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very light rainfall totalIed 4.3 tons
per acre. The first cutting in 1912
gave a yield of 2.95 tons per acre.
Sixteen seedlings made on the ex-
pertinent station field since the year
1903 have produced an average yield
of 4.3S tons per acre. Yields of over
two and one-half tons at single cut
ting have been quite common, and
over three and one-fourth tons have
been secured. One seeding has yield.
ed seven and one-fOurth tons per acre
in a single year, while another has an
average for three years of five and
one-fourtn tons.
Food Value of Alfalfa.
Alfalfa must be considered one OF
our most important crops because of
its Ve~y high feeding value, and espe-
ciaIly on account of the relatively
high content of digestible protein.
Dairymen who have used it are it's
best friends. 1t gives excellent re-
suits with all classes of live stock
and is especially valuable where a
rapid development of muscle and bone
is essential, as with brood sows,
young pigs and steers.
Alfalfa produces five and one-half
times as much protein per acre as
timothy, four times as much as oats,
two and three-fourths times as much
as corn, and two and six-tenths times
as much as red clover.
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Ottumwa Boy MISSING,

Ottumwa, Sept Especial: Julius
Jacobson, aged Is, light complexion
ed and tall, has been missing since
Saturday night, when he left his par
ents to pay bill IN a local grocery
store. He is believed to have met
with foul play, as he was a constant
companion to his mother and not Civ
en- to desire to roam or leave home.
The father offers a liberal reward for
the return of his son or information
about his location.
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the average the leaves of alfalfa
hay are about equal to bran in feed
ng value.
If trouble is experienced in getting
the hogs to eat alfalfa hay out Of
the rack, which is sometimes the
case, we practice chopping it up and
mixing it with corn, allowing them
the mixture. If you can get the sows
TO eat alfalfa along with the corn the
pigs will not only be healthier and
stronger at birth, but will be larger,
have better coats and larger bone
than those pigs whose mothers re-
ceive nothing but corn during the
period Of CESSATION.
In feeding alfalfa hay TO fattening
hogs the best method is to put the
hay in racks, giving the hogs a
chance to eat the nay at any time
they wish. This is more economical
than ehopping It or grinding II finer.
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Undoubtedly those who have been
accustomed to consider corn and
wheat the only sure money crops for
the state, and to look upon the adapt
ability and value Of alfalfa as more
or less doubtful thing will consider
this a radical statement, but we be-
lieve the data available proves this
to be the case.
! The value of the average acre of
alfalfa in Iowa for 1910 was 1912.
as compared with 1881 for the
average acre of corn, with net
profit of s14.o1 for alfalfa and s3.17
for corn. The average arre of alfalfa
will pay 10 per cent interest on land
valued at s270 per acre, while the
average acre Of corn will pay this in
terest on land valued at not more
than $3.50.
One hundred and twenty-eight
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1. The success with which it can
be grown.
2. Yield per acre and money value
of the product.
8. Food value for consumption on
the farm.
4. Its value as a soil builder
Success With the Crop In Iowa.
Alfalfa can be grown successfully
in Iowa. The experience of individ-
ual farmers, experiments conducted
on various soils and under various
climatic conditions and the tests
made at the College Experimental
Station demonstrate that if proper
methods are used it can be grown
successfully on nearly all of Iowa
soils. OF course there are failures a
good many times when the first effort
to grow alfalfa is made, but that
should not be discouraging since the
per cent of failure was great as with
many other crops with which Iowa
farmers are more familiar, the red
clover for example.
In addition to our own experiment
al experience that alfalfa can be
grown successfully we have similar
evidences from farmers in all sec
tions in the state. Those who have
been growing the crop for a number
of years say that they are convinced
that it is easier to get stand of al
falfa than of red clover.
Yield Per Acre and Value of the
Product.
Alfalfa is capable of returning a
greater profit, acre for acre, than any
other crop produced on our Iowa
farms.
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IS, For "a steers,

A Webster City man recently sent
"a steers to market and received s5.-
100 for the bunch. They we're no
particularly fine stock. and were just
good. fat steers that had been given
proper care and attention and were in
prime condition for the market. They
brought $iO.50 per hundredweight, or
an average OF $3.50 per head.
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STEPHENSON IS ALL RIGHT
Wisconsin Senator. Who Was Report.
ed III on Trip. Receivers From
Attack Of Indigestion.

Marinette. Wis. Aug. Ex-senator
Isaac Stephenson. who was reported
Ill, is all right and will continue his
fishing trip down the Escanaba river.
This was the substance Of a report
received by his relatives here. The
senator had an attack of indigestion
and It was thought best to send for
a physician. but he recovered in a
short time.
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STUTZ, MASON AND
MERCER CARS WIN
Hughes, Merz and Endicott Drive
Autos to Victory.
NO ACCIDENTS MAR RACES
Three Events Are Conducted Stimuli
taneously Over Same Course At
EIein, lII.-Man Killed On
Way to Scene.

Elgtn, Ill, Aug. 31.-First days win
ners at Elgin's third annual race meet:
Jencks trophy contest for small cars,
won by Harry Endicott, driving a
Mason. Distance, 101 3-4 miles. Time,
100 minutes AZ seconds Average
60.57 miles an hour.
Aurora cup, won by Hugh Hughes,
driving a Mercer. Distance. 152 miles.
Time, 140 minutes, 40 seconds. Aver
age, 65.04 miles an hour. Second
Pullen, driving a Mercer Time. 146
minutes. so seconds Third-Trussel
driving Falcar. Time, 1853 inmates,
10 seconds.
Illinois trophy race, won by Charles
Merz, driving a Stutz Distance, 2o3
miles Time, 1s4 minutes, 80 seconds.
Average, 65.11 miles an hour. Second
Gil. Anderson. driving a Stutz.
Time, 1876 minutes, IA seconds.
No Accidents Mar Races.
Lovers of speed for speeds sake,
rather than for the thrill of accident
and misfortune, were given a pleasur.
able holiday at the Elgin automobile
racecourse, the occasion being the
opening day of the third annual two
day meeting. Three races were con-
Quoted simultaneously over the eight
mile course without serious accident
marring the pleasure of the day as far
as the course was concerned
More danger was in evidence along
the roads leading to the course. and
the oveTturning Of a car at Ontario
vile cost the life Of ] R. Ballinger,
sales manager of the Stromburg Car
buretor company of Chicago, and
serious injuries to his brother, Will
liam Ballinger. The victim sus-
tanned a broken neck and died in
stantly.
All Records Broken.
AS for the race itself, the lack of
accidents caused many old time race
goers to regard the contests as tame,
but when the times of the winners
were announced it was discovered that
all records for similar classes OF cars
had been broken at Elgin.
The most sensational feature of the
speeding was that of the two Stutz
Ears driven by Merz and Anderson
Merz won the race at an average pace
almost equally that of Zengle last
year in the Elgin trophy contest,
which is for higher powered cars
Anderson in the other Stutz was less
than two minutes behind his team
mate.
Thirteen Cars Start.
When the cars lined up at the start
ing point for inspection of startes,
Fred J. Wagner, it was observed that
thirteen machineA were ready to com
pete. Superstitious spectators re-
garded this as an i'll omen. but the
fears we're groundless. for never in /
the history of road racing has a con /
test been conducted with less serious .
incident. Not a limb was broken. and
even the breaks in the cars were Of /
a minor nature. Speed was the one
genuine feature OF an ideal day for
racing. The weather was cool. DOING
away with much expected tire trouble. I
The s:L.rdAnce was a distinct dis h.
appointment. Owing presumably to i
the grand stand accident of last year. +.
many Of the spectators preferred to /
sit in their cars or on the grass
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Justice Blair Ia Dead.

Lansing, Mich, Aug 31.-Justioe
Charles A. Blair of the state supreme
court died here after several weeks
sickness. He was born In Jackson,
Mich, in 1854. and was the son OF
Austin Blair, "Michigan's war Cover.
nor"
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ALFALFA HAY FOR HOGS.
By John NJ. Evvard, Iowa Agricul<
ture Experiment Station.

We have found that alfalfa is a
very good feed for wintering the
brood SOW when fed in conjunction
with corn, when first class alfalfa is
used. Care should be taken to see
that the alfalfa is of the finest and as
leafy as can be secured when feeding
the brood sow. The truth of the
matter is that when hogs are fed up.
on this hay that the third and fourth
cuttings are the best because they are
usually finer in character, having less
fber and furthermore has more
leaves as a rule. We find that upon
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bon. Saved Once. DROWN.

Pittsburgh. Aug. Slater being
rescued from drowning, Edward A.
striley. aged eighteen. went out on
.he river in canoe again, upset and
was drowned before help could reach
him.
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WILLIAMS funeral of Sarah
Williams was held Saturday morning
from the residence. Interment In For
est cemetery. Rev. !. o. Kemble had
charge of the service.
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LONG.-Died, at the home of its
parents, Jesse and Rena Long, in Mad.
isoh township, at IL NJ Sept. 1. 1912,
an infant child. aged six hours. Funer
al from the home Monday morning,
Sept. 2, Interment in Woods GENE
terry.
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Product.

Alfalfa is capable of returning a
greater profit, acre for acre, than any
other crop produced on our Iowa
farms.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-09-05

NEY-BURDESS.-Married, Monday
afternoon, August &c, 1912, at the Of
fee of the officiating justice. Squire
C. Woodruff, Miss Bessie Burdess to
Harry Ney, both of Mahaska county.
The groom is a son of George Ney, re-
siding southwest of town, and the
bride is a daughter of one of the old
time pioneer families, The young
people will reside at Beacon, near
where the groom is engaged. Friends
offer congratulations.
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whip all the White Hepee
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with . hopeless lot
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to do
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showed
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match like to be reporter'
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Good Judges Believe He VIII
Prove a Second
Ty Cobb.
SPECIAL N The Evening worldD
Washington, ID. c., Aug.


the famous Princeton
r College football and baseball star.
L will more than likely he found In
Highlander uniform after college closes
next June. Pendleton called on his
friend, sterrett, the Hilltop backstop, to-
day and later engaged in a long con-
yersat,on with Manager W)lverton. Close
friends OF Pendleton stated that the
h,ghlanders would get him next season
and that he had virtually given Wolver-
ton his word that he would sign a con-
trac. after he graduates from Princeton.
Pendleton and sterrett are close per-
sonal friends, and Il r. understood that
through sterrett's influence the High
landers are able 20 corral this college
star. During tho past two years Pen
delton has played on the Princeton
Varsity baseball nine, and he Is rated
az the fastest college player who ever
wore spikes.
Pendleton has often covered a hundred
yard dash In ten and one-htth seconds,
and prominent judges have declared that
he has more speed than Ty Cobb, PEN
dleton can hit and he possesses a beau
tlful throwing arm. He has often said
that he would Ike to try his luck In
professional baseball. as he figures such
Job would yield him a better salary
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the Ozark Mountains. He In twenty
three years old now and was just be-
ginning to play bail when the Merkle
incident occurred at the Polo Grounds
In 1908.
Were you always a big fellow?''
some one asked the Missouri mammoth
the other day.
Ever since I can remember" he re-
piled. and guess that's true.
ITO tel! the truth" explains Jeff. 81
was 70 big at seven teen that I couldn't
get on the little team at Ironton. They
said l was too clumsy. ] wanted ia
play ball. though, and went out into
other fields. I went over to Perryville
Mo. where ] got a job In the lead
mines. While working there We had a
team OF miners and / got to pitching so
good that I was finally given a job on
the independent team OF Perryville. |
was paid s'5 a month. ard that was
some money In those days"
Tesreau's father Ia a farmer and len
alias Charles. says there was great sat
isfactlon In his home over the fact tina,
he had got on the big team at Perry
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HdineS and Greer
WiIRaCe MOnday

BOSTON. Aug. Sl.-A great deal Of
interest has been aroused in the match
race between william Iln!nc.. formerly
OF England but now OF the Union Boat
Club of this city. and Frank p. Greer.
formerly national amateur sculllng
champion, which will be held In this ci' y
Monday afternoon. The winner OF this
contest will claim the professional scui-
Ling champ. nnship OF the United States
Each man has posted 800 forfeit
and the city has offered cup. valued
ut 500, to 20 TO the winner. The race
vii, be held IN conjunction with the re-
gatta OF tho New England Amateur
Rowing Association. Boin men are
training hard FOR the race and II prom
ises TO develop into one OF the mos,
exciting contests OF Its Kind over held
In the club.
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Joe JEANETTE KNOCKS OUT
JONES IN SECOND ROUND.
Nelorl oi rLl.LeIs. Nb9 hn,e ~ ~ - .

win a r!gh;-han swing hush on the
Jaw Joe jeanette. the heavyweight oi
lloDOken, knocked oIt Grn Jones. an
other coorei hoXer, IN the second round
Of a ,cn-round contest a. tie show ~
the Atlantic \, \. OF tp'ktway Bsaca.
jeanette Just toyod with Jones In t"
opening round, but at the beginning o.
tho second session no sailed into hln
and after landing several scr body
blows suddenly Dent over tho punch
that dropped Joris to the l,por 'pr the
full count,
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Rendlet0n, Princeton Star,
Is Likely to Join HilltOpS

than ANYTHING else ne could do.
Inability to hit Bob Groom lost the
second Washington game for the High
landers. Groom was never better In his
life. and Wolvertons athletes could dc
absolutely nothing with him.
Russell Ford Ia slated to pitch the
getaway game this afternoon Ford
would have worked yesterday. but FOL
the TACT that Sweeney. who has been
botAelede with bad hand, wanted one
more day OF rest. Sweeney said to-day
that ne II ready now to resume opera
lions behind the bat.
Catcher Thompson. the former Uni
verslty Of Georgia athlete. telegra phet
that he would be here tonight and vii
accompany the Highanders to New
York.
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Vile though he wasn't good enough for
faa NJ

tHt yum team AT lrontOn.
while playing at Perryville and work.
Ing In the lead mines between times a
man named Gordon got Tesreau to go
to Austin In the Texas League Ia
reported there, but the club was dropped
from the league and he was allowed to
report at Houston. Later he was sent
to Galveston and then to Shreveport.
la.
Two years aco the Giants stopped over
at Shreveport for n day OF practice and
during morning game McGraw saw
the mammoth Tesreau at work He at
once set his eye on the big fellow and
bought him during the latter part OF
that season. McGraw didn't know any
thing about the ability OF the big fellow.
but declared that a man with that nat
ural strength ought to make a good
pitcher. He stuck to this theory until
ne has developed n wonder.
When the worlds series is played six
weeks from now it's safe bet that the
name OF Tesreau Will nrurc quite prom
inently In the black type.
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A IT. conducted
exactly operated sidow
Hurricane
billy skyBoundins whiiss Glen prn BY enc
nothing soucn.ha
uh sailor Burke bounded into fame and under Police
OF sos
a
flick
ints
q playing poker
or the
foolish rnuroer
thoroushfae the of New Yosks
b.
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PACKEY ADDS ANOTHER
VICTIM TO HIS RECORD.

PUlLADELPIIIA, Ia, Als, W,-,TOe
Hirst put up game battle against
packey Mcfarland. the ch'r0E' stock
,,-a. champion. at m, OlvrY'r g \. but
was defeated. At times Nc iui had
Iiirgt almost AZ his mercy. lr H.s I'M
ablc to follow up with > .,l punch,
Al other times. he held his punches
back and only smiled.
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xyyuII,E THE PI.AUDITs are ~

WY lille THE PI.AUDITs are 40
N mn In 10 the skies FOR the thinss
" that are being accomplished by
IA. Chants In baseballdom, lets not
nverlook the fact that the Kerry root
bail teams picnic and games Tomorrow
In Celtic Park will have contest
..,-ycl nm 10 them that viii be as great
A., s,rupglc In It's line as the nnal daSa
for tho Big League pcnnant. Ihat WIZ
b., the clash between the Kerry anu
Kildare teams for what may prove u
be the Gaelic football championship OF
1912 Anybody who knows how those
,eans love each other VIII not he as
appolntcd In the earnest intensity or the
game which will call for bright lalrels
on the brow of each member OF the
aiming team. And then there Wall be
tho lSlldares and Mayos In another
match. The third of the season with
IN, MayUs two TO the good. hope tho
K.ldares will win this one--even II
cFoltei Il would be plain N'ugAter !!
IN. N,vos should capture thcHe straight.
But sometimes slaughter - JusNHaO'e'
81 that lets me OUT
nm be grand indeed to see Big D.nny
rurkl.y uiylng the victory crown q
I<.rry over the X .lkcnnys ana to Mayo
over tho Klldares. III tip my hat 20
him In advance
q. G. RlI.EY.-Stuss Il played on the
general idea OF faro. but there is no
deal" box Believe me, there Is no
"boN" on tie job that can be liked 10
heat some 81 the stuss dealers In ON
town upn't ever try to beat stuss In a
stuss place. Tho percentage asainst the
player Is too great 10 start with and the
game Is usually worked by combine
ton that Is framed TO FOB everybody
who 10 hapless enough to try his luck.
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TESREAU LEARNED TO PITCH
SPLITTER LAST SEASON.

A peculiar feature to the sudden rise
OF Tesreau is that he never knew how
to pitch a sp!tball until las; season. lie
says so himself During his first sprins
trip with the Giants he showed great
speed and endurance, but his fast bail
was as straight as string and ais
curve was very ordinary. Tesreau
realized that and when he went to
Toronto he began to work on a splitter.
BY the middle OF the season he had
one under good control and waded right
through the league.
When Big Jeff reJoined the Giants,
McGraw and Rooby were surprised at
his wonderful spitban. lie still had
trouble getting jump on his fast one,
so Robby began to teach him u cross
fire. Though he has never had the
crossfre under perfect control, JEFF has
used It with great effect AZ times. IL he
develops a good crosstire ~ next season
the big 9ear hunter viii DE one OF the
greatest pitchers IN the world.
BY the way. Jefr wants 1t explained
right here that he doesn't know where
ne got the reputation OF being a bear
hunter and as a matter OF fact the only
bear he ever saw was IN the Bronx Zoo.
A certain squad OF BASEBALL scrl5es
who got together one rainy day out In
Texas might tell him, but for fear of
being called "squeaIers" they have kept
quiet. jeff has asked me to turn
states evidence, and here you are.
To go on with the confession. Tes-
reaus name Is not JEFF az all. He en-
Joys the more polite first name OF
Charles, but can you Imagine big guy
like that being called CHARLES" Ho
was dubbed "JeY'' because he is as big
as Jim Jeffr!es. and it evidently intends
10 stick
Charles Tesreau tget the "Charles'')
was born In Ironton, No. which v near
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And say--the stuss houses OF to-day
sure do get tho change. and fnom the
wisest race In the world ~ that.
L. Sand the houses are all worlnngi
C, IL. LEHR.--Iiere goes for the last
tine. The meld OF four kings And
queens OF the four suits and the trump
sequence count 30 The four kings
count So The four queens %. The
three non-trump marriages count -
each or 90 points. The trump marriage
counts 40. The sequence .. ace. king.
queen. Jack. ten Of trumps u LEO. To-
tai. 30.
y. \. CLARK. Brooklyn.-The player
IN pinochlo must take one trick TO
qualify his hand, His meld does not
count unless he takes az lcsst one trick.
J. +. VII player In poker calls for
three cards and they are served OF ohs
pack he must take those three cards
and discard three from his hand.
l.. j. c.. Broadway, New York.-Ths
caller In poker or In any game OF chance
must put up a. much as tho man who
raised. This means the raise and the
original bet. Surprised a New Yorker
IKE YOU doesn't know this elementary
rule OF the great gamevSur, ! regret -
observe, the national game Is giving
way to the less skGlfal infiiction OF sue-
ton p!nochle--bad scran 70 It!
PHILIP MElSSER, No "a Hollis
street, Boston.--A player In checkers
that puts his fnsor on nan" need
no; move II, Hut Il he pushes II on
the square II has to count as a move.
This Is on the authority Of q Scotchxnan
who Is the champion checker player Of
Glasgow. where that dissipation ksAps
the people subject to tho dcminAtioa -
England.
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- ~IcARAoUA Is TO DE INVADED
nj MEXICO MUST LIE DOWN!
i CUBA. KEEP QUIET!

Y CUBA. KEEP QUIET.
Glory bel IL any one OF these eoun-
tries Of such Importance to US as to
mako Il tho occasion Of another song
and dance war such as that which Nc
Klnley's outnt inflicted on US In 1887
Lets cut out these murderous threats
and rattle OF drums against nations
that have never made n reputation In
the ring. oven II there 10 a political
crisis In sight of the ruling powers at
washington. Let Us get into trouble.
II at all, with some classy outnt " we
want to stick out our chests'
And say. dye know the nation that
I'd like to see our good old scrappies
tackle to a finish7
Please send In Guesses.
NJ. J. NJ. YONKERs-A man born In
Germany Of German parents 10 . Ger
man II he stays there. He 10 an Ameri-
can II no comes hero and takes out his
c,tizenship papers. Just like did when
I came across from tho only dscen,
county IN ireland.
| q. II. VA license must be secured
| from q magistrate to keep At ones homo