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Show 1 -- FRUilS DOMESTIC NUTS AND Etveral Lines That War One Almoat Wholly Brought From Abroad Are Now Largely Produced In This Country. Fruits and nuts valued at $458,000,-COfcave passed through ports of the w United States du ring the last ten years, or this amount, $285,000,. represents the value of Imports from foreign coun tries, $156,000,000 exports to foreign countries, $12,000,-00receipts from territories of the 0 noncontiguous United States, and $5,000,000 shipments to those territories. The value of fruits and nuts Imported Into and exported from the country In the fiscal year which ended June 30, 1910, was In round terms of which about represented exports. A compilation made by the bureau of statistics of the department of commerce and labor gives the year's Imports of fruits and nuts at $36,000,000 and expports at $19,000.-000- . one-thir- d study of the commercial movements during the last decade or two develops the fact, that domestic production Is rapidly supplanting certain classes of fruits formerly Imported In targe quantities. This applies especially to raining, prunes and oranges. Certain other lines, In ivhlch local production Is still Insufficient to meet home consumption, continue to increase in value of Imports, notably bananas, figs, walnuts, cocoa nuts and almonds. Comparing the Imports of the year Just ended with those of one and two decades ago, Imports of fruits and nuts as a whole have Increased from $21,000,000 In .1890 andk$19,000. 000 In 1900 to about $36,000,000 In 1910. On the export side a fur more rapid growth has occurred since 1890. In that year the total value of all fruits ind nuts exported from the country was but $4,000,000, In 1900 the total had Increased to nearty $12,000,000, and in 1910, about $19,000,000. The principal articles contributing to tbta growth are apples, prunes, oranges, raisins, apricots, canned fruits and nuts. Of foreign fruits consumed In the United States, bananas supply about The Imported bananas come chiefly from Costa Rica, Honduras and Panama In Central America, the RrltIsh West Indies and Cuba. Italy sup plies practically all the lemons Im Of course. ported Into the country. the Xante variety, produced In Greece, supplies most of the Imports, luteins, formerly coming In at the rate of $2,000,000 per annum, chiefly from Spain and Turkey In Asia, havo practically disappeared as an artlcl; of Importation, and as above Indicated, are now becoming an Important art! rle of export. ,. PONIES FOR CADETS Washington Official Won't Pay Cost . of the Game at West Point-M- ajor Out $1,975. ' PRODUCTION IMPORTED VARIETY. 000 NO POLO A one-thir- d. - Ma. J. M. Carson, Jr., quartermaster In the United States army, would be glad to dispose of $1,795 worth of The ponies have been polo ponies. used by the West Point cadets in playing the game. Ma J. Carson, who has a kind heart but is not versed in the law, puld'tb $1,975 for the ponies In April, 1909. Then he presented the bill in the regular way with bis other accounts to the war department The auditor or the war department squinted at the Item and finally refuse to reimburse the major. Dy this time the major was getting a little anxious and appealed to the comptroller of the currency to reverse the auditor's decision. The comptroller of the currency seems to 1e as hard hearted as the auditor ol the war department, for he has Just handed down a decision leaving the major with bis batch of polo ponies on bis bands and no money to reimburse him. The comptroller says that the ap prlatlon for "horses, cavalry, artll lery and engineers," under which the to major thought he was authorized buy the polo ponies, is not properly chargeable with such expenditure. Th comptroller adds that he does not know of any other appropriation to which the amount can be charged. ' The action of the comptrolled will be almost as sad a blow to the cadets as It is to Ma J. Carson, for il will mean that they will have to give up polo undess they play with cavalry horses or mules. It looks ai if the major would have to give up 5 until he can dispose ol about $1 the ponies. COTTON LEADS OUR EXPORTS Shipments of Natural Products Fall Off, While Manufactures 8et New High Record. oil, Cotton, copper, illuminating wheat these articles, In the ordet named, formed the most Important articles exported from the United States during the fiscal year just closed. The value of the cotton ex ported was $450,000,000; of the copper. $83,500,000; of the illuminating oil, $62,500,000, and of the wheat. $17.-000.00- . Other articles of export ranked in value as follows: Flour, lard, tobacco, lumber, upper leather, corn, bituminous coal and lubricating oil. In nearly all the articles of natural production there was a. marked decline in the exports of 1910, as com- pared with previous years, while in certain manufactures the figures foi the year are larger than for any previous year, and the total for all manufacturers probably will exceed that of any earlier year. The bureau ol statistics, which has given out these figures, has not yet completed the total value of the manufactures ex.. ported. The falling off is most marked In corn, wheat, flour and meats, wheat DEPENDS ON TEST OF THE GUN falling from $161,000,000 in 1892. th hleh year, to $47,000,000 In 1910: corn if Navy from $85,000,000 in 1900 to $25.500.00C Army Will Adopt Sixteen-lnc- h in 1910: flour from $75,000,000 In 1893 ,v ' Finds It Can Use the to $46,500,000 In 1910; lard from Fourteen. ' in 1906 to $43,000,000 In 1910; bacon from $46,000,000 in 1898 to will Slxteen-incguns for the army in 1910; fresh beef from follow a successful test of guns in 1901 to $7,750,000 In .1910, Gen. to for the navyi according Brig. and cattle from $42,000,000 in 1904 to William Crozler. chief of ordnance $12,000,000 last year. The decision will hinge on the trials of the new navy rifles. "We still have an advantage over the navy." said DIRT FLYING FAST General Crosier. "We can build guns PANAMA more powerful than the toughest ar mor they can produce. The navy Is Records Broken In an Unusually Rainy Month Government Activity Expretty close to the limit of armor pro tends Also to Sanitation. means no we have by tection, and built the most powerful guns of which Notwithstanding that the precipitawe are capable. The navy Is now pro posing to arm its new battleships with tion during the rainy month of June, guns. Those rifles will be of 1910, in Panama was almost double that in the same month of 1909 and higher power than the army In the gun and consequently more powerful. 1908, the work of excavation 200.000 exceeded canal Inst June a as by If the navy adopts guns corpermanent feature, we shall have to cubic yards the excavations In the meet this advance In the fighting responding period of the previous year. This fact was made known In a restrength of warships. We shall tlwf n port to the war department on the Increase the power of our gun. It was only a short time ago that progress of the canal operations. Ai rifle, an indication of the great strides be(he army adopted the One of the new type has been com ing made In the work, the report excapleted and tested. Twelve others are showed that In June, 1904, the to 32,551 cublo amounted now In the process of construction. It vation seems probable that an entirely new yards, as compared to 1,305,141 cublo type will be adopted even before the yards taken out last month. Uncle Sam's physicians and sanitabatch of guns has been com' tion experts who are responsible for pleted. the health of the men on the Panama canal Job are taking no chances of inOUR CIGARETTES IN CHINA fection. They have eliminated mosquitoes and a crusade on the house has been started. Charles General Consul Denby Says flyThe measures taken to exterminate America Has Taught the Chinese the pest go so far as providing n law to 8mok Them. which requires street venders of confectionery, fruits, pastry or anything America has taught the people of else which may draw files to keep the Chinese empire to smoke ciga- their wares covered with wire screena rettes. In a reort to this government on foreign trade by Consul Gen-pra- l Charles Denby of Vienna In American Trade With Territories. which he described the class of forTrade of the United States with its territories for the eign markets which may be created by American enterprise and then fiscal year Just ended aggregated about supplied, the consul general says: $190,000,000, according to statistics of "One of the most conspicuous ex- the department of commerce and laamples of such a market Is the de- bor.' The department contrasts this mand for the cigarette In China. Ten with the record of 1897, when the territories years ago the cigarette was an article trade with used In China by a small number of aggregated The only $35,000,000. The field largest percentage of gain during the people, chiefly foreigners. attracted the attention of a group of past year was In the Philippines, to American manufacturers who exam- which the recent tariff act extended ined into It and decided to introduce the privilege of Interchange of mar- the clgorette to the Chinese people chandise free of duty. Imports from by American methods. The result is the Philippines in the 11 months end that now the cigarette Is popular ing with May, 1910, were valued at throughout the empire." $15,887,418 and exports at $15.140.44&. 0 h to be w generally tort not4. alwaya The clod r ue wvy ni.ntaL cJLJer on uneven Und or on ekiddy Sete land may do a world c good by clods at the right Rain and Snow That Fall Should waVof mashing not be Be Carefully Conserved. Of course the beginner may the first, at able to do all these things nea wat the make should he but On fifteen Almost Impossible to Impress Upon possible to them. good crops a EeV year, rainfall o ef Minds of Farmers Importance moisture n be grown if much of the Giving Most Careful Attenut the growl" in falls tion t This Question. to the will be proportionate success which the moisture to bald. In the dry areas moisture is always extent to enlarges the room for itg precious. The amount of moisture Deep plowing it from and that falls In the form of rain is always in the soil, over prevents the surface Into the away or nearly always low. By no means that man ean adopt can it be In- streams. creased. The only thing that can Dairy Breads. be done is to adopt measures that will or tve leading dairy breeds four The make falls go further than it would another pretty close-one If it were not carefully considered in are crowding are new chamwhich Cows of late. order to grow crops. Notwithstanding or another test of kind one this fact, it Is almost impossible to pions In so frequently that the out are brought Impress upon the minds of many for concluding farmers the importance of giving the reader may be excused their most careful attention to this ques- that all the breeds have proved production tremendous for capacity tion. It Is all In Montana the present season large under special conditions. pure-bre- d for advertising, good Quantities of prairie are being broken. very a bint bow the pracIn many Instances the land thus stock, as well as breed up and immay tical dairyman broken Is left as the plow left it It adding one or business by a has been turned over and it may be prove two individuals of the right breeding. In a way that leaves it lying loosely, and a good system of cow testThat lays DakoU Farmer. If left thus with attention to forage through the summer season it will ing, together will soon bring prosand feeding dry out so completely that no mois- crops ambitious ture will be left Should winter perity within sight of the wheat be sowed on that land, the dairyman. moisture Is not there to germinate It Stand of Alfalfa.' or to sustain germination if it should is plowed In the fall ten land If the start Grajn starting thus weakly Is sure to succumb in the winter that Inches deep and the soil good, the follows. Should no grain be sown chances of obtaining a stand of alfaira in a hundred. In until spring, the ground has Just that are about ninety-fiv- e ten land inches, about plowed much less moisture that it would have spring bad by the amount that was lost And eighty. In shallow plowed land about Inches in yet this is what very many are doing. fifty. On sod plowed eight It may be that some are constrained to the fall and disked and fined down sur4o this by force of circumstances, as until in as good condition on the of get chances the old as face land, when they hire the breaking done by team power and leave the land lying ting a stand are also abcut ninety-fivthus. It may be that they do not in a hundred, with a precipitation of Dnd it possible to get the land com- about 14 inches. pressed at once, and a dust mulch Need for Silos. made upon it There never was a greater need for The question of harrowing grain is ' ilso one of the greatest Importance to silos than there is this season. The and is short something will the farmer in the dry country. This hay erop done toward to have be providing forIs a great question. We have only touched upon its outer rim. In some age in some other wsy. Corn silage Instances one harrowing may make Is one of the most valuable feeds for more of a difference than can well be cattle during the winter season when to not available that has ever Imagined, in other instances it may grass invented. been lo harm. In the dry country from one to two barrowlngs are nearly always Room and Feed for Hens. helpful to a grain crop. In some If you have a nice lot of hens that from three to four may do wish to keep over for another food. In the case of winter wheat you sne to two harrowlngs may be benefi- year, either as breeders or layers, it to have cial in the autumn, and from one to will be to their advantage three in the spring. If but two har- plenty of room, and different food from that received by the growing rowlngs are done In the spring, let it be understood that, as a rule, one can stock or the fowls that are being pre best be given when the crop can first pared for market be discerned coming through the 8klm Milk for Calf. tround, and the other after the plants milk Skim may form the principal no inches But cast ire several high. Iron rules can be given. A heavy rain diet of the calf for six months to a skim milk should (ailing may call for harrowing at some year. Factory to avoid the be pasteurized llfferent time. The conditions also of tuberculosis. The best may call for the use of a different kind spread of harrow. The dry farmer is not skim milk is that which Is fresh from the separator and still warm. equipped for his work with only one harrow. . The harrow that Is suitable Use Plenty of Fertilizer. tor one kind of soil and condition is Work plenty of fertilizer of some cot suitable, It mar be, for another kind around the roots of cucumber, kind of soil or a different condition. Nor Is the farmer in the dry coun- squash and melon vines. They will try properly equipped for his work yield enough more to pay for any exnithout a roller. In some instances tra trouble. he may want a subsurface packer. In Keep Cultivators In Order. other Instances he will want a corruIn weather it is very necessary dry and a gated roller, plain yet again roller. These three may not always that the cultivators be kept going in be wanted on the same farm, hut In order that no moisture that comes up the dry country they all have a place from the subsoil shall evaporate and be lost to plants. according to the conditions. Each farmer should have some kind of a clod crusher. Alfalfa Value. It may be of vaThere is pull, milk and wool In alrious forms, but usually It may be home-madand,- therefore, cheaply falfa. If you doubt this, feed a lot made. The idea is to have something of it to your horses, cows and sheep that will crush clods. In lands that are more or less adobe in character, Hcgs Injure Alfalfa. On light, sandy soil, hogs will such an implement if it can be called verj an Implement, is of Immense value. quickly destroy, or at least, greatly in Both the roller and clod crusher are Jure the alfalfa. VALUE OF MOISTURE If Prompt Courteous Telephone Service is what everybody wants. Get it by m". using "The Phone that talks," run-nln- e Utah Independent Telephone MwMtMMMtjai Dr. C. O.SCOTT wfflBS DENTIST No.43-- Office Phone Ctt Bids, Spanish W. O. e Arrival and Fork, Vlah from Depot: No- - Warner Dr. W. E. 35-2- r. Joseph Hughes, M.'D. PHYSICIAN SURGEON & ,4('91For . Quarantine and City Phyiiciai Office two doors north of City Drug Store. Night calls made from office Ind. Phone Spanish Pork, Utah. lf Office in Rev. Lee's bungalow, block east of Consolidated Wagon & Machine Co. Residence, corner 2nd Hair IjfilA No. 410 lu to 5 p. m. Ind. Phone to a. m. and 2 Sundays by Appointment. Office Hours, 10 12 Spanish Fork, Ut. 62-- 1 1 wusi tog n atij ' . 1 For Burekal'liaB. v uy 5 j Eureka Mad unlet 432-- For No. - ""ti -- viijr j Connections made In Otd depot with all trains on Pacific and Oregon Ebon iii OFFERS 4-F- CHOICE or THROUGH AST AND THREE if TRAINS DISTINCT ROUTES Pullman Palace and orliuing cars to Denver, Omabi - City, St Louis and Cfclcaa change. Free Reclining Chair Cm ally conducted Excursions; i Dining Car Service. For rates, folder, etc. b$ Dr.J.W.Hagan Office at WarM Dmf Ce. EyiUbf Spanish Fork, Utah Ind. Phone Bell Phone 11 J SprlDgvine, . . pv.uia and west one-ha- North and 2nd West. departure " 32 lui lUildeoee on. block west ol Commercial Bus ar Compsor. Pbyilclan Utah-Idah- g. w. Mcdonald, BENTON. 0.A. P. D.. Salt or write I. A. lJ SAMUEL CORNABY ri'BLIC NOTARY Money Loaned s Irrlg OHM Farm Md Mod. low ( partial Int.reat payment pcll block eut ot SPANISH FORK. UTAH. st roaldnioc on. Saturday os of Each Weefc. Co-o- p. Butter Paper A. B. MORGAN. If your PROVO EatfM Butldlnj Telapho. tl X that d( befcil placed ATTORNEY-AT-LA- Da; date jo s . e FARM NOTES. corn weather is good weed-killin- g weather. A little stock and a good garden means Independence. It is claimed that the average crow , destroys 700,000 insects a year. With anything like fair conditions there is good money In early peas. Insects affecting the corn field can be largely controi led by thorough tillage and crop rotation. It is not necessary to go deep to kill weeds. An important thing to keep in mind, however, is to kill them when small. While the cabbage will stand considerable abuse. It must not be too dry or too wet In order to make the desired yields. Sow a patch of rape in the corn field with the last cultivation and you havo provided for a lot of good mutton or pork. Lay board around squni-- or pumpkin vines and any bugs bothering them will collect under the boards, when they may be killed. Good i . Opportunity In Poultry. With poultry there is greater opportunity for choice among a long list of breeds than among any other kinds of stock. We can select color according to our taste; we can breed for eggs or for flesh, for sitters or (or large or small fowls. non-sitter- The eradication of weeds is a much discussed question at present, but little Is said about preventing weeds wvmi ioiuuij mi io me tarm. A large percentage of the weeds are put on the farm by the farmer himself who actually plants weed seeds when he plants his farm or garden crop. Keep the alfalfa short by feeding It down, or If it gets too growthy run the mowing machine over It it off to a height of three clipping or four Inches. Sweet peas now require close atteatlon to continue their bloom period Be sure that no see-lform if you want flowers. Go over the vines daily and .11.. vu an .11 UlUumS. luueu li v.ijj Great damage is often done to when billing them at the last cultivation, by running the shovels too deeply, and thus cutting off ol the main laterals previously many referred to. R. M. JEX-FLORI- ST Spanish Fork Co-Operat- in. Spanish Fork, Utah Fresh Flowers supplied for all occa, lions, funeral designs kept on hand tod filled to order. All kinds of Furniture Repaired. Residence two blocks North of Foundry Spanish Fork. Utah What's the with "I D matter AH 0 Thousands of acresol been reclaimed to en! irrigation in tbat bt the past 1U yearn, more will be reclairv the next 10 year. an opening lor nianj ol nomes. iva . Uave You ImvestioatkdID It has been truthfully If Institution- ,- Land of Opportu A Land of Home Dealers in General Merchandise, A-- - Produce. and Uatnfaoturers tad The Oregon Short Uu be pleased to send uewr reonr;; ter regarding Idaho's to D. K. Hurley, (i 1'cer. A. O. P. A., Salt tJw Flour, Grain O - a at 4 p. TAILOR or B. H. BROWN, of Harness, Boots Shoes. Livery Q Stable JOHN JOXKs, Supt. SPANISH Hack Meets AH salesman YOUR be.,work more vest than 12 hours a day. Need for Silos. 5 An sdveMi,ement c your There never was a greater need fot silos than there is this season Th. Is nay crop short and something will have to be done toward providing for age in some other wsy. Corn iliac Is one of the most valuable feeds for cattle during the winter season when is not grass available that has eve. been invented. g0Bds in this "orks while you sleeppaper and wke--24 hours a day. In many J It works at the nam house-hold- s time. Ht Cater to Demand. The American taste "requires fowls rlth yellow skin, while European Hoes Injure Alfalfa. On light, sandy soil, tonbumers demand chickens with- - a hogs win vsm white skin. Producers should study quickly destroy, or at lout, greatly m the market and cater to it Jure the alfalfa, 9 3 -r- -- talka better than the RESULT: It sells goods. Abou, the co.tr Far lew 1 and doe. !, more wnikmsj1b,w. N,0i) "WIS ' - Spanish Fork Fall rye, n at the rate of one bushel per acre, makes excellent late fall and early spring feed, and, If noi pastured too closely, win brlllR a f . net profit per acre to an early bar NO. 12 'PHONK KUHK, UTAH The Best Barg In reading money can buy ii 1at per. It keep, you post4 doings of tha community- This Pap will tell youths thing'! to know in so enttrUH'1 will cive you all ri community; its th' prove a pleasure; It than full valus I asked for it. i Satsri ready FASHIONABLE Or.s Block North ol Bank, will paper LORENZO THOMAS IH |