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and 10-acre tracts overlooking Fi
er. $175.00 to 9300.00 per acre. Terms
jtZä- 90 per acre cash and $25.00 per
.mes re per year.
Fine location, fine
-ï.0 acres one mile out, 12 acres alfal
said clover, $80.00 per acre. $500.00
-safe balance easy.
40 acres, S miles out, shack, 15 acres
-vavftr, $75.00 per acre. $450.00 cash,
ntiance to suit.
*14) acres 2 miles out, buildings, 35
-i-rea alfalfa and clover. $70.00 per
-icre, $1400. cash, snap.
40 acres, 2 miles out, fenced, bulld
all alfalfa and clover, $100. per
■ s~re, $750.00 cash
Yon absolutely can't go wrong on
^siBy of the above,
rr. Idaho.
E. B RIPLEY, Fil
Dec. 1 tf.
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Waiting time charged for at
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Taxi Service Inside City Lim
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One span bay mares, coming 6 years
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One bay mare 9 years old, weight
1,250.
One span mares, coming 2 and 3
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One set brass mounted, heavy work
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One Peter Suttler wagon.
ïhree buggies and buggy harnesses
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SUITABLE HOUSE FOR DUCKS
Dry Floor, Well Bedded With Straw
or Shavings, Is Essential—Feed
and Water Outdoors.
(By D. O. BARTO, University of Illinois.)
Much less expensive buildings will
answer for ducks than are required
for hens. The essentials are a dry
floor, which should be kept well bed
ded with straw or shavings, adding a
fresh layer on top as the old litter be
comes soiled or damp. It is not nec
essary to clean the pens until spring,
as the droppings do not heat like hen
manure. The roof must be tight, and
the sides made of any sheeting ma
terial. A window 3x3 feet, made to
slide, and a drop door 2x3 feet for the
ducks, with another door for the at
tendant to enter, are all the openings
necessary. The house should be 12x12
feet for each flock of 30 ducks. A
large yard is unnecessary during the
laying season, as the birds will not
exercise much. The food and water
should be given outside the house, and
the yards should be kept free from
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mud by the use of cinders or litter.
Feed in racks, so that the ducks can
not soil and waste the food.
About the middle of November, the
birds are put on tlieir laying ration,
which must not be changed till the
season ends. Feed night and morning
the following mixture; Five parts of
corn chop, five parts of bran, two
parts of middlings, two parts of meat
scraps, four parts of cut green stuff,
five per cent of coarse sand. Mix and
moisten so the mass is crumbly. An
addition of three or four parts of
boiled vegetables is desirable if it can
be provided. The "greenstuff" may be
rye, clover, oats, alfalfa, or whatever
can be most easily provided. In the
winter finely cut clover or alfalfa that
has been scalded over night is a good
substitute.
One large duck grower states; "In
exactly three weeks after beginning
this feeding, you will commence to
gather eggs." Pekin ducks are splen
did layers, and large flocks will aver
age 120 to 140 eggs per duck in the
season.
HENS' DUST BATH IN WINTER
Fine Road Dust Is Essential for Keep
ing Fowls Free From Vermin Dur
ing Cold Weather.
A box of fine road dust should be
kept within easy reach of the hens
every day in the year when there is
no dust in the yards for the hens to
wallow In. Of course, henB on free
range in summer and fall will usually
find an unlimited supply of dust ready
at baud, or at most all we need to do
is to spade up a place if the soil in the
yard is hard.
The dust bath is just as essential in
winter in keeping the fowls free from
lice as it is in hot weather. Lice thrive
and multiply In winter as well as in
summer; not so rapidly, of course, yet
fast enough in the average poultry
house to make life a torture for the
hens if nothing is done to keep the in
sects in check.
As a rule, Monday is the best killing
day.
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A great amount of water Is used to
form an egg.
In packing dressed poultry for ship
ment, never use straw, cloth or paper.
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See that the carcasses are ln such
condition that they attract the eye of
the customer.
Poor carcasses should never be sent
to a city market; neither should they
be packed with good ones
Remember in cold weather to in
crease the meat ration, as the hens
need it to keep up the heat for the
body.
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for one and a quarter pound bird;
April, one and a half pound; May, one
and a quarter to two pounds.
The French feed considerable buck
wheat to their turkeys, believing that
I his grain imparts to the flesh a dell- \
-ate, nutty flavor much liked by their
epicures
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Kind—This is an Era of Efficiency.
(By JOHN D. PRENTICE.)
A good many years ago I suddenly
woke up to the fact that the idlers
on the farm are the things that keep
a man from making money. When I
came West fifteen years ago I visited
a big manufacturing plant at Chicago
and I was struck by tire system which
kept everybody and everything busy.
in going through the factory 1 could
not see an idle man nor an idle ma
chine. Everything and everybody was
on the jump every minute. No lost
motion, no loafing on the job. And as
I pondered over the matter on my way
to my new farm I began to realize
how much 1 had lost in the past
through maintaining idle and unpro
ductive things
As soon as 1 got settled I sold off
three old horses I had brought with
me, and bought two good ones; traded
four cows that had never been up to
the mark for two that gave more
milk than the four ever did. and I in
vested some of my capital in a flock
o" 20 sheep, about 100 hens and five
of the best brood sows I could buy in
the county.
Then I traded an old reaper that I
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GOOD PROTECTION FOR TREES
Pennsylvania Expert Recommends
That All Litter Be Removed and
Earth Mound Be Erected.
The damage to trees, particularly!
in young orchards, from gnawing by
rabbits and mice during the winter-)
time is very great. Last winter in
particular there was an unusual abund
ance of field mice. When the snow
thawed from meadows the burrows of
mice could be seen extending in all
directions. Many young trees planted
in sod or where manure or mulch
came closely around their basés were
completely girdled by these anlmaU.
As a precautionary measure, Profes
sor Paddock of Ohio college of agri
culture recommends that litter of all
kinds be removed from around the
trunks of young trees and that a six-,
inch mound of earth thrown about
trunks of such trees is also a good
plan. This protection of earth also
safeguards to a certain extent against
winter injury.
One does not want to go to the other
extreme, however, and remove all cov
ering from off the young tree roots.
Experiment has shown that a certain
amount of organic matter in or on the
soil will often protect the trees front
injury during a hard winter.
Rabbits are always present and the
possibility of injuries should always
be guarded against. One of the ways
recommended for preventing the rab
bits from gnawing the trees is to pro
tect them with some form of tree
protector. This may either be a cylin
der of fine-meshed woven wire or
wood veneer or cloth.
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Good Type of Brood Sow.
In selecting a brood sow, form is
The body
first to be considered,
should be finely built, vigorous, long
with heavy quarters, fiat back, short
snout, ears and limbs,
should not be too short. She should
be a vigorous feeder, with great ca
The neck
pacity, because an indifferent feeder j
will starve her pigs. A sow whose lit- j
ters range less than eight to twelve
pigB each Is a failure.
Leas Seed Required.
\ Lees seed to the acre la required
where oats are seeded with the drill
than when seeded broadcast.
stock that I could buy and that I ;
would make everything on the place j
earn its keep or know the reason why. |
1 had brought with me an old thresh
ing machine with which I used to go
around through our neighborhood In
Ohio every fall doing odd jobs of
threshing. Of course I made a little
money at this, but when I figured out
the time the old machine stood idle—
about ten months in the year—and re
pairs I had to pay for and the time
spent In hunting up jobs, I quickly
discovered that the old rattletrap had
cost me a good deal of money.
I traded the outfit for a bunch of
yearling calves and felt that I had a
load off my chest.
Within a week after T had made my
trades and purchases I had the sheep
busy cleaning up a 20-acre pasture,
over 100 chickens were scratching
their living out of the fields, the hogs
were putting on flesh; the cows made
more butter than we could use, which
brought us In cash every week, and
the calves were laying money on their
ribs right along. Everything was
working night and day.
Of course I could not make all the
changes I wanted at once, but within
six months every head of live stock on
tho place was good of its kind, and,
profitable. That Is the main thing,
to Invest one's capital only in things
that will bring returns on the invest
ment.
I never before had realized how
Era of Efficiency.
greatly handicapped the farmer is
who tries to work with old, half worn
out machinery, decrepit horses that
cannot do more than a half day's work I
in a day, cows that eat more than
they earn, and who has no poultry or j
sheep to clean up the stuff that would
otherwise go to waste.
By changing my methods I have
made three times as much money,
since I came to South Dakota as I
ever did in Ohio, although I do not
think my land is any better and we
do not work as hard.
* have exactly the same amount of
,an( * * had * n Ohio and perhaps I have
learned how to farm it better, but I
attribute what little success I have
had to the fact that everything on the
place is productive and that I keep
everybody and everything busy every
minute 1 can.
POTATO ROTS QUITE COSTLY
Important to Treat All Tubers Show
ing Affection With Solution of
Mercury Bichloride.
Various types of rot annually de
stroy many thousands of dollars'
worth of potatoes. The rots respon
sible for much of these damages are
Internal brown rot, powdery dry rot,
soft rot and stem rot.
Very often tubers are attacked In
the field or in storage by a soft rot
which quickly reduces the potatoes to
a soft, Blimy, foul-smelling mass.
The stem rot fungus, rhizoctonla,
produces on the tubers small dark
brown bodies which resenfble bits of
soil. These bodies are the wintering
over stage of the fungus and may
spread very rapidly from one tuber to
another under improper methods of
storage. While this fungus does not
Itself cause a rot of the tuber, It may
pave the way for such rot-producing
organisms as the dry and soft rots. Of
these diseases, rhizoctonla and the or
ganism canBlng the Internal brown rot
only produce a wilting of the vine. It
Is. therefore, important to treat all
tubers showing the presence of the
brown soil-lfke bodies with a solution
of mercury bichloride and to discard
for seed all tubers showing the brown
ring discoloration.
Internal brown rot may live In the
soil for five or six years. If potatoes
are grown continually year after year
on the same Boil these organisms will
Increase In number, and, as a conse
quence, the percentage of wilted vines
and rotted tubers will also Increase
until In a few years the soil will be
entirely worthless for growing pota
toes.
Since all of these diseases live over
winter on or In the tubers. It Is im
perative that seed treatment and seed
selection be practiced in order to pre
vent a recurrence of the troubles the
following year. Thft>, together with
the other precautions given, will pre
j vont the spre ad of these diseases and
j reduce the loss In storage,
Net Always Cow's Fault
It Is very often as much the fault of
the milker, If the cow goes dry, as It
is the fault of the cow herself. The
way she Is handled and the feed she
is given are important factors.
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GOOD TILLING BY EXPLOSION
.Experiments Have Proved That Young
Trees Grow More Rapidly and !
Vigorously by This Method.
I It begins to look as If cultivation of)
the soil by explosion Is to be one ofl
jthe recognized methods of farming In
the future, just as locomotion by ex-j
[plosion Is already one of the principal!
means of getting carried about. <
In other wordB, the "explosive plow"
■will become as familiar as the ex
plosive engine.
An English authority on high ex-,
plosives, W. Macnab, points out that 1
this new method of cultivation Is es
pecially beneficial to orchards. Instead
of digging a hole with the spade ini
which to plant a young tree, an exoa
vation is made In an instant by ex
pioding a cartridge. The size of the
cartridge and the depth at which it)
E.
Is placed depend upon the clrcum
stances of the case,
large or a small hole is blown, the
beneficial effects of the explosion are
in the complete shaking up and Assur
ing of the soil.
This extends far beyond the edges
of the excavation, and below its bot
tom, so that fresh supplies of chemi
cal food are brought within reach of
the roots of the tree.
But whether a
Experiments have proved that young
trees planted in ground prepared by
explosion grew much more rapidly and
vigorously than others planted In the
usual way, and begin to bear fruit
sooner.
Old exhausted orchards may be re-,
invigorated by the use of explosives.
In some cases small cartridges are ex-j
ploded under the roots of the trees,
and in other cases larger cartridges,
buried three or more feet deep, are
exploded midway between trees standi
ing 15 feet apart. The result Is to
loosen the soil without injuring thei
trees.
HARM BY APPLE TREE BORER
Thick Whitewashes on Trunk anc$
Limbs Act as Repellent Against
Female.
The flat-head borer is a very de
structive pest It is a conservative eat
timate that 50 per cent of healthy and
I properly planted trees which die soon
after setting out, are killed by the
j larvae of these small, active, copper
colored beetles.
most every variety are attacked, es
pecially if set out near woodlands con
taining oak, which seems to be the
favorite host, and from which the
borers breed out in large numbers,
After these larvae have gained en
trance to the tree, no external sprays
or applications are satisfactory, and
the only course of treatment Is per«
sonal attention to each infested tree.
Preventive methods are more sue
cessful. If a thick coating of some
harmless substance is applied to tho
Young trees of al
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trunks aad larger limbs of young trees,
it will act as a repellent against the
female desiring to deposit her eggs.
Thick whitewash painted or sprayed
on the trees acts as good repellent.
If the appearance of whitewashed
trees Is objectionable, the addition of
a little lampblack will tone down the
brilliant white to a gray, still leaving
the caustic lime unaltered,
soap washes are also recommended for
this treatment.
Thick
Gooseberry Pruning.
Every spring strong roots are
thrown up from the gooeeberry bush
and these bear fruit the following
season. Tbe old wood must be re
moved to make room for the new, or
else you will soon have a mass of
shoots so crowded that they can bear
no fruit It Is not meant that the old
wood should be cut every year. Rather
select two or three good shoots and
let them branch and be the fruit bear
ers for some years. Meanwhile re
move the most of tbe new growth.
Cost of Production.
How much has it cost you to pro
duce a box of apples T Unless you
know the coet of producing a box of
fruit you should not find fault with the
market price.
Common Peach Disease.
Leaf curl Is a more or less common
disease in all peach-growing regions
of the world, and in some places has
proved the most destructive of all dis
eases.
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
F. A. WESTON.
ARCHITECT.
Menu A. L A.
I plan anything from bungalows to
skyscrapers. Specialty; Unbnrnable
Construction. Office, Central Building.
DBS. ATHERTON mti ATÄI M'ON
Practitioners of
Chiropractie and Saaftarlua Treat
mends.
Chronic Diseases a Specialty.
Phone 396.
Office 220 4th Are. Bast, Twin Falls,
Idaho.
DENTISTS.
DR. D. BROWN LEWER8,
Dentist
Specialist in Crown and Bridge Work.
Over Varney s Candy Store
Outhert Building
Telephone 109.
TWTN FALLS,
IDAHO
ATTORNEYS
NORTH A STEPHAN
Attorneys-at-Law
General Practice
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Boyd Block
Twin Falls, Idahs
E. M. WOLFE
l.awyer.
Office in i. D. Building.
Twin Falls
Id ah«
ASHER B. WILSON,
Lawyer.
Practice in all courts.
Room 14 First National Bank Bldg.
Twin Falls, Idaho.
Office Phone 96 Residence Phone 659.
TAYLOR CUMMINS,
A Horney-at-Law.
Room 3.
Phone 666.
Twin Falls Bank & Trust Bldg.
Twin Falls. Idaho.
PORTER & SMITH,
A ttornej s-at-Law.
Room No. 8, First Nat. Bank Bldg.
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SWEELEÏ & SWEELEY,
Attorneys-at-Law.
Will practice In All Courts.
TWIN FALLS,
Member Twin Falls Commercial Club.
IDAHO
W. P. Guthrie
GUTHRIE & BOWEN
Attorneys-at-Law.
Offices: Twin Falls Bank and Trust
Building
A. M. Bowen
Twin Falls
Idaho
J. H. WISE, LAWYER,
Ufllce rooms 6 and 7, Twin Falls
Bank and Trust Uo. Building,
Twin Falls, Idaho.
UNDERTAKERS,
P. J. GROSSMAN.
Successor of U. J. Walker,
UNDERTAKER.
Open Day & Night. All Calls Respond
ed to Promptly. Private Ambulance.
Harder Bldg. 230 Second Ave. Last
Twin Falls. Idaho.
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Phone 110.
DRESSMAKING
MRS. F. A. WESTON.
First Class Dressmaking.
At reasonable prices.
Central Building.
SURVEYORS
J. C. PORTERFIELD. C. E.
Mining, Hydraulic and Structural
Work.
LICENSED LAND SURVEYOR
Room 13, First National Bank Building
Residence Phone 686W
FRATERNAL SOCIETIES.
M. W. A. CAMP
No 10890
lai nd 4th Thursday
Ihm Hall
M. C. SCRANTON CensuL
Telephone No. 369-J. Paul Smith, Clerk
Residence Phone 674.
4. G. HULL,
Plano Toner
12 years experience In tuning, voicing
and action regulating
and repairing
Office at Rogerson Hotel
P. O. Box 674.
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Twin Falls
Idaho
IDAHO SOUTHERN RAILROAD.
Train Schedule.
Effective May 17. 1914.
Dally No. 2. Stations. Daily Nt 1 .
8:30a. m. Lv. .Gooding. .Ar 1:00 p.:V
8:45 a.m. Lv. .Bennett. .Ar 12:35 p. m.
9:06 a.m. Lv..WednelL.Ar 12:25 p.m.
9:20a.m. Lv..Admore..Ar 12:10p.m.
9:36 a.m. Ar. .Jerome. .Lv 11:55 a.m.
J. H. RADCIFFE,
General Passenger Agent.
MILNER * NOATH SIDE RAILROAD.
Train Schedule.
Effective November 11, 1914.
Stations.
Dally No. 4.
11:46 a. m. Lv..Milner.. Ar 5:05 a. m.
12:20 p. m. Lv.Churchill.Ar 4:30 p. m.
1 2:30 p. m. Lv.Island.Ar 4:20 p. m.
12:40 p. m. Lv.. .Marlon..Ar 4:10 p. m.
12:50 p. m. Ar. .Oakley. .Lv 4:00 p. m.
J. H. RADCL1FFE,
General Passenger Agent
Dally No. >. •*'
SCHEDULE
Twin Falls Electric Railroad
Leave
O. 8. L. Depot
7:30 A. M.
12:10 P. M.
3:40 P, M.
Leave
Shoshone Falls
.k:00 A M.
.1:00 P. M
.6:00 P. M.
Sunday
9:30 A. M.
12:10 P. M.
3:00 P. M.
10:00 A M.
1:00 P. M.
4:00 P. M.
Round Trip to Shoshone Fails
4« CENTS
4epL 14, 1914. In effect until further
notice.