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about an inch and an eighth. The best
we get around here is an inch. It's
mighty nice and clean-if the bale is
all like this
every bit, sir. | handled it so it
would be Clean" said Joe.
"What'll you offer. DAM" inquired
Mr.. Somerville.
"Well, New Orleans spot cotton is
quoted today at II cents pound for
middling. This, however, classes as
middling fair, grade or so better.
On account of the staple and cleanli-
ness of the cotton I'll give you 1872"
"Too low for that grade" said Mr..
SOmerville.
"I'll make it 49," urged the buyer.
write your bid on the sample" The
buyer did so and signed his initials.
The next buyer raised his offer half
cent a pound. The third and last
buyer in town was the representative
of a great firm of New Orleans fac
tors.
81 think our farmers ought to be en-
couraged to grow better cotton and
handle it clearly and properly, as you
have. young man, and get 1t on the
market earlier. I'll pay you IA cents"
you've sure bought bale of cot
ton," said Mr.. Somerville. Here are
the warehouse receipt and weight
The buyer made a calculation.
bale of 400 pounds at IA cents
comes to S6S.6O Here's your check
Come around again, son. Glad to have
met progressive farmer like you"
"Well, joe" said Mr.. Somerville,
that's doing a heap more than folks
around here. A bale to the acre Is
what they make up in the delta, and
that's about the richest land in crea-
ton"
Eyes, sir, it's pretty good" said joe
as he made out deposit slip for the
check at the bank, "but reckon can
get another small bale off that acre
when all the top bolls open."
"Great Scott! Say that again, Will
your" Mr.. Somerville and the cashier
stared at him in amazement.
you're joking, amt you, JoeT
"No, sir, I'm not. Drive out there
and see for yourself"
"well, this certainly does beat the
Dutchv' Mr.. Somerville whis1ed.
1.-TWO bales to the acre-well, WELL
wellv'
It was three weeks and half longer,
though, before all the top bolls opened
and Joe got his second bale. 1t was
small. barely 400 pounds, and the mar
ket had tumbled to 10 cents by the
time he took it to the buyer who got
his first bale. On account of the excel
lence of the staple and freedom from
trash, he paid IL cents for it, and Joe
banked S44. The total of SLIGO LOT
one acre of cotton was entirely salts
factory: moreover, there were forty or
fifty bushels of seed he could sell Tor
planting at dollar bushel easily.
The next thing was to get the pota-
toes on the market. They were plowed
up-14O bushels at 60 cents brought
sS4, which. added to the amount of the
truck on that acre, made $215. A hum
dred bundles of fodder from the Next
can June corn at 3 cents brought So to
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CHAPTER VII.
Intensive Corn Cultivation.

Joe knew the time for action
had arrived. He hitched a
III horse to the single wagon and
w. drove to town. Mr.. SOmerville
was not at the store, but Joe did not
wait for him.
Give me two 100-pound sacks of fer
tilizer and two 1OO-pound sacks of nj.
trate of soda" he ordered.
Paying with check-$3 for the fer
tilizer and 81 for the nitrate-he start
ed for home as soon as the stuff was
loaded into the wagon.
Opening a sack of fertilizer in the
field he filled a bucket with the yell
lowish, powdery stuff-a combination
of cottonseed meal, acid phosphate,
phosphoric acid, kainite and other in
gradients. For a distance of about
fourteen inches around each hill of
corn, he sprinkled a generous quantity
two good handfuls
Finishing the first row, with his hoe
he chopped the fertilizer lightly into
the soil, then pulled all that dirt and
some from the middle of the rows to-
ward the cornstalks, where it lay. n
light, porous mound, easy for the root
lets to penetrate, and charged with all
the elements necessary to make the
corn do its level best.
He was four days doing it, and when
he finished the last row in the prize
acre he examined the root stems Of the
first row. They had grown almost half
an inch and were nearly touching the
dirt he had pulled toward them.
He discovered another function these
above ground roots possessed. The
broad leaves of the corn would catch
the heavy dew each night or some
slight shower, and the moisture would
condense and roll down the broad
leaves until it reached the main stalk;
then it would trickle down the stem
until it reached this circle of roo1,
then down them to the soil in perfect
circle of moisture about the plant to
assist in its growth.
Joe was well tired out when he got
through fixing the corn and hired Link
to plow out the Mexican June corn.
give the cotton a dose of fertilizer and
throw some more dirt toward it and to
assist in cutting off lot of sweet po-
tato vines, which were hauled to the
pig lot to give Mike and John L. some
green food The rest of the vines were
thrown back without cutting on top of
their rows and final blowing and hill
ing given the potatoes.
In about a week the tiny ears of corn
on the stalks in the prize acre began to
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-06-14

show. The additional roots were now
striking into the fertilizer. One could
almost see the corn growing, and on a
still, quiet night person could actual
ly hear it, faint. gentle whispering
rustic as the leaves gradually unfolded.
Here and there the tassels began to
show, and the pink and white silk of
the young ears was growing longer.
The time to use the nitrate of soda
cisely as the fertilizer had been, except
that Joe took rake and merely abrad-
ed the crust of ground on the hills SO
the nitr1Da could be absorbed more rap
idly In addition, this working would
not tear and break natures arrange
ment Of rootlets as deep blowing or
hoelng would do. Four days after the
nitrate was applied the field was in full
tassel.
Joe admired the beautiful pink silk
on the ends of the corn ears greatly.
One day he was looking at tassel on
top of the stalk when one of the many
honeybees scrambling busily around
flew, and the motion and air from the
wings of the insect caused faint puff
of very fine yellow powder to drop
from the tassel and float downward in
the still air.
He looked the matter up in his book
that night and found that the real
blossom Of the corn is the tassel that
the tassel Is composed of hundreds of
oblong little cups open at the outer
end, the other being attached to the
rib. or stem. which in turn grew from
the main stem Of the tassel.
He found that this yellow powder
was the pollen. This was shaken out
Of the blooms by the wind, by bees
and other insects and fell of its own
weight until some of it was caught by
the waving silk. which was slightly
damp and gummy to make it stick.
Each strand of silk he found con-
nected with a grain of the embryo
or tiny corn. Each strand Of silk was
a sort Of above ground root formed for
the express purpose of catching bit
of the pollen powder. When the pre-
cious grains fell upon the silk it was
absorbed, transmitted to the tiny grain,
which then grew into perfect one.
In this way the grain of corn was
pollinated, one of those mysterious
and wonderful requirements of nature
the exact secret of which and precise
reasons for have never yet been re-
vealed to man. Certain it is, however.
that if the pollen with its hidden and
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CHAPTER VIII.
The Committee Gathers Corn.


N0CT. 10 the committee came out
to measure Joe's corn. The
ri three gentlemen took a stand
ard bushel measure and a
standard scale, filed the measure by
pulling the corn from the stalks them
selves, then weighed it and made their
calculations.
Joe had made 1873 bushels of corn on
an acre at cost of $12.30!
The committee took his record sheet,
where he had faithfully put down ev-
erything he had done in connection
with the crop, how much he had spent
how many times and the dates Of
working, how much and what fertilizer
and when and how applied, verified his
calculations. certified their findings,
signed it with Joe and forwarded it to
the county superintendent Of educa-
ton.
Joe now began to gather his corn.
The stalks he had marked for seed he
got first: beautiful, perfect ears they
were. Leaving a thin shuck upon these
ears, he put them in sacks and sus-
pended them from hook In the cell
ing of the attic so mice and rats could
not get at them.
The three precious ears from the
stalk showing the beginnings Of
fourth ear reserved to experiment
with, he slipped each in quart pre-
serve jar, clean and dry. and screwed
the top on tightly.
There were twelve bushels of "nub-
bins" These he began to feed to the
pigs. now great, big fellows. He also
gave them the Mexican June nubbins
and the small. unstable sweet pota-
toes left in the field. One could almost
see those hogs putting on fat.
Joe went over his prize corn and
culled out fifty bushels, mostly from
the stalks bearing the two perfect ears
and nubbin. He sold the fifty bushels
for $3.50 a bushel. The ten best ears
he saved to exhibit at the state fair.
The sale of the seed corn brought in
SIPS.
A few days after he had disposed of
the fifty bushels a man came to him
wanting some seed corn.
Haven't any MORE" said Joe.
my gracious, Joe, you amt sold all
that $50 bushels already, have your
"Oh, no; I've saved five bushels for
seed for dad and myself-money could |
not buy that. I've sold fifty bushels |
Of selected seed, and I've culled twelve |
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be added to the oats acre, and seventy
bushels of the June corn sold at 70
cents brought $40; total for the acre Of
oats and June corn, $64, with crop Of
turnips yet to be heard from.
The cowpeas he did not count as he
let the vines mature the peas for seed,
as peas were scarce and expensive, and
he planned to plant more of them next
year.
Thus far receipts had been: Cotton,
$112.60; vegetables and potatoes, $215;
oats and corn. $64; total. $391.6O, with
out considering the competitive corn
acre or the cotton seed on hand.
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TOE knew the time for action
had arrived. He hitched a
horse to the single wagon and
~ i, drove to town. Mr. Snmeryilla
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-06-14

marked the owner of the gin. The
bale was weighed.
mighty near standard-490 pounds.
Only ten more and you would have
had a standard bale"
Joe sacked his cotton seed and, re.
rus1ng an offer from the ginner at the
rate of SIS a ton for them to sell to u
cottonseed oil mill for crushing pur-
poses, took them back home to sell for
seed and for his own use.
The new bale of cotton was hurried
to town. At the cotton warehouse a
hole was cut in the side of the bale by
the weigher, who certified the weight
and pulled a sample of the lint from
the hole he had made. This was wrap
ped in a piece of clean manila paper,
and Joe and Mr.. Somerville sailed
forth to sell the cotton.
The first buyer they went to could
scarcely believe his eyes that a bale
had been produced three weeks before
cotton was expected to come on the
market. He took a lock of the fiber
between the thumb and forefinger Of
his left hand. Grasping the ends of
the lock with the similar fingers of his
right hand, he pulled steadily.
1t parted. and in each hand he had a
lock of tolerably straight cotton. Re
peating the process five or six times,
he had every strand Strengthened out,
and, placing the two pieces together,
he went to the stronger light by the
window and examined it.
This is a new cotton in this neigh
borhood," be said. THE staple is
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-22
Delight and Disappoint-
ment Mixed in Carnegie
Hall Concert
AUDIENCE FILLS
CHAIRS AND BOXES
Applause Forces Singer to
Repeat Many Songs
and Add Others

There were some very delightful
features in the recital of songs which
Nine. Sembrich gave in Carnegie Hall
yesterday afternoon and some that
were not creative Of pleasure.
IL was delightful TO note that sn
admirable artist who has done so much
as Nine. Sembrich has to educate the
public to an appreciation Of the art
of singing, should have won for her
self SO numerous a clientele: for the
big audience room was filed with a
paying audience in all its chairs and
boxes from floor to roof Il was graf
Tying, too, to observe that the applause
was Discriminatory distributed, anil
that as a rule most enthusiastic demon
STATIONS OF approval were bestowed
upon the songs which we're best sung
There were disappointing moments,
moments when the singers obvious pur-
poses and desires were not met BY her
physical ability-when there was an in
suf'iciency Of breath under her tones,
and when as consequence there were
departures from just pitch. A fact 70
be noticed in connection with this phe-
nomenon was that it occurred oftenest
in the unfamiliar songs on her pro-
gramme, and that the blemish grew less
as the afternoon wore on, until finally,
as in the Norwegian cowherd song,
"Kom Kjva" Zone Of several songs
added to the list after the final num-
Der on the programme, she seemed to
have recovered all her old-time fresh
ness and power of tone.
Before then, however. Nine. Sembrich
had been compelled to repeat Schu-
mann's "Er ist's," add the same COM
poser's Spring Song" to the six Of his
songs which she had sung, TO repeat
Chausson's "Papillons" and Bruneau's
"Pavane." add Massenet's louvre ties
mes yeux" and Arne's LASS with Del
icate Air" to the French songs which
made up her third group. and repeat
Mr.. La Forge's "Retreat"-a conpli-
ment better deserved by the singing
than by the song. Mr.. La FORCES tai
ents, indeed, shone brighter in his ac-
compartments, and there they were
phenomenally brilliant.
Finally, delightful feature of the
recital was the announcement on the
house bill that Nine. Sembrich is going
TO extend and heighten her educational
work by giving series OF four his
torical recitais in January in Aeoian
Hall-a room in which the artistic in
timacy between her and her audience
will be felt as il has not yet been felt
in New York II. Z. X.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-22
BARRED AT SHOW,
THREE TARS SAY
Warrant Issued for Man
ager on Charges of
u. S. Sailors

Warrants were issued yesterday for
the arrest of Harry Traub, proprietor
OF the Olympic Theatre. in Adams
Street Brooklyn, and Edward Gottman.
rouse manager, on charges preferred
by three United States sailors, who say
that they wcVe denied seats for which
they had pa.S. Thomas j. Cuff, Assist
ant United States District Attorney,
will prosecute the case in the Adams
Street court this morning.
The sailors are from the hospital
ship Solace. lying in the navy yard
Edward Hill, spokesman for the trio,
declares that they bought box seats for
the Sunday afternoon performance at
the Olympic. They were in uniform.
When they tried 10 enter the box, Hill
says. an usher barred them.
You'll have to sit in the gallery"
Hill SAYS he was told mo decent peo-
pie will sit IN box with sailors in uni
form in it,"
According TO Hill, they then went to
the manager, and were virtually put
out.
I'VE have a new rule now" the man.
ager is quoted as saying. 1--WE don't
propose to have any sailors sitting in
the boxes of our theatres. Wen lose
all our decent trade otherwise"
Traub absolutely denied the charges.
He said the sailors had been excluded
from the box in question on Sunday be-
cause it had been reserved for theatre
party. ..
sailors can have the whole house il
they want TO pay for it," he said. I'VE
let them sit in any place in the house"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-22
COLLEGIANS ARE MATTRESSES
Deal En- OF the Arm" at Settlement
Bazaar

That the higher education in no way
units girls for careers MS "haSh-sllng-
ers" was demonstrated by the Smith
College women Tho yesterday played
mattresses AZ the College Settlement
Bazaar luncheon, az 50 West Thirty
seventh street.
College women all the way from the
class of 1881 20 that OF 1916 balanced
slirpcry trays and took in tips with
all the aplomb Of their professional
sisters, to swell the bazaar funds 10
the $4,000 needed for carrying on
the work in the Eivington Street set
Element.
Mrs. william Valentine Schevill,
president Of the Smith College Club,
Is in charge of the committee. Mrs.
George MeAneny, Mrs. Charles h..
Hughes. Mrs. Thomas J. Preston, for
merly Mrs. Grover Cleveland, Mrs.
BENJAMIN Harrison. Mrs. Elon Hunt
ington Hooker, Dean Virginia Glider
sleeve Of Barnard College. Mrs. Will
lam II. Baldwin, Mrs. James Lees Laid
law and Mrs. Shepard a. Morgan are
among the other college women work
ing at the bazaar.
Vassar alumni will be in charge to-
Gay.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-22
DRESSINGS GO TO FRANCE
Mrs. Hewitt's Committee Presents 22,'
900 to French Consul

Eight boxes bearing $4,000 dressings
for the wounded in Paris hospitals go
20 France to-day from the New York
State Surgical Dressings Committee. Of
which Mrs. Edward Ringwood Hewitt
is chairman.
The committees new workroom at
6sl Fifth Avenue, provided by Mrs.
Levi Y. Morton. was opened yesterday.
Speeches were made by CASTOR Liebert,
French Consul General, who thanked
the committee in behalf of his country;
Sydney Brooks, the English corre-
spondent, who spoke for England, and
II. j. Reckitt, one of the founders OF
DR.. Blake's Paris hospital. Mr.
Reckitt said that out of thirty nurses
in the hospital twenty received their
training in New York, and that the
American flag flies with the tricolor
and the British banner in every hos
pital ward
The great needs of the New York COM
mittee and its 200 branches through
out the state are materials, money and
especially workers. Volunteer seam
stresses are welcome at the new work
room any hour OF the day.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-22
J. & J. Slater Asks $4,000
from Concern 1t Says
Trades on Its Name
SAMUEL II. ADAMS
QUOTED IN PAPERS
Slater Shoe Co., Inc, Must
Show Why 1t Should
Not Be Enjoined

An article by Samuel Hopkins
Adams in The Tribune's campaign
against dishonest advertising methods
and fraudulent business methods was
made part Of the moving papers on
which Justice Conalan yesterday is
sued an order directing Harry A. Aron-
son TO show cause before Justice
Shearn to-day why he should not be en-
joined from doing business as the
Slater Shoe Company, Inc.
The plaintiff, which seeks an in
junction and $4,000 damages, is J.
J. Slater, a concern founded in 1889. on
whose favorably established trade
mark and name, il is alleged, the de-
PENDANT has tried TO trade. Aronson
is president of the defendant corpo-
ration. which is incorporated in Mas
sachusetts and which is also a defend
ant.
J. & ]. Slater was founded in 1883
BY John and James Slater. II Was
Incorporated in 1904. The concern has
stores at AIS Fifth Avenue and 1921
and 1923 Broadway. As told by the
applicants for the Injunction. tho
plaintiff corporation has established
an extensive trade In this country
Canada and even In Europe. 1t has
spent more than 100000 in adver-
Using.
And then, il is alleged. along came
the Slater Shoe Company. lneorpo-
rated, at 1859 Broadway. two blocks
from the Broadway store OF the old
established firm.
Trading on the name and reputation
Of ]. e. j. Slater. says the complaint,
the Aronson enterprise used the name
Slater on its shoes, on its windows
and in its advertising. which, II IS AL
legged. was in wiiful disregard OF the
plaintiffs rights and was done with
deliberate design to deceive the pub
lie. Also there has been much con-
fusion in the delivery OF mail and
kilograms intended for j. j. Slater,
which that concern says have been di.
yerted 10 the defendant corporations
using the name of Slater.
The older company wants an injune-
ton that will restrain the defendants
from using the name Slater in any way
in connection with its sale OF foot
wear.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-22
WHAT Is GOING on TO-DAY

Free sdmlssiou 70 the American Museum OF
Natural History. Metropolitan Museum o. Ar.
New YORK biological Park Van Corlsndt
PARK Museum and Aquarium.
Atlantic Cat Shos for the benef, Of Miss
Winifred Hoit's Lighthouse FOR tho Blind IN
Paris. Hotel MeAipln.
The Masing o. az American Citizen" At the
luncheon - the Brooklyn CIVIC Cub. club
house. ~ Rensen Street Brooklyn. 1890
Address by wnrsri LEA Chambers on "Ameri
can Experience in the Prevention Settle
ment Of Labor Disputes'' ., tho meeting u
the Academy ~ Political Science. LErl Hal.
Columbia unteisiIy. afternoon
lecture, under the auspices % the International
Pure Mia and food League. b. Cyrus y.
Miller or The hiTh Cost u Living" Hotel
Lecture b Professor Pauy smith Hill ~
Mental and Physlcsl ChHarteri,ties Of DIFF
fclegt Periods u Childhood" before the Fed
ersiioa Tor child study meeting vuse.
West Sixty fourth Street AiJ-p m.
Addrrs. ~ Mrs. Ida Hustled Hsfpsf on Cur.
,es. Events y k.l.noa % Womas s .p
Yors STATE Woman suffrage ParJ. head
quarters, scs pifth A,,nu.. : NJ
board PARK A'sngs and fify -nin,h street.
Isctlr, - N, Re, Joseph " NeNahon .,
rc.ase. n PgsI, In. I ss,, E Re-: .,Sd,
LhrHS Assoc. ion. pelmonieo's. 2. m
Dinner u the fiih Avenue Association. wal
p. Ig II ne socle,y for N. AID Of the Mental
Defective. fof pr. Ma. q. sehlspp, RIA
Carlton. 90 .. m
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Brh oentfol Quss,ioo" a; the dinner q ne
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Meeting Of Tia Phi Beta Kspps. Hotel Aston.
Lectur. by Or. Fr.d.re c. Ho-s % "Eeononis
Imperialism and war" wuhlrEtoa Irrns
lit o.
Lecture b. Dr simon FsInn on Health
Problems. Infsnuls Pssysis." isetur. hall.
Aesdsms q Music. Brooklyn. is P N
life 81 TIE American Border tefore the
Nipnieh.en Club. clubhouse. spuytsn puyvi!.
Ie,tuf. IN English ~ Profes,o, Kuno Fr.nese
on Tie Fgiure Of Germany bsfor. Inc Ger
MAJESTIC soaev Of Ansriea. Ho's Asiof.
Public sclurr, o, ne Board Of Eduesiion. SIS
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FLAWS Bfoe.t. Public school %, Wee, Hous-
,oa Ca: .nd r,s,e s, srss ,5 , i,s s,,
vet - i<Ilnsion Avenue "Romanrcism IN
Musie." - Daniel GfssOry huen. Hunter
Collsss. lxIinCon A'sngs and siIiJ eighth
Hannah. Ceoper Institute. Elshth Street and
Fogrh Avenue The Tanning o. he shr... "
- Mn. kthsi to-,e'. Institute Hal 2ls East
and sufossiion - By rheron W. kiinsr Pub
Dc Llbr.D. ~ EAsi fifU -sish,h stree, TIE
Nsllosslooe Nstinsi Pst ., Arthur X
sirs,,. The n,ins and Ne Won .L,ins" b
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Avenues.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-22
BISHOP WILSON DIES
AFTER TOURING SOUTH
Noted Methodist, 50, Stricken
Following Motor Trip

Baltimore. Nov. 2l.-Bishop Alpheus
W. Wilson, of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South, died in his home here
to-day. He was eighty-two years old.
Bishop Wilson returned home last
night from months tour OF the
South. He was i'll when he arrived,
having come from Richmond in an au-
tomobile.
Bishop Wilson was born in Baltimore
in 1884. the son Of Norval Wilson,
whose name is historic in the annals
Of Mcthodism. Early in life DR.. Will
son studied medicine. with the purpose
Of nractising. but soon abandoned the
idea and Joined the Baltimore Cen
eral Conference of the Methodist
Church. Several years afterward cir
eumstanccs obliged temporary with
drawal from the ministry. During THIS
neriod he read law, and practised sue
cessfuliv in Baltimore, meanwhile
preaching frequently. Through the
persuasion OF friends he soon re-
entered active work in the Church,
serving without break up to the day
Of his death. A.,
Virtually every position in the Meth
odist Church was filled at one time or
another by DR.. Wilson. He was elected
delegate TO the General Conference OF
1870 and was member Of each sue:
ceoding session. In the Ecumenical
Conference held in London IN 1881 he
took a high position. From 1873 10
iss2 he served as missionary secretary.
In 1882 DR.. Wilson was elected Blsh-
op. in which office he remained until MS
death. He was Biblical scholar OF
national reputation, and Was known as
one of the most forccful and eloquen.
preachers in the Methodist Church.