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About The Madras pioneer. (Madras, Crook County, Or.) 1904-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 19, 1912)
Premiums Races . $1,500 $3,000 Hold Your Horses FUN AMUSEMENT INSTRUCTION INFORMATION THE ANNUAL Wasco & Hood River COUNTY FAIR WILL BE HELD AT The Dalles OCTOBER 1,2,3,3,4,1912 This Exhibition will comprise, horses, cattle, sheep, swine, poul try, farm products, fruit, flowers, merchandise, manufactures, ma chinery, woman's work, art, chil dren's exhibits of art and Harden ing, speed contests, novel attrac tions and entertainments that will tickle you very muchly. Come and have the best time of your life, and you will live fifty years longer. Don't Forget the Date in high esteem and "dress" them becomingly in the BEST of HARNESS. For riding or driving we have the right harness at the right prices. We make the best, of the' best materials, and guaran tee the w&rkmanship to be with out flaw. We have made a rep utation for excellent work and for treating our patrons squarely and honestly. Our prices are ad mittedly reasonable. LARKIN' Harness Shop THE DALLES OREGON A. E. CROSBY EVERYTHING IN DRUGS AND KODKAS PLEASE 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. Fail to notify a State or Federal officer if you discover a fire in the timber. YOU 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 and 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. ! SUMMER MILLINERY AT COST ! I LOOK AT MY STOCK AND SEE WHAT g BARGAINS I HAVE TO OFFER S 9 Mrs. ISA E. B. CROSBY ! mmm I. O.O. F. Lodge Meets every Wednesday night. Strangers are wel come. Perry Henderson, N.G. Lewis H. Irving, Secretary Balfour-Guthrie & Co. FOR SACKS, TWINE and ROLLED BARLEY P. W. Ashley, Agt. Phone Your Orders Shamrock TOMMY McCORMACK, Prop. Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars FURNISHED ROOMS New and Up-to-Date Quarters ALSO AT ARMAGEDDON. " ' Now York World. POULTRY? NOTES C.M.BARNTTZ RIVERSIDE PA. O CORBSSPONDEKCE SOLICITED Si SB These articles' and Illustrations must not be reprinted without Bpeclal permission. FERTILIZATION AND DEFERTlLl ZATION OF EGGS. It la often a question with poultry raisers as to how soon egys become fertile after matins chickens mid how soon eggs become germless uftcr mat tags are broken. Two experiments here at Riverside with a White "Wyandotte cck anil ten hens carried on for ten days, In which the eggs laid were set and tasted, will be of Interest On the third day after mating '28 per cent were fertile, on the fourth 40 per cent, on the fifth "tO per cent, on the sixth CO per cent, on the seventh 70 per cent, on the eighth 72 per cent and on the tenth day 7(5 per cent. Seventy-five to SO per cent is ronaltl ered an excellent average fertility for vigorous fowls under ordinary condi tions, po that ten days may be Donald ered time enough for excellent rcaulU unless the breed is a very large, clum sy type. The male and hens were then sepa rated and the eggs as laid wore hgaln set and tested to determine the. (Jura tion of fertility nfter male whs re moved. On the third day after separation 74 per cent of eggs were fori Ho. on the fourth 70 per cent, on the lift !i (ili nor cent, oil the sixth 55 per cent, on the seventh 4S per cent, on the eighth 10 ner cent, on the ninth .'5 per cent and on the tenth day none were fertile. FEATHERS AND EGGSHELLS. When your fowls get roupy don't shut them up In a band box. Lot them have fresh air, but no drafts. lutmora ber this is the fresh air era when pa tients with respiratory nillU-tionn Htucp in the open, not In the oven n of old It is linndy In some reaper ta o take eggs to market in a box of outs, tell the eggs and feed the oats to tin- horse, but eggs are cleaner and look so much nicer In a handy crate, and uthnn. be bought, the ten dozen size, tuj only a quarter. " The hen that lay Is the Ix n that stays, should be the rule on every farm, poultry plant and in every back lot coop. If we could only get rid of the undesirable citizen as onsily'nft the drone lien, the millennial dawn would Biire move up a notch. The Hiifr Minorca In the htqpt.on, deck, California the place of .origin. We should like to get our Jui;jerf to gether and examine tln'iii on o'tl aiid went breedH and variolic nnrttliolr characteristics. Wouldn't thoyilluuk kerplunk, and yet mo.it of (hum iuh verllso as expert Judges of all varie ties. While the custom .-.uthorlt! j. have decided for keeps (hat a hen I., not a bird, there wuh u scrap down at Atlan tic City in to whether a hen Is An ani mal when a Chinaman was arniHtud for cruelty to anlmalx for nut feuding and watering bis Hock. The iiiiigi trate made tlio hen an aulinalvaud llnvd the pigtail $10. Nut. A Connecticut farmer near Ujirwin ton contests the opinion of the uuutomH court that a hen 1m not a bird by pro ducing a hon on Ills farm that lays in a box placed In a tree and 111m frtli,l)l the farm.instcudojr walking. lijj.-ni'iy be one of those "barnyard" pheasants that our city hunters shoot on tho wing and pass olT for the real thing. "I hat hen's a hog!" exclaimed her owner. " "She's a candidate for the ax. She's up the llrst to eat and scratches for feed tho last!" We ask od him to test her for eggs before nemllng- her to chicken heaven. To his surprise ho found she was tho best layer he owned. We havo never seen a great layer that wasn't a great eater. The dropping board beneath the roost la such an easily arranged convenience no poultry raiser can afford to ho with out. It catches and savos all drop pings at night and makes It so easy to clean up and savo tho valuablo ma nure. Tens where tho excremeut Ib al lowed to accumulato In tho old bug house wny always smell and arc Insun' Itary. The I'.oso Comb Harrcd "Plymouth Hook Is now being discussed with n vengeance on both sides tho Atlantic, and thore Is a tight ns to Its ndmlsslon to. tho standard. But why should It lot bo admitted? It comes straight from tho Rarrcd Horlr and gets its comb honestly from the Dominique that was In the cross that made the Rock, and that's- nrnre than can be paid of tho hybrid single comb Sliver Penciled Wyandotte that was recently standardized into a Silver Penciled Rock by tho American Poultry nsso f rM'in Ten thousand ducks died on a duck farm In Cumberland county, Pa., nftur feeding on a new brand of beef scrap. Meat pro lucts ho vary In quality and Home are so poisonous that It's wIho to experiment on a few fowls when n change is made. 'riioao oirirs called "dirties" are most ly produced on wet days where hens run In filth and track-it to the nest on to the- eirtrs. No one can expect clean. swwt eggs from dirty nesta and eggs laid linger tho imruynru struwstactc anu hog pen aren't tit to eat. R X Dniuonil. near Lock Haven. Pa., was awakened by the honking of a (lock of geese and got out Just In time to save twelve horses from his burning barn. Mr. Dnmond will con tinue to nil.se geese from tho dandy (lock that raised the alarm. The 'J5.O0O cirir consumers that form ed "Tho Thlrtv Cent Kua club" as a protest against an exorbitant price for hen milt and couuuctcu a three wceits hovcott acalnst merchants demanding unJtiHt prices preach a little sermon to others on the toxt, "(Jo thou and do llkewhw." ' i . Tho winter egg-crop Is Increasing on Pennsylvania farms by tho showing at . t 1 ... .... mantels unu 0g suipmeuis ironi coun try stores. A Sullivan county country storekeeper tells us that winter eggs have Increased W) per cent since tho farmer liistltuto'poultry lecturer has tfecu on (he Job. The chickens at a Reverly (N. J.) plant are called to their meals by tho ringing of the dinner bell. This Is al most equal to the trick of a southern farmer who called his hogs by rapping on the house until tho woodpeckers Ifnflated tho signal and coaxed tho hogs off Into tho woods, where they starved 'to death chasing around after an imuglnary dinner. Ves, the ten cent egg has gone, nev er to return. Ncjft In order some farm ers should adopt a business method of keeping accouiit with their hens, SVe know farmers wllo sell chickens nt 0 emits a pound wlien they cost them 11 to la. .They don't know whether poul try pays them or not, and It's tho sanio with everything else where such lack of system prevails. During the Allcntown (Pa.) fair n Leghorn hen picked the diamond stud off a Now York sport's shirt front. This might bo expected of a Diamond Jubilee Orpington hen, but wan con sidered so disgraceful or n Leghorn that some one suggested she be killed to recover the gem. He laughed and moved on. Ho wore a paste diamond like the most of those folks from New Vawk. I mm.n ' Blacksmjthjng HORSESHOEiNo WAGON and Wnnn,, w u work-. G E N E R A L R f"d SATISFACTION GUARANTEED S. E. GRAY i it! MAUKAd ML AT J. L. Campbell Wholesale and ftcn , ? im. tnu wrau unu ui v rcsn Meats In the I at.i. vmm np rariipm vpp.pthutpo m; uuu uutuu ui uuiiuuii luuuiauhOO 1H TnhlK SFlSfil- r LIVERY, FEED &SALE STABIffl MADRAS, OREGON I b. V. Dl A In I UN qivb Your Orders Prompt Attentior Transient Stock Given Best Of Feed And Ga t J. H. hANER, Pie. C.WONDERLEV, Vice Pre. LM.BECHTEU,J 1 The J. H. Haner Abflrad G Incorporated . Princville - Oregon CapitaUock $5000.00 Surplus $3000.00 fully pail X Abstracts of title to all real property in Crook county, J ' Carefully prepared photograph copies of all recordii city plats at low cost W New Model or. REPEATING RIFLE rri f .t . fit .1 1 he only gun that nils th demana lor a trom bone ( pump ) ac tion rcpeaicr in oc nr I ana .32-20 calibres. lib todrr t test aitifl .lio kUck d I nrtiure lOOItl ..r. i- ...m billed dkadvl IUni fnr tweet wok, W If umvlrliticlu. elC I r kv-V'v, . ""J Our X38 P.. "'0.0"""ufi Wr&T't-l IM. StnX for tiaf tloP J Madras Pioneer at $1.50 Per ALL THE NEWS OF CENTRAL omm THREE THINGS TO TIE TO Tum-A-Lum Lbr. Co. City fern Central of Madras Oregon Hulld n homo and Hot lo down to n con life. Thrifty homo kocpera who ug rf huvo Ionic since l"""101' l' 0OnrBort; comparea with oura Inoforlnira. f muntH are bo Iarae that wo cun to plouBo any taste, Wo could keep on tolling you gy, our lumber, our -facilittes fo erY, ,ut'fler and doslro to-'merityour put ronjg. , t0 . all, thp burent, epee dlt wd aor w Jrf JB put ua to the test by coming to w i pcrapn, ', W. C. WADE, Agent Madrat, Oregon