The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1908-12-19
| GENERAL STATE
NEWS OF IDAHO
Items That Are Likely to Prove Of
Interest TO Our Readers.
a Brief RsvIsw of the News of the
Past Week Presented In Shape to
Appeal to AlI-0rowth and De-
vsIopmsnt, Mining. Commercial
and Farm.


and Farm.
Boise.-The judges of the Idaho su.
preme court have recommended 10
Governor Gooding that special SEES.
sion OF the legislature be called De.
cember 2s, one week in advance OF
me regular session, for the purpose OF
considering the revised code OF the
Idaho statutes. ordered by the last
legislature. The work OF revision has
Deen completed by a commissioner.
Moscow.-Thc Idaho state corn
show closed with an interesting pro-
gram by the student club OF the apri-
cultural college for the amusement OF
the farmers, at the university gym
nasium.
No exposition of this character in
Idaho ever met with such gratifying
success as has been won in the last
three days. Growing corn in Idaho
IS now an established fact and UNTO
date farmers will plant it instead of
summer following" said Professor Fl
Y. Hislop. Bayard T. Byrnes led the
discussion in the forenoon on corn as
q side issue in dairy feeding. Pro-
lessor Hislop told how to select seed
corn.
Mr. Maughn and Professor
Sherry Jones lectured on planting and
chemistry of soil. The honors for
the boys Judging contest was won.
FIRST, by Elmer Roth, 70 points our
OF 100; second Carl Carlson, IA: third
Oscar Burklund, ~; fourth. Don Hen,
ley 20; fifth, Bert Hollingshead. SO.
kendrick.-Instead of selling their
gram, many of the farmers have been
ieeding hogs this year. and Kendrick
is becoming a livestock market. with
weekly shipments of two or three car
loads to Spokane packers. The live
stock industry is an attractive branch
OF farming, and almost every farmer
raises a large number of hogs while
well. 80
The efforts of the Idaho experi-
ment station experts to introduce in.
tensified and diversified farming are
bearing fruit, to the great delight of
the men who have been induced IN
use science in farming Profits from
livestock are usually much larger than |
when the grain is sold for at the pres |
eht prices Tor hogs and cattle, the net
returns give a greater increase than
expected.
fat hogs are now selling at 81 cents
pound live weight, but MANY farm
'rs are dressing the animals and sell
ng the by-products. Bacon sells
'eadily at IL cents a pound. and the
supply of country hams and bacon Is
10 great that the merchants are buv-
ng packers products with extreme
'aution.
Occur d'Alene. - The Diamond
Match company has contracted with
lafayette Bros, of Occur d'Alene 10
upply them with 81, 1000 600 feet oil
White pine, sawed in convenient
engths for use in making matches.
\ mil VIII be constructed on the
axe shore, about mile and a half
rom tins city for the special purpose
i fulfilling this contract, according
o the announcement made.
Perhaps every person who uses
latch doesn't stop to consider the
mount of-timber consumed annually
the production of matches. For 4
ne making of matches consumed in
his country alone il runs into many
lillion feet. Heretofore eastern white
Inc has been the sole reliance of |
latch manufacturers, but for several
ears they have been looking toward a
ie west for suitable material 5
IL was about 10 years ago repre- 4
OF the Diamond Match v
)mpany first began their investipa- T.
ons to determine the suitability of a
laho white pine. The standing tim O
er in the Potlatch basin. in Iatah v
'unty, was looked over. and MANY Il
implies cut from white pine trees d
ere taken east a
The contract just made with the {,
atayettes is the first manifestation T
the purpose of the company To use a
Iaho timber 1t is important for sev- Il
al reasons, and it is especially i'm
'rtant from a local standpoint II il
cans that the future supply of nine {
r the use of the Diamond Match II
mpany will come from Coeur W
Alene. This point evidently will he R
{ headquarters for the match COM ia
~ NN'ANih supply Oh llInDcT. &c
Pocatello.-Three thousand sheen N
en- will attend the forty-hfth annual C
INVENTION of the National Wool c.
overs association, to be held in this L
y January Il, IS aud 16. 1909 The to
lcial call for the convention has st
en- issued by President Fred w
'oding. and the convention CITY has
mpleted plans for entertaining the
legates.
This meeting will be the most inn &c
rtant in the history of the national Fl,
Final and definite ar. a.
igements Tor the establishment of :"
great central wool market at Chi
90 VIII be made. and the questions Sc
federal control OF grazing on unap- tn
>priated public lands, government or
ltrol of forest reserves and the lai
intenanee of protective tariff on sh
ol will be considered. at
N connection with the convention 10
nidwinter sheep show will be held ",
which the city of pocatello will Pr
tribute cash prizes agereeating
500, IN addition 70 the handsome
'er trophy cup which the national
ociauon annually offers for the
i individual exhibit. Already over De
sheep in the thoroughbred and 70
ded classes have been entered for SIT
show, and the committee conf pr
ltlv expects that by the time entries tn
Sc on December IS, 1000 sheen pa
have been entered. chi
is made from ma An
nal headquarters at Cheyenne that da'
100000 out OF the required $4,000 PR
pounds necessary for the estab- Le
ment OF an immense market in sig