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Some People OFFICIAL PAPElt. CIRCULATION MAKES Buy advertising space because rates are low generally the circulation is a sight lower. Circulation determines the value of advertising ; there is no other standard. The Gazette is willing to abide by it. Tfie Paper. Without it advertisers get with one exception, has the largest circuht- Therefore it ranks high as an advertising medium. Zl TENTH YEAR HEITNER, MORROW COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 181)2. NO. 515. SEMl-WEBKLY GAZETTE. PUBLISHED Tuesdays and Fridays BY THE PATTERSON PUBLISHING COMPANY. ALVAH W.PATTERSON Bus. Manager. oris Patterson ...Editor At ?3.00 per yenr, $1.50 for six monthB, $1.00 lor turee miming; iu advance. Advertising Rates Made Known on Application. The "SAQIjS, " of Long Creok, Grant County Oregon. IB puollsneu oy tne same eum nnnv pvurv Fririnv mnrliine. Subscription price, $,-lper venr. ForadverttsingrateB.addresB r-rz-r-Kr -r.' T a. I ' 1 I-! W.S5r;r Krlllnr and Manager, Ix)ng Creek, Oregon, or "Gazette," Heppner, Oregon. THI8 PAPER is kept on tile at E. C. Pake's 1 Advertising Agency, H4 and 05 Merchants tracts for advertising can bo made for it. 17 C. PENTLAND, SECRETARY OF THE Vj . Oregon Press Association, 26 Ash Street, between First and (Second, Portland, Oregon, is our onlv agent located in that place. Advertis ers should consult him for rates and space in the Oazette. THE UAZETTE'S AG SNTS. Wagner B. A. Hunsaker Arlington, Henry Heppner Long Creek, 'IheKagle Echo, Bob Shaw Canuis Prairie, Oscar Ue Vaul Mattcson Allen McFerrln Nye, Or.,. H. C. WriKht Unrdman, Or., J, A. Woolery Hamilton, Grant Co., Or Mattie A. Kudio lone T. J. Carl Prairie City, Or R. R. McHaley Canyon City, Or 8. L. Parrish Pilot Hock, G. P. Bkelton Davville, or., a SV0W John Uav, Or F. I. McCalluin Athena, Or John Edington Pendleton, Or., Wm. U. McCroskey Mount Vernon, Grant Co., Or Postmaster Shelbv, Or., Miss Stella Flett Fox, Grant Co., Or., J. F. Allen Eight Mile, Or., Mrs. Andrew Ashbaugh Upper Khea Creek B. F. Hevland Douglas, Or ; B,- White Lone itoek.Or...." R. M. Johnson Gooseberry W. P. Snyder Condon, Oregon Herbert Halstcad Lexington .-. W. B. McAlister AN AOKNT WANTED IN EVERY PRECINCT. Union Pacific Railway-Local card. No. 10, mixed leaves Hepnner 8:20 a. m. 10, " ar. at Arlington 11-50 a.m. 9, " leaves " 8:47 p. m. " (I, " ar. at Heppner 7Xl p. m, dully except Sunday. Kant bound, main line nr. at Arlington 8:50 p. m. West " ' " leaves " :30 p. m. Night trains are running on same time as before. HEPPNER-MONUMENT STAGE. Stage leaves for Monument daily, excei t Sunday,- at 6 :80 A. M. Arrives daily, except Monday, at S :00 p. m. United States Official. President lienianiin Harrison Vice-President Ley! P. Morton See eln:y of ate John W. lost r B-cretw-yof Treasury Charles roster Secretary of Interior J- W. N oble Heen-tary of War Stephen H Elkms Secretary of Navy i-:"' F-10 PostinKster-Geueral John Wanan aker Attorney-General W. Ii. H. Miller Secretary of Agriculture Jeremiah Kuak State of Oregon. ryof-S:"V.-.V.""a..SSS Treasurer Pnl1- Helsnhan Supt. Public Instruction E. B. McKlroy Senators 1 J. N. Uolph j Binger Hermann Congressmen j W. R. Ellis p!lt Frank O.Baker VnuUr.... (F.A. Moore Supreme Judges U. Ib Seventh Judicial District. Circnit Judge WWJ'H,rWita Prosecut m Attorney W. H. Wils n Morrow County Official". Joint Senator Henry Blekman Keliresentative rPJ" ("..nntv Tudne Julias Keilhly Connnissioners. . . . Peter Brenner J. M. Baker. , Clerk J-,WMrh!r Sheriff $" Noble. Treasurer W. J. L ezer Assessor B- ' Hurvevor Isa Brown " lS&v::.v::.v:::w: HEPPNEB TOWN OFFICERS. Mv. T.J.Matlock Counr-il'in'e'n' O. E. Farnsworth. al Lichtenthal, Otis Patterson, S. P. Garngues. ThoB. .ilorgan and Frank Uilliam. Raorder A. A. Roberts. Treasurer E. G. Slocum uSai.?.V.V............. J.W.Rasmus. Precinct Offleerp. Justice of the Peace P. J. Hl L'oustable J. J. Robert Cnlted States Land Omcers. THE DALLES, OR. J. W. Lewis JMT T.S.Lang Ileceivr LA GRANDE, OB. A Cleaver Register SECBEl SOCIETIES. Doric Lodpre No. 20 K. et f. meetii ev ery Tuecday evening at 7.80 o clock in their Castle Hall. National Bank boild iiie. Bojonrning brothers rordiallv in vited to attend. Kmil VoBOZ, C. (. C. AUBBET. K. of B. 4 S. tf KAWL1N8 POST, NO. 31. a. A. E. Meets at Lexington, Or., the last Saturday of each month. All veteran are Invited to joii a i - C I4rtnn. Oxo. W. Smith. Commander. Adjntant, tf PEOFESSIOITilj. A A. EGBERTS, Keal Estate, Insnr- ance and Collections. Office in Council Clambers, Heppner, Or. swtf. J. N. BKOWN, JAS. D. HAMILTON. Attorney at Law. Brown & Hamilton Practice in all courts of the state. Insurance, real estate collect! in and loan jurents. Prompt attention given tu all business entrust ed to them. Offick, Mais Htbhit. Hippseb. Obioos. Where? At Abrabamoick'e. 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Concerning Transplanting from Seedbed to Open Field. Lato cabbages are each as mature dur ing the months of gnrtember, October and November, the v ed for which is town in the open ground iu May or dime, as ttie ground used tor late cab bage only yields one crop, unless manure is cheap and abundant, it will not often pay to use it in the-prfusion required for early cabbages. It U usual to manure in the hill, as is done for early crops, if with stable manure, but when that is not attainable, some concentrated f er tilizer, such as bona dust or guano should be used, giving a good handful for each hill, but being careful of course to mix it well with the soil for about nine or ten inches d,;ep and wide. In this way about 300 pounds per acre will be needed, when 6,000 or 7,000 plants are set on an acre. In our practice we find nothing better than pure bone dust and guano mixed together. In transplanting c-ibbages from the seedbed to the open fk Id in summer, the work is usually done in' a dry and hot season end of June or July and here again we give the oft repeated warning or tne aosoiute necessity ot having every plant properly firmed.. If the planting is well done with the dibber, it may be enough, but it is often not well done, and as a measure of safety it is always best to turn back on the rows afier planting and press alongside of ach plant with the foot.' This is quickly done, and besides it rests the planter, so that he can start on the next row with greater vigor. The cultivation of lato cabbages is in all respects similar to that of early, ex cept as it is usually planted alone; the work of cultivation is done entirely by the horse cultivator, the rows and plants in the rows being, accoiding to the kind, from twenty-four to thirty inches apart. There are a great number of kinds of fered in the different seed lists, but ex perienced cultivators confine themselves to but very few kinds, says Henderson in his Gardening for Profit, from which the foregoing cultural notes were gleaned. 'j The Potato Hot. The potato rot fungus attacks both the foliage and the tuber of the plants, causing in the one case what is called blight of the vines, and in the other what is best known as jv.itato rot. The first appearance opjthejv i seen in yellow spots and a powdery Bubstance on their surface. These spots soon turn brown, and finally the whole plant be comes infected and dies. If the leaf spines come in contact with the tubers, or if the fungus reaches them through the stems, rotting of the tubers ensues, provided there is a continuance of warm, moist weather, which seems to be a condition attending the prevalence of the disease. In seasons when the at mosphere is cool the tops are not at tacked, and if the soil remains cool the tubers will often escape when the tops are destroyed. Unfavorable climatic conditions of course cannot be prevented, bnt it should be remembered that a loose, light soil does not promote the decay like one in which water is held and the air enters with difficulty. Deeply planted pota toes may escape; while tubers lightly covered may more readily contract the disease from the vines. As a rule pota toes should be dug as soon as the vines show that they have been struck by the rot. As an applied preventive some of the experiment stations have reported favorably on spraying the vines three or four times with bordeaux mixture. Used at half strength and with paris green, beginning with the appearance of the potato bng, it may be made to serve two purposes. Early planting and early harvesting are auo in the line of safety against the potato rot. Late Turkeys. A correspondent in the American Agriculturist says concerning late tur keys: In the last fifte"ii years I have owned several turkey hens that have, while taking care of tho first early brood, laid eggs, and then batched a second brood toward the latttr part of Bummer. 1 think vigorous huus will often do so if allowed to sit early. It makes the young turkeys rather late, but with good quar ters and good care they can be Bold in February, as they will then be five or six months old and, taking into account the higher prices to be obtained at that season, will generally bring more than the early ones marketed before the Christmas holidays. If from lack of proper care they are not salable in Feb ruary, they can be kept over, and make plump, heavy birds for the early winter market. Some of the heaviest and most salable turkeys that I have ever sent to market have been such very late broods, wintered over without extra care. Such hens will always be in demand by every buyer who wants a Thanksgiving or Christmas roast, you may be sure; and the gobblers will not be overlooked. Asparagm for Market. Market gardeners appreciate the ad vantages of rubber bands when bunch ing asparagus for market. Professor Greene, of the Ohio experiment station, set the fashion, and a favorite way with him last season was to sup a rubber i band over an ordinary coffee cup, hold ing it near the top of the cup. Then the cup is filled with the asparagus to bo bunched, thrusting the heads of the shoots downward into the cup. When the cup is fnll the rubber band is pulled over the top of the cup upon the aspara gus, the bunch removed from the cup and another band slipped over the bunch near the top3. This makes a bunch of about the right size and leaves the top of the bunch nicely rounded. ' All that re mains to be done is to square the buU with a sharp knife. 1 SWARMING. A Wisconsin Woman Exprei,Re Her View on Hiving lleea. When hot we.nther comes on, a thriv ing hive will begin to "hang out," as ii is called; that is, the bees gather in clusters on the outside of the hive. After this a swarm may be looked for at any favorable time. The bees are not apt to come out when the wind blows hard or in cloudy weather. Between 9 a. m. and 8 p. ni. is the usual time. Bees have many singular freaks, not al ways the same, but varying in their ways. Sometimes they will alight on the high est limbs of a tree. Two years ago sev eral swarms all alighted on currant bushes; then they are harder to hive, be cause they have to 1 gathered with a large wing or brush broom on a dust pan and then emptied into tbe hive. A medium sized cherry or apple tree is the most convenient, where tho swarm may be reached with a stepludder. When put on their stands in the spring the bees should be placed with a view to some near and convenient tree, where they will naturally cluster. Home have had good results by planting a mullein stalk with its black top resembling somewhat a swarm of bees lighted to gether, and bees have considerately used these. Sometimes bees are notional about the hive in which they are put, and will soon vacate it. If they aro contented with their quarters they will at once go to work cleaning out the hive if it seems to them to need it. Last year a hive came off and did not appear to take kindly to the hive, and scattered through tle air as if demoralized. The queen waB found, having fallen in tho grass One of her wings was clipped as an ex periment, and she was returned to the hive; but as she seemed restless the bee keeper made a little cage of wire net ting, put the queen inside and hung the cage in the top of the hive on one of the cross pieces. In five minutes every bee belonging to the swarm gathered in the hive and made no further movement to ward running away. A week or so afterward the top was taken off to see the result, and the bees were making combs as if nothing had happened and had made a little alloy up to the queen's cage by which they could get to the queen and feed her through the wires or rather between them. In the course ef a month the queen was liberated and all went well with them afterward. Watching for young swarms becomes very monotonous when they are tardy about making their appearance, unless some one of the family has the time to give to it. If well attended to bees will double and often more, too, in numbers in the same season, besides supplying the tablt, with aria of liw'greaicsv luxu ries, unadulterated honey. On a hot day before bees are shaken into a hive it ought to be well wet on the inside with cold water and a little salt or sugar dis solved in the water. Mildew of the Gooseberry, The claim has been generally made, and as generally accepted as correct, that our native varieties of the goose berry are mildew proai, but according to a bulletin from the Michigan experi ment station, when applied to tho plan in open culture, it must certainly be taken with grave exceptions, since oven the Houghton, which most nearly ap proaehes the native type, rarely, in open exposure, wholly escapes a partial loss of foliage from mildew; while Smith and Downing, with such exposure, very generally in midsummer lose all save a few of the terminal leaves of each shoot True, says tlie uuthority mentioned, these two varieties, usually cailed na tives, may, from certain of their pecul iarities, not unnaturally be suspected tu possess a strain of foreign blood. Ee this as it may, they certainly are too hnglish in this particular. x Sweet Potatoes. The best soil for tho sweet potato ia a warm, well drained ono of medium fer tility. ' Rich soil is liablo to produce too rank a growth of vines and the conse quent development of tubers too small for use. A plau followed by some of our progressive fanners is that of scattering a special potato fertilizer in the furrows at the rate of bOO pounds or more per acre. The cultivation consists in keep ing the sou free from weeds and occa-1 sionally lilting the vines to detach them from the ground where they have begun to strike root between the rows and hills. Chrysanthemum Show. The New York Florists' club holds the annual chrysanthemum show of 1H92 at Madison Square garden during the week beginning Nov. 1. J. V. Gottschalk, whose office is at the garden, is tho one to whom applications for space may be made. The premiums offered amount to nearly $fJ,0U0 for exhibits of chrysan themums, palms, foliage plants, ros.'S, carnations, violets, mignonette, lilies of the valley and miscellaneous plants. Agricultural Notes. Cotton has been ginned bv electricity at the Agricultural and Mechanical Col lege of Alabama, t Auburn. The mesquite bean, that grows ran': in Mexico and Texas, when browno I and ground, it is said, masquerades as a genuine Java, which it resembles in ap pearance and odor. I The majority of beekeepers use full sheets of comb foundation in tho sec tions. Only thin sheets, made especially for that purpose, should be used for comb honey, says Tho American Bee Journal. It has been demonstrated at the Kan sas station that when a high quality of fodder is required farmers must grow the fodder or ensilage crop by itself and keep it distinct from the crop grown for grain. The furnishing of grass sod for city and town lawns and plats is a flourish ing industry among a certain class of farmers iu tho vicinity of New York and other large cities. Thinning tree fruits is now practiced by our best fruit growers. Better fruit and mora money ia tbt remit. THE SUMMER CAMPAIGN. Preparations That Are Always Made by ' tlood Dairymen. The following are essentials of prepa ration: If tlie milk can is old and cor roded with rust, buy a new one for the use of milk, and use the rusty one in which to draw hack whey from the factory. The iron eroded from the old can may make a good tonic for the pig's swill, tint such a tonic is not needed in butter a:::! cheese. Where do you generally store your whey at the farm for pig feeding? Y'ou probably do not consider it of much value anyway, and so dump it into an old swill barrel that soon becomes rank iy sour. Well of course the wasto fluid of milk is not as nutritious as a grain mixture, but what untri-.ueiit there is remember costs you nothing but the labor involved in preserving, and it is worth saving. In dairy sections it has been time and again proved that swine could be kept in flourishingly growing order on whey alone, with a limited grass pastur age, but the whey, understand, did not have its nutritive quality destroyed by an intense acidity. Now, while -you have time, fix a well hooped barrel or cask just inside of the pigsty and with edge over the trough. A common wooden faucet should be placed at the bottom of the barrel, with nozzle over the trough, but protected from the reach of the swine. An open trough should lead from the top of the barrel through the wall to outside of tho sty. In coining from the factory with whey yon have simply to stop at the side of the sty ami dump tlie whey into tho trough, whence it flows into the barrel. By the use of the fau cet in drawing the swill off into the trough as needed you dispense with slop pails. It is vital that the barrel and troughs do not become sour and filthy, to prevent which they should be rinsed out every day, with a scrub of hot water. By tho way, how clean do yon keep your cows' udders and how closely do you strain your milk iu the spring? Generally a dairy man who is careless about allowing filth and excrement to drop into the milk is indifferent about straining it out. All milk, however, should be strained very closely, whether yon think that there is any lilth in it or not. The farmers who keep their cows most 'leai'ly bedded nra th outa who a.e th' most thorough with tho use of strainers, nut we had rather drink their milk be fore straining than somo milk after it had been strained u dozen times. 1 touch upon this subject because somany limes I have seen patrons bring their first mess of milk of tho season to the factory liberally spiced with black specks of excrement. Iu apology 1 nave had them say, "As soisf as 1 got around to it I will rig up a strainer and strain my milk." I can only say, ob serve even common cleanliness before run ever draw your milk from off tlie rm. II it requires preparation to do ibis make it now. Cor. American Cul tivator Operating Die Hits Churn. The box churn used in creameries ives the cream four falls or concus sions to each revolution. The length of lime required for a churning shows that the striking force is weak, or tho butter would come sooner. Tho force is weak ened by inattention to details, If the churn revolves too slowly, the ream merely slides along the bottom the churn quietly glides around under the cream, causing little disturbance. If the churn revolves too fast the con infugal force developed throws the cream against the entire inside circum ference of the churn and it does not fall; it rides around. Tho churn should be speeded so as to give the greatest "thud" to the cream, This causes concussion, impacts the butter globules, anil if the temperature is right they adhere. The amount of cream iu the churn has something to do with t ho work. A churn speeded so as to do the best work when ono-third full of cream, will not do so well if fuller. The cream has less fall and that in tho center of the churn is not impelled forward with the motion of the churn: it tends to stay in the mid die and the cream near the outside re voIvch anunnd.it and falls against it in stead of hitting the bottom f the churn. Some cream strikes the bottom, but a large share of it is arrested by the mass of cream. The temptation to fill the churn too full must be religiously resist wl, and the sieed of the churn must be carefully regulated to do thorough work. -Hoard s Dairyman. If A delivers 0,0011 pounds of milk to tho creamery in thirty days, containing Loo pounds of butter fat, and B delivers 13,000 pounds of milk during tho samo nine, containing 400 pounds of butter fat, what do honor, truth und justice require in the apportionment of divi dend..' Hoard's Dairyman. If. in spite of the bct care and treat ment, a milk cow persistently declines in health mil lie. Ii. it is a si;n sho has win" a-.I'd'-nt and her milk is unlit for Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report. ABSOLUTELY PURE A CHEAP POULTRY HOUSE. Its Onner Considers It First Class foi the Money Expended. I send a description of a desirable and comparatively cheap poultry house, that I think covers all the requisites for keep ing a flock of fowls in health and thrift all the year round: The building i3 8 feet wide by 10 feet long, with shed roof 9 feet high in front, sloping to 0 feet in rear. To suit my surronndings, it faces nearly west; has a door in the center with a half window over it, and a window on each side of the door. There v- window on the south end and a . liidow in the rear of the center i.? , . ,.. Siding. From the door a passage!...; or hall goes across the building, leaving a room on each side for the roosting and laying room. Between the hall snd the roost ing rooms are the nest boxes, which form the base of the partitions. For roosts I prefer 2 by 4 studding the 4-inch side up, and edges rounded. Below each roost is a board 13 inches wide to catch the droppings. The bot toms of the nest boxes are on a level with the sills; in fact, the ends rest upon the sills and a block in the center pre vents sagging. Above the nests are lath partitions, with sliding doors per mitting access to the roosting rooms when desirable; but tho eggs being gath ered from the passage, this is only neces sary when the room requires cleaning. The nest boxes are 8 feet long, 14 inches wide and 18 inches deep, divided into seven nests. A board 8 inches wide is nailed along each side of the box, even with the bottom, and thus leaving an opening 10 by 13 inches at the top of each side of every nest. If intended for the smaller breeds the boxes may be divided for eight nests. When the hens are all laviiicr. sliding dnnra close the openings on the side toward me passage, w nen one is to be set, by simply transferring the sliding door to the opposite side of the nest the hen is at once shut out from all interference of the other hims. n. matter nf tl,n t,r importance in successful hatching. I am raising oniy two breeds of fowls, but a house constructed upon this plan is capable of being lengthened and simi larly divided to accommodate' any num ber of varieties which may be desired. Cor. Country Gentleman. Kitty Vt nidus on Horse Breeding. "Our ranch," Miss Wilkins went on in answer to a question, "is in Owyhu county, and we have on it, after this season's sales, about 2,500 head of horses and 1,500 of cattle. No, our horses have no mustang blood in them, but are de scended from Clydesdale and Percheron stallions, with occasionally some trot ting blood and American mares brought from the east. We breed first for size and strength and the lung power that we think cannot be produced except by range breeding at a considerable alti tude. "Our ranch is at a height of about 8,000 feet above sea level, and our horses are never lioused or fed until we round them up to send them east. By actual measurement 1 have found them in the stock yards to be considerably larger than other western horses, and we haven't an animal in our herd that is diseased in any way, nor aro we ever troubled with any of the usual ailments of horses." Miss Wilkins has not been satisfied with Btudying the horso of the present, but has dived into geological records, and can tell you about the five toed and three toed horses, no bigger than Bheep, that roamed the plains of Idaho ages and ages and ages ago, as fluently as she can expound the superiority of open air breeding to the nursery practice of most stock farms. "Of course," she admitted, "tho baby treatment is all right if you merely want to produco phenomenal and fancy priced trotters and race horses that are good for nothing else. But if you want a thoroughly sound and hardy stock with the lung power that is one of tho firstes seutials of all round usefulness, then tho range system is the only one to employ." New York Herald. Interesting Heading. The following, from the fifth annual report of the Now York dairy commis sioner, shows Home ways that are dark and tricks that are mean In the preparation of milk at cream eries for the market of the consumer it is well known that the proprietors as a rule take particular pains to impress on tho minds of their foremen that "it must stand the lactometer test," which It is accordingly made to do before shipment, and on a failure or omission in this par ticular, resulting in defection and subse quent prosecution and line, the amount, whatever it may be. Is to be deducted from the wages or earnings of Hiich em ployee as a penalty for the offense. That such are the facts I have been personal ly informed by a number of the fore men themselves. I am well satisfied in my own mind that in this preparation of milk, not less than from four to six quarts of skimmed milk are added to each can of pure milk, though the lactometer test is power less to detect its presence by specific gravity alone. I am. therefore, of tho opinion that more samples of their milk should be taken to a competent chemist for analysis, this being the only method for the detection of such Irregularities. akin bwder