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CHAPTER XX.—(Continued.)
Changes, too, have come to the staff,
and, to Benton's blushing delight, he
is called upon at Catlett's to "wet"
a new commission, recommended by
his old general and' heartily approved
by the new. It is Capt. Benton, addi
tional aide-de-camp now, and he- rides
for the. time being with a .division com
mander famous for staying qualities, if
not for urbanity, a man who.is of the
fight-to-a-finish mold, and would hang
^3?^ .» ?$4?
The Iron Brigade
A Story of the Army of the Potomac
By* GEN. CHARLES KING
Author of "Norman Holt." "The Colonel's Daughter,"
Fort Frayne," Etc.
Copyright* 18U2, byO. W. Dlllisgliam Co
4
WINTER.
every rebel from Maine to Mexico.
We have had few as yet of these ve
hement patriots in high places. We
have had far too mafty, storms Stanton
in Washington, of. those Tvho would
handle treason with gloves, furnish
guards for the homesteads of hard
fighting chiefs on the southern side,
hold commerce and communion
through flags of truce with former
comrades across tl\e lines. "We must
stop it, by heaven!" says Stanton,
splitting a table top with one blow of
his flst. "We must drumhead and
shoot 'em," says Fred's new command
er, "and I'll hang the first man of my
staff that I catch."
"The winter of our discontent" in
-"-deed! With^.gloomy heart and sad
anticipation Benton rides away through
the leafless woods to the old familiar
scenes about Fredericksburg. Word
from Washington has brought him lit
tle comfort Rumor of his command
ers sayings has filled him with fore
boding. Dr. Chilton, to whom he had
written on almost &ny provocation and
who had gratefully and promptly an
swered his Sharpsburg missive, giving
young Pelham's message, now wrote
not at all. "He seems sad and brood
ing:," said Jack, in the one letter that
young gentleman had managed to
send through since his- incarceration.
Jack was well enough to resume duty
and most e'ager for exchange, but ne
gotiations hung fire unaccountably, so
s®id he, and Benton thought he knew
the reason why. Lounsberry had been
back again in Richmond over six
weeks now, exchanged and restored
to his old and influential post in the
war department. Lounslierry could
be counted on to lose no chance to in
jure the Chiltons, father or son, and
so long as it was possible he would
•block all plan to exchange Jack Chil
ton, thereby lending color to the stories
spread £bout in Virginia that poor
Jack rather tried to be caught and to
stay caught, such hard fighting as his
fellow Virginians had to do being little
to his taste. It would have burned
his heart out with fury had he known
it, but few of us begin to realize the
half of what is whispered to our detri
ment, else there would be deportation
of sensitive souls or deserved destruc
tion in the army of detractors. Jack
was nearly mad with misery when told
of Stuart's impudent dash at Cham
bersburg and the second circling of the
Army of the Potomac. He was then
just beginning to stump around quite
comfortably. Elinor and the squire
had returned to the west, the-former
with red-rimmed eyes and pallid
cheeks. No one knew how she had
sorrowed over the sad news about
Ladue. It was that, though, that
seemed to break the ice of Rosalie's
reserve, for now, for the first time,
the Virginia girl read the secret of her
Wisconsin would-be friend, and melted
to her instantly. It was that, though
they rarely spoke his name, that led
to the letters now passing frequently
between them. It was through that
correspondence the sisterhood began
that, despite trial and trouble, proved
eventually so sure an alliance in time
of need.
But though Elinor wrote in many a
page of her brotjher, and in only a few
referred to Paul—and then only as
"ho" or "him"—Rosalie would write
only of the latter. Ordinarily this
would have led to resentment and a
breach. Now it did not, for what Rosa
lie had to say was stirring new hope
into the somber current of the western
girl's monotonous life. Rosalie had
amazed and rejoiced her, about the end
of October, by the assurance that she
believed Capt. Lamar to be totally mis
taken. It was true, she admitted, that
Paul Ladue had not been seen with
Ewell's division, but neither had Ew
ell, am yet—lor the latter had no be-
not, except to kindred, and the doctor
evidently shrank from writing. It
was a winter of courts-martial at the
capital, and several such tribunals
ous grades. Many new regiments had
come and were held about the city
come accustomed to a cork leg—yet sue
had tidings from "friends"—who, she
would not say—that Paul Ladue was
still alive when borne from the awful
front of Gibbon's guns, then belching the aiding of Confederates—officers—
canister in double rounds. "More dead
than aiive he looked," said her inform
ant, but while she had no tidings of
his present whereabouts, neither was
there any record of his death.
All this was presently sent to Fred
visedly. But though there were places
die, facing, and often within hailing
dent that Burnside was marshaling his
grand divisions for a move.
In the early summer time, when he
hated to leave the front and longed to
push on to Richmond or Charlottes
ville, Benton had been summoned to
Washington. Now, when he longed to
go to Washington, there was prospect
of a midwinter dash across the Rap
pahannock. News of the Chiltons was
sorely disquieting. Rosalie would not
on the Rappahannock, and made him moan»issued from beneath the canvas
the more eager to communicate with
1
until suitably drilled and disciplined. °f, W°lv,crines'
As a consequence the avenues again
were alive with uniforms, the hotels
crowded, and many thrifty households
were "coining" money taking boarders.
Mention has been made of Dr. Chil
ton's sister, with whom they were
again dwelling after their return from
the summer seashore. Being only
moderately well-to-do, and besieged
with applications, she had yielded to
pressure and let two of her rooms to
officers sojourning in the city. Then
one of these, ordered west, begged
leavrt to present a successor, a major
of a new regiment, who, being a
"smart" lawyer, had been assigned to
duty as a judge advocate of a court
for the trial of officers of rank in the
volunteers. When the squire wrote
that McKinnon had been appointed
major of a newly raised regiment and
ordered with it to Annapolis, Fred
fienton felt, so great was his antipa
thy, a vague sensation of annoyance
and chagrin. Three weeks-later when
Col. Goff, of the teentR, came down
to pay the Iron Brigade a two-days'
visit, the young staff officer was con
founded to hear that Maj. McKinnon
had just found domicile under the same
roof that shielded Dr. Chilton and the
lady of his love. It meant mischief
and Benton knew it.
One bleak December morning Ben
ton had ridden with his general down
the river bank on the Stafford side
and sat watching, the work of the
engineers. The pontoon wagons were
being run to the front, and many an
officer and man looked at the heavy,
ungainly boats and the long loads of
balk and chess, then studied the dis
tant line of heights across the stream,
saying little but thinking much. Who
ever sought to storm that crest had a
precious job on hand, was an expurga
tion of the way in which the average
veteran expressed his individual views,
And while seated in saddle, shivering
in the wind blowing from the distant
Chesapeake, and wishing the chief
would quit his comments on the orders
of the corps commander and trot home
to dinner, Benton caught sight of a
little column of cavalry riding deject
edly in from the far left flank. Horses
jaded, men disgusted, and three or
four prisoners in their wake looked
worst of all. "Where d'ye s'pose those
dam-fools have come from?" asked
the general, cheerfully. "Captain," he
cried, hailing the officer in command,
"what you got there?"
The officer touched his cap, turned
out of column, so as not to halt the
methodical march, rode up toward the
general and said: "Prisoners, sir, taken
by one of our scouting parties a few
miles down, and sent in by us, for most
of these horses with me have to be
shod."
By this time the greater part of the
troop, in their ugly light blue over
coats, had plodded by, and the squad
of prisoners came footinr it wearily
after. Foremost of these a tall, thin
faced, ungainly specimen, dressed in
one of those self-same cavalry over
coats, glanced curiously at the general
from under his broad-brimmed slouch
hat threw a look over the blue-nosed,
watery-eyed pair of orderlies at his
back, and then on Benton and a broth
er aide, sitting a few yards aside then
instantly a flash of recognition shot
over his iface, and he called aloud:
"There, captain. There's a gentle
man who will vouch for what I say.
Ask Capt. Benton."
It was our friend Jennings, he of the
stone house and the Warrenton pike,
and Jennings would not be denied.
He plunged into a voluble story to the
listening chief, despite the efforts of an
Irish trooper to prod him focwaxd.
S w^'^T
WSFSUK
"D'you know Him 7" asked the gen
eral, shortly, as he turned to Benton.
"He says you do."
"I saw him once or twice, sir," was
the guarded answer. "I do not know
him further than that he held Gen. Mc
Dowell's .pass and went in and out of
our lines at will last summer."
"And I'm just as loyal as I was
then," protested Jennings, "only they
caught me do\»n here trying to help
some folks of mine that were siclc and
nigh starving
But the general shut him off impa
tiently. He was giving ear to the
words of the captain, who had ridden
closer.
"Col. Hammond ordered his ar
rest, sir, because of papers in his pos
session, showing he was mixed up in
coming bouncing among the ruts and
rld£es
cover
some one across that modern Rubi- ton, moved by compassion, urged his'
an(^
as the driver reined up, and Ben-
peered in through the opening at
near the fords up stream where the the back. The ndxt instant he was out escape^ to the Potomac and, while
cavalry- vedettes sat long hours in sad- saddle, and the rear spring bent un-
der
distance of each other, the orders steps. Then they heard his voice in
his weight as he leaped upon the
against communication of any kind
had become exacting, for it was evi- ~.
know me?" and was found in a fisherman hut not
far "from Mathias Point. Two of the
CHAPTER XXI.
BEARDING THE LION IN HIS DEN.
Over the useless slaughter of the field
of Fredericksburg it were best to draw
the veil. Far down at the left flank the
catching only occasional shots from
nfnrprcj onrl men—lov
officers and men—lay close and kept now'"
still Their rifles could effect nothing
against an enemy uphill and behind
were session, trying officers of vari- .• tummouucf. xi« uau sent an
battle'
gallant colonel of the
b!_S
rest of the brigade, thought it neces
sary to ride up and down his line, ex
horting his men to steadiness in loud
and powerful voice. "It lets 'em know
I'm here," said he, to the expoBtulant
commander of the next door regiment
"I see," said the latter, as a volley
flashed down from Early's fellows
along the crest, "and it also lets the
enemy. Your men will be steadier
without the telling," which reasoning
the colonel pondered over and accepted,
He and his thoroughbreds were spoil- I
ing for a chance to show their neigh
bors from the adjoining states that
they were quite as valiant as the I
vaunted old brigade. "Give us half a
chance," said he, "and then—you look
out for the Wolverines."
But neither Fredericksburg nor
Chancellorsville, nor Virginia, nor even
Maryland afforded the longed-for op- I
portunity. Not until the midsummer
morning of the first day at Gettysburg I
did their time come, but when it came
it proved a test the like of which had
never been met before, even in that
hard-flghtirig, hard-hammered com
mand.
Meanwhile, what had not befallen
other actors in our story—notably the
Damon and Pythias of the ante-bellum
days, Benton and Paul Ladue.
of the line," had the division com-
thr ^v
af/PreXtahgSera, b"iousneff-
But, being coupled with another, that
story was now almost an old one at the
capital, for thither had the poor lad I
had been his ever since the dreadful
morning north of Sharpsburg that
stretched him senseless in front of Gib
bon's furious guns. "Killed," said La
mar and other officers who saw him
borne away in a blanket. "Mortally
wounded,'-' said the hospital attendants
who first ministered to him, back of
the Dunker church, where reignod
confusion inexpressible owing to the
appalling number of those needing
surgical aid. How he got there or be
yond, Paul never knew until long
thereafter. Tender-hearted Virginians
had concealed him until "he was well
enough to move about Odd as it may
their interesting captive,
but that very night,
darkness, was begun
across the Potomac. They got one of of him, it was too late. Urgent orders
'em too weak to ride. He's in that am- had come from Stanton himself, the
bulancc yonder," and the dragoon great and growing war secretary, to
pointed to the yellow-painted vehicle
send
of the frozen roadway. A faint
soon as
Iiad
an^
ment was
con-some one who could speak ad- horse past the silent, passive column Mtoore and of Charles a^d as power.
county»
some,
summarlly
old brigade groped its way through the secretary, as being unworthy
dripping fog and lay in line of battle,
having little to do but wait orders, and "qt„ntnn
Stanton is a terror," said Fred
write. Jack, in prison camp, could Washington. God help the man that _S _e!S. ®a3?
Old hands under fire, the veterans—
has t0 bum'
1
...
entrenchments. New hands, not yet vision commander. He had sent an
were not so
1uiet-
and
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seem, the most practicable way for'
southern soldier to
go from
mac to his own people
and
November Paul was
roof of a well-to-do
southern sympathizer
^charged by order
great battal- set free from further contact with these
almost as the things he almost loathed. He looked
"IMMEDIATE."
for answer within the week, and, tak
I ing advantage of the permission, cold
ly accorded him by the chief of staff,
a I a a a a
the sympathy and consolation to be
Benton, though in expected of men who had themselves
I fe't that the official atmosphere was
the day after the retreat from the frigid where once it had been so fair,
southern shore. Fred new general And it was here, on Thursday morning,
ad come in for a rasping from the while breakfasting with the genial
corps commander, because the lead- commander of the Black Hats and Us
ing brigade took the wrong road in tening to his philosophic advice to
the rain and darknefcs, and so delayed "take things coolly" and that "all
matters over an hour. It happened would come right," he was surprised by
that Benton had guided the division the coming of a cavalry orderly,
to its first position on the field that splashed with mud, who bore a missive
he had been sent to find Gen. Frank- addressed by the adjutant-general of
lin that when he returned with a the division and marked "Immediate."
message from the latter officer, the With a word of apology to Col. Fair
division was in motion, and the com- child and his officers, Bentoa tore it
mander had ridden off to speak with I open, and two papers fell out. One
Gibbon or somebody else, and Benton read:
followed, of course, in search of his "Capt. Benton: Enclosed just re
chierf Instead of staying with the head ceived. The general says you better
of colnmn. Finding himself rebuked, come this way where the necessary
the general reprimanded Benton in the orders will meet you, and you can get
presence and hearing of officers and what luggage you need. There will be
men. Benton's heart and temper being
both sore and tried, he had replied
with much spirit, if not subordination,
to the effect that the message he was
charged to deliver admitted of no de
lay that if the general had been where
he belonged there would have been no
delay and that sooner than submit
to such injustice he would ask to be
relieved from staff duty forthwith, and
wrote that very night to his old friend
and general, then a member of an im
portant military tribunal at Washing
ton, begging his advice and interven
tion, and telling him, of course, the
story of poor Ladue.
steamers going all the evening.
"(Signed) BREWSTER, A. A. G."
(Continued in next issue.)
$100 Reward, $100.
The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cvr» in all its stages,
and that is Cata :h. Hall's Catarrh
Cure is the only positive cure now
known to the medical fraternity. Ca
tarrh being a constitutional disease,
requires a constitutional treatment.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mu
cous surfaces of the system, thereby
destroying the foundation of the dis
ease, and giving the patient strength
by
bulIdi"S
slstinf
been sent and Jennings with him they^offer^One3
Paul looking, indeed, "more dead than Hundred Dollars for any case that it
alive," for a strange,, eventful history
fails t0
"P the constitution and as-
nature in doing its work. The
cure-
Send for
mon
a£
fMTH
OftCIM®
the Poto­
was
by way of
the north. Through the kind Virgin
ians, civilian clothing
was
bought for
by mid
safely
under the
and
in
dNb
most active
Baltimore.
These were details which Ladue
could not reveal at the
time.
He had
revived sufficiently to recognize Benton
and to speak feebly a
few
BY
J.S.TRIGG
REGISTER,
DES MOINES, IA.
moments
in the
the bridges, the crossing
fog and
the
building of
of
grand division, and
the left
Fred
leave his poor friend
could only
with
geons and hasten back
the sur­
to
Four days later, when
his duty.
lie
would have
ridden to the hospital camp in search
CORRESPONDENCE
SOLICITED
the prisoner patient thither as pasture grasses,
he could be moved. Jennings I
all Benton could learn at the mo-
There is nothing liner than this Oc-
already gone under strong guard, has 6,537 potato distilleries
that there had been a break J*
that'
some confederate officers had
the party had succeeded in
cro®sln&. one
and
boat had been fired on
swamped. Two of the officers
party were still at large. Arrests of
... suspected civilians had been made,
bo^
in
and certaln
se,fet
n, rs'
e*"s'
alded by
resi"
Washington and Baltimore, Lord pitTthelr families Itis
f^vice officials had i°ay
0
get rich
ay g6C
S such trust and
wwuwu
list of testi-
jitney &
Co..
Toledo O.
Sold by all druggists, 75c.
Take Hall's Family Pills for consti
pation.
National Irrigation Congress— $37.65
for Round Trip from Ottumwa
to El Paso.
The Wabash and Chicago, Milwau
kee & St. Paul railways will sell
tickets to El Paso. Texas and return
November 10-11 and 12, good to return
November 22 at rate of $37.65. Exten
sion of ticket to December 22d can be
had by depositing ticket with joint
agent at El Paso and payment of 50
cents. W. L, Richards, Agt.
starch in the
there converted into alco-
tubers being there converted into alco B°od
andaspower**
6
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JUDl
I urgent appeal to his old general to be
1
It"was now some 36 hours after
Fred.s serlous dIfference
3i4.t
with his di-
the corn be,t lt 13
settled that corn
inS
,wiU
rlPen
,^om
gather ears of corn from their
7
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A.'.
nn
rmv wwm
That Argentine country is fast com-' until he had found out how many
ing to the front as an exporter of feathers there were on a hen and has
cereals. From January to May df the discovered that the particular hen he
present year there was exported 24,- experimented with had 8,120. The next
an?,
against Stanton lust bushels of wheat The climatic and knowledge will be to know how many
A
soil conditions in that country are very hairs there are on a tomcat
similar to those In the United States.
Through all the northern portion of
ten
The old saw ha#lt. that "he who
goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowlng,"
but when It comes down to grain sacks
and farm tools It is the lender who
does the'weeping.
.'v,
We saw a section of a red elm fence
cook-
Qne wn/f0^t
If you have a wooded knoll on the bake it before the fllliu' is put in.
farm let the trees remain there. The
Lord put trees there for the same rea- The Haas apple has borne a good
son that he put hair on a man's upper crop this year don't often do so.
lip—to hide an ugly mouth. There is a peculiar and to most people
I unpleasant flavor to this apple when
If a farmer will just sell everything picked, which gives it a bad name, but
he raises which he can find a market if kept In a cool cellar until thorough
for and live on what he can't sell he ly ripened it becomes quite a well fla
will soon be able to buy the adjoining
oTesure
Pretty conclusively prostrate In the big timber. On top ,°n'
weeks earlier than when planted on the stump of this fir when cut show- ithe
spring plowing. The soil is thus put ing 2,500 rings or periods of annual
in a better mechanical condition for growth, proving beyond controversy
the crop. Our own experience leads us that the cedar went down ln the far
to say, plant the corn on the fall plow- ancient times, while the heart of it is
plowed the better. ago.
I We admired the enterprise and de-! There is a farm wagon on exhibition
week's wash on the clothes line—all and the rabbits is one which cannot be
rail recently cut forty-seven years ago 40 cents a bushel, it represents the
which, while constantly exposed to the enormous sum of 5000,000,000. It is the
weather, was as hard and sound as a I great raw material out of which is ere
piece of red cedar. ated very largely the meats, dairy
,v I products and poultry. It forms no
Nineteen hundred and four will go
be
tober blue grass, the fall growth of the
acre
an(!
ma11
Into history as a great fruit year. People and should be thus more used
North, south, east and we3t the yield than
There to no sense in blaming the Immediate and available cash asset. It
wire fence when on one side of it will
five. It is the fellow who built the the orient, the banana to the breech
fence who needs looking after.
There Is one unfailing test of the ®ia
c,out
be
and that is when one can
vored fruit. °'d millionaire would send his freckled
name down to posterity ln a halo of
All unknown things will be brought!
out if the world lasts long enough.'!
easy
ber he had gone through his field and ry, box alder, beech, American larch, king's army in his country, and fire an
picked several bushels of corn for seed apple, soft maple,
which he had strung on the wire fence, walnut, European larch, red elm, chest- ^'s People warm. He wonders at our
two and two, along the railroad right nut, 03age orange, willow, mulberry, slipshod methods of farming, the lack
of way, but he seemed to have no good red maple, black locust, rock elm, ca-
sense at all in the matter of selecting talpa, red bud and whltewood. fertilization, the riot of weeds on high
the ears for seed, and his assortment way and in field, and cannot for the
strung along the fence looked like a I The problem of the young orchard 'llfe
sizes, all colors. neglected. We have for five years such universal waste. We shall mend
worked a combination plan of preven-
Here is a man who could not rest easy I,
°P !Laborate the possibilities of
this wonderful plant
^0,552,000 ab'e addition to oui stock trninino. boo
A
A recent traveler tells the story of a
cedar tree in Washington state lying countries sustaining a dense pop-
nunc ijrmg ,.
Panted on fall plow- of the tree, with roots growing around intelligence and science Is applied to
ed land, and the earlier the land is as sound today as it was 2,500 years *ound astonishment, saying nothing as
.--..l—
to the smaller wastes of the daily life
of the American people. He' sees wast-
plored the judgment of one western at the world's fair at St. Louis which Pe°Ple rich, food thrown to the hogs
fanner lately. He had got stirred up is made from twenty-five varieties of
I on the seed corn question enough (he wood grown on prairie soils. The list banquet. He sees men engaged in
did not have over half a' stand in his of woods is as follows: White oak, logging and burning up timber which
field this year) so that in late Septem- white ash, Iron
wood, hard maple, cher-
We should have about 625,000,000 tlon, have used the ferret and the shot- now, in fact—the increasing density ot'
bushels of wheat as the crop of 1904. gun to the limit, paid a premium for population will compel it While we
Instead we will have only 525,000,000 each rabbit killed within a certain can feed the world at present from out
bushels, leaving us short 100,000,000 range of the orchard, have fed what abundance, the time is coming in the
bushels. Our people are just as hun- were left with corn and apples and future when our resources must be
gry as ever and those of foreign na- have found traps and poison unrelia- husbanded in order to feed our own
tions more hungry than usual'. This ble. We have the pests pretty well people. ...
condition of affairs sends wheat up. cleaned out. Trees less than five years •. ••rfSI
The bulls swear they will make it $2 old should be protected with a wrap-
per bushel before another crop comes ping of some sort. We came across a model country
around. Be that as it may, there is no schoolliouse the other day. The school
low- priced flour in sight for the next! The agricultural department gives house lot was fenced in with a neat
twelve months. Wise and saving people out the following figures as to the beet fence, the trees planted in the yard had
will thus eat more corn products, more sugar industry for 1903: Average crop, been properly cared for and were nice
potatoes, more beans and fruits and eight and one-half tons per acre aver- ly trimmed, no fellow coming to see
save money and be lots healthier, age cost of produce, $35 average price the schoolma'am was allowed to hitch
White wheat bread always looks better received by grower, ?5 per ton average his horse to them, the yard was neat
than it is.
ly mowed, the building was modern in
design and painted neither red nor
white the interior of the schoolhouse
was as one might confidently expect, in
net profit per acre, $7.50. A possible
crop was thirty-three tons per acre.
The Wolf River apple is one of the produced at a cost of $37.50, bringing
largest as well as one of the handsom- $158 and giving a net profit of $130,
est apples grown. Its size, rich color- this done by one Colorado farmer on ir- perfect keeping with its outside sur
ing and waxy appearance give to lt a rigated land. The general average, roundings, decorations and equipment,
most deceptive appearance. In the however, does not make an attractive making it a most attractive education
west it is nicknamed by the grocers showing for beets in competition with al home for the little country folk. The
and fruit peddlers the "Roosevelt ap- corn within the limits of the corn belt pretty teacher was of the same get up,
pie," and the combination makes it a I and the only trouble was that she was
great seller. We hate to tell the truth Just as soon as you get a park-like sure to be carried off by some stal
about it, but the fact is it is the most effect in your orchard or timber grove wart and handsome young faTmer
worthless of any apple grown in the there's trouble coming. The blue grass, whose corn nodded over the school
west, coarse in texture, punky and in- which will give the fine ground set- yard fence when she had taught one
ferior in flavor to a flat turnip. It is ting for the trees, is death to them, more term. It represented the edu
Hke lots of people in the world, carries It will hinder their growth and rob cational life of a most prosperous agri
all Its recommendations on the outside, them of the indispensable moisture, cultural community, an Ideal school
Where the writer lives these apples Blue grass means pasture and constant In an ideal place. There are schools
sell for a nickel apiece, five times the Impaction of the soil by the tramping of which the foregoing could not be
price of choice fruit A fellow never of stock when the trees need humus, written.
biiys one that he does not realize at decaying lerrvcs, a shaded soil surface
once the truth of the old saw, "A fool and plenty of mulch. As soon as a EXPERIMENTS WITH CORN.
and his money are soon parted." I grove or orchard is got into blue grass I
Fifty years from now it Is more than Any man can find illustrations of this P'ats of corn recently at one of our ag
probable that there will appear in some fact close by. ricultural colleges. The corn was all
agricultural journal an article like the of one variety, Reld's Yellow Dent.
following: j. We do not refer to the use and mis- The experiments were along the line of
"Strange as it may seem, only fifty
use
years ago it was the common custom availability and use as a motive force, vatlng corn and the proper number of
among the corn growers to simply
08
c°al-
flelds anS laave all the wealth of valua- be most cheaply produced, the ma- tlon whatever, experiments in deep
ble forage found in the stalk and leaves chinery necessary being of the simplest cultivation and shallow, plats where
of the plant to be frozen, bleached and
s°rt
day a man who would thus handle a use, and that the lack of some method appear ln a bulletin, which should
corn crop would be regarded as crazy, of making it nonusable as a beverage.
as would the man who would permit Alcohol has broken the backs of many
weeds to have a place in his corn a good man in a vicious way, but it
field or the one who would use poor may easily be made to break the back,
seed. Since farm land has advanced In a patriotic way, of the worst mo
in the corn belt to $250 to $300 per nopoly the world has ever known. It
acre, only the most approved methods Is a great undeveloped source of power,
of modern agriculture will insure Its light and heat which the future In
profitable use." some way will utilize.
t*. *TCA*. ,^y -tifcOWS
THE GREAT CORN PLANT,
Delayed September frosts, tie killer
coining till Oct. 5, permitted the?*"*
uatural ripening of a fine crop of corn^
all through the corn belt this yeor,
The importance of this crop Is hardly
realized. Valued at so low a price its
factor In the daily food of iha
11
has been large and of nearly all varie- present year brings a large measure of
ties. The prices have placed fruit Prosperity to all the states which pro
within the reach of all. duee it, the crib of corn being at all
times and under all circumstances an
18 the
growing sixty bushels of corn to cultural prosperity, is to this country
on the other only twenty-
is. Such a crop as that of the
great backbone of western agri-
wnat
rice is to the Occident, the date to
tribes of the tropics. While Ar-
I gentina, limited areas In southern Bus-
aud Italy
Srcw corn, it remains foi
now and for all time thp
enca ln
I out risking an attack of appendiltU Producln» territory of the earth. WhiU
to to
about seven of the statesto
111 the
**ure be easily
doubled in amount, it will be b.v im
proved methods of culture and i.
.t
by
gro,Ylug. area'
fot
the boundaries are unalterably deter
mined at the present time. It is the
grandest crop In the world, the most
useful and adaptable, seeming suscep
tible of almost Infinite use In the eco
nomic life of man and beast If sotne
hls
stltution
money to an in-
whose mission shall be to fte-
AS THE FOREIGNER SEES U§.
The educated foreigner on first com-
training has been along economic
lilies, to sipiply astounded at the waste
and extravagance associated with
American methods an'd ways. Coming
TllOn rtr* J.L
wbere
days to two It is a fir tree five feet in diameter, ^tlvation of the soil and where
ln order
a11'
tered
wou'('
butternut
black
and pastured the trees begin to die. some thirty different experimental
wasted by the elements, these stalks of any farm equipment where the raw es deep, four Inches and six Inches
being a harbor for noxious Insect life material for its production can be plats given from one to five workings
and a nuisance in the cultivation of grown or obtained. Corn, the other and others given a late surface cultlva
succeeding crops. Land was then cheap, tereals, all fruits, sugar beets and sug- tion after the corn eared out There
worth only $00 to $80 per acre, and it *r cane contain prolific stores of al- were tests with planting all the way
was only very slowly and with the coliol when fermented. It might very from one to five kernels in a hill, mak
greatest difficulty that the pioneers of easily be made and sold at a profit of altogether the most elaborate and
our present improved system of agrl- 10 or 12 cents a gallon and gives a complete test touching the elementary
culture could make the farmers of working energy the equivalent of gaso- principles of corn culture which we
that day believe that ln thus wasting line, while being of superior value as a have ever seen. The product of these
their corn fodder they wasted one- fuel. Only one thing stands in the plats will later be carefully harvested
third of the value of their crop. To-1 'way of its general manufacture and
of alcohol as a beverage, but to its determining the best method of culti-
a substitute for gasoline, oil and kernels to plant in a hill. There was
As a commercial product it can corn just planted and given QO cultiva-
and entirely adaptable as a part the brace roots had been cut two inch-
an(l
the greatest degree of
most r,ffld
economy Is imperative
to Permit the people to live at
he vlews our
41011 of 6oil
wrecked and slaugh-
f°rests
and our wasteful exhaus-
fertIllty
ed here
1
which
with the most pro-
that which would make his
would make^ his hungry kin a
be guarded and protected by the
nuaHy
of
destroying enough fuel to keep
systematic rotation of crops and
of
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him comprehend how America
be so prosperous and so great amid
our
'ways by and by—are mending them
A
MODEL SCHOOLHOUSE.
We
had the pleasure of examining
yield determined, and results will
have a very wide circulation.
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