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CITY OF BURNS
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lUlltNS, HARNEY COUNTY, OREGON. JULY 26, 191a
NO. 37
XXVI
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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