Walloo Ccuntg Chieftain County Pioneer Paper Established in J884. Published every inuraUiti' oy The Enterprise Press. Office East side Court Housa Square. Entered in the pcttoffice at Enter prise, Ore., as seaond-clasa matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One year $1.50 Three months 50c. Invariably in Advance. THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1909. WALLOWA COUNTY LAND VALUES. Peop'e who complain of high land values in the valley are Influenced to a great extent by remembering how cheap they coald have bought even the chol:eit farms a few years ago. A man who came into the val ley 12 years ago and predicted the rich va'ley land with abundance of water would se'l some day at $30 an acre, was laughed at. The settlers thought he was dreaming. Yet tha:. land li cheap today at twice $30, and is going higher. And why ghoul 1 it not go hlghar? Fnrmers in the vicinity of Enterprise are reluctant to lease their land to the sugar factory people at $10 on acre cash rent, saying they make more than that off it. This in spite of the well known fact that the su gar company would turn hack the land thoroughly cleaned and in bet ter shape than it ever was. Finally a few public-spliited citizens turned over some choice acres just to en courage the test. When a man can gat $10 an acre cash rent for the land from the 'host of tenants, it lo)ks to a man up a tree the land is worth a great deal more than is be"nj aked for it. But if unequalled valley land with perpetual, free and abundant water is dear a". $75 (sells elsewhere for $1"0 to $2.0), then take your fill of as fine wheat land as lies out doors for $13 to $20 an acre. Just as good and sone say better than the $75 Umatilla or Palouse wheat land. If it is all too dear, go take a va cation. Stay away a year or two and then come back and pay double the present prices and be glad to do it. THE SENATE IN A NOVEL. The House was scheduled to vote on the Payne tar'.ff bill Friday of this weak. It will then go to the Senate where for three months a grand bluff ai dlicusslng It will be made, and finally it will be smoth ered, killed and the bill prepared by Aldrlch, by and with the consent of Standard Oil, J. P. Morgan and the other two or three owners of Amer ica, will he passei in its stead. This Is no partisan statement and the action of the Senate will be no partisan movement. There is neither a Republican nor Democratic party In the Senate. The division is on more vital issues than party names. To give a report of the prefunc tory proceedings of the Senate, the speeches, e'.c, would be a waste of space. They are only intended as a blind to throw dust in the eyes of the greenhorns out here in the backwoods who stM think this gov ernment Is a republic. No, this paper has something far better for Its readers than a resume of hypocrisy and chicanery, some- M M fo) 5 Dealer in 5 Harness, Saddles, Chapps, Spurs, and Leather S Goods of all descriptions. 5 g I will fit you out with the best goods for the least. g money. When in need of anything in my line, call and S inspet my'stock before purchasing. ' "- I ENTERPRISE, - - - - . OREGON thing that will give a truer and bei- ter idea of the United States senate. The most popular play of last win ter in all Eastern cities was The Gentleman from Mississippi the greatest political drama ever staged. It has been made over into a novel, a wonderfully thrilling tale of poli tics, love and humanity, and tha publishers of tliU paper have secure! the exclusive right to publish it here. This story wH be started about May 1, and its 8 3rial publication and the bluff put up by the Senate will almost co:ndde in time. We want every vot'ng reader or this paper to read The Gentleman From Missis slppl and compare , week by week with what the Senate is doing with the tariff bill. However, u Is a story for every body, men, women, boys and girls. It is charmingly entertaining as well as instructive. Watch for THE GENTLEMAN FROM MISSISSIPPI. Se3d time wai never more proplt jub in Wallowa county. The soil ii n fine condition and the ground Is JveU dampe ie l. Reports from all se3 :ions of the county say fall sown iraln U looking splendid with a good stani. I up Before the Bar. N. H. Brown, an attorney, of Pitts field, Vt., writes "We have used Dr. King's New Life Pills for years and find them such a good family tnedi eiue we wouldn't be without them.' tor Chills, Constipation, Biliousness Jr Sick Headache they work wonders ioc. All druggists. Kiririble Balloons. The first attempt to steer a balloon was made In Purls in 178-1. King of Blood Remedies. Levy's Oregon Grape Compound. Sold and guaranteed by Burnaugh & ...layfield. Enterprise, Oregon, The Greyhound. The greyhound seems to have been developed in level, treeless and Bhrub lcss countries, where a moving object Is visible nt a long distance, and great Hpeed is therefore necessary to enable a predaceous animal to overtnk U prey. T. P. Coleman, of Coleman Bros., eft Wednesday for Tacoma, where 3 will visit his mother and dispose it some property there. He will bl !me from a month to six wesks. The Cork Center. The town of Sun Fellu da Guilds, Spain, is the greut cork manufacturing center of the world. The fifty or sixty factories employ 1,200 men and womeu manufacturing corks. The Alps. A professor of the Cuiverslty of Ber lin believes thut the Alps have been moved twenty miles south from their original location and curved into their present form by glacis fiction. Swept Over Niagara. This terrible ca'amlty often hap pens because a carsless boatman ig nore3 the river's warnings growing rlpple3 and faster current. Nature's wprnings are kind. That dull pain or ache in the back warns you the kldnfeys need attention if you would escape fatal maladies Dropsy, Dla )ete3 or BrlgUfs disease. Take Elec tric Eitters at once and flee Back ache fly and all your be3t feelings return.;' After long suffering from weak kidneys and lame back, one $1 bottle wholly cured me," writes J. R. Blankenship, of Belk, Tenn. Only 50c at all druggists. W. P. APPLEGATE. Notary Public. Collections made. Real Estate bought and sold and all business matters attended to. Call on or write me. PARADISE, OREGON. WESLEY DUNCAN, Stock Inspector for Wallowa County. JOSEPH, OREGON rSasidl -ffiome''. Course In Modern Agriculture V. Leguminous Crops and Rotations By C V. GREGORY. agricultural HivUion. Copyright. 1909. by American Pre Association t MOXO the important classes ct Am crops grown on the farm are Tl, the legumes. The soil Is to the farmer what a stock of goods Is .to a merchant He canDtf keep drawing on It forever without putting something back. OrSlnary crops take plant food from the store In the noiL This must be replaced In some way. Legumes, on the other band, leave the soli richer rather than poorer. If you will exarrii-e the roots of a rlover plnnt cnwruliy you will notice numerous If'rle swellings about the size of pi , bervls or a little larger. Tho-ip are called nodule and are tin 'mine of certain bacterid. ThesA hn. terla are minute one celled "plants s small thnt thousands of them c-n nan on the point of a pin. We sLull studj some of the different classes of bac teria in detail later. The ones that live on the roots of legumes have the power of changing the nl:ro?eu of tht air into a form lu which It can be used by the plants. When clover stubble Is plowed under the nitrogen which is contained In the stems and roots is added to the soil and can be used by the following crop Where the soil Is badly locking In nitrogen and humus it sometimes pays to plow under the entire crop of clover The nitrogen whl-h leguminous plants add to the soli is by no means the only benefit which conies from their use. Nearly all of them have a long taproot, which forces its way down Into the soU far below the depth reached by the roots of ordinary crops. Alfalfa roots sometimes go down as deep as thirty feet or more. Much of the plant food used by the crop is; brought up from this lower layer of soil, and some of It is left in the Upper soil when the roots and stubble decay. The passage of the long roots through the soli also loosens It. and when they docay add to the humus supply. Thus the physical condition of the soil Is so Improved that the more tender roots of such -crops as corn can penetrate It readily.- Because of these facts corn, potatoes and almost any other crop will grow faster and give a con siderably larger yield on a field w hich has grown a legume the year previous The principal legumes are alfalfa clover, cowpeas and soy -beans. Al falfa is grown most successfully west of the Missouri river, although by no means confined entirely to that 'local ity. It requires some care to get a good stand of alfalfa. It does best on a soil that is somewhat sandy and should never be sown on a soil where the water table Is liable to stand for any length of time within three feet from the surface. "Wet feet" will kill alfalfa quicker than anything else. As a general rule the best time to sow alfalfa is early Jn the full. The ground should be put In the best pos sible tilth, and If manured before sow ing the seed the chances of success are considerably Increased. The seed should be sown at the rate of about fifteen pounds per acre. A light bar rowing will cover it sufficiently. If the young plants weather the first winter successfully, the critical time Is past. The advantages of alfalfa over clover are Its higher feeding value and greater yields. It can often be cut three or four times In a season, with a yield of from one to two tons per cutting. Alfalfa must always be cut as soon as about one-tenth of the plants are in bloom; otherwise the vitality is weakened and the yield of the succeeding crops reduced. There nre several varieties of clover, of which medium red is the most wl!u- FIO. X EIGHT-MONT HS-OLD ALFALFA PLANTS. Note the Ions taproot and the nodules. ly known. Clover seed are usually sown with small grain In the spring. A surer way of obtaining a stand Is to sow after the oats have been disked In and cover with a harrow; otherwise the seed are put In so deeply that many of the little plants never reach the sur face. - ' '-' One of the principal reasons for fail ure with clover Is poor seed. A sam ple should always be ' tested before sowing. This can be easily done by putting a - hundred seeds between a couple of moist blotters and keeping In luwsTHOfRoqrj. lotoa Stat Collect a warm p'aee for a few days. The number that germinate can be used a as a guide to the amount of seed to use per acre. One reason why clover and alfalf.-i ore not more popular with fiirmers Is the difficulty of curing the hay. If it Is left In the swath until dry euough to put in the mow, the leaves, which are the most valuable part, will become so brittle that many of thorn will be lost A better way is to go over the field with a side delivery rntoe as soon as the leaves have wilted a little and throw the hay together lu lon.se wind rows. Handled in this way, it dries evenly, and tbi leaves will not fall off so easily. Hay cured In this way Is also less liable to be dusty than when cured by direct exjKisure to the sun. Once In awhile, even with the best of care, some of the bay will be caught la a rain. A hard rain on clover or al falfa hay washes out much of the nu triment which It contains. Burn hay Is hardly worth putting lu the br.ni. but may be made good use of for tod ding. Iu this way it Is mixed with the manure, and the plant food which It contains Is returned to the soil. Cowpeas and soy beans nre to the southern part of the United State what clover and alfalfa are to tho northern sections. They nre grown more as hay and forage than for the grain. These legumes ore also used In some sections of the com belt as catch crops. If sown on early fall plowing, they prevent the soil from washing and thus losing much of iu available nlant food. They may be pastured off MO. XI fcl-CTXNO) A BBAVI GROWTH OF ALFALFA. later or disked up in the spring. They are often sown In cornfields during the last cultivation to keep the weedx down and to add nitrogen to the soil. : -Because of the fact that other crops make so much better growth after the field has grown a legume for a year or so it is important that a crop of clover or some other legume be grown occa sionally, if a plan of rotation is ar ranged so thut the fields ure regularly changed from one crop to uuothcr, so much the better. It bus been found that when any crop Is grown year aft er year on the same land the yields wlil grow less. The particular kinds of food that a certain crop requires grows scarcer, and weeds and Insects become more numerous. . If another kind of plant is substituted, other elements of plant food will be drawn upon, the in sects will be starved out and the chang ed methods of soil treatment will dis courage the weeds. I'lants vary greatly in their ability to get food from the soil. Such crops as rye and buckwheat ore strong feeders and are able to obtain food from a soil on which more tender plants would I starve. Some plants use much more humus than others. Crops like corn that are cultivated frequently deplete the humus supply rapidly, since the constant stirring of the soil hastens de cay. Oats, on the other hand, take c-'.r.paratlvely little humus from the s. il. These differences may be largely equalized by a consistent system of ro tation. In planning rotations the aim should be to so distribute the crops that they will be best adapted to the condition lu which the soil was left by the preceding crop. The starting point of every rotation should be lover or some other legume. The length of time that a field should be left in to such a crop depends largely on local condi tions. In the east, where alfalfa seed Is high and the difficulties of obtaining a stand great it is usually wise not to plow up the crop for three or four years. Ked clover lives only two years; hence If not plowed up the second year the land must be reseeded. In most cases two years is as long as the land should be left to any one crop. Since clover Is grown with small grain the first year, this means only one year in which it will be the sole crop. If the second crop of clover U to be plowed under, as Is the case when 'the soil is considerably lucking In humus, this work had better be done iu the full, so that the mass of green clover may have time to decay before the following crop is 'planted. If the soil has been properly ccred for, however, this green manuring will be unnecessary. As a general rule It Is more profitable to feed the hay or grass to stock and return the manure to the land. In this way from m to 00 per cent as much plant food Is added as would have been If the crop had been plowed under, and at the same time the stock has had the bene fit of the extra feed. When only the stubble Is to be turned under, the plowing may be done either In late tall cr e&rly spring. Hcrstback fiidinj. Ilorselwcl; exorcise possesses, accord ing to sone physicians, the faculty of both increasing and redwing weight If meals nre taken Immediately after rMin; additional Cosh Is gained; oth erwise a dtx rease of flesh results. People past middle life usually have some kidney or bladder disor der that sap3 the vitality, 'which Is naturally lower in old age. Foley's Kidney Remedy corrects urinary troubles, stimulates the kidneys, and restores strength and vigor. It cures uric acid troubles by strength ening the kidneys bo tlley will strain out the uric acid that settles In the muscles and joints causing rheuma tism. Buinaugh & Mayfleid. Kirwey May. In Norway hay Is largely cured by hanplng It on wooden aud wire racks, much us a woman bangs out her wash. Vlsc'ivoctok. Vladivostok, the principal Kusslan port In the far east possesses a well protected landlocked harbor, with a depth of from thirty to ninety feet of water over a wide area. For Constipation. Mr. L. H. Farnham, a prominent druggist or Spirit Lake, Iowa, says: "Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets ate certainly the be3t thing on the market for constipation." Ulve these tabkts a trial. You are it)' lain to find them agreeable and pleasar.t In elfe.t. Price 23 cents. Samples frea. For sale by Burnaugh & V. ay field. Dandruff and VL are bdt outward slant at the evil done in secret by myriads of dao- Jruil terms sapping the life Wood of the hair. Micro kills tbe part site, soothes the itching scalp, l gives lustre to tbe hair and stops it lading out A single application gives relief aod proves its worth. Save your hair before too late, Micro prevents baldness. It Is a delightful dressing for the hair, free from grease and sticky oils. Ask your drttfjistfor free booklet HOYT CHEMICAL CO, - PORTLAND, OKIOOa FOR SALE BY BURNAUGH & MAYFIELD Red Front Livery and Feed Stable First Class Accommodations Best of Hay and Grain j ONE BLOCK SOUTH OF HOTEL ENTERPRISE Did It Ever Occur To You Telephone in Your Home Provides safety, convenience, economy and pleasure, and makes your home life com- ' , plete? Its cost is little, its benefits are ; manifold. Home Independent Telephone Co.1 Covering Union and Wallowa Counties MAIL AND PASSENGER ' ST A GE LINE Wallowa. Appleton. Flora to Paradise, MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS and FRIDAYS; and Prcm Paradise, Flora and Appletor lo Wallowa, TUESDAYS. THURSDAYS and SATURDAYS. Good accoinniiMlatlorih, courtious treatment and reusuiialils rates. Leave Wallowa at 6 a. in. v E. W. SOUTHW1CK, Proprietor. MILLIONS OF i AT LOWEST RATES. ON EASIEST TERMS. Wni. Miller & Brother, ; SUITE 204, Wallowa National BanH Building, Enterprise, Oregon. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. Department of tha Interior. U. S. Land Office at La Grande. Or egon. March 16. 1909. ' Notice Is hereby given that Henry W, Downs, of Lostine, Oregon, wha on July 28, 1903, made Homestead Entry No. 13161-Serlal, No. 03999, for W4 8VVi. NE 8 VH. NWK SB hi. Section 10, Township 2 South. Range 43 East, Willamette Meridian, has fl ed notice of Intention to make c ina Five Year Proof, to establish claim ta the land above described, before D. W. Sheihan, U. 3. Com missioner, at Enterprise, Oregon, on the 26 h dey or April, 1909. Claimant names as witnesses: 1 6 Is Olson, Charles E. Van Pelt, Paul A. Harris, Floyd W. Ham uiaik, of Lostlue, Oregon. 1 ' SSt6 F. C. Bramwell, Register. Used by the Multitude. Levy's Oregon Qrspe Compound. For general spring tonic. Sold and guaranteed by Burnaugh Mayfleid, For dyspepsia, indigestion and lose or appetite take Levy's Oregon Grape Compound. Sold and guaranteed by Burnaugh & Mayfleid, Enterprise, Oregon. ENTERPRISE OPERA HOUSE Watch foi Next Annomir;' meiit WALLOWA BRANCH TIMETABLE. Eaattiound i tla an e from am. La Qrande Stations Westbound p m. ! V:45 Lv 0 la draml 1:10 Am I 9:5) - 2.5 Island City ,.L. I 10 00 ' S.S A I el ' :40 " ! 10 10 12.S Imbler 1:25 " j 10 SO " 20. Elgin 1:00 " I P.m ! 11:"5 " Hi Talmer Jet 11:85 11:10 53.7 Looking Olaas 11:10 " p.m. 12:45 " 47.1 Mlnnm 10:S0 " 2:00 " SO.o Wallowa 1:00 M 2:45 87.S Loatlna 1:15 " 8:45 " 78.0 Enterprise T:S0 " 4:48 Arr 83. 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