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Show FARM FORESTS-DR- Y tftr'x5 'Tfifatl 1 Several Reasons Why Farmer Is Interested in Conserving Trees. TIME TABLE They Catch 8now In Blizzards and Hold It Lata In Season, and Leaves and Rubbish Form Dams, Holding Water Back. The dry farmer is Interested in the conservation of the forests for 10:15 a.m. several good reasons, writes E. R. No. 66 going north 7:?u a.m. No. 62 going north in Ranch and Range. 3:28 p.m. Parpons No. 64 going north trees catch snow in the blizThe FROM SALT LAKR zards and hold it late in the season, 10:15 a.m. the leaves and rubbish dam it back No. fill going south 10:28 p.m. from No. 61 going south . running off into the streams and 6:23 p.m. No. 65 going south thus prevent waste of moisture and Pallattal trains are now running erosion of our mountain soils. dally between Salt Iake and the PaEvery drop of water that remains cific coast. us to help dampen our atmowith UTAH COUNTY Is In direct touch Is so much gain. Every drop sphere with two great cities. Best local train that finds Its way into the rivers and service. dead loss. But J. II. M ANDKR Fi ELD, Assistant down to the sea, a reason of all Is the most important General Passenger Agent. this. N. PETERSON, Depot Ticket Agent Every plant, every tree takes up Its food in solution with water; when this plant food in the sap has been digested and assimilated the surplus water is thrown oft by the leaves and transpires into the atmosphere. An ordinary apple tree may give off from 20 to 30 gallons of water cottonwood 100 a day, a Arrival and departure of trains gallons, a big Engelmann spruce, sevfrom Depot: eral hundred gallons. No. 409 For Springvllle. Provo. Now, If one tree can transpire into and all points east and west the atmosphere several hundred gal8:10 a. m. lons, a forest ten miles square can No. 431 For Sprlngvlllo. Provo, throw off during the day enough ' Salt Luke and all cloudpoints east moisture to make a 3:27 p. m. and west of several square area an over burst No. 410 For Eureka, Mammoth 7:03 p. ra. miles. This Is easy to figure out. and Sliver City Now most of this water is from No. 432 For Eureka Mammoth 6:15 a. m. melted snows which but for the existand Stiver City ence of these trees would have run Connections made in Ogden Union oft and been lost The roots of some depot with all trains on Soul hern of our big evergreens reach a hundred Pacific and Oregon Short Line. feet down to bedrock and pump water OFFERS CHOICE OF w back into the atmosphere from great which otherwise would have depths THROUGH TRAINS 0A1LY- -4 escaped' from the surface, perhaps good-size- d good-size- 4-F- AST THREE AND SCENIC DISTINCT ROUTES Pullman Palace and ordinary Sleep ing cars to Denver, Omaha, Kantas Ulty. St. Louis and Chicago without change. Reellnlnc Chair Cars: Person ally conducted Excursions; a perfect Lniung uar service. . For rates, folder, etc., inquire of II. T. MATTHEW'S. Ticket Agent, or write 1. A. BENTON, O. A. P. D., Salt Lake City Ki-p- a What's the mailer fi) IDAHO with S Tkniiiimli nf inreaof land hSTO beeu reclaimed to cultivation by Irricraflnn -in that State .... (lurinffthe past lu years. inouaanna more will dm reclaimed wiimu thA nnt in vara. This meins an ODenius for many thousands oi nomes. Have You Investigated IDAHO! It has been truthfully termed a ; Land of Opportunities A Land of Homes The Oreiron Short Line Railroad Co. will be pleased to send descriptive mat. Write Idaho's resources. ter regarding . ,1 u c V. .. o. ojhju- to u. fc. utiriey, uU.Wr. ? - L or Mv.... ITtak n a i DVr, A. U. I . Am VHJi V . PRINTING OF FIRST CLASS QUALITY. 18 OL'K HOBBY B. H. BROWN, Livery Feed Stable Hack Meets All Trains 'PHONE NO. 12 Spanish Fork Utah t . .ja Spanish Fork Co-Oporat- ivo Institution, Dollars in General Merchandise, O and Flour, Grain Product). ICaaafacturers of Harness, tad Boots Shoe . JOHN JONES, Supt. SPANISH FOttK, UTAH O Boll Prac- Mnator Tillman Loses Possession Granddaughters and sensauonsi Prof. Alfred Atkinson, agronomist at Montana agricultural college and chairman of the board of governors of the dry farming congress, emphasized two among the essentials of dry farm crop production, saying: "Included In the aim of the dry farming congress Is an effort to bring to the knowledge of the world the facts regarding the possibility of the farming lands of the arid and regions, In order that these lands may be brought Into a state of usefulness; and to assist the farmers who take up these lands to succeed and become permanent, contented In the community. "In the light of the knowledge so far gained by farmers and investigators. It would seem that there are certain broad essentials which must be observed If the farmers are to continue in this branch of agricusemi-ari- home-builder- s have chosen to emphasize two which seem to merit the special consideration of dry farmers. These are: Proper moisture, conserving, soli tillage, and duo regard for the practices which will maintain the soil In a productive state. "As new farming communities are opened up, the tendency is for thote who first take up the lands to start a skimming process. Ily this I mean to grow crops like wheat or other cereals year after year, and return nothing to the land to compensate for the food elements removed In the crops harvested. If dry farmers make this mistake It will be in spite of the warnings of past exThe community, the naperiences. tion, the state and the world have an Interest in the store of plant food held in the soil ash this Is a great treasure house, from which future generations must get their supply of life's nelture. Prompt Courteous TIM tices to Maintain 8oll. I g oi Case la Ended. C Granting the rninmhiis. S. the custody of her for mother's plea imi rhlldren. the supreme court f 8outb Carolina on Tuesday hand ed down a decision in favor or Mrs. n Tillman. Jr.. who sought to re cover ber two little girls, Douschka Pickens Tillman and Sarah Stark unman, from the posseslson of Senator and Mrs. B. R. ulman. ThB decision Is based on the ground hnt the deed of transfer by B. R. Tillman, Jr., was Invalid as applied to the mother, the act under wnicn It was made being In violation of the The intn and federal constitution. the applica therefore granted court, tion for habeas corpus. If the statute is to be construed as Klvlng the father arbitrary power to 1eed away the custody of his children, the court held, the law is an infringe ment of the rights and privileges as-ana r.ured in the state constitution In the fourteenth amendsimilarly ment to the constitution of the United States. in 190.1, Lucy Douglas, granddaughter of Governor F. W. Pickens, war governor of South Carolina, and daughter of Mrs. Lucy Holconibe Pickens, connected with the best families of the state, was married to Benjamin R. Tillman, Jr., eldest son of Senator Tillman. In December, 1908, they parted, young Mrs. Tillman alleging that her husband drank and mistreated her. Last February there was a reconciliation, which lasted un til December, 1909, when young Mrs. Tillman became 111 in Washington. Hardly had she begun her convalescence, she alleees. v. hen her husband. under pretense of taking the little girls to see their grandmother, carto Trenton, S. C, and ried them transferred them to his parents. Telephone Service is what everybody wants. Get it by talks." using "The Phone that r cessities. "The dry farmer cannot grow wheat coctinuouuly without Inviting INSURGENTS ROUTED. disaster. He must include soil imas such and alfalfa proving crops, Unable to Withstand Bombardment of forever. peas to keep up the humus corftent all has "What will Government Forces. say: Perhaps you and nitrogen supply, and must grow this to do with the dry farm?" live stock In order that the valuable ..anagua. The forces of President Just this much: In the growing sea- plant food elements may not be Madriz again have taken possession son, when our clouds come floating needlessly shipped from the farm." of Matagalpa, which on February 10 gayly over the mountains and strike a was occupied by General Chamorro, dry streak of air they begin to dis- DRY FARMING CONVERT leader. Insurgent TALKS sipate and dry up without giving us The bombardment of the city, which a shower. They are absorbed by the began Sunday night after notification hot, dry atmosphere. By Methods Now In Use It Is Possible uad been given to the Hut on the other hand, suppose they to Double Productiveness of to withdraw, was abandoned for some strike a damp forest, lakes and reserLands. hours, but was renewed Monday, voirs, what happens then? The government forces had heavy The clouds begin to gain in moist"Dry farming," said tf. Dowden. a guns on the hills, but the Insurgents ure, growing before our very eyes, un- Texas ranch owner and a recent dis- were without means to reply at long til the point of saturation is reached ciple of the Campbell method of dry range. Chamorro, therefore, deemed they can hold no more the floodgates farming, "as now applied to the cut It advisable to retreat, and under are opened and we get a shower. tivation of crops, Is the result of years cover of darkness evacuated MataWhen our hygrometers show plenty of investigation and it has become galpa early Tuesday morning. of moisture in the air and we hear the so perfected that it Is very easy to Generals tara, Chavarri, Martinez train whistles from afar, we know double the productiveness of the aver and Divas, each of whom commanded that almost any cloud will make a age sections of the government troops, re- land. rain, but when the air overhead Is dry "It simply goes right to the heart of occupied the city at noon. Chamorro then our clouds go floating by to raise the whole problem of maintaining the did not escape any too soon, as he surrounded crops In Kansas and Nebraska. physical conditions of the soli best nearly which had beenby government up as Our rainfall has undoubtedly suf adapted to .which is the forces, as the condition brought growth, plant of the coua fered through the firing and devastat same doctrine that is preached by Mr. quickly would permit in the last few days, Ing of our forests, but on the whole Campbell, except that Mr. Campbell try I believe we have gained more than FRUITMEN'S CONVENTION. prefers to call it 'scientific soil cul we have lost, by the building of reser ture' Instead of So far dry farming. voirs, ditches and irrigation works In as the farmer Is concerned the re- Experts Discuss Questions of Interest general, the water from which when sults would be the same by either to Western Fruit Growers. turned onto the heated soil of our name. It Is simply the maintaining Salt Lake City. An annual conven tons of into proper proportions of air and water In fields evaporates millions the atmosphere every day of the sum the soil cultivated and does not mean tlon under the auspices of the State mer season, besides this we must an attempt to farm dry land; that Is Horticultural society began a two take into account every plowed field to say, the land cannot produce crops days' session In Armory hall Tuesday forenoon. Three sessions were held which catches and holds moisture, when it Is dry, but the process of cul the opening day. Two more sessions every crop which transpires this tivation proposed by this method does were held Wednesday, one at 10 for make 'wet land' out of moisture into the atmosphere, land,' and o'clock in the forenoon and the other 'dry every hill of corn, every plant of al the moisture is conserved instead of at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. The falfa or grain, throws off Into the being allowed to evaporate by improp delegates were given a hearty wel own in air many times its weight er treatment of the soil. It come by Governor William Spry, water vapor before it reaches matur- resolves Itself Into a matter offinally cap- President Moroni Mortensen dellv conservasee we that the ity. Thus illary attraction, which, In plain terms, tion of forests and the settling up of means the causes that have the effect ered the annual address of the presl dent, and a brief response to the gov a country conduce to a moisture con of bringing the moisture to ernor s address was made by J. G, ditlon of the atmosphere, and, as I the surface drawing it up, as it were, Duffin of Provo. Questions of Interest have already shown, a moist condition by this attraction." to fruit growers of the west were dis of the atmosphere conduces to more cussed by some of the leading horti dew and more rain. culturallstB of the west. Tears ago dew was a rare occur DIFFICULT TO MANAGE HOGS Storm Puts Railroad Out of Business, rence and when we did happen to discover any we would call out the Simple and Practical Method Is to Salt Lake City. Ten miles of the Decoy Them by Means of Corn whole family to look at it. Nowadays Western Pacific tracks where they Attached to String. we have so much dew and so many cross the lower end of the Great Salt damp nights in June that we usually Lake were either washed out entirely (BY A. J. LONG.) wait until July before cutting our al or covered with sand to the depth of Hogs when they are Inclined to be three falfa, which we used to put up two and four feet during the terrific contrary are about the most difficult wind storm that weeks earlier. swept over Salt Lake animals to manage when changing The weather bureau people contend Ironi one place to another. Especially City and the lower end of the lake that wet and dry weather comes In is this the case when we from the north at 5 o'clock undertake to afternoon. All traffic over theMonday Westcycles and that It will become dry drive will huddle and them; they up ern Pacific is suspended Indefinitely, again before long. However, I have turn their heads outward and refuse and the most never beeu able to discover any evihopetul predictions are to go without trouble. that the road will not be able to dence yet that the difference amount Gentle hogs thnt are used to being handle business for one week, probed to more than an Inch or so, or that fed regularly will usually follow a ably two or more. any of these dry cycles have ever a bucket, but someperson to been too dry raise crops. In fact, times carrying falls Alaskan Bill Has Rough Sledding. this and then some plan many men, myself among the num other must be followed. I have plan Strenuous opposition Washington. ber. have raised crops every year for often used a largo ear of corn with a from unexpected quarters was the re 30, and some for 40 years, without a string two or three feet long ception met by the Alaskan legislative failure, dry cycles or wet cycles, but strong to tied the end of a pole five or sis council bill during its brief constdera of one thing I feel certain, that in feet long. tlon in the senate on Monday. As come our to will not dry cycles years The corn Is dragged along on the saults upoa various features of the be so dry, and our wet cycles wetter ground and hogs will forget everything measure by Senators Clark, of Wyothan ever, for sooner or later all of else and follow the corn, grubbing at ming; Crawford. Uorah, Heyburn. Erathis atmospheric moisture must and It. When the hogs get too close the ser and Clay, were answered by Sena will make itself felt. corn can be raised out of their reach tor Heveridge. who has the bill In Utah Independent Telephone Co. III v- - ivv semi-ari- 0& CARD January 16, 1910 Effective Departure from SPANISH FORK. NORTHBOUND. For Provo, Salt Lake and Intermediate Points For Provo, Salt Lake and Intermediate Points For Provo, Salt Lake and Intermediate Points 7:20 A. M 10:15 A. M. p. m SOUTHBOUND. For Nephl, Manti and Intermediate Points 10:15 A. M For Payson and Intermediate Points 623 P. M Intermedi10:28 P. M. For Lynn, Ulilford, Modena, Acoma, Nev., and ate Points. For tickets and Information see N. PETERSON, Local Agent A. G. P. A., J. II. MANDERFIELD, Salt Lake City. Utah. Dr. C. O. SCOTT Slogans DENTIST Office Phone No. 43-- a W. O. Creer Bids'., Spanish Fork, Vtah OFFICE HOURS IND. PHONE 4 J. 18 TO neeioiNOa no. 4 P.M. QPPlOa NO. 3 VJi' Semi-Ari- d BB. A. G. STODDARD IN Sewing Machine runs lighter than any other. tsPFREE lasts longer than any other. W. O. CREER BUILDING SPANISH FORK, UTAH Dr. W. tFREE is more beautiful than any other. L Warner XFREE has less Quarantine and City Physician d deep-lyin- GIVE VS A TRIAL ORDER AND Proper Moisture, Conserving, age and Due Regard for )IMNMNIHMHINIHIHH CAN NOT DEED AWAY CHILDREN AMONG DRY FARM ESSENTIALS vibration than any other. . Office two doors north of City Night calls made from office r. Ind. Phone Drug-Store- 35-2- Spanish Fork, Utah. t?PFREE is easier to operate than any other. Dr. J.W.Hagan tFREE makes a more perfect Office at WorU Dmi Ca. BailJiag stitch than any other. Spanish Fork, Utah Ind. Phone Bell Phone 11 32 Residence one block weat of Commercial Bank Pbyalrian Utah Idaho Sugar Company. Dr. J. Fred Potter tab' FREE is the best of all combined in one. FREE SEWING MACHINE CO. CHICAGO it ILLINOIS Optician SOLD BY EYES TESTED GLASSES PROPERLY FITTED at Residence SPANISH FORK. Office Phone, Ind. 38-- ORAN LEWIS g or else Jerked from them. This Is the best decoy that I have Freezing Pumps. To prevent pumps from freezing ever tried for hogs and beats driving drill a small hole, say of them or running thorn with dogs. an Inch or less, in pump stock below well or cistern cover far enough Smokers Menace to Forestry. down so that frost will not reach it. It is estimated that the loss to the With this method which I first used state from fires in Massachusetts In nearly forty years ago the pump Is 190!) amounts to $23(5.478. There were always primed, and In warm weather 1,531 different fires, and the number all the water that is pumped is fresh of acres burned over was 42.S08. An and. cord, if desirable to prevent wa- alyzing these figures, the state forester ter from vent In pump stock striking finds that the careless smoker who wall of well, place a tin collar around persists In the habit when In wood stock Just above vent; collar should lands or passing through the be five or alx Inches wide, finrtrs out during the dry time Is the country over vent and hang Just low enough menace to future forestry ingreatest Mass to catch the water. achusetts. charge, until his voice gave way, der a severe cold. Consideration the bill was then postponed. un- of Miss Agnes Engberg Teacher of PIANO, ORGAN AND THEORY OF MUSIC For particulars apply at the home of MRS. THOMAS CREER Saturday of Each Week is Butter Paper Day Johnson & Braithwaite If your order is JESSE E. S. Contractors and Builders of placed before Com- plete Homes that date your ESTIMATES GIVEN FREE paper will be SAMUEL CORNADY NOTARY ready Saturday flBLlC at 4 p. m. Money Loaned Irritated Farm low tnlareit iptclal op. tloniof partial payments. Oflloe at residence, one blook earn ot on Co-o- SPANISH FORK. UTAH. The Cough Syrup tl rids the system ot a A. B. MORGAN, by acting as a cathartic on bowels is ATTORNEY-AT-LA.- pslf hi Bulldlnc' PROVO TelephoM 11 X LORENZO THOMAS Cc6tly Lark of Operators. FASHIONABLE Itawllns, Wyo- .- It Is learned that the tie-u(if the I'uioa Pacific system In Wyoming hist Sal unlay was due to the ueliMi of the operators at Dana. North ol Bank, Spanish Fork, Utah These men celebrated Lincoln's birth- 0ns Block day so earnestly that they refused to clear the trains, turned the red sigJEX-FLORI- ST nal board holding all fast matt trains Fresh Flowers supplied for all occaand then hung out a signal on the door saying, "The office Is closed." sions. Funeral designs kept on hand ttallroad officials at Laramie finally and tilled to order. 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