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The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1912-05-01

FARMERS, tradesmen, manufacturers, labor
y ers-all producers for the common
good. Without the farmers the rest of us
would starve. Without tradesmen to distribute
it, grain would spoil in barn and bin. With
out the machines made by manufacturers and
laborers, the great modern crops of grain and hay
would never be planted, or, if planted would rot
harvesting. On the other hand, by working to-
gether, we produce the bulk of the worlds grain.
The day of farming without machines is gone
forever. The manure spreader, gang pillow, disk,
having machines. thousand acres are cult
waited today with greater ease and dispatch than
a hundred were forty years ago. Credit for this
greater efficiency and for the fact that thousand,
safely. belongs to the farmers who use harvest
ing and haying machines and tools made and
sold under the following. names:
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1912-05-01
Treatment for Winter
Killed Fruit Trees

During the past winter reports have
been received by the horticultural
Experiment Station of a great many
young orchards that have been more
or less injured by winter killing of
the young trees. This has not been
due in each case to excessive cold
but more frequently to the trees be-
ing permitted to grow rapidly until
checked by frost. The wood was not
properly matured and ripened before
the trees went into winter quarters
In some cases the temperature in the
winter has fluctuated rapidly from
several degrees below freezing to above
freezing and this condition, working
in combination with the fall weather,
has produced the winter killing.
The winter killing of young trees is
usually indicated by dark colored
splotches on the bark and sap wood.
1t is most common near the tips of
the young shoots but in many cases
it is found in regular splotches over
the entire tree top and trunk.
Trees that have been severely winter
killed should be severely pruned
cutting away as much as possible of
the injured wood and leaving only
fresh, clean wood Improve the pro-
cess of cultivation and tillage the
following season and usually plants
will, to large extent, overcome the
injury within a year or so. II the
trunk of the tree is severely injured
it can be cut back and. permitted to
send up the sprout which can take
the place of the original top. In the
case of a few isolated trees in an
orchard the sprout renewing the top
may come from below the union of
the scion and stalk and in this case
it will be necessary to bud or graft
this stalk at the point where it is de-
sired to have the framework of the
trees developed. This is a successful
method if carefully p1acticed and
will produce results in less time than
could be accomplished by digging out
a three-year- old tree and re-planting.
There is no treatment in the form of
fertilizer or special application that
can be given that will be more benef-
cial to the trees than simply good
tillage with a good supply of water in
order that the trees may make full
normal growth during the summer.
State Agricultural Experiment Station.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1912-05-01
Progress and Plenty

No matter what the condition of your grain
at harvest time standing, down, or tangled,
short or tall, an H machine will cut it with
of uniform size convenient for handling. The
machines are so simple that they may be trusted
safely to unsked help. The quality of the steel
and iron in them is proved. They will stand
up under the toughest regular usage of the har-
vest field.
When the harvesting is once begun you cannot
afford delays. Should accident happen to an
l H c binder and repair be needed, you are no
place of business. When you get that part, it
will fit without filing, scraping or pounding
so accurate and so true to gauge is each part
made. This feature does away entirely with ex-
vest sure~completey finished in good season.
That alone is good enough reason for buying an
| H c machine.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1912-05-01
Champion
Deering

AS the cradle succeeded the reaping hook, the
reaper the cradle, and the self binder the reaper,
more and more freed from the drudgery
of the harvest field to take their rghtful places
are in universal use, one-third of the people
of the United States raise wheat sufficient to feed
the whole country and have millions of bushels
left for export.
Progress and plenty for all depends upon the
right choice of harvesting machines by the farmers
of this country. Your share of the harvest profit
means much to you, but it means more to others.
To be sure that your crops are harvested without
waste and at the right time, buy machines suited
to the conditions in your fields, tested by actual
work in similar fields, machines which have
behind them history of more than fifty years
of success, and which have been developed to
practical perfection i Fl machines.
WESTERN BRANCH HOUSES: Denver,
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1912-05-01
Osborne
Plano
Mccormick
Milwaukee

A good machine should have good Irvine to bind
with. Our brands Champion, Mccormick,
Osborne, Deering, Milwaukee, Plano, and Inter
national made in four grades Sisal, Standard,
smoothly and without waste or trouble on H c
machines
The H local dealer will set up binder for
you to inspect and will help you to decide on the
best machine for your crops and fields. See him
and get the benefit of his knowledge and expert
ence. He will answer your questions and
probably refer you to neighbors who have
used | H machines and Irvine. Remem
Der when choosing, that l H c machines
4: !: 4: "a
have given satisfaction for many years,
and that needed repairs easily and VI, 4
quickly obtained from the l H c local W
or write nearest branch house.
oil Helena Mont; Portland, Ore; II
C.I l 4
Evening journal., 1912-08-19
With the ParagrapherS !:

President Taft has shown the Democratic House that
it can't pull the wool over his eyes.-Harrsburg Tele
graph
The Governor OF South Carolina, unpopularly known
as Coal Blaze has killed anybody thus far in his
campaign for reelection, but several thousand peo-
pie are believed to have had escapes-Chicago
Tribune.
Economic efficiency demands the of the Panama
Canal under conditions making for the lowest possi-
BILE freight rates Railroad ownership OF the vessels
navigating the canal would necessarily tend to keep
rates up Regulation by the commission would be en-
compassed by diffculties-New York Globe.
The shooting of Rosenthal and the events that fol-
lowed il have assumed a political phase in New York,
statewide its influence For weeks there have been
whspers that connected the of this and that
politician with the gamblers but 70 date there has
been but one result that be said 10 have distinct
" political bearing and that Is the elimination Of
William j. Gaynor mayor OF New York from all pos
siby Of further political advancement preerment
Altoona Gazette
Evening journal., 1912-08-19
SIT TRESPASSERS
KILLED ON P. R.R.

Efficient policing of the lines of the
Pennsylvania Railroad reduced the
number Of deaths to trespassers to
527 in 1911, according to the report
issued yesterday. The low death rate
last year is compared with 916 deaths
in 1907 More than 100000 was
spent by the railroad for the police
system designed to prevent trespass-
ing, this amount being one-ffth of the
total sum paid by the railroad for its
police.
The statement by the company
says:
Railroads can accomplish little un-
less they work in harmony with pub
lie authorities, and have the coopera-
ton of the latter. The possible re-
suits to society at large can be appre-
ciated when one learns that the num-
ber of trespassers killed on Ameri-
can railroads in one year is approx
mately 10000, while as many are in
jured
"A large number of the trespassers
who are killed and injured each year
are tramps, but probably a greater
number are workers in Industrial
centers. where railroad tracks are
used as thoroughfares. II is this class
OF trespassing at which the railroad is
mainly directing its efforts at the
present time, with the thought that a
reduction Of the practice of walking
on railroad tracks in industrial cen
ters will materially decrease
the lass of life from tres
passing on the Pennsylvania Rail
road. The cooperation which muni-
csal authorities can give the railroads
can DO much to wipe out this prac
tice OF trespassing in industrial cen
| ters
Evening journal., 1912-08-19
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
A Mystery Of the PreSi-
Dental Election Of 1860
BY Holland

In the long and heated spell of the
summer OF 1881. when the cabinet of
President Garfield was waiting pa
tiently for what was hoped would be
the Favorable turn in his condition, so
that he would be restored to health,
the members of the cabinet used to
spend evenings in informal meetings
at which frequently Mr.. Blaine, the
Secretary of State, entertained his
associates with anecdotes which re-
lated to his political career.
One evening several members OF
the cabinet were seated in the old
Office room of the White House near
the windows which opened toward
the Potomac. The evening was very
warm Mr.. Blaine wore a thin alpaca
coat and had no waistcoat on. Some
thing was said by one member of the
party which caused Mr. Blaine TO re-
fer to the presidential campaign of
1860.
1T is nearly 20 years" he said,
"since had my attention called to
one Of the most remarkable mysteries
connected with our entire political
history Il was associated with the
vote of New Jersey in the election OF
1850
After I entered Congress 1 remern-
ber asking a member of the House
from New Jersey II he could tell me
the reason why New Jersey gave four
electoral votes to Abraham Lincoln
and three to Stephen A. Douglas, al
though Lincoln was some 5000 votes
behind in the popular vote He told
me that nobody in New Jersey had
ever been able to explain the reason
for this curious electoral vote.
made other inquiries, but l never got
a satisfactory answer to my question
why, Mr. Blaine, the answer Is
easy enough" said one member of the
party. an New Jersey there was a
fusion between the Douglas Demo
Gratis and the Lincoln Republicans. II
that fuson ticket was successful al
the polls, then Lincoln was to receive
four electoral votes and Douglas
three, New Jersey having seven elec-
toral votes"
you have made the same mistake
that every body has made regarding
that New Jersey vote," Mr.. Blaine
| replied. II made IL myself at first
There was a fusion ticket, but it di.
vided the electoral vote SO that the
Douglas Democrats named three elec.
tors, Bell and Everett, or the Union
party, named two and the Brecken.
ridge Democracy-John G. Brecken-
ridge, being the candidate Of the
Southern wing of the Democratic
party-named two.
Nov, If the fusion ticket were
successful at the polls then the cleo
toral vote Of New Jersey should have
been given in this manner-three tC
Douglas. two to Bell and two tC
! Breckenridge. When the vote wal
counted It was discovered that foui
Lincoln electors had been elected
and the three Douglas Yet the fu
sion ticket was in a plurality Of near
ly 5000.
This result was accomplished b,
the action of some Douglas Demo
Gratis. They nominated an independ
ent ticket with three Douglas cleo
tors upon t. That independent tick
ct took away enough votes from tn
regular fusion ticket to enable Lin
coin electors to run in ahead of III
Bell OF the Breckenridge electors. Blu
the total Douglas vote In New Jerse
and the Douglas vote combined wit
the Bell and the Breckenridge vot
was about 5000 in excess of the vot
for Lincoln
There is nothing in the history q
Evening journal., 1912-08-19
CORRELATION Is SUGGESTED.

ID REPRESENTATIVE OSCAR W. UNDERWOOD, DEM
IN ocratc leader in the House. earnest advocate
OF good roads He complains however that the one great
weakness of the movement for better roads in the
United States has been the lack Of correlation
the various associations working toward the
end, but with different methods.
Zone association has been agitatng plan and
another association another plan" he says, in
solidatng their convention interests The American
Association for Highway improvement, the American
Automobile Association and the National Association of
Road Machinery and Material Manufacturers they
taken great step forward. The plan that has been
adopted for treating each phase Of the road subject
scientifically having leading hnanciers in charge Of
the finance section leading lawyers in charge Of the
administrative section should appeal to the common
sense Of the entire country"
That is assuredly a splendid endorsement Of the
plans of the American Road Congress which will
in Atlantic City September 30 and remain in
session until October g. Representative Underwood
introduced in Congress joint resolution, which has
been passed providing for the appointment Of Con-
gressiona committee to investigate all phases Of the
good roads subject. Discussing the good roads in
Europe Representative Underwood says:
Il remember once being on the other side OF the
Atlantic ocean and saw great white fleet Of ships
that had travelled around the world sailing into the
foreign port. the national emblem Of country at
its mast AS they came steaming up the harbor was
thankful that American and felt thankful
that had the greatest fleet that sailed around
the world remember once etanolns hohs tne me
OF railroad system in distant country and as saw
train Of freight being hauled along the track
noticed the locomotive that pulling the cars and
Il a Baldwin locomotive built In America by our
people carrying the commerce Of the world and
again ! felt proud that was American But when
up into the mountains Of Switzerland and Italy
and those magnificent turnpikes, graded roads,
running up the mountain sides, smooth as concrete
floor cutters the side. carrying off every drop OF
water perfectly smooth that the people even in that
mountainous country could carry their produce to the
market the lowest possible outlay; then thought
of the terrible roads that had seen in my own home
State. that had in almost every State in the
Union, and for once and the only time in my life.
had TO bow my head with shame and could not de-
clare that far road system was concerned
was proud Of being American citizen"
He is only of thousands OF Americans who have
gone Europe and returned home praaing the roads
there and deplorng the fact that few American roads
can compare with them. In fact, It is safe to that
those European roads among the best OF mis-
sonares for the good roads movement in this country
Evening journal., 1912-08-19
EDITORIAL OPINION

sity of selecting men who will be ac-
ceptable to the voters.
Those of us who have attended con-
ventions in former years know too
well how many of the nominations are
usually made, by a few men and
against the desires Of the rank and
file Of the delegates. II a similar
program is put through on Tuesday
1t will not be necessary to wait until
November 5, to know the result, and
those men who are classed as leaders
in the party will be held responsible
for its downfall.
Good, clean men are what the peo-
pie are clamoring for. VIII the lead
ers be broad enough to grasp the
situation and allow the delegates to
select them?
Evening journal., 1912-08-19
A VOICE FROM THE PAST.
From the Dover Delawarean.

From the Dover Delawarean.
The sudden dropping into Whining
ton this week of Mr. j. Edward Ad-
dicks and the announcement of his
desire for the Republican nomination
for Governor are interesting chiefly
as a reminder of the changed condi-
tions in Delaware politics. There we're
long years in which the wishes Of Mr..
Addicks we're absolutely supreme in
determining the action of majority
OF Delaware Republicans and during
those years he spent a fortune in his
vain quest for a Senatorship and in
building up and holding together the
Union Republican party in this State.
His power held until his pocketbook
was understood to be on the wane and
men with fatter purses appeared will
ing to she'll out the cash to a hungry
party For nearly a decade now the
formerlT all powerful party master
has beei scarcely more than a mere
memory in Delaware politics. Now
he makes a spectacular temperance
| in the State, and in the midst of the
muddled condition of Republican poll
| tics modestly announces his willing
ness to accept the nomination for
Governor. He also gives expression
to the desire in case OF his nomina-
ton. to name the candidate for Lieu
tenant Governor. and he Is said to
cherish the hope that he may thus al
this late day be able to attain his fond
ambition to go to the United States
Senate.
Mr.. Addicks' Gubernatorial and
Senatorial ambitions are not likely tc
get much further than mere an
nouncement. He is a voice from the
past.
Evening journal., 1912-08-19
:: Personal and Pertinent ::

Cut mems throats with whisperine.-Johnson.
.-.-.--.
Life is casket not precious in ITSELF but valuable
in proportion what fortune industry, virtue
has placed within it-Landor.
.-----.
Il is even a question Of how much to do.
but of how it is 10 be done; not question OF doing
more, but OF doing better-Ruskin.
.-.-.----
II take the good find. asking no question,
shall have heapng The great gifts are not
by analysis Everything good is the highway
Emerson.
would have true death. At the first
real lie which works from the heart outward she
should be tenderly choroformed into better world
where she can have an angel for governess-Holmes
Evening journal., 1912-08-19

We desire TO political issues and thoughts to
the winds long enough TO remind Patrolmen Hilary
Wallace and Frank Kane, champion pie eaters of the
local Police Department. that a Cincinnati man re-
Gently ate thirty dozen bananas in thirty days drank
ve gassse Of beer and several slugs OF whskey each
night Of the and wound up the revel by eating
five dozen hardboied eggs and two dozen raw oysters
In view of these facts is it their purpose to keep
abreast Of the times will they sit back compac-
entity and permit Cincinnati to walk away with their
gastronomic laures?
Evening journal., 1912-08-19
FIRE CHIEF TO BE
PARADE MARSHAL

Chief Engineer Morton f. Ainscow,
of the Wilmington Fire Department
and his assistants, James A. Nc
Nally and William ]. Bayley, were
elected marshal and aids, respectively
of the firemen's parade TO be held in
connection with the Home Coming
celebration in October, at a Joint
meeting Of the fire companies in the
Friendship engine house yesterday
afternoon.
The motion to make the chief engi-
ner marshal of the parade was made
BY William Ruth, a member OF the
Delaware Fire Company and the mo-
ton making the assistant engineers
his aides also was made by the same
company There was no opposition.
Evening journal., 1912-08-19

At infrequent intervals Councilman Stover, that 81
fervescent incandescent and aerodynamc soldier
statesman from the Seventh ward performs official
acts which are worthy Of commendaticn. They are
so far apart however and there is SO much official
fooshness and Stiffness between that a gran-fan
is needed to separate the wheat from the chan. He
now has before Council ordinance amendment
which II adopted will compel poolrooms in this city
to close at II o'clock at night. The idea is such a
wise one that doubt seriously that II originated in
the brain Of Mr.. Slower However. even II he came
by It second handed, congratulate him upon the
intelligence he displayed IN promising to father II
in City Council. His associates should assist him IN
putting IT through not for his sake, but for the sake
OF the public. II will do something toward reooncit
ing the people the Seventh ward TO the fact thai
they have such a Councmanic representative.
Evening journal., 1912-08-19

Women although IN the main deprived Of the right
Of suffrage. are playing conspicuous part in the
Presidential campaign this year With prominent
women working actively as leaders Of women who
favor the candidacy Of President Taft; with Miss Jane
Addams and Miss Carpenter in the field for Colonel
Roosevelt and with Mrs. J. Borden Hartman at the
head Of the who are electoneering for Cover
nor Wilson, there should be widespread lining up OF
feminine sentiment the Presidential question Nor
is there any telling what influence the women workers
who have votes will have upon their men relatives
and acquaintances who have votes. Women much less
brainy than many of those who active in the present
Presidential have played exceedingly import
ant parts in the big politics and legislation Of the
world. It also should be borne in mind that those
whose in huence helped to shape the destinies
of the world did not have the right when they
did it, Woman's influence in public affairs works
largely by ndire ction but 1t is potent nevertheless
and the political party which. in this country sets
itself up opposition TO combined womanly sentiment
any question is to suffer II there be in the field
zzother party which stands for the things by
khet combined womanly sentiment Those wso speak
lightly sghtingly OF the is being done by
women in this campaign wise It is well for at
sst two of the three leading candidates that favor
q the public-spirted divided among the three
candidates
Evening journal., 1912-08-19
THE STATE CONVENTION.

From The Middletown Transcript.
On Tuesday next the Republicans
Of Delaware will meet in Dover to Sc
lect the State ticket to be voted for
in November
Never in the history Of the party
in this state has there been so much
written and said about the State nom
inees and the voters are now awaiting
the verdict.
Just what the outcome will be no
man can say. but The Transcript
would like to impress upon the lead
ers OF the Republican party the neces-
Evening journal., 1912-08-19

American Presidential politics that
compares with this Presidential sit
uation. Now, the real mystery which
I have never found anybody able to
explain, is this: What was the rea-
son why independent Douglas Demo-
Gratis nominated and elected a ticket
which contained only the names Of
the three Douglas electors, nominated
by the fusion party? It looks very
much as though a large number of
Douglas Democrats in New Jersey
preferred that Lincoln should have
four electoral votes rather than that
Bell and Breckenridge should have
between them four electoral votes.
But why didn't these independent
Douglas Democrats nominate full
Douglas electoral ticket? Had they
done so Douglas apparently would
have received the entire electoral
vote of New Jersey.
Il am now certain that this mys-
terry will never be explained. but
have sometimes thought that Douglas
himself fostered this independent
Douglas movement"
Copyright, 1912, by z J. Edwards.
All rights reserved)
Tomorrow Mr.. Edwards will tell of
''How Blaine Gained His Knowledgs
of Maine and It's People"
Evening journal., 1912-08-19
THE PREsIDENT sTANDs Paw.

From The Elkton Whig.
President Taft has vetoed the wool
bill and followed it with similar We
toes of the steel bill and the cotton
bill. The President properly vetoes
these bills on the ground that their
low rates would bring disaster to
home duties. He stands pat on pro-
lection as an American policy. He
says Most of the rates in the sub
mitted bill are so low in themselves
that II enacted into law the inevita-
bic result would be irretrievable in
jury to the wool-growing industry,
the enforced idleness of much of our
wool combing and spinning machin-
cry, and of thousands of looms and
the consequent throwing out Of en-
ployment of thousands OF workmen. %
Evening journal., 1912-08-19
FIND MR.. DORAN
DEAD In BED

Retiring as usual on Saturday
evening apparently in the best of
health, John Doran, Of No. 1716
Pennsylvania avenue. was found dead +.
in bed yesterday morning. death be- 4
ing due to paralysis of the heart.
Mr. Doran was more than so years 4
Of age. The funeral service will take
place from his residence on Wednes- !
day morning at o'clock with requiem
mass in ST. AIMS Church with in
terment at the Cathedral Cemetery. >