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About The Madras pioneer. (Madras, Crook County, Or.) 1904-current | View Entire Issue (July 18, 1912)
fURVESTINC MACHINERY iwnW is the time to prepare for the harvest and we were never "Cr nrenared to supply your wants than right NOW. ?".a"i"L r.OUR IN Let us talk it over with you get our prices. Uinucti" ... WE KEEP SAMPLES OF THESE MACHINES ON HAND AND CAN ORDER ANY SIZE TO SUIT CUSTOMER Central Oregon Mercantile Co. MADRAS, OREGON Atiri AAt III u i n n i ii i i iiiiii in III I KM I Mm W - - III ww- BUSINESS CIRCLES ..a i.iiuiiu Duo to Press- n U4 1 Wmtiof Growing Popu- tatlon - . I 1 ( it -1 ,. ,w. i n 1 fc betterment ot uusiness (fmuch promise for the re- frill IIIIT fcf'.l 1 . 1 IIU llbLlllll I ! -t.:ri.. I., 4 1. n !i tUllill 111 VHI tj - - - - - ininuusinni acuvuy, uu need of replinishing de stocks and of supplying ssing wants of a growing nnn n ' i mm s rii'iii the remainder of the i M ii j . rests mosuv on me sirens irur fira inil mvnutnru 'inn IIUUWIU 14M4 111 I v ilkUl fcJ, t..l4 i i.. r.... As to the latter, con- are nrmntiniis nr irnnn In the Southwest the I there is a very hopeful tnr in inn tmnut t.. m i 'wumn oi business to some wwuomii, 111114 tllUI w ( ftarp advance in wheat to hiidi temneraturoa northwest, although as SeriOUS (lnmtlir linn mmill , rj a uwiw this cause. This is the Whon cnnniW!A.w.1 i --vi tjuiirnii i'ijiimi't u ., - - - . j i mi wjvsi vJ Mm f -6 ojjuhk wncai are to Wed. vot. hn ,. : cr'tical period in ex shape. II III V Pxl imr ffom the Southwest are 6 ouu a is evident that results there will prove bet ter than anticipated. Western receipts of wheat this week were 1,499,004 bushels, against 2,500, 478 a year ago, while exports from all ports of the United States, flour included, of 2,850, 017 bushels, compared Avith 1, 166,756 in 1911. Corn showed considerable firmness, notwith standing better weather in the belt. Primary arrivals are di minishing, amounting to 3,455, 372 bushe s this week, against 4, 025,145 last year, while Atlantic Coast shipments were only 114, 728 bushels, as contrasted with 428,431 in 1911. Dun's Review. Seaside, which grows prize dahlias, will have a dahlia show August 24 and 25. There is a movement on foot to make Sea side known as the "Dahlia City.' It is claimed that nowhere else do the flowers reach such perfection. Dr. A. L. Golder, refraction ist and optician, of The Dalles, has been delayed in visiting Madras, but announces that he will be here the early part of August. GYPSUM SHOULD BE USED BUT SLIGHTLY Prof. Powori Dlicuancs Neutraliz ing Effect on Central Oregon Soils 'Ti False. MIkh Cooilloy Alias Passay says ah. uamlrc3 auburn liutr most. Miss Knox She doesn't admire It nt all. That's Just n bluff she uses to throw peoplo off the trad;. Miss Goodley-IIow do you mean? he has black hair Miss Knox Yen, and she wants to give, tho Impression that she couldn't have nought auburn Just as easily. Catholic Standard and Times. Spring Worries. It bothers uh lllco everything. wi can't tell whoro we're at. "Which do you think you'll wear this Bprlnjr, A Btlfr or Jloppy hat? YounKfltown ToloBxani. Inco bettor half picked out hor hat ' Wo'ro not porturbctl a lot. It ucomB n. cinch to us from here We'll wonr tho ono we've Kot. - v vvvVvvuAiAAMA.Ar.lLikA.AiAfiAAAIiQi r w WOT WWWWWWWW 'ANER. Piri P WAMnrni ru r. i n tirriJTPl I C. wt vv uiYijr.ivi I . i . vir. I .. ivi . nr.i.ri i ili.. ucki The T W J-4 Incorporated Prineville - Oregon P'tal flock jfeSfinn nn Q.;mi... qnnn nn f..n Abslrai(. f .r.i ",ul Hi e tO nil n nfrrnrtir in f rnnlr nnllnUr arully prepared nliotnrrrnnh rnmVs of nil records and Plats at nw,. fri --JP THE Tommy i in r - . wmes, Liquors and Cigars . NISHED UOOMSNow nnrl TTn.fo-Date Quarters Gypsum, or "land plaster." is calcium suplate containing about 30 per cent calcium or lime; 45 per cent sulphur and oxygen and the remainder moisture and im purities. It is soluable in 400 parts water. Use of gypsum, where securable, in the eastern states, was very common from 1835 to 1865 and in the early' years of Us use 60 to 120 pounds per acre increased yields of leg umes and especially clover from 20 to 50 per cent. After a few years it failed to produce the old time results and its use has been largely discontinued or other compounds substituted in its place. The old German say ing developed is that plaster, without manure, makes the fath er rich but the son poor. Experiments in the field and laboratory show that gypsum is active in releasing potash and phosphorous and even nitrogen. Gypsum is not itself a plant food but it is the power it has of making other necessary elements as potash and phosphorous avail able that is responsible for its use. It acts as a stimulant and not as a direct fertilizer, but if not used to excess it often makes a profitable fertilizer, especially on clover. When gypsum fails to produce marked results, ap plication of potash would be beneficial. Where more than 50 or 60 pounds of gypsum is ap plied per acre per year this stim ulating effect may release more potash than the growing crop can take up and the result is, it is leached away by rains and drain age waters. It is therefore wise to use it sparingly until there is certain knowledge that the bene fits earned exceed the costs. However, when used about stables, poultry plants and ma nure heaps, gypsum tends to fix ammonia and prevent its loss and to absorb other fertilizer substance. Not only does gypsum absorb fertility elements but it has a beneficial effect on soil moisture. There are instances of soil re taining one-fourth acre inch more moisture where treated with gypsum. When soils are aciduous, some gypsum will correct acidity. It should not bo used here for that purpose as about tho only acid soils we have are in swales and meadows of tho upper Deschutes and Crooked rivers and need draining first. Ground limestone is a much better and safer form of lime to use for correcting acidity. Any form of lime forms ce menting materials in soil and causes particles of heavy soil to stick together into clusters mak ing the soil mellow and friable. Our soils are naturally free working and if they were heavy, ground limestone would be a bet ter form to use for,this purpose. Gypsum is about one-third lime and plants use this element as food but our soils in all proba bility contain abundantly more lime than necessary to meet plant needs and if it were needed, either air-slacked, water-slacked or ground lime rock would be better to use for this purpose. Bacteria living on roots of leg umes and fixing nitrogen from the air into forms usable by plants require presence of abase such as lime and require a slightly alkaline condition. It is possible in some cases that gypsum stimulates bacterial ac tion tho practically all oar soils are slightly alkaline in their re action. Black alkaline is chiefly sodium carbonate and is the worst form of alkali for it causes crusting of soil surface and dis solves the tissue of young plants One-tenth per cent black alkali is enough to be injurious, while a soil may contain three percent white alkali and still be produc tive. Calcium sulphate, or gyp sum, added to sodium carbonate yields calcium carbonate, a harm less compound of lime, and sodi um sulphate, a mild form of white alkali. There may be other effects of gypsum not yet well understood. This neutralizing effect of gyp sum dn black alkali and its stim ulating effect are probably re sponsible for its use here. Use it, but sparingly, if you know it pays. We are securing analyses of soils of this district and com piling-' the effect of potash and gypsum on the Demonstration farm and may be able to find a better substance to use than gyp sum. Certainly, well rotted ma rjure which contains all the ele ments required by plants will be more permanent benefit than land plaster. W. L. Powers. Invading tho Ensmy'c Country. "In pursuance of a plan 1 have had In mind for some time." announced Pastor Goodsolo at the dose of his ser mon, "I have rented a small room In an apartment house In a fashionable neighborhood and expect to open n mission Sunday school there on the first Sunday In May. I don't Uuow, brethren, whore the children who at tend It are to come from, If, Indeed, any children attend It at nil. but It will be there all summer nnd may be regarded either as an opportunity or as n reproach. "We will now sing our closing hymn." Chicago Tribune. Tho Third Person. I know a man, accounted wise. Who thinks himself nn nnclent make Of musket. Breakfast food supplies' Ills powder and a HamuurK steak The bullet, while a flannel cake Acts as tho wnddlng. Then nwny Ha shoots for all Jhat flKhtlni? day Bhoots to his car, shoots to his work. Shoots here, shoots there, Shoots rerywhere A dollar may ho thought to lurk: Shoots out to luncheon, shoots to drink, Shoots homo at night too tired to think, Shoots through the nows and, spent at last. Drops, thankful that tho day Is past For nil this stress from dawn to sleep ITo gets his victuals, clothos and keep. Ho, hot A foolish man Is he And very much llko you nnd mo. Balthnoro Sun. Ethics of Bribery. A certain saloon keeper years ago was elected to the legislature of a southern state at n time when there was Important legislation pending. Ho accepted ajhousand dollars for his vote on u certain measure. Tho deal was hardly closed when the opposition came round, offering him two thousand. The temptation was strong, but tho new member shook his head. "No gontlemnn as Is a gentleman," hb said, "will sell out twlcet on wan proposition!" Saturday Evening Tost The London Baby's Plaint, ricaso, father, dear father, coinu homo to ub now! Tria jVok hi tho steoplo'H run down. Tho suffrvii UiUlos have started a row And smashed all tho windows In town. And now the dear mother Is landed in Jail With numerous ladles of note. They don't caio u tlxpenco for pardon or ball, But thoy'd break nil tho laws for a vote. Wo babies are crying for mother to come. Floaso, father, bring mbthor right home) Nw York Globe, PROBING THE PLANETS. " An English Scientist Gays Only tha Earth Can Sustain Life. Lecturing nt tho Victoria Institute,, London, tho other day. Walter K. Maun der, superintendent of the solar depart ment nt Greenwich, declared Mint there could bo no life on Mars. Tho earth, ho said, 1.4 the only plnnet where man or any other part of nnlmnl or plant creation can live. Ho toolc the planeta one by one nnd condemned each in turn. Ho even con unmn nf the moons, but each ! had some disability which could ouly spell death. He hesitated ror awnuoiu discussing Vc'nus. There was Just n possibility that the sheath of clouds that covered her from the tierce heat of tho Bun might have beneath It some kind of life. If the Italian nstronomers are right Venus always turns one face to the sun and one-half of the planet Is too hot for any life, and tho half that turns Its face eternally from the sun Is chilled to tho realms of death. Mer cury la In much the same predicament. Ah to Mars, we can watch It very closely, and we can see or Unapine all sorts of strange things, but its deadly cold makes life impossible. Wlfon such conditions ns the water and nlr cover ings of the earth are considered the dif ference between the temperature of the earth nnd that of Mars must be at least 100 degrees. Mr. Maunder be lieves that In some parta of Mars the temperature at times creeps down close to the absolute zero. Mr. Maunder has no belief in the gi gantic canals seen by Professor Lowell, lie believes them to be an outcome of the desire to see them, not exactly op tical Illusions, but something very much of the sort. Mr. Maunder concluded: "So in our own system we have found that there Is one planet our. earth that is inhabited and one other that may perchance be habitable. The oth ers nil may with certainty be ruled out of court. The earth has a claim to a higher distinction than size or bright ness enn possibly give it. It is almost certain that it Ls unique among the heavenly bodies that are visible to us, and among those that are unseen and unknown there can only be a small proportion at best bo well favored. It is tho home of life, carefully fitted and prepared for that purpose by its posi tion and Its size." New York Sun. AGA KHAN HAS NO THRONE. But Ho lo Ono of tho Most Poworful Rulors In the World. Did you ever hear of the Aga Khan? Lf you don't know who he Is you don't know about one of the most powerful men in the world. The Aga Khan rules no country, not even a little state In his native India, but hundreds f thousands of Moslems would cut off their right hand3 at his bidding. For he Is a lineal descendant' of All, the nephew of Mohammed and is the spirit ual head of a large und Important section of the Mohammedans of Asia, lie is young, handsome, olive skinned, enormously wealthy and has contribut ed munificently to charities of every kind In India. Probably there Is no leader of Brit ish India , whose good will Is of greater value to England. Immensely rich nnd counting his follower by the huu dred thousand, tho Aga Khun stands In very high olllclal estimation In India. Ills position Is unparalleled. Inasmuch as there is no more powerful potentate in tho Moslem world In spite of the fact that he rules no territory of his own. Most of the very numerous body of men who ave ready to obey his slightest wish are wealthy, educatud and Influential. New York World. Chinese In Cuba. There are close to 12,000 Chinese in Cuba, and the census of 1007 recorded the fact that forty Chinese women were Inhabitants of Cuba. Ltefore Cu ba became a republic it cost every Chi naman who entered ?2 to get his en trance ticket. Now Cuba bids him wel come with little expense. He has to furnish a photograph of himself ami stand inspection much as n man enter ing a pennl Institution. The system employed by Chief Menocal Is similar to tue one useti at all United States ports. The Chinese legation is always represented at tho immigration ollice when Chinese como and iro. so Mint n double check Is placed on the travelers from the far east. Havana Tost. Automatic Wator Finder. An automatic water finder Is made by an English firm which, according to the Agricultural Journal of India, hns been used with some success In Bombny. Instead of the wator witch's hazel or peach rod. this instrument works by measuring tho strength of the electric currents which! How be tween earth and atmosphere. These currents nre most powerful In the 'vicinity of subterranean streams. Rabbit Fur Hats. Rabbit fur has supplanted wool In felt lint, ranking in Sydney. Australia, whoro thirty-two factories are in oner- ntlou. Tho fur is considerably superior to the finest merino for this purpose, nnd millions of rabbit skins are used annually. It takes tho fur of about six uverago skins to make a fur felt hat. In ono factory the- cousnmptlou of skins ranges from 25,000 to no.OOO per week, Four Absolute Monarchs. Now that Itussla. Turkov. Porsln. China, Montenegro nnd Monaco hnv ndopted constitutions and parliaments, thore are only four absolute mouareha loft In the world. Those aro the king of Slam, tho nmecr of Afghanistan, the sultan of Morocco and i III) llnan nt Muscat ITEMS OF INTEREST Lost, Strayed or Stolen One sorrel horse weight about 1000 pounds, white face, short mane and tail. Branded BX on left shoulder. Finder please notify II. K. Nis3en, Farmer's Rest auran, Madras Oregon. J18-lt-pd. For Sale One two year old filly, weight 1100 pounds, and one yearling mule, No. 1. Mrs. H. E. Jacobs. J18-lt-pdL Found A Gold signet ring. Owner can have same by proving property and paying for this ad. Inquire at this office. J18. For Sale or Trade. Second hand threshing outfit, including a 20 H. P. traction engine, 32 inch separator, No. 8 Jackson feeder and elevator, derrick table, cook house etc. For all or any part of this out fit see Ginn & Coleman or W. II. Moore, Moro, Oregon. Wanted A cook at the Madras Hotel, lady preferred, wages $40 per month and board, steady employ ment. ' ' VV. C. Moore, 'rop. Wanted. 600 lineal feet of water pipe, 3 or 1 inch, must be in good condition. Address Edwin D. Allen, Hay Creek, Oregon. JH-2t-np. HOMESTEADS. I have several good locations 8 to 12 miles from Madras. Plenty of wood and water. Reasonable fee. Address Farmer, Box Q. Madras, Oregon. Jll-2t-pc". For Sale Cheap. 9 acres of fine potatoes in the field, most of them early. Also 2nd hand hack. A. R. Faussett, Madras, Oregon. jll-2t-pd. For Sale One 14 ft Header, good condition, and two Header boxes and nets. Inquire of M. L. Loucks. j44t. - For Sale. Separator and en gine, at a bargain. Pride .of Washington separator, practical ly new, having been run only thirty days, wind stacker and self feeder. Advance engine. For further information write Cooke Bros., Condon, Oregon. For good residence and business lots in Madras, call on O. A. Pearce, selling agent for the holdings of the Inland Empire Company. Over 300 lots to choose from. Prices very low. tf For residence and business lots see O. A. Pierce. . tf FARM LOANS!! Madras State Bant. TO LOAN $50,000.00 on farm lands. See Brenton Jones, Metolius, Ure. MONEY TO LOAN ON FAEMS. See-' Mudras State Unuk. FOU SALE At the Pioneer Oflloo L'iral Blanks or all kinds; Carbon and Typewriter paper, Installment bale contracts, Notes and Receipts. DOSSOLUTION NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that the partnership heretofore existing and known as Drs. Haile & Gale, was dissolved July 15th, 1912." All accounts due said firm. pay able to Dr. H. B . Haile, and all ' outstanding bills' against the firm will be settled by him. Dr. H. B. Haile Dr. Arthur Gale. J18-al5-pd. ; NOTICE. You are hereby notified that the Central Oregon Ice & Coid Storage Co, will not stand for any bills contracted by Gilbert F. Smith, and no collections of the firm accounts made by him will be recognized. Central Oregon Ice & Cold Storage Co. J18 :.