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The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1915-06-19

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The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-11-18

growing and truck farming, and what
ever the government issues Is an au-
thority you can count on"
Here. just duplicate that order for
me. will you? I'm a bit too old to join
the boys club. but I'm joining by
proxy. Joe is representing himself and
me, too" laughed Mr.. Somerville. I'm
really very much interested"
As Joe and Mr.. Somerville went
down the street the merchant stepped
INTO a bookstore.
Lets go in here and get started. |
see the first thing on the list is a
book for a beginner. That sounds
sensible. like it was a start from the
bottom. Wen get two copies. You
take yours home, and I'll study mine
here
Cant start any too soon for me-
answered Joe.
"Well here's the books. Now you
come to town next Saturday and spend
the day with me. and Wen compare
notes on what we've read. When you
go home have your father point out the
four acres we are going to cultivate
Don't matter whether it is poor or not
I'D rather he'd give us the poorest,
meanest land there is on the place. ]
don't want him coming around after
ward saying we had any advantage OH
the land" said Joe.
That's right; the poorer the land the
bigger our demonstration will be. Get
it laid off, and anything that suggests
itself to you. why, just 60 ahead and
do it. I'm going to give you a check
book, and when you need to spend
any money write out a check for it and
sign it Weston & Somerville.' l will
instruct the bank to pay it."
"All right. sir, but l am not going to
spend anything / can possibly help"
"Now, let me tell you something right
here; don't ever be afraid to sptr'
money If it is going to pay you to do
so. If you can see where a dollar
brings a return spend it quick. The
thing to do is to spend wisely-that is
investment"
"Well. l think the first thing l want.
then, is enough hog wire fencing for
those four acres. Seems to me I've
done anything much except chase
hogs out of our fields"
"You are starting right, Joe. That's
good sense. I'll send the wire out
Thursday and a man to stretch it and
put it up. You get the posts ready"
"All right. sir"
And after you get the fence up 60
ahead nov and use your judgment as
to what ext to do, from what you get
out of the book. Well, here's my bug
gy. The driver will take you home.
Good night. partner!"
He shook hands cordially and vanish.
ed into the store. Joe, his precious
book held tightly in his lap, was soon
whirled home behind the Somerville
trotter and made up his mind that some
day he was going to have a horse and
buggy exactly like that when he got
to making money farming.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-11-18
OF. l know how poor It IL, and the
something Is done to It the bet

OF. l know how poor It is, and the
sooner something is done to It the bet
ter"
A tape line was secured. and the plot
of four acres, two Of the acres abut-
ting on the road, vas marked with
stakes. 1t was poor land, distressingly
poor. as the stunted dead grass and
scantily nourished weeds attested. 1t
was part Of an old field that had beer
cultivated for sixty years.
II don't guess you'll do much with
that announced Mr.. Weston. with a
triumphant grin.
Its pretty bad, but We'll do the best
we cam said Joe. II don't reckon
you've got any objection to my cutting
enough locust wood posts from the
thicket back Of the hill to fence this?'
mot if you trim the tops and limbs
for tirewood and have it hauled up to
the house."
"All right. sir"
Just then old Uncle Jeff Washington
and his boy, Abe Lincoln Washington.
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be shown every attention. the presi-
dent will receive them especially, they
will stay a week at the best hotel in
the city of Washington. see every in
teresting sight there and be brought
back home at no expense whatever.
This trip would cost anybody else at
least $500. That is the grand prize for
all the boys to strive for
'"The rolls of the Boys Corn club OF
this county are now open to receive
members" said the secretary. Joe
marched down to the desk and signed.
I'm going to have one of those
prizes. too" he said. his eyes swapping
with determination.
I'VE must have at least fifty boys in
this county," said the superintendent
Of education, but the ooner they join
| the better it will be for them, for they
can prepare their ground this fall, and
| that is one of the main things. The
! lists will remain open until March l."
I'D be mighty glad If you would give
me q list Of the books l ought to have
| said Joe to the state commissioner
when the meeting adjourned.
"All right. son.; here's a list | had
prepared. I'll request the department,
at Washington to send you their bulle
tins on the subjects of corn and cotton
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-11-18
PROLOGUE.

All over the country there ha:
been the liveliest interest among
boys and girls in scientific farming
In zoe, the Book Farmer" there
is simply and delightfully."- told what
one boy, who made a scientific
study Of farming, accomplished
Intensive cultivation as practiced by
this young student worked wonder:
with the soil.
Besides Joe, who is the centra
figure, there are introduced by the
author several other familiar ano
quaint characters in country life
The story is Of absorbing interest
to city and country folk alike.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-11-18

I'll bet you . hat that 1 can take Z
fourteen-year-Old boy and OH four acres
Of land farmed like sense and industry
and the books say. we will make more
profit off these four acres than you will
make off the twenty you pretend to
cultivate.
Come III. Joe. the farming firm of
Weston & Somerville is now going out
to learn something about book farm
ing"
Mr.. Somerville would have won his
bet about the farmers at the agricul-
tural lecture. There were less than
twenty-five who had come to hear the
experts, but the county superintendent
Of education had managed to corral
about twelve boys Of various ages in
the room.
Joe and Mr.. Somerville were inter
ested from the start, for everything the
lecturers said was perfectly plain and
seemed the essence of practical com.
mon sense. At noon the two gentle
men were glad to accept the invitation
Of Brierfield's largest merchant to go
Y AAo noAhC " uI1AlCl W was "
duced to both of the visitors. They
were young men and graduates of ag-
ricultural schools. He and the state
superintendent Of agriculture got to be
great friends.
Il was u chap just about like YOU"
said the official, land l didn't have
much chance, but l just made up my
mind yynr1I lnarn on1 thu ,rck x,o
easy"
In the afternoon the president of the
board of supervisors announced that
the board understood that a Boys
Corn club" was to he organized, and
he was authorized to say that the
board had appropriated a hundred dol
lars in gold. fifty of which was to be
paid to the boy under eighteen years
Of age who on a measured acre pro-
duced the greatest yield of corn at the
least expense, twenty-five to the next.
fifteen to the next and ten to the next.
"You can just add as prizes from
my company a complete outfit of
clothes for the first ~prize-entire suit.
hat, shoes. underwear, shirts, collars
and ties; a pair Of shoes and a hat to
all of the next prize winners" Mr..
Somerville's announcement was greet
ed with applause.
"Mr. Chairman, the Planters bank
will add fifty in gold, twenty-five to
be added to the first prize, S. each to
the next .prizes, and a fifth prize Of
$40 to be created" chimed in the pres
ident Of the bank, who had followed
Mr.. Somerville in to see what his best
customer was doing at the farmers
meeting.
"Now, there's something else," said
the state commissioner Of agriculture.
1.-THE state will give to the winner Of
every prize a handsomely engraved
certificate of merit, bearing the sigma
ture of the governor, myself and the
secretary of state; with the great seal
of the state on it. This is "A testimo
NAL you can frame and keep always.
And in addition the winner of every
first prize in each county will have the
records gone over in my Office. and the
winner of the highest record in the
state will receive a free trip to Wash
ington.
can agent of the national depart
ment of agriculture will collect the
boys at various points: They will be
taken to the capital as the honored
guests of the nation-the champion
corn grower Of each state. They will
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-11-18

Tom Weston was red eyed
and surly from the effects of
~ the liquor he had drunk the
night before with Jim Sullivan and
mOped about the house, snarling and
swapping at his wife and little Annie
and Joe.
AS soon as breakfast was finished
Joe took his precious volume about
agriculture and slipped off to a shell
tered nook behind the barn. He pored
owe it until dinner time; then he closed
his eyes and reviewed in his mind the
essential points of what he had read.
First of all, that plants must have
food, just as human being do; that lack
of enough food or proper food made
puny plants. just IS it does with peo-
pie; that the principal source of food
for plants is the humus or decaying
vegetable matter in the soil. From
this largely comes the nitrogen, the
phosphoric acid. the potash and 9th
er essentials to plant life, absorbed
through the thousands of tiny roots OF
the growing plant above.
Also. he learned that the soil becomes
barren and exhausted and devoid OF
these essentials with continued cult.
walton; that the crop takes these nee
essary things from the soil year by
year, and something must be put back
into the land or it will become sterile.
1.-The wise provisions of nature are
seen," said the book, lin the annual re-
newal of the soil. The grass. weeds
trees, shrubs, all take from the soil in
the summer, but they pay back the
debt with interest in autumn, when the
grass dies and the leaves fall to the
ground. They are beaten into the sol,
by the winter rains and by the next
summer have decayed and have given
more to the land than the plants thai
bore them have taken away"
"And l never knew before" said Joe
to himself, "what makes newly clear
ed ground so rich and give such large
crops. OF course it is the humus from
the leaves that have been dropping al
the years."
After dinner he began to devour the
book again. BY dusk he knew that. II
| order to get the largest amount OF
| plant food to the plants to fatten them
as it were. Il deep blowing or breaking
and loosening of the soil was essentia
until it was light and mellow. This
allowed the tiny rootlets. each will
hundreds of minute hungry mouths, tt
have a wider range in search of thu
life giving juices in the soil and there
by furnish the strength to make larger
more virile plants. The stronger tn
plants the more fruit. the better ant
larger fruit they made as a reward t
the planter for this care.
Daddy" said Joe. Monday morning
please come on and let's pick out tn
four acres Mr.. Somerville and me ar
going to work."
Gall right. I'll give you part of tina
field across from the oak grove. It
SO blame poor it won't sprout peas.
want to see what you all are going t
do with that"
"Come on down. then. Let's lay !
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-11-18

uOlng lere!' inquired MI.
Somerville as Joe. after hav-
- ing e e the bank teller hon
or his check promptly by paying So to
the plOwman, walked into the store.
i've come in to get eight bushels Of
rye"
what for?'
I'm going to sow it broadcast thick
over the four acres. I've already had
it broken. cross broken and narrowed
fourteen inches deep. and I'm ready to
plant
But we are not going to raise rye.
Joe?" was the dubious query.
mo, sir, but we are going to make
rye raise cotton and corr for u.s.
How
well. this is October. Let the rye
grow until January; then turn it un-
der. and it will rot by planting time
and tighten that old barren soil a heap.
besides furnishing a good deal OF val
liable plant food"
well, now, where'd you get that
idea?" asked Mr.. Somerville in admira-
ton.
Saw it in one of those bulletins the
state commissioner gave me the other
day"
well, it's worth trying. II the state
says it's the thing to do ! reckon we
can afford to do It. What else have
you done?"
Joe told him about the leaves and
the barnyard scrapings and the eight
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-11-18

came shutting down the road, both of
them with their hands in their pockets.
want a job, Uncle JeffY inquired
Joe.
"Who? Me?"
mo; you. You heard what l said"
well sub. hit sorter pens on whut
de job is
Getting out some locust ~fenceposts."
"Who fer?"
They are fer the king Of Siam;
but, as a matter Of fact, l am having
the work done, if that's any consola-
ton to you"
"Yasser. l reckin I'll TAXI de job mex
week."
you'll take it now or not at all"
We'll eff hits err hurry job, den !
reckin I'll halter take hit now. !
wucks fer er dollar en- two bits err day
en- mer viddles."
mot for me. I've seen you work.
You kill too much time. l will pay
you 5 cents a post, and you must trim
the branches and tops for firewood and
furnish your own rations."
"Wh-who gwine pay fer all dis? 2"
side pocket
when l write a check the Farmers
bank will pay it. You'll get your mon
ey all right"
Oats all l wanter know. Lead me
ter dem locus'es."
Hold on a minute. Do you want to
hire Link here out for a few days.?
"Whut doin'?"
Helping me. I'll give you 40 cents
a day for him and give him his dinner.
1t isn't any harder work than l am
going to do"
"Yasser, Mr.. Joe. l rents i'm ter you.
Link, you do whut he tells you, en- eff
you dom do hit l gwine ter take de
hide often you. Does you heah me.
boy?"
"Yasser. l heahs YOU" Abe Lin
coins glance at his parent was sad
and reproachful. Abe was fat and
lazy and hated to work.
"All right" said Joe. Uncle JEFF,
go get your ak and start in on that
locust thicket. You know where it is.
Want the posts eight feet long"
Uncle JEFF ambled down the road to-
ward his cabin. Link. a big, over
grown boy two years older than Joe.
stood awkwardly waiting for orders.
Come on. Link" said Joe. walking
into the grove of oak trees. leaving his
father in the road eying him curious
~. Mr.. Weston was dying to know
what Joe was going to do next. but
would not ask.
In the oak grove the dry leaves lay
more than shoetop deep. Joe took his
knife. cut a good sized bundle Of young
sprouts and tied them together. max.
ing a stiff broom. With this he began
to sweep leaves. aud it worked ad'
mirably.
Link, you take this broom and
sweep these leaves in piles. Make one
about every thirty feet. ri be back
shortly"
Leaving Link at work. Joe hustled
past his father and 500 returned from
the barn with four large oat sacks
Link had several good sized piles OF
leaves ready. Joe held two sacks and
made Link cram them full of the dry
leaves. and. ~instructing him to ill the
other two. Joe swung the full sacks
upon his shoulders, marched across the
road and emptied them on his foul
acres; then back and securing the two
Link had filled, he emptied them, the
others meanwhile in turn having beer
! loaded.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-11-18
II.
Joe Begins Experimenting.

IA HE next day was Sunday.
Tom Weston was red eyed
and surly from the effects of
~ the LIQUOR he had drunk the
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-11-18
CHAPTER III.

Joe Confers With His Partner.
'YYIELLO, partner! What are you
doing hereY" inquired MI.
Somerville as Joe. after hav-
~ ing seer the bank teller hon.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-11-18
/.
Joe, tho Book Farmer.

. Nv, faint no use. A poor man
n amt got no chance in this
DANCED country. If l had
~ enough money to 10 on
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-03-02


CITY FIGHTS CAR COMPANIES
The first of twelve test cases to be
instituted against the Chicago Rail-
ways Co. was filed in the municipal
court yesterday by Asst Corporation
Counsel George L. Reker, whose plea
for an immediate trial was granted
Y,Acting Chief Justice La Buy.
The suit asks that the street car
company be compelled to comply
with the city's order to run all cars
on. Kedzie aV. direct to 63d st. and to
discontinue stopping two out of every
three at 47th St, making thousands
transfers daily.
Reker read an affidavit to the court
made by Alderman Eugene Block,
head of the local transportation COM
mittee, stating that the suit was of
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-03-02

TO ASK LEGISLATURE TO AID
aea.. THE UNEMPLOYED
Tired of being stalled by the city
councils slOWness in, aiding the I'M
employed, the Industrial commission
which has undertaken to better
things for the jobless man will appeal
to the state legislature.
Gov. Dunno will be asked to make
a. request to the state Iaw-making
bodies to hurry through the laws adj
Veeated by the unemployment body,
headed by Prof. Charles Henderson.
They ask: ... ....
Rehabilitation and Improvement of
state free employment agencies, as
proposed in a bill recently passed by
the city council -.....
Prosecution of public work at time
Of industrial depression instead of at
time of industrial activity.
Adoption of a system of unemploy-
ment insurance modelled after those
in Great Britain and other European
countries. ...
The promised spring opening in
the railroads which would do so much
for the jObless man has not yet come
evidently. The Pullman Co., operat-
ing the Pullman sleepers, laid of
5000 men last week because a large
car order from the east was cancelled. |
The cause for cancellation was given
as unsettled business conditions"
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-03-02

municipal court. The suit, if handled
in the regular way, would not come
up for a year, he said.
The case will be tried on March 9
before Judge Hopkins.
BEcKWTTH SILENT ON PHONE
DEAL TALKS OF MANDEL BROS.
John w. BeckWith, corporation
counsel, sent his annual report to
the city council last night He gives
20 pages of information about all
sorts of cases his department has
worked on this year. But he doesn't
let out a whisper about the most i'm
portant opinion his department
handled the past year, the one of the
Illinois Telephone & Telegraph Co.
Beckwith's opinion held that the
automatic company don't have to
have 10000 subscribers. All it needs
is machinery to serve 10000 sub
scribers. By this opinion Beckwith
threw his influence toward private
ownership of phone system which
the Penny Phone league claims
should be forfeited to the city.
Here is interesting stuff on what
the law says about working women
and girls underground:
'Tn the case of the city of Chi
cago against Mandel Brothers the SUI
preme court upheld the validity of
the ordinance prohibiting the opera
ton of salesrooms of department
stores in endorsements and in base
ments where the floor is located be-
low the surface of the adjoining
street.
can injunction brought by the
Hotel Sherman to restrain the city
from interfering with the location of
a kitchen in the basement of the new.
Fort Dearborn hotel without openings
to the outside air, but having artificial
ventilation, was decided in favor Of
the city"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-10
BOWIE RACING RESULTS.

f!rs; Race wo- yesr-olds purse 500:
Tour tur iongs-pleione. lo6 GlilyD . 70 l..
McTdgghrtl. % :. , to ana ont. go d.
ond. rly Dsnsant.. III Burns. /. 10 i.
= !" and 10 =, third. Time. o:4a ;
Margaret o, Li'tle Az, and Liza. CiinL
also ran.
second acr--Three.y-ar-oid. and un.
Sat"; se,!ins nurse $500, six fur ongs-
20 TO- ron ?' a rr.3 100 20 !, 70 ana
IL % o. even and TO :. second pain,
Lat loi tMetcalrI, to q. . TO + ami I
70 I, O. MIRO Time. ia -. Duauesne.
Mol.ie Richards also ran
Ih.ru kHc-- Three -ysti-oid. ard uu-
%erd sehine; puro stco. SIX .nrlonge'-
rodi.ing, 10; u.oudcr,. to g. 20 and
3" q, Won. hayd-ros-ro-, IL T McTar.
saril' - 2 - ana z 10 ~ sa,uuG
4 a., t,;,ntyI' 80 !. TO and
SastHra. Jack Hanover. Omar and stub.
Fourth Three -y.a--oid, and up
York Lad, lis IBatveiHC, 70 'ii''Sh e. :
ana even, won, ThesieEes. u. ICnnnor.,
10 70 :, {" and ! to 2, second BIue
% 5, third Ti'nc' lis ~ y, 70 ,,s ana
in,tn. Lady London. Fitzgerald ana T,e.
White also ran.
Fif;h Race--Thre- -year-oid. selling
.tnSh IL 20 Z, to and / 10 8 NOR,
star OF Love, ~ Crorehandl 10 ? . -
uLo a"n iSs e; a. second . rIy Home -
,h.rd Time. -. - Vldst and -, s 81
sixth Rtc--The Aaua-co pu-s. ~,
eighth nliles--B-au Pere. iji ,Lo,iI.r, ~;
10 !, 70 ! and 20 S. won, Co.'s IL.
,snE'0n,. 70 !, 70 and even second ,
n,n', my hin~on' lo7 ,Pickens'. TO /,
billie Raker Charl"s + Grs ,-o,
'ockspur also ran. '"'
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-10

CURLEY DENIES STORIES
CABLED FROM HAVANA
Promoter of WillardJohnson Bout Asserts Pretty Much
Everything Was Wired Incorrectly
Except Fight Outcome.

Full OF gossip about the Jess Willard
of the syndicate that manages the new
heavyweight champion and promoted the
Havana bout, arrived In New York last
night. lie spent the evening dispensing
talk by the yard most of 1t denials OF
one sort or another.
willard did not have to fight for moth
ing, Curley declared The official count
of the receipts showed $4,000 instead
of about $4,000. as reported by gem
orally reliable correspondents in Cuba.
and Willard was we'll paid There Is no
dssenson among the members of the
syndicate. During Wizards coming
tour Tom Jones will stay with the cham
pion, Harry Frazee will stay In New
York attending to the bookings and
Curley himself will go on ahead as ad-
vance agent, attending to such tasks as
he did last night
Next denial on the programme con-
cerned the duplicate moving pictures.
reported by cable to have been taken
surreptitiously and to have been shown
IN Havana the other night. This Is
impossible said Curiey. There is no
way 10 develop moving pictures In Ha-
vana, else We would have developed our
set there Curley said the syndicate had
sold the Cuban rights In the pictures to
"A Capt Smith for 10000.
THAT ruction at the wharf when they
tried TO prevent mo from leaving de-
nied Curley. was caused by a little
hackman who said he had driven me
around In a cab from . in the morning
until 2 In the afternoon---he and another