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Show PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION. THE SPANISH FORK PRESS RUST PROOF WHEAT WHAT "DRY FARMING" MEANS. FARMING DRY LANDS It Includes Methods of Conservation of Soil Moisture and Develop, Andrew Jensen, Publisher. Cultivation UTAH SPANISH FORK Scientists Race to Grow Perfect Grain of All Kinds. In THE UTAH BUDGET A campaign for the boosting of Utah made goods I nine homes of the people has been started In Salt Lake. D. Arnold, the young Murray boy who was stabbed at Pocatello about a month ago by a hobo, has recovered, While playing in the street at Man-tau- , son of Mr. and Mrs, the A. E. Jensen had three ribs broken by being kicked by a horse. While attempting to steal a ride from Mldvale to Murray, Matt Stack, aged 52, fell under the wheels of the train, one of bis arms being crushed. Sandy is making elaborate arrangements for Labor day. The big feature of the day will be a hose cart race between the Sandy and Murray Are de- partments. While asleep, Dennis Finn walked from a second story- - window in Salt Lake, and was painfully injured, suffering a wrenched back and a badly bruised foot. Blood poisoning in its most virulent form setting in after two ulcerated teeth had been pulled, caused the death of little Amy Gilles-pie- , of Salt Lake City. . Bpringville is having a . building boom. Aside from the new theatre, which is nearing completion, there are many additions to business houses 'and many new homes under way. It has been decided by the county board of- education to establish second year high schools in Richmond, Smlthfteld and Ilyrum, commencing September 13 of the present year. An analysis of the food which, caused the death In Salt Lake City of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kaiser, shows that there was enough poison in the food to have caused the death of a score of people. Prohibitionists are circulating petitions in Logan, directed to the city at once an ordinance council, to pass to prohibit the sale and handling of liquors in the city, except for medicinal purposes. C. R, Allen, roadmaster for the Southern Pacific, dropped dead in while in the very act of raising nls hand in a salute to several of his friends with whom he bad been talking. Og-de- n "good-night- " Seven men narrowly escaped death Cambridge School Produces Variety That Resists Disease and Is Very Strong French Hybridizers 8ecur Heavy Yield. London. Scientific men at Cambridge who are devoting themselves to agricultural research are on the eve of establishing a proud claim made a year ago. They said that they would increase the value of wheat crops by $10 an acre. Rut in the race for the perfect grain wheat, barley and oats they are being pressed hard by other discoverers who are total disbelievers in the Cambridge methods, and the race for the perfect grain under the different methods is becoming exciting. The chief competitors of Mr. Blffen, Mr. Punnett and the Cambridge school are M. Vilmorln of Paris, Mr. Burbank, who is called the California wizard, and John Carton of Warrington. John Garton and Mr. Burbank have exchanged letters, and agree that the making of the perfect grain is more or less a fluke. Mr. Carton, for example, produced an oat which Increased the yield by ten to 20 per cent., and grew a large grain by using the wild oat, which has the smallest of all grain' and was (bought to bo useless. Mr. Blffen, on the other'hand, works wholly by system, and has two triumphs to his credit He has produced a wheat absolutely proof against rust, which is the most prevalent of wheat A. Nevln Pomeroy, publisher of t he Franklin Weekly Repository, at diseases, and he has been able, by folChambersburg, Pa., has been chosen p resident of the National Editorial as- lowing the law of Mendel, to fix these Bociatlon. The paper of which Mr. P omeroy is owner and editor, la the new sorts in two or three years where third oldest newspaper in the United States, having been established In previously the work took eight or ten. 1790. Id 1883 Mr. Pomeroy started a dally edition, and has since conduct- - These disease-proo- f wheats will be and Job pr lntlng plant. Mr. Poiueroy was born available for next id it and the and their harvest, in Philadelphia and has been engaged in newspaper work in Pennsylvania has greatly excited men of creation for 35 years. lie was appointed stat e superintendent of public printing science all over the world. In 1893 and reappointed this year. He has served several terms in the The present position in the race of the National Pennsylvania legislature, was ejected second is this, that the Cambridge school has Editorial association at Jamestown, t wo years ago, and first produced grains which resist disease at flt Paul, last year. He has been a member of the association for 17 and are very "strong" that is, are years and has attended 14 of Its annu al meetings. good for milling. The French hybridizers and Mr. Garton have produced grains remarkable for heavy yield. The achievement which Is yet to come Is the Joining together of the disease resistors and the heavy yield-ers- . : When that is done the farmer's creased cost of living, which has in- fortune is made, if wheat will stay Custom Inaugurated When One duced many people who hitherto had near its present price. handmaids to endeavor to do without Husband Injured His Hand. STEAM COLLIER OF IEMENT. them, has been responsible for this. i book-bindin- g BOYS BUTTON DRESS In a mine at Mammoth when the cage dropped to the bottom of the shaft and landed them in water up to their necks. Had the cage gone farther Messengers Called Upon Frequently In they would have been drowned. London Because Gowns Are So beare under way Negotiations tween the commissioners of Weber Expensive, Many Women Cannot Afford to Keep Maids.' and Cache counties for the Improvement of the highway leading from the London. To many strange and unsouthern part of Cache county to the usual tasks have the boys of the disLiberty district in Weber county. I'rovo will go absolutely dry on Jan- trict messenger service been put They will carry your messages, uary 1, 1910, according to the official action of the city council, when, by a guide you across London, look after vote of C to 3, with one member not school boys and girls crossing town present, all previous liquor laws were on their way to or from school, or go repealed and a prohibition ordinance round the world for you and all la answer to a simple telephone call. . passed. Construction work on the tement They are ubiquitous, capable, ready for anything. plant near Brlgham City is progressBut their latest achievement and a men at being rapid pace, forty ing the most unusual, is to act as surely at work. The promoters of the project claim they will be producing cement ladies' maids. The other afternoon an excited man from the marl beds by the first of Norushed into a district messenger office. vember. The farmers .around Wlllard are "Can you send a boyheat once to lace asked, apparnow commencing on their third crop up a lady's dress." In despair and obviously exently an and of alfalfa, exceptionally good pecting to be met with a scornful reyield is reported. The grain crop is fusal. bet h"d. a much but ig rvidly "Certainly, sir," was the calm anlighter yield is shown this year than swer. "What address?" The address previously. was duly given, and the harassed man dcommlsslon-erlan board of state The has decided to purchase 21,000 walked off mopping his brow. "I told the man In charge I bad worth of municipal bonds from the heard they could send boys to do anycity of Lehi. The bonds are issued for municipal waterworks and refund- thing," he said afterwards, "but I ing purposes and bear 6 per cent an- thought that would be too much for them, but not a bit of it" nual interest. "I was In a horrible fix. My wife's Ad epidemic of smallpox is alleged to have broken out at Cove, a small maid was taken suddenly ill, and we town south of Rich field. The first bad an Important function that night case was diagnosed as chlckenpox and and I could not find a maid at such no effort wjis made to isolate the short notice. My wife's dress buttons case, so that practically the whole or laces up the back I don't know which. I have hurt my fingers, and town has been exposed. After tolling friends that he was cannot help her, and she cannot do it and there are no other sereolng to kill himself at a certain herself, time, the body of John Musig, an Aus- vants In the house." Later tho lady who had been "buttrian, was found on the steps of a school house at Murray. His friends toned up" and the boy were Interbad thought he was simply Joking, viewed. Said the lady: "He was as quick nud light fingered and it is not known why ho ended his , DREAM FINDS STOLEN WHEEL Italian Ship Will Have Sides as Smooth as Marble and Able to Defy Shellfish and Seaweed. Detective Uses Information Thus Secured and Soon Has the Thief l Rome. The Italian engineer Under Arrest is now engaged In constructing for the Italian government a steam Allentown, Pa. That dreams some, collier entirely built of stone. times come true was evidenced when Gabelllnl made' experiments extendMoses Hangen, a laborer employed ing over several years with small by a farmer near Cedarvllle, was stone skiffs, and found them buoyant placed under arrest on a charge of the and strong, and easy to navigate. He larceny of a bicycle. Hangen went is now building a steamship on an to Einaus, where, after making a iron keel, forming a double frametrade of some tools, he Is said to work first Into which cement Is have appropriated a bicycle owned by poured, thus forming the hull, which Fred A. Jackson. The latter told a is extremely light and absolutely friend named Schmoyer of the theft. watertight. Schmoyer told Jackson that he This hull, too, Is smooth, and can dreamed that Hangen stole the wheel. be polished like marble, and no shellThis Information was forwarded to fish or seaweed can become attached Detective Bachman, who went to the to It farm where Hangen was employed The upper deck and bridge are also and found the stolen bicycle hidden of concrete, and the ship will bave beneath a quantity of bay. Hangen water-tigh- t of compartments was placed under arrest Gab-ellln- in-- MONKEYS MARRIED IN FORM s life. The case of the people of the state of Utah aralnst all of the transcontinental railroads entering into the business of rat making for this boo tlon will bo opened September 22 in the United States court rooms la Salt tjake, before the interstate commerce commission. No : ui;e lit the Union Is better fortified against Impure foods and food swindles Hi an Utah, is the opinion of State Chemist Herman Harms, upon his return, with State Food and Dairy Commissioner Wlllard Hansen, from attending the pure food convention at Denver. While raking hay on his father's farm in the vicinity of Murray, V. Gardner was attacked by an angry horso and badly injured, bcinx by the infuriated animal, and would have been trampled to death had he not sought safety in flight The wondorful possibilities of dry land raruilng are shown by samples of this year's crops grown on dry farms near Nephl. Among the samples shown are oats, wheat, barley, alfalfa, alfalfa seed and apples. All these products were grown on lanO without any irrigation whatever. as my own maid. My dress Is a particularly awkward one to fasten, too, but in less than a minute he had got the hooks and eyes to meet, and a glance at myself In the glass assured me that I was perfectly dressed, "The boy declared he had never done a Job like this before, but I can bardly believe It. Afterwards, Just to try him, I made him take down some of my skirts from a cupboard and fold them ready for packing. Ho did it beautifully." The boy, a fresh faced youngster of about 14, said ho had never done this particular Job before. "But often we get curious Jobs, which we know very little about," he said. "We soon used to using our brains and fingers on any emergency that may crop up." Inquiries elucidated the fact that this Is not an Isolated Instance of a boy acting ns lady's maid. A lady a few days ago, in much th same circumstances, arranged that a boy should be at her house at 6 p. in. to "button her up" at the back, and ngaln at 11 p. m. to unbutton her. The fashion of dresses which but ton at tho back, where uo woman can oaslbly reach herself, and the in gt Master Tony Is a widower. Sod, or rather Ashes, his former mate having been cremated several months ago at Orville. The ashes of his former James Reid. mate are kept by Lambrlgger at bis Ind. Logansport, whose title of marrying 'squire was home In a funoral urn. gained after he bad married 400 couples within four years, the other WOULD LIVE WITHOUT EATING night officiated at the "wedding" of Julia Kruger and Master Tony, chimShelbyvlllt Man with Odd Theories Is panzees owned by August Lambrlg-ger- , Locked Up as Insane After a banker of Orville, Ohio. Clever Ruse. With the same solemn words that accompany the Justice's usual wedShelbyvllle, Ind. Believing that h of could live without ding ceremony. In the presence eating, that his more than 800 people, Master Tony mouth had grown shut, and that he took for his bride a tiny monkey. The could live 1.000 years, caused a sanimarriage license, which bears the commission to hold an Inquiry tary name of Edward Hankee, clerk of the Into the mental condition of Charles Cass circuit court, shows the brideWatklns, and they declared that he groom to be two years old and the was a person of unsound mind. bride only a year. The license shows Being a friend of Sheriff Butler's, her a daughter of Oom Paul of Pala-pywas asked to go to the Jail to fix he Africa. He cona lock on one of the cells. Held was in lato 'Squire nppearing, sented, nnd as he passed through the nnd Master Tony, who had seen bis to the cell the door closed on bride-to-b- e for the first time earlier Jail door he will remain there until In tho day. showed both teeth and dis- him and to toke him to the arrive papers approval before the marrying 'squire Insane He was born and hospital. was It Then found that appeared. for and reared hero, many wenrs was no one present to give the there was fire local of the member a bride away. Chief of Police Vincent Skelton volunteered. "Do you take Master Tony to be Groundhogs Are Ghouls. your lawful husband, to love and Terre Hnutp. Ind. Tho people obey?" asked '.Squire Held, With proper prodding from the polite chief the whose dead nm burled In many counsouth of Turre Haute, young "bride" chattered something try graveyards In Vigo and Sullivan counties, ar which tho guests took to be nsxcitt "And do you take Ml Julia Kruger horrified by the discovery that ground to be your wife, to cherlhh nnd pro- hogs have been ghouls. The nnlinals have burrowed Into tect, so long as you both may live?" answer nun was h graves and bones of the dead many more Tony's ere found strewn on the surface. than that of tinny human brideThese bones have been reburled and grooms "Then I pronounce you timn and th people are trying to stop the nio wife," announced Keld. and pocketed liwtntlon. In soitn cases water hift been poured Into tho holes, In other (5 tendered by Hunker Ltimlnigger. Then the rlco throwing licg.m, with wood fires were started at the moutr more pmctlmil results Hum usual, as of the openings with sulphur thrown ll provided a wedding .banquet. The 'n and a lid securely placed to confln1 monkeys gathered up all the rice they lie fumes to the interior as much i .'uuld find nnd nte it. ; osslblo Hoosler 'Squire Weds Couple of Chimpanzees with Solemn Nuptial Rite. o Puts Land in Condi- ing Fertility. tion to Retain Moisture. The term "dry farming" has been popularized in recent years. In some respects it is appropriate and expresSummer Tillage Furnishes Period for sive and it has a proper meaning Insofar as it refers to farm operations Preparation of 8oll Before Crop Is in a country where It Is so dry as to Sown, Storing Enough Water to Carry Crop Through. require special treatment.. But it is an unfortunate term. It does not have a definite meaning. It has been looseBy Prof. E. A. Burnett. The development of the agricultural ly used. It has been abused and misScientific resources of western Nebraska seems used, says Campbell's to depend largely upon adapting the Farmer." It Includes the methods of consercrops grown and the methods of tillage practiced to the natural condi- vation of soil moisture and also the tions of the country. While there are methods of maintaining or developing large areas of land which are too fertility in the soil by a certain use sandy for cultivation, there are still of both air and water In the soil great areas of good agricultural land which the farmer can and should conunoccupied except for grazing pur- trol b7 mechanical tillage. poses. There can be no question "Dry farming," as the term is genabout the possibility of using much erally used, means almost anything of this land for cultivated farms pro- done to secure crops In a dry country. vided these farms are intelligently More especially it is taken to refer handled and a considerable area of to common principles of tillage but each farm 13 held in grass for pasture more thoroughly applied. Sometime purposes so that the live stock indus- it also refers to summer fallow. But try shall continue to be one of the It refers rather to what Is desired of prlnlcpal Industries of the country. accomplishment rather than the methWhere there Is a shortage of mois- od of doing it. ture, from whatever cause, it will Now "dry farming" is all right and if.adlly be seen that anything which well enough in its place. Everyone can be done to store the moisture as seeking success through "dry farmit falls and save it for subsequent use ing" Is engaged In doing better farm-Inwill be of very great value in growand that Is a good thing. Every ing crops. It has been found beyond farmer who really tries to do better question that cultivation puts the land farming will in fact get better results. in the best condition to take up the But the thought which is uppermost rain as It falls and also to retain that in the minds of very many who talk moisture in the subsoil until such of "dry farming" Is that by this protime as It is needed by the crop. Cul- cess sure crops are secured in all tivation of the land makes the surface ordinary seasons, with the chance of porous, so that it easily takes in failure in very bad seasons still facing water. This same porous condition of the plucky farmer. Herein is there a the surface also very greatly retards vital difference from the real soil culevaporation of the water by the sun ture. and winds. The tests which have The "dry farmer" has taken a part been made, both In crop production of the system of soil culture and has and in the weighing of soil samples made good use of It. They have acto determine the amount of water complished a great work. They have contained, agree as to the result of opened the eyes of the world to tillage upon conserving water in the of this semi-ariregion. soil. Under the best methods of tilScientific soil culture includes not lage, very little moisture 13 lost from only all that is done in the name of the soil by evaporation when no crop "dry farming" but more, for it conis growing upon the land. templates care of the soil from year The use of water by the crop is to year, and especially preparation of fairly well understood by all farmers, the soil for the crop in the previous and still it is probable that the It means keeping the soil in amount of water required to grow a year. condition for the development right crop Is not very well understood. of available fertility and perfect plant While it Is difficult to determine exgrowth not only for this season but actly the amount of water used by any for next season and afterwards. crop, it Is probable, that from 400 to 600 pounds of water will be required PRINCIPAL ARID FARM CROP. in the dry regions to produce one pound of dry matter In the plant; in Wheat Is Now and Perhaps Always other words, from 400 to 600 tons of Will Be Staple Article-Res- ults water w ill be required to produce one in Seeding. ton of hay, of corn or of wheat, Including both grain and forage. Stated Wheat Is now and perhaps alwaya In a still different way, from four to be the principal arid farm crop. will six Inches of water passes through the wheat is always preferable Fall plant for each ton of dry matter prowheat. vFrom two to three will be seen, then, that if duced. It acre sown with a press drill an pecks eight or ten inches of rainfall is availresults than more thickly able for the use of the plant when gives better sown grain. Broadcasting grain 1s needed, this should produce nearly not satisfactory In any way. During: two tons of dry matter per acre. four years of trial on the various arid much more It Is probable that not farms in this state the experimental than half of the rainfall of a region red wheat has given the best is available for the use of plants, even Turkey of good quality wheat. It is under the best methods of cultivation, yields considered the standard of milling so that the necessity of using the best In the great northwest The methods of conserving the rain which wheats Koffold wheat also Is an excellent vafalls is apparent. of trial has The advantage of summer tillage is riety and during the years and tests all stood the good yielded that It furnishes a period for the prepmost other varieties have aration of the soil before the crop is crops whencombines the qualities of failed. It sown, storing up enough water In the stiff straw, good quality, high yield, land to germinate the seed readily and stands frost and provide for its growth until it is does not shell easily and drought well. Other good variestrong and well established, and often ties are Winter Lasalle, Odessa, Gold furnishing an amount beyond this to Coin, Blue Stem and Red Chaff. The the crop through any pehelp carry lead as riod of drought, until the seasonable Durum wheats take the to rains will carry it to maturity. spring wheats. They are adapted food In in in and rich soil grow plant Where a crop Is grown every year on Is hot and dry. Other the land, It will be seen that the mois- a climate that spring wheats are Sonora and ture In the soil Is continuously good New Zealand. drawn upon, so that in every dry period the water Is reduced to a miniHAYMAKING ADVICE. mum to so low a point, in fact, that the plant is unable to get any more Cut your feeding hay early. water out of the soil and Is Injured by Keep the bearings clean and well drought. A season of summer tillage oiled. stores the water of one year so as to Clover should be cut before It falls add It to the natural rainfall of the down. You can get it all In this way. season following, using the rainfnll of Stop the machine every hour to to seasons a two single crop. touch up the knives with Hie or whetproduce Often it Is not necessary to use so stone. long a period of summer tillage as With a wad of wool In the oil cups this; but this method makes possible you need not oil the mower so frethe cultivation of great areas of land at a profit where the land could not quently. Every mower tool box should conprofitably be cropped every year. tain a monkey wrench, whetstone and g, d Hat file. Imports of Oats. During the ten months ending with April of this year, the Imports of oats Into the United States amounted to 5,307,978 bushels, ns compared with 201.3S.1 bushels during the sanio period one year ago. This looks ns If the onts crop of the United States Not ns much needs some attention. attention lias been paid to this cereal as should bo. It responds most readily to Improved cultural cultivating the coin or potatoes. Mark the light spots in the meadows to plow and reseed nfter harvest. Sharp knives make light draft. , As a and money-maker- , alfalfa, is equally prized, and ns a rejuvenator and improver of soils it has no rival. Concrete Floor for Cattle. concrete floor for cattle should not bo smooth. After putting the top layer in place brush It with a coarse broom, which will leave the surface somewhat rough. The milking stable, should be free from dust and disagreeable odors, and the milker's hands clean and dry. Ho should have a clean, loose Juniper and overalls to slip on over his clothing, nnd these should be washed there born general recognition of the value and practicability of soil culture !n farming the dry country. It la a science built upon years of actual field experiments in many states and under nil conditions. Farmers are naturally conservative and slow to change their ways, nnd only when success has been demnonntrnted many times ond In the face of fiercest criticism has the method been accepted. But now the desire for Information comes from nil directions. Wait till the dew Is off before you start the mower, and put In the time nieat-innker- milk-make- Dry Farming. Only within the past few years A has Thresh Wheat and Oats. Care of the Cow, Arrrange. to thresh wheat and ontn Cleanse the cow's udder thoroughly Just ns soon as possible after harvest. before milking, either by brushing It The longer they are allowed to stand nff with the hand or, If very dirty, l i the field the more they will wnste. nnd All it. filth, loose washing drying is poor business management to tmlrs, dandruff, and dust should be row grain crops and allow tbem to i "moved. ..poll or depreciate In the Meld. ' |