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HAPPENINGS HERE IN OREGON
W A L L O W A COUNTY STOCK.
m e caay l e w
ru riy
incom e
w iu
kud
to • 150 , 000 .
Fatten Inc Poultry.
It is natural that the poultryman-
farmer turns to corn for fattening pur
pose, for be has more of that than o f
other grains, but the man who would
make the most from a select trade in
M ilk In s Stool.
/
Any one who has tried milking bal
anced on a stool with one leg w ill ap
preciate the convenient stool shown
in the illustration, particularly as It
may be made at a small cost and by
any one bandy with tools. Take a
piece o f board o f convenient width and
Salem— When the Eddy corporation
tax law was passed it was estimated
that it would produce a revenue of
$100,000 a year. The act has been in
force scarcely mare than six months
and there has been paid into the state
treasury $90 868 . F . T. Wrightman,
corporation clerk in the offioe of the
secretary of state, estimates that (he
annual revenue willoggregate $126,000
to $160,000, with the latter sum not
improbable. As a revenue measure, it
is evident that the Eddy law w ill not
be a disappointment.
I t has been frequently charged by
promoters of wildcat mining companies
that the .Eddy law would keep out for
eign corporations and prevent the orga
nisation of new concerns. I t is true
that the law has put a very noticeable
check upon the organization of corpora
tions with enormous capital stocky but
without any considerable assets.
Cor
porations are now formed upon a more
busineaslike basis.
Stand«
Third In tha List
Sheep Producers.
of
O
Heavy
S
Enterprise— The county assessor has
just completed his statement of the
number of sheep and cattle in W allop*
n io n
a c in g
county for 1908. H e shows the num
ber of sheep to be 180,000. Thus Wal
lowa stands third on the list among the
counties of eastern Oregon. I t is lead
only by Morrow and Um atilla. The
sheep in each of those counties num
bered about 183,000.
The average
price of sheep tLis fall is placed at
$2.30. This makes the value of the
TIME SCHEDULES
ABM VS
D ST A B T
sheep of W allowa county $414,000.
FerUaad. Or.
There is little increase this year over
Chicago Salt Lake. Denver, t t N p n
the number raised in 1902.
Ft. Worth,Omaha,
Portlan4
Special
Eaaaaa City, Si.
The number of cattle is placed at
Lo u ie.Chicago and
• :»a . m.
16,936,
me as
▼la
East.
Wallowa county Bantin (ton.
is w ell down the list in the number of
St. Paul Fast Mail. 1040 a.m.
At’entlo
cattle, outclassing only Morrow county.
Expreas
• :IS p.m.
The average price of cattle this year is
via
placed by the buyers at $26 each. This Huntington.
would make the total value of the cat-
Atlantic Express.
TRÜBE»
•t Paal
The value of the cattle and sheep
Fest Mall
4 ,
combined would be $1,037,400. The
■pokana
value of the sheep and cattle of Uma
tilla, Baker, Harney, Grant, Union-and
Morrow amounts to $6,187,447. Thus
OCEAN AND RIVER SC H ED U LE
the value of the cattle and the sheep of
F BOM POKTLAXD.
eastern Oregon is $7,224,847. *
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P
TIREE TRAINS to tht EAST DULY
Eras PorUaid. ,
MO ».Me
All sailing dates
•abject to change
1
Fer San Francises
Sell every 6 days
dniiul Roads Artesian W ell Company O r
ganized and Officers Elected.
La Grande— A meeting was held at
5:00 p.m.
Dally
Alicel last week by the Grande Ronde
Ex. Sunday
Ex.Sunday
citizens for the purpose of organizing a
• :00 p.m.
Saturday To Astoria and Way
company to teqt thoroughly the digging
Landings
10:00 p. m.
of the artesian well. The meeting was
largely attended. J. M. Church was
S:S0 p. m.
•:46 a.m.
elected ehairman of the meeting and J. lion.,
Tues., Thu..
Wed.
Sat.
Salem,
Indepen
D. Smutz secretary.
and Fri.
dence, Corvallis
I t was decided to organise a capital
and way landing*
stook of $4,000, divided into shares of
$10 each, to be known as the Grand
Ronde Valley Artesian W ell company.
Yaw hill liver.
7:00a.m.
4:BpbSk-
Mon., Wag
On adjournment of the general meet Tuet.. I'hur.
and Sat. Oregon City, Dayton and Fri.
ing the directors met and elected F. B.
' and way landing«
Bramwell president, 8 . 1. Brooks vice-
president, Peter McDonald secretary
and J. M. Church treasurer.
Lv. I/Sfritto»
Snake Eher.
A well w ill be dug a depth of at least Lv. Riparla
•:00 a.m.
2r,000 feet unless water is struck before Daily exoept Eiparia ta La wie ton Dally exoept
Fridgy.
Saturday
digging this far, and the experiment
w ill be made on this sand ridge, near
EASY MILKING STOOL.
length and shape It as shown. Cut out
.a circle in front and then attach a por
tion o f a . barrel hoop so that when
th e stool is in o n n s p *n used w m
rest on the floor and have but little
apace between its circumference near
the top and the hoop.
The legs are placed at the angle
shown and a hole Is cut In the back
end o f the board so that the device
m ay be hung up out o f the way when
not in use. Any one with a few tools
and a little lumber can make several
•of these milking stools in a day, so
that each milker w ill have his own.
B y the use o f such a stool the milker
Is comfortable and there Is no hanger
o f the pall slipping from between the
knees, as it often does In the old w ay
o f milking-— Indianapolis N
A . L . Ç R A IQ
F a r M a n ila « attacked Corn.
Washington Pierce, o f Marshall
County, Kan., senda Iow a Homestead
m sketch and description o f a rig for
hauling shocked corn that has been In
use for the last ten years for hauling
to a shredder and for feeding. I t la
made, he says, with the side sills from
4 x 4 hardwood sixteen feet long, with a
2 x 4 through the middle to stiffen the
Inch boards nailed crosswise. The axle
which la long enough to leave the
wheels outside the frame is one foot
In front o f the center o f the frame and
oh top o f It unless the wheels are less
than thirty Inches. I t needs good
wheels from thirty to thirty-six Inches
In diameter. When the driver is on it
w ill nearly balance. Use a drop tongue
extra long.
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P r n n i a a F r a i l Trees.
Apple and pear trees may be pruned
to advantage during the summer, even
os late as the latter part o f July, pro
vided the pruning is not too severe.
A s s rule most orchardlsts prune too
severely at all seasota, but during the
summer 13» work should be but a little
more than “ pinching back," unless the
trees are half-grown or older, when the
cutting back may be a little more se
vere. There Is no danger o f
the
growth which is made after summer
pruning being so tender that it will
winter kill, for tbe cut will heal rapid
ly, and tbe growth w ill not be very
great. This plan o f summer pruning
checks the tall upward growth, and
does much to form the desirable head
on the tree. T ry it on a fe w trees this
summer and note the growth next sea
son.
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Hom e-M ade W in d m ills,
A short illustrated article in the Cos
mopolitan shows what the poorest
farmers can accomplish when driven
to the last ditch. Home-made wind
mills constructed o f box boards, bar
rel staves, scrap Iron and odds and
ends o f discarded threshing machines
and farm Implements, costing in cash
about 80 cants, have been made In the
prairie States to Irrigate farms, pump
water for thousands^ o f cattle and
Sheep, shell corn and relieve tbe farm
er o f what used to be the hardest
manual labor.
- ¿"¿iiwR
to the Coal
forward so that the pigs can reach all
the slop In bottom o f trough.
F ix«.
I have raised thoroughbred Chester
Whites for the last fifteen years. I
have a little o f eight line pigs tw o
weeks old from a Chester W hite sow
bred to a Berkshire boar and expect to
have them eating ont o f the trough
when they are three weeks old. I al
ways keep a trough outside the pen,
where the pigs have free access to I t
so they can eat at their leisure and
not be worrying the flesh all off the
sow. A t six weeks old they want
about three pallfnls o f good swill a
day. I f you want them to gain a
pound a day after weaning them give
them good feed and all they want and
a dry nest to sleep in.— Correspond
ence American Agriculturist
F a rm N o t«*.
HANDY WAGON.
r eg o n
h o r t L in e
Shredding is fast becoming fashion-
'able. W e are learning how to manage
It and save It so as to get the most
good from I t
In the vicinity o f Santa Anna, Cal.,
2,200 acres o f the peat lands have
been set to celery this season. The
1903 crop Is placed at over 1,800 car
loads.
In promoting progress in agriculture
it is desirable that practical farmers
keep a careful record of facts which
relate to tbe culture o f tbe soli on
their farms.
The inference that the flavor of eggs
is materially affected by the kind of
food given the hens during the laying
period seems to have no foundation in
fact. Such la the conclusion reached
after a thorough test made at the West
Virginia experiment station.
Irrigationists do not depend on un
certain summer showers, but build a
dam, to be filled wltb water during
the winter months, so that crops w ill
be supplied with the water they will
need.
I f a man Is more than a horse he
needs more than horse sense. I f he lg
a business man he w ill need business
sense, and If he Is an up-to-date farm
er he w ill need all the sense he can
get In any direction that may be o f use
In bis business.
I f It Is desired to raise s calf, give It
milk fresh from the cow, and warm,
the vessels to be scrupulously clean. I f
scours occur give a tablespoonful of
ground dried blood once a day. Lin
seed meal jelly Is also wholesome, but
let the calf depend mostly upon the
warm, fresh milk. •
Prairie C ity-—There Is a big rush
through this place to the John Day
coal fields, which have recently been
discovered. Men are coming into the
and domestic corporations are $36,802
country to inveetlgate, and orach of the
untaken land is being located. The
coal is said to be superior to that pro
Northwest fruitgrowers’ association, duced by the Heppner coal fields, and
T im e C a rd N o . 2 4
thsre are indications that large depos
Portland, January 11-13. .
its w ill be opened.
Croppings have
National livestock convention,-
No. 2 for Yaquins:
been discovered in many places. Sev
land, January 12-16.
Leaves Albany. , ............ 12:46 p. m.
National woolgrowers’ association, eral, thousand acres of the supposed
“
Corvallis.............. 2:00 p. m.
coal lands have been secured by pro
Portland, January 12-16.
Arrives
Yaquins................ 6:20 p. m.
Poultry show, Albany, January moters, who ore trying to get more.
No. 1 returning:
. • "' ~
12-16.
Leaves
Yaquins.....
.........6:46 a. m.
Angora goat show, Dallas, January
PORTLAND MARKETS.
"
C o r v a llis .............. 11:30 a. m.
14-16.
1
Whitmsn-Oregon debate, Eugene,
Arrive A lb a n y .................112:15 p. m.
Wheat— Walla W alla. 71672c; bine-
January 16.
' K'*1'
No.
3 for Detroit:
stem, 77c; valley, 78c.
Oregon Christian Endeavor conven
Leaves
A lb a n y .........................7:00 a. m.
Barley— Feed, $20 per ton ; brewing,
tion, Pendleton, February 19-22.
Arrives
D e tro it..................12:20 a. m,
$20*20.60; rolled, $ 21 .
No.
4
from
Detroit:
Flour— Valley, $3.7663.85 per bar
Leaves
Detroit...................
1:00 p. os.
rel;
hard
wheat
straights,
$89.064.10;
Athens— I t is estimated by the wheat
clours,
$8.6668.75;
hard
wheat
pat
Arrives
A
lban
y.....
..........
6 :66 p. m.
buyers of this place that there are about
ents,
$4.2064.60;
graham,
$8.75;
76,000 bushels of wheat in this district
Train No. 1 arrives in Albany in tim e
that have not been sold. John B ell A whole wheat, $5; rye flonr, $4.506
to
connect with tbe 8 . P. sooth bound
Oats— No. 1 white, $1 .0 7 )*6
80 ns have just disposed of 28,000 bash- 47.5.
1
.
10
;
gray,
$1.05
per
cental.
train,
as well as givin g two or three
els at about 62 cents per bushel.
Mr.
M
illstaffs—
Bran,
$18'per
ton;
mid
hours
in Albany before tbe departnre
Bell raised about 30,000 bushels this
dlings,
$23;
shorts,
$19;
chop,
$18;
year, this being among the largest
of the S. P. north bound train.
yields for one ranch.
I t has been linseed, dairy food, $19.
Hay— Timothy, $16 per ton; clover,
Train No. 2 connects'with the 8 . P.
learned from some of the bankers of the
$
12
;
grain,
$
12
;
cheat,
$
12
.
trains
at Corvallis and Albany giving a
district that the depoists in the institu
Vegetables—
Turnips,
65
per
sack;
direct service to Newport and adjacent
tions this season are not as largess had
been expected, because the farmers are carrots, 76c; beets, 90c; parsnips, 766 beaches.
90c; cabbage, 1 6 U i c per pound; pars
not selling their wheat.
Train No. 8 for Detroit, Breltenbush
ley, per dozen, 26c; tomatoee, $161.50
J
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and other mountain reeorts leaves A l
per crate; cauliflower, 76c®$1 per doz
Plenty of Peed Is the dread Roads.
en;
celery, 75c; pumpkins, lc per bany at 7 :00 a. m., reaching Detroit at
La Grande— Prospects for hay feed
noon, giving ample tims to reach the
this winter were never better. Up to pound! onions, Yellow Danvers, 80c6
Springs the same day.
$1
per
sack,
growers’
prices.
this time the stock in the Grand Ronde
Honey—
$363.50
per
caee.
valley have had to have very little feed
For further information apply tm
Potatoes— Oregon, choice and fancy,
ing, although there is plenty of forage.
E d w in S tonb ,
The range along the foothills is very 65675c per sack; common, 60600c;
' Manager.
good and should there be little snowfall sweet potatoes, sacks, 2 c; boxes, 23tfc T h o s . C o c k r e l l , Agent, Albany.
per
pound.
the cattlemen w ill pull through the
H . H . C ronise , Agent, Corvallis.
Fruits— Apples, 76c6$2 per box;
winter in fine shape. Cattle and sheep
pears, $161*00 per boxT
are commanding fair prices.
Batter— Fancy creamery, 2 7 ^ 6 3 0 c
Cotton Is Agricsftnral Regent.
per peund; dairy, 2 0 6 2 2 )fc ; store,
BO Y E A R 8 *
Salem— Governor Chamberlain has 1 5 @ li> ic .
EX PE R IE N C E
Choose F all cream, twins, 14® 16c;
appointed W . W . Cotton, of Portland,
to succeed Benton K illin , whose term Young America, 16® 16c.
Poultry— Chickens, mixed, 9c per
has expired, as a member of the board
of regents of the Oregon agricultural pound; spring, 9c; hens, 9c; turkeys,
dneks, $ 6®7
college. John D. 01 well, of Jackson live, 16c; dressed,
county, and J. M. Church, of Union per dozen; geese, 8 c per pound.
Eggs— Oregon ranch, 32H e; Eastern,
county, were reappointed to snoceed
DCSIQNS
25630 H .
themselves on the skfne board.
C opyrights A c .
Hops — Choice, 24c per pound;
Anyone sending 1 sketch end description nay
Dong lax Has Cloaa Bill of Health.
quickly eeoertetn oor oplnton-iree whether ea
prime, 22c; medium, 19c! common,
Invention I* prob «hl y putenteble. Communie*.
Roes burg— The local health officer, 16c. Wool— Valley, 17618c; Eastern
Dr. E. Du Gas, reports that not a Oregon, 12616c; mohair, 32636c.
Patents taken through Mann A Co. receive
apeetel notle*, without chante, la the
single case of quarantine for contagious
Beef— Dressed, 5®6?^c per pound.
diseases now exists in Douglas county.
Veal — Dressed, small, 8 6 8 H c ;
This is the first time in several months large, 566c per pound.
A handsomely lllnatrated weekly. Lernest rtr.
that he has been able to rapert an abso
Mutton — Dressed, 6 6 ficc; lambs,
lutely clean b ill of health* although no dressed. 6 H e per ponnd.
epidemic has existed at any time.
Pork— Dressed, 6 6 6 per pound.
CORVALLIS 6 EASTERN
RAILROAD.
Scientific American.
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