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Welcome Words to Women Weaaaa aufer "till ditortiar peculiar l their Ml aneuld writ t. Ik. I'ttraa u4 reaei Ire lit dvlee o4 plirateita f .f 40 yaara' tl,vri, tkiHf J nl ueaM tpaeialial tn trta di 4 worn a. titer letter 4 lata ton kaa th. awl araful tMMMidVralioa ad la rardtd at aaeraJlf oaaitanltal, Maav aeawitivela aaadeat wotaaa. write fully lo lr. I'tarca what Ibey wsulj ahrtak Iroa lallia to their luaal paioiaa. Tbe loeal pai ;taa la prtliy aura la My that U aami.it do arylliin without "an aaaiaalMia." Dr. 1'iere. holda that taaa, tad ibal m aoau, aieapt ia rara aaaaa, aboald tubaait to Utaas. Dr. Herea'a traalaaaat will aura yaa rlat la laa pet. f yeae awa Mat, Ilia Fatoriie rreeeripti.a" Wat ..rat) fcuetdrede mi IihmiJi, aaaaa mt thee laa w.tel ef aaaaa. Il U Ik eat aaedialee of lit klaa thai It tbe product of a raulariy radaala4 EbyticUa. ITia oaly oaa food eaouh Ihal in Maker dec lo .net lit err if radical oa lit oultlda wrapper. 1 bara't ao taaraey. Il will baar eaeiae lioa. No alcohol aad aa abil-foraia dnit ara fouad ia it. Soea. eon. aloai aiadieina daalara aiay or yoa a tuh.mula. LWttak.it. Uoa t Inla with your haallh. Writ lo World' Ih.peaaery Mtdieal Aaaoeiatioa, lit. K. V. flare., I'ratidanl, Buffalo, N. Y.,-lak. I ha advica caived aad ba will. km A Few Choice Farms ut of thrta hundred and fifty wi have lUtad In tha Willamette valley 240 aero, well Improved and In cultivation. IK mllo writ of Mon- mouth, Oregon. Price of. per acre. Term 66ttacre. 1 mll northwest of Independence; all In cultivation; Al buildings. A nap at $5600. t acre. In high auto of cultivation; good Improvement and pln of fruit; 114 miles west of Monmouth. Price $2500. 10 acrea well Improved land; 3 acre orchard and berrlea, balance Id crop; good water, good buildings, good fences, mile north weat of Monmouth. Price $2000. 85 acrea. 1 mllo north of Monmouth; fine black aoll. amali houae and large barn; plenty of water. Price $85 per acre. )kbd ted Branch Office Hotel Monmouth Monmouth, Oregon 1 Oliver Chilled Plow HANNA BROS., Exclaslve Agest for. the Oliver Chilled Plow Work HANNA BR0S. HARDWARE AND HARNESS DEALERS INDEPENDENCE, OREGON The Willamette Valley Company Light, Power & Water at Very Reasonable Rates WATER RATE5(Water by meter applies to resi dences only.) Besidence rate on meter applies to cus tomers only who pay $2.00 and over at the rate of 20o per 1,000 gallons; minimum $1.00 per month. ELECTRIC LIGHT AND POWER RATE Kesidenoe, 16 cents per K. W. Business houses, 25 cents per drop and 5 cents per K. W. Power, rates on application. OFFICE AT WATERWORKS PHONE MAIN 41 MAKE YOUR OWN STOCK FOODS Br USING SKIDOO HORSE AND CATTLE TABLETS Crush and mix In feed or salt Proper dose la tablets Makes Your Stock Look Like the Top Price For Horn Cattle. Sheep, Swfa. and Fowl. p''S'at? tart coodcn.ed M,MC. of th. dm. They don't contain Sawdust. Aea, CTof Feaov &rn. AJ ZtooA wbea 10 rer. old u when JO day. old. C! and m enea SKIDOO CondiHon Tableta, or SKIDOO Worm, KHtltwy, Qiideen Cholera, Spavin Cr or Barb Wirt Liniment. Distribotad bj THE IW 2 . iacorponttdi Caprtal Stock t300.000.0Oi Watertown. South Dakota. U. & A. For sale by HANNA & IRVINE. Indpendenje. On&m A HOME COURSE IN AGRICULTURE i IX Weeds ami How to Combat Them! By C V. GREGORY Agricultural Division Iowa State College 5N artaniptiog to proooca large crop the farmer flnds that he baa many aoettilee working agatnat blin. Amng the worat if tbaaa ara weed. One if lb irreat at problema that confnint lha farm rr la that it keeping bis cra fret frn tlieaa peats. After a fleM hae aenin at handled and pn arrd llmt a arga aiwtuut of plant fu.nl It In avalla ila form, with plenty of un.lture l llaaolve It. It Is x.-r Kill.y to allow weeds to aelta tbla ltd ! woUtura ud convert them lino a worthleaa prod urt. Wwwla way ba divided Into three general elaaaea-annusla. MeiinlaU and pfrenrrtsis. r.tuiuin weeCs are proro gated entirely by aeeda aud live but una year. An exception to tbla la found In the winter annuals, which coma op In the fall, live through the winter as small plant and produce aeed tha following spring. Among the moat troublesome annual weeda are the foxtails. Tbeae are graaatlke plants tbst are too common to need any special deacrlptlon. The fact that makes them ao difficult to riO. XTII A BCBSIAJI THISTLB. combat Is their great aeed producing capacity. It la not difficult to kill one formal plant, but no sooner is that done tbsn another springs up to take Its place. Early fall plowing get rid of many of these weeds by turning them un der before the seed is ripe. Some of the seed which Is ripe will grow up, and the plants will be killed by the first freezes of winter. If the field Is harrowed early In the spring many of the remaining seed can be Induced to start The more weeds tbst come up at this time the better, since they will be killed In the subsequent prepara tion of the land for planting. There Is no better Implement for killing weeds before corn comes up than the harrow. Harrowing Is a cheap operation, since so many acres can be gone over In a day. The more times a cornfield can be gone over with the barrow before the corn comes up the better. In harrowing to kill weeds care should be taken not to do the work when the weather Is cloudy or the ground too wet, or the weeds will be transplanted rather than killed. In regard to the value of harrowing growing corn opinions differ greatly. It is almost impossible, however, to harrow corn without destroying some of it. It Is a waste of time to test the seed and planter with the idea of getting a good stand and then barrow part of it out. Unless the weeds are very bad the harrow had better be put away in the machine shed as soon as the corn begins to appear above the surface of the ground. Thorough cultivation from the time the corn is two or three Inches high until It is ready to "lay by" will do much to keep the weeds In check. The deep early cultivations will bring up the Beeds that have been lying dor mant at the bottom . of the furrow slice. These will germinate and be killed by the later cultivations. Fox tail may grow up and go to seed after the crop gets too large to cultivate. It is often a good plan to sow rape in corn at the .last cultivation. This will come up quickly and shade the ground so completely that it will prevent the growth of annual weeds almost en tirely. Annual weeds seldom do much dam age in small grain. If the grain is drilled in on a properly prepared seed bed It will get such a start that most of the weeds will be smothered out and die for lack of plant food and light. One annual that Is sometimes troublesome in gralnflelds is mustard. Since this weed is easily killed by cultivation it seldom, goes to seed In cornfields. Consequently when small grain follows corn there is little mustard seed in the soil except that which is sown with the oats. There Is another annual, or rather winter annual, that is much harder to eradicate than those mentioned so far. This is squirreltail grass, so called be cause of Its fuzzy heads. The seeds are very light and are attached to long beards, which cause them to be carried for considerable distances by the wind. Squirreltail grass is not troublesome in cultivated fields, but often in fests meadows and pastures to such an extent as to make them almost worthless. Mowing as soon as the heida appear will nt kill the plant, but If kept up throughout the sraon will prevent It from producing aeed. In bad caaea aMmt lb only remedy In lo plow up tha Held and put It In to eonte cultivated crop. Wbera a regu lar rotation which Include th mend oa and pumurea la followed lbi weed ran b readily kept In check. A point that must be carefully attended to In preventing the apread of this as welt aa of any other weed la to keep the roadatdea and fence rornera from raising weed aeed enough each year :o keep the entire farm seeded. Another troubleaome annual In aome tectlons of the country la Hit Ituaalan thistle, a form of tumblwed. Py rolling acroaa the fields after It rlpena It acattera Its numeroua aeeda very widely. These weeda are usually not to plentiful but that they can b easily destroyed by pulling before they form aeed. By doing tbla they may be kept from becoming thick enough to do any ertona damage. Biennial weeda live through the first winter and produce aeed the eccond yesr of their life. They die as aoon aa tbe seed is ripe. The common bull and prairie thistle and burdock are con aplcuous example of this class of weed. Biennials are not difficult to auWue. In cultivated Uelda they ael Anm lire Ion enoucb to produce aeed. They aeed ao late that they hardly ever ripen aeed In meadow. In per manent pastures tbey may be con trolled by cutting off below the ur fac of the ground Just at the begin ning of blossoming time. Sheep and goats will rid a pasture of these and 11 other troublesome weeds. " Tbe hardest claaa of weed to com bat are tbe perennial. These do not depend entirely upon aeed production to spread themselves, but are propa gated by mean of underground stem. These stems extend along be neath tbe surface of tbe ground, send ing up stalks at short distances. They live in the soil from year to year, send ing up fresh shoot every spring. 8ome of the most common nd trou blesome perennials are the Canada thistle, morning glory, wild artichoke, milkweed and quack grass. These weeds are found on all part of the farm In cultivated fields, in small grain and In meadows and pastures. Tbe only way to kill them, Is to de stroy the root or starve them by pre venting leaf growth. This 1 much more easily ald than done. Where the weeds occur only in small patches the desired result may be accomplished by covering them with a thick layer of straw. In a dry season thorough cultivation will discourage them, though it will seldom exterminate them entirely. When the ground is wet cultivation will do more to spread perennial weeds than to kill them. The pieces of the underground stems which stick to the shovels will grow wherever they happen to fall and thus tart a new center of trouble. Of all the means of getting rid of perennial weeds that have been tried none Is so effective as turning the field Into a hog pasture. If the fields are fenced hog tight and the rotation in eludes the hog pasture the hogs will get a chance at all parts of the farm na, xviii juack obass. every four years or so. They are very fond of the roots and stems of peren nial weeds, especially those of quack grass and morning glory, and they will continue to root until the last piece is brought to light and eaten. Where all the fields are not fenced hog tight a temporary pen may be used. This can be moved about over the patches ol quack grass and morn ing glory until they are destroyed. The- weed problem Is not nearly so difficult as many people believe. The remedy for weeds Is good farming, and when good farming becomes the rule weeds will largely disappear. In a way weeds are more of a benefit than an injury. If it were not for them we would often be tempted to let the cornfield go a few days longer before cultivating and thus fail to get as large a crop as we might otherwise have done. It is the , cultivation that nf rhp weeds forces upon us that makes plant food available ... . ti i and prevents tne escape ol cupuwij moisture and so enables the plants to put their best efforts into producing a maximum yield. II. IIircbber, Pre. A. N.Uoo. Vic Pr. C. W. Irtin. Cash. The Independence National Bank Incorporated 1889 Transacts a General Banking Business Interetit Inid on Time Deposit DIrecUri: II. IlirtobUrg, A. Nelson, D. W. fjear, B.F. Smith and J. E. Uhmlea. THE NOBLE . A. MADISON, Prop. Corner Commercial nd 8tat Street MALE.M, OH BOON Dallas Steam Laundry Best "Work Guaranteed Basket leaves Tuesday 6pm and returns FrMay Cleo Robinson Agent Independence, Obeook . A. C MACEHS. Pnpnatai TELEPHONE MAIN 17 Standard Liquor Co. WHOLESALE DEALER DM WINES, LIQUORS Sr CIGARS 148-156 S. COMMERCIAL STREET SALEM ' OREGON COTTAGE HOTEL Mrs. J. F. Staiger, Proprietor Special attention to Commercial and College Organizations. . Salem, Or. Talepkooa and mtawngar aarnoa al boa. 160 Court Streat Taiephoo 209 Maim. "FT,, H3o!k:erleri Wholesale Family Liquor Store PHONE MAIN 103 144 Commercial Street, Salem, Oregon FRESH GOODS are liked best by a good many to bacco connoiseurs. Those which are freshly made are soft, sweet-scented, burn even and last longer than those which ' are allowed to dry out thor oughly. Fact is, we sell hundreds of cigars direct to consumers on this account. If you are fond of a good cigar, try one made by SALEM CIGAR FACTORY Salem, Oregon. Tom Cronise PHOTGRAPH ER Salem, Oregon GAFE RESTAURANT Mesdames Hart and Raglin, Proprietorrs Board by Day, Week or Month. Meal Tickets Sold. IXDEPEXDEECE, OliEGON