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THURSDAY, MARCH C, 1902. All Kinds of Seeds, Alfalfa, Timothy, Broome Grass, Blue Grass and White Clover. Orders for any kind of Seed Solicited by TAYLOR, THE HARDWARE MAN WVhn .Sells Field hence In all heights, as well as every variety of HARD WARE, Barbed Wlre.&c Empire Meat Market IB THE PENDLETON DEPOT FOR MEATS OF ALL. KINDS IN LARGE OR SMALL LOTS. QUICK DELIVERY IN CITY. FAMILY TRADE SPECIALLY CARED FOR. Schwarz & Greulich, Proprietors. Phone, Main 18. 607 Main Street. WOOD! COAL! WOOD! COAL! WOOD! COAL! W. C. MINNIS SELLS BOTH. Kemerer Coal. First Class Wood Orders Promptly Filled. Telephone, Red 401, or call on W. 0. MINNIS, Office Main Street, just opposite Hans ford & Thompson's hardware store. LaFontaine & Garrison Proprietors Old Dutch Henry Peed Yard. Cavalry Horses for Sale. BEST OF CARE TAKEN OF TEAMS OVER NIGHT GIVE US A CALL. SEALS! Notary and Corporation $3.50 to $5 Delivered Order of us and save money. Orders for Rubber Stamp Jo solicited. EAST OREGONIAN PUB. GO SEEDS! The Kansas Farmer prints these re- mark of J. W. .Robinson on the ques tion of color in Shorthorns: Whenever you And a great mass of reasonably intelligent people that de mand a certain article, there is gen erally a reason for it. It is conceded, I thluk, by everybody that there is a great demand for red by a large num ber of Intelligent breeders, and there fore there must bo some reason for it. Tlrnt reason in my mind is that the red crosses much better with the native Ktnni.- tliiin nnv other color. It im proves the color of the native stock more. The red universally nniu-n iiw, rnlor. I don't think there is any Shorthorn man that will contend that n rod or roan or white is any better as an individual animal than any other color. They nre probably equally de sirable if kept in that color, but. when you lot it branch out it is not so good. The great mass of people that have tested it prefer the red, especially where it is to bo used on grade animals. A Fine Yomiff nnll. The yearling Shorthorn bull Buscot Wanderer, sire Wanderer's Trinco 78, 105, dam Kingdnle Favorite 2d, was bred by Mr. A. Henderson, M. P., Bus cot Park, Karlngdon, Berks, England, and was winner of first prize at the Gloucester county show at Cheltenham, BTJSCOT WANDERER. 1001. The sire of this young bull, Wanderer's Prince, the bull now in use in the Buscot Park herd, was bred by Mr. W. S. Marr of Uppermlll, Aber deenshire. He has proved himself a first rate stock getter, and six of his voiiii2 bulls. Including Buscot Wan derer, were sold at Mr. Henderson's Shorthorn sale in October, realizing the Entlsfiictorv average of SliOG. His stock show a great deal of type and chnrac ter. A 810.000 Hereford Dnll. The famous Hereford bull Dale has been sold by the Wabash Stock Farm company of Wabash, Ind., to Jesse 0. Adams of Moweaqun, 111., for $10,000. This Is the highest price ever paid for n Hereford bull. The Riverside Here ford company gave $7,500 for imp. Dinlomat. This was the highest price paid for n Hereford until a few days ago, when Clem Graves of Bunker Hill, Ind., sold Dale to the Wabash Stock Farm company for $S,000. On Jan. 7, in Chicago, Mr. Hoxie broke this rec ord by giving Thomas Clark of Illinois $9,000 for his bull Perfection, a son of Dale. Mr. Adams now owns two of the highest priced Hereford cattle in the world. Last winter at a sale in the Kansas City Fine Stock pavilion lie paid $2,700 for a cow belonging to Clem Graves. This is still the greatest amount over brought by a cow of this breed. All the animals have been seen in the show ring In Kansas City. Dale was the sweepstakes bull of the show in 1809, and Perfection won first in 1900. The Heavlcfit Oxen. The weight of my big oxen was 8,035 pounds. I have never known of n heavier pair. I have another pair of Ilolsteins coming on that I think will in time equal or excel the other in weight. Thoy are now five years old and weigh 4.G00 pounds in good work ing condition. They have never had any chance for making a big gain, ex cept a few months last summer, when they gained 800 pouuds in six months besides doing farm work. They are now on a big log Job and are one of three teams to draw 12,000 to 15,000 feet of logs to mill dally. I shall keep them on the Job until about May 1, when they will come back on to the farm, and their work will be light. I expect them to weigh considerably over 5,000 pounds next fairtlmc. James D. Avery in Now England Homestead. The Duty on Illilea. The Freo Hide league is making n great effort to remove tho tariff from hides and hopes to accomplish this re sult either by repeal or by means of reciprocity treaties. Those who are in terested in maintaining tho duty on hides, ns nil cattlemen are, should not fail to have their side of the question understood. They should speak in no uncertain way against tampering with this duty, Just as the sheepmen have protested against freo wool or reduced duties in favor of Argentina. Wo do not say this because we bellovo In pro tection as a principle, but because wo believe in fairness. So long as protec tion Is tho accepted policy of thlB coun try, as a result of tho wishes of a ma jority of its citizens, agricultural Inter ests should enjoy their full sharo of It. National Stockman. Not So Fat. Lesa than ten years ago we wrote a note entitled "A Fat Land." Every- thing was too fnt that year. Corn wub cheap, and good fnt cattle, hogs nnu sheep wore Rolling below the handier and leaner grades. It was thought then by many people thnt the day of the really fat unlmal had gone by, bltt in this year of dent corn fat !o the highest thing on the mnrket. It la worth mon ey on any nnlmal, and especially on hogs. Lard is high now. It was very low then, and the fatter the hog the lower the price. Times cbunjre. Na tional Stockmnn. All kinds of urain are high in price, and hay In Now England Is a ready cash crop. In face of these facts what Kimii fiivmnra do? asks Charles W Burkett in New England Homestead. In the first nlace. rely on the corn plant. It is the farmer's best all round friend. From exnerlments at the New Ilanmshlro experiment station I found that for winter feeding when horses are not on heavy work corn stover run i through the fodder cutter proved quite i equal to timothy hay. Sell the hay, i then, and feed corn stover. The latter j costs less than a third of timothy. I If the horses nre not doing much work, let them eat all the stover they will and don't feed any hay. A few pounds of grain will complete the ra tion. For a cheap grain ration, when the horse is given all the stover he will eat, use the following mixture dally: One pound cottonseed meal, two pounds linseed meal and two pounds wheat bran. Corn is too expensive un less work is renuired. Then give from two to four pounds daily, depending on the work done. I suggest the above ration for cheapness. If one plans for the coming year, he will be in a posi tion to feed still cheaper by raising all the corn nnd stover needed for the horses. Feedluir For Muttou. Clover Is the model hny for Bheep, but I have had good results with good corn fodder, says a correspondent In National Stockman. Timothy and marsh Jiay are fairly good if cut early and supplemented with a heavier grain ration. My grain ration Is usually bran, oats and corn, according to their relative cost, time of year, kind of sbnep and for what purpose they are being fed. This grain ration is placed In troughs hi the yard and usually once a day. During the middle of the day they get cornstalks or shredded cornstalks in the yard. I feed hay twice a day In the barn, in racks with bottoms lu them, and to prevent tho accumulation of chaff nnd dirt in the tleece we always feed when the sheep are out I never allow them access to hay or straw stacks and always keep plenty of good water and salt before them. MATING TURKEYS. Point to Consider In Selecting Your Breeders. In mating turkeys I would prefer a yearling torn mated to pullets of good size or a good young torn with plenty of size mated to yearling hens. I do not liko to mate turkeys or the same age and do not believe it advisable, no matter what their age, but young tur keys, if very vigorous, will do fairly well If mated together. If an old torn is mated to small hens, he should be reduced in flesh before the breeding season. We pick out the very best torn we can get, not always the largest, but the best In shape, color nnd vigor, nnd we are then sure to get plenty of size in the young stock. I like -the torn best to havo a well balanced body. He should not be all back behind the legs, which makes him tip too high In front. Neither do I want them so much in front thnt they tip forward. The torn should stand straight on his legs and high enough that his back is at an angle of 45 degrees. He should not bo straight on the back, nts we often find them, but It should gradually rise from tho base of the neck to the center, then make a gradual, rounding decline to tho tail. ThlB makes a beautiful shaped back. Ho should have large bono nnd straight toes. Young birds have legs approaching black, the dark er the better. When they become year lings, It turns pink, and tho older the bird the lighter the color. Tho bronze color on tho feathers should not be of the light copper color, but should be n very dark bronze throughout, with clear white edging, with a little admix ture of brown or black as possible. The white and black barring on the wing of tho torn should run across the feath ers and the bars bo of nn equal width, perhaps the white n little wider thnn the black, but we should avoid tho brond white barring, even though It Is straight across. A torn such as I have described should be mated to pullets as nenrly perfect In color and shape as can be procured. We would not want them to weigh more than twenty pounds for best results. Tho eggs will hatch stronger poults and more of them than will be the case If overgrown nnd fnt birds are .used as breeders. S. B. Johuston in American Poultry Journal. Winter Eg' The secret of winter eggs Is comfort able roosting quarters, wholesome food and exercise. Nothing equals green cat bone to put an edge on after goo grain has been supplied. JIT DETROIT POULTRY SHOW. How Sucen Wa Scoured DeagM a DIHlciilt OliNlnole. No poultry show was ever carried to perfect success In spite of as great dif ficulties n8 was the Detroit show which was given Dec. 23-28. On Sat urday noon before the show was to open it was discovered thnt the coops which were to be used were delayed on the road. At fi o'clock of that day tho ofllcers of the association were in fornied by the railroad company that it would be impossible to get tho coopH to Detroit on time. To a good many associations this would have been n damper that would have taken all the push and vigor out of tho enterprise, but it only stlmulnt- A. II. ZENNER. ed President Zenuer nnd his fellpw of ficials to greater efforts, nnd they de termined to have the coops mnuo nnu ready for the show. President Zenuer called the executive committee together to set forth his plans, which were approved. He then contracted jvlth several planing mills to run all night and Sunday. He. next contracted with a dowel works forty miles away from Detroit to furnish dowels for the front of tho coops nnd chartered a special electric car to go after these, which was done early Sun day morning. Contractors were en gaged to Bet up the coops, and under tho foremnnship of A. E. Yacht, gen eral superintendent of the showroom, the work was started. From Sunday morning until Tues day noon the force of men worked con stantly, stopping only long enough to eat a hurried meal now and then, nnd by Tuesday noon tho showroom was ready for business. The happy results show that the work was well done. It was about tho hand somest tioultrv show ever opened to the public. Everything was bright and new. Tho coops were of white pine, with wire tops and backs nnd snow White partitions. The supports of the coops were covered with clean, white cloth, and the wide aisles were perfect ly free from dirt The detail cards, giving name nnd nnnihcr of cntrv and number of exhib itor, were uniform in. size nnd color, and when the silk prize ribbons em bossed In gold were put up it was a sight worth seeing. Commercial Poul try. POLL AND COLOR. Wlint the American Herdbook Call For In Angoi Cnttie. A Texas correspondent inquires of Breeder's Gazette if the top of the head of nn Angus bull is nearly straight and different from the steers nnd females of the same breed. It 1b curious how such inquiries originnto. In tho natu rally polled (hornless) head the skull formation is different from that of the horned breeds. In tho latter the top of the head Is comparatively flat from horn to horn, although the top line sometimes rises into a little arch or oval shape. In tho polled head the top of the skull rises more or less sharply to the center, whero it forms n little knob, 'doubtless provided by nature us the weapon of offense and defense in place of the horns. This oval or an nular shape of the top of the head va lies In different animals, hut thero is no difference in this respect between the hulls of this breed and the females and steers. Some cattle nre considera bly hjgher on the poll than others, but this is n personal peculiarity, Just ns is a somewhat long nnd narrow head or a short and broad head. Out correspond ent further Inquires if tho hulls of this breed show signs of horns or Uttlo nubs If they nro pure bred. These nubs, or scurs, as they are properly called, do sometimes, but not often, occur on pure bred animals of this breed, both bulls nnd females. They vary all the way from little wartlike excrescences to small horns fixed firmly to the skull, although tho latter nro of very rare oc currence. This manifestation repre sents tho efforts of nature to hark back to tho original horned type. It 1b a very Interesting nnd convincing demon stration of the power of atavism. Bulls that show scurB are not eligible to reg istry in tho American herdbook. A further Inquiry calls for "the dif ferent colors" of this breed. Tho An gus cattle are almost uniformly black, with a little whito on tho bolly, uddor or scrotum, Occasionally an all red calf is dropped, but not often. This n.iittnr shnde. not like the cZr of the Red Poll or that of the Shorthorn. It Is n miner nnd once seen can usually he identi fied. Occasionally tho white on tho belly "Jumps tho fence- mm uiu"" In the switch of tho tall or on the hind legs around the ankles nnd in rare cases in spots on the body, nnll- "with a noticeable amount of white above tho underline or on leg or Jcgs nro not eligible to registry. Effort has been persistent for years to breed out tho red color and white outcrop on legs or body nbovc tho underline nnd wholly to eliminate scurs, hut the pow er of ntavlsni Is so persistent that the result aimed nt has not been entire y accomplished. It should be clearly understood that these "off colors and scurs are of very rare occurrence and ti.nt ti,.. uniform black color nnd polled head arc transmitted to grade progeny In from SO to 00 per cent of tne cases GEESE FOR PROFIT. QnnlltlCH or Three flood llreedn nnd Hoiv to ItnlKC Them. of nil the treeso that the American stimdiird of perfection spcakH of only tiirnn lntHjds come up to the require ments nf the farmer, who sees more than any one else to the actual mar Irnf vnlllP of n bird. Toulouse, Emb dens nnd Africans are breeds that will ,ir timir host to brine nn extra penny Thev hnve the weight when matured i,nf ninifoR thnm desirable, tho nnrat their okks to hatch well and their young to live nnd the meat qualities that nre in ueiuunu in ho nltv markets. To turn grass Into hay is one way of mnt.-itif. mnnnv. lint to let ticcsc turn UKI IWtlf-, --"-. - "niRs Into srreonbackB 1b more proilta ble, because you have less competition whan von sell nud save all the weary hmirs in the hayficld on hot summer days. Geese lf mated correctly will do the money mnklug themselves, so to sneak. Tho old cooso Is n goou motucr, and if you assist her In feeding the goslings for three weeks she is umply able to return In early mil a oig hock of heavyweight youngsters. For bent results people hnve advised to cross some of tho above mentioned ureeus, but this view I do not hold. A thor oughbred, be It horse, cow or goose, Is nlways worth more than a crossbred animal. Often tho chnnce slips by to sell geese for breeding purposes if you have crossbreeds in your fields. Do not confine geese unless yon wish to force fnttcnlng, and oven in this case it should not be longer than two weeks. Geese must have liberty nnd n grass run to do their best. The Emb dens are preferred by some on account of their white plumage, but ub breed ing geese should never be plucked this advantage is not as valuable as it at first may appear. Toulouse geese lay the most eggs, Africans nro the hardiest, and Embdens have the best feathers. All nre good, and none Is the uest Theodore F. Jagcr in American Agriculturist Do Svreeta Kill TnrkeyaT I have received many letters Baying the parties were losing their turkeys without any apparent cause. Now, there is never any effect without n cause. If turkeys die, there is sonic causo either on" tho inside or outside. I have tried hard to think what could bo the cause. I just thought of what I learned years ago from n young lady who visited me, a farmer's daughter. They had had an Ice cream sociable at their house a few evenings before, and us they had a large quantity of Ice cream left and the weather was warm her mother, who bndn fargo flock of turkeys, thought the ice cream would be fine to feed them. She fed it, nud it killed every one of them. Tho young lady told me what I had not heard be forethat sugar or any sweet food would kill turkeys. Since then I have always kept anything sweetened away from my turkeys. I havo never tested it by feeding them anything sweet, as I did not dare risk it. I havo a friend who feeds scraps from a hotel table, and she has lost her turkeys without apparent cause. She is a careful uud painstaking wom an nud generally tries to find tho cause by holding u postmortem examina tion. Now, very likely scraps from the table would contain some cako or other sweets, and if it be true thnt sugar or sweets kill turkeys thoy would do their work without leaving a trace of the trouble unless showu by n chem ical analysis. Mrs. Charles Jones in Poultry Keeper. Stock Farina In Great Britain, The lutest official census of farm stock in Great Britain has been pub llshed. There are 11,740,430 head of cattle, 80,820,724 head of sheep and 3,411,040 swino in thnt kingdom. This is nn Increase of 21,527 cattle, but a de crease of 224.045 sheep and 252,080 hogs. The Increase In cattle comes from Ireland and Scotland altogether. nnd much more than that, for the ac tual fact is that In England nnd Wales tho cnttlo have decreased 72,471 head since this time last year. WroiiB Waa night. Biggs You say Browu Is enjoying very poor health. Don't you know that lis Incorrect Boggs Not In this case. Brown Is nmvnr ihnnnv iinlpoa hn hnn somethlnc I v AST - w to complain about New York Tele gram. HOTELS. HOTEL PENDLETON VAN DRAN BROS., Props. The Best Hotel in Pendleton and as good ns any. Headquarters for Traveling Men. Commodious Sample Rooms. Rates $2 pet day. Special rates by week or month. Excellent Cuisine, Every Hodern Convenience. Bar and Billiard Room in Connection Only Three Blocks from Depot. 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