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About The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 17, 1922)
THE ONTARIO AEG PS, ONTARIO, OBEQON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1922 i t L v Plan Now to Properly Take Care of the Harvest! Now is the time to build a New Barn, Granaries, Machine Sheds, Silo, etc. The archltctural department is at your .service. It will supply you with plans and sepciflcatlohs that simplify your building problems and " enable you to build economically. , Men who have had years of experi ence aro ready to help you and their services aro FREE. We own our own forestB, cut the logs, mill the lumber and sell it dl ect to you. Ask the manager of the nearest B. P. yard. Boise Payette Lumber Co. Ontario Yard, George McClain Manager Andrews ONTARIO, ;v : Wish to Announce that they are opening a complete feed, seed and grain store in the Boyer building, kitty korner from the Post Office. High est cash prices paid for seed 'and grain. Rex Marquis will represent us and will call on you, explaining our plans, or if in town, - call and see us, Directory of DR. J. A. MC FALL Eyesight Specialist Eye Qlasaei and Spectacles ONTARIO NATIONAL BANK The Oldest Bank In Malheur County "Service that Serves" Capital and Surplus 1100.000. HOTEL WILSON The "Homey" Hotel of Malheur County. Good Meals 40c TROXELL- IMPLEMENT CO. Farm Operating Equipment McCorrolck. Deerlng and P. & O. THE INDEPENDENT MARKET Phone 6 and 135 It Its Good To Bat We Have It If Km Farm Produce We Buy It i It costs far more money not to liavo good buildings on your (arm, than It costs to have tthom. When your crops are ripe you must havo a place for them. Before winter sets in you should provide adequate pro tection for your stock and good sheds for your machinery. , Keep your feed where you can can handle it conveniently. There's no bettor place for succulent crops than in a B. P. Frost-Proof Silo. Grain Co. OREGON Ontario's Business Firms HOME MADE CANDIES PURE AND DELICIOUS -Take a box home for Sunday BON BON CANDY SHOP . . . . S. Iu Tompkins, Prop REIHSEN & RYAN The. Home of Good Eats and Low Prices Phones 3 and 131 PURITY BAKERY Ernest Barcus, Prop. All Kinds ofBreads, Cakes and Pastry ' WELLS DAIRY . Phone 34 W2 Service day and night. Tuber cnlar tested cows. Clean and aanl tar equipment. MORRIS MILLINERY & NOVELTY . SHOP Palyrare Waists Women's Dreesef And Sport Clothes MAJESTIC THEATRE - ONTARIO FRIDAY & SATURDAY BERT LYTELL IN THE OLE RICH ADAPTED FROM THE SAT URDAY EVENING POST STORY "JUNK". BY. KEN NETH HARRIS. Also AL. ST. JOHN COMEDY AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS Sunday Monday and Tuesday SNOWBLIND SOME OP THE MOST BEAU TIFUL SNOW SCENES EVER FILMED ARE SHOWN IN THIS POWERFUL DRAMA THAT TAKES PLACE IN THE GRIM FROZEN HILLS OF THE NORTH. Also BUSTER KEATON COM EDY and SELZNICK NEWS. MARSDEN'S Machine Shop For all kinds of Machine Repairing Ontario, Oregon GET RID OF GRIT Road duet, car boa, fine metal particle from engio wcr-tU should fee flushed out regularly. Authorised dealer! dm CalolFluehinf Oil for eefe ty and thorotihn.Ttxvr refill with Zeroleoe of the correct grade. (iS&kfo STAHDARD OIL COMPANY (CtHfomla) or MODERN CRANKCASE CLEANING SERVICE RADER BROS. Dependable Merchandise "Not the Cheapost, But the Best'" Signs Ui'ItON TURNER W. L. nAZELTINE Watchmaker, Jewelry All Work Guaranteed BLACKABY JEWELRY STORE Home of "Gifts that. Last" ONTARIO PHARMACY O. M. Castleman, Prop. Prescription Specialist Victor Phonographs Rezall Remedies Eastman Kodaks H. R. UDICK Plumbing and Heating Domestic Water Systems TAGGART HARDWARE CO. Malheur County's Largest Hardware Store J. O. McCRIJIGHT HARDWARE Satisfaction Guaranteed 111 cigarettes They are GOOD! YUMERS HAS THE CUCKOO Citizen Complains That the Birds Are Stfmewhat Too Attentive to Builness. A proud but truthful resident of Yonkers admitted thut there were n lot of cuckoos there. Ho wasn't proud of the cuckoos, particularly. As far as cuckoos are concerned, bis pride Is strictly civic. If one must have cuckoos, he prefers the Swiss kind, which urooeal only when wound up and then oniytat Intervals. The Yonkers cuckoo doesn't linve to he wound up. The Imported eight-day cuckoo -Is a piker beside the Yonkers cuckoo. The Yonkers cuckoo stas awake half the night waiting for the dawn and each has the same pride In being the Orst to salute the earliest gleam of the sky that a fanner's wife has In getting her washing, out before a neighbor's lino Is strung. From the moment that the night be comes faintly luminous until about 0:33 n. m. the air Is tremulous with cuckoos. From 0:35 to 10:05, the cuckoos knock oft for lunch. Then they're at It again until dark. They yelp "cuck-oo" at every resident of Yonkers they see ana even at strang ers from PeekbklU. Wheirthe street is utterly deserted they murmur "cuck-oo, cuck-oo" Just for practice. BIRD DOESN'T HAVE TO FLY Washington Specimen Uses the Street Car as His Particular Means of Transportation. Now that spring Is here, it may In terest bird lovers to know that at least one bird has solved the problem of transportation without the use" of wings. Birds are famous for their migra tions, but hitherto they always have use'd w'lng power. Now comes along one local bird who gets himself tVom place to place with scarcely the Hup of n wing. This bird came riding down Penn sylvania avenue about eleven o'clock ono morning last week. He was perched on the roof of a street enr coming from Georgetown. When the car stopped at Eleventh street the bird alighted, nnd walked gravely up and down the platform. He was a tine, big fellow, with a black body and a blue head, but did not look like a blackbird. After surveying the post office de partment for a bit, the bird flew over to a car about to leave for Mount Ver non, nnd established himself on the roof. When the car pulled out, the bird was with It. Washington Star. The World's Greatest Dam. Plans have been made to build a dam on the Colorado river which will hold back a volume of water equal to two years How of the entire 1,800 miles of rushing river. The dam Is to be 700 feet high, app:.-unately the height of the Woolworth building In New York city. The dom will form n reserofr with nn area of 200 square miles and un average depth of tifiO feet. This body of water will consti tute the largest artlliclul lake Jn the woild. One western railroad system Is already planning to operate a Meet of steamers to carry tourists over this num-miide lake to the Grand canyon, the wonder spot of America. The I'tinmiui canal Is the only undertak ing .ever attempted in America which may be compared In magnitude or boldness of conception to this en gineering project, which will trans form nn empire of waste Into a re gion of productivity. World's Work. Robin Gets the Worm. Robins are growing fut on worms In I.nfnjette squnre. The grass there must be literally alive with worms, for no robin seems to hoe any difficulty whatever In pick ing up the best kind of living. You will see one of the birds hop along, then suddenly reach down. lie begins to pull. Up comes his head with a worm dangling to his beak, ono end of the worm held tenaciously by the robin, the other clinging fast to mother earth. Bracing himself the bird throws his entire weight In one final heave. He then consumes half the worm, and lies away with the remainder. The performance does not strike one as cruel, for both bird and worm are operating under the laws of na ture. Washington Star. The Soil Does Not Exhautt. Dr. Curtis F. Murbut of the United .States Department of Agriculture hits .sailed on a three-months' trip to Eu rope, and his 'special mission will he to determine why it Is thut the soil In some pacts of Europe which lias been worked since the Christian eru lias not been, exhausted. He will bring lioi..e samples of the soils of vu rlnus countries visited and analyses will be made In the endeavor to up rive at the secret. In Italy nnd Greece the soli has been tilled for centuries and has never been fer tlllzed, and has never had the advan tage of live stock raising. Look Before You Le.p. A novice was bravlCg the Dart mouth ski-jump. He shot down the Incline, lurched weakly at the take off, landed face downward below nnd finished the slide, nose first, plowing Into the snow smother. ''You Jumped too late, Joel" yelled un enthusiast. "Naw" from the smother below "I Jumped too ooon, Should havo learned more about the game first." Every body's Magazine. Advantages of Diversified Farming As Viewed by "Farmer" Smith THE FOLLOWING ARE THE INTERESTING OBSERVATIONS OF ONI) OF THE GREAT CHARACTERS WHOSE LIFE HAS BEEN DEVOTED TO THE LMPROVKMENT OF FARMING CONDITIONS WITH BRIEF REFERENCES TO HIS PERSONAL HISTORY. "The story of agriculture In Am orica for three hundred years de monstrates the fact that East or West, North or South, the man on the land who gives his best thought and energy to homo-making, grow ing everything ho can grow for tho use of himself and family, caring for domestic animals, not so much for tho dollars they, will bring as for tho pleasuro of seeing thorn grow and develop under his care and attention, who cultivates plants bo cause he loves to see them grow, one who appreciates his partnership with' nature In producing now things, will succeed, will find satis faction and happiness in his work, will contribute his full share to the "sum total of human happiness," will make tho world hotter for his living and gladder for his human speech, says "Farmer" Smith who was here in Ontario to Join the Dairy Excursion. "The winter of 1921-1922 has demonstrated as never before the advantages of n diversified system of farming, with livestock as an important factor. The farmers who havo been milking cows, feeding pigs, caring fqr poultry and growing corn, hay, small grains and pota toes, have certainly withstood tho business storm that wrecked tho specialist, whether the latter's specialty was sheep, tattle, hay or wheat. The best basis for farm credit anywhere in tho country to day is cows, silos, pigs, lions, corn, clover or alfalfa. "Tho long dry porlod this sum" mor has been a trying ono for tho farmor on non-Irrigated lnnd. On ly the vory best methods have brot Satisfactory results. "A careful survey of tho situation at this date, August, 1922, indi cates that the farmer who has been practicing diversified farming with a systematic crop rotation includ ing corn, and making dairying an important factor in tho system, with pigs and poultry as side lines; ono who has built a silo, kopt a puro-bred bull, saved his own seed corn, potted his calves, hauled out manuro .plowed deep, planted on time, loved his work1 and otherwise intelligently combined brains, mus cle, manure, soil and sunshlno, has been ablo to make farming pay oven In years of adversity, "Tho Union Pacific System has been conducting a campaign for a moro diversified system of farming In tho country reached by their lines. They have encouraged and stimulated tho growing of bettor and moro livestock, a greater diver sity of crops and moro lntenslvo methods of cultivation. "The results socurod have exceed ed tho expectations of tho manage ment. Tho people living In tho sections whero this work has been carried on aro not raising any loss whoat or fruit, but they aro milk ing moro cows, feeding moro pigs, caring for moro poultry, growing moro corn, moro clover, more field peas, building moro silos, making bettor roads and enjoying a much largor measure of prosperity. "All men are more or less crea tures of habit, and It Is entirely natural and logical that farraors In any gtvon locality should honestly hollovo that tho methods practiced aro tho best for their locality and conditions. .Owing to tho Isolation of tho average farmer ho is not as quick to avail himself of Improve ments In methods and practices as aro men engagod in other linos of business. "During tho last quarter of a century thoro has been Just as marked improvement in methods of farming, In brooding of livestock, methods of feeding, soil cultiva tion and tho handling and market ing of farm products as has boon mado in transportation or manufac turing, until today farming up to dato farming Is as scientific as any profession in tho world. "Tho farmor who secures tho most satisfactory results from tho use of his land and tho application of his labor to tho cultivation of tho soil, tho feeding and breeding of farm animals, Is the man who NOTICE TO TAXPAYER3 Notice (s hereby given that by vir tue of Section 4291, Oregon Com piled Lawa 1913, the Malheur County Hoard of Equaliz ation, will meet on the Second Mon dayof Soptembcr, 1922, at the Coun ty Court Houso, Volo, Malheur County, Oregon, to publicly exam ino the 1922 Assessment Rolls, and to correct orrors in valuation, de scriptions, or qualities of lands, lots or other proporty assessed by t avails himself of tho best known methods and practices. Experiment Stations under the direction of traised oxports nro maintained both by tho stato nnd nation. The var ious problems pertaining to the gated arid careful experiments con ducted, nnd each problem is worked out to a satisfactory conclusion. The data compiled from theso ex periments and investigations aro published In bullotins and In the agricultural press. , "But this mothod of distributing knowledge of incauculablo value haB not been entirely satisfactory. Men trained in the work of collecting and distributing the facts regard ing those methods and practices that bring the most satisfactory results can carry this knowledge to the farmer by word of mouth moro con vincingly than any printed page. "It has beon found that when any group of farmers can bo brought to gother to discuss tho various prob lems relating to their business that everyone present is ablo to gather somo facts of value to themselves. "At present I am tho Agricul turist of tho Union Pacific System, and havo boen for moro than thirty years ongagod in tho work of col lecting an distributing facts regard ing tho best methods of soil culti vation, animal and plant broedl'hg, feeding and caring for livestock, and the various problems pertaining to farm life. "I was born in Ohio in 1845, and am a veteran of hto Civil war, hav ing sorvod in tho Eleventh Michi gan infantry in July of 1861 and served till tho closo of tho war. It was in 1884 tfcat I began lecturing In farmers institutos throughout tho country. "Farm homo-making has beon my hobby for all these years. I have talked cows and corn, pigB and poultry, fruit and vegetables, trees, grass and flowers, because whon ever I found theso I found tho best homes, the most contented, pros porous, healthy and happy men, wo mon and chlldron. "Tho problem of improving coun try life Is not a now ono with me. I havo studied it for moro than for-. ty yoars. During this porlod, both exporlonco and observation Justi fied the conclusion that tho owner of a small farm who places homo making boforo monoy getting is nearly always successful; also that tho real homo maker is moro ofton found on a small farm than a largo ono. Tho conditions of living, tho homo comforts, tho not returns in food, sholtor, clothing, rost , re creation and social enjoyment for capital, labor nnd thought invested, are as a rule much greator on tho small farm than on tho large ones. "Compared with the life of tho wage oarnpr in tho city, the oppor tunities and advantages of tho small farmer aro In overy way preferable Tho samo amount of labor will fur nish so much bettor house, bottor food, hotter air and moro agreoablo surroundings. Ho does not havo to obey tho orders of tho boss, nor tho rules of tho union. Ho la not afraid of losing his Job. His oggs aro fresh, milk unskimmed, vege tables and fruit fresh from tho tree or vino. If ho Is not ambitious for 'woalth, does not vonturo on some schomo to get rich quickly ho can bo Independent of buslnoss condi tions, financial crisis or othor fac tors that vox tho avorago wage earner. "The work of education toward bottor farming methods is for the purposo of multiplying such fara homos. This will dovolop tho re sources of tho country much mon cortally than exploiting tho phen omonal accomplishment of somo ez port with Bomo special crop on somi rare occasion. "Tho avorago man Is much mon numerous than tho specialist. Th methods that produce tho best re buHb with tho avorago man ar thoso that aro most reltablo unde avorago conditions. Tho history 0 agrlculturo for 300 years demon strntes that those aro corn, clovei cows, pigs, chlckons, stablo manure brains and hard work a combln atlon that wins 99 times out of 10C losing only whon ono of tho factor Is loft out." tho Assossor of Mainour County, a persons Interested shall appear tho tlmo and placo appointed. Andrew M, Graham, Assosso Dated at Ynto, Malheur Count; Orogon, this the 12th day of Augus 1922. First publication August 17. 102 Last publication Soptomber 7, J.92 ItADEIVS REMINDERS Fall goods aro coming in no with many now and novel article P J 1 V la1-a m " ' ' ' 1 Yirr-nrtirrreiiw wmfwuM 'm''mrmifmt& wnniiwiwmwui nt. i.