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I MORE CuRN TO AN ACRE
Iowa Man’s Plan to Increase
the Yield.
William S. Hall, Jk. jambs A. Willis, j
HALL & WILLIS, little wobk said to be needed<
ATTORNKVS AT LAW.
STAR THEATRE BLDG.
O A. Vr tr I>J LC "V, S. CJ. The Seed Kernel* Are Sorted by
Notary Public In office. Prompt attention , Hand According to Slme and the
given to all business. Planter—On One Farm the Yield
Increased From Fifty-eight to Sev
enty-two Bnahel*—Trophy Offered
to Corn Grower*.
J. EMILE HARLEY,
Attorney-at-Law,
Gaffney, - - S. C.
.Notary public.} All business receives prompt
and careful attention.
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“Let every farmer in the seven great
corn states give a few winter evenings,
and 480,000,000 bushels will be added
to the aiyiual crop of the corn belt.”
In these words Professor P. G. Hol
den of the State Agricultural college,
Ames, la., summarizes the campaign
instituted by himself and the Iowa
Corn Growers’ association, says a Sioux
City dispatch to the Kansas City Star.
It Is not increased acreage that Pro
fessor Holden wants; It Is better re
sults from the present acreage. It Is
not by any artificial culture he would
bring about these apparently gigantic
results. He promises and demonstrates
that they will be realized If the farmer
does the simple thing of putting a hun
dred live kerneJs of corn in every thirty
hills.
Entirely unique In the science of
agronomy is the experimental work of
Professor Holden, and throughout the
state of Iowa he has convinced meet
ings of farmers that a professor In an
agricultural college has a reform that
is thoroughly practical. In a word, his
plan requires only the sorting by hand
of seed corn into lots of uniform size
and the filing of plates in corn planters
in such a way as to drop the required
number of grains of corn in each hill. |
The missionary work is being extended
to other states, and it is proposed to
have every farmer In the corn belt
eventually find how to plant his com ,
to get the best yield.
The Iowa Corn Growers’ association
has been formed by farmers, and only |
farmers, who believe Professor Hoi- |
den's theory is right. W. C. Whiting
of Whiting, la., in charge of the agrl- ,
cultural division of the Iowa commls- I
sion for the Louisiana Purchase expo
sition, has personally presented to the
Ames college and the Corn Growers’
association a trophy valued at $450,
which will be awarded annually for I
seventy-five years for the best results
In corn growing according to Professor :
Holden’s theory. The trophy Is entire- !
ly unique, representing an ear of corn \
eighteen inches long, the husks of sil
ver and ear of gold, standing on an
ebony base. Upon the base are four
scrolls of silver decorated by tiny gold- ;
on ears of corn, upon which will be in
scriptions of the names of the winners 1
and the object for which the cup was j
given. .
To find how much the farmers of
Iowa are losing each year by not prop
erly planting corn, Professor Holden
last year sent 1,000 letters to all parts
of #)wa,* asking the number of stalks
in\eaeh hill in cornfields. He found i
the stand was only 75 per <cent of what
he has demonstrated will produce the i
largest yield, and last year’s com crop
was generally considered a good stand.
The other day he himself Inspected
twenty-four of the best cornfields he
could find.
“I found,” he reported to a meeting
of the Iowa Corn Growers’ association
in Sioux City, “from 39 to 80.2 per cent
of a perfect stand. The average loss
was 28.7 per cent. I do not mean by
this that the field that has five stalks
in each hill is better than one with
four and that bills of six stalks are
better than lylls of five. I have found
that the best results are obtained from
an average of about three and a third
stalks to a hill. Our experiments have
shown that one stalk in a hill will pro
duce only one-third as much com as a
proper number of stalks, two stalks
three-fourths of a yield, and five stalks
the same. In making my tables I
counted either three or four stalks a
100 per cent stand.
“For ten years the average yield of
coni in Iowa has been approximately
thirty-five bushels. A yield of thirty-
five bushels with a 70 per cent stand,
which Is the average found in a num
ber of years, would become fifty bush
els with a 100 per cent stand.”
The acreage planted to com in the
seven states growing over 100,00,000
bushels of corn in 1902 was: Illinois,
9,623,080; Iowa, 9,302,688; Nebraska,
7,817,962; Kansas, 7,451,693; Missouri,
8,775,194; Indiana, 4,520,637; Ohio.
3,200,224. The combined acreage was
about 48,000,000. A gain of ten bushels
an acre, or a 90 per cent stand, which
Professor Holden thinks is easily at
tainable,* would mean an Increase In
the annual yield of these states of
480,000,000 bushels. •
On the big Funk farm at Blooming
ton, 111., Professor Holden’s theory was
carried out last year. Several thou
sand acres were planted witn seed
sorted by hand throngh planters ad
justed to drop the proper number of
kernels. Provionsly the best yield was
fifty-eight bushels per acre. Last year
the average was seventy-two bushels.
Of the gain Professor Holden esti
mates 80 per cent was due to the stand
and 20 per cent to the excellent germi
nating power of the seed. In the ex
perimental fields under Professor
Holden’s control the yield has never
been less than sixty bushels since 1896.
“That isn’t practical,” objected a
farmer in one of Professor Holden’s
meetings. “The idea of my sorting
grains of corn by hand! I have some
thing better to do.”
“All right,” answered Professor
Holden. "We will say that you hire the
work done by a man to whom you pay
$2 per day. He will sort at least a
bushel of shelled corn every day. That
bushel will plant seven acres of
ground. Tbe fact that It has been sort
ed will add at least ten bushels to the
acre yield. At an average price of 30
cents a bushel that would mean a re
turn of $21 for the $2 you invested in
having the corn sorted. But you can
do it as well on winter evenings, when
it will have cost you nothing.”
The imperfect stands of corn. Pro
fessor Holden says, are due to the Ir
regular shapes of the kernels and the
lack of adjustment of the drop plates
In the planter. Kernels taken at ran
dom from full ears of corn and sown
through ordinary plates will fall very
unevenly. The plate should be filed so
as to drop each size of kernel almost
uniformly and the kernels sorted ac
cording to size.
When the kernels were sorted for
size and arranged in two lots and
plates adjusted for each lot, one test
resulted in one kernel being dropped
twice, two kernels two times, three
kernels n. .ety-flve times and four ker
nels one time. The other lot dropped
two kernels four times, thAe kernels
ninety-two times and four kernels four
times—practically a perfect stand.
So Professor Holden says that the
season of corn planting should be pre
pared for in advance by sorting the
kernels Into lots and throwing out
those which will not germinate well,
and then filing a plate to drop each of
the kernels of each lot the proper num
ber of times. The plates and lots
should be labeled, and for each lot of
seed the plates should be changed in
planting.
WEATHER BY SEASONS.
TRAINS TO CARRY MAILS new
^ACON
CIPHER.
Federal Plan to Improve the
Postal Service.
BAILWAY MEN TO HANDLE BAGS
Prediction* to Be Made by Observa
tion* at a New Observatory.
To predict weather by seasons is the
next step which science Is anxious to
take in its progression along meteoro
logical lines, and this step is one of the
important subjects which will be dis
cussed at the gathering of the leading
meteorologists of the world at South-
port. England, beginning Sept. 7, says
the Washington correspondent of the
New York Tribune. Professor Willis
L.. Moore, chief of the United States
weather bureau, will represent his bu
reau at the convention.
The fact that the United States is
building a meteorological research ob
servatory at Mount Weather, Va., for
the study of higher meteorological prob
lems places tbfe United States in the
lead on the question of weather. Pro
fessor Moore says that it is the inten
tion to make this observatory the most
complete in the world for the study of
advanced meteorological problems, and
it is his purpose to visit several impor- j
tant mountain observatories in Europe
before his return in order that the now
observatory may have the advantage
of every advance which has been made
in higher meteorology.
The chief of the Washington weather
bureau believes that the development
of the science along the lines to be pur
sued by the Mount Weather observa
tory will ultimately lead to the correct
prediction of weather conditions by
seasons, which would seem to be the
Mecca of the science.
TO TEACH HAPPINESS.
Pari*’ Newent School to Take Vp a
Vital Matter.
A “school of happiness” is to be open
ed at Paris in the autumn by Dr. Paul
Valentin, says the Philadelphia Press.
A complete course of lectures on the
subject will be given.
One of the “teachers" recently de
clared that “men and women will be
taught the art of happiness just as they
are taught that of painting or of play
ing the piano.” Among the kinds of
happiness to be lectured upon will be
how to be happy although married.
Dr. Valentin considers that conjugal
felicity depends upon three things—
“circumstances which he does not de
fine and over which one may not al
ways have control, cerebral equilibrium
between the two parties and suitability
of character.”
A periodical will be published by the
school called the Normal Life.
Novelty In Slot Machine*.
One of the latest penny in the slot
machines introduced in London sup
plies handkerchiefs at 2 or 4 cents
apiece.
The Macedonian Cry.
A cry from Macedonia
Again Is being heard.
But not the cry that often
Has Christian nations stirred,
For people there are rising,
“To arms! To arms!” they cry,
And sternly they're declaring ‘
They’ll triumph or they'll die.
Long years have they been trampled
Beneath the tyrant’s heel,
Long years have they been wailing
Their sorrowful appeal,
And long have Christian nations
Been slow to make reply,
Though stirred by that petition—
“Come help us or we die."
Their homes have oft been pfllagsd.
The wives and children slain;
The husbands and the fathers
Have struggled, but In vain.
Among them their oppressors
Have oft made havoc dire
And waged wide desolation
With gugr and sword and firs.
At times in desperation
They’ve banded for defenss
And on the cruel tyrants
Have vented hate intense,
But vain were all their effort*
For they were overthrown.
And cruelties atrocious
Made Christian nations groan.
Though great their need for suocoSk
Though urgent was their cry,
The mighty Christian nations
Were slow to make reply,
For there were vows and treattw
And jealousies and greed,
And to appeals for succor
The nations gave slight hee&
And now the Macedonians
Around their leaders throng
To make u final struggle
In hope of righting wrong.
By legions they are rising;
“To arms! To arms!’’ they erf,
And sternly they’re declaring,
“We’ll triumph or we’ll die!"
►Theodore H. Bole* In Pittsburg Chrosi
cle-Telegraph.
Government Authorities to A**ume
Responsibilities For All Package*
Intrusted to Employee* of the
Railroad*—Protection Against Vio
lence Will Be Accorded.
Postmaster General Payne has de
cided on an important step which will
practically put the railroads of the
country under the protection of the
United States government and prevent
interference with interstate commerce
by strikers, says a Washington special
to the Chicago Tribune. This will be
accomplished by making every railroad
train a mail train and by commission
ing railroad conductors, baggage mas
ters and other trainmen as employees
of the United States postal service and
empowering them to handle mails.
The agitation which really led to the
adoption of the new policy has been
growing for several years and is the
result of the tremendous growth of the
rural free delivery service. This serv
ice has resulted in more than quadru
pling the circulation of newspapers
throughout the country in the period
of six years.
Protests were received at the depart
ment from the entire country regard
ing the inelhciency of tbe mail train
service. Oiiiclals have endeavored to
devise a means of relief. After long
consideration it was thought impossi
ble to arrange any plan which would
prove satisfactory to the government,
railroads, publishers of newspapers
and the millions of subscribers. The
fact that the government requires all
mails to pass through the post offices
and handles them only in sealed pouch
es was the greatest' drawback to the
quick service desired and, in fact, to
the sending of United States mails on
any except mail trains.
The postal^ officials declined to enter
into an agreement whereby they would
be responsible for mails not carried in
closed pouches and handled by sworn
employees. Nothing was done until
Mr. Shnllenberger gave the matter his
personal consideration and devised a
new plan. It is really an amplification
of the system used by the publishers of
newspapers in sending out their mail
editions. It has been the practice of
publishers to intrust bundles of papers
to trainmen on trains which do not
carry mail, with instructions to throw
off the packages at certain poipts. This
system has not been entirely satisfac
tory.
The government has now decided to
assume the responsibility for the car
riage and delivery of these newspapers
and will commission and pay salaries
to the trainmen over and above the
compensation received for the regular
work. In putting into effect this far
reaching policy each case where addi
tional facilities are needed will be con
sidered separately. When the request
for additional mail train facilities is re
ceived at the department an employee
of the railway mail service will be as
signed to the case and will attend to
the preliminaries of looking to the com
missioning of trainmen as employees
of the postal service and of arranging
the schedules.
Any train—passenger, local or freight
—will be empowered to carry mails,
and the United States will hold itself
responsible for their delivery. This
means that in case of a strike every
train which carries these special mails
will be just as much under the author
ity and protection of the federal gov
ernment as through and local mall
trains which run on a regular daily
schedule, and when all the arrange
ments have been made and the plans
of the department put Into effect there
will be few trains which are not either
regular or "special” mall trains.
In case of interference with any of
these specials during the time of strike
or mob violence the United States must
under the statutes afford it the same
protection, by federal troops if neces
sary, that has been and will be given
to the regular mall trains.
The governnjont will be permitted to
settle upon the salary to be paid to the
trainmen. At the coining session of
jrongross Postmaster General Payne
will ask for a special appropriation to
pay the salaries of these special em
ployees.
The Coralniv American*.
The American people can never lose
its English-Teutonic force and master
fulness, but the infusion of a measure
of Mediterranean and Alpine blood is
to make us more versatile intellectual
ly, says Ivan C. Waterbury in the
World Today. It will make us more
truly scientific by developing that pow
er of Inductive research and of form
ing Judgments by scientific weighing of
evidence which Is declared to be corre
lated with a mixture of bloods. Above
all, it is to make us more imaginative
and gentler in our thoughts and feel
ings. In other words, it is to quicken
and develop in us tbe artistic and poet
ic nature. Therefore not only will
there be great achievements In litera
ture, music, painting, sculpture and ar
chitecture by American Individuals,
but also an artistic public conscious
ness by which we shall enjoy highly
the beautiful things of life and be in
tolerant of commercial neglect and van
dalism.
tt. Loal* Doctor Claim* to Have
Solved Shakespeare Riddle.
Dr. W. Hutson Ford of St. Louis, a
well known scholar and scientific in
vestigator, claims to have discovered a
new cipher in the writings of William
Shakespeare which proves that Fran
cis Bacon was in reality the author of
the Shakespeare plays, says the New
York World.
Dr. Ford has worked out and will
mbllsh a large number of anagrams
from the text of the Shakespeare plays
and from the prefactory odes by Ben
Jonson and others in the 1623 folio edi
tion, which, he declares, are the cipher
writings of Bacon. In them is reiter
ated Bacon’s claim to the authorship.
They also contain his urgent appeal to
the decipherers to work out all the
cipher and let the world know the
truth.
The cipher writing discovered by Dr.
Ford has nothing to do with the ciphers
which have engaged the attention of
Ignatins Donnelly and other advocates
of the Bacon theory.
According to his discoveries, made
after years of long and patient study,
the translations of the anagrams in the
Shakespeare plays not only prove that *
Bacon was their author, but that he |
claimed to be the son of Queen Eliza
beth and rightful heir to the throne.
They reveal, says Dr. Ford, many ex
traordluary personal and state secrets
But perhaps the most remarkable of all
is the investigator’s reading of the In
scription on the tomb of Shakespeare,
which, he says, coupled with the cipher
imeg^g in the text of the plays, shows
v Sncon, with the assistance of Bon
Jonfciin, exhumed the b«*v of Shake
speare and cast it into the river
Thames, depositing in its place a small
casket containing the key to the cipher
and some of Bacon’s (Shakespeare's)
latest and best writings in the original
manuscript, together with other indis
putable proof of the authorship of tin*
great plays. This proof in this casket.
Dr. Ford is certain, will be found when
the grave Is opened. Dr. Ford’s trans
lation of the inscription follows:
“U aske, goode friend, for the dead
sot. I tel, Fr. Bacon dugg; he rose.
See, Sir! Haste! Move the stones.
Syphers and a best Ms. rest beneath
them. Bacon Blest U.”
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know led- of drugs, more than
knowing how to use scales and
measures to rightly fill pre-
ascriptions these days. Reme
dies are multiplying, new pre
parations are constantly com
ing out and each prescription
must have careful study and
accurate* attention.
We give such work the atten
tion it should have; we see to
it that our drugs are pure and
of exact standard strength; we
never substitute or vary a hair
from the requirements of your
prescription or recipe.
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SOCIAL SERVICE IN BRITAIN.
Inntitnte Orfranlzeil In London on
Linen of American Society.
Word was received recently by the
American Institute of Social Service
of an initial meeting In London look
ing to the formation of a British Insti
tute of Social Service. The committee
of organization appointed at the pre
liminary meeting consists of the Rev.
Dr. John B. Baton of Nottingham, who
has been the principal representative
of social betterment In England for
thirty years; Budgett Meakin, who Is
associated with the Shaftesbury insti
tution; Itev. J. P. Gladstone, son of the
late premier; Canon Barnett, who has
long been associated with Toynbee
Hall, the first great social settlement in
London; Frederick Rogers, and F. H.
Stead, brother of William T. Stead.
In its plan and scope the organiza
tion committee announces that the
British institute will be similar to the
American Institute of Social Service.
The organizers are of the opinion that
the time has now come for combining
sources of information and suggestion
relating to social amelioration, which
are scattered In many minds and In
many organizations throughout Great
Britain. The Christian religion, with
out denominational distinctions, will
supply the basis of purpose and action.
. It has also been decided that in view
of the widely differing conditions in the
different parts of the British isles the
new institute shall consist of Scottish,
Irish, Welsh and English sections.
the Parlor fMarket
Las been open all
this summer, and
lias carried the
very finest of meats
and hams, and will continue to do the same
tfood business tills fall and winter. I am pre
pared better now to sell -to my customers
than ever before. Come to the PARLOR
MARKET and ask my prices; !■ can give the
lowest urices on most anything you want to
buy. I Lave meats from 5c per pound up to
15c. Come 'or call Phone No. S! and W. J.
M mess will fill yout order at short notice.
1 want tocall the attention of the tobacco
chewing men: I will sell for the next DO days
Schnapps, Kite and Liberty?Bell for 36c, and
If you can beat tiiis price, that is the place
to buy: if not. come and see me. I am loaded
for ducks or tobacco.
W. J. iVtaness.
BE IN THE SWIM
Give me your clothes to clean, press or
dye and you will always look nice and
stylish. Old suits made to look like new.
Experienced workmen and prompt ser
vice rendered.
W. H. ROBINSON, Tailor.
Over W. U. Telegraph Office.
FOR
Up-to-Date Job Print
ing, call at the
LEDGER Office.
Gaffney, S. C,
CANE FOR JUSTICE HARLAN
A Unique Gift From III* Admirer*
la Porto Rico.
Judge E. B. Wilcox of the district
court of Ponce, Porto Rico, who sailed
recently on the steamer Ponce for New
York, en route to his home iu South
Carolina, carried with him a unique
gift for Mr. Justice Harlan of the
United States supreme court, says the
San Juan correspondent of the Wash
ington Star. It is a tortoise shell cane,
with a head made of Porto Rico gold,
on which is engraved the new coat of
arms of Porto Rico.
On the ferrule, which Is of silver, is
inscribed, “The constitution follows
the flag.” This is a recognition of ap
preciation of Justice Harlan’s decision
in accord with the sentiment quoted.
The cane will be presented to Justice
Harlan by Judge Wilcox in behalf of
Delegate Ulplano Colon and other
friends of Justice Harlan in Ponce.
THE UP-TO-DATE MARKET.
The place to get your fresh meats of all
kinds is at L. W. McGuiun’s Up-to-date
Market, cut by old experienced hands.
No trouble to have something good to
eat. Round Steaks, Loin Steaks, Sur-
lion Steaks, Porterhouse Steaks, Rump
Roast, Clod Roast, Round Roast, good
fat Stew Beef and good Sausage, fine
ground; fresh F'ish’on Fridays and Sat
urdays, straight from the water. Fresh
Country ^Produce and Vegetables daily;
Heavy and Fancy Froceries, Confection
eries, and Tobacco. Goods delivered
promptly and on time—all meats guaran
teed good, not tainted or spoiled. Come
or call Phone No. 6o, Burnett Block.
L. W. McGUINN.
Heetor Macdonald Fund.
The Hector Macdonald memorial
fund la now approaching £4,000 ($20,-
OOOWjpd John Bannon of Glasgow in
InAVreing a check for £1,000 ($6,000)
renews his promise to contribute a sim
ilar sum when the next £4,000 ($20,000)
Is subscribed.
Search For a New Grain Route.
A British expedition has been sent to
explore Hudson bay for the purpose of
determining whether a new grain route
is practicable. The plan is to ship
grain from the western portion of Can
ada, to be stored in elevators on Hud
son bay and shipped by water during
the brief summer season In which navi
gation Is open.
Outcome of the Acre Dlspvtc.
The Acre dispute has been settled.
Bolivia will acknowledge Brazil’s sov-
dreignty over a great part of Acre terri
tory, while Brazil will pay an indem
nity for military expenditures made by
Bolivia and will build a harbor on the
river Madeira and a railway from Ma-
morc to Madeira.
Noted Collect loa For Harvard.
Harvard university is to have the fa
mous zoological collection of Baron de
Beyet of Brussels through the kindness
of Mr. Carnegie. It Is rich In extinct
birds.
The manager of one of the most
successful furniture houses in
Greater New York was asked to
what one thing, in his opinion,
tiie success of the concern was
most due. He replied:
"The founder of the firm wu a great
believer in advertising, and to this fret
may be ascribed the enormous business
we are handling.”
There is no business, however
small, that cannot be increased
by judicious, systematic, per
sistent advertising. The giant
oak does not gain its strength in
a day. Magnificent buildings
are not reared all at once, nor
can their strength and beauty be
appreciated until the finishing
touches are put on.
Is your business satisfactory?
Axe you making headway? Are
you using to the best advantage
> .the greatest of all business lev
ers—advertising? If you are
satisfied that you are, well and
good; if not, drop in and talk
it over with us.
We have tdverthing spice
to sell, end
advertising is a part ef our tnuhil
Perhaps we can help jtm.