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PAGE TWO, DAILY EAST OREGOXIAN, PENDLETOX, OREGON, MONDAY, JULY 20, 1008. EIGHT PAGES. BUBBAHK TELLS STOHY OF CACTUS la sleeper free of charge. The pas sengers will be carried on the Lewis ton sleeper until the Walla Walla train Is met, when a transfer to the Wnlla Walla sleeper be' made. . The travel on the new train Is in creasing each day, and the heavy In crease In the business of the Paclflo Express company suggests the appre ciation of the new service by the people. GREA T BARGAINS FOR THE WEEK at the SACRIFICE SALE 500 Pairs of Oxfords Placed on sale tinue today and will con- until sold. NINETY TONS PER ACRE AS 1 1RST YEAR CROP 8 and 10c Figured Lawns at, yd. 3 12 20c Sleeveless Vests at, each .... 14c 50c Sleeveless Vestsat, each ... 35c 15c Figured Lawns at, yd. 7 1"2C 15c Light Colored Percales at, yd. - 9 All Calicoes at, yd. ...... 5C Best Apron Ginghams at, yd. ... 5C 15c Dress Ginghams at, yd. - - - 10c 25c Swisses and Lawns at, yd. 12 1-2C 12 l-2c Checked Glass Toweling at, yd 9 15c Bleached Linen Crash at, yd. 12c 65c Bleached Table Linen at, yd. - - - 48c 75c Bleached Table Linen at, yd. - . 59c 89c Bleached Table Linen at, yd. - - - 67c All FANCY WHITE WASHINGS at HALF PRICE. Men's and Boy s' ' Ready - Made Clothing at Great Sacrifice. Men's 12.00 Two Piece Suits at - -$6.00 Men's 15.00 Two Piece Suits at- - 7.50 Men's 20.00 Two Piece Suits at - 10.00 Boys' 3.50 Suits, all kinds at - - - 2.65 Boys' 4.50 Suits, all kinds at- - 3.35 Boys' 5.00 Suits, all kinds at - - - 3.85 Boys' 7.50 Suits, all kinds at - - - - 5.95 Men's Summer Underwear Sacrificed. Men's 50c Summer Weight Underwear Men's 75c Summer Weight Underwear Men's 1.00 Summer Weight Underwear Men's 1.25 Summer Weight Underwear Men's 1.50 Summer Weight Underwear 40c 60c 85c 90c 1.20 Pure, Wholesome Groceries at Lower Prices. Get our prices on Harvesting or Camping Supplies of all kinds. The Peoples Warehouse Where it Pays to Tra,de Save Your Coupons ra INTERESTING DATA FROM STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE Good Care urnl Maiiajfcnu'iit Neces sary to Succc of Ioultry IJuiness .More Difference In Individuals Tlion In Breeds. The 'iiiestion as to which Is the mo.t profitable breed of fowls is very frc'iiutntly asked. There are un doubtedly differences In breeds but undue Importance should not be placed upon breed. The trap nest has shown that there Is more differ ence In Individuals than In breeds. Breed isn't everyting'. If a man starts In the poultry business with the best breed, as he believes, and has with it the notion that breed Is everything he will meet with inevitable failure, The breed may be all right but the fowls must be encouraged to do their best by good care and management. When eggs are firm at 40 cents a dozen and the hens fall to respond the owner Is likely to become unrea sonable and take up with another breed, and most likely the fault was not in the breed. The fault Is usual ly one of two things: either the hens are of a poor or non-productive strain or the breed, or the management is poor. It is a point In management that I wish to ppeak of here, one point In many that muHt be taken Into account if poultry-keeping is to be 'made a ituccets. It is a question of the most profitable age of the hen. Poultry men who have kept In touch with poultry investigations during the past few years ar pretty well Informed on this point, but the importance of this subject Is not yet generally appre ciated. The writer carried on for several years at the Utah experiment station a line of experiments with the object of determining the 'value of the hen at different ages for egg pro duction. If V The same hens were kept year af ter year under similar conditions, and record kept of production ' and of food consumed. These experiments proved that the hen is different from the cow which retains or Improves year was the most profitable, and there was a gradual decrease in pro ductiveness each succeeding year. It is safe to figure this decrease as 25 per cent each year. With average prices for food and for eggs it Is not profitable to keep hens after they have finished their second year of laying. The first, or pullet year. Is very profitable, the second will give a satisfactory profit, but during the third year the egg yield will seldom pay for the food consumed. These conclusions apply only of course where eggs ars sold at market prices. Fowls that have a special value as breding stock should be kept longer, but the notion that the old speckled hen Is the good layer should not be cherished unless she Is caught in the trap nest. The fact that she sings a joyful song, paints her comb a brilliant red and scratches as vlg orous scratch should not be accepted as sufficient grounds for commuting sentence. It is safe to say that the poultry- keepers or this state would be many thousands of dollars in the pocket by rigorously killing off the hens every two years and replacing them with new stock, with the exceptions above noted. Where the pullets and hens are al lowed to run together It will be ne cessary to mark them, otherwise It will be difficult to separate the old stock from the young when It Is tie- sired to market them. The usual method of marking Is to punch a hole in the web between the toes when the chicks are hatched. This Is easily and quickly done with a punch which may be purchased from the 'poultry supply houses for 25 cents. A num ber of different markings may be made In this way. Where the prac tice Is to dispose of the hens every two years It will be sufficient to mark them every other year. Cherry Harvest Is On. The cherry harvest at Clarkston is nearlng Its close. For the past few weeks over S00 people have been kept busy picking and caring for the Immense crop. It is estimated that 100 carloads of cherries will have gone out of that place by the end of the season. The far-famed Blngs led the list. This cherry Is dark, and will not show bruises and is solid enough to ship a considerable dis tance This variety Is very large this year, one grower producing some which required only seven in making her productivity with age. The first a row across a 10-lnch box Valuablu forage Plant Is Described by Its Discoverer Tliouilcss Cactus Not Only Yaluublo an Stock Feed Rut Also us Food for Man. DIG IDAHO CROPS. Hail Roe Much Damage, Hut Rains Were Needed. A report from GrniiKovllle, Idaho, snys: Another good souklng rain to day brought great Joy to the farmers, :unl notwithstanding the great dam hbo to the crops In the section visit ed yesterday by tho hailstorm, tha wain output from Camns prairie this year will be tremendous, about a So well udupted Is the thomlcss eactua being propagated by Luther Iiuilunk, to the semi-arid soils of I'matilla county, that the East Oie iTiiiiinii i'. .mints a. linrtloll of ail 111- troductory article In Iiurbank'i i-ata- '"'rd larger than last year, ..." l'inv ri.tldu it-Ill l.ritt'..at logue of this cactus Just received at this office. It is believed that the thorn loss cactus will be largely grown in the desert districts of tho eastern Ore- section and the following us- gon solution and explanation from Mr, liurbank will be of Intense interest to the readers of the East Oregonlan. Mr. Liurbank says: During the past two years the Uni ted States department of agriculture has dispatched agents to all part where cacti grow to look up this mat ter and last season gave some valu able Information gathered from those who had for years been feeding the wild, thorny ones to their stock with good results when properly prepared by fire, though it is acknowledged that thus prepared-a portion of their nutritive value Is lost and though the dangers of loss from feeding to stock are lessened, are not' by any means safe, even by singing or any other process, while many of these new thoruless ones are as safe to handle and as safe to feed as beets, potatoes, carrots or pumpkins. But let it be understood that these thorns are not growing on the wild Opuntias for ornament any more than poison fangs, teeth, claws and stings are possessed by various ani mals. They are for defense, and when deprived of these defences they must be protected from stock like any other feed grown in farm, fields or gardens. Still some doubter who has no knowledge of desert condi tions will say, "Will It pay?" Does anything pay? Some people seem to thltik thai corn, wheat, oats, barley, cotton, rice, tobacco, melons and potatoes pay. How many tons of wheat or pota toes can be raised each season on an acre of good soil? Yes well, by ac tual weight In the summer of 1906 in the cool coast climate of Sonoma county, Cal., on heavy, black "adobe" soil, generally thought wholly unsult ed for cactus, my new Opuntias pro duced the first year, six months from single rooted leaves, planted about June 1, an average of il H pounds per plant on one-fourth acre, yielding at the distance planted (2x5 feet) at the rate of ISO, 230 pounds (over 90 tons) of' forage per acre. Some of the best varieties produced very much above this average, though planted much too closely for perman ent field culture; yet these notes are of Interest on a subject of which little has been known. These Opun tias are always expected to produce nearly or quite double as much feed the second nnl su"cepfiriir yoar ns they do the first xeain of plaining. Yet I would" not expect one-fourth the above yield on desert soil with out irrigation but would expect near ly or quit" twice ns much as the yield mentioned above in a very warm cli mate with one or two light Irrigations each season. These Improved Opuntias must of course be fenced from stock; the leaves to be fed to the stock when most needed, and in countries where great numbers of valuuble stock are lost In times of unusual drought will be of inestimable value and will also, without doubt, prove of great value in less arid countries as a common farm or orchard crop even on the best agricultural soils but more es pecially on barren, rocky, hill and mountain sides and gravelly river beds which are now of no use what ever. The small, hard, wild thorny cac tus has been a common everyday food for horses, camels, mules, oxen, growing and beef stock, dairy cows, pigs and poultry for more than 50 years, though millions have died from the thorns, yet, no systematic work for their Improvement had been tak en up until some 15 years ago; now agriculturists and horticulturists In every land are deeply Interested .and tho governments of many counties are taking measures to secure a stock of the Improved Opuntias to avoid If pos sible tho too common occurrence of famines for the Opuntias can remain uncultivated and undisturbed year after year, constantly increasing in size and weight until needed: then each acre will preserve the lives ot hundreds f human beings for months until other food can be obtained. Many fields will harvest 60 bushels of wheat to the acre. The section damaged by the hall Is amall com pared to tho whole of the prairie so that tho damage will be only a drop In the market. Gut while the territory hit by the j hall was small, wherever It reached j the damage was unprecedented. John Callan, who lives eight miles north of town, was In today and says his crop Is completely destroyed. A number of his pigs were killed by ! the hall, some of them weighing 60 j pounds. Several of them had their hacks broken by tho hall, which was i ns large as oranges. Fowls were ! killed In numbers and several horses had their eyes knocked out. Limbs , were broken off the trees, thp bark knocked off and his orchard rillned. John Coram, the old pioneer farm er, says this Is tho third severe hall storm that has visited the prairie In the past 25 years and that It Is the greatest grain country In the United States. 8tstt of Ohio, City of Toledo, Loess Coon tr. Frank J. Cheney makes oath that Is eulor partner of the firm of P. J. Che- nev lc Co, doing buslnera In the City of Toledo, County and State aroresalA, ana that aald firm will oay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured tr the ue of Hall's Catarrh Cure. PRANK J. CHEXEt, Sworn to before me and subscribed In my presence, this 8th day of December, A. D., 1886. (Seal.) A. W. OLEA80N, Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken Internally, and acts directly on the blood and mo rons aorfares of the system. Send for tea tlmonlala frea. P. J. cnENEY A CO.. Toledo, O. Sold by all Druggists, 75c. Take Uall'a Family Tills for constipation. Notice to Contractors-Builders. Bids for building Odd Fellows tern pie at Milton, Oregon, will be received up to 4 o'clock p. m., July 25, 1908 Plans and specifications can be seen at my office In Milton, Ore. The right to reject any or all bids Is reserved. O. W. INGLE. Sec. If you see It in the East Oregonlan, It's so. Pastime Parlors COOLEST PLACE IN TOWN. MOUTOR & O'DANIEL. Props. A quiet game, orderly place for a game of Pool, Billiards or Bowling SHOOTING GALLERY, Cigars, Tobacco, Confectionery and Soft Drinks. Best Tables In the city. SECOND TRAIN FOR LEWISTOX. Mixed Train Makes Connections With Walla Walla and Pendleton Coun try. The second train on the Lewlston Rlparla line was added to the service Monday morning and departs from the Northern Pacific depot at 8 a, m. This Is a mixed train and will carry both passengers and freight. 'The connections at Rlparla will facilitate travel Into the Walla Walla and Pendleton country, as passengers leaving Lewlston at 8 In the morning will reach Walla Walla' at 2 o'clock In the afternoon. The train will re turn to Lewlston in the evening, ar riving here at 8 o'clock. The O. R. N. company has com pleted arrangements for accommo dating tha travel Into Wall Walla on the night train. Passenger! securing Pullman tickets in Lewlston will be entitled to a berth in the Walla Wal- Our Specialty is I . theFamily Trade T We are fully prepared to fur- T nlsh you the best of lard, sau sages and fresh, smoked or cured meats and fish each day. Central Meat Market Carney & Tweedy, Telephone Main S3. 'Phone Main 515. THORNTON MUSIC CO 813 Main Street. HIGH GRADE PIANOS and ORGANS Columbia, Edison and Victor Talk ing Machines, Records, Cabinets and Musical Merchandise. Tan, Chocolate and Patent Colt Ox fords, $3.50 and $4 val. now $2.45 A full line of Children's tan Oxfords and Sandals just received, also included at wholesale prices. Final Clean-Up Sale on Summer Wash Goods Figured Lawns, 25 and 35c values, now 1 7c 20c 15c 10c values values values now now now 12c 9c 7c Extra Special -25 per cent, off on all Muslin Und erwear. Alexander Dep't Store Givers of Best Values I You Pay For Your Competi tors' Advertising When It Is Bottor Than Your Own! OF COURSE the bills are not sent to you he pays them, BUT he pays them out of profits which would have been yours if your advertising had been better than his. You will continue to pay the other fellow's advertising bills and, in the same way, for his automobiles, his new store fixtures, his expan sion in every way until you decide that you'll stop it, improve and expand your advertising, SET THE PACE YOURSELF, AND Make Him Pay For Your Advertising ! Best Show of the Season Coming Two Mights, mjMZi Wed, t Thurs. A Gaaranteed Attraction. A Positive Guarantee With Every Ticket Sold. Band and Orchestra OREGON THEATRE Glamans Players, High-class vaudeville specialty between each act Not one dull moment from start to finish. Carry all special scenery for the play. Latest special Mechanical and electric ' effects. Three shows in one Drama, vaudeville and music by our superb orchestra. i v Two free street concerts daily, 12 o'clock and 7:30 p. m. Tickets 25, 50 and 75c. On sale at Pendleton Drug Co A Company of 16 Persons j
