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The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-07-29
SILAGE PROPERLY
HANDLED HELPFUL
Incorrectly Put UP and Fed It
May BE Expensive.

SiIos have been abandoned in many
cases because the milk became so
badly tainted as to become unstable.
If the creameries and cheese factories
were as particular as they should De
they would condemn great deal OF
milk that is now accepted from silage-
fed herds.
This is not the fault of the silage; 1t
Is the fault of the man who handles It,.
Silage has a very penetrative odor,
which is taken up very quickly by
milk. If silage Is fed before milking
the milk is quite certain to become
tainted. If the milk is allowed to stand
a few minutes in the barn after milk
ing and silage is fed while the cans
are standing around. the milk will be
tainted.
II the stable is not ventilated or is
poorly ventilated the silage odors will
linger in the stable and faint the milk.
In an unventilated stable the stable it.
self will in time become saturated or
permeated with the silage odor and
will faint the milk, no matter how the
silage is handled.
The corn is frequently cut into the
silo too green, which makes very sour
silage, with a strong odor The silage
is frequently carelessly handled in the
stable; it is scattered through the
alleys and allowed to remain on the
floors. In such instances the stable
will be scented with the silage and
the milk will be tainted,
If good results are expected from
silage it must be properly handled in
the stable. First, silage must be fed
only after milking Second, the floors
must be kept clean and no silage
allowed to accumulate in the alleys
Third, there should not be more
silage fed than the stock will clear NJ
at once. Fourth. the stable must be
well ventilated Fifth, corn should
not be cut in too green. Sixth, don't
feed moldy silage.
From the foregoing it will be seen
that silage must be more carefully
handled than ordinary roughage. One
cannot throw silage around as he
might straw or hay and get satisfac
tory results.
Silage properly put up and properly
fed is a very cheap and most excel
lent feed-Prof G. V. Knapp.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-07-29

the second brood comes on during the
month of August 1t would be best,
then, to kill off the slugs when they
first appear in June. and SO prevent
the defoliation of the trees by the
second brood in August.
When the slugs first appear on the
leaves the trees should be given a
thorough treatment with paris green
or some other arsenical poison. Since
the slugs feed openly on the upper
sides of the leaves there need be ut
tie difficulty in combating them. For
only few trees the paris green may
be applied dry. mixed with air slaked
lime. or even -four; part of the paris
green to 20 or more parts of the other
material For az liquid spray, paris
green at the rate of 1-S or Ia pound
to so gallons of water will do the
work. adding about a pound of quick
lame to each barrel of water to pre-
vent any burning of the leaves. Ar
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-07-29
A Pear Slug Enlarged.

goes into the ground. Here it forms
a cell in the earth, within which 1t
changes to the pupa, or resting stage,
and the adult fly energies in about
~ to Is days after the slug has en-
tered the soil
The flies which lay the eggs for
the next brood Of slugs are rather
small black insects, about fifth Of
an inch long and with four wings.
The eggs are laid in tiny pockets
made by the flies in the under sides
of the leaves. These eggs hatch and
the second brood of the slugs work
on the trees during August and when
they become full grown go to the
ground. During the winter the slugs
of this second brood may be found in
their cells beneath the trees which
were infested by them in the summer
time. The pear cherry, plum and
ounce are the trees which are most
attacked by these slugs.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-07-29

a son, and if you card us talkin', you
know all about it, He took to drink,
miss, and was allus in trouble. And
last year e got to quarreling-in
Montreal it was-and stabbed
man. And the man up and died. So
they're after i'm fur it, and they'll 'ang
i'm, miss, they'll 'ang my boy IL they
ketches i'm"
She rocked to and fro a moment in
speechless misery, and then contin-
ued:
"And | give i'm money, Miss Elise,
but / don't let i'm come up ere. ex-
cept to-day e follered me unbe-
knownst. miss, and let i'm so in the
coal ole, God furgive me fur the lib
erty | took! Mostly e comes down
the shore in is boat, and l meets i'm
quite private. But I've give i'm all
the money ad, and my brothers give
him money, too, and 'e's goin back to
the old country to live decent life
Where were you when heard you
talking?"
in the coal ole at the back O. the
cellar. And l beg your parding fur
the liberty l took, but don't lay it up
agin me, miss, fur what else could a
mother do? And, Miss Elise, darlin
you'll keep quiet tongue in yer cad,
won't you, and let i'm git away? Fur
'es shipped as sailor and sails on
Sunday mornin'."
| said l would talk II over with the
others, but l thought If she promised
never to allow him near the house
again we would say nothing, as he
was really going to leave the country
and reform. She quite cheered up
then. and insisted on getting me a
lunch, waiting on me with a humility
and alacrity | found most touching,
This vagrant son explained various lit
tie mysteries about Mary Anne which
had puzzled me good deal, and felt
very sorry, indeed, for the poor crea-
ture with her secret trouble.
1 had been so excited that quite
forgot my own ills. and longed for the
return of the girls, that | might talk
the matter over with them. They could
not get home before six o'clock, how
ever, so went out on the veranda to
wait for them and enjoy the salt
breeze.
To my surprise. found Lady Edith
Campbell reclining in the hammock
reading the morning paper. She
laughed as ] exclaimed in astonish-
ment, and came TO meet me with a
| kiss of welcome.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-07-29
Stems Are Burglar Alarms.

In a New York rathskeller they
have devised novel way to protect
the ornamental stems on the shelf
running along the side of the room.
Each stands upon burglar alarm con,
nection and when one is removed a
contact Is made, a drop falls on the
annunciator indicating the position OF
the table and bell rings. In second
half dozen walters are in attendance
at chat table and the stein goes back
on its peg. The proprietors have lost
so many valuable pieces of bric-a-brao
that they were constrained to adopt
this measure. Since the alarm system
has gone into effect there have been
many surprises. but no losses.
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IMMENSE AMOUNT DAMAGE
DONE BY PEAR SLUG
of Cherry Pear Attacked this
n an Often Left


senate OF lead. or 3 pounds to so
gallons of water. will do the work
even better than paris green, and is
preferable where 1t can be obtained
easily. Hellebore, applied dry, or in
a small quantity of water, is also very
effective in killing the slugs.
The first brood of the slugs is rather
short lived It requires only about
a month from the egg stage to the
time the slug natures. During most
of the time while 1t is feeding the
slug is covered with Shiny sub
stance, but at the last change of skin
the slime is thrown off, and the slug
becomes light orange color, clean
and dry. After this mott the slug
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-07-29

Last summer many cherry trees In
various parts of Iowa were stripped
of their leaves by dull Shiny slug.
Pear trees also are attacked by this
pest, perhaps even more than cherry
trees, hence the common name of the
insect. This slug feeds on the upper
through them, but taking only the up
per portion and leaving the veins bare.
Leaves thus eaten by the slugs dry
and fall from the tree and frequently
leave the trees entirely bare of foliage.
In Iowa these slugs appear twice
during the season, The first brood
appears in June and the slugs be-
come full grown early in July. while
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-07-29
There Is Profit In SAGE

Twenty-Five cents worth of sage seed
win furnish about 1000 plants. Enough
sage can be picked the first year to
pay for all the labor of sowing and
picking the sage. Early in the spring
the plants should be removed, set in
rows three feet apart one way and
half that distance the other. II the
plants are planted in good soil and
properly cultivated they can be picked
three times each year for several
wears.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-07-29
ARE ILL-MATED COMPANIONS
Remarkable Fact That Humor and
Melancholy Seem Fond Of Each
others Company.

Too often humor and melancholy go
together. They keep company like
girl who likes to dance. and a fellow
who writes nice. gloomy poetry. They
get tied together. but they don't hitch.
They sympathizo like oil and water
not. They tell us that some OF the
newspaper humorists, who actually
make people laugh. are sometimes
very glum and melancholy at home.
and can't see joke any quicker than
anybody else. when it's on themselves.
It's too bad that humorist should
thus belle his profession. but he's NOR
tai anyway-and who doesn't? 1t was
to relieve care. He said: Were 1t not
for this occasional vent, should die"
The vent of the humorist is melan'
choly. Let him kick the cat. let him
complain of the oatmeal, let him look
glum as an owl-he, too, is entitled
to little variety Let him read Bur
toms Anatomy of Melancholy" or
Mrs. Caudle's Lectures" for that mat
ter-he's entitled to something pen
sive. BY the way Burton aforesaid
has given in his Anatomy" pictur-
esque description of mirth: ut is he
says, "a principal engine to batter the
walls of melancholy" He must have
had horse-play in mind. Our idea is
that humor is little eddy in the rush
ing millstream of life-where fellow
can rest awhile and fish.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-07-29
pity the Poor Horse Ely.

Every purchaser of motor car dis
q drages the life of the horse fly.
Some sort of bug or fly will have to
be invented to bite autos and make
them stamp. switch their tails, and
kick up. We don't know what eff
feet a cinder beetle would have on
autos. The question is referred to
Judge Adna p. Gristlebone for an ex-
pert n.-Ossawatomie (Kan.)
Globa
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-07-29
May Have Been Asleep.

The man who cannot remember the
text or aught of the sermon is hyp-
Noticed or has worked himself into a
trance, and sleepiness and inability to
tell what the preacher has said must
be considered as an indication of a
piety that has passed beyond the con-
troll Of its possessor or Of attention
so acute that it concentrates itself on
the words and face of the speaker, to
The disregard OF thought expressed by
words.-Christian Advocate.
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CHAPTER VIII-continued.

There was silence for a minute, and
then the man spoke again.
81 tell you there's no use talking
any more. I've begun the thing, and
I'm going through with it,
But the danger, Willy, the dan.
ger!"
I'm used to danger"
aye, worse luck, that you are! And
me like to breake me cart wi thiIkin'
of you O. nights"
"Then don't think"
"Ah, 'ow can l 'elp it? Me that
carried you in me arms when you was
a little babby!"
well, now, will you do what / ask,
or won't you?"
Don't ask it of me. willy-don't
now"
Il do ask it,
forgot all honorable scruples
against eavesdropping, and listened
with all my ears. l can only add in
self.defense that ! believe any one
else in my place would have done the
same.
He muttered something | could not
hear, however, and Mary Anne gave a
stified sob.
"Oh you didn't use to be so ard"
she exclaimed. IT'S she as changed
you. It's 'er fault-with 'er soft ands
and 'er ard, crool cart"
Don't you say anything against
Nell. / won't have it,
oh it's allus Nell nowadays. And
what does she care what 'appens to
YOU so long as she's safe 'ersef? If
only you'd took to the fishing trade.
Willy, and lived respectable 'ow Apply
we might ave been, and Sarah Cush-
ley ready to marry you II you'd said
the word"
Sarah Cushley indeed"
Its the books-thats what done it..
Manys the time I've been sorry ever
let you go to school. Many's the time
I've wished I'd listened to yer uncle
when e wanted to take you on lis
sloop afore the mast. Fur e said good
ard work, with ropes end now and
then, would make a man o. you. But
you'd look O. yer father and you
'ad lis fine ways"
He interrupted her with an unpleas-
ant laugh.
Fine ways, indeed That's all he
ever gave his son. Don't blame me
for anything, mother-look nearer
home. I'm not saying 1t was all your
fault You thought you were mar
ried."
God knows | did, Willy!"
you brought me into the world, and
found you were deceived, like many
another fool of girl-and serves
them right, too, for thinking a gentle.
man would marry them"
"Oh, my boy!"
There was real tragedy in the excla,
nation. and found myself wiping
away tear, but the mans voice was
as cold as ever.
$50 l started life under a handicap
"a thoroughbred mongrel, made up OF
the worst of you and the worst of him
Aud l turned out a bad lot. didn't Il
But whose fault was it?"
Mine, Willy, mine"
Yes, yours. Branded from the be
ginning with the bar sinister-differ
en-. from other children. Don't | re
member It all? Growing up with his
aristoeratic tastes and your environ
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-07-29
Pats Apprecjatjon.

An artist had finished a landscape;
on looking up, he beheld an Irish nav
Wy gazing at his canvas. Well" said
the artist, Familiarity, do you suppose
you could make picture like that"
The 1rishman mopped his forehead a
moment. Sure. man en- do amy
thing IL he's druv to ut" he replied.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-07-29

IOu ulu not expect me, Sne Shlu,
and / certainly did not expect to be
herr, but I woke with such a wretched
headache this morning simply could
not gc."
"Why so did l."
~ knowAGabrielle told me. They
wanted 10 put 1t off again, but viii
frid had already gone, and knew he
would be disappointed. SO / persuaded
them to go. About noon my head got
better, and my room felt so close and
stuffy l longed for your cool breeze
and lovely view, so managed to
dress and walk up here, thinking we
might compare symptoms. l rang, but
no one came. SO | appropriated the
hammock, as my walk had used me UP
completely. l hope you don't mind
very much"
fastened to assure her wcs de-
lighted, as l had had more than
enough of my own society. So we had
a long, comfortable afternoon, and by
and by Mary Anne brought us tea,
with an appealing glance at me which
| interpreted as plea for silence,
and | am glad to be able to say / kept
her secret inviolate.
Il envy you your complexion" re-
marked. as | admired the seashell
tints OF my guests face. Now, am
quite pale and heavy but you
look as fresh as daisy, yet you have
had just as horrid a day as l."
1T takes great de?l to make the
Campbells lose their colcr," she re.
piled, "or rather, to MAKE it stay
lost. / was pale enough this mora g.
but as soon as the pain left me the
healthy, you know-good sturdy old
Scotch blood"
But Lord Wilfrid often looks very
pale"
"Oh, Wilfrid is an alien---we all tell
him so, much to his disgust; and he
is far from well, poor fellow, although
think he is improving. Have you
noticed that he seems brighter and
better of late?"
l made an appropriate reply, and
the conversation drifted to other
things. AS we sat together in the
hammock, swaying gently to and fro,
I happened to notice that in the lace
at her throat she wore the little gold
key which had excited my curiosity
once before.
| spoke of it, and she at once drew
her the story of the cuff button and
its unusual design.
And" l concluded, your pin sur.
prised me, and so did Mr.. Benefits,
but please tell me why you were inter.
eSted in It,"
/ Her sweet face grew very grave,
and she hesitated moment before re.
plying, then took the pin from me
and held it in her hand.
Elise" she said, slowly, this little
pin was given me by one loved very
dearly, and whom | have lost"
''By death?"
NO, not death; there are worse
things--far worse
/ thought of Mary Anne, and won.
dered IL she would not indorse this
sentiment.
II kept the little COLO key" she
continued. touching it lovingly. 1T
was the only thing l kept, cut could
not give it up. And he-but why
should l burden you with my trouble
1t is all past and over, and | never
refer to It,"
Some day." hazarded, you will
marry and be happy"
Il am happy now" she returned;
"or. rather | make myself believe it.
But l shall not marry, for l have but
one heart, and this is it's key.
should like to see your button some
time when it is convenient, for it was
a strange coincidence. AS for Mr.
Bennett"
"Well?"
Il was not looking at his pin, but
at his face. He is so like-so strange
ly like-the other"
CTO BE CONTINUED)
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-07-29
Last Words of John Quincy Adams.

The dramatic death of John Quincy
Adams on the floor OF the house OF
congress gave the writer's of his day
an opportunity for putting fine words
in his mouth and rearing another his
toric hero. AT that time DR.. w. A.
Newell was member of congress
from New Jersey, and subsequently
became governor of his state. He was
the first to reach the stricken man as
he sank TO the floor.
DR.. Newell later in life insisted that
Adams last words, spoken to him.
were:
This is the end; quick. a little
brandy"
Which doesn't accord popular
hlstories OF the event by n long she
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-07-29
Keeping Friends.

1t is one thing to make friends. but
quite another to keep them. Remem-
Der that friendship will not thrive on
discourtesy or neglect Little cour-
tesies and attentions to those with
whom we are most intimate help 70
smooth and sweeten lite-Hcue Chat.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-07-29
How He Kept His Clothes Dry.


Among large shooting party on
Scottish grouse moor was certain
elderly professor whose skill with his
gun was hardly equal to the profundi.
ty of his intellect. Suddenly a heavy
storm of rain came on, and as there
was no shelter on the moor the shoot
ers got thoroughly drenched through.
At least. all but one suffered--the pro-
fessor. He had mysteriously disap-
peared when the rain came on, and he
did not rejoin the party until the sun
was shining once more. To the
amazement of the others the erudits
one was as dry as bone. The others.
drenched and Disguised, inquired OF
him how It was he had escaped 4
wetting. Directly the rain came on"
replied the professor. az went off by
myself. stripped off my clothes, and
sat on them until the storm was over"
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-07-29

ANYONE led Perhns?'' ives.
my lord; man with d oil, Used awful
language! And abusive! Why, If he'd
beer your lordship himself he couldn't
D.. We been more so ALLY slopeTs
E.alfBoiGay.
Amador ledger., 1909-11-19

for the reputation or truth and veracty of the sheet
cerned how they expect that any other statements there
in will be held by patroUs be honestly and in good faith
made. Furthermore, we contend that it was due as a
matter Of fairness tie newly organized city government
when the proprietor Of the Dispatch eected city
to remove from it's column every compromising statement
that would tend misle2d the public i'll regard any adj
versng job printing done by that paper for the city
government A thousand contracts for such printing as
Jackson requires would begin offset the loss Of prestige
which the situation herein forth would entail And the
fact still remains that the false staten still being
published to bambooze the readers of the Dispatch.
Amador ledger., 1909-11-19
Forced Into Exile.

VIM Upchurch of Glen Oak, Okla,
was an exile from home, Mountain air,
he thought, would cure frightful lung
racking cough that had dehed all rem
edies for two years. After six months
he returned, death dogging his STEPS,
"Then | began to use DR.. Kings New
Discovery, he writes, and after
taking six bottles am as well as ever. -
II saves thousands yearly from desperate
lung disease Infallibe for coughs and
colds, it dispels hoarseness and sore
throat. Cures Grip. Bronchitis, Hem
orrhages, Asthma, Group, Whooping
Cough. Soc and 500, trial bottle free,
guaranteed by Spagnoli's Drug Store.
Amador ledger., 1909-11-19

Now the published statements In newspaper concerning
the proprietorshp of the paper supposed to be
be assumed that they made for the express
purpose of decevng the public And when the Dispatch
kept its masthead that W. NJ Penry and other, the
proprietor and publisher of that Sheet carries the idea that
was financially interested in the business and
sponsbe for what published therein And when Peury
sen became city and the Dispatch awarded the
for the city printing the maintenance of this dear
tion his being the publisher and proprietor of the Dispatch
became standing invitation for any citizen and taxpayer
enoin the payment of money for printing under the pro-
vision which prohibits city official from being interested
directly indirectly in any with the city We
of good motive in this apparently open defiance
of wholesome provision of law 1t calculated not
merely to reflect upon individual trustee but also
suspicion upon the city government And under these
has the audacty after years of
admitted imposition upon the public nsinuate that suit
the validity of the printing contract awarded to the
Dispatch absurd absurd however, that the
court after hearing The plaintiffs SIDE made up have
before stated, r of hostile witnesses and copy of the
that pr ce had been made out thereby forcing
defendant TO Introduce testimony in defense.
We certainly 10 understand that peculiar species of
journalism exemp6ed in cotemporary, and brought
out the sunlight by this proceeding The reputation of
newsps per ought to be considered of Importance If
the proprietor publisher and editor have regard for the
truthuness of statements they send from week to week.
is in for subscribers and the reading public take
notice For publisher whether osensbe reato brand
the statements his publcation-whether made wlfuy
through culpabe negligence it matters nOt-as false and
misleading is novel proposition And they care so little
Amador ledger., 1909-11-19
THE ABSURDITY OF IT.

In publishing the opinion of the court in the Injunction
suit restrain the payment of the Dispatch bill for city
printing the ground that w. NJ Penry, of the city
trustees financially interested in the claim
porary intmates that Webbs charges absurd and
groundess By what process of reasoning the guiding
genius Of the Dispatch arrives at this conclusion do
know but inasmuch he endeavors vndicae himself in
this ofhand fashion, propose venate this subject
little further We have fault find with the decision of
the the issues involved Under the evidence pre-
sened probably other conclusion could be reached than
denial of the injunction But that notion falls far
short of verdict Of vndication Not oa of evidence
introduced i'll support of the injunction outside of the
published in the Dispatch week after
week and year after and the testimony of the
Penrys the witness stand 1t mply Of Penry
not under oath Penry under oath. Of course in
the statements prevailed But the conflict be-
tween what the Dispatch has been sending readers
in every issue and the evidence given the stand remains
in full force and effect Now let place this conflict in
parallel coumns
What the Dispatch What Peny and jr stand
Amador ledger., 1909-11-19
$l8, 76l, $50 1878, 057

Total $l8, 76l, $50 SS15, OoI
The production of platinum from
placer mines of Californin in 1908 was
7O6 ounces of refined metal, valued at
Sl3,4l4. -fourths of this was
from Butte county and smaller amounts
came from Humboldt, Sskiyou, Trinity,
Calaveras, Sacramento and Del Norte
counties.