Bismarck daily tribune., 1911-12-28
A|jGRlCul 1URAL knowledge
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on farms of different types, and the
adaptibility of different types of farm
ing to the particular region; to study
the local conditions with reference to
the amount, kind and character of
available farm labor and market con-
ditions; the adaptability OF crops to
local conditions of soil and climate,
etc.
So as to keep the experts within
easy reach of the farmers and cattle
raisers the bill also provides that
each agriculturist must have his head
quarters in his special district as cen
trally located as possible to mail, tele-
phone, telegraph and express facili-
ties, and he must report directly to
and be subject to the direction Of the
secretary of agriculture, or such off,
GERS of the department. as he may
designate. Politics is to play no part
in this bill, which, by the way, is now
in the hands of the house committee
on agriculture. which consists of John
Lamb of Virginia, Asbury F. Lever
of South Carolina, Jack Beall of
Texas, Augustus o. Stanley of Ken
lucky, Gordon Lee of Georgia, Ezekiel
S. Chandler. Jr., of Mississippi, J.
Thomas Heflin of Alabama, James T.
McDermott of Illinois. Robert c. Wick
life of Louisiana, John A. Mcguire of
Nebraska, George w. Kipp of Penn
sylvania, John J. Whitacre Of Ohio.
Thomas L. Rubey of Missouri. Gilbert
N. Haugen of Iowa, James C.. McLaugh-
lin of Michigan, Willis c. Hawley of
Oregon, Joseph Howell of Utah, Louis
B. Hanna OF North Dakota, Frank
Plumley of Vermont, James S. Sim
mons of New York, and William H.
Andrews of New Mexico.
Farmers and all others who are
keeping bees should do well to ask
Secretary wilson of the department
of agriculture, Washington. D. { -, 10
send them free Bulletin No. 442 on
the "TreatEelt of Bee Disesses," a
work just out, which will enable the
average farmer to learn how to keep
and treat even a few colonie: of Lees
to supply !oney for home ronsuEap-
tion, with possibly surpl;ls for sale
in good years.
The last census shows an alarming
decrease Of nearly 100000 colonies Of
bees on the farms Of the United
States, and also a considerable de-
crease in the number of farms re-
porting bees. Now, every intelligent
farmer knows mighty we'll that
there No heartily reason for such 4 .
creases in view of the fact that bee
keeping is one Of the important and
profitable minor branches OF agricul-
ture, and that much of those de-
creases due to diseases can be success
fully checked by themselves. Where
disease exists bee-keepers often lose
colonies, and attribute their loss to
other causes than the right one. That
can be remedied by study of the
bulletin of which speak.
Economy at home is the bottom
subject Of every phase of many-sided
problems Of foods and their prepar-
ations which are being discussed this
week by the 800 delegates of the
American Home Economics associa-
tion now in session at the national
capital, and it is not worthy of this
splendid gathering of leading men and
women in the world of household
science that no topic on this all-im-
portant matter is too big or too small
to escape their earnest attention.
The chemistry of food, and the
chemical changes which take place
during cooking, as we'll as those which
occur within the digestive tract after
the food has been consumed, from one
of the parts of work of the associa-
tons investigators and teacher
Another valuable feature of their
instructive work is the broad subject
in which all mothers are directly in
terested, namely, the proper foods
and proper methods Of feeding babies
and very young children Another
question taken up is one that lots OF
folks often ask each other when they
read about conventions of this sort:
after some years Of experimentation,
what is the educational aim, method
and accomplishment in college
courses in domestic art?"
The present outbreak in China
which gives every promise of ulti-
mate success, despite the pessimistic
utterance of old sinologists like the
writer, whose experience Of the
Chinese, their habits and aspirations
has been of a rather practical sort,
threatens the Manchu dynasty with
extinction and naturally attracts pop
ular attention to the present rulers
of the vast empire of China. 1t was
IN 1916, that the Manchu tartars,
goaded into war by the barbarous and
cruel injustice to which they were
eternally subjected at the hands OF
the merciless Chinese, led an army In
to China, and completely put to flight
the forces which the military man.
darins sent out against them.
Just as the Japanese had been pay
ing tribute to China for many years
and had, ultimately kicked against
their oppressors, so did the Manchus;
but the latter made their successful
kick several hundreds Of years before