Devoted to the Interests of Southern Wasco County VOL. I, NO. 40 MAUPIN, SOUTHERN WASCO COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, IULY U. 19 15 THE YEAR $1.50 Fresh Meat I have opened up a Meat Market opposite the Hotel Moad and can fill orders for any kind of Fresh Meats, . RAY Aubrky, Maupin. ' Grasshoppers Dying E. C. Cunning, a prosperous farmer of the Bakeoven country, called at the Times office while in Maupin last Friday afternoon. Mr. Dunning has 40 acres of po tatoes and when the grasshoppers made their appearance he resolved to pnt forth an effort to save his crop and got in communication with 0. W. R. & N. Assistant Agriculturalist Lou S. Smith, call ing Mr. Smith's attention to the conditions here, 'hence his visit of a few weeks ago. Mr. Dunning reports the poison bran mash as absolutely saiisfactory and says the number of dead hoppers under the potato vines average 40 te a vine after the first application Claud Wilson also used it in his ecru field with the result of killing as high as 80 hoppers around one corn stock. THE GRASSHOP- Dl The white arsenic is, , in small the pest. The most efficient of quantities, much cheaper thanjthesa parasites is a fiy which PER SITUATION Church Notice. Services as follows; Sunday, July 18, Sunday School 10 a. 111., preachiug, 11 a, m. and 8 p. in., By Professor A. L. Lovett, Assistant Professor of Entomol ogy, 0. A. C, Corvallis, Oregon. Having spent two days going over the grasshopper situation about Maupin, a brief report of conditions and a general answer to some of the questions asked seems timely. THE INJURY Fall wheat has been injured but little if any. Spring wheat is damaged to an extent in some localities, and oats, where grown, are damaged considerably. The erons which have suffered mo3t and which are most likely to be attacked even yet are 1 garden and truck crops, particularly potatoes and corn. Fruit trees and shrubs may also be attacked. THE POISON MASH For conditions such as the present where the grasshoppers are well scattered and are at tacking cultivated crops, there is no treatment to equal the poison bran mash. The formula for the preparation of the material and the directions for its application have been given in a previous is sue of the Maupin Times. How ever, the receipt is repeated here in its cheapest effective form: Bran 50 pounds Paris green or white arsenic snno- service besnnninff 7:10 p.m. 0 r Tans green or wnne arsenic Thursday evening 8 p. m. prayer j " 1 pound meeting. Kvery one wecome ta all I gyru"n3. 2 quarts in.ii services. "GTS." ELLIS, Pastor. Salt...... - 1 pound Lemon extract 2 ounces Mix the dry ingredients to- tt s. Tf.nderslw has purchased a1 eether thoroughly, add the syrup large Case separator from W. II. ' and extract to a gallon of wakr Staats & Co. which will be deliver- j and pour over bran- Add more ed today. j water to make a crumbly mash. e. FMHER'S GARAGE Auto Passenger Service Auto Delivery Truck Prepared for Long Trips or Outing Parties A Complete Line of Automobile Accessories Paris green and just as effective Syrup may be left out without materially lessening the value of the poison. Broadcast the ma terial in the early morning using about five pounds to the acre. We cannot emphasize too strong ly the remarkable efficiency of this material. It is not a new untried fad; it is not exhorbitant in price or impractical to apply; its action is quick, sure and ef fective. The published results of those in this vicinity, follow ing their use of the mash, should be conclusive proof of its effici ciency for grasshopper control. I believe that without exception where growers have used the bran mash, prepared and applied as the College recommends, they were more than satisfied. It gets the results. There is the question of pois oning poultry or stock. Where the material is scattered as we recommend I do not know of a single authentic record of the death of any domestic animal by XVhprft nlaced in uivim'h" ' ' heaps dire results may follow. Nor is it well to give poultry free range to a treated held where dying grasshoppers are numerous, too many hoppers are not good for a yomif chicken. Another question concerning the use of the bran mash is, does it pay one grower to apply it for the protection of hid crop it' his neighbors do not do the uumo V.mrthnT.ieallv ves. The OUUt-. i......-- X ' .1 I..;, . oppari iv.tn;;" ..aa-uij-uij. w r are classed as nen-uii-iaiui.). They are distinctly local in their attack and do not travel any considerable dir.tanco as corv nnrpd with the migratory form, r .1 11" an example of wtticn is uie while H,ev Rocky Mountain locusi 01 im 70's. This point wiii b! nwe clearer in a succeeding par?. groph on the weeding habit:-'. MAUPIN, OREGON places a living maggot under the wing of the hopper. The mag got burrows inside the hopper, feeds onits internal organs and evdntually kills it. A female hopper infested with a maggot does not deposit eggs for next year's brood of insects. Speci mens of this fly and of two other beneficial insects which prey on grasshopper eggs were collected in the fields and are on exhibi tion at the office of the Maupin Times. COMBATING THE HOPPER IN THE BREED ING GROUND The ideal time to fight the grasshopper is in the breeding ground. For some of the grow ers surrounded by vast areas ol uncultivated soil the proposition seems hopeless. However, where breeding places are dis covered the following points will apply' Grasshoppers pass the wintei as eggs. These eggs are not placed in cultivated or loose soil, but in bare spots in waste places. Often these breeding areas are confined to small areas of one- half acre to three acres in ex tent. These breeding grounds should be located and the egg' destroyed by triple discing 01 plowing this soil during the far of the year. If this is not prac tical for local conditions, a care ful outlook should be kept during the spring for the breeding nlaces. particularly on waste laud adjacent to cultivated fiolhV. Where small areas are discover ed during late May and June1 simply alive with the very small I hoppers, prepare some of the bran mash and poison them are confined to this t'iin.li aiva. It is a very t-impk-matter to treat such a block of ground as but little material is required for the small hoppers SENT IN BY OUR CORRESPONDENT ; thousands of the pests from eating the poisoned dope. Vera Canfiekl ' seems making good progress toward recovers Criterion Chronicles L. N. Castor, Karl Tunison, and Hdwin Kidder are leaving this week for grain harvest in the Flanagan section. J. E. Miller, on Saturday las!, made a tup to M010 with his brother who will spend a feu weeks harvesting. The cool weather of the past week has greatly increased the size of wheat heads, consequently more sacks will he needed at threshing time. Quite a little inquiry from out side sources is made regarding the tuning of laud in this vicinity, but most of our citizens are satisfied with the prospective outlook for the Criterion country and are not in the real estate market. A woman riding horseback from Seattle, Wn. passed through Cri terion on Tuesday enroute to hei homestead near Bend, K, II. and L. H, DeCamp are .villi Hunt's hay 'linking foice. Ail our farmers report a good crop of hay and of-extra quality. Frank Buzan spent tlieweek end it home. T. (). MiiU-i lust wick filed on a valuable half 'cctinii, loc iled 4 1 2 miles southwest of Sliauik'Viiiiju- Roop.-'. ',- li- ild i us. Burt Mniliew.'Avlm owns a fa: in it R'.dmo'id, p.iid a visit 10 bis brother Clem 1 vo-.-ui lv, and letinn ed. home with several valuable hoi-.-., simimg wtikli was a enc voting Conch leiiiii. Tile wai till mssIii.PI'-.-in Mill cnulinues tesiihing in dealb to Dr. Fellows III Dr. B. O. Fellows was taken vtry sick Saturday night Rud Sun day from 7 o'clock till 5 o'clock in tin- evening was unconscious, end much fear for hit) recovery was experienced hv his friends, The lood physician, Dr. C. H. Fiaucis, was called and gave no encoutage inent. Mr. Tallcott sent a tele gram to his son in Indianapolis, ' statins the doctor's condition, but shortly after sending it he became conscious and very much improv ed, Although yet very weak, at this writing he is still improving. Y. P. B. Organized A Young People's Branch of the VV. C. T. U. was organized at tfce church Sunday night, with the view to being a beneficial social organization of the young people of this place. A number have al ready signed the pled"'. Miss Dishrow and Mrs. Job Crabtree were elected presul'-nt ami secie tarv. It is nlaniud to give a pro gram a week from Sunday evtning and each succeeding second Sun day evening. These temperance pregiams will be of ft musical and literary nature and every one is in vited to come and help make thtni a success. ' Ch i i e V iHlUlHS ea"uie"iIAVir SO II day from the mountains and was called Wednesday to return taking a coup!'- horses and some provis ions to I. eigh Oliver and fini Ko koto who aie with Mays sheep and have lost their pack horses nnd part of the slice p. Make tioil proof before Com missioner Sinai t. WILL THE HOPPERS I Later after they commence to COME AGAINV. spread out, greater areas must . , be covered, more material Is nec- An occasional wun . --.,,. , rro ,. w w to crops is almost sure to 1-jIIow their spread. predict that the grasshoppers will disappear this year. Un forturately too many men listen to this statement and consider ing this to be the case, sacrifice the croo attacked this season, making no attempt to fight the WILL A SEVERE WINTER i MaMpk State Baiak 1 Hail Insurance What the Tum-A-Lum Method Means to You You've often wished you had a friend or a relative in the lumber business to help you and give you counsel when you get ready to buiid. You have spent a good deal of time going through magazines and farm papers looking for s jggestions tc help you solve the problem of getting just the ri:-- t building for your needs at the right price. It is easy to get this very building when you build by the Tum-A-Lum Method. Our Service department cuts out all waste with its Material saving Lists. Ycur lumber is all used in the building. We own no mills, and are therefore not a "dumping place for any undesirable surplus. We buy from the best markets of the world. Their output comes to our yard without one cent of added selling cost-you pay the one right price for your lumber. The result is that that you get the best possible build lng for the lowest price. BUILD YOUR NEXT BUILDING BY THE TUM-A-LUM METHOD Let us figure with vou on the r.ew house or barn you're going to build. "See Peter Kilburg about it" TVM-A-LUM LUMBER COMPANY EFFECT THE HOPPERS'tll GRAIN INSURANCE Cews The winter is passed as eggs in the soil. These eggs are de- Uiuiw.it, 1- - ij me SOU. lucsc rgun 01c oo- pest. Did you knew that it our ited jn mas8e8 of from 18 t( insect friends assumed this same 1 g5 in a eman hean shaped indifferent attitude tor a single, ()r -ca)SUie. The outside of season that all green vegetation 1 js made of matei.iai would be absolutely wiped fm ! exi,(k,d hy the female. When Un rtrtVll'a CllirfflPP? i 1 ... ' X' -! L 4.1. n,.r.;it..rw... Uic can... u lUry H IS 01 HUUUl. me l-ijiaijicij It is true nevertheless that ! of fit, it is impervious to mois- ,.-. 1-r.oea nf pxcessne . . . t .... ...j ...u C. year ui 'tureana 10 neai ami com. 00 abundance of hoppers is usually 1 ag thig gac Jg unbl.0kt.n followed bv a period of years in; which no particular widespreaa, n(jt eire,.t the eg(,,.. miy ... .... 1 iiie 1 grapphonppr injury otxuin. i discing or plowing these egg condition is due to beneficial 8 arp b,.ok;n UP( lbe eggs are sects or parasitss as we call'readiiv chilled them which prey on the noppeu . and reduce their numbers to - , point 01 CMIIICUUM. n. u:lifn (rrns-honoers are abundant affords ioVnl conditions for multinliciitioii -t their eneinies Those enemies aimon. wif , , ,y in;i. . V n-v. r 'n.. . - hoppers may die od hy the mill tha hnnnon. 1 he fri O'.VlllC J eai ; . 11 niv uvj.v. tf.nu wi.1i no grasshoppers to breed in , and feed on the parasites die off ' SUMMARY almost to the point of extinction. -r;-ae 1(HI,.r9 arp capable of do Then for a cycle of 3, 5, or more; : VJ,.e jni, ?. They will year? the hoppors increase slow-j me tlmntrh possibly not ! I,. Vait r.'irf'v and eventually c- nf a faw voar again become a plague. Theor- terna vigilance is the price of etically that is what will .g,,ccefl3 j fighting ihem The happen here. Eastern Oregon m0,,t mtk.x p;,r(. t , o-mhnt conditions hav not been guf-i ,thr.m js j )ri(, breeding grounds, ficic'ntly studiei to state defi-, VVnai thy atP(.- a cultivated nitely that such m the case, but U u,ft !he K)i,ol, mn?h. in all probability that is what: will occir. A careful examiiia lion of 'jras.-boppor infi-sted iM ........ i.f, Sine .v .vi.li ". r areas it'. .ai nw 'ii-ci.ii r'v'i pp'Tj-'t''' pi''-y!t, i , . it.- v n Notary Public :-r, t . V, W)J,I iflS'-TmlH )&tSTi ' r-S-TOClKg mlZlPtZlit iWfwnac, vv -"v"v Money transmitted cheaply by Drafts 1 . o'.-iil 0 ;( Wears prepaid wn jm i Lind:int'e3'in the --eatber. If a warm; or 'tlip! spell EuHiciont to hatch the hoy- S .. i rrs is followed by a few days if '!-! ARVEST ORDER 'ol'ct.ld wet weather the young; Ci: L f. "Star" Windmills and Towers :rt l-'rniev .v -vi.li V. flllllll I'l Ve-lleii tiM-i III- SHftTTOCR BROS. Um )