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Map of Alabama and vicinity showing drainage, cities and towns, and the railroad network. Indicates completed and proposed lines and names of lines. Includes township and county boundaries.
V The Science of Agriculture How it Should be Taught The Work o University of Maine At the last meeting of aklo Conn ty Pomona Grange the topic for clis mission was should Agriculture la Taught in Our Public School Tin discussion was ably opened by Mrs L F Sukcfortb who said Agriculture without doubt is one ol oldest ot Human occupations Pursuer at first in a crude way by the barba rians of distant antiquity who dug holes 111 the ground with a sharpened stiek into which they diopped the seed it has progressed as man has progress ed in the scale of evolution until i has at last reached that plain where il is styled a science Put the science ol agriculture is young very young II is just beginning to lawn upon human knowledge that it K indeed a science and that it includes a knowledge ol man other sciences socalled I have no doubt but the man ot i it future who engages in agriculture toi liis lifes business wiil follow his occu pation in a scientific manner and will prepare himself by proper study and practice as do people ot other trades and professions 1
GREAT FALLS DAILY TRIBUNE IV M BOLE Editor O S WARDEN Manager EDITOR fAL PACE LEONARD G DIEHL Business Manager BUTTE AND AGRICULTURE The Butte Miner steps out upon broad ground and gives Farmer B K Wheeler formerly at torney atlaw of Butte full credit for capturing bag and baggage the recent Nonpartisan con vention in Great Falls The Miner marvels that a lawyer should be able to cultivate the farmers who have baen preaching strenuously that the legal fraternity should be kept out of public of fice The newspaper over the range then pro ceeds to claim that Wheeler and Dunn have made Butte the agricultural center of Montana and it sees the fertile lands that encompass Butte bursting into plenteous production like unto the valley of the Nile The Tribune is not inclined to question the privilege of The Miner to praise the general ship of one of the Butte lawyers who is report ed to have said that he would run on any old platform under the sun if the Nonpartisans de sired to tie their tag into his buttonhole but we do think that The Miner is going too fast on this agricultural stuff The claim
VOL XXV III COLUMBIA LA FRIDAY JANUAIRY 23 1914 NO 5 TO SATE COTTON GROWERS MILLIONS THIS IS OBJECT OF BILL INTRO DUCED IN HOUSE BY CON GRESSMAN LEVER WOULD DETERMINE GRADES Appropriation Asked to Provide for Investigation and Spreading of Information Among Farmers Westrn Newspaper IIton News Scrvice WashingtonThe saving of mil lions of dollars now lost annually by cotton farmers and small manufactur ers is the object of a bill which Rep resentative Lever of South Carolina chairman of the house committee on agriculture has introduced The measure would appropriate 50000 to be used by the secretary of agricul ture in determining relative spinning values of the different grades of cot ton as already standardized by law and for demonstrating the results of this word to producers and consumers of cotton The department of agriculture al ready has standardized the nine grades of cotton and is concluding its first investigation for testing the waste tensile strength and bleaching qualf ties of these grades The house committee on agriculture has been advised that Texas alone is losing 40000000 because neither buy ers nor sellers have any appreciation of the value of this years offcolor cotton in that state Buyers
WEATHER PREDICTIONS Hie Work of the C S Weather Bureau Bruttits to Commerce and Agriculture There is no other subject in which the people throughout the civilized world are so generally interested as they are in the weather and there its noth ing that exerts a greater influence on the affairs of men Although the weather has occupied mens minds to a great extent since the earliest days of the race and much scientific research has been made it is only within a com paratively few years that any systematic attempt has been made to record and diffuse meteorological data or knowl edge Since the work was taken up by the leading commercial nations of the world great advances have been made and great benefit has accrued particu larly to navigation and agriculture and allied branches The early Egyptians studied meteor ology as a branch of astronomy and Aristotle compiled a comprehensive work on the weather from their writ ings and his own observations He dis cussed prognostics of rain wind storms and fair weather but made no attempt to explain any of the phenomena Cicero Virgil and others wrote on the subject but they added little to the knowledge
Maines herbalist Abandoned Farm Made to Pay Good Money You Can Smell His Catnip Crop Half a Mile Away Boston Sunday Globe The story of how William K Burgess of East Bucksport has managed one of Maines famous abandoned farms aud won prosperity and considerable fame from land that was cluttered with loose stones and iufested with pernic ious weeds deserves to be elevated into a treatise on agricultural economics and a place in the libraries of agricultural colleges Less than 20 years ago when Mr Burgess went to East Bucksport from a farm in Monroe Me he was rich in health and hope though poor in finan cial resources so when he had bought two adjoining tarms on the shores of Long pondboth of which had been cropped clear down to hard pan and undergone the process which Maine farmers term skinning until there was nothing left to skinhe found himself at 35 years of age without an available dollar in the world and hitch ed to a barren hillside farm which according to local report was not able to sustain a pair of rabbits The first thing which Mr Burgess needed was ready money Local ways of securing
r H S X New Millinery for Sports Wear Just received a shipment of Sport Hats These are just what you need to complete your Sports oufit We are also pleased to announce that we have Hose to match all our new shades in grey pumps SPECIAL Crochet cottons Coats and other standard makes on sale at 10 and 12 cents per ball Hosiery and Underwear Odd lots of hosiery and un derwear on sale at 25 percent off mpcuiim tyUQccdâCh I nc STATE COUNCIL AGRICULTURE Montana Farm and Livestock Inter ests United On Questions of Common Value Helena May 11Organization of a Montana Council of Agriculture through which farm and livestock in terests of the state can express them selves in a unitçd way on questions of commort interest was launched at the capitol in Helena Monday by repre sentatives of farm brççd and allied associations An executive committee of five was named to draft a consti j tution and bylaws and report back at a meeting that probably will be held at Helena next fair week George M Lewis of Manhattan secretary of the Montana Pure Bred Sheep Association is chairman of the committee and the other members
EDITOR OF MONTANAS OLDEST NEWSPAPER RECALLS BALMY PLACER DAYS OF DIAMOND CITY AND CONFEDERATE GULCH By DAN R CONWAY IN GREAT FALLS there resides a Krayhaired old Kontleman now well paat the fourscore mark who continuously for the past fifty years has been editor and publisher of the states oldest newspaper the first agricultural publication in the entire Rocky Mountain region and the only weekly farm paper published in the Northwest On November 25 1875 just 50 years ago R N Sutherlin printed the first copy of the Rocky Mountain Husbandman at the old mining camp of Diamond City M T This same R N Sutherlin has just issued his fiftieth anniversary number of that paper which is now being published in Great Falls A firm believer in the agricultural future of Montana Editor Sutherlin has from the beginning conducted his newspaper as a farm journal In the early gold days as is the common condition there were many disap pointments There were not a suffi cient number of claims to satisfy all and many took up claims which did not prove profitable As a result scores of those who had been lured to the foothills of Montana by the
Depths shown by form lines. Shows railroads and agricultural areas and products. Alternate title: Iron Mountain Route : to all parts of Texas. "8-17-'09." Includes inset showing connecting railroads from Chicago, Omaha, Denver, and New Orleans to Texas. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
This map, produced by the Transportation Department of the United States Department of Commerce in 1925, shows the railroad network of Trinidad. The main rail line in Trinidad was the Trinidad Government Railway, which originally was built in 1876 to connect the major city of Port of Spain with Arima. It later was extended to other inland towns. In addition to railroad lines and tramways, the map shows towns and counties and county boundaries. Originally claimed for Spain by Christopher Columbus in 1498, Trinidad was seized by Britain in 1797. With its much smaller sister island of Tobago, it became a single British colony in 1889. In the 19th century, the economy was dominated by agriculture, chiefly the production of sugarcane and cacao. Oil was discovered in 1857 and the petroleum industry developed from the 1860s onward. The colony of Trinidad and Tobago achieved independence in 1962.
Map of the southeastern United States showing drainage, cities and towns, township and county boundaries, and the railroad network. In 1871 the line was in progress of completion. One of Colton's typical maps published for an individual railroad company to promote industry and settlement in rich mining or agricultural areas. (Entry 533)
Map of the southern United States showing drainage, cities and towns, township and county boundaries, mining and agricultural regions in Alabama, and the railroad network.