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Show DAILY 6 UTAH communities, that home missionary societies are found. The great mission- BENEVOLENCE ary societies, foreign and home, had incomes last year aggregating $33,000,-00OE LAST YEAR The Income of the foreign societies was $20,298,057. Great Britain leads other nations in amounts contributed to foreign missions. The inPROBABLY 100,000,000 WENT TO come of the British societies last year GOOD WORKS. was $8,847,665; of the American, The Income of all home misTotal of Boquosta to Churchoa and sion societies in the United States last Reaches an Enor0. Collages year was mous Sum. $7,100,000. New York Sun. COLOR-BLINPEOPLE. day the news tells of gifts and bequests to colleges, liThey Are More Numerous Than Is braries, hospitals, churches and misGenerally Supposed How Things sionary societies. What vai the toAppear to Thom. tal of American benevolence last year? A oculist, whllq discusA fair estimate puts it at about $ 100,- -' 000,000. Rut it Is an estimate only and sing some of the defects of the human does not, by any means, include all eye which are not noticeable by the orThe fact is, American benevolence. dinary observer, had this to say about much Americans Almost D every well-kno- nobody knows how give away annually, and all tables are merely estimates. For 1902 several newspapers figured out American benevolence at $146,000,-00- 0, and included in that sum $18,000,-00- 0 given by Americans to foreign missions. But Americans give only $6,500,000 annually to foreign missions. For some years another estimate has been published, putting the total at But from $27,000,000 to $62,000,000. this excludes all gifts under $5,000, and everybody knows that gifts under that sum are many times more numerous than gifts above that sum. Hence, when it ia stated that American benevolence ran about $100,000,000 during the year ending a week or so ago, that must be understood to mean only such gifts as were noteworthy and therefore chronicled. - Here are some of the noteworthy gifts of the year Just ended: Mrs. J. W. Wintnrop to Princeton Seminary $2,000,000 John D. Rockefeller to Chica1,850,000 go University John D. Rockefeller to secondary schools of Chicago. . 1,250,000 Cam- -, Harvard University, ' endowbridge, additions to ment 1,655, ()P0 Miss May P. Ropes, to many . colleges Mrs. EL M. Anderson, to Bar- 1,000,000 '. nard The Wymun gift to John Hopkins to Mrs. F. F. Thompson Teachers college M. Hartley Dodge to Columbia University Orthodox Jewish Seminary endowment Isaac M. Wise, Memorial Hebrew Seminary endowment. Andrew Carnegie to Mechanics and Tradesmen's Insti tute John D. Rockefeller to Vasaar 1,000,000 college 500,000 850,000 800,000 500,000 275,000 color-blin- 200,000 IL blue coat and red trousers, believing them all of the same color. A British Admiral tainted a landscape and was very proud of his performance, but he mode the treet red, thinking it the same color as green. When he purchased a pair of trousers he chose green ones, suspecting them to be brown. An architect's pupil, being directed to copy the picture of a brown house, made the house green, the sky scarlet and the roses blue. A postoifice clerk was always short in ils accounts because he could not the different colored distinguish stamp. And a sedate Quaker has been known to buy a green coat for himself and a red gown for his wife, thinking they were both brown. If you see a man in the street with a preposterous display of colors charitably believe him to be one of the Just why the eyes of women are less defective in the matter of distinguishing colors than those of a man is one of the things in nature that is unexplained. The construction is the same, yet woman's superiority in colors has always been recmatching man when even has had the ognised, of long experience." Cinadvantage cinnati Commercial Tribune. M. Hanna to Western Reserve college 100,000 The foregoing gives an idea of the large gifts for education, but is by no means all of such gifts. From May 1902, to May, 1903, the gifts to libraries are placed by the American Library association at $10,306,407, of which WOMAN PLAYED ROLE Andrew Carnegie is credited with gifts OF COWBOY FOR YEAR amounting to $6,679,000. The largest single gift of the year was that by John D. Rockefeller to the Rush Medical Institute. Chicago. It amounted to $7,000,000. Next to it in amount was one by Andrew Carnegie for the endowment of a fund for the relief of Injured men in the steel works at Homestead. It amounted to $4,000,000. The close of each year sees some projects Incomplete. Andrew Carnegie has talked of giving several millions to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology but the funds have not been turned over. There are some Gordon McKay millions to go to Harvard University, as it Is supjKJsed, and last year F. M. liubbell left in trust to become available at the end of about seventy years, $5,000,000 with which to establish a universtly at Des Moines, la. Marshall Field looks forward to a park plan In Chicngo that will take millions, perhaps as many as ten, and John D. Rockefeller lias under consideration a medical research institute fdr New York City to equal in cost and scope the Rush institute in Chicago. As to what ran be done on a forty-acr- e farm, I must say, first of all, that the subject is one of large scope. It cannot be disposed of either concisely or conclusively. A great deal depends upon where your farm is situated and upon the quality of its soil. Then there is the farmer himself to consider an important factor. A mans success in any line depends upon the stuff hes made of; and in these days of enlightenment the word farmer" is not synonymous with mossback." The farmer of today is a man of fair education and, in the majority of cases, intelligent and progressive. Therefore I am not romancing when I say that nn a forty-acr- e farm the average man can make not only a good living, but each year lay up a sum of money for future en ple. The color blind do extraordinary things at times. An officer of the navy went one day to buy material for a coat, vest and trousers. He bought a of California almost eevrythlng can be raised to perfection somewhere it is yet true that In many localities and on some kinds of soil certain fruits and vegetables are a failure. Hence, it pays well to start right and to know what grows best on your farm. This can be done only by experimenting on a small acreage. In a short time the practical farmer will ascertain what crop can be grown most successfully and profitably on his land. Mixed Farming. And right here it is well to say that experience has also taught the writer the policy of diversified farming. The man who plants his forty-acr- e farm all in apricots is ever at the mercy of late frosts, not to mention years of poor crops or low prices. farm The man who has his forty-acr- e all In wheat lives in fear of fire, prolonged rain and heavy winds until his grain is harvested, and then at last he finds himself between Scylla and Chary bd is in the matter of selling at the right time. For if the man whose farm Is all In one crop makes a false step, or, if nature In an angry meed deals severely with him, he will most likely lose his year's profit and run behind. In many cases he will end by mortgaging his farm and will live afterwards with the shadow of that mortgage cast about him like a nightmare. It is by dint of diversified farming that the farmer can avoid such trouble. If he has five acres in apricots and the frost ruins that crop, he can still look forward to his melon patch and potatoes to save him. He may not make so much that year as he had planned, but he will have made enough to run him another year and keep out of debt. Of course, many times he has a universally good crop, and then it is safe to any he makes more than the man whose ranch is all in one thing, even though the latter has experienced a profitable season. In Succession. Perhaps the most pronounced advantage of the diversified farm lies in the fact that by raising such things as will come off In succession, the farmer and his family are enabled to perform most of the work of harvesting, and quite frequently all of it. It Is readily seen that on a small farm this method brings out a larger return than if the land were all in apricots, for instance, which ripen all at once and necessitate hiring a number of people for a month or more. To Illustrate this point the writer will mention the manner in which he practiced as he preaches. He has often had people say to him: "Oh, well, you have the best farm there Is around here anyway." Now, while the farm in question is as good as any In the vicinity of Winters, and will raise anything to perfection, it is still no better than many others in the locality. On the writers forty acres were grown five acres of potatoes every year; about three acres were devoted to hay, only enough for the stock used on the farm; ten acres were in corn, both common and Egyptian; another ten acres yielded good returns in watermelons and cantuloupes. The remaining acreage produced garden truck. Thus it will lie seen that the strawberries matured first, the potatoes next, then the melons and still later the corn. Except in the picking of strawberries, there was absolutely no hiring done. In marketing his produce, the successful farmer Is bound by no fixed rule. He uses his best Judgment and if he errs occasionally it Is a lesson he Is learning In the school of experience. There la always a good market right at home for strawberries, potatoes and vegetables of all kinds. And in regard to this It Is well for the writer to state that he took particular pains in preparing garden truck for the home market. There is but one Golden Rule: , BOISE. Ida., Jan. 13. A remarkable case of a woman masquerading as a man has Just come to light near Rockville, in the western part of this state, near the Oregon line. A few days ago Joe Monoghnn, a well known cowboy, died suddenly at the residence of Barney Molloy, on Succor creek, in Oregon, When the body was being pre- pared for burial it was found that the deceased wus a woman. She had ridden the ranges of eastern Oregon for twenty-fiv- e years and was widely known as an expert, faithful, untiring She worked for the cattlemen during the summer and winter and looked after stock of her own, of which she possessed quite a herd. The woman was small of stature, but very active and strong. She was an expert shot with revolver and rifle. Her home was in a dugout near Rockville. She was well liked by all who knew her well, but she avoided people excepting as she came in contact with them in her work. Deceased was about 54 yeurs of age. Nothing is known of her antecedents. She served on Juries It 1s an interesting fact concerning nn Oregon and voted at ull elections. all these gifts that while many of A Boy's Wild Ride for Life. them are to causes outside all churches, the funds for them are given, in fully 75 per cent of the totul, by perWith a family n round expecting him sons inside the churches. The Church to die, and a son riding for life, eightEconomist estimates the cost of main- een miles, to get Dr. King's New Distenance of all churches in America to covery for consumption. Coughs and be $260,000,000 a year. Not only do Colds, W. II. Brown of Leesville, Ind., Christian people give almost all of endured death's agonies from asthma, this vast sum, but they also give fully but this wonderful medicine gave in$75,000,000 of the $100,000,000 going to stant relief and soon cured hint. He causes outside of the churches of each writes: I now sleep soundly every year. night." Like marvelous cures of ConAlmost nil Christian bodies, in nil sumption, Fneumonla, Bronchitis, countries, have missionary societies for Coughs, Colds and Grip prove Its the prosecution of work In foreign matchless merit for nil throat and lung countries, but It Is, for the most part, troubles. Guaranteed bottles 50c and in America, Canada and Australia, $1.00. Trial bottles free at Jesse J. where Immigrants are ereutlng new Driver's drug store. cowboy. Farm Forty-Acr- e blue-yello- unchanging aspect of dull gray. To these last a visit to the picture gallery would reveal merely a collection of engravings or photographs. But the two former have the compensation of seeing their own two colors much more brightly than ordinary peo- JANUARY 13, Possibilities of a d people: The world must be a curious place to color-blin- d people, of whom there are forty males and three females to use. w every 1,000 persons. Some are The Soil. Experience has taught the blind, and everything seems either red, green or gray to them; oth- writer that the first thing to do, beers are red-greblind, and all things fore attempting to farm extensively appear to them to be yellow, blue or in any one line, is to make a thorough gray of various shades, and others study of the soil. This should be done again perceive no distinction of color no matter how large or how small the at all, but the whole world wears an farm Is. While in this glorious state color blind. 250,000 STATE JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, . To have everything clean and attractive, to cast aside whatever is Inferior or underslsed, and to offer for sale only the very best that you raise. That which is not salable may be utilised at home for the hogs or cows; but it would be better to piit it to no use at all than to bring it to market. 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Another thing to note in this farm of forty acres is that 338 25th Street Telephone 124 Holidays art InempleteXthout the. it produced all the vegetables that the Greenhouse. family used. There is no question that Phona Eugene Holbrook, gr it is of the utmost importance for the farmer to raise eevrythlng possible for family consumption. Much of his success depends upon that He will keep a cow or two and grow hay for feed. He will keep sufficient poultry to THE RIGHT PLACE supply his own family with eggs, and. TO GET THE RIGHT KIND under ordinary management there will AT THE RIGHT PRICE8. be eggs to selL He will also raise several hogs every year to furnish the X family with meat Thus there will reKellar Fred. HIGH PATENT main but a few staple articles, such as 219-2478 Wash. 'Phone flour, sugar, tea and coffee for the 4to farmer buy, which, in the end, means money in the farmers pocket Poultry. The subject of poultry is Fresh Fish and Oysters too lengthy a theme to be given the Received Every Day. space it deserves in this article, but there are one or two points which should be mentioned. On a forty-acr- e 881 Twantr-reurihlStrefarm a certain number of fowls can be Phone 137k, kept with profit, but care must be taken not to overcrowd. It is a mistake to suppose that any unlimited number of hens will thrive simply because one has a few acres of land. Beyond a certain number it will be found that It is worth repeating not the hens have ceased to be a profit parrot talk but a story worthy Large numbers of fowls running toof being retold that gether are subject to diseases more or PHOENIX FLOUR frequently than a small flock. On a That's Our Way of Doing Them. and e forty-acramply completely satisfies farm an estimate of 150 a flour that gives search for the hens is the proper number, in proporsatisfaction. Be sure it's River-dal- e tion to the acreage; more than that of Phoenix Flour. Made by will prove a loss instead of a profit Phone 174. Cultivation. In cultivation of soil we have a theme with which farmers are more or less familiar, so on this subject little need be said. On a diversified farm of forty acres, as care- Ogden Electrical Supply ful attention must be paid to cultivaCOMPANY. tion as to a farm. In CaliforAve. 2450 CASmurthwaite Washington nia it is of especial importance to culDealers In a Complete Line of tivate in a thorough manner, not only Electrical : Wiring Rorlably Produce to eradicate weeds, but to keep the Done : Supplies Housewiring Our Specialty. moisture in the ground. The effect of Company Alex Leathern, Mgr . negligence in this line will soon be apOGDEN, UTAH (Wholesale) parent. As to the time for cultivation, a that must be left to the Judgment of the farmer, who must be guided somewhat by the season's rainfalL Our fine lino of CHINA and Irrigation. As mention has been GLASSWARE must bo closed JJ made of the growing of strawberries, 2 out at groat aaerifioea. J In is a foregone conclusion that the Let the Utah Light and OLSEN 8 8 LA. writer irrigated his land. The quesPower Co. figure with you. tion of irrigation is much discussed, a An investigation will conbut it is safe to say that one can feel vince you that you cannot surer of his crops by irrigating them afford to burn coal oil. If than he can without. By means of iryou need power there is no rigation the writer was enabled to kind that will prove as satcompensate for the late rains which Dame Nature neglected to send, and isfactory for the money. E. W. WADE, thereby produced fine, large vegetables where otherwise he could not have Manager for Ogden. done so. By means of irrigating he made a success of strawberry culture, HC which was perhaps his most remunerative crop. Sweet potatoes were another thing which he found to do well, THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH CO. assisted by water. These he grew on ridges about eight inches in height, irrigating in the depressions between. Many failures have been made in St. Louis, Dec. 30. growing the sweet potato, caused by putting the water directly on the plant, H. E. WEST, whereas the top earth should be kept 4 Boyle Bldg., Ogden, Utah. dry. By careful attention the sweet potato may be grown successfully In Have increased Missouri State Dethe vicinity of Winters. It is always a profitable crop. posit to two hundred thousand dollars. Alfalfa. Another advantage which falls to the man who irrigates his forty-acfarm lies in the fact that R. L. flAUPIN, he can grow a patch of alfalfa for feed President. for his cows, and on which he can let his fowls run with splendid results. The writer Is not giving advice to the rancher who Is growing alfalfa on a large scale. It must be borne in mind that this Is a diversified farm of forty acres. On the writer's own farm he had but one acre of alfalfa. This made sufficient hay for two and sometimes three cows, and on a smaI farm this acreage Is as much as a small farmer can properly attend to. The first crop ran be grown without irrigation and, when cut. should be removed at once from the field, to be cured. The field should Immediately be flooded, for if the stubble were allowed to dry, the second growth would be delayed from two to three days. This, therefore, is an Important point to observe. After OGDEN, UTAH ten days a second flooding should be given the field, and this Is sufficient Carry the Largest Line of Sporting Goods of Every Description for one croj. Five crops of alfnlfa can of Possible Pr House EDGAR JONES Holly, Mistletoe Cut Flowers.. Holbrook 420-- t Fish, Meats, Game... t RIVER DALE PHOENIX L K - James Ballard el. Clothes Properly Laundered. 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