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About Halsey enterprise. (Halsey, Linn County, Or.) 19??-1924 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 11, 1921)
The Great Outdoors Livestock, D a iry Products. Berries, F ru it, “ The F arm er Feedeth A ll.” PALATABILITY OF VARIOUS PLANTS Grains. leaves a solution o f'arsen ate o f lead and hordeaux m ixture is effect!va. BUSINESS BASIS IN SELECTION OF FARM Some Interesting Information Many Serious Errors Made by Revealed in Series of Feed Young Men in Moving. ing Tests at Beltsville. SHO FERMENTATION STUDIED W ild and Tam e 8unflow ert D e v u re d Readily When Removed From-Si'o— Cabbages W ere Untouched by C attle When Siloed. (Prepared by the United State» Depart m ent of Agriculture.) A aeries o f experimental feeding teats conducted by the United States Departm ent of Agriculture at its Beltsville (M d .) live-stock farm , re vealed gome interesting information as to the effect of siloing upon the p ala ta h illty of various plants found on a farm or range. D u rin g the last summer and fn'l about 150 different plants anti com binations of plants were packed in barrels in a silo. The purpose was to study the effect o f the silo fe r mentation upon the tiller, and other features of the plants. I t was thought possible that silage would overcome objectionable qualities of certain plants, in addition to breaking down the fiber of some which were too woody fo r stock feed. Test Palatahillty. T h e various lots o f silages were taken to Beltsville to test their palatahillty as cattle feed. The tests were not protracted enough to give final conclusions, but a number of In teresting results were obtnlned. Both wild and tame sunflowers were eaten readily when they came out of the •Ho, although the peculiar flavor and woody stalk of the form er make It distasteful In Its natural state. Rus sian thistle was eaten In the course of about 12 hours, and the same wn« true of ragweed, which cattle seldom touch In the Held. Canada thistles and castor bean plants without seed were eaten quite readily. Jack bean Tines and pods were eaten rather reluctnntly. The cows ate siloed Aus fra ila n salt bush, hut not the natlv> plant. Siloed onion tops were fed to fou r cows: two n*e them and two refused them. Buckwheat also pro vlded a choice morsel. Cabbage - which in th eir natural state are eaten avidly by cattle, were absolute ly untouched when siloed, the prod uct being In many respects similar to sauer krau t hut w ithout the sail Olant rye grass woe, u nto,id ed. Cattle Fed RWjular Rations. T h e cattle were not compelled to eat any of the siloed products to satisfy hunger, a« hay was ted then i A Silo F illin g Crew at Labor Gather log Corn— Sled Type of Cutter Is In Use and Corn Is Carried Directly to Wagon. Know Only One Set of Conditions and Are Not Able to Weigh Ac curately All New Factors T hat Must Be Considered. ( P r e p a r 'd by th e U n ite d S ta te s D e p a r t m e n t o f A g rK u ltu rv .) Many farmers, especially the youn- er men In moving from one region to another, make serious errors in select ing far.us, not because their Judgment is naturally poor, but largely because they know only one set of conditions and are not tibie to weigh accurately all the new factors that must be takeu into account, say specialists o f the United Slutes Departm ent of Agriculture. Here the science of farm management Is helpful, in that from the funu-iunnugement vlew- luilnt the farm Is put on a business bads. In doing this, however, the home side of the question must always be kept iu tuind. The farm home and the farm business are Inseparable. A desirable farm , from a business standpoint. Is nevertheless undesir able If it has no social or community advantages. On the other hand, desir able living conditions are of little or no advantage unless accompanied by a successful farm business. A farm may have fine buildings, good w ater supply, excellent roads, and other such assets, yet I f the soli is rocky, shallow, or naturally In fertile, so that Its productive possi bilities are distinctly lim ited, there w ill be no adequate Income for en- loying the other advantages. M ore over. these physical lim itations are enduring, while the needed Improve ments, such as buildings and roads, can be added as means are provided. IDEA WOULD PLEASE UiCKENS between siloed rations and they h a'1 the regular portions of grain. Th GAS TO FOIL BANK. ROBBERS teats were not entirely conclusive especially a t the quantities were so Contrivance Threatens to Make T ro u small that the animals did not h an ble for T h a t P articu lar Class of an opportunity to get accustomed to Society’s Enemies. u nfam iliar flavors. T he departm ent may make more Bank robbers who make a specialty extensive tests another season on of attacking vault» with explosives « m e of the m aterials, as there wa- will do well to beware of a contrlv no opportunity w ith barrel lots’ ,< ance newly patented by Richard C gain any knowledge as to the her Rceschel of Harrisburg. Pa. and m ilk producing value of th He proposes to provide a chemical feeds. defense for hanks In the shape of an arrangement of glass tubes forming a BEETLES ARE MOST HARMFUL sort of poison-gas battery It may he made part of the gate Inside a vault, Covering of Cheesecloth W ill Afford or may have any other structural re Intlon to »he vaulta that la deemed Necessary Protection fo r desirable. It may even h» portable, Vines and Plants. so as to be placet! In pm ltlpn at night, The striped cucumber beetle and the and removable in the daytime. The tubes are designed to contain 12-tpotted cucumber beetle attack cu cumber, squash, and melon vine« benzyl lodid. tear-gas stuff, or any other suitable chemical which, when It through the East. T he best protec tlon It to cover young plants with expands, 1» calculated to asphyxiate cheeeecloth-coTered frames which roav the robher or at least put him to he made on barrel-hoop arches. When flight. Bulbous expansions of the tube« Q)S Insects actu ally get access to the furnish container» fo r th» deadly ma ‘ lagly tough ami durable. H A L S R Y E N T K R I'R IS E . J i ; , ! — -------— 8 per cent >s? U Will not Always be Available E VERYONE who has studied economic history knows that the days of high investment returns, as well as the days of high commodity prices, w ill not last forever. I figh interest rates w ill gradually decrease as conditions come to fioim al. T ills is w h y sa v in g and in v e s tin g a re eapeC H ally vnlnnbl«> I » th e in d i\ i» l u a l to d a y . A 5 0 -c e n t d o lla r saved n o w w ill lie w o r th 10.) c e n t« o r m o re to y o u , in a ll p r o b a b ilit y , w h e n y o u m o s t need f in a n c ia l in d e p e nd< nee. Sound investm ent securities are bargains today. T h e sei u r it iu s p u r ch a s e 1 n o w w ill pay t h e ir g e n e ro u s in c o m e y ie ld s in to th e l i i t u r , . I lie 8-p er-cen t g o ld n o te s w ill p a y y o u a f u ll r e t u r n u n t il t h e ir m a tu r ity in I >30, w h e n th e p r in c ip a l w ill b e r e tu r n e d to th e in v e s to r . Act while you can take advantage of the present investment-situation. A 8-per-cent Investment with Safety 8 per cent Gold Notes Safe - Substantial - Secure MOUNTAIN STATES POWER COMPANY H. M. Bylleabv & PAGh J By placing The robber h at only to »tart aome- white Ume or fe rtiliz e r Is released to i several thicknesses together a compar- th ’ng hy setting off a charge of ex i «lively thick d o h Is funned Tlo-s» outline the planted area T i e Me a plosives. The cor-ussl on breaks the pieces are sewn together tike au> or- cuuatrucied to u * « e u L.Uo.u< uti • tubes: eat flows the lethal chemical, 1 dtaary d oth and made Into dresses. plowed field without damage and the business of burglary Interests Under normal conditions the "flying The lace 1» light yellow In color natu the nocturnal bandit no more fo r that aower" has a oapaetty of (MO acfew In rally. hut often dyed with the bright occasloo.— Pittsburgh Dispatch. color» ao popular In the tropics.— Boys' about six hour». The same area plant ed w ith an eight -foot d rill traveling at U fe . Beat Them te IL the rate of three miles an hour would An Irvington mail plauted several BONES OF HISTORIC RACE take a man tw enty-tw o and a h alf hills o f bantam sweet core In an Iso days o f ten hour», it la estimated that lated part of hts gardeu to grow seed l.tMX) acres could he covered In one Anthrepelogiats Intensely Intaraated in for next year. H e remarked to a day by the alr-sower. Discovery of Indian Sksletcn» neighbor woman about th è tim e that in California. “the hlaekhlrds and sparrows had no succeeded I d flndlug his seed corn thl- New Indications that California waa y e a r” The second morning afte ice Inhabited by a race of glgnntle making this remark he found a ho: Indians was furnished when «ewer dig fo rty hlaekhlrds. near sunup, busily devouring hla o®-ji H e “shooed" gers on Ferry and Howard streets, in I them away and that evening pulled the heart of the business district of M artinez. Cal., uncovered an Indian all the ears and put them away for safe keeping. T he next morning he burial ground, w ith skeletons meas l>3t. b> McL'.ar» SrasiMper 8» ndiCAl»- > looked out to see w hether any black uring more than seven feet. Several skulls and one well pre They were Just at that stage In the birds were on hand. Sure enough an served skeleton are to be given over a ffa ir when other people were say Immense flock was sitting on the ground at the base of the now barren ! to the Investigators of the anthro ing : “ When do you suppose they’ll 1 stalks looking a t each other and pology department of the University announce ItT" and they were saying to The skulls and akele ach other all sorts of sweet anrepeat- around. The puzzled look on their of California. ihle things. "countenance»,” he says, waa ludi tons are declared to be o f highly lm crous In the extrem e.— Indianai>o' - porti,nt and scientific value But. between you and nie, what he Discovery of the burial ground h i News. «aid waa really quite conservative, for revived an old Indian legend that an he was Scotch. Added to this native Immense treasure of gold nugget« circumspectness was an undemonstra Elevated to Bishopric. was Interred w ith a laxly of a chief tiveness fostered by a mother who Seldom has there been discovered of the ancient tribe of the g'nnt In came from old New England stock So, a more clever and effective device for dlans. So convinced ate the resident» because he Inherited a conscience and spreading the gospel than that a r In the truth o f this legend that great old-fashioned Ideas, one o f th.’ things ranged by wise old Bishop A m ator o f crowd« have thronged around the he had to whisper to hts girl was: Armorica. H e evolved a scheme ' sewer diggers, largely hampering “Phllble, dear. I wish you wouldn’t which promised the linking of the their activities, and more than a put so much o f that red stuff »n your church w ith the powerful state. score of persons have applied to the lips and checks. You really don’t need Catching Governor Gerraanus In municipal authorities fo r positions on It, you know.“ church one day. the bishop slipped up the city's sewer-digging crew. behind that official. A pass w ith one This was lust a mild protest. Rut, According to the ancient Indian hand and he bad snipped off the gu as Phllble had no Scotch or Puritan legend, the vast gold treasure was bernatorial locks; a pass w ith the blood In her vein«, rather quite a spir burled In close proxim ity to « h e re the other hand, and a bishop's robe was ited m ixture of Irish and French, she bones were recovered. slipped over the tonsured dome Be replied w ith a mischievous toss o f her Eight years ago ‘ W illia m Alfntan, fore- the governor could say the Atnor- bobbed brown c u rls : “How do you curator of the museum In Golden Icnn equivalent fo r “Jack Robinson." know ’ Do you know If you've ever ' Gate park. San Francisco, declared he was Inform ed that the Bishop Am»- seen me w ithout It?” that skeleton» unearthed near Con tor had resigned and that he waa or “H e ll, really now. aa you put It that cord were the most valuable contri dained In hla stead. way, I couldn't exactly say.” Angus butions to the scientific Investiga sidled down, rather embarrassed, he- tions o f the state's prehistoric In tf cause he had only seen Phllb e 12 and Tree» Furnish Cloth. diana. a h alf times. The h alf was when he In the West Indies dresses are often 1 had first met her— In the paint and worn made from the natural lacelike Grain Sown From AIrpian». varnish department of the Armstrong cloth which grow« upon tree». T he Through an invention to sow grain H a rd w a re company where Angus was tree from which the hu e Is gathered hy airplane, a irc ra ft may he Haled ns clerk Phllble had given him quite a has u curiously light hollow trunk agricultural Implements. The new large order for white and green nnd something like bamboo. A long, “flying grain sower." says the New hlack nnd red paint. She and her smooth section la cut and soaked In York Sun, w ill plnnt a strip o f 36 feet mother were fixing up the little house w ater until the hark Is softened. The wide traveling at the rate of 40 miles they had bought with part of dbar tacellke cloth Is dow ly packed to ao hour. The seeds are expelled hy papa's lnaurnr.ee money. They had gether, forming the shell o f the traa. a ir pressure from a perforated metal never ' ad a real home before because When carefully pulled apart a lace- tube w ith sufficient velocity to drive like fiber la found which Is aurprta- them deep Into the ground. At the I they I d traveled around w ith pans end of each wing a thin stream of F irst Free Children’s Lib rary in Eng. land to Be Opened in Old Home of NovelisL T here Is to he opened soon the first free library for children In England In a building In which that lover of d ill dren, Charles Dickens, spent several eventful years of his own childhood, it Is an Idea so appropriate and fitting that all supporters of the scheme must wish for Its success, rem arks the Christian Science Monitor. The house hl question Is S3 Johnson street, Som ers town, and the DIokeiisTatnlly lived here a fter they left Chatham , being tenants of, the house for five years. From this house Dickens, the father, was taken to the Debtors' prison, the Marshalsea, an Incident which a fte r ward supplied his son w ith "copy" for two of Ills most famous hooks. "The Pickwick Pupcrs” and “L ittle D o rrit." Dickens is a striking example of how much can he accomplished by a case of real genius under adverse condi tions, and it Is he himself in “David Copperfleld.“ who tells us what help and enlightenment he got In his wretched surroundings from the few books which made up his father's tiny library. Though small, tliul library was a rl 'h treasure trot » to a clever child. Don Quixote and O il Bias— each of these m asterpiece» Is com posed o f many stories— and from Fielding. Smollett. Goldsmith and De foe. D ie le n s must have learned the music of word*, and the grace and <Jlg nlty of a tale of life tw e ll told. I f hi« old house now becomes the home of a free library for children who. like him. may have a chance to forget the hnrd facts of tlielr lives In the works of great authors, everyone who has the w elfare of children nt heart, must rejoice. AU G U ST 11 lerlal. B YLLE8B Y & COMPANY Fiscal Agent« Engineering and Management Corporation Engineers and Managers — , who had been an anim al tra in e r w ith Buys Sinko circus. It « a s tula euvlrvuiuaut which was reaper «(hie fur Ph’lherta'» pernldonS practice of rouging. Thou, «» lovers alw ays do at least once, they quarreled. H e even went «■> fa r .»« to say th a t he didn't » a n t to kiss her any more tf she smeared that «tuff oa. because hie llpe never touched hors— they Just tasted that paint At first Phtlhle waa furious. “I guess you'll never gel the chance again, a fte r that," she filing at him . Angus toofc his cue and his haL But the an’ntal trainin g Instinct, which «he had in h e r it^ from her father, made Phllble atop him when hts hand was on the knot» of the screen d<x»r. “ Angua." «he said. " I won't put It on any more." And she meant It. be cause she «aw the tru th In hla hrutnl s,xxx-h She wanted him to kiss her now, quick • He turned and saw her there rub bing furiously at her lipa w ith a h it of a handkerchief. But because he » a s Scotch he did not gather her In hla anus and cover the red on th» handkerchief as « e ll as her lips w ith penttent kisses, as a movie lover would have doue. Oh. no. Recuse he w-ns Scotch, he said: "You w ill promise me, Phllberta. never to use or have In your possession again thia disgust ing red ointment." Phllble meekly promised, "Teo," be cause Just then he kissed her. Phllble was very bu»y finish,ng th» dressing up of the little house, be cause. on the afternoon o f a certain red letter day. ten of her best girl friends were coming to a tea party. And then one day. a week before the date set fo r the p arty. Angua called In the morning when Phllble was no, expecting him. H ts call waa very Inform al. H e almost had her In hla arms, and ben, down— hu, he did no, klas her. H e had seen her face. T here waa a red blotch on each cheek. He stared at her so long that P h ll ble asked In a troubled voice: "So early In the morning I W h a , do you w an,?" "Nothing, now." Angus cut off the words w ith cold finality. Then, as an a fte r regret, atid w ith deep reproach In his voice: "You said you w ouldu't put It on a g a in !" “ What?" asked Phllberta. And be cause she looked a t the can In fro nt of her. she put both hands to her cheeks. Thereupon she began to laugh an ever Increasing crescendo o f gur gles and trills. F in a lly, she struck liar already »lightly discolored Anger Into the can before her. and w ith I, sho touched each o f Angus' cheeks T hat outraged gentleman had stood In motionless amazem ent at her m irth, hu, now he cautiously pu, up one of hla own Angara to his cheek. It felt we, and ra th e r sticky. Ho looked at tils finger, smelled n f the red smooch, and than ho, too, began to laugh. When a Scotchman Anally does see a Joke on him self, he can appreciate It. "W h a , the deuce were you doing, anyway?" Angus asked. "Oli, Just trying to pain, up those two old card table« to look ocleutul, like some lacquered ones I aaw In town W o n t the glrla think they're sjiorty when they aee them on the veranda next Thursday?" “Oeorgel W ha, a capable little w lfo you're going to m a k e !” and Augua laughed aoine more. The laugh did no, Ina, aa long as It might have; It was very soon amoth- cred aguliist a daub nf red on an other wise smooth, pink cheek. Yea, An gua not only klaaed the pa Ini on Phll- herla'a cheek, but he h ln rs d f trans ferred some of II to the plnco where he luifl en Id It waa moat especially tabooed. FIND SHELLS CENTURIES OLD Belief That R»llca Unearthed by W ork- men In Oregon W are U«ed aa Ornaments by Indiana. Sea «hell» about six Inches aernaa were uricoverixl hy w orker" recently at j Rig Eddy, ti'-ar T h e Dallefi, fire.. K ing a, the lienila of Indian skeletons, j They » e re ib'eayed and crumbled when touched. These "hells showed Indica tions o f having been used as ear o rna ment» They are of the species of »hell flah commonly called "cohogs" on the A tlan tic coast, according to p er son« who have observed them, and do no, grow to the size of those found on the Pacific roast. W onderfully perfect apear and a r row-heads, made o f obsidian, a rock found no nea»«r than C alifo rn ia, also were unearthed. A ll o f the chipping on tha arrow points found appenred to he much finer than la te r Ind ian work, local am ateur collectors da- d are d . • T he relics found by highw ay w o rk er» a, Rig Eddy are an accum ulation of i-enturlea, In the opinion of D. L. Cates, d ry recorder, who haa lived In and around T he Dalles fo r more than •W years lie points out th a t In ths Hill« hack of Big Eddy tra ils w om In the roefc may be ssen. evidence o f the a c t, v|,lee of Indiana wtin uaed these trail» for hundreds o f years. M r. (Nites asya that at Rig Eddy ths In diana find finer ealinon fishing than a , any other place along tha riv e r and have been making tha trip to that pla'-a annually pr«hahiy a»ar •»«<« aaB iqo « hagan ru h n d y i i j flfa A uluiB Mm /»