Show DOMESTIC ECONOMY As the old year was p passing assing away my mind reverted back to the labors of a few who with their capital invested with their skill and energy are trying to build up some of the industries of our mountain home bome it may be urged by some that theirs is is a selfish proposition alter after all and we dont need to think men are going to pay out their means without first figuring on returns of a substantial character to themselves but kind reader I 1 do think there are men who are doing this very thing all that is necessary is to review the history of utah on that line and we have a thorough exemplification ot it even now there is hardly a home institution paying anything like a fair dividend leave all that as it is let us see ce who are the direct benefactors of our country and who of us are sustaining them I 1 make the proposition to start with that there is from seven to ten million dollars goes out from our state annually that could be kept in circulation at home that is keeping within the possibilities we will say there are people in utah and each individual wears a pair of home made shoes we can place the average cost at the nominal sum oi of si i and we have more to do business with but the average will reach about 2 which will give us a halt half million suppose we have to pay a little more for our foot wear who of us are injured by it none if all the shoes now worn were made inside at home aud and if they were it would require about five times the present capacity to make them for illustration say there are at present zoo persons employed making shoes if the census figures correctly and it is generally conceded that five persons in utah constitute a family and as one of a family can as a rule support the remainder we have soo furnishing the of life by that one industry now if we need five times as many manufacturers to supply the trade we would have soo employed and supported nor is it confined to the workers only consider for a moment the consumers and the producers ot of the material the farmer naturally wants a market tor for his product but how bow few ever stop to think that by wearing some of those home made shoes they are employing some of that makers and giving them and their families something to buy the product of their farms for it must be taken into consideration that the employed emp loyes have no time to raise eatables now we have 50 employed fed and a market of for the former what about the larmer farmer also being enriched simply by patronizing the manufacturer of his shoes on this line of thought dear reader let us dwell for a few moments it will wilf not be necessary forthe for the writer to draw the he picture I 1 would imagine every thinking person would make his calculations along this line not only the work but the material growing the tanning stock the cattle from which the bides are taken the tanning and all that makes labor and means for our people we now pay transportation east and employ eastern labor to do our work and transportation back while our people are walking the streets in search of employment and are obliged to eat the bread of charity when abundantly able to work it a half million of dollars could be saved in shoe leather alone what may we say if our lull full suit was made at home the wool growing the carding the spinning and weaving the toilers boilers and dress makers besides blankets I 1 bedding etc we can safely say from so 50 cents to aioo a family and as there are families we can safely figure on an irom from three to five million dollars then there is the soap we are a cleanly people and use lots of soap we have three factories of sufficient capacity to make all we need still we send from thirty to fifty thousand dollars away each year for soap export our tallow and hire others to make it up then buy it back again our farmers have been buying imported hog meat at the same time complaining at the low price of grain and lucern at least annually has been going out of pur agriculture and stock raising count for hog product california and nd ne york have been furnishing a grm ing country with her dried and frei fruits her wine and cider nebra fc kansas and other eastern states h hal been furnishing us with our poultry a our eggs A very little molasses pickles is made now even vinegar i imported cheese and other dairy pi ducts come from other states we ve p 3 even buying wheat and oats from west farmers sell their wheat at 60 60 me ce and buy it back rolled flat fiat for three tour four 0 consistency truly thou art jewell jewel opening up the new year let us th thil of these things and see if we cannot wiser and better the coming year ai instead of feeding ceding hundreds of won w poor in idleness let them earn the th bread by honest toil UTAH HOME INDUSTRY I 1 A recent experiment made by the well known french physicist camillo fiam at the agricultural and clima experiment station at indicates plainly the effect of different colored light upon plants and the result io is of special cial value practically and theoretically hedw cally ly to plant physiologists and it has been clearly sho shown by the various experiments that ordinary colorless light is represented by natural sunlight because when ex piew joeed only to it health and natural h growth reign colored light according to toe the particular color used causes either one sided aided acceleration or retard 1 of the development of the plant a his bis most interesting exper experiment imen t flam Mt marion narion adopted the plan of expos espos mt sensitive plants mimosa sensitiva he raised from seed to different colored light these plants are specially sensitive censi tive to the effect of 01 light and to t touch and were therefore well adapted for marions experiment r ho he planted a number ot of seeds and v they reached a height i of about one incho inch were planted pante in in pots te pairs and placed in a hothouse where y pot t received the same quantity ot of a hhand t and an even temperature prevailed 3 flirt 4 the plants were subjected to the conditions but the experimenter placed over some of the plants bells of sapi arcen e red or flue glass while others fc the sunlight through the plain of the hothouse win window ow the oft tet oi of the colored light was soon per p Ht tible in the development of the f and the more they developed plainer this difference became until akabe at the end of two months the plants i the red glass were sixteen inches M h those under the green glass were boly y v five inches and those under the 0 glass were only one inch high while that had bad been left in the col tight light were four inches high he he red light forced the plants most fat or those subjected to it blossomed five abts ak after the seeds were planted and the news were much longer than the tema of the other plants the aigler tuft oce between them and those exposed to t the blue light was most ma marked aked the leaves of 0 the latter were indeed dark green while the leaves of those subjected to the red light were pale poor ul but the plants themselves W unhealthy and stunted they lu gained nothing in height since they WOM were placed under the blue glass therefore it was proved that the blue light was not only an impediment but ft actual oury injury to vegetation the y each of the red light was noticeable not ot tinly only in the growth of the plants but r also in their sensitiveness for even the slightest lightest touch a breath was sufficient to cause the leaves to close and the e stems to droop the plants ex posed poked only to white light were not so h easily affected and those raised under blue ue glass were not at all sensitive those raised under white light must ba oc considered normal they were more bocky stocky and showed a greater tendency to bud but the buds did not open Flam marion extended his experiments to other kinds of plants such as get ger etc but in all cases blue light iD injurious jurious to vegetation and plants that were exposed to its influence for months showed no development all the functions of the plant organism seemed to be suspended the truit fruit of strawberry plants devel aped under bells of different colors but varied considerably in size and quality as in some cases the leaves were developed at the expense of the fruit and in other cases as when the plants were exposed to blue light growth was impeded in every way by making these investigations flam marion has given an impulse to the study of the subject and now results will be obtained which will be of practical use in gardening and the tion of plants der stein der weisen |