THE TIMES
HIRTY to forty years ago poultry the local society, the freight is paid by IN T IIE CO U N TY C O U R T OF T H E S T A T E
OF OREGON, FOR M U L TN O M A H
breeding in Denmark occupied a the head society.
CO U N TY.
At the present time the head society In the Matter of the Estate of
very modest position in relation to
agriculture.
There were only a few has headquarters in the city o f Copenha H E N R IE T T A K ERN . Deciuiaed.
CITATION
I fowls and the eggs were small and o f gen and nine packing, preserving and T o J. J. K ern, A lbert K. K ern, G eorge F.
Phone or Write
irregular size. As a consequence prices fattening establishments are located in
Kern, John M. Kern, T. J. Kern, W il
liain
Kern.
T a bith a
K ern,
Meta
I>e
were low. It was during the last fif different large towns in the country
M ond,
W illiam
Struve.
John
Struve,
teen or twenty years that interest was with good connections to the English
Letha, V eda
Kern am i D elbert
Kern,
awakened among the rural population, markets.
and all other known and unknown heirs
and devisees o f H enrietta Kern, deceased:
When the eggs arrive at the central
especially the small farmers and their
IN T H E N AM E OF T H E S T A T E OF
wives.
packing stations they are first weighed OREGON,
you are hereby com m anded to
The introduction o f Leghorn and M i and then the grading takes place, a appear b efore the llon oru b le County Clerk
the State o f O regon, in and for
the
norca fowls, was o f great value for the work which is very interesting to look o f
o f M ultnomah, at the Court House
advancement o f egg production. The at. All eggs are graded into the fo l County
in
the C ity o f Portland, on the 15th day
lowing
sizes:
13,
14,
15,
15$,
10,
17
mentioned breeds have been crossed
o f A p ril, A. D. 1912, at
the hour o f nine
with the common small barndoor fowls, or 18 pounds per 20 eggs. Those from o 'c lo c k A. M. o f said day, to show cause,
f any exist, w hv an ord er o f sale should
and o f late the Barred Plymouth Rock 15$ to 17 pounds are preferred in i not
be m ade o f the follow in g d escrib ed land
has also become very popular among the England. Women mostly are engaged as prayed fo r in the petition o f A. K. Kern,
practical poultry breeders. Production in this work, which takes place very adm inistrator, with the w ill annexed o f the
o f H enrietta K ern, deceased, h erein
By eye they can very estate
of poultry meat or fattening is o f no rapidly.
b efore filed, to-w it:
importance. Egg production is the main easily separate the different sizes. The
Lot num bered three ( 3 ) , in b lo ck num
object.
eggs from this point are taken direct bered three tii). in Columbia H eigh ts Ad
to the City o f Portland, and also
All over the country hens are kept from the boxes in which they arrive dition
lot 8 num bered tw en ty-three ( 2 3 ) , tw enty-
in proportion to the area occupied. and put on frames, where each egg is fou r ( 2 4 ) , tw enty-five
(2 5 ),
tw en ty-six
OF PORTLAND
Large poultry farms could, as a rule, not placed in a hole by itself. These ( 2 6 ) , tw enty-seven ( 2 7 ) and tw en ty-eight
(
2
8
)
,
in
block
num
bered
thirty-seven
),
pay in our country, and only very few frames usually hold from eight to in Pen insu lar A d dition N um ber Three, ( 3 7 to
are to be seen, and those only where twelve dozen. Then each frame with the C ity o f Portland, all in the County o f
they get an extra income by selling the eggs are weighed, and if the M ultnomah and State o f O regon.
W itn ess ray hand and the seal o f said
»•ggs for hatching, for incubators and weight is too low or too high the eggs Court
affixed this 11th day o f M arch, A.
artificial brooders are not used to any are changed until the right weight is 1» 1912.
F. 8. F IE L D S ,
great extent. In autumn and winter reached.
Clerk o f the C ounty Court.
the fowls are running over the farm
The next work is a careful testing
By T
r
NOONAN, D eputy.
almost anywhere and the poultry houses whereby all dirty, stale and otherwise (S eal o f C ounty Court. M ultnomah
County, State o f O regon .)
are to be found in the permanent farm inferior eggs are rejected. By use o f
buildings. The breeding and fattening day light, but mostly electric light,
of water fowls and turkeys is prac this examination takes place in a little
ticed in different parts o f the country to room open on one side. The frames
some extent.
with the eggs are set over a kind of
Main 6383
90 First Street
The foundation o f poultry societies, box wherein four 16 candle-power
which extend over the whole country, electric lights stand up from the bot
has had a great influence on the ad tom. The sides of the box are lined
vancement o f the poultry breeding in with tinplates or looking glass, which
our country. At the present time there throw7 the light upwards, and on the
are three poultry societies, o f which the back wall over (he box is placed a
Commercial Artist
first was founded in the year 1878, the looking glass. By carefully looking it
third in 1897. All three societies have is easy to pick out any bad, dark look
formed a united action, especially con ing eggs, which are taken out. As all
and
cerning the arrangement o f large poul eggs, as stated, are stamped with the
try shows and the establishing of breed number o f the local society and the
Cartoonist
ing centers.
member, it is always possible to detect
Each society publishes a journal any member who, contrary to the by
which reaches the members twice each laws, has delivered defective eggs to
3 48 MARKET STREET
month. Each society also has one ad the local societies. On the first of
visor in poultry culture, who specially fense he is warned, and next time he Phone Main 5645. Res. Phone E618S.
delivers lectures and gives practical ail- is punished by fines of, first five, then
vice. They arrange poultry shows in ten kroner and if persisted in, by ex
different parts o f the country, often in pulsions from the society. The local
connection with private firms, estab society receives half the amount of
lished years before the first named. The the fines and the head society the
largest co-operative society is the D a other half.
Civil and Hydraulic Engineer
nish Farmers’ Co-operative Egg Export
Finally the eggs are packed side by
Association, but some o f the co-opera side, and at the same time they are
587 E. 15th St. N. Portland, Ore.
tive bacon factories in different parts branded with the head society’s trade
o f the country have also established mark. Long, thin, flat wooden cases
egg packing and pickling stations. are used with wood wool between
Landscape
Eu
While the last named collect eggs from each layer. The cases measure 22 b\ General Surveying,
local places, all traders and the first 72 inches and are 9 inches deep. The gineering,
Construction
Superinten
named large co-operative society work prices for such cases are a little less
over the same ground.
than 2 kroner each. At the bottom dence, Reports and Estimates on Proj
The first experiment in the co-opera and top is placed a thick pad o f clean
tive line was undertaken by the co-op long rye straw' to prevent breakage ects, Water Supply, Irrigation, Sewer
erative creameries, where eggs were col by rough handling. The egg cases con age.
Now Lumber Exchange Bldg.
lected, but this important matter took tain divisions and layers, and are di
first place in the year 1895, when In vided in the middle by a double parti
■tructor Moller from Jutland founded tion in two separate parts.
By this reaches the members six times a year
the Danish Farmers’ Co-operative Egg means the cases could be sawed into two without any payment.
A good development has taken place
Export Association. About one-fifth o f parts, and the breakage is not so large.
the eggs exported from Denmark pass Good graded eggs will not give as much in connection with the poultry culture
through this society, which collect eggs breakage as badly graded, as the first and egg industry in Denmark, but as
over the greater part o f our country. named are o f the same size. On the the small holdings o f from three to
BAGGAGE STORED THREE DAYS FREE
The society embraces now about 550 ends o f every case is placed the so ten acres of land, steadily increase in
number a larger production will sure
affiliated small local societies or circles, c ie ty ’s trade mark and the grading.
with a total membership o f more than
The eggs are then dispatched by the ly be the result in the coming years.
40,000 poultry breeders, mostly among first available steamer, that they may It is true that the largest number of
the small farmers, who are to be found be landed in England when about a fowls in proportion to the area, is kept
in large numbers all over the country. week old. Danish eggs have secured by the small farmers, who, better
In every county is a representative and a good position on the English market than many others, can give them the
It is also
the directors in the head society con and it is especially in the north and best care and attention.
sists o f four members chosen every two midland counties o f England and Scot true that poultry has shown the great
years, and the manager chosen every land that considerable quantities are est development among all domestic ani
five years.
sold, but many cases also find a good mals in our country.
The smallest local society must at sale in London markets.
least consist of ten members.
Each
Most o f the eggs produced in our
member must pay fifty ore on admission country have white shells, but .in the
TESTED THE ANTS.
to the head society, and one ore per course* o f the last few years there have
hen to the local society. All the local appeared a greater number o f eggs Experiments Tha t Soem to P ro v e the
societies which thus form an integral with tinted shells, which are pre
Insects Have Memory.
part o f the head society, have their own ferred by our English customers. By
Experiments are continually being
depot and collector, who once or twice the introduction o f American breeds,
a week drives to the different members, especially t^ie Plymouth Rock, we have mad«* to test the memory of animals,
collecting their eggs. The collector gets been advancing in this respect, as such as the elephant, the dog, the hull,
a small commission from one or two ore many fowls o f the breeds mentioned but it would seem a thankless under
a danish pound for the eggs collected, are now7 spread throughout our coun
taking to ascertain whether the ant has
but he has to stand the loss by break try for crossing and pure breeding.
ages over one per cent. The individ
Nearly 20 per cent o f the eggs pro a memory. Nevertheless a scientist in
ual members must stamp plainly all the duced are sold as pickled eggs. In the South America thinks he has aucceed-
eggs on the broad end with the regis spring, mostly in the months o f April id .
tered number o f the local society and and May, considerable quantities of
Isolating two of the lurgest speci
the member. Therefore each member eggs are bought for packing, both
Main Office and Warehouse
h§is his own rubber stamp and ink from private dealers and the coop er mens of tropical ants he could find, he
bought from the society for twenty five ative societies. Great profit is mad«* $o arranged their receptacle that they
ore each. These eggs are not sold by in this business by the producers, could get no food without climbing
the score or dozen, but only by weight, who in this manner get much better over u circular slaut Into another com
PARK AND DAVIS STS., PORTLAND
the best way to do it.
prices for their eggs at a time o f the partment. Over this slant when the
The collector pays for the eggs after year, when there arc many of them food was not there he placed a crimson
they are weighed, and writes down in and the prices, therefore, would be low
Telephones: Main 6980, A 3322
cord, and the nuts very h o o ii learned to
the member’s control book not alone if eggs were not bought for pickling.
the amount which he has paid, but also
Under the egg jmcking stations in interpret the signal and never attempt'
the weight and price. The committee of many places are built cellars for the ed to climb over it.
Tninking after a time that there
These cellars are
the head society issues the price every pickling o f eggs.
week and sends a communication to cool and well ventilated, all the w7in might be something in the color that
each local society.
dows lime washed, and everything is repelled them automatically, as the
When the collector gets home he puts kept in the most sanitary condition. hull is affected unpleasantly by red, he
IN EACH TOWN and district t o n d e and exhibit a sample Latest Model the eggs in large pine cases provided Large cement tanks holding from 70,
replaced the red cord by cords of vary
t t Ome»mmr9t
l n m l o furnished
furrtlvh n sl by
hw us.
u u Our
i Inn n
t r o n t t every
P u n r c where
vnh<jpi■ are
u r n making
m a Liner 1
R an ger” h bicycle
agents
i with cardboard sections and holding 000 to 100,000 eggs each are generally ing colors, always with the same result
money fast.
fast W r i t e for fu l l p a rticu la rs a n d sp a tia l o f er a t o n t e .
NO MONI EY REQUIRED until you receive and approve of your ’ from 500 to 1,000 eggs each. In the used, and the eggs are put down in
We ship to anyone anywhere in the TT. 8. w ith ou t a te n t d ep osit) small societies, which have no driving lime water from spring to autumn or after the ants had made a few excur
in advance, prepay freig h t, and allownTEN DAYS’ FREE TRIAL during; collectors, the members must deliver winter. Over the eggs the preserving sions over the slant and come back
which time you may ride the bicycle and put it to any test you wish, t
If you are then not perfectly satisfied or do not wish to keep the/ their eggs, for instance, to the dairy fluid forms a kind o f skin. Cold stor hungry. Then he tried plain cloth and
bicycle ship it back to us at our expense and you w ill not be ou t one ten t. | manufactory, or to the supply aseocia age plants are not used in any places even paper, but the result was Invari
FACTORY PRIOF^ We furnish the highest grade bicycles it Isl tion, or to the collector. O f course the in our country as they are in America. ably the same.
A fter a number of
■ t i v ■ v n ■ ■ n iv k tf possible to make at on e small profit above
actual factory cost. You save 110 to $35 middlemen’s profits by buy best way is to have a driving collector. A fter the eggs are taken from the trials the ants refused to climb the
ing director us and have the manufacturer's guarantee behind your
The by-laws for the small local soci tanks they are placed upon trays slant when there was any sort o f "s ig
bicycle. DO ROT BUY a bicycle or a pair qf tires from anyone I t any
eties are practically quite the same. which are placed under running water. nal.'*
f r i t o until you receive our catalogues and learn our unheard of fa ctory
Each o f them has its own committee, Before being packed in cases the
.price* and rtm arhablo eyecia l o f ere to rider agents.
Finally the scientist reversed the sig
YOU WILL BE ASTONISHED •ud «tudy ou r superb m ode if at t h« ir«nrfrr leader, and sends a representative, us eggs are dried and exactly tested, and nal, having food beyond the slant only
fu lly low prices w o can make yon this year. W e eel) tb e hlghent grade M ef* l I I
ually the leader, every year to the large on the cases
is distinctly marked
lesa money tbanany other factory. We are «atl«fled with 11.00 profit a b oee factory coal, ^
meeting of the head society. Rules o f “ Pickled E ggs.” They are
usually when It was visible, and after an Infl
B ICY CLE D E AL ERS, you can ueli our btcyclea under your own name plateat double c
>rders fill«! the day received.
the most stringent nature are imposed, j «hipped from October to December, ulte number of trials the ants accom
•ECONO HAND B ICY CLE S. W e d o n ot regnlarly handle second hand bicycles, but ti
^ ^ ^ a n u m beron hand taken In trade by ou r C hicago retail
‘ ' etoi
stores. These we clear out prom ptly at prla
as the principal object o f the head so i when new laid eggs are scarce.
modated themselves to the change.—
ranging from S 3 to • « o r $ 1 0 . Deecriptiv© bargain Hats mailed free.
'9®.
Last year the total transactions in Harper's Weekly.
ciety is to deliver to the English market
roller cha ins and p ed als, parts, repairs and
n n i ^ T F R a R R A I f F Q
alngls wheels, im p orted ro
• D R » * ■ D
D 11 II IV C D f equipm ent o f all kinds a t h
hat,
,
a lf the regular
retail p n e
the best possible produce o f new laid the Danish Farmers' Co-operative Egg
eggs. Therefore each egg delivered must Association wras more than 4$ million
only be laid by the member’s own hens, kroner;
the
reserve fund 200,00b
Carnegie'» First Library.
and on the other hand he has to for kroner, and 600,000 kroner, the net
A SAM PLE P A IR
When Andrew Carnegie was a mere
ward all eggs produced except those profit o f the society, w7as distributed at
used for hatching and for home con the end o f the year among the mem j lad In the employ of the Pennsylvania
' The regular retail priteofthete tires is.
$10.00 yer yair, but to tntrodute toe*
sumption in the household. This pro tiers o f the local societies in propor railroad he with the other boys o f the
w ill tell you a iample pair for $4 80{tath with order $4 55
vents members selling eggs to others tion to the value of eggs which each old First ward, Allegheny, Pa., now
1 0 M ORE TROU BLE FROM PURCTURES
who, at certain times o f the year as a member had supplied. In 1905, the year the north side. Pittsburgh, had for
N A IL S. T aek s, o r C la s s w ill n ot le t th e a ir o u t.
result o f the competition, give a few the society was founded, the average many years the use o f the private li
A hundred thousand pairs sold la>t year.
more ore per pound. Further, the regu [•rice for eggs was 42 ore per Danish brary of n Major Anderson. Mr Car-
DESCRIPTION:
lations provide that the eggs must be pound, and in 1907 it was 51 ore.
negle. while speaking at the Installa
riding, very durable and lined inside with
The small societies get payment from
carefully gathered at least every day
a special quality of rubber, which never be
tion o f his libraries, often said that
comes p o ro u s and which closes up small
in the cold time o f the year, and twice the head society as soon as they have j
much o f his success was due to the
punctures without a lio w ing th e air to esca pe.
Notie« th$ thick rubbertreatf or three times a day when the weather delivered their eggs at the central de j
We have hundreds of letters from satisfied customers
“ A” and puncture stripe “ B,v is hot. This is demanded to prevent the j pot.
From banks loans can be ob- j Influence of the books obtained In this
•tatingthat their tir**s have only been pumped up once
and “ D " also rim strip MH,f
ortwi.-e in a whole season. They weigh no more than
library and that when he became
to prevent rim cutting. This eggs being spoiled or cracked by un tained if needed. A cooperative bank
an ordinary tire, tbe puncture resisting qualities being
tire will outlast any other seasonable brooding hens. All <*ggs is not yet to be found, but will surely j wealthy the building o f the Allegheny
iven by several layers of thin, specially prepared
make—SOFT, ELASTIC a s / gathered must at all times be protected be founded in the future. Work in thisi free library was one o f fils first acts.—
abricon the tread The regular price of the*? tires
EAST RIDING.
Is $10 00 per pair, but for advertising purposes we are
against sunshine, dampn<ss and frost, direction is already being done.
New York Hun.
making a special factory price to the rider of only $4 90 per pair. All orders shipped same
The sale o f poultry by eo operative
day letter is received. We ship C. O D. on approval. You do not pay a cent until you and china eggs must remain in every
nest, which, as well as the house, must societies presents much greater diffi
have examined and found them strictly as represented.
W e wi l allow a ca a h d isc o u n t o f f. per cent (thereby m aking the price $ 4 * 5 8 per pair) If you «end FULL CASH
The |
be kept as clean as possible. Another rultios than the sale o f eggs.
Very Much In Love.
W IT H OROER and eneloee this advertisement. You run no r1«k In »ending u« an ord er a« tb e tire« may ba
returned at OUB expense If fo r any rea*on t h e / are not «atlNfartory on exam ination. Wear® perfectly rellabla
point o f great value is that all eggs de Danish Farmers’ C ooperative Egg Ex
Walter (waiting for bis order» - Have
and money «ent to us l«a* «area» In a bank. I f you o r d e r « pair o f the«« tire«, yoa will find that they w i'l rid«
livered to the collector must be new port Association undertakes the sale you made your choice, sir? Lovesick
eneier. nin faeter. wear better. Ia«t lon ger and look Oner than an? tire you have ev er used o r eren at any prlca.
W e know that yon will be so wed pleased that when you want a bicycle you will g iv e a* y oa r order. We want
laid and absolutely clean without being of all kinds o f poultry from the mem
ou to «end ns a trial order at once, bence t hi« remarkable tire offer.
Diner Oh, y e s ; it’s Laura
Fliegende
washed, as this spoils the eggs, which hers, and have special fattening estab
Y / ) f f A f r r f l Y m g T f y & o n ' X b o y any kind at any price until TOO «end f o r a pair o f TTedfethora
W l / w r i L a l / S i n a u F'unetnre-Pr'-of tire* on approval anti trial at tbe *pe- «i introductory
lishments for chickens arranged after Blatter
are o f so perishable a nature.
price qnoted above: o r write f o r o a r b ig T ire and Sundry Catalogue w bleb describes and quote« all make» and
kinds o f tire« at about balf tbe usual price
From the local depot the eggs are English methods. The products are sold
1 /1 R / i r i $ f A f T ^ ‘ ^ t » u
UO MOT THINK or eurtno a bicycle o r a pair o f
Dead counselors are the most In-
forwarded by rail, or, if nearby, car in the home markets.
anyone u
on know the new aod wonderful o ff e n we «re making
Write it R 3W
It only ooets a portal t o learn everyth i
Since the year 1896 the society has structlve because they are heard with
ried to the central packing station.
While all e*pen»es connected with the published a small poultry paper under patience and reverence.-Johnson.
collecting o f the eggs must be borne by the name o f “ Our Egg E xport,’ ’ which
T
Government Standard
Powders Company
And Have an Expert Explain Our
Money Maker
C.
J. W I L S O N
LABOuoHERE'S copy .
A ft.r It W «» Finiih.d H . L o.t All In-
tera.t In It* F at»
It was it mutter of absolute Indiffer
ence to Laboucbere what became of
anything be wrote after he bad writ
ten It.
When he had corrected the
proof or if be was away from Eng
land wbeu he sent his copy to the post
he took no further interest in It what
ever.
Before I had discovered this trait In
his character 1 used to write and apol
ogize for cutting, perhaps six column«
dowu to two. or sometimes offer an ex
cuse for not using any of It at all. At
last he wrote to me: “ You need not
sentimentalize about my stuff. 1 send
It to you to do what you like with.”
But one felt a lingering compunction
long afterward about consigning the
fruits of so much labor to the waste
pui>er basket, and. after all, I.a-
bouebere was the proprietor of the pa
per Once or twice, therefore. 1 have
excused myself for "not sentimental
izing" about some article that be bad
sent.
One such occasion he writes: "D ear
___ : l am the only person, I believe.
on the press who does uot care In the
least whether his lucubrations do or
do uot appear In print. It has always
appeared to me that the making of an
art (article! requires two persons, one
to write it. the other to cut it down,
and generally to cut out what the first
man most admires.” —London Truth.
H . Kn ew • Thing or T w o.
Mrs. Exe—It Isn’t right to charge
W illie with taking that money out of
your pocket.
Why don't you accuse
me? Mr. Exe—Because it wasn't ail
taken.—Boston Transcript.
East 33
B 7118
Arthur D. Monteith
,
Troy
Laundry
Company
THE
Baggage & Omnibus
Transfer Co.
201 East Water Street
PORTLAND
General Transfering and Storage
EAST
COR. E AST YAMHILL
63
WANTED-A RIDER AGENT
u. s.
Laundry Company
iSJ Hedgethorn Puncture-Proof $
Self-healingTires to nmtoouce,oHL r
f
w
DO MOT w S ttT S fe s ^ r ^ ^
J. L. MEAD CYCLE COMPANY, CKIGÄ
81 , ILL.
180 Grand Avenue
PORTLAND
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They will cure any kind o f Heacache, no
matter what the cause. P e r fe c t ly H a rm le a *.
Price 25 Cwtxte
JtOdMAN LICHTT MFC. CO.. Det Mo!ne».I*.
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