Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 6, 1920, Page 2

"FARM TERMS NOT IN DICTIONARIES @reat Many in Common Use in Agricultural Discussions Not Yet Recognized. MOVEMENT T0 STANDARDIZE Department of Agricuiture Plans to Secure Uniform National Usage of Terms Indispensable in Agricultural Work. @Prepared by the United States Depart- ment of Agriculture.) A great many terms in common use fa agricultural discussions have never Sound a place In the dictlonaries. Se widely used and Important a term as “yitamin” has not yet found its way fate the principal unabridged diction- aries. For the public, therefore, there exists no approved spelling, no ap- proved pronunciation, and no approv- od definition of the name of a thing that is vital to all living things. Terme Not Recognized. ® There are scores of terms, indis- peasable in agricultural writing or speaking, that have not been recog- mized by the lexicographers, and there are quite as many new usages of established words. “Blood line” a term commonly used in discussions ot Breeding, is not in the dictionaries. Nebedy knows whether it is one word, twe words, or a hyphensted word. “Overrun,” & term widely used te ex- press the thing that is practically the determining factor of profits in cream- .exy establishments, is uaknewn to the @ctiomaries “Standardbred,” “trap ¢ mest,” and any number of other com- menly used terms, understood well emsugh by agriculturists, remain un- defimed for the accurate information of the general public. To Standardize Terms. The United States department of agriculture, through the joint efforts of the bureau of animal industry and the division of publications, has begun a movement to standardize the use of such terms, and about 30 of them are ea the griddle now. Three points of - view are taken—that of the field man who knows the common usage of the layman, that of the sclentist who has the view point of the specialist, and the point of view that looks merely to the use of good English. Fach word is submitted to the various classes of persons interested, together with the proposed usage and the authority or lack of authority for it. From the suggestions received in reply, the final- 1y approved usage will be determined. The first agricultural term to be acted upomn wm the manner described was “corn belt.” That was consider- ed more appropriate than corn-belt or cernbelt. . Although the principal purpose is to establish approved usage for depart- ment of agriculture publications, lists .of terms evolved will be furnished Jater to dictionary editors with the view of obtaining uniform national usage. The co-operation of agricul- tural experts and editors is invited. "ALFALFA IS FERTILITY AID Where Crop Can Be Grown Success- fully It Excels All Other Hay Crops In Yield. Thirty years ago alfalfa was quite a stranger in Wisconsin, but its intro- duction and dissemination have gone on at a rapid pace until about 60.000 acres of this great forage are now grown in the state. “Alfalfa growing is popular in Wis- consin,” declares R. A. Moore and L. F. Graber in a- free bulleil just fs. sued by -the experiment station at Madison. “Where alfalfa c¢an be grown successfully, it excels all oth- er hay crops in yield to the acre. foed- ing value, drought ‘resistance, soil en- richment, and weed eradication.” Trials conducted on the Wisconsin experiment station farm at Madison show that alfalfa gives yields practi- cally doubie that of clover hay and three times as much as timothy. An acre of alfalfp produced In a single season three times as much protein as an acre of clover and nine times as much as an acre of timothy. COVER BROKEN WINDOW PANE Glass Should Be Replaced Without " Unnecessary Delay—Muslin or Paper Is Good. When a window glass hecomes broken in the poultry house it should be replaced or covered without a day’s delay. By ’no means should the aper- ture be left over night. It is but the work of a few minutes to tack over the hole a thick piece of muslin or other white cloth. This will keep out the wind and let in some light. If muslin is not handy, paper can be used. This is, of course, only ~a makeshift until one can get the glass needed. RAISING STOCK WITH CROPS When All Things Are Considered * There Is Nothing More Depend- able on Any Farm. Live stock is not always profitable; neither 1s exclusive crop growing. Men cannot always be sure anything will be profitable. But when all things are considered what is surer and safer than live stock with crops? Conditions In Mexico were de- scribed as intolerable by Gen. Robert Lee Howze, commander of the El Paso district, when he testified before the senate subcommittee investigating the Mexican situation. He expressed opinion that affairs in that country had grown steadily worse in the last ten years, and that, “left solely in the control of the Mexicans,” the future of that country was “hopeless.” He said, among other things: “The intolerable conditions which have covered a period of nearly ten years have continually grown worse and I am convinced the apex of shame- fulness and horror as viewed from the American conception of justice and decency was reached last fall, a con- dition which still exists. “The Mexican government during this -ten years of critical time has never, as far as I can determine, done one genuinely friendly thing toward our government. On the other hand, been an Increased estrangement and ple of the IJnited States.” ALL WENT INTO THE BILL Meroccan Ruler Feund in the End That He Pald for His Heurs of Bridge. How the sultan of Morocco, Mulal Hafid, played bridge with his dentist has been amusedly told. A close friendship sprang up be- tween the sultan "and an English dentist, and as often as not, bridge took the place of dentistry. The dentist would arrive with his timid lady assistant, and all his implements of torture, only to be imvited to sit down at the table and play cards. The lady-assistant was very young and very shy, and was more accustomed to play children’s card games than bridge. A fourth player would be found and the fll-assorted party com- pleted. The ex-sultan enjoyed himself immensely. He generally won, per- haps by never permitting the trembling lady assistant to be his partner. The points were one franc a hundred, so no very serious damage could be done; but rich .as the sultan was, he re- jolced more in his humble winnings at bridge than over his many thousands in the banks. Not a little of his en- joyment was owing to the fact that he felt that he was “doing” the dentist. “He comes,” the ex-sultan would say, “to mend my teeth and to take my gold, and in the end I win his francs.” But oné& day the climax came. The teeth were excellently repaired—the work was of the best—there was no more to be done but to pay the bill— and the bill very maturally and rightly included all the bridge hours, at so much per hour. Tt was the most ex- pensive bridge Mulai Hafld ever played. OLD MYSTIC RITE TEMPLE Vestibule Uncovered at Rome Scene of Historic Event That Was De- scribed by Tacitus. A ceilgious discovery, but of a pagan kind, was made some time ago under the railivay combankment a few hundred yards outside the Porta Mag- giore, Rome, Italy., It consists of a vestibule elaborately decorated with mythological suhjeets, such as Jason taking the Golden Ileece, the punish- ment of Mars; by Apollo, the story of the Danaids, the Lberation of Aeson and a troop of Moenads riding on pan- thers, It is conjectured that this ves- tibule was a place where, in the early decades of the first century of our era, mystic rites were celebrated. In- deed, it is supposed that this was the exact locality of an historical event, described by ‘Tacitus in the twelfth book of his “Annals” as having hap- pened in 33 A. D, during the reign of Clandius. The historian ' relates how Agrippina, mother of the future Zmperor Nero, coveted the gardens of T, Statilius Taurus, who had been consul a few years earlier and gov- ernor of Africa, and how she im- provised an accusation against him through a certain Tarquitius Priscus of practicing illegal mystic rites. Statillus Taurus anticipated his trial and now, nearly 19 centuries later an accidental landslip on the railwa) has led to the elucidation of this for gotten episode of Roman history. Mongolians Great Meat Eaters. Inhabitants of Mongolia are great mest eaters, living in some cases en- tirely on mutton. It i§ not uncommon for a Mongol to consume ten pounds of this meat at one sitting. He also compares other foods by asking if they are as good as mutton. The Mon- gol puts mutton fat in his tea, whick iz prepared with milk from the poor- est grade of tea, pressed into bricks. He drinks enormous quantities of this, 380 cups a day being no uncommon amount for an adult. The natives eat whenever opportunity. comes, there being no regular meal hours. ‘Water is scarce in Mongolia, a few wells along the caravan route ¢urnishing the entire supply. During esimeme —— the Mexican government, or its peo- ple. has done no end of discourteous, contemptuous and offensive things of large importance toward our government and our people. The result has an increased hatred against the peo- the winter and spring the camel is the only animal that can cross the desert and suhsist on the dried- up grasses. At this season of the year blocks of ice are carried for water supply, and in other seasons two large tubs are carried on each camel, one tab on each side. Chinese Towns Thrown Together. One can never speak correctly of a Chinese village or town or even of a city as having been “laid out.”” Itisa mere jumble of habitations. It has streets, so-called, usually a network of them. But no two of the streets run parallel, except this occurs by acel- dent; and no one of them is straight. Sometimes in a village a quarter to a third of a mile long there will not be a single cross-road or street whereby a vehicle can get from the front to the rear of the village. Outside the treaty ports and a few of the larger towns, the paths—they are little more—are too narrow for even the passage eof the ricksha, Remembered Father. ... . Stanton understands that his father is a traveling man, and tries to ceunt the days until the two or three weeks’ trip has been made, and a few hours romp begins. At the end of two weeks recently he recelved a card from fa- ther explaining it would be a few days longer before he came heme. Shortly after receipt of the card he was heard talking to his baby broth- er and quiet peeping enabled us to ob- serve him holding the card over the baby's crib while he kept repeating. “This card is from father; don't yow remember father?” Drs. 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