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Show 7 PACKING CASE POTASH IN CLAY. SHELTER. Cheap and Convenient Method of tecting Growing Chicks. Experiment in Indiana, in Application of Clay to Swamp Land. Pro- In Indiana some experiments have been made in which reclaimed swamp the lid from a dry goods or large packing case and turn it on its side. Saw some broom handles to fit snugly within the box for perches, and nail them fast with long, slim, steel wire nails, driven In from the outside. Nail one end of a strip of muslin two yards long and one yard wide to the top front edge of the box. Drive two sets of stakes in the ground in front of the box and nail a strip of wood across the top of Remove box CORNERED CORN MARKET Parts and Supplies fo both feeler & Wilson and Singer Machine Needles, SOLD ONLY BY 6EWINC MACHINE CO. Jfo. 97 North Academy Avenue, PROVO, UTAH John Jackson, Mgr. James A. Patten, who distinguished himself on the Chicago grain market a few years ago by a corner in oats, has just completed a corner in corn in which he is said to have cleared all the way from $1,000,000 to $2,000,000. In his former effort in the cornering line, Patten bought in all the oats that were offered at an average price of 38 cents, and at one time he had as much as 10,000,000 bushels on hand. When the trade required oats for actual use, Patten would be quite willing to dispose of Borne of his holdings at 44 cents; and several million bushels changed hands at that figure. He was continually buying, too, and whenever the market began to sag he would buy a few hundred thousands or a million or two as seemed to be He had sized up the situation and, necessary. being convinced that there would be a shortage, he was not afraid to be left with an immense amount of grain on hand. Even when the government report showed a crop of 80,000,000 more than Patten had estimated ho did not lose faith, but kept on buying. Mr. Patten is a man of imposing appearance. He has iron nerve, and nothing seems to affect his composure. If he were caught in a burning building he would probably be making his way out quietly while the others were trampling one another to death in their panic. He began life as a farmers boy at Sandwich, 111., but that was too tame for him, and he moved to Chicago His uncle, who was slate giain inspector, took him into his office, and froir that moment he has been connected with grain in one way or another evei since. With his two brothers, George and Harry, he formed the firm ol Patten Bros., and in the 25 years they have been in business they have madq several millions. And by all appearances they are destined to make several millions more. WOULD LICENSE LAUNDRIES Buy Buggies Built in Provo at 5 So., rCurb 115 W. BY THE your well with Cement 24-i- n. Tiling Liddiard has put cement tiling into these Provo wells: Bp. Wentz, Mr.Weeter, Dennis Davis, Ilenry Davis, 24-in- Sarah ch Tidball, Mr. Hicks, Mr. Bruner, and L. Hoolbrook. DEPTH OF WATER ANY i Seventh Wet and Center Streeta J. Hampton Moore, congressman from Philadelphia, shortly before the adjournment of congress, introduced a bill providing that all laundries in the District of Columbia shall be licensed, and prohibiting the use of acids and violent machinery by these business concerns. He was angry because two of his $1 shirts were ruined and he was compelled to make another purchase before he could attend a banquet. Mr. Moore is a small man physically, but for years he has been a politician and fighter. He can be counted on also not to refuse an invitation to attend a feast, he having established a record of 103 banquets in as many days. When a man buys a brand new shirt and sends it to the laundry it is returned to him Its simply awful. like a flag frayed by the breezes, said Mr. Moore. Mr. Moore Is a master at delving into details and grubbing out the pith of a complicated matter, a trick he learned while covering the court route for a Philadelphia newspaper. He knows how to size up men and meet' them That is why in 1905 President Roosevelt appointed him chief of tactfully. the bureau of manufactures in the department of commerce. Mr. Moores ability in handling important affairs expeditiously was first driven into him while he was assistant city treasurer and came easier when he occupied the more dignified and less strenuous chair of the treasurer proper. From time to time he has been president of the allied Republican clubs ot Philadelphia, president of the Union Republican club and president of the National League of Republican clubs. He was born in Woodbury, N. J., hut early went to Philadelphia, where, after leaving school at 13, he began life as a messenger boy. He read law, drifted Into politics and did effective work on the stump in city, state and national campaigns. He says Mr. Moore has marked his laundry bill urgent necessities. the laundries are as bad on linen as the bulldog or billygoat. YOUNG MAN IN BRITISH CABINET NOTES A ON PLANTING CORN. Crop That Repays Careful ing and Attention. Manag- A few words about the preparation of the soil, and the securing of good stands of corn by mechanical means. Is never amiss, and the points too late for this year can be kept for another season. If we have a sod field to break we should plow it as early as possible, so as to secure a good mechanical condition of the soil. By plowing early we got the benefits of the late freezes, spring rains, sun and winds, whieli settle and rot the soil and save us much labor. Heavy rains in May have the same effect, and the yield on sod land is usually much improved thereby. If we must plow late, Colony Shelter, each sot to support the muslin. Heavy unbleached muslin can be had for seven or eight cents a yard at almost any store, and if the ends are hemmed so they cannot fray the pieces may be used for several seasons. The front ends of the canopy are lashed to stakes driven in the ground to which stout cord is made fast. Between the high stakes a porch can be nailed fast and here the chickens can take shelter from the Bun during the heat of the day. A number of these colony shelters, explains Orange Judd Farmer, can be made and placed in a field inclosure where there are a large number of chickens. If the boxes can be had at the store the cost of materials is insignificant compared to the benefit to the poultry. Muslin is preferable to wood for a summer shelter. It Is light and cool as well as vermin proof, for anything white is shunned by the little pests. To prevent wind rocking it, it would he well to run two stanchion or guy ropes from the tops of the high stakes out to pegs driven in the ground, as shown at A. To prevent the wind from moving the box, drive some slakes in the ground close to the bottom of the box and it cannot move. Ff 2 1 Variation in corn kfrnkln TOOL ro land was treated with a dressing of clay known to he very rich in potash, it was expected that the potash in the would be made available by liav-- I j clay ing it cultivated In. For two years crops were grown on soil so treated and showed practically no resuPs. Land so treated produced about the same as chock plots of the same soil on which no clay had been put. The reclaimed swamp soil was also-very rich In organic matter, which decay might he supposed to act advantageously on the imtash locked up in the clay. To what extent such potash is available is a matter not tully determined. The above may have some bearing on the practice of plowing worn out land a little deeper than usual to get an inch or two of soil in which the potash has not been exhausted. If the day sprrau on u.e reclaimed swamp land did not yield up its potash what may ho expected of the potash in tlu inch or two of soil just below tho level on which the plow has been wont to run in worn out lands? It lias liocn assumed that when the surface soil has been rendered deficient in potash by long cropping, and there was a potash-ricsoil just bewould low, plowing u little deeper make it unnecessary to purchase commercial potash. Has this claim, asks the Farmers Review, been sufficiently established? It la a problem worthy of extended study. TUINNINO COBH, BLOAT FOMXHMNO COIIN PLANTER Fig s the disk harrow, roller, drag, etc., will assist us in making an Ideal seed bed for the corn. A good drag levels up the many small inequalities of the surface and makes corn planting much more satisfactory. Where a largo acreage Is to he planted, replanting and thinning are out of the question; therefore we must plant just t he right number of live, vigorous grains to each hill or in the cl ill. To secure this condition the seed corn must he graded before or after shelling, and then the planter adjusted to suit that particular hatch of' seed. There are some windmills und corn graders on the market that will grade the seed corn very well, but a careful man cun sort the ears so that those having grains of similar size or shape nmy he shelled together. This is important, for two small grains may lie dropped together when a plate is used with holes large enough to pass the larger grains. On the other hand very large grains may cause a few misses. Planters with plates having circular holes will drop large broad grains accurately, but two slimmer grains may get crowded into the same holes that barely accommodate the single grain. See However, if we plant hut Figs. few acres of corn, and can spare the extra time required, planting the corn thickly and thinning out to an even stand will give very satisfactory results. With a tool such as is shown in Figs. thinning is not a laborious task, and the work may he performed i POULTRY POINTERS. Males are not necessary for egg production. Be careful to get eggs from the best layers for hatching. Handy nests are a comfort to the hens and a great convenience to egg d gatherers. Experiments show that the yearling hen lays 40 per cent, more eggs than the hen two years old. It is not a good plan to feed grownup fowls too much soft food, as it tends to make them dyspeptic. With hens it is much better to keep the appetite sharp, compelling them to be active and search for food. In estimating the cost of keeping poultry it is best to allow one bushel of grain a year to each laying hen. A chick that is continually chilled Walter Runciman, the new president of the seldom amounts to much, because British board of education, who has just made is used up to resist and overhis appointment good by rewinning his seat in vitality come abuse. parliament at Dewsbury, has anything but an When are directed to provide easy task ahead of him. His predecessor at the good food jou for your chickens, it means and aggressive McKenna, post, the of sound, to give them a who has been promoted to the admiralty, left wholesome food. variety swiftly and easily. Fig. 3 is a top view as a heritage for his successor many enmities, The greater the variety of food and Fig. 4 is a side view. This tool and in successfully smoothing these over the inch to the better, but it should be made of steel about given new minister will be earning his $10,0(10 a year. should he poultry wholesome and such wide and he fitted to a handle ; limit dean, His biggest task, of course, will he to effect some as four feet long. The inside of the they relish. sort of a compromise with honor" on the eduedge should he kept sharp. young poultry out of keep Always cation hill of the government, which has aroused wet of planting, I find, is an imrun never to and them allow Depth grass so much opposition among the clergy of the at large when the weather is cold portant factor in securing a good stand of corn, continues the writer .,i country. enough to thoroughly chill them. vy tf With the exception of Winston Churchill, All kinds of Fresh and n, A great many poultry raisers may in the Rural New Yorker. From one-hal- f iV Runciman is the youngest member of the new make mistakes in their to one inch deep and the soil Cured Meats ; Green and profits. Nearwas in the latter part of 1870, so he is not yet born He liberal If all ministry. do firmed down Is about right. us who all of those hut do, Groly and Fancy Staple 38 years of age. conditions are not right, some corn should also profit by their mistakes. ceries. We handle tho Runciman is one of the most popular members of parliament. He is an Sick birds never produce eggs or may not he covered at all while some Farmers Products, and excellent speaker and one of the best campaigners in the liberal party. His skill raise healthy chickens. The healthier may he covered three or four Indies the old stock is, the more eggs will deep, and both conditions are fatal to pay CASH for all Fat and wit at repartee is widely known. Runciman, besides being a shrewd politician, is a sharp business man. He he received and the healthier will he germination. If a single drill be used Butcher Stock. Nos. 47 of a renowned family of shipowners, the members of which are big the offsprings. comes it should have a small press wheel to 55 North Academy and that neighborhood. Newcastle-on-Tyn- e In Use Insect powder freely. Dust the behind tiie shoe to regulate the depth guns 39-2. Avenue. Phone ministry Runciman was first parliamentary mothers at least once each week un of planting, as well as to firm the soil In the Campbell-Bannermaboard, over which John Burns presided and der the wings and in the thigh feath- over the seed. Of course most double local to the government secretary still rules, and afterward parliamentary secretary to the treasury, of which ers. Any of the reliable insect pow- planters have the wheels following the Mr. Haldane, the lawyer and philosopher and especial friend of II. H. Asders will prove successful. shoes, but owing to varying soil condito be due to the enthuDucks and geese may be fattened tions t be shoes may run at almost quith, the new prime minister, is the head. It Is said siastic recommendations of both of his former chiefs that Runciman was ad- very quickly on boiled turnips, pota any depth. A year or two ago a neighvanced to full cabinet rank when the work of reconstruction was made necestoes and carrots thickened with oat- bor fitted woodf n floats to the shoes meal. They should be confined for of his planter and so could exactly sary by the death of the late premier. this purpose and fed five times a day regulate tho depth of planting. These floats were about one foot long and regularly. five indies wide, and, in use, followed CHICKEN CATCHER. the surface of the field at all times, John H. Converse, leader of the movement so that all the corn was put in at the deThe Philadelphia doctor who for a world-widevangelistic campaign to be be- One Which Will Make Task of Getting same depth. Tim planter frame must clared recently that the buttercup was gun by the Presbyterian church, rose from an not he locked down, but must he left Chicken an Easy One. the cause of measles, and now iises employe of the Baldwin locomotive works, Philto follow (he surface. (Fig. 5.) 1 free again to remark that it is also responto the head of that great concern. I to adelphia, when used as now notice that there is a similar deDo you, do, you sible for cancer, obviously has no vsywf, When Mathias Baldwin began to make locomowant fried chicken on short notice vice, hut made of iron, upon the marpoetry in his soul. s of a century ago it required tives run it down, pro ket, and judging from my own experialmost one year to build the famous Old Ironvided it doesn't ence sad) a contrivance is a valuable Here are some interesting figures 100 locomotives a week is the sides. run you down addition to any planter. In cloddy given by the New York Herald for record under Mr. Converses supervision. asks a writer in ground tinse floats work all light; the uset of gas meters: In three months lie was born In Burlington, Vt., in 1840, and oift of 2,805 Farm and Home Idg clods are either crushed or pushed comafter ;vw meters tested, I have found a aside, and the corn Is covered with still retains his loyalty to his New England anplaint, 524 were correct, 1,820 were cestry by serving as one of the members of the better way now in fastening a barrel well pulverized soil. After the cirn ast and 601 were slow. New England Society of Pennsylvania, of which hoop securely to a handle about siv comes up and you notice a few missA he has been president for several terms. He feet long, and to it fastening a minister in New Jersey is telling ing hills, let them go; do not reAW wlves not to boss their left school at the age of 21 and entered journalhusbands, three feet deep. A piece of an plant. The surrounding hills have the which shows how even in this enism, giving it up for a position with the Chicago old hammock is fine for the bag, o. start of the icpiants, and beaten in Two years later he went to the Pennsylvania horsenet or fish n t anything tie the race for mois'wre and fertility, Co, lightened age some men will go blind& Northwestern Railway ly up against the most primitive in Railway Co., and worked In the Altoona shops of that concern. Four years chicken cannot get out of. Lay it oi the replants will make but a few weak In three years he had demonstrated the ground, call the chickens stincts of the eternal feminine. am' stalks of frdd'T. if yon do not replant later he went with the Baldwin company. of men sufficient to attract the ata an and manager mechanic over corn the a hag, as the throw the surrounding s'alks will produce his ability In this r country the death rate among tention of the owners of the Baldwin shops, and he was invited to become a when one suitable goes on lift up th ears anil thin make up for the miners is 3.4 to eveiy thousand 1873. it- If the bag i loss of the missing hill. in was have and This you hoop employed. In Belgium in 1906, the partner. made not over one foot deep, a Since Mr. Baldwins connection with the works it has become the locomonumber was 0.94, in Great Britain it to RusKill Weeds Early. Germany, France, in cut, it can be dropped duw shipped engines of shown the world, having was 1.29, in France It was 84 in 1905, tive builder South America, Mexico, Australia, and in 1899 It built 70 jver me chicken while eating. Start the cultivator before the Japan, Africa, sia, and in Prussia it was 1.8 in 1904. weeds start and you will never have locomotives for English railways. in religious, educational and financial ciras is a foul piece of ground. Possession is prominent Converse Milk. Mr. Scalded Certainly, there are plenty of in a several He is director and banks locomotive to be nine points of law. Whethbuilding. of said that in raisers say tha' Some poultry cles as who run carefully and reof Philadelphia, and a notable example of the type of scalded milk Is good for chicks tha er it he the weeds or the cultivation institutions financial does ject public rights. But that that take possession of the field first, Is was recently furnished by hia contribution of nearly a million dol- have bowel trouble. We have neve nt make It hny the less painful for man he reinstate the Real Estate Trust Co. of Philadelphia, which had been tried it, but merely pass the sugges- the one that is late will have R hard the man who Is knocked down and lars to time making its presence felL wrecked by the reckless speculations of its cashier. tion along. killed by one of the reckless percenthard-hittin- g li Packing ,r. --j n PROVO MEAT and PACKING G LEADS WORLD WIDE REVIVAL e three-quarter- To-da- y ut auto-tnobllis- age. t; ' s FENCING DRY GULLIES, How a PROVO, UTAH Provo Meat and in-it- Barrier Can Be Put Up That Will Not Wash Away. As (he system of grain farming changes to one of general farming Including stock, the Biibject of fencing Is naturally a very Important one. With the various fencing now manufactured to he used where wood Is sections scarce, or In the timber l where material for building fences is plentiful, the matter id constructing suitable fences for turning stock is comparatively simple, la either ease, however, there are always gullies to he crossed in which there Is running water part of the year but in (lie summer they are completely dried up and the stock free to post-anil-rai- A Dry Gully Fence. pass from one field to another through the dry gully, it is pretty hard to run a fence across a small stream as the first heavy rain is liable to carry it away. Here, says the Farmer, is a suggestion for overcoming this difficulty. By hanging a frame from two supports placed on either bank of t lie gully a swinging gate can soon he made that will turn stock. When the gully Is dry the gate effectually ciosi s the opening while lu times of freshets It swings out with the Increasing volume of water, The frame can be spiked together In a very short time, although it may he framed together If a more elaborate gate is desired. By placing tin rails close together near the lint tom such a gate can ho made to uni any kind of stock. CARRIER. A WOOD Rack Which Will Aid One in Carrying a Big Load. Carrying in wood is a chore that the hoys do not like and older folks bo-L- - j the time. making a rack grudge By with four legs, as shown in the illustration, enough wood may be carried in at one trip to last, a day or two. The outside bars may be four or six feet long, the ends rounded for handles. Small stakes hold the wood from rolling off the ends and when loaded it may he conveniently handled by two persons. The Old Applo Orchard. The old apple orchard may be mada useful by getting rid of tin- grass and putting some crop into the orchard that will not take very much from tho trees in the way of plant fond, hut that will cover t be ground. Tho crop should he something that will not require the orchard to he deeply plowed, for that will destroy many of tho roots of the trees. In the attempts to recuperate apple orchards, this has been the mistake mane thn debt melton of the roots of the trees or at least a large percentage of them. The suckers should be cut from the trees, and tin dead limbs eliminated. It Is seldom that much can be gained by severe pruning, except where an unusually large amount of wood has been made. - Less In Flooded Fields. During the recent heavy rains we have noted the huge loss of fertility through flooding of fields. In one large field where the water was standing some inches deep, hundreds of piles i of manure were to he seen. The water in the field had a slight current, Which was carrying off the manure from tiie idles and was also carrying off other fertility washed out of tho Lack of proper outlet plowed soil. fer the water was the cause of this-mea- wasta. ; I f. t i t |