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Show TIIB CPANTSH FORK PRESS. SPANISH FORK, UTAH RAISING SMALL GRAINS A Best Have Early Varieties Chance to Produce Crops. I Grow Ciitirn Russia Readily Adapted lo Ssml-ArlCondition In Wsstsrn Port of tho United States. Spiel Hr M IM.IIV CIIAMIMV ) Id Iho semi arid territory there la tikunlly a mlit rail of from four to eight Inches during thn niontha of May and Juno. Thla rain gives tho crop a good start, hut ordinarily there la very llulo rain la July and early August. Them la alao more or Iona danger of hall In tho latter part of July. For thla reason thn earlier varl ottea of gralna have better chance to produce good croia. Thn lata varle tlea a pend their time and moisture prodigally In growing a tall heavy traw and find themaelvea In a arl oua position when thn midsummer drought cornea. They get ready to produce a bumper cop then find themselves without nioleture and can not fill, thua giving partial or total , failure, Thn earlleat varlettea. are uaually thn heat for dry farming, though aomn aeaeona may bn exceptions, They do not produce very much at raw. They begin b ooling out In thn Inst wick of June and are uau ally well filled before thn drought geU there-fore- acrloua. Beside earllness, aomn klnda of mall gralna oaeaa drought resist-an- t qualities. They were developed In rrglona of light rainfall and suddm thanges of temperature, and have become accustomed to that kind of a climate. Home of them even retluh thla kind of climate and will be smlb ten wltn ruata and bllghta and yield little or nothing If grown In humid sections. The varieties that are Incoming the commercial atandarda In thla territory were Introduced originally from eaatern Russia by the United States department of agriculture. The climate of eaatern Ruaala la alrallar to that of our territory and tho fluctuations of temperature are even more extreme. This fact baa made them readily adaptable to our conditions. Some of the varieties that have proved especially valuable and are now widely distributed are given be low. The settler, when buying seed, should take every precaution to be sure that It la pure and of the variety which he tblnka he la buying. There was a large amount of mixed and falsely named seed sold to new setters In this region last spring. Louses of this kind can be best avert ed by buying of a neighbor or of a re sponsible firm. The barleys seem to be two-rowe- better adapted to this section than the although one barley the Odessa has a good record at the South Dakota experiment station, where It has been grown for several years. It baa short straw and ripens early. Kltzlng and Hanna bar varieties that have leya are good records and one of the Hannas, llanna 21, has become widely distributed. The South Dakota experiment station issued a bulletin last summer giving results and methods used In growing barley, which can be secured by those desiring to go into the barley d two-rowe- d problem. The small yellow early oat known has made good usually as Sixty-Daand is becoming well distributed. A yield of 50 bushels or more per acre la nothing uncommon for this variety y in western South Dakota and Nebraska. It Is ready to cut by the mid die of July, thus dodging the drouth that usually begins shortly after the 4th of July. On a homestead 100 miles west of Tierre a yield of 65 bushels per acre has been obtained. This yield was produced on typical soil of the region a heavy brown clay. This from the variety was Introduced Kherson valley in Russia and has been tested and Increased at the Nebraska and South Dakota stations until it Is now widely distributed and easily obtainable. Another very desirable oat variety for our purpose Is the Swedish Seloct This Is only medium early, but often makes large yields, especially if it receive a good shower during the heading season. The grain when well filled Is large, white, and plump and often overweighs. Dry Farm Wheat. Under Dry Farming," spring wheat should, In most cases, not be planted at all. Winter wheat Is nearly always preferable. However, If It Is grown, it should be planted on land which grew a cultivated crop the year previously or was in summer fallow. For most of our conditions there Is very little difference in yield. Fall plowing may bo done on the hard lands if it can be done when the soil is moist. Otherwise, the surface should be double disked and left until spring. In the spring disk Hist and early and plow ns early as possible, following the plow with disk and nla linle diamond riu u dearest the have, WswIwaKj. a very euiUv, be many lima jmJT1 Com in and BILLY, they called him up Dow manvllltt way. Il waa called thla In derision, for Wise Hilly was witless. There were some of the llowmsuvllle people who wouldn't have it that Hilly waa entirely witless, and It waa In the expression of this belief these people showed that they were to be classed with the wiser ouee. Wise Hilly bed hern hit on the head when he waa nothing more than a toddler and It was the blow that aet his mind groping for things that It could never fully grasp, llowmanvlllo, while it la a part of a great city, has green field and great forest yet untouched by the ax of nature' tyrant. Hilly roamed the fields and threaded the forest. Like Little Hiawatha he learned of the bird and the squirrel their secrets. They were playmates that never made sport of his mental He loved them and they loved shortcomings. him. Tho stream beyond the little stream which farther on In Ita course become the Chicago river, were the haunt of bobolinks. It was there that the Italian bird catchers hired by the big city dealers were In the habit of setting their traps to catch rollicking Robert of Lincoln that he might be cooped up In a 7 by 6 cage to pine away a few brief summer months for the supposed pleasure of someone whose Ideas of liberty did not Include bird and beast. One afternoon the Italians net their traps all over the meadow with a captive bird In tho lower compartment. The men wont to a hedge by the roudsidn to watch results. They saw a hoy start on a keen Jump across the meadow. Ills feet the trappers could realize were winged. what was up the lower door of the first trap In line was open, a bobolink waa freed and the trap Itself waa a crushed mass of wire and sticks. They tried, but they could not catch thla greyhound of a lad. He liberated twelve birds and smashed twelve traps, and then shot Into the Hudlong woods. It was Wise Hilly who had done thla turn for his bobolink friends. Wise Hilly's father and mother sent him to school. The teacher did not want to receive him, but he waa quiet and he showed shortly that Impression could be made upon his disordered mind. He knew more about the plcturea than he did about the words, but In the course of a year or two ho wrote sentences dlsjolntedly. It was poetry that Wise Hilly loved, especially the poetry In which the words sang of birds and trees and flowers. It was an Inspiration to hear Hilly repeat Hryant'a "Bobolink" and the "Lines to a Waterfowl." There was a place In his heart seemed to speak to some little sound section of his muddled mind. Wise Hilly reported at the school one morning that he was going to be a poet. He stood at hts desk and made the announcement out loud. The pupils laughed and laughed. The teacher tried to look kindly, but there was a bit of merriment in her face. "I'll bring some verses and show you," cried Hilly. He was keenly alive to ridicule, witless though he was. Wise Hilly had found a friend. He was a man who tramped the field with a round box in which he put leaves and flowers and with an opera glass through which he stared at birds. Hilly had come across the stranger near the river's edge Just west of the Hudlong wood. The man was picking marsh marigolds. Hilly told him he would show him where there were some pret-he- r ones If the man would promise not to pick lliem. The stranger seemed struck by this appeal from the boy with halting tongue and vacant re," i A T w VSR TN sa&t Mot of oup relatives useless to us as empty toa, A REMIND?! To Order From YourfW HEWLETT Fresh HEWLETTS Good Tree. HEWLETTS Utkins PwdM HEWLETTS Pure Greun L, HEWLETTS High C.d. The eualliy ef rerev lot ih iioubi. II EWLETTS will tlkoteprwUUk Seed Will and Support. tZ lJi WANTED tnlMiim ? torviii. Iim.h rjtirtHj. tli tr a it it. W Ctmnnt'fttUI o "Toure a second edition of Ralph Waldo Emerson, my boy," said be a little quizzically. "Theyre pretty by the water, said Hilly, "and the wind whispers to them and they tell me what the wind says." "You're a poet, said the man with the box. "I wouldn't pick your flower now were they the real gold they seem to be, but I'm after birds, too." "Hang em and put em In a box?" "No, Just look at them." "I'll show you lota," said Hilly. The man came to the meadows often after this and met Hilly. The lad knew where the lark finch, where the vlreo placed Its paper-linehome and where the oriole swung Its cradle. He showed all his treasures to the man who was willing to look and to spare. One day Hilly brought some papers to his acquaintance. "Theyre poems. he said, "like what the man with the gray beard wrote g about bobolinks and like what the man said about the yellow swamp flowers." Hilly's naturalist friend took the manuscript Rhythm there was none; the spelling would make a lexicographer weep, but there was poetry. The bey said In essence that the marigold didnt die because he thought of It f 11 the year through, and thinking of things "mtses em live." One of Billy's schoolmates had trapped a shore lark. The bird sings as It soars, and In that respect Is like unto the lark that "at heaven's gate sings." Hilly had fought a good fight for the trapped lark when the trapper was taking It homeward, but a crowd of schoolmates who re d botanical-ornithologic- Shake-somethin- " lufftisiMg to ni (raminc, rn ir wl' w turret, UTOI Tha Pries of Puce. 8he appeared to be sometiu;, cited when be came home tbittj and be naturally asked tbs cunj The man In the top flat hu l In lova with our cook," sbssti "What of It? he asked. "Hea been trying to get her hi garded the larks aa fair prey made numbers away and marry him." "Iki you mean the msa carry the day. One day Hilly and the stroller afield were tiees on the cornet every tigitShe said she did; and bs tt, tramping the meadow that edges the Bowman-vlllroad that runt along and crosses the rustle dive for his pocket. "Tell the cook," he exdiiittdl bridge over the north branch of the river. They heard shouts and turning saw that a building cttedljr, "that I'm a poor mu,kj facing the road was on fire. It was a frame give fifty dollars If shell do L structure with the two upper stories occupied by families. It was on the ledge of the front winThree of a Kind. dow of the upper apartment that the caged lark A man with an impediment k I which Hilly had tried to save had been Impriscalled to a waiter In lie oned for several days. The man and boy started speech tnti rant, was a The fire. for the scene of the building roast furnace. "Ever) body's out," called a man in the Tha waiter stammered In crowd that bad gathered. aint g ggot Hilly, the witless, looked up. He saw the lark The man, highly enraged, In the cage. The stairway was burning. He eluded a detaining hand and dashed Into the en- he was mocking him, sprang i trance and up the stairs. A man Jumped after attempted to knock the waiter ts him, but It was too late. He was driven back. when a third person arrested biui t strike it In less than a minute the people with staring and cried: winaa uIH saw the boy appear at the front upper eyes I was dow. His form was framed with smoke and flame. They saw him fairly tear apart the cage A Canard. that held the lark. In an Instant the bird waa free and went aoarlng heavenward alnglng. ar," said Mrs. SnigtiB "My There was a crash; a floor had given way. A husband, "what Is a canard! little later a crowd had gathered round the dead "Don't you know what acaati body of a boy. The school teacher and Hilly's Inquired Snaggs, ratber taecu naturalist companion were looking down on the "Why, the word itself conveyi iu i face that the flames had left untouched. meaning." "He wanted to be a poet," said the teacher. "Does It? Well, really, 1 w "Wanted to be? said the traroper of the fields. does it mean, dear? "Wanted to be? Ills whole life was a poem It What canard Is soaetbisfl a Why, and his death was a song." canardiy believe, of course." ccittl v 14 ft sJtvs jtil :v, fforu i tud -l IBM e "W-w-w- la lit-irtt- kostln 1 , uts tl it sun .NIFF e I "ld-don'- Opinion. whereas It Is no swallow at all, being more nearly related to the humming birds than to the swallows. These birds congregate about my BARN SWALLOW, CHIMNEY SWEEP AND KING BIRD home in small flocks, and In early morning and late afternoon may be By JULIE ADAMS POWELL. seen rapidly sailing over the housetops, where thpy build their nests In unused Their nests are chimneys. on are slate his the in grayish color; arrives bird parts When the King Is a concealed orange red crest. composed of twigs glued together with early spring with his bride from the head south, ho guards her most Jealously, The under parts are white, washed and fights most pugnaciously all oth- with gray on the breast The tail is black, tipped with white. The nest is ers of his kind who come near. built at the end of a branch of some Noted for his fighting nature, the low tree, several feet from the ground, King bird is entitled to his royal name, and 1b a compact structure, composed and is also called the tyrant Fly Catchof leaves, Instring, weeds, grasB, fine of love er, and from his epicurean rootlets, bark and balr. The number Bee aa the Is known he again jects, of eggs are generally five, and they Martin, although far removed from the are creamy white, spotted with dark Martin family, being really one of the brown and purple gray. Fly Catchers. I suppose that every boy who reads He possesses no noble qualities, as this paper has seen the Barn Swallow, without provocation ho often allows but how many have seen the bird at his angry passions" to rise, and work her nest? Some day building on makes bold and aggressive attacks If you hide away Inside the barn, and the crow, and often chases away keep very quiet, you can witness this from his field the less offensive small very interesting performance. birds. Very like the Indians of the One day last summer I was out on a never bird western plains, the King and in the barn I heard a great The farm, Splashed and Sprawled Eggi of likes to meet a foe In open warfare, and chirping, and discoverchattering some the Purple Grackle. down to upon swoop preferring Barn were Swallow ed the building. unoffending neighbor, giving him a As the male of most bird families a gummy secretion of the birds' salidoes not assist his mate in this work, vary glands. When the Swift flies, his moveI concluded that it was he who was ments are more suggestive of the bat while the little the doing chattering, housewife carried the mud and straw of which the walls of the house were built. Most of the time he was inside nest giving advice, the than those of a bird, as he darts hither and thither, and It Is often perplexing, at dusk, to distinguish the two. These odd birds cling to the sides of the chimney, and to rough places, assisted by their spine-liktails, and are never seen to alight on the ground, because they would be unable to arise again, on account of their long wings and short feet Their song consists of a rolling twitter, which la quite pleasant to hear. The Chimney Swift is about an Inch shorter than the English Sparrow, but Its long wings make it appear larger. The male and female are marked alike, being of a deep, sooty gray. The tail Is even, and has very elastic and sharply pointed quills, beyond which the wings extend an Inch and a half. The feet hao exceedingly sharp e five-doll- the driver. The driver looked at It fof1 meat or so, and then said, "M horse do you want? Everybody! Worth Keeping, Anyhow "You have some reniarkaW i Ings." Yes," replied Mrs. Cumrot art dealer said they were old but to my eye some of then good as new." Washington last t! Su-'- tukee, Mid ffier j o - 0 Iphla.- - Breaking It N "I am in great trouble, what "Tell me, dearest, ono has a better right to troubles tbun your liilIU'e' I have Just got warned; iSaturd !e I body lie Bixby fnaire "Did you do while you were on "No. Mother and the iny sightseeing. Most of places tho spent finding cash letters of credit- fd not Politi, - Feet- !11- - Same Old Clerk But, sir, everybonl1, evc:lnteAs-P lng these long, narrow, this season. Customer Maybe, huti wearing my Inst season vllle Post. i 0 Mth i !nfall of i;; 8, 7 critt ""Seles, ch"k Boys and girls may be saved for the agricultural coal ces on George Was said the Jit van dear, 1 wife, you are growing groin desit every day." j.st Yes, darling," replied f onfesse It's a way I ha George. W Xif -- d " an 1 fore your birthday." un,ry a (article! claws. Drier, Too. In country houses, during the sumrun "Dont you love, Miss mer, I have heard the roar, like dis' stormy In a on house the tant thunder, of a flock of these birds of 'I rising from one of the large chimneys. hear the dreamy pattering Peac on the roof? lisped Mr- - us' I In the early morning. 10 1 I do. It Indeed City, Yes, The Swift lays from four to six outside lrste pleasanter than to sit pure white eggs. t here Needed. New Friends rer, wii tW Point of View. 13 Editor WThere do you get shot The Poet How gracefully write, all you Jokes for these e, bj Jones sweeps out a parlor. Contrib Oh, mostly fro fl The Housekeeper Yes, but does she tions. Why, dont you M0 take the dirt out of the corners? W trve Mc Editor Well, it wouldn't friendsnew some Idea to get half-finishe- d while she worked. There were three nests under way, and they were round in form and the mud and straw were firmly and smoothly plastered together, and the inside of a finished one was lined with .It'4 soft feathers from the chicken yard, These birds are very graceful, and they go about in colonies, flying low over the meadows and fields while . IVK Xt A 1 Si. on the lookout for tho insecYs on 1 1 'V hV which they feed. harrow. The male and the female Barn Colts Are Mischievous. Swallow are inatked alike. The upper Colts, like boys, have an inherent parts are steely blue throat, upper breast and forehead are chestnut tendency toward mischief and should never be placed where they can tease rufous in color, and the under parts are washed with the same, shading to the cows. , a buff. Tho tail Is very slender, and v. .. 1 The female Is slightSulphur for Chickens. deeply forked. A few drops of liquid sulphur in a ly smaller than the male, and her colBird's Nest. Cat bucket of water is fine for chickens In oring Is paler. She raises two broods dry weather, once or twice a week. peck in the back of the head, and then of young In a season, from the four our King bird turns like a flash to to six eggs at a sitting, which are Cows Are Nervous. white with spots of purplish brown. his resting place. Cows are nervous creatures and The Chimney Swift is more comThe King bird is about eight and a called "The Chimney Swallow, kicking, beating or abuse of any kind His monly upper in alf inches length. always upsets the milk flow. Ha Had the Pries. A man from the city went to it country town In New Hampsto spend his vacation. At the be took the stage, which xa M and by two dilapidated horsei, bill that he had no smaller Lj one, which be haad Brit I Though believe |