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Increasing Wealth in the ttest. CHICKBXS AS GARDEXBRS. NO OTHER WAGONS APPRQ ach In commenting on the need which Can Be Taught to Pull Weeds and Harvest Grain. has hitherto manifested Itself in the THE AMERICAN GRAPE INDUSTRY. A Great and Increasing Branch of Horticulture. CUV ELLIOTT MITCHELL i» I, "The grape is the poor mans fruit, es- K dally one who has only a house lot of e smallest possible dimensions. He can plant vines beside his cottage and their roots will extend and profitably occupy every inch of ground underneath It and from that small space produce all the fruit his family can consume, while the vines afford shade and protection and add beauty to his little home, occupying no •pace, either above or below u.n ground to Interfere with other Interests, and producing more fruit In less time and with less labor and attention than any thing that was ever planted.” 30,000,000, Ohio third with 14,000,000 . . and Kansas, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Oklahoma, Illinois, Indiana, Georgia and Iowa with 5,000,000 or less each. California alone had a quarter i of a million acres in vineyards with an annual production of 30,000,000 gallons of wine. The investment represented in that State alone is estimated at $*5,- 000,000. All of which Is charming In truth unless the phylloxera or the downy mildew or the aphis or the dry rot he roine appurtenances to vine, or the Bhickens or small boys of the neigh borhood steal all the grapes Just as they are getting ripe. Chickens, however, should he kept in pens, and if every small boy’s father had a grape vine which furnished “all the fruit his family could consume," there would be no incentive to pillage the neighbor’s vines. As for the downy mildew and the other ailments to which civilized grape The writer once climbed to the top of a single cask at Fresno. California, which contained 96,000 gallons of port wine. There are hundreds of casks throughout the State with a capacity of 50,000 gallons each. The annual raisin production of California amounts to about 90,000,000 pounds, while about 25,000,000 pounds of these raisin grapes are shipped East every year as table grapes. Last year the Chautauqua district in New York produced 600,000 gallons of unfermented grape Juice. These figures give some idea of our Wine Tank as Big as a House. Seedless Grapes t From One Vine Largest Grape Vine in the World, SantaBarbara California. vines are heir, horticultural Investiga tions have shown that they can be com- batted wth comparative ease by spray ing, and rot not only prevented but the vine stimulated to even greater than normal production. As a matter of fact, the grape in dustry in the United States when con sidered both as a large commercial proposition and as one where each man has his own vine, if not fig tree, is one of a great deal of importance end OÏ great Interest. . Count Their Age by Centuries. Although the product of its fruit Is accountable for much that is unseeml; and frivolous, the vine is itself an ot> Ject of great age and dignity. It is not known how old the grape will grow in America, since we have not been here long enough to make the test, even had a vine been planted with the landing of Columbus. Pliny mentions an Old World grape vine 600 years of age. Some entire vineyards in Italy held good for 300 years and others in Bur- guudy produced for 400 years and more. West for calling upor. Eastern money "I see as how a scientific perfesser centers for funds with which to, move Western crops, a New York fiijpnclal has trained a yaller dorg to count ten letter states that with conditions as 1 an’ answer fool questions," said the they were ten years ago, the present hired man to the tourist. "Ln record-breaking crop would have ain’t nothin.’ I knows an old feller strained the capacity of the New. York financial centers to the utmost to fur back yere in th’ Valley what beats nish sufficient funds. So greatly, how that all to flinders. Began raisin ever, has the wealth of the West in chickens when he was a boy. I seen creased and so large are the surplus some bantams he had no biggern’ fleas reserves of the farmers that even with crops so stupendous as to amaze Eu an’ game birds what c’d step over a rope, New York financiers have been six-foot fence. But that aln t nothin. hardly Inconvenienced by the demands Last time I was down ’t his place be for funds. In a not distant future it is had a hunderd-acre farm an ’bout ten predicted the West of the Mississippi Valley and of the Missouri Valley as ( thousand chickens, an’ was raisin’ well will be found exclusively lending truck for early northern markets. Powerful big chickens they was, an’ he had ’em trained so’s they'd work his farm for him. They wasn’t a weed nur a blade o' grass in that whole farm 'cep'n in the pastures. An bugs? wy they cudu’t a tater bug, nur a cut worm, nur even a cabbage flea get a foot inside o’ that farm afore a chicken had ’im. An’ that wasn’t all. Them chickens c’d see at night. Guess he must a’ crossed ’em with owls. Anywavs, be never worried none ’bout early frost. If ’twas cold in the spring them chickens was out all night coverin’ up tomatoes an’ beans an’ ev’vthin’ tender. Jest squat over the plants with their wings spread out an’ set there till sun up He had tomatoes three weeks ahead o’ any SCUPPERNONG WINERY, NORTH body else. An’ that wasn't all. When CAROLINA. he planted his beets en turnips en or advancing money with which to passnips he sowed ’em powerful thick move tho crops that are grown in the an' as soon as they'd get up 'bout remoter regions of the Southwest or the right size them chickens come along an thin ’em out Jest right Fine eatin’ distant Northwest. No expert can estimate accurately the for ’em, too. Au’ ’tween times they gains that will come this year to the was going up an’ down the rows all farmers, the surplus that will be left day long scratchin’ up the dirt an’ for them after paying expenses, which keepin’ ev’ythin’ cultivated Jest par- represents their profits. Some of tho feet. Wy that feller never had a hoe most experienced experts have ventured in his han’ from one year end to an Them to estimate that the farmers of the other, An’ lay! Gee whiz! ever United States this year as a whole will hens was the stlddiest layers I nests. find themselves to the good by not less see. But they didn’t use no than $300,000,000, and possibly $100,- Jest laid in reg’lar egg crates. Au’ 000,000. These are the gains as well as those which the great transportation companies expect to receive for carry ing the agricultural products from the harvest fields to the market to which Mr. Vanderlip referred in his address to the National Bankers’ Association at Washington. The United States as a whole ought to be richer by reason of the year’s industry, agricultural and manufacturing and transportation, by an amount considerably in excess of a thousand millions. GASOLIXE POWER EXG1XES. Inexpensive, reliable power on the farm and around the home is becom ing more and more desirable these days when unskilled labor is so high and hard to procure. Gasoline engines, which when started practically take care of themselves, are rapidly sup planting steam engines and horse pow er, the operation of which requires con stant attention. The difference in the cost of operating and the advantage of starting at a moment’s notice has ad vanced the popularity of gasoline en gines where comparatively small power is required in contrast with other power devices. A few years ago we heard but little about gasoline engines for use on the farms, while to-day we And many of them on up-to-date farms and small business plants. This growing inter est has been brought about largely through the improvements that have Feeding Oleo to the Xavy. Considerable of a sensation has de veloped over the furnishing to .League Island navy yard. Philadelphia, of but ter which analysis has proven to be simply oleomargarine colored with coal tar dye. Samples were taken from the government rectivlng ship Lancaster, several battle ships and cruisers and from the hospitals of the navy yard by agents of the Pennsylvania Dairy and Food Commission. Dr. Warren, the State Commissioner, declared them to be specimens of coal tar oleo and after considerable controversy, at the in stance of President Roosevelt, they were finally submitted to Dr. Wiley, the chief chemist of the Department of Ag riculture, who in a full report has sus tained Dr. Warren’s findings. Secre tary Wilson has referred the report to the President, who has. it is stated, called the attention of the Department of Justice to the matter. Several ar rests have already been made. In speaking, however, of the substi tution of oleomargarine for butter in the market. Dr. Wiley said that at pres ent the amount of oleomargarine sold in this country whether fraudulently as butter or when marked as oleo is quite small. The government has ren dered the making and sale of the stuff unprofitable by levying 10 cents a pound on all that is artificially colored, and halt a cent on u»e uncolored. PACKING CONCORD GRAPES, LAKE KEVKA, NEW YORK. These were cultivated vines. Doubt less native vines grow to much great er ages. The viticulturist of the Department of Agriculture, George C. Husmann, states that he has never seen a vine among the endless number of natives abounding in our forests that has died from the effects of age. Some old grape vines grow to immense size. There is a wild crape vine on the shores of Mo bile Bay under which Andrew Jackson twice pitched his tent in his cam paigns against the Seminóles, which has a circumference of over six feet, Foreigners Refuse Colored Butters. "Coal tar dyes.” said Dr. Wllev, “are with a auppoaed ago of about 100 years. not fatally harmful, though by no The Slxe of a Great Tree. means wholesome, and dairymen are The largest known grape vine In the permitted under the law to use such world was planted in California in coloring matter to impart to their but 1842. It has made a phenomenal a rich yellow color. To render this growth. Heneath its spreading branches, ter unnecessary, the Department of Agri which cover nearly half an acre, 800 culture is now trying to educate the persons can And protection from the popular taste in favor of uncolored but sun's heat. It bears from six to ten ter, and we are making some headway. tons of grapes for a crop and the cir cumference of its trunk is eight feet. Over in Europe one never encounters While the wine industry is by far the colored butter in any of the hotels or most Important feature of grape grow first class markets. The people there ing enormous quantities of table have learned to distrust It. We are grapes are raised and by means of im coming to this in the United States. To- proved transportation facilities sent to day first-class hotels and fancy gro all parts of the country. The Con ceries will not buy butter that has a cords, the Delawares and the Niagaras high color. Our epicures and those come from the North, the Scuppernongs that live well are also fighting shy of from the South and the Flame Tokays it. and as a result the dairymen are be and other sugary raisin grapes from ginning to realize that the bottle of coal tar dye Is no longer a necessary the Pacific coast The last census reported 12 States adjunct to a successful dairy.’- having In bearing over 2,000,000 vines each. California being first with 90, John Adams wu the author of 000,000 vines, New York second with motto, ”E Pluribus Unum.” The Strong Old Hickory MANUFACTURED BY Kentucky Wagon Manufacturing Co. LOUISVILLE, KY. LARGEST PRODUCERS OF FARM WAGONS IN THE WORLD ooooooooooooooooo Kirk’s AMERICAN CROWN A James S. Kirk& Company CHICAGO. ILL. Consular reports from China are to the effect that the prospect of a re form or rather revolution in the money system of that Empire is not verv bright, in spite of the promises to that end which have been made. There are a number of Influential elements pre venting the change which nations do ing business in China have asked, among others the bankers who profit by the great variations in values of the same kind of coins in different cities as well as the provincial officials who mint them. The money of the people is still brass and copper, and to introduce a new system will be diffi cult owing to the dread on the part of the public of anything; new. 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Stands ty to its work—no digging holes for wbeeii, Self-feed Attachment increases cap acity, lessens labor, makes better tee and does not increase draft. I. Send for CaUlooc' Repeaters ■M | Chinese “Cash." A GRAPE BY-PRODUCT FACTORY. been made by manufacturers during late years in simplifying the working parts of the engines so that the aver age man can operate them with the ease of an expert. As a matter of fact, a bright boy can handle a modern gas oline engine with but little teaching. Take the farmer who has never seen a gasoline engine and let him start and stop one a few times and study some of the principles of operating it and in a few days he will become as familiar with its workings as he would with a team of horses or a tread-mill. The general usefulness of a machine of this sort on a farm is apparent. There is ensilage to cut, wood to saw. feed to grind, corn to shell, water to pump, in fact a multitude of things that can be done with a gasoline en gine at small expense. A Qviecrter c *s a green soap, consistency of paste, a perfect cleanser for automobile machinery and al* vehicles; will not injure the most highly polished surface. Made from pure vegetable oils. If your dealer does not carry American Crown Soap in stock, send us his name and address and we will see that your wants are supplied. Put up in 12J$ 25 and 50 lb pails. WEBB PUBLISHING CO., St. Paul Minn. fast as one layer was full the hens in charge o’ the layin’ house ’d grab up a new frame an’ drop it in the crate. I see ’em fill sixty-odd crates o’ eggs In one forenoon. “But that ain’t nothin' Them hens was so big an’ powerful they c’d do almost as much as a hired man. I see a wagon full o’ seed wheat come along past his house. An’ there was a little hole in the wagon an’ the wheat was a runnin’ out all along the road. Well, sir, that feller Jest drove 'bout five hundred chickens out in the road and put down a lot o’ sacks an’ they went to pickin’ up that seed wheat faster’n you er I c’d pick up taters. They gethered up 'bout forty bushel. In the sacks? Wy of course They was thee roosters a holdin’ each sack, an’ when a sack was full they’d whip a tie ’roun the neck, set it up agin the fence an’ grab up another. They was sieh big powerful chickens, you know. An’ that wasn’t all nei ther. He had some whoppin’ big roosters, an’ be sharpened up their spurs in the fall an’ had 'em cuttin’ corn better’n you or I c’d with a corn knife, an’ stackin' it up Jest as reg- lar. 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Mr. Husmann estimates that if all the wastes of the grape crop were utilized extra returns would increase its value fully 10 per cent., which, with our pres ent grape production to the value of abcut $15,000,000, would mean an ad ditional earning of a million and a half, and this with our vitlcultural industry as yet in its Infancy. In Perfect Adaptability Under all Conditions tou are the original solid top and side ejectors. This feature forms a solid shield of metal between the shooter’s head and the cartridge at all times, throws tne empties away from him instead of into his face, prevents smoke and gases from entering hie eyes and lungs, and keeps the line of sight unobstructed. Tne 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 Cun ever built, uo- page catalogue. 300 il lustrations, cover in nine colors, mailed for three stamps. The Marlin Fire Arms Co. 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