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The Kind You nave Always Bought, and which has been
In use for over SO years, has borne the signature of
ana lias oeen maae unaer ma per-
eonal supervision since its infancy.
'All Counterfcfts, Imitations and Just-as-good " are but
lxncrimcnts that trii'lo with and endanger the health of
i Infants and Children Experience against Experiment.
What is CASTORIA
Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare
fgoric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotio
substance. Its ago is its guarantee. It destroys worms
and allays Fcvcrishness. For more than thirty years it
lias been in constant use for the relief of Constipation,
Flatulency, "Wind Colic, all Teething Troubles and
Diarrhoea. It regulates the Stomach and Bowels,
assimilates the Food, giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children's Panacea The Mother's Friend.
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
Bears the Signature of
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The Kind You Have Always Bought
In Use For Over 30 Years
THC CENTAUR JJS!i!Sm!rm
105 Acres
Situated on the Long Tom a
tributary of the Willamette
River running through one of
the best sections of Benton
County.
15 Acres of Alfalfa
the rest is scattering timber,
easily cleared, and is all good
bottom land. $60 per acre
and very reasonable at that.
24 Acres Good Plow Land
at $80 per acre.
All of the above land is espec
ially adapted to poultry raising
and small fruits, especially
loganberries. Directly on
electric line and within 14 miles
of Corvallis, the seat of the
Oregon Agricultural college.
For further particulars,
address
L C. ATHERTON,
753 Brazee St.,
PORTLAND, OREGON.
BIBLE READING IN
SCHOOLS.
RED FRONT
Livery & Feed
Stables
WILLIS STEWART. Prop.
First Class Livery Rigs
kept constantly on hand
and can be furnished on
short notice to parties
wishing to drive into
the interior. First class
Hacks and Buggies
(.'all around and see us.
We cater to the : : :
Commercial Travel
ers and Camping
Parties
and can furnish rigs and
driver on short notice.
HEPPNER, ORE.
When differences of creed be
come so pronounced as to lead to
a petty fight that ends in barring
the reading of the Bible from the
schools, the time is ripe for a
movement for instilling in the
people a little more of the broad
minded tolerance of Him whose
life history is told in the New
Testament. Those people of
Portland who oppose the reading
of the Bible' in the public schools
gained a victory, but the spoils
they won are only Dead Sea fruit.
Men and women who do not
want their children to begin the
school day by listening to the
reading of a book that because
of its intrinsic sweetness and
purity has been venerated
through centuries of changing be
liefs are narrow indeed. The
Bible itself is a rebuke to their
silly and restricted view. Its
teachings are so broad and so
fundamental that people of all
races and all shades of religious
conviction have found comfort
and solace in them.
As a literary masterpiece and
a. textbook on clean and moral
living the Bible has never been
surpassed. With no small profit
it might be read more widely in
the schools, even if its reading
excluded some other things.
Eugene Register.
Blue-Stem Wheat Wanted.
THE HEPPNER MILLING COMPANY is
in the market for the BEST of
the BLUE-STEM wheat for our
own use, to make the best qual
ity of flour for Morrow County
People, the BEST PEOPLE ON EARTH.
See us before selling.
Will Fence Cemetery.
To parties interested, notice is
hereby given that the cemetery
known as Junkins Cemetery, lo
cated within one half mile of
Charles D. Huston's place on
Eight Mile, will be fenced, the
date being Friday, the 3rd day
of October. 1913. A special meet
ing will be held to provide finan
ces, select a board of directors
and attend to such other matters
as may pertain to the care of the
property.
CAMPAIGN FOR ALFALFA
IN THE INLAND EMPIRE
Most Extensive Agricultural Campaign Ever Or
ganized to Cover Pacific Northwest Prof.
P. G. Holden Responds to Invitation
of the People to Direct Work.
Plan Unites Five Great Railroad Systems Co-operating With the
Spokane Chamber of Commerce, the International Har
vester Company of New Jersey, and the Farm
ers of the Inland Empire.
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POETRY,
Alfalfa 8peclal Train to Cover Region In Washington, Idaho and Oregon)
Nearly 225 Miles Square 140 Stops Will Be Made on Railroad Point
Where Automobiles Will Take the Speakers Into the Country to tne i-arm
Homes Where Lectures Will Be Given Nearly 700 Alfalfa Lectures to;
Be Made by Professor Holden and His Staff of Twelve Lecturers 35 Daysi
Consumed In Active Campaign Work Governors of Three States en
dorse the Movement 25,000 Farmers to Hear the Gospel of Alfalfa i
People Asked to Co-operate In the Work.
For Sale.
A hay baler, practically new
and in first class condition.
Make good terms. Call on or
write. ARCH COX.
2t. Heppner, Oregon.
To accomplish the most in agricultural development we must begin!
with the man behind the crop; and to render him the most efficient service
we must meet him where he lives, study his condition, and aid him accord
ing to his needs. Or, In other words, we must carry the message direct to
his home.
Such is the plan of the Alfalfa Campaign to be Inaugurated In the Inland
Empire on the 23rd of September, 1913.
Holden Responds to Invitation.
At the request of the farmers and business men of this great agricultural
region, the Spokane Chamber of Commerce secured the assistance of Prof.
P. G. Holden, the most prominent agricultural scientist in the United States,
to come to Spokane with his staff of twelve experts to conduct one of thei
most- pvtensivA agricultural camoaiens ever carried on in this country. The
dan as worked out by Professor Holden, the railroads, and the farmers and
business men of the Pacific Northwest Is far in advance of anything of a
like nature ever attempted for the improvement of commerce and agricuh
ture.
A Campaign of the People.
It Is essentially a campaign of the people assisted by the business men
of Spokane, Prof. P. G. Holden, representing the Agricultural Extension De
partment of the International Harvester Company of New Jersey, and the
following railroads: Oregon, Washington Railroad and Navigation Co.,
Northern Pacific, Great Northern, Spokane & Inland Empire, Union Pacific
and North Yakima & Valley Railway. .
These great forces have combined and are working in concert to carry
the gospel of alfalfa to the homes of the farmers.
Three Thousand Mile Campaign.
Professor Holden, accompanied by a party of fifty or more college In
structors, farmers and business men, will accompany the alfalfa special
train and visit one hundred and forty towns of the Inland Empire, com
mencing on the 24th of September. The party will travel over 3,000 miles
of railroad within a period of forty days. The greatness of the campaign
can only be conceived when we consider that a region 225 miles from north
to south and 190 miles from east to west will be covered. The campaign wjil
open Tuesday, Sept. 23, with a banquet In Spokane, attended by the most
prominent men in the Pacific Northwest. The governors of several north
western states, representative heads of schools and colleges, grange and
farmers' union officials, commercial club representatives, bankers and busi
ness men, will meet and pledge their support to this great cause.
Seven Hundred Lectures Will Be Made.
Leaving Spokane, the Holden party will set out to deliver nearly 700 lec
tures at railroad points and at the homes of the farmers. Professor Hoidan
and his staff of lecturers and assistants will be kept busy from early morn
ing till late at night. At each point on the railroad where stops are sched
uled, automobiles will be in readiness to conduct the speakers into the
country where meetings will have been organized. Not only will lectures be
made, but practical demonstrations will be held In the fields relatives to the
growing of alfalfa, the inoculation and testing of the soil.
Subjects to Be Discussed.
Men of scientific and practical experience will discuss with the farmers
feeds and feeding value of various crops, crops which may be used for
silage, feed combinations, and the great value of alfalfa as a general farm
crop. Particular emphasis will be placed on the necessity of growing
more alfalfa in the Inland Empire. Professor Holden has visited this sec
tion before, and has often expressed his desire to conduct a campaign through
out the great wheat country In the Northwest. Upon his last visit here, in
speaking of the plan of conducting an alfalfa campaign, he said:
Some of the Prominent Features.
"The campaign that I should conduct here would be unlike any agricul
tural work ever carried on in the United States. My plan would be to unite
all Interests to assist, and the prominent features would be:
"First, the Introduction of practically a new crop into the Pacific North
west.
"Second, going to the homes of the farmers and holding meetings In
the field.
"Third, personal contact work and practical demonstration with the
farmers upon their own farms.
"Fourth, the use of that most modern conveyance, the automobile.
Holden Pleased With Plans.
"I am much pleased with the energetic work and the great plans made
by the people of Spokane and the farmers and business men of the Inland
Empire to put on a campaign which, from every standpoint, is greater and
more extensive than any other campaign with which I have been identified.
I believe it is the most Important agricultural event that has ever taken
place in the United States and will surely be far-reaching in its beneficial
results. I am glad to be able to assist the people In carrying out the details
of such a great movement and I will do all In my power to make It a com
plete success.
"There Is no one thing that will do. mora to stimulate live stock and
dairy Interests and bring about diversified farming than the Introduction of
alfalfa upon the farms of the Inland Empire."
History of Other Campaigns.
In the past year Professor Holden and his competent staff of workers
have conducted nineteen different campaigns throughout the corn belt states
and In the south. Many of these campaigns were carried on by means of
automobiles only, but the same plan of going to the homes of the people has
always been a prominent feature in his work. At one meeting in Ohio upon
the farm of Joseph E. Wing, near Mechanlcsburg, neariy 4,000 people gath
ered from all parts of Ohio and adjoining states to learn more about alfalfa.
At this great meeting the Ohio Alfalfa Growers' association was formed.
Over 300 automobiles made up the alfalfa train. It was recorded as 'the
greatest agricultural assemblage In the history of Ohio. In addition to this
meeting campaigns have been conducted In several counties In Michigan,
Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Mississippi and Alabama. In every case work was
carried on by the people in co-operation with various agencies in the differ
ent communities. Following out this plan, the expense to the people was
rery small and the work was effectively done.
The Follow-Up Man to Check Results.
But this is not all. Whenever the farmers of any community are Inter
ested In growing alfalfa, when possible a follow-up man. thorough in his
knowledge of farm conditions, will be sent out to assist them in getting a
start. He will live with the farmers and aid them In solving the problems
at home. He will go from farm to farm upon request and study success and
failure.
And this man Holden Is coming to assist us. He Is about the humblest
and hardest-thinking, know-what-he's-about gentleman farmer that ever set
out to do one of the biggest and most needed farm profit renovations that
has ever been undertaken and he has accomplished the seemingly Impos
sible. . He has revealed the misconceived and misunderstood actual neces
sities In corn growing and production, and then backed It up with the proof
positive by going Into the fields and taking It off the stalks.
And Holden Is coming to the Inland Empire. The farmers and business,
men will be glad to see him, for his message will be worth while. It will
be from the heart as well as from the shoulder, in plain word and in a
plain way.
BY
C.MHARMTZ
RIVERSIDE
PA.
K0RRE3P0NDEKCE
SOLICITED
These articles and Illustrations must not
be reprinted without special permission.
A RESUME ON ROOSTS.
Poultry bouse furniture should be
cheap, simple, take up little room, just
fit the flock and be movable for quick
cleaning and transfer.
Roosts should have these character
istics. We present two for Inspection:
The first shows a set with dropping
boards nailed up in a corner. This
roost is too heavy, costly, it cannot be
moved for cleaning and red mites or
ticks will hide and breed behind it llkt
bedbugs in the cracks of a bughouse
building, and if these poultry pests
once get a hold a continuous fight
must be kept up and often the roost
be torn out to get at them. Same with
statiouary nests.
The second is a cheap, simple affair
made of trestles, slats and a low plat-
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Photo by C. M. Barnltz.
A HEAVY STATIONARY BOOST.
form, low down for big breeds. Addi
tional trestles may be used to raise
the dropping boards off of floor for
lighter breeds, and thus the only floor
space occupied will be by toes of tres
tles.
This roost does not touch the wall.
may be tnken down and out for clean
fug In a few minutes, is transferable
and may be moved to the windows or
set up in the yard in hot weather.
Thus far we have had no mites nor
ticks to bother our poultry at River
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TURKEYS AT SHOWS.
It lx often wondered why more turkey.-
:re not seu at exhibitions, but
there nre reasons.
Turkeys are range birds, snd the
close coiiiiiieinuut at shows U very
hn rd on them.
In many cases they refuse to eat and
they are so dillliult to cnge and han
dle thnt many shows offer uo prizes
and refuse to receive them.
Beside most turkey raisers refuse
to raise turkeys to comply with show
requirements, especially in regard to
feather markings and weights as de
manded by the American Poultry as
sociation, whose rules govern so many
shows and fairs.
A brown wing fea titer, a primary
with less than half the white bars, a
single white feather, a brown feather
in tail coverts, should not disqualify
a fine Bronze.
Nor should one slate feather debar a
Narragansett, nor a gray quill disqual-
Photo by C M. Barnltz.
OtJIl FAVORITE ROOST.
sida We ascribe this to watchfulness
and roosts and nests that are simple
and easy to keep clean.
Much of poultry vigor and poultry
profit are lost through the ravages of
Insect pests, and the poultryman who
neglects to use every precaution
against these destroyers need not ex
pect full success.
DON'TS.
Don't try to raise poultry In town
without a fence or your neighbors will
quickly take offense.
Don't work with one eye on the clock
and the other on the boss. You'll get
caught in the cogs and go to the dogs.
Dou't bite off more cbicklets than
you can chew. Better hatch a reason
able number and raise tbem than to
batch a lot and raise them not
Dou't forget that every egg that
doesn't batch and every chick that dies
is so much off the profit The finan
cial finale depends on the detail.
Don't over the first hatches go crazy
and over the others get lazy. Be en
thusiastic, optimistic and industrious
all the way through In what you do
and providence will favor you.
Don't waste time arguing about
breeds and methods. If yoti're sure
you're risht then go ahead, but don't
be a bullhead.
Don't expect your wife to make
much on mongrel hens. Thoroughbred
strains for beauty and gains.
Don't sell preserved epgs for fresh.
Some customer slick will see through
your trick you'll he Jerked up quick
snd t'n"i vV t m i' .nix- for ii few Mn
nies i::im .ir- it your gi-od oauie
Photo by C. M. Barnltz.
A FANCY BHOW TURKEY.
lfy a White Holland, aud it's the same
with weights.
For instance standard weights for
Bronze are: Adult cock, thirty-six
pounds; yearliug cock, thirty-three
pounds; cockerel, twenty-five pounds;
hen, twenty pounds; pullet, fifteen
pounds.
The market call for turkeys is me
dium weight and heavyweights are
bad breeders. Yet. if a Bronze fan
cier enters a turkey cock that weighs
less than thirty pounds, a yearling un
der twenty-five, a cockerel less than
eighteen, a hen less than fourteen, a
pullet under ten pounds weight, they
are all disqualified.
Such weight ruliugs are arbitrary
and impractical ;such feather require
ments are unnatural aud unreasonable.
Really the proper place to show tur
keys Is at county fairs, where liberal
prizes should be offered, large incis
ures made for the fowls and where
no foolish arbitrary rules should be
allowed.
FEATHERS AND EGGSHELLS.
Tennessee Is moving in the Jront line
of the turkey procession. Thirty thou
sand turkeys were shipped on one spe
cial for Christmas to Baltirno.-e, Phila
delphia and New York, and $500,000
worth of turks were shipped to other
states during the holidays.
Before the parcel post got started a
committee from the federated market
Ins; clubs of Pittsburgh had called on
100 farmers' wives of Allegheny coun
ty and contracted for their whole out
put of butter and cgtrs und left a list
of families where they were to mail
the produce and guaranteed cash pay
ment. You never hear of beauty doctors In
the country. The farmer's wife and
daughter keep their red cheeks and
dimples and avoid wrinkles by exer
cising in the open air. We recommend
this way to health and beauty to those
ladies who go to Mine. Fix Your Face
Up to get their complexions fixed and
their curves restored.
When an egg gets hot through. Incu
bation begins. Hot haymows are good
for this, but haymow eggs aren't good
goods to hold trade, and just one bust
ing on a biled shirt at breakfast will
bust any New Year's resolution ever
made.
Fighting spirit in roosters Is a vir
tue, a sign of strong vitality, but when:
these same roosters are allowed to
fight and butcher each other and thus
spoil each other for beauty and breed
ing it shows a mighty careless poultry
man, who doesn't know enough to take
care of a good thing when he sees it
that Is, If be sees it
There are so many people who do
not estimate what time and money and
care it takes to build up fine stock.
Such people generally want a ten dol
lar bird for 50 cents and consider a
fancier a tbief and a robber for ask
ing more.
Many a hatch of fine eggs has been
spol'ed by the false register of a de
fective thermometer. We lost a bunch
of extra eggs in this way once, but
have never allowed a thermometer to
trick us since. Test your thermome
ter and also set up a thermometer at
each corner of the egg tray and thus
see whether the incubator egg cham
ber has an even temperature.
The Ontario department of agrlcul
ture, after an exhaustive investigation
of fowl tuberculosis, so prevalent In
that province, enme to the conclusion
that it is "iutertransmisslble between
the human or bovine and the arlan
species to a certain extent" that "the
arian bacillus must be considered as
not a distinct siecies, but merely a va
riety, the differences in character of
this organism from the bovine or the
human type being due to environment"