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I could be irrigated, however once or
1 twice the yields are not so heavy at
i this season.
(By H. D. Scudder. O. A. C.)
Stripping of the lower leaves of the
This kale is chiefly valuable as a1 kale as a regular practise is not recom
green feed for hogs, cow o’ ;>oultry mended as it is extremely laborious,
through the winter rem November or especially during wet weather, puddles
October to April. The better types oi 1 the soil badly ar.d causes the stripped
plants endure the Willamette V dlev i plants to sulTer from frost. However
winter weather without injury, yield-1 where green feed runs short in Sept
ing from 30 to 40 tons of succulent | ember the larger lower leaves of the
and nutritious green feed per acre un kale may be stripped off for feeding at
der favorable conditions. It may also this time and later as wet weather
be grown for summer green feed al comes on and the plants grow larger
though less successfully.
it pays to abandon this stripping and
A deep, well drained, rich loam soil, cut the entire plant with an axe.
is best for this crop but the ordinary
As well bred see I cannot as yet be
Valley clay loam soil, if well d.uiiieu, secured upom the market it is impor
thoroughly tilled and heavily manured, tant that the grower should select five
will produce excellent yields. If pos or ten of his very best plants and let
sible a long, narrow, slightly sloping them go to seed. From 20 to 50 differ
field, running lengthwise of a piece of ent types of kale plants have been
soil ground, or a wide sodded fence grown from one small packet of com
row, or one of the farm lanes is pre mercial seed. Some of these types are
ferable, as this permits easier hauling excellent in quality and yield, the ma
durin ' the wet winter weather.
jority, however, are worthless. To
The kale ground should be heavily get good seed the grower must select
manured and deeply plowed in the fall a good parent plant, those of good
if possible, and re-plowed once early size, weighing from 40 to 50 pounds
in the spring and again before trans each, with medium sized, smooth green
planting. If fall plowing cannot be leaves, the main stem branching out
done, manuring during the winter and close to the ground into innumerable
spring and deep early spring plowing stems and leaves in all stages of grow
repeated twice before transplanting, th. Only plants which go through the
will put the ground in good shape. severest frosts withoug any injury
Following the second plowing the should be selected. These plants se
ground should be kept clean of weeds lected during the first year should be
and thoroughly mulched to conserve transplanted early in the spring the
the moisture, by frequent light har second year in some fertile spot where
they will not be cross pollinated by
rowing until transplanting time.
For transplanting the seed should be other kale plants, wild turnips, rape,
sown in drill rows about three feet mustard and other similar closely re-
apart, as early in March as it is pos i latep plants. The seed will be formed
sible to get on the ground. If possible | this second year and should be harvest
a strip of the best drained ground on i ed when the plant has dried out and
the farm should be used for growing 1 the seeds are brown and threshed out
the young plants, and this should be j by hand over a canvass. One good
manured and plowed in the fall so that plant will furnish sufficient seed for
it need only be replowed and worked i about an acre of kale plants.
down at once for the seed in the spring 1 A report of your success or failure
thus getting the plants started as early in growing kale, with a description of
as possible. One pound of seed will your method and conditions, would be
greatly appreciated by this Station.
furnish enough plants for an acre.
Kindly address such report to the De
Transplanting should be done about
partment
of Agronomy, Oregon Agri
June 1st, if possible, when the plants
cultural College, Corvallis, Oregon.
are 6 to 12 inches high. Later trans
planting is liable to be held back by
the dry weather so much as not to be
TORNADO HÏTS
ready for cutting in early fall. With
the ground in fine tilth, transplanting
BRINKLEY, ARK.
of small acreage may be done rapidly
by hand with a long bladed spade,
MEMPHIS, March 9.—A dispath to
care being taken not to injure the roots the News-Schimitar from Brinkley at
in taking them up from the drill row, | 1 o’clock today says that 15 white per
and replacing them in the new ground. sons and more than 20 negroes were
They should be placed thr-e feet apart killed in last night’s tornado, and it is
each way, covered a little deeper than variously estimated that there are be
in the drill row, the soil firmed around tween 50 an 1 10J persons injured. As
them with the foot and later when the day progressed relief parties found
wilted down, the whole field should be the dead bodies of many negroes
rolled. Plants should be left every among the debris.
three feet in the originel drill rows and
A mass meeting of citizens was held
all extra plants saved for replacing at Brinkley today and a telegram was
those that may not survive transplant sent to Governor Donaghey at Little
ing.
Rock, urging him to go to Brinkley
Transplanting of larger acreage may and take charge of the situation.
be done by plowing and placing the
The Governor replied that he would
plants three feet apart in every third leave for the scene at once.
furrow, covering the roots but not the j Because of wire demoralization, a
leaves, with the next furrow turned : Cotton Belt passenger train could not
and following the day’s work with a 1 be located last night and a report was
roller. Missing plants may be replac sent out that it had been blown from
ed later by hand.
the tracks near Baucum. The officials
Instead of transplanting the seed of the railroad in Memphis today stat
may be dropped in hills 3 feet apart ed that the train was safe.
each way, several seed to the hill as
Brinkley is a town of over 3000 in
early as the ground can be thoroughly habitants, and the refugees say that
prepared. Later each hill should be the entire business section was demol
thinned, leaving one vigorous plant. ished by the storm and probably 80 per
As a rule this method does not give as cent of the residence were razed or
good yields r..i transplanting.
rendered ui.inhabitable. Relief trains
After transplanting or thinning the have arrived at the scene, bat all wire
field should receive frequent shallow communication is interrupted.
cultivation to conserve the moisture
Reports from Southern and South
until the plants branch out so fur as to eastern Arkansas say that a heavy
prevent further tillage.
wind storm passed over those sections
In October or November after the of the state last night, doing consider
green corn has all been fed the kale, able damage to small buildings, but no
although not fully grown, will be ready loss of is reported.
for feeding. The plants should be
cut off at the ground with an axe or
slash, and the entire plant tossed on
BOOST JACKSONVILLE
to the wagon or sled and hauled to
the feeding place. Enough may be
Talk, talk, talk,
cut at one time for one or several days
Of the town at the foot of the hill;
feeding. Where it is thought the old
And
I would that all would speak
er plants may taint the milk they
A word for Jacksonville.
should bo fed immediately after milk
ing t'l pounds of kale per day with
O, well for other towns
2d pounds of good hay, such as vetch
That they have their railroad track;
and oats, fed in two portions, makes
O, well it is for them
an ideal ration lor milch cows, very
'1 hat they have no old moss backs.
little or r.o mill feed being needed.
Some
in our town use candles
The kale may be fed as needed clear
As
they
did in the good old days,
through the winter until April or later.
And say they do not like
For summer feeding seed may be fall
Our far reaching modern ways.
sown and transplanted early in spring,
being ready, under favorable condi
And the old town goes on
tions, for cutting during July, August
In the same old way,
and September. Unless the ground
Doing as it has done
For many and many a day.
Just now there is lots of talk
Of the road to Crater Lake;
, But the hoary headed moss backs
Declare it will be a fake.
THOUSAND HEADED KALE
If they would only consent
To just keep still.
We’d have a better chance
To boost old Jacksonville.
Speak, speak, speak.
Of the mine and of the mil),
lint ray something worthy
Of our good old Jacksonville.—
A. H.
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Don’t walk in the rain and mud but
telephone the Hoss for what you want
and it will be delivered to your door.
CIVIC EDUCATION,
Importance of Properly Training
the Rising Generation.
LESSONS ON NATURE NEEDED
Value of Encouraging Children In
Schools to Become Interested Slowly,
but Surely, In Trees and Plant Life.
Fino Outcome of Such a Course.
If in the future we are to have
more beautiful cities and towns In
both Increased numbers as well as In
Improvement of those now existing,
It behooves us to see that the rising
generation is so developed and so In
structed that it may be fully equal to
the problems that will confront our
citizens a score or more years hence.
Though much of the necessary educa
tion and training will be given In the
home, by far the greater development
should come as a result of Intelligent
teaching and suggestion at schodl. As
a large part of our civic (and home)
beauty is dependent upon horticulture,
nature study, especially that of plant
life, and the school gardens are going
to prove the two strongest factors In
the upbuilding of the civic Improve
ment worker who Is to follow us.
Our children must be taught In a
natural way about the things of na
ture all about them. This develop
ment will not come by the present
day cramming process or imparting
an astounding lot of Information dur
ing a few years. The child, rather,
should bo encouraged to become In
terested slowly, but surely, until tho
proper taste for Investigation Is de
veloped In his mind so that he will
thenceforth go forward without the
nld of the teacher, except ns the latter
Is a “steering committee” of ono, says
the Los Angeles Times. Restrictions
must be removed both nt home nnd
school and the child allowed to Inves
tigate unshackled.
But a short time ago a class of
school children were naked how many
had street trees In front of their
homes, and there were some who real
ly did not know whether any were
there or not; others knew there were
trunks In evidence, but had no definite
knowledge ns to a live head or crown
above. Very few knew the kind of
tree that grew tn the parkway, yet all
were old enough to know this much
and more regarding plant life. If each
child were nsked to minutely describe
the first street tree encountered after
leaving home for school nnd the pecul
iarities of form, bark, leaf, blossom or
fruit or both a grnnd start could be
made. If the next day each child could
bring a leaf from the same tree for
comparison, assisted by a really Intel
ligent teacher, and this line of work
carefully and systematically followed
out, we would soon have cities nnd
towns composed entirely of advocates
of street tree planting, for all would
love trees or be Interested therein be
cause of their intimate knowledge of at
lenst all the more common sorts.
When a little older tbts student body
would so eagerly and easily take up
tho study of systematic planting that
tho transition from “nature study”
would exist in name only. At the end
of their school days these students
would know practically all plant life
In all Its phases, from seed to matu
rity, not from what was taught at
school, for such Instruction could form
but a small portion of the school day,
but from observation and experience
suggested nt school. If such a course
were pursued for but one gencntlo«
our land throughout, both In city and
country, would be one vast park of In
dividual plots connected and harmo
nized by thoroughfares flanked with
solid lines of street trees and endless
ribbons of parkway lawns or flower
beds. We would theu hear no more of
“city beautiful" or "country beauti
ful," for all would be oue vast stretch
of horticultural beauty from the At
lantic to the Pacific. In nil of which
territory southern California, having
the greatest possibilities, would stand
supremo over all other sections or
states as the land of never ending
summer, sunshine nnd flowers.
ONE MAN'S WORK.
How an Unkampt Public Itquar* Wae
Changed I a to a Beautiful Park.
On tho opening of tlie new lands In
Oklahoma n thriving little city was
established, In the midst of which
was laid out n public square. In the
center of this tho courthouse was
placed, and around It were built strag
gling structures such as characterize
frontier towns. The i>eople of the
town seemed not to care, and the un
kempt waste whs for ten years neg
lected nnd forsaken. Then came tba
"useful citizen"—In this case a young
business man. who, with a love of
nature deep seated In his soul, felt
the helnousncss of local conditions.
He plowed nnd harrowed the square
as for a crop. lie planted It with
bits of trees which seemed scarcely
more than straws. These he set In
rows like corn nnd cultivated as he
would hnve the maize.
Throughout the torrid days of the
Oklahoma summer he carefully culti
vated these little trees, while his fel
low townsmen looked on and smiled.
But the trees grew and lu a year
were two feet high. In another year
they had grown to five feet, hundreds
and thousands of them, and the
square took on the appearance of n
young nursery. Thon the "useful cit
izen" (or the superintendent, ns he was
now called officially! notified the cit
izens that they could buy tho little
trees nt a low price, nud lie sold them
in abundance without in any wise In
terfering with his piano, the beautl-
tying and adorning ot tue square, anu
he soon had sold enough to pay all the
expenses Incurred In the experiment.
Now these trees are large and um
brageous. thrifty and vigorous, making
of the square a park Increasing In
beauty dally nnd In summer the de
light of children nnd family parties
for miles around. In fact, tho park Is
now the most attractive resort within
a radius of more than a score miles,
nnd It but represents the work of a
single up to date citizen. What a
world of good an organized band of
workers could do in any town!
swindun F p 6 or ~ women .
Mail Order Shari: Got Caught In the
Nets of Federal Law.
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For Diseases oi the Skin
CLUBBING OFFER
Nearly all diseases of the skin such
The P ost has made arrangements to ' as eczema, tetter, salt rheum and bar
club with the Toledo Weekly Blade and bers’ itch, are characterized by an in
i the American Farmer.
tense itching and smarting, which
i This will be the last year that the ' often makes life a burden and disturbs
Toledo Blade will club with other I sleep ar.d rest. Quick relief may be
papers. The following is an extract bad by applying Chamberlain’s Salve.
from a letter received from the Blade: It allays the itching and smarting al
“The extraordinary advance in cost of most instantly. Many cases have been
1 print paper almost decided us not to cured by i.s use. For sale by City
make a clubbing offer at all this season, Drug Store.
knowing the usual offer would net us
a great loss, we finally concluded to
For complete spray outfits enquire at
make the old offer for this one season this office. “The kind with the trouble
more. ”
left out.”
Our offer:
CUT FLOWERS
Toledo Weekly Blade............... .. .$1.00
Jacksonville Post..................... ...$1.50
Cut Flowers, Funeral Remberances,
Total ................... ...$2.50
Potted Plants and Bulbs. Phone 606
Our price.................................... ...$1.75
Medford Greenhouses.
25
Jacksonville Post...................... .. $1.50
~DR? ITT? SHAW
American Farmer.................... ... .40
Those who bite nnd are bitten are
many nud widely distributed. Recent
ly a man was arrested by federal au
thorities tn an Orego« town on the
technical charge of misusing the
| mails to defraud. He was a mall order
genius, also a crook of perfect propor-
itlons. He had figured It out. he said,
that mall order advertising is so popu
lar as to tempt the unwary, particular
Dentist.
Total..................... ...$1.90
ly the Ignorant unwary, almost any
Office in Ryan Building, California St.,
where, from Massachusetts to Arisen* Our price................................. ...$1.70
Upftairs
—effete east nnd frontier.
Jacksonville Post....................... ...$1.50
OREGON
Accordingly this enterprising person Toledo Blade........................... ..,?1.00 JACKSONVILLE
advertised that for the small sum of
..........
40
American
Farmer
.....................
a dollar he would send material and
Instructions Air making a Aoaen
Total..................... ...$2.90
waists. The completed waists were to
be returned to him, or, rather, to th* Our Price.................................. ...$1.95
And Latest Styles of Wall
high sounding "company” under the
This offer may not last much longer.
Paper, Call on or Address
title of which he traveled, through flie
malls. Upon rccetpt of the dozen Renewals will count the same as new
waists tho maker would receive $3.60. subscriptions and if your subscription
A waist could be made in a ft?w min is almost out, renew and get the be-
Jacksonville, Oregon
utes, tho advertisement said, by any nefit of this offer.
woman.
Thousands of unsuspecting women
sent in their dollars to this mail order
! advertiser. As a matter of courso,
practically all of them were poor wo
Why Buy a Second-Rand Machine?
men. most of them pitifully poor, who
were willing to Invest a hard earned
I nnd much needed dollar in tho expec
Or a machine sold
tation of gettlug nearly >1 In return.
by a pet'd ar, that
!
No
Risk.
Ev<ry
Machine
is
as a rule has out
The replies nud the dollars came In
Fully GdJiunt«ed. Think it
lived its useful
from Maine and Florida, from Seattle ! ovvr
ness, or it would
nnd San Diego, from all over the comu -
not be offered for
try nnd even from Canada. Tbts mall
sale. The ordin
order shark accepted Canadian money
ary second hand
without protest. Any sort of mosey
typewriter is only
OUR GUARANTEE
looked good to him.
We p-uaraatee ev»<y Machine
temporarily re
we
»••¡I
io
give
satisfaction,
And he accepted the watets, too, but and will keep ii**m in repair
paired and is only
short lived, while
did not pay fbr them. Instead be <»ne year
date of side,
free of «harre. We ni-e we are able to offer you machines en'irely rebuilt, as
wrote back that the work was unsat ffuaraatee
thcM for two good as new i i every respect.
A product of the largest
isfactory nnd suggested that the wo years agwinst detrimental
wear. 'I his Is better than factory of the kind in the world, employing only skilled
men send n dollar for a sample waist, you
ret with a new machine mechanics.
All our machines have all the wearing
so that they could see just exactly for $i<m.w.
parts removed and new parts substituted. The bases
how the sewing was to be done and
and frames have been le enameled and re-nickeled.
thereby learn how to earn much mon
They appear to be new and are as good as new. Apply at
ey In the future, lu every instance the
work was unsatisfactory. Certainly.
That was the game. Some few of the
poor women sent another good dollar
after the first one. but most of them.
It is pleasant to say. had sense enough
to know that they had been bitten by
a shark and did not need another bite
to make sure of it.
Somebody complained, and Uncle
Sam pounced down upon this matl or
der genius and put him in jail.
Now, the moral is easy. Nearly any
one of these women by a little look
ing about could hnve found work at
waist making right at home, where
they would have been sure of prompt
and bona fide acceptance of their
good work and prompt pay, according
to the agreement But instead of do
ing that they were caught by the
cutely worded little mall order ad..
and thousands of poor women would
be caught yet If Uncle Slam had not
caught the catcher.
For Paper Hanging
C. F. BOWMAN
WHY
Pay $100 for a Typewriter?
ZZZIZZZ
The JACKSONVILLE POST
SOMETHING AEOUT
TYPEWRITERS
Why do so many people psy 1100.00
for a typewriter when they can get
one just as good for about $50.00?
We are agents for the GRADY RE
BUILT TYPEWRITERS and can fur
nish our customers with almost any
machine they waut. These are not
second-hand machines but re-built.
Webster defines the word "rebuilt”—
"to build again” —and "repaired” as
"mended”.
These machines are sent to the
Grady factory and every movable part
is taken off and sold as junk, including
the type bars. All bearings are re
placed with new, the machine is re
enameled and re-nick ied and few of
the most expert can detect the differ
ence. Many of the rebuilt machines
aro equipped with the latest improve
ments and aro guaranteed to do first-
class work.
Go over these prices and see whether
you can do better. Remington, models
6 and 7, price $48 to $60. Nc. 2 Rem
ington, $30. Each No. 2 Remington is
equipped with two color ribbon per
mitting you to write in two colors.
Smith Premier, No. 1, $35; No. 2, $45
to $60. Oliver No. 3, $50. Underwood
No. 1 and 2, $55 to $75. We have the
Monarch, Fox. Fox Visible, Densmore,
Fsv Sholes. New Century, Rlickens-
derfcr The machines range in price
from $20 to $75. just ns good ns new
with a better guarantee.
Take one on three months trial and
if not sati«fac»orv all we ask is a
small monrhlv rental for the use of the
machine which will be applied on any
other machine you may select.
Bring out the dignity of your busi
ness by using a typewriter, it is the
modern wav How many letters do
von receive from n business house not
written on a typewriter? If you re
ceive a letter from your wholesaler
written in long hand the thought
strikes you that he is not progressive
and unsafe to deal with. That his
goods are of an inferior grade nnd his
price may be too high. If he does
not use a typewriter he is not modern
and hi* goods must evidently be out of
date.
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Varnish!
Varnish!
Varnish!
A coat of varnish will improve the appearance of
those old chairs, or the interior decorations, - - -
Anyone Can Varnish, Do it Yourself
If you want to change the appearance of your chairs
treat them to a coat of varnish stain. It is cheap
Fred J. Fick, Contractor and Builder.
WANTED
Furs Hides and Pelts
HUNTERS ATTENTION!
I will pay the highest market price for
good Pelts and Furs
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