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Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1909-08-18

twelfths of her raw cotton to foreign
lands. The domestic consumption of
corn is more than keeping pace with
the huge increases in production.
Millions of bushels go to feed and fat
ten the cattle and hogs whose beef
and pork. grown on the western
prairies and slaughtered in Chicago.
feed the Inhabitants Of every corner
of the globe. But one of the chief
uses of corn has sprung up during the
last decade and has grown into an
immense industry. Millions and mill
ions of bushels are made into glucose,
which is the basis of sugar. Most OF
the candy that America eats is made
from sugar that comes from corn.
The people of this country are con-
suming II in other ways, too-ways
that were unthought of few years
ago, when corn bread and mullins
were all that came out of the bakers
ovens. An enormous number of break
fast foods are made out of corn to-
day. Almost every month sees some
new preparation of this sort. Instead
week. as we used to do. we now con-
sumo hundreds of thousands of
bushels every morning at breakfast,
disguised by baking and sugaring SO
that most of its resemblance to It's
original form and taste has been lost.
The railroads of America spend in
prosperous times nearly billion and
a quarter dollars year In new equip
ment. in keeping the old In repair and
for the vast quantity OF supplies that
they need. When the cars are full
and. there are none idle they buy free
ly. Factories OF all sorts from one
end OF the country to the other work
full time and overtime to supply their
needs. New lines are built. opening
up virgin territories and bringing
them nearer to the markets. Wages
are good and there is work for all.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1909-08-18
REAL BASIS FOR
IMPROVING CORN PLANT
7 are Ways Which Advancement
Secured and Careful Study 10 UrSed.-By
Edward NJ.

Ever since plant breeding has been
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.
II 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-
sciousness that there must be a 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 mar 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 II 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 II we only continued on the
Job for a sufficient length OF time. We
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1909-08-18

can probably be made, although some
biologists are beginning to lose faith
in u because the results scarcely pay
for the trouble. This Ia the selec-
tion of fluctuations. Fluctuations are
the variations that are not due 10
structural changes in the reproductive
cells, hut simply 10 nutrition. They
are, therefore--strictly speaklng-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 I'm good soil and Is well
developed. while the other has grown
on poorer soil and is weakly devei-
oped. The seed of the well-nurtured
plant has more nutriment stored Nd
in Il and the young seeding that V
produces has a better start IN life
than has seeding from the poorly
nurtured plant. The actual charac-
ters inherited by the two plants are
the same. but the seedlings from the
poorly nurtured plant are handi-
capped. and are not so well able 70
utilize their food supply and produce
a normal welldeveloped plant. This
Ia also true Of poorly-nourished ami
mails.
Let Wa apply these principles TO
corn breeding. Corn Ia wiDd-pol-
linated plant. therefore when a change
takes place in the reproductive cells
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1909-08-18

OF any individual of a variety. it IN
quickly recombined 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 ef-
feet OF selection is gradually to isn-
late strain having characters that
we desire. In 80 far as such charac-
ters have already been produced by
nature. There is no question OF our
originating anything by this selection.
If there are plants having undesirable
characters VIC 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, thers are
some strains that produce greater
variety than others. II 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 II the type
desired has been included among the
original plants IL can be selected out
and established as variety, II u
has been left out we can only wait
for nature to produce such a type. And
as nature is not prodigal in her new
productions our chances are relative.
ly small.
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Filling bitches and ou,IIs..

II is not good plan to plow bare
soil In bitches and gullies which are
not wanted In fedls. First MI them
with brush. briars, straw. corn stalks
and any kind of rubbish and then
plow In the soil. The rubbish will
not only catch and hold the soil
plowed In. but II win catch and hold
soil washed into the field from other
sources. When the trash decays and
the gullies become filled. these places
win become level and the deepest aDs
richest spots In the fields.
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FAILURE OF OLIVE CROP
GOOD THING FoP AMERICA

Last year the European olive crop
failed. The devout Moslems of Tur'
key and Asia Minor would not eat
butter or lard. There was little olive
oil to be had. They bought cotton
seed oil by the shipload. Now they
like II better than olive oil and they
don't care whether that crop fails OF
not.
Every line of industry throughout
the country feels the quickening i'm
pulse OF good crops and good prices
1t touches impartially the little sod
house far out on the Dakota prairie
and the palace of the millionaire on
upper Fifth avenue. The section hand
putting in new ties on the railroad
feels 1t, the toilers In factories. the
clerks in cities-there is no life so re
mote that 1t is not affected when the
crops are abundant
With this tremendous increase of q
thousand million dollars in the value
of the products OF the earth in the
United States this year there should
begin an era of prosperity such as
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have only made beginning in breed
ing as a science. and II 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
a careful consideration of them shows
the errors in both of the above teach
ings.
/. 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 tine fer
tilized egg from which the seed and
finally the plant results. From the
structure within this egg-cell. each
character and through these charac-
ters, 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 a plant unless II 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.
2. The object of hybridization is 10
shuffie and recombine the unit charac.
ters of the parent plant. II we knew
what all the resulte would be when
these characters combine we could
predict the percentage of the progeny
of 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 eharac
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 hybridization. Here
was definite basis upon which to work
and by which tangible results could bs
obtained. But supposing no wilt-re
sistant melon had been known, Il
would have been utterly futile to have
tried to breed this character into tn,
watermelon by selection. The water
melon reproductive cell does not pos
sess this character. and on this &C
count there Is no basis upon which
to select. The kind OF selectionist
against whom we are speaking would
begin by going into a field and TAX
ing seed from those plants that wer,
the least affected by the disease, ye
he would never obtain results becaus,
he would be selecting non-affectet
plants instead OF resistant plants.
8. There is third method by whiel
. nlight and temporary improvement
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szeohuen railroad that is nov being
financed by great European and
American interests will open Up ter
ri;ory in China that is larger In area
than Germany and Switzerland com
bined. II has a poulation greater
than that of all the United States,
125. 600, 600. Western Asia Is being
developed by railroad extending
from southeastern Europe to Bagdad
and the Persian gulf. Hitherto this
great territory has received its cot
ton goods by caravan from Alden and
the Red sea. The opening up OF these
two great territories is among the
things that are likely to keep the
price of cotton up, no matter now
much is raised during the next Few
years. Five years ago, when the gov
ernment's cotton crop report estimat'
ing 12,162,000 bales was published'
the price OF cotton dropped to va
cents a pound. This year this same
| production Is regarded as very mod
crate. Thirteen million Ave hundred
thousand bales is the record crop.
But the cotton fibre alone Is not all
that comes from the plant. twenty
nve years ago the farmers used 10
shovel the despised cotton seed into
the bayous. bury 1t In the earth' try
TO burn it--anything to get rid OF II.
Now the cotton seed oil industry OF
this country Is worth sl0O,OO0.0oo an
nually. to gey nothing of the other
by.products, cake meal and hulls.
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wM this year to bring about
WW the dawn of prosperity
known before she will
have her fondest hopes
realized. The governments report of
acreage and probable harvcsts shows
beyond prea6venture that the yields
OF grain and cotton will be big-some
of them record crops. But bumper
years in grain and corn and cotton
frequently have brought low prices.
lt will not be so this year. Outside
of America the harvests of the world
will be smaller than usual. As a con-
sequence the agriculturists in this
country will receive thousand mill
ions of dollars more for the products
of their fields than they ever realized
in single year before. The total
value of the four great staples alone
wheat, oats, corn and cotton-will be
greater this year by nearly three.
quarters Of billion dollars than they
have been In any year of this coun-
try's history.
Never before have the great corn
fields of America yielded such boun.
teous harvests as they are going to
this year. The governments esti-
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1909-08-18

mate is nearly three and quarter
billion bushels--and nine times out
of ten the government guesses con-
siderably under the actual figures
when all the records are made up.
The biggest yield Of corn that this
country has ever known was In 1905,
less than three billion bushels. The
average price last year was little
more than so cents bushel. Corn
for December delivery 10 selling now
at SIS cents bushel. Figuring the
value of the present crop this price
would make its value total the vast
sum OF more than two billions OF dol
lars-2,000 millions OF money. When
the figures OF the governments esti-
mate of the bumper crop OF corn came
out the other afternoon there was a
hush In one of the big Wall street
grain brokerage offices, Then man
spoke up: Great heavens! there
isn't loose money enough in the world
10 corner that crop" Corn alone will
make the American farmer not far
from $500. 100000 richer this year
than he was last.
BUMPER CROPS SURE FOR
BOTH COTTON AND WHEAT.
Take cotton. too. Last years crop
was 1851 .s29 bales. The average
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1909-08-18
Cultivate Potatoes Frequently.

Potatoes are quick growing crop.
hence they require frequent caltiva-
tion for best growth and maturity.
Three or four CIVILIZATIONS win keen
the weeds down in potato patch, but
Il requires six or eight civilizations TO
produce good potato crop. Every
cultivation pays probably larger tAat
for any other cultivated crop.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1909-08-18
EvER-oRoWiNe MARKET
FOR AMERICAN COTTON

It is predicted that the price of cot
ton will not fall materially below 10
cents a pound for long time to come.
Cotton consumption is increasing fas-
ter than the lint is being raised. The
steady increase In population all over
the world, OF course. makes an ever
growing market. Many OF the millions
OF China clothe themselves In cotton
cloth whose fibres grew In the south
ern United States. The Hankow.
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Beside these the crops OF hay. al
falfa, potatoes, tobacco and the other
products OF the soil are either no less
or else far greater than usual. Ex-
perts estimate that the added wealth
that these will stow away in the
pockets OF the American farmer this
year will be not far from 500, 900.
Add this TO the total of the three
great cereals and cotton, and the
total is a thousand millions OF dollars
the vast sum by which the national
wealth will be increased this year
The farmer will not get 1t all. He
will pay out vast sums for labor, for
machinery with which to plant new
crops, for new buildings in which TO
house them and his other belongings,
for luxuries and comforts which he
has gone without when crops were
poor and prices low.
Getting the crops to market will
bring the railroad and steamship lines
a tremendous flood of added revenue
over the leaner years. The farmer
no longer stores his grain In the
fields as he used to years ago. He
sends II first TO the elevators that
rear their huge bulk beside the rail-
road tracks. There he holds 1t until
he gets the price he thinks it ought
to bring. IL he wants to borrow
money meanwhile the slip OF paper
that the grain warehouse gives him
Is good collateral for all he wishes.
Then when the food of wheat and
cotton moves eastward and south
ward TO the ocean gateways. where
the great ships are waiting to take
il across the seas. more money is put
into circulation. millions of 1t. Against
this time when the endless trains will
begin to journey TO the grain ports
| on the lakes or to the cotton cities
on the gulf the money for the moving
of the crops is being heaped up now
in the great financial centers of tbs
I country.
CONSUMPTION is KEEPING
UP WITH PRODUCTION
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~ recapitulate the way the record
runs IN this years increase in the
value OF the four great staples. so
that the eye can take It in at a glance.
here are the figures:
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INsuMPrIoN is KEEPING
UP WITH PRODUCTION.

America exports only about per
cent. of her corn. She sends seven
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BUMPER CROPS SURE FOR
BOTH COTTON AND WHEAT

Take cotton. too. Last years crop
was l1.5sl.s .s29 bales. The average
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-12-09

vantages which could not be met by
the small towns of that section. 1t is
the center of many railroads, has all
the advantages Of the modern urban
community, and should prove an ideal
location. The only possible objection
to Memphis is that it is in corner of
the state and therefore not central to
West Tennessee.
MurfreesbOro, which gets the Middle
Tennessee school, is fine town, one of
the very best in the state. 1t is the
center of a splendid territory, with ex-
cellent railway facilities and inhabited
by most hospitable, high-minded
people. 1t has several excellent edu-
cational institutions already, notably
the Tennessee Woman's College and
Soule College.
Johnson City is the "growingest
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-12-09

town over the Cumberland mountains.
Like Memphis, a bit out of the way, it
came forward with an offer which
could not be ignored. Supplied with
all the utilities of modern urban life
Johnson City will not fail to prove the
wisdom of it., selection of the East
Tennessee normal.
1t is gratifying to know that the
board has done its work so well in the
face of so many contending elements.
From the beginning it has worked
hard, and while at times there were
evidences of political and sentimental
pressure, the problem has been solved
to the advantage of all the people,
Now let the schools be established a
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-12-09
Try This in November.

Thousands upon thousands of fam
lilies who have not been regular eaters
of Quaker Scotch Oats will begin on
the first day of November and eat
Quaker Scotch Oats once or twice
every day for thirty days of this
month; the result in good health and
more strength and vigor will mean
that every other month In the year
will find them doing the same thing.
Try it! Serve Quaker Scotch Oats
plentifully and frequently for the thirty
days of November and leave off cor
responding amount of meat and greasy
foods. You'll get more health. more
vigor and strength than you ever got
in thirty days of any other kind o.
eating.
While you are trying this see thai
the children get a full share.
The best food for them. Quaker
Scotch Oats is also packed in hermet
ically sealed tins for hot climates
keeps indefinitely. z
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-12-09
Mrs. Fenbee. of Tennessee.

The stomach is such an easy organ to gel
out of order One is troubled with it in the
form Of indigestion another constipation
another heartburn, Aatulency, etc. Mrs
Fenbee, of Cumberland Furnace, Tenn.
suffered for seventeen years from sour stom.
ach. Naturally she tried everything, u
and she says nothing ever benefited her un
til she took DR.. Caldwelrs Syrup Pepsin
and that cured her
1t is absolutely guaranteed to do what il
claimed, and if you want to try it befor,
buying, send your address for free sample
bottle to Pepsin Syrup Co I19 Caldwell
Bldg, Monticello, III. 1t is sold by al
druggists at soc and ST. bottle
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-12-09
Certificate Of Stock Lost.

Notice is hereby given that the I'M
dersigned has made application for the
renewal of Certificate No. 80 for one
share of the capital stock of the East
Tennessee and Western North Carolina
Railroad Company, issued to w. B. G.
Smith on the II day of July, 1881.
w. B. &. SMITH.
State of Tennessee, Washington Co.
w. b. G. Smith, being duly sworn,
doth depose and say that he lost certif-
cate No. 80 for one share of the stock
in the East Tennessee and Western
North Carolina Railroad Company,
dated on the II day of July, 1881, issued
in the name of w. B. G. Smith, and
application is hereby made for renew
al of the same. w. B. g. SMITH.
Sworn to and subscribed before Lee
f. Miller, notary public, this the 5th
day of November, 1909.
LEE +. MILLER,
1325-St Notary Public.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-12-09
A Record Hard to Beat.
Kelly & Brady Co.,
Railroad Contractors,
Knoxville, Tenn. March "a, 1908

Knoxville, Tenn, March "a, 1908.
Mr. T. L. Beaman, Knoxville, Tenn.
Dear SIR In regard to your remedy,
Rheumathol," will say that used it
with great satisfaction with our men at the
Grant Tunnel in Kenton county, KY.
have used it on the men suffering with
neuralgia, when the suffering seemed to be
excruciating, and the result was almost in
Simultaneous relief And used it on others
that were suffering with rheumatism, when
it seemed that they had almost lost the use
of their limbs on account of the pain and in
less than day they would go to work and
say that the pain had all gone. have used
it myself with good results and keep it on
hand for my own use.
Yours truly,
KELLY & BRADY Co.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-12-09
DIRE DISTRESS.
1t is Near at Hand to Hundreds
of Johnson City Readers.

Don't neglect an aching back.
Backache is the kidneys cry for help.
Neglect hurrying to their aid.
Means that urinary troubles follow
quickly
Dire distress, diabates, Bright's disease
Profit by johnson City citizens ex-
perience.
Joseph Archer, 1877 King St., Johnson
City, Tenn, says: "For some time l was
laid up as the result of kidney com
plant. suffered so severely from pains
across my loins at times that | could
not sleep well. When | attempted to
stoop or lift, sharp twinges darted
through my loins and caused me great
misery. There was also kidney weak
ness that was especially annoying during
the night. The kidney secretions were
highly colored and contained sediment.
| finally saw Doan's Kidney Pills adver-
tised and procured box at the Grey.
Sprowl Drug Co. received complete
cure after using them short time and
| have not had "a symptom of kidney
trouble since"
For sale by all dealers. Price so cents
Foster-Mnburn Co., Buffalo, New York
sole agents for the United States.
Remember the name Oan's-ant
take no other.
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Mrs. NOrlhup, Quincy, Ill.

Mothers should be grateful to know of a
remedy for their own stomoch, bowel and
liver troubles as well as for those of theil
children. Mrs. Alice Northup, of Quincy,
Ill. terrifying many methods is free to ad.
NIT that the best one is DR.. Caldwells Syr,
up Pepsin, which she uses herself and gives
to her family. She believes no household
shonld be without it.
1t is absolutely guaranteed to do what We
claim, and if you want to try it before buy.
ing, send your address for a free sample
bottle to Pepsin Syrup Co II9 Caldwell
Bldg, Monticello, Ill. 1t is sold by al
druggists at soc and ST. bottle,
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-12-09

"Has that fellow Pinkley returned
home YETI" "Nope. He's been gone
two years now and nobody knows a
blessed thing about him. dwell,
derned if l shouldn't think you'd be
afraid he'd come home some day an
claim he found the South Pole. y
Cleveland Plain Dealer.