| Show it IN COLORADO CANON canon is the greatest gorge of its kind in the A writer world thus describes it: "It Is abruptly countersunk in the OLORADO so forest plateau that you see no- thing of it until suddenly you are topped on Its brink with Its Immeasurable wealth of divinely colored ings before you and sculptured buildand beneath you No matter how far you may have wandered hitherto or how many famous gorges and valleys you have seen this one the Grand Canon of the Colorado will seem as novel to you as unearthly in the color and grandeur and quantity of its architecture as If you had found it after death on some other star so incomparably lovely and grand and supreme Is it above all the other delightearthquaful canons in our fire-inould- ed ke-shaken rain-washe- d wave-wash- ed river and world It is about 6000 feet deep where you first see it and from rim to rim ten to fifteen miles wide And instead of being dependent for interest on waterfalls depth wall sculpture and floor like most beauty of park-lik- e other great canyons no waterfalls are in sight and no appreciable floor space The big river has Just room enough to flow and i lar obscurely here and there groping Its way as best It can like a weary murmuring overladen traveler trying to escape from the tremendous bewildering labyrlnth-i- c abyss while its roar serves only to mellow and deepen the silence Instead of being filled only with air the vast space between the walls 1b crowded with nature’s grandest buildings —a sublime city of them painted In every color of the rainbow and adorned with glacier-sculptur- ed richly fretted cornice and battlement spire and tower in endless variety of style and architecture Every architectural invention of man has been anticipated and far more In this grandest of God’s terrestrial cities” The first man who journeyed through this terrible gorge did so Involuntarily The following is the story of his Journey: A few years after the civil war Capt Baker who had won his title in the confederate army induced James White and a young German named Henry Strole to go on a prospecting tour with him to the then uninhabited and but little known San Juan country in southwestern Colorado After weeks of privation the pros- pectors reached the promised land to the west of the Sierra Madre They at once went to work and rich gold finds confirmed Baker’s Judgment The men worked for nearly a month with great success and were begin- - OUT OF SIGHT” that the Indians would SINKING nlng to feel not bother them when Just before daylight one August morning they were startled from sleep by the thunder of rocks from the cliffs above and the shrill yells of the savages With dawn they saw the Navajos on both sides of the deep gulch but the horror of the situation was increased when Capt Baker fell with a bullet through his brain White and Strole saw their only chance for escape was to make their way down the canyon to the west They took the heavily laden burrc along the Indians following and hurling rocks from the cliffs About the middle of the afternoon they oame to the canyon of the San Juan where the water flowed from bank to bank They made a raft of driftwood which they found lodged in the cleft of the rocks using their ropes to fasten the logs They had to abandon the donkey but they loaded all their food and arms not forgetting the gold dust on the raft A more desperate situation It would be difficult to Imagine Here these men were at the bottom of a great canyon flowing through a trackless waste and through a region at that time unexplored' and but little known even to this hut their Ignorance of ths gave them strength and hope The raft drifted down with the current the black walls rising higher on either hand till at last It seemed as If the far-otops were coming together and must fall In and crush them They kept on till four days had passed when the raft was swept into a deeper and vaster chasm This was the canyon of the Great Colorado Two more days and nights passed when the smooth current became swifter and they saw the white foam of rapids ahead Strole who had been guiding tho raft with a pole stood up against the advice of his companion The ropes The raft spread out like a parted fan White who was clinging to the logs heard an awful cry and looking through the cloud of spray he saw the young German sinking out of sight In the maddened waters When these rapids were passed White succeeded In making a lahding and securing the raft to the narrow strip of shore The food the armB the mining tools were gone but the buckskin bag full of gold was still fast to the logs It was now that the hero In White’s nature asserted Itself Alone without food at the bottom of a canyon in the heart of a vast desert with unknown dangers ahead and no idea of where the mighty gorge ended and no knowledge of the abodes of the nearest whites yet this man did not despair He thought of his mother and trusted fiy situation FARM AND extends to the top wire of ths GARDEN erally trellis The operation of pruning the vine is performed for the sole purpose MATTERS OF INTEREST TO of removing such wood as will not bear or such as Is supposed to Interfere with AGRICULTURISTS the production of the finest crop of fruit that the plant is able to mature Hints About Culloau Its object therefore is to retivation of the Soli and Yields duceprimary the of bearing wood and amount Thereof — Horticulture Viticulture thereby thin the fruit so that the roots of the vines are not taxed beyond their and Floriculturel capacity Fig 2 preaents a vine which has been Good Ronds Excellent work is being done In New systematically cut back every year and Is once more ready for Its anlersey In the construction and im- which nual pruning The various portions are The of movement roads Is provement lettered 1 being the stem g the arms Mtid to have begun In 1893 by the or3 spurs d the canes of last year s the of a highway Improvement ganization Association and the passage of a law matured shoots of the last growing seaof son Not entering here upon the subImposing upon the state tba cost of good roads constructed un- ject of renewal which Is treated in deder the direction of a state road com- tail elsewhere we will assume that the missioner Under this statute 238 pruning Is to be done only for the purmiles of macadamized roadway has pose of removing superfluous branches been constructed at an expense of $466-19- 5 All the fruit Is of course borne upon to the state and upward of a mil- the shoots which grow from the buds lion dollars to the counties and the now found upon the canes the canes property-owner- s People can now therefore must be removed and not the travel upon a hard mudless highway older wood for the latter serves as the In all kinds of weather It Is solid and framework upon which the canes are smooth as a boulevard from Jersey maintained In cutting away the canes wood which has not properly ma- City to Atlantic City and from Paterson all tured should be removed and those to Camden The work of construction shoots which have made an exjesslve — baa continued for a series of years growth forming "bull canes” are also In 1898 and 1894 seventy-fou- r miles Medium sized shorty lf 1895 sixty-si- x miles 1896 undesirable and Jointed and wood Is to be" fifty-on- e miles etc The cost has been such and wood preferred only Yet av-! diminished by experience from an ome of this wood must 1893 to in of mile $6000 $4000 erage per a mile in 1897 The soil and other also be sacrificed until the amount allowed to remain upon the plant is rephysical conditions in Illinois are so duced to the proper in God proportion s'As-- “ to those of New Jersey that Now and then the raft shot past Similar the can mature the that Burning plant It is believed the same methods and side canyons bleak and forbidding fruit produced by twenty-fou- r buds (the well to number of buds left may vary from two like cells set In the walls of a mighty estimates would apply equally both states In New Jersey opposition to fifty or more) about thirty buds prison On went the raft with no liv- to the new has almost entirely could be allowed system to develop These in for these profound ing thing sight led out and the applications for state i depths were never stirred by the wings assistance are so numerous that the of bird and hitherto no human being will be Increased from had ever gone through them and lived appropriation $100000 to $300000 this year The to tell the tale farmers have found that they actually On the fourth afternoon since he lave more than the amount of their had had food the canyon widened out taxes In their wagons harand he saw bushes He made the shore ness and repairing in horse shoes without conand ate the leaves and the pods of the sidering the wear of the animals and mesquite bean the economy of time The road comAt length and after he had been fif- missioner of New Jersey puts a practiteen days in the canyon’s depths cal lesson in mathematics before the White’s reason tottered and he lay farmers "It costs 9 cents a bushel” helplessly and hopelessly on the raft be says "to ship wheat from Chicago BROCTON RENEWAL SYSTEM Just fourteen days from the time to New York a distance of 900 miles he started on this forced voyage White It costs S cents a bushel to haul wheat should be uniformly distributed acheard the splash of oars and encourag- on a level road a distance of five miles cording to the system of training eming cheers' He was too weak to raise and on a sandy road it would cost at ployed they may be left upon five his head In a short time he saw leaet 9 cents per mile to haul it The canes each cane having six buds as many bearded faces looking down on laving on a bushel of wheat with good shown in the illustration or the distrihim in pity He had passed through roads for a distance of live miles would bution may be varied according to cirthe great canyon and had drifted to be about equivalent to that of 375 miles cumstances But such is In general the Callville a Mormon settlement at the by railroad Ons mile of good roads method adopted in the vineyard for eswould make a saving equal to seventy-fiv- e timating the proper amount of bearing mouth of the Virgin river wood to leave upon each vine As a miles of railroad transportation White weighed in health 180 pounds such of result the systematic roads pruning mile places of good Thus every he weighed less than 90 when he finfruit upon the vine la larger and more e rail mills by seventy-fivthe producer ished the moBt wonderful trip in the more regularly nearer to the markets It Is estimated fair It is also produced records of adventure and daring since the maturing of too heavy a crop 700000000 tons of cost the that hauling of farm products to market 1b $2 per weakens the vine so that it Is unable DANTE FAITH AND DOCTRINE ton or Just mature even an average amount of It is to about $1400000000 fruit the following year A vine propHe Wm Alwayi Devoted Son of the also estimated that about 60 per cent and fertilized should bear pruned erly or of this last amount $840000000 Church amount of fruit each same about the It may be declared at once that there would be saved each year if fanners year from the time it comes in full over good Is not the very smallest ground for were able to dq this hauling bearing A secondary benefit derived claiming Dante as a "reformer before roads” “The real cost of transportafrom pruning is the reduced stature of the reformation” says the Fortnightly tion that burdens our agricultural This allows more vipes to the ” beplant of “Is he the it part says Review There is no trace in his writ- classes be set upon a given piece of land and town or railings of doubt or dissatisfaction re- tween the farm and the enables the work of cultivating spraybetween the specting any part of the teaching of way station rather than to be performed much ing harvesting market station and the The the church in matters of doctrine He railway more and profitably easily would probably have considered any loss due to bad roads la one of the wastes connected of energy such feeling as most presumptuous and greatest Onion Growlno indeed as little short of blasphemous with farming as It is carried on In this The most popular varieties of onions A great deal has betn written about his country” for market are the following: White — supposed defense of the right of "priSouthport White Globe red Large Cane Renewals vate judgment” of his alleged symYellow E G Lodeman Department of Agri- Red Wethersfield and yellow Gentlepathy with “free thinking" or with Globe Danvers says Country A terms must few be “philosophic doubt” and so forth Of culture Report: this also it appears to ine that no evi- clearly understood before any of the man There are others but the above are considered the best and most profitdence can be found There seems every details of grape training can be satisThe considered reason to believe him to have been an factorily following able Yellow onions being greatest In termB used in demand the Globe Danvers variety definitions firm faithful son many explain devoted and entirely 1 is A a green owing to Its uniform shape bright colof the church without any misgiving this article: shoot (fig s) or immature growth less than one year or and excellent quality Is universally as to her teaching or as to her Indeit will keep A cane (fig 1 d) Is a matured accepted as the standard feasible right to teach All this Is per- old better and even other than kind one any as of found at the end year’s fectly consistent with the most scathing hoot denunciation of abuses in practice on growth An arm (fig 1 g) is a matured if accidentally frozen in storage 11 its more covering is added and it is left the part of the popes cardinals and cane two or more years of age alone until thoroughly thawed it will not and from are form tho members of religious orders Dante length changed himself quaintly expresses the distinc- year to year Its office being to produce come out little the worse for its expetion In his letter addressed to the Ital- canes or branches An arm is also fre- rience The writer has grown no othe ian cardinals He imagines them re- quently called a “cordon” especially by variety for market for fifteen years Much of the success of the crop depends torting upon him that by so interferupon the quality and freshness of the ing he is repeating the sin of Uzzah seed sown it Is better to pay a dollar I am one of the “Truly (he replies) a pound more for a selected strain of a most Insignificant of the sheep of the reliable seed bouse than to be fooled flock of Jesus Christ and certainly I seed ie do not abuse any pastoral office becauss by cheap seed northern-grow- n I have no wealth! preferable to California In the yield (Note the caustic of onions per acre there Is a very wide irony of that “because”) Nor am I range from two hundred to one thouguilty of the presumption of Uzzah and these numbers are sand bushels Interfered because he with the ark I not quite the extremes either for occawith the refractory oxen (boves that are dragging it out of the IDEAL VINE RENEWAL METHOD sionally a crop of 1200 bushels Is heard Is spoken of as of and It is the cordon Europeans Indeed Is Nor of the by no means uncommon to language path" see crops of lees than 200 bushels bul Dants respecting such abuses a whit horizontal vertical or oblique dependmore severe than what may be found ing upon the direction In which It lies a man who can average 500 to 600 may A branch (fig 1 h is consider himself a successful onloa In the writings of many canonized on the trellis which in form and length grower while 400 to 500 is a very fall varies an arm saints such as St Peter Damian St Bona ventura St Bernard and many from year to year being modified by crop The width of the rows the qualothers Again that Dante would have the addition of spurs or by tile cutting ity and quantity (varying from four to joined Luther In his denunciation of the away of older portions of its body It six pounds per acre) of seed sown thi sale of pardons and indulgences and Is commonly composed of spurB more adaptability of the soil and the extent such like abuses we cannot for a mo- than one year old A spur (fig 1 b) Is to which it is fertilized the attention ment doubt He has In fact antici- a shortened or pruned cane generally given to cleanliness and cultivation— pated him here In Par xxvii 52 h bearing from one to four buds If cut those are the factors governing the slzi makes St Peter say that he never longer such a portion is commonly of the crop thought to have become the figure on a spoken of as a cane and not a spur seal attached to venal and mendacious Spurring refers to the operation of cutActing Secretary MeikleJohn of the privileges which ofttimes makes him ting back a cane to the length of a navy department at Washington is arStem or trunk (fig 1 1) refers ranging to send a military expedition to blush and glow with indignation spur even in heaven But there Is no evi- to that portion of the vine found below up the Copper river route in Alaska to dence but very much the reverse that the origin of the lowest arms or map out tne topography of the country Dante would ever have dared to lay his branch' It extends to the ground In and finally establish the value of this Kniffln stem hand upon the ark of doctrine the system the proper gen route to the Klondike gold fields ff calcit-rants- Up-to-- one-thi- rd I ( i j j one-ha- well-matur- ed well-develop- ed i) Caraponnd j Batter m FnaA y A report from Washington says: Dr D E Salmon chief of the bursas o$ animal industry of the agricultural de partment has made a report to the secretary of agriculture on what ls known aa the Beardon process of making butter The report describes the process which consists of churning a certain quantity of butter with cream and also the experiments conducted with the department The resulting compounds were sent to New York where an expert was requested to score them He reported as follows: In relation to the three boxes of butter marked X Y Z will say that upon examination of same my opinion Is that it Is what Is known on our market as “process butter” and on that class of butter I can neither place a grade nor score as have no rule to govern trade on manufactured butter under this process It cannot be classified as creamery Imitation creamery factory or dairy butter and we have no grading on any other kind of butter except these kinds I find these samples poor In flavor the grain Is badly broken showing that It has been much overworked and is very salvy consider it unfit for table use only use that could be made of it would be to cheap class of bakers’ trade Dr Salmon then says: By following the directions given in the patent and using the quality of cream which one would naturally take for this purpose a product will be obtained which resembles butter in some respects It does contain as claimed a little more of the “phosphatic and other elements that supply the tissue wantB of the human body” than is found In good but- ter but dairymen endeavor to wash and work these elements out of their butter because they furnish food for bacteria which cause the butter to spoil As a human food the product cannot be said to be better than butter for the reason that It contains less fat and more water The slight Increase In amounts to constituents nitrogenous little from this standpoint as the same can be obtained In much cheaper and better form In milk Considering the large proportion of water which the product manufactured by this new process contains It does not seem proper to call it butter and It Is a question whether It would be allowed to be sold as butter In states where pure food laws are in force Attempts have frequently been made to sell butter of practically the Bame composition as this and they have met with failure t 1 l 4 4 so-call- ed Warning Agalnat Frauds letter Just received at the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station from Miami county states that a man giving the name of Oliver Hawn and claiming to have been at one time connected with said station is traveling through that county and selling material for spraying fruits foods for poultry and spray stuff for lice killing purposes and claiming that his materials have been experimented with at the station and v 'A proved successful Another communication from Stark county states that a man giving the name of Esslg Is trying to sell In that county a recipe for the prevention of pear blight which he claims to be Indorsed by this station This party Is Bald to show letters written on the letter heads of the station but without signature and claims that the state through the station has presented him with a fine gold watch These men are both frauds Ths Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station does not indorse or recommend secret compounds or processes of any description whatever and prosecuting attorneys throughout the state are urged to arrest and prosecute for obtaining money under false pretenses any persons who may claim to have any such Indorsement from the station r M 7 '1 1 Soggy Arable Land— There ars many farms containing low places yrhere water stands for one or two or three days after every heavy rain These spots are planted and cultivated every year but the product Is generally unsatisfactory and if rows cross such spots valuable time Is lost waiting for the soil to become dry enough to plow and in the meantime other land on same rows becomes too dry All such places should be drained In most cases such waterlogged spots may be drained by simply plowing a furrow as deep as possible through It and to the nearest outlet and scraping the’ furrow out with hoes — perhaps a day’s work and an acre or two of good land reclaimed The writer once drained a prairie pond by digging a hole to sand and filling the hole with stones The water was carried Into the hole and drank up by the This was spelled with capital letters— Texas Farm and Ranch I r e - V I 4 i ) s t “ A - sub-stratu- m t 1 i ' An Evansville Wls man was recently swindled out of $90 by two Chicago confidence men representing themselves to be policemen who accused him of being a counterfeiter To prove his innocence he gave them $96 for examination which they never re- turned The supreme court of Minnesota ha decided that a man who builds a house on another’s lot has no claim to ths house nor can he enforce a lieu against the lot for Its value § ‘jV - h A 41 |
