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About The Times-herald. (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929 | View Entire Issue (July 26, 1913)
I 1 COUNTY OF HARNEY I Tl L CITY OF BURNS The Bigg eat County In The State The Biggest City In The Biggest Of Oregon, Bert In The Wert I County In The State Of Oregon I lUlltNS, HARNEY COUNTY, OREGON. JULY 26, 191a NO. 37 XXVI W& mt$-tiaib. OF RAILROAD MEN IS SIGNIFICANT Is of the Harriman System Make ur of Harney Valley and Over irvey to Juntura. Note Develop- jnt and Every Indication is That id Will be Pushed on to Valley rrell, president of the N.; J. P. O'Brien. lent and general mana- B. Miller, traffic man- same company, ar- is city Tuesday even- hre accompanied by Col. foung. of the regular ke D. O'Reilly, capital- Hurlburt, formerly enger agent of the &N.; P. A. O'Farrell, Iper writer of national Vrfd S. Stanley. caD- Portland, and Addison I representing the Ore- pliam Hanley and wife in the company return- Id. ell and Darty had plan- kit to this section early but he was called to ; and was delayed until It was his first visit fetion and it has been of lent as he has seen what pilities are for the line pw building to Harney what he has seen will urge a greater activity bg the roaa into me it promises so much for it. bf the party including Ml. were guests at the knch Tuesday night, the Imaining in Burns and matters with the bust- There was nothing when the line would eted to this Valley but kg points to me worn cuted with all possi- They made a short Iia immediate vicinity of fednesday morning ac hy Beveral auto loads opk. It was unfortu- did not see more of the country during their short stay. There was a delay of some time getting started away from the Hanley ranch that morning that should have been avoided. However, Mr. Farrell said he would be back in 90 days or less when it is hoped he may have more time to go over the country and given an opportunity to talk with the business men of Burns as well as other public spirited people who have an interest in the early completion of the road and other matters of such impor tance to the development of the country that Mr. Farrell should be conversant with. The Experiment Farm was visited where the party was most aurreeable surprised at the devel opment and advancement made. Although it was Mr. Farreirs first visit to this section, he was quick to observe things and grasped every detail instantly. Mr. O'Brien and Mr. Miller had heen here several times before and they were quite optimistic on this visit and showed a great er interest than on any previous visit. The party visited other portions of the valley in the vic inity and up the river, returning to Burns for noon luncheon and immediate after left for the P Ranch. It bji.;l't'n Mr. Farrell's re qiHrftjK&t no public reception or demonstration be made and his request was respected. How ever, it was unfortunate that he did not have more time to spend in the Valley and in talking to the people. The party intended going out by way of Juntura and over the mountain by way of Otis Creek to John Day down to Fossil and to meet their private car at (Continued on page two) THE BURNS HOTEL DELL DIBBLB, Prop. itit rally Located, Good Clean leals, Comfortable Kooms, Clean and Sanitary Beds t Class Bar In Connection Hive Me A Call Test Your Soil Before Sowing A great deal of the excellent advice given so abundantly to farmers in agricultural papers and college bulletins misses the mark, because it omits some essential point. It is useless to preach the same doctrines to the Willamette Valley farmer and his brother in Eastern Oregon, for they work under conditions radically different Neither soil nor climate is the same for them. Much of the farmers' literature which circulates so widely is de voted to theoretical exhortation. "Plant loganberries, sow alfalfa, raise hogs" are the cries, but the enthusiastic exhorters neglect to tell how their preoeptk are to be applied in practice. This is particularly the case with the many stimulating articl er about alfalfa which we have been privileged to read. They tell the farmers that alfalfa is the best forage crop he can grow. It produces more abundantly and it is best for the land. All this is true, but it is pointless as long as the man who reads it does not know how to make alfalfa thrive on his farm. Hundreds of progressive farm ers have sowed alfaifa, carefully following all available directions and have not succeeded with it. It cometh up like a (lower and grows a few inches and withereth away. What is the matter with it? The local Solomons ail h their opinions. One says subsoil is too firm. Alio thinks it was planted in the wrong time of the moon. A third lays the blame on the lack of inoculation. No nothing is more certain than that the in oculation alone will make the alfalfa thri. Nor Is deep Mil the only requisite. These jioints are valuable, but it has been ascertained by scientists that alfalfa will not grow well on a soil that lacks lime. When a man makes up his mind to sow this most valuable crop his first step should be a SENSIBLE SUGGESTION ON RABBIT QUESTION Writer Offers Practical Substitute for Proposed Bounty Scheme. A Plan That Should Have Consideration, as it Would Give Relief and Add to Development. Asks for Opinions In answer to I'Ved (and with all respect due him, whom I consider a staunch Mend to myself as well as all the peo ple of Harney Valley - 1 am sure he is an earnest, unselfish work er in this cause which is of vital interest to all) I would like to be allowed to discuss in a friendly way this rabbit question which at the present time is subduing our ambition and blighting our hopes as well as our crops. l'or three successive years we have diligently per sued one scheme that of driving the rab- ibits in the winter time which 'you will admit has proved a total failure. I feel positive that the bounty proposition will be more disas- l trous than this first scheme, her living from a 22-rlfle And thei county, had better be clearing land and producing something to nrM the resource of the coun ty; thus increasing The vernation of their land and assisting in taxation which now is the burden of the many borne on the should ers of the few. Scalp bounty will aggravate rather than eliminate this condi tion. They would, no doubt, at a frightful expense to the county, U- able to keep down the main army of rabbits in the more un- Denstedt i committees ever organized in the II. S. could never persuade the rabbits to abandon the rough, mountainous portions of Harney countv. More than that the real estate men have so extensively adver tised Harney county that they seem to be flocking in from other localities. The alfalfa Supt. Hreithaupt is so anxious for the farmers to raise in row crops seems to be. from our one year's experience, ,ilso most desirable to the rabbits and fruit trees as well. Both t hese crops must be protected. I fought them with poison this year while my husband picked off all he could find with a gun; for a while they were so scarce would have been difficult for a his board but they " it that army of men who will be'inHn have earned Idling their uiuc uUhx.sagebrusli wring for a bounty. were ofuilkifint number to peel three trees in one night and takclcul.tivation the rabbit four acres of alfsJfs as fast as it could come up. Finally I said I was like the darkie. "I'm just strfc- and -tired of it." My husband replied he had been sick and tired of it for a long time and as soon as he could sell some ftock he would fence them out. After much de lay the necessary funds were se cured, then we found we could not get enough wire in Harney Valley at that time to fence 40 acres. It's what I call experience test of his soil for lime. Unless sheltered and thickry that element is abundant he must parts of the Valley. But how Bupply it. If he fails to do so about the homes which are try- his seed will be wasted and his ing to thrive at the foothills and hopes disappointed, From this the fertile little nooks and valleys time forward even article urging which are in cultivation all the farmers to grow alfalfa ought to way to Catlow Valley? begin with the precept, "test J your soil for lime." Ex. Try Nyals Family medicine a The Welome Pharmacy. 10 tf Must half the homes in Harney county be taxed to destroy some one's else rabbits and then final ly have to fence for their own protection? A)! he vigilance settled but my husband had a different name for it. and although 1 1 doesn't sound iuite so well, it seems very appropriate. Harney county is just us. Our officers are broad-minded men whom we have elected to repre sent us and protect our interests. Nothing can be accomplished un til homes arc protected and begin to prosper; the merchant, the banker, in fact all the business lurns Meat Market H. J. HANSEN, Propri tor leef, Pork, Veal, Mutton, Sasuatre, Bolonga, ladcheese and Welnerworat, Etc. Wholesale and Retail frompt and Satisfactory Service ur Patronge Solicited and rders Given Quick Attention To The Rexall Drug Store tor Ansco Camera's Films and any thing wanted In the KODAK LINE Reed Bros. Props. '?'-' - &' fWsfflnl ffl IBs ) aysafli arcip aj!- . sfc. ej m & :. hr al ' HI '&B&BE& . IP iSIMW B A rSslA lee ' "iK'tf vr jf uf mu a A, iM'ni mi ' i oise efcl I h Hk. rv S5Sp BL JHL . JH . JM men, are like so many motionless wagons, for it is our money and our business that keeps them ac tive and makes them a necessity to a community. So long as the farmer and the rabbits are al lowed to squabble over crops there wori't be much left for the business man. I feel that Harney county, with ! the sentiment of the business men back of it, should assist us not in killing rabbits, but in fencing against them. We have already spent too much money and fooled away too much time with these little pests which Brigham Young first in troduced from Australia. Guess if he thought they'd increase fast enough to feed Mormons he did not miss it far. Society long ago put up the bars against Brig- ham's religious belief, and Har ney Valley will noW'have to fence against Brigham's rabbits. Wire could be ordered in car load lots direct from the factory at a great reduction, no doubt, and sold to the farmers at actual cost. Those so situated could build jointly around a section and hardly feel the cost. Ar rangements should be made to assist those without sufficient funds. Three successive years without success hss sent some of our grittiest, most determined men to the wall. The man who has staked his money and worked the hardest has suffered the most. It has been prophesied that as soon as the land is brought under will be a So much the We can then take this-i wire, which should be of the stantial kind, for hog sheep lets, oalf pens; we can pre - tect the colta, restrict -the tur keys and chickens and keep the neighbor's boys from coming to see our girls if the fence is high enough. Now. I am going to ask that each voter, man or woman, who approves of the bounty scheme drop a post card to Fred Den stedt. Bums, Oregon, with the werds: "I endorse the bounty scheme." and your name and address. Those who prefer to solicit the aid of the county in fencing will please mail a card to my address. I will then repre sent this plsn provided it receive a majority vote of the people by the post card method, which ap peals to me as about the only way to ascertain the wishes of the people in a manner to pre sent to the county court. Yours sincerely and in the spirit of desperation. Mrs. Wm. E. Gray, Harriman, Oregon. PUBLIC SALE A flat top oak venered desk will be sold at our nlace of busi ness on Aug. 15, 1913 to pay storage and freight charges. - Hums Hardware Co. NOTICE All persons are forbidden trad ing for or buying any horses or cattle branded quarter circle Bell A, and I further give notice that I will not he responsible for any old or new debtB contracted by Rafael Bermudez. known as "Chappo." Dated July 7. 1913. Mrs. F. Bermudez. GREATER ACTIVITY IN EXPERIMENTAL WORK With Additional Assistance Experiment Station Benefits Will be Extended to Greater Area. Some Valuable Seed Being Propagated for Future. Notes on Present Crop Conditions THE MITCHELL "MOOSE" PATHFINDER HEADED FOR GLACIER PARK i.wlna th. .t.rt of Ih. trail bluing MiUh.ll M.o..- o.r, with rnk Zlrb .t wh..l, U.vlng M'"""'0''- ' rU "h. for.rUnn.r of th. n.tl.n.l A. A. A. lour whloh will Urm n.t. .t Ol.ol.r P.rh Th. b,utl,. rf d of th. p.rk p.rtloul.rly, h.v. .ttr.ot.d l.rU. numb.r of .ntrl... Th. tour .tart. 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BREITHAUPT -e The Agricultural College au thorities have appointed J. C. Leedy who was instructor in Agriculture at the Harney Coun ty High School at Bums last year, as assistant superintendent of the Experiment Station. With Mr. Leedy's assistance, it is pro posed by those In charge of the Experiment Station work to do a great deal more work among the farmers all over the county than has been possible heretofore. In addition to the Sub-Station and the large number of oc-opera-tors that are already at work, there will be organized small Agricultural clubs in each of the various communities over the county for the purpose 0f holding meetings at regular intervals that the people may better co operate with the Experiment Station in its efforts to solve the problems that face the men on the soil. At these meetings it is propos ed to have lectures on fitting sub jects st eseh meeting by one or more of the Experiment Station staff or ether agricultural men. These talks wiH be sutiplersentsi with bulletins and literature or the information where to obtain literature of interest Questions will be asked freely. General discussion will bring out the solu tion to many vexatious problems. Between meetings, the farm of every man who desires it will be visited and the individual prob lems of each particular farm tak en up that an effort may be made to guide each man in the selec tion of such things as are parti cularly adapted to his land and such information given as will help him in their production. The Experiment Station is now growing quantities of the best seed that can be had for the con ditions to be met in this county. It would be the worst kind of folly to use this for horse feed or sell it for ordinary prices. Rather than this why not help every man in the county to get a start of these things right away. It is proposed to place limited quantities of this Beed on every mans farm who wants to co-operate in this way, this seed to be planted under instructions and the results reports upon. In one year the farmers may have a good start of the important crops and know the proper method for growing them. Why not have a little demonstration farm on every farmer's place that will point out to him the things that he most wants to know. On a recent trip around Har ney Valley for the purpose of starting the work as outlined in the foregoing, the Sub-Stations and co-operatorj along the way were visited and the growth of the various crops noted. While there was some pretty good sam ples of grain to be found, among the plswtltijrmsds fronLtbe Sixty Day osts, Kubanka wheat, Swari rMwk berley and tbe Emmer, the things that wercmost evident mm the alfalfa, field This hss been a very backward year for the setting of alfalfa seed pods on account of the cold weather, but nevertheless sam ples were to be seen all along the way from seed sent out last year, where Beed was being set in quantity. From the examination of a groat many plantings it seems very .'certain that the.'most seed will beXproduced whenthe plants are not to thick. The rows should be wide enough to make cultivation with a horse drawn cultivator easy and the plants not closer than two feet in the row. This makes it necess ary to thin the plants in the row. This should not be posponed long because the plants soon become so strongly rooted that it is very (Continued en page' two) THE FRENCH HOTEL JOHN R. WALKUP, Prop. Strictly First Class. Splendid Service. 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