The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-12-03

Observation-Disclosures liOiiCNE0il0I0lklIlk III
already decided upon. An attendant
must visit the hives at intervals and
for this purpose they have an auto
truck for quick travel. They have a
warehouse in Blackfoot for the man
ufacture of hives and fixtures and for
extracting honey and packing and
shipping. They have machines for
treating the wax and making it again
into new foundations for the bees to
fill with honey. Every device belong
ing to modern apiary for economic
ing the time of the bees while the
bloom is on, can be found in their
warehouse ready for delivery at
standard prices. They put up honey
in containers varying from two and
a half pounds to 20 pounds, sealed,
labeled and ready for the daintiest
epicure or the most searching analy-
sis of the pure food inspector.
You know, of course, that the
grestest problem with automobiles
and airships has been the application
of power. There is no trouble about
starting them out on journey, but
they don't all come in on their own
power. You have h ard your father
and mother tell about differences be-
tween capital and labor, and you have
read about strikes and refusal to ar
bitrate, You have sometimes head
Slaves (employees) speaking Of
hours and not all of them are
pleased to begin work at sunrise. You
have heard speakers on the street
corner speak of that condition of So
ciety where the capitalist, class own
the tools and where the workers re-
ceive only their food, yet toll on in
cessantly that their masters may have
much. You read in your old school
history of Captain John Smith, who
laid down the rule that only workers
might eat, and drones should be cast
out. You have attended divine SER
vice where they sang of an Utopia
where each one had every desire sat
lisfied-where each ones spirit was
so pure that no wish arose except
such as the surroundings would meet.
You may have heard Latter Day
Saints speaking on the advantage Of
being united in their purposes. You
may have heard the heads of big
concers express tie wish that their
servants might hibernate and lie DOR
mant and not eat anything during
non-proIuctive periods. Well, the
honey bee has them all beaten! He
goes out and comes in on his own
power; he is ever at peace with his
master; he is pleased to begin work
at sunrise; he never objects to his
master owning and rlonopolizing the
tools; they go John Smith one better
by casting out the drones and then
singing them to death; their labor
seems to supply their every wish;
they work unitedly; they hibernate
in winter and complain not, in order
to leave more of their products to
their masters.
Weber Brothers operate kingdom
In which there are about ninety mil
lions of subjects, all devoted and
loyal, working on the above named
conditions, and they are turning one
of our by-productG and pests to good
account. We refer to the sweet clover
that grows in such profusiCn on ditch
banks and fence corners or anyR here
it is given chance 1t is going to
cut quite figure in the future Of
this county, but people are just wax
ing up to its usefulness. First it's
roots consist of great punches of
nodu!es that di?fuse nitrogen in the
soil, and nitrogen is one of tie ele-
rents that is a ling in Bingham
ounty lands. For this purpose it is
like red clover only better. In the
eastern states they have tried raising
alfalfa and have dis arded it, but
have tried sweet dover and it is in
great demand. They cut it often,
while it is tender, ana so great is
the demand for the seed for use in.
those states that buyers are securing
the west for all they can obtain. A
man was here fey weeks ago buy
ing through Weber Brothers, and
said he could use a trainload if he
could get it. School children in some
parts of the state have been out strip
ping it off of the plants along the
bitches and fences and making a
mans wages. Some have put can
vas on frame so they can lay it
under the bush and bend the bushes
down and strip the seed quickly into
the canvas.
New states call for new enterprises
and western men like to think of that
saying, 'He, who makes two blades
of grass grow where but one grew
before, is public benefactor."
Weber Brothers travel in that class.
They are developing new industries,
adding new service to the community,
adding greater values to that which
already exists. We think this is what
people mean when they speak of a
man making a place for himself.