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HEPPNER, MORROW COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 25, 1894.
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Good Koatla in the South.
The southern road congress, which
met lately at Atlanta, brought out the
fact of the value of good roads, and the
pecuniary advantage of them was fully
recognized. Among the cases cited was
the experiment ma4e in building good
roads by the people olE Union and Essei
counties, N. J. The ' pecuniary bene
fits resulting from this work are
summed up in a report from the board
of freehhlders of the former county,
which states that the total outlay haf
been nearly $350,000, and there are now
nearly forty miles of telford and macad
am road in the county.
The beneficial effect of the roads is
seen in the fact that property in Union
county alone has appreciated in value
far more than the cost of the roads, as
the assessment shows. The county
issued 350,000 worth of road bonds, the
interest on which must be met annually,
yet there has been no increase in the
county tax rate, because the increased
assessment easily produces enough rev
enue to meet this charge. Very few of
these roads have been built more than a
year and most of them only a few
months, but already the people appre
ciate the advantages flowing from them.
Such practical evidence as this will
certainly encourage roadbuilding in
the south. The movement so far has
made little practical advance here and
has been confined mainly to conventions,
etc., but this is a step in the right direc
tion. It is true that conventions in
themselves do not accomplish much in
the way of roadbuilding, but they show
how the work can best be done; they
arouse the interest of the people in the
matter; they prove the value of good
highways, and they will, in the course
of time, arouse the south to the necessity
of building them. New Orleans Times-
How an Arkansas Man Grows Cow Peas
The cow pea differs from the Canada
pea in the time of planting. It will not
grow nntil the ground is thoroughly
warm, and it thrives well in dry. hot
weather. This pea can be grown after
a crop of wheat has been taken off, say
the middle of June. It is a nne son ren
ovator, being one of the few plants able
to take free nitrogen from the air. The
cow pea is to the south jnst what clover
is to the north. I would not recommend
them as a forage plant where clover will
do well, for they are no better, in my
judgment, and are much harder to cure
properly, owing to the stalks and stems
being much coarser.
Our way of sowing has been to use an
ordinary force feed wheat drill, setting
the feed at the 8-peck mark for wheat.
The best crop I have ever seen grown
was sown with an 8-Boe drill, only allow
ing every third hoe to feed, stopping up
the others. This made the rows almut
24 inches apart, and a small garden cul
tivator was used for cultivating them,
but was only used twice. This crop will
produce three or four tons per acre as
drawn in from the held. Just how far
north these peas will grow 1 am not
able to say, writes an Arkansas corre
spondent of Hoard's Dairyman.
About Cutting the Finger Kails.
There are several well known sayings
with regard to the paring of the finger
nails, and among them are the following:
"Cut them on Monday, cut them for
health; cut them on Tuesday, cut them :
for wealth: cut them on Wednesday, cut !
letter- mit them on Thurs- 1
day, for something better; cut thtm on i
Friday, you cut for a wife; cut them on j
Saturday, cut for long life; cut them on
Sunday, you cut them for evil; for all of
that week yonll be ruled by tho devg." j
Philadelpfch ?vnc 1
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MUSTY FODDEH.
Shake It and let the Wind BIot tfca j
Dut Out of It.
It is a serious mistake to feed fodder
that has been damaged by rain and wet
weather to animals without first (lust
ing it out to dry. The injurious effect
which such food has upon stock more
than equals the entire loss of all the
fodder gathered. Such fodder is gath
ered from marshy lands and meadows
that have been inundated during the
mowing time. Sedge hay or common
upland hay that lias been wet at the
time of mowing will be impregnated
with disease germs that will be com
municated to the animals that eat the
hay. Stock of ft very robust nature will
find their health seriously impaired ii
fed regularly upon such fodder.
A great deal of our sedge hay must
be cut and gathered when the feet ot
the plants are wet. During many sea
sons the meadows never get dry enough
to allow a dry harvest. This hay is gen
erally stacked for fodder in the barn
yard, and in a very few weeks mold and
rot show themselves near tne Dottom
and around the sides. If this decompo
sition goes on long enough the stock
will refuse to eat it, and as a rule nearly
one-third of the stack is sheer waste.
The storms of winter only aggravate
the matter and make the hay poorer
than in the fall. It is a cheap fodder,
however, and probably the manure
which it forms eventually pays for the
work of gathering it. Otherwise the
great loss would make it unprofitable to
cut salt hay.
All fodder thus stacked when it is
wet, whether it is salt hay, fresh upland
hay, corn fodder or any plant growth,
will contain disease germs which under
favorable circumstances will develop
rapidly. The heat of the stack and the
constant moisture are just the condi
tions that are needed to develop fungi.
The color of the fodder changes gradu
ally, and the odor that arises from it
when moved is strong and disagreeable.
If such damaged fodder is to be given
to stock, the ration of each day should
be hauled out of the stack and shaken
up so thoroughly that the wind will dry
it, and all odor will be destroyed. In
this way the wind and sun will dry it
and make it safer for food for the stock.
After it has been dried it will be well to
moisten it a little with a weak salt or
acid solution. This not only destroys
disease germs, but makes the fodder
more palatable for the animals.
Orains are often damaged in the same
way and fed in a moldy condition to the
animals. There is just as much danger
in the grain as in the fodder ration.
Damaged grain is often bought by
farmers for cheaper rates and stock is
kept upon it right along. This will
not be so cheap as the pure grains if it
is going to injure the health of animals.
Nevertheless all danger can be avoided
by dusting the grain out well and mois
tening it with the weak solutions men
tioned. In this country and abroad it is
quite a common thing to feed wet, dam
aged fodder to animals regardless of
consequences, but for all such careless
ness there is strict payment to he made
to nature. C. S. Walters in American
Cultivator.
An Experiment in Slioep.
Six abandoned farms on a rocky hill
top in Maine have been bought and
thrown into one. It is proposed to stock
them with common sheep, to be crossed
with pure bred Hampshire bucks. Street
car horses will be bought in Boston for
farmwork, commercial fertilizers will
be used and money will be judiciously
expended wherever needed. This is
what is said about it: "If successful, the
experiment will prove that a wool grow
er who does not believe in the present
duties upon wool can make mutton
sheep husbandry profitable upon the de
serted farms of New England."
Live Stock Ioints.
A magnificent addition to the hackney
horse blood in America has been made
by Mr. A. J. Cassatt, of Philadelphia,
president of the American Hackney
Horse association. While in England
the past summer he bought and brought
home the famous hackney stallion Cadet.
The horse is the highest priced hackney
ever brought to this country. The new
owner of course is rather reticent about
how much he paid for him, but the
price i3 said to have been not less than
120,000. The coming horse in America
for both riding and driving appears to
be the hackney, of which Cadet is con
sidered to be the best living represent
utive. He is H years old and of the
model height IS hands 3 inches. He is
dark chestnut in color. Breeders who
expect to go in lor money in the next
dozen years cannot, do butter than to
turn their skill and c ipital in the direc
tion of hackney bloi 1. If the present
revolution in street cn,- transit continues
the horse will go out entirely from this
service, his 'place bei: 1 taken by elec-
j trjcj1v alKi Sfiearn.
Tln-:i of horses there
will be demand chiefly I r four kinds
the heavy draft, the genei ;il purpose farm
horse, the pony and the fashionable
animal for riding and driving. Here is
where the hackney will come in.
It will be unfortunate indeed if an
thrax should crop out among any of the
cattle in this country, lu the suspected
cases of the cows that died near Wil
mington, Dal., the sympionus were bloody
dysentery, staggering gait, froth at the
month, short, quick breathing, weak
ness and great thirst. In true anthrax
after the animal is dead its body is found
to be decomposed and filled with black
blood. The disease is apt to infest rich
bottom lands. The best remedy is to
kill the animals that are infected and
quarantine the farm where the sickness
has appeared. A bacteriological exam
ination will detect with certainty
whether the disease is anthrax.
A Wyoming man has this to say;
"More cattle are now feeding on the
small farms of one slate in the great
plains than could be ranged over the
whole area from the lakes to the gulf."
When a horse is lam" and stiff noth
ing better can lie done than to remove
his shoe and let biiQ run ;u pror
THE LOST KiSS.
I put by the half written poem,
While the pen, idly trailed in my hand.
Writes on, "Had I words to complete it.
Who'd read it, or who'd understandy"
But the little bare feet on the stairway.
And the faint, smothered Iniifih in the hall.
And tho eerie low lisp on the Bilcace
Cry up to nie over it all.
80 I gather it up where was broken
The tear faded thread of my theme,
Telling how, as one nijsht I Bat writing,
A fairy broke in on my dream
A little inquisitive fairy
My own little trirl, with the gold
Of the sun in her hair and the dewy
Blue eyes of the fairies of old.
Twas the dear little girl that I scolded
"For was It a moment like this,"
I said, "when she knew I was busy
To come romping in for a kiss?
CoTne rowdying up from her mother.
And clamoring there at my knee
For 'one Mttle kiss for my dolly
And one Mttle uzzcr for me!' "
God pity the heart that repelled her
And the cold hand that turned her away.
And take from the lips that denied her.
This answerless prayer of today!
Take, Lord, from my mem'ry forever
That pitiful sob of despair.
And the patter and trip of the little bare
feet.
And the one piercing cry 011 the stair!
I put by tho half written pnem,
While the pen, idly trailed In my hand.
Writes 011, "Had 1 words to complete it.
Who'd read it, or who'd understand?'
But the little bare feet on the stairway.
And tho faint, smothered laugh in the hall,
And tho eerie low lisp on the silence
Cry up to me over it all.
James Whitcomb Hiley.
The Kansas Ilaspberry.
The Kansas raspberry here depicted
is a new blackcap from the state for
which it is named, and Orchard and
Garden considers that it is worthy of a
place among the most promising of the
berries recently produced.
A NEW BLACKCAP RASPBERRY.
The Kansas is about second early in
its season of ripening. It ripens its crop
soon after Souhegan and that class, but
much earlier than Gregg. The Kansas,
it is claimed, is a good grower, making
a vigorous growth throughout the sea
son; its canes and branches are covered
with a thick blue bloom. The berries
are quite as large as Ofregg, but clear
jet black, and without the down or
bloom that is peculiar to tho latter ber
ry. In productiveness it is superior to
Gregg. The present indications are that
this new berry will prove of value.
White Grunos.
The Niagara, all things considered, is
perhaps the most valuable white grape
in cultivation. Vine vigorous, healthy
and productive, of medium sized bunches
of fruit. The berries are large, pulpy
and sweet. Moore's Diamond is a pure '
native. Vine vigorous and productive.
Berry about the size of Concord and
greenish white in- color. Martha is of
medium quality as regards fruit; the
vine is hardy and vigorous. Pocklington
is a large showy grape. Lady Washing
ton requires a long season. Rebecca is
a delicious grape; vine a moderate grow
er. Empire State ripens with Concord;
vine vigorous, fruit tender, juicy and of
good quality. Duchess ripens before
Concord; medium sized berry and of ex
cellent quality. Winchell, a new grape
of promise, seems destined to become
valuable on account of earliness, fine
quality, productiveness and vigor of the
vine.
How to Graft Not Trees.
The failures so generally attending the
grafting of the hickory are, according
to Professor lindd, due to the fact that
the operator neglects to prevent too
npid evaporation from the scion while
the slow process of uniting with the
stock is going 011, and that in the moot
er climate of a large part of Europe this
is never forgotten in grafting the nut
trees, the mulberry or any other tree
known to he slow in uniting, lie recom
mends that, after the scion is inserted
and waxed or covered with clay, the
whole be covered with a tight paper sack
tied at the bottom.
Summer Itloouilng Itulbous Plants.
Numbered with showy gurdon favor
ites are the summer blooming bulbous
plants, such as Oxalis, valuable for
edging walks and beds; Milla liiliora.
or Mexican Star, which bloom freely in
sunny positions, and the Madeira and
j cinnamon vines, each bearing fragrant
I flowers. Tigridias, or Peacock flower,
is a handsome member of this class of
bulbous plants, and flowers freely when
the bulbs are placed in a warm, sunny I
"pot-
j r'reMlily Alnmiril I.ttnr1.
! On land freshly fertilized with barn
I yard manure wheat will not make a fine
grain, according to Professor A. E
Blount, becaiiKO the manure has a ten- '
i dency to make too much stalk and foli
I age, decidedly to the detriment of the
! grain. If barnyard manure is applied
at all to wheat it should be old and well
rotted, or what ib far better, to a crop of
corn or potatoes the preceding year and
then follow with wheat. If fertilizers
must he m.ed directly to stimulate the
wheat crop let thorn contain elements
that make uruin, nut foliage, such as
Bujieqiiioshates, potaMi, nitrates, ashes,
stilt, etc., in proper proportions.
The farm will never give you complete
eatinftictum W) hii:? t f! how to buy
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Highest of all in Leavening Power.
Absolutely pure
KILLIES AND THEIR FOES.
Not Only Fish, Fowl and Man Devour,
Rut Kven Chickens Tillage Them. J
"He doesn't mind a little thing like
that," said the deacon, kindly, as he t
passed his hook through the skin be
hind the back tin of the killie and cast
minnow, hook ana sinner the lengtn ot
his line to try the effect of a fresh bait.
"If the snappers don't bite any better
than they've been doing he'll be swim
ming as lively as ever when we pull up
anchor to go home. Look at those
killies in the bait box. Nothing damper
about them than some seaweed since
morning, and they'll all be ready to
swim away if they stay till to-morrow.
"They are tough and hardy little fel
lows and no mistake," he continued,
lifting the seaweed to look admiringly
at the wriggling little stumptailed lish
packed like sardines in the box. "They
seem to have been created for the good
of others. Everything preys on killies,
from men who bait their hooks with
them or eat the minnows as white
bait, down to the gulls and herons and
bass and bluckrish and weakflsh and
fluke and snappers that follow them
among the grass every full tide. And
with all this keeping after them they
don't thin them out that anyone can
see. Why, the very chickens along
shore will run from a dough trough
for the sake of eating killies' eggs."
"Hold on a minute, deacon," said the
reporter, who was the pious mariner's
fishing companion that day. "I grant
all the rest you say, but please explain
how chickens manage to get at the
killies' eggs, If you'd said ducks or
gfeese, I could understand it."
WILHELM AS DRILLMASTER.
Severe Ordeal Imposed Vpon One of the
Ofllct-rs of the Dragoon Guards.
The other day. says the London Daily
News, Emperor William had the sec
ond regiment of dragoon guards called
out suddenly on to the Tempelhof
common, lie then called an officer,
Count von Wedel, known to be a good
rider, and handed him a message for
the king of Saxony with the order to
ride at once to Dresden and give it to
him. Count von Wedel set out imme
diately, attended by a sergeant, and
arrived after a twenty-two hours' ride
at Dresden.
The ride took so long a time, firstly,
on account of the severe cold and the
slippery state of the roads, and, sec
ondly, because Count von Wedel was
not allowed to ride on the high road
from Her! in to Dresden, but had to take
roundabout ways, the supposition be
ing that a hostile army had occupied
the territory between the two capitals,
and that the rider had to pass unno
ticed through the enemy's lines. Count
von Wedel arrived in a very exhausted
state at the royal castle, and, immedi
ately after the audience with the king,
fainted away, lie was taken into an
adjoining apartment, where ho soon
recovered. His horse was also very
fatigued, though the attending ser
geant and his animal were not much
worse for the ride. At the king's re
quest Count von Wedel did not return
to lierlin on horseback, but by rail.
An ordinary elephant produces one
hundred and twenty pounds of ivory.
Two exhibition tusks in London weigh
one hundred and sixty-two and one
hundred and seventy-three pounds re
spectively. A satin dress in pale green is set
with jet gimp, made with quite large
triangles, squares and little disks. Hut
very few small beads enter into this
trimming; indeed, shells, drops, ar-
row-heads and long points are much
preferred.
The Williams glee, banjo and man-
dolin clubs have for the last few years
been unheard of outside of New Eng-
land and vicinity, but this year a trip
has been arranged for vacation which
,..:n vi..nl as far west as Missouri,
and include Albany, Buffalo, Cleve-
land, Columbus, Chicago, Detroit and
St. Louis.
l'HINOK LOI'IK NaI'OMOON HoNAI'AltTK
has just left the Russian army, to wear
his uniform again only in case of war.
He is an exile without a home, for the
famous villa of I'rangins, at the foot
of the Alps, near Lake Lrman, is for
ever closed. His one ambition was to
become a great soldier; the privilege
was denied him in France and he went
to Russia. Now he lays down his sword
and intends to travel.
Careful observers have noticed that
a fish hawk, after securing its prey,
will often rise very high in the air,
drop the fish, quickly swoop down
upon and seize it, and then ily home-
ward. The object of this, as explained
by an old skipper in the Lower bay of
New York, is to get the fish "head on,"
as a hawk will never lly with the tail
of its prey foremost. Ho, if it has
caught it that way, giving it a twirl it
drops it and seizes it again with tho
head tiointiuir in the right direction.
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WINTER NIGHTFALL.
The roBe has faded from the western sky
Behind the lazy mill.
The snow'B wind carven drifts in beauty lie
Where all la gray and still.
Now dim and faint the distant steeple grow
While night's drear shadows creep
Across the land and dull the weird repose
Of ashen wood and steep.
Above the fields a great enameled star
Is sparkling cold and white;
The deep dark curtains of the east afar
Shine with a sudden light.
And In a moment, with a silver flood
The full moon rises chill
Behind the tangle of the somber wood
That crowns the distant hill.
R. K. Munklttrick in Harper's Weekly.
Undemocratic France.
As a matter of fact Frenchmen art
about the least democratic people in th
world in their Bocial longings and ideals.
France is politically a republic, but so
cially it keeps up most of the character
istics of an aristocracy. The differenc
between her and America in this respect
is prodigious. In the United States it to
impossible to find a man with a decora
tion; in France it is difficult to find any
body without one. In spite of the revo
lution titles are still maintained, and the
highest ambition of every bourgeoU
would be satisfied if he could marry his
daughter to a nobleman. The insatiable
thirst to put on a uniform of some kind,
no matter what, has often been used M
a reproach against our Gallic friendv
London Telegraph.
On the Track or the Microbe.
Science is pressing relentlessly on the
heels of the microbe. The latest method
of coping with this minute but potent
source of disease is to literally cast it out
of the abiding place in which it has in
stalled itself. Micro-organisms contain
substances for the most part heavier
than water, and this fact has led to the
introduction of a method of separating
them from water, milk and other liquids
by centrifugal force. A speed of about
4,000 revolutions a minute serves to clear
a large number of microbes from the
liquid and render it limpid. Exchange,
General Grant's Well Meant Politeness.
The Btory is told of General Grant
that while engaged in an animated ar
gument with Mrs. John A. Logan on one
occasion he openod his cigar cose and
offered her a cigar and took one himself.
He lit hia own and proceeded with the
discussion. Mrs. Logan quietly accepted
one, too, but secroted it without attract
ing attention. She now preserves that
cigar as a souvenir. Springfield Repub
lican, Looking For Information.
A good brother who recently offered
prayer at a prayer mooting startod to
make a reference to Noah, but got a
little flustered and forgot the name of
the patriarch. After hemming and haw
ing for a few moments he turned to a
neighbor and asked in a loud whisper,
'Who was it built the ark?" Washing
ton News.
A Monster Ox.
The McMillan musee of Omaha owns
the largest specimen of the bovine race
now in existence. This gigantio ox was
bred by C. W. Curtis of Cass county,
la. At last accounts he weighed 8,740
pounds, stood 6 feet 4 inches in height
and measured 10 feet 11 inches in girth.
St. Louis Republic.
Birds That Lay Four Eggs.
The spotted sandpiper and killdeer
plover, and I presume most of the other
snine and plover, lay four eggs at a clutch.
The eggs are arranged in the nest or on
the bare ground with their small ends
together, and as they are pyriform in
8hflp9 they Join in to perfection. The
egg8 of the snipe and plover groups are
proportionately exceeding large for the
; Bize 0( the bird, and the saving of space
, tui. arranireinent undoubtedly an-
j Bwerg a purpose. Dr. Morris Gibbs in
Science.
No Need of Praise.
"You never sit and talk to me as you
did before we were married," sighed the
young wifo.
"No," replied the husband, who was a
draper's assistant. "The guv'nor told
me to stop praising the goodB as soon as
the bargain was struck." London Tit
Bits. Mot Misunderstood.
Guest(wearing large diamond) I trust
' you understand my bringing a oorecuve
with me to your reception?
1 Hostess Oh, perfectly. You could
easily be acquitted if we rnissod any-
thing. Vogue.
A curious book, in which the text U
nejtuer written nor printed, but woven,
as been published in Lyons. It was
mai0 0f Bik BUd was published in 25
parts, each part consisting of but two
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Honors, World's Fair.
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