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PLANTS TIDE OVER DROUGHT
Term Drought Resistant" Somewhat
OF Misnomer-Methods Of Evasion
Differ With Species.

tBy s. b. NUSKOLS. Colorado Agricul-
tural College)
The term drought resistant" Is
somewhat of a misnomer. Plants do
not resist drought but are able to tide
over period OF drought. That is
they endure the drought period, then
grow again when favorable conditions
occur. All plants wilt at the same
time in dry soil although some do not
snow 1t as clearly as others One
KIND OF crop can take very little more
moisture from the soil than another
crop can. If corn willis in a certain
SOIL when there Is but 10 per cent
remaining moisture. wheat, oats or
cactus or other plants will wilt at
about the same time In the same soil.
by willing it is meant when a plant
VIII not regain its turgidity when
placed in a moist atmosphere with no
water added to the roots. II water
is added to the soil at this time the
plants will often recover. Some plants
are more able to revive after being
wilted than others.
AoASo CNduC 0lOu6ht III va -
ways. One is to control Transportation
by rolling in the leaf edge, or heavy
covering of leaves or few stomata
or stamata in deep pits. Another Is
dwarf habits Of growth, thereby need
ing little water for growth. Another
is early spring growth and quick ma
turity and ripening before drought sea
son begins. Another is especially
adapted root systems for storing wa
ter or obtaining 1t. Deep roots or
shallow roots, according to type OF
rainfall. Where most of rainfall is
in light showers falling irregularly
throughout the season, plant with
very shallow roots has the advan-
tage.
In most dry regions you will find
different plants, each Of which Illus
trates one OF the above methods OF
drought evasion.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1914-12-25
TrIfiino Mistake.

Mrs. Lane is a jealous and loyal
wife, according to Harper's Magazine,
and intends to avoid exaggeration, but
she has a strong tendency in that di
rection.
1t is perfectly wonderful" she said
TO patient friend, ito see the way
Mr. Lane counts bills at the bank
] think they are so lucky to have him.
He'll take a great pile of five and ten
and twenty dollar bills and make his
fingers fly just like lightning, and
never make a mistake!"
Never" asked the friend, who
knew Mrs. Lanes weakness, and
could not forbear the question.
"Well-no-at least" stammered
Mrs. Lane, why, perhaps he might
get five or ten cents out of the way,
but not any more, ever"
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1914-12-25
CAUSE OF ALFALFA FAILURES
Expert Of Wisconsin Experiment Sta
ton Tells Why Some Farmers
Are Unsuccessful.

Wherever alfalfa is tried for the
with the habits and culture of this
premier forage plant much grumbling
and complaint is apt to be voiced be-
cause of poor, uneven stand, weak
plants OF weed choked growth.
The plant itself is hardly to blame
If 1t fails to do it's best under adverse
conditions, yet few OF use who possess
unsatisfactory stands realize this, and
more likely will say in no uncertain
terms that alfalfa is not adapted to
Wisconsin conditions"
Ten reasons are given in letter
which L. F. Graber secretary of the
alfalfa order of the Wisconsin State
Experiment association, is sending to
farmers who have sown alfalfa this
year. In brief the reasons are:
/, sour land; 2, weeds; 8. lack of
incubation; 4, fiat and poorly drained
land; 5, wrong time of sowing; 6,
poorly prepared seed bed; Z, too heavy
nurse crop; 8, cutting too late in the
fall; 9, late pasturing; 10, low soil fer
tility.
With each letter Mr.. GRADER has
inclosed a piece of blue litmus paper
with which tests for soil acidity may
be made. For particulars in regard to
this method of testing and the amount
and kind of lime to use as a corrective,
the farmer is referred to Bulletin 230,
Soil Acidity and Lining" issued by
the Wisconsin agricultural experiment
station, Madison.
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DOCTOR KNEW
Had Tried II Himself.

The doctor who has tried Postum
knows that it is an easy. certain, and
pleasant way out of the coffee habit
and all of the ails following and he
prescribes 1t for his patients as did q
physician Of Prospertown, N. ].
One of his patients says:
During the summer just past / suf-
fered terribly with e. heavy feeling at
the pit of my stomach and dizzy feel
ings in my head and then blindness
would come over my eyes SO l would
have to sit down. / would get so nerv-
GUS | could hardly control my feelings.
Finally l spoke to our family physt
clan about it and he asked If | drank
much coffee and mother told him that
drinking coffee and drink Postum in
its place, as he and his family had
used Postum and found it a powerful
rebuilder and delicious food-drink.
Il hesitated for a time, disliking the
idea Of having to give up my coffee, but
finally | got package and found it to
be all the doctor said
Since drinking Postum in place of
coffee my dizziness, blindness and
nervousness are all gone, my bowels
are regular and | am we'll and strong.
That is a short statement of what
Postum has done for me-"
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read The Road to Well
ville." in pkgs.
Postum comes In two forms:
Regular Postum = must be we'll
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| Instant Postum--is a soluble pow
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In a cup Of hot water and, with cream
and sugar. makes a delicious bever.
! age Instantly. zoe and SOC tins.
The cost per cup of both kinds Is
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There's a Reason" for Postum.
sold by Grocers
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about thirty feet wide, paved through
out with slabs of stone, there being
no distinction between roadway and
sidewalk. A store here and there en-.
croaches on the street, which gives
one the impression. when walking
along it for the first time, that this
must be blind alley. On coming to
the supposed terminus, however. one
nnds there is way round and that
the street meanders on.
The peasant population of the is
lands is extremely interesting. The
male portion is mostly devoted to fish
ing and pony rearing. The female ele.
ment stays at home, cures the fish,
and, when that is done, carries peat
which is the only fuel used, in "creels,"
slung on the back. While walking
outside the town you see regular pro
cession of women coming and going.
somewhat like ants moving their eggs.
They are all knitting as hard as they
can, never looking at their work The
finished portion of the shawl is wound
round their waist, leaving just enough
free to work with. These are eventu.
ally taken to the stores and exchanged
for the necessities of life. Barter is
the usual mode OF business among
the poorer class. These people wear
an extraordinary kind of shoe which
piece of untanned cowhide, the hairy
side being outermost. | believe these
rivelins are quite peculiar to the Shet.
lands.
The ponies are seen roaming about
the hillsides quite uncared for, and
seemingly wild, although they belong
to the peasantry; these ponies, Of
course, are the larger and less expen
sive variety.
Island Without Trees.
There is one distinctive popularity
OF all these islands and that is, that
there are absolutely no trees of any
description growing. The inhabitants
aver that they would spoil the view.
l took a small boat-which plies as
| often as required-across the harbor
to Bressay, and by the courtesy of the
proprietor looked over the pony farm.
There were ponies of all ages and
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black names. Their temper is by some
called playful, but vindictive would be
more applicable. While walking along
one o. the roads near Lerwick l had
to run to shelter, as one of these
charming animals made a dead set at
me with ears back and teeth showing.
l was informed thai chat is their usual
reception of a stranger. They are
owned by nearly everyone on the main
land, and act as draft horses, being
particularly strong. AS rule they are
unshod.
To get to this interesting series of
islands took boat from Limehouse
dock, London, and in SO hours arrived
in Aberdeen. From thence / went by
another steamer for 1o hours to Ler-
wick, the capital of the Shetlands. Be
travellers who wish to enjoy magnil-
cent rock scenery have enough and to
spare, for on sighting Sumburgh head,
the most southerly point of the main
land, the eyes are literally fascinated
by that headland surmounted by a
magnificent lighthouse. The steamer
follows this peninsula the whole way
uD-a distance of some thirty miles.
Each mile presents new and delight
IL, rock scenes unsurpassed on that
southern coast.
In lerwick Harbor.
Eventually l arrived in Lerwick har-
Dor, which, by the way, is one of the
best natural harbors in the United
Kingdom. 1t is protected at its outlet
by the Island Bressay, six miles in
length, which is the one already men
Toned IS the center of the pony in
dustry. This harbor is capable of
sheltering the entire British fleet, and
is used by the admiralty as a base dur
ing the -laneuvers.
Lerwick is a quaint town, nesting
as it does round the harbor, with a
background of heather-covered hills.
The town - some three hundred years
old. but contains few of the old horses,
although the principal street-Com-
mercial -treet-is a remnant of the
old order of things, inasmuch as 1t is
merely an trregularly winding alley.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1914-12-25
BENEFITS OF FALL FLOWING
BY Loosening Up Soil, Water Can Get
Into 1t More Easily-Piow When
the Soil Is Moist.

By w. C. PALMER. North Dakota Ex-
pertinent Station)
Flowing is the most common work
on the farm, and it is also the most
important. If the blowing is not done
right no amount Of work with any
other tool can make it right
Flowing loosens up the soil and
turns new portions of it up to be
acted on by the elements so that the
plant food that it contains can be
made available. In loosening up the
soil the water can get into 1t more
easily and more OF 1t will get in In
a given time. In case Of a heavy
rain, for instance, much more OF 1t
will soak into a deeply plowed soil
other day the writer was in portion
of the state where the crops were suf-
fering for lack of moisture, yet a few
days before a heavy rain had fallen.
The blowing being shallow 1t could
not soak in quick enough, so most OF
it flowed off from the land and into
the gullies.
The land should be plowed when the
soil is moist. II it is dry the pulver-
izing action of the pillow is largely
lost. When the good housewife makes
bread she does not work the -four
After she has added the water and
the yeast she kneads the dough. Plow-
ing the soil when dry would be good
deal like kneading the flour instead of
the dough. The best time to pillow is
in the fall, and early at that, as this
will give some of the effect of the
summer fallow. In case the soil is
dry in the fall and moist in the spring
better results may come from the
spring blowing.
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Activities of Women.

Philadelphia haN five woman factory
inspectors.
Woman farm laborers in England
number nearly one hundred thousand.
Over five thousand women are en-
gagged in industry in Italy.
Over six thousand women in New
York are employed as tailQresses,
Canada has an active rifle associa'
ton composed Of women.
There are over three million widows
In the United States and there is no
estimate as to how many there will
be in Europe after the war, but 1t
will probably be twice as many as we
have.
In Java. when a man mari YES he
goes to his wife's house, where the
women sit in council upon all matters
of Importance and dictate the affairs
of the home.
Widows of soldiers killed in the
service of the British army will re-
ceive a pension of from five to ten
shillings a week, depending upon the
rank OF her husband.
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sizes, the smallest being the size of a
large st. Bernard dog. and the foals
were reminiscent of chamois. While
on Bressay l also walked to the Ork-
neyman's cave, which is situated at
the extreme end of the island, with
the Giants leg to guard the entrance
"a small yacht can easily sail be-
tween rocks.
Besides Lerwick, the capital, there
Is only one other town of any size, that
being Scalloway. 1t is seven miles
from Lerwick across the peninsula and
was the harbor town of Tingwall, the
old capital of the islands. 1t boasts a
castle which was built in 1910 and in
habitated by Patrick Stewart, then
governor of the islands. He was a
particularly brutal and inhuman man,
for there still remains a ring on one
OF the walls, through which rope was
run, to which he hanged great num-
Der of the inhabitants for very trivial
offenses, or none at all sometimes, so
the legend goes, other than refusing
to pay him unlawful tribute. These
executions were of daily occurrence,
and matters came to such pitch that
petitions were sent to parliament,
which caused him to be called to
Edinburgh, where an inquiry was held.
Ultimately he was hanged.
His memory was so odious that the
people destroyed the castle, and now
all that remains are the four walls and
the keep.
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HE best and most aristocratic
families In London and New
York have suddenly revived
the old fashion of training
their children on Shetland po-
MES, writes A. Elmslie Crabbe, in the
Philadelphia Record The shipment of
these sturdy little animals for America
is going up by leaps and bounds, and
wherever you go amongst the smart
set in England you wi now SO these
handsome little beasts carrying the
children Of the househol.. In fact, II
you really want to be IN the newest
fashion and to give children the time
OF their lives yo4 must have string
Of Shetland ponies in your stables.
Experts say Shetlands teach children
self-reliance and. domination and set
of the natural beauties of the girls as
they canter through the parks like no
other ponies on earth.
Shetland ponies, Of course, are to
some people merely . general name
for small type Of pony, but this is a
mistake. These small animals are bred
with as much care in the Shetland
islands as pheasants are bred and
reared in cover in England and other
sporting countrie5.
The Shetland islands themselves are
composed of some thirty or lorty
small islands and three or four larger
ones. The largest, called the Main
land" is bleak, billy island starting
at the peninsula With Sumburgh Head
as its commencement and ending at
INST, a whale fishers port, the first
they touch on British soil.
Oppositc Lerwick, the capital of the
island lies Bressay, one of the larger
island, and the center of the pony.
breeding Industry. Here they are
reared and eventually exported to the
United States Ind to Scotland, Eng
land and other countries as required
A small, pure-br' specimen is some
what valua BILE, fetching at the farm
$500 CT $3.50. Larger ones are less
costly and only make about $25.
Ponies Dislike Strangers.
These animals are usually darl
brown, shaggy little beasts with long
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1914-12-25
PROPER CREDIT FOR GRANDPA
Happy Sather Wanted Generous Con-
tribution Entered Under the
Proper Heading.

When Mr. Otis returned from the
office one >fternoon, he was met at the
door by his wife. who cried, excitedly:
"Oh. Herbert. love, received love
iy letter from father today"
Yes, my dear?" queried he.
Yes, dearest" repeated Mrs. Otis,
enthusiastically, "he congratulates
is on the birth Of our baby"
fThat's good" was the reply.
Yes" went on Mrs. Otis, land he
says it will cost 10 more to live now
that babies are expensive"
Il suppose that Us true, dear" as
scented the husband
And. Herbert, just think" said the
wife, joyfully. father has sent us a
check for $1,000. Isn't that just lovely
Of him."
Il should say 1t was!" said Otis. 'I1l
sit right down, dear. and thank him
for his generous contribution to the
Fresh Heir fund"
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1914-12-25
RESIN0L HEALS RAW,
ITCHING, SCAEY SKINS

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useless treatments.
Resinol Ointment and Resinol Soap
clear away pimples, blackheads. and
dandruff. Prescribed by doctors for
10 years and sold by all druggists
Adv