The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-04-17
Historical Facts

Kansas produced more wheat II
1914 than Canada, Argentina, or Aus
tralia.
Wheat came through the winter In
splendid shape almost all over the
United States.
The freight car, not the parcel
feeds the world. Four fifths Of the
apples handled in the cities come in
carload lots.
In western Kansas kafir corn Is
worth twice as much, acre for acre
as corn. 1t compares favorably with
corn for silage, fodder, or grain.
The nations now at war are spend
ing 90 per cent of their incomes for
military expenses, says Kansas
professor of mathematics. And such
| incomes!
Baled hay has been shipped to Eu'
rope in enormous quantities this
winter. Probably the hay exported
will equal in money value the exports
of cotton. A strange result of the
war.
The Alaska Experiment Station at
Fairbanks has proved that potatoes
can be grown there at handsome
profit. They are sprouted before
planting so as to get ahead of the
season.
The legislature of Texas has APP
propriated $122.50 to pay a bill for
punch and chicken salad furnished
the executive mansion of Texas when
1t was occupied by former Governor
Colquitt.
A COW that gives % pounds of milk
day in two milkings will give about
&C. pounds II MIXED three times a
day. So says a German experiment
err. The percentage of fat remains
the same.
There is a piece of a chickens
heart in the Rockefeller Institute in
New York which has been kept alive
and pulsating outside the chickens
body for Twenty-Five months. 1t has
not only lived but has grown.
Bakers of New York City have de-
cided not to raise the price of bread.
They prefer to be satisfied with
small profit rather than to stand the
official investigation threatened when
an increase was talked of.
II is probable that this years wheat
crop will break the record for the
third time in sue .ession. In 1913 the
yield was 6S4,99O,OO0 bushels. In
1914 1t was S91 100000. This year 1t
may pass the nine hundred million
mark.
On March 10 Chicago firm sold
100000 pounds of chickens to Eng
land. More orders were reported as
held up for lack of fowls with which
to I'll them. This one order amount
ed to s44,45O-about 10 1.3 cents a
pound.
Powdered borax sprinkled around
manure piles at the rate of a tea
cupful to four bushels of manure will
keep flies eggs from Matching. For
best results apply the borax with a
flour sitter and then sprinkle liber-
ally with water.
Vanillin is the active principle
which makes vanilla ice cream so
popular. 1t occurs in the roots OF
oats and the leaves and roots of a
number of plants. 1t has been found
to be poisonous to clover, wheat,
cowpeas, and other plants.
The farmers cooperative grain ele-
vators Of Minnesota did business of
twenty four million dollars last year.
Two millions Of this business was in
coal, feed and binding Irvine. The
other s22,OO0,O0O was grain. Some
business!
Minnesota has more cooperative as
sociations among the farmers than
any other state. Nearly one third
the cooperative creameries in the
United States are in that state, and
II has nearly twice as many as any
other state.
August Il. Beck Of Fort Wayne
Indiana, made enough money in his
department store to last him the
rest OF his life. SO he retired from
business. Instead of selling out he
gave the business to its employees
He said that they were the people
who had made the business sue
cess.
A valuable cattle feed has been
made from tomato seeds in Italy
Cattle and hogs owned by people in
the neighborhood of tomato Gamer
les have been trying for years tc
tell their owners that there is foot
in the refuse OF these establish
ments. They told It by eating tn,
stuff and getting fat.
There is potash enough for th'
United States in the kelp beds OF thC
Pacific coasts Of Alaska and the
coast states, and enormous amounts