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Show THE SPANISH FORK PRESS. SPANISH FORK. UTAH Vi, - i CHICAGO IS GETTING DRYER EVERY DAY NOW WiikihQ ,ty i ff V Nf '' ? if"'' ? j ' Jp A- ' ' ; wi "4 revenue pui i1 fi'in the office a round some of of inmaishlne whisky in them when found. . tin- - Lj I .. - ' j ' J r (2 M ?! 'S. V K4fcM ' " ?f- - wt; v . , ", , ( Mills they foiiiul in 'lil friZ 'h; I? ?'4 It rfo glMw: ''M. .. K'rY VS5t L ' 7. ' . "A 1 a fy.r v isMS! it Vi'H , t. Lt.FV ' V, apt raids. TEST OF HORSES FOR THE UNITED STATES ', ' f These stills hail I? 173 "( i , " CAVALRY "'.'! V b n , iSP&lzzr&- cv j J? .ir st v r - 7 lDe By JAMES P. RICHARDSON. of the Proso Preparatory School, Houston, Tex.) FVKltAL years ago. In to the urge then prc.aloiit of "Hack to the Farm." 1 tr.ided my large city property for an MMicre apple farm In the Ozark mountains. This farm laid mice been exeeisllngly valuable, hut under a owner and u very shiftless tenant It had been allowed to degenerate till I took posit was almost valueless, session In July and the gross receipts for sales ilnit full from the entire far i were less than $S0 less than a do.mr an acre in income. I had moved to the farm with my ftmlly and I devoted that winter to I procured studying apple culture. nnd rend all the pnmphleta Issued by the national government nnd the state on this subject nnd corresponded with successful apple growers. By spring I felt myself competent to assume control. Under my direction we pruned nnd plowed the orchard and sprayed at what we thought the proper time. what seemed We laid a large crope--or to me a large one picking more than 4.000 bushels of apples. They were, however, of poor grade and affected with hitter rot nnd San Jose scale, while the curcullo moth made heavy ravages. My net Income was $700. I realized now that It was necessary to appeal for help. I did so. Upon tlie suggestion of the state tioard of agriculture I secured the services of a young man Just graduated from the college of agriculture, where he lmd spent .four years In studying fruit raising, particularly apples. He came to the farm in January and I at once put him in complete charge. He knew Ids business. I believed In him from the start. To wateh him prune the trees was an inspiration, lie took Ilie utmost care not to Infect one tree from another, using aseptic solutions with his tools. He eut the trees till I feared there would be little left. But most of all to he admired was Ills method of determining From the when and how to spray. various trees he cut cultures which he forced to grow In fnilt jars, and vv niched them for the development of the various kinds of diseases. With this knowledge he set Ills time for spraying, and mixed his Ingredients to lit the special cases. The result was astounding: that very year we harvested more than 8,000 bushels of apples, and more than three-fourtof them were of first grade. My old farmer neighbors who had laughed at lie college feller who now came and admitran my ted that he was right nnd naked hint to give them suggestions with their own fruit. for I But not yet had 1 learned that It was not enough to know how to raise superior apples, I must also learn how to market lhntn. We sold them through the usual channels of the Jobbers in the large cities, and our Income for the whole season was hut slightly more than $1,000 Just "0 tents a bushel tin the average fruit. for The Jobbers reported to us Hint oar shipments came at u time of glutted markets, or w ere so badly damaged on 4 the way that they laid to he sncrl- I of Jonathans Heed. One carl which I had carefully selected nnd packed myself, knowing that not a poor apple went Into the boxes, was I urinal into vinegar as being ton small .mil too poor to he sold for eating: at any rate that wt.s the report sent si non-reside- Dip start of the .'kg) mile endurance tost from Fort Ft lam Allot) to t'atnp tlio host type of horse for cavalry work. Full Mooiloil Arabs, Morgans ami l Arnh mare ridden liy A. TV, Harris of Chicago was tin winner. cross-countr- y Imll-brced- s rrur-oh- U. that tah, S. TROOPS OFF FOR SILESIA I Mass., to were entered. Vvcnx. d-,- A TESTS OUR DRINKING WATER E w de Hor; 3341, t 9 Sou Merid; to a, establ dtscrib l rlct Co th day ses: Ji n, A. f Thlst Sunn' of the 4,500 United Stales tns.ps under eonunund of General These men, who comprised Fifth and Fiftieth Infantries, with auxiliary units, will do police am) ml iluly In Silesia and Germany, and are composed entirely of men who Uiiieeied specifically for this service. UM sail for Silesia on the President Grant. -- AMERICAN ROOM IN VERSAILLES PALACE Tests tit drinking water throughout the United Slates and Its possessions lire made at the w liter resources Inborn-- , tory of the geological survey under the direction of C. II. Kidwell. Mr. Kid-wehas been In charge f ilie work for Ilie past two years and is one of the youngest chemists in the sen Ice of Uncle Sam. The latest undertaking to mark the poison wells ami Insanitary drinking places In the national parks and the lanes of tourist ,UH travel. Musician's Memory Honored. Beethoven park in Vienna has been frequented by countless tourists, It be-lug a natural park named In honor of Ill Beethoven's prime the composer. lie used to spotid hours each day under a certain tree composing music, and upon this spot a wooden stump to that l cumins with an inscription (Tect. ('lose h.v Is an old iron bench upon which he used In rest. To the left Is a beautiful statue of the niusl-ela- n In life size. A large fountain pit ys in front of lids picturesque place ami large trees and flowers surround It. making It nil In all tht most at true, tlve section of the park. 1 Some Guy. It was a cold ami cheerless night The wind blew In from the northeast, cutting down the veracity of the real estate men by 50 per cent. Oil the deck marble American Independence room" In Versailles palace two i " been placed recently, setting forth In English and From of a boat stood a female tourist. Her lilngtoiia everlasting glory as a patriotic citizen and lender. Many paintroom. In eye einight the glint of the breakwater the and other Washlngtonla also are on exhibition For a long time she lighthouse. watched. Then i.he turned to her comHard words seldom make Impres- panion. CONDENSATIONS sions on soft people. 'How pntleitt those lighthouse men finds n runner when times are must he, she said. There Talent Is always queer tempered. himself. to dlflleult It "Patient ! How so?" square It sale blower doesn't blow about and Is "The wind has blown that light out easy The trouble inurket 'Vf, low at borrowed he times and each time theyve lighted ten can trouble of always are making today the memory It again. Its simply wonderful I" rates. Uiorr.tw In the Itli'ts Imve had found no sale for tny apples and laid shipped them to an adjoining town 50 ntlles awuy, where they were sold at a price, which, after deducting two commissions and the additional freight, left me 55 cents a bushel. Naturally this took all the fight out of me and the rest of our crop waa marketed through the Jobbers. The totul sales for the 8,000 bushels were But these apples cost the $4,500. consumer more than $20,000. I hail a new scheme for the ensuing year. I advertised In the papers of several towns that we would deliver funry No. 1 apples to the homes of the people, with the privilege of Inspection before paying, express prepaid, for $2 a bushel. At that same time the usual retail market price was more than $4. We also sent circulars to the people whose names appeared In the telephone books. As a result of this campaign we sold less than GOO bushels, which did not pay for the cost of the advertising. Evidently the housewife Is not anxious to save money, or else she has little faith. Since then we nre going on raising the ties! apples we know how to produce. We prune and plow and fertilize. We spray carefully. We pick by hand with the utmost solicitude. Our apples are large and free from hitter rot and other blemishes. But we sell them through the jots-hernnd we receive an average of $2 a bushel even now with the prevailing high prices, and these same apples cost the retail dealers twice that sum. The difference goes Into the rapacious maw of the men nnd who do nothing to raise fruit or to sell it or to put any real value Into It; hut who live on the efforts of the other two real laborers, I think that they ought to spell their names with ao Initial It Instead of J. But they have on their side antiquity nnd religious prestige. For even 'way hack In the time of the Gurden of Eden there was there an apple tree. Eve tended this tree and watched Its fruit. When It was ripe she presented It to Adntn. Thus Eve was the producer and Adant the consumer. But that whs not nil. Even there was to he found the middleman ; the Bible calls him by a more characteristic name. s, nevcr-sntlnte- 1 , first-clas- Educated Clerks. Two Terre Haute school teachers, both eollege graduates, spent a week recently clerking In a Chicago bakery. One day they sold several articles to two customers. The bill came to exactly 93 cents nnd both were elated, because of the size of the sule.. They were further elated when they heard one of tlie women remark to the otlnr one ns they left the store: They must I'uve educated clerks here now. I hl you notice that thpy counted up the hill In their hends Instead of using a piece of paper as the old oucs s aw the apples sold at prices ranging to S'J.Stt, and I felt quite from reconciled to my fiasco. But when I came In for settlement their honks showed that no box had sold for more than 1..V. mid the'r clerks all de- dared that to Is the ease. 1 wns offered and laid to accept that sum, their eommlssion of 25 per cent. The oilier dialer repotted that he did?'' iO from Ills office. And. furthermore, lie must learn how It happened that the little oriole lmd not been duly InIn stiled as directed by the owner and wrong had sadly gone Something the post office, and various employees consignor. "Indeed." snld Mrs. M. (sold owner hustled hither nnd thither nnd knitted their brows in attempts to nsiertuln nml consignor). "I rarely told that man to Insure the oriole, and now I what was what and vvliv. , ought to lie paid." postmnster, Mr. Springsteen, ant ns the poor thing cun certainly Ills sorry of customary trifle a Just r. he queried among messengers, car- got hurt," humbly replied the riers. clerks and others t" learn how You know what an oriole Is, dont It might he that a poor little oriole h parcel you. Mr. bprlngRlcen?" In transit while MS Injured IMisi Twasn t a Bird Ii d i post-muste- "Oh, yes, I know, Ifs a bird," came the proud reply, No It Isn't either," snld Mrs. M. "It Is one of those baby carts tlmt fold up." Strangers Prepared For. "Does this dog growl?" asked the lady of the dog dealer. "Oh, yes, maam," was the answer. "Well. I wont a dog that doesnt growl." "Don't you want something that will growl Ne. when strangers come around?" My husband will attend to that." |