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The Florida agriculturist., 1910-04-01
New Discoveries In Breeding
BY JOHN BELL1NG

from the dam, and the inheritance of
hornlessness from the sire. When these
animals are now bred together, their
their calves, which may inherit either
horns from the dam and horns from
the sire, or hornleSSneSs from the dam
and hornlessness from the sire, or horns
from the dam and hornlessness from the
sire, or lastly hornlessness from the dam
and horns from the sire. Many trials
have shown that one-quarter Of them
are pure horned Herefords, another
quarter are pure polled, and the remain
ing two quarters will have both polled
and horned qualities together, which
usually result in scurs Cor imperfect and
often very small horns).
The third discovery which has been
proved again and again by hundreds of
special experiments during the last tell
years, is that most Of the single points
of difference between our breeds, varie-
ties, races, and strains of plants or ami
mails, are separately inherited, one by
one, not combined in clump. Also, in
The Inheritance they seem to be often
5huffled, more or less at haphazard, like
Ia pack of cards. When a black sugar
corn which has eight rows, is crossed
with white Sixteen-rowed field corn,
it may be possible to separate out from
ing years, a black sugar corn with s
rows, a white field corn with I6 rows,
a white field corn with 8 rows, black
held corn with 8 rows, a black field
corn with 10 rows, white sugar corn
with 8 rows, a white sugar corn
with 70 rows and black sugar corn
with 10 rows. The qualities are not in
herited in clump Gas black, sugar, and
5 roWed), but the black goes separately
to several of the offspring, the sugar
quality goes separately, and the 8-rowed
condition again separately. 1t is the
same with many of the differences be-
tween the strains and varieties of other
plants and animals
A fourth discovery, which has also
Oeen proved by hundreds of experiments,
IS that when plant or animal lnherits
me quality from the dam, and an op-
posite quality from the sire, one of
lhese two qualities sometimes hides the
tomato plants which grew from seed Of
yCllOW-1l ullCu lOllldIO pOIlllldlCu IL OIIl
red tomato, have all red fruit But
the inheritance of yellow is still there
though it does not show, and from the
seeds of these red fruits both yellow
fruited and red-fruited plants are pro-
duced
A fifth discovery of recent years has
been proved for quite number of ami
mails and some plants, though not yet
for many domestic races. 1t has been
shown by the microscope to a certainty,
and in some cases by crossing experl-
ments, that the sex of these animals and
plants is fixed in the germ, once for all.
The arrangement is such that there are
usually about equal numbers of both sex
es. For the original germ-cells divide
each into two parts, one of which goes
to form a germ or egg which will grow
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-07
THEIR LAST STAND

TT was not to be expected that the
forces of Big Business, so strongly
Il entrenched, so arrogant in its con-
troll of federal and state officers, would
submit to chastisement and correction
without a desperate stand. They are
making the stand now. Their venom is
being poured out on Roosevelt because
he is stirring up the mob" meaning
the most of us). He is an anarchist"
a socialist" "demagogue,"
"mouther of platitudes."
Listen to Governor Hay of Washing
ton state. He rails because Roosevelt,
as interpreted by Pinchot, is for federal
conservation. Governor Hay and the
railroads and the Guggenheims want
state conservation. Legislatures are
easier to control than congress.
Listen to some members of the Amer
lean Bar association bewail Mr.. Roose-
velt's criticism of the supreme court for
laying too much stress on the rights of
property and too little on human rights.
Big lawyers who receive fortunes
in retainers to protect the interests are
Mortified at criticism of our sacred
tribunal.
Listen to Boss Barnes of New York.
The insurgent wave has not awakened
national conscience. He says it is
"hysteria run riot"
Listen to the railroad presidents.
Listen to the trust officers Listen to
the organs of Pat Calhoun in San Fran
cisco and the enemies of Judge Lindsay
in Denver. Listen to the newspapers
that always speak up for the strong
and denounce the weak as the lawless
rabble.
No wonder they don't want existing
conditions disturbed and are wroth
with those who disturb them. The
existing conditions are of their framing
up. 1t is natural for them to be con-
servative; to hate innovations; to
decry a public conscience; to denounce
muck-rakers.
These are the class that call Roose-
welt an anarchist and deprecate his
agitation. They deceive nobody now.
A selfish purpose actuates their every
word and deed.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-07

Editor Herald: Too few women ap-
preciate the pleasures of long distance
walking. For some women, to be sure.
this Is an impracticable form of exer-
else; but for many others it offers
an excellent method of combining en-
tertainment and health. The other day
Mr.. and Mrs. d. H. Woolf, who had
previously tramped through the south
west, arrived at New York after walk
ing from Kansas City, which latter
place they left on the second of May.
To cross half the continent in three
months and thirteen days is a credit
able achievement, but there is more
than that to be said for such a per-
formance. This western pair must
have had highly enjoyable and prof.
table experience When all is said
that can be said in favor of other
forms of locomotion, walking still has
it's decided advantages. There is no
better kind of bodily exercise, mono
that more effectively stimulates the
mental processes; and in no other way
can the country through which one
travels be seen so we'll
OLD FOGY.
PASADENA Sant
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-07
NO ATTACK ON QUEEN MOTHER

Editor Herald: No wonder the pub
lie mind Is abused and false impress
sions spread abroad when even liberal
journals like The Herald so mislabel
news items and comment thereon as
to call Keir Hardie's speech at the
Durham Miners festival an attack
on the queen mother" It was nothing
of the kind; but merely an opposite
comparison of parliament's overlavish
generosity to a royal widow (already
rich), with its heartless neglect of des-
titute miners widows. Keir Hardie's
excoriation of such conditions was
manly, much needed, but alas! all too
Intellectual effort to awaken the public
conscience; how effectual, is only too
we'll evidenced when his generous and
fearless words of righteous Indignation
are sought to be Vulgarized and dis
credited by being falsely branded as
IAN attack on the queen mother" Mr
Hardie's words were as follows:
"a number of widows were created
by the ,Whitehaven disaster, and the
country is being asked to subscribe
to pay them a few shillings weekly to
keep them alive. A few days before
that disaster another widow was Gre
ated by the death of King Edward.
What happened in. her case?
"They did not send the hat around
begging to pay Queen Alexandra a few
pounds a year. The house of COM
mons voted her $35000O a year so long
as she lived
mot one penny for the widows of
the golfers whose lives had been sac
rificed in building up the wealth of
the country, but $350,OOO a year to the
widow af the king. l do not care what
services King Edward rendered to the
state; they were not a whit greater or
more honestly given than the services
of the Golfers who lie entombed in the
pit at Whitehaven." VAL STONE.
Los Angeles. September 5.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-07
A TARIFF HANDBOOK

TVERY Democratic worker in the
n country should have a copy of the
H 1910 Democratic campaign book,
which is without doubt the best hand
book on the tariff now in print, One
of the unusual features, as contrasted
with past campaign books, is its utili-
zation of Republican utterances to
sustain Democratic arguments. Thirty
six of the SIG pages of the book are
made up exclusively of speeches by
Republicans, who take practically the
same position on many of the big
issues as the Democratic leaders.
The committee is asking 81 for the
book, which goes toward defraying eX-
penses of the Democratic congression-
al committee. Not having been fa-
vored with contributions by the great
industrial concerns of the country, the
Democratic committee must rely large
ly upon contributions from the people.
Those who are really unable to con-
tribute the dollar to the campaign
fund, however, may secure copy OF
the campaign book free. Contributions
and requests for the book should be
addressed to the Hon. f. f. Garrett,
treasurer of the national Democratic
congressional committee, Washington,
d C.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-07
DEGREES MEAT AS FOOD

Editor Herald: Presumably on ac-
count Of requesting no debate through
The Herald Letter Box, have received
several personal letters denouncing my
booklet, Humanitarian Philosophy" "
as not being in accordance with the
"will of God" I wish to make it pub
licly known that the god Qittle g)
which is not in harmony with con-
science is a man-made god upheld by
the selfish abnormal religionist only.
Worst of all, selfish civilized intellec-
tual human takes his gun and repairs
to the forest and wantonly slaughters
wild game. Perhaps he kills outright;
perhaps he wounds perhaps the ami
NAL he has wounded is dying a slow,
painful death; perhaps he wounds or
kills a mother and the young are
starving in nest or lair, and perhaps
a professed Jew, Catholic, Protestant
or Christian Scientist is relishing the
seasoned carrion while the little ones
are dying for the want of that moth
er's care. God forbid the belief in such
a god! e. e. KUSEL.
os Anpe1as Sent s
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-07
HEARsT's NEW CHEAT

IF ANY further proof were needed
beyond that already furnished of
- the hypocrisy of William r..
Hearst and his subserviency to the
corporation interests that have been
exploiting the country, it is found in
the course of Hearst's newspapers
during the past fortnight. The Los
Angeles Examiner and the San Fran
cisco Examiner have been boldly sup
pressing news Of Colonel Roosevelt's
tour and speeches and throwing in the
waste basket much of the news of re-
cent insurgent victories.
The coordination between the Cali
fornia Hearst papers in this suppress
sion is no coincidence. Papers pub
lished 500 miles apart do not do iden-
tical things of the kind without or
ders. Such conduct stamps the Hearst
sheets as unworthy the confidence of
anybody, for they are deliberately
swindling their readers by taking their
money and Withholding what the read
ers are led to think they are buy
ing-all the important news.
Whatever one may think of Colonel
Roosevelt and his views on public
questions, both are sources of news
and are so treated in the news col
umns of an overwhelming number of
American and foreign papers as a mat
ter of good faith toward their read
ers. The Hearst papers alone, so
far as we have learned, are the only
ones Of prominence to suppress this
news.
The forces of special privilege hate
that anarchist Roosevelt''3 as the
devil hates holy water. They hate all
ir surgents, but the one from Oyster
Bay most of all, because of his great
influence in opposing the interests in
politics. Hearst's alliances are enough
to cause him to dislike and fear the
ex-president, and he has the added
reason in the recollection of Roosevelt's
of him as the cause of
murder
So we have a fine example Of the
untrustworthiness of that portion of
the press that is run for personal
ends-either political, like Hearst's, or
financial, like his own and his friends
news withheld from sub
scribers and the public interests
treacherously betrayed by the deliber-
ate suppression of facts of vital i'm
portance to them.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-07
FATHER ADAMS WOES

Whatever troubles Adam had,
No man could make him sore
BY saying, when he told a Jest
"Tve herd that joke before"
Success Magazine.
Whatever troubles Adam missed.
This must have made him sore
When he and Mother Eve fell out
He couldn't slam the door.
Birmingham Age-Herald.
Whatever troubles Adam bore,
He never had to grieve
Because a woman lived next door
Who coaxed the cook from Eve.
Chicago RecordHerald
whatever troubles Adam had,
He was lucky man.
He was not nightly told to dump
The icebox water pan.
whatever troubles Adams had
CWe hope this thing will rhyme),
He never wept oer punk like this
In the gold old summer time.
New York Tribune.
whatever troubles Adam had
How much we cannot guess
He never had to worry about
Ewes bills for hat or dress.
-Blnghamton Press.
Whatever troubles Adam had,
He had no cook to hire,
Nor was his heart or Ewes made sad
BY an autos busted tire.
Schenectady Union.
whatever troubles Adam had
To prey upon his mind.
lie didn't have to hear Eve say,
Hook up my gown behind
-Brattleboro Reformer.
Whatever troubles Adam had,
And he had some, s'pose,
He never sat behind hat
At moving picture shows.
Houston Post
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-07
GENERALIZATION SCORED

Editor Herald: The governor of the
state of Washington is out with a
strong statement IN opposition to Mr..
Roosevelt's centralizing theories. AS
reported, he says, in part: II am as
strong a conserVationist as a man can
be- l am absolutely and firmly of the
opinion that the Ieople of this state
are more competent to administer the
resources of Washington than any bu-
reau in Washington, D. c."
The same idea is expressed in Col.
Griffith's Parks, Boulevards and
Fairgrounds" wherein it is stated that
Mr.. Marsden Manson, noted forestry
expert. has a profound distrust of
politicians and political methods of
dealing with the conservation of de-
velopment Of national resources" Mr..
Manson's experiences and reasons are
given at some length and the refer
ence concludes: Estate control he re-
CARDS as somewhat better, since the
state is nearer the individuals settled
within its borders than the central
government can be- but state admin
istration, saturated as 1t Is with poll
tics, has history that up to the pres
ent time is replete with mismanage-
ment and fraud"
For my part believe that If the peo-
pie had access to land they themselves
would find 1t to their interest to pre-
serve the natural resources carefully,
as the European peasant does, and
that they would do this far better than
will any set of politicians, state or
federal. Our Indifference to the prodi-
gality with which our natural re-
sources have been squandered is due.
in my opinion, to the fact that most of
us are landless, shut up In cities, di-
vorced from the soil.
Anyhow, there Is a nice quarrel
brewing between Capitalization and
decentralization.
F, II. BREWSTER,
Los Angeles Sent 9
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-07
THE ARTFuL SPORTSMAN

A gentleman who had the reputation
of being a bad shot invited some of
his friends to dine with him. Before
dinner he showed them a target painted
on the barn door, with bullet in the
bullseye. He said he had shot this at
a distance of 500 yards.
During the dinner one of the guests
asked him how he managed to fire
such an excellent shot.
"Well," said he, IT shot the bullet at
the door at a distance of 800 yards, and
then I painted the target around it,"
-Lippincott's.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-07
ERRORS in GRAMMAR

Editor Herald: X Y. u. asks par
ticulars Between you and l." BE
hind John and T." For you and L."
with he and She" etc, are ungram-
matical, because the nominative pro-
noun is used in the objective case. The
following expressions are correct; BE
tween you and me-" Behind John
and me-" "For you and me-" with
him and her" Even If one does not
understand the principles of grammar
his ear should tell him that For L."
"Behind l." with he" "With she" is
poor English. consequently For you
and T." "Behind you and I" with he
and she" is equally poor English, for
the case is not changed, because one is
sufficiently polite to refer to the other
person first. l will leave it to the
editor. JAMES JORDAN.
Los Angeles, Sept 8.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-07
Making a Millionaire
(san Francisco CalD


DR.. Clarence L, Edwords lis unques-
tionably a publicity man with the
knowhow. For some years now he
has been directing the attention of tho
world to the desirability of San Fran
cisco and California, as opposed to the
attraction of other places-and with a
large measure of success. He believes
firmly, faithfully, forever, in the po-
tency of printers ink,
To him fell the press work of the
recent trip of the grand commandery
of California, Knights Templar. to the
grand encampment at Chicago The
grand commandery of California is
rated very high in the councils Of the
order. Indeed, they call the mem
bers of it "the California Nabobs," and
the story that each is a millionaire
has been quite thoroughly exploited.
1t had reached Chicago, az any rate,
before 1.-The California Nabobs them
selves arrived, and, as a result, every
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-07

We are. naturally hearing 1t often
said just now that lawn tennis is rich
in dramatic elements; the clash of ac-
tion, the sudden elimination of sus-
pense, the sudden cutting of the knot.
This is indubitable, but is it true of
tennis alone? Does 1t not hold also for
that rival sport In which two oppo-
nents meet-golf? Curiosity consid-
cred, these two games have almost
nothing in common. Tennis requires
craft mixed with impetuosity; golf de-
mands skill working out through an
almost frigid repose. Success in ten
mis- is grounded upon remitting con-
seriousness of an antagonist; achieve
ment in golf often depends upon utter
forgetfulness of any opponent. Tennis
is the strife of man against man; golf
is the strife which ones hands play
against ones brain. And it will hard
ly do to declare that the latter process
is without its drama.
In style the-two games are at oppo-
site poles. Tennis presents to the
onlooker a magnificent picture of the
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-07

newspaper in the big sprawllng city
was represented at the station when
the train rolled in.
DIR. Edwords, publicity man, had
sent on ahead all of his press matter,
so, on the spur of the moment, he
took the newspaper men in hand and
told them that it wasn't true that
every man aboard was millionaire.
There was one who wasn't--he had
only a meager half-million.
He let them know this much, and
later in the day saw that they had a
real STORY This was simply that
the other members of the party,
learning that one among them was
only half a millionaire, had, by sub
scription. raised his ante until he now
possessed a full million, and was real
ly one of them.
All of which, I contend, proves be-
yond cavil that the circus game did
not die with p T. Barnum.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-07
KEEPING COOL

All the day long l think about the snow,
The whitened pond, the frost kings frozen
lair,
The berg's cold Sides the cleaning icy floe'
The tempests bluster and the north wind s
blare.
All the night long I dream of Greenland s
shores,
The ice matched cottage OF the Eskimo,
The icebound sledge, the somber sky that
lowers,
The winters night that moves so chill
and slow.
I muse and dream Of Arctic ice and chill
Until my veins run cold these summer
nights
And often wake and fancy that the shrill
North wind roars through my bones and
bites.
And thus oft times. while others wilt with
heat
And lean all Imply Ike wetted rag.
have to put on my half frozen feet
An extra blanket and a hot water bag.
II f. Ferris in New York Sun.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-07
Oil Is King in California
(san Francisco Chronlcle)


in this state was in excess of the aggre-
gate value OF the entire citrus crop
packed in boxes and loaded on the cars
for shipment.
Growing up with the oil industry is
that of refining. There are, or were on
January l, thlrty-five refineries in the
state, headed by the $12,000,000 stand
ard plant at Point Richmond.
For the year 1909, up to the close of
the record on December 81, the oil COM
panies in California had paid dividends
in the sum Of $27, ,362, ,23O.5S.
There seems to be no danger of ex-
haustion for a long time to come, If at
all. California is an empire; the yield
of the best oil districts is uniuctuat-
ing; the additions made right along to
the output are large; and an enormous
tract of oil land is in the hands of the
government, some of 1t very promising,
but not at present open to entry. The
future of the industry invites healthy
optimism.
Oil is king.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-07

Aaron's rod must have tapped the
Bakersfield oil belt, for the great Mid
way gusher there is producing twice as
much oil as the celebrated Lakeview
gusher. In 164 days the Midway has
given forth 100000 barrels of oil and
is producing more at the rate Of from
10000 to $4,000 barrels q day.
1t is long since the production Of
California petroleum beat the gold yield
of the state by millions, and here We
have an onrush which, by contrast
makes the gold product seem negligible.
Indeed, the United States has export
ed more oil in the fifty years since the
industry started-$2, 600, 900, 600 worth
than the entire North American pro-
ductiou of gold amounts to since Co
lumbus' discovery.
Last year the sum received for crude
oil In California amounted to $40,000,000
or almost double the value of the gold
produced here in the same time.
At the close of the same year, 1909.
the value of the crude oil at the wells
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-07
Merely in Jest
SBLF-EVIDENT

Jerome S. McWade, the Duluth mill
lionaire, said at an open-air luncheon
at his farm near Biwabik:
THE last time 1 had my house filled
with slum urchins it rained cats and
dogs for a week. 1t was a dreadful
disappointment for my visitors.
"One rainy morning heard little
chap say to his sister, as he hattened
his nose against the pane and looked
out disconsolately at the drenched
green countryside:
:" Tt don't ever rain in heaven, does
it, May?'
In course it does, ye little chump!'
the girl replied. That's where it's all
acomin' from, amt it?' st. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-07
Drama in Games
New York Evening Poso

Evening fosD
effort actually expended; golf q
dwarfed one. In other words tennis
looks harder than it is; golf easier.
How difficult it really is to play win
ming tennis is well known. But 1t is
also incontrovertible that its rapidity
OF movement gives it kind of dazzle
which is often mistaken for the highly
dramatic. In reality golf contains
more of the elements of true drama
than tennis. This is true, because golf
is more matter of the spirits. Inc
player must conquer the possible cat
astrophe by conquering hlmself-his
fear of that particular hole, his terror
of the bunker, his feeling that on that
day he is off" his game. If this
struggle of the soul is not dramatic,
where is drama to be foudnnd? Now
adays 1t is granted that the drama may
be subjective and be all the greater
drama for that. And golf is the most
subjective of games played under the
open sky. 1t is the Hamlet OF sports;
compared to 1t tennis is often only
melOdrama.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-07
TOO MUCH ROOSEVELT,

Editor Herald: l. for one reaSor Of
your paper am sick and tired of so
r0uch Roosevelt who Is he? Is he
than thousands of other good men
who are fighting for right, honesty and
good government? What is he thun-
dering for? Four more years of pres
idency, possibly eight more. and then
czarism. Point to some of the nota-
BILE things he has done. Why should
he be debating to a free American
people? Seems like the American
people are the easiest duped on earth.
JAMES PATTERSON.
Los Angeles, Sept. s
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-07
TRYING TO BE AN oPr1M1sT

"Don't you think the hats women
wear are outlandish?"
"I don't care anything about their
outlandishness," said Mr.. Meekton.
"They can be as big and curious as
they like so long as they don't have
to be buttoned up the back. wash
ington Star.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-07

The wry face made by the reaction
airy press in pretending that Roose-
velt's avowal Of being a progressive
tastes better than if he said he. was
insurgent is one Of the gayetles of the
campaign.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-07

We should say that the most practi-
cal thing the conservation congress can
do, after it is through talking, is to
organize a fire department to serve in
the case Of forest conhagrations.