The gazette-times., December 30, 1915, Page PAGE FOUR, Image 4

THE GAZETTE-TIMES, HEPPNER, ORE., THURSDAY, DEC. 30. 1915
PAGE FOUR
BONDS and INSURANCE
INSURE IN
Royal Insurance Co. and Fireman's
Fund
AND YOUR BONDS IN
United States Fidelity Guaranty Co.
Rates furnished upon request
T. J. MAHONEY : : Heppner, Oregon
,ii"l"ir'ii'i'i' i
TO iU
WE DO NOT HAVE TO "BLOW OUR OWN HORN."
THE UP-GRADE HARDWARE WE SELL AND THE
LOW-DOWN PRICES WE SELL IT FOR, SPEAK FOR
US.
BUT JUST ONE THING WE WILL SAY WE CAN
LOOK EVERYONE WE'VE DEALT WITH LAST
YEAR SQUARE IN THE EYE. WE HAVE TREATED
HIM RIGHT IN THE PAST. WE WILL NOT CHANGE
OUR SYSTEM.
VAUGHN & SONS
i xh a,ul iiraiu " exits9 nwUuw-
X Slow lv sut over them one-eiKiuu
J'imiu'e of powdered strychnine (alka-
Yiloid)' using a pepper box jr sail
v ,
shaker tor the purpose, and stir con
jjstantly to distribute the poison even-
4 J One or two pieces of the poisoned
T sweet potatoes should be dropped into
the tunnels through the natural open
ings, or through openings made with
a stkk. A systematic use of this
poison invariably results in an al
most complete extermination of pine
mice. These pests are also easily
trapped, but owing to the extra time
and labor required, this method does
not compare favorably with poison
ing. Cottontail rabbits breed rapidly,
and in spite of the inroads made up
on their number by predatory ani
mals, such as the larger hawks and
owls, cats, and dogs, and the excellent
sport they furnish hunters, they
sometimes become so abundant as to
occasion serious losses. They eat all
sorts of herbage, preferring such suc
culent foods as vegetables, clover or
alfalfa, fallen fruits, etc. When
snow cuts off the supply of their fa
vorite food, they frequently kill trees
and shrubs by gnawing the bark. In
this way they often cause serious fi
nancial losses to nurserymen and or
chardlsts. The majority of eastern States pro
tect rabbits during the greater part
of the year, although half of these
States have provisions enabling far
mers and fruit growers to destroy
the animals in order to protect their
crops and trees
In localities where cottontails are
sufficiently abundant to be a contin
ual menace, the safest and most near
ly permanent method of securing im
munity from their ravages is to fence
against them. It has been found that
woven wire netting iy2-inch mesh
and 30 inches high will exclude rab
bits, provided that the lower border
of the fence is buried 5 or 6 inches
below the surface of the ground. In
cases where a small number of trees
are concerned, a cylinder of similar
wire netting around each tree, if so
fastened that it cannot be pushed up
close against the tree, serves the pur
pose more economically.
When the law permits, poison can
often be used to advantage, especially
at times when the natural food of
the rabbit is scarce. The following
formulas have been employed with
considerable success:
Poisoned oats. Mix together 1
ounce of powdered strychnine (alka
loid), 1 ounce of baking soda,
ounce of saccharine, and 3 heaping
tablespoontuls of flour. Stir with
enough cold water to make a creamy
paste and apply to 12 guarts of good,
clean oats, mixing thoroughly. This
same creamy paste can also he ap
plied to orchard primings. The smal
ler twigs should be cut up into 2 or
3 inch lengths and the poison ap
plied in the same way as with oats.
Poisoned green baits. Cut up a
supply of carrots, parsnips, apples, or
other similar baits into cubes ',2 to 1
inch in diameter. Insert in each a
'mall quantity of powdered strych
nine or a small strychnine crystal.
When a larger quantity is to be pre
pared, the powdered strychnine can
be dusted over tlie bait by means ot'
a salt shaker in the proportion of V8
ounce of strychnine to 2 quarts of the
bait.
The poisoned oats, pruninr.s, or
green baits are dropped along rabbit
trails or in places frequented by the
rabbits, care being exercised in plan
ing them to prevent any possible in
jury to livestock.
The following poisoned wash hu
proved highly satisfactory in the
West and promises to be one of tli;
most popular methods of protecting
trees from rabbii.si
Poisoned tree wash. Dissolve 1
ounce of strychnine sulphate In 3
quarts of boiling water and add
pint of laundry starch, previously dis
solved in 1 pint of cold wat.-;r. Boil
this mixture until it becomes a clear
paste. Add 1 ounce of glycerin and
stir thoroughly. When sufficiently
cool, apply to the trunks of trees
with a paint brush. Rabbits that
gnaw the bark will be killed before
the tree is injured.
Many other repellent tree washes
have been usd with varying success.
Other mans of controlling cottontail
rabibts, such as trapping, and driving
are usually too slow and laborious
to warrant their use
b''
..j..;. .j .j..;--I "K $ ! $$
Grand; Masquerade
BallNew Years Eve
PPNER
AIR PAVILION, HE
Prizes will be given to best sustained
lady and gentleman character.
Music by Redifer's 5-Piece
Orchestra.
DANCE TICKETS $1.50
Music starts at 9 o'clock and dancing
will continue until 2 A. M.
LARGE SALES OF NA
TIONAL FOREST TIMBER
Bids hae been accepted by the de
partment of Agriculture for two
huge bodies of National Forest tim
ber estimated to contain 1SS.ln0.00ij
board feet One is in California and
the other in Utah. With one excep
tion, these are by far the most im
portant sales made this fiscal year,
which Is expected by forestry olli
cials to run considerably above last
year in receipts from timber sales,
the first five mouths having shown an
increase of nearly 40 per cent.
The California sale is on the Plu
mas National Forest, in the Sierra
Mountains. The most valuable tim
ber is sugar pine, for which $3.25
per thousand was bid, with an esti
mated total of nearly 26,000,000
board feet on the tract. For yellow
pine, of which the amount is put at
over 37,000,000 feet, $2.60 was bid.
Douglas fir, white fir, and in
cense cedar, which have a much low
er market value, brought an average
of only about 70 cents a thousand
for a total of over 43,000,00 feet.
The purchaser will be allowed an op
erating period of fifteen years, be
sides a year at the beginning for the
construction of necessary improve
ments; but the prices to be paid are
subject to readjustments every five
years.
The t'tah timber is In the Wasatch
National Forest, and will be cut
chiefly for railroad ties. It comprises
according to the government's esti
mate, 82,100,000 board feet of green
and dead lodgepole pine, Englemann
spruce, and Alpine fir. The sale price
is 10 cents for each tie cut and
cent per linear foot for mine timbers
Notwithstanding that since the
current year began, July 1, there
have been two large previous sales
of National Forest timber, one in
Arizona of less than 50,000,000 feet,
the other in Washington of nearly
100,000,000 feet, the vast bulk of the
sales from the National Forests are
of small quantities for the supply of
local needs. The total cut from all
the National Forests last year was
689,000,000 board feet, of which
nearly one-fourth went to local res
idents allowed free use, while out of
a total of nearly 11,000 individual
sales only 109 involved timber worth
more than $1,000. With timber re
ceipts during the hist fiscal year in
excess of $1,175,000, the forestry
officials say that if the rate of gain
already made this year continues, the
receipts will exceed all past records.
KEEPING FURNITURE
BRIGHT AND CLEAN
METHODS OF RABBIT
EXTERMINATION
Much DHinnge to I'aiui Crops, Fruit
Trees, and Sclirubs Caused by
the Pests Methods of
1'rotectlon.
Pine mice and cottontail rabbits
occur throughout the eastern part of
the United tSates and do much harm
to fruit and ornamental trees and
whrubs as well as to garden produce
and other farm crops.
Pine mice are seldom seen on ac
count of their molelike habits, for
they live in their own underground
burrows or in mole runways. The
presence of these mice in mole bur
rows can usually be detected by an
ocaslonal opening that they make to
the surface from the runway. Pine
mice are not so prolific as their near
relatives, the meadow mice, but pro
tected as they are by their under
ground habits they sometimes be
come abnormally abundant. This is
especially apparent in States where
hawks and owls, which are enemies
of these rodents, are destroyed. The
mice live upon roots, seeds, succu
lent vegetation, and bark of young
trees, and they are very destructive
to sweet potatoes and other tubers
as well as to trees and shrubs.
The most practical method of con
trolling this pest i! by poisoning.
Sweet potatoes cut into small i.ieces
have proved to be the most effective
bait. They are prepared as follows:
Sweet potato bait. Cut sweet po
tatoes into pieces about the size of
large grapes. Moisten 4 quarts of
Political Bee Buzzing nt Canyon City
Political gossip now has Art Mar
tin a candidate for sheriff and Old
Dame Rumor is mumbling something
about Charlie Collier taking a shy at
the office. It is not likely that Mr,
Collier will consent to run as he has
only been married about two years
and his honeymoon is not over yet.
This is going to be a free for all, go
as you please, catch as catch can con
test. There is no entrance fee and as
there will be no chance to "Call the
boys up" it will be Inexpensive and
yet at the same time a good opportu
nity for a man to test his popularity
and find out how many different
kinds of prevaricators there are. Hill
Welsh, the present sheriff, will just
sit on the fence and watch the boys
run by. Blue Mountain Eagle.
TYPHOID
is no more necesnary
thanSmallpox. Army
experience has demonstrate
the almost miraculous effi
cacy, and harmlesntM, of Antityphoid Vaccination.
Be vaccinated NOW by yout phyilclan, you and
your family. It ll more vital than home Insurance.
Ask your physician, drugKlat, or STid for Have
you had Typhoid?" telling nf Typhoid Vaccine,
results from use, and danger from Typhoid Carriers,
THE CUTTER LABORATORY, BERKELEY, CAL.
nooucma vaccinia a nanus imM . s. . uei
TAKE YOUR MEALS AT THE
O. K. RESTAURANT
Ma Shoot, Prop.
Just re-opened. Everything neat and clean
Best of everything the market affords, including
fresh oysters and shell fish.
MEALS
25c and up
Oregon Agricultural College, Cor
vallis, Dec. 27. Keeping the house
furniture always dean, bright ami
attractive with cost of cleaning ma
terial and labor as low as can be se
cured by scientific methods, is the
purpose of a few paragraphs in the
O. A. C. bulletin, Methods of Cleaning
written by Miss Ruth M. Smith and
Issued by the Extension Service. It
is also pointed out that nothing saves
time and labor more than having
plain, dull finished furniture of sub
stantial design General dusting, says
the bulletin, should bs done with a
black cliee.ie cloth duster, prepared
in the following manner:
Dip the cloth into hot water, wring
dry, then put into boiled linseed oil
which has been thinned with one
third its volume of turpentine. Wring
out the duster and hang outdoors un
til perfectly dry. It may be washed
and re-treated.- Cedar oil may be
substituted for the linseed, but not
being a drying oil it is apt to be
more greasy.
Furniture polishes should be avoid
ed as most varieties contain cheap
shellac which only covers scratches
temporarily and leaves the wood in
worse condition than before. If not
ompletely removed, any oily restora
tive when applied to wood will collect
dust and form a dark, sticky spot.
This sticky surface may be removed
with turpentine. Oils, in general,
with the exception of parafln and pop
py seed oil, tend also to darken wood
Scratches may he concealed by apply
ing on a cloth a small amount of
water color for wood, to match the
finish of the furniture.
White spots due to heat or water
are aesily removed by applying an oil
of some kind such as linseed or sweet
oil. The oil is then allowed to stand
for an hour or so; it is rubbed vigor
ously and the treatment repeated un
til the varnisli becomes clear once
more. Care must be taken to re
move every trace of oil. Sal soda and
kerosene may be used for very bad
spots; the soda is sprinkled on and
rubbed with a cloth dipped In kero
sene. Dullness due to long usage
may be improved with a mixture
of two parts of bo;l"d linseed oil
and one of turpentine. The oil is
rubbed off completely with a woolen
cloth. This treatment may be fol
lowed by applying a good polishing
wax in a very thin film, allowing it
to stand an hour or more, and rub
bing the surface vigorously with a
woolen cloth and finishing with a pol
ishing buffer A suitable buffer is
made by covering a brick with sev
eral layers of padding, over which a
woolen cloth is fastened securely.
Washing furniture occasionally
with lukewarm water and kerosene.
drying immediately, is also helpful in
removing the greasy film likely to
appear on u.
FOUND GUILTY!
of competing with the mail
order houses, such as Jones
Cash Store, Rice & Phelan
Send me your orders, or write me in
regard to same
1 BUY POULTRY AT ALL TIMES
Egg City Cash Store
JOE MASON', Proprietor.
IONE : : : OREGON
GET THE HABIT
OF DEPOSITING YOUR FUNDS WITH
The First National Bank of Heppner
WE BELIEVE THERE IS MUCH ROOM FOR DE
VELOPMENT OF THE SAVINGS HABIT AMONG THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE IN GENERAL, AND AMONG OUR
LOCAL PEOPLE IN PARTICULAR.
WHEN WH FIRST PUT IN OUR SAVINGS DEPART
MENT RESULTS WERE NOT ENCOURAGING, BUT WE
FIND THAT THE DEPOSITS HAVE GRADUALLY IN
CREASED. A LARGER NUMBER ARE MAKING USE
OF THIS METHOD OF TAKING CARE OF THEIR IDLE
FUNDS.
WE ARE PREPARED TO CARE FOR BOTH LARGE
AND SMALL AMOUNTS AND PAY FOUR PER CENT.
INTEREST.
WE FEEL THAT THERE ARE MANY MORE IN THIS
COMMUNITY WHO SHOULD BE AVAILING THEM
SELVES OF OUR SAVINGS DEPARTMENT.
IF YOU ARE INTERESTED WE WILL BE PLEASED
TO HAVE YOU CALL AND GET PARTICULARS.
FUNERAL SUPPLIES
MODEKN EQUIPMENT
PAINSTAKING SERVICE
CASE FURNITURE COMPANY
I A. R. REID
for your
Rough and Dressed Lumber,
Wood and Posts
At the Mill or delivered
l(K AKTTK-T1MKH IS I'KP.I'AIIF.D TO KIM, AM, OP
Yll H NKICIIM IN THK OF I'HIVMNU, AND
WKKTHKIl Vllllll IMl'JIOOS IM'l.t lU ONLY A CAHI)
JO II OK AN KXTUNSIVM Al) lOHTINlXl CATALOG!, WK
CAY HANDLE I'llTHDR OH IIOTH Foil YOI) IN A WAY
THAT IS SI HI? TO IIP. SATISFACTORY. OLH WKLL FS
TAII1.ISHP.I1 IIKPtTTATION AS I'HOIM CF.HS OP "PHINT
lNIt THAT NATINFIFS" HAS II10KK OHTA1NFI) ONLY
TIIROiruH THIS HIGH STANIIAHIi OF F.XCFLLKNCE WE
MAINTAIN IN OLH JOB 1'IUNTINO UKI'AK TUKNT.
$
V.
I