Des Moines Gazette (Newspaper) - December 12, 1901, Des Moines, Iowa VOL 5 NO 42 Missouri State Horticultural Sov Farmers three days meting of this society at St Joseph Mo Dec to 5 was tho largest in attendance nnd exhibit of fruit in the history of tho years of past existence Tho great production of especially fine apples peaches and pears with the beat prices and ready sales of the past season the I t fruit growers attend the meeting g from all parts of the state The adi to joining states were represented by It is n many of the leading six Iowa four Nebraska four and boll twelve Every hour of the meeting except a to eat and sleep was devoted to Ing papers and talking on the furI so tried tl ther advancement of horticulture as The program was carried out to the th letter In response to the address of fact Mayor John Combe Prcs N F Mur DBS MOINES IOWA THURSDAY DECEMBER 12 1901 WHOLE NO 303 progressive horticulture anil In ijj ne nm lecturing his subject was interesting i conies from start to finish Paper by Mrs L Lee Kansas City Mo Summer Adan Bulbs cov synopsis of this sub ject ject of the best varieties for home decorating how and when to plant and the effect of ornaments in refin ing the home circle The subject The Kitchen Gar den by 11 A Brown Attorney of St Joseph Ho was of vast Interest vi and Importance to those who are conj tion but fined to a city how to grow vegeta that will i blea and fruit to the family I ft Mr Brown said he was doing j to year after year with his own hands an m addition to this work h aged four stands of that jiro him five hundred of hocy the past season What ran lin on Five Acres an alile by G of Moberly Mo Tills paper gave practical facts showing that five acres in fruit was not only Bell sustaining but also profitable Success and Failure paper by P Keith May view Mo This subject was covered showing that failures were often lessons that Jed to success and this paper brought out an to the advantage of all present A paper Profitable Varieties for North Missouri by J A Woston Mo with a paper Apples for South Missouri brought out a hot debate from both sections of tli state authority seemed fixe in the idea that the Ben Davis and Gano varieties was each a variety while many others took i firm stand Ben Davis and Gano were one and the and both varie ties had been picked from the same tree at the same time and that these varieties could never become distinct individuals Drouth of 97 Freeze of 99 and Drouth of 01 were papers giv en by Col J C Evans Harlem Mo IX A Robnett Columbia Mo and K B Wilkinson Mexico Mo followed by Instructive discussions which demonstrated tho fact that Intense cultivation through spring summer and early fall Is the best way to fight the drouth keeping the trees and plants supplied with plant food in healthy conditions which will give them better and stronger vitality to withstand severe winters Spraying for insects and fungus diseases cov ered an important question to fruit growers Though spraying is yet based on theory there are many proofs that go to demonstrate the practical advantages of this work The St Louis Exposition was made a subject of consideration of this meet ing and that be made a department distinct anil not made a subdepartment of agriculture This should be looked after In time by ail who are interested in the farm de If agriculture and forestry should be combined In one department It would have a ten dency to weaken ail three of these the most Important industries of the world It is a great loss to the fruit growers everywhere that the tive papers of this meeting cannot be read by all but time and space are too limited to give the matter in full detail The election of officers D A it Ipple By S W Moore Tlie subject is one which should lerest every man und woman in e stale today For if you arc not numbered with c producer you must be with MIL so it in to your interest at the producer knows what to ow und to tho producers interest know you want So we say is n question which should be understood in order that consumer ami producer may ap satisfactory results We say that it is n timely question r never lias there been a time that tried the fanners of the country has the years and especially c one just passing Seeing these cts as we do the next thing we naturally consider is Ihc namely Commercial Apples First let UK understand cadi other regard to what a commercial apple We find the word commercial mes from our word commerce lich is derived from the Latin word which means 1 do siness with Ihen in discussing foe commercial pie we shall endeavor to speak of P business apple of this country f a man is going out to set a orchard hi wants to set such as will find ready sale not Iv at home but abroad Nut only tilts be taken into but we must also pet a variety it will bear cary in life bear often a good resistant of diseases prow a uniform size have pood np on tree well and above all it ist fe a pond culd storage apple Vow I might mime long list of pood pics ami tell you they were ail ml business apples and probably n Id please more of you Hum 1 will en T confine myself to a short t Hut I want yon all to take a iid in the discussion of this through the you say wait till the Beauty pets older Oh my we American people want business apple we want one that will ghe us an income we live and not out to plant for future generations My friends commercial apple is one can be grown the largest and 1 do not belie vi there is any one that will dispute me when 1 say this honor also belongs to the Ben Davis So I say Hint an apple t be the apple should have tin following requisites First The tree should be a good ff rower Second It should do well in various and climates Third Should be a late bloomer and a profuse and early beirer Fourth It should sell well at home and abroad Fifth It should be a pood cold storage apple I believe that apple that lias the live points that I have mentioned would be entitled to a place on the list as i commercial apple so if von have any such we would like you tell us about them I have placet Ben Davis at tin top and expect to leave it there until I am thoroughly convinced that there hits been a better one found And I lc not want you to think that it is simply my opinion and that 1 stand If you visited the exhibit in HIM horticultural building at the and saw for yourself what U America had for you to see along this line If von ask those in charge of each exhibit what apple is tin in their respective slates The Oregon man told you Pippin the Wisconsin one the Wealthy Nebraska Missouri Illinois New York and more that 1 might mention said Hen Davis Professor in tome of the exhibit under liis charge said Have you seen tin fine display that Missouri is making f can see just what he Is going to get and never pick or allow anyone to pick from Hie top of the load Always Lave a few crates of culls in the font end under the seal and out uf sight for you will noon strike a customer who wants cheap apples and yon can surprise am supply bim at once In nine cases out of ten he will buy the good apples Charge a good price and give good big measure and you will retain your customers Do not run down anybodys trade or goods but make your goods so nice and give such good measure that your competitors cannot get in on your streets Be courteous pleasant and accommodating and you will lind no trouble in marketing your apples and at agood price upon my mind by the present apparently chosen oc of a number of mv scbo girl friends f truthfully tui that with the exception of mysel each onu is dependent upon sum other for the means of securing livelihood Here in Des Moines ae numerous institutions of of various kinds and as a many of cur young take to education lor n living n ver laudable aspiration but the supply seems to be than the demand One day I began to think strange about that ck elded that J not travel in th same rut looked around for some thing to my liking too to cln as tilie other girls were doing decided to establish a business of nj own that would be both pleasant ani profitable But what should it be People will always Chickens the very thing For them there wil always be a ready market at If you are interested in a Course in 1A W Send for a Catalogue of the HIGHLAND PARK COLLEGE OF Send for a Catalogue of the HIGHLAND PARK COLLEGE OF PARK BUSINESS HIGHLAND PARK COLLEGE OF TRAINING HIGHLAND PARK NORMAL in Northern Iowa In my young orchard I have n block of 500 Wealthy apples These suffered severely by the of February 1809 I counted 821 dead trees A number of others simply lived Some made a growth of two inches and some a growth of 20 inches This is 011 trees that have been planted six years The orchard has grown a crop of corn every year It lias been manured times since the trees were The trees that made the large growth have hardy roots and were not affected by the freeze In another block I have 500 Duchess of Oldenburg not one of which was injured I want to sav right here that all mv trees were injured were root killed worked on and slock are about all dead Those worked on stock grown from pits suckers tire all right 1 have the pits of the Dyehouse and Wragg for stock on which to graft tho cherry I will use Virginia Crab for grafting the apple firmly believe that liad my Send for a Catalogue of HIGHLAND PARK COLLEGE OF lind for sale and started a vard for profit fairly well but the profits were not what they should have been ON tin best of the hens life was spent ir latching and raising them nnd there was generally a dearth o eggs tbe chickens were covered with mites and tbe hens wandered KO much Hint many of the chicks were lost or destroyed The next year I changed my tactics nnd decided to hatch chickens bv machinery the product of which I found to be more healthy and cleanly and much inquiry T bought an Send for Catalogue of the HIGHLAND PARK COLLEGE OF Send the HIGHLAND PARK BUSINESS MUDY Send for a Prospectus of the HIGHLAND PARK CORRESPONDENCE any of these Catalogues or C C REARICK President for a General Catalogue of High Park College e land Park College address Des anil broader and went to work with a zest Tin first effort was somewhat disappointing as I had not been careful in instructions Hut by time the second hatch came 1 had how t operate it to the best advantage and succeeded or Shallow Cultivation ov L I in tlc in th ul MIL Trillin vc c better next I have 1 been in favor nf deep nnl plain I that nil flip m nearly anil cultivator four to six deep nml tllo same from f ln most of roots After about the fourth we fiml primary roots their course N of today the list would tiling like Ken Davis Wilt Iv all the points carefully Mid of lie season hundred dollars A Sectional View of the Gymnasium Highland Park College Des Moines Iowa f corn have lie and still believe that is tin flter way tn cultivate corn eep and frequent soil i it loose so that tin which no plum miu nil growth can penetrate the soil Besides L can keep the corn leaner can destroy fitter and can the round the corn bettor thai V surface ion or shallow etil as it may U h important that we gxt at UK acts in this ease care bout theories Have you the of anybody qms i mi besides man interviewed 11 liat article Xo one experiment lc ides anv question While I have nl practiced deep cultivation i lure be a better 1 want ti now it ami will adopt it in raisin rn in the future C S Robnett Coin nil Columbia Mo president Wr Lipen Spring fie I if Mo dent W G Gano Treas urer L A Goodman Kansas City Secretary Time and place of next meeting referred to committee on pro gram S H Limmi De There are i CITY POLITICS 3 that Police Judge is on the eve of retire from politics ami that at expiration of his present term In office he will quit the bench for industrial pursuits It Is known tnat ho in connection with County Attorney McLennan whoso term in office expires about the same time are interested In certain Invest ment enterprises which will occupy their entire time und attention U they decide to concentrate their efforts in this direction Others claim Mr Sil vara will again he a candidate for the same office While there are still a few to be found that he will yet enter the race for mayor In the latter event things would become ex warm In city politics as Mr would have a strong fol lowing among thn young republicans and would receive an overwhelming support from the Y M C A and all others that are In favor of the en forcement of the laws As it now stands there Is a and candidate in tho field and the announcement of the candidacy of Mr Silvara would rep resent an entire different faction of party But should ho decide to reenter the race for police ho will bo come an easy mark for Mr Drennan to defeat on the grounds of a third term if no other Josephine and Georgia A of Pleasant street this city have received letters patent for tin automatic locomotive headlight de vice which with tho truck of the engine and throws the light on the track even when the train Is rounding a sharp curve This is the patent of the secured by DCS Mimics parties other being dis from this by tho fact that it is ball bearing lork Imperial Boston Pip pin Northern Spy Wealthy nnd Crimes Golden I sav these over most of the apples if today Were I asked to hose that could be commercial ap this part of the state I should say Hen Davis Missouri Pippin Grimes Golden and York Imperial And now if you want to I think is Che commercial of today I will tell Ben I say that it will make more money in twenty years any other ap ple in existence today T know that there exists n great deal of in the minds of Un people Against the Ben Davis But I want to say that when this apple is grown and cared for properly it is a very different apple from the com mon Ben Davis usually found on our tables along in October und Novem ber My friends take good care of the tree thin and spray the fruit then keep it till the time of the year Unit it reaches its best say January to March try this ind 5311 wil change your opinion of the Ben Davis Now I nm going lo say I nil prepared to stand by I say the Ben Davis is the commercial apple of today T sny it ia the business apple the following reasons ami 1 tlo not believe there is apple for which yon can claim so much First it is one of tlie easiest of the apples to propagate any farmer start his trees Then it iw n id grower in the nursery Another feature is that it makes splendid root in most any soil again it is easy to get to live when e the id talk mo apples and let i cannot induce more im in commercial own state transplanted It is as freo from dis I have ever grown g well we com sting ears and aw often n To illustrate Hi is let in Handling and Marketing Apples At one of our recent agricultural meetings the subject under discus sion was H was he eon en t that it was impossible to sell fruit from the wagon on our markets and make it profitable They could grow an abundance of apples but they could not sell t thus troubled we wan the experience of m Barnes of Wisconsin he has to say ho first success i ling and the apple crop is to first get the apples second to get enough of them lo interest the buyers third assort them into ami varieties by themselves nnd of fer each grade and variety by itself to sell the unless the sump purchaser will take the sec ond grade at a price agreed upon Sell the culls to the first that even if the is low or feed to stock Always separate the culls from tlie good ones as soon us harvested for favors contagion and it does y nnd rotten mess Mi t it In nnd agree upon the price an grade Then grnde your apples e ly us agreed Market us they are lit oll fo nd gre u apples together be of equal and tual Yellow and green ones may b d much detriment ti Ben Davis sind lloman either if of sinne grade and mm lit v Well I trees If yon a city trade nr fared the in from house to carry ip 1 picked four crops of lien Davis that have averaged wo nicely covered with ti cUnn trees p i to the tree bushel fro in nil the nd 1 Ho np tl le froi from til ill single tree from the 1 ample I hid a youn that bore a few tipples in This tree looked very tine last I cut grafts from it and used these grafts the same day were cut in a The scions on the crab tree grew but the tree from which they were cut died On examination I found its roots all killed by the Brother farm ers Hiis shows that we must study our surroundings mid plant only thai that will produce abundant fruit In stead of whining over the loss ami giving up in despair I have ordered trees to replace nil that were lost by the freeze I am satisfied that northern Iowa can grow as good ap ples plums cherries and pears as arc grown anywhere provided we plant only those varieties that arc adapted to our soil anil climate We want to add to the above that we believe thit the cherry country It h serins to stand our as the apple The doubt but that it is variety tested KO far with u is him MY EXPERIENCE With an abiding faith in of the average American through the life been placed upon my resourc with a dismal future staring me the face but having through g fortune emerged from the gloom that me I wo like if you permit to say a wi mav be for a livelihood to a gwid method for relieving th selves of the which npp them striking fr the shackles w out into Ilie broad sunlight of in nnd pn The thouM h me that i of met ing the t the fo nf th i speri s often oec ould ods for at of girls an Tf t rr themselves bi f slm rhead of all expenses I had learned a lesson valuable than the number of dollars 1 had received and determined tu profit by it The past season has been a revela tion to me Early in the year 1 bought two incubators and brooders one of which T used for for the market and the other for stock and KO well did I suc eed that when I balanced the books November l 1 found a credit to my account jn the bank of with my machinery nml n variety of all my own md my living expenses paid for the year I now mv sphere of operations and nm inclined to add to mv enterprise the raising of Toulouse geese and Bronze of my friends are me from so on account of the in creased cost Hut if the incubator with tur ducks and geese of business flint will n pendent and for goodness s Mindl dont sav m i chicken business as 1 go into something wherein at least a comfortable li not be dependent upon fl d caprices of those who std to furnish you it lea living Stand str d lie IVs low Dont feed u expert yo Don Don lid if vo well l on often lt or K mal t t sro i nt with red and then rarely ry for rih foods pay ruis or DonM trei fresh with are We like to receive such letters as f Ss He is a practical farmer has his ideas of the best way to do things but is broad hear the other side nnd if better than his own is willing to adopt it The shallow cultivation of corn has passed beyond the experimental stage results have been attained that worthy of careful thought The ingest argument made by C S that deep cultivation keeps the ground loose has no weight because the ground should have before the corn th it Pi planted and had the seed bed been properly it will stay loose during the time o R of the L killed while rood shape to ml the for having heretofore push d they now grow down ard soon taking a vertical Neil alone the roots which rst gnw but all those now ell this downward course from lie very beginning stales as the result of some ork curried on under bis direction by the tion of tlie a few words be written the plan of the experiment did mt include this point It was observed that the nodal roots and especially those later formed branched out horizon lally from the stem for a and then turned down d rapidly In the stilt soil plants were grown a of thr roots appeared to enter into Hie subsoil which is n very stiff clay so that in this situation the corn seems to be a plant as by the which tlie roots ny of the Other observations io which atten on will be called later indicate that i looser soils eorn roots TOW to a mch greater depth than was ob in this locality Since this above was written King is made a careful study of the root of com from which it that days after planting the roots had penetrated a of eighteen inches The sur face roots sloped gently downward the center of tlie row whore hose nearest the surface were some When eorn was eet high tl re soil dov Herethe e roots occupied the en n to a depth of two feet roots arc seen to occupy ill down to a depth id or better b ot wash so of deep ip to any size is thai it cuts off ny of the roots C S has often had the standards of his plow load ith corn roots the last time he plowed his corn In bulletin lust issued bv the Iowa Agricultural Col lege paVe 79 it nays It is well known that roots have an important relation to the development nf corn in The ly influence the plant c able Tl is largely governed bi tors especially amount of rai ind moisture in the soil In a paper read Infore tlie bi eal section of the American for the Advancement following summary nade by the writer It has been stated that not i than per cent of the roots of the subsoil nates as a result of some work icd on with Cilbert that only of the roots of outer the subsoil Armsby nter serves that in a stiff soil fe the roots of corn enter the sut Thiel also observes that in our i plants most of the fine i supply the plant with mit natter in the upper st adi i have been inches would at 111 ilh it tv vo feet which is the height of the At this stage rhe surface lead curve toward where they only six inches deep Just as the corn is coming into full tassel a third sample was taken Which is represented in figure 10 nnd here it will be seen have fully occupied the upper three feet of the soi in the entire Held In the renter of tho row too the surface leaders have risen still higher and L few of them arc now scarcely fivo inches deep the great bulk of them are still six inches or more below tbe tbe center names mentioned above arc Hunt 111 Ala Station Minn Experiment Station Armshy Ienn Experiment Station The above shows the habits of corn roots and the effects of deep cultivation At the Illinois Experi ment Station the roots were pruned six inches away from the corn and four inches deep The rows made bushels to the acre more eorn The station also experi for four years on deep cul anil shillow level cultivation and the results of these tests gave nine bushels per nerc more for shal low cultivation The station also made a very careful study of the roots of the roots would been broken bv cultivation three inches deep all hut root would have been severed by cultivation In many parts of Illinois deep cul has been abandoned and the farmers claim hey raise nine to ten bushels mure per tiere since shallow cultivation As is a very important nd tlie Tribune wants to SAYS HUSBAND EMBEZZLED The divorce suit of H K Harvey v It C Harvey in which wa Hhd hrin It against tind iKis o of of fS u dee Tli on id cruel ami in i Tlf 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