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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-04-04
PLAN TO IMPROVE PASTURES
II Allowed to Rest for Time and
Rotated Growing Capacity Be
Greatly Increased.

In answering the query, SIS there
any method by which native pastures
can be improved and be made to carry
more live stock" Prof. Alvin keyser,
agronomist of the Colorado Agricul-
tural college, makes the following re-
ply:
1t depends little bit upon the kind
of native grasses which constitute the
pasturage. Pasturage composed most
ly of Colorado bluestem can be very
greatly improved by heavy disking, or
by breaking the sod in a very thin
layer and rolling 1t fat. This grass.
treated in the manner indicated,
sprouts up from the roots and for a
year or two afterwards will produce
a much heavier crop Of forage. AL
most any native pasture can be i'm
proved to some extent by judicious
handling of the live stock. If the pas
ture is divided in some way. so that
the stock can be kept upon one por-
ton and the other allowed to grow
and rest for time and the portions
rotated at suitable intervals, the
growing capacity will be quite mate
rally increased. Another method
which gives some promise of success
is seeding, in native pastures. of re-
sistant types Of alfalfa. This seeding
may be done with disk drill, using
five to eight pounds of seed to the
acre. Some few have materially in
creased the forage in their pastures
by such seeding. Usually the seed
ing should be done during or just
prior to the season of most abundant
rains. The seeding is much more
liable to be successful If done with
| pastures where careful system of
| resting and rotation is carried out as
indicated above.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-04-04

previous visit of the naval postman
Each ships mail is, of course, kept
entirely separate and is transferred in
a special pouch that goes direct to the
vessel for which the mail matter it
contains is destined Much of the
mail for the officers and men aboard
our warships is sent Care of the Post.
master, New York." or Care of the
Postmaster San Francisco" The YES
sells move about so much that CORE
spondents ashore find it difficult to
keep track of them or to gauge their
letters SO as to reach them at any
given place. But the postmaster at
New York, for instance, is advised by
telegraph of the whereabouts of each
vessel every day and letter sent in
his care is sure to reach naval des-
tination in the shortest possible time.
The distribution of the mail for the
officers on shipboard is usually left to
the officer of the deck. The master
at arms is supposed to distribute the
mail to the crew but at Christmas
time, when the mail is heavy or when
a ship at the end of a long cruise finds
dozens of bags of mail awaiting her.
the mail orderlies or postal clerks are
likely to pitch in and help distribute
the mail after they have sorted it. The
providing of sufficient United States
postage stamps to supply the wants
of the bluejackets on prolonged
cruise in foreign waters is one of the
responsibilities of the naval postal
service that the captain of the ship
is required to keep an eye on, for let
ters "for home" if bearing United
States stamps, may be dispatched di.
rect to America in CLOSED bags" In
stead of undergoing the routine of for
eign mail service.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-04-04
REDUCING EFFECTS OF WIND
First Principle 10 to Keep surface Of
Ground Corrugated-Unsven-
ness Impede.

dry land country Is always a land
with much wind, and the dryer the
season the steadier and the harder
the wind blows.
The first principle for reducing the
damaging effect OF the wind is to keep
the surface OF the ground corrugated.
Engineers, in measuring deep noun
tain streams, often find that where
the water Is moving 80 swiftly on the
surface that a man cannot stand
against 1t. there is almost no current
at the bottom, where the velocity Is
checked by stones. 1t Is on the same
principle that the surface OF dry land
should be kept corrugated; the I'M
evenness impedes the motion OF the
wind.
When freshly plowed dry land soils
are rolled with a smooth roller, the
wind moves as fast along the surface
of the soil as 1t does at the height OF
a man above it, and will often sweep
the soil off the field as deeply as il
has been plowed.
The subsurface packer leaves the
ground more deeply corrugated than
the grain drill. The packer wheels
have iron spokes, and while the rim
fines and packs the soil, making
good seed bed, the spokes bring small
clods to the surface, and packed
ground has both the corrugations and
the clods to retard the wind. The
writer has many times seen high
wind blowing across a field that had
lust been treated with a subsurface
packer, and little fine dust only
would be sitting around the clods and
across the low ridges, while from ad.
joining fields, left smooth, the dust
was rising in clouds.
All grain should be drilled in with
the burrows running at right angles to
the prevailing winds.-Colorado Ex-
pertinent Station, Bulletin l45.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-04-04
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, These naval postal clerks have au-
thority to receive and open all pouches
and sacks of mail addressed to naval
vessels; to deliver mail; to receive
mail for transmission; to receipt for
registered mail; to sell postage stamps.
and, in fact, to discharge all the du-
ties Of a post Office clerk, a mail col
lectOr and a letter carrier in one. On
many of the warships there are on
duty instead of or in addition to the
naval postal clerks, what are known as
mail orderlies.' The duties of
mail orderly are much the same as
naval postal clerk and indeed to the
layman all naval postal employees are
mail Orderlies," as he sees them land
ing from the ships with their bullying
mail sacks and later returning on
board with other pouches, similarly
swollen with letters, papers and pack
ages.
There are letter boxes at convenient
places on ship board, just as there are
on street corners on shore, and the
mail Orderlies or clerks make collec-
lions from these at stated times each
day, just as collections of mail are
made in the city streets. Two or three
times each day the accumulated mail
having been sorted and postmarked Is
sent ashore in pouches that it may be
dispatched by rail or steamer to it's va
rious destinations. Mail is thus taken
ashore by one of the steam cutters or
motor boats, several of which are at
tached as tenders" to every naval YES
sell Often one of these little vessels
makes the trip specially to convey the
mail On the return trip this little
postal ferry brings the mail for the
ship that has accumulated at the near.
est post office ashore since the last
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-04-04
Making q Poor Cow.

Physical comfort means much to all
sensitive creatures. With shelter
from the elements, hunger and thirst
satisfied. no aggravation from flies or
other insect pests, and in no fear of
man or other creatures, the COW
stands some chance of showing what
she Is good for. but let the sun and
rain by turns beat her. or the co. d
make her SILVER, with scant feed and
water. and with dog to drive her to
and from the fields. and a man to
yell at and beat her. no wonder she
becomes only poor COW, one to dis.
appoint her owner and to excite only
ths pity Of the compassionate.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-04-04

"WhatIl we do now?" asked Mulla-
ney. The trio had been trying to find
out what amusements the town afford
ed between the hours Of 8 D. m. and
2 a M, and It was close to the latter
hour. though they had set no time
limit on things. Jones and Scan
Ian thought about It. They decided
they didn't know. Also Jones was
sleepy.
Tell you what" suggested Mulla-
ney. "we'll 90 over to a place !
know-it's club-And Wen see a
scrap or two"
You're gay old sport. all right"
laughed Seaman. "Anybody'd think
you were a sport instead Of a gray
headpd old family man."
Mullaney led the way to a staircase,
where stood a thin man with thinner
overcoat fastened to his neck. and tc
this man he made talk. Jones and
Seaman, being strangers In town and
guests Of Mullaney, stood In the back
ground until the conference was I'm
ished, and. receiving signal. noun
ed the steps behind the other two.
An opening door threw them into |
barnlike hall. hall thick with blu
tobacco smoke, and In the center wa
= squared ring Of ropes.
Here's where you get your money
WORTH" exulted Mullaney. who had dis
appeared for q moment into an &C
ioiniuS room. whore he had transac
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-04-04


AflOat in warship COM
munity. snd yet 1t is one of which
the general public on its visits
to the floating fortresses sees little
or nothing. The activities of ma
rine post office" on one of Uncle Sans
first class fighting ships have broad
ened considerably within the past few
years for the reason that one of the
nations up-to-date battleships or ar
mored cruisers carries anywhere from
800 to 1910 officers and men. This
Is half as many again as were enroll
ed on the battleships In our fleet prior
to few years ago, and when the new
battleships now building are in COM
mission each will have considerably
more than 1000 souls aboard.
Now, as everybody appreciates, a
community of 1000 people ON land
can keep post office pretty busy, and
floating community OF the same num-
Der OF people represents vastly more
postal business, because its patrons are
all adults, and most of them are great
letter writers-being far more addicted
to the letter writing habit than the
same number Of people picked at ran
don on shore. In explanation of this it
may be cited that the navy men are
away from home and consequently
their only means of communication
with relatives and friends is by mail.
Furthermore, they have, during their
evenings aboard ship, in the "off duty"
periods on Sunday and at other times
plenty Of leisure for writing letters,
and they improve the opportunity, oft
times, no doubt, because there is moth
Ing else to do" The officers aboard
ship must needs handle a heavy vol
ume of official correspondence as we'll
as their private correspondence. and
many Of the bluejackets write almost
daily to the girls they left behind. So
that all told there is really abnormal
volume of postal business to be attend
ed to on the average warship.
For handling the mails aboard ship
4 nook below decks is set apart as the
ships post office and this is the head
quarters Of the mail orderlies," or the
postal clerks and assistant postal
clerks. Enlisted men in the navy, upon
selection by the secretary OF the
navy, are designated by the post off ce
department as navy mail clerks and as.
sistant navy mail clerks. and these
men take the oath Of Office prescribed
for employees Of the postal service and
give bond In the sum of $1,000, just
as do the postal clerks who work or
, railway trains or in post offices ashore
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-04-04
FLIGHT OF THE CHAMPEEN
tn Reps His August Pa Apea-Nd il Class

his Jaw hard as iron. AS he passed
Jones and Seaman they tried to grab
him. but he shook them of. He
climbed the steps leading to the stage
and threw off his coat amid yells and
jeers from the crowd.
But Young Dempsey" wasn't smil-
ing. His red face went white and he
turned and whispered something to his
seconds"
Come on here" said the old man.
Come on here. you Eraceless imp. I'll
pound you to smithereens. I've licked
you before, and I'll do 1t again. Come
on"
But the champion was crawling I'M
der the ropes. The crowd was whoop-
ing and yelling, and finally the fat man
In shirt sleeves got In front and
waved his arms.
THE champeen," he yelled, won't
fight his pa! He amt in the same
class"
You bet he won't" snorted the old
man, yanking on his coat "Waitn
l git home. Apollo Sporting club
huh!"
Then Seaman and Jones seized him
and hustled him out, and the uproaI
brought a policeman, who poked II
his head and winked.
It's all right. jerry" some one
said. Everything clean. Coco
night Dallas News
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-04-04

ed business with three keen-eyed men.
They have good scraps here. I've
never been here before. but Maddox
put me next"
At this moment two young fighters
entered the ring. and a hoarse-voiced
individual in his shirt sleeves made
an announcement that the winner
would fight all corners in his class.
Then the bout vas on. Through the
blue haze of smoke the spectators
gazed silently The thud OF gloved
fists against human flesh resounded.
and 1.-the bodies slid from danger and
swayed in, accompanied by more
thuds.
Seaman looked at Mullaney. His
eyes were staring; his jaw had drop
i ped and he was clinching the edge Of
his chair seat. Plainly something had
made him mad.
Then it happened. The fist Of ono
of the fighters caught the chin Of
the other and a roar resounded. while
the fat man stood over the fallen
man. waving his arm up and down.
They helped the defeated gladiator
from the ring, and the man in shirt
sleeves rose to make an announce
ment
Young Dempsey" he said, cham
peen of the Statell meet any hun
nered'n forty pound scrapper tina
wants any O. his game"
Then In the audience rose Mullaney
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-04-04
POULTRY NOTES.
Wheat grows feather.
Feed oats for muscle.

Wheat grows feather.
Feed oats for muscle.
Red beets, either cooked or raw. are
excellent for fowls.
Millet seed contains considerable
flesh forming substance.
Common field peas make an excel
lent egg producing food.
According to the food Is the health
and prosperity Of the hen.
Meat scraps should be kept in a
cool place to avoid heating.
White middlings contain more nut
rlment than the brown kind.
1t is claimed that carrots improve
the color Of the yolk Of the egg.
. Barley should be fed only occasion
ally as 1t Is hard grain to digest.
Grow mangels. They make excel
lent green food for winter feeding.
Stale bread crumbs make a very
good addition to the morning mash.
An exclusive heterogeneous food will
be apt to result in bowel troubles and
other disorders.
Egg production is not measured so
much by the quantity as by the quail
ity of the food.
ROOTS OF all kinds can be fed
cooked or raw, but they should be
chopped up fine.
heterogeneous matter will grow bone
and muscle, keep the blood in a
healthy condition and produce both
| feathers and eggs.
4 e.
so Tar as nutrition Is concerned. a
gil or linseed meal to a pint of corn
VIII increase the ration to a value
equal to two pints of corn.
The food that is proper for the
manufacture of eggs will be equally
suitable for the growth of feathers.
so that an egg food will make the
ideal molting food.
Just how much food to give at a
meal 10 hard to determine. The man
III charge must make a study of the
appetites OF each flock. Some hans
Will consume moro food than others.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-04-04

In the year 1910 the American hen
laid II dozen eggs for every man.
woman and child In the country. We
have reason for believing, however.
that at least several dozen Of those
eggs are still In cold storage.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-04-04

BY drinking 20 bottles Of beer a day
0cr 30 days st. Louis man won a suit
4 tailor-made clothes and $3.50 in
money, but the chances are that a man
With . thirst like that viii pawn the
clothes. and he certainly won't have
No money long.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-04-04

II that ship that got into New
York the other day with load Of ele-
plants and pythons and other crea-
lures could have been stuffed into the
stockings OF several million children
It would probably have settled for all
time their demand for Noah's arks.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-04-04

He has football in the fall and
spring and now the college student
has ice hockey all winter. And yet
he II said to play too little
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-04-04

Tho Episcopal bishop Of Michigan
says that bridge whist players are
Just a. much gamblers AZ Wall street
plungers or Monte Carlo patrons.
They must play for more than a quar-
Tor Of . cent point out that way.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-04-04

That technical secret attack upon
he Atlantic coast BY our returning
battleship feet will be valueless un-
less the Mole st. Nicholas liar and
The New England faker who heard 20
much cannonading at sea in 1898 are
allowed to get into tho game.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-04-04

When ra' carry plague and cats
and dogs ttat kill Or drive them away
carry diphtheria and tuberculosis,
both Of which are afiirmed by the ex-
perts. 1t seems there IL nothing left
for threatened humanity but to get OF
the earth.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-04-04

School teachers think they are en-.
titled to pensions. but can teaching
be called war since corporal punish
ment has been abolished?
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-04-04

Men who began life as walters now
own one of Chicago's biggest hotels.
But. Of course. they were good walters
and never spilled soup down any
body's back nor forgot to renew the
contents Of the finger bowls.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-04-04

A report from Berlin has It that
Emperor William has become inter
ested In boxing. 1t Is rot likely, how.
ever. that he will at his time of life
try for the middle-weight champion
ship Of Germany.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-04-04

Morocco IL to pay money to Spain
20. no war which Spain recently
fought in Morocco. Such Is the EN-.
barrassing consequence of coming out
only second best
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-04-04

That New York man who started to
shoot himself but thrice changed his
mind in time to dodge the bullets
may live to congratulate himself on
his 1ckleness.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-04-04

The unarmored cruiser Detroit.
which cost $-.233.o0O. has just been
sold for $4,000. So run the fighting
ships away.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-04-04

Maybe some time they will invent
. padded aeroplane which will not
rise more than ten feet from the
ground. Then the careful man will
become interested.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-04-04

A Boston man declares that he can
prove that there are nine hells, and
We presume that discovering that the
furnace fire Is out is one of them.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-04-04

Alexander wept because he had no
more worlds to conquer when he
should have hustled around and found
q few.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-04-04

New York's largest hotel is to cost
$17.000,000. 1t Is to be built on Her
aid square at Twenty-fouPth street
and Broadway.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-04-04

Pittsburg ants to annex about
dozen suburbs. This Is likely to
start a new annexation movement In
Cleveland
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-04-04

Goose-bone prophets are OF the
opinion that this winter will stretch
out as long as a British election.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-04-04

Fir lumber has gone gone up one
dollar on the thousand. Now. all to-
gether: This is going too FIR!
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-04-04

Alfalfa In various forms Is to be
served at a banquet In Colorado
Now who Is brother to the ox?"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-04-04

Western farmers are returning to
the etfete east to buy up the deserted
farms of that section.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-04-04

II war scares keep on accommodating
they may be offered by the dozen ut
reduced rates.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-04-04

on juries they should be permitted to
bring their knitting
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-04-04

Another thing that will make NIL.
waukee famous ls = woman police
man."
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-04-04

Why worry over good roads when
We are all on the verge Of taking to
wingsf
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-04-04

When doctors graft 1t II folly "a
b sick.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-04-04

IfE matter OF handling
~ the incoming and outgo-
Ing mail on a United
II States battleship or other
. large naval vessel Is one
o. the most interesting of
See minor features Of life
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-07-11
NELL GANDE WAS
ON STAND TO-DAY
Continued Testimony for the
Prosecution Against DIR.
Reilly at Langdon

Langdon, N. D.. July 11.-Miss Mel
lie Gande. the star witness for the
state in the prosecution of DR.. Reilly
on q charge Of murder, was on the
stand all morning and part of the
afternoon today. In her direct ex-
animation, Miss Gande testified that
she had taken Mrs. VIM. Drury to DIR.
Reilly's hospital and that she was
present when the defendant performed
the alleged criminal operation claimed
to have resulted in Mrs. Drury's death.
The witness was subjected to severe
cross-examination by Attorney Geo
M. Price, who is representing DR..
, Reilly.
Miss Gande,- who is herself facing
prosecution on a similar charge for
having assisted the defendant, was
placed on the stand Monday afternoon
after three days had been consumed
securing jury.
The second witness for the state
will be Coroner Gibson, who was
placed on the stand this afternoon.
Grand Forks Men Called.
DR.. Gustav Ruediger and Geo. A.
Abbott OF the university have been
subpoenaed by the state and have ar
rived to give expert testimony, as they
made q post mortem examination of
the dead woman.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-07-11
ATWOOD LANDED
At COLLEGE PARK
Made Another Lap in His Long
Air Voyage This Morning
Tired and Hungry

Baltimore, Md, July 11.-Cheered
by about fifty rural admirers, Chas K
Hamilton and Harry N. Atwood, the
daring Boston aviators, gracefully
ascended at Stemmers Run, Nd, at
4:35 o'clock this morning and made a
magnificent start for College park on
the last lap of the record-breaking
overland flight from Boston to the ma
tional capital.
The weather conditions could not
have been better. Ascending to an
elevation of about 300 feet, the avia-
tors skinned gracefully over the lit
tie group of spectators. and with a
farewell wave, headed to the south
west and in few seconds disappear
ed from view over the wooded hill.
Both men and machine were in excel
lent working condition and there was
not the slightest hitch.
The Pennsylvania railroad tracks
were followed to Bay View Junction,
thence changing the course a little
more to the westward, the aviators
flew over the southern and eastern
outskirts of the city, passing over
the historic Fort McHenry at 4:55 a.
M. covering the distance of nearly
twelve miles in a half an hour. Leav-
ing Fort McHenry, Atwood, who wac
steering, headed the machine toward
Patapsco and followed the river
passing over the Halethrope aviation
field at 5:07 a. m.
Reach College Park.
Washington, July 11.-Tired and
hungry, but otherwise showing no ill
effects of their trip from Stemmers
Run. Harry N. Atwood and Charles
X. Hamilton alighted from their areo-
plane on the field of the army avia-
ton school at College Park, Nd, near
this city at 5:45 o'clock this morning.
The flight was devoid of mishap and
except for being thoroughly fatigued,
the aviators would have continued in
to this city in the machine. Atwood
announced that he probably would fly
into Washington later in the day.