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Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1912-11-22
GARDEN and
FARM NOTES

Early fall blowing is the cheapest
and best crop insurance known.
Il has never seemed advisable to
SOW alfalfa in the fall with rye.
Sometimes 1t is good plan to
leave the stubble to catch the snow.
The successful garden is started in
the fall. although not a seed may be
planted. go
To have winter parsley and lettuce
lift some plants and set out in the
cold frame,
Silage made of corn and soy beans
is more digestible than that made
from corn silage alone.
One of the qualities of the soy
bean that commends 1t to the stock
feeder is its protein richness.
Clean up the garden. A few weeds
and other rubbish make splendid
nesting places for many destructive
insects.
It Is claimed that early-sown fall
wheat is benefited when pastured
with sheep TO keep down the rank
growth.
Many growers say that weeds are
ae valuable as fertilizers as clover
and cowpeas as fertilizers as clover
every year.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1912-11-22

their new home. Qaintly does
Mounts Relation" chronicle the
event:
Our harvest being gotten in. our
Governour sent foure men on fowling,
that SO we might after more special
manner rejoyce together. after we had
gathered the fruit of our labours;
they foure In one day killed as much
fowle, as with little helpe beside,
served the Company almost weeke,
at which time amongst other Recrea-
lions. we exercised our Armes, many
of the Indians coming amongst us.
and amongst the. rest their greatest
King Massasoyt, with some ninetie
men, whom for three dayes we enter
tanned and Toasted, and they went out
and killed Deere, which they brought
to the plantation and bestowed upon
the Captaine. and others. And al
though 1t be not alwayes so plentiful,
as it was at this time with us. yet
by the goodnesse of God, we are SO
fare from want, that we often wish
you partakers of our plentie."
While the bill of fare of this first
American celebration of the Harvest
festival has not been preserved the
feast was no doubt royal one even
If some of the food and the. methods
of preparation would seem strange
and outlandish to present day Amer
leans The provisions must have been
bountiful for there were about 10
persons including the 80 of ,ias.
sasoit's company who were enter
tanned for three days, and all had
their share of supplies. From other
sources we know that the foods OF
the sea were abundant and that the
Pilgrims had made the acquaintance
of the oyster. Ducks they had in
plenty OF the choicest species and also
geese. Game, from grouse to veni
son, was brought In from the forest
in abundance, and there was a great
store" of wild turkeys. Barley LOAF
and cakes of corn meal were highly
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1912-11-22
SAVE ALL THE ALFALFA SEED
Side Delivery "Rower" or "6uncher'
Has Been Perfected That Any
Blacksmith Can Make.

The heaviest loss in cutting seed
crop of alfalfa with an ordinary now
er comes from shattering by the
wheels and tramping of the horses
over the last cut swath. To avoid this
loss a side delivery "rower" or
.'buncher" has been perfected and is
now on the market One may easily
be made by any blacksmith at com.
paratively small cost. says the Farm.
ers' Mail and Breeze. Twelve or nj
teen iron rods of proper length, bent
as shown and fastened to the back OF
the sickle bar, is all there is to 1t
The punching device on the inner enc
may or may not be used. Where this
attachment is used 1t has been found
q good plan to bunch the swaths into
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1912-11-22
INFORMATION FOR A FARMER
Table Of Weights and Measures Prov
ldent Housekeeper insists Upon
In Buying Produce.

The following table of weights and
measures may prove of value to provi-
dent housekeepers who look after
their own marketing and seek to get
the worth of their money:
One peck of spinach weighs three
pounds.
One peck of apples weighs twelve
and half pounds.
One peck of carrots, turnips, pars-
nips or sweet potatoes weighs thir-
teen and three-fourths pounds.
One peck of onions weighs fourteen
and a half pounds.
One peck of potatoes or beets
weighs fifteen pounds.
One quart of string beans weighs
three-fourths of pound.
One quart of chanberries weighs
one pound and one ounce.
One quart of dried apples weighs
three.fourths of a pound.
One quart of dried peas weighs one
and seyen-eighths pounds.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1912-11-22
BUMPS 225 POUNDS
INTO BANKERS ROOM
Woman Hanging Clothes on Roof,
Crashes Through SkyIight
Waving Strange "Them."

Indiana Harbor, Ind.-Mrs. Mary
Bopa was the victim of an accident
the other day that resulted in severe
shock to her nervous system In the
sudden adjournment Of meeting OF
the board of directors of the Indiana
Harbor State bank and q panic among
other bank officials, who thought some
new kind of robbery was being COM
mitfed.
Mrs. Bopa, who lives next door to
the bank. was hanging up her wash on
the roof of her home. The board Of
directors Of the bank were meeting I'm
an upper room under large skylight.
Mrs, Bopa. who weighs 235 pounds,
was hanging up garment. large in
size and plural in name, when she
tripped over the clothes basket and
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1912-11-22
FOR GROWING BETTER CROPS
ponds Upon Kind and Character
Which is to BE Raised.
(By D. c. LYoN.)

10y ~. y. L1ON.J
Allow me to answer the question
as to whether commercial fertilizers
must be used by saying that / will
answer 1t in the affirmative, excepting.
perhaps, In the case of the farmer
who carries on dairying to a consider.
cradle extent on purchased concen-
trate feeds, or the man who buys live
stock and fattens 1t out on purchased
grain.
Even in these cases the addition Of
SO much nitrogen manures to the soil
will put 1t out OF balance" and much
better crops could be made by the APP
plication of some phosphoric acid and
potash.
For the general farm where both
corn and wheat can be grown, and
where the land Is kept in pasture part
of the time, the four field, four year
rotation provides paying crop every
year, keeps the land covered with a
growing crop all the time, furnishes
humus to the soil and prevents soil
loss by washing or teaching.
The farm-made manure can be ap
piled during the winter on the land in
tended for corn and turned under, or
1t can be allowed to accumulate in
well-bedded box stalls and applied
after breaking, the latter plan being
| greatly in favor with those who have
adopted it
| No arbitrary plan can be laid down
as to the depth of breaking, but out
best authorities agree that moderate
depth is as well adapted to most crops
as deep breaking is. and takes less
labor.
For corn it is preferable to work the
fertilizer, at least 600 pounds per acre
of a Q, 6. s or per cent nitrogen, 6
per cent. phosphoric acid and 8 per
cent potash, into the soil before plant
ing. Some may ask why 2, s. 8 and
why not more nitrogen? To which
answer that the clover. timothy soil
turned under has provided this, and
the necessity of buying this high
priced element of plant food is gone
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1912-11-22

-Gentlemen,s he stated, with ad-
mirable lucidity, murder is where
man is murderously killed. The
killer in such case is murderer.
Now, murder by poison is just as
much murder as murder with gun.
pistol. or knife. It is the simple act
of numbering that constitutes murder
In the eye of the law. Don't let the
idea of murder and manslaughter con.
found you. Murder is one thing;
granddaughter is quite another. Con-
sequently, II there has been murder.
and 1t Ii not manslaughter. then 1t
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1912-11-22

must be murder Don't let this point
escape you.
''Self-murder has nothing to do with
this case. According to Blackstone
and other legal writer's, one man can
not commit fele-de-se upon another;
and this is my opinion.
Gentlemen, murder is murder. The
murder of brother is called fratricade:
the murder of father is called parri-
eide. but that don't enter into this
case. AS | have said before. murder
is emphatically murder.
You will consider your verdict
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1912-11-22
Deer HaIts FreIaht Train.

Newton. N. IA big deer. with
large antlers, swan the Delaware riy-
er near here and came up the embank-
ment Of the Lehigh Valley railroad
Just as a freight train was passing.
The engineer saw the animal and
stopped the train directly In its path.
Without hesitation the deer tried to
PASS under the cars, but came to
grief with its antlers in the brake
,ear. The trainmen liberated II after
/, quarter of an hours work.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1912-11-22
SURELY EASY TO UNDERSTAND
Remarkably Lucid Explanation Of
: Murder Which Judge 10 Said to
Have Made to Jury.

The average iuryman is not very
well versed in the fine distinctions of
the law. On those he needs instruc-
ion from the Judge. It must have
5een very obtuse juryman. how
yer. to whom the case was not per-
city clear after listening to the fol-
wing explanation by judge:
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1912-11-22
IEAllE4!N7lGl61@s
GNH tjI:f,fy|5E!
49, Of
TO MAKE GOOD WIRE JOINTS
Ohio Man invents Ingenious lmpie-
ment That Does the Work In Most
WorkmanlIke Fashion.

An ingenious implement for making
wire joints has been patented by an
Ohio man. With It's aid two pieces of
wire can be Joined so firmly that the
Joint is as strong as single wire and
Is made in most workmanlike fash
ion. The tool is in two parts, each
with hub section and handle. The
hub sections have laterally projecting
teeth and slots. through which the
free ends Of the wires enter. A piece
of wire is put into each of the slots
and the two sections placed together.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1912-11-22
THANKSGIVING
BY AMELIA E. BARR.


Have you cut the wheat in the blowing fields,
The barley, the OATS and the rye,
The golden and the pearly rice?
For the winter days nigh"
1--WE have reaped them all from shore to shore.
And the grain is safe the threshing floor
Have you gathered the berries from the vine.
And the fruit from the orchard trees?
The dew and the scent from the roses and thyme,
In the hive of the honey, bees?"
"The peach and the plum and the apple are ours
And the honeycomb from the scented flowers"
1.-THE wealth OF the snowy cotton field
And the gift of the sugar cane,
The savory herb and the nonrishing root
There has nothing been given in vain"
eve have gathered the harvest from shore to shore,
And the measure is full and brimming Ger
Then lift up the head with songl
And lift up the hand with gift!
To the ancient Gver of all
The spirit in gratitude lift.
For the Joy and the promise of spring,
For the hay and the clover sweet,
The barley the rye and the oats,
The rice and the corn and the wheat
The cotton and sugar and fruit.
The flowers and the fine honeycomb
The country SO fair and so free.
The blessings and glory of home.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1912-11-22
FalIures In Clover.

Frequent failures of clover may not
ha due SO much to poor soil or dry sea
sons as to the absence of the proper
tind of bacteria. Glover bacteria 90
NOT thrive on acid soils; the appiica'
ton OF ground limestone TO suen SOILS
and the introduction of few hundred
mounds of ground from clover held
NAV Quickly cure clover sick plot.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1912-11-22
NItrooen Of Hen Manure.

Hen manure unmixed with absorb
ents or chemicals suffers very rapid
loss of nitrogen. but this loss can be
effectively prevented by the free use
OF fine, dry loan, or the admixture
of such materials as KANT. acid phos
plate. muriate of potash or land
plaster, or a combination Of some Of
these,
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1912-11-22
Winter VEGETABLE Hoppers.

wall you will have to board up only
one side. The suspensions are nail
ed to the floor beams.
Apples, potatoes and onions can be
placed in the hoppers in the order
named. The hopper at the top will
be the warmest and the one nearest
the floor the coolest. You get the
vegetables by reaching through the
stairs.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1912-11-22
eiuInn Compliments.

Don't be afraid to give compll
ments overdelicacy in this respec
is a social handicap and cause c
much needless lack of popularit'
Learn the art of compliment givins
but be sure. too. that there is at lea
a grain of truth in every compliment
you pay.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1912-11-22
nastnr Attacked PIavera

Washington.-Rev. DR.. Samuel II.
Woodrow In an address here de-
Shared that the effect of moral plays
. spoiled because OF the character
If actors playing them, and attacked
he attire of women on The stage.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1912-11-22
KEEP VEGETABLES IN WINTER
May Be Saved by the construc-
tion OF Hopper Racks.

In storing your winter vegetables
considerable room can be saved by
making some hopper racks as shown
in the illustration under the cellar
stairs. II the stairs are against the
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1912-11-22

AS the tool Is worked backward and
forward the wires are wound around
each other and the curling teeth coil
them up neatly along their lengths
until both ends are wrapped and a
neat, strong joint is formed. 1t re-
quires only few minutes to accom-
plish this.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1912-11-22
Stop Weird Hair CUTTING.

Pittsburg.-Papas and mammas In
sewickley. fashionable church ask.
I'd the chief OF police to stop the
weird hair cutting, incident 10 the
iiazing of freshmen In the high school.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1912-11-22

gentlemen. and make up your minds
according to the law and the evidence
not forgetting the explanation have
given you"
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1912-11-22

THANKSGIVING day as it
is now celebrated is a
composite of the ancient
Harvest festival, whose
origins go back to the
dim. prehistoric begin
nings of civilization, and
of the solemn Puritan
religious ceremony of
thanksgiving. The Joy
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1912-11-22
The Check Rein.

A check rein is unnecessary cruel
ty. For the horse that occasions trou.
BILE by reaching down after grass or
corn try muzzle, but leave his head
free.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1912-11-22
.eunoherp Attached to sickle Bar.

small shocks with fork. making
them just large enough to be lifted
into the wagon as one forkful. This
does away with the shattering that
comes from tearing larger cocks to
pieces when loading.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1912-11-22
workIso the Farm

If a man owns a good farm and Is
not able to do the work on 1t he
should hire help.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1912-01-20

Mining location blanks for sale at the
SENTINEL office
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1912-01-20
New Forage Plant

A Spokane, Wash, dispatch
says that a new kind of clover,
said by those who have expert
me- d with it to produce many
to of food to the acre, has been
discovered. The plant is a native
of Tillamook County, Oregon, and
is called a perennial clover. 1t
is a species of the alsike with the
alsike values. 1t perpetuates
itself from node buds and bulbs
and has no bloom, flower, seed or
sex. 1t grows in Winter as well
as in Summer and frost does not
interfere with or stop its growth.
A sample of the clover was sent
to the Department of Agriculture
at Washington, d. c., and j. M.
Westgate, agronomist, writes that
it is one of the most interesting
specimens that has come to the
attention of the department.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1912-01-20
Some Common Errors

The fourteen mistakes of life,
as Judge Rentoul recently told
the Bartholomew Club of London,
are:
To expect to set up our own
standard of right and wrong and
expect everybody to conform to it.
To try to measure the enjoy
ments of others by our own.
To expect uniformity Of opinion
in this world.
To look for judgment and
experience in youth.
To endeavor to mold the dis
position of everybody alike.
Not to yield in unimportant
trifies.
To look for perfection in our
own actions.
To worry ourselves and others
about what cannot be remedied.
Not to alleviate if we can all
that needs alienation.
Not to make allowance for the
weaknesses of others.
To consider anything impos-
sible simply because we ourselves
happen to be unable to perform it.
To believe only what our finite
mind can grasp.
To live as if the moment, the
time, the day were so important
that it would live forever.
To estimate people by some
outside quality. for it is that
within which makes the man.
The Interior.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1912-01-20
Want Six Years for Congressman

Chicago, January 13.-Con-
gresham William Kent, of Cali
fornia, in speech before the
City Club last night advocated a
constitutional amendment making
the Congressional term of Office
six years, with the option of re-
call. "Under the present sys-
tem," he said, ga Congressman. if
he wants to remain in office, is
obliged to spend the greater part
of his time campaigning, and has
little or no time to devote to
statesmanship."
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1912-01-20
Nevada Irrigation Project

Glib Douglas; former Secretary
of the State of Nevada, is build
ing an electrical power plant on
Ophir Creek, near Carson, for the
purpose of generating power to
operate pumps on Washoe Lake,
These pumps will be used to
pump water from the lake to
irrigate ranch of several thous.
and acres Mr.. Douglas has taken
up on the lake shore.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1912-01-20
Land Valuations In. Nevada
Governor Odde Shows That by Adopting Scientific Tax
alton Few Would Escape Paying Their Just Pro-
portion of Taxes

ize the cash value of such alfalfa
land at 2 IL times the gross an
nual income, for example. We
would then have scientific basis
for determining valuations for
alfalfa land, and if applied in
every county in the State the re-
suits would be a uniform system
of appraisement. For example,
in a section of the State where
alfalfa normally sold for 81 per
ton on the farm. which would be
Division l, the gross annual in
come of Glass A, alfalfa lands,
producing five tons per acre
would be $35, which capitalized
ut two and one-half times that
would make the cash value of the
land $92.50 per acre; Glass B, A
tons per acre land, by the same
rule would be capitalized at $40
per acre, and Class @, 3 tons per
acre land, would be appraised at
$3.50 per acre. These would be
the cash valuations. If the basis
of valuation for assessment pur-
poses were 60 per cent of the
cash value, Glass A lands would
be assessed at $3.50 per acre
Glass b lands at s42 per acre and
Glass G lands at $3.50 per acre
in all sections of the State where
the 81 per ton price for alfalfa
hay prevailed, and proportionally
in different sections of the State
where a greater or less price pre-
vailed.
81 submit this rough statement
merely to show the necessity OF
devising some method of taxation
of lands before it is possible to
get any uniformity of assessment
throughout the counties and ad-
justing land valuations relatively
to the valuations of other kinds
of property for assessment pur-
poses. l am not contending that
under our present basis of taxa
ton alfalfa lands should be as
sessed as given, but present the
statement merely to show, in my
opinion, how we should 20 about
IT"
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1912-01-20

During session of the State
Board Of Assessors at Carson last
week, Governor Oddie made the
following statement when the val
uation of lands came up for settle
ment by the Board:
"Land is the most difficult kind
of property in the State on which
to establish the proper valuations
for assessment purposes. 1t has
been established very clearly by
the Investigations Of able scien-
tific economists that if the basis
of taxation in State is sixty per
cent of the cash value OF all its
assessable property-not 60 per
cent in theory but really 60 per
cent-then the valuation of rail-
road property can be readily de-
termined by capitalizing such
railroad ON the four per cent OF
its gross earning basis. This is
scientific taxation. The assess
ment is not arbitrarily levied and
there is no guess work about 1T.
Similar methods have been
worked out for the determination
of the value Of not only railroads
but express, telegraph and tele-
phone lines and public utilities,
manufactures and various kinds
of business enterprises, and in
States where such methods Of
scientific taxation obtains very
few escape paying about their
just proportion of taxes. Cali
fornia has recently adopted this
system and it has reached high
stage of perfection in Wisconsin
and certain other States.
"There is scientific way of
assessing improved farm land as
for example: Let US take alfalfa
land. Suppose we divide it into
three classifcations: Class A,
alfalfa lands producing annually
five tons or over per acre; Glass
B, alfalfa lands producing four
tons annually per acre and Class
@, alfalfa lands producing three
tons or less per acre per annum.
Let US geographically district the
State in three divisions, Division
l, where alfalfa normally sells for
81 per ton; Division 2, where
alfalfa normally sells for So per
ton and Division 3, where alfalfa
normally sells for 50 per ton or
over on the farm. Let us capital