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tHE MADRAS PIONEER
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Entered asseQQnd.class matter
r "August 29, 1904, at the Postof
fice 'at-'Madras', Oregon, under
the Act of Congress of March 3,
1879.
I fs Thursday, February 15, 1912.
LOCAL PROSPERITY
. . .Few seasons- in the past has
' nature been so lavish in her mid
. winter contribution to the crop
situation, as she has been this
winter. Although plowing our
way through two feet of cold wet
"snow, "and any thing else could be
more pleasant, and later moping
around in a cold drizzling rain
and Jfog that made us prone to
' remember the courteous, but
thoughtful, suggestion of the
Governor of North Carolina to
trie Governor of South Carolina
yet even while suffering from,
and complaining of these incon
veniences, those who would but
, - look ahead, could see that nature
was but preparing the soil for a
bumper crop for the ranchers in ,
1912, (for all of which we will be
"thankful in due time) for each
of the unpleasant varieties of
.weather is essential to successful
- dry farming.
' Now then is coming the spring
season, the time for man to do
- Hi's work, to insure the rancher
the record crops that nature has
' promised. Much of the land that
was summer fallowed is in grow
ing grain. Eeports from the
country are to the effect that
the fall sown grain never looked
. better. But the land which has
been summer fallowed and was
planted last fall is not alone suffi-
. cient to insure the big crops that
the county so badly needs. There
are many large tracts of land in
the near vicinity of Madras that
could be-put into cultivation with
but-little work on the part of the
. ow.ner, and every piece of land
in cultivation will mean more
. dollars inot only to the owners,
and the. owners will profit most
-directly, but to the entire com
munity. Furthermore it means
-that when the immigrant comes
'into this country this spring, he
will see a community well settled
and well cultivated, capable of
. bringing in big returns to the
.community. He will immediate
ly be impressed with the country,
and the value of every piece of
cultivated land will immediately
increase.
T.hus it is incumbent on every
ranch owner in northern Crook
county to get as much grain plant
ed this spring as it is possible to
plant, for by actual cultivation
and tillage is the only manner
whereby he can assist nature to
bring this section of the county
to the high state of development
which means prosperity to all
concerned.
treasurer to cancel the registra
tion of said warrant upon his
books.'
- Road supervisors for rji.
The court appoints tlie loiiowing
persons to serve as road super-
r-- j? 11... nnmiihrr w)!li Wll.n.
visors lor cuouiiife ;
in their respective districts. As
to appointing supervisors for the
districts, the same is
continued until the next term of
court.
District No. 8, Haycreek Roy
Newbill.
District No. 10, Cross Keys-
Perry Monroe.
District No. 29, Lamonta
Charles Paxton.
District No. 30, Lyle Gap
Wm. Farrell. , ,
District No. 11, Ashwood J.
G. Clark.
Expert accountant employed.
Whereas Max Crandal, expert
accountant, has been employed
by this court to expert trie dooks
of Crook County at the earliest
possible date, it is therefore or
dered that the said Max Crandal
make a careful examination into
the financial condition of each
and every officer handling pub
lic funds and that he report to
this court fully the result of
such investigation; that he fur
ther recommend, such changes as
he may deem expedient in the
several offices; that he make a
report of the expenses of the re
spective offices in addition to the
salaries, and the allowances pro
vided by law ; that he expert the
emergency road fund handled by
H. C. Ellis and make a full and
complete report thereon ; that he
examine and audit, the accounts
of R. H. Bayley in reference to
the moneys expended under the
direction of said R. H. Bayley.
That all of said reports be pre
sented to this court and filed
herein and made a matter of pub
lic record and that said reports
and recommendations, or a sum
mary thereof be published in the
official county paper.
Cruising Timber Lands, it is
ordered by the court that W. A.
Bell, co-oneratincr with the Coun
ty assessor and the County Court,
forthwith examine and submit a
proposed contract and advertise
ment callincr for an estimation of
the amount of merchantable tim
ber upon all lands in Crook Coun
ty by 40-acre tracts, showing in
a treneral way the topography,
kind, aualitv and amount of
merchantable timber upon each
of said 40-acre tracts.. That said
bid and contract call for the com
pletion of said work on or prior
to some date in September 1912,
and that he thoroughly investi
gate and make written return as
to the details of such work.
I' 'V IA ? 'I' 'V 'I' 'I' 'I' '
An Eastern college paper makes
the announcement that Adam
and Theodore Roosevelt are to be
mentioned among the greatest
twenty names in all human an
nals. Perhaps it does not matter,
. but some of us have curiosity as
to the identity of the other eigh
teen. Portland Telegram.
A month and a half of Leap
Year is cone. It would be in
teresting to know if any of the
letters obtained as a result ot the
bachelor "ads," published in the
PIONEER the first week in Jan
uary will ever amount to much.
COUNTY COURT
PROCEEDINGS
The following excerpts from
the official report of the last
meeting of the County Court, are
of interest to Pioneer readers:
An adiourned term of the
f!nnntv P,ourt was held at 1 oclock
P. M. on Monday, the 5th day of
February, 1912. Present H. C.
Ellis, judge, presiding; commis
sioners R. H. Bayley and James
Rice; Warren Brown, County
clerk, and T. N. Balfour, sheriff.
Road fund warrant. Whereas,
at the January term of this
Court, claim No. 8 for $4000 in
favor of R. H. Bayley, was or
dered drawn, and whereas the
county clerk drew warrant No.
661 in payment therefor, and
whereas said warrant was order
ed' drawn by miBtake, it is there
fore ordered that the county
clerk cancel said warrant and
mark the same null and void.
It is further ordered that said
county clerk notify the county
GOOD ROADS EPIDEMIC CON
TAGIOUS Making good roads Is becom
ing contagious, and the benef
icent epidemic Is spreading all
over the country. The south
has caught the fever, and in
many localities elaborate sys
tems of improved highways are
contemplated, under way or
have been completed. A good
road is an effective object lesson.
New Electrical Discovery.
At a meetlnp of the National Acad
emy of Sciences Professor II. I. Pupln
of Columbia university Bald: "1 have
discovered a device which magnifies
an electric current. I applied only a
feeble current to my first machine and
It was broken to pieces by the Increas
ed power derived." He went on to say
that with his new Invention be could
drive a train with the current used In
the telephone and could take a weak
wireless current and make It strong
enough to be easily read. He said be
was certain the principle was hereto
fore unknown and that be would go
Into details at-the next meeting of the
academy in April.
Pointing Brick Walls.
When pointing up a crack in the
mortar between bricks It is necessary
to cut out the mortar, a little longer
than the crack and about half an Inch
deep. This should bo filled with a half
and half mixture of cement and clean,
sharp sand. In replacing cracked or
broken bricks, great euro should bo
taken to see that the brick is (Irmly
bedded into the mortar on all sides or
the wall will leak and eventually set
tle In that particular a pot
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T GOOD ROAD8 ATTRACT THE f
POPULATION.
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Counties which nre neglecting T
II the Improvement of their high-
. . ways need not be surprised
' when the census figures show
that they are losing population,
while more progressive counties
j are gaining. Good roads at- )
traot population, while bad roads ..
drive it away.
See llnoof CHINA and GLASSWARE
at Mrs.' Crosby's.
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INSIDE PIGEON INFORMATION.
When pigeons mato it's generally a
lovey doye union, for life, the cock se
lecting the nest and bearing the nest
material, which tho; hen arranges and
then proceeds to lay her first egg at
C:30 p. m. one day and the second at
2;30 p. m. tho third duy. They sit al
ternately, the hen from about 3 p. in.
to 10 a. m. and tho male then to the
afternoon hour.
About seventeen days after tho first
egg Is laid it hatches. The other one
two days later, the first squab gener
ally being the male.
Like kittens, the downy squabs are
born blind, and the parents at once be
gin to feed them pigeon milk, nature
wonderfully providing for tho help
less by so constituting parent pigeons
that they nre ablo to change gruln to
chyme, a milky, predigested food, and
they simply take the bird baby's beak
in their own and by a spasmodic ac
tion of their crop Inject the liquid Into
the squab's crop.
As squabs grow tho old birds modi
fy the feed to coarser, and when
young birds are able to digest it the
whole grain is simply soaked in par
ents' crop until, at flvo weeks, tho
squabs feed themselves.
If small squabs die It is often neces
sary to borrow young of samo age
from another nest to feed off the old
birds' milk or they get Blck. and It's
sometimes the case that squabs choko
to death when parents begin to feed
whole grain, their throats being too
small to recelvo it, and an examination
will show one or both parents have the
same bad defect, which unfits them for
anything but potple.
Pigeons aro wonderfully prolific,
twelve palra a year .being no unusual
Photo by C. M. Barnlu.
SQUAB JTJflT HATCHED.
record, birds often feeding one set of
squabs and batching another at the
same time.
Pigeon fanciers to succeed must be
watchful and resourceful, for many
things occur that require quick action.
Pigeons 4nt times refuse to warm
their young, and they quick chill.
At once the breeder transfers, tbem
to a vacant nest, and If there is none
bo kills a pair of inferior or younger
squaba, transfers the waifs and saves
them.
At times old birds desert squabs. Or,
strangely, only feed one. If there is
no other nest to transfer to, tho fan
cier must play mammy to savo the
starving ones.
lie chews stale bread to a milky
state, or corn, peas and red wheat,
according to squab's age, and, taking
bird's beak between his lips, he Inject
the soft feed Into squab's crop, and the
little fellow soon becomes attached to
his wet nurse and thrives.
"Horrible!" says one. But the pigeon
lover, the successful squabber, Is not
squeamish; he docs not belong to tho
kid glove fraternity and would sooper
a hundred times take a bird's beak in
his mouth thun tho cigarettes smoked
by theso yellow fingered, soft headed
society dudes.
DONT8.
Don't let hens run in cold fall rains.
They will not pick up enough to pay
their undertakers' bills.
Don't feed cut clover with coarse
Btema. These should be sifted out, as
(h6y are apt to cause hard crop.
Don't expect hens not to break eggs
in nests tbut are too small, and don't
get mad if they fight and scramblo
eggs where there aro not sufficient
nests.
Don't expect your hens not to loaf
if you let them fill up. Feed just
onougb to keep tbem working well all
day, and let tbem have the full meal
for supper to keep their grinders go
ing all night
Don't get discouraged and blamo
that failure on tho bens. You must
not only study your hens, but your,
self, and the results of your methods
and fuilure may nearly always b
traced to the fellow behind tho bens,
Magnify Your Savings
by the ordinary but miro process of
banking them, and lotting them accum
ulate. Hero is tho place to deposit your
savings or surplus cash. It absolutely
safe with us, well protected and will in
crease rapidly while in our keeping. Ask
about our standing among your friends
and acquaintances. Thoy will endorse
all our claims.
FARM LOANS AND INSURANCE
Madras StateJBank
Hon- to cure a cold is u question In
which ninny are Interested Just now. Chain,
berlnln's Cough iU'inetly bus won Its great
reputation nnd Immense sale by Its remark,
able cure of colils. it can always bo de
pended upon. For sale by M. H. Snook.
For Good Farms
City Property and
Business Chances
SEE D. W. BARNETT
OFF10K MAIN 8THKKT, MAttltA$, OUKUON
Houses to Rent
CHOICE LOTS IN DEPOT
ADDITION
Blue PrlntTownship Plats
Corrected uptodato, showing names
of cntrymcn, vacant land, rivers and
crocks, 50 cents each.
Land Scripts For Sale
For securing tltlo to nil kinds of Gov
ernment land without residence or im
provement, at lowest markot prices.
Writo us for particulars. All kinds of
Land office business, n specialty, Twcn-ty-fivo
yours experience, ltofcrencc,
French & Co., Bankers.
Hudson Land Company
Tho Dulles, Oregon
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