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The bee., 1914-03-31
Weight Not Criterion.

weight Not Criterion.
What worries some farmers is that
the materials used do not weigh a ton.
This is nothing to worry about. They
contain the same amount of plant food
as the ton OF 2-S-2 mixture, and bags.
freight and hauling are saved on sos
pounds In ton, saving on these
items OF rs per cent.
Another very interesting study was
the selling price OF mixtures of acid
phosphate and potash. These are mix
lures OF two very simple materials,
acid phophste and sufate or murlate
OF potash.
IL was found that the average com
position of these mixtures was 10 per
cent OF available phosphoric acid and
2.sS per cent of potash, and that the
average selling price was s22.3o per
ton.
1870 pounds OF IA per cent acid
phosphate and 1870 pounds Of sulfate
OF potash would give the amount OF
phosphoric acid and potash in a ton
Of the average composition named, and
could be purchased for about 1880.
The cost of mixing should certainly
not be more than s1.OO per ton.
Limestone Good Filler.
II a filler is desired, limestone
ground to pass seiye of ten meshes
to the inch may be used and
~ will have n hona6ot.1 oRoo4 -, ~ q
availability of the acid phosphate
used in the mixture, but there is little
danger of first-class materials getting
in poor mechanical condition after
being mixed.
The only object in mixing fertilizers
Is to save time in application. The
writer's opinion is that mixed fertil-
izers should be used only in limited
way for the purpose of stimulating
the crop, or giving 1t good start"
II the soil is deficient in phosphorus
large quantities OF phosphate of some
form should be used broadcast and
well worked into the soil The same
statement may be made for potash.
Nitrogen should be obtained by the
growing of legumes. Nitrogen used
in mixed fertilizers with fall sown
crops is Of little effect. 1t is better to
use some soluble form of nitrogen,
such as nitrate of soda OF sulfate of
ammonia. as top dressing, when
spring growth begins.
Readers are referred to Bulletin No.
l4O of the Kentucky Experiment Sta
ton. Literature on soil fertility will
be furnished upon application to the
Station
The bee., 1914-03-31
a ton Of thl. compo.
14 per cent acid

IL, ~ IL per cent acid
Phosphate worth ,........$ 500
2l5 lbs. OF nitrate Of soda. 49,. 6.45
81 lbs. OF sulfate OF potash
worth ..............,.... z.SO
l,442 lbs of materials worth. -. 1876
These prices are based upon s14
per ton for IA per cent acid phosphate,
$50 per ton for nitrate OF soda, and
s55 for sulfate Of potash, which are
retail prices for these materials, but
they may be bought at lower rates In
larger quantities from wholesale deal
ers or manufacturers.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-07-16
Daddy Bedtime
~ The Sun
.OTOYV- Considers He
Is Helpful.
with such force that

UT had been a very hot day. The SUI had beaten down with such force that
many people could OF stay out at ALL
"Hasnt it been a hot day, daddyT" said Jack.
lit certainly has" answered daddy. but do you know the reasonT
"No" inquired Evelyn. WAS there a rason?" is
Most certainly" continued daddy, and perhaps it was this: A few days
ago a little girl was sick, and the doctor said that the thing which would save
her life would be the IL. g."
Nov, you can imagine, the u was very proud when he heard that. TO
me very happy to think that may save a little sick girls life. What could
and have done all they can. Really when you think of it I am just like a
maybe going many miles to see here 1 am, and no has 10 pay a cent
conceited. 1t was his pride and delight that he was able to save the life OF a
little girl. and he said that he most certainly would save her life. In the
the days are longer than in the winter, and he was given more oL
portunfty.
"But the next day when he vas shining brightly and was making every
thing, oh, SO warm. he heard a dtsagreeabke little girl say to a friend of hers:
"Oh. l do wish that horrd ods u would not shine 81 hard?
why, asked her little friend, don't you like it when 1t is nice and
warm? We can play and never have to put o any hortd wraps, and We can
so in wading and swimming and just have the best time
NO said the little girl; I simply hate it because it makes m have
frckes. / just hate the freckles / have in the summer, and every one leases
lie 10 about them
why, how absurd answered her little friend. What do you care If you
have freckles in the summer
1.-The u listened to the conversation with great interest and he said to
himself:
well, II any ne is going to make such a fuss about a few little frckes /
am going to get mad and blaze l an going to SEE that my little sick friend
is cured. by me- just IS the doctor said she would be- And l shall see that 1T
Is a fine sunny summer 81 every one will have a good time and feel we'll
"You see, today was the first day since all that happened, and the SUN
most certainly kept his word"
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-07-16
Wheat Higher on
Coast Canal May
Be Responsible
Holland in Minneapolis Journal:

Holland in Minneapolis Journal:
New York, July 16.-As soon as the
reports were. received in this city that
wheat was commanding the same price
at the export cities of the Pacific coast
that is quoted for it in Chicago. il
seemed almost as though there might
have been some mistake in he figures.
But later reports confirmed the first.
Behind this new statement. 1t Is
thought here, lie very significant
facts.
First Of all it is spoken of as a cir
cumstance which is sure to become
traditional that in the year of the
opening of the Panama canal for navi-
cation the United States harvested not
only its greatest wheat crop but the
largest ever harvested in any country.
That of course is q coincidence due
wholly or in great part to Favorable
climatic conditions. But it is. believed
here that some ccoun must be taken
of the improved methods of cultivation
which certainly to some extent ex-
plain the wheat harvest of this year.
Higher Price on Slope.
The great wheat growing aeras west
of the Rocky mountains would, it has
been deemed certain. furnish cargoes
SOOISt VI ldlSI LII NSSCLo 4lofl5dIAAS
the Panama canal. But it occurred to
no one that his grain, probably in
large quantities, would be carried from
the Pacific coast through the canal i'm
mediately or very soon after the open
ing of that waterway to navigation.
Although no one here ventures to as
sert positively that the opening Of the
Panama canal and the harvesting Of a
! great wheat crop on the Pacific coast
explain why the quotations for wheat
| are now the same in Chicago, or were,
a few days ago, as the quotations al
the Pacific coast, nevertheless 1t is
| presumed that the facilities for cheaF
transportation of Pacific coast wheat
| through the canal have caused a for
eign demand for hat wheat which, il
it be continued, should result in yield
| ing to those farmers of the Pacific
| slope who raise wheat from 8 to II
| cents a busheI more than they have a
any time in the past been able to ge'
for their wheat.
If this surmise be a. correct one, theI
II is reasonable to assume that tn
opening Of the Panama canal to navi
CATION is, from the first, greatly tt
stimulate the commerce which here
after will originate at the Pacific
ports.
The Lumberman's View.
The lumbermen Of British NORTH
America at least two years ago Were
confident that the Panam cana
would greatly stimulate the lumbe.
Industry of Vancouver island and tn,
western part of British North Amer
lea. The experts made some careful
estimates for the lumbermen. TIL
figures made what was apparently.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-07-16

strike, the employees regarded it as a
lockout, but by whatever name, the
loss in wages and the inevitable de-
%privation and suffering have been the
same. 1t is fairly safe to reckon a
wife and two children for each Of
these $4,000 men, and if that basis is
accepted, there is a good-sized city
are of this sort:
Since the strike have you lost your
home because you could not make the
payments ?" Were you compelled to
take any of you children out Of school
and send them to work." WAS your
wife COMPELLED to take up work to
earn money because you were forced
out Of you job?' Have you been
forced to get along with poorer and
less food and clothing for yourself and
family since the striker" Have you
had sickness in our family since the
strike, directly or indirectly caused by
poVerty?" DO you know of any strik-
er or member of his family who COM
mitted suicide because of the poverty
into which he was forced by the
strike?"
There are ffty-two of these ques-
tions, by which it is sought to ascer-
tain how many homes have been
broken up, how many men have been
made tramps. how many wives have
sought work to which they were I'M
accustomed, how man children have
suffered.
It is not difficult to imagine, in a
general way, what the sum Of the re-
plies will be. 1t will be a story Of the
cost of a struggle between employers
and employed, only it will present but
one side. The loss to the employers
did not, presumably, cause so much
actual deprivation, but it was a loss
all the same. 1t is a good idea, this of
the Federation of Labor. Had there
been such facts available years ago.
many a strike might have been avert
ed.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-07-16
WEDNESDAY, JULY IS, 1914.
USING Il PARKS,

Fargo is making good use of It's w
splendid parks n they are rapidly
becoming what they should be, the
summe recreation grounds Of the
people. Under the able direction Of
Fargo's efficient and energetic park
board, the parks are being made beau
tiful and useful.
This idea of using the parks for the
people is spreading. In St. Louis, for
instance, they have provided outdoor
sleeping accommodations for a limited
number of people, and mothers who
have feared that their children might
die as a result of the extreme heat, If
confined to crowded quarters where
there is insufficient air at the best Of
times, are now learning that they can
sleep in the open air if they please.
with a bit of canvas as a shelter.
A few years ago parks were as in
violable in their stiff uselessness as If
they belonged to an absentee landlord.
They were supposed to be hedged
about by some sort of divinity-the
divinity of of1Cialdom. The most con-
sEicuous thing about them was a little
board. nailed upon an upright, and
bearing the legend, Keep off the
grass.
1t is difficult to see just how the
parks were a good investment in those
days. And it is gratifying to find that
this sort of thing is passing, or has
passed, all over the country.
Little by little the spirit of recrea-
ton was brought into the parks. 1t
got to be popular to recognize the Tact
that the parks were the people's-and
they were to be used by the people in
every proper way, so long as the
rights and privileges Of all might be
maintained.
Fargo may not need to use it's parks
for sleeping quarters, out it does need
to. keep them oIen to all the people
all, the time.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-07-16
LET'S KEEP OUR A

The Minneapolis Tribune has a
timely and greatly needed warning in
commenting on the New Haven dis
closures. The Tribune says:
men eager for better business con-
ditions will attempt, of course, to be-
little the report on the New Haven
from the interstate commerce COM
mission. They cannot. Nothing can
dim the understanding of the people
that here is one of the most sensation
al indictments returned in the history
kof the country.
Less than $480,O00 was involved in
ethe star route frauds. The whisky
Efrauds reached a total Of $3.50, 900,
EOficial estimate was not made Of the
EUnion Pacific frauds; but they hardly
kexceeded SIS, 900, 900. This, however, is
ia. story of waste and mismanage-
lment", of loose, e~xtravagant and i'm
kprovident administration, of "unwar-
(Tantable expenditure, of unlawful
sdiversion of CORPORATE funds" which
Twill amou to between $50, 1000, 900
and $50, 900, OOo".
ut is idle to deny, Furthermore, that
Ethe homo Of a great name is impugn-
led. The commission makes clear its
kbelief that Mr. Morgan and Mr.. Mel
Hen, in domination of the board of di-
Erectors, are accountable for the pay
Ement of slush funds to lobbyists, to
newspapers, to political bosses, for
kstock jobbing; for the m of
E"prices exorbitantly in excess of mar
Eket values; for an "indefensible stand
sard of business ethics and the absence
sof financial acumen". So fragrant is
1.-THE wrongdoing reported that suits are
Hsuggested for the recovery of the
Eunoney thus spent and report of the
transactions has been sent to prose-
Ecuting attorneys in three states.
What it has been the fashion to
Fcharge against the money power,
hwhat Mr.. Bryan. MI. LaFollette, and
Stheir associates have alleged vaguely
land Unexpectedly, is here shown forth
hconcretely. The report justifes the
worst stories that nave been told Of
American railroad management. 1t
Twill be used, naturally, to justify
Fnaany more that have no basis what
EBoeVer in fact. 1t will have value in
sustaining the authority of the inter-
Estate commerce commission, and it in
Ivites the gravest danger in providing
NEW ammunition for the demagogue.
We Americans must see to it that
the harm stops. If we do not, no one
can. We must give such support to
our officials that betrayal of public
trust, in this or n other fashion, by
men of this high station, or any other,
may be punished. But we must be or
the alert also not to permit our in
dignation to make partners of us for
another kind of ~crook-the politician
who undertakes to climb on such dis
closures through tearing W the only
highways open to modern commerce
We have a job to keep u heads. II
we are big enough for it business will
not suffer, and the demagogue will
stay where he belongs.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-07-16
THE DEAD.

Where the pallid smokes are lifting,
Where the wraiths of death are drift
ing,
the colds Of dawn are shifting
Through the dusk;
Where the huddled blue and gray,
Where the sodden fields of clay.
Where the unknown dead men lay
Dig the trench; ri .
Where the cannon wheels bite deep,
Where the smitten grasses sleep,
Where the winds a requiem keep,
Hide then in.
Somewhere broken with their woe,
Somewhere there are hearts that know
Every name!
Not &. soldier that We gave
Where the battles red tides lave,
Not a dead mar in his grave
But is known!
On ON woman's altar-fiame
Glorified to hero-fame,
Not a dead man but has name
For Gods ear!
Past the hot heartbeats of hating,
Past the grass-grown years belating
Each for each a woman's waiting
At the bars.
Each shall wake at the dawn's fam
ing
Quicken to a wonan's claiming,
Woman's lips and Wonaan's naming
Past the stars!
Sleep, then We, the Dead Unknown"
Till the trumpet blast is blown,
Till We waken, named and kflowa-
Named and known!
Louise Durham Goldsberry in The
Christian Advocate.
Pure lithium, which is h lightes
metal known, has no practical use.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-07-16
Direct LEGISLATION in oreaon.

Duluth Herald: Those who believe
in direct legislation the initiative
and the referendum-would feel a little
easier if oregon, the experiment sta
ton, would quit loading up it's referen-
dunn ballots.
This year there are thirty-six pro-
posals pending that the people must
pass in on November, and h end is
not yet. The lists are still open, and
more are expected before they close.
In 1904 only two measures were
submitted. In 1906 there were eight.
In 1908 there were sixteen, in 1910
thirty-two and in 1912 the number had
risen to thirty-seven.
There Is SO far only one less this
year, and the prospects are that a
new record will be set.
That's altogether too many. 1t
makes direct legislation a burden, and
the surplus of more or less insignia
| cant measures tends to confuse n
| submerge the measures of first m
portance.
The term direct legislation" is a
| misnomer. It creates the idea that
the plan is a substitute for legislation
by lawmaking bodies, when 1t ought
to be nothing Of the sort.
The initiative is working ideally
when it is not exerted at all because
| the legislature by its loyalty and re-
sponsiveness to the public will makes
it unnecessary to exert It.
The referendum is working Ideally
when it is not working at all because
the legislature enacts no laws against
the public will.
When the initiative and the refer
endum are first adopted in a state 1T
is natural that they should be used
somewhat unduly. They are new ma
chinery, and people like to see how
new machinery works. But that
ought to be a passing phase, and the
number Of measures presented to the
people ought to dwindle. both because
the people get used to the initiative
and the referendum n because the
legislature, knowing that these
weapons are available for use, will
behave itself so well that it will not
be necessary to use them.
But it isn't working out that way
in Oregon, apparently. There is an
increase where there. ought to be a
decrease. 1t would be more COM
Portable for advocates of the initia-
tive Inc the referendum if it were no
so.
The initiative and referendum sys-
tenn that the people of Minnesota will
vote upon this fall as a proposed
amendment to the constitution is diff
ferent from that Of Oregon, and in
the opinion of The Herald it Is q
great improvement over the Oregon
system. The Oregon system is toe
easily invoked. The required per-
centage of petitioners to institute il
is too small. and initiated measures
must all go to the people.
Under the Minnesota system the
legislature will have the first chance
at every initiated. measure, If it acts
that ends 1t. IL 1T fails t o act, o,
amends the measure out Of recogni.
ton, further petitions result in sub.
hitting the matter to the people. I'm
der that system the legislature doubt
less will enact most of the sensible
measures proposed by the initiative
and the number of measures submit,
ted to popular vote ought to be mucl
smaller than in Oregon.
The initiative and the referendum
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-07-16

good demonstration that lumber could
be shipped from Pacific ports and
transported by way Of Panama cana
to Atlantic seaports and then carried
to the midwest and sold at a profit for
a smaller price han was asked for
American-cut lumber.
All this may prove to be early indi-
cations OF what the expanded COM
merce which originates or will orig
mate upon the Pacific coast Is likely
to be as a consequence Of the con-
struction of the Panama canal. It
should serve greatly to increase the
cultivation of wheat in the soil west
Of the Rocky mountains which is
adapted to that cultivation. 1t should
put the Atlantic and the Pacific coast
upon an equality SO far as marketing
wheat is concerned.
Competition Among Carriers.
Already the railroad companies are
preparing for the transportation of
wheat and the various Atlantic sea
ports, Boston, New York, Philadelphia
and Baltimore, will be in some compe-
tition for the transportation and x
portation of wheat.
cellent that the total cost of transpor-.
tation Of a bushel of wheat or other
small grain from Duluth is only IL
cents. At Duluth the grain is carried
by the highest type of modern labor
saving apparatus, elevators which lOad
it into steamships. These steamships
for the most Irart find their terminal
at Buffalo. There the great elevators
receive the grain and by modern pro-
cesses thoroughly clean and dry it and
after that it is automatically loaded on
freight cars which will haul it approx
imately 450 miles to the seaports.
When it has arrived at the seaports it
is again, by modern apparatus, lifted
out of the freight cars, thoroughly
protected and adequately stored until
it can be loaded into a tramp steam
ship by which it is to be transported
5000 miles to LIVERPOOL.
Pennsylvania Bids for Share.
The Pennsylvania railroad manage
ment has recently caused to be con
structed at Philadelphia one of the
greatest of grain-handling elevators
and has done this with intent to Sc
cure for the railroad a reasonable
share of transportation Of grain from
Buffalo or from Erie to Philadelphia,
All railroad managers have good un-
Outstanding of the fact that the move
ment of grain from Duluth OF Chicago
to the %seaports is Influenced. entirely
by shippers. The shippers base their
railroad and do not fail to take heed
of Improvement of facilities. The
great elevator which the Pennsylvania
railroad company has constructed al
Philadelphia is itself an object lesson
to teach the relation Of the railroad
to the movement of grain from the
harvest fields to exporting cities. The
Pennsylvania company deemed it g
business economy to build this new
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-07-16

BILE Compound and in a short time was
cured and have been in excellent health
since. / always praise the Compound
\ whenever I have an opportunity as I
know it helped me and will help others.
Lately I have given the Compound to
my daughter and I wish all suffering
women would take it and be convinced
Of its worth. Mrs. JAMES A. BEIDEL,
113 N. Penn Street, Sh~ippensburg, Pa.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, made from NATIVE roots andherbs,
contains no narcotic or harmful drugs,
and to-day holds the record of being the
most successful remedy for female ills
we know of, and thousands of voluntary
testimonials on file in the Pinkham
laboratory at Lynn, Mass, seem to
prove this fact
If you have the slightest doubt
that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta-
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vice. Your letter will be opened,
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and highly modernized elevator with
such attention to details as to entail
a cost of nearly $1,000, 900, with a ca
.pacity of 100, 900 bushels.
. With what experiences and skill
modern invention has developed the
tpacity of this new venture of the
Pennsylvania railroad. It's elevator
can unload 240 cars a day. 1t a ac-
.commodate upon the tracks about 400
cars and it can feed about so, 900 bush
els of grain an hour to an ocean
steamer of about $50 feet in length.
1t can dry 5000 bushels of grain an
hour and it can clean 10000 bushels an
hour. Connected with the elevator Isl
a storage annex capable of receiving
a little under 1000, 900 bushels.
Canal a New Factor.
What a been done in Philadelphia
by the Pennsylvania railroad we'll i'll
illustrates the energy and foresight
which have characterized those who
manage railroads that have terminals
at Boston, New York and Baltimore
and which are chief among the grain
carrying railroads Of the asst.
The chances are that at all Of these
Atlantic coast terminals there will be
transportation of grain offered in the
fall and early winter since for a time
at least it will be fully equal to the
facilities and capacities of these ter
minals of handling grain for export.
But with the apparent demonstration
that the Pacific coast ports are, with
the opening of the Panama canal, to
originate a large amount of grain
traffic which will be unbroken from
the time the steamers leave the Pacific
port until they reach Liverpool or 9TH
er foreign ports, with the certainty Of
delivery at ina in about six
weeks time, it is apparent that new
factors are to enter into the entire
problem of handling grain, both at the
| Atlantic and Pacific ports, the destin-
alton of which is Liverpool or some
| other foreign port.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-07-16
REMEDY IS
FAVORITE HERE

The simple mixture of buckthorn
bark, ~glycerine. etc, known as Adler
i-ka, the remedy which became famous
by curing appendicitis, is a great ia
vorite with Fargo people. Adler-i-ka
acts on BOTH the lower and upper
bowel and drains off such surprising
amounts of foul matter from the body
hat A SINGLE DOSE relieves our
stomach, constipation and gas on the
stomach almost IMMEDIATELY. The
Central Drug Store.-Advt.