THE GAftETTK-TfMES, HEPPNER. ORE. THfRSDAY, .It'N'E 10. 1915
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White Star Flour
A
Home Product .
Made From Morrow County's
Finest Bluestem Wheat
HEPPNER MILLING
COMPANY
KNOW THY COUNTRY
IllTelegraph and Telephone
People's Cash Market
Phone Main 7?
All kinds of Fresh and Cured Meats, Poultry, Lard
We pay highest cash prices paid (or Stock, Hides and
Pelts.
HENRY SCHWARZ, Proprietor
THE
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF HEPPNER
We Invite Your Banking Business
We pay four per cent, on funds left with us in the form
of a Time Certificate, for either six months or a year.
We also pay four per cent, on Savings Accounts.
We rent safety deposit boxes by the year at reasonable
rates.
Information cheerfully furnished regarding the above
THE
First National Bank
OF HEPPNER
Our transportation facilities are the
most perfect product of this great em
; mercial age and the telegraph and tel
ephone systems of this nation crown
the industrial achievements of the
whole world. These twin messengers
of aodern civilization, born in the
skies, stand today the most faithful and
efficient public servants that ever
toiled for the human race.
They aTe of American nativity and
while warm from the mind of the in
ventive genius have, under American
supervision, spun a net-work of wires
across the earth and under the seas.
Telegraphy, in Its early youth, mas
tered the known world and the tele
phone has already conquered the
tarth's surface, and now stands at the
seashore ready to leap across the
ocean. j
No Industry In the history of the
world has ever made such rapid strides
in development and usefulness, and
none has ever exerted a more powerful
influence upon the civilization of its
day than the Telegraph and Telephone.
Their achievement demonstrates the
supremacy of two distinct types of
American genius indention and organ
ization. The industry was peculiarly fortun
ate in having powerful inventive intel
lect at its source and tremendous
minds to direct its organization and
grQwth, It is the most perfect fruit
of the tree of American industry and
when compared with its European con
temporaries, it thrills every patriotic
American with pride.
Ambitious youth can find no more in
spiring company than the fellowship
of the giant intellects that constructed
this marvelous industry and a Journey
along the pathway of its development,
illuminated at every mile-post of its
progress by the lightning-flashes of
brilliant minds, will be taken at a very
early date.
A brief statistical review of the in
dustry brings out its growth and mag
nitude in a most convincing and un
forgetable manner.
The telephone service of the United
States is the most popular and efflMont
and Its rate are the cheapest of the
telephone systems of the world.
We are the greatest talkers on erth
We send GO per cent of our communi
cations over the telephone. The uWm
has about 15,000,000 telephones and of
this number the United States hn .n.
proximately 9,540,000, Europe 4,020,000
ana otner countries 1,300,000. Accord
ing to the latest world telephone cen
sus, me loiai telepnone Investment is
$1,906,000,000 and of this amount $1
095,000,000 was credited to the United
States, 1636,000,000 in Europe and
$175,000,000 in other countries. The
annual telephone conversations total
24,600,000,000 divided as follows: Unit
ed States 15,600,000,000; Europe 6,800,
000,000, and other countries 2,200 000
000. The total world wire telephone
mileage is 33.262.000 miles riivin
follows: United States 20,248,000, En-
rope lO,dS5,000, and other countrio.
2,679,000. About six per cent of
the world s population and sixty-one
per cent of the telenhona wtr miio.
age is in the United States.
JUST RECEIVED
by
Gilliam & Bisbee
A carload of FAIRBANKS &
MORSE Gasoline Engines
direct from the factory
At Greatly Reduced Prices
Drink "Crape Smash"
The pure flavor of the Concord Grape
5c a glass
Fresh Ice Cream Every Day-WE MAKE IT
THE PALM
The Home of Good "Sweet Meats"
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Rates furnished upon request
T. J. MAHONEY : : Heponer. Oregon I
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LicensedEmbalmer Lady Assistant
J. L.YEAGER
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
Phone Residence Heppner, Oregon
MKiGIN'G-OFF VARIOUS CHOPS.
By C. L. Smith, Agriculturist of the
Oregon-Washington Railroad &
Navigation Co.
It is a well recognized principle of
manufacturing that to reduce the
cost of production and at the same
time maintain the quality of the pro
duct, means direct increase in net
profits. The wide variation found on
different farms in the cost of pork
production would indicate that if the
methods were followed by the man
who produces pork at the least cost
were in general practice, the actual
cost would be reduced more than
one-third.
Careful investigation on many
different farms shows that the aver
age cost of harvesting a crop equals
the cost of growing it ready to har
vest. It has also been demonstrated
by numerous experiments .that the
pig can do the harvesting of various
crops without wasting any food ma
terial. It follows logically therefore
that up to the extent that the pig
can do its own harvesting there is a
saving of 50 per cent on the cost of
each pound of meat, produced from
an acre of ground where the pig does
the harvesting.
It is seldom practicable to produce
pork at the least cost by having the
pig harvest all of its feed, but to the
extent that the pig can do the har
vesting satisfactorily, it is decidedly
profitable to let the pig do it. Pas
ture grass to the exient of one-half
the daily feed Is probably one of the
cheapest class of pork-making mater
ial. Next to this, comes any of the
cereal crops such as rye, wheat,
barley, oats, peas, or corn, to be
hogged-off.
The farmer who will arrange such
a system of cropping as will enable
Im to hog off the various crops at
the right season, can very materially
lessen the cost of pork production.
The best permanent hog pasture is a
combination of grasses and clovers,
including alfalfa. Alfalfa alone is
not a satisfactory or economic hog
pasture. Winter rye will furnish the
earliest satisfactory feed for a season,
and if there is no permanent grass
and clover pasture, then the rye
should be supplemented by seeding
eariy on well prepared ground, a
mixture of spring grains seeded very
heavily, say 100 lbs, per acre. This
may include spring wheat, spring
rye, barley, oats and three of four
pounds of sorghum, Kafir, mtlo maize
or federetta. If the pasture is divid
ed into about four separate lots, so
that the pigs may be changed to a
new plat each week, which will give
each plat three weeks rest to one
weeks pasturing, the same area of
land will carry satisfactorily twice
the number of pigs.
The earliest annual crop with
which to supplement the pasture is
peas and oats. To grow the peas and
oats to the best advantage, manure
the ground in the fall, and disc, mix
ing the manure well with the surface
soil. The ground may be fall plow
ed, or plowed as early in the spring
as it is dry enough to crumble from
the mould board. Disc or pack with
a Campbell sub-surface packer, and
drill in the peas three and one-half to
four inches deep, one hundred pounds
per acre; then one week after seed
forty pounds of oats per acre half as
deep as the peas,
Enough peas and oats should be
seeded to take care of the pigs until
the winter wheat is in the dough. If
the winter wheat then is supplement
ed by an equal area of spring wheat,
they can ordinarily be kept on the
wheat for four or five weeks.
March farrowed pigs that have had
a light grain ration each day, in addi
tion' to the pasture, will be in con
dition to make very rapid gains and
will, in fact, make more pounds of
meat per acre from each acre of
wheat hogged-off at this time of year
than they would be able to do from
the same amount of wheat harvested,
threshed, rolled and fed in the most
approved manner. When the wheat
has become fully ripened and har
dened, they could still be allowed to
get a part of their daily food from
the ripe wheat, but if this is supple
mented with green corn, the gain
will be much more rapid than it
would from the wheat alone, and the
earlier varieties of corn will be in the
roasting-ear stage Dy the time the
wheat has begun to harden.
Where land is higli priced and the
labor is available, the corn may be
cut and fed in the wheat field or
pasture lot, but it w:;i be found that
until the corn is well hardened, the
pigs will make more meat from each
acre of corn, if fed to them stalks
and all or allowed to hog is down,
than they will from the same area of
corn harvested and fed dry.
Barley allowed to stand in the
field without harvesting, will produce
more pounds of pork per acre during
the fall and winter if the pigs do
their own harvesting, than will the
same amount of barley threshed,
rolled and fed in the house or feed
lot. ;.
- Ordinarily, it ViU be found advan
tageous to give the pigs every eve
ning a light feed of some other kind
of feed than that which is being
hogged-off, for it is a well recognized
fact that other things being equal,
the greater the variety in the ration
the better will be the results from
each pound of feed fed. i
If in hogging-off any kind of crop,
portable fence is used and only bo
much of the area uncovered at a
time as the pigs can clean up In three
or four days, there will be less waste
and better gains from the same area
than where thejfc are allowed to run
over the whole field. The manner,
however, In which the hogging-off is
done must depend in a great measure
upon the location of the farm, fenc
ing, labor, water and other factors
that must be considered, but it has
been demonstrated beyond the possi
bility of a doubt that up to the extent
that the pigs do their own harvesting
the cost of producing the meat is re
duced about one-half.
FOR SALE 3000 Posts (in town)
10c each. PHELPS GROCERY CO.
10 tons good clean wheat hay:
$15.00 delivered.
PHELPS GROCERY CO.
fiOTICE.
The city council has ordered all
past due accounts on the 1914 oiling
bill, collected. Property owners who
have failed to settle their accounts in
this respect are asked to pay when
tne collector calls. tf.
Kill The Flies.
Now is the time to swat the flies.
Kill one fly now and you will do bet
ter than killing ' a thousand later
Clean up all filth, thereby destroy
ing their breeding places. Every
body get a swatter and kill the flies
as they appear.
DR. A. D. McMURDO.
City Health Officer.
ANNOUNCEMENT.
To the People of Heppner and Vicin
ity :
Owing to the fact that the report is
being generally circulated that I am
contemplating leaving Heppner, I de
sire to inform the public that I am
here to stay.
I have leased the shop connected
with the Heppner Garage which is
one of the best equipped automobile
repair and machine shops in Eastern
Oregon.
I have had years of experience as
an expert automobile mechanic, guar
antee all work turned out and per
sonally inspect every Jar before per
mitting it to leave the shop, and make
my charge as reasonable as possible,
consistent with expert, reliable work,
and assure you that I shall continue
to do so.
Assuring you of my appreciation
of your liberal patronage, I remain,
Respectfully yours,
JACOB KING.
At least 25 per cent un
der last year's prices
We are fully equipped for installing
Deep Well Pumps and
Irrigation Systems
of all kinds, and guarantee all work to
give satisfaction
When you want water
get our prices before closing a deal
DON'T RAISE WEEDS ON YOUR
SUMMERFALLOW!
USE A
Jones Weeder
'Made in Morrow County'
(Patented Dec. 16, 1913.)
Summerfallowing is being done earlier this year than common.
Weeds will come earlier and there will be more of them. Get after
them early before they ruin your Summerfailow. The JONES
WEEDER is the best and most speedy weeder ever built for that
purpose. Built in sections like a harrow; each section cuts five
feet and you can use as many sections Its you want. The knives
have a slope of 60 degrees and wiU not choke under normal con
ditions. This weeder has been tried out on the same field witli other
weeders and has done more satisfactory work. The JONES WEED
ER has been fully tested. Ask a farmer who uses one. For further
particulars, prices, etc., write
C. E. JONES,
Heppner, Oregon.
CITY MEAT MARKET
J. FRANK HALL, Prop.
Best in the line of meats handled at the lowest possible prices.
FINEST HOME-MADE LARD AND FRESH AND CURED '
MEATS.
See Me Before You Sell Your Fat Stock.
HEPPNER WOOD YARD
E. E, BEEMAN, Prop.
Dealer In
Wood and Coal
Leave orders with Slocum Drug Co. or phone Main 60.
Choice Flour, Feeds, Wood, Coal and
Post, for Sale by
HEPPNER FARMERS' UNION
WAREHOUSE CO.
Handle Wheat and Wool. Highest
Price Paid for Hides and Pelts.
FUNERAL SUPPLIES
MODERN EQUIPMENT
PAINSTAKING SERVICE
CASE FURNITURE- COMPANY
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