The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-09-24

The boy who doest have gumption
and backbone enough to say mo"
when occasion requires never has a
''Yesr' for any proposition which
amounts to hill of beans.
When a servant of the dear people
will spend 100000 in a primary nomi-
mating campaign to win an office that
pays but $500 per annum there is
some suspicion that his motives, po-
litical and otherwise, are not entirely
altruistic.
At the present time Boston is the
greatest wool market in the country,
100000 pounds being the amount
marketed there last year. Chicago is
a close second, and If ner wool sales
increase at the rate of the past two
or three years she will soon be at the
head of the list.
In states where two cent fares have
been given fair trial the receipts in
fares on most roads have shown an
increase over those from the old rates,
and that following period OF hard
times The railroads will hardly ask
for return to the old rates, as it can
only result in a loss in passenger re-
ceipts.
In spite of the increase in the num-
Der Of automobiles and the develop
ment of the flying machine the aver
age prices of horses has increased
$275 in the past year and about $50
in the past ten years. Horses are not
on the run yet except to get out of the
clutches of fellows who are anxious
to get them.
/ Experiments which have been con-
Quoted by several experiment stations
show that the value of fresh manure
per ton as shown in increased crop
yields is about 1926. When it has
lceched two or three months it loses
one-thind of its value, or 10 cents.
These figures should contain very
direct suggestion to the thoughtful
farmer as to the best way to handle
his farm fertilizers.
Some of the most entertaining and
illuminating reading which agricul-
tural papers have contained Of late has
been the very spirited gabfest Of
charges and counter charges which
has been going Oh between the cream
separator fellows. Whatever the out
come of this mess of verbal pyrotech-
MICS, the buyers are getting their eyes
opened touching a good many points
and this is really an advantage.
1t is expensive business-this feed
ing thirty-five cent butterfat to calve:
when some grain ration with the skin
milk will answer the same purpose
and it is right here where the repu
table hand separator comes in will
it's perfectly clean skimming. Th
use Of it also means that less storaG
cans will be required and that tn
milk can be given to the calves warn
and sweet instead of, so often, warn
and sour.
Some one has found the following
. to be an excellent method for poison
! ing cutworms: Stir one pound of pari
green thoroughly in ten gallons o
water; soak punches of clover or al
, falfa in the solution during the da,
: and in the evening scatter betweel
' rows of vegetables in the garden O.
, clean cultivated places. The cutworm
o will swarm to these punches and ge
, fixed during the night. This metho
y is especially effective if the grass an
= weeds on which they usually feed ar
h not allowed to grow.
4 The controversy between Secretar
d Wilson of the department of agricu
ture and Spectator Patten as to wi
was responsible for the high prices {
J., May wheat, an actual crop shortas
, as claimed by Patten, or an artifici
h and temporary cornering of the supp
# in sight by Patten, as claimed by NJ
r Wilson, does not seem to have bee
d settled to the satisfaction of the lar:
,e body Of consumers who are now pa
@ ing excessive prices for their flour.
lie the crop reporting department owe
a estimated the 1908 crop 5O,OOO,O'
r bushels this s.lo;;'l be looked into, al
le if Patten was abb. to boost prices al
If thus levy a tax OIL the poor mans lo
It when there was not a wheat shorta
lie spectators of his type should be su
pressed The eaters of bread won
like to have the colored man located
J. The cost of making good roads is
d subject often discussed. One tn
a, needs just as much attention, the
e. verse of the same proposition. is t
A. cost of poor roads. the policy of ju
Sc letting things jingle. The office of pu
ID lie roads of the department of agric'
le ture has been collecting some fac
IS along this line, and they are not on