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Evening star., 1911-08-27

Similar experiments are being made
by our experts of the Agricultural De-
partment in almost every grain known to
man. New grains and new varieties of
the old grains are being gathered from all
over the world and brought here for test
ing and uniting with other varieties. This
is especially SO of corn. oats. barley and
rice
Our corn crop last year was worth over
fifteen hundred million dollars. Its value
was more than dozen times that of our
gold and silver output. and the amount
raised was so great that il would have
fled a Solid four-horse wagon train
reaching from here to the moon if the
skies could be bridged and the corn TAX
en- thither. Nevertheless, the corn breed
ers tell me that by marrying the different
varieties and planting good seed this crop
could be doubled without the addition of
one acre to the area or adding more fer
tilizer. All that is needed is good seed
and cultivation and the land will produce
from two to four times what it does now
This matter is understood by our
well informed farmers. who belong to the
many corn-breeding associations scatter
ed over the Union. The varieties of corn
are now as well known as those OF cat
tie and horses The best are being cross
ed and recrossed. and variety may pc
discovered which will be worth a great
deal of money As it is the best seed
brings a high price in the market.
am told at the Agricultural Depart
ment that they are making a special eff
fort to discover new cereals for the dry
farms Of the west. Many choice varieties
have been introduced. and some of these
are yielding from 20 to 80 per cent more
than those of the past A great deal of
work is being done in millets and sor-
1hums and Uncle Sans agents in Man
churia have sent several of these from
that country. They are also using the
Siberian sorghums and kowliangs from
China. These millets have been married
to others, and their children may be bet
ter adapted to our soil and climate than
the parents from faraway Asia.
We are introducing alfalfas from ST.
IBERIA which Withstand the cold and
drought and also drought-resisting trees
which will produce stock food and fruit
Evening star., 1911-08-27
Automobiles of a Kansas Village
Roxbury Correspondence Topeka Capital

Roxbury Correspondence Topeka Capital.
This little town Of probably one hum
dred souls without doubt sets the pace
for all other towns for the number OF
automobiles in proportion to the popula-
tion.s 1t is a fact that every person in
the village can be taken on joy ride at
one time in the motor cars owned in tire
town. 1t is the opinion of the Roxbury
people that not another town i'm the
country has a sufficient number OF motor
cars to carry all the people of the town
at one time.
Evening star., 1911-08-27

favor who will tomorrow, nevertheless,
solicit princely favors.
Which remains to be seen. / do not
believe it; but there are so many models
to choose from that no one is indis-
pensable. Only one thing is more ridicu-
lous-the apology which an American ed
itor thought called upon to make for
Evening star., 1911-08-27

travelling AT government expense far and
vide over the world searching out new
brides and grooms TO mate with them.
These marriages. however, are not OF
men and women, but Of plants 1t is
strange to think of plants marrying, but
the vegetable world Is male and female
1t is made up of such matches. and from
them are coming forth new and valuable
plant children each day. Every one has
heard of Luther Burbank. who married
the plum to the apricot and made the
plumcot who made the white blackberry
out Of the brunette and a cross. and who
took the ox-eyed daisy and by uniting IL
with other varieties created the great
Shasta flower, which is many times lars-
er. The Agricultural Department has
half dozen men who have done as much
Original, work as Luther Burbank, and
there are scores Of others scattered over
the country at our state and national ex-
pertinent stations who are yearly pro-
ducing grains and fruits which will add
enormously to our national wealth.
X y
Take the matter Of wheat. The agri-
cultural matchmakers of Minnesota have
done wonders in their marriages of those
servants of man. They have crossed
the various wheats, and they have now
1900 hybrid babies which they are test
ing They have produced one offspring.
which has been already scattered over
100000 acres, and another which is be-
ing planted upon 10000. Some Of the
new wheats are showing gains of from
two to five bushels per acre. and some
have averaged as high as forty-seven
bushels. The old wheats beside them
have been giving only fifteen or twenty.
II the wheat crop of the United States
could be increased only three bushels per
acre II would add at least 100000, 600
per year to our receipts from that source.
The grains used in producing these hy-
brids have pedigrees dating far back into
history. They have been collected from
all parts of the world. Among the wheats
now used are some sent by Mr.. Aron-
son from Palestine. He has discovered
there wild wheat whose ancestors are
supposed to have grown in the Garden Of
Eden. and there is another wheat which
has been found in the tomb Of an Egyp-
tian mummy more than 5000 years old
Among the new varieties which we are
now planting is that brought in from the
dry lands bordering the Sahara in south
ern Algeria. This is the durum or maca-
roni wheat which NJ. A. Carleton, one Of
tested upon the semi-artd lands of our
middle west. 1t was tried In Kansas, Ne
braska and Texas, and the first crop was
seventy-five Thousand bushels. That was
eight or nine years ago. The second crop
was over a million. and we are now
raising fifty million bushels, about one
half Of which is exported to Europe and
some to the very country whence the
wheat came. That wheat all comes from
land which would not grow wheat before.
Evening star., 1911-08-27

anu OlHeIS 1Oi HlieIS dIiu
In this work we are aided by agricul-
tural explorers who have been sent all
over the world and who are now scratch
ing the skin of old mother earth for new
plants and seeds. There is a bureau de-
voted to this introduction in the west
wing of the Agricultural Department, and
it is one of the busiest places in Uncle
Sans factory. 1t has already intro
duced something like 10000 new vege-
table creations and more are arriving
each day The moment one comes in it is
sent to the special station or plant breed
er best fitted to test and develop it. and
within few days 1t is under the earth
and in just the conditions fitted to give
good results Records are kept OF every
receipt and there are now several hrn-
dred thousand cards which tell the story
of each distribution.
During my stay in the department,
Prof. David Fairchild, who Is at the head
of the bureau. showed me something of
the work. as it is now going on. With
him | went over the cards that have been
received the past week Here are the
items: The first is new alfalfa from
Pretoria South Africa. the second
scarce barley from Nepal in India, and
third Japanese larch sent from Copen-
hagen in Denmark. And then we have
new magnolia from Calcutta, which
will be married to yellow magnolia
just received from Buitenzorg, Java, a
new kind of banana which comes here
through the Kew Gardens of England
and twenty-one bulbs of the yellow lily,
which are sent from va Chow-fu in
China on the borders of Tibet. Other
importations of this week are a white
rubber from near Buena Ventura. ColOm-
bia which it is thought may be grown
on the Everglades of Florida, new
tobacco from Santa Clara. Cuba, which
may withstand the Granville tobacco in
sect. and a passion fruit from Tahiti, in
the Society Islands of the Southern Pa
cic ocean.
This passion fruit is as large as
peach. and 1t is thought that it may be
crossed with the may-pop of South Caro-
lima. 1t makes delicious ices. and the
profits of raising it may reach high
as $500 per acre. The fruit is now grown
in the greenhouses of England and it
commands a good price in the markets.
In addition to these, the bureau re-
ceived yesterday a hardy white ginger
from the province of Shantung in China.
which will be planted in Texas, four
species of persimmons from Java, and
Evening star., 1911-08-27

oLIOWING on the
marriage of Prince
Victor and the
Princess Clemen-
tine. here, is a
queer story.
Has an Ameri-
can B o n a p a TT e
consented to be-
come French?
Not to name him,
has young Jerome.
nephew Of Charles
Evening star., 1911-08-27

Avn A&AS AAAsA 80
ming a great matr,-
Inonial bureau. He
makes marriages by
the hundreds a
month, and adds
to his children by
the tens Of thou
sands a year. He
not only marries
those within his
own boundaries, but
he has his agents
Evening star., 1911-08-27

a similar article of mine on plots of the
French royalists. His text was the Por-
tuguese revolution, which he called the
republican tendencies of Europe" IT he
or any one thinks that they will stop
France from going through her fateful
cycles-France whose "old thought" al
ways becomes the rest of the world s
new thought"-they have read in vain
how the first Bonaparte, or first republic,
came in and went out. France pursues
her cycle-royalty, republic, empire roy
atty, republic, royalty, republic, empire,
republic
Less severe and sweeter is the picture
of the present moment-the European
Bonapartes occupied in choosing prin-
cess to espouse young Jerome.
The great Napoleon had son-the
Aiglon. who died young, unmarried Jo-
seph. the great Napoleon's elder brother,
left two daughters.
Evening star., 1911-08-27
8fNCLE SANS WATRIM0NIAL LBvREAB

DABY Wheats Which
Mean Millions IN ew
Grains for the Dry Lands
and Rice for the Wet-Man-
churian Millets and Siberian
Sorghums-The New Seeds
of One Week-Choice Fruits
From China-Persimmons as
Big as Base Balls and
Iujubes Like Dates-Somes
thing About Frank Meyer
and His Asiatic Finds.
Evening star., 1911-08-27

Lucien. his next brother. lefe two
daughters by his first wife, and five sons
and two daughters by his second. His
eldest son was the Prince of Canine, long
in the United States He, in turn. had
three sons. one the late Cardinal Bona
Evening star., 1911-08-27

DRINCE VICTOR'S Mar
/ riage Wakes Party and
Fanily-Massing the Millions
Has an American Bona
parte Consented to Become
French?
SpeciaI Correspondence of The Star.
nj ,rA
Evening star., 1911-08-27
ONE Or UNCLE SANS
NANTjI IABoRAToREs

miles farther north. We are marrying
the lettuces, and joining the varieties OF
fax so that the plants are taller and the
fibers are better. We are marrying the
tobaccoes from all parts of the world
and growing certain kinds for wrappers
and others for filters and binders.
Evening star., 1911-08-27

PARIS, August IS. 1911.
Evening star., 1911-08-27

Special Correspondence of The star.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1911-04-15

very little 10 advance the art Of agri-
culture. added little to the upper pen
insula's knowledge OF the possibilities
of it's soil ana climate.
Now the scientific farmer has taken
hold. He uses modern methods, i'm
proved machinery. aud brains He
stucies mis- sell aud takes into consid-
GRAFTON its characteristics. And he Is
making II pay big. And what the
gentleman farmer Is doing any
farmer with a small amount of capital
and some practical experience IAN do.
Farming is no more complicated in the
upper peninsula than 1t is in the lower.
II Is by no means as uncertain. tor the
upper peninsula farmer is sure OF his
rainfall. OF abundant sunshine during
the growing season, OF thick coverlet
made little attempt to develop 1t along
scientific lines. merely cutting his tim
Der and growing such root crops as
were needed for his family. He did
of snow during the winter. Old Lake
Superior acts as climatic equilibra-
tor. and il is fact which can be pro.
ven by statitics from the weather bur-
eau that Minnesota experienced killing
frosts later last spring and earlier this
fall than did the upper peninsula
Strawberries and raspberries were pick
ed as late as October Is this fall gar
den stuffs remained in good condition
even later.
The original cost OF the land is small
three TO ten dollars the acre. The
cost OF clearing 1t varies. depending
upon whether it was clothed with tam
arack or heInlook, when the cost is
small. or with pine. when II is great
or. The markets are near at hand and
certain. Heavy freight rates into the
upper peninsula from the greater farm
ing sections place differential upon
food products Of all kinds. which assure
the local farmer good prices for his
staff. On hay this differential runs
from three to five dollars the ton. Hay
today Ia selling there for from $50 e
t22 the ton. II never has fallen below
sl2. and has sold as high as $50. Inn
mense quantities- OF. hay are fed dur
ing the winter months by the mining
and lumber companies. The farmers
can supply but fraction of the de
mand.
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SPECIAL ELECTION
Next WEDNESDAY
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statement that every day from dozen
10 two dozen men call around looking
fer work. The mine superintendents
verify this statement.
Local merchants tell US that business
IL duller right now than IL has been for
years and that many OF their customers
are ont OF work and they have to carry
them a great deal Of the time.
II the road work could be started this
year II would take up about 800 men
and keep them busy all summer. The
plan 10, as wo understand II. to oom'
mence the work in different sections OF
the county and 10 let 10 in small DON
tracts 10 that every man who Is out OF
work may have chance TO WORK OF
the roads close 10 his own home. Tbs
work Is to be let In small station JOBS
10 that every man who has team MAY
bid on the work several men may clui
together and take a station. etc, etc
In this manner the work may be OF thu
greatest benefit to the people not onl,
in employing labor but In getting tn
worst sections OF the present system
improved Immediately.
The plan appeals to all who hav
looked into ID thoroughly and the work
ingman who votes against II is reall.
voting the bread and butter out OF hi
fellow laboringman's mouth.
The proposition seems to be NOR
thoroughly understood on this side o
The county than on the other and NOR
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1911-04-15

Rev. HaEold Jenkin, Rector
Mr.. Chas. M. Rogers, Sunday School
superintendent
Easter Sunday, April 18th. l9ll.
Holy Communion 7.3@
Morning Prayer. Holy Com
munion and Sermon 10 30
Children's Service 800
Evening PRAYER and Sermon 80
Subject AN Unrisen Christ.
Service at theArmenia Loca-
ton at 30
The regular sunday School session
will be omitted. At 4 90 in the after
noon there wiil be the Annual Sunday
SCHOOL Service at which time the chill
dren will presen. their missionary
Mite Boxes The Sunday School cor
daily invites parents and friends OF
the children 10 attend this service.
Thursday. April Goth. 1911.
Evening Prayer and Address ut the
Dunn Location at 90.
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PUBLIC OPINION /:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,

THE Diamond Drill invi ties its read
ers 10 contribute their views on topics
of general interest. The Diamond Drill
reserves the right 10 condense letters
or to return them 20 the writer. No
attention will be paid to anonymous
communications or to personal attacks. }
Editor Diamond Drill.
Dear Sir
I have been asked on three or four
different occasions lately IL was in
favor Of the bonding proposition for
good roads and how | would vote In
the coming election on that subject
wish to state that do not see how
I could consistently consider myself
good citizen and not favor 1t. My i'm
mediate neignboIs and myself are enjoy
ing the benefits derived from the four
mile stretch that was built last year
from the city out to my place. Would
il not be selfish on my part or even
theirs to perform any act that would
in the least hinder the advancement OF
she good work that has been 90 well
begunS I am fully persuaded that this
good road has enhanced the value OF
my property far in excess Of any tax
that l might be called upon 10 pay, il
fact the reduced cost in wear and tear
on my rigs and harnesses, not TO say
anything OF the saving in horse flesh
and the hauling OF greater loads, will
more than pay my road tax each year.
am satisfied that the gentlemen who
have accepted the thankless poei-
tion of county road commissioners are
men Of good business judgment and ex-
ecutiee ability, men whose patriotic
spirit has led them in the face OF much
criticism to persistently endeavor to
bring TO successful issue that which
will be OF great benefit to the greatest
number OF taxpayers in the county.
trust therefore that the good judg-
ment Of my fellow taxpayers will lead
them to lay aside all prejudice and
malice. 80 that on election day solid
vote will be cast in favor CT GOOD
ROADS
Sincerely yours tor the
advancement and development OF Iron
County.
VIM. Poyseor.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1911-04-15

favorable comment is heard here than
ON the west side although II Is said
tnat the west side fellows are coming
10 view the proposition more favorably
each day.
IL is hard to tell what voters will do.
No concerted effort has been made TO
influence the voters TOR the proposition.
What effort has been made has been
directed TO educating the electors on all
phases OF the question; nothing has
been hidden and the supervisors and
comm issioners have been studious In
their efforts to conform their desires
TO the will of.the people. to inform the
people just what they propose doing II
the issue is voted on tavorably
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1911-04-15

The victory OF the railroads In the
Minnesota case brought by stock
holders of certain companies TO pre-
vent a lowering OF charges which the
said stockholders claimed were conns.
catory-is a point in favor OF the ar
gument which the conservative press
and people OF the country have been
advancing in favor OF the railroads
letting legislation entirely alone and
employing their lawyers In presenting
their cases in court instead OF lobby
ing in legislatures, where they inyari-
ably stir up enmity because OF the
complaint. justly or unJustly made,
that Unfair tactics IRE used TO influence
legi station. IL is agreed upon all sides
that the railroads and other large COR
poration have taken undue means In
the past to influence legislation entirely
In their own interests Their hoggish-
ness knew no bounds and finally the
people were reused and they are now
as unreasonable one way as the cor
porations were the other. Just as long
as the railroads continue to fight this
movement. just 50 long will the agita-
ton continue. Legislators are sent 70
the legislature to enact into laws the
things that their constituents want so
enacted. They are not sent there M
judges and juries to sit upon the hne
points which admit Of two intrepreta-
tioDs aud which only careful judicial
inquiry can determine. Their duty Is
lone when they have made the best
Efforts they can to enact the laws re-
CURED by public opinion. Ii their &C
ton Is wrong the courts will soon de-
termine that whereas. II the legislature
takes upon itself to cit as court the
old contention still exists as platform
for some advensuring politician to run
for office upon. thus keeping the pbulic
in q turmoil.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1911-04-15
NJ A S A

Mis- Corning OF Iron Mountain was
an Ainasa visitor Friday.
Rev. John T Miners went to Csyetal
Falls last Friday,
Mr.. Andrew Berg went TO Iron River
Friday
Mr.. Edward Lnba and Miss PiOssie
Gill were united In marriage last Mon
day at the home ct MIR. and Mrs.
Joseph Lupa OF Iron River. Rev
Father Lenhart ofiieiated.
Rev. @. III. Rutlsdge. Supt. OF the
Anti Saloon lsague Of the upper PENN
sula was m AmAsa business visitor
wedLeday.
The new home Of Mr.. Isaac Lnpa is
nearly completed.
The yonng men OF Amasa organized
a base ball team last Sunday morning.
A moving picture show was in town
last Saturday and Sunday.
A baby boy was burn TO Mr.. and
Mrs. John Carlson last Saturday
Mrs. n. ID. DUDE left last Thursday
for her homo In Milwaukee,.
Miss May Grattan is spending a few
days with friends st Crystal Falls.
Rev J. T. Miners left mere last We'd.
nesdsy for Houghton. Mich.
Ward worwmood. Clarence Def.and
and big Frank went to Net River
last Wednesday.
Word has been received by Mrs. n.
ID. DUDE OF Amasa OF the election oil
her uncle Jas \. Derse OF Milwauxee,
for the ak year term as school director
of that city. Out OF total vote Of
l87, 40. "a. i6i were cast for Mr.. Derse,
he having q plurality Of II, 39s ovei
seven other candidatss
Miss Hazel Parks was here visitint
her sister. Efis last week.
The Township Board met 1t th'
] Town Hall isst Monday, Atthis meet
~sA4aa;H
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1911-04-15
Annual Stockholders Meeting

First publication April 8, 1911; Last
April 20. 1911
NOTICE is hereby given that the
annual meeting OF the stockholders OF
THE HEMLoCK RIVER MINING
COMPANY will be held at the office
Of the Company. in Amasa, Michigan.
on Wednesday. May IL. 1911, at IL
o clock a. M. for election of directors
and transaction OF such other business
as may come. before the meeting.
By order OF the Board Of Directors.
II. g. Haselton. Secretary.
April 3, 1911
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1911-04-15
IRON AND STEEL REVIEW
I 900, 900 Tons OF Finished Products Were
Ordered in March
VIM Poyseor

The steel corporation subsidiary com
panies booked orders for approximate
ly 900, 900 tons of finished product in
March ard the prospect is that April
contracts will be equally as large. al
though prospects tor railroad oroers for
equipment are not encouraging.
The shipments OF finished material
in March.slso we're heavy. especially OF
light products the distribution being
record breaking. II is announced the
Chilean battleship will be- constructed
in American yards. The steel require
ments are 8, 900 tons.
Since April /, rail contracts have
lightly exceeded 100. 900 ton. including
10, 600 toms for the Hartman Pacific
lines, 10, 600 tons for the Seaboard Air
line. Car and locomotive negotiations
were barren of important results. but
contracts for 5000 cars are pending.
Railroads closed for 7. 0c0 tons Of bridge
material. including 1000 tons for the
Great Northern. The Pennsylvania
Railroad Co. ordered o. 900 tons OF plain
structural steel for the Altoona shops
and the Louisville 81 Nashville ordered
l, 800 tons OF steel center stills for cars,
The pricipal building contract was
for the Rothschilds. at Chicago, calling
for II. 900 tons Of steel shapes. Total
fabricated orders, including building
and bridge, aggregated %. 600 tons.
April made q poor start in pig iron
trade. total contracts in all sections
being less than 10000 tons; but inn
, provement was noted late IN the week
The output Of pig iron today Is Al
. the rate OF nearly $4,000 ton annually
The increase in the March production
, OF nearly $500 tous per day. was on
tirely by steel companies.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1911-04-15
Notice
April 8, 1911.

The Parks Hardware Go. having
old its stock and business. wishes to
obtain a settlement of all outstanding
accounts as quickly as possible. Per
sons indebted to us are requested to
settle up their accounts prior to june. l
az on that date ell accounts remaining
uncoIlected will be placed in the hands
OF collecting agency. Please see
Thos. Wills at once and make arrange
ment for the closing Of your account
The Parks Hardware 60.