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The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-03-19
PAY YOUR TAXES
1910 Tax Must Be Paid by July
Or You Lose the Land.

1t is reported from the county audi
tors office, that several of the Richfield
tract land owners who had refused to
pay their land tax on the ground that it
was unconstitutional, have finally paid
up in full, with all the penalties, rather
than to risk the sale of the land this
summer when the taxes come to the
sale point. Unpaid taxes of 1910, will
call for the issuance of tax deed in
July, and the land is absolutely ire
deemable; if you have neglected to pay
the 1910 tax by that time, four years
from the date of the first delinquency,
there is no possible legal authority for
the county to accept your money and
sell the property back to you.
All taxes that go past the first OF
July of the fourth year after their as
sessment, will be acted upon under the
new law; and the properly must be sold
to the county, without redemption. The
1911 taxes will call for the sale in 1915;
for 1912, in 1916; and SO forth. Mean
time, all the penalties for non-p2yment
are enforcible.
1t will not pay to put off the evil day
of tax-payng, though it is always pos
sible to pay under protest and to save
ones rights if the tax law should be
held unconstitutional The penalties
run against you if you neglect it.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-03-19

The Recorder editor was one of a
party, including w. T.. Dougherty, A..
L. Davidson, Prof. Reinhart and Dairy
man Carl Johnson, to visit the Dough-
erty and Weatherwax- Davidson Berk-
shire farms last Friday.
Some weeks ago, the Recorder editor
visited the Dougherty farm, and made
an extended notice of what was there
to see. The farm is in better condition
than it was then; the hogs are larger,
a number of dairy cows have been
brought in, a good house built, and
there is every evidence that it is going
to make fine breeding farm. Some of
the Berkshire hogs are making especi-
ally good records in the way of growth.
If there are not some prize winners in
the bunch, there is nothing in feed, or
care. or breeding.
The Weatherwax Davidson farm
north of town is the pioneer Berkshire
farm on the Richfield tract. Mr.
Weatherwax began to buy Barkshires
two years ago, and 1t proved so fasci-
mating and apparently so profitable
business that he has since gone into it
more extensively, with the Richfeld
Berkshire Breeders Associition.
The hog house is really big affair.
1t is built of lava rock, and is 30x70 feet
in size There are two rows of pens,
one on either side the full length of the
place, and 10-foot drive way between
them for the full distance. For the
winter, however, they are all thrown
together by removing the partisions,
from all but few of the pens. There
are about 100 pigs of all sizes, from the
little fellows dating from last October,
up to mature animals two wears old.
The little ones came through the winter
very we'll indeed, because of having
such warm, dry quarters, and good
feed.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-03-19

Naturally.
When a grass widow attends hop,
of course she is a neutrality-suspicious.
da Times-U Union.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-03-19
PROFIT SHARING
Gem State Lumber Co. Starts a
New Policy for Employees.

Mr.. Van Gossett returned Monday
from the annual meeting of yard man
ayers of the Gem State Lumber Co.,
which conyened at the general Offices
of the company in Pocatello on Friday
and Saturday of last week The man
ayers of all the company's twenty-seven
yards were in attendance.
The business sessions were held in
the rooms of the Commercial Club, and
on Saturday evening a banquet was
given the visitors in the spacious din
ing hall of the Club. In the great
evolution of modern business methods,
it is evident the Gem State Lumber
Company is plotting the way in its
chosen field, the merchandising of lum
ber In the establishing of personal
ity, so to speak. it was announced that
beginning at once, the profit sharing
plan would be put in force, all employ
ees becoming partners and participat-
ing according to term of service. Mr..
Geo. E. Merrill, president, announced
that this personality was to extend lit
orally lover the counter" and that
many innovations were being planned
to bring the buyer and seller together,
and to make more understandable the
requirements of the one and the SER
vices of the other, in fact change fgur-
atively the word corporation" to ''co-
operation He said to accomplish this
the yard managers must be part and
parcel of the business that the business
might become part and parcel of the
community. To this end at the close of
the meeting an advisory board consist
ing of four managers from separate
sections were chosen. This consulting
board will, in conjunction with the gen.
eral officials, confer on ways and means
to bring about better and clearer
comprehension of the problems con-
fronting both the buyer and the seller
in southern Idaho. To accomplish this
result John V. Dawson, General Man
ager,l Lewis Petit, Asst. General Man
ager. George Ridgeway, Treasurer, E.
G. Reed, Asst. Treasurer, and w. A.
Ducker. Auditor, are all Idaho men who
have had a share in the pioneer work
of their respective Communities, and in
conjunction with yard managers. will
seek to bring about and cement closer
relations between the dealer-on- the
ground and the man on the land, wheth-
er in the country or town.
Mr.. Gossett returns highly pleased
with the results of the meening, and
feels that new order of things will
soon dawn in the lumber business as
result of this advanced move on the
part of his people.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-03-19
Plant A Little Patch of Corn
Frost Records Show Long Enough Frostless Season to
Grow Good Corn, and Practical Experience Shows
That 1t Is A Real Richield Money Maker

Richfeld could grow pretty good corn,
almost any average year; and corn
would gladden. the heart of so many
farmers who long for sight of the
long rows of waving green. and would
also fill so many purses that are now
fiat and fiabby, that little time and
thought spent in discussing the corn
situation would seem to be most profit
able.
l.. c. Walker last week finished max
ing out the report of the local weather
bureau for the past four years. The
local observatory was established four
years ago, the middle of February. He
finds that in 1910, there was 80 days
without frost, from June until Aug-
ust 80. In 1911, there was "a days,
from June 5 until September 7. In 1912,
no frost appeared from June 5 until
August 30, Sc days. Last year there
was a good deal longer frostless time;
from May 2 until September "a, l45
days. This last statement will doubt
less be questioned by some who lived
up on the butte, or even little higher
than Richfeld; for there was a frost,
which was freeze up on Camas Prairie,
about the first of August. But it did
not show in the thermometer here in
town, and done little damage in Rich
field, if indeed it showed at all.
An average frostless season of only
about 80 days, is not long enough for
maturing the big dent corn raised back
east on the river bottoms. But some
of the early dents, and the flint corns,
can be matured, or nearly so, in the
time of the average season in this sec
ton. And there is nothing like corn for
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-03-19

good feed. Cut up for fodder, or better
yet put into silos. it is the stock feed
par excellence. With we'll cured alfalfa,
and few roots such as carrots or beets,
corn would make diet for cows that
would soon make this the premier dairy
country of the world. To let the corn
stand as long as seemed reasonably safe,
so as to develop the ears as much as
possible, and then rush it into a silo,
one would have the most wonderful
stock food.
Last season, R. D. Addison had an
acre of corn north of town, from which
he feed two pigs that weighed 258
pounds apiece at six months of age;
They were fed from the corn field, from
the corn field, from the very earliest
date that the corn stalks could be fed;
and were fattened exclusively on green
corn and skim milk. Doubtless the milk
helped lot---but no one will believe
that any other feed raised here will
give hogs so good start. or finish, as
corn. The carcaSSeS Oh the animals
after butcheripg were most surprising
commentary on the value of corn as a
fattening feed. The meat was firm,
and the fat was white and firm as it
never is or was or will be with wheat
or barley feed This was the only ex-
pertinent in exclusive corn feeding, ever
carried on here.
While no one could count on corn as
an exclusive crop for this altitude, it
would be fine auxiliary feed, and if it
were cared for in the shape of ensilage,
it should be as profitable as alfalfa; and
as change feed should be better than
that much alfalfa, for almost any kind
of stock.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-03-19
Prosperity on Berkshire Farms
Two of the Big Berkshire Farms of Richfed and How
Their BIooded Stock Is Cared For---It Pays Well
To Have Stock Kept Warm and Dry

Mr.. Weatherwax consulted the wealth
er bureaus sun tables when he built
his hog house, so as to get the proper
location of the sun so as to shine into
the pens during the spring time, when
the little pigs are expected. There will
be a window to let the sun shine direct
ly inte every one of the "a pens, and to
flood the pen with light and heat during
the day. Later in the summer, the in
clination of the windows will not be
correct to heat the pens--but then the
pigs will be frisking around out doors,
living in the little individual hog houses
that are to shelter each mother and her
little ones. The pig house is for the
winter and early spring only.
1t is meant as an unqualified testi-
monial to the excellent breeding of the
Berkshires on the place, to say that
they look almost like Dachshunds or
some form of serpent, they are so long
and round. Length and strength and
quality, and not height, has been the
objective point; and the percentage of
hams and bacon carried by animals OF
this breeding, would astonish one accus-
toned to the compact lard breeds of
hogs as grown in the corn-belt states.
There are number of animals, both of
the big shipment that came out from
Illinois last fall and of the stock that
came from Washington year before,
that should show up finely against any
kind of competition in the show ring.
1t is the intention of the local Breed
ers' Association, to pick out good lot
of their best stock to be prepared for
the fairs this fall, and to secure some
one who makes it business to condition
show stock. There is not doubt that
Richfield can win practically clean
sweep in the Berkshire and THE sweep
stakes classes in the state fair and es
tablish a record for well-bred stock
that will make the community famous.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-03-19
INFANTS IN SCHOOL
Is 1t Better to Wait Until They
Are Ten Years Old?

Ella Francis Lynch, the well-known
educator and Investigator, in the first of
a series of articles, in the March
Pictorial Review, ask, the question:
why send child to school at six
years-much less at four or fiye?"
TIL she goes on to say:
Theoretically child is supposed to
enter school at six, because it is sup
posed to take him eight years at five
hours day to prepare for High School
which is at present the end of the ele-
mentary schools. Probably it will take
him eight years if he begins at six with
seventy other children. But it has
been conlusively proved that if classes
are small enough so that a teacher can
reach her individual pupils, four years
of schooling begun at ten years of age,
will result in pupils even better pre-
pared for high school than those who
begin at sixl This is because the ten
year-old brings to his studies more
mature mind, and can master in few
months work that would take year be-
ginning at six. And bear in mind that
the six -year-old spends five honrs day
in school-not necessarily in learning.
In nearly all the schools the size of the
lower grade makes it necessary for the
teacher to give out an endless variety
of so-called ''busy work. - This means
spelling to be copied again and again,
copies of number work. to be fol
lowed until both sides of the slate are
full" In this way, the teacher is en-
abled to attend to the needs of small
group at time, the only way she re-
ally can teach anything to young chill
dren. The other children are in school
but not learning. So the public school
wastes not only time, but the energy
of the children its care, turning their
efforts into mere mechanical repetition
until the brain is weary and stupefied.
Could anything be less educational?
1t is a severe arrangement that
make, that the public school stupidity
and wantonly wastes public funds, hu-
man initiative and human energy and
stultifes instead of stimulating sffici-
ency. But in this arraignment do not
stand alone. DR.. Elliott says:
''The practice of England and Amer
lea is literally centuries behind the pre-
cept of the best thinkers upon educa-
ton. Is it not humiliating that an
American is forced to make such an ad
mission concerning our most vital Am
erican institution?
What can be done? How can this
wasteful school system be speedily
remedied so that it fills its real function
and sends out into the world, boys and
girls developed according to their indi-
vidual talents as far as those talents
permit? it is big question, but in my
next article propose to outline ra-
tional, practical system of public edu
cation which will serve those ends. =
Pictorial Review.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-03-19
Make Richfield Cleanest Town
Now Is the Most Effective Time to Swat the Fly and
to Avoid All Kinds of Infection by Destroying the
Breeding Places of Insects and Disease

this one seed this season.
Destroy their breeding places---every
sour, foul, rotting corner, and they'll
die off even without swatting; and there
will be no million little flies to follow
them.
The common fly use to be called
merely the "house fly, and was con-
sidered only nuisance. Now it is
proven to be the typhoid fly which
makes and spreads disease; and the
manure fly" for it lives and thriyes
on unmentionable refuse. Don't let him
stay He's the pledge of uncleanliness,
filth, disease and death.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-03-19

the farmer remarked, zone is led to
think that the bankers of the country
have unanimously concluded that they
know their owa business so thor
oughly that their elevating educa-
tional instincts can get opportunity
for expression only by doing mission
ary work among us iowly farmers and
elevating this ignorant class to their
own high plane of intelligence"
Worst Banking for Farmers.
We have been going through Eur
ope accompanied by agricultural ex'
perts. We have talked with leaders
in agriculture in several countries.
We have read bulletins and books ga
lore on agricultural methods abroad.
We consulted government specialists.
We have seen and heard and studied
about all the most scientific up-to-
date farming methods. But neither
the experts with us nor we ourselves
have been able to recall single idea
on agricultural production that is not
being more or less widely worked out
in America by these lowly farmers
whom the bankers are so benevolent
ly and condescendingly instructing.
On the other hand so far as we can
discover the United States is the only
country in the civilized world where
banking methods have not been in
CONTINUED on page 81
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-03-19

Clean up.
Gather everything that is loose, and
haul it away or burn it.
Make Richfield the cleanest, health
lest town in Idaho.
The state sanitary inspector who was
here two weeks ago, said that Richfield
was almost the model town in its clean
illness.
Help to prove it.
Swat the early fly.
Buy a dozen fy-swatters and keep one
always at hand.
One big fly killed now, will mean de-
stroy a million that would grow from
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-03-19

At Pocatello, it was intended to
show the pictures for one week only,
but so nsistent was the demand of the
public that they were left for two
weeks, and even after they were being
packed, eager crowds came hoping to
see them again. Communicated.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-03-19

J, L. Jamison returned Saturday
from brief business trip to HALEY.
L. C. Walker left Sunday for Diet
rich, to be there for week on irriga~
tion company business.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1914-10-27
SICKENED BY CALOMEL

II you ever saw any one made sick
by calomel you won't want any
more calomel yourself. There's no
real reason why person should
take calomel anyway, when fifty
cents will buy large bottle of Dod-
sons Liver Tone-a good remedy
that perfectly and safely takes the
place of dangerous calomel, which
is only another form of deadly and
poisonous mercury.
Dodson's Liver Tone is pleasant
tasting vegetable liquid which will
star, the liver just as surely as cal
omel, and which has absolutely no
bad after-effects.
Children and grown people can
take Dodson's Liver Tone without
any restriction of habit or diet :.
Lake Pharmacy sells it and guaran-
tees it to take the place of calomel
and will refund your money at once
il it fails in your ease.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1914-10-27
THE VETERANS ARE COMING IN

Some of the veterans came in to-
day and there will be opening ex-
ercises tonight, but not until tomor-
row when the bulk of the visitors
will be present will the reunion
proper begin. The Telegram bids
all the arrivals today cordial well
come to the hearts and homes of our
people, and in tomorrow's issue we
will have more elaborate greeting
for the old soldiers who honor our
city with their presence.
We are prepared to entertain
them all, not only the veterans, but
their friends and families, and the
more girls that come with them the
better; for it is now understood by
force of long custom that at all Con-
federate reunions the bright-eyed,
soft-voiced daughters AMI grand
daughters and kinswomen generally
Of the old boys who wore the gray
are relied on to give the color and
charm of youth and grace ard beauty
needed to contrast with the somber
hues of age and the grim memories
of war. The Tampa Tribune is
right when it says:
Lakeland is host to the Confed-
crate Veterans Of the State, begin
ming today. Homes have been OPP
ened to the old soldiers and real hos
pitality will prevail throughout the
reunion. A veterans reunion these
days is by no means confined to vet
erans-in fact, the guests Of honor
form but a small percentage Of the
visiting crowds. Therefore, q re-
union city must needs prepare varied
entertainment to suit the young as
we'll as the old. Lakeland has not
been remiss in this particular and
those who visit the city during the
reunion period may expect q most
enjoyable experience.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1914-10-27
$4,000 Needed
With Which To
Combat Canker

The citrus growers and others in
terested met at the City Hall yester-
day to hear Lloyd S. Tenney on the
subject of citrus canker, which has
been considerably agitating the state
for some time past.
Mr.. Tenney had samples of dis
eased fruit in alcohol which he ex-
hibitcd to those present, hardly any
of whom had ever seen it. He ex-
planned the early methods used In
fighting the disease which they had
learned from bitter experience were
all wrong, for the disease is so malig-
nant, so infectious, that the very in
spection of the groves and the at
tempted treatment by spraying had
done much more harm than good by
spreading the infection. Now the
inspectors never touch a piece of
fruit or even a leaf in any grove,
whether it be a suspected grove or
not. The inspectors, who have been
thoroughly trained for the work,
use special clothing and as soon as
|infection is found they at once leave
the grove, after marking the trees,
change their clothing on leaving the
infected grove, which is then turned
over to the fire-fighting gang who go
in and thoroughly destroy by burn
ing all trees infected. The grove is
then inspected weekly and the same
process repeated until the disease
has been stamped out. Out of 107
groves treated in this manner in
Dade county, only 10 now show in
lection.
Mr.. Tenny stated that it was i'm
operative to use the most strenuous
methods and follow up the fight now
or the ultimate loss would be most
serious one to the entire State. He
was assured that if they could keep
up the fight for the next ten months
in the way they were now engaged,
and with the financial assistance
which had been given and promised,
the disease could and would be prac-
tically stamped out, though it would
be necessary to keep a strict watch
for its possible temperance at any
time. He stated that the expense
Of carrying on this work would
amount to not less than $4,000 "a
month for the next ten months and
said Polk county had done nobly in
being about the first to respond with
financial assistance and believed that
the growers and others interested in
this county would do all in their
power to help sustain the fight j..
Growers are asked to contribute
fifty cents per acre to the fund and
those belonging to the Association
or shipping through Chase & Co..
Shrader & Co. or Crutchfield & Co.
would pay their assessments in the
same way as other handling charges
while Independent shippers should
send their assessments in to the
FLORIDA Growers and Shippers
League on a basis Of fifty cents pei
acre Of bearing grove.
Quite a number Joined the League
yesterday and those interested car
get further information from G. E
Google and ]. F. Crutchfield.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1914-10-27
GIVE THE STATE A CHANCE

The recent pardon of Tampa
murderer who had served but few
years of life sentence moves the
Tampa Tribune to indignant protest.
We remember we'll when The crime
was committed and it seemed to be
about as cruel and inexcusable a
butchery as even a breech-clouted
savage would commit. That such
an offender should again be turned
loose upon civilized people can only
be explained on the theory that the
board of pardons Had no full Or &C.
curate knowledge of the nature of
the crime and was misled by the
number of signatures to the petit
ton asking for clemency.
This petition business is an awful
humbug in many instances and in
some menace and a calamity to Or
ganized society. 1t either ought to
be abolished or reformed, for it too
often makes weak, sympathetic,
spineless monkey of the law when it
should be stern, rigid and unyield-
ing-a terror to criminals and an
ark of safety for law-abiding peo-
pie. The board of pardons is hu-
man, and when it Is overwhelmed
by petitions signed by respectable,
iaw-abiding citizens. including the
jury that convicted, asking the par
don of convict, it is very likely to
yield in the absence of any repre-
sentative of the State informed of
the full facts in the case and
charged with the duty of presenting
them to the board.
There should be such q represen-
tative in every instance, for the
board sits almost as court of ap-
peal and revision and it is mani
testify unfair that only one side of
the case should be presented. We
are not criticising the board of par
dons in this case, for its action was
to be expected under the circum-
stances, but We express a common
opinion that petitions in such cases
should not be signed without inves-
tigation or merely to please some
one, and that the State should be
heard in every instance before the
board acts.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1914-10-27

The record Of the Congress just
adjourned is good enough platform
for the Democratic party to go be-
fore the people of the United States
on and confidently ask a vote of
confidence. Every promise, big and
little, was redeemed and well done,
good and faithful servants" can be
truthfully said of the best construc-
tive Congress since the Civil war.