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Show THE SPANISH FORK PRESS DRY LAND PRINCIPLE OF DRY FARMING EXTENT That of Conserving Every Particle of Moisture That Falls During the Entire Season. Andrew Jensen, Publisher. SPANISH FORK THE UTAH UTAH Is Found Way from One Hundredth Meridian to Pacific. BUDGET held lone highwayman up Young cafo, in Salt Lake City, i,arly llonday morning, getting 1150. The opening day of the fourth foresters' convention, which wan planned for January 10 in Ogden, bas been changed to January 7. Work will be started at once near Ixgan for the erection of a power plant to furnish light and power for the buildings of the Utah Agricultural college. If Is now believed that Wallace Lyon, the young man who was shot a negro, durly Theodore Kennedy, ing a quarrel In Ogden, will recover. The negro la in Jail. A bucket brigade succeeded in saving the home of Albert Christen-seof Gunnison from complete destruction by fire, after considerable . damage had been done. Feigning falntness'from hunger, a sneak thief entered the home of a Salt Lake man, and after asking for something to eat, stole f 10 off the mantle and ran out of the house. Thomas D. Pitt, former chief of police of &alt Lake City, and well known states, throughout the died at bis home in Salt Lake City on December 20, death being due to acute diabetes. ' At a meeting in Kaysvllle of Davfs county business men and representatives of the Good Roads association, It was decided to construct a section of model highway for demonstration purposes. James Devine, former chief of the Salt Lake fire department, was painfully Injured when a gasoline engine, which he was repairing, exploded, badly burning his face and hands and temporarily blinding htm. .', Seyburn Richards, aged 23, eon of a farmer living near Satidy, has disappeared from Ogden, where he was working, and from letters mailed on December 9, it is believed he sought some lonely snot and suicided. Reports from Weber county have it that hundreds of quail are freezing to death during the present cold spell. The birds cannot And sufficient food, and in their weakened condition the frost soon kills them. In a quarrel over money matters, on the streets of Salt City, Julius Alexander was stabbed and seriously Injured by Haify Cohen, who Is now confined In the city jail on the charge of assault with a deadly weapon. over gambling losses , Despondent and Buffering from" the effects of a three-daspree, W. C. Hunt, a rancher from Wlnnemueca, committed s nisi de by cutting his throat with a pocket knife on the street in Salt Lake City. The following Utah postofflces have been advanced from the fourth class to the presidential. The effect of the order Is to take the postmasters out of the civil service: Coalville, salary $1,200; Garland, f 1,100; Green River, $1,100. A young man who attempted to hold up a dozen men in a saloon In Salt Lake City was met with a shower of bottles from his intended victims, and he was forced to flee, but not before he had shot the bartender through the arm. The University of Colorado has submitted th following question to the University of Utah as the subject for the debate between Colorado and Utah: "Resolved, That the system of banking now in operation in Oklahoma is desirable." Ernest II. Greene, the Salt take mining man who was shot and badly Injured by T. J. Fttxpatrlck, near Nip-toCal., December 3, arrived in Salt Lake a few days ago, having pearly recovered from the brutal and vicious attack of Fitzpatrlck. There is some talk of a special train to be run from Wyoming over the Union Pacific to accommodate a number of delegates who are expected to attend the National Wool Growers' convention, which will be held in Ogden in January. John P. Sorenson, for fourteen years horticultural Inspector in Salt Lake county and one of the most efficient men ever connected with the service in Utah, died Monday morning, December 20, as the result of an attack of bronchial pneumonia. To commemorate the opening of the new school at Slatervllle, Webor county, representatives from every family in that section of the country gathered at the building Saturday night, where a literary programme was rendered, followed by a big banquet and ball. The practice of asking for contributions from the pupils of the Ogden schools for various purposes has led to a storm of protest by parents aud some action will probably bo taken at the next meeting of the board of education to prohibit this custom which has recently been In evidence. Tne census of 1900 gave Garfield county a population of 3,700, an Increase of nearly 1,000 over 1890. At the same rate of gain next year's census should show that not far from 6,0 W people now Inhabit the county. Several arrests of teamsters and delivery boys who leave their horses standing for hours at a time without blankets have beea mads recently la Ogden in pursuance of the recent order of Chief Browning to enforce the ordinance pertaining to cruelty to Secretary of Agriculture James A Pester House Clerk About Ancestors adding machines all at once when a dla-tri- ct n Inter-mountai- n y All straight-backed- Sir John Courts, O., K. O. C, C. straight-nosed- , white-mustache- and extremely dignified old gentleman marched into the committee room. He was looking for his member and as the member wasn't on hand, bad turned around to go out again, when be caught sight of Mr, Courts. There was a moment of tenseness and of pause a hiatus in other words. And then the old gentleman advanced and cast himself a perfertly dignified cast on Mr. Courts' bosom, clutched Mr. Courts' band, patted Mr. Courts' shoulder and gazed into Mr. Courts' eyes. And as a dozen or so members of the appropriations committee gathered around the old gentleman exploded his bomb. "Captain," he said to Mr. Courts. "I am moah than happy to meet you again. I consider this the happiest day of my life, my dear comrade In arms. Well I remember the days when, side by side, knee to knee, we followed the fortunes of that flower of chivalry, that most dashing of cavalry leaders, our idolized chieftain, Gen. J. E. B. Stuart." Of course it was a case of mistaken Identity. Sir John says so himself. But nevertheless it was embarrassing. And he's going to ask for a couple of more assistants, for, with this Clean Drinking Manor story and the Setting Moon button and the Confederate cavalry yarn, he's Just fairly pestered to death and hasn't time to do his regular work. white-haire- BBS WASHINGTON. , R, who, as plain James C. Courts serves the United States government in the responsible position of clerk of the House committee on appropriations, has his troubles Just like other folks. People are all the time pestering him to death to know if it was his grandr or his father or bis who used to own about 20,000 acres In Maryand and who presided over the feudal glories of Clean Drinking Manor. And every time he gets through with one of these historic bugs and settles down to work a delegation of home folks from Tennessee drops in on him and demands to know why he accepted from the Emperor of Korea before that eminent personage was sat upon by the Japanese the military order of the Setting Moon, third class and wears the undress button that goes with it all the time. Dut even these annoying things pale Into Insignificance beside an incident that happened Just the other day. Mr. Courts has his nose in a chaotic appropriation bill and was dictating to four Old General Got No Aid from His Aide i E. Wright, told at a Washington a war story from Manila. "There was once upon, a time," he began, "a gallant old general. This general, leading a splendid charge in his youth, got a bullet in his chest and sabre cuts across the head. In after life, relating over the nuts and wine his many battles, It was this particular charge that he always most flamboyantly. "The older the general grew the more splendid the charge became; the more awful was the slaughter that he visited upon the enemy; the more horrible were the wounds that he received. For corroboration he would always turn to a grizzled veteran on his left, his The would nod his gray bead in acquiescence silently. "Taller and taller grew the general's stories of the charge. Higher GEN. Luke in to d aide-de-cam- aide-de-cam- p and higher grew the mound of enemies slain by his sword. More and more numerous became the bullets, thrusts and slashes sustained by himself. At the end he always appealed to the grizzled aid;, and in silence the aid nodded confirmation. "The general one night gave a largo dinner party. The wine was no less abundant than superb, and at dessert the old warrior let himself out upon the charge as he had never heretofore done. Four horses were killed under him. Three lances passed through his right arm, five through his left, Nine sabres crashed down upon his head simultaneously. The bodies of his slain formed a wall wellnfgh impassable about him. And it seemed that there was hardly a muscle in his person wherein a bullet failed to imbed itself. '"You remember all this, don't you, De Courcey?' he said, in conclusion. "The silent and long suffering aid at last spoke up. . " 'No, general,' he shouted, in a loud, Indignant voice. 'No, of course I don't remember it How can you expect me to? You know as well as I do that the cannon ball that killed your fourth horse struck the breastplate of a cuirassier behind us and then bounded back and took my bead off!'" Plans Homegoing of Irishmen in 1910 years ago Francis J. FIFTEENarrived in this country from Ireland. He was so green, that he mistook a Fourth of July celebration as a reception to himself. Young Kilkenny had relatives and friends In Milwaukee and Chicago and he made for the middle west soon after his landing. He had a fund of native wit and an abundance of energy and pluck. He got a Job cutting gross and soon came under the notice of Charles G. Dawes. When Mr. Dawes came to Washington as controller of the currency he brought Kilkenny along as his private secretary. When Dawes retired from the controllershtp ' his successor found he couldn't get along without Kilkenny. Mr. Ridgely was succeeded as controller by Lawrence O. Murray and that official has retained Kilkenny who has now become one of the Institutions of the treasury department. Young Kilkenny Is making remarkable headway with a movement for of IrUhmen In 1910. the "home-going- " The plan Is to induoe the Irish people from all over the United States to return to their native land during the months of July. August and September. It Is proposed that the various Irish organizations, notably the A. O. II., and the Gaelic league shall take It tip the movement and carry through. Kilkenny does not claim personal originality for the Idea but he gave It initial Impetus and has taken upon himself the burden of interesting Irish societies In the plan. More than a sentimental purpose animates those who have undertaken this ambitious task. While the prospect of a visit to the old country, at reduced transportation rates, and in the glory of midsummer, will form a leading Incentive, the real purpose fit the movement Is to stimulate Irish industry.' Kilkenny has made several visits to his old home In Ireland and each time has been Impressed with the Industrial possibilities of the country and the apparent hopelessness of Improving conditions without organized effort. He takes the position that rethe Industrial and agricultural sources of Ireland have not been developed to onetenth of their capacity. Capital Is needed to develop them and Kilkenny believes that It will be forthcoming If the Irish people in this country are given an opportunity to see with their own eyes that profitable Investments can be made. to Health Chautauqua Salute, notMenace overtax his or her SEP C. WOODWARD, DR. WILLIAM officer of the District of Columbia, Is In favor of abolishing the only form of athletics Indulged In by members and graduates of the Chau tauqua literature and reading circle. He says thst the Chautauqua salute Is s menace to health. The salute, as all Chautauauans know, Is a waving of the handkerchief when friends make a hit on the lecture platform or sail away for distant lands. Everybody waves and everybody la happy provided that one does energy. "Tho. custom of waving a handker chief vigorously In the air," says Dr Woodward, "Is dangerous. Nearly every contagious disease can be communicated In this manner, If the handkerchief Is slightly soiled. If the linen square has just been purchased, or has come straight from the laundry, there Is not tho slightest danger, but the waving of a handkerchief that has been used even once Is harmful. "When a handkerchief I waved the wind blows the germs from It. Typhoid fever, scarlet fever, tuberculosis, smallpox and chlckvnpox. measles, leprosy and diphtheria may be thus spread." The Chautauqua saluters criticised the health officer's remarks. "Dr. Woodward does not know what he Is talking about," said a young woman. "We never carry tolled The principle of dry farming Is that of conserving every particle of moisture that falls during the year, not In large reservoirs or behind expensive concrete dams, but In the soil Itself. A year before a crop is to be planted, the land Is plowed deeply with special machinery. Strong disk plows not only pulverize the subsoil, but pack It into a firm bed through which the water may not sink, and through which the excessive alkali that usually lies four or five feet below the surface, may not rise by evaporation to burn and blight vegetation. On top of this subsoil, the surface soil Is pulverized by specially constructed machinery to such a degree of fineness that It appears to have been powdered between the fingers. This overcoat of dust makes a mulch through which rain and melted snow may percolate to rest on the packed subsoil beneath, but through which little moisture can rise. This mulch defeats the natural process o.' capillary evaporation and prevenU the great waste of water occasioned In ordinary agriculture. After the soil Is prepared, theu special care must be given to the varieties of grains to be planted. The early pioneers who attempted operations In the semi-ariportions of the great plains failed completely In places which are now considered to be excellent agricultural lands. One of the reasons was that they sowed wheat which had been grown In the humid regions of the Mississippi' valley, and which was of a variety requiring a great deal of moisture. Within the last few yeais the research of agricultural experts Into all parts of the world resulted in being made with grains produced in comparatively dry regions. The grains brought from Siberia have been found to be especially adapted to dry farming operations. Wil- son Sends Interesting Letter to Fourth Dry Farming Congress Held Recently, at Billings. The following letter from James Wilson, secretary of agriculture, was read at the Dry Farm congress, recently held at Billings, Mont: "We have dry lands with light rainfall over nearly half the American republic. This department has begun a reconnalsance survey of these dry lands to ascertain the nature of the soli and what other facts may be of value to settlers. Dry land Is found all the way between the one hundredth meridian and the Pacific ocean, and it will take sometime to make maps of all the dry regions. We have made surveys of the west half of both North and South Dakota and we are at work on the dry portions of southern and western Texas. We have 21 dry land stations In the territory mentioned, where scientists are located under the direct supervision of the department endeavoring to ascertain the best methods of managing these lands and securing plants that are best adapted to them. "The lands that can be Irrigated by the water now flowing to waste are limited. After all the water has been applied, there will still be millions of acres that must be ' managed under what is known as dry land farming. I am glad that the people are meeting together in congresses to study these problems. They vary as the soils vary and as the elevations vary. The soil Is usually rich In mineral plant food, being the disintegrated rocks. As far as my observation goes, the soil Is quite often deficient In organic matter. The native plants we find growing on these dry lands do not fill the soil with roov.s, and it Is necessary that we should find such plants either at home or abroad. - This department Is busily engaged In hunting the world for legumes that will grow on your driest lands and on your highest line lands, and we are having some success. Dry lands and lands highly elevated and subject to low temperatures In the winter are found in other parts of the world and the Maker has supplied them with plants that are good food for animals, and these plants we nre bringing to the United States and propagating and getting ready to distribute them. Dr. Hansen of the South Dakota experiment station brought us three new alfalfas and a new clover last year from Siberia that we think when propagated will help solve dry land problems In the west. "It may be offering a challenge to your congress for me to say that I am satisfied the system of fallowing or cultivating two years for one crop, is In the wrong direction. It is not necessary to adopt any plans for the purpose of Increasing mineral plant food, that Is abundant generally, but It is necessary to consider of the soil with organic matter so that the decaying vegetation coming from deep rooting plants may help In retaining the moisture. We look to the legume to help us out In making the dry areas of the great west productive, because it not only enables the soil to retain moisture, but adds what Is not found among mineral plant foods, the nitrogen that the legume brings from the atmosphere. "Your people will, do doubt, carefully consider methods of cultivation. I will not go Into that at this time. The necessity for retaining all rains that do fall upon the land and the methods by which this should be done, are fairly well understood by most of our western people. We will endeavor here to make careful research and have It repeated sufficiently so that we will reach Bafe generalization, and when we have this work done so that we are satisfied we are on the right track, .we will print extensively and send the matter out to your DOG TO SAVE MANGLED BABY New York Policemen Have Desperate Fight with Bull Terrier in Rescuing Child. New York. old Elghteen-month- s John Eodlce was almost torn to plecei by a savage bulldog while visiting hit godfather, Pasquale Plcarllll, at No 238 West Thirtieth street. ' The little boy was In charge of Antoinette the Hyear-olPlcarllll, daughter of the bouse at tbe time The father was attending to his express business and Mrs. Plcarllll wat on a shopping expedition. The child had been left with them owing to th serious Illness of his mother, who re sides at No. 306 East One Hundred and Sixth street. The two children were In tbe kitchen playing with blocks, while the dog was lying quietly behind the stove. Tbe baby suddenly jumped up and playfully pulled tbe animal's tall. Witb a snarl tbe brute seized the child'i d agrl-cultur- d REAL In DRY FARMING RESULTS Semi-Ari- d Regions Everything That Cannot Be Irrigated Is Placed In That Category. One of the greatest drawbacks, if not menaces to getting at actual facts and results In real dry farming Is the seeming determination of all the people In the semi-ariand even slightly dry sections of our country to designate everything not grown by Irrigation as being grown by "dry farming." There are spots in Montana, Idaho and Washington, for Instance, and a good many of them In western Dakota where many seasons the rainfall Is ample some times so ample as to be detrimental for maturing crops not only without Irrigation, but without any special attention to conserving the moisture by special tillage or otherwise. Crops grown on such lands at such times are now almost Invariably rererred to as "dry farming" products In conversation with William Duckley, horticultural Inspector for the Coeur d'Alene district of that state, we were told that the word "Dry Farming" above his exhibits at the Seattle exposition, more than half the fruit and vegetables under his charge, was simply used to designate all grown without Irrigation. At the same time Mr. Duckley claimed, and truthfully without a doubt, that Where mnat of these dry farming prod ucts grew, the present year, and nearly all other years there was and Is ample rainfall to mature crops without any special attention to tillage for that purpose. d , : Attacks Dog with Hot Iron. arm, hurled him from side to side, at times dashing his body against th walls. Antoinette ran downstairs and shrieked for help. A Neighbors tan to the rescue. man rushed Into the room with i heavy crowbar, and dealt the anlma a crashing blow across tbe head. Thei a woman appeared with a red hot Iroi and laid It heavily across the dog' nose. With a howl he loosened hl jaws. The roan caught the child, anc all wMhln the apartment succeeded li reaching the hallway and slammed tb door, leaving the dog a prisoner. Patrolman Thomas Wedder bear tha, dug's cries, and was told of tht pffalr by Patrolmai neighbors. Thomas Creevy joined him. and wltt drawn revolvers the two men entered the kitchen. Creevy advanced, guarding himself witb a chair. As tbe brute sprang h was met by a bullet In the chest. Sev eral shots were fired without effec' ana me aog landed on tne cbsir neit In Creevy's hands splintering it. Finally the animal ran Into a bet rnnm urn! rnu.'lift nnrior thA heA Thi men fired two more shots and be roller over as though dead. Without warning the animal revived grabbing Creevy In the right thigh tearing a gash of several Inches ant cutting the leg of his trousers entire!; 4 off. Then he sprang for the last tlm and his jowls were within a foot a V'edder's throat when the last stfo struck htm squarely under the eye killing him. The time of the fight wat 2C minutes. . Every one oi the 12 bullets fired he? passed through his body. The dofK was a pure white English thorough bred of the fighting stock and hat been regarded as dangerous for som time. Excessive Rainfalls. Many of the most successful of the dry farming operations have owed their prosperity, In part at least, to rainfall. It Is the purpose of the dry farming methods to make agriculture successful In regions having from ten to 20 Inches of rainfall In the year. This year one section where dry farming is carried on received 30 Inches of rainfall In the first nine Victor Emmanuel's Rare Coins. months of the year, and a great deal King Victor Emmanuel, accordinf of the crop was lost because there was too much rain. That particular to. a French newspaper. Is a numls section has had a great deal more rain niatlst of the first rank, and his maj this year than has the state of Vir- esty possesses a collection ablch maj a museum. His cablneti ginia, where farming operations are be termed contain 00,000 coins, some most fart based upon the theory of humid agriculture. This of course Is an excep- and almf st priceless. Tbe king Is a scientific collector tional case. snd will shortly publish a treatise or numismatics. It will run Into sev Setting an Orchard. When setting an orchard, remember eral volumes, and will be entltler, to leave plenty of space (at least 20 "Corpus Mlnlmoruin Itallcorum." Th feet), on the outer edges to allow of work will be a complete cntaloguo o' ample room to turn the team, the har- mediaeval and modern money struck row or the wagon. Don't make the by Italy or by Italians In foreign lands mistake of crowding trees too closely Tbe prtutlng of the first volume Is al together. Apples should not be closer most complete. To Insure correctnesi than 35 or 40 feet apart, pears. 20 proof sheets have been submitted t or 25 feet; peaches and plums about I be keepers of tbe coin departmenti 20 feet; cherries (sour), 16 to 18 feet; In tbe principal museums of tbe world cherries (sweet), 20 to 25 feet; Hunter Is Held In Bear Trap. quinces, 12 feet. , Sellnsgrove, Pa. While ho wat of Sever hunting In the "kettle" Dust Hard to Penetrate. That dust Is difficult for moisture to Mountains, In Snyder county, Ueorgt penetrate, anybody can prove to his 8. Scboch of this place was caught U satisfaction by pouring a little water a bear trap under a clump of bushes In the road. It weis the skin of the He was found a prisoner sfter dark dust but nothing more, and the fact seven hours later, asleep from fatigue that it Is Just as difficult for water to by his brother, John A. 8. Scboch, ant go up through dust as to go down Donald Spanngte of Lewlston, and bt tils through It Is the soul and secret of was extricated with difficulty. "dry farming." as It Is of all farming. thick hunting legglns saved hi in from serious Injury. Old Gasoline Engine. 8trange Freak of Lightning. When you buy a gasoline engine Marsballlown, la. A splinter tbret with the guarantee that It will dea foot velop full rated horsepower you are feet long andwindow thick was burlef of an engine cat not sure that It will do It when It Is through the old. After the cylinder Is worn, or the by a stroke or lightning which rlddlet valves, there will be a leakage and s tree. Engineer Porter Hoys sn the force of the tiploston will be llreman J. W. Ent bad narrow a .apes from tbe projectile. weakened. -- HOG NOTES. Pease produce a firm pork, but beans give an extremely soft fat. Feeding mixed meal with skim milk usually Insures firm meat. Frozen wheat may be used as a profitable feed for swine. Pigs whose rations are limited make, on the whole, more economical gains than pigs that are rushed. It will not pay to cook feed for swine where economy of pork production is the sole consideration. There is a gradual Increase In the quantity of feed consumed for every pound of gain In live weight after the average live weight exceeds 100 pounds. Clover pasturage seems to have a tendency to soften the pork when fd throughout the whole feeding period, but this was not the result in all cases. Rape, pumpkins, artichokes, sugar beets, turnips and mangels can be fed In conjunction with a good ration without injuring the quality of the pork. Type of animals fed Influences character of meat more than breed, I. e., the fact of an animal being a Yorkshire or a Tamworth will not Insure a good bacon carcass, but they must bIbo be of a rangy type and fed In a certain way. It would probably be bard to overestimate the value of skim milk as part of every ration, especially for young pigs; the fact here brought out regarding Its hardening effect upon the fat shows It to have an additional Vtctton o preat Importance. '- USE HOT IRON ON -- I . |