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Rocky Ford enterprise., 1905-06-23
To Prevent Fires
10 Maine Forests

Last year Maine. like some other
eastern states. had tho most disas.
trous fires in It's history. A timber.
lion acres was burned over. entaiiing
loss beyond million dollars.
Drought. unprecedented in severity.
had prevailed from April to June
Q. and the forests were in q most in.
fiammable con ,ition. There were
within sixty days ?6o different fires
in the burned.ovcr districts. In strong
contrast with the experience Of New
York in the Adirondacks. only three
of these are positively known to
have been of inccndiary origin. Maine
had Just put into operation a new law
amendatory Of its forest fire warden
service. But for the more efYicient
work done under this law. the fire
loss would have been much greater.
To secure the Information which may
form tho basis for protective meas.
ures against future losses on such q
scale, and ascertain what can he done
to repair the damage already suffered.
the state authorities have arranged
for a cooperative flre-study OF the
Maine forests by the Bureau of For.
estry Of the U. 8. Department Of Agri-
culture. In accordance with It's usual
terms OF cooperative work. the bu.
reau will share equally with the state
the field expenses Of this study. Five
men have been assigned to II, and
are now on the ground. The work in
the field will be prosecuted through
the remainder OF the summer.
The results following forest .ses
are studied to determine whether or
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1905-06-23

not purn RS isaas eau DO msas
again to zee fofest crop. The
arst ind 10. How badly has
tho s6fest en- inbred? II only the
yo,fns Krh has been killed, the
problem iery different from that
presented IN the ground IL swept
clean Of TT. In the former case.
IL there areough seed-bearing trees
left. naturs,quires only protection
while she cher work Of reforesta.
tion. But hs ground has been
clean svepbe must be materially
assisted II per forest conditions
and growth to be re-established
within any enable space Of time.
The field y In .iaine will nrst
investigate extent OF damage
which Are ldone to tho forests.
Next Il will uine as to the exist.
cnce Of any irA reproduction OF
tho original II. Since tho worst
fircs were oni year ago. little In
the way OF r,}uction may bs ex.
pected In the burned over. But
what does ap will BIO carefully
noted and area me samo districts
burned over 9. 5. and more years
AGO will be eorI d with each other
and with the OF aroid burns. This
work II done ing eample strip
acres. iayssg uso A. to get
tho best gen (age OF tho tori.
tory, and then 1ns all the seed.
lInss aud mcasu y tho trees on
these strips. r nrcnt kinds Of
trees cncouniS Aea>the varying
forest cond,dons soil. etc. arc
also recorded. way an esti-
matc can be form how fast nat.
urai reproduction place.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1905-06-23
liv. sntk lily
iN ke1to

Few people reaiiw extensive
the stock raising In, has become
In New Mexico. ling to the
18th U. 8. Census were 1864.
o.: cattle. ss.l9: hond 1.c.5.oe:
sheep In New Mexic9oo. valued
at S3i.727.t 400. Tho ;e in value
OF the live stock In tritory dur
ing the ten years fro to 1900
was . little over six n.hnif mil.
lions OF dollars. The aisius In.
dustry Is the source econsider-
able portion Of the Inc the pco.
plc Of the territory. 'iustry In
surrounded by conditl,uliar to
those Of the arid weat OF the
live stock must find q wholly
outside of our bordert infrc-
Quentiy n light rainfall ranges
farther north, a short cfie corn
belt or other influences liuctuas<
tons in prices H. tho -.o,s.
These conditions nl.s"- ION
the industry within the 4 since
all who handle range grt>, are
affected by depression inV Any
means that will tend to ct ad.
verso influences Will be inter-.
est and advancement OF
Feeding is rcsorted a
Of the territory, II fac few
ranchmcn feed out their wn
stock upon the valley rand Id
feeding become general. 10
extent Of supplying the }.
mands. fewer animals wot o
be exported. less meat i'm 1
less alfalfa sold In the fos
In order to throw some ligl
question Of feeding in New
series Of experiments have
gurated by the Territorial Al
Experiment Station. The re
far obtained from the inve
made have Just been publ
these experiments It was fc
when the price Of alfalfa drf
low 30 per ton baled 1t could
ably fed to steers from the 81
when II dropped below $40
baled II could be profitably
lambs from the stack. One
steers returned 312.s1 per ton
alfalfa hay fed and one lot o
returned $13.s2 per ton for the
hay consumed. The lambs tn
the highest price for the alfai
consumed were fed all of the q
corn they would eat. 1Nis coi
si.271i per 100 pounds. j."
New Mexico Experiment Stati,
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habited and there was no hotel this side
Of Los Angeles
one night I'm crossing the Techchapi
range they made their camp I'm grove
Of scrubby oak and brush. Their horses
were staked out 10 Craze and after
n meager meal around the campfire, the
two men arranged their bed for the
night Mr.. Harrell had around him a
strong, wide buckskln belt IN which
he carried $1,000 In gold coin. with
this he intended purchasing a number
cattle rated as feeders, ana these would
then be driven back into the valley and
prepared for the markets Unbuck-
ling his heavy money belt he threw It
on the ground under his saddle, which
he always used as a pillow I'm camping
out
Swectly and soundly the two men
slept out there under the silently pass
ing stars. with no thought of harm or
hint Of danger
When morning came they arose carly,
built fire, cooked and ate their break
fast with a RELISH and then brought mp
their horses To- be saddled ami brldled.
When Mr. Harriet picked up his sad
die he stared It the bare ground ana
whistlod sharply.
where IN Lucfer is that belt and
my money!"
Sure enough 1t had disappeared Tho
camping ground aud every article ON Il
We're carefully searched, and then every
foot Of ground within a wide circuit
was mnutely gone over; but not a sign
Of any belt or money was found
Neither could any tracks OF either man
or animal be seen. II was a mystery
what had become Of that money belt
for they were many many miles from
any human habltation and no one had
passed them on the trail for days
Giving up the search with reluctance
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the two men went on south to the end
Of their journey, but they did not buy
any cattle
About 10 months later Mr.. Harrell
and another of his livestock friends
made the same horseback trip again.
They camped not far from the place
where the buckskin belt had been lost
on the previous journey.
Right over yonder," said Mr.. Har-
rell, showing his friend, lis where | lost
sixteen hundred dollars In gold when |
went through here, about year ago.
I'd like to know what became Of that
pile"
Lets go over and look around there
again. just for fun" suggested his
friend.
They did so. And strange to relate.
they accidental ystumblcd right over
the very spot where the money had
been dropped. For over II months that
heap Of 20-dolar gold pieces had been
kissed by the grass and flowers, Wopt
upon by the rain and dew, Wlnked al
by the stars. smiled at by the moon
iunamed by the sun and tanned by Tho
brCc2es; yet there they We're appar-
emily unchanged IN the Least Thougf
the money bad mystorOusly dlsap-
pearod, it was almost as strangely re-
covered. An OF it was found but two
2O-dollar pieces.
Here Is the explanation: a hungry
coyote had passed by the sleeping trav-
olerg and had shifted around TIL u
found the buckskin belt This was
seized and carried Off 10 q safe distance
before the animal stopped TO chew up
the buckskio on the way two Of the
coins had dropped from tho btlt. bot
the rest OF the gold held In place tlll
It was torn from its recesses ag the
sharp-toothed, hungry coyote devoured
his stolen tidblt
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- APTAINs OF industry have come
( out Of the west, as well as the
Y east. And the great San Joa-
Quln valley Of California has
produced It's quota, says the San Fran
cisco Chronicle, one Of the best-known
Of these men was Jasper Harrell, who
had his home I'm Tulare county, but
whose business transactions carried
him all over the state and into other
states as we'll No one had a wider
acquaintance than Mr. Harrcn for he
was one Of the very early settlers In
that region, and he literally grew up
with the valley. lie was an exceeding
~ popular man, and this was probably
one reason why he nourished as a
goodly fortune before the close of the
nineteenth century. lie handled large
herds Of cattle and was a dealer IN and
grower Of hay and barley to such an
extent that he came to be Familiarity
ucknamed Barley" HarrelL
one bright spring day, long before tho
Southern Pacific railroad wound IT'S
crooked, double-line track up and over
the Tohachapi mountains from the
great valley into the Molavc desert
Mr. Harrcll and his father-in-law start
ed from their homo IN Tulare county
to ride on horseback to Los Ange es,
u distance NJ $50 miles, at least But
such lengthy journeys We're not infre-
Quontly undertaken by stockmen ana
merchants I'm those ante-rallroad days
I'm California The two men stopped
over night wherever twilight caught
them FOR the country was almost unin-
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duced now cottons. tobaccos and grains,
and they nave now discovered un or
augo which VIII grow about 300 miles
further north than any we now have.
Az present tho oranges of the United
states are grown almost altogether In
the southern half Of Florida and I'm %
comparatively small part Of California.
This VIII extend the orange region
northward throughout Georgia and into
South Carolina, the Gulf states, Texas.
parts u Arizona ana INTO many other
parts OF California II viii make Il
possible for every aouthcrn farmer Of
these regions 10 have an orange grove
in his back yard and oranges viii be
as common there as apples are through
out the north.
II took about 10 years TO produce this
result. How u came about IS as fol-
lows In 1894 and 1895 we had a terri
bic frost which destroyed the orange
groves Of Florida. The trees Nere froz-
EN- down 10 the ground, and upon look
ing back II was found that such frosts
had come from time TO time and de-
Htroycd everything. The department
then tried 10 ind a harder orange
which would withstand the cold and
Dr Wcbber and Prof, W 7. SwIngle,
who were then wording for the depart
mout in Florida, were given this task,
After a time Prof. Swngo dropped out,
but Dr. Weber continued aud pro-
duccd the oranges which he showed me
today The first work that was dQAe
was the selection Of hardy trees, TINY
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-01-21
Our Great Matrimonial Plant Bureau ard Some OF Its
Valuable Offspring

new cailatlies and o zrcot ys.,..
peaches, apples, pears. plur,s ,nstoV ot
as well az valuable trees. null aun,
ers aud vegetables. ''' now
GETS $40 AN HOUR FOR pRIv,n.
TALKS. 'u
mot the other day a man who =,
Just visited Luther Burbank VIZ mad
mo that the people who live ~, Wls
cannot underetRLo him T,a 9y
UfnE bin - harmless l1lot ~. "oi
riio.ng thousands OF plans a., I0o q
ting them down without roseNal cut
then raising others They do no, anq
ize that he is carrying on a Rreo, i leal'
ness, and that ne Is doing NopJs, ouN'
the world lie Is wrappcd M, No. io'
work and wants TO devote hinsnai,. n'
IT, lie is u modest man. ana
not care for notoriety. lie kosrs "urS
the crowd OF slghtseers .n soms am%
by charging fog his time. ~, 'SwNl
to interviewers Is $40 an hour. ana f,Ne
told that many people are glad 70 am
that for the Information they 20, ~ Iy
him, He 10 an enthusiast IN , ,vm
production ana on plant breedlng' ',hl
possibilities Of which, he savs we
hardly be estimated. In n ,aror, .ah
per which ! have before mo no snol "a
of the great staples uf tho I'nSnnSs
States saying: N"'Su
II would not be difficult for a man 9.
breed new rye, wheat, barley. oa Is W
rice which would produce one SroG
more to each head, or corn ,stIllII
would produce IN extra kernel IN oo1"
ear another potato to each plant nj, W.
apple plum, orange or nut 10 eacb tro pa"
suppose this were done, what vo,ni
be the result? In the five STAPLES Cn'
IS IN this country alone, we should
have annually, without effort ma
without cost. more than WI"
100000 extra bushels of corn
10000, 600 extra bushels " wheat
2O0OO,OOO extra bushels " oats
100000 extra bushels of barley
2l,OOO,O0O extra bushels Of potatoes
WHAT PLANT BREEDERS MAYDo
Here IL what Luther Burbank say,
plant breeders may do "CultiyotIo,
and care may help plants to do hettsr
work temporarily. but, Ly breeane
plants may be brought into existsp[e
which will do better work ALWAYS IN
all places, and for all time. Plants are
to be produced which will perform
their appointed work better, quicker
and with the utmost precision"
Science sees better grains. ppts
fruits and vegetables, all In new forms
sizes, colors and favors, with mora
nutrients and less waste, and with eve.
ny injurious and poisonous qualtv
eliminated, and with power 10 ras,,
sun, wind, rain. frost and destructive
fungus and insect pests. II sees bet.
ter fruits without stones. seeds OF
spines; better fiber, coffee, tea. spIce
rubber oil, paper and timber trees and
better sugar, starch, color and perfume
plants, Every one Of these and ten
thousand more are within the reach n
the most ordinary SIKH I'm plant
breeding"
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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/ orange-lemon can be grown wherever
the Rusk orange can be grown, and II
Will give orange-lemOn orchards TO MIL
lions of families throughout the south
where lemons cannot now be grown
Another Of the trees produced by
marrying the Trifoliata orange with the
Florida orange has a fruit which might
be called the orange pomelo, or the
pomelo orange. This fruit Is about the
size Of a large orange, but II tastes
somewhat like a cross between the or
angc and the pomeo II viii grow IN
these same localities and will make a
fine breakfast food In short, from the
union OF these two varieties " trees
one little more than scrubby bush and
the other fine orange tree, have been
produced three good varieties Of trees
which VIII give the greater part Of the
south oranges. pomelos and lemons,
THE TANGELO.
Have you ever seen a Tangerine or
ange2 IL Is a little orange with a loose
skin so fastened to It that II Is some
times called the kid glove orange The
skin can easily be taken of and the
sections Of the fruit pulled apart and
eaten. You know also the grape fruit
or pomelo, which has a DELICIOUS acid
Uesn nut bitter, tlght-StlCklng skin,
"1th fruits are sold I'm the markets, Or.
\ ebber and his assistants have married
this little TangerIne orange tree to the
pomelo and they have produced a
pomelo which, although not so large
ms the ordinary pomelo, is Of a good
size. II has a loose skin, so that you
can tear 1t Off with your fingers as you
can that Of the Tangerlne orange. The
flesh Of the new pomelo orange is more
delicious than that of the r. nalo itself
II Is sweeter than the pomelo. and more
juicy and acid than the Tangerne, and
1t contains the bitter principle Of the
grape fruit slightly reduced, II might
be called a kid glove grape fruit
UNCLE SANS NEW BABIES.
These products are among the most
prominent Of Uncle Sans new tables
They are really the output Of the agri-
cultural department and any one good
healthy infant Of this kind is worth
more to the country than the cost OF
that department for a number of years.
In the marriage of cottons Dr. Weber
has united the long staple sea island
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picked out the toughest and tried 10
breed tougher ones by seed selection.
This was very slow, and they looked
around to see II they could not find
types with which they might cross
breed
Among the other things experimental
with was hardy little orange tree
which grows as far north as New York
There are some on Long Island ana
several IN the agricultural department
grounds The tree Is grown for hedges.
II IS known as the Trifoiate orange,
and II has fruit about as big around
as baby's fist but as sour ~ vince
gar and as bitter as gall. II Is, however,
n perfect orange I'm shape, and Is really
an orange although not NJ for eating
They took this tree and married It to
the sweet orange tree OF Florida, and
after many trials they have now pro-
duced the trees which VIII grow ana
fruit 300 miles farther north.
The new orange Is three inches IN
diameter; It Is good eating orange,
although a little bitter II can be prop
agat,d by budding and can be easily
spread throughout the southern por-
ton of the United states. our naval
oranges all come from a tree which was
sent here from Brazil and grown In
the agricultural hot houses That tree
was the father Of the seedless orange
Industry Of California. These trees
will be the fathers Of orchards all over
the south.
oRANGE-LEMoNs AND PoMELos'
In crossing these trees several other
varieties of oranges were produced The
seed from the union had to be first
planted, and as II takes about as long
for an orange tree to yield fruit as 1t
does for an apple tree, It was sew
eral years before the department could
know whether II had anything or not
The first fruiting came this year. ora
variety was the Rusk orange, named
after the late Secy Rusk.~of whth |
have already written Another was an
ora lge- lemon Of Just about the size Of
the Rusk orange This orange Is os
sour as a lemon and It tastes not un-
like one, having a delicious favor
slightly different from the lemon 1t
has more juice than a lemon of the
same size as can be seen by a photo
graph / give of several tubes showing
the amount Of juice In each fruit This
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-01-21

States Uncle Sans matches have not
to do with human beings such unions
are made IN heaven. Uncle SANS mar
rlages are Of the earth, earthly They
are the marriages OF palts and fruits.
and they are adding 20 the wealth OF
the country. ] can't tell just how
much; but the sum runs high into the
millions and the matrimonial bureau Is
just beginning to work,
NEW ORANGES FOR THE SOUTH
spent today at the agricultural de-
partment talking with DR. Herbert J.
Weber, the head OF the laboratory Of
plant breadlng, and with other scou-
lists on what Is being done 10 produce
new plants and fruits" Or. Web5er has
devoted his life TO this work and under
the direction Of the secretary Of agrl-
culture he and his associates are ac-
compllshing wonders They have pro-
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-01-21

/ cotton with the short staple upland cot
ton, and has thereby produced a medi-
um staple cotton which win grow on
the uplands, The Egyptian cotton has
also been cross bred with Uncle Sans
product and the probability Is that we
VIII raise the $li0O00OO worth OF Egyp-
ton cotton which we now import upon
our own soil, ] have written as to the
wonders which have been accomplished
IN tobacco breeding and something as
to the improvements being made In our
corn. In the plant breeding houses Of
the department here | have examined
the crossing of the Texas blue grass
with the Kentucky blue grass, whereby
they hope to get a rich sod which viii
grow all over the south, In the same
houses they are breeding cloyers with
altalfas and also lettuces and different
vaIietlos OF flowers which have a COM
mtrcial value.
MARRIAGE or THE LETTUCEs.
one of the strange things Is the maj
rage Of the lettuces There are two
commercial yarletls I'm the United States
one of which Is sold East OF the Ale-
ghenies and the other west, the latter
being raised chiefly about Grand Rap
ids. The Grand Rapids lettuce is a
loose lettuce with long loose leaves, de-
liciOus to taste. The eastern lettuce Is
a head lettuce and is much better in
some respects for the table Or. b. r.
Galloway, the chief OF the bureau of
plant Industry, first figured out in his
mind what he thought would be an
ideal lettuce for the market. and he
then told his eXperimenters to go TO
work and see If they could not produce
that lettuce by crossing the different
varieties, They have married the east
ern and western lettuces and they think
they are rapidly producing their ideal.
Indeed / saw many heads Of lettuce to-
day In the plant breeding hotbeds VIII ch
seemed almost perfect and combined
the eXcelencies of both varieties
In talking with nr. Galloway the 9th
err day he told me Of some experiments
ne had made with violets. He wanted
to show that money could be made by
raising them If they were properly
handled, so he established commercial
hotbed and set out 5000 plants As they
grew he found that some produced only
one blossom apiece and that others had
a half dozen or more, that some how-
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-01-21

A. y. Canman Chicago. writes March
1903, Having been troubled with Lumbs.
go at different times and tried one physI.
clan after another; then different olnt.
ments and linnments, gave Il up altogeth.
err. So ! tried once more, and got a boil.
tie OF Billiards. Snow Llnament, whch
gave me almost instant relief. can cheer
fully recommend II and will add nv nam,
10 your list OF former sufferers" &c b,
and 81, Sold by Il, c. NJ |. Drug Dept
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cred IN the month when they brought
the biggest prices and others jast when
there was the least demand, lie made
a careful selection Of seeds and after q
time produced yloiets which lowered
Just at the right time and IN the larg-
est number per plant. The result was
the hotbed paid q good dividend. He
had then shown the success of his ex-
pertinent and sold out His successor
paid no attention to plant selection ana
IN short time he was making no
more out Of sas ae-sNds the ~ oa'Es
bora
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-01-21

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