| Show V” Your engagement ring should be your favorite piece of Jewelry a diaWe suggest mond of the first water that we have had long experience in supplying those In need of such things and have a large stock and tempting prices HORTICULTURE A FAIR BY BERNICE C CAUGHEY (Copyright 170 rMAIN ST SALT LAKE CITY UTAH TrMTP I It I Advice as to patenability and Procedure 1 1 FREE npon request Send sketch and description of your invention Harry J Robinsoa Attorney at Law and Solicitor Salt Lake City of Patents 304-- Judge Building tly A XV FIRST Llll AND U LAST APPEARANCE Only Occasion on Which Casey Was Admitted to Parlor An old Irishman named Casey made and built a fine house for his children The Bons and daughters were much ashamed of the plebeian father and Casey was always kept in the rear of the house when they had a party or a reception One day Casey died about it and there was a great The children had a fine coffin with plenty of flowers and Casey was laid in state in the parlor That evening an old Irish woman who had known Casey when he was a laborer came and asked to see the face of her dead friend They con ducted her to the par'or She walked up to the coffin took a long look and said: “Faith Casey an’ they’ve let ye Into th’ parlor at lasht" a lot of money as a contractor - $30 California Round Trip tour If contemplating any coast write at once to Kenneth Kerr D P A Salt Lake Route 169 S Main Salt Lake City Grizzlies Eat Violets In one locality the grizzly of the Rockies Is found eating the fresh of the violet and the sprig green leaves of the spring beauties says Fur News while a few hundred to the north or miles further on south as the case may be the grizzly doesn’t touch them Instead he may be discovered munching at the young shoots of the down In the Bitter shooting Btar Root mountain country for instance among the towering peaks of the higher Rockies Upon this question of locality which is often overlooked or even Ignored by nature writers lies the solution of many warmly disputed points between those who tell the public at large all about nature and its animals by J The fiat had gone forth James Allen must ride possessively around a thousand ewes before there should be added unto him the fairest maid in all ‘he Pecos valley Mercreda Torres So ruled old Pedro Mercreda’s father and and Allen knew the Medes’ laws were weak wind shaken reeds beside the solid rock of Pedro’s determination grim Poor Jim! He did not even own the mustang on which to do the riding As for the ewes — Jim rushed from Pedro’s presence in a sudden passion and the tiny village of adobe houses set in the middle of New Mexico dropped into dim perspective as Jim’s long angry strides bore him towards the range the valley The full blaze of noon held the barren land In thrall A dry wind whiswithered the grass and pered through shook the ghostly sagebrush Above the valley a treeless plain stretched out to meet a turquoise sky The white wool of a dozen flocks relieved the dullness of the landscape When the young man had walked his passion off he faced the situation bravely and made his pains Old Pedro had a douole purpose In Jim the promulgation of this edictwas a lawyer He had gone to school in Denver had raked and scraped and pinched to get his education and had planned to remain there to practice but when the time came to leave the ralley his widowed mother had fallen with a tedious malady and Jim of ourse stayed with her that she might be among her people Jim’s mother was a Mexican as was Mercreda's lather though the other side of each house came from good New England stock and Pedro fearful of the Yankee blood in each Bought to bind Jim to the valley The young man opened up a modest office in the village and flung a shin- $30 California Round Trip tour If contemplating any coast write at once to Kenneth Kerr Dt P A Salt Lake Route 169 S Main Salt Lake City First Freedman In the Army The first muster of ?edmen Into the United States army occurred on November 7 1862 at Gen Saxton’s headquarters in Beaufort S C It was on the first anniversary of the capture of Port Royal and at the time of the organization of the department ? of the south Capt James had his men drawn up in line and as he read their names from the roll each man answered "Hera” Then with uncovered heads and right bands raised the men took the usual oath of allegiance which was administered by Gen Saxton This simple ceremony over the newly made soldiers marched back to their camp— Southern Workman Said Uncle Silas When a woman goes downtown shoppln’ she may not buy a blessed thing but she’ll alius come home with a fresh lot o’ gossip to entertain the other wimmen of the neighborhood— Los Angeles Express Was Determined to Die Fearing arrest by the police a German named Herman Graft at Marseilles France recently opened the veins of both ' wrists with a knife Finding that death was not coming to him with sufficient rapidity he fastened a cord around his neck and hanged himself but the cord broke and he seized his knife (gain and made a terrible gash in his throat Even this did not end his life and as he staggered about the room he heard the police coming upstairs after him He then opened the window and threw himself out falling from a height "of three stories and breaking his neck on the footpath below $30 California Round Trip tour If contemplating any coast write at once to Kenneth Kerr D P A Salt Lake Route 169 S Main Salt Lake City Art Almost any millionaire would be willing to give up a large percentage of his fortune If he could tell the difference between a masterpiece and a daub Mercreda Squeezed His Hand shingle to the lazy breeze that crept down from the range But fees were scarce as molars on a Might ruled in the valley The Mexicans and greasers settled their differences with fists and knives and Jim eked out his scanty income by working at the just outside the village In a year’s time Jim had gathered a hundred ewes into his tiny corral Fits of alternate hope and despair had When a ewe bridged the interval gave birth to twins Mercreda straightway predicted that an epidemic had set in and Hope plied the calculating pencil on a double basis But when a gay ranchero rode into town or a blithe young cowboy from the foothills swumg through the village streets despair held Jim in its paralyzing clutch But a great day dawned for Jim and for Mercreda It found the former clad In buckskin pants and jumper The busy at the flocks of Tony Gomez filled the corrals and were struggling through the annuto al dipping process prevent disease Jim the erudite held the post of honor on a raised platform above the vat From the steaming yards below a narrow chute led towards him up which a steady stream of sheep was Jim forced by the wily collies dropped the frightened creatures one by one into the hot sulphur dip with the nonchalance of a housewife shelling peas find shouted orders to the hooks Mexicans armed with throat who guided the floundering sheep through the long narrow vat towards the dripping pens From his elevation Jim saw a vast flock of lambs draw near outside the surrounded by snapherders ping collies and A dusty horseman plunged into view a burly westerner whose name known to every sheepman on the Ing FEE Llpplncott Co' range and asked for the owner of the The owner was absent from station the valley anf there was no one to represent him Jim called old Gomez who came forth with glowering face and angry mien The Btranger demanded immediate possession He made the startling statement that he had contracted for the station for the entire week and drew forth a written document to substantiate his claim He explained his haste and insisted that the Mexican should give way to his flocks He was under contract with a score of ranchmen in Colorado A special train was to meet him at the nearest station and the law required that the lambs should be dipped before crossing the state line With mellifluent flow of Spanish vowels in striking contrast to his volcanic manner old Gomez called upon the residents of heaven to witness his intention and the fires of hell to eternally consume him If he budged an inch for a luridly modified Yankee The stockman coaxed threatened and finally turned his pony’s head towards the village for legal assistance Jim hurried home to change his clothes and was quietly Beated in his office when the stranger sputtered in Jim explained the futility of the usual legal process when the ugly Mexicans were aroused and suggested a compromise to which the stockman gladAll day Jim camped on ly consented Gomez’s trail His native instinct illumined by his Yankee wit won the day With smooth words and $20 the The delighted corrals were cleared stockman slapped Jim on the back and told him to come to the hotel that evening for his fee Jim hurried home to consult with his mother and stopped on the way to tell Mercreda “I ought to have $50” he insisted "for it was worth that to him” Mercreda squeezed his hand and his mother gazed proudly upon the man who could earn $50 in a single day Arrayed in his bravest apparel Jim sallied forth walking on air’ but before he reached the little ’do be hotel he gradually neared the earth again He was obliged to stop gid recall Mercreda’s proud look and his mother’s wonderment to keep his courage at the proper pitch "What if the stockman should offer me $5?” Jim A cold chill pierced asked himself his spine at the thought The stockman met him with a cheerful greeting "Well sir” he began when they were comfortably 'seated "what do I owe you? Let’s get the matter settled” Jim hesitated and cleared his throat “It saved you considerable sir” he ventured "I know it did and I am willing to pay for it” was the reply But Jim was loath to cast the die “I’ll tell you what I’ll do" said the “I’ll just spread out here stockman on my knee what I think (he job is worth and you can tell me if it is satisfactory” All hope of $50 vanished and Jim was mustering up his courage to face Mercreda The stockman drew a huge wallet from an inside pocket and carefully untied it Jim watched him moodily and saw him draw out a bill and smooth It carefully upon his knee another one was added and another bills lay until five VHow’s that?” together clinging asked the stockman laconically Jim could not reply at once By a sudden the timid metamorphosis r was transformed into the successful young attorney His head was held erect a bright spot burned in either cheek a blaze of triumph shone in his eyes His palms pressed hard against his rigid knees in a desperate effort to appear calm and unconcerned Presently his power" of "Better make it anspeech returned other fifty” he 6aid and there was a ring in his voice as if New Mexico were his "I’ll do it Just for luck” replied the stockman GROWING ONIONS B The Most Profitable Crop Which the Farmer Can Raise For the new settler in Wisconsin whose area of cultivated land is small crop can be more profitably raised (han onions To the majority of farmers this will seem like an untenable proposition for it is said by most of those to whom this statement is made that in raising onions the amount of labor Involved reduces the net profit There Is no question that this is true when onions are raised by the usu&l methods When however new methods are employed by means of which the greatest share of the labor Is eliminated the net profit becomes great and this too from a comparatively small patch of land There are three conspicuous factors which determine the profit in raising a crop says the Wisconsin Agriculturalist: the amount of land required the amount of labor necessary and the Two of these factors price secured may be immediately dropped for the area of land required is small and the price is usually good There remains therefore the labor Involved to be considered As the area of land required for onions is small the labor expended in plowing and dragging Is not great nor in preparing the crop for market is there nearly so large an amount of work necessary as in preparing such a crop as sugar beets The principal la- no ing that which benefits him and discarding that which injures him We learn upon inquiry from farmers in general that the liquid manure is the best and yet this liquid manure is generally lest Let this liquid manure be preserved and utilized on the onion patch There will then be no immense crop pf weeds greater than the crop of onions to remove before the crop of onions can be made a certainty If no liquid manure can be secured there still remains the commercial fertilizers and also common ashes which generally helps to give a good crop But I hear someone say the use of such fertilizers Boon results In a hard it in which nothing can be worked and in which nothing will grow To which I answer plow in some clean straw which has passed through a good separator By' means of the above methods the amount of labor usually expended on a given area of land in the production of onions should be reduced thus enabling the producer to almost double the area The average crop of onions raised by the methods in common use should not be less than 600 bushels to the acre aa we have proved here and by the better methods above described should be considerably more Accompanying is an illustration of a onion topper which ' we found very convenient As will be noticed the knife is an ordinary corn cutter V A SPRAYING PLANT Suggestive Thoughts from the Plan of One Orchardist I am planning to build a spraying plant In the near future writes a correspondent of the Rural New Yorker We have found it a hard and disagreeable job to fill our tanks from the house well It also leaves a "mussy” place around the well Poison gets spilled and altogether it is an unsuitThen the drought was so able place bad last year that when we came to do our fall spraying we found there An Onion Topper was not water enough to fill our tank once so we were forced to go to a bor is performed in keeping down the The diagram gives a creek nearby weeds This work will be greatly lesgeneral Idea of what I have in mind sened by seeding with some drill which It so happens that the creek which drops the seeds in a straight line thus enabling the operator to wheel-houp close to the row reducing the hand work to a minimum The Planet Jr drill proved a boon to us in' this respect But as onions are ordinarily raised even the use of a good drill and the wheel hoe does not sufficiently reduce the hand work This can be ac complished in only neway by keep( ing from the land alt bar 5 I as ordinarily used Plan of the Outfit The man who year after year prehis land by seeding it down with is never dry runs about ten rods from pares a multitude of weeds of all descripthe orchard The water would have to tions including white clover so diffibe elevated ten or fifteen feet The cult to eradicate and then patiently plant to be inclosed would be 10x18 "labors all summer to pay for his folly feet with an open platform 6x18 feet needs the charity and pity of his the whole to be elevated about thirty friends It is almost certain that he inches from ground or on a level with will leave in the fall a profusion of spraying wagon The tank to be eleplants to again sow his land with trou- vated high enough so water would ble to say nothing of additional ma- flow from bottom naturally to strainer nure the spring following at top of spraying tank A White clover retains Its power to rubber hose could be used for this In germinate even in a mass of manure one end of building a water heater which has lain a number of years and could be’ placed if warm water should has so decayed and crumbled that it is be needed At one side there would nothing more than a heap of very be room for various barrels of lime black dirt This assertion is made not sulphur blue vitriol oil etc No prothrough a call upon my imagination vision Is made of course in this plant but as a result of examinations of ac- for boiling the lime sulphur solution could be easily tual conditions Only last spring I although the removed from an old abandoned barn made I plan to have the storage tank The black manure which had not been dis- hold from 300 to 400 gallons turbed for several years and the decay force pump and power for same must of which on account of a very leaky be at the creek roof had received the facilities of Silage Fed with Grain shade and moisture A careful examA very good way to feed grain is to ination of this dirt revealed the small cattle the silage and then put yelfow clover seeds which upon being give their meal on top of it Whatever pracplanted grew up into a very nice stand started should be continued beof white clover And this is what the tice is cause cows form habits from which It average gardener deliberately places well to deviate in his soil and then wearily labors to is not remove “I likes poetry” said Uncle Eben but I can’t he’p remarkin’ dat two' Surely It seems that there would naturally arise in his mind the idea of bits in de hand is worth acres of stiseparating from the fertilizer and us- - ver linin’ in de clouds” The beetles do not appear on new on ground and are less numerous ground which has been in some other crop Bordeaux mixture is distasteful to the beetles and appears to drive A tiny beetle measuring about a them away from the vines Much remains yet to be learned twentieth of an inch in length has been responsible for many thousand about the best methods for controlling dollars’ damage to potatoes in differ- Uie pest It may take years of careful study to arrive at the proper soent parts of the country The fdult beetles appear in early lution of the problem Next morning when Jim went out to summer and eat tiny round holes in Raised Beds Dry Out feed his flock he found it had been the leaves of potatoes tomatoes and The plan of raising Sometimes the injury augmented by 900 "ewes each bearing similar plants the flower or vegetable beds is fast on its left ear old Pedro’s brand A to the tops is so severe that the plants out of style- - The raised bed going trim mustang was tethered near the are killed outright must be tended by hand and it dries The most serious difficulty how- out too fast in dry weather gate A scrap of paper clung to the Make bridle on which was Bcrawled in ever comes from the eggs which are all beds level with the surface of the Pedro’s writing “I mek prezent to my laid by the beetles says the Journal ground to save moisture and make son Jeem” of Agriculture These hatch Into tiny the work of tending them easier ' Jim swung himself into the saddle white grubs whichlive in the rootAfrican Geese Twice round the little flock he raced stocks and on the potatoes 'while the The African Geese are famous for good and disappeared down the road in a latter are still in the ground cloud of dust The mustang seemed grubs cut off the stocks which bear fertile eggs excellent meat hardiness to know its rider’s mind for when potatoes bore under the skin of the and foraging ability They deserve they reached the hedge in front of tubers causing them to be rough and to be bred far more extensively on the farm than they are There should be Pedro’s cottage he leaped it like a unsightly for market A rabbit The best remedies known at pres- no admixture of Chinese blood which jnoment more and Jim is : often introduced to cheapen tha stood on the tiny porch with his arms ent are rotation of crops and sprayabout Mercreda ing he vines with Bordeaux mixture bird POTATO FLEA BEETLE Tiny Insect That Does Thousands Dollars’ Damage In a Season A of L i |
