DESTROYING! WEEDS.
taga-aatlon Vat la Typa For tit Benefit at
' Wtarn farmer. '
In some of the Western States tin
eocklo t?urr la the great pest in the
corn tieldi, In other It Is the sun
Sower. We havo hnd a long experi
ence In Iowa with the first, and a short
one with the other in Kansas and here
in Missouri It is the first numed, and it
eeems to be in many fields. When
cockle burrs came In Iowa, but little
rr'' was done to eradicate them and grad
ually they got a strong hold on every
farm. Many sowed their Hold to
small grain and then to grass, almost
ceasing to raise oorn for a fow years.
We found It paid best to be very care
ful in plowing the corn to cut out and
, cover up every one possible and then
in the usually leisure time just after
the harvest, to, go through the corn
jsiftfthe' hoes, taking two rows at a
yrtime cutting every one out. In three
years we were completely rid of them.
But it was necessary to be watchful
afterwards, as seed is so easily carried
on stock , and scattered over fields
again. There is no good excuse for
any farmer raising cockle burrs, but it
takes vigilance to prevent their
growth and spread. Having farmed in
one locality for thirty years which we
might say way was one peculiarly well
adapted to them, we know whereof we
speak.
On going to Kansas and purchasing
a farm, we found it covered with the
gay, yellow-colored Bunftower, and
while not so obnoxious as the Iowa
burrs, they were voted a nuisance at
once, and one to be abated. Tho oat
and wheat fields were thick with them.
These we allowed to "grow together
until the harvest" The fields were
then plowed, being very careful that
all were turned under that had
grown up after the crop was cut. and
watch was kept until frost time,for any
possible missed one. In the corn, the
same measures were adopted as with
the burrs, except that it is but little
use to cut off with hoes, as the stubs
grow quickly again, and pulling up is
safest, unless it is quite lata in the
season. There being no fences, and
the roadsides quite smooth and level,
they were mowed, thus checking their
growth, besides securing quite an
amount of bay. As their blossoms are
quite conspicuous, and our farms being
level, it -ould all be taken in at a
glance. It vas really but little trouble
to get rid of them in a great measure,
and our second and last season found
but very few to contend with, and we
knew of none going to seed either
season.
We were much surprised to find land
close to the county town, which had
old at rates running from $100 to $150
an acre, covered with them almost .to
the exclusion of any crop, and the
valuable farms standing thick with
. them, and higher than the backs of
the teams traversing them. Every
-l-I VI. v. !
them and a little concerted action
might do the same for the whole
county. .As to this locality we are
only an experimenter yet, but if we
own a farm here, among the things
we shall not raise will be these two
'weeds. Cor. American Rural Home.
AN IMPORTANT ITEM.
Yaluabl Practical Hurt-cation
on tha
Baring of 'mcL
One of the principal items of work
in summer Is to save a full supply of
feed to keep the stock during the win
ter. It is not only the quantity but
the quality and variety that must be
considered. If the stock are to be
wintered in good condition, economic
ally, it is important that the feed
should be of a good qualitv, while a
variety lessens the cost No one ma
terial is a complete food in itself, and
If depended upon alone will require a
larger quantity than would be neces
sary if a good variety were provided.
While stock ought to be kept in a good
condition, at the same time it is an
Item to do this as economically as pos
sible; and with a good quality of food
and a variety by which good combina
tions make up a more complete ra
tion; this can be done at a less cost
Especially with forage, the time of
cutting and the mainur of storing
away will make a cons derable differ
ence in the quality. .Wheat and oats
straw, sheaf oats, hay and corn-fodder
are the principal materials used for
feeding during the winter or when
the stock do not have access to the
pastures:, and with all of these
the quality may be raised or lowered
by the time or stage at which it is cut
and the management given in keeping
the feed cut when wan fed. One of the
worst mistakes usually made is in
allowing them to got to ripe, losing in
this way more or loss of nutriment and
making in its place woody fiber. The
manner of handling affects the quality,
und if the best quality of food is se
cured it is necessary to cut at the
proper stage and to cure and store so
that it will keep .in as good condition
m possible. Then with a good variety
both of grain and forage the cost of
wintering stock can be reduced. And
tr.ts work must be done now while
' "'ibeijr harvested.
ue ' oo " necessary" to "kboji tn
stock should be secured from tho farm.
It is only in exceptional cases that tho
farmer can afford to purchase food of
any kind, unless we except bran and
linseed or oil meal. To do this so
that a sufficient quantity of a good
quality is secured it will bo necessary
to commence in good season und cut at
as near the best stage as possible St.
Louis Republic.
Extra' Seaaloa of Congress. '
An extra session of the Fifty-first con
gress, to meet In October, is prophesied.
The Republican and Democratic portieu
are so evenly balanced that there will be
a hot fight in the organization of the
house. The present official majority, ao
cording to election certificates issued, la
only three. The four aew states will hold
elections In October. This will bring in
five tiew members. The Republicans ex
pect to elect all these, but the Democrats
are also confident of securing the mem
ber from Montana, which went Demo
cratic in the recent election there.
The next house will contain 823 main
bers, Including those from the now states.
If the Republicans elect all five of the
new members the party will have a ma
jority of only eight Death or accident
can easily cut off one or more members of
either party, even now, before the meet
ing of the house.
There Is so much able material for the
speakership that this promises to be a
difficult matter to settle. There will be
fierce fight over the rules, hinging on
the question of how much power the
minority party' shall have to obstruct
legislation, filibustering, as it is called.
Each new houseof representatives makes
its own rules. The minority party lias
had wide latitude to filibuster In the bat
two congresses. The Republicans will
endeavor to change tliia. They say that
five changes in the rules that governed
the Fiftieth congress will accomplish it
On the other hand the Dsmocrata will
oppose these changes with all tho force
and persistence at their command. So
that even If the session is called in Oc
tober, it will merely give opportunity for
the house to get a good ready for Decem
ber. However the country at large may
view it, the contest will be watched with
profound interest by parliamentarians
all over the world, It will certainly be
a pretty fight A Democratic senator
ays:
I think that parliamentary (truggle such aa
are bare seldom wIuummk) will begin tite moment
almost that the hotua cornea together. If ire
begin In October, we are pretty certain to be In
continuous seaaioii until August attain. It will be
a eoogreaa at partisan bUUnem from tho utart.
Laying BncR in Winter.
The singular fact is mentioned that
while in Great Britain building opera
tions are suspended on the slightest
approach of frost bricklaying is car
ried on in Norway during almost the
coldest weather that prevails for any
time. Thus, in Christiana, building
during the winter months, it is stated.
has now been practiced for at least
twelve years, but more frequently dur
ing the last five, all the buildings thua
erected having stood remarkably welL
Experience has not shown that walla
built in winter exhibit subsequently,
more dampness than those erected in
summer. The reverse may be the
case, since the difference between the
temperature of the air and of the mor
tar cools the latter by evaporation and
takes away a great part of the moist
ure. According to the opinion of the
principal builders in Christiana, brick
layers' work, executed with due care
in winter, is really superior to similar
work done in summer the whole art
of such work in frosty weather con
listing simply in tho use of unslacked
lime, the mortar prepared with which
is to be made in small quantities im
mediately before use, the proportion
of lime being increased as the ther
mometer falls; the only care required
Is to utilize the unslacked lime so
handily and quickly as to enable the
mortar to bind with the bricks before
It cools. Another very important con
dition is that the bricks be always kept
covered on tho building site. N. Y.
Sun.
M. Tuilfum'iiit has recentlv read a
paper before the Anthropological So
ciety of Paris ou tho origin and evolu
tion of the pointer dog, in which ho
states that fourteen species of house
and hunting dogs are to be recognized
on the monuments of Egypt, Assyria
and Nineveh. But neither on these
monuments, nor in tho works of Greek
br Roman writers, which ho has ex
haustively searched, are there any in
dications that pointers and setters ex
isted as spotting dosrs before now.
In tho estimation ' of the Pitts
burgh Chronicle, tho beauty of women
depends on their early lives. II
tioorly fed In infancy the tension of
he nerves is rendered unoven, the
nerve centers lose tone and even the
brain becomes anaemic. This result
in uneven or imperfect development.
One side ofiho face may be different
from the other; there may bo too much,
fat or no y enough; the Syes may be
weak or mis stronger thato the other.
In such caj the teetb raost in
Brltluh Gold and American Beer.
An English syndicate has bought 820,
000 acres of yellow pine lands in one
tract In Escambia county, Florida, and
the adjoining county of Baldwin, In
Alabama. ' The price paid was f,300,.
000, and the purchase Includes saw mill
equipments and thirty-alx mills.
The vast possessions of subjects of
Great Britain In the ranch and mining
regions of our western states is already
well known. But along with the timber
purchase In Florida comes the Informa
tion that a great English syndicate Is
preparing to buy every American brew
ery It can lay hands on, for the purpose
of manufacturing Hritlshjale for Ameri
cans. At least we have the word of The
New York Sun that it Will be a drink
half way between the light lorinan beer
at present so extensively manufactured
In this country and tho'fiery favorite of
f I ri . . . i fi
cjigiano, t ue sumo coaipetent aumoruj
Informs us that the beer at present con
sumed here contains only 8.8 per cent
of alcohol, which Is iota heavy enougl
drink for winter. Genuine old British
ale contains 8.3per cent of alcohol
which is too much for our dry, electric
climate. Therefore the new product
which foreigrsubjecta will manufacture
In the UnHdStatea will be half way
between these two in strength and fire
It Is said that twenty of the largest
breweries in the Union have already
passed into the syndicate's possession
with many more to follow rapidly. It
is also whispered that the shrewd Ger
man citizens of the United States, who
at present own and operate the brewer
ies, are ail the uiore willing to sell be
cause of the rapid progress the prohibi
tion and total abstinence movements
are making In the northwest
Ononian Railway Co. LifflitcaJte
O. M. 8COTT, Receiver.
Te Take KflVet Jane 83. IHO.
1 OX'Urk, p. m.
Between Portland and Coburg 1 23 M Ilea,
SO0a.ni
lv.furUnmt (f.l'ac.Co).ar
Hllvertou..
WeatBeio
Hpicer.
Brownavlllu
ar otjiirx lv
H:4.i p.m
12:10 p.ui
w:iu a m
2:4.1 p.m
3:4.1)1111
Ml p.m
10 :00 a.tn
:Wa.ra
7:4-2 am
6:00 a m
M p.m
BKTWXKN rOHTI-AND AND A1RL1K, SO MILKS.
foot of K Hlreet
7:30 am
9:2! p.m
lv.PorUnl(H.4Vi. V.).ar
ljifnvftto
Sherman
Ilalla..
Monmouth
ar Alrlie.. lv
6:30 p.m
12:10 p.m
2:1.4 p.m
urn p.m
z:u p.m
2:&p.m
3:.V. p.m
n. a a.m
10 : a.m
Commutation ticket at two cent uer mile on
win al nation bavluK agent.
oDiHH-tiim at Ht Auifi'l with stare for and
irom wiiholl Mineral sprtnn.
llcketa lor anr point on tin line lor aln at
the mil tfl carriairn anil HHirxaxn Traimlrr
Company' oflloe, Hecoud aud V I ne itreeU, and
. ft w. v. Kjr.
CHAS. N.8COTT. Receiver O. Ilr, Co. (Ld.l
uut, roruaiiu, uroxon.
Ilemeoiber the Oregon Pacific popular mm
mer encuraiona to Yaquina. Low rate tickets
are bow od sale. Rood every VVednnlry and
Saturday from Albany. LkirvaM aud l'hlio-
math.
IIKNItY W. GOD!) A fin, BuptO. Ry. Co. (LdJ
una, liunaee junction.
General Offices. N. W. Corner Flrt and Pine
mreeta. I'ortland. Orwron.
THE YAQWW A Mum
OREGON PACIFIC RAILROAD.
mi DeTelcpient Kww'i Steams Lis:.
li Mhortrr. He llour l.fca Time
V Than by any other Kouiti.
Flrst-Ciass Through Passenger
and
Freight Line
from Portland aud all point in the Willamette
Valley to aud from Sau FrHDuinvo, Cal.
OREGON PACIFIC RAILROAD.
TIME SCHEDULE, (Except Sunday,)
Lt Albaur l.OO p.m. I. v YaUiim t.V a.m.
Lv Carvalll 1:40 p.m. I.v C'orvullU 10 to a.m.
Ar Yaanina 4:80 p.m. At Aibnuy 11:10 a.m.
0. ft C. train connect at Albany ami Coryallla,
The above train couuectat V aqniiia with the
Oregou Development (.'ompany' line of Hiram
hip between Vatiutua and bail Kranciicu.
tSAILINO DATES:
HTSAMKRH. rkOM g. t, fill YAQUINA
Willamette Valley I July 11, I July 18,
llamette Valley July VI, July 2D.
Ilametta Valley I July 31. I AuutO.
Thin company rcaervv the rlttht to change
illlnx ilalee without notice.
t'swuecra from Portlnuil and all Willamette
aliey point emi initk eloae roiinectiou with
Hit' train nl the Yaoilluu nmlr al AUmuyor
nrviilliB, und If dtntlutil In Han Krancnico
lioiijil arrauxe to arrive at Yaiiuliia the eve-
Iiik before the diile of alllug.
"nwNenKfr uud . t'rlglit Jtnlfa
Alwny the Loweiit,
For Informal ion apply to
;. li. IIAKWKM,, l C. C. IIOCl'K.
tten'l Ki'l ft !'. Airt. Aet'K Ut'ii. V, ft I'. A(?t.
won DrveTphViit. t,'o O.r. It. K. It. Co.,
304 MoiitaomerySt.,
CorvHlli,
b.iti riuui;ico, Uul.
Oii'KOli.
Willamette Ri.or Line of Steamers.
The "W.f. M. 1I0AU," the "N. H. BBNTf.y,"
The "TIIKKK B18TKIW."
Are In aorvlfifl for both twn(ti'f and fn-lcht
trutlic between Corvalliw uud rortlauil and in
termediate poiiiia, li'uvln; comiiauy' wharf,
orvaiiu, uiul MewirH. lliijinun ft Co. a wharf,
on. 200 anil Ml Front mrcl, 1'ortluinl, Mon
hv. Wt'ilni KiUva ami Kririuva. makliiu three
rouud trip each week aa follow :
WORTH JBOUMP.
Leave Corvllia Mouilay, Weduewlay, Friday,
t a. in.: leav Albuuy 9:110 a. in.
Arrive balein, Monday, Wedneailay, Friday, 3
p.m.: leave tiulein, Tuuaday, Thursday, Batur
uay.H. m.
Arrive Portland, Tuetday, ThHreday, Satur
day, 3 J p. m.
OUTH HOUND.
Teve Portland, Monday, Wednesday, Friday,
t a. in.
Arrive Salem, Monday, Wedneaday, Friday,
7:li p. m.; leave Baleui, Tueday, Thuraday, eat
ltrday,ta. in. LeavexTbauy l:ao p. m.
Arrive UorvailU Tawflay, ThutvUay, Saturday
l:Wp,n,
EITJCH THE NEWEST,
Nobbiest and Largest Stock of
GL
In the County, is now to
Of Albany, Oregon.
JJST When you want to "droBsup," we would 'ho glad to hIiow you
through und make the right price.
Merchant Tailoring it ripccialty. Mr. E. A. Schkkki.er is nn exjiert, and
has charge of this department. We guarantee HiitiHfuction.
0m 'sife
TONSOIUAL 1'AKLOIt.
IVICI3 II All it CUT
AND A
CLEAN SHAVE,
Call at my Shop on Main Street.
I alxo hone razor. I bare in connects n
with my st op, a one
UATII JtOOM,
Where you can get a Datb at any lime.
Ticket. Rood (or One Shave each, eluht
tot fl.
. I. R, BO RUM,
Hala Mtreot. Lebaaoa Urfson.
C. J. M'CAUSTLAND,
CIVIL ENGINEER AND SURVEYOR,
IrrauKhtlug and Blae I'riata.
Office with Oregon Land Company. Albany,
Beweram KvaUsm and WatisrRuDDllea a dm-
lalty. Kautoa aulaiivultd. Alapa made or
copied on abort notice
C. T. COTTON,
DEALER IN
Groceries and Provisions,
TOBACCO & CIGARS,
SMOKERS' ARTICLES,
Foreign and Domestic Fruits,
CONFECTIONERY
Itoeenaware and UiaHMware,
I,ampa and Lump Fixture.
Slain Ht., Illinium, Oregon.
LEBANON
Meat Market,
Ed Kellenberger, Propr.
reehand Salted Beef and Pork
MUTTON,
PORK,
SAUSAGE,
BOLOGNA
find HAM.
Bacon and Lard Always on Hand
Main Street, Lebanon, Or.
OTHIM!
be Seen on th u i c i ; 1
Dl: AIM
J
IfanvnMivr (ay he haa the "W. T
Tiiritt4
rnamltMl
NIiom witdt
Ithulit liaiiin ami nrlca (tarn
ilia ootloui, put ttlui ttuwa w umi
V. L. DOUGLAS
$3 SHOE
FOR
GENTLEMEN.
ItMt In thx world. Kxamltwi hi
M.IHI 41KNIHNK HANll-ht VVHl hHOE.
4.M 11 ANI-KKWK1 WI I T HtlOK.
il.ftl l OI.M'K AND FAKMF.UH' HIIOjE.
4.AO mi lt VAI.IIK 4 Al K 8UUJC
tMli WttKKINUMAN'H KIIOK.
4.041 and V1.7A HOYH' H UOOL IDOES.
All Guauv lu Vonitrca, liutUiu and tin,
17. L. DOUGLAS
S3 SHOE ladTcs.
. Bt Material. Ht fitylr. Beat Fltflii.
It aul oM by ynr rtiler, write
W. L.. 1MIUULAH, BltdCKTOrt, MASS
"Knamlnr W. I,. IoukIhh Mheea
far KiitlrmM hn1 laH-."
For Sale by C. C. Hackleman.
J. M. Keene, D. D. S.
Dental Parlors
Office: Breyman Bros. Building,
MAI.Kltf.OUKUOK.
gar Hours from 8 A. M. to 6 P. M.
Land Company.
R. F. ASH3Y and CEO DICKINSON.
(IKNUIUI, AtlltNTB yon -
Albany, Lynn Co., Oregon.
Buying and Soiling.
Real Estate oil Coiiis,
And Jtolnc a Ueneral Keal Kwtate
JUUMlnOMM, ,
ywi? .a H hi i ii lm iini.i.i M
LAND SOLICITED FOR SALE.
ASHBY & ICKINSON'
variaoiy suiier.
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