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The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1905-08-31
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Aa. zoe al mT Uuls each day. aad 4. lrs
DaTklued hours of despair overcome me
May not forget the strength that comfort
ed me
In the desolaiion Of other times. AayI
Still remember the bright hours that found
me
Walking over the silent hills Of my childhood
Or dreaming on the margin Of the quiet river
When light giowed within me
And promised my early God to have
Courage amid the temDests Of the changing
years.
Spare me from bitterness and sharp passion
OF anguarded moments May not forget
That poverty aud riches are OF the spirit.
Though the world knows me not.
MAY my thoughts and actions be such
A shall keep ipe friendly with myself
Lift my eyes from the earth and let me
Not forget the use oi the stars.
Forbid tina, should Judge others, les,
condemn myself.
Let me not feel the glamour OF the world,
But walk calmly in NV path. Give me
A few friends who will love me for what
ams
And keep bunsng before my yagran, steps
The kindly light Of hope; and though
Age and inhrmiiy oveuake me. and
Come not in the castle OF my dreams.
Teach me TO still be thank full for life,
And for times olden moments that are
Good and sweet and may the evening twi-
light
| Find me gentle still.
MAX EHxMAS
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1905-08-31
Public 10 Aroused.

The public is aroused TO knowl-
edge OF the curative merits OF that
great medicinal tonic, Electric BIT
terss. for sick stomach, liver aud
Kidneys. Mary II. Walters, Of $40
1t. Clair Ave. Columbus, o., writes
FOR several months, ! was given up
TO die. ! had fever and ague, my
nerves we're wrecked; | COULD not
sleep, and my stomach was 50 weak,
from useless doctors drugs, that |
could not eat. Soon after beginning
10 take Electric Bitters, | obtained
relief, and In short time | was en-
tirely cured. Guaranteed at W. c.
whitwell drug Go, and Guy EhSard'
drug store; price 50c.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1905-08-31

Soldiers Home Improvements.
One OF the incest and best Kept
of Idaho's many state buildings IS
without question the Soldiers Home,
located one mile west Of this city.
The main building Is stately ard
well proportloned with comfortable.
well finished yerandahs on the shady
side OF the structure, Sufficient to
seat twice as many inmates as will
ever be housed there at one tine.
An electric motor and pump elesates
water from a large spring into the
building direct for drinking pur-
poses OF into a large steel tank ele-
waited above the top OF the building
for use In bath rooms and for safety
in case of FIRE.
The main building. however. was
found deficient in one respect, 1t did
not contain up-to-date hospital con-
veniences. The legislature last
winter appropriated the necessary
funds and after satisfactory plans
we're prepared by Wayland & Fen
nell a contract was awarded to the
lowest bidder for construction. j..
W. Walker fortunately for the state,
being the lowest bidder, secured the
contract and is Just now finishing a
commodious, we'll arranged hospital
with an isolated ward for contagi-
Gus diseases that will make the Ida
no home a model OF convenience.
The main hospital has a high base
ment which is used for storage and
beating plant. Above this are two
stories, the first OF brick and the
second OF ornamental shingles. The
windows are extra large and The
rooms are Of good size with foul
large wards. All the outside door:
open out to make them safer for thu
inmates In case of fire. Polche'
adorn three sides Of the hospital,
wide roomy ones, that add On idea o
comfort To the appearance Of thu
building
Leading from the hospital to tn
isolated ward is covered porch
This ward as 1t is called, is built OF
the same general plan as the hoslpita
though it only contains room 70
three patients. These new building
are on a line with the main building
TO the eastward and presents alto
gether an ideal front to the north.
The grounds consisting OF law
and orchard to the front and east
ward are kept In the pink OF condi
tion by Commandment Chamberlai
. and the big vegetable gardens t.
the rear are well worth seeing.
Plans have been drawn for enlare
ing and identifying the park !
I front. 1t will be extended sever;
4 hundred feet to the east and I'll
, handsome iron fence that has su
:. rounded the capitol building will
. put up there.
On the theory that nothing is x
! good for the old soldiers, nothing
\ being left out that will add to the
\ comfort or convenience.
/. Contractor Walker will be able
Z turn the new buildings over nice
. finished by September !, full mont
b earlier than required by his contrac
n Statesman
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1905-08-31

The Academy of Idaho Is the best
equipped secondary school 10 the
West. The following courses are Of
tered College preparatory, CONNER
cial, domestic economy, mechanic
arts. shorthand and music.
New Features: Girls dormitory
dining hall. gymnasium science lab
oratorses. instructions Ia athletics
No tuition is charged; living es-
penses sie a month All teachers are
specialists. Next term opens SEP
tember 18th.
For further particulars or eata'
logue address the principal,
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1905-08-31

There WAS a young man in Cohces
Who had a run bloom 90 bis nose.
lie thought IL vas ine
And he swallowed more vine,
UntiI he jus; TUNED up his toes.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1905-08-31
To Butter Makers.

For Rubber Stamps and an ink
that will not run nor inibre butter,
write TO viii l.. CaD1ee, Weiser,
Idaho.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1905-08-31
Excursion TO Salt Lake City.
September 3. 1905.

The Redrock Salmon and Gibbons
Vile Stage colLany in connection
with the q. s. l.. Ry. company will
sell tickets tn Salt Lake and return
on sept 9th at following rates:
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1905-08-31
Excursion 10 Denver.
National Eneampmenl G. A. 4. Sept. -

The Bedrock, Salmon and Gibbons
Vile Stage company In connection
With the q. 8. l.. Ry. company will
sell tickets TO Denver and return on
sept list and End at following rates
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1905-08-31
Chamberlain's
collie, CHOLERA AND
Diarrhea Remedy

Atevs doses Of this remedy VIII
iuyarish.y cure an ordinary ~
tack of diarrheA.
Ithas been used in nine cpl.
denies Of dysentery with perfect
success =,
II can always be depended
upon. even In the more severe
attacks Of crAnp colo and ehoi-
era morbus
Ii Is equally successful Tor
summer diArrheA and cholera
infAntun In children, and IL the
means ofsaving the lives CT many
children each year.
When reduced with water and
sw~essned IL is pleasant to txks
Every man % q family should
keep this remedy In his home
Buy 10 now IL may save iife-
punrx csc LAR0s SHE. soc.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1905-08-31

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The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-06-27
Nitro-Cu1ture.

We are almost daily getting letter.
from farmers asking about what bas
been called nitro-culture. Thew saam
to imagine that it is a new and co
centrated fertilizer that win mako
poor land rich at once. and We aro
asked if it is a good fertilizer for
this, that and the other farm crm
The article now called nitro-cuIhra
is simply laboratory culture of tbp
various bacterial forms that live on
the roots of legumes, and the DIR.
pose of these cultures is to inoculata
the soil with the different bacteria
since it has been found that each
class of legume has its own specific
bacterium, and the successful growth
of each depends on the presence in
the soil of the bacteripn that lives
on it's roots and enables it to get the
free nitrogen of the air combined
in the soil for it's use. These various
nitro-cultures, therefore. are not fer
tilizers. but are simply collections of
living forms of a miscroscopic char
acter that retain their vitality for a
considerable time when dried, and
can then be diffused in water and
sprinkled on the seed or on soil to be
scattered over the land that is to be
sown to some such crop as alfalfa,
peas or other legumes-PracticaI
Farmer.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-06-27
Again we do all the blowing when

Again we do all the plowing when
the earth is dry. This prevents the
packing and prevents the formation
of sundried brickbats. This pulver-
ICES the soil and thus makes the
plant food soluble and available.
Reaction follows the plow and the
soil is as deep as we plow. This
greatly increases the productive pow
er of the farm.
We terrace the fields and plow on
a level. There are many benefits
that followed from this. This, to-
gether with the deep breaking, holds
practically all the rain water in win
ter and yields it up in summer to
the growing plants in hot and dry
times.
We remove all stumps and stones,
thus making it possible to use all
kinds of improved farm machinery.
We plant first of all an abundant
supply of all that we consume upon
the farm. We find it cheaper to raise
corn and wheat and beef and pork
than to buy them.
We raise the cattle, save the ma
nure and make the farm rich so that
we are not dependent upon bought
fertilizers.
We give much time and space to
growing and saving grass instead of
all of our time and labor to killing
grass.
We live at home, diversity our
crops, beautify our farms, pay as we
go, make cotton largely or entirely
as a surplus crop.
We make farm life profitable,
pleasant, ENJOYABLE and our children
grow up delighted with the country
home and stay there.
Thus briefly stated are some of the
striking features of the new way.
Which will you follow ?-Southern
Cultivator.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-06-27
WHAT ONE WOMAN DID.
Successful Truck Farming on Less Than
Half an Acre.

Writing to the Asheville Gazette
News, Miss Helen Morris Lewis cites
a remarkable instance of successful
truck farming by an Asheville lady.
She says:
II wish to relate some points
about the accomplishments of a wo-
man engaged in the same industry
(truck farming) for the past year.
'In this case less than half acre
of land was the area planted, and on
a portion of this area the following
fruit-bearing products: cherries,
plums, rasDberries, strawberries,
grapes and gooseberries. From all of
these considerable fruit was harvest
ed, except the plums, that were killed
by frost. The land was ploughed
and smoothed by man in the early
spring, the rest of the work was done
entirely by one woman, except the
digging of potatoes. She devoted
perhaps not more than an eighth of
a day to this work, as she had a large
and fourishing flower garden to at
tend, besides a greenhouse, numer-
Gus house plants, and many house
uO1u o1O OuGSIu0 uuC10S.
"Now on this land the following
vegetables were produced in album
dance: Spinach, English peas, let
tuce, radishes, potatoes, onions,
beets, carrots, artichokes, crook
neck sQuach, patty pan squash, wax
beans, string beans, lima beans, okra,
tomatoes, caulifower, cabbage, corn,
DoDEerS canta 1o1,po ,,,,,oI;
celery, besides every variety of herbs.
These vegetables have provided am
ply for the years use of a family.
and furnished five varieties each day
TOR two months to supply boarding
house table. Sufficient has been laid
by for seed for the coming year, and
a couple of bushels of corn and a
peck of sunfower seeds, and several
stacks of fodder are still for sale
"The proceeds from the sale of a
large quantity of these vegetables
enabled the producer to visit the St.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-06-27
Hyde County's Wonderful Soil.

In the interesting series of topics
on corn now running in our agricul-
tural department on the foerth page
the subject of discussion is the plant
ing and cultivation of corn. Speak
ing of yields, one is reminded OF the
remarkable corn lands of Hyde
County in this State. 1t is a regular
Egypt for corn. These lands have
been planetd in corn every year tor
a century and still produce tltty
bushels to the acre without fertlllzeF
or rotation. AS to rotation, it IS SAID
that the people have to plant the
land in something every year, or else
it will grow up in weeds too big 10
clear off conveniently. Even when
the land is planted in corn, it IS 5alq a
that the job of clearing the stalks Oh
is a difficult one. The cause OF It's
wonderful fertility seems never "
have been satisfactorily eXplaneG:-.-
neither heat nor drought affects Is
productiveness. These and man.
other interesting statements OF uIi
North Carolina Egypt may be 1oq5u
in "North Carolina and It's Ne,
sources" published by the o.. Go
Board of Agriculture.-Gastonla ="
zette.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-06-27

can be put down on the bottom OF
this cold cellar.
have tried all this, and have seen
it tried, and know exactly how 1T
will do.
In a town or village. or where
there are several families near, ice
could be had much cheaper by sew
eral going in and keeping the ice in
one pit. If ice for one family, for a
season, must cost say ten dollars, ice
for ten families need not cost more
than twenty-five or thirty dollars.
There are numbers of farmers who,
after learning of the great luxury of
stored up ice, would not think of do
ing without a fair supply for sum-
mer use.
There were various fruits in view.
as it seemed, when this article was
first conceived. but the above may
suffice for the present.
W. F. GRABS.
Forsythe Co., N. @.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-06-27
Tuesday, J1he 27 Ion.

Louis Exposition 3 and study the I.t,,.
scientific methods in aor;; rIo latest
horticulture and foricultumre, ire OI'o'e
"Ihere are no doubt marr
stances of successful truck farm;n m
at Asheville, but I cite this %,ulls "nn
it has come under my special JS ob,1 as
vation and shows what unAa"n;vf o~svf-
industry, with a favorable cI;SSn4 ?Salg
and fertile soil, can accomnIisb D"5 t: t.
may serve also to encourago o+l II
women in a special line of WorI 'tsI f
which many are adapted by taste anj WI
inclination" 'N "nu
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-06-27
The Old Way or the New.

AuC OAu w dy VI IAC NC".
We write and speak a great deal
about the old and the new way of
farming. But very often we do not
have very clear ideas about the differ
ence. We wish, now, to talk to our
readers awhile about this difference.
The line is in many things very plain,
but in many it is still rather mixed.
What do we mean by the old way
of farming! We mean the way our
fathers have farmed and taught us to
farm. Some of the chief Characters
tics of this old way may be given.
First of all we mention shallow
plowing. We used one-horse plows to
break the land and usually plowed
about an average of three inches, Of
ten less. Again we plowed straight up
and down the hills. These two things
helped to create washes and gullies
and barren hillsides. Again we plowed
when the soil was wet. And by doing
this for years we created a compact
layer of clay from three to eight
inches thick which We call hard-pan.
This hard-pan prevents the water
from sinking into the earth, and thus
causes washing as we'll as other dam
age. 1t prevents the roots of the
plants from going down into the soil
and getting water and food. 1t locks
up the plant food. That is it makes
it insoluble. 1t cuts off the water
supply from below in hot dry wealth
er and thus greatly damages the
crops.
Besides creating this hard-pan this
blowing when wet destroys the fertil-
ity of the three inches which were
plowed. 1t makes it into mortar,
which, when dried, becomes sun
dried brickbats. Countless millions
of these are all over the fields to-day.
Another old way was to burn up
all the rotting vegetable matter on
the farm. This was and is fearful
mistake. This vegetable matter
would create humus and greatly in
crease the productive power of the
soil
Another old way was to plant too
much cotton and buy supplies. This
is working backwards. Another was
to turn our farms over to renters,
tenants or "helpers" and give no at
tention to caring for the soil.
Another was to wait for the
stumps to rot out. and continue to
cultivate stones for all our lines.
Another was and is to depend too
much upon commercial fertilizers.
The result of this old way has
been to destroy the fertility of the
soil, make gullies and bald hillsides
and work hard and living poor.
What we call the new way begins
in breaking the ground from twelve
to fifteen inches. Thus making the
soil very deep, for when we have
broken through the hard-pan we
strike the porous strata. When tbio
is done all the earth needed is at
the command of the crop roots. Thev
can and do go down from four to
and water. 10ou
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-06-27

The hen enjoys a dust bath tnssr ~r
days as much as she does at 1nj I]
other time of the year, and a OariTl -
full of dry dust is a good tnlns ;;Ja
keep in the poultry house. frCS'G;o g IN
a box for them to take their 0aSn Iorr ~
and renew the dust in the box 7''''
three or four days.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-06-27

Uniformity among the fowls on o1Ip, u1
farm is quite as desirable d? 10 to
where. Nothing is so condutNoo oniv
uniformity as the keeping 0l 40 % is
one breed, for if more than on;dIv oni
kept, they become mixed ana lIp nrize-
lose their individuality ana P
winning.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-06-27
Keeping Potatoes, Saving Ice, Etc.

seems to figure tor us LATITUDE
rather too cold for fruit; too cold
even for cranberries-but not too
cold for snow plants.
/ like our latitude here; it is just
right-thirty-six.
Here We have a climate for a va
riety of fine fruits.
We can have something like as
good fruits as there is in the world
and we have the best of grain for
bread, ETC.
Only a little farther north (not
half way over to latitude '76") they |
do not have very good corn for
bread; the seasons are too short-as
it seems.
Here, in our temperate cline, we
seem to be Just about on the line be-
tween the potato countries; the main
Irish potato territory laying in the |
direction of the north, and the main |
climate for the sweet potatoes beng |
rather in the direction of the south. |
We, too, can do very well keeping |
the potatoes, and can keep both sorts |
all during winter, and they are often |
kept till new potatoes come in. | see |
L
late paper, about the keeping of po- |
tatoes.
Our people do not give much at
tention to the raising of potatoes. |
There is such a variety of the luXu
rious products, that only enough for
home use of the most of these things |
are raised-but we can do well rails
ing both Irish and sweet potatoes.
The potatoes, both sorts, should be
stored in cool room. inside of thick
walls. A dry cellar is the Dlace-and
if the weather is favorable, not too
cold, the cellar should be ventilated
during the night.
This is a good climate for cab
bage; but forty miles north of us, in
the mountains the cabbage is better
hill side is suitable for the cabbage.
We do not have the extreme wealth
er here. as is the case up in the
northern States.
During winter, say in New York
State, they have an abundance of
zero weather. but here we hardly
have zero weather during winter. In
summer, in New York they have a
few DAYS hotter than we have here.
Several years ago, saw the ther
mometer go uD to 1O7-which was
the hottest day that have ever wit
messed. One hundred is hot weather
for us.
However, besides having good hot
growing weather" during summer,
We have some winter weather at the
season for it, and thus are located
favorable even for ice.
/ mean by this to say that although
we are not troubled by severe cold
weather during winter, we have
enough winter cold to form ice. This
is no little matter, but is Just right,
because ice is a great luxury to store
up for summer use. Of course, by
the great inventions, the machinery,
ice is being made, as it is needed,
during summer, by machinery in the
cities, but there are thousands of |
country homes that have need to
store up ice during winter for sum-
mer use. The good old-fashioned |
way of storing is in pit in the |
ground is a convenient thing for us
farmers (and for others), but some |
are learning to construct so as to |
have an open cellar down under the |
ice room; and this convenience is one |
of the finest luXuries possible.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-03-25
Girls Dislike Homework.

Factories are overwhelmed with appli-
Giants for work, sweat shops flourish on
cheap ami abundant labor, Departments
stores turn away thousands of woull-be
salesgiFlS, typewriters are legion. there
are more teachers than there are places,
and the cry of the unemployed i often
heard in the land. Yet households arc
broken up, cages glitter. restaurants Is
sue cheap meal tickets boarding houses
multiply. and the American home is year
IS growing less, because the American
houSekeepcr cannot obtain willing and
competent service. In factories are girls
who would rather cook. in shops women
who would make good hOusekeepers
hundreds of typewriters are reeling off
badly spelled words who would make
creditable mattresses. and many are
teaching school who should be doing
anything else in the world. The Wom-
ans Educational and Industrial union Of
Boston made systematic effort to at
tract the workers in shops and factories
to domestic service but with signal fail
IRE. From 5t4 women who were asked
to consider homework. only thirty-six
applied. and these were not altogether
satisfactory Their dislike for the work
is frankly stated to he on account Of the
long hours, no evenings for themselves
the isolation from other workers, and
the social stigma that attaches to the
occupation.-Jan Seymour Killing in the
Atlantic.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-03-25
A Gambling Gamble.

There was sure thing gambler down
in Mississippi named Gamblc-good
rame, by the way" said John Sharp
Williams. He never made a bet UNI
less he was sure he would win. He
was out at country fair staying ut Il
hotel One morning a man who was in
The sporting line himself got MP early and
looked out of the window. lie saw
Gamble carefully measuring with tape
me the htching post in front of the
hoteL lie knew something was up, and
when Gamble went ont to the fair he
went ont and measured the hitchiug post
himself. Then he took Slcdge ham
mer and drove the post into the ground
an inch and half
That night after supper. while they
were all sitting ON the hotel porch, Gam
tile craftily led the conversation around
to the difficulty of Judging distances and
heights.
Now he said. there's that hitch
lng post out yOnder. Ill bet hundred
! can come nearer TO its height than
anybody here
How high would you reckon ii isY
asked the sledge hammer artist, who
after lot of conversation, had put III
the hundred with Gamble
oh. said Gamble. III take it at
thirty inches
Oh. no replied the other man. You
are wrong. I'll bet it is less than TWEEN
ty-nine'
''They measured and it was twenty
eight and a half. Gamble hasn't smiled
Since that day."-New York Tribune.