cover the box with a piece of glass, or
other tight material, to prevent the
evaporation of the water from the
cloths, and set the box aside for a
few days to await the results of the
test. Where only a limited number of
ears are to be tested, a similar germ
inating apparatus may be made by
using cloth between two dinner plates.
Ten inch plates will give ample space
for the testing of 18 or 20 ears at one
time. It is important that the ears
be numbered or arranged in the same
definite order as the corresponding
tests in the germinating box. One of
the most satisfactory methods is the
use of a rack as is generally used for
drying seed corn. This is generally
a piece of 2 by 2 inch piece of pine
from which extend on all four sides
long nails, each of which is numbered.
After the kernels from the first ear
have been placed In square No. 1
of the germinating box, the ear is
shoved on nail No. 1 of the drying rack,
and so on. These racks can then be
KING CORN.
the Farmer Can Double His
Great American Crop.
THIS BOOK FREE
JOURNALISM IN CHINA.
samples tested are representative of
the present supply of seed corn, the
•hi
testing of every ear and the subsequent Dialect Newspapers Increase Gulf
•7
A V m
rejection of poor ears will Increase the
Between Provinces.
stand 13.7 per cent. This increased
United States Consul Anderson, at
stand would mean an increased yield
of 298,140,695 bushels, with a value of Amoy, has made a report on journal-
$100,739,912.91 calculated on the basis ism among the Chinese. He says:
“It is rather surprising, in view of
the comparatively small population
___ __ in ______
of ___
foreigners
China, „ how many
large publications there are in foreign BASEBALL
languages. The prices they obtain for OUTFIT!!
their publications and their w ork
probably explain
the situation, YOUR EXACT SIZE
Shanghai has five daily newspapers, SHIRT, handsome gray
broad «houl-
three morning and two evening pa flannel.with
ders, full at arms, very long,
pers; one is French, it has six for- three button front, double
shapely and durable.
eign weeklies, one German, It also I ■ewed,
’A NTS. Padded or unpaid-
ed (as you wish ».double and
has four Chinese dallies and a large triple
sewed.very strong. Pad-
number of Chinese weeklies.
“Practically all of the foreign pa
pers sell for 4>j cents gold per copy.
top, long visor. ....
The subscription price Is about $15 piece
HELT. New style,
«ty'“ brighi- | /
!, -----
Las patent ]T^
strong,
gold per annum, postage extra. The colored,
nickel buckle.
Chinese dailies sell for about 14 cent
gold per copy. In addition to these BOYS,
COMMON DINNER PLATE FOR SEED
for only 14 package« of
publications there are many religious A ddress
(LUINE. toaell forusatlO
TESTERS.
cents a package. Return our
papers, mostly in Chinese, published 12
40 received from the «ale.
of the average yield and price for the by the mission authorities.
and we will immediately «end
this splendid baseball out-
“In the south Hong Kong domi I you
last ten years.
nt.guaranteedtoflt audio give
A full description of how to make nates the publication business, and complete satisfaction. Every
tests Is found in Farmers Bulletin No. as it is a British colony, English publi '■iirTgl?
P u E p a I n
EXTRA PREMIUM. Any three letter« you want
253, by J. W. T. Duvel, which can be cations might reasonably be expected made
large, of felt, for your «hirt front, «ent free,
had from Members of Congress or the to lead, but on the face of the record with the suit if you return our money within today«.
the Chinese predominate. There are BLUIM’l MFO. CO., The OU Sellable Arm
Secretary of Agriculture.
11:1 Mill St., 4'nni-or.! Junction, Maaa.
four English dailies, the Post, the
Press, both morning papers, and the
WOMAN’S ADVICE TO FARM Telegraph and the Mail, both evening
this manilla nnapri FT
PEARL SPAR DnAutLEI
ERS.
papers.
from the Phiilippine
“There are six Chinese dailies, and,
Miss Edith Urmey, an Iowa hospital
Islands,, green or
in the ease of Shanghai, there are
white mountings
specialist, states that many of the in as
a large number of publications de
and heart bangle
mates of eastern insane asylums are signed to fill various wants in South
Free fornliiog 12 i’nil-
linpine Shell Hat Pin«at
sons aud daughters of the farmer China, a Portuguese weekly and the
10c each, every lady buy«
them
—
«.'nd
no
im-nrr
—
only
name
and
aihlmu,
we lru«l you and
pioneers. They have been brought up Government Gazette« being among eeadKo<i,hatoocv. Ityouaend us $1.20 within — lOday,
we will
In nearly every port of im send you in addition to the bracelet a beautiful necklace
to lives of idleness nnd luxury or suf them.
io match. S.N.CorneauiCo. Uopt49 3a River St. Chicago
portance in China there is an English
fered from monotony of country sur publication
of some sort.
will bring to von by mail a
roundings. In either case the direct
n S 03. box of BUTLER'S FLA-
"The publication houses, as a rule,
cause for mental derangement is the both
L VORING CR VSTAL A super-
and
con-
newspaper
concerns
Ut i'»r to any 25c bottle of liquid
lack of diversified work for body and cerns for general printing only, are
extract (unchangeable in cook,
mind. The pioneers of the country fairly well equipped for their work.
Ing and non-alcoholic). Vanilla,
had no time for brooding over imagin Some of them attempt work in the
lemon, orange, almond, clove
cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg
ary troubles and were happy. But line of high grade magazine and book
flavors. Indorsed by U. S. com
they neglected to map out the proper publishing, anil while it is not always
mission at Paris Exposition.
courses for their children and in an unmixed success from a technical
Your monev back if you want it.
Send 10c fo-day to
treating them with kindness have typographical standpoint, it demon
Butler
Co.
1?
Bat* cry Place X. F. City
Jos.
— —
paved the way to Insanity.
workmen,
strates
that
the
Chinese
The cities present numerous cases
do most of the work under for
GOLD Filled Watch S5
of physical and mental wrecks of .who
eign supervision, will in ti me ac- 5 Year SOLID
Honent Watch at an lloneat Price.
young persons brought on by dissipa quire
KL. If rfhil Muds of a pint, of solid r>ld overlaying a plate of ixxnpo-
considerable
merit
in
this
line
tion and strenuoslty In the battle for of effort.
commercial supremacy.
Farmers
“It is rather interesting to note
warn their sons and daughters of the that
China at present seems to be
dangers that lie in their paths when passing through much the same pro
leaving the farms, but often forget to cess with its newspapers and other
correct the evils at home. They give publications that many parts of the
their children all the benefits of United States have passed through.
schools nnd colleges and leave out the All
over the empire native newspap
essential fundamental principles of ers are being started in the collo
life. Too many are left to remain in quial dialects, and are more or less
Only Sure Cure.
idleness because they are taught in local in character.
Positive and Permanent.
Pure.
“It is unfortunate in many re
RWr-Tjdw. Absolutely
$1.00 Package cures any
spects that the publication of news
ordinary case.
papers in the several local dialects
$3.00 Pscksge cures anv
case or money refunded.
has developed so generally. While
Sent postpaid on receipt
such publications will afford means
of price. A gents W ant -
of educating the people of the em , — .
eld . Liberal term«.
pire in some lines, they also furnish Mistral Huve Remedy Co., 414 4th Av.., Pltt«t)«r|,’Pa.
the means for deepening the gulfs,
dividing the several provinces which Dashboard Line Holder
differ in dialects. Each newspaper
Quickly adjustable to side or
center, If it performs its natural mis
top of any dashboard. Keeps
sion, will develope its own language
Hues from under horse’s feet
while standing. Lines secured
in its own field to the exclusion of
instantly while stepping from
a language which might in time be
vehicle. Prevents trampled and
come common to all China.”
soiled lines.
Saves trouble,
FREE
The United | there any corn growers who can not
Com planting time!
States this year will have over 90,090- produce the equivalent of at least two
000 acreB planted to this king of crops. such ears to every hill? How many
For this enormous acreage 15,009,900 grow 80 bushels of shelled corn per
acre?
bushels of seed will be required.
The time required to test individual
Probably but little thought Is given
by the average farmer to the germin ears for vitality is very small when it
ating quality of the seed used, for he is considered that 12 or 15 ears will
has so long been accustomed to get furnisli enough seed to plant one acre.
ting a “stand", under ordinarily favor Experiments have shown that if a few
able conditions, varying from Go to 85 kernels (preferably six) are taken
per cent, that many have come to from different parts of an ear of corn
think a more complete stand impos and all are found to germinate well—
sible. Yet experiments have shown that Is, to produce good healthy sprouts
that barring unfavorable u.-atlier at —practically all of tho kernels on that
planting time, the work of grubs, wire ear will likewise show strong vitality.
worms, and the like, there is no rea On the other hand, if the part of all of
son why a stand of corn should be b-.is
than 95 per cent Of recent years, how
ever. conditions have much improved,
and never before has there been Buch
a demand for seed corn of high vital
ity Some of our best farmers are be
ginning to realize t hat one of the great'
est factors in profitable corn produc
tion is the use of seed which will show
a high per contain- of germination.
If each corn grower would give a lit
tle time during the early spring to the
testing of the seed, the vitality of each
Individual ear of corn intended for
planting could be readily determined.
The poor ears could then be discarded,
and the millions of bushels of seed
corn which fall to grow each spring
could lie very profitably converted in
to pork and beef. Of the 15,000,000
bushels of seed corn which will be
planted this year, it is almost certain
that from two to three million bushels,
or nearly 20 per cent, of the corn first
planted, will fail to grow as a result
of the low vitality of the seed. Thou
sands of acres will have to be replant
ed either in their entirety or In part,
and many thousands more will grow
WHAT MAKES THE CORN AVERAGE LOW.
to maturity with an Imperfect stand.
the kernels tested fail to germinate or suspended in some suitable place and
show only weak sprouts, the propor there need be no fear of the ears be
tion will be the same for all of the ker- ing mixed while the germination test
's on such ears. And the experienced is in progress.
corn grower will bo not a little sur 'The kernels in the testing box
prised to find many a fine looking ear should begin to germinate freely a-
of corn among his selected seed, the bout the third or fourth day, hut the
kernels of which will not sprout at all. counting should not be done until the
sixth or seventh day, or until most of
the shoots or stems are from 1 to 1 %
Bettor Now Than Not at All.
inches long. This part of the testing
Germination tests should be made must be done with considerable care
five or six weeks before planting time, and requires good judgment, as ker
but even if it is necessary to stop the nels will be found in all stages of de
plow In the field, it is far more profi velopment. If the six kernels in any
table to have a good stand of corn on one square in the germinating box
19 acres than it is to have a poor stand show six good healthy sprouts, the ear
on 20 acres, thereby saving the time
and labor necessary to prepare the
ground and to plant and cultivate the
additional acre. Yet many farmers are
every year planting and cultivating 3
or 4 acres in every 20, for which they
receive comparatively no returns .
In making the tests it is essential
that each ear tested should be given a
number and all kernels taken there
from given a corresponding number
so that after the tests the faulty ears
may be thrown out.
Many kinds of germinating boxes
TESTING RACK.
and methods for testing seed com have
It seems incredible of realization, been described in various publications,
time and temper.
You need
one unless you drive an auto
that the average yield of corn in the but the Department of Agriculture has
mobile. 20 c^ts postpaid.
designed
a
simple
box
which
is
be
United States in 1906, when the total
BICYCLES ON THE WANE.
KANCY SUPPLY CO.
production was the largest in our his lieved to combine most of the advan
L5
WASHINGTON, D. Ob
tory, was only 28.8 bushels of shelled tages, and give good results in the
Over
Three
Time«
as
Hany
Fac
corn per acre. It is still more sur hands of almost any operator. The box
Can 8ave a Lot of Work!
tories In 1900 as at Present.
prising to know that the average pro would be about 1% or 2 Inches deep
Can Save a Lot of Money!
duction per acre is practically the Inside and the length and width such
Statistics furnished by the Census
Can Increase Your Comfortsl
same today us it was forty years ago. as to suit the needs of the individual
Bureau at Washington show a marked
Can Increase Your Profits!
In fact, the average yield per acre for farmer, but it should not bo made wa
decrease in the manufacture of bi
If you are interested In those things
the ten years from 1866 to 1875 was ter-tight. Instead of filling the box with
cycles. Since 1900 the business has fal
we'd like to send you our new book about I
26.07 bushels as compared with 25.2 sand, soil, or sawdust, as is commonly
CAN NOT YOU GROW TWO EARS LIKE •• E ” TO EACH CORNHILL?
len off 65 per cent., the number of
bushels for the ten years from 1896 to recommended, the seed bod Is made
establishments being reduced from 312
ELECTRIC
8TEWheols
1905. While there are several rea- of heavy canton flannel or similar ma- which they represent should be taken schools and at home that manual to 97.
•nd th«
for seed. There will also be cases in labor is not honorable. There is no
Formerly there were 2,034 salaried
ELECTRIC H*Waflon
which all six kernels have germinated, reason why farm life should become officials and employees of the facto
More than a million and a quarter of them are
but will be lacking in vigor. While monotonous to any one residing with ries where now there are only 360. The In use and several hundred thousand farmers cay
they are the best Investment they ever made.
these kernels might produce a good in the boundaries of ordinary civiliza falling off in the number of wage earn that
They’ll save you more money, more work, give bet
ear of corn, the chances are that they tion. The rural mall carries the daily ers was 81 per cent. The capital in ter
service and greater satisfaction than any other
will never develop, or else will produce papers and magazines to the farm vested in 1900 was $29.783,659, where metal wheel made—because They're Made Beiler.
By every test they are tho best. Spokes united to
but a barren stalk. It is only necessary door yard: telephones place the farmer as in 1905 It was $5,847.803.
the hub. If they work loose, your money back.
to remember that all ears showing in direct communication with the out The production in 1900 amounted to Don
’t buy wheels nor wagon until you read our
dead kernels or weak and poorly devel side world; railroads open the channels nearly 32,000,000 bicycles and was re book. It may save you many dollars and it’s free.
ELECTRIC WHEEL CO.,
oped sprouts must be discarded and of trade to every commercial port; duced in the five years to little over
Box 263
Qulnoy, His.
only those used for seed in which yet there is a life of monotony on 5,000,000.
every kernel tested has given a good many farms. Tlie places are not Im
In contrast with these figures, the
healthy sprout The ears which have proved, the owners follow the fashions motor cycle factories increased from
shown a perfect germination are now of their forefathers, they do not 159 to 2,289.
ready to be butted and tipped and adopt new methods in any line aud
shelled for planting. In order to in their children become discouraged.
Now Zealand exports annually $65,-
sure further uniformity in planting it
000.000 worth of kauri gum. It 18
is advisable to sort the ears before OLDEN DAYS OF WHALING. used In the manufacture of varnish.
planting into two or three grades, ac
A SIMPLE GERMINATING VOX.
The days of the old-time whaling
cording to the size of the kernels
eons for thia, the principal reason I h terial, using two or three thicknesses This grading may also be done by fleets when more than two hundred
full-rigged ships sailed out of New
probably carelessness in the use of of cloth in the bottom of the box and screening, if more convenient.
Bedford harbor on three and four-
one or two thicknesses of cloth for
seed of low vitality.
Remarkable
Results
of
Government
year voyages to the most distant and
covering the kernels after the frame
To Test F.ach Corn Ear.
dangerous seas, were over more than
Tests.
has been filled. The cloth at the bot
half a century ago. The right of
The statement Is made by officials of tom should be marked off Into squares
The Department of Agriculture re Greenland
whale of the Arctic waters
the Department of Agriculture that 2 inches each way, and numbered, each cently made tests of___
____
_ fur- with his mouth
seed
corn
full of whalebone and i Millions Die Every Year from Mere Ignorance of
while corn breeders luive achieved one of which is to be filled with ker nlshed by farmers In the corn produc
nels
from
ears
which
are
given
a
num
-•
-
marked success in the production of
ing States, and of the 3,322 ears tested, his cousin, the sperm whale of tropi I
Nature - ’s Laws
of Health
ber
corresponding
to
the
square
used.
cal
waters,
bearing
in its head the
improved types of corn during the last
1.906, or the startling percentage of
precious
spermaceti,
were
practically
decade, unless the farmers take better
Auk
yourself
the
question:
‘
‘
Is
Life
Worth Living?
more
than
one-half,
were
unfit
for
seed.
A Very Simple Test.
care of their seed corn and test each
And the
be your
: J ‘‘It Iieailn.
depends
These samples were taken from ears exterminated by those all-daring, iron-
m,
. answer
; will
........ uu
” on your health.”
Thon
whv
r»rx4
V»«»»«
m
•»
nerved,
keen-eyed
Yankee
skippers.
ear separately^ preparatory to planting,
For use, first wet the cloth thorough picked for seed by good, careful far
Then why Dot have good health ? If you are sick it fa
Their splendid ships, the Annie B.t
the chances are that the average yield lv by soaking in water, and then place mers, and are evidently much above
because some simple, natural law of health has been violated.
of com per acre In the United Slates the half doth, double thickness, which the average. The average germination the Mary Jane, the Blue-Eyed Susan
Nature is a Stern and Inexorable Judge, and
Will not be materially Ih'creaaed.
lias beeu marked lu squares, In the bot- ( of the 1,906 poor ears was only 77.7 great lovers of their wives and sweet
Grants No Pardons When Her Laws are Broken
hearts, were this race of gentlemen ad
In our principal corn growing States,
corn Is planted In bills . feet apart
venturers—rotted at the wharves or ■
Better Learn Those Laws.
each way, giving 3.556 hills per acre.
were degraded to service as coastwise
In most section, three stalks to the
and with them vanished a world of
You can’t learn them too soon.
hill is considered a perfect stand: In
romance and adventure. No men. In !
You can't learn them all at once.
some States, two Is the standard. Yet
no time, more truly than they, "went I
Begin right now, and
If each hill would produce hut one
down to the sea In ships”.
Learn a little every month.
medium sized ear. 6 or 7 inches in
But when the pennant of the last i
length and weighing a trifle more than
a dim?
___ nF . five Iwo-cent »tamps to 1405 Fiaher Bnildlnz. Chicago, for one whole
old-time whaling ship was hauled down
o anbscrlption for Maxwell’« Homemaker Magazine, and rend the Department ‘Health
9 ounces, the yield for each aero would
forever, there still proudly swam rear
in the Home Health from Nature, by Right Thought and Right Living.”
ba 38 8 bushels, the nver.ige yield per
Read it every month year in and year out and learn all about Nature’s Law- of
the oceans the vast rorqual or racer
Health. anti nave Doe torn’ Billa and Drug Bills, and you will enioy many y-JW» of Life and
sere in the United States in 1905.
whale, greatest of all his mighty kin.
good health after you otherwise would have been dead and buried-or 1 ivbe cnmated.
A single ear of corn to the hill the
To the sailing fleet of the old days, the Whether von arc buried or cremated doesn’t so much matter. It’« the lying part tna’
size shown as A tn the Illustration
count«
Train “Good Health” as your faithful body-guard to kick old I, Grim Death,
rorqual was an almost impossible prize
Scythe and all. info the street if he call« ahead of time. Get your M point*» on training
would give an average of 28.8 bushels
because of its tremendous speed. It
from Maxwell s Homemaker Magazine.
t
to the acre; a single ear shown as II
was practically unmolested, and mul
would give 30 bushels per aere;
tiplied exceedingly in both North At
ear such ns C would produce
lantic and Pacific waters.
bushels per acre: an ear st
It was the abundance of this levi
as I) would yield 45 bushels per acre;
ONE YEAR FOR 10 CENTS
athan. measuring ninety feet In length
while an ear like E, which weighs a
Subscription Price to Chicago and Foreign Addressee 25< Per Year
and
weighing
almost
as
many
tons-
trifle less than a pound, would yield 50
c ■
it this «nlwcnp'i.'i» blank, wriu- ram. »nd addrraa on rM b- ow. and send n«
bulking larger than a whole herd of el lacrnt.-dlvrr
or«am|»i and wf will mail von Maxwell's UoriiuiaXer Mutazine ever,
bushels of shelled corn per acre, count
month for twelve months. Don't delay, but aerid at once.
ephants
—
which
was
the
inspiration
of
.
ing only one such ear for eaclr of the
the modern whaling industry.
Nam*-----------------------------------------------------------------
3,556 hills. There are, however, ’
few farmers who raise as much a
At least one American hna sue- Box or Street No.
bushels of shelled com per acre,
eroded In Txindon journalism. Ralph Postoffice----
every corn grower can probably pro From " familng
A BUNCH OF FINF SKXD.
State.----
POOR, SMUTTY SEED.
D. Blumenfeld. late of Milwaukee, Is Enclosed find___________
duce many ears which are larger than
.for.
the editor of the Ix>ndou Express.
that shown as E In the cut. Eliminat tom of the germinating box. The ker-
t
.
while
the
average
germlna-
•ubacriber
____________
ing, however, both ears D and K and nels from ear No. 1 are then placed,
the good and the poor
You can subscribe for on«, two, three nr five year« at 10 cent« for each year.
Better
granting that every farmer could har germ side up. in square No. 1 and so ears, the both
of which would ordin Artificial pumice stone Is now made send 50
cent« aud have five years good reading coming to you.
This is the BEST MAGA
vest from each hill two such ears as on. When all of the squares have been arily have seeds
ZINE, for the money, ever pnbliahed.
Address in full
from a mixture of sand and clay. ♦
been
used
for
planting,
had
the one shown as
an oar which Is filled, fold the other
_____________
end of the ____
cloth
Subscription Dept. MAXWELL S HOMEMAKER MAGAZINE,
less than 8ij inches tong, and weighs carefully over the kernels. If during not these tests been made, was 86.3
per cent . showing that 13.7 per cent,
1$6 ounces, the yield would be RO the sampling the cloths have become was
About
one
billion
feet
of
timber
In
1405 Fisher Building. CHICAGO. III.
If you wish to have TTTF. HOMEMAKER MAGAZINE sent to friends, nee a separate
gained by discarding ears of low
bushels of shelled com per acre
Iry. sprinkle them well with water vitality Granting, however, that the the Black Hill forest reserve has been piece of paper for name and address, and enclose 10 cents for each yearly
killed by the Black llill« beetle.
10
IDon t Die That Way
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