DAY FARMING CONGRESS.
Method of Increasing Crop Output
Will Be Discussed.
The Dry Farming congress is now
organized, with some persistency and
determination to be heard from in th
matter of urging its claims upon the
attention of the public. The faith thai
the promoters and operators of this
association have in their claims of drj
farming methods, well carried out,
cannot be questioned, Bays the editoi
of the Twentieth Century Farmer. Th
experiences and results of careful ant
persistent work in crop growing effort!
are the evidence that is offered in tes
timony of the feasibility of dry farm
ing methods and dry farming as an in
dustry.
It is not surprising that there an
the doubtful, the skeptical, the unbe
liever in converting the dry land of th
arid West to agricultural purposes, thf
growing of crops, the cultivation oi
orchards and forests, the establishing
of homes and the building up of com
mercial interests and industries or
these lands; we say that it is not sur
prising that some hesitate, that the
doubt the availability of sufficient
moisture to grow crops ; that they fore
cast seasons of drouth, etc. All these
things had their period and have exert
ed their influence to discourage and
prejudice the mind of the public as the
settlement of the country has pro
gressed westward for the last fifty
years, and yet cultivation has been the
civilizing influence that has conquered
drouth, hot winds and the barrenness
of the plains and prairie countries that
are now the dependence in production
The Fourth Dry Farming congress
will hold its meeting at Billings, Mon
tana, October 26, 27 and 28, 1909
This will not only be an institute for
dry farming farmers and dry farming
instructors and teachers, but it will be
an exposition of dry farming products
such as this or no other country has
ever witnessed. There are pledged al
ready exhibits from thirteen Western
states that are engaged in dry farming
work. The organization by states, to
show what each is doing and capable
of doing in the raising of grain and
vegetable crops, without irrigation, is
a feature never before undertaken in
this distirct and promises some great
surprises for visitors.
The area of tillable lands in the
United States not yet turned to culti
vation is comparatively small, and un
der present conditions of demand by
the homesteader will last but a few
more years at most. It is only the part
of good business judgment that the
dry farming districts be investigated
by those who contemplate getting t
home under the free homestead law
Good lands and the best locations will
be the first taken. Each year will re
duce the quality of lands to be disposed
of as government homesteads.
The Dry Farming congress will be
a good place to visit next October, in
view of getting dry farming miorma
tion and dry farms on which to put it
into prictice. The Dry Farming con
Brress announces that there are 200,
000,000 acres of arable land awaiting
ievelopment by the dry farming meth-
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Laying close siege to the century
mark. Uncle Sam'B oldest soldier re
cently celebrated his ninety-seventh
birthday In Washington. He Is Major
General Daniel H. Rucker. U. S. A., re
tired, borji ninety-seven years ago
April 28. 1812. In the whole history
of the military service of the United
States there Is no record to parallel
his, declares O. F. Schuette in the
Chicago Inter Ocean. Probably In all
the world there is no Boldier who can
look back seventy-two years to the
date of his first commission. For It
was in 1837 that the future general re
ceived his first commission as a second
lieutenant from President Andrew
Jackson. He was then a man of 25
little dreaming that he had before
him three-quarters of a century of life.
If he lives three years longer, and
with his present vigorous vitality
there Is no reason he should not, he
will cross . the century mark of life
and celebrate the end of three-quarters
of a century of membership on
the military lists of the United States
government.
Away back In the dawn of our na
tional greatness, our school book his
tories tell of the war of 1812. Yet
Daniel Rucker was two months old
before the first shot of that war was
fired. A year later came the first
Creek Indian war. Five years later
came the hostilities with the Semin
oles In Florida. And then came out
break after outbreak of Indian con
flicts. It was in this Indian warfare
away back in the 30s that he saw his
first service. He won his first pro
motion for bravery in the Mexican
war Then again he participated in
Indian warfare. He was 49 years old
when Fort Sumter was fired on. When
the Spanish war broke out he was 86
years of age. But he had retired
from active service sixteen years be
fore, with forty-five years of service
to his credit.
It is a far cry from the clumsy,
muzzle-loading flint lock to the noise
less, smokeless, rapid-fire rifle of to
day. And It is a further cry from
the wooden frigates that formed the
fleet of the United States and won
those splendid naval victories on the
great lakes, when he was a babe in
1812, to the marvelous squadron of
fighting ships that sailed, home from
a triumphant trip around the world.
When General Rucker first Joined
the ranks of Uncle Sam's defenders
there was no such thing as breech
loading muskets, no sixteen inch guns,
no torpedoes, no mines, no lyddite
shells. No warship was propelled by
steam and-all the fleets of the world
were at the mercy of the wind and of
the waves. Then came the Civil War
and the first Ironclads. General
Rucker had passed the half century
mark of his life when the first battle
of armored ships was fought and the
triumph of the Monitor in beating off
the Merrlmac and turning the tide of
the Confederacy on the seas. Yet
that was but a toy experiment of what
was to follow. Progress was slow, and
It was thirty years before the armored
vessel of to-day really came into be
ing. General Rucker was 87 years old
when the navy of the United States
worthy successor of the plucky little
fighters of 1812 sent to the bottom In
two hemispheres the successors of the
proud Spanish armada.
It is a long Jump from the clumsy
frigate, with Its muzzle loading guns,
Its shaking sails and Its limited range
of action, to the Dreadnoughts of to
day, with their heavy armor, their
speed, their powerful engines and
their wonderful range; and there have
been other marvels Just as great In
the progress of his profession. When
he took his first commission, and
rode 200 miles on horseback alone to
his post, no one had thought of auto
mobiles or airships or wireless tele-
ATLANTIC GARDEN IN DANGER.
Old Hello of New York' Bowery la
Marked for Oentractton.
The Atlantic garden, one of the few
remaining buildings binding the Bow
ery of to-day to the old Flowery the
Bowery w,hich saw the wealth and
fashion of the town go nightly to the
Thalia theater and slip into the gar
den next door for a bite and a sip be
tween the nets celebrated its fifty
first birthday Friday evening under a
Fhadow. The shadow was oast by the
Manhattan bridge, already looming
large to the east and projecting Itself
nearer and nearer to the spot that
still has the savor of the old days.
A rumor to the effect that the city,
desirous of making a fitting approach
to the great bridge, had already mark
ed the garden for destruction, brought
the oldtlmers there in droves Friday
night, the New York Sun says. They
told stories of the old days, the days
when if you wanted to hear German
opera you had to journey to the Tha
lia, where Conried worked as a supe
and where Mine. Gelstinger drew her
crowds. The old passageway between
the theater and the garden Is still
there.
The garden was opened on May 8,
1858. by the father of the present Kra
mers, and part of It Is the original
Bull's Head tavern of the Revolution,
ene of Washington's many headquar
ters. It waB the center of the German
life of the town, and there Kramer first
showed the great orchestra, the won
der of Its time, which he bought from
the grand duke of Baden. There, too.
the German regiments of the Civil
War made their headquarters and re
cruiting station, and there played all
m ill mm
graph, much less of their revolution
ary use In actual warfare.
When General Rucker was born Ab
raham Lincoln was a 3-year-old babe
In the backwoods of Kentucky. Gen
eral Rucker was 10 years old, minus
Just one day. When General Grant
saw the light of day, April 27, 1822.
Only one President of the United
States died before General Rucker was
born George Washington. He was 14
years old when John Adams and
Thomas Jefferson died on that same
Fourth of July In 1826. When James
Monroe, the fourth ex-President to die,
succumbed, on July 4, 1831, General
Rucker was 19 years old. And out of
the nation's twenty-six ex-Presidents
General Rucker has survived all save
one, Theodore Roosevelt.
General Rucker was but a boy when
his parents moved from New Jersey
to Michigan. It was there he got his
first taste of army life, at a frontier
Michigan army post. His father was
averse to his Joining the army, and
his mother even more so; but the fu
ture general won out, and he applied
for a commission as second lieutenant.
There was plenty of work for Uncle
Sam's soldiers In those days, with the
boundless West Just opening its
wealth to the onward march of civil
ization. He was assigned to the First
dragoons, then on duty at Fort Leav
enworth. Lieutenant Rucker made his
way overland by stage coach until he
got to the nearest point which the
stage coach service of those days could
bring him to the Kansas outpost. He
was then still 200 miles from his desti
nation. He had hardly settled down to the
comparative ease of his frontier post
before he was ordered into the heart
of the Cherokee country, and for half
a dozen years he was kept busy with
his soldiers driving off marauding In
dians, protecting settlers and emi
grants' caravans and holding the hos
tile reds in cheek. He was still busy
in this hazardous campaigning when
the First dragoons were ordered off
to Mexico as part of General Zachary
Taylor's expedition. He took part In
the battle of Buena Vista, and dis
tinguished himself by an act of per
sonal gallantry in the field. It was
an act of bravery under the eye of a
commanding officer, who recommended
him for a brevet commission as major.
When peace was declared Major Ruck
er's command was sent across the
continent to Los Angeles.
The discovery of gold brought the
rush of '49. and then there was more
than plenty to do. It was a feverish
THE NEW
Mother (nervously) You know
Johnnie (who has been told not
saying anything. I was only looking
the famous bands of half a century
ago. All this those at the long table
recalled Friday night as they drained
their schooners of Rhine wine and lit
the candles one by one.
Effect of Colors oi Animals.
The effect of color upon mind Is
most easily noticeable in dumb ani
mals, because they make no effort to
curb or control their emotions. Wave
a red flag at a bull and he becomes
violently angry. Shake a red shawl
In front of a turkey gobbler and he
will storm around fearfully. I made
an experiment in the country one sum
mer to see if this same fact held true
of other animals. On my farm I had
aa enormously fat, lazy pig that dis
time, and the soldiers of Uncle Sam
had to hold In check the madness of
the men that swarmed into the new,
El Dorado. Few of those who started
across the mountains and the deserts
that fenced off California knew of the
hardships they must face. Each new
arrival brought tales of horror from
the trail. Lost and starving, the Im
migrants straggled off their paths, un
til sacrifice of life made terrible the
days.
Finally Rucker was ordered east.
He left San Francisco In a steamer
for Panama, with Lieutenant Sherman
afterward General Sherman as one
of his companions. They marie the
trip across the Isthmus of Panama
by ponies and small boats and then
sailed for Jamaica, where Sherman
and .Rucker paid a friendly call on
General Santa Ana, whom they had
worsted at Buena Vista. Major Rucker
saw several years of comparatively
peaceful service in the East and then
he was again sent out to the frontier.
This time his battlefields covered New
Mexico, in constant warfare with the
ADaches. While he was in this work
the civil war broke out and he was
ordered back to Washington.
In September, 1861, he' was pro
moted to Colonel of volunteers and In
May, 1863, President Lincoln made
him Brieadier General of volunteers.
In 1865 he was made Brevet Major
fipneral of volunteers and In 1866 he
was mustered out of the volunteer
ranks.
But he was made a Colonel and as
sistant quartermaster general of the
regular service and served as sucn un
til February 13, 1882, when he was
made Brigadier General and quarter
master general. At that time he had
seen forty-five years of service and
novontv-one vears of life. He was
then placed on the retired list as a
Major General.
He is still hale and hearty and de
lights In walks in the beautiful por
tion of residential Washington, near
his home; but he is leading a quiet
life, and even the excitement of recall
ing the hard days of fighting is too
much for his strength. With him lives
his daughter, Miss Sarah Rucker
Another daughter, Mrs. Philip H
Sheridan, widow of the hero of Win
chester, lives but a few blocks away,
where she can see the statue of her
husband that a grateful nation erected.
In all his years of service General
Rucker was never wounded. What Is
more remarkable. In all the years of
service and hardship he was never
ill for a single day.
CURATE.
'Til' Ml'"5 w
what I told you, Johnnie.
to make personal remarks) I wasn't
at It. London Weekly Telegraph.
liked nothing so much as to move.
All day long it used to He asleep In
the sunshine, and sometimes even the
attraction of food could not budge It.
I took a number of pieces of silk of
the same quality, but of different
shades, and, after waking the pig,
waved each strip of silk in front of
It. For the blue and green it never
moved, hut when I waved the red and
orange stripes it Jumped to its feet,
stamped about and appeared to be
thoroughly angry. Time and again I
repeated this experiment and always
with the same result. Frank Alvah
Parsons In Good Housekeeping.
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