this country Professor Sew
erance would like to secure some of
it, for distribution to those farmers
who are asking for it. Max Hin
richs, who has always raised large
amount of corn and has supplied
mucu for seed, has been seen by
Professor Severance, but can supply
no more this season. The expert
ment station is anxious to learn of
anyone having good seed corn, pro-
duced in Washington that can be sup
piled to inquiring farmers.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1909-04-23
NOTICE

Notice is hereby given, that at a
regular monthly meeting of the Board
of County Commissioners of Whitman
County, Washington, held in the Court
House of said County on the 5th day
of April, 1909, it was found and de-
teremined by said Board that three
fourths of the lands of said County
and State adapted to Agriculture and
grazing are under fence. and it was
then ordered by said Board that No
tice of said Findings be published for
four successive weeks in the official
paper of said County; and all live
stock running at large within said
County on and after thirty days from
the first publication of this notice,
to-wit:
On and after thirty days from the
9th day of April, 1909, shall be treated
as estrays.
BY order of the Board of County
Commissioners of Whitman County,
Washington.
VIM. M. DUNCAN.
SEAL. County Auditor and Ex-
Officio Clerk of said Board.
28-4t By d. L. KEMPER. Deputy,
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1909-04-23
FIXING NITROGEN In
THE SOIL
BY Charles L. Penny.

While it is true that the amount of
of land can never be increased by any
crop grown upon it, for the supply is
a fixed Interchangeable store, except
when foreign matters like CONNER
cial fertilizers are purposely added,
the case is quite otherwise with nitro
gen. OF this, on the contrary, there
is an inexhaustible supply surrounding
everything that grows above ground,
amounting to thousands of tons for
every acre. AS has been known for a
score of years or more, immense guam
titles of this most valuable food prin-
ciple are recovered from the atmos-
phere, fixed in solid form and event
ually made available for the growth of
plants. This gain of nitrogen is
brought about by microscopic organ
isms that have the power of feeding
directly on the free nitrogen of the at
mosphere and thus of fixing it in solid
form, AS these organisms live upon
the roots of certain kinds of plants,
the cloyers for example, and refuse to
live on the roots of many other plants,
the power of fixing free nitrogen is
often loosely ascribed to the plants
themselves. Recent investigations
tend sto show that the bacteria found
in the root tubercles have the power
of assimilating free nitrogen when
they are properly fed and cultivated
separately from the root, yet with
very much less activity Thus each
depends on the other, at least for its
fullest thrift, so that each, the plant
on the one hand as clovers, pea, vetch,
etc, and the bacterium on the other,
has its own important work in a true
partnership
Such is the modern explanation of
facts long known and used in practice
as to the enriching powers of the
clovers. The more perfect understand
ing of reasons has not only led to a
more intelligent use of of these plants
as green manures. but has made pos
sible their luXuriant growth in places
where they had refused to thrive. The
cause of failure of a particular crop
on a particular soil has been found
sometimes in the lack of the particular
kind of bacteria associated with the
crop, or in conditions unfayorable to
their growth,
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1909-04-23

AT meeting held for the purpose,
a committee of three, consisting of
Fred Dashiell, Fred Kienbaum and A.
d. Thayer was appointed to confer
with the Spokane County Pioneers
Association at their meeting held at
Spokane this week, relative to hay-
ing the association choose Wayerly
for their annual picnic this year. The
committee, after having met with the
association in Spokane. report that
while the place has not yet been de-
cided upon, this town stands an ex-
ceIlent chance. The event will occuh
in June.-Wayerly Gazette.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1909-04-23

Too Fat Hens.-We recently saw
statement by writer that hens never
became too fat to lay and that this
notion was born of ignorance. The
writer is convinced that hens fire.
Quently become overfat from under ex.
ercise and the feeding of too much
corn. He remembers one such hen
that when dressed yielded five pounds
of worthless fat and was reduced by
the removal of the fat from ten to five
pounds in weight. Not only are such
birds rendered worthless for egg pro-
duction, but they also are rendered
worthless for anything else An over
abundance of fat is an unhealthy in
dication and opens the way to the com
ing of various diseases. 1t is as detri-
mental to the breeding fowl as it is
to the laying fowl.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1909-04-23
FACTORS INFLUENCING
IMPROVEMENT OF POTATO
What Experimentation Has Thus Far
Revealed-5y Edward M. East,
Illinois Agricultural College.

Three methods for improving the
potato are in use:
l. Crossing desirable plants and
comparing their seedlings under con.
trolled conditions.
2. Selecting extreme fluctuations
among the plants and tubers of a va
riety.
3. Finding and isolating sudden
changes or mutations.
That advance is possible by the first
method is admitted from the results
OF its use by the best breeders. Theo-
retically. the new varieties obtained
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1909-04-23
Small Cortica Layer and Large Thick
Internal Medullary Layer
POOR QUALITY.

larry layer is the branchlike structure.
and the external medullary layer is
the part between.)
2. Dry Matter Content.-This must
be such that cooked starch fills the
cells to their bursting point. The lower
limit is about is per cent.
8. Maturity-This is affected by all
factors of soil physics, soil fertility,
cultivation and climate during the
growing period.
Under like conditions of environ.
ment, variations in table quality are
shown as yarietal characteristics due to
heritable differences in shape. compo.
sition and physical structure. These
herltable differences can probably be
used as a basis for originating new
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1909-04-23
Don't Sleep in Barns

Persons who lodge in any barn,
shed, shop, clubhouse, vessel, car,
saloon or other part not kept for
lodging purposes, without the per-
mission of the owner or person en-
titled to the possession thereof.
Persons who live or work in a
house of prostitution or solicit for
any prostitute or house of prostitu-
ton.
Person who solicits business for
an attorney around Jail, morgue, hos
pital or elsewhere.
Habitual user of opium, morphine,
alkaloid-coeaine, or alpha or beta Gu
caine, or any derivation, mixture or
preparation of any of them.
Mustn't Dodge Work
Person having no visible means of
support, who does not seek employ
ment, nor work when employment is
offered him.
Person who by his own confession
thereto or prior conviction thereof is
known to have been guilty of larceny
burglary, robbery or any crime OF
which fraud or an intent to defraud
is an element, who shall be found in
any drinking room or cellar, or any
public dance hall or music hall where
Intoxicating liquors are sold, or be
found intoxicated, or who, except on
lawful business, shall go about any
dark street or alley or any resident
section of any city or town in the
night time, or loiter about any steam
boat landing, passenger depot bank
ing institution or crowded street
shop or thoroughfare, or any puohc
meeting or gathering, or place where
people gather in crowds.
The penalty for yagrancy is hxed
At Imprisonment in the county jail
for not more than six months or
fine of not more than $500.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1909-04-23
"oh, Me, Pm Glad 10, r.,,

Funny thing about a woman"
"What?"
smell scream at a mouse, yet not
turn hair over a dressmaker's hill
mat makes her husbands teeth chat
Ter. "-Boston Transcript
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1909-04-23
NV Lady's Hair.

Miss De style lat music counter)-.
Have you the Rat Charmer of Hame-
linz"
Unclassic Saleslady-Youn find her
in the wig department. madam
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1909-04-23

Windows in Stables.-Most farm
barns do not contain enough windows
for the admission of direct sunlight.
Horses like TO look out of their stalls
in daytime, and being confined in dark
stalls is no doubt the cause of many
weak eyes with horses. The dairy
stable should be abundantly lighted at
all seasons not only for the health and
contentment of the cows, but for the
cleansing, disinfecting Influence of the
sunlight. Direct sunshine is one of
the strongest known disinfectants. kill
ing and making impossible the growth
or germ and fungous diseases. This
light in the COW stables will not only
make a healthy atmosphere for the
COWS, but make the air pure and clean
for sanitary milking.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1909-04-23

How Losses Cost DoubIe.-No ami.
mai can remain at a standstill without
loss to its owner. If an animal is
not gaining, then the food and labor
are thrown away. If an animal loses
only pound in weight, then the farm.
er not only suffers a loss of that which
he once had, but must incur additional
expense to regain that one pound, but
the time lost cannot be recovered
When there is falling off in weight
or the yield OF milk is reduced. the
cause should be sought, and if an err.
ror has occurred or there is fault in
the management, change should be
made for the better without DELAY
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1909-04-23

Possible for AIl-One need NOT he ,
millionaire to have clean, sanitary
attractive dairy barns.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1909-04-23
Farming Depends on stook-n

Farming Depends on stock-Dr
Leonard Pearson of Pennsylvania
makes the following suggestive OBJ
servations: The fertility of the soil
and an advancing profitable agrfcul-
ture, cannot be maintained without
animals. Animal husbandry is essen.
tial TO agricultural progress.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1909-04-23
MANY ARE MIGRANTS
ture, Adds Many to the I'm
desirable List.

Lucky is the man of bad habits
VINO does not come under some of
the definitions of a yagrant, as laid
down in the new criminal code.
The word vagrancy, under the new
law includes about everything that
is not covered as a crime in some
other section of the code and gives
he officers a wide latitude in securing
convictions of undesirable and dis
reputable characters.
Under the definitions of a vagrant
are included:
every person who asks or receives
any compensation, gratuity or re-
ward for practising fortune telling,
palmistry or clairvoyance.
Every person who keeps place
where lost or stolen property is con-
ceaied.
Every person practicing or solicit
ing prostitution or keeping a house of
prostitution.
Catches the Drun<ards
Common drunkards found in any
place where intoxicating liquors are
sold or kept for sale, or in an in
toXicated condition.
Common gamblers found in any
place where gambling is conducted
or where gambling paraphernalia or
devices are kept.
Healthy person who solicits aims
Lewd, disorderly or dissolute per-
sons.
Persons who wander about the
streets at late or unusual hours of the
night without any visible or lawful
buSinaSS
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-31
MAY END TARIFF
 DEBATE THURSDAY
Especial from United Press,

Washington, March 30.-An effort is being made by Representative Tawney, Republican, Minn.), to round up the tariff sentiment of all the Republican members of the western states. His object is to ascertain the schedules of the tariff bill on which they desire a separate vote. When this has been done the House leaders will be asked to in clude this rule in the passage of the bill. The indications are that the gen. erap debate will end in a few days. possibly by Thursday. It is under stood that Champ Clark. the Demo- cratic leader, has agreed to such a program on the ground that the time instead of being devoted to general use by being occupied by debate on the sections under the five minute rule.
 In his maiden speech before the House to-day Representative Cox Democrat, Ohio), made a strong plea for the reduction of the @artn on sew ing machines and bicycles. He de- clared that American manufacturers were absolutely helpless in. competing with manufacturers of these products abroad. Cox declared that it was ex- penditure and not revenue that should have consideration by the Republican party.
 An additional revenue tax on beer Is in prospect as a new feature of the Payne Tariff Bill. So much protest has been aroused by the tariff on tea and countervailing tariff on cofee and forcible that House leaders have under serious consideration the question of increasing the tax on beer.
 No decision has been reached by the House leaders on the question of hav- ing a Republican caucus but the chances are that nom will be held. There is such a diversion of sentiment among the members caused by con- dicting fnte0ests of the various dis tricts that it would be risky to bring them together in caucus.
 The present. plan is to bring in rule on Thursday cutting off general de- bate naming the schedules on which there may be separate vote and fix ing a day probably April 10: for a vote on the bill.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-31
PANIC ON WHITE
 STAR LINER CRITIC
Especial from United Press.)

Especial from United Press.)
 New York, March 30.lTales of a panfc in mtd-ocean among the 1,66e italian steerage passengers of the White Star liner Cretic were told by the cabin passengers when the ship docked in New York to-day. Frenzied by tho supposed jocular cry of Fire raised by some of their countrymen who poured from the steerase com panionway. the Italians fought over one another to reach the life boats. Before the officers of the ship could Interfere, the immigrants had swarm ed all over the ship and with drawn knives stood by the boats shouting de- 6anco to the officers who ordered them back to the steerage quarters.
 When the Italians learned there was no hre they Quieted down and returned to their own quarters The officers of the ship denied that the panic had as- stunned dangerous proportions and said the officers and crew had the situation xn hand throughout.