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Show PIUTE COUNTY NEWS. JUNCTION. UTAH ua Stabilize Oats Market Is Urged annual price can be figured out for oats 011 the basis of the United States supply, because that supply Is produced and mostly consumed within the country. Exports of oats from 1909 to 1913 and since the war have averaged not more than two per cent of the crop. Imports of oats have been still smaller. On the other hand. In the case of wheat, the price of which Is determined in the world market. It Is not possible to assume a normal annual price based on American conditions. The Influence of the United States crop on the price of wheat at Chicago Is measured by a coefficient of only 0.32 whereas the Influence of the crop of the entire world on the Chicago price Is measured by Farmers Advised to Carry Over More Product From Large Crop Years. (Prepared by the United Statei Department of Agriculture.) Farmers of the United States can sometimes sell a small crop of oats for more money than they can sell a large crop. This situation could be changed by regularly carrying over more oats from the large-croyears p to the small-cro- p years, says the United States Department of Agriculture. When a surplus is produced, a large part of it Is quickly used up, Instead of being carried over to years when the crop Is small. Economists In the Department of Agriculture have figured out what the effect on the gross value of our oat crops would have been had producers followed the example of Joseph in the land of Egypt and saved up the surplus from fat years to eke out the supply in lean years. ' ' 'vVS-''- - Uk- .. m V w' '"' ' tkoCos byZecstry C.MwUt xttHAixafiyjzme ;f I L l- f ! i - ? Sf 1 ft 1 .. ., A j Qmtwssrcml Vfr Gejiiw-- . -" By JOHN '. ' ' SHERMAN DICKINSON AMERICAN classic will lie told over nml over again the coining summer I11 Philadelphia. For the City of Brotherly Love has announced an exposition In honor of the of the sesqulcentennial passing of the Declaration of Independence by the Second Continental Congress and visitors will doubtless be many. These visitors, in seeing the city, will be Impressed by a collection of fine buildings of which the feature Is a marvelously beautiful Creek temple with It massive Corinthian columns. It will be necessary to tell them that It is Cirard college and for their benefit will be retold this classic : Horace Greeley, wearing his usual white cravat, approached the gate of the college. You cant come in, said the gateman, stopping the famous editor. Why not, said Greeley. Youre e The h I am a clergyman. me walk right in Now, suppose out of ten such visitors one Is a lawyer and one a churchman. These two are likely to have heard the story; certainly, by reason of vocation, they should see the point of the joke. For the other eight the joke must be explained. All of which shows that to the average American Girard college means nothing. And its more than likely that he has never heard of Stephen Girard, its founder unless he knows his Dickens and Hawthorne. This Is a pity for several reasons. Every good American should know of Girard college. To be sure, It is not In the Whos Who of colleges. Rut In Its 78 years of existence it has been both college and home to more than 12, OW orphan boys, ns it is today to more than l.fiOO. Its future should be still more useful, since its original building and maintenance fund of about $0,000,000 now amounts to about $72,000,000 and in another quarter century should touch the hundred million mark. And as for Stephen Girard, its founder, fiction hides its abashed head at the story of his life, lie was a human enigma. He was a commercial and financial genius. He was the rich man of his day. He was a public benefactor. He was an American patriot. He saved the new nation by his financial aid. If Stephen Girard, with his millions. N 'T'1 first-tim- e 1 ! ! llx-cus- ' ,gt - 'X.- rV.Ast AVM' V, '- not this Is one of the great of our history. Here is in brief the story of the first forty years of Stephen Girard's life, lie was bom May 24, 17f0, at Bordeaux, France, the son of a sea captain; sailed as a cabin boy; at nineteen was captain and part owner of a small vessel; settled in Philadelphia in 1 Td'.t, where he was alternately shipmaster and merchant. Fate so far had not been kind. He had lost the sight of one eye in childhood. His mother had died when he was twelve and bis stepmother laid not loved him. lie had incurred debts. JTe had married Mary Bum, a pretty barefoot girl of sixteen, whom he saw at the public pump. She had become insane and lu had put her in the Pennsylvania hospital in 1700, where bis only child had been born and had died. Fortune now' turned a smiling face on Stephen Girard. A lucky lease of a chain of stores, sublet at a large profit, laid the foundation of his fortune. Next came a windfall of During an insurrection in Haiti several pin tors stored their valuables on two of his ships. These planters, with every member of their families, wore massacred. In ISO," he began the building of his famous fleet for trade with the Orient. He had withdrawn from the Roman Catholic church and become So he named a French his first vessel Voltaire, the second Rousseau and so on. The accompanying picture is a reproduction of a on the pedestal of bronze the Girard statue in City Hall plaza. The written record pictures Stephen Girard ns a dual personality. Here is one personality: His English was indifferent. II is forbidding appearance was that of a rough old sailor. He was crabbed, inhospitable, unapproachable. He would aid no one applying fit his door; those he aided must work it out to the last cent. Hq was rigidly frugal. In small matters he was a miser. Heres a limelight view of the real Yellow Girard: fever Stephen scourged Philadelphia in 179,1. Washington, Jefferson and all the federal officials left the city. All the inhabitants fled who could. In August. September and October 4,011 died. Bring was the cry on every out your dead street every day. Girard dropped his business, carried out the dead and the sick, performed the most revolting services at the hospital and directed his little group of volunteers from September IS to November 18. had Ifs $50,-('0- free-thinke- r. bas-relie- f ! 0. V r ..V'ty'yj.v; ', 'A pYW - y.-- ;'.. .3sr1 .V...SV.. y.V'Vv-- Vc1 . vVS V A ,? r,. .T., s Ptablic BxsiuefedboikT1 -- Z A-- .-. yfcy-w- ' J" & . y A r .' ' 4' - "v ' czrakd conges: Girard achieved national fame as financier nnd patriot in the War of 1S12. When the First United States banks charter expired in 1811, Girard was revealed as the largest stockholder. lie bought the bank and the building for $120, (MO and opened the Bank of Stephen Girard with a capital of $1,200,000. Banking of any kind was the subject of bitter controversy in those days and the private bank was anathema. But Girards bank prospered. The War of 1812 was so unpopular in New7 England that Secretary tins attempt to float Galla- a loan of $16,-'00.0- resulted in subscriptions of than $6,000,000. John Jacob loss Astor and his friends then took and Stephen Girard staked his entire fortune by guaranteeing through his bank the remaining Would the War of 1S12 have been won without that $8,000,000? Stephen Girard died December 26, 1811, leaving an estate in excess of 87,000,000. Ilis will, a most remarkable document of about 14,000 words, a man of sentirevealed the maker-ament and a true lover of mankind. He left money for more nurses in the hospital where, his insane wife had lived and died; for coal for the poor; for the aid of the deaf and dumb; for distressed masters of ships; for better police protection; for city improvements. But it was to orphans that his heart turned most hence Girard college. Ilis relatives contested the will; the long litigation was carried to the Supreme court. Daniel Webster vainly argued that the plan of education of the Girard school of orphans was derogatory to the Christian religion, contrary to sound morals and subversive of law. Websters contention was based on Stephen Girards direction' that no "ecclesiastic, missionary or minister of any sect whatsoever should ever be connected with the college or even be admitted as a visitor within the college premises. Ills motive was, tho will set forth, to keep the tender minds of the orphans free from the excitements of clashing doctrines and sectarian controversies and to teach them tho purest principles of so that they might later morality, such adopt religions tenets as their matured reason might enable them to prefer. The letter of the will has been lived up to but many a minister is numbered among the graduates of Girard college. s a coefficient of 0.71. Thus wheat prices declined following the short United States crop of 1S93 when world production was large. On the other hand they arose after short crops in the United States and in the world in 1907, 1908 and 1911. They declined in 1913 when the UnitCould Have Saved Money. ed States had a normal crop and the It Is estimated that the producers world crop was large. This Is worth could have received $171,000,000 bearing In mind by farmers who conor about nine cents a bushel template a shifting Of acreages bemore on the carryover, by storing tween wheat and oats. A change surpluses and regulating their move- which would affect wheat prices very ment to market in the period from little might have a big effect on the 1S95 to 1913. This calculation i3 price of oats because oats are sold In based on the assumption that a regu- a narrower market. lated movement of the crop would have eliminated extreme price flucUseful to Cure tuations and caused the price to con- Potash form to the general trend. The gross Various Cora Diseases value of the oats consumed in the The relation of potash to corn disUnited States from 1S93 to 1913, on eases Is to be studied in an extensive the basis of the December 1 farm investigation now being started at prices, was $5,961,000,000. A policy Iurdue university. This work will of carrying surpluses from years of be done in with a large overproduction to years of relative potash importing corporation, and the shortage, says the department, would work at that station will be regarded probably have increased this value by them as official for the entire up to $6,115,000,000. United States. Tli is finding is not offered as abCorn plants frequently are affected It is based on by the accumulation of iron and solutely conclusive. estimates and leaves out of the reck- aluminum compounds which make oning such considerations as local them more susceptible to disease and prices, differences due to grades, ami reduces their power to produce ears. storage costs. Nevertheless, the study It has been found in some instances, is believed to indicate that there is however, that where an abundance an economic basis for efforts to dis: of potash is available, no such diftribute the oat supply in a more order- ficulty Is encountered. It Is believed ly manner. The popular view that a that the entire corn belt may he aflarge crop may often be worth less fected by this excessive amount of than a small crop is confirmed. Four iron, and this belief is the basis of large oat crops harvested in 1902, the potash investigation. 1901, 1903 and 1900 had a value of $09,000,000 less than that of four small crops harvested in 1901, 1903, 1907 and 1903. Here is a clear indication that more uniform consumption would have brought an increased W heat tests higher in protein in dry cash return. of seasonal trends bears years. Study price out Ibis conclusion. It is shown by Some say dust potatoes, and soma the department that when the price of oats at the beginning of the crop say spray, but either is better titan year seems considerably above the neither. normal seasonal price for a crop of To burn dead leaves is to burn huthe size being harvested, It may be to fall below the normal mus; they make a pretty, but expenexpected seasonal price at the end of the crop sive fire. year. This is because the abnormally after strawberries the Mulch high price early in the year reduces Use clean freezes. straw, 8uch reduced consumpground consumption. tion must be compensated by an ex- marsh hay, or leaves. ceptionally low price later on or part Cold, fall rains can also induce of the crop will not be sold. A properThis is especially true when colds. ly adjusted price would be the same, under a temporary shelter. are a for the season, except pullets throughout cover to cost of the advance gradual Barley is superior to rye or wheat storage. To maintain such a price for winter and early spring pasture, unito have it would be necessary and is readily eaten by all kinds of form seasonal consumption throughout the season. In like manner uni- stock. form consumption from year to year male at the head A standard-breis necessary to prevent extreme will improve tho flock a of mongrel when annual fluctuations proprice duction varies widely. quality of the stock materially. A Normal Annual Price. mongrel male will produce no improvement in quality. normal found The department thata - d MAKING TEST OF POULTRY IDEAS TO FIND OUT THEIR FULL WORTH : $ Experiments Made Leading to Conclusive Results. United States Department (Prepared by the ot Agriculture.) To determine the soundness of various ideas held by commercial Hie United States Department of Agriculture has conducted experiments leading to rather conclusive results. From a practical standpoint It is highly desirable for poultrymen to improve, if possible, the hatehability of eggs, to distinguish pullets from roosters at an early age, and to obtain poul-tryme- n. . other similar information commercially important but baffling. There has hem considerable divergence of opinion n most of the questions. Hatehability. sajs the department, orouibly is best improved by testing i n' birds for bacillary, white sud eliminating affected n-;- The size of eggs has no significant effect on their hatehability. There is no significant correlation between either shape or weight of egg and the sex of the chicken hatched from it. Therefore, from a practical standpoint, poultrymen cannot expect to influence the sex of chicks hatched by selecting eggs according to either shape or size. While there Is a fairly definite relation between the weight of eggs and that of the chicks hatched from them, there is no significant difference In weight of either sex, and it is highly chicks can Improbable that pure-brebe separated according to sex at hatching time. The addition of skim milk to a ration induces much faster growth, the difference being observable as early as at the end of the second week. This points to the value of skim milk In d growing-chic- k ration. |