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September 11th, 1918. Tan DILLND EMPIRE. -•••••••••••••••• MAKING TOE LITTLE FARM PAY es Poo I L SHOULD lite to make it clear to farmers in general, but more par- ticularly to owners of small tracts of land, that the fruit interest is shamefully neglected in a number of states. It seems like throe/lug away money. No brandh of farming is easi- er or more profitable than fruit raising. It is a feature that belongs especially to the little farm, but I wish to ask some of the grain growera of the coun- try if they have ever compared the acreage value of corn or wheat with that of apples. If they have not taken the trouble to do so it would be well to give the sub- ject a little attention. Fruit cannot take the place of grain, but it can add a great deal to the farmer's income with- out interfering with his general work. 'On a tract of twenty to forty acres there ought to be five acres of large fruit. Apples pay best of all. The crop is quite reliable, and prices almost Invariably are sufficient to return a satisfactory profit. With quotations as they have been for several years the orchardist can stand a partial failure now and again. - Two men will do the necessary prun- ing in a five acre orchard in one week every fall and the spraying in one week in the spring. The picking is usually done by the buyers. They know• how ' to classify and pack better than the farmer does. Be/ore severe frosts set In the owner should give a couple of days to mulching the orchard. This amount of work is , trifling compared to that required in raising a crop of grain. In an average season five acres of fruit will return a profit of from $1,000 to $2,000. In northern latitudes spring planting of trees is best. Any one who is lack- ing in experience should not plant •...More than an acre, or about 100 trees. In a season. Two -year -old trees can be - weeee••••••••••••••••••••• A Queer Story. One day -one day Willie Jones went out in the back yard, and there be saw a rope hanging efer the alley fence - a big rope -and Willie Jones - just took \hold of that. rope and he pulled and he puVed and he pulled and he pulled, and after awhile he pulled the yard full of rope, and it reached up high in a pile, and it all fell down on top of Willie Jones and buried him, but Willie Jones didn't care, and he just kept on pulling and pulling and pulling and pulling at that old rope, and pretty soon he pulled so hard that he pulled the end off the rope, and Willie Jones saw that there wasn't any end to the -ton• and he'd have to go on pulling and pulling and pulling and pulling forever, but he didn't want to do that, and so he stopped pulling and went in to breakfast. -Chicago News. Game of Fly Away. Five'fir more children may play this game either in the schoolroom or play- ground. The children are seated with their hands in their laps. When* \it\ says, at the same time raising his -- lands, \lily away, mosquito,\ or \Fly away, robin:\ or \Fly away,\ followed by the name of any other thing that files, the rest of the players are to raise their hands. When he says, \Fly away,\ followed by the name of some animal that does not tly, the players are not to raise their hands, although the leader raises his. An, one mak- ing a miss, either by not raising his hands at the right time or by raising them at the wrong time. becomes \it.\ Mary Ann. I studied my tables over and over and backward and forward, too. But I couldn't rmnember 6 times 9. and I didn't know what to do Till sister told me to play with my doU and not to bother my head \If you call her 'Fifty-four' for awhili you'll learn it by heart.\ she said. 16o I took my favorite Mary Ann (though I thought 'Mae a dreadful shame To give such a perfectly lovely child much a perfectly horrid name). And I called her my dear little -Fifty- four\ hundred times till I knew The answer of 6 time/ 9 as well ad the answer of 2 times 2. Next day lathiabeth Wiggienworth, who always acts so proud, Said '1 times 9 is 62.\ siar - 1 nearly laughed aloud, But I wished I hadn't when. teacher •6111. \Now Dorothy, tell if you can,\ For I thought of my doll find -sakes aUV• • I answered. \Mary Awn!\ History and Tact. It was tkeld by the Duke of Welling- ton that the true story of the battle of Waterloo had never been written. A contemporary relates how he once sat In a carriage with the duke and \watched him read a ponderous quartd recital Of the battle of Wats(tlea Against paragraph after paragraph be traced the letters 'L' or 'D. L.' with a great blunt ended pencil. I ventured to ask what these mystic' letters meant The pithy reply, was 'Lie' and '— lie.' to be sure.\ Choice of Evils. Smiley -1 hope you weal mind If I bring a friend home to dinner tonight, dear. Mrs. Smiley -loto, no, sir. Thai is decidedly better than being Welled home by a friend after dinnere-gbi• cago News. By C C BOWSFIELD lined with an assurance of good re- sults. Late -varieties are recommend- ed for localities where frost is likely to appear after the 15th of April. Freezing 'weather after fruit trees have blossomed is AU, sure to kill the entire crop. The late varieties of apples and cherries are more apt to escape frost in the budding period than the early kinds. , Experience in the last ten years shows, that the dan- ger is nearly all in the spring. Artificial heating of an orchard is possible U a sudden cold snap comes at a critical time. Heaters for this purpose can be bought, or smudge fires can be kept going for a day or two until the danger In. over. I have raised the temperature of an orchard 10 degrees by slow fires and saved a cherry crop. There are good reasons for recom- mending the gradual dereloPtnent of an- orchard. It is well to test soil. methods of handling and quality of young trees. I prefer level laud, so that ice and icy water :May be held around the roots of matured trees in the spring. This holds back the bud- ding until danger from frost is over. Young trees ought to be protected from thbrice and chilly water by a thick coat of manure. Roots obtain a- better hold and trees are stronger on level land than on a slope. I would not place the orchard in a low place. however. A good depth of loath is de- sirable, and it may be sandy, but not gravelly. With all these things to study and in view of the fact.- that there is no Income for a few' years, I would say It was unwise to make the entire in- vestment for an orchard and do all the wort: in one season. There are many features that yield a profit the first year, and hese need attention from the first, although they do not pay bet- ter than fruit in the long run. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••.- SAYING MILLIONS. *Mee of Public Roads Boosting High- way Work, It is estimated by the °ince of public roads of the department of agriculture that about 10 per cent of the roads in the United States are improved. It 20 per cent of the public highways were improved, each highway being selected and Improved with a view to the proportionate traffic Upon it a high degree of efficiency in highway trans- portation would be readied. It is figured that millions of dollars would be saved annually in the trans- portation of crops, the wear and tear_ on horses and vehicles and in the mint - Wittig of the waste in truck farmina. Where roads are bad the farmers fre- quently and it impossible to get theft products to the shipping points, and thus perishable products, are wasted, perceptibly hicreatdng the cost of liv lug. In the five years preceding March. 1110.2, the office of public roads had built 215 object lesson roads. in all about 800 miles of road fifteen feet wide, and by expert advice aided in the formulation qf more than 650 mod- el country road systems; resulting in most instances in beneficial reforms It has also assisted twenty-six states In effecting equitable state aid plans. The secretary of agriculture looks forward to the coming year as promising better results than at any' time in the history of the movement for improved high- ways. 010 Per Country Reads. - A, most interesting experiment is be- ing conducted In central Illinois near Springfield. The state highway com- mission is making a test of oil on country roads. While oil roads are no novelty in many parts of the United States, they are not known on the heavy black soil of central Illinois: The top soil of the road is being mix- ed with an asphalt oil to the depth or six inches. In many parts of the Suck- er State \nine roads are out of the qnsetion. Without the material near at hand the great prairie -states cannot expect to save stone pikee, as do some .of the eastern states. Good roads must be eecured by drainage. special care and possibly by the use of oil. This experiment will be watched with a great deal or interest , lismertanos - of Good Reads. Delaware county, Pa.. is furnishing an illustration of the part smooth highweye is going to play in general freight traffic in the near future. Thou- sands or dollar.' worth, of goods that until recent years were hauled by the railroads are now delivered direct from the stores or from the .farms to the cities. Motor wagons an, pens. trating the farming districts and tak- ing freights from the farmer's door to tlhe city market and bringing back per. abases by the same k method. In short, good reads will be the leading factor in determining the mooted question of freight rates. Lite Abed Found, Wye just returned from abroad, you know. Bow in your poor father?\ \We lost him.\ \Dear dear!\ \Yea the nurse married Itim.\--ClIamo land rain Dealer. Twenty Years After py RECJNALD D. HAVEN °Re day I went up tutu the garret to and something I needed. While rum- maging over old trunks and old boxes I found a trunk that was . marked \Family Documents.\ Curious to -learn if I had stumbled on anything valuable, opened it and spent some time ex- amining its contents. While overhauling a lot of old papers I came across two batches of letters bound together with a ribbon that had once been pink, but had now faded to no particular color, and tied - In a bow- knot. I knew by the knot that a w0 - man had done the job and, by a faint perfume that hung about them, that a part of the bundle at least had be- longed to a woman. I loosened the packages and saw that they were without envelopes, probably sacrificed to reduce bulk. Those in one package had been written in a wo- man's hand, those in the other in a man's hand I opened one of the lat- ter and read a dozen lines. \That's the worst love twaddle I ever read in my life,\ I said to myself. - \I wonder what idiot wrote it.\ Taking up one from the other pack- age, I read some of it and wondered that any young woman could be so in- fatuated with a man as to write such silly stuff. The -letters had evidently passed between a couple many years before, for the paper was tinged with yellow, and the ink in some instances had faded Wondering which of my progenitors had written them. I ex- amined the signature of one of the superfine e vkage and saw that it was signed \Your loving Ethel.\ , My wife's name being Ethel, I look- ed more carefully at the _handwriting and noticed for the first time that it was quite like- Ethel's-Indeed, it was Ethel's handwriting with twenty years' change attached. I dropped it, took up one of the other lot and discovered that it was my own penmanship at nineteen. I felt the hot blood mounting to my cheek. Could it be possible that I had written that sickening stuff? And Ethel -she must have have been che merited. When I had somewhat recovered from my surprise and abasement the Idea occurred to me to inflict one of those ofd love letters of mine upon my wife. I wished to see how she would take me on paper as 1 was two decades agone. Our oldest son was now about the age I was when I wrote the letters, and incidentally I thought4e. might be doing the same thing. Also quite likely our oldest daughter was or soon would be encumbering the malls with what she in time would be quite ashamed of. I selected one of the most lovesick of my letters and one of a near subse- quent date of Ethel's. These I put in my pocket to be kept till She should go into the country with the children. ' , When that time came, instead of say- ing, \Now write tonight, dear,\ she said, \Don't let it be a week before you tell us how you're getting on.\ i asked her how she woeld like to have me write her a real nice long letter, and she said she thought it would be Lovely. She had been gone but a day when I sent her the love letter I had written her twenty years before and, taking the one she had written me, inclosed it In the first envelope I received from her that I might draw it on her when attacked for sending her such an epistle. When sullicient time bad elapsed for her to receive my letter I received a telegram asking if I were ill. I replied In the negative; I was perfectly well and would spend the week end with her and the children. I arrived in the evening just before dinner, but had not announced my train. When I got home I saw at once that there was anxiety in the family, and It was on my account. My wife looked at we scrutIniaingly, especially studying my eye, which is an indicator of insanity. \What's the matter?\ I asked. \What's the matter with you?\ was her counter question. \Have you any brain trouble?\ \Brain trouble? No. What makes you think I have?\ \Read that,\ she said, producing the letter I had sent her. \Well what's the matter with it?\ I asked. \The matter with it? Do you mean to say that you were in your right mind when you wrote it?\ \I do -as much as you were in your right mind when\ youwrote the reply.\ \What reply?\ I drew out the letter I had in my pocket for her. She took it and began to read, but had not turned a page be- fore she stopped and exclaimed. \What rubbish is this?\ \Rubbish! Do you call your episto- lary production rubbish?\ \My epistolary production?\ \Certainly. You wrote It.\ Quickly turning her eyes upon it, again she read a few sentences further, stopped, looked at the date, then at the signature. Slowly shame rose in her cheeks as she realised that she was reading one of her love letters to me when she was tt girl. \You've been playing a trick on me.\ she cried, turning away impatiently. \Papa said Ethel junior, \I wonder If rim ever get such a lovely letter as the one you wrote mamma.\ \Very likely you will, my daughter,\ I replied. \and you will probably make as lackadaisical a reply as your mother, only to blush, to the roots of yotn , lair, twenty years after ott reading it if - bras up to mock you.\ WHAT ONE MAN HAS DONE With \Wornout” Land Another Might Try Also With Summit. A farm of •190 acres, twenty -live miles out of Philadelphia and with good railroad facilines, was sold for taxes some years ago because the land was worn out. It had a thin, gravelly soil. Most of the laud lies on the side of a ridge and has a moderate slope, but about five acres are level meadow, on which a tine spring is situated. A market gardener purchased the farm at n tax sale. He cut trench about 500 feet long eat 20 feet wide across the meadow, the bottoms of which were covered svith gravel. and diverted the spring , water into them. A stand of watercress was then start- ed, and by fall it covered the trenches, and the owner began to cut and ship it to the .,Philadelphia markets. As cold weather approaches the cress is protected from frost by rough houses built over the trenches. The north sides of the houses are of inch boards, against which corn fodder is stacked to keep out the wind. The south sides are of glass. The heat of the sun and the warmth of tha...apring water- are sufficient to keep' the cress growing rapidly all winter without resort to artificial heat. A portion of the beds is cut over each day. unfit in about ten days it is again ready for cutting. The returns the first winter were about $100 a day from the cress. A llerrow strip of soil between the back of the house and the edge of the trench is devoted to violets and. has proved very „.• profitable. On the remainder of the farm French lilacs are Het about four feet apart and kept well cultivated for four years. The bushes are then taken up and forced to bloom about the Christmas holidays. A handsome prof- it is realized each \year, anti steady employment is, given to a nirge lititit - ber of men. The former owner \couldn't make it pay.\-- I Counyy Gen Killing the Country. Agriculture on the newer sections is carried on at the expense of the, fertil- ity in the soil. A twenty bushel crop of wheat removes from the Roil in the straw and grain $9.30 worth of plant food per acre, or 46 1 ,4 2 cents per bushel In selling wheat and burning straw this is actually removed. Last year's crop of wheat-150.000.ton bushels-rt. moved from the soil $70.iM4141 1111 Wollh of plant food. In other words. the state of North Dakota is worth less its a crop factory by $70,000.000 than be fore the past season's crop of wheat was grown. Add to this atj other grain sent out of the state, and the sum will be much increased. -North Dakota Ex- periment Station. Hie Fate. Caller- Will the cashier be away long? Office Boy -It depends entirely on the jury. stop at Hotel Moccasin D. 0. HOLT, Prop. First Class Accommodation. Livery in Connection MOCCASIN Judith Basin, Montana BROKEN DOWN Whenever your Wagon or Pug.. gy breaks down bring it to J. H. RICH General Blacksmith who will make repairs promptly, satisfactorily and at moderate cost. Horseshoeing and Spiny! • a Specialty . . OUR SLOGAN: \It'. a good job or no pixy.\ At the former Wier Lianssen 3111)}}S. ammetrivtrillink i Caustic. \She married rot revenge.\ \For revenge on net n1141)11110\ \No on an old •awt•••thOrt \But if it was revenge she was seek. tag why didtt t ahe marry old sweetheart r Houston Post. When did Genera) Weyler first take command in Cuba, and how long did h. remain there? General Weyler landed .rt Havana as. governor general of cubit Feb 10,, e 1896. sueeeeding General t'aunzus fl that capacity. Weyler wits sneeeeded by General Blanco in November. 1l$17. ••••••11--*--0---0*--11F-fYigte.s. 7_ • immoomermiarlik-' Linoleum I I.„.„.„„m. I'S OM r of the most iatisl'ru't I loin I '4,v I- jogs made. It is a plaslie eeitieet of oxidized linseed ell ant! g cork and is applied - wita 1,ea , ..y pressdre to a prepared burlap hack. We have Linoleum at 75 eta. per square said, ye hich wit 1..t from three to live years on your H oors. Window Glass Buy glass for thos, broke', during the stiliftnOr and tto e at! - vantage of present pliers, ad . it is going to raise in ',rive. Window. Shades, Walt Paper, Etc. Ls 0 . ,• • •••••10•110,14 - .. %.+04.• . 0. G A 4 41' THE BLACKSMITH HORSESHOEINrs. REPAIRING OF All KiNDS MACHINE WORK Agency AVERY Threshing IVlachincs. PliOURF, D , ;()NT. INTING! That Modern, Classy, Up -To -Date Kind BEFORE YOU PLAOE THAT ORDER FOR LETTER HEADS NOTE HEADS ENVELOPES STATEMENTS BILL HEADS CARDS CIRCULARS, TICKETS INVITATIONS ANNOUNCEMENTS DODGERS POSTERS PROGRAMS SALE BILLS ANYTHING IN THE PRINTING _LINE LET US FIG- URE ‘WITH YOU I I I NOY THAT'S THE KIND YOU GET AT The INLAND EMPIRE Job Printing Department THI8 IS NOT THE ONLY PRINT- • iNG OFFICE IN THE WORLD, BUT A '.ARGE, STEADY - RUN OF WORK TESTi'qES TO A LARGE NUMBER or SATISFIED CUSTOMERS. BE- COME ONE OF THEM. PATRON- IZE AN UP-TO-DATE NEWSPAPER AND HELP BOOST THE )CITY OF MOORE AND THE JUDITH BASIN. 1111111111111111111111011111M1111111.111111WOM F The INLAND EMPIRE I Leading Advertising Medium and J b Printing Sliop Amolvmsoimir • irisho -
