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About Beaver State herald. (Gresham and Montavilla, Multnomah Co., Or.) 190?-1914 | View Entire Issue (June 6, 1912)
Garden HERE’S A RACING ROOSTER. F Little Driver’s Father. L. O. Benham. Bays Light Brahmas Are Best. “This picture will abow you the kind of chickens we raise In Texas Note the comparative alae of the team and the driver, Joabua Houham. and I’eet. the rooster." Tbat la what L. O. Bonbam of John son county. Tea., wrote wben he xeut the Irtcture shown here to the Rural New Yorker. Tb«> bird la nearly as large aa the baby Mauy farmers shake their bends al l.lgbl Brahmas Isu-nuse they think aueb great fowls ent too much fur whut they give luck Mr liouham was asked to say why he thinks the llrahnms are best, and Ibis Is Ids utuiwer; How many atttdy the surrounding conditions wbeu selecting a breed of chickens? We have been growing the Light llrubmns for the pn«t eleven years, and this Is the reason why Our chickens have the range of the or chard, berry patch, garden nnd vine 1.1TTLB ZOOM DBtVlNO BOONTKU rl«T. the show you will bear more comments HAVE AIRY BEDROOMS. of the Brahmas than any other breed; that la, from (Miopie tbat are not Infer Na Farmer’s Child Should Contract sated In special breed» Consumption These Dsys I There Is little doubt that a laigv |ior CIDER NEEDS NO CHEMICALS tlou of the cases of tuberculosis among formers has Its origin In the low. clone Careful Heating, Sterilising and Cork unveutlloted sleeping room* commoa ing All Is Nut wary. In the story and a half dwelling To The keeping awwt of elder and other save a little In the cost of lumls-r the fruit Julies without resorting to the farmer hna. unwittingly no donlfl. pre use of chemicals Is a simple process, l>ervd conditions the mo»i favorable nnd can Is- done by any one who un for the drvelofiment of germ», which dsrstunds canning fruit may at any time find halguient In the The elder la healed as son aa ex lungs of his children A case Is cltod tracted to a teiu[>ernture of about where four boya and girls, born of ro degrees, or until It begins to aim met bust parent«, but compelled to imo» but «lose not boll. It may be put lute tbelr nights In clow, half «tory room«, bottles or Jara and aeeled at once, but wore carried off by coosumpllon al a much better way la to allow It to must aa soon aa they reorbed maturity. stand for twenty-four hour« and pour while to their ancestry the disease was off and filter through a flannel cloth unknown. The so called bungalow type thru reheat to the same totupernture of dwelling Is little more than a re aud seal rival, under another name, of the old. When the juice or cider Is put lulo plainer, pestiferous atory Mnd a half the buttles which should tw »terln <>' dwelling by rinsing out with Isilllng water, th. If the owner will only sleep on It* corks should Iw put In nnd the stoppr wide porch winter nnd summer lie sealed with aeallhg wax or pamlDu may afford to live In It Bill to sleep It will keep indefinitely. nnd tuny i . In a room whose celling will not allow put to a great variety of use« one to stnrnl upright exetpt oil a limited portion of the rirx.r and where Blood Msal Not Popular. the air space Is totally instiflb-lent for Few dairymen feed dried blood to health Is enough to commit slow their milk cows Sensitive person aulclde. If high ceilings are anywhere revolt against the Idea of feeding blood desirable, that "where" Is In sleeping meal Aud yet II contain« nearly rooms. twice as much protein us cottuneoed meal or oil meal nnd Is Just ibout a« Dairy Doings. effix-tlve as a milk producer It has been more customary to use The economical butter cow—the but blood meal as a hog feed than as a ter cow tbat produces most largely - feed for cattle It comes as a by is seldom the smallest cuter. product from the (tacking house aud Milklug must be done qulckly- when fed to hogs is mixed with corn quickly and thoroughly Anythltu: It has twen shown by station tests tbat Irritates the cows, such as rough that cottonseed meal is somewhat uess or alow milking, will shorten the cheaper ns n milk producer than blood milk flow. meal Butter should come In twenty min utes of churning aud never longer lliau half an hour, Good salt should SOFT SNAPS NOT NUMEROUS. ! be used and great care taken that It is well worked In. T There ere ne »oft snaps about \ The demand for good, high prixiu«’ fsrm life or any ether kind of J Ing milk cows la great nnd steadily life if a man wante to win. And increasing, Dairying is becoming one ths man who sets out to find ▼ of the most sulrstautlal industries con any such thing will coma out nected with farming mid country life wore« than he went in and make 3 < > Barnyard manure not only adds a miserable failure of living. ’J Business is business an the farm 1 plant food to the sol); It docs more—It i > And why 4 Improves tip- mei-banual condition. In i > > as wall as elsewhere. yard, and u> control them it la only UM-munry to have a portable two foot wire uet fence, to move from plMce to place as necessary, and while they are good hustlers they are not wild rangers. Nome say they are too large, but when we go to market and one of them will bring as much as two should it net be? of many other breeds you cannot ob ject to that If you put the eggs on the scales you will tlml that they laid Uxs Various Lubricants. as many |s>unda of eggs as the liest. Where the pressure la heavy the lu and they do most of their laying In the bricant should be thick in order to wluter and spring, when eggs are a resist being squeezed out under the good price. They are the hardiest chick load For light pressures oil should be ens we have ever had. and they un used Thus for a wagon heavy grease just ns line at the table as any. They Is best, while for a cream separator of are the first friers at the market in high speed a thin oil Is necessary lh the spring; that In. If yon have an In order that Its viscosity will not add cubator or some other hen to do the to tl>e friction Solid a ti Inta news in a batching, aa they will not set until finely divided state, such .as graphite, late In the spring, but will continue are oftee used effectively to reduce laving, and after all when vou go to friction crease« the waler bolding capacity nnd raises the lemt>erature In early «pring The Intelligent use of barn yard manure has made thousands of Worn and unprofitable soils profitable «nd lifted the farm mortgage. The feeding of alfalfa bay to cows deeisros the yellow color of the butter A cow was recently fed a ration of al falfa aud <ottonseed meal, and the but ter from ber was analysed for tbe amount of coloring, Then the alfalfa was stopped, her ration being cotton seed meal alone The butter from the milk on thia feed was almost pare white Casting Cistern Walls, A way to prepare a sanitary cistern 1« by (minting It with two coat» nt "water glass" or glass (mint. The painting insures tbe softness of the water, since no chemical action can take (.lace In-tween tbe walls snd the water It also kee|>a the cistern from leaking and prevents |>ollution of tbe Builu part of the cistern by surface or subsurface water A LESSON FROM JAPAN. Only Big as Kansas, She Has Mora Than 4,000 Agricultural Schools. I Japan has about the area of Kansas, but her percentage of agricultural land la about that of New Hampshire It doesn't look ns If she woul^ need many agricultural schools. does It? Most of her farms are so small that they would about make a stack yard for one of ns. Yet twenty-three years ago. says a Japanese writer In Hoard's Dairyman. Japan had six schools where farming was taught. And then came the twen ty years of her most rapid progress China was defeated In war and then the mighty Russia The w hole strength of the nation was expended on those things which would enable her to carry the awful load of army, navy and bonded debt. And what became of the six agrlcnltnral schools? Instead of ts-ing allowed to dwindle they have multiplied, until In there were In Japan 4.375 agricultural schools! In these schools were enrolled 182. 209 pupils, and in that year there were graduated from these schools 93.40! children. A General Farm Barn Designed by J. W. RAY, College of Agriculture. Ohio State University IÎERE the lorntlon Is suitable n bank barn has many ndvau tage« its h general farm burn Below are shown the plans of such HEADQUARTERS For all kinds of building materials, includ ing rough and dressed’lumber,' doors,’ win- 9 dows, builder’s hardware—In . fact every- thing required in building a henne. r 1 1 1 «2. JxC in x2J ft. 10. 2x1 In x?> ft. 4. IxS In X16 ft.. structure, which cun Is* built at an cs- 12. Sxx In xll ft 11nuited cost of $1,14.8. not including 40, 3x1» In ill It Inside fixture-. The bill of material for IxS in. x’.M ft.... Sheet! 114' ......... this barn is as follows: Hoard tee! Total. 21.772 board feet. 1% per 1.0». ru * Shiplap aiding. * £50 board feet. 130 2112 In. XÎ4 ft per l.otx» ............................................ in Xis ft. ls 2x12 Slate rooting square. 17............... 2x12 in x26 ft. 41 3x12 Poor track is». fort, 5e....................... in xU ft. 1: - Poor hangers. 11 pair. $1......... .......... Í. 2x14 111 X1S ft Hinges 6 pair. 50c............................... 3i. 2x10 In. x2l ft Wir^owN. ’6 r..................................... 1«. 2x10 In x2S ft ronctvte wall. CMt yarda, 15............ a. 2xS tn. gW ft. ». 2x0 tn. xll ft f' I ts To»:t I . 6' ÍX'I In. X 11 ft Here you v, ill find everything you need at the lowest’possible prices. BOK SHUl 9>0' nótese STABLE Remember, we will build you a $1200 resi cwriPf.o BAf?nyAi?D 26 «Jfc BO* 5TAL L dence for $300 down, the balance payable in monthly installments of $20 interest. without Could you ask for a more liberal proposition Os — * L. OC* STALL IO X IJJ" - --------- .1 ^DOOR 9.Tsement P.an. n. • 4 - Miller Lumber Company Compiate View of Inner Bent. Complet« View of End Bent. NEWS FROM OUR NATIONAL CAPITAL Japan««« editors of th« Pacific coast will bold their fourth aaaual mooting In Portland, June 11-11. Jack L«a, a truety who escaped Democrats Introduce Cotton Bill from tbe state penitentiary at Halem, Reducing Duties to 27.06 a short time ago. was arrested at Aa- toria. Per Cent The city of North Bend has taken Steps to prevent tbe holding of I. W. Washington.—Representative Un W. meetings and spe«chm«klng on derwood at the direction of democrat the streets. Robert Conner, one of Roseburg’s ic members of the ways and meana «healthiest residents, has been fined committee reintroduced the cotton tar $400 and sentenced to 30 days In jail iff revision Mil which was passed by the bouse and senate at the extra ses for violating the local option laws. The Douglas county gri. d jury has sion of congress and vetoed by Presi filed an Indictment charging ex-May- dent Taft. The democrats contend that the bill or Hoover, of Roseburg, with selling venison In violation of the state game would reduce the average ad valorem cotton duties to 37.04 per cent, as law. High water in the Columbia river against an ad valorem of 47.16 per damaged a long bridge on the O.-W. cent In 1911 and 48 12 In 1910. The R 4 N. at Rufus, east of The Dalles, committee will report the bill favor to the extent tbat trains were blocked ably early next week. The democrats estimate that the for two days. revenues from the bill the first year The Southern Pacific is planning a most extensive system of electric feed of its operation will be about $10,500,- ers throughout the Willamette valley 000, compared with $13,000,000 in 1910 to be built as soon as the main lines and $12,300,000 In 1911. In its behalf they declare tbat the cost of cotton into Portland are electrified. Professor Lester B. Shippee. of Pa clothing to the consumers would be cific University, has accepted a posi reduced by $30,000,000. Three-Yesr Homestead Bill Passed tion as instructor of economics at Without word of debate, without a Washington State College summer dissenting vote, the house of repre school. Pullman. Washington. Incorporated in the Indian appro sentatives agreed to the conference priation bill reported to the senate are report on the Borah Jones three-year numerous amendments proposed by homestead bill and It was signed by Senator Chamberlain to pay old claims Speaker Clark. After It Is signed by the vice-president It will go to the of various Indian tribes in Oregon. With seven counties yet to hear White house for President Taft’s ap from reports from counties in the proval and the general expectation Is state with relation to the eighth grade that the bill will become a law before examinations ahow that 25»« pupils the end of this week. If the session of caigrees lasts long were successful in the examination, George Anderson, who shot and kill- enough Senator Borah will endeavor ed Attorney George W. Barnes on the to get through the house bis correlat streets of Canyon City last June, has ed bill directing the patenting of been acquitted. The trial showed that homestead« on government irrigation Barnes started the trouble which end projects as soon as entrymen comply with the homestead law. This bill ed in his death. Many features of unusual interest has passed the senate, but has not have been included In the program been reported by the bouse commit for the nineteenth annual Chautauqua tee. If it is enacted, homesteaders on assembly which opens at Gladstone government projects can get patent in park near Portland, Tuesday, July 9. 1 three years, instead of waiting 10, aa I at present required. continuing tor two weeks. The senate has passed a bill pro Funds for Lower Columbia Provided viding a reservoir site for Pendleton. An appropriation of $200,000 to con The measure directs the secretary cf tinue the improvement of the Cc' • i the interior to furnish 200 acree of the bia and lower Willamette rivers b- ■■■ Umatilla Indian reservation for the ! Portland is carried in the sundry civil site of the proposed reservoir. bill reported to the house and it :.i In order to protect themselves from addition to the appropriation of $180,- various advertising mediums of more ' 000 carried in the river and harbor or less value and publicity schemes | bill. The bill also appropriates $35.- offered to merchants, the business I 000 for the Siuslaw river, where tne men of McMinnville have formed a engineers recommended SllS.Ofl, Merchant's Protective association. which would have completed the exist- An experiment station in Coos coun , Ing project. ty to supply aid to tbe fruit growers In addition to the foregoing the bill and farmers west of the Coast Range contains the following Washlngtoa of mountains is the plan which P. M. i items: Continuing construction f Hall-Lewis, the Coos county fruit in public buildings at Bellingham. $75,- spector. is endeavoring to carry out. 300; North Yakima, $40,000: Olympia, The Portland. Eugene & Eastern 10.000; Walla Walla, $20.000; Mount began construction of an electric line Rainier National Park, $5400; com- between Canby and Molalla, a distance I pleting the improvement of Grays of 10 miles. Tbe line will connect I Harbor. $655,000; completit.g the Bel- with the company's main line that will , lingham harbor project. $62.250; Lake tap the Willamette valley from Eu ■ Washington canal, $500.000; Willapa gene to Portland. river and harbor. $75,000: McNeil Mrs. Lenora Peachin shot and killed Island penitentiary. $46,100. herself at her tent home near Wichita Full Revision of Land Laws Urged. station on the Estacada electric lit. Senator Newlands, of Nevada, has after shooting and probably fatally , made a proposal which, if favorably wounding her husband, Everett S. acted upon, may result ultimately in Peachin, a sergeant in the Portland the solution of the perplexing prob- police department. ' lems which now retard the develop Brooding over his recent arrest and ment of the west. In brief, Senator fine for killing deer out of season. Newlands proposes that the senators James Baldwin, of Ukiah, attempted I and representatives of the west get to commit suicide by swallowing a j together as a body or organize a com teaspoonful of strvehine. but medical mittee of 17, one member from each assistance reached him before the poi I of the public land states, and agree son had taken full effect. upon a complete and comprehends e Orders have been issued to the con plan of amending the public land laws. tractors on the Oregon & Eastern rail National Capital Brevities. road to rush work on the first 80 miles Another important provision in the of that extension out of Vale. This | sundry civil bill abolishes the position; will take the line. 96 miles southwest of receiver at all local land offices erly from Ontario to Riverside and creates the job of chief clerk at through the Malheur canyon. $2.000. who will handle nil funds and On Thursday. June 6. the new tem- act for the register when the register pie of Corvallis lodge No. 14. A. F. & is absent. A. M.. will be dedicated by the most Plans for a nation wide demand for worshipful grand master of Oregon. the removal from office of United Thomas H. Baldwin, of Prineville, who States Judge Cornelius H. Hanford, will be assisted by practically all the of Seattle, Washington, were announc other officers of the grand lodge of ed by Congressman Victor L Berger, Oregon. socialist representative from Wiscon When the submarine mines that sin. have been laid iust below the Fort The war department has received Stevens wharf were exploded a couple assurances that the house committee of days ago. thousands of sardines on military affairs before adjournment and other small fish were killed. In will report favorably the militia pay the neighborhood of 200 salmon were bill, which was perfected at a recent stunned by the shock of the explosion conference between the national mill- and came to the surface. tia board and the secretary of war. George Shartle and Wesley Hat To count the “corporation judges” field. of Chetco, were drowned In the on the federal bench, is the ob ect of breakers at the mouth of the Pistol a resolution introduced in the house /lver when the engine refused to work by Representative Martin of Colorado, In their gasoline launch, They were He has asked the president to compile carried to sea by the ebbing tide and and transmit a Judicial census giving their boat capsized in the breakers the corporation antecedents cff every with fatal results to both. judge nominated during the last 30 By a wholesale slashing In many of years • the reports and particularly in the Nine days leave of abac-ce for all pr ! report of tbe secretary of presidential postmasters in the states st. te, State Printing Expert Harris of Idaho. Washington and Oregon dur bell, vet a large saving can be made to ing the month of June has been grant the state. He intends to eliminate ed by First Assistant Postmaster Gen from the report of the secretary of eral Grandfield Presidential post state over 500 pages of matter which masters of the three stales will hold carries nothing but a detailed state a combined convention in Portland ment as to the warrants Issued, and beginning June 9. and the leave of ab believe it w‘11 result in over $2000 be sence Is to enable them tc be In at ing saved. tendance. I