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developed variation from it, the
new Pima cotton OF Arizona.
This new and valuable long-staple
variety now produces between 10000
and 10000 bales a year. and each of
the bales weighs 500 pounds. The
crop last year was worth $6.000,000
X \ \ \
T INTIL a few years ago dates were
~ looked upon as luxuries that
were to be eaten at Thanksgiving,
Christmas and other holiday periods,
but of late they have come into gen.
eral daily use, not only on account
Of their flavor but also by reason
Of their food value, and today we
find dates eaten several days week,
while mothers often prepare dainties
for the table by fixing them up ac-
cording to the latest recipes. Then,
too. the youngsters are now per-
mitted to have them as a candy.
where formerly they we're banned as
being injurious to the teeth.
We generally associate dates with
desert GASES. waving palms and cool
springs, and have visions of date
production as something oriental and
entirely divorced from American
agriculture. Yet last year nearly
100000 pounds Of dates, valued at
about $4,000. were produced in the
hot interior valleys Of California and
Arizona, and it is confidently ex-
pected that the yield will increase
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year by year. as the demand for
dates is ever increasing.
The American date industry Is not
really a new thing. for. 1t began in
an experimental way in 1900, and
many years of experimental work
were necessary. According to the
records. the earliest trial paintings
of date palms really took place in
1875. but the effort did not bear
satisfactory results. and 1t was not
until years later that the large Inn
portation of standard, high class
varieties was made from Algeria.
The offshoots were planted at Tempo,
Ariz., on a twenty-five acre tract set
aside for an experimental date gar
den, to be conducted in cooperation
between the Department of Agricul-
ture and the Arizona experiment
station.
Another station was established at
Mecca, Calf, in 1904. This was OPP
Grated in connection with the Univer-
sity of California. The government
date garden. largest of the stations
at present devoted to testing date
varieties. was started at Indio, Calf.
in 1907. Smaller stations are located
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In any plant. and the result was tina,
millions Of dollars worth of damage
was done every year.
From the experts of the department
and from other sources it is learned
that about 10000 specimens have
come into the United States. OF
course, many of the things that were
brought or sent to this country never
proved successful. but enough of
them did to add many millions OF
dollars to our resources.
~ y "
WYE find in parks, cemeteries. door,
w yards and other places shrubs
aud trees from Asia. Then there are
the dry land elm. from the land of
the dragon. China; the japanese
towering cherries. the other kind
tnat they call the Chinese chasts
bush, the Chinese pistache, the jul
jubA from the same part of the
world; the Smyrna fig. the Guate-
.malan avocado, the East Indian
mango, the seedless grapes from the
lands of Italy. Greece and India,
the pomegranates and giant olives
lof Tunis, the nectarines Of Baluchis-
tan and New Zealand and the blight
resistant wild peach of China upon
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which orchards of peaches in this
country have already been estab-
lished.
/ In the garden patches are seen the
japanese ude, the Chinese cabbage,
the Guatemalan chayote, the Trini-
dad dasheen, Persian melons and
giant Spanish peppers.
Up in Alaska turnips are much in
demand, and it has been found that
the Finnish turnips that were
brought to this country by the gov
eminent men were especially adapt
ed to the climate. The result has
been that this particular variety has
superseded all others.
Down in the deserts of the south
west dates were planted several
years ago and today the yield Is over
$250,00o each year. The American
Egyptian cotton industry foots up a
total Of $4,000. 100000
In the irrigated regions of Texas
and California Japanese rices are COW
ering such areas that Japan is actu-
ally buying rice from America. The
annual value of the crop has been
placed at 100000, and this year,
on account of the great disaster. the
total will probably amount to 5nuch
more.
Sudan grass, another importation.
is worth in the neighborhood of
$10,000,000 year. Rhodes grass.
from Rhodesia, has an annual value
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t which I coached in the fall of 1874.
The only man on my team that was
worth a woop was a half back
named Gargle and he could do any
thing on a football field except card
tricks.
| / knowed that we would be care
fully watched by scouts from our
big rivals SO early in the season I
made Gargle grow a mustache.
| He was the star in the early games
! and the scouts went home and told
| their coaches that the only man
worth a woop on the Washbasin
team was a man that wore a mus
| tache. So the players on our rival
| teams was taught that whenever
| they seen a man with a mustache
they was to tackle him.
Well. during the week before our
first big game, 1 had Gargle get the
mustache shaved and the rest of the
men on our team growed mustaches.
| Our opponents tackled them as fast
as they seen them irregardless of
who was carrying the ball and as
| a result we was awarded over two
holding.
Here is another trick / have
thought up in off moments. Every
body is aware of the rule which pre-
vents one team from having over
eleven players in the game at one
time and is also aware that q 18th,
or extra player would be a big ad-
vantage to the side that had him.
Well suppose I was coaching Har-
ward and we was playing VS.. Yale.
Well I would send eleven Of my men
onto the field in the kind of suits
Harvard wears but I would also have
extra Harvard man on the field
dressed In Yale uniform. Before
the officials noticed this extra man
he might do whole lot of damage.
He might even stand right over
the ball and tackle the Yale backs
before they could start.
When the officials finely did dis
cover that they was % men in the
game. the Harvard capt could say,
We'll, look at his suit, he don't be-
long to u.s. and 1t would be Harvard
that would benefit by the penalty.
I will wind up with play that
can be used only on the home
grounds.
During week when the gates is
closed for secret practice" why in
stead of having the boys practice I
would have them dig a tunnel from
a point near their own ghouI clear
down acrost the other sides ghoul
line.
The entrance and exit to the tun-
mel would be disguised to look just
like the rest of the turf. The home
teams quarter back would direct
his plays so that finely his backfield
would be standing right near the
entree to the tunnel. The ball would
be passed and the man receiving it
would sink underground and not
come UP until he bad scored touch
down.
The only way to stop this play
would be by means Of q mole tran
which is against the rules.
RING W. LARDNER.
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and millet straw for five to eight
| days the hulls are removed by the
women and children. The nuts are
/ then washed and, with little atten-
! tion to curing, are placed in market
channels. 1t is the intention of the
government experts to see IT, a. better
product can be secured by giving the
trees and nuts better treatment.
Many of the so-called English wall
| nuts that we eat are raised in China
| or In California An advantage of
the walnut tree Is that 1t can be
| used for replanting deforested areas.
This must be done in this country at
a much earlier date than Is gener-
ally known. for the demands that
have been made on our forests during
the last fifty years have caused great
damage.
X X
THE Importation of seeds. etc.. has
J. not been confined to articles de-
signed to tickle the palate alone.
There are many things that have
been brought into this country that
are for use in other ways. For in
stance, Egyptian cotton has added
much to the country's industries in
the matter of use in automobile tire
fabrics. hosiery. sewing thread. fine
and fancy goods and airplane and
balloon cloths. Because of the un-
certainty Of obtaining an adequate
supply from Egypt, the department
was led to investigate the possibility
- hi 80
commercial basis in the United States
and the seeds were brought here. For
various reasons 1t was concluded that
commercial production in the main
cotton belt would be impracticable,
but 1t was believed the cotton would
grow on the irrigated lands Of the
southwest. The first results were so
promising that further experiments
were made, and as a result today
thousands Of dollars worth are being
used every month. Commercial pro-
duction may really be dated from
1912, and the total value of seed and
| lint produced in the eleven-year Pc
riod from 1912 to 1922. the latest date
on which accurate figures are avail
able. was $s3.5o0,000. In 1919 alone,
when competitive buying by manu-
facturers Of tire fabrics and other
consumers of long-staple cottons re-
suited in exceedingly high prices, the
value of the crop was nearly 100000
600, not a bad return for the very
small amount that was expended by
the government in experimental
work
Our successful new plants are
bringing In wealth by the millions of
dollars, the few most conspicuous
,nes now giving US an annual total
If nearly s100,ooo,ooo. and those who
IRE following the matter closely are
If the opinion that we have made
merely beginning. The alien plants
have been a source of much revenue.
and In addition they have made for
greater comfort and happiness.
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of $1,o00,00O. Japanese sugar cane
yields about 100000. The Peru
Wan, Arabian and Siberian alfalfas
give a total every twelve months of
100000. The feterita sorghum from
upper Egypt yields $16,0o0.ooo. The
vast durum wheat areas yield to the
farmers about $50.000,Oo0 worth of
grain year.
This vast increase in wealth, for
which the Department of Agriculture
secured the first seeds and plants
and made the first experiments, has
cost the taxpayers less than $4,000
600 all told during the twenty FIVE
years of systematic study.
A most. important factor in the
work that has been done is the
changing of certain regions from will
dernesses and barren wastes into
thriving agricultural areas. dotted
with elevators or packing sheds or
live stock pens and comfortable homes.
To many, Egypt has been looked
upon as the place that the mummies
came from and the place where
cigarettes were made for Americans
to smoke, but, the experts investi-
gated the famous cotton Of the Nile
fed fields Of the fellaheen and finally
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less big football games for the past
rs yrs. and never seen play yet
that when told some other expert
about 1t they did not reply that 1t
had whiskers and their grandfather
had saw 1t used VS.. Yale when A.
A. Stages nurse was pushing him to
the Bowl in a go-cart.
1t may be argued that the. reason
for this state of fairs is because
they's only certain number of
fixed rules telling them what they
can and can't do and 1t is just like
composer trying to make up a
new tune out of the same eight
Keys that has been in a octave ever
since Bach begin practicing scales
on high chair, but my theory is
that the lack of new. deceptive foot
ball plays is directly due to the fact
that the coaches in question either
IL shy. Of imagination or else their
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"You should pussibly," I antidote.

you should pussibly, l 2ntioote.
well, then, / tell you. In race
horsing exhibitions IL are necessary
for a sitter to be In the knowledge.
Especially when two (2) Interna-
tional Horses meet together, speak
ing their different languages. II you
go to races full of ignorance, what
then? You are libel to blow up.
Otherwisely you become wealthy in
simultaneously. You see that?"
~ am looking for it," That from
me.
Satisfactory" holia Nogi '.Now
tell me this. Cousin Togo. Do you
wish me to loot you Wise on that
Internat1 Race Horse at Belmont
Park, Oct. COZ"
You mean say you can tell me
which horse will win?" / ask like an
oil well.
"Ezackly," he peruse. Opportunity
come to a man once per annually.
This are the date"
YES" I negotiate eagerly, ST
should adore to know which horse
will win
aThen I shall help you. dearie
COUSIN" he sub & 81.
How to do it. please?" approach.
Firstly" he say so, place your 80
in my second-story coat pocket under
my hankerchif."
/ do so with tremble in my thumbs.
Nogi pat his heart under where the IS
was and walk off Az steps.
stop up!" I yall. IT have deposit
ted cash! And now when shall you
tell NE which horse will win?"
when have bett your IS and
found out" he decompose while step
ping off like happy Turk, approach
ing Angora, full of goats.
Hoping you are the same
Yours truly,
HASHIMURA TOGO.
(Copyright 1921
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LARDNER PLAYS FOR THE GRIDIRON
Ring Suggests Battling Football Tricks

pay is so small that they amt g,
enough incentive to try and think.
II a coach was coaching for love
of the game and not for no salary
you would soon see plays that would
revolutionize football and to prove
this contention I will name a few
, plays which I have thought up out
of a clear sky and am not getting
no financial returns for same but an
| willing to give them free gratis to
any team that wants to try them
out in the hopes that they will liver
up game that has became SC
stagnant that you can pretty near
buy a ticket to same IL you apply
for 1t along in June.
+ n \
iVXTELL then I will start in with a
w play In which the triple threat
man plays the hero roll.
For the benefit OF the dumb I will
state that a triple threat man is a
man who can kick good and pass
and run good and he plays in the
fulIback position and the other side
is scared to death of him because
they don't know just what he is 60
ing to do when he gets the ball. But
IL they know exactly who he is,
and they have two or three men in
structed to not do nothing but watch
him and they watch him so close
that after q while he can't do moth
ing.
Well, we will say for inst that
the u. of Wisconsin has got triple
threat man named Whamgozzle.
Well Wisconsin has a game with
Purdue and seated up in the stand
during the game is scouts from Min
nesota and Illinois, two teams which
is on Wisconsin's schedule for later
in the season.
Well Whamgozzle does his stuff
and the scouts return to their
respectful alma matters and they tell
their head coaches to look out for
this here Whamgozzle and to not
pay no tension to nobody else on the
Wisconsin team.
Then they describ Whamgozzle to
their coaches. We will say he is a
man with flaxen hair and don't wear
no uGdukcdT anu mas got TSCeUiHS
chin. So when the time comes for
the Wisconsin Illinois game or the
Wisconsin Minnesota game, why
which ever team is opposing Wiscon-
sin that day, the boys has been in
structed to watch a man with .faxen
hair that don't wear no headgear and
has got q receding chin and to not
pay no tension to nobody else.
Mean while however, the Wisconsin
coach has dug. up another man that
answers Whamgozzle's description
and as for whamgozzIe himself. they
have BACKED up his face with burnt
cork, put black wig and some
headgear on him and had him fitted
out with a specially built chin and
the result Is that while the OPPOSING
team is devoting all their tension TO
the man that looks like Whamgozzle,
why the real Whamgozzle has scored
enough touchdowns or ghouls from
field to make their opponent look
like the wellesley scrubs.
y y y
TN this connection I might quote q
! incidence in regard to the Wash
basin (w. va,) high school eleven
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Papyrus are too stylish for that. He
got Secretaries to comb his hair and
wait on table when he require his
lunching. Also one OF them set at
typewriter taking down his tempera-
ture & symptoms every II minutes
during trip. All no! This Hon.
Papyrus are not the sort OF horse
you will find In every garage"
TELL me IL or 26 more facts about
this remarkabilious horsemeat" ]
deplore.
Riding across Atlantick," he anser,
there have not been so much feath.
ers aroused over anybody since Hon.
Jack Pickford got back from his last
divorce. Moving English horses to
America are a great strain on the
intelligence.
Most important of all are this:
English race horses must not get
homesick. Why not? ] tell you. If
they get homesick In middle of race
they are libel to start backing up
toward London when they should be
running eagerly in opp. direction.
Therefore this Hon. Papyrus must
have delicious receptions to keep his
mind entirely British. For instance
ly. every morning Hon. First Secre-
tary get UP early and turn on Fog
Machine. Then after light breakfast
of Shredded Hay Biscuits it are time
for Hon. Male Quartette to come in
and wobble sweet English songs en-
titled I'm Ousemaid to a Titled Gent
and "Owja Doc Today
Such sing-songs like that make
Hon. Papyrus quite comfortable
every morning while one chirpoddist
from Hotel Cecil Gondon) manicure
his horse-shoes and a very private
physician fed him gorilla glands to
make him feel fresh & fierce.
"& SO it go till 4,22 pm. when his
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to run the risk Of some spy seeine
the plays he Is perfecting a specially
for the big annual battle with NJ
and N.
The gates Of the practice field is
generally always guarded so care
fully that spies has about give up
the idear of trying to snoop in and
see what the new plays is like and in
fact the secrets Of secret practice Is
SO well kept that when the big
battle itself has came off and NJ
and N. has beat X. and Y. by a
score of 60 to 0. both spies and gen.
public is still in the dark in re-
CARDS to same.
It even remains a nationwide secret
as to why Mr.. Goof was ever picked
QUITO coach a football team.
Personly I been tending more OF
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10 iEQltOr Inc StAr VINO tnlnk OF Sir
Henry Ford when speaking of horse
power.
IT r ON. Mr.. Sir: My Cousin Nogi
II approach up to me yestday
looking SO Merry Xmas that
! u i he make me slightly seasick.
He wore q gray-haired derby and
! checkers on his coat. His necktie
was so swift 1t almost ran.
This are my racing suit" he ne
gotiate blondly.
ut should be arrested for speed
ing" I dib. "& why for have you
bought all that bright garbage on the
] money you did not pay me back last
July 4th?"
I'm great calamities like this" he
romp, 1--WE do not think OF money.
Everything should be international az
!; 1t can get. Let US shake friendly fists
across the sea In the name OF happy
sportship."
what are you shooting at?' ask
to know.
"Papyrus have arrived!' He say that
behind his breath.
"F'rom where did he get here?" are
next question Tor me.
From England naturally" he pro-
pose.
"Ah. then maybe we can find hin,
| at Ellis Island awaiting for his quota
to get full" / contaminate.
quite contrary" he snagger, This
Hon. Papyrus pay no attention to
quotas. Nothing have been done to
keep him outside America. Army &,
Navy stood in rows saluting him
when he got here in a box"
Now I see ALL! This Hon. Papyrus
are either a mummy or highness Of
some Variety" narrate.
"Yes G. even more So" say Nogi.
Think of the pump and pride with
which he travels! All way across
| ocean on 8. S. Acquitannia he travel
in a padded room with embroidered
velvet stockings on his 4 legs"
'Goshes" I growell. You are
speaking very puzzly. peculiar to
Hon. Sam Lloyd. I have observed
great many Eminent Travellers who
should be shipped to America in a
padded room. But never before in my
experience have / met one with ca
legs. OF what nationality are this
Hon. Papyrus to be SO deformed?"
He are a horse" dictate Nogi.
/ sunk, completely gabberflasted.
81. c.! ]. CO. This from me. 81
did not think that persons would be
SO polite to human beings. Are this
Hon. Papyrus pretty important horse
by golly?"
II will tell you how he travel" re-
port Nogi, land then you will know
Firstly. when he get on ship he must
have Royal Suite. usually occupied
by Hon. VIM. Jenny Bryan. This
compartment have been padded with
customs. filled with English air so
that his lungs will not get American
lied too quick. All way across he
are attended by following:
IL chiropoddists (hind and 'front.'.
"a doctor (horse).
"a diet cook.
IA quartette (male).
5-publicity dept.
CT Secretaries"
X y Il
CECRETARIES!" I holla- What
- could a horse do with Secretaries,
axept kick them?"
"They are called Trainers in most
horse barns" report Nogi. But Hon.
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LIST, End & 3rd Secretaries lead him
| repass of tea and moffins."
Tea and mofins for a Horse?" j
cash.
HE are an English horse" Nogi
carouse.
Can this Hon. Papyrus go pretty
swift when aggreyaed?" I question
aire.
How can he help it?" require Nogi.
HE belong to a gentleman name of
Irish. Everything English get pretty
quick motion. by golIy. when it got
an Irish somewhere around. Look at
Hon. Jno. p. Irish of San Francisco
why should you hawl in Japanese
politicks when we are speaking of
horses?" I vampire. Il wish learn
more about this Hon. Papyrus. How
can I win some money by betting?
I have collected IS which wish in
vest without risk. If you will tell
me how lastly this Papyrus can chase
maybe I can gain dishonest cash by
batting on others which have not
been brought to America with such
nobility"
st will dope-sheet you something"
snuggest Nogi
How you do that?' I amputate.
by talking slang" he suppose. II
shall place you wise-tip you off of
something-deliver you something
very low DOWN"
what language are that spoke
in?' I ask to know.
"oh. that are merely a little slang
dialect which learn at Belmont
Park" he sally forth. This are to
show you that ! can race also.
spent 20 minutes last Wedsdy with
several prominent k-manufactur-
ers who gave me education costing IS
a minute. Therefore / should know
considerable education, should not?"
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New and Palatable Articles of Food
Produced for y. S. by Investigators

Important Seeds and Plants of Alien Origin
Have Added to Domestic Output Through
Efforts Of Scientists Of Department Of Asricul.
ture-Increase Wealth of Country by Hun
dreds of Millions-Waste Land Made Pro.
ductive.
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"O the editor: The 1923 foot
ball season is now under
way and soon we will be
- reading where Coach Goof
of the x. and Y. squad has decided
that all practices from now on will
be secret practices as he don't want
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AND THE BIG TURF. EVENT
Wallace Twins Letter Of Japanese Schoolboy

To Editor The Star who think Of Sir
Henry Ford when speaking of horse
nnwar
Imperial Valley press., 1923-06-28
ASK FOR BIDS
FOR RAILROAD
TO TIDEW AFTER

CALEXICO, June 28.--Bids for
the construction of the roadbed for
the first section of the National
Railways of Mexico line 10 the
Gulf of California have been called
for by the director of the railroad
and must be in his office at Mexi-
cali before / o O'Clock, July 81, when
the bids will be opened. Bids must
be accompanied by certified check
for five per cent of their total, as
a guarantee OF immediate entry on
the contract, and the latter will're-
quige bond IN the sum of 90 per cent
as Il guarantee of faithful fulfill
ment. Plans, specifications and
drawing can be seen at the direct
or's or.ice in the capital building,
Mexicali.
Several large railroad contract
ors, including James Make of Yu-
ma and the Pioneer Truck Company
of Calexico, have been looking over
the surveys wnn a view TO placing
bids. Indications are that the work
will be. pushed rapidly, once it is
started and direct connection with
tidewater for Mexicali, vii! be real
lied within the next year.