Berkshire Breeders Meet
The twenty-eighth annual meeting
of the American Berkshire Associa-
tion was held In the office of the asso-
ciation Springfield 111 January 28
1903 The meeting was largely at-
tended members being present from
several states The auditor’s and
treasurer’s reports showed that the
- receipts for the year were 9699680
' and the disbursements 9665088 As
there was a balance on hand at the
beginning of the year of 9139945 the
balance In the treasury was 9171637
The stock of the association that has
- been held In blocks by Individuals
was purchased by the association and
a resolution was adopted hereafter re-
' striding the holding of more than
one share of stock at 910000 or four
ahares at 92500 by any one Individual
or firm A" committee was appointed
to make necessary arrangements to
reduce the shares of stock to 93500
The following officers were elected:
President Geo S Frine Oskaloosa
Iowa vice-president Geo P Weston
Blltmore N C secretary Frank 3
Springer Springfield 111 treasurer
D W Smith Springfield 111 auditor
Thomas Rees Springfield 111 direct-
ora N H Gentry Sedalia Mo and
Geo P Weston Blltmore N C The
hold-over directors are: Geo 8 Prine
Oskaloosa Iowa A J Lovejoy Ros-
coe 111 Geo W Jessup Rockville
Ind June K King Marshall Mo
Geo P Lllllard Seguin Texas D
W Smith Springfield 111 and Frank
S Springer Springfield 111
Feeding Fowls by the Thousande
There are here and there In Michi-
gan Iowa and Missouri places where
as high as 60000 birds are being
housed and fed These are owned and
handled by the great packers that
' have added poultry dressing establish-
- ments to their other meat packing in-
dustries We have It from one of our
leading poultry fanciers that this hous-
ing of so many fowls In one place is
proving perfectly feasible in spite of
the common American Impression that
large flocks at least flocks of thou-
sands do hot do well The loss from
birds dying Is said to be small How-
ever we doubt If most of our readers
would care to take the same methods
of preventing loss that are reported
to be in vogue in these large estab-
lishments One of the managers was
asked “What Is your percentage of
loss?’ He replied “nothing" When
we see a bird begin to droop we kill
It to save Its life The bird is dressed
and goes In with the rest"
These Immense establishments are
already affecting the poultry trade of
the great breeding and fattening es-
tablishments of Great Britain One
of the greatest and best known breed-
ers of Great Britain has been wont
to put on the market every week
30000 pounds of poultry meat On
account of the Invasion of the En-
glish market by these large poultry
pacalng establishments of the United
States his output has declined to 12-
000 pounds of dressed poultry per
week - '
To Improve Illinois State Fair
The Bulging and Grounds Commit-
tee of the Illinois State Board of Agri-
culture reports to that body the fol-
lowing needs in the way of appropria-
tions: For walks on the fair grounds
and coverings for same 910000 for
extension of coliseum building $25-
000 for extension of Machinery Hall
925000 for painting and repairs
95000 for improving grounds 95000
for a dairy building 922000 for
water mains pipes and drainage
93000 for an administration building
920000 This Is a total of 9115000
The committee also declared that it
would render the women every assist-
ance In their efforts to secure an ap-
propriation for a woman’s building
Daily Gain of Pigs
At the Cook County Institute recent-
ly held at Arlington Heights C C
Pervier talked on bog raising He
said It had been his aim to make his
pigs gain one pound per day from
birth up to nine months of age at
which time they are sold He found it
very difficult to do this and at first
fell far short of his aim but had now
reached the point aimed at In one
period of 11 months he made his pigs
gain 328 pounds each this being one
and one-half pounds less than the
number necessary to make it one
pound per day
Feeding the Pigs
An Illinois raiser of swine says:
We feed our pigs a good many pump-
kins They seem to like the seeds
best and eat them first These seeds
act not only as food but also as med-
icine '""They are to some extent a
vermifuge In the feeding of pigs a
good pasture is a thing of importance
But many of the pastures used for
hogs are not good having too little
feed in them and in them the hogs
have to work too hard to get a liv-
ing We have found rape one of the
best plants to grow in a hog pasture
ifiRICULTURE
Bleaching Celery
There are several methods of
blanching four of which are illustrat-
ed in a recent government bulletin
Celery is blanched for the purpose of
depriving it of its natural green color
and of certain bitter properties thus
CUT 1— BLEACHING CELERY WITH
EARTH
rendering It more palatable The prin-
ciple Involved Is the exclusion of light
One of the methods of doing this is
’he heaping of earth against the cel-
ery as shown in our first illustration
In the celery fields north of Chicago
this method is very largely the one
practiced The soil is thrown up
against the celery by the use of a
horse This makes little hand work
necessary
In our second Illustration we show
CUT 2— BLEACHING CELERY WITH
- BOARDS
the method of blanching with boards
It will be observed that the rows of
celery are quite far apart and that
the plants are not very close In the
row This gives room for the full
development of each plant and larger
stalks result ’ In bleaching the
boards are tipped up against the cel-
ery and held In position by wires cut
and bent for the purpose This meth-
od of bleaching is satisfactory but re-
CUT 8— BLEACHING CELERY BY
CLOSE SETTING
quires quite an outlay for lumber
The boards will however last for sev-
eral years If taken care of
Our third Illustration shows a meth-
od now - practiced to some extent
Whether it becomes popular or not
depends on the quality of the celery
finally turned out by this bleaching
process This has been termed the
“new celery culture” It depends on
the plants being grown so close to-
gether that they will shade and thus
blanch each other The celery is
CUT 4— BLEACHING CELERY WITH
- PAPER
usually grown in rows only 12 inches
apart with plants only 8 inches
apart in the rows This proves a suc-
cess only where there is a rank
growth of plants To make sure of
this rank' growth both water and fer-
tilizers are used in abundance When
this plan of bleaching is to be em-
ployed it Is best to use what is
known as a self-bleaching variety
The advantage of this system is in its
cheapness neither boards nor labor
of heaping Bp Aft being required
Boards are used only arpund the out-
side of the patch
In the fourth cut is - shown the
method of blanching celery by means
of paper This was practiced by the
Cornell station when forcing celery
for the May and June market This
celery was - grown in a hothouse
About six weeks or two months after
the plants were set in permanent po-
sitions they were ready for bleaching
In - the experiments reported all the
usual methods of bleaching were tried
but without success When however
the plants were wrapped with a thick
hard wrapping paper with an almost
"sized" surface the bleaching was
successful By this method the stalks
were brought together and tied and a
width of paper reaching to within 2
or 3 inches of the tops of the leaves
was rolled tightly about the plants
As the plants grew another width of
paper was rolled about the first and
again reaching nearly the top of the
plant Two applications of the paper
were found to be sufficient From a
month to six weeks was required to
bleach the celery by this process in a
cool house In April and May — Farm-
ers’ Review
Soil Surveys
In hs annual report the Secretary
of Agriculture says of the soil surveys
made by the bureau having that work
in charge: “These soil surveys are in
the nature of a general reconnois-
sance of the area They Bhow the
conditions which prevail and the maps
show the character and distribution of
the soils This is however merely a
basis for further work and it is neces-
sary in many cases that the informa
tlon thus furnished and the sugges-
tions which are made should be fol-
lowed by further investigations and
practical demonstrations of the effi-
ciency and commercial value of the
suggestions in order to Insure their
successful adoption by the residents
of the area Farmers are proverbially
ultraconservative as to their methods
and are usually and often Justifiably
very unwilling to accept advice unless
it can be shown that improvement will
surely follow Such demonstration
work can in most cases be better ac-
complished by the stations than by the
Department of Agriculture for the sta-
tion forces have a more intimate
knowledge of - the conditions and of
the people and are ai a rule in closer
touch with the people than is the de-
partment and with these reports and
maps they have the basis for further
work in the improvement of the agri-
cultural conditions of the area upon
which they can expend their full en-
ergy and all the resources at their
command If the soil-survey work Is
not followed up on these practical
lines much of the efficiency and value
of the work will surely be lost”
Tillering of Wheat
' The time of seeding has great influ-
ence upon the tillering of the plants
Early seeded wheat affords time for
the tillering while with late seeding
cold weather stops growth in many
cases before the desirable amount of
tillering has taken place As a rule
wheat seeded after the middle of Oc-
tober in Oklahoma tillers but little in
the fall and November seeding not at
all If the land is in good condition
and the following spring is favorable
much may be made of them but as a
rule the stand will be too thin and ir-
regular from late October to November
seeding when the usual amount of
seed is used per acre and consequently
seven to eight pecks per acre should
be used for seeding at these times
If the land has been put In good tilth
by early plowing and frequent harrow-
ing lighter seedings may be used than
where the ground is loose cloddy and
dry In the latter case many of the
seeds will not grow and the conditions
are not likely to be favorable to pro-
duce the proper amount of tillering
and the usual amount of seeding
should be increased by a peck or half
a bushel There are dry seasons when
the best prepared soils do not contain
sufficient moisture to produce regular
growth and an increase in the rate of
seeding should be made at such times
—Oklahoma Station Bulletin
Compulsory Improvement
J A Ruddick chief of the dairy di-
vision Department of Agriculture of
Canada says: It would be a good
thing if some means could be devised
for compelling the proprietors of
many cheese factories and creameries
to improve the sanitary condition of
their premises The remarks which
one hears concerning the offensive
character oft the surroundings of some
factories are often as pointed ' as to
make a man feel almost ashamed of
being connected with such an indus-
try We might very well follow Den-
mark’s example in this respect where
they have a law which lays upon ev-
ery cheese factory or creamery the
obligation to provide proper drainage
It is specified that all waste and slops
must be conveyed in a closed tile
drain to a certain distance from the
factory With the floors of cement
concrete or stone flags there is then
no danger of a nuisance being created
or the water supply being contam-
inated as is too often the case in this
country
EXTRA SESSION OF SENATE
-
Cuban Reciprocity And Panama Ca-
nal Treaties Cause The Call
MUCH LEFT ON CALENDAR
Washington Mar 4— “By the presi-
dent of the United Statesof America:
"A proclamation:
“Whereas Public interests require
that tbe senate should convene in ex-
traordinary session therefore I Theo-
dore Roosevelt president of tbe United
States of America do hereby proclaim
and declare that an extraordinary
occasion requires the senate of tbe
United States to convene at the capitol
in tlie city of Washington on the fifth
day qf March next at 13 o’clock noon
of which all persons who shall at that
time be entitled to act as members of
that body are hereby required to take
notice
“Given under my hand and the seal
of the United States at Washington
the second day of March in the year of
our Lord one thousand nine hundred
and three and of the independence of
the United States the one hundred and
twenty-seventh
“THEODORE ROOSEVELT '
“By the President
“John Ilay Secretary of State”
The senate had more than enough
work to keep it occupied during the
last week of the session and there was
much left undone The calendar was
quite full and there were many more
bills In committee than have been re-
ported out Iu this congress like most
others only about 10 or 13 per cent of
the bills introduced become laws but
it is also to be said that the record of
bills introduced far exceeds that of any
previous congress
A final attempt was made to pass the
Panama canal treaty to a conclusion in
the hope that ’Senator Morgan might
relent in his opposition and allow the
treaty to be ratified rather than force
an extra session of the senate
The principal if not the only duty of
the extra session will be the considera-
tion of tlie Panama treaty and tlo
Cuban reciprocity treaty
Preparing For Roeords
Muskogee I T Mar 4 — All the
deputy clerks in the United States
court of the Western dibtrict have been
in the city for instructions relative to
tlie recording of deeds and all instru-
ments affecting title to land us pro-
vided by the new recording bill They
are here for supplies and to make
requisition for blank record books and
their offices will be open within a few
days All tlie deputy clerks become
recorders by virtue of the new bill
There are six recording districts in the
Western judicial district
Head-on Collision
Fort Scott Mar 4— Missouri Pacific
passenger train No 40 from Wichita
for St Louis collided “head-on” with
a freight on a trestle four miles west of
Fort Scott during the night The en-
gines were completely telescoped but
none of the passenger coaches were
turned over Twenty or more passen-
gers sustained cuts and bruises but
none - was dangerously hurt The
freight crew which were unable to run
tlieir train on a siding in time to give
the passenger a clearance failed to
send out a flag
J P MorgAu’a Library
New York Mar 5 — Many workmen
are completing tlie foundation for J
P Morgan's new library building at
the rear of his home at Madison avenue
and East Thirty-sixth street It is to
cost 8300000 The plans are for a two-
story structure of Knoxville marble of
a pinkisli gray with a frontage of 1153
feet on Thirty-sixth street and a luwu
space in front-
statehood Next Year
Washington Mar 5 — On the eve of
tlie adjournment of the Fifty-seventh
congress it uiay he stated as reliable
information that the question of state-
hood is as follows: An agreement lias
been reached which will permit state-
hood for Oklahoma early in tlie Fifty-
eiglitli congress which will convene in
December 1903 Second — The long
drawn out and more or less vicious
fight has not resulted in injury to Ok-
lahoma but on the other baud will
have been an advantage
Two Trains Bar led In Snow
Halifax N S Mar 4 — Buried iu
wastes of snow and with a blizzard
raging an easlbound express on the
Newfoundland railroad that left Port
Anx Barques for St Johns two weeks
ago is stalled helplessly twenty miles
from the nearest point of relief Fifty-
three passengers are on board at the
point of starvation Another train
that left St Johns on the same day is
blizzard-bound at Millertown Junc-
tion There are forty-two men and
one woman on board
THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS FOH
WESTERN CANADA
“Thera will be thousands of Amer-
icans coming up here in the spring
was the remark made by a farmer
from the vicinity of Langdon North
Dakota when he arrived In Winnipeg
Manitoba the capital of Western Can-
ada a few days since He was the ad-
vance guard of a large body wbo are
following him and he has already In-
vested in several farming sections for
himself and others and purposes to
take up his permanent abode in this
country He went on to say: “Hun
dreds are coming from my district
alone I know this to be a fact for
many of them are neighbors of mine
The chief topic of conversation- with
tho farmers Is the coming Immigra-
tion in the spring
“The impression general in the part
of Dakota where I live that farmers
can get from 10 to 15 cents more a
bushel for wheat on the American
side of the line than on the Canadian
has not prevented people from turning
their eyes to Canada as a place to
live In They know they can get land
In thiB country which Is every bit aa
fertile as that In Dakota at about one-
quarter the price It is safe to say that
the exodus from Dakota Into Canada
this year will exceed the expectations
of all ’Canadians”
The government has established
agencies at St Paul Minn Omaha
Neb Kansas City Mo Chicago 111
Indianapolis Ind MHlwaukee Wls
Wausau Wls Detroit Sault Ste Ma-
rie and Marquette Mich Toledo
Ohio Watertown S Dakota Grand
Forks N Dakota and Great Falls
Mont and the suggestion Is made
that by addressing any of these wbo
are the authorized agents of the gov-
ernment it will be to the advantage
of the reader who will be given the
fullest and most authentic information
regarding the results of mixed farm-
ing dairying ranching and grain-raising
and also supply information as to
freight and passenger rates etc etc
Cultivate prudence do not eat to-
morrow’s dinner to-day
Mrs Window’s Booming Syrup
For children teething (often the gum reduces In
flnmmstlun allays pain cures wind colic SSo a bottla
Some women who 6liine in society
forget to exibit their polish at home
Economy - is the road to wealth
PUTNAM FADELESS DYE is the
road to economy
Probably the most satisfactory thing
on eaftlx is compulsory love
IV YOU USE BALL BLUE
Get Red Cross Ball BIuo the best Ball Blues
Large 3 02 package only 5 cents
But few men exhibit their bravery
until tbe danger is past
Superior quality and extra- quantity
must win This is why Defiance Starch
is taking the place of all others
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CRAIN CROWING MIXED FARMING
The Reason WI17 more wheat !
I grown In Western Canada la a fetr
short months then elsewhere le
because vegetation grows In pro
portion to the sunlight The more
northerly latitude in which grain
I wlllcome to perfection the better
Itts Therefore 62 lbs per bushel is as fair a standard aa
fiO lbs In the East Area under orop in Western Canada
1903 1987830 Acres Yield IdOS 117923754 But
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