White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1925-10-30
Washington News


Weighing and measuring, with q
monthly report of the health grade to
the parent, will be done through the
school organization. This work will
be supplemented by the Home Dem.
onstration Agent, Miss Helen Lauder
dale, and the Extension Service of the
State College of Washington. Bulle-
tins will be sent to teachers each
month to assist them in presenting
| nutrition work. The milk story will
be told the children in November,
with the making Of posters. The veg
etable story will follow in December;
the fruit story in January; the cereal
story in February and eggs and meat
substitutes in March. Food combina-
ton will be taken up in April Prop
erly balanced breakfasts, dinners and
suppers will be illustrated by cutting
and FASTING pictures of the desired
foods. Hot lunch is planned from No
vember 1 to the last of April.
FRIDAY HARBOR.-Phosph fer
tilizer used on canning peas, field
peas, vetch and oats showed very
definite results in favor of this treat
ment in demonstrations in San Juan
County this year. A cannery pea
grower had an average yield of 223O
pounds per acre in spite of a dry sea-
son and heavy mustard growth. Neigh
boring yields without phosphate were
only one-third ton per acre. Twenty
plants from each Of three plots showed
AZ good pods with manure alone; G2
good pods with phosphate and ma
nure, $50 pounds per acre; and 80
good pods with phosphate and ma
nure, 400 pounds. per acre. The phos-
phate resulted in more uniform ripen-
ing.
RENTON.-The new Black Diamond
coal mine of the Pacific Coast Coal
company, eight miles from Renton, .eX-
pected to become the largest producer
in Western Washington, if calculations
of engineers do not miscarry, was
opened last week.
| Two tunnels, each approximately
three-fourths of mile in length, which
have been driven toward each other
over period of three years, are near
ing the meeting point. Thursday noon
the last drilling is scheduled to be
done on each side. Charges of ex-
plosives will be set off, and if the en-
gineers are correct, the resulting blast
will connect the two bores
Although railroad tunnels of con-
siderably greater length have been
driven, the new Black Diamond under
taking, which has thus far cost in ex-
cess of $1,O00,OOO, is one of the most
intricate engineering feats in the his
tory of coal mining, engineers said
yesterday.
One of the tunnels, driven from the
railroad level toward the interior of
the coal-bearing mountain that will be
tapped, is straight bore.
PULLMAN.-About rs delegates
from eleven Western states are ex-
pected to attend the Western States
Extension Conference which will be
held at the State College of Washing
ton in Pullman November 8 to 10.
Representatives will come from the
states Of Arizona, California, Colorado.
Idaho Montana, Nevada, New Mexico,
Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyo.
ming These extension conferences
are held annually for the purpose of
coordinating programs and methods
in the various projects for the West
ern States. The meeting was held in
Tucson, Arizona, last year. Each year
a new project is added for considera-
ton. Home management is the prof.
ect which will be added to the pro-
gram this year. Some states will send
as many as seven or eight delegates,
while the more distant ones will be
represented by smaller numbers. The
delegates will include the director of
extension in each state, several cas-
sistant directors and extension spe-
cialists. The program will include a
directors administrative conference,
committee reports, and addresses by
representatives Of the United States
Department of Agriculture and the
extension services of several states.
The conference will be held at the
State College, from Sunday through
Wednesday noon. The group will
visit the University of Idaho, Moscow,
4 Wednesday afternoon. A banquet
will be held in Spokane Wednesday
evening, when President e. o. Hol-
land of the State College, will give an
address. Thursday will be devoted to
!. a tour in Spokane County to visit dem
onstrations in agriculture and home
economics there. DR.. 8. B. Nelson,
director of extension in Washington,
Is chairman of the program commit
tee.
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