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
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B. SNOOK
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON
OiUce In Drug Store.
MAOK.V3 OREGON
Q C. COLLYER
NOTARY PUBLIC
Justioe of the Peace
CULVER PRECINCT
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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
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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.
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U. S. COMMISSIONER
NOTARY PUBLIC
INSURANCE
MADRAB OREGON
For Good Farm
City Property and
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Houses to Rent
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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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