The Caldwell tribune. [volume], September 17, 1915, Image 12

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NOW IS TIME TO
3ELFGT SEED CORN
It is time again for the annual talks
on field selection of seed corn which
almost nobody heeds. The idea is
not popular if one may judge by the
small number of corm growers who
practice field selection of their seed
corn, but arguments in its favor are
hard to get around. Perhaps the
strongest argument for it is that the
best corn growers practice it and get
results from it.
Boise Valley is much like other corn
growing sections this year in that it
will probably have a lot of frosted
corn for there is a great deal of corn
which will not mature unless frost
comes later than may be expected*
Field selection of seed corm involves
too much labor and time to make it
practical on a large scale but when
followed out consistently in connec
tion with a seed plot it will go farther
toward the improvement of our corn
crop than almost anything else.
In this state we are particularly in
terested in developing strains of early
maturing corn since corn that is ma
ture at the time of the first frost is
lower in yield, in feeding value and
germinating power than the same
corn would be if mature, and since our
season makes a late maturing corn
uncertain. In every field there is con
siderable variation in the maturity of
the corn, some ears ripening as much
as two or three weeks earlier than
others under the same conditions.
Hence, seed selection should begin as
soon as the first ears ripen and the
earliest maturing ears should be
chosen, other things being equal. In
crib selection the early ears cannot be
distinguished.
Stalk selection is almost, if not quite
as important as ear selection, and this,
of course, can only be followed by
going through the fields before the
corn is gathered.
The careful corn grower then, who
is earnestly concerned in the system
atic improvement of his crop with re
spect to yield, quality and early ma
turity, will let nothing keep him from
the corn field at the time when the
early maturing ears are showing up
and before frost strikes the crop. With
a sack hung from his shoulder he will
pass between the rows looking for
the dry husks which indicate the ripe
ears. When he finds such an ear he
will first scrutinize the stalk on
which it grows. He requires this to
be thick and strong, of medium
height, with rather short joints, abun
dant foliage and strong tassel. He
will also look for stalks that are free
from suckers. He requires the ear
to be placed at a convenient height
on the stalk and attached by a rather
short shank of medium thickness. He
wants the husks to cover the ear
completely over the tip and to be
sufficiently abundant to give the ear
protection from weather but does not
want them heavy, coarse and harsh.
If the stalk and ear pass this examin
'ation, he will open the husks and if
he finds an ear of good size with
straight rows of uniform kernels of
the type he thinks best, well filled
over tip and butt he will drop it in his
sack. Time will not permit him to
make a score card examination of
each ear at the time so he will gather
perhaps two or three time sas many
as he expects to use, expecting to ex
amine them more critically after they
•are dry and discard all which do not
conform to the type toward which he
is working.
After the seed is selected it sho-uld
be thoroughly dried in an airy place
where it will not freeze and yet will
not become too warm. Plenty of
ventilation among as well as around
the ears is needed to permit them to
dry quickly and thoroughly.
It is gratifying to note the work
done by some of the corn club mem
bers in the field selection of seed corn
and equally gratifying to note the in
creasing numbers of farmers who are
becoming interested in this system as
well as in the use of the special seed
plot.
H. A. IRELAND,
U. S. Dept. of Agriculture.
IDAHO STATE FAIR IN RE
CEIPT OF MORE CASH
PREMIUMS.
Will be Held at Caldwell September
27-28-29-30 October 1.
CALDWELL.—In addition to the
big prizes already published, the Cald
well Mill & Elevator company and the
Pacific Seed company have offered
some fancy cash prizes for the best
grain and grass exhibits shown at the
Idaho State Fair here September 27,
28, 29, 30 and October 1. Each con
cern offers a prize of $50 cash, the
former on grains and the latter on
grasses.
Basis of Judging.
The milling company's prize will go
to the best display of sheaf grains,
scored as follows: Artistic merit. 20
points; number of varieties, 20; wheat,
20; oats, 20; barley, 20; rye, 10; qual
ity of varieties shown, 10.
The seed company's cash prizes for
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sheaf grass display will be awarded on
this basis: Artistic merit, 25 points;
varieties, 25; feeding qualities, 25;
seeding qualities, 25.
For community and district awards
a total of $800 has been set aside.
Space reservations being made indi
cate that exhibits are coming from all
parts of southern Idaho.
Enlarging Buildings.
Manager J. E. Riddle Saturday out
lined the building improvements be
ing made on the grounds. A new
building is being erected for school
exhibits. An addition is being made
to the woman's building. The hog
house is being doubled in size. Mr.
Riddle stated that a new refrigerating
plant is being installed in the dairy
building, and he predicted that visitors
will behold the finest display of dairy
products ever seen in the" west.
milking contests, divided into classes
A and B, will be held, with $50 cash
prizes in each, in addition to the spe
cial premiums.
Track Program Attracts.
J. S. Harrington, S. J. Vanhyning
and W. S. Maxey, constituting the
racing committee, held a meeting Fri
day evening, and practically complet
ed plans for the speed events. They
are assured of the presence on the local
track of the best horses from Baker
and Ontario, Ore., Weiser, Payette,
Boise and Caldwell. With the fairs at
Baker, Ontario and Caldwell arranged
for succeeding weeks, it is planned to
have the Oregon horses follow the
circuit, and in this city there will ap
pear many Idaho racing steeds which
do not invade the Oregon tracks.
WATERMELON SIRUP.
A delicious table sirup can be made
from watermelons, and it affords to
the farmer according to the fruit
juice specialists of the department, a
convenient means of using the surplus
watermelons which otherwise are al
lowed to spoil in the field. Such sirup
lias been made by farmers in a small
way in various parts of the South, and
the department endeavored to work
out exact methods of making it as a
possible by-product from surplus mel
ons. This sirup can be used im
mediately or can be bottled hot in
sterilized jars and kept just as is done
in the canning of fruit. It is reddish
brown in color, very sweet and well
flavored, and will serve most of the
purposes for which sirup is used in
the home. It has been tried with sat
isfactory results in making ginger cake
homemade candy, and as a sweetening
and flavoring in ice cream.
As the specialists point out, while
the juice of commercial watermelons,
such as the "Tom Watson," contain
on an average only about 7 per cent
of sugar, or less than many other
juices, the ease with which the juice
can be pressed out partly offsets the
low sugar content. The method de
scribed below calls only for utensils
found in every household.
Directions for Making Table Sirup.
Remove the pink flesh and seeds
from the rind of sweet, fully ripe mel
ons. Crush the flesh with a potato
masher or by running it through a
meat chopper. Place the crushed pulp
and seed in cloth bags and squeeze
out the juice, which flows out readily.
About five-sixths of the pulp will all
squeeze out as juice. About 13 gal
lons of the juice will make 1 gallon
of sirup. This amount of juice can
ordinarily be secured from 10 water
melons weighing from 22 to 25 pounds
each.
The juice is then boiled down into a
sirup in an ordinary preserving kettle.
The juice boils without much foam
ing and burning. The red coloring
matter in the juice coagulates during
boiling, and part of it rises to the
surface, where it can be removed by
skimming. The remainder floats about
in the juice, forming red particles that
gather near the top. Toward the last
of the boiling the sirup must be watch
ed comstantly. If the housewife has a
candy thermometer, she should take
the sirup from the fire as soo,n as it
reaches a temperature of 220 Far.,
otherwise she should let it cook un
til a small sample on cooling is about
as thick as maple sirup.
When the boiling has finished, the
sirup can be set aside to cool in cov
ered vessels or can be poured while
hot into cans or glass containers and
sealed.
Where a cider press is available the
melons can be cut into pieces and ar
ranged an the press so that the pres
sure will extract the juice of the pulp
before it presses the rind. The juice
of the rind is not so rich in sugar, and
experiments with rind juice alone in
dicate that it is not suitable for sirup.
To Remove Red Coloring Matter.
If it is desired to make sirup free
from red particles, start the sirup boil
ing, and when some of the coagulated
matter has beon removed by skimming
transfer the juice to tall glass jars or
other tall containers and allow it to
settle and cool for a few hours. This
allows the red particles to settle to
the bottom. The upper part of the
juice can then be poured off and boil
ed into sirup.
since.
Three cheers have been proposed
for the Missotirian who beat up his
daughter's suitor so badly that he
hasn't been able to play the cornet
ARROWROCK DAM IS
A MASTERPIECE
29 miles high. No bigger job of con
mixing for one structure was
Boise, Idaho, Sept. 16.—If the con
crete in the Arrowrock dam, the high
est in the world located 20 miles
above this city, which will be officially
dedicated October 4 with appropriate
services here, were placed in the aver
age block in moSt any city in the Unit
ed States, it would stand flush with
the four streets around it, as high as
a 15-story edifice; if it were put into
a column 10 feet square, it would stand
ever attempted before in this coun
try. Today this dam stands complet
ed, a tribute to the Reclamation Serv
ice and engineering and constructing
ability of F. E. Weymouth, supervis
ing engineer of the Idaho district;
Charles H. Paul, construction engin
eer and James Munn, superintendent
of construction.
If this masterpiece in concrete could
be weighed it would tip the beam at
over a million tons. Today it is
wedged and anchored in arch shape
with a radius of curvation at 662 feet,
1,100 feet long between sheer moun
tains towering a mile high. Its to
tal height is 348.5 feet, 91 feet of
which is below the Boise river bed
across which it has been constructed.
It rests on a base 240 feet wide which
represents its thickness where it is
concreted to granite. At the top it is
16 feet wide, crested with a concrete
roadway guarded on either side by a
parapet wall four feet high crowning
which are arc light pedestals the en
tire sweep of the curve. The sides
are also anchored to granite cliffs.
Inside of it are spacious inspection
galleries running its full length at
various levels, the lowest 230 feet be
low normal high water surface. In
these galleries is the mechanism that
operates the 20 outlets controlling the
impounded water. Today two of these
four-feet and four inches in diameter
control the total flow of the river.
There are more steps inside the ap
parently solid dam than are found in
most hostelries. They, too, are made
of croncrete.
One side of this mighty dam con
tains a concrete deck over which logs
floated down the reservoir can be
snaked across and shot into a concrete
chute, through a tunnel and dropped
60 feet into the river below. There
are three billion feet of merchantable
timben valued at thirty-six million
dollars tributary to this reservoir and
it is estimated it will take fifty years
to float >nd shott it over the dam
On the opposite side is a concrete
coated spillway cut out of solid gran
ite to take care of water in the flood
season. It has a capacity of 40,000
second feet. The crest is 400 feet
long and the water, rushing over it,
drops into a trench 10 to> 70 feet deep
and is carried a distance of 900 feet
«round the dam cascading down the
mountain side into the river below.
For extreme flood waters the dam is
so built as to allow a flow of four feet
in depth to rush over it without dam
age to the structure.
Turning constantly, mixing and
kneading their two-ten charge of con
crete, double cone mixers churned
for four years to mix enough concrete
to fill the excavation for the dam and
raise it to its present towering height.
A total of seven hundred thousand
cubic yards of rock and dirt was ex
cava "d for both dam and spillway and
six hundred cubic yards of concrete
were dumped into the dam. Where it
was possible great boulders were used
in the construction. A mountain side
of gravel was moved, screened and
dumped into gravel trains and carried
13 miles to the mixers. These dumped
with the regularity of a clock. Elec
trict cars then rushed the concrete
into a tunnel to the distributing tow
er. Cableway buckets sailed through
the air between the tower and hop
per. It was then distributed from the
hopper by chute to various points on
the dam. In less than three minu
tes from the time the gravel left its
bin at the mixing plant, it was in its
final resting place in the croncrete of
the dam. Every day saw the dam
2000 cubic yards nearer completion.
A sand-cement plant with a capac
ity of 1000 barrels per day of 24
hours, or a total output of 585,240 bar
rels, saved the government thousands
of dollars. Crushed granite run
through this plant and ground with
Portland cement, was mixed 45 per
cent sand from the granite and 55
per cent Portland cement giving a bet
ter and stronger mixture than pure
cement. The mill was erected below
the dam. Granite from the spillway
excavation was passed to it through
a chute, run through a rock crusher
and sand rolls, dryer and ball mill
and pulverized to pass of 20-mesh
sieve. Mixed later with Portland
cement it passed through a 200-mesh
sieve. Afterwards it was stored in
large covered bins and as needed was
blown by air pressure through a tube
across the excavation to the mixers.
All sand cement passed a thorough
test before used. The plant is now
being dismantled.
Before the foundation was laid,
holes were drilled 30 to 40 feet into
the granite bed and grouted with pure
cement under air pressure to "fill all
possible crevices. These holes were
carried up into the dam together
with seepage test holes into the in
spection galleries where grouting ma
chines can be set up and grouting re
sumed if water is found to seep
through. If seepage developes the
water will be carried off through the
galleries.
The dam was started four years
ago and completed over a year ahead
of time at a saving under the esti
mates of $2,500,000. The total cost
was five million dollars. Behind it is
impounded enough water to flood the
castor ia
For Infanta and Children.
The Kind Yon Have Always Bought
Warning!
To the People of Idaho:
Take notice that the fake water glass test of baking
powder is now being used in your state. This test has
been condemned as a fraud by the U. S. Government
authorities. The pure food officials have resolved against it.
The fake water glass test is only used by baking
powder companies who put albumen, (sometimes called
white of egg), into their baking powder. That is what
albumen does in baking powder—makes possible the fake
water glass test. Glue, mucilage, or soap will do the
same thing.
No good baking powder needs to be doped with albu
men, glue, mucilage or soap.
Read the label before you buy baking powder—not
after—Beware of any baking powder if the label reads
egg or "dried white of eggs." Such baking powder con
tains albumen and is forbidden to be sold in some states.
Do not be deceived by house to house canvassers with
their so-called "tests"—stick to your old reliable brand.
If their brand is better why do they resort to tricks and
deceit to get you to change ?
KC Baking Powder
contains no albumen (sometimes called white of egg).
It is a pure food baking powder—sold at an honest
price and no better can be bought at any price.
Ounces for
(more than a pound and
a half for a quarter)
Ask Your Grocer He Knows
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Caldwell, Idaho.
city of Boston with 8 feet of water, or
244,300 acre-feet. If spread over 360
square miles it would cover that area
a foot deep. The reservoir so created
is 18 miles long bounded by moun
tains; the water is 200 feet deep. This
water together with that in the Deer
Flat reservoir below will irrigate 240,
000 acres of land in the Boise project,
located in western Idaho tributary to
Boise. When used for irrigation pur
poses the water is allowed to pass
from the outlets in the dam back into
the river below which carries it 15
miles down stream where a diversion
dam diverts it into the New York
canal, a cement line artificial river,
which in turn takes it on 35 miles to
the valley below for storage in Deer
Flat reservoir from which it is passed
through the distributing canal system
to the lands.
It is the dedication of this dam that
Boise and all Idaho proposes to make
a gala day with appropriate ceremon
ies commensurate to the occasion.
REGULAR MEETING OF THE
TEACHERS—PARENTS CIRCLE
Election of Officer« Takes Place
Excellent Program Planned.
Monday afternoon at 3:30, Septem
ber 20, at the high school building,
will be held the regular meeting of
the city circle of the Teachers-Par
ents' association. Election of officers
will take place. A good program has
been planned. Every one is invited.
Is the Idaho press a detective, a
state's marshal, a politician's weapon,
a campaign manager, or an upright
vender of news? If certain assertions
alleged to have been made by Sena
tor Borah are true it is not much else
but a goat. If the senator had any
certain paper in mind when he said
newspapers were to blame for the
nomination of O. V. Allen, he should
have given the name of that paper. If
he had done this he would have ex
emplified the position which his re
ported words demand the newspapers
shall take. The report of his saying
that the newspapers wanted to nomin
ate Allen in order to have a club to
use against the direct primary is hard
to believe. If the newspapers be as
cold-blooded and unscrupulous as this
they are certainly a stupid lot—for the
direct primary produces no trifling
amount of revenue for them.—Glenn's
Ferry Gazette.
To The Builder
Progress—the Motto of Civilization is no more forcibly
demonstrated in any commodity than in the LIGHTING
FIXTURE.
Time there was when any sort of fixture would do as a
means of carrying electric current from the wall to a posi
tion of need. Today the Lighting Fixture is not a make
shift affair, but rather a part of the Home Furnishing.
Indeed, a graceful fixture properly illuminated is a
thing of Beauty, Satisfaction. Comfort—yes, Necessity
just as much as is the Living Room Rug, the Davenport,
the Chairs or the Table.
Yet withal it is often difficult to convice the Builder of
the economy of proper original installation. How often
do you argue that it was economy to add to the construc
tive cost of the building for a better foundation, better
walls, better woodwork, better paint—and in fact an end
less number of items at an increased expense. Later-—
when ready to purchase Lighting Fixtures—you scrimped
and schemed and saved, and finally purchased an outfit
of scimpy, measly, little cheap fixtures to hang
house in which you were so proud. AND STILL LATEK
you purchased fine furniture, rugs, silver, crockery and
no end of furnishings to enhance the beauty of your
home. There amidst the so-called economy hangs what
you failed to consider—but what developed to be more
important than the furniture and harder to change—the
Lighting Fixtures—wholly inadequate, entirely unsatis
factory and still you wondered .iust what was the matter.
Do you know that often tmore money is invested in
door-knobs and key-holes than in lighting fixtures for a
so-called modern residence?
Mrs. Builder prides herself on her ability to entertain,
her furniture, her rugs, her dresses and her hats, yet fails
in the one item that first attracts her visitor—LIGHT. By
this is not meant that one's visitors are unduly critical yet
we all are more or less given to "Looking Around" and
form our impressions accordingly.
It is not true that the Fixture dealer is selfish because
lighting is his business, but existing conditions are facls
and we are privileged to'protest against such conditions
particularly in view of the tremendous possibilities ior
giving the consumer comfort, cheer and enjoyment far
beyond their general conception. Science in its rapui
progress has enabled us to enjoy light from two great
standpoints—Economy and Efficiency. The evolution ot
the electric light bulb from the Edison Carbon Lamp to
the Mazda Filament was immence. We now have the Ni
trogen Lamp all but perfected.
Is it unfair to ask you, Mr. Builder, to furnish a suitable
surrounding for this evolution in light by installing a fix
ture that will grace its beauty and lend a tone of harmony
to the building and its furnishing«?
0BOESSS3OHO
Idaho Power & Light Co
Phone 122 119 So. 7th St.
Continuance of Excellent Service.