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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-10-03

Z. l.. Fairbanks, representing the
Gunsburg-Forman company, has been
in the fields, and lett last night for
Tulsa.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-10-03

1t is probable that another well VIII
be drilled to the east Of Ardmore in
section 1853 in the same township
in which the Awirco is now drilling.
The RoXana Petroleum company, it
Is said, will keep three strings Of
tools busy on the Keck lease until pll
the locations on this lease are drilled.
4 p McDorman superyntrndent of
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-03
Practical Gifts

Do your Christmas Buying
Early. Now is the time. Miller
& Kades is the place to make
your selection.
Instead of spending your
money on useless, trivial articles
that last day and are forgot
ten, select an article of Furni-
ture that lasts a life time and
keeps the donor constantly in
mind.
Furniture is the lasting gift.
Make your selection now and if
desired we will hold goods for
Christmas Delivery. $l.00 cash
and so cents a week will deliver
any article TO your home.
A few suggestions: China
Closet, Buffet, Extension Table,
Library Table, Serving Table,
Hall Rack, Sectional Book Case,
Combination Book Case, Turk
ish Rocker, Royal Easy Chair,
Reed Chairs and Rockers, Chill
dren's Desks, Ladies' Writing
Desks, Domes, Davenports, etc.
ST cash and so cents a week will
deliver any article in the store
to your home.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-10-08

KUN and Walla Walla. Great care
was exercised in selecting agricul-
turists of thorough technical train
ing and considerable practical expe-
rience. Each is given the active sup
port and assistance of the bureau.
insuring efficient work from the start.
AS DR.. Cardiff states in his first an
nual report, which ia available for
anyone interested by writing to him
at Pullman, agricultural develop
ment is slow and considerable time il
usually required in order to make
sufficient progress to demonstrate the
value OF the work. The county agri-
culturist must deal with mature
minds that have met the problems OF
life in their own way. minds that de-
mand practical results Immediately.
In face OF this. the results already
obtained in the first year have ac-.
tually repaid the expenditure many
times over and will continue to make
repayment more and more each year.
Most Of the agriculturist's time IL
given to the personal problems Of the
individual farmer and cannot be SUM
married. generally In brief news
paper story.
Senator Metcalf concluded his ar
ticle with discussion Of the work
done in the various counties.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-10-08
. WHAT HAPPENED N OLYMPIA AND !
STATE TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AG0
From The Washington Standard for
October 10, 1890. Vol. xXxI.

From The Washington Standard for
October 10, 1890. Vol. xxxI.
No. 40.
What is believed to be the largest
flying fish ever captured in Puget
Sound was brought to Seattle Mon
day morning by Captain Brooks Of
the Wasp. While the tug was on the
way to Olympia Sunday night, the
fish darted out Of the water. attract
ed by the light Of the lanterns from
the masthead, 20 feet above the deck.
and struck them fairly, breaking the
glass and extinguishing the lights and
then falling to the deck.
The big dredger is now at work
transferring the mud from the fats
to the Northern Pacific waterfront
just north of Capitol hill.
GAS the years go by, good FIR bark,
taken from live trees, is becoming
more and more an article hard to get
for use in town. 1t now commands q
higher price than coal.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-10-08

The yield of Washington, 1907 to
1913, was $50, 1870, 10, 131, 100,
176. 1928, an average of 1859.
Figures Are Significant.
The significance of these figures is
not so much the excess in per acre
production over the new soil Of the
United States but the steady and con-
siderable increase year by year since
the agricultural experts, the county
agricultursts, have been carrying bet
ter farming methods to the farms.
This is particularly noticeable in
those countries where the last Is
years have seen widespread devotion
to cooperative methods and scien-
tific farming-Denmark, Holland.
Belgium, Germany. England learned
crop rotation years ago and did not
offer so much room for improvement.
While in this 80 years, in one gen.
Grafton, not through knowledge and
methods handed down from father to
son as is SO often enormously as
serted Of European farming, Belgium
has increased it's wheat yield from
"a to "a bushels, Denmark from rs
to Al, Holland from 23 to 35. The
United States averaged las bushels
in the last five years as against IL
in 1876, and the state of Washing
ton has averaged in the last seven
years 22 bushels and the highest
year was the first year of the seven.
Hungary as whole exceeds the
United States only about 20 per cent
in average yield, yet the American
commission was shown 10000 acres
yielding So bushels. (Rural Credit,
pages 1879.
What Washington Is Doing.
So much for Europe. Now, as the
Oregon farmer asked, what are we
doing in this line in Washington?
want to repeat the statement made
in the report upon the agricultural
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-10-08
Eliminates Diversion Charge.

The public service commission has
ruled against the diversion or recon-
signment charge of 50 per car estab-
lished recently by railroads as the
rate for diverting, en- route. hay and
grain shipments billed to Seattle, to
Tacoma, or vice versa. The commits
sion finds that since this expense was
borne by the railroads without extra
charge in 1911 and was considered at
that time in fixing distributive rates,
a special charge for the purpose now
would amount to allowing the rail-
roads to charge twice for the same
service.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-10-08

needs of Washington, transmitted by
the governor to the American CON-
mission at Washington with his APP
prevail and that of the commissioner
of agriculture:
1.-THE most important law passed
by the legislature of 1913, chapter
Is, providing for bureau of farm
development and the establishment
of an agricultural expert in each
county, has been neglected by most
counties. In every agricultural
county farmers should demand that
they be given the advantage of this
law. A manufacturer and mer-
chant employs an efficiency engineer.
One of the largest Eastern manufac-
turers called such man from a dis
tant city, handed him a check book
and told him he had deposited a.
check for $4,000 to his order. He
wanted certain small reduction in
his cost Of manufacture of each ma
chine he was turning out, whether
by devising labor-saving machinery
or other means he cared not; and he
said if the $4,000 was not enough
there was plenty more available. He
was turning out many thousand ma
chimes year and dollar or two re-
duction on cost of each meant an in
crease of FIVE or six figures in his
profits.
1.-THE farmer has not been able to
do this; he can do it under this law
with no expense; he needs it more
than the manufacturer. There is
plenty of very valuable information
in books and government bulletins,
but the only plan that will work is
to carry right to the farmer the an
swer to his personal problem. This
law provides the way" (Rural
Credit, page 1922.
This law creates the bureau Of
farm development, to consist of the
director of the experiment station Of
the state college, who shall be direct
or, and the county commissioners of
all counties desiring to participate.
Upon application of the county COM
missioners the director will assign to
such county competent agricu]-
tural expert, his salary limited to
$500 per month and expenses to
500, making the maximum expense
to the county $500, for which the
counties are authorized to make
tax levy or set it aside from the cur
rent expense fund. Here in Thurston
county the expert receives a salary OF
$50 and SIS month for expenses,
total of $2,70O year, the govern
ment paying 5000 and the county
$500.
After several years of investiga-
ton, which convinced the United
States government that not half Of
the farmers make any use of scien-
tifc methods worked out by the ex-
pertinent stations and other govern
ment agencies and that the differ
ence between success and failure,
that is one farmer making profit
and his neighbor loss under like
conditions, is generally due to man
agement in the one case and mis-
management in the other, teh gov
eminent started series of expert
ments in various parts of the coun-
try to see whether the agricultural
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-10-08

expert, the travelling teacher Of agri-
culture, so universal in European
countries, would work in this coun-
try.
These experiments were carried on
for number of years and in every
case with unqualified success. Farms
which always had been operated at a
loss were made profitable. The COM
munities where the experiment was
tried grew very enthusiastic. Pre-
cisely the same result followed as
followed in every farming commu-
nifty in the whole wide world
wherever this system was tried and
must always follow and the federal
government has given it's hearty In
dorsement to the plan and has insti-
tuted movement to urge the various
states to adopt it. The last congress
in the Smith-Lever bill provided for
the expenditure of millions of dol
lars to carry scientific knowledge OF
farming to the farms in all states
ready to match the government APP
preparation. The legislature has
placed Washington on this favored
list. There only remains for the
county commissioners to make the
very small appropriation required.
The law went into effect in 1913
and the bureau was organized under
the direction of DR.. L. D. Cardiff, the
very capable and energetic director
of the experiment station of the State
college On the first OF the follow
ing January the State college pro-
vided the necessary funds for the
employment of vice director to have
immediate supervision Of the work
of the county agriculturists and the
state was fortunate in securing Byron
Hunter, who had training and expe-
rience in this line of work in the
United States department Of agricul-
ture, and was familiar with this state
and its agricultural problems.
In the following August provision
was made through the state college
and the federal department for the
cooperative employment of farm
management demonstration, who gives
his time exclusively to the problems
of farm management and farm or
ganization in the counties which have
Joined the bureau. At about this
time the funds from the Smith-Lever
bill became available and for more
than a year the State college has
allotted SIS month for the aid OF
each county in the bureau. In Sep
TENDER of last year, through the CO.
operation Of the State college and
federal department, the bureau en-
ployed T. j. Newbill, man Of wide
and successful experience. as state
leader of boys and girls club work
in agriculture and industry. Mr..
Newbill's address upon this work at
the convention of the American
Bankers association was one of the
three that touched the very heart OF
every hearer. Expert demonstrators
in dairying and other fields have been
engaged by the bureau and are at the
service of the agriculturists In the
several counties.
Up to the first of January last nine
counties had joined the BUREAU
Adams, Benton, Douglas, King, Okla
hogan, Spokane, Thurston, Wahkia-
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-10-08

thls' agricultural education Is COM
pulsory in all boys schools, as it is
in some other continental countries.
(Rural Credit, pages 245-9.
In his review of the achievements
of France in the nineteenth century,
M. Alfred Picard said: "Latterly
our animal and vegetable production
has gained annually several hundred
millions through the diffusion of
scientific education" No one in
France or any other nation in Europe
will question this tribute to the util-
ity of the county agriculturist.
England is far behind the CONT
nent in agricultural education. Ne
cessity was not SO impelling. Eng
land learned something of soil study
and culture more than a century
ago. In all England there are only
three schools for farmers sons and
daughters and few evening classes.
But the counties are doing much to
remedy this neglect through the
county agricultural expert. Lanca-
shire spends $42,5OO a year sending
experts to the farms, making expert.
ments and demonstrations; Kent
spends $4,000 and Cheshire $22,-
500. The expenditures of all the
counties is more than 100000 a
year. (Rural Credit, page 269).
Much of the wonderful progress in
rural Ireland in the last few years is
due to the county agriculturist. In
1912 the 80 counties employed 43
instructors in general agriculture,
four in Cork, two in each of seven
counties and one in each other coun-
ty, 10 in poultry keeping, II in poul-
try and butter making, 16 in butter
making, in horticulture, 35 in hor
ticulture and bee keeping, 3 in bee
keeping only. The counties expend-
ed from $4,000 to $22,500 each,
total of $455.O00. This plan was
adopted in 1900, in which year there
were three experts employed, increas-
ing in number each successive year
as follows: 10, 10, II, FL, 20, 80,
"a, SO, SO, 40, 43. In 1912 they WIS.,
tied 16,S08 farms, an average of
more than one day for each expert.
Experiments are made every year
with fertilizers, seeds, etc. (Rural
Crol;t nonoc CQE-eN
Actual Practical Results Shown.
Now let us see what actual prac-
tical results that mean dollars and
cents to the farmers and greater food
supply for the nation have been
achieved in some of thees countries
in the quarter of century this sys-
TEN has been in effect. These figures
of per acre yield in series of years
are official and show what the Euro
pean farmer is doing with soil CEN
turtles old before Columbus set foot
on this continent and generally of
naturally inferior quality.
Here Senator Metcalf gives tab
ulation showing the yield per acre of
wheat in various European countries,
adding the comment: The yield of
the state of Washington, rich virgin
soil, for the seven years 1907 to
1918 inclusive, has been respectively
26, 1873, 1872, 1919, APT, 23.5, 23.2.
an average of 20 bushels, our high
est yield less than the average of any
country in Europe except Russia and
France.
Then he gives similar figures as to
oats, the same ratio prevailing, and
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-10-08

France Has 100 Departments.
France is divided into departments
similar to our counties. There are
100 departments which maintain
each a departmental professor of
agriculture who gives two years
course in agriculture in the public
normal school and must hold at least
26 institutes a year to give farmers
instruction. There are also ia trav-
cling agricultural experts who give
short courses of four to 10 days to
the farmers all through the land,
bringing right to the farmer the
latest agricultural information and
scientific instruction developed any
where in the world. There were
500, 900 farmers attending these lee
lures in 1912.
There are maintained 1000 small
demonstration farms in different
parts of France, where these experts
give demonstrations of chemical fer
tilizers, methods of tillage. crop rota-
ton, etc. These demonstrations are
very popular with the farmers, are
given close attention and their les
sons utilized. While we were there
in 1913 this system was extended by
assigning agricultural experts to 362
ACCOMPLISHMENTS to visit and advise
the farmers on the farm. And with
The Washington times., 1915-10-21
NAVY YARD FIGHT TO
GO BEFORE CONGRESS
Machinists to Try to Get Law
Amended So They Can Re.
ceive Higher Wages. .

Machinists at the Washington Navy
Yard charge the defeat OF their efforts
to get higher wes.es to four words In
the law Of 1882. covering the pay in
Government yards. They will start to
work at once to get Congress to amend
the law by striking out these four
words. which are "in the immediate
vicinity"
N p. Atlas. who headed the pro-
ionged fight to get increased wages.
during which the workers appealed to
the President In person. explained to-
day that the bottom dropped out OF the
workers case when the wages paid at
a Bridgeport plant were held not to
affect the wage scale In the Washing
ton yard. The law OF 1869 provides that
yards shall pay the same wage scales
as those paid In private plants per-
forming the same sort OF work in the
immediate vicinity Of the yard.
No drastic measures will be resorted
to by the Navy Yard workers. They
will not walk out because II Is felt
that the eight cents a day at stake
would not Justify such action. II is
the principle OF equal pay in Govern
The Washington times., 1915-10-21
Girl Still Loves
Man She Is Suing
l7-Year-Old Maid Testifies il
$4,000 Action Against
Sexagenarian.
Sexagenarian.

ATLANTIC CITY. Oct. 2L-Seventeen-
yesr-old Kitty Abrams testified In hcr
suit against Robert Gaskill, sixty. a
widower of Philadelphia. for $4,000 for
breach Of promise. before Judge Car
row at Mays Landing. Former Judge
Clarence Cole and former Prosecutor
Atkinson, of Mount Holly. put the girl
through two hours cross-examinauon.
The girl Is daughter of a former
traven keeper OF Red Lion. n. J. Gas
kill Is a retired lawyer.
DO you still love MIR. Gaskill:" ques-
toned Judge Cole during the cross-eN-
animation.
Yes. I'm terribly fond of him
always have been since we first met,
when | was but thirteen and he started
to kiss and hug me when other people
weren't around" replied the girl.
How is 1t that YOU call him the OLD
foor?" flashed back Gaskilfs attorney
as he handed the girl a letter. one OF
nearly 400 she had written to Joseph
Markley twenty, of Clarksboro, whom
she had Tilted. 1t Is said. at the sug-
gestion of Gaskill. =,
"Oh, that vas just joke. could call
him anything and he wouldn't get
angry. He knew | was writing TO TINS
fellow. He let me do anything
wanted"
such gifts as diamonds. fur coats and
even saddle horses were made as bribes
| to win her to silence regarding their
| frequent excursions. the girl said. The
defense asserts there was no promise
of marriage.
The Washington times., 1915-10-21
To Pose in Bathing
Suits for Charity
Detroit Society Interested in Junior
Leagues Plans for a
Fashion Fete.

DETROIT. Oct. n.-Detroit society sat
up straight at an announcement by the
Junior League, an organization for the
younger set. of its plans for a Fashion
Fete on November "a at the Pontchar-
train Hotel. Debutantcs are to pose as
the models. and d thrill followed the
statement Of Mrs. Charles A. Dean. jr..
that included In the modes to be display
ed are the latest models in bathing
suits.
No names have been announced
either by Mrs. Dean or by Miss Nesta
Newman, president OF the league, of
the wearers OF the bathing suits, but Il
IL predicted that the fete, the receipts
Of which will go to charity. will be well
attended.
The list Of debutantes from which the
models will be selected Includes the
names OF Miss Helen Joy, daughter OF
Henry p. JOY; Miss Katherine Remick.
daughter Of Jerome II. Remick: Miss
Josephine Alger. daughter OF russell
Alger, jr.; Miss Isabel Dodge. daughter
OF John F. Dodge; Miss Elsie Du
Charme. daughter OF J. F. Du Charme
Miss Doris Mcmillan, daughter OF J.
Thayer Mcmillan. and many other buds
prominent In society.
The Washington times., 1915-10-21
BANDSMEN FUND
Cir WELCOME
Committee Hopes to Swell Purse
To Be Given in Behalf
Of City.

Thrice welcome contributions TO the
fund for providing an entertainment for
tho bandsmen who have given con-
certs In the parks OF Washington arc
being received daily by c. J. Gockcier.
treasurer OF the committee arranging
the AFFAIR to be staged at Brightwood
reservoir next Saturday afternoon.
THE more money we receive the bet
ter the entertainment We can give and
the larger the purse We can hand the
bandsmen as an expression Of the city's
gratitude" said Mr.. Gockeler today.
Contributions have been slow In coming
in. and the committee Is glad to soc
these donations coming In at the elev-
enth hour"
NJ. C. Hazcn. chairman Of the COM
mittee on arrangements. said the week =
postponement OF the AFFAIR had given
him and his associates time In which
greatly to improve the program. and
that the show would be better than the
committee anticipated.
The Washington times., 1915-10-21
A Baby's Birthday.

Baby's coming Is anticipated with
great joy, and it is Of the utmost i'm
portance that great care is taken to
make this important event happy
one.
Mothers Friend, applied external
ly and to be had Of all druggists, Ia
Of the greatest value for it robs
childbirth Of its agonies and dan
gers, makes the mother comfortable
and helps make baby strong, healthy
and vigorous. It is effectiv, and de-
pendable and has been used sue.
cessfully for many years. Definite
instructions are furnished with each
bottle.-Advt.
The Washington times., 1915-10-21
REv.P.R. H|CKOK TO
TAKE OFFICE TONIGHT
Pastor Of Metropolitan Church
To Be Installed Chaplain Of
Sons OF Veterans.

Arrangements have been completed
for the public installation Of the Rev.
Paul r. Hickok. pastor OF the Metro
poiitan Presbyterian Church. as ma
tional chaplain OF the Sons Of Veterans.
at Cushing Camp Hall. 14I3 Pennsyl-
vania avenue. tonight. Past Com
mander-in-Chief II. v. Speelman. aide
to Comma nder-in Chief Ambrose r. n.
Stephens. will have charge Of the cere-
monies. and invitations have been sent
Of this city and Maryland. as we'll as
to the commanders Of tho Sons OF Vet
Grams Of the two Jurisdictions. to attend.
Representatives Of the Daughters of
Union Veterans. the Grand Army. the
Womens Relief Corps. and other or
ganizations will attend.
The program Is under the charge OF
committee Of arrangements. of which
J. Clinton Hyatt Is chairman.
Following the installation by the past
commander there will be brief ad.
dresses by Mrs. Rose s. Rutledge. prcsi.
dent Of the auxiliary. Maryland divi.
sion: Miss Jennie l.. Hamilton. nationa
inspector Daughters of Veterans: Mrs
Mamie Palmer Dorsey. national tunioI
Mrs. Ada II. Weiss. president OF tn,
Loyal Legion Of Women: Richard +
Miller. commander OF the Maryland d.
| vision. Sons OF Veterans: George Duffy
Junior vice commander In chief Sons o
Gushing Camp. No. 30 Sons OF Vet
erans: Charles NJ Overacker. com
mander Lincoln Camp. No. 2. Sons o
Veterans: W. s. Crown. commando,
| Thomas Camp. No. H. Sons OF Vet
| Al nhr N1E
mander. Department OF the Potomac. @
4. r.. and Col. George II. Slaybaugh
senior vice comma nder chief OF tn,
| G. A. r. In addition there will be
vocal and instrumental program bv Mrs
Gertrude Lyons. Miss Mable G. Stone
braker. Miss Estellc Murray. Mrs. Nil
ton White. Bailey b. Overacker. Theo
dore Robb. and r.. Albert Lang.
The Washington times., 1915-10-21

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