Farmer's Journal and Household Magazine from Emporia, Kansas • 2

2 FAKMERS' JOURNAL celerated by twelve days. A series of laboratory experiments up on boxes of soil was also made. The temperature of the soil was raised by these currents; its moist ure decreased at first, but began to increase after a course of three weeks, at last the amount of vegetable matter in the soil was in creased by the electric current. FARMERS' JOURNAL AND Household Magazine. Published Monthly By McCord McCord, 524 Commercial Street Emporia, Kansas.

Entered at the Emporia potitoffice as second class mall matter. HUGH A. McCORD, Editor. Subscription Price, 50 cents a Year In Advance Advertising Rates made known on application jrjE BELIEVE in quality rather than quantity in the production of papers as well as in the productions of the farm. The number of square feet of paper you receive each week doesn't prove the amount of interest contained in a journal, or the quality thereof.

The Farmers' Journal is non political and nonsectarian. It shall be ever free from political wrangles and idle or slanderous gossip, and dishonest or unreliable firms cannot secure space in its columns for any price. We want to furnish a paper that shall interest and benefit the farmers, Further researches seem promis THE OLD HYMNS. There's lotsof music in 'em-the hymns of long ago And when some gray-haired brother sings the ones I used to know, I sorter want to take hand! I think of days gone by, "On Jordan's stormy banks I stand and cast a wistful eye!" There's lots of music in 'em-those dear, sweet hymns of old With visions bright of lands of and shining streets of gold; And I hear 'em singing-singing, where me'ry dreaming stands, "From Greenland's icy mountain to India's coral strands." An' so I love the old hymns, and when my time shall come, Before the light has left me, and my singing lips, arc dumb, If I can hear 'em sing them then, I'll pass without a sigh To "Canaan's fair and happy land where my possessions lie." Atlanta Constitution. ing.

Scientific American. Sweet Potatoes in Europe. Farmers will be interested in the movement initiated by Vansvillc Farmers' Club, of College Park to secure a market in Europe for sweet potatoes. According" to D. M.

Nesbit, secretary of the club an effort will be made, with the hearty support of the secretary of agriculture at Washington, to A good illustration of reward of merit is shown in the growth educate the masses in Europe to appreciate the sweet potato and to of the circulation of the Ladies' brinjr it within their means. The Home Journal 905,000 copies be common people of Northern and ing required for the April issue. Central Europe are unfamiliar There is no publication in the with the tuber, their climate being unfavorable to its cultivation. If country, that excels this magazine in the high standard of its productions. The growing popularity of brought to knowledge it wouldbe a cheap and yet valuable addition to their menu.

Oats were formerly gardeners, stock men and honest toilers of Kansas. Our columns are open for the discussion of those problems that concern the agriculturists of the West, for we believe that a free interchange of thought on these subjects is the first step toward the upbuilding of the farming interests. Experiments in Electrd-Gulture. Some Russian scientists have been trying some interesting- experiments in electro-culture. One of them ascertained that electrified seeds germinated more rapidly, and gave quicker and better results than seeds which have not been submitted to preliminary electrification.

He also repeated the experiments of Ross, that is, burying in the soil one copper and one zinc plate placed vertically and connected by a wire. He found that potatoes and roots grown in the electrified space gave crops three times heavier than those which were grown close by ojn a test plot: the carrots attained quite an unusal size of from ten to a journal of such Christian influence is one of the best proofs that the race is not going backward, and that our country, of all countries of the world, is in the lead morally and intellectually. Big Fruit Crop, "The indications are that Kan sas will have the heaviest fruit crop in the history of the state" says President Wellhouse of the State Horticultural Society. little appreciated in London. They were in fact, thought to be fit only for horse feed, but now oatmeal is on every breakfast table.

So of corn. It was imported for feeding to animals, its value as a material for bread being almost unknown. What was done with oats and corn can be done also for sweet potatoes if a concerted and sustained effort is made to introduce them properly at the Paris exposition and afterward throughout Europe. The department of agriculture takes keen interest in the enterprise, it is understood, and will assist in introducing the sweet potato in its raw state and preserved by canning and desiccation. Investigation will be made and the result will contribute to the creation of the new market for an excellent article of food.

Baltimore Sun. "There is no danger of frosts now, and nothing can damage the crop except hail storms, and these are of a local nature. The apple and peach crops are too far advanced to be injured by pests." Judge Wellhouse is the largest apple twelve inches in diameter. The other Russian scientist tried a series of experiments that were more original; on his experimental plot he planted wooden posts about ten yards apart, which were provided at their tops with metallic aigrettes connected by wires so that the plants were cultivated under a sort of network of wire. He obtained some remarkable results and ripening barley was ac grower in the world, having nearly 2,000 acre of orchard in Leaven worth and Shawnee counties.

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