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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-01-07

SECTIONAL and in the back. On the
LADDER. other side are pins to keep
it in place when it is extended to its
full length Either in its extended or
its short form this ladder is a safe
one, but it has no back support and
must be leaned against the wall. After
the top section has been bent down on
one side it folds back and when the
second section is down the three fold
together like a three-part screen.
When the ladder is not in use it can
be slowed away behind a door or in
any corner as it does not take up as
much room as a chair.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-01-07
Resting Land.

Many farmers believe that cultivat-
ed land should be given rest" ev-
cry few years in order to recuperate
from it's exhaustion in the production
of crops. In some cases the land may
be benefited somewhat, but, as rule,
where a tract is permitted to lie fall
tow for many months it becomes a
veritable hotbed for weeds. These
flourish and sap it's best qualities.
leaving it poor and impoverished for
future crops. The soil is filled with
weed seeds and the task of cultivat-
ing it is rendered all the harder. Rea-
soning from cause to effect, it would
appear that the more ground is cult
waited the shorter its life as good pro-
ductive soil, but this doesn't work out
In practice. Weeds do more harm to
land than any other crop.-Agricul-
tural Epitomist.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-01-07
Short COrnstalks.

Every farmer who feeds corn fodder
Knows how difficult it is to pitch the
manure from the stables in which the
stalks have been used for bedding.
when the fork is thrust into the COM
pact manure the long stalks run so
far IN every direction and hold so
tightly that the man at the fork be-
gins to think that he will be compelled
to lift the entire bottom out of the
stall with the. first forkful The long
stalks make both loading and unload
ing OF the manure very difficult.
A Missouri farmer has just given
his way, which we think is good
way, OF feeding corn fodder to make
better bedding of the refuse stalks and
to make the handling of the manure
easier. He ties his corn fodder, or
corn slower, in bundles after husking,
for storage At feeding times he takes
these bundles and cuts them with an
ak across a large wooden block into
three or four shorter lengths. These
short lengths are then placed in the
managers for the cows and horses to
pick over and are then thrown into
the stables and stalls for bedding He
claims that slower cut into shorter
lengths Is easier for the stock to pick
over, that it helps to keep the stalls
heater, and that it is better in many
ways. Where these short lengths of
corn stalks are used in the bedding
the handling of the manure is easy.
Corn stalks are valuable by-prod-
uct OF the corn crop when used in the
right way, and there are many good
ways OF using them. Dry corn stalks
are porous, spongy, and are good alb
sorbers Of liquids They are bulky and
ill up fast, hence aid in keeping the
stall floors fully covered and the ami
mails dry. Wheat, oat or rye straw
mixed with the dry corn stalk bed
ding makes an almost complete alb
sorber of the liquids and saves all of
the rich fertilizers.-Exchang
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-01-07
PORTLAND GATEWAY
NOW TO BE OPENED

Seattle, Dec. 81 The Union Pacific
.allroad announces that with the be-
is-nIlns OF train service January 1,
lumber tariffs via the Portland gate
way Will become effective over the
w, I-.Vle hartman system, extending to
"I9 southwestern states and California
and Oregon.
+ Inc Portland gateway has long been
10y, Iao!or IN making lumber and shinlgle
ANS from Seattle and the country
~ To on of this city to the Southwest.
Of S tl Intents and purposes the mills
sbr -,oi'nWestern Washington have been
c r1ut out of the territory exclusively
fO uuuOlled by the Hartman lines. Eff
tb,a 10 open the Portland gateway
cn mUugh the medium of the interstate
The nn commission, made during
sn MI past two Years, failed to bring re.
tho s's = out the traffic agreement between
sn and Northern Pacific, Great Northern
tho l - arrrlman systems has brought
1'ioVersy to an end.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-01-07
Only One Way He Could Get Eve,

Only One Way He Could Get Even.
Frank Bertram, a well-known actor.
tells the following story:
Il was playing at Leicester during
the fair week and in the market place
there were several merry-go-rounds.
81 noticed one melancholy individ-
ual, who, despite the fact that he was
apparently suffering greatly, persisted
in riding on one of the merry-go-
rounds.
Eventually spoke to him and
asked him if he liked it.
1.-The man replied, No, don't like
it a bit; the blessed thing makes me
ILL.,
IT then asked him why he persisted
in riding, and his reply was, Il can't
help It, The man who owns this
roundabout owes me money, and the
only way I can get even is by taking
it out In rides."-London Daily Tele-
graph.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-01-07
AMERICAN FEDERATION
TO FIGHT STEEL TRUST

Washington, Jan. 3.-Officers OF the
American Federation of Labor have
issued call on it's $40, 600 members
to subscribe to fund with which to
wage fight on the steel trust. The
call arraigns the corporation as inim-
ical both to labor and to the country
and violator Of the laws. The sum
of 1854, 900 is to be raised at once
Calls for more money will be issued as
the fight progresses.
In statement Samuel Gompers as
sailed the steel corporation for its ag-
gressiveness on labor, and charges 1t
with conspiring against production,
manipulating the market and striving
to eliminate a free press. He also
charged that the corporation pays
dividends on many millions of watered
stock, and that it's financial methods
are corrupt and indefensible.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-01-07
The Hired Man.

There are great differences in the
qualifications of the hired man. One
is worth all and more than he re-
ceives. while another, who is apparent
ly equally as intelligent, is not worth
anything, and the employer is loser
in the long run by having him around.
The best hired man is one who is In
telligent and active. A good one
should receive the best OF treatment
from his employer and should never
tire of what is to be done on the
ranch. regardless of the lateness OF
the hour or the inclemency OF the
weather. if loss is likely to accrue In
case he should fail to work at that
particular time. OF all farmhands the
most despicable is the liar who tells
Won that he has done such and sucn
work when he has not. Next 10 tnls
one comes the lazy man.-DenVer
Field and Farm.
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Irrigation of Alfalfa.
Inc Importance of alfalfa to west
ern farmers cannot well be overesti-
mated. A single ton of alfalfa may
save the lives of many head of stock
oy providing feed during short periods
OF cold, stormy weather. Alfalfa can
not be excelled as preparatory crop
on soils that have long been unproduc-
tive. Likewise it maintains the fertil-
lty OF soils naturally rich in plant
food, and if used as base of rotation
makes possible abundant crop yields
OF various kinds.
notwithstanding it's present import
ance and great value in irrigation
farming, the profits on the area now
IN alfalfa can be greatly increased if
more care and skill are exercised in
growing it.
Perhaps the most essential condi-
lions for the production of alfalfa are
abundant sunshine, a high summer
temperature, sufficient moisture, and
rich, deep, well drained soil. All
OF these essentials, save moisture, exist
naturally in the arid region of the
United States. and when water is sup
Piled it makes the conditions ideal.
Although alfalfa can be successfully
grown under wide range of soil con-
d1tions, yet all Western lands are not
equally we'll adapted to it's growth.
How to determine the suitability Of
land for growing alfalfa under irriga-
ton, as well as how to prepare the
land, is told in Farmers Bulletin 373,
irrigation of Alfalfa" recently issued
by the U. S. Department of Agricul-
ture. The bulletin discusses the vari-
GUS methods of irrigating the crop
and gives much useful information in
connection Herewith.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-01-07
Hens That VIII Lay in Winter.

Hens That VIII Lay In Winter.
The latest characteristic which the
poultry raiser is endeavoring to estab-
fish in the several egg-laying strains
Of hens is the early maturity of pull
let's, with the consequent laying, dur
ing the season when eggs are scarcest
and bring the highest prices.
A Maine breeder reports lot OF
;wenty-nine April-hatched pullets
which were selected because they had
begun to lay in the latter part Of Au-
gust
From September 1 until the end OF
April these birds laid on an average OF
lis eggs each, at calculated profit
If over So per bird. II such profits
could be realized on the majority of
the hens kept for laying, the elusive
fancy profits of the poultry business
would be realized.
The breeding of poultry to type Is
now so generally accomplished that the
suggestion to breed race OF birds
which will be winter egg-producers
warrants the belief in its early achieve
ment
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-01-07
NOISE OF CITY'S STREETS.

Subways Afford Some Relief from
the Ear-Splitting Din.
Horse transportation is but one fac
tor in the total passing of the city.
Cable and trolley cars rafting from
side to side, motors with their fiend-
ish variety of whistles thread their
way in and out; while the overhead
trolley wires, like the strings of some
huge, discordant violin, never cease
their vibrations. Thoreau speaks of
the sounding of the telegraph wires,
that winter harmony Of the open road
and snow-clad field" Grateful as that
song may be in the quiet of the com
try. in the city the noise of the racked
trolley wire above adds a peculiarly
trying factor to the pounding from
the rocking cars below, the Atlantic
says. When corporate officials desire
to economic on traction lines thsy
not uncommonly equip the service with
poor rails and wheels. The rails soon
shape of polygons instead of circles,
and, as they turn, strike f1attened an
giles against the Irregularities of the
iron rail. This is particularly effect
i've method of adding to the total noise
Fortunately, there Is one way of re-
lief in sight Few devices in trans
portation have done more for the quiet
of the city than have the increasing
use of subways. Though the reverbera-
ton within the subways proper may
be greatly increased, the relief on the
street is marked. Only in our greater
cities and along main trunk lines,
however, does the subway yet exist.
The elevated, so far as noise is con-
cerned, gives practically little advan-
tage over the surface car save for the
of stopping and starting
and the absence Of the sound of the
bell.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-01-07

President and Mrs. Hadley were on
a train bound for New York. where
Yale's president was to speak before
a national convention. He made use
Of the hour and twenty minutes he
spent in the train by rehearsing his
speech In a low voice, using his hands
to emphasize certain passages.
A kindly matron who was sitting
directly behind, MI. and Mrs. Hadley.
and who had been watching and lis
tening, leaned forward. and, tapping
Mrs. Hadley on the shoulder, said
feelinsly:
you have my sincere sympathy.
my poor woman; have one jist like
him at home. Ladies' Home Jour
nal. ];
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211,OOO $4O4, 900, 900

TOTALS
The foregoing figures show there is
.,od for more farmers in the North
..+orr states and that millions of
.ros of lands now idle could be put
.ndor cultivation on substantial rev.
having basis. There are many
who believe the days of the bonanza
farms are numbered. which means that
with smaller holdings there will be
moro intensive farming, and. as con-
seonence. larger acres crops.
The farm products of 1909 in the In
land Empire, taking in Eastern Wash
inpton and Oregon, North and Central
Idaho and Western Montana, are val
ned at $4,000, 900. A normal apple
crop at present prices. instead of a
Weld ranging from 35 to 40 per cent,
would have placed the figures at ap-
moximately SILT, 100000, as against
about $50, 600, 900 in 1908.
Wheat, of course, was the big factor,
the four states producing more than
100000 bushels, of which 35, $780,
900 bushels is credited to Washington,
1887 900 bushels for Oregon, IA, 465, :
900 bushels for Idaho and the rest for
Montana. The other farm products
entering into the computation are fruit,
oats, barley, rye, hay, sugar beets, po-
tatOes, garden products, live stock,
dairy products and poultry and eggs.
The foregoing figures become i'm
pOrtant in the development of the West
ern country when it is known that in
many instances the products of the old
er farming states are not as valuable
as those in the quartet mentioned,
which, less than quarter of a century
ago, were considered to be largely
worthless lands. 1t means, too, with
the influx of population and outside
capital for development purposes, there
will be more farms and a greater
wealth production.
There are GAIL, 900 farms, or about
l,VOOOO more than in 1899, in the
United States today, and the value of
the products for 1909 is placed at &c.
$4,000, 900, width farm assets of $685.
VVVOOO,OOO. This shows that fully
one-thlrd of the population of the
country is engaged in various forms of
agriculture.
IL Is believed by many that the re-
suit OF the country life and back-to-
We-land movements will be to raise
Tie percentage Of farmers to 40 in a
It" years, thus placing the nation in
ul3 position of an exporter and raising
ule wealth production to the 11-figure
notch.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-01-07
Old Fauorites

~Sc~~S~>S~~~>S~SrS>
By Cool SilOam's Shady Rill.
By cool Siloam's shady rill
How sweet the lily grows!
How sweet the breath beneath the hill
OF Sharon's dewy rose!
Lo! such the child whose early feet
The paths of peace have trod;
Whose secret heart with influence
sweet,
Is upward drawn to God!
BY cool Siloam's shady rill
The lily must decay;
The rose that blooms beneath the hill
Must shortly fade away
And soon, too soon. the wintry hour
or mans maturer age
VIII shake the soul with sorrows pow
And stormy PASSIONS rage!
y Thou, whose infant feet were found
Within the Fathers shrine!
Whose years, with changeless virtue
crowned,
Were all alike divine,
Dependent on Thy bounteous breath
We seek Thy grace alone,
In childhood, manhood, age and death,
To keep us still Thine own!
Reginald Heber.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-01-07
I'm heard Melodies.

Gagged in the poets lonely heart,
Love wastes unheard it's tenderest
tone;
The soul that sings must dwell apart,
Its inward melodies unknown.
Deal gently with us, We who read
Our largest hope is unfulflled-
The promise still outruns the deed
The tower, but not the spire, we
build.
Our whitest pearl we never find;
Our ripest fruit we never reach;
The Towering moments of the mind
Drop half their petals in our speech.
These are my blossoms; if they wear
One streak Of morn or evenings
glow,
Accept them: but to me more fair
The buds of song that never blow.
oliver Wendell Holmes.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-01-07
Republic Mines Get Freight Reduction

Republic, WASH, Jan. 1.-The Great
Northern Railway Company, on petit
ton of the Stack Supply Company and
the representative of the leading mines
of the camp, has conceded lower rates
for the transportation of silicious ores
to Tacoma, giving the minimum rate
of So. SO per ton and graduating up
wards as the values per ton increase.
A large increase of tonnage from the
mines to the Sound, as we'll as freight
into the camp, is expected to result
from the reduction granted.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-01-07

stringers, and the frame is held on the
floor by blocks at each corner. Lum-
Der required will be: IL pieces, in.
4 in, 16 #. long for frame; 4 pieces,
/ in. IL in, 16 #. long for floor; 13
pieces, 1 in. 2 in, 16 it. long for
roof and ends; 10 battens, Is #. long
for sealing crack between boards. Total
cost about $3.50.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-01-07
Education and ,.e Soil.

One OF the popular faiiacies that Is
rapidly losing ground is the idea that
any one with no previous training or
experience can be successful farmer,
and one Of the chief agencies of en-
lightenment is the Government Bu-
reau of Soils. This useful adjunct of
the Department of Agriculture is rap
idly completing its investigations of
the actual values and needs of the
earth in various parts of the West,
and its reports will constitute valu-
able compendium for those already
engaged in agriculture to embark in
it.
The government has risen to the
need Of demonstrating that the day Of
naphazard and scratching of the sur
face of the earth is passed, and that
TOR most successful results practical
raining. if not thorough scientific edu-
cation, is needed. 1t is the aim of the
Bureau of Soils to establish accurately
The nutrition values of the earth in
varying sections for producing the
greatest abundance of suitable crops,
and with such definite basis to help
The husbandman proceed with greater
certainty toward his goal Of achieve
nent. This sort of official knowledge
Is sure to enable man to make many
blades of grass or grain grow where
.ew or none grew before. for its natu-
al development will be the intelligent
cultivation of every arabic acre of
and that can be made to yield prof
table crop.-Twentieth Century Farm
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-01-07
OS'ope Monorail for British Columbia

WOrtT " westminster, B. G., Jan. g.
ogan r las already started in the Okan-
first aliey On the construction of the
Ama,;ssy roscope monorail railway in
trsnsno' TO be devoted to commercial
railuaU '"Iion purposes. The line of
toucbis VIII circle Okanogan lake,
that laIs oil points on the shores of
will ba se body of water. spur tracks
possiblo III TO any near point where
siops business justifes such extern
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-01-07
Loeb Warns Smuoolers

has dn. iork, Jan. 3.-Collector Loeb
Wilson, ~ an unrepealed section of the
appliaa Oil > which he believes may be
additiouna11 r the purpose of imposing
We me- l punishment on smugglers.
snupnIa opose to make the life of q
lectosre Ia hazardous one," says Col
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-01-07
Conditioner for Hogs.

This is the governments condition
or for hogs, excellent for corn cnoi
ora !" or other digestive arrangements
of hogs. Wood or cob charcoal
nound: sulphur, pounds; sodium
h,carbonate (baking soda), pounds;
chamber salts, 1 pound. sodium chic
lido common salt), 2 pounds Cor Ep'
som salts, 2 pounds); anthony sui
phide, pound.
Pulyerize each Of the ingredients
vol and mix them thoroughly. The
dose is tablespoonful for each zoo
mounds weight Of the hogs. given twice
:, dav in shorts or bran sion feed.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-01-07

gestion that the progressives should
triumph in the state as well as else
where. No matter how the primaries
may result, you will find me in the
campaign which is to follow, dong
everything within my power for Re
publican success, but before the prl-
mary you will find me doing every
thing in my power for progressive
success. -
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-01-07
mEANlNG OF SOCIALISM.
Word Now Too Often Loosely Used
in Political Discussion.

In fOl1t1cal DISCUSSION.
The indiscriminate use of the word
Socialism" is making political discus
sion ridiculous. 1t lends itself with
fatal facility to that powerful and in
tellectual form of argument. beloved
by schoolboys, which is called-after
the man who first used it, according
to an American orator-a tn quOque.
v In Germany the term in gen.
eral use is social democracy, which has
IA definite meaning, the London Times
says, and in France other words-of
(which collectivism is the most COM
mon-are used to give precision
which is lacking to socialism by it.
self
These two words give the key to the
Iproper meaning of socialism, as recog-
tnized now by all the socialist organiza-
ltions 1t is that laid down in Schaef-
ife's "Quintessence Of Socialism" and
specialization or the collective owner
ship of all the means of production,
distribution and exchange. There are
minor shades of expression to which
some of the sects may attach impor-
lance, but the broad significance is
the same everywhere, and it is per-
fectly clear and definite. What the
organized socialists aim at is the trans
ference of property from private to
public ownership. Some would trans
fer all property, others would draw
the line here or there; but they all
want to transfer property. This is the
one definite and distinctive criterion,
and though a man may call himself
this, that or the other, the socialism
that matters, that alone has force, CO.
;herence and a recognizable mark, Is
that which is concerned with the own
ership of property and is transference
in one way or another.
This has always been the essence of
the thing since the name was invented
and adopted, which was long before
the time of Marx. The confusion has
arisen mainly from looking to the I'M
lug mOCIFCo VI ~ IuC1pAOo duu tuO
Interior aims and then applying the
word to anything which shares in any
degree the same motives or aims.
Thus, for instance, some people call
the sermon on the mount socialistic-
but what could be further removed
from concern about the ownership of
property, which is the heart of social
ism? If the economic element is taken
away from it there is nothing left that
is not common to a dozen other and
much older movements. The question
is not what it's Interior aims are, for
they are of immemorial antiquity, but
how it proposes to attain them. And
the answer is, by the transference of
property from private to public owner
ship. Anything which promotes that
process consciously and on principle
may be properly called socialistic in
proportion as it does so; and that is
the test by which the budget or any
Iother political measure should be
Judged if any rational conclusion is to
|be reached on the point. Every inter-
ference with private ownership is not
necessarily socialism, but unless that
Ielement is present the term cannot be
properly applied.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-01-07
To Extend Farmers Line

Colville, Jan. 3-The farmers on the
west side of the Colville valley are
considering the matter of extending
the farmers telephone line fom Col
vile into their neighborhood, which
will provide for about twenty new Gus
toners.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-01-07
ilCREAsEINFARM
PRODUCTS
,rn NORTHWEST STATES
''t SHOW GREAT GAINS
IN 1909.
=, ..o Than Four Hundred Million
m nolIars Worth Raised in Wash
notion, Oregon, Idaho and Mon
.,na-Farm Assets Double in
Five Years.

kane Jan. 3.-Four hundred and
oEoh :Ilion dollars is the value of the
foul m.s Of oil, 900 farms in Washing
pTOuu oroaon Idaho and Montana in
Ton, 20 . cain of IS per cent since 1900.
lsO'' .'ots Of the farmers are practi-
lG i5 " 5onbIe those of 1904, their debts
cSlis onsiderably less, while the surplus
aIS 5 Co than ever before in the his
Is ia r. tbe country. The number of
to! - and the wealth production in the
nl states are approximately as fol-
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-01-07

Wash clean. peel and cut them into
round or oval form; put them into
a large saucepan of cold sailed water.
Boil until they become tender. When
done drain them and serve with q
white sauce or melted butter.