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Show Ci) - GRAND VALLEY TIMES a. MN. CORBIN, MOAB, GRAND Publisher, COUNTY, FARM AND GARDEN. | ; } AGRICULTURISTS. UTAH, $550. for {a single sold ess went up, and in still | The price 1895 Messrs. Stevens sold one, after a) In 1899 a | brisk competition, for $825. iteciod The untruth of today is called a le; ithe untruth of a hundred 'ed a legend. years For @ Relic This Extinct rlas Just Been "Talk platitudes and avoid atti-' tudes"' is the direction which a cynical newspaper gives to the campaign ‘orator. One Chicago man has escaped jury Service on the plea that he is prejudiced against the city. But then som¢ men will say almost anything to escape jury duty. Bird $1628 | specimen Paid. The great closely auk was resembling a water sea those known as guillemots, are little auks familiar to egg. The paler bird,| large end of the birds| blotches in the figure show the pale and| visitors | previously offered. ' these eggs and been bought have been Not valued for The made numbers only the means The well-known Spanish painter, Joaquin Sarolla, has been awarded a ‘first-class medal in the Paris exposi- and about eighty eggshells. The skins brilliant light everywhere, with heavy dazzling shadows of adver- ns AE figures to | 176 years, while the potash would last One bushel of wheat re670 years. | moves in grain and straw more nitroin money | gen, both in pounds and value, than the other elements combined, as follows: 2.1 pounds of nitrogen, worth at a low estimate 25 cents; 0.6 In 1882 average to EGG OF GREAT shame OOL eccpead Funk In 1,000 prizes, the for gle gold medals, bronze grand 583s silver 270 honorlist of gold, of collabo- exposition only including those col- given. 214; medals, for The prizes prizes, 55; Grand silver medals, 246; honorable 300; men- The names of those who tions, 229. received grand prizes or gold medals have been made public. One of the moving stairways which are being adopted by the elevated railway in New York has been started and is now in successful operation. It is said that the traffic at that station has increased fully 100 an hour over the normal rate, but this probably is due largely to the novelty of the thing. There are, however, many people who would patronize the elevated road were it not for the stairways to be climbed. In appearance, the new device resembles the old stairway, exeept that one-half of the staircase proper is a piece of moving rubber matting that works not unlike a threshing machine elevator and sounds like one, somewhat subdued. One simply steps upon it and steadies himself by means of a side rail, when he is earried to the car platform, : Paris has been running to see a new pianoforte prodigy, a Spanish baby of three and a half years, named Pepito Rodriguez Ariola, who, though his hand can stretch over only five notes, repeats pieces that he hears and improvises besides. As he cannot strike a chord, he plays the notes instead quickly one after the other. to play a year ago and He began has been in- spected recently by the Psychological comBgress at the exposition, which finds that apart from his music he is a per_feectly norma! infant. hot read a note. Of course he can oma sees plete inby complete fertilizer which in to build to maintain of the voyage Hakluyt fertilizer can self worth would be up not be worn about 95 60 cents, the com- use@ lands, those already by or it- even in fair con- dition. It is stili more evident that the mineral fertilizers without nitro- herrings, and now even eggshell is pounds a sinworth than there are days in| the year. object. instances by the judicious use of mineral fertilizers, accompanied by stable manure and the growing of cowpeas, clover, or the like. The mistake must not be made of mowing these crops for hay and under not the returning wrong the manure, impression that the roots contain the most of the plant food. Approximately one-fifth of the total nitrogen may be considered as left in the roots, stubble, etc. A carefully selected rotation of crops, in run down; particularly that which was ‘rongest and best, such as our alluvia: soils and our clayey limestone soils, which are richly supplied / naturally with mineral elements. Gentle, a8 Well and_ as Brave gentleness qualities that often dwell are Beef-Making twe is found in the following story told by the Army and Navy Journal, concerning the late Commander James W. Carlisle, who was in command of the aa ee ee eee rrr ee GAVE Sister Alice UP O'Sullivan Murdered by the Europe Alice O'Sullivas.. who was murdered by the Chinese at "sien Tsin and recently solemnly pope as a martyr for beatified by the the faith, was a It looks been PP Pa te tej AMERICAN te te te CORN. Buys Chinese. Sister PPP TAKES LIFE. going ropeans « apple that States, It has proved an excellent apple in ny. nois, Iowa and Missouri, as well as y eastern Kansas, Over a large part of the South it has proved a failure, It has proved fairly good in the Whole strip of country between Maine and Utah and south of the Great Lakes, its southern limits of successfyj growth lying as far south as Tennes- see. The apple is of medium size, oblong-conical in shape, red in COlor, sweet in flavor and of fair quality, j is used for both dessert and kiiche, * * #8 doubtful the if the producer 8-cent peaches a single cent while it is certain that peacheg did. The moral gave of profit; the 20-cent is plain-the growers must stop marketing inferior peaches. Thinning the fruit while it is small should be universally practiced. We believe, however, that thinning is becoming quite common, es there kas been a very large supply of good peaches on the Chicago market this year. remembrance so easy packed The writer of a season to get large fruit. There has no when it Was and seems propery aiso to have been great improvement in the packing of fruit. Usually peathes in the Chicago market have been merely faced with good peaches, but this year honesty in packing is apparent. The salesmen seem the demands to have awakened to of the hour and are will- ing to guarantee baskets as being the contents of their uniform throughout Kvery Farm. to west- ern stockmen, said: As to operations, I have never had scale of any ex- perience of feeding a number of cattle small enough my own ey tening. The to watch carefully witn during the prucegs of faiproper form the industry U. S. S.. "Vandalia" at Apia, Samoa, | of cattle feeding shouid take, for the during the terrible storm of March 16, | real permarunt benefit of a meat-pro1889. One evening, some years after| ducing cous:;y is that of a generally ward, on retiring to his room moderate scale of operations, and some /ous horticultural shippers' the trade been a societies unions. in To all peaches large and and fruit appearances this year profitable ha ong The good work should go on till there are no poor peaches sold on the market. The Albert Home Pogier: Herd, One of the foremost considerations in beef production & that we, as stock raisers, should grow our own stock. This I regard as a very important matter. The large number of failures in the cattle business points to the fact that we, as farmers, af not sufficiently well acquainted with the effects of acclimation and domesttcation of cattle brought from any great distance to the south or west. In other words, we are unfamiliar with the amount of shrinkage likely to occur during the period of adjustment to climatic and other conditions. Nor do we understand the laws of growth of thesc foreigners, and compare them too favorably with well-bred animals at home, I could enumerate many stockmen and farmers who have nearly bankrupted themselves, largely on a coun: of their unfamiliarity with the growth and development of these western breeds. Again, quite a number of farmers came to the conciusion some years ago a cow that herd; it did that pay to keep the amount not of feed ' eeroerereerrererreTeeeeee eS eS ee ee ee ee a Ne Ph PP HER en R, M. Allen, in an address side by side in the same heart, as has been proved time and again. Still another instanes a *# This improvement is largely due to the constant agitation carried on by the gen will fall even further short of this | agricultural press and by the numer- The problem of improving our soils his| most profitably will be solved in most to be very good and nour- | food like skin or more obtained were acid, which cowpeas play a prominent. part, ishing meate." is the first essential to the bettering of The French fishermen who in those worn iands. Peas without mineral ferdays frequented Newfoundland slew | tilizers will improve for years to come and skinned thousands, salting them| much of our land that is beginning to obliga- last laborators, were were as follows: island, found them Forty-two thousand seven hundred and ninety exhibitors out of 75,531 have received awards at the Paris ex- rators. in his account Bravery States Size. quaint language described as: | "Very full of rockes and stones, whereon they went and found it full of great foules, white and grey, and big as geese, and they saw infinite numbers of their egges. They draue| a great number of the foules into their boates upon their Sayles, and took| many of their egges, the foules they| flead, and their skinnes were very like hony combes full of holes; being flead off, they dressed and eate them, and | ever the home of a man and woman who recently founded a new sect. The religious enthusiasts have broken up families and in other ways made them"elves obnoxious to the community, but sober people have determined that the town's good name shall not be ‘marred by the mob law which wilder spirits threaten. Hence the nightly guard, With all propriety one may eall it "knightly" also, for there is something as high and fine as the spirit of chivalry in the conception United Natural of M.' Hore and others to Newfoundland in 1600. They sailed from Gravesend until they came to the island of Penguins, now known as | A patrol of citizens has been keeping nightly vigil, in a Nebraska township, The phosphoric would cost, at retail prices, cents; if home-mixed, about | It is evident, therefore, that in former times may be from the facts described Hakluyt the jthat it has suffered a decline. position. AUK. existed ferred ‘no longer enjoys the vogue it had one or two years ago. But in its capacity for usefulness there is no evidence 1,981 awards; of these 220 prizes, 486 gold medals, medals, 422 bronze medals, able mentions and'a long ailver and bronze medals of necessary, Which would supply enough available phosphoric acid for fifteen bushels and enough potash for two 1899. For purposes pleasure the bicycle the pounds 2.4 cents; 0.9 pounds of potash, worth 4 cents. To furnish this amount of nitrogen, one hundred pounds of the been compiled in Bhiladelphia. In August of this year, it appears, only 40,037 bicycles passed through the gates of Fairmount park, as against of * Ramsdell's Sweet is an originated in the United more this and humus, or | of this state would be entirely without | nitrogen in about eighty years. The | phosphoric acid would be sufficient for just these Nebraskans hold tions of citizenship. ex- - ipinaniactig an We notice by recent market quota. tions on peaches that the smalle quickly than if no fertilizer were used. baskets sold at wholesale at from4 ns make eratio consid ng followi The to 20 cents per basket. The same this subject plainer: The chemical anpeaches retailed at the stands at from alyses of our soils show that if we con15 to 30 cents per basket. The re | gider the total amounts of plant food | tailer made 7 cents on the poor and supply nitrogen /they contain, the '10 cents on the good peaches. But | would be consumed first, next would | What about the producer? The basket be phosphoric acid, and last of all pot| that sold for 20 cents cost no more | ash, If we consider the plant food in '| to handle than the one that sold at ' the soil to the depth of one foot and | 8 cents, The cost of the empty basket | it were possible to grow wheat year | was the same, the cost of transpor | after year at the rate of twenty bush- | | was the game, and the labor connected els to the acre, the average virgin soil | with the two would not differ, It is decline of the bicycle's popularity have 91,998 in August, of recreation and very o8 elements mineral of the matter, mal lying show by lib- potash, and phosphate excess the penetrate. intended either to hausts the soil of its nitrogen and of its partly decayed vegetable and ani- - Some profit- aided unless returns able without crop like some eral manures from | cowpeas or clover. To use only mineral fertilizers, such as acid phosphate that customers or acid a the light cannot oF thrown poor land, is almost money The average so-called complete away, or ammoniated fertilizer is little if any better. The reason for all this is that . eyes, where increase to be will use ' eontinued tion, and all those who admire his works are pleased at his success. The Madrilenos call Sarolla "the painter of the sun," because no one can surpass him in those wonderful scenes of outdoor life painted in full sunshine, the College, says: farmer should his ‘even to maintain the fertility of land by means of commercial fertiliz their By this is meant that | ers alone, ocherous brown | markings, and the | lightest streaks | are of a leaden || gray. The ground spectively. of the chemist permanently hove ‘not Five thousand honey bees, as they All these species, howleave the hive, weigh about one pound, | ever, possess the power of flight, and but when the insects return from their | hence they have succeeded in preservvisits to the flowers, freighted with | ing their lives in spite of the persecolor is nearly honey, they weigh nearly twice a3; cution of man. But the great auk was || white, and the surmuch, pre-eminently a water bird. Its power face is finely g°-anuof swimming was great, but, in spite lated. No two of The founders of the republic had litof the celerity of its movements, its the known eggs of tle thought that this would ever be inability to fly insured its destruction. the great auk are anything but an agricultural country. It formerly inhabited Iceland, the alike in markings. Today one-third of our exports are of Faroe islands, and the Hebrides, and Some of the markimanufactured goods. The great de- in Trinity College, Dublin, is a speci- ings are much posits of coal and iron ore, to say men that wus taken alive in Watersmaller and closer ‘nothing of other industrial advanford harbor as late as 1834. In Funk than those in the tages, are nature's decree that woe island, off Newfoundland, two cenand other' speci‘should become a great manufacturing turies ago they were so numerous that mens are to be nation. the French sailors made inclosures of seen marked in vastones, into which they drove large| ried patterns. In the Chateau de Luynes, the beau- | numbers of the birds, killed them, and When it was first tiful residence of the family of the| then salted them down for food. learned that the ‘Duc d@'Uzes since the reign of Henri All that remains of the great auk great auk was an now are eighty or ninety skins, which IV., there are some fine carved woodextinct bird the are preserved mostly in public muwork, a beautiful painted staircase, price of its remains seums, and valued, according to their and some chimneypleces of marble began to rise, In state of preservation, at sums varying with Gauthiere mountings. These 1859 a specimen from $500 each to that realized by the have been purchased by Frederick was sold as high last one offered for sale at Stevens', Litchfield during his recent visit ta as $90; in 1864 four which was sold for $1,800. There are Paris, and will be removed to the Sinspecimens were also a few skeletons, mostly in public clair galleries, London. sold for $120, $125, museums, a good many separate bones, $150 and $225, re- . Fioricel- Fertility. Farm's the Mooers, A. Charles | Tennessee Agricultural | The average Tennessee they of the great auk and Viticulture Improving have but Thereof-~- tare. | by nsaturalists museums, tising, such as attracting a billiard room. i Horticulture, Yields and Cultiva About Hints | feme Up-to-Date | tien of the Soil realized at Stevens' auction| Then thero was a slight drop | $4,500. | in the value, as it was known that several specimens would probably coms into the market, but a reaction short| ly took place, prices again rose, and | the specimen figured was the one that | has realized a higher price than any More than half a century ago the | and the eggshells are in great demand last known living specimen of the| and realize at the present time most great auk was destroyed. Now an egg | extraordinary prices. ‘of that extinct bird has been sold at The length of the egg is five and , what seems, perhaps, except to scienone-fourth inches, its greate7t width a tists, to be a fabulous price. For it at) little over three inches, It is botched, and scrolled wth Stevens' auctions, London, $1,678 was| streaked, speckled black and varied shades of brown and | paid, It took spirited bidding to get it | gray. The boldest streaks adorn the | at that figure. puffins, which at the seaside. > of is call: | The average man would rather lost $5 on a horse race than a nickel through a hole in his pocket. TO INTEREST OF ee that prices will keep up =we} nn cially in the great shipping and 7 ket centera, England is how re several million barrels per the markets on the coniine year, ang nt are be. ing gradually opened. Th 8e foreign markets demand the best we are willing to pay for it, I; pe. : rapid movement of good fruit in a big markets and prices for B00d fryi is stimulated accordingly, The dig. ference in price between good poor fruit must become greater 88 the foreign trade increases, for the poor fruit finds no stimulus trom the for. eign trade, Rn ? This Cereal from Us on a Large Scale. as though the fight that has on to buy for years American to get Eu- corn has been won at last, for the exports of this cereal are now on such a large scale that it is reasonable to assume that it has got a firm foothold abroad. For resident of Syracuse, N. Y. Blessed Alice O'Sullivan, as she is now styled in the martyrology of the Catholic church, was born in Clonmel, county Tipperary, Ireland, December 1, 1836. the past ten years the various secreShe was educated in the Presentation taries of agriculture have endeavored convent and joined the Sisters of to show to foreigners the value of our Charity in her twentieth year. Her corn and ali sorts of schemes were first years in the convent were spent adopted to introduce it in Europe. in France. Then she volunteered. in During the famous famines in Ireland 1863 to go as a missionary to China. At a number of ship loads of corn were Shanghai she rendered the community sent to the sufferers, but they the greatest service, and then was had such a poor opinion of it that they rechanged to the convent and hospital fused to receive it. The fight was kept at Tien Tsin. Here she labored with | equal success and zeal until she was up, however, with gratifying results, the exports last year amounting barbarously murdered with her comto more than 200,000,000 panion Sisters of Charity. As she was bushels. The demand for this cereal is widely disleaving the chapel she was pursued and dragged into the kitchen of the tributed and extends to the northern half of South America, the British poshospital. The Chinese teok a caldron ef boiling water off the kitchen range sessions in North America, and even to' and poured it over her. Then they Africa and Australia. As regards distribution, however, the most signifbeat her to death. The Rev. Charles icant fact is that from eight to nineButcher, the Protestant chaplain, wrote after the massacre: "The murtenths of the total exports are usualder of the Sisters of Charity is an ly consigned to the various countries outrage, not on a nation or a church, of Europe, pre-eminept among these but on humanity itself. As chaplain: takers betag Great Britain, Germany, of the British community of Shang- "vance, Bekstum, Denmark and Holhai I have had many opportunities of mand. In these countries, it is interseeing the nobie and devoted work of esting to note, the use of corn is mostthese ladies in taking care of the sick ly confined, as is the case in the United at the hospital. One sister was an States, to the feeding of live stock, Irish lady (Sister O'Sullivan), whose though it is also employed to a limited memory is cherished with affection extent in brewing, distilling and other and gratitude by manyef the cam> ipdustries and in the manufacture of | eopsierary foods and confectionery. munity here." in house of his sister, where he was iting, he found a mouse that had en into a basin of water, and Struggling for its life. "There agony and defiance in that little low's eye," said Speaking of it the the next the | vis- | fall- | was was fe]- commander day. "As I gazed on the helpless little creature , | thought of that terrible hight on the Vandalia, and, going to the window, | gently emptied out the contents of the basin. I didn't dry him with my towel," the commander added with a smile, "but I did save his life." A simple little story like this makes one realize afresh, with Tennyson, that "the bravest are the tenderest." psn) -oiadneiliininetncicplei nap: thes Suicide of a Parker's eineaneeenensttntinodnes Retirement. Dr. Parker, the famous Londen Congregationalist preacher, pastor of the City Temple, who has announced his intention to retire next year, is 70 years old. He has been contemplating retirement ever since the death of his third wife last year, Bremerhaven's Sacrifices at Sea. Since 1894 nearly 350 men living in Bremerhaven, Germany, have lost their lives by the wrecking or burning of ships. every at least, farm. . should This is be the produced only on rational method of retaining the fertility of the soil of this country. The only objection to a very small seaie of operations, such as the production of half a dozen or ten steers a year or one farm, is the difficulty of marketing this smai! number to advantage. Ancther ditficulty in the way of marketing small numbers is, that many of the class of farmers who are compezled through a limited capital, to feed on a very small scale if at all, do not, in this part of the world at least, know enough about cattle to be able to get fair value when they gell them. Scattered about through every portion of the country Nations." Jean de Bloch, the financier and political economist of Warsaw, Russia, has recently issued a Pamphlet on "The Suicide of Nations," in whieh he' undertakes to show that the progress of military science has been such as to make war an impossibility except at the cost of the lives of the nations that wage it. Dr. beef, are or less liberal men feeding ona scale more who are well- posted and akillful catilenen, but I judge that there is a far larger num- ber of farmers who should Understang the practice of cattle feeding put who do and care they required unprofitable; that wanted could be raised. These rencered steers bought very them which they cheaper than same farmers are now struggling to develop their cow herds, and a good hard of them is en- vied almost above anything else on the farm, This is another reason why it pays to keep right on raising one's own cattle. Nearly every farmer who has dene so is less subjected to financial because embarrassment, he is more able to make accurate calculations of his income. ‘Then, again, some stockraisers think there is always money to be made in full-feeding, whea # very frequently happens that the steers full-fed would have netted the owner more clear cash if they had been sold off of grass. It is now apparently most profitable here to sell steers between two and three years old, whether fullfed or sold off grass. Usually four or five times as much pork as beef can be produced with the same amount of corn, and this should be taken into account in an intelligent comparison not. This number will naturally with beef production in its most economic sense. Usually well bred cattle this class whom it is ‘Import, ant make the most gain, and sell for 4 to instruct, as the Practice of higher price than scrubs. cattle feeding upon all' such farms, if properly done, will conWhich breed of turkeys will bear. tribute mech more & the strength of confinement best? We would be meat profxction as an indus try than , pleased to have the opinions and exthe larger operations of a small numperiences of our readers on the quesber of feeders. I doubt if we shall ever tion. It is very desirable to develop 4 see the ideal picture that I have drawn strain of turkeys that will bear confully realized, and cattle feeding wit] finement, and we are sure that such @ probably continue to be more or legs strain will ultimately be produced. of a special industry, but it should be When that is brought about it will our aim to approximate this place turkey-raising on a surer basis as much as possible. _--- beeome smaller; but it is particularly than that upon which it rests at the present tims, as we have now to acHortieuitaral Observations, commodate ourselves to Nature's ways. In spite of the large crop of Amerwhich are on the extensive rather tha? - lean apples this year, it is very likely the intensive plan. | |