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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 19??-1917 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 31, 1917)
[ Hi H ■ ■ ■ I JH iV'-'il JHL I V J. L. Sm ith hM m display a t hi* Front « tro t office bow a A m bunch o f the n «w “ Canary Grass,” «bou t which them h M been so much talk, from M .T . Clinton's fin e s a t A ra fo . W here tested tt proves w onderfully w ell adapted to Ww, m oist ground and OtariT» Office b Moving Ami Oddy’a Farce Witt Soon J • Follow. been tested fo r several years and makes good pastures a fte r the lon g est drouth. O ther ranchers who are e in g it « ( f D. C. Kranx, A lb e rt h and S. L. L a fferty. B bhL «16; L illie P e rry . «16; O. C. Ochiltree, «1 6 ; Lsbna B. Morehouse, «a »; BHtabotK W illie, |16; Julia A llen , . «10. The la tter had ju st m ar ried. The follow in g wiaow s’ pension al- D. R. Lew is on the North Fork n r G ravel Ford brought in a sample flUed a 9*27 silo o ff o f seven-eighths o f an acre. This is a t the rate o f «6 tons to the acre. Th ey w ere sown in February. Mr. Lew ie says that where he had applied 2300 pounds o f Urne on three-fourths o f an acre the trop o f «e ta and vsteh was three tim es as good and th at he harvested six tons ▼aulta in W U annex. The qnestion is as to thè coet o f m ovlag wMeh it is o f hay f r o * that amount e f land. tbeught m ight prove' prohiM tive. It was not origin a lly expected that H would be necesaary to put aay safes in thè H all o f Becorda. Judge H arlockar fam ish es a splen did bunch o f oats five fe e t ta ll which looks m ighty good fo r «h e dry season we have been having. SOUND CATTLE ARE KILLED The salary o f Norm an W ilson, fs r- paua a t Bullards, was raised to «160 month, on account o f running until I o’clock. A n order was made refunding 102J6 to the Coos Investm ent C o , from P b u iip » county, Kansas, and came to Spokaue, W ash , w ith aa ox team 80 years ago. - The oxen he was d rivin g here are six years old, and m says that they have done a ll his work ea the ranch where he lived in Glendale fo r the past three years. He did not use the old-fashioned yoke but had a com plete ou tfit o f harness M r. Khas says that he staid with d ie cattle continuously from the tim e they landed in Portland until they were skinned, and dissected, only tak in g tim e o ff to 'sleep and eat. When he went up there he says he had no idea o f how a tubercularly affected piece o f m eat would look, but the fed eral inspectors insisted on his n m sin - ing until they came screes a tuber cular anim al and now he says he could tell it anywhere. A s to the talk being indulged in that tubercular animals are passed a t the stockyards, he is emphatic in the opinion that such is not the case. The heart, liver, longs, th reat and mus cles are particu larly examined and ho is confident that no infected ani mal can g e t by. In connection w ith this, he stated that the dairym en received a cheek fo r their cattle from the Union M eat Co. Tuesday evening, but that, ft To Otr Rural Friends. brass knobs on th eir horns and each The ladies o f the Bed Créas earnest o f them carryin g a sm all Am erican fla g ' on his head to attest th eir own ly request your presence every a fte r er’s loyalty. The oxen bore the noon next week to help in the work o f p rep arin g'w arm clothing fo r oar H ereford colors, but one o f them was a Durham and the other a Jersey h alf breed, though the Jersey was soarcsl y in ferior to the Durham Dner Pasture am Beams. W e hear frequent com plaints about deer pasturing in bean patches now; Principal Taxes at 1916 TRAVEL WITH AN OX TEAM The pilgrim s wens en joyin g the a t tention which th eir n eed teem at tracted and said that during the first day o f th eir journey, on the Pacific highw ay, fifteen autos stopped to en able their occupants to kodak the outfit. Several pictures wore Ufcen here. Although the oxen regu larly made three m iles an hour in goin g to