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Show HATU 'HlJOtsltAii .5V73K 'v'T'A'UiiZi i i'.i.'M CfrtT V ' .1-.-- ' ; fiSBSkSi U' ...- , r r'.K . 'j 'i THIS RICH COUNTY NEWS. RANDOLPH, UTAH inmniiniinniHimininnniniiiiiiig over and yawp that old Alphabetical canHere I can get ning factory and nobody sets the goods; I hustle up a wools factory, and the community qvhs wearing trousers; I build for them a streetcar line to haul them to and from their palatial residences, and whit d do the human do but all Jump off the log into the water and hide from' them cars'llke they were chariots of fire? What this town needs is not factories, nor railOld roads, nor modern Improvements Alphabetical can get them but the next great scheme I go Into is to go down the river, get some good red mud, and make a few thousand men who will build up a town. . It has been fifteen . years and over since Colonel Morrison put on his long coat and high hat and started for the money markets of the East, seeking whom he might devour. At the close of the eighties the Colonel and all his tribe found that the stock of eastern capitalists who were ready to pay good prices for the fine shimmering blue sky and bracing ozone of ihe West was running low. It was said in town that the Colonel had come to the dnd of his string, for not only were the doors of capital closed to him in the East, but newcomers had stopped looking for farms at home. There was nothing to do but to sit down and swap with other land agents, and as they had taken most of the agencies for the best Insurance companies while the Colonel was on dress parade, there was nothing left for him to do but to run for justice of the peace, and, being elected, do what he could to make his tenure for life. Though- he was elected, more out of gratitude for what he had tried to do for the town than because people thought he would make a fair judge, be got no further than his office in esteem. He did not seem to popular l wear-welwith the people In the dally run and Jostle of life. During the forty years he has been in our town, he has lived most of the time apart from the people transacting his business In the East or locating strangers on new lands. He has not been one of ns, and there were stories afloat that his shrewdness had sometimes caused him to thrust a; toe over the dead-lin- e of exact honesty. In the town he never helped ns to fight tor i .Is visionary. 1 A QUESTION I OF CLIMATE r 5ii i n 1 j li mm mnnMmTim mu Til 1 1 11 mud-turtl- sun-bake- WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE J 1 Copyrijhl. 1922, bjr tha Maonillaa Co. in ii MORBISON had three COLONEL so the town naturally Alphabetical Morrison, and dropped the Colonel. He came to our part of the country In an early day he used to explain that they caught him In the trees, when he was drinking creek water, eating sheep-sorrand running wild with a buffalo tall for a trolley, and that the first thing i they did, after teaching him to eat out of a plate, was to set him at work in the grading gang that was laying out the Cottonwood and 7 Walnut rivers and putting the limestone In the hills. He was one of the original five patriots who laid out the Com Belt railroad from the Mississippi to ,the Pacific, and was appointed one of that committee to take the matter to New York for the lnspec-tlon of capitalists, and be it said to the credit of Alphabetical Morrison that he was the only person In the crowd with money enough to pay the ferryman when he reached the Missouri river, though he had only enough to get himself across. But In spite of, that the road was built, and though It missed our town, it was because we didnt vote the bonds, though old Alphabetical went through the county, roaring In the school-housebellowing at the crossroads, and doing all that a good, honest pair of lungs could do for the cause. How-.- ever, he was not dismayed at his fall-- , are, and began Immediately to organ-- , tee a company to build another road. We finally secured a railroad, though It was only g branch. Over his office door he had a sign 'Land Office painted an the false heard front of the building In letters as big as a cow, and the fifst our knew of him was twenty a newspaper years ago, when he brought In an order ' for some stationery for club. At that time we had not heard that Hie town supported a Commercial club nor had anyone else heard of It, for that matter for old Alphabetical was the presl- dent and his bookkeeper, with the Miss dropped off her name, was secretary. But he had a wonderfully letterhead alluring printed, and seemed to get results, for he made a living while his competitors starved. Inter, when he found time, he organized a real Commercial club, and had himself elected .president of It. He used to call meetings of the club to' discuss things, but as no one cared much for his monologues on the tu-- tore of the tewn, the attendance was often light He issued circulars referring to our village as the Queen City of the Prairies," and on the circulars 'was a map, showUg that the Queen City af the Prairies was the ' railroad axis of the Wert. There was one road running Into the town ; , the others old Alphabetical Indicated with dotted lines, and explained they were In process of construction. He became possessed of a theory that a canning factory would pay in the Queen City of the Prairies, .and the first step he took toward building It was to Invest In a high hat, a long coat and white vest, and a pair of mouse-colore-d trousers. With these and his theory he went East and re- turned with a 'contract The canning factory went up, but tho railroad rates went wrong, and the factory was never opened. Alphabetical blinked d 7 at It .through; his glasses for a few weeks, end then organized a company to turn It into a woolen mllL He elected himself president of that company and used to bring around to our paper notices of directors meetings, and while he was in the office he would Insist that we devoted too much space to Idle gossip and not enough to the commercial and industrial Interests of the Queen City. At times he would bring In an editorial that he had written himself, highly excitable and full of cyclonic language, and if we printed It Alphabetical would buy a hundred copies of the paper containing it and send them east His office desk gradually filled with woodcuts and zinc etchings of buildings that never existed save In his dear old head, and about twice a year during the boom days he would bring them around and have a circular printed on which were the pictures showing the Imaginary public, buildings and theoretical business of the Queen City. thoroughfares ' ' The Woolen mill naturally didnt pay, and he persuaded some eastern capitalists to Install an electric plant , in the building and put a street-ca- r Hne In the town, though the longest distance from one side of the place to the other was leas than ten blocks. was enthusiastic Bui Alphabetical about it, and had the governor come down to drive the first spike. It was and Alphabetical pulled It In op and used it for a paper-weigtils office for many years, and it, is now the only reminder there Is In 'town of the street railway, except a hard ridge of eawh over the ties in the middle of Meta street When someone, twitted him oh the failure the street railway he made answer: Of course it failed; here I go pawing up the earth, milking out the surplus capital of the effete East and building up this town and what haps pens! Four thousand old Silurian comb the moss on the north side 'em, with mussel shell, and turn el . s, , jack-kniv- ' square board building at the ehd of the street. But every day for (he past ten years be has been coming to our office for his bundle of old newspapers. lhese be reads carefully, and sometimes what he reads inspires him to write something for ouy paper on the future of the Queen City, though much oftener .his articles are retrospective?- He Is the president of the Old Settlers society, , and once or twice a yehr he brings in an obituary which be has written for the family of . . gold-plate- fos-gfi- t By Geo. some r. think (that an Idler would be a nuisance In a busy place, but, on the contrary, we all like old Alphabetical around our office. For he Is an old man who has not grown sour. His smooth, fat face has not been wrinkled by the vinegar of failure, and the noise that came from his iusty lungs In the old days is subsiding. But be has never forgiven General Durham, of the Statesman, for saying of a fight between Alphabetical and another land agent back In the sixties that those who heard it It the most vocal engagement they had ever known. . That is why he brings, his , obituaries ,tp us; that is why he does us the lionqf of borrowing papers from us; and that- is why, on a dull afmdon, he likes to swivel-chai- r sit In the old sway-bac- k and tell ns his theory of the increase in the rainfall, his notion about ' the influence of trees upon the hot winds, his opinion of the disappearance of the grasshoppers. Also, that is why we always save a circus ticket for old Alphabetical, just as we save 'one for each of the boys In the office. , One day he came Into, the office In a bad humor. He picked up a country paper, glanced it over, threw it down, kicked from under his'feet a dog that had followed a subscriber Into the room, and slammed his hat into the waste-baskwith considerable feeling as he picked up a New York ' paper. "Well well, whats the matter with the judiciary this morning? someone asked the old man. He did, not reply at once, but turned his paper over and over, apparently looking for something to interest him. Gradually the revolutions of his. paper became slower and slower, and finally he stopped turning the paper and began reading. It was ten One-wou- ld C . the Old Swayback Swivel Theory ef the Inerea ce In the Rainfall. ' those things of which the town is really proud: our schools, the college, the municipal ownership of electric lights and waterworks, the public library, the abolition of the saloon, and all of the dozen small matters of public Interest In which good citizens tike n pride. Colonel Morrison was his grand life, in his tailor-mad- e clothes, while his townsmen were out with their coats off making our town the substantial place It is. So In his latter days he Is old Alphabetical Morrison, a man apart from us. We like him well enough, and so long as he cares to be justice of the peace no one will object, for that is his due. But, someway, there Is no talk of making him county clerk ; and there Is a reason In everybodys mind why no party names him to run for county treasurer. He has been trying hard enough for teu years to break through the crust of the common interests that he has so long ignored. One sees him at public meetlngs--- a rather living wistful-lo- oking, chubby-face- d old'man ' Us Hla er fifteen minutes before he spoke. When he put down the paper his cherubic face was beaming, and he said: , Oh I know I'm a fool, but I wish the Lord had sent me to live In a town large enough so that evefy dirty-face- d brat on the street wouldnt feel he had a right to call me Alphabetical! Dammit, Ive done the best I could ! I havent made any alarming success. I know 'It. There's no need He was of, rubbing it in on me. silent for a time with his hands on his knees and Ills head thrown back, Almost imlooking at the ceiling. perceptibly a smile began to crack his features, and, when lie turned Ills eyes to the man at the desk, they were dancing with merriment, as lie sajd; Just been reading a piece here In the Sun about the Influence of climate on human endeavor, it says that in northern latitudes there is more oxygen in the air and folks breathe faster, and their blood flows faster, and that keeps their liver going. Trouble with me has always been climate sluggish liver. If I had Just a little more oxygen floating round in my system, the woolen mill would still be running, the street cars would be going, and' this town wontd - on the edge of the crowd ready to be called out for a speech. But no one calls his name; no one cares particularly what old Alphabetical has to say. Long ago he said all that he can eay to onr people. The only thing that Alphabetical ever organized that paid was a' fam- have had forty thousand Inhabitants. ily. In the early days he managed to My fatal mistake was one of latitude. and he' drawled out the word get a home clear of Indebtedness and But was shrewd enough to keep It out of mockingly but I guess if the Lord all of his transactions. . had wanted me to make a town here Morrisons filled the schoolhouse, and He would have given me a different, He slapped his knee twenty years later there were so kind of liver! many of his girls .teaching school that as he sighed : This Is a funny world, the school board had to make a ruling and the more you see of it the funnier limiting the number of teachers from It gets.' The old man grinned com one family In the city school, In order placently at the celling for n minute to force the young Morrison girls to and before getting out of fils chaii go to the country to teach. In these kicked his shoe-heel- s together merdays the girls keep the house going rily, wiped his glasses as he rose, pnt and Alphabetical la a notary public his bundle of papers under his arm. and a Justice of the peace, which and left the offioe whistling an old tunc keeps his office going In the little Tow-heade- d U. A. C Another good example of showing the value of Dairy Cows and products is found in comparing the deposits in banks of dairy sections with those in communities are Mount Vernon, Washington; Nampa, Idaho; Lichfield, Darrel, Cokato, and Grove City, Minnesota. The towns around which fruit, grain, sugar beets, and potatoes were grown are Kamas, Washington ; Itexburg and Malad, Idaho; Moore-heaTracy, and Marshall, Minnesota, The deposits are as follows : Per Capita Deposits Dairy Towns $17,325,140 $1,288.78 478.99 Grain ect Towns 10,360,280 This large per capita deposit is made possible due to the regular monthly allowance provided by the sales of milk, cream, or butter. iSome of. the men engaged In dairying at the present time seem to think that they are being badly treated due to seemingly low prices in butter fat. Careful observation shows that the dairymen hold an enviable position in the farming operation during periods Prices for the finished products such as Butter, Cheese, and Condensed Milk have bad a decided set back the last year thru decreasing the price of butter fat to the The farmers cost of proproducer duction- Is lowered enongh this year compared with last year so that his margin is greater and more substantial. We cannot ride along on tho peak of prices for any length of time and keep in proper adjustment Most of our common dairy feed stuffs have decreased 50 per cent or more while the prices of butter fat has only -decreased about 42 per cent The dairy cow is the most economical producer of all farm animals, her product is the most essential of all human food she gives marketable returns tomorrow for what she eats today; she leaves on the farm, elements that make soil more productive because she has been there, she is the great home and farm builder. John T. Bowen of the bureau of animal industry, United States Department of Agriculture, and the apparatus that he designed for controlling atmospheric conditions in the manufacture of medical tablets for fighting tuberculosis in cattle. The government, by use of this moisture-regulatin- g device, can manufacture cow pills 12 months in the year whereas formerly only 28 days were suitable. NOXIOUS WEED SEEDS TOAD IS USEFUL IN d, IN THRASHED WHEAT CURBING FEW PESTS One Bushel of Dockage to Every 22 Bushels of Grain. Little Creatures Net of Great Economic Importance. . While They Assist in Combating AbForeigtr Material Commonly Found in normal Increase of Local Peste, Government Investigations ConTheir Influence Is Not AlBuck-sisted of Wild Oats, ways Strongly Felt. Etc. wheat, Mustard, j United Stales Department; (Prepaid by the of Agriculture.) Thrashed spring wheat usually contains much foreign material, consisting almost entirely of noxious weed seeds. Investigations conducted by R. H. Block and C. R. Haller of the bureau of agricultural economics, United States Department Of Agriculture, show that in the 1020-2crop there was approximately one bushel of forin every eign material, or dockage, 22 bushels of spring wheat thrashed. This represents over 9,500,000 bushels of dockage i'or the spring wheat crop. More than 200 kinds of weed seeds are found in spring wheat, but less than 20 of these appear .commonly. The foreign seeds most commonly found In the department's investigations, named in tire order of tliei frequency, were wild oats, wild buckcultivated oats, mustard, wheat, lambs-quartebarley, green foxtail, liares-ea- r mustard, flax, rye, cow cockle, pigweed, yellow foxtail, sunflower, corn cockle, wild rose, king-heaand wild pea (vetch). Wild oats apjjeared in over 99.0 per cent of the lots of wheat examined. Grain inspection statistics, show that the percentage of dockage found in spring wheat is gradually increasing. Severn factors tend to increase the foreign material in spring wheat, the more important of which arc the sowing ef wheat on land that is already foul with weed seeds, and the use of seed wheat contaminated with weed Both of these practices are seeds. common in the muin spring wheat area. Foreign material in wheat is objectionable because it is an economic waste, says the department. The growing of weed seeds with the wheat reduces the yield of wheat and increases the cost of harvesting and thrashing. Foreign material occupies valuable space in wagons and freight cars In country and terminal elevators and mills, nnd it often has a had effect on the milling and baking qualities of the wheat. Thnt clean seed combined with good cultural methods will produce clean wheat Is being demonstrated constantly on many farms, and that the marketing of only clean wheat is profitable, there enn be no doubt. The farm is the logical place to clean wheat, preferably as part of the thrashing operation. When the cleaning is done on the farm, the cleaned wheat will bring a better price on tlie market, tho freight on the dockage will be saved, nnd the screenings will he available for feed, and when finally ground enn bo substituted for the higher priced feeds, such as oats, corn, nnd commercial mill feeds. Two methods of cleaning wheat are common. One method uses sieves and air blasts for separating the foreign material from the wheat, and the other method separates the grain according to the size and shape of the kernels. The former method is used In cleaning machines, the general-purposciich as fanning mills and receiving separators, and the latter method Is used In machines designed to make special separations, such as cockle cylinders, ring graders, and disk mar, Chair and Tell Plot of Daiyiat home. 1 Ha Likes to Sit In B. Caine, of Dairying The post two years have afforded splendid opportunity for the farmers of the country to see what phases of production are the most profitable and substantial When one Stops to consider the demand and price of all tho farm yields the Dairy Cow end her products stand far above them all. One of tlie list examples of the stability of dairy farming was shown in the Salt River Valley In Arizona. The war made such a demand on cotton crops that the people of the valley who already had alfalfa fields and produced cotton. With the end of the war 'ame the end of the high prices for this crop. The people have the cotton on their hands and in most cases are unable to pay the cost of producing the crop. As a result of this codition the banks and business men of the community are giving financial support and urging the farmers to go back Into the dairy business, knowing that they will surely pay their bills if they have some good dairy cows to eat up tlie feed and market their crops at - . gold-rimme- The Stability (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) Toads have been reputed to aid in curbing the numbers of injurious insects and other similar pests. To ascertain the facts in the case the survey of the United States Department of Agriculture has analyzed the contents of the stomachs of 502 common toads, and reports that while the findings regarding the choice of food are of interest they thus far fail to demonstrate that toads are of great economic importance. Toads go constantly about their own work of gaining a livelihood, and so undoubtedly fill their proper place in nature. They are never very numerous in one ity, "however, and as they cannot adopt the methods of birds and traverse wide stretches of land to aid in combating abnormal local Increases of crop and garden pests, their influence is not strongly felt. The Investigation shows that a certain portion of the toads food is made up of injurious insects and other pests of growing plants, and that the toad performs some service in such places as green. houses, gardens, fields of small grain, and golf courses. Any harm that toads do in the consumption of beneficial beetles and other Insects useful to man is of little economic Importance and does not warrant their Indiscriminate Farmers Bulletin, 1287, Foreign Material In Spring Wheat. Just published by the United States Department of Agriculture, describes methods of removing foreign material in spring wheat on the farm and at the country elevator. Copies may be obtained from the department at Washington, D. Q.. or from any office of federal grain In the field. Professor of Bacteriology and Physiological Chemistry, Utah Agricultural Colloge By J. E. Greaves, destruction. ' CLOVER AND GRASS MIXTURE Alfalfa, Red and Alsike Clover, Timothy, Red Top and Fescues Are Recommended. There has been considerable breaking away from old notions in the matter of seeding for pastures and meadows, and in many instances with very conspicuous success. Clovers are subject to so many vicissitudes that good stands are no longer obtainable on many farms. On the other hand, Just those conditions which may be adverse to clovers may be very favorable to certain kinds of grasses, and this has led to the sowing of mixtures of several clovers and grasses, In which grasses predominate. The common notion is that clover nnd timothy is the only useful mixture, but clover quickly disappears and timothy does not furnish much aftermath, and consequently does not supply pasturage for any great length of time. With a rich mixture of alfalfa, red and alsike clover, timothy, red top, orchard grass and some of the fescues, a lasting, nutritious growth Is obtained and as the clovers disappear these finer grasses come in and a durable and palatable pasture is assured all through the season. VARIOUS SHADES OF BROWN Copper, Sable, Bronze, Cecoa, Amber, Beaver, Topaz, Chocolate Among Many Tint. e chines. Rural Salutation Brown, ns we all know by this time, is the color of the season. Of brown there are many shades and these shades have new names. Here are some of them : Copper, sable, bronze, cocoa, amber, beaver, topax, chocolate. Muffin nnd maple sugar are new shades of tan. Canna and k Is are new hennn shades; a new brown that is very popular. A good thing to remember this sea son when asking for a certain shade oi brown is that wood brown is a name that will cover than all if necea sary. wall-fiow- Bob-o-Iin- It Is quite generally believed that good health is favorably the accompaniment of rural life. Do we not find in the country district the urchins who seem to be bubbling over with life and whose playgrounds and workships are the fields and the forests? They live in homes quite isolated and they have on abundance of fresh air and sunshine. Their food consists of the fresh fruits, vegetables, and a liberal supply of new mMk which has been produced on the farm and hence has not had to run the gauntlet of infection as does the city milk. The vigorous exercise in the open air is conducive to good health, tad do not we often hear It stated that The population of the city must be r;nilted from the country every fourth or f.fth generation. Such are the ordinary beliefs, but what are the ' facts? In the face of all these natural advantages recent surveys made In a number of cities and rural districts disclose the fact that premature, preventable deaths are more numerous in the country than in the city. That typhoid, dysentary, and other intestinal diseases are the dangers of the The country and not of the city. smoldering embers of our communicable diseases which at times are fanned Into real epidemics ovist in the country to a great sr extent than in the city. Tuberculosis, that disease whien is curable by fresh air, sunshine, and a nourishing diet, exists In some country district to a (Tea ter extent than It does in the city. Why this difference? The laws of i sanitation, which when applied to Panama have transformed It from Tlie white mans grave to one of the most healthful spots on earth, are enforced in the city but neglected In the country. The city has its specialists who see to it that ths milk and water are not polluted. There are laws covering the construction of houses, cesspools, and sewers. Garbage mast be properly disposed of, and cases of com immicable diseases must be quaraa. laed until they are nol a d alter be Vue community. rosy-cheek- . |