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Show THE SPANISH FORK PRESS CROPS ON DRY FARM Andrew Jensen, Publisher. PANI8H FORK Those on Montana Experimental Stations Average Good " f Yields. UTAH THE UTAH BUDGET The enrollment of all the schools In Studies on Crop Rotations Adapted to Box Elder county is 4,154. Mrs. Elizabeth Bobbins, the oldest citizen of Kaysvllle, Is dead at the age of 92. Another new school building Is to be erected In Ogden to relieve the congested condition of the school ' rooms. Word has been received from Ray tnond, Alberta, Canada, that Elijah Laycock, former sheriff and councilman at Kaysvllle, Is dead. In Davis county there are eight irrigation companies, having a capital or si67,8&o. Tne lengtn or tne canais Is thirty-thremiles, the cost of construction was 139,100. As the result of argument over the tong war in San Francisco, Y. Kaw-aka Japanese, was seriously wounded In Salt Lake, and three of his countrymen are under arrest. Three men arested in Ogden on the charge of stealing chickens have Jail sentences staring them in the face, thirty-fou- r dressed chickens being found In their possession. Bprlngville Is now assured a waterworks system, and the city council is now preparing to place bonds for on the market. The bond election carried by a majority of three to one. Davis county is next to the smallest county in the state, Morgan, which joins it on the east, being the smallest. In area Davis county covers 651 square miles, while its area in acres is " , e a, 30,-00- 0 180-00- Maintain Soil Fertility Have Been 8tarted and Information Will Be Very Valuable. T : Prof. F. B. Llnfield of Montana Agricultural college addressed the institute session of the Dry Farm congress, recently held at Billings, Mont., on 'Trogress of Dry Farming In Mon- -' tana." He said, in part: "The crops on the experimental dry farms over the state average the best . fields to date. "The studies on moisture and fertility confirm and reinforce the results of previous years' work. "The studies on crop rotations suitable for the dry farm in Montana and adapted to maintain the soil fertility have been fully started and we believe will give Information which will be of very great value within a few years. "There are increasing signs of decreasing opposition to the extension of the dry farm work. Many mors of the business and professional men' are taking a lively Interest In dry farm development and there is a greatly aroused public Interest. "Through increased appropriations from the state and increased donations from the railroads, the station has been able to double the number of demonstration dry farms over the state. "During each year the attempt is made to get first-haninformation about some hitherto unvlslted section of the state. During the last season some extensive trips away from the railroad lines have been made along the northern part of the state. These trips have very much increased our appreciation of the large extent of the dry farm country and great possibilities of development that are sure to come with the advent of the settler to the country. In the eastern part of the state trips were made out from Baker and Wibaux and we were favorably impressed with the country. A trip north from Roundup, near the center of the state, revealed a very large extent of fine rolling farm country. "In all the districts visited we heard of equally good land beyond. North from Glendive we heard very flattering reports from the Red Water divide and in the southeastern corner of the state the Ekalaka country Is very favorably spoken of. "But the settler Is coming in Increasing numbers both from the east and west. We found them locating In greater or less numbers In nearly evNo large ery section of the state. district has, during the past year, escaped their attention, and those on the ground early enough to crop seemed well pleased with the returns. "But from the standpoint of the state, the agricultural college and the experiment station, this Incoming of the new settler Increases the work and I believe the responsibility resting upon them. These settlers are taking up farm work under a new environment, where eastern methods of farm practice cannot be followed; where Ignorance or carelessness in farm work can have but one result failure. , And yet the soil Is most fertile, the climate favorable, and where proper and known methods of water conservation and the selection of the right crops are made large success may be obtained. "There is need for the continuation and the enlargement of an educative campaign. We are aiming to supply this need through the experimental and demonstration farm, to Illustrate to as many people as possible the soil management and the crops that will give the largest returns to the settler. "We are coupling these endeavors with our farmers' Institute work, first. In holding meetings during the crop growing season on the various farms and explaining the work and Its results. At other seasons of the year the Institute carries the accumulated Information of these farms to other parts of the state and by bulletins and through the press we aim to give the results the widest possible distribution. We are doing all our funds will permit to Increase the extent and effectiveness of this work" d Miss Mary Alice Spry the daughter of Governor Spry, has been chosen to be spAaor for the new battleship Utah, . which will be launched about December 23, at Camden, N. J. The secretary of state has announced that his offices will issue no corporation licenses after the fifteenth of the present month, unless the fine of $10, provided by law, accompanies the application. The property of the Utah Hot Springs Sanitarium company, located about nine miles north of Ogden, has passed Into the hands of a receiver. Mismanagement is given as the reason tor the failure. A. E. Belter, an Ogden man, claims to have solved the problem of aerial navigation. He has models of two airships, which he claims will make all previous inventions look crude and not to be compared with his. George Sunrmerville, aged about 50 years, was frozen to death in American Fork canyon on the night of December 3. He left the Dutchman mine or the Mary Helen property, and perished from the Intense cold. Toppled from an ore bin by a large rock that slid down upon him from above, Nick Lovitch, an Austrian employe of the Alpha smelter, at Bingham, was skidded seventy feet down an ore chnte and badly injured. To test the validity of the recent election at the little town of Hunts-vlllin Weber county, when the ques-tio- n of disincorporating the city was voted upon, a hearing will be held in the district court at Ogden, Deceme, ber 18. The governor has received from J. Edward Taylor, who is in charge of the Utah exhibit at the United States Land and Irrigation exposition In Chicago, a letter In which Mr. Taylor says the Utah displays are attracting great attention. - used by Orson Hyde Five when he crossed the plains in 1852 have been presented to the State Historical society by Alonzo E. Hyde of Salt Lake City. They are considered a valuable addition to the Historical ' society's collection. Charlie Williams, a negro bootblack, St nil ft a on lilt A A a a mimtAnniitiltf wf sn uiui Uv I v w ii w j caa0Mii verely cut by George Lawscn. another negro, because he would not give Lawson used a LawBon 10 cents. razor and slashed Williams across the throat and arms, but he will recover. A matter now interesting members of the Manufacturers' association of Salt Lake City is tne manufacture or. transparent brick, a novelty brought before the association. It is said that in some sections of the country glass brick have been made successfully and used in many structures. The report of the Salt Lake board of health for the month of November shows that while there is a large number of scarlet fever cases in the city, only four deaths occurred from that disease. Eight deaths were due to typhoid fever. Seven died from tuberculosis of the lungs and heart disease caused eleven deaths. formerly Captain W. A. Johnson, associated with John Hays Hammond and considered at one time as on of the greatest mining engineers 1n the world, committed- suicide in Salt Lake City by drinking a solution of cyanide f potassium. Worry over financial matters had driven him Insane. Clarence Ernst and N'ick Vacos, in the Weber county Jail on the charge "of murder, are to be tried early in January. Ernst, a negro, is accused of killing another" colored man, while Vacos shot John Contos, a prominent Greek business man, at Ogden. Free school wagons, for the purpose of conveying the children living on the outskirts of the town to school very morning, are now In operation at Sandy. The matter of wagons for this purpose has been before the' school board for some time and last was agreed upon. - . Value of Dry Farming. the belief of the men at the head of the organization now holding Its meetings In Billings that the value of dry farming process to the United States will be much greater than the gold mines of Alaska and Nevada. The work of the dry farmer Is still largely experimental, and the situation demands the largest possible extension of educational and scientific facilities. Already the dust overcoat has turned many thousand acres of desert Into blooming and fruitful gardens. It Is not beyond belief that It will yet bring all the Great Plains under control of the sower and reaper. It Is low tone, "and this morning it was suddenly revealed to me" Miss Greene raised her hand as If to draw it across her brow; her veil stopped her. "Let's not talk about that now," the pleaded. ; "Let's enjoy the air and the country, I don't have them often." Her hand fell to her lap. The color had gone out of ber cheeks. And Vernon suddenly felt that the summer had gone out of the air; a cold wind was blowing as over soiled patches of snow left In shaded depressions of the fields; the earth was brown and bare; the birds were silent. He Jerked the horse smartly, and It gave an angry toss of Its head, as It broke Into its tentative PRINCIPLES OF DRY FARMING SERIAL Importance of Combination of Having Two Crops In Three Years, or Two In Five. One might use the following terms In classifying the different systems of dry farming: Crop annually, a system where there Is a crop taken off of the soil each year. This could be done if 18 Inches of rainfall was annually received. When there Is but 12 Inches of rainfall you could not expect to get a crop each year; then a biennial crop system Is practiced. There Is still another method, of probably more importance, which is a combination of the two systems. That would be to have two crops In three years; three crops In five years, or two crops In one year, one being a catch or cover crop. The last system Is used to furnish humus for the soil, writes C. W. Hendricks in Orange Judd Farmer. The system used must be suited for the district and must be coordinate with the amount of rainfall used. There are three different and distinct types of water; Free,, capillary and hygroscopic water. The chief supply of water for dry farming is from the division known as capillary water. This capillary water can be conserved The most comby various methods. mon one Is by plowing the soil exceedingly deep, and thus forming a dust mulch. From this deep dust mulch it requires a heavier dry gale of wind to extract the soil moisture. Then, on the other hand, the roughness of the soil will tend to bold the snow and materially add to the amount, of rainfall. In other words, this is a gain of average rainfall. Many other forms are used, such as planting small windbreaks from a shrub known as wormwood. This tends to break the wind and lodge the snow. Artemisia Is also a promising shrub for this purpose. These small windbreaks are planted when the grain Is small, and used to break the wind and hold the soli around the roots In order that there Is no exposure to the air. It has been said that many crops are lost by the negligence of the owner In not having these The wind Is held high, and the soil particles, such as small sand, gravel and fine dirt, are carried above the crop, and do not destroy the root system. Almost any of the cultivated crops require from 300 to 600 tons of water for every ton of dry matter produced. Approximately one inch of rainfall will amount to over 113 tons per acre. A question that Is often asked is, What implements are used to successfully carry n a system of dry A stirring plow, subsoil farming? plow, subsurface packer roller, hoe drill or seeder, disk surface cultivator, acme harrow, tooth harrow, weeder, harvester and thresher are the most STORY . . wind-break- . Important STUDY OF DRY LAND FARMING Government Experts Making Extensive Investigations at Several Stations , Throughout Country. The department of agriculture has a corps of experts whose entire time Is devoted to the study of dry land agriculture. They are not carried away by the enthusiasm which has been manifested In some quarters, but they are convinced that the experiments being carried on under the general definition of dry farming, will result In the addition to the productive agricultural area of the United States of a vast ' amount of territory. N The region in which these experiments are being made, and in which the government is making Its Investigations, is bounded on the east by the ninety-eightmeridian; on the north by the Canadian boundary; on the south by the thirty-seconparallel, which coincides with the southern boundary of New Mexico; and on the west by an irregular line which marks t approximately the contour of the level of altitude in the foot-hillof the Rocky mountains. In this vast territory, larger than Germany, the government now maintains 11 experiment stations for the investigation of methods of dry land agriculture. These are situated: One In Montana, two in North Dakota, one In South Dakota, two lit Nebraska, two In Kansas, one In Colorado and two In Texas. Through these stations the government Is gathering data which will show the number of acres under cultivation, the amount of rainfall In each section, the regularity of the precipitation from year to year, the yield per acre In various grains, and other Incidental Information. It Is not believed by the experts that it will be possible to reach an accurate conclusion as e true value of dry farming until this data has been collected for a number of years. h d 600-foo- s to-th- Swarming Habits of Bees.' Probably the thing most annoying to the beekeeper is the swarming habit. If the bees did not persist In dividing their forces so frequently much more surplus honey could be obtained, and the beekeeper himself would feel more easy about his bees. In producing comb honey In one pound boxes It is necessary to actually crowd the bees into Importance of Investigations. There Is no doubt but that the In- the section boxes, for they seem loath vestigations being carried on by the to begin their work in such small didry farming experts, and the develop- visions, and this crowding is one of ment of the science of moisture con- the Incentives which creates the servation will add greatly to the pro- swarming fever. ductive agricultural area of the counValue of Harrowing. try. Vast regions in northern and western Texas which 20 years ago If you live In a region of light rain were considered to be barren desert fall, don't plow too much ground be are now being profitably farmed. Ev- fore harrowing. When the ground it ery year new agricultural tracts are turned up great amounts or tnolsturi being discovered and brought under escape and much of this can be pre the control of the plow, vented by Immediate hnirowlnr,. HER INFINITE VARIETY By Brand trot. Whitlock illustrations by Ray Walters (Copyright, WOT, by Bobbs-MsrrU- l Co.) 8YNOPSIS. Senator Morlcy Vernon's visit with his 1nncf was Interrupted by a call from nla political bom at the stata capital. Both regretted It, the girl mora than ha, because aha had arranged to attend a dinner that evening with him. Bha ald aha yearned for a national ofllce for him. On Vernon's desk In the aenata he found a red roue, accompanied by a plea for He met the ausuffrage for women. of thoress, pretty Miss Maria Green Chicago, who propoaed to convert htm Into voting for house resolution No. 19. Mis Greene secured Vernon's promise to vote for tha suffrage resolution. Me alno aided her by convincing; others, lis took a liking to the fair suffragette. Miss Greene consulted with the lieutenant-governo- r. Vernon admitted to himself that the suffragette had stirred a strange feelwithin him. Fie forgot to read his ing fiancee's letter. Vernon made a great In favor of suffrage, aided by speech glances from Miss Greene. The resolution wan made a special order. Vernon waa enthusiastic on the prospects for tha resolution. He was much In Miss Greene's company. Vernon neglected thoughts of Amelia. He took Miss Green driving and laid out plans for th success of th resolution. - CHAPTER VI - Continued. did not care to lead a useless life," he said "I wanted to do somethingto have some part in the world's work. The law seemed to be a respectable profession and I felt that maybe I could do some good in politics. I don't think the men of my class take as much Interest In politics as they should And then, I'd like to make my own living." "I have to make mine," said Maria ' Greene. "But you never thought of teaching, or nursing, or well painting or music, or that sort of thing, did you?" "No," she replied; ."did you?" Vernon laughed at an absurdity that needed no answering comment, and then he hastened on: "Of course, you know I think It fine that you should have done as yon have. You must have met with discouragements." She laughed, and Vernon did not note the bitterness there was concealed in the laugh; to him It seemed intended to express only that polite deprecation demanded in the treatment of a personal situation. "1 can sympathize with you there," said Vernon, though Miss Greene had not admitted the need of sympathy. Perhaps It was Vernon's own. need of sympathy, or his feeling of the need of It, that made htm confess that his own family and friends had never sympathized with him, especially with what he called his work In politics; be felt, at any rate, that he had struck the right note at last, and he went on to assure her how unusual It was to meet a woman who understood public questions as well as she understood them. And" It may have been bis curiosity that led him to inquire: "How did your, people feel about your taking up the law?" Miss Greene said that she did not know how her people felt, and Vernon again had that baffled sense of her , ; evading him. "I've felt pretty much alone In my work," be said. "The women I know won't talk with me about It; they won't even read the newspapers. And I've tried so hard to Interest them I- 1 In it!" Vernon sighed, and he waited for Miss Greene to sigh with him. He did not look at ber, but he could feel her presence there close beside him. , Her gloved hands lay quietly in ber lap; she was gazing out over the prairies. The light winds were faintly stirring her hair, and the beauty of It, its warm red tonos brought eut by the burnishing sun, suddenly overwhelmed him. He stirred and his breath came hard. "Do you know," be said, in a new confidence, "that this has been a great day for me? To meet you, and to know you as I think I do know you now! This morning, when I was speaking, I felt that with you to help me, I could do great things." Miss Greene drew In her lips, as If to compress their fullness; she moved away on the seat, and raised her hand uneasily and thrust it under her veil to put back a tress of balr that had strayed from its fastening. Vernon saw the flush of her white cheeks come and go. Her eyebrows were drawn together wistfully, and in her blue eyes, that looked far away through the meshes of her dotted veil, there was a little cloud of trouble. She caught her Hp delicately between the edges of her teeth. Vernon leaned slightly forward as if he would peer Into her face. For him the day had grown suddenly hot, the spring baa developed on the Instant the oppressive heat of summer. He felt its fire; he ould see its Intensity vibrating In the ir all about him, and he had a sense is of all the summer's voices droning 'n unison. The reins dropped from litis 'listless fingers; the horse moped along as It pleased. "I have always felt It, vaguely," Vert ioc on, his voice dropping to a - wt-ii- "I do wish you could know the women I know," said Vernon, obviously breaking a silence. He spoke in an entirely different voice. "I meant to put it the other way. I meant that I wish they could know you, and I mean that they shall. You would be a revelation to them." Miss Greene smiled, though her face was now careworn, almost old. "Right along the line of our constitutional amendment, now," he said, with a briskness, "do you think the women will become Interested?" "The women of your acquaintance, or of mine?" asked Miss Greene. "You're guying," said Vernon, and when Miss Greene seriously protested, Vernon said he meant all the women, as politicians pretend to mean all the people, when they mean only the party. "I'm afraid not," she said. "They if could have the ballot they'd only ask for it The trouble Is they don't want it" "Well, we must educate them," said Vernon. "I have great hopes that the women whom I know will be aroused by what we are doing." have no doubt they will," said Miss Greene. There was something enigmatical In her words, and Vernon glanced uneasily at her again. "How do you mean?" he asked. "You'll learn when you see the said Miss newspapers Greene. "Do yon think they'll have It in full?" asked Vernon. He was all alert, and his eyes sparkled In a new interest f. ,. "On the first page," she replied, with conviction. "Have they your pic- 1 T haven't read speaking to himself. Amelia's letter!" He fumbled In his coat pocket ' CHAPTER VIII. Miss Greene's predictions were all Vernon's realized In the sensation speech created. The newspapers gave whole columns to it and Illustrated their accounts with portraits of Ver non and of Maria Greene. Vernon thought of the pleasure Amelia must find in his new fame, and when he wrote to her he referred briefly but with the proper modes!? to his remarkable personal triumph, and then waited for her congratulations. The legislative session was drawing to a close; the customary Friday adjournment was not taken, but sessions were held that day and on Saturday, for the work was piling up, the procrastinating legislators having left it all for the last minute. The week following would see house and senate sweltering In shirt sleeves and night sessions, and now, if a bill were to become law it was necessary that its sponsor stay, as It were, close beside it lest In the mighty rush of the last few days it be lost. Vernon, by virtue of his speech, had assumed the championship of the woman-suffragresolution, and he felt it necessary to forego his customary visit to Chicago that week and remain over Sunday in Springfield. He devoted the day to composing a long letter to Miss Greene, in which be described the situation in detail, and suggested that it would be well for her, if possible, to come down to Springfield on Monday and stay until the resolution had been adopted. He gave her, in closing, such pledges of his devotion to the cause of womankind that she could hardly resist any appeal he might make for ber presence and ase sistance. On Monday he wired, urging the necessity of her presence. Tuesday morning brought him a reply, thanking him, in behalf of women, for his disinterested devotion to. their cause, assuring him of her own appreciation of his services, and saying that she would reach Springfield Wednesday morning. Meanwhile he had had no letter from Amelia, and he began to wonder at her silence. He was not only disappointed, but piqued. He felt that his achievement deserved the promptture?" "I don't know," Vernon replied. est recognition from her, but he found "They can get it, though," ho added, a consolation, that grew in spite of him, in the thought that Maria Greene thoughtfully. would soon be in Springfield, and to dis"They keep the portraits of all bis heart he permitted Amelia's sitinguished public men on hand," Miss lence to justfy him In a freer indulgence of attention to this fascinating woman lawyer. Tuesday evening. the crowd, that grows larger as the session nears its close, filled the lobby of the Leland. The night was warm, and to the heat of politics was suddenly added the heat of summer. Doors and windows were flung wide to the night, and the tall Egyptians, used as they were to the sultry atmosphere of southern Illinois, strode lazily about under their wide slouch hats with waistcoats open and cravats loosened, delighting In a new cause for chaffing the Chicago men, n-- l n I.aI. tnA ....... complaints of the Springfield weather ' ,'; (TO BE CONTINUED.) Sets Law of Kitchen. the kitchen" has been, set forth, in England in an opinion by a county Judge. He holds that where the mistress of a house goes to the kitchen to aid the maid of all work the two are brought on terms of equality such as would not be tolerated in The case was larger establishments that of a cook and general maid who sought to recover a month's wages from her former mistress In lieu of Vernon Had Left Her at the Hotel. notice. The mistress asserted that the servant always "answered her back," Greene said, with a certain reassur- but the judge held that under the cir.. . cumstances this was not sufficient to ance In her tone. "Oh, well, I hope they'll not print Justify dismissal it," said Vernon, as if Just then recallLive and Let Live. ing what was expected of a distind A attired but somewhat neatly guished public man under such cirmiddle-ageItalian woman, cumstances. dressed in black, leading a little boy "That's one of the penalties of being with each band, called at a lawyer's In public life," she answered with a ofllce In .the Land Title building re' curious smile. and arranged with him to apply cently "A penalty the ladles will be glad to for a divorce. After going over the pay when our reform Is accomplished; history of her case the lawyer said: Isn't that so?" said Vernon, seeking "Well, I suppose you want to get alirelief in a light bantering tone. mony?" In slightly accented, though "I thought we were not going to nearly perfect English, the client re talk politics," she said, turning and plied: "I would like to get part just him. She adjusted ber hat of his money, that's all." looking at Philadelphia and held herself resolutely erect Record. The sun waa going down behind the Chinamen at Communion. prairies, the afternoon was almost An Infrequent visitor to St. Paul's gone; as they watched the sunset, Miss Greene broke the silence. chapel was amazed to see three China"It's a familiar sight" she said, and men go up to the communion rail one Vernon thought that he had a clue at recent Sunday, come back to their last She must know the prairies. seats, and sit very quietly and "It la just like a sunset at sea," she throughout the partaking of theIntently comadded. munion by the others. When they had driven back to the "It Is not at all said the town and Vernon had left her at the clergyman In charge.strange," "There are very hotel, be turned to drive to the livery few nationalities thnt lira uv tint pnnra. y, w stable. sented here In St; Paul's chapel." "By George!" he said, suddenly, New York Press. A "law of wan-face- d : Courtesy in the Street Car Something of a Reversal General Ruts. of the a pleasant little smile, which was all "Do you suppose that's as effect of the recent agitation of women's rlghtt?" asked the man. Indicating with a nod of his head a "one that was taking place In an "L" car In the homeward rush. His. companion looked and saw a slender, handsomely gowned woman offer ber seat to a young man who, in tde crush, was standing la front of her and was carrying an armful of large, heavy books. : The young man looked rather embarrassed and bravel? declined with , he could accomplish In lieu of raising his hat with his heavily incumbered hands. "Well, then," said the lady com"lot me posedly, resuming her hold the books In my lap., "That would certainly be kind. It you don't mind," consented the youth, relinquishing his load; and when the lady reached her station, leaving her seat to him, he thanked her tor her with fully as much thoughtfulness gratitude' as a woman would have expressed for a similar courtesy from a man perhaps with jnore apprecia' tion, the experience - bolag more " rare,"" : cat |