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Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-01-20
EARS OF SEED CORN WITH KERNELS RE
MOVED FOR TESTING.

EARS OF SEED CORN WITH KERNELS RE-
MOVED FOR TESTING.
From bulletin, United States department
of agriculture
spond with the rows of squares across
the tray. These rows of ears should
be kept i'll dry. warm place on the
floor, on corn racks or on shelves,
where it can be certain that they will
not be disturbed OF displaced until the
test is finished.
When ready to begin the test. two
children can work to the best advan-
tage. one to handle the individual ears
and the other to plant the tray. The
first takes up ear No. in the first
row and. with the point of Il pocket
knife applied to the edge of a kernel
removes five kernels from each ear.
passes them to the second pupil ana
carefully replaces the ear i'll it's row.
The kernels should be taken in sue,
cession 0aking only those of average
siZel from about an inch above the
base of the ear to the same distance
below its tip. passing spiraly around
and lengthwise of the ear. This in
sures Il fair test of the whole ear. as
it sometimes happens that one side or
one end of an ear is sound. while the
others will not grow. The Illustration
shows a few ears with kernels remov-
ed in this spiral fashion. Full direc-
tons for the conduct of the test are
given in the bulletin.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-01-20

five and six feet respectively. The
lever is ten feet long and has hole
bored one-fourth of its length from
one end. or two and one-half feet from
the end. In the shorter end Is an
other hole in which to fasten a hook
for the scales. Put together with
large bolt. first putting on one five
foot leg, then the lever. the six foot
leg and last the other five foot leg.
The holes in the outside legs should be
one size larger than those in the lever
and longer leg in order that they may
be spread apart at the bottom. so that
they will not stand vertical.
When it is desired to weigh or lift
an object pull the lever A B to the po-
sition of c d. fasten the article on the
hook and with Il rope fastened to the
long end of the lever pull it down and
hook under the stob, as shown in the
illustration.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-01-20
EXPERIMENT FARMS VALUE.
They Open the Eyes Of Farmers to the
Possibilities of Their Land.

Possibilities of Their Land.
The demonstration farm Is just as,
necessary to the agriculturist as are the
open air encampment and the sham
battle to the militiaman. The reading
Of military tactics can never teach a
man either to stand steady under fire
or to capture an entrenched enemy.
We know this because of the many
instances where even brief visit made
by some neighboring farmer to these
experimental farms has utterly chang
ed practices which have existed for
generations, practices which during
some seasons have proved fairly sue
cessful and which have caused ALSO
lutte failure only at intervals.
For example, shallow blowing got
black eye during the season of drought
when the farmers noted the result at
the experimental stations of deep plow-
ing aided by frequent shallow cultiva-
ton. II method which kept corn green
without wilt and produced big crop
Of fully filed ears. to say nothing Of
keeping the potato plants green and
healthy until a normal crop was ma
tured.
The early planting Of such extremely
hardy vegetables as carrots and onions,
which with them assures a good start
because of the invariably copious rain
fall Of early spring, was only adopted
when dry weather set in earlier than
usual. and we by this method had as
sured ourselves a crop. In like man.
ner the spraying Of fruit trees annual
ly, systematically and thoroughly was
only brought about in the neighbor
hood by the extremely healthy appear
ance of the small demonstration Or
chards at the experimental stations
the farmers saying little. but being
quick to note the dark green of the
foliage and the handsome appearance
and juiciness Of the highly favored
fruit.-H. b. Fullerton in Craftsman.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-01-20
L arm ano
Garden
SCHOOL SEED CORN TESTS.
Recommended by Department Of Ag-
rieuIture as Exercise For Children.

Recommended by Department Of Ag-
rieuIture as Exercise For Children.
Seed corn testing as Il school exer-
else, especially in the rural districts. Is
recommended in bulletin issued by
the United States department of agri-
culture for the following reasons:
First. it furnishes an easy and inter
esting study in seed termination and
plant growth; second. the extended
use of good method has vast eco
homie value in improving the produc-
tiveness of American agriculture. and
third. the teaching of it in the rural
school eXertS Il strong influence to-
ward increasing the confidence Of par
ents in the permanent worth of good
school work.
The only materials needed are
shallow wooden tray. a small handful
of carpet tacks. few yards Of wrap
ping Irvine. sand enough to fill the
tray and three or four quarts Of wa
ter. The tray Tor several of them can
easily be sawed from an empty soap
or cracker box. When finished ii
es deep inside. fifteen inches wide and
twenty-three inches long, but any of
these dimensions may be varied slight
ly. This tray Is divided into small
squares by a checkerboard lacing of
Irvine across the top. 1t is convenient
to have these squares about one and
one-half inches on side. ten of them
in a row across the narrow way of the
tray and fifteen the other way. The
lacing with the string should not be
done until the tray has been loosely
filled with dry sand heaped up little
above it's top edge Then the sand
should be scraped off with a yardstick
or other straight edge even with the
top of the tray. After lacing with the
string the tray is ready for planting.
Have the children arrange the ears
to be tested in rows of ten to CORE
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-01-20
WILL 1T PAY?

Parents often ask themselves the
question whether it will pay to send
the boy away to school or college
This will depend bit on the college.
but vastly more on the boy and the
stuf-the grit and perseverance he
possesses. In a general way it may
be said that if the boy cares enough
about an education to work for it
such part of the financial end as may
be necessary-it will pay him to go
to college. and it will pay his folks
IN satisfaction to make up the bal
ance of the needed expense money.
On the other hand, if the boy is too
proud or too lazy to lift his finger in
working his own way and has to cali
on the old gentleman every five or six
weeks for a fat check, a good share Of
which goes into incidental" expenses
college education in all probability
would make him a more useless mem
Der of society than he is now, and he
would better stay at home However.
IL the boy has a desire to buckle into
the job and give it fair tryout. help
ing to earn his way in such ways as
are possible. it is worth letting him
nave chance to do so, whereas If ne
doesn't take to it he can turn his hand
to something else that's usefuf ard
worth while. 1t may not be necessaryW
advisable for the boy to do anything
toward earning his way. but he should
prize an education sufficiently so thar
he would be willing to work if it wefe
necessary.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-01-20
Use Of the Wesdsr,

The weeder is very useful tool in
the cultivation of potatoes when prop
erly used. 1t should he run crosswise
of the rows after each cultivation as
long as the size of the plants will per-
nit. 1t helps to pulverize the surface
and destroys many of the weeds in the
rows where they cannot he reached
With the cultivator, thus making hand
hoeing less necessary. Some growers
continue to use the weeder len%thWise
OF the rows after the plants are too
large to permit running it crosswise by
removing some of the teeth from di-
rectly over the row.-American Guilt
vator.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-01-20
His Own Step-Father.

Recent returning federal Off
Gals to Boise from the north re-
port an interesting situation in
relationship among Nez Perez
Indians.
John Hill, an Indian, married
a Nez Perez Indian woman and
to them several children were
born
Tom Hill, a SON. of John Hill
by a::former marriage, then elop-
ed with andsmarried, by Indian
custom. his fathers wife, or in
other words his mother (step-
mother
To this union three children
were born. AS a result it would
now appear that Tom Hill is the
father (step-father) of his broth
ers and sisters and at the same
time is half brother of his own
children, and being the husband
of his mother he must now be
his own step-father. This is the
net result of Indian marriages. -
Grangeville Free Press.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-01-20

Earl Henderson, formerly of
Grangeville and later a resident
of Vollmer, has been arrested at
Toppenish, Wash, on a charge
of fraud and will be brought
back to Lewiston to stand trial.
Henderson sold property in Voll-
mer to Ernest Johnson, it is said,
placing the deed in escrow. AT
ter leaving Vollmer he again sold
the property to another man and
he later sold to a third. Hen
derson is well known here, his
parents having formerly resided
here for a couple of years.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-01-20
The place Of the thinking farmer
is just The opposite 10 that Of the
let well enough alone" man. The
fertility Of his farm. the yield Of his
crops and the general appearance
of his place improve every year.
Dairy Doings.

Most trouble in raising calves comes
from use of dirty pals and troughs.
Give the calf clean water and clean
food that doesn't vary in quality from
day to day.
Fertility can be built up faster upon
the dairy farm than upon any other
kind of farm.
Dried brewers grains are valuable
TO feed with silage to milk cows or
young growing stock, but cannot be
recommended for fattening purposes.
They should not be fed alone. but
should be mixed with heavier and
more concentrated feeds, like gluten
and cottonseed meal.
You never can tell what COW is do
ing best until you begin to weigh and
test.
A good cow never dies In debt to her
owner.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-01-20
-ssss.
TOO MUCH WATER.

There is no irrigation enterprise tha,
IS worth u copper unless water 4
available for irrigation purposes Il
those intervals during the summer
months when 1t is needed, and VI,
there are many owners Of tracts IL
sections where ditch water has been
abundant who have been severe srf.
ferers financially for the very simph
reason that they have had at thees
disposal and used too much water. ii
fact. tracts which have had too llttle
water and where economy has been !
matter Of necessity have proved the
most successful from the standpoint
of crop production. In many Of. the
arid sections Of the mountain and Pa.
citic coast states. where irrigation en-.
terprises have been developed. serious
trouble has resulted on lower levels
from rising of underground waters
trouble that goes hand in hand with
that due to the presence Of alkalis.
which are dissolved ami brought to the
surface in such quantities as to retard
or stop plant growth. While the, term
Il
any salts in the soil-usually sodium
sulphate. sodium chloride and sodium
carbonate-the last only is an alkaline
salt. Unless the natural drainage Ia
such as to carry Off this accumulation
of underground water or an artificial
system is provided to do so such land
is bound to become so wet or so aka
line as to be useless. The cure. and
the only permanent cure. for alkall
trouble lies in the installment of q
drainage system which will cause 4
downward and lateral movement OF
the soil water While this may be eff
fected in part by the open ditch system.
the underground tile system, with main
leads and laterals at intervals to prop
erly handle the flow, has proved most
effective. The alkali trouble may be
postponed sometimes by sparse use
of water and very thorough cultiva-
ton, but these will not prove an effec-
tive cure. Inasmuch as one ranch may
be flooded with water coming through
the subsoil from higher level. it Is
imperative that the drainage PROPOSE
ton should be viewed as well as han
died as cooperative and community
enterprise. 1t is advisable not to To-
cate in a section where the troubles
referred to are likely to develop. but
if one is already located and such trou-
bles develop subirrigation offers the
only practical solution.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-01-20
Sor1hum For Ho1s.

The Alabama experiment station
finds that sorghum pasture for fat
tening hogs has very little to recon-
mend it. When used with corn it
gave better gains than corn alone but
the gains were not profitable when the
sorghum was cut and carried to the
hogs. They made better gains when
allowed to Craze it. Excellent gains
were made when the juice was ex-
tracted and fed, but for this purpose
the price was worth but Is cents a
gallon. The expense of extracting the
juice prohibits its use. In every case
sorghum was much inferior to the
legumeS, and since it left the land
poorer its use for hogs was discour-
aged where legumes could be grown.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-01-20
HANDY LIFTING JACK.
Easily Made Farm Device For Weigh
ina Heavy Articles, ~

ing Heavy NftIcIes. ~
Z Herewith is given an illustration of
a device for weighing cotton. beef
hogs and any other heavy article that
the farmer may want to weigh. This
was suggested to Farm aud Ranch by
farm since one man can lift with 1t
about as much as five men without it
and with greater ease. 1t is made as
follows:
The timber used is by 4. but for
articles weighing more than 400
pounds it will require stouter material
Fer the legs take one piece sixteen
feet long and cut in three pieces-hye.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-01-20
Graduate your hired men who
i'll treat your stock, especial y the
dairy cows. Send them out into
the world with their diplomas of
discharge.
STRONG FARM SLED.
Easily Built and Substantial Without
lemons or Mortises.

A writer in the Rural New Yorker,
from which the picture shown here
with is taken. says that every farm
should be provided with one or more
goods sleds, and one built as shown
in the drawing will prove very salts
factory. 1t is easily built and sub
stantial, as there are no lemons to
make nor mortises. both of which re-
quire much labor and seriously weak
ell the sled. The frame of the sled is
made Of 4 by t. excepting the blocks
marked Y. which are by by 10
inches. Upon these blocks rest the
crosspleces A A \, and upon these
the upper part Of the sled frame rests.
all being bolted together with half
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-01-20
PREVENTING MILLET SMUT.
Soaking Seed In Solution of Formalin
Prevents the Disease.

During the past year fungous dis
ease of milet appeared at various
places in Iowa. The botanical section
of the Iowa experiment station found
upon investigation that the disease was
millet smut. a trouble very common in
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-01-20
The Free Press at Grangeville
was this week awarded the con-
tract for the county printing.

tract for the county printing.
Mrs. Mary Johnston died at her
home west of Ferdinand on last
Friday and was buried at Westlake
on Sunday. The deceased had
been i'll for several months with
paraly sis. She was 70 years of age
and was a native of Scotland.
Mrs. Scott Garrett, who has
been visiting for the past several
months at the Render home west
of town, left last week for her
former home at Missoula, Mont.
on a short visit. Mr.. Garrett re-
Gently purchased an interest in
the Adair hardware store at Wi
mono and they will make that
place their future home when
Mrs. Garrett returns.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-01-20
Providing Early Green's.

Turnips if left in the ground will
produce early green's in spring. and so
Will the stalks of cabbage if they are
left with the roots in the ground.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-01-20

Photograph by Iowa State college agri-
cultural station.J
the millet growing sections of Europe.
1t was probably imported to this coun-
try in seed brought from Germany
Professor Pammel finds that the dis
ease can be prevented by soaking the
seed for two hours in solution of
one pound of formalin to forty-tive
gallons of water
The claims of millet as an impor-
tant soiling food rest upon the fact
that it is good milk producing food.
that it yields well on good land. that
it may be grown as a catch crop and
in hot weather in some instances after
another crop has been harvested.
Its weak point as a soiling crop is
the short season during which it can
be fed.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-01-20
Pleasant surroundings and mod
ern conveniences, easily obtainable,
will go long way in keeping the
boys and girls on the farm.
Keep Dust Out of the Wheels.

Keep Dust Out of the Wheels.
To keep the dust out of the wheels
of your wagon cover the inside of
the hub and the connection with the
axle with leather or lineoleum. Dirt
causes much friction upon the axle
and soon wears it out.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-01-20

When it comes to a choice be-
tween buying some new tool you
need on the farm and putting the
money in the bank, better buy the
TOOL. 1t will help you gain the
money back and save toll into the
bargain.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-01-20

Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is not
common, everyday cough mixture.
1t is meritorious remedy for all the
troublesome and dangerous compiled
lions resulting from cold in the head,
throat, chest or lungs. Sold by Koepke
Drug Co.
Chamberlain Cough Remedy never
disappuints those who use it for obsti
nate coughs, colds and irritations Of the
throat and lungs. 1t stands unrivalled
rs remedy for all throat and lung dis
eases. Sold by Koepke Drug Co.
Exercise and health are so closely
connected in the case of the fowls thai
this idea as affecting the care of tile
flock during the winter months should
be kept constantly in mind. Exercise
means health, and health means eggs
If any oae of the muse plants have
sickiy yellow color it is fair to as
sumo that there is lack of nitrogen
In the soil. This may be supplied by
using a moderate amount of plant
fool. watering the plants with. dilute
ammonia or small quantity of m2-
nure water
The question of fresh air for the
poultry is not vital one during the
summer months. when they are out OF
doors all day and when the door and
windows Of the poultry house are left
wide open at night. During the win
ter months. however the question is
very important 1t is true with hens
as with human beings that there is no
more prolific cause of colds and other
bronchial troubles than bad air.
Fresh air should be supplied in the
henh0use during the coolest weather
even at the expense of warmth
The New Jersey mosquito, which
has deservedly achieved q national
reputation. has in the past had as a
breeding ground some 100000 acres of
salt marshes But its days seem to
be numbered. for long straight bitches
are now being dug through these
marshes which drain the depressions
and which contain sufficient running
waiter so that myriads of little fish
with which the drainage bitches have
been stocked are enabled to live, feast
Ing ON the mosquito larvae, for which
they have Iusty appetite Depres
sions which do not drain readily are
doped with oil or flied with sand.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-01-20

Exercise and health are so closely
connected in the case of the fowls thai
this idea as affecting the care of the
flock during the winter months should
be kept constantly in mind. Exercise
means health and health means eggs
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-09-08
MOTIVE OF MURDERER
IS STILL MYSTERY

Portland, Ore, Sept S.-An autop-
sy held today on the remains of Mrs.
Wehrmann, and her four year old
son. who were murdered at their ca
AIN home in the wilds near Scappose,
brought to light the fact that the wo-
man had not been attacked as had
first beer supposed by the authori-
ties.
Clutched tightly in the woman's
hand was a tuft of short ,ght hair,
indicating that light completed
man had engaged in a struggle with
the woman before she was killed.
Both had been shot through the
head and their skulls also crushed by
blows from a hatchet, found near
their bodies.
The officers are at loss for mo-
tive for the killing, as valuable ar
ticles were undisturbed, exploding
the theory of robbery.
1t is believed that a man of light
hair was seen in the vicinity of the
Wehrmann home Monday evening
and the authorities are looking for
this man.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-09-08
PERMISSION GIVEN
THE !. c. MEN
TO CALL STRIKE
Labor Leaders Say Action
Forerunner of Hartman
Walkout

Chidhgo, ILL.,, Sept S.-Members of
the e&e &ecutive comm ttee of the Rail-
road shopmen's Federation System of
the Illinois Central lines, declared to-
day that al arrangements for a
strike had been completed and that
headquarters have been selected and
Off GERS assigned to look after the
management of the strike in various
localities. Whether the strike will
be called will defin' tely be settld to-
morrow WIN the executive committee
of the Machinlsts' union meets. If
they vote to strike, the shopmen will
then walk out.
Thef International officers of the
Allied Unions, with the exception of
the mach nists, have given their per-
~ ssion FIR a str ke and have voted
baneft funds for the men involved.
Labor leaders here believe that if
the Illinois Central strike is called,
that it VII be a forerunner of SIM
liar ACTION on the Hartman lines.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-09-08
BROKEN FLANGE
WRECKS A FREIGHT

Because of a broken flange on the
O.-W. r. & y. tracks near Eagle
Roint yesterday morning which caus-
ed a freight wreck. trains from Port
land were delayed last evening, No. ?
arriving at Sis and No is not until
after II. The passengers of the for
mer were transferred ground the
wrerck to No. l westward bound, and
the passengers of the latter to the
eastbound local and the two trains
were thus reversed. An account of
the wreck is'told in dispatch to the
Portland Journal from Bonneville
yesterday. 1t follows:
An extra freight train west, engine
521, Engineer Mcguire and Conductor.
Zirbel, had IA cars derailed just east
of Bonneville and Cascade Locks,
striking the end of the bridge and
knocking down two bents on bridge
this morning. Five cars went into
the opening, four piled up at the east
end of the bridge and five cars We're
derailed east of the bridge. The cars
were badly damaged and the contents
spilled. The estimated damage Il the
equipment is $4,000. No one was in
jured. Passenger trains delayed were
Fast Mail No. 9. the Dalles local No
:, Chicago Express No. o.
and Soo-Spokane- Portland No. II, all
east of the scene of trouble,