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Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1911-12-28
WATER FOR CROP PROTECTION
Requirement Increases With Higher
Temperature and Greater
Amount of Sunshine.

By d. w. FREAR Colorado Agricultural
CollegeD
Various Investigators have found
that it requires from about 400 to
1000 pounds of water to produce a
pound of dry matter of farm crop. The
water requirement increases with
higher temperature, a greater amount
of sunshine and a dryer atmosphere.
In the arid regions a moderately high
temperature, a cloudless sky and dry
atmosphere prevail. Consequently
the water, requirements of plants nat
urally tend to be higher for the same
kinds of crops. 1t is concluded that
about $50 pounds of water are re-
quired in the arid regions for the
production of one pound of dry matter
of common farm crops.
The straw forms about one-half Of
the total weight of harvested grain.
On this basis the total weight of
straw and grain for every bushel of
wheat is 120 pounds. About 80 per
cent. of this or 108 pounds is dry mat
ter. Therefore, it will require $50
times 10S or $4,000 pounds of water
to mature one bushel of wheat. This
is equal to 401a tons of water
One inch of rainfall per acre weighs
approximately 113 tons. 1t is estimat.
ed that Under good tillage methods
about two-fifths of the total rainfall
is available to the crop, therefore
about 45.2 tons of every acre inch Of
rainfall are used by the plants, anc
one inch of rainfall can produce about
l Is bushels of wheat. Under these
conditions, ten inches of rainfall would
produce liz bushels, Is inches Il
bushels. Where two years precipita
ton is stored in the soil it will be pos
sible to produce about q bushels o
wheat per acre on a 12-inch rainfall
Efficiency of conservation and &C
tual water requirements of plants
vary so much in different sections
that for many localities the above fig
ures must necessarily be suggestiv,
rather than actual.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1911-12-28
WILD TURKEY OF HONDURAS
Originally Native of Central America
Is Described as Most Beaut-
full in CoIoring.

The wild species of turkey, known
as the Ocellated or Honduras turkey,
was originally native of Honduras
and other parts of Central America.
Some describe 1t as most beautiful
in coloring. equal to the Inpeyan
pheasant. If not richer. The head and
neck of this wild variety are naked
and no breast tuft is present. The
caruncles of the head and neck diff
Ter somewhat from those of other
turkeys.
The ground color of the plumage is
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1911-12-28
TO MAKE GOOD EGG SINNER
Simple Device Can Easily Be Made
Out Of Box Just Big Enough
to Accommodate Lamp.

The sketch shows a simple egg
sinner. Take a box that will just per-
NIT the top of the lamp chimney TO
extend out of the hole in the bottom
of the box when the box is upside
down over the lamp as 1t should be,
says the Homestead. Cut two holes
at one side of the box so two eggs
can be tested at the same time. Back
of the lamp in this box you should
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1911-12-28
Start With Very Best.

A strain of prize-winning fowls
nay be brought up from foundation
stock of only fair quality. But 1t Is
line wasted in trying to do 1t. 1t Is
more satisfactory and more certain
aud takes less time by starting with
ne very best the poultry raiser can
afford.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1911-12-28
Soul the Abode Of Truth.

Truth Where is truth but in tho
soul itself? Facts. objects are but
phantoms: matter-woven ghosts OF
this earthly night. at which the soul
sleeping here in the mire and clay or
matter shudders and names its own
vague tremors. sense and perception
Charles Kingsley.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1911-12-28
President In His Day.

A scientist has discovered that In
1921 A. ID. the earth will cease to
turn on its axis. But II 1t shouldn't
he will be spared the humiliation OF
hearing the people denounce him as
liar.-Memphis News.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1911-12-28
Woman's "Serfdom.r

half-grown man is. OF course. .
tyrant And so 1t has come about
that the rule OF man In the world has
for many ages meant the serfdom OF
woman.-Edward Carpenter.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1911-12-28
The Ocellated Turkey.

a beautiful bronze-green, banded with
gold-bronze. blue and red, with some
bands of brilliant black.
1t is to be deplored that this varie-
ty can not be bred successfully as a
domestic fowl in northern climates.
The writer can not learn that 1t has
ever been successfully bred outside
Of its native heath.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1911-12-28
Dumping Hens Nests.

rests are to be cleaned. the bottom
an he dropped and all the contents
Yill fall out The nests should be at
east ~ inches square. and for the
arge-sized breeds 15 inches will be
setter.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1911-12-28
A Good Egg Sinner.

place a looking glass to reflect the
light out strongly at the two open
ings where the eggs are tested. This
makes it much easier to shine the
eggs.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1911-12-28
DUMPING HENS NESTS BEST
Good Way Is to Have Bottom At
tached With Hinges and Fast
ened at Front With Staples.

A good way to build hens nests is
% have the bottom attached with
hinges and fastened at the front with
mail hooks and staples. When the
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1911-12-28

For 1000 years prior to our era irri-
cation was extensively practiced in
Egypt for agricultural purposes.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1911-12-28

Irrigation In Porto Rico.
$4,000, 900 irrigation project In the
southern part Of Porto Rico Is about
half completed.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1911-12-28
plscourtesY Resentsd.

l would as soon shake hands with
n soft mackerel as with = man who
Offers two fngers.-Sir Francis vaAA
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-03-14

Kidney Diseases Arc Too Dangerous
for Rock Island People to Neglect

Kidney Diseases Are Too Dangerous
for Rock Island People TO Neglect
The great danger OF kidney trou-
bles is that they get firm hold be-
fore the sufferer recognizes them.
Health is gradually undermined.
Backache. headache. nervousness,
lameness, soreness, lumbago. urinary
troubles, dropsy. diabetes and
Bright's disease follow In merciless
succession. Don't neglect your kid
neys. Cure the kidneys with the
certain and safe remedy. Doan's Kid
ney Pills, which has cured people
right here In this locality.
Joseph Graves, 313 Nineteenth
street. Moline, Ill. says: Ten years
ago I began to have trouble from
my kidneys. There were sharp
catches in the small OF my hack and
a soreness and lameness across my
loins that made Il difficult for me
to stoop or lift. vas often obliged
to sit down when the attacks were
at their height. The kidney score
lions were irregular in passage and
plainly showed that L was I'm need
of a kidney medicine. Being advis-
ed to try Doan's Kidney Pills, pro
cured a supply and soon after / DO
gan their use, / received relief.
About a year ago 1 had slight reeur-
renee OF my old trouble but I at
once used Doan's Kidney Pills and
they relieved me-"
For sale by all dealers. Price 30
cents. Foster-MiIbUrn company.
Buffalo, N. Y, sole agents for the
United States.
Remember the name-Doan's-
and take no other.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-03-14
compliments" to Tree Butcher

The annual spring tree trimming
season is here and the following from
the Peoria Star applies about as well
in Rock Island as anywhere:
THE fool tree-butcher is abroad and
has begun his fell work. People with
shade trees are tmportuned to have
them trimmed at this season of the
year. A neighbor of ours has some
silver-leaf poplars, old and venerable
They were things Of beauty and de-
lights to the eye. but a tree-butcher
came along and began saving on great
limbs four or five inches through, and
when he was done, the poor trees
looked like skeletons. The silver
leaf poplar never needs to be trim
med, except to cut OF the sprouts be
low and dead limbs that have been
supplanted by the larger growth of
the top. But this fool climbed into
the top of the tree and began lop-
ping off the very things that if he
had two ideas he would have tried to
protect. In other sections. the same
ignorant butchers are cutting off the
tops of elms. OF all things in the
world, an elm tree derives its beauty
from its feathery top, and yet, these
poor ignorant wielders of the saw and
Ratchet destroy the very beauty and
life of the tree and people look on
compIacently and let them do it. A
lady called us up yesterday on the
telephone and said: There is a man
here who wishes to trim my trees,
what shall I tell him." We replied:
"Set the dog on him and if he won't
leave then, try the shotgun" The
only way 10 trim a tree is to let it
alone, or, If the lower branches de-
scend too far for the comfort of pc
destrians they may be removed in
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-03-14
This GDiu Stop Your
Cough in a Hurry
Save s. by Making This Cough
Syrup at Home.

This recipe makes a pint of better
cough syrup than you could buy
ready-made for $3.50, A few doses
cough stops even whooping cough
remedy can be had at any price.
Mix one pint of graduated sugar
with Il pint of warm water, and stir
for 2 minutes. Put 2h ounces Of
Pinex (fifty cents WORTH in a pint
bottle; then add the Sugar Syrup. 1t
has a pleasant taste and lasts fam
lily long time. Take q teaspoonful
every one, two or three hours.
You can feel this take hold of a
cough in way that means business.
Has a good tonic effect, braces up the
appetite and is slightly laxative. too.
which is helpful. A handy remedy for
hoarseness, bronchitis, asthma and all
throat and lung troubles
The effect of pine on the membranes
is well known. Pinex is the most val
liable concentrated compound OF Nor
wegian white pine extract, and is rich
in guiaicol and all the natural healing
pine elements. Other preparations
win not work in this formula.
This Pinex and Sugar Syrup recipe
has attained great popularity through
out the United States and Canada Il
has often been initiated, though never
successfully.
A guarantee OF absolute satisfaction,
ct money promptly refunded. goes
with this recipe. Your druggist has
Pinex or will get it for you II not,
send TO The Pinex Co., Fl, Wayne, Ind.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-03-14

Of H. L. Shonts at Sixteenth and
Arlington avenue a few nights ago,
in such quick fashion that he him
self could scarcely realize where it
had gone. BY the time he had spent
all the cash and was reduced to the
dire straits Of having but 5 cents
in his pocket, he was apprehended
by the police and is now in Jail held
on a charge of breaking and enter
ing. When Davenport was picked
up in Rock Island by Detective Quinn
after two days search. he had just
one nickel on him and this was
threatened with imminent annihila-
ton. The young man at first de-
MED that he was the one sought but
later confessed and told the story or
the robbery and the subsequent rev.
elry. He had been employed at the
store until about a week ago when
he was let out. Friday night $95 in
bills and silver was left in the store
by the proprietor after the place was
closed for the day When the store
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-03-14

Curbstoner Roasts Town.-Failing 20
find the same gay whirl in Moline that
he had long enjoyed in Rock Island.
Charles Molinelli of the latter city
stood on the corner of Fifteenth street
and Fifth avenue here and at the top
of his voice used indecent language to
express his views of Moline and It's lid
tight policy. What this city needs 10
man like McCaskrin," began the curb
stone orator. He'd show these dead
Swedes where to get of at This town
is so dead the police don't know they're
living. Olson is no good; he's too
strict. Can't even get a drink in this
burg on Sunday. What this city really
needs is a wide-open town like McCask-
rim is giving US down in Rock Island.
] have been arrested here q couple of
times and I'm not afraid of the police"
That was as far as the speaker got,
when Health Inspector Ed Jones tapped
him on the shoulder and told him 10
come along to the station Taking
peep at Mr.. Jones blue uniform and
brass buttons. Molinelli thought him a
policeman and came along with no fur
Their difficulty. He was tried by Mag
istrate Gustafson and given 10 days in
the city Jail for disorderly conduct.
Obituary. Hazel E, aged ! year,
daughter OF Mr. and Mrs Alec Ozios
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-03-14
rheumatism Cured In % Hours

T. J. Blackmore OF Halter &
Blackmore, Pittsburg, Pa, says: "a
short time since l procured a bottle
of DR.. Detchon's Relief for Rheuma-
tism. 1t got me out of the house
in "a hours. I took TO my bed with
rheumatism nine months ago and DR..
Detchon's Relief for Rheumatism is
the only medicine that did me any
good. / had fve of the best physi-
clans in the city, but / received very
little relief from them. 1 know DR..
Detchon's Relief for Rheumatism 10
be what ii is represented and take
pleasure in recommending il to
other poor sufferers. Sold by Otto
Grotjan. 1901 Second avenue. Rock
Island. and Gust SehIegeI. 20 West
Second street. Davenport.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-03-14

Obituary. - Hazel E., aged / year,
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Alec Ozios
of 1927 Eighth avenue. died yesterday
after three weeks Illness with pneu-
monia.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-03-14
Caution.

"Shall I have this prescription filled
without further consultation asked
the patient.
Certainly" replied the physician.
"Why not"
az thought maybe I'd better call in
handwriting expert.
Star.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-03-14
49,Al,OOO TRAVEL;
NOT a LIFE LOST
Hartman Lines Passenger
Report for 1910 Shows Vic.
tory Of Safety Devices.
ACCIDENTS CUT TO THIRD
Union Paeific Casualties Drop 70
One-Fifth; Ticket scalpins
La Reduced.
ACCIDENTS CUT TO THIRD.

The Hartman raaIwa1 lines carried 10 pei
cent - the estimated 1a1o passenger trafac
OF tee United States. OF 4e. 4a1 COO people.
without. fatal accident 20 any OF the mum.
Der. This result is Inscribed TO the instahs-
uon OF safety devices and is believed to havs
no parallel In the railroad world.
The report, Containing this data, 3uso has
been, complied IN the ofaces OF JULIUS Krutt-
schn4tt, director OF maintenance and opera
tdon on the system. Including the Southern
Rac1ac and Union Pacific railroads. q total
or 17.e60 miles.
TIE total number OF passengers carries
on o one mile basis was 100000. OOo. The
figures Of the coUntry's railroads for 1910
have not get been complied by the govern
ment; but IN 1909 the Interstate commerce
commission reported the runoer OF passen-
gers carried a. g. 900 100000. The figures
for 1910 will not exceed a. billion more. Il IL
said,
No like Record Known.
Many other raikoadg have gone through
year without fatauty>to ans OF Its passen-
-srs. but Il is said; that no'systenn has made
thisTecord for such q large total OF passen-
gers
The results on the Hartman lines ARE as
cribed to a campaign waged BY the nana ge-
ment for yearsto reduce accidents. The Har-
-.,an 9vstsm now has more miles Of auto
matte block signal protection than any other
system In the world AR. KruttSchnttt him
self has directed special attention 20 the se-
cieent problem and began sSNeraI years ago
to- bring aboat = .reauetioh-by giving COM
plete. publicity to all forms or accidents and
their investigation. which, it is believed.
srrrred both offcers and employees to greater
EFFORTS to safeguard lives inirusted to their
CART
Chicago Tribune, february I2tb.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-03-14
DAVENPORT

PostofSee Threatened by FIre-The
building In lie Claire owned by w.
Rathmann and occupied by the post
ONCE, B. r. Baldwin, the undertaken,
and Nesbitt's meat market, was dis
covered to be ablaze at s o'clock Sun
day evening and for a time was
threatened with destruction. The
flames were quickly subdued and the
greatest damage was done by water.
The total loss Will not exceed 81 900.
A defective fue is a attributed as the
cause of the blaze.
Royal limo on Stolen Money.-The
old axiom, Easy comes, easy goes"
was never more ably demonstrated
than when Bert Davenport, a youth
of 20, squandered the SOS dollars
which he stole from the grocery store
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-03-14

Medicines that aid nature are al
ways most successful. Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy acts on this
plan. 1t loOsens the cough, relieves
the lungs, opens the secretions and
aids nature in restoring the system
to healthy condition. Sold by all
druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-03-14

yOursS DOctOr-O6, we're Both-on the
road TO recovery. He's able TO be
about and am suing for my bill
nXchange-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-03-14

order to allow a free circulation of
air next the ground, but for heavens
sake, let the tops OF the trees alone
and do not think you can improve
upon nature by cutting and slashing
and hewtng the branches, making I'M
slightly scars and leaving the hacked
stumps to decay and poison the whole
tree. Suppose a man should come
along with a saw and an axe in the
spring and propose to cut of your
arm or leg because it was spring and
You needed trimming. There is just
as much sense IN that as there is in
trimming your trees"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-03-14
The Wicked Majority.

A new gardener had been employed
on a Long Island estate. This man
was raking leaves on the lawn one fall
day when a neighbor, passing by, in
quired OF him, where's the gardener
who used to work hereT
Dead, sir" was the reply.
"Deadp' said the Rstonished neigh
Dor. Then. musing, he added. Joined
the great majority, eh?"
"Oh, sir" the gardener interrupted in
a shocked voice. 81 wouldn't like to
say that. He was a good enough man
as far as / know"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-03-14
MOLINE

Pensioned for LIfe.-Andrew Forss,
343 Tenth street, today is one of the
happiest and proudest Of men. He was
summoned at noon yesterday into the
presence of officials of the Moline Pillow
company and notified that he was re-
tired on life pension, the recognition
coming in appreciation OF long and
faithful service. Mr.. Forss came to
Moline Il years ago. Soon after his
arrival In the city he entered the en-
pIoy Of the Moline Plow company, then
an infant industry, and during 40 years
he has been one OF the valued workmen
in that concern. That he was faithful
in the work to which he was assigned
Is the testimonial Of his employers, Of
fered in the substantial form OF pen
sion so long as he may live. Mr.. Forss
first worked under Andrew Friberg.
For the last FIVE years he has been en-
ployed IN the malleable cellar. He re-
calls John Astrom, retired on pension
last December, as one of the men work
ing In the piow plant when he secured
employment there.
City Victor In Paving Case. - East
Fourth avenue, from Thirty-fourth
street to the eastern limits Of the city
of Moline. is to be paved. This an
nouncement, made by City Attorney
Axel H Kohler, is the outcome of de
ciston rendered late yesterday by Coun-
ty Judge r. W. Olmsted, who overruled
objections of property owners and held
that the city's procedure in the famous
Fourth avenue paving case is valid.
Every objection of the property owners
was overruled, the only qualification
being that certain descriptions in the
assessment roll must be corrected
These corrections will be made imme
diately, after which the fight along
technical lines will be declared off
The next step will be hearing before
a jury Of the question OF. benefits.
While some changes may be made in
the assessments as they have been
spread on the roll, no decision by the
jury will affect the validity of the pro-
ceedings, and City Attorney Kohler de-
clares the paving will be laid during
the current year. This means a paved |
connecting Moline and
East Moline business districts before |
1912.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-03-14

Both Recovering.
Friend-Ah, doctor, how did you
make out with that cranky patient of
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-03-14

Brakeman Near Death.-J. F. Smith
of Geneseo is accused of a stunt which
nearly cost a Rock Island brakeman
his life at midnight Sunday. Smith is
said to have pulled a belIcord and Civ
en- the engineer of a train on which he
was a passenger the signal to back up.
The engineer obeyed the order, and a
brakeman, who was making a coupling
had a close call from being killed The
cord was pulled while the train was at
the Thirty-frst street station. Rock Is
land, awaiting orders to pull out It
was just about time for the train to
pull out when Conductor Mortell be
came convinced that Smith had pulled
the bellcord. When Moline was reach
ed the conductor telephoned for an Of
ficer and Smith was arrested The DO
lice say that the man was drunk
When Smith was arraigned for a hear
ing, a representation of the railroad was
not present. Smith had not committed
a misdemeanor in this city. so after a
severe lecture he was dismissed.
Evening journal., 1911-03-21
FL 5H{R5fy2y74lsEA! $IES42i 4ii5l Rf{1{SfEiHSi 5Il

held for investment should not be i'm
mune from taxation. think, also, that
nOn-partisan utilities commission
should be appointed to consist of the
best men in any party. These are the
kind of men, in my opinion, who should
have the power to control and regulate
rates. On all railroads, trolley lines,
and all other power companies which
are working under a franchise or per-
forming public work. Such a commits
sion should be granted great power. l
am not stuck on commissions. and the
commission on education and taxation
has not conserved the public demand,
after two years of pretended service.
Public opinion demands equity and as
Jefferson says Exact justice to all
men the supremacy of civil power over
injustice" One other demand of our
Legislature is for the Referendum.
The two other essential matters that
require immediate attention, and on
which every members name should
stand recorded so that the moral and
progressive element of society may
know where they stand is the bottle
law, which affects at least two-thirds
of our people, and the other is their