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BLACKFOOT, IDAHO, DECEMBER 25, 1924.
$2 a Year
INCREASED PROFIT
ON BETTER SPUDS
County Agent Suggests
Ways to Get Larger
Return on Crop
A good many farmers are wonder
ing what is going to happen to our
potato crops in the future since so
many other states and localities are
producing this crop that never sup
plied local demand before. In con
sidering the subject, we find that
Idaho producers standardized vari
eties noted for their quality any
where they are sold. The big dis
advantage, as everyone knows, is the
distance from market. It is a doubt
ful question whether or not freight
rates will be materially lowered so
it seems that this disadvantage must
be overcome by placing a better ar
ticle on the market at an advanced
price.
In the past, individual shippers
have advertised Idaho potatoes by
putting them in even weight new
branded bags and they have been
favorably received. If all of our
high quality potatoes were put up in
this manner, their demand would in
crease. We lose a great deal of ad
vertising from the fact that our po
tatoes are often resold by someone
who does not care to advertize Ida
ho, and also potatoes of inferior
quality are often sold as Idahos,
which never saw Idaho. We can
therefore increase the demand and
value of Idaho potatoes by giving
the trade a high quality potato put
up in branded even-weight bags.
In order to make a profit out of
this crop it is necessary to get a high
yield per acre. Large business con
cerns minimize the overhead ex
pense by handling large orders of
goods at a small profit per article.
When the sales from a business con
cern are small the profits per article
must be increased or the business
falls. The overhead expense in
raising an acre of potatoes is not
much Jarger where a big yield is se
cured than where a small yield is
obtained, the difference being in
picking, hauling, and sacks. ' The
small yield must either be sold for
a large price or a loss in actual
money is sustained which means
failure. If we cannot depend on
getting a high price for potatoes
then we must get a heavy yield to
make up the difference.
It is well known that some grow
ers get from 50 to 100 sacks of low
grade diseased potatoes to the acre
while some of the beet growers pro
duce 300 sacks of high grade pota
toes to the acre; the kind that the
market wants and for which a good
price will be paid. How, then, are
we to get a high yield of potatoes
which also carry quality?
1. Plant certified seed or seed
known to be high yielding and free
from disease. *'
2. Plant large seed pieces on
land in high state of fertility.
3. Adopt the best known cul
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tural methods.
4. Keep the moisture content of
the soil as near constant as possible
after starting to irrigate (especially
true of Russetts).
Too much emphasis cannot be
placed on seed. It is real economy
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CHRISTMAS
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To our loyal friends who have
had so large a part in the up
building of our business as well
as to those we hope to serve in
the future, we extend our sincere
wishes for a Merry Christmas
and a prosperous and successful
New Year.
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The Bröwn-Eldredge
Furniture Company
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Big Cattle Company To I
Develop Dairy Industry
Last week representatives of the
Swauger Land and Livestock com
pany of Mackay, purchased in Wis
consin 165 head of Holstein cattle
including a Wisconsin prize winning
bull. The cattle were shipped last
Monday and were due to arrive at
Mackay on December 24. These
Holsteins are said to be from the
best producing strains in the
country and will give the Swauger
company a Holstein herd of about
250 head.
According to an account of the en
tering of this company into the
dairying Industry on a large scale
the Mackay Miner says;
The Swauger Land and Livestock
company was originally a "cow out
fit'' and while the range cattle in
dustry was never abandoned, the
concern finally developed into one of
the largest "sheep outfits" of the
whole central Idaho range country.
Last spring J. W. Swauger stocked
the "home ranch," near Mackay,
with 70 head of Holsteins from the
University of Nevada herd, and after
an experiment of about six months
with this grade of livestock the of
ficers of this company decided there
was more money to be made in
dairying and producing high grade
Holsteins than in any other branch
of the livestock industry, in which
they had been engaged. While the
company will continue to engage in
range cattle and farm flocks of
sheep, they will specialize on the
dairy cattle industry and will also
put with the cows on the several
farms the pig and the hen.
Tire following report of the pur
chase of the herd of dairy cattle by
the Idaho men is taken from the
New London, Wisconsin, Republi
can:
A party of Idaho men including
Frank and Floyd Swauger and Jack
Carr, of Mackay, Idaho, representing
the Swauger Land and Livestock
company, accompanied by C. C. Gig
noux of Salt Lake City, Utah, are in
the city buying blooded Holstein cat
tle for shipment to Idaho. They
have already made some purchases
and expect to ship about 160 high
class animals from this section to
stock Idaho farms. Mr. Glgnoux,
who is with the Union Pacific Rail
way system, states that the pur
chases are the result of the visit of
John Jennings of New London and
other Wisconsin men to Idaho in
1923.
Contract Awarded for
Fort Hall Main Canal
According to dispatches from
Washington, D. C.. Secretary of In
terior Work on Saturday awarded
the contracts for enlarging the main
irrigation canal on the Fort Hall
Indian reservation. The General
Construction company of Spokane,
Washington, and J. A. Terteling &
Sons of Moscow, Idaho were the
successful bidders.
Excavation work and reconstruc
tion of the canal will cost between
$100,000 and $120,000 and will irri
gate about 25,000 additional acres.
Secretary Work rejected bids for re
lining a large syphon on the reserva
tion project and ordered this work
done under supervision of the Indian
office reclamation branch at an esti
mated cost of $25,000.
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A Visit With Subscribers
This is the first of a series on love, marriage, divorce,
business, radio, styles of dress for women, boy scouts, girl
scouts, standardizing farm products for market, extend
ing electricity to the farms, reducing strikes and litigation,
on which the editor is making some special studies and
may publish articles.
Chapter I.
The one thing that worries people
more than finances is courtship, mar
riage and the relations of the two
halves of society to each other.
People really seem to feel more
anxiety about business and finance
and making a living, but one reason
why people are universally worried
or anxious is that somewhere in
their domestic affairs important
matters are unsettled or unsatisfac
tory or they are combating ill health
or irritations in some of their ten
thousand forms as they grow out of
blunders, seen or unseen, in domes
tic relations, and these in turn affect
or depend on their finances.
When I said, in the Christmas
edition, that I would like to write
something on this question, and that
an editor could hardly afford to say
much on the subject, I was wonder
ing how much I could say and have
the approval of the public. I think
that twenty years ago I knew about
as much of the cause of divorce and
domestic failure as most people did,
and I think that only a small per
centage of the public are well in
formed on it now. At that time I
thought that people who got a
divorce had merely quarreled and
failed to make up. Temperance
talkers were telling us that strong
drink was the cause of most of the
divorces, and I thought they knew
and were telling us the truth. I
was led to believe that if married
people declined to quarrel and left
booze alone, there would be little if
any reason for divorqe. I under
stood that some couples in applying
for divorce set up the claim of "in
compatibility," which meant that
they just naturally irritated each
other. I wondered why they did
not find that out before the matri
monial knot was tied, but nobody
explained it to me or gave any
theory about it. If either of them,
or both, developed bad temper that
could not be controlled in each
other's presence, I thought the bad
temper had been present all the
time and through caution it had re
mained hidden during courtship and
the honeymoon.
Up to the time I speak of, about
twenty years ago, nobody had ever
told me, and I had not made the
discovery by observation, that a per
son of perfectly amiable disposition
permanently dis
But
might become
agreeable early in matrimony,
that fact has come to light, along
with many others, and where both
parties to a marriage are amiable
but both become permanetly dis
agreeable early in matrimony, and
where both of those people became
amiable again soon after they cease
to be in each other's company, I won
der how anyone can fail to approve
of a separation of that couple.
I used to be quite a temperance
lad. I don't get stewed now, but I
am looking for the temperance lec
turers to get them to explain a few
things. They claim there is so much
less consumption of strong drinks
now, (and correspondingly, less of
bad temper) and if their talks of
twenty years ago were true, there
ought not to be any divorces now,
nor
even any domestic troubles at
all. In those days a divorce was a
Now there are
very rare thing,
nearly as many divorces as marri
ages, and many married people do
not get along well, but do not get
divorced. Judging the temperance
situation of the present by the
domestic failures, there must be an
awful volume of strong drink going
If there
down people's necks now.
is any relation between strong drink
and divorce it must be in reverse
ratio.
Did you ever go to commencement
exercises when students and teach
ers forgot their parts? You know
how the audience felt? Well, that
is the way I feel sometimes toward
the reformers when I allow myself
to analyze their activities covering a
period of years. In recent years
they have been taking a good many
new tacks, as if seeking to get away
from the analysis of observers. In
their tacking they have tackled the
young folks, the boys and girls in
their teens, and the women who
don't dress the way their grand
mothers did—and of course that in
cludes pretty nearly all women,
young and of middle age. They at
tack all these folks either on what
they call moral grounds or on the
"tendency" to evil. At first thought
you wonder why the mature men up
to middle age escape their attack,
but they don't. In an underhanded
way they blame men for two things
—a wrong attitude toward women,
and for reeking wltli disease. If
you are not convinced, go and hear
them lecture, or admit them into
your private office or place where
they feel free to give you their whole
lingo, and he, or she, will nearly
drown you with information about
the unspeakable conditions of the
health and morals of students in the
schools and the more active men and
women of the community.
I used to become alarmed over
those things, but as I come to know
people more intimately, as I learn
through their frank confessions just
what impels them to work and play
and make merry and then become
serene again, I conclude that my
alarmist friends are strangers to
human nature and for the most part
cannot correctly interpret outward
appearances at all. For every ten
stories circulated to discredit
students or men and women, I feel
safe in condemning eight or nine of
them as being false, and in making
allowance for the others being only
partly true.
When I learn of people making
application for divorce I no longer
think of them as being abnormal or
off color. I think of them in some
what* the same light as I do radio—
they are probably making some dis
coveries agreeable and otherwise.
The fact that they are taking action
suggests that perhaps they see light
ahead, perhaps they are learning
some of the possibilities of tuning
in.
We know enough of radio to know
that the universe is full of music
and messages "iand harmony for us.
We have witnessed enough of the
operations of radio sets to know
that with the wrong equipment or
wrong tuning in a person or an
audience can draw only a nerve
racking experience. It is not
enough for the sender and the re
ceiver to have good intentions—
they must be correctly attuned or
there is discord of a very damaging
nature. A receiving set that abr
solutely fails in its contact with one
source of entertainment, may turn
away and harmonize exactly with
another. Science says it is a matter
of wave lengths, and inventors made
that feature of the outfits adjustable
so that more of them can be har
monized. If psychologists are going
to solve the human problem in time
to save people from the nerve-rack
ing discords that divorces are made
of, they need to get some practical
information to spread among people
pretty soon.
Rays of light produce different
colors, depending on different wave
lengths, and astrologists seek to
show that people are born with dif
ferent temperaments and their
course fixed by the wave length of
the planet predominating at the time
of birth. If they have the true
theory it is high (ime for them to
make it practical by showing people
how to select in marriage those per
sans belonging to their respective
wave lengths. But there are dozens
of other "logies" and "isms" with
theories possessing equally good
showing but nothing that has been
accepted as being practical. In the
meantime the world sits as much
aghast at the calamities arising from
unhappy relations of the two halves
of society as from the ever-present
menace of war. As civilization be
comes more complicated and people
become more specialized in their
work and play, and the crossing of
parent stock creates new comblna
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Commissioner Praises
Asylum Management
State institutions under super
vision of the department of public
welfare have sufficient supplies on
hand to last until appropriations for
are available,
David Burrell, commissioner of pub
lic welfare, announced at Boise Sat
urday, on his return from Blackfoot
where he attended a special meeting
the next biennium
of the board of directors of the Ida
ho Insane asylum. Not a single
purchase will be necessary until
then, Mr. Burrell stated.
As commissioner, Mr. Burrell has
charge of the Blackfoot asylum, the
Oroflno asylum, the Soldiers' home
in Boise, the Nampa institution for
feeble minded and the state sani
tarium at Lava Hot Springs. Gov
ernor C. C. Moore accompanied the
commissioner on part of his trip.
Mr. Burrell says the Blackfoot in
has to last
until April 1 at least. There Is
plenty of everything, he says, and
the institution is operating efficient
ly under the direction of Dr. F. W.
Mitchell.
The commissioner says a great
saving of money Is made by stocking
the institutions to run until the new
appropriations become available, be
cause when goods are bought on
local requisition in small quantities
and the merchant knows' iie is going
to have to wait three months for his
money, he raises the price. "And I
don't blame him," he added.
Mr. Burrell says that in spite of
the fact that the Institutions over
which he has charge are well stock
ed, there will be much money un
spent and this will be returned to
the treasury. Also, he says, by
virtue of having large stocks of sup
plies the institutions will not need
such large appropriations for the
next two years.'
The asylum at Blackfoot needs a
new laundry, he said, but there is
not sufficient money in that part of
the Institution's appropriation for
equipment to buy the new macninery
at this time. It will be necessary to
wait for the new appropriations be
cause it is illegal to contract for
equipment without the money.
Mr. Burrell said that like other
water users of the upper Snake river
valley the asylum was contracting
for additional irrigation water from
the American Falls reservoir. This
water will cost about $5,000 and the
legislature will be asked to apt
propriate for it.
Mike Barclay Ready
With Lambs for Show
Michael Barclay, prominent sheep
man of Blackfoot, has entered a car
load of Hampshire fat lambs for ex
hibition at the Ogden livestock show
to be held January 6 to 10, inclusive.
Mr. Barclay has exhibited the grand
champion carload of fat lambs at the
past three Ogden shows and accord
ing to a letter made public by the
managers of the show, Mr. Barclay
believes he has the best exhibit this
year he has ever shown. In his let*
ter Mr. Barclay says:
"I have been informed that you
have received the entries for the
carload of lambs which won grand
championship at the Pacific inter
national livestock show held at Port
land, Oregon, November 1 to 8. I
am told that the Portland lambs are
the best load ever exhibited at that
great International show. This all
sounds good to me, as I have by far
the best load of lambs that I have
ever exhibited at a livestock show,
and if the Portland grand champion
load defeats my lambs I will take off
my hat to them."
With entries in the carload of fat
lamb class already received from
Rich and Wilson of Burley, Idaho;
Del Adams, Layton, and the Dang
berg Land & Livestock company of
Minden, Nevada, with other entries
yet to be received, Manager Whit
lock states that the fat lamb section
at the coming Ogden show will
eclipse anything ever seen at past
shows.
MARKET REPORT
$0.65
Potatoes, Rurals
Potatoes, Russets
Wheat .
Oats .
.85
2.80
1.80
Butter .
Eggs .
.35
.40
FARMS FOR RENT
I have several farms for rent in Bingham county
and wish to arrange with tenants to go on them this fall
BOWEN CURLEY
Idaho Falls
Idaho
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RETAINING DEATH
PENALTY FAVORED
Warden of Idaho State
Prison Says Hanging
Deters Murder
Idaho's death penalty law for first
degree murderers should be retained
on the statute books, John Snook,
warden of the state prison, says in
his biennial report, submitted to
Governor C. C. Moore Monday.
Mr. Snook says it is reported that
efforts will be made to have the next
legislature repeal this law, and he
argues that without it there is
nothing to dissuade a would-be mur
derer or a hardened criminal from
taking a life. The large number of
murders in the United States is due,
he thinks, to failure to enforce the
death penalty promptly.
The warden recommends an ap
propriation of approximately |155,
000 to operate the prison the next
two years. He also recommends ap
propriations- of $8,377.51 and |3,
616.70 for Zion's Cooperative Mer
cantile institution and A. E. Horsley,
respectively, for machinery for the
shoe shop, bought by the previous
administration without funds with
which to pay for It.
The material was 2 bought from
the Zion institution on a purchase
order issued June 12, 1923, on the
requisition of the late W. L. Cuddy,
former warden. The legislature
made no appropriation for this
amount, Mr. Snook says.
In June, 1921, former Governor
D. W. Davis and Mr. Cuddy entered
into an agreement with Mr. Horsley
for the purchase of machinery, but
for which the legislature had made
no appropriation.
Mr. Snook says that when he took
office he notified the two parties that
there were no funds available to pay
their claims, and asked them to re
move the machinery if they desired,
but added that if they would leave
the machinery he would recommend
to the legislature that the claims be
paid.
During the two years, the warden
says, the shoe factory shows a loss to
the penitentiary of $646.10, but that
orders for more than $1,000 worth
of shoes are now on hand. This is
a result of the "state's use" system
installed following a meeting of the
committee on the allocation of pris
on industries, wheih met in Salt
Lake City April 9, 1924.
The warden reports that every
ablebodied man in the prison is em
ployed. The prison population at
the present time is 279, with 253
employed.
Maryland Warden Differs
The warden of the Maryland state
prison differs with the Idaho warden
as to the efficacy of the death pen
alty as a deterrent of murder. Cap
ital punishment is without value as a
deterrent to crime, Col. Claude B.
Sweezey, warden of the Maryland
penitentiary and house of correction,
recently told
grand jurors' association,
100 members of the
at their
monthly meeting.
The murderer himself. Colonel
Sweezey declared, does not expect to
be caught, and
passion never gives a thought to the
degree of his penalty. In the main,
he said, capital punishment dooms
to death only murderers, who are
"the most level-headed and the
squares!" of men behind prison
wails, and the least likely to com
mit a similar crime again.
in the heat of his
ELKS PLAN BUILDING
The Elks lodge of Idaho Falls has
under consideration the erection of
a modern building to be used as an
Elks home and club house, with
gymnasium, swimming pool and
other provisions for recreation. The
estimated cost, according to tenta
tive plans, will be about $160,000.
DAWES NOT COMING
Charles G. Dawes, vice president
elect has notified Congressman Ad
dison T. Smith that he will be un
able to attend the woolgrowers' con
vention In Idaho next month. Gen
eral Dawes, had he gone west, was
to have spoken In Idaho, Oregon and
Utah, but he informed Mr. Smith
that he Is unable to make any speak
ing dates at this time.