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Show i SOME TO HOLD MOISTURE Development Depends on Molstur Suitable Soil, Successful System and Adaptsbls Crops. More Harrowing and Less Water Gives Best Results. The factors on which the development of dry farming depends are some moisture, suitable soil, a successful system and adapted or adaptable crops. We must have moisture and conserve It; we must have plants and grow them, and It Is worse than useless to raise unprofitable crops. Any one of these factors Is as Indispensable as any other, but perhaps the greatest opportunity for the advancement and success of any kind of farming comes from the science of plant breeding. There are known limitations to the amount of moisture that may b con served; there Is a fixed number of varieties of farm cropB from which to choose at any one time, but it would be difficult to fix In mind, or estimate a limit to our power to adapt crops, or to our ability to create new and de sltable farms, says li. C. Baffum In Desert Farmer. What bas already been accomplished In plant improvement will be realized quickly, others will take a long period of time. The story of the changes which have been made In plants through domestication Is like a fairy tale. From an annual weed growing on salt sea marshes came our highly developed sugar beet, simply by cultivation From another weed, and selection. one of the common mustards, bas come the turnip, radish, rape, kale, kohlrabi, brusBels sprouts, cabbage, broccoli, and cauliflower. This Illustration Is probably the most remarkable one of variation of any single form of plant life. We now have civilized barleys which are as bald as our most strenuous thinkers. We have roses without thorns, fruits without seeds, and even onions without smell. What it has taken centuries to do heretofore we now do in a comparatively short number of years. It may be said that we have only just begun to, breed plants scientifically. Enough has been done to show, mot only the possibilities, but some of the certainties of plant breeding. It Is as positive a science as mathematics. We have much to do to develop suitable varieties for dry farming. We have already learned something of the value of drought resistance and also of the necessity of securing other qualities which make plants more hardy, more persistent and more productive. That we. will be fible to overcome certain objectionatle features in plants is positively certain. By Kteplng Ground Frt From Wteda nd Making Mulch of Dry Earth Natural Molituro Can B Conaerved. More harrowing and leia water on the land will produce the beat reoulta to upland orcbarda. Thinning the fruit to aecure uniformity In alze and to prevent overproduction, thua cropa yearly, la alao essential, aa-tiri- wrltea Prof. Cyrua L. Smith, Insti- tute lecturer of Eastern Wauhlngton, In Colorado Fruit Grower. By keeping the ground free from weda and once a week during the growing aeaaon, thua making a mulch of the dry aurface earth, the natural bar-rowi- moisture can be conserved sufficiently to grow fruit that will command the beat market. When the season la a favorable one great percentage of large applea may be grown with little cultivation, but the grower who neglects to cultivate well every year will often fall to aecure marketable fruit during the very seasons when prlcea are the beat The most auccesaful orchard-Ist- a are those who give thorough cultivation each and every year. Last aeaaon waa the , dry est for many yeara, and yet wherever the cultivation waa thorough and Intelligent the resulta were satisfactory. In fact, the alze and quality were without exception a fair Indei of the method nd the thoroughness of cultivation. In one orchftrd 16 years old we secured more than 60 per cent of four-tiapplet of such varieties as Iiald-wlGreening, Spltzburg and Den Davis. Thia orchard waa plowed early In April. The plowing waa done deep In the center of the rows, eight to ten Inches, and four to five Inches close to the trees. The ground immediately around the trees was then dug over with a mattock, then disked crosswise of the plowing twice, then run over with a clod crusher, then harrowed. Afterward It waa harrowed every week from May 1 to August 15, altogether 'making 19 cultivations at an expense of $6.50 an acre for man and team and two dollars for hand work, or a total of $8.50 an acre. While this might seem somewhat expensive and Intensive, the resulta more than Justified the economy of the continual cultivation, as in another orchard where all the conditions were the same and the cultivation waa the same except one disking and three harrowlngs were omitted, saving f 1.25 In expense, there waa a difference of more than $50 an acre in the value of the fruit Another orchard of the same age, the same varieties, the same soil, waa disked twice and harrowed twice and produced only ten per cent of marketable fruit j The soil from October to April should be rough and loose to catch and bold the moisture; from April to October maintain continuously a One dust mulch over the entire surface. If thia Is done there will be no weeds, nor any unnecessary loss of moisture. Leas than ten per cent of the orchards are as well cultivated as they should be. When the soil inclinca to run together when wet and bake hard whf n It lucks humus, If barnyard manure la available it Is the best and readiest means of supplying the humus or organic matter to the soil. The best method of applying this Is by top dressing during the winter season. If the manure is not available use a cover crop, preferably vetch and winWhen this is done the ter wheat. spring plowing can safety be delayed until the first week in May, but not Inter unless it fchould be a cold, wet season. Turn under the cover crop good and deep and Immediately follow with a dink twice or three times, harrow then every continuously week until August 15. When a cover crop Is to be used, seed It at the lust cultivation as near to the middle of August as practl- er n, - POULTRY NOTES. " of Hens need green food and plenty It When a hen is in full laying her comb is full and bright red. , Appetites must be studied. Fowls differ In this as much as do human beings. To endeavor to keep a flock on a single-graidiet will soon breed all sorts of trouble. Before one attempts to raise chickens in a brooder he should take lessons from the mother ben. The beginner should Friend a year or more In the care of poultry before be can hope to be a learned poultry raiser. There are almost as many ways and methods of feeding and caring as there are localities where turkeys are grown. For stamina in the offspring, and especially In market poultry culture It is bent to Introduce new blood every year or two. I'robably In no line of general or special farming Is the working equivalent so poor as In the average ban dling of poultry. No matter how small the birds may be, they should have access to some kind of grit They will begin to pick at It after they are a dy old. .There Is nothing which binders the growth of the poults more than parasites, which increase very rapidly when the poults are cou lined to small areas. One of the most difficult propost tlons in feeding young chicks is to know how to place the feed before them so they can partake of It without soiling It. In buying stock either pullets or yearling hens should be selected. Where It Is Intended to early incubate the eggs yearling hens would be" bet ter than pullets. Old and young chickens to be sold for market purposes will bring much more if they are confined In close quarters for a week or more and, fed heavily dining the time. Equipment for properly caring for chicks pays in a very large w.y. This may consist of brooders, coops, ing vessels, chick feeding coop and numerous other things for the best welfare of the young of the f.rrk. With good equipment poultry keeptnf may be made a good success. secure fruit uniform in size, to prevent overbeurlng and to obtain annual crops, it is necessary to thin the It is better to hire fruit radically. some one to do this by the day or lour. Few men have the time to thin their own fruit as it ought to be done. To If the pruning has been properly done and the fruit spurs are properly distributed over the entire tree, then thinned so the apples will not touch each other, there will be as many loft as the tree ought to carry. The fruit will be larger, better matured, and much more uniform than when allowed to grow in clusters. Success of Dry Farming. The ultimate success of dry farming depend as much on adapting crop plants to dry farm environments as it does to any other factor. The fact that dry farming has succeeded as well ns It has with only such crops as have been available, Is one of the greatest arguments for future greater success, when we shall have bad a few years In which to adapt our own varieties to the climate and soil of the west. PAPER UNCLE SAM'S PAPERS a saaaaaaasiiimn m CORNSTALK Prompt Courteous In WashingNow Being Made Government ton of Products of T..t. Experiment Plant. PUBLISHES MANY FORMS OF PERI ODICAL3 FOR HIS PEOPLE. Dallies, Weeklies and Monthlies Cut-teOut by the Government Hs Staffs Regular Editorial of Trained Mtn. bribe federal govern-me- tExperiment, pain the making of high grade completed from corn stalks were experirecently at the government, and MIHj mental plant at Cumber of war Portland. Me. Sample,a few day. were taken to Washington and test under now are no and Investigation in the papermaklnglaboratories" of the agricultural depart- n Telephone Service is what everybody wants. Get it by fur. Tarrlste. Every one knows that your Uncle Samuel, through bit various depurt By Edwin using "The Phone that talks." ments, turns ""tSp experiments have been to stiout many tons declare ckful as to lead experts to of publics! that made rivals stalk corn paper that tioos during writing from wood pulp for books, a the course of; uses requiring other and the year upon all manner of subjects j purposes, of paper. At the present conceived to be of Interest to the pub-- good gradomanufacture of corn sta Ik the Uc at large, but few persons have any time too costly to make It avail' paper is Idea of the extent of bis activities as use. The govern-men- t newspaper for able a publisher of dally, weekly, monthly, It can be mandeclare experts and several other forms of periodicals. to compete profitably with Here is a brief list of some of the ufactured and wood pulp paper for other uses, more ; more Important ones: of being that It gives promise Treasury Decisions, Dally Consular durable than the paper now In use. Keand Trade Reports, Weekly Crop It. A machine Invented by George porter, Daily Weather Map, Monthly Sherwood of Oak Park, 111., was conWeather Review, Weekly Snow and structed for the experimental plant Ice Bulletin, Monthly Summary of near Portland, and the corn experiTrade and Commerce, the Fatent Of-- ; ments will bo' followed by attempts flee Gazette, Public Health Reports. make a commercial product from to Monthly Pilot Chart, Weekly Hydro- - ric straw. Experiments also were graphic Bulletin, Weekly Notice to made with broomcorn, but were In Mariners, and the Postal Bulletin. no senso as successful as those reNo mention Is made of Uncle Sam's cently completed with corn stalks. periodical the CongresThe experiments have resulted in but statements sional Record that by the government experts daily, for the reason that cornstalks can be converted into that extended comment here with repaper on a commercial scale, and that spect to the Record Is unnecessary, they offer a satisfactory and Immediso well known is it everywhere. ate substitute for pulp wood. The reUncle Sam's Journalistic force is or- cent action of Canadian provinces In ganized pretty much like that of any prohibiting the exportation of pulp paper the product of private enter- wood to this country ha resulted in prise. It comprises editors, editorial dose observation of the government's writers, technical experts, telegraph experiments by the financial Intereditors, etc., with even an occasional ests, and the new paper Is being subruri correspondent or two, not to mitted to close scrutiny and severe spea-Qf special correspondents who tests. forward their "stuff" by wire. These men cover pretty much the whole COST field, as Uncle Sam sees Its, and their BUILDING $1,000,000 talents touch upon matters of politics, business, International and do- New Home of Bureau of American Remestic trade conditions, social movepublics One of Washington's ments. Inventions, and many other Handsome Structures. subjects. Of the daily publications perhaps The beautiful new home of the Inthe largest circulation Is enjoyed by ternational Bureau of the American the Daily Weather Map, which dededicated In Washrives Its "news" from every part of Republicsandrecently of which ington the country through telegraphic servRoosevelt laid the corner-stone- , repice, and which Is scattered broadcast resents an of $1,000,000 of expenditure to thousands of persons whose busiwhich Andrew Carnegie contributed ness or Interests are affected by the and the 21 American repub The Dally Weather Map $750,000 weather. lics $250,000. It Is described by the employs .some 2,000 correspondents. best critics of architecture and conAnother dally of the same general struction as one of the most artistic character Is the Snow and Ice Bulle- official In the world. It over buildings deIs Issued by the navy tin, which looks the Potomac park and river, fapartment This publication is much cing the open grounds below the of the at the great ports appreciated White House, and near the Washingcountry and Is especially favored by ton monument officers In the operating departments The International and local appreciof big railway systems. ation of the significance of the dediThe most popular publication turned cation of this diplomatic palace was out by the department of agriculture shown by the presence at the exerIs the Crop Reporter, the news dis- cises as participants In the program pensed by which is not only eagerly of President Taft, of State awaited in rural communities but by Knox, the Mexican Secretary Carambassador, financiers as well. The greatest pre- dinal Gibbons. Senator Ellhu Root, Ancautions are taken by the officials of drew Carnegie, Bishop Harding and the department of agriculture to see Director John Barrett, members of that no information to be printed in the of diplomatic the Crop Reporter leaks out before court and the corps ss the Supreme well as sencabinet, the paper goes to press. Not satisfied ators and representatives of the nawith this daily chronicling of crop tional congress, high army and naval conditions, the department of agri- officers. culture also Issues the Weekly Crop The international bureau Is devoted Bulletin during the summer, embodyto the development of commerce, ing the 'usual summary of crop and and peace among the Amerweather conditions together with tele- friendship ican nations. It employs a large staff g graphic information from every of state of conditions at the hour cialdiplomatic, statistical ond commerexperts, it acts as an agency to of going to press. make the different governments and The postal authorities Issue daily people of America better publications of Interest not only to with each other, and It wasacquainted rUmntiv thousands of postal employees but to responsible last year for $32,()0'i,00O of many others as well, such as railway new business in the of trade officials, publishers, real estate agents, among the Americanexchange republics. supply houses, and scores of people In other callings. This duty sets forth Popular With Debaters. changes in railway routes, of the as"To judge from the number of letsignment of railway clerks, of the appointment or the retirement of post- ters get asking for material for on all manner of masters or other officials, of the essubjects, espe-dalltablishment or abolition of rural free relating to whether the speaker's power should be cinialled, delivery stations, etc. you'd think I were the champion debater a dull Decisions, Treasury publicaof the United states." sal.l i;,.org(. w tion, but an extremity valuable one of special Interest to importers and Norrls, whose Insurgency has made "ltnt I tlu.iiKlit It was exporters, tobacco and whisky manu- him famous, facturers, lawyers and federal officials. the last straw." he continued, "when In thin publication are to bp found not one of the secondary schools In Wash only the decisions of the customs and ington chose itesolvcil. That the l,w. of the Speaker of the I louse Internal revenue officers, but set forth of a,,,,, at length the decisions of courts bear- resentatlves Should l!e Curtailed' I knew there would be H run, and It ing upon treasury matters. The hydrographlc office of the navy came. For the last thr.v. ,jav- t have been department is one of the busiest of for holding a recepti,,,, to' debaters and against the sul.J.ct the government diof visions. ' Besides the Snow and Ice course those opposed to th- - proposl-tlotry to arsue so as to draw out Bulletin, above mentioned, It turns out the Monthy Pilot Chart, the Hydro-graphi- c my points and thus be aide to refute Bulletin, and the Weekly No- the arguments of their oopom-ntHut tice to Mariners. These realty Inter- there I draw the U,,,.. , , th know but leave the esting papers offer all the current for news of the seven seas. Not only do tlitlr debating platform-."they tell us of wrecks, but of the Senator Bourne' travels of Icebergs, the shining of ' Bands, the discovery of si i iU, the In th. cominm.v n.,,.11 ,,, condition of light and light s, and llourn.. ih.n im- a pair , ,.h of much scientific data acquired ns to bull ahout ., ,'' wind velocity and the passage of storms. halls and nr.. .is,,! ,,v , , Of the technical publications pub- senators. On., of ,! ,:K ,,,, ) lished by Uncle Sam the Patent Office Gazette stands In the front rank. It up wi.h wire n,ttin. a,n, is the only one with a bona fide sub- (low so that they H, , ,,,,,,,,,,., scription list and from It many a and In this room wmUm tako J" private publisher might take lessons else by toeing the l,B " with respect to turning out an excel- one to anoth. r. TokkIi,, . , " lent mechanical production. The pa- mlngWouMbeall(.ttr.r,,rm- fnr J per whereon the Gazette is printed is throw It about like a r0l,M,. , ,;. , of the best quality and Its Illustrations team innkli.R a forward , pass are exceptional. During the 30 years quires considerable skill and 8tro,Jh of Its existence the Gazette has grown and senators keep thmnselv.--,' from a form closely resembling a pop- the M,.rcie AmonR lh ular song sheet to a handsome pub- liourne with the medicine bulla . lication of about 250 pages. Uornh.Mrlstow and Cummins Utah Independent Telephone Manure-Farmer- s Dr. C. O. SCOTT j i Office Phone Wo. 4'- Arrival and denary." Spanish Fork. Vtsh from Depot: Crt Bid. W. O. I Ind. Phone r. Spanish Fork, Utah. , Dr.J.W.Hagan Dti e thin soils are greatly benefited by the use of rotten manure applied in the hill or furrow. Nitrogen for Cabbage. Nitrogen Is by far the most Important element In producing a crop of cabbage. It should bo quickly available. Top dressing with nitrate of soda Is becoming more and more mon. Try it on the early crop. coin-tatoe- I Bureta." ma vlav in aw OFFERS VgUfcfl on CHOICE Of THROUGH TRA!II$1: 4-F-AST THREE AND DISTINCT id ROUTES Pullman Palace and ordlun ing cars to Denver, Omaii't Dr. J. Fred Potter Olty, St. Loulg and CtilcigoW I cnange. Chair Free Cw;rf Reclining Optician ally conducted fcxcurslom; 1 4 EYES TESTED uining uar service. GLASSES PROPERLY FITTED For rate, folder, etc.. hjt Office at Residence SPANISH FORK. g. w. Mcdonald, me. Phone, Ind. 38-or write I. A. BKNTON. O. A. P. D., Salt ki M Miss Agnes Engberg Teacher of PIANO, ORGAN AND THEORY OF MUSIC For particulars apply at the home of MRS. THOMAS CREER Saturday of Each SAMUEL CORNABY Butter Paper Da- j- m M a Money Loaned D Irrlf Offlo Week b riBLIC NOTARY If your oriel t4 Firm low lntwre.t ipcctal tion, of partial p.jmtuw. one block eat of at re.ld.ae. SPANISH FORK. UTAH. op- bcftml placed Co-o- p. I t-i nan j.i f nai mr will k paper A. B. MORGAN, ATTORNEY-AT-LA- PROVO pa'lht Bulldlaf Telepboss i at 4 p. m. fl X i LORENZO THOMAS FASHIONABLE ilMI ,M TAILOR One Block North ol Bank, R. M. JEX-FLORI- mm ... Spanish Fork. Utah I N w 1 K I fl It A I u ri ii w i mm a of acrwf O Thousands beau reclaimed ST tooui. tnt I yeri more will im rtttev tha tint 10 Tfr. irriiiation in the past 10 1 V'M.-f- 11 c of homes. IIavb Xoa InvestioawII'1 It has been truthfullj r- - Spanish Fork Land of Opportm a rv Co-Operativa rtri oi uanu Unmet i i The Oregon Short ...... I.Jn i.lnlu. s re.mn o (J I' . . P. A.. Salt tol). K.Diiriey, iH Institution,. cer. A. Dealers B. H. BROWN, in General Merchandise, Livery Flour, Grain O nd -- Q Shoes. JOHN .lONKS, Supt. ' Spanish Fork The Cough rids the ta b a acting by bowels is f iyl FORK, UTAM via j.. LIS Foundations $ forFortunesT r will 12 NO. 'PHONE Boots An AH Hack Meets Harness, SPANISH Feed Stable Produce. staanfacturars of nd I fl - iiiii Fresh Flower Mipplicl for all occa-iloFuneral (lesions kept on hand ami tilled to oritur. All kinds of Furniture Repaired. Residence two Mocks North of Foundry Spanish Foi:k. Utah r.-.ll-s ,,, flO--For u & Sprtngville, buu Oliver vny ,,, No. 432-- For Eureka 'ikm Cs. BwMisi Spanish Fork, Utah 11 Ind. Phone JJ Phone Bell Bank iotldtnc on. bloc wrt ot Commercial FbrilcUn Cub Idaho 8uf if Compan. Journal-producin- ;.,, NO. For Connections de-bat- I 431-- depot with all trains 1 y No. and tb . much-abuse- Offia t WrU 4 jw'un Quarantine and City Phyiiciaa Drug Office two door, north of City office Stors. Nig" calls made from S5-2- . No. 409 Vor Snrt. and all east Dr. W. E. Warner best-know- n crop-raisin- Mil,' DENTIST j d lack the proper amount of rotten manure for melons and cucumbers. By stacking several loads a year in advance of planting there would be no trouble from this Co, j i Rotten often Wheat In Germany. Germany, on her soil, thin by nature, produced last year 29 bushels of winter wheat to the acre; while her spring wheat went a little above 35 bushels. Oats yielded 59 bushels, pc-294 FACTORS DRY FARMING FROM llit m i I- - h) UXATI COUGH S J; Beaa Is tha original Uxjj,' comaiua no opi'- i, tow.U, carrying natural channels. aitkhctloa or money World . Dr . |