GOLD HILL NEWS, JACKSON COUNTY. OREGON
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FLOWERS
The fairies had gone to the flower
show after the people had left.
Suddenly they burst out laughing,
for what should they see but a make-
believe horse.
It was Just such a horse as you see
outside of a cobbler's shop—a make
believe one but the same size as a
real one.
This horse was covered with vines
of Ivy, so that It looked like an Ivy
vine horee.
“Hello, Ivy Horse," said the fairies.
“You are certainly very fine Indeed.”
“I t Is a pity, though, that you can
not neigh. Never mind, you look Just
as though you could, at any moment I”
"Hello, fairies,” called the flowers
In the sample gardens which had been
made for the flower show.
There were sample cottages and
gardens around them; there were
hedges of all sorts, beautiful Japa
nese hedges too.
There were lovely acacia flowers.
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
RESIDENT 'COOLIDGE'S
proclamation, a * 111 n g
aside the week of April
22 to 28 »•« American
Forest Week anil urging
that "where practicable
and not In conflict with
law or custom, Arbor
Day be observed during
the course of the week,"
should make all Amer
icans "tree-minded," In
that they should “give thought to the
preservation and wise use of our
forests." it might be well also to glvo
thought to some of the famous trees
which have stood or are still standing
on the soli of the United States and
which have played their |>art In the
history making of this nation. In fact,
so Important has been the role of
trees In American history that the
American Tree association n few years
ugo established a hall of fame for
trees and Immediately citizen» In all
parts of the country, proud of the standing and seine long since passed
historic trees In their communities, away) It will give an Idea of the
nominated them for places In this gal Intimate association of some monarch
of the forest with some history-mak
lery of honor.
Although nearly every state boasts ing event:
of one or more trees which is well
Washington Elm
near Palmer.
known locally or throughout tho Mass., on the 8prlngfleld-lloston high
state, there are comparatively few way, of which It Is recorded that
which are or have been objects of “beneath this tree Washington rested
national veueratlon. There are three, and refreshed himself und delivered
however, which are probably known a short address only three days previ
to every American. First of these
ous to taking command of the army at
|M»rhaps, Is the Washington Elm In Cambridge.”
Liberty Tree, an elm which stood
Cambridge, Mass., under which George
Waslilngton took command of the on Boston Common nnd under which
meetings to protest against the Stamp
Continental army on July 3, 1773
The long and honored career of this Act and other oppressions by Eng
land were held by the patriots. It
tree, then more than 350 years old
came to an end In August. 1923, when was cut down In 1775 while the B rit
ish army occupied Boston, for tire-
the whole trunk cracked and fell
wood and for revenge upon the
while workmen were pulling a dead
"rebels."
branch from It.
Lafayette Tree, In front of La
Another famous tree of the same
species wns the Trenty Elm on the fayette's headquarters at Yorktown,
hunks of the Delaware river un V’a. The house still contains Imbedded
der whoss branches William Penn In Its walls cannon balls fired during
and the Indians made "the only the siege of Yorktown nnd previous
treaty between these people and the to the surrender of Cornwallis.
Treaty Tree, nenr Vincennes. Ind.,
Christians that was not ratified by
oath nnd that wns never broken," an sole survivor of a walnut grove In
agreement that gave the famous which Gen. William Henry Harrison
Quaker title to the Innd which later held a council with the great Indian
became the great state of Pennsyl chief, Tecumseh, August 12-1(1, 1810.
Boone’s "Bar" Tree, on Boone's
vania. The Trenty Klin was blown
down In 1810 and Its age at that creek, a small tributary of the Wau-
time was estimated to have been 283 tBuga In eastern Tennessee, which
while still stnndlng bore the Inscrip
years.
The third In the trilogy of "most tion, carved by the noted pioneer,
famous trees" was not, an elm, but “D. Boon cllled A BAIt on this tree
what schoolboy does not know the year 1700."
Daniel Boone Judgment Tree, an
thrilling history of the Charter Oak
which once stood In Hartford. Conn. elm Bt Femme Osage, about flfty-
In Its hollow trunk It once held the flve ndles west of St. Louis on a farm
charter of the colony of Connecticut which was part of the land tilled by
where
Capt.
Joseph
Wadsworth Boone during Ills Missouri residence
placed It when the lights were sud In 1820. It Is so named from the fact
denly extinguished on thnt historic that Boone held court under It dur
occasion In 1687 .when Sir Edmund ing the hot days of summer.
John Brown's Tree, a white oak
Andros who hnd been appointed royal
governor of New England, demanded near Barkhamsted, Conn., under whose
thnt the assembly surrender to him branches John Brown of Osawatomie
this symbol of their liberties ns Eng nnd Harper's Ferry fame played ns
lish citizens. And when the Charter n child, calling It “my tree" nnd re
Oak was uprooted by a storm In 1856 visiting It every time he returned to
the whole state of Connecticut went the ancestral home in Connecticut.
Into mourning, church bells were It Is also called the Council Tree,
tolled nnd this great onk. which wns because of Its use for that purpose
.
believed to be between 700 and 1,000 by Indians of thnt vicinity.
Morse Elm In Washington, D. C.,
years old, Is the only tree on record
for which “funeral services" wero named for Samuel F, B. Morse, in
ventor of the telegraph, who often
ever held.
Although the following Is tiy no sut beneath It qnd related to Interest
menns a complete list of all the his ed listeners the wonders of the tele
Stnndlng nt the corner of
toric trees In the United States which graph.
have been registered In the tree hall Pennsylvania avenue nnd Fourteenth
of fame or otherwise honored by the street, this elm had looked down
American people, (some of them still upon every Inuugurnl parade that
Birds Public Benefactors
Contrary to popular opinion, says
the biological survey, various birds eut
even the hairy types of caterpillar»,
like those of the tussock gypsy and
brown tall moths, and the tent cater
pillars. Thnt burenu has found for
ty five specie“ of birds which feed ex
tensively ot. the alfalfa weevil, while
sixty-six attack the cotton boll-weevil.
Orioles will pick weevils out of the
squares or flower buds of the cotton
while swallows feed on them when In
flight and extending their range. Mal
lard ducks have been effectively used
In ponds for mosquito control. Bed-
eyed vlreos seem to be attracted by
fall webworms, while cutworms fortn
a large port of the diet of starlings,
crows and Jackdaws. Blackbirds help
to keep down the number of boll
worms nnd many other pests. Spar
rows nnd other birds hnve been ob
served to clean up Infestations of
termites. Birds should be regarded ns
an ever-present force that should be
They Burst Out Laughing.
had ever been held In the capital.
“Tree That Owns Itself,'1 an oak
In Athens, Ga., which owns the land
on which It stands through a deed
made by Dr. W. H. Jackson, a mem
ber of the faculty of the University
of Georgia, when the opening of a
street through that lund threatened
Its destruction.
\
Scythe Tree, In Waterloo. N. Y.
When Wyburn Johnson enlisted In the
Union army In 1861, he hung his
scythe In a crotch of a small tree, to
lie left there until his return..
He
wns killed In battle nnd the tree In
Its growth enveloped the scythe un
til now It is firmly embedded In the
trunk with only the point showing.
Wesley Oak on SL Simon’s island.
Ga. Under this tree both John and
Charles Wesley, founders of the
Methodist church In America, preached
their first sermons on this continent.
Webster Tree near Franklin, N. H.
On this tree Daniel Webster hung
ills scythe when he decided to go to
Dartmouth college nnd "the path from
this tree led Webster to congress and
to the ofllce of the secretary of state.
He never reached the Presidency, but
he twice refused thé nomination for
vice president and In both cases the
head of the ticket on which he would
have been elected died In office.'*
Council Onk In Sioux City, Iowa,
beneath which Lewis nnd Clark
camped and held one of their first
councils with the Indians after leav
ing St. Louts.
Battle Ground Oak at Guilford
Court House, N. C., nlso called the
Liberty Tree. It stands on the bat
tle ground of Guilford Court House,
fought March 15, 1781, "the battle that
won the revolution," since Cornwallis,
costly victory there led directly to
Yorktown and his surrender. Gener
al Greene Is said to have tied his
horse to this tree during the battle.
Kentucky Coffee Tree In front of
the Ver Planck mansion at Fishkill-
on-Hudson, occupied by Baron Steu
ben during the revolution. The first
meeting of the Society of the Cin
cinnati was held under this tree.
Live Oak at Pomona, Calif., mark
ing the spot where In 1837 the first
white settlers camped In the Pomona
valley.
>
■
Abraham Lincoln Tree In Decorah,
Iowa, a hnckbérry planted by Hohn
Finn In memory of the martyred
President on April 27, 1865, the day
which the governor of Iowa had
designated as n day of mourning for
Lincoln. The tree Is now 110 feet
high nnd nearly 12 feet around.
kept at a maximum efficiency by pro
tective measures so that their serv
ice mny be utilized whenever possible.
Book Borrower», Attention
K borrowed book Is like a borrowed
umbrella. The only time It recalls It
self to the borrower's attention Is at
the moment when It Is too bndly need
ed to be spared. At other times It
crawls away and makee Itself thor
oughly at home In Its new environment,
until at last It no longer recognizes
Its own proper master.—Exchange.
the beautiful shrubs or small bushes.
There were rambler roses, and
there were orchids.
“Sometimes, fairies,” said the or-
chid* “we wish we grew oflt of doors
and were picked by children and
weren't the rare kind that grow In
hothouses."
“Hello, fairies," called the spring
flowers, some of which had been sent
from a section of the country which
was fairly near, bnt was a little
warmer than the other sections.
There were beds of tulips, yellow,
pink, red and mixed colors.
There were hyacinths of blue and
hyacinths of white and hyacinths of
purple.
There were sweet peas, and, oh,
there were so many other flowers.
And the fairies and the flowers
chatted and If you could have heard
them It would have lulled you to sleep
so musical and sweet were their
voices, so fragrant the air.
Bird» That Mimic
Birds from the ostrich down are
very Imitative. The ostrich where he
lives alone. Is silent, but In a country
where the Hons abound he roars. The
r— eon for this Is, we are reminded,
that admiring the lions roar, he grad
ually learns to roar himself. And
small birds buntings Imitate pipits,
and green finches Imitate yellow ham
mers. They reek their food In winter
together and they gradually steal
each other’s call. The Jay Is an In
satiable Imitator. Some Jays will In
clude In the repertory not only the
cries or songs of other birds, but also
the bleat of the lamb? and the neigh
of a horse. Even the nightingale Imi
tates. In a nightingale’s song It Is
sometimes quite easy to detect phrases
he bas borrowed from other birds.
FÄRMER'S WIFE
GETS STRENGTH
CHANGES MADE IN
MARKETING WAYS
hr th e C i t e d S ta te s D ep artm en t
o f A g ricu ltu re.)
Current developments In the co-op
erative marketing of live stock are
having a far-reaching effect on the
live stock industry, according to C.
O. Randell, Department of Agriculture
economist, addressing the School of
Co-operative Marketing, at Manhattan,
Kan.
These developments Include the ef
fect of motor truck transportation on
local live stock shipping associations,
the growth of co-operative live stork
selling and purchasing agencies st
central markets, the co-operative sell
ing of live stock direct to packers
and other buyers, and the movement
of Stocker and feeder cattle, sheep
and hogs direct from the range to
feed lota.
There now are approximately 3,000
live stock shipping associations In the
United States and 2.UOO other associa
tions that handle live stock as a side
line, Mr. Randell said. The majority
of these associations were organized
from 1918 to 1922 Inclusive, primarily
as a protest against the margins that
local buyers were taking on live stock
purchased from farm er*
By 1923
the associations bad passed tbe ex
perimental stage and many of them
were functioning as efficient business
organizations.
About this time, according to Mr.
Randell, live stock began to be trans
ported to market In Increasing num
bers by motor truck. Many associa
tions adjacent to large central mar
kets were driven ont of business by
truck competlUon from associations
In more distant area * but In gome
sections the associations have met
this competition by operating trucks
: themselve* Other associations have
secured the services of farmers who
| own trucks and have contracted with
i these farmers to haul the stock to
■ the association* By centralizing the
business at one given point, associa
tions have been able to load out bogs
In double deck cars and thus effect
a considerable saving in freight; also
by handling a large volume of business
they have reduced their operating cost
per unit to such a point that a local
buyer cannot successfully compete
with them.
The department, through the bureau
of agricultural economic* la making
a five-year survey of the local live
stock shipping situation. Thousands
of records have been gathered for the
years 1923 to 1925, inclusive. Many
associations replying to the bureau's
1927 schedules stated they were "out
of business due to the competition of
the truck.” Completion of the survey
Is expected to produce valuable data
on current trends In the local live
stock shipping situation.
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Before Lambing Time
Can You Cue»» Thete?
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Behead a fish and get a quantity ot
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ream.
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i feel better than I
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ye ar* I credit the
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V e g e t a b l e Com-
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bottles ot It and I am now able to do
all my housework and sewing, feed
my chickens, m ilk the cow and tend
the pigs, and feel fine."— Mas. J. C.
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No One Retpect» a Liar
I find great pleasure in a truthful
man. One can depend on what be
says, and learn from him. . . . Bnt no
one pays any attention to a liar, or
much respects him.
I have never
known a really successful man who
was a liar.
Men of that disposition
soon learn. If engaged In real affairs
successfully, that untruthfulness Is a
drag, like a suit of clothes when In
twimming.—E. W. Howe’s Monthly.
Or Give Him Salt»
Wife— Oh, baby’s cut a tooth.
Hubby (ex-army doctor)—Paint It
with Iodine.—Answer*
Outlook Is Held Good
for Breeding Horses
The United States has five million
fewer horses than It had In 1920.
Furthermore, the competition ot the
tractor is tending to eliminate the
poorer draft type* leaving a field
and a profitable market for the draft
horse of good quality and weight
For the foregoing reason* W. C
Coffey, dean of the department of
agriculture of the University of Min
nesota, In a talk to horse breeders
of Minnesota at their annual meeting
in connection with Farmers’ and
Homemakers’ week at University
farm, said that the outlook for the
horse breeding industry was good.
J. S. Montgomery, nationally known
as a live stock Judge and a horse
Ship Carpenter’» Invention
A ship’s carpenter, after 60 years man, manager of the Central Co-Op
at his trade, has Invented a new life erative Commission company. South
SL Paul, supported the statement by
boat of a very curious kind.
He said there was a
I t Is practically two broad, shallow Dean Coffey.
boats fixed bottom to bottom, so thnt distinct shortage of draft horses
as one-half Is capsized the other half throughout the eastern section of the
Is righted. It Is said, however, to l>e com belt, and predicted a steady In
practically Impossible to capsize It, come and good prices for the next
etill more to sink I t In the double live years at least
bottom are valves which will let the
water out but will not let It In which
ever wny up the boat Is; and there
are tanks for fresh water nnd food
Clenn out the sheep barn thorough
which can be reached whichever side
ly when you are ready to begin lamb
of the boat mny be uppermost
lng, bed It deeply and then add more
straw now and then to keep the quar
A “Fithy" W ith
ters clean, hut don't clean the shed
“Good gracious— what a big sigh! any more until you are done lambing
Whatever’* the matter?” asked moth The heat generated In the bedding
er of her little girl.
will do much to keep young lambs
“I wish I were a fish, that’s all,” an from chilling on cold nights. As
swered Dolly dismally.
soon as reasonably warm weather ar
“Why a fish?” laughed mother.
rives clean the shed promptly and
"Well, daddy said the sea wns full after that once a week change the
of currents, nnd I like currants better bedding. Be sure to dock the tails at
than any fru it—’cept oranges, apples, ten or'fifteen days of age and mhke
banana?, and—well—Just a few oth wethers out of the rams. I f you are
ers 1"
not experienced In these Jobs get some
neighbor who enn show you. It Is
really very simple and attended with
A Bu»y Old Mole
very little danger If you are careful
Old Ben Bole was a busy old mole,
A busy old mole was he.
He w o rked underground, w here a liv
in g he found
F o r hie w ife end fa m ily ,
■ v e ry m ole hnd m any a m eal, end
M nny a m eel hsd he—
H e w o rke d fo r his life , and he w orked
fo r hie w ife,
And he w orked fo r his children three
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