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About Intermountain tribune and Linn County agriculturalist. (Sweet Home, Linn County, Or.) 1913-1914 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 23, 1913)
It is fair to assume that any boy who prefers to stay at home and cultivate corn when there is a circus in town is cut out for a farmer and that it would be Injudicious to coax him into taking up any other vocation. There is now on the market a mouse trap Which women somewhat lacking in nerve can set without danger of get ting their Augers pinched, incidentally it might be mentioned that there are some men who will appreciate the im provement noted, for the writer has seen ’em who wouldn’t any more dare to set a mouse trap than a rabbit. [This matter must not be reprinted with out special permission.^ That section is bound to prosper in which tile number of silos used is in creasing and the number of dairy cows increasing and their quality being im proved. Before the cold weather sets in and the rats make preparations for their winter quarters it is an excellent idea to put just as many' of them out of commission as possible. They are un mitigated pests, and every means of reducing their number to the lowest possible should be made use of. The average rat will consume or spoil be tween $1 and $1.50 worth of grain in a year, and in view of this none of them should be permitted to live. Niue times out of ten the pupil who causes most trouble in school is the Buttermilk cheese, a method of mak one that runs wild at home—that is. ing which has been discovered by the has not been brought up to have a Wisconsin Agricultural college, is said proper regard for parental authority to possess a nutritive value equal to that of a pound of lean round steak. aud discipline. In this connection attention Is also called to the fact—most pertinent in an era of unusually high prices—that two and one-half quarts of skimmilk or buttermilk contain about the same B.F. MALONE, P rop . nutriment as a pound of raw steak and cost about one-fourth as much. Clean Towels and The housewife who finds it necessary Prompt Service to economize should keep this fact in mind and make use of it. Sanitary Barker Shop BATHS IN CONNECTION Sweet Home - - Oregon Market Quotations ________ 4 By W. B. Thompson Beef live, per lb................... 5 to 5|c Beef, dressed, per lb.................... 10c Hogs, dressed, per lb........... 8 to 10c Fat hogs, live wt.,....................... 7c Stockers.:................ j — .......................6c Veal, faney .............. 12c Breeders of dairy cattle will be inter ested in the following facts in connec tion with the sales of several herds'of Illinois Holsteins. attention to which has been directed by the Illinois Col lege of Agriculture: One hundred and seven pure bred cows without official milk and butter records brought an average price of $288 a head, while 171 cows of no better breeding, but with official records, brought at the same sales an average of $465 per head. The figures presented show that buy ers were willing to pay an average of $177 per head more for cows with rec ords of actual performance. solutely Free One Years Subscription T O THE——................... Intermountain Tribune The Tribune has secured a number of Excelsior Combination Kitchen Sets, consisting of eight useful articles for use in the kitchen, viz One large Butcher knife, worth.... One Bread knife, worth.................. . One kitchen Cleaver, worth............. One Paring knite, worth.................. One large fork, worth........................ One Meat Saw, worth....................... One can opener, worth...................... One emery knife sharpener, worth ... 50 .30 75 10 .20 .50 —10 - 5 Total........... ................ $2.50 ¿ts ¿ts ¿ts ¿ts ¿ts ¿ts ¿ts cts All of these handy and useful articles have ebony handles, are made of highly tempered steel, are guaranteed and well worth the price One Kitchen Set and one year’s subscription to the Intermountain Tribune for the price of the set $2.5 0 Subscribers by paying up arrears, if any, and one year in advance can avail themselves of this offer. We have only a few sets which will last but a short time. If you want a set, call at once at THE INTERMOUNTAIN TRIBUNE GOT RID OF THE LOAFER». JOHOOOOOOOHCeOOOOOHOOOHOHOilOOOHOijOHOi iOOOig Down In Douglas county, Ne|>.. west of Omaha, some of the farmers who kept cows were not getting the re N. R. LUTHER, M. D. Prop. B turns they thought they ought to, con sidering the work they put In. so they formed a cow testing association. The proprietors of twenty-one herds, in cluding 435 cows, united in the for mation of this association and hired a man to go from farm to farm to look after the work of testing the samples of milk. He also weighed the feed given each cow and recorded its cost. | Dr. Luther will attend professional calls at reasonable distances j One day of each month was spent by | Day or Night j the tester on the farm of each mem ber of the association. When the year J Dr. Robert’s and Korinek’s Veterinary Remedies was over the results brought to light East Main Street SWEET. HOME, ORE. by this systematic testing opened the j eyes of the members of the associa «OlOOOHOHOOOHOHOOOOOiiOOOOOHOfOiSOifOfiOi tion. Lt was found that the best ten cows of the 435 earned a net profit dur ing the year of $1.032. while the poor est ten cows showed a profit of but $57.32. Among the best ten cows the yearly profit ranged from $123 for the best cow down to $92.02 for the tenth best. In the batch of the poorest ten cows the returns varied from a profit of $13.57 to an actual loss of $13.73. Another instructive fact brought out was that the ten cows that gave the $1.032 profit ate but little more food and got no better care in other re spects than the ten cows that made We furnish the be^t dinner in the valley for 25 cents the poorest showing. Before the first year was up with this association eight BRUER BROS. Props. LEBANON, ORE. een silos were put up by the different —■ ■ nr— members, they having discovered that milk can be produced by silage cheap er than in any other way. One of the mysteries of American farm manage ment is that in so many sections pa trons of creameries will shin along from year to year milking good, bad and indifferent cows and paying little or no attention to whether this or that BUT YOU WILL NOT GET WORK cow is making $10 or $100 a year or whether, in fact, she is being kept at THAT IS SO GOOD AS WE DO. an actual loss. It would be well if creamery managers as well as those in charge of the dairy departments of the state agricultural colleges would impress upon the farmers in their ter ritory the necessity of forming such cow testing associations and weeding out the loafers, as did the, farmers in Douglas county. Neb. CITY DRUG STORE | Drugs, Patent Medicines Perfumes, T oilet Articles, Sundries When in Lebanon go to the Home Restaurant For Your' Dinner YouMay Pay Less You May Pay More BUT YOU WILL NOT GET WORK THAT’S ANY BETTER, IF AS GOOD ABOUT GOOD SEED CORN. Lti probably every section of the corn belt there are this year those who have had the job of tending and who will pick little more than a half of the yield of corn that the land ought to have produced simply because of careless ness in securing the supply of seed ears last fall or carelessness in caring for them after they were gathered. There seems to be no getting around this fact in connection with the seed corn business—that if the supply of seed is gathered before Oct. 1. dried out thoroughly before cold weather comes on and is stored tn a place where it will not gather dampness dur ing. . the winter it is sure to show strong germination powers. There ts no question about the fact stated. The bulk of the trouble that corn growers have, with poor seed is due to trusting to luck and selecting the seed ears at husking time or storing them before they are properly dried or where they will gather moisture and have the germ weakened or killed by subse quent freezing. These are the A. B. and C of the seed corn question and ought not to be difficult for any one to understand. These statements refer to Photograph wprk. Our facilities are complete. We use only the best material, and our prices are reasonable for first class work. We do no other kind, We always satisfy our customers. $ A. E. EDWARDS, SWEET HOME, OREGON QgBü r --z o&£$ooo UNRIVALED FACILITIES ENABLES US TO GUARANTEE OUR QUALITY AND IT AMOUNTS TO NO SMALL DEGREE, FOR THIS REMARKABLE SUCCESS IN PLEASING EVERYONE printing raj ONE BIG LEAK. Owners of cream separators should find the following facts presented by the Indiana state experiment station suggestive: “Some very exhaustive tests were carried on recently at thé Purdue experiment station, showing that there are tremendous losses from racen the incorrect operation of cream sepa rators. In these tests it was shown that incorrect separator speed will cost the dairyman who has twenty cows a large amount of money in a year., The average cow produces 3.500 pounds of milk, or 70.000 pounds for the herd. Run through a separator correctly op erated. the butter fat would amount to 2,954 pounds, or 3,446 pounds of butter, which at 30 cents a pound amounts to $1,033.80.” If a separator is operated Clean at the lower “guess” rate of speed, as shown in the Purdue tests, only 1,699 pounds of butter would have been pro duced. At the same rate per pound this would bring the dairyman only $509.70. or a loss in a single year of $524.10. This loss is sustained simply because of the need of a cream sepa rator speed indicator—because the dai ryman guesses at the speed of his sep arator. Some pretty good authorities on corn hold that the fact that an ear is not covered clear to the tip with kernels is no reason for discarding it for seed purposes, their contention being that the plant started out to produce a lar ger and more vigorous ear of corn than the soil and weather conditions pre vailing permitted. This idea is not in accordance with the advice usually given as to selecting for seed ears only those that are filled with kernels to and over the tip. but there seems to be some reason in it nevertheless. The kind you ought to use and when you ought to have it, this is when you really need it. We have contracted the habit of satisfying our customers. TELEPHONE MAIN 672 Our work as a business getter is of the highest quality Goodenough printing will not do. Print THE TRIBUNE ing is the lever that moves your goods. Printing Office Its style and quality are most effective. Mortgage Loan* Negotiated Whalesome Bed«. Mountain Air Notary Public B. H. CHESS ATTORNEY AT LAW Hotel Foster Newly refurnished and painted inside. Tables are supplied with the best the market affords Feed barn in connection with the Hotel............. Office sn Main St. Lebanen, Ore. Martgage Loans Negetiated Netary Public N. M. NEWPORT Attorney at Law (CITY ATTORNEY) LEBANON OREGON Wood Sawing, Grain Chopping and Ensilage Cutting F. B. K napp , manager EOSTER - - OREGON Agates ground and polished, at Stacys, Lebanon. I am prepared to promptly execute orders in the above lines. Prices reasonable. We solicit your orders. L. B. THOMPSON, SWEET HOME, ORE,