Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 5, 1909, Page 42

IMBER Educational Purposes and Value of the Great National Corn Exposition HE Corn show-what Is it? ment of Agricuiture at the Alaska-Yukon- of Agriculture has thrown Its influence (only to retain the grand champlon sweep- [others will put on demonstrations with| making, and the wheats to make the |Amusement with instruction. For Instance, The story of how the latent | Pacific exposition in Seattle during the | against the Insects and other “powers that [stakes trophy in the world classes {the assistance of experts and with the[best bread will be ground and the bread |any moving plcture show can get films forces of the law which control | summer of 1%, was brought to Omaha in | prey.” 1 In additlon to the regular lists, several |ald of strong lights, that their work may | baked. The prize wheats will be milled reproduction ean be made to|elght baggage cars and is now installed| Individual exhibits will probably number |supplemental lists have been offered by |be seen In &ll parts of the lecture room.|to demonstrate that they deserve the make the soil ¥leld more of its|at the National Corn expesition, together | 10000—drawn from farms itentiary, the pursuit by guards, the fight showing convicis escaping from a pen- / in | parts of [corn clubs, grain growers' assoolations | For instance, under the direction of the|prizes they have won In the woods or & tragedy i of L 1 N n the home o riohes to the agrioulturist will | with such exhiblts as the Interior Depart: | the eountry by the offer of the National|ihe young women entering the domestic | Beef Producers' assoctation, the carcas of| BHut all will not resemble & big school [an escaped convict, but cnly the National } be told at the National Corn exposition | ment could show to advantage a great| Corn exposition to pay $50,000 in prizes, and |science and art department. Tiese ex-|# Whole steer will be cut up dally by|room with hard lessons to learn. Enter-|Corn exposition shows which opens on Decernb 3 1 plctures of con- P grain and grass show, sure to bo attended | the offer by Interested and enterprising |hibits will all be arranged in the Omaha |€Xpert butchers In the glare of a “spot| talnment of an exceptional character has |victs making good roads on scientifle prin The Corn show exemplifies the achieve- | by some 200,00 farmers | firms and individuals, to award a score of | Auditorium and auditorium annex, having |liEht.” while a lecturer explains the best| been provided on the program. By speclal |ciples in the picturesque mountains of Vir ments attained in the development of plant | One of the most Interesting features of [ gold and siiver trophies to the exhibitors |a combined fioor &paco of over 2M.000|Cuts of meata to buy, shows the cheaper | permission of President Diaz of Mexico, the |ginta. These tilms were taken in Virginia values, by the same kind of painstaking the government exhibit will be to show | of the best samples of grains and grasses. |square feet. Fvery exhibit may be easily |cuts and tells how the wise housewife|famous Mexican National band will be |during the summer when the conylets were Study and sclentifio care that has EIven | what has been accompMshed In eradicating| In offering these prizes tha exposition |seen, professignal guides being employed | Wil buy thess cuts and serve them In a[in Omaha during the twoe weeks of the working to give the state among the best highbred animal life. The utilization of management|to locate any Individual exhibit desired | way to make roads in the United States. Another enter heredity is the whole story. There is a has made a|from any state or county. The judges have | them as dealra talning film shows how In some states rather materfal vindication of the doctrine rale whieh|also volunteered to be in attendance con- | pie as the more great comfortable carriages are provided of the murvival of the fittest In the lesson Wil make jt|stantly after the judging 1s done that they | o x pen s ive to take schpol children to graded h taught by tha Corn chow. The exposition Possible for|might explain to exhibitors the points on| meats. The schools, The whole trip is made from the I8 conoerned with not corn alone, but all | the amateurs | which certaln grains are awarded prises, | time the driver cracks his whip until the ral 880 igh o e | In bractica’, | w) \ g.;nr and p:rlx . { l;\ !‘ylp. t :\ il he woie m.“{ while others fail to win school house Is reached; he gathers up led wn agricultural show since its scope | ic the little ones with their dinner baskets SO A § ek widehed Beyond 1Ne farmi ng h.I In a lecture room \\IH(h‘ will be open prepared in the ety 14 original beginnipg. win pry at javery Wioraing and svening, smen, gt | domestie sci- e ride the horses, others exchange p the 1908 ex.|tonal reputatior will speak on subjec storles with the driver—it sure pleni The exposition might be compa: position, rul- | pertaining to farm and commercial lite, | ®NCe depart day and comes every day in some dl world's electrical show. In such Ing out theland individuals, J. Hill alone of- | Ment and thoss cheaper cuts will then be == - d to a show the = triets. The fllms were made for the corn electridians show how to harness and drive ; D r ofesstonals, | fering mare than $2,500 in gold as prizes “"I“ want 10 be show in Minnesota. electriclty, making it do the work which Who .may en- {“shown" may 4 h for grains and grasses. | Exhibits of the foreisn countr men do, but in greater quantity. At the i iy vy have an op- foreisn countries may 3 National Corn exposition, sclentists and D be farmers who are making brains with muscle, shows how to harness up and | use the energy of heredity to Increase the production of feod in the world | In short, the exposition shows that re production Is the basis of the creation of new wealth. It is an inspiration to any- one, whether farmer or business man, be- cause It deals with the work of supplying the world's necessities, of making men and women more prosperous and happy by gi only “in“whien ! A Junior premium list to be awarded 0 [portunity to counted as entertalnment, Mexico mes with its splendid exhibit, showlins how the Indlans of that country have thrown away superstition and are 5 recting the works of creation,” which only 4 o ® few years ago they feared to do. o3 India brings samples of duced In that country & an em bread basket, but now propgring to « | tribute to the food supply with w | teed a hungry world England and Canada show th the grains y intensive farming on the othe \ ing them more and better food. Atlantic, the accompiishments in g Back of the exposition and meeting in grains from southern climes to the far Omaha during the time the gralns and north grasses are on display, are two organiza- tions which are rasponsible for increasing the products of American farms $1,000,000,000 | annually—the National Corn assoclatlon and the American Breeders 8. These organizations assure the attendance of men who have international reputa tions #¢ leaders in agricultural thought eonomists, sclent bullders of great rallroads which have made possible the in- | tense development of the agricultural re. | glon and kept the stream of pioneers ever | pouring into the new lands of the west. | Besides these organizations, twenty-five state agricultural colleges and experimen- | tal statlons have put their tremendous in fluence and resources Into the “corn show" to make it a success and each will demon: Alfalfa from the lfoly La rather unusual exhibit, but this wonderful plant give fdentical with the grass fed caravans in Biblical clation. | since wolved the probie and maintenance |n given a balanced Plied the “hog's idea of He The great development of Alaska and Hawall under American government wil | be shown by exnibits from these countries [ | Wheat from Alaska, corn from the warm | wolls of Hawaii T e o ON_TEN Combine with these the exhibits of grains from lands under irvigation because of \ the lack of molsture; the grains from swamp lands where water four feet decp i strate the work being done in the state to \ e TN 0 they have not won priges before (boys and girls in the schools has aleo [taste the meats as propared, thus dem- has been pumped off and twenty feet of make the farms more productive and the ») S—’ ) &v,v’y‘i and compete only for the trophies |been arranged, together with priges for |onstrating that the cheaper ocuts need swamp grass destroyed, and the bounty ”’ work/of running them an art. 4 {“ é el O\ In) the sweepstakes. This ruling |All the knowledge they have stored up by |only to have sclenga simplify the secured by the “dry fatming” methods on The United States government, through means there will be new win- |vears of study may be drawn on by the|cooking method to make desirable. arid lands, and the visitor will have an Its Department of Agriculture and De- |the Insects which annuaily destroy millions neré in 1809 and the $50,000 list |visitors in a practical way, 88 a good busi-| In the same way one of the leading | exposition, giving three cengerts daily. |OPPortunity to see at a glance the bound- partinent of the Interfor, will show that|of dollars worth of farm ecrops. Man has [of premiums gees to the Individuals show- |ness man draws on his bapk account, flour iillers of the ecountry will install | The motion pictures will be “different.” |less possibilities of production when brains these departments have been “‘making |always had competitors for the world's |Ing the best grains in their zones, Last| Many of these speakers will use the|a minature mill where various varieties | Many of them have been prepared by the|dssist brute force and meeting physical 800d” by making exhibits of thelr actual |supply of food. The insects have been |VeAF ane man won more than 35,200 on ten | stereoptican and the motion picture 'ma- | of wheat will be ground to make pastry | Department of Agriculture especially for |conditions of the land and the seasons fesults, The exhibit made by the Depart- jamong the most active, but the Department [acres of corn. He can enter this year [chines to iHustrate thelr addresses, while|flour, flour best adapted for cracker |the National Corn exposition and combine |88 they come and go. '~ r == - - = GOVERN“ENT’S AID TO CURN thing; that sofl that had been worked out | gular and coutour checks, in connection |ances used in seed testing, together with | shown at work In & field where it cuts its | tical fleld, supplementing them with hunfld..ne, $0 the conductor went into the tele- of certain qualities regained those charac- | with flooding. In addition, the constyue- |@ Working exhibit where daily demonstra- |swath of minlature grain in a very life- |lore, (rying them out at the experiment| graph office at once, and signed his or- teristics by resting. Thus a corn field be- | tion, uge and installation of various kinda |tions of testing forage plant seeds for me- | like and striking manner. chanical purity and germination will be conducted, glving visitors an object lesson stations and farms that extend from Maine | ders. came a meadow and the pasture land was |of gates are shown. |t California and then showing them at| “When the operator gave him his orders Uncle Sam is Helping the Farmer and | transformed into a waving fleld of malx All through the exposition, the work of The sclentific farmer, however, has|[the United States gopernment will be learned and demonstrated that the same |shown. The exhibit will rival that shown land may be used over and over again;|at any of the world's fairs and rxvuunlm;ll, WILL MAKE SIGNIFICANT EXHIBIT | that the life-giving features of the soil |whera the government exhibit has usually \ s 0 K T may be rejuvenated by proper fertilization |been the greatest atttaction. The exhibits and he has learned to compound mifxtures 'of the Department of Agriculture are al- Departments of Agriculture and In-|from the various salts of the earth that|ways interesting, and when the Interior terfor Will Show at Le make poor soil rich. department combines with the Agricultural Epitome of How Govern All these things have been encouraged |department, bringing to an exposition many by the government and the results of the |of the models from the patent office, a In methods employed and results obtained by the department The sugar beet industry recelves consid- erable amention and samples of the soil an which the beets have been most succes fully grown, the by-products of the' fac- tory, from the beet to the waste molasses, refined sugars from the factorles In ‘he United Btates, jams, preservea and every- thing put up with sugar, to the samples of fertilizers made from the refuse of the In its work of sclentific agrioulture and | its reclamation projepts the government is defeating the great unrest that seems (o pervade the country, For the first thne, perhaps, there is a general realization of not merely the pessibility, but the cer- tainty that all arable land of the entire country will ere long be settled upen and the opportunity to obtain free government land be gone forever. Already nearly all the lands which may be farmed by ordi- expositions as “Corn show" Omaha the results of their work. Why Some Wreoks Happen. Just what the aangers are continual’y time ralirpad telegraph frankly discusses in his confessions in the Amerlean Magazine. An Instance of care- that might have the conductor read them hurrledly as he walked forward to deliver them to the en gineer. When he handed the orders up to the engineer he sald, ‘We wait here until forty-five for the extra east' and, turning, walked back towards his caboose “Glancing at his watch, the engineer saw that it was about 11 o'clock, and sup- posing that the conductor meant 1 (which he did), he started out of town with only a glance at the orders. When great many people belng killed, he de-|he had hig train In motion and running scribes as follows: at good speed, the engineer began to read “An extra freight traln, westbound, re-|the orders more carefu’ly. When he read government's influence will be shown at |combination is secured which will interest |faotories, will comprise & part of this won- [ nary methods have begome the property the corn show. Land that formerly grew |all classes of people. Both Seoretary Wil- |derful exhibit. of the small farmer and today the pro- That the wealth of the United States|only stunted nubbins of corn now ylelds |{#on and Assistant Secretary Hays will at- | The Interior department has planned an | spective settler turns his eyes toward the | oueq un arder to do about an hour's|the one which ordered him to walt at 18 in her soll was the bellef of American | perfect ears of yellow corn. Increased vields | tend the exposition in Omaha. exhibit of special interest to the agricul- |irpigated and so-called dry farm 1ands | Gicnine ot a place T shal call Gardner, | Gardner until 11:45, he glanced up, to sce statesmen a few score years ago, when | are noticed on all soil where the pringl- | The exhibit of the Agricultural depart- | tyral ctasses. For Instanee, this depart- | of the arid and semi-arid states where the | mys gespatchier, using the threatened delay | the other train almost upon him. they created of Department of Agricul-|ples of scientific farming have been ap- |Ment was prepared with a speelal view of ment has taken from its patent offige, and [ bulk of the unoceupled land is found. to help along another extra hound in the| ‘No one was killed outright in’the wreck ture. These same men were tired of war| plied, Grain elevators are bulging out |Showing It to the 200,000 or more fAYmers gecured from those of forelgn countries, | All the exhibits of the government show [opposite direction, issued an order at|that followed, but a great deal of prop- and warllke preparations and, viewing the | with their stores of cereals where pre- |Who Will visit Omaha in Degember. models of every harvesting machine made. | that the federal departments are making |Gardner for the westbound train to wait|erty was destroyed, and one engineer was country in its vast expanses between the|i,uqy there were empty bins due to shory | The exhibit of the bureau of animal In-|mhege minjature harvesters tell the story | good; that a body of men of the soll, Who |there until 11145 a. m. for the eastbound | badly Injured. JNIARLY And the Paciflo, declared that the | gropg dustry will be of speclal intevest, GOmMINg | ¢ 1he evalution of farm machinery. They |have supplemented their “bringing up” on |extra. But when the westhound train| “Like the others I have m i TG QU which the: Naetle Awelt must a8 It does to ome of the centers O the | qy not simply appear In a case, but yun|the farm by the fhings taught by science |arrived at Gardner they found that there| Was due to Jjust a little carelessness—i “pay dividends. {meat-packing Industry, located equi-dlstant | o oo . ® s o ering all the things from the prage | was only & few minutes' switching to be | relaxing of vigilance for a few mipute iy y eleetricity, the modern harvester heing |are gathering all the things from the praes [ was on a 5 Little, however, did those men dream of | BUt (he government has not stopped With [grom the great feeding yards and the ol the intricate problem that the men would |™Mere fertilization of the soll. It has ex- | anges, It will cover the general work of face who have had before them con- |lénded its efforts to creating more ol {¢ng hurean which deals with the investis stantly, the question of getting from the |SUitable for raising crops. It has ought yjon control and eradication of diseases in . %oll the greatest possible profit, They |0 convert desert land into farming country ntioned, 1 Creating More Soil, e e ———————re . commercial animals; the Inspeetion and vealised that In the rich loam of the|ANd NoW. where the principle of irrlgatlon | ,aranting of live stock: inspeetion of meat viver valleys and on the rolling prairies|"8¢ been applied, there are gr OBS18 o1 q meat produets, as well as with animal of the country there was wealth, but|)"ere formerly there were barren wastes. (., hanary and dairying they did not figure out the problem (!N Colorado, In Wyoming, in Montana and the lands of the west and the great north- Dipping Cattle nnd Sheep, west great empires &re being reclaimeq| Medels showing the dipping of cattle and | se of man by means of water sheep for the eradication of mange or government has spent milligns of ScAbbles; pathologlcal specimens of ani- » THE PRIDE OF OMAHA sanitary construction, and paintings show- | S SR 5 -l ' o o of naking the soll give up its riches. | n thelp minds was the plan of broadening the scope of the government and by the | creation of a new department affect a means of promoting good Investments in the .land. These men wanted something fone to promote the cultivation of the soll of a country, the most fertile of all lands ypon which the sun has ever shown, MThey looked upon the western plains, s in tapping streams and diverting thelr channels so that the water may be | made to furnish molsture to the thivsty |INE various brieds of horses, cattle, aud | lands. Irrigation canals now thread the | Other commereiul animals, are only a few arld lands and deserts of the western things which the bureau animal in states and the lands through which they dustry will show In the exhibit . | 4 Apot flow are now veritable gardens of 1iden 'The bureau of plant industry embraces a lha‘ roling prairies and the wrid lands, [ bearing fruits and grains of untold wealth, | broad and varied field of wetivity in solv- | & bonanza, walting \for a Columbus 10 |mpe sreat Gunnison tunnel in the famous IN& the diverse and Intrieate preblems fiscover the wealth burled beneath the |y, .npahgro valley of Colorado was | Which confront the farmer in crop produe- ) 4 Woodmen of the World|| 4 4. opened at a signal from President Tafi|tlon, The organization of the bureau, the | But Wil Give Out. | during Wis trip through the west this fall 1ines of work which it embraces, the loc But as yecars have gone by and genera- and when ater gushed from this costly tlon of experiment stations where Investi 58 R —— —— S —— z== = == == tions used the lands, they found the|mcuntaln bore thousands of acres of land |gations ave being conducted under the di lodes and pockets of earth, which contain | were redeemed for the use of man. This reetion of the bureau, will be graphically 5 precious metals, exhausted and likewlse | Wwas a government project and simiar pro- [shown by chiwrts and maps. \the farms. Thus the study has been taken | jects are now being worked out by Unele| Owing to the grest lmportance of the THE MMIONUMENTAL ORDER » | The Strongest Fraternal Life Insurance Order in America ' up of how these lands may be made to|Sam's engineers throughout the country. |grain industry, the office of graln lnvesti, vield year after year. When “pot luck™ | The Department of Agriculture has joined | gation and inspection is glven special prom- | Is over in mining, sclence finds a way to|Wwith the Department of the Interior In|inence by the bureau of piant industry concentrate ‘ow grade ores. When farmers | furthering the work of agriculture thyough- | Samples of the leading eereals, embracing | face ‘“mgricultural bankruptcy’” the De-|out the United States. At the Alaska-|all those imported by the Department of partment of Agriculture, with its system | Yukon-Pacific exposition the government | Agriculture, will be shown by the depart- of experiment stations, finds a way to|exhibited the products of (he United States. {ment at Omaha. Mueh care has be rotate crops, select leties, restore the|This same exhibit will be placed In the | taken in selecting and preparing these fertility and intensify farming—sort of |National Corn show in Omaha samples, and all aio labelcd. The origl of work over the tallings at a profit | How Exhibit Will be Made, ench varlety is noted, as well as its value What the Department of Agriculture is| The exhibit will be made by bureaus and |and the regions to which It is best adapted sccomplishing in this work s to beloffices, showing in a graphic way Just|Specimens illustrating the effect on rust, graphidally shown at the coming National|what the department s accomplishing, 1t smut and othe injurious fungus diseascs, | Corp exposition to be held In Omaba |will be supplemented by an exhibit from |complete the exhibit of the office and it is | Decomber § to 18 An exhibit Is to be|gng Interior department showing the evolu- | & complete “corn show” in ftself. | made which will show that the Depart-|(jon of farm machinery. The harvester, for | Study of Publle Highways, ment of Agriculture is doing just what|instance wil be shown from lts infancy the men intended it to do, who planned|yo s perfection. These little harveste years ago to do gomething from Washing-'\iil ail be run by electricity and all | In the study of public highwa governwment | ot been lax he best ' | ton wiith wou'd make the people more|\ner . B pcreiy sed Ml ‘,.l‘ kind of roadways over which to haul grain | o ‘ “ & L 83 01| judieq with o view to improving loca #00d and doing something for the majority | binders.” Going around and cutting down . ’ 4 of the American people—the farmers—wiil| 4 swath of grain, the binders return to Whape thets Aps tch. SPays) veing. the: gov partment is taking advantage of the op-|cut—like a field of alfalfa in the west, |y r. sl g 3 F d t i l i t d 1} has been discovered d now here t e | portunity offered at the show to demon- | Which Erows as fast s it can be eut. |8 160 GRCRITEL B TR BeE e 9$9,000,000.00 Emergency Fund to minimize cost an strate conclusively that it is “makng| The exhibit of the bureau of animal fu- | ' shipped in, which is used In paving the country roads #00d"; that it Is working out the plans of | dustry will be of special interest, coming the statesmen who devolved the scl a8 it does, (0 one of the eente e iF of making the sofl pay dividends. It s Packing industry, located equi-distant from | yoads us great hihw golng to show (he people that science has | the fecding farms and the ranges. Lt will | whicl learned to make worked-out farms produce <O the general work of the bureau which |to the rvallroads. There will be on exhib! rich harves: deals with the Inv ation, control and |tion at the Corn show models showing the All dver the country are agricultural eradication of diseases of commerecial anl- | different kinds of roads now being bullt. | schools where sclentific farming is taugl mals; the inspection and quarantine of live | Fifteen different samples will be on exhi- Every state university has an agriculturai | Stock; inspection of meat and meat bition. In addition to these models the department and there are mamy Institu- Producis. Models showing the dipping ot | Sovernment will exhibit machinery used In tions devoted exclusively to pursuits along | C8itle for the eradication of scables and |Toad construction and & complete rock- the lines of agricultural research, Thesc| MAnNge: pathological speeiniens of animal ) SFUShing plant will be in full operation ate the colleges of practical, twentl diseascs; a model sanitary dairy stable and | Minlature road-making machinery will be century method ¢ paintings showing breeds of cattle, horses, |1 OPeration during the exposition. Tallor-M Paatkish. Dogs and sheep will be showa, The bureau of entomology will have an : 4 ok Y interesting exhibit. Enlarged modgs of The great colleges and universities are| A model of an irrigate “arm will be an | injurious and beneficial insects and & large turning out “tailor-made” farmers, but "olher attraction, one which neither the ' golleetion of bugs of economic importance. these same made-to-order farmers are mak- | man who works the farms nor the man of | with specimens illustrating their habits, Ing the hayseeds of the old school sit up the cit il fall to recognize as of high |wiill be on exhibition, The bureau has made and bebold. Science has taught the mod-|value. The crops represented In the model |a speelal Study of iFsects harmtul to (he | ern farmer that lands may be compeiled |are orchard fruits, alfalfa and sugar beets, | grains, frult trees and forest timbers of to yield crops of greater proportion; that|The portion of the modcl showing orebard |the nation. the fold may be two-fold in muny cases, | irrigation, illustrates both the furrow and | Pure Seed 1 and that there is no such thing as waste | basin methods of applying water, 1and. . Alfalfa Under Ireigntion. The old-time farmer Jearned by exper-| In alfalfa culture under irrigation, the fence thapTutation of crops was - good | model lustaies the use of border, restan- of the mea guarantee permanency. 9 Thirty thousand monu- ments erected to memory of deceased members. 0ld Age Disability Benefits on Reaching 70 Years of Age Get Permanent, Not Temporary Fraternal Life Insurance--Get the Best. JOHN THOMAS YATES, Sov. Clerk the country | 5 up of commerce over the produce of the farms must ride JOSEPH CULLEN ROOT, Sov. Commanier igation. Pure seed investigation is a very impor- tant and practical line of work carried on in the seed laboratory, and at the exposi- tion ln Omaha will be shown all the appil- » # : 7 . .