La Grande evening observer., February 16, 1916, Image 3

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1916.
ISA. GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER
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SILO FRIEND
OF
ER
: The silo is to the dairyman or the
stockman -what the fruit jar or can is
to the housewife. An airtight recep
tacle in which to store up fresh food
for future use.
.The circular silo is the most simple
and economical in construction. The
material can be more uniformly pack
ed in a round silo than in a square,
-oblong or hexagonal form. The round
eilo is most generaly used and has
given the best average satisfaction.
Whatever the form of material used
the foundation should be solid, the
walls absolutely airtight and the doors
so fitted that they close up tight and
stay so.
The size of the silo should conform
with the amount of stock to be fed,
so that when opened, one and a half to
two inches can be raked off and fed
every twenty-four hours. Always feed
from the top and keep the surface
smooth and level as possible.
The heigh .should 'be equal to
three times the diameter to secure
best results.
. The finer the material is cut the bet
ter it will pack and cure. The material
should contain enough moisture to
pack firmly. If too dry or chaffy,- wat
er can be added to moisten, but never
enough to make it sloppy. It should bo
dry enough so there will be a slight
ferment, just enough to raise the tem
perature to 100 or 126. If the silo is
airtight there will be no danger of
over-heating or fire fanging. If too
wet it will sour or pickle instead of
curing and the result will not be sat
isfactory. When filling, great care should be
exercised in packing solid all around
the outer edges. If this is not done the
silage may shrink away from the wall,
allowing the air to enter and spoil the
outer 3 or 4 inches.
Silage can be made from any green
feed corn, alfalfa, any of the grasses
"beet tops, Russian thistles. If the silo
is airtight, the (material finely cut and
"well packed when filling, the silage
will be just as good feed when taken
out- as when put in, but no better.
Corn makes the best silage and is
the material most generaly used.
"Wherever the climatic conditions are
such that corn may foe grown td the
roasting ear stage before frost, it is
the best crop to grow for silage pur
poses. The best time to cut corn is
just as the kernels begin to dent or
glaze; the plant has then reached its
full growth and contains a larger mea
sure of digestible nutrients- than at
any oher time, either before or after.
FARM
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3.50 and up
Pauline Lederle
As quality is more important than
quantity, a variety of corn should be
used that mature to this stage before
frost. Acclimated seed should be used
where possible and the corn should be
planted . thin enough so each stalk
will carry one or more good ears.
Next to corn, peas and oats have
proven the most satisfactory crop to
wheat and vetch a close second. The
'peas and oats should be cut at the
time then oats begin to yellow and the
lower pods of peas are ripening. With
the wheat and vetch or any of tho
fall grains, the best time to cut
is when the grain is in the dough.
When weather conditions are such
that clover or alfalfa cannot be cured
as hay, a very good 1 silage can be
made by putting the green .or wet
clover or alfalfa in the silo. It is
very important that this material
should be cut fine and packed firm.
' Coarse slough grass, lodged grain
or other material that would be un
palatable as hay, will give better re
sults if put in the silo.
Where sugar beets are grown, the
tops are often stored in silos and
makes excellent feed for livestock -of
any kind .except horses.
About 30 pounds of silage of any
sort is as much as a dairy cow should
be fed per day.
Thirty pounds of corn silage and
fifteen pounds of alfalfa hay is a
good daily forage ration for an aver
age diary cow. ,
, Grain hay should be fed with clov
er or alfalfa silage.
A MOTHER'S GRATITUDE.
Many a Mother in La Grande Will
Appreciate the Following.
Many a strong man and many a
healthy women has muih for which
to thank mother. The care taken dur-
! ing their childhood brought them past
the danger point and made tnem
healthy men and worn n. Thousands
of children are bothered with incon
tinence of urine, and inability to re
tain it is oftimes called a habit. It
is not always the child's fault in
many cases the difficulty lies with the
kidneys, and can be readily righted.
A La Grande mother tolls how she
went about it.
Mrs. W. M. Andis, 1502 V. Ave.,
La Grande, says: "I have used Doan's
Kidney Pills with the best of results,
and have also given them to our little
girl for weakness of the kidneys: She
had complained a greit deal, but
Doan's Kidney Pills soon strengthened
her kidneys and benefited 'her in every
way."
Price 50c, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy get
Doan's Kidney Pills the same that
Mrs. Andis had. Foster-Milburn Oo.,
Props., Buffalo, N. Y.
A CHANGE OF TACTICS.
How It Worked In the Case of a Die
couraged Salesman.
The following method of gaining as
surance is told in the American Maga
zine. It is the experience of a sales
man who could uot sell his goods be
cause he allowed himself to be dis
couraged at initial attempts. It bas
wide application everywhere:
"1 am a commercial traveler who
conquered tho bnbit of despondency.
Every one who soils goods Unows how
fierce is the competition. Whoa I took
this job six years ugo it seemed abso
lutely overwhelming. 1 didn't' sell
anything to speak of and made up my
mind that I couldn't, though 1 kept on
making the round of the groceries.
There seemed to be a thousand sales
men just ahead of me. 1 grew very
bitter at the thousand and everybody
else.. Whenever 1 entered a store it
was with the firm conviction that 1
should not get an order. 1 looked dull
eyed at the merchant and said gloom
ily: "'Anything In my line?' at the same
time reaching for the doorknob. They
didn't try to detain me.
"One day in conversation with an old
drummer, a shrewd veteran of the
road, I opened my .heart with a sav
age complaint about the thousand
salesmen, my advance guard. Do puff
ed his cigar a moment, bis eyes twin
klotf and he slapped me on the shoul
der. " 'I know,' he mild. 'I bad 'cm abend
of me once. They raised Cain with
mo until 1 chased 'em to the rear. Take
my advice, boy, and get up to. the bead
of the procession and let tho other fel
lows do the worrying.'
"I thought it over, nud It dawned on
me that it was a question of viewpoint
I had formed a habit of picturing my
self at the tail or the line, though in
reality we were going In a circle and
my position was as good as any. Then
I changed my tactics and formed a
new habit the habit ot thinking of
myself as the leader, the very first man
in the territory. Just as an experi
ment I went out the next day believ
ing that I should get orders. . I pulled
my order book and pencil the moment
I entered a store and begun to nama
certain goods.
" 'Sugar!' I cried, looking the grocer
expectantly in the eye, as much as to
say that 1 could see the empty barrel
behind his counter. And the barrel
was empty! It worked so well In the
first store that 1 tried niorevigorously
in the next, and the merchant came
down freely. It was almost uncanny
the way I guessed the items be need
ed. I went out on tho sidewalk and
laughed aloud. And I actually sold
more goods that ..day than 1 had sold
before in three weeks.
, "Well, the firm raised my salary in
stead of firing me, as they bad planned
to do, and 1 still Insist that 1 am the
first man over tbe route. 1 tell you,
right habits of thought are worth
money sometimes a fortune."
Spirit of the Home.
I never realized before how rare in
deed is the real home tbe temple rear
ed to house a family life, with Its altar
dedicated to parenthood. 1 saw that
it Is not enough to have furniture
"good," to have colore "safe," not
enough to show a pretty, well appoint
ed house to the world. A real home
must be a setting for a living, loving,
sorrowing and conquering man and
woman. It is not enough to 'study tex
tures, plans and building materials. It
is just the old story of the letter and
the spirit. The creative spirit can
make any home beautiful, but the most
letter perfect house Is a dead shell un
less it houses loving, growing life.
Emily Newell Blair In Countryside
Magazine. "
Excitement.
People who easily get excited don't
usually live nearly so long as people
who keep calm. Excitement, in fact,
wastes the vitality and affects one's
health to a very great extent. This is
true, too, of all who eek excitement, J
wneuier pnyslcal or mental. Excite
ment makes the pulse beat above the
ordinary rate, and one's reserve of en
ergy is used up so much the quicker.
Occasional excitement, however. Is
very good for one's health, especially
where the pulse Is slow, but the natu
ral condition of tbe body should be one
of calmness and regularity.
Modern Efficiency.
"I dont see how Adele could possi
bly stop to get married. She bas such
a passion for traveling."
"But she did It to save time."
"How's that?"
"She murried a Bblpplng clerk and
now be packs all her trunks for ber."
Judge.
He Wacnt Acrobatic
Miss Prue Dent Papa says you are
Improvident and that be will never
Consent to my marrying a man unable
to make both ends meet OrrvUle
Harduppe Well. I'm afraid I shall
never be able to do so. I'm no contor
tionist Good evening.
BULLETSJN FLIGHT
Even the Best Aimed Ones Never
Follow Their Noses.
STRIKE A WEE BIT SIDEWAYS.
The Projectile Travel on Curve, of
Course, and It Keep Its Axia Always
In the Dlreotlon the Axi Had When
the Ball Left the Gun. ;
It is a well known fact that a bullet
never goes straight to a mark, but flies
in a curve on the order of tbe parabola.
But most people think that the bullet
itself follows its nose and that at Brat
(when the nose is pointed up) the bul
let follows it and that when tho bullet
is coming down on tbe other leg of the
curve tbe nose is pointed down.
This is a mistake, for the nose of a
bullet always maintains Its own direc
tion, no matter what tho bullet as a
whole tries to do. That is, if a gun be
pointed slightly up, the bullet, when It
strikes the target will not enter It per
pendicularly by tho nose, and the hole
made will be larger than the bullet is
round, for tbe bullet of necessity must
hit In a certain degree flatwise. ' Of
course the reason the bullet does this
is because it has a very rapid rotation
given it by the rifles in tbe barrel,
which keeps It also from turning over
and over in the nir.
: Another thing that will seem peculiar
to mast people is the action of gravity
on a bullet If a gun be fired exactly
horizontally the bullet will have to be
pulled down by gravity exactly sixteen
feet during the first second. So if there
were no sights on a gun and it was
leveled by means of a hand level and
fired tbe bullet would bit something
exactly sixteen feet below the gun nt a
dlstnnce away equal to the velocity of
tbe bullet per second.
No matter what the bullet's velocity,
gravity will pull it down sixteen feet
during tbe first second, or if the bullet
be tired upward gravity will take from
its upward velocity thirty-two feet dur
ing the fli'Bt second,. ,
Tho bullet Itself keeps Its axis al
ways In the direction the axis bad
when tho bullet issued from the gun.
This is tlic well known gyroscopic prin
ciple made use of In the gyroscopic
compass and the monorail car that a
rotating body will maintain Its axis ot
rotation in the same direction unless a
moment or force be applied to it.
But what actually happens with the
modern high powered rifle? Does it
shoot a bullet that g'os in sideways?
To a slight extent It may be stated
that the modern army bullet does do
that very thing. Its velocity, however,
Is so enormous that the gun barrel docs
not have to be elevated through so
large an augle, and consequently tbe
bullet enters fairly on Its nose, though
not squarely so, at all ordinary raqges.
The same may be said of the bigger
guns. They have rifling in them and
so give rotation and gyroscopic action
to the projectiles. But a mortar does
not A mortar shoots something al
most straight up In the air and lets it
fall down. As the mortar is too short
barreled to be rifled tho top of the pro
jectile would hit a target a long dis
tance away, but for a shot almost
straight up in the air to fall right down
of course the bottom of the projectile
would strike first The niortnr projec
tiles are generally round, so that It will
not matter how they strike.
The reason a bullet cannot be mado
so that it will always enter a target
squarely on Its nose is that for every
range a differently shaped bullet would
have to be manufactured; also the bul
let should be symmetrical, so that the
air will exert no disturbing influence
on its distorted parts. 1
A bullet has a distinct curve like that
of a baseball, duo to Its rotation, and
this curve is independent of the parab
ola given by gravity. Tho smoother
and more polished a bullet is the less
Is this curve. But the action of tho
rifling in a gnu barrel puts little
grooves in the bullet as It goes through
tho barrel. These cntch the air as tbe
bullet .rotates and causes the curve
spoken of.
If tho bullet be rotated in the direc
tion of the hands of a clock tbe curve
will mnko the bullet go to the left of
the exact point aimed at Tbe effect is
so small, however, that it does not
have to be taken into account In tho
manufacture or rifles and ammunition.
New York American.
Salonlki.
The Greek seaport, Salonlki. Is the
same as the old Tbessalonica that was
visited by the Apostlo Paul In Bl
A. D. und to which were sent the two
epistles, First and Second Thessalo
nlnns, In the New Testament The orig
inal name of Salonlki was Thernia or
City of Dot Springs. Then Thessa
lonlca, so called after tho sister of
Alexander the Great, and then short
ened and made Turkish Into Salonlki.
Pachmann's Prank.
M. do Pachtnanu's keybourd eccen
tricities are notorious, and be is tbe
hero of scores of amaBing sayings and
stories. One of the latter tells how In
New York be once went aud bad a
piano lesson from a lady who adver
tised first class tuition at 23 cents a
lesson. Argonaut
"loe See," She Laughed.
Wife Tom. you don't treat me to
Ices half as often as you used to. Hub
Marriage, my dear, mnkos necessary
the practice o' frlglc economy. Boston
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Frm inspection ot any
Astoria, Feb. 14. (Special) The
Astoria Naval Base (nmmittoa run.
'tends that the harbor of the Columbia
river, at or near its mouth, meets the
five essential requirements of tfhe
ioint armv and nnvv hnnv1 wlnVh un
der the direction of Secretary Meyer
in in lnvescigntea tne navy yard
situation in the United States. Prom
inent members of this board were Ad
miral Georce Dewev. Rar AHmiml
;Wainwright and 'Rear Admiral Brad-
1 A .... , . .
icy j. risKe, wnom secretary Daniels
has dubbed our "naval statesmen "
The report of this board was in
dorsed by the General Board ofthe
ftaVV. It mitlinarl n enmnralidniiinii
navy-yard policy, and recited the fol
lowing quaiuications as "absolutely in
dispensable" to a naval base:
1st. It must be located at an im
portant strategic noint. j
2nd. It must be accessible from
the sen under all conditions.
3rd. It must have near by a pro
tected anchorage sufficient for a
fleet.
4th. It must be safe from attack.
5th. It .should be placed nar a
commercial center with plentiful la
boar and supply facilities.
First The "strategic" importance
of the Columbia River is indicated by
the-fact that it is the key to a tri
butary territory greater in area than
Germany, equal in extent to the
thirteen original colonies, with the
.exception of Georgia a region ad
vancing in population so rapidly that
it registers one hundred per Cent in
crease every decade according-, to
census figures; that more transcon
tinental railroads converge on Ithe
Columbia basin to approach the Paci
fic coast than can Ibe found on any
other part of the western slope; that
it offers the only natural ingress and
egress from the interior of the United
States; that it is the nearest port
to Yokohama, having a sailing dist
ance advantage over Seattle of. 294
miles and over San Francisco of 423
miles for the round trip; that it has
in its tributary every resource neces
sary for maintenance of a navy or an
army, easily assembled on a down
grade, by river, roil and highway.
iSe'cond The "accessibility from
the sea" of the Columbia harbor is
indicated by the fact that the coast
line of Oregon and a part of Wash
ington form a straight north and
south line and there are no islands
or reefs in the open roadsted of the
ocean; that it is only one-half hour's
sailing time from this open roadstead
to reach the inside harbor.
Third The "protected anchorage"
of thu Columbia harbor is proven as
follows: The presence of long lines
of outside jetties oblige anattacking
fleet to steam, directly in from the
west, thus enabling the coast defense
guns to converge their fire on a de
finite space; the channel has an even
flow and regular depth which greatly
facilitates the planting of a veritable
network of submarine mines; the
groat depths that exist within the
harbor would muke the operations of
submarines an assured success; the
promontories Sn the inside harbor
which project from the shores afford
safe refuge for vessels and ideal
bases for harbor defense guns and
mortars.
Fourth The entrance to the Col
umbia river can bo cheaply developed
and made highly effective. One of
the small forts located there now has
an advanced position on a headland
projecting into the Pacific which
gives it an advantage in gun range of
nearly five thousand yards. This fore
U impervious to attack except from
one side, and is well protected from
naval shell damage on account of its
height above sea level. The hills at
the mouth of the Columhia are well
screened by forests which afford a
splendid mask for batteries.
Fifth The mouth of the Columbia
U "near a commercial center (or cen
ters) with plentiful labor and supply
facilities," namely, Astoria and-Portland,
and several otnti- towns of thj
Columbia valley.
Depth at Entrance.
On January 27, 1014, the Hon.
JoscphiiB Daniels gave Congress offi
cial information concerning the deptn
of channel demanded by our fight
ing ships. "Such a channel," said Mr.
Daniels, "should have 35 feet at mean
low water. The modern dreadnaught
demands this dopth under the most
favorable conditions. In case of an
unsuccessful engagement, however,
ASTORIA
HAS
VIRTUES
1
Very Informal
We don't believe in frills and formalities. '
Oi.r battery service goes to the bottom of
thing, telle you in plain language what It
wrong, and correcta the fault. - .
Johnstone & Relsland
1515 Audms
Jkattery at any tint
the ships in flooded condition, would
naturally be lower in the water. Tha
general board had, therefore, decided
that the approaches to the navy yards
should have a .channel of at least 40
feet preferably (more." ,
Statement The channel entrance
to the Columhia river shows a mean
low water depth of 35 feet as per
last report of U. S. engineers for
this district, with constant tendency
through jetty action to increase.' Con
tinued dredging operations will un
doubtedly secure a channel 40 feet in
depth before the end of the current
year, and in time this depth will ho
increased to no- feet. Continued
dredging, with the operation of the
currents by petty action, will main
tain this depth permanently. -
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GASES OF CATARRH
Think "Hyomei the Most Wonderful
Treatment for Catarrh Ever Dia
' covered."
' Do not try to cure catarrh by using
sprays or lotions; it cannot be cured
in that manner, . The only way in
which in this too common disease can
be fully relieved is through a direct
application to the affected parts that
will kill the bacilli of catarrh and
prevent their growth.- -
Breathing the air of Hyomei is the
only known method of tr-'itment that
can really accomplish this. It is the
simplest, moat pleasant and probably
the most reliable treatment for ca
tarrh that has even been discovered.
The complete Hyomei outfit is in
expensive and consists of an inhaler,
dropper and sufficient Hyomei to last
several weeks. This will effect in
stant relief in ordinary cases, but for
chronic and deep-seated cases of ca
tarrh, longer use may be necessary,
and then an extra bottle of Hyomei
can be obtained for a trifling sum. It
is" not alone the best (it might be
only) method of treating catarrh, but
it is also the most economical.
The La Grande Pharmacy has so
much confidence in the power, of Hy
omei .to relieve catalrrh, that thoy
will for a limited time, sell this melt
cine under their personal guarantee
to refund the money if the purchaser
can say that it did' not benefit. Adv
WHAT A WOMAN OF OUB
NATIVE STATE SATS,
Portland, Oregon. "For a long time
i nave oeen so
nervous I could
Almost ftoraflm at
,';.' times, and hftvn
7';': bad spells that I
If:;! could not get
around. My back
nained so at night
jjjy I could not sleep
doctors am me
no good. A lady
xn Uearhart rec
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Prescription to me so I thought I
would give it a trial. I have now
UBed four bottles and am still using
It. It has done me much good."
Mrs. D. Shoemaker, 300 N. 19th St.
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body. It may be one place or
another, the cause is generally trace
able to a common source.
Get the "Prescription" to-day either
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