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BEST ID OF CROP SOW FOR QUICK PASTURE SUPT. OF AGRICULTURAL EX TENSION DEPARTMENT OP FÜRDUE TELLS j FARM ERS WHAT TO PLANT. SUPPLEMENTARY PASTURE When Clover Is Short Rape, Cow Peas, Soy Beans, Oats, Rye, Vetch and Pumpkins Are Good. Lafayette, Ind., April 27. Iu diana farmers find that they are in need of more kn nvledize of crops to sow for an earlj pasture, as a re sult of the dirastrous effects of the drouth and" other unfavorable con ditions on the clover, crop durinir the past year, according: to Prof. M. L. Fisher of the Soils and Crops Department, and F. G. King: of the Department of Animal Husbandry, at Purdue, who have recently issued a bulletin on "Supplementary Pas ture Crops ' The bulletin is re ceiving the commendation of all who have seen it, and will be mail ed free to all farmers applying for same. In discussing the value of a pas ture, the bulletin recalls the -work of the Missouri Experiment Sta tion, which claims that "the average-amount of grain to produce a pound of gain with five dry lot ex periments was 5.11 pounds, and that when well balanced rations were used. The average amount of grain to produce n pound of gain with hogs on forage crops was 3.54 pounds. The forage crops thus ef fected a saving of 30.7 per cent in the amount of grain to produce the amount of gain. On this basis, the profits per acre of forage for pork worth six cents, may rangt from $7.25 to $35.61 per acre. The average value of a bushel of corn at this rate, vhen fed to hogs in dry lot, was 66 cents per bushel; the average valce of a bushel of corn fed to hogs on forage, 95 cents." Red clover is principally depend ed upon for hog pasture in Indiana, and in cases of crop failure, the farmers are at a loss to know just what to do. It is both possible to sow some quiek-growing crop, or series of crops, as well as econom ical, and thereby furnish an abund ance of hog pasture of almost the same feeding value as clover and at very little extra cost in time and labor. The Purdue men advise the sow ing of rape as one of the most satis factory crops for early hog pasture when clover is not available. This is a gross feeder and does its best on very fertile or heavily manured soil. It grows particularly well on old feed lots and lots used for yarding stock in winter, as well as on muck land. As a legume producing much forage and considerable grain, the bulletin recomends the use of cow peas, which require 90 days from the time of planting until it is de veloped sufficiently for pasturing, with some varieties. These will grow on almost any kind of soil but will do better on sandy soils and some of the poorer clay soils than most crops. It gives good returns, like most crops, from a good soil. The seed bed is prepared the same as for corn. Another legume which will be found available for planting under existing conditions, the soy-bean. The bulletin discusses exhaustively this plant and gives valuable ad rics concerning the feeding ration to be fed in connection with the legume. Canadian Field Peas, as an additional legume suitable for planting under Indiana conditions, is to be found satisfactory in the cooler climates. The bulletin also discussess the planting of oats, rye, vetch, crim son clover, sorghum, root crops, pumpkins, and gives a number of interesting tables showing the pas ture values of the various plants by months, and the proper time of sowing the recommended supple mentary crops for forage crops for hogs, as well as valuable sugges tions concerning the succession of forage crops in various parts cf the state. Prof. C. I. Christie, Supt. Ag. Ex. Dept. ' Purdue University. HAIR DALSAH CI mm and beaotofiaa th. h!l Promo a hrxunant growth. ttwTvr Tail to Beator Qrji our to xm loauuiu voor. Prerwita hair falling. JO BIG BUSINESS MUST BE REGULATED (Continued from page 6) be a sham rather than to see the inauguration of the policy of real control which I advocate, a con trol which would corect evils and yet promote prosperity. It is' cur ious to see the worst of the big business interests and the least wise of the extremist agitators playing into one another's hands in trying to preserve the present svstem of chaos in business law in : preference to a system of ordered j supervision and control under which we would secure definiteness of legal policy for all business and would guarantee to . big business proper treatment as an incident to exacting proper behavior from it. I believe that honest big business men and little business men alike will favor this control when tluv realize the sood it will bring, and I believe that the most far-sighted among them now favor it. But it is beinr opposed by the great New York dalies which speak for Wall Street, and by the newspapers which echo their views in other parts of the country, because they would rather rxva the risk of sacri ficing the general prosperity than see a thorough control of the big business that most needs that con trol. Protect the Public Against Trust Rapacity. It is the duty of the federal and state governments eacli in its own sphere at once to begin a policy of supervising the organization and management of big corporations so as to make it possible for small in vestors to participate safely in the ownership of shares and stock in all corporations which are subject to government control. There is .t present a gigantic capitalization of stocks and bonds which the Ameri can people pay from their earnings whatever annual interests and dividends are paid, and the Ameri can people should have the govern ment's guaranty of the honesty of that for which they thus pay. The Federal and State governments can if they. wish work harmonious ly together in a fair and honest ef fort to protect the people in this fashion. As President I asked Con gress to secure the same govern mental control of all big business, including railroads and transporta tion companies, which is now being exercised over national banks. In the case of the banks, the govern ment knows and directs every detail of management. The application of these principles with whatever variation the special needs may re quore to all classes of big business under competent administrative direction would be more effective in protecting the rights of the people ajrainst the rapacity and greed f the trusts and monopolies than ill the decisions rendered by the courts during the past twenty years. There should be publicity, that is, there shonld be broad day light in all big business, including every, form of monopolistic trade, and the federal .and state govern ments should be able to control them just as they control national banks, just as we are now beginning with reasonable effectiveness to control railroads. We must achieve a permawat prosperity based on justice, a pros perity which must come by the wise and resolute effort to control busi ness under clearly defined and definite law, by administrative work under the law. We must not pin our faith only to a succession of lawsuits, which, under pretense of strangling big business, punish real offenders inadequately, or pos itively benefit them, as in the cases of the Standard Oil and Tobacco trusts, and are at the same time a constant source of anxiety and alarm to honest business men whose anxiety is to find out the law and then live up to it. Birthday Party. The ladies of the Relief Corps with a number of invited guests enjoyed another one of their birth day parties Wednesday afternoon at the G. A. It. hall in honor of Mrs. Irene Miles who passed her "52 mile post at 10:30 a. m." a most excellent luncheon served, consisting of coffee, sandwiches, jello, pickles, cake and ice cream, after which a social hour was spent in jolly conversation, speeches and select readings, humorous and pathetic, by Mesdames Welsh, Field, Vanvactor and Miles. Only a Tire Hero but the crowd cheered, as, with burned hands, he held up a small round box, " Fellows !" he shouted, "this Bucklen's Arnica Salve I hold, has everything beat for burns.' Right! also for boils, ulcers, sors, pimples, eczema, cuts, sprains, brui ses. Surest pile cure. It subdues inflamation, kills pain. Only 25 cents at L. Tanner's and Fred Wenzler's. CASTOR DA Tor Infants and Children. Ths Kind Yea Hate Always Bought Bears the Signature of Second Performance of Pinafore. The Mozart club repeated the comic opera Pinafore at tb Orpheum Thursday night. The advance ' sale of tickets was good, and when the audience was all in only a few seats in the far corner w.?re empty. The rendition of the play was fully up to the first performance, and in some respects better. The audience appreciated the efforts of the club, and greeted them with loud ap plause. The characters and choruses have all been iven proper notice, and require no specializing at this time. The Mozart club wishes to thank the people of the city for the very good patronage given them, and promise that another year they will continue their work and have something more to present that will be of equal merit. This concert closes the work of the flub for this season, and an nouncement of the plans for next season will be given In due time. The club has much enjoyed their drill work this season and will cherish memories of the happy hours spent together. After the first act Thursday eve ning, the club was to give a new "stunt" for the benefit of Prof. Owens. The curtain being lowered a trifle too rapidly, spoiled the full effect, but they showered their director with carnations, as a mark of their apreciation of his work for them. He will be with them next year, as he declares that his love fo" the Mozart club is so jrreat th?t Plymouth shall be the last place he gives up. He will take a company to England in August, and his friends here wish him great success, and a safe return to America. CAME VERY HEAR BURNING TO DEATH A FIRE THAT CAME NEAR BE ING FATAL DESTROYS THE EDWARDS STUDIO IN THE METSKER BUILDING. At nine o'clock Friday evening J. S. Edwards, the Photographer in the Metsker building on Michigan street, was in his dark room de veloping. He had lighted a wood alchohol lamp under a bath that is used in his business, and in some way fire communicated from that to the furniture and stock in the room where he prints and does his work. He heard a cracking after' awhile, but the music in the store below did not allow him to notice partic ularly, till he felt a heat coming through his door, and throwing it open had just time .to dash past the fire to the front rooms. The fire was among the light inflamable material stored in this back room, and burned fiercely. The alarm was given, and in a few minutes Chief Kuhn was forcing Iiis men with a line of host up the stairway in front, while his 'assistant was carrying another lead of hose over the low buildings from the alley. The fire was soon over, being be tween two streams. The damage to the photograph gallen is large, es pecially in the working part, and the stock rooms. Fire did not reach the front part, though the smoke rolled from the Michigan street windows in clouds, making it a nasty and ugly fire for the men to handle. Large water damage was done to the Zumbaugh Piano and Music store directly below tht gallery, and to the Cigar store and pool rooms next south. Here is another case where the damage by water s greater than that by fire. It is not certain, but it is highly probable, that with a tank of chemical on a truck such as the city council has in view, in their scheme of equip ment for the fire department, the firemen could have saved all, or at least a good part, of the loss that was occasioned by water at this fire. The firemen will not say that they could really have put the fire entire ly out with the chemical, but quits likely it could have been done, and even if not entirely, the fire could have been held in check to such, a degree that the water loss would have been a nominal consideration. The losses are all fairly well covered bv insurance. A PROPHET Or the son of a phophet are not re quired to predict that farm lands in Marshall county will never cost less. Desirable, cheap government land has decreased so rapidly the past few years that improved farm ing lands in this section have felt the law of supply and demand and are rapidly increasing in value. Don't delay. See us today. The W. H. ROBERTS AGENCY Room 15 Richard Block COUNTRY LIFE SURVEY. Report of Work Done In Marshall County Now In Pamphlet Form and May Be Had. The "Church Census" made last summer through Daviess, Marshall and Boone counties has now been published in New York by the Pres byterian Department of Church and Country Life. It constitutes a pamphlet of ninety-eight pages anl is brilliantly illustrated with photo graphs, diagrams and graphic dis plays of country districts. A man does not need to be much of a read er to get the meaning of this story. It dwells upon the multiplication of churches in these three counties and shows the effect of those churches on the religious life of the people. It shows also how they reflect the religious thinking and feeling of these representative counties in "Indiana. This Survey or Census was made under the joint auspices of the In terdenominational Council of the Churches of Indiana and the Pres byterian Department of Church and Countrv Life whose Field men did the work of investigation. Those men were Mr. Ralph A. Felton and Mr. Clarence A. Xeft. Anyone who is interested in country institutions, all of which are described in the Survey, es peciallv in the countrv church as a representative institution that shows how the farmer lives and what he thinks, should read this Survey. It may be secured by sending 10 cents postage to Dr. Warren II. Wilson, Department of Church and Country Life, 15G Fifth Avenue, New York. Work at the New Factory. The work on the factory building is being pushed forward rapidly. The floors are being laid in the machine rooms, and the whole in terior is being given a coat of white. This is done by means of a force pump through a hose, which forces the mixture through a long nozzle, which is directed at ceilings and walls. It takes three coats to finish a wall, which tends to pre serve the wood and makes the rooms lighter and clean. Mr. Sroeberger is delivering some of the power, setting poles and run ning the necessary wires to supply the entire plant. Good work is being done, and done fast, which should be satisfying to Mr. Miehle. The Commercial club certainly is doing the part it has undertaken, and doing it in fine shape and with all possible speed. Oratorio at Bourbon. The Bourbon Choral club will jrive the oratorio, the Holy City, by Gaul, on Mav 0th. Thev have been working on this for some months, under the direction cf Haydn Owens son of Prof. II. W. Owens who directs the Mozart club of this eitv. Haydn Owens has been here several times and Plymouth people have a chance to know of In work. He was in the city Thursday eve ning and heard Pinafore, and was much pleased with its redition. A number of Plymouth people will at tend the concert at Bourbon, and it is not unlikely the entire Mozart club will eo, and others with them. Brownlee Bridge. Work has been going on very well with the abutments for the Pierce street bridge. They are working on the west side first. The ground is of a soft and watery nature, and they have to go down below the bed of the river. It is necessary to curb as they proceed, and only one section at a time is taken out, and the bottom grouting run in. The progress seems slow, but it is all in the water and mud, and con sequently is very hard labor for the men employed. It will go much faster after the bottom is in. Argos People in Wreck. A dispatch dated April 23, from Ft. Wayne says there was a wreck on the Wabash at Gar Creek, thirteen miles east of Ft. Wayne, caused by spreading rails. Mail train No. 5 was wrecked. Twenty people were injured, none fatally, however. Among the number Hat ed are Charles M. Sarber, a mer chant of Argos, and Charles C. Taber, son of the late Thomas O. Taber, of Argos. Both are injured by bruises and cutting by the glass. All the patients exe pt one were able to be sent to their homes. Undeliverable Mail Many magazines, papers, post cards, and various periodicals are received at post offices, from which the wrappers are torn, or the ad dress label is torn off, and it is im possible to know for whom they are intended. Heretofore the order has been to send such to the dead letter office,. There the accumulations be come so great that, it is a heavy ex pense to handle it, and nothing can be done but to destroy it. Postmas ter General Hitchcock sees that the return costs money and so does the handling after' it gets there. Hence he directs that postmasters shall give such matter to municipal au thorities for use in hospitals asy lums and reformatory institutions. Old papers now on sale at the Republican office. EDGERTOfl FACTORY VERY BUSY PLAGE CORRESPONDENT FOR MAR SHALL, TEXAS, SENTINEL . TELLS OF BASKET FACTORY. WHICH IS SIMILAR TO THE PLANT HERE. The Sentinel, published at Mar shall, Texas, tells of the basket fac tory at that place that is operated by the Edgerton company of Plym outh. It describes the factory there as the busiest place in Mar shall, or any where else for that matter. Men, women and bojs are at work at the various operations of basket making, from the time when the logs are rolled into the heated water vats, until the finished product is carried out and loaded into the cars. The pay roll for labor exceeds $1000.00 a week. There are no lack or orders, as the company has had to turn down more orders than they have ac cepted. The writer says: "If Marshall people only realized what this factory is doinjr, they would know that every dollar that has been put into business clubs has been more than made good by this one industry secured through this medium. It would do any pessimistic citizen good to go down to the fac tory and take a look, but he must be quick motioned, or he might get run over. A look into the plant in Plym outh reveals a state of things much like that described bv the Sentinel. Machines are slicing the lo.srs up into the staves that work into' the baskets, as they are advanced from one worker to the next, until as finished baskets they are piled cut in the sun and wind to dry. . The special baskets turned out at this season are designed for peaches, and the capacity of the factory is taxed to get out the or ders that come in by telegraph in most cases. The people who buy these baskets do not order until they are reasonably certain that a crop is sure, and then the factory is rushed, r.nd it' has been found necessary to run nights some. Mr. Cleveland expects to have some new special machinery installed in a few davs, and by the first week of the month the force will be add ed to. One hundred and sixty are now on the pay roll, which is about $2000.00 per week at this season. The factory is tuning out about 6000 baskets a day, and will increase by the middle of May to lO.OOo daily. The special design being made is a new pattern and enables them to load about a third more in a car than the old pattern. These baskets are placed on plat forms over the roofs, and are dry and ready to pack and ship in a day. The sun is not necessary, for if the wind is dry they season very fast. As in the Marshall factory, it would pay any one who has doubts about the factory as a business proposition, to step in and see the people at this work. ' But it will be well to have a guide, as the dan ger of being run over is here same as in Marshayy. Porto Rico's New Wonder. From far away Porto Rico come reports of a wonderful new dis covery that is believed will vastly benefit the people. Ramon T. Marchan, of Barceloneta, writes, "Dr. King's New Discovery is do ing splendid work here. It cured raj about five times of terrible coughs and colds, also my brother of a severe eolef in his chest and more than 200 others, who used it on my advice. We hope this great medicine will yet be sold "in every drug store in Porto Rico." For throat and lung troubles it has no equal. A trial will convince you of its merit. 50c and $1.00. Trial bottle free. Guaranteed by L. Tanner and Fred Wenzler. Per Capita of Wealth. The Indianapolis correspondent to the South Bend Times gives a list of one hundred and ten cities of Indiana, and shows from the state ments made public by the state board of accounts, the standing of each as regards the wealth of the various cities. Gary stands'' first with a per capita of wealth of $1,127.40, and Whiting comes next with $1,053.93, while Indianapolis the capital city comes third with $908.45. Stand ing about half way down the list, number 358, comes Plymouth, with a showing of $474.05 to each person. How many of you can show that amount? At the Teachers' Examination Eighty-six applicants received lists of questions Saturday, that were prepared by the state board, a certain per cent of which must be answered correctly before a license to teach school can be given. The would-be teachers say that the ques tions are well studied out, and many of ' them are simply unanswerable. Hens at Work. , Geo. Eckert of Linkrille reported Saturday that he collected on Wed nesday 656 dozen eggs, .and that be sold the same week 90 cases of eggs, which is 2700 dozen. Have You Seen The FREE Sewing Machine at Our Store? You cannot possibly realize that the best sewing machine on earth is being sold at an extremely low price until you see The Free at work. It is an absolute fact that when you pay more than the price of The Free for any sew ing machine no matter how well established, and how praised it may be you are not getting a full dollar's worth for every dollar you spend. The Lightest Running Sewing Machine, because it alone has eight sets of ball bearings. The Fastest Running Sewing Machine, because it alone has the Rotoscillo movement. The Most Perfect Stitching Sew ing Machine, because it alone has an automatic thread controller, automatic tension release, square feed, etc. The Most Convenient Sewing Machine, because it has a rotary spool pin, automatic shuttle ejector, improved head latch, belt guards, reinforced shuttle, etc., etc. The Most Beautiful, because it has a French leg design and dustless japanning. The Longest Lasting it is insured for five years against all accidents. In fact, The FREE Sewing Machine has more good points than all other sewing machines put together. All this at a ridiculous ly low price. You haven't done yourself or your pocketbook justice until you have seen The FREE. Come and see The FREE tomorrow 11 ATTENTION! FARMERS. Don't lump away your old iron for half the weight, when you can get every pound that's coming to you. Don't sell to road agents; they are not out for their health. Make the profit yourself by doing your own hauling. Don't believe it when a road agent tells you that he is buying for me in order to get your goods. I have no agents. Don't load down a poor old worn out horse, driven by a heartless hu man brute, who cares no more for his horse than he would for a snake. Be merciful, farmers. I buy everything in the line of old junk. Old Rubber, Old Paper, Rags, Bones, Copper, Zinc, Old Iron. When coming to Plymouth, load up what junk you have around your place and bring it in with you. I buy all kinds of HIDES: Beef hides, Horse hides, Sheep pelts and Tallow. Remember Farmers That I am going to buy WOOL This Season. Don't sell your wool before you see me. Office and Warehouse on East South Street, across the Michigan Street Bridge, back of Kuhn's Garage. Phone 910. Myer Franklin, Prop. THINK THIS OVER. I i Highest Price for Produce. Guaranteed Goods, Low Prices. " Prompt Service. Courteous Treatment. Result: Best Place In Town To Trade. O. P. WOODBURY Grocery Store he Sep ni ni i l tews can r or