La Grande evening observer., July 16, 1917, Image 3

MONDAY, JULY 16, 1917.
LA GRANDE EVENING .OBSERVER.
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UNION STATION
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IN PRODUCING BABY BEEF
Union, Ore., July 1G. (Special)
Among the various cattle feeding ex
periments conducted at the Eastern
Oregon Agricultural Experiment Sta
tion at Union, possibly none are of
.greater interest to the Stockmen than
the experiments pertaining to the rel
ative cost of producing Baby-beef in
comparison with that of two of three
;year old steers.
For this test the Station secured
last fall 72 head of good thrifty range
calves with an average weight of 503
pounds. They were divided into six
lots of twelve each and fed various
rations. For instance, one lot re- i
ceived the waste hay from the beef J
pens, another lot had good alfalfa hay, 1
another received alfalfa hay and a half
grain ration, two lots received alfalfa
and all the grain they would eat, and
the last lot received a daily ration of
straw and two pounds of oil meal per
'.bead.
At the close of the winter feeding
period all these were turned out on
the range excepting those in one of
the lots that had been on alfalfa and
a full grain rationi These were
placed on meadow pasture and re
ceived their full feed of grain until
marketed as Baby-beef.
The yearlings that went to the
range will be returned to their re-'
spective feed lots in the fall and it
will be interesting to note whether or
not those that (had been roughed
through the Winter, so to speak, had
- caught up with those in adjoining
lots that had received a more expen
sive winter ration. Or, in other
words, see how much the stockmen are
really losing or gaining by their us
ual method of caring for stock cattle.
The test is made as practical as
possible and while some of these cat
tle will be marketed as Baby-beef,
others will bo marketed from time to
time either off grass or from the
feed lot.
The experiment will not be con
cluded until the entire 72 head have
been marketed and it is hoped that
the test might be continued for sev
eral years, in order that abnormal
markt conditions and high cost of
feed materials may not interfere ma
terially with final results.
The Baby-beef lot in this experi
ment consumed an average of 15
pounds of alfalfa hay and 6.6 pounds
of shopped barley and made an aver
age daily gain of 1.82 pounds per
"head. During the 43 days on pasture
THE BIG FROLIC STARTS
MONDAY, JULY 23RD
AND CONTINUES ALL WEEK
Great Wortham Show
Will Exhibit In
LA GRANDE
or World's Best oe Carloads of
Attractions Equipment
1 0H Amusement QHft Performers
1VU Features OUU and Employes
A MONSTER MIDWAY
SHOWS BANDS
6 BIG I
"Onth
BIG DAYS
e CIRCUS GROUNDS"
Dear Sir:- s
How would you like to chop off a great big chunk of your annual expense for
automobile tires?
It would be perfectly satisfactory, Wouldn't it?
Well, that is the object of TIRE CONSERVATION DAY which will be held in
our place, July, 20th, 21st & 22nd.
On this day a well-known tire expert will bring to the motorists of this com
munity first-hand information on the saving of tires information, expert inspection and
advice of a kind that could not be secured in any other way or at any other time. The
demonstration will be in charge of Mr. J. B. Winstanley.
It is absolutely FREE. You are invited.
Very truly yours
W, H. BOHNENKAMP CO.
XPERIMENTS
.they consumed 5.9 pounds of grain
and made a daily gain of .98 pounds
per head. These were recently mar
keted at Portland and while they
were not as highly finished as they
should have been, yet they made a
very creditable showing on the mar
ket. a
The results are given in the follow
ing tabulation: Average weight of
12 head at Exp. Station, 798 pounds.
Average weight at Portland btock
Yards, 758 pounds. Shrink during
trip 40 pounds, 5 per cent.
Financial Statement.
Cash sales receipts fo r!2 head,
$870.58; loss $27.35. Total $897.93.
initial cost of 12 head Oct. 25, 1916,
$322.68; 13.36 tons alfalfa $15,
$200.40; 7.07 tons of chopped barley
$36.50, $258.05; labor $100; 1.4
months pasture $1.00, $16.80. To
tal $897.93.
Average loss per head $2.28.
i While it will be noticed that these
yearlings sold for $72.65 - per head,
which is a big price, yet they were
really fed at a loss, owing to the hign
cost of feed materials.
The Experiment Station produces
its own feed; however in calculating
'final results the feed cost is based up
on its market value at the beginning
of the test.
Are You One of Them?
There are a great many people who
would be very much benefited by tak
ing Chamberiain's Tablets for a weak
or disordered stomach. Are you one
of them? Mrs. M. , R. Searl, Bald
winsville, N. Y., relates her experience
in the use of these tablets: "I had a
bad spell with my stomach about six
months ago, and was troubled for two
or three weeks with gas and severe
pains in the pit of my stomach. Our
druggist advised me to take Chamber
lain's Tablets. I took a bottle home
and the first dose Telieved me wonder
fully, and I kept on taking them until
I was cured." These tablets do not
relieve pain, but after the pain has
heen relieved may prevent its recur
rence. Adv.
Mr. and Jlrs. J. J. Carr, Air. and
Mrs. T. J. Scroggin and Mr. and Mrs.
G. L. Larison motored to Wallowa
Lake Saturday night and returned
Sunday night.
OF MODERN MARVELS
RIDES FREE ACTS
AND NIGHTS a
IS
VISIBLE IN
DR. H. L. UNDERWOOD TELLS OF
SIGHTS AND SCENES WIT
NESSED IN EASTERN
VISIT.
To the Editor of the Observer:
lit is a long time since the writer
has exercised the inalienable right of
the citizen to invade the columns of
his home paper. My purpose in do
ing so is to afford to home friends a
glimpse of New York in war time.
The slogan "business as usual"
might apply as fitly here as it did in
London in 1914 for the wheels of in
dustry and trade are spinning at high
speed and with every evidence of
prosperity. Khaki is frequent but
not obtrusive. The Fourth gave an
opportunity to compare it in march
ing mass effect with the blue and
lily white of the navy, rather to the
lattery's advantage in the mere color
scheme. ' .
The color scheme of New York how
ever is mainly determined by flags.
Old Glory is everywhere and
draped with it the banners of our al
lies, now one predominating now an
other, depending upon which particu
lar nation has a commission visiting
us.
Fifth avenue is brilliant with red,
white, blue, green, yellow and black
in every combination which stands for
a national emblem.
Father Knickerbocker feels that he
is the front door of America and that
it is up to him to play the hospitable
host to each succeeding group and,
right royally are t;hcy entertained.
In the arrival of the Russians the
past week we welcomed our fourth
commission and our enthusiasm at
(he business hasn't abated a bit. We
are still 100 per cent entertainers.
Yet it causes no break in the busy
life of the city.
What is an audience of 12,000 at
Madison Square Garden last night or
of double that at the Central Park
gathering yesterday ? It loaves .no
trace of diminution in the street
throng. Three hundred thousand it
is said, went to Coney Island on the
Fourth.
The influence of war is evident,
however, though as yet not very
prominent. At last night's Madison
Square meeting for example guards
of police kept everybody without a
ticket away from the famous old
building once the pride of the city
but now so insignificant that it has
only recently with difficulty been res-
jcued from destruction to make room
for another sky-scraper.
Recruiting signs are everywhere
and ingenious devices to catch the
imagination of the desired rookies.
Once in a while a slam-bang method is
adopted that over reaches itself and
ends in merited defeat. Thus: "Here
you! You spineless slacker! What ex
cuse have you got for not enlisting?"
jwas the gentle query of one over
: zealous, proddcr, who self-appointed
or otherwise was out for recruits.
Keeping his temper with an effort the
.citizen addressed, answered, "I have
something the matter with my feet,
do you want me to show you?" And
suiting the action to the word he
slowly walked and kept on walking,
i Tho soap-box socialist orator is
still in evidence on the street corner
and is still given large latitude of ex
pression. If of the Goldmnn-Berkman type I
can wish them no more drastic sent
ence than to be returned to Europe
and encounter the officials of Kaisers
dom. The two worthies mentioned are
conducting their own trial in a ridic
ulous fashion which the authorities
with a mixture of, tolerance and
amusement are permitting patiently
whereas any other government, under
heaven would have treated them as
pho e
racy
traitors in intent and utterance.
The physicians are kept busy ex
amining recruits for the aviation ser
vice and I have been especially inter
ested in the special tests for tho sense
of equilibrium. These include stand
ing with feet together and eyes closed
for a full minute without swaying.
Ability to walk and hop backward
blind-folded, in a straight line; being
whirled about in a chair ten times in
20 seconds in order to test the func
tion of the semi-circular canals of the
internal ear, a disturbance of which
normally induces vertigo and a pe
culiar trombling of the eyes called
nystagmus.
Within limits these signs are per
fectly natural to one in sound health
and it is amusing to observe how
many would be aviators try to as
sume their absence or by intense ef
fort neutralize them. Very quietly
but constantly these and other activi
ties are being pressed in ways, of
which the public knows little.
A million details are essential In
the preparation of an army and it is
increasingly clear that preparedness
should have had its start in 1915 or
earlier instead of 1917. Yet it li like
wise true that Americans were not of
one mind until recently and even now
there are a few blind ones, and Oh,
how blind 'are those who will not seel
Here a uerman-Amencan who con
founds ' present day Kaiserdom with
the Fatherland . of his youthful
dreams. Yonder an Irishman who
still "sees red" because of injustice
to his native land repented of and
largely atoned for, long before he was
born. And still yonder a pacifist a
man without a country, with a heart
but not a brain. Of the three he is
the most hopeless and I pass him up,
but to each the others, if there are
any left in Union county, and to
brace the slacker who is always with
us and often within us. I wish to
send you the enclosed clipping from
the New York Times of July 4th. It
is the more effective in its exposure
of the breadth and depth of the in
famy and ruthless ambition which
sought an empire from the Baltic- to
the Persian Gulf and ultimately- a
world enslaved because it is from a
widely known German-American, i
Incredible as it seems, more than
one eye-witness from Jerusalem has
told me personally that upon ihe
Mount of Olives, even before the'wan.
began and lonf before Turkey became
involved the Germans had built vast
and magnificnt buildings and these
buildings were stored with cannon
and munitions of war and as long
ago as 1913 one of my informants, an
American, was told that the great
German Emperor planned it to be his
capital.
He laughed incredulously and they
refused him further information.
H. L. UNDERWOOD,
Now York City.
July 7, 1917.
La Grande, Ore., July 14. In a re
cent issue of your paper there appears
a critical and suggestive comment on
Rev. Gibbs and myself because of the
attention we have given to the ques
tion of "Christian Babtism." The
The writer (who signs himself "Con
stant Reader") thinks we are lacking
in "broadness" and are only "bicker
ing." It is difficult for me to under
stand how a person who read our ex
pressed views on the question re
ferred to could be so uncharitable as
to profess to be a follower of Christ
and at the same time indulge in per
sonalities. Mr. Oibbs and I differ rad
ically on doctrine but we are I think
kind and respectful to each other.
"Constant Reader" calls the dis
cussion on baptim "narrow and pet
ty" and not "fundamental." It is a
pity when people assume the roie of
nn instructor in Biblical matters, that
they do not devote more constancy
to Bible reading for if they did they
would be more careful in their theo
logical judgments and denunciations
I would ask my religious instructor,
How can baptism be small or petty
THE FORUM: I
; i
when our blessed master places it at
the threshold of His Kingdom and
makes it one of the necessary com
mands to be obeyed in order to ob
tain the Forgiveness of Sins. Read
Matthew 28-19, Mark 16-16. John
3-D, Acts z-38, zz-16. JHow can a I
reader of tho Sacred Scriptures label
the commands of Christ as small?
Jesus said, "whosoever therefore shall
break one of these least command- 1
mania nnrl ..1...11 4aaaU V-tl
itiu.i.j, aim Oiluil tucii-u mull dm. biiuu . . .
be called least in the kingdom of yOU throw rt 88 far as V
heaven." Tho loyal heart will not Thflre weir shoos all over the Mr.cia
belittle any of the Master's teaching. f hen tne race 'vras ovor- -What
a childish conclusion it is to t'Pde race there are ten men an each .
think that we cannot discuss all 8ide each sida Bets astride a pole, and '
Bible problems without getting our roun around a set of flags. They - ;
righteous dander up. Why can't we ,navo to keep steP and if the middle
just do as Jude in his Epistle Instructs 0116 fal,s tneV all P'le P
us to do. "Contend earnestly for the Th Rei Cross ladies sold candy, .
faith delivered to the Saints." We popcorn, peanuts, lemonade and home
can discuss politics and many other made cake. The officers and wives
questions without being enemies and are working hard for the Red doss
same on the so-called Saint of God
who thinks he must persecute and
club to death one who differs from
Mm religiously. While I believe the
Bible and profess to be a minister of
the Word I will try to convince the
other fellow that I have the real We have good food here and! plenty
goods and will avail myself of every of it but this was rod genuine home
chance to display them. But Brother 'made. - ' -. 1 1 .
I won't whimper or fret if you won't I received the box of candy and t
buy- " , think it's the fcest I over tasted, but
H. L. FORD. it, would not , last.
, ' t Is the hay all ,up and how was the
1 - ! ' v c :C3iautAulua-this year ? Jfist reoived .-;
! """"""" a 'lettey from George's folks. Don't '
Aetiers from
&he front
letter from iBenj. C. Gekeler, Mare
jsiana, to his folks.)
Marine Barracks,
Mare Island, Calif,
July 8, 1917.
Dear Folks: The Fourth is past
and we sure had some time had a
track meet. We lost out in the "tug-
of-war''. The winning side received
It Is Hot But
We Are Still
Here
With everything best
that the market affords.
PI
MAIN 75
The City Grocery
& Bakery
The Home of
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five dollars apiece, ten on each side.
One of the men over me said if ha
had me, three or four times over, our
side would have won. Wo had pole
vaulting, jumping, hurdles, potato,
shoe, and centipede races. In the shoe
race they put all the shoes in a pile;
.then all run and whoover gots his
.shoes on first and gets back is the
winner. If you get a shoe that is not
wd re help all we can.
'The night of tho Fourth three of
us boys went visiting, out to dinner,
with the people I told you of. Among
other things we had "honos to good-
ness" green apple pie, jelly and gravy.
(worry about me. I like it better the .
i more I grow accustomed to the life .
, have a pretty goodi time.
i Your son and1 brother,
. BENJ. C. GEKELEfR.
Chamberlain's Colic and
Diarrhoea
Remedv.
Now is the time to buy a bottle of
this remedy so as te be prepared In
case that any one of your family
should have an attack of colic or diar
rhoea during the summer months.
It is wortih a hundred times its cost
when needed. Adv.
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