♦1« tn tbe acra. th» medium fiftyfnar • ixl the h«-44vy slity-tw« Ihe differ eno may not be this great every time, but It will always I m * great enough to Ruby and Jadeite the Most Valuable Stones Produced. pay well for the laltor of I m imiti» Diamonds, ruble«, Mapphlrea. spinels, There Is mi objection io using the h«svy onia for arisi in that they lend tourmalin»*«, gurnets. ro»k crystal* to become s little later •*»• h year Thia and various aorta <»f amber and Jadeite »•an tir « rottied bj Jmrialti« Ing mime are the precious sionrs found on In- hew artsl of an rttrly variety everv din* r»»ral strand, says the t'lilcug«» The ruby and Jmtalir arc few tears Dlrrctlona tur hruvilltig Tribune. th«* only «tunes of r«»nshh*nible value •issi «mta will I m * given In article * Large quantities <*f lur After the «atts are virttned and gmd produced. »‘»I they atmuld In* treated t«»r amili qu«>lsr rtime from Sikkim and Tll»vt. Smut Is it black fungus that gr»»ua that from (hr latter country Iwlng front a tint «p»»re that Raíce* beneath harder, darker blue ami therefore more The lni|M»rtiiil«»n of precluu»« th«* hull when the uni la in bhs»tii and valuable. (lie k»*rnel o|»rn When ihe null closes atom**« Into Imlln anmunta aniiunlly to the s|M»re Is held inside until the next alsiiit fI.IMO.issi The diamond Industry H limited and M 1*1'11 «b«u It spri'iits mid s«*m|s n thread up through the st«*m tu the I* carried on In ««»uihern I mils, the head. There the «mut grows. pn*lm* northern part of the Indian | | h « ii I ii * u I h Ing a black mass wherw the bead amt In the central provinces, Ituby should be Often hs many «« 15 |w»r mining Is «•arrlrtl mi In up|»rr Burma cent of the li«*uds will tn* «ff (S'ted In and. next to |H*troleum, Is i lie ihom I tills way. Thvwe black benda are nut prutltablr of th»* mineral mumrve« «»f easily noticed, so that the da mage Is the stale. the «able of tile prialuct Is* Ing s I mhi I $.*«««) H im » nnntiallx One ruby usually uiHb*rvstlmnt«wl The almpl»**t meth«sl of treatment Is of srvrnt :y-seven carats was taken to spread the ants out on s tight tt«»«»r out a fev v year* ago and vallieti at •nd sprinkle them with a *«»lutl«»n of Si XI. xm. Kapphlr»*«« ii *»*«1 to Is* mlm*»l «me p«»uml of formalin tt» forty gnlhrns In Kashmir, but the mines are now The yellow, of water This amount la su(ticlent said to br exhausted for forty bushel« of (Mlis. Shovel the white, blue ami greeu varieties of oats over two or three time* until they sapphire are found In the ruby bear The «plnrl Is are thoroughly wet. and then pile them Ing grarrls In lltirma up and cov«*r them with blanket« or found in rutialdurublr quantities In sacks The fumes from the formalin llurma. Tourmaline stones of blur, green prnetrute (»euenth the hull and the smut *i»orvs In the morning and black coloring arr found la up|u*r oats should I m * spread out again Iturma. Garnet* ar»* mined In Jaipur «hoveled over tsvasbmnlly until lt«H*k «*rywtnl. cut for cheap Jewelry, They can la* «owed wet. but In known a* vaieam dHtimtid*« I* f«»un»l Another «|U;trtx crystal, case (he settler shoilid Is* set to In Madras ats>ut n bushel to the acre more, found in Knlabagh. Is «-heapvr ami as they do not run through «« rra«|||y. used for net'klriiVM ('hnh'etb'nh* slllua This work should be dune on « warm I* «alle«I happlk and embrio'vs »iiuny day. n* freezing while the oais are wet forma of agate nil mt I In the la*»*«*«n will Injure the gvrmlmttion This treat Agnt«»* and ciiruelirths an* <-ut and pre mem costs only als»ut « cent « bualiei pare«) for market In l<«»mbay. They aud la very effective. com«* moatly fr«»m lla|plfM*ti. lutrgr Preparing th« Seed Bed quantities are shlp|u*«l to Europe and Jntlelte of l»esutlful green One of the most nezl»* ted fs^lnt« In t’hlna oai vulture is the prvfmrutlon of the veins Is found In up|»vr llurma, ami *»-e<1 tied Oats do better on « rather an infrrl»»r Jade Is fouml In other The stone arils fur tirm se«x! bril If the held wna la «-oru parts of India. the year prevlou« It will not t>e nrevs to | IOO a hundred weight wary tu plow unless the ground 1« very hard It ahou:d is* <1l*k«t1 thoroughly, K «*«•(» posted on the news of (lie day. however, to cut up the stalks and pul verir.e the upper two or three Inches Die Herald offers good Inirgaina through It will usually be profitable to let the ha clubbing list. disk “lap half." as this dors away with ridge« and leave« the land In bett»*r shat*!» One harrowing after the « w ikmipmbb Lor kiczkh J Usile <■( th. IVacv disking irav»** the ground In aptendld that»« to receive the need "Keep iour Eje on Horiitp" Methods of Seeding. INDIA’S PRECIOUS STONES. mwcveding tirwhsm Vimiu-alor. Gresham Garetti'. East Multnotnah K. co r <1 Multnomah Re«x>ni and Montavilla Herald. , Published Every Friday at Gresham, Ore., by the B ravkw S tat « PvmisHtxG Co ÌL A. DA KN ALL. E dito » and M anaoku . Kntenrd a* »evond-<la»»matter at the postolltee at Ureaham. Oregon EDITORIAL A COMBINATION WRENCH COMMEN1 E have become interested in the articles beinjj run on this page on farming for profit. The writer. Prof. Gregory.is evident ly a man of experience and good judgment. The present article on growing oats deserves atten tion right now. Oats is a crop that requires early planting. He suggests an early variety and for our climate that is especially de sirable. for an early variety would mature early, before our long summer drouth would strike them. The early sort would al so be better, whatever soil sowed upon. The early varieties on gravelly soil will mature before it gets too dry: if on wet land the early variety requires less time to mature if sown late. But you’d better read the article— "Oat Growing.” W ORTLAND and the Northwest will have their share of con ventions this Summer. The An cient Order of Hibernians, which organization will probably draw 30,000 people west, will meet in July. The Retail Grocers Asso ciation will meet Jan. 26-27 at Eugene. And there are numer ous others, and already other conventions are being listed for next year, the first being the wool growers which will be in January, 1911. The wrench Illustrated herewith dlf fers materially from the ordinary in the fact (hat tbe usual screw tuech anisiu I m entirely «lls|»emo*d with, ami ttw* Jaws may I m * instantly opened »r closed to any deelnxl extern. Th»* wreurh is nJ*» pruvhl«*d with a re- movable jaw pi«»ce. which may lx* qukkljr applied I«» adapt It f«»r use in gripping pipe or n»uu«l wmrk. Fig. 1 illustratuM tlx* wrench with the pii< gripping artaehment applied ."11 P ------------- X An example of the big money in hog raising was given at Port land during the past week when a single porker, weighing 680 pounds, brought $61.20. This is the highest price that a single hog ever brought at the stock- yards. The hog was raised by Henry Larkin of Colfax. Wash ington. Hogs reached $9.20 dur ing the week. How to care for a horse, how to know a good horse, how to avoid a bad one, how to prevent bad habits in these animals, is all told in the "Horse Book,” a new addition to our clubbing list, along with the Farm -Journal. Don't fail to consider this oppor tunity and let us hear from you tomorrow. "Not the least of the infiuen'-es which are tending to boost tbe already un- preo-dentedly high price of corn to a still Higher level la tbe unusually wet condition of the soil to be found in many sections of Illinois, one of the banner corn states of the Union, which has rendered impossible in many cases the plowing of last year's fields. Many of them lie untouched, with tbe old stalks still standing gaunt and bare. So heavy has been the rainfall that it has l>een next to Impossible to get on to the ground with a team, let alone working the soil with any satisfactory results. Tbe above conditions, perhaps aggravated in portion» of Illinois, ex ist in greater or less extent through considerable portions of tbe entire corn belt. One of tbe discouragin’; features about tbe situation is the fact that there is hardly any other crop that can be grown In the abort portion of tbe season remaining. Tbe situation de scribed insures hard times locally, at least, of a very depressing character. Î N EXT to \\ heat, «aita are the moat widely grown amali grain crop. It Is a crop that is nerd" rd on every farm fur ftnsi. ca perla lly for young stock and homea lu the corn twit osts till In a place In the rotation that »snoot weil lie taken by any other crop I’tie work of need lug and barveNting tits In well u IIh the work of growing a vorn crop* heme oats arc and probably always will ita an im|M»rtnnt crup in the corn heli In spite ««f these reasons f»»r growing oats they are not unuai^r considered to be a proti table crop The price is les« (bau (hai of corn and (he yield usual rtn AND 14OSBBT WHKBCH. thereon, while Fig. 2 shows wrench adapted for ordinary use. In this view the lower Jaw is cut away to show the Interior details. It will be obaerved that the ratchet mechanism with which this wrench Is equipped in place of the screw mech anism is controlled by a button, A. that projects from the forward face of the lower Jaw When the button A Is depreams! tbe dog It Is disen gaged from tbe ratebet teeth, permit ting tbe Jaw to Is- moved downward on tbe shank of the wrench. A spring. C. serves to bold tbe dog in engage- meet with tbe ratchet teeth when th»» button A is reieas«-d. It I m not nec essary to operate tbe button A when closing tbe Jaws on a ptece of work, but merely when It Is desired to open them. Tbe pipe gripping device con sists of a slotted member, which may be fitted over the shank of the tool and Is provid«-d with inwardly Inclined teeth. as shown in tbe Illustration. Tbe inventor of this Improved wrench is Mr. Charles Waller of Hamilton. Wasb. Formic Acid For Dyeing. Formic acid, wbicli has |ec<w a formidable competitor to acetic acid in the dyeing trad»* of Germany. Is found In a natural state in ants, cater pillars. leaves of hr and pine trees and Jn the common nettle. It also forms itself in a distillation of sugar, starch and tartaric acid. It is extracted com mercially by heating crystallized ox alic acid with glycerin, from which It is withdrawn by means of distillation, Although chemically pur«- formic acid is used in small quantities for medical purjMNses and to some extent In the manufacture of fruit essences. Its chief commercial application is In the dyeing and tanning trades, in which its corrosive effect is of great value. For dyeing purposes It is now substituted where formerly 30 per cent acetic acid was used. Jt gives to mer cerized cotton tbe rustling effect of silk. and in silk trades it Is used ad vantageously to produce tbe sheen,— Popular Mechanics. Horsepower of the Waves. Riccardo Salvador!, an Italian en- glncor. has been trying by experiment to determine the prjwer of the waves of the sea. not. lie It noted, of the tides, but of the real wares. He has Just announee«l the result of his cal culations, showing that the power <le How often as a result of keeping the pends upon th«- height of the wave, in curtains down in tbe parlor, which accordance with the following table: both In practice as well as theory ought Height of wave. Horsepower .................... 1»; to be the best room In the house, damp 1 foot 7 Inches 1 feet 4 inches ................. 1.27 ness. mustiness and cbeerlessness pre <> feet S inches ........................................... 7.2a vail! True, tbe posies In tbe carpet It Is not often that waves attain a may lose some of their brightness, height of more than Hix foot on the though none of their fragrance. If cur «•oast, although they may appear to the tn I ns nnr put up for awhile each da y eye Io I m - much higher. Tbe plant n«s- and the glorious germ destroying sun essary to utilize the force of the trtiine Is allowed to pour In, but It will per mean cheeriness, light and health for waves would cost about (LOW horsepower. tbe memliers of tbe family, wbo ought to be entitled to more consideration Mounting Photo Prints on Glass, than carpets and wall paper. Photograph prints can bi mounted A new kind of piano, the cboraicelo. on glass with an adhesive made by baa the ordinary key* and hammer*, soaking one ounce of sheet gelatin In which may tie used If desired. but la cold water tn saturation, then dissolv also provided with electro magnets ar ing in three and otic-half ounces of Let the solution cool ranged to vibrate tbe wires without boiling water. striking with tbe hammers. The tones to about lit) degrees F, then Im when produced by the action of the merse tbe print In it and squeegee electro-magnet» are said to resemble face down on a clear piece of glass. those of on orgsn combined with a When dry take a damp cloth or soft stringed Instrument, giving novel pos sponge and wipe off any surplus gela tin on tbe glaas.—Popular Mechanics. sibilities of melody ..OOD AND |1XjS STS«'B< ly consMerahly lower Moot farmer, rale«- oats tnon- because they have to than because they think there la any money In It. If hand.ed rightly, how ever, oata can be made a money crop One of tbe moot luiportaut point* Io oat growing In the aelevtloa of cred that Is adapted to tbe locality Oata are a cool weather crop I’be hot midsummer weather of tbe corn belt la one of tbe chief factors causing low oat yield* XVhen tbe hot weather strikes the oata they blight and rust badly. Many titnea (bey crinkle dowa aud do not fill well Advantage of Early Variati««, The only way this can be arnld»*d In the corn belt Is to now early varieties. These ripen before tbe hottest «earner comes an«l roipr many of the (00 hies that affect later oata Earty va- rletleo are much lean snaceptlble to rust than late ones are. The selection of rust proof varieties In the only way of combating thin disease, since, un like smut. It «-annot lie prevented bv treating tbe seed. Experiments at the lows eiperlment station show nine liasbels more to tbe acre In favor of early varieties The average of twelve years erjerlmentn at the Nebraska station gave the early mits f«>urt«H-n bn-hela to tbe acre a<l vantage In good oat yrors— that Is. those with a cool summer—tbe differ ence Is not so marked In aneb sea wins tbe late oats yleld«*d seven bush els to the acre I« mw than the early while tbe medium outs yield’d a little more In bad oat years and In the corn belt four years out of five are bad from the oats standpoint—tbe early va rieties yielded twenty-one bushels to th«- acre more than the late atxl thir teen bushels more than the mmllnm. Tile medium varh-tl«M« are more con venient. n« they do not crowd In on haying and corn plowing like the early om-K do The use of Improved haying machinery Is shortening Hie time re-’ qulrcd for putting up the hay crop, however. The advantage of early outs In yield will In m«i«t <-ases more than make up for the disadvantage» of hav- Ing tbe work crowdrd during the tirât half of July Early oats have another advantage In that they give the clover a bet- Where the oat» are not ter cham-e. got off the ground until the last of July and dry weather follows, as tt so often d«ics. the clover mnktsi little growth and Is often killed out entire ly With tbe adoption of a systematic rotation clover will nearly always tie seeded with oats, so that this Is a point that cannot I m - Ignored It Is not advisable to ship tn oats from a distance to seed the entire Often you can get good early field. seed from a neighbor at little more than market price. If there are no early oats In your community you can send away for a few bushels of a new variety and plant them tn a corner of the field by themselves |f they give graal satisfaction enough seed can be saved from them to seed tbe entire field the next wason. In the northern part of the United Stat««« and In Can ada. where the summers are cool, late varieties can tie profitably grown. In smb localities they give a greater yield and a larger, plumper ont Preparing the Sesd. After tbe s«-«-d has ts»en procured the next step Is to get It Into shape to sow This means a lltvral use of the fanning mill A large per cent of the oata sown are shoveled from the bln dlr«ictly Into the ne«-der Most farm ers who do fan their oata simply run them through once to blow out tbe sticks and dirt and sieve out the weed seed. It pays well »c run the oats through the mill two ur three times to blow out all the licet seed, work can be done in winter Tbe ll<ht there Is little else to do oats that are blown out are Just aa g«Mal for fee«! aw the others, and tbe heavy ones that are left are worth asv- eral tlm« aa much for seed. In n- lierlmenta carried on to show the com- paratlve valne of light and heavy oata the light seed yielded forty-seven bush- There are «ever«I meth«si« of Mfl! Ing of which the «*r»d gMte •cedef* 1« the worst and the disk drill the t»e«L Tie* two main objwts In seeding are to get the seed In evenly and at ap proximately the snnie depth The end gnte seeder fulfills neither of thr-*e re quirement». The broad«*a«t aeetler «rat- t«*rs tin- se«*d evenly, but It la covered no ls*tter than with the end gate seed er since buth d»»j»cnd upon the disk for vovrrlng The disk drill Is m<»re ex pensive and d«s*s n«»t get over the ground as rapidly, but It distributes th»* ae«*d evenly and puts It at tbe wine depth The sr«-d la dropp’d In furrows made by the disks and thor oughly covered, so that one harrowing Is all that la n«><esMary after drilling Experiments show a conakb*rable ad vantage In yield In favor of the disk drill. At the Iowa station the average of four years’ ex(»erlments showed nin«* bushels t«> th«« acre lu favor of drilling over broadcasting. From half a buab- el to a bushel less aeed to the acre is re«|uir«*d when u drill la us»*«l. ns all Goodner & Ritzer CHKRCRNT MFM Hl Mahr s of MAHZIWR tbrtirr l'un Mante). Woodsaw in# .1. It. Fitzgerald ! 1‘lmim «ikl TUOI I HALE. Route 1 Expressing, Draying “*■ J. H. MOSS I4X Phune ForNAIHH EH, HARM and ALL IIAKM-SS AUt EbMtRIEH L^_ Gresham Harness Shop til Kin«!» R«'|i«lrlhg quickly dot»« GUST LARSON. Prop., tlrcaham E. B. MORELOCK AUCTION! I'R 20 Vein I tparfcm.«. ltaF««KM*a* Dr A Tii«>in|«<>n «tt«l S * I hotel MONTAVILLA. OREGON - Fhoiir |MVI J. M. SHORT. Al I) S. P. BUTNER. M.D Fk* ■idaa»*9ai graaa Groaham. (>r«*foa a H OTT H. OTT BROTHERS uiiNiisrs GrtMiliam. < >rnr»n !.. I). MAHONE ATrtiHNKY-AT LAW R«al Estate, I'robatf* and CorporuUMl Law. Prompt Attention U» All Busin*««« t*hon*. Main 101« • It Henry »14« REAL ESTATE and INSURANCE Boring, ,’ak' p>r C%ir«ir ~ tiaaoim«' l.ugnic. LUMBER Oregon $6 d thousjnd on 16 fl and 24 ft. Ktniqh. 1x4. I\6. IxN. and on 2x4. 2x6. 2xX. Railway Mail Clerks Wanted Ihe (Invernment pays Railway Mail Clerks $A<Mi to $l,2<Mi. and other employes up to JZ.SOO annually . All Kinds l>r«'sar<l Lumber, deliver any when* Will Straus Lumber Co Uncle Ham will hold aprimt eiamina- ti’-na tlirouftlioul tin* country {or lUilway Mail Clrrka, Uu.tom 'lion«.- Clerks. Kteiiopraphers, Bookk«-.-|M-rs, Ih-partni’-ntal Clerks an«l other tho. ernmental position. Thouaamla of ap- IKiintinents will lH- made Any manor woman, in city or country, «-an Ket in struction and free information by writ ing at one.- to th«- Bureau of In struction, IV>2 Hamlin lluti<linu. Koch- •9«u-r, N. Y. 1 I'llONK «H ••••••••••••••••a PORTLAND RAILWAY ¿¿GHT & POWER CO. FREQUENT RAPID COMFORTABLE Springwater Division STATIONS EASTBOUN1) > «V» 7 4.1 PORTLANh hr Aft 9 5 (Y> 7 !.*»« W Ufi 10 • •«»If lun< ii«»n A 14 7 n * Io w 1.» 10 Bcaate] r» » 7 rj * 17 1» M 10 IrPiitH Junrtion .i» .11 7 <•• H •J7 V « 10 Sy««mt»r»-.. a 4i 7 4X * 4o w NA IO Jenne.. 7 »•• * 4/> 9 9» 10 Linnemann ft GKKMH V M ft 41 •7 .’•» * •O 9 • Io Hoa» h s 7 M «1 9 Aii«lrrM<»ri 7 A* i ‘J • «. M (>• Hnlty. 9 MU M 0< Boring 9 V« m œ» Mi« h-r ........... 10 •■) •g 10 Barton 10 Oft M 1J I»« rn < r, rk 10 07 M 1* Fngb- Cr.-. k 10 1H < urrinariilr. IN 24 10 .. 1»! FIG Tin -HAVK GHAtW WU»t. RHCX'IID. M 41 1 -’H’ «d« io J»» IN 40 10 &'«¡ Ar the teed la put where it can grow to <-AZAhKRO the beat ad Van tag»* Clover bas a bet ter chance in drill«*d gralu. Tbe drill Rhnuld be run north and south, so that the mud can shine In between tbe rows on the little clover plants. Harvesting the Crop. Preparation for harvest should be made by having the binder in perfect running order beforehand. If oats are not rut as aoon as ripe they will al- moat surely go down and tie lost. Great rare should lx* taken In shocking to are that the bundles stand up firm ly If the straw Is not too grern the shocks should tie capped, as a capped shock will shed rain better A shock that stands up straight and la well capped will sited a great deal of rsln without wetting in much It Is much better to stark than to thrash out of the shock. The oats will sweat some where. and they will be of better qual ity if they do It In the stark instead of In the bln. It has been proved many times over that there la nothing to bs gnlne«J by thrashing oats from the shock. Oats that have been permitted to go through the sweating process In a well protected stark are always of better quality than those which have been hurried Into tbe thrasher. STATIONS < AZAhKKO h <! h < '11 rrl n* v 11 Ic R«Kli* < r««*k h< <*|> < r< < k Barton Hb-frr............. Boring I A nd•• mon.. H om <i HRS HAM Llniinmsnn Jtnne . ......... By«« more l>-nt* Junction Btsnley. Golf Junction.. PORTIUND Ar 4» or. l.s tj «y NA 40 4A 10 11 11 II II 11 11 il 11 11 li 11 l-J 12 12 12 12 12 12 l!> 1 II."» Ir» TJ ; i * j 3A lo li» 4M V» <N> OS 0/ 13 il ?4 E BRANCH WESTBOUND «. ■ W 7 ( f »- n la <ft|7 »>|N 1 Ml W ISIS > tl I IS ) a i » i ’I» et io io n M >aiu< M 7 40 TROUTDALE BRANCH « » l<> i. U nt '> »> to It -«> t a Hally Bscept Hunday. JuneX0"*0" CU7’ J» J H I JJ . j; ; n J 2 J 2 M 1 M 1 M 4 N ! N I M M J S|4 S • S'S 3| t S !• X H» «A11 »¡a m A. M. acaras In Human. P. M fl(nr«. |„ btaok, P“rk ,nd W*T P”'"1*' •h“«- •» «»if For Lente, Mt. Scott and Mat side pointe. chanRn can at Lente Junction Genera) Office., Fint and Alder 8te., P obtlamd . O bboor . 4