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Farm Garden FIELD BEAN CROP. Harvester That Throws Two Rows Into a Single Windrow. By L. C. COEBETT. For man;.' years the handling of hoe crops, such as field beans, upon an ex tensive scale was impossible because of the great amount of hand labor nec essary to Rather the crop. Within re cent years, however, labor saving de vices have leen invented, so that now the once laborious practice of hand pulling individual plants can be done away with by the use of a bean har vester. This implement is built on the princi ple of a pair of shears and consists of BEAN HABVKSTEH AT WOBK. two long steel blades mounted upon a Strong framework carried upon wheels. The long shears-like blades are set to cut the roots of the plants just beneath 'the surface of the ground. Above these Iblades guard rods or guide rods are so arranged as to move from their origi nal positions the plants whose roots have been severed, and since the im plement is designed to cut two rows of 'beans across the field the plants of two rows are thrown together in a single iwiudrow. This clears a space for the passage of one of the animals in the team, so that it is necessary for only tone to pass through the standing crop, thus decreasing the amount of loss by helling which would result from both animals being drhen through the Standing crop. After the plants are thrown together 'ly the harvester it is customary tor men with ordinary pitchforks to follow the harvester and place the beans in small heaps to cure for several days before storing them in barns or sheds for thrashing. In some Instances where the work is done upon a very exten sive scale and where the loss from shelling is not considered sufficient to Justify the employment of hand labor or bunching the beans with forks an rdinary horse rake is employed for the purpose. Where the beans are to remain for a longer period and to become more .thoroughly cured in the field and rwhere the work of harvesting is done ntirely by band the crop is frequent ly placed in shocks which are built about a pole four or five feet in height, both ends of which have been sharp ened and one end placed firmly in the ground. A small quantity of straw, grass or other material Is placed around the base of the stake and the beans as they are pulled and are piled BEAK HARVESTER. around the pole until a compact minia ture stack about four or five feet bigh is formed. The operation is very lmilar to the common practice fol lowed by growers of peanuts in stack tog and curing. The curing process In any case is carried far enough to pre ivent the vines molding after storing them in the farm prior to thrashing, tlf the vines are thoroughly ripened in jthe field before harvesting they can be stored in from two to three days if the jweather is satisfactory. Plow Points. Where too large a proportion of the arm is kept under plow the soil soon becomes impoverished and unproduc tive. All animals thrive best when fed at regular intervals and given each time no more than they will readily con ume. Clean, straight fence rows, and (fences In good repair, add materially to jthe appearance and value of the farm. When the cost of keeping a good article is no more than keeping a poor, ope It is certainly advisable to keep 'the better. No vegetable accessible to the farm er absorbs so much nitrogen from the air and leaves so rich a storehouse of ilt as clover. Kansas Farmer. ' Some New England Dairymen. ' Not a few .New England dairymen are so favorably located and have so much skill that they get an advance above the ruling price for an srtlcle of extra quality. ALL OVER THE HOUSE. Suggestions as to the Car of the Wardrobe Helpful Hints. Wishing to give the wardrobe proper care, do not forget to look every day at the binding of skirts, at the buttons on boots, at veil and gloves. Indeed ode must glance at all that has unceasing wear. A fresh binding sometimes will alter the en tire appearance of a girl, making her look neat and dainty where be fore the ragged edges of her skirt suggested that she was at once un tidy and ignorant. Shabby finery is inexcusable. Chiffon that has be come worn and ragged when it can not be replaced should be removed and something simpler substituted for it. Tears, worn places and rips never are 6een on the well bred girl, for from her early youth she has learned how, to wield her needle well and mend her belongings with as much daintiness as she embroid ers. When a Child Has Convulsions. The first thing to do after send ing for the doctor when a child has convulsions is to plunge the Kttle one up to the neck in a bath of hot water, but remember that the water must not be too hot. Test it with your elbow, which ia not aa hard as your hand. When the heat is right for your elbow it will not nurt tne baby. . The child's head should be sponged also with cold water. As soon as the little one is able to swal low give a small dose of castor oil. This helps to remove blood pressure from the brain. Diphtheria Curs. At the first indications of diph theria in the throat of a child make the room close. Take a tin cup and put into it a quantity of tar and turpentine, equal parts. Then hold the cup overj a fire, so as to fill the room with fumes. The little pa tient on inhaling the fumes will cough up and spit out all the mem branous matter and the diphtheria will pass out. The fumes of the tar and turpentine loosen the matter in the throat and thus afford the re lief that has baffled the skill of phy sicians. Boiled Ribs of Beef. Take the middle of the flat ribs of beef, stew until the meat is ten der and the bones slip put easily, using just water enough to cover the meat, to which a bouquet of sweet herbs has been added. Take up the meat and herbs. Set the liquor away to cool, remove the fit. Add to this gravy diced carrots, turnips, celery and sis small onions. Cook until tender. Thicken the gravy with a little flour, put the beef back into it to warm and serve. Sore Throat Gargle. Strong sage tea, one-half pint; strained honey, common salt and strong vinegar, of each two table spoonfuls; cayenne, pulverized, one rounding teaspoonful. Steep the cayenne with the sage, strain, mix them and bottle for use. Gargle from four to a dozen times daily, according to the severity of the case. Whitewash Hints. , xi one pint oi wneai nour is maae i t m a I into a thin cooked paste and added j to each pailful of whitewash the j wnitewasn wiu not tud on easily, Add to this a small quantity of car bolic acjd and it will purify the cel lars and dairies where used, keeping down all musty odors that might taint the milk and butter. Apron of Handkerchiefs. Obtain two large size handker chiefs. From one cut a corner about seven inches. Then gather the part that is cut. The other handkerchief can be cut up for the band and strings. The corner cut from the first handkerchief can be sewed on the right hand side of the apron for a small sized pocket. Cement For China. Take a very thick solution of gum arable in water and star in plaster of paris until the mixture is of proper consistency. Apply with a brush to the fractured edges, stick them together and in three days' time the article will not break in the same place. Cleansing Fluid. For yellow or grimy things make an emulsion of kerosene, clear lime water and turpentine in equal parts. Shake them together until creamy, and then add a cupful to a boilerful of clothes and boil for half an hour. Baked Apple Jelly. Fill a two quart granite or earth en dish with alternate layers of sliced tart apples and sugar. Bake three hours, closely covered, is delicious and should turn solid pink jelly. This out a Mustard Sauce. Blend over hot water six table ppoonfuls of mixed mustard, six ta blespoonfuls of cream, six table- spoonfuls of melted butter, a salt- spoonful of salt and dusting of pa- prika. A LITTLE NONSENSE. Demanded a Trial by a Jury.. His Peers.. I have been engaged in the prac-, Dotf t neglect drg water at bee of law a good many years, said ason Cf the,year, and have It S. S. TJrmy, police judge of Topeka, rrosn for the birds every day. During Kan., "and about the most humorT the cold weather add a pinch of cay ous thing I ever saw in a courtroom enne pepper to the drinking water, was in Topeka. "One day an old negro man was being tried in the justice court that was before the office of police judge was- created and he demand ed a trial by a jury of his peers. He could neither read nor write, and his lawyer insisted that the jury, to he his peers, as required by law, must be unable to read or write too. spring by a few days' hard flying. To avoid dispute I agreed to it, but Grit should not be overlooked during we had a time finding twelve men the coId weather, when the birds ar. in Topeka who could neither read kept m confinement and the ground i, F. , t, , . , ,,; frozen too hard to permit them to picl nor write. But we did find them, up tbe necessary lngredients for th, and the case went to trial. purpose of properly digesting their "Before the jury retired I took r00d; hence we must provide plenty of two pieces of paper and wrote 'guil- good sharp grit for our pets, ty on one piece and "not guilty on Don't allow the birds to bathe ofterv the other and instructed the fore- er than once a week during cold weatt man of the jury to destroy the one er' as tne dangers of their catching he did not wish used and to return f1? a,re to n"m -. the benefits the other to me when the jWnd pleasure the bir derive from It. , , " . " " . J"jp anor m my opinion, a bath oftener than reached a verdict. The jury was out once a week durm tne cold weatn(sr only a few minutes when it came in. woui,i be "penny wise and pound fbol- The foreman handed me a piece of ish." paper with the word guilty written Provide plenty of perches for tb on it. birds so that none will remain hud " 'Well, gentlemen you find him Sled up on the floor or in corners sub guilty, do you?' I asked. to a draft of cold air, which No, sah, jedge, no, san. We vm result j? a case of rouP' cankw a lit, m,n i, or consumption. UU1XC XUUUU 1 1 I III Wt gtljltj, BAflU3 up one of the jurymen. Then he added, with disgust, 1 tole thai fool nigger he was tearin' up the wrong piece Star. of paper.' Dr. Chiropodist and His Sign. C0RN5 REMOVED FCOttJ ALL THE CROWNED HEADS OP EUPOPE Ally Sloper. Didn't Know the Dialect. It is probably a fairy tale, but nevertheless it is told that Andrew Carnegie had just emerged from the White House when he was ap proached by a newspaperman. "What did the president say to you, Mr. Carnegie f' questioned the reporter. "Hoot, mon, gang awa' !" answer ed the ironmaster in the language of his boyhood. "Yes," said the reporter, "and I see you went away, but did you hoot?" Woman's Home Compan ion. Not Posted. "Hands ud!" said the footnad. Anfi jf T refuge?" nueried the 1 belated pedestrian. "Well, in that case," resumed the footpad, "I can only say that you rinn't know the rules nf t.h mma I decline to negotiate with one so grossly ignorant, Good night, sir: Philadelphia Ledger. Not Appreciated. "Do' you keep anything from your wife?" "Well," answered Mr. Meekton, "I try to tell her everything. But she finds my conversation so dull that she generally goes to sleep be fore I am half through." Washing ton Star. Thwarted. The airship inventor was puzzled. "If I could manage to apply the hot air I talk about my machine to the machine itself I'd fly, all right," he added. But he couldn't. Brooklyn Life. She . Won Out. Her Before her marriage Grace was a girl with a mission. Him What was her mission? Her To marry a man with . a mansion and she won out. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. An Excellent Start. "Dumley says he thinks he'll go in for yachting this summer He's more than half equipped already." 'Got the yacht, has he?" "No, the clothes." New York ! Press. Disproved. Mrs. Newpop Shakespeare said that "good luck lies m odd num bers." Mr. Newpo But his wife never blessed him with triplets. Not the Original Amount. "Her face is her fortune, isnt it?" "Tes, and she's raised the theck too.1 Hr- PIGEON HINTS. Some Suggestions For Breeders of the which will not only warm the biros up, but will prove very beneficial. Whole corn fed shortly before dusk during the cold winter months will aid in keeping the birds Warm and com fortable during the cold nights, and as homing pigeons are not used f 01 flying during the winter months the additional flesh that com will put 01 the birds can easily be reduced in th Keep an eye on the birds in general and remove the first one that shows symptoms of disease of any nature, as its presence among the flock will prove ixansas Uity an expensive experience to our care lessness, and, besides, "an ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure," especially to pigeon fanciers. Go through the loft with the cour age and heart of a lion and get rid of all birds that are not( fit to be fed dur ing the winter, as a good bird will eat no more than an inferior one, and the money saved from feed on .an inferior bird will soon buy a full blooded speci men. Have no mercy on a cheap, In ferior specimen. Open Front Poultry Houses. Wilber Bros, of Petros, Tenn., say: We use and much prefer, especially in the south, where our winters are mild and summers warm, the open front scratching shed style. Probably this style of house would not suit the north ern or eastern breeders in their deep snows and zero" weather. It gives great satisfaction south, where the winters are mild and deep snows sel dom seen, and birds can be on ground most every day In the year. For. young growing stock we prefer and use movable houses made of light wood and often piano boxes or large dry goods boxes well covered and ven tilated, that we can move often from place to place, that birds may have new range. A Remedy For Worms. For adult fowls affected with worms try one tablespoonful of oil of turpen tine mixed with an equal quantity of olive or sweet oil. This remedy should be given after the bird has been fast ing for at least twelve hours. It is best given by Introducing it directly into the crop through .a rubber tube passed down the throat. The mixture can be placed in an ordinary hard rubber syringe with a soft rubber tube attached to same. The dose may be repeated in two or three days if neces sary. Thoroughly disinfect all drop pings, using a good creolin disinfect ant. To Cure Feather Pulling. Mix a teaspoonful of extract of aloes with half a cup of lard and apply this ointment to the affected parts. The bitter taste will discourage the feather pullers. If the birds are closely con fined you may find it necessary to use poultry bits. These are small wire bits which can be attached to the up per mandible and will prevent feather pulling. They can be had pf almost all poultry supply dealers. Keep Chicks on the Grass. It may be handy to throw scraps out at the kitchen door or window, but this practice makes a nuisance of the chickens if the yard fence is not chick en proof. They loaf around the back door waiting for a few crumbs and do not grow so fast as they would rang ing green fields, picking np the dainties nature so generously provides at this season. Hens on Range. When hens are on range, the amount of food they get Is an unknown quanti ty, and as they are sure ot exercise enough, it is usually safe to feed them all they will eat Feed bnt twice a day. Give In the morning as much of either mash or grain as they will eat clean and go foraging after eating. In the evening give them all they will eat. Raising .Pheasants on Chick Feed. Pheasants are considered hard to raise. They are certainly harder to rear than chickens. They are being successfully raised now on chick food. Formerly it wa8 considered necessary to feed them on maggots; but this has been proved to be a fallacy. Golden are most common and are considered one of the most hardy varieties. Poultry Industry's Aids. L The Western Poultry Journal be lieves that "the incubator, brooder, spray pump, liquid lice killer and dry chick feeds have ben the greatest aids in the advancement made by the poultry industry." Wheat is the best all round feed for the hens. But they nead something besides wheat after all. THE TOAD. Kb Eyes and Its Venom and tha ' Changing of Its Skin. "Moving slowly through the long grass is a small, rough skinsed crea ture, almost the color otthe earth that shows at the roots of the ; trees," writes a nature observer. "It .is a toad just emerged, somewhat J tardily, from- his winter hiding place (a hole about as big as" him self) and only now awake to ex ternal influences. Lethargic -and I sleepy though he is, he is quite suf- i ficiently alert to know, that I am looking at him and wondering to see how his skin has lost all its color from the long absence of the light. It is hardly possible to trace any shade of olive green and dusky yellow- or ashen gray and brown upon the warty surface of his back. And the darker markings which some times form irregular bands over the back and legs are merged into the general dullness and dustiness of the soil which has covered him for so long. As a rule, toads and frogs and other hibernating animals are seen in the open as soon as the first warm days of spring restore their lowered temperature. "Some people wonder what Shakespeare meant by the 'precious jewel in its head.' The brilliant eyes with their yellow rings, like a gold setting to the onyx, are as gems laid upon its head. Wonder ful eyes they are in their range of vision and able to see meal worms placed to the rear fan quicker than when some distance ahead. The venom of the toad, which is an acrid, milky fluid concealed in the glands at the back of the head, has been many times described by nat uralists as harmless unless it touches some abrasion of the skin, when it causes local irritation. But though not particularly virulent when swallowed by another animal, yet injected into a wound it is very active and causes ulceration and all the symptoms of irritant poisoning. A dog which has once seized a toad and tasted" this bitter fluid and burnt his tongue will never attack one again. Snakes will starve rath er than swallow -a toad. "During the warm weather the skin is sloughed, and the ponderous toad shakes off the thin film that covers him and emerges in a new skin, fresh and bright. So also do the frogs change their skins in the course of the summer, assisting in the process themselves. The old cuticle divides down the center of the back and the two halves grad ually fold and recede farther and farther from the center. By con tinued twitching the folds are brought down the sides, and then the hinder legs, first one and then the other, are brought forward un der the arm, which presses down upon it and thus draws off the old skin inside out." Truthful Boy. "Thomas," said Mr. Smith as he gazed into his son's eyes with a soul searching look, "have you eaten any of those peaches I put in the cupboard ?" "Father," said Tommy, "I cannot tell a lie. I have not touched one." Mr. Smith eyed him wrathfully as he plunged his hand into the pocket of his coat and drew forth five incriminating stones, which had' each once been enshrined in the lus cious flesh of a peach, but which were now staring in all their horrid nakedness. "Then how is it," said the parent, "that I found these peach stones in your bedroom, and there is only one peach left ia the cupboard ?" "Father," said Thomas as he si lently but swiftly left the room and nlaced a chair in such a position that Mr. Smith would fall over it if he followed too quickly, "father, that is the one I never touched!"-' Pearson's. O ivf Your Home THE First - National - Bank of Corvallis has some TO WN IOTS Near the State Agricultural College which you can buy on the INSTALL MENT PLAN or for cash; y" Save Ten on Twenty Dollars per month-and pay the same on a town lot Tfcfereafter BUILD YOUR HOME on the lot and continue to make these small monthly payments on the home and you will soon have it paid for and have no more rent to pay. For information address W- H. SAVAGE Corvallis, Or A Square Seal Is assured yon when yon boy Dr. Plana! family medicines for all the tngrtdt ents entering into them are printed on wits wtiwa-vtrapiierai una tneir iormuia are attested under oath as being complete and correct. You know just what you are paying for and that the ingredient are gathered from Nature's laboratory, being selected from the most valuable native medicinal roots found growing in our American foresfXamLvvhlle potent to curt are perfect! harmjjssvani to the most ielicate woinWila"?eTr Not a drju triii'tlliir a:' i nrp: principles iisgpnttiem. viz. nijre triTrra rehned glyciTinc. This agent possaea Intrinsic it .icmai properties of its own, being a mos valuable antiseptic and anti ferment, nutritive and soothing demul cent. Glycerine plays an Important part In Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery In the cure of indigestion, dyspepsia and weak stomach, attended by sour rlslnss, heart-burn, foul breath, coated tongne, poor appetite, gnawing feeling in stom ach, biliousness and Kindred derange ments of thw stomach, liver and bowels. Besides curing all the above distressing ailments, the "Golden Medical Discovery" is a specific for all diseases of the muco.ii membranes, as catarrh, whether of the nasal passages or of the stomach, bowels or pelvic organs. Even In its ulcerat: . e stages it will yield to this sovereign rem edy if its uso be persevered in. InChronia Catarrh of the Nasal passages, it is well, while taking the "Golden Medical I-.s-covery for the necessary constitutional treatment, to cleanse the passages freely two or three times a day with Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. This thorough course of treatment generally cures the wont cases. In coughs and hoarseness caused by bron chial, throat and lung affections, except con' sumption in its advanced states, the " Golden Medical Discovery? is a most efficient rem edy, ospeciasly in those obstinate, hang-on coushs caused by irritation and congestion of the bronchial mucous membranes. The "D is" covery is nTt so good for acute coughs aris ing from sadden colds, not must It be ex pected to cure consumption in Its advanced stages no madlclne will do that but for all the obstinate, chronic coughs, which, if ni" lected. or DcCi? treated, lead up to consump- upo-jtus tne ocst nieaicipe mat canjoex Jnllus Caesar Was a man of nerve, bnt sickness left its mark and be became aged before his ti-re. Sickness is often caneed by a tor pid liver. Herbine will repnlate your liver and give you health. Mrs. Carrie Austin. Hollon, Karsas, writes: "Icon sider Herbine the best medicine I ever heard of I am never without it." Sold by Grhham & Wortbam. Notice to Creditors, In the County Court of the State of Orecon for Benton County: In the matter of the estate of Jeeee M, Gilfttrap, deceased. Notice is hereby eiven that J. P. Hummerhaa heen appointed Administrator of the estate ot Jesse M. oilstrap, deceased. All persons havlne claims against said estate are herebv required to present the same duly verif ed as by jaw required to the undersigned at Philomath, Benton County Oregon, or at the office of J. F. Yates at Corvallii', Benton County, Oregon, within six months from this date. Dated September, 10, 19CT. 7fr88 J. P. Hummer, A Most Worthy Article, When an article has been on the mMr. ket for years and .gains friends every year, it is safo to call this medicine a worth one. 8uch is Ballard'6 Hore bonnd Syrup. It positively enres coughs and all Pulmonary diseases. One of the known merchants in Mobile, Ala., says: "For five years my familv has cot beea uvuuic-u wiiii intj winder rougnp, w owe this to Ballard's Horebound Syrup, I know it has saved my children trom many sick spells." Sold by Graham & Wortbam. Notice for Publication. United States Land Office. Roeeburg, Oregon, Jul S, MoT. Notice! is hereby given that in cotrpliancewlth the provisions of the ctof Coreress of Junut I878. entitled "An Act for the sale of timber lands In the states of California, Oregon, Nevada, end Wuh. ington Territory," as extei,ded to all Public Laoal States bv act of Aujrurt 4. 1802, Lvdia J. Bawley of Monroe, County of Benton, State of Oregon, filed In this office on April 4, 1907. her sworn statement No 8465 for the purchi?e of the Southwest quarter of Section No. 2 in Township No. 15, South of JRanre No. 8 West WW.. Ore., and will offer proof to show that the land sought is more valuable for ite timbw or stone than for afrricultural purposes, and to ea. tablieh her claim to said land before W. W. Calkin. U. 8. Commissioner, at fus office in Euifene, Oregon' on Monday, the 4th day of November, 1907. She names aa witnesses: Leonidas H. Hawley ef Monroe, Oregon, and Sam Bowen, Alfred Rv craft and M. P. Kjcraft, all of Alsea, Oregon. Any and all persons claiminfr adversely the above described lands are requested to file their claims in 1907 cffice on OT Before aid 4tn ay of November, BENJAMIN L. EDDY, Register, Lest We Forge! Baby is restless, can't sleep at nieht, won't eat. cries spasmodically A bottle of White's Cream Vermifufrft never fails to cure. Every mother should eive her baby White's Cream Vermifuge, So many times when the baby is pal and fretful, the mother does not know what to do. A bottle of this medicine would brine color to bis cheeks and Isnehter to bis eyes. Give it a trial. Sold by Graham & Wsrtbam. Notice to Creditors. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been duly confirmed and appointed executor ot tbe Last Will and Testament and estate of Marv A. Moore, deceased, by the county Court of tb State of Oregon for Benton County, sitting la probate. All persons having claimB against aafel estate are required to present tbe same, duly veri fied, to me at my residence in Corvallia, Oregon, or at the law office of E. Holgate in Corvallia, Ore gon, within six months from the alate ef the first publication of this notice. Dated at Corvallis. Oregon, this 24th dav si .September, 1907. . "V J" . C" T. . Farmers. Read tbe "Weekly Oregonian" of Port land and tbe "Corvallis Gazette" for tbo general news of the world, also for In formation about how to obtain the beet results in cultivating tbe soil, stock rais ing, fruit raising, etc. You can secure both of these excellent papers for one year by paying to the 'Corvallis Gazette" the sum of two dol lars and fifty cents, in advance. Remit 'the money by postoffice order or bank draft and these most valuable papers will be promptly mailed to you. 83tf