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Show T T t i AERIAL GLOBE THE LATEST FREAK. t euiME Adapting Corn Varieties. Wo are always learning something ow about the corn One thing, plant new at least to a good many students of the corn plant, is that corn varieties differ so greatly In their characteristics that success or failure with corn depends on the selection of the right varieties for certain fields. It la not unusual to hear of a man declaring that the variety of corn he grows Is one of the meat profitable lu the world and will give most astonishing yields. The fact is that he Is growing it on a location that is admirably suited to it. We are now coming to have varieties of corn adapted to uplands and to lowlands. The lowland variety may do very well on the upland In a wet year, but in a dry year proves almost a failure, while the variety adapted to the upland yields well even In bad seasons. At the present time this differentiation is only beginning to be made. During this summer corn growers would do well to watch the behavior of corn on lowlands and uplands. At the present time we have only very meager data by which to figure out what kind of corn a man should select for the bottom lands and what kind for the up- lands. Some of our experimenters' are only now Just beginning to study the corn plant from this standpoint. We have, however, much to hope for from our agricultural colleges In this matter. The students are taking great Interest In such matters and are taking up every phase of corn growing. This study of varieties is one that may well engross the attention of some of the brightest minds. The Potato Bug. One of the great obstacles to the raising of potatoes has been the potato bug; yet this Insect Is easily controlled, if the farmer will resort to the use of the arsenical poisons. A good many farmers, however, are afraid to have poison around, knowing that now and then very serious accidents happen as a result of Its presence. Such farmers are forced to resort to the old methods of Indeed, such a potato grower as his potato i. B. Terry hand-pick- s bugs. The most popular course, however, is to use parts green either as dust or as part of a liquid solution. If the bugs are taken as soon as they appear, it will seldom be necessary to treat the entire field. The bugs being killed on the part of the field where they appear, will have no opportunity to extend their labors to other parts. There are many combinations used, but one pound of pure parts green to ISO gallons of water is enough. When dust Is used one pound of the paris green may be mixed with 60 pounds of air slaked lime and the resulting powder applied by being sifted over the plants with some kind of a box In which are small holes. A good sixed pepper box is found serviceable. In such a case it is better to apply the dust while the dew is on the vines. hand-pickin- Green Manure. Green manure is the name applied to a crop that Is grown for the purpose of being turned under. Some of the lands that are exhausted to such an extent that they will not bear good crops of grain yet will be found growing up to some kind of weeds. Sometimes this weed crop Is the best thing that can be grown on the land, If the farmer is smart enough to turn it under. It adds humus to the soil. We hare heard of fields that were practically good for nothing, yet were reclaimed by having the weeds plowed under for three or more years. The fact was that the fields were deficient in humus and nitrogen and needed an application of both of these, which they got in the green manures given in the form of the turned under weeds. The best green manure in most parts of the North Is the clover plant But cow peas and soy beans are excellent where they can be grown. All kinds of legumes are very good for turning under, as they always add nitrogen to the soil. Rye and such tilings are sometimes used, but they add little or nothing to the soil except fiber, which is not taken up by the roots of the growing plants. It may, however, do some good to the soil mechanically. Wheat and Corn. The wheat and corn crops of the United States for the past 25 years have been as follows. Year-18- 78. Corn. Wheat. . 1870. 1880. 1881 1882. 1883. 1884. ...... ...... ....... ...... ...... .- .- .- .- AOOOi e 1887 ..1888 1889 1890 1891. 1892 1893. .1894 ..1895. 1890. 1897 1898. .1899. . .- ..- 1900. .1901. .- 1902. .2908. .- e e e e ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... 420.122.000 448.757.000 498.550.000 883.280.000 504.185.000 421.180.000 612.705.000 357.112.000 457.218.000 450.329.000 415.808.000 490,5Cu,000 399.202.000 011.780.000 615.919.000 890.131.000 400.207.000 4G7.103.u00 427.084.000 630.149.000 675.149.000 647.304.000 622.230.000 748.460.000 670.063.000 637.822.000 1.388.219.000 1.647.902.000 1.717.435.000 1.194.916.000 1.617.025.000 1.551. 067. 000 1.795.528.000 1,93G,17G,000 1.665.441.000 1.456.161.000 1.987.790.000 2.112.892.000 1.489.970.000 2.060.154.000 1.628.464.000 1.619.496.000 1.212.770.000 2.151.139.000 2.283.875.000 1.902.968.000 1.924.185.000 2.078.144.000 2.105.102.000 1.622.520.000 2.523.648.000 2.244.177.000 The freak fever has broken loose 30.000 persons easily at one time, again, this time in the form of an having a rapacity six times that of the eating desire to give Chicago some- Eiffel tower and ten times that of the thing to take the place of the late Ferris wheel. The extreme height of the globe will lamented Ferris a heel. Its one time be 700 feet above the ground and will Dirty Water Troughs and Stagnant Water. Seeds of Forest Trees. Sometimes the milk gets a flavor in It Is probably always best to forest trees from nursery men it that is not relished, but the cow that make a business of producing owner Is unable to discover the reathem from seed. But sometimes this son for It. Good authorities on cow is not convenient or advisable, both feeding declare that it is possible for cause. by reason of the number required and the drinking water to be the of the distance of the nursery from Others will dispute this; but in any which the same might be obtainable. event It Is an open subject, and the For Instance there are some farmers water may fairly well be under suspiwathat have bare hill tops that they wish cion. Wo do know, at least, that subcontain to cover with trees for the protection ter does sometimes of the land. They know that the tree stances that cause sickness among a cow Is sick her that lsjto be good for lumber must be cows, and whenever milk gets "off- .- whether anything one th'at grows without largely branches and that therefore a large passes directly through the cow and "umber of trees must be started per into the milk or not. We have pubalacre, most cf which will be killed off lished much against cows being and to lowed drink stagnant dirty No by the ahade of their neighbors. nan likes to pay for trees and go to water, but there is always something 'he work of planting them and then more to be said. We have seen old watering troughs in the have most of them die natural deaths. pastures that were never cleaned out So the only way when a large plantation is to be put In is to buy the from year to year. A wooden trough eeds by the pound If they can be ob- led back to some rill at the foot of tained or gather the seeds from the a bill, and this perennial rill furall woods. In thousands of Instances the nished water for the cows during consisted summer. water The the latter will be the plan that will apwater that had fallpeal most to the farmer. Such seeds largely of the rain should be gathered as soon as ripe. en on the land and reached the trough If they are left till they fall to the after being laden with much vegekinds. In the ground It will be difficult to get the table matter of various desired quantities, and often, too, the trough It lies under the hot sun, while germs In its slimy death luxuriate overripe seeds will not grow at all. the The seeds that fall are also eaten and multiply, having for food the vegetable matter that the rill has brought to a great extent by various small animals, such as mice and squirrels. The from the hillside. Even worse is the stagnant pond, seeds are also more easily gathered from the trees than from the ground, for In It the cows can stand and can if they are left on the latter place for thus stir up Its muddy depths, which indeed are not generally very deep. some weeks, and the difficulty of pickThe old trough, bad as It is, has one them as soon as ing up they fall nab not only turally Is that they do not fall at one virtue, in that the water is time, but frequently take a period of always running in, but also running weeks to mature folly enough to de- out; and running water is supposed to tach themselves from the woody have some virtue. The old pond does not supply enough water to keep Its stems. The seeds that mature in the early outlet open after the beginning of part of the summer should be sown summer. Its only supply is the drainas soon as gathered, as that is the ing of the land with any disease way that nature doewsit. If such seeds germs the land may have received are left till the next spring they will from any source. If the eggs of not grow at alL The keeping of tapeworms have been dropped by1 other animals, as Is sometimes ths case, such seeds is one of the mistakes frefind a ready access Into the pond. quently made by amateurs. For the they seeds the keeping till As the summer heat becomes greater ever spring before planting Is the natural the surface of the pond sinks and proper thing to do. Seeds with lower and lower, and the cows stand soft shells should be carefully stored, each day further out In the water. but those with hard sheila may be The warm water becomes alive with all kinds of water insects, and who planted at once or put in a box buried shall say that it does not also become In the ground, so they may be affected by the frosts of winter, which alive with vegetable growths, some are necessary to break the shells. of which are the organisms that manWhen seeds are planted they should ifest themselves as bovine diseases? Both the dirty watering trough and be covered with at least three inches the stagnant pond should be of soil, especially If they are planted from the pasture. Good, pure in the fall. water is the only kind that should be given to animals or humans. In these The Queen Crab. of cheap windmills, there is no This Is a choice variety, says a bub days reason why every cow pasture should letln of the Virginia Station: Tree not have a supply of pure and safe fairly vigorous; limbs scraggly In water from some point growth; head open, roundish but Irregular. Trunk averages 22 Inches In Poor Feeding and Fat Percentage. circumference at base and 18tf Inches The question of feeding fat Into milk at head. Generally free from disease. First bloom and first fruit in 1892. has been long and heatedly debated. stations generally Trees were loaded with fruit In 1895. The experiment Full crop In 1897. Two trees bore have demonstrated, by a multitude of twelve bushels of fruit in 1899 and tests, that a cow's capacity to produce thirteen bushels in 1901. Fruit medi- butter-fa- t cannot bo increased beyond um size same size as Blushing Maid; the normal of that animal. On 'he color a straw yellow ground e whed other hand a few Isolated cases of with bright red; very showy on the carefully tested cows have seemed to trees. Flesh white, firm and crisp; show that it was possible to feed butter-fat into milk. The problem has flavor mild acid- and free from been recently attacked from another Quality good, but not as rich side, and the experiment tried of reas Blushing Maid or Transcendent. The productiveness and beauty of this ducing the fat content of the milk by poor feeding. This has been accomvariety commend it for general plantplished both at home and abroad. ing. It Is quite ornamental. Cows were fed on Insufficient rations for a period of two weeks or more. In Horticulture In New Brunswick that time the average fat content of The New Brunswick government is all the cows dropped from 4 per cent encouraging the fruit industry of that to 8.25 per cent of butter fat This country In a very practical way. It will explain some of the cases where has undertaken to furnish the trees It was claimed that the feeding of a for the planting of four or five model richer ration Increased the amount of orchards, mostly winter apples, and butter fat. Cows that were too poorly a man will be sent to direct the plant- fed had been used and naturally tending and laying out of the orchard. ed to come back to the normal of After the trees are set the owner is their capacity. The practical quesrequired to sign an agreement to care tion, however, Is not. If poorly fed for the orchard for ten years In ao cows can be made to give normal milk cordance with the Instructions of the by normal feeding, but if cows that Department of Agriculture, he to have are being fed normally and are giving the product of same. These model normal milk already can be forced to orchards will not exceed two acres give abnormally rich milk by feeding and it Is planned to eventually have a richer food than usual. We believe that it Is well demonstrated that this one In every county. cannot be done. Whitewash for Trees. Be Clean. In the New England states whiteIt has been said that successful wash Is frequently applied to fruit In two can be summed pur-chas- e promised stadium. Its porcelain lined subway, and other beautiful things that dreame are made of. The man who is responsible for this proposed globe is Samuel M. Frledo, a Chicago inventor, who has spent the greater part of his life inventing things to give a calm and restive people thrills at so much per thrill. He designed and built the airship tower at Sana Soucl Park. That freak works. He says his globe will also work. The aerial globe will cost 51,000,000 nd will accommodate from 25,000 to be surmounted with a steel flagstaff seventy feet higher. The base will cover an area 1,200 feet in clrrumfi-r-enre- . act as a giant The base pedestal, which will rise to a height of about 250 feet, directly upon which will be built the globe, which will measure 350 feet in diameter, or about 1.000 feet in circumference. About the globe will be located the observatory towers, which will be about 100 feet high, making the entire structure a total of about 700 feet Th" "odestal will be formed of eight moss-grow- n g eleml-nate- d - astrin-genc- y. up dairying This is overdrawwords, Be clean. ing It just a little, because, no matter how clean you keep the milk of a poor dairy cow, it will not be profitable. But as to the quality and flavor of butter, the truth Is largely told In It is easy the two words given. enough to cure bad salting, bad coloring and bad working. . The great straggle comes In trying to keep the milk, cream and butter dean. This Is because dirt Is almost universal. It la in the water, on the ground and In the air. It fastens Itself to the cows udder, her sides and her hair. Japans Plums. 9 It attaches itself to the bands of the According to a report of tario station the Japanese plums are milker and to his clothes. It gets into proving successful as far north as the milk as soon as It leaves the teats, Georgian bay. Experts declare that and often It continues to add itself to the northern line of the successful the milk during all the processes of growing of Japanese plums runs from handling and of skimming. Dirt In northeast to southwest. West of Lake this sense Includes many things that Michigan It begins at about the vicin- ordinarily are not considered dirt, ity of Chicago, slanting in the direc- like the smells that arise from turThis will show why nips, cabbages in the cellar and cooktion named. Japanese plums have been so seldom ing vegetables and meats In the kitchen. To quarantine against these profitable In Northern Illinois. Is a colossal task, too great to be acIn land plants the branches of the complished by the lazy man or the roots depends very much upon the man that does not think. That is amount of free oxygen and available why we have a few eminent dairymen and a good many that are failures. plant food the soil contains. trees, especially apple trees, and seems to have the effect of keeping off fungus and Insect pests. The whitewash as used there is generally made by simply slaking the lime with cold water. But It would be better to slake the lime with hot water. It may be made to stick better by adding some skimmed milk. Some even heat some glue and when It has become a thin liquid dilute it with hot water and add it to the wash. This still further helps the sticking quality. tl. THE FRIEDE AERIAL GLOBE, SUCCUMB TO CUPID'S WILES. A FREAK RESORT PLANNED WELCOMED HER OLD Female Clerks Not to Be Relied On, Saye Employer. It can hardly be credited that Cupid should have any serious connection with the dry goods business, yet a local firm experiences the greatest difficulty in keeping competent assistants on account of the interference of the little blind god. One of the managers of the dry The goods company said yesterday: marrying habit seems to have gained a permanent hold on this store. Ve are constantly obliged to engage new salesladies to fill the places of those who leave us to be married and conduct homes of their own. This constant change cannot help affecting our business to some extent, as customers Koome attached to certain salesladies and are tempted to change trading places when a new one is called to wait on them. More than a score of young ladles have been married from one department in the last eighteen months, and in one of our advertisements for help we felt obliged to make a stipulation that applicants must promise to remain unmarried at least one year. This exaction had not served to prohibit the evil, and our girls continue to marry. Seattle gigantic legs, slightly Inclined upward, holding the first large floor space, called the aerlsl suspended roof gardens, at a distance of 110 feet above the ground. This roof garden, octagonal in shape, will be divided Into four spaces two for restaurants and two for theaters One restaurant in the globe will be located In tbe aerial coliseum, 314 feet above the ground, with a seating rapacity of 10,000 and a promenade around the top of the seats 1,000 feet in circumference. Windows will be equlpiied with telescopes, where visitors will be enabled to look down and around the city. In the coliseum proper will be constructed a large floor space about 600 feet in circumference and about fifty feet In width, with a race track around the extreme end and three circus rings In tbe middle, one on each side of the elevator shatt large enough to accommodate the largest circus perform-- . ances ever given. Under the coll seum seats, with many open doors leading to them, there will be a space 800 feet in circumference and fifty feet wide, which will be used for exhibition of caged animals. MAMMY. UniMaal Mark of Affection Astonished New Yorkers. A beautiful young lady, a member of one of the richest and most aristocratic families of Henderson, Ky, married a few years ago and went with her husband to New York city to live. The affection between her and her old black mammy was very tender, and the separation was hard to bear. After the young wife bad settled In the East she determined to have mammy" come on to visit her, and sent the money for her ticket Imagine the surprise of the prim New Yorkers when they saw an old colored woman coming through the station gate suddenly pounced upon by an elegantly dressed lady, who threw her arms around the old woman's neck and kissed her time and again. Dropping her bundles, the old woman seated herself on a track, and, drawing the lady upon her lap, tenderly stroked her hair and exclaimed: My God, my baby! I'se so glad to see you, honey. To her the fine lady was only the lit tie girl, whom she bad tenderly nursed In sickness and in health and on whom she had lavished all the love of her simple heart Louisville Courier-Jou- r FOR CHICAGO. CHARM OF MODULATED VOICE. That Is Not Hard to Acquire. One man has said: 'Shut me np In a dark room with a mixed multitude and I can pick out the gentlefolks by their voices. ,No matter what your voice Is, you can Improve It by learn- An Accomplishment sff 6 ing to modulate 1L dent voices are sharply criticised, and it is quite within our power to change them. in the compass of every voice there are three registers the middle or throat, the lower or chest, and the upper or head. The use of the middle pitch for talking Is very desirable, but the voice should be trained to slide up and down, varying with the emotions low when the mood inclines toward seriousness, and higher when itb-comtingled with excitement An Interesting speaker constantly changes his pitch not abruptly, but with ease and skill and the greater range one has tbe more certain he Is to get and retain tbe pleased attention of listeners. High-pitche- Hobbles of Hollands Queen. The queen of Holland is an enthusiastic farmer. A dairy has been established in connection with the royal castle at Loo and it is run on quite naL businesslike lines by Its owner, large Maxim of Confucius. quantities of butter and milk being Iron Plant for Mexico. sold regularly from the dairy, which K the search for riches were sure Is now and profitable to bo successful, though I should beFYontera, Mex., Is to have a of the Another for come a groom with a whip in my hand young queen is hobby steel, building plant to get them, I will do so. As the Iron and wooden vessels for river and photography, and, like Queen Alexsearch may not be successful, I will ocean navigation. A complete outfit andra and other distinguished amatoQow after that which I love. Confu-ela- of machinery and tools has been or- teurs, she Is quite an expert with the camera. dered from the United States. r. a. THE COLUMBIA II Is generally supposed that one who venturea into ocean solitudes In a boat little more than three times longer than himself, and who, after montha of empty days and silent nights, finally makes his way across the Atlantia, would have much to say about the loneliness of such a Journey of the tedium and of the uneasy sleep when ones eyes grow heavy and the ungulded cockleshell la left to founder in some sudden squall or be ant in two by some speeding liner. Bpt Ludwig Elsenbaum says no. He has just returned from such a trip across the Atisntlo one that was exto seventy-sitended days, and throughout that time, he says, he was never lonesome for a minute. As for storms," he said, "they are frequently welcome, for then 1 could take in sail, gei my anchor out. crawl Into the little covered space which I "t figured It out this way My boat x II, HER OWNER AND CHART OF HER VOYAGE. took up only nineteen feet of room, called my cabin, close the hatch behind me and sleep contented. But did you feel no uneasiness going to sleep not knowing when you might be drowned like a rat In a hole by a sudden capsize or cut in two by some other vessel? No, said the adventurous mariner I never thought of that. My soberly. boat capsized with me once in a southeast gale about ten o'clock in the morning. I had got a sea anchor over a bit of wood shaped into a triangle and covered with canvas, one end loaded with lead so It would stand upright in the water and act as a drag, keeping tbe boat's bead to the sea. But about going to sleep, and the danger of being ran down when no one is keeping watch? Weil,'' said Elscnbaum, soberly, sad the course I was traveling was something like three thousand miles. I calculated that If a ship did come ssy way she would have to hit me plumb or I wouldnt care. Then you had no collisions? Yes, one with a whale. That was early In the morning of October L near Maderia. I had lashed the UHm and was sound asleep when I was awakened by the boat hitting some thing and then seemingly trying to stand on end. I crawfished out of my cubby hole, and was almost swept overboard by a sheet of water. That whale had been asleep, same as 1 was, and the boat had almost slid over him before he woke up. For s minute or two he slopped that tail of his around In a way that almost swamped the boaL Elscnbaum Is forty-fiv- e years old, German bora, but a naturalised American. He says he undertook the voyage for the glory and what would come of 1L es |