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THE OREOON DAILY JOURNAL PORTljmb. SATURDAY gVB3H0. DECEMBER II, WO. "! StLouisFair Grand Prize AWARDED TO Walter Baker & Co.'s Chocolate 5Cocoa J f s ft n0 fftfffmst Award Country LOOK FOB TWI arrl ""p and AMERICA Illustrated iclsa book Walter Baker fcCo.Ltd. LBrolpnged -Public Dairy Tests Beneficial ELECTING SENATOR IN GOLDEN STATE legislature Which Opens Mon day Called Upon to Select Bard's Successor. CONTEST LIES BETWEEN FLINT, BARD AND KNIGHT Machine Force Are in Favor of Flint U. 8. Grant Is a Dark Horse. (Journal Special ferric.) Ssenunento. Cal.. Dec. Si The ses 5 sloa of the state legislature which con venes next Monday will be culled upon BBKtMOaw a successor to United States Senator Thomas H. Bard, whose tern ", xtt office expires with the dose of the wresant congress. The senatorial altaa S tlon Is very much mixed and ths result cannot be foretold with any degree of . wartalnty. t Senator Bard la a candidate for elec : tlon and his principal opponent at the '5raenl time appears to be Frank P. 'Flint of Los Angeles, who Is supported atar' the so-called "organisation" forces of he southern part of the state. Mara is Slupported by his personal following Which Is composed principally of antl igMchlne work' i s. ir Flint can command the united support of the southern California legislators his chances of '.flection are excellent, while, on the ther hand. If Bard should win In cau cus, he would still have to overcome it the opposition of the northern organisa tion'' forces. ' George Knight, the only northern as pirant, is sttll pushing his candidacy, basing his hope on the calculation that If til south falls to unite on Flint, the Support of the machine would coma to Itlm In preference to Bard. Hanry T. Oxnard. the beet sugar magnate, remains tn the running and If Ute opportunity offers he will, be trotted out aa a dark horse, t. 8. Grant, Jr.. of San Dfego, Is also receiving some mention, but his .chances of capturing the', toga are re garded as exceedingly remote ALICE ROOSEVELT TO RECEIVE NEW YEAR'S (Journal Special Service.) Washington. Dec. SI. The "White House has been placed In readiness for - - 1 v. -II ii i n-. aasraMKJU win w ji win un nuiiuar. mm president and Mrs. Roosevelt will be as sisted In receiving by Miss Alice Koose- jvelt and the ladles of the cabinet. Count Oasslnl. (h Russian ambassador, has .entirely recovered from his recant 111 rteea and as dean of the dlplomatlo corps will lead the line of guests. In accordance with the Iron bound rules of precedence the diplomatic corps will be followed in turn by the members of jjcongTess, officers of the nrmy and navy, beads of departments and minor officials IjWgf the federal and district governments. Included In the line also will ha many Visitors who are here rrom various parts (vof the country to attend the convention Jiext week Of the American Forest tun- Cress. Wl. trniion Wife Oldwed Do you use condensed milk It your house? Newed No; but my wife gets busy occasionally and turns out a condensed cake. INSOMNIA It "I have keen Ming CueirtU for Inamnnla. with 1 1 which I save bees amiteac far ever 1 tw.nly j 'in, If kad I can ear thai Cnaenreis Bare given me morn f vsltnf than ni oahar remedr i he.e erer rled. I iBagSraSr' I shell certainly recommend thnr, to mi frtendi aa ft, Olllnrd. Elgin. 111. Best For Th Bowels w Mw intDoweu n KM ill PirO CAHOVCATKMIT1C ilajtit- rowpi.Tuuninnnwit, .Weaken ear Grip., lee. to. Mr. N..r ' Tea attalM tablet stamped C C. enre or rear saney ones Starting Remedy Co.. Chicng o or N.T. as III SALE. TEI MILLION BOIES (By stark Comstock.) I regard the public, testings of dairy cows that have occurred at the Colum bian exposition. Chicago, 1893. the Pan- American exposition, Buffalo. 1901. and the Louisiana purchase exposition, hi. LovrhtF 1904. as the beat educators upon dairy matters and the subject or im proving the delry cow by breeding her to a higher standard, that have aver occurred. Improved machinery Improves- Very Industry. The business of dairying- has had its literal share of mechanical In vention and improvement, but ths dairy cotr. which la the fundamental mackjlne for the conversion of forage Into dairy products, has been less Improved, at the average, than any other department The dairyman buys his milk palls, sep arators, fat gauges, churns, bottles and every appliance that he needs, and riv alry in manufacture enables him to se cure the .moat up-to-date advantages. He generally buys his cows, and finds that raising them himself Implies a ertous Interference with his main call ing.' Ha can rarely afford to purchase, for mere utility purposes, thoroughbred costs f6r the nlghesf dairy quality. Their value for breeding purposes la higher than their mere dairy value. He can not afford to use a cow of Inferior dairy quality at any prloe. To get the supe rior dairy cow at her dairy value ne therefore resorts to the grades, and cows of mixed and heterogeneous breed ing, usually selected on appearances. Sometimes he uses a tnorougnorea bull and raises the heifers from his beat milkers. Not all thoroughbred bulla are genuine Improvers.' Perhaps one In SO of those offered to him ,1s really aultad to his needs. IT ne naa tne real in stincts of a breeder, he will take the greatest care to make sure that the bull la of very superior parentage and an cestry, besides being a ahapely ana highly vigorous animal. Even then ne will meet many disappointments In his first grading cross. No bull will nlCK well with every different strain of blood, even In his own breed. A pro miscuously constituted dairy herd of no breed at all. though uniformly good, presents In each row separate and diver gent characteristics ' of blood and tem perament to be harmonised with those of ths one bull to which ail are to be bred. If he be a really superior bull, he will do splendidly with some of these cows arid fairly well -with many others, but, no matter how good he Is, a good number of his daughters will be Inferior to their mothers In dairy capacity. And the puzzle of It will be this: that, of the best of his daughters, not all, and perhaps but few, will be from the great est cows In the promiscuous herd. If ths same bull la kept three or- four years, It will be discovered, as full sis ters among his daughters come into profit, that there Is a marked tendency toward uniformity of dairy Value among these full alsters. If an older heifer provea remarkable, the younger full sis ters will be apt to be at. least superior. If the older heifer is Inferior, with no special cause apparent, the younger full sisters seldom prove much better. I do not state this as an absolute, rule, but a broad enough field of observation will know it to be, aa I have claimed, "a marked tendency." --:r" . The fact that the greatest dairy cows In ths original promiscuous herd do not always have, better daugbtera than, come from some of their mates that are not their equals in capacity does not prove that the Individual dairy capacity of a breeding cow is of no consequence. If, instead of keeping the first thorough bred bull three or four years, a new bull had been Introduced each year, and there were no full slaters among the calves of the herd, only half alsters from the same mother, it would be found that the tendency toward uniform dairy capacity among the daughters of each cow would be much broken up.. Cows that had givenr superior daughters by the first bull would be leas success ful by the second or third bull, and vice versa.- Every male and female that .are coupled have affinitive poles Of attrac tion, positive and negative, acting upon each other, by which separata traits and forces from each parent are drawn forward into ths offspring, while others remain dormant for want of Ilka affini tive attraction. The cow that had the greatest Individual dairy capacity might not transmit to her daughter all of the characteristic foross which govern that function In herself when copulated with a given bull, simply because the char acter of that bull did not supply the specific afflnlttve action for drawing her. characteristic dairy forces forward; hence that part of the make-up of the calf skipped her Impress and took Its corresponding forces and consequent character from some other part or parts of Its ancestry upon which .affinitive attraction did occur. This Is all right If the particular forces brought Into ac tion are as good or better than those skipped, and this is why the bull should come of uniformly great ancestors. Cou ple the same cow with another bull and In him she may find the precise afflnl fcve attraction to project her own dairy character into the daughter. This does not prove that the second bull is. In general, any better than the first. It only shows that ha happens to be a bet ter bull to bring forward the character istic forces of that particular cow, A high order of Individual dairy capacity la important In every cow that la to be bred from. Even if not of immediate effect in one daughter, In whom she is displaced by more dominant Influences, another daughter by a different aire may take her Impress, or In subsequent generations a "nicking" influence may draw forward -her characteristic dairy forces. If on could solve this mystery of affinitive influences and by outward sign foretell which copulations would produce the most beneficial resu'ts. the progress of breeding could be hastined a hundredfold. But In every case of grading up from promiscuous same thoroughbred sire, to supplant first bull's quality, and to find a nick foun dations the way has to be felt out step by step. If a uniform direction be given to the grading so that the herd pro gresses steadily toward the type of soms fixed breed, a share of uncertainty may be eliminated. The charted pedigree of every bull should be carefully preserved, and the breeder should know ths sir of each cow for aa many generations as he has bred. It Is an attested fact that "happy nicks" have a tendency to re peat themselves where the same cur rent of blood again come together. This meana not merely that the crossing cur rents be similar In general breed char acter, but that they emanate from the earn specific lines and Individuals with in the breed. In this way successful blood crosses have become celebrated In almost every established breed In which s physical performance or function is the object sought. When- the dairyman has a "'sufficient number of heifers it) milk, all by th same thoroughbred sire. to supplant origins! herd of promiscuously selected dairy cows from which his heifers were bred, he hag en element of uniformity in the younger herd that With good for tune may be turned to much advantage For them he mast select a new bull, unless perchsncehe has coupled some of the older ones with their own sir, which, In case lis wag of great merit. might be an exceedingly good move thus mtIv tn th'a trradlnar at a hard. To get Ik second bull to nick wall with his young; hard Is the great dlslderatum. If h secures on that la close kin to th first bull used, and th relationship springs from th best animals In the pedigree of the first bull, bis chances will "TH. favored. All of the young herd partake ..r .1... "ai.i 1 ... 1 1 ......to. uo.l t,. font a. nick for thai In one of them is to nlc-trf it in many others, if not ail. ir nis nrai : mil was of OA established family loag famous In th breed from which h was chosen. It can generally be ascertained which other strains within the breed hare furnished th greatest performing croases for bis own beat strain of blood. These outcrosses should also be consid ered in selecting the new bull. Few dairymen ever give any conlderatlon to these points, but get what they are led to suppose to a well-bred bull for each cross, and baaard the chances of the new harmonising with th old. The most successful breeders of blgb class per formers In all fixed breeds understand and give heed to these points, and to them the exact lines of a pedigree are as a chart to th mariner. That the same rules will greatly fa 111 tat e "the grading up of a dairy herd cannot be doubted. Here the point is td get abundant dairy capacity rather than merely to get th showy qualities of the breed. The two may go together, and often do, but not of necessity. Eurpbla (owned by Elmer A. Darling, Vermont), (hlrd in th great world's fair dairy test, la Jersey that has great qualifi cations aa both show and dairy cow. while Lauretta U7 (owned by estate or W. 8. Ladd. Oregon), and Diploma's Brown Lassie (owned by Richardson Bros.. Iowa), who beat her In the test, could not begin to ahow with her In the prise ring. If the dairyman who wlahes to rats bis own grades will select his bulla akin to th great cows in that contest, can by studying; the pedigrees of those coWs select the next bull to reproduce the blood fomulas that those cows repre sent, h will be moving In the direction of success. Th breed associations should, for th education of dairymen. publish the tabulated pedigrees In ex- tenso of the greatest winners in the public contests, with such facta. relating to the character of the component lines of each pedigree as will enlighten the student who is seeking to study out the characteristic' effect of crossing the re spective Tinea. If the pedigrees of all the cows that have stood high In public competitive tests at the world's fair at Chicago, Buf falo and flt. Louis were published in full tabulated form, and ail of the ancestors Indexed, th group would afford each breed a selected herd book that would be the safest guide to breeders, whetheg of grades or of thoroughbreds, who aimed at dairy cdpaclty above all els. The methods and the detail of these tests ore cumbersome and not perfect. as I shall try to point out; but they are Yar ahead of anything else that has appeared as a guide to breeders, because they afford a dependence upon truthful ness and reliability which is not like wise safeguarded in private teats. Fur thermore, - they are prolonged and far more significant of merit than those of a day or a weak, or even of a month See how bravely tbe same Jersey blood that won at Chicago in 1SSS Improved In form at St. Liouls li years later. No Case of Pneumonia on Record There is no case on re cord of a cold resulting in Pneumonia, or other seri ous lung trouble, after FOLEY'S HONEY and TAR had been taken. It stops the cough and heals the lungs and pre vents serious results from a cold. Do not take chances on a cold wearing away or experiment with some un known preparation that costs you the same as Foley's Honey and Tar. Remember the name and get the genuine. A Imn Cold for Thru Months. The following tetter from A. J. Nus banm, of Batesvllle, Intl., tells its own story: "I suffered for three months with a severe cold. A druggist prepared me some medicine, and a physician pre scribed for me, yet I dla not Improve. I then tried Foley's Honey and Tar, and eight doses cured me.'' Three sis 25c, 50c, $1.00. Th 50 cent site contains two and one-half tfrn.es as much as the small six and tbe $1.00 bottle almost six ti as much. SOLD AND RECOMMENDED BY Laue Davis Drug Company and Woodard, Clark gi Co. 4 i 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 t 1 The Big Automobile Being constructed in Portland to be operated between Shaniko and Lytle, the new town officially declared to be the terminus of the Columbia Southern railroad, when that railroad shall be extended during the coming year, WILL MAKE THE RUN FROM SHANIKO TO LYTLE, 90 MILES, IN FOUR HOURS AND A HALF and will be capable of carrying 16 passengers. The freight automobiles will hot make as fast time aa the pas senger car, yet these will cover the distance in one day, with one to three trailers behind them. The A. J. Gill company, manufacturers of the passenger car, will have it ready for service within a few, weeks, when it will be taken to the scene of itjs operations, j Why Has Lytle Become So Important As to be the first city in the world requiring the hurried link of the automobile to connect it with the iron horse that forms a network of steel throughout the land? It is because The Thriving Young Metropolis Is the Bullseye of One of the Most Fertile Agricultural and Stock Growing Regions of America And capital discerns the magnitude of its certain growth, and, being assured that the immigration will warrant the outlay, has not felt timid in incurring the expense the enterprise entailed. Affairs are Not Sleeping in the Neighborhood of Lytle There are, no sloths in that country. Everything is on the bound, and although the locomotive is to breathe upon the place within a twelvemonth, the town cannot afford to wait. It Must Have Rapid Transit Now The rich prairies demand it. The great forests contiguous to the smiling city demand it. The business of the community demands it, and the perception of capital seeking profitable investment eagerly grasps this glittering opportunity to increase its store. . , - The Lytle Townsite Company Owns a large sawmill, operated by the Deschutes river, a turbulent mountain stream that never diminishes in volume to any great extent, and the company is now engaged in cutting 1,000,000 feet of lumber for the Des chutes Irrigation and Power company to be used in the extension of its flumes. That company already has 50,000 acres of land under water and will double this area within the next 10 months. It has in the neighbor hood of 400 men employed, and its work is progressing with wonderful rapidity. Soon The Whole Country Surrounding Lytle Will Be One Vast Garden Property will be advanced up to twenty times its present selling prices, and those wise enough to take ad vantage of the, opportunities of today will, almost without their own knowledge, attain to a financial standing of absolute independence. Lots in Lytle are Selling Now at a quarter the Value That Will Be Placed Upon Them a Year From Now Acre tracts adjoining the city, at $100 each will command $1,000 apiece , by the last of December, 1809. In fact, the chances for money making at Lytle are unsurpassed on the Pacific coast, whether one wishes to invest in oroDertv or engage in business, agricultural pursuits, stock raising or follow the lumber industry in the adja- cent forests which contain hundreds o n millions of feet of the finest timber to be found on the continent, There Can Be No Failure of Crops on Irrigated Soil The agriculturist of such a region pays a yearly stipend for his moisture, and has it at his beck and call That's the beauty of irrigation. A farmer knows just what he is about, all the time, and can make contracts with a cer tainty that he can meet his obligations. There is no guess work -on his part. And m turn, the merchant knows that the farmer is not going to be crippled by a drouth and ruined by failure of his crops. The tradesman is al ways as serene as the man who tills the soil, so that artifically watered lands guarantee prosperity and content ment to the townsman an countryman aa welL . Generous Inducements are Offered to Manufactories wagon factory, brew- A good f ,, mean business, and Lytle affords excellent openings for a furniture factory, ,ki ahnn and foundrv and a brick rnakiM.plant would have a good business from the start. VI Jl aamvaa.a f 1 .w ' - hotel is badly needed. For maps, plats and all information concerning Lytle and Crook county, address, The LytleTownsite Company LYTLE, VIA BEND, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON gveeeeeevvvevvevvvaya. BUTCHERS' TOOLS AND SUPPLIES Maple Ifeat Blocks. Butchsr Haws, Butcher Knives. Meat Mixers, Sausage Stuffers, Laird Fressers, Hand and Power Choppers, Scales. Konservers, Pansltose, Sausage Seasoning and every thing else In BUTCHER SUPPLHC8. ADOLPH A. DEKUM BUTCHER SUPPLY CO. SPRING and ELASTIC - TRUSSES Fit Guarantmd. Price $I.SO Up. Cease and Consult Our Ex part. Lnue-Davis Drug Co. TEe Portland romajro. omaooar. American Plan 93 Pur Day and Upward Quajmma fob otmtaa Special rates mad to families sad single gen tinmen. 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