The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, September 28, 1905, Page 12

land was seluole for nach 47 rope ua TRIED PLAYING HuBO, durum wheat—fer this wheat EXPERIMENTER FOUND THATTHE make a big crop on only ten agplted rainfall-and be eaid, co quisk 08 8)" 241 HOBO HAS SOURED THB SOULS OF HUMANITY. MACARONI OR DURUM WHEATS Work of the United States Department of Agricultare. Gu Y ELLIOTT MITCHELL. fess All American Acres of Some Use, | “Why, we have no useless American | acres. We shall wake them ail produc- | Connecticut Man Thought It an Easy | tive. We bave agricultural explorers} Matter to Travel Penniless from | in every far corner of the world, and | New York to Torrington Now they are finding crops which have be-| Reatizes His Mistake. come so acclimated to dry conditions, | similar to our own im the West, that A prosperous Connecticut man has made what be believes to be a fair test of the charity of the world, and has found it wanting. More, he has lost faith in his friends and is absolutely convinced that clothes do make the wan, bo matter what schools may teach or teachers preach. William A. Gleason is his name. He was a delegate to the National Temper- ance Convention at Wilkes-Barre, Pa., ead stopping over in New York on his way home, he decided to play “hobo” for the remainder of the journey, and started out without money and dressea like a tramp. He Had Theories, He argued that the world is charit- able. He believed that car conductors would take pity on his plight and give him “lifts”; that farmers would allow the homeless one to sleep in their barns, and that kind-hearted housewives would feed the hungry after the man- ner of the Good Samaritan. Now he knows better. The first conductor he told his hard luck tale to would have thrown bim off the car if ~ hadn't ete The we shall in time have plants thrivi first night out he was “turn lown upon all of our mocaliod acid uae by half a dozen farmers and slept Aud talks with the various explorers| hungry next to a fence. Housewives and travelers of the Department shows| called to their dogs when he ap- that the Secretary's statement is} proached, and one woman—charitable founded upon conerete facts, Already|soul—made him saw wood for two from distant and little-known quarters/ hours for one meal. of the globe, and especially from the vast dry regions of Central Asia—the Friends as Bad as the Rest. Matters got so bad at last that In Perfect Adaptability Under all Conditions to The Strong Old Hickory The efforts of the Department of Ag-/ most all of the cases the decision was riculture not only contemplate the in-/ given in faver of the bread made from troduction into the United States of) durum wheat four. improved plants aud crops from foreign Then began the planting of this; countries to take the place of those Wheat on a great scale by the farmers} which American farmers are already Of the Northwest all along the western growing, and the breeding up and bet-| Cuge of the wheat belt, where it yielded tering of those which we now have; but “wenty-five, fifty and even seventy-tive also the introduction of plants onto Per cent. better than blue stew ur Lhe) great areas of country now thought to, “ther standard wheats, be unfit for farming. Opposed by the§Millers. Encroachment is constantly being made upon the waste places of the; But now came a check, It was Gifi- land; the semi-desert and the low cult to grind this wheat, and the grow-! places, by the introduction of crops which, through long years and centu- ries of acclimatization in similar regions of the Old World, have become either drouth or water resistant. A striking example of this sort of work, which has already proven a high success, is the Introduction of the maca reni wheat plant, or, as it is more properly called, durum wheat. To Establish Macaroni Factories. It was Secretary Wilson's idea at first to introduce the culture of this _ Swedish Oats. Black Finolsk. MANUFACTURED BY Kentucky Wagon Manufacturing Co. LOUISVILLE, KY. LARGEST PRODUCERS OF FARM WAGONS IN THE WORLD Durum Wheat Bluestem Wheat liwe NEW OATS THE INTRODUCED BY DEPARTMENT. VARIOUS KINDS OF Du M WHEAT ees found arrayed against them the combi mn oof Northowester s, Who said that the wheat made only inferior flour and would not make edible bread, But the farmers had the Department of Agri- culture back of them, and Mr, Wilson had his own conviction about durum Wheat and Northwestern millers, and, moreover, he had the courage to bi Memup. The trouble with the mil jas that with the milling apparatus which they used for grinding ordinary No. 1 Red, they could not grind the rder durum, and so they forced the price of wheat down in the market and threatened to have Secretary Wilson removed unless he stopped advising farmers to grow durum wheat. The Secretary, it seems, held his job, and the farmers had faith in him and con- tinued planting durum wheat to the IF YOU WANT A JACK Send for our Jack Catalogue. Sure to con tain the description of exactly what you want Hydraulic Jacks our Specialty Watson-Stillman Co., 46 Dey St., N. Y. 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" bl thi duce luxuriant yields. friends were no more charitable than the rest of the world, and without ex- Opens Vast New Grain Belt. ception he got from them the cold But to return to durum wheat, Mark} Shoulder, and not cold pork shoulder A, Carleton, to whom Secretary Wilson} either, sent me for “details,” said this; A postmistress scowled at him when “The Durum Wheat Belt extends on} he wrote three postal cards in the post extent of several million additional|2n average the width of the United] office, because he was disreputable acres each succeeding year. States. It includes a very large frac-| looking. Forced the Millers to Terms. Ma Ros mace ag ie on Even the Dog Misunderstood. “Tam thinking the millers will come! inches of rainfall and yield fifteen| Even a dog that he met troubled his ; tround to grinding durum wheat,” he bushels to the acre, where ordinary | soul and made him waste half an hour DURUM WHEAT NOT INJURED BY RUST | mending his trousers, In all his jour- ORDINARY WH PRACTICALLY ney he met but one person who was DESTROYED. kind to him, and this was a waitress. Gleanings in Bee Culture teaches you about bees, how to handle them for honey and profit. Send for free copy. Read it, Then vou'll want to subscribe. — 6 month's trial 2c, Don't delay but do it to-day, A.1. Root Co., Medina, Ohio, BOOKS—BOOKS We have published some good: ones spec- ially suited for farmers, Books that will help every farmer to make more out of his farm Write for our catalogue. wheat for supplying macaroni and the concurrent establishment of a new American manufacturing This feature has been a sue ronl, however, is not as among Americans as it is in Italy, and no very great things were expected, Nevertheless, Mr, Mark Carleton, a expert, W sent abroad into and ‘Turkestan to get seeds of durum wheats, and these he brought Russi in a cheap Bridgeport restaurant, who read him a lecture on the error of his ways. Mr. Gleason says he is glad he made the trip, but he doesn’t want to try it again. The charity of the world, he has found, {s not what it is cracked up to be. —_—_—_—_——S IMPORTANT AFFAIRS, WEBB PUBLISHING CO., St. Paul Minn. Well Drilling Machines ei the Over 70 sizes and styles for drillin; back some years ago, and the Depart- In at the Finish Proves cdieee a hall ia i ment distributed them for trial in dit- : ither deep or shallow wells in any kin ferent parts of the country. They grew _York Springs (Pa.) Comet : We al- ABSOLUTE RELIABILITY pe tg pho pears Oe wheels or well, so well, in fact, and under such : ays thought our tow n was finished, of the ieee Ny Lied ee meh Ap dry conditions where other wheat mut we see that E. P. Brenizer is pre- e b ng, simple ie Posh nn ny me- would not yield profitably that it was paring to build a new barn. chanic can operate them easily. considered a shame that this splendia em 7 n 6) n SEND FOR CATALOGUE looking, large-grained wheat, which is moreover, rust proof, could not be made ous mek una WILLIAM BROS., Ithaca, N.Y. hey Los ae aah Pheat and . inh of Rice, has announced his intentions TYPEWRITER “supposed to be good for only macaroni and vermicelli. Uscless, Said the Croakers. But the Department of Agriculture is nothing if not progressive, and the cerealist experts began to investigate whether it might not possibly be some good as a bread maker. Dozens of ex- periments were made in bread mak- ing and baking—a line, you may say, somewhat out of the beaten pathway of an agricultural department—and final- ly it was;announced by Mr, Carleton that splendid bread could be baked from this durum wheat flour—light. nutritious and sweet as a nut. A hun- dred loaves were baked for the Depart- ment by a Washington bakery from the durum wheat flour and a_ hundred other loaves from regular Minnesota flour, and then samples were sent out to a hundred different judges to deter- mine which was the best bread. In al- NEW ALGERIAN BARLEY IN TEXAS MADE 74 BUSHELS TO THE ACKE AGAINST 25 BUSHELS OF ORDINARY BARLEY PLANTED ALONGSIDE. sald. “The farmers of the United States will grow it because it is a splen- did crop for them, throughout a very wide belt, and I guess the millers will rather have to grind it.” Moreover, he intimated that the millers were at lib- erty to go right ahead and fire him. Year before last some six million bushels of this durum or macaroni wheat was grown; last year the crop barleys of wonderful drouth-resisting toi had increased to about eleven million bushels and the present crop is esti- mated by Mr. Carleton at from twenty to twenty-five million bushels. But the industry has but barely started. In connection with this subject I asked Mr. Wilson last spring how much “wheat is an absolute failure. This is about two bushels more than the aver- age wheat yield for the United States. “There are many other crops with as great possibilities which thrive on but slight moisture, including splendid for- age plants. I might mention Kaffir corn, the sorghums, millets and brome grass, as well as new kinds of oats and powers, the emmer or speltz and a long line of others. Plenty of Food for the World. “We are constantly finding new grains and forage plants in the Cau- casus, in Algeria, in Turkestan and other dry countries which will bring under cultivation amazing areas of now waste lands.” n the face o s, wha e prediction, a few years ago, of Sir Wil- liam Crooks, of England, look like, to the effect that the agricultural lands of the earth had practically reached their producing limit in. grain production, and who foresaw within a short time an increasing population crying un- availingly for bread? Fish Cannot Live in Pare Water. By use of their gills fishes breathe the air dissolved in water. Transferred to water from which the air has been artificially driven out, or in which the. air absorbed by them is not replaced, they are soon suffocated. The~ require aerated water to maintain life aud they take it in constantly bones i their mouths, retaining the air and expeil- ing the water through their gills, Should the water in a Inke be com- pletely cut off from contact with the air long enough for the fish ta exhaust the supply of air, they would die. It would take a severe and long contin- ued freeze to accomplish this, but it might happen, and doubtless has fre- cients apiadibin Unique Fishing. - Up in Wisconsin there ts a disciple of Isaac Walton who has a unique way of propelling his boat and fishing at the same time. Fitted up at the stern ‘ ‘ ‘ of the boat there Is a paddle wheel) yecrt'%,nuten | charged, with, Nepo- something on the same style as those used on the Mississippi river steamers. 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