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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-15

Bring your problems Of gardening
to the Evening Ledger for solution, In
addition to practical articles, timely to
the season, the editor will answer.
either out Of his own experience as II
smaii-scale gardener or through con-
sultation with authorities, questions of
readers. Address John Bartrhm, Eve
ming Ledger, Philadelphia.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-15
Garden CultivatOr

Friend John Bartram-What Is the price
use7 DOCTOR.
anything larger than a 20 by 20 plot. The
wheel hoe as Il Is usually called, makes
gardening very easy. single wheel hoe costs
- 70 So. With necessary attachments. The
double wheel. which / Ike better for general
the number OF attachments You should have
ploWshares. cultivator teeth and foliage litter
litter.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-15
GARDEN QUERIES ANSWERED
Ferns for Boxes

u q rs IUI I1VNN1
Friend John Bartram-Kindly suggest a few
ferns which would combine wei IN a window
box MRS. c. n
Today's gardening article contains several
SUGGESTIONS for choice and planting ferns, with
prices
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-15
Menu for a Five O'clock Tea Tray

Orange picOl Tea
Lemon Wheels
Buttered Raisn bread
Marmalade Tarts
We'll take a cup o. kindness yet
For the sake o. Aud Lang Sync!'
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-15
N1'Lrss.

Letters 10 the Editor of the WOmans
Address all communications
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-02-25
Random" Drainage System.

used when large quantities of surface
water are to be removed or where
land and labor are cheap. The disad-
vantages Of open bitches include the
large amount of land they occupy,
their interference with farming oper-
atoms, and the high cost of keeping
the bitches clean and the banks free
from weeds. The drains usually give
more thorough drainage. They oc-
cupy no land surface and do not inter
fere with farming operations. If prop
erly constructed they are practically
permanent and require almost no ex-
penditure for maintenance.
The farmer must decide the amount
Of money he can invest for drainage.
Usually it will be best to start with
that part of the farm where the profits
from drainage will be greatest and to
extend the system as more funds are
available. This plan of doing part
hitting the farmer to observe the re-
suits obtained and in the following
work to make any improvements that
may be found expedient in the plan.
It also permits the farmer to estimate
closely whether it will be profitable
10 invest the money necessary for
completing the drainage system.
On rolling lands where only occa-
sional wet spots are to be drained the
random system Zig. y is commonly
used. On level lands needing arti.
icial drainage a uniform system Gigs
2 and 81 must be planned that will
provide drains for the entire area. The
most economical arrangement of such
4 system is one which permits the use
of long laterals and requires the short
est total length of main drains.
No hard and fast rule can be giver
for determining the sizes of tile to be
used. Drains should be large enough
to remove the surplus water before
the crops are injured, even after 6
heavy rainfall in continued wet wealth
er. 1t is better to use sizes too large
than too small and no tile less thar
four inches inside diameter should b.
used. In the middle West the tend
ency is to use nothing smaller thai
tive-inch tile. The mains should b.
large enough to take the flow from thu
laterals. Actual practice has show
that for the dark silt loans of Hi
nois and Iowa, where the average an
nual rainfall is approximately 3
inches, 8-inch tile having a fall of
inches in 100 feet viii provide Quite
drainage for 40 acres, finch tile TO
, 30 acres, 6-inch tile for 20 acres, 5-inc
tile for ten acres, and 4-inch tile TO
six acres. On stiff soils with equa
rainfall the same sized outlets wi
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-02-25
RIGHT SYSTEM FOR ORCHARD
Before Ordering Fruit Trees Arrange
ment Should Be Carefully Fig
ured Out on Paper.

Before ordering trees for an orchard
plantation determine carefully the
acreage and the system to be adopted
in planting the trees. It will make
great deal of difference whether the
trees are set in rectangular, hexag
onal or quincunx form. The most
common system of these is the rec
tangular. In this system the square
or rectangles are easily cultivated
However, this does not give as many
trees to the acre as other systems and
they are not equally distributed over
the land.
The hexagonal system means that
the trees are set out six trees IN a
circle with the seventh tree in the
center. When set out this way the
trees are equally distant in every dl-
rection and the trees use equally the
ground and air space, so as to pro-
vide a splendid distribution.
The quincunx system is desirable
when filters are to be used. 1t means
planting in squares or rectangles and
nutting a filler in the middle so as to
nroyide for five trees in the square.
When the orchard is mature the mid
die tree can be taken out. This will
bring rs per cent more trees to the
acre than by the rectangular system
and lends itself very nicely to the
filler system.
Take a piece of paper and figure the
arrangement all out before setting the
orchard. Do not plant trees at such
a distance that when it comes time
to thin them out the trees will be toe
far apart. Make a careful study OF
the work at first and it will help very
much.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-02-25
HAVE ROSY CHEEKS
AND FEEL FRESH AS
A DAISY-TRY THIS!
Says glass of hot water with
phosphate before breakfast
washes out poisons.

To see the tinge of healthy bloom
in your face, to see your skin get
clearer and clearer, to wake up with
out a headache, backache, coated
tongue or a nasty breath, in fact to
feel your best, day in and day out, just
try inside-bathing every morning for
one week.
Before breakfast each day, drink
glass of real hot water with a tea
spoonful of limestone phosphate in it
as harmless means of washing from
the stomach, liver, kidneys and bowels
the previous days indigestible waste,
sour bile and toxins; thus cleansing,
sweetening and purifying the entire
alimentary canal before putting more
food into the stomach. The action of
hot water and limestone phosphate on
an empty stomach is wonderfully in
MIGRATING. 1t cleans out all the sour
lamentations, gases and acidity and
gives one a splendid appetite for
breakfast.
A quarter pound of limestone phos.
phate will cost very little at your drug
gist or general store, but is sufficient
to demonstrate that just as soap and
hot water cleanses, sweetens and
freshens the skin, so hot water and
limestone phosphate act on the blood
and internal organs. Those who are
subject to constipation, bilious attacks
acid stomach, rheumatic twinges, also
those whose skin is sallow and com
plexion pallid, are assured that one
week of inside-bathing will have then
both looking and feeling better in ev
cry way.-Adv.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-02-25
MOTHER! LOOK At
CH|LD'S TONGUE
If cross, feverish, constipated,
give California Syrup
of Figs"

A laxative today saves sick child
tomorrow. Children simply will not
take the time from play to empty their
bowels, which become clogged up with
waste. liver gets sluggish; stomach
sour.
Look at the tongue, mother! If coat
ed, or your child is listless, cross, few
erish, breath bad, restless, doesn't eat
heartily, full of cold or has sore throat
or any other children's ailment, give a
teaspoonful of California Syrup Of
Figs" then don't worry, because it is
perfectly harmless, and in few hours
all this constipation poison, sour bile
and fermenting waste will gently
move out of the bowels, and you have
a well, playful child again. A thor
ough inside cleansing" is ofttimes all
that is necessary. 1t should be the
first treatment given in any sickness.
Beware of counterfeit fig syrups.
Ask at the store for a 50-cent bottle OF
California Syrup of Figs" which has
full directions for babies, children of
all ages and for grown-ups plainly
printed on the bottle. Adv.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-02-25
LIME is NEEDED BY GARDEN
Should be Hauled During Winter,
Spread over PIowed Land in
Spring and Narrowed In.

Most gardens need lime. A dressing
of 1000 pounds of ground limestone.
or 20 bushels of burned lime, after 1t
is air-slacked, will be the right guam
tity for one acre. The lime should be
hauled during the winter and spread
over the plowed ground in the spring
and we'll narrowed in, says writer
in Baltimore American.
Crimson clover, or rye plowed down
when half grown and the soil given
dressing of lime well narrowed in,
will rot up the green crop plowed I'M
der, sweeten the soil and take the
place of stable manure. This system
will kill cut and wire worms and
cleanse the ground This is the meth.
cd followed by our truckers and gar.
deners, and it is found very satisfac.
tory. as it saves time, labor AMI money
in working the crops. 1t is good
plan to divide the land into three
parts, one for vegetables, one for grow
ing crops to be plowed under for
green manure, and one for small
fruits. Try this system; larger crops
of vegetables may be grown at the
least cost for labor, and the fertility
of the land may be kept up with
green manure and judicious use o.
animal-bone fertilizers, drilled IL
with the seeds.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-02-25

by much the same CONG .sions that de |
termine the proper derth. In close
retentive soils where the drains are
placed from 2 to feet deep the lat
erals should be placed from 80 to so
feet apart. In open soils that give
up water readily and where the drains
are 8 to feet deep, the laterals may
be from so to $50 feet apart. In very
porous soils the spacing may be even
greater. According to the opinion of
experts in the office of rural engineer,
ing of the United States agricultural
department, where the land is used for
truck or other special crops, the depth
and spacing should be arranged to
give the amount of drainage desired.
In some muck lands with peaty sub.
soils 1t seems that drains may be
placed too deep to give the best re
suits with certain crops.
Unless a farmer has had consider
able experience in drainage work and
knows how to run accurate levels it
will usually be advisable for hiTn to
employ someone who has had this
kind of experience to assist in plan-
ming and laying out the drainage sys-
TEN. Tile should have a fall of not
less than one inch to 100 feet If pos
sible and greater fall than this is very
desirable. Where little fall can be
obtained, particular care must be ia.
ken to secure true grade and align
ment for the drain. If the land is
level, the drain must be started deer
at the outlet in order to get the fall
If the ground surface is level for 1,00(
feet, a Pinch fall to 100 feet can be
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-02-25
Historical Records Lost.

There are two great nations of an
tiquity whose inscriptions cannot yet
be read-the Etruscans and the Hit
titles. The Etruscans occupied part
of Italy corresponding roughly to what
is now known as Tuscany. The Hit
tites at one time occupied part of
Palestine, and united with the Canaan
ties to resist the invasion by the
Israelites under Joshua. The Etrus'
can and Hittite inscriptions have thus
far resisted the attempts of scholars
to decipher them, though no one
knows when someone may stumble on
bilingual inscription which will serve
as key, just as the Rosetta stone, dis
covered in Egypt in 1893, served as a
key to the Egyptian hieroglyphics. In
the new world, the so-called Maya in
scriptions, found on the ruins in Yucca
tan, are also puzzle to scientists,
Christian Herald.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-02-25
AILING WOMEN
NEED THIS FAMOUS
DOCTORS PRESCRIPTION

Thousands Of women who are now
blessed with robust health cannot I'M
derstand why thousands of other wom-
en- continue to worry and suffer from
ailments peculiar to women when they
can obtain for trif1ing sum DR..
Pierce's Favorite Prescription which
will surely and quickly Danish all
pain, distress and misery and restore
the womanly functions to health,
This prescription of DR.. Pierces ex-
tracted from roots and herbs is tenn
perance remedy.
To get rid of irregularities, or ca
tarrhal condition, to avoid pain at GER
tain times, to overcome irritability
and weakness, waste no time, but get
DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription in
liquid or tablet form this very day,
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-02-25
CHIEF OBJECTS IN PRUNING
PRINCIPAL Aim Should Be to Make SUBJ
stantiaI Framework to Hold
Up Leaves and Fruit.

The objects of pruning are; To
make the tree into what might be
called substantial framework with
which it is to hold up the leaves and
fruit. to cause it to have symmetri-
cal shape, to renew the fruiting wood,
TO remove crossing and diseased and
broken branches, to thin the top so
as to allow free circulation of air
through it and to keep the tree as
low as possible so as to facilitate
pruning, picking and spraying.
In young trees care should be taken
TO have the main branches come out
from all sides of the tree and each
from n different height. The crotches
will all be strong then.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-02-25
WOMEN SUFFERERS
NEED SWAMP ROOT

Thousands upon thousands of women
have kidney and bladder trouble and never
suspect it.
Women's complaints often prove to be
nothing else but kidney trouble, or the
result of kidney or bladder disease.
If the kidneys are not in healthy con-
dition, they may cause the other organs
to become diseased.
You may suffer a great deal with pain
In the back, headache, loss Of ambition,
nervousness and may be respondent and
irritable.
Don't delay starting treatment DR..
Kilmer's Swamp Root, a physicians pre-
scription, obtained at any drug store, re-
stores health to the kidneys and is just
the remedy needed to overcome such con-
ditions.
Get fifty cent or one dollar bottle i'm
mediately from any drug store.
However, if you wish first to test this
great preparation send ten cents to DR..
Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y, for a
sample bottle. When writing be sure and
mention this paper.-Adv.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-02-25
w. N. u, salt Lake City, Mo. s-1s1e.
"ANURIC!''
NEWEST IN CHEMISTRY

This is a recent discovery of Doctor
Pierce, head of the Invalids Hotel,
Buffalo, N. Y. Experiments for sew
eral years proved that there is no
other eliminator of uric acid compa-
rable. For those easily recognized
symptoms of infammation-as back
ache, scalding urine and frequent uri-
nation, as well as sediment in the
urine, or if uric acid in the blood has.
caused rheumatism, "Anuric' acts
quickly. In rheumatism of the joints.
in gravel and govt, invariably the
pains and stiffness which so frequently
and persistently accompany the dis
ease rapidly disappear.
Send DR.. Pierce 10c for large trial
package, Full treatment soc. ALI
druggists.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-02-25
HELP FOR MUTILATED TREES
injuries Done by Heavy Bearing
Necessitates Pruning as Well as
Some Amputation.

When the trees are badly broken
from heavy bearing, pruning consid.
ers reconstruction as well as amputa-
ton. To trim the tree so that it will
regain its proper balance and SYM
metry one must consider the position
of the buds which can replace the
other limbs.
Cutting off a limb just below the
point of injury will not reshape the
tree. The cut should be we'll below
the injury and there should, if posi-
BILE, be a space Of two or three inches
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-02-25
DON'T LOSE ANOTHER HAIR
Treat Your Scalp With cuticura and
Prevent Hair Falling. Trial Free.

For dandruff, itching, burning scalp,
the cause of dry, thin and falling hair,
Cuticura Soap and Ointment are most
effective. Touch spots of dandruff and
itching with Cuticura Ointment. Then
shampoo with Cuticura Soap and hot
water. No treatment more successful.
Free sample each by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L,
Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-02-25
RECIPE FOR GRAY HAIR.

To half pint of water add / or Bay Rum, o.
small box Of Barbo Compound, and OF. OF
glycerine. Apply to the hair twice week
until 1t becomes the desired shade. Any drug
gist can put this up or you can mix 1t al
home at very little cost, 1t will gradually
darken streaked, faded gray hair. and re-
moves dandruff. 1t is excellent for falling
hair and will make harsh hair soft and glossy.
1t will not color the scalp, is not sticky OF
greasy. and does not rub off.-AdV-
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-02-25
TRENCH MACHINE is LATEST
Much Drainage Work Now Done by
Machinery-coIorado Man Granted
Patent on Device.

Ditching for drainage, trenches and
other purposes is now being done
largely by machinery. A Colorado
man was recently granted a patent on
the ditching machine shown. An ele-
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-02-25

between the cut and the bud or shoot
intended to replace the missing
branch. Thus the new limb will not
be menaced by the old wound if it be-
comes diseased.
On various parts of the tree are
buds that are latent as long as other
buds in the foliage regions of the trees
are working and there occurs no check
to any of its parts.
When the tree suffers from loss of
branches or limbs, however, these buds
spring into activity and work to re-
place the loss. 1t is this natural insur-
ance against loss that serves the
grower in the reconstruction of his
broken trees. The strongest of such
buds should be chosen for develop
ment.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-02-25
Exchanging Views.

First Boy-My paw says he's sick
over paying his income tax.
Second boy (proudly)-Well, he
ought to be like my paw. He says he
doesn't have to pay any.-Judge.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-02-25
Seek to Solve Bio Problem.

Two English scientists, who are ex-z
perimenting, expect to solve the prob
lem of producing electricity directly
from coal without using steam en-
CINE and dynamo.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-02-25

Some capitalists of the United
States are projecting hog ranch and
packing house of 10000 acres of land
in Pinar del Rio province, Cuba, about
sixty miles from Havana.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-02-25
New Uniform for cuba's Navy.

The general staff of the Cuban navy
has appointed committee to study
designs for new uniform for the Off
GERS and enlisted men of the navy. The
present uniform, which is almost ex-
actly like that used by the United
States, is said to be too expensive for
Cuba. New equipment will also be
sought by the committee for the Gu
ban naval cadets.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-02-25

be adequate, but on the level soils
of the South Atlantic and Gulf states
where the annual rainfall is approx
mately so inches, only about one-half
the areas named above can be drained
with tile of these sizes.
The proper depth for the drains de-
ponds upon the soil and varies from
Q to feet In heavy silt loans and
clays the depth should be from 2 to
3 feet. In more open soils it should
be greater. The best distance be-
tween laterals when common farm
crops are to be grown is determined
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-02-25

Use Murine after Exposure In Cold
Cutting Winds and Dust. 1t Restores,
Refreshes and Promotes Eye Health
Good for all Eyes that Need Care
Murine Eye Remedy Co, Chicago
Sends Eye Book on request.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-02-25
Perfectly Apparent.

"He boasts that he is a self-made
man."
HE shouldn't. It's unnecessary.
Anybody can see that he's not the
work of an expert"
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-02-25
Ditching Machine.

vator back of the cutting scraper
brings the dirt up to drop on an end
less apron that carries it over the
wheels to the side, where it is dropped
or caught in wagons to be hauled
away.-Farming Business.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-02-25
ca. Eh2

Bella is very proud of her pedi-
greet"
"Humph! Were her ancestors Nal
tese or Angoras ?"-Puck.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-02-25

DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are the
original little liver pills put up 40 years
ago. They regulate liver and bowels.-Adv.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-02-25
DRAINAGE FOR A FARM
important Factors to Be Consid-
cred in Deciding on Plan.
Tile Drains Usually Give Thorough
Drainage and Do Not Interfere
With Farming Operations
Depth and Distance to Lay.

In planning system of drainage
for the farm it is necessary to deter
mine first whether open bitches or
covered tile drains are to be con-
structed. Open bitches are generally
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-02-25

The orange tree is the only one
which bears fruit and blossoms at the
same time.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-02-25

A saturated solution of celluloid in
banana oil makes a durable lacques
for brass.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-02-25

Perhaps man can write sensible
love letter, but he never does.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-02-25

Many buffer has a wife that he
is unable to bluff.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-02-25

Albert Hargreaves, a Paterson, n.
J., policeman, has fallen heir to $685.
600
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-02-25

Piles Relieved by First Appllcation
And cured in to IA days by PAZ0 OINTMENT. the
universal remedy for all forms OF Piles. Druggists
refund money If 1t falls Soc
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-02-25

Treading on other peoples toes will
never get you very far.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-02-25
Expert Advice.

What would you do about this
deadlock"
Get a key to the situation
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-02-25

obtained by starting the drain five feet
deep at the outlet and running to
three feet four inches deep at the up
per end.-United States Department OF
Agriculture.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-02-25

Scissors Sened 81 m sSft g USES sasP
level Lasts life time Guaranteed or money re-
funded Special sc. Rmminger Co.. TrevorPt CinsnnRt %
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-02-25
important 10 Mothers

tIfIpOTI dIIE 10 FstOtEEUIO
Examine carefully every bottle OF
CASTORIA, safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that it
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-07-21
Jersey Macdonald
for Commissioner

-AleNandcr Uersey) Macdonald,
president OF the Board OF City Trus-
tees, and by virtue OF that position
mayor OF Carson, announces himself
III the Appeal today as a candidate
ior nomination for long term COM
missioner Of Ormsby county, subject
to the decision OF the approaching
count: convention.
Mr.. Macdonald has been a resident
Of Ormsby county for two genera
ticMs and has held many positions
Of trtst. He is progressive in all
matters that tend to the improve
mcnt OF city and county and has
been a hearty and faithful supporter
OF the paving proposition. His only
Hcakne>s is his adherence to the Re-
publican party.