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SATURDAY,-DECEMBER 26, 1908. T-&E DESMET FARMER s I
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'Leading Implement Dealers," Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Wyoming. Main Offices Salt Lake, Utah
Consolidated UJagon & inachjne Go. I
Branched: Ogden, Logan, Price Utah Jos. F. Smith, President Melvin D. Wells, Scc.-Tre&s. GEO T ODELL Gen Met 1
Branches: Idaho Falls, Montpclier Idaho W. S. McCornick, Vicc-Prest. Grant Hampton, Asst. Sec-Treat. ' fl
It's a pleasure to refer you to Sweet's Common Sense srr77? 1
JkaP, (tf&sK many makes patterned after the Sweet's, but they all ! jH SSSHHtlm
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mmmmmamtmmD srtSSjJp"'"1111' mon Sense Bobs means ease of draft, and bigger loads $s fv (M V
for you. Prices and terms to your liking. '-' i-- H
est area of known phosphate beds in
the world, and it is unquestioned that
it is absolutely necessary to utilize
) these deposits solely for the benefit
of the farms of the United States.
Phosphoric acid, as is of course
well known, is one of the three sub-
i stances which must exist in the soil
x to insure plant growth. President
Van Mise, of the University of Wis
I cousin, stated that it had boon shown
j as the result of agricultural experi-
Imcnt station work in Wisconsin,
Ohio, and Illinois, that in 54 years
certain cropped soils of those states
have been depleted of one-third of
their original phosphoric acid 1080
ndunds or 20 pounds per acre Annual
ly. Applying this rate of exhaustion
! to the 400,000,000 acres of cropped
land in the United States, it would rc
t quire 12,000,000 tons of phosphate rock
I annually to merely offset the loss,' or
I us much as the total amount which
H has been mined from the Florida de-
posits.
A The rapid rate of increase in the do
ll mestic use of phosphate taken in oon-
jj ncction with the limited supply is a
I matter sufficiently sierious; but tlic
, feature which should arouse the great
est concern and call forth the most
vigorous protest is the exportation of
nearly half the output. From this ex-
Iportation the United States received
practically no benefit, whereas every
pound of American phosphate is need
ed for American farni lands. The fol
lowing figures show tire steadily in
creasing prdduction of phosphate rock
in the United States:
Year . Tons.
i8no ................................ 510,488
1900 .w............. .,.. 1,491,216
1905 ........M. ,.. i;(947i99
1907 .., 2,265,343
Of the 1907 rroduction, 900,000 tons
or jf'rout 40 per cent was exported.
Tl'e phosphate rock of South Caro
lina is nearly exhausedf, and the Flori
st 1
dn deposits, once popularly consid
ered practically inexhaustible, have
reached their maximum production.
They will soon begin to decline.
Tennessee has comparatively large de
posits, but this field alone would at
the present rapid rate of increase in
rroduction, last only, according to the
government geologists, eleven years.
There is some phosphate rock in Ar
kansas; but it is of low grade. The
large deposits, therefore, of the Pub
lic Land States must furnish the most
of the phosphate of the future, and to
insure the enrichnvent of our own soil
from our own phosphate beds some
method's must be devised to prevent
the profitable business of its exporta
tion. This, it is believed, can be done only
by the Government's retaining title to
the public lands underlain with phos
phate and providing for their develop
ment by leasing under terms which
will forbid exportation. The lands
haive therefore been withdrawn by the
Secretary of the Interior, as an emer
gency measure, and will ibe reserved
pending action by Congress.
APPLES IN THE CELLAR
Are better than a doctor upstairs
and often prevent one being there.
Wo arc sorry apples are so high
again this year. Though cheaper than
:i year ago they arc still not down to
normal prices, and many who planned
to put two or throe barrels in the
cellar arc again considering putting
it off till another fall. We believe,
however, that wlvcn good spicy winter
apples -can be, had' for four dollars Or
under, no family can afford to be
without a barrel or two, and more if
the family is large.
There is no question, but that much
sickness is prevented by & liberal use
of this fruit. Both raw and baked,
and made into sauces, pies and pud
dings they arc a most wholesome and
much relished food. It must not toe
forgotten that" they take the place of
other food and fruit, too, so they arc
not wholly a' luxury. It seems al
moit criminal to hove children in th
family and not an apple barrel where
they can get to it.
Think it over carefully and sec if
you did not nwike a mistake in not
getting at least one barrel of apples
regardless of the price. Baked apples
and cream I Think of it! Dakota
Farmer.
"BLAMED FOOL EDUCATION."
That is what some knowledge of
agriculture and dairying is called by a
man who says he never took or read
agricultural or dairy papers in his
life. He assumes that he knew it all H
when he was born. Merc is an inven- H
tory of that fellow sot out by Hoard H
Dairyman. In referring to one of its S
cow census correspondents who was fl
looking over the dairy field of Wis- H
cousin, it says of this man: fl
"He found a farmer with a herd ot H
tC cows, the milk of which he was H
taking to a creamery. Actually he did
not get money enough from his cow fl
to pay for thefr keeping, and he lost
Tf UOtiT 'fgim&li. v Wtiwrrrnrffirfter of
tt mile of this man was another farm- fl
er, a patron of the same crcanvery fl
whose herd of 19 cows paid a profit H
above the cost of keeping of $17 a H
piece. The difference between those M
two men was, one man's loss added M
to 'the other's profit, or a difference M
of $25 per cow for the poor herd. M
The census taker tried to arouse the M
dull imn to a sense of the situation M
he was in and showed him. the figures M
relating to the more successful farm- M
r. This seemed to anger him and M
he said it was "all a lie," and he M
knew it. . So low and sunken was this H
man's mind, that he had never had a M
dairy or agricultural paper in his H
house. That showed clearly the M
amount of brains he was bringing to H
bear on his work. He boasted to the M
census, taker that he lmK got all he M
had without any of this "blnmcd fool M
education." H
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If some people who claim to be H
christians never manifested any more H
interest in their business than they H
do in their church they would be H
bankrupt in less than 48 hours. H