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23 IN SOUTHWEST
tost ruction Spread Through
Kansas and Oklahoma.
light Dead at Big Heart, and Evary
Building Haed Schoolhouses
Fall on Children.
KaiiHiiH City. Mo., April lft. Twen-
v three person are rcKrted dead,
y itli lit li'HHt lOOjinjured, two towm
radically swept away, scores of
uildiiig demolished ami thousand of
l 1 11 rrt ' worth of propertydumiigcd as
,, result of h tornado thitt raged in
ansa unci Oklahoma today.
TIk' torn in lo wait accompanied Iiy
..in, hail hih! lightning. Many build-
,gs were alruck ly lightning arid
timed.
Western MiitHouri wan visited by a
un and luiil storm, liut thin section
,i nut in the main path of the storm.
Telegraph and telephone wires wore
ndcpsl useless in the worst stricken
ction and it in probable that the
rnidfto rciHirt of the death roll ami
f i proH-rty damage will prove much
cater t hun they now upM-nr.
1 lie tornado levied its greatest toll
l 'dead lit Kit( Heart. Oklu., whirrs
glit person were killed, ton injured
ul almost every building in the town
recked.
Whiting, han., wan practically
olf the map, 60 huililing he-
blown down, III) eroii hurt and
r.i. Iliivid Stone killed.
At I'ow hiittan, Kan., a woman and
child iTU killed.
A high school building 'u wrecked
D.-.kriilge, Run., a number of houses
imaged and from 15 to 2i) jierson in-r.-d.
At lliiiwntha, Kan., a Hrhoolhoutie
i n blown down, nn 8-yenr-old hoy
nVmcd Pclton killed and several build-
atruck ly lightning.
Several person are known to have
en hurt at NYtuwaka, Kan. A child
n killed at Manville, Kati.
The Kansas end of the tornado
irted near Whiting ami swept in a
itheiisterly direction for a distance
mi. re than .rl mi leu.
In Kansas City the storm did little
rimr;-. A few horse were killed
ligtning and nine building atruck.
e rain lasted alsiut un hour and wan
ivy. Hail accompiuiiisl the atorm.
Two more death were remrlrd
'in near Hiawatha late tonight,
-raldinc Meiscnhcirncr, 10 Vein old,
I a small child ofOti Mellott are
victims.
The Meienheillirr girl Sollht refuse
Hi three companion in a country
nt Ilmnse anil the nuiMing was
i ked soon ufterward. The dead
I'm eoiiipaiiion wi re injured. It is
known how the Mellott child met
death.
Vurty persons seriously injured
re taken to Tulsa in Mtoek car to
.lit. The Midland Valley railroad
roils ri ort four dead and over lui)
nr. d. Many of the injured, it I
leviil, will die and many more are
igcrously hurt.
SEPARATIONS COMPLKTE
FOR TKACK NEGOTIATIONS
Washington - Initial steps to bring
lit peace in Mexico have heen tak
here. I r. VilnpicZ (loiriiz, head
the confidential agency of the revo
lonists in the United State, an
mced to the Associated Pros that
hud rompleteil sjx-cial arrange
nts fur expeditious telegraphic
Kf mnunicat ion helween the camp of
i ll in in Chihuahua and Washington.
Assurances have heen (riven hy the
I imrit ie concerneil that the mcs
will have right of w ay over the
xic, in telegraph line. Ir. Comcz'
"age was addressed to Francisco I.
idem in care of a friend in Chihua-
i city.
I'lie agent there of Dr. (oitnez lia
ii aecoriled permiHion to pas
"Ugh all line to execute hi mis-
Oin.
Famous Gun Roar Again.
Agua I'rieta, Mox.-- Interesting in
nniition ha heen received here re-
'nig to the movement of the "Hluo
liistler" cannon, which is en route
in Juarri to Ojinagu, where Jtlene
1 Jose Sanchez i prejiarintf to attack
" hesieged Kisleral force of (leneral
"pie. This cannon I one of 12 cap
red hy the Federal force from the
" Is at Valverde, N. M., during the
merican civil war. ICecently the
nnon wa stolen and taken aero
line and turned over to the rehels,
flio placed it in hiding.
Sumter's Flag it Found,
Lowell, Mas. The flag which flew
1 r Kurt Sumter, when it wa fired
i Ho year ago, is thought to lie in
KMseHHion of Mis Klizu ( iwley,
this city. Misa ("owley nay that
while in Charleston during the war.
r brother Charlc. now dead, wa
I'seriled with the llag and that it ha
way remained in the ('owley fam-
fr'. Her brother, Mi Cowley any,
lintained that the llag was the one
hich Major Anderson displayed.
Hillman Qivea Bi'Bonof,
Seal tic Clarence Pay ton Hillman,
" niillinnaire real estate dealer con
''ted of using the mail to defraud
tfid sentenced to nerve two and n half
Jars in the Federal prison nt McNeill
liaml and nay fine of If). 200. filed
nd amounting to tUlS.OOO to gain
Jn liberty pending an appeal.
PATTON TO HELP MANKIND.
"Special Service" to Be Wheat King's
Guiding Star.
Cliicago-- "SMciul Service" Is to
be the guiding Mtar of Jume a Patten
in the distribution of hi fortune for
the benefit of Immunity during his
lifetime.
Mr. 1'atten ha deelansl that "a
man should diKmn of great wealth
for the benelit of the community,"
that "ajcial aervice is the one great
thing in life," and ao he ha set about
the diburemerit of his wealth and
has given to the most appealing chari
ties no less than $2,000,000 within the
last six month.
Half a million dollar was donated
to the cause of medical reseurch in the
"white llllltrile " An.. II...- I..
.. . - con
tribution wa for the protection ami
eoiii-Hiion oi mai neglecteil clus chIIciI
by William I., liodme "the chil.l rn
of the pathetic estate." '
A puMic park ha been providisl for
in Fvurihton KIll.Hliliillul ui.l j i n
extendisl Ui the Young Men's Chria-
nan aHMociaiion lor enlargement or
the coe of that institution in dealing
with the young men of this ami ne.
ceeding generations; generous assist-
anev nun uwn auoniei lo tno cause or
education in the Northwestern Uni
versity and a largo sum given lo the
Kvanston hosnilul ti.ui,la H...
spoiiHes to the almost innumerable ap
peal that have come to him from the
widows, the orphans, the isKir and the
distress ed.
Mr. Putten'a Infum. irl..r.,uf In Iku
tulKTCulosis investigation dates from
the death of his brother from that
disease.
WOMAN MAYOR INSTALLED.
She Says One of Sex Will Be Chief
of Police-Ban on Pool Halls.
Hunnewell, Kan. The first meeting
of the city council of Hunnewell under
ths new suirragist administration wa
held Tuesday evening, Mrs. Klla Wil
son taking her seat a mayor.
After the old council had disposed of
unfinished business, tiie new members
organisci-d and the mayoress proceeded
to leliver an informal inaugural ad
dress. She sinted out conditions in Hunne
well that ne.ilil rectifying and ex
plained the hoM that her associates in
the council would co-oja-rate with her
in seeking to improve the standard of
morals by reforming certain abuses.
Mrs. Wilson's remarks were under
stissl to be directed esM'cially toward
the ssi halls, which Mr. Wilson lie
lieve exert a corrupting intluerico up
on young men. She want to put the
institutions out of business with a
high license tax.
Mrs. Wilson said she would appoint
Mrs. Kosa (Islsirne, defeatist candidate
for silice judge, to the office of chief
of (silice. Mrs. Oslsmie, it is under
stissl, ha agreed to accept that office ,
provided she is given an assistant.
The coiincilmen have not shown
much warmth toward some of Mrs.
Wilson's plan.
One councilman went so far as to
say that the council would not supsrt
Mr. Wilson's apsintment and that
there would be no license for the pool
hall.
BARS UP IN ASIA MINOR.
Russia Opposes American Railroad
Interests In Country.
Pt. Petersburg That Russia is op
ssed to American railway projects in
Asia Minor i for the first time olli
cially acknowledged in an interview
which the editor of the Novoe Vremyn
has had with the act ing minister of
foreign affairs, M. Neratoir.
The minister said Russia regarded
the recent acquisition of a railroad
outlet at Alexatidretta by Oermnny
with indifference, as Alexatidretta is
outside the direct sphere of Russian
interests.
On being asked why Russia, accent
ing to resiits, hail intervenisl and in
sisted that Turkey reject the Ameri
can railroad project of securing Bn
outlet at Mersina, the minister replied
that the American proposals intro
duced into Asia Minor an entirely new
element, which not only considerably
complicated the railroad problem, but
affected the general political situation
in which Russia was interested.
Balloon Flight Failure.
St. Iiuis -With only three sacks of
ballast remaining out of 47 they enr
riod when they left San Antonio, Tex.,
Lieutenant H. E. Honeywell and J. W.
Tolland, of St. l.oui, landed 15 miles
south of Little Rock, Ark., and gave
up their attempt to lower the I.ahm
balloon cup record. This is the third
attempt within a year to lift the cup
hy starting from San Antonio. Clif
ford Harmon tried it in tho spring of
HMO and landed in Arkansas. Febru
ary last William Assman, of St. Iiuis,
started, but landed in Missouri.
Navy Gunners Marvels.
San liego, Cal. According to a
current reMit which is generally cred
ited, the battleship South Dakota,
whilo engaged with the California and
Maryland in target practice oir this
sirt, recently made a record with six
inch guns that has hardly a parallel.
Firing at five different targets nt a
distance of 10,000 yards, the South
Hakota, according to the resrt, made
a record of HI hit out of US shot with
her six-Inch gun.
Bibles Conceal Crime.
Chicago After the arrest of An
drew Huktus, on a charge of counter
feiting, Uited States secret service
men found a counterfeiting plant for
raising f 2 bills to f 20, hidden under a
pile of bibles in Huktus' room. When
arrested Huktus said hn was a bible
salesman. In a case under the bibles
was found a set of dies and tools, to
gether with several altered bills.
BRIEF REPORT OF TIIE DAILY
WORK OF NATION'S LAWMAKERS
Washington, April 14. The Can
adian reciprocity bill introduced in the
house yesterday was resrted favor
ably to the house tislay by the new
ways and means committee. The
committee also pasaed favorably on
the free list tun IT measure, but will
not reiort until tomorrow.
The Canadian reciprocity treaty bill
was taken up first by thu committee,
and, after a brief discussion, McCall,
its ssnior in the 61st congress, moved
that it be approved. This wus done
without division.
The free list bill, however, was not
unanimously approved, the vote on it
in the committee having been a strictly
party vote, the Democrats favoring it
and tho Republicans being solidly
against it. 1 he Republican member,
with Sereno Payne as sisikesman, de
clared that the pnsised bill was hasty
and ill-advised, that the measure had
not been referred to the tariff board
and that Chairman Underwood and his
Democratic colleagues on the commit
tee had not sufficient data to show
what effect the changes would have.
When tho house met. Underwood
submitted the resirt of the commit
tee. The reciprocity bill will be
called up tomorrow for discussion.
()pssition to the reciprocity bill
from the same Republicans who op
posed it in the last sesion developi-d
quickly. Dal.ell, of Pennsylvania,
asked the privilege of filing a minor
ity rert.
The clause in the bill providing that
the president continue negotiations
with Canada to insure further recip
rocal relations w ill not in any way
jeopardize the bill itself, in the opin
ion of political leaders of both parties.
Underwood, of the ways and mean
committee, McCall and President Taft
himself, conferred as to the added
clause before it was promised to incor
(sirate it in the Underwood bill. Sec
retary Knox was also consulted.
It is rcsrted on good authority that
the ways and means committee will
offer a bill (tutting all woolen import
ations on the free list.
Senator Cummin bslay gave notice
of a motion amending the henato rules
so a to riKuire amendments to tariff
bill to be germane to the schedule
affected. A rule of similar inijsirt has
been adopted by the house.
Washington, Apri 11. The house of
representatives, by a vote of 216 to
Ifi, late today passed the Rucker reso
lution promising a constitutional
amendment for the direct election of
United States senators.
This i the first of the Democratic
programme measures passed by the
house. It went through without mod
ification and with a sieed that brought
protests from the Republicans.
The resolution, as the house ap
proved it, i in the form in which the
Horah resolution wa rep .rted out of
tho senate judiciary committee in the
closing days of the last congress. Re
publican opsisition to the Rucker re
solution in the house wus based on the
fact that it did not contain the changes
afterwards made in the fight in the
senate, which assured to congress con
tinued control over elections in the
several states.
After six hours of debate, in which
many demands were made for this
change in the resolution, all but 15
Republicans voted for the resolution.
The majority of them had stated dur
ing the debate that they would supsrt
the resolution because convinced the
public wanted such a constitutional
amendment submitted to the country
as quickly as possible.
Those who opssed the resolution on
the final vote were:
Republicans - - Cannon, Mann, Illi
nois; Danfirth, Malby, New York;
Dislds, Fordncy, McMorran, Michigan;
Harris, Lawrence, McCall, Wilder,
Massuchuesstes; Hinds. Maine,; Sul
loway, New Hampshire; L'tter,
Rhode Island.
Democrats McDermott, Illinois.
Fx-Speaker Cannon, Mann, the Re
publican leader, and others of the Re
publican who voted against the meas
ure, declared that it form was such as
to threaten the Federal government
with the loss of control over senatorial
election in the states, given to safe
guard the integrity of these elections.
They insisted, as did other Republi
cans who ultimatey voted for the reso
lution, that the direct election amend
ment should be offered without any
language lhat might be dangerous to
the future congressional supervision of
senatorial elections.
The Republican insurgents, led by
I.enroot and Cikmt, of Wisconsin,
forced a record on the final 'passage of
the resolution. The house voted
overwhelmingly in favor of the meas
ure, when S-aker Clark called for
the vivn voce vote, but the insurgents
demanded a roll call in order to put
the house on record.
Tariff Board Cannot Help.
Washinton. April 14. Revision of
the wool schedule of the Payne-Aldrich
tariff law, accomplished as forming
part of the program for the Demo
cratic house of representatives, will
have to be undertaken without the
assistance of the tariff board. It wa
announced today after the first full
meeting of tho house commit'ee on
ways and means that the tariff board
is not yet in a position to furnish in
formation on the wool schedule.
Kenyon to Wnit Awhile.
Washington W. S. Kenyon, Attor
ney (leneral Wickersham's assistant,
and senator elect from Iowa, will not
qualify as a senator until the import
ant anti-trust prosecutions, which he
is now conducting, can be arranged
without injury to the work.
Washington, April 12. Farmers
are to be won over by the Democrat
to reciprocity with Canada ami inci
dentally to the Democratic party by
the placing of a number of articles
which they consume on the free list.
The first two measures to be offered
in the house this session were intro
duced today by Chairman Underwood,
of the ways and means committee.
They are the Canadian reciprocity bill
and the free list bill. The former bill
is identical with that passed at the
last session except for a clause author
izing the president to continue nego
tiation for reciprocity on Canadian
ariitic not coveri.ii oy me penning
agreement. The free list bill com
prise about 100 articles.
When the Canadian reciprocity bill
is called up Friday by Underwood
there will be no effort to limit debate
unless the minority demands un un
reasonable time. It is the opinion of
majority leaders that the minority
should conclude whatever arguments
there will be against the bill within
two days.
Probably not more than four days'
debate will be given and it will be
passed by a large majority in the
house and be sent to the senate within
a week. No amendments will be
offered from the Democratic side.
The free list bill, lo be called up af
ter the passage of the reciprocity bill,
is also a caucus measure and cannot
be amendmed by the party in charge.
Under the new rule no general tariff
amendments can be offered by the
minority because each amendment
must be germane to some particuar
item in the bill. Considerable debate
is expected, but the Democratic lead
ers expect both measures will be
ready for the senate within two
weeks.
The articles designated for the free
list would make a difference a com
pared with the present duties and rev
enue of less than $ 1,500,000. They
are :
Plows, harrows, headers, harvest
ers, reapers, agricultural drill and
planters, mowers, horse rakeJ, culti
vators, threshing machine, cotton
gin, farm wagons, farm carts and all
other agricultural implements, in
cluding repair parts.
Ragging for cotton, gunny cloth and
fabric suitable for baling cotton;
burlap and bags for sacking agricul
tural products, hoop band iron or
steel for baling cotton ; wire for bal
ing hay, straw or other agricultural
products, grain leather, bu!T, split,
rough or sole leather, bend or belting,
leather, Issits and shoes, harness, sad
dles and saddlery.
Harbed wire fence, wire rods, wire
strands or wire rope, wire woven or
manufactured for wire fencing.
Meats of all kinds, fresh, salted,
pickled, dried, smoked, dressed or un
dressed prepared or preserved in any
manner; bacon, hams, shoulders,
lard, lard compounds and lard substi
tutes; sausage, buckwheat flour, corn
meal, wheat and rye flour, bran, mid
dling and other offals of grain, oat
meal and rolled oat ami all prepared
cereal foods; biscuits, bread, wafers
and similar articles not sweetened ;
timber hewn, sided or squared; round
timber used for spars or building
wharves; shingles, laths, fence posts,
sawed boards, planks, deal and other
lumber, rough or dressed, except
elsiny, mahogany, rosewood and all
other cabinet woods.
Sewing machines and salt complete
the free list.
Washington, April 11. It required
more than two hours in the house of
representatives to elect its new com
mittees. It was the first time in its
history that committees had been elec
ted. Kx-Speaker Cannon tauntid the
Democrats with having approved as
the Republican representatives on the
various commitees practically the
same men whom he, as soaker, had
put on these committees in the last
house. The Republicans charged the
Democrats with gross unfairness in
cutting down the minority member
ship on the most important commit
tees. Underwood, the Democratic leader,
replied that the Democrats had based
the proortionnte representation in
committees strictly upon the Demo
cratic majority in the house itself.
"This is moreover," he said, "the
first time a minority leader hail been
permitted to name his committees and
has had them adopted by the majority
without dotting an 'i' or crossing a
't'." This statftnent was cheered
loudly by the Democrats.
Treaty Work Progresses.
Washington - James Itryce, Rritish
ambassador. Secretary of State Knox
and Chandler Anderson, counsellor of
the State department, held another
long conference in regard to the pro
posed arbitration treaty. Progress is
being made in the negotiation of the
convention, and the administration is
still confident that the document will
be completed in ample time for sub
mission to Cie present session, for rat
ideation.
Northwet ternert Disappointed.
Washington - Northwestern insur
gents, with the exception of French,
of Idaho, did not fare well in commit
tee assignments and none but French
is pleased with the committees given
him. Lalferty, who made a strong
fight to get on public lands, was
placed on irrgation and on mileage.
While irrigation is a fairly good com
mittee for Western members, mileage
has only perfunctory duties to perform.
FARM m ORCHARD
Soles and Instructions from Agricultural Collect and Exptrlmenl Stations
of Oreaun and H'ashlnyton. Specially Suitable to Pacific Coast Conditions
SEEDTIME AND HARVEST.
H. V. Scuiiiler, Airromimwit. On-ron Agricultural
ColleS". Corvallla.
With such wonderful weather for
the earliest plowing and seeding as
only Oregon can offer every sower
of seed is already looking forward
with the highest expectations to a
most prosperous harvest.
Hut just a moment, friend! You
remember well the scriptural warning
"Whatsoever a man soweth, that
shall he also reap." No prohecy ever
uttered, perhaps, has received so uni
versal acceptance from humanity in
ail the ages as this, possibly because
it is founded upon a most primal lit
eral truth.
From remote times man has been
first of all a sower of seed and every
recurring harvest in its dearth or in
its plenitude has driven home the un
alterable truth of this maxim. Yet
the farmer of today, who of all men
should give most heed to the literal
accuracy of this text and its direct ap
plication to his industry seems often
more heedless of this first step toward
a bountiful harvest than were his fore
bears ages ago.
For failure because of carelessness
in the quality of the seed used, there
seem little excuse nowadays. If
"scientific agriculture" has done
aught it has first of all increased the
farmer's opportunity to secure crops
of the highest quality, and repeatedly
it has emphasized the need of so doing.
Everywhere the state experiment
stations and the federal agricultural
authorities have eagerly extended the
helping hand to aid the farmer in pro
curing good seed, and year after year
has the wisdom of these efforts been
amply demonstrated.
The farmer of Oregon seems less
progressive in this matter than those
of any other section of the country.
Out of all of the samples of seed re
ceived and tested at the cooperative
seed testing laboratory at Lorvalhs
last year only twenty per cent were
sent in by Oregon farmers. let the
need for most careful examination of
seeds before purchase or sowing is
constantly being demonstrated by the
results of the work done in this seed
testing laboratory. This need is evi
dent especially in the grasses, clovers
and alfalfa. ror example, in the
test3 of alfalfa seed alone since Jan
uary 1st of this year forty-two per
cent of all samples examined by the
seed experts contained dodder, and in
sixty-one jer cent of this infected
alfalfa, the dodder was the most dan
gerous secies known to agriculture.
One sample of alfalfa seed examined
and rcorted only last week contained
15.1 per cent dodder. l et 1 per cent
of dodder is sufficient to destroy the
alfalfa crop. Alfalfa seed having 1
per cent of dodder would contain about
4.000 dodder seeds in every pound of
alfalfa and seeded at the rate of 16
pounds of alfalfa per acre 400 dodder
seeds would be sown on every square
rod of the seed bed; enough under or
dinary conditions to so thoroughly in
fest the crop with the parasite as to
destroy the alfalfa in a single season.
Alfalfa is one of the most important
crops in the state and in the North
west. Dodder is a parasitic weed,
the seed of which when sown with the
alfalfa germinates in the ground. Af
ter germination the slender tendrils of
the dodder vine reaches out, fasten
ujion and coil about the alfalfa stalk.
The soil roots of the dodder then die
and the Jest thereafter obtains its
sustenance directly from the grownig
tissues of the alfalfa plant, sapping it
of life in a few weeks; Having des
troyed the alfalfa plant the dodder
vine blossoms and seeds most prolifi
cally, the seed scattering upon the
ground, quickly germinating and at
tacking new alfalfa plants, thus rap
idly spreading and ultimately destroy
ing the crop, there being practically
no remedy where the dodder once gets
started.
The only means of preventing in
fection from this dangerous pest, the
seed of which so closely resembles al
falfa seed as not to be easily detected
except by experts, and which cannot
be separated from the alfalfa seed by
any cleaning device now known is by
the refusal of the buyer to purchase or
sow alfalfa seed containing even a
minute precentage of dodder seed.
Free of charge.'the so! expert at the
cooperative seed testing laboratory at
Corvallis will examine and immediate
ly roiort uKn any sample of alfalfa
or other seed sent in by any farmer or
seodman in Oregon or the Northwest.
If free use were made of this labora
tory there is little question that dod
der in the alfalfa fields of the north
west, and in the seed harvested there
from, would be on the decrease in
stead of increase as it is now.
Nor is it in dangerous impurities
that inferior see l is constantly being
discovered. Using alfalfa as a fur
ther illustration, germination tests of
all the samples received at the labora
tory since January 1st of this year
sho-ved the following:
2e mr cent of nampli irormintx! flo-livl per cent
l " " " so-no
.s " " " 70-SII "
14 " " MO-T0 "
ID " " " HMW "
Yet good alfalfa seed should ger
minate ninety-five per cent or over.
That good seed can be secured, how
ever, is shown by the fact that 20 per
cent of the samples tested had a satis
factory germinating power were
good, live seed. The farmer must
search for such, however.
Using alfalfa as an illustration of
what is even more common in the
grasses and similar seed, it appears
perfectly evident, that both in purity
and viability, the bulk of the seed now
being sown by farmers in the North
west is decidedly inferior, and with
absolute certainty this prophesies the
harvest.
The grass seed samples tested show
even greater need of minute examina
tion before purchase of seed. So far
this year only two samples of Red Top
have been received that were up to
s'andard in purity. Two-thirds of all
the Orchard Grass lamp'ei examined
were below tne standard of purity that
it is possible to obtain. The best
sample of Kentucky blue grass exam
ined contained 61 per cent of pure
seed, while the standard of purity for
this species is 80 per cent. The stand
ard of germination for Red clover is
95 per cent, yet the average germina
tion of the samples so far examined
by the laboratory this year is 73 per
cent. To illustrate how dangerous it
may be to sow seed containing a small
percentage of impurities, the exact
analysis of a sample of what was sold
for a mixture of timothy and alsike is
given as follows :
Timothy, 66 per cent; alsike clover,
14 per cent, other cultivated grass
seeds, 5 percent; tra.sh, 9 per cent;
foreign seeds, 6 per cent.
Although the amount of foreign
seeds is only 6 per cent, and may pos
sibly be considered of no consequence,
yet a list of the weed seed contained
in this 6 per cent of foreign seeds fol
lows :
Plantain, Cinquefoil, Black-seeded
plantain, mouse-ear chickweed, sorrel,
pepper grass, evening primrose, witch
grass, shepherd's purse, small crab
grass, night-flowering catchfly, sedge,
slender spike rush, lamb's quarters,
amaranth, brown-eyed Susan, woolly
panicum, crab grass, May weed, dod
der, syperus, small-seeded false flax.
hedge mustard, nerved manna grass,
green foxtail, white vervain, curled
dock, sporobolus sp., three-seeded
mercury, forked catchfly, sleepy
catchfly, yellow wood sorrel, sinuate-
leaved evening primrose, Canada this
tle, horsemint, lyespus sp., rush.
Total weeds seeds per pound of sam
ple, 13,500.
Although the farmer received only
eighty-five cents' worth of good seed
for every dollar he paid out, yet, when
the weed seeds he has sown on his
farm are considered, it is not hard to
realize how enormously unprofitable
his seeding will prove at harvest time.
It is this seeding of the land to worth
less plants and noxious weeds that is
causing the farmers of the Northwest
the loss of thousands of dollars an
nually from the inferior crop produced
and the labor wasted. Nor can the
dishonesty of the seedsmen in the
Northwest be considered the cause of
this enormous annual waste. The
seedsmen of this region are, for the
most part, trying to do their best, but
if the farmer accepts and pays for in
ferior seed as readily as for the best.
little encouragement is given to the
honest seedsman to search out seed of
high quality and refuse to sell any
thing else.
Only by insisting upon pure, viable
seed will the farmer secure, and final
ly force the seedsman to carry nothing
else. Farmer and seedsman alike
have at their immediate service, free
of all cost, the co-oerative seed test
ing laboratory at Corvallis, which has
but the one purpose, that of aiding
both dealer and grower in securing and
sowing high-quality seed.
Hence, my friend, look well to your
seeding, so that in the golden harvest
time your present expectations may
not le discounted. Hegin at the be
ginning. Use naught but seed of
quality, pure and of high vitality, and
as logically as effect follows cause, so
certainly will come to you at harvest
the opportunity to reap in profit that
which you have sown with precaution.
Tale of a Bird.
A little four-year-old boy living In ft
country town disturbed and took
some eggs from under a sitting ben
belonging to a neighbor. The neigh
bor complained to the boy's mother,
who later called her boy to her and
began to reprove him, when he broke
la with the question: "Who told you?"
The mother said: "A little bird told
me. Now. tell me, how many eggs did
you take?"
The little boy. stammering, said:
-Well! Well! Why didn't the bird
tell you the whole of It?"
NOTES OF THE SHEEPFOLD.
The greatest profit Is realized by
doing things right.
. Sheep are nature's dependable aids
In restoring and increasing soil fer
tlllty.
Phcep will thrive neither with wet
feet or with damp, soggy fleeces.
The lamb that cashes In the most
mnnev for Ita owner 1m nrtt a nrniliii.
I of poverty.
' Circumvent the large feed bills by
producing better roughage and grata
on your own farms.
To allow feeders to eat all the corn
they enn stow away after reaching;
the fnrm la disastrous.
A little flock well tended on the
small farm well tilled will rarely dies
appoint the good hepherd. ,
Throwing a Fit.
"What Is the athlete In that piece of
jUtuary doing V ,
"Throwing the discus. ,
"Wist sort of fit was thatr '