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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-08-21
Distribution Of Road Contribu-
tionS for 1914.
Pleasant Prairie.

Thursday was the last day for the
presenting of contributions for road
work in the county to be done in the
year 1914 and the officers of the Keno
sha Automobile Club were busy Thurs
day afternoon making their deposits
with the town treasurers. The total
amount contributed for the various
roads was $13,64O. This will mean an
expenditure of $S2,840 during the COM
ing Year. The entire amount of the
contributions was paid to the town
treasurers of the towns Of Pleasant
Prairie and Somers. The town of
Pleasant Prairie had a little the bet
ter Of the argument. The Geneva
road will have the most work done ON
it next year but the officers of the au-
tomobile club have assured the COM
pletion Of the Park Avenue road south
of the city. The $1,000 deposited for
this road is sufficient to secure its COM
pletion to the junction with the Sheri-
dan road. Many of the good road
boosters regret that more work was
not provided for on the Sheridan road
but the property owners on the road
raised only small fund and the money
which was raised for the road could
not be accepted on account of the fact
that the petitions on which the money
was collected called for twenty foot
roadway. 1t is probable that next
year the road boosters will center
their activities on the Sheridan road
with q view of raising fund large
enough to secure the building of this
road to the state line in 1915.
The North Shore road has Jared well
in the division of the funds and a
long stretch of concrete road will be
added to the improvement started this
year.
The amount that has been paid into
the town treasurers was carefully
gagged so that the amount would not
exceed the three mill levy which is per-
mitted under the state law. The towns
Of Pleasant Prairie and Somers will
have to vote a tax up to the full limit
allowed by the law in order to meet
the demands of the property owners.
The city will be forced to contribute
largely to the building of rural roads
this year the amount to be assessed
against the city being in the neighbor-
hood of $4,000.
The special elections for voting road
funds are still to be held. In the town
of Somers the election viii be held on
August 23d and it is thought that a
levy of $4,000 will be voted. The town
of Bristol will also make IFS road levy
at a special town meeting to be held
later in the present month and it is
thought that it will vote an appropria-
ton of not less than $4,000.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-08-21

suggest. The principles of feeding the
sugar crops, the methods of culture
and handling, the attention and skill
of the workers, are such as to create IN
every field and factory devoted to
sugar culture an agricultural expert
ment station of the highest type. The
soil and climatic conditions in the great
err part of the United States are thor
oughly favorable to beet culture, ana
America is the greatest sugar market
in the world.
"In the case Of the sugar beet the
crops which are grown in rotation with
it yield very much larger returns than
when the old fashioned system of agri-
culture prevailed. The reflex action OF
this influence becomes a benefit to
American agriculture the value or
which it would be difficult to measure
in dollars end cents.
wherever the sugar beet is cult
waited the farmers are all prosperous,
no matter what kind of other crops
thew raise. The beet generally i'm
proves the productiveness of the soil in
all kinds of agriculture. 1t causes the
employment of more labor and lndl-
rectly benefits commerce and transpor'
tation and produces in every commu-
nifty conditions of prosperity in agrl-
culture which it would be difficult to
bring about in any other way.
1.-THE culture of the beet brings into
the neighborhood the large sugar fac
tory using fuel and other raw mate
rial, with its complement of laborers
and experts, thus giving better and
more profitable market to the surround
ing farmers for all their products.
while there has been general tend
ency toward the reduction of tariff du-
ties, this tendency has not reached IN
many cases the extent of the abolition
Of import duties altogether. In any
changes of this sort let as much as pos
sible be saved to the farmer In view
of the great Importance of domestic
sugar production to the prosperity OF
the American farmer, if tariff adjust
ments are to be made, believe that
this should be the last rather than the
first point at which to remove the Gus
toms duty.
Zone CT the best things about sugar
beet culture from the point of view of
agricultural Improvement is that 1t fits
in so perfectly with dairying and stock
growing. 1t is, of course, one Of the
elementary facts Of plactical dairying
that the rearing and keeping Of live
stock afford the easiest, cheapest and
most natural means of Improving the
fertility of the soiLs
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-08-21
new METHODS HOLD KEY
TO WEALTH FOR WISCONSIN
American Farmers Now Far
Behind Germans In all
Crop Yields Per Acre,
Says Expert.
JUDGED by comparison with 9TH

TUDGFD by comparison with 9TH
er states, Wisconsin is holding
A her own as producer of farm
crops. Judged by what has
been accomplished by European farm
ers on their wornout lands, which have
been titled for centuries, Wisconsin's
farm output is far below what it
should be. The farmers of the state
ought to be receiving for their staple
crops $50,O00,O00 to $600o000O a year
more than they are now receiving.
They could do this as a result Of in
creased yields if they would adopt the
crops and cultural methods which
have proved tremendously successful
In advancing agricultural production
in Germany during the past thirty
years and to which Wisconsin is well
adapted.
These are some of the striking con-
illusions to be drawn from a letter
on Wisconsin agricultural conditions
which has just been addressed to Sen
ator La Toilette by Truman G. Palmer,
distinguished student of agricultural
economics, who has spent the past ff-
teen years in studying farming condi-
lions in the United States and Europe.
During the past thirty-three years."
writes Mr. Palmer, "the German farm
er has increased his collective aver
age yield of wheat, oats, barley and
rye 80 per cent During the same pc
riod Wisconsin farmers have increased
their yield of the same crops only 8
per cent, or slightly under the aver
age increase for the United States.
'In the ten year period from 1869 to
1873 the average yield per acre Of
wheat in Wisconsin was 1873 bushels.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-08-21

In the ten years from 1899 to 1903 it
was 16.1 bushels, During all this Pc
Rod the progress of knowledge and
skill in the cultivation of their fields
enabled the farmers of your state to
add only % bushels per acre to their
wheat yield. During this same period
the wheat crop of Germany rose from
seventeen bushels to thirty bushels an
acre, gain Of thirteen bushels an
acre. The increase secured by the
German farmers is equal to nearly sew
en-eighths of the total average yield in
Wisconsin
In the decade ending witt 1873 the
farmers of Wisconsin harvested an
average Of 84.3 bushels of oats to the
acre. In the decade 1S99-1908 they
harvested 334 The progress of the
art Of agriculture in dealing with the
wisconsin oat crop had resulted in
loss Of practically one bushel to the
acre in period of thirty years. At
the same time the yield per acre of
oats in Germany increased from 80
bushels to SO bushels per acre. Start
ing with an average of two bushels
less to the acre, the German oat grow
erS have advanced to a position where
they are obtaining over % bushels
more to the acre than are the farmers
of Wisconsin.
while the yield of barley has gone
from % to 80 bushels an acre in Ger
many during the past three decades, it
has advanced only 215 bushels in Wis
consin. Germanys rye crop gave an
average yield of barely Is bushels an
acre in 1879 and at the end of thirty
years was producing over 90 bushels
to the acre. In that sane period the
rye crop of Wisconsin mad improved
less than ~ bushels to the acre.
Wisconsin grows many potatoes,
but her farmers today are able to coax
from an acre of land only FIVE bushels
more than they did thirty years ago.
On the other hand the German potato
yield has more than doubled and now
stands at upward of 200 bushels to the
acre.
in the case of corn it is not possible
&c make a comparison with Germany,
as corn is not a staple crop of that
country. 1t is noteworthy. however.
that Wisconsin's cornfelds, which pro-
duced 31.S bushels to the acre in the
ten year period ending with 1873, pro-
duced only 1874 bushels to the acre in
the decade ending with 1908. gain of
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-08-21
HOW TO GET CHEAP SUGAR.
Beet Growing Will Result In Big Saw
ing to Consumers.

Beet Growing Will Result In Big Saw
ing to Consumers.
Mr.. w p Willett, who is recognized
as the greatest statistical expert on
sugar in the country, is authority for
the statement that the competition of
the domestic beet product lowered
wholesale sugar prices an average of
half cent pound during 1912. More
over, he estimates that instead Of being
off the market by the first Of the year,
as is usually the case go per cent. of
the entire beet sugar crop was carried
over into the present year and that it
will exercise an influence in the direc-
ton of lower prices throughout 1913.
1t is q familiar phenomenon in the
sugar trade that wholesale prices go
down every year when beet sugar
comes upon the market and that prices
go up again as soon as the beet sugar
is disposed of and the big seaboard re-
finers of imported sugar are again in
control Of the situation.
During the Hardwick committees in
vestigation of the sugar industry the
examination of Mr. Willett as to the
best means Of insuring a permanent
supply of cheap sugar for the Ameri-
can consumer brought from him the
admission that the only WY to accom-
plish this was to encourage the beet
sugar industry to develop as rapidly as
noSSihla
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-08-21

Excepting domestic beet sugar, prac-
tically all sugar consumed by the Amer
lean people is purchased as raw sugar
by the four seaboard refining concerns,
which fix the price consumers must pay
for their refined product All domestic
beet sugar leaves the factory ready for
the table and enters into direct competi-
ton with the product Of the refners of
foreign raw sugar During the three
to five months in which domestic beet
sugar is marketed the competition it
creates compels the refners to reduce
their prices or withdraw from the mar
ket IL there were no domestic beet
sugar the price of sugar would be
higher during three to five months OF
each year, and if more beet sugar were
produced the price of sugar would be
lower throughout the year. = Senate
Document $50, Sixty-second Congress.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-08-21
TO BUILD AT WILMETTE.
Bahai Cult to Make Illinois village
a Universal Center.

Payments for the eight acres Of land
Immediately south of the drainage
canal intake in Wilmette, which is to
become the universal center Of the re-
ligion Of Bahai, have just been COM
pleted. Local representatives of the
religion yesterday announced work
I'D be begun within the year upon
81 100000 temple on the land. As soon
as work has been started contracts
viii be let for school for orphans,
college for higher scientific education,
hospital and home for cripples.
Believers in the faith will contribute
money for the buildings, which will
take ten years 10 complete. At the end
of that time, according to believers
in the faith, Chicago will becop
the center of the Bahaism.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-08-21
NEW RATES IN EFFECT.
New Parcel Post Rates go Into Effect
at All Offices in the Nation Today.

New Parcel Post Rates go Into Effect
at All Offices in the Nation Today.
Uncle Sam has again declared divi-
dends on the parcel post system, in the
form of lower rates and improved serv-
ice which went into effect today. This
time the rates in the first two zones
are lowered and the limit of carriage
will be raised from eleven pounds to
twenty pounds. The second zone will
be practically eliminated as the rates
have been lowered until they are the
same as the first zone, five cents for
the first pound and one cent for each
additional two pounds. The former
rate was enc cent for each additional
pound.
The parcel post maps are also Off.
eially discarded for something better
Each postofice will be supplied with
a directory of all Offices, postofices
including the rate of postage. A sep
arate book will be compiled for each
Office.
Originally the government had
planned to carry about 300,00o,o0C
packages the first year of the service
but with the many improvements, it is
estimated, judging from the statistics
that the number viii be over twice
that amount.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-08-21
New Laboratory Opened at
Madison to Aid in Testing
the Soils of Wisconsin.
SEE BIG BENEFIT TO FARMERS

Methods to be employed III the es-
tablishment and operation of the new
state soils laboratory are the principal
subjects of consideration at the present
time in the soils department of the
University of Wisconsin s College Of
Agriculture. Prof. A. R. Whitson, in
charge of the work, is also making
provisions for the work of the depart
ment in relation to the organization of
drainage districts.
Possibilities of great financial benefit
to the farmers Of the state from the
establishment of this laboratory are al
most unlimited. Part of the work will
be to examine in the field land belong
ing to individual farmers and to make
such chemical analysis as may be nee
essary to determine lines of treatment
best adapted for the maintenance and
increase of soil fertility. Of course in
this connection the laboratory will aid
the farmer in developing whatever sys-
tenn of crops may be suitable to his
land.
While this department has carried on
much extension work in the past, espe-
cially in conducting crop experiments
with individual farms, this is the first
time provision has been made for field
analysis. The law requires a So charge
for the examination of 160 acres or less
and single soil analysis. For the exam
ination of additional tracts and for
additional analyses the rate is So. But
when five or more farmers in a COM
munity unite in their request for the
laboratory's service the department
must make field examination and soil
analyses at the rate of So per individ-
ual and also to send a representative
to the community, after this work has
been done, who will give complete ex-
PLANTATION of the results of the chemical
study and discuss with the farmers
practical plans for soil Improvement
and crop increase.
The last legislature also revised the
drainage laws of the state in reference
to the organization of districts and the
construction of town bitches. This re-
vision aimed at reduction of the time
and expense now involved in the or
ganization Of districts. The new law
requires that citizens desiring to or
game drainage district must make
application to the circuit court and az
tach to this application an itemized
statement of the cost of the survey and
report by the college Of agriculture
outlining the quality of the soil, the
feasibility of draining, probable bene-
fits to accrue, and the probable cost of
the project. This viii necessitate care
full field Investigations of the proposed
drainage districts by representatives
from the soils department.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-08-21
WAGES AND PRICES.
Sugar Beet Farmers and Workers Get
Much Higher Rates Here.

Sugar Beet Farmers and Workers GET
Much Higher Rates Here.
The difference between the condi-
tons under which beet sugar is pro-
duced in the United States and e.
rope is strikingly shown by report
just published as United States SEN
ate document Summarizing 1T re-
ports from various European countries,
this document shows that So cents a
day was the highest rate earned by
men working IN the European beet
fields, while 46 cents was the average
rate. In all the European countries,
however, the greater part of the field
labor is done by women and children
at wages ranging from 10 cents day
for children in Russia to 36 cents q
day for women in Denmark To these
poor laborers the $3.50 a day, which
represents the average earnings Of field
workers in the United States, must APP
pear a princely income.
Among the factory workers engaged
in beet sugar production the difference
is equally striking The men working
in the factories Of the great European
sugar making countries, France and
Germany. receive an average daily
wage of 81 cents, according to official
figures published by their own govern
ments. The average American wage
for employees in the beet sugar fac
tories, $3.50 a day, is more than three
times as great.
Likewise the farmers who grow the
beets in Europe receive only 81 to $3.50
ton for their crops, although they
pay four to five times as much rent for
their land as the American farmer
does
While these figures serve to show
why it is that Europe can produce
sugar cheaper than the United States
and why the present tariff on foreign
sugar is necessary to enable American
factories to continue these high rates,
it is an interesting fact that the only
important country of Europe where
the people are able to buy sugar
cheaper than in the United States is
England. Even in England the price
paid for the sugar most generally used
is as high as the prices paid here. On
the whole the lot Of an American sugar
beet grower or worker must be con-
sidered far preferable to that OF his
European competitor.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-08-21

There was very pleasant gather
ing at the home of R. B. Campbell and
wife on Tuesday evening August y,
the occasion being their 18th wedding
anniversary. At $50 very bounti-
full supper was served to a hundred
guests after which dancing and card
playing were enjoyed by all unsil the
early hours Of morning. Mr. and Mrs.
Campbell received some very useful
gifts. The guests departed declaring
the Campbell royal entertainers and
wishing them many more years of
married life
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-08-21
The GOSPEL OF
The SUGAR BEET
Dr.. Harvey ". Wiley breaches
1t to Farmers.
AWONDERFUL TRANSFORMER
"Wherever the Sugar Beet Is cutivat-
ed,' DR.. Wiley Declares, "the Farm
ers Are All Prosperous"-America
Fully Fifty Years Behind Europe.

ed" DR.. Wiley Declares, "the Farm.
ers Are All Prosperous"-America
Fully Fifty Years Behind Europe.
Farming practices in vogue upon a
great majority of the cultivated tracts
in America are obsolete" declares DR..
Harvey w. Wiley, former chief chem
list of the Department of Agriculture.
"In agriculture we are fully fifty
years behind Europe, and the better
utilization Of our farm resources is one
of the most important problems before
the country.
"Old fashioned, slipshod methods of
producing wheat and cotton and corn
are still in vogue in over 50 per cent
of the country devoted to these indus
tries said DR.. Wiley, continuing his
impeachment of our lax farming
methods. ''The growing of these
crops until within a few years could
not have been ranked as agriculture,
but should have been described as
highway robbery of the soil. AS re-
suit the average production per acre Of
these crops has fallen to minimum.
EARNING, for one thing, must be
made more attractive. 1t should be
made more profitable. This will be
done as our farmers learn more thor
ouglly the principles of intensive cult
walton and get a knowledge of the
methods of feeding the soil and Of the
rotation Of crops.
'gro this end I have been preaching
for the past thirty years the gospel of
the sugar beet.
"The production of the sugar beet
requires the highest style of intensive
culture that science has been able to
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-08-21
Officials of Automobile Club
Make Deposits with Town
Treasures on Thursday
PLEASANT PRAIRIE LEADS

Total of S13,640 is Contributed to Som
ers and Pleasant Prairie Under the
Direction of Club-Sheridan Road to
be Center of Fight in Coming Year.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-08-29

than a cell waiting for youi" was the
malicious retort.
mo Doubt" said the other stoically,
But as his eyes again swept the ho-
rizon, from the opposite direction ap-
peared another band Of riders. At
first the prisoner, regarding them
looked puzzled; then as the new-com-
ers rode straight and rapidly on to-
ward the cross. his countenance ex-
pressed faint understanding. A
fresh relay Of men, he concluded; one
his present guard would consign him
to, and then themselves return to the
Mount. Still was the meeting-place an
odd one, and the deiheanor Of the two
bodies Of men not entirely consistent
with his conclusions; for, as they
drew nearer, both parties slackened
their pace, suspiciously to scrutinize
each other.
Twenty-Five number agreed upon!
muttered the Marquis, and spurring on
fast, led his troops nearer the cross.
Not many PAGES distant the word
was given to halt. end, as they obeyed,
on the other side of the monument the
strange men likewise drew rein. AT
the same moment, there flashed on the
captiYe's mind a discovery. These
faces, looking so grimly out over the
marshy field at them, were not the
wooden visages Of paid soldiers. but of
men he knew-his men! Across the
space separating the two parties he
could read their quick looks-their
atisfaction-their complacency! He
watched them with eyes In which
pride and tenderness mingled. And
then, for the first time, did he observe
they had brought some one with them
"a woman. or girl-the Governors
daughter!
The bold black eyes Of the prisoner
| regarded her fixedly. What did II
mean? said his keen gaze. Colorless
as marble, my lady held herself very
erect on her horse; then while his
glance yet probed her, the proud face
slowly changed on the cold cheek
youths bright banner flared high. The
young man turned; following the d.
rection of her gaze. looked at the Mar
quis; my lords features radiated fe-
licitations; his eyes shone with vel
come. And fuller understanding
came over the prisoner; in some mys
terious manner had the Lady Elise
been made captive, and now had the
nobleman come to escort his betrothed
back to the palace.
Even as the Black Seigneur reached
this conclusion. he became cognizani
his bonds had been loosened; the reint
placed In his hands. You are free,
said voice and mechanically he rode
toward his comrades.
Thus, near the crumbling and time