CROOK COUNTY JOURNAL COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER FOR CROOK COUNTY Knleted et tee postoWce t rrferllle. Offtoa. f on.t-rls metltt SUBSCRIPTION RATES fl.50 One Yer. Three Months 50rts THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 190S. mami CM.BlVKMTZ rx. o ICOREtSroVTiCvCE SOLICITED U THE WAY TO PERFECTION. All's not gold that's tolJ In mis., even though It s n Gold Koek ml. Wiuuiug birds are seldom mated, though this oft has beeu related to sell cgsrs and you. Not natural for a silver cup sjort to sell eggs equal to his own to hatch show birds to compote with hlui at the next contest You're a bird If you be lieve It Ills "best In the world" aren't going to be sold to auother sport who may turn a new breeding trick or have a new fake card up hU sleeve to make the "best" better and thus relieve hl:a of a quadruple cup. When breeders mate up they don't always take win ners nor perfect birds. They might hatch something too perfect Just as people may get too awfully goody good. And then some of these erfeot prize birds aren't just so perfect as they seem. Some have homemade perfect combs and spliced feathers and pluck ed shanks and snowy bleached hacks and Indigo flight feathers, and when you buy them for a big price In the showroom and take them home in a month there Is as big a difference be tween their "before and after" as In the pictures of an auti-fat advertise ment j All's not silver that shines, even if it's a Silver Rock silver cup winner. So fair fanciers concede that It's not always best to mate prize winners nor perfect birds. Too much varnish spoils the picture. Bad traits come from somewhere-maybe three generations lack. Anyhow the perfect birds, espe-. i lully colored breeds, aren't generally a success, and so they adopt a plan that yon wouldn't They mate imperfect birds. This Is the plain truth, if some one is doing fancy laying. In this perfect mating of Imperfect birds they select a male and females and make the good traits on one side balance the bad traits on the other. A hen's good traits may cover the bad traits of the male, and the male may have some perfect points the hen is weak in, and thus, bred together, ev erything may even op and the off spring be Just right A long legged Leghorn with poor color may be bred to a short legged hen with strong standard color. A Silver Laced Wyandotte with a poor hackle is matched with a hen of perfect hackle that may be deficient in some points In which the male Is true. A Brown Leghorn may have a four point comb. , To get the five point some will breed a five point female, while others will take a six pointer, claiming that the four and six point combs will neutralize into the regular five point comb. Imperfections are thus offset by per fections to get the perfect Then there are the cockerel and pal let matlngs not that cockerels form Into stag parties and pullets organize girl bachelor clubs, but breeding pens are matched to bring certain color cockerels or certain color pullets. For Instance, some Barred Rock fanciers like a rather dark cockerel, and they mate for It They want pullet feathers to have narrow dark tips and ail feathers to be barred to the skin, and they mate accordingly. So it's not so simple after all. and when a man at St Louis paid ?1,000 for a hen It was not because he was a fool, hut he ap preciated the science required to build that hen and knew the pleasure and profit that come from such a bon ton brain product to breed from. In society yon have often noticed people try to even up In the same man ner. A brainless man will try to mar ry the new woman to make himself look intellectual. A man with a slim income will strive to wed a woman with a fat bank account. But, as the chicken mating may be a failure, the brainless man may seem more non compos mentis, and the fortune may be a fizzle. DON'TS. Don't use all the adjectives In the English language to sell a three pound rooster. Nuf sed. Don't be a rotten nest egg fossil. China eggs for nests. No rotten nest eggs for customers. Don't mate more than six hens to one gobbler. You'll not have many Christmas turkeys to gobble if you do. Don't fall to exterminate the rats. If you can't hit a barn door, call out the N. G. They can make corks pop straight Don't forget to find the turkey's nest. The skunk will get there If you don't. Hope you don't meet and quarrel. Ex cuse us from the peace council. Don't forget that you are an un Classed specimen of the fool species it you "lick" your boys for getting the chicken fever. It's an attribute of greatness, and If you never had It pre pare for a severe attack of non compos mentis. Don't envy the prosperous poultry man. People running machines get their fingers caught In cogs when they watch the scenery. Try the "oil of gladness" on your rusty wheels and shout over every felloe's success. IIuuip a little harder, and the band will soon serenade you. er - Invrlably In Advance) Six' Month To ct. Single Copies 5 etc VITALITY IN CORN. Good Looking Seed Ear Not Alwsys Sura Producers. The low average yield per acre of corn graphically Illustrates the neces sity for Improvement, provided It can be effected with a reasonable degree of economy. Corn Is the crop chieliy con cerned lu the maintenance at. exten sion of our animal Industries, and with the dlsapiea ranee of the range country It becomes lucretisingty more Impor tant from year to year. There Is no danger of the corn vrop exceeding our needs, as the past season has plainly demonstrated. Even with the average ordluary yields the various uses to which corn can t-e put multiply out of proportion to the increase in yield and acreage per annum. While there is much uncultivated land that can lie ulllUcd for corn. It Is nevertheless true th.it the areas devoted to Its growth must be kept In condition to raise maxi mum crops if the supply Is to bo main tained at a good V'vel. not to speak of Increasing It materially. The Improve ment of the coin plant aloug ratloual lines so that the methods cau le adopt ed successfully oa every farm Is a mat ter of serious Importance to the future of cur agriculture. It is Just ns Important to select and grow a pure and perfect type of corn as It Is to select a well formed bog or perfect type of dairy animal for breed ing purposes. A higher per cent of protein, greater productiveness and other valuable qualities which may be broil into corn by careful and Intelli gent selection should greatly Increase the value of this crop to the farmer. Farmers have pretty generally been accustomed to think they could pick out a good ear of seed corn with rea sonable certainty. V. S. S'joesrulth of Kansas, however, declares tl!i. '"It Is surprising how few people can pick GOOD WESTEMt CO EX. These ears of seed corn present a fine physical appearance. Notice shape and uniformity of grains.! out a good ear of corn before they are carefully Instructed and trained in the vital points both as to desirable quail ties and defects." All this leads to scientific corn test ing. While good farmers may Judge the vitality of corn with much correct ness by its appearance, It i3 maintain ed by many who have made a study of this point that the germination test is the only accurate method of Judging vitality, for sometimes corn which ap pears to be of low vitality will germi nate fairly well, while corn which ap pears to be of good vitality may not grow at all. RIGHT FERTILIZING. Handsome Profits and Often Enormous Returns Follow. A. Goss of Indiana reports some very Interesting data on the use of fer tilizers obtained by experience during a number of years past in the southern part of the state. Ills conclusions are of general value, however. One of them Is that while occasionally soils are found that do not respond to fer tillzers, usually some combination has been found that has produced hand some profits and not Infrequently enor mous returns. There Is, for example, no question that the application of pot ash In considerable quantities on muck soil is very profitable in connection with the growing of corn and other crops. It also seems certain that the liberal use of fertilizer on the potato crop is highly profitable and that fer tilizer will usually pay well ou the wheat and corn crops if used in the proper proportions and right amounts The work that has been done empha sizes the fact, however, that In order to secure the best results It Is neces sary to understand the need3 of the particular soil and crop to be used. There Is not the slightest doubt that a large and profitable Increase In crop production could be brought about in the state by a more systematic and in telligent use of fertilizers. The turning under of leguminous crops was found to be the cheapest means of supplying gains and other nonleguminous crops with nitrogen. Experiments with untreated rock phosphate In comparison with acid phosphate indicate that the on United phosphate is "a cheap and effective source of phosphorus where Immedi ate returns are not required. For quick returns add phosphate or ome other readily available form should be used." In these experiments heavy ap plications of rock and acid phosphate still showed marked results after three years. Similar results were secured with applications of potash, and the'jonclu slon Is therefore drawn thaf there is little danger of serious loss by leach ing of either phosphorus or potassium on ordinary Indiana soil. "Nitrogen, on the other hand, is readily washed out and should not be applied much In excess of what can bo taken care of by the immediate crop." No injurious effect on the soil was observed from the continued use of acid phosphate. Asparagus and Rhubarb, Plantations of asparagus and rhu barb may be set during I f ril and May, s iH i ill I Farm end Garden DUTCH DRAGGING. It Makes Convenient Corner and It Really Simple, Dragging "Outch fashion" Is nothing uew. I learned It more than twenty years ago. Still. It may be new to some and prove of value. Its advan tage are that It drags neither length wise nor square across the furrows and makes easier corners than the ordinary diagonal dragging. Haiti luteh fash Ion Is shown In diagram below. Com mence bv "strlUInu out" from A to It. Turn to the right and go back on the left side of first track till you reach TLXIS DfTCH HAKROWIXO. edge of field near A. Prlvo across the first track ruul back on the opposite side to the other end. Cross.over aud back ou opposite side again. Contluue crossiug over at each end Inside your last track aud outside the last track aloug the sides. When half done the piece will look like first dia gram, and the next trip would be from C to I. to E. to I to C. When done the last trip would bo from U to II, and the piece will have been dragged twice diagonally in 0(osite directions. This works well on pieces that are nearly square or not more than twice as long as wide. Of late we have found that It is economy in plowing, cultivating, etc.. to make our lands as loug as pos sible. On these Dutch dragglug did not work as well, ns It was too near lengthwise the furrows, so we hit upon what we call "crazy Dutch." shown in second diagram. We "strike out" zig zag across the piece two or three or more times, according to Its length compared to width. The picture shows three times viz: From A tJ B, to C, to D. Turn to the right and go back on Jl E N J C C V u I j u n v n t ! VABIATIOS OH DtrTCH FASEIOS. left to first track to C and drive across It Go on right side to B, then up left side to A. Cross over aud back on left side of B. Drive straight across the first two tracks, turn to the left and go on right side to C, where you will cross the two tracks again, and go on left side to D. Always go straight ahead tlil you get to the edge of the field before you make a turn. Wl.f. l.ttf it tvlll liw.L- HL-a tha picture, and the next trip would be j from E to F, G, II, I.. J, K, L, E. When done the last trip will be from j M to N, O, P. This looks complicated, but It Isn't half as hard to do It as it Is to tell about it At least It seems that way to mo Just now. In striking out we never measure a piece, but guess at the angles. However, the truer-you get It struck out the Itctter It works out In finishing, concludes "Uncle Reutien" In writing the forego ing to the Rural New Yorker. Cat Byproducts. There Is a class of byproducts from the cereal mills of Iowa that merit greater attention on the part of our feeders. In this class are the oat feeds, flours, middlings, shorts, and possibly the bran. too. may be used. These feeds are well up In protein and have appreciable percentages of fat, which render them particularly desirable as hog feeds, and possibly their use may with profit l;e extended to horses. This is specially true of the flour, middlings and shorts. The bran, how ever, has too high a content of crudo fiber to give It a very great value as a flesh producer or to render It pal atable to the feeding animal. These are comparatively new feeds, and their practical worth has not been definitely established, but from their chemical composition it seems evident that ex perimentation with practical feeding tests will fully demonstrate their rank ing well with similar wheat products. If not outclassing them. Louis G. Michael. Wood Ashes as Fertilizer. Wood ashes are obtainable wherever wood is burned In large quantities. The potash contained in them Is water soluble and easily leaches out Wood ashes are excellent as fertilizer, and I none should be allowed to go to waste.: ; Do not apply at base of plants, but tpread broadcast about bushes or trees. Alfalfa Seeding. Ohio authorities state that alfalfa may be seeded at any time after spring frosts are over until the middle of Au-' gust provided the seed bed is In prop er condition. It was found that up-I land clay and sandy first and second bottom lands have produced the heav iest maximum and average yields. Willamette University Founded in 1811. New 50,000 build ing this j-ear. The College of Liberal Arts has strong brain deve!oping courses. Other courses in Oratory, Music, Theology, Education, Medicine, Law, and in the academy. 45 Professors. High quality instruction .State libraries afford superior advan tages.' For catalogue add reea 8-0-0 Peesidknt F. Hombn, Salem, Or. B D jk Not Curious. A cettaln employ or of l.ilmr had re ceived many complain:.-! fro.n his fore man as to :u of the liimK who, though an excellent workman and one whom It were undesirable to dismiss altogether, could never N Induced to arrive nt the irx-r time In the morn ing. So the employer, determining lo ex postulate wLli tlie offender personally, arrived early one morning nud laid In wait for him. In due tltt'.e the dilatory ono strolled lu and was accosted wrathfully: "Do you know what time wo begin work here lu the morning T' "No, sir," was the cairn reply. "I know they're always at It when I get here."- London Telegraph. London's Shabby Trrple. Ixt the reader Keep his eyes open ns he walks !t;t I.cmlon, and he will siv on every vide of him the broken sol diers of this Innumerable army. The old Journalist, the tM clerk, the old actor, the old shopman, the old non descripts of those odd and multifarious employments whose very names ore un known to most of us-there they ra penslonless, comfortless and homeless, living ou the gratuities of their chil dren and se-ekliig In chance employ ments to cam a casual sixpence for their hunger. The common hxlglng houses, the miserable garrets In court and alley and the cheap bedrooms In small suburban streets are always full of Loudon's shabby people-. Duulon Strand Magaxlue. The Runner-up. The best man thought he'd take a look around and see that everything was running as a fastidious bri.U would wish It. and up In the rxiu where the presents were displayed, alone aud uuhappy looking, he catno upon a youth, seemingly ready, like the wedding guest of the English poet, to "beat his breast." He was wnuder Ing about, looking at silver and cut glass without seeing them, and the best man hardly knew how to ap proach him. "Er have you kissed the bride!" he asked at Inst. Aud the answer told far more than Its two meager words might have been expected to. It was, "Not lately!" Llpplucott's Magazine. An Odd Problem. Can you place ten lumps of sugar In three teacups so that there Is nn odd number of lumps In each cup? A I statistician to w hom this problem was j once propounded declared It w as Im possible to accomplish such a feat, but ; the following explanation shows that ; It is wot only possible, but very easy j to accomplish: I'm one lump In one : cup. two lumps In another cup on I aev I en lumps In the third cup. aud then 'put the cup with one lump In the cup with the two lumps. By placing the cup that holds one lump Inside the one that holds two lumps It can bo correct ly r-tated that every cup contains un odd number of lumps, for if n cup con tains another cup It ulso contains the contents of that second cup. Hints to Tipsters. Gadd Whenever oue of the big mag nates says to buy stin ks I tiiwayl sell. That's the way to fool 'em. Cadd I don't When they say to buy I always buy. Gadd But don't you know they never express their private opinions In public? They always say Just the op posite of what they think. Cadd No; you're a buck number. They're ou to that scheme. When they say to buy they know you will think they believe It is really time to sell. So now they say Just tha opposite of what they ex pect to do. They say the right thing because you will think It I thu wrong thing. By th ? way, Gadd, did you ever make any money lu stocks? Gadd No. Cadd-Neither did I.-Llppincott's Mag azine. An Outrage. "Speaking of meanness," said a man who had bad a sharp business trick played upon him. "let me tell you about a certain New England farmer who was noted as a miser. The farmer's cousin died, and the old man attended the reading of the will, for ho had hopes. And, sure enough. In one of the later codicils a certain eight aero farm was h ft him. As the bequest was read out the farmer sat up In his chair, rubbed his hands and flmlled. "Hut the lawyer, reading on, made known that the very good gray mare then grazing In said field was be queathed to a nephew. At this news the farmer clacked his lips In rage and piped excitedly: " 'Then she's eatln' my grass.' " Dueling Courage. The Frenchman was still pale and tremulous from his encounter with the rough. "Did I not conduct myself well, heln?" he demanded. "Fairly well. At the same time for one who has fought four duels there was a certain pallor, a certain nervous ness, that rather disappointed us." The Frenchman looked mortified. Then he tapped significantly his little glass of champagne. "Hut I had none of this," ho said. "I was taken unpre pared. I had not the time to what you say tank up!" "But you don't tank up for a duel." "Don't we? How little you know! Imagine It the horror the gray deso lation of the dawn, the surgeon with his cold and glittering Instruments, the witnesses cruelly searching you for the least sign of fear, and all this without tanking up? Volln, my old, you ore mad. No, no! Every Frenchman be-; fore a duel tanks up. A dueling field smells like an American bar. And It Is' astounding with tho thought of tho duel before you, how much It takes to tank you. A pint, a lltro sometimes, but steadies tho nerve and clears the eye for the dread encounter." New Fork Press. 1 '.'it- is j Gasoline Engine Irrigation, Spraying end Pumping Machinery Kiilrbiiiikx-Mrirxe Oasollno KiikIik'H for pumping, Hpmyinit, sawliijj, grinding. Out II t n complete. KulrlmnkH Sculi'S for writhing. Kiilrlmnioi.Moriio DynumoH and Motors for power hikI llKht. l-'iui l)aiil(-M,isfl Windmills nnd Towers. Fnirhiiiiks-Morse Urlndvrs. Feed Choppers, "Oil I'll If 1 ps. All lirKt quality goods at lowest prices. Alwuys In slock. Literal terms. Prompt reply to Inquiries and quick shipments. Write for caluloKtie and prices. W. F. KING, Agent, Primeville, Ore. Fairbanks Morse & Co. l'OUTLAND, OHEGON. SProcssona Cards, jCawytr Qt C. SJrix 5?at Cstat Wile with Ueo. V. Humes ?. S?. Ctiiott, JiUrntf-mt-jCmm t 0. 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CI L'i W'J ri W'J lj U'J Sonera ffilacksmithing IIoRSBSriOEIMO, WOOTJ WoltK, ETC., Neatly and Pkomi'tly Donb Wiikn it is Donr By : : : Siobcrt 9oorc Satisfaction Will Phinevim.k, C'J r,.t b'J LJLJl:ill.JLJLJI.l.ilLJl.JLJLJLUI.U:LUl.JI.JUJl.Jl.'JKJl.Jiiii Put Your Machinery in Repair Don't forget that the Prineville Machine Shop is equipped to do any kind of machine work that can be done in Crook County. Prices reasonable. Also carry Belting, Cap Screvs, Machine Nuts, Steam Fittings, Bicycles and Sundries. Agent for Reo and Ford Cars. Automobile garage in connection. All kinds of Gas Engine Repairs a Specialty. ftF Remember that we nre Rtipply headquarters for nil kinds of lubricating oils and gasoline We can savo you money. Prineville Machine Shop ED HODSON, Proprietor Bring your job printing to the Journal tiie A 5 v. ft & JWJ r i k J r.i S.J r, i L j r ,t LJ L J LJ n L.J r..i i j r.i kJ ri L. J r.i LJ r-i.i LJ r.ii LJ r.i LJ r.i LJ r;i L J He Guaranteed OlIKdOfJ. ran LiULvJ it Cost I