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Show , J THE RICH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH. UTAH your pocket to rake the tractor out some time when work Is slack and snake that old hedge out by the roots. You can put this rail fence there. Or can put a wire fence there and use CAN DOUBLED you some .of these rails to your other rail fences. Look to your brooks and ditches Improper-Utilizatioof Soil in A brook that wanders at Will through good farm land will put much of It (High-Grad-e Agricultural beyond the reach of jthe plow a ditch will set It straight. District Is Related. Scattered Over Rich Soil. Many farmsteads have their buildings scattered widely over rich land. STREAM WASTES MANY ACRES The farmer can buy back a lot of valuable soil by regrouping the clusters more economically without sacrificing Farmer Can Redeem Much Valuable either beauty or convenience. Where Soil By Regrouping Different Build. farm land increases in price, as it has In this section, it pays the farmer to Inge. Without Sacrificing go over his place with an eye .open Convenience. for wasted territory. It wont always LAND VALUATION BE stakq-and-rid- by the United States Depart- -' ment of Agriculture.) Stannard, ou the next farm, has offered me 5 acres of land next to the Hue ence for $200 hn acre. I need owe land, and Ive hnlf a notion to take the offer. The Sunday Quiet and the warm Prepared spring sunshine had luied the farmer and Ills visitor to a perch on the top e tall of the fence, where they 'fell into discussion of United States Department of Agriculture reports. The visitor thought for a moment while his eyes roved across the flat farm land before them. Why pay $200 an acre? he finally Why not buy the few res y.H need from a man who can sell It to you for half aP much? Land Gets Full Price.' One hundred dollars an acre for farm land In this country? I guess not I Pete, you d(At know, farm values out here. Back In your New England hills you may find land as cheap as that, but you cant buy a rod of tillable land in this section without paying the full price for it I" He' laughed as he said : If you can find 5 acres for sale in this township at the price you mention, Ill buy It provided it is within 3 miles of my home. Closer than that, said the New Englander cheerfully. In fact, yqpre " standing on a part of It right flow sitting on It, I mean." Bui this Is mine already! Of course, retorted the other. Its,- your cow lane and youre THe man.You can sell yourself a few s acres of farm land at $100 an acre less for some of It, perhaps, t bought tf few acres from myself last spring, after I had learned how simple the transaction was. s The farm owner laid a firm hand Dn his friends broad shoulder. Quit talking riddles, he warned, and come out with the story or IU tip you off into the nettles!" . You can get all the land you need by making your waited land productive. You own the wasted land, and you can buy It from yourself at the price of. making lt tillable; thats what I mean. But the waste land on this farm cant be made productive. Theres only an acre or so in that stony hillock over there and Im even getting cash returns from that by planting cherry trees among the stones! I didnt' say waste land; I said wasted land, the othir reminded him. Waste land Is land made un-L- a first-clas- wooos WlbOtt i , CSOF RMTUftt CROP CROP Brook Wastes Many Acres. profitable by' nature ; wasted land Is productive land that man himself has failed to make use of. Thats the difference. ' The size of Vour farm business has more to do with your income than any other feature. While youve been p anting cherry trees among the rocks on a stony acre youve been using this long lane for no other purpose than as a path for cattle to pasture. YovT could use the public road almost as conveniently. , This lane Is right In the ' heart of your corn land, too. It must be 500 yards long and Its a rod wide at least. Theres about of an acre of prime soil right there for the price of taking out one of these fences. And the road borders your farm for the Whole length of your field. I .dont know what the highway laws in tills state are, but certainly they dont require all the land that lies,, between your fence end the road. Find out how much the highway encroaches on your land and move your fence up. Theres another fat acre there. Then theres that Osage orange hedge fence your father' planted along the line running west fsum the house. That jfedgerow robs yoWtf more land fence on the per rod than any farm. It not only occupies an acre to worthless evry 200 rods hut renders for cropping a strip 20 feet wide on each side of It It will be money In three-quarte- -- mssm RAPALLO: QUIET HAVEN OF STORMY FIUMES ARBITERS Fighting and bloodshed at Flume, held for many months by the Gabriele jAnnunzlo, has been in striking contrast to the quiet and peace of Rapallo, In the neighborhood of which was signed the Rapallo agreement, so frequently mentioned In the newspapers. It was to enforce this agreement, which provided for the formation of a free state of Flume, that the Italian regulars stormed Flume. The quaint little town of Rapallo lies close to the of the narrow mountain-rimme- d shore of the n&rthwest coast of Italy, just south of France, which constitutes the world-fame- d e Italian Riviera. The of the Riviera lies open to the sunny south. To . the east, north and west rise the sheltering heights of the Apennines and the Ligurian Alps. So wonderful are the climate and the scenery of these rough, mountain slopes and bits of beach protected fiym northern winds and washed by the warm waters of the Mediterranean, that they have come to be looked upon as forming the most pleasant winter resort In Europe. The western arm of the Italian Rivieras the Riviera of the setting sun adjoins France and Is best known and most frequently The eastern arm visited. the Riviera of the rising sun has bolde and more picturesque scenery; the quaintness of Its towns and villages Is less affected by modern buildings. In this latter section of Italys wonderland lies Rapallo, pearl of the Eastern Riviera. Rapallo lies on the Bay of Rapallo, formed by the greatest of the multitude of headlands that Jut Into the Mediterranean along this serrated coast. The Monte di Portoflna, which forms the summit of the headland, rises abruptly from the sea to a height of 2,000 feet and affords probably the best vantage point In the Riviera for a comprehensive view of this magic region of mountains and water. A mile to the south of Rapallo on the shore of the same bay is Santa Margherita, like Rapallo, a town retaining much of the quaintness of the old Riviera, unspoiled by modern influences. The road skirting the bay for several miles from Santa Margherita to the point of the Portoflno headland Is said to afford one of the most beautiful and charming walks In Europe. On one side are dark rocks washed by the glittering, blue sea ; on the other rise slopes on which are situated many beautiful villas. The entire region about Rapallo and Santa Margherita Is noted for the large number of these show places. In ne of them, the stately Villa Spinola, the agreement between Italy and Jugoslavia was signed. Though this villa Is nearer Santa Margherita, it Is Just over the line of the Commune of Rapallo. Because of this detail of communal boundaries the important agreement which fixed the status of Fiume and the Dalmatian coast, and seems to have solved one of the most stubborn territorial probof the lems, will go down In history, not bearing the name of the nearby Santa Margherita, but bearing that of the more distant Rapallo. i LML Plan of a Farm Plan of Same Farm Showing Wasted 4 After Elimination f of i. be profitable to reclaim all that he sees. He cant for Instance, move a barn to gain a rod or two of land, but hell be sure to see much that can he done. Every foot brought under profitable Cultivation Increases the farm business and the farm profit.Y I never realized that the matter was so important, mused the farm owner. Neither did I, was the reply, until the Department of Agriculture wiped the economic dust off my busi- ness spectacles 1 , FEEDING FARM FLOCK RIGHT KIND OF FOOD If Hens Are to Give Profitable Results. Important " - Aim Should Be to Use Grains That Are Grown on Farm Mistake Not to Supply Animal Food Of Some Description. (Prepared by the United States Depart- ment of Agriculture.) Feeding the farm flock the right kind of food is important If It is to be a paying proposition. If hens do not get sufficient or proper feed they can not be expected to give satisfactory and profitable results. A complicated ration is not necessary. The aim in feeding the hens should be to use, so far as possible, the grains that are grown on the farm or that are available In the Immediate neighborhood. One of the most successful methods of feeding is to give a light feed of grain or a mixture of graiis in the morning and a feed of the same material at night, the night feed consisting of about as much as the hens will clean up. In addition a dry mash should be provided where the hens can have access to 4t continuously. When considerable quantities of waste food are available for the hens to pick uji from the fields, the amount of grain fed may be cut down. Oftentimes judgment In this respect Is faulty, and but for the dry mash there would be danger that the hens would no receive enough feed. With the dry mash at their disposal they are able to- make up any defieency of feed due to faulty judgment as to the quantity they get In the fields. One of the ,most common mistakes Is failmade In feeding ure to provide animal food In some form. Of course during the spring and summer, when quantities of insects are available, they may supply the hens wants In this regard, but during those parts of the year when Insects are not available, or are scarce, it becomes necessary to provide animal food. Mijli, usually fed either as skim milk or buttermilk, provides an excellent source of animal food, but when rfiilQ Is 'not available the hens should have beef scrap or meat scrap. While this product is high in price, it is economical, and should be included Ip the hens ration because of the Increased production that will result. x During the winter It Is necessary to provide some form of green or succulent feed, such as mangels, cabbage, clover, alfalfa or' sprouted oats. SHELTER SWES IMPLEMENTS Be Surprised to See How Much Trouble Could Be -- Avoided by Keeping Off Rain. Farmer Would Shelter will double the life of farm machinery, says O. R. Zeasman of the agricultural engineering department of If the University of Wisconsin. farmers would only keep the rain and rust away from their Implements, they would be surprised to see how much trouble would be saved. 'Rust can cause many troubles. For example, an adjustment may become, so badly rusted that It cannot be used. It is often damaged or broker ' In loosening. pine-covere- d ' after-the-w- BUDAPEST; CAPITAL OF . THE MAGYARS Budapest, once famed for its gayety and now suffering the pangs of famine, once more commands attention as the capital where effort is being made to restore a monarchical form of government In Hungary. In a communicaC. Townley-Fullam- , tion to the National Geographic society, vividly describes this city of the days before Magyars in the care-fre- e the war. He writes: It Is 10 oclock In Budapest. Theaters and opera, music halls and cafes, restaurants, and casinos are packed, for the serious business of the day has beguq To find an empty place one must go into the brilliantly lighted, "streets or go home. From now until long after the dawn has broaen over Buda fortress, on the other side, thq improvident Magyar of the city is Immersed in affairs which will Vendor of Bread In Budapest' who will one day infallibly be rich by the turn of a lottery wheel. This fs the strange anomaly who would fight for a wpman in this world or for heaven In the next but who would work for neither in any world or any circumstances whatever. GUAM: WHERE FISH ARE CAUGHT IN STRANGE s FASHION Should the United States acquire the much discussed Islandof Yap, the Island of Guam will be robbed of its distinction ofbelng our smallest possession. Guam lies east of the Philippines and northeast of IJap. A writer to the National Geographic society describes the customs and natural resources of Guam a follows : The fruit of a common tree speclosa) the natives use to stupefy fish. The fruit is pounded Into a paste, Inclosed In a bag. and kept over night. The time of an especially low tldejs selected, and bags of the pounded fruit are taken out on the reef next morning and sunk In certain deep holes in the reef. The fish soon appear on the surface, some of them lifeless, others attempting to swim, or faintly struggling with their, ventral side uppermost. The natives scoop them in their hands, sometimes 6 even diving for them. In the mangrove swamps when the tide is low hundreds of little fishes with protruding eyes may be seen hopping about In the nuid and climbing among the foots of the Rhizophora and These belong to a group of fishes Interesting from the fact that their air bladder has assumed In a measure the function of lungs, enabling thp animal to breathe atmospheric air. Men, women and children of Guam are expert swimmers, and are as much at ease .Id the water as on land." As they throw themselves, Into the sea and come bounding from wave to wave they remind one of dolphins. According to the testimony of early writers, their houses were high and neatly made and better constructed tjian those of any aboriginal , race hitherto discovered In the Indies. The natives of Guam are, as tortile, of goocLphyslquq and pleasing appear-!-. Owing to their mixed blood, their complexion varies from the white of a Caucasian to the brown of a Malay. Most of them have glossy black hair, which is either straight or slightly curled. It Is worn short by either the men and long by the women, er the braided, colled or dressed-aftstyles prevailing In Manila. The people are essentially agricultural. There are few masters and raw servants on the island. As a rule the farms are not too extensive to be cultivated by the family. All the members, even the little children, lend a hand. (Bar-rington- Bru-guier- a. ''' THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION Tb elect the president whose inauguration took place March 4 the battle of ballots ever heaviest known was waged. The steady drop, drop, drop of the pieces of paper by which the American citizen registers not wait his voice In the conduct of the govern'The true Magyar would scorn to ment began on November ,2, in East bearTalse witness against his neigh- port, Me., eastern-mos- t community in bor; he does not steal; he cannot the United States, and continued uncurse; nor does he work on the sev- til some sixteen hours later When elecenth day, nor Indeed on any other. tion judges closed their booths In The other commandments take their Ozette, Wash., the presidential sufchance. , frage community farthest west. These things may not be quite con- The battle was not made greater uweQ we approach the than those of 1912 and 1916 by any J. vncln question of tribute, the rendering un- Increase In the area over which It was to Caesar of things which are not fought, for Arizona and New Mexico, Caesars, the pure oriental emerges casting tlielr ballots for President for from his purely occidental Western the first time In 1912, completed the environment and Is again In the tents roster of the States In the United of Shem, States proper and signalized the exTake a typical, concrete, everytension of the presidential suffrage to day Instance. Go Into a cafe and order every political unit between the two a glass of milk, the nominal value of oceans and the Canadian and Mexican which may be 15 kreuzers. Perhaps borders except the District of Colum easy-goin- - IlITAIt MIS 4 rs sm sun-bflth- le e, -- semi-circl- semi-circ- row bia. The battle war Increased.' to mgr-nitridhowever, by the extension suffrage te women la the many tftates j which did not permit them to vote laT It i proposed to do considerable previous elections, street paving at Pleasant Grove this This greatest of election struggles ' took place in an area of approximate' summer; to The to of Logan planning city ly 3,000,000 square miles, finder conditions varying from the frosty weather lay considerable newer during the . of the Canadian boundary and possible coming season. A new school building to to be erectsnow storms of the higher communities of the Rockies, to the burning ed at Richmond, the school board havsunshine of Key West and some of ing advertised for bids-Sa- lt Lake City proposes to expend the cities and tillages of the southwestern border. about $1,250,000 during 1921 for sew-dBallot boxes emblems of American and paving sidewalks. Plans are being made by the Bank sovereignty were set up in the hearts of great cities, In. villages, in wayside of St. George for the erection of a school houses; on isolated islands, In new .building In Hie Spring- - , pockets of the great woods; far up There is talk of a new hospital at among rough peaks, and below the Provo. Funds are to be raised by the level of the sea; In many cases In Wasatch, Juab, Nebo, Alpine, Tlntic ' communities which lie behind great ' Utah stakes, to ynd natural barriers that cut them off Postal in Lake for Salt the physically from other settlements. And sionth ofreceipts February show afi increase . yet, because of the telephone and tele7 cent over the correspond- . per graph wires that extend Into nearly month last year, , lag and community, every ydreless The farmers in the Sutherland comthat supplements them, most American citizens learned the munity are now busy getting In spring g battle line" wheat. Several hundred acres have results from the at their breakfast tables next morn- ben seeded during the past two weeks ing. Indeed, impatient .followers of the of good weather. returns knew the results before midGeorge Psalidos, an employee of the night, reading reports flashed on Utah Copper company, was seriously screens before newspaper offices in injured at Bingham when a blast was vet off near him on the level where., countless cities and towns. It was fan-- different, paradoxical as no was working. t at first sight, during the it may A1 Ringling,, recently found guilty early presidential elections In which of murd.er In the second degree for the popular voting figured, in spite of the killing of John (Frenchy) Bartholofact that practically all voters were mew In Price In 1911, has been sene&st of the Mississippi river and most tence to life imprisonment of them in the States along the AtMiss Alice Blomquist, of Salt Lake, lantic seaboard. Lacking electrical is in a Salt Lake hospital suffering means of communication and railfrom severe burns. She suffered an and but roads, poor highways having and vehicles, the country was often In epileptic fit in the kitchen at her home and fell on the stove. Ignorance of the candidates elected for The Salt Lake Rotary club has ' weeks after the election. The Contrast cannot be carried back adopted a resolution urging the state to , elections when the United States legislature to make an appropriation was confined to Its original thirteen for carrying on .he work of the state members along the narrow strip of board of health In the treatment of coast country, foy In those .days the social diseases. Final agreement on all terms of the voter and the campaign manager had not come Into theiy own. The choosing 1921 sugar beet contract was reached of a president was a partyless, cam- at a conference at Salt Lake qf the , Sugar company and the paignless and so far as .most of the Utah-Idahmen In the street were concerned sugar beet subcommittee of the Utah -- a voteless affair. Legislatures saved state farm bureau. voters from the bother of casting balThe contest which' the lots by appointing electors aid the lat- - Utah-IdahSugar company provided ter chose a president for boys In toe Delta community proved successful last year and the CUBAS UP AND DOWNS OF company is dow sending checks to the successful contestants. PROSPERITY Spanish Forks free brary and read- To understand the present economic Ing room opened to the public March L conditions In Cuba, complicated by the While the library at present boasts only recent presidential election, one must a few more than 2009 volumes, .the seltake Into account the prosperity wave ection is" good and will' bejiddea to ' of a year ago, , as often as the funds permit. William Joseph Showalter, who visOgden will bold a special election ited the Island at that time, wrote the on March 26 to pass upon the qvies-tio- -i National Geographic society as folof issuing $2,025,000 bonds for ' . lows : city improvements, including wfer-workAlmost every person who visits sewerage, street paving, storm. Cuba on pleasure bent lands In Ha- sewers, bridges, Sidewalks, fire devana, and comparatlvely-feget more partment and parks. than twenty miles away from that Former Governor Willing Spry may citys central park. become a member of the directorate of . New If York, Chicago, Philadelthe National Chamber of Commerde, phia, Boston and Washington were to represent the eighth national .disconsolidated, the resulting metropolis which comprises Utah, Colorado, would bear about the same relation to trict, Montana, Idaho, Nevada, Wyoming, the United States that Havana bears New Mexico. to Cuba. The capital city Is the home Arizona and A mass meeting attended by two. of more people than are embraced in the combined populations of all the hundred of the representative business-meof the district was held at other cities and tpwnsf of the Republic Commercial clubrooms to that have more than 4,000 Inhabitants. Its closest rival is Santiago, but that protest' against what Is declared a discriminatory freight rate to the h as many city has only -from the coal mines. camp people. A free clinic id to be established As half the countrys urban popuLogan by the Cache Valley Medical lation Is centered in Havana, so with the city and is half of its shipping. The city nor- society mally handles a greater foreign ton- county commissioners. The membr nage than any other port in the WeA-er- n of the society will give their service free for the purpose of making examiHemisphere except New York. Most of Cubas wealthy families nations of children and adults who-havphysical defects. have Havana homes. During the past four years the net profits of the sugar The work of getting out plans and business have probably exceeded the specifications for a new ward chapel gross returns of any other four-yeat Brighath City is now under way and period In the history of the Island. they provide for a building that wilt The result Is that perhaps no other meet every requirement of the ward city In the whole world has propor- In the way of auditorium, classrooms tionately as large a wealthy popula- ,and amusdfnent hall. The cot will tion as Havana. approximate $6,000. Out of these conditions grew a sitCache county wants roads, and good even were uation where dollars cheapand is willing to build them. If reads, er than they were in the United state cannot furnish money to do States. Tens of thousands of acres of the In that land were laid out in residence sites, Its part in road construction the say commissioners county county, and the Vedado district, the Riverside Drive and the Sheridan Roa(l of Ha- they will jindertake to do their part in order to vana, were extended until It reached and that of the state also, available. the federal aid get farther from the'Prado than Riverside American- - soldiers Serving , in the Drive from New York's City Half Panama Canal zone will be shown or Sheridan Road from Square stereopticon views of Salt Lake, Zion loop. There are no advertising signs on park and Bryce canyon. The lantern these lots. But as one motors along slides were given by tne salt Lake one sees nestling close to the ground Commercial club, to the Kev. J. Hi. little boards, aboflt a Owen, who Is engaged In recreational inconspicuous foot long and half a foot wide, bearing work among the soldiers stationed In the lfigend In Spanish Sold to Mr. So Panama. ' , and So, and Mr. So and So Is usually The state land board uas leased a some Cuban who made n fortune out section of the bottom land of the Great of- - sugar down in the provinces and .Salt Lake 'to John E. Dooly, one of came .up to the capital for the social the owners of Antelope Island. It Is season. If not that, he is probably the purpose of Mr. Dooly to mine for an American who likes to be reason- sodium sulphate on the grounds,' from ably near the country clubs, and prewhich, tq the terms of the according fers to live where the cocktail has not the state will receive 10 per cent lost its legal status. The price of the lease, lots w as from one to three dollars a of the proceeds. The Utah Agricultural college desquare foot, or from $43,000 to $130,000 team won from the Montana acre. bating per s State college team In the first intercollegiate debate of the year, held at Vicious Circle. ' at Logan. The I suppose well be getting some of the college chapel were Utah Aggies given the unanithese nice fresh eggs- - for breakfast, mous decision of "three Judges! said the country boarder. The Los Angeles & Salt Lakl RailYep, these very eggs, but not till ye come down here next year, re- road company has filed Its annual reYe see, Ive got turns with the state board of equalizturned the farmer. to sell them to the local commission ation. The returns show property in Utah valued at $13,015,55 this propt man, and he sells them to the Jobber, who In turn sells them back here t erty being in Beaver, Iron, .Juab, the fellow who rung the country gro- Millard, Utah, Salt Lake and Tooele fbuntles. cery, and I buy them from Kim. far-flun- mid-poi- OQCHjftO farin'-poultr- This Unconfined happy-go-luck- -- cow-lan- i) the waiter win bring It, perhapa he will forget For the sake of the argument he brings It The waiter, also 'the boy who loads your table with yesterday's papers, also the mail who fiwoop upon your hat, also the Gipsy who pours out his Vul In alleged music for his own satisfaction and he is easily satisfied also the disguised' marquis who happens to wander In your direction, all must be appeased. Under 60 kreuzers you cannot well escape. y This, then, Is the Magyar of the City Beautiful, the mercurial citizen who lives by chance, who will stake his all and much, of yours on the turn of a card or the speed of a horse, to whom life is a masquerade of the gods and sulplde no crime, whose business is pleasure, f o beet-growi- o ' s, w to-b- one-tent- ao ar , Chicagos 4 |