Heppner gazette., July 01, 1909, Image 3

Iloilremliitr a IVfRlcilea Unrdeii.
Discouraging as a neglected garden
may appear, It la not beyond redemp
tlon, even so late In the season but
It must be taken hold 'of at once
Stunted and falling crops, choked by
weeds, should be pulled out at once
wteds and all, and burned, and the
ground plowed or spaded, and replant
ed.
How much more satisfactory and
profitable it might have been to have
planted only half the space, and work
ed it well, then to have scattered the
available labor over the entire ground
and do nothing to perfection.
A garden with rows upon rows of
all the delicious vegetables of mid
summer and not a weed to be found
Is Indeed a pleasant picture. But how
few of that class are found! Instead
of choice vegetables there are rank
weeds, and where order and beauty
Bhould reign,' desolation stares at one
in too many family gardens, caused in
the majority of Cases by simply "bit
"ig off more than we can chaw."
Clienn Corn Cultivator.
An excellent home-made device for
use in cultivating corn and other crops
where frequent work is desired to
hold the dust mulch is shown in th
cut. The side pieces should be at least
A HOME-MADE CULTIVATOR.
6 feet long and made of oak or other
hard wood 3 Inches wide and 1V&
Inches thick. The rear pieces can be
made of any width to accommodate
the distance between the rows. The
teeth are made of forty 60-d spikes,
which are driven in clear up to the
head. An iron ring is fastened to the
front end, while the handles are taken
from an old plow. Any handy man
can make a cultivator of this kind
which Is the best I ever used. F. B
Treadway, in Farm and Home.
Sulphur Fumigation.
It takes some ingenuity to burn sul
phur in a vessel, as it tends to smoth
er flames. If several pounds are to
be burned, a fire of cobs or sticks
eoaked with kerosene must be built
above the sulphur and kept burning
until you see the blue flame of the
sulphur licking up through the wood
blaze.
One way to disinfect the poultry
house with sulphur is to dissolve one
half pint of turpentine and one-half
pint of tar in one-half gallon of kero
sene. Soak corncobs in this solution,
and when ready to burn out the poul
try house for lice or germs of disease
have ready a sharp-pointed piece of
Iron to thrust In the end3 of the cobs,
Bet a lighted match to it and while
it burns pass the cob over the roosts,
cracks in the henhouse and every
where about it. This should be done
every week for a month or more.
Agricultural Epitomlst.
(Syntcm of Ventllmlon.
Details of the Kins system of ven
tilation are shown in the diagram.
The outside of board wall is indicated
by A and the opening for admission
i
of air is at C. On the right there
is shown a cross section of wall with
outside opening at D and inside open
ing at E. A valve is arranged at
E to regulate the supply of fresh air.
The Frrd of 1'olta and Calves.
It is a mistake to allow the colts
and calves to go onto pasture skin
pure. Keep them in good flesh with
hay and grain foods. Corn and clover
hay are about the best feeds for these
young animals, and they will eat them
all the year round. Dry clover hay
la relished by all cattle and horses,
even when on good summer pasture,
and It Is a good thing to give them
daily feed of it.
Goat for Milk.
The great goat industry Is occupy
ing considerable attention In the East.
Seventy-seven goats have been accept
ed for registration by the American
Milk Goat Association during the year.
One hundred and eighty-seven are now
on record. Any goat yielding one
quart or more of milk a day li eligible.
C'owa GivliiK Down Milk.
John Burrows, the well-known scien
tint, in regard to cows giving down
their milk says: Many persons think
that giving down or holding up the
milk by the cow is a voluntary act.
In fact, they fancy the udder as a
vessel filled with milk, and that the
cow releases or withholds it just as
she chooses. But the udder is a
manufactory; it is filled with blood
from which the milk is manufactured
while you milk. This process Is con
trolled by the cow's nervous system
When she is excited or in any way
disturbed, as by strangers or by tak
ing away her calf or any other cause,
the process is arrested and the milk
will not flow. The nervous energy
goes elsewhere. The whole process is
as Involuntary as is digestion in man
and is disturbed or arrested in about
the same way.
Middlemen.
Retailers are necessary according to
present methods of doing business and
until farmers organize a selling force
of their own middlemen will continue
to toll the farmers' grist as thorough
ly as the traffic will bear. Peaches
may rot on the ground in Missouri
while selling for 2 cents each in Chi
cago, but the farmer in Missouri is
helpless because he has no represen
tative In the market center. The time
will come when farmers will have an
agent at each central point to handle
farm products and distribute -them
either to the consumer or retail gro
cer. When that time comes farmers
will come nearer getting what they
work for. It is just as necessary to
sell right as to farm right. Agricul
tural Epitomlst.
Wante of Timber.
The prodigal waste of timber during
the last forty years is estimated to
averaee t50.000.000 annually, or ap
proximately $2,000,000,000 worth of
timber wasted. It is time there was
a national movement to conserve our
national resources and arrest the pro-
dieal waste of our forests and the ue
pletion of the fertility of the land.
While Uncle Sam is no longer rich
enoueh to cive everybody a farm
there is plenty of agricultural land to
suDDort a population of 300,000,000 in
the United States, Texas alone being
canable of maintaining 80,000,000 peo
Die if all her arable land were under
cultivation to cereals, fruits and vege
tablesFarmer's and Drover a Jour
nal.
I'aaalnK of Horned Cattle.
Horned cattle and horned sheep are
ranidlv disappearing. Many of the
cattle bred and fed In the corn belt
are hornless. Breeds of this kind are
erowine in popularity. In the moun
talnous country and on the plains
wild cattle needed long horns for the
protection of themselves and their
voune. Now. however, with the plains
thickly settled and with few wild ant
mals the cattle do not need horns.
Amonit the hornless breeds are the
fiallowav. Angus. Red Poll and Polled
Shorthorns. Polled Jersey and Polled
Hereford are also coming into favor
Bv the application of caustic potash
the growth of the horns is prevented
in the young calf Inter Ocean.
Care of the Family Cow.
Close confinement, with impure air
and lack of exposure, is as prejudicial
to the health of milch cows as to that
of human beings. Some recently pro
mulgated theories of dark, warm
stables and no exercise for profitable
milk production are without a rational
basis and certain to lead to disas
trous results sooner or later. Expo
sure to storms and cold is equally in
jurious to the health and profit of
cows. A Judicious mean is the pro
vision for moderate exercise In the
open air and sunshine, and the appli
cation of the same common sense care
for the comfort of cows which one
would approve for members of his own
household.
Form (ilfHiiln(t,
Provide ample pasture for the calveu
Fit yourself to the weather. Don't
get all out of kink because the weather
The work of raising chickens has
only begun when you get the downy
things out of the shell.
It is claimed that an orchard in the
State of Delaware has an annual in
come of $10,000 from 200 acres of apple
trees.
Have a driveway right through you
barn. It will prove valuable in many
ays, especially In the matter of keep
ing It clean.
Nothing better for growing swine
than eood pasturage, and there is no
more economical method of raising
them, either.
The Connecticut Experiment Station
recommends that for the best results
in hatching, eggs not over five daya
old be used.
Poultry and dairy products have al
most doubled In price In the past ten
years. Eggs and milk are still rising
in average price.
An excellent feed for all kinds of
vnimz stocK is nne cui ciover nar.
rooked and steeped In boiling water
and mixed with salt, bran and corn
meat
GEORGE MEREDITH.
Bna-lUh Header Thronahout World
Mourn Death of Novelist.
George Meredith, English poet and
novelist, who passed away recently in
his unpretentious cottage in Box Hill,
Surrey, has endeared himself to En
glish readers throughout the world for
many yearB. He was born in Hamp
shire, Eng., Feb. 12, 1828, and was left
an orphan early in life. Until the
age of 15 he was educated in Germany,
and before he was 23 years old he had
published poems and a novel. He de
moted himself to writing. "The Ordeal
of Richard Feverel," which was pub
lished in 1859, was received with great
praise and has been widely read Blnce
then.
His early life in London was an
unceasing struggle against poverty,
and he was hampered at the outset of
his literary career with pecuniary dif
ficulties. Mr. Meredith possessed in a marked
degree the three grand qualities which
are essential to the making of the nov
elistanalytical power, narrative ca
pacity and humor.
A notable feature of the genius of
Meredith was his power of under
standing women. There is hardly a
more lovable woman in any fiction
than Diana Merlon; then In "The Ad-
GKOBGE MEREDITH.
ventures of Harry Richmond" we meet
with that exquisite creation Princess
Ottilia, and In "Emilia in England,"
with Emilia herself, the wild child of
nature.
Mr. Meredith was a serious humor
ist. His books are replete with quaint
drolleries, but his fun was the out
come of his cynical way of looking at
human nature. "Life," he says In "The
Ordeal of Richard Feverel," "is a su
preme procession with ironic laughter
of gods in the background."
The laughter is not all that of the
gods, for George Meredith laughed, too,
though there was a spice of sadness
in his laughter, as one of who had
looked out upon the world and had
found little there to cheer him. Nay,
Meredith's humor suggested that he.
made haste to laugh lest he should
weep, and at best his laughter was
charged with bitterness.
Mr. Meredith married twice. His
first wife was a daughter of Thomas
Lqve Peacock, an English humorist, to
whom he dedicated one of his first
books. After twelve years his wife
died, leaving him one son, and Mr.
Meredith married again and settled
down at Box Hill. Surrey. His second
wife died Sept. 17, 1885. leaving a son
and a daughter.
Of late years he lived quietly at
Box Hill. He kept himself in almost
complete seclusion, seeking recreation
mainly in long country walks. He
was regarded as the dean of English
men of letters, and received from the
King the Order of Meritt. On his 80th
birthday, "Feb. 21. last year; he was
honored by the leading literary men of
Great Britain with an address of con
gratulation. His American admirers
also sent their greetings, drawn up by
Prof. Charles Eliot Norton, and signed
by such men as Mark Twain, Henry
James, Richard Watson Gilder, George
W. Cable and William Dean Howells.
Mr. C. Dusty-Rhotka Is taking .
much needed recreation at Indian
Lake.
(Inlte (lean.
Manager You say this Is a play of
the slums. Is it a clean play?
Author It couldn't be cleaner. The
hero is a white wlng3 and the heroine
Is a washerwoman. Baltimore Ameri
can. Croaaed.
"Father, what are wrinkles?'
"Fretwork, my boy, fretwork." In
dependent.
Even in the fnop of the kind of hats
fhey are wearing this spring, there are
tome women who claim thoy haven't
their right"..'
Taking the average for the world.
there Is one newspaper for 82,000 In
habitants.
GIGANTIC UNDERTAKING.
Irrigation Congress Will Ask for Im
provement of National Resources.
Arthur Hooker, secretary of the
board of control of the National Irriga
tion congress, will present a resolution
for approval by that organization at its
seventeenth session in Spokane August
9 to 14, memorializing congress to
issue 3 per cent gold bonds, running
100 years, to tho amount of $5,000,
000,000, or as much thereof as may be
necessary for the following specific
purposes :
One billion dollars for drainage of
overflowed and swamp 'lands, thus re
claiming an area equal to 100,000
square miles.
One billion dollars for the reclama
tion by irrigation of 40,000,000 acres
of arid and semi-arid lands now partly
or wholly waste.
One billion dollars to construct and
improve deep waterways, to develop
thousands of miles of territory now
without adequate transportation facili
ties. One billion dollars for good roads
and national highways, for the lack of
which the loss to the farm area of the
United States is approximately $500,
000,000 annually.
One billion dollars for forest protec
tion, reforestation and conservation of
the forest resources, thus assuring tim
ber and lumber supplies for centuries
to come.
"Five billions of dollars is an enor
mous sum, but it is no more than is
actually required to carry out the gi
gsntic scheme in developing millions
of acres of lands in various parts of the
United States now absolutely worth
less," said Mr. Hooker in explaining
the plan. "Congress will not be asked
to appropriate a penny. The returns
from the improvements would pay off
the bonds. The government would
simply act as a banker, as it does now
for the various irrigation projects.
The bond issue would provide ample
funds as required to carry out the work
in the several divisions, at the same
time giving the best possible collateral
to those investing in theEe securities.
"Government figures bear out the
statement that there is enough good
land overflowed in Minnesota, Wiscon
sin, Kansas, Nebraska, Louisiana,
Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi
to make an area as large as the state
of Missouri, or more than 44,000,000
acres, while in the Eastern, Central
and Western states there is more than
as much more, or about 100,000,000
acres in all. At a conservative esti
mate of $25 an acre, the sale of this
reclaimed land would justify the ex
penditure of $2,500,000,000, or about
150 per cent more than is required to
drain it. This land would support
from 2,000,000 to 3,000,000 popula
tion. "Approximately 40,000,000 acres of
lads in Western and Southwestern
states are adapted to irrigation, which,
if reclaimed at an average cost of $25
an acre, would be worth not less than
$200 an acre, or a total of $8,000,000,
000, and provide homes for more than
8.000,000 persons. The economic value
of irrigation car not be measured in
dollars and cents, but crops of from
$500 to $1,000 an acre are not rare in
the irrigated districts. There are al
ready 14,000,000 acres under irriga
tion and the Reclamation service est!
mates it will have reclaimed 2,000,000
acres, at a cost not exceeding $70,000,
000. before the close of 1911.
"The construction and improvement
of the deep waterways required to pro
vide better and cheaper transportation
facilities is, I believe, a 100 per cent
investment, from the fact that two
thirds of the bulky freight could be
shipped by water routes, at a cost to
the shipper of not more than one-sixth
of the present rail rates. The import
ance of this becomes apparent, when it
is remembered that the food question
is becoming a world problem.
"The state of New York is expend
ing $101,000,000 to enlarge the Erie
canal, and $100,000,000 is the amount
required to improve the Missouri river
from a point about 40 miles west of
Yellowstone park to where it meets the
Mississippi river, 2.547 miles. Then
there is the projected waterway from
Lake Michigan to the Gulf of Mexico
and scores of others necessary to cheap
and better transportation facilities.
Millions of dollars will be saved annu
ally to the people of the United States
by the completion of these. works.
"The maintenance of the greatest
water way in the world, composed of
the Great Lakes, on which the govern
ment of the United States has expend
ed more than $90,000,000 for harbors
and connecting channels, presents an
argument in favor of the scheme to de
velop thousands of miles of territory in
the Missouri and other valleys. The
other projects outlined in the foregoing
are of equal if not greater importance,
and with proper backing they can be
carried out successfully.
"No one questions the statement
that good roads have a high money
value to the farmers of the nation, and
it may be said that this alone is suffi
cient to justify the cost of their con
struction as rapidly as practicable un
der an efficient, economical and equit
able system of highway improvement.
The big points in favor of this expend
iture is the economy of time and force
in transportation between farm and
market, enabling the growers to take
advantage of fluctuations in buying and
selling, as well as enhancing the value
of real estate.
"It is estimated that the average
annual loss from poor road is 76 cents
an acre, while the estimated average
increase resulting from improving all
the public roads is $9. The losses in
five years would aggregate $2,432 for
every section of land, or more than
enough to improve two miles of public
highway. The necessity of good roads
is obvious, as it would enhance the
value of each section of land about
$5,760, or more than double the esti
mated cost of two milea of improved j
highway, which constitutes the quota
for 640 acres of land.
"The value of our forests was never
better appreciated than today. Within
the arid and semi-arid portions of the
Western states nearly 124.000,000
acres are covered with woodland, of
value for fuel, fence posts and other
purposes essential to the success of the
farmers. There are also 97,000,000
acres covered with heavy forests hav
ing commercial value for timber and
logs for sawmills, also hundreds of
thousands of acres of timber lands in
other parts of the United States. Re
forestation and conservation of the
vast resources are necessary to provide
future generations with timber 'and
lumber supplies. The government is
expending large amounts of money
every year to protect its forests from
fires, yet expert lumbermen say that
more standing timber is destroyed by
flames annually than is converted into
merchantable lumber by the sawmills."
Mr. Hooker said it is likely that his
resolution will be presented to the var
ious interests of the irrigation con
gress for discussion and will afterward
be incorporated in a memorial to the
United Sttes congress. It is also pur
posed to have a large delegation,' com
posed of .representatives of every state
and territory in the Uni, n, push the
measure for adoption. The work of
enlisting the support of the people in
terested in the various projects will be
taken up immediately after the cloEe
of the irrigation congress with the
view to concerted action.
During the Spat.
Her Husband Well, it takes two to
make a quarrel, so I'll shut up.
His Wife That's just like a con
temptible man! You'll sit there and
think mean things!
Even Exchange.
Angry Patron That's the third time
you've given me the wrong number. You
must have what they call the telephone
ear.
Girl in Central Office I beg your par
don, sir, but that isn't the trouble. You
have what we call the cornmeal musb
voice. Chicago Tribune.
Dixup pointing.
The Bachelor Here's a magazine
poet who likens ''hope" to "a fair wo
man." The Benedict Huh! No wonder; it
1b so disappointing.
Catching On.
"I'm glad to hear that your boy is
getting a foothold as a doctor in that
new town out West."
"Foothold? He's got a toehold. He's
the only doctor there."
Singular Effect.
"Hasn't that umpire got a peach of a
voice !"
"Yes; a ball once hit him on his Ad
am's apple and it has never been the
same since."
Fawncy !
"If I were running things," said the
boarding house philosopher, "I'd put a
piohibitory tariff on slang. The import
ed English varieties are-crowding out our
home product."
A Queuerloua Tale.
He came from a place called Chefu
The place whore long pigtails grew
And was always made furious
When told it's quite curious
How much like a tail is a queue.
Sunset Mainline.
High Art.
"Are you blind, prisoner?". Inquired
the magistrate.
"Yes, your worship,"
"You are charged with vagrancy.
How did you lose your sight?'
"By 'a fit of nppleplexy, sir."
"But there is a picture on yonr
breast representing jm explosion in a
mine, through which, it Is stated, .you
became blind. Hw is this?"
"Please, your worship, I couldn't
afford to pay a hartist as could paint
appleplexy." London Answers.
Ilia preference. .
Farmer (showing him his live stock)
These are my Jerseys. Ever see any
finer cows?
City Visitor They are certainly fine
specimens. SStm. 1 nave always mougiii
that if I were buying a cow for my own
use I should prefer the er Early York
breed.
The Embarrassing Truth.
"The vindication of Dr. Harvey ' W.
Wilev is a great triumph," said a
Washington diplomat, "for pure food.
Dr. Wiley tells the truth, and the truth
Is painful to certain types of food pro
ducers." Tho diplomat laughed.
"Dr. Wiley was talking the other day
about the painfullness of the truth." he
resumed. "He said it romlnrttxl him
of a morning call that he once made
on a young lady in his youth. In an
swer to his ring a tiny tot of a girl
opened the door, and Dr. Wiley said to
her, as he walked Into the hall :
"'Where is your auntie. M-ihel?'
"Upstairs in hor nightie,' chirped
the tot, 'a-lookin' over the balustrade.' "
A lirava Doubt.
Caller So your cook has passed
away to a better place.
Hostess Yes but I don't know if
she'll stay ; poor Bridget was very hard
to suit. Boston Traveler.
Sounda riaualble.
"What is your principal object, any
how." asked the visiting foreigner, "in
building that Tanama canal?"
"Well," answered the native, "we have
an idea it will limit the size of future
battleships." Chicago Tribune.
(Crescent
WULIX) ALL
TH AT AM
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C DO A ID
do '.Turns
A FULL
scho
"liy fa: her has been a sufferer from sick,
headache for th : last twenty-five yearsan.I
never found any relief until he began
taking your Cascarets. Since he has
begun taking Cascarets he has never had
the headache. They have entirely cured
him. Cascarets do what you recommend
them to do. I will give you the privilege
of using his name." E. M. Dickson,
mo Kenner bt., VV. Indianapolis, inu.
PlcRnant, Palatable. Potent. Taste Good.
I j (iood. Ncvur bicken. Weaken or Gripe.
10c, 25c. 50c. Never sold In bulk. The Ren
nine tab.et stamped C C C. Guaranteed to
cure or our money back. 825
Letting Hint Down Knaj-.
A youi g man of very limited means,
after the marriage ceremony, present
ed to the minister twenty-seven large
copper cents, nil spread out on the
palm of his right h:nd. "This Is all
I've got, parson," he said. Seeing a
disappointed look in the minister's face
he added: "If we have any children,
we will Fend them to your Sunday
school." Sncces? Magazine.
Apprirhenalve.
Fellow Statesman Senator, that
snepch of yours ui favor of the income tas
was o..e of ths strongest arguments i
ever heard.
Eloquent Fr-nator (with some uneasi
ness) You don't think it chanced any
votes, do you? Chicago Tribune.
Mothers will find Mrs. Window's 8oothlng
Byrupthb Bt rumedv to uj for tlieii childrea
daring the teething period.
Cooking L i u iieuxon.
N&n I like a play with a stirring
plot.
Fan That's the kind that thickens,
isn't it?.
A household once supplied with Ham-
lins Wizard Oil is seldom allowed to be
without it. In case of sudden mishap
or accident Wizard Oil takes the place
of the family doctor. Are you sup
plied? Sat Wfaefory Aaauranee.
Mrs. rpsomt! Dr. Mary Walker makes
fun of the spring styles of hats.
Mrs. Goodsole I'm so glad to learn
that the dear old lady is still alive.
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Signature
If the demands of the Women's Social
and Political Union of England are con
ceded, about a million and a half women
Mill be given the vote.
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