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Show I, T. BIDt Queen of the Belgians, Who Is Believed to Be Stricken with Mortal Illness PnbllsbM, UTAH LOO AN. ftrtugal wont lot Britain have Mozambique, unleas Britain takao it The ahah of Persia atlll refuses to flook pleasant In any of hla portraits. Love letters are writs of attachment, and there is no dodging the service. Why should there be any flurry In financial circles? Flerp. Is still able to be up and around. Speaking oi an army. King Wheat calls for 10,000 harvester recruits in Kansas and Nebraska. A season of protracted drought is reminding the Texas people of Gen. JBhermans opinion of war. The breaking of college ties is sad, but not half so melancholy as the counting of subsequent ties. What, asks the college boy, is the if the girls are good of going to take it over in the next block? One of the latest and most sensible fads in New York this season is the throwing of stones at automobile racers. It is feared that one result of the Ruhlin-Bharke- fiRlCULTURE fight will be to bring y the Hon. Jim Corbett before the pub- lic again. Brooklyn advertises a reliable bug exterminator," which may be of use to any one who wants to exterminate reliable bugs. Qneen Marie Henriette of Belgium, who is ill at Brussels with heart dis ease and in a critical condition, is the daughter of the late Archduke Joseph of Austria and was married to King Leopold in 1853, while he was crown prince. The qneen has three daughters the Princesses Louise, Stephanie and Clementine. She is now in her 67th year and for a long time has been an invalid. She is very popular with the Belgians. The Crisis with fursery Trees. ething of a science to transtrees that have been received plant i. m a distant nursery and have them live. It used to be thought that there must always be a large percentage of loss anyway even under the best conditions. Both the nurserymen and the planters have now learned that trees of all kinds can be handled in a way to insure their living wben placed in their new locations. A tree has its roots kept moist by being rolled in damp moss and tied up in bagging. The old scheme of pulling trees out of the ground, exposing their roots and sending them away without any protection was the cause of many a tree proving a failure. When these trees arrived at the distant station they were thrown out on the platform and left there exposed to the heat of the sun and the drying effects of the wind. In the course of time the purchaser drove around and got his consignment, perhaps a couple of days after their arrival. By that time their roots were good and dry. He drove home and set out his trees in any old way. Even bad he set them in the best possible way it is altogether lik ly that a good many trees would have perished owing to the drying out ol the roots. Wben a large part of his trees failed to grow of course the nurseryman was to blame so the buyer said. He was right to some extent, in that the trees were sent away with roots not properly protected. In sending trees long or short distsMes the roots and their moisture supply furnish the key to the situation. Proper treatment of the tree from the time it comes out of the nursery row to the time it goes into the place assigned to it in the orchard will Insure a good Potato Culture. healthy tree. In setting a hundred a on that of ascertained these there need be no failures. It has been soil well supplied with humus the Points on Asparagus Culture. moisture may be conserved even a fair and severe drouth When a the asparagus plants come through crop of potatoes produced. The great up in the new bed they should be givImportance of thorough tillage is rec- en every opportunity to grow ognized, but it has been demonstrated leaf, for the leaves are what that intensive tillage alone is not suf- must be depended on to develop root ficient to produce a large yield of po- The fact that the roots depend on the tatoes. Intensive tillage may be over top should not be forgotten. Condone. During a drouth only so much stant pruning of the top does not intillage is necessary as shall keep the crease the roots, as some might supsurface soil loose and thoroughly dry. pose. All the material that goes to The drier the surface layer of soil the extension of the roots first goes the more slowly will moisture be ab- into the leaves and is elaborated, that sorbed by it from the layers of sub- is, changed into a form that can bosurface soil. Some farmers have used in cell construction. The ground adopted the practice of harrowing po- must be kept free from weeds and tato land before the plants appear from hard crusts. Every encourageabove the ground. This practice ment should be given for the former seems to be a wise one and has gen- tlon of top, and this should be conerally given good results. One ex- tinued till the berries form and turn periment station reports that the use red. Then the tops that have the red of Bordeaux mixture on the potato berries should be cut off or the berplants in nearly every case resulted in ries picked off and thrown away. The an increased yield of potatoes, even berries should not be permitted to when blight was hot present, and form seed, for that will take much thorough spraying with this material substance from the roots. Moreover is recommended as a practice to be if the berries are permitted to stay There on the encouraged. A grower says: plants they will fall to the Is no royal road to success with powhen growth is done and the ground tatoes. Methods of procedure that are next year multitudes of little plants This is the applicable at one season must be mod- will start from them. ified to meet the requirements of an- cause of many a bed running out or other season. Treatment of one soil the stalks getting smaller. There when ap- will, however, be a good many other might be radically wrong ' plied to another soil. Success will be tops than those with berries and these attained only by a thorough famili- may be permitted to remain. The arity with the plant and its habits water should not be permitted to of growth, and then conditions must Btand on the asparagus bed but be made to meet as completely as pos- should be drained away from it, as sible the requirements of the plant the asparagus plant is very susceptible to rust and other fungous diseases. Absorbing Capacity of Grains. recon are of A number experiments Tomatoes for the Canneries. ord that show the moisture-absorbin- g It is evident that the tomato supcapacity of wheat and other grains. The results obtained by Hilgard, of ply is short so far as the canned prodthe California experiment station, are uct is concerned. A man conversant perhaps the most striking. He sub- with the conditions existing says that jected dried grains of different cereals for three years past the market has to an atmosphere as nearly saturated not been fully supplied and that it as it was possible to make It, the will take a most bountiful harvest to temperature being kept at 64.4 F. Due put the market in a normal state. to the absorption of moisture, oats Last winter canned tomatoes were and barley gained in weight 19.8 and actually Imported Into the United 20.4 per cent respectively in 18 days, States from Canada, a thing before and wheat gained 18.8 per cent In 14 unheard of. Probably the high prices very asked for the canned product is to days. Absorption progressed f the some extent due to the comparatively rapidly at first, nearly total increase in weight taxing place short crop of last year, but it does during the first 24 hours. In another seem that the supply of this fruit experiment by this same investigator would be sufficient for all needs if the perfectly dry grain, dried artificially, tomatoes that are actually grown was exposed to a saturated atmos- could be taken care of. There are milphere at 64.4 degrees for 18 days, with lions of gardens in this country where the result that wheat gained 25 per tomatoes go to waste every year becent in weight, barley 28.2 per cent, cause the owners cannot use them and oats 29.1 per cent In a third ex- and there is no sale for them. The periment 1 1 gar i kept wheat In an shortage in the supply on the market atmosphere prepared to be about as in winter is due then to lack of fadry as the air at narvest time in the cilities for using what is actually prointerior valleys of California. The duced. results he obtained led to the belief Japanese Bantams were imported that wheat cured there in the field at harvest time becomes nearly as dry from Japan, where they have evidently as it would in an absolutely dry air, been bred for a long time, as they and on transporting to a temperate breed very true to type. Only after climate may possibly increase 25 per long generations can a type be thus cent, hile a gain of from 5 to 15 per fixed. They are easily acclimated and cent may be looked for with almost hardy. absolute certainty. Tht population of London Increased To those to whom homo is a prison, during the last iuirl virtue is s penance. Feed Mills and Windmills. Prof. King of the Wisconsin station has made a study of the effectiveness of various- - feed mills found on the market, when driven by windmills and gas engines, and of the cost of grinding feed. With one of the most effect lve combinations of windmill and feed mill the rate of grinding was about 25 bushels per hour with a wind velocity of 31.8 miles, the meal being a little coarser than medium.' Corn and oats were ground at the rate of 410.3 pounds per hour with the wind at 26.48 miles. With a wind velocity of 26.47 miles oats were ground at the rate of about 5.5 bushels per hour, and rye al the rate of 15.35 bushels with the wind 25.35 miles. The rye was ground a little finer than medium' and the oats a little coarser. Under Wisconsin conditions there are on the average from October 1 to May 1 of each year "87 days when a man could attend the mill and grind ten hours with a wind velocity not less than 15 miles per hour, and much Ol the time higher than this. He should therefore be able to grind more than 46 bushels per day and on the average more than 100 bushels per week. The 87 grinding days during the seven montns places the grinding (Lys. on the average, more than two per week, and if it is supposed that this is twice too high it would still be possible on the average to take adthe jutage of high winds during 60 about working hours and grind bushels of corn or 2,800 pounds, per week. Counting the man's time who tends the mill $1 per day, the cost of grinding would be only about cents per hundredweight It is r well-packe- d 3i Mr. Bull understands himself to be the victor, but he will have to put his South African farm in order at hlB own expense. King Alfonso needs a guardian worse than ever, for he will probably fall in love with some nice lady aged about 45 years. After facing the perils of a mob Rudyard Kipling no doubt wonders how Poet laureate Austin has managed to escape so long. By the time man has the forests have thoroughly subdued he will found, doubtless, some way of getting along without wood. Unique Design for Drinking Fountain, Recently Erected This unique idea of a design for a drinking fountain was unveiled at Chicago July 4. The scheme of the statue is essentially patriotic. It represents three children, two boys and a girl, each waving a Roman candle, and grouped around the upright figure of a boy, waving the Stars and Stripes. The total height of the statue is about eighteen feet, and stands upon a cir at Chicago cular basis thirty feet in diameter. By a clever electrical device, alternating red, white and blue lights will be displayed at the ends of the Roman candles and elsewhere about the statue. C. J. Mulligan of Chicago is the sculptor, his design having been the one selected by the commissioners two years ago in the competition at which forty others were presented. Kansas farmers are dragging tramps from freight trains and compelling them to work in the harvest fields. It Is such arts as this that make freedom shriek. . Bicycling is said to be a craze again in the East It must be unsatisfactory sport, though, for enthusiasts who have been running their automobiles over people. Herr Most has sounded the death knell of a free press in America. It is certain that he will not take any more liberties with it for the next twelve months. Joseph Chamberlain and the colonial premiers are having some trouble in whittling out a zollvereln for King Edward's empire. They might try getting up a turnverein. The woman who has petitioned for a divorce on the ground that her husband expected her to embrace the new thought" and see ghosts ought to have her freedom. A Pueblo Indian whipped his wife, was promptly castigated by his mother-in-law and in his mortification committed suicide. There is no use in trying to civilize an Indian. A theater treasurer has nearly died from erysipelas contracted in handling money. There are probably, however, more cases of grip than erysipelas in handling money. King Alfonso of Spain is hunting for a wife. Any princess wbo begins to get boxes of chocolate and cut flowers from Madrid should understand what they mean. good-lookin- and-mak- one-hal- g It la reported that William Waldorf Astor is going to give his daughter when she gets married. William Waldorf must think that is about the price of a good, serviceable duke. $20,000,000 Afflictions of Chauffeurs. "As girls grow older they think less Neuralgic ache in the ear, catarrh, of love and more of money," says the "Pointed Paragrapher" of the Chit ago bronchitis, inflamed eyes are some News. Good sign. Perhaps this "high- of the affiictlons of rhaufTcurs. Woer education" is doing something for men are the chief sufferers from earache. They like to be whizzed along the girls, after all. the roads In the auto, and it Is the A French army officer has perfected speed which produces the ache. Brons 'device which suppresses the flash, chitis and catarrh cases are numersound and smoke of a rifle or cannon. ous. The autos speed, a physician Now if he will go a step farther and says, must be modified if it in to have suppress the bullet and shell be will any lasting utility.- - New York do the world a real service. . 11 Helping the Lord. Pension Commissioner Ware, who was at the capitol yesterday, is very much Interestec. as all new officials are. in his correspondence. One of the letters which he received recently amused him greatly. It was from a widow out In Illinois, and this is what she said: "Dear Mr. Ware I am trusting in the I .or, to get. my pension, but I need the money, I do hope you will give a little help yourself. 1 CHfaf-ir- y e |