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Show r Y THE S ALINA SUN. SALINA, UTAH soil to the drying and baking effects of sun and wind. The writer employed this method one year on a 15 acre field, gainst the advice of some agriculturists, and secured 21 tons THE SAUNA SUM Issued Every Friday at Satina, Sevier County, Utah. Subscription Rates One Year Six Months Three Months PAYABLE IN ADVANCE $2.00 1.00 75 No matter what make No matter how old on the purchase price of a new Premier Duplex Electric Vacuum Cleaner. Harrowing Assuming that the plowing is done Entered at the Postoffice at Salina, Utah, as Second Class Mail as desired, the next thing is to fit the surface. As you know, a good Matter under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. re-- j peg tooth harrow is all that is quired to close up the intertices and ADVERTISING RATES. fine the surface the desired amount. 25 issue, inch Per Matter month, single $1.00; Display If the plowing has been first class, per Special position 25 per cent additional. oftentimes a leveler can be used, if Legals Ten cents per line each insertion. Count six words to line. it is followed by the harrow; for it is Readers Ten cents per line each insertion. Count six words to line. Lest to plant on a'roughened surface. Blackface type Fifteen Cents per line for each insertion. If climatic conditions have not perObituaries, Cards of Thanks, Resolutions, Etc., at Half Local Read- mitted first class plowing, then judgment must be used as to the various ing Rates, Count Six Words to the line. For Sale, For Rent, Found, Lost, Etc., Ten Cents per line for Each methods to meet the situation. It Insertion. may be that the disc or the spring NO CHARGE ACCOUNTS. tooth, or possibly the roller or a combination of all, may be required. That method should be employed, however, which will, with the least H. W. CHERRY, Publisher. expense and with the implements at hand, approach as nearly as possible a condition of good tilth. By this 1 mean, not a' surface so fine as to be shifted by winds, but one in a condition that may be termed granular. Such a one will resist wind action and will not puddle easily or form a hard crust in case of rain This is an other ease where a fixed rule cannot be given. The amount of work required will depend very materially (The following article, taken from the February 17 issue of Facts upon the soil condition. If dry, too About Sugar and written by H. W. Griffin, agricultural superintendent much can scarcely be done. On the at Ft. Collins, Colo., will, prove of much interest to the sugar beet other hand, if wet, care must be exThe article is exaustive and treats on many growers of this section. ercised that as little be done as necof the Ed). industry. phases essary to get the land at all in a fit condition and thus avoid puddling it. In handling soil to grow beets This is especially true of adobe or what do we actually find? A beet or production as could have b crop can be grown upon & great secured had the land been plowed heavy clays. At this point the firmness of the variety of soils, unlike some crops properly, and the same holds true it bed must be given attention. I seed to certain which are confined types it turns over a loose, dry, of land. Consequently, rules for nght say it should not be too loose handling one class of soil may not What do we mean by properly or too compact, which is the comserve for another. Then, there are plowed? We mean that the soil, monest way of expressing it. But always those varying climatic fea- while being plowed and while pushing what is meant by such terms? The tures with which we have to reckon. up against the and be- right degree of compactness is essenThe effect that moisture conditions ing turned, should have sullicient tial for the following reasons: To exclude such a free movement may have on one kind of soil may be moisture to be crumbled into a fine turned An that of on is, air through the soil as to readily another. condition; different granulated wholly adobe soil must be handled differently over into a mass so composed that dry it out, especially so with the beet fiom a sandy soil. There are the the rootlets of the small plant can because of the hull on the seed. To make the capillary attraction find the greatest amount of moist loams, which require still different This as a such that the young beet can readily feeding ground. particles Different degrees of vast tieatment. number of minute particles will secure a sufficient water supply tomoisture will vary the method, as retain a maximum amount of moisgether with plant food. will wnd currents, fertilization, and ture. The packing and crumbling Now, how can this be determined? with the moisture will put the son In words, I can express it in no bet-e- r other factors. in such condition that the air and way than to say that the seed If a certain specific condition were sun can work those chemical changes should have a springy feeling bed placed before me, perhaps I might that make for production. It stands like stepping give some idea of how to meet the to reason that the time to plow is underfoot, somethingin other a on words, a mattr;s; situation; that is how that particular when these results will be most easihalf more make should not than drill soil should be handled to get the ly procured. inch an of depression. lack in the most out of it It is Specific Flowing Problems this specific condition that the difPlanting ficulty lies in trying to lay down Now that is what should be done, This brings us up to the time of specific rules. but what can be done is another the seed. The way in which drilling Some General Rules matter. As a rule our moisture con- this is done may materially alter reon However, there are certain under- ditions will permit of so doing sults. I refer to drilling the seed soils and in most of our clays, when the soil is so wet that it will lying principles which will apply in sandy with but heavy clays and with what not readily shed from the drill runall cases fundamentals in agricultural practice that can always be may be termed adobe soils it is sel- ners or the press wheels. Sometimes The greater the knowl- dom that a time can be secured when a wait of only half a day will make employed. the more easily the right kind of moisture prevails. a difference between a good and poor fundamentals of edge It is usually too dry to crumble or so be met the problems may crop, due to a proper granulation of A smooth surface favors blowing wet that it turns over in one soliu the soil at drilling time. I have of land. Conversely, a rough surface mass; hence the only time to plow known many instances of poor stands retards the shift A smooth surface soils of this adobe character is in .end much reduced tonnage by failwill increase velocity of wind and the fall, letting Nature do for you ure to wait just a short time for the what you are not sure of being abh hasten evaporation. ground to get sufficiently dry to drill A mulch breaks up the capillarity to do if the w'ork is left until spring If it sticks at all one had better wait of the soil grains and reduces eva- Such soils w'ill frequently become so until it is right, for your only salvaporation. Conversely, a hard or com- fine by spring that measures must bi tion for satisfactory results will be taken to prevent blowing. With othei a rain pact soil hastens evaporation. following immediately. The greater the size of the soil soils, however, it is different. With less water the holding them all possible effort should be particles the Handling Crust made to plow at such times as propet capacity of the soil. Another feature that might come Oxygen is essential to plant life work can be done, which with u is and is obtained from the air through usually in the spring, because as a under this heading is how to handle the roots. general rule our fields are dry and the soil to combat crust. There are Heavy fertilization retards matur- - (j0 not; carry the required amount ol crust breakers and crust breakers, moisture in the fall. but through an experience of over ity. Stirring of the soil increases bacAgain, there are conditions which twenty years I have yet to find anyterial activity and changes the chemi- arise where plowing is not essential thing that is a success except a harcal constituents. or permissible. As an illustration row constructed for this particular Adding organic matter to the soil of where it is not essential, we might purpose. A harrow of the proper increases its water holding capacity. mention land that has been in po- type fan be used at all times and in tatoes the previous year, especially if such a way as to preclude all danger Plowing quite sandy. The cultivation and dig-- j of lost stand due to crust, providing The thoroughly practical part con- ging of the potato crop have ac-- ! of course that proper methods of sists in knowing how land should be complished the disintegration of the planting have been employed. To sum up: Owing to the adap plowed and harrowed, floated, drilled, soil for which we ordinarily employ the plow. Some surface manipula- tability of the beet for all classes of cultivated, etc. Plowing is ordinarly the first oper- tion, either with the disc or spring-toot- soil, it is not possible to establish a ation performed in handling the soil. may be all that is needed to cut and dried method for the handThis statement may be modified to put it in proper physical trim. Here ling of the crop, as it is for some say that in many instances discing is a good illustration of why a knowl- other crops which do well only on should precede plowing. This should edge of the particular condition to be certain types of land. be done if the surface is compact, met is necessary and why specific There are certain well defined if the land is covered with stubble rules cannot be given. fundamental principles that apply and or trash, or to get manure in such a As an illustration' of what is not, can be employed at any time. These condition that may be readily turned; permissible, we may mention adobe lie at the base of the work, and beunder, etc. If the ground is clean beet land on which a late harvest cause of the general application and damp, so that in turning the fur- would not permit plowing. If such should be taught and retaught. row slice the soil will readily crumble, a condition is followed by a wet Many other features which may winter and spring, it is better not to be termed practical must be modified discing expense may be omitted. Plowing is the manipulation upon attempt plowing in the spring, but to meet the varying conditions of which we should depend to put the to resort to a This meth- soil and climate, but which can the soil in proper physical condition. If od will loosen the lower stratas, leav- more readily be met by a basis of the soil plows cloddy no amount of ing the surface well mulched, and reasoning founded upon fundamental work afterward can get as good tilth will not expose any portion of the principles. for your old Cleaner $12.50 per acre. To get the land properly plowed is perhaps the most essential operation of the many manipulation in beet culture. . j I What suction wont do a brush will j I What a brush wont do suction will -- Now Comes The Two In One Duplex Handling Soils For Higher Beet Yields 100 Percent Suction 100 Percent Brush Call our office for Demonstration lifeless-mass- Telluride Power mold-boar- d 4 ; T ? h, sub-soilin- g. INDUSTRIES VERSUS SECURITIES Thoro seems to be the disposition of Congress and of the state exlegislatures to create additional taxes for industries and to further empt securities from taxation. In Congress the Ways and Means Committee has been authorized to give privileged status to the proposed constitutioual amendment - PUBLIC SALES We have purchased 122,000 pair U. Army Munson last shoes, sizes 5 Vi to 12 which was the entire surplus stock of one of the largest U. S. Government shoe contracts. S. prohibiting further issue of tax exempt securities. Prediction is said to have been made by Representative Wingo, that a constitua member of the Banking and Currency Committee, This shoe is guaranteed one huntional amendment to outlaw tax exmpt bonds would never be ratified dred percent solid leather, color dark by the required number of states even if it received approval of Con tan, bellows tongue, dirt and watergress. The best that probably can be accomplished issues taxable. is to make all INVESTORS NATIONS SAFETY Every man is a capitalist who spends less than he makes," says James R. Emery, counsel of the National Association of Manufacturers. "Today the whole system of individual possession and personal socialistic assult. freedom is undergoing world-wid- e Propagandists of unrest are striving to convince the workers that collectivism is bound to replace individualism and that the laying away for the rainy day is futile, for property rights are not rights at all, according to Marxian dogma. Whoever excite sthrift in another helps that other to become and remain an owner of property. Every man who helps another build a home adds a hostage to social order. Every man who helps another to becomme a shareholder in industrial enterprise gains a recruit for social stability. Parallel Situations. As far as we can make It out, the condition of the starving Russians i closely parallels that of the negro who stopped a stranger with an appeal for a quarter to get something to eat. Why dont you go to work and earn your own quarters? asked the selected victim of the touch. To tell you 4 de truf, boss, said the perishing At- riean, by de time I gits hungry enough to be willin to work Im so weak I kalnt work till I gits some grub." San Francisco Argonaut suc- They spent arranging for a Goodness, yesl It In , . Philosophy Well Defned. Philosophy Is but common sense by more circuitous route. Zunwell. 296 Broadway, New York, N. Y. There Is a Golden Mean. He who never relaxes Into sportive-nes- s Is a wearisome companion, but beware of him who Jests at everything. Thought Vor the Day. Dont get all puffed up If people lsually remember you ; there are some !aces that Just cant be forgotten. v Mutually Satisfied. the last weefc of quiet divorce. National Bay State Shoe Company We have a beautiful line of Spring Goods arriving at our Our Silks have arrived and they are beautistore daily. ful. Wd st'll have a big selection of PETERS Shoes on display in our windows. See Them. J Was their honeymoon a Send correct size. Pay postman on delivery or send money order. If the shoes are not as represented we will cheerfully refund your money promptly upon request. Spring Goods j Ethel cess? Clara proof. The actual value of this shoe is $6.00. Owing to this buy we can offer same to the public at $2.95. SALINA CASH STORE - K P. C. Scorup Prop. H - -:- -S - .j. |
