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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-09-23
Known at Portage.

">-."~e la Prairie. Sept. 23.-Chief
Of Police Mcintyre this afternoon re-
.~l.eu word from Brandon of the
capture of three men at Oak Lake,
giving their descriptions. and he is
confident that they are the same men
who on Sunday morning last commit
ted hold-up here and entered two
places Of business. at one trying to
break open the safe. One of the men
in particular, man by the name of
Cole, is we'll known to the local po-
lice and he Is thought to be one of
the men implicated in the Portage af-
fair. and the description received
from Brandon corresponds with him.
Chief Mcintyre expects to get fur
ther information. but says as the men
were arrested by the provincial po-
men would be tried at the same time
as the Brandon charge. Cole was
ordered to leave Portage about ten
days ago.
The provincial police last evening
received information that a horse
and buggy was missing from Grobb's
stable. and asking their assistance In
recovering them. 1t appears that a
man appeared at the stable on Mon
day afternoon and hired rig for the
day. being given a black mare and
buggy. and when he did not return
Monday evening some concern was
felt, and more so when he did not
show up the next day. The man is
we'll known in the district, having
worked on farms in this neighbor-
hood. and it is thought that he will
be apprehended. Constable Guertin
1t at work on the case.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-09-23
BELIEVED GANG
IS BROKEN UP
Much Importance Is Attach
ed to Capture at Oak
Lake

Brandon, Sept. 23.-James Carson,
John Newton and Dan Welsh, arrest
ed at Oak Lake yesterday for rob-
berries at Hamiota, appeared in the
police court this morning and were
remanded for a week. The court
room was crowded and an immense
gathering assembled outside the
court to get glimpse of the desper-
ADDE'S, who are supposed to have
committed all the robberies that have
occurred in western Manitoba recent
ly The men were heavily shackled
and were quickly hurried back to the
Jail.
With the arrest of the three men
the police feel that an end to the
depredations Of the gang of robbers
who have been operating SO success
fully throughout the province has
been brought about. Today Provin-
cial Detective Brownlee, who brought
the prisoners from Oak Lake to
Brandon. received a message from
the chief of police at Portage la
Prairie. alleging that Newton, who
was arrested with the young lad
Welsh. on Merkles farm, is a notori-
GUS crook. The Portage chief claims
Newton is responsible for the major
ity of the robberies that have been
committed in different parts of the
province during the past few years.
1t is claimed Newton's right name is
Cole. 1t is also stated that he owns
homestead south of Oak Lake and
that under the pretense of living
quietly there has diverted suspicion.
When the men were brought to
Brandon last evening large crowd
assembled on the c. P. R. platform to
witness their arrival. At the local
police court this morning tie co
room was crowded long before the
time for the court to be called, and
large crowd also gathered at the
entrance to the police station tryir
to catch glimpse at the prisoners
as they were brought from the cells
in the city hall. When remanded for
one week by Magistrate James they
accepted the courts decision with
stolid Indifference. Welsh. the II
year old boy. is being kept apart from
the other prisoners. and it is thought
will be given an opportunity of ac-
cepting the leniency of the court pro-
viding he makes a clean breast Of the
entire gangs doings.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-06-18
THE BEST LEGUME CROP FOR
POOR LAND.
Why Crimson Clover and Alfalfa So
Often Fail.

Messrs. Editors: Without nitro
gen. secured by legumes, as you Of
ten advise. we hayseeds will pro-
gress like crab. A lack of nitro
gen and humus causes our crops to
starve. OF course. our small crops
are not due to a lack OF well d.
rected effort. We usually put the
blame on the season. If you had
left crimson clover and alfalfa out OF
your Legume Special you would have
had a good list Crimson clover on
our sandy land will not live. and al
falfa is as fastidious as a city belle.
Land must suit 1t to T. or 1t will not
live even to make one crop.
The ideal crop for the red hills.
bottom lands and crayfish lands of
the South, or any other country too
poor to make 10 bushels of corn per
acre is lespedeza. II will produce
ii to 3 tons OF hay. and In a few
years land will be rich. All stock eat
it greedily. l have been selling this
hay to a man from Ohio who Is run
ming log camp. He says he prefers
1t to timothy. and his stock do bet
ter on il. This clover will re-seed
the land indefinitely Our expert
ment Station raised SO tons dry
hay per acre. II Southern farmers
would listen to The Progressive Far
mer and Gazette and raise hogs. hay.
corn. peanuts, etc, we would soon be
the most prosperous agriculturalists
in the United States.
HAYSEED.
Grangeville. La.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-06-18
PROGRESSIVE FARMER AND GAZETTE.

except the black lime lands of the
South On these it is a demonstrat-
ed success, and we can not afford To
leave so valuable a plant out of our
agriculture.
We are convinced that Japan
clover or lespedeza has not been Civ
en- the prominent place 1t deserves
among the legumes to be used by the
Southern farmer: but our observa-
tons over our territory from the At
lantic Ocean to Texas convince us
that there are probably some sec
tons where it is not of great value
as hay plant. In the Mississippi
valley, from Alabama TO Texas, IL
does well as a hay plant in many
sections and should be used more ex-
tensively. Possibly IL will do better
than our observations indicate In
other sections; but further trial Is
necessary to answer that question.
We have such large number OF le-
gumes that no farmer need fail to
find those best adapted to his condi-
tons. but we can not afford to leave
out any that have proved successful
in any part OF our territory.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-06-18

on the slow processes which we have
used in the past. Supply legume
crops with phosphoric acid and use
these for replenishing the depleted
supply of humus, and friendly
germs in untold numbers working
necessarily will do the work Of put
ting the plant foods in the soil in
condition for the growing crops to
use; but soils devoid of humus or
saturated for long periods with an
excess of water will never contain
these faithful helpers of the farmer.
In water-logged soils they drown,
and in soils deficient in humus they
starve. 1t is the first duty of the
farmer to make his soil a desirable
home for friendly bacteria, because
this is the first step in increasing soil
fertility, from which all Southern
prosperity must come.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-06-18

Editorial Comment: Our CORE
spondent makes his statements rath-
er too sweeping both In condemning
crimson clover and alfalfa and In
recommending Japan clover for all
lands In the South. All these crops
are excellent. and IL would be as alb
surd Tor us to leave crimson clover
and alfalfa out of our list of legumes
for the South as To leave out Japan
clover.
Crimson clover does well on sandy
and sandy loan soils In the South.
Perhaps 1t will not do on the sandy
soils OF Louisiana, but we are not
certain OF that. and we are not sure
that our correspondent has made n
sufficiently thorough test to Justify
his sweeping statement. II Will grow
on similar lands to those In Louis
lana. 1t will not grow without inocu-
iation. but with this we believe IL will
grow on practically all lands I'm the
South. We say, we believe IL will
but we do not know; nor do we he
lieye sufficient intelligent trials have
been made to enable any one TO
know. This Is the reason we have
always advised trying it for few
years on small area, until the truth
OF the matter is satisfactorily deter
mined
AS to alfalfa. for the present we
do not advise more than a small trial
area OF quarter or half acre, on any
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-06-18
$500 More Year Farming: How to Get 1t
ENCOURAGE FRIENDLY BACTERIA TO WORK
FOR YOU.
Fertility Depends Much Upon the Humus and
the umbe O Soil
Present-Why Soils Are Poor and the Remedy.
TAFT Butler.
vE HAVE STATED that soil No. 2 is

No. is similar to field /. but con-
tains more humus; field No. is a
thin soil with clay gumbo subsoil;
fields Nos. and are black loans,
but not as rich in humus as either
No. l or No. 2.
The numbers of bacteria in cube
OF these soils measuring a little over
one-third of an inch on a side Zone
cubic centimeter) were as follows:
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-06-18
Big Drainage Program I'm Louisiana.

Plans are under way for the drain
age OF more than 100000 acres of
marsh land lying about and within
the city limits OF New Orleans. The
work of retaining so. 600 acres. all
within the city. Is now under way.
and contracts have been let for
100000 acres in adjoining parish
es This land when drained liz very
fertile, and the reclamation work
viii turn mosquito breeding marshes
into productive truck farms. i'm
prove health conditions wonderfully
and surround the city with a pro
gressive farming population.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-06-18

No. 4.... 8,643,0O6 bacteria
No. s.. 3,192,131 bacteria.
The crops records of these fields
for ten years were in relation to the
number of bacteria. Field No. 2 pro-
duced the most and field No. the
least.
When the humus In these soils was
determined. similar relationship
was established:
No. l contained 2.19 per cent of
humus.
No. contained 3.O7 per cent Of
humus.
No. 3 contained 1.85 per cent Of
humus.
1t was also found that the number
of bacteria varied in the same field
when planted to different crops. For
instance, a field in timothy and clover
contained in a given quantity Of soil
1,3SO,OOO bacteria. The same quaint
ity Of soil. from the same field, when
in alfalfa and clover. contained 81
O91, 900 bacteria. and when in corn,
from 100000 to 100000 bac-
terra. The rapid decay of vegetable
matter in our hot and moist climate
and our torrential rains remove this
organic matter so quickly from the
soil that systems of cropping or rota-
lions which will maintain the humus
content Of the soil in other climates
are entirely inefficient for Southern
conditions. In the past we have Civ
en- less attention to maintaining the
proper soil conditions for bacterial
life and activity than has been found
necessary in colder climates; when,
as matter Of fact, we need to give
much greater attention to this mat
ter because of the heat and moisture
OF our climate.
How to Supply the Soil With Humus.
The blowing under and mixing
with the top 6 to s inches Of the soil
OF crop OF vegetable matter will do
more to improve the fertility OF any
properly drained soil than any other
thing that can be done except the ap-
plication of a large amount of stable
manure. In the absence OF sufficient
live stock, with a large area of poor
or unproductive soils, and the rapid
loss of organic matter. due to climatic
conditions above-referred to, we
must adopt special and energetic
measures for increasing soil fertility
or consume long years of valuable
time In our operations. Crop rota-
tons which tend to supply a large
amount OF transforming materials
and the keeping of live stock are very
much to be desired. but in the de-
pleted condition of our soils and the
rapidly with which humus disap-
pears from them, some more ener-
getic measures are necessary. In
view OF these facts, the blowing un-
der OF crops grown entirely for sup
plying organic matter to the soil will
frequently prove a good investment.
We must have this organic matter
in the soil and cannot afford to wait
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-06-18

nIOUlCM. Oy ChAo VIC AAORA SAoS SAS
problem of putting our soils in suit
able condition for friendly germs"
to live in is of more immediate i'm
portance than the supplying of chem
icals. But this does not mean that
we do not think chemical or CONNER
cial fertilizers needed. We have no
patience with those who are crying
aloud against the use of commercial
fertilizers. We are not using too
much commercial fertilizer. We are
using much of it unwisely and should
make every effort to gather our own
nitrogen, but the use of commercial
fertilizers probably should and will
increase during the coming years.
Plant Food Not the Only Thing to
Consider.
But while giving much needed at
tention to commercial fertilizers, we
have overlooked and neglected what
seems to me a much more important
questionable living part of our soils
and the part this plays in soil fertil-
ity. This neglect is due to number
of apparent causes, two of which
seem most prominent. First, the
chemists and teachers of agriculture
have not given sufficient regard to,
or appreciated the full Importance of
the biological side of soil fertility,
and second, commercial fertilizers are
easy to obtain and give marked in
creases in yields. Practically none
of us appear to fully realize the
rapidity with which vegetable and
other organic matter decays and dis
appears from our soil. We might have
learned this lesson from the fact that
our upland soils. even in their virgin
state, are not fertile and do not pos
sess that large store of humus found
in virgin soils elsewhere. Even in
the great YaZOO Delta Of Mississippi
where the dark cOlOred lands were
supposed to be abundantly supplied
with nitrogen, we now find that Or
ganic matter and the bringing about
of suitable conditions for bacterial
life are alone needed to double their
yields.
Ii we could only get free from that
old and erroneous idea that sO-called
plant food is the whole. or even the
chief item of soil fertility. and appre-
ciate the full part living organisms
play in making any soil productive.
we would then be in a position TO
make an intelligent start towards
soil improvement. Friendly bacteria,
those which aid in making plant
foods available in the soil, must
have soil rich In decaying vegeta-
BILE matter and one well drained.
The free access of air is usually add
ed as a third condition needful for
the work of friendly bacteria; but
a soil full of organic matter and well
drained, will usually be found in that
mechanical condition which will per-
NIT the free entrance of air.
Bacteria and Crop Production.
Investigations by Kinsley, of Kan
sas, as pointed out by Hilgard, show
that the amount of humus, the crop
yield, and the number of bacteria In
a soil maintain a more or less close
relationship. Kinsley investigated
the number of bacteria in five fields
described as follows:
Field, No. / is a black loan con-
tanning considerable humus; field
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-06-18
Mexican June Seed Corn For
Sale
Sale

Selected and nubbed s3.o0 per
bushel. WIN mature planted as late
as July LIST
II. A. BEATTIE, StarkyiIIe. Miss.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-06-18

Our advertisers are guaranteed
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-06-18

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The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-06-18

one pen each. Rhode Island Reds and White
Wv. Phillips. Bear Creek. Ala
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-11-03
RELIABLE FURNITURE HOUSE.

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WONDER BUGGIES are the best yet
Money cannot make or buy better. Sold
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PAGE FOURTEEN

WONDER EUGGIES are the best vet.
Money cannot make or buy better. Sold
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-21
GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.
CHICAGO.

CHICAGO, May GA break of . cents
in the price of May wheat and of more
than a cent for the July and September
options resulted today from heavy SELL
ing and lack of any organized support.
Receipts were much larger here than the
official figures made manifest. The ex-
PLANTATION was that the arrivals by lake
had not all been unloaded in time to be
included in the formal reports Foreign
markets were easy. The domestic cash
demand and the flour trade were report
ed as slow, and the Chicago receipts
seemed to confirm assertions that there
is plenty of old wheat to be had. Rain
west and promise of more tonight In
Kansas formed another basis for drop
in prices. The market opened Il to 12
down, at 1904, for September. The magi-
cal dollar a-bushel mark was quickly es-
tablished, and a decline to 99l2 ensued,
Corn was carried down by the force Of
the drop in wheat. There was. however,
considerable short covering by commits
sion houses during the decline. Septem-
Der opened a shade to 1sal4c lower at 6112
to 61ss and fell to 61A.
Stop-loss liquidation was in evidence in
the oats pit. The chief factor was the
weakness in wheat. September opened
1saAc lower at 3S4 to Aass and declined
to 3S1sa3SA.
The provision pit was almost deserted.
Prices opened 21a to 1Oc lower at %. IS
for September pork, 12F1s for Septem-
Der lard, and 12.37Ea to 1910 for Septem-
Der ribs. Further recessions were re-
corded.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-21

resolutions and the unprecedented action
of your House in adjourning In the in
terest of the Bible class march-deeds so
remarkably emphasized by the attendance
at the convention Of his eXcellency the
President Of the United States and Mrs.
Taft, as we'll as by the Presidents strong
and inspiring address-will cheer and up
lift the worlds Sunday school army Of
nearly twenty-eight million teachers and
scholars, and will give an impetus to
moral and religious movements through
out the world.
They further place on record their
conviction that in thus giving national
recognition to the Sunday school your
honorable House has established a pre-
cedent that will have far-reaching in.
duence among other nations
I'm rendering their thanks the members
of the convention earnestly pray that God
himself, the Fount of Light and Life,
may at all times vouchsafe to you that
wisdom which IS profitable to direct SO
that by the framing and enactment of
la VS. making for that righteousness which
alone 'exalts a nation your House may
help to build up e people that through all
centuries will stand in the first rank
among the civilized races of the EARTH"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-21
NEW YORK BANKS.

NEW YORK. May 21-The statement
Of clearing house banks for the week
shows that the banks hold s23.s23,e75
more than the requirements of the %
per cent reserve rule. This is in
crease of s6.T19.025 in the proportionate
cash reserve as compared with last
week The statement follows:
Loans. 81 1s3 $50. 600: decrease, S312, 700
Deposits. s1.17354S, 100; increase, ST.
473.100.
100
Legal tenders. sss,47s 500: increase, ST.
OTIS, 700.
Specie. se4s, 7s1 600; increase ss511 500.
Reserve required s2ss. sss.525; increase,
31.8ss,275
Surplus. s23se3s75; increase, ss.71s, oe5.
Extra L. S. deposits, $3i,23i. 400; In
crease se.722.3 $50.
The percentage of actual reserve of
s3.1s.
The statement of banks and trust
companies of Greater New York not re-
porting to the clearing house shows:
Loans, s1.176,907. 400; increase, ss1',-
500.
Specie. s12s.43s.soo. increase. s1o3.4Oo.
Legal tenders, Sc1,455,S00; decrease,
s375.soo.
Total deposits. s1.234.5oo,6Oo; increase.
s1S67.0O0.
Prime mercantile paper, 4s. to 5A
per cent. Sterling exchange, firm. with
actual business in bankers bills at
4s4h a4.sih for sixty-day bills, and at
4s155 for demand. Commercial bills,
4S3@. Bar silver, 531s. Next
can dollars, "A. Government bonds,
steady. Railroad bonds, steady,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-21
COTTON MARKETS.
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK. May 21.-Cotton-Futures
opened steady; May, 14.93 bid; June,
1890 bid; July, 1906: August. 1885; Sep
TENDER, 1885: October. 1888; November.
12T4 asked December, 1888; January,
1894 bid; March 12.11 asked.
The market opened steady at unchanged
prices to an advance of five points and
became very firm during the morning,
with active positions selling up to net
gain of about 11a13 points on covering,
bull support of the old crop and fresh
buying of later positions. based on bull
ish weekend figures, reports OF very
destructive hail and wind storm in Okla
homa and talk Of too much rain in the
belt.
Futures closed firm May. 151l; June,
1917: July. 1924. August, loco; Septem-
ber Is. so: October, 1885; November, 12so;
December. 1880: January. 1915; March,
1881
Spot closed quiet, II points advance;
middling uplands, 1910: do. golf, lo.6'
No sales.
The market closed firm with prices net
12a13 points higher. Estimated receipts
of cotton at the ports today, 5000 bales
against 1924 last week and 1908 last
year For the week 10000 bales. against
74,97g last week and 10S. $50 last year. To-
days receipts at New Orleans, IS2 bales,
against 4,677 last year.