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avid w. Dennis of EQ1lhQn1, a Man of Many Parts
Keen Ever Interested Student of Biology Zoology, Evolution A Religion
g-n He

of the county young man is tending
a farm and is making about $500 a
year.
But there is also another import
ant consideration for scientific farm
ing" continued the professor. 'Es-
pecially, the character of the blowing
and the quality OF the seed. The lat
ter is probably the more important.
The young man that is my boss on
the farm, tests every ear of corn before
it is planted. First he selects the best
ear of corn for seed corn. Then he
takes three grains from each ear and
plants it in the house, where he watch
es it grow. If upon examination one
seed from one ear does not grow as
much as the other from the same ear,
We throw out that ear. We do not
plant any of the grains unless the
three seeds show the same growth. Ii
one grain does not grow as well as
the other two and the roots are not as
strong, we do not use that ear. This
way we plant only the best seed. and
we have the best crop.
Care Must Be Used
After all the tests have been made
and the seed planted, it is then given
the best of care. When the stalk
grows into maturity we watch and de-
stroy the plants that no ears of corn
on them. We do this blu cutting off
the male flower at the top of the stalk
The pollen in this tassel is capable OF
being the father of 600 grains of corn
The corn has to be bred properly, just
the same as hogs. Everything that is
done on scientific farm must re-
ceive careful and specific attention.
IF the farmers wife is interested
in poultry and can give it the neCes
sary attention. giving the poultry fresh
clean water and keeping the coop in 4
sanitary coRdition she will have
| healthful stock.
1t is as easy for one man to tend
80 acres of land on scientific farm
as it is for one man to tend 90 acres
on an ordinary farm. Three horses
and one man can do twice as much
work as two horses and two men dc
on an ordinary farm.
Machinery Big Help.
with all the modern machinery it
is easier to farm today than to do any
other manual labor.
'l1owever if one wishes to make a
success at scientific farming ne must
give everything careful and needed at
tention. He must be active and dc
the work at the right time. If he does
this he cannot be otherwise than sue.
cessful"
DR.. Dennis is farmer by birth. His
father was a farmer who lived in the
northern part of the county and it
was there the professor was born. He
says himself that the first agricult
ural diploma he received was from his
father for his work. He is Wayne
county man and has lived here all
but four years of his life.
Where He Learned Nature.
1t was on his fathers farm that he
first became interested in nature
Here it was that his knowledge OF
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and breaches. Each effort is distinct
and thorough.
Go Back to Farming.
But speaking of scientific farming"
says Dr. Dennis, Il would be glad to
say anything to turn the young man
from the city to the farm. There the
conditions are perfect. If a young
man was to go on farm and conduct
it on scientific basis, he would find
it as remunerative as any position he
might find in the city. But he can
have single lazy bone in his body.
''There's farmer in the western
part of the county, he said, becoming
more and more interested in the sub
ject. "who bought some fertilizer, plac-
ed it on his farm and that year the
ground produced T.; more bushels to
the acre than his neighbours ground.
of course he added, eff a man
had large debt on 50 acres Of land
and can't make ends meet. he cant
pay So per acre for fertilizer.
The Best Results.
"A man that farms scientifically will
get the best results if he will sow
wheat in corn field and clover in the
wheat field. Then feed the clover off
to the hogs and turn the roots under.
He should plant corn in field one
year, wheat the next and clover the
third. in this regular order.
when a farmer sows fertilizer in a
wheat field it reappears in the clover
and corn fields. Why he would get
the fertilizer expense back from the
crop of every acre. he continued en-
phatically.
Then one of the adjuncts of a sci
entific farm is the fertiliZer,' it was
suggested.
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CARL w. ACkERMAN

Scientific farming concerns Itself
with getting the best results out of the
ground and leaving the ground in
better condition after the harvest, than
before the crop was raised. know
that most farmers think this view en-
tirely fanciful. They call agricul.
ture making money in the city and
ing making money in the country and
spending it in the city"
This is the view of DR.. David Worth
Dennis OF Earlham College whose voca-
ton Is to lecture on zoology and bOta-
ny at the college. and whose avocation
is to conduct a farm on a scientific ba-
sis But it would not be in justice to
Earlhani's grand old man. to say
that his avocatiOn is confined to one
thing. DR.. Dennis has an interesting
career. He is an excellent photogra
pher He can talk for weeks and
months on evolution and never say
the same thing twice. He studies and
fights disease germs and is an advocate
of fresh air and sanitary conditions.
Since his recent trip to the Adron-
dacks he has built an addition to his
home and sleeps out of doors, so firm
is his belief in the qualities of pure air.
His Activities Countless.
But the activities of DR.. Dennis do
not end here. In fact, there is no end
to them. He is first and foremost
scientist and when he came to Earlham
as a professor. he taught all the 81
cnce at the college Three other pro
fessors row have departments OF sci
ence.
General education is also an import
ant thing to DR.. Dennis. He holds the
same ideas about the function of the
small college as Dr. Remsen does of
university Men first, then build
ings.' said the president of Johns Hop
kins, and DR.. Dennis says the same.
His method of instruction. too, is not
all theoretical: it is practical and in
teresting. In fact, his department has
become known to students as possess
ing these qualities and the accommo-
dations for students in his class room
were almost exhausted this term.
Interested in All.
Can man be interested in all
these things:' one may ask. DR..
Dennis can. and he doesn't slight any
of them. Each one receives the same
careful, specific attention. He not
only knows each. but he knows their
many parts.
Can scientific man be interested
in literature and art:" is another ques-
ton often asked. DR.. Dennis is one
of the scientific men who can quote
gems of more poets than an ordinary
man can think of. He knows art
equally we'll and can lecture on it's
many phases. His specially in this
line at present is the sculpture of Au-
gustus Saint Gudens. The artist, to
him. is "a divinely gifted man and an
inspiration"
In all these things the Earlham pro-
fessor is at the helm. He studies,
teaches, investigates. lectures, observes
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Eyes. 1t helps the land because
many of the farms around here have
been worked for about - years and
are worn out. Some farms need n
coat of fertilizer each year to produce
we'll.
Opportunity Is Great.
There is great opportunity on the
farm today for the young man. A
young man can buy a farm and in j.
years have all his debt payed and the
farm in better condition than when he
bought it,
This is not all theory with DR.. Den
mis-. for he has two large farms in the
northern part of the county and on
them he is conducting some interest
ing experiments. One of the farms is
located near Webster and the other
about four miles northwest of here on
the NolansfOrk river. Both farms are
in the river bottom and the soil is rich
and black.
"A man can't farm today and do mis-
cellaneous work. He cant have a
few sheep cattle, hogs and chickens,
and hay. Very few farms are adapt
ed to this kind Of farming. The farm
err that undertakes to do all this makes
a mistake. He should become fruit
grower on land adapted to that and
a stock raiser on land adapted to the
raising of stock"
Possibilities of Income.
What are the possibilities of a
steady income for scientific farm
er:'
ANY one that wants to farm and be
sure of steady income, which will
vary only in certain seasons, should
go on the farm. In the northern part
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MUSIC STUDY CLUB.

The Music Study club will hold \
meeting "Wednesday morning at $50
o'clock NJ the Starr Piano company's
rooms. Tenth and Main street. The
Sonata" will he the subject up for
discussion and illustrations will be
given by Miss Elsie Hawskotte. Mrs.
Milton Elrode. Miss Elizabeth Hase-
meier and Mrs. L. II. Hunt.
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SHE HAS RECOVERED.

Miss Elizabeth Thomas. social edi-
;or of the Palladium. who has been
seriously i'll at her home on South
seventh street for the past month. has
HOW fully recovered and will resume
her duties with the social department
of this paper next Monday.
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When a man says. That's all right,
but" he means that il isn't all right
by long shot.
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Mrs. Jeanette c. Leeds of this city
is now at French Lick Springs. Ind.
She will remain there several days
before returning 10 this city.
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TO RETURN NEXT WEEK.

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Kaufman OF
this city. who are in New York as the
guest of her parents. Mr.. and Mrs.
Aufdeiheide of Indianapolis. will re-
turn probably week from this COM
!ng Wednesday.
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TO RETURN TUESDAY.

Miss Margaret BuTchenal. who has
been visiting her aunt, Mrs. J. \.
Poundstone. will return 10 her home
al Glendale. Ohio, Tuesday. Many So
cial affairs have been given in her
honor the past few days.
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ENrE4TAlNs MONDAY.

Mrs. Robert S1imson will entertain
Monday evening al her home on East
Main street. The evening will be
spent at bridge Mrs. Stimson is now
At Indianapolis, the guest OF relatives
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MRS. LiNoEMUTh BETTER.

Mrs. \. {. Lindemu,h who has been
i'll for tie past two weeks is reported
IS improved.
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Rhubarh is grown extensively in Chi
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JOINS HIS WIFE.

Mr. r. G.. Leeds who returned Fri
day from Des Moines has gone 10
Cincinnati 10 Join his wife. who Is in
that city. the guest of friends. They
will return to Richmond this week.
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young women who will make a tour OF
the west, beginning in April. under
the auspices of the Santa Fe railroad.
They will give entertainments in sew
eral cities.
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VISITING IN CINCINNATI.

Mrs. ]. q. Barber went TO Cincinnati
Yesterday 10 be the guest Of her
daughter Miss Mabel Barber who is
attending the Conservatory OF Music.
She will remain in Cincinnati for sew.
eral DAYS
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MRS. RlCWECl HERE.

Mrs Frank Ridwell OF Owosso.
Michigan. is in the city for several
days. the guest of Mrs. Huntington OF
3lS North Twelfth street.
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SOCIETY
AT FRENCH LICK,

AT FRENCH LICK.
Mrs. Jeanette C. Leeds OF this city
is now at French Lick Springs. Ind.
She will remain there several days
before returning 10 this city.
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ENTERTAlNS MONDAY.
Mrs. Robert Stimson will entertain
Monday evening al her home on East
Main street. The evening will be
spent at bridge Mrs. Stimson Is now
1t Indianapolis. the guest OF relatives
K - -
TO RETURN TUESDAY,.
Miss MARGARET Burchenal. who has
been visiting her aunt, Mrs. J.
Poundstone. will return 10 her home
al Glendale. Ohio, Tuesday. Many so
cIal affairs have been given in heI
honor the past lew days.
- - -
SHE HAS RECOVERED.
Miss Elizabeth Thomas. social edi
;or OF the Palladium. who has beer
seriously i'll at her home on SoutE
seventh street for the past month. has
HOW fully recovered and will resume
her duties with the social department
of this paper next Monday.
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TO RETURN NEXT WEEK.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Kaufman o
this city. who are in New York as tn'
guest of her parents. Mr.. and Mrs
Aufdefheide of Indianapolis. will re
turn probably week from this com
ing Wednesday.
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JOINS HIS WIFE.
Mr.. r. G. Leeds. who returned Fri
day from Des Moines has gone Il
Cincinnati TO join his wife. who is il
that city. the guest of friends. The,
will return to Richmond this week.
- - -
MRS. RiDWELl HERE.
Mrs. Frank Ridwell OF Owosso
Michigan, is in the city for severa
days. the guest of Mrs. Huntington o
PIN North Twelfth street.
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ARRIVES IN BERLIN.
Mrs. T.. J. Pach. nee Miss Laurett;
Elstro. of this city. in a letter TO thu
society editor of the Palladium
writes: Il have again arrived in Der
lin after visiting England. Holland
Belgium and France. with Mr.. Pachi
relatives. Please give the greeting
Of myself and Mr.. Pach TO our man,
friends in Richmond We intend I,
return TO Richmond in the near flu
ture."
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TO GO ON A TOUR.
Miss Jessie Beeler will be a mem
her of a party of Indiana universit,
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ARRIVES IN BERLIN,

U oO 0TN WIN
Miss Jessie Beeler will be a men,
her of a party of Indiana university
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reasonable business Judgment. Very
few of our orchards nave reached
their best years. Perhaps none of them
have. Certainly none of them have.
according To Eastern standards. The
value of our good orchards will in
crease for years yet, if well cared for.
Now if this is a reasonable way to
get at orchar values, what are tAose
orchards worth that have yielded
$500 an acre for the years that they
have had good crops-say half of the
years since they ave come into bear
ing? And if We can eliminate the
poor years-which means the years
that frost has taken the crops-wlat
will our acre values be? 1t will be
just about what the orchard men in
the far Northwestern states are rat
ing their orchards at. and sometimes
selling them for. That is for several
thousand dollars an acre. Did not the
thirty acre orchard that yielded 800
an acre in 1908, clear of all packing,
shipping and selling expenses, very
fully sustain this high estimate of
real orchard value? And if that orch
ard had been protected by orchard
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heaters in 500 as it might have been
can we doubt that as much yield OF
money would have come from it in
that unfortunate year?
fully believe, Mr.. Editor, that the
Roswell orchards have as much poten'
tial value as hose of Colorado, Utah,
Oregon and Washington, who re
ports of vast profits challenge our
wonder. Our land is as good. Our eli
mate is decidedly better. Our fight a.
gainst difficulties is far less strenu-
BUS. Our trees are as healthy and as
long lived. Our fruit is as good in
quality, and as handsome, comparing
the same varieties here and there.
We do not car as well for our orch
ards. We do not spray as well. We do
not pack as well. Indeed that is our
weak point. But all this is the fault
of the men and not of the country. 1t
is not a necessity of our situation. /
said Potential Value, ! mean just that.
II is within our reach to make the
Roswell orchards worth as much for
producing, for keeping. or for selling
as those of any state anywhere. Shall
we not have courage enough to dare
to estimate our orchard property at
somewhere near its absolute value?
And now, IL there is a man about
Roswell with an orchard good enough,
AID well managed enough. to yield
$500 an acre, net profit, ear after
year,-wAica with an elimination Of
frost killing seems to be within
shall he not justly claim
this orchard to be worth $1,000 al
acre in this blessed ten per cen in
terest rate country? Why need he be
50 baslfnl enout L.?
Very truly.
PARKER EARLE.
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A Handsome Woman

Every woman may not be hand
some, but every woman should
keep with care the good points
nature has given her. No woman
need have saIlow skin, dull eye,
5lotchy complexion, who pays
proper attention to her health.
Where constipation, liverderange-
ments, blood impurities and other
irregularities exist, good complex
ion, bright eyes and sprightly
movements cannot exist. Internal
arrangements reveal themselves sooner
1r later ON the surface Headache, dark
rings around the eyes, sallow skin, a con-
slant tired feeiins--nean that the liver
md digestive organs are needing help and
correction. Chamberiain's Stomach and
LIVER Tablets give this necessary help.
They work IN neture's own way. They do NOT
merely fluEh the bowels but tone UP the liver and
touach TO fulfill their proper functions- So mild
and gentle do they act that one hardly realizes
HAT they have taken medicine. Chamhernin's
Tablets can De relied upon 10 relieve bilicusness.
anywhere. Prise p eents-
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its support must hov this money Civ
en- if tae cure is to be effected; they
will do the work and give the patient
the care necessary.
Do you want to share in this beat
tiful Christmas present? Eunday and
day Schools, Benevolent Societies,
Lodges and individuals are asked to
send their help for this little girl.
Make out your check or money order
to DIR. c. E. Lukens, superintendent
Children's Home Society, Albuquer-
que, New Mexico, or ask tae editor
of your paper to send it for you, full
credit will be given, the editor of
this paper knows about the work. be-
ing done and freely gives this space
to aid the cause of humanity.
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/ can clear Of all costs that is ten
per cent on $1,000, an acre value. Ii
takes some years to grow the orchard
up to that producing point. but Wien
that tim comes, is not that a clear
index of the orchard value? 1t win
be said that the trees will not last
but n generation OF two, and must be
renewed. But so must the business
block.-It may burn. The orchard
viii not. 1t may become obsolete in
style, and lose las producing ability.
The orchard will not go out of fash
i'm. I believe then that the orchard
has as good a chance for perpetual
incone-bearing capacity as h com
nercial building.
II his rule holds, and our orchards
yield 500 an acre, clear income, are
they not distinctly worth $1,000 an
acre? But do our orchards yield tlat
much? I think they do better than
that. where they have reached bear
ing maturity, and are managed with
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Shall we Make Little Minnie a Christ.
mas Present of Her Feet7

Little Minnie is two years and six
months oid. She IA never been able
to walk, only to slide herself along
the floor.
she will never be able to walk; all
through the lig~hthearted days of her
babyhood and ~girlhood, though she
lives to be a mature woman, she
must be wheeled about or crawl on
hands or knees.
Minnie is a dear little girl with
sunny hair and bright. pretty face.
Only she is even now so ashamed of
her feet and she ant to walk.
When she was a babe her father
left her mother, the mother who is
very poor is herself with her other
little girls needing 10 depend on the
charity of her neighbors for a living.
Poor crippled little Minnie. How
sad if were our dear little daugh-
ter or sister.
Can she ever be cured?
The doctors say a an, no less an
authority than the chief & of
the Santa Fe, DIR. J.. P. Raster, has
outlined an operation by the celebrat-
ed bloodless method of surgery,
whereby she a in a thrice repeated
operation, and q year of nursing, be
given tae use of her feet, can run and
play like other children.
The Children's Home Society, an or
gaaization which Is trying to save the
orphan and homeless children any
where in the Southwest. which has
olready placed many children in good
homes for adoption. found this little
girl, and although his surgical work
is not ordinarily a part of its work.
could not pass her by. and so she is
now in ne care of the Society at the
Receiving Home.
There are many other little ones
under their care. but Minnie will need
special nursing and expensive care.
M II will cost hundreds OF dollars to
cure her.. The Society. which is de-
pendent on public contributions for
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THE VALUE OF THE
ROSWELL ORCHARDS.

Editor Roswell Daily Record
am often asked the value of bear
ing orchards in the Roswell district.
1t Is an interesting question and one
about which we should have more
definite opinions, with 4 good reas-
ons for them, than most of us have.
For h orchard interest in this val
ley promises to soon be the most val
liable and important property in it.
We have more than ten thousand ac-
res Of orchard in the Upper Valley.
On what basis shall We estimate tails
value? 1t is often said that an orch
ard is worth what it will sell for.
But this is no guide to value. 1t may
sell for more than it is worth. Ere
quently it sells for less. Some orch
ard tracts have been sold here for
just about the amount of the net yield
of a single crop. This seems queer,
but there are often other reasons than
property value that determine the
making OF sales.
What we wish to find out is the
value of an orchard to keep, as a pro
Queer of income, rather thai its pos
sible selling price. The value of bust
ness property in our large cities, is
determined, | believe. by its income
producing capacity. If the owner of
q business block in Chicago gets So
o net. for it's rental, and his money
is worth 5 per cen in an investment,
that block is worth 100000, let us
say. I believe the same principle de-
cides the value of farms. and much
other property. Why should not our
nr~oo~d rroIrrno ha oGfinanfAd in the
same way? II a tract of orchard will
yield crops that are worth 800 an
acre, net, on an average of the years
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cifcations prepared by H. S. Gilbert,
Architect, Silver City, New Mexico.
Plans may be had by addressing w.
w. Ogle, Roswell, New Mexico.
A certified c1eck (made payable to
Frank Talmage, Jr.) for three per
cent of the amount of ach bid, must
accompany eac proposal, said check
to be held as a guarantee that the
successful bidder will enter into con-
tract and furnish a satisfactory bond
for the amount of 100000. Should he
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Mr.. and Mrs. G. O.. Johnson and
two babies, who nav e here two
months while Mr.. Johnson was act
ing as agent for the railroad company
during the absence of the regular
agent, NJ. d.. Burns, left this mornilg
for their home in Amarillo.
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NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

Sealed bids will be received by
Frank Talnage, Jr., Chairman Board
of Trustees of the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows of New Mexico, until
January goth, 1910, for the erection
and completion of an Odd Fellows
Home according to the plans and spe-
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Manuel Paroles, clerk and inter
prefer for Reid & Hervey, left this
morning for Albuquerque for a bust
les visit of two weeks.