The Idaho recorder., 1922-03-03


five feet deep and 30 feet long in the
aggregate. the Columbia highway in
Hood River county is passable and |
would have been completed but for
the interruption Df the heavy SHOWS.
when half of the men failed to re. |
spond because of the bad weather.
In spite OF the stormy weather the |
Metropolis, New. people have announc- |
ed that they will hold small stocl; |
show at the place within the next |
few weeks. There are four prizes Of |
fered for chickens, four for sheep, two |
or goats, five for hogs, ten for cattle.
including dairy cows and two FOR
Horses.
An infallible sign of spring Is no
ticed this week in Anaconda. Mont
Mail carriers are now engaged in the
task of distributing approximately
1000 large mail order house catalogs.
Forty parcel post sacks were required
to bring the shipment.
No women will he employed as for
est fire lookouts in the Pacific North
west this year, according to announce
ment received from the district for
esters office. The lack of employ
ment among men is the reason given
for excluding women from the service
this year.
Agitation against japanese colon-
ization in central Oregon by American
Legion posts has resulted in with
drawal of George l.. Burtt and George
Shima, japanese potato king of Cali
fornia, who have placed on the market
1900 acres of Deschutes and Crook
county land. They will withdraw def
initely from all proposed operations In
this section of the state.
membership drive which the Farm
Bureau has conducted In Homedaie,
Idaho, has been completed About
seventy-five members were secured
The farmers of this community realize
that they cannot hope to succeed by
| raising nothing but hay or other bulky
keting must be found. Plans are be-
ing made for cooperative buying OF
seed and selling OF produce.
A cash dividend which will reach
between $4,000 and S2OO,OO0 will be
ing to announcement made by the
Apple Growers association. This will
bring the total of advances ON sup
| plies and distribution of cash to
| 1,3S0,000 on the 1927 crop The total
D'Anjou pear crop returned S73,266.
Charges of the association. including 9
storage, reached IL cents n box.
Excellent results have been OBJ
| tanned from the winter poisoning Of
| jackrabbits during January in Grant,
| Adams, Franklin and Benton coun-
| ties, Ore. In Franklin county alone, as
near as could be accurately checked
20S jackrabbits were the average
number poisoned for each ounce of
| strychnine, with a total of 1900
poisoned in December and January.
II is estimated that $500 were killed
in drives and 10000 trapped around
hay stacks. making a grand total of
| &c, 500 in the county
The depths of snow rported at the
forest service Office at HALEY. Ida.
showed % inches at HALEY, IS OF
Soldier creek. % at Ketchum, 34.5 al
Winslow's and 40 at the Mascot mine
| From other sources Il is learned tina,
there Is 90 inches on Galena summit
and at the Antelope ranger station In
Custer county, SO inches, and on tflt
east fork Of Big Lost river, IL inches
Reports that the total farm bureat
membership in Utah has now reached
the ratio Of approximately one out
Of every three farmers in the state
we're given to members of the execu
tive committee OF the state organiza
tion at a special meeting held recent
ly. John F. Burton. Utah represen
tative ON the executive board of the
American Farm Bureau Federation
and in charge Of organization work ir
the state. expressed the opinion that
this ratio would be increased To ons
farm bureau member for every two
farmers by June /.
A reorganization of the rural routes
OF Canyon County. Idaho, west o
Nampa viii become effective on Marcl
LIST, as the result of plans submitte,
by Mr.. ii. E. Ballard, formerly pos
office Inspector and now engaged II
private practice as an expert In rura
delivery organization. The change
which have been authorized inciud'
4 the establishment of an additiona
route from Parma and will provid
radically improved service to neari.