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The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-01-31
Fertilizer for Onions.

Professor John B. Smith, the Ento-
mologist of the New Jersey Experiment
Station, in bulletin on the cabbage
and onion maggots, just issued, refers
to the necessity Of quick-acting fer
tilizer in conjunction with planting at
the right time, and replenishes the fol-
lowing formula, recommended in ear
lier reports: Nitrate of soda, roo
pounds; acid phosphate, 1000 pounds;
muriate of potash, 300 pounds. This,
he said, in the case of radishes, can lie
applied as a top dressing along the
rows, before they are planted, or Just
after they are up, at the rate of 500
pounds per acre. Similar applications
can be made on turnips or onions
believe that a fertilizer compounded
after this formula, or the application
Of the three ingredients separately, at
proportlonate rate, would in most
cases be followed by good results The
combination has about per cent nitro
gen In its most available form, per
cent phosphoric acid, and ~ per cent
potash. A ton of 1t would cost in the
neighborhood of $32 to $35.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-01-31
Montgomery Won.

Oakland, Calm a veritable sea OF
mud Sam Hildreth's crack 4-yearTold
horse Montgomery, by Passara-Mont-
gomery Copper, the favorite, splashed
her way to an easy victory in the
Burns handicap Saturday, five lengths
in advance of the fast-coming Clamor
of the Keene stable, second choice in
the betting, the latter gathering in
three lengths ahead of R. F. Carman's
Rifieman, third choice. The balance
of the classy field was strung out for
an eighth of a mile. The winner was
ridden by E. Dugan, the place horse
by w. Miller and the third horse by
G. Burns. The time was 2:10 As.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-01-31
Getting RID of White Grubs.

These suggestions regarding Whit
grubs were made by the Missouri Tx
pertinent Station:
1t is very difficult to do much in de-
stroying white grubs where they have
once gotten a good foOthold. About
the only plan is to put out a new patch
and plow and cultivate thoroughly the
ground where the infested patch standA
These white grubs are the larvae Of q
group of beetles known as May beetles
or June bugs. They feed for three
years as white grubs before changing
to adults, 80 that you will find various
sizes of these grubs at the same tims
in your patch. Some Of these will ma
ture one year, some the following year.
and so on. Cultivation Is about the
only remedy for these grubs.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-01-31
Engineer so Years; No Wreck.

At the end Of so years continuous
service, during which time he never
has had a wreck, Lawrence Gagin, the
oldest engineer in point of service in
the employ of the Chicago & North
western railroad, will retire on pen
sion. The date of his retirement will
be February 1, but the pension, which
the road assigns to every employe of
so years standing. will not mean a
great deal to Larry" who is bank
stakeholder and has other financial in
terests at his home in Sterling, Ill.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-01-31
Nordica to Wed Again?

Chicago, Jan. 26.-When Nine. LII
lion Nordica boarded the twentieth
Century Limited yesterday to start on
= sudden visit to New York there was
much playful talk among the 1rlenas
who escorted her to the station about
rice old shoes, white ribbon and the
like The members of the San carlo
onera company expect to hear that
Americas greatest prima donna mas
taken a third husband. The man u
whom she gave her heart is George
washington Young of New YORK
hacker OF the San Carlo Opera com
nany. Mr.. Young is multimillionairf
banker.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-01-31
MRS. EDDY MOVES TO sRookLiNE

She ls Founder and Head Of Christian
Science Church.
Boston, Jan. 29.-Guarded by the ut
most secrecy, Mrs. Mary Baker G..
Eddy, founder and head of the Chris
tian Science church, was removed by
special train with all her household
attendants from Pleasant View, in
Concord, N. H., where she has lived for
10 years, to a new house in the fash
ionable Chestnut Hill section Of Brook.
line.
The coming was unheralded, and
only few members of the Christian
Science church had been aware of the
contemplated change.
Arriving in Brookline at O'Clock
the party was taken to the late A. A
Lawrence estate, one of the mos
beautiful in all Brookline, even before
100000 had been spent in the pas
four months to remodel it, and here
Mrs. Eddy was settled in her new
home.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-01-31
Dry Farming Congress.

Salt Lake, Utah.-That the Trans
missouri Dry Farming congress- which
closed it's second convention Saturday,
will never again be c1assed among the
minor congresses is conceded by all
who have watched the daily increase
in attendance, interest and enthusiasm
Beginning with 1872 delegates the con
vention closes with nearly 600 in At
tendance, and when the congress
makes it's bow to Cheyenne, Wyo., .
year hence, there will be still more
This congress has created perma
nent salaried secretaryship, inaugu
rated a system of annual dues and life
memberships and established a bu
reau of information, which will in
struct the membership in all discov
cries and developments in the sciene'
of arid land culture.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-01-31

AgricuIture's Amazing Growth.
How can any country be hard u
whose farms in the last nine years
have produced flfty-three thousand mil
lions of dollars worth of crops2
No wonder that the report of the
Secretary of Agriculture Is full Of
thanksgiving flavor and that he Is I'M
affected by causes for gloom that worn
on other men. The value Of the farm
products for 1907 is nearly seven and
one-half billions Of dollars; 10 per
cent above that Of 1906, when all rec
ords of crops were broken; % per cent
over 1903, and 81 per cent over 1899.
More than 100000 acres Of land
that used to be considered valueless.
"the home Of the cactus and the prai-
RE dog" are now producing $3O,OOO,-
600 worth of crops every year; and
these crops are directly due to Sec.
rotary Wilson, who imported the Med
iterranean durum wheats at a first
cost of $4,000 and saw that they were
planted there. Irrigation farming, due
wholly to the department, will this year
sell crops for not less than $3.50, 0OO,-
coo, which is not contemplate, in view
of the fact that the Department OF Az
ricultura costs only about $15,0OO,0O0
year.
| Yet the work Of the department Is BY
no means on such scale as the nat
ural resources of the country warrant
and will one day make possible Sur
veyors declare that not one-half the
farms of the country-20, O0O,OOO
acres. to be exact-can be classed al
improved land, and only one-third, OF
29O, 100000 acres, is fruitful. Many
years will pass before all this ground
is put under cultivation, but the tins
will come when 1t will be producing
abundant crops and supporting hun
dreds Of millions of human beings
; Chicago Journal.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-01-31
Broke Bike Record.

Kansas City, Mo.-With all the ener-
CIV he could command and exerting
every muscle to defeat his opponent,
Iyor Lawson of the Yankee team, in
a remarkable burst of speed Saturday
night won the six days bicycle race
from Joe Fogler by short distance,
so short that it was almost impossible
to pick the winner.
The worlds record for As hours,
held by Elks and Mcfarland, made in
1900 in Madison Square garden, was
broken. The official finish was:
1-Lawson-M Moran, 9S4 miles laps
2-Fogler-Root, 9S4 miles 8 laps.
3-Sherwaad-W Wiley, 9S4 miles laps
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-01-31
TIEIS -
|PoPulss.!!' 81! Saenes'

British battleships are being provid-
ed with searchlights by the light Of
which a newspaper can be read at
distance Of eighteen miles. They have
4Sinch projectors.
The village of Sohrusan, in Bohemia,
which was found to be built on val
liable coal bed, has been bought for
100000 by a speculator and ra7ed to
the ground. The Inhabitants, who num-
Der more than 1000, are rebuilding
their houses a mile away.
With the Anal closure Of the Colo
RADIO river, the greet SaltoA sink. Which
il inundated as the result Of a poorly
constructed hsadgate Of an irrigation
canal and rapidly converted into an
inland sea, will gradually dry up. In
asmuch ~ there are practically NO cut
lets for this vast body Of water, the
sink must naturally evaporate to dry
ness. According to one opinion the
Salton Sea will dry UP in about eight
yeara
The growing Importance Of the metal
tantalum, ewing to Its employment In
the preparation Of filaments for fncan-
descent Lamps. gives interest to the re-
cent discoveries Of minerals containing
tantalum In Wetsern Australia. II
long ago a. 1894 tantalum was found
at Bimberg, combined with niobiun
and anthony. Later it was discovered
near the same place In combination
wisA iron. Quite recently a combina
tisn Of 70 Der cent tantalum and *
per cent manganese has been found a
Wodsina. It occurs in blocks weighing
as much ~ 30 pounds.
The delicate measurements demand
ed BIZ modern scientific processes ant
machines have led to the invention o
many instruments Of precision that sur
prise the uninitiated BY their capabill
ties, which are often based on extreme
Nv sinple principles. Among these l
; a little apparatus recently put upo
the market in France for determlnln
the thickness, or, one might say lac
of thickness, of extremely thin plates
wires and threads. The inventor iiken
Its action to that Of lever in which
raw of light takes the place Of the bean
Essentially the apparatus consists G
! two carefully ground plates in conta'
+ with one another, the upper one bein
q attached to a movable arm. When a
v object Is placed between the edges
the plates the upper plate Is dlspiace
Il a little in level, and the effect OF III
n displacement is magnifed by rehecte
t ray OF light which falls upon a grad
r ated scale. Thus the most deilca
G measurements of thickness are easl
and quickly made.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-01-31
Rivers and Harbors Congress

DR.. N. G. Blalock of Walla Walla,
one of the directors of the Pacific
Coast Division of the National Rivers
and Harbors Congress, has issued an
open letter to the people of the State
of Washington in behalf of the great
work being carried on by that organ
ization. The purposes of the congress
and the work which it has set itself
to accomplish are many. Citizens OF
Washington are urged to become mem,
bers of the congress, the cost of which
is only five dollars, and thus assist in
securing the thousand dollars which
the directors have apportioned as
Washington's par IF the funds neces
sary to provide for the work of lee
turers, writer's, investigators and or
ganizers that is an indispensable fea
ture of this important movement.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-01-31
GREAT
STRUGGLE
GOVERNMENT TO CON
TEST RAILROADS.
QUESTION is REGULATION OF IN.
TERsTATE RAILROADS OF
HARRlMAN's SYSTEM.

What promises to be the govern
ment's greatest contest in it's struggle
for regulation of interstate railroads
was begun in Washington, d. c., re-
Gently, when the preliminaries were
completed for the long threatened
legal attack on the hartman system.
A bill in equity will be filed, by
order Of the attorney general, to dis
solve the alleged illegal combination
between the Union Pacific and South
ern Pacific and the San Pedro, Los
| Angeles & Salt Lake road.
1t was also ordered that the courts
be asked to declare illegal the own
ership by the Union Pacific of the Ore
gon Short Line, of all stock held in
the Santa Fe, the Great Northern and
the Northern Pacific, "all of said lines
being competitors of the Union Pa
cific," to use the language Of the at
torney general in his formal statement
issued tonight.
The proposed action not only strikes
at the Hartman system in the west
but will attempt to dethrone the great
financiers and capitalists of the east
closely identified with Hartman in
control of his railroad manipulations
for the attorney general announces
that in addition to the railroad com
panies mentioned, the following nOtee
J individuals will be made defendants:
E. H. Hartman, the railroad king
Jacob H. Schiff, New York banker ant
capitalist; his associate. Otto II
Kahn; James Stillman, president o
!, the National City Bank of New York
> commonly known as the Standard OF
: bank; n. G. Fnck of Pittsburg, tn
: coal and coke magnate. and q prom1
nent Agure in the United States SITES
: corporation; Henry H. Rogers, one O
1 the heads OF the Standard Oil CON
s pany, and William A. Clark. the multi
J. millionaire former United States SCI
l. ator from Montana.
e Who the defendants are:
g Union Pacific, Southern Pacific, Sa
Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake raj
o road, Oregon Short Line, Santa F.
/, Great Northern, Northern Pacific.
n E. H. Hartman, Jacob H. Schit
n Otto Kahn, James Stillman, Henry
a Frick, Henry H. Rogers, William /
II Clark, Farmers Loan & Trust cor
e pany, New York.
What is charged:
If Conspiracy in restraint of trade an
e illegal monopoly of the transportatio
t. business of the country between tt
1T Missouri river in the east and tt
ID Pacific coast south of Portland on tt
n west.
What is demanded:
at Dissolution of the combination b
is tween the Union and Southern Paci1
d, and San Pedro lines.
Of Adjustment of the ownership
X Union Pacific or Oregon Short Lii
of stock of the Santa Fee, Great Mort
so ern and Northern Pacific.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-01-31
Nobility at Berlin.

Berlin, Jan. 27.-Half hundred
representatives of Germany's highest
nobility are here to take part in the
celebration of the emperor's birthday
anniversary.
1t is announced that the emperor will
make a cruise of the Mediterranean
in the latter part of March and that
King Edward will make similar
cruise in April, both monarchs visiting
| Sicily and Florence.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-01-31
THROUGH a Gale.

New York-Buffeted by gale
which at times blew 80 miles an hour,
the old Dominion steamship Princess
Ann, over "a hours overdue from Nor
folk, came into port Saturday night I'M
harmed from her encounter with one
of the fiercest midwinter storms that
has swept the Atlantic in years. -.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-01-31
The Ii. s, Was Second.

The ship building summary for l9oa'
complied by The Shipping World
shows that the United States ranks
second for the year in the total tom
mage of ships constructed, only Eng
land having outstripped this country.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-01-31
Proper Fruit Packing.

A great many farmers and fruit
growers seem to ignore the conditions
attending the Journey which their
wares must take before they reach the
hands and eyes of the consumers. The
methods of transportation. customs Of
the trade. the markets fashions as re-
CARDS style. size and form of package
all must be well understood, for they
are as important as the growing OF the
crop
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-01-31

uprights and place the bolt through
this board so 1t will work easily. Cut
this board in a half circle to fit the
sack. Drive nails through this board
around this half circle to fasten sack
to. This board can be raised or low
cred to the height of sack and Is held
in place by means of an iron rod which
Is fastened on the uprights about two
| feet from the bottom
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-01-31

feet long which
the upright pieces
are fastened to.
About four or hve
inches from the
top bore two holes
e < actly opposite
each other and
p a e e through
these holes a long
bolt. Take a piece
Of plank or board
and cut 1t to ft
| between the two
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-01-31

Don't let your horses shoulders get
sore. You can prevent 1t by bathing
very night with strong salt water. 1t
toughens them and also prevents gals.
Among the most distressing sights Is
hat of n horse at work with sore shoul-
ders. Frequent bathing and care in
the selection of collars will prevent 1t.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-01-31
Antitoxlne for Meningitis.

The medical world 10 eagerly await
ing tho forthcoming number Of the
Journal of Experimental Medicine, in
which will be announced DR.. Simon
Flexner's discovery of an antitoxin
serum which successfully combata
cerebro-splnal meningitis.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-01-31
Liohtinq Furnaces to Work.

Pottsville, Pa.-Several open hearth
furnaces have been lighted up for
more general resumption of work at
the plant of the Eastern Steel COM
pan vat this place. About 1000 hands
will be given work.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-01-31

corn stored in the crib, as would nat
urally be expected. rs the SEED was
exposed to the widely varying tenn
peratures which prevailed during the
winter season. The termination WAS
practically the same with the samples
stored in dry room and on racks IN
a barn, though these methods of stor-
ing had but little advantage over tile
use of the warming oven. Corsidera-
bio difference was witnessed, however,
In the strength of the examinations
from corn kept in the several ways IN
dicated. The grain from the corn
stored in the crib showed the least
vigor of termination, the best results
being obtained from the corn stored
on the racks in the barn, followed
quite closely by that stored In dry
room. The corn stored in the warm
ing oven terminated fairly well IN
all except two instances. In one the
termination was remarkably low, due
either to a poor ear or to the fact tina,
the corn may have been overheated al
come time.-Exchange.
Heavy Hay Tonnage.
'By methods that are perfectly prac
ticable to you we at the college are get
ting f1fty-four tons of hay from twelv
acres. First we have our land wei
TILED" said Professor Gilbert, of tn
Maine station, in addressing a recen
farmers meeting. "Why Is there s.
much rundown land, is 1t low In fer
tility? No, it has been lying in gras
too long. There are lots of fertility
nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash
what it needs is blowing up and rota
hon.
''Plow poor land in the fall, and b
spring there will be air in it, harrow
well in the spring, pulverize 1t by hal
. rowing 1t over and over again. The
: seed with oats and grass, and the mex
year you will have good crop 9
0 grass, and clover the next year.
+ good rotation OF potatoes on sod LIANT
using commercial fertilizer; the ney
year cover with stable dressing, the
, oats and grass with no fertilizer; til
h next year, grass and clover, with to-
y dressing of fertilizer. Our mixture I
n grass seed to the acre is eleven pound
n timothy, six redtop, four red clover al
l. four alsike.
+ "Tor the top-dressing $50 pounds
% the acre Of a fertilizer carrying ~
?. cent nitrogen, Z per cent phosphor
70 acid, 6 per cent potash. The gra
It should BE- cut while in bloom" Aft
explaining why 1t should be done,
=, continued, "After the FIRST crop is CT
(, 100 pounds Of the same fertilizer to t
, acre should be applied"
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-01-31

cd OF storing grain
becomes a matter
of vital interest to
all corn growers.
A test was made
last year to deter
mine what the eff
feet Of storing
corn in a dry
room, on racks In
the barn, in the
warming oven Of a
stove and In a
corncrib W o u ! d
have on the ger
minating powers
of the seed the
following spring.
The per cent OF
termination wal
lowest with thu
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-01-31
Convenient Hayrack.

Many basket hay racks are built In
such fashion in the rear that to climb
into them presents an especially irkr
some task to man, more 30 after
having lifted hay or pitched bundles
all day. In the sketch presented Of the
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-01-31

The right hand, which is more SEN
sitive to the touch than the left, is less
sensitive than the latter to the effect
| of heat and cold.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-01-31
~NO~~~~O~N~


Storage of Corn.
The relation of a perfect stand to In
creased crop yields has been 80 effec-
tually demonstrated that the best meth
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-01-31

rear end of rack we have tried to
lustrate how the task of climbing I'M
the rack might be made easier. Bt
little extra york and material will X
required and at the same time the con-
tents of the rack are held very nearly
as good as IL the end pieces extended
clear across.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-01-31
Easily Made BAG Holder.

I describe a handy sack holder, use
ful on a farm. 1t has two upright
pieces Of 2x2 and a two-inch plank two
The Washington times., 1908-07-05

ing wEe1 the need Of the simple iolk
-nhabiting that region came 10 his
ears. Before that, there had been no
doctors in the remote parts Of Labra-
dor and Newfoundland Medicine men,
old women with mysterious charms,
cOnjuTers, and traditional remedies,
sufficed for modern physicians and
later day surgery n bulls heart,
powdered, and administered regularly
and with proper faith was thought to
cure consumption II the unhappy
victim died, as he generally did, his
death was attributed To lack Of faith
in the medicine man So with other
diseases = native developed 6iph-
iberia. His throat was Immediately
bound with a split herring. and when
the patient died a few hours later the
wise ones said he "chOked himself
10 death
A daughter Of one IF the ignorant
Esquimaux suffered from frost bitten
feet, the ailment growing from bad
TO worse. Not knowing what else 70
do, the father decided that amputa-
ton would be the proper thing, ana
he proceeded 10 cut them off with an
The Washington times., 1908-07-05

physician-missionary was given atten-
ton and under the influence Of stimu-
lants soon regained confidence and
strength. Later, illustrating the IN
domitable spirit mat makes exist
ence among such trials possible, he
proceeded upon his way, apparently
none the worse of for one Of the
most horrible experiences imaginable.
a wonderful career IS that Of Dr..
Grenfeu since he became a resident in
the far north. He has passed through
experiences and has had hair-breadth
escapes that would have discouraged
a less hardy man. DR.. GreufeU is a
self-made martyr, although he reseuts
the use Of the terms as applied TO him
self; cor the Labrador and Newfound-
land coasts have been the scene or
many a wrecked life and more than
one volunteer who has sought TO aid
the natives Their nave never even
reached the Some Of their proposed
labor and sacrifices.
The Washington times., 1908-07-05

Ak Tie result OF The sO-calIed cure
need not be told. Another superstI-
ton related that a sure preventive
of sea boils" was the trimming or
ones nails every Monday.
II was ignorance such as this and
the need OF folk such as these. thai
touched the heart OF Dr. William T.
Grentell. then a young English doc
tor IN the London hospitals. DR..
Grenfeu possessed a college educa-
ton, had brilliant prospects at home.
and was one OF the last persons his
companions would have picked for
the life he afterward adopted. But
he was hardy, adventurous. and.
above all, he loved the sea. It was
no wonder then that after he left
the tabernacle IN East London, where
the American evangelist Moody was
preaching one night, that he had sud
denly resolved to make his religion
'pracgical" The coast. the people.
the privations Of Labrador. offered
the one field that would supply both
the adventure he craved and the op-
portunity for aiding humanity Ana
TO Labrador he went, despite the
gloomy predictions Of friends. the
catering offers at home. and the
more alluring Hfe Of ease offered him
by civilization