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THE PARENT OF WHEAT. The most remarkable fact concern ing the queer plant, the goatseye, is that it has been proved by experiment to be the parent of cultivated wheat. This fact was accidentally discovered by a French agriculturalist. He wish ed to determine what effect cultivation would have upon the goatseye and planted remote from any fields of grass that might mingle with it a few of the seeds. The first crop showed much difference from the original, be ing two or three times taller and more grains to the stalk. At the end of seven years’ experimenting the yield was over 300 grains for each one plant ed, and the transformation was com plete; every plant was a true represen tative of cultivated wheat. Later he sowed them in open fields, and in no instance have they returned to the form of the original goatseye grass. The same experiments have since been tried by the English Agricul tural society with the same results. The nearest form to true wheat now found wild is the creeping couch grass, a perennial closely agreeing in all essential particulars of structure with our less cultivated annual wheat. TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATION. The following is the program of the Teachers’ Association to be held at Knifley, Saturday Oct., 25: Music, Devotional Exercises, Eld. Leslie Bottom. Welcome Address, S. L. Coffey. Response, Dr. J. C. Gose, Relation of the Public School to the State Government, W. D. Jones. The need of a Superintendent and the importance of the office as a part of the common school system of Ken tucky, 8. L. Coffey. The best way to arouse an Educa tional interest in the community, W. S. Sinclair. Essay, Miss Estelle Willis. The True Teacher Spirit, J.C. Judd, Recitation, Miss Mary 8. Monday. What can be done in Adair county to increase the attendance in the com mon schools? L. Y. Gabbert, 9 How overcome defects to improper home training? Mrs. S. S. Williams. The sanitary conditions of the school house and surroundings, Dr. J.C. Gose. How dispose of the troublesome pu pil and parent? Robt, Morris, Noon, Music. Should every lesson be a language lesson? Mrs. Docia Russell. Duties of trustees, V. G. Hovious. Recitation, Miss Lena Powell. How teach spelling? Plato Wade. Should there be a change in the trustee system? Charlie Coffey. The best method of teaching compo sition, Miss Pinkie Jeffries. Importance of moral training, Eld. Leslie Bottom. JAMES C. JUDD, Sze, SHORT STOPS. In 1900 France exported 1,000 horses more than she imported, whereas Germany had to import 90,000 more than she exported. Georgia fruit growers are claiming that the peach crop of their state yields more money to the producers than does the cotton crop. British commissioners in South Af rica say trade there is in the hands of trusts and combinations, which threat en the country’s development. More than half the quality of cheese imported into Britain comes from Can ada. Improved cheese rooms are now being fitted on big liners. The shortest people in Europe are the Laplanders. The height of the men averages 4 feet 11 inches and the height of the women two inchess less. A report on agriculture for North Carolina shows the valuation of farm property to be $233,854,693, of which about $30,000,000 represents livestock and $9,000,000 machinery and imple ments. The value of all farm products shows a rapid growth. The Cocos, or Keeling islands, which belong to the British empire, are the private property of G. Cinnis Ross, who lives on them and governs their primitive population as an autocrat. They are a ring of coral atolls lying 600 miles off Java Head. The Government surveyors have es tablished the geographical center of Kentucky and planted an American flag upon it. The site is near Shaw nee Run church in Mercer county, on the farm of John Spillman.
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Columbia Adair County News
Columbia, Kentucky, US
Wed, Oct 15, 1902
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