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The Pianos we sell have made
a reputation for themselves,
and have gained a place at the
Pinnacle of Piano Popularity
by their own merits, sweetness
of tone, easy and responsive
action, beauty of design shown
in the cases. Durability, in
fact, by everything that goes
toward making piano perfec
tion. The musical value of a
piano depends largely on its
tone. Our pianos are noted
for long sustained, or singing
qualities, produced by a homeo
genous arrangement of the
entire instrument, and the care
given to the smallest details of
construction. No other pianos
approach their beauty, grandeur
and volume. You will only
need to hear them to appre
ciate their merits. If you want
to get the best for your money,
don't buy until you figure here.
You can name your own terms.
Call and see
WASEM
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At Wasem & Gaard's Furniture
FARQO,
Store
No. Dak.
The Factory Is the
Place to Buy
At a great saving. Inspection will
prove profitable to intending
pur-,
chasers.
Superb Assortment of
FUR NECKWEAR
In Sable, Mink, Black Marten,
Alaska Bear, Fox, Chinchilla, Er
mine and Siberian Squirrel.
MUFFS
to match of the finest quality and
workmanship.
PUR COATS
of the finest grades of Alaska Seal,
Natural or Dyed Otter and Persian
Lamb, combining in the highest
degree style, fit and finish to give
them a distinctive individuality
entirely their own.
Denis Bros
FURRIERS,
Nd. 108 Broadway, Fargo
$200 Worth of Jewelry
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With each 10 cent purchase of our
fine candies, one full coupon
is given free.
HO/IE MADE CANDIES
Chocolates
Bon Bona
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Caramels
HOT DRINKS—Always Ready
Hot CoffM ft
Oiiocolat*
-jH Bouillon tad,. _s£
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T. E. WALL S CO.
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EXPERIENCE
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BIG NAMES
CONFUSING
High Sounding Names Have a Ten
dflficy to Confuse Those S*ip«.
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Common Fertilizers Should Be Called
by Right Terms Instead of
Technical Language. V
Cyril G. Hopkins, chief of depart
ment of soils. Illinois College of Agri
culture, in The Chicago Record-Her
ald: In general farming we have prac
tically no use for any so-called complete
fertilizer. First, because by means of
leguminous crops, such as clover, stock
peas, soy beans, vetch, alfalfa, etc., we
can obtain nitrogen from the inex
haustible supply of the air, usually at a
cost of not more than i cent a pound,
and consequently it would be absurd to
pay 15 cents a pound for commercial
nitrogen and. second, because a soil
rarely becomes deficient in both phos
phorus and potassium. Generally ap
plications of the one which is most1
needed will give about as good results
and much greater profit than both to
gether.
Although it is only the element it
self which possesses any value for the
plant, yet the plant can make use of
the element in many different forms or
compounds. Indeed, plants cannot use
these elements if applied in the free or
uncombined state. They must be pres
ent in some suitable compound. If a
soil is deficient in potassium that ele
ment could be supplied in the form of
potassium chloride, a compound, con
taining in the common market grade
about 42 per cent of potassium or the
potassium could be supplied as potas
sium sulphate, a compound of potas
sium, sulphur and oxygen (the ending
"ate" always indicates oxygen in a
chemical compound), which usually
contains about 40 per cent of potas
sium.
Phosphorus is commonly obtained in
the form of calcium phosphate, a com
pound of three elements, calcium, phos
phorus and oxygen, as the name indi
cates. In perfectly pure form this com
pound contains 20 per cent of phos
phorus, but it cannot be obtained com
mercially in pure form. Good steamed
bone meal contains from 60 to 65 per
cent of calcium phosphate—that is,
from 12 to 13 per cent of the element
phosphorus. A good quality of ground
rock phosphate also contains about 12
to 13 per cent of phosphorus.
If the steamed bone meal costs $30
a ton, the phosphorus costs 12 cents a
pound. If the ground rock phosphate
costs $7 50 a ton, the phosphorus in
that material costs 3 cents a pound.
Steamed bone meal is known to be one
of the very best forms of phosphorus,
and bone meal is also a farm product,
but the ground rock phosphate is a
very much cheaper form of phosphorus,
although it is considered much less
readily available in the soil.
However, if equal values (not equal
quantities) of ground rock phosphate
and steamed bone meal be used on dif
ferent plots and both in connection
with farm manure or clover or other
leguminous fertilizers, it is very prob
able that the rock phosphate will give
as good results within two or three
years, and much better results if the
applications are continued year after
year.
In the older states nitrogen is com
monly sold under the name of "am
monia," phosphorus under the name of
"phosphoric acid" and potassium under
the name of "potash." To the farmer
who really wishes and tries to under
stand the subject of plant food these
names are very confusing. Indeed, it
is almost impossible for anyone but a
chemist to understand how these ele
ments of plant food can be bought and
sold under such absurd names.
Sodium nitrate contains the three
elements, sodium, nitrogen and oxygen,
as the name indicates (-ate means oxy
gen), and it is valued only for the
nitrogen it contains, which amounts to
nearly 16 per ctent in a good commer
cial grade of sodium nitrate. This is
all simple enough. If sodium nitrate
contains 16 per cent of nitrogen this
would be 320 pounds of nitrogen in a
ton of material, and, at 15 cents a
pound for nitrogen, a ton of sodium
nitrate would be worth $48. It is both
absurd and unnecessarily complicated
to sell sodium nitrate on the basis of
"ammonia/ first, because it contains no
"ammonia second, because "am
monia" is not what the plant needs,
aud third, because it is not "ammonia"
that we would wish to buy even if we
needed to purchase nitragen.
"Ammonia" is a compound of nitro
gen and hydrogen, but no hydrogen is
contained in sodium nitrate, and we
have 110 need to purchase hydrogen as
water contains abundance of that ele
ment.
Steamed bone meat is valued lor its
phosphorus content, but in the other
states it is sold on the basis of "phos
phoric acid." This is perhaps more con
fusing and more absurd than "ammon
id," Phosphoric acid is not contained
in bone meal, and phosphoric acid is
not suitable for plant food, and people
do not mean phosphoric acid when they
say ''phosphoric acid' in connection
with fertilizers. What they do mean is
phosphoric oxide, a compound of phos
phorus and oxygen, containing less
than 44 per cent of the element of
phosphorus, tfye real thing which we
wish to purchase.
Good steamed bone meal contains
about 12% per cent of phosphorus, or
250 pounds of phosphorus in a ton
This is a valuable element in plant
food. At
12
cents a pound for phos­
phorus, the steadied bone mtal w
be worth about $$ a ton,
Potassium dtloryie is4a
th* two.ifenients, fKHatlr
ine, contMtttng in
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true, as it contains only potassium .and
chlorine, although there is no indica
tion of chlorine in the name of "muriate
of potash." "Potash" is a compound
of potassium and oxygen, containing
83 per cent of the element potassium,
but, as stated^ above, there is no oxy
gen in potassium chloride, and conse
quently there is no "potash' in potas
sium chloride. Furthermore, "potash"
which is potassium oxide, is a lye
(this is no joke), and not suitable for
plant food, and it contains the element
oxygen which nobody cares to pur
chase, as the air is one-fifth oxygen
and water is eight-ninths oxygen.
Potassium is a valuable element of
plant food. Ordinary potassium chlor
ide contains about 42 per cent of that
element, or about 840 pounds in a ton
of material, which, at 6 cents a pound,
for potassium, would be worth $50.40
a ton. This, again, is direct and sim
ple and all that is necessary to fully
understand the purchase of this ele
ment.
Of course, we can say "potash" and
explain what we mean by it. For ex
ample, if potassium chloride contains
42 per cent of potassium, it contains
sufficient potassium to make about 50
per cent of "potash," if the potassium
were made to unite with oxygen to
form "potash," but as the "potash"
which might thus be former would
contain oxygen, its value per pound
would be less than that of potassium,
the value of "potash" depending entire
ly upon the amount of potassium it
would contain.
I once spent nearly two hours' time
with a very progressive and intelligent
Illinois farmer, who desired me to ex
plain exactly what "muriate of potash"
is, and what the analysis showing 50
per cent of "potash" means. After
nearly two hours' work he actually
gave the problem up, saying that he
could not understand it. As a chemist
I can understand it, but I cannot under
stand why scientific men working in
the interest of agriculture should en
courage the continuation of such an
outrageous system for reporting the
analysis of fertilizers or plant food ma
terials.
Certainly we have no right to force
these old, incorrect and meaningless
names upon the progressive farmers of
the great central west.
They desire to understand both the
practice and science of agriculture. It
is only in agriculture that these absurd
names are used. In the steel and iron,
industry, when they have anything to
say about phosphorus, they say
phosphorus in pharmacy and medi
cine, when they say phosphoric acid
they mean phosphoric acid.
Already several of the states have
passed laws compelling the us of ni
trogen in place of "ammonia" in fer
tilizer analyses, and the Illinois legis
lature, upon request of the Illinois
State Farmers' Institute, has passed a
law requiring that all fertilizers sold in
the state shall bear a statement of the
analysis which shall show the exact
percentages of the three elements,
nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium,
contained in the fertilizer solid.
The Illinois fertilizer manufacturers
supported the bill for this law making
the purchase and use of plant food
more readily intelligible to the farmer.
A NEW FARGO ORCHESTRA.
J. H. Zimmerman, Director of the N. D. State
Band, Buys the Schirrmann Orchestra.
Through a deal which was consum
mated today between J. H. Zimmerman
and A. J. Schirrmann, the successful or
chestra leader, the latter transfers all
his music and orchestra business, in
cluding all contracts for parties and
balls, which he now has, to J. H. Zim
merman, the well known director of the
North Dakota State Band of this city.
It goes without saying that if the latter
makes as good a success of the orches-^
tra business, as he has of the band busi-^
ness, that Fargo will have added another,
first class orchestra to her number now
in the field. All the contracts made" thus
far by Mr. Schirrmann wifi be carried
out as per agreement with him, and for
the present Mr. Schirrmann will be as
sociated with the orchestra with head
quarters at the same place cn Broadway,
and any new engagements may be made
with him or Mr. Zimmerman. Some
changes will be made so as to give
the dancing public the best possible
music that can be put up, and Mr.
Zimmerman proposes to cater to all
kinds of work in the band and orches
tra line in or out of the city, being able
to furnish either a complete organiza
tion or any number oi men desired.
Regular rehearsals and new music will
put the organization on a standard basis
to fill all kinds of engagements, so that
the most fastidious can be pleased. It is
Mr. Zimmerman's desire to put up a
good orchestra of first class m^n, with
the main object in view to pleace every
one concerned.
QUEEN'S FAMOUS DQG.
Leslie's Weekly: Queen Alexandra,
who has made her yearly visit to Den
mark, the land of her girlhood, is fond
of dogs, and has all sorts, sizes, and
breeds. Site prossesses great skill i£
training them, and the pets which shif
about her are.all capable of wondeffu
tricks. But there was one dog upo^
whicjh her majesty cotylie^ft/ss .that: in
vain she used to cast longing eyesi
was a .famous performing dog 11a
"24iftos»" 'and it w^s the rage as ?a
society entertainer. Invitation ca,!
at great J*pfldon houses |i»ed to
the strain*?. annottifQenri
the do^Mihos.''
ofthis f«y|W#jAl?
Eng|ish1oo«tettq|^rary
it, when bidden to •carry a
ief4 to the most beautiful lad
fiom, the, mischu^#* fe
THE TARGO-^BUM ^AK15-DAILYrBBPUMJC4N,-WEDNESDAY BVENITO. DEGEMBBB 1903T
THE DOMINANT SOtiTH.
Tfee Southern States Hav« More CottM Fac
tories Than the North,
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Leslie's Weekly: Some of James D.
B. de Bow's prophesies are being strik
ingly verified. When, a few years be
fore the war of secession, that eminent
statistician, in his Commercial Review,
published in New Orleans, foretold that
some day the south would be emanci
pated from its dependance on the north
and on Europe for its manufactures
both south and north were incredulous.
The recent advances by the south in
coal and iron production have started
his forecasts on the road toward real
ization. In cotton manufacturing real
ization has already come.
As recently as 1890. the north's mills
consumed more than three times as
much cotton as did the mills of the
south—1.799.258 bales for the former
and 546,894 bales for the latter. In the
twelve months ending Aug. 31, 1903,
the north's mills used 1,967,635 bales,
and the south's 2,000,729 bales. While
the north gained but slightly in the
thirteen years the south advanced by
leaps and bounds. The 76.7 per cent
for the north and the 23.3 per cent for
the south, which represented the pro
portion of the consumption of cotton in
the mills of the sections thirteen years
ago, have changed to 49,58 per cent for
the north and 50.42 per cent for the
south this year.
Calhoun's old state—3,036,000 spindles
for South Carolina, 2,061,000, for North
Carolina, 1,370,000 for Georgia, and
smaller numbers for other states of
their section—has a lead throughout
the south in cotton manufacturing.
This is not what that statesman looked
for. Possibly it is not the sort of su
premacy which he wanted. It is a kind
of ascendency, however, which will tell
favorably for that state and region.
The south, which had only 295.359 spin
dles in operation in i860, 338,860 in
1870, and but 1,819,291 as recently as
1890, has 8,248,275 today.
This shifting of manufactures to the
region of raw materials is asserting
itself in the case of iron, wool and oth
er commodities, and will continue to
do so, thus altering the face of things
throughout south, west and cast. In
dustrial shiftings and readjustments
are in progress throughout the country
which will erect new balances and set
up new centers. These are facts of
portentous consequence. In the mean
time how Hammond, Hunter, Cling
rnan, Jefferson Davis, Toombs, Tlidell
and the rest of the south's leaders in
i860 would marvel could they behold
the sweeping transformation which has
taken place in their section since their
day! Is the south to become the pro
tection section and New England the
advocate of tariff reduction? Not im
possible!
IT
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Wont Threagh the Farso Rre--Brou»ht Out
Contents Unhurt.
Fargo* N. D., Nov.
Notwithstanding the intense heat, the
safe opened on the combinationthe first
trial.
I have traveled all over the north
west and every Cary safe I ever saw
was giving first class satisfaction.
This firm has today ordered another
Cary safe. Yours very truly,
Fargo Grocery Co., by J. M. Yoder.
Foj* State News Read The Forum.
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9, 1903—Cary
Safe Co., Buffalo, N. Y.—Gentlemen:
The Cary safe which I purchased in
1892 passed through the big $3,000,000
fire of June 7, 1893, and brought out
all its books and papers in perfect con
dition. My safe stood in the center of
a two-story brick building 110 feet long
by twenty-five feet wide and as the safe
laid in the coals and ruins for six days
before I got it out I consider this a
most satisfactory test.
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My prices" for fuel on cars at Fargo
615 N. P. Avenue, Fargo/
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Our stock of Furniture is a winner.
We are constantly ADDING to the,quality without increase
in price.
We are constantly SUBTRACTING from the cost in many
grades without reduction in quality.
MULTIPLY your wishes as you will, yoVll be surprised
how well our stock kpeps withip the reach of your pocket
book. ..
DIVIDE your expenditures between parlor and bedroom
as you wish, our stock still meets your needs.
If you want Furniture—a little.different and better than the
ordinary—let us show you ours.
Remember, we can sell you everything to furnish your
home complete, Figure with is/
WASEM (SL GAARD
T|ie Big Furniture Store With The Little Prices. Largest
and Most Complete House Furnishers in the West.
Licensed Undertakers and Embalmers
On the Corner Broadway and Second Avenue North
LIGNITE! WOOD!
Seasoned Maple ....$7.00 per eord
Seasoned Birch ..... 6.50 per cord
Seasoned Oak 6.00 per cord
Seasoned Tamarack. 5.25 per cord
-Dry Cut Tamarack., 5.00 per cord
/I Lignite Coal
P'r .]These prices will apply to points west of Fargo, with proper al-
Ib'W&nce made for difference in freight from shipping points. Prompt
shipment and full measure guaranteed. The business of car lot buyers
solicited. Address
L, B. GIBBS,
are as follows:
I beg to announce that my stock
is now complete, and contains
^everything known .in tailoring.
Seasoned Ash $5 00 per cord
Seasoned Jack Pipe. .$4.25 per cord
Dry Cut J&.. 4.00 per cord
Seasoned Poplar ivy. 4-00 per cord
Pine Slabs r... 3.50 per cord
$3~5 per ton
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