The Great Outdoors
Livestock,
spoonful of nicotine sulphate should
l>e used to one gallon of water, to
which a one-inch cube of hard soap
should be added and thoroughly mixed.
I f a larger quantity Is desired, use one
fluid ounce to eight gallons of water,
with the addition of one-half pound of
soap. F ull directions are given on the
covers of packages, and Instructions
slderahle. and when so separated w ill accompany them.
ordinarily command a fa ir price.
.
Effective Application of Spray.
t niter the dockage system of th«
“lu the use of nicotine sulphate the
frtleral standards, the amount of for- effecth e application of the spray la of
elgn material separated and consld- the utmost importance, sine« it is pri-
ered as dockage Is deducted front the m ad ly upon this that the success or
weight of the wheat purchased and, failu re of the treatm ent depends. I f
in any event, does not affect the grade the liquid has stood for any- length of
of the clean wheat This results In a time it should be agitated thoroughly
higher grade and the price paid Is on before use
The Insects themselves
the basis of this grade for the dockage- must lecelve a thorough coat e f the
free wheat.
, spray or they w ill not be killed, and
-
—
I immediate inspection a fte r spraying
Dairy Products, Berries, Fruit,
“ The Farmer Feedeth All.”
CULLING OF CHICKEN FLOCKS
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On« V irgin ia Parm er Reports Selling
Fowls te Amount of $70 W ithout
Lessening Eggs.
Grains.
Good reports continue to come Into
the county agent at Smyth county,
V a , from those who have taken ad
vantage o f the poultry-culling work
given by him. T here Is still a great
demand for Inform utlon concerning the
culling of Sot ka. One farm er reports
th a t he sold chickens amounting to
$70 without reducing his egg produe-
RENOVATE OLD POTATO BINS
tlon at all. Another reports that he
sold poultry amounting to $72.50 und
A ll Growers Are Warned to Thoroughly
Is now getting Just as many eggs as
Disinfect All Storage Places
before.
•
Before Using.
A t Shedd Friday 14 peop'e saw
County Agent Hev . an cull 75
poor layers from 240 hep.. pBUi
Dawson culled before 15 people at
Tennessee and 25 at Tallman
At
O ik v 'lle Berths Beck culled 140
bens before 8 spectators. Ai M il
lersburg 20 people aaw 200 colled.
W ith the development of poultry
culling and atoc.lt ju Iging in thia
county more and mote income will
be derived from the feed con. |
suraed. At Shedd Mr. H erm an
rejected 75 hem« out of 250
should show the foliage o cA pled by
the Insects to be completely w e^
"Spraying should be done ss early
as possible, always on the first appear
ance of the Insect, not only because
It is good practice to keep (he plants
j free from pests hut because mnra thor
ough work can he done on small plants.”
The inhla point Is to start the fight
In time and kill the advance scouts
and herd off the main arm y of Insect
neats.
Every grower who experienced trou
ble with dry rot in his potatoes Is
warned hy A G. Tolaas of (D iv e rs ity
farm , chief Inspector of the potato seed
department, to disinfect thoroughly all
bins before using them again. Either a
solution of formaldehyde In ten gal VALUE OF UNDRAWN POULTRY
lons of water, or a solution of blue-
stone (ropper sulphate) consisting of
one pound of the hluestone dhsohed Experiments Conducted by Departm ent
of Agriculture Show Birdo Spoil
In ten gallons of water, should be used
Less Quickly.
for this purpose.
PESIS HAVE BIG APPETITES
CLUB BOYS IN GREAT
CONTEST AT ATLANTA
Tobacco Extract la Recommended tor
Plant Lice and O ther Sucking Par
asites— Main Point Is to
Start F ig ht Early.
Teams From Many States to
Compete for Prizes.
• P repared by th e U nited S ta le* D ep a rt
ment o f A gricu ltu re.)
Poultrytnen » till discuss the re la
tive merits of drawn and undrawn
poultry.
Practice varies In different
roniuiiinities.
Qpening the body un-
douhledly exposes the Internal aurface
. to the n lj which alwuyg coatalns raL
| cro-organisms, and thus may hasten
' decomposition; but It should be re-
| membered also that the viscera decom
pose more rapidly than other parts of
the body, amt if left they may tain t
or Infect the rest of the bird.
In
elaborate
experiments
w ith
drawn, partly drawn, and undrawn
poultry, conducted by the United
States .Departm ent of Agriculture, It
was found that undrawn birds spoil
least quickly, and partly drawn ones
less quickly than the fully drawn ones
front which, not only the viscera, hut
■ also the heads and feel, have been re
moved.
Gardeners are warned by specialists
of the lu lle d States Ueput tuietit of
Agriculture to prepare to coiubut the
"little enemies o f the garden.” ' In
Seven W inner» W ill Be Given T rip to
sects of tarious kinds are making tlieir
English Royal Stock Show— Lead
appearance in vast numbers In gar
ers and Members Are Show
dens In all p ails of the country, and If
ing Interest In Event.
left uudlsturhed w ill defeat the gar
dener's best efforts and lay waste the
(Prepared by the United S lates Depart- vegetable crops. This Is the open sea
ment of Agriculture .)
son for insects and there are uo luvvs
Probably the greatest gutherlng of
which lim it the itutuber which may he
boys in the history of club work will
killed.
The departm ent specialists
take place at A tlanta, Ga.. October 19
urge the use of the spray puiup and BUILDS WEEVIL-FROOF CRIB
to 21, 1921. when club boys represent
dusting hug for the frequent applica
ing practically every section of the
tion of poisons In order to destroy Southern Farm er Demonstrates How
United States w ill take p i n In an In
the pests before they destroy the gar
Log Building Can Be Made Secure
ternational club Judging contest. The
den.
Early efforts In lighting lusects
Against Insects.
aeven winners in this con'est w ill be
are most effecthe.
given a trip to tha English royal stock
L ittle Bugs W ith Big Appetltea.
The county agent of T ay lo r county,
show, and hundreds of dollars will
in most localities the Colorado or Fla., reports that one farm er In hia
be distributed aa additional prizes.
“hard-shell" potato beetles are Indus community has worked out a way by
T hia contest Is under the supervision
triously depositing clusters of small which a log corn crib can he made
o f club leaders representing the state
yellowish eggs on the underside of the practically alr-tlght to guard the corn
potato leaves.
In a few days these against weevils.
This farm e r put
hatch Into little red, soft-shelled slugs three or four inches of d irt on the
or “soft-shells," as they are often floor and covered It with another floor.
called, that have most w-onderful ap- T he walls were covered w ph rough
l>etlties. and unless poisons ure ap lumber, and the eracks outside were
plied they w ill soon strip the potato filled w lih clay.
The door facings
plants of their letups.
were padded with cloth and the door
made of two layers of cypress lumber,
Perhaps there is no class of garden
Insects the method of attack of which with a piece of paper roofing between
is to insidious as that of the plant This arrangement cost about $10. In
lice or aphids.
addition to the farm er's labor. Others
At first a very few lice may he found !n this neighborhood are building
hidden on the under side of the leaves cribs In the same way.
of melons, peas, cabbage, and other
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vegetables. A little later the leaves be
gin to curl up and to lose their color, '
COAL ASHES AS FERTILIZER
and an examination w ill show that
the “lice" which the ants curried out
Their Use Is M ainly to Looaen Up Soli
have became grandmothers, and the
and Make It More Workable__
under side of the leaves w ill be lit- 1
Most Useful on Clay.
erally alive with them, feasting on the ;
At this stage
A Pig Club Boy Preparing Hia Prize Juices of the plants.
Coal ashes have little value as fe r ti
something mast he done quickly, for ’
Pig for the Show Ring.
lizer. their use being mainly to l&oseo
within . a few days there
will
he '
agricultural colleges and the United another generation or brood at work. 1 the Roll and make It more workable.
They are most valuable on heavy clay
States Departm ent of Agriculture
Arsenate of lead arid parts green
«nil. but should he screened to take
Many club leaders and members an-
have no effect upon this army of plant
ahowlng an Interest In the contest and blood suckers, and It Is necessary to ’ out course material before they _afe
applied, and should he spread evenly |
have expressed their willingness to use contact poisons.
A preparation |
over the surface and thoroughly mixed
send Judging teams. The team from
must he used that will not Injure the
with the soli. Wood ashes have fe rtl-
Texas, which defeated The entire field
v il'ie . but should be applied be
last year, la now completing prepara
I fore they become leached.
tions fo r the trip to Europe. Thai
•ta te w ill be represented again at th
contest In Atlanta, hut this year then
w ill be more competition, for teams
from Mississippi. Louisiana. Virginia
Oklahoma. Florida. Arkansas. Alaha
ma, Kentucky. North Carolina and
South Carolina are preparing to ente-
Several other states In the North an
West have signified th eir wllllngnes
to send teams to the contest If suit
able arrangements ran be made
I1 A L 8 E Y E N T E R P R IS E
SMUGGLE IN CHINESE
Americana Are Gambier« In Business
and Careleea In T h rift, la Verdlot
Ha Renders.
Few Places Where bcheeners Cannet
Make Eaay Landing »n Coast
line »f Southern State.
Tampa.
Fla.— t'htnese are being
muggled Into
the United States
on a large scale by way of Cuba and
•'lorlda. according to reports from tbs
South. Unless prompt action la taken
>y authorities at Washington, condi
tions will soon be as had In the south-
iu states as they were on the Mexl-
“A m ericans are gamblers.
an border, where It took five years
T h e y do not want to make a mod
o stamp out the smuggling of the yel
erate profit, a steudy, regular, perhaps
low men. says Im m igration Inspector
mediocre Income, but. on the contrary,
Whalen of Tam pa. Fla.. In whose dis
to make a great deal of money In a
trict much of the sntttggl ag hat heen
very short time, to get rich quick.'
;oing on.
"They gamble a t business— not at
"We have learned that w ithin the
roulette or baccarat; but It is gam
past few months almost 75,«X) Chinese
bling all the same."
•'»»» been landed In Cuba," says
As for wastefulness:
Whalen
"According to the state
“So many people here have made
ments we got from some of the smug
their money by chance, by good luck,
gling parties that we have rounded
by a flash of Imagination, and nof by
up, these Chinese remain In Cuba only
the sweat o f their brow, that they are
long enough to make arrangements
naturally wasteful and spendthrift to
With the smugglers to be landed on
an extent which we can hardly Imagine
the Florida coast.
In Europe.
T h e fact that all the Chinese who
“Everyone wastes, even the poor,
hnvp heen arrested In this vicinity are
and particularly the women, who, for
plentifully supplied w ith money and
the most part do not seem to have [line
nre $l»le to obtain unlim ited funds to
to acquire the habits of eeonoiqlcal
defrgy’ court expenses Indicates that
housekeeping possessed by women of
llterp |a a well-organized smuggling
the old world."
combine at work."
Tha irtWest arrests In the smuggling
war were In Charleston. S. C„ where
four Chinese were picked up, with
railroad
tickets
from
Clearwater,
Fla., a short distance from Tatupa. to
Washington. D. C. Six more were a r
rested the same day at Dttnednn. Fla.,
Iso nettr Tampa. These six were taken
when they tried to buy railroad tic k
ets to Washington.
The coast of Florida Is an Ideal
place for smuggling . operations as
there «re only a few places along the
entire 1,490 miles of coast line where
schooners cannot make an easy land
ing.
DIAMOND 8 YEARS IN GARDEN
Ring Lost by Naw Jersey Woman
Found and Rastorag by Present
T en an^
(lien Ridge. N. J — E xactly sight
years to the day a ftg r she had lost
a diamond ring In th» garden of her
home the lost bit of Jewelry was re
stored to the owner. Subsequent to
losing the ring Mrs. Smith removed
from 01 H illside place and her former
home was occupied by John Tow n
send
For three years M r, Townsend hag
heen planting the garden, and while
hoeing lima benns this week he saw
what he thought was a bit of glass
shining on the ground. He picked up
the object and It proved to tie a dla
mond ring.
Meeting Mrs. Smith he
mentioned having found the ring. Its
loss was explained and the ring was
restored to Its owner.
Cleae
Parachutes.
The prevailing Idea that parachutes
frequently fail to open la n fallacy. In
999 parachute dcsceuts front observa
tion balloons during the war, only three
failures occurred— Brooklyn Ragle
REGISTERED
Shropshire Bucks,
yearlings, and 1 registered 2-year-old
Oxford
foe sale.
DR. J. W. COOK.
Brownsville, Oregon.
E q R SALE
20
Shropshire Ramp
registered
Yearlings. These
are
excrpltqnal
>1 iqnal If
big. fine, th rifty fellows
Also 2
-t) heid
of registered
B R E E D IN G
RWE<
Priced to »ell.
Z Z
W A L TE R HTAEEORD,
Meadowview, Or»-
Address Jut ction City, route 2.
EUR SA l E
Two Horses
I Gray M art, 8 years old. w ith a Colt.
I black 4-year-old D riv iu g or Saddle
Mare.
MRS. I. R O oE R |,
Route 2, Halsey
Harvest is Over j
United States Government Asks Bids
for Killing ef Lighthouse
Annoyera.
;
B ritain ’s Debt Is $5,807,$!5,000.
London.— G reat Britain's externa)
debt now amounts to shout $5.997.815, ■
999 norntnl value, a decrease for the
year ending March 81 of about $585..
775.099. an official return states. The
chief creditors are the United Rtates
£972.794,909,
normal
value
about
$4.«9.7,529.009 and Canada, £53,330,
999. about $299.995,000.
Addition te Commandments.
Four-yenr-old Bessie had heen te
Bunday school, where the Teg Coin-
niuudnients were being studied.
She
had tin qjder brother who was noted
for being sick or crippled If there wae
work to be done. One day th eir moth
er asked tlie hoy to fill the woodfcox.
Imm ediately he developed a sore foot
Slid limped slowly tow ard the wood
p ie.
Bessie looked at him reproach
fully and said: ‘T h o u shalt not hypo-
rite."— Chlcugo American.
Indicated.
A scientist predict» thut the end
of the eitrth w ill be glacial. In other
words, the cool trust w ill outlive the
Ice tru s t.—Greenville (S. C.) Piedmont.
BiCHELOR SEA LIONS TO DIE
Son Francisco.— Because 100 bach
elor sea Hons on Anno Nuevo Island.
20 tnlles north of Santa Cruz, clutter
up the walks around tha lighthouse,
steal food front the hack porch of the
lighthouse keeper’s cottage and have
a sneukittg desire to take up their
residence In the front parlor, the
United States lighthouse service w ill
open bids for shooting the ohnoxlnns
bachelors.
T here are 400 more sea Ilona on the
Island, hut as they consist of thor
oughly trained husbands with their
harems of wives, they have their own
social sets snd don't bother the ligh t
house keeper.
The. bachelors' skins
are good for leather, their blubber
contains good oil snd the re»t of tbelr
carcnsRes can he sold for fertilizer.
Race
PACK 3
The Pineapple Plant.
The pineapple plant which la a bt«R»
uml, grows uh ut two feet hlfch and
produces a single axle and flower
stalk. The fleshy part o f the stalk
forma tha fru it, which Is crowned by
a cluster of leaves. I t was Introduced
Into Kurope by the Spaniards a fter
their explorations In South America.
The earliest mention o f the pineapple
lu England was made by John Evelyn,
English author. In his “D ia ry ," In
which he speaks of havlug tasted a
pineapple from Barbados a t the tabid
ot Charles IL
Combine Slips Yellow Men Into
Florida by Way of Cuba.
H a lf a doien British w riter» having
ooked ua over thia summer and record
ed their Impressions. a Frenchman.
Louis Thomas, (a now doing the same
thing for the French Capper's W eekly,
(he Opinion.
"American wastefulness la a stupefy
ing tlilug to Frenchtaen." says Thomas.
"W e are th rifty and even we must
admit, avaricious. O ur experts, who
co-operated with them In w ar enter
prises, found them abominably waste
ful, indifferent to coats and lmprovl
dent to the last degree.”
The reason is simple, says Thomas.
A Passing Landmark of Old Manila
Now is the time to begin another year by get- <>
ting new implements, such as
‘
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I.H.C. Tillage Tools * Tractors
Now is the time to use them. Give us a call
for your fall needs.
t
G.W. Mornhinweg
I m p l e m e n t S to r e
FARMS for RENT
Business O pportunities in Halsey :
Several real bargain» in farm buys. Also town property
Agent for P id e lit)-P h e n ix Eire Insurance company o f New Y o rk
Renew your policy w ith a home agent and get results
J. W MOORE,
Real Estate and Insurance
Office at Halsey, Ore.
MAYBERRY & ,
M c K in n e y
L IV E S T O C K B U Y E R S
VALUE OF DOCKAGE IN WHEAT
H ig iirs l p r i n t | a id (< t l it <d, I ' n t k , Veal and M u tto n .
before you sell,
M aterial Sometimes Contains Quanti
ties of Nutritious Grain,
Good for Farm Use.
Dockage found In wheat In some In
stance» la of real value, while In oth
era It not only may have no value bu'
often may contain Ingredients that are
positively harm ful If ground with the
»h e a t, say specialists of the Unite«
States Departm ent of Agriculture
The valne of dockage, therefore, de
pends on the value of the material
separated from the wheat. Dockag«
frequently contains quantities o f nutrl
Kona grain and weed seeds, as flax
•eed. wild oat», or other cereal grains
Much o f this m aterial can he used t
food advantage as poultry or stock
feed,
w ild
mustard and flaz«ew
e»n be removed from the dockage Ir
Practically a pure state by the use ot
•p e d a l cleaning machinery, such as I*
sometimes found in tenninal elevator
and the larger Hour ml Ila but eve
U>w V»« coat of daaalof win ba con-
AUGUST 18
AS A FRENCHMAN SEES US
H«t«cy phone 170.
; Surgeons Sew Up Cut
Inch Long in Heart
nsects Do Not Thrive In Thia Garden,
but tha Crops Do.
'ants hut which w ill k ill the “lice."
he most common of these contact
oisons Is nicotine sulphate—a tobac
o extract—made o f tobacco refuse
mm factories. This Is a poison and.
• he effective in killing the “lice"
Ithout In luring the plants, must he
-ed exactly according to the direc-
•ns given on the container. United
Nites Departm ent of
Agriculture
armers' Bulletin 859. on the control
f garden diseases and Insects, baa
ie following to M y regarding the use
f nicotine sulphate:
T o r (mall ja n l« n pitta oo% t$fc
This la a photograph o f the famous old Bridge of Rpaln, M antle. It la
now a departed landmark of the Phil pplnea. for Its place has heen taken by
one of the finest bridges In tlie en tire O rient, the new Jones bridge
T he Jones Bridge Is named In honor of the late Congressman W. A. Jon»a
of Virginia, auihor of tlie Jones law of 1910 which promised the Filipinos
Independence upon the establishment of a stable government.
The old Bridge of Spain la called “the mother of M anila's bridge«." Tha
original bridge was built of pontoons sometime between the years 1599 and
1099. being known aa the Bridge of Boats. T he atone bridge shown above
was built about 1630 It was twice damaged by earthquakes, and was once
partly detuoUahed by a flood.
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New
York. -F o u r
atltcbea
were taken In the heart of Frank
Fartlio, sixteen, »tabbed acd-
dentally.
The wound was an
Inch hmg. Aftei the operation, i f
performed th ro ig h an opening
made between two ribs. Farlno
asked Io alt up
Doctors are
hopeful for hia recovery. The »
operation required
minutes J
«tltches being taken only when <
Sea Ua
Brownaville phone 37c51.
. G rtek and Roman Churches.
The Greek church dissents from
the doctrine that the Holy Ghost pro-
>weds from the F a th e r and Ron. re
acts the papal claim to supremacy,
•ad ndniiulatcrs tlie eurhsrtst In both
Inds to the la ity ; It agree« w ith
the Itmnan church Io tha belief of
•van sacraments, trs n s u h s ta n tla tb « ,
' e adoration of the host, confession,
■«olutlon, [»nance, prayers fo r the
••rid. etc. T lie Greek church fo rm ally
• paruted from the Itotuao church Io
94.
Revelation« e f Bciewee.
Among other Interesting fa rfa that
J Gerogr Doyle performed the « have been determ ined by the tlreb-ea
investigating scientists Is th ia : T h a t
» operation, said to be the first o f J >
'he skin on the palm of the hand
J Its kind.
nnrmsllv tw enty times ss thick as the
A* « « w e e e e « « « « « « « « « « « « « « « « ^ skin on the syelld. T h e [Milins o f lb«
J the heart was contracted.
i Janies M
Downer and
Dr. {
Dr *
*orkui< inau sr» «veu thicker.