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3K* \ SP' \ I alfalfaI Alfalfa is rich in feeding value. TO PROMOTE ALFALFA. Burlington to Run Combination Trains Through Southern Iowa and Northern Missouri? 00 Alfalfa Lectures to Be Given In Two Weeks' Campaign?700 Automobiles to Be Used In the Work. The Chicago, Burlington and Qulncy railroad will run J?n nlfnlfn enmKIn ? tlon railway and automobile train for a two weeka' campaign, making about 60 8topB iu southern Iowa and northern Missouri,.beginning July 28. 1913, from Des Moines. The plan, afi workod out by the Burlington in co-operation with the Agricultural Extension Department of the International' Harvester Company of Now Jersey and the agricultural colleges, Is far in advance of any agricultural extension work ever carried on. Will Stop at Sixty Points. Local committees at each of the 60 points on the railroad will arrange for five to ten automobiles to carry tho speakers in all directions into the coui)- ' try to farm homes, school houses and inland towns within a radius of from four to ten miles, where alfalfa lectures will bo given. During the campaign over 600 alfalfa lectures will be delivered by the party to as many audiences, and from 500 to 700 automobiles will be brought into tho service of this great educational movement. These campaigns are conducted on a strictly co-operative basis. The people will provide: 1st. A guarantee of at least Ave to ten automobiles at each railroad stop to carry tho speakers to the polntB in the country where meetings are to | be held. 2nd. Halls suitablo for the central meeting in towns where train stops. 3rd. Any community desiring a campaign must send in a request to uie railroad, agricultural college cooperating. or to the Agricultural Extension Department, signed by a representative number of farmers and business men. The railroad will provide: Sleeping cars and dining service for the alfalfa campaign party, and baggage and exhibit cars, literature, etc. The Agricultural Extension Dept. will provide: 1st. Speakers. 2nd. Assistance in organizing and advertising campaign. 3rd. Educational charts and other equipment for lecture purposes, bulletins. literature, etc. 4th. Follow-up men, when possible, to assist the farmers In getting a start with alfalfa. Hearty cooperation on tho part of the people Is absolutely necessary to make these campaigns successful. 8AVE THE ALFALFA LEAVES. Sixty Per Cent, of the Feeding Value of Alfalfa In the Leaves?Hay Should be Cut at Right Time and Cured so as to Preserve the Leaves. Of tho entire alfalfa plant, according to Kansas bulletin 165, tho stalk comprises 60 per cent, and the leaf 40 per cent., whereas the quantity of tho protein in tho stalk is only 40 per cent., while the protein in tho leaf is 60 per cent. Moreover only 20 per cent, of tho fat is to be found in the stalk, while 80 per cent, is in the leaf. 1 It is, therefore, very important that alfalfa be harvested at the proper time, and carefully hnndlcd so that all the leaves will be saved. When possible to do so it is best to cut alfalfa late in the afternoon or evening. Dew or rain on the freshly cut alfalfa will not injure it. Where a tedder is used, it should be started in the morning as soon as most of the dew is off and before there is any danger of knocking off the leaves. It is often advisable to go over it more than once. Alfalfa hay is harvested and cured in much the same way as clover, ex- 1 Save the Alfalfa Leaves % I Proportion Stalk | 60 l.eaf \ 40 Protein Stalk | 40 Leaf | 60 Fat Stalk 1 ^ 20 | Lcm j su cept Mi<it il should be rut as Boon as the young sprouts or shoots start to grow at the base of the plant. When alfalfa is left too long \. .thout cutting, the loaves fall off and the stems become woody, and the yield of the next crop Is greatly reduced. MONEY IN ALFALFm. J. Otis Humphrey, judge U. S. District court, Hpringfleld, Illinois: "You can grow alfalfa..anywhere In the corn belt and the crop is worth $60 an acre." Joseph Wing of Ohio: "Alfalfa will pny any farmer 6 por cent, on $600 an acre land." WEIRD AND WONDERFUL WAIL Bray of .the Chinese Donkey Put on Record a* Unlike Anything Else on the Earth. In all the cast today the donkey is a favorite means of transportation, both for travelers and merchandise. It was so in the days of the patriarchs Isr.ac and Jacob, says the Louisville Courier Journal, and so it will probably remain for ages to come. But nothing in China is just like the same thing anywhere else in the world, and the donkey is no exception. I)r. Chester of Nashville, who while evangelizing in Arkansas in his younger days, bad become familiar with the easy amble of the longeared American species, was induced to make trial of the Chinese type during a visit to China a few years ago. His experience was disappointing. The gait was a rough, insutTerablo jog, and the characteristic bray was a painful phenomenon in the realm of sound. Dr. Chester reports his impressions as follows: "The power of heredity, working through millenniums of isolation, with no modification from foreign admixture, lias developed in the bray of the Chinese donkey a quality of its own. There are no words in English to describe the heart-rending pathos of it. It was as if an appeal to heaven against the cruelty and oppression of ages were at last finding utterance in one long, loud, undulating wail. And when our party of three met another party of six, and all nine of the donkeys began at one time to exchange the compliments of the day, then pathos gave place to terror, and you could only ait appalled and trembling as the mighty reverberation rolled away on its journey around the world."?Youth's Companion. NO CRITERION Doctor?TIow is your appetite? Patient?Wretched ; the best meal my wife cooks doesn't tempt, me. Doctor?ITm?er?er?do you ever try a meal in a restaurant ? MODERN CHILD. "We had visitors in school today!" announced small Velma at the dinner table. "Teacher's brother and her fiance." "Fiance?" repeated father. "Are you sure it wasn't her beau?" he facetiously asked. "Oh, no," stated Velma, "it was her fiance." "What's the difference between a beau and a fiance?" queried father. "Lots," quoth Velma. "A beau is only a fiance in the pin-feather stape." "My pracious!" exclaimed mother. "Where did the child learn that?" Velma had a tremendous respect for matrimony, by the way. Whi n she was six she had already determined her career? "When I'm prown I'm poinp to lie a musician, an artist and a mother." ?Unidentified. NOT KNOCKING ANYBODY. Edith?I will wait for the ideal man before I marry. Vtl.I.l It..? I imii nir wnur* lO marry an idei' woman??Boston Evening Transcript. NATURALLY. "A good basement helps to dispose of a house." "Yes, it does tend to put it in the class of best cellars." PARADOXICAL. "This epistolary was is consuming reams of stuff." "And yet it is but a scrap of paper." 8rSE TAMED THEM. "What made Juggaby marry tho snake charmer?" "His jaga." GIANT SKYSCRAPER OFFICE BUILD" * f New Building Erected o Supposed to Have I Centuries?The Unioi 535 Feet in Height, Industrial District?I on/1 uiiu liii^u:cci Cincinnati, Ohio, (Special) ?^hc Bite of the city of Cincinnati was oris inally covered with an extensive svs! teni of circumvallations and mounds. Almost the entire area now occupied j by the city was utilized hy the mysterious builders, in the construction of em' bank in eats and tumuli, built upon the most accurate geometrical principles, and evincing keen military foresight. Nearly every one of the leading classes of mound builders was represented. The chief work was probably a sacred enclosure, known originally as the UriglUon Hill Tdou.ul, upon | which has now been erected flic mag| niflccnt new building of the Union j Central Life Insurance Co., which has become the center of the new Cincinnati about which ong now hears so I much. Cincinnati, the city which for many years has proudly claimed the title of the "Queen City of the West," is now ; celebrating the completion of this new i building, rising teet from the base inent to the top of the lantern, or !'. I feet above the sidewalk of the street upon which it fronts. It is the most conspicuous landmark for miles around and is the first object seen by | the traveler entering the city. From whatever direction he comes he sees this white palace towering hnnI dreds of foot above the other surrounding buildings, like an everlasting monu; ment to the progressiveness of a gtvat i city. It is .14 stories in height, or. in eluding four stories below the side : walk, .'is stories in all. To give an j idea of the immensity of this building. cum ;i;i re wun it owier skyscrapers which are considered the largest in the world: L.. O Smith Itiilp.. Scuttle. .IBS fret IiikIi Tiir t'ninn Central ltlilg , Cincinnati 4*?B fct-t hicti Hankers* Trust IthtK . New York BIO feet hlah Sinner New York ....till! feet tunli Metro|inlitan Tower, New York 700 feet hlph Woolworth ltliln , New York "Bo feet hiph As a work of art the I'nhm Central rtnildiuK rivals the Kuropean cathedrals. Its beauty of lino ami symmetry of proportions combine with its brilliant coloring to produce a building which is a pleasure to the eye and one which commands universal admiration and approval. Credit tor this is | duo to the President of the Company, Jesse It. Clark, and to the Associated Architects, Mr. Cass CiHcrt. of New York ami Messrs. (Surlier and Woodward, of Cincinnati. This building is a fitting successor to the other famous buildings which formerly, occupied the same site, namely, the old post office of Corinthian architecture and the old Chamber of PnmtYlPV/'O i *.ll i 1(1 i IIP in t h ? iiiMnociiA stylo. The I nion Central Ihiiidinp is a reproduction of the 11 a I i;i u Itenais sanoe ami yet it is woll adapted to the needs of a modern ofliee building. The exterior of the building, lip to the top of lite fourth story, is of white Vermont marble with heavy rustications. Above this, the surfaee is of i terra rotta, the basic color being a dull cream, varying in tone. Above the columns in the tower hepins the siopitip roof covered with " ' ' ^ ^ ^ - ' T\-T BIKD'G-EY? VIEW OF CINCINNA1 i IN CINCINNATI IS N6 WEST OF METRO! n Site of the So-Ca!!cd leen the Work of Mo a Central Life Insurance Located in the Center livals European Cathed / /i Pi *? ?*v *?' " - f< *' : 1 '' ; ilk, fo*!U|tr??l 2**s* : m mm Sang Wfip, lis! fii?$P!!s& Sri. * j i . UNION CENT ?%AL LI FT INSURAM TALLEST OFFICE BUILDIN panels of gold, which shine gloriously in the sun and can he seen for miles. The golden panels mark an ^entirely new use of terra cotta. It is a well' known fact that in a certain slant-light gold loses its luster. In the I'nion Central Building this difllculty is overcome by an undulating surface; the f-l.-fi <?f nvnl-? ....... ...? ? v . ? .? f?wiu in HI .11 it* 1 Ji irregular, so t hat some part or it, nn matter from \\ hat direction the light comes, will always shine brilliantly Terra cotta is absolutely fireproof and is perman -ntly durable. With the exception of -aid burnt brick, terra cotta is less a Vctcd b> tire than any other material Another property of glazed terra < <tfa is that the hard surface is impi rvious. \ 11 that a glazed terra cott; surface needs to re move any arnim ation of soot oi r.irl t>v>^r^/*.r *% A ' \ .. . , - \ti /. ' " i . ?f . ' >' * .&< - f fr . * > <' ' ft - ?1 ' " * -?'v x- - "* - I' ^ ji'ti.-. /. .. - .' > >.*? "I FROM THE OHIO RIVER WITH T SCRAPER IN THE,DISTANCE. THE TALLEST ' POLIS OF HEW YORK I Brighton Hill Mound, und Builders of Early Company's Building is of the New Cincinnati rals as a Work of Art i a. ? ij { i' i|Ifv ' ? V^ -^3' |{ 11' .; - . . / ' .. ij S * . V ^ -1 y "( 7> " s : ? s, 33 ? JJ s~ 4 J-- ?fc Vj ,, *? 7- - i ^_fci f ^ "> > ?- *J: A r, . 7 '-' -i"";r?"' e_ #W%&saai i }t *} P i??j si: ^ 3-?ti/J ;? i: ?> ? 33^ i '.3#1 !* ": :' $ !: it /' ci *> V? ?2.'*r TF?rt._ ^ u :f company skyscraper, the g west of new york city. is ;t simple application of soap and water. The framework of the building consi ts of structural steel columns, girders and Imams. Special precautions were taken to make it stable, and the steel was desk* tied to resist the strongest wind pressure The P allidal ions consist of a steel grillage i and cantilevers, thoroughly imbedded in concrete, and resting upon a stratum of hard compact gravel. Thorough ' test was made < f the soil to insure a stable foundation. The hii'mling contains twdlve eleetrie tr.> !>ui elevator-; which travel 000 feet a m.'.ute, and are in batteries of six, latin; each other, a very convenient an alignment. They contain every mode: n. atltoiiuitie safety device ami each elevator is connected by tele ... : M , . ' .<"W ..'.-v,V < " .;vg , .< " ' ' " -./> *. ' v**?* >; HE TOWER OF THE NEW SKY ? % I phone with tile engine room and wltl the elevator starter. Otto of the most Interesting points In connection with the building Is ths flrcprooflng precautions. Not only la iijfiL the frame of the building steel and the ^ exterior surface stone and terra cotta, but the floors are cement, all the doors are metal, the window casings and frames metal, the trim metal?In fact there is no exposed wood la the building. The doors are of hollow steel, beautifully finished in exact lmV tation of mahogany, in n wear-resist, ing enamel that Is baked on at a high temperature. The windows are coppar covered, over a wood core, the latest type of fireproof construction. Tha trim, that is the base rail, chair and picture moldings, is of hollow steel and it is interesting to note tbat more than oi ph t n r>S i1 no nf # V* 1 r? v.n..??.vw MKtvo v?i iiuo uiaivi mi Uttf w ^ been used in the building. Additional precautions against fire have been taken, notwithstanding' the fact 0\at tl,e building is built of flr?proof Material8. There are two stair ways from the roof to the Street level, entirely separated from- the corridors" * and offices, in different sections of the buildjng, accessible to all, self-oon- -: tained iu au.oke-proof and fireproof walls with meta' doors. The elevator shafts are self contained, in fireproof partitions, with wire glass doors. All of the windows of the building which are closely exposed toward adjoining buildings are filled with wire glass which is fire ;a wcf. The Union Central Building is not only fireproof in construction, but in the company's offices it is equipped throughout with steel cabinets, filing cases and document files, which proeludes tiie danger of interior fire. In tliis respect it is one of the most mndernly equipped insurance office buildings in the United States. The sub-basement is furnished with over 1 fi.O'Ml steel document files, for the safe stoiage of the valuable insurance records. Approaching the main entrance, which is on a level with Fourth street, wo pass through the bronze doors and enter the main corridor. This spacious hall traverses the entire length of the building. On entering this magnificent corridor, one is enchanted with the grandeur of the decorated golden ceiling, hand-curved imported Spanish marble columns and wainscoting, and t he bronze frames and doors of the elevators. Just beyond the elevators is tiie stairway which leads to the Chamber of Commerce. This stairway is band-carved imported Spanish marble. highly decorated, and is conceded to be the finest stairway in America. Ascending this magnificent stairway, we approach the Chamber of Commerce and Merchants' Exchange on t he second floor. The south end of tliis is used as an immense trading ball extending to tl e ceiling of the third door, 'this assembly hall is 50x 100 feet, with highly decorated ceiling and imported Spanish marble wainscoting. The rostrum, which it in the western side of the hall, is also highly d< cora'ed Spanish murble and a tiling of beauty. A room has been set aside for the Weather Hurenu, in which is placed a sub-station for the special use of the Chamber of Commerce and the occupants of this building. The sub-station is an innovation and is equipped with the latest and most up-to-date instruments, giving momentary reports of tlie weather from the roof of the building to the Chamber tioor. On the third floor will be a balcony from which visitors may view the Chamber while In session The remainder of the space on the Becond and third floors Is used for Produce Kxchango, directors* rooms, library, unices and committee rooms. The executive staff of the Union Central Life Insurance Company, with the clerical forces of the various de! part menu occupy the eleventh to elghti .nth floors, inclusive, as well as use the safety vaults in the sub-basement. The President's offices, Hoard of Directors' and Executive Committee rooms are upon the fifteenth floor. In 1 connection with the Medical Department of the company is an emergency hospital for the comfort and convenience of all the tenants of the building. The building is equipped with a refrigerating plant for the cooling of water for drinking purposes, with Ice water distributed through sanitary drinking fountains to different floors from the basement to the twenty-ninth floor. The plumbing is somewhat unique, as the water is delivered into tanks in the hnscment and pumped to ii mrge uiKiriiiuiiiiK uiiiK on me lop floor, near (he tower. The building is equipped with an elaborate vacuum cleaning system and a ventilating syBtem which furnishes pure and tempered air to the Chamber of Commerce rooms, boiler and engine rooms, sub-basement, vaults, etc. There are 12,000 electric lights in the building. In the sub-basement- there lire fcur 250 horse power tube boilers, two .".00 horse-power compound enKim s, one 250-horse-power engine, two "00 and one 150 k. w. generators. This comprises tile power plant of this immense building. In the construction of the building, over H/,14 tons of structural iron were used The building has 227,970 square feet of rental space, and there are exactly 5,175,000 cubic feet within the building. All of the constructing work was done by union men. ? The 1'nion Central Life Insurance Company, the owner of the building, . was established in Cincinnati forty-six years ago. Bailes & Link, District Agents, Fort Mill, - - - - S. C. (Advertisement.)