The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1914-04-16
IDAHO STATE news

contract Was awarded to M. G. Nease,
of Portland on February "a, for two
townships in Clearwater county.
4 A special meeting of the county
board was held to designate the timber
land TO be cruised. The cruise was to
have been completed in time to be
used for assessment purposes this sum
mer. The timber covers some of the
very finest timber in the county, ard
is owned by the Potlach Lumber COM
pany and Rupp e. Holland.
! Orofno To make room for a big
mill to be erected by the Clearwater
Timber company at Ahsahka, /. Han
son, a local contractor, has gone TO
that city to move l / houses from their
present sites to points on the other
side Of the track. Work on the con-
struction Of the mill will be begun as
soon as the site Is cleared. II is said
that q large crew of men will be given
employment from the start. There are
nine Indian houses, church and 10 or
IL barns TO be moved, giving the com
pany something like five acres.
Lewiston Captain Ralph Baugh-
man, Of the government boat Asotin,
has received orders TO bring the boat
TO Lewiston and tie up during the high
stage of water. the rise In the river
preventing effective work in the wing
dam construction at Dry Gulch, where
the boat has been working.
Work will be started in the Snake
river between Lewiston and Imnaha II
the water reaches the fve-foot stage.
Funds for the Improvement Of the
extreme upper river were obtained
through the efforts of the Lewiston.
Asotin and Charleston commercial bod
es after the feasibility Of navigating
the upper river with gasoline craft
was demonstrated by Captain McFar-
lane.
Moscow The storage egg, which is,
perhaps, the most friendless article of
diet on the American market, has
found loyal friend in Professor Prem
Moore. head Of the poultry department
at the University Of Idaho 1t is not
the storage egg most commonly seen,
but the one which is properly stored,
that he refuses to condemn.
Professor Moore's method of stor-
age, the water glass method, is not in
rs common use AS are some Of the
older and less successful methods of
egg preservation. Eggs packed In
water-glass, 10 parts water boiled and
then cooled, and one part water-glass,
says Professor Moore, will retain for
many months their natural appearance
and flavor.
Much Of the trouble with storage
eggs" says Professor Moore, "arises
from the fact that the eggs are stale
when packed. "
Moscow One of the greatest dan
gers confronting the poultrymen Of the
state is the malady of tuberculosis,
according to Professor Prem Moore, of
the department of poultry at the Uni
versity of Idaho. tuberculosis, says
Professor Moore, is rapidly gaining
foothold in many flocks and is destroy
ing more fowls than any other disease.
Many appeals from raisers have led
Mr.. Moore to investigate the disease.
One woman reported the loss Of 80
birds.
After an examination Professor
Moore has found that in scarcely any
cases have the lungs of the fowls been
affected but the disease has been con-
fined almost entirely to the intestines.
This, he says, is an indication that the
birds have contracted the disease, not
by breathing foul air, but by eating
food which they gather from the
ground on which tubercular cattle or
hogs have been kept.
Moscow-That the farmers in all
sections of the state are very ready to
adopt tried-and-true scientific methods
of farming, AS means of increasing
the profits on their lands, is evidenced
by the heavy demand for the nitrogen
gathering bacteria that is being manu-
featured In the laboratories of the de-
partment of bacteriology at the uni
versity. Within the past week or
two, orders for the product have been
coming In, not only from all sections
OF Idaho, but from Washington and
Oregon as well, and more than 300
bottles of the manufactured article
have already been shipped out. The
orders are increasing daily and are ex-
pected TO become heavier as the spring
crop planting season comes on.
The function of the product is to
form nodules in the on the roots of
leguminous plants. such as clover, al
falfa, peas and beans. by process of
seed incubation. through which the
plants can convert nitrogen from the
air into nitrate form as plant food.
In some sections Of the state the soil
in its natural condition produces the
root nodules without any artificial
treatment. In other sections, IL is
said. much Of the soil will, without
special treatment, produce but scant
yields. owing to the inability Of the
plants to gather sufficient quantity Of
nitrogen.
Extensive experiments with the
nodule-produeing product were con-
Quoted last year on the university
farm and very gratifying results were
obtained. 1t was found that by inocu-
lating the seed of Canada field peas
the yield could be almost doubled.
Practically the same results We're OBJ
tanned with beans. alfalfa and clover.
The product is shipped from the uni
versity laboratory in four-ounce bot
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