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URING the past year the Fordson Farm Tractor has demonstrated that it is the world’s leading farm
tractor. Over 150,000 users testify to this fact. I he FORDSON is revolutionizing fanning.
The Fordson is being used as tractors have never been worked before and for every purpose imaginable:
plowing, discing, harrowing, rolling, drillinc. haying, harvesting, threshing, filling silos, sawing wood, drag
ging and grading roads, and many other jobs.
-=READ WHAT A FEW OF OUR OWNERS HAVE TO SAY:—-
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CAKE BAKER. Marengo
H B. COE KT. Bolvidcro
Fontano Tractor No 21944
Delivered Oct. J, 191H
Work Doti«- Plowed »tutibU
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S1 acre»
Breaking ....................................... I<B «croe
Direed ......................
. 175 rere»
Dragged
............... . ............ 40 acre«
Cut IS acre» grain
Repair Hill let* than 540. Kercwenr anl oil eonaump
lion very reasonable considering the fact that much
al<>ugh land haa been broken.
Statement—I can plow any place that can Iw plowed.
I have noycr hail to leave a piece of ground a. yet,
in fact I have plowed where many other tractors
have puller! out. I have plowed alongh land and
rough boggy land and can go anywhere. My trac
tor seems to run better ami haa more (tower Unlay
than it did the day I receiver! it.
R. F. JOHNSON. Hebron.
R. R. DAtiUE. Belvidere.
Fordson Tractor No. 21 IMO. delivered Fonlaon Tractor No. I2HA2, deliver«!
Sept. 9. 19IM.
July 25. 19IK
Work done Plowed »tubble
73 aerva
Sod..................... 27 acre» Work done—Plowed stubble . 40 acre»
Sod................. . 3$ aerea
I Hared
................ 200 acres
Breaking .......... .. 15 acre»
I 'rugger!
..........IlN) acre»
Disced
............ . 230 aere»
Drilled................... 45 acre»
Dragged
... w acre»
Puller! marl drag 15 miles
Cut «0 acre» of grain
loaded 12 acre» hav with hay loader.
Used tractor ori roller.
Re|>air expense (3.00.
Due to spring rain» I could not have Used 2) gal. keroreric per acre plowing
Fordson way only way to farm right.
gotten my cropa in without Fordson.
Fonlscm Tractor No. 21915.
W..rk (krny
Deliverer: Aug. 10, 1918
1*1 >wed atultble ............................. IS9 aerea
Nud.............................................. SO aerea
Breaking ..........................
. 100 acre«
tltaerd............................................. R5 aerea
Dragged.................................................... HO aerea
Drilled ......................................
70 aerea
Fuel expenso t«i date, «70 gallon» kerosene. 9 gallons
gaaoltm*. AS gallium motor oil.
Repair expense to data, lean than 54 01».
Statement- I am very much plea.rd with my l-'ordaon
outfit. It haa hel|«ed to make farm life eaaier for
m<- ami I believe the Foniaun way will aoon revolution,
ire wprk for the American farmer.
JOHN PETERSON. Belvidere
Fonlaon Tractor No. 10149, delivered
July 9. I91H.
Work done —I’lowi-d stubble . » acre»
Sod
........... 30 acre»
Breaking............. 10 acre»
Disced ............... .80 aerea
Cut To acre» wheal amt oata
Pul up 40 acre» hay. rating aid» delivery
rake. Ground !K14 bushels feed.
Repair bill practically nothing.
The Fontaon is a »uc>->-aa for the farm.
It is doing belter than we expected.
DAVID FITCH, Harvard.
il E. REDPATH, Marengo.
Fordern Tractor No. 276B8. delivered Fonlaon Tractor No. 12MI, delivered
March 10, 1919.
July 2«. 19114.
Plowed stubble
35 aerea Work rione Plowed stubble 130 aerea
III acre«
Sod.................
Fra! ................... 20 aerea
Disced
............. 125 aerea
1 breed................. Iris aerea
Dragged
......... Itio acre»
Dragged ..........
30 aerea
Ground feed, sawed wood
Repair bill lees than 55.00.
Repair expenae lc»r than 110.
statement I would recommend the
Statement The Fonlaon *1. actor ia the
tractor for any purpore. It haa plenty
beat hired man I ever had.
it haa
of ¡rower. Have worked with outfit
done the work of ten men.
in the mud all spring.
Work done
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OREGÛN NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAHNTEREST
Principal Events of the Week
Briefly Sketched for Infor
mation of Our Readers.
Mr» Winnie |lrad<-n. manager of the
Oregon industrial exhibit in Portland,
haa been named by Governor Olcott to
arrange th» Origon display and ex*
hiblt at th» nortliweal reclamation and
Irrigation congre»» to be held al Heal
th« September 17 and IS.
Approximately f3.044.040 has been
pani out by the Astoria bank» during
the last few days tn ctxshlng fisher-
m- n s checks. Some of the purse rein
ing craft are reported tn have received
more than fSO.OOo each for their
catche« during the reason.
Hood River grower» and »hipper«
are again Increasing their estimate«
oa the 1920 apple crop. Fine growing
weather of the past few week«, il I»
declared, will Increase the tonnare to
TO per cent of last year's yield, whoa
i.OM.noO boxea were harv«-et>-d
The Interstate commerce remmiaaloa
has denied the application of th. tir»
goo Electric company for p>rmla»ioa
to charge Increased paaw-ruier far.«
between Portland on the one hand
and stations south of Tualatin and
west of Bt Marya on the other.
Fruit acreage in Marton county for
the year 1910 has increased materially
when compared with previous years,
while there has ben a reduction of
several hundred arree In the grain
area, according to a report prepend
by B»n F. Weet. county aaa-aaor
Because of tbe Increasing habit of
the laboring rissa in takln« lengthy
vacations during th» summer months
there will be a shortage of dorkera
when th» peak of tbe harvest Is
reached In Oregon, according te C. H.
Oram, state labor commissioner.
F. E Weymouth, chief engineer of
the United States reclamai loa service
with headquarters In Denver, has no
tified the Baker county chamber of
commerce that be will be In Raker
during Oteiter to Inspect the Powder
river laud and IrrtgaUsu groJeeC.
Tbe entire plant of the Alco Wood
Products company at Albany was do
stroyed by fire, causing a Io«» of be
tween IS5.000 and |4u.0v0. The In
surance was 125.004.
George Carlile was fined 1100 and J
costa In justice court al Collage Grove
when he pleaded guilty to a charge of
dynamiting trout in the Court Fork
river on the morning of June 4.
Victor Beauregard, owner of a ranch
crossed »«vcral times by the Colom
bis river highway, east of liood River, i
will remove the pigpen» »hub have
j
caused complaint Crum tourist»
T A Rarfety of It- > burg. <> M
Shields of Portland and Jay Bailsman
of Bend were named by Ham A Koxer.
secretary of etale, ae field deputies
under the »«»called motor vehicle II-
cease law passed al the special sea
elon of the legislature last January
Fir« Chief Davts of Marshfield is
Interested tn the offer of the govern
ment to diapo»« of subchasers St a
figure of SI2AUA. It la realtred that
Coos Bay nre-ls a fireboat and Chief
[tarla believe» these chasers would
prove just tbe thing for harbor pro
lection
TACKLEUS
FOR
FISHING TACKLE
BATHING SUITS
• (for the whole family!
CAM I’ Eql-IIMENT
BASEHAU. and
TENNIS SUPI'UES
FIRMR.MS. AMMUNITION
OUTIMHJH CLOTHING
and SHOES.
SWEATERS. SHIRTS
FLASIIUGHTS. KNIVES
THERMOS Bom.KS
SAFETY RAZORS. BLADES
George A. Harth. ag«d 70, promln
William C. Cunningham a private
in 1st company, coast artillery corp», j ent rancher of Th*' Dalles, met Instant
stationed at Fort Stevens, was found death at the beute of bls son. Charles.
dead al the p««l and the military au i near there, by tere'vlng the <<uit«uta
tborltles believe be committed »ulclde. of a 13-gnuge sho gun Tn his right
Relics of early days in lame county breast. Whether Harth mrt bls end
and Oregon will be a feature of the by Mrtdent or suicide has not I»«it
exhibits at the county fair al Eugene ascertained.
Living <>u deer and boar mt-al. wild
in Hepb-mber, according to announce
ment of W. C. Yoran. srerotary of the honey and huckleberries for three
i years, asd with only half a doxen
fair aaaoctatloa.
'Where Everybody Huy s''
The Eugene city council has decided 1 shells of ammunition remaining. Al
Albany, Salem. Corvallis. Eugrne
to go ahead with tbe purchase of a J fred Faltlg, draft evader, could aland
municipal aviation field, notwlthstand the solitude of the Hlsklyou mountains
mg the fact that there are no btddera no longer, and surrendered to tbe sher
for the 112.004 bonds recently voted iff of Jackson <•> >i«itjj _
„wing to a clause In one of the
tor that purpose.
old gam« rulings numerous sportsman
DR. A. G. PRILL
The couuty court of Jackson county,
have been It-d Io believe that open
tn conjunction with tbe stale highway
«ea«nn will b» declared on qnall some
■ ommiMlon. Is planning to put IJ3.OO0
time in 1920. Btatn Game Wardt-n
Calls Attended
worth of gravel on the Greensprtng
Burxlidoff says that such la not th«*
mountain road, grading of which is
I >ay or N ight
case and he la explaining to all who
now well under way.
have Inquired that the 1919 seas loti
SCIO
ORE.
A. P. Walker of Oak laud. Cal . was
of the I gUlsture |MM««1 a hill prohl
killed In an automobile accident near
bit In ; hunting for there birds and only
Wilbur, whea aa automobile occupied
' legislative tuition can reopen the sea
by O. H. Johnson and bls wife and
son.
Mr Walker left the rout and plunged
Thai the laxpnfbre of Oregon next
over tbe bank 74 feet.
; year will be confronted with a tax
la order to finance the purchase of
I levy far lu excess of any In the history
the cite for th» proposed naval ba»«
of lb« state unless the leglitlature
•lie al Astoria to be presented to the
Waller lltiveu, Prop
‘ curbs the demand for appropriations
government, the Clatsop county naval
was the opinion expressed by stale of
Phone •’>-/» I •’<
base company, with a capital etnek of Helals who have received Intimations
STAGE Ml l‘T* ALI. TRAINS
4I00.0OO. ha» been organised.
t.«-avre Vio l’nstofflce -
of what mey be expected
Iteeldoe a
At least 500 tons of evergreen bUck
threatened ncreaae of 15 per rent In at 7 •3’» a m and 4-45 p m for W*«t Sen.
and 7:45 a. m. and 1115 p m for Munk yr»
berries will be handled al the Albany
the cost of conducting the state Inst I
cannery thia season The cannery will
tutlons for the biennium »ta-tlng Jan
begin on the evergreens as Mtoa as
| uary 1. 1*31. which will mid approxl
the loganberry crop, with which It ia
. mately 124«.040 to the appropriation»
< 1111« »!•»« A< "TH ’
now crowded, le out of the way.
; authorised at the beginning of th«
And the X-Ray were direovt-red in
Mrs. J G Dcnnl», aged about 45.
prerent biennium, several of th«- state
ItW, the letter prove* ao«l «lemon-
wife of a merchant at Crawfordsville, I depart menls now report funds shoo«
«Irate» the former.
lost her life in a fire which destroyed exhausted and probably will look tn
DR. R. HARRIS
her home in that town. The fire also
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Albany. Oregon
the elate cmergeocy b>««rd for flaaa j <’u»iek Bank
burned the building In which the 1 art! reiurf
Scio
Meat Market
HOLECHEK BROS.
W h Maul to treat the people
right and will welcome old
and new cuatomera, Helling
lirMt-cliiHH meat at the moat
reaaonable prices.
We buy Veal, Hoga and
iiitluH. paving goo<i price«.
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