Evening star., 1914-10-10

MAI. WILLIAM M. KING.
| he attended Antioch College at Yellow
Springs. where he came under the in
fiuence Of Horace Mann. one of the
| most distinguished educators in the
country at that time.
After his college days Maj. King
then Mr.. King, Of course-engaged in
the nursery business in Ohio. He
moved to st. Louis before the civil war
and carried on the same industry there.
At the outbreak Of the war he entered
the United States sanitary commission,
in which he rendered such service that
when he was finally retired, near the
close of the conflict. he was highly
| complfmented by the government.
| came an associate editor Of Colman's s
| Rural World. Six years later, owing to
| i'll 'health-one would never think 1t
| now-the, major returned to Ohio and
became associated with the Farm and
Fireside of Springfield.
| July 1. 1885. Maj. King retired from the
| paper to become chief of the seed di-
vision of the United States Department
| Of Agriculture. Maj. King held this po-
sition for four years. and accomplished a
! felt by the country. He was the first man
i to introduce the testing of the quality of
seed before the Department bought it.
Before Maj: King came in the depart
.
| almost. But things changed. During his
third year as chief OF the seed division
$2,7o0 worth Of bad seed was returned to
dealers who were trying to impose on
, Uncle Sam.
Maj. King also was one of the first men
| to apply the principle of sending the
right seed to the right place. He put
into active practice the sending Of seed
| to the section Of the country best adapt
ed to its culture.
Tn 1900 Mai Zinc hacap,o
editor Of the weekly edition of one Of
the local papers In 1897, when James
/ Wilson became Secretary of the Depart
! ment Of Agriculture. he appointed Maj.
was known until this year. but now the
bureau OF crop estimates, where he is
serving today.
Maj. King was married to Miss Mar
garet McLouth in 1869. Mrs. King was
the sister of DR.. L. A. McLouth, ex-
president of the South Dakota Agricul-
tural College and founder Of the State
Normal Institute at Ypsilanti. Mich. Maj.
! Kings wife was for over twenty years a
favorite writer on phone topics" in the
Farm and FIreside of Springfield, over
! the signature OF MAZDA Mel
Maj. King and Mrs. King live at present
at Ballston with DR.. w. c. welburn. their
| son-in-law who married their daughter.
tires Of telling how Mrs. King was a
farmers daughter" and the beauty of
Mrs. Welburn is a favorite theme.
Maj. King Is member of Columbia
and was a member of Harmony Lodge
In this city for great many years
He is junior vice commander of George
g. Meade Post: No. 5, G. A. r. He at
one time conducted the post paper.
The major is now engaged in review
| ing agricultural and trade papers, in
| which work he finds his past expe-
riences as editor and writer invaluable
and when 1t comes to penmanship
| Maj. King, it is said. writes the stead
/, lest hand in the office.
The official paper of Germany. the
Reichsanzeiger, has not been received
| at the department for good while
| now. The official journal from Berlin
came in the other day several months
! late. but this is not thought by Off
cials to bear any significance except
| that some vessel managed to get
| through. Papers have been received
| regularly from Russia and Hungary.
| way of Trieste.
DR.. 8. A: Jones, chief of the division
Of crop reports, returned to his once
recently from an official trip through
the south.
Miss Laura F. .Shipe. in charge of the
stenographic section of the bureau OF
chemistry. Is to be on leave next week.
Miss NJ F. wilcoxen, clerk in the
bureau of animal industry, mas re-
signed her position, and 1t Is unoer
| stood by friends in the departmen.
that she is to move to San Francisco.
]. L. Watts, a clerk in the bureau OF
animal industry, has rendered his resie-
nation from the bureau, and mas gone
to New York. -
The insecticide and fungicide board
clock, which stopped last week, Is go.
ing again. To visitors 1t seems as II
its face fairly smiles And no wonoel.
1t is waving its hands all day long 10
T. c. Shaw Of Georgia and A: F. Hit
OF Idaho were the two Held agents
called In. by the bureau of crop esti-
mates to serve on the crop reporting
| board which got out the reports the
middle OF the week.
ion OF a ,member of the board, from the
results OF the figures he helped to com
pile. The tobacco crop bids fair to be
larger than ever. and potatoes and ap-
pies will be very plentiful.
The price Of cotton has declined about
~ per cent. since last October, the Of
f1cial points out. August l cotton sold
cents pound and the 1st of this month
for 7.S cents pound. October !. 1913,
cotton sold for 1913 cents a pound.
On top OF the restricted export busi-
ness the production Of cotton in the
United States this year will probably
be second only to the banner crop OF