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About The Madras pioneer. (Madras, Crook County, Or.) 1904-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 22, 1912)
1 OP JEY S iae $1,500 $3,000 T (..!caMRN "information THE ANNUAL & Hood River JBTYfAjR KIU BE HELD AT de Dalles 13,3,4,1912 2s Man's Jewelry!1" mm WILL REMOVE ALKALI Prof. Fowsrs Dlaoussas MsthasJft ef Frsslng Soils ef Destruc tive Chemleals Exhibition will compriBO, m cillie, inccji. nwniu, ru ftfrnpralucta, fruit, flowerH, manufactures, mn trt, woman's work, art, chll iVeiblbiU ofnrt ancUnrdcn id contests, novo! attroc . .i "ntcrtalnmcnta 1 tickle you very muchly. that and have the best iof'vour life, and you live fifty years longer. I Forget the Date Ih juBt nil Important to him and to us as Is that of tho fair box, If expected to bo a swell dresser ho should wear neat but not irandy jewelry. Flno gold, fine diamonds, acta oil a man to advantage as far hb hltt exterior la concerned. I have a splendid variety of choice Jewelry for gentlemen, ladlea and children hivh-yradi- but reasonably priced. A. E. PETERSON JEWELER foot by the natural rainfall. In many cases alkali hard pan has been causes. This suggests at once the necessity of maintain ing a soil mulch to prevent their being brought to the surface by capillary evaporation. Manure will form aids upon decaying which tends to neutra lize alkali spots.' Seeding deli cate plants where .the alkali is down after rain or irrigation is helpful. Blasting may provide an outlet wnere tnere ls.nara pan. uumvation oi tne suriace, after it has been wet by irriga tion or rain as soon as it is. dry enough to crumble and form a MADRAS, OREGON A. E. CROSBY THE DALLE8 OREGON EVEBYTHIHC IN DRUGS AND KODKAS 0 EASE DON'T Leave a fire in the timber until it is OUT. Throw burning matches or tobacco in the woods. Start a fire where it can spread into the timber. Fall to notify a State, or Federal officer if you discover a fire in the timber. WILL LOSE Taxes on burned timber land. $8.00 per thousand feet in wages circulated. The sale of groceries, hardware, and supplies used in the cutting arid manufacture , of the timber. You own good opinion of your public spirit, if you fail to put out or report timber fires the same as you would report a fire in your neighbors dwelling. I SUMMER MILLINERY AT COST f LOOK AT MY STOCK AND SEE WHAT BARGAINS I HAVE TO OFFER I Mrs. ISA E. B. CROSBY I Thirteen per cent of all the ir rigated land in the West is in jured more or less by alkali. It appears where the rainfall is less than twenty inches and causes more or less trouble in all the older irrigated districts, crumby mulch ia'exceedinirftf im Excessive use bf irrigation water portant to control-capillarity and and poor drainage of low lying prevent evaporation. - Growing. land are the chief causes of al- resistant crops such as alfalfa is kali troubles. helpful. Black alkali is changed In all soils mineral particles to less harmful white alkali by are continuously being weather- adding gypsum. Deep plowing' ed and soluable salts are liberat- and organic matter increase ed by this process. In soils were water capillarity of soil and there is over twenty inches of check evaporation and accumula rainfall and leaching, the excess tion of alkali. Sometimes alkali oi tnese salts is carried away in crusts can be scraped ore or the drainage water. Where the washed off over the surface. The rainfall is limited and there is most permanent and effective poor drainage, these salts are way to reclaim alkali land ta to dissolved by rain or irrigation under drain and wash the. salt water and carried through the down and out ofrthe soil. soil until the water moves to There is not a large amount of the Burface and evaporates, our land which is underlaid with bringing the salt to the top and strata so solid and unporous mi depositing them there on evap- to prevent natural drainage. In oration. This is the usual meth- some ' cases it may be possible od of accumulation of alkali, to reach the porous strata under- Heavy irrigation is apt to cause neath by digging down in the .water logging ana Beeped areas M0w spots and letting the water in the lower part of i he project out in this porous-strata.-' The and seeped areas are forerunners first 'step in draining alkali land of alkali. In the lower part of is to take a soil auger, or spade, the river valley, water that has make a study of the subsoil been used and reused for irrfga- and seepage channels, trace the tion may become salty with the water to its source and put in soil leachings so that it is -unlit deep cut off drain if possible. for use in irrigation. After that put in as thorough Alkali is spoken of as white system of drains as needed to or black alkali. White alkali supplement this. The depth of is mainly table salt, epsom salt, drains should be such as to lower and gloubers salt, or in other the water table so that capillar- words, sodium chloride, magnesi- ity or wick action can not reach um sulfate and potassium sul- from the water table to the sur- fate. One fourth per cent is I Je. Tile of cement are danger- harmful and few agricultural ous because alkali caused- dia- plants will tolerate half to ont integration. Burned clay tile per cent of this in the soil, are' expensive to- ship long dis- Black alkali is sodium carbonate tances and box drains or stone or sometimes potassium carbon- drains, are the best for draining ate. It can be recognized by alkali spots in this section. Size its puddling, crusi ing effect on of drains should be larger the deeper and further apart they are. The dirt should be tamped back intb the trench where al kali land is drained and watch kept to see that irrigation water moves through the soil' and leaches it instead of running trough holes 'into the drains di rectly. Drainage s the most effecive means of reclaiming aU kali spots though the. removal of alkali by drains will be nearly as slow as its accumulation1 and' may be encouraged'by the use" of more water. Blacksmithinq HORSESHOEING WAGON and WOOD WORK G.-E-N-E-R-A-L B-E-P-A-l-B-l-N-G SATISFACTION GUARANTEED S. E. GRAY MADRAS, OREGON -Hi Balfour-Guthrie & Co. FOR SACKS, TWINE and ROLLED BARLEY soil surface, its dark brown color, and the kind or absence of vegetation. It is worse than white alkali because it causes shrinkage of the plant cells and dissolves plant tissues of young plants jus at the surface caus ing them to blight off at this point. One tenth per cent is harmful and three tenths per cent is fatal to many plants. Alkali in general can be expected where there is greasewood, salt wort or saltgrasses; also in flat land not naturally drained or un fWlniripH with imnervioua sub- I. O.O. F. Lodge son. In reporting analysis of com posite samples of soil from the Demonstration Farm at Red mond, Prof. Tartar, of O. A. C, says: "In the surface soil I find total alkali slats to be six thou ands of one per cent consisting of bicarbonate and chloride and only a trace of sulphates. Total alkali salts in the second foot is fifteen thousandths. These salts contain some normal carbon ate, some bicarbonate and some bichloride and sulphates." Analysis shows the soil to be com parative free from alkali and that the soluble salts have been largely carried into the second Meets every Wednesday night Stranger are wel come. Perry Henderaon, N.G. Lewis H. Irving, Secretary W. Ashley, Agt Ph one Your Orders W. L. Powers, Superintendent Crook County Demonstration F'arrhs. " Vacations & Sea Shore CLATSOP BEACH, PACIFIC OCEAN Low round trip farts are in effect all summer. This beantlfdl beanb stretches twei.ty-flve inllen ')iitli of the mouth of the folurabla Hirer. He.ilde and Gearbart nave first class uoleU, cottages, ramptlng places, sort bathing, mountain water, etc. LOW ROUND TRIPS EAST Throughout ihe iffm'mer,' on the dates jcItcd below, round trip tfrketswlll be sold to the points In the east shown below, and many others, at the reduced are quoted. 2ss1E71T"3 jnjisww si i mm dhTruhkky. REG CENTRAL OREGON LINE Great Northern and Northern Pacific Railways Atlantic City . $111.00 Baltimore . . . 107.50 Boston .... 110.00 Buffalo, .. . , ..91.50 Chteago . . 72.50 "Colorado Springs 55.00 Denver .... 55.00 Detroit. . . $ 82.50 Omaha . $ 60. On Duluth . . . 60.00 Philadelphia 108.50 Kansas City . $ 60.00 Pittsburg . 91.50 Milwaukee . . 7250 St. Louis . . 70.00 Minneapolis . . 60.00 St. Paul . . 60.00 Montreal . . 105.00 Toronto . . 91.50 New York . 108.50 Washington 107.50 BATES OF SALE: JULY 23, 28, 29, SO, 31. 1912. AUGUST 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 12. 16, 22, 23, 29, SO, 31, 1912. SEPTEMBER 4, 6. 6, 7, 8, II, 12, 30, 1912. Stopovers and choice of joules allowed In each direction. Final return limit October 31st, 1912. Train leaving Madras, 8.40 A .M. connects directly at Fall bridge witfl FAST .THROUGH TRAIN EAST Details of schedules', fares, etc., will b furnished on request. lu f n.. A. -ii ri ' is... i -i n. -ii. j n 1 n n i.iai.j. Hi c. uowsifpii 1 nu rissiAKcu, ruiuiiB, ur.A. r. mijib, Agin mwu, Vh ' f 9 asm I r ! MADRAS MEAT MARKET HA J. L. Campbell. 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