Bisbee daily review., 1911-03-16
AUTOMATIC SIGNAL FUR
 TRAINS GAINS IN FAVOR

of the association Of commerce.
 Uncle Sans bread box rrediea ment with only 2S per cent as much wheat in the hands of the farm CT March 1. according to govern ment figures used by Chicago Board of Trade, as the average fer the last Zen years, still further com plicates the question of the Can sdian reciprocity bill The quantity of wheat on farms on that date was 179,6s0000 bushels. which is only 25.S per cent of the last years crop. The Canadian prospects are
 reported good, western provinces having prospect for a bumber crop. One report says: "A quarter mil lion oNes Of safe winter wheat is planted in soil exceptionally moist and on fields that have enjoyed a year ol rest There has been no shaw In the irrigation block in
 Alberta the central and eastern sections of which are not yet under
 irrigation. a snow fall of from four
 to six inches under a thick crust covers the ground The corn bin, however, though showing the ef- feet or the conyerging totals Of production and consumption in the
 United States, is more than com monly fall and of better quality as S64 per cent is merchantablo as
 against the 7o-year year or S35 per cen:
 How to iiNigate by the use of
 the despised tin can has been ex-
 plained to the Chicago irrigation
 head quarters as a unique achieve ment of farmer in the vicinity of Hereford, Tex. That is not an irrigated district but the Here:orc farmer, J. P. Clement. though some subirrigation wouldn't hurt any So he adopted the tin can method which made two hills of potatoes grow where but one grew before. This is how he did it, says the report He gathered up a lot Of cans and placed them end to end in a ditch about three feet from a sweet potato row. This line of cans was connected with a hose by means of small pipe and the water allowed to run in as the sea son demanded. When the potatoes were dug a good crop was har- vested, but the unique feature os this story is that Mir Clement rais- ed two rows of potatoes intsead of one. Several months after digging his potatoes he decided to examine the -an tiles and accord ingly opened the ditch. when 10 his surprise, he found some good size potatoes near the cans, some 3 feet from the planted row. He accounted for this by saying the small feeding roots sought the mUis- ture and extended their ieng:h 10 the line of cans where au addi- uonal lot of potatoes were grown Who can beat this?
 A man became prize winner in a strawberry shorecake contest Of a woman's club in Chicago sub nrb-nOt eating but making and batlng a shortcake. He proves to be not an all-round camp cook but Q specialist But in the matter of shortcake Herbert B. Nulford had his women competitors whipped 10 q standstill His wife exposed his limited Fsie. toir. Sha sad: No. Mr. Mnif0rI doesn't do any other cooking aEd ! guess he L.ak,s .. -- cakes nnly becssse te ts ,n fuf of them. He is vS-y good at it, but it is the only thing he can make. His shorteake was gust atorial. pictorial and immemoriaL There were six and all good, all Of them high, white and symmetrical, each with A strawberry on its snowy summit When he entered the contest, he mixed a batter, whip red a frosting and presto, done. MT Mulford is a banker with a record 2s economist and statisticiau for papers but now is touted as summer camp companion par excellence when berries. blue, black straw or rasp are obtainable. Reser yations must be made early for the season of 1911, however, for Mrs. Mulford is too proud for words.