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The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1916-03-03
IRRIGATED LAND POTATOES.

The best potato to grow in Montana
as an irrigated crop is the Russet
Burbank, according to a statement
just issued here by the department
of horticulture of the Montana ex-
pertinent station. Experiments have
been made for many seasons, and
Prof. Whipple says that the results
warrant a more widely spread use Of
this variety, though it is not adapted
to dry land production.
When grown with one irrigation
on the station farm the Russet Bur-
bank has shown a yield of from 49,
500 to $4,000 pounds per acre. In
parts of the state where the growing
season is longer and more water could
be applied without injuring the quail
ity, the yield could probably be in
creased considerably above this fig
ure.
The tuber is oblong in shape, and
very smooth and uniform. Its shape
and fine quality make it ar ideal bak-
ing potato, and unlike some other po-
tatoes of fine quality, it does not
break up nor cook away when boiled
without the jacket.
Its good points are not limited to
it's yielding power and quantity. The
Russet Burbank is almost scab-proof;
and without seed treatment, less
than five per cent of the tubers are
affected with scab. The skin is COW
cred with a heavy russell, which not
only seems to protect it from scab,
but also in handling, so that the skin
is less readily broken, and the danger
of rot diminished.
Another good point the Russet Bur
bank possesses is that it is so distinc-
tive in appearance that it is almost
impossible to mix it with other va
| rieties. In other words, it is com
paratively easy to maintain a pure
variety. This variety also keeps well
without s%prouting.
1t has been difficult in past years
for the station to secure enough seed
to supply it's special customers even
though they were ready to pay a
premium. A premium also has been
paid for this variety in other parts
of the state.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1916-03-03

also be treated for smut at least mr..
in two or three years. If the seed i,
of good quality it will not pay to m,
it through the tanning mill NOR.
than once, to take out the small ker
nels and weed seeds. If the seed i.
poor or very weedy, running i
through a second time and taking Out
two-thirds or more of the grain i,
we'll worth while.
The reason it is best to take GU,
the small kernels is that they do moi
make as strong plants as the large
ones. The weak plants from these
small kernels usually produce little
grain. If the kernels that are sown
r all about the same size the plants
will be uniform, the crop will all ripen
at the same time, and the yield will
be better.
The best way to SOW oats is with
the grain drill. Drilling gives a more
even stand than broadcast seeding
for all the seed is covered to about
the same depth. In sowing broad
cast, some Of the seed may not be
covered at all and some may be COW
cred too deeply. termination is bet
ter than drilled seed and the growth
is more uniform throughout the sea-
son In numerous tests at the expert
ment stations drilled oats have out
yielded oats sown broadcast by sew
eral bushels to the acre. Better stands
of grass and clover can also be OBJ
tanned in drilled than in broadcast
oats.
Oats should be sown as early in the
spring as it is possible to make a
good seed bed. The exact date, of
course, varies with the season and
with the locality. This does not mean
that the preparation Of the land
should be neglected in order to sow
early. Better yields will be produced
from seed sown in a good seed bed
than from that sown a few days
earlier in ground too cold and wet for
the seed to terminate.
In a good seed bed the best rate of
seeding in the corn belt is about two
and one-half bushels to the acre. If
the seed is sown broadcast, more is
necessary. More seed is required in a
poor seed bed than in a good one, as
fewer seeds are likely to grow. A
lower rate of seeding may be used
for small-kerneled varieties than for
large-kerneled ones, for there are
many more Of the former in a bushel.
In the Great Plains. where the rain
fall is usually scanty, less seed should
be sown, the proper rate of seeding
being four to five pecks to the acre
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1916-03-03
HOW TO MAKE A HOTBED.

First get manure with plenty of lit
ter in it. Fine litter is better than
coarse, prairie hay being best, but
something else will do if we'll mixed
The manure should be fresh, never
having heated. If enough for the bed
can not be obtained at once, keep the
manure spread out until the neces-
sary amount is accumulated. Also
protect it from rain and snow.
To prepare the n for the hot
bed, put it into a neat pile and let
it heat. AS soon as steam can be seer
rising from it, fork it over into an
other pile, mixing it we'll and leaving
no punches. Three times it should be
forked owe that way. Never let it
stand after it begins to steam.
To prepare the hotbed, level a place
on top of the ground where the bed is
wanted. Do not dig a pit. Make the
bed on top of the ground. Fork the
manure onto the place, mixing it we'll
again, and make it smooth and uni
formly deep all over. The depth
should be 16 to Is inches after the
manure is pressed down. Make tire
manure bed six or more inches larger
than the wooden frame which is TO be
placed on it. Do not step on the ma
nure while placing it in the bed.
Never tramp the manure at all. At
ter it is all placed, take two broad
planks and lay them across the bed
at n end. Step on the first one "a
compact the manure under it, Their
On the second n Take the plank
from behind and lay it in front anG
step on it there and so on for The
length of the bed.
Now put the wooden frame in place
and cover the manure inside the
frame with rich soil to the depth of
four inches after it settles. Pack ma
nure around the outside of the frame
up within two inches of the top. Their
plant your seed or use the bed in any
other way desired.
The bed will not get too hot if The
mixture is just right. The proper pro
portion of litter and manure is rather
hard to judge. One has to learn chat
by experimenting. Too much manure
makes the bed too hot. About one
part in bulk of manure and three
parts of litter is perhaps a fair pro,
portion.
If the bed should get too hot, which
can be ascertained by feeling with The
hand, thrust a fork handle horizontal.
ly into the bed half way or more
across in one or two places, abou,
nine inches from the ground. Leave
the holes open 10 or Is minutes or un.
til the bed cools sufficiently, Their
close the holes tightly.
4. bed made in the above way, will
hold the heat about three weeks il
properly cared for. The manure viii
not be burned and will be suitable tc
put on the land after it has served its
purpose in the hotbed.-2ocky Noun,
tain Husbandman.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1916-03-03

Germany admits that bread stuffs
are more important than dye-stuffs.
"To Explore China for Rare Ami
mails" says a readline. Huh, why go
so far away from home.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1916-03-03
Kelley Treatment
COR WHISKEY, DRUGS, TOBACCO

FUK HICN I, IVNVNO, IODIANNV
More than 4O0, 1000 inebriates have
been treated and cured of alcohol
habit. Try the old and reliable
remedy tested by more than thirty
years experience. Address. Kelley
Institute, Box 1874, Fargo, N. D.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1916-03-03

"The people across the water were
astonished when they saw the per-
sonnet of the party" says Henry
Ford. Is it "a boast or a confession ?
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1916-03-03

What has become of the old-fash-
toned mother who used to be sure
that her boy would become president
of the United States some day?
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1916-02-12
new BOWLING GAME OF AGE
Regulation Alleys Invented and Gen.
orally Adopted In tss6-Nothins
to Disturb Serenity.

Bowling will celebrate it's twenty.
first birthday In the year 1916, regu.
lation alleys being invented and gen.
orally adopted in 1895. With its com.
ing of age the game also reaches the
point where It has not cloud to dis
turb its serenity. The last possible
source of trouble died with the dodo
ball two years ago.
A tendency Is noticeable In the big
tournaments to exclude picked entries
from cities Of large population, In an
endeavOr to force the big towns to
compete on more even terms with
cities the size of Omaha, Cincinnati.
Louisville and others Of like class.
The American Bowling congress has
already banned clubs from Greater
New York, while the midwestern tour
nament may take similar action
against Chicago this coming year.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1916-02-12

bled National and American league Of.
ficials listened to the Federal league
men as they unfolded their tale Of woe
they looked at each other in surprise.
An official Of organized baseball
said: "They estimate that the Federal
league lost 100000 in this venture.
I tell you that $4,000 or $5.OO0.000
would be nearer the mark. 1t was the
biggest piece Of folly ever heard Of
to imagine that any baseball league
could live and pay the players such
salaries"
It is estimated that more than sew.
enty.five Of the ball players whom the
Federal league enticed away from or.
ganized ball with the big offer OF
money received more than twice as
much as they received with organized
ball. This item alone would represent
an annual expenditure Of $225,000.
It can readily be seen now why the
big issue In the peace negotiations 10
the seventy or more players whom the
Federal league has under iron.bound
contracts at these inflated salaries.
Organized baseball has told the Fed.
eral league club owners that they can.
not hope to pay these salaries. even
II they take the players back. It IL
believed that the compromise will be
effected by organized ball paying the
greater part Of the salaries to the
players they take, while the Federal
league must make up the balance.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1916-02-12
PAID LARGE SALARIES
Federal League Was Not Stlhgy
Toward Ito Players.
Club Owners Surprised at Immense
Amount Of Money spsnt 20 secure
stars From Major League
A Few Example,.

The liberality Of the Federal league
toward its ball players left the club
owners Of organised bail dunn.
founded when the Feds showed their
salary list at the recent peace meet.
ing. A club owner in one Of the ma
jor leagues stated that he was sur.
prised when the Federal league ON.
cials told Of the thousands Of dollars
they had spent on inflated salaries.
In order to lure the players away
from the major leagues their salaries
were doubled and some Of them
tripled. According to the ofiicials Of
organized ball, It was this unusual
extravaganza Of the Federal league
which caused its downfall.
A few examples Of the increase
which the Federal league gave in
salaries, shows that 1t was impos.
sible for the Federal league to ever
come out even financially. The fol.
lowing table shows how much salary
some Of the players received under
organized baseball and what the Fed.
eral league paid them:
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1916-02-12
TENER AIDED PLAYERS
Made Original Fight to Restore
All Contract Jumpers.
Many % Men Who Went with FEEDER.
ale Jared Better Than Those Who
Remained Loyal to Their
Clubs-No Third League.

Organized baseball has put the Fed.
eral league out Of the business. No
matter II It did offer concessions, the
fact IL that the independents battle
cry Of the necessity for third league
was licked by the American public.
There Is no third league now, and the
independents. beaten, give a clear
field again to the National and Ameri.
can leagues.
The ending Of the baseball war,
which cost the deluded hackers Of the
Federal league between 100000 and
100000. was personal triumph
for President John X. Tener Of the
National league. II was mainly
through his personality. diplomacy
and observation-disclosures that peace be.
came fact. It was Tener. former
player himself, who made the original
fight to restore all jumping players to
good standing. Every man who jumped
to the Federal league has Tener TO
thank that he isn't barred from base.
bail today.
Taking q peek at the situation. the
Jumping ballplayer has been extraordi.
narily we'll treated. He jumped to the
Feds for q sky.high salary and his con.
tract IL going to be respected by or.
ganized baseball. Financially many
of the Jumpers Jared better than the
players who were loyal to their clubs
and declined to Jump. The jumpers
are back in the major leagues again
and receiving Federal league salaries.
The major leagues have this to fear.
Should another rival rear up in base.
ball. won't q player be disposed to
recall the luck Of the Federal league
jumpers and leap to the opposition.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1916-02-12
HARVARD IS WEAK IN SPORTS
Makes Poor Showing In Swimming,
Gymnastics and Basket Ball.
Other Colleges Make Advance.

Harvard, strong in football. track
athletics. baseball, rowing and hockey.
the major sports (hockey is q major
sport at Harvard), makes poor show.
Ing in several Of the so.called minor
sports. such as swimming, gymnastics.
wrestling and basket ball. all health
Iul. worth while forms of competition.
Proficiency at swimming has gone
ahead fast In recent years at several
colleges. Yale, Columbia. Princeton.
Penn and College OF the City of New
York. for instance. Doubtless this is
due to those institutions having fine
pools. and maybe the backwardness
Of Harvard in this line Of intercOl'
legiate sport is due to shortage OF
facilities.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1916-02-12

Not only did the Federal league sign
these players and many others at
these exorbitant salaries for long
terms, but II gave them bonuses Of
from $1,000 to $1,000 advances at the
time they signed.
Old. seasoned baseball men state
that the most prosperous days that
baseball has ever had could not afford
such high salaries. When the assem-.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1916-02-12
Barrett May Turn TO Baseball.

1t Is said that Charlie Barrett, the
great Cornell football star. will appear
In a uniform of one of the big league
teams the coming season. Barrett Ia
a fine diamond artist, as he ia a grid.
iron performer, and can play almost
any position. He Is at his best In the
Outfield.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1916-02-12
IMPORTANT GOLF DATES

Dates of important tOurna-
ments. awarded at the meetings
OF the United States Golf asso-
citation and the Western asso.
citation are as follows:
June 27.30-National open,
Minnekanda club, Minneapolis.
July 15-Olympic cup match.
Del Monte Country club. Del
Monte, Cal.
July l7.22-Western amateur,
Del Monte, Cal, club.
August 17-lS-Western open,
Blue Mound Country club, Mil.
waukee.
August 22-24-Western junior.
Hinsdale Golf club. Chicago.
September educational anna
teur, Merton Cricket club, Phila.
delphia.
September 11.14- National
women's meet. Belmont Springs
Country club, Boston.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1916-02-12
Spanish KIM turns to RACING.

European horse racing is to be In.
creased by the establishment of q
course at San Sebastian. Spain. which
will have the patronage of King Al.
fons0. He will race undsr the name
OF the Duke OF Toledo.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1916-02-12
INTERESTING
i. SpOQT /.
PARAGRAPHS

Jack Dillon has . way of turning
pork into beef.
Harvard's track squad numbers y,
record turnout.
Pat Moran IL hoping that his new
Rhoades will lead to another cham.
pionship.
Cincinnati amateur baseball play.
ers may wear numbers playing on
public diamonds this summer.
The expert who advises people to
sleep sitting up must have got the
bunch at six.day bicycle race,
That yellow peril again. Clarence
Grimm, coast tennis star. was beaten
by Jap in tournament at Manila.
Mc0raw says he can use q few good
outfelders. He'll need more than a
few II he doesn't get some new pitch.
ers.
Lots Of people can understand Bob
Hedges selling the Browns. but can't
gather why Phil Ball wants to buy
them.
Well. we're no cinch bettor. Well
wager that Charlie White can't lick
Freddie Welsh - because he can't
catch him.
Baseball players do all sorts Of
things in winter. but we learn for the
first time that Mollwitz Of the Reds
10 q Silesian.
Cincinnati 10 to have now speed.
way. but Pittsburgh has tho fastest
speedway in the league when Ma.
maux IL pitching.
Boston players will have to carry
dictionaries with them II they are 20.
ing to talk with Percy Haughton, new
owner Of the club.
The most valuable player the
Browns get from the Federals IL not
q player. but manager, the same be.
Ing Fielder Jones.
Packey McFarland's ideas Of the le.
climate cut between boxer and o
promoter seem to be that Of the Ar.
mours and the pork.
Jimmy Callahan says he is willing
to take Jimmy Archer from the Cubs.
Also Cobb from the Tigers and Alex.
ander from the Phils. Ell, Jeems?
Rapacity and greed stalk in the land.
II IL said that Chess Champion Capa.
blanca demanded the sum Of SIS to
give an exhibition at q wealthy club.
Winter dopesters have awarded the
National pennant to the Cubs and the
American flag to the st. Louis
Browns, so let's start the world series.
Leach Cross would not agree to fight
Charlie White for less than $4,000;
but then we wouldn't fight White for
$4,000 unless our footwork had i'm.
proved.
Comiskey says that II st. Looey
were given a winner, 1t would be the
best ball town in America. But what's
the use Of saying tit neve~ will be
tested out.
The next Vanderbilt cup race will
be staged at the sheepshead Bay
track on May IS. Good time to take
out accident policies ON several we'll.
known drivers.
George Johnson, the Indian pitcher,
is another one of those fortunate
moundmen who have everything"
Which, as Hugh Jennings once OBJ.
served, 10 all any pitcher needs.
II all depends on the point OF view,
governed largely by what you're used
to- The English think our billiard
balls are sbsurdly large. and the Gu.
bans think they are absurdly small
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1916-02-12
LAYS CLAIM TO REC0GNI TON
Paeksy Mcfarland Ready TO Meet Any
o. Wslte~~sIehts Who Aspire
70 Championship Title.

Interest now centers in the strife
among the welterweights as to who Is
entitled to call himself champion in
this class. One Of those who thinks
his claims entitle him to recognition 10
Packey Mcfarland. Packey intimates
that he 10 ready to meet any Of the
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1916-02-12

boys who aspire to leading honors in
the welterweight division and prove
to them that he IL their master.
The Chicagoan has announced on
more than one occasion that he was
through with the ring. but finds 1t
hard to forsake the arena for good.
It is more than probable that Packey
will be found In action against some
Of the prominent welters before long.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1916-02-12

feeling that he will 90 unpublished
anyway. should the venture fail? Ger.
tainly more than one ball player re.
NAMED loyal to the major leagues
for the sole reason that he feared he
would be blacklisted for life In case
he jumped.
But there may. not be q new rival
for some time. The heavy losses sus.
tanned by the Feds should pretty near.
ly prove that there Is no room for an.
other major league. Baseball Is not q
close corporation. II any wealthy man
aspires to be an American baseball
figure. he won't find much trouble be.
ing able to purchase franchise in
the American or National league.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1916-02-12
Cost OF AthIOtlc0,

Cost Of Athletlcs.
New York Athletic club to maintain
its athletic department last year spent
S4s.S65.21, and its receipts from al
sports was only 326,417.23.
Rifle Clubs Of Shanghai.
Shanghai has seven ride clubs With
Q membership OF 7N.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1916-02-12

Nebraska May Meet Harvard.
Nebraska may meet Harvard on the
gridiron In 1917 at the Cambridge
stadium.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1916-02-12
GRAND CIRCUIT DATES

Cleveland, week Of July II.
Detroit, week of July "a.
Kalamazoo, week of July 81.
Grand Rapids, week of Aug.
ust Z.
Columbus, week of August IA.
Cleveland, week of August 81.
New York. week of August 20.
Hartford, week of September 4.
Syracuse, week Of Septem.
Der IL.
Columbus, two weeks begin
ming September Is.
Lexington, two weeks begin
ming October 2.
Atlanta, week of October 10.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-09-10

whether bulgaria realizes her hopeless
osition and makes peace ~ change
sides. its task. with the help of the
kumanan army, is expected to be all
easy one
And | have been told on very high
authority several tiwts during the
past few months that the real goal
of The Salonica army. assuming Bul
xariH attacked by Rumania and by
Russian armies coming through the
territory Of the new ally. will be not
tho ranpbe, bat Consiar;incple. The
bearing of the Rumauian Mobilization.
upon the all-important Constantiuople
question will he considered later.
Wine and beautiful women and red
gold and all the other stage proper
ties. except possibly ,bc sword play.
employed in the Balkan ru,nances Of
Anthony Hope. have combined II
make bucharest in the past few
months the most romantic capital in
Europe Every other m3n and wom-
an you met on the street was a secret
agent of Germany. England or Rus
Sia. ! was assured recently by a gen
t.eman, himself a secret agent lust re-
turned from bucharest. described as
q maclstrom Of intrigue.
Clever Trading.
Aside from the personal wirepulling
the same game is played. in a very
different and vastly more decorous
way. in Washington-the elements of
the situation In Bucharest were these.
King Charles and his government
knew well that the Importance Of their
support was worth many times the
value of their half million soldiers be-
cause of their stragetic position on
the flank of hard beset Hungary and
between the millions OF the czar and
the straight road to the goal of Rus
sia's dream of the centuries on the
Golden Horn. They were determined
to get their own price for that sup
port. Rumania, beholding an oppor-
tunity more dazzling than has con-
fronted any small country in modern
history, decided to annex not only the
Hungarian province OF Pennsylvania.
containing three million "enslaved"
brothers of her own race, but also to
seek possession of some of the Rus
sian province of Besserabia, on her
other frontier populated by almost as
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-09-10

ber OF the British cabinet answered
the objections Of a 'westcraer' who
was protesting that all available
strength should be concentrated in
French and 'sidcshuWs abandoned.
lie said.
when an army is unable To- break
through the line of its opponent. II
tries 10 get around his flank We are
for the present unable Co break
through the Germans ON either Of the
main fronts. and they have no flIuks.
We are wise. then, II we Try To- attack
he enemy elsewhere. and ii Rumaui1
comes In the chance for a series of
campaigns which win In effect flank
the German empire viii be afforded.
First We will get Bulgaria out of
It. Caught between two fires. she
may even quit without a fight as she
did in 1918. Then will come Turkey.
exposed to attack through Thracc
from SalouiCa and through Rumani1
from Russia, with Germany powcrless
to help hcr. despite the great consC-
queuCes for as am that viii follow
the opening of the straits. Thcn will
come Austria's turn. And, finally,
we can get at Germany, who Will
grow weaker as her allies and dupes
are one by one cut of. The prospect
is not a pleasing one. Tor we will have
to wait "A long time TO square things
with the principal enemy. hut since
we must win and win decisivolN and
since We have found that speedy
victory ON the main fronts Is impos-
Sihlc. We must take the slow. round
about but sure method.
She Was Honest
The scWiua ma hiuc agent rang the
bell \ particularly noisy and vicious