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Show THE UINTAH BASIN FARMER Jap Strut Resented by Chinese People, Why the Chinese hate the Japanese so bitterly tins been a puzzle to the white man. Some explanation now is offered by K. K. Kawukami, a Japanese. Uis views in the Independent are with evident detachment from national interest and even with some sympathy for the Chinese point of view. The Chinese are badly treated by the foreigners who have invaded their country. They are obliged to submit to Jim Crow compartments in cars, and that in their own country. They are excluded from parks in the foreign quarters. The laborers in cotton mills are paid 40 cents a day and subjected to corporal punishment. Whatever the expediency, Chinese workers are bouten by their foremen whether the mills are owned by British or Japanese or even by the Chinese themselves. To their Chinese masters the Chinese submit as to inevitable fate. It is a family affair. To the lordly white man unwillingly but without loss of face. lie is one of the foreign devils that afflict the earth. But in the Chinese mind, says Kawakami, the Japanese is no yang-ku- i no foreign devil at all. He is ehia-ku- i an imitation devil. Japan, only yesterday the pupil of ancient China in the arts and culture, now gives itself airs. It struts about. The Japanese do not ride on the Chinese side of the Jim Crow cars, but on the white man's side. He goes at will into the white mans park. He beats the Chinese worker when it is himself who should be beaten by a Chinese for being an impudent imitator of the white man. San Francisco Chronicle. Plan to Drain Zuider Zee Holland has under consideration a project for draining part of the Zuider zee, the only available way in which the country can add more territory for its increasing population. Within the last 200 years the countrys area has been extended by reclamation projects from 8,000 to 12,000 square miles. Zuider zee has an area of approximately 900,000 acres, and while it is not Intended to reclaim all of this; It is said that about 500, 000 acres could be drained and thus add that much of very fertile land to the countrys area. The damming of Zuider zee, quite apart from its drainage, would result In benefit to the adjacent provinces, as the frequently occurring floods which cause enormous damage, would be a thing of the past. The estimated value of the land that would be reclaimed is $204,000,000. A Chicago Change The late Victor Lawson, the Chicago newspaper publisher, told one day at a luncheon a story about the changes In Chicago. When I was a boy, he said, you could go Into a candy store and buy a pound of good mixture for a quarter Well, a boy the other afternoon went into Chicagos fluest candy store and said : A quarters worth of mixture, please. "The salesgirl looked at him and laughed. Then she said as she handed him his quarter's worth : Heres two. yourself. Says Mongolians W ere Lime Quite Useful Many Important Red Men's Ancestors on Any Acid Soil That the American Indians had an Prob ems Solved common with the Mongolian Judicious Use to Be Favored Various State Experiment Where Manure Is Scarce. Stations Conducting Do not get the idea that you can Farm Projects. safely stop using lime Just because (Prepared by the writer of popular articles has questioned its value. This advice comes the United States Department of Agriculture.) from A. W. Blair, associate soil chemist at tlie New Jersey Coftege of Agexriculture, New Brunswick. In are planation of this he says: "There a few plants that do fairly well on an acid soil, but if you are engaged in general farming or trucking where the supply of farm manure is limited, you will be abundantly rewarded for the judicious use ol lime in some form. For the average soil, unless known to be highly acid, one to two tons of pul- verized limestone per acre or the equivalent in another form, once In a four or rotation, will usually be sufficient. One who spends all his days on the farm, and observes carefully the effect of fertilizers and lime on such crops as clover, alfalfa, and other legumes, is in a better position to measure the effect of lime on such crops than the one who makes an occasional visit to a farm or to some experimental plots. He knows full well that commercial fertilizers cannot fully take the place of lime. The soils gradually become acid, not because of the fertilizers, but in spite of them, and lime or some other basic materials must be added at intervals to replace certain substances that are constantly being lost through drainage waters and the removal of crops. When mineral fertilizers have been used continually without lime or manure, It is practically impossible to get clover and alfalfa to grow but add lime to this same land and vol unteer clover comes in, even to the partial exclusion of timothy ind other This fact has been demon grasses. strated many times on the soil fertilitj plots at the New Jersey agricultural experiment station. important problems In agriculture are being gradually solved by the experiment stations and the grist of knowledge given to the public. the various During the year 1924-2- 5 state experiment stations were condifducting projects dealing with 5,538 averan ferent phases of agriculture, In age of 110 projects per station. some instances projects are finished in one year, but in many cases several years may be required to complete the investigations and make the results applicable to practice. Wide Range of Subjects. A classified list of the different projects now being carried on by the stations has been prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture, which shows the wide range of subject matter covered by the experi-mentMany five-ye- al soil-buildi- work. Projects dealing with field crops lead in number, with a total of 1,817. Of the field crops under study, corn leads with 170 or more projects, wheat follows with 164, potatoes 102, cotton 99, alfalfa, 82, oats 81, and soy beans 58. Horticulture comes second with 952 projects, of which over 400 deal with orchard fruits, the leading fruit being apples 115 and peaches 45; 135 in small fruits; 275 with vegetables, the leading representative of which Is tomatoes 34; 65 with ornamentals; and 50 with nuts, the largest representatives of which are pecans 20 and walnuts 13. The third largest group is animal production with 926 projects, including among others poultry 205, dairy cattle 191, swine 1S9, sheep and goats 81. beef cattle 77, and horses and mules 12. Plant Pathology. Plant pathology is another larg group, having projects, of which 47 deal with potato disease. Projects in economic entomology number 372, 38 of which relate to bees and 22 to cotton insects. In addition to the projects carried dn at the state stations, the stations maintained by the department at Alaska, ' Hawaii, Porto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands have 150 projects, which increases the total to 482 5,688. -- Compare Soy Beans With Tankage to Fatten Hogs Windbreaks Should Have Attention Beforehand & jj. i friendships, to every mind which is really moving onward. It is this, that one cannot help using his early friends as the seaman uses the log, to mark his progress. Every now and then we throw an old schoolmate over the stern with a string of thought tied to him. and look I am afraid with a kind of luxurious and sanctimonious compassion to see the rate at which the string reels off, while he lies there bobbing "f anddown poor eiiw i are dashing along with the white foam and bright sparkle at our bows; the ruffled bosom of prosperity and progress, with a sprig of diamonds stuck In it! But this is only the sentimental side of the matter; for grow we must, if we outgrow all that we love. Oliver Wendell Holmes. Ana. In comparing a ration of shelled corn, soy beans and mineral mixtures. with shelled corn and tankage, in recent experiments at Purdue, Ind., it was found that soy bean hogs put on weight at a cost of $5.75 per hundred weight against $6.04 for the tankage fed animals, and the rate of gain was Luxurious Air Travel almost as much, 1.62 pounds per day service To be used In against 1.65 pounds per day. The cost between France and England, a single of corn and soy bean hogs, without the engined airplane, to mineral mixture, was $5.88 per hun- seat 14 passengers, has been built In dred. All the lots had a legume pas- a British aircraft factory. It has a ture. large, roomy cabin with wicker arm These results show that a pound of chairs for the passengers, who will soy beans practically replaced a pound have a constant supply of fresh air by of tankage. On this basis, soy beans means of special ventilation. Emermay be used if obtained at a lower gency exits are provided In the room cost per pound than tankage. Since should It be necessary for passengers soy beans cun be produced on the ma- to emerge in case of landing on the jority of corn belt farms for consid- sea, in which case the wheels, axle erably less than the usual cost of an and undercarriage struts can be equal amount of tankage, they should dropped by means of a lever In the be more generally used with corn and pilots cockpit. The body of the malegume pasture for fattening hogs. chine is watertight and buoyant and would float for several hours. el er v d A New Sect Fall liming is best. The wet fall has shown many farm- ers what tile drains are worth to them. A concrete walk from the house to the barn and other buildings would be a mighty fine Improvement on many farms. o The quickest and cheapest method to eradicate the pocket gopher is by poisoning with grain or vegetable baits treated with strychnine. ,r i cross-chann- Farmers who are Interested in windbreaks should look around their farm buildings no-- to see where the snow is coming from, with the object In view of planting windbreaks to keep out the cold, wintry winds sometime In the future. Plans can well be to now made prevent snow from driftto break and ing disagreeuble winds that sweep about farm buildings. Plan on pfiantlng the farm woodlot so that it will be an efficient protector against severe north and northwest winds. The amount of nursery stock needed can be figured out and orders-placeearly with the nurseries. Slight Difference Nurseries usually fill orders In the I hearn tell, related Newt Strod-der- , order received. Another reason for that Iry Ilickadoo fell ofTm the early buying is that It pays to have bluff yistedy, and as nigh as I could seedlings in the ground early in the make out from what the feller that spring. hollered at me as I was going by, said, broke his collar button. Control Poultry Disease Collar button? echoed Mrs. Strod-der- . The poultry disease which played Why, shucks, one of the children was just over yur and said his havoc with the market poultry indusdud broke his collar bone. try last winter can be largely conHuh I thought It was durn funny trolled on farms by spraying the poulthat a feller would come out of Irys try house every few duys with a 5 per hbuse and yell at me till I got the cent solution of stock dip. Also avoid mules drug down to a walk. Just to filling the house beyond its capacity. tell me Mr. Ilickadoo had broke his One hundred mature biK? should have Kansas City Star. collar button. a house 20 feet square. ! ar ancestry tribes of Siberia and crossed to Alaska over the Bering sea are conclusions of John P. Harrington of the Smithsonian institution. Mr. Harrington arrived at this belief after extensive research on the Pacific coast. He fixes the discovery of America by the Indian at more than 20,000 years ago. Explaining his belief that the Indians went directly to Alaska across the Bering sea. Instead of over the chain of Aleutian Islands at a time when the islands may have been an Isthmus connecting the two continents, he says: From a long strip of Siberian coast the Alaskan shore is in plain sight across Bering, strait, which at one point is only 50 miles in width. The twosmalLDiomede 'islands also help This strip of tQ break thg passage watfip a(. t,mea ig rozen over and cou baye been crossed elther on the Ice or In boats wfTich were macle by the Indians even at the earliest times. Mr. Harrington discounts the theory by gome anthropologists that fte Indlang migrated from the Polynesian islands. From my studies of the Indian races of the Pacific coast I believe that the Indians, after crossing from Siberia, gradually spread from Alaska down the Pacific coast and thence over all North and South America. This is based on the singularity of physical characteristics, the widespread occurrence of customs and myths and an exhaustive study of the languages. Little Frances was telling her mother about the good time she had when Mothshe visited her five cousins. er. she said seriously, "we played "Wliat did you do when you church. played church? I cannot think what that would be like, replied her mother. Well, said Frances, we feU down on the ground and turned somersaults. Turned somersaults when playing horrified her exclaimed church? mother. Well, mother, explained France apologetically, you see, by that tlmt church hud turned Into a circus ! Jvl f, i |