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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-12-23
MORGAN TELLS Of
BIC CORN YIELD
Marietta Lad Shows How To
Raise 1918 Bushels To
The Acre.

Washington. Il. Z. Dec. "a Grow
ing and harvesting l@-s bushels -
corn on one acre at - cost .. SIS q
Is not 4 wonderful achievement bat
II is away Wonder ahead OF the Nct-
age. More han that. Ii did not re-
quire = wonderful method 81 cultlva-
ton TO produce that result nor Se,
any great TO do Il. The meth
cd sounds simple enough when r~citcd
IN a straightforward. simple Wa, ard
K. {. Morgan. the boy who Won a
free trip to Washington from the saith
North Carolina district from CROWNS
corn near Marietta. tells his o~n story
in q letter 10 Representative Godn u
His letter is as follows.
About the first OF February. 1al2
the land was heavily broadcasted with
rough manure and broken deeply
The land was planted IN cotton and
produced about one and a half bales
per acre. About January !. 1918. cot
ton stalks were cut and The land Mas
dlSked two ways with ls-lnch disc
harrow, after this the land was double
broker with Dixie pillow by going
twice in the same furrow. the land
vas broken about IA inches deep at
his blowing.
About the 18th of February tho
and was bedded in Affect rows later
ran one time in bottom Of furrow
with small scooter as Geep rs a 1000
pound mule would pull II. Two small
burrows were thrown back and corn
was planted with a l.. and O. corn
planter 10 inches apart. Was planted
on or about March rs. lel3. / did
not put any fertilizer down 1T the
time the corn was planted. About
May lst corn was plowed with Il
inch sweep. 10th sides. About Nay
10th one side was plcwcd with Ia
inch sweep and about MAY 18th the
other side was plowed with same
sweep. very shallow. about May 18th
one side OF corn was cultivated with
a le-inch sweep aud three or -four
days later. other side "a plowed with
same sweep. ON June LIST, one sid.
1 of corn was barred with Dixie pillow
! small wing on and in this furrou
was sOWn 400 pounds Of fertilizer pc
! acre. This was a mixture Of lot
pounds kainit. 100 pounds acid art
s 200 pounds cotton seed meal. As soor
I as the fertilizer was sown corn wa
q piowed with 1S-inch sweep and n
e middle bursted shallow with sam,
sweep. In about five days other sd
q OF corn was worked In the same WAY
e About June 18th one side of corn va
laid by with a 20-inch sweep by 30
e ing three times to the row. Abou
a June Goth 100 pounds of nitrate 9
e soda was bToadCasted IN the othe
row and it was laid by with a 2o-inc
b sweep same as the other side. Tn
e last cultivation was very shallow an
IS the land was left nearly level.
n Il harvested 127.S bushels az cor
Is from my contest acre, at a cost Z
e 1855 or 13.5c per bushel."
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-12-23
TAKES HIS FIFTH BRIDE.
{. w. Lewis, "a. WedS Miss Mary
Hinman. Who Is 20.

= = w.
New Rochelle, Dec 2o.-Miss Elsie
Hinman, daughter OF Mrs. Mary Hin
man and the late Charles Jay Hin
mar Of Brooklyn, was married at
noon today to Charles Walter Lewis
OF 100 Pennington avenue, Water
bury, Conn, by Frederick II. Waldorf,
mayor Of New Rochelle. The cere-
mony was performed in the mayors
private office at the city hall. The
bridegroom. who is said to be very
wealthy, is "a years old. aid been
married four times and divorced
twice. His bride Is 20. She gave
her address at 10 May street. New
Rochelle, where she had been visiting
Mr.. and Mrs David W. CHASER.
After the ceremony Lewis handed
out $40 gold pieces al around, and
to Mayor Waldorf he handed n gen
erous fee. Mrs. Human, the brides
mother, was not present, but her
daughter called her up by telephone
| and announced her marriage
On December %. 1887. Mt. Lewis
was divorced by his first wife Of
Moodus, Conn. In 1911 he met Miss
Human at Waterbury. Conn, whore
her parents Ia a summe place
After the meeting Mr.. Lewis was Tar-
RED to Mrs. Mary Crofut. who owns
an inn near Waterbury, and three
days later she began and aeon 10:
divorce, which VAS granted last year
Mr.. Lewis settled $4,000 on her. or
January 90, 1919, ATs- Hinn = OBJ
| tanned q separation from her &c
~ Ne CocNaite. charging a-eo
~A-s - 80 v8rn1r
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-12-23
OF "BOB''
Esquire Barnes Tells Of Wilson Cor
respondent OF News and Observer.

Esquire Barnes Tells OF Wilson Cor
respondent OF News and Observer.
To the Editor:
A few days ago, the Wilson cor
respondent Of The News and Observ-
er, who is known to Wilson people
as Bob, took the liberty to refer to
me as not entitled to the adjective
veracious, unless the prefix I'm was
placed before 1t. He also attempted
to SANDER and humiliate me by re-
ferring to my age, knowing that / am
unmarried, but probably living in the
enjoyments OF matrimonial antici-
patiOnS.
Bob seemed to say some good
things o me, as ar apology for
the bad things he said. For the coed
things he said, l think I can fully
realize how Sal felt when John
courted her.
Sal lived in the country with her
parents, and other members Of the
family, and was said to have been
| the ugliest favored girl, that had ever
lived in the county. She was getting
| along in years and had eve a a
beau. There Va a young man livis :
in the ne~ighborhcod named job
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-12-23
COTTON GIN
CONFEDERATION Destroyed Gin before
Owners Cotton Was ainncs!.

Monroe. Dec 2o.-Mr sebaru STACK
Of T~radesyille. s. g. lost rs rriion
house and about forty bales = ICED
cotton By fire this weef HF. sack
had not ginned any y ~ eottpr ut
had stored IL waiting for = '.ele Et -
come To his place anc thka Sas paced
last Saturday for the purpose - Z =
ming the cotton. bC- before o~~A ~
could begin the Ere destroyed he IA
t.-. contents ~ -. iFre
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-27

a modestly colored species, native to
Chile and Ecuador-is nearly as big as
robin. measuring eight and half
inches from point of bill to tip of tail.
Its manner of fight Is wholly different
from that ordinarily adopted by birds of
this family. and has been likened to that
of a butterfly. When lowering over a
flower it flaps its wings with slow and
powerful movements.
Humming birds are by no means such
timid creatures as is commonly supposed.
On the contrary, they are fearless and
decidedly inqusitive. Often they will take
the trouble closely to inspect human
being who ventures near. Says DIR. Rob
ert Ridgway, the famous government or
nithologist:
One of these little feathered fairies
will APPROACH like a flash and poise di-
rectly before ones face, its wings VI
brating so rapidly as to appear as a
mere haze on each side of it's body,
which remains so stationary that the in
curing expression of it's bright black
eyes and the outline of nearly every
feather of its compact little figure can
be seen 1t approaches so near as to
be easily within reach of the hand. but
the slightest demonstration causes 1t TO
vanish so swiftly that the eye can scarce
ly trace the line of its flight.
Nobody ever heard of humming birds
before Columbus made his first voyage
of discovery, for the reason that this
feathered tribe is peculiar to America,
If for no other reason, their preserva-
ton ought surefy>to be deemed worth
while. But. unfortunately, the business
of hunting them has been conducted for
many years on so wholesale scale.
hundreds of millions being shot with
blow guns taken with nets, or other
wise captured. to supply the demands of
the millinery trade, that many of the
most exquisite species are already near
ing extinction. Unless something is done
to protect them, indeed. the time is
likely to arrive before very long when
there will no more humming-birds any
WHEREOF at all events. only a few.
seeking refuge from remorseless man in
the densest forests and on the most IN
accessible mountain heights of tropical
America RENE BACHE
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getting at the sweets OF certain kinds
of blossoms. Thus, for example, the
"sickle-bills" have curved beaks OF a
most peculiar form Tor reaching the
honey glands OF orchids and palm flowers.
In like manner, for robbing long trumpet
shaped blossoms, the .sword-bearer''
possesses bill over five inches in length,
which contains a tongue capable of
being protruded nearly as far beyond the
tip.
Like the bee, the humming bird pays
for its honey by carrying pollen from
flower to flower, thus cross-fertilizing
many kinds Of plants. 1t cannot live on
honey alone. however, but requires insets
to help out its diet. Many of these II
gathers from the flowers, but IT catches
them also on the wing. says Gosse, a
high authority on the subject:
"All the humming birds have more or
less the habit when in flight or pausing
In the air and throwing the BODY ana
tail into rapid and odd contortions. That
the object of their quick turns is the
capture of insects, I am sure, having
watched one thus engaged pretty close
to me. l drew up and observed 1t care
fully. and distinctly saw the minute r,es
in the air, which it pursued and caught
and heard repeatedly the swapping of its
beak.".
The hummer spends most of its time en-
the wing, apparently, balancing in tho
manner of moth before the flowers
from which it gathers nectar Its flight
Is that OF an insect rather than that of
bird. In its movements 1t has been
compared to piece of machinery acted
upon by spring. The vibrations of its
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-27
Good Old American Names.

From the ST. Louis Post Dispatch.
In the news Of one day In New YORK
we find that a man by the name Of ISL
dore Steinberg pleaded guilty to bigamy
In the court of judge named Rosalsky'
that q youth named Tumoshefsky was
drowned; a man named Blau was con-
victed of keeping a disorderly resort;
girl named Anna Cicone was principal
witness in murder case; Nine LIE
Compile figured in domestic sensation: a
certain Miss leila brought breach OF
promise case; a Governor named Suizer
sent a message to the Legislature;
Hannes Kolehmainen was the star of
foot race; another runner named Abel
Kfviat made a fast trial spin. and
Mr.. Max Hochstim figured In hotel
scandal.
The names Of Klonz, Remitz, Brosi.
Cav. Levi, Harberg. Cola. Schenkei.
Stoveli, Meniak, Dalldorf, Jensen, Yoho-
man, Stappers. Lococq. Hulse, Maetrich,
wirsing, wexler, Szabo. Tietelbaum. TIL
fari Carnap, Loew. Brandus. Mahoney,
Braun, Zimmerman, Ubert. Sarlin,- Tros-
ky, Mullan, and Beubel are the first TO
assail the eye on turning to a page or
advertisements.
In another generation or two these VIII
be good old American names. Meanwhile
New York viii continue to be our fore
most European capital.
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Acreless Agent Who Keeps Fifty Subordinates on the
Jump Has Worked Out Plan by Thirty Years
Labor and Thought-Has Philosophy
AID His Own

children are happy. He has written
home to his brothers and has advised
them to sell out and move to America"
Have you agents In the Westr'
Yes; and in Canada; even in the
provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan.
Western roads and Canadian roads have
agents In our territory. People are NOV
ing all the time in this country. The
United States you must remember, has
been settled in the main by Americans.
They moved from New England and New
York to the Middle West, and they or
their sons and daughters developed Iowa,
Nebraska, and Kansas.
"And now many farmers beyond the
Mississippi are going across the from
tier into Canada. Farm lands in Illinois
are selling from 500 to $3.50 an acre. The
average value of land in the Iowa coun-
ty where once lived. increased from
$37 an acre In 1900 to $91 an acre In 1910.
Rising values of old lands have caused
a great movement OF our people toward
cheap lands. Farmers sell out or bor-
row money and make investments else
where. Many of them have sons who
want to marry and get homes of their
own. The fathers grew rich at pioneer
ing and SO the sons establish themselves
i'm Alberta or some other part of Canada.
The back flow, however, has begun. II
is winter In the far Northwest most
of the time Crops are limited to wheat,
oats barley and rye. There is no sense
In changing ones flag when ones own
country has unlimited opportunities for
farming and all kinds of business"
"Some railroads I said, ARE estab-
fishing model farms to show what can
he grio h.
ods?''
That's an old idea. 1t seems new be-
cause it has made its way into the
newspapers. 7 don't care to find fault
with any mans, theory. Every plan has
it's good points. Model farms don't con-
vince me. The ordinary farmer is like
ly to say: With all it's millions, rail-
road ought to raise pretty good crops.
But what do the crops cost? Farm ex-
perts, in my judgment, are more prac-
teal. We have twenty-five. They go on
the land and show every farmer how to
meet his own problems. They will
doctor his pigs. advise him about seed
and machinery. and call at his house
once a month We want each of our
farmers to make money. His prosperity
is ours. II he does well, he will buy
lumber for a new barn. We haul the
lumber. II he has a surplus OK corn.
we transport il to market. That's my
idea Of the railway business
How Farmers Are Sized Up.
do you sell farms to settlers?"
Never. A buyer comes into my Of
fee. / talk with him and get his meas
ure. 1 learn where he comes from and
what he can do. Then l try to fit him
into a similar but a better situation. /
tell him of the farms which l think
will suit his needs and capacities. Natur-
ally, our sympathies are with the buyer
and not the seller, and We try to safe
guard his interests. He consults with
us freely and we give him the best ad-
vice we can. Not long ago a man
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whole truth right off. 1t had to be
turned over in my mind and worked out.
saw other matters during the evolution
of my doctrine Railway projectors, 1
perceived, Joined distant cities together
and neglected the country between. / re-
manned with the Northern Pacific until
Samuel Spencer, president of the Balti-
more and Ohio, asked me to accept en-
ployment from him.
Lectures a Passenger Agent.
"A man took me around and introduced
me to the heads of the several depart
ments. / refer to the incident because 1t
gives me an opportunity to make my poll
icy plain. The general passenger agent
was an elderly individual. / was young
He scarcely looked up when my name
was mentioned. and hadn't the manners
to ask me to sit down Besides, / was
conscious Of some scorn in his voice when
he inquired what i hoped to accomplish.
81 shall try to fill up the country
along our road with persons who will
make business for the company / an
swered. Perhaps l was discourteous, but
he wasn't any too polite himself. Let
me illustrate 1 said, trusting my shot
would penetrate his uncivil old skin.
You would advise a man who thought
of moving TO pack his goods in strong
boxes and go West You would say
Kansas, being passenger agent, be-
cause the fare out there is about sf5.
Well, such a narrow view of the case
hasn't any room in my head. Kansas
is away beyond our zone. Once there.
the man ceases to be our customer.
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Writer Gives This Title to Morgan Valentine Richards Land
and Industrial Agent Of Morgan Railroad Com
pany that Operates 10000 Miles Of Track.
Has No Land to Sell

be egotistical- Nor has Mr.. Richards
ever supposed that such a description
would be portrait of himself.
1T was unprecedented, but I was
UNEXPECTEDLY offered 800 a month-on
the road, you understand-and no coun-
try boy who ever lived would have turn
ed the proposition down. I had asked
him how he happened to become a rail-
road man.
iowa was my home" he went on to
say. Il had lived there since the year
after 1 was born. My father owned a
farm and dealt in land. He had come
from Virginia and had been the prin-
his bride to the prairies with him. I
grew up in his Office, and listened
while he bought and sold farms. When
homeseekers appeared 1 would show
them around. By the time I was four
teen / could locate the northeast quar-
ter of a section and measure Ii of
with rope of grass. / made out doc
uments and could decipher abstracts.
During a dull season. being then
twenty lone, I started to explore the
West. 1 carried a letter to Col. r. M.
Newport, land agent of the Northern
Pacific Railroad at st. Paul. He gave
me pass over the completed part OF
the line. On my return / called to
thank him for the sights I had seem
10, the poor red man. among the rest.
That was the astonishing moment I
received the offer. We have $4,000, 900
acres of land for sale Col Newport
said. 1T must go on the market through
agents. ! want you to travel and find
and appoint the agents.
Got His Idea from Henry Willard.
"One hundred dollars a month! A
pocketful of passes! A new town every
other night! / was stupefed. I ran
home to father. He was a college
graduate and believed in education
Co. he said. and here's my blessing
1 was a hustler in those days. Work
was a delight. / was recalled from
the road in a few months and ordered
to stay in ST. Paul. A stream of men
wanted to buy their land at headquar-
tiers. sold $1,000 acres for 900 to
a single purchaser There is no con-
ceit in saying that I was not a failure.
One day Henry Willard president OF
the company, was brought into my Of
flee. He was a large, plain person,
and carried a heavy cane. What are
your duties? he asked, emphasizing
the pronoun. I pointed to a waiting
group Of strangers and said: I give
them information and sell them
farms
It's a very responsible position he re-
piled, for so young a man. Now let me |
tell you two things. Your first duty, nat |
urally, is to the Northern Pacific Rail- |
road. Next come the customers of the |
company. Indeed, the interests OF the |
railroad and its customers are the same. |
Those men out there are prospective GUS
toners; make them actual customers IL |
you can, but satisfied customers il they |
locate on our line
Il thought over Mr.. Wizards advice
that was a long time ago-and I have fol-
owed 1t ever since. The more / reflected
On what he said. the clearer became the
conviction that railroad and the people
t serves are partners I didn't grasp the
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would tell him I'd find him a place
in Maryland or West Virginia. I'd
keep him on the road. We would
not get his $45 in lump but
we would get freightage on his
sugar. coffee, and machinery. and haul
his grain and live stock to market
That's what l am going to do. Good
morning And walked out. He was
bureaucrat you see. and moved on a
turntable just like locomotive.
Wisely enough, the first railroad men
were ambitious to push forward the
edges of the frontier and to build up the
West. Back in 1872. before work on the
Erie Canal was begun. John Stevens,
getting into the discussion of the day,
suggested a railroad from Albany to
Lake Erie, thus connecting the Atlantic
Ocean with the Great Lakes. There
were no railroads then in this country,
nor was there an engine or a passenger
car in the world. England, however.
had several little horse and mule rail-
roads for the freightage of coal Stew
ems argued for a double-track line, the
rails to be of wood. with tops covered
by wrought-iron. That was a hundred
years ago. The wisest men In the coun-
try called Stevens dreamer and laugh
ed when he said that steam locomotives
could draw trains of cars at a speed Of
twenty miles an hour.
Didn't See Reyond Their Desks.
Il speak of Stevens to show what was
in the minds of our ancient inhabitants.
They were in the midst of a virgin ter
ritory, but they wanted, being true
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-27
by JAMES b. MORROW.

In his own way, and it is a very large,
even a continental way, Milton Valen-
tine Richards is the most successful man
in the world. The sweep of that state
ment is no wider than its truth. Yet a
large part of the world which he serves
and in which he excels has never heard
of him.
Tomorrow he sails for Europe, as a
delegate-at-large TO the International
Agricultural Conference, which meets in
Rome on May 10. Vincent Aston, Senator
Fletcher of Florida, and William c.
Brown, president of the New York Gen.
trail Railroad. also are delegates. From
Rome. the American commissioners. Of
whom there are seventy-fve, will go to
Germany, France, Denmark, Russia
England, ireland, and the Balkan states
to study cooperative efforts and rural
credits.
Among his compeers and his clients
Mr.. Richards is known as the land and
industrial agent of Morgan railroad
company that operates 10000 miles of
track. His is a buzzing and busting
sort of job, necessarily. The richest
soil on earth. gentlement and homeseek-
ers, and all that sort of moonshine. But
the strange part of it is that Mr. Rich
ards has no land for sale. Not at &c.
600 a rod. were any such offer ever to
be made.
Indeed, he is an acreless land agent,
but is so busy that he keeps fifty SUBJ
ordinates on the jump most Of the time
Men have been land agents ever since
railroads in the West were bonused with
imperial reaches of the public domain
But there has been only one Richards up
and down the long list of busting names
He has wrought with a great idea for
thirty years-an idea nebulous at first
but finally to grow into a policy and to
be a law unto all his work.
By and i'm himself, Mr.. Richards is a
big man. Big is the right word. Energy
radiates from him as heat and light are
thrown off by the sun. He is worth sew
eral columns and a photograph any Sun
day of the year simply as a unique per-
sonality and strong character Now
that his philosophy, his conscience, and
his upbuilding achievements are being
accepted and initiated by other railroads
than ]. p. Morgan's, he has become a
very important man. His great idea has
taken root Brought down to its Short
est terms, it means that the farmer
blowing with two mules is a partner of
the railroad president who goes steam
ing along the edge of the field on a spe-
cial train. So is the merchant at the
crossroads. So is the woman driving
to town with her butter and eggs.
notwithstanding Work OF Railroads. |
Now, Mr.. Richards has never said that !
the idea is his own. 1t was put into |
his eager and ready thought while a |
boy. Credit must be given him, how |
ever. for it's application and develop |
ment. Men come to talk with him, and |
then to carry his methods away. Thus |
it is that his principles govern the Gre |
alive work of some of the largest rail- |
road systems in the country. He does
not say that his theory must be execut- |
ed by a wise and fatherly man, kind of |
heart and willing of hand. That would /