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Show THE S ALIN A SUN. SALINA, UTAH The Defense of Tort Stephenson Sheep Do Well on Intermountain News Alfalfa Pastures Briefly told for Busy Readers GOIJ) MINES PAYING PLAN SUGAR DAY FETE IMPROVE WATER SUPPLY WINNING JOB WAR NOW MOTORISTS PAY BIG TAX Experiments Result in Acreage of the Popular Crop Being Doubled. By W. O. Kammlade, Assistant Chief In 8heep Husbandry. College of Agrlcul-turUniversity of Illinois. e. BOISE, IDA. Ada county collected 74.3 per cent of the 1932 tar with 83.1 per charge, eonq.-nrecent of the 1931 tax. OGDEN, UT. The state convention for the lfiah department of the American Legion will be held here August 24, 25 and 26. LE1I I, UT. The Utah Sugar day colebratlou and the Lelil mammoth three day rodeo will be held here on August 17, 18 and 19. TOOELE, UT. It is announced that the president has approved of tire application of Tooele for a loan of $50,000 from the It F. C. for the reconditioning and extension of the city water system. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. The federal emergency relief administration has granted $379,491 to Utah, bringing the total granted for relief under the new policy of relief grnnts to $744,061. BOISE, IDA. Rising prices and expanding employment have materially reduced the demands on the states relief department. BOISE, IDA. $335,000 will be spent In Valley county under the federal work plan. BOISE, IDA. Idaho motorists have paid $2,045,020.24 towards the upkeep of the state and county roads since the beginning of 1933, the department of law enforcement has announced. LOGAN, UT. An addition to the post office is to he constructed here at a cost of $46,000. UT. Substantial ImPROVO, provement in employment nnd wages for Utah knitting mill workers will result when the Industry begins to operate under a national recovery act code, It is believed. LOGAN, UT. The possibilities of manufacturing Swiss cheese in this county are being investigated by the Farm bureau of Cache county. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Livestock men and farmers of the territory covered by the 11th Regional Agricultural Credit corporation have been loaned $15,150,000. The report Is based on operations of the regional office with branches at Reno, Phoenix, Los Angeles and San Fran- WNU Service. Alfalfa, .to which Illinois farmers are .turning as a substitute for corn and some of their other surplus crops, has proved in' experiments to be one of the best pastures for the 699, 000 sheep and lambs on farms of the state. Even with lamb valued at only 5 cents a pound, alfalfa pasture brought a gross return of $24 an acre in experiments conducted last year by the The alfalfa maintained an college. average of seven ewes and twelve lambs an acre for 100 days. During the time the lambs were on pasture They gained enough weight to equal 480 pounds of lamb an acre. In addition the pasture maintained the ewes. Tills Is In line with experiments which have been conducted at several different experiment stations during the past few years and which show that an acre of alfalfa furnished more feed and produced more pounds of Iamb than any other crop. Largely as a result of experiments conducted by the College of Agriculture, alfalfa has become such a successful and popular crop in the state that the acreage of it has been tripled in the past 14 years. In 1919 only acres were grown, while last year the total was 288, 000 acres. It was the experiment station of the agricultural college which first discovered and demonstrated that the cause for the general failure of alfalfa in Illinois was the lack of suitable nodule' bacteria in the soil. Since then the Institution has followed up with numerous experiments establishing superior varieties, Improved cultural methods and profitable utilization of the crop. As a pasture for sheep and lambs alfalfa seems to lie much less likely to cause bloat If the sheep are placed on it nnd not removed. This is the opposite of what Is commonly advised. A satisfactory method to follow seems to be to let the sheep have a good fill of bluegrass or to feed them a large amount of palatable roughage before they are turned on the alfalfa and then leave them on Under this plan no continuously. cases of bloat have been reported In experimental work. When alfalfa was pastured this way last year in the Illinois experiments, It seemed to be little, if any, more likely to cause bloat when wet than when dry. 88,-96- 8 Then Colonel Elliott, pretending to be fear-"f- u for Shipps safety, urged him to return to the fort at once. As he started, an Indian Sprang from the hushes and tried to wrest his sword .from him. Dixon pretended to drag the savage away with great difficulty a bit of play acting which did not frighten the young ensign in the least Croghan, standing on the walls of the t to his envoy, immedifort and seeing ately shouted Come in, Shipp, and we'll blow !" .. 'enj all to h . Convinced tnat the garrison could not be bluffed out, the British began their bombardment which continued at intervals all night, during park-- ; which time they, landed five ing three of them in a battery on a hill covered ' . PI an .of Fort Stephenson by trees about 250 yards from the stockade. , From this position they opened a furious fire . the next morning to which the Americans made-' Huntthe little reply. During night also, Captain .Dy ELMO SCOTT WATSON '''Ace . Croghan .er, Croghans. second in command, anticipating N A park a short' distance from the an assault on the northwest corner of the s'toek-.- center of the fcity of Fremotit,- .Ohio, .the British to attack either Erie or Upper San- -' does ade, had dragged Old Betsyto the blockhouse which monument a stands . tall dusky. on thp.iiorth wall placing it so it would rake the not differ enough from the usual 'Civil . To' defend this post Croghan had a force of a ditch. The little cannon was filled with a half hundFeds-oin found war' memorials, '. little "over 150 men. and the following officers, charge of powder, because of the short range, towns throughout" the United States, . most of them younger than Croghan himself: and a double charge of slugs and bullets. The cause and motorist to stop the passing '. Capt. James Hunter, Lieuts. Benjamin Johnstoa was masked so the British would not porthole him to read the inscription thereon, and Cyrus A. Baylor, Ensigns John Meek, Joseph ; the presence of the gun there. is suspect which, lint nearby there something Dyncan and Edmund Shipp. Lieutenant Ander- - . In Late is quite likely to halt him before -' the, afternoon of August 2 a storming son, who had no command, served as a volunon his way. It is a little cannon," party of 300 British rushed for the northwest teer in the ranks. it he also had a . ' corner wfiile a party of 200 grenadiers made a between the wheels of whose'carriage is a metal . solitary piece of artillery, the little detour through the woods and advanced to at- plate which tells him that this Is. Old Betsy now .knowh to fame as Old Betsy, the affec. . Cannon used by .Major George Croghan against' ' tack the south wall. Under cover of a fierce fionnte titje bestowed upon it by Croghans men. fire from the batteries the storming party dashed the British arid Indians in the . defense. of Fort Late in July, 1S13, General Proctor with a forward and because of the smoke their pres- Stephenson, August; 1 And 2, 1813. Back of that .'. force of. 600 British regulars and some 3,00(J.. ence was not discovered until they were less ' Indians Under Tecumseh crossed the lake from ' brief inscription is the story of one of the most than- - 20 yards ' from the fort. Immediately .brilliant feats li American history. . .Malden and appeared before Fort Meigs on the Croghans men poured a deadly rifle fire upon It Is the- story of a youthful American' military" Mauhiee. Failing in his attempt to draw tts gar-- , were thrown Into confusion the attackers-whrison out into a sortie, he determined to make leader. and his seven equally youthful subalterns ' ' . for a moment. . . . whd. seta high' example of courage and daring a dash against Fort Stephenson, capture It and LieutenAnt-Coloneand l Short sprang to the .Then it. emulate, for future young. Americans-tfall 'upon General Harrison's small force at head of the .column. Waving his sword in the is .the story of a gun, insignificant in appearSeneca Falls about 10 miles up the river. Ilat-- . rison had previously inspected the fort and, ber ance, which- vitally affected the course of Aoier- air, he rallied his men who rushed forward with " fixed bayonets. At the edge of the ditch the Brilean history. "Big Bertha, of World war fame; . lieving It could not be held against artillery, ton shouted Come on, men! Well give the he directed Croghan, in case, the British apthe greatest pieee of artillery ever devised' by d d Yankees no- - quarter!" and .led the ntan, failed to break the morale of the French peared, to abandon the fort and retreat. So when ' . down Into the ditch and up the other side. For " his scouts told him of the coming of the enemy, and lqad to a German victory, as its builders had "But a little to sent a moment they were safe there, for the Amer-- . '.on he t of orders 29 'Old Betsy, Croghan hoped. July Jost in the cavernous depths of. to destroy, the place at once and retire to Seneca icahs could 'not "depress their rifles enough to which would-bshoot the enemy In the ditch without exposing the World war piece, once turned the tide in a ".. Falls.. . .The messengers bearing tliflse orders lost their themselves above the palisades to the tire of .crucial battte 120- years agft .and saved a verit'--. '. able empire frir the American fiag. the Indians. '. way in the woods, narrowly escaped capture by , ' . the Indians land did not .reach the fort, until the Before beginning that story, however; first But just at .this riioment fhe masked porthole morning of 'July 36. Croghan immediately called word about the chief actor In" it Maj. was, thrown open and the black snout of "Old . a- qOuncil of war of liis young, officers' and find- born' .was a, lie Kentuckian, IVetsy appeared. The next Instant she poured. George. Crogliah. ing them as. determined as he was, sent this note-out .a blast of lead at short range which killed near Louisville, November 15, 1791, and a neph.' 'to' Harrison:. Sir I have Just received 'yours ew of Georgh Rogers Clark, the" Savior "of the fir wounded no less than 50 men. Colonel Short of yesterday , ten oclock p. in., ordering me to GradOld "Northwest' during the Revolution. received .a mortal wound and with his last effort destroy this place, and make good niy retreat,, ' .... be raised his handkerchief on" the point of his uated from William and Mary college hi Virwhich was received 'too late to be carried into sword, pleading for the .inerey which but a moginia at the .age of eighteen, he served as a 'We have determined to maintain this .execution: to "the in Colonel aid expediment before be had said he wolild not give I volunteer Boyd. place, and, by heavens, we can !. tion commanded by Gen. William Henry Har--. Reeling back "from the slaughter pen. In the. rison which was sent to break up the conspirHarrison could not let such a .flagrant diso- - ' the surviving attackers beat a hasty re-.ditch, bediende of orders pasa by. lie immediately sent acy of Tecumseh; the great Shawnee chieftain, . treat, many of them being dropped by the long In 1811. Croghan distinguished himself at the Wells with a squadron of cavalry to rifles of the Kentuckians as they ran. The at- relieve Croghan" of his command and ordered Battle "of Tippecanoe, received an appointment beaten off tack on tlia south wall had also-beeIn the army and at the outbreak of the War of the young major to report at headquarters at with heavy loss to the British, but It was that . 1812 he was a ea'ptaln ip the Seventeenth intnrce. Croghan hastened to Harrisons camp and one terrible" blast from Old Betsy which had succeeded in placating his commander. so fhat fantry, from which rank , he was promoted to. turned the tide of battle. The British artillery . he was allowed to return to Fort Stephenson and major In the same regiment for gallantry in a resumed its.J)ombardinent but it was only half-- resume command with permission to try to hold sortie during the siege of Fort Meigs by the Irearted and Croghan knew t.hat he. had little ' . the fort against the expected British .attack. British. . .' more-tfear from. them. "... ' At came,, about noon of August 1 when Indians Soon afterwards he was sent with a battalion men mercifully During the night Croghan's in large numbers surrounded the fort.- - One of of his rcgime'nt, composed of some 160 officers lowered buckets of water to the wounded red"to of command but Fort reednnoiter men tree to red a take climbed .the and men, Stephenson, a small trench was dug coats in the ditch a ramshackle old stockade, built around a forhe was brought tumbling, down by a shot from" which allowed those who stockade under the mer Indian traders house at the head of naviga-- " the long rifle of one of the Kentuckians in the were- - able to crawl inside the fort. Some of tion on the Sandusky river, about 20 miles from fort .Then the Indians gathered in a body at those not so badly wounded managed to creep the edge of the clearing but one shot from Old Lake Erie, in Ohio. The modern city of. Fre. away across the clearing and rejoin their com- mont now stands .on that site but it is known quickly dispersed them. . Betsy mand unmolested. During the night, also, the About 4 oclock in the afternoon thq British in frontier history as Lower Sandusky, a rally- -' British foTe retreated, going so precipitously boats appeared around a bend in the river and ing place for the tribes of the Old Northwest ' that they left behind a boatload of stores and and the scene of. many. a dark ' deed of torture opened fire on the fort. Proctor's regulars were which fell into the hands, of the munitions "disembarked about a mile below the fort, a of white captives. .Americans the next morning. was made of 16 fire. was landed . howitzer and stockade about The posts opened Croghans Croghans faith In liis ability to hold the fort '. men dragged Old Betsy from porthole to portfeet high and outside them was a dry ditch more than justified. He had won a decisive was hole to send an occasional shot in reply and 8 or 9 feet wide and 5 or 6 feet deep. It enclover a greatly superior force, Inflicting victory osed-about an acre of ground and was laid' to give an impression of a greater artillery force. a loss of more than '100 out of the 500 enemy blockof his a and a So with form contest the . out in the parallelogram unequal began Croghan engaged, not counting the casualties among the 160 men and one gun against Proctor's force of . . house at the northeast corner and a guardhouse Indians, which are unknown. His own loss was on of with the 1,200 supplied north wall, at the southeast Midway artillery. plenty exactly one killed and seven wounded ! But more After a brief exchange of shots three British Croghan built another blockhouse from which Important than this defeat of an enemy force he could enfilade the ditch and he also strength."officers, Colonel Elliott Major Chambers and at such a cost to them was the fact that in hold- . ' ened the weak places in the stockade. Captain Dixon, came forward with a white flag Ing Fort Stpphenson he had saved the American to demand the surrender of the fort So Croghan Despite its unlmposing appearance, Fort supply depots and freed the state of Ohio from sent out Ensign Shipp, the youngest officer in . " Stephenson was an important post It was at the the fears of a hostile Invasion with its attendthe fort, to meet them. To the British officers apex of a triangle, the base line of which conant horrors at the hands of the red allies of demands that the fort be surrendered, Shipp re-- . nected Erie and Upper Sandusky. At Erie Oliver British. More than that, the outcome of the the Hazard Perry was busily engaged in building plied that the Americans were prepared to dewar might have been different If Proctor's In- fend it to the death of the last man and when the fleet with which he was to win his famous - vasion had been successful. Just as his dis one of them pleaded with him to prevent the naval victory later and at Upper Sandusky, uncle, George Rogers Clark, had done tinguished some 20 miles up the river from Fort Stephenslaughter which must follow resistance should a third of a century before, so had young George son, was the great depot of supplies for the you fall into the hands of the savages, Lnipp Croghan done again he had saved the Old made the spirited reply of When the fort shell American armies In the Northwest. So if Fort Northwest to the American flag. be taken there will be none to massacre Stephenson fell it would leave the way open for , by Western Newspaper Union.) the-insul- 1 Battle I - f ... , s . -- - the'-nigh- - ' . cisco. Soybeans With Corn Is Sure to Reduce Yield When corn and soybeans tire planted together, the presence of the soy- the yield of results from a series of experiments conducted for the Ohio agricultural experiment station beans always reduces corn, according Doctor Borst also found that when silage corn Is planted thickly enough to produce maximum yields, addition of soybeans In the row increases very little, if any, the total yield of silage. The protein content of the silage is, however, increased slightly, which improves its feeding value. If the crop Is to be hogged down, the practice of planting the two crops together is more desirable than It is when corn and soybeans are grown for silage. Better crops were obtained. Doctor Borst reports, when both plants were drilled In rows. Results were less satisfactory when the corn was planted in hills. " ' () to by II. L. Borst. - " . " Soap Making on Farms . - Last year witnessed a noticeable re vlval of soap making on farms, report) the extension sorlvice of the United States Department of Agriculture. Farm housewives In some sections of the country have made a little soap now and then as a matter of economy, but this old household art had, until recently, almost disappeared in many sections. In Oklahoma, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota, Colorado, Wyoming, Oregon, Washington, Wisconsin, and other states home demonstration agents have encouraged soap making on the farm as one of the ways to avoid cash outlay and make use of a farm waste. Safflower Grown in U. S. Safflower, which is grown In Egypt and India, grows best In the United area of MinStates in the spring-whea- t nesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Montana, says the Unit ed States Department of Agriculture. Advocates of the crop believe that demand for safflower seed would red alt In replacing some of the wheat adre-agSafflower Is not intended t replace flax but as a possible supplement to It. In normal times flax production Is about half of the fonsuroption. e. More People on Farms The farm population was 32,242,000 on January 1, 1933, compared with 31,- 241. 000 on January 1, 1932 a net gain of 1,001,000, according to the annual estimate of the United States Department of Agriculture. This Is the largest Increase recorded since 1920, the first year for which annual estimates are available. From January 11, 1930 to January 1, 1933 the farm population increased from 30,- 169.000 to the present high mark. The previous mark was 32,076,900 in 1910, - ELK CITY, IDA.-O- ver one thousand people have come into this region tills year in search of gold. A number of small placers are at work nnd some of them are paying very well. A fine deposit of lime near Orofino has been opened lip and re- ports state It promises to be one of the best In the state. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Employment of men In the operating department of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad company will continue to advance until Oc tober, when the height of traffic is usually reached. OGDEN, UT. Over ten thousand persons paid income tax in Utah for the year 1931. For the year of 1932 there were 1295 Income taxpayers. EVANSTON, WYO. The lamb crop, doe to heavy losses from the protracted cold weather of last winter, Is one of the smallest ever recorded, and will not exceed CO jier cent, growers state. GOODING , IDA. An alfalfa disease of the wilt variety Is responsible for decreasing yields of alfalfa on farm lands in the south half of Gooding county. GUNNISON, UT. Some one thousand turkeys proved to be good fighters against the webworm menace in tiie valley. The birds devoured the insects by the thousands. BUII'L, IDA. Early potato sliip- monts from this city totaled 1276 carloads for the season recently expiring. This compares with 1205 carloads for the previous season. IDA. Distemper this GRACE, season has resulted in a loss of sev- eral thousand dollars to Gem valley fox farm proprietors. BEAVER, UT. Dairying in this valley Is believed to be at Its top mark for the season. The supply arriving at market has been gaining for some weeks. POCATELLO, IDA.- -4 n dairy cattle club members are showing interest and aptitude for a new sys- tem of testing dairy cattle and keeping records of feed and profit. BOISE, IDA. Idaho will have & wheat crop this year estimated at 21.331.000 bushels, compared with 30.656.000 bushels harvested a year ago. BOISE, IDA. Over two hundred thousand gallons of beer were consumed in Idaho during the first few weeks of legalized beer sales or in the neighborhood of ten thousand gallons dally. PANACA, SEV. C. Lee, aged 45, was struck and killed by lightning as he was about to enter a residence. BOISE, IDA. The Idaho and Montana road between Dubois and Spencer Is to be oiled and surfaced In the near future, it is reported. . - |