The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-02-23

you have raised an inferior corn
hardly worth cooking. II the corn
had been what you expected, the crop
would probably have been worth $50
on your table for month and for
drying, but If the dealer is nice about
your complaint and makes good on
his guarantee, he will give you SO
cents not $50, and you will lose
the other $49.5O.
OF course, you may send away and
get treated the same way only not
be able to get the so cents back,
but not if you send to we'll known
and reliable firm, and there are many
of them. w. Atlee Burpee & COM
pany are at Philadelphia, and their
seeds are generally considered true
to label.
How About Nursery Goods?
Did you buy some nursery goods
of a Salt Lake nursery that adver-
tlsed in our paper a year ago? We
did, and we are sorry. We looked
at their pictures and bought some
Norway Spruce to ornament certain
spots about our premises. When the
goods came they were merely packed
in excelsior to preserve the moisture
in the roots. They should have been
"balled packed with each set of
roots in ball of moist earth. Be-
sides that, the treelets were not like
the pictures as to form, but were
just scrubby looking with scattering
branches apparently in an impoVer-
Iished condition. When they were de-
|livered we expressed the opinion that
they were not in good condition, and
the agent made this remark, Sow
a little wheat with each tree when
you set it out and it will be all
right"
We did not SOW any wheat with
the trees. and anybody who delivers
nursery stock in such a condition
that it has TO have some "spook'
game administered to it, ought to
go out of business. We paid for the
trees and gave them such care as
would bring anything else thru in
fine condition, but we had tree fun
erals" along during the spring and
summer till they seem to be all dead.
We asked the agent who delivered
them if they proposed making good
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and he replied that he would come
and look at them. Later he said
he would come and look at them
and take it up" with the house.
We have never received any assur-
ance that we shall receive anything
for eour good money, and If they
should offer to replace them with
such inferior stock as they brought
before we should refuse the tender.
Life is too short to be digging holes
and cultivating dead or dying trees
or growing stuff that isn't worth its
space as it grows. We warn people
to examine their spring deliveries of
nursery goods and not to part with
their money till they know whether
1.-THE stock is in good vigorous condi-
tion.
People are remarking that so
many of the trees at the cemetery
lare dying Sure, they are dying, and
present indications are that they may
all be dead in two or three years ex-
cepting the younger ones. 1t you
ask 100 people as to the cause Of
it, probably 80 of them would say
it was lack of water in the summer
season. But that theory has been
lexploded. The trees that receive the
most water are those along the
Iditches in the upper side OF the
Igrounds where the waste water from
the Burns field gets to them fire.
Iuuently and where the cemetery
water always reaches If it reaches
lanything, and Sexton Brown points
Iout that these are the ones that are
practically all dead, while those that
receive little or no water from the
bitches are in the best condition.
The trees are the victims OF borers,
and where the trees have the most
moisture, the borers find the most at
|tractive foods, so in they go and tap
the tree of its life fluid. The Cub
has sample of the wood in the Of
lfice window, and visitors at The Re-
publican bulletin board can see the
condition of the trees that are being
relied upon to shade the grounds of
the Silent City.
The possible entrance of the
United States into the European war
on the side of the allies is believed
by students of. American market con-
ditions to mean fortune for Amer1-
can hog growers. Hogs have already
passed the 121A cent limit and are
almost certain to go to 10 at an early
Idota Elvervwhere il is admitted that