Lincoln County times., April 13, 1911, Image 4

About Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919

Image provided by: Idaho State Historical Society

                
W e n d e I I
Section
Office with Shepard A Barrett
(ÎEO, (i. BARRETT, Editor.
WENDELL. IDAHO, APRIL 13, loi 1
NO MORI; SAMPLES
For the last few weeks we have
been sending out some sample cop
ies of the paper to addrt
the tract. This has Wen done with
the purpose in view of making the
publie acquainted with the kind of
a paper we intend to put out. As
lias been said before, the purpose
in the establishment of the Lincoln
County Times, was the advance
ment of the enteresfs of the Settlers
on the North Side. There is no
ambition to make the Times a Je
rome paper, and there is no inten
tion of making it a Wendell paper;
but the entire purpose is to make
it a paper devoted to the mutual
interest of the entire tract. The
sample copies will be discontinued
with this issue, and in order not to
miss a number, if you have not yet
subscribed, you should do so before
next Thursday, at either the \\ en
dell or Jerome office. At this time
we wish to thank the public for the
very cordial support which it has
given the undertaking thus far, and
in turn will give the assurance that
such support encourages us to go
ahead with the enlargement and
improvement of the paper.
all over
Dairying on the North Side.
Our soil contains in great abund
ance all the elements necessary for
the production of plant life except
the nitrogen compound. This sub
stance may lie put into the soil by the
frequent application of manure; by
using the fertilizers made at pack
ing houses out of blood and bones;
by spreading the product of the
Chile Salt-petre beds upon the land,
and by purchasing and using upon
the soil the pure substance which is
' made at factories by means of an
electrical discharge which combines
the oxygen and nitrogen of the air.
In a rain country this combination
is effected by the lightning of the
frequent thundershowers and the
rain gathers it from the air and de
posits it on the ground. But there
is a method of enriching the soil
that beats all these by far. Just at
the top of the ground on alfalfa
plants a little animal thrives by the
manufacture of this nitrogen-oxy
gen substance. All the time this
little artizen is working busily' at
his trade making fertilizer and de
positing it in the ground, the plant
is growing upward and making hay.
Alfalfa can lie raised with less work
than most anything else, and it can
he cured perfectly in a rainless
country and produces wonderfully.
Considering then that alfalfa is
what we need to enrich the soil,
that it is easily eared for, and cures
perfectly, and produces immense
yields of hay and as a very profita
ble home market would lx found
for the hay if the people of this
tract would go into dairy business
extensively, would it not be well to
consider the possibility of that bus
iness here?
All kinds of grasses can be raised
in this country with very little ef
fort. They have to be seeded only
once in several years and when
once the irrigation system is con
structed it is easily maintained and
the watering is very simple and in
Our pasture season is
expensive,
about eight months long and the
grass does not dry up in the middle
of the summer and it will not be
necessary to take our stock off the
pasture in a half starved condition.
In our mild climate it is not
necessary to build expensive barns
to keep the stock from the cold and
storms of winter. To keep the
cows as comfortably as in the
northern Mississippi valley states
probably not over half the money
need be expended. It is not nec
essary to build expensive silos (crop
barrels) or other buildings for keep
ing the feed.
From the present indications
there will never be an over supply
of the dairy product. Car load af
ter car load of butter is shipped
into this state every year from Utah,
Wyoming, Oregon, Washington and
Montana. This is because the peo
pie of .Idaho are chiefly engaged in
mining, lumbering and fruit raising.
These industries are as yet in their
infancy here and the future will set*
wonderful development in these
lines, and vast armies of men will
be employed to do that work to the
exclusion of everything else. Prices
of dairy products will tend to go
upward rather than downward from
their present high standard,
have good shipping facilities, so
there will be no trouble to get a
market for what we have to sell.
At the present time half the ranch
ers on the tract are buying canned
milk to cream their coffee.
We
The
producer is never so far from mar
ket as when he is a buyer.
Taking it for granted that there
will always be a market for our
dairy product, then the question at
once arises, what profit can we ex
We will
pect from the business,
take, for instance during the sum
mer time.
A good dairy cow will
return in butter fat fifteen dollars
per month at the present average
price for butter, and one acre of
North Hide tame pasture properly
cared for and maintained will keep
three cows for eight months in the
year. Three times fifteen dollars
makes forty-five dollars per month
For forty acres this
would mean eighteen hundred dol
lars; per month,
milk for eight months of the year
and eight times eighteen hundred
means fourteen thousand four hun
This
per
acre.
A cow should
dred per year per forty acres,
estimate
preposterous; but
seems
figure it backward or forward, or
any way you please, and it comes
out the same.
And Ixsides the
above amounts you have the by
products nf calves and skimmed
milk, which will go far toward pay
ing the expenses of running the
plant. In the winter time we can
feed alfalfa hay, which is equiva
lent to the best balance ration (es
pecially the third cutting), and by
so doing realize fifteen or sixteen
dollars per ton for our hay. At
fifteen dollars per ton for our hay
this allows us from sixty to seventy
five dollars an acre for our hay
land and the hay is raised with
very little effort and all the time is
enriching our land. These figures
apply to good milk cows exclu
sively.
We sell our hay for five dollars
per ton, ship it over to the Puget
Sound country and the farmers
buy it for twenty per ton, feed it to
their milk cows and ship us hack
the butter and they are building up
a wonderfully rich community
there through this business alone.
The O. S. L. gets a tremendously
rich haul pulling the hay over there
and then gets another pull at the
pocket book for bringing back the
butter. There is no reason why
the North Side farmer cannot put
that freight money in his own
Modern machinery has done away
with most of the drudgery connect
ed with the business. We are sad
ly in need of a line of work that
will quickly put us on a self-sup
porting basis. To put us on a solid
foundation, the stream of dollars
which is now going out must be
turned from its present channel
and sent back to us. The develop
ment of this industry will mean the
employment of labor, the invest
ment of capital in factories and the
reclaiming of the unused land. It
will put the farmer on a monthly
payroll and give him a market for
all his produce. It will give room
for many lines of employment in
the towns and will guarantee the
payment of the grocery bill at the
end of each month.
A bulletin containing notes taken
by Frank H. Reid at the Movable
School of Agriculture, has made its
appearance. It contains much val
uable information and is well worth
the two bits asked for it. The Ixwik
is on sale here at the Irrigationist
office, and at the News stands in
Jerome,
Heating Plant For The New School,
board, for the heating plant for the
school house,
Mr. W. M. Leo, who represents
theJ.C. Bayer Furnace Co., of
Portland, Ore., is here working on
a bid to be submitted to the school
It is planned to have a first-class
up to date heating and ventilating
system. A large furnace will be
installed in the basement, and the
hot air from this will lie drawn
through the building by means of a
fan. A one hundred twenty inch
fan will be used, and this will lie
driven by a seven and one half
horse power motor. The current of
warm air will be carried by galvan
ized iron pipes, which will enter
each room near the ceiling. The
exit for the air will be near the floor
of the rooms. There will be a con
tinual pressure in the rooms, owing
to the fact that the air cannot es
cape as fast as it comes in, and this
pressure will materially assist the
dissemination of the fresh pure air
equally to every part of the room.
The system w ill lie so arranged that
thirty cubic feet of fresh air w ill be
supplied to each child every minute.
The entire air contents of the rooms
will lie changed every fifteen min
utes, or four times every hour. This
plant will not only lx* servicable in
the winter time for heating, but will
supply a perfect system of ventila
tion during the summer months.
Non-Suit.
The Railway committee is in re
ceipt of a letter from Mr.
Clark informing them that Mr. A.
J. S.
A. Frazier, solicitor for Messrs.
Clark & Noble, succeeded in show
ing Judge Walters, at Shoshone,
that the whole contention of those
oppo-xd t<> the Hagerman Valley A
Western Ry. coming to Wendell,
was absolutely unfounded and
wrong, so the court threw the whole
thing out. The restraining order
was dissolved and the case dismissed
completely. Not only so, but Mr.
Frazier argued a third demurrer, in
which he set out that those people
should not lx permitted to issue any
further suit in this connection, as
the contract let is absolutely valid,
and that it cannot lx attacked for
at least one year, as, until the ex
piration of the contract, it is aliso
lutely impossible for them to show
any damage.
The Hagerman Valley people will
have all costs to pay and Clark and
Noble will not even lx required to
call witnesses or produce dixuments,
as the other side produced the con
tract itself, which showed they were
absolutely wrong. The matter of
permitting afiy further action has
been taken under advisement by
Judge Walters.
This action of the court improves
the outlook for an electric line from
this point to Hagerman Valley.
Wendell is certainly the logical
place for a terminal of such a line,
and the value it will he to this city
cannot lx exaggerated.
Base Ball.
The baseball fever has struck Or
chard Valley. Every day now, hot
or cold, embroyo Three Fingered
Browns and John Klings may he
seen shooting the pigskin back and
forth across the back yards at all
the farms down there.
They have raised a purse of one
hundred and fifty dollars that they
can beat any team in southern
Idaho. They particularly wish a
chance to walk over Wendell and
Jerome. It has been rumored around
that they have several ex-major
league players down there under
assumed names. This rumor easily
explains the willingness with
which they put up their money.
Attorney Jess Hawley, of Boise,
and H. R. Barrett left for Chicago
Saturday night, in response to a re
quest from W. H. Kuhn, of Pitts
burg, President of the North Hide
Land & Water Co., for a conference
regarding the mutual relations of
the Fanners Association and the
Water company.
(Experimental Work on The
North Side.
Mr. G. R. Jones, who is associa
ted with Don Uark ih the experi
mental work carried on co-opera
tively by the state and national
governments, is ' making arrange
ments for extensive experimental
work which is to be carried on in
the Wendell district this season. |r
An expert in irrigation work w ill
be established at each of the exper
iment stations who has oversight of
the work. Arrangement is made
with different farmers for tracts to
be experimented with,—usually
about fifteen acres in each tract
which is all planted to the same
The tract is sub-divided into
crop.
smaller tracts of five acres each.
On one of the five acres the farmer
uses the amount of water he thinks
best, and uses it in the way he
thinks best; on another five the ex
perimenters use more water than
the farmer does, and on the re
maining five they use less. Head
weirs are put in to measure the
amt unt of water that goes onto the
land, and waste weirs to measure
the amount of water that goes off.
At the end of the season the amount
of crop on each of the pieces is care
fully measured separately and know
ing the amount of water used on
each one, they are enable to work
up data as to the proper amount of
water to be used. At the end of
the season, if the land the experi
menters have used has not produced
as much crop as that of the farmer,
they make up the difference.
At this plant they have arranged
to experiment with fifteen acres of
alfalfa (Hi Dr. Pewy's land, fifteen
acres of oats for S. M. Eaton, fifteen
acres of oats for the Leland Brothers,
twenty acres of rye for Carl.•jehome,
and ten acres of orchard for Don
McKay. The work with the or
chard will be simply to determine
the amount of watar necessary to
get the best growth and all parts of
it will lx- watered the same. An
automatic weir will be used on this,
which will have to lx* looked after
only once every eight days. Every
eighth day the meter will lie read
aud the recorder set at zero again.
The outcome of this test will lie
watched with interest and no doubt
will be of great benefit to the farm
ers of the tract.
Mr. W. A. Boland lias gone to
Chicago and will start from there
on his annual trip,
represents the Sincerity Clothing
Co., of Chicago, and spends alsint
six months each year on the road,
and for the other six months takes
things at his leisure at his fine
country home south-west of Wen
dell.
Boland
Mr
PITHY POINTS.
The following selections are taken from
the short band notes of Frank S. Held
on a lectin« given by Prof. J. H. Frans
don at the Movable School of Agricul
ture. The entire set of notes is published
in book form and may lx had at the
Irrigationist otlice.
A cow needs Tour different kinds of
feed, water, mineral protein and carbohy
drates.
All feeds contain about the right
amounts of mineral.
Protein is the thing that the cow needs
for the building up of muscle tissue. A
cow will not give much milk if she does
not have protein.
Carbohydrates supply energy to get her
from place to place, and to supply the
fat of the milk.
There is nothing that will supply pro
tein as cheaply and as good as alfalfa.
So Idaho has the very liest of dairy
foods.
The balanced rations mean feeding the
right amounts of protein and eurhon
drates to get the liest results.
For the laut results feed alsmt six
times as much carhohdrates as protein.
Coni has nine times as much carboh
drates as protein.
Timothy hay has sixteen times os
much carhohd rates as protein.
The following indicate« in a general
way the amounts to he fed. Weigh the
amounts to Is- fed. Feed all the rough
age the eow will clean up at all times.
Feed one pound of grain per day lor
each pound of butter fat produced |s-r
week, or one pound of grain per day for
each three pounds of milk produced.
Feed all the cow will take without gain
ing in weight.
tWsmleU newt continued on next page.)
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OR WENDELL
$25,000
3,000
Capital,
Surplus,
ü F F 1 C E R S
A. P. SCHRITCHFIELD.
Vicc-Pre*ident.
H. E. BARRETT.
President.
H. D. JACKSON, Cashier.
General Banking Business
GEORGE F. HAUL
Moline and South Bend Plows, Harrows
and Cultivators
Studebaker Wagons and Buggies
Salt Lake Harness, Saddles and Blankets
Steel
Aermotor
AIND
Goodhue
Windmills
& Towers
Red Jacket Double Acting Pumps. Sleel I anks. Pipe. Etc.
Cream Separators and Dairy Supplies. Deenng Mowers, Binders,
and Kakes. I wenlicth Century Graders and Ditchers, Heavy Hard
ware. Patton's Sun-Proof Paints and Oils, Tents. Water Bags. Incubators,
Brooders and Poultry Supplies.
Prices nght and satisfaction guaranteed.
De Laval
Wendell,
Icltiho
Give Us A Chance
We have been at work for several months get
ting listings on the very best lands in the
country, at the very best prices possible, and
we will be very glad to have an opportunity
to convince you that we have the best buys
on the North Side Tract.
The Orchard Tract proposition that we
have, has never been equalled in the North
west. either as to price or terms.
Our line of Fire Insurance Companies is
exceptionally strong and we take every precau
tion to write all policies just as they should be.
SHEPARD BARRETT
Wendell, I tin ho
The legislature last winter appro
priated money for the building of a
bridge over the snake river Ixtwecn
Lincoln and Twin Falls counties.
The logical place for this bridge is
straight south of Wendell. Situat
ed at the foot of Clark's grade it
would lx very eonvionent for all the
people of the Wendell district, and
would also lx of service to a larger
number of people of the South Hide
than if it is located at any other
point. The people of Wendell
should take this matter in hand and
see to it that the bridge is so located
as to he of the greatest Ixnefit to
the largest number of jxople.
CHURCH AND SOCIAL DATES.
Fr**hyii*rian Churrh—Morning ami wvnilng.
**,*coml ami fourth Humlay »*arh month. Fa*
tor. R«v. Knth-mi
Mnthodint KplM-opal Church Morning am) even
Ing. flr*t ami third rtumlay* of each month.
Factor. Rev. Minner
KpiM'opal Church—Hervlccn on the Tue* lay even
ing before the necond Wednemlay of each
month. Rev. Km .tu. pastor
Baptist church Service* morning ami evening
on fifth Humlay* of the month Fantor. Rev
Fackard.
Catholic Church Mm* read at 9 a m. every
Tuewday after the fourth Mum lay Altar norle
ty every fourth Trnwlay.
Mason* 1 Regular inerting* the Mecoml am) fourth
Monday* ami *|**Hul meeting* the flr*t. third
and fifth Monday*of inch month.
Reheknhft Meeting* every *ecoml and fourth
Tuenday eveningHut I. O. O. K. hall
I.O. O. K. - Regular meeting* every Thur*day
evening at H o'clock.
Woodmen Meet* find ami third Tne*day* of each
month In Ma*otilc halt.
M B. A.—Modern Brotherhood of America meet*
every fourth night ln I. O. O. F. hail.
Royal Neighbor*— M<*et at Maooitic hall second
and fourth Tue*day* of the month.
( anal C*er* A*»oclallon—Wendell branch meet*
In the afternoon of the third Saturday of each
month.
T. E. WEST
Tin and Sheetiron Work
ROOFING
Guttering, Cornice and Skylights
WENDELL, IDAHO
Money in Fruit !
But the great »ecrel ol iucccm it
Good Trees and Plants
GET
Home Grown Products
We arc now prepared to furnish
first-class Fruit trees and plants of
all description, grown on the tract
and guaranteed.
Specialty of Jonathan Apples
Call or write
Wendell Nursery Co.
WENDELL, IDAHO
If you are not already
a subscriber to this
paper, give your name
to Qeo. Q, Barrett.