The Gem state rural. [volume], October 05, 1905, Page 6, Image 6

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Gem State Rural
Entered at the Post Office at Caldwell at
second class mail matter.
Patllabed Every Thursday by tbe
Gem Stale Rural Publishing Co., Ltd.
A paper devoted to Horticulture, Live Stock,
Farm, Irrigation, Poultry ind Bee Culture, and
generally to ad ranee the Agricultural interests
of the State of Idaho.
Si. oo per year
$1.50 per year
.Editor.
Business Manager.
A. E. GIPdON
J. H. GIPSON.
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE
In Advance...
When not paid in Advance.
Sample Copies Furnished Free Upon Application.
ADVERTISING RATES
PÜRNISHBD ON APPLICATION.
Owing to the growth in the circulation, ne
ceasituting the closing of forms early in the week,
all copy for display advertisements intended for
insertion in the Gera State Rural, must be in
the hands of the Advertising Manager at the op
ening of business on Monday morning of the
sameweek.
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS
In accordance with the established custom of
leading class papers the Gem State Rural will
be sent, and collected for, until notice is given
for discontinuance. One such notice will be
sufficient.
Communications to receive prompt attention
should be addressed to the Gem State Rural,
Caldwell, Idaho.
Watch the Gem state Rural if you want
to know about the agricultural features of
the Canyon County Fair.
Europe is asking for our fine fruit,
will be seen by an article elsewhere in this
paper, from the Hood River Glacier.
Colorado has organized an association
as
for the promotion of scientific farming,
Idaho should do the same thing.
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1 he County fair opens next Tuesday,
Don't forget it. Turn
and
help make the meeting a rousing success.
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The articles in this paper on "Dry Land
Farming, are attracting considerable at
tention; also the story of "How an Idaho
Cow is Kept."
The editor of ihe Household department
of this paper, left the first of the week for
a month's visit with her parents and other
relatives at Greeley, Colo.
Readers of this
paper are again remind
ed of the good roads convention
in Caldwell
to be held
next Wednesday forenoon.
See the program elsewhere.
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The editor of this paper acknowledges
the receipt of a complimentary admission
to the Canyon County Fair, through the
courtesy of Secretary Gowan.
Secretary Handly,
°f the Mississippi
Valley Apple Growers Associatien, makes a
timely appeal in this issue for the observ
ance of National Apple Day.
The Gem Stale Ruial will have
office at the Canyon County Fair
and friends are invited to call there
as at the home office in the city.
a branch
grounds,
as well
State Horticultural Commissioner and
Dairy Inspector, A. F. Hitt, superintended
the three agricultural departments
state fair and did the work well,
assisted by W. T. Harris, J. C. Leiser
A. McPherson.
at the
He was
and
A trial subscription to the Gem State
Rural from now until the first of the year,
for only 15 cents,
the paper is like, here is
out.
If you don't know what
a chance to find
Guy Flenner, the business manager of
the Boise Statesman, was a caller Tuesday.
He was investigating the irregularity in
the arrival of the Daily Statesman these
days.
A quartette of fruit growers and nursery
men placed the ribbons on the prize fruits
at the State fair. They were J. R. Camp
bell of Boise, W. T. Harris of Blackfoot,
H. M. Ruddock of Roswell and J. C. Leiser
0 f Caldwell.
The North Pacific Rural Spirit is show
in g commendable enterprise in its illustrât
ed write ups of the National Livestock
show, which has been the leading feature
of the past few weeks, at the Lewis and
Clark fair.
We are giving considerable attention to
the State Fair this week. For the next
two or three issues the Canyon County Fair
will have attention.
We shall aim to have
complete reports of all of the agricultural
features.
Will T. Harris, of Blackfoot, last week
went to the Lewis and Clark fair at the ex
pense of the Gem State Rural, on our sub
scription offer.
He sent in close to a half
hundred new subscribers, and did his work
well, and we
were glad to carry out our
part of the agreement to the letter.
Tbe Canyon County Fair
Tuesday. The
opens next
management is making
strenuous efforts to have the best exhibition
of the kind ever held
in the county, and it
ZT*' Tbeir
f ° *° b * rewarded b 7 »» extra
lar e e «'tendance. Why not make it the
banner year?
Dr n
of Peruna hL k^ ■ " anufacturer 's
Feruna ' bas be ff un suit against the
Ladies' Horae Journal for some things Mr
Bok has been saying about the methods
employed in securing testimonials for Peru
na , the great
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cure all.
laid at $250,000. It looks
Damages
x , though more
free advertising would be in order for the
Peruna people.
are
as
The report
. . comes from the Lewis and
Clark Exposition Live Stock Show, that
our State experiment station was awarded a
sweepstakes, and two first prizes on Short
horns exhibited there.
The exact
nature
given, but the result
any event, in view of
met with, and Prof,
the station, is to be con
of the awards is not
will be gratifying in
the great competition
French, director of
gratulated.
Judge Brown, who
.. presides over the i
emle court of Salt Lake City,
Boise the past week,
arette crusade among the boys of that ci tv
Judge Brown's wide observation has con
v.nced him that the ciirarett.
«s tendencies and especially WmfT "
boys of tender years it • ,
IS to be hoped that Judge Brown '
tend his crusade
There is need for
juv
bas been in
starting an anti cig
to
. , may ex
l ° other towns of Idaho.
it.
Potent Mediane Men Stirred
The patent medicine
Up.
vendors
are enter
injf into a combine to
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ests. They have not onTy uLnl'^
the recent ruling of the de aar ®at
gard to liquor licenses, but in re '
oT'.hY T ?ettiD?at the hwi > T
of the big magazines and n P » 0
Whatever may be the facts in the 0 ^
the outcome of the agitation if« *1
well for all the med.oine men'to be C' "
the defensive, and it will be better s «i if
some of the rank humbug are co mpe
go out of business. ^ a ta
"f
some
or
on
The County Good Roads Convention, '
We again call attention to the ^
roads meeting to be held on Wedaesd«
forenoon of next week, during the Can
county fair. A good program ^ °
practical phases of the good roads move
ment, has been prepared and a number of
prominent citizens of the county will a
ticipate. President C. E. Brainard
covering
the
county good roads association, will preside,
and will explain the provisions of the new
Independent District Road 1
ty organization will be perfected
best means of
The coun
aod the
starting the good roads
in the county, will be
The Gem State Rural
large and general attend
aw.
movement in earnest
considered.
urges a
ance.
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Our Free Offer.
We offer either Green's Fruit Grower,
Kimball's Dairy Farmer,
Specialist, absolutely free, with an annual,
cash in advance subscription to the Gem
State Rural, of $1.00.
The Apple
or
Or, if you want all
of these publications, with the Gem State
Rural, send us
$1.45 cash, and get them.
This is a great opportunity to get four
first rate publications, at about one half
the regular rates.
Greeting From the Southland.
An old friend, W. E. Pabor, the veteran
journalist and poet laureate of the National
Editorial Association, sends the following
friendly greeting through his handsome
Pabor Lake Pineapple," published at Avon
Park and De Land, Florida:
While absent from home a special
edition of the Gem State Rural, a weekly
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paper published at Caldwell, Idaho, by my
friend (of Greeley memories) A. E. Gipson,
was received and kept for me. It is a splen
did issue, devoted to the Boise valley and
the surroundings of Caldwell, now a city of
beautiful homes. The issue is dated June
15, and while a little late in being noticed,
do not want Brother Gipson to think it
Once a Greeley fruit
was overlooked,
grower, now a rural editor, I send him
develop
hearty congratulations on
ed a little monthly into so excellent a week*
ly.
Fall Planting.
stock for
be think
Have you ordered the nursery
fall planting? If not, it's time to
ing about it. In all of the milder portions
of the State, particularly in the lower a ^
tudes, most kinds of trees and shrubs c
be planted not only with safety, but wi
positive benefit. Get your ground rea
and try it.
Advertisers who want to
ers of Idaho this fall, should be getting
Gem State Rural.
reach tbe farm
sition in the cols of tbe