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URY FARMING THE SUBJECT commence to rummer-fallow their I W. E. HUSTON land as soon as the first rain comes in the fall, tnelead of in the spring EDIBLE NESTS IN BORNEO, iOI.O>El JUDSON TO INTRODUCE A and that way conserve the rnoirture tritar Tells of Experience la w^hhiny Dealer in NEW SYSTEM Feathered Creatures of the farmers agreeing to plow tl e Their Homes. land eight inches deep instead of tour inches. Further experiments Edible birds’ uests are found in Kt Mean* vl Sammer l-alluolat Altalla caa will be made next season on the the cleft* of rocks or in under Be draws «a Dry Laad- -Experiment« summer-fallow, ns Mr. Miller is de ground caves which are frequent beiat Made la Easters Orctoa. (sirous of having something grown ly of great extent. John Mac Gregor, in writing of a bird nest Colonel R. C. Judson. industrial where at present nothing is grown ing eX|»-rience be had in Borneo, on the summer fallow HE ALSO HAS A LINE OF agent of the O It. >t N. has return saya: "Oil we went with about a i ,------------------- ed from a trip into Eastern Wash dozen Dyaks, as the little bronze ington, where he has introduced a A WONDERFUL INVENTION aborigines of this part of Borneo are called, for guides. The eu system of “dry farming," such as is It is interesting to note that for- trance to the cave was so small successfully carried on in Kansas and Nebraska, says the Telegram I tunes are frequently made by the and so elevated that I had some He finds that by Summer fallowing ! invention of articles of minor im- difficulty in reaching it. After we had traveled for some little the dry unwatered soil at certain i portance. Many of the more pop distance we caute across the in- CHILDREN’S CLOTHINC. seasons, the slight rainfall of the ular devices are those designed to evitable stream. The ground. distiict is conserved and held in the benefit people and meet popular which was to a great extent com All kinds of Fresh Vegetables tn Season, ground until needed by the grow conditions, and one of the most in posed of .ire bed of the stream, ing crops. Alfafa is said to thrive teresting of these thathas ever been wan rough and irregular. We on this treatment, and certain farm invented is thd Dr White Electric were lighted on our way by torch ers of the Inland Empire will try Comb, patented Jan. 1, ’99 These es carried by our Dya'k guides. this system as an experiment. It wonderful Combs positively cure At last we came to a passage that Durkheimer Building. seemed a veritable eye of a ueedle, is believed it will be highly success dandruff, hair foiling out, sick and so hard it was to enter, for it ful in this semi-arid section of the nervous headaches, and when used looked so narrow and confined Northwest. with Dr. White's Electric Hair that I despaired of ever getting Colonel Judson said: Brush are positively guaranteed through it. When I fairly got The more I examine into dry-land to make straight hair curly in 25 squeezed into the breach I could farming as it is couducted in Neb days time. Thousands of these force ntyself neither upward nor H ouston N apton . raska and Kansas, under wbat is elecltic combs have been sold in downward—for that was the di rection of the passage—ami there called the Campbell system, the the various cities of the Union, and 1 was, suspended like Moham more I am impressed with the need the demand is constantly increas med's coffin or a trussed fowl. By of such tilling of the soil in Eastern ing. Our agents are rapidly be dint of wriggling, however, I at Oregon and Washington. Dry coming rich selling these combs last found nnself at the top of the land farming as is conducted on They positively sell on sight. Send passage, minus a certain amount farms that I have visited is the for sample. Men’s size 35c, ladies’ of skin and some buttons from my Y raising of crops where the precipita 50c — (half price while we are in- tight-fitting khaki coat. ■‘Still on we jogged for the best À cl tion is light, ranging from 10 to 13 trocucing them.) The Dr. White inches, and that during the Winter The Dr. White Electric Comb Co., part of a mile, when, io and be hold! the caves in which the birds and up to May. The virgin soil or Decatur, III. P ayette , I daho . were breeding, and which were to bench soil, as it is usually termed, I be tin- limits of our underground Ontario office: Bent Her Double. is volcanic ash, with some silt or wanderings. A faint glimmer of wahing from the mountains It . light could be seen through a rift has good retentive powers, and it j “I knew no one, for four weeks, I in the rocks far above us, and it being rich in mineral plant food when I was sick with typhoid and > was through this small rift, which makes it ideal land, needing only kidney trouble,” writes Mrs Annie was a settled passage even to the moisture to produce the finest of Hunter, of Pittsburg, Pa ,“and when Dyaks themselves, that the birds passed in their journeys to and crops. But water is needed, and I got better, although I had one of ftom their nesting grounds. Our the source of supply, whether used the best doctors 1 could get, I was tit rival, of course, disturbed what bent double, and had to rest my as nature brings it, or it is applied ever bit ds were there, and they artificially When rain falls upon hands on my knees when I walked. disappeared as best they could. the land, whether hard or compact, From this terrible affliction I was 1 And there, for a time, we watched some of it may penetrate the soil rescued by Electric Bitters, which the Dyaks going through their and some of it may run olf. The restored my health and strength, gymnastics of robbing the birds’ proportion in either case depends and now 1 can walk as straight as treats, with their ropes and long upon the heaviness of the shower, ¡ever. They are simply wonderful.” poles creeping along the high I ridges ami ledges, in the lurid the heaviness of the land and the ¡Guaranteed to cure stomach, liver i light of the torches, like unearth slope. From what I have observed at kidney disorders; at City Drug I iy specters. and from examinations of the soil, I Store, price 50c. "These peculiar nests are built find that when the soil is hard and I by a species of swallow. The • ▼ a* compact, the moisture evaporates . nests consist of shallow, cup “Strange," raid the with the shaped cavities, truncated at one very rapidly from the surface into strong cigar al>*< utuiiinlcdly. the air. On the other hand, if the “What’s strange?" asked the man side, where they ate attached to i he rocks like brackets to a wall land is plowed to the depth of eight with the meerschaum. “I was thinking of u friend of tains [and forming something like a or ten inches the rain percolates who claims to have found un ubsolutelv two thirds segment of a circle. It down deep into the soil, to be again perfect fountain pen.” is not always easy to get at them, "Always writes, never drips ink «no brought to the surface by capillary as they are sometimes glued to ■•ver gets out of order?” attraction. “That’s what he says.” the perpendicular sides of tlie solid The man with the meerschaum pip* rocks high overhead, so that the Last week I went to Frank coun- SflM BAILEY, proprietor. his head. nest hunters have to scale these t y Washiiigton, to examine the crop shook “What do you think of it?” be askoti ■ cracks with ropes and poles to get condition in the vicinity of Wash “I hardly know what to think of it fine Wines, liqi'ors and Cigars tucna to note their methods of farm He’s joined no liars’club that 1 know at them. In substance they con of, and yet everything indicates that be sist of au elastic, semitt ansparent ing and examine the seven different is wrakir g for a record."—Chicayt fluents for Maryland Club Whisky. mucilaginous material, which is farms upon which It. B. Miller, gen Post said to be ¡i secretion, or inacerat eral freight agent, is testin» the rai CLUB ROOMS IN CONNECTION EVERYTHING [LST CLASS cd food, from the crops of the birds Pretty Far OAT. sing ofdry-land alfalfa and also the A sunirti. r ru&ith t in a Xew Ham!» themselves. Courteous and obli^nd Mixolojiits growing of corn on summer-fallow. shire village, a Indy who. in Hora e "As robbing these nests for phra ‘ (< siK at the top of I found the acreage of wheat less ■dv world.” was making her first commercial purposes forms a part this year in the county, owing to the j friendly <nl) of I’.ir season upon the of the Dyaks' means of livelihood, the birds have frequently to build fact of the land being summer-fallow I ‘ jaitly <»f an <»! I widower. the kit her was at home, one of twice or even three times during but the crops of grain are fully up i I lie Only girls iM-iiig ul sent on a visit to the to last year as far as one can judge j fiber sisier. wl..» bad been married the season before they are able to hatch their offspring, and it is from the yield. The grain is out of timing the ¡«a i wit ter. Naturally the noted t hat each successive crop of ■ dk turned on the daughters. I danger and free from weeds Har Yes.” said the father: “Mary made nests deteriorates in both con vesting has just begun. .Now as re .’di real wi II But I don’ know’s I’ll struct ion and composition. The -•SR gards the dry-land alfalfa, will say nests built at the beginning of the yoi: g man be< n comin here steady flK All the latest styles and improved photographs In that I never saw finer. May-sown aov for ivu year, an he’s no further season are bright and transput' fL use to be had. Profile Panels, Artist’s Proof and alfalfa, on soil where they had to go . on y< t. ma’am, than me un you.**— ent, and are consequently known on the market as ‘white nests.’ Poacelain ptoceas. Photos finished in up to-date 150 feet to water, that was 15 inches : Month’s Con i anion. But when they are robbed the style upon application. All sizes from the smallest tall, dark and of very rank growth; next crop is not neat ly so pure in Ift roots 13 to 14 inches in length, and locket picture up to an H x to finished in Ari'to substance.” ready for the first cutting, being 'L Platino or on any of the American papers. W partially in blossom. The Carter House Barber Shop <j ,||»r> opposite First Natiora! Bank. - Hurns, Oregon. On Mr. Coojier’s farm 51 miles at Ontario, Lee Caldwell proprietor, from Washtucna, I faind he had is one of the most elegant tonsorial sown an acre on regular hardpan parlor.’ tn all Eastern < tregon. Hot soil, and it was looking fine and the and cold baths with a spray bath connected Lei's old time friends soil was dried out so that it was are invited to call "n him while hard to even get a sharp stick into it It was new land, just plowed for COLLM AN S HA If RISON the first time. Another piece was in MBS. CECELIA STOWE, THE WIND81IR Orator, Eatre Nous club. “oil that was simplv ash, one sink ing in to the depth of two to three 176 Warren Avenue, C hicago , III., Oct. 22,1902. inches at every step For nearly four years 1 suffered Mr Cooper, who is one of the larg- from ovarian troubles. The doc tor insisted on an operati n ao the est and l<est farmers in that county only way to get well. I, however, Is more than pleased and will put strongly objected to an operation. Mv busbar 1 felt disheartened a’ in a large tract next year and com wAl as I, for Lome with a ? • mence to diversify, raising hogs, woman is a di«onK>late place at l»e*t. A friendly druggist advised cattle and horses on alfalfa His him to jp t a bottle <.f XV ine <.f corn was txtra fine, standing 4} Cardui for me to try. ami I- ml I tefa feet in height. This had iieeii culti my recovary was v»r With vated four times, while at other in eighteen u- r.5 I ”. jt an u*r being. farms only one cultivation had l*en given, and that standing three feet in height To -um up: The experiments in I A tV'TX drv-land alfalfa and eorn on sum mer fallow in that coontv are very gratifying, and set at rest the fact that the dry-land alfalfa will grow to perfection there, also that fine corn can lie grown on the summer- fallow I succeeded in securing promises from some of the leading farmer» to • Groceries, Provisions Tropical 'nd Domestic Fruits when in Season LOOK I 1 am prepared to furnish my customers with the usual high class goods and invite the public to call when desiring GENTS FURNISHINGS Hats, Shirts, Clothing, Underwear—Get Prices ANYTHING in my line . / Guarantee the Goods and Prices Solid (iold Watches, Fancy Clocks, Jeweltv of all kinds, Silverware, Ebony ware, Cut Glass. Hand painted China at Cost. Take a peep at my windows. 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