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About The Madras pioneer. (Madras, Crook County, Or.) 1904-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 16, 1911)
ITEMS OF INTERES' FOR "ALE A house and four lots for less than cost on north side of Mad ras. The house is Well built but not quite finished, the lots are 60x100, Must be sold at once. For information write Ora Van Tassel, Vanora, Ore. jy 20-tf FARM LOANS!! Madras State Bank FOR SALE At the Pioneer Office LK"1 Blanks of nil kinds; Curbo and Typewriter paper, Installment Salt' contract. Nots and Receipts. MONEY TO LOAN ON FARMS. Sev Mt.lr HtKie Biiiik To whom it may concern: Anyone putting building material lumber, tank. dido or anv other kind of nroDertv on mv land in Madras does so at their own risk. Nov. 8, 1911. A. Zell Woman wanted for housework. Call at Pioneer office. 2t-p S. C. Rhode Island Red cockerels for sale S D Percival, Gateway. 2t p We don't like to make suggestions but if you are feeling out of sorts, and wake up in the mornings with a dark brown . taste in your mouth, you can cure said indisposition with a few bot ties of Guinness' Stout. It's a nour ishing and stimulating beverage. Sold at the Shamrock Bar, Tommy McCor mack, Proprietor. FOUND North of town; saddle, also blanket. Owner please call. Rev. E D. Blackman, Madras, Oregon. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. E. BsRCLAND Attorney At Law MADRAS, OREGON w. B. SNOOK PHYSICIAN & SURGEON OiUce In Drug Store. MAOK.V3 OREGON Q C. COLLYER NOTARY PUBLIC Justioe of the Peace CULVER PRECINCT CULVER OREGON LEWIS H. IRVING pt T. ATKINS ATTORNEYS AT LAW INSURANCE Office of D. W. Burnett. MADRAS, OREGON Ora van tassel NOTARY PUBLIC INSURANCE VANORA, OREGON J)i W. BARN En NOTARY PUBLIC FOR OREGON Collections a Specialty. Madras, Oregon yyt P. MYERS LAWYER CULVER JUNCTION, OREGON Practice in I) courts and Department of t h- Inferior. John T. Ross D. L. Wylde B. F. Wylde CROOK COUNTY ABSTACT CO, INCOKl'ORATED Complete tract Imb x t, nil land and town lots In Crook i iiunty. Abstracts ma ie 'curate v hi niiort notice. PKIN EVILI.E, OREGON H WARD V. TURNER U. S. COMMISSIONER NOTARY PUBLIC INSURANCE MADRAB OREGON For Good Farm City Property and . Business Chances SEE D, W, BARNETT OFFICE MAIN 8TREKT, MADRAB, OREGON Houses to Rent Madras Dray & Transfer Work neatly and quickly done Prices reasonable Phone in your order a, ZELL, Owner F. A. ZELL, Drayman am OR am (mm EETRIGG central vomrf ROGUE RIVER VALLEY OREGON CORRESPONDS miCITE Potato prices nrc found lo Justify Ira vai HABLE DEMONSTRATION. Tho I'ennsylvnnU oxperlmetit fltn- m V ma M mm ' I I C J' J rwm.. wen This matter must not be reprinted with out special permission. Tho national apple show, the great est event of tho year hortleulturally, will be held In Spokane, Wash., this year, the date set being Nov. 23-30. Many a shock of corn Is hard hit from heavy fall rains through failure to make a secoud and later tie above the first when the fodder was cut and which has become loose through shrinkage of the stalks and leaves. A fish hatchery In Oregon has Just started Its "Incubators" going with 10,000,000 salmon eggs. These will be given proper "brooder" accommoda tions and when old enough to forage for themselves will be liberated in the streams of the Pacific slope. The fact is certainly not appreciated as fully as it should be that no food Is so beneficial as milk in Increasing the quantity and improving the quail ty of blood and thus building up a de pleted and rundown physical system A quart a day with all of the butter fat will do the business. The sumac and hard maple stand at the head perhaps in the popular es teem for their gorgeous leaf coloring, but In seasons when the leaves of the hazel brush have time to ripen natural ly they produce a variety as well as a quiet richness of coloring that Is un surpassed. In Cairo, Egypt, where the Moham medan religion holds sway, dogs are held sacred and practically swarm in the streets. As one passes through some of the small towns In America tho number of dogs to be seen would seem to Justify the belief that the fol lowers of Mohammed were getting n foothold. With prices of hay ranging as high as at present there would hardly seem to be any need for urging' the best possible care to be given in the han dling of stalks, straw and other forms of roughage. Before another growing season rolls around hay will be mighty scarce article and the price out of sight. The Consensus of opinion of those who have had experience in dry farm lng is that land sloping to the north or noTtheast 13 best suited to the pur pose. This is due to the fact that land with such slope is not exposed so dl rectly to the rays of the sun, loses ess moisture from evaporation and is less likely to suffer from hot winds. Not only does the orchardlst who takes scientific care of his trees get an extra price for bin fruit when there Is n short crop, but be is well paid for this care even whea he sells on a flush market, for It is under such conditions especially that quality counts, as fruit that Js given no spraying or other at tention does not justify paying freight to get it to market An Interesting trait of waterfowl that most every hunter Is acquainted wltn Is that when wounded on the wa ter they -will aJmost Invariably crawl out on land, while if winged on land they will as often seek refuge In near by -water. The redhead, one of the most highly prized of game birds, has still more exasperating habit of div ing when wounded and seizing hold of some water plant and there dying-. The story is familiar of the donkey that ate heartily of dry prunes and In crossing a broad ford got them soaked up, with the result that they expanded so that the animal burst asunder. But not until this season has the writer noticed apples developed during a dry season, dropping in August and several weeks later bursting their skins fol- owing copious rains through absorb ing moisture from the damp grass in which they lay. A reader of these notes Inquires If It will injure seed com which has been gathered some little time to be left out In a rain. Provided It was where the sun would shine on it and dry it out no In- Jury would result unless a hard freeze caught the corn unprotected with this moisture In the germ and cob. By far tho better plan Is to see first tbat the corn is thoroughly, dried out, then hang It in a dry and well ventilated place until winter, when it may be hung in a dry cellar or vacant room upstairs. A farmer In the north part of the corn belt who lives near a sweet corn aiming factory recently banked $l, 000 as tho proceeds of thirty acres of svpeet corn. Besides this ho has the toCCer left, which ho considers equal acre- per acre with timothy hay. This fodder ho feeds as n part ration for o daliy of a dozen or more cows, from which ho gets a rovenuo of $100 per head, These figures are not uuusual, hut merely show what can be accom plished by combining energy and b Felllgencc. nortntlon of foreign spuds when tho . . a ... .inliiff' some work of n price level Is 2 cents per pound or mtute within the past few more. When the price Is less than this 1 . nc of instructing the the surplus produced In Huropean , ,sti4 pf (10 Mate In the matter of giving their orchards more cnreun and scientific care. Some four years countries Is manufactured Into alcohol or used as a ration for farm oulniais, The only gorilla over brought to Now York nllvo Is dead of homesickness. Tho animal was a female aud would not cat; hence it slowly starved to death. Sixty of her companions, male and female, died when attempts wero made to bring them from their native haunts in Africa to this country. A friend who is a careful student of bird life and habits calls attention to the interesting difference in quality between the songs -of Mississippi val ley and Dakota plains mendow larks, the notes of the latter, in his opinion, due to n drier condition of atmosphere, being sweeter and clearer than thoso of their more easterly cousins. The farmers In tho dry belt who have been prevented from thrashing their scanty yield of wheat through unusually heavy rains, which have prevailed lately, have tho fact to con sole them that these rains held cap tive in tho mellow soil and properly conserved by n fine surface mulch next spring, will insure a crop next season. Foliage plants of rare and beautiful leaf can be had for Indoor display by getting slips from one's neighbor or a nearby greenhouse aud inserting them in water until tiny roots arc vis ible. They may then be transferred to permanent pots previously filled with rich and mellow earth. The plants should be well watered and kept in a warm room. The bed of pansles which has fur nished n profusion of beautiful bloom during tho past season will keep nice ly through the winter If given a mulch covering of spent manure or straw lit ter. One lady we knew used an old carpet for this purpose, and her pan sles came through the winter nicely and were ready to bloom by the tlmo the -wind flowers opened. An interesting fact of sugar beet cul ture is that the beets from which the Boed for commerce is raised nre not. as one would naturally suppose, the largest beets obtainable, but little fel Iowb about an inch in diameter, which are secured by sowing thickly the seed from highly pedigreed plants. The Germans, who are among the pioneers In beet culture, call these Beed beets "stechllnge." It is well to keep lu mind the fact that tho soli In the orchard may bo- come badly soured and disordered by leaving piles of cull apples to rot, ns has been the case the past few weeks In many sections, it is far better to remove such cull stuff from the or chard entirely, but if such piles have been allowed to rot the spots should be sweetened with a generous sprin kling of slaked lime or ground lime stone. One of the most eminent physician of the country states that a vast mn Jorlty of the misery folks suffer from 111 health could be prevented by know! edge of simple laws of health and making the most possible of the aid to be got from nutritious .food, sunshine and fresh air. His statement, if trust worthy, means that if people would live as they ought to live the medlcul profession would practically be put out of business. An article In a recent Issue of IhU department which outlined the bond Issue plan for raising funds for high way Improvement in Jackson county, Ore., gave the amount raised In 1910 for road work as $900,042, Instead of $90,012, while the valuation of proper ty In the county was given ns $.",000,- 000, when the amount should have been $50,000,000. As tho figures ap peared the amount raised for road work annually was 20 per cent of the total property valuation of the count'. which is at a glance an absurd situa tion. The boldest tree "graft" that has been pulled off In a long time Is being worked by a bunch of get-rlch-qulck chaps in several eastern stntes. They are selling cyanide of potassium (a deadly poison) at several dollars a pound to be used in vaccinating trees for the cure or prevention of the dis eases from which they may be Buf fering. This or any other dope inject ed beneath the bark of trees can huve not the slightest effect in curing or preventing tree Ills, and, so far as do lng any good Is concerned, such dope might Just as well bo put In a hole In the ground out back of the barn. Within tho past two years several thousand Hungarian pheasants havo been distributed by tho game wardens of Beveral northern states among farm ers, who agreed to look after them and nee that they wore protected from their numerous enemies. It Is grati fying to leanr that as n result of this care and favorable weather conditions these pretty birds havo multiplied In satisfactory way, It Is further a pleasure to record that they are more than paying their way in the servlco they are rendering as Insect destroy ers. It Js reported that ono farmer who became the protector of several pairs of these pheasants had a big po tato patch that was badly besot with hugs. The birds got on to thla and forthwith took up headquarters In tho patch, making an end of tho In fleets and saving tho crop of potatoes, cstimateu as worth $3,000 by tho own. or. It Is a safe guess that this man will look after theae. birds from thin on, .1 ... ago eleven orchards wero en.-u.-i with the hlen of giving them a ten r,nr .-nurse of experimental treatment I along the line of better culture, for- tlllzlng. spraying, etc. une mnu have been divided Into check plots, the different areas being given differ ent treatment to test results. Some of these received no fertilizer, others various combinations of nitrogen, phosphoric acid, phosphorus, lime, bnrnvnrd mnnure, clover and mulch. Tho results havo been most instruc tive It was found that the plots re ceiving no fertilizer gave practically no return. Other treatments yielded net returns ranging from 5100 to $500 per acre. Nitrogen alone or in combi nation gave excellent results. Potash or phosphoric acid alone showed no Increase In fruit production, but. did when used In combination with nitro gen. Lime alone had no beneficial ef fect, but barnyard manure gave tho best results of all. For the purpose of gathering up and giving fruit grow ers of tho state the benefits of a di rect Inspection of somo of this experi mental work a field meeting wns held on tho Johnson farm, In Lawrenco county, on Sept. 27. Horticultural ex perts "in charge of the experiments, as sisted by those from other states, wero present to explain the demonstration work to tho many who assembled to get the benefit of iL THE EROSION OF EARTH. Investigations which have been car ried on by the United Stntes geological survey show that tho surface of the country Is being worn away by the erosive action of water at tho rate of an Inch In 7C0 years. This seems Hko a very small amount, but It is nn enormous nmount when viewed In the nctlon of single drainage basins. It Is estimated that the Mississippi river carries nnnually to the gulf of Mexico 130,-100,000 tons of dissolved matter and 310,500,000 tons of suspended mat ter, such as particles of earth. Of this total the Missouri river contrib utes more thnn twice ns much as does the Ohio. The Colorado river delivers at its mouth 100,710,000 tons of suspended matter, or more than any other single drainage system. It Is estliunted that all rivers In the United States which llow to tho 'sea bear thither a grand total of 883,000,000 tons of dissolved and suspended mat ter, or the equivalent of 010,000,000 cubic yards of surface soil. THE TWO-YEAR AGRICULTURAL COURSE. In years past much of the work done by agricultural colleges has failed to confer the largest possible usefulness because of the rigid and quite exacting requirements for admission to the agri cultural courses, In many cases the equivalent of a high school course be ing necessary. Within the past two years several leading agricultural schools, realizing this fact, have pro vided for a two-year agricultural short course, which Is open to all young peo ple who have had the branches tuught lu the average country school, n knowl edge of which would be necessary for satisfactory progress In the courses of fered. The benefit which will result from thus throwing these practical and helpful courses open to a greatly In creased number of young men and wo men can hardly be estimated. It will mean the realizing of n maximum val ue from the most practical type of In struction that Ih offered In American schools today. A SPECIALIST'S OPINION. Professor Hopkins of the University of Illinois, one of the leading speakers at the conservation congress held a short time since at Kansas City, made tiie rather startling statement that, notwithstanding the fact that tho soils iii many sections of the country have been depleted by soil robbing to the point of virtual bankrutpcy, we are ex porting annually 1,000,000 tons of our best phosphate rock for the paltry sum of .'55,000,000, when If this same phos- pnorus wero applied to our own de pleted soils It would be worth S1.000.- 000,000 in the production of bread for future generations. He made the fur ther interesting statement that, with proper handling based on a knowledge of the fundamentals of preserving soil rcruiuy. millions of acres of nractl- cally abandoned land In the older states could be brought to a point of produc tivity where they would have u value In excess of tho $200 corn belt lands of the central states. SHOULD BE RIPE. Tho enjoyment to bo derived from eating pears-nnd this has to do With texture, Juiciness and Ilavor-lH almost entirely dependent upon their noing ripened at tho time of consump. tion. Pears for shipment any distance are always picked whllo hard. Thev may havo attained full sl::o and iroo!l color, but at tho samo tlmo bo hard una worthless. Tho proner wnv nf handling pears in such condition Is to put them awny In a cool dark nluce. and before many days they will bo perfcctlon-swect, lusclnnH and flno fla vored. If any readers havo never giv en pears this preliminary treatment they should do ho and get favorublv acquainted with tho finest fruit thul grows. 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LOUIS RAIN ftland6;00P; DAILY T Tinrt Madras 8:39 a.m., arnviriB ge Direct connection at Pallbndg 1 olJ and points east. Arrive Spokane 9:45 p.m. Am int3) D to EaHtfirn nninta. Piir Snnml find Other Western P . ,1 - 7' a . , u furnished Pe' pusiin accepted lor west-Dounu uckuuj w tho east. Details will be furnished on request. J. J. HOYDAR, Agent, MADRAS, ORE.