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About Intermountain tribune and Linn County agriculturalist. (Sweet Home, Linn County, Or.) 1913-1914 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 30, 1913)
not grow” Tu the Unitea states ana stock which can at present be bought more cheaply abroad. The tree seeds were used largely for purposes -of re forestation Importations of trees were made from sixteen countries. Fiance leading, with 1.782.255, Germany being second, with 849,245. and Holland third, with 690.632. Australia, Japan With hog cholera very general over and India Were among the countries large areas of the corn belt, the fol from which shipments were made. If the silo is properly filled with corn In the right condition it should furnish lowing suggestions as to the use of a supply of succulent food to tide over the serum, taken from a circular pre CIDER VINEGAR. the period of short pasture which so pared by Dr. Hadley of the Wisconsin This season, owing to both scab dis often comes during the latter part of Agricultural college, will be opportune: ease and worms, there will be more July and in August. If one silo will “The proper time to vaccinate hogs than the usual amount of apples that not give enough feed to supply the against cholera is before the disease will have no use except for hog feed stock through the winter and have makes its appearance in the herd or and vinegar. In the making of the lat some left for the purpose suggested, even in the immediate vicinity. Up to ter the following is a standard recipe: another silo should be put up. This is the present time most farmers have Use clean fruit and that in which the especially true if ode is keeping any put off vaccination Until attempts with sugar has developed. On squeezing other remedies have proved fruitless the juice from the apples, strain into considerable number of dairy cows. and finally using the serum as the only clean barrels, filling them about two- The writer’s thanks are due to one possible means of saving their herds. thirds and inserting a plug of absorb of his lady readers for the following Such delays have led in some cases to ent cotton or cloth to keep out dirt and Onions, potatoes and other root crops recipe for a corn salad. It is easily unsatisfactory results.” flies. When the juice has stopped keep best in cellars in which the tem prepared and makes a delicious relish : working, the clear portion should be perature is a few degrees above the Ciit the'corn from one dozen ears of During the past fiscal year, from poured or pumped out and strained if freezing point Squashes and cucum sweet corn. chop, fine one large cab-, July 1. 1912, to July 1, 1913, 3.779,041 bers. however, will keep longer if they bage. also one green and two red pep growing trees and 15,040 pounds of necessary and the barrels carefully are put where it is dry and rather pers. To two quarts of vinegar add one tree seeds were imported into the Unit rinsed 'with scalding water. The bar warm." a condition which is usually and one-half tablespopnfuls of white ed States. For the most part these rels should then be refilled, a couple found in the pantry. I trees included valuable species that do of gallons of old vinegar and some “mother" being added. The change of the alcohol into vinegar will be has tened if several cakes of compressed yeast afe put into each barrel, while if the apples were not ripe and sweet the quality of the vinegar will be much- ARGUMENT BY GEO. B. WHITCOMB improved if a few pounds of coffee In the past we have had County Courts which lacked the moral courage to take sufficient funds from and siigar are added. When the vin the county, to suDply an adequate sum to the County Road Fund. They feared they might be held responsible egar is made—a process that may re for the building of some .of our main traveled roads through the weaker districts. They devised the idea of a quire all the way from six months to Gerrymander of the timberland into as many districts, regardless of natural Road Districts or Watershed's as a year and a half—the barrels should possible and relegated all the responsibility to the district supervisors. The result is some of the outlying be filled up with vinegar and provided districts, such as Rock Creek, have better roads than some of the-main thoroughfares, such as the road be with a tight wooden plug to keep out tween Waterloo corners and Lebanon. Thank the Lord we have a county court now who is willing to assume the air and prevent further chemical Change. While vinegar will make In a. some of the responsibility, if the people will express a willingness by signing the petition on the back of this, cellar Where the temperature ranges for building some of the main roads to the outlying towns, postoffices and permanent places of business. But from 40 to 55 degrees, the cider will my dear reader, it is your business to carefully go over the whole proposition, then sign the petition. change to vinegar much more rapidly if the temperature is from 60 to 70 de SPECIAL TAX DONE AWAY WITH grees F. appearances deceitful . The mere fact that the wheel of the windmill Is revolving cannot always be taken as conclusive evidence that water is flowing out of the spout of the pump. The truth of this statement was realized the other day by a cen tral state farmer who had some seven teen cattle in a pasture some distance from the house, the water supply of which was furnished by a windmill. He noticed from day to day that the wheel was running all right, but on going to the pasture later he found the water tank bare as a board and every animal dead from thirst In some way the rod between the pump and the mill bad become disconnected, a fart that wpqld not be discovered ex cept «¡'lie were close at hand. Appear ances are sometimes deceitful. A re volving wheel may not mean water in the tank The complaint seems to be general that garden flowers have not done so well this year as usual. The trouble seems to be traceable to a cold, dry May. followed by midsummer heat and drought during June and early July. The writer has noticed this to be true, particularly in the case of sweet peas, salvias and cannas. iiTustiir3~seed. one Tand one-half table- spoonfuls of celery seed, one pint of ?ugar and’two tablespoonfuls of turmer ic powder. Boil vinegar and spices ten minutes, add vegetables and about a handful of salt, or to suit the taste. Cook for twenty minutes and seal in jars hot. A New Road System N eeded For Linn County Now, the most important result accomplished by creating a large couhty fund to be applied on the main roads is, it will do away with the need of a special tax altogether: as we can hold the county court responsible Wood Sawing, Grain Chopping and for making or levying a road tax of sufficient size to cover all exDenses of road building each year and, as Ensilage Cutting roads are a direct benefit to every man, woman and child alike in the county, no matter where they live or what they do. All should pay alike, as every form of business depends on the condition of the roads, more or I am prepared to promptly less. Then there is another thing. The majority of the voters, today, understand that every dollar they pay execute orders in the above into the state for overhead or dead expense of running the state, is a dollar lost; while every dollar that goes lines. Prices reasonable. into GOOD ROADS is, on the average, two dollars made. The average man, today, in Linn county, knows We solicit your orders. and understands that it is to his personal interest to pay just as big a road tax as he can consistently dig up and as what can be judiciously expended each year and not interfere with the other work going on in the county provided, of course, this money is expended in good crushed rock roads. Now, understand, we are not L. B. THOMPSON, SWEET HOME,'ORE. asking nor expecting any less road tax but we rather expect a little more; but to do away with any special road tax as none will be needed. T Next, we want the county court to take 50 per cent of all road tax in the Agates ground and polished, at county for the county road and bridge fund. 1 Next we want the county court to make appropriations suffi cient to build all main roads to outlying towns, postoffices, rural routes and permanent places of business Stacys, Lebanon. through the weaker districts, out of the county fund. If We want the county court to REDISTRICT the whole county, making each one main road and its feeders in each watershed one district, giving each rbad district the entire taxable property in its watershed, but take away 50 per cent of the tax for the county road fund, leaving the district 50 per cent to be expended on its own roads. A PUBLIC ROAD IS JUST AS' GOOD AS ITS POOREST PART AND NO BETTER Of what use is it to the citizens of Linn county, as a whole, if the timberland is gerrymandered in such a way as to help all the poorer road districts immediately adjoining the timber land, if there are other poor districts laying between you and the rail road that cannot get a part of this tax and there is no County road fund to make appropriations from to help out the poorer districts through which a main traveled road runs? What good is a fine crushed rock road extending a few miles of the way between you and the rail road, if there is also a part of that road unimproved and muddy? In the winter, pan you haul the load all the way that you could haul over the good road, or must you confine your load to just what you can haul over- the worst part of the road? Again, I repeat, a road is just as good as the worst part of it. DON’T GET SCARED Now, I understand, some of the weaker parts of the Gerrymandered districts, such as Rock Creek and Pleasant Valley, do not wish to be cut off from the timber land in such manner and are ready to raise objec tions. Now as to Rock Creek, I wish to say, they have the best roads and the least travel, as a whole, in the county, and they have no just right to taxes collected in the Quartzville Mining Camp on this side of the divide. While Pleasant Valley is now securing the benefit of taxes collected from a long narrow strip of timber land in Big Bottom, if instead she was cut out entirely loose from it, and the South Santiam Division of the county had what belongs to it that now goes to our neighbors to the north of*us, ana Pleasant Valley were to ask the county Court each year for an appropriation on her mail route, she would get as much as she is now getting, leaving enough to complete a good road to the railroad, and some other main roads besides. WHY ONE WATERSHED—ONE DISTRICT In the first place we have storms in the winter which may completely plockade all mountain roads with fallen timber. Under existing conditions the Supervisor will wait until the storm is over because, in nine cases out of ten, he does not travel any one of the roads, as he may be located many miles west of the block ade, (This being caused by the Gurrymeander.) Then when he does turn out, he brings men foreign to the road on which he is working, does the work on whichever road in his district he sees fit, leaving the other or others to wait their turn when, if the one watershed was in one road district with a road supervisor living one- half or two-thirds of the distanee to the east, all said roads would have a neighbor interested in the neighbor-, hood as a supervisor to call on and-assist. Then, again, no man, not traveling a road regularly, understands the detail of the road nor is he as much interested in the road as the man living thereon and traveling it. . WHAT SHOULD BE A ROAD DISTRICT A road district should contain one watershed, or one main road and its branches; never two competing roads. A road district should have all the taxable property an one watershed, no matter how much or how little it is; but should give up 50 per cent of the road tax to the county road fund, to.be appropriated back to the weaker districts on the main traveled roads through those districts. The stronger road districts can get along better and continue to open up new roads with’50 per cent of the road tax, than they do now where some of the territory in which a county road is surveyed has never seen a road supervisor—in fact don’t know what one looks like. Then the county court should make four divisions of the county viz; North Santiam, South Santiam, Callipooia and Prairie; and the money collected in each division should be expended in that division, making, us, in the end, one great unit with the strong helping the weak. Bert Cotton Exclusive agent for Peters Shoes Dependon Under wear and Hosery J.D. Justrite Corsets Francis Simmons Kid Gloves Butterick Patterns Boges Hats for men We have Fidelity Blue trading stamps BERT COTTON Lebanon, Oregon Notary Public Mortgage Loans Negotiated B. H. CHESS ATTORNEY AT LAW ; - Leban.n, Ore. Mortgage Leans Negotiated Notary Public Office en Main St. N. M. NEWPORT Attorney at Law (CITY ATTORNEY) OREGON LEBANON* CITY DRUG STORE N. R. LUTHER. M. D. Prop. X 9 5 9 5 9 9 9 9 Drugs, Patent Medicines Perfumes, Toilet Articles, Sundries Dr. Luther will attend professional calls at reasonable distances Day or Night Dr. Robert’s and Korinek’s Veterinary Remedies East Main Street SWEET HOME, ORE. When in Lebanon go to the Home Restaurant For Your Dinner We furnish1 the be£t dinner in the valley for 25 cents BRUER BROS. Props. LEBANON, ORE. 14,000,000 feet of Timber on 280 Acres, TO THE GRANGE OF LINN COUNTY In Township 17 South, Range 4 East I wish to especially call the attention of the Grange to -the proposed redistricting of Linn county. Look around you and see if there is a county in the state which is building good roads without a county road fund. Willamette Meridian, only $20 per Then consider our way of raising (he county fund and ask yourself if this is not the most equitable method? 195 Acres of Agricultural and Brush Then, again, is it right that when a county road exists in one valley which is 27| miles long that such road Land will be Sold Cheap. Right at should be Gerrymandered, as it now is, in four different districts and the nearest any one of the supervisors live to the district is fiye miles; the other three living over a mountain range more than 15 miles away from Holley, Oregon, other lands for sale. the road. Furthermore, it is for their interest not to know such a road exists. Consequently, we have never Timber Lands Cruised and Estimates seen any of the other three in ten years. Now which is the best for you and us and all concerned? The made on Standing Timber. present way of breaking up and disorganizing what is a natural road district, with an unjust Gerrymeander or to leave the whole valley in one road district? And because we have too much money, take away 50 per cent of the funds and give it to the county road fund to be expended on the main roads through the aounty where most needed. Now Mr. Granger, I am going to ask you another question: Suppose you lived in a nice small valley and I lived in a larger one and your valley and mine were both in one distrist and I was supervisor and I expended nearly all the money over where I lived and came over about August and did some work on your road? Would you like it? Well, how are you going to help it if I have two votes to your one, - - - OREGON over my way? Well there is just one way to stop this kind of injustice. Petition one road, one watershed, I FOSTER ât>GHK>af>4HaDai>^H>ai><MH><n>aHB>€l>aHK><]D<aHD CbGBB> <1 !><■■> (IDGBO one supervisor, living one-half or two-thirds of the distance towards the east of his district. < Mealey Bros. Mill Co I