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
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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
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