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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-10-08

conversations between New York and
Chicago and even greater distances be-
ing commonplace occurrences now"
"Chicago?" both inquired.
"Chicago," broke in another shade
who bore resemblance to Father Dear
born, "is the greatest young city in
the world. 1t is rapidly o~verhauling
New York in population and is the
center and source of most energy and
progress"
Father Knickerbocker elevated his
shade eyelids slightly, but %refrained
from comment.
II had heard of electricity" rumi-
mated the shade Of Fulton. There
was something about it in Leyden
not dream it possessed such possibili-
ties. 1t may have been a better ele-
mert with which to experiment than
steam. Still, nothing can supplant
steam. I assume that all these people
I see here to-day have come by steam
ships or maybe some have come by
steam vehicles over the highways"
The shade of Father Dearborn emit
ted something strangely like a snort
Eyes, most Of these people came by
steam-propelled vehicles, but they now
run on steel rails that girdle the
world. They travel usually at a rate
approximating nearly a mile a minute
and only this year a steam locomotive
beat the record by running ninety
nine miles an hour. Every eighteen
hours steam engines pulling long
trains of steel-built cars and carrying
hundreds Of people go between Chi
cago and New York, and fourteen-hou1
trips over the same 1,000-mile journey
are not unusual"
eye gods" was all the shade Of Full
ton could exclaim.
But that is not all" broke in Father
Knickerbocker. This vessel on which
we now are, the Mauritania, crossed
the Atlantic only a few weeks ago ir
Just a little more than four days
How's that?" he chuckled. as he
chucked the spirit ribs Of Henry Hud
SON..
That shade. who had been listening
somewhat listlessly to the converse
ton, became interested. ct was watch
ing when our friend Robert. here
steamed up my river in the Clermont
1t was a much larger boat, too, thar
my Half Moon. and made better time
But you could stow them both in thi:
monster and have to look a long time
to find them If they got misplaced
Eyes" observed Father Knicker
booker. "you could almost put eithe,
of them in one of those smokestacks
A coach and four could easily be
driven through one of these tunnels.
Electricity's Aid Used.
They were leaning over the rail. ant
both the ancient shades became inter
ested in a smaller vessel that wa
driving alongside without apparen
means of propulsion. Only a fain
"chug, chug," came to their ears.
That" said Father Kn~ickerbocker
observing their attention, 'is another
use to which electricity has been put
With all your study of torpedoes ant
submarines you never thought of sucl
a thing as an electric launch, did you
Robert?"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-10-08

Travelling men will finally become
SO numerous that their trade will
make business good.
Any woman low enough to bring a
breach of promise suit, should be IN
lucky enough to lose it.
We imagine hat the day before
election an Office seeker feels like a
girl about to be married.
Always find out how much a thing
is going to cost before you or.aer it.
You can save money by this pTecau-
ton.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-10-08
PROGRESS OF THE DAY.

The electric fan plucks slaughtered
chickens.
India and Ceylon supply seven.
eighths of the worlds tea.
Of differing strength.
The Chinese divide the day into II
parts of two hours each.
The French government will control
the wireless telegraph systems of that
country.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-10-08
sPLINTERs.

Band boxes-Music stands.
Hard rubber-Watching a balloon.
While we are signing over the past
we miss the opportunities of the pres
ent.
1t is human nature for us to think
that the laurel wreath is on the wrong
head.
Our good deeds are played on q
jewsharp and u faults on . bass
drum.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-10-08

car pass directly through the shades
Of Hudson and Fulton.
What was that?" inquired the
guests as they caught the Stygian
breaths. That explained Father
Knickerbocker, solicitously tanning the
habiliments of his charges with his
spirit hand, was the automobile that
recently did ten miles in 1923 Is.
Lucky 1t wasn't the one that made 100
miles in 1:39:4S 40. You would have
been waited back to the Styx."
"But what has become Of the
horses?" both inquired.
There's some out in Central Park
yet" replied Father Knickerbocker.
There are still plenty to be seen or
the streets of Chicago" observed
Father Dearborn, wryly.
Year IF Broken Records.
But even in this respect It has be
come a very rapid world" continued
Father Knickerbocker, ignoring the
interruption. This year a horse
Hamburg Belle, trotted a one-mile
heat in 2:01H."
Good for the horse" exclaimed Full.
ton.
Even your record of getting away
from the Indians up Albany way has
been eclipsed this year." said Father
Knickerbocker, looking through Hud'
SON.. EARLY this month Emelio Lung
hi clipped three and three-ffths sec
onds from the 7OO-yard running rec
ord that had stood for twenty-seven
years, making it in 1927 2-5; John J
Eller won a 120-yard low hurdle race
in OLA rs, a fifth of a second faster
than the best previous record, made
in 1888; Plat Adams leaped in a
standing hop, skip and jump the un
precedented distance of 80 feet AZ
inches, breaking the worlds record
by several inches"
blessed if it isn't a rapid century,
calculated the visiting shades.
They were standing beside a huge
stone and iron structure. Suddenly
there came a buzz of noise, and under
their feet the earth trembled.
rs it an earthquake" TREMENDOUSLY
asked Hudson.
Wonders Of Printing.
mo, old friend" Father Knicker
booker assured him. THAT is only
newspaper presses printing miles Of
colored prints telling about this days
doings in honor of both of you. They
re coming out folded and ready fol
the street at the rate of thousands 6
minute. While we are standing here
boys are already selling them OF the
streets. Within an hour a million
people will be looking at our ancient
pictures and reading of your achieve
ments; comparing them smilingly
with those of this very modern world
Hudson and Fulton were silent
Then Fulton spoke up. They were
printed by hand in my time" he said
Three or four hundred an hour was
a remarkable record, even for the
press of Ben Franklin"
There was mighty little printing
in my day." observed Hudson, lever
in Holland or Germany"
Electricity again makes it possible
to-day. The presses, larger thar
many houses, are operated by electric
motors; electricity flashes the news
from all corners of the world, sc thai
within a few minutes of the occur
renee of an important event, in any
part of the globe the rest of the world
may know about it, and be showr
printed pictures of either the people
concerned or Photographic representa-
lions of the disaster, or battle, or lot
able achievement"
They caught the fiaring headlines o
a pictured page in the hands of {
flying newsboy. THAT looks like me,
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-10-08

Electricity is used, too, on rail
roads. This year an electric motor
made a record of ninety-two miles an
hour. Electric wires from the bridge
of this ship to the engine room con.
vey the orders for it's movements.
Electric bells in the cabins summon
servants, as they do In the thlrtieth-
story room of the hotel in which you
would sleep tonight II a shade needed
to sleep. But let us pass along. We
have only a few days to witness the
wonders that have been produced by
men since you last visited the scene
Of your greatest achievements"
Swinging lightly over the side OF
the great vessel the party, including
Father Dearborn, foated to the deck
of a passing launch.
"Phew!" exclaimed the shade of
Hudson as it applied a Styx-embroid-
cred handkerchief to its nostrils.
What Is hat unseemly smell?"
THAT is the gasoline" ~vouchsafed
Father Dearborn. They're very ia.
miliar with it on the principal thor
oughfares Of my big western city"
And what is gasoline?" queried the
shade Of Fulton.
"Father Knick" Up to Date.
you should keep better posted on
the progress Of the world, my dear
Robert" observed Father Knicker
booker. See how I have kept myself
Informed of what is going on in New
Amsterdam, which the British re
covered in your native state of Penn,
sylvania some years after you cast
aside Jul mundane existence and at
fected the flmy habilaments of the
spirit world. Gasoline is one of the
results. and right prominent it has
become as a fuel. 1t is largely used
for the propulsion of automobiles and
boats, and has become a means Of
economy and large possibilities ir
shops and other places where steam
is inexpedient and costly"
On the battleship Connecticut, where
the visitors from the Styx next tool
up their observations, both Hudson
and Fulton found much to Interest
them. The huge guns Of enormous
tonnage, handled rapidly and smoothly
by the aid of mechanical devices al
new to the ancient mariners, fllet
them with wonder. THE powde,
burned il the firing Of one salute
would have QUILTED the Half Moor
for its entire voyage of discovery" OBJ
served Hudson.
See Two Familiar Craft.
About them the harbor and thu
rivers were dotted with craft Of ever,
description. Finally they spied two
that were familiar-the replicas of thu
Half Moon and the first Clermont. re
produced as a mere incident of thu
tercentennial celebration. The orig
inals had represented the climax O
reckless expenditure three and one
centuries back.
At the conclusion of the parade
Father Kn~ickerbocker led his guest,
back to the city's heart. Hudson,
bewilderment was far greater thai
that of Fulton. when I was here
this was all hills and trees and rocks.
exclaimed the old explorer, as he gGzet
upward to where Madison Mary wa.
tolling the hour, thirty stories abov,
them, with several more stories o
tower stretching above her sonorou!
mouth.
when I was here observed Fulton
"a four-story building was thought
very tower of Babel. But there ar,
some familiar scenes"
Just then there came a furiou.
"Honk, Honk." and Father Knicker
booker and Father Dearborn stepped
aside just In time to see a huge racin,
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-10-08

exclaimed Hudson. That's my like
ness" said Fulton. There was moth
ing like that in our time they
Quoted.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-10-08

But to Hudson the long lines of the
the maneuvering battleships of many
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-10-22

Grafton. The surface soil is then pull
verified and cultivated until it is very
fine. This powder-like mulch holds
the rains and SHOWS Of the wet sea-
son as they fall. the moisture cannot
leak through the hard pan, and thus
evaporation is prevented. The soil is
worked until 1t is sponge-like and can
hold the moisture. After each rain
the soil must be worked anew, until
the plants are large enough to hold
their own. Immediately after har.
yesting the soil is prepared again and
then allowed to lie fallow until the
next seasons crop q
Giant machines have been prepared
for the work. Thirty-two horse pillow
engines drag behind them 10 14-inch
plows, clod breakers. harrow, and
pulverizers. Drillers and clod spread.
ers follow later. Thirty-five acres Of
land can thus be cultivated at a cost
of 80 cents an acre, where it cost the
pioneer farmer at least S.. Contin.
uously dry farmed" land--Yhere ev-
Grey particle Of moisture is retained
requires only 10 quarts of seed to go
as far toward a maximum crop pro.
duction as 80 or 40 quarts in the or.
binary wheat. belt. Every grain finds
fertile lodgment.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-10-22
TURN DESERT INFO GARDEN
csy Farming. Movement Proposes to
Do This by the Simple Laws
of Nature.

At the edge Of the American desert
the government has built expensive
irrigation plants, but these cannot
reach the interior Of the area nor can
they make ready the land without
enormous cost; The dry farming
movement proposes to convert this
desert into p garden by the simple
laws of nature. 1t has demonstrated
that 40 acres, properly cultivated,
VIII support a family Of from three TO
five. From .35 to 55 bushels Of wheat
per acre are possible to this dry soil.
The great Russian wheat, durum. from
which macaroLi Is made, is raised on
soil very similar to our desert soil;
and its Importation has Transformed q
foreign product into a domestic. To
day, In this country the total output ,of
sdurum wheat Is about thirty millions,
and most Of IT. is raised On dry lands.
The demand is growing and machinery
for grinding the hard wheat Ii betSe
produced. The American desert Is fa6t
losing its reputat ion for aridity and
becoming 2 factor Ia our national
riches.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-10-22
FLOWING FOR FALL GRAIN
Should Be Done Immediately After
Harvest and Cultivated to
Conserve Moisture.


When wheat follows wheat or some
other grain crop suitable seed bed
may be prepared by early blowing
IL country the blowing should
be done as soon after harvest as pos.
sible and the fields should be cult.
waited with harrow or disk at inter.
walls until seeding time in order TO
firm the soil, conserve the moisture
anS destroy the weeds. When the
blowing is done just previous to SOW
ing it is well to follow the pillow with
the snb-surface packer and harrow in
order to pulverize and pack the soil
at the bottom of the furrow and leave
a mellow, even surface.
This packing and pulverizing of
the furrow slice is especially neces.
sary when the soil is plowed dry or
when stubble. trash or manure is
slice is left loose and unpulverized,
the capillary connection of the soil
with the subsoi! is largely broken
off and the soil water will not rise
into the surface soil to supply the
terminating seed and feed the roots
of the young plants, hence the seed
fails to terminate well or the plant
is often stunted in growth, and in
such seed bed the crop is likely to
freeze out or burn out Because of
these results it is not safe to pillow
under coarse manure or heavy
utb of
pairing a seed bed for wheat or other
small grains or grasses.
If the soil is in good physical con-
dition, not too dry or too wet an
ideal seed bed can be prepared by
blowing Immediately before seeding,
provided the soil is repacked and
well pulverized but this is often
more expensive method than the
disking or early blowing method 1t
is also often a good plan to disk the
ground previous to blowing. If plowed
at once the loose surface is in
better condition to more readily
connect and reunite with the sub.
soil when the furrow slice is in
verted
If the blowing is delayed the
ground will remain in good condi-
ton for blowing for a much longer
period during dry weather than land
which has received no cultivation.
1t is often possible when the land has
become too dry to pillow, by establish
ing soil mulch with the disk harrow
and rataininp tho watar in tho cot,
to so improve the moisture condition
OF the surface, as to bring it again into
good blowing condition and it may
even be advisable to practice early
disktng rather than early blowing
where both cannot be accomplished.
The surface mulch of soil produced
by disking not only retains the water
in the soil but offers favorable sur.
face to absorb the rains.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-10-22
AID IMMIGRANT in LOCATING
Suggested That Loans Be Made to
These Frugal and Thrifty Peo-
Pile Seeking Homes.

In his annual address before the Ma
tional congress, recently held at Spo-
kane, President George e. Barstow,
said among other things:
The National government has
passed law providing for the estab-
lishment of bureau of immigration,
to aid the immigrants to. locate upon
lands for home building, but should
not the National government go a step,
further? Shall be regarded as preach;
ing paternalism or socialism when
suggesting that the duty of the Ma
tional government may be found in
providing under proper safeguard a
fund which may be used to make
loans to enable this frugal and thrifty
class of people to locate homes under
government irrigation plants. The
great cities are the maelstrom of our
nation. Their citizens would soon be-
come effeminate and decayed, save as
they can. draw upon our country and
simple life
There is too much unwarranted
prejudice against many of the nation
alities coming to our shores.
There are no doubt some Of the
people of each nationality undesira-
BILE. But, time has shown that wheth-
er Huns or Slavs, Italians or Chinese
or Japanese they make good citizens.
Il desire to impress on you the i'm
portance of giving the federal govern.
ment to understand that the people
of the nation demand that the, re.
clamation fund shall be forthwith sun
plemented by the creation and
sale from time to time of gold
bonds to the total sum of $4,000. 900
in order that much more rapid work
may be placed in reclaiming the ma
tons arid lands. This same principle
finds its application as to the reclaim.
ing of our swamp lands and improve.
ment of our natural waterways When
all these arid lands shall have been
cultivated by irrigation, we shall have
opportunity for Rbout 25,0OO.O0O addi-
tional population with an annual III.
crease Of agricultural products
amounting to $500. 0OO, O0O."
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-10-22
WHEAT ONDRY FARM
How Scientific Cultivation Is
Rapidly Becoming Recon-
nized in West.
First Methods Were Crude, But Later
Developments Have Rendered It
No More Costly Than Other
kinds-Manner Of oper-
ations.

DRY farming may sound like for
lorn joke to the poor fellows whose
acres of corn are being soaked every
afternoon about four by these good,
hard, drenching spring rains; but real
dry farming has grown to be sub
lect very worthy of attention from
farmers interested in the development
enough to have called forth gov
eminent pamphlet and to have estab-
lished societies through the west for
its economic application.
The farmer so years ago hooted al
the cultivation of those arid acres in
the west known as the American Des-
ert--for what was to be done with a
dry, unirrigated alkali-coYered waste?
Eastern farmers were incredulous, but
westerners We're eager, for il was
their neighborhood; and so it fell to
;he lot of Prof H. W. Campbell to
investigate and illustrate the princt
pies of dry farming, or the rendering
fertile of arid lands without irrigation.
His theory maintained that by cult
waiting the top and subsoil of the al.
kali deserts, every particle of mois-
ture falling on the land could be held
in the soil, and surface cultivation the
year round would tend to produce a
profusion of flowers and grain.
The first methods were crude and
expensive, but later developments
have rendered dry farming no more
costly Ian other kinds. The land is
p]owed a year before any crops are
planted. Disk subsoil plows break the
soil and pack 1t into firm bed, leav-
ing a sort of hard pan through which
the water cannot slip. This we'll
packed subsoil also prevents the pow
erful, blighting salts rising by evap-
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-10-22
Don't Let Soil Crust.

( Do not let the soil form crust. It
is at such times that the evaporation
of the moisture is very rapid. Run
the cultiyator through the corn to
prevent this condition, and the often.
er it is cultivated the better the crop
will do. Such cultivation puts fine
dust mulch upon the surface which eli.
fectually prevents evaporation EXCEPT
at a very slow rate. Anyone that has
examined a well-cultivated field has
been stuck by the dryness of the
surface, and only few inches
below it was almost wet enough to
make mud balls. After every rain IT
is necessary to break up the crust
that forms. In this way moisture
enough. may be accumulated to tide.
over the period when 1t is needed
most A little shower often does con.
siderable damage by destroying the
dust mulch, and 1t should be restored
as soon as possible.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-10-22
Conservation Of Soil

Conservation interests the farmer
because 1t deals with actual conditions
surrounding the preservation of nat
ural resources of the land Nature
and the farmer must cooperate in or
der to insure permanency of profits
and the continuation of annual in
come. The tiller Of the soil cannot
work with profit from his labors
in every field of productivity. Con-
servation of the soil means protection
of the sources of wealth in agriculture.
An abundance of plant food must be
kept in the surface soil to insure good
cash returns from the investment Of
time and labor. The plant food can be
retained only through systematic meth
DDS of restoring fertility and conserv-
ing the forces of nature that contrib.
ute to the, perpetuation of soil wealth
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-10-22
VARYING Price Of Wool.

Why there should be such wide
difference in the prices of wool often
puzzles the average sheep grower.
AS much as Ave or ten cents pound
isScften paid for the wool of one flock
over that of another grown practical
~ on the same range. One Of the
chief points in the merits of wool is
the fineness and there is a great yari-
alton in this characteristic. Coarse
ly-bred sheep may have no more than
5000 wool hairs to the square inch OF
skin, while the breeds that have been
bred TO produce fine wool, such as the
Marino, may have 10000 or as high as
$4,000 wool hairs to the square inch.
BY examining the shorn skin, Of a
sheep under . microscope the differ
ence IN the lneness of the wool can
easily be discerned.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-10-22
POISON SPRAYS
BENEFIT APPLES
Those Who Use Arsenate of Lead
Use Too Much at Time and
Usually Spray Too Often.

1t is very desirable to grow apples
free from worms. The cooling moth
is the insect that lays the eggs in the
blossoms from which the worms are
Matched. Arsenical poison sprayed on
the blossoms is eaten by the young
cooling moth worms and they die be-
fore doing any damage.
A great many fruit growers do not
spray at all for the cooling moth. 1t
has been found, however, BY. expe-
rience that those who do spray with
arsenate of lead use too strong ,solu-
ton, apply too much at time and
usually spray too often. -Four pounds
of arsenate of lead to 100 gallons Of
water make an amply strong solution.
A greater proportion of the poison is
an actual detriment, and waste.
The apple tree does not have to be
soaked with the poison mixture to kill
the larvae of the moth. The minut-
est drops Of the liquid on the calyx
of each blossom will effectually do
the work. The fineness of the spray
is no more Importance than the quaint
ity used. Each blossom should re-
ceive little. Some in spraying apply
so much of the liquid that it runs
down the branches and trunks to the
roots of the trees, where it does
injury.
In most cases two or three pounds
of arsenate of lead to 100 gallons of
water makes solution strong enough
to destroy all of the worms if applied
in the right way Two sprayings at
the right time are sufficient, and
saving of material and labor. The
general notion that arsenical poison
on the trunk and branches Of trees is
beneficial is a mistake. On the other
hand. they do, positive injury, and
many trees thus treated die from pois,
oning. ~. ~