East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, April 15, 1908, EVENING EDITION, Image 3

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Newspaper Page TextTEN PAGES. DAILY WUn OKBUONIAN. PENDLETON, ORBGOK. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1908. FOR AN IDEAL HOME The small irrigated furm is the farm that is now in de mand and will be BUY YOUR. HOME Soil experts, experi enced fruit men, cap italists and men who .have made a in demand in the future. Why ? In tho first place it is tho farm that affords tho best opportu nity for the enjoyment of life. No other kind of farm affords the conven ienco of nearby neighbors and schools and churches, trolley lines, telephones and daily mail. The tide is turned. City-tired people want irrigated farms. The demand is greater than the supply and the prices will go up as never before. While the soil is practically uniform throughout tho district, choicest locations are eagerly sought by those who first came. In the Irrigated Lands at EANFORD WHERE TO BUY In buying irrigated fruit land you will make no mistake if you get good soil in a prod climate, where you have plenty of water for irrigation, good drainage and in a locality that has been proven to be good for fruit. lifelong study of ir rigation have" examined and approved of Hanford, and as an evidence of their faith have purchased land here. Hanford is located in the center of a fruit belt that includes North Yakima, Wenatchee and Kennewick. Situated in the bend of the river 35 miles north of Kennewick on the west bank of the Columbia river, protected from exces sive winds by the Saddle mountains on the north, the Rattlesnake mountains on the south and west and the high bank of the Columbia river on the east, favored by a climate from two to three weeks earlier than other districts, tho fruitgrower at Hanford is assured of success. Don't delay until you have to pay $400, $500 or $2000 an acre for your land, but get it now on the ground floor while you can still get irrigated land with all water rights- at from $200 to $300 per acre, on terms of one-fourth down and the balance at tho end of five years. Mr. J. W. Fox, special agent, is registered at the Hotel St. George, and will be pleased to give any information or partic ulars that may be desired by parties who are interested in Hanford. He will leave Friday, April 1 7 at 4:30 p. m. with a party of prospective buyers who wish to see these lands. SPENCER, FOX & GREGORY WALLA WALLA, WASH. GROWING ALFALFA SEED III FRANCE The following Information In re gard to the growing of alfalfa seed in, France has been obtained by Con sul General Robert P. Skinner, of Marseille, from official agricultural sources: Alfalfa, commonly culled luzerne In France, is grown very generally In this country. Seed for sowing is commonly obtained In the south of France. The type known commer cially as luzerne of Provence is ob tained in tho departments of the Pouches du Rhone, Gard, Vancluse, Drome and Ardechie; the luzerns of Poltou are obtained In the depart ments of Gers, Audc, Tarn, Sarthe Vlennc, Deux Sevres, und moro or less throughout the old province of Anjou; also In a few departments In the north of France. It is unques tionably true, however, that tho seed from Provence Is superior to all oth er, yielding more generously and manifesting more reshtance to all un favorable conditions. The same fields arc utilized for growing the hay and the seed itself. In general, three crojis of hay are cut from the same field, and some times in Provence a fourth crop, called tho "regain," Is gathered. As a rule the second crop is allowed to mature, . although It sometimes hap pens that the third crop also Is per mitted to produce seed in warm re gions, when tho temperature is par ticularly favorublo; that Is to say, not too damp. Sowing ami Harvesting. The seed is sown broadcast, and the growing crop requires no partic ular attention, whether It be Intended to cut the grass before or after ma turity. Alfalfa Is never planted in rows for seed growing purposes. The value of lands suitable for al falfa growing ranges from 2004 to 3, 000 franca per hectare ($156 to $234 per acre) in his part of France. The crop is cut cither by hand or with an ordinary mower, and the seed is thrashed out by means of spe cial Instruments resembling the wheat threshing machine. The cheapest type of "decuscuteur," or classing and purifying machines, If offered for sale at $17.37. It Is claimed for it that it will eliminate stones, dust, all the cuscute, and near ly all tho plantain seed, at the same time dividing tho grain into two two classes, one containing only fine large grains and the other all the small grain. Moro elaborate devices TEA There is nothing that costs so little, both money and work, and that goes so far if it has the chance, Voar from returns roar doiit If JO Uk IchullBC'i Bti w pr him. are offered for sale at from $34.75 to $96.50. The wages paid to farm laborers where alfalfa is grown arc usually three francs (68 cents) per dav. Tho seed Is thrashed by contract, the price varying between 8 and 100 kilos ($1.54 to $1.93 per 220 pounds) of need yield. Yield of Seed. A wide difference of oDinion Dre- vails In regard to the average yield tif seed per hectare (2.47 acres). One practical seed man places It at 500 kilos (1,102.3 pounds), while an other states that tho nveraee Is as much as 1000 kilos (2204.6 pounds). It Is probably somewhere between these two figures. No special diffi culties present themselves In this culture which are not met with In farming operations generally. The most persistent enemy of the ill ill' i farmer Is the "cuscute" (ge irns cuscua). commonly called In English "dodder of thyme." This parasite weed stifles the plant and causes Its death. As a rule he cus cute and other weeds disappear an nually after the first cutting, leaving the second, from which the seed Is gathered, comparatively free from objectionable matter. Finally, when the cuscute does ma ture with the alfalfa, it is eliminated In tho "descuscuteur" referred to. In certain regions prior to the second cutting a caterpillar, denominated the "negrll." sometimes makes Its ap pearance and devours the flowers be fore the seed has formed. Until now no efficacious means of fighting this pest has been found. Damp localities are unfavorable to the production of alfalfa seed; when tho plant bursts Into flower, new shoots sprout at the base of the plant and the flower Itself dries without maturing. Prices and Exportntlons to the United States. The crop of seed Is gathered in August, September and early In Oc tober, according to the region, though as a rule In September., After the field Is cut the crop is dried, and then follows the thrashing and denn ing operations, which continue two or three months. The price received by the seed grower varies naturallv with the year and the crop. In 1907 dealers Dald inn rnn per 100 kilos ($28.95 per 220 nonmlsi to farmers, this particularly high price Deing duo to the destruction of a lorge part of the seed crop by Inundations. One Informant states that throe-fourths of the Pmwnnnt crop of 1907 was thus destroyed. In ordinary years when the crop Is abundant farmers receive 110 to 115 francs per 100 kilos $(21.23 to $22.20 per 220 pounds). Rrnorfn. tlons of the crop of 1907 havo been sold to American buyers who bought early at 126.62 to $30.36 per 220 pounds. The declared valuo of exportation of alfalfa seed to the United States from the Marseille consular district in 1907 was $18,866 against $2,663 in 1906, and $19.02S in 1905. JESSE HART IS I-OST. Roy Mistaken for Cecil RrlUlan Has IHsappeared. Jesse Hart, the 10-year-old lad who was found some time ago at a rail road camp near Marshal, after an ab sence of two weeks or more, has de camped again, says a report from Spokane, but this time he did not go on foot, however, says the Walla Walla Uulletln. He took as a means of more speedy travel, a wheel be longing to Albert Blttrlck, son of Meat Inspector Otto Blttrlck, so It is charged, The mother of the child has no home, being a variety actress, and af ter the boy was returned to her she placed him In the home of .Mr. and Mrs Charles Steelman at E 11 Short avenue, and he was attending school. The lad reported to his hostess that he had found employment and that his new employer had furnished him With a wheel to ride, by way of ex- nlainlrur how ho came bv the wheel ! he was riding. Mrs. Steelman asked the boy to stop for lunch before go ing to hlH new work, but he thanked her, sajlng ho would be given lunch at the place where he was to work. Hole! St. Geofge. It. II. Wood, Portland; PenJ. A. Glf ford, The Dalles; E. H. Burke, Port land; J. Peters, Portland; F. A. Bow ers, Lewlston; W. E. Mlllstead, Uma tilla; Dr. D. H. Rand, Portland; U H. Thoen, Walla Walla; R. D. Godfrey, Echo; F. S. McMahon, Portland; M. A. Maloney, Portland; E. J. Brown, Porland; W. R. Hunt, San Francisco; J. A. Payton, Walla Walla; W. F. Peters, St. Paul; J. J. Fanning, New York; J. A. Allison, Portland; Sam Lee, Portland; Dr. H. W. Coe, Port land; George M. Runyan, Seattle; J. C. Stone, Portland; S. R. Oldaker, Her- miston; Mark J. Sloman, Rochester; Clifton Cleaver, Prairie City; John Clancty, Portland; J. F. McNaught, Hermlston; Mrs. M. H. Gillette, Echo; R. R. Johnson, Echo; E. B. Jemlson, Portland: W. E. Still, Portland; A. U I.utz, Walla Walla; J. W. Fox, Walla Walla; John H. Wright and wife, St. oLuls; E. A. Klippel and wife, Port land; J. E. Hawkins, Seattle; H. M. Ardue, Salt Lake; W. H. Daughorty, Portland; C. EC Avery, Chicago. Mrs. Cassldy (at the zoo, looking at the giraffe) An' phwy does the brute hov such a long neck? Mr. Cassldy T reach his head, av coorse. DeWltt's Little Early Risers, the famous little liver pills. Sold by Tall man & Co. $50 will buy an Eldrldge rotary sewing machine at Goodman Hard ware Co.'s. This machine Is equip ped with ball bearing stand, light ran nlng, mission oak mirror finish. Guaranteed for 10 years. TltA BltfV H J- A. COBB, Prop. I Dig 0 Will open for bus iness on or about April I 5th. " There'll be a store full of Bargains Enough for all Clothing, Shoes, Ladies and Gents Furnish ings and the largest and best assortment of 5c, 1 0c and 1 5c goods that display in your city was ever on 205 EAST COURT STREET. OPERA HOUSE BLOCK. fj52J For cooking you want sugar MwjJ that it, above all things, clean jfj j&j BERRYuii SUGAR ff iSJ Is refined in the cleanest, JjjJ I most sanitary refinery in the Xfjj SH world. At every step of the Jjjj 32 way our process would de light the daintiest housewife WHjj MA11K ONLY IV iff C. H. SUGAR RBFIN1NG CO. lK Always ask your Grocer for SpH 'Phone Main 515. THORNTON MUSIC CO 813 Main Street. HIGH GRADE PIAXOS and ORGANS Columbia, Edison and Victor Talk ing Machines, Records, Cabinets and Musical Merchandise. The East Oregon Ian Is Eastern Ore gon's representative paper. It leads and the people appreciate It and show It by their liberal patronage. It Is tho advertising medium of the section. NET PROFITS WHEN" you advertise you expect to get something out of it more than you put in it; if you don't, it's a losing game and losing money is poor policy. But it's not how much an ad cost it's how muh profit it brings you. Net profit that's the main thing.'! (j ADVERTISING is not a magic art. All it is, is putting into print effective selling arguments a good salesman would use orally. Write those arguments in an attractive style bring out the merits of a proposition so that the other fellow feels an instinctive desire to possess it tell him why he should buy it and then finally satisfy him that the price is right. To get the best results, cater to the largest number you can reach among those who make good wages and live well people who can afford to buy what you have to sell. The East Oregonian's readers are composed of that class who willingly pay 65 cents a month for it in preference to buying tho cheaper papers. Net result they are people who can afford to buy what you havo to sell. They are not penurious. They are not paupers.