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Newspaper Page TextTHE INDEPENDENCE MONITOR blihed Weekly at Independence, Polk County, Oregon, on Friday. Inter! u Second Claw Matter August 1, 1912 at the Post Office atlnde- penaeace, rout county, Oregon, Under the Act of March 3, 1879. OUR FARMERS' IMPROVEMENT PAGE Information Gathered Everywhere that Is of Interest to the Men and Women on Farm. Good Roads, Dairying, Horticulture, Fine Stock. Hogs, Etc. the 2. A. Hurley, Publisher S Proprietor Snoscrlptlon Rates: One Year $1.50 Strictly in Advance Independence, Oregon, Friday, Aug. 22, 1913 Farm and Garden lives limy be found necessary. Cue u tlu sterilization of the surface of wound by the use of a torvb ur the application of nn nutiseptlc or spore destroying substance. Tho other ia ADVERTISING RATES Single Insertion per Inch, By the Month, By the Month, 10 Inches or More, per Inch, Half Page, one week, Pull Page, one week, 20 per cent off when same add repeats Minimum ad 20 cents 50 cents 40 cents J5.00 $10.00 ll.OO Locals and Reading Notices Classified, each Insertion, per word i cet Frontpage, per line, each Insertion .... 10 cents Locals and Readers, one Insertion, per line - - . 10 cents Locals a Readers, by mo. changes allowed weekly, per lime, 5 cents AU locals or other advertising totaling 20 lines or more, 5 cents first insertion, 4 cents thereafter. lodge notices.cards of thanks, pay church or society notices, Scents per the part generally considered the fruit. WHAT'S INSIDE AN APPLE? Structure of Fruit li More Complex Than li Generally Suppowd. ine inside or mi ;ij pie is to most people merely a delirious whitish pulp and a few brown needs In a ore or less edible core wraped up in a pret tily colored skin. The reul structure of the apple Is by no means so simple A scientific examination shows it to be far more complex. The acjoompanylng photograph shows) a cross section of a Baldwin apple. It has been treated Brut with alcohol and then with cednr oil to make the structure of the differ ent parts show up better in the photo- gruph. Ihe outer part, marked A, which Is Une, when totaling one inch or more, 25 cents per Inch. NEWS FROM OUR NATIONAL CAPITAL President Outlines Mexican Policy to House and Sen ate Committees. Washington. The policy of the United States was outlined to the members of two congressional com mittees of foreign relations at a con ference at the white house by Presi dent Wilson and Secretary Bryan. The message prepared by the presi dent on the Mexican situation receiv ed practically universal support. The course of this government will be one of non-interference, in the hope that the effect of its present efforts and the pressure of foreign governments will constitute a moral suasion that ultimately will bring about peace in Mexico. The message makes it plain that there will be no lifting of the em- Dargo on arms; tnat no Taction or government in Mexico will be allowed to receive munitions of war from the United States. If necessary the pres ident proposes to Increase the Ameri can border patrol to enforce this policy. It is a message of friendship, not hostility, and precedes a policy of absolute non-interference. It pro claim to the world the sympathetic feeling that the United States govern ment and the American people have for their neighbors in the rebellion torn republic south of the Rio Grande. It records the views of the United States ' on constitutional gov ernment, its unalterable opposition to government set up by the irregular and arbitrary acta of ambitious indi viduals and formally announces that the government of Vlctorlano Huerta shall not be recognized. The United States had proposed that a constitutional election be held and that Huerta should not be a can didate. To these suggestions, through which the United States believes peace could be restored, Huerta re plied in the negative. Foreign gov ernments generally since that rejec tion have been active in support of the American policy to persuade Huerta to yield. Work on Tariff Bill Progressing Republican senators are giving evi donee of tiring over continued fruit less opposition to the tariff schedule ard rapid progress is being made In consideration of the bill. The wool schedule has been dispos ed of so far as it will be considered bv the senate in committee of the whole. Thoueh no vote was taken on free raw wool, the decisive showing on that having been deferred until the bill comes from the committee of the whole, the finance committee rates on wool manufactures were agreed to without amendment and there was ev ery indication that raw wool would remain free. With only a part of the free list, a portion of the paper schedule and the rui. '.ries schedule remaining to be con sidered in committee, democratic lead rrs expressed confidence that the In come tax would be disposed of be fore the end of the coming week. A.nong the articles on the free list ratified were agricultural Implements, beet and sugar cane, machinery, alco hol, horses and mules and animals for breeding, bibles, breads, biscuits and many others. Amendment Made to Currency Bill. The agricultural currency amend ment to the administration currency bill was adopted by the house Demo cratic caucus. After several prelim inary skirmishes, in which other amendments were beaten, the caucus, without a dissenting vote, adopted e amendment agreed to both by the "Insurgent" contingent and the bank ing and currency committee, to put paper based on agricultural products on the same basis as commercial pa per for banking purpose. It also would extend the maturity of note and bills admitted to discount, under be amendment, to to days, Insteao of the originally proposed 60 duys. This action disposed of the last of the big controversial issues in the ad ministration currency bill. National Capital Brevities Figures gathered by the federal Quarantine board of the department of agriculture show that during the past fiscal years 3,779,041 growing trees and 15,040 pounds of tree seeds were Imported into the United States. That the work of installing demo crats in federal offices in place ef re publicans is proceeding at a rapid rate is shown by the nominations which have been sent to the senate since President Wilson took office These nominations numser approxi mately 3000 and of these about 2000 Not one solitary amendment to the currency bill proposed at the Chicago bankers' conference will be accepted by the administration. This waa most emphatically declared by Chairman Glass, of the house banking commit tee, coauthor of the "administration" measure. SULZER RECEIVES UP-STATE SUPPORT Albany, N. Y. Governor Sulzer showed interest in the report from the assembly districts throughout the state, indicating that many of the up state assemblymen who had opposed his direct primary bill or had voted for Impeachment were being refused designation by their party committees. The governor declined to comment on any of the changes being wrought In the personnel of the assembly, but seemed to take it for granted that pub lic sentiment was strongly in his fav or. The most significant changes In the designations for the assembly Is con sidered the turn-down of Assembly man T. K. Smith for another terra by Francis A. HenuVlcks, the Onondaga county Republican leader. Smith one of the seven Republican members who voted to impeach Governor Sul zer and Is now serving his third term from a strong Republican district. FRESH HUCKLEBERRIES. HI CM.F.nF.liKIKS are Ideal fruit for (lies or puddings. The acid of the fruit promotes digestion and thus counteracts the richness of the puff paste. The huckleberry Is variously known as the whortleberrv and blueberry. A nice homemade pie may be made with the fruit as follows: the part that is eaten, is really corre sponding to the outer wood of a tree or the stem of a plant, while the real fruit Is the part marked D, known scientifl cally as the carpel, the dark triangular marks In the middle of the photograph. Photo by Oregon Agricultural college. CBOSS SUCTION or IN APPLB. The dark spots, marked B, are the main arteries, of which there are ten. that carry the food through the net work of veins seen in the outer section. This system of arteries and veins is entirely separate from that which feeds the fruit iu thu middle. The Ave sections marked O might be likened to five plums set down close together with a stem grown up around tlieiu (the fleshy part of the apple.) These the horticultural scientist now calls drupes." The outer part, with the pretty skin, is furnished by wise Paine Nature to make the apple attractive so it will be carried about and the seeds distributed. The picture is taken from a bulletin on "Gross Morphology of the Apple," by E. J. Krnus. the lirst of a scries on "The Pollination of the Pomacoous Fruits" to be issued from the research laboratories of the Oregon Agricultural college experiment station Mr Krnus treats the subject In n thoroughly scl entiiic manner, going Into run-fill de tail as to the structure of the different parts of the apple mid their relation with a view to establishing his conten tion that pollination, for instance, of a yellow apple with pollen from a red apple affects the Inner fruit rather than the exterior. To Kill the Canada Thistle. According to an Iowa press bulletin, sodium arseulte Is the only chemical that will entirely destroy the Canada thistle. It Is applied at the rate of one and one-half pounds to fifty-two gal lons of water. It further states that a good method for the eradication of this weed is to plow shallow and culti vate frequently during the summer. After plowing the soil should be drag ged and the roots exposed to the sun and removed. It may be found neces sary to cut off with a hoe the atray plants. DEMOCRATS NAME M'CALL FOR MAYOR New York. Edward E. McCall, chairman of the public srrvice com mission, was designated as mayoralty candidate by the Democratic city com mil tee. Mr. Mcl'all's selection by the 630 delegates as leader of the Tammany forces was unanimous, as has been forecast since It appeared from an nouncements that the Tammany lead ers had decided not to renominate Mavor Gaynor and that he oiild be nominated by the "Gaynor league with a complete Independent city tick et of its own. Mayor Gaynor's determination to run for re-election as an independent guarantees one of the liveliest munic ipal campaigns New York has seen in several years. There will be three tickets In the field Democratic. Fu sion and Independent. The FuM-mis ts. who include Repub licans. Ptogressives. Independence league and some independent fenio crats. have selected John I'urroy Mil PLANT BREEDING ON FARM. The cry is becoming more gen eral for better seeds. How are we to get them? As the sltua tlou Is, sayB u correspondent of the American Agriculturist, I believe the answer to the ques tion is to breed them ourselves. We often see In horticultural urn) agricultural periodicals ar ticles that have a tendency to throw a wet blanket over this proposition, claiming that seed I. reeding is a business of Its own. requiring special training to do it properly. This may be true, viewed from a scientific stand point, uud yet there are few market gardeners or truck farm ers who cannot breed arid grow what seeds they require for their Individual plantings. Root Crops For Dairy Cow. No matter what some people tell you, turnips and other roots make fine milk producing fi-eil. Turnips will not affect the flavor of milk If fed at the right time. If turnips are fed In large quantities, and two or three hours before milking, they are likely to give the milk an unpleasant taste, but if fed directly after milking no flavor whatever will be noticed. Farm Prog ress ALL SORTS OF ANIMALS. Great care should be used In water ing the horses ' A little nnd often is the best way Moldy or filthy grain ts one of the worst things that can be given the calves, as It Is productive of numerous digestive ailments The cows that are on pasture should have free access to salt The dairy cow needs this all the year around, but especially Just at thin season. You frequently hear the question asked. "What is the best size of flock for the average farm?" Generally speaking, from forty to sixty ewes make the best size of flock for a quar ter section farm If yon are not situated so that you nn let your hogs out draw a load of earth and throw It Into the (tens now snd then The hogs will work It over and take a lot of comfort doing It Make them grow faster too Treating Wounds of Trees. The Ohio station reiiort that tw ihe application of dressings to prevent the entrance of harmful siHin-s or bac teria. One such dressing is generally aiuhVient. There are a large number of effective germicides, such as cor roslve sublimate, gasoline, kenwene. carbolic acid, petroleum, copper sul phnte and formaldehyde. The availa bility of any depends largely njioii the nature of the wound Protective paints have usually been applied as dressings, hut. as a rule, those are very Inert evtlve. Far hotter are prvpnra Hons of asphaltuui and residual tars. HOW UNCLE 8AM HELPS. A bulletin of the bureau of pin lit- industry, "a study of farm equipment In Ohio," gives a most valuable review of Ini IHirtaiit data of this character gathered and collated with much painstaking cure by Mr. I, W. Kllis. On twenty-one farms In ventilated the following was found to be the average dlstri Imti'Mi of capital Invented: In laud, drainage and water sup ply. til per cent; in buildings, 'Jl per cent; in Implements and ma chinery, ft per cent, and in live stock, i:t per cent. The bulletin gives much detailed Information. of which the figures Just quoted represent a gros summary. Ours Is the day of scientific mo ii.iu'eiiient No longer need the farmer slowly find his way to t lie best working conditions by s series of successive ap proximation!) The government helps 111 rii to profit by the ex perience of others who have priH'cded him snd have paid the heavy dues of that excellent but dear schooling. Coverings For Silage. l he use of heavy tarpaulin to cover the surface of silage during summer feedlin: Is being practiced quite suc cessfully by some of the readers of the Kansas Farmer The tarpaulin Is very carefully spread over the whole sur face of the silage, and the silage is re moved from half the surface only at each feeding, alternating from one side of the silo to the other In this way a thicker layer can lie removed from the surface fed from dally The tnrpaalin cover retards the tendency to spoil on the surface left untouched. CAUSE OF BAO FLAVORS IN BUTTER DON'T BURN ROUGHAGE. Expensive and Wasteful Practice With Cornstalks, Straw, Chaff, Eto. A contributor to Farm and Fireside writes: "A tendency exists among many farmers to burn up all cornstalks, loose straw, clover chaff and superfluous roughage about the place. Hut it is too expensive. "Every time an acre of stalks Is burned twenty -one pounds of nitrogen go into the air, and It will cost you $;S..riO to buy It back again Wheat or oat straw from an acre contains about twelve to fourteen pounds of nitrogen and clover chaff three times this amount "One can easily figure from these deductions what a reckless loss to the farm Is a fire In the chaff pile or stall: field. The cutaway and disk harrows will chop these bulky materials up ready for the plow where they ran be turned under If you want to fatten the old farm, stuff It with organic mat tor." Bad flavors In butter come from two lourees. They tney be absorbed from odors, and they tuny be cuused by the presence of bacteria. Odors may get Into the milk In the barn, coming from the cow, the milker, the utensils or from the food or dust, ays the Kansas Industrialist The sec )ud source Is In the milk house, from the separator or containing vessels If the separating Is done In the barn, o much the worse for the cream; If loue In the kitchen, fiHid flavors are absorbed. The churn Is the third source of hud flavor. When not prop erly cared for it soon grows musty. A churn that Is not well cleaned before and after using affects the taste of butter. Butter churned too bo ft cannot be properly washed snd so contains a great deal of buttermilk. Ruttennllk contains, besides water, the solids case in. . albumen and milk sugar. Milk sugar Is used as n food by the fer ments which are secreted by the organ Isms These ferments destroy casein MONITOR APPLICATION BLANK ZXDEl'EXDEXCE MONI TOR, Independence, Oregon, Gentlemen: In accordance with your special subscription and library offer I send you $1.50 for the Independence Monitor for one ' year to be sent to of ami tor one of the fire book premium lists as indicated below: 1. One hnnk- and one membership in the Monitor Library Club, including book or One. recent copyright reprint fiction or 3, One . book cook book, Horle, speaker or other special book or 4. Two books as follows or 5. One Membership in the Monitor Library Club, inclu ding book IatCt sprint copyright fiction. sign name on this line Dated this. address on this line 1913 The books or membership ure for- Address all Communications to the O. A. Hurley, Idltor, Library Depart ment, Independence ;Monltor, Independence, Oregon. The American Guernsey Cattle club was the first organlxutlon of its kind to establish an advanced registry on the busts of e year's production of butter fat. No ani mal of any age can Ket Into ttila adviincwit reKister that does not pro duce more than iWU pounds of but ter fat In one year. The average of tho thirty-live leading- Uuernseya In the llHt was over 7(17 pounds of butter fat. Nat everybody can ow n such cows becuuse they do not exist In sufficient numbers, teaks Sunl.urM. the Guernsey cow shown, ts one of the Rood ones- Hlie la own ed by 11 D Orlswold of Wisconsin. FOR A SILO SCAFFOLD. Direotiona For Making Neoeeaary Part of Concrete or Tile Structure. Should any one be thinking of build ing a concrete or tile silo the accom pnnylng cut might help In building the scaffold After the foundation wall Is laid get live poles at least eight feet higher than you expect the silo to be. Ket inside of the wall deep enough to bold poles in place. ty Heavy Illicit, by 4's. (Pitied lines, boards to work nn. live innall circles IndlCMte position of support poles (From SCAFFOLD INSIHE HlhO National Htockman and Farmer the silo as high ns you can from the ground; then take 2 by -i's or 2 by fis and build frame for scaffold as shown in cut Leave plenty of room for poles to work easily; then floor as shown by dotted lines In cut Attach a pulley to each pole and raise when ready Then spike a piiH-e under scaffold on pole. One scaffold does It all. The scaf fold should have Just day enough to let It slide up easily Sometimes If It Is too loose a wedge to hold It firm while at work should be put in. The Idea of having the poles longer than the silo Is high Is to get pulleys high enough for lust raise. National Stockman arid Farmer. Chicks Need Cleanliness. Drinking dishes and feeding troughs for chicks are likely to le ouie dirty ano. insanitary unless Hie-lal precuu : tl'Jiis are taken, according to Professor J. (i Hatpin of the College of Agrieul ture of the University of Wisconsin I Drinking water should never 1 placed j in common dishen or vessels where the chicks may get iu with both feet, but "sanitary" fountains, either homemade ; or purchased, should be need. 'I' ties : should he cl'jaued and sralded at fre quent Intervals. Wet mashes when fed In wooden troughs mold unless nil refuse feed Is scraped off and the troughs an- placed on end so that they may dry in the sun NrKlect of these two simple matters uiHy cause consld erable loss. and albumen In the buttermilk con tained In the butter and so cause ran cid or putrid butter. Fermentation begun In cream does not cease In buUer. It may go far enough to hreuk up the butter fata, causing III flavored butter. Odors get Into the butter, or they cim v get into the milk ur cream and then be Imparted to the butter The greatest source of bad flavor is from cream that has not been properly cared fur Milk, creum or butter absorbs odors If kept in a fruit or vegebible cellar or Iu n musty. III ventilated room Fven musty wells or III ventl luted caves Impart peculiar flavors One of the movt cmiinii n disagreeable flavors is known us 'weedy " The "ause Is laid to feed, but III most cases It Is due to rapidly growing organisms ivhl'di get Into the cream from unclean surroundings To prevent had flavors In butter great cure must be used In milking. In handling the milk and cream and In ranking the butter lOverylliiug used must be kept In n sun Mary cuiiilltlon. Milk In a clean, well vcnlllii tisl barn, using care not to raise dust. The milker should wear while milking a clean nproii or n pair of overalls. 1,'ten sils. Including the separator, must be washed nnd sin hied after each milk ing Use milk uleiisilsi with no open sea ms. The milk must lie removed from the barn Immediately tifler milking Cream w 111 keep best If kept In a clean, well ventilated room, preferably a separate milk house Warm and cold cream should not be mixed. For Filling the Apple Barrel. How to pa k apples in barrels: Two layeis ol r i nil ..11011111 tie plucisl hi flie bottom of barrel with stems down and as close together as possllilu These w ill form the f ac ini:, fur this end will he the top w hen opened Fill In with the s u in e grade, .hake the barrel often nnd when near 1 lie tup put in two more layers w ith stemi up. Idling (lie last iay er stand a full nn-h above I lie chine of barrel Now put 011 lid and slowly press Into place, shaking the barrel In the meanwhile The stores sell very excellent barrel benders or, presses. But one can he rigged very quickly by using a plank or scantling with one end under a stud reaching to the shed plate and nailed temporarily In place. K- cut He careful not to pruss the apples too hard, i-'unn Journal. All the troubles of canning day disappear when you uia our tippliei. Everything of the beet wn time triad and fully tested before we even placed the or der willi thd manufacturer!. Jars that art air-tight, paraffins that la guaranteed to be absolutely pure and all toe other little Items that make canning the pleasure should be. And the prices art the lowest In the town-consistent with value. Call In sad Inspect oar Stock before Purchasing. FLUKE & JOHNSON Bicycles, Motor Cycles and Sewing Machines REPAIRED Independence Bicycle & Repair Shop MAIN STRICT The Best Is Good Enough and You get only the hest when you buy meat from us A D0W refrigerating plant keep the meat cool and froh, and when y iu ouoe buy from ua you buy again, beoauae our meat give satisfac tion. We have just added n-w rendering vnta and sHuaage mnoliiuery thai being ahlt to sup ply you with lard mid aatiHage, at all times. ,Ve have our own ein houses an I g v n country ourBtJ lirtin and biio m. NELSON'S MARKET C Street, Independence, Ore. w w T T HOP BASKETS THE BEST Ferlihie Your Orchard. As iiegieeted as the average farm orchard Is In almost every particular I It probably stiff era worse from the ' lack of fertilization than from any ; other cauw It Is Indeed h rare case here the farmer or perhaps eveD the nrchardist manuri-n or fertilizes bis re hard as thoroughly and H conscien tiously as he (joe bin corn and wheat ground. the Farmer's (iulde. PRICE IS RIGHT THE CHAS. K. INDEPENDENCE, - S.AilLDING LOGGING CO. - ORESDN chell.