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8 HOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION United States Government Articles The Straight Oil-tempered Knives with the inward shear, the narrow throat and heavy feed rolls, the closed elbow Blow Pipe make the CLIMAX I'uVter the one you want to use. More work bn any power, greater durability. Oregon Silo Co. 208 Northwest Bldg., Portland, Or. If If w Save 2 to 407c ea At GUARANTEED TIRES Flsk, Blackston. National, Marathon, Firestone, Etc. AT JOBBERS' PRICES Send for our Cut Prlre List of Tires and Tubes and Save RTon ey. n CTlRE-l'IlOOF FOHD Tl KHS Good for 10.0W to 15.000 miles of road service. Cost but little more than ordinary. Pacific Tire & Rubber Co. (MM V.nmt Pike St., Seattle. Wank. A Bargain Collection of FLOWER SEEDS FOR 1 2 CENTS 10 ehow TUMtN, ill m. f rnh Mb, iur to nm ui bloom this hum, tf, 64 Colon; Phlox, H Colon; T bens, 18 Colon; Pinki, 13 Col on; Petunia, 10 Color iitari, l'i Colon i Poppy, 8 t'oiori; Stocki 10 Wfttki, S Colon; Hit bo tie tt, mti wl td Svrrtt AHti ium. Ttlrifcag.i iy lit. ir iBclri.l co oC " l'irtorlr nupiiB ttovotM to tpetl trap and tittotif Krmiof. With pcial UitiA to tiier and handling of poaUry.' Tlh how to wtX $-K)0 -er acr ar jear on any farm trven 6 to 100 arret, fl PMttralon. 10c &cbpT;25e a jaar, il-'iu'1iatiacopToDc book. tftaurrei'irMlaf. Writ tonight HOREWOOO FARMS CO., Sauaatuck. Micfav TRADES Your Farm ALL KINDS OF HOUSES TO TRADE FOR FARMS. T. J. LONG 520 Henry Building, Portland, Oregon. HOW TO GET 320 ACRES FREE . Do You Want a Homestead? List of Government lands In each state s'iliject to homestead and for whut best adapted. Also description of Oregon by counties. Send for 240-page book, "Advan tages of Oregon." Price GO cents, postpaid. R. C. FISKE 410 Panama Ultln, Porllipd, Or. "HIDES" I I HS, WOOL, PELTS, ETC., HlflB.VRT) - STEWART CO ., Sent lie. M ush. Mrlte for Price Mat mid Skipping Tags. (Please mention this paper.) Water Tanks Write for Catalogue Grays Harbor Commercial Co. Cosmopolis, Wash. ASK your friend to buy their Railroad Tickets to California, via the Pacific Northwest. Jail Men for Shipment of Rotten Eggs in New Jersey SEVEN of the men connected with the Western Egg Yolk Company and the Excelsior Baking Company, so-called, of New Jersey, who were convicted of con spiracy to violate the food and drugs uct in the interstate shipment of rotten eggs, have been sentenced in the Federal Court at Trenton, N. J., to terms in prison rang ing from three months to a vear and a day. Hyman Lewis, Bernard Edelberg, Samuel 'Edelberg, aud Morris Sladkus re ceived the latter seutence, Herman Zwlck er and Harry Lewites, six months each, and Scheir Weissman, who was recom mended for mercy, three months. Some of the defendants, it was proved, were doing business under the name Western Egg Yolk Company, and others under the name, of the Excelsior Baking Company for the purpose of purchasing eggs which had been condemned and de natured in New York City and selling them to bakers in Jersey City, N. J., in violation of the Federal food and drugs act. In practically every shipment of eggs there are certain to be at least a few that' cannot pass the candling test and are, therefore, discarded by dealers. In a large city like New York the eggs rejected in this way will amount in the course of a day to a considerable number. The law forbids their use for human food, bnt permits them to be denatured and sold for technical purposes, the chief outlet being tanneries. The Western Egg Yolk Company, it was proved, purchased these denatured eggs, but instead of selling them to tan neries, or finding other legitimate mar kets for them, removed the denaturing substance and sold them to certain New Jersey bakers for use in cheap eake and other similar articles. In July, 1913, a lot of eggs trans ported from Now York in a wagon be longing to the company was seized in Jersey City. The containers in which these eggs were shipped were branded "spots," "rots," and "not intended for food purposes." Investigation showed, however, that this labeling was merely a subterfuge to avoid interference by the Federal authoil. -ties, and that there was a definite plan to sell the eggs to bakeries and that the Western Egg Yolk Company had been or ganized for this purpose by a number of men who had been prominently identi fied with the egg business In New York City for some time. The Department of Agriculture, there fore, did not content itself with the seiz ure of these eggs, but continued its in vestigations until sufficient evidence was collected to warrant the Federal District Attorney of New Jersey in securing In dictments for conspiracy. Law for the Protection of 1 Birds Is Still Effective MANY of the press comments on the de cision of the United States District Court, rendered March 20, at Topeka, Kan., holding that the Federal migratory bird law is unconstitutional, according to the United States Department of Agricul ture, are erroneous aud are apt to mislead the public concerning the real situation in this matter. The Kansas decision, like a former de cision to the same effect in the Eastern District of Arkansas, is limited in its op eration solely to the district in which it was rendered. Neither decision settles or nullifies the law, and the exact contrary has been held by the United States Dis trict Court for South Dakota. The Ar kansas case has been appealed to, and is now pending in the United States Supreme Court. The art of Congress protecting migra tory birds stands effective until the Su pneme Court finally decides the Question of its constitutionality. In the meantime, it is incumbent on every law-abidiug citi zen to observe its provisions and the regu lations. It is the duty of the Department of Agriculture to enforce this law and the officials in charge will endeavor to do so as long a.? it is in force. Reports of violations will be carefully investigated aud when sufficient evidence is secured they will be reported for prose cution. In this connection it should not be forgotten that an offender against this, as in the case of other United States laws, is subject to prosecution any time within three years from the date the offense is committed. Mad Mule Kite. The Oregon State Board of Health has treated many persons for bites by mad dogs. Recently thex received the first patient that had been bitten by a mad mule. C. E. Brown, a young farmer of Ford Rock, Lake County, applied to Dr. Calvin S. White for the Pasteur treat ment. Brown said that his mule had been bitten by a mad coyote 40 days be fore. The animal had been sick and he wag trying to doctor it. While attempting to give the mule medicine, it turned and bit Brown on the arm. The mule died of rabies and Brown left at once for Portland. New Standard for Condensed Milk Is Made by Government CONDENSED or evaporated milk should be made from the whole, fresh, clean milk produced by the complete milking of healthy cows, and contain a definite amount of nutritive materials as indi cated by milk fat and total solids, accord ing to a food inspection decision issued by the United States Department 1f Agri culture. The definition embodied in the decision will guide the officials of the Department in the enforcement of the food and drugs act. The product, to be in accordance with the definition, must contain not less than 25.5 per cent of total solids and not less than 7.8 per cent of milk fat. The total solids include all the sub stances in the condensed or evaporated milk except moisture, nud are, therefore, an index of the actual food value of the product. The Department officials are of the opinion that by fixing a minimum below which neither the total solids nor milk fat may fall, a condensed milk of high 'nutritive value is insured. It is ' stated that no tolerance whatsoever below the quantities fixed in the decision will be permitted. The definition also requires that the milk must be from cows properly fed and kept, and is intended to prevent the sale of condensed milk made from milk from cows fed upon unwholesome feeding stuffs, such as swill and brewery slop, or which have been kept under such insani tary or otherwise unfavorable conditions as might impair the quality of the milk. The definition for condensed milk as ' embodied in the food Inspection decision is the same as the definition and standard , recommended by a joint committee from certain state and National organizations having to do with the enforcement of laws relating to foods. The organizations rep resented on the joint committee on defini tions and standards are: The American Association of Dairy. Food and Drug Of ficials, the Association of Official Agri cultural Chemists, and the United States Department of Agriculture. The joint committee on definition aud standards is the ontgrowth of a move ment to increase the efficiency of the en forcement of state and Federal food laws by the adoption of uniform standards. The standard for condensed milk has al ready been adopted by a number of state's. Additional legislation will be re quired in some states before it can be made a legal standard In those states. "Death Camas" Proves -Very Deadly to Sheep lEEP your sheep from the death camaa Jl (Zygadcntts), says the United Slates Department of Agriculture to ranchmen. Cattle and horses should also be. kept from this herb, although actual fatalities from the poisoning are almost entirely confined to sheep. Nausea, muscular weakness and coma are some of the prin cipal symptoms of the poisoning. There is no satisfactory medical remedy, but affected livestock, if kept quiet for some time, will often recover. The death camas (Zygadenus) is most dangerous early in the season, not because- the plant is more poisonous at that time, but because it is more likely to be eaten at that time when other forage is dry. Later, sheep are less likely to eat a large quantity, because of the greater abundance of other food. As a matter of fact, most of the eases of extensive poisoning have occurred before the flow ering of the plant, which occurs in the lute Spring. It is impossible to make even an ap proximate estimate of the losses of sheep because of the Zygadenus, but it is cer tain that they are very heavy. Investigations have led specialists to believe that many of the losses in Ore gon, Utah and California, which were as cribed to other poisonous plants were really caused by the death camas, and without doubt this plant is one of the sources of the greatest loss to sheep own ers in Wyoming and Montana. It Is Bald that In 1909 in one county in Wyoming 20,000 sheep died because of the Zyga denus. The death camas may be recognized by noticing its leaves, wtiich are grasslike, . long, narrow and shaped as though they had a keel. They grow from a bulb. The flowers are greenish-yellow or white. The plants are perennial, blossoming in the late Spring or early Summer and then disappearing. . This poisonous herb occurs abundantly in the mountain regions of the North, and although found very widely throughout the United States, it is only In the West ern region that It has become of sufficient Importance to be noticed. The plant is sometimes called wild onion; other names applied to it are the soap plant, alkali grass, squirrel food, mystery grass and poison sego. . There have been cases of human poi soning as well a stock poisoning as the result of eating the deadly herb. Most of the cases have been children who found the bulbs attractive and have collected them instead of the edible camas. There have been a number of fatalities, although most cases recover. if' - ft THE MOORE STUDIO ELKS BtJILDLVG, PORTLAND AUTISTIC PHOTOGRAPHY AT MODERATE PRICES. Copy of this adrertlm-rt presented at Th Moor Studio will entitle the bolder to spe cs:! reduction on all style of work, together with a 7x11 pliulo free of charge. 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