Bandon recorder., February 04, 1909, Image 5

Recently there embarked from th*
city of Milwaukee for Buffalo a grain
barge laden with 270,250 bushels of
wheat, the largest cargo of grain ever
shipped from a port on the great lakes.
While Houdan chickens. Introduced
Into this country from a province in
France, are not particularly handsome
to look at, they are excellent layers
and good to eut, though not quite as
THE EUCALYPTUS FOR PROFIT highly prized for the table as the yel­
low legged varieties.
Garden
It Has Been Demonstrated That It Is a
Paying Crop.
By NORMAN D. INGIIAM
It is always a consoling thought for
the fellow who doesn’t go fishing often
Eucalyptus planting has now passed enough to keep his band in or get
the experimental stage und may be posted as to where the best places are
considered without question as a com­ to know that his family is not really
mercial proposition. The value of the dei*endent upon his catch for their
crop aud the possibilities of growing it subsistence and that the meat market
Is within walking distance.
In California have been sufficiently
A very effective storm door inay be
made by tacking a long piece of build­
ing or tar puper on to the screen door,
using narrow cleats or strips In fas­
tening it to the frume. The ¡taper cov­
ering will protect the wire screen from
the weather, while at the approuch of
warin weather next spring it may be
removed.
3ROVE OF
EUCAUYITI’S,
BUMMBll.
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OF FIRST
demonstrated to make Judicious plant­
ings even on a large scale perfectly
safe, with an assurance of sure aud
reasonably large profits. It is impor­
tant, however, for the planter to con­
sider in the light of the best informa­
tion the nature of the product which
he will produce, or, In other words,
the market which he will attempt to
supply with his eucalyptus trees.
Eucalypts may be used either for
fuel or for hardwood lumber. For the
former purpose the prevailing prices
of wood in most of our cities aud
large towns during the past few years
have been such as to make the fuel
proposition appear extremely attrac­
tive, Many glowing prospectuses are
being offered to the public on this
basis, It should be remembered, bow
ever, that the production and use of
uatural oil are rapidly increasing, that
gas and electricity for heating pur­
poses are cheap in the cities and that
all three are coming more and more
into use every day in the place of
wood, In fact, wood as fuel is rapid
iy becoming a luxury, and there Is in
the nilnd of the writer no reason for
expecting any increase in its use as
fuel by the general public, He there
fore believes it unprofitable and un­
wise to enter upon eucalyptus plant­
ing with the sole idea of raising wood
for fuel. The profits to be derived
from eucalyptus in the future will la“
found in hardwood lumber for wagon
work, farm nnd other implements, rail
road, coach and house finishings, fur
nlture. etc. Ties, telephone poles and
bridge timber will also prove profita­
ble. For any of the above named
products of eucalyptus at least ten
years’ growth will be required, and of
course the older the trees the greater
the profits In proportion.
The wopd of most of the eucalypts
makejy gdft fuel. A grove of blue
gums five years old, set out 6 by 0
feet apart, under favoraiJe conditions
EUCALYPTUS <IL.OHUt.U8 FOUR YEARS OLD.
should yield from fifty to eighty cords
of wood per acre, while at ten years
of age 80 to 150 cords may be expect­
ed. Groves under irrigation will un­
doubtedly do better than the above
figures indicate, while the quality of
the land will also, of course, have a
great influence.
Eucalyptus planting coin mere tally
has a number of points in Its favor as
an Investment over the fruit industry,
principally because the fruit business
Is rnoro or less of an uncertainty,
while the timber proposition is com­
paratively sure. A heavy rain during
the blooming ¡>erl<xl of the fruit trees
cheeks fertilization, a small crop be­
ing the result. This is not the case
with the wood crop, where the more
rain the greater growth and profits.
The harvesting period of most fruits
extends over but a few weeks, and If
it ts uot gathered nt that time the
crop Is a total loss, while, on the other
hand, the harvesting period of the
timber trees extends over n lifetime.
The price of labor may lie high or the
value of the wood much lower than
usual. If either Is the case the trees
may lie allowed to stand. The follow­
ing year they will be larger and more
valuable.
Save the expense of buying aspara­
gus plants. They are easily grow*
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One naturalist whose name and
standing are uot reported has figured
out that the production of a pound of
honej' if expressed by the labor of
one bee would require 2,500,000 trips.
In view of these figures it ts not
strange that the little fellows get hot
under the collar sometimes when folks
rob them of their sweet stores.
Trees of the saplndus or soapberry
order grow in north Africa, their fruit
being used as a substitute for soap,
while the black seeds which it contains
are used by the natives in the making
of necklaces. The trees are very pro­
lific, the fruit which they produce con­
taining as high as 38 per cent of sa­
ponin, or vegetable soap element.
A few counties in central Iowa prob-
ably raise more popcorn thau any
area of equal extent in the world.
Tlere farmers make a business of
growing it, as do their fellows else­
where In the matter of field corn. The
growers receive from $1 to $1.10 per
hundredweight for It and In places
are erecting large cribs In order to
store it for higher prices.
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A southern college for ladies certain­
ly has much to commend it when it
lists as chief among its claims the fact
that no entrance examinations are re­
quired and that a fine herd of Jersey
cows furnishes an abundant supply of
milk for the Institution. If more la­
dies’ colleges bad less examinations
and more Jersey milk there would be
fewer broken down and invalid gradu­
ates at commencement time, with a
correspondingly greater health and
happiness in after years.
The temperature maintained In the
henhouse Is uot so important a matter
as adjusting the ventilation so that no
direct drafts will blow on the hens
while they are at roost. Many who
have studied the question and tried
the plan recommend a burlap curtain
at the windows Instead of glass. This
Is Justified on the ground that poultry
are more subject to disease from
breathing impure air in a poorly venti­
lated house than they are in quarters
which are properly ventilated though
much colder.
A common fault to be found with
the graded road work usually done by
road supervisors is that, while suffi
■ lent eartli lias been brought to the
crown of the road, the ridge is usually
left rough and uneven, with the result
that few drivers have either the pa­
tience or patriotism to work it down.
For tills reason traffic usually follows
the slopes of the highways, the crown
of the road being left until teams are
driven on to it by muddy roads in the
fall or spring. Were the crown of the
road finished more carefully and
smoothly and ¡»osslbly dragged or roll­
ed. the work would be much better
done and more satisfactory all around
to those who have to.drlve over it.
Summer is the best time for cutting
tlmlier. It dries rapidly and becomes
hard and sound. Cut and saw bass­
wood in summer, and in a few weeks
It will t>ecome thoroughly seasoned
and will finally harden so as to al­
most resemble horn. Cut it In winter,
nnd it will bo so long In seasoning as
to l>ccotne partly decayed before the
process can be completed. No doubt
the presence of the water or sap In
■rent abundance in winter, aud espe­
cially toward the latter part, hastens
fids incipient decay. Kails cut and
split in summer and the bark peeled
to hasten drying have lasted twice
ns long as winter cut rails. It la the
practice to cut nearly all timber in
lite comparative leisure of winter, but
It certainly would be lietter to pay a
higher price to bave It done tn sum-
■HIHK
DYMMliE, IN THE WAKING. Coquille River Transportation
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Tlie \e», Elegantly Fitted nn«l Speedy Steamer
Co.’s Schedule'
WcifiWtn Who Xra Er.-.i«-^i< J by ^.-ath
In C.JU.’u i.-.J ."
< Coquille levaes Bandon. 6:30 a ni;
So t!k*rf>iu.Uiy divcptJv*» L< dynamic
In tlie iiia..ng that >01. me ap« to i arrives al Coquille 8:30 a nt
•K lap >--i:;ie.i on liewing Hie -uirfa, e Dispatch le tves Bandon 7:00 a ni ;
Thu steamer is new. u strongly built and Sited with the latest improvements and will
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roll ii i.lii more ten HI,, 1 ai r vet at Coquille, 10:00 a in
give a regular 8 day service, for passengers and freight, between the Coquille river, Oregon.
A
fancy t'.uimb-rbo!:.4 leiptag mid , ra i-
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:ug from tender blue »Gies thin la t Favorite leaves Coquille 7:30 a ni ;
the tu. rt fearfi.I fnr.-e« hi mail > a;-.* arrives at Bandon 10:30 a tn
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hidden unde! su li u p.-1 -eiul extetiut Coquille leaves Coquille 9:30
a m;
Nitroglycerin, a cupful of which would
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arrives
at
Bandon
11:30
a
m
distribute you over square miles of
land a ape,
diligent!., mixlag aruv.-d Dispatch leaves Coquille 1:00 p ni;
J. E. W ALSTHOM, Agent, Bandon, Oregon.
you in hundreds ami thou .and« of g::l arrives in
Bandon 5:00 p tn
E. T. Kruse, managing agent, 24 California St.. San Francisco.
Ions.
it Li making It.elf In big iron retorts, Favorite leaves Bandon 1:00 p m;
cascading down leaden gutters and arrives at Coquille 4:00 p nt
merrily tumbling in minute Niagara i
The Coquille connects with the
into immense vats, where the dell
quescetit yellow peril pursues its Jour­ trains at Coquille for Marshfield and
ney powderward. Out of one recep­ Myrtle Point.
tacle Il fares furiously through ape. tai
The up river passengers can come
lead coils, driven only by cooling blasts
to
Bandon on the Favorite and have
of air. aud is drawn off like draft ale
and |ii|M'J on to the next perfecting three hours here in which to do
stage. Gate witli the nitroglycerin ex­ their trading and other business.
pert into one of those big caldrons.
The interior is brilliantly illuminated
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by electricity, the only Illuminating
week or month. Sample Room in Connection.
Sunrise ntilk is home manufac
agency permitted in or about the dan
ger houses.
tured, is sweetest, purest and best
Around you are other bouses at uni
For sale at R. H. Rosa Co’s store
form distances apart and connected
by a series of narrow gauge tracks
wherein workmen are railroading ul
troglycerln from here and pulp cotton
from there to be compounded into dy­
namite and blasting gelatin Greatest
care is taken iu rolling the product
from house to bouse. As soon ns a
loaded cart Is ready to pass out of the
nitroglycerin house, for Instance, 11
semaphore signals from mi adjoining
station, to which the consignment is
carefully hurried.
BRIDGE A BEACH Stoves, Ranges and I h aters have in them so many excellencies
Around you are long storehouses
that
they are now acknowledged the greatest sellers on the coast and they arc growing
packed with pulp iu tons of innocent
in favor every year.
We have the exclusive agency in Bandon for these household
whiteness. Presently this pulp will as­
sume a tan color under tin* nitrating
and office necessities, and prices range exceedingly modest in either case.
process, and then, suddenly becoming
TINNING AND PLUMBING A SPECIALTY?
carboifite, red cross, Hercules. Judson
and giant powder, fi.relte or wtiat you Do You Wish to Increase
Our Assortment of Hardware, Tinware and Edged Tools is Most Complete.
order, it develops the quasi virtues of
Vour
Earning
Power
dynamite—dynamite or blasting gela­
tin in which mote natural forces are
The best method of doing this
condensed to the cubic Inch than exist
is to take a course in Book-
any win-re else in creation
1 loath,
keeping or Shorthand at the
curbed and sleeping, encircles you In
gallons und tous. Annihilation threat Miller-Cleaver Business College
en< nt every turn in tin- form of p iien-
Our Students are in demand all
the time and always command
tin) pulverizing forces. But the n-’n
good salaries. Prepare your­
ai d the mercury are there nisi», a) -rt,
First Class Latin Jry Work Guaranteed.
Special
self and we w.ll see that you
responsive, reliable.—Leslie s Weekly
E L 1 Z A J 3 E T II
First-class Passenger Fare.
Freight Rates,
Bandon
THE HARDWARE MAN
BANDON STEAM LAUNDRY
Family Washing a Specialty
LIBRARY SLOW POKES.
Time Killing Methods of Official*
Continental Europe.
attention given to fine woolen goods.
Cleaning aud
tn
“Americana who grumble about hav­
ing to wait n long time for books when
applying to a public library,” said a
Boston literary woman, "should try to
w'ork or study in a foreign library, par­
ticularly in Germany.
“The typical continental librarlau
taken no account of time. The reader,
worker or student must turn in his or
her application for books at least a day
In advance. The men who search for
the books applied for are aged, totter­
ing creatures who have been shuffling
around the dusty idles of books for
years, and the word hurry Is not in
their vocabulary.
“The most priceless books and man-
uscrlpts are kept in places which are
perfect fire traps, and disorder pre­
dominates in every department. When
you speak about the impossible meth­
ods employed the librarians tell you
that they are too poor to introduce any
modern indexes or catalogues. This is
to some extent so, but as a matter of
fact they would not change if they
had all the money In the world at their
disposal.
“They do not w ish to encourage the
comruou people to use books. The
learned are among the aristocracy, and
I he spread of the knowledge which is
hidden in those wonderful literary mu­
seums is far from the purpose of the
men at the head of Europe’s libraries.
“There may be some delay in our li­
braries, but our people in the lower
walks of life are certainly ahead of
the common ¡»eople of the old world in
the matter of getting books when they
want them, and generally free of
charge."—New York Telegram.
MILLER- CLEAVER
Business College
NORTH BEND
F. A. BATES, Proprietor
Ihi C m ? tle C an er PAEvssnr:
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Caiiio. niu’s favorite, the most sue
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Powder, string o<* pill form. Write
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THE CUTTER LABORATORY
Wagons of All Kinds Made to Order
B erkeley , C al .
If your druggist does not stock oui
vaccines, order direct from
For Bargain Day.
“She’s no lady!”
’’Why, I always thought her moat re­
Ilow would It do to ask your better fined.”
naif if that machine with which sbo
“On the surface, yea. But what do
has la-eii doing (lie family sewing for a you think of a woman who wean her
niiml>er <>t years past does not need re­ little boy’s football shoes to the bar-
pairing or replacing by a new one? She gain sales and spikes every one who
may not have got into the habit of gets in her way ?”— Cincinnati Bn
asking for everything that she would quirer.
like, and it ts barely possible that you
have failed to mention It to her I
After Him.
there is nuytliing that Is calculated to
“It’s hard to lose your friends," re­
tax the pttleter and rouse the Ire of marked the man who was down and
i « i otherwl •• <' • > tempered woman It
out.
Is a ma In <• wlii It Is out of wlinrk
•’Hard?" snorted the man who was
and will '» s' e cannot get to respond on the high tide of pr.wperity. “It’s
io her attempts In regulate Such a impossible.”—Philadelphia Record.
inn- hine i l i the same class with a
balky
«ell
< ¡q !■'<• or a reaper that'
The Prompter.
won't II I 1 lieu prop« -ly If the ma-
“T supitoae that inspiration prompts
rlitne is w. rn «n t. turn P In on % trade many of your Jokes.”
er throw It «.•> »!»«• link pile nnd glad
“A few,” admitted the pres^humor-
den t'a- i - • I wHc s >i■ n’t by fetching 1st. •Desperation, howeter. TM-ompt»
her a lien one
,tk£ most.”— Louisville Courier-Journal.
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Horseshoeing a Specialty
Job Work attended to promptly and all work guaranteed to give «atidaction.
reasonable. Shop on Atwater Street, Bandon, Oregon.
The Town to Be Born in,
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In the German town of Kllngenberg,
near Aachaffenberg. Itavnrla, in addi­
tion to having no rates to pay for the
upkeep of the town, those actually
born In the parish receive from the
municipality a sum of £12 15s, n year.
This sum. if invested regularly at. say,
3 per cent, would entitle the owner to
twelve about £1,500 nt the age of sixty
—a very handsome old age pension.
Wore it not necessary that the inhab­
itants should prove birth in the parish
before liecomlng entitled to thia pay­
ment the popularity of Kllngenberg as
a place of residence would doubtless
be enormous.—Westminster Gazette.
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pressing Mens’ .Suits and Ladies’ tine skirts given
prompt attention
OREGON
liter
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$3 on Up Freight
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your ahilitiy.
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