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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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r a century and a half.What is that in the history of a nation ? Then when Poland rises again, what kindof a state will she be—monarchy or republic ? Republic, of course. She was always a re-public, even when she crowned the man of herchoice and called him King. Poland, as shewill emerge from her sepulcher, will be a greatstate stretching from the Baltic to the BlackSea. Riga, Konigsberg, and Dantzic will beher sea-gates in the north ; Odessa her seaportin the Euxine. She will be composed of threeraces,—the Poles proper, twenty millions ; theEtuthenians, twenty millions; and the Lithua-nians, live millions. Besides these, there aremany Russians and Germans,—minorities,—sothat the Polish Republic will start with a popu-lation of fifty millions. These will be the realbulwark of civilization against the Yellow Peril,the impregnable rampart garrisoned by an edu-cated, moral, incorruptible, and religious race,against which all the waves of the Tartarizedmonimddom will beat in vain.
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START OF ONE OF THE CORN-GOSPEL TRAINS. (In eight days the seed-corn special trains covered 1,321 miles and passed through 37 of the 99 counties of Iowa. Onehundred and fifty talks were given to 17,600 people, directly representing 1,500,000 acres of corn, or an average annualyield of 55,000,000 bushels, worth §18,000,000, and the press carried the information to every farmer and landowner in theState.) IOWAS CAMPAIGN FOR BETTER CORN. BY P. G. HOLDEN. (Professor of agronomy in the Iowa State College, at Ames, Iowa.) THE employment, last spring, of special corntrains, known generally as the seed-cornspecials, for the purpose of warning the farm-ers of Iowa against the dangers of poor seedcorn, was the natural outgrowth of the pecul-iar conditions which existed in that State. ByApril 10, 1904, twelve hundred samples of seedcorn had been received from farmers in dif-ferent portions of the State by the Iowa Agri-cultural College and tested to determine theirvalue for seed purposes. These

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