TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1016. .
LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER
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SHERRY THEATRE Today Otdy
Gold Rooster Presents -EDWIN
ARDEN AND BLISS MILPORD
"THE BELOVED VAGABOND" M""" '
The Exquisite Coloring A Meaty Story and wonderful Acting Makes This a
Notable Offering
. v me jnrst o ueei rama in joiors
TOMORROW -Metro Feature Barbara Frietchie
lam
the Old Family Dr.
i 7w advice
1 will b e in
this paper
Every
Week.
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FAMILY DOCTOR RECOMMENDS YOU TO BUY YOUR MEDI
CINES FROM US BECAUSE HE HAS ALWAYS FOUND THEM
TO BE "PURE" AND. TO POSSESS THE PROPER "STRENGTH"
HE RECOMMENDS OUR "TOILET" PREPARATIONS BE
CAUSE HE KNOWS THEM TO BE FREE FROM HARMFUL
INGREDIENTS. 1
HE RECOMMENDS "OUR DRUG STORE THINGS" OF EVERY
KIND BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN PROVEN FIRST CLASS.
EoppSii
ARE NOT THERE RECOMMENDATIONS
FOR YOU? COME IN.
GOOD ENOUGH
Levy-Vog'el Drug' Co.
Reliable Druggists '
PUBLIC PHONE
MAIN 87.
REST ROOM
On all sides you get that
palate -tickling odor that
comes from good baking
due to the goodness and
strength of
Merit Vanilla
A 25c bottle of this favorite flavoring extract not only
goes further but costs less than any other good vanilla.
Merit Vanilla is Used by the Drop
Not by the Spoonful
J. G. Snodgrass
Sole Distributor
Seven objections to one-crop sys
tem of agriculture' are set forth in
Circular No. 56 of the Office of.th3
Secretary, which is a reprint of an
address delivered by Bradford Knapp
at a conference of southern bankers.
The reasons why a one-crop sys
tem is unsafe are stated by Mr. Knapp
to be as follows:
"First, Because the system depends
upon market and crop conditions of
the one crop alone. Failure of crop
or failure of market alike bring ser
ious disaster.
"Second. Because it does not provide
for the maintenance of soil fertility.
"Third. Because it fails to provide
for a sufficient live-stock industry to
consume the waste products of the
farm and make its waste lands pro
ductive. "Fourth. Because it does not provide
for a system of farm management
under whidh labor, teams, and tools
may be used to the fullest advantage.
"Fifth. Because it brings return in
cash but once a year instead of turn
ing the money over more than once
a year. '
' "Sixth. Because it does not prD
duce the necessary foods to supply the
people upon the farm and keep them
in health and strength. '
"Seventh. It limits knowledge nar
rows citizenship, land does not foster
home hliilriinB'. hut Hnnn , imrnnmcra
! commercial- fanning." ,
k The. remedy for these evils is di
ersifioation. Diversification, how
ver, means something else than a
' change from growing cotton to grow
ing something else. One Louisiana
man, who believed that he iwlas a
convert to diversification, planted
500 acres of tomatoes. In other in
stances farmers turned from cotton
to corn and had nothing else for sale
in the . fall. This, of course, is not
diversification at all. The term is de
fined in the new circular as "an agri
cultural system through which the
living of the people upon the farm is
first produced and then a number of
products suited to the soil, the cli
mate, and the market conditions of
the country are judiciously selected
and made the imain items of prolit
through sale in the great markets of
the world, allways keeping in mind
tine necessity for maintaining the fer
tility of the soil."
This is practically the same thing
as''afe farming." The essentials
for its attainment' in the South are
stated as follows:
"1. 'A home garden for every fam
ily on a farm. From one-tenth' of an
iacre to one'-fourth or one-half an
acre, well located, well-tilled and
tended as carefully as any other crop
on the farm, is what iwe mean by a
home garden. It must be planted in
rotation so as to have continuous
crops, thus providing something for
the family table as many days in the
year as possible. To this should be
added one-fourth . of an acre of pota
toes, either Irish or sweet potatoes,
or both, to be used as food for the
faimily. An acre of sorghum or cane
should be produced to supply the
family with syrup. On the subiect of
gardening, bulletins may be obtained
irom your agricultural colleges and
from the Department of Agriculture.
"2. Produce enough corn to last
the family and tho livestock, with
certainty, for one year, with a little
excess fdr Safety.
"3. Produce sufficient oats and
other small grain to supplement the
corn as food for a year, with certain
ty. Remember these small grains
conserve the soil in winter and pro-
vKie some grazing for livestock.
"4. Produce the hay and forage
crops necessary to supply the live
stock on the farm for one year, not
forgetting the winter and summer
legumes, which not only produce hay
but also enrich the soil.
"5. Produce the necessary meat
for the family by increased attention
to poultry and hogs. I say poultry
and hogs because they can be in
creased . most rapidly for meat pro
duction. Then farmers should plan
gradually to increase, and improve
through breeding, the cattle and oth
er livestock, so as to consume the
otherwise waste products 'and make
our unprofitable or urrtillable lands
productive, Every family should
nave at least two cows, so that one
can be in milk all the timfe We
should set some standard to which to
work. For a tenant farmer not less
than one and preferably two cows;
not less than 25 hens, lreferably 50.
A standard for the smallowner farmer
would be not less than 50 and prefer
ably 100 hens. All of this stock
properly bred. . . " ,
.. "6. When the living has been pro
vided grow cotton for the main money
crop. I have endeavored to lay down
general principles rather than to
specify particular crops. For exam
ple, in semiarid sections of Texas and
Oklahoma the grain sorghums would
naturally be substituted in plaoe of
the corn, and these, together with Su
dan grass, would furnish forage.
These same general-principles apply
to tobacco territory and rice terri
tory." To put this program into effect, two
suggestions we made to the bankers
ard merchants in the cotton states:
1. . That they conduct a campaign
for a change -in the conditions on
which credit is extended to farmers,
so that "safe farming"' may be fos
tered and not discouraged. '
,2. To carry on an organized cam
paign for marketing surplus products
as near home as possible. In one
case in Louisiana a farmer had a car
load of lespedeza hay. He had dif
ficulty in disposing of it, but finally
through the medium of the county
agent, he sold it in a town 10 miles
away to a livery stable keeper who
had been in the habit of buying all
his hay in Kansas and Colorado.
In South Carolina about a year ago
a car load of hogs )ad to be sent to
Richmond of Baltimore, to be mark
eted, although $20,000,000 worth of
pork products were , wing 'brought
into the state every year. Such condi
tions encourage farmers to persist in
the hazardous plan of risking every
thing upon one crop. "Safe farming"
may be best promoted by giving to it
financial credit and better marketing
facilities. .. f ,
WHAT IS AN EGG?
Perhaps there are still country grocery-stores
where "eggs is eggs," and
you may pick your dozen eggs out of
the basket according to your individ
ual preference; but in the city eggs
are various. An egg may be a "Nearby-hennery-brown"
or only a "Fresh-
check-good-to-choice." Vou buy the
sort of egg you want with as strict
care to its classification as in buying
lumber or fruit. The New York egg
market, notes the Boston Advertiser,
regularly lists twenty-one grades and
recognises many more. The twenty-
one are:
Near-by hennery, whites, fine to
fancy.
Near-by hennery, whites, ordinary
to good. ,
Gathered whites.
Western gathered whites.
Near-by hennery browns.
Gathered browns and mixed, ord
inary to fancy. t '
Near-by refrigerator, whites.
Fresh gathered, extra fine.
Extra firsts.
' Firsts.
Seconds.
Thirds and poorer.
Fresh dirties, No. 1.
Fresh dirties, No. 2, and poorer.
Fresh checks, good to choice.
Fresh culls and inferior checks.
Refrigerator, special marks, fancy.
Kef rigerator firsts. .
Refrigerator seconds.
t Refrigerator thirds and poorer.
' Refrigerator dirties. ' .' :
HERE IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO
TRADE YOUR CITY PROPERTY
80 or 160 Acres of
Logged Over Farming Land
We have a tract of 80 or 160 acres of logged over land well watered, and good farm
ing land priced al $20 per acre that we can trade for city property.
This plaoe has been cut over several years. There is plenty of timber for. wood,
building, fencing, etc., ori the place ,
IF INTERESTED INVESTIGATE AT ONCE
FARM LOANS AND INSURANCE
Opposite Y M C A
108 Elm St
Phone Black 2001
Geo. H. Currey
He Who Moves
REAL ESTATE
La Grande, Ore.
FOR RENT A 4 Acre fruit and garden tract in North La Grande, nice house,
, barn and chicken houses.
EAT II SQUARE MEAL
NOT FEAR INDIGESTION
There are hundreds of people
in La Grande who were not the
least bit surprised when they
read in the Observer that the La
Grande Pharmacy is selling Mi-o-na
on a guarantee to refund the money
in case it did not relieve. This re
markable dyspepsia remedy' will re
lieve the worst case of indigestion,
headache, dizziness, or the general
played-out condition that afflicts
every one suffering with Btomach
trouble. Mi-o-na does not simply re
lieve, it aims to cure.
La Grande Pharmacy can toll you of
many well known people in this city
who this remedy has restored to
health, often after they have tried
many other methods of trentmen
with little or no benefit. No other
dyspepsia remedy has made so large
a percentage of cures as Mi-o-na. It is
so large that La Grande Pharmacy
stands ready to refund the price to
any customer when it does not help.
The best kind of advertising is the
praise of a pleased customer, and
there are hundreds in La Grande today1
praising Mi-o-na because it does what
it is acwestised to do. A few months
ago they could eat nothing without
wondering what the result would be.
Since using Mi-o-na, they eat what
they want and when they want with
no fear ol suffering. La Grande
Pharmacy. 11-9-0
YES
We are going to continue selling them
by the peck. This sale has been so pop
ular that we have ordered a fresh sup
ply and you can still get those large
Sunkist Oranges at 60c per peck.
Just notice the size when buying
oranges. Business is good, every day at
Snodgrass. 1
PHONE 43
J. G. Snodgrass Grocer
Quality
Phone Main 43
Service
Honest Prices
Today's Oddest Story. ,: deg is the champion lost canine of the
Cleveland, Feb. 22. A. H. Rumsoy, tfniteu States. "Po-.y us been lo3t
chirr commissioner of the lake cnr-lb.N times in 14 yours." stid Runuey
tiers' association, is hiking for Ms today. "It has cost me an average
dojf Perry again. Humsey says liisof $500 a year to get him back,"
D. R. FONG MEDICINE CO.
CHINESE ROOT AND HERB REMEDIES I
1
Cares Bodily Diseases With Root and Herb
Treatment.
Phone 762
.1412 Adams Ave.
Free Consultation
I - r. J-
em vuauuc 4
Ore.
a.UK1
All.
very informal
rKJiM We don,t believe In frills and formalities
Our battery tervice goes to the bottom of
things, tells you in plain language what ii
wrong, and corrects the fault.
Johnstone & Reisland
1515 Adams
Ff inspection of any Jbmttny at any tint
GENUINE
M0CA
JAVA
COFFEE SALE
For this week only
In order to introduce this
splendid Coffee to coffee
drinkers that aren't already
using it, we have cut it to 40
cents per pound.
Regular Price 50 cts. per Pound
Oregon Co-Operative Association
1118 1-2 Adams Ave. La Grande, Ore.
Branches at '
IMBLER, OR. EVANS, OR.