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Show . THE RICH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH, UTAH f SILAGE IS FAVORED BY CATTLE FEEDERS . DISPOSITION OF SURPLUS SEEDS Replies to Questionnaire Show .That Biggest Part Is Sold to Neighbors. j i i LOCAL SHIPPERS GET Rapidly Attained Use Among Pro ducers of Beef. It Will Not Fatten Animals Unless Accompanied by Concentrates of. Some Kind Most of Com-- ; stalk- - SHARE It Used. (Prepared by the United Mate of Agriculture.) Department It has not, been many years since Get Good Results by corn silage was considered merely as a Advertising In Nearby Country feed suitable chiefly for dairy cows, Newspapers and In Various but It has rapidly attained a wide use Farm Periodicals. among Beef producers In the corn belt. Now all feeding that Is not done on the (Prepared by of United States Department Agriculture.) pasture , may be divided Into two The farmer who has produced a sur- classes that in which silage is fed plus of seed may sell it to any one of and that in which It is not fed. As a the following: His neighbors, other whole the two classes are now about farmers through such means as adver- equally divided, but in some states the tising and correspondence, local ship- difference Is very marked.- Surveys by pers, traveling seed buyers, distant the United States Department of Agriseedsmen by mall, and by advance culture covering the last two winters growing contract In reply to question- showed that 83 per cent of 4,536 cattle naires sent out by the bureau of fed In Indiana received silage In their markets and crop estimates, United rations, 87 per cent of 7,280 In Illinois, States Department of Agriculture, ,30 per cent of 8,290 In Iowa, 8 per cent growers scattered throughout the of 6,129 in Nebraska, and 50 per cent country submitted data showing that, of 8,964 in Missouri. the farmer sells most of his seed to Where silage is used It supplies most neighbors. A considerable . quantity, of the roughage. Nearly all the silage though, is sold to the local shipper. Is made from corn, probably' 99 per Distant seedsmen by means of their cent of the total. Sorghum, sunflowers and legumes are sometimes used in localities on the extreme edge of the com belt, such as western Kansas and Nebraska and western and northern South Dakota. A greater use of silage depends largely upon the supply and value of other roughage. The main facts about the use of silage In fattening cattle are thus summarized by the department : The greater the proportion of silage to com the cheaper the gains. The greater the quantity of com the less silage consumed. Silage will not fatten cattle unless accompanied by concentrates? In silage most of the cornstalk Is used. Cattle fed on silage will eat more straw or stover. If purchased protein feeds are added to the feed, the resultant manure Is richer. Sllage-fe- d Although the Farmer Sells Most of His cattle do not finish quite as well as 8ood to Neighbors, a Considerable those strictly dry-feAdding com to j Amount Is Sold to Local Shippers the silage produces a better finished " or to Distant Seedsmen. animal that usually brings a better and It also results In better price, and traveling buyers correspondence on hogs that follow the cattle. gains also buy large quantities of seed direct Silage-fe- d cattle shrink more than from fanners. without silage. The fattened those Seed Grown on Contract. and com the value of other of price Although probably most of the vege- concentrates should be a guide to the table seeds are produced on advance limit of com In a silage ration. growing contracts entered Into between d dealers large commercial vegetable-seeand farmers located In more or less FACTS ABOUT RUST OF GRAIN well defined areas, only a small percentage f field seed Is disposed of by Extensive Studies Have Been Made In farmers In this way. Greenhouse at Purdue University, Indiana. Some farmers obtain good results by advertising In nearby county newspapers and In agricultural periodicals Investigations of the leaf rust of which circulate in sections of the grains and grasses are being made by country that consume relatively large the United States Department of Agriwith the Purquantities of the kind of seed offered culture in experidue university , agricultural for sale. Various federal and state publica- ment station. These studies consist tions and, within recent months, county principally of experiments to deternewspapers and agricultural periodicals mine the relationships of the leaf rust publish current information relative to of wheat, rye, and barley, the deterthe supply, demand, movement, and mination of pObsible biologic forms of prices of the Important kinds of field these rusts, the study of a wide range seeds when the principal movement of of plants as possible secondary hosts, each kind from the farm Is taking and cultural studies of the leaf rust place. The farmer who makes use of of wheat to determine what grasses this Information has a better under- may serve as hosts for this rust. Extensive studies have been made In standing of the worth of his seed and the more on even can meet the dealer greenhouse at La Fayette, Ind., terms than in the past, when the where rust spores collected from nudealer was almost alone In his knowl- merous species of grasses have been which possibly edge of what was going on In the seed sown on various plants may act as secondary hosts. The exmarkets. istence of biologic forms of leaf rust Early 8elllng Advisable. and It There Is no one best time at which of wheat has been discovered, forms have a to dispose of seeds. The general rule Is now known that these grass hosts. of selling when the buyer Is anxious wide range of In addition to the greenhouse studies, to buy holds as true In seed transac- more than 200 wheat varieties and tions as In others. Ordinarily seedswere sown in Tennessee. selections men are eager to buy seeds as soon Illinois, and Wisconsin, and after thrashing as possible, especially Indiana, several varieties resistant to leaf rust if the carryover of that particular seed are being grown at a number of stafrom previous years Is less than tions In the southeastern states. Prognormal ress Is being made' In the breeding Most large seedsmen buy the bulk of of wheat for resistance to leaf rust, their grass and clover seed before Feb- and It has been demonstrated that ruary 1 and make purchases after that the hard red winter to fill open orders or to replenish lew wheat, Kanred, which Is resistant to tocks. Frequently higher prices mhy stem rust. Is also resistant to leaf rust be received after February 1, but the grower runs considerable risk in not TIME FOR BLASTING STUMPS being able to dispose of his seed to seedsmen as late as that, and conResults Obtained When Solis sequently of being compelled to carry Better Wet Than When Dry BeAre it over until the next planting season cause of Reelstenoe. or to sell It to some seedsman who Is on a It at to price speculate willing In blasting stumps the nature of usually considerably below current the soil Is one of the Important facr prices. in touch with the tors that must be considered in fixing By keeping The more the size of the published seed market Information for resistance the soil charge. offers to the force the entire country and not focusing all the greater will be Of his attention on local conditions, of the explosion exerted the force against the stump. which may be just the opposite from United States Department those prevailing elsewhere, the farmer Hence, the out, stumps In can determine pretty well for himself of Agriculture points be more heavily soils must loose, sandy when It Is advisable to sell his seed.. loaded than those In firm, stiff soils. It is generally agreed that KEEPING CHICKENS SHUT UP highspeed explosives give better results in sandy soils than do low perIf, Hoppers Are Not Provided Then centage dynamites or stumping powClean Off Place to Throw Feed ders. On Avoid Roup. Since water cannot be compressed, Its presence in the pores or open Sometimes when stormy one has to spaces in loose soils adds something keep the chickens shut up and feed to the resistance that is offered to the ,ln the same building; if you dont explosive force and thus makes the have hoppers to feed from, clean a explosion somewhat more effective. It place off to throw the feed unless you follows that, especially in sandy soils want roup. Have plenty fresh air but better results will be obtained in blastavoid draftR. The word roup makes ing, stumps when the ground Is we( rejone sit up and pay attention, especial- than when It Is dry. It should be ly one that has had It In his flock. It membered, .however, that moist sol' Is the most dreaded of poultry diseases In this connection refers to soil near and the chopping block is about the the charge 2 or 3 feet underground and not surface soft. only and snfet cure. Some Growers 2,-4- d. high-yieldin- g, : i To Preserve Its Past for the Future ) The Rev. Frederick DETROIT. Detroit, Episcopal clergyman, has bought the old Walker tavern of Cambridge Junction, Mich? to preserve its precious past for the future. Doctor Hewitt, rector of the Church of St. Philip and St. Stephen, Intends to restore the tavern as far as possible to its original condition and make It a sort of free port of call, where the Chicago and Monroe pike roads cross. He has been a collector ' of antiques for years. Daniel Webster came there in 1838 on one of his western tours. In June, 1847, a large, urbane and elegant gentleman, with wife and two daughters, two servants and two Indian guides, arrived In Detroit Then a Journey of 68 miles overland and James Fenimore Cooper was at the Walker tavern. He and his party occupied nearly the whole south half of the second floor. The author made exploring excursions as fur as Kalamazoo, gathering material for The Oak Openings. The old bee hunter, a picturesque character In the story, was a farmer on Little Prairie road, near Cambridge Springs, and lived there many years after he had been Immortalized by the pen that did The Leather Stocking Tales." The murder room takes Its name from a traveler with considerable money, who disappeared from this room one night and never was heard of again. Some days later his starving , horse was found In the suicide room a traveler, wearied of the trail, one night took his life. There being in the house no place for a grand ball, Sylvester Walker, the original owner, erected a three-stor- y brick house to the south of the tavern This new sugar-coate-d gum delights1 young and old It melts in your mouth and the gum in the In 1853. The old tavern was a public Ipn until 1853, when it passed Into the possession of Franklin A. Dewey, being occupied by him and his family as a farm home between thirty and forty years, later going to the family of W. CL Dewey. . center remains to aid digestion, brighten teeth and soothe mouth and throat; There are the other V RIG LEY friends to choose from, too: Woman Sheriff Ready to Do "Her Duty WAUKON, U. Pm ready to do !" The speaker Is Gunda a woman and a mother Mar-tlngdal- e, and Her sheriff of Alamakee county. duty may be hanging a man a man accused of slaying one of Mrs. " best friends. If Earle Thorpe is convicted of the brutal slaying of hls former sweetheart, Miss Inga Magnuson, young schoolteacher, Mrs. Martingdale will have to spring the trap that will send Thorpe to his doom. Thorpe is said to have confessed. Officials declare he plans to plead guilty. That Is taken to mean the death sentence, so high does public sentiment run. Mrs. Martingdale is the widow of a sheriff. On her husband's death the board of supervisors appointed her to fill hls office. A woman could do It easily, they said even a frail woman like Mrs. Martingdale for Alamakee couhty was a community. Then Miss Magnusons mutilated body was found In the basement of her rural schoolhouse. The woman sheriff was informed. She telephoned for bloodhounds. She asked a neighbor woman to care for her children. She clad herself In rough clothing. She started the hounds on the scent Mar-tingdal-es . g Over country roads, ankle deep In mud, across frozen hills and fields all night the little woman followed the bloodhounds until The trail led into the next county and Sheriff Martingdale placed Thorpe under arrest as he was about to board a train. She took her prisoner back to Wau-koAn angry mob of farmers and townspeople gathered: There was talk of a lynching. But Mrs. Martingdale Stood off the crowd. I shall see to It that my prisoner she said. She took gets justice Thorpe to the jail. All night she him. She gathered the evidence on which the state will base its case when Thorpes trial comes up. Then at last she went home to sleep and to catch up with the housework! n. 1 cross-question- Wisest Girl in the World YORK. Winifred Sackvllle nineteen, known as the wisest girl In the world, has married. Her husband is Charles Phlllippe de Bruche, sportsman. Winifred received a natural education under her mothers ideas. At four she had her diploma In Esperanto: And she never spent a day In a NEW globe-trottin- g schoolroom. At five she was using a typewriter. A year later she had mastered several At ten she had gone languages. At through college examinations. twelve she claimed a general knowledge of 12 languages, Including Jap- a Bride and Russian were simplicity itself to her. She was proficient with the piano, violin, guitar and mandolin, could swim, drive a motor, ride a horse and play baseball equally well. Now, at nineteen, she Is the bride of Charles Phlllippe de Bruche, a globetrotting sportsman. Isnt this alliance sufficient to give eugenists something to speculate about? The young woman Is a product of what her mother, Mrs. Winifred Sack-vill- e Stoser, daughter of Lord Sackvllle, former British ambassador to the United States, and wife of Dr. James B. Stoner of the Marine corps, calls natural education. Whether Winifred got much normal pleasures out of her girlhood is open to discussion. Mrs. Stoner asserts that the girl grew up with a keener, healthier enjoyment of life than nine out of ten other girls, that she has always been wholesomely normal. On the other hand, a large part of Winifred's time was spent in exhibitions and demonstrations of her wisdom on the platform and in public gatherings. But the wifehood of Mrs. Stoner de Bruche will be watched with evea greater Interest than was her child- anese; had written considerable verse and ten books on travel and philosophy. She could converse colloquially in Latin, and French, Spanish, Polish hood. Getting Ready for the Big Chicago Zoo Organization of CHICAGO. are to establish In cago an exceptionally fine the Chi- THIS ARGUMENT What Did They Mean? On Christmas morning .the chlldrei Also Miss Katie Might Have Di scorned of the house were spreading out th In toys that Santa had pnt their stock lngs. Father, said Willie, I wish I hat J A faithful old servant In a southern got a dictionary to my stocking at well as these toys. family has recently beceme a grand-mothe-r. "Why," what did you want thai "What does Libby call her new baby, Mandy? the old woman for? So that I could find- out the mean was asked. of words I heard Santa Claus say jng She named her Gabrlelle, miss when he stepped on the tacks I spreaf after you." on the carpet last night" Why, the Idea, Mandy! Ton know my name is not Gabrlelle. You've Double Correction. called me Mlss Katie" all my life. Mrs. 'Newrich (to small son) does. Katie But Miss dat I Yasm, when It comes to naming babies after James, have you whispered today folksee. It ain't what dey Is called, It without permission? James Only wunst. Is what dey Is like dat you names Mrs. Newrich (to nurse) Jana 'em fob. You shorely Is mo like Miss Gabrlelle dan you Is like Mlss Katie, should James have said wunst? Jane No, maam, he should have Jes, Hke Libby says." said twlet London Answers. 1 Something Sounding Suspiciously Like a Compliment. - Music. A concert was recently beard thouLoop-Distan- Miss Olde Mean Thing! I fainted dead away last sands of miles away over the wireless. night "Ntothlng new about that," comments Miss Keen Who proposed? M. In here B. Boston J. waggishly; 20 yean ago I hoard a young lady Charity work always has to be careBoston ful against spending too much money singing In 'Old Madrid." to organization. Transcript. There Is at least some piety to holdCharity covers a multitude of sins ing to a cough entirely through the and a circus tent covers a multitude sermon. of sinners. ' You wouldn't put on hobbles to run a foot race Then why load up on hanefieeps fcc the day's vroTk? A good deal of food, unwisely chosen, does weigh the body down and dog the digestion, and dull the brain. Is a breakfast or lunchtime dish for those who want food effi- ciency, and mind and body efficiency. Grape-Nu- ts , e, IN Why put on the hobbles? zoo- logical garden is now well under way. The zoo will be established on the land near Riverside that was given by Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick. John T. McCutcheon was elected president of the Chicago Zoological society, which will operate the gardens. John Borden and Noble B. Judah were elected vice presidents; Charles L. Hutchinson, treasurer. John R. Maglll, secretary, and the following were selected as the executive committee: President and vice president, Frank J. Wilson, Oscar G. Foreman, Francis E. Manlerre, Judson F. Stone. The membership committee is made up of the following: Ezra J. Warner, Ed ward L. Glaser, Cyrus McCormick, Jr, Alfred E. Hamill, Graham Aldls. Charles H. Wacber, Francis E. John T. Pirie. It Is our intention to make the zoological gardens as attractive and interesting as possible, said Mr. McCutcheon. It will be my recommendation to make our collection of American animals and birds as complete as possi REASON satisfies end nourishes. the taste. It is ready to serve It delights whenever you are ready to eat. And it digests easily, quickly and completely-leav- ing no handicap of heaviness and drowsiness. Grape-Nu- ts ble. Both the birds and animals will be In surroundings that will reproduce as near as possible their natural environment. There are numbers of animals and birds that were once plentiful in this region, but are now seen only rarely. We will have them placed so that they can be watched Jn their natural surroundings. There are 300 acres in the site for the gardens, and this will enable us to hove herds of buffalo, deer, etc., where they can have plenty' of space. As the. land adjoins the Des Plaines river there w'iil be opportunity to install exhibits of animals that live part of the time In water." Grape-Nut- s is the food for health and action. 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