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Oregon TIlHtniicnl Fociefy Oily Hull illlit VOL. 28. NO. 39. IIEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1911 SUBSCRIPTION, $ 1.00 PER YEAR. FOREST SERVICE CO-OPERATION. Stockmen and Woolgrowers Encouraged to Strengthen Their Organizations. Associate Forester A. F. Foster, representing the Forest Ser vice, addressed the Annual con vention of the National Wool growers Association at Omaha on the 15th, as follows: Realizing the importance of the livestock industry to the general welfare of the West, the Forest Service, from the beginning of its administration of the National must be closed against grazing for a few years, and where re production is difficult cut-over areas must be protected, by re ducing if not excluding the stock, until the young trees are out of danger from trampling or nib bling, bmce, however, the area cut-over and that replanted each year form, combined, less than one per cent of the total area of Forests, adopted a constructive the Forests, no serious interfer ence with the grazing is involved, Careful investigations of the damage done young trees by stock in the southwest showed over twenty per cent of the seedlings and young trees seriously injured, and in some cases on ranges used extensively by sheep over fifty per cent, but the most damage was done when feed was scarce and was therefore largely due to overgrazing. The immediate and urgent problem which now confronts us is the development of the ranges to the highest possi- policy for dealing with grazing problems. Most of the mountain ranges which have been included in the National Forests had been occupied by the fiockmasters long before the Forests were created. With the demand for summer range in many localities greater than the supply, there had fol lowed overgrazing and serious damage, while absolute waste of a large portion of the forage crop was taking place. Many ranges were fast deteriorating, though carrying no more stock than could be permanently sustained under ble state of productivity, proper regulation. ! The gradual increase of The first thing was to check the the damage and waste with the least possible curtailment of the grazing privileges. Such divis ions of the range were made as would secure the use of each por tion by the kind of stock to which it was best adapted and give each group of owners, so far as possible natural grazing unit is sowing in the spring. It is important that stockmen strengthen their organizations and keep up a live interest in them. There are now sixty-eight advisory boards, representing lo cal livestock associations, which are cooperating effectively with the Forest Service in the settle ment of grazing problems. Ad visory boards of both the Ameri can Livestock Association and the National Woolgrowers Asso ciation are being consulted and are giving valuable assistance with regard to matters which effect the interests of the stock men as a whole. Matters of vital interest to every fiockmaster in the land are continually coming up, and call for efficient organ izations of range users. The For est Service is entering new fields of scientific range management and is engaged upon problems of great interest to the stock growers. With their cooperation we shall be able to better meet the needs of the fiockmasters and make the Forests more useful to l all of the people. DEMONSTRATION ROADS IN E. O. College to Show Farmers How to Make Good Market Roads. on a visit Weston. to his mother, Mrs. Special 29 cents on Saturdays only a 1-pound box of Barr's chocolate candy. Fresh stock re ceived every week. Don't over look this bargain. Patterson & Son, the Rexall Store. the use of the range upon which they had customarily grazed their stock. Then it was decided what portions should be used only dur ing the summer, what ones during the winter, spring, or fall, and what portions during the entire year, with the dates at which the grazing season should begin and close in normal seasons. These measures did much toward stopping waste of surplus forage and showing that better methods were worth while. Attention was next given to extending the area of available range through encouraging the development of watering places and making trails to make accessable unused ranges. Unfortunately, it has been nec essary to make quite heavy reduc tions on some of the Forests to enable overgrazed ranges to recu perate, but such reductions have been made gradually in order not to cause urfdue business distur bance. The increased number of stock, however, provided for on other ranges has nearly offset the reductions. There were grazed on the rorests this last year 1,442,000 cattle and horses and 7,450,000 sheep and goats. The collective grazing capacity of the National Forests is now on the increase. Energetic efforts have made by the Forest Service to promote the utilization of sur plus forage which now goes to waste in northern Washington, Idaho, Montana. The removal of the forage crop in a proper way greatly reduces the fire damage. If grazing it too close, however, the reproduction of the Forest is interfered with. Many timber land owners are willing to offer grazing privileges upon extreme ly favorable terms because they are not planning to grow another crop of trees. Replanted areas High School Notes. Mr.' Marshall Phelps was quite the agreeably surprised last Friday cirrying power or the ranges evening at the home of his par will be brought about through ents, Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Phelps. improved methods of handling The surprise was in the form of a stock and growing the forage dinner party tendered him in crop. A careful study is under honor of his nineteenth birthday way to ascertain the character of The house was decorated in the all of the land within the Forests, Senior class colors, orange and the kind of stock to which each black. The dinner was an adapted, elegant affair being served in the natural periods of use, and courses. After the dinner many the undergrazed, fully grazed and toasts were given by the mem- overgrazed areas. bers of the class, Mr. Hoffman Experiments in lambing sheep acting as toastmaster. Mrs. in small enclosures proved that, Phelps was aided in serving by under some conditions at least, a Miss Florence Lusted. Members saving of lambs and labor can be of the Senior class and the faculty made more than enough to offset of the High School were present, the cost. In the coyote-proof who were, Mr. Hoffman, Mr. pasture experiements a regular O'Sullivan, Miss Young and Miss herder, without assistance from Funk of the faculty, and Marie the Forest Service, handled the Hager, Minalena Cameron, Tena sheep with the same reductions in Devin, Sidney Hallock, Harold expense, amount ot range requir- oohn, Arthur Lrawiord, tlarry ed, and percentage of loss, and Rood and Marshall Phelps of the the same increase in weight of Senior class. lambs, as in preceeding years. Miss Conifred Hurd of Ennp. The mountain bunchgrass range has been elected to the ,ace of ; j? A1 i .i assistant teacher in the Heppner Cop.vallis, Ore., Dec. 15. A demonstration road a quarter of a mile long is to be built at the Union Experiment Station by the Oregon Agricultural College in order to teach the farmers of that district the methods of building and maintaining good market roads. The land there is a sandy loam which lends itself readily to the sand-clay and oiled earth methods of construction, both of the cheaper sort. One section of the new road will be an ordinary earth road properly crowned and drained but not maintained. An other, built like it, will be kept in repair with a road drag. A third will show the sandv-clav process, and a fourth will be treated with a heavy oil. Care ful record of the cost of construe tion and maintenance will be kept. Mrs. Davis and daughter spent a pleasant hour or so in Arling ton between trains. Satnrdav They met old friends at the depot, which made the trip very pleasant. T Ti T-1 ii ii j. d. oeeoe, tne well man came in on the local, Saturday and loaded his drill on the flat car and had it shipped toHermis 2. 1- 1 1 i tun wnere ne nas oeen engaged to put down three wells. Eight Mile. School Notes. Sand Hollow Items. rye on investigations have shown how, by proper rotation in the grazing, to secure thorough natural reseed- ing of overgrazed land without serious decrease of the number of stock while the range is being restored. Many forage species have been tested through artificial reseeding experiments. The introduction of new grasses is a very difficult problem. Redton was found to aoaA Kotf ti,,n Western Governors will be cultivated erass on noorlv drained ven a banquet by the Progress bogs where the soil is acid, while ive Business Men's Club of Port TrnonanKmmcsio v,ottr land at the Commercial Club on adapted to arid localities. Timo- the niht of December 23. They thv is fairlv drought, rpsistant Wll have returned from the trip ar t Mn KQ rWnrWi nnnn tn through the East on board the o ctori Jr, rv,f Governors' Special and 111UI1V C tWU 31U11VA 141 IIIVIO V I High School, to take up the work immediately after the holidays. Miss Lilah Clark has been ad vanced to the position of princi pal, made vacant by the resigna tion of James H. O'Sullivan, and Miss Hurd takes her place. Miss Hurd was a classmate of Miss Clark's at U. of O. are meadows. On the lands studied the most promising cultivated species for range reseeding were found to be, named in order of their importance, timothy, Him garian Brome, Italian rye, redtop, Kentucky bluegrass, alsike and white clover, orchard grass, tall meadow oat grass, Canadian blue grass and hard or sheep fescue. In all cases, except in parts oi the Southwest, fall seeding has given much better results than pected to give an account of trip that opened the eyes of East to the possibilities and sources of the West. ex this the re- Bargains in S. C. Rhode Island Reds. 1911 Breeding Pens for sale to make room for new stock. All prize winning stock. Call or write. L. W. BRIGGS, tf. Heppner, Or. Don't forget that Hood River cider at Hendricson & Gurdane's. Mr. Copic is running two plows, K. B. Rice put in a telephone last week. B. S. Clark is seeding the Tucker place. There was a dance at B. F, Swaggatf's Friday night. Mr. Millet has sold his ranch and Mr. Harmsen has gone. Mesdames Redding and Evans spent a day with Mrs. Rice last week. We also hear the Ornduff place has been sold and will soon be occupied. it. a. Kice nas completed a cabin for Mr. Town on his Straw berry claim. Lee Copenhaver is home on a visit after two years absence in Washington. Miss Winnie Smith will be home rom Corvallis to spend the Christ mas vacation. Claud White is building a new barn. JNext is a well and then a new house, he says. There was quite a merry race after a homestead on Sand Hollow last week. Haven't heard the results yet. Mr. Hansen, after a week's visit with B. S. Clark, left for Portland, but before going filed a contest on a piece of land in Sand Hollow. Mr. Cross gave us two good sermons Sunday last, but there was not half the people out that could come, if they would only get interested enough to start. BY suPt. notson. On the 7th inst. I visited the school at Cecil. Mr. Geo. Henry is the teacher. Eighteen pupils were present. The interest man ifested by the pupils is excellent Quite a number of improvements have deen made in the building this fall. The walls are newly papered, a new set of shelves for the lunch pails has been installed, new window-boards put in, and a closed water jar with faucet pro vided. The pupils have individ ual folding drinking cups. In j the evening, I had the pleasure of meeting the people of the dis trict in a local educational meet ing. The attendance shows that the school interests in the district is excellent. There will be only a two days session of the State Teachers Association at Portland. The dates are Dec. 28, 29. The rail roads have granted a return fare of one-third to members who take a receipt upon payment of fare to Portland. Every teacher paying the annual dues of 50 cents be comes a member of the Associa tion. on our M. C. Fuqua was seen streets last week. T. W. Rippee went to Heppner Friday returning Saturday. Mr. Tom Arnold and wife spent Sunday evening with John Jenk ins and family. W. W Brannon of Hardman is on Eightmile this week looking after things on the farm. Eightmile was treated to a nice little shower of rain and about an inch of snow last week. Every little bit helps. Fred Esteb and family of Gooseberry returned from Gold- endale Sunday. They have been visiting with Mrs. Estebs narents. Omar Stanton of Hardman spent Saturday night with his brother Chas. on Eis-ht, Mils. Ie reports everything flourishing in his section. Jan. 6th is the date for the next regular meeting nf t.h armegon local 62 at the Eight- mile Center school house at 7 d. This is the night for election of officers and we hope to see all members present. E. M. Keithly came out from Heppner Thursday of last week to look after his interests in Rood canyon. He reports Mrs. Keithly and the baby getting along fine and expects to move them home in a couple of weeks. At the Churches. Cameras, kodaks, films, plates, papers and chemicals. Everything for the amateur photographer. Patterson & Son, the Rexall Store. Castle Rock Items. R. N. Stanfield spent Saturday night at Castle Rock. Earl Cramer, of Hardman, is spending a few days with his sister, Mrs. Gibbons. Mr. Nail, wife and daughter, Frances, of Irrigon, visited at the home of L. M. Davis for a few days last week. Mr. Camel, of the Telephone company, and Davis of this place are busy these days hauling ma terial for the company. Mr. and Mrs. Mardi and two small sons came in on the Spo kane train Tuesday of thi week Secure Protection. The losses to our people from the new diseases in horses, hogs, cattle and sheep, can be better combatted by prevention than cure. Keeping the animals in a heal thy condition and keeping the blood pure, will almost, if not en tirely, render them immune. See that the drinking water is not contaminated by drainage, keep feed boxes, mangers, etc. disinfected, and use liberally of Dr. Hess' Stock Food, the best compound ever manufactured for purifying the blood, improving digestion and strengthening the constitution. ihis valuable preparation is sold in Morrow County by the Morrow Warehouse Milling Co., and being handled only through regular dealers, costs but little more than half the price of simi lar compounds sold by peddlers. Regular size bucket only $2.25. Smaller packages in proportion. As a powerful disinfectant and germicide for use in watering troughs, feed boxes and mangers, Dr. Hess' Dip cannot be excelled. M. E. CHURCH SOUTH. Sunday school at 10. a.m. Ep worth League 6. 30p. m. Preach ing 11 a. m. and 7.30 p.m. Themes appropriate to the Christmas times. "There's a song in the air, There's a star in the sky; There's a mother's deep prayer. And baby's low cry. Christmas program free, Sat urday evening at 7.30. A good time is expected. Come. E. P. Warren, Pastor. BAPTIST CHURCH. Bible school 10 a.m. Christmas tree Friday 7 p.m. Preaching at lone Sunday morning and even ing, subject "God wants you." Theme for evening "A Christmas message" by Mrs. McAllister. Special music. All welcome. John McAllister Pastor. In these days, when economy should be the household watch word you should use a Crescent Range. They save time, labor, and fuel. Sold at Case's Furni ture Store. At Portland, Saturday, Lincoln High school bested The Dalles High 33 toO. TheE. O. cham pions put it all over Pendleton, but could not score in the game for the high school championship of the state. Principal O'Sullivan, of the High School, has presented his resignation to take effect at once. His successor has not been chosen yet but the board has several ap plications and a selection will be made in time for the new teacher to begin work after the holidays. Santa Claus Coming. Santa Clans. nivomp.mil by brigade, will hf at the Methodist church Saturday nihtnt7:"'. There will be a tree anil a splendid program, consisting of somrs, recitations aiul exercises ly the children. Every body will be welcome. Our friend Joe Ievine. who is ,i "bunch irrassfr" on a fa nn a few mile north of fhe Lexington Creamery, U a booster for the dairy proposition. From his 9 cows two of which are heifers with first calves, he received nn Inconiefor the month of November 8117 7" letter than $13 per heati. Bully for Joe: he Is proving that It pays bljr to keep milk stock on evem a dry farm, and he expects his IVc- eniber check to show up letter. It lis have reports from others; this U the proof of the pudding. I