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About The Madras pioneer. (Madras, Crook County, Or.) 1904-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 23, 1911)
I Balfour Guthrie Co. GRAIN Bought at all points We have on hand nt nil times Calcutta Rrnin bags and Crown brand twine. Give us a call for I anything in our line. Office in Madras, Oregon Blue Print Township Plats Corrected uptodute, showing names of entrymen, vacant land, rivers and creeks, 50 cents each. Land Scripts For Sale For securing title to all kinds of Gov ernment land without residence or im provement, at lowest market prices. Write us for particulars. All kinds of Land office business a specialty. Twenty-five years experience. Keference, l'(rench & Co., Bankers. Hudson Land Company The Dalles, Oregon 5 QMS FREE Ci Thousands have taken advantage of our "dir3 ffotn-fatfonr" olan of tdiino our l.ro nMinii !th u gattin s thi hit f or t hi It ait money. Why pay higher prices when wo tuarantu satisfadion or money back: 5-ciou Panel Doors 1 5 lies. . . - 1 1(1 Craftsman Interior Doors, $3.25 (veneer) and 1 .60 Craftsman Bungalow Front Doors ... 5.00 Craftsman Bungalow Rear Doors, glued - 2.75 Inside Windows Trim, in sets of 1 0 pieces .80 Z-IightWiBdows,gla7.ed.24x-i .... .VI Columns, Mouldings, Glass, Paints, Building I riper. Hardware, Koobng, All sues kept I in flock for prompt shipments, Wesellany- I body, bhip anywhere. ct Us Figure Send for Our Complete $295 BUYS THIS HOUSE EVERYTHING NEEDED U supplied Bt this bargain price nil tho material re quired for tho construction of this mod ern good-looking nnd comfortable cottage. We ore independent dealers not In nny trust or association. At this remarkably low quota tion wo include nil lumber, sash nnd doors, millwork. Biding, ceiling, flooring, nails. Btnir work, finishing lumber, window frames, door frames, building paper, eavca trough nnd pipe, hardware, sash weights, painting mater ials, rcofing, plaster board, wall tint, etc. Tho house, which is of solid, double-construction throughout, is 25Mi ft.x25H ft. In dimensions, and ia aurprisincl' vv my and well arranged. Architects plans, specifications nnd full details about construction are supplied. Our freo folder, which tells you nil about this house is waiting for you. Ask for Folder K, "Reliable Dealers" 2232 Westlake Ave. SEATTLE, U.S.A. no. aasi . The First National Bank OF PRINEVILLE. OREGON B. F. Allen, President. T. M. Baldwin, Cashier vVill Wurzweiler Vlee Pres. II. Baldwin, Ast. Cashier. ESTABLISHED 1888 ''apltal, Surplus and Undivided Profits $1 O0.OOO.00 FARM LANDS FOR SALE Two sections of grain lands, partly improved, wells, springs and orchard on tracts. One sec tion within one-half mile of Opal City; other section one mile further east. Terms rea sonable. Address inquiries to WALTER RUBLE Redmond Oregon MADRAS MEAT MARKET J. L. Campbell. Wholesale and Retail Dealers FRESH CURED MEATS We have the best line of Fresh Meats in the country ALL KINDS OF GARDEN VEGETABLES IN THEIR SEASON r T jKC E Shamrock TOMMY McCORMACK, Prop. Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars FURNISHED ROOMS New and Up-to-Date Quarters I Central Oregon Land Company i A. C. SANFORD, Manager Real Estate and Farm Loans If you want to sell, list with me. If you want to buy, I have the best bargains. Try me and see. 1 HOG PRODUCTION IN ARID WHEAT BELT Let Animals Harvest Crops Themselves ADVICE OF HOG EXPERT Byron Hunter Who Was With Demon stration Train nt Aladrns (lives Ad dress For Publication (Continued from last week.) Rape is an excellent hog pas ture. It is biennial and does not produce seed until the second year. During the first year the hogs feed upon the green leaves, which are very similar to the leaves of .the rutabaga. Rape grows under a very wide range of conditions. It does well in the semi-arid districts of the wheat belt if sown in the early spring so that it will become well de veloped before the dry weather begins. If it is sown broadcast care should be exercised to get a thin even stand. If it is too thick it seems to choke itself out and the growth is not satisfac tory unless there is plenty of moisture in the soil. The most satisfactory results are usually secured with rape by sowing it in drills about twenty inches apart so that it can be cultivated. In the drier localities it will do best if sown on land that was in cultivated crop or that was sum mer fallowed the previous sum mer. Rape should be ready for pas ture in from six to eight weeks after it is seeded. The growth should be from eight to ten in ches high before the hogs are turned in so they will feed upon the leaves instead of eating the plants off close to the ground. This crop deserves a place on many farms to furnish green succulent feed during the sum mer months when other feeds have dried up and when the hogs are working on mature wheat and peas. Spring and summer pasture may be provided then as follows: Fence off two fields near the watering place. Plant barley or wheat in one for spring pasture and corn, sorghum or rane in cultivated rows in the other for summer pasture. The wheat or barley then alternates with the cultivated pasture crops, being grown first on one field and then on the other. CROPS TO HOG-OFF When hogs are turned into a field of wheat, peas or corn, and allowed to do the harvesting themselves, it is called "hogging off the crop." Some look upon this as a wasteful practice, but under proper management the contrary is true. By letting the sows and shoats clean up after the fattening hogs a field may be cleaned up remarkably well. It costs from 35 to 40 cents per bushel to harvest and market a six to eight bushel crop of wheat. When the crop is properly hog- OREGON CENTRAL LUMBER & SUPPLY CO. FULL LINE OF BUILDING MATERIAL Roofings, Fence Posts, Tanks of All Sizes Fence Posts, 16 to 20 inch, 7 feet, 17Jc each. Phone in your orders. Yards North of Stockyards MADRAS, OREGON Paul Garvin, Manager ged'olV the cost of harvesting and marketing is saved. Mr. W. II. Steen of Umatilla county has had excellent results in hogging oil" wheat and barley. Mr. Steen had some steep side hills which had never been farmed. In tho spring of 1910 a twenty-acre piece (the land was measuered) was plowed and sown to blue stem wheat. Nine acres of the best of the field was cut for hay, the yield being one ton of weighed hay to mo acre. When the remaining eleven acres of wheat was nearly ready to cut with the binder, July 17th, nine ty head of hogs were weighed and turned into the field. Total weight when turned in, 1500 lbs. Total weight when taken out August 24th, G2G1 lbs. Gain while in the field, 17G1 lbs. Value of gain at nine cents (price of pork on that date), $1558.49. Income per acre, eleven acres, $14.41. Estimated yield per acre, 15 bushels. Net income per bushel on esti mated yield, 9G cents per bushel. GLEANING THH STUMBLE FIELD WITH HOGS The ninety head of hogs weigh ing G2G1 lbs. were turned into 178 acres of wheat stubble. They were in the stubble field without other feed until November 1st, when they were again weighed, the total weight being 8350 lbs. At nine cents per pound, the price of pork at that time, this was worth $188.01, or $1.05 per acre. In the early spring of 1910, 11.45 acres of steep north hill side, sage brush land, was plow ed and sown to blue barley. On November 1st, after the rains had softened the barley kernels, eighty of the hogs that were in the stubble field were weighed and turned into the barley. Their total weight when turned into the fielcLwas 7050 lbs. Novem ber 29th they were again weigh ed and placed into the fattening pen. Total weight, 9350; gain, 2300 lbs. On November 19th eighteen brood sows were weighed and turned into the barley. By No vember 29th they had gained 323 pounds, making a total gain from 11.43 acres of barley from the two bunches of hogs of 2G23 lbs. The price of pork at this time was eight cents per pound, which gives (2G23 lbs. at eight cents) $208.84, or $18.28 per acre. In addition to this the two fields hogged off furnished consider able pasture during the early winter and the early spring. Mr. Steen estimated that the barley would not have yielded over 21 bushels per acre. He harvested 110 acres of spring sown barley, which he says was the better crop of the two. This yielded him 1017.5 pounds per acre. The barley was worth one cent per pound or $10.17 per acre gross, the cost of harvesting not being deducted. Wheat may be profitably hogged down from the time it is in the stiff dough stage until the fall rains begin. A soft variety of wheat with a stifif straw and a head which will not shatter easily should be used. Turkey Red is too hard to hog-off profit ably. Barley may be used for about ten days or two weeks in the early part of the season (from the stiff dough stage until the kernels become hard) and again in the autumn and early winter after the rains have softened the grain. Hogs do not do well on barley after the grain has be come hard and dry. Since barley ripens a little earlier than wheat it may be used for about ten days before the crop is ready. If the barley used at this time is not cleaned up well what is left may no cieaneu up auer tne rains have started in the fall. In hog ging-oil barley, wheat or neas. it is well to have some green suc culent feed to supplant the drv grain. The brood sows and young shoats may be made to clean uu the fields after the hogs that are to be marketed soon have taken the best of it. 1 'NCW 1 ail rlllM Wlnfu ft I'll. .ndics and Children's Swcatcis, Avin,inn L Cty ,nun Capsnnc New line ()f line (I A HI & - . A AK 1 INL.tJJL.li WORK IN ALL Tlir i : SIGNS, EMBROIDERY MATERU1" wpucui vjuuus a upcciuny MOQ ica T. H. Hamilton, Pros. K. II. Kukwii, VlrMrM i h eaoregon BflnkioiF FOKKION RXOHANC! K BOUGHT AND Pom DKAFT8 ON ALL PAUTS OF TllR WOllLl! J t Cap tol Stock, $00,0.00 Dopotlts, $200,000 SHANIKO, OREGON "..i mm LARKIN HARNESS AN OPPORTUNITY: For you to get f Horse Blankets at Actual Cost! Stock must be reduced Don't miss this chance to make your horse comfortable this winter LARKIN HARNESS SHOP c Madras State Mi 4 percent Interest PaidonSavt mgs Deposits Farm Loans and Insurance t t t t .. ...... ,.w. i i nP0PF U. K. KOUSII, II. S. UKUTUKKU. u. '"""S lJ:.l VI..I'r,.i,lnnt CUbiaj J. L. DEFIUFF. A aft. Cushier. dmkctoks: . S. Crothera, 0. A. Pearco, C E. Koiwh, A. W. Boyte, M. W Short and Direct Route to Portia) and Other Western Oregon Pom From Bend, ReM and Central Orefl Via the Deschutes Branch Oregon-Washington Railroad & Through Car Service Between Bend and j DAILY TBAIN SCHEDULE jj. i:53 n.rn, (( i,"BChutc8 Jet. J'j;4ji Leave Henri " UeHcliutcH " Redmond " Opul City " Motoliufl " MudriiH Arrive DcHchuteH Jet. " Tho Dulles " Portland G 0 7:21 a.m. 8:00 o m 8:30 a.m. 9:00 a.m. 1:1 C p.m. 1 :f5 p in, C:45 p.m. Arrive Madras W On I City Oil ii Kcdinond ii Deschutes ii Iicnil For further Information call on any O.-VV. U & Ag ,WM, McMURRA' ' " Cleneral PuwiunKor Arm Portland, Orctf"" If I orwflfJl