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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-17
HOW TO INCREASE YIELD OF
the SOIL,

Extracts from speech delivered at
the Omaha corn exhibition by James
]. Hill of the Great Northern Rail
road:
"Cultivate only as much land as can
be titled so thoroughly that it will
produce to it's highest capacity.
Study first the conservation of the
soil. Aim, even before trying to
secure big crop return, to leave the
ground each season better fitted for
production than it was before. This
can be done by a proper rotation OF
crops, by fertilization where land has
been partially exhausted, and best OF
all, by keeping some livestock on
every tract, no matter how small, and
restoring every particle OF manure to
the soil.
Adapt both the crop to be raised
and the method of cultivation to the
nature of the soil. This is just as
important as it is that corporation
should not try to make high-grade
steel out of ores containing an excess
of phosphorus. An agricultural
chemist can give directions and
should always be consulted. There is
at least one in every state whose
services are at the com mmand of the
people through the agricultural
schools. A sick soil may present as
critical case as sick man.
Select all seed with the utmost care.
The difference between using the
best quality of grain for seed and
planting an inferior sort may be, and
usually is, the difference between
getting a hrst-class yield and one
barely worth harvesting. In farming
the law of heredity is intlexibe.
Cattle for breeding and grain for
planting should be chosen as intelli-
gently as an Investment into which a
mans whole fortune Is put.
Finally, every crop must be treated
like what it is-a living thing
sensitive to comfort and to hardship,
and returning to the cultivator a
yield measured by the kind and
quantity Of care bestowed upon it,
from the time Of planting to the day
Of harvesting.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-17

should be little trouble in arriving at
a satisfactory result, and those who
are compelled to travel in dark streets
are hoping for speedy solution of
the trouble. Neither side can afford
to haggle over cent or two. Get to-
gether gentlemen and put Canton on
the map again.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-17
More Fun For The Farmers Wife

More Fun For The Farmers Wife
A farmers wife, speaking to con-
vention of farmers made this striking
statement:
At the Illinois Experiment Station last
year they were studying how to feed hogs to
make more bone to support more fat. They
were greatly elated when they worked out a
balanced ration that would produce the de-
sired result. When I asked them II they
studied how to feed boys and girls to make
more hair good bone. blood and muscle-no.
they hadn't thought = thing about that. This
Is the great problem that the woman Is cop
ing with in the home. while the men and the
great experiment stations are learning how
to put more fat on their hogs. This is the
reason that there should be department OF
domestic economy in every rural school, in
every city school and in every college in the
land.
Without detracting in the least
from the importance Of the balanced
ration experiments Of those who breed
stock, what the farm needs just at
present is a balanced ration of educa-
tion, amusement, and labor-saving
conveniences which will nurture the
the women and children and keep
them in such a healthy, happy, con-
tented state of mind that the city
will have no attractions. "More fun
for the farmers wife" is the slogan
invented by another woman speaker
at the same convention. She used
the word ''fun" in the liberal sense:
education, amusement, conveniences.
"Until women have less drudgery
they will not educate their children
to like the farm" she argued and the
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-17
Indiana Wins Corn Prizes at the
Corn Show.

Fred c. Palm Of Newton, Ind, has
won the prize for the best ear OF corn
in the world at the National Corn Ex-
position being held at Omaha; j. R.
Overstreet of Franklin has won the
grand cha npion sweepstakes for the
best ten ears and another Indiana
man, G. l.. Kerlin Of Franklin won
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-02

reflect the grandeur of scenery that is
not parallcled i'm Switzerland; Won
should witness "A sunset on the Great
Salt lake, where the gorgeous culoring
of the clouds is uncqualed in Italy,
where they have 10 artifcially tint
Their sunsets You should see our great
smelters, our mountains of copper ore,
our great veins OF gold, silver and lead.
our farms and orchards, our cities.
towns and hamletS, and our western
ZION, with Its expansive streets, its
temple. tabernacle, Eagle gate, its sky
scraperS, and other attractions And
say, stranger, we've got the greatest
assortment of prophets. scers and reve.
lators on earth; we monopoly on
inspired liars, and more than our share
OF truthful men, we We the most bean.
ilful women this side of heaven; we We
got the greatest aggregation of CON
trasts IN scenery, Of climate and color.
ing on the continent, aud-D
Good night, gaspcd the Iowan. as
he disappeared behind the curtains of
his berth.
And, stranger, if YOU ever do stop
over in Utah, dom u fail to take i'm
Salt Lake; then run down to Marys-,,
the loud snoring of the man from Iowa
was the signal that further boosting
OF Utah would be fruitlcss.
we are IN hurry, but were com.
pclled to lay over in Denver seven
hours TOR the prlzc-winuing slow train
to Chicago to get move on itself
The railway gate to Denver has tbo
word Welcome over il. and after
seeing Denver it occurs To The
tourist that the word is fully as sio.
nlhcant as the outstretched palm Of
Brigham at the monument.
Denver is on the prairie, and its prin.
ciPal scenic asset is the snowcapped
dome OF Pike s peak, fully seventy
225. 900 was founded and nurtrred nv
mining millionarc3. and, unfortunntoly
for Denver, they are nearly all Jead
or busted - But Denver is now,
hustllng for manufacturing concerns
and of which Salt Lake should tokc
due notice. j. +. GIBBS.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-02
IMPRESSIONS OF A UTAH
TENDERFOOT ABROAD

NEBRASKA, April 27.-'sFlat as a
pancake checkerboard Of alteruat.
ing squares OF green and plowed
ground, red barns, white farm houses,
strips of trees, and windrows of corn,
shucks IN every depression, is a brief
verbal picture of Nebraska, as seen
from the Burlington right of way. A
photograph of one of the little white
towns or villages in Nebraska would
be n photo OF every other town or
village in the state
man who is earning two dollars
per day in Utah would, so far as rug.
ged, robust, exhiarating, joyous life
is concerned, be the loser by exchang-
ing his two per diem and environments
for 640acre farm In Nebraska As a
Democrat and never-failing supporter
of William j. Bryan, | will say that he
Is not the only windmill in Nebraska
there are at least ten million, and
every last one Of them is "busy all tho
time except when few of them are
tied down on Sundays by their Chris
tian owners,
Out of the numerous evidences that
Brigham Young was a prophet. the
Saints should select the very strongest
IN that he did not make permanent
camp in Nebraska
Such are the most enduring impress
sions that will be printed on the sepsi-
tized plate, or pate, of the Utah ten
derfoot, as he looks out from his bunk
the morning after leaving Denver,
To the man of lcisure-the effete
eastern tourist in search of scenic
thrills-there is no line on earth that
equals the d. s. K. c. railway, but If
the Utahn, accustomed to scenic gran
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-02

steady roar of the train with such
thunderous volume as to make couvcr.
sation impossible but the pandemoni-
um fairly bristled with exclamation
points. Occasionally thousands of clcc.
trlc lights sprang from the gloom and
added To the strangely fascinating
commingling of picturesqucness and
cate the sites of small mining camps,
situated on the north side of the
canyon.
As the tourists regrctfully surren-
dered and returned to their berths, one
of them accosted the Utahn: "The ride
through this Sanyon has alone repaid
me for my trip west. Yes re-
piled the Utahn, cit is certainly some
what interesting, but you should see
vale, over in Utah; and you should
stand on Mount Beltnap to the west
of Marysvale, and look out on one.ff-
tleth of the earth S circumference; you
should get back into the heart of the
Mount Badly mountains. to the west Of
Marysyale, and witness n sunrise; why,
man, the d, & h. g., in its effort to
get a monopoly on Utah scenery, actu-
ally built branch line down there for
purely scenic purposes"
"Where do you hvc9" asked the
Iowa tenderfoot
:, M9rysyale,,' - was the proud reply
''Why don't the D. & r, G.. advcr-
tise it2' asked the Iowan.
Sympathy, sympathy, pure and
simple; if they did it would bust ev-
cry resort in Colorado was the sad
reply. 'Say, stranger continued the
Ctahn,, "did you stop of in Salt
Lake?''
No. answered the man from the
gumbo state, "didn't have time; but |
bought lot of pictures of Salt Lake
from the train news agent
The Utah man caught his breath. and
after pitying glance at the lowan,
said
''Why, after Marysvale, Salt Lake
City Is the most interesting spot on
earth. You should get on speaking
terms with the great Wasatch noun,
tains, with its Alpine lakes, which
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-02

deur is in hurry, and he usually is
when going east he can save a lot
of time by walking Or going to the
coast and, chartering sailing vessel,
continue. his journey by way of the
" Horn
Excepting the stretch of country
known as the Green River valley.
where the mountains have been carved
from the bed of n vast inland sea.
the trip from Salt Lake TO Colorado
Springs is ncver-ceasing delight The
average easterner has scenic fit at
every curve of the rails Our train ar.
rived at Glenwood Springs about 10
p. M, and Immediately entered that
unsurpassed panorama known as Eagle
canyon. Ecstatic tourists crowded to
the rear OF the train, and as those
grand mountain walls rose higher and
ever higher, exclamation points of
greater frequency, and higher altitude,
issued from the throats Of the delight
ed spectators. The infant moon pro-
lected It's soft beams of light down into
seek among the towering crags and
lofty peaks. Even to Utahn the
scene was one of singularly weird
beauty and grandeur. The lights and
shadows seemed TO be rivaling each
other in sudden alterations and for
the express purpose of increasing the
volume of exclamation points Kissed
into silver ripples, the swiftly .nowino
river mumured its thanks that it was
born in the heart of the Rockies, and
loyously leaped over the boulders on its
bounding course to the Pacific. The
great walls Of the gorge returned the
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-02
MEXICAN o&-CART IN TEXAS.

Modern road wagons are ranId,v t,l,lrc
.ne place OF the ancient type OF MexIca n
Sot; M-cart; which has been In use in the
.oWer hio Grande valley OF Texas for an
untold length OF time. These cumber-
some vehicles, or carretas as thew are
sailed. arc still used, however, lIpon tho
niue farms OF many of the Mexfcans of
lhe loWer border for "a variety OF trans
portatlon purposes. They haul in tho
crops or corn and other products from
sne field In the beds of these carts A
these carts IS in operation between
igrownsviile and other places in the val.
,ey. inc Sarreta is built 10 suit the slow
oxen which pull It, The custom Of faao
teninR the yoke OF the OK TO the horns
ana mead of the animal instead of TO lis
neck is universally followed by thr
MeNlcaDs. The heavy yoka has tbc az,
pearance OF .torturing the animal. but il
is claimed tbat on account OF the .reat
muscles IN It's ncc. this method OF wear
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-02

/ Ing the yoke Is less cruel than ,bo an
called American style. ''S 'o
l. inc Mexican method OF handling oxen
Is entirely different, from the old time
stEIe OF driving these patient animals in
vogue In other parts OF the United states.
AN oN-whip is unknown In the Rio Grando
rvalIey. stick or staff about six feet
yer walks in front of the oxen and di
reefs the course OF the animals by prod
aing eLng them to Indicate the way he wants
halt the 'driver'' merely sets his STAFF
upon The ground and leans IL against the
YOKE In front of the oxen. AS long Az
animals are ''hitched." and win mako no
attempt to move from the spot
Whole families OF MeSicans are fire.
quently seen travelling from Dlaca 10
place In these primitive carts. the oxen
waking along ut snail's pace with some
member OF the family walking in front,
UitrNt'ps the course OF the patient team.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-02

Ono of the most remarkable gcologi
cal freaks in Mexico is II mountain
situated on the outskirts of Pachuca
which presents the appearance at Il
distance of being covered with spikes
Ihc sides of the mountain are closely
studded with stone columns or paIi-
sades. These columns are five % twelve
feet long and ms largo around as an
average man : body II is a rcrarka5ie
uplift of nature, which has the ap.
pcaraNc". however, of being th" haEdi.
work of human beings. One side of
the mountain Is almost perpendicular.
and the stoac columns prolrudr from the
surface at right angles. forming m
Impressive and unique picture. Pa
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-02
ABOUT TAFTS Ct1UN1S MEN NEAREST THE PRESIDENT

! menccmcnt Of rs. lhey had Two or
three rounds, and Taft threw Bowen,
who ON several recent occasions has
said that ho will never he satisfied
until be gets another go ut his oldtmo
rival.
His Yale classmates Today.
Among other members Of that IA.
nous ''Yale, '7S' whom Mr.. Taft
still counts among his friends are John
| Proctor Clarke, justice of The New
York supreme court and intimate
friend of Theodore Roosevelt; Ray
mond Patterson, Washington CORE.
spondcnt of the Chicago Tribune and
| grandson of the great war editor .Jo-
seph MedIll; Tudor jerks, the author:
Rev. Harlan Page Beach author,
Roger Foster, the legal writer and
( municipal reformcr; Judge w III.
Hunt, ex-governor Of Porto Rico;
Cianence IL. Kelsey, the banker: Charles\
Sidney shepard the capitalist; William
r. Waters. professor Of Greek Mt The
New York university; Marion Wilcox.
! cox, the physician and author.
One Of the president IS old Cincin-
natl chnms is Aaron Ferris. When
they were young bachelors they started
out to reform Cincinnati politics TO.
gethcr, First they gave their attention
to the primary, Ferris on the inside as
a watcher and Taft on the outside as
a challenger. Whenever Ferris would
suspect that II man was about to east
dishonest ballot he would produce
law book in lieu of Il Bible and ask
the suspect if he was willing To swear
TO the facts.
Swore Them on Law Book.
Then Ferris would administer a high
sounding oath, and the cuIprits, fearing
punishment for perjury. would weaken
ana pass out. As Il result of this rusc
Taft and Ferris beat Martin Muldoon,
Tn" ward boss, i'm that primary and
made quite splash in ward politics. !
Another man very near to the proSi. !
dent IS Judge Horace Lurton Of Nash.
VILE, He WAS on the supreme bench |
IN Tennessee when Cleveland appointed
HIM To the federal bench of the sixth
lu9icIa circuit, whore Judge Taft sat
with hlm for seven years. or until ap.
pointed president Of The Philippine com. (
mission Although he is Democrat
and thirteen years older than Mr. Taft. |
they became warm friends while tray |
cling together over their circuit. Judge |
Lurton rs also dean of the law depart |
ment of Vanderbilt university.
Herbert W. Bowen is not the only !
close friend of President Tai. who |
was deposed from the diplomatic sery |
zee by Theodore Roosevelt Belamy |
Storer, who was dismissed from tho post |
AT Vienna, stands IN the same CATEGORY.
itc is ten years Mr.. Taft s senior. but, !
IKE the latter. was born and reared |
IN Cincinnati, and he married Miss Ma. |
RIA Longworth, aunt of Representative I
Nicholas Longwortb the same wear that [
Mr.. Taft married Miss Helen Hcrran.
daughter of President Haycs's law
partner, Mr.. Storcr had been practic
ing eleven years ut the Cincinnati bar
when Mr. Taft was admitted.
JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-02

Bowen, who was minister to Venezuela
when he had his falling out with Presi
dent Roosevelt IN 1905 He and the
president were the two biggest fellows
IN Yale, Bowen being Il little the
taller, but Taft somewhat the heavier
There was always friendly rivalry
between them as to who was the better
wrestler, and up to their senior year ii
was about stand. off between them.
IinalIY. IN the laSt Mcnk of the com.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-02

son Porter, was delegate to the con-
Vention.
Porter was surprised one night to
receive from Hollister and Hoyt a
high-sounding telegram, stating that
Inasmuch as the candidates then before
the convention were not acceptable to
the delegates or the country, il was
has duty, knowing the worth and
merits of the gentleman, to present the
name of "Bull' Taft, as he was then
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-02

affectionatciy known among his class
mates, Mr.. Porter. who had been
through number of class weeks him.
self, smiled and put the telegram in
his pocket. Mr. Taft was then Judge
OF the superior court of Ohio.
His Old Wrestling Partner.
Another of the presidents classmates
at Yale with whom he has main
tanned n deep friendship is Herbert W.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-02

chuca is one of the most noted mining
districts in Mexico. and it is claimed
by gcoiogisiS that this remarkable
spiked mountain is out Of keeping with
the remainder of the formation of the
mineralized region. The stone is as
hard as flint, and has withstood the
elements of ages The spikes form a
mountain appear from q distance like
some ancient fort. The mines of the
Pachuca district arc situated not far.
from this wonderful freak of nature,
but The formation encountered in their
respective underground workings is of
an entirely different kind from that
of the palisadc outcroppiug.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-02


Among Mr. Taft's boyhood chums
one who stands among the closest to
him is Judge Howard Clark Hollister
of Cincinnati, whom the president af-
fectionatcly refers to as HHoll.n They
were both born in Cincinnati, Mr.. Taft
being the younger by year. They
also went through Yale together, both
and they studied side by side in the
law school of Cincinnati college, get
ting their bachelors degree in 1880.
They both were assistant prosecuting
attorneys Of Hamilton county in 1881
and 1882. Mr.. Taft married in June.
's6, and Mr.. Hollister in June. ,'S7,
both IN Cincinnati and to Cincinnati
girls. How Holllster tried to have Taft
nominated for president by the con.
vention OF 1888, which nominated Har-
rison., is Il story which their mutual
friends delight in telling. Hollister
and Henry NJ. Hoyt, Roosevelt so.
licitor-general, were up at Yale for
class week, aud their chum, John Add
New-York tribune., 1909-06-18
DET4IN CANAL MEN.
Cannot Sail for Brasil, as They 4re
Needed on IsthmuS

Colon. June 1.-THE Cuban steamer Oteri is
tied up a this port the Panama Railroad Com
pany refusing II permission 10 come to the COM
pany's wharves and the Panama government
Withholding clearance papers. Two hundred and
fifty Spaniards booked for passage on the
Oteri bound for Brazil. but unable to en-
bark
w @. Spiller, hotel owner. recently con-
tracted with and shipped five hundred European
canal laborers for construction work on a rail
road the Amazon River Brazil Fearing con-
tinued shipments would be seriously detrimental
to the canal labor problem. and in response to
a large number OF strong representations on this
subject the Panama government has just
passed a stringent law making emigration to
Brazil exceedingly difficult.
MIR. Spiller recently purchased the steamer
Oteri for passenger service to Brazil. He as
serts that he has made emigration contract
with the Spaniards. the men paying their own
passage and going TO Brazil of their own accord.
New-York tribune., 1909-06-18
GENTRY NAY 60 FREE.
Pardon Recommended for Slayer Of
IHadgP YOrke.

Harrisburg, Penn, June 1.-THE State Board
Of Pardons recommended pardon to-day for
James q. Gentry, the actor serving life sen
tenCe for the murder OF Madge Yorke. the
actress. in Philadelphia, on February i, 1895.
Gentry was convicted Of murder in The first
degree and was sentenced 10 be hanged. on
the day preceding the date which the SEN
tence to be carried out the Board OF Pardons
recommended that it be computed to life i'm
prisonment. Governor Hastings carried out the
recommendation OF the board Since then re-
peated efforts have been made to have the actor
pardoned
Gentry has maintained that he has no recollec-
tion the murder OF Miss Yorke; that his
mind was blank until he found himself in
hospital. where he was taken after falling from
a fire escape in the hotel where the murder took
place.
Probably week will pass before Gentry is
finally set free. Gentrys counsel presented
petition for his release. which was signed,
among others. by practically the entire mem
bership of the State Senate and House Of Rep
resenta tives.
New-York tribune., 1909-06-18
BUNKER HILLS FOUNDED.
Many Injured at Celebration an
Boston and VicimitY.,

Boston, June 1.-THE list of manned and in
jured in the Bunker Hill celebration to-day all
most rivalled the list Of wounded on the Ameri-
can side in the actual battle of I34 years ago,
even the heavy gunf1re of the early morning
hours was comparable with the din of cannon
in the historic contest. One hundred and nineteen
persons were treated at the hospitals of Boston
and vicinity for injuries caused by fireworks and
pistols and many more were attended by physi-
clans and others at their homes. There were no
serious casualties, the efforts of the police TO
diminish the use of firearms and to con1ne the
celebration TO f1recrackers and light explosives
having been partly successful.
Business suspended In Boston, Lynn,
Cambridge, Newton and other cities during the
dav.
New-York tribune., 1909-06-18
BEAR DIES At HIS FEET.
e.. r. WarburtOn Has NarrO5C Is
cape IN Encounter 1cith Brute.
IBy Telegraph to The Tribune ]

Katahdin Iron Works, Maine. June 17.-Ci Rob
ert Warburton. of New York. who with his
bride. is spending a honeymoon in the woods,
narrowly escaped death in an encounter with
wounded black bear near Berrys Camp, at Yoke
Pond recently.
Mr. Warburton found big bear which had
partly freed himself from a steel trap by gnaw-
ing off all but shred of his imprisoned paw
Creeping within ten yards of the beast the
hunter fired shot from his rife Infuriated by
the pain. the brute with a powerful wrench
liberated himself and made straight for the
hunter. Mr.. Warburton didn't have time to put
another cartridge into the chamber of his rifle.
and in desperation raised the gun as a club TO
ward off the attack. Within two yards of where
the man stood the bear stumbled and fell dead
blood streaming from his mouth and nOstrils
The first shot had pierced the animals throat