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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Or.) 1903-1931 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 11, 1909)
c- 'iT VV" r,vwi atniJtmMim )n iimiii irtuHMiHitiW fcrttwinf ijrtid.iiifiW i 2?mt m I MS, ft IMItllllllll I Mill niMi sn n II in I 1 IM M :1fl it ft 1 THE BEND BULLETIN CHARLES D. KOWlt KtllTOR SUBSCRIPTION RATIJS: OBC jTTtfx wmnotMOM, wninnM.! ? t3 Hit """" ii I, , - i i - I, .V Thrtt cioth... ,.,..... ....-. . . (tnTtUMr In itnnc.) WKDNKSDAY, AUG- it, 1909 jl'il.3 ' f. 'f IUfcr:g-A4J- rtnxmr A O00J harvest. The season's first crop of hay is pretty well taken care of through out this section, by this time, and the yield has been very good in deed. In fact, much more and bet tcr hay has been cut this year bj farmers on the segregation than ever before. A .fair amount of this is being hauled into Bend and sold, the market price for hay delivered in town being- $14 a ton, A fait general average on the first cut 01 alfalfa and clover will put the yield at two tons to the acre Some field did not do that well but others did better, and the average will be about as stated. The grain crops are ripening now, and a few fields hove already been cut. The good record made by the grasi.es will be duplicated in the wheat, oat and barley fields Many wheat fields stand to a man' armpits, and the oats even higher Some might suppose that tlm meant too rank a growth of straw with a corresponding lack of grain, but as a practical farmer remarked to The Bulletin not long ago, "I have never yet seen too long straw. The longer the straw the longer the head." This statement is proving true ia this year's grain crop around Bend, the heads of grain being ex ceptionally long and heavy and filled with plump round kernels. The yield of grain will be O. K. While the frost has nipped the potatoes to some extent, the major ity of reports received by The Bul letin arcto the effect that the po tato crop will be up to the stan dard for this lection, which, as ev eryone knows, is entirely satisfac tory. New potatoes have been on the market for a month and a half, and are Ax in quality. The Assembly Plan. Let there be no misunder standing about the matter. If the people of Oregon wish to give up the direct primary and go back to the old convention system of nomi nating candidates for office, all well and good. But let's have done with all this folderol about holding "assemblies" as a part of and as an aid and improvement to, the direct primary. What is the assembly plan? It is a system that is being proposed by some of Oregon's politicians whereby delegates shall gather in convention prior to the date for holding, the primary nominating election, and "suggest" or "recom mend" that the people nominate this and that mau for this and that office. Then at the primary, the people may accept this suggestion or recommendation, or they may reject it if they do not like the men recommended. Looks simple and fair, doesn't it? But in a short time, it would do away absolutely with direct nomi nations by the people. The man who had been "suggested" by the assembly would have the strength of the politicians and the "inner rings" behind bitn; any man who opposed him would be dubbed an irregular, an independent, etc., etc.; and the final result would be that no one but the man who had the endorsement of the assembly could secure the nomination at the pri mary. Which means that the nomi nations would really be made by the politicians gathered at the as sembly. Which again means that the old convention system would be back in all its force, and the direct primary would have gone ogliui inering. Let us look into the matter a little farther. Why is the assembly plan suggested? lfor one great .) reason, which is that it is claimed the present direct primary has put the republican party out of Imm ness in Oregon. Candidly now, is the republican party down and out in Oregon? Oregon gave Taft a strong plurality over all others; with one exception Oregon's dele gatioh in congress are all republi cans; each nud every one of the state's elective officers is a republi cn; the Inst legislature was strong ly republican; and undoubtedly the majority of the county officers over the state arc republicans. What grounds arc there then on which to base the statement that the republican party is "outof busi ness" in Oregou? If the nembly plan is better, let us then adopt it. But fairness demands that it be named by its real name, which is nothing more nor less than the old-time conven tion. If the people arc of the opin ion that the direct primary is not giving satisfaction, then pcihaps they ure rca'dy to go back to the old system. But, as wc said in the beginning, 1 e t there be no misunder standing, about the matter. The "assembly" is a new label lacked rintrk ill. nt mnt-jknftfntt A mI ! the old-time politicians who have done the tacking. Harriman's forces desire, it is Slid, not merely to block the con s:rtiction of the Oregon Trunk Line up the Deschutes, but to wipe it from the face of the earth ns far as its legal existence is concerned inai wouiu-dc a nice way to pre serve linrriniin s Orecon fence- kill off the only rival who ever has attempted to enter his preserves. and then quietly stop all construc tion himself. Thk sympathy of the people of Central Oregon is plainly with Porter Bros, in the fight alonjf the Deschutes. Little faith is put in Harriman's promises, aud the com mon remark heard in these parts is that he would not be building now if Porter Bros, had not forced him to it. PuRHArs after another thousand years or two have come and gone, governments will exist for the pur pose of protecting those who need it instead of for banding over graft to the wealthy and powerful. "What Will It Cost" k the Question of Questions! The household question -the insistent question everywhere--the question which Is oftener In human minds than any other whatever, Is: "WHAT WILL IT COST?" Where to get to the best ad vantagewhen -can it be afforded --all of these questions, and many more cluster around the main one "WhafWill It's the, question of qucstions-and It Is. .the question that gives the ads. half of their Importance. No one, unless an ad. .reader, ever knows much about the answer 4o it.. It' Potter Bros, nre only bluffing, they certainly believe in playing the game for nlMhnt's in it. But don't you think for a minute that they arc bluffing. Their bluff will end only yhcn their railroad is circling through the bluffs of Con trol Oregon, Chntkai. Oregon will cheer loud ly the man who first gives us 11 railroad. We care little for tl'ie war that is being waged. What wc want is u railroad, regardless of who builds it. By. the way, Governor Benson said recently that the direct pri mary is a good law. And now there are several agile politiciuils after the governor's scalp. Now that the tariff has been re vised downward (?) by its frL-mls. Ict'.s sec if anyone can notice any lowering in the cost of living. What reward comes to the man or men who cause two tailroads to grow where none has grown before? ROD CLOVER RXCULS. tJcllevcJ To tte (test Peed for Livestock Good for the Land. That red clover is a better crop for forage than alfalfa is the opinion of Prof. George Severance, head of the department of agriculture at the Washington State College, Pullman, and his opinion is bated on actual results from experiments, nude on the college farm. Last year twelve acres of the college farm were plunted to red clover. The field lies on almost the high est point of the farm and is a south slope, which, a few years ago, would have been regarded as ut terly unfit for clover, alfalfa, or any other crop. The clover did well, and this year it was cut for hay and yielded more than 31 tous, over two and a half tons to the acre. It is now several inches in height and there will be a fine lot of pasture ou it this fall. The value of the pas ture will be almost equal to the value of the hay, and this is $15 per acre. Professor Severance says that clover is a better feed than alfalfa. This spring two other fields of red clover were planted and are now being cut. A fairlv cood crop is being taken off, although it was sowed the last week in April. An cld-fnslitoncd "self-rake" mow- ? It Cost?" lug machine is being used to cut the clover aud this drops it in small bundles at convenient places. It is thought that a ton to the acre will be secured from the first crop, but it will not l)e pastured thU lull. "One great advantage of red clover over alfalfa' is that the ground can be used for other crops," said Professor Severance, "Once seeded to alfalfa the ground Is un lit for any other crop for several years. It is almost imKtssiblc to kill out the alfalfa. If one hail u field which he wished to devptc to alfalfa for on indefinite period, that crop tuigh be all right, but where it is desired to renew the soil or improve it by rotation of crops clover is by fur the best. It can be planted one year aud some times, as was the way with us this year, fairly good crop can be taken from it the first year. "Two good crops can be taken the two succeeding years aud then it must be rcncwcll. By plowing the ground it mukes'the best wheut, cits or corn laud imaginable, the three years in clover seining to give it new productiveness aud is better than summer fallowing. I believe that red clover is destined to become one of the best crops that cm be grown in this country." To Prevent forest Flren. To lessen the duuger to standing timber along railway lines from sprits, in iNoMimcstcrti states, II c Washington State Forest 1'irc As sociation will start a campaign for the substitution of oil as fuel In locomotives. Hvcry year during the dry season, millions of feet of valuable timber arc destroyed as the result of Hying sparks from locomotives. This is a great loss in wealth of one of the state's roost valuable natural resources. Presi dent Harling of the Chicago, Mil waukee & St. Paul has announced that he will cooperate in the move ment, us he does not want to sec a foot of timber destroyed along his line. Accordingly, the Mil waukee is equipping forty locomo tives with oil burners. They will ' be used in Washington, Idaho and .Montana timber belts. President Harling believe. that the use of oil' will prove an economical innova tion. As a result of 83 serious fires njong railway lines in New York state last year, its public service corporation has decreed that oil must be burned by loco motives. An effort will be made to persuade the Washington Railway Commission to moke a similar rut iug. The matter will also be pressed in other timber states of the country. 11 1 For Sale. Six-gallon barrel churn, good as new. Address Box 30, Bend, or call at Bulletin office. istf Per Sale. One team young mares, weight about 3600; good set of harness; brand new Shultler wagon com plete; 5475 for tle outfit. i3tf KouKKTs liKos., sutcrs, Or. When in Bend Don't Forget The Place to Eat Orders Served In Three Minutes... Registered Stock H Poland H 0 Chinas 0 Q Duroc Q S Jerseys S Black Langshan Chickens. E. C PARK, Redmond.Or. IF PRICE AND QUALITY Arc any object to you, you Mimilil go to the PINK TRHI5 STORK, where you get both. A full Hue of everything you want to cat, wear, or work with. 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