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r .r two Tin: r. azfttk-ttmts hfttvfr, ore., thirsd vy, ja.v., 8, 1020. WHAT DEPT. If AGRI CULTURE IS DOING! Rhniliw Grass in Imperial V alloy The attention of an tnereasi'd num- lu r of agricultural men in the Im perial Valley of southern California ,is boinK directed by one. of the plon. 'eer planters there to the merits of ; Rhodes grass which is now being for Fmpty Coal Binns. . .wMii i To relieve as far as possible tht ! though before 1902 it was unknown serious fuel crisis that has existed in'n this country. The United States the West, as elsewhere, the Forest i Department of Agriculture through Son i. e. with the approval of the specialists engaged in foreign seed : uiiU pium 111 11 UUUIWUU, lO iCB'uar Ible for the presence of this profitable : lore-i Fuel retary of Agriculture, has authoriied the district foresters to cooperate fully with all local and State fuel ad ministrators by making available at once all wood and fuel material. Wai ver of all restrictive regulations has been authorized. This means, for in stance, that on forests where no green material has been granted un der tree use, such material has been made available to prevent suffering or hardship; also that free use mater ial has been made generally available and that the question ot residence ot the permitee or his qualifications is not the governing factor in issu ing a permit. This action of the Forest Service, it is believed, will do much to re lieve the serious conditions exist, ing in regions deprived of bituminous coal. Lessening Loss of Perishables. Decay in the transportation of po tatoes, cantaloupes, lettuce, toma toes, spinach, strawberries, and on ions is primarily due to faulty meth ods of handling and refrigerating ac cording to the Bureau of Markets, Vnited States Department of Agri culture. Marked reductions in losses have resulted from more careful me thods of digging and grading pota toes, suitable temperature in refrig erator cars and storage houses, and by improvements in the handling of lettuce, such as the more complete re moval of the lower leaves of each head In harvesting, and shipment in ventilated crates instead of closed hampers. It was found that the de cay of strawberries in transit results largely from avoidable injuries in flicted in picking and washing and from inefficient refrigeration. Vegetables from the South, shipp. ed in properly constructed cars, cool ed 1 degree an hour faster than those forwarded in cars of the ordinary type, and deteriorated less than one third as much, the Bureau reports. grass in this country. The special ists brougth it directly from South Africa, where It had been raised ex tensively on the ranches of the late Cecil Rhodes and others and after whom the grass is named. The grass has been found particularly adapted to the coastal region of Texas and to northern Florida. It it becomes thoroughly established in the Imper ial Valley, this will add another re gion to its domain ot usefulness. Produce Tons of Sesbania. Seed During the past year It is estimat ed that 60 tons of Sesbania seed were produced in the Cocachelia Valley in southern California. In 1904 this plant was growing by the roadside as a weed, but an investigation by the United States Department of Agri culture revealed its big possibilities because of its leguminous character. Since that year it has been widely cultivated, a principal use being for planting by onion growers immed iately after the harvesting of onions in the late spring, thus enriching the soil preparatory to planting in the fall. Canning Her Way to College. Tin cans, and plenty of them, all filled with fruit and vegetables, are paving the way from country home to college for many a girl these days. In Montgomery County, Miss., lives Effie Ayers, who dreamed of college and who now, by means of her canning-club work, sees her way clear to making her dreams come true. Miss Ayers stands ready to affirm that a canning club can help a girl with college ambitions as much as can a rich uncle with generous impulses. For four years this club member has been a member of one of the cann ing clubs supervised by the United States Department of Agriculture and the State agricultural college, and for two years of that time has been the canning champion of Miss, issippi. Her net profits from her canning work in 1919 were $280.46. During the first season of her club work Miss Ayers canned 1,500 No. 3 cans. The second year she canned onlv S00 cans because the wilt at tacked the tomatoes in her locality, but last year 1,100 No. 3 cans were filled, and brought her a profit of $178. This year she canned 900 No. 3 tins. The fruit, soup mixtures, to matoes, beans, and other vegetables which she cans are grown in her club grden, and the said tenth-acre garden, is in a fine state of cultiva tion. From two rows of beans grow ing there last summer she canned 198 cans, and sold them for $3.50 a doi en. Besides growing the vegetables for canning, she also supplies the family table from her plot. This club member shipped all the goods she canned the first two years, but the last two years she has been selling her canned products in the local market where the demand was twice as great as she could supply. MiBS Ayers' exhibits of canning and sewing have won her many prizes in both the county and State fairs, as well as several trips. OWN U.S. SECURITIES Liberty Bonds and War Savings Stamps Help Support Idle Workers. One of the reasons the striking shipvard workers in seven plants around San Francisco bay have been able to hold out for their demand of eight cents an hour increase is that collectively they own more than $7. 000,000 worth ot Liberty Bonds and about $200 000 in War Savings Stamps. "The Liberty Bond and War Savings Stamps holdings ot our men have certainly stood us in good stead," said Frank Miller, secretary of the San Francisco Iron Trades Council. "When we win our demand am going to recommend that the men save that eight cent an hour in crease and invest it weekly with the Government in War Savings Stamps. They provide an ideal way for the workingman to save." C. A. Farnsworth, associate direc tor of the War Loan Organization for the Twelfth Federal Reserve District, said: "Secretary Miller's figures on the Liberty Loan holdings and their investment in War Savings are con servative and there is no doubt that they have aided greatly in enabling the men to support themselves while on strike. The men can borrow the face value of their Liberty Bonds without sacrificing the bonds and they can cash In their War Savings Stamps." ThTe Government's War Savings Stamp is the working man's weapon against a hand-to-mouth existence. It helps him get ahead. Two Sew Animal Pests. Two animals not much spoken of previously have gained prominence as destructive rodents during the past year reports the chief ot the Biological Survey, United States De partment of Agriculture. One is the mountain beaver or sewellel, a cur ious rodent living in the humid re gions of the northwest coast. It was formerly considered harmless, but with the development of agriculture in its region it has become increas ingly injurious to crops, particularly small fruits and market produce. Control measures have been devised, and representatives of the depart ment have given demonstrations In Oregon and Washington, where ac tive measures were needed. The other animal that has come in. to prominence as a destroyer is the cotton rat. a small rat.like rodent limited to the South Atlantic and Gulf States. Its depredations are principally in connection with sugar cane in Florida, where experimental piEutiLgs within the past two years gave promise ot very profitable de velopment. So serious has been the damage by cotton rats, however, that the principal company interested in the development ot the sugar-cane Industry in Florida has written the department that the success of the industry will be impossible unless Borne method can be found tor suc cessfully controlling the cotton rats Losses of from 40 to 60 per cent of the growing cane have been re ported. The Bureau of Biological Survey however, announces the determination of successful poisoning methods, and it is believed that, through 'demonstrations and advice, the growers will be able to control the rate and reduce the losses to a 48,000 Drus Stores Sell It Five million people us: it to KILL COLDS CASCARAQUININE Standard cold remedy for 29 ytart in tablet lorro ute. ture, no opiate break up a cold in 24 reur relieve grip in j oar. Money back it it tans, ine genuine po tisa a Kta cop wim xur. mu i picture. At All Drug St v. 'ur ii yesterday morning on "Rotations and Cultural Practices for Eastern Oregon Grain Farming" in which he otdomsetrser eockk r mfwy aoiod resorted to some reliable data com piled from records on the Moro sta tion over a period of eight years as well as the result of trials in otlie Columbia stations and branches. Rotation Profitable. The average profit per acre for the whole farm was $10.45 for winter wheat on summer fallowed land, ac cording to his figures, while the av erage profit on a three year rotation including wheat, corn and barley was $11.01. On the latter only one plow ing was necessary, in early spring af. ter the wheat and before planting the corn. A rotation of just wheat and peas was also given as making an av erage profit of $18, but was not con sidered as desirable as the former ro tation because of the conflict of the two crops in harvesting. When hog ging off with livestock is feasible, the peas work well into the cropping sys tem, Mr. Stephens indicated. Alfalfa Not Recommended. . . . "Alfalfa actually caused a de crease in the yield of the grain crops following it," Mr. Stephens stated, "this being probably due to the ex cess of nitrogen suplied to the soil for which there was not enough moisture to go along with. This is just exactly the opposite of its effect in irrigated sections. "In order of their value as crops to replace summer fallow we have found success with peas, corn, and al falfa, corn being better from the standpoint of adjusting the labor op erations to planting and harvesting, asserted the speaker. Mr. Stephens had a large number of questions to answer. only on definite information that the poods will be manufactured by a specified firm into products for which tlnir use is approved. "Special attention," continues the Chief of the Bureau of Chemistry, "has been given to medicinal prepar ations bearing statements of thera peutic on curative effect. The print ed matter used with each preparation has been carefully reviewed by the bureau's medical staff in Washington with a view to exhibiting a uniform and consistent attitude toward all such products. Copies of the com ments made, with information re garding the labelling, have been transmitted on cards to all the port stations, thereby insuring perfectly uniform action. A distinction has been made between products intend ed for sale to the general public and those intended for physicians' use which are so labeled as not to affect the general public, properly confining all statements as to ther apeutic use to an inclosed circular, free from such statements." State College Outgrows Present E quipiuent, Oregon Agricultural College, Cor vallis. That due to the increased cost ot maintenance and to the lure of larger salaries offered O. A. C. pro fessors by eastern institutions, the college is now in a critical condition, is pointed out by President W. J. Kerr. NOTICE There came to my place about June 1, four miles southwest of Hardman, the following described animals: one brown horse, white stripe in face, branded with spear on right hip; one black yearling horse, no brand. Owner may have same by paying all costs. J.-J22 LOTUS ROBISON Hardman, Ore. Against Imported Substitutes. In the revival of commerce follow ing the signing of the armistice, un der disorganized shipping conditions, drugs which were not what they ap peared to be came to the United States. Substitution of crude drugs for others better known or for of ficial species has not been uncom. mon, reports the chief of the Bureau of Chemistry. United States Depart ment of Agriculture. In some cases of substitution the substituted drug did actually have some legitimate use, but the department took the po sition that release on relabeling alone would not collectively prevent tne goods from filtering into the chan nels of trade and being sold ultimate ly as the official product. Releases in such cases are made, therefore, VSYSTEhj ROTATIONS TOR GRAIN DISCUSSED D. E. Stephens Tells Eastern Oregon Farmers to Make More Money from Land. (Farmer's Week News.) The time honored system of crop ping alternately wheat and summer fallow in Eastern Oregon is doomed to go, in the opinion of D. E. Ste phens, head of the Experiment Sta tion at Moro, Sherman county. Mr. Stephens gave an interesting talk JNIC NEEDS NO TONIC TO STAY ON JOB VP Fine Dentistry With Few Visits Registered Dentists using the E. R. Parker System make a spe cialty of promptly caring for out-of-town patients. Most people can not afford to waste unnecessary time in a dentist's office, and E. R. Parker System dentists be lieve in giving such patients all possible attention and work on each visit, so they will not have to come in so often. This work is all done so well It is fully guaranteed. You are sure of good dentistry and com pute satisfaction. Best of all, you need not fear pain, for every safe method of overcoming pain is used. Prices are moderate and examinations and advice are free. There are twenty-four offices in different cities where the E. R. Parker System is used, the nearest I one being at 753 Main Street, Pendleton. 312(1 Washington Street, Portland. The Crystal Swinging Wringer The clothca neit from JFV 1 then from I A ire wreot Z7 rime water to. T 1 the bluing I A froa the m- f, to the Woiai ' 1 truer Into tbe I lEv chtM Into ttkfl Cke E. J. STARKEY, Agent Gilman Building Heppner, Oregon The unprecedented increase in stu dent enrollment S6 per cent this year has taxed the institution to the limit. While the colle.se now ranks second among colleges of its kind iu the country in point of enrollmeut, funds available are much less than is provided for other institutions of tills type. Standard? maintained are as high as the highest in the country. An enormous increase in cost is no ted at the institution. In 1915 $14, 000 was expended for janitorial ser vices four years later $22,000. The cost of heat four years aco was $14.. inn) This -e:ir it is $:!9 000. Tele plume and telegraph expenses were J 1.220 and this year it will be $6,600. Willi this increase In cost has come ilie enormous increase in enrollment. . From last June to October 96 new stal members were employed and I some Instructors have been added since that time. Commercial con cerns are offering instructors In iheniisiry and other techutcal lines as high as four times the amount edu cational institutions can afford to pay and consequently liroad mill. led teachers are hard to find. Kastern institutions with large incomes are offering big Inducements to O. A. C. professors to leave, and therefore the college Is up against a serious prob lem. Every room In the institution Ig used ull the Unit 100 per cent. A condition of congestion exists every where In the institution. Several new buildings ure said to be needed and ueeded badly. - :IP flMM "klm" l Mrrtat fruit pU III 1 Vofut aUnbaullo Wfcfc I III 1 XJm N m rw would Uppt mum. I 111 1 ft rkbr mi Bin tulf 1101 I III 1 aiMt Vwoatef Hmrntfl I I U & Mxt iv I: Urt ta taj Unl f Ml U Ori Jar toll fej-jf X tad tor u 4- 'A 4m imt. r"rn j tunic refuses to leave fash- Ion's fold as this fetching house dress for the miss shows. Virtual, ly the same lines are In skirt, tunic and waist as were first .hown In this popular model The ouch of fur is sufficient trtm nlng for this Indian head tut) SeedingTime Is Here That means SUPERIOR time to all farmers who are looking forward to best results. Superior "The name tells a true story" Grain Drills ALL SIZES AND STYLIS. Peoples Hardware Company Heppner, Oregon. "PERMANENT AS THE PYRAMIDS" Concrete Pipe Co. Mfgrs. SEWER AND WATER PIPE IRRIGATION PIPE CULVERT PIPE CEMENT PRODUCTS HOLLOW SILO BLOCKS PHONE 467 1003 N. 10th Street, WALLA WALLA, WASH. I GET . WELL NOW Why suffer longer ? Why "doctor" all your days un der the old system that vain ly tries to cure you by mere ly treating symptoms with out removing the causes of your sickness? Take the scientific, quick road back to health instead-. Avoid Operations Disease is caused by pressure upon nerve tissue the tiny wires that carry the life force from brain to all parts of the body. Whenthesearenorm ally working, nature has the power to heal disease. Chi ropractic does this, and health is the result. Ninety-five per cent of all diseases originate at the points shown fry the arrows. A slight displacement of one or more of your vertebrae probably is causing your trouble today. 1. Slight (ublMttlont at this point win tK so-called headaches, eyt diKaar, deaf neas, epilepsy, vertlgn, insomnia, wr neck, facial paralysis, locomotor ataxia, etc. 8. A slight subluxation of a tertebra In th la part of the ipine ia the cauie of lo-called throat trouble, neuralgia, pain In the shoulders and arms, goitre, nertoui prostration, la (rrippe, dliiinesa, bleeding from nose, disorder of gums, catarrh, etc 8. The arrow head marked No. 8 locates the part of the spine wherein subluxations will cause so-called bronchitis, felons, pain between the shoulder blades, rheumatism of the arms and shoulders, hay fever, writers' cramp, etc. 4. A vertebral subluxation at this point Causes so-called nervousness, heart disease, asthma, pneumonia, tuberculosis, difficult breathing, other lung troubles, etc. 8. Stomach sad liver troubles, enlarge ment of the spleen, pleurisy and a score of other troubles, ao-called, are caused by sublux ations In this part of the spine, sometimes so) light aj to remain unnoticed by. others except the trained Chiropractor. 8. Here we And the cause of to-called gall atones, dyspepsia of upper bowels, fevers, thin glet, hiccough, worms, etc. T. Drlght't disease, diabetes, floating kid ney, skin disease, boils, eruptions and other diseases, ao-called, are caused by nerves being pinched In the spinal openings at this point. 8. Regulations of such troubles aa so called appendicitis, peritonitis, lumbago, ec. follow Chiropractic adjustments at this point. I. Why have so-called constipation, rectal troubles, sciatica, etc, when Chiropractic ad- iustmerrta at this part of the spine will rcmovo lit causer 10. A slight slippage of one'or both In nominate bones will likewise produce so-called sciatica, together with many "diseases" of pelvis sod lower extremities. CHIROPRACTIC OFFERS YOU HEALTH WHY DELAY? DISEASE DOES NOT No matter how you are suffering don't consider your case hopeless or that yon have to spend a long tims regaining health. Chiropractic is permanently curing hundreds every day. It is doingso because it is the sane, safe, sure, and scientific way to health. Investi gate this wonderful modern way of healing disease. Take advantage of it, and suffer no more. COME TO The Pacific Chiropractic College Hospital LARGEST INSTITUTION OF ITS KIND IN THE WORLD Where An Expert Diagnostican will trace your trouble to its source. An Expert Chiropractor will remove the cause and health will return. FREZ EXAMINATIONS FREE CONSULTATIONS For Full Particulars Call on or Address Dr. Oscar W. Elliott. Park and Yamhill, Portland, Ore. III I ' " ' jr , III )b'-l'iArm II e :.-rT.viV II - v. ,-"t.. II - . . ' V,i ulk " ' 1 J 11 -alfe,(I'((4li4f Before Buy ing Your Winter Shoes Step in and look over our &ock of heavy, hand-made work shoes for men. We also have in sT;ock the well known O'Donnell Shoe for men. CM. Bowers Shoe Shop Main Street Heppner negligible amount
