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The Keota news., 1912-05-31
CORN ON a DRY FARM
Keystone Ct Success Is Con-
servation Of Rainfall.
Enough Of Crop Should 8e 0re~n to
Supply Work Horses With Rough
age In Winter and supple
msnt Summer Pastures.

In all the dry farming areas the con-
servation OF the rainfall In the
soil where 1t becomes available to
growing crops 10 the keystone OF sue
cessful agricultural operations. says
the Northwestern AEriculturist
This u generally done by the cul-
tivation Of tho soil during the entire
growing season. II no crop 10 pro-
duced on the land this operation Is
called summer fallow or summer cui-
ture. Over most Of the dry farming
area nearly II not a. good grain
crops can be grown following cul-
tivated crop Al on summer fAuoweo
land.
When the bare fallow system II
used q whole year elapses without
any returns either on the investment
or for the labor performed. II cul-
tivatsd crop can be grown with ~
good crops following 1t should more
than pay it, expense. which will con-
sist OF the cost Of seed. planting and
harvesting: the cultivation would
have to be done anyway. 20 this
should not be counted against the
cost Of production Of crop Of corn.
Corn 10 pre-eminently this crop
drst-because 1t produces an abun-
dance Of cheap feed-second-it
shades the soil during the excessive
~ hot days Of July and August,
thereby preventing loss Of soil fer
tility. and third-a cornfield has
cooling rather than heating In.
duence on the winds that blow across
it
On most farms in the dry farming
area enough live stock should be
kept to pay most of the running ex-
penses Of the farm. Hay and pas
turage are very short in such areas
and consequently too dear for cheap
live stock production. Enough corn
should be grown to supply. nrst, the
wort horses with roughage during
the winter. II not the working sea-
son: second. to supplement the pas
lures Of the summer and fall ~ .
soili.ag crop or in the form Of en-
silags and to form the bulk Of their
winter ration: third, to supply the
sheep and hogs q cheap fattsning
1OOO 1OI Uul10luB I00m Oh ~ JIG
fall.
The first essential to corn culture on
the dry farms IL live stock, for
without such there IL no way Of
utilizing the corn CROP but II live
stock are kept. feed must be had:
the corn crop can be converted into
beef. pork. mutton, wool. SHUTTER and
eggs. commodities that can always
be converted into cash or its eQuiva-
lent.
The second essential to corn cul-
ture IL . conviction that 1t will pay
to grow live stock on the corn crop
produced and determination to
grow corn a. their chief feed In spite
Of adverse circumstances. In order
to be successful in growing corn on
dry farm the selection Of the
proper variety IN essential. In west
ern North Dakota and eastern Mon
tana. squaw. Gehu. Mercer. King
Phillip and Triumph will probably
prove the best dint varieties. while
Golden Dent and Northwestern Dent
will probably prove the best dent
varieties. 1t should alwayb terminate
strong and S5 per cent. or better.
The time to seed IL from the 10th
to the 18th Of May In . well pre-
pared seed bed which has been ma.
nured and plowed tho fall before and
which has been narrowed at inter.
walls. from the time the soil had
The Keota news., 1912-05-31
soD-B0UND ALFALFA FIELDS

SOU.6UUNU ALFALFA tlElUS
Methods Employed In Reeeneratins
Vary Great Dsai-OIskino 10
Most Popular System.
(By H. F. PATTERSON)
Tho methods used in regeneratins
an old neld Of alfalfa vary q great
deal. Perhaps the method that 10
used to the largest extent throughout
all Of the northwest states Is the meth
cd OF disking the land early In the
spring. Whether or not it 10 good
plan to disk alfalfa land 10 question
upon which there has been much diff
ference Of opinion. However. II this
work 10 done properly there seems to
be good reason for so handling our
field.
In localities whore there 10 but
small amount Of rainfall and where
the soil becomes hard and impervious
to water It 10 . very good practice to
follow. Then again In regions where
there 10 suhacient rainfall and where
, the winter season 10 open. the thawina
and froezing will tend to loosen up the
eject AZ disking In the arid regions
It II . well-known fact that the disk
ing Of the stems will cause them to be
come very much thicker. However. In
disking alfalfa there 10 some danger
In that tho crowns very often become
infected with fungus diseases which
will oftsntimss destroy the entire
plant. We must keep this in mind and
must govern our actions accordingly
That 10. We must use extreme care In
order that the crowns Of the plants
will not be injured to any great ex
tent.
The disking Of course will cut the
crowns and there 10 always the danger
that the fungus diseases will set In
However. II We are careful and do NOT
allow the diseases in our fields on the
start and are careful that our disk IL
very clean. this danger will be almost
entirely eliminated. The disk should
be 20 set that It will cut the crowns
Of the plants rather than gouge them
out. Some farmers have had success
by getting the disk nearly straight and
running the disk each way. This will
divide the crown into four equal por
tions and each part will send up new
alfalfa plant and in that way the stand
will b materially thickened.
Then again It 10 we'll to disk the
alfalfa. Geld whom the neld has become
infestsd with blue grass and dande-
lions, which will choke out . large
amount Of the alfalfa.
Farmers have also had success by
putting on from fve to six pounds OF
alfalfa seed. especially upon fields
that have become infested with dande.
lions. It II sometimes good plan to
add . small amount OF clover seed to
the alfalfa The clover germinates
very rapidly and will get good start
and win thus keep down the weeds.
The clover will die out in year or
two and we will still have good
stand Of alfalfa. We would suggest
the following Of this plan upon a large
number of our alfalfa fields that have
grown alfalfa for three or four years.
BY getting in and disking 1t 10 pos
sible to thicken up the stand to such
an extent that We can grow our alfalfa
/ upon the same neld for three or four
years longer and still obtain large and
profitable crops. Tho best time to
disk the alfalfa IL In the early spring
because tho young plants can thus OBJ
tain . very early start
Ese coiors Of the Breeds.
The Keota news., 1912-05-31
Eao colors Of the Bresds.
(By H. F. PATTERsoN.)

Eco colors Of the ereedo.
The proper coloring Of eggs 10 .
dark brown for the Asiatics, q light
brown for the Americans. and q pure
white for the Meditorraneans.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-25
LIVES LOST IN FIRES
IN YEAR WERE 5000
Representative Jackson Urges
an Investigation of InsM-
ance Companies.

More than s427, 100000 in property was
destroyed and 5000 lives were sacrificed
in fires, exclusive of forest fires, last
year in the United States, according to
Representative Jackson of Kansas, re-
publican, who urged before the House
tee today his resolution to investigate all
fire insurance companies. This loss was
thirty times as great a loss as in all of
civilized Europe, he added.
Members of the committee questioned
the authority of Congress to order such
an inquiry, but George II. Holt of Chi
cago, an insurance counsellor, and man.
ager of the policyholders union, insisted
that 1t was necessary if regulatory legis-
lation were to be enacted by the states.
Calls It Natural Monopoly"
Mr.. Jackson testified that the fire in
surance industry was natural monop-
oily" with national and international
ramifications He said the companies
apportioned the United States among
themselves, and fixed rates that were
unscientific and virtually inexplicable.
Then the companies actually hold the
country by the throat?" said Chairman
Adamson.
Practically" said Mr.. Jackson.
And the consumer pays the taxi
Beyond doubt And the strong man
pays less than the weak"
The committee reserved action.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-25
Aids to Navigation.

Changes in aids to navigation in the
waters of Chesapeake bay and its tribu-
taries have recently been made by the
lighthouse authorities in charge of the
nth district. as follows:
Hampton roads approach-Tail of the
Horseshoe shoal gas and whistling buoy
No. 2T. found not flashing, correct char
acteristic was restored March 20
horseshoe shoal buoy No :. first-class
tall-type nun. found dragged out of posi-
ton, was replaced March %
Hampton roads - The following gas
buoys. reported extinguished March 10,
were reiighted March 2o-21:
Newport News middle ground thirty
foot channel gas buoy No. 8, an AGA gas
buoy. type B-51 /. candlepower seventy
two. was substituted for the Goodyear
buoy.
Newport News middle ground thirty
foot channel gas buoy No s.
Elizabeth river. Va--The following
buoys, found broken of, were relieved
March n: Craney Island fats north end
buoy No. 4, spar; channel buoy No. To-
spar; channel buoy No. IA, spar; channel
buoy No. Is, spar
James river, Na-Warwick bar light
the post supporting this light was carried
away by Il freshet March IS; a tempo
rary light will be established as soon as
practicable
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-25
PROJECT MAY FALL PLANTERS TO UN|TE|
Division Over Anacosta Park Cooperation in Producing
and Highway Scheme. Cotton in thu South.
COMPROMISE is HOPED FOR UNDER COMMUNITY PLAN
System Whereby Hybrzation May
Make Appropriation. Be Avoided.
ADVOCATES CONFER PRODUCTION OF SINGLE TYPE
Halfand-IIaIf Assess Standar dizaton
of Cost the rncpa
UNDER COMMUNITY PLAN
System Whereby Hybridization May
Be Avoided.
PRODUCTION OF SINGLE TYPE
Best Grades for Planting and
Standardization of Crop
the Principal Object.

Cooperative work in cotton growing
is being started throughout the south
this year by the Department of Agri-
culture. The work is under the gem
eral direction of Prof. b. T. Galloway,
chief of the bureau of plant industry,
but there are hundreds of demon
stra Tors working among the cotton
planters.
One of the aims of the work is to
introduce community cotton growing.
This simply means that larger or
smaller community of growers will
work together and raise but single
type of cotton, excluding all other
types. so that there will be no chance
for accidental naturalization. When the
type of cotton best adapted for any
one community is settled, it will be
ginned and baied and sold under the
community brand, and the cotton buyer,
whether he is in Liverpool or New
York or Toxic. will know from the
community brand just what to expect
in the bale
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-25
STEAMER GLOUCESTER SUED.
Damages Asked for Sinking of the
Schooner Herbert D. Maxwell.

The owners of the four-masted schooner
Herbert d. Maxwell. which was sunk in
collision with the Merchants and Miners
line steamer Gloucester in Chesapea &c
bay March 16. have entered suit against
the steamship in the United States dis
trict court at Baltimore. 1t is alleged
in the declaration filed in the case that
the accident was due to the negligence
of those in charge OF the steamship, and
that the schooner was not in fault The
declaration also states that. the schooner
and her cargo OF futilfzer were a total
loss and the damages are appropriated Is
follows: Value of schooner. $4,000; cargo,
.750; personal effects of the captain
and crew. 81 600; cost of the men return
ing home, 5000
Some of the personal outfit of the Max
well has been recovered and located. The
valuable power launch was recovered by
man on the eastern shore, who is said
to expect to convert it into a fishing boat.
The binocuar glasses of the ship and
some other property are said to be in the
possession of men who robbed the vessel.
1t is understood that the revenue cutter
Apache will seek the stolen properly.
Capt. Quillin's watch and money. which
were alongside his sea glasses. are sup
posed to have been recovered by the
wreckers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-25
HANDICAPPED BY TITLE
TRYING TO KEEP HONEST
German Count on Trial for
Card Sharping BIames
Everyone But Himself.
Correspondence of The Star

u
BERLIN, March 10, 1912.
Count Gisbert Wolff Metternich, who is
on trial in the Berlin courts on charge
of card-sharping, was examined by the
president of the court and pleaded in his
defense that he was a family scape-
goat"
A Roumanian named Buics is on trial
with Count Metternich while man
named Stallman, alias Baron Koeffenberg,
a German ex-officer named Niemala and
an Englishman who represented himself
as an army officer are also mentioned in
connection with the affair.
Count Metternich, who was under ex-
animation for several hours, tried to con-
vince the court that his parents were
responsible for his downfall.
He declared that he had been educated
first by servants and then by priests.
When he was sent to Bonn University he
escaped on one occasion to go to a
masked ball, whereupon his father
scolded him so severely that he attempted
to commit suicide and seriously wounded
himself. He was fifteen yeas old at this
time
He excused his practice of mourning debts
at this early age on the ground that his
father allowed him only I.2J week
pocket money and also expected him to
pay his tailor's and bootmaker's bills out
tfllS sum.
AS he grew older he had frequent quar-
rels with his father. Count Matternich
averred that on two occasions his father
tried to have him placed in an asylum.
In the first instance the physicians sum
moned to examine him pronounced him
sane. The second attempt, ne said, was
made under the pretext of inducing him
to start agricultural training at So
called country resort. The count dis
covered that the resort was another asy-
lum. and refused to enter il.
The prisoner declared that when he
desired to marry a lady living in Vienna
his father wrote to the intended bride:
Il can only recognize you as my daush-
ter if you will help me to secure Gis-
bert's interment... The lady declined.
Count Metternich gave long descrip-
ton of his life in South America. where
thirty-ope charges of cheating were
brought against him by the courts, but
only three were proven.
He declared that ne had tried ~ make
an honest living in London but. owing
to his title and the lack of money with
which to redeem himself he always
found himself in bad company. One Of
his friends in London was q German
lieutenant named Beckhaus. who Openly
admitted that he was working as spy
in England"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-25
BURIAL AT OLD HOME.
Body of Representative Foster For
warded to Burlington, Vt.

The body of Representative David j.
Foster Of Vermont was taken to Bur-
lington yesterday afternoon after FL
neral services at the family home, 1927
S street. Rev. DIR. Herbert Scott Smith.
rector of st. Margarets Episcopal
Church, officiated. The burial will take
place in Burlington this afternoon. Be-
sides the family and the delegations from
the Senate and House there were in the
party Sherman p. Allen, assistant sec
rotary to the President; Third Assistant
Secretary of State Chandler Hale and
William McNeir, chief clerk of the State
with which department Mr.
Foster was formerly closely associated
as chairman of the House committee on
foreign affairs and during the present
Congress as ranking minority member
of that committee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-25
Marriages Galore.

Where Cupid is King" is the title OF A
bully little description of Washington as a
resort, written by James Hay,
jr, for our next Sunday Magazine. IL
will surprise our readers to learn that
twenty-six newly married couples visit
the National Capital every Gay in the
year. Mr.. Hay tells what they do when
they get there.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-25
SKY Is PHOTOGRAPHED.
Sections of Map Would Cover Nor,
Than Five Acres.

CAMBRIDGE. Mass, March ga
Photographic map of the entire sky,
showing about 100000 stars, has been
prepared in sections by Harvard Uni
versity astronomers. Placed together, the
map sections would cover more than five
acres. They measure approximately 440
by $50 feet.
According to the sixty-sixth annual re-
port of the director of the observatory,
just issued, 3.I96 photos of stars were
made at the observatory during the year
ended September so last.
The report says that by thirty years
work and the expenditure of $1,OO0,OOO
the observatory is ahead of all other SINH
lar institutions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-25
HARRISONS IN HOSPITAL.
Chicago Mayor and Relatives in I'm
common Reunion.

CHICAGO, March 25.-Mayor Harrison
Mrs. Hrrison. Mrs. Preston Owsley Nor
ton. the mayors niece. and her husband,
Sterling Morton, are holding an uncom-
mon sort of reunion at St. Luke's Hospi-
tai. The mayor is recovering from an
operation for removal of a growth near
the back of his tongue and Mrs. Harri-
son is with him. Mr.. Morton was ia .en
TO the hospital few days ago with ty-
phoid fever, contracted after his return
from South America His wife has been
inoculated with serum that she may be
with him
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-25
SELLS STOCK IN CROWNJAW.
Joker Takes in His Friends at One
Dollar a Share.

WINSTED, Conn, March 25.-Lewis
Rumble has sprung the first pre-April-
fool joke on a coterie of his intimate
friends. Rumble offered for sale at a
sacrince, he said. a number of shares
OF stock in a gold mine at Crownjaw
AS he has had more or less success
in mining stock, his companions were
eager TO buy. He sold all he had,
twenty-five shares. at 81 share.
When the purchasers asked for their
certificates they were informed that the
gold mine was in Rundle's mouth, and
that they could not realize on their
investment until after his death.
Rundle's job at the dentists cost him
SIS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-25

spread campaign of education upon the
merits OF the
Widespread Campaign motor truck
To Educate Buyers. tst,on "@ faD,,,
ties. without any reference to his own
cars. He feels that the main thing need
ed is education, and that his work will be
more successful if it is on the broad
basis Of motor-truck utility rather than
that of booming his own make of trucks
New York transportation company
which ownes motor-moving vans has
undertaken to compete with the railroads
in the transportation of furniture and
kindred kinds of business between such
cities as New York and Philadelphia.
While the cost of transportation between
the two cities has been found to be larger
by motor truck than by train, the saving
effected in the hauling of the goods TO
and from the railroad stations and OF
handling them is such that the truck peo-
pie are able TO deliver goods from a house
in New York to house in Philade pnla
at lower rate than the railroads can
make.
The uses to which automobiles in gen.
eral, and motor trucks in particular, are
put are sometimes Strikingly novel In
some cities motor trains for road build
ing, consisting of three or four vehicles
uTdWn Dy a large ROAD roller or tractor.
are hooked up in train form and sent over
the road to repair minor faults. An east
ern man recently converted a small
motor truck into a travelling home He
and his wife made this truck their resi-
dence on trip from New York to San
Francisco. They had i'm il a bed and a
tiny kitchen, thus being able to live in
dependent OF hotels and TO carry a suffi-
Gent supply of clothes and good things
to eat. together with q tent when they
needed 1t. They declared they had the
time of their lives on their transcon-
tinental tour.
The Holy Cross cemetery of San Fran
cisco, uses an ordinary automobile to pull
a mower, and In this way. keeps the grass
trim and the turf in better shape than
ever was possible when horses were used
as propelling power. Perhaps the most
remarkable OF all departures in the way
OF utilizing the motor car has been hit
upon by Perry CoZatt of Danville H.
Mr. Cozatt is organist at the Holy Trinity
Church of that city. He has fitted up in
his automobile a pipe organ the pump
being operated from the engine of the car
The organ has a range of two octaves
from middle c. and Mr.. Cozatt is able
to practice his church music while tour
ing through the suburban country around
Danville.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-25
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
BENJAMIN GILL OF WEST VIRGINIA.

E, 85th Pennsylvania Regiment, served
three years in the civil war and later
moved to West Virginia. He was 5
feet Ii inches in height and weighed
245 pounds shortly before his death.
Mr.. Gill always attributed his longevity
to an inherited strong body, Industrious
habits, a cheerful disposition and the
use of good tobacco. HIS late home is in
Warrington district.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-25
Twenty-Minute Tales.

In our next Sunday Magazine are a
couple of delightful dog stories. an in
teresting treatment of the subject,
"BOokkeepers as Bank Robbers" by
William Atherton Du Puy, and a lot of
characteristic 'Spoonerisms." by VIII
liam S. Walsh,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-25

Special Dispatch to The Star.
FAIRIONT. w. Va. March 25.-Ben-
jamin Gill, 1O4 years of age, said to be
the oldest man in Marion county anG
the oldest G. A. r. man in the United
States, died here yesterday of diseases
incident to old age.
Mr.. Gill was born in Loudoun county
Va, April Is, 1908; enlisted in Compan,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-25
AUTOMOBILES.
V-THE MOTOR TRUCK.
BY Frederic ]. Haskin.

mas the approval of the United States
government. The government printing
oihce, upon the strength of showing made
IN the department store business in
washington, decided to install motor
trucks as substitute for horse-drew n
vehicles. 1t has been found that the
printing Office fleet of cars is gradually
paying its purchase price by the saving
IN transportation costs effected
1t must not be supposed from all this
that the motor truck is always successful
IN reducing the operating costs. If the
machine is not operated to its fulI ca
pacity, and if the routes are not laid out
win View to keeping it at work on full
tihe, the cost of transportating freight
py the motor truck may be much higher
IMAM py horse-drawn vehicles. However
there are usually attached to motor truck
agencies men whose mission il is to adj
wise motor truck owners how to get the
most out Of their machines and how to
prevent losses
There are many illustrations tending to
prove that the American motor truck is a
more economical machine in operation
than the foreign truck The experience
or the manager of a New York news
paper in the operation of foreign and
American trucks is Illuminating in this
connection. He needed some fast ma
chimes to carry his papers to the trains
and to the news stations throughout the
city. He bought some high-priced for
elgn cars and some moderate-priced
American cars, and kept a careful ac-
count OF the cost of operation of each
When the summing up came, it was
found that the foreign car cost s162S a
day to operate, while the American car
cost $50 a day.
An effort is being made among motor
truck manufacturers to adont certain de-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-25
UmtrImmm@d Hats Moment SEanes

O0IUH 1I1IIGGgI IUSaGS- --latest Moment Shapes
The Untrmmed Braids all coors. OF chip
sraws have straight and rolled bms prices The
Derby Sailor and Large Picture Hats Taga hemp Milan
chip and rough navy brown. burnt cardinal black
and white prices, s. so $3.50
The Trimmings soc and to $1,000.
The Feather "Stickups "Dodads" soc SIoo The
Small and Large Flowers up AT Fancy Ostrich
Feathers worth twice the price The Paradise Agres gadu
ally rise in prices from $500 $4,000
Best Ribbons at Prices Surprisingly Little.
At 33c yard 5nch Moire combina-
tons demand for hat trimming At 44c yard 6ncde
Ribbons, the satin stripes in standings green's blues,
browns and other colors At SIoo onchde Two
tone Satin Ribbons marvelousy beautiful sadngs PROBES
sona mllners will time and selecting ribbons
the Greater Palas Royal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-25

\ fine cover design in .colors by the
esnasys IA 0ar 1Axt Sunday Magazine.