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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-01-12
SHEEP SENSITIVE TO DRAFTS
Animals Will Not Stand Dampness and
Thorough Wetting Will Cause
Diminution of Profits.

Avoid having the sheep caught In
an early but cold fall rain. Sheen
will stand any amount of dry cold
but they will not stand dampness. A
thorough wetting will cause the flock
to shuttle all winter, with conse.
quent diminution Of profits. A fleece
holds so much water and takes so
long to dry, that the amount of heat
lost by the animal during the process
of drying will seriously affect its
vitality.
1t seems strange, too, but sheep are
sensitive to drafts. They will thrive
In intensely cold weather, with but a
rude shelter. But If inclosed in a pen
or stable through which the wind is
able to seep, harm is sure to follow.
To keep the flock in the very best of
condition they should have a supply
of roots. Clover or alfalfa hay fed
with some grain and turnips or man
gels will bring them through the winter
In thrifty and profitable condition.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-01-12

his tractor only 1868 days per year. II
was found that 95 per cent Of purchas-
ers of tractors had got them for the
sole purpose of blowing wheat ground.
Additional Farm Equipment.
"From the experiences of these men
1t would seem that the tractor is use
full and satisfactory piece Of farm ma
chine1y, but that it must be considered
as additional farm equipment. The
justification for the use Of the tractor
lies in the fact that 1t may under IA
vorable conditions do a special line of
work, rather than in the claim, refuted
by experience, that the tractor is a
satisfactory substitute for horse power.
'"The fact that these tractor users
are maintaining but eight head of cat
tie for each 100 acres plowed indi-
Gates that they are in the main grain
farmers. If the extensive grain farmer
Is able to eliminate but two-thirds Of
horse for each 100 acres plowed, the
intensive farmer with his diversified
farm will not be able to eliminate
any horse power by purchasing trac-
tor"
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-01-12
SEVEN MILLIONS OF
ACRES ARE OPENED

Ogden, Jan. 4.-The work of clas-
styling and opening to homestead en-
try such lands in the national forests
as are chiefly valuable for agricul-
ture is progressing rapidly. Already
over 100000 acres have been COW
cred by field examinations and the
final reports acted upon. There were
cut from the national forests in the
fiscal year, 1916, 604,920, 900 board
feet of timber. On this amount 49,
$4,000 board feet was cut under free
use privilege by 42,O55 individuals.
In all, 10,S40 sales of timber were
made, of which 81 per cent were
under 500 in value, indicating the
extent to which the homesteader,
rancher, miner, small millman, and
others in need of limited quantity
of timber draw upon the forests.
There were 133,442 more cattle
and horses, and 605,338 more sheep
and goats using the national forests
in 1916 than in 1915. This increase
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-01-12
CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENTS

There will be no services in Black
foot churches next Sunday, In COM
pliance with the mayors proclama-
ton requesting the people to avoid
public gatherings to prevent spread
of contagious infections.
BAPTIST
DR.. e. H. Marshall, of Salem Ore
gon, will open three weeks evang-
elical program in the Baptist church
a week from Sunday, on January 81.
Evangelism is being toned down SO
that more folks can get good from
it, and DR.. Marshall is spoken of as
not of the Billy Sunday extreme, but
a good earnest, helpful speaker. Ac-
cording to Wenatchee, Wisconsin,
paper, he makes each person in his
audience feel that he is addressing
him and him alone. This paper says
in part:
"Dr. Marshall speaks directly to
you, and you are bound to believe
what he says-for what he says is
true. One can't help believing him"
DR. Marshall did not fall naturally
into the church ministry. He seemed
headed quite other ways, until the
sudden recall came. He started life
as newsboy in New York City, and
later sailed the seas as a sailor man.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-01-12
THE CUB SAYS

The White Leghorn pullets at the
Starkweather farm, formerly the
Pratt ranch), have scored as high as
sixty per cent laying, but the average
for the past few weeks will be about
55 per cent. There are 1875 of the
pullets. and about every ten days they
market fifty dozen eggs at fifty cents
a dozen. BY sending them to Poca-
tello they get little more than that,
but they market most of them closer
to home. Honald has been staying
pretty close to the farm all summer
and fall, and has been visiting for
some time at Salt Lake City.
Folks who market eggs of all col
ors. and some with stains on the
shells are advised that wiping them
with a cloth soaked in vinegar is a
convenient way to take off the stains.
Eggs sell better and taste better IL
they look clean and natural, and
there is no harm in cleaning an egg
if it needs it, any more than there
is in wiping ones nose If it needs it..
Eggs are better If the chickens are
we'll fed and with palatable food.
Many a person gives the hens lib
eral quantity of wheat every day and
then wonders why they do not lay
regularly. Hens need variety of
food Just the same as anyone else.
If you cant understand that, just try
eating peanuts for breakfast, pea
nuts for dinner and peanutsfor sup
per till your system gets out of or
der and you don't feel like you were
fit for doing anything. Then try
eating variety of food, with diff
ferent kinds of relish with it accord
ing to the wish of the moment, and
you will begin to understand why
hens can't make a crate of eggs ev-
cry week on wheat and dry snow.
o. A. Honnold, manager of the
Starkweather farm, has been east
for month or SO studying farming
as it is done by the successful fell
lows who have all the money they
need and who have made it farming.
He was not studying so much how
they produce their crops, but what
they do to turn them into money
after they are stored away. Being
in the sheep business he noticed the
operations of flockmasters closely,
and finds shortage of sheep as COM
pdI0u Will OIuCI SCd6OuS. III lOCdi-
tiles where they have been accustom-
ed to feed large flocks there are
fewer this winter. The big ranges
are being cut up everywhere by the
dry farmers, and range sheep are
being sacrificed. Unless the farmers
get to producing more sheep, and
that soon, the price must stay higher
for long time, war or no war.
The presence of dry farmers all
over the Snake river desert and the
operation of the two-mile limit law
makes it difficult for sheepmen to get
their herds across the desert, and
they are trying to devise a measure
by which five-mile belts may be kept
open in places across the country
for the passage of stock.
The rush for filings on the 640-
acre tracts that have been the sub
ject of so much interest at all land
offices the past two weeks, comes as
hard blow to sheepmen. They say
it doesn't leave them much room to
get anywhere even though they have
leased grazing lands.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-01-12
ACRE PROFIT FROM ALFALFA
Provides Large Amount Of Nutriment
for Every Kind Of Live Stock
and Feeds Soil.

Here Is why an acre Of alfalfa IL
valuable in Minnesota:
1t costs about $12 to cultivate 1t.
At least 60 per cent of the fertilizer
value is returned to the soil when the
crop is fed.
A yield of three tons will return
$41.3O If fed to pigs as pasture when
the pigs sell for z cents a pound.
A similar yield if fed to steers at
q cents pounds will bring $42.6O.
The same yield fed to cows giving
21O pounds Of butterfat at 30 cents
a pound will bring $4,000.
Farm feeds should be judged by the
total nutriments produced an acre,
bearing in mind the cost of produc-
ton. Alfalfa provides large amount
of nutriment for every kind Of stock.
Besides this, it provides nutriment for
the soil, hence increasing land value.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-01-12
CURING POP CORN PROPERLY
Ears Should Be Left on Stalks Until
Fully Ripened-Free Circulation
Of Air Is Essential.

To successfully cure popcorn so it
will pop early in the winter, the ears
should be left on the stalks until the
grains are fully ripened, and then
pulled off, husk and all. This may be
laid on a floor, or placed in sacks
which are more or less open for the
passage of air, and hung up in dry
room which is well ventilated and free
from rats and mice.
If the husks are removed when the
corn is pulled from the stalk, it dries
out too rapidly, and the kernels will
not pop as freely as they will If dried
more slowly.
Popcorn can be too dry at time Of
popping. Corn after once cured, does
best If kept where the air is only mod
erately dry. Corn kept behind a stove
will not pop as freely as corn kept in
room where there is a little damp.
ness part of the time.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-01-12
HORSES AND TRACTORS
Animal Labor Still Holds High
Place on Average Farm.
Useful and Satisfactory Piece Of Ma.
chinery, but Must Be Consid-
cred Only as Addition to
General Equipment.

That the tractor has not supplanted
the horse in furnishing farm power is
shown by answers to a QUESTIONABLE
mailed to 500 Kansas tractor users
by DR.. 9. W. McCampbell, associate
professor Of animal husbandry in the
Kansas State Agricultural college.
Experience of tractor users Is q
more reliable index to the usefulness
Of the tractor than theoretical deduc-
tions," said Doctor McCampbell. 'From
the data collected it was found that
each Of these tractor users was plow-
ing annually an average of 317 acres,
and yet he had been able to eliminate
only "a % Of one horse for each 100
acres plowed. He had found use for
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-01-12
was in spite of large Examinations of
grazing lands from the forests.
BORAH FOREMOST IN
RACE FOR SENATE LEADER

With the growing sentiment among
prophetic Republicans that the party
must turn more progressive or be
be turned out, comes a strong ele-
ment desiring to GUST the stand-pat
faction of the party and place the
leadership in progressive. At the
head of this movement in the Senate,
stands Senator W. E. Borah, who is
considered by many active Republi-
cans as the ablest man for the posi-
ton.
In the house the progressive senti-
ment appears to center upon Repre-
sentative Lenrooot, of Wisconsin, a
clean, able. forward looking man.
The climax will be reached and de-
cisions made when the Republican
party meets to make up a slate for
reorganization.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-01-12
MARKET REPORT

Cattle receipts, 5000, unsettled
Native beef cattle, 7.6O q HOO;
western steers, $50 q 1000; stock
ers and feeders $40 q $50; cows
and heifers 4.40 q 1000; calves,
9.25 q 1850. ..
Sheep receipts, $1,000; firm. Weth-
ers, $40 q 1880; ewes, 700 O
1910; lambs, 1850 q 14.O0.
Omaha, Jan. 9.-Hogs-Receipts,
1880; strong. Heavy, 1910 q
1910; light, 1000 @ 1850; pigs,
500 q 1000; bulk of sales, 1915
@ 1880.
Cattle-Receipts, 10000; steady,
Native steers, $50 q 1850; cows,
and heifers, $50 q $50; western
steers, $40 q S.25; Texas steers,
6.25 q 1855; stockers and feeders,
6.25 q 900.
sheep-Receipts, 1850; steady,
yearlings, 9.25 q 11.25; wethers,
$50 q HOO; lambs, 1900 1925.
Kansas City, Mo-, Jan. Clogs
Receipts, $4,000; higher. Bulk, 1890
q 1910; heavy, 1906 q 1880;
packers and butchers, 1915 O. 1915
light, 1000 q 1855; pigs, S.75 @
9.75.
Cattle-Receipts, $4,000; lower.
Prime fed steers, 1915 q 1850;
dressed beef tseers, $50 q 1875;
western steers, 7.50 q HOO; cows,
5.25 q 900; heifers,, $50 @ HOO;
stockers and feeders, 6.25 q 1000;
bulls, 5.75 @ 7.75; calves, ZOO @
1850.
Sheep-Receipts, 1000; higher.
Lambs, 1900 q 1880; yearlings,
11.25 q 1925: wethers, S.75 q
1000; ewes, S.25 @ $50.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-01-12
COMING EVENTS
MOVIE PROGRAMS

last appearance several weeks ago.
They are well drilled and work to-
gether. Mr.. Taylor is a splendid
leading man, a character maker. He
is on the ground floor of the new
movement that might be termed
back to the boards
Thursday and Friday, January H.
12-Three-part Vitagraph feature,
"The Heart of a Fool" Kalem COM
edy, 'The Ice Man and the Artist"
Saturday-Three part feature,
"Onda of the Orient" Two-part
Keystone comedy with fatty Arbuckle
''The' Other Man."
Monday. January 15-Episode No.
Is, Mysteries of Myra", with two
comedies.
Tuesday and Wednesday-Four
reel program, general film service.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-01-12
INSURE MINIMUM LAMB LOSS
Visit Eve Flock Frequently During
Lambing Season-SaIt and Water
Essential for Ewes.

During the lambing season the eve
flock should be visited early in the
morning, the last thing at night, and
once during the night. This insures
a minimum lamb loss.
Some sheepmen feed the lambs lit
tie or no grain until they are weaned,
but they are kept on good pastures
with their dams. If the pastures are
good the ewes are not fed any grain.
Until the pastures have a good start
the ewes are fed ration of oats and
corn silage along with alfalfa, clover,
or prairie hay. The lambs as well as
the ewes should have plenty OF fresh
water to drink, AID have access to salt.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-01-12
NOT KNOWING CIVICS
VOTERS ARE INCOMPETENT

1t is a fact that large number
of citizens of a free country leave
law matters and government methods
to lawyers and politicians, and never
take the time to study the govern
ment they support. Howard T. Lewis
of the University of Idaho, is the
author of a timely article in the
School Review, of September 1915,
in which he goes to the root of things
and advocates teaching more about
government in the secondary schools,
the grades and high schools.
But the third phase Of education"
says Mr., Lewis, in recounting the
ends of the several school courses,
lis still far from receiving it's due
consideration. The other phases
have been duly emphasized, but so
far as acquainting student with the
real nature of the political institu-
tions that we expect him to support
or insisting upon the importance of
keeping abreast of the current events,
or suggesting the nature of the great
social questions with which the state
itself is being forced to cope more
and more, secondary schools do little
indeed"
In showing that public affairs are
being more and more officially taken
over, and up to the people; matters
of monopoly and competition being
supervised by public commissions,
and the whole thing controlled by
direct elections, initiative and refer
endum, with the recall in force in
certain states, Mr.. Lewis points to
the insufficient schooling given to
the younger generation. ...
with our insane DESIRE" he SAYS,
"to fill up our high-school curriculum
with as many electives as possible,
and a seeming desire not to force
any student to take any study that
he does not wish -., a very large
proportion of our students never take
civics at ALL"
In fact how many persons will one
meet in month who know whether
civics is a course in law, history, or
chauvinism? 1913
Mr.. Lewis blames the teachers
themselves for being strangely un-
versed in problems of the day. Pas
sing an examination on certain fun
damentals is as far as many Of them
ever 60. AS to the big things cal
ling to be settled at a near date. he
cites: unemployment, transportation.
housing and unionism. And vet, he
continues, "only per cent Of the
high school students Of Idaho take
courses in direct economic training"
The question is, where is a man to
pick up information on these great
topics? Even the newspapers will
take for granted he knows something
about them.
AS for the teaching of civics Mr..
Lewis declares the present methods
inadequate. He urges the use of a
good text book, and more or less
extensive and compulsory use of mag
azines and newspapers. Repeated
and thorough visits to courts, council
and the like should he
made" No textbook exactly covers
the ground, and is soon out Of date
once it is written. Teaching ia an
old profession, so old it sleeps. Wake
It up, cries Mr.. Lewis, and let's have
teachers with somewhat modern
ideas.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-01-12
ORPHEUM THEATRE

Friday, January 12-Episode No
Is, peg O. the Ring" Episode No
l, 1.-THE Shielding Shadow"
Saturday, January 13-Triangle
feature, Sold for Marriage" featur.
ing Lillian Gish, Charlie Chaplin in
Behind the Screen" a genuine sor-
row slammer. Girls in vaudeville
a singing and dancing act.
Monday and Tuesday, January 10
l6-Triangle feature, "Beggar OF
Cawnpore," with H. B. Warner in
leading part. Keystone comedy in
two parts, His Bitter PILL" featur-
ing Mack Swain.
Wednesday and Thursday-E. For
rest Taylor and company present
The Prisoner of Zenda" and "Rup-
ert of Hentzau." This company
made good in Blackfoot with their
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-01-12
ADDISON L. SMITH ON
GRAZING HOMESTEAD BILL

When the president signs the $40
acre Grazing Homestead Bill there
will be placed upon the statute books
a law which 1t Is believed will &C
complish great deal toward making
homes for those who desire to en-
gage in small way In the live stock
industry, and also meet the constant
ly decreasing supply Of sheep and
cattle in the public land states, re-
marked Congressman Addison T.
Smith in commenting on the provi-
sions of the proposed law.
This legislation, continued Mr..
Smith, "has had strong advocates and
opponents before the Committee on
Public Lands in both branches of
Congress during the last few years,
and the bill has been materially
changed from the form in which 1t
was originally introduced. The OPP
position came from the large sheep
and cattle men, but the bill as fin
ally amended Is now fairly salts
factory to them.
The law authorizes the entry OF
$40 acres of semi-arid land more
suitable for grazing than cultivation
after the Secretary of the Interior
has desi mated such areas. While the
land may be selected prior to such
designation and the application filed
in the local office, no right to occupy
such land shall be acquired by reason
of said application until the lands
have been designated by the Secre-
tary of the Interior as stock grazing
a Tn n
dence of three years is required with
the usual leave of absence of five
months in each year, and permanent
improvements must be made to
value of not less than $1.25 per acre,
one-half of which must be expended
within three years after date of entry.
No cultivation is required and COM
mutation is not allowed.
A personal examination of the land
Is required under this law before ap-
plication can be made, as under the
general homestead laws, and the reg
ular fees and commissions due be
paid. Additional entries are allowed
in sufficient quantity within q radius
of twenty miles from each former
entry of grazing land not to exceed
in the aggregate $40 acres, without
residence On the additional entry, but
improvements must be made equal
to $1.25 for each acre. The Govern
ment reserves the title to coal and
oth-r minerals in the lands entered
under this act. also provides that
water holes shall be reserved and
open to the public, and that the Sec
rotary of the Interior shall withdraw
from entry sufficient quantity of
land for driveways to watering places
shipping points and the summer and
winter ranges"
Mr.. Smith will be pleased to fur
nish copies of the law to those who
desire them.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-01-12
METHODIST

S. ]. CLANCY, Minister. .....
In compliance with the Mayors
Proclamation, there will not be any
services at the Methodist Csurch on
Sunday. The prayer Meeting will
be held on Wednesday evening of next
week. Services at the regular time
on the following Sunday.
The Sunday School Board meeting
has been postponed until next month.
Our Sunday School attendance is in
creasing every Sunday, last Sunday
there were one hundred and sixty
one present.
The Epworth League social, which
was to have been held Friday even
ing, will be held Friday, January 10.
Wednesday afternoon, January II,
the Ladies Aid will meet at the Par
sonage with Mrs. CLANCY.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-01-12

He was structural iron worker on
land, travelling widely. He happened
to get in the spirit of education, as
did Jack London, after a similarly
hayward life, and put himself thru
college. In Salem, Oregon, he fin
ally became pastor of one of the
largest churches, which pulpit he now
is leaving for the large possibilities
of the evangelical field.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-01-12
ADVANTAGE OF WEDDING HOE
Edges Are So Turned Up That Fallen
Stalks Ride Over the Edges
and Are Not Injured.

This hoe is designed particularly
for wedding onions, but can, Of course,
be used for wedding Of any kind. One
advantage mentioned is that the edges
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-01-12

Congressman McCracken, who with
other members of Congress left for
Panama on the goth of December
to inspect the isthmus canal, is ex-
pected to return to Washington on
the 18th instant.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-01-12
MARKET REPORT

BLACKFOOT-Cattle: Cows. 500
q $685. steers, 500; Sheep, $50;
Ewes, 500 q $50; Hogs, 1875;
Lambs, 800.
Grains-Wheat, ESQ, $50; Barley
and Goats, 100; Potatoes, 200.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-01-12

An eastern M. D. predicts para1v-
sis epidemic for next summer. That
means more medical heroes, and the
suggestion is not unsimely 'D0
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-01-12
LIVE STOCK

Chicago, Jan. 9.-Hogs-Receipts,
10000; weak, early advance of 10
to Is above yesterdays average
mostly lost. Bulk, 1910 q 1915;
light, 1000 @ 1855; mixed, 1926
q 1915; heavy 1890 q 1880;
rough 10. 80 q 1910; pigs, IT'S
@ 9.65.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-01-12

are turned up so that fallen stalks
ride over the edges and are not cut.
The angle of the hoe is adjusted by
means of the set screw.-Wisconsi
Agriculturist.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-01-12

RETAIL MARKET
Wheat, per hundred pounds ....$2.70
Corn per hundred pounds ........ $50
Oats, per hundred pounds ...... 2.20
Onions, per pound .................... .05
Breakfast bacon, slab .............. .28
Breakfast bacon, sliced .......... 80
Shoulders, smoked ...............17k
Shoulders, fresh ..... IA
Hams, smoked .......................... .27
Hams, fresh ..........-. IT
Hens, per pound .........................17h
Spring rooster, per pound ........ 20
Geese, per pound ................... 20
Ducks, per pound .....................17h
Butter, per pound ..............- .35
Eggs, per dozen .......-....... so
Flour, per hundred ...-....--........ 4.80
Sugar, per sack .........-............. sos
Coal, lump, per ton ............... 500
Coal, nut, per ton .-......... 7.50