Show V w HIGH COST OF LIVING ‘tuoAdaqs tiw epoaif o paw Export of Food Products ReachPoint esniMpw ion ppioA eq tega 5FJ naipiun f q Reason pwqweai eqq qjjqA nI ono s ing Vanishing — SOUTHERN MOST Greatest Needs of Country Are ScienGood Roads Agriculture Consolidated 8chool— ’Must Learn New Things INDUSTRY tific WHO IS TO DRAG THE ROADS? Xttitude of "Let George Do In Much In Evidence Proposition t” Very The attitude of “Let George do It" la very much In evidence In the road dragging proposition and the city man is always willing to let the farm er do It Road dragging is an abso lutely proved method and It should be done but by whom? It Is true that taxation Is never very even but that Is no reason for trying to get some' thing for nothing says a writer in an It Is Bald the farmer Is exchangebenefited by good roads which is per fectly true but so are many other and the farmer has already people paid bis road tax whilst many other users have escaped In part because their property Is not so evident to the assessor H President of the National Fertility League) We are consuming practically all we produce Our export of food products la reaching the vanishing point The price of meat Is soaring and Is the highest ever known It will probably go higher Between 1900 and 1910 our population increased 15000000 The number of meat animals In the same time decreased 20000000 In four years our export of live animals fell off 66 per cent and our dairy products exported In fifty years dropped 75 per cent How our population will be doubled shall we feed them? It is the most serious that confronts the problem tariff American The people today and all such questions are merely minor and incidental In comparison In 1900 for every hundred persons there were 90 cattle Ten years later there were only 68 per 100 The profrom 84 to portion of hogs dropped 60 and sheep from 82 to 51 Think what these figures mean meat cannot be made Cheap 60 to land and corn It can be done with alfalfa and the silo with a little corn for finishIn AH this Is embraced ing off scientific agriculture The house of representatives has bill passed the Lever farm extension which will probably become a law When the plan is In full force- we will be able to double the output of our farms within 10 or 12 years and more than double the farmer's come The greatest needs of the country today are scientific agriculture good roads and the consolidated school When we learn a few things we ought to know we will be able to reduce the cost of living very materially and live better at the same time The good roads enthusiast says the farmer can drag roads In his spare time So he can and there Is no why the city man should not hook a drag behind his auto evenings and do some good whilst he gives his fam Lots None whatever! lly an airing of autos have plenty of power to pull I haven’t a road drag seen the city man doing this yet and I don’t expect to any more than I expect to see a voluntary system of road dragging successful In the long run because it is The common entirely Inequitable Is to drag the roads sense solution and pay the man who does It a fair remuneration either In cash or coun ty warrants If a farmer lives on a road where the wear and tear is con tlnuous the road will need more dragno ging though he himself makeB more use of it than his neighbor on a back 'road and each should be paid for the work he does and those who do no work should bear their full SOME share of the expense —not expect George to do It all Weakly Seeds PAY FOR ROAD IMPROVEMENT Many Instances Bonds Counties Sold at a Gain In Issued by ers There Is financial wisdom in floating county bonds for road Improve raent In many cases those bonds told at a premium and everybody In terested gains a benefit In some southern states good roads bonds have brought a price so high that the premium has wiped out two r three years’ interest on the but In Bradley county Tennessee votI few years ago the supervisors Those ed a bond issue of $90000 bonds bore Interest at the rate of 5 percent So enthusiastic were the citizens and so much tor road Improvement confidence did they have in the localthat the ity in which they lived premium was $20000 the cash sales placing In the county treasury has been ascertained by the of public roads the bureau of the and the land and infederal census of twelve dustrial divisions great railroads that the building of modern the highways lmmediataely enhances value of the property through which they run to a marked extent Is estimated by the This Increase most conservative at $2 an acre and All by the more enthusiastic at $9 that the increase is concede however Immediate and inevitable Place the acreage of the rural portion of a county therefore at 200000 acres and the increased valuation due to the construction of better highways at but $450 an acre and It will be seen that the property holders whose land is to be thus benefited would gain not less than $900000 It Gasoline Engines of Binders Where grain iti badly laid or the advanground wet there are many tages to the binder equipped with an whilst engine to drive the machinery A the horses furnish the traction tinder so equipped has the machinery in full operation when It strikes the in grain and the elevators continue motion when the horses are stopped if too wide a swath has been taken and choked! Where irrigation the ajrons lltches have been plowed in or on will slip side hills the bull wheel ildewise on wet ground motion is lost ind we choke up have to clear things Where the and begin all over again It power bull wheel furnishes the Is nearly always necessary to drive horses a little faster than desirable to The supplement-trmotion the keep up engine does away with all these troubles and Is a distinct advantage on the old way Time and Labor When farm buildings conveniently arranged Lost are so Inthat it remiles tires several unnecessary dollars ivery day to do chores many In time are lost Protect the Cherries If the cherry growers will berries near their orchards rill be protected V— plant multheir fruit H GROSS Soil ENEMIES OF ' CLOVERS Providing Late Forage An extra profit can be gathered in from the cornfield by drilling cow in the corn at the last cultivapeas tion pasturing it off with sheep or hogs when it has made good growth The sheep will work In the and pick oif the lower blades of the corn without iujuriug the main crop This plan is advocated by the college of agriculture of ’the University and has been successfulof Missouri over the used farmers many ly by state Some precautions are necessary at the first to prevent bloating of the sheep New Plow Points farmer may plow an acre very poorly to save ten ceuts for a new Penny wise and pound plow point A foolish Hard and Caked Fields Do not let the surface of your fields while the become hard and caked You can prevent are growing crops this by frequent cultivation -'A V’'' s it A'V" r is V i k r A A 'l ‘A £ v w- ' i ’? V- 'v e r: 2 V'i VI hat Is NO tf' FORESTS IN CHINA are no forests In China says the Amertcal consul general at Tientsin Forestry is a subject In which the Chinese evince no interest The Great Plain on which Tientsin Is located never had forests being entirely of delta formation and the mountainous regions to the north and west were denuded bf their forests centimes ago A British mining and shipping corporation has begun the work of afforestar tion and has a million young trees growing but there are no government forestry officials schools of forestry or horticulture magazines devoted to these subjects or associations of foresters nurserymen seedsmen etc In China There The accompanying photograph represents what might aptly be termed fisning extraordinary 6uda bay off the coast of Crete la frequently used During the by the British fleet in the Mediterranean for gunnery practice that such article as dishes shipa’ stay in these waters it often occurs plates basins and the like are lost from them and lie at the bottom of the sea The natives anxious to retrieve the articles for their own use adopt an Ingenious method of obtaining them Having located the lost article by which means of a kind of they lower a captive octopus It with its tentacles The alighting on the object Immediately encircle octopus is then drawn up still clinging to the lost article The photograph shows the octopus with a plate Plants Coming From Small at Start Require Room to Develop Strength Alfalfa and clovers are but weakly plants coming from small seeds at the start and they require room to develop into lusty strength if they are to be profitable Eastward we were all brought up to a practice of sowing grass and clover seeds with grain which was early removed’ The hay plants taking more or less full possession of the soil and as they failed blue grass weeds or some inferior grass took possession of the Boil Here In the west where rainfall is greatest in the spring monthB nurse crop and clovers start well together but pretty soon the moisture is too little for the support of both and the weaker plpnts fall Even where there is more precipitation grasses and weeds often interfere seriously with the grass crop and August seeding is now recognized as good practice Disking at intervals until a good seed bed Is secured turns the undesirable plants to the sun and destroys them and frost after a while comes along and destroys the annuals Clovers and alfalfa having a free and make yield get well established some cover for winter which is well to with some manure the weed seeds in which should not prove If the clovers and grasses troublesome have full possession Harrowing is good for the crop distributes the manure and kills the weeds Never lose sight of the value of hay patch Even if it Is small it is worth more than Indeed other farm crops a necessity unless much money and time are to be lost It Is true there are some soils In the arid regions where no free water exists at any depth accessible to alfalfa and this crop will In three years use' up all the soil moisture as well as the rainfall and in such situations In alfalfa cannot be depended oil the great many other places however point is to help alfalfa to reach free to so make conditions water perfect that it can do so and thus secure a piece of hay ground permanent possibly the most southerly Industry In the world writes Consul Henry D Baker of Hobart Tasmania Is being carried on at the Macquarie islands about halfway between Tasmania and the Antarctic continent In the capture of the penguins for their olL Macquarie Island belongs to the state of Tasmania and has an area of 25 about 25000 acres being about miles long and 5 miles wide The island has been leased by the Tasmanian government to Joseph Hatch who has established the penguin oil Industry there There are probably 80000000 penguins on the Island so that the stock to be drawn from seems almost limitThere are also a large number less of sea elephants about the shores of this Island The oil Is obtained from the penguins by boiling the carcasses In digesters capable of dealing with 800 birds at a time The oil Is placed In barrels and Bold to binder twine makers in Australia and New Zealand Macquarie island Is about 750 miles southeast of Hobart The island 1b being covered only with tussocky grass Whaling ships visiting there have Introduced rabbits and Maori henB which are now quite prolific The Mawson Antarctic expedition from Australia has established a wireless station there and daily messages are being received at Hobart W and (By ' oeaeooq jsdwd nut i)in jveadt spa esoq ttrvqoiaoi m 8azuofd n us boa LAST OF THE ABORIGINES by actual experiment that small rodents of arid regions had been able to live for two or three years on hard seeds without water The conditions in the sand dunes near the coast were If possible even more remarkable Here as soon as athe uncertain rains made of winter had the plants “green” as the Mexicans say the cattle and horses were driven there and remained three months— from February to the end of May— absolutely without water In his travels it was the usual thing during the winter time for the to go without animals water every second day FISH THAT TAKE GALILEO’S OWN TELESCOPE 9PHJV posi j9Ap oqx v o Xinnaino3 eiqi oidoed eq tpwoj ainipam eq) jo dW(I®HPra Inq neaop saaizePea iwdsduwi dpoqhsu Moa spooj cn epeoj oqM aq usdid innsfsa eXoq oqM £poq£jo3 irwmvxor w AVa-0SI 3KI1 8KISIlU3AaV I3SIM133 — L" Baaapijuoo pemaunnos ejuisai spw qons iqaauiaaunouuB epj) njaajoj ‘8ucui 8tq Bicpsjiidu edo3j 8iq are sapM jnof ‘Siq pasqjaApe ait su)u8ieq jnoAji jjiAa aajj umo s)i jo xoq qsuD jnoA ojut sjnod Xousjjno sqj t(’33J03)t paJJJBUJ sum joAau uiejiCauoui y spoo3 jnoX inq Aaqx ’UaipirejB inpireng jtaqj nj jaqoq jnoA ©inpajddB Aaqx noA tuojj sqqnd J8ui Anq aqj o umSAsuoiu n ei j3A3)uqAi ssautsnq Ann joj aadnd siqj u pw uy $ S $ $ $ $ suieiSKouog U13ll Hvxn pUGQ naiiHoii noUMll°0 otiqmj Suvjtjf ‘S3LVa T COLD 'WO to combat Fish are not equipped rapid changes in temperature because the temperature of the water in the and rivers beneath the ocean lakes surface remains virtually stable Some fish such as carp and trout when taken from warm water and placed in colder take water several degrees cold The cold attacks the skin and the fin and various portions of the skin present a cracked ridgelike appearIf returned to warm water the ance recover but sometimes fish usually the disease which Beems to be a sort eats into the muscles of of eczema the fish and proves mortal About one year ago a wild man was caught in California and identified as the last survivor of the Southern Yana tribe of Indians that had been almost The wiped out by massacre In 1865 name of “Ishl” meaning ‘‘man’’ in the Yana dialect was given to him because he would not tell his real name He was taken to the University In San Francisco and there they have been trying to civilize him Ishi has as good a head as the average igAmerican but be is unspeakably norant He knows nothing or knew nothing six months ago of hours and years of money and labor and pay of government and authority of newspapers and business of the other thousands of things that make up our life In short he has really lived In the Stone Age HisTace is as clean of beard as when he was discovered and has not been touched by a razor This is not a racial characteristic but the result of his substitute for shaving He pulls lut his beard hairs one by one as soon as they emerge — a habit foramong all tribes on merly universal the continent but less frequently pracin this connection he ticed today a personal refinepeculiar manifests the habit he never follows ment: when in company NO WATER FOR THREE OCTOPUS GRIPPED DIVER naval diver at Toulon France was suddenly attacked by a giant topus while under water in the harHe gave the hoisting signal and bor was hauled to the surface together with the octopus whose tentacles said to be 25 feet long were wrapped The diver was unconaround him The octopus held fast to the scious diver until It was stabbed to death It and the suckers weighed 135 pounds on its tentacles were a trifle larger than silver dollars A aatpuog ssnoH uqjd AaHNnvrr anoj ONia a aaiNivQ&ov jhq ‘jsi jas8 rava s ujqoy iiauiui The primitive telescope here shown was Invented and used by Galileo the famous astronomer who discovered Jupiter’s satellites In 1610 noted the "mountains” of the moon and remarkThe old Instrued the sun’s spots ment has an honored piac in the museum at Florence PIG COMMITS SUICIDE In the Buicides chronicled as being due to the heat is It was found head pig downward In a brook on the state farm at Windsor Conn Among snips JO CGOISI 3DIJJ0 NI SJOJ5 Auwdaxr) Addi paw aig jsaw eDijjg 1SUM3Q o Morrna the papers that of a jadoj sjqx uj 3nO V nSLLHlAdV UM MJiJOAPV ?ooq esi)jeApY ng jo oejApY !a 1 pnJ SMoqs jBtegjoApy A? jaag SMoqs $msi)joApy fumg njoti JaiijpaApy ssA edM iMnoiin I YEARS stories of exploraSome interesting tion in the Sonora desert of Mexico parts of which no white man had ever penetrated were recently related by Dr Karl Lumholtz to the Royal GeoDr Lumholtz said graphical society that scarcity of water was the great The strange thing was that problem the flora and fauna did not seem to In spite of suffer from this aridity the lack of rain during the winter previous to his visit to the sand dunes during spring he found at ofie place an astonishing growth of flowers through which they traveled for nearly three miles and It had been found - ipjfl H1N0W JtaisijjeApy Jaoioicn aaaiig o r?aug faTsijJOApy t eq sj gaiatpjaApy oi jadej esjjJOApy usg ?aiqj£ay joj ejjmojsn jMpjg jnoA nS o joe iiy eaiJasojQ OBB!J jD Jnox flog oj jne jpg o) joe e g 0 )aeAV nMo jodo-i- e?eijjs3 llS °l 4“M jneAjog e jneM (nejft no!lnI!S jaojjcj qjoo B neA1 Wl H QOA Here Is a picture of John Wood an aged pensioner of Essex England who makes toy houses out of match boxes aa a recreation and Incidentally eke out his allowance from the government by selling hie really remarkable creations to visitors to |