THE GAZETTE-TIM KS, HEPPNER. ORE., THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1916
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We are offering a house and lot in Lents,
Oregon, for sale or trade.
This lot is 50 by 150 and has a number
of young fruit trees on ii. Will trade
for a small place near the mountains
or for Heppuer property. A'ould trade
for work horses, broke or unbroke.
Price for this property is $1200.00.
A Good Eight-Room Dwelling,
Barn and other outbuildings, fruit
trees and 3'i acres of land in Heppner
at a bargain. This can be bought on
time and if you want it and can give a
irood note vou don't need any money.
127 Acres of Land
Fair house, good barn. 0 acres in of
good alfalfa land, some good farmland
, on the hills. Running water all the
' season. A dandy little poultry and
dairy ranch for sale cheap.
We have other good properties for
sale. Come and see us if you
want to get bargains.
Smead & Crawford
Real Estate and Fire Insurance
Office in the Fair Building
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LicensedEmbalmer Lady Assistant
I. L, YEAGER
FUNERAL D.KECTGZ
Phone Residence Heppner, Oregon
PAINTING & PAPER .HANGING
D. C. ROGERS
WALL PAPER
FIRST DOOR NORTH OF P03TOFFICE
The INDEPENDEif
GARAGE
CHALMERS AGENCY and Service SiatiGii
A complete line of Automobile Accessories and
Supplies kept constantly on hand
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Satisfactory Work - - - - Expert Mechanics
Tires and Tubes Vulcanized. Batteries Recharged
Electrical Equipment. LIVERY SERVICE AT ALL HOURS.
PHONES: SHOP 572; RESIDENCE 552
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Located on North Main Street
HEPPNER, OREGON
Drink "Grape Smash'
The pure flavor of the Concord Grape
5 c a glass
Fresh Ice Cream Every Day-WE MAKEIT"
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The Home of Good "Sweet Meats"
Fy IU KTOX H. I'ECK.
One very important piece o farm
equipment is the silo. The silo is
considered by many farmers as a
money-maker and therefor indispen
salbe. It has well been called "The
Balance Wheel of a cropping system"
since through the summer months,
when there is abundant forage aiid
to spare, the silo is a means of con
serving this over-production, when
it will yield the maximum amount
of food value, and preserve it for w iu
ter use when succulent food is so pa
latable to live stock.
There have been men who have
tried the silo and pronounced it a
failure. But as a rule, it has been
found that the fault lay in that either
the silo had not been properly tilled
or that the crop had not beeu cut in
the right stage of maturity. Crops
for insilage should not be cut too
green.
The silo may be constructed of con
crete, brick or stone. The founda
tion must be concrete or stone and
the ground floor thoroughly tamped.
The type most satisfactory, is a circu
lar in form, deep, with perpendicular
walls, smooth on the inside surface
and the walls air tight. It should be
constructed with continuous doors
from top to bottom, properly housed
with a chute, and roofea.
Wooden silos can be constructed
at little cost and as a rule give good
satisfaction. The sides- should be
made of good material-fir lining preferable-free
from cracks orlcnots.
The staves should be tongued and
grooved to fit closely together and
bound together with substantial iron
bands. If the wooden silo is protect
ed by paint occasionally and if the
iron . bands are tightened whenever
the wood shrinks it will be very dura-
able and give good satisfaction for
many years. The silo must be" free
from cracks and crevices, that is air
tight below the top of the insilage.
If air is admitted along the sided
putrefactive bacteria, produce a rott
ing which causes the silage to become
mouldy and worthless.
If the silo is smaller at the bottom
han at the top the mass will not paek
properly and there is danger o burst
ing the bottom bands by the great
jressure against the sides. If larger
at the bottom than at the top, the
nass will settle down and away from
.he sides and the whole contents will
be in danger of spoiling.
It is possible to make silage with
out running the materials through
an insilage cutter, but it is not prac
tical to do so, as it is very difficult
to get the mass sufficiently packed to
Insure good keeping. An insilage
miter should be used fitted with a
blower and pipe for delivering the en';
materials through the roof opening
Into the .silo pit. When a telescopic
distributor is used, one man can ke- ;
the silage spread and tamped tiirlr.Vy
about the edges until the silo is two
thirds full. For. the upper one
third, two men are required for the
work.
The silo preserves green foddi-r
such as corn (both ear and stock), al
falfa, clover, soy beans, field peas,
etch and oats, in fact any vegetation
lor stock feeding. Corn however, is
tilized as insilage more than all
flier crops. The entire crop plan'
as a feeding value, but at least one
Mrd of its value is lost unless ii i:
reserved in a silo.
Sixty per cent of its food value is
'n the ear and forty per cent in the
-.tock. It' the ears are husked in the
field and the stalks and husks le!'t
standing, approximately eighty per
:eut of the weight and fifty per cent
f the feeding value are lost, whiie ii
.he corn crop is properly preserved in
a well construced silo the loss is very
mail and the product is very nourMs
j!t and greatly relished by all ;: tV
r-f live stock.
Corn should be put in the silo when
he kernels are beginning to dent or
laze. If the crop is too ripe or has
jecome dry by frosting, fermeiilaUon
vfll not take place unless water is ad-
C A to the mass. Nitrogenous plank
:uch as clover, alfalfa of field peas,
vvhen mixed with corn in the pi- inor
ion of one ton to the former, to buvmi
r eight tons of corn, makes a v. el!
balanced ration for dairy cows . Peat
and soy-bean vines, clover and alfalfa
should be cut and allowed to wilt
before being placed in the silo with
corn, unless the corn is well matured.
In which event they should be stor
ed as soon as cut, for they furnish
the moisture needed to start the fer
mentation. Kale has also been found an ex
cellent plant for ensilage. Unlike
other crops it is too succulent anil
straw or hay to the amount of one
sixth to one-fourth the weight of tin:
kale should be cut in with It. The
most successful way is to have the
kale and the straw going through the
nsilage cutter at the same time. The
straw acts as an ahsorbant of the ex
tra juices, the bulk is increased and
the whole mass is rendered a pala
table and nutritious ration. It should
be observed that for all crops to be
siloed there should be just enough
moisture present to make the mass
pack solid.
The corn crop may be cut with a
corn binder, or by hand and droned
upon the ground In piles. It can
than be easily loaded on a low rack
and hauled to the cutter. Here it
Is cut Into pieces from three- fourths
to one and one-ball inches in leulli
and dropped into the silo, where it
is spread out evenly and the edges
v. ill be packed by tramping. When fil
1 d the silage should be tramped each
day until its stops settling.
Silage must be fed fresh. When
the crop is cut, the plants are at
their big best stage of developemeut
and the juices are active. This ac
tivity continues after the crop is silo
ed and heat is generated. Soon the
temperature of the whole mass rises
to as much as 146 degrees, Fahr.
This heat is sufficient to kill all the
bacteria in the silage and as the mass
is solid, all air is excluded and no
spoilage occurs except a few inches
on the top.
If air is admitted to the ensilage
it begins to spoil very rapidly and is
rendered unfit for food. In con
structing a silo, the diameter of the
structure should be carefully con
sidered. The silo should be of such a
size that from two to three inches of
the silage be removed andf fed daily
after it is capped. Some put a cover
ing of straw or litter on top, while
others sow oats or barley, the roots of
which will form a thick mass and ex
clude air.
Corn silage is rich in carbohy
drates, or the bone and muscle build
ing elements of food. It is estimated
that a 50 Vushel crop of corn will
jield ten tons ensilage. Vetch and
oats, or similar crops are more spongy
than corn silage, they should be cut
when the grain is in the dough or the
pods, half grown. They should be
cut into one-half to one inch pieces
and should be fresh, not permitting
more than two or three loads cut a
head of the ensilage cutter. Too, they
should have some water added unless
the crop is wet with dew or rain. Iu
all cases where water need be applied
it -should be sprayed upon the mate
rials as they are fed into the cutter.
I!y observing the materials as they
drop into the silo, one may readily
determine if there is sufficient mois
ture present. Whenever the silage
will pack down tight in the silo, con
ditions are about right.
With a corn crop that will yield
from ten to fifteen tons of silage, the
cost will be greater, to cut, shock and
husk the crop,-than to make it into
silage.
The farmers of the Columbia Basin
District, both upon valley farms and
hill farms need the silo. It alone will
furnish the succulent feed for stock
through the cold winter season, and
the hot dry summer. They are not
::;. ensive, compared with the service
they perform.
We can raie the crops suitable for
making good insilage and until the
dairy cows of our section are put
upon silage ration for at least a por
tion of the year, the dairy industry
sill not prosper as it might.
Is A. R. REID
for your
Rough and Dressed Lumber,
Wood and Posts
At the Mill or delivered
Dr. Turner, the well known eye
socialist of Portland, will he in
:!epnrr again Friday and Saturday
;uly 7 and S at Palace Uot.d. lone
Thursday July 6. Pon't fail to con-
ult him about'yuur evs and glasses.
Dr. Turner is a specialist of exper
ience and standing, lie gives your
yes a most thorough and scientific
."xamination with the latest approved
electrical instruments and when he
'-escribes glasses it is with positive
:'nd absolute assurance that they are
lie best and only kind suited to your
:ye3. If you do not need glasses, Dr.
Turner positively will not reeom
"iiend them. Headaches relieved,
road eyes stra.Thtened . Consulfa
,:on and examination free. Catisfac-
ion guaranteed. Consult him.
Dr. M. A. Leach and family of Cor
allis were visiting with Morrow
mnty relatives this week. They
nade the trip by auto.
FOR SALE Improved Champion
nower, never been used. Two cycles.
Jasy terms. E. D. Brown.
M. K. Cohvell, surveyor of under
writers' eqiHtable rating bureau, was
in the city Wednesday looking after
hp, adjustment of fire insurance
rates.
6 lots 40x90; 1 lot 50x110; 1 8
oom dwelling, woodshed and other
.utbuildings; 1 5-room dwelling,
vondshed and other outbuildings; 1
am, used for livery stable, 64x64.
i'liis property Is in a small eastern
:regon town and Is for sale at $1600
ash or will trade for Heppner prop
erty, Morrow county wheat laDd, or
vould trade for an auto. Owner's
business calls him away and he is
desirous of closing a deal on this
property before leaving. Further
particulars will be given by calling
on us.
SMEAD & CRAWFORD.
Miss Elverda Wlnnard, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Winnard, who
recently underwent an operation for
appendicitis, was removed from the
Heppner Sanatorium last Saturday.
She has almost completely recovered
from the effects of the operation. .
V. S. Wharton, formerly cashier
of the Bank of Heppner, was in the
city during the week end on business.
Mr. Wharton now lives at North Yak
ima. His son, Will, is now doing
duty in Mexico with the Washington
state militia.
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ou can always find him. No chrge
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