Polk County itemizer., May 14, 1914, Page 13, Image 21

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W ill A s k G o v e rn o r T o “S w a t R o o ster”
K&niaa Executive Requested to Demand Doom of Chanticleer on
June 6.
HE rooster is to bare his day.
I t is to be a sad day—for the
rooster—it will be the making of
the egg business, say the produce deal­
ers, in session at the Hotel Baltimore in
Kansas City, last week.
So the dealers are going to petition
Uov. Major of Kansas to issue a pro­
clamation designating June 6 as
“ rooster day.”
The purpose is to make an annual
event in Missouri poultrydom. June
6 is to be to chanticleer what Thanks­
giving is to the turkey—a kind of ex­
ecution day, a black Friday.
On that day produce commission men
all over the state are going to ad
vertise a premium on all roosters de­
livered to them June 6. This is to
make it an object to the farmers to
sell off the cocks of the walk.
If the general market price of roost­
ers is 12 cents that day, there will be
a premium of 4 cents a pound, mak­
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Alfalfáis
'• Crop
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Food Must Be Well Masticated.
The lirst process of digestion is per­
formed in the admixture of the food
substance with a fluid during mastica­
tion. This first step in the conversion
of food into flesh and blood is a most
important one, and the pleasures* a t­
tending the sense of taste are doubtless
given to insure a proper performance
of this initiatory process of a trans
formation.
If food is not well masticated the
stomach cannot successfully perform
the second stage of digestion, and the
disastrous effects of mal-assimilatiou
will soon be apparent, affecting in some
degree the whole body.
Many dyspeptics and person, suffer
ing from nervous conditions are really
victims of mal nutrition, due to careless
habits of mastication or the inability
to properly prepare this food for re
ception by the stomach.—Dr. Jones,
Dentist, 245 } Washington St., Portland.
PRA C TIC A L experience has shown
that disking alfalfa under certain
conditions is beneficial, to the crop, yet
many farmers will not cultivate their
alfalfa plants in any way for fear of
killing them.
As with other crops, the cultivation
of alfalfa must be done with judgment.
The main object in cultivating alfalfa
plants, which usually consists in disk­
ing, is to kill summer grasses. The in­
dividual farmer must know when his
particular field must be disked. A
writer in a certain section will state
that, say, July 1 is the proper time. A
man in another section and climate will
disk his field at that time and meet
with poor success. Here is where judg­
A writer in the Technical World
ment counts. Conditions are not the
Magazine figures that there are five
same everywhere.
The time to disk alfalfa is just be­ hundred million rats in the United
fore or at the time summer annual States, and that each one, each day, eats
grasses begin to grow. This time may or destroys, two cents’ worth of prop
be in July in one section and June in erty—three billion six hundred million
another section. I t may be after the dollars’ worth a year! That is about
first cutting, or after the second cut forty dollars for each inhabitant. If
ting. Each man must know when sum­ this loss were saved by the extermina
mer grasses begin to grow in his local­ tion of the rats, it would help much to
ity, and set his disk to working aceord lower the cost of living. Indiana is
starting a crusade against the pests
ingly.
gets thicker on the ground for several
There is no danger whatever to well- that should soon become nation-wide.
years after planting. It is not injured established alfalfa plants in disking.
by the tramping of stock. Permanent The plants are deep rooted and will not
The dry lands of the West never sour,
brome grass meadows and pastures will be pulled out if they are not cut off. and there are many others things they
become sod-bound after a few years, but Splitting the crowns will do no damage. seldom do.
this can be remedied by thorough disk­ Some of the best alfalfa growers give
ing every year or two.
their alfalfa fields a severe disking and
The method of seeding brome grass is cross disking every year. Some claim
not different from that of seeding tim­ that it is impossible to injure the plants,
othy or other grasses. I t does better no matter how the implement is set or
in loam or clay soils than on those of run. The disk cuts up the surface and
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sandy nature. Spring seeding is most kills grass without injuring the alfalfa
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commonly practiced, sewing either plants. Another object in summer disk­
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broadcast or drilling it in. It should ing is to loosen the surface to admit
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be shown as early as possible in the air, and create a surface mulch for
spring to insure plenty of moisture to holding moisture. Harrowing after
start it. If conditions are favorable, disking in dry weather is an advantage.
Th.
it may be sown in the fall with winter
Fam ous
wheat. The rate of seeding is from IS
to 20 pounds per acre when sown alone,
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or if sown in mixture 6 to 10 pounds per
acre will be sufficient.
Conn Band
The brome is a very palatable grass
and is eaten by stock as readily as blue
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grass. Growth starts very early in the • M ill, HELD, a successful Logan Conn­
spring and it remains green longer than i e ty, Colo., upland farmer, says ‘‘One Sold
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any of the other grasses in the fall.
of the mistaken ideas about summer in O regon and
Brome grass has also been found of tillage is that it is connected with a W ashington by
value in improving wornout lands, since large amount of extra labor. Of course,
it produces a large quantity of stems the field while under summer tillage
and roots and adds materially to the requires eareful cultivation and in ex­
ceptional seasons almost constant watch
vegetable matter in the soil.
ing and tending. But for the next three 161 153 4th St.,
years after summer tillage the ground Pottland, Oregon.
is in sueh condition th at scarcely any
labor is needed.
No plowing is done at any time until
plowing for the next summer tillage.
After the fall wheat is harvested the
Held should be disked as soon as possi­
S the result of an investigation by ble for two Reasons: First, to make the AMERICAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC
the United States Department of top mellow so that it will receive the
.Study music at home. Positively the
Agriculture, it has been found that precipitation—rain and snow—during
the adulteration of turpentine with min­ the winter. Second, to prevent evapora­ easiest way to learn to play. Mistakes
eral oils is so widespread that druggists tion. In the spring the ground is again
and manufacturers of pharmaceutical disked, when corn or some other erop impossible. Our time ¿»eater teaches
products and grocers’ sundries used for in rows is planted. It requires no great more perfect time than any personal
medicinal and veterinary purposes amount of cultivation to keep the eorn
should exercise special caution in pur­ free from weeds. Perhaps no more than teacher. Write now.
chasing turpentine. Those who use tur two cultivations will be necessary un­
pentine for this purpose, unless they
less some extra work is done for con­
are careful, run the risk of obtaining an
servation purposes. After the crops in
adulterated article and unneceasarily
laying themselves open to prosecution rows the ground need not be gone over
I ean manufacture and repair all
till the next spring, when it is again
under the Food and Drugs act.
kinds of stringed instrument«.
pulverized
and
put
into
spring
grains.”
It has been found, moreover, that the
I rehair bow*. Price« reasonable.
Try summer tilling a pieee of land.
turpentine sold to the country stores
Write me for estímete on ell work.
especially, as usually put out by dealers
and manufacturers of grocers’ sundries,
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is often short in volume by ns much as W A N T E D — AN A S S I S T A N T
5 or 10 per eent. Dealers, therefore,
W. R. McCORD, liS'/i Fourth St.
A t $100 a month
should also protect themselves through
Portland, Oregon.
a guarantee from the wholesaler that
the bottle contains the full declared
volume.
The department has found that tur
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W* h t t e frequent e t l li for trained help
pentine may be adulterated in the South
plated
Also »11 other kind* of fin ish es on
where it is made and that the further • f th is kind. We PRODUCE experte We ar>f metal Writ# for pricaa Mail orders
it gets from the South the more ex­ $o not hare time to train you to be any­ promptly filUd.
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tensively and heavily it is adulterated.
In all eases, druggists, masufaeturers thing elae than an expert. Personal instruc­ 19th and Aldar 8traeta, Portland, Oragon
and wholesale grocers should satisfy tion la giren in shorthand, typew riting snd
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themselves that the turpentine is free book keeping.
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from adulteration aad is true to marked
On Household Goods, Automobiles and
volume.
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Machinery
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and
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Sowing cane in gullies aad allowing
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It to reused itself will, it is said, in a
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few yean stop them sad fill them
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ing the price 16 cents. All male birds
are to be sold off then, except those
intended for breeding purposes, accord­
ing to the plan.
Then only nen-fertile eggs will be
sold throughuot the summer.
And non-fertile eggs do not become
stale. They do not rot. After being
kept in a warm room three summer
months yolk and white are greatly
diminished in bulk.
Evaporation
causes it. The eggs are dried up; but
the contents—what is left—are sweet
and wholesome.
Thomas E. Quisenberry says if the
farmers will dispose of their surplus
roosters, and pen up the others during
the laying season, it will mean a sav­
ing to Missouri farmers of $3,000,000
annually. And Mr. Quisenberry knows,
because h e ’s director of the Missouri
state poultry station at Mountain
Grove.
B ro m e G ra ss in S e m i-A rid R egions
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ROME grass, botanically known as
Bromus Intennis, is a native of
Europe. It was introduced into
this country from Russia at a compara­
tively recent date. It is variously known
as Russian brome, smooth brome grass
and awnless brome grass. Brome grass
is of such recent introduction into this
country that its value is not yet well
understood. It has proven to be one
of the best pasture grasses for the great
plains region and the Northwest. It
thrives best in the north and will be
successful in the semi-arid region wher­
ever grains will grow under irrigation
or dry farming methods. It is a good
grass for the dry farmer, as its numerous
deep roots enable it to withstand
drought better than any of our other
cultivated grasses, which explains its
great popularity in the great plains
region.
About the first plaee in this country
to import seed from Russia, was the
South Dakota Agricultural Experiment
Station. A quantity of seed was re­
ceived then and a five-acre field plant­
ed. The result was that $2,000 worth
of seed was sold from this small field
the second year.
The plant is not as good for hay as
for pasture. It makes a very thick sod,
as it spreads by means of root stocks, so
Breed Dairy Cows
Once Each Year
HERE exist two dangers of allow­
ing a milch cow to remain open
for an indefinite period, writes a
correspondent of the Rural New York­
er. In the first plaee she is less apt
to conceive when mated, and in the
second place she is apt to go dry for
a long period after the mating is finally
made in ease she does settle. It is cus­
tomary la large dairies, where the
calves are not an important item of
value, to r e m it the eows to freshen
once in 15 or‘ l$ months.
Ordinarily, howsver, for dairy farm
praetieaa it is moek more desirable to
mats them so tbs' they will freshen
once each year. This practice stim­
ulates the milk flow, and unless n cow
is particularly a good milker she is leas
apt to give as much milk if irregularly
bred end not permitted to freshen at
frequent intervals. The animal will
keep in good condition physically if not
bred. In fact, she is very apt to put on
an excessive amount sf flash, and this
■a one of the reasons why she is lass
apt to soassivs whan mated.
Instaness are frequent where eows
have been used for family purposes and
not brad for intervals of two years sr
mors, hut it is the exception rather
than the rule to have sash animals give
milk enough to pay adequately for the
care involved in their maintonanss. If
desired to carry a sew ever from spring
freshening to fall fr eshening or if nec­
essary to avoid calving during fly time
the practice Is jw d fie i.
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MUSICIANS!
FREE
Labor In Summer
Tillage Pays
GRAVES
MUSIC CO.
Turpentine Often Is
Adulterated
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