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The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-08-26

r. HAT the Taft official family will
begin about January to be rounded
into its permanent form and member
ship is the opinion entertained now
1t is strongly believed by those who
have looked into the situation of late
that there will be one change In the
cabinet about the turn of the year
which will take out of that body the
veteran, Secretary Wilson. He has
been cabinet member longer than
any other man ever was in this coun-
try-longer, indeed, it is said, than
anybody ever was continuously in a
responsible government. With his re-
tirement Mr.. Meyer of the navy will
be the only remaining representative
of the Roosevelt cabinet,
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-08-26
CULTIVATION IN DRY WEATHER.

Summer rains beat down cultivated
soil, forming hard crust. This hard
crust prevents sufficient air from
reaching the roots of the crops and
also allows the soil to dry out fast.
Hence it is good plan to give
growing plants a light cultivation
after each rain to break this crust.
This must not be done till the soil
becomes dry, for cultivating or pillow.
ing the soil when it is wet packs and
Injuries 1t.
Keeping the surface of the soil fine
prevents rapid escape of soil moisture.
Water is being continually drawn up
from below by capillary action of the
soil particles.
If the surface of the soil is hard,
this soil water escapes into the air by
evaporation.
If the surface of the soil is fine and
loose capillary action is broken at the
surface, and the water remains below
to nourish the roots of the plants.
In dry weather crops should be
given fine surface cultivation so that
all moisture possible shall be retained
In the soil for the benefit of the feed.
ing roots.
Making the surface soil fine to pre-,
vent evaporation of moisture is called
making dust mulch.-H. II. Shepard
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-08-26
Shady Place for Pins.

1t will pay to have cool, shady
place where it is rather dark, if pos
sible, for the pigs to lie in during
the heat of the day, with free access
to a mixture of salt, copperas, lime
and ashes, The feeder should watch
closely to see that every pig is eating
with a relish. If the pigs cough it
is probably due to a dusty shed
Worms will also cause a cough, and
if the hair becomes staring and dead
in appearance, 1t is well to give a
worm powder. The pigs will be
ready for market at any time after
six or eight months
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-08-26
GOOD MULCH is VALUABLE.
lite Application Is an Adaptation Of
Natures Method Of Protecting
Plants.
BY j. A. Leuu,

There is considerable said OF recent
years concerning the value of the
mulch for orchards, small fruits, and,
indeed, many crops.
have noticed where | put mulch
of litter and straw about the apple
trees that the small roots take pos
session of the soil up to the very sur
face.
The trees seem to respond to the
mulch especially in dry season.
If we go to the forest we find that
nature keeps the surface of the soil
covered with a mulch of leaves and
trash of one kind and another.
Where the ground is exposed to
winds and the leaves are blown
away we are very apt to find dwarfed
growth of timber and a pretty badly
the leaves from these exposed places
are deposited is CORRESPONDENCE
richer
few years ago | was sowing some
clover seed. At one end of the field
there was a small plot of very hard
dry clay. 1t had never produced any
grain and it had always been waste
of seed to put it to any crop.
Il had drawn my corn to this corner
and husked 1t and stacked the stover
there. There was a pretty good coat
of skaters scattered over the ground.
| scattered clover seed over the litter
and never saw better set of clover.
1t grew rapidly until late in the sum.
mer when a very severe drought sci
in, which almost killed 1t out in spite
of the mulch The growth of this clio.
yer was wholly due to the mulch on
the surface, as it would have hardly
sprouted without mulch.
A few years ago l put some planks
over early beans to protect them from
frost After the danger of frost was
past | put part of them between the
rows and left them for some two
weeks. The balance were removed
entirely.
There was rather dry spell while
the planks lay on the ground. When
/ removed them found that the beans
where the planks lay between the
rows had made double the growth Of
the ones where the planks had been
moved entirely away.
This was entirely due to the mois-
ture saved by the planks acting as a
mulch.
Frequent shallow cultivation makes
the surface soil act as a mulch to con-
serve moisture.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-08-26

" NGTON.-Although not at all
w UtopiaD In any of their ideas nor
intent upon carrying out a sociological
experiment group of officeholders
In the capital. most of them govern
ment clerks, has practically completed
plans for the execution Of one of the
most novel schemes in the history Of
real estate trading in the capital
Their primary object is to escape the
burden of paying rent in the city and
to substitute suburban life for urban
life, and with this end In view they
intend to found bungalow town, in
which the limits of cost of nearly
everything necessary to household
upbuilding and maintenance will be
held to the lowest possible level.
Just where Bungalow Town" will
be located has not yet been definitely
determined, but 1t will comprise an
area of 10 to 20 acres. convenient to
some of the suburban trolley lines
This land can now be secured at a
cost not to exceed 1000 an acre. and
when it is subdivided there will be no
effort to secure profit upon the money
invested, because tine purchase will be
distinctly cooperative affair, and
each participant will be entitled to his
share of the increased value of the
land incident to the placing of i'm.
provements in the section.
This Joining of interests in the ac-
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-08-26

could to help the beauty-waves by
keeping her nose well vaselined and
by massaging it with the fat of her
thumb to render it soft and sympa-
thetic. At the eighth treatment, how.
ever, she gave this up, for she was
startled to find that as she supposed,
the massaging was gradually pushing
her nose into her face. But when, aft
er two more treatments, she found
that her nose would no longer hold
her eyeglasses, she knew the beauty
doctor was really having some effect.
At first Aunt Rhinocolura was sur
prised to find her nose lessenlng in
this way, and it was quite an annoy
ance not to be able to wear her nose
glasses, but she got a pair of lorg
,nettes, which she could hold in her
hand, and got along very we'll AS
for her nose retreating little. she
looked at it logically. She knew she
had very stubborn case of nose, and
that it would be quite a feat to turn
it into an aristocratic nose, with a
Decline profile, and she knew that
when jumper is going to make an
extraordinarily hard jump he usually
steps back a few feet to get a good
start, and she thought that probably
her nose was just backing up a little
to get good ready for big squirt.
So Aunt Rhinocolura rested peace
fully, and every Thursday at 10 a. m.
she would turn her nose toward Phil
adelphia and assume a quiescent state
of mind. and the beauty waves would
come hurting along and impinge on
her nose. so many citizens wanted to
be present at the occasions when the
waves arrived that she had to issue
admission cards, and ii was indeed
affecting to see our best society sit
ting around Aunt Rhinocolura waiting
for her nose to wiggle. II affected her
nose that way. Exactly at 10 a. IN.
the waves would arrive, and for 10
minutes, while they continued, Aunt
Rhinocoluras nose would tremble like
rabbits, and then all our best So
ciety would rush up to see how much
Aunt Rhinocolura's nose had grown.
The most sanguine always claimed to
be able to see considerable improve
ment each time, but at last even they
had to admit that Aunt Rhinocolura' S
nose had worn down to a nubbin the
size of push button, and presently il
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-08-26
District of Columbia Seeks Lost Domain

dignffied to work for something which
they might justly regard as beneficial
to their municipality" 1t might even
be regarded as patriotic. The presi-
dent suggested that they might get
gress to bring it about. And it will
be done. Hence congress will have
its hands full
That the getting back of this chival-
rous gift of land is somewhat of a hot
coal is shown by the fact that the
supreme court of the United States
evaded passing on its constitutionality
and congress, which has picked it up
twice, has dropped it in two different
ways.
For the information of those inter-
ested it might be said that this Vir-
GINA portion of the original District
of Columbia comprises some thirty
odd square miles. now Alexandria
county. The constitution having called
for plot ten miles square, the bal
ance of the district comprises some
sixty odd square miles. The one-third
now part of Virginia, President Taft
thinks. ought to come back.
That President Taft was prophetic
in his suggestion the lost third should
be recovered is generally conceded. 1t
is felt that it will not be long before
this government will need 1t for vari.
GUS institutions. Already 1t has bought
back part of 1t for Arlington National
cemetery, Fort Myer and other pro.
jects. And as soon as the identifying
of the north side of the Potomac river
is finished eyes will be cast to the
other shore with view to making IT
less unsightly.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-08-26
RRe3 DoINGs {nre
EAut1 cap y! l,Aez9
Employees to Found bungalow Town

QUESTION of property is in itself con.
siderable of an innovation in Wash.
ington, but by far the most novel
feature of the proposition lies in the
building restrictions" In a majority
of the newer suburbs assurance is
given to the purchaser of each lot
that the character of the section will
always be maintained by the writing
of covenant into his deed that each
house built in the vicinity shall cost
not less than stated number OF
thousands of dollars. In bungalow
Town" this proposition will be exactly
reversed, for 1t will be specifically
provided that no bungalow shall cost
in excess of loco. This will reduce
the maximum expenditure of each
property holder to $4,000, because it
will be provided in the original subdi
vision that each bungalow must be
surrounded by one acre OF ground
Subsequently 1t will be permissible to
further subdivide and build additional
bungalows. although at no time will
the projectors of the enterprise permit
house to stand upon less than one
half acre of ground.
bungalow Town" will make its
nearest imitation to sociological col
ony in its purchases of supplies of
all sorts from the outside world. In
the first place there will be co-opera.
ton in buying the land and then there
will be determined effort to save ex-
pense In building by the letting of
contracts to build the little homes in
blocks of two or more to each con-
tract When bungalow Town" is set
tied 1t is proposed that the women
folk shall join In the formation of
central purchasing committee so that
all forms of food stuffs and supplies
may be secured at wholesale rates.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-08-26
BETZVHIE TALES
Aunt Rlinocolura Betz and the Ab-
sent Treatment
RBy Ellis Darker BuHeE1
hRD Author of'Pi9s is Pigs" Etc. Ska7
BY PETER, NEWELL

An unfortunate thing happened to
and for some time she had to tempo
rarily retire from the best Betzville
society, In which she is accustomed to
mingle freely. Six months ago Aunt
Rhinocolura began taking the new
thought absent treatment from beau
~ doctor at Philadelphia, and the
waves arrived at her home every
Thursday at 10 a. m. Although long
a leader of Betzvlle society, Aunt
Rhinocolura's nose has been a thorn
in her side, so to speak, on account
Of its very pugginess. Experts in
noses have remarked, in passing
through our village, that Aunt Rhino-
colura's nose was the limit. 1t was so
short and stubby, with sway-backed
bridge. and tilt toward higher and
better things. For many years Aunt
Rhinocolura intended seeing a beauty
doctor about it, but kept putting it
OF until she received the circular
from the Philadelphia man, who
claimed to be able to beautify at
long range. Although not having much
faith she decided to try him
For several treatments she did not
seem to notice that the thought waves
were having any effect on her nose,
ing 1t was an extreme case, her nose
having become chronic, as the doctors
say, and tough, but she did what she
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-08-26
Willow Farm Conducted by Uncle Sam

proceeded far enough the engineering
department planted Lombardy poplars
and willows along the retaining walls
These willows spread over many acres
OF the land that had been dredged
from the river bottoms The north
western half of this reclaimed land
has been beautified with driveways.
lawns and flower plots. but the i'm.
provement of the southern part has
not been begun. The department of
agriculture secured the use of this
land as an experimental farm. The
growth of the willow trees probably
suggested the utility of promoting
willowcraft in the United States and
cuttings from many species of willows
there are 100 were set out in
nursery form. To-day the depart
ment has a willow plantation OF mar
acres extent.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-08-26

did not look like anything but dried
pea-a little, wrinkled, yellow dried
pea. And 1t was still shrinking
Just then was when her cousin Gill
dad Betz came for a short visit, and
the moment he saw Aunt Rhinoco-
lura's nose he remarked that all was
not well with it, Ii was about the
size of pin head by the time he had
stayed over another treatment, and
the only way Aunt Rhinocolura could
tell she had nose at all was by feel
ing for 1t gently with her little finger.
Then she could feel something that
felt like grain of salt.
Then Cousin Gildad came right out
and said he was having something
done, and that he was taking thought
waves from a beauty doctor at Phila-
delphia. and that the waves came
every Wednesday at p. m, but that
he was getting hopeless. He said the
thing was warts. He had had three
warts on the back of his left hand,
and he was taking the thought-wave
treatment to have them removed, but
that as soon as the treatment began
were so long he had to braid them
and do them UP in a coil to keep from
stepping on them. He said he hoped
1t was part of the cure, but that IL
they got much longer he would write
to the man. He said no man could ex-
pect to remain indolent while his
warts were rapidly gaining the two
yard post.
BY that time Aunt Rhinocolura's
nose had shrunk until it was mere
"Reminiscences, and she persuaded
Cousin Gildad that they ought to write
to the beauty doctor, SO they did.
Come to find out the Office help had
got the two Betz names mixed, and
had entered them wrong on the card
system and the doctor had been Civ
ing Cousin Gildad a growing treat
ment for his warts and Aunt Rhinoco-
lura an effacing treatment for her
nose.
But the doctor was a most accommo-
dating man, and he wrote that. al
though their course OF treatment had
expired in both cases, he would give
them a postgraduate course at only
udii price. so the next thursday at
10 a. m. he began, and at 1915 Aunt
Rhinocolura had enough nose to see
with microscope, but it was still
more of dent than bump. And the
next Wednesday at AIS p. m. Cousin
| Gildad measured his warts and found
they had shrunk an inch. So he kept
on with the treatment until his warts
were all gone, but the very minute
Aunt Rhinocolura found her nose back
to its old size and specifications she
turned her nose away from Philadel-
phia. But she will never be quite the
same again, for whenever her nose
happens to point in that direction &C.
cidently it begins to tremble and pal
plate like thing in distress.
Copyright, 1909, by W. G.. Chapman)
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-08-26

ONE of the many activities of the
" department of agriculture at Wash
ington is the conduct of a willow
farm. The purpose of the department
is TO encourage willowcraft. an indus
try little followed in this country, but
extensively practiced in Europe
There, willow is largely employed in
the making of baskets and furniture.
When the reclamation of Potomac
Park from the flats and shadows OF
the Potomac river at Washington hGl
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-08-26
Soil Condition

The physical or mechanical condl
ton of the soil is the all important
factor, as it has more to do with the
quantity and quality of the crop yield
than any other one thing. If the seed
and root bed is not properly prepared
all the after cultivation cannot bring
the highest yield. No matter how
much moisture you have conserved in
the soil below or how completely you
may keep the weeds out you cannot
reach the high limit of yield without
close and careful attention to the
preparation of the soil.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-08-26
To Kill suarrows.

A method of getting rid of the Eng
lisb sparrow pests is oscribed by a
poultry breeder, whose yards were
bers as to seriously interfere with his
profits He fastened a small box about
four inches deep, on a post five feet
high, placed just outside of his poultry
yard. This box he kept supplied With
poisoned chick feed. The sparrows
entered cordially into the new feeding
program and several hundred Of them
left bodily testimonials to the palata-
bility of the food.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-08-26
loads as Bug catchers.

AS high as s25 per 100 is sometimes
paid for liYe toads by English and
French gardeners. The toad is a high
ly appreciated parsonage in foreign
gardens. Shelters are made for the
toads-shallow holes in the ground
covered with fiat stones or boards.
The toads win retire into these in
the day time and come forth at dusk
Tor their nightly insect forays.
Prot Hodge of Clark university es.
timated that every time the farmers
boy killed toad he was destroying
$40 worth of stock on the farm.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-08-26
Diversified Croppinu.

Alfalfa, field corn, bronze grass, po-
tatoes, etc, also give excellent results
on arid farms. Alfalfa should be sown
with a drill at the rate of about eight
pounds per acre. a disc run over the
field every spring will be found bene-
fetal. Corn and potatoes should be
planted in check-rows, the cultivation
should be fiat and not ridged, as less
water will be lost in this way. Bronze
grass is by far the best grass grown
on arid land. 1t is sown broadcast
in the spring at the rate of from Is
to 20 pounds an acre 1t may be used
either for pasture or for hay The
hay is of excellent quality and is
relished by all farm animals.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-08-26
Not impossible,

The Topper-You must have had an
awful fright when you awoke and
found the place burning
The Trilby-My dear teller, Wy I
vos as vite as your shirt-no, yiter
than that,-The Sketch.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-08-26
Shut Her OF

Which would you rather see" be-
gan Mrs. Virgins, "a woman"
las a matter of fact Interrupted
Virgins without looking up from his
paper, I'D rather see a woman in the
kitchen than on the lecture platform
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-08-26
Hog for Meat.

The pig that is to be SOLD for meat
has but few months to live, and
there should be no letup in feeding
from birth. 1t will begin to eat
shelled corn at three or four weeks
of age. and little sweet skim milk
or a thick mush of the same material
as that given the mother, is a great
help to hasten growth.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-08-26
What's the Use.

my husband wrote poem roasting
the new bee hive hats"
But l see. you wear one of them
yourself?"
Yes, l bought 1t with the money he
got for the poem"
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PRETTY Girl.

Belinda-Did you notice the culver
of her lips?
Billy-Yes.
Belinda wonder what it was do
ing there?
Billy-oh, guess it belonged to
the "Cupid's bow"
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Different Here.

Church, see that Sweden, Nor
way, Iceland, and Denmark have given
the municipal franchise to women"
Gotham-oh, well, they're q long
way from the Rowery
Statesman.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-08-26
He Knew.

do you know how to use chafing
dish?"
YES" answered Sirius Barker 'T
have some novel ideas on the subject"
What are they?"
THE best way l know of to use a
chatting dish is to punch hole in the
bottom of it, paint it green, and plant
flowers in it.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-08-26
Different Here.

Church, see that Sweden. Nor
way Iceland, and Denmark have given
the municipal franchise to women"
Gotham-Oh. well, they're a long
way from the Bowery! "-Yonkers
Statesman.
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Pure Breed sunerior.

Every farmer should so int The
pure breed poultry clase me attrac
tiveness of the flock ST \ T.. suit H.
etter care in addition to the nat
N inbred superiority of the stand
aId bred GW
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Why He was Sorry

Church-Ive lost all my money in
Wall street.
Gotbam-Oh, I'm so sorry! | was
just going TO ask you to loan me So
Yonkers Statesman.
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Resting.

Yeast Does you wife ever sit with
her cf u regting on her knees?
Crlmsc AZ 1ak-No; my wife seldo !
sits with her chin resting at all,
YonIers Statesman
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Tiaht-RoIIed.

II got onto car yesterday that was
DIVIDED by women in tube gowns"
Must have looked funny
1T did it looked like a package OF
cigarettes.
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Her Company.

Don't Judge woman by the com
pany she Is compelled to entertain.
illustrated Bits
Evening journal., 1909-03-19
MORE BUOYS
ARE DEMANDED

The Commissioners Of Navigation
have taken a strong stand in the in
terest OF a better buoyed and better
lighted channel from this port to the
sea. George +. Sproule, secretary to
the Commissioners declared yesterday
that the recent investigation made at
Grubb's Landing. below Marcus Hook,
where the Hamburg American liner
Ayssinia grounded, has shown maritime
buoys 10 properly mark the channel.
Letters are being sent to prominent
shipping men and vessel owners asking
their views on the subject, and these
will be submitted to the Commission
ers at their next meeting in April.
Captain John p. Virdin. president Of
the Pilots Association. said that Phil
adelphia's channel is the poorest buoy
ed of any on the North Atlantic coast.
The distances between them vary from
one and a third miles to fiye miles.
while at New York they average about
one third of mile apart. Even Bal
timore, Boston and Norfolk enjoy su-
perior buoyage facilities.