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The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1913-01-10
WATER REQUIRED FOR CROP
Ten 'nchest Needed on Average in
North Dakota to Produce Twenty.
6ushei Crop Of Wheat,

6By J. II. SHEPHERD Dean of A:ri-
cultural Department, North Dakota
Agricultural College,
As an average for the three years
trial it took Ill inches Of water to
produce 1912 bushels Of wheat on the
tall plowed land, or one inch OF water
to 1853 bushels of wheat. On the
spring plOwed land. 1856 inches Of
water we're used In the production Of
1897 bushels of wheat. or l inch to
Al bushels.
These averages include the result Of
three very different seasons The
wheat crop was pronounced good" in
1898, fair" in 1899 and very poor"
In 1900. Perhaps the crop Of 1900 il
TOO much of an extreme to be includ-
ed In the averages. BY comparing the
results from the two sets Of plots In
1898. it may be see that it required
HIS inches Of water to produce sos
bushels Of wheat on fall blowing. or
one inch to $2.44 bushels, while on
spring blowing 11.2S inches produced
k8.78 bushels which is one inch to 2.55
bushels.
In 1899, on fall blowing. it took 1921
laches Of water to produce 2O.17 bush.
els of wheat, which Is at the rate Of
one inch to 1.65 bushels Of grain. On
The spring blowing. 13.45 inches Of wa
ter gave a crop Of 1887 bushels Of
wheat and the rate vas one inch to
b.36 bushels.
! The average for the two seasons
will perhaps represent the average
North Dakota season better than the
average for the three seasons. For
the two crops 1t required on the aver
kge 1888 inches Of water to produce
k4.N bushels Of wheat on the fail
blowed land, which makes one inch Of
water equivalent to 3.0S bushels Of
wheat. On spring plowed land. 1924
inches Of water produce 1852 bushels
of wheat and one inch was equivalent
20 1.s1 bushels.
70 produce the large crop of 1898 than
It did to produce the smaller one Of
1899, and It took more water in 1899
% produce the small crop on the
,pring Moved land than It did to pro-
luce the larger one on the fall plowed
and.
E From the consideration of tho
hbove data. 1t seems safe to conclude
that at this station ten inches of wa.
ter will be required on an average for
the production Of a 20-bushel crop of
wheat, and in order to insure produc-
kion Of such a crop. three or four inch.
les Of the required amount Of water
should be contained, as available wa
TER. in the first three feet Of soil at
khe time the gRain is sown.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1913-01-10
oaotoria Carried In MIX.

to be handled carefully 30 that none
OF these disease bacteria III get into
1t. Those who handle milk should not
come near persons having q contagi-
u disease. or they are apt to carry
some Of the disease bacteria into the
milk, and 30 convey 1t to those who
use the milk. Il also makes It neces-
sary that the water In which milk cans
aro washsd b guarded for oontamin.
alton. Il requires care In delivering
milk = : hosse whore t1ars = sick
Bacteria have added mueh u tn
] Woek q The laiE1man.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1913-01-10
FOR POTATOES
New Land Is Especially Good for
Crop Of Tubers.
Where Manure 10 to Be Applied u
Should Always Be Done Year Pre-
.vious-PIant the Seeds 40
Soon a. They. Are Cut.

BY o. O. CHURCHILL. North DakoeA
Agricultural College)
Potatoes do best on a rich. deep.
'riable. loamy soil. which 10 we'll sup
Piled with humus. New land Is espe'
:ially good. The soil should be plow.
ID either In the spring or fall to .
iepth of from four to six inches, al.
ways keeping in mind that the great
est factor In successful potato culture
) the physical condition of the soil.
Potatoes will not grow on wet soils.
! is best to seed this crop after .
;rop Of clover or some grass crop. II
The land is t. be MANFRED, the manure
MOULD be applied to the crop the year
previous.
The seed should be cut to . medium
size and planted as oon "a cut. The
largest pieces will give the largest
yields on poor soil, but usually the
Increase yield is more than Offset by
The extra seed required. Sprouted or
Dther injured seed is of little value
tor planting.
The potatoes should be selected for
seed at the time of digging. using hill
selection. It will not be necessary
to change seed II this plan IL followed.
Breeding 10 one of the most important
factors and should not be overlooked.
The potatoes should be planted from
three to four inches deep in rows from
e. to 36 inches apart, and from IL to
! 6 inches apart in the row This will
require from 10 to Is ubshels Of seed
per acre. They may be narrowed un-
til tho vines IRE four to hve inches
high. Frequent and level culture will
give the best results. The potatoes
should be dug before danger Of frost.
When dug they should be left IN the
surface Of the ground until the surface
of the potato is dried, then store In q
dark. cool, well ventilated place and
kept at a temperature Of from 81 to
SO degrees F.
The market IL the most important
thing for every grower to consider.
The time. the place. and the market
demands, such as variety. color, size.
shape, quality. keeping qualities. etc.,
arc important. In certain parts Of the
country nothing but Early Ohio pc.
tatoes car be sown. In others nothing
but the Early Triumph. Large areas
Of potatoes cannot be grown success
fully except by the use Of machinery
for all the operations. II blight n
present, spray with Bordeaux mixture,
and II the seed is sebby, treat with
formaldehyde. The bugs a be killed
by mixing Paris green in with Bor'
deaux mixture. Any injury to the vines
e a serious loss in yield, and
hence the vines should be kept In q
strong, vigorous condition at all times.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1913-01-10

Average Tor lS years.. 33.s7
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1913-01-10

The plot MANFRED was given fourteen
tons of barnyard manure per acre an
nual!y. giving as can be seen in the
table, an average increase of twenty
bushels per acre.. each year for fifty
years. The value of barnyard manure
cannot be doubted when such evidence
Is produced.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1913-01-10

proposition that Z preacher. No 6ver1
u else who has q message TO del
liver, either by voice or pan. must
conform to the conditions confronting
him. II he really has something I'd
say he can take al the time required
and have no fear that his conSrega3
ton viii 90 to sleep on him: while Il
he = simply pounding the cir or ssrv|
ing out sawdust pudding It II bette3
for him to quit before beginning. ~
. rule the ssrmon that has b u
measured OF by the mlnute might O.
well b measured ~ ~ the y1r1@
Omaha Boe.
With prices Of good horses ranging
~ they do Mt present from $3.50 to
1900. depending upon breed and weight.
-it means that the farmer who p 10 the
horse raising business 10 getting be
tween IL and Is cents = pound for
horss6esh 1t three years Of age. This
\ I GOOD return and means = hand
some revenue for the man Who = llxsd
ana fenced for the .bUslnem
49, EAGE&
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FattenlnQ Stock.

Fattening stock should be fed FIRE.
quently but no more at a time than
will be readily eaten up clean. When
an animal becomes hungry and is al.
lowed to fret for food the process Of
fattening is retarded.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1913-01-10
Q.-What 10 the hardest willowf
A.-C. b. Waldron, professor Of hos

A.-C. B. Waldron, professor Of hor.
ticulture.
The common gray or white willow
and the diamond willow are both per.
feotly hardy In all parts Of the north
west. The diamond willow grows
rather rapidly while young. but does
not develop into q large tree, its chief
product being fence posts. The gray
CT white willow grows so or so feet in
height and 10 valuable for fuel. poles
and posts.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1913-01-10
GREAT BENEFITS OF MANURE
Results Secured on Wheat Field ~
Laws and Gilbert At Rothampstad
Experiment Station.

BY O. o. CHURCHILL, North Dakota
Agricultural College.)
The results Of manuring wheat 10
cured by Laws and Gilbert at the
Rothampstad experiment station, ara
given in the following table:
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1913-01-10
OF NARROWING WHEAT
increase 10 Noted In Yield, Giving ~
: Cents Per Acre More Than Plots
Not Treated.

kBy J. H. SHEPHERD, Dean of Agri-
cultural Department. North Dakota
Agricultural College.)
A single plot OF wheat was narrowed
Immediately after sowing, and was
narrowed again six, says later. which
WAS two or three days before the
grain came up, to learn the effect on
the yield:
NARROWING AFTER SOWING VS.. Or
BINARY FLOWING.
Crop of 1893.
Yield Per
Acre. Net value
Bushels. Per A.
Narrowing after sowing. $3.50 $l0.A9
Ordinary blowing ........... 2S.6S ST
Difference ............. 2.02 n
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1913-01-10

1t will be seen that an increase of
3.02 bu. q bu. 1 Ill., per acre resulted
and a gain in net value Of u cents
per acre As compared with plots not
70 treated.
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TIE ARIZONA AND NEW MEXICO RAILROAD C0.
 PASSENGER SERVICE

e:55 a. m. Lv Clifton ar. 3:53 D. m G:34 a. m. I.v Guthrie Ly 3:20 D. m. SIS a. m. Lv Duncan Ly 2:26 ? m. 9:3s a. ID Lv Lordsburg Lv 1928 D. m. 10: 45 a. m. Ar Huachita Lv 11:59 d. m. South bound train connects with Southern Pacific west bound train No. 1. leaving Lordsburg 10:57 &. m- Mountain Time.
 South bound train connects with El Pas & Southwestern east bound train for Fl Paso. leaving Hachita st U:50 a. m, Mountain Time. and with west bound train for Douglas and Bisbee. leaving Hachita at 10:50 s ia.. Mountain Time.
 R. K. iNSON, Clifton, Ariz General Passenger Agent
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WEAKNESS ALL
 ALONG THE LINE
rasra SIX

NEW YORK April 2s-An outburst of selling in the early trading today once more depressed the stock mar ket sharply. More than a score of new low records were established and the substantial advantage gained on the recent upward swing was lost prices falling under the low average of March
 After an hour of active trading the market grew steadier and grad ually improved The amount of bus mess fell or sharply on the rally with later gradual advance which put some stocks above Saturdays close Liquidation from ous or town Is said to be in progress. The list was also influenced by the weakness of foreign markets, which reflected uneasiness over complications in the Balkan situation.
 London sold stocks here at first On the decline, however, arbitrage brokers appeared as heavy buyers. London took 10000 shares.
 Bonds were heavy with a consiI cradle tall in Interborough-Met politan 4 l-2s. Total sales. par Sl,- 9O0,0OO.
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Beware of 0intments For Catarrh
 That Contain Mercury

as mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely de- range the whole system when enter ing it through the mucous surfaces. Such articles should never be used ex- cept on prescriptions from reputable phyisieians, as the damage they will do is ten fold to the good you can possibly derive from them. Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo. O.. contains no mercury, and is taken internally, act ing directly upon the hloo0 and mu- cols surfaces of the system. In buy ing Halls Catarrh Cure be sure yod get the genuine. It is taken internal ly and made in Toledo. Ohio. by r. J. Cheney & Co. Testimonials free.
 Sold by druggists. Price 75e per bottle.
 Take Halls Family Pills for com stipation.-Adyertisement.
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East Cambridge, while two thousand men. battery of heavy ordnance, and hundreds of wagons and ox-carts with timber. bales of hay, spades, crowbars. hatchets. hammers, and nails, had been gotten safely to the Dorchester hiiis.
 When they saw what had happened they thought of the assault upon Bun ker's hill, and hesitated what to do. A violent storm blew up while they waited. rendering an attack across the water impracticable, and when the csImer morning of the 9th davned it was too late; the American position was too strong. Neither the town nor the harbor could safely be held under fire from Dorchester Heights.
 The British Evacuate.
 There was nothing for it but to evacuate the place. and no one gain ssid their departure.
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forests and taken Montreal tNoyem- Der 12th, 1775l. At the same time Washington had sent force of some twelve hundred men under Benedict Arnold, to see what could be done against the little garrison at Quebec. The journey had cost Arnold four hun dred men; but with what he had left he had climbed straight to the Heights of Abraham and summoned the British at their gates.
 When they would neither surrender nor fight, he had sat down to wait for Montgomery; and when he came. with barely five hundred men, had stormed the stout defenses, in driving snow. storm, in the black darkness that came just before the morning on the last day of the year. Had Montgom- cry not been killed in the assault, the surprise would have succeeded; and Arnold had no cause to be ashamed of the gallant affair
 Failure though it was, 1t heartened the troops before Boston to think what might be done under such officers.
 Mrs. Washington Visits Camp.
 The monotony of the long, anxious season was broken at Cambridge by a touch now and again Of such pleas ures as spoke of home and gracious peace In midwinter Mrs. Washington had driven into camp, come all the way from Virginia, with proper escort in her coach and four, her horses be stfidden by black postilions in theh livery of scarlet and white; and she had seemed to bring with her to the homely place not only the cere- monious habit, but the genial and hos pitable air of Virginia as we'll
 Many quiet entertainment at head quarters coaxed a little ease of mind out of the midst of even that grim and trying winters work while she was there.
 Washington Ready to Strike.
 With the first month of spring Washington determined to cut inaction short and make decisive stroke.
 He had been long enough with the army now to presume upon it's conf dence and obedience, though he fol lowed his counsels. Siege can non had been dragged through the unwilling forests all tine way from Ticonderoga; the supplies and the time had come; and on the morning of the 9th of March, 1776, the British stared to see rsmparts and cannon on Dorchester Heights.
 Tt was like the work of the genil of Aladdin's wonderful lamp" declared one of their astonished officers.
 Occupies Dorchester Heights.
 Why they had themselves neglected to occupy the hills of Dorchester, and had waited so patiently till Washing. ton should have time and such guns as he needed, was a question much press ed at home in England; and their stu. pidity was rewarded now.
 They had suffered themselves to be amused all night by a furious cannon ading out of Roxbury, Somerville, and
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The Presidem
 of he United States
lContinned from Sundayl

Once more he settled to the old fa- miliar work, this time upon a great scale, of carrying a difficult enterprise forward by correspondence. Letters to the Continental Congress at Phila- dephia, letters to the provincial con gresses of the. New England colonies, letters to subordinate (sometimes in sbordinate) officers at distant posts, letters to intimate friends and in ,fiuential men everywhere. setting forth the needs and situation of the army, advising measures of organiza- tion, supply, and defense, pointing out means that might be used and mis takes that must be avoided, command ing, dissuading, guiding. forecasting, poured steadily forth from those busy Headquarters, where the comamnder. in-chief was always to be found. in tent. deeply employed. calmly impera. tive, never tiring. never hesitating, never storming. a leader and master of men and affairs
 Washington was in his prime, and all the forty-three years of his strenu. ous life he had been at school to learn how such a task as this was to be per. formed.
 He had found the army not only without proper discipline and equip ment, but actually without powder: and the winter had come and was passing away before even that pri- mary and perilous need could be sup piled.
 The men of that extemporized army had been enlisted but for a few months service. When their brief terms of enlistment ran out they in- confidently took themselves of: and Washington's most earnest appeals to the continental and provincial con gresses to provide for longer enlist ments and an adequate system Of re- cruitment did not always suffice to prevent his force from perilously dvindling away under his very eyes.
 Providence FsVoss the Patriots.
 It was a merciful providence that disposed the British to lie quiet ia Bos- ton.
 0AlA d1NhDlANr do h0 Ah1s W dcAkuk- ton used to the utmost, and with q diligence and foresight which showed all his old policy of Thorough.
 Under his orders a few fast vessels were fitted out and armed ss privs- tsers at the nearest safe ports. Mar. bIehead volunteers in the army wers put aboard them for crews. and the enemy's supplies were captured upon the seas and brought overland-the nuch-needed powder and alI-into the American camp, while men-of-war which might have swept the coast lay just at hand in the harbor.
 Keeping Things Stirred Up.
 No opportunity was missed either to disturb the British or to get what the army needed: and the ministers al home, as well ss the commanders in Boston, grew uneasy and apprehensiye in the presence of SO active and watch. ful an opponent
 He was playing the game boldly, even bit desperately at times. More than once, as the slow months of siege dragged by. he would have hazarded a surprise and sought to take the city by storm. had not the counsel of his officers persistently restrained him.
 Fighting in the North.
 Only ia the north was there such Sighting as he wished to see.
 Montgomery had pushed through the
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Boston

May .... -..- ...... -.....- 11.25 July ..-... .... .... ....... Il.25
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Washington Leaves Boston.

But he did not finger at Boston.
 He knew that its capture did not end, but only deepered, the struggle. Achievements would be poured out of England with the spring, and the next point of attack would unques- tionably be New York, the key to the Hudson.
 Here again was a city fianked about on either hand by water, and com manded by heights-the heights of Brooklyn. 4 garrison must be left in Boston, and New York must be held for the most part by new levy, as raw. as i'll organized and equipped, as factious, as uncertain in capacity and purpose, as that which had awaited his discipline and guidance before Boston.
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TO BE CONTINUED
WHERE IS j. R. PRgNTlcEY

The Odd Fellows Lodge in this city is in receipt of a telegram in its care and the officers are anxious to deliy. CT it to the person to whom it is nd dressed. Inquiry yesterday among the Odd Fellows failed to locate MT. Prentice. Following is the tele. gram.
 PERRY. Okla, April. 2s, 1913, J. K. Prentice,
 Q Odd Fellows Lodge, Bisbee, Ariz. No letter since seventeenth. Are you sick. Answer.
 Mrs. J. R. PRENTICE.
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Alaska ...... .... .... I214 Braden ........ .... . SI-s
 3 and A. . .. .
 q. and L. ...... ..... --.... 23 Baltic .... ..... .... 1l-s Cactus .... ...... . g Denn ~ ..
 Davis Daly .... .. 214 Elenita ax ........ ...... 2 Kerr Lake . w . 31-2 Lucky Tiger ...... . , 8 33-4 North Tisre bid ..... g Ciibway ...... ....... 2l-4 Oneco ... . . .. ltt Rainbow ax .. . .. 9
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curbs

AIheilcan .... ..---. .--... TO Tx Ahmeek ...... ..... ..... 310
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Wheat

July .........s... -... ....... 92 5-S
 May ..... ...... ..... ....- % "a
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An Ever-changlng Army.

It was an army always a-making and to be made
 The sea was open, moreover. The British could enter the great harbor when they pleased.
 The insurgents had no naval force whatever with which to withstand them on tue water. There were a score of points to be defended which were yet without defence on the long island where the town lay, and round about the spreading arms of the sea that enclosed 1t; and there were but eighteen thousand militia-men mus. tered for the formidable task. in the midst of an active loyalist popula' tion.
 The thing must be attempted, never. theless.
 Vital 10 Hold the Hudson.
 The command of the Hudson would very likely turn out to be the com. mand of the continent. and the strug- gle was now to be to the death.
 It was too late to draw back.
 The royal authority had, in fact, been everywhere openly ztTown of. even in the middle colonies, where al- legiance and opinion hung still at so doubtful a balance.
 For Washington the whole situation must have seemed to be summed up in what had taken place in his own colcny at home.
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Cotton

J u4s '..-.-....--. --.. ---.... J5 l-4
 May .... Q. .-.- .... .. 55 l-4
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By the 17th they were all embarked. eight thousand troops and nine hun dred loyalist citizens of Boston, and had set sail towards the north for Hal flax. They were obliged to leave be- hind them more than two hundred can non and a great quantity of military stores of every kind-powder, mus kets. gun-carriages, smallarms--what- ever an army might need.
 When Washington established him self in General Howe's headquarters, in Mrs. Edwards comfortable lodging house at the head of State street, he could congratulate himself not only on a surprising victory brilliantly won, but on the possession, besides, of more powder and better stores and equip ments than he could have dreamed of in his camp at Cambridge.
 He caught up his landlady's little granddaughter one day. set her on his knee, as he liked to do, and asked her, smiling, which she liked the bet ter. the redcoats or the provincials.
 The redcoats," said the child
 'Ah, my dear" said the young gen. eral, a blithe light in his blue eyes, they look better, but they don't fight. The ragged fellows are the boys for fighting
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-12-10
LIKE PIRATE DAYS OF OLD
Men Who Were Shsnghaird From
Norfolk, Va, Seek Satisfaction
From Authorities.

The days of the oyster pirates and
old wind TANNERS were recalled when
Walter McGirth, son Of North Caro-
lima farmer, and Ebert Cocran, son of
a former Pittsburg banker. told how
they had been changhaied at the point
of pistol and forced to work their
way as seamen to Hamburg when they
thought that they were going TO ship
to Boston, says the Philadelphia Times.
The immigration authorities are hand
ling the case and deputy United
States marshal. accompanied BY the
two men, is on the way to Norfolk
to arrest the agent who shipped them
The two young men met last Nov
ember in Norfolk. Va. Both were out
of employment and sought work about
the docks. They were met. according
TO their story, by an alleged crew ship
ping agent. who offered to book them
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-12-10

on the steamer Dortmund of the Ham.
burg-American line. which was lying
at the docks The young men were
told that the ship was bound for Boa
ton. They accompanied the agent to
an Office.
They say that they met a Swede on
the way and he consented to go along
The three were asked to sign ship
ping papers, but the Swede refused to
sign until he had read them. This
angered the agent, who is alleged to
have drawn a revolver and knocked
the Swede unconscious.
The young men say that they were
given about IS worth of clothing and
put aboard the ship. Then they
learned that they were bound for Ham
burg instead of Boston, but were
forced to work When the steamer
reached the other side OF the Atlantic
the young men went to Consul Cen
eral Skinner at Hamburg and
lodged their complaint. Mr. Skinner
sent them back to this country to
make their complaint TO the lmmigrs
ton authorities.