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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1911-01-20
The Train Returned

On Sunday afternoon at 1855 the
train returned and went down the
Aberdeen Branch, making its first
stop at Pingree, where enough people
had assembled to fill one car. They
We're addressed first by O. C. Gregg,
Superintendent of Minnesota Farm
ers' institutes, of St. Anthony Park,
MINI. He was given eight minutes
in which to speak and he said:
You have come upon the land;
plan to make your living frcn! the
land and your home and whatever
OF happiness you are to have, upon
the land. Avoid debts; have a COW;
have a garden; if you can't have all
the things you want be sure to OBJ
serve these things for they are prime
factors of.success. | want to empha
size the thought that in all new coun
t,ias there are obstacles to be over
ONE, and you need not expect to
We with ont them here. ! have pion
,ered and ! know what it is. real
To some of the advantages You have
ho%e. You have here in these noun
'ail valleys such soil as we should
DC glad to have in the prairie states
v has never been leached out by
a->assive moisture. 1t is deep and
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1911-01-20
A ADVERTISED LETTER

List of letters remaining uncalled
for in the Post Office at Black
foot, Idaho, for the week ending
January II, 1911. ,.,
Brown, Mr.. Leonard
Bates, s. d.
Carlson, Mrs. Martha
Dunn, Mrs. Julia
Dudley, Mr.. VIM.
Howell, Miss Martha (2)
Lavell, Mr.. James
Stephenson, Mr.. Wiley
Simmons, Bill
All Of the above letters remaining
uncalled for two weeks from date
of this list, will be sent to the Dead
Letter Office. Parties calling for the
above letters will please say, "Ad-
vertised,' giving date of this list
H. B. CURTIS,
Postmaster.
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he epe linens. There was one root
Of a sage brush that was fourteen
feat ong and Cnly four inches in
diameter at the bulb or surface
the ground. The annular rings in
dicated that its age was about thirty
or thirty-five years. 1t had penetrat-
ed so deep into the soil that it did
not depend upon surface moisurte,
but brought it up from the depths.
a bunch of wheat in a glass case
showed the usual bunch of roots a
few inches long and the fine hair
like roots reaching to depth of
seven feet. 1t had gone down for
moisture and hot dry weather could
not kill it. 1t was from fall sowing
and had not been irrigated.
An exhibit of bread made from all
he different varieties of wheat, but
ca h kind treated exactly the same
as to grinding, mixing and baking,
showed the difference in results,
some being soggy and heavy under
treatment that made others light and
fine. 1t was baked in the domestic
science department at the Agricul-
tural College at Logan.
Glass tubes containing samples of
soils standing four feet in the per-
pendicular with the lower end in
a pan of water, showed how moisture
rises in the process of sub-irrigation.
Other glass tubes showed the in
gradients of clover when analysed,
also of alfalfa and many other kinds
of feed. There was a vast array OF
of grains and grasses, and
tabulated reports upon dry farming.
One was the Woodmanse G Webster
dry farm southeast of Rexburg, where
1900 acres were plowed and culti-
waited with steam machinery and net
ted $4,000. This will be summer
fallowed and no crop again until
the second year. The average net
income per acre was $17.75, the yield
30 bushels.
The Philbrick dry farm, west of
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i'h. Take good care o. it. You
ave deportation. Not. all new
olntries have it. Ttece moIrta; ns
1lta n minerals, and opening the
niuns from time to tine helps you
markets. Do not be discouraged be
cause you are not close to a great
seaport. You are close to other
things. Make up your mind to COM
bat the obstacles which present them
selves You will become more able
men and women for overcoming
them. Do not lose faith in your
selves and the locality Do not brood
over the bad feathers of the situa-
ton. Be courageous and aggressive
and cultivate your hope, for when a
man loses his grip on himself he is
about to start on the road to failure
Now men, am glad you have
brought your wives and families
with you today. Let me impress
something important upon your
minds. When you took up your
home ont on this plain You isolated
your wife from many things shc
would like to have. Life becomes
monotonous. When you hitCh W
to go to town take your wife with
you If ii IS possible. Do not leave
her at home to work along in
groove and get out of touch with the
world. Take her with you and do
a little counting on the way as you
used to do. You must attend to
these things if you wiuld keep life
sweet. Plan your trips so that you
shall have no regrets and no remorse
about these things Be prepared so
much as possible for hard times or
for misfortune. 1t is easy to con-
tract debts in good times that You
may have to pay off in hard times.
Keep clear of that as much as pos
sible.
Somebody has pulled at my coat
tail and | have to stop. and in closing
let me extend to you the wish taken
from Chinese proverb: May your
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1911-01-20
California Excursion
February 4th.

From Salt Lake City, vi
auspices Salt Lake Elks Lodge,
public cordially invited. Rates al
to Los Angeles and FROM 81
LAKE CITY ONLY, as follows:
Both ways via Salt Lake
Route -. ..As .S3|
Going via Salt Lake, returning
San Francisco and Ogden. 4
Going via Salt Lake, returning
via Portland. ...... 8
Tickets limited to March It'll.
For sleeper reservations appl
B. G. RAYBOULD.
Secretary. B. p. 0. E. Lodge,
City, Utah.
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shadows never grow less!' God bless
yua and success to you!"
Millets

yUa ana success to you!
Millets =.
BY Prof. r. d. Farrell OF Idaho
ITO yoa who are making homes
on these new lands want to say
that i; is important that you provide
feed for the stock as early as pos
sib!e, and careful division should
be made between grains and grasses
to secure quick results.
German millet is desirable for
this purpose, and will yield from two
TO four tons per a ire. 1t is vigorous
plant and natures quickly. Drill it
in il you can, and use from | 0 to 1 5
pounds per acre, planting in the lat
ter part of May or early in June.
Be careful not to irrigate it in cold
weather, as it is very sensitive to
the cold and wet. 1t will survive
drought better than it will the wet
cold. Cut it when it is in bloom and
you have a rich hay.
Sorghum for, Fodder
Sorghum makes a good fodder,
but it must be cut before the frost
comes. If you let it freeze it ruins
it, and it is poisonous to stock. Red
Amber and Minnesota amber are
good varieties. Plant in rows or
drills far enough apart so that you
IAN cultivate it using 20 to 80
GoInds of seed per acre. Give it
plenty of water when it is growing,
and if it is thick on the ground it
will need more water than if it is
thin.
In preparing land for alfalfa or
other meadow do not make the mis-
take Of seeding it before it is in
"orditiOn to take water well. An
hours work with a team and scraper
viii remove high spots that will
make You an hours work with
shovel every time you ever water it,
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american Fails, showed good results !.

American Falls. showed good results,
but we did not take the figures.
One car contained machinery for
dairying, and another contained
stock that was led out on a fiat
ar for exhibition during lecture
on breeds, each animal serving as a
perfect example of its kind.
Before the train departed IL was
announced that farmers institute
would be held at Blackfoot during
the poultry show, and the dates, as
finally adopted, will be Thursday and
Friday, January 26th and 9th.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1911-01-20
The Exhibits

The people were invited to pass
through the exhibit cars and see
The specimens referred to. One car
vas entirely filed with exhibits from
he dry farms of Utah and Idaho,
much information being alta he'd to
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1911-01-20
Jersey Heifcr Lost

One two-year-old heifer and three
calf lost Heifer has a
square crop off of each ear and a
slit in the left ear. Address e.
Blackfoot, Rout 3. 31-1P
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ana that is a pretty high penalty to
6 iaiing Several times a year.
:!o'i dit hes AID uneven meadows
akn i'!iga ins expensive.
"Nle't and oats are good crops
,>riiGe % lave III k results either
for feed or for sale to get some cash
and you will need both. Sow 80 to
SO pounds Of wheat per acre and
100 pounds of oats. Use the tanning
mill to get the seed clean and uni
form and then you can get good
stand and good results"
After the audience had been shown
through the exhibit cars the train
made quick run to Springfield,
where fifteen or twenty people had
assembled in the hope Of being shown
something, and after sizing up the
situation the management invited
them to get on the train and receive
instruction and see the exhibits en-
route to Aberdeen and back, and
part of them responded and made the
trip.
First Passenger Train ut Aberdeen
At Aberdeen large gathering OF
people met the train at the fine new
depot, and rousing cheer went up.
They filled the cars and listened with
great interest to lectures that were
to some extent repition of what
has already been given.
Prof. Farrell spoke of the great
of new territory being put I'M
der cultivation and OF the demand
for horses. He referred TO the GER
tainty Of there being a demand for
draft horses to work the new farms
that are being developed and sug-
gested breeding them for the home
market
Mr. Gregg spoke again and added
these new thoughts.
Won have been placed in connec-
ton with the world by the building
OF this railroad, and it will aid you
greatly. You have your part to do
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1911-01-20
QUARANTINE NOTICE

All persons who violate the quaran-
tine regulation will be subject to pros
cecution and punishment according to
law. and the statute will be rigidly en-
forced.
C. f. billiard.
3O-2 Chief of Police.
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Continued from page IL
to make a radical change in the feed,
like cutting off the milk and sudden
ly replacing it with solid feed. Give
the pig pasture and skim milk If
you will but always give it grain to
push it's growth. This idea of keep
ing lot of stock hogs and keeping
them gaunt and building up big
frame on which to build fat after
awhile is losing bargain. You can
make pig six months old weigh
$50 pounds and an eight-month-old
pig weigh 80 to 325 pounds do
not mean you can do this
sometimes, but it is practical work
ing basis that you will realize if
you get good breeds and follow out
the generous feeding | am telling
you about. Alfalfa is agood feed for
hogs, but alfalfa alone is not. You
must have grain with it; ground
feed of different varieties, and don't
forget the shorts or mildlings, espec-
tally for the little pigs.
BE sure to remember this princi-
ple There is period when 81
pounds of grain fed to shote will
make a pound of pork. Later on it
will take seven pounds of grain to
add a pound of pork. Therefore
push the feeding while the hog is
at the growing age. The younger
he is, after he is large enough to be
an independent grain-eating shote,
the less grain or feed it requires to
make each pound of new pork. Give
the pigs a clean place to sleep, and
if they have half a chance they will
keep it clean. Give them shelter.
They thrive better. Have some little
movable hog houses made like chick
Ell coops only larger; some A-shaped
houses with doors in the ends so
the hogs can run into them and rest
and be free from heat or cold. When
the place covered by the house gets
in bad condition move it to a new
place.
ut takes about twice as much
grain to make pound of beef as it
does to make a pound of pork, and
the pork brings more money and
quicker returns. You invest money
in hogs and get returns within the
same year. Invest it in cattle and
you get returns in three or four
years? Then why not raises some
hogs? We are paying 25 cents
pound fer bacon and selling our grain
for a cent, when we ought to be
feeding it to the hogs and get several
times as much for it.
Last year we imported $4,000
600 worth of pork into these states
west of the Rocky Mountains, and
we have the resources from viii h
we can produce the pork right at
home and at the same time make
a profitable market for our other
produce that is selling too cheapto
yield a fair profit.
Breeds of Hogs
Four of the best breeds of hogs
are the Berkshire, Chester White
Duroc Jersey and Poland China. The
Berkshire is a very quick grower;
the Tamworth is rangy hog and
noted for bacon but not SO much 70!
hams and shoulders. Get any good
breed, get acquainted with theif
temperament, their habits and needs
and give them what they require fol
their quickest development and you
will find the hog is good mortgage
litter. Don't be worrying about some
other breed being better than the
one you have if you have any of the
standard breeds | have mentioned
Get good breed and stay with it,
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ribbed both ways to give resistance
to heavy loads where it is used tor
1ulverts.
The accompanying cut shows eight
men standing on a section of the
tubing that rests on supports only
al is ends.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1911-01-20
New Kind Of Fumes and Culverts

vey water across canyons or low
ground or along the sides of bluffs
where the water seeps away or easily
makes washouts, would do well to
investigate this new product. 1t is
water tight and will stand a great
deal Of weight, is rust proof, and Is
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Lecture Train Visits
Eastern Idaho

Continued from page ~
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1911-01-20
What Women
Have Actually Done

Continued from page p
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Dairying

DdHylh&
BY j. H. Frendson, professor of
Dairying at the University of Idaho,
Moscow, Idaho.
I'VE have issued some bulletins
by which to spread information con-
corning our work, and any of these
can be had upon request. Write to
us at Moscow and we will mail them
to you free.
Much that has been said about
hogs applies also to dairying. We
have the resources to enable us to
carry on dairying successfully; we
have the climate, the cheap feed,
the pure water and the good markets,
and yet we shipped in four million
dollars worth last year from states
east of the Rocky Mountains. That
four million dollars should have
been kept at home, and 1t would help
to make better prices and better
demand for other crops, such as hay
and grain. We find alfalfa is one
of the best dairy foods there is, and
by this mean that it is good as
hay is good. Do not understand
that it will take the place of chop
and shorts and bran We can pro-
duce those things here, and when
combined with alfalfa and mangles
and some sugar beets and beet pulp
we have all the things for an ideal
ration for the cows.
you would be glad to sell your
alfalfa for ten dollars ton, but
our table of costs in dairying shows
that alfalfa is worth $23.O9 ton in
the dairy. You do not need to raise
a great amount of hay at something
like $40 a ton to equal what you
ere realizing on your hay under pres
ent conditions. The COW for dairying
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bushels of wheat from one quarter
section Of land. John Mclean, who
owns two sections, threshed 1850
bushels of wheat.
MIGHT HAVE COME EARLIER
Admlrer of Musician Must Have Felt
Truth of the Answer He
Received.

Signor Puccini, although celebrated
all over the world for his operas, Is
still a young man. On the subject Of
his early success the Italian composer
said recently in New York.
Il have been very lucky. Recogni-
ton for artistic work comes so often
after one is too old to enjoy it.
Il remember one of my country
men, a. centenarian, who, had he died
before seventy, would never have seen
any of his operas produced. Luckily
he lived to so great an age that he re-
ceived for many years the admiration
he deserved. Naturally enough,
though, this splendid artist regretted
his years of obscurity and neglect,
and he frequently spoke bitterly of
his bad fortune.
Once, at the very end of his long
life, an Englishman entered his box
at the opera in Rome, and said re-
spectfully:
~ have travelled all the way from
London to see the author of my IA
vorite opera
"The veteran composer, with a ma
licious smile, replied:
well. my friend, have given you
plenty Of time to get here"
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AkZZRO- EzIGLLkL LOCKS.

sist of two leaves and are massive steel struc
lures feet thick, 65 feet long and from AZ
to 50 feet high Eighty-four leaves will be
required for the entire canal, and their total
weight will be 100000 pounds. and will cost
nearly 100000.
When the canal is completed-Iwhich Colonel
George w. Goethals, who is in charge of the
great work, says will be some time during the
year 1913-here is the manner in which ves-
sci from the Atlantic side will get to the Pacific:
1t will enter the sea-level channel at Colon and
go distance Of seven miles to the foot Of Ga
tun locks there 1t will be lifted by means Of
these locks height of 85 feet above the sea
level to the surface of Gatun lake; the gates
of the lock will be opened and it will steam
out on this lake and go distance of % miles
to the beginning of the great Culebra cut, and
carefully proceeding through this cut dis
lance Of nine miles, it will check up at Pedro
Miguel locks, where it will enter the lock and
be lowered distance of % 1-3 feet to the Level
of Mirafores lake, and then it will steam a
distance of three miles across this lake to
Mirafores locks where 1t will be lowered by
two flights distance of Sc % feet to sea
level; and then it will enter the Pacific chan
mel Of the canal and go distance of eight
miles out to deep water Of the ocean. It will
require from ten to twelve hours for vessel
to make the passage from one ocean to the
other-thus saving many thousands of miles
Of travel, and many days Of time in journey
to any of the ports on the Pacific side of
the Americas and also to the Orient.
Colonel Goethals states most positively
that the cost Of the canal will not be over
$375,000,000; and in this amount is included
the purchase of the French company's be-
longings- SAC. 000, 000-and the $4,000, 900 paid
for the Canal Zone, and also the cost of the
sanitary department, which of course has been
a considerable amount.
In order to get some idea of what the
cost of the canal means-$375, 000, 0O0-and put
it so the mind can in some measure grasp the
figures, we make the following statement:
There are in the world nine principal canals,
to wit: The Suez, the Kiel, the Manchester,
the United States Ste. Marie, the Canadian
Ste. Marie, the Amsterdam, Corinth cron.
stadt and the ErieOntario canal The total
cost Of all nine of these canals was 1884 OOo,
600, which Is less by Sill, 100000 than the
Panama canal alone will cost at the lowest
estimate. But even If this amount is doubled
the United States will complete it. The pride
and reputation Of the nation are at stake. and
she cannot afford to make failure as all the
other countries have done that have gone be-
fore.
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HALGNG 0F EXC4NlIOMS H70N CLHEBRA CIT

q matter that has engaged the attention of the
civilized world for nearly five hundred years.
Many unsuccessful attempts have been made
to accomplish the object in the past, and it
Is good to realize that the dreams and designs
of the Spanish adventures of the fifteenth
century are about to be brought to pass by
American engineers Of the twentieth century.
Spain, Portugal, England and France have
each in turn made failure in their attempts
to pierce the Isthmus with a canal.
Columbus was the first to propose water
highway from Europe to Asia, westward, by
way of the Atlantic 1t was such a highway
he sought, and not the new world, which he
really found. He landed on the Isthmus of
Panama, near the present site of Colon, in the
year 1902, but 1t was a Spanish engineer
named Saavedra, one of Balboa's followers,
who first advocated the construction of
canal across Panama. This was in 1917, and
after studying the question for dozen years,
he submitted his plans to Charles ", king of
Spain. Surveys of the isthmus were made,
but the work of cutting canal was reported
to be impracicable. After the death of
Charles v. his successor, Philip H., in 1867,
sent an engineer to survey the Nicaraguan
route, who likewise made an adverse report.
The question was then abandoned for 200
years, after which time it was again opened.
and has been before the public ever since
In the year 1880 the French people, headed
by Count Ferdinand de Lesseps, who had
gained both fame and fortune by the success
full completion Of the Suez canal, took up the
matter of constructing the Panama canal, and
went vigorously to work to connect the two
oceans. The great engineer thought he had
really an easier undertaking before him than
he had recently been successful in accom-
plishing-that is, the cutting of the Suez ca
nal-but he was vastly mistaken. AS work
progressed on the canal with seeming sue
cess, glowing reports were waited back to
France of what was being done, and the fame
of de Lesseps rose to the point Of hero wor-
ship. In 1884 he was elected to the French
academy and saluted by Gambetta
"the Grand Old Frenchman." In 1885 he was
seated among the Immortals- Victor Hugo,
the great French novelist, being his sponsor,
and Renan, that other brilliant French writer,
delivered the valedictory.
But the dark clouds were gathering behind
all this fantastic show, and in a few more
years the crisis came. The expenditure of
money that had been contributed mostly by
the poorer people of France was something
awful-the amount being placed as high as
$S00,000,000 in eight years; and then the crash
came, burying beneath the wreck the hopes
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at frequent intervals with food and
drink, which are deposited near their
graves. These tombs are, in the case
of chiefs, in the royal compound, and
huts are built over them, wonderfully
decorated with light colors. In other
cases the graves may be dug in some
lonely place. away from the houses
of the living, and often in the depths
OF the forest. A spirit house which
I have often visited is in woodland
glade within half a mile of my COM
pound. and belongs to the family of
the chief butcher of Kuta. Owing to