The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1912-09-20

LHlHS WOFtH Willie. AtdSt yCdl diIoiio
sold for $3.50 per ton on the Twin
Falls tract. Thirty thousand tons
could not be sold at any price. saw
a man who saw quite lot of good
alfalfa go at $l-75 per ton. There is
something rotten i'll Denmark when
feed must go at loss like that. Some
body has not been using their brain.
The brain power it at low ebb. Your
Hired man was in Kansas years since
when the industrious farmer burned
elgant corn at night so his son could
keep warm while he got his geometry
lesson, ran. over. his history, figured
out how to reach that place in life
where he could make living without
working, and go his father one better
in everything. This sort of thing set
men to thinking. Their old dead.
grey matter got a hustle on itself. The
foment commenced to foment. Old
paralyzed blood pipes through the
brain commenced to gurgle and SIZE,
and directly the price of corn went up
never again to fall to the danger line
1t took a hard solar plexus blow over
McBurney's point. to open their brain
channels and it is going to take that
same upper cut to teach us anything
here in this state. We should have
Eve or six good big milk condensaries
scattered throughout the state and
bring in forty or fifty thousand good
cows and go to feeding this over-plus
of hay Its going to come, and we
ought to start these silent wheels in
the head to turning right now and not
wait until the time comes when we
start to writing back to our wife's
folks about how hard it is to make
living here in Idaho. Of course it is
hard to make living when we don't
think. Then too, it is poor business to
wait and let somebody else do our
thinking for us. The man who hooks
his nose into an alfalfa stack and never
thinks higher than its top, nor further
out sidewise than its sides, is going
to come up against. hard times every
once in while.
T. am told that good COW whose
product is turned into a condenser
from the milk pail, is worth $500 per
year to her owner and this makes alf-
alta hay bring the farmer 800 per ton
and gives him the fertilizer for his
land. If some batcheior girl in Idaho
would just get acquainted with some
fellow in the east who has a lot of
money and marry him, and bring him
out here and induce him to put in a
milk condenser factory near aldwell,
she will have done a beautiful piece
of work and one for which we would
all commend her and Drag about.
Ia lsf Eaf y d ~ %
Your Hired Man calls the attention
of the boys and girls to a neat and
scientific little piece Of insect work
that is going on everywhere about US.
Co fnd 2 path anywhere through the
weeds prsfelds where the earth has
been beaten down solid. Hunt along
this path a few rods, or even a few
yards, and you will find some small
round holes made therein. About
these holes you will see in intense op-
Grafton, small blue-black wasp, with
wings moving rapidly as the vibra-
tons on the big horn of a pipe organ.
You will find some of the wasps still
digging the hole, others will be coming
out and flying away, others will be
entering hastily without giving you
tllIlC " sec what tuCy SdIFy 1<OOh
closer and you will find that everyone
of the nervous and hot looking little
creatures are carrying some sort OF
another little creature, who has paid
the debt of life by having his life taken
by these butcher wasps. Keep on
watching, for directly you viii see a
queer performance. Here comes one
Of the risky little blue-black insects
batting the air like Don Quixote's
windmill. Its a Job l tell you The
green bug he is carrying is burden
Of no little consequence. He weighs
| about four times as much as his cap
tor. These, gren bugs must bea prize
morsel for you will find them being
brought in right along. Now the hole
in the ground has not been made large
enough for Mr.. bule-wasp to push hi!
green bug down. Somebody has made
sad mistake about that hole. Tn,
digger OF it either did not know how
big to make it or else the victorious
wasp caught bigger bug than wa
ordered. Now the work of enlarge
ment commences. The bug is droppet
near at hand and the way that frisk,
wasp makes the dirt fly is acautioh
All his feet, both his wings. his set o
feelers near his mouth, the digge
tooth and all are bought into'use Will,
the green, bug lies there in uncon
sciousness, for he has received a deel
puncher in tn back, just over hi
lungs. He. will die from his wount
and the wasp does not feel uneas.
about it, and so he digs and digs 70
about three minutes and 10 and be
hold, he takes a measurement and al
is we'll He some times takes two o
three measurements and there is NJ
| guesswork about these measurement
either, for he carries Mr.. Bug over t.
the hole and tries to push him down
Finally, down he goes and in tel
minutes out comes the cruel enemy O
bug life and away he starts so swift,
that you will miss his direction un
less you look. very close 1t is quite in
teresting and when you commence t.
study bugology you will learn wha
use is made of these bugs and wha
becomes OF these ,frisky little wasp
that work so hard at this time of tn
year to store'away an ink we'll full Q
this green bug meat before Jackfros