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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
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niiaua sou 30.
Timothy Sod 20.
Corn
Alfalfa Sod fr? 24.
Timothy Sod ^ 1 IS.
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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
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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
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ALFALFA RICH
IN DIGESTIBLE PROTEIN y
ALFALFA 1 ?oi
WHEAT BRAN ?1? 1|.?
OATS ?? 910
COBN m?mamm 78
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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.
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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.
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"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?"
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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- ,
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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..
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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?"
"No, but his wife does."
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