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mrr: i ^-^7 i alfalfa] Alfalfa should be grown on every farm. Make a beginning?start now. MLI-Ml-I-A tINKItMtS THE LAND Besides Producing More Abundant Harvests Alfalfa Ad is Plant Food to the Soil for the Use of Other Crops. Alfalfa enriches the soil. The roots of the alfalfa plant penetrate 12 to 35 feet into the soil?far beyond the reach of corn, wheat, oats and other shallow rooting plants. In this way potash, phosphorus'and other elements of plant food are drawn up from below through the roots of the alfalfa plant and stored in the upper soli for the use of other crops. The experiment Bet forth in the accompanying chart was made in Canada. where it was found that alfalfa Alfalfa Enriches the Land Wheat Bn. Per Acre Alfalfa Sod 61.0 Timothy Sod 42. Barley a ir_t*_ p.j l * niiaua sou 30. Timothy Sod 20. Corn Alfalfa Sod fr? 24. Timothy Sod ^ 1 IS. i ????1 sod yielded 61.5 bushels of wheat per acre, as compared with 42 buahels on , timothy sod. Barley yielded 30 bushels per acre on alfalfa sod, and only 20 buBhela on timothy sod. Canada 1b not a corn country, yet the experiments show similar results. Alfalfa sod yielded 21 bushels per acre of corn, as compared with IK bushels on timothy sod. ThiB is c nly one of many such experiments which give the same results, proving alfalfa to be a soil enriching crop. ALFALFA MOST VAJ-UABLE CROP. Per Acre Value Five Times More Than Clover?Some Wisconsin Cen us Figures Which Talk for Themselves. According to the 1910 census of the hay crop the state of Wisconsin grew 18,000 ac.es of alfalfa, which averaged 2.8 tons ner acre for the entire state, and the average aero value of the crop was $31.00. During the same year the combined acreage of timothy and clover averaged 1.6 tons per acre, valued at $14.00. It costs no more to grow an acre of alfalfa than it does to grow .-in acre of timothy or clover. The average coBt of growing an acre of clover or timothy is approximately in nn n-i at. * i iiua iin; luriuer wouia ciear $4.00 per icre in growing these crops, whereas If ho grow alfalfa he would make a profit of $21.00 per aero, or Alfaifa Mo& Valuable Forage Crop Wisconsin Hay Crop, 1910 Value Acreage Av. YteM Per A. Alfalfa 18.000 2.8 Tons $31 Timothy 767.000 1.4 14 Clover 119.SOO 1.7 " 14 Timothy 1 and 1.600.000 1.6 " 14 Clover ) over five times the income received from any one of the other hay cropB. The latest reports from Wisconsin show nearly 40,000 acres seeded to alfalfa with an average of about four tuna to the acre. ALFALFA RICH IN PROTEIN With 12.3 Per Cent, of Digestible Protein, Alfalfa Surpasses Even Wheat Bran In Feeding Value. Alfalfa has high feeding value, as shown by the chart below, taken from California liul. No. 132. This is due to its digestibility and its composition. Alfalfa is rich in digestible protein which is the bone and muscle building element. It is also rich in ni | ALFALFA RICH IN DIGESTIBLE PROTEIN y ALFALFA 1 ?oi WHEAT BRAN ?1? 1|.? OATS ?? 910 COBN m?mamm 78 ?? 78 TMOTHV ? 28 COUN POPPER ? 28 COBN SHAPE m 18 OAT STRAW 12 WHEAT STRAWS A trogon, the component of protein, but protein 1b the costly food element. It is absolutely neoessary for the production of milk and for young growing animals. Pigs will starve on corn alone. All animals must have frame building food as well as fat producing food, such as corn. Alfalfa with corn makes a perfectly balanoed ration, supplying the animal with an abendanoe of bone, flash and fat giving mstariaj. ... feat FOUND TIME FOR KINDLY ACT British Statesman, in High Office, Made Glad the Heart of 8chool< girl Who Asked Advice. Viscount Ilnlclane, the British lord chancellor, who is to visit Canada this summer, is not only a great legal luminary, profound theologian, and authority on German literature, but one of the most approachable of men as well. In this connection a German gentleman resident in London tells a delightful story. "My daughter," he says, "attend^ a school in Hampstead. Her mistress gave her an English translation of a sentence from Goethe as the title for an essay. 'That's not in Goethe,' 1 said, when she quoted the words to me. 'It must be, father, or Miss would never have said so.' 'Well, you ask the lord chancellor,' I said in jest; lie knows Goethe by heart.' "The girl took the jest for earnest, and sent a note to the lord chancellor. By return of post came a letter from the house of lords, in which Lord Ilaldane presented his compliments and referred the young ladv to a passage in ('arlyle, where the words from Goethe might be found translate as the mistress had set them. The letter is now framed in the girl's bedroom. It was a charming act," adds her father. "I could not imagine a german chancelloi deigning to answer a schoolgirl's letter." AIQCUID AC OATTI C' CAOTflD Still Very Much of an Unknown Quantity?Much Opposition to Aerial Fleets Has Developed. The successful operation of a machine pun mounted on the upper deck of a Zeppelin airship induces speculation as to the future of aircraft in warfare. It does not appear probable that the experiment at Fried richsha fen, Germany, have demonstrated the aerial battleships are practical. In fact, the imperfections in the construction and operation of airships are important limitations to their effective use in offensive and defensive warfare. However, the experiments revealed a portentous trend in the development of aviation. Whether the day when the fearful aerial battles of fiction will be possible is near or distant, Germany and other countries are trying ! to hasten that time, t Possibility of the transfer of the carnage of battle to the air has aroused opposition to the equipment of aerial fleets. To some extent this opposition is organized. It found expression at the last peace congress at Geneva, Switzerland. The dele gates from the various countries favored a convention of the powers to eliminate the use of air craft in actual olTensive and defensive tactics. While the congress, of course, is opposed to war, yet the use of airships for scouting and reconnoitering service was not so abhorred. WHY HE ENJOYED IT. Sam Bernard, the comedian, was walking down broad way when a huge crowd attracted his attention. He joined the crowd, to find that it was watching a handful of laborers who were digging a hole in the street. "Odd, ain't it," said the manager, "how little it takes to gather a New York crowd ? Here we are, a couple of hundred of us, breathlessly watching a few men shovel dirt. By the way," the manager added, "that chesty chap in the pink shirt seems to enjoy his job. Ix>ok at the showy way he flourishes his shovel." "Why," said Mr. Bernard, "that's Piatt, an ex-at tor. You see, he never played to such a large and appreciative audience before." IT'8 ON VIEW. "Have you soon Mamie's engagement ring?" "Of course. Did you have an idea that she was making an effort to hide it?" , FASHION'S LATE8T FREAK. | " "Have you anything to say about the threo-atory skirt?" "Nothing I'd care to have printed." LITERARY GREATNESS* "Is he a great writer P" "Great? Some {lay they'll be forming cnlta that pretend to understand him." HIS NATURE. "That actor hogs the whole show." "Quite natural, isn't it, kr I ham?" ?.. * FOLLOW OUTLINE OF HOUSES Authority on Woman'* Dress Puts Forward an Idea Concerning the Hat Dear to Femininity. Did it ever occur to you that headpear takes on the form of houses? It is hard to account for some of the weird hats of the day by this theory, although perhaps an effort to carry out the lines of the skyscraper may be traced in the beanstalk decorations of feathers and flowers which towpr slrvu'nrrl frmn rmr hnts However hard to prove, this is a theory put forward by an authority on woman's dress. To understand its claim to consideration call up a picture of a medieval woman with a , tall funnel-shaped headdress?the henin. Isn't it for all the world like j the spire of a Gothic church? And doesn't it also surest the peak tent where her crusading or warrior husband or brother or father spent much of his time? Take the eastern turban for another example. It is almost like the dome jf some mosque or synagogue in outline. Another eastern example is the Cninese coolie. When he is wearing j his rainy day straw hat he looks as it he had veritably donned the roof of his own straw-thatched hut. Dome and pagoda parasols, which properly may be classed as head coverings, are evidently not alone in bor: rowing their outlines from buildings. WHAT NOVEL* READERS LIKE Great Authorities Have Differed on the Subject, and the Matter Still la Under Discussion. That old question whether the poor prefer to read stories about themselves rather than about the rich has been revived in England and dis- , 1 1 ? !-1 ? " cussed uy serial wruers. some De- j lieve that moat readers, whether poor i or rich, prefer novels dealing with a class different from their own, and some maintain that the majority of readers are more interested in their own class. Nobody knows. But something undoubtedly depends upon the novelist himself. Dickens had no difficulty in interesting everybody in the poor. Thackeray made the well-to-do and the rich interesting. So does Howells. So does Mrs. Wharton. And innumerable others. On the other hand, Jack London, KaufTman, James Oppenheim, and possibly two or three others have sketched wonderful pictures of lowly and obscure lives. The "great American novel," which may have been written, but is still awaiting publication, will deal neither with the rich nor the poor exclusively, nor with the middle clasH, but with all sorts and conditions of men. It will be a novel of democracy?neither aristocratic nor proletarian. FOR YOUR COMPLEXION. Now comes a New York scientist and strikes a blow at the arsenic and cold creams businesses by telling us that to have a perfectly lovely complexions and white skins we must eat plenty of salt, even if we turn ourselves into walking reservoirs afterward by drinking deluges of water. And only a while ago Mary Walker or somebody else told us to eat onions for the same purposes. Still, come to think of it, we can put the salt on the onion and so follow both counselors, can't we ? PROCE88 FOR PRESERVING MEAT. A Russian army surgeon has inTented a process for preserving fresh meats, which consists of dipping carcasses in a solution of acetic acid, then in a solution of common salt in glycerin, the two forming a thin, elastic, dry crust. JOURNALISTIC 8TUNT. "Staff Photographer?I've caught a L , i Pit <T euiapsnoi 01 ine neeing gambler! | City Editor?Good! Now take a time exposure of the police in pursuit.?Judge.. i i. 8IDESTEPPING A TOUCH. "Sir, could you assist a heart bowed down ?" "I'm afraid not I'm not a heart specialist." CLANCY'S LUCK. Ilogan?Did Clancy's wife get a separation? v Grogan?She did; four cops tore her off him.?Brooklyn Life. FAMILY SUPPORT. "Does Palette make any money by having his work hung on the line?" 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