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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-09-04

Estate reclamation act
A-Brsndlns OF Chinese cgrs.
t5-Proiection OF dairy products
Es-Destruotion weetS
47-lncreaSed aid TO State CO lego
Estate inspection OF growing seeds
49-Cheaper powder FOR clearing
Rehabilitation OF bovine tuberculosis
bl-Creating Department OF Agriculture
b2-CroatnE director marketing
h5-Formntion OF cooperative associations
bt-EStablishing bureau OF farm development
b5-Siste regulation Of terminal grain warehouses
bs-Dstrct organizations TO destroy animal pests
b1 legislation asked by dnr draining and lr.
rigalon districts
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-09-04
OF GENERAL INTEREST

During The II Mr. French Legislature
wide range OF legislation period
and 1920 in which the policy
tcrmlned Therefore interesting sidelght
given by his variety proposed in that
time Hero OF the bills supported
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-09-04

LII of the offices to be poed the primaries next Tuesday
important the selection of GOOD GOVERNOR
Evening star., 1924-09-14

rom of mixing and baking Rice's bread.
and Every loaf must measure up to the
standard set by the Graduate Chemist
in charge. Every loaf must have the
ing. same fine flavor and richness every day.
ular For years housewives have looked for
this kind of bread. Bread they can be
LII as proud Of as if they had baked it them
very selves. Now they have found it in
Rice's.
With the seal Of City Baking Institute
if on the wrapper Of Rice's bread
Washington women get bread that is as
lstep rich and wholesome and perfectly baked
aiken as individual and scientific care combined
can make it.
ntal You will serve this new loaf with
the pride. Order Rice's bread from your
ocess grocer today.
Gunnison news-champion., 1924-05-23
ROTATION FOR POTATOES
MEANS INCREASED YIELDS

Agricultural College News Notes.
The potato requires an open, porous
soil, perfectly drained, and rich in
vegetable matter. For this reason II
fits in well with the rotation Of other
crops, and should always follow crop
Of alfalfa, either Immediately or the
second year after. The turning under
Of alfalfa adds TO the soil the needed
fiber and improves the condition so
that potatoes can develop normally.
There Is a tendency to grow potatoes
on the land year after year. especially
( the land WIS originally well suited
FOR this crop, but such practice gener-
ally brings disasterous results. II Is
far better to reduce the acreage Of
potatoes than TO plant land that is not
in the right condition for the produc-
tion of an average crop.
In Colorado where alfalfa is easily
grown. potatoes should follow il in a
Ave to six years rotation. The rota-
ton should be as follows:
Potatoes, first year, followed with
grain and seeding alfalfa the second
year; third, fourth and fifth years in
alfalfa, and the sixth year back TO po-
tatoes. On the small farm this
would mean a reduced acreage, but
the grower will find that the net re-
turns would be much greater because
of increased yield
In many of the higher mountain
valleys, where alfalfa cannot be grown
so successfully, clover and timothy
should be substituted and the rota-
tation period may be shortened to four
years. In this case, larger acreages
may be planted to potatoes Not only
would the average yield of potatoes
per acre be greatly increased, but a
corresponding increase in the yield of
grain per acre would be attained fol-
lowing a crop of potatoes.
II this system of crop rotation could
be extended from six 10 eight or
even ten years, leaving the land in al
falfa for a longer period, even better
results would be obtained Long ro-
tation period is only suited for large
farms in combination with extensive
livestock operations
Gunnison news-champion., 1924-05-23
Montrose Creamery Co.
SHEEP BUSINESS GOING
STRONG AROUND SAPINERC

With Saturday night the last Of the
sheep TO be imported for the summer
grazing season at Sapinero had been
brought in from Montrose and the
Utah desert, nineteen train loads hav-
ing been distributed. The season Of
1928 there We're only eleven trainloads,
so that evidently the sheep business
is going strong. Some of these viii
later be taken TO forest reserve allot-
ments around Pitkin and Crested
Butte.
II is stated that the sheep number
ed something over 5000 and were brot
into Montrose in ESQ standard gage
cars, loading out in $50 narrow gage
carloads.
The largest train ever brought into
Montrose came in last week with 20
cars Of sheep on it. This was hand
led by one broad gage engine, but
fourteen narrow gage engines would
be required to handle the same num-
Der of sheep over Cerro summit This
was one of the large, broad gage en-
gines and more powerful than the
usual type.
Feeding conditions on the desert and
over the ranges are better this year
than they usually are at this time Of
of the year, which will insure q profit
able summer for the sheepmen and &
good lamb crop.
Gunnison news-champion., 1924-05-23
OUTLOOK GOOD FOR
SUMMER GRAZING
Ranges are in Excellent
Shape and Opening
Early to Herds of
GunniSon Stock.

The spring weather has continued
fairly open this week. and snow line
is reeeding rapidly into the hills. All
about the valley ranches stock has
been turned off the meadows for some
weeks now, and are moving up the
foothills toward the high ranges,
which will be occupied in June.
As n rule the season is advanced. so
that the grazing period win be full
length. While the meadow grass
is starting nicely the range is putting
on its carpet of green as well.
The Denver Record Stockman says
The condition of ranges on May
lst is reported as 95 per cent Of nor
nal. the same as a month ago but II
points better than a year ago.
Cattle show a slight decline com.
pared with last month, being reported
as % compared with %, but points
above a year ago, the report states.
Some feeding has been necessary in
sections where heavy SHOWS have oe-
Cured, but in general, hay supplies
are proving plentiful and no heavy
losses of cattle have occurred. For
III" state in general, hay supplies are
reported as l03 per cent OF a safe
estimate of needs. with demand light
and prices low. A few cattle are be-
ing contracted for May delivery, es-
pecially in the southwest, but in gen
cral sales are slow and prices unsatis-
factory 20 cattlemen."
Gunnison news-champion., 1924-05-23

Despite 4 tremendous expansion in
faNseed acreage indicated in the U. S.
this year, the supply Of haxsecd on
the basis Of the average production
per acre will still be far short of the
consumption requirements, says the
Department Of Agriculture. Last year
the L. 5. produced approximately H.
500. 600 bushels Of haxseed, whereas,
average annual requirements during
the past FIVE years were around 80
1000 bushels The average harvest
ed last year was 2,05l 900 acres and
farmers have expressed their inten-
tiOn 10 increase paintings by -54 per
cent On the basis of an average
yield OF ~ bushels per acre, the crop
this year would be several million
bushels short Of the average con-
sumptivc demand.
Gunnison news-champion., 1924-05-23
PRINCIPLES OF PREVENTION
FOR POISON PLANT AREAS
College News-Notes:

Agricultural College News Notes.
The method of control is based yer,
largely upon the condition causing
in mind that with the exception of loco
plant, animals do not ike poisonous
plants The following principles may
be given:
Know the poisonous plants on the
ranges used. A knowledge of tire
thing to be fought and to guard
against must be had at the outset
Prevent over-graIing /, by limiting
the number of stock; 2nd, by using the
entire range as equally as possibly. so
that some sections are not over-graz-
ed while others are under-grazed; 3rd,
BY not sailing at water holes but al
ways away from them, as the former
course tends to over-grazing about the
water holes
| II the range Is over-grazezd for one
class of stock, practice rotation graz
| ing, l. e., change from cattle TO sheep
and vice versa
Do not allow hungry stock TO go on
to poison patches II il is necessary
to drive thru such an area, feed well
before starting. Always before stop
ping at noon or at night, examine the
xruund to be grazezd and make sure
there are no quantities of poisonous
plants present
Do not use ranges too early where
poisonous plants appear before the
other forage, but stay od until palat-
iable forage has a good start
In cases where the poisonous plant
| i exceedingly thick about water holes
or along drivew1ys that must be used
Ieradication Of the plant is the only
IpracGieahae method Of control
Remember: An animal with Z
stsmach full is not likely to be poison
Gunnison news-champion., 1924-05-23
SOME SECTIONS HAVE
GREATER HAY RESOURCES
THAN GRAZING FACILITIES
Record Stockman:-

Record Stockman:-
Efforts and expense expended by
the ives; in hay raising have not al.
ways been considered in reckoning the
values of the governments summer
grazing facilities, points out Lord
ogilyey in the Denver Post. In other
places the reverse is the case and
only by the investment Of much labor
and capital for the growing of winter
feed have the hired grazings been bros
TO a point of value.
The writer states that the ordinary
winter feeding cattle ranch was de-
yeloped so that graIings otherwise
useless because of winter losses could
he used. He says this should not be
grazing is now within the forest re-
serves. Continuing. ne says:
-In the arabic districts winter feed
ing Is supplementary to farming to
consume leguminous crops and main
tain fertility. But in the first place
the ranches were supplementary TO
large tracts of grazing, otherwise ex-
trcmely risky propositions on which
well bred stock could not be maintain
ed Put in another way, the grazing
part, like the farming part, was the
greater way and yet in many cases the
ranges where timber growing is At
tempted and which are recreational
grounds are being so subdivided as to
give but poor grazing to the stock that
can be wintered.
In part this has come about from a
desire to serve a greater number of
people, but il is much the same as il
sufficient water rights for one tract
were subdivided to the point of domest-
ic use. Everyone might get drink but
all commercial land-value would dis
appear and the consumer might go
hungry. The forest reserve authori-
ties are inclined to demand rate of
pay for detached grazing equal to that
being paid for pastures contiguous 70
growing where quite often general
farming can be carried on and TO for
get that the hay ranch proper was
built up precisely that the grazing
might be used and that it is quite un-
suited from altitude and remoteness
for farm purposes N competition with
better tracts.
Thousands upon thousands of well
bred cattle have been forced to the
shambles by this factor At one time
the forest reserves threatened the
whole business, then it looked as If
they could function as . stabilizer to
the supply Of wei bred feeders So
necessary to the farming industry.
This it can stiH do by having regard
for the business, as part of western
resources has been tied up after the
east had riotously wasted its SUBJ
stance in profligaey. 1t is true that
the present officials are not respons-
ible, but that should not prevent their
having regard for the very plain facts
of the matter"
Gunnison news-champion., 1924-05-23
Ranch and RANGE
CHEESE WAS RELISHED
EVEN BY The ANCIENTS
Nevs-Notes, Agriealtaral College:-

SeSs-Notes, Agricultural College
History reveals that the use OF
cheese i indeed old The people Of
Greece knew this product as early
a. 1000 10 $500 B. C. II was an i'm
portant commodity in Roman CON-
merce AZ very early date, and men,
tion is made Of cheese in Roman re-
cords from $50 TO s75 A. d. AS the
Romans conquered the rest Of Europe
and earned their influence into these
eections, the knowledge Of the value
and use Of cheese was spread The
people living in that part Of Europe
now known as Germany. were using
cheese in considerable amounts n
early as the eighth century. England
undoubtedly learned OF cheese from
the Romans. and the Normans, who
were the powerful people of this
period, were large consumers Of
cheese
During the Dark Ages cheese was
made mostly by the inmates of the
nonasterieS. These people were very
influential IN populariEing cheese. n
they taught others how 10 make IL
By the tenth century cheese was ar
important item Of European com.
mcrce, and during the fifteenth cen.
tury exclusive cheese markets vers
established in Switzerland. Some o.
these same markets are in existence
today and are operated in the same
way, practically as they were in their
beginning One brand Of Swiss cheese
has been made in one locality and und.
er about the same conditions for over
! ten centuries.
Gunnison news-champion., 1924-05-23
SHE KNEW HOW TO MILK

Exchange:-
A little girl from the city had been
visiting in the country, and was being
questioned as to what kind of time
she had. Finally someone said, "In
bet you don't know how to milk a
cow"
"Bet l do, she replied
On being pressed for particulars,
as to how it was done, she replied:
"You take the COW to the barn and
give her some breakfast food and
water, and then yea drain her crank
case"
Gunnison news-champion., 1924-05-23

Mr and Mrs. Frank VanAlstyne ar,
rived from Salt Lake City Tuesday
hut came from the east, having visit.
Ell few days in Salida with the Geo
Van Alstyne family. They are agair
taking charge Of their ranch at Cas-.
Teton, Harvey Calvin having quit thu
lease.
Gunnison news-champion., 1924-05-23
BuENA VISTA FARMERS
GOING INTO CAULIFLOWER

Some peas and a little early lettuce
have been planted around Ruena Vista.
The main planting Of lettuce will not
be until the middle and last Of June.
II is probable that the acreage Of
vegetables in this section will con-
siderably exceed that Of last year.
particularly in caulihower and peas
Near Northrup, eight miles south Of
Gunnison news-champion., 1924-05-23

Seed grain is reported very scarce
in our valley. For two years early
fall frosts have prevented the highe.
nero furnishes an abundance of good
seed grain, but the farmers there
have little for 1924. Montrose, Salida
and other districts are being called
en-. Seed oats are said-to be S3.25 in
Denver and good ball barley seed in
$3.50 in Denver.
Gunnison news-champion., 1924-05-23

Creede Candle:-Close estimates on
the entire county show that not more
than thirty acres of head lettuce viii
be planted this year. Dissatisfae-
tion with marketing and prices are
said to be the cause of reduced acre
age, altho better lettuce cannot be
grown anywhere than here.
Gunnison news-champion., 1924-05-23

Buena Vista, it is reported that there
will be at least eighty acres In eauli.
flower alone.
Ninety per cent OF the vegetable
crop will be handled by the Colorado
Cooperative Lettuce Association and
marketed thru the American Fruit
Growers who so successfully handled
the business last year.
Gunnison news-champion., 1924-05-23

While the beaver are getting 50
numerous in soms streams that they
become nuisance, there is a S5OO
fine for killing one. A big colony Of
them certainly play havoc with the
irrigation bitches in places and can
cut down quite a forest of young
trees in a season.
Gunnison news-champion., 1924-05-23

Ora J. Sanders and wife Of Hale
Center. Kansas. were auto visitors
here this week. arriving Monday. They
traded for the I60 acre Max Whit
ranch on Ohio Creek, and came out to
look at their new property.
Gunnison news-champion., 1924-05-23

Bill Hawkins-"I'm little stiH
| from driving"
Stranger-"Where did you say
you were FROM"
Gunnison news-champion., 1924-05-23

Mr.. and Mrs. Juan Quintana were
here from Salida Saturday, having
driven over the Cochetopa range.
They have recently moved to that
point from Pariin and have leased .
place near SaIida-
Gunnison news-champion., 1924-05-23

c. p Link of the Colorado State
Tax Commission stopped of in Gun
nisou for a few hours Saturday. He
was going thru to Western Siege
points via the automobile route.
Gunnison news-champion., 1924-05-23

Miss Nettie Scott, former librarian
at the college here, stopped in Gun
nison for a few days to visit friends.
Gunnison news-champion., 1924-05-23

News Champion Ads Build Bushes,
Gunnison news-champion., 1924-05-23

S,<~hseaiy ksLs-orx. koiks
fss rpsse.siitroasA .AEsiosI
kc~sy. O~< eaoar sIs1.ks<il.
Ccssfs< LoGshc- e>shlsss. In
ssehss sses. Cokl I,Skss.
Standard nss-sksi cord nye,
Evening star., 1924-02-07

tration, having inherited a tremen-
dous war debt from the democratic
administration as q result, in q large
measure, Of conscienceless proffteer-
ing, besides balancing its budget each
year and establishing a surplus after
providing for interest and sinking
fund, stands committed to the -busi-
war debt out of current revenue.
With this sound business background
of efficient economy achievement, the
republican administration proposes to
use the accommodating surplus result
ant from industry and the thrift"
about which we have heard SO much
during the last couple of weeks, in
the only proper channel into which 1t
shou d flow.
THAT surplus, representing the ac-
cumulated savings of more than 110,-
600, 900 people, should be used as new
capital for the creation and develop
ment and extension Of productive in
dustrial enterprises. Thus used 1t
would furnish employment for in
creasing numbers of our people, it
would result in larger quantities of
and sale in the markets of the world,
and the net result would be improved
living conditions and we'll distributed
prosperity
UnprOductive Income.
"Some Of our friends on the other
side of the House have been trying to
make the people of the country be-
lieve the Mellon plan, with it's essen
of graduated surtaxes on higher in
comes from SO per cent to 25 per
cent, is an unholy scheme to relieve
the relatively few individuals who
Evening star., 1924-02-07

pay them. Those who preach such a
doctrine fail utterly to realize that
these surtaxes have proved unproduc-
tive of revenue to the United States
government, and that the surtaxes on
higher incomes have been uncollecti-
BILE. and that, therefore, this system
has proved unscientiflc, unworkable,
uneconomic, and,in fact, has done pos
tive harm In its influence on our well
fare and prosperity.
THAT excessive high taxes unques-
tionably tend to reduce revenue is in
dicated by the fact that for the year
] 1920 the approximate total net in
come on which the individuals paid
amounted to $4,000, 900, 200, while for
the year 1921 it dropped below $780,
000, 100000.
Eject Of High Taxes.
"In 1916 the number Of individuals
reporting incomes Of 100000 exceed
ed $500. while in 1921 the number had
dwindled to 1900. This decrease in
taxable incomes was not due to actual
loss OF income by the individuals re-
porting, but was undoubtedly due to
investments made by them in tax
the burden of excessive taxation oc-
casioned by the very heavy surtaxes.
Secretary MELONS proposal for re-
ducing the surtax rates by COM
mencing application of them at
$4,000 instead of $4,000 and scaling
them progressively upward to rs per
cent at 100000 is designed primarily
prises tremendous amount of capi-
tai that has been hidden away
Stacker capitar--and which, besides
being encouraged to pay fair tax,
Evening star., 1924-02-07

as leaders of the democratic minority
in the House, to play politics on
this matter of such vital concern TO
the welfare of the entire country and
the living conditions of individual
citizens all over this country.
CAS- q business man for nearly half
a century, and after conference with
many Industrial and financial leaders
Of wide experience and the highest
integrity, / assure you. my colleagues,
that for the interests Of the plain.
common citizen, for the interest of
the man who must have work to
support his family, as we'll as for
the interests of the manufacturer and
the nation as whole. We should
pass the entire Mellon tax program
without change"
Evening star., 1924-02-07
DENIES VETERANS
LANGUlSH IN PRISON
Mcfarland Declares Only Nine,
Not Thousands, Still Confined.
Blames Prisoners.
LEGION CHARGES REFUTED
Men Held Following Escape and
-
Later Capture.

Refuting the charges of the Amer
lean Legion that many war veterans
are incarcerated in the various mill
tary prisons for minor infractions of
military discipline, while political
offenders are being freed, James A.
Mcfarland, national commander Of
the Disabled American Veterans, in
a statement made public today, de-
clares that the only war veterans
now serving time are those who have
continued to misconduct themselves.
Mr.. Mcfarland says. in part:
THE national movement just start
ed to bring about the release of what
has been reported as vast groups of
former service men who are sup
posed to be in military prisons for
violation of military law during the
world war has little justification in
fact.
"AS soon as this agitation was
started several weeks ago. We began
an investigation which shows that in
stead Of thousands of veterans in
prison for failure to salute and other
minor infractiopS of military law
there are today under military con-
troll, but ten former soldiers, who
were convicted by general court mar
tial of purely military offenses. Even
one of these is not in the disciplinary
DdTTdCkS dl LedFeH"OTtn AS he Is
on home parole while the other nine
are still confined because they escaped
and were recaptured during terms
that would have since expired had 1t
not been for breaking guard.
Our statement is based upon the
information we have just obtained
from the official records of the War
Department. Within six months of
the armistice a special board of the
Army reviewed the records Of mil
were not shortened or cancelled were
for murder, manslaughter, rape or
some similar crime.
1.-The ten men who are still pris-
oners are held because of their own
continued misconduct. We know Of
many cruelty excessive sentences dur
ing the war but the present situation
is vastly. different"
Evening star., 1924-02-07

a" in any emergency, which our
government, has to meet. the people
OF the country who give their sons
in the supreme sacrifice do not hesi-
tat over paltry dollars. But with the
emergency past there is no justifiable
reason for continuing to pile burden
some taxes upon them, and while
they are willing to give freely in
an emergency they resent being
forced to pay when there is no
longer an emergency.
'tSince the republican administra- :
tion has been in power the national
debt has been actually reduced, in
round figures. $4.000.000.OO0. Thanks
to the adoption of budget system,
so ably administered by Gen. Charles
G. Dawes and Gen. Herbert NJ. Lord.
and thanks to efficient economies in
appropriation by Congress. under the
leadership of Representative Martin
b. Madden, and thanks to- the sound
fiscal policies of Secretary Mellon,
who has become known as a master
of public finance so staunchly sup
ported by the shrewd President CAL
vim Coolidge under this republican
regime. the government has been able
to report a surplus Of upward of
$300.000.000 for each of the fiscal
years 1922 and 1923 over and above
all expenditures.
Further than that, since the end
of the war the republican admins
Evening star., 1924-02-07

men of this country who realize that
frozen capital Is a positive evil in
taking out of productive enterprise,
through fear of excessive taxation,
the funds that should be kept flow
ing through our industrial life.
1.-THE republican members of the
ways and means committee, in sug-
gesting that this question be consid-
cred as non-partisan and in Offering
to compromise on the maximum sur
tax rates, demonstrated their desire
to do all in their power to improve
general prosperity by bringing idle
capital into Industrial use. The dem
ocratic members of the ways and
means committee, by refusing to con-
slider any suggestion of compromise,
clearly demonstrated their intention,