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FARMER and PLANT BREEDER t Work of Assistant Secretary Willet M. Hays. GUY ELLIOT MITCHELL, The country has realized for some time that it has in its Secretary of Agriculture a real farmer; Its new Assistant Secretary is likewise a farmer, and unless all records and ap pearances are false, a good one. He has the valuable faculty of knowing hew to do things, and at the same time to be able to tell others how. This Assistant Secretary is Willett M. Hays. Professor Hays was Secretary Wilson's choice for Assistant Secretary, after Colonel Brigham's death, and it ap pears as though Professor Hays’ ap pointment was anything but a political one. There is a fine entente cordial between these two broad-gauge men sad the work of the Department has taken a distinct forward sweep since Mr. Hays’ appointment. He put his shoulder to the wheel at once and oeemed able to dispense with the usual two or three months of "breaking in,” GROWTH OF RAILROADS. by breeding. And Professor Hays drew a parallel, step by step, bstwaui the Improvement of the Wealthy apple, tracing its history and improvement from the tree developed by Peter M INTERSTATE COMMERCE COM MISSION PLACES PAR VALUE Giddea of Minnesota, and Messenger, AT 19 MILLIONS. an imported Eugiist racing horse, which became the leading progenitor of the American racing or trotting More than Three Quartern of a Billion Dollars Paid Out Annually by the companies In Salaries to Over a MIHton Regular Employee«. KO OTHER WAGONS APPROACH 1« Perfect Adaptability Under all Conditions to < The Strong Old Hickory gratifying results. The average whesR yield of the Northwestern State»— The annual report of the Interstate Minnesota and the Dakotas—ranges, as Commerce Commission, giving rail I remember, from thirteen to fifteen road statistics at the end of 1004. bushels to the acre, which is about the shows the enormous total of 297,0<3 | average for the entire United State«. miles of railroad In the United Increase this say one-fourth by simply States. More recent railroad construc using this new seed, as in the case of tion has brought this figure up to thousands of acres in the State of Min- more than 300,000 miles. The num nesota, and figure out the gain to the ber of ruilroud corporations Included country. And this is only from re in the report was 2,104. That the sults already obtained In seed improve railroads are prosperous is shown by ment the fact that only 1,323 miles of road To Double the Wheat Yield. were in the hands of receivers. The wheat breeding work is going The total number of locomotives In on steadily, and Professor Hays says use was 46,743 and of ears, exclusive that he has probably not yet reached of those owned by private companies, the halt-way point in increased yield. 1,798,000. Of these, 39,000 were in In the work of simple wheat breeding the passenger service and 1,692,000 by selection each grain is planted and engaged in hauling freight Prac cultivated separately, a thousand of tically all the passenger locomotives them in rows, each one like a tree, and and cars were equipped with air WHEAT ROOT SYSTEM, then the best ten heads are selected brakes and automatic couplers, and from those thousand plants, and the horse, and he thus showed that plants the same was true of freight locomo MANUFACTURED BY plumpest grains again selected from were capable of the same development tives and a large majority of freight those ten heads. Then you are ready by breeding as are animals. cars. Kentucky Wagon Manufacturing Co. for the planting of next year. And so If you are interested in learning The number of persons on the pay on for ten years. In hybridization something about plant breeding you rolls of railroads in the United there are many more pains taken. might write to your Congressman for States was 1,296,000, with annual LOUISVILLE, KY. Here the best specimens of two differ a copy of Bulletin 29 of the Department wages and salaries amounting to ent varieties are crossed upon each of Agriculture, or probably Professor 1817,508,000. LARGEST PRODUCERS OF FARM WAGONS IN THE WORLD other by hand pollination and the com Hays himself has a few extra copies. The par value of the amount of plex system of selection simultaneously OOOQOOOOOOOCOOOOOOOOOOOO railway capital was $13.213,124,000, or carried on year by year. But the labor a capitalization of $64,265 per mile. FROM POLE TO EQUATOR. is more than justified by the results. Six Per Cent. Dividends. Other experiments have been success fully carried along under Professor Arctic Explorer Now Penetrating Of the total capital stock out Hays with the idea of changing the the Heart of Africa. standing, 42 per cent, paid no constituents of the crops—putting more Whether in the frigid grip of the dividends, The amount of dividends protein or musclc-producing elements north polar country or the burning the year was _____ in the grain and forage crops just as sands of tropical Africa, the Duke of declared during AMERICAN CROWN unfailing servies or a little over 6 per the beet grower works to put more Abruzzi seems equally at home. This $221,941,000, cent, on dividend-paying stock, The sugar into his beets. Italian scientist, who made such a high number of passengers reported as car- reputation by his recent arctic explora ried by the railways in the year was Practical Farm Teaching. All this work Is technical; it might tions, has started for unknown regions 715.41!),000. The number of tous be the doings of the recluse. The of Central Africa with a fully equipped of freight carried was 1.309,899.000, an other side of Professor Hays’ make-up expedition, proposing to explore the increase over the previous year of over *s a green soap, consistency of paste, a perfect stands forth when he gets out on a Ruwenzorl Mountains and climb their five and one-half million tons. cleanser for automobile machinery and aP swing 'round the circle and preaches highest peaks. This range crosses the ----------- . < Equator in the vicinity of the Lakes what he knows; when he distributes vehicles; will not injure the most highly Nyanza, whence flow the waters of the UNEXPLODED PROJECTILES. polished surface. Made from pure vegetable literature and delivers lectures to the farmers in halls or from the rear plat Nile. It is some eighty miles long, a oils. If your dealer does not carry A mer lean forms of trains—a practical educator. vast pile of blue., rock hurled upward Danger Lurks Therein-Chinese Crown Soap in stock, send us his name and prove« th« Inquisitiveness Eroves Fatal. More agriculture in our national sys in some ancient convulsion of Nature. address and we will see that your wants are The English explorer, Stanley, found tern of education is his slogan, practi The dispatch coming from the Far supplied. Put up in 12^ 25 and 50 lb pails. ABSOLUTE RELIABILITY r.uwenzorl twenty years ago. It was cal farm education that will enable a East of the killing of nearly a dozen man to farm better and make more pointed out to him as a big salt moun people by the explosion of a mine near of the money at it. He urges the consolida tain. As the sun ascended, It assumed Chefoo. brings to light incidents going tion of the small rural schools—bring shape before his view—a great moun to show that the land in the vicinity ing four or five of them into one good- tain clothed in 6now—and it took him of Port Arthur is a fertile field of un __________ CHICAGO, ILL._____ sized school where more competent weeks of travel to find out that It be exploded land mines and shells. teachers can be hired and a much longed to a range. Stanley believed When the Russians were shelling broader education afforded. The in that the Ruwenzorl range and the the Japanese positions near the vil TyPEW'RlTE'R We have published some good ones spec teresting thing about his boys at the Mountains of the Moon, which can be lage of Sulshiylng many shells fell In University of Minnesota was that they found on old maps, are identical. Ac the localities desired by the gun ially suited for farmers. Books that will help were there to study plants and ani cording to the old geographies, the pointers, but the ordnance was of every farmer to make more out of his farm WYCKOFF, SEAMANS A BENEOKff mals and then go back to the farm. waters of the Nile rise in the Moun such a defective quality that they Write for our catalogue. •W ■ROAOWAY, Ml* VOSS They were at a college, to be sure, but tains of the Moon. failed to explode. A good lot of these WEBB PUBLISHING CO., The Duke of Abruzzi ha9 a difficult projectiles have lain where they fell, task before him to conquer the Moun objects St. Paul Minn. of the careful investigation tains of the Moon, even though their and inspection of the wondering and summits fall somewhat short of that speculative villagers. On one occa orb. A large quantity of supplies must sion a dispute arose as to the danger be carried on the backs of natives, and in these Innocent-looking pieces of though the start will be made in the iron, and a bold native, to prove his SELF FEED FULL CIRCLE TWO HORSE most torrid of tropical climes, the party contention that they were harmless, will soon ascend into temperate regions as well as his bravery, struck one of and then trudge for months In a truly the missiles with a big stone. This Over 70 sizes and styles for drilling deep or shallow wells in any kina polar climate. was going a little too far, and unfor either soil or rock. Mounted on wheels or tunately he hit It on the nose, the ten of With engines or horse powers. der spot of projectiles. It exploded sills. Milk In Your Tea. Strong, simple and durable. Any me with a terrible noise, killing ten of the chanic can operate them easily. The use of plenty of milk with tea,” spectators. The Baler for speed. Bales 12 to II says The Lancet (London), “is a wise interested SEND FOR CATALOGUE Another Chinese discovered a shell tons a day. Has 40 inch feed bole. precaution and must be regarded as a which had found a resting place in Adapted to bank barn work. Stands up sound physiological proceeding, since the fresh water lake just behind the WILLIAM BROS., Ithaca, H. I. the protelds of milk destroy astrln- Russian naval dockyard of Port Ar to its work—no digging holes for wheels, gency and probably prevent the other thur. At that time the lake was one Sell-feed Attachment increases cap wise injurious action of tannin on the mass of Ice and the head of the shell acity, lessens labor, makes better bales mucous membrane of the stomach. In was just sticking up through the and does not increase draft. the Intestinal juice the proteids are frozen mass. John Chinaman was at separated and the tannin probably com tracted by the shining brass screw at bines with the sodium salts. The im the top and went out on the ice to try Scad for Catalogue) ■ moderate drinking of tea is an un to get It off. Good metal was worth questionable evil, but, on the whole, having in the land of the Oriental, are the original solid top and siae ejectors. we are inclined to think that the evils and this Is what attracted him. He SANDWICH MFG. GO, This feature forms a of tea-drinking have been exaggerated. used an old nail to remove the tempt solid shield of metal The real difficulty is to convince people ing object. His inquisitiveness was a between the shooter’s ISA Main Street, Sandwich, IÍ head and the cartridge that a lightly drawn infusion gives dear lesson for his family, although at all times, throws tne them their money’s worth. empties away from him the pieces were never found. instead of into his face, Kirk’ A Qviaurter of ec Century of SOAP WILLET M. HAYS, ASSISTANT SECRE TARY OF AGRICULTURE. which an Assistant Secretary for a big department usually undergoes. He fits his environment well wherever he hap pens to be. Instructing his classes in the field at the University of Minne- •ota, located just between the Twin Cities, you would have suspected that Professor Hays seldom visited ' St. ~ . Paul or Minneapolis; on the other hand, when you see him walking along the st: els i in Washington you would S: t a arc.ely .niely <>■ e: pect him to be able to drop a Straight furrow. But in coming city ward and wearing a crease in his trousers he has not lost his straight- straight James S. Kirk & Company BOOKS BOOKS Well Drilling Machines Remington Sandwich HAY PRESS Repeaters HYBRIDIZING WHEAT IN THE FIELD. forward way of taking people at their word and believing just what they say. 1 asked him for a photograph to ac company this letter, remarking that I would like to have one of him as he looked as I last saw him “down on the farm” (he would be arrested if he went around Washington looking as be was then), and he gravely responded that ho had no photograph such as I wanted, but that he would send me one taken at a later date. they were taking a sort of high school agricultural course, many of them for one or two years, and were not figur ing on getting a diploma and then leaving the farm and striking out for some city, as Is unfortunately the his tory of so many of the graduates of the agricultural colleges. Working through the Boys. ‘Do your new methods stick with the boys when they get back on the old farm?” I asked. "How do the boys' f Breeding up Plants. fathers take it?” “Oh, they think at first when the The work which has made Professor boys go home and want to make Hays most famous is his plant-breeding changes that we are teaching them a lot of new-fangled notions. After the first year perhaps they let the boy take a try on a small scale Then with the good results shown by the trial they are more than likely to come around by the second or third year and there is apt to be quite a shaking up of methods in the work on the old place. You can't expect to make much head way teaching the older farmers, but you can get at them through the boys.” prevents smoke and gases from entering his eyes and lungs, and keeps the line of sight unobstructed. The MARLIN action works easily and smoothly, making very little noise. Our new automatic recoil-oper- ating locking device makes the Marlin the safest breech-loading gun ever built. iao- page catalogue, joo il lustrations' cover in nine colors, mailed for three stamps. The Hsrlln Fire Aras Co. New Haven, Conn. SILOS Pine, Fir, Cypress and Yellow Pine. Write for Catalogne. Eagle Tank Co., 281 N. Green St, Chicago, Ill. IF YOU WANT A JACK Send for our Jack Catalogue. Sure to M tain ihe description of exactly what you wut Hydraulic Jacks our Specialty Watson-Stillman Co., 4« Dey 8U, N. Y. City. ; I Cbe ffîissoula nursery Producers of Northern grown acclimated trees and the best varieties for planting in Northern States. SCHOOL GARDEN WORK. The Department of Agriculture is in this way in the cities, and the result Just issuing an attractive illustrated has been that much school garden work bulletin on school gardens. In bls in has been organized and thousands of Thoroughly tested Apples, Pears, Plums, Cherries and Trees troductory. Dr. Galloway, Chief of the pupils have learned something of grow Ornamental, Small Fruit Plants, Shrubs, Bureau of Plant Industry, says, that ing plants. as agriculture in its broadest sense is Vines and Roses. the primary basis of wealth In the A small tract of land back of the De United States, it seems essential that partment of Agriculture Building has efforts should be made in our general oeen set aside for model school garden educational system to bring early to the work. THE EVERBEARING STRAWBERRY mind of the child facts which will he The bulletin In question has illustra of value as emphasizing the importance tions of a number of successful school and necessity of agricultural work. Sardens in various cities, and has plans There is no better way to do this, he ofiUined for carrying on such work says, than through a well managed and The following interesting paragraph is A SPECIALTY OF well conducted system of school garden quoted from the bulletin on the work at training which early awakens interest Hampton Institute, Virginia; FLOWERING PLANTS AND SHRUBS in an industry which means much to "w.he” J1 was announced two years the future prosperity of the country. ago to the children of the Whittier When the work of handling Congres school that they were to be taught ¿ar- Cut Flowers and Floral Designs. Also Vegetable Plants sional free seed distribution was turned denlng on a two-acre tract the news Shipped by express. Catalogue and Price List Free. over tn the Bureau of Plant Industry W^I p T'L h , W lth fee"n£ several years ago efforts were made to li 6 Mail orders have prompt attention. 1 tt,e ones were pleased the arouse Interest on the part of members •Idar girls thought It a disgrace to of Congress with large city constituen work in the fle!ds. After twTye.4 cies, who might be able to encourage there are no pupils In the school who the school garden movement through Ü» ï. ïk • < the distribution of specially prepared ‘ *' ne«»««ry to be ak Ì; t MISSOULA, MONTANA. e * seed packages. 81 nee then millions of •«t from school, think it must oackagea of seeds have been distributed noi be on gardening they day." Every Variety of Standard Fruit SHOWING IMPROVEMENT IN TIMOTHY BY BREEDING. nperlments. He is the wizard of farm giant life as Luther Burbank is of hor ticulture. He has taken wheat and bred It up, by selection and hybrldlza lion covering periods of five and ten years, so that the Improved strain yields probably 25 to 30 per cent, heavier. He has done the same with •ax and with timothy and with corn and other farm crops. This has en tailed the most painstaking work, con tinued year after year, but always with : A WHEAT FLOWER ^ENLARGED). A seventy-page bulletin which Pro fessor Hays wrote for the Department of Agriculture some four years ago on the subject of plant breeding brought his work Into grrat prominence. In it he outlined numerous possibilities of increased production of all crops through pk.nt breeding Every man »nows that the American trotting horse baa. been^iroaderfully improved MISSOULA NURSERY CO.
