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About The Times-herald. (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 21, 1911)
'JaraaaK '' J "0t-.- 7 h 1llc Wren! 3-lnnicy omuru Covcra an tiicn ol 0,428,f00 Hcrr ol land. 4,631,051 acred yet vncant ouli-vt to entry under thu public land mtv ol tho United Matcn. VHiSPJ"!o'c'n,a Tho OHloHfl I'anorol Hnrnuj County Una tlloUrgutl cli dilution nml laono'ol v ho belt tulvorUaliiK niodltwiH In Knilorn BURNS, HARNEY COUNTY, ORISON, OCTOHEK 21, 11)11 NO 49. XXIV v(U villi I vm j I fr 1 (Tl 1 I I I HIVE SKETCHED Davenport Plays the "Rube" oon Meeting Chamberlain HUMILIATING EXPERIENCE e Obliging by Catching His Monocle But When the Performance is era Hi .Mistake td at Frequent Intervals Character of Man. iiorncT i)Tomxitsjndictri ti,at showed great independence tamberlitin is1a most and self-confidence. Ho had the looking mahr The airof a man accustjmed to doing ruck mo most force- and saving whatovcr ho chose. saw him first, some He is a man of such marked in- ago, waa that the dividuality that it would have f Punch ,had to ex- been impossible for him not to features' so very imvc 8tampcd that individuality lango his elearly cut;0 j,jg children, and his son who hat of a fox; My mgi j a rncasure, taken his tihimin tho lobby of ,,nco jn present-day affairs is ' Parliamcnthad one almost the exact counterpart of t' has always been tj,e father. to mo whohever I forgot to Btate that Julian 3 soon as I realized italph, who had tutored me so I would have given kindly in preparing mo to meet possessed W it had iQ celebritios of England, was d. As it was, it af- ufraid to go further with mo than s amuaenient'Jfor the lno preparation of my meeting those who were pre- wjtj, Gladstone. He was a man who could not hold back the i that it was a, great heartiest kind of laugh no matter r. Chamberlain, pas- wicre he might be if there was iiibit of" his nervous- .... 0vCUS0 for audi a lauirh. and tiling health, to be ie was afraid of the consequen Hfting his eyeglass ce8 whcn t j him of the in laco, to squeeze down t,i(icnt with Mr. Chamberlain, lis eyebrow, then to an(i my c.fr0rts to keep his mono caso it, thereupon it u)o from smashing at his feet, end of tho string to iaii, neglected his business for ,-as anchored to a a COuple of days, under an excuse ihis vest The mon- t,.lt j,e jmd reasons for which he arking when.-I made hlanied tho oflkc at New York. it that wo were very tloiner Davenport our admiration for country. MrCham- ()LUVrK EXpects to come aoain. ng his brow, dropped d, Binco I was fresh l ntry where ' people I When C T. Oliver of Klamath monocles, I did Inapt homo from the Development thing that any other I VCi,ue mcet,n henr. he Bnvo a Id have done. I lost "no report Tho Pioneer Press . badly ttofel didn't Kives an extended notice of the k that tho headlight meeting and it is quite evident ly lashed to' his cloth-' Oliver expects to.como back here made a divo to keepl time from he fol owing king on tho floor and 11-" !. - - says Mr. Oliver says that the Burns meeting was the greatest booster gathering he ever saw and that enthusiasm ran rife there during the session. Ho also has great praise for the way they wero treated by tho Hums people, cit ing a few instances of tho way tho good people of the interior lught it just as it i end of tho string, imagined, this put Stanley, who had in j in bad for tho mo ust havo caused some tori was gone, which 'charged to lack of ifyjoko irt England t.irh with .mo WHS. . v ' t.iitm trtniA lift Qfirt n mnw tlireo dozen iwM" " " ....- delejrates trom all parts oi me two or ,", tho conversation chamberlain replaced i' and-funcon'sciously While IM thorough roken now to this each timeyit dropped mm' Wmm J) L Jk If ml. M? I i mi mww ,wt I M fW tr 'I 1 mvelJ flick with a oa tlw obliging man, and ltnd if to him. Chmbrin had a il wttlkjiwida poiso MMlalMMtV thruat Hfe iitaifWe pockets country. During the two days prior to the opening of tho meet ing a rain storm was sweeping over the country and this made auto travel quito bad through some portions in getting to Burns. A committee there kept in touch with all the roads by telephone and every autoist who had trou ble through bad roads or a break a machine was immediately dis patched to their aid. In sonio cases these went as far as f0 miles after parties in trouble ard when the"delegates were finally all landed nt their destination tlio Hums hosts would havo nothing for those lifts. Another instnnco of tho way they handle visitor j in minis is ciiea in me case oi Ian auto load of two Lakeview citizens a. id their wives, llit'so were met as they ncarcd Burns by a reception committee ard told they had orders from tho stalo health board to quarantine' nil thoso coming from Lakeview. The car was then escorted to a roomy, well-furnished house and given tho keys to the place. They wore told this'. was to bo their home and they would find ovory thing thov could desire in tho way of housekeeping utensils, eatables, etc., and this was to be their home while they wero in the town. Mr. Oliver stntes that tho two days of this mooting was ono round of business and pleasure, ovon'ftho work being made a nlonsuro bv tho rounds of ban quets andlientertainments given in honor of tho delegation. Ho is loud in his assertions that Burns has soma of thojfinest lady Bingors inIthoorld. An enter tainment waa given In tho opera house where vocal music and other kinds of musical program was rendered that Oliver declares would put the best performances at Bomo of tho city theatres to shame. NBWS FROM VOLTAGE. Tho Sunnyside Entertainers held their first meeting in the Bchool house on Wednesday even ing, Oct 11. The following officers were elected for tho year: G. M. Benson, moderator; Lyle Jones, counselor. W. C. Bots ford, tho retiring counselor, gave a report of the society for last year. Many questions were brought before the house, among them being whether or not lunch es should be served. It was de cided in the negative. Mr. Dunning, however,- was heartily in favor of having something to eat (?). After the business meeting the following program was given by active members: Reading - - Mrs. M. E. Race "Rube" - - W. C. Botsford "Uncle Bill" - - Mr. Cochlin Reading - - Nellie Marshall "Esther Jones" - M. E. Race Continued StoryParts given re spectively by Messrs. Botsford, Jones, Cochlin and Miss Dawson. "Fair Song" Robert and Ray Marshall and Delbert Seaward. Tho next meeting will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 25 at eight o'clock. Every body invited. Ed Springer and family, and Lyle Jones and family, have re turned from the mountains where they spent a few months hunting and fishing. Mr. L. M. Seawcard and family will leave in a few days for their home in Ontario. Miss Nellie Marshall and brother Robert, will accompany them as far as the railroad and will then go on to Medford to spend the winter. Calvnn Jones and Claude Schugg have returned from Vale with freight for C. A. Haines of Nar rows, and M. E. Race of Voltage. FEARFUL OF THE 1100 FUTURE. To what extent current supply of light hogs and pigs is due to actual disease, or fear of it, and lack of confidence in the future market for finished hogs remains to be seen. The old crop has been closely marketed, indicating skepticism as to the maintenance of satisfactory prices. That much pig sickness has existed admits of no dispute, and fear of mor tality is always a powerful incen tive for making sacrifices, but post mortem figures show that durincr September condemnation on the hooks at Chicago was slightly less than 10 per cent of receipts, indicating that some other liquidation incentive than disease exists. The rush of 100 at 180 pound pigs bears evidence of a determination of the part of the growers to reduce winter feeding operations to a moderate volume. Packers still contend that the heavy percentage of DRY - FARM QUESTIONS Tunis, France, Seeks Western Dry Farming Methods by Letter SOME THINGS MADE CLEARER f Dry Fanning Methods Discussed by Men of West and Knr East That Will Hell) Local Farmers Manner of Preparing Soil, How and When to SCiKtliei Harney county farmers will Third you advise to drag the have an interest in a discussion soil before the drill, but I do not that has been on in the Dry find any-where an indication as Farming Bulletin. Paul Bourde, to the necessity of giving, first a director of agriculture of Tunis, stroke of the plow or of the disc and dry farming experts of our harrow to soften the soil. Is the western states. Writing to the work of the summer fallow suffi Dry Farming congress secretory, cient to maintain the soil loose Mr. Bourde asks the pointed ques-, enough so that without further tions given below and in reply preparation the grain may be Prof. Ten Eyck, in charge of 'carried three inches deep by the operation of the drill. In this country it is an impossibility, and the earth has to be shaken anew for the drill to pass in it. "Fourth. You recommend, with much reason, to plow when the soil is sufficiently damp. But it must happen with you, as it does with us, that the plowing and I am now conducting in that season may coincide with a per iod of drought in which the uround is dried out. What do in a more furrowed condition than but for the fact that they were may usually result from light not prepared now. Some did not harrowing. have clover or alfalfa planted "Second. -It may not always and others did not have their be true that enough moisture is fields fenced for hogs. These conserved in the surface soil of will get ready, now that they the summer tilled field to sprout 'JJLft h ftcV Lhts ... .,,.,. i -1 i by giving the bank their notes, the wheat during the dry period. jand bu next year,Bcnd Bulle- usuauy tne iarmers win lane W. L. BLOTT C. C. LUNDV farm management at the Kansas agricultural college, sets forth his views as to how dry farming should be conducted. Both let ters are here preduced: Mr. Bourde writes from Paris: "Dear Sir: -I have been for five years at the head of the De partment of Agriculture in Tunis. country a farm of 12,500 acres in the neighborhood of Kairouan, a region in wnicn ine uvuraKi' you do in such a case? Do you rainfall docs not exceed 12 inches 'resign yourself not to plow at all nor annum. The methods of I and to expose yourself not to be American dry-farming, there fore, are of special interest to me. There are, however, certain points that I do not succeed in elucidating, and I would be much obliged if you could give me an in one of your latest numbers a able to sow in the following autumn? Or do you prefer to plow under bad conditions, rather than not to plow at all? "Fifth. You have published light stuff is merely proof that a big pig crop was raised. Nothing given out by the pack ing interest during the next six months has been calculated to inspire confidence in hog market futures. All commission house admonition has been to market closely, and growing scarcity of weighty stuff nt the market sug gests that the injunction, has been obeyed. If the slaughter ing interest had planned a fall run of light stock it could not havo outlined a more ell'ectivo campaign. Market sentiment is assuming a less doleful tone. Statistics show that export trade in hog product is healthy and domestic consumption is enormous as in dicated by tho manner in which tho pig run is being handled by killers. During September stock of hog products at western pack ing points decreased 7(!,II7,filC5 pounds, tho largest reduction during that month in four years past, and October will witness further decreases. It is certain that weights will bo deficient and this year's run of big hogs during tho lato win ter and spring months will bo im possible unless growers chango their policy. Breeder's Gazette. answer to the following five ques tiens: "First You recommend on the one hand that the seed bed be well prepared, and you insist re peatedly on this, that the seed bed must be at least three inches thick. On the other hand you recommend with equal earnest ness to maintain mulch at the surface, and not to use for that purpose the disc harrow, which has tho drawback of leaving the soil cut of level and to make it dry while going too deep, but to make use of the spiketooth har row. Well, the spiketooth har rows (I mean those used in France) do not go further than one inch and a half in depth, and reach only by exceptions two inches. There appears to be some contradictions in such state ment which I would thank you to explain. Do you make a differ ence between the seed bed and il iio i 1 if 1 . me muicn.' mui u you iiiukui communication from a farmer in Utah by which he indicates as a condition of success never to use the disc plow. Is this to be con sidered as a personal opinion or as the conclusion to be derived from general practice? What fault is there to be found with the disc plow appears to have the nu-rit of working faster, sen sibly faster, than the plowshare. (Signed) Paul Bourde." Reply by Prof. A. M. Ten Eyek: "First. Mr. Bourde does not understand the term 'seed bed' as used in our discussion of dry land farming. The seed bed re fers to the tilled soil as deep as it may be plowed. This may be from three to 12, or even IS inches when the sub-soil plow is used in connection with thestiring plow. 'The ideal seed bed, however for seeding wheat.other small grains, alfalfa, etc, should be loose or mellow only a little deeper than tho seed is planted. Below the adavantage of the rains which fall to seed and start the crop under the most favorable condi tions. Often, however, water which has boen stored in the sub-soil by summer tillage is suf ficient to sprout the wheat when sown at the regular seeding time in tho fall. "I havo no definite data show ing just what amount of water must be stored in any particular soil in order to secure the sprout ing and successful startingof the wheat or other small grains. In fact, this factor would vary in different soils and under differ ent climatic conditions and from year to year in the same locality. It has been found, however, that the amount of extra water stored in the soil is directly related to the increased yield which may be secured by practicing soil mois ture conservation methods. "Third. -The methods of till tin. Always ready for job printing. BLOTT & LUNDY Real Estate and Insurance Fair Dealing Post Office Building, Burns, Ore. YOUNG PEOPLE Join THE TIMES-HERALD'S HOMER DAVENrOItT Drawing Contest now running weekly in The Times-Herald in connection with Mr. Davenport's great series HEN I HAVE SKETCHED This week the subject of the sketch is Joseph Chamberlain. CONDITIONS The contest is open to all readers of The Times-Herald below the age of twenty-one years excepting teachers of ing summer fallow and the pre paring of summer fallow for seeding wheat or other small grains must vary according to the type of soil and the weather conditions. Certain mealy or sandy soils seldom become very greatly compacted and do not re quire deep loosening, while other soils of a more clayey nature may become very firm at the surface and must be disced or Acme har rowed in order to loosen the sur face soil and put the field in fav orable seed-bed condition. drawing and professional artists. Cut out of the columns of The Times-Herald each week Mr. Davenport's cartoon and make a free hand copy of it on clean white letter or drawing paper either with pen or pencil. Then mail the clipping and your copy together with your name, age and address to MANAGER, THE TIMES HERALD'S HOMER DAVENPORT DRAWING CONTEST Each week a committee will pass upon the drawings and make the awards. To the person submitting the best drawing will be giv en a handsome artist's proof of Mr. Davenport's sketch printed on Japan paper and personally autographed by 'Fourth. -It is, of course.bestlthe great artist. one, what is the difference? If depth at which the seed is deposi vou make no difference, is the three inch seed bed to be consid ered solely as an ideal that is not realized in practice. Or and that seems difficult to me do your spiketooth harrows enter in the earth more deeply than ours? "Second You are always ted in the soil the seed bed must be well pulverized, but firm and well settled, the furrow slices making a good union with the sub-soil below. "The seed bed may be prepar ed by cultivating with different implements. The disc harrow sneaking of seeding as if the far-1 may be the best implement to mer, who has prepared his ground I use after fall plowing, or early in well and preserved the preced ing year's mo'sture, was at liberty to choose his time for so doing. Is it truo that, in a field whero the summer fallow has been well tilled, tho moisture preserved is stillicient to obtain germination of the grain lioln nf mm? the spring, several weeks before seeding. But surface cultiva tion just before seeding should usually be accomplished with some implement which does not cultivate so deep as the disc har row, or the common spike-tooth sown Without the narrow may ue useii tur mu uii.ii Is this an excep-' cultivation, just previous to seed- tionnl or a general practieo .' Does mg. lliis liiinnon roirulnrlv for instance "The mellow in regions in rainfall does to plow the ground when the soil is moist enough to turn in a mellow friable condition. How ever, when the soil becomes dry early in the season it may be ad visable to plow the soil dry, even in a cloddy condition, rather than not plow at all, depending upon the rains which fall after plow ing to soften the lumps, when the soil may bo put in a well-pulverized, well-settled seed-bed condition by discing and harrow ing. Also it may often be ad-1 visable to use the sub-surface packer in order to secure a well settled seed bed. If the ground , becomes dry and cannot be plow-1 ed early, then it is usually advis-. ably not to plow at all. but to ( prepare the seed bed by discing ' and harrowing. I Fifth. It is the writer's judg ment that a good mold-board j plow does better work when the soil is in good plowing condition i than the better makes of disc plows. But when the soil is dry or in certain types of hard gum my soil, the disc plow may be used to advantage, and while the soil may be turned in a broken and lumpy condition by the disc plow, it may be put in favorable seed-bed condition by tilling after plowing, after the clods have been softened by rain. When the soil is in good plowing condi tion the mold-board plow has a shearing pulverizing effect, which is not produced in the same de gree by the disc plow. Both types of plow however, have their place in dry-farming." These autographed artists proofs are not for sale at any price and will be highly treasured by those who are so fortunate as to receive them. The educational value of this contest as an encourage ment to the study of art and modern history cannot be overestimated. H w il M a n II ta Burns Flour Milling Co. -Makers of the- 'Famous Burns Flour' -and- i CREfflO" BREAKFAST FOOD Always for the development of Central Oregon and Har ney County. j,..,-rrr,rrrrr,jIt ("s- soil produced by which the annual cultivation is the mulch which not exceed 10 1 has to do with the conservation Lost Gentleman's small size, gold watch, open face, monogram on back C. B. M. Return to this office. Suitnblo reward. inches? and if such is not tho case regularly, have experts ascertained what quantity of water must have fallen at tho minimum during the preceding year so that tho grain sown may germinate without tho help of rains in well prepared lands? Sixty Brood Sows fur llcnd Countr). The first order for brood sows from tho Middle West which tho farmers of the Bend country are buying through the First Nation al Bank and tho Union Stock Yards of Portland has been sent off and tho shipment will arrive hero about Nov. 1. Sixty hogs C. M. KELLOGG STAGE CO. Four well equipped lines. Excellent facilities for transportation of mail, express, passengers Prairie City to Burns. Vale to Burns Burns to Diamond Burns to Venator E. B. WATERS, Ajent. , n tiii i ;;;;;;:;.;. ;::t;;ii4i.;;.;..;i.;i;...... ......... i..a..... ARCHIE M'GOWAN, President and Manager ::::::m of the soil moisture. The soil mulch may be two or three inches , make up the order, in thickness when the ground is Farmers of Bend, Laidlaw, Sis being finally prepared for seed- tors, La Pine and the homestead ing wheat, or other small seeds, country bought from ono to five Again wo often weight the spike- each, making a good start at hog tooth harrows so as to make them raising in this territory. Many stir deeper and leave the ground more farmeis would have bought Harney County Abstract Company (incorporated) Modern and Compete Set of Indexes An Abstract Copy of Every Instrument on Record in Harney County. :::::;::ts::mnnKn:m:nr::ro:'::::t::::::::a::wn::n:j::::: V. T. 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