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About The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947 | View Entire Issue (May 22, 1913)
J AN 1 EXCEPTIONAL OFFER The Fruit Grower & Farmer Regular Subscription Price Kimball's Dairy Farmer Regular Subscription Price Poultry Culture Regular Subscription Price Woman's World Regular Subscription Price Vegetable Grower Regular Subscription Price Ontario Argus $1.00 .50 .50 .50 .50 1.00 $4.00 KEEPING THE HORSE IN GOOD HEALTH In coring for the horse it la Impor l.'int that food, tight nud rentllntlon re cetve 1ue consideration, says the lows Homestead. The Drat thing will be the watering The water from a good well Is all right if the water Is pur and situated In a place that keeps It so. Water la a source which contributes to disease by carrying tbe disease exciting organisms such as fungi. Diseases such as stran gles and distemper are often carried through water. The wells should be sixty feet or deeper and the area sur rounding them free from any low places or manure drains. Impure water la rery dangerous to stock, and so Is running water where sewers emp ty Into It Bacteria from different dis eases may get into the water and be All Six Publications for only $lmQ A Saving of $2.50 O is) tws) ) Ths Shir Is the result ot msny years of iclantlflc breeding for tlio purpose of procuring a modal draft horee. Having been bred so long for this purpomi, their special char-n.-tcrlath-a have become fixed and are transmitted lo their prog.-uy when crossed on any other bleed. The Shire hss a great deal of vital ity and vim and la of kindly Ili" Itlon and easily broken to harness Hhlros lire al easy keeper. a ml. SSSWBSi of hard, flat bono, pow.r ful quarters and good feet, nrv sur punned by no other brse) In han dling heavy loads. SAVING TIME b TELEPHONE NnU Means Not Only Time But Money. Do you tver consider how long it takes to travel the distance from your house to the Doctor and Merchant and what time you lava by telephoning? If your time is worth anything, you nnot afford to be without a Telephone. Malheur Home TelephoneCo. Butter Wrappers Must Be Printed We are printing more wrappers than any other two offices in this section. There is a reason. We have the machinery, type and workmen necessary and we take the same care with Butter wrappers that we do with wedding invitations. Jake your next order of Butter Wrappers to the Argus Office UNITKlM'KKSin rKIMAN CHURCH Rev, Rob't J. Davidson D D Pas tor. Sarviosa at 11:1 aud 7 ::I0 lm Sableth school at 10:00 a. in catholic: cm ROB M I-- at H A M on 1st and 8rd Snmlay of i-iii-l. in. nth. On all other Sundays at MAM. 11. A. C'ampo, Rector Hi Congregational Church Notice Huuday Services, Sun. lay School 10 in l'i. aoblug Services Ham C E Meeting 7pm Preach I uk Services 8 p m Midweek Lectures every Wednesday evening 8 o'clock Philip Koeuig. Pastor. ADVENTI8T. Every Saturday Sabbath School -10:30 a m Bible Study 11:30 a m Young pecplee meeting 1 :30 p m Methodists. Sunday School 10 A M Preaching Samoa 11 A M Junior League 3 P M Epworlh League 6:30 P M Preaching Service- 73:0 P M Thomas Jobus. PSTOK. We Please Your Friends Let us pleaae you. Our portraits combine the moat pleaaing charact eristics of the subject with our high standard of quality and workman ship. Make the Jippolntmtnt Today The Burrell Studio Old papers at tbe Argoa office 35 cants per hundred. Just what you need to line your cabins aud placa under the carpet. curried down the at renin. The horse will cousuuiu six to eight gallon on the uvotiigo, it little more In the mi miner, u little lo In the winter. They should hi watered before feeding ... .! not liniiieitlnlely after Iceillug. lis ll hint u teinleni y to wnsh the food out if the stoty m h boron it ha coadca to he digested Watering Immediately before feedlug. If the wuter la cold. cools off the stomach, and (ho secretion la not an good. I'o not water uiih real cold water or in large quantities of w.ilir immediately uftur or Immediate ly before feeding The ham should bo well IU-ht.il. Sev eral ilL-.cn-.c-i are the result of badly lighted hum due to the fact that they are too, dark and the sudden change from the darkness to the bright light causes n weakness and then disease. You do let want too much or loo little light. The windows should bo placed aa high as the horses' heads or a trltlo higher mid ut the right angle so as not to allow the light to strike tho horses directly In the eyes. There should be .li nl' of light by Ull incur. We abould have good air In our ham, aa It la essential to the health of the horse. It is well to lime tho window above the horse's beud so that a direct draft will not atrlke tho horse. Windows should be on two side of the ham. M that the uir may pasa In from the one sldo aud out the other, lie sura the air In the ha in Is pure. A good way to Mud out tho con dition of the air In tho burn la to no tice tbe air aa you go in from tho out side Into the barn See that It smells fresh aud cleau. If It Is good for you It will probably suit the horse all right. Coutit your air space bj the u umber of windows you have, and do not take Into consideration the doors l)o ut depend upon fiv-.li air coming through crack and crevlcea either. It 1 not a good Idea The horwe should have a regular amount of feed and lie fed according to the slxe of the horse and the amount of work It Is doing They should receive a balanced ration that I ted ;it regular period. They abould h.ive salt before them all the time. I'isil good feed ami ee that It Is not moldy Dad results come from feed lug moldy feed, lie sure you feed ac cording to the amount of work the horae doea. Have a pair of scales aud weigh your feed and hay A good many homes waste from one-half to one-third of the buy. Some men pile the mangers full and let the horse eat what It wauta, Xben use the reat for bedding. Weigh It a time or two, and then you will have an estimate of tbe amount you abould feed. Allow the bora to clean up the manger after feeding, and It will avoid part of the trouble with colic. STOCK, LEGUMES AND HU MUS. These three go along together for any adequate success at ,'uruiing. Growing grain for marketing In Its raw state means Impoverishment of the soil, aa all experience shows. Growing live atock of course means grain to feed them, and a wise rota tion means growing of clover or vetch or cowpeas, alfalfa or some other legume to secure tbe soil nitrogen, und with this com bination of legumes and barn yard manure that grenteat or ganic soil element, humus. Is se cured, which also alda In holding moisture In plant growth. Farm Progress. )! IT'S A MISCHIEVOUS MOTH. Codling Spscisi Ons ef the Most De structive In American Orchards. The codling moth Is perhaps tbe worst enemy with which the apple grower must contend It lays nn euor mous tax upon the apple growers of this country, not only In the destruc tion of fruit, but hi tho cost of sprays. for till- pernicious pest ha made spraying h necessary part of orchard ing It has heen es:!tatcd that the codling moth destroys fruit annually In the I nlted States to the value of lUAOQuOOQ, Trees must be sprayed for this HRt when the petals of the Mowers close and before the calyx lobes close aud THE SAFEST WAY OF INBREEDING CATTLE There are many vague and foolish dotlois entertained on the subject of Inbreeding, says Hoard's Dairy tnnn. Like everything else in this world thai Is good for anything. It Is capable of evil aa well as good result Knives have been used to etab people, ropea to hang tbem and water to drown them, yet no man of common aenae would fall on that account to make a right use of knives, ropes and water. Thai safest way of Inbreeding, ao far aa out observation goes, la from aire to daugh ter There la one rale that ahoutd al ways be watchfully observed: Never Inbreed heifer or cow -thai shows a tack of constitutional vigor. Keep that Idea foremost. Also, with like pertinency, never Inhreed to a alro who shows any signs of linking In coti stltutlonal vigor. Now, within those) two road fences It Is safe and very often advantageoua to breed a daugh ter back to her aire. This should la practiced In breeding grade cowe great deal more than It la done, with close observance of tho foregoing rules. It should always lie remembered that Inbreeding Is an Intensifies It Inten sities a weakness ut the same aa It may Intensify strength, talent or ca pacity In any given direction. Now, suppose we start with a pure bred bull and o herd of cows of ml Tim! breeding The heifers got iiy that un ion Inherit BO Hr cent of the straight blood of the sire and an equal amount BfljkV V jh& .rflUa H rV 'ffS I aafl aaB I I- I I I IB, I I Photograph by Ohio agricultural axperl mrtit stm COIM.IMI ilil the apple turns down Much de pends upon doing It at the right (Inn ami In the tight maimer. The lot way I to begin Just n soon ns the bio sums tall ami get over the orchard as KOVII a poNHlble Arsenate of lead or pari green Is the poison un.. 'I'hl may la- com blued wllh Uudeaux or lime sulphur for summer spray to destroy fungi About three pounds of arsenate of lead to Mfty gallons of water or fungicide or about one third of a pound of purls green should give satisfactory results It may be necessary to spray two or three limes. In which case the second spiny lug should follow- the 11 rat In about ton duys.-Farm and ltuucb. Th Itoisioin cow is mis of th mnat inagnlMcantly gencroua eras turss on earth, flu. will glvs llbr slly and utilluasliig'.y lo ilia fortu nats until who MaaagtM her. but k'k. lias tlm lnhcr.nl siul iti . bis self respect uf all naturally ors atcd tilings ghii will nut gle i .-thing for nothing or worse than nothing It Is gratifying to bar aduilieis to railed ilmt tho man who starvaa or otherwise nilati. -.it on of these splendid animals will not piotit much thereby. The Hol tteln . M.-g it. .nn in i" i.iuc.d In MM sent . hi pound of milk ilng u; l( pound of butler fat, not a araat record for a Hat at .ii. hut i.iHtly arvatsr than th ..i.i j i. .it) run ot cows. Give the Pasture a Start. Spring daye look good to tbe dairy farmer and the dairy cow alike, but remember that a little time now will make tbe pasture much better later In the season. Give tbe grass a good start before you turn the cowa out Poor Hoi Methods. The man who tries to raise bogs with out pasture and forage crops for tbem la Ilk- a puppy chasing bia own tall -he gets lota of exercise, but mighty little of anything sis. FROM THE HEN DOCTOR. Remedies Thst Restore Health te Ail ing Fowls Homemade Hopper, Condltueutul feuds should always bo avoided except In case of sicklies, when they should he used aa a luedl cine and the supply stopped as soon tis tho bird recovers Instead of paying three price for these combination, supply the Mock with a hopper of char coal ami occasionally clean out the di gestive tract by putting epsout suits In the mash. 11 ill u teuspooutul to euch bird cuu lie glveu w thoiit danger. lu feisllug the m.ish dry ami keeping a supply of oyster shell, grit, charcoal ami so on before the birds ut ull time-, a hopper or feeding device of some sort la necessary. To supply this want a aiiod assortment ol dot Ice his I n Invented. The merits of some would warrant their ue If the price were not beyond tho fanner's poci.ct book, but that la Just where the dull culty lies Every time tin- i.m m a big price for souicthug he cuu Mallj uiauiiructure ut home he I robbing himself of Just that tuildi dear prollt V hoppaf that can he built any length desired ami have as many (.impart me n l as the feeder bus ueed for 1 live led long, eight inches wide ami twelve indie high to the s.iiure The board which form the front of the trough is Ave inches wide. Tbe laths are placed two lucbus upurt. iushle mcusim-incut The top strip, to which the laths are nulled, la two and a half Inches wide. The top may be given auy slaut desired. When raised from the Moor a platform must lie provided With these simple direction and some ld pieces of lumber u cheap, elthieut hopper muy easily be mude lu a few hours. Summer Pruning. In theory summer pruulng has- a strong tendency to check the super abundant giowtb of the tree, to en courage tbe formation of fruit bud laid to mal... the tree generally more fruitful When the work Is dune cure fully It doubtless ha this result. It la quite oslhle. however, by summer pruuiug to force a weak growth from side buds w hidi might otherwise de eiop iuto fruit bud, und such a course naturally tends to diminish the fruit fuluess of the tree It often buppeii tbsl trees are damaged by storms or broken down under heavy loads of fruit. Much Injuries have to be reme died a fur as possible by pruning -Country Geutlemuu. i of the undesirable blood, tendencies) and scattered heredities of their moth ' ers When you come to breed these heif ers, If you go outside for a sire, tho scrub blood they Inherited from their mothers Is Just ns prepotent and often more so than the pure bivd blood uf their sire Hut breed them buck to their site If he Is a good one und the heifer from that union will coiitulu 75 per cent of tin- blood of the sire. Ill o!h. r Words, they are three quarters Inhreed This Inbreeding makes tbem . Iff hack III ull suhseiueut bleed-In.- ii gie.it deal stronger than If they . as nred from another aire even If lu the same line. We should so breed our cattle as to concentrate u far as It Is safe tint best her. silly we call obtain. Starting Willi the blood of n utj desirable hull, the universal practice Is to dilute and diffuse that valuable heredity Tho .oiiHcipieiice Is that the valuable quali ties of the original bull are very soon no widely scattorHl us to be of small :n count. Sklllfau breeders like I'uun.ey with Ills Stoke Pogls herd of Jerseys ao managed hi Intense Inbreeding as to e sl.e and strength of constitu tion. It can he done If sutlldetit euro I-, had at every step In tbe way to hoi:. I on constitutional vigor With out that our cuttle are failures uuy way. Pasture Por Live Stock. There Is nothing that Is quite so pal utable for sny class of farm II. e stock as green pasture Stock will do better In growth and production slid will re main in better health and condition on green pasture tbau ou an) thing else. Silage aud alfalfa hay come tho near eat to It uud offer the lined suhstl tutes lu winter feeding for the grasses of Juno. Too little attention ha I n paid to forag crops fur swine. Tho greatest ami most popular growth Is mude b) the pigs under IU) pound weight After that weight has been attulned his growth la slower aud in. no expensive Hut In either period of Ids life nothing helps ao much lo a proper growth aud development us do green pasture In summer ami gKl alfalfa hay In the winter, to which may be added a little allege. Por Halter Pullers. Stretch a small re across tbe atall behind a horse that Is Inclined to pull at the baiter Many a bad caae of baiter pulllug has been cured In this way. Saving the Young Pigs. If you have not already built a suit able rail In your farrowing pens or is.ta It should he done at MM There are two things thst will help to save the vnung pig perhaps more than any other Theee ure to give the sow plen ty of range before farrowing aud to provide a suitable rail In tbe cot for tbe little pigs Another very vitally Imp. a l. nit mutter la to use care In feed lug. While the sow needs suitable feed, overfeeding will bring about a ' luii condition which will react on the pigs unfavorably If not fatally, (.p. e the pow a thin slop and plenty of fresh wuter for several days after far rowing aud then graduully Increase her feed.